According to LWN, RMS was trying to persuade Debian that the QT licence was OK. They disagreed with him, so it's official: Debian is more anal about licenses than RMS!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
That's because most linux distibutions ignore the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I believe that this is part of the Linux Standard Base which has most of the major distributions as members so IMHO they should be using/opt.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Over the years, Microsoft has produced a lot of great software and given us many innovations such as windows, mice and trashcans on our desktops. I maintain that they are a great company and that Bill Gates is one of the greatest and most innovative talents of out time. I firmly believe that Microsoft will continue to create great products for many years to come.
Guide to M$ English: great: mediocre / terrible innovate: buy/steal from other companies
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Did Microsoft actually invent the wheel mouse, or just 'innovate' it (M$ speak for buy/steal from someone else). I like it, I just want a web browser that supports the wheel button for both scrolling and opening up new browser frames (yes I know that Mozilla does this, but it isn't stable enough for me yet).
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
You don't think that Barney sucks. You need a psychiatrist.
Also Flight Simulator (originally developed by SubLogic for Microsoft) and 'Wombat Fright Stimulator' most certainly don't suck. CFS is so good that it's worth installing the (incredibly sucky) Win98 for.
And the Bloody Paperclip sucks harder than Dyson and Hoover combined.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I'm one of about 900 people who have been testing BT's ADSL since last April. BT are a large monopoly, so therefore they make clueless decisions. Initially we paid £30 a month for a 2Mb/s connection. We were given an ADSL modem and ATM->Ethernet router. After ~8 months, BT changed the trial to £50 a month at 512Kb/s. For real-world usage the 75% reduction in bandwidth was not a big deal, but the increase in price was. I still feel that £30-£35 a month would be about right, but £40 isn't as bad as it might have been.
BT seem to be focused on Windows and ignoring the many *nix users on the trial. They have tacitly acknowledged that we exist by providing us with the information needed to connect with Linux.
BT have not yet contacted us trialists to tell us about the official launch. What we have at present is the same as their 'multi-user business service' which they plan to charge £100/month for. If they downgrade us to the USB modems then I probably won't be able to use it with Linux and will be extremely annoyed with them.
I can't wait for the local loop to be unbundled next year so I can switch to a clueful adsl provider!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I've just bought a G400MAX, because Matrox are paying Precision Insight to develop Linux drivers. Matrox are notoriously bad at writing Windows drivers, so this is a smart move on their part.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Re:Radeon? sounds like a cross between
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ATI Radeon 256
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Sounds even more like Radion, a cheap'n'cheerful washing powder here in the UK.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
This looks like a cool resource especially if your school or place of employ (or coven, biker gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to create a site- or affinity-specific distribution.
I'm employed, I'm wiccan and I'm a biker. Looks like I'm going to be very busy creating distros!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I could do something like this, but British Telecom have issued dire warnings against anyone changing the settings on their router (which is owned by BT, so they can get away with this). I suppose I could buy my own router, but ATM->Ethernet routers aren't that cheap.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
It's not that simple. There's some good information in the HOWTO's, man pages and on the web, but putting it together and getting it to work is another matter. There's no single document that explains how to do it and it's tricky stuff to get right. I wish I'd kept the scripts I wrote to do it when I got rid of the machine I was using as a firewall.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I have, but unfortunately British Telecom changed my ADSL setup so that I can no longer use (& don't need to use) a Linux box as a gateway to an internet network. So yes, it is possible, but no I can't tell you how! You can play on zone.com from behind a firewall with IP masquerading, but I found the Zone itself to be crap and the ('great' Microsoft) software continually crashed my PC. I even managed to set up a MS Wombat Fright Stimulator server behind the firewall. There's some info somewhere on the web about which ports you need to open up, but you'll have to find it yourself! Sorry.
HH (half-pissed - that's british for drunk not angry)
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
We still really need something like this. A cheap, persistent memory would be perfect for devices like digital cameras and mp3 players, where access speed is much less important than capacity and cost. Perhaps if bubble memory hadn't been killed it would now be fulfilling it's potential.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Accommodation will be in Hotels, B&B, Youth Hostels or camp sites. You make your own booking at the place of your choice.
