"The lesson is that the only thing on this earth that is truly free is your mother's love. Everything else has a string or catch attached."
ummm...
What about free software? More importantly, iPod Linux: http://www.ipodlinux.org/
And how do I know if its true? This wiki fad might be useful for things like software manuals(We use them at Gentoo to let the end user help take a lot of the weight off our (the developers') shoulders, and it works quite well. Its easy to weed out the errors[of which there usually are] before we encorporate them into the actual gentoo docs), but using a wiki for news really strikes me as odd. I really have trouble trusting sites like wikipedia for things such as history, even if their technology articles seem to be a little less inaccurate.
DailyKOS.com has a lot more info than slate has and had it a lot earlier. Also, I was talking to a DNC member and the internal top secret DNC polls supposedly had Kerry only losing in Virginia by 1%. I guess I'm not supposed to tell anyone, but oh well.
OS X,
Port runs, no plans for release, platform (I'm guessing they mean videocards) sucks too much.
So the port works, but they aren't going to release it? Sorry the article is slashdotted, so I haven't been able to read this.
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Those user opinions have got to be fake.
" "I like it:)"
No spyware is bundled with it, and it is a fairly reliable software package. This must be the best Thing in the world. Now my life is excelent!"
""Great Program No Ads!"
Fast, easy to use, plenty to choose from My roommate and I both use this program and we think it's stupendous! This program is excellent."
Give me a break. They could have at least made it a little less obvious.
There are plenty of successful open source projects that don't have a company backing them. Apache is arguably the most successful open source project, and other projects like gentoo have no financial backing either. True, monetary backing does help, but it isn't required to make something successful. On another note, even if the software you create will be licensed under the GPL, you can still get paid by companies who need customized software to do what they want to do or any software that they need that doesn't already exist. Even if you license that customized software under gpl, you still get paid by the company who needs it!
That will be fine and dandy if the computer tech guys actually set up the computers so that anyone without a password can boot from a cd or a floppy, but sometimes the tech guys disable this and then your plan won't work. If I were you, I would just bring your laptop and use that. That way you won't have to worry about waiting for a computer to boot while everyone else is already started with their timed test.
I don't know about Alexis but I know that Alex De Tocqueville is the famous French guy who wrote Democracy in America. More on topic, I don't know why this report is being created and what this guy is getting out of his flaimbait article. What is the purpose of this Alexis de Tocqueville organisation?
All the device drivers for ati and nvidia are written for XFree86. These enable 3d acceleration and I'm not sure they are compatible with X.org... Does this mean that we will have to get the already hesitant ati to start new drivers after x months of slow but steady improvement?
This is truly ghetto. I would have used a good quality (or at least more aesthetically pleasing) boombox and set of speakers. Was this stereo model made in 1990?
I saw that same photo in a national geogrpahic magazine about how far from perfect skin we are from almost a year ago (and they seemed to indicate that it was obvious that it wasn't human skin which is in contrast to what the bbc implies).
This guy is a self proclaimed "gun nut"(exact words). I don't know if this might have anything to do with his experiences in linux, but it sure interested me and shed light on his "problems" with CUPS. Look what he writes:
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Many well-intentioned Americans have been propagandized into believing a collection of myths that paint guns as intrinsically evil and demonize gun owners. Fortunately, sociological and criminological research of very high quality is now available to refute these myths. Here are some of my favorite items:
The Heartland Institute paper Taking Aim At Gun Control does an excellent job of debunking the myths "everybody knows" about guns and gun control.
Gun Control: A Realistic Assessment is a thoroughly scholarly but devastating critique of partisanship and methodological errors in many commonly-cited anti-gun sources.
"
I had a very hard time configuring cups for the first time, but after I learned how to do it, it proved to be '''much''' easier to administer and manage than it is in windows. It was also easier to change configurations without breaking multiple user's print settings. This is true with a lot of open source things. Hard at first, but once you get the hang of it, there is no going back.
NASA, which used VxWorks for the current mars rovers Operating system, is investigating the use of linux for the new 2009 rover. I wonder these two things are linnked.
This decision to stop supporting macintosh is not a good thing. Back in the good old days when Handspring was its own company all the mac users purchased visors as visors(usb) were the only palm to sync out of the box with mac. Handspring is now owned by palm. I wonder what this decision means and what its implications are.
From their blog/site: "This site is intended to offer technical information and files related to running Linux on Dell systems. While we primarily partner with Red Hat, we realize many people run other Linux distributions, and wish to offer here information to assist them as well."
