I've always wondered what reason may someone have to choose debian for personal use????
It seems that there're a lot of people(not only on/.) that just can't stop themselves once the talk is on the obvious "debian superiority"... Than again, what's with those guys? I mean, sure, apt-get is a nice app, but I don't think it may be a push someone to choose debian over another distro, however, if you have problem to find a package and manually install it, you definitely have no use of a Linux distribution, or if you have than it better don't be debian. So it seems taht the people going all loud about how advanced apt-get is, have not *major* advantage of it at all.(I'm not familiar if there're some advanced uses of apt-get(synchonized update of packages or anything), so feel free to flame on me....)
So what does Debian offer besides that??? It can't be easy hardware configuration, RedHat,SuSe and especialyl Mandrake are far ahead. Is it just the fact that the official site has no fancy.gifs(ot: maybe it'll have now that there's no more patent royalties;oPP), or the fact that the Debian team does not seem to have any of the commercial goes of the Big 3?????
Anyway, I keep recommending Slackware(the distribution with the best keyboard based install,;oP for all debian zealots(and no, dependancies are not important)), to all my friends searching for a minimal installation, and Mandrake, to all those who want a Desktop like experience and no manual hardware configuration.
So where does Debian fit in this picture???
Oh, and please don't say that the biggest part of the www servers are Debian based, it just ain't true.....
....but clicking on a link that's supposed to be an article, and going straight to a STUPID BANNER ADD ON A WHOLE PAGE, is a bit too much(oh, wait, there's a link - skip the add.... how nice...;o((). Is it the NYT that reacted really fast to the/. linking or is the editor just lazy???
The article itself is rather empty and intended for the "citizen"(you got what I mean;o))), however if you bother to read the "by country" reports (pick from the menu on the right), and you choose the right countries(once again, you know what I mean), there's an awful bunch of interesting facts.....
It's definitely a better read, and there're things I didn't even suspect....
Hello???
The guy was not violating any copyrights....
He's running a search engin, remember?He is NOT, repeat, NOT, hosting the files.
Talking about search engins, there's one you should know about.... it's here.... Oh wait....
If you search for ANYKNOWNARTIST.mp3... there's a 25% chance that the robot has indexed a page with a link to the file... Well, damn those criminals, lets sue them....
As stated in a post above, the RIAA have exactly the same legal right to go after Altavista, Google or whatever.
The fact that SCO has published their code has absolutely nothing to do with this case.
Their license is pretty clear that you can't use in a projects as the Linux kernel, BUT, this doesn't matter.
For the moment, there's no proof for ANY SCO PROPRIATARY code in the kernel, and I believe that it'd be really hard to proove this. So, looking at old stories is just shifting the attention from the main subject, and nothing more.
The thing that strikes from this article is that those guys just don't look the type that'll start FUD-ing, if the don't believe they've some chance to win... that's scary.
I know doesn't want to develop for Linux because of the attitude of the inner circle to new people,
I recall that in an interview a few months ago, Eric Raymond said that on the Linux kernel list there're some dinosaures, that have a hard time acception anything/anyone new.
Back at that time, I didn't take him seriously(because the reason of his statement was that his kernel configuration tool was not accepted, and he was really affected by it....) and I marked the phrase as an act of anger.
However, now a second (respected) personality is saying almost a similar thing and I'm starting to wonder. Is there anybody out there who has had similar experience when he wanted to join some Open source project?? Do you think that OS developpers guard their "territory" even more than at the workplace??? Finally, when you're new somewhere, the integration in the team is somehow easier due to the fact that it's the boss who put you on that job...
PS: For the Eric Raymond interview, google something about his last book and it'll come out....
Now, I'm not really present on the market, os I don't know much about shares on anything, but I know enough to suspect that when a company is screwing totally everything it's achieved, the buyers are supposed to react adequatly.
