This is pretty cool. My latest aquisition was an older GT Backwoods frame customly equiped with cool stuff (back in 1998). I like it so much that I even refused to install any electronic device on it (including lights). This sounds pretty cool. First of all it should require lower maintainaince. Secondly, if you fall you won't break any parts of your bike. Gear changer comes to mind, because I broke many of those. It looks like you'd rather break yourself than break one of these bikes. I just wonder about mainainance. How would you replace the chain for instance? It's a know fact that chains lenghten.
I for one don't like the Debian installer. I find it hard to use and confusing. And if dselect wasn't evil enough you are now stuck with this thing which automatically selects sets of packages with some packages you don't need and then have to deinstall. If you don't want that, you have the choice of using deslect. Yay! Don't get me wrong. I was a long time Debian user and I'll probably use it again. But the installer pretty much sucks and there's room for improvement. There's no need for a GUI, just a better text installer.
On the other hand I find the Slackware and FreeBSD installers very easy to use. The FreeBSD installer exit options are a bit confusing at first, but after you get used it just rocks. No comment about the Slackware installer. It's almost perfect.
How can anyone warning of voting machine flaws be doing a disservice to democracy? The US election system is already flawed, buggy voting hardware is the last thing you need.
Well, rather Gnome crashes all the time. I partly agree with Linux not being ready for desktops. It's not usable enough for the masses. It is for me, anyhow. Yesterday for instance I was drawin an induction motor in QCad.
Huh? Think of every distribution being itself a separate OS. So what if they have essentially the same kernel? It's a different OS. Learn to use SuSE or RedHat or Debian and shut the fuck up. Or pay bill and use Windows. Or use MacOS X if you hate windows. But just shut up. You're misleading innocent people here.
Slashdot (CmdrTaco) is exagerating, again. The words "single distribution" do not appear in the linked article. This is not about a single distro, it's about filling the gap of RedHat not supporting RHL anymore. Which is no biggie. Fedora Core 1 was already released and it's essentially RedHat 9.1. It's also more free than RedHat for that matter. RedHat Linux users will obviously use this or switch to the RedHat ES/WS offerings.
It'a a good thing Perens wants to start UserLinux or whatever, but I'm wondering about its success, thinking about past projects such as Progeny. The ideals behind this sound pretty cool, but what will come out of this?
So I'd probably have to end this with "Good luck Bruce", I hope these ideals materialize (somehow), although I'm king of skeptical.
I'm still going to use Linux and advocate Linux usage whenever there's an opportunity. Hopefully in one or two years there will be no SCO and Darl & co will be in jail where they belong.
Instead of actually fixing the bugs they figured it's cheaper to just offer bounties for turning in virus writes. That's fucking brilliant! Well screw Microsoft. I hope more and more people write viruses for Microsoft operating systems.
I'm using FreeBSD too on 5 boxes or so. I've migrated other two Debian boxes to FreeBSD as well and I'm very happy with my decision. Updating and upgrading (cvsup) is as simple as running 5 or 6 commands. Just yesterday I've upgraded my last box to RELENG_4_9 (4.9-RELEASE + security patches). Most of the boxes are P2/350 or P3/450 and 'make buildworld && make buildkernel' is done in about 2 to 3 hours. I just run it under screen and when it's done I run 'make installworld && make installkernel', mergemaster, reboot and the clean up the leftovers (3 commands).
People still listen to radio. FM radio mainly. Not just for music, but for news and shows. For instance I like to listen to daily a show, what's why I'm going to buy a FM capable mp3 player.
Blah. All services should communicate over encrypted channels. Terrorists will use encryption even if it's illegal, as they don't refrain from planting bombs and killing people. So fuck wiretaps. It won't make me more secure if the FBI wiretaps people.
Would you care to elaborate on the subject? I just don't understand how a closed IM is better than an open IM which is also very close to becoming an open standard. Better in what way? Features nobody needs or uses? Voice chat support? Jabber will probably have that too. Jabber is also extendable. You can add features without changing the old protocol or breaking functionality. You just add stuff like you would on a Christmas tree.
I don't like it either as it breaks the fs hierarchy (stupid DJB style/package dirs) but it works. You just have to get it right.
I would rather replace init with minit if Felix von Leitner had more documentation on doing so, since I'm a stupid user and I'm afraid to break my system.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1062 0.0 0.0 44 20 ? S Oct01 0:00/sbin/minit
Design a new protocol. Dan Bernstein has some idea with his Internet Mail 2000 thing, to make storage the responsibility of the sender, not the recepient. If you want a certain message get it off the sender's machine, if not let it rot there and eat up space.
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This is pretty cool. My latest aquisition was an older GT Backwoods frame customly equiped with cool stuff (back in 1998). I like it so much that I even refused to install any electronic device on it (including lights). This sounds pretty cool. First of all it should require lower maintainaince. Secondly, if you fall you won't break any parts of your bike. Gear changer comes to mind, because I broke many of those. It looks like you'd rather break yourself than break one of these bikes. I just wonder about mainainance. How would you replace the chain for instance? It's a know fact that chains lenghten.
