I switch between DOSBox and DOSemu with a Win95 boot disk
These two projects should really merge since one has some things working and the other has other things working. DOSBox is a lot easier to set up and get running, but I've found DOSemu to be more 'flowing'.
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It's the fault of the Broadcom chip they started putting in them. Which is Linksys's fault for switching to a chip that has drivers closed tighter then a virgin's legs. The wrapper provided by Linuxant can use the Windows drivers. Also the Prism GT people are working on other chipsets at a better price.
Some sound cards suck and are not supported by Linux...or the original manufactures that went out of business 10 years ago and took the specs with them
That was covered on an Outer Limits episode where this guy got a 'state-of-the-art' robot to help him after he lost use of his legs...then she (the robot) fell in love with him and got all psycho when he stared going out with a human woman
You can say their kernels are patched, but from what I've seen they are more customized then patched. Most of their patches do not apply very well to other vendors kernels or even systems. Every try to install a SUSE kernel on a Red Hat install? Sure they are both RPM based, but their systems are truely unique and you will get many boot errors at the least.
I am not against vendors making custom kernels at all, it's really a good idea. They make kernels that are designed for a specific purpose, Red Hat aims more for the server support/performance and SUSE has been focusing more on the Desktop install. There are optimizations done for servers that would be silly, or even degrading, for a desktop.
I agree that this is not a matter of 'forking' the kernel, but packaging.
That brings up a good question...how safe IS Linux from spyware?
Granted more spyware is written for the Win32 systems, but with the increase usage of Linux and the way tracking cookies work...I wonder if there has really been an in depth look at if and how spyware can infect a system running Linux.
You know it won't be able install any system services (unless your running as root), but what keeps things from making changes to ~/.Xsession or simular user level logon scripts?
as well as poorly-inaccessible mental copies as well, just by watching it. And presumably you can sit back later and remember it as many times as you want, just as clearly as you can manage, without breaking any laws. So why can't you use a more accessible format to remember the movie in?
If you share an electronic book with your friend and get caught, it's very unlikely that you will "go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200". You will probably have to go through a small claims court and pa a fine for the action though. But most corporations will ignore a minor offence like that...unless you are distributing to hundreds, then you have some bigger problems.
I was a crappy boy scout 15 years ago, I couldn't stay out of trouble.
The court system and penalties are ludicrous, lots of penalties are very unjust and I agree. Someone counterfeiting money will likely spend more time in federal prison then someone that committed multiple homicide. That is unfair. Rapist are released sooner then someone that commits a computer crime where there was NO physical damage done. These are examples of what NEEDS to be changed. I totally agree with you there!
But that does not change that fact that the laws do exist and breaking them should not go unpunished. I know I've broken more laws then I have been caught for, but that does not make what I've done right.
Did he already go to jail, as in a local holding cell until the trial...or is he now sitting in "Federal 'pound-me-in-the-ass prison"?
I'm sure he currently has bail options.
In that case, yes I have been to jail for a moving violation. Second speeding ticket in 2 weeks. Luckily I had a friend with me to put up bail so I didn't have to sit in there for more then a couple hours until he got the cash.
It sucks, but it is the law. No, Laws are not 'sent down from God' but they exist and exist for a reason (other then to piss people off)
Right, it won't effect the whole 'piracy' issue as a whole much at all. Neither do speeding tickets. People will still drive over the posted speed limit (knowingly and willfully) and most WILL get away with it while others will not.
As a grumpy officer told me once "I can't get everyone"
Worse part is, most murders get out of jail sooner then these people.
The laws are messed up and need re-evaluating, but these are still crimes that should be punished (the punishment needs to change in most cases)
I agree, why are people getting upset about someone going to jail for breaking the law?
sam0ht seems to be a bit irate over this for some reason...if you are going to break a law, don't bitch when you get busted!
If you drive your car over the speed limit and get a ticket, it's not the cops fault.
If you do drugs and your parents catch you, it's not their fault
If you have sex in a public place and you get arrested for indecency, it's not the police's fault.
"If you do the crime, you better be prepared to do the time"
Yes, I've been using Linux for a while, but not really that long. When I started using it (3 years ago) I was overwhelmed by the documentation and had a hard time trying to figure out where to start.
Not much different then when I first loaded up Windows3.1 10 years earlier.
Or when I first turned on my Commodore64 and didn't know how to start a program (load "*",8,1)
Or when I first used an Apple IIe with my first experiance with a 5 1/4" Floppy Disk
Or when I first turned on the CommodorePET wondering how to load the program from the cassette tape
Any first time computer user is going to be confused without documentation, or someone to help them. Today there are so many ways to get help if you are trying to learn something, beyond documentation.
Newgroups, IRC, forums, email, user groups, books...
