Well, if you think about it, a cockroach's gotta have more neurons in there than our current chief executive, so a mutant ought to be able to talk, so......
Call up the caterer, let's give 'em a rowdy, fully-catered, off-the-wall/. welcome!
This is a wise move for Israel that I hope will be duplicated all over the world, not just in the third world countries. Switching to Linux/BSD and OSS can save thousands, even millions of dollars (or local currency), while providing a stable, reliable, inexpensive computer backbone. I think that eventually, we'll see the grand ole' USA running all government applications on Linux or the free software platform du jour. I think when that day comes, the OSS movement will have won out against the hordes of Microsoft-dependent people who can't think for themselves, and who need the government to tell them where to go, what to do and who to do it with.
This is all dependent on Bush doing two things:
A) Not getting re-elected and B) Not triggering an all-out nuclear war with anyone before the end of his term.
I believe in the power of OSS, and think the OSS development model is very effective, if somewhat communistic. Take it for what it's worth.
On the other side, there's the old saying "you get what you pay for" and I believe people shy away from "free" software because they think that anything that's free isn't worth using, and the better software costs money. WRONG! Linux and all the assorted BSDs are more than worthy competitors to Microsoft, not only on the enterprise and server level, but (I believe) at the home level. Sure, Redhat's folded their support for their "free" product, and SuSE costs money, and Mandrake 9.2 download edition has ads (reputedly), but I think this is evidence that the Linux vendors are realizing that the users think about the "you get what you pay for" thing before they think about "the best things in life are free" mantra, and that's why they're starting to charge for their services. That, and thousands of homeless Mandrake developers would kill their bosses if they were made homeless (or poor) by working on the distribution.
In short, I think we'll see OSS emerging as the OS of choice for most of the middle east, and possibly Russia. With the release of localised Linux distributions, we'll see a lot more users, and a lot more major players adopting Linux. And by "major players" I'm not referring to the economic side, I'm referring to the political side.
That's just a frontend for vncserver, and it's been bundled with KDE since version 3.1. I've found that it's hardly the killer app. In fact, I prefer using vncserver because it starts a new, nonexpiring, password-protected X session running as the user I ran vncserver as. And I can set the screen dimensions and color depth in seconds.
You do realize that the OpenSSH package shipped with most competently-compiled distributions has root access (without using su) disabled by default. Or, if it isn't, the dist managers should be taken out and shot 30 times in the eye with a sawed-off shotgun, by a person with very poor eyesight and bad hand-eye coordination.
Gentoo has this as well. The ebuild file has an instruction that tells emerge what packages the package being merged depends on, and those packages' depends, and so on and so forth. Then it grabs the source code for those packages (or the binaries, if it's closed-source or demoware) and then compiles (or installs) the package, manages the libs, checks service dependencies if the package is a service, etc. Of course, there are non-source binary versions of specific packages, such as OpenOffice.org (compiling THAT from source would take forever and 3 days) and Firebird. Strangely enough, there isn't a binary package in the portage tree for XFree86, but I expect this is due to the Gentoo developers.
Gentoo's package management system allows for infinite levels of customization and optimization, while still allowing users to have pay or demo software (UT2K3 is in the portage tree, along with Quake 1, 2, 3 and all variants of Quake, as is America's Army, Wolfenstein 3D and all the other commercial first person shooter games that appeal to gamers with "1337" hardware and the best graphics cards out there. (I can't say that about my hardware, since I'm on a 1200MHz Celeron with a gig of SDRAM and 45 total GB of storage, and dual CD-RWs, but a shitty graphics card (ever used the Trident CyberBlade/i1 graphics card? Yeah. It's crap, and I recommend anyone who was even looking at getting a Trident graphics card for a modern machine be taken behind the woodshed and stabbed 35 times in the eye with a used plastic butter knife-- I'll lend you the knife, so long as I get exempted, since everything in this system came to me free of charge.)
Just wanted to add to your "other distros" bit, and also (begin shameless karma whoring) put in a plug for my latest favorite distro(end shameless karma whoring)
And of course, since Osama and Saddam adopted a shaved ape baby (headlines on one of the grocery store tabloids) surely Osama will be nearby when Saddam's around, since there's gotta be someone to nurture the baby, right?
