Wrong. They most likely left it out because they own an iPod and have already bent over to its DRM. I've got friends that do this - despise DRM but pay through the nose for an iPod and think they're getting a deal with iTMS.
There seems to be a lot of the "waaa Linux is always copying Windows" type of comment on these articles. Yeah, copying Windows is lame. Lots of folks suggest "coming up with some new idea to wow everyone" - well, I haven't seen one worth pursuing yet.
In the meantime, I think we would to well to try and dupe MacOSX - I hereby command all you Slashdot junkies to band together and create a Linux distro inspired by Knoppix, or better yet MEPIS, that duplicates the look of OSX. Many Windows users are closet Macophiles, but they're trapped in their hardware and software configuration. Give them an OSX-y Linux with OpenOffice.org and they'll drop Windows like the bad habit that it is.
While we're at it, make the installer automagically import all their emails, favorites and My Documents directory. OK ready, set GO!
In theory, I strongly agree with what you're saying. In practice, however, having set up my own Zope/CMF/Plone side on Debian unstable (yes, unstable) and Apache, I'm gonna have to disagree.
It took me a while to set up Zope/Plone. There's a nasty bug in Debian's distribution of Plone, but thankfully there's a super easy workaround in the BTS. It also took a couple visits to #plone@irc.gnu.org to set up an actual Plone instance, but in retrospect it wasn't that hard. I got the Apache passthrough working too. Now, Plone's setup phase is done. Anything I need to change is done via GUI, and the Structured Text system is perfect for marking up content without obfuscating it. Oh yeah, and the Structured Text was the only thing I actually had to look at the Plone docs for. It's probably even easier when you use them start to finish.
I've used e107, PostNuke, XOOPS, Slash, Scoop and probably a few others. They're all neat, but I've had way more problems with them all, from just plain failure to strange errors to lack of features. e107 does have a TON more themes available, though.
You say Zope is going in the wrong direction, but I fail to see how. With Zope, you can build webapps into your Plone site - just don't ask me how. With most PHP-based CMS's you still have to install an SQL server of some flavor, and I doubt if you can build webapps in. You complain about Zope/CMF/Plone being three-tiered, but really CMF is just an addon to Zope - it doesn't add complication. And I think it's pretty sweet to be able to manage all your Zope stuff through one interface - including all your Plone sites and whatever else you've got going. You also complain that Zope is a "closed world" because of the object database. Yeah, it's about as "closed" as any other website that has an FTP backend - i.e. NOT.
And as far as speed, I haven't noticed a bit of difference between Plone and e107 (the only other CMS I've ended up using for real). I'm not pretending I get any real traffic, though. But to balance that, I've got a horrible setup - at the moment a P4-1.4 with 256/RAM and a cable modem with an upload cap of 256Kb.
In short, Plone rules. Not sure how it does it, but it does.
I'd personally use Ogg Vorbis. 99% of my collection is mp3, but Vorbis can give the same quality in smaller files. Plus there's no patent issues, and it's an open standard.
That's contradictory. If no one has the right to decide what kind of image you can view/edit, Adobe can't either. But that's wrong. The reality is that the producers of image viewing/editing software collectively do decide what we get to do. It would be thoroughly legal for every single image editor to detect and prevent attempts to load pictures containing, say nudity. Then you wouldn't be able to open your pr0n. So you get off your ass and make your own image editor, with no restrictions. Add whatever features you want. License it however you want. This is exactly what the GIMP does, minus my made-up nudity situation, and though it's got a good long way to go (as does PS), we're damn lucky it's under the GPL.
Authoritarianism is a good one. Too bad most Americans can't quite catch it on the first pass. I'd either pick Apathy, because even though there are ways to change these things, most people can't be bothered; or Amnesia as my French girlfriend's father calls the USA, because we've been systematically deprived of certain rights for decades (while also being thrown a few bones) and we seem to consistently forget that fact and go back to watching TV and drinking cheap beer.
They're only giving themselves a month to decide? It usually takes me a week to iron out the config on my own box after a fresh install. Squid this, adzapper that, make a GPG key, why won't iptables block Zope's port...
... which I thought was insightful at the time. I still think it is. Something about monocultures... and how they're vulnerable to... something...
OK commence modding me down. Just wanted to point something out to my fellow linux users/zealots. Would it not have been possible to put OpenBSD on this trinket?