If you can't find help with using a computer these days, it's not because it is not there but because people are not looking.
As for MSOffice being UI-centric...it's a feature filled UI with endless amounts of options, tools and toys. Why is there a graphic editor built in, i do not know
If you want to go to a Linux newbie friendly site, I suggest JustLinux formally known as LinuxNewbie.org
The only time newbies are smacked down there is when they have the attatude of "Help me and help me NOW DAMMIT!!" otherwise they are treated as equals and helped.
1. User interface design
2. Documentation
3. Feature-centric development
4. Programming for the self
5. Religious blindness
Same argument, different 'paper'
1. Improving and is nearly a non-issue these days
2. Documentation is more plentiful then most 'closed source' groups. If having less 'Dummy' books means less documentation, it's a negative I can live with
3. Doesn't MS Office count as a Feature-centric project? You can really put MSOffice in place of 'ProjectX' and it would sound the same
4. Sounds like a crappy project to me if the developers know of the problems but don't fix them.
5. There are lots of egotistical elitests, but I've noticed in the wild that there are less now then a couple years ago. If you punch everyone in the face and they all leave, don't be suprised when there is no one left to punch.
Overall it sounds like this guy had a bad experiance with A single project and decided to generalize it with all Open Source. I'd be nice to know what ProjectX is, then we all can get on them over it.
The Notes section seems to get the highlight of the paper.
My point is that its not a "Linux Innovation".
And they are Windows Innovations when Apple and Unix were truly first?
Lack of major third party support? Real Player? QuickTime 6.X?
The point is that you can't say Mozilla = Linux, so any innovation in Mozilla isn't a Linux innovation.
There is Real Player support for Linux and they contribute to it, just don't officially support it.
QuickTime (and Real) works with most Linux video playback software. You only need to right codec's (which is no different then anything else)
Correct, internet browsers are not a far comparison since only Microsoft considers their browser to be part of the OS, claiming Innovation
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Thanks for that link, it's a start but still involves the user to build the ISO themselves. Avoiding Microsoft's licensing problems.
Thanks though, I did not realize there was such a project
No we are talking about "Linux innovation" vs. "Windows innovation". If Unix (in general) had it before Linux was even created, then how can it be a Linux innovation?
How can it be a Windows Innovation, also?
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You could always blink during that part and you would be none the wiser.
Don't worry, it's only 4 months away before we can get a peak at the Darth Vader costume on the DVD release of A New Hope!
I switch between DOSBox and DOSemu with a Win95 boot disk
These two projects should really merge since one has some things working and the other has other things working. DOSBox is a lot easier to set up and get running, but I've found DOSemu to be more 'flowing'.
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It's the fault of the Broadcom chip they started putting in them. Which is Linksys's fault for switching to a chip that has drivers closed tighter then a virgin's legs. The wrapper provided by Linuxant can use the Windows drivers. Also the Prism GT people are working on other chipsets at a better price.
That would be a cool warning lable. Better then
": Improper use will result in blindness, hysterical laughter and permanent insanity"
Some sound cards suck and are not supported by Linux...or the original manufactures that went out of business 10 years ago and took the specs with them
What's with all the Troll articles lately?
That was covered on an Outer Limits episode where this guy got a 'state-of-the-art' robot to help him after he lost use of his legs...then she (the robot) fell in love with him and got all psycho when he stared going out with a human woman
For home/personal use...most like very few people. For corporate/server use, they are very popular if only for their support.
You can say their kernels are patched, but from what I've seen they are more customized then patched. Most of their patches do not apply very well to other vendors kernels or even systems. Every try to install a SUSE kernel on a Red Hat install? Sure they are both RPM based, but their systems are truely unique and you will get many boot errors at the least.
I am not against vendors making custom kernels at all, it's really a good idea. They make kernels that are designed for a specific purpose, Red Hat aims more for the server support/performance and SUSE has been focusing more on the Desktop install. There are optimizations done for servers that would be silly, or even degrading, for a desktop.
I agree that this is not a matter of 'forking' the kernel, but packaging.
Someone must be too young to remember "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman"
That brings up a good question...how safe IS Linux from spyware?
Granted more spyware is written for the Win32 systems, but with the increase usage of Linux and the way tracking cookies work...I wonder if there has really been an in depth look at if and how spyware can infect a system running Linux.
You know it won't be able install any system services (unless your running as root), but what keeps things from making changes to ~/.Xsession or simular user level logon scripts?
Heh, guess there are thousands of "Vehicular Manslaughter" canidates on I355 daily!
If you share an electronic book with your friend and get caught, it's very unlikely that you will "go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200". You will probably have to go through a small claims court and pa a fine for the action though. But most corporations will ignore a minor offence like that...unless you are distributing to hundreds, then you have some bigger problems.
