The base install of gentoo is very minimal actually. The only text editor they include initially is nano. The only apps you install once the base install is complete are ones you specifically ask for. One of their goals for the project is to give the user choice so they don't have to install a bunch of crap they don't use.
I don't think you know what you're talking about and are just spreading bs.
Gentoo is what you want. You can optimize the kernel as well as tweak your/etc/make.conf so gcc can use special optimizations.
But all this isn't going to work straight out of the box. You'll have to compile the software yourself which will take hours to days, depending on speed and the amount of software you want to get a full system/window manager/browser/word processor going.
Us computer geeks like this because we think of things as networks and protocols. However, the rest of the computer users don't. tar:/ is no more intuitive than double clicking on the.tar file and opening it.
Saying Windows and MacOS has to catch up implies that these are feature people want, or would want if given the option. I think treating compressed files like folders like they already do is more intuitive and makes more sense. I think they got a little carried away with this.
Yeah was this one of the original sections or something? Couldn't this just be thrown into IT? After all, it's IT people who would be interested in subject matter like this.
I'm not saying Apache isn't important at all, but important as Science, Developers, AskSlashdot, Apple? I don't think so.
"And no, John Kerry in office isn't going to change anything because you still have Republicans in the house and senate."
I didn't want to sound like another annoying liberal slashdotter who spews anti-Bush/republican rhetoric just to be modded up at +1 liberal.
I'd rather people read the post and understand that while I generally side with republicans, I can still disagree with the actions of those who wear the republican label.
I'm not a politician so I don't consider myself wearing the republican label. I don't feel that saying you're a republican or democrat stifles independent (no pun intended) thought.
But thanks for questioning me though. I like to be challenged and back up my viewpoints. It makes them stronger and everyone should be questioned so they can ask themselves if they really believe all this stuff or are just following a bandwagon, as you claimed I was.
After looking at the changelog, is this a topic for the main page? I mean people complain when a minor revision of the Linux kernel or KDE comes out.
Not to say that justifies it, but this is just one bugfix. I hope people maintaining servers running Apache don't rely on Slashdot to inform them of this bug. This seems more an issue for a mailing list.
It's probably a typical case of government spending. If you don't spend the funds allocated to you this year, you don't have them next year. This perpetuates so much government waste. So they probably ran out of leads on terrorist cells and went after this person so they have a reason to request another million dollars in extra funding next year.
What makes this so sad is that slowly the terrorists are winning. I don't mean that as a joke. Their goal seems to have been to make our lives as shitty as theirs and they're are making progress.
And no, John Kerry in office isn't going to change anything because you still have Republicans in the house and senate. And yes, I am a Republican and no I don't agree with everything that they do.
People reading this story would think differently. The secret service was just doing their job. They felt they had a possible situation, checked it out, and stopped pursuing it when they realized there was no threat.
Now if this guy had been a radical Muslim leader saying that he wished Allah would kill Bush, then it'd be a different story. People would want to hang that guy. This radical leader could use the same type of website to get his message across.
So the Secret Service doesn't know which case this is. I feel they acted accordingly. I think this guy was just a bit shaken up since he seems to be a non-confrontational guy and was confronted by the Secret Service.
I feel bad for the guy since his intentions weren't violent, but there are ways of getting your point across. Saying god should kill Bush isn't one of them.
Getting NVIDIA drivers to work can be a pain in the ass. It took a long time and lots of tweaks in my XFree86.conf file to get tv-out working on my laptop. In windows, it just worked.
However, this is a problem with NVIDIA. It's is also because of NVIDIA that the drivers work so well in windows. The difference in operating systems isn't the issue here. It's the hardware developers who must take credit and complaint when it doesn't work.
If you can't see your enemy, it makes it difficult to prepare for their attack. You can lock ballots in a big steel box and be comfortable that no one is going to steal them...or at least without you knowing about it. However, when that familiar box becomes a box with "some microchips and diodes" and you don't know how to protect it, you become very afraid that the voting system isn't safe anymore.
Electronic voting is the way of the future, but the engineers developing these machines can't overcome the psychological problems why people are afraid of it.
I am a resident of New Jersey and I've voted electronically in my home district. I am not concerned with it's safety. However, voting is more about confidence in the system than actual numbers. If you don't trust the system, the whole system crumbles. That is more important than making the process cheaper and more efficient.
Here's Ballmer, a billionaire who runs the largest software company in the world. They're sitting on billions in cash and can do pretty much anything they want with it.
However, I'm just another geek who uses linux, partly just to dick around and fiddle with it. I'm always trying to make my desktop nicer looking and more usable. And here is Ballmer, scared shitless of people like us. He knows that some day when we're out of college, we'll have knowledge and drive to set up Linux in corporate situations where it could become a lucrative job and take money and control out of their hands.