The Lake District is a beautiful place, and therefore is innundated with tourists during the summer. So many people go there that the (very narrow) roads are often jammed and accomodation is hard to come by. So if you're thinking of going, try to book your accomodation NOW (or as soon as possible).
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
A closed-source DVD player does not give you more choice.
At the moment, I can only play DVDs in Windows. A closed source Linux DVD player gives me more choice as it allows me to play DVDs under the OS of my choice.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Why is it that that marketing people think that they know more about technical issues than the experts?
95% of the success of Microsoft is that its technology is FIT FOR THE PURPOSE, and GOOD ENOUGH.
I (as an experienced computer professional) do not consider NT Server to be either 'good enough' or 'fit for purpose'. A major factor in the success of Microsoft is due to it's elemination of the competition by using anti-competitive practices (e.g DR-DOS, Netscape). Look no further than Judge Jackson's Findings Of Fact for evidence.
Many games designers are math geniuses with years and years of comp-sci education behind them. Do you think they would PAY for DirectX if it was not any good ?
They're probably using it because they're forced to by the idiots in marketing:-)
their [Microsoft's] products are never late to market because of some ivory-tower feature that some inexperienced idealist insists must be there.
So, what is it then? And what about that bloody paperclip?
Just wait for DirectX8 which includes VOXEL rendering. Then you will all realise how useless openGL is. Even John Carmack admits this is the way forward.
I haven't seen JC's comments (or have forgotten if I have) but Voxel rendering is not necessarily 'the way forward'. It is only useful in certain situations and has many disadvantages. Whilst it's very useful for (say) medical imaging, I have my doubts about its general usefulness for 3D games. Of course, I'd welcome sound technical arguments to the contrary.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
This is not a troll, it's a rant from a supporter of open-source software.
<rant> I see here exactly what I expected when I read this press release. That is lots of complaints from the 'open-source nazis' that LinDVD is closed source. I don't fscking care! As a dedicated Linux user what I want is CHOICE. I want the choice to choose Linux over Windows. I also want the freedom to choose the applications that I run on Linux, whether they are open or closed source. I don't want to be told This is bad because it's not open-source. Ideally I'd like to have a choice of several (open and closed source) DVD players (& accounts packages, image editors, office packages etc.) If I want to pay money to a company for a product, that's my choice too.
I don't want anyone to stop supporting DeCCS once this is released, because preventing open-source DVD limits my choices (& our freedom) too. I think that CCS & region encoding suck as much as the next rabid geek.
I will probably buy this software once it's released as the more apps (open & closed source) for Linux, the better.
</rant>
HH (feeling better for that)
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Why's that been moderated down as a troll? The guy's only pointing out that we've had two stories on Red Hat 6.2 in two days ("Red Hat 6.2 about to be released" and "Red Hat 6.2 released"). I personally think that the 'about to be released' story was completely unnecessary, but Slashdot's been posting a lot of these 'non-software announcements' recently. I wish they'd only post software announcements when there's something REAL to announce.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
A German friend from high school (who spoke 5 languages to varying degrees of fluency) used to like to tell this joke:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American. (badumpbump)
The British (particularly the English) are almost as bad. It's even less justifiable for us. I can easily think of 7 languages (not incl. English) that are spoken within 300 miles of where I'm sitting (London) and I don't know any of them.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
It's aimed at gamers. Gamers (even fairly casual gamers) are usually pretty savvy about hardware specs. In 18 months time when this thing is launched, Moore's law suggests that we'll have 2Ghz processors. Playground rivalry and peer pressure will put kids off owning one:
"What you got?" "2Ghz Athlon. You?" "600Mhz X-Box" I'll leave you to imagine the teasing, feelings of inadequacy etc.
PC games designers won't want to be writing games for 2 year old technology either. They'll be too busy pushing the latest hardware to the limits.
Mind you, by the time it's released the spec may well have been upped to a much faster CPU - but will Intel still be willing to give Microsoft fast CPU's for nothing?
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
The reason that your submissions were rejected is probably that on March 10th (day X-box announced), Hemos posted Microsoft Unveils The X Box. Taco is 13 days behind with this piece of 'news'.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Slashdot Mirror
According to LWN, RMS was trying to persuade Debian that the QT licence was OK. They disagreed with him, so it's official: Debian is more anal about licenses than RMS!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
That's because most linux distibutions ignore the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I believe that this is part of the Linux Standard Base which has most of the major distributions as members so IMHO they should be using /opt.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I guess that's what Homer Simpson was working on at the Springfield nuclear plant.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Over the years, Microsoft has produced a lot of great software and given us many innovations such as windows, mice and trashcans on our desktops. I maintain that they are a great company and that Bill Gates is one of the greatest and most innovative talents of out time. I firmly believe that Microsoft will continue to create great products for many years to come.