WTF are you talking about? X is great. It needs work, but the framework is a great piece of engineering. It's network transparent, it's very fast, and it can exist in multiple instances on the same box. New extensions are being written. Efforts are underway to make it more modular and require less configuration. "When will it be ready"? Faster If You Help (TM). What windowing system do you use?
Huh. In France, they've got powerline broadband and I haven't heard of problems. Probably in other EU countries, as well. Is this foot-stamping on the part of FEMA? Is there really no way to work it out? Maybe not... I'm just bitter about paying $40/mo for a 2Mb/512Kb connection.
... UCSD's Network Telescope received more than 2.8 million response packets from SCO servers, indicating that SCO responded to more than 700 million attack packets over 32 hours.
Is the backscatter they observed their only evidence that the DDOS actually took place? If so, I would hardly call that proof that "SCO Not Lying About DoS Attack." Just an observation.
To ask this question now makes people say "oh, interesting... I wonder!"... In five years, when they're all using fuel cells, capturing 10+MP storing tens of gigabytes of data, and the size of your pinky, this will be the most useless question ever. OF COURSE HE WOULD!
Yeah, cause that's the only place people are dying. How about Tibet? How about Africa, where millions die every year of starvation, malnutrition and AIDS? How about your own damned country?
Extremely well-written and thoughtful column. You lay everything out very well, and make surprisingly sound analogies. I was trying to find holes in the IP/HP (human property) argument, but I failed. Please, do America a favor and submit this to relevant community news sites, newspapers, magazines, corporations, even politicians.
Sorry, I didn't know I was capable of such blatant brown-nosing... lemme pull my nose out of your ass.:)
Okay so five characters were removed. Excuse me for caring. While the headline wasn't journalism at it's absolute finest or anything, the "goes live" part was relatively original, for the context. It was obvious to me where the inspiration for this headline came from. It should have been linked.
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Wrong. They most likely left it out because they own an iPod and have already bent over to its DRM. I've got friends that do this - despise DRM but pay through the nose for an iPod and think they're getting a deal with iTMS.
/me sheds a silent tear for integrity
There seems to be a lot of the "waaa Linux is always copying Windows" type of comment on these articles. Yeah, copying Windows is lame. Lots of folks suggest "coming up with some new idea to wow everyone" - well, I haven't seen one worth pursuing yet.
In the meantime, I think we would to well to try and dupe MacOSX - I hereby command all you Slashdot junkies to band together and create a Linux distro inspired by Knoppix, or better yet MEPIS, that duplicates the look of OSX. Many Windows users are closet Macophiles, but they're trapped in their hardware and software configuration. Give them an OSX-y Linux with OpenOffice.org and they'll drop Windows like the bad habit that it is.
While we're at it, make the installer automagically import all their emails, favorites and My Documents directory. OK ready, set GO!
In theory, I strongly agree with what you're saying. In practice, however, having set up my own Zope/CMF/Plone side on Debian unstable (yes, unstable) and Apache, I'm gonna have to disagree.
It took me a while to set up Zope/Plone. There's a nasty bug in Debian's distribution of Plone, but thankfully there's a super easy workaround in the BTS. It also took a couple visits to #plone@irc.gnu.org to set up an actual Plone instance, but in retrospect it wasn't that hard. I got the Apache passthrough working too. Now, Plone's setup phase is done. Anything I need to change is done via GUI, and the Structured Text system is perfect for marking up content without obfuscating it. Oh yeah, and the Structured Text was the only thing I actually had to look at the Plone docs for. It's probably even easier when you use them start to finish.
I've used e107, PostNuke, XOOPS, Slash, Scoop and probably a few others. They're all neat, but I've had way more problems with them all, from just plain failure to strange errors to lack of features. e107 does have a TON more themes available, though.
You say Zope is going in the wrong direction, but I fail to see how. With Zope, you can build webapps into your Plone site - just don't ask me how. With most PHP-based CMS's you still have to install an SQL server of some flavor, and I doubt if you can build webapps in. You complain about Zope/CMF/Plone being three-tiered, but really CMF is just an addon to Zope - it doesn't add complication. And I think it's pretty sweet to be able to manage all your Zope stuff through one interface - including all your Plone sites and whatever else you've got going. You also complain that Zope is a "closed world" because of the object database. Yeah, it's about as "closed" as any other website that has an FTP backend - i.e. NOT.
And as far as speed, I haven't noticed a bit of difference between Plone and e107 (the only other CMS I've ended up using for real). I'm not pretending I get any real traffic, though. But to balance that, I've got a horrible setup - at the moment a P4-1.4 with 256/RAM and a cable modem with an upload cap of 256Kb.
