I'm sorry, but that's a really ignorant statement. Should we ignore the DMCA too, then? It's the same deal - government regulating technology. I say us techies should be more politically active, while there's still some technology around worth being excited about.
As long as the patent has "Windows" in it, I'm unfazed. That whole platform is a (slooowly) sinking ship. They're just repeatedly carving their name on the hull.
OK. I love books. For things like Philosophy, literature, Physics.. blah blah. But when I want to learn about something computer-related, I... uh... use a computer. Linux, and free software in general is a pretty fast-moving target to try and hit with a book. By the time it's even submitted to the print house there are parts that are already obselete. Imagine the most complete Linux book ever written, and your joy in having secured a copy. Now imagine how pissed you'd be when 2.6 came out and you realize that half the userspace kernel-related tools in the book are completely irrelevant now. Ooops.
Actually, if you check out the E Team page, you'll see that Kim Woelders is and has been maintaining E16 for a while now. Raster is mentioned many times on the Team page for all sorts of tasks, and Mandrake is listed as "Inactive."
The hidden costs of Operating System? Some people call Free/Libre Open-Source software FLOSS, FOSS or just OSS. I just spell it out and use the words to avoid confusion.
And I'm genuinely sick of people using terms like "hidden costs" and "TCO". Please, just drop this fad-ish jargon. Okay fine, you can use "hidden costs" if you must.
this is a good thing... and XFS seems to be pretty cool. But it is a little frustrating to have so many competing filesystems. Anyone care to enlighten me on the differences between ext3, reiserfs, XFS and JFS (is that last one even relevant?)...?
Things brings up an interesting conversation. Do you call it...
KDE/GNOME/whatever?
XFree86?
The name of your distro?
GNU utils?
GNU/Linux?
Linux?
whatever BIOS you're using?
Your CPU brand? ...
The name of your power company?
Anything you call it is depriving the majority of its components, and their authors, the credit they deserve. A tricky one indeed...
-Right off the bat, where the heck is the volume control? Should be on the default desktop, not deep in the application menu as 'kmix'.
I agree.
-With all due respect to Konqueror, Mozilla should be the default browser on the desktop.
Nah, I disagree. First off, Mozilla takes a long time to load. Firebird is great, but I think that keeping the consistent look of all KDE apps is a Good Thing (TM). Also, what specifically do you like about Mozilla that Konqueror doesn't have?
-I don't know what's up with Kpackage, but I love apt-get.
Yeah... KPackage is strange, though it does work very well for installing individual.debs that have been downloaded. Synaptic is cool, but it's a little slow because of how crazily complete it is. apt-get rules.
-IM is pretty important to the masses, why not make a good multiprotocol client like Gaim the default?
That's what Kopete is for! I can't remember if it's included in KDE 3.1.4 which is what Mepis uses, because I installed orth's KDE CVS HEAD.deb's for sid.
-Mepis does a good job putting a GUI face on many of the system config stuff, but they are still spread over a number of menus. It would help if they were consolidated under one heading, similar to Windows control panel, although come to think of it everythings not under that either.
Yeah, that does leave something do be desired... but I think it's more the job of the KDE folks than the Mepis folks to get that done. I'm sure that in the relatively near future (KDE 3.2, 3.3...) the Mepis config utilities will be obselete/assimilated into KDE. But already, the KDE Control Center is far more centralized than Windows Control Panel ever was; notice how you don't have to click through fifteen "property boxes" just to get to anything useful. Sadly, KControl doesn't do much hardware configuration at all. I'm sure that's coming, though.
The noise maps will allow planning to insulate the public from noise by directing traffic away from residential areas and making funds available to sound-proof thin walled homes.
I can't even get my landlord to shovel the 3 feet of snow in front of my apartment building.
4. Reinstall entire OS just to remove Knoppix-specific packages
Don't get me wrong, I love Knoppix, but for use as an installer it's far from perfect. The last Debian install I did, I used Mepis, which takes the hardware detection from Knoppix and makes it pure Debian, plus a couple of Mepis system admin tools (USB key/home syncing, APT-source config, spamassassin blacklist/whitelist... list goes on) and the install is super easy. It's all done graphically, after booting the CD.
Check out MLDonkey. Here's the description from oneoftheir sites:
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network . The protocol was reverse-engeneered using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora .
