that on the RIAA website the WHOLE of the front page (latest news) is covered with information about the court cases etc, they even have a complete Piracy Section, it makes me wonder how they're helping artists when all they're doing is sueing the people who (might) buy their albums. Surely they shouldn't be doing stuff like helping young artists find work?
The RIAA website was down, couldn't view the website, couldn't ping it or anything. I can't help but wonder if maybe the artical and the RIAA's server problems were somehow connected.
What impossibly things are made possible that aren't that way under MacOS XAllow me to quote from Linux.org: "...and a vast number of software programmers have taken Linux's source code and adapted it to their individual needs By it's very nature (being open source), Linux lets you alter it for whatever you want to do with it, something not possible in MacOS. Here's a whole list of reasons why Linux is better than other Operating Systems (including MacOS).
Because you originally said. Wheras MacOS makes the easy things easy, the hard things hard and the impossible things not possible Yes, but you completely failed to mention what I said before that: But I'll give you a (slightly altered) quote to sum up the situation Way to quote me out of context.
That's not an example IMO your problem with the installation CDs can have one of two causes: 1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the install from
running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you are
installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem on partition ).
2. Your CD set or CD drive is physically damaged. Do you have access to an other
computer with CD? Can you look at your installation CDs there? Oh, and as to your modem problem : Which kernel are you using? The/dev/ttyx becomes
obsolete with the 2.2.x series, replaced by/dev/cuax. Could this be your problem? Hang on in there! I always say : Linux makes the easy things a tad more difficult,
but it makes the hard things easier and the impossible things possible, at least
once in a while:-) I fail to see how that isn't an example.
Great quote you got there. Too bad it's false unless you're willing to back it up with examples. Example here. If you're going to (mildly) flame me why don't you try learning how to use Google first?
is definetly getting quicker, and is already very easy to use. But I'll give you a (slightly altered) quote to sum up the situation: 'Linux makes the easy things difficult, but it makes the
hard things easier and the impossible things possible.' Wheras MacOS makes the easy things easy, the hard things hard and the impossible things not possible.
When this was first broadcast on American radio, a lot of people thought it was realy. Just goes to show you how powerful and realistic some Dramas/Plays can be (especially classics).
The Debian Project, creators of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, has votedto allow amendments to their Social Contract and Free Software Guidelines, as long as the developers agree with a 3:1 majority. The full text of the various amendments can be found in the original call for votes. Debian developer and XFree86 packager Branden Robinson has already proposed an amendment to the Social Contract that removes the requirement to maintain an archive for non-free software or "contrib" software (free software that depends on non-free software to work). Debian could still maintain this archive, but would no longer be required to do so. The proposal also updates the Social Contract to clearly require all works in Debian to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, not just software, which had come up repeatedly in the discussions over the non-free "GNU Free Documentation Licence". Both of these updates have been under consideration for some time, but were waiting on the ratification of the amendment procedure. The Debian Project voted on this amendment using their modified Condorcet voting procedure, which allows voters to rank the choices in order of preference, eliminating the "lesser of two evils" effect common to simple majority voting."
Strangely enough, searching for Gator brings up www.Gator.com, which takes you to www.Claria.com, but search for Claira brings up websites about Claria headsets, I wonder how they're going to get round this.
the original article about the 'UK test(ing) open source waters'. Paticularly of interest is this: 'We can be sure that there will be lots of meetings going on inside Microsoft, because that is just what happened when the German city of Munich decided to use open source software in preference to Windows. The result was a secret offer of massive discounts.' In Munich they offered discounts (although still failed), now this... If it isn't anti-competition I don't know what is.
The trials and tribulations Richard Garriott and his team at Origin underwent in order to bring Ultima Online to the masses. The article completely fails to mention the fact that Richard Garriott and the Ultima Online team turned the largest and (in my opinion) best MMORPG ever into a waste of time for everyone involved, with players, having played for four years deserting it mere weeks after them bringing out the Age of Shadows expansion pack. For those unaware of what happened with Ultima Online, the Age of Shadows expansion pack irreversibly changed the game for the worse, causing floods of players to leave to other games, such as Everquest, Diablo 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. Leaving Ultima Online left a sour taste in mine, and I'm sure many other fans of the games mouths.