I don't know why, but the chart I saw of the SCO's share price for the last six months(somewhere below in the discussion is the link to it), shows a 500% up progression. Well, why the heck is that???? Do wallstreet know something we don't??? Do they really expect that the case will be closed with a buy out???
Is this a common practise for IBM - "You make problems, we buy you. All your shares are belong to us?"....
Someone, may please enlighten me on that????
Recent statistiques shows that unless the/. editors publish some shocking story on DRM and the evil MS plans, in the week to come SCO will replace the Redmond giant on the top of the geeky "Big bad" list.... ...unfortunately for SCO, this time they will top the Big Blue's Big Bad list, and that's likely to cause them a lot more troubles......;o))))
in france the radio stations have to play a certain amount of usic in french
Tooooooo right.
And the most freaking part of it, is that the % of francophone content they should play is pretty high.
The result:
As there's obviously not enough quality productions to fill the required interval, the listener ends up stuck with 95% repeating music scheme for as long as a complete year.
You can still say what you want, you just have to allow the entity you are talking about a chance to reply.
Why do this sound like a limitation to me?????
Also what would you say about the fact that you should provide the write of an answer *only* to those you're critisizing?
Well, hell, if that's not a freedom of speech issue.
If some illiterate jerk running a 'blog, should follow this law, every time when she/he says "Damn, this burgers, really sucked that night" or anything, how often he/she will dare to "issue" a critic???
I see tons of problems with this.
The main one goes that every person that doesn't feel ready to start a disput with someone "bigger", will avoid saying loudly his/hers opinion because of the risk to be smashed by some fency PR team on his OWN site...
Well, I totally disagree. I've been using ICQ for almost 6 years and despite the fact that it's certainly lost popularity nowadays, it's still a decent software.
At the time, AIM, Yahoo messenger and MSN, were all out of competition and even if today they seem well ahead, I don't feel like switching.
Still I'm sure the reason AIM users to ICQ users are 5 to 1 may simply be explained by the fact that AOL has strong positions as an ISP, and is constantly promoting its software.....
The correct answer to: Tomorrow I'm planning on start a lawsuit each of the M. N'boko Kiganya, Queen S'tlaka etc.....
should be:
So you can steal get a money they promise, if you doesn't reply to there're mails!
Obviously you have not get enough of those spams, so you're still not an adept of the Nigerian spammer's style;o))))).... Anyway, with or without those laws, I doubt it will make a major difference. A *lot* of the spam is coming from outside the US, and especially from countries that don't/won't have sanctions regarding spam.
On just this article, I don't think anyone can make any intelligent comments...
<sad but true>
You're wrong...
I bet a $ that some guy will come out quoting Ghandi with the perfectly convinient phrase(as always)...;oPPP
</sad but true>
Nevermind....
Did you see the previous one for RedHat?????
Micheal's obviously in the zone today, and doesn't bother reading the submissions....;oPPPPPP
With today's job market I'm afraid the company will just replace you with people that are hungry for work.
Which isn't always so obvious.
The fact that the job market is low, and there's a bunch of unemployed specialists, doesn't meen that there'is a bunch of *good*, hard-working, unemployed specialists.
And if the staff that quits is a good one, the replacement will be difficult(if not impossible) to do.
Anyway, yes a company may replace _anybody_ within a week or so, but in the futur it may loose a lot... an awful lot.;o))
...the previous/. story about konspire:
here it is....
It looks like they've done a lot of work on the project to deserve 2 submissions in 3 weeks.....;o)))
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I've always wondered what reason may someone have to choose debian for personal use???? /.) that just can't stop themselves once the talk is on the obvious "debian superiority"... Than again, what's with those guys? I mean, sure, apt-get is a nice app, but I don't think it may be a push someone to choose debian over another distro, however, if you have problem to find a package and manually install it, you definitely have no use of a Linux distribution, or if you have than it better don't be debian. So it seems taht the people going all loud about how advanced apt-get is, have not *major* advantage of it at all.(I'm not familiar if there're some advanced uses of apt-get(synchonized update of packages or anything), so feel free to flame on me....) .gifs(ot: maybe it'll have now that there's no more patent royalties;oPP), or the fact that the Debian team does not seem to have any of the commercial goes of the Big 3????? ;oP for all debian zealots(and no, dependancies are not important)), to all my friends searching for a minimal installation, and Mandrake, to all those who want a Desktop like experience and no manual hardware configuration.