Guide to M$ English:
great: mediocre / terrible
innovate: buy/steal from other companies
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Did Microsoft actually invent the wheel mouse, or just 'innovate' it (M$ speak for buy/steal from someone else). I like it, I just want a web browser that supports the wheel button for both scrolling and opening up new browser frames (yes I know that Mozilla does this, but it isn't stable enough for me yet).
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
You don't think that Barney sucks. You need a psychiatrist.
Also Flight Simulator (originally developed by SubLogic for Microsoft) and 'Wombat Fright Stimulator' most certainly don't suck. CFS is so good that it's worth installing the (incredibly sucky) Win98 for.
And the Bloody Paperclip sucks harder than Dyson and Hoover combined.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I'm one of about 900 people who have been testing BT's ADSL since last April. BT are a large monopoly, so therefore they make clueless decisions. Initially we paid £30 a month for a 2Mb/s connection. We were given an ADSL modem and ATM->Ethernet router. After ~8 months, BT changed the trial to £50 a month at 512Kb/s. For real-world usage the 75% reduction in bandwidth was not a big deal, but the increase in price was. I still feel that £30-£35 a month would be about right, but £40 isn't as bad as it might have been.
BT seem to be focused on Windows and ignoring the many *nix users on the trial. They have tacitly acknowledged that we exist by providing us with the information needed to connect with Linux.
BT have not yet contacted us trialists to tell us about the official launch. What we have at present is the same as their 'multi-user business service' which they plan to charge £100/month for. If they downgrade us to the USB modems then I probably won't be able to use it with Linux and will be extremely annoyed with them.
I can't wait for the local loop to be unbundled next year so I can switch to a clueful adsl provider!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I've just bought a G400MAX, because Matrox are paying Precision Insight to develop Linux drivers. Matrox are notoriously bad at writing Windows drivers, so this is a smart move on their part.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Sounds even more like Radion, a cheap'n'cheerful washing powder here in the UK.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
This looks like a cool resource especially if your school or place of employ (or coven, biker gang, hunter-gatherer tribe, etc.) wants to create a site- or affinity-specific distribution.
I'm employed, I'm wiccan and I'm a biker. Looks like I'm going to be very busy creating distros!
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I could do something like this, but British Telecom have issued dire warnings against anyone changing the settings on their router (which is owned by BT, so they can get away with this). I suppose I could buy my own router, but ATM->Ethernet routers aren't that cheap.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
You obviously haven't tried to do it, have you?
It's not that simple. There's some good information in the HOWTO's, man pages and on the web, but putting it together and getting it to work is another matter. There's no single document that explains how to do it and it's tricky stuff to get right. I wish I'd kept the scripts I wrote to do it when I got rid of the machine I was using as a firewall.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
I have, but unfortunately British Telecom changed my ADSL setup so that I can no longer use (& don't need to use) a Linux box as a gateway to an internet network. So yes, it is possible, but no I can't tell you how! You can play on zone.com from behind a firewall with IP masquerading, but I found the Zone itself to be crap and the ('great' Microsoft) software continually crashed my PC. I even managed to set up a MS Wombat Fright Stimulator server behind the firewall. There's some info somewhere on the web about which ports you need to open up, but you'll have to find it yourself! Sorry.
HH (half-pissed - that's british for drunk not angry)
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
We still really need something like this. A cheap, persistent memory would be perfect for devices like digital cameras and mp3 players, where access speed is much less important than capacity and cost. Perhaps if bubble memory hadn't been killed it would now be fulfilling it's potential.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
From the website:
Accommodation will be in Hotels, B&B, Youth Hostels or camp sites. You make your own booking at the place of your choice.
The Lake District is a beautiful place, and therefore is innundated with tourists during the summer. So many people go there that the (very narrow) roads are often jammed and accomodation is hard to come by. So if you're thinking of going, try to book your accomodation NOW (or as soon as possible).