In defence to IBM's counterclaims to it's lawsuit, SCO have made public a 21 page document, including 156 'answers'. In the document the lawyers admit some facts submitted by Big Blue when it counterclaimed, but the important things are what it doesn't admit, of course.
It alleges that Linux is an "unathorized version of UNIX that is structured, assembled and designed to be technologically indistinguishable" from it. I wonder how much the SCO lawyers are being paid.
here is the aritcal I'm the real Sir Haxalot, but I'm facing a bit of a problem at the moment. Some fool/fools came and modded all of my posts down, thus sending me down to terrible karma, and meaning that whenever I try to post I get the following messege: Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. So I'm asking for your help. Please mod up all my old posts so I'll be able to post again. Thanks in advance, Sir Haxalot.
That's five million terabytes of data, or 500,000 Libraries of Congress, which works out to about 800 MB of data for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet. That's about 7 billion CDs, or more than one for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet.
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future. In 70, 60 maybe even 50 years it might be difficult accesing todays hard-disks with the futures technology. And of course (as always) it brings about the problem of how long the data lasts before it's corrupted.
Well, you know how some radeon graphics cards can be 'unlocked' and some can't? I'll give you one guess at which I bet radeon sent to all the reviewers.
the Open Source community are going to have to work really hard to make sure they DO stay the best for servers. No matter how morally bankrupt and expensive the Microsoft corporation and products are, at the end of the dayif they're offering a better product people are going to go with them.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal I'm pretty sure the person that wrote that meant it to be sarcastic anyway, of course I could be wrong...
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that on the RIAA website the WHOLE of the front page (latest news) is covered with information about the court cases etc, they even have a complete Piracy Section, it makes me wonder how they're helping artists when all they're doing is sueing the people who (might) buy their albums. Surely they shouldn't be doing stuff like helping young artists find work?
The RIAA website was down, couldn't view the website, couldn't ping it or anything. I can't help but wonder if maybe the artical and the RIAA's server problems were somehow connected.
What impossibly things are made possible that aren't that way under MacOS XAllow me to quote from Linux.org: "...and a vast number of software programmers have taken Linux's source code and adapted it to their individual needs
By it's very nature (being open source), Linux lets you alter it for whatever you want to do with it, something not possible in MacOS.
Here's a whole list of reasons why Linux is better than other Operating Systems (including MacOS).
Because you originally said.
Wheras MacOS makes the easy things easy, the hard things hard and the impossible things not possible
Yes, but you completely failed to mention what I said before that:
But I'll give you a (slightly altered) quote to sum up the situation
Way to quote me out of context.
That's not an example : /dev/ttyx becomes
obsolete with the 2.2.x series, replaced by /dev/cuax. Could this be your problem? :-)
IMO your problem with the installation CDs can have one of two causes
1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the install from running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you are installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem on partition ).
2. Your CD set or CD drive is physically damaged. Do you have access to an other computer with CD? Can you look at your installation CDs there?
Oh, and as to your modem problem : Which kernel are you using? The
Hang on in there! I always say : Linux makes the easy things a tad more difficult, but it makes the hard things easier and the impossible things possible, at least once in a while
I fail to see how that isn't an example.
Great quote you got there. Too bad it's false unless you're willing to back it up with examples.
Example here. If you're going to (mildly) flame me why don't you try learning how to use Google first?
is definetly getting quicker, and is already very easy to use. But I'll give you a (slightly altered) quote to sum up the situation: 'Linux makes the easy things difficult, but it makes the hard things easier and the impossible things possible.'
Wheras MacOS makes the easy things easy, the hard things hard and the impossible things not possible.
When this was first broadcast on American radio, a lot of people thought it was realy. Just goes to show you how powerful and realistic some Dramas/Plays can be (especially classics).