Currently, with eDonkey , it supports several large networks, such as Overnet , Bittorrent , Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire,etc), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha), and Opennap (alpha). Networks can be enabled/disabled, searches are performed in parallel on all enabled networks, but each file is only downloaded from one network (wait for next release !), but from multiple clients concurrently.
This past week I just lost 40GB of data. About 10GB was irreplaceable. It destroyed my ext3 partition when I was resizing it. I tried all manor of recovery, including hexdump/grepping for superblocks and using them in fsck. Nothing. I ended up reformatting.
Hopefully I've learned my lesson about backups. At least now I'm keeping/home on a separate partition from / .
First off - I love Debian. Portability, Idealism and Due Diligence. And I think UserLinux is a great idea (although I would rather see Debian adopt most/all of these changes). I'm not a fan of the name UserLinux, however, as it is a little specific in my opinion. But that's not why I'm posting.
For all you folks who have a dislike for the Debian installer, some have suggested Knoppix. However, Knoppix installs are definitely not pure debian, and some Knoppix-specific packages are quite difficult to remove without disturbing the rest of the system.
MEPIS Linux has very similar hardware autodetection to Knoppix, and its CD is bootable. It offers a pure Debian install, plus a few GUI system tools. The install is ridiculously simple, requiring only that you tell it what partitions to put/,/home (can be same as/), and swap on. It proceeds to format and install in *one* step. A tad more configuration and you're ready to reboot into your new OS.
My install took all of 25 minutes, including the formatting of a total of 40GB of hard drive space.
So given Debian, Asterix and a modem it's possible for me to set up my own (personal) VoIP line? er... I'm sure I'm missing something. Someone boil all this telco talk down for me;)
Damn, this is one of those posts that makes me wish articles could be moderated (not to affect their visibility, but... for something:P ). Kudos to Cliff for giving so many links which were not only totally relevant but actually specific and technical. Some posts link to just one article that is so sweepingly general I get a headache.
This is News for Nerds [TM].
"DRM Support for Xfree?" parse error...
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Kernel 2.4.23 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
From KernelTrap's summary...
Among the many fixes and updates, changes include a significant update to the VM including the removal of the OOM killer [story], the addition of "laptop mode" to help increase battery life [story], and DRM support for Xfree86 v4.3.0+.
DRM support? WTF? For XFree? uh? Maybe they mean DRI... maybe DRM is some other acronym. grep -i drm on the changelog didn't clear things up at all. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Actually, I did feel a need for window snapping long ago. I thought it was lame that if you wanted two windows lined up exactly, you'd need to pull out your jeweler's loop just for that little pixel of space or overlap.
a good feature makes work easier. this does.
Yes, I have thought "Damn I wish I could see all my windows at once and change between them". That's why I like window snapping. And this new feature, expose, I see it as a solution to desktop-crowding for those who don't want to bother with virtual desktops.
just because you don't want a certain feature doesn't mean the millions of other users out there don't. isn't free software about choice? is anyone saying all these "crack" features must be on by default?
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... for obvious reasons.
Simma down, now.
I'm sorry, but that's a really ignorant statement. Should we ignore the DMCA too, then? It's the same deal - government regulating technology. I say us techies should be more politically active, while there's still some technology around worth being excited about.
Actually, I'm not sorry.
... lest you become the very thing you despise.
As long as the patent has "Windows" in it, I'm unfazed. That whole platform is a (slooowly) sinking ship. They're just repeatedly carving their name on the hull.
Hm. Wow. Really? You sure it's not all the Free Software?
OK. I love books. For things like Philosophy, literature, Physics.. blah blah. But when I want to learn about something computer-related, I... uh... use a computer. Linux, and free software in general is a pretty fast-moving target to try and hit with a book. By the time it's even submitted to the print house there are parts that are already obselete. Imagine the most complete Linux book ever written, and your joy in having secured a copy. Now imagine how pissed you'd be when 2.6 came out and you realize that half the userspace kernel-related tools in the book are completely irrelevant now. Ooops.
yur qute ;)
Actually, if you check out the E Team page, you'll see that Kim Woelders is and has been maintaining E16 for a while now. Raster is mentioned many times on the Team page for all sorts of tasks, and Mandrake is listed as "Inactive."
"the hidden costs of OS add up to a higher TCO"
The hidden costs of Operating System? Some people call Free/Libre Open-Source software FLOSS, FOSS or just OSS. I just spell it out and use the words to avoid confusion.
And I'm genuinely sick of people using terms like "hidden costs" and "TCO". Please, just drop this fad-ish jargon. Okay fine, you can use "hidden costs" if you must.