Wasn't Fedora supposed to be kind of the next release of RedHat that wasn't a release of RedHat? If that, it should have at least the stability of RedHat Shrike, shouldn't it?
Why do the editors keep posting redundant excrement like this? When Microslut acquired Connectix, it was obvious that they were gonna remove Linux support.
What I'm wondering is, why did they remove it from the Mac version of Virtual PC? Do they think they're going to really keep the OSS out of that platform? I think they're in for a big disappointment, because if the OSS authors can't run Linux on their Macs using Virtual PC, they'll simply make their software run on Fink, and have it that way. And GTK and QT have already been ported to Windblows. And gcc can still cross-compile (afaik) so we can run OSS NATIVELY on Windblows, so why the fsck are we worried about VPC not runnign Linux?
I have yet to see a Mac user who could adapt to the cluttered and absolutely shitty interface of Windows XP.
OTOH, I have seen quite a few Windows users attempt to imitate the Quartz engine.
OATH, I myself imitate the Quartz engine (on everyone's favorite Torvaldsian OS, Linux) using everybody's favorite open source customizable desktop software, coming up to version 3.2, with a translucent kicker (eye candy gets people hard)
It's a game. Anyone as tight-assed as you are should remove themselves from the gene pool as rapidly as possible, preferably taking children as well. And hey, have your wife write up a Darwin award about it!
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Okay, so sue me; I ranted. Rants have their own little minds; they go all over the place. At least they do when I have one.
Wonder what a Linux-powered suicide bomb would look like.
My mind's eye sees people with Tux sandwich boards on running around saying "DIE PALESTINIANS!!!" followed by loud "BANG"s and people screaming.
Well, if you think about it, a cockroach's gotta have more neurons in there than our current chief executive, so a mutant ought to be able to talk, so......
/. welcome!
Call up the caterer, let's give 'em a rowdy, fully-catered, off-the-wall
Well, they're in that area. I guess I didn't quite do them justice, though. Sorry Israel.
/me goes off and feels repentant for insulting the Israelis.
Generalizations suck, especially when overused.
Sorry. I just have problems with the way he manages the country, that's all.
This is a wise move for Israel that I hope will be duplicated all over the world, not just in the third world countries. Switching to Linux/BSD and OSS can save thousands, even millions of dollars (or local currency), while providing a stable, reliable, inexpensive computer backbone. I think that eventually, we'll see the grand ole' USA running all government applications on Linux or the free software platform du jour. I think when that day comes, the OSS movement will have won out against the hordes of Microsoft-dependent people who can't think for themselves, and who need the government to tell them where to go, what to do and who to do it with.
This is all dependent on Bush doing two things:
A) Not getting re-elected
and
B) Not triggering an all-out nuclear war with anyone before the end of his term.
I believe in the power of OSS, and think the OSS development model is very effective, if somewhat communistic. Take it for what it's worth.
On the other side, there's the old saying "you get what you pay for" and I believe people shy away from "free" software because they think that anything that's free isn't worth using, and the better software costs money. WRONG! Linux and all the assorted BSDs are more than worthy competitors to Microsoft, not only on the enterprise and server level, but (I believe) at the home level. Sure, Redhat's folded their support for their "free" product, and SuSE costs money, and Mandrake 9.2 download edition has ads (reputedly), but I think this is evidence that the Linux vendors are realizing that the users think about the "you get what you pay for" thing before they think about "the best things in life are free" mantra, and that's why they're starting to charge for their services. That, and thousands of homeless Mandrake developers would kill their bosses if they were made homeless (or poor) by working on the distribution.
In short, I think we'll see OSS emerging as the OS of choice for most of the middle east, and possibly Russia. With the release of localised Linux distributions, we'll see a lot more users, and a lot more major players adopting Linux. And by "major players" I'm not referring to the economic side, I'm referring to the political side.
ssh -l bread toaster.myhouse.com ./configure --insert-bread
su -
cd toast-2.3.0
make toast
It's all there, It's a RMS plot to control every toaster and toaster oven in the world!
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That's just a frontend for vncserver, and it's been bundled with KDE since version 3.1. I've found that it's hardly the killer app. In fact, I prefer using vncserver because it starts a new, nonexpiring, password-protected X session running as the user I ran vncserver as. And I can set the screen dimensions and color depth in seconds.