It seems that there're a lot of people(not only on
So what does Debian offer besides that??? It can't be easy hardware configuration, RedHat,SuSe and especialyl Mandrake are far ahead. Is it just the fact that the official site has no fancy
Anyway, I keep recommending Slackware(the distribution with the best keyboard based install,
So where does Debian fit in this picture???
Oh, and please don't say that the biggest part of the www servers are Debian based, it just ain't true.....
...tell us how many "emoticons" you've downloaded for the last month, and how many were the .mp3-s and/or the .avi-s???
that doesn't seem like a fair comparisson.
Who said anything about fair?????
A fuel cell is :
*showing with hands*, This big.
It costs:
*writting on the blackboard*, Not more than the sum you see right here.
And the energy it produces for its ~2,3 years life is ....certainly more than enough...;o))))
....but clicking on a link that's supposed to be an article, and going straight to a STUPID BANNER ADD ON A WHOLE PAGE, is a bit too much(oh, wait, there's a link - skip the add.... how nice...;o((). Is it the NYT that reacted really fast to the /. linking or is the editor just lazy???
The article itself is rather empty and intended for the "citizen"(you got what I mean;o))), however if you bother to read the "by country" reports (pick from the menu on the right), and you choose the right countries(once again, you know what I mean), there's an awful bunch of interesting facts.....
It's definitely a better read, and there're things I didn't even suspect....
Hello???
The guy was not violating any copyrights....
He's running a search engin, remember?He is NOT, repeat, NOT, hosting the files. Talking about search engins, there's one you should know about.... it's here.... Oh wait.... If you search for ANYKNOWNARTIST.mp3... there's a 25% chance that the robot has indexed a page with a link to the file... Well, damn those criminals, lets sue them....
As stated in a post above, the RIAA have exactly the same legal right to go after Altavista, Google or whatever.
..for Vivendi to go after OSS which's in competition with some of their products... story here
Even if in the case of Freecraft, it doesn't seem as they were chalenging Blizzard's market or something...
The fact that SCO has published their code has absolutely nothing to do with this case.
Their license is pretty clear that you can't use in a projects as the Linux kernel, BUT, this doesn't matter.
For the moment, there's no proof for ANY SCO PROPRIATARY code in the kernel, and I believe that it'd be really hard to proove this. So, looking at old stories is just shifting the attention from the main subject, and nothing more.
The thing that strikes from this article is that those guys just don't look the type that'll start FUD-ing, if the don't believe they've some chance to win... that's scary.
I recall that in an interview a few months ago, Eric Raymond said that on the Linux kernel list there're some dinosaures, that have a hard time acception anything/anyone new.
Back at that time, I didn't take him seriously(because the reason of his statement was that his kernel configuration tool was not accepted, and he was really affected by it....) and I marked the phrase as an act of anger.
However, now a second (respected) personality is saying almost a similar thing and I'm starting to wonder. Is there anybody out there who has had similar experience when he wanted to join some Open source project?? Do you think that OS developpers guard their "territory" even more than at the workplace??? Finally, when you're new somewhere, the integration in the team is somehow easier due to the fact that it's the boss who put you on that job...
PS: For the Eric Raymond interview, google something about his last book and it'll come out....
It seems more like that RH7.x is considered too old by Java......
you don't have the dynamic link libraries required to run gcc 3.2 code as they weren't available when RH7.x was released.
So, you should be able to upgrade the libs, in a way that will allow Mozilla to run. Althouh, that may eventually break something else....;o))
..what the heck is that thingy on the logo?????
