The question is, is it uglier than the OS X section color scheme?
We could make a poll out of it:
Ugliest Slashdot Color Scheme 1. Slashdot default. 2. Slashdot OS X section. 3. Slashdot games section. 4. I'm blind you insensitive clod! 5. I'm using lynx you insensitive clod! 6. CowboyNeal is colorful.
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb Operator: We get signal Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on Captain: It's You !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us Cats: You are on the way to destruction Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time Cats: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'zig' Captain: You know what you doing Captain: Move 'zig' Captain: For great justice
I don't see how this is complicated or naziesque...It's actually very well written instructions on how to cook a steak without a grill. Many people who live in an urban environment or in an apartment do not have a grill.
If you want less complicated:
1. Buy prime filet mignon 6-8 oz (1 - 2 inches thick). 2. Pat dry. 3. Season with kosher salt. 4. Sear steak on preheated non-nonstick heavy skillet over high heat for 2 minutes on one side, 1 minute on the other. 5. Bake in preheated oven at 500 for 4 minutes or until internal temp reaches 120 - 130 (I'd rather stick it then feel it). 6. Let rest for 5-10 minutes. 7. Eat.
I'm not sure how you can make this comparison (i.e. free software users don't like shiney interfaces, etc). Are you implying that people pay to use gnome and KDE and the rest of us that don't pay only use CLI? How about the fact that almost everything released these days is skinnable? Mplayer, XMMS, Mozilla, etc... I'd consider being skinnable to be "shiney and flashy". Furthermore I don't think anyone likes bugs. Whether people like bloat or not is debatable. Some people like their software to be feature packed. There are certainly a lot of utilities for making config files easier. There are utilities to help you build things like iptables rules and yes even apache config files.
Free software is a methodology for its licensing. If Microsoft were to suddenly release all the source code to their software under the GPL, would all subsequent users who downloaded and installed free-windows and free-office not be free software users?
Excel's default behavior is to use relative references. Are you using the correct terminology? If you copy a calculation from one cell in excel to another it will use a relative reference for the calculation.
Excel also does absolute references...you just put a $ in front of the column and row number (i.e. a1 becomes $a$1).
I'm not sure I really see much of a point here. The iPod is a cool gadget and all (I own one in fact), but even after reading the article I don't see the benefit.
The article mentioned that not all people have broadband at home so they can't necessarily download the files easily. Isn't this what campus computer labs are for? Students could just listen to the audio there. You could use usb keys for a fraction of the price and just download the audio files to them. CDRWs would be cheaper still and you could write the audio tracks directly to them.
It would seem to me, that at $500 a piece you could give the students desktops or even laptops. Sure, they aren't as portable or cool as an iPod, but they'll play music along with having many other capabilities.
"I have used the free "demo" up2date service, and it works fine for me, usually. Sometimes RHN temporarily denies the "demo" users access, but this is fairly rare."
I haven't found it to be rare at all. In fact every time I tried to update I couldn't for about a week after the recent samba patches were released.
"That is purely a matter of taste, not to mention that it is fairly trivial to change the GNOME theme if you really want to."
Yep...this is my list darn it!:-)
"That is only for the desktop, non-enterprise versions of Red Hat. Red Hat users tend to upgrade the non-enterprise versions fairly regularly, so there isn't that much point in trying to support old releases that have relatively few users."
So...if I want updates after a year I have to pay for them? This is better than other distros how?
Well...patching is also one the most important things you can do with regards to security. So at least in this case the expense is justified. Although patching is annoying, until people learn how to write perfect code it is a necessity.
First, if you actually want decent update capability you have to pay for it. While this isn't awful, it is a bit of a turn off for me. It can literaly take days to get an update from up2date after a major security patch is released.
Second, Red Hat is rather gnome centric. It can run KDE of course, but in my experience their KDE implementation is a bit broken (similarly gnome is a bit broken under SuSE). I find that gnome is much uglier than KDE.
Third, Red Hat only supports old releases for 1 year. This coupled with the fact that they seem to like to release binary incompatable versions without dot releases means (i.e. redhat 8.0 -> 9.0) that I can't upgrade very painlessly and now I have to because in a year there won't be any updates to 8.0. Heck 8.0 is only like 6 months old!
I think one of the biggest improvmenets with SuSE 8.2 are the online updates. While they still download rather slowly, they actually work now.
With 8.1 the online updater always locked up or didn't complete. It only seemed to work if you mirrored the updates locally and then directed online update to run from your lan.
I think usenet still has usefulness left, particularly for support issues.
Google Groups is a godsend when you are trying to troubleshoot something. Any time I have a problem I do not know how to solve I go to google groups first.
I tried WineX 3.0 with Simcity 4 and the results were pretty dismal. It says on their homepage that it is an officially supported game. Has anyone had any luck with getting it to work well?
The game installs, and runs for a bit, but goes downhill if I try to create a new city. The graphics become messed up whenever you scroll if hardware rendering is used. When I switch it to software rendering the game displays nothing (I know it's running though because all the sounds work.)
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The question is, is it uglier than the OS X section color scheme?
We could make a poll out of it:
Ugliest Slashdot Color Scheme
1. Slashdot default.
2. Slashdot OS X section.
3. Slashdot games section.
4. I'm blind you insensitive clod!
5. I'm using lynx you insensitive clod!
6. CowboyNeal is colorful.
No...no...It's more like:
....