KDE is at version 3.2.3 and GNOME is at 2.6. Notice how they mention 3.3 is available, but only for people who join their club. They also mention how their packages have been optimized for speed. I'd like to see some benchmarks confirming this because I've found that Mandrake 10 was very slow compared to other distros I tried on the same machine.
I don't want to troll on Mandrake because the features list also included some nice features for laptops, specifically ones that follow the Centrino specs.
For someone who's considering switching to Mandrake 10.1, it's been my experience that while Mandrake 10 was easy to set up, it's slow and the packaging system is pretty slim and gets outdated soon if you don't pay for the membership. Though Fedora seems the opposite, very up to date packages, but things won't always work correctly out of the box (firewire) and their packaging system is very up to date.
I think Write is a little underpowered. However, I'd bet that 90% could do with OpenOffice.org. But that's probably to overpowered. But if they're going from Office, they'll feel right at home with loads of features they don't need. And it will integrate better with the.doc format than Write.
They way I feel you put it is that the general public will have a problem with it. I think most people wouldn't care so much since nuclear power has been around for a while. As long as it's kept an eye on, like any power source, it's pretty damn safe.
The people who are going to go nuts over this are the environmentalists. They've done so much to stop nuclear power without realizing that it can be substantially cleaner and safer to the environment.
I think it's pretty sad that at this point we still burn hydrocarbons to get off this planet. There is no way human space exploration can ever go beyond the moon or even mars until a better propulsion system becomes the norm.
Or just make a new category: "Useless". This is when you've run through the main page and the several sections that are somewhat important. I spent a week and a half installing gentoo on an old computer, but I don't think it should be posted on slashdot.
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The first rule about PATRIOT Act is you do not talk about PATRIOT Act!
The base install of gentoo is very minimal actually. The only text editor they include initially is nano. The only apps you install once the base install is complete are ones you specifically ask for. One of their goals for the project is to give the user choice so they don't have to install a bunch of crap they don't use.
I don't think you know what you're talking about and are just spreading bs.
Why?
Gentoo is what you want. You can optimize the kernel as well as tweak your /etc/make.conf so gcc can use special optimizations.
But all this isn't going to work straight out of the box. You'll have to compile the software yourself which will take hours to days, depending on speed and the amount of software you want to get a full system/window manager/browser/word processor going.
Does VectorLinux still follow the right-hand-rule?
Wiggum: Excuse me? Mr. Farmer Man? I promised my son he could tip over his first cow, and I -- [notices sign] tomacco?
Homer: Yes, it's the latest craze. Try some, won't you? [offers a free sample]
Wiggum: Go ahead, Ralphie. The stranger is offering you a treat.
Us computer geeks like this because we think of things as networks and protocols. However, the rest of the computer users don't. tar:/ is no more intuitive than double clicking on the .tar file and opening it.
Saying Windows and MacOS has to catch up implies that these are feature people want, or would want if given the option. I think treating compressed files like folders like they already do is more intuitive and makes more sense. I think they got a little carried away with this.
Yeah was this one of the original sections or something? Couldn't this just be thrown into IT? After all, it's IT people who would be interested in subject matter like this.
I'm not saying Apache isn't important at all, but important as Science, Developers, AskSlashdot, Apple? I don't think so.
When I said:
"And no, John Kerry in office isn't going to change anything because you still have Republicans in the house and senate."
I didn't want to sound like another annoying liberal slashdotter who spews anti-Bush/republican rhetoric just to be modded up at +1 liberal.
I'd rather people read the post and understand that while I generally side with republicans, I can still disagree with the actions of those who wear the republican label.
I'm not a politician so I don't consider myself wearing the republican label. I don't feel that saying you're a republican or democrat stifles independent (no pun intended) thought.
But thanks for questioning me though. I like to be challenged and back up my viewpoints. It makes them stronger and everyone should be questioned so they can ask themselves if they really believe all this stuff or are just following a bandwagon, as you claimed I was.
Not to say that justifies it, but this is just one bugfix. I hope people maintaining servers running Apache don't rely on Slashdot to inform them of this bug. This seems more an issue for a mailing list.
It's probably a typical case of government spending. If you don't spend the funds allocated to you this year, you don't have them next year. This perpetuates so much government waste. So they probably ran out of leads on terrorist cells and went after this person so they have a reason to request another million dollars in extra funding next year.
What makes this so sad is that slowly the terrorists are winning. I don't mean that as a joke. Their goal seems to have been to make our lives as shitty as theirs and they're are making progress.