The Debian Project, creators of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, has votedto allow amendments to their Social Contract and Free Software Guidelines, as long as the developers agree with a 3:1 majority. The full text of the various amendments can be found in the original call for votes. Debian developer and XFree86 packager Branden Robinson has already proposed an amendment to the Social Contract that removes the requirement to maintain an archive for non-free software or "contrib" software (free software that depends on non-free software to work). Debian could still maintain this archive, but would no longer be required to do so. The proposal also updates the Social Contract to clearly require all works in Debian to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, not just software, which had come up repeatedly in the discussions over the non-free "GNU Free Documentation Licence". Both of these updates have been under consideration for some time, but were waiting on the ratification of the amendment procedure. The Debian Project voted on this amendment using their modified Condorcet voting procedure, which allows voters to rank the choices in order of preference, eliminating the "lesser of two evils" effect common to simple majority voting."
Strangely enough, searching for Gator brings up www.Gator.com, which takes you to www.Claria.com, but search for Claira brings up websites about Claria headsets, I wonder how they're going to get round this.
I pitty the poor IT director who said that open source is a no brainer.
Actually the correct quote is 'Open Source a No-Brainer for Developing World', and it was written by Dan Gillmor, as you can see on the first link.
the original article about the 'UK test(ing) open source waters'.
Paticularly of interest is this: 'We can be sure that there will be lots of meetings going on inside Microsoft, because that is just what happened when the German city of Munich decided to use open source software in preference to Windows. The result was a secret offer of massive discounts.'
In Munich they offered discounts (although still failed), now this... If it isn't anti-competition I don't know what is.
Check out this article.
an alterntive article if you can't get your hands on the (large, and soon to be slashdotted) article above.
The trials and tribulations Richard Garriott and his team at Origin underwent in order to bring Ultima Online to the masses.
The article completely fails to mention the fact that Richard Garriott and the Ultima Online team turned the largest and (in my opinion) best MMORPG ever into a waste of time for everyone involved, with players, having played for four years deserting it mere weeks after them bringing out the Age of Shadows expansion pack. For those unaware of what happened with Ultima Online, the Age of Shadows expansion pack irreversibly changed the game for the worse, causing floods of players to leave to other games, such as Everquest, Diablo 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. Leaving Ultima Online left a sour taste in mine, and I'm sure many other fans of the games mouths.
Distributed Data Storage on a LAN?
Kind of like a Beowulf of hard-discs then?
In defence to IBM's counterclaims to it's lawsuit, SCO have made public a 21 page document, including 156 'answers'.
In the document the lawyers admit some facts submitted by Big Blue when it counterclaimed, but the important things are what it doesn't admit, of course.
It alleges that Linux is an "unathorized version of UNIX that is structured, assembled and designed to be technologically indistinguishable" from it.
I wonder how much the SCO lawyers are being paid.
here is the aritcal
I'm the real Sir Haxalot, but I'm facing a bit of a problem at the moment. Some fool/fools came and modded all of my posts down, thus sending me down to terrible karma, and meaning that whenever I try to post I get the following messege:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down.
So I'm asking for your help. Please mod up all my old posts so I'll be able to post again. Thanks in advance, Sir Haxalot.
That's five million terabytes of data, or 500,000 Libraries of Congress, which works out to about 800 MB of data for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet.
That's about 7 billion CDs, or more than one for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet.
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future.
In 70, 60 maybe even 50 years it might be difficult accesing todays hard-disks with the futures technology. And of course (as always) it brings about the problem of how long the data lasts before it's corrupted.
Well, you know how some radeon graphics cards can be 'unlocked' and some can't? I'll give you one guess at which I bet radeon sent to all the reviewers.
the Open Source community are going to have to work really hard to make sure they DO stay the best for servers. No matter how morally bankrupt and expensive the Microsoft corporation and products are, at the end of the dayif they're offering a better product people are going to go with them.
would you be able to link this in a Beowulf-type manner?
*BSD is dying. It features no support for any applications I use, and can't run any games I play. Not even the famous BSD Babes can save it now.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal
I'm pretty sure the person that wrote that meant it to be sarcastic anyway, of course I could be wrong...