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
A closed-source DVD player does not give you more choice.
At the moment, I can only play DVDs in Windows. A closed source Linux DVD player gives me more choice as it allows me to play DVDs under the OS of my choice.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
As a seasoned Marketing professional
:-)
Why is it that that marketing people think that they know more about technical issues than the experts?
95% of the success of Microsoft is that its technology is FIT FOR THE PURPOSE, and GOOD ENOUGH.
I (as an experienced computer professional) do not consider NT Server to be either 'good enough' or 'fit for purpose'. A major factor in the success of Microsoft is due to it's elemination of the competition by using anti-competitive practices (e.g DR-DOS, Netscape). Look no further than Judge Jackson's Findings Of Fact for evidence.
Many games designers are math geniuses with years and years of comp-sci education behind them. Do you think they would PAY for DirectX if it was not any good ?
They're probably using it because they're forced to by the idiots in marketing
their [Microsoft's] products are never late to market because of some ivory-tower feature that some inexperienced idealist insists must be there.
So, what is it then? And what about that bloody paperclip?
Just wait for DirectX8 which includes VOXEL rendering. Then you will all realise how useless openGL is. Even John Carmack admits this is the way forward.
I haven't seen JC's comments (or have forgotten if I have) but Voxel rendering is not necessarily 'the way forward'. It is only useful in certain situations and has many disadvantages. Whilst it's very useful for (say) medical imaging, I have my doubts about its general usefulness for 3D games. Of course, I'd welcome sound technical arguments to the contrary.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
This is not a troll, it's a rant from a supporter of open-source software.
<rant>
I see here exactly what I expected when I read this press release. That is lots of complaints from the 'open-source nazis' that LinDVD is closed source. I don't fscking care! As a dedicated Linux user what I want is CHOICE. I want the choice to choose Linux over Windows. I also want the freedom to choose the applications that I run on Linux, whether they are open or closed source. I don't want to be told This is bad because it's not open-source. Ideally I'd like to have a choice of several (open and closed source) DVD players (& accounts packages, image editors, office packages etc.) If I want to pay money to a company for a product, that's my choice too.
I don't want anyone to stop supporting DeCCS once this is released, because preventing open-source DVD limits my choices (& our freedom) too. I think that CCS & region encoding suck as much as the next rabid geek.
I will probably buy this software once it's released as the more apps (open & closed source) for Linux, the better.
</rant>
HH (feeling better for that)
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
No you didn't pay 'your tax dollars' for this. Not unless (like me) you're paying tax (in pounds) in the UK.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
So your TV strips out the Macrovision copy-protection? What kind of TV is it?
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Why's that been moderated down as a troll? The guy's only pointing out that we've had two stories on Red Hat 6.2 in two days ("Red Hat 6.2 about to be released" and "Red Hat 6.2 released"). I personally think that the 'about to be released' story was completely unnecessary, but Slashdot's been posting a lot of these 'non-software announcements' recently. I wish they'd only post software announcements when there's something REAL to announce.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
A German friend from high school (who spoke 5 languages to varying degrees of fluency) used to like to tell this joke:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American. (badumpbump)
The British (particularly the English) are almost as bad. It's even less justifiable for us. I can easily think of 7 languages (not incl. English) that are spoken within 300 miles of where I'm sitting (London) and I don't know any of them.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
FYI Wyrd is Anglo-Saxon and not connected at all to people commonly referred to as Celts.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
It's aimed at gamers. Gamers (even fairly casual gamers) are usually pretty savvy about hardware specs. In 18 months time when this thing is launched, Moore's law suggests that we'll have 2Ghz processors. Playground rivalry and peer pressure will put kids off owning one:
"What you got?"
"2Ghz Athlon. You?"
"600Mhz X-Box"
I'll leave you to imagine the teasing, feelings of inadequacy etc.
PC games designers won't want to be writing games for 2 year old technology either. They'll be too busy pushing the latest hardware to the limits.
Mind you, by the time it's released the spec may well have been upped to a much faster CPU - but will Intel still be willing to give Microsoft fast CPU's for nothing?
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
The reason that your submissions were rejected is probably that on March 10th (day X-box announced), Hemos posted Microsoft Unveils The X Box. Taco is 13 days behind with this piece of 'news'.
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.