In short, Plone rules. Not sure how it does it, but it does.
it fell of a truck. :(
i wish
I'd personally use Ogg Vorbis. 99% of my collection is mp3, but Vorbis can give the same quality in smaller files. Plus there's no patent issues, and it's an open standard.
the RIAA is now doubling the prices on all their albums to "recover costs."
great wording on that last sentence. I'm totally stealing it for a sig. I should probably credit whoever came up with it. was it you?
... if I had any games to play on it in Linux. OK so there are a few. But Armagetron is only so entertaining.
That's contradictory. If no one has the right to decide what kind of image you can view/edit, Adobe can't either. But that's wrong. The reality is that the producers of image viewing/editing software collectively do decide what we get to do. It would be thoroughly legal for every single image editor to detect and prevent attempts to load pictures containing, say nudity. Then you wouldn't be able to open your pr0n. So you get off your ass and make your own image editor, with no restrictions. Add whatever features you want. License it however you want. This is exactly what the GIMP does, minus my made-up nudity situation, and though it's got a good long way to go (as does PS), we're damn lucky it's under the GPL.
Authoritarianism is a good one. Too bad most Americans can't quite catch it on the first pass. I'd either pick Apathy, because even though there are ways to change these things, most people can't be bothered; or Amnesia as my French girlfriend's father calls the USA, because we've been systematically deprived of certain rights for decades (while also being thrown a few bones) and we seem to consistently forget that fact and go back to watching TV and drinking cheap beer.
roflmao.
seriously, you just can't make this stuff up.
They're only giving themselves a month to decide? It usually takes me a week to iron out the config on my own box after a fresh install. Squid this, adzapper that, make a GPG key, why won't iptables block Zope's port...
... which I thought was insightful at the time. I still think it is. Something about monocultures... and how they're vulnerable to... something...
OK commence modding me down. Just wanted to point something out to my fellow linux users/zealots. Would it not have been possible to put OpenBSD on this trinket?
WTF are you talking about? X is great. It needs work, but the framework is a great piece of engineering. It's network transparent, it's very fast, and it can exist in multiple instances on the same box. New extensions are being written. Efforts are underway to make it more modular and require less configuration. "When will it be ready"? Faster If You Help (TM). What windowing system do you use?
BTW, what's XWindows? Some Microsoft vaporware?
Huh. In France, they've got powerline broadband and I haven't heard of problems. Probably in other EU countries, as well. Is this foot-stamping on the part of FEMA? Is there really no way to work it out? Maybe not... I'm just bitter about paying $40/mo for a 2Mb/512Kb connection.
... UCSD's Network Telescope received more than 2.8 million response packets from SCO servers, indicating that SCO responded to more than 700 million attack packets over 32 hours.
Is the backscatter they observed their only evidence that the DDOS actually took place? If so, I would hardly call that proof that "SCO Not Lying About DoS Attack." Just an observation.ha! no need to type one-handed anymore! ;)
sorry.
maybe try google://digital SLR
To ask this question now makes people say "oh, interesting... I wonder!" ... In five years, when they're all using fuel cells, capturing 10+MP storing tens of gigabytes of data, and the size of your pinky, this will be the most useless question ever. OF COURSE HE WOULD!
Yeah, cause that's the only place people are dying. How about Tibet? How about Africa, where millions die every year of starvation, malnutrition and AIDS? How about your own damned country?
Where's your contribution?
You apparently have a quantifiable amount of money, which means corporations and politicians will trip over each other scrambling it take it from you.
;)
sorry, feeling cynical. why oh why do i read the news?
"crack DeCSS"
you mean crack CSS. DeCSS was the crack. That's interesting though, I didn't know he was just cannon fodder. Noble cause.
Extremely well-written and thoughtful column. You lay everything out very well, and make surprisingly sound analogies. I was trying to find holes in the IP/HP (human property) argument, but I failed. Please, do America a favor and submit this to relevant community news sites, newspapers, magazines, corporations, even politicians.
:)
Sorry, I didn't know I was capable of such blatant brown-nosing... lemme pull my nose out of your ass.
Okay so five characters were removed. Excuse me for caring. While the headline wasn't journalism at it's absolute finest or anything, the "goes live" part was relatively original, for the context. It was obvious to me where the inspiration for this headline came from. It should have been linked.
OK, you stole the headline text, verbatim, from the Register article, but didn't link to it. Nice.