Am I glad I wasn't the only one confuzzled about the British Pornographic Industry somehow having helped raising album sales instead of raising other items. Time to go to sleep, night night everyone.
Indeed, AMD64 might just be the best thing for them, it being so marketable so people have a more valid excuse to upgrade their Windows version. I doubt all the other features like the new GUI and Winfs would draw as much attention as being able to say it runs 64 bit.
I think you're mostly thinking of Microsoft software. As far as I've read/heared the unixes were much quicker in using 32 bit software. Also, looking at how much is being done now for 64 bit in various open source projects the full 64 bit operating system including applications will be here sooner than expected.
As I did say in another post, if they change it, let it be an option. But I see so many comments that claim so forcefully claim that the other interface is the only right one that I feel forced to claim otherwise. Zealots. *sigh*
Actually, I find using Gimp much more pleasing on Windows than any other program because I use a lot of other programs, and I use virtual desktops as well. I absolutely hate having to run fullscreen when creating/editing a picture because it hides all other windows. With the Gimp I can at least keep one corner open for my messenger/command prompt/winamp/whatever I want to keep an eye on. The way it uses multiple windows is one of the reason why I started using this, and the last time I sat behind photoshop, I got really annoyed at the single window approach. Blah! I hope they'll never change this, or at least keep it an option in future versions.
It may not be the only country, but as far as I can tell, it's the only country that's so full of itself, not to mention the religious justification it gives itself.
Same reason why I've reduced my habit of watching tv (mostly TMF/MTV). I've got so fed up with all the crap and commercials I turned off the tv and only turned it on to watch a movie if it's interesting enough. One of the biggest effects I've noticed is how much more relaxed and less dumbed down I felt after that. (although that has been kinda nullified by the amount of time I spent on/. now)
So, no more drinking beer during sporting events on tv, unless you wear your diaper since going to take a leak during the commercial break means breaking the law... Am I glad I have no interest in watching sport on tv.
...restricting law-abiding citizens from owning...
So you rather have some junkie break into your house, grab your gun and then use it to kill other people? Restricting guns means less guns that can be used to kill. The real criminals will find a way to get one anyhow, but it will prevent the average Joe Blow freaking out and using one. Only in a society with levelheaded people that wouldn't be a big problem, and frankly, the US for instance isn't one of them. I don't even want everyone here in The Netherlands the right to bear arms.
You can't keep on blaming everything on Bill Gates! Although I do tend to get more violent after Windows on the server freaks out and doesn't do what I tell it to do than after playing Unreal.
The K6 lacking a fpu? I've never heard of that before and it seems to me that you have a different problem. Anyway, you could try FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE instead, I use it for my firewall as well on a 466 Celeron and it's stable and secure.
That's the risk of putting betas/rc's on cd. I know those cd's will become obsolete soon enough. If I'm going to use those, I'll just put them on rewriteables so I can use them again for the next release. I'm waiting for the final release this time because rc1 wouldn't even install on this Dell C810. In the meantime it runs 4-stable like a dream.:-)
Still nothing to see on the frontpage. And even the comment I had posted earlier hasn't shown up in my list of comments... Is there some auto-ignore bit set on this section or something?
Just checked the manual pages again, but I'm still missing the ifconfig functionality of changing the macaddress of a nic. I need this for the connection to my cablemodem, otherwise no dhcp address for me. I know about the sea.c patch for it, but I don't want to compile it for every upgrade. This is the only reason why I'm using FreeBSD for my firewall.
In my case, I just looked at the hardware list of FreeBSD, found my soundcard, the read through the multimedia section of the (excellent) handbook. Had it up and running in no time. So I suggest you check harware lists before trying a distro. Could be that your card has no support, as I have with a Terratec of mine. (the only reason why that pc runs W2K)
Active directory is something different than the user interface of the OS. That has to do with an application itself. Outlook is a very good mailclient, and I hope there will be similar open source clients soon, but for the moment it's not surprising the "zealots" use it. I must say I prefer KDE more than the rigid Windows interface. And the admintools are good for single tasks, but when it comes to changing settings for a whole bunch of users/pc's scripting is the way to go. If that wasn't possible we would've killed ourselves with our migration to AD. (writing a comment while watching an action movie makes things rather incoherent)
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Ugh. Was already there. Read first, post later, preferably while awake.
How about "echo Hello World"?
Aren't you glad nobody recognizes you out of uniform...
*grabs a gasmask*
Half-Life Tutu..?/
*imagines all the characters walking around in pink*
Am I glad I wasn't the only one confuzzled about the British Pornographic Industry somehow having helped raising album sales instead of raising other items. Time to go to sleep, night night everyone.