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great justice
I don't see how this is complicated or naziesque...It's actually very well written instructions on how to cook a steak without a grill. Many people who live in an urban environment or in an apartment do not have a grill.
If you want less complicated:
1. Buy prime filet mignon 6-8 oz (1 - 2 inches thick).
2. Pat dry.
3. Season with kosher salt.
4. Sear steak on preheated non-nonstick heavy skillet over high heat for 2 minutes on one side, 1 minute on the other.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 500 for 4 minutes or until internal temp reaches 120 - 130 (I'd rather stick it then feel it).
6. Let rest for 5-10 minutes.
7. Eat.
BFD
Hah and everyone thought crop circles were created with simple mathematics, people stomping around in snow shoes, or by UFOs.
My theory is It's these weed picking robots run amuck.
I'm not sure how you can make this comparison (i.e. free software users don't like shiney interfaces, etc). Are you implying that people pay to use gnome and KDE and the rest of us that don't pay only use CLI? How about the fact that almost everything released these days is skinnable? Mplayer, XMMS, Mozilla, etc... I'd consider being skinnable to be "shiney and flashy". Furthermore I don't think anyone likes bugs. Whether people like bloat or not is debatable. Some people like their software to be feature packed. There are certainly a lot of utilities for making config files easier. There are utilities to help you build things like iptables rules and yes even apache config files.
Free software is a methodology for its licensing. If Microsoft were to suddenly release all the source code to their software under the GPL, would all subsequent users who downloaded and installed free-windows and free-office not be free software users?
Excel's default behavior is to use relative references. Are you using the correct terminology? If you copy a calculation from one cell in excel to another it will use a relative reference for the calculation.
Excel also does absolute references...you just put a $ in front of the column and row number (i.e. a1 becomes $a$1).
Kermit is still being actively developed. So I'd say that it most likely still used by quite a few people.
I'm not sure I really see much of a point here. The iPod is a cool gadget and all (I own one in fact), but even after reading the article I don't see the benefit.
The article mentioned that not all people have broadband at home so they can't necessarily download the files easily. Isn't this what campus computer labs are for? Students could just listen to the audio there. You could use usb keys for a fraction of the price and just download the audio files to them. CDRWs would be cheaper still and you could write the audio tracks directly to them.
It would seem to me, that at $500 a piece you could give the students desktops or even laptops. Sure, they aren't as portable or cool as an iPod, but they'll play music along with having many other capabilities.
That is the exact thing that popped in my head as soon as I read the post.
"Wouldn't wireless be a much better option here?"
"I have used the free "demo" up2date service, and it works fine for me, usually. Sometimes RHN temporarily denies the "demo" users access, but this is fairly rare."
:-)
I haven't found it to be rare at all. In fact every time I tried to update I couldn't for about a week after the recent samba patches were released.
"That is purely a matter of taste, not to mention that it is fairly trivial to change the GNOME theme if you really want to."
Yep...this is my list darn it!
"That is only for the desktop, non-enterprise versions of Red Hat. Red Hat users tend to upgrade the non-enterprise versions fairly regularly, so there isn't that much point in trying to support old releases that have relatively few users."
So...if I want updates after a year I have to pay for them? This is better than other distros how?
IMHO getting hacked is much more expensive.
There's even a special page for SuSE. http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
I believe it will even let you upgrade to 8.2 ala the way debian does. However, I'm a bit scared to do that.
Red Hat has it's own issues.
First, if you actually want decent update capability you have to pay for it. While this isn't awful, it is a bit of a turn off for me. It can literaly take days to get an update from up2date after a major security patch is released.
Second, Red Hat is rather gnome centric. It can run KDE of course, but in my experience their KDE implementation is a bit broken (similarly gnome is a bit broken under SuSE). I find that gnome is much uglier than KDE.
Third, Red Hat only supports old releases for 1 year. This coupled with the fact that they seem to like to release binary incompatable versions without dot releases means (i.e. redhat 8.0 -> 9.0) that I can't upgrade very painlessly and now I have to because in a year there won't be any updates to 8.0. Heck 8.0 is only like 6 months old!
Who modded this informative? It's wrong. The proper pronounciation is soo'-suh
I think one of the biggest improvmenets with SuSE 8.2 are the online updates. While they still download rather slowly, they actually work now.
With 8.1 the online updater always locked up or didn't complete. It only seemed to work if you mirrored the updates locally and then directed online update to run from your lan.
I think you need to get laid more often.
No, the article mentions that this occurs with things that are not there...For example, when a person looks at a black number 2, they see red.
You'd only have this if you looked at windows and saw something that was -not- fullscreen blue.
I often get red using windows...
I'd be more worried about starting a "frame" war...snicker snicker
(ducks)
You don't have to pay, anyone can download the cvs. You only have to pay if you want the compiled binaries.
I think usenet still has usefulness left, particularly for support issues.
Google Groups is a godsend when you are trying to troubleshoot something.
Any time I have a problem I do not know how to solve I go to google groups first.
I tried WineX 3.0 with Simcity 4 and the results were pretty dismal. It says on their homepage that it is an officially supported game. Has anyone had any luck with getting it to work well? The game installs, and runs for a bit, but goes downhill if I try to create a new city. The graphics become messed up whenever you scroll if hardware rendering is used. When I switch it to software rendering the game displays nothing (I know it's running though because all the sounds work.)