"Also, just noticed that enlightenment quietly released an update to the 0.16 series."
uh... that was over a month ago, on November 5th. It was a good little bugfix release, though.
this is a good thing... and XFS seems to be pretty cool. But it is a little frustrating to have so many competing filesystems. Anyone care to enlighten me on the differences between ext3, reiserfs, XFS and JFS (is that last one even relevant?) ...?
Things brings up an interesting conversation. Do you call it...
...
KDE/GNOME/whatever?
XFree86?
The name of your distro?
GNU utils?
GNU/Linux?
Linux?
whatever BIOS you're using?
Your CPU brand?
The name of your power company?
Anything you call it is depriving the majority of its components, and their authors, the credit they deserve. A tricky one indeed...
They're not going to use Lindows. SJD seems to actually emphasize quality over gimmick.
not that "Java Desktop" is gimmick-free... just call it GNOME, damnit!
I've already rooted all your boxen and converted them to a worldwide Beowulf cluster.
Time to crack some pr0n passwords...
-Right off the bat, where the heck is the volume control? Should be on the default desktop, not deep in the application menu as 'kmix'.
.debs that have been downloaded. Synaptic is cool, but it's a little slow because of how crazily complete it is. apt-get rules.
.deb's for sid.
I agree.
-With all due respect to Konqueror, Mozilla should be the default browser on the desktop.
Nah, I disagree. First off, Mozilla takes a long time to load. Firebird is great, but I think that keeping the consistent look of all KDE apps is a Good Thing (TM). Also, what specifically do you like about Mozilla that Konqueror doesn't have?
-I don't know what's up with Kpackage, but I love apt-get.
Yeah... KPackage is strange, though it does work very well for installing individual
-IM is pretty important to the masses, why not make a good multiprotocol client like Gaim the default?
That's what Kopete is for! I can't remember if it's included in KDE 3.1.4 which is what Mepis uses, because I installed orth's KDE CVS HEAD
-Mepis does a good job putting a GUI face on many of the system config stuff, but they are still spread over a number of menus. It would help if they were consolidated under one heading, similar to Windows control panel, although come to think of it everythings not under that either.
Yeah, that does leave something do be desired... but I think it's more the job of the KDE folks than the Mepis folks to get that done. I'm sure that in the relatively near future (KDE 3.2, 3.3...) the Mepis config utilities will be obselete/assimilated into KDE. But already, the KDE Control Center is far more centralized than Windows Control Panel ever was; notice how you don't have to click through fifteen "property boxes" just to get to anything useful. Sadly, KControl doesn't do much hardware configuration at all. I'm sure that's coming, though.
I can't even get my landlord to shovel the 3 feet of snow in front of my apartment building.
4. Reinstall entire OS just to remove Knoppix-specific packages
Don't get me wrong, I love Knoppix, but for use as an installer it's far from perfect. The last Debian install I did, I used Mepis, which takes the hardware detection from Knoppix and makes it pure Debian, plus a couple of Mepis system admin tools (USB keyHopefully I've learned my lesson about backups. At least now I'm keeping /home on a separate partition from / .
For all you folks who have a dislike for the Debian installer, some have suggested Knoppix. However, Knoppix installs are definitely not pure debian, and some Knoppix-specific packages are quite difficult to remove without disturbing the rest of the system.
MEPIS Linux has very similar hardware autodetection to Knoppix, and its CD is bootable. It offers a pure Debian install, plus a few GUI system tools. The install is ridiculously simple, requiring only that you tell it what partitions to put /, /home (can be same as /), and swap on. It proceeds to format and install in *one* step. A tad more configuration and you're ready to reboot into your new OS.
My install took all of 25 minutes, including the formatting of a total of 40GB of hard drive space.
Apparently you didn't learn from the poster's mistakes and check your links, either.
So given Debian, Asterix and a modem it's possible for me to set up my own (personal) VoIP line? er... I'm sure I'm missing something. Someone boil all this telco talk down for me ;)
This is News for Nerds [TM].
a good feature makes work easier. this does.
Yes, I have thought "Damn I wish I could see all my windows at once and change between them". That's why I like window snapping. And this new feature, expose, I see it as a solution to desktop-crowding for those who don't want to bother with virtual desktops.just because you don't want a certain feature doesn't mean the millions of other users out there don't. isn't free software about choice? is anyone saying all these "crack" features must be on by default?