Doesn't really matter, considering that when you're at such a high altitude you're exposed to a good amount more radiation than normal. Makes you think twice about those childhood astronaut dreams...
the real question is, how long before 'you' look in a dictionary and figure out that it's spelled 'exorbitant'.
just funnin' with ya, software patents r teh s4t4n:)
OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!11
i though you made that product name up... i guess you didn't:)
that's gotta be the most acronym-ridden product name i've ever seen. wow.
Since XOrg will be replacing XFree, APT dependencies will have a "Replaces: xserver-xfree86" field along with the "Conflicts:" field. Don't worry, things like this happen more often than you think.
And no, OSX is not LSB compliant - go figure.
This might be nitpicking, but I think you didn't read what the first letter in 'LSB' stands for - Linux:)
If you RTFFAQ here, you'll notice that they still use/usr,/bin/sbin,/etc etc. (hehe) as symlinks to their new, fancy directories.
It actually is pretty clever the way they've laid it all out, except for that fact that it totally screws up non-English speakers. Three letters of gibberish is a lot easier to learn and remember than fourteen. Also, three is (probably not coincidentally) the magic number past which humans' ability to remember patterns generally drops off very quickly.
Very well put. I'm curious though about what it is you don't like about Debian; I'm guessing it's the complete and total lack of GUI configuration tools, which does kinda suck. I use Debian as my only OS, and there are certainly a few snags (running unstable) now and then, but it's not so bad for me. But that's me.
So what, in your opinion, is inferior about Debian vs. Red Hat, and what's so maddening? I'm not trolling, I'm just actually curious.
Interesting, fraxas, that you begin a post by running off-topic and losing your sense of the English language. What separate-keyboard issue?
The issue I think you're referring to wasn't necessarily fixed by me. I'm thinking it was the result of a KDE upgrade. Honestly I don't use ^C/^V often enough to remember when it even got fixed.
Free Software is about Freedom. That's choice, among other things. Choice is not incidental. And the presence of choice is necessarily good; some choices obviously are not good.
You are completely fucking clueless. If you don't want to use X selections (the left-/middle-click one - it is NOT a clipboard) you don't have to, and you'll never know they exist. If you want to use the "normal" clipboard, you can do that.
That said, I use both on a regular basis. X selections are actually one of my favorite features of X, and I've only been using it for a little over a year. I come from Windows, and I love this "broken system." There's nothing to fix but the fact that GNOME and KDE have separate clipboards. Actually, it's fixed on my box (though I'm not sure how) already.
Free Software is about choice. "Fixing" X selections would needlessly eliminate choice. You don't know what you're talking about.
I've been using MLDonkey for about 9mo now, and I couldn't be happier. It runs as a daemon in the background, so I don't have a fancy GUI repainting constantly while I'm doing other things. There's also a boatload frontends to it, from telnet and web-based (built-in) to Windows-native to GTK+ to KDE. Here is a better summary of the interfaces.
Since the core is separate from the interface, you can administer your core from other hosts. Just run the interface and specify a hostname. For example, multiple people in a household can all share one MLDonkey server and order downloads from their workstations.
And yes, it does support more networks than Shareaza.
How does this compare to SheepShaver? I've heard it's faster than PearPC but haven't tried either myself. To think I'd never heard of either until a few months ago!
As I said before, the reportbug tool inserts relevant package versions into the bug report before sending. If your behemoth applications don't have decent, version-enabled bug reporters... that's not so much a problem with Debian as the buggy, reporter-less software and the users who file worthless reports now is it?
Debian should release more, but it's not going away without a suitable replacement. Period.
I can guarantee you they won't have the exact version of "debian unstable" you found your bug on.
Remember when I said you should update before filing bugs? This is why. Make a report with a current Debian distro, and developers will only have to update to get everything you have.
debian has no coherent release schedule
I know, it sucks. That's why I'm helping.
Are you helping?
try figuring out how to file a bug based on that--what exactly is debian unstable?
What? When you report bugs, the version of the package you're using is reported along with it. That is, if you're using the reportbug tool, which there's really no reason not to be doing. But really, the first thing you should be doing before reporting bugs is to upgrade. It's irresponsible to file bugs on old packages, especially if the new version already has fixed that bug.
I've got a tiny site, only around a month old, giving updates on various Debian things I work on. Number one for debian kaffeine. I didn't do anything special.
Yes. the Debian Zaurus Project is headed by Debian Developer Matt Zimmerman. From what I know, he pretty much just had to make a custom kernel and build a ROM image, as Debian officially supports the ARM architecture. No massive recompiling necessary. Just hijack someone's WiFi connection and apt-get whatever you want;D
Yes yes, -1 Redundant. But no one's posted about it yet. Does it work with Linux? A friend of mine has an earlier model, and it doesn't seem to get detected as a USB mass storage device under 2.4.2x. He's a captive windows user and this is one of the main reasons he can't drop it completely.
I'd try it on 2.6.5, but he doesn't want to upgrade (?!) and he uses it too much to lend it to me to hack with. So do any of you fellow linux-only users have one of Jens' recent units working?
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That'll kill AIM. Good. 'Bout time the world moves to a better medium for instant messaging.
And notice I said "better for IM" - as far as I know, streaming XML isn't the best choice for video conferencing.