Actually taxes are avoidable. Death isn't.
I for one don't like the Debian installer. I find it hard to use and confusing. And if dselect wasn't evil enough you are now stuck with this thing which automatically selects sets of packages with some packages you don't need and then have to deinstall. If you don't want that, you have the choice of using deslect. Yay! Don't get me wrong. I was a long time Debian user and I'll probably use it again. But the installer pretty much sucks and there's room for improvement. There's no need for a GUI, just a better text installer.
On the other hand I find the Slackware and FreeBSD installers very easy to use. The FreeBSD installer exit options are a bit confusing at first, but after you get used it just rocks. No comment about the Slackware installer. It's almost perfect.
How can anyone warning of voting machine flaws be doing a disservice to democracy? The US election system is already flawed, buggy voting hardware is the last thing you need.
Well, rather Gnome crashes all the time. I partly agree with Linux not being ready for desktops. It's not usable enough for the masses. It is for me, anyhow. Yesterday for instance I was drawin an induction motor in QCad.
I bet the Chinese going be the ones who'll send the first person to Mars. They seem determined.
Why does SCO drag Linus, RMS et all into this crappy suit? Subopenas for what?
In the article they mention RedHat 6. Is Microsoft comparing vulns in @in2k3 server to ancient RedHat 6?
Huh? Think of every distribution being itself a separate OS. So what if they have essentially the same kernel? It's a different OS. Learn to use SuSE or RedHat or Debian and shut the fuck up. Or pay bill and use Windows. Or use MacOS X if you hate windows. But just shut up. You're misleading innocent people here.
Slashdot (CmdrTaco) is exagerating, again. The words "single distribution" do not appear in the linked article. This is not about a single distro, it's about filling the gap of RedHat not supporting RHL anymore. Which is no biggie. Fedora Core 1 was already released and it's essentially RedHat 9.1. It's also more free than RedHat for that matter. RedHat Linux users will obviously use this or switch to the RedHat ES/WS offerings.
It'a a good thing Perens wants to start UserLinux or whatever, but I'm wondering about its success, thinking about past projects such as Progeny. The ideals behind this sound pretty cool, but what will come out of this?
So I'd probably have to end this with "Good luck Bruce", I hope these ideals materialize (somehow), although I'm king of skeptical.
I'm still going to use Linux and advocate Linux usage whenever there's an opportunity. Hopefully in one or two years there will be no SCO and Darl & co will be in jail where they belong.
I didn't quite understand from their webpage. Is this a full installable distribution or just addon packages for RHL?
Instead of actually fixing the bugs they figured it's cheaper to just offer bounties for turning in virus writes. That's fucking brilliant! Well screw Microsoft. I hope more and more people write viruses for Microsoft operating systems.
I'm using FreeBSD too on 5 boxes or so. I've migrated other two Debian boxes to FreeBSD as well and I'm very happy with my decision. Updating and upgrading (cvsup) is as simple as running 5 or 6 commands. Just yesterday I've upgraded my last box to RELENG_4_9 (4.9-RELEASE + security patches). Most of the boxes are P2/350 or P3/450 and 'make buildworld && make buildkernel' is done in about 2 to 3 hours. I just run it under screen and when it's done I run 'make installworld && make installkernel', mergemaster, reboot and the clean up the leftovers (3 commands).
People still listen to radio. FM radio mainly. Not just for music, but for news and shows. For instance I like to listen to daily a show, what's why I'm going to buy a FM capable mp3 player.
Tere is a set of new root servers. It's called Open Root Server Confederation.
I got it but it's seems incomplete. I think the seed is a broken download.
Blah. All services should communicate over encrypted channels. Terrorists will use encryption even if it's illegal, as they don't refrain from planting bombs and killing people. So fuck wiretaps. It won't make me more secure if the FBI wiretaps people.
Well, excuse me but MIT Zepyr and IRC have been around long before 1996. Somewhere around 1990.
I wouldn't buy a computer with an OS-only BIOS. Well maybe a Mac, but definitely not a Windows-only machine.
Would you care to elaborate on the subject? I just don't understand how a closed IM is better than an open IM which is also very close to becoming an open standard. Better in what way? Features nobody needs or uses? Voice chat support? Jabber will probably have that too. Jabber is also extendable. You can add features without changing the old protocol or breaking functionality. You just add stuff like you would on a Christmas tree.
I don't like it either as it breaks the fs hierarchy (stupid DJB style /package dirs) but it works. You just have to get it right.
/sbin/minit
I would rather replace init with minit if Felix von Leitner had more documentation on doing so, since I'm a stupid user and I'm afraid to break my system.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1062 0.0 0.0 44 20 ? S Oct01 0:00
Design a new protocol. Dan Bernstein has some idea with his Internet Mail 2000 thing, to make storage the responsibility of the sender, not the recepient. If you want a certain message get it off the sender's machine, if not let it rot there and eat up space.
FreeBSD, for example, has relied on Perl being available in the past.
Yes, and they removed Perl from the base distribution in 5.x. So it was a bad thing they relied on perl, bloating things up.