I didn't say Mandrake was only KDE at all! Gnome works just fine on it: it just seems that they're a lot more KDE-orientated than some other distributions - it gets at least equal status and (if I remember correctly from my Mandrake days) if you don't make any desktop preference at all it's the default.
Mandrake has generally placed more emphasis on KDE than other distros, so why would it bring out a distribution either before or only just after the release of KDE 3.2? It would make more sense to wait a month and pick up some bugfixes. Kernel 2.6 has only just come out, also. Again, in a month or so we should have quite a bit more stability in that department. I don't know whether or not Mandrake are planning for 10.0 to be 2.6-based but it would seem appropriate for a new major version.
I realise that there's no "perfect time" to release a distribution and that it has to ship at some time, but given that 9.2 wasn't exactly the most rock-solid distribution around it would (in my view) make a lot more sense to issue their 9.2+bugfixes release as 9.3, or 9-stable or something, and wait for the new kernel and the new KDE to settle down enough that they can form the basis of a modern distribution worthy of a major version increment.
But that way, of course, they wouldn't be able to sell yet another copy of all those ISOs.
For pure warmth you can get down mittens. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to use these heatpipes built into silk inner mittens used inside elbow-length down gauntlets (obviously, pulled up over the sleeves of your down one-piece suit).
Good choice of dogs, by the way - I've liked St. Bernards ever since I saw one on the Montenvers railway in the French alps. It was the size of a small bear, but really well-mannered.
They just take heat that's already escaped from your arm and move it to your fingers. That isn't sucking out more heat, it's just using the stuff that's already leaking out. Plus, as an earlier poster said, part of the reason for fingers losing blood might be to make them hurt so you realise it's too cold and find shelter. That's not much use when you can't find shelter: trapped in a storm high on a mountain, say. In that case the fingers still get cold but there's nothing you can do about it, much as you'd like to. While these gloves won't suddenly provide the shelter that would be your first choice, they might stop you losing fingers to frostbite.
The USG's record is also better on killing people. They've only managed (some faily large number), whereas God, according to his official bibliographers, killed everyone on the entire planet save two. What a psycho!
It pretty much confirms my opinion that anyone power-hungry enough to seek office should automatically be disqualified from holding it. Perhaps there should just be a giant lottery of every sane, non-criminal adult in the country every four years. Bang! The winner gets to be president.
On low output the duration of a pretty standard flash should be of the order of 1/30,000 second. The awkward part is synchronising the camera so it exposes at the right time. An infra-red beam coupled with a variable delay circuit ought to do, though you might want to use a SLR where you can lock up the mirror so as to reduce shutter latency.
I have both installed. Xine is nice for some things (especially DVDs). But I'm not convinced about failure to fix broken things - I've noticed definite improvements between pre2 and pre3. While they may not be adding stuff like navigation support they do seem to be fixing bugs. I haven't come across the ones you mention, but maybe they're just really hard to fix.
It plays almost everything I need it to play. As of pre3 the exception seems to be realaudio streams (which play but seem to lose sync after a while). I'm sure that'll be sorted out before long though - props to the developers!
Damn straight. They make it sound like they're pissed off that the North Koreans can get hold of this technology: what they're actually pissed off about is that they aren't buying it from SCO (because SCOix sucks and is expensive, whereas Linux doesn't and is free).
I rarely want to hotplug my keyboard. I'm glad there are USB keyboards for server-admin types who would find this useful, but it's just not useful for your average desktop user. I suppose before long I'm going to end up having my XT keyboard plugged into an XT-to-PS2 converter plugged into an external serial-and-PS2 port plugged into a USB port. Which seems kind of silly.
Hang on, I thought USB1 and 2 were different versions of the protocol, not the speed, though only USB2 supports the full-rate 480Mbaud rate. So are you saying that all devices on a bus have to be 480Mbaud-capable for any of them to use this speed, or just that they have to be USB2 devices even if they only require one of the lower speeds that were also defined in the USB1 specifications? I'm confused.
Audiophilia? I suppose it has some point, but ultimately what you get out of great music isn't about the sound quality, it's about the performance. I know I'd far rather listen to an old scratchy record (or an mp3) of Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland than a near-perfect DAT recording of some lesser opera singer.
I just said it would make it harder. Often such crimes are "inside jobs", and the copiers in a company are usually within the company's control. If you have a pissed-off secretary who just wants to make a quick buck she's unlikely to (a) know about the special marks or (b) be an l33t h4X0r who can reprogram the copier. If she was she'd have a tech job (whoops, they all went to Bombay didn't they?)
Linux is perfectly ready for the desktop. Lots of big corporations wouldn't be using it if it weren't. As it happens, many are doing just that. For heaven's sake, CDE was ready for the desktop fifteen years or so ago[0], and that was a lot more primitive than any of the desktops commonly used on Linux.
What it perhaps isn't ready for at the moment is being put on an arbitrary machine by an arbitrary user. Particularly, if you have a graphics card that requires a special driver to be installed[1] but you don't have the knowledge to do that extra installation (most likely at the command-line) then you'll have a terrible experience. But in that case there are still options: for example, find your local LUG[2], or get a machine with Linux preinstalled.
