It's people like him and places like this one that welcomed me when I first found my way onto the Internet. They taught me what to value, and how to behave. I will forever be grateful for that, even if I don't come around that often anymore. Cheers, and godspeed.
It amuses me to no end that we are still so sensitive about the years when Linux was so difficult to install that -even in this day and age- we still go "OMG it has a cool installer! And it's graphical! And it's pretty!"
Probably what happened was something related to this. I remember that Ad-Aware slowed down their releases a lot while the transition was going on.
In any case, what bothered me was not the innacuracy of your comment, but the fact that you were trying to discredit the poster for no good reason. I don't even like Ad-Aware that much!
You should check your facts before calling people shills.
Ad-Aware's free edition is called Ad-Aware Personal and updates have never stopped being free. In fact, I just tried it myself, just to make sure. Go here and see for yourself.
That's the one, JDS 2, but I think the one I played with didn't have the black bars in the background, making it, as you say, more similar.
JDS was quite a disappointment for me. Over a year ago, we were testing it alongside RedHat and Gentoo and we were amazed at the lack of polish of JDS. I mean, a company with the size and expertise of Sun could very easily devote some effort to make its Linux distro not look like some half-finished college project. I wasn't surprised when they killed the project.
Apart from how deeply interesting I find the system you're describing, I was eerily surprised to find out that W. Buffet works at Kiewit Plaza, in Omaha, alongside Kiewit Engineering:
Actually, I posted the link and was amazed at the same thing. I would have expected a couple of "Funny" points, but never this! Still, after seeing it again, I have to admit, the changes are enormous!
Your post seems quite authoritative and you seem to have a good grasp of this vulcanology thing but, near the beginning, you say:
"Also, given the number of volcanos we've actually seen form (none), and given that vulcanology is not an exact science, it would be premature to assume that volcanos can't form rapidly."
Did you know . . . it was all going to go so wrong for you And did you see it was all going to be so right for me Why did we tell you then You were always the golden boy then And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes
To avoid OOo switching back to English randomly you need to do the following:
Tools-> Options-> Language Settings-> Languages-> Default language for documents-> choose the desired language.
Make sure you have the corresponding dictionary installed. Get it from here. Also, I use the "For the current document only" option to keep English as the overall default.
I happen to agree with the GP and it's not taking a potshot at RedHat that propels me to write.
When RedHat left a lot of us hanging I was faced with two choices at opposite ends of the distro spectrum: move to the distro that looked closest to replacing RedHat -easy, pretty, newbie-friendly- in the form of Suse or grit my teeth and start learning something, in the form of Debian or Gentoo.
Tried Suse first, liked it a lot, but it was more KDE-fied than Gnome-fied and I swing the other way.
I decided then to give one of the other two a try and choosing was very difficult. What finally swayed me was community support and I went the Gentoo way for my laptop. Really nice and liberating. Much better than my years with RedHat. When I set up my home server I will very probably try Ubuntu, Debian simply faded from the picture.
No, no. That's Marcel Gagne, who actually writes the "Cooking With Linux" column in Linux Journal. This guy is somebody else entirely, and his book is "The Linux Cookbook". Great article title, huh? Clear as mud.
We're about to hit the 200th post and a large majority of what has been written is severely depressing, because Slashdotters still confuse "free as in beer" and "free as in speech".
I mean, one would think WE would know the diference!
So I propose a name change for Free Software. Thus, we can finally end any possible confusion as to what we mean and we can make use of the positive connotations of the term proposed: Freedom Software.
Now, before everyone starts with the inverted French jokes and political gnashing of teeth, think of the possibilities.
RMS will be ecstatic, the media will stop misrepresenting us, the public and business sectors will cease to have a negative reaction to us and we can concentrate on making said software better!
I am not joking about this, by the way. Think: Freedom Software. It's perfect!
Hell, it excites me a whole lot. Sadly, it presents two problems: one, it has no bearing on the discussion at hand, which deals with how things are today; two, you make dubious assumptions about monopolies and choice.
If we start extrapolating limitlessly then things we say become useless. For instance, in the future, I expect to have the Internet connected wirelessly to my brain. Therefore, 100Mbps is unusably slow. See? We must stick to the matter at hand for discussions to have any meaning.
As to monopolies, your future sound a bit utopian. Remember that the Internet is made up of bits and pieces of hardware that bind (ha!) computers. That hardware is owned by big groups of people whose best interest does not currently lie with real choice and freedom from monopolies.
Well, 100Mbps is not something I frequently need in my daily surfing life. What I would like is to have access to that level of bandwidth on demand. Imagine the following scenario:
I'm surfing along at 512, as fast as I need, happily paying X amount of money. Suddenly, Slashdot informs me that UberCöolLinux has new iso images out. I know my ISP lets me switch to 100Mbps temporarily for Y amount of money (per second, or byte), so I head over to begin downloading. Nifty, eh?
Slashdot Mirror
It's people like him and places like this one that welcomed me when I first found my way onto the Internet. They taught me what to value, and how to behave. I will forever be grateful for that, even if I don't come around that often anymore. Cheers, and godspeed.
He means this. It's quite useful, actually.
It amuses me to no end that we are still so sensitive about the years when Linux was so difficult to install that -even in this day and age- we still go "OMG it has a cool installer! And it's graphical! And it's pretty!"
If you're serious about getting Palm sync to work, send me an email. I'm looking for people to support a project to do exactly that.
Cheers,
Morel
This assesses consensus, not correctness. The two are often at odds with each other.
Is this not the same problem that PageRank faces? From their own description:
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value."