Hell, it's ugly.... not as ugly as me, but certainly is some competition;o)))))
Now, I'm not really present on the market, os I don't know much about shares on anything, but I know enough to suspect that when a company is screwing totally everything it's achieved, the buyers are supposed to react adequatly.
I don't know why, but the chart I saw of the SCO's share price for the last six months(somewhere below in the discussion is the link to it), shows a 500% up progression. Well, why the heck is that???? Do wallstreet know something we don't??? Do they really expect that the case will be closed with a buy out??? Is this a common practise for IBM - "You make problems, we buy you. All your shares are belong to us?".... Someone, may please enlighten me on that????
Recent statistiques shows that unless the /. editors publish some shocking story on DRM and the evil MS plans, in the week to come SCO will replace the Redmond giant on the top of the geeky "Big bad" list....
...unfortunately for SCO, this time they will top the Big Blue's Big Bad list, and that's likely to cause them a lot more troubles......;o))))
Tooooooo right.
And the most freaking part of it, is that the % of francophone content they should play is pretty high. The result:
As there's obviously not enough quality productions to fill the required interval, the listener ends up stuck with 95% repeating music scheme for as long as a complete year.
PS: I'm European, but it's saaaaad...
Why do this sound like a limitation to me?????
Also what would you say about the fact that you should provide the write of an answer *only* to those you're critisizing?
Well, hell, if that's not a freedom of speech issue.
If some illiterate jerk running a 'blog, should follow this law, every time when she/he says "Damn, this burgers, really sucked that night" or anything, how often he/she will dare to "issue" a critic???
I see tons of problems with this.
The main one goes that every person that doesn't feel ready to start a disput with someone "bigger", will avoid saying loudly his/hers opinion because of the risk to be smashed by some fency PR team on his OWN site...
See, the problem comes that an explanation like
can't continue with Windows, because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system
Will reveal some ultra/top/mega sekret infos.. don't you think???
Well, I totally disagree. I've been using ICQ for almost 6 years and despite the fact that it's certainly lost popularity nowadays, it's still a decent software.
At the time, AIM, Yahoo messenger and MSN, were all out of competition and even if today they seem well ahead, I don't feel like switching.
Still I'm sure the reason AIM users to ICQ users are 5 to 1 may simply be explained by the fact that AOL has strong positions as an ISP, and is constantly promoting its software.....
Tomorrow I'm planning on start a lawsuit each of the M. N'boko Kiganya, Queen S'tlaka etc.....
should be :
So you can steal get a money they promise, if you doesn't reply to there're mails!
Obviously you have not get enough of those spams, so you're still not an adept of the Nigerian spammer's style;o)))))....
Anyway, with or without those laws, I doubt it will make a major difference. A *lot* of the spam is coming from outside the US, and especially from countries that don't/won't have sanctions regarding spam.
Dude, I feel the Nigerian spammers already trembling;o))))....
<sad but true>
You're wrong...
I bet a $ that some guy will come out quoting Ghandi with the perfectly convinient phrase(as always)...;oPPP
</sad but true>
Nevermind.... Did you see the previous one for RedHat?????
Micheal's obviously in the zone today, and doesn't bother reading the submissions....;oPPPPPP
The press launched a campaign to stop showing the movie, saying that it reflects Zionist ideas, and promotes Jewish and Zionist beliefs."
Sure, and "Dude, where's my car?" was a strong social movie for the soviets GULAG's....
Which isn't always so obvious.
The fact that the job market is low, and there's a bunch of unemployed specialists, doesn't meen that there'is a bunch of *good*, hard-working, unemployed specialists.
And if the staff that quits is a good one, the replacement will be difficult(if not impossible) to do.
Anyway, yes a company may replace _anybody_ within a week or so, but in the futur it may loose a lot... an awful lot.;o))
...the previous /. story about konspire:
here it is....
It looks like they've done a lot of work on the project to deserve 2 submissions in 3 weeks.....;o)))