Indeed, AMD64 might just be the best thing for them, it being so marketable so people have a more valid excuse to upgrade their Windows version. I doubt all the other features like the new GUI and Winfs would draw as much attention as being able to say it runs 64 bit.
I think you're mostly thinking of Microsoft software.
As far as I've read/heared the unixes were much quicker in using 32 bit software.
Also, looking at how much is being done now for 64 bit in various open source projects the full 64 bit operating system including applications will be here sooner than expected.
As I did say in another post, if they change it, let it be an option.
But I see so many comments that claim so forcefully claim that the other interface is the only right one that I feel forced to claim otherwise.
Zealots. *sigh*
appearently everyone else HATES it
It's good you said appearantly, because I absolutely LOVE the interface of the Gimp.
So, to counteract, dear Gimp developers, keep it the way it is.
Actually, I find using Gimp much more pleasing on Windows than any other program because I use a lot of other programs, and I use virtual desktops as well.
I absolutely hate having to run fullscreen when creating/editing a picture because it hides all other windows. With the Gimp I can at least keep one corner open for my messenger/command prompt/winamp/whatever I want to keep an eye on. The way it uses multiple windows is one of the reason why I started using this, and the last time I sat behind photoshop, I got really annoyed at the single window approach. Blah!
I hope they'll never change this, or at least keep it an option in future versions.
It may not be the only country, but as far as I can tell, it's the only country that's so full of itself, not to mention the religious justification it gives itself.
Same reason why I've reduced my habit of watching tv (mostly TMF/MTV). I've got so fed up with all the crap and commercials I turned off the tv and only turned it on to watch a movie if it's interesting enough. /. now)
One of the biggest effects I've noticed is how much more relaxed and less dumbed down I felt after that. (although that has been kinda nullified by the amount of time I spent on
So, no more drinking beer during sporting events on tv, unless you wear your diaper since going to take a leak during the commercial break means breaking the law...
Am I glad I have no interest in watching sport on tv.
...restricting law-abiding citizens from owning...
So you rather have some junkie break into your house, grab your gun and then use it to kill other people?
Restricting guns means less guns that can be used to kill. The real criminals will find a way to get one anyhow, but it will prevent the average Joe Blow freaking out and using one.
Only in a society with levelheaded people that wouldn't be a big problem, and frankly, the US for instance isn't one of them. I don't even want everyone here in The Netherlands the right to bear arms.
I blame Satan.
You can't keep on blaming everything on Bill Gates!
Although I do tend to get more violent after Windows on the server freaks out and doesn't do what I tell it to do than after playing Unreal.
The K6 lacking a fpu? I've never heard of that before and it seems to me that you have a different problem.
Anyway, you could try FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE instead, I use it for my firewall as well on a 466 Celeron and it's stable and secure.
with wirus writers/writings
:-P
Try repeating that as fast as possible. Lt. Chekov anyone?
So many comments, and that site is still available. Has hell frozen over, or is Slashdot still sleeping awa the Halloween party?
That's the risk of putting betas/rc's on cd. I know those cd's will become obsolete soon enough. If I'm going to use those, I'll just put them on rewriteables so I can use them again for the next release. :-)
I'm waiting for the final release this time because rc1 wouldn't even install on this Dell C810. In the meantime it runs 4-stable like a dream.
Just look at it this way, if Bush wins, you'll be fscked for the next four years.
:-P
j/k...
Still nothing to see on the frontpage. And even the comment I had posted earlier hasn't shown up in my list of comments...
Is there some auto-ignore bit set on this section or something?
Just checked the manual pages again, but I'm still missing the ifconfig functionality of changing the macaddress of a nic. I need this for the connection to my cablemodem, otherwise no dhcp address for me.
I know about the sea.c patch for it, but I don't want to compile it for every upgrade. This is the only reason why I'm using FreeBSD for my firewall.
In my case, I just looked at the hardware list of FreeBSD, found my soundcard, the read through the multimedia section of the (excellent) handbook. Had it up and running in no time.
So I suggest you check harware lists before trying a distro. Could be that your card has no support, as I have with a Terratec of mine. (the only reason why that pc runs W2K)
or, instead of opening a shell and typing 'man find', go into the run bar and type:
man:/find
Am I the only one who got the idea that this was the start of a bar joke?
Active directory is something different than the user interface of the OS. That has to do with an application itself. Outlook is a very good mailclient, and I hope there will be similar open source clients soon, but for the moment it's not surprising the "zealots" use it.
I must say I prefer KDE more than the rigid Windows interface.
And the admintools are good for single tasks, but when it comes to changing settings for a whole bunch of users/pc's scripting is the way to go. If that wasn't possible we would've killed ourselves with our migration to AD.
(writing a comment while watching an action movie makes things rather incoherent)