It's "Ask Slashdot"! I can see getting frustrated when a simple goggle search can yield the answer, but that doesn't mean all questions are a waste of our time.
If you don't like Ask Slashdot, then just don't look at the section. I don't care about games, BSD, or left-wing politics, so I don't read those sections.
I've had bad luck with both of those tools actually. I use KDE's Samba plugin (ksambaplugin) to configure it. Then I'll check the smb.conf file for sanity.
All those tools do is generate the smb.conf file. They usually work, but not always.
It can be a pain to set up at first because you have to deal with config files, but once it's set up, it Just Works (TM).
My little network at my apartment has two windows machines (roommates), my linux machine, and the xbox with XBMC. I can share movies and music across the network and it always works. The xbox and the windows machines can always see shared directories.
On the other hand, SMB on the windows xp and windows 98SE only works some of the time. I can always count on mine working though.
What about all those environmentalists who respond with "What about Chernobyl?" every time someone mentions nuclear fission?
While the theory of fusion seems great, fission is possible now and should be explored further. If we are ever to move to a hydrogen economy, we'll have to start soon and we can't wait for fusion.
4. Expecting that users will (or should have to) configure it before using it.
5. Guessing or questioning the user's intent.
So if I want to design a program with a default configuration, then I'm going to have to guess how most people would want it initially configured? There has to be some guessing involved, but it should be educated guesses that actually took a look at the situation and thought it through. I think this is what you meant to say.
I like your analogy to rice burners. I'd say gentoo is like adding a performance steering wheel and lowering springs. It's going to feel better, but probably not give you a real speed increase.
I love gentoo and I use it as my primary OS. I use it for it's simplicity and for portage. It runs faster than Mandrake 10, but that doesn't say much.
But to the consumer who doesn't know how or doesn't want to build a MythTV box, the drawbacks of DRM'ed media are justified.
You have to look at this from the view of the customer. Also, by looking at the price, this is geared to someone who doesn't feel the need to save money by building one of these themselves.
I tend to think of OSS as a war between different developers to see who's idea will be favored by the market. For too many years, implementation of ideas was up to some PHB. The problems of that system are starting to show. The idea that "well, it may not be the best way to do it, but at least we can all agree to do it this way" goes against the idea that the best solution will come out on top.
I think developers should continue to try new ideas and do it their way. If nobody likes their idea, their software won't be used and it won't matter.
The market will adjust. It may not be elegant or convenient to juggle several different packaging systems, for example, but people are doing it. Eventually, the best packaging system will come out on top because people chose to use it, not become some standards organization decided it was best.
These past few years of OSS have shown some pretty neat ideas in a short amount of time. I think it's going to improve at a faster rate in the next few years.
While beauty is subjective, I completely agree with you. Every time I see screen shots of these light window managers, I wonder how anybody can look at them for more than 5 minutes without going blind. They are hideous!
In my humble opinion, the default views of GNOME, KDE, and XFCE4 are really nice looking. I feel this is a major reason people use them. I read light window manager zealots bitch all they want about how bloated they are, but at least they look good (yeah, soon XFCE will be too much to be considered "light").
Another thing I don't get is transparency. It confuses the eye about what it's looking at and I don't like it at all. But I guess that's another story.
Can it still be slip streamed onto an existing Windows 2000 cd like SP4? It's easy to make and convenient to have an installation CD that already has the updates when you're installing a new system. Installing service packs can take a while and can cause problems, but I haven't had trouble with slip streaming in the updates on windows 2000 and XP.
This isn't changing the paradigm in the sense that you still have to go to a fueling station. That's the whole point. Hydrogen would come from large plants that use nuclear power to generate it. A mom and pop shop can't control the supply of hydrogen.
I see just two differences in a hydrogen economy. The first is we don't rely on foreign supplies for a medium to store energy, and the second is that we're polluting the atmosphere less.
People still rely on large companies to extract it and move the stuff around just like we do now.
Why the hell not? I'm sure you're just another zealot who thinks these fat cats are all about the oil. But they're all about making money. So if this became a viable way of producing a medium to transport cheap energy, why wouldn't they want to get their hands on this?
They're not oil companies! They're energy companies.
A pot of boiling water on your stove will probably not reach a higher temperature. This is because of the surrounding air pressure. If they put this in a closed system like a "pressure cooker", it could get hotter.
That's why a pressure cooker works faster than an open pot. The increased pressure allows the water to boil at a higher temperature.
Alright, this is really off topic and you're use of M$ and not just coming out and saying "bullshit" is a little annoying...but anyway...
Don't try to find a distro that's made for toddlers. Just use the distro that you're comfortable and modify and tweak it so it's easy to use. Hell, Gentoo can be easy to use if someone else does all the tweaking to make the desktop easy and intuitive.
KDE, GNOME, or XFCE with big and nice looking icons comes to mind.
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It's "Ask Slashdot"! I can see getting frustrated when a simple goggle search can yield the answer, but that doesn't mean all questions are a waste of our time.
If you don't like Ask Slashdot, then just don't look at the section. I don't care about games, BSD, or left-wing politics, so I don't read those sections.
What show is this? I'm curious why you'd go through the trouble of all this. Unless it's Sopranos on HD HBO, then I could see that.
I've had bad luck with both of those tools actually. I use KDE's Samba plugin (ksambaplugin) to configure it. Then I'll check the smb.conf file for sanity.
All those tools do is generate the smb.conf file. They usually work, but not always.