Doesn't really matter, considering that when you're at such a high altitude you're exposed to a good amount more radiation than normal. Makes you think twice about those childhood astronaut dreams...
the real question is, how long before 'you' look in a dictionary and figure out that it's spelled 'exorbitant'. :)
just funnin' with ya, software patents r teh s4t4n
OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!11 ... i guess you didn't :)
i though you made that product name up
that's gotta be the most acronym-ridden product name i've ever seen. wow.
Since XOrg will be replacing XFree, APT dependencies will have a "Replaces: xserver-xfree86" field along with the "Conflicts:" field. Don't worry, things like this happen more often than you think.
And no, OSX is not LSB compliant - go figure. :)
This might be nitpicking, but I think you didn't read what the first letter in 'LSB' stands for - Linux
If you RTFFAQ here, you'll notice that they still use /usr, /bin /sbin, /etc etc. (hehe) as symlinks to their new, fancy directories.
It actually is pretty clever the way they've laid it all out, except for that fact that it totally screws up non-English speakers. Three letters of gibberish is a lot easier to learn and remember than fourteen. Also, three is (probably not coincidentally) the magic number past which humans' ability to remember patterns generally drops off very quickly.
I'll take "world wide web" and "eatie-see" ;)
Very well put. I'm curious though about what it is you don't like about Debian; I'm guessing it's the complete and total lack of GUI configuration tools, which does kinda suck. I use Debian as my only OS, and there are certainly a few snags (running unstable) now and then, but it's not so bad for me. But that's me.
So what, in your opinion, is inferior about Debian vs. Red Hat, and what's so maddening? I'm not trolling, I'm just actually curious.
Interesting, fraxas, that you begin a post by running off-topic and losing your sense of the English language. What separate-keyboard issue?
The issue I think you're referring to wasn't necessarily fixed by me. I'm thinking it was the result of a KDE upgrade. Honestly I don't use ^C/^V often enough to remember when it even got fixed.
Free Software is about Freedom. That's choice, among other things. Choice is not incidental. And the presence of choice is necessarily good; some choices obviously are not good.
You are completely fucking clueless. If you don't want to use X selections (the left-/middle-click one - it is NOT a clipboard) you don't have to, and you'll never know they exist. If you want to use the "normal" clipboard, you can do that.
That said, I use both on a regular basis. X selections are actually one of my favorite features of X, and I've only been using it for a little over a year. I come from Windows, and I love this "broken system." There's nothing to fix but the fact that GNOME and KDE have separate clipboards. Actually, it's fixed on my box (though I'm not sure how) already.
Free Software is about choice. "Fixing" X selections would needlessly eliminate choice. You don't know what you're talking about.
I've been using MLDonkey for about 9mo now, and I couldn't be happier. It runs as a daemon in the background, so I don't have a fancy GUI repainting constantly while I'm doing other things. There's also a boatload frontends to it, from telnet and web-based (built-in) to Windows-native to GTK+ to KDE. Here is a better summary of the interfaces.
Since the core is separate from the interface, you can administer your core from other hosts. Just run the interface and specify a hostname. For example, multiple people in a household can all share one MLDonkey server and order downloads from their workstations.
And yes, it does support more networks than Shareaza.
wasn't it just an ingenious move to make that song suck so bad that everyone blocked it out of their memory?
:)
How does this compare to SheepShaver? I've heard it's faster than PearPC but haven't tried either myself. To think I'd never heard of either until a few months ago!
an is an anagram generator. Duh. I used tr to remove the spaces and single-quotes that an likes to stick in.
Looking through the list of combinations, I only came up with one semi-interesting result:
VVV? Very Vicious Vegetables? A warning about GMO foods? Quite the forward-thinkers these folks must have been.
As I said before, the reportbug tool inserts relevant package versions into the bug report before sending. If your behemoth applications don't have decent, version-enabled bug reporters... that's not so much a problem with Debian as the buggy, reporter-less software and the users who file worthless reports now is it?
Debian should release more, but it's not going away without a suitable replacement. Period.
I can guarantee you they won't have the exact version of "debian unstable" you found your bug on.
Remember when I said you should update before filing bugs? This is why. Make a report with a current Debian distro, and developers will only have to update to get everything you have.
By participating in discussions on mailing lists and IRC. This much should be obvious.
debian has no coherent release schedule
I know, it sucks. That's why I'm helping.
Are you helping?
try figuring out how to file a bug based on that--what exactly is debian unstable?
What? When you report bugs, the version of the package you're using is reported along with it. That is, if you're using the reportbug tool, which there's really no reason not to be doing. But really, the first thing you should be doing before reporting bugs is to upgrade. It's irresponsible to file bugs on old packages, especially if the new version already has fixed that bug.
I've got a tiny site, only around a month old, giving updates on various Debian things I work on. Number one for debian kaffeine. I didn't do anything special.
Yes. the Debian Zaurus Project is headed by Debian Developer Matt Zimmerman. From what I know, he pretty much just had to make a custom kernel and build a ROM image, as Debian officially supports the ARM architecture. No massive recompiling necessary. Just hijack someone's WiFi connection and apt-get whatever you want ;D
Yes yes, -1 Redundant. But no one's posted about it yet. Does it work with Linux? A friend of mine has an earlier model, and it doesn't seem to get detected as a USB mass storage device under 2.4.2x. He's a captive windows user and this is one of the main reasons he can't drop it completely.
I'd try it on 2.6.5, but he doesn't want to upgrade (?!) and he uses it too much to lend it to me to hack with. So do any of you fellow linux-only users have one of Jens' recent units working?
want to rent a botnet of them?
erm, the UT2004 was native Linux, I mistyped :)