And no, John Kerry in office isn't going to change anything because you still have Republicans in the house and senate. And yes, I am a Republican and no I don't agree with everything that they do.
People reading this story would think differently. The secret service was just doing their job. They felt they had a possible situation, checked it out, and stopped pursuing it when they realized there was no threat.
Now if this guy had been a radical Muslim leader saying that he wished Allah would kill Bush, then it'd be a different story. People would want to hang that guy. This radical leader could use the same type of website to get his message across.
So the Secret Service doesn't know which case this is. I feel they acted accordingly. I think this guy was just a bit shaken up since he seems to be a non-confrontational guy and was confronted by the Secret Service.
I feel bad for the guy since his intentions weren't violent, but there are ways of getting your point across. Saying god should kill Bush isn't one of them.
Getting NVIDIA drivers to work can be a pain in the ass. It took a long time and lots of tweaks in my XFree86.conf file to get tv-out working on my laptop. In windows, it just worked.
However, this is a problem with NVIDIA. It's is also because of NVIDIA that the drivers work so well in windows. The difference in operating systems isn't the issue here. It's the hardware developers who must take credit and complaint when it doesn't work.
This has nothing to do with Microsoft's "Trusted Computing"! This was made by Intel, IBM, and NTT DoCoMo.
"How many times do we have to repeat it until people finally get it?"
How many times do people have to repeat RTFA until you get it.
If you can't see your enemy, it makes it difficult to prepare for their attack. You can lock ballots in a big steel box and be comfortable that no one is going to steal them...or at least without you knowing about it. However, when that familiar box becomes a box with "some microchips and diodes" and you don't know how to protect it, you become very afraid that the voting system isn't safe anymore.
Electronic voting is the way of the future, but the engineers developing these machines can't overcome the psychological problems why people are afraid of it.
I am a resident of New Jersey and I've voted electronically in my home district. I am not concerned with it's safety. However, voting is more about confidence in the system than actual numbers. If you don't trust the system, the whole system crumbles. That is more important than making the process cheaper and more efficient.
What are you talking about? The pages of magazines are very smooth. Everyone knows that!
Here's Ballmer, a billionaire who runs the largest software company in the world. They're sitting on billions in cash and can do pretty much anything they want with it.
However, I'm just another geek who uses linux, partly just to dick around and fiddle with it. I'm always trying to make my desktop nicer looking and more usable. And here is Ballmer, scared shitless of people like us. He knows that some day when we're out of college, we'll have knowledge and drive to set up Linux in corporate situations where it could become a lucrative job and take money and control out of their hands.
I love it.
KDE is at version 3.2.3 and GNOME is at 2.6. Notice how they mention 3.3 is available, but only for people who join their club. They also mention how their packages have been optimized for speed. I'd like to see some benchmarks confirming this because I've found that Mandrake 10 was very slow compared to other distros I tried on the same machine.
I don't want to troll on Mandrake because the features list also included some nice features for laptops, specifically ones that follow the Centrino specs.
For someone who's considering switching to Mandrake 10.1, it's been my experience that while Mandrake 10 was easy to set up, it's slow and the packaging system is pretty slim and gets outdated soon if you don't pay for the membership. Though Fedora seems the opposite, very up to date packages, but things won't always work correctly out of the box (firewire) and their packaging system is very up to date.
I think Write is a little underpowered. However, I'd bet that 90% could do with OpenOffice.org. But that's probably to overpowered. But if they're going from Office, they'll feel right at home with loads of features they don't need. And it will integrate better with the .doc format than Write.
They way I feel you put it is that the general public will have a problem with it. I think most people wouldn't care so much since nuclear power has been around for a while. As long as it's kept an eye on, like any power source, it's pretty damn safe.
The people who are going to go nuts over this are the environmentalists. They've done so much to stop nuclear power without realizing that it can be substantially cleaner and safer to the environment.
I think it's pretty sad that at this point we still burn hydrocarbons to get off this planet. There is no way human space exploration can ever go beyond the moon or even mars until a better propulsion system becomes the norm.
and I just saw someone misspell a subject line a few minutes ago, must be deja vu all over again.
There are also hundreds of tons of reasons to vote for Bush, and the DMCA isn't one of them either.
This is exactly why I switched to gentoo. Check out http://packages.gentoo.com/ and see how up to date everything is.
Get LoJack!
Don't forget the boatloads of cash from Pokemon. Some claim that was Japan's revenge for Hiroshima.
Or just make a new category: "Useless". This is when you've run through the main page and the several sections that are somewhat important. I spent a week and a half installing gentoo on an old computer, but I don't think it should be posted on slashdot.