It can be a pain to set up at first because you have to deal with config files, but once it's set up, it Just Works (TM).
My little network at my apartment has two windows machines (roommates), my linux machine, and the xbox with XBMC. I can share movies and music across the network and it always works. The xbox and the windows machines can always see shared directories.
On the other hand, SMB on the windows xp and windows 98SE only works some of the time. I can always count on mine working though.
Good job, samba team!
I think historians will look upon the turn of the millennium as the decline and ultimate self destruction of the American Empire.
Face it, we're fucked.
"CIA employees (who are not, BTW, legally allowed to spy on US citizens)"
Ya kidding me? You don't think they do?
So...basically this is another nail in Microsoft's coffin.
There is no way they will succeed in markets like these.
Here's the thing. I can look at each example and see a solution. But how important is it to actually give the solution?
Computer science has devolved into programming. Is the code that important, or the solution in regular syntax?
I think most people would find this difficult because they forget how to program in these languages, but that doesn't mean they can't see the answer
What about all those environmentalists who respond with "What about Chernobyl?" every time someone mentions nuclear fission?
While the theory of fusion seems great, fission is possible now and should be explored further. If we are ever to move to a hydrogen economy, we'll have to start soon and we can't wait for fusion.
5. Guessing or questioning the user's intent.
So if I want to design a program with a default configuration, then I'm going to have to guess how most people would want it initially configured? There has to be some guessing involved, but it should be educated guesses that actually took a look at the situation and thought it through. I think this is what you meant to say.
"This is like the New Pig Times reporting that if brick ever becomes as popular as straw then wolves would just start blowing them down as easily."
I got to say, that analogy is great. I really like that one.
I've seen this joke brought up many times in the past few days.
It's not funny.
Neither are all the other dumb jokes that somehow get modded up funny on every discussion.
STOP!
I like your analogy to rice burners. I'd say gentoo is like adding a performance steering wheel and lowering springs. It's going to feel better, but probably not give you a real speed increase.
I love gentoo and I use it as my primary OS. I use it for it's simplicity and for portage. It runs faster than Mandrake 10, but that doesn't say much.
trust me, she's doing all the work
But to the consumer who doesn't know how or doesn't want to build a MythTV box, the drawbacks of DRM'ed media are justified.
You have to look at this from the view of the customer. Also, by looking at the price, this is geared to someone who doesn't feel the need to save money by building one of these themselves.
That said, how large is this market??
I tend to think of OSS as a war between different developers to see who's idea will be favored by the market. For too many years, implementation of ideas was up to some PHB. The problems of that system are starting to show. The idea that "well, it may not be the best way to do it, but at least we can all agree to do it this way" goes against the idea that the best solution will come out on top.
I think developers should continue to try new ideas and do it their way. If nobody likes their idea, their software won't be used and it won't matter.
The market will adjust. It may not be elegant or convenient to juggle several different packaging systems, for example, but people are doing it. Eventually, the best packaging system will come out on top because people chose to use it, not become some standards organization decided it was best.
These past few years of OSS have shown some pretty neat ideas in a short amount of time. I think it's going to improve at a faster rate in the next few years.
While beauty is subjective, I completely agree with you. Every time I see screen shots of these light window managers, I wonder how anybody can look at them for more than 5 minutes without going blind. They are hideous!
In my humble opinion, the default views of GNOME, KDE, and XFCE4 are really nice looking. I feel this is a major reason people use them. I read light window manager zealots bitch all they want about how bloated they are, but at least they look good (yeah, soon XFCE will be too much to be considered "light").
Another thing I don't get is transparency. It confuses the eye about what it's looking at and I don't like it at all. But I guess that's another story.
Now I got to worry about packet sniffing dogs when I cross the border into Mexico? Great!
Can it still be slip streamed onto an existing Windows 2000 cd like SP4? It's easy to make and convenient to have an installation CD that already has the updates when you're installing a new system. Installing service packs can take a while and can cause problems, but I haven't had trouble with slip streaming in the updates on windows 2000 and XP.
This isn't changing the paradigm in the sense that you still have to go to a fueling station. That's the whole point. Hydrogen would come from large plants that use nuclear power to generate it. A mom and pop shop can't control the supply of hydrogen.
I see just two differences in a hydrogen economy. The first is we don't rely on foreign supplies for a medium to store energy, and the second is that we're polluting the atmosphere less.
People still rely on large companies to extract it and move the stuff around just like we do now.
Why the hell not? I'm sure you're just another zealot who thinks these fat cats are all about the oil. But they're all about making money. So if this became a viable way of producing a medium to transport cheap energy, why wouldn't they want to get their hands on this?
They're not oil companies! They're energy companies.
A pot of boiling water on your stove will probably not reach a higher temperature. This is because of the surrounding air pressure. If they put this in a closed system like a "pressure cooker", it could get hotter.
That's why a pressure cooker works faster than an open pot. The increased pressure allows the water to boil at a higher temperature.
Thousands of gigs? What the hell are you doing?
Alright, this is really off topic and you're use of M$ and not just coming out and saying "bullshit" is a little annoying...but anyway...
Don't try to find a distro that's made for toddlers. Just use the distro that you're comfortable and modify and tweak it so it's easy to use. Hell, Gentoo can be easy to use if someone else does all the tweaking to make the desktop easy and intuitive.
KDE, GNOME, or XFCE with big and nice looking icons comes to mind.
"- don't forget to blink"
Thanks for reminding me. It's been a few weeks.