You should give serious thought to calling Microsoft a "software giant". This implies that they are giants in the field of producing quality software. This is misleading and untrue. Rather call them a marketing company. It fits better with what we know of them. After all they somehow manage to make people pay for their software.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html This article is very illuminating. There may still lurk a few people who have not yet read it (and should).
Is the new license from sun gpl compatable? If not then doesn't that mean that sun are deliberetely trying to sobotache GNU/Linux from the inside out by having people peruse the solaris code and then later cry foul when similar code or features creep into GNU/Linux ? Perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Was Bill Gates ever really a geek? Could he even program himself out of a wet paper bag ? All I have ever seen was a greedy opertunistic bully who want's to own the world.
imho he doesn't come close to classify as a geek, and a damn good thing too, I wouln't want his kind to soil our good name.
Hummm... or just install firefox ! It always amazes me how people cling to their precious non-free software like you were ripping out their hearts. "Oh please for the love of god don't take away my stolen propriatery software!". What the hell is wrong with people? I'm not asking a retorical question here. Please anwser it, because I sure as hell don't know. Why are people so histerical and scared of using free software ?
How many sanity points do those amputees have left ?
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Who the hell would want to use trillian in GNU/Linux to begin with. We have gaim, kopete, amsn and a bunch of others that I can't remember from the top of my head. Just suggesting it is ludicrous.
Next thing you know they'll be suggesting using outlook express with wine!
Not to good.
I'm Icelandic. I can mostly happily write the documents (along with the following Icelandic characters ð ö æ ó á é ú ý etc.), but
everytime I try to print any file containing Icelandic character the program creates a tab space behind every one of those characters. Really wierd and frustrating.
Please, please, please... stop!
The term "intellectual property" is not just stupid, it is harmfully misleading. Don't use it.
Please do speak of:
Copyright
Patents
Trademarks
Trade secrets
etc.
Please be specific about these issues. If we use these vague fake terms like these then we corrupt the usefulness of what we are saying.
Sorry for being a nag, but this IS important!
A lot of people complain that setting up gentoo on a bunch of machines as well as maintaining them takes to long. Obviously I disagree. This is what I do.
I have made a bunch of i686 optimized packages for most of the things needed. These packages are updated once every weekend. I use those along with glis (glis.sf.net) to bootstrap new machines when I need to. By using glis along with binary packeges it only takes a moment to start the install and only about 30 minutes for it to finish.
I install shfs to mount/usr/portage on all the machines through ssh, so therefore I only need to sync on the one machine. I also compile the packges first on that machine and then build a binary package. Then once a week cron updates all the other machines by installing those binary packages. It also gives me time to test the packages for problems.
The package server is very snappy and compiles usually don't take too long, the workstations are mostly old p3's. Since they don't compile anything and the packages I build are optimized for them the workstations are all utilzed to their full potential (ie probably running solitaire via wine or some such).
There is no need to continually ridicule gentoo. It's small and blue and mostly comes out at night, but I think people wouldn't use it if wasn't useful.
Oh, I'm sure that Doom3 won't make all that much money, but the engine that drives it, thats where the real dough is. ID has always made a bundle by licensing their engines.
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Ignore this comment, it is a bookmark for myself ;-)
AHA! This finally proves that internet explorer is a HUGE security risk and should not... erm.. oh darn!
You should give serious thought to calling Microsoft a "software giant".
This implies that they are giants in the field of producing quality software. This is misleading and untrue.
Rather call them a marketing company. It fits better with what we know of them.
After all they somehow manage to make people pay for their software.
What about a delorean ? :-D
That goes through both space AND time!
two features for the price of one
Please mod this down and ignore the post... ;-)
This is just a bookmark
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
This article is very illuminating.
There may still lurk a few people who have not yet read it (and should).
Is the new license from sun gpl compatable?
If not then doesn't that mean that sun are
deliberetely trying to sobotache GNU/Linux from
the inside out by having people peruse the solaris code and then later cry foul when similar code or features creep into GNU/Linux ?
Perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Just imagine a beowolf clust erm... nevermind.
O my dear god!
The radiator in hell has finally broke
and snow has started to pour down!
Finally idiots could print out new brains for themselves, if they manage to figure out how to print first !
Was Bill Gates ever really a geek?
Could he even program himself out of a wet paper bag ?
All I have ever seen was a greedy opertunistic bully who want's to own the world.
imho he doesn't come close to classify as a geek,
and a damn good thing too, I wouln't want his kind to soil our good name.
Install xpde (www.xpde.com) for your mom. It's made for detoxing people off windows.
Hummm... or just install firefox !
It always amazes me how people cling to their
precious non-free software like you were ripping out their hearts. "Oh please for the love of god don't take away my stolen propriatery software!".
What the hell is wrong with people? I'm not asking a retorical question here. Please anwser it, because I sure as hell don't know.
Why are people so histerical and scared of using free software ?
How many sanity points do those amputees have left ?
Who the hell would want to use trillian in GNU/Linux to begin with.
We have gaim, kopete, amsn and a bunch of others that I can't remember from the top of my head.
Just suggesting it is ludicrous.
Next thing you know they'll be suggesting using outlook express with wine!
The short of it is that we have some embarassingly bad code in the kernel.
;-)
So that means you are really making some headway in duplicating windows properly
Perhaps this will be useful. ;-)
And now you can also use vi on your ipod
I wonder if I could get emacs to work...
Not to good. I'm Icelandic. I can mostly happily write the documents (along with the following Icelandic characters ð ö æ ó á é ú ý etc.), but everytime I try to print any file containing Icelandic character the program creates a tab space behind every one of those characters. Really wierd and frustrating.
In Korea... ah, never mind ;)
Use a usb key and keep firefox on that. That way you don't have to install in on the machine ;-)
Please, please, please ... stop!
The term "intellectual property" is not just stupid, it is harmfully misleading. Don't use it.
Please do speak of:
Copyright
Patents
Trademarks
Trade secrets
etc.
Please be specific about these issues. If we use these vague fake terms like these then we corrupt the usefulness of what we are saying.
Sorry for being a nag, but this IS important!
So thats what Linus meant ;-)
What distro did you use? I have been trying to determine which is the best for the computer illiterate, but have yet to find the most reliable one :(
A lot of people complain that setting up gentoo on a bunch of machines as well as maintaining them takes to long. Obviously I disagree. This is what I do.
/usr/portage on all the machines through ssh, so therefore I only need to sync on the one machine. I also compile the packges first on that machine and then build a binary package. Then once a week cron updates all the other machines by installing those binary packages. It also gives me time to test the packages for problems.
I have made a bunch of i686 optimized packages for most of the things needed. These packages are updated once every weekend. I use those along with glis (glis.sf.net) to bootstrap new machines when I need to. By using glis along with binary packeges it only takes a moment to start the install and only about 30 minutes for it to finish.
I install shfs to mount
The package server is very snappy and compiles usually don't take too long, the workstations are mostly old p3's. Since they don't compile anything and the packages I build are optimized for them the workstations are all utilzed to their full potential (ie probably running solitaire via wine or some such).
There is no need to continually ridicule gentoo. It's small and blue and mostly comes out at night, but I think people wouldn't use it if wasn't useful.
Oh, I'm sure that Doom3 won't make all that much money, but the engine that drives it, thats where the real dough is. ID has always made a bundle by licensing their engines.