Mandrake is good period. It's Linux. It's not like there's something other Linux distros do that Mandrake can't. Package management? urpmi. What advantage does apt have over urpmi? I can't think of one. Ease of install? Hands down to Mandrake. Ease of configuration? Drakconf, userdrak, diskdrak, wow... all easy to use and they do the same thing as any comparable configuration method.
Don't knock Mandrake simply because it can be easy to use. It's also just as powerful as anything else, provided you have the experience to use the power-user features. There's nothing that says "just because this system is more obtuse and harder to use must mean it's more powerful!" That's a misconception that a lot of people need to get out of their heads.
You mean Microsoft is superior because they are nice enough to write shitty enough code to allow script-kiddos like yourself to keep exploiting it with viruses so that you can impress the rest of your "1337 friends" and dream about getting laid as you think of how hot it would be to be in a threesome with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss? Yeah, I guess you're right in that sense.
Come back in 5 or 6 years when you have a real job in IT and have actually used OSS projects in the workplace. Tell me that all those W2K server licenses were worth it when, after the 9 billionth time they'd crashed, you switched to Debian and Apache for free, and never looked back. Tell me this.
SCO claims that the GPL violates existing copyright laws because it "grants" a copyright. But the GPL doesn't grant any copyright. In fact, it works as just the opposite. Instead of allowing any one person to claim an open project for themselves, it remains in a sense public property so long as the original source is cited and the code remains open for anyone to tinker with. That's not the case with copyrights. I can't remix a song and release it without paying for rights. I can't go rewrite Lord of the Rings and publish it because it's copyrighted. But I can download an OSS project, modify it, and then I HAVE to release my modifications if I want to publicly distribute my modifications to the source. It's not a copyright. EOS.
But Windows is UGLY! If you're going to seek what the masters have sought, seek after Apple! At least OS X is kinda pretty!
BTW, I use KDE 3.1 and it's pretty because I made it so. You can download icon themes, everything you need to beautify your desktop. Even to make it look like Aqua or that other UI (pssst it's called Redmond in KDE).
I still have no idea what Gnome looks like, but I'm sure it can be pretty too.
If they review these patents, and find them to be void, every past legal proceeding involving these patents gets reversed? The decisions no longer hold, etc.? That actually seems unlikely. New laws 9 times out of 10 don't grandfather or reverse old decisions. It makes little sense that overturned patents should also.
Uhm. Go get yourself a pair of 12s and some vinyl and let's see YOU dog DJing after that.
I've been spinning for quite some time now and it requires huge amounts of skill, finesse and ability.
I think many DJs will pass this up and go and get Final Scracth because LOTS of professional DJs do use this in addition to turntables.
There is a certain touch and mystique to vinyl that you will never get anywhere else, but especially when playing techno (which requires a lot of layering) or turntabilism, the extra tracks and ability to play things you can't really get on vinyl comes in really handy.
Take 'em to court! Cease and decist letters are one thing, but SCO is willfully violating the IP of millions of programs by violating the license under which code was written and released. Because GPL is not public domain, SCO is not free to do with this code as they please -- they too must abide by the license. A license is a conract, and the GPL doesn't *have* to be tested in court. If two parties enter into a legal contract (which the GPL is, because it doesn't violate any existing laws) then they must abide by the contract or face the consequences.
And since SCO is now not abiding by that contract, by releasing GPL'd code under their own license, they can be sued for breach of contract. I'm not sure what someone could actually pull for monetary damages, but it would be the show of support for OSS that such suits would bring. SCO might even be balked into small, out-of-court settlements to save time.
Basically, this is the same thing that happens anytime someone uses a proprietary license. It's not really a copyright so much as it is a contract -- it says Person A will only do X and not Y with software P. SCO is doing Y with software P, and this leaves them in breach.
I suggest Legal Engine as a good resource for how to file small claims in Utah.
All who are under the influence of the fabled Reality Distortion Field still believe there Macs are inherently safe. Remove your tin hat and soon your fears will be eased.
In other news, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a computer has a potential security flaw. Does it have a keyboard? What's that? It does have a keyboard! Why, someone could just walk in and START ACCESSING YOUR COMPUTER by simply typing on it.
On the upside, the amount of skr1p7 kiddies who are likely to find Mac exploits and use them are surprisingly small. They're more apt to want to break into Windows machines because 1) it's easier 2) it's more well-documented and 3) what they want to break in to (a friend's computer, school computers, etc) probably run Windows, statistically speaking.
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"CTRL ALT DELETE! CTRL ALT DELETE!"
Bist du "crack" geraucht?
The call for papers for our philosophy journal asked for LaTeX format as first preference, .doc as a second preference.
C'mon... you know the answer!
That's right! Nonexistant! Good job!
Don't knock Mandrake simply because it can be easy to use. It's also just as powerful as anything else, provided you have the experience to use the power-user features. There's nothing that says "just because this system is more obtuse and harder to use must mean it's more powerful!" That's a misconception that a lot of people need to get out of their heads.
A good vantage point at the local shopping mall and I'm a rich bastard.
Come back in 5 or 6 years when you have a real job in IT and have actually used OSS projects in the workplace. Tell me that all those W2K server licenses were worth it when, after the 9 billionth time they'd crashed, you switched to Debian and Apache for free, and never looked back. Tell me this.
Da sind in deutsche Philosophie zu viel Bier -- FWN.
"Ow! My server!"
A new server, to replace the now smoking one in their offices.
BTW, I use KDE 3.1 and it's pretty because I made it so. You can download icon themes, everything you need to beautify your desktop. Even to make it look like Aqua or that other UI (pssst it's called Redmond in KDE).
I still have no idea what Gnome looks like, but I'm sure it can be pretty too.
Amazon link?
On the plus side, can Eric Raymond now legally pull guns on Darl and Co.?
I've been spinning for quite some time now and it requires huge amounts of skill, finesse and ability.
I think many DJs will pass this up and go and get Final Scracth because LOTS of professional DJs do use this in addition to turntables.
There is a certain touch and mystique to vinyl that you will never get anywhere else, but especially when playing techno (which requires a lot of layering) or turntabilism, the extra tracks and ability to play things you can't really get on vinyl comes in really handy.
And since SCO is now not abiding by that contract, by releasing GPL'd code under their own license, they can be sued for breach of contract. I'm not sure what someone could actually pull for monetary damages, but it would be the show of support for OSS that such suits would bring. SCO might even be balked into small, out-of-court settlements to save time.
Basically, this is the same thing that happens anytime someone uses a proprietary license. It's not really a copyright so much as it is a contract -- it says Person A will only do X and not Y with software P. SCO is doing Y with software P, and this leaves them in breach.
I suggest Legal Engine as a good resource for how to file small claims in Utah.
In other news, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a computer has a potential security flaw. Does it have a keyboard? What's that? It does have a keyboard! Why, someone could just walk in and START ACCESSING YOUR COMPUTER by simply typing on it.
On the upside, the amount of skr1p7 kiddies who are likely to find Mac exploits and use them are surprisingly small. They're more apt to want to break into Windows machines because 1) it's easier 2) it's more well-documented and 3) what they want to break in to (a friend's computer, school computers, etc) probably run Windows, statistically speaking.