[0] Companies were certainly using it on the desktop. [1] Though AFAIK most of the "trouble" cards are the 3D ones and they have basic 2D drivers that should at least get you into X (the difference between the "nv" driver and nVidia's own "nvidia" driver, for example). [2] Just try finding your local Windows Users Group, though.
Screw it, I'd ban political junk faxes too. I don't see that it violates free speech (in the proper sense of the phrase, anyway). The right to free speech should not necessarily imply the right to unlimited delivery of that speech: if I were to stand up in the cinema in the middle of Return of the King, with a megaphone, and start ranting about how great Dubya is, or how the end of the world is coming and we need to make sure Elvis gets his alien friends to come and repair the Sun, I would expect (a) to be given a good kicking and (b) to be arrested afterwards for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace (or whatever your equivalent is). If I made the same comments in an advert that was displayed in that cinema in a proper manner before the film started, I would be outraged if I was arrested.
"With great freedom comes great responsibility." In this case, although free speech gives you the right to express any view you like, it also gives you the responsibility to express that view in an appropriate manner. That doesn't bring limitations (regardless of what the extremist nuts will tell you): rather, by shouldering the responsibility of choosing an appropriate delivery for your free speech you are more likely to be successful in what you are saying.
It's like spam: if you utterly piss off your intended audience in the process of trying to get your message across, you're very unlikely to sell much of anything. I don't know whether there should be some kind of Bill of Responsibilities to go with the Bill of Rights: it's not my country and it's certainly not my place to say. Sadly, if there was such a bill it would probably only be used to repress. It's just a pity there are always a few assholes that make it worth considering.
So can you get copier paper with this symbol in a watermark? It seems that would be an excellent way for companies to make it significantly harder for confidential memos (etc.) to be photocopied and leaked to business rivals or the press.
That sounds dumb. What's to stop you releasing software and claiming that there will be a patch issued to correct the fact that the Help -> About function has a whole heap of spelling mistakes. Later, the patch turns into vaporware, but you keep having to defer the income so your balance sheet shows no profit. Bang! No taxes due.
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I didn't say Mandrake was only KDE at all! Gnome works just fine on it: it just seems that they're a lot more KDE-orientated than some other distributions - it gets at least equal status and (if I remember correctly from my Mandrake days) if you don't make any desktop preference at all it's the default.
This seems like a sucky time to bring out 10.0.
Mandrake has generally placed more emphasis on KDE than other distros, so why would it bring out a distribution either before or only just after the release of KDE 3.2? It would make more sense to wait a month and pick up some bugfixes.
Kernel 2.6 has only just come out, also. Again, in a month or so we should have quite a bit more stability in that department. I don't know whether or not Mandrake are planning for 10.0 to be 2.6-based but it would seem appropriate for a new major version.
I realise that there's no "perfect time" to release a distribution and that it has to ship at some time, but given that 9.2 wasn't exactly the most rock-solid distribution around it would (in my view) make a lot more sense to issue their 9.2+bugfixes release as 9.3, or 9-stable or something, and wait for the new kernel and the new KDE to settle down enough that they can form the basis of a modern distribution worthy of a major version increment.
But that way, of course, they wouldn't be able to sell yet another copy of all those ISOs.
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For pure warmth you can get down mittens. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to use these heatpipes built into silk inner mittens used inside elbow-length down gauntlets (obviously, pulled up over the sleeves of your down one-piece suit).
Good choice of dogs, by the way - I've liked St. Bernards ever since I saw one on the Montenvers railway in the French alps. It was the size of a small bear, but really well-mannered.
They just take heat that's already escaped from your arm and move it to your fingers. That isn't sucking out more heat, it's just using the stuff that's already leaking out. Plus, as an earlier poster said, part of the reason for fingers losing blood might be to make them hurt so you realise it's too cold and find shelter. That's not much use when you can't find shelter: trapped in a storm high on a mountain, say. In that case the fingers still get cold but there's nothing you can do about it, much as you'd like to. While these gloves won't suddenly provide the shelter that would be your first choice, they might stop you losing fingers to frostbite.
The USG's record is also better on killing people. They've only managed (some faily large number), whereas God, according to his official bibliographers, killed everyone on the entire planet save two. What a psycho!
It pretty much confirms my opinion that anyone power-hungry enough to seek office should automatically be disqualified from holding it. Perhaps there should just be a giant lottery of every sane, non-criminal adult in the country every four years. Bang! The winner gets to be president.
On low output the duration of a pretty standard flash should be of the order of 1/30,000 second. The awkward part is synchronising the camera so it exposes at the right time. An infra-red beam coupled with a variable delay circuit ought to do, though you might want to use a SLR where you can lock up the mirror so as to reduce shutter latency.
Bush probably never sleeps at all ;-)
I have both installed. Xine is nice for some things (especially DVDs).
But I'm not convinced about failure to fix broken things - I've noticed definite improvements between pre2 and pre3. While they may not be adding stuff like navigation support they do seem to be fixing bugs. I haven't come across the ones you mention, but maybe they're just really hard to fix.