In fact, Wikipedia is also subject to the same forces, as is the peer-review process of most scientific journals and the concept of democracy.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying I'm scared you are right.
Probably what happened was something related to this. I remember that Ad-Aware slowed down their releases a lot while the transition was going on.
In any case, what bothered me was not the innacuracy of your comment, but the fact that you were trying to discredit the poster for no good reason. I don't even like Ad-Aware that much!
You should check your facts before calling people shills.
Ad-Aware's free edition is called Ad-Aware Personal and updates have never stopped being free. In fact, I just tried it myself, just to make sure. Go here and see for yourself.
That's the one, JDS 2, but I think the one I played with didn't have the black bars in the background, making it, as you say, more similar.
JDS was quite a disappointment for me. Over a year ago, we were testing it alongside RedHat and Gentoo and we were amazed at the lack of polish of JDS. I mean, a company with the size and expertise of Sun could very easily devote some effort to make its Linux distro not look like some half-finished college project. I wasn't surprised when they killed the project.
Cheers,
Morel
Sun used it in their SUSE-based 'Sun Java Desktop', which has now been discontinued.
Apart from how deeply interesting I find the system you're describing, I was eerily surprised to find out that W. Buffet works at Kiewit Plaza, in Omaha, alongside Kiewit Engineering:
http://www.kiewit.com/engineering/
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I'm sure there has to be a story behind that little piece of twilightzone-esque coincidence.
Sorry, Draco, but the word you're looking for is centripetal. Good joke, though.
Actually, I posted the link and was amazed at the same thing. I would have expected a couple of "Funny" points, but never this! Still, after seeing it again, I have to admit, the changes are enormous!
OBR* - And Ms. Spears has nice
breasts.
* - Obligatory Breast Reference
Nice? Only sometimes,
apparently!
I believe he was talking about this one: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8075
Quite interesting, actually.
Cheers,
Morel
It seems you are correct.
Just when you've gotten over your childhood fear of the ocean...THIS comes up! This planet will never cease to amaze me.
Cheers,
Morel
Your post seems quite authoritative and you seem to have a good grasp
of this vulcanology thing but, near the beginning, you say:
"Also, given the number of volcanos we've actually seen form (none),
and given that vulcanology is not an exact science, it would be premature
to assume that volcanos can't form rapidly."
BZZT! Wrong!We've seen Paricutin
form, in Mexico.
Cheers,
Morel
You just like to say "summary judgement", don't you?
"Poles Apart" from The Division Bell:
Did you know . . . it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes
Cheers,
Morel
I think Winston Churchill said it best:
"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it."
Cheers,
Morel
To avoid OOo switching back to English randomly you need to do the
following:
Tools-> Options-> Language Settings-> Languages-> Default
language for documents-> choose the desired language.
Make sure you have the corresponding dictionary installed. Get it from here.
Also, I use the "For the current document only" option to keep English
as the overall default.
Cheers,
Morel
I happen to agree with the GP and it's not taking a potshot at RedHat that propels me to write.
When RedHat left a lot of us hanging I was faced with two choices at opposite ends of the distro spectrum: move to the distro that looked closest to replacing RedHat -easy, pretty, newbie-friendly- in the form of Suse or grit my teeth and start learning something, in the form of Debian or Gentoo.
Tried Suse first, liked it a lot, but it was more KDE-fied than Gnome-fied and I swing the other way.
I decided then to give one of the other two a try and choosing was very difficult. What finally swayed me was community support and I went the Gentoo way for my laptop. Really nice and liberating. Much better than my years with RedHat. When I set up my home server I will very probably try Ubuntu, Debian simply faded from the picture.
Cheers,
Morel
No, no. That's Marcel Gagne, who actually writes the "Cooking With Linux" column in Linux Journal. This guy is somebody else entirely, and his book is "The Linux Cookbook". Great article title, huh? Clear as mud.
We're about to hit the 200th post and a large majority of what has been written is severely depressing, because Slashdotters still confuse "free as in beer" and "free as in speech".
I mean, one would think WE would know the diference!
So I propose a name change for Free Software. Thus, we can finally end any possible confusion as to what we mean and we can make use of the positive connotations of the term proposed: Freedom Software.
Now, before everyone starts with the inverted French jokes and political gnashing of teeth, think of the possibilities.
RMS will be ecstatic, the media will stop misrepresenting us, the public and business sectors will cease to have a negative reaction to us and we can concentrate on making said software better!
I am not joking about this, by the way. Think: Freedom Software. It's perfect!
Cheers,
Morel
Hell, it excites me a whole lot. Sadly, it presents two problems: one, it has no bearing on the discussion at hand, which deals with how things are today; two, you make dubious assumptions about monopolies and choice.
If we start extrapolating limitlessly then things we say become useless. For instance, in the future, I expect to have the Internet connected wirelessly to my brain. Therefore, 100Mbps is unusably slow. See? We must stick to the matter at hand for discussions to have any meaning.
As to monopolies, your future sound a bit utopian. Remember that the Internet is made up of bits and pieces of hardware that bind (ha!) computers. That hardware is owned by big groups of people whose best interest does not currently lie with real choice and freedom from monopolies.
Cheers,
Morel
Well, 100Mbps is not something I frequently need in my daily surfing life. What I would like is to have access to that level of bandwidth on demand. Imagine the following scenario:
I'm surfing along at 512, as fast as I need, happily paying X amount of money. Suddenly, Slashdot informs me that UberCöolLinux has new iso images out. I know my ISP lets me switch to 100Mbps temporarily for Y amount of money (per second, or byte), so I head over to begin downloading. Nifty, eh?