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"The lesson is that the only thing on this earth that is truly free is your mother's love. Everything else has a string or catch attached." ummm... What about free software? More importantly, iPod Linux: http://www.ipodlinux.org/
And how do I know if its true? This wiki fad might be useful for things like software manuals(We use them at Gentoo to let the end user help take a lot of the weight off our (the developers') shoulders, and it works quite well. Its easy to weed out the errors[of which there usually are] before we encorporate them into the actual gentoo docs), but using a wiki for news really strikes me as odd. I really have trouble trusting sites like wikipedia for things such as history, even if their technology articles seem to be a little less inaccurate.
DailyKOS.com has a lot more info than slate has and had it a lot earlier. Also, I was talking to a DNC member and the internal top secret DNC polls supposedly had Kerry only losing in Virginia by 1%. I guess I'm not supposed to tell anyone, but oh well.
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Microwave will still work! ---- WrongPlanet.net
You said "an user ID"! Thats not how United States citizens say it! You must be a terrorist!
Ahh how I'd like a free beowolf cluster of one of those university perks, or a free beowolf cluster itself....
Those user opinions have got to be fake. " "I like it :)"
No spyware is bundled with it, and it is a fairly reliable software package. This must be the best Thing in the world. Now my life is excelent!"
""Great Program No Ads!"
Fast, easy to use, plenty to choose from My roommate and I both use this program and we think it's stupendous! This program is excellent."
Give me a break. They could have at least made it a little less obvious.
When I saw this egregious error, I lost all respect for what the author had to say.
There are plenty of successful open source projects that don't have a company backing them. Apache is arguably the most successful open source project, and other projects like gentoo have no financial backing either. True, monetary backing does help, but it isn't required to make something successful. On another note, even if the software you create will be licensed under the GPL, you can still get paid by companies who need customized software to do what they want to do or any software that they need that doesn't already exist. Even if you license that customized software under gpl, you still get paid by the company who needs it!
schools can get macs for a lot less than that. apple basically gives them to schools, so they might actually be cheaper.
That will be fine and dandy if the computer tech guys actually set up the computers so that anyone without a password can boot from a cd or a floppy, but sometimes the tech guys disable this and then your plan won't work. If I were you, I would just bring your laptop and use that. That way you won't have to worry about waiting for a computer to boot while everyone else is already started with their timed test.
I don't know about Alexis but I know that Alex De Tocqueville is the famous French guy who wrote Democracy in America. More on topic, I don't know why this report is being created and what this guy is getting out of his flaimbait article. What is the purpose of this Alexis de Tocqueville organisation?
All the device drivers for ati and nvidia are written for XFree86. These enable 3d acceleration and I'm not sure they are compatible with X.org... Does this mean that we will have to get the already hesitant ati to start new drivers after x months of slow but steady improvement?
This is truly ghetto. I would have used a good quality (or at least more aesthetically pleasing) boombox and set of speakers. Was this stereo model made in 1990?
Gnome PDF viewer .131 had no problem loading this in firefox. Also, it renders correctly as long as the background is supposed to be black. :-/
I saw that same photo in a national geogrpahic magazine about how far from perfect skin we are from almost a year ago (and they seemed to indicate that it was obvious that it wasn't human skin which is in contrast to what the bbc implies).
This guy is a self proclaimed "gun nut"(exact words). I don't know if this might have anything to do with his experiences in linux, but it sure interested me and shed light on his "problems" with CUPS. Look what he writes: " Many well-intentioned Americans have been propagandized into believing a collection of myths that paint guns as intrinsically evil and demonize gun owners. Fortunately, sociological and criminological research of very high quality is now available to refute these myths. Here are some of my favorite items: The Heartland Institute paper Taking Aim At Gun Control does an excellent job of debunking the myths "everybody knows" about guns and gun control. Gun Control: A Realistic Assessment is a thoroughly scholarly but devastating critique of partisanship and methodological errors in many commonly-cited anti-gun sources. "
I had a very hard time configuring cups for the first time, but after I learned how to do it, it proved to be '''much''' easier to administer and manage than it is in windows. It was also easier to change configurations without breaking multiple user's print settings. This is true with a lot of open source things. Hard at first, but once you get the hang of it, there is no going back.
NASA, which used VxWorks for the current mars rovers Operating system, is investigating the use of linux for the new 2009 rover. I wonder these two things are linnked.
take out the space after the ? for the url to work
You forgot to mention the BepiColombo that will laucnh on 2011-01-01: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog? sc=BEPICLMBO
They rock da house!!!
This decision to stop supporting macintosh is not a good thing. Back in the good old days when Handspring was its own company all the mac users purchased visors as visors(usb) were the only palm to sync out of the box with mac. Handspring is now owned by palm. I wonder what this decision means and what its implications are.
From their blog/site:
"This site is intended to offer technical information and files related to running Linux on Dell systems. While we primarily partner with Red Hat, we realize many people run other Linux distributions, and wish to offer here information to assist them as well."