You do realize that the OpenSSH package shipped with most competently-compiled distributions has root access (without using su) disabled by default. Or, if it isn't, the dist managers should be taken out and shot 30 times in the eye with a sawed-off shotgun, by a person with very poor eyesight and bad hand-eye coordination.
Gentoo has this as well. The ebuild file has an instruction that tells emerge what packages the package being merged depends on, and those packages' depends, and so on and so forth. Then it grabs the source code for those packages (or the binaries, if it's closed-source or demoware) and then compiles (or installs) the package, manages the libs, checks service dependencies if the package is a service, etc. Of course, there are non-source binary versions of specific packages, such as OpenOffice.org (compiling THAT from source would take forever and 3 days) and Firebird. Strangely enough, there isn't a binary package in the portage tree for XFree86, but I expect this is due to the Gentoo developers.
Gentoo's package management system allows for infinite levels of customization and optimization, while still allowing users to have pay or demo software (UT2K3 is in the portage tree, along with Quake 1, 2, 3 and all variants of Quake, as is America's Army, Wolfenstein 3D and all the other commercial first person shooter games that appeal to gamers with "1337" hardware and the best graphics cards out there. (I can't say that about my hardware, since I'm on a 1200MHz Celeron with a gig of SDRAM and 45 total GB of storage, and dual CD-RWs, but a shitty graphics card (ever used the Trident CyberBlade/i1 graphics card? Yeah. It's crap, and I recommend anyone who was even looking at getting a Trident graphics card for a modern machine be taken behind the woodshed and stabbed 35 times in the eye with a used plastic butter knife-- I'll lend you the knife, so long as I get exempted, since everything in this system came to me free of charge.)
Just wanted to add to your "other distros" bit, and also (begin shameless karma whoring) put in a plug for my latest favorite distro(end shameless karma whoring)
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And of course, since Osama and Saddam adopted a shaved ape baby (headlines on one of the grocery store tabloids) surely Osama will be nearby when Saddam's around, since there's gotta be someone to nurture the baby, right?
Why did you use "if" there? A more appropriate boolean would be "When"
Yes, it is an invaluable reSCOurce.
Wasn't Fedora supposed to be kind of the next release of RedHat that wasn't a release of RedHat? If that, it should have at least the stability of RedHat Shrike, shouldn't it?
Corporate mysteries never cease to amaze me.
Why do the editors keep posting redundant excrement like this? When Microslut acquired Connectix, it was obvious that they were gonna remove Linux support.
What I'm wondering is, why did they remove it from the Mac version of Virtual PC? Do they think they're going to really keep the OSS out of that platform? I think they're in for a big disappointment, because if the OSS authors can't run Linux on their Macs using Virtual PC, they'll simply make their software run on Fink, and have it that way. And GTK and QT have already been ported to Windblows. And gcc can still cross-compile (afaik) so we can run OSS NATIVELY on Windblows, so why the fsck are we worried about VPC not runnign Linux?
I have yet to see a Mac user who could adapt to the cluttered and absolutely shitty interface of Windows XP.
OTOH, I have seen quite a few Windows users attempt to imitate the Quartz engine.
OATH, I myself imitate the Quartz engine (on everyone's favorite Torvaldsian OS, Linux) using everybody's favorite open source customizable desktop software, coming up to version 3.2, with a translucent kicker (eye candy gets people hard)
Add to your definition: Yarr == What you say a lot on September 19th
Are you insinuating that someone (read: anyone) at SCO knows how to read?
*gasp*
It's a game. Anyone as tight-assed as you are should remove themselves from the gene pool as rapidly as possible, preferably taking children as well. And hey, have your wife write up a Darwin award about it!
Rox0r.
First Post?
Mb is megabits...
What are you smoking? MB has always meant Megabytes. mb(context sensitive)ps has always meant Megabit.
No, if everything has to travel through Hotmail's servers, nobody will ever receive email again. Simple as that.
Barring a sudden switch to UNIX variants, that is.
Could be that the dominant organism is in fact itself a virus.
Something to think about.
2 suggestions.
1. Learn to spell
or
2. Take a typing class.
If I hadn't left my mod points in my other pocket protector, this would +7, Funny.