I was a crappy boy scout 15 years ago, I couldn't stay out of trouble.
The court system and penalties are ludicrous, lots of penalties are very unjust and I agree. Someone counterfeiting money will likely spend more time in federal prison then someone that committed multiple homicide. That is unfair. Rapist are released sooner then someone that commits a computer crime where there was NO physical damage done. These are examples of what NEEDS to be changed. I totally agree with you there!
But that does not change that fact that the laws do exist and breaking them should not go unpunished. I know I've broken more laws then I have been caught for, but that does not make what I've done right.
Did he already go to jail, as in a local holding cell until the trial...or is he now sitting in "Federal 'pound-me-in-the-ass prison"?
I'm sure he currently has bail options.
In that case, yes I have been to jail for a moving violation. Second speeding ticket in 2 weeks. Luckily I had a friend with me to put up bail so I didn't have to sit in there for more then a couple hours until he got the cash.
It sucks, but it is the law. No, Laws are not 'sent down from God' but they exist and exist for a reason (other then to piss people off)
Right, it won't effect the whole 'piracy' issue as a whole much at all. Neither do speeding tickets. People will still drive over the posted speed limit (knowingly and willfully) and most WILL get away with it while others will not.
As a grumpy officer told me once "I can't get everyone"
Worse part is, most murders get out of jail sooner then these people.
The laws are messed up and need re-evaluating, but these are still crimes that should be punished (the punishment needs to change in most cases)
I agree, why are people getting upset about someone going to jail for breaking the law?
sam0ht seems to be a bit irate over this for some reason...if you are going to break a law, don't bitch when you get busted!
If you drive your car over the speed limit and get a ticket, it's not the cops fault.
If you do drugs and your parents catch you, it's not their fault
If you have sex in a public place and you get arrested for indecency, it's not the police's fault.
"If you do the crime, you better be prepared to do the time"
They just haven't gotten around to doing %s/Lindows/Linspire/g on all the HTML pages yet.
Probably waiting for all the images to be changed first
Yes, I've been using Linux for a while, but not really that long. When I started using it (3 years ago) I was overwhelmed by the documentation and had a hard time trying to figure out where to start.
Not much different then when I first loaded up Windows3.1 10 years earlier.
Or when I first turned on my Commodore64 and didn't know how to start a program (load "*",8,1)
Or when I first used an Apple IIe with my first experiance with a 5 1/4" Floppy Disk
Or when I first turned on the CommodorePET wondering how to load the program from the cassette tape
Any first time computer user is going to be confused without documentation, or someone to help them. Today there are so many ways to get help if you are trying to learn something, beyond documentation.
Newgroups, IRC, forums, email, user groups, books...
If you can't find help with using a computer these days, it's not because it is not there but because people are not looking.
As for MSOffice being UI-centric...it's a feature filled UI with endless amounts of options, tools and toys. Why is there a graphic editor built in, i do not know
If you want to go to a Linux newbie friendly site, I suggest JustLinux formally known as LinuxNewbie.org
The only time newbies are smacked down there is when they have the attatude of "Help me and help me NOW DAMMIT!!" otherwise they are treated as equals and helped.
1. Improving and is nearly a non-issue these days
2. Documentation is more plentiful then most 'closed source' groups. If having less 'Dummy' books means less documentation, it's a negative I can live with
3. Doesn't MS Office count as a Feature-centric project? You can really put MSOffice in place of 'ProjectX' and it would sound the same
4. Sounds like a crappy project to me if the developers know of the problems but don't fix them.
5. There are lots of egotistical elitests, but I've noticed in the wild that there are less now then a couple years ago. If you punch everyone in the face and they all leave, don't be suprised when there is no one left to punch.
Overall it sounds like this guy had a bad experiance with A single project and decided to generalize it with all Open Source. I'd be nice to know what ProjectX is, then we all can get on them over it.
The Notes section seems to get the highlight of the paper.
My point is that its not a "Linux Innovation".
And they are Windows Innovations when Apple and Unix were truly first?
Lack of major third party support? Real Player? QuickTime 6.X? The point is that you can't say Mozilla = Linux, so any innovation in Mozilla isn't a Linux innovation.
There is Real Player support for Linux and they contribute to it, just don't officially support it.
QuickTime (and Real) works with most Linux video playback software. You only need to right codec's (which is no different then anything else)
Correct, internet browsers are not a far comparison since only Microsoft considers their browser to be part of the OS, claiming Innovation
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Thanks for that link, it's a start but still involves the user to build the ISO themselves. Avoiding Microsoft's licensing problems.
Thanks though, I did not realize there was such a project
No we are talking about "Linux innovation" vs. "Windows innovation". If Unix (in general) had it before Linux was even created, then how can it be a Linux innovation?
How can it be a Windows Innovation, also?