the "normal office computer user" doesn't install and configure the OS. at all the "normal office computer user" operates the machine using the configuration it arrives with.
data entry and clerical folk in the 1980's dealt with all kinds of bizarre, esoteric, even highly proprietary one-shot systems. everyone is capable of learning a new OS. it's mostly people's laziness that's demanding an exact windows work-alike.
You think its bullshit that systems should be interoperable? Well guess what, thats why Linux will be a second class OS for years to come. It isn't the top dog now, and unless it is pleasant to switch to it isn't ever going to happen.
embrace & extend != interoperability
don't blame unix, it's MS that's not POSIXly correct.
SETI@home is sponsored by individual donors around the world.
If you'd like to contribute to the project,
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we got emails like that from the emory IT department over 2 years ago. iirc they put up posters too. but the whole thing was more of a desperate plea to "save our upstream bandwidth." last year they turned off all incoming connections to the resnet ports. wonder how long before commercial cable connections are firewalled too.
until you look at its ridiculous memory consumption. remember, opera keeps a fully-rendered copy of each page in memory. I'll gladly download a big Mozilla Suite installation file to avoid the bloated RAM abuse of opera.
a friend of mine (literate, but no power user) was complaining of spyware infesting his IE. he had installed netscape 4.7 and hated it. I gave him a copy of mozilla 1.2.1. now he makes fun of people who use IE. most anyone who browses the web with any frequency will eventually reject IE as a creaking anachronism.
almost all of my vorbis are encoded at least -q 8 (~256kbps) because I like to be able to listen to them on my home stereo too. it's absolutely true that anything above 160 is irrelevant for a portable player, but I encode them for things besides portables...
First of all, I don't think that Ardour and Audacity are directly competing. There's some feature overlap, but the user interfaces are so different (on purpose) that we're both capturing different markets, and addressing different needs.
definitely. I would be at a serious loss without it. they're very different. audacity is the sort of program that should be included with a general distribution; ardour isn't. it's certainly no MS paint!
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data entry and clerical folk in the 1980's dealt with all kinds of bizarre, esoteric, even highly proprietary one-shot systems. everyone is capable of learning a new OS. it's mostly people's laziness that's demanding an exact windows work-alike.
embrace & extend != interoperability
don't blame unix, it's MS that's not POSIXly correct.
If you'd like to contribute to the project,
please visit the SETI@home web site at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
The project is also sponsored by the Planetary Society,
the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Paramount Pictures,
Fujifilm Computer Products, Informix, Engineering Design Team Inc,
The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Intel, Quantum Corporation,
and the SETI Institute.
SETI@home was developed by David Gedye (Founder),
David Anderson (Director), Dan Werthimer (Chief Scientist),
Leonard Chung, Hiram Clawson, Jeff Cobb, Charles Congdon, Charlie Fenton,
Kyle Granger, Eric Heien, Mike Hill, Michael Kang, Eric Korpela,
Matt Lebofsky, Peter Leiser, Brad Silen, Woody Sullivan, and Adam Wight.
# mv
# mv
all fixed!
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WHERE THE HELL IS MY SETTLEMENT CHECK, YOU PRICE-FIXING BASTARDS?
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Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
/me sends push request
MIDI is not an audio file format.
most people I know do this with cell phone text messages. a weblog's just not a messageboard.
well, I know I want *my* webmaster clicking defaults.
#include sco-rant.h
#include visionary-emulator.h
#include some-other-guys-ideas.h
void main()
{
printf();
}
I sure could go for an updated SiS 300/305 DRI module right about now.
this was too easy.
please enter the root password to continue.
until you look at its ridiculous memory consumption. remember, opera keeps a fully-rendered copy of each page in memory. I'll gladly download a big Mozilla Suite installation file to avoid the bloated RAM abuse of opera.
hey, what about equal protection under the law???
read here: google search: nullification crisis
well, really there have been two outstanding losers in that office: lincoln and roosevelt.
well, that was fun. I think it would be more addictive if I got to do pages in order though...
a WD-40 can makes a great blowtorch. just light its exhaust.
ah, sorry, you are absolutely right. it's not urpmi, it's redhat-install-packages, which runs consolehelper, which is ... ???
mandrake's default behavior is not to install slocate.
you tell me, which one is more useful?
a friend of mine (literate, but no power user) was complaining of spyware infesting his IE. he had installed netscape 4.7 and hated it. I gave him a copy of mozilla 1.2.1. now he makes fun of people who use IE. most anyone who browses the web with any frequency will eventually reject IE as a creaking anachronism.
almost all of my vorbis are encoded at least -q 8 (~256kbps) because I like to be able to listen to them on my home stereo too. it's absolutely true that anything above 160 is irrelevant for a portable player, but I encode them for things besides portables...
definitely. I would be at a serious loss without it. they're very different. audacity is the sort of program that should be included with a general distribution; ardour isn't. it's certainly no MS paint!
n y q u i s t .