Some of the conspiracy theorists would probably have you believe we did :-)
It plays almost everything I need it to play. As of pre3 the exception seems to be realaudio streams (which play but seem to lose sync after a while). I'm sure that'll be sorted out before long though - props to the developers!
appears to read "Demon".
How long before we can expect various rebuttals of this from Bruce Perens, Linus, the FSF, Maddog et al?
Damn straight. They make it sound like they're pissed off that the North Koreans can get hold of this technology: what they're actually pissed off about is that they aren't buying it from SCO (because SCOix sucks and is expensive, whereas Linux doesn't and is free).
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> PS/2 is not hotpluggable.
I rarely want to hotplug my keyboard. I'm glad there are USB keyboards for server-admin types who would find this useful, but it's just not useful for your average desktop user.
I suppose before long I'm going to end up having my XT keyboard plugged into an XT-to-PS2 converter plugged into an external serial-and-PS2 port plugged into a USB port. Which seems kind of silly.
Hang on, I thought USB1 and 2 were different versions of the protocol, not the speed, though only USB2 supports the full-rate 480Mbaud rate. So are you saying that all devices on a bus have to be 480Mbaud-capable for any of them to use this speed, or just that they have to be USB2 devices even if they only require one of the lower speeds that were also defined in the USB1 specifications? I'm confused.
Audiophilia? I suppose it has some point, but ultimately what you get out of great music isn't about the sound quality, it's about the performance. I know I'd far rather listen to an old scratchy record (or an mp3) of Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland than a near-perfect DAT recording of some lesser opera singer.
I just said it would make it harder. Often such crimes are "inside jobs", and the copiers in a company are usually within the company's control.
If you have a pissed-off secretary who just wants to make a quick buck she's unlikely to (a) know about the special marks or (b) be an l33t h4X0r who can reprogram the copier. If she was she'd have a tech job (whoops, they all went to Bombay didn't they?)
Linux is perfectly ready for the desktop. Lots of big corporations wouldn't be using it if it weren't. As it happens, many are doing just that. For heaven's sake, CDE was ready for the desktop fifteen years or so ago[0], and that was a lot more primitive than any of the desktops commonly used on Linux.
What it perhaps isn't ready for at the moment is being put on an arbitrary machine by an arbitrary user. Particularly, if you have a graphics card that requires a special driver to be installed[1] but you don't have the knowledge to do that extra installation (most likely at the command-line) then you'll have a terrible experience. But in that case there are still options: for example, find your local LUG[2], or get a machine with Linux preinstalled.
[0] Companies were certainly using it on the desktop.
[1] Though AFAIK most of the "trouble" cards are the 3D ones and they have basic 2D drivers that should at least get you into X (the difference between the "nv" driver and nVidia's own "nvidia" driver, for example).
[2] Just try finding your local Windows Users Group, though.
I saw Xandros on the cover-DVD of one of the UK linux rags the other day. Maybe you could get it that way, that should be cheap enough.
But (so I understand) your mileage ought to be significantly better if you leave the Windows partition alone and set Wine up to use native DLLs.
That'll end up being mainly for games, possibly Office if you really can't let go. Everything else is pretty well covered by native applications.
There's just got to be an appropriate Simpsons quote about Fat Tony of the Legitimate Businessmen's Club. I just can't quite remember it.
Screw it, I'd ban political junk faxes too. I don't see that it violates free speech (in the proper sense of the phrase, anyway). The right to free speech should not necessarily imply the right to unlimited delivery of that speech: if I were to stand up in the cinema in the middle of Return of the King, with a megaphone, and start ranting about how great Dubya is, or how the end of the world is coming and we need to make sure Elvis gets his alien friends to come and repair the Sun, I would expect (a) to be given a good kicking and (b) to be arrested afterwards for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace (or whatever your equivalent is). If I made the same comments in an advert that was displayed in that cinema in a proper manner before the film started, I would be outraged if I was arrested.
"With great freedom comes great responsibility." In this case, although free speech gives you the right to express any view you like, it also gives you the responsibility to express that view in an appropriate manner. That doesn't bring limitations (regardless of what the extremist nuts will tell you): rather, by shouldering the responsibility of choosing an appropriate delivery for your free speech you are more likely to be successful in what you are saying.
It's like spam: if you utterly piss off your intended audience in the process of trying to get your message across, you're very unlikely to sell much of anything. I don't know whether there should be some kind of Bill of Responsibilities to go with the Bill of Rights: it's not my country and it's certainly not my place to say. Sadly, if there was such a bill it would probably only be used to repress. It's just a pity there are always a few assholes that make it worth considering.
So can you get copier paper with this symbol in a watermark? It seems that would be an excellent way for companies to make it significantly harder for confidential memos (etc.) to be photocopied and leaked to business rivals or the press.
That sounds dumb. What's to stop you releasing software and claiming that there will be a patch issued to correct the fact that the Help -> About function has a whole heap of spelling mistakes.
Later, the patch turns into vaporware, but you keep having to defer the income so your balance sheet shows no profit. Bang! No taxes due.
I assume the IRS have thought of this?