The FreeBSD people put out a stable production release of FreeBSD 4.9 only last month. So if you work in a company like mine where we try and avoid spending money as much as possible on new software, you'll probably be making the switch right about now.
Fedora can't be bad... as a community project with corporate backing, this is a great way for any good OSS developments to gain approval of the mainstream.
Why didn't RedHat give Lindows a plug at least? At least they've actually tried to make a decent competitor to Windows.
Sure, a guy may come off as a sleazeball, but a woman will call him the asshole ex-boyfriend "because if 'just happened', and he doesn't treat me right" the next day.
It's a convenient excuse for women to call men sleazeballs to make it look as if the women are innocent victims with no sex drive! *cough* *cough*.
Just don't make the lady feel like a slut, and she will become one for you.
All the crazy stuff women do is based on this one thing. Just avoid letting her make decisions, and never force her to seduce you... that makes her feel slutty.
There is no such thing as rejection... just a warning alarm that you made her feel cheap. (even though she may very well be!)
http://www.geocities.com/cdsixfour/toberemoved/lin dows.jpg
Type that into a new browser window if the link doesn't work.
Come-on Lindows Octopus.... no hitting below the belt!
Believe it or not.... people still manage to make a living out of intellectual property, even when it is pirated like crazy....maybe they don't get as rich as they would like, but they still get their pocketmoney.
I am actually looking to get the ethernet card for the Commodore 64 and run Contiki. Should be fun.... even better when a solid version of Wings gets nicely completed to handle it all.
Then I can hack an Atari 8-bit webserver with my C64!
But come on, we all know the C64 was way better than the atari... at least the C64 has hard drives to host files off. There's no way I'm using the 300 baud datasette.
"Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you."
Weren't they trying to keep paedophiles out with enhanced "security" measures? How do they know only paedophiles don't use windows?
Possibly the same "security" measures as Xbox mods and Xbox live.....
I'm considering the switch to using FreeBSD because Red Hat 9 seems to have a few niggling issues... such as with its scripts and also with some strange niggles in the kernel which causes some memory leaks with certain apps. I've even managed to crash the whole system by overloading the X server and causing it to spit a huge log file out that filled the whole disk, making a reboot of the system crash... yeck.
Don't get me wrong, Red Hat is great and their enterprise editions are probably more stable. BUT, in the office we want the servers as stable as can be, and so there is BSD. I'm downloading FreeBSD 5.1 now, and if I like it, I may stick with it.
Linux has a way to go yet. Until there is more stability and conformity on certain issues, and the average user doesn't have to break out the command line and recompile the kernel to get something working... THEN Linux will rule the desktop AND the server.
I would have thought OS overhead (file tables, directory structuers) would have been the deciding factor.
I mean, the 3.5" floppy can only get as far as 1.4MB in windows, but I know of other devices that format the exact same disk to get up to 1.6MB of space out of a single floppy. In fact, I remember that a 3.5" floppy drive for the Commodore 64 did exactly that.
McDonalds tried to do the marketing hype thing to win back more customers. Rather than address issues of health, taste and quality with their actual products,... they chose instead to do a swanky ad campaign, complete with packaging re-design with the hope that nobody noticed that the actual burger content was the same crap they've been pumping for years.
Microsoft will do the same.
One thing that Americans are great at... being salespeople and being entertainers.
Yeah, I nearly managed to pick up a second hand Pentium II system off the street! plus it had monitor and cables.... but by the time I found it, it had started raining!!! It was wet through!
I find it funny, or at least scary, that right in the US, some people are equating something "free" with "communism". Someone should explain this one to the founding fathers of the US.
Also, can someone please explain to me what boondoggle is?
My first reaction to this is that here is Microsoft trying to stem the tide against the proposed OS that China, Japan, and Korea are thinking about.
In Japan, Microsoft has a fair bit of prestige... unlike, say, in Europe or the US where MS's reputation is sullied by the anti-trust suits. The Japanese, IMO, don't really think that the general public minds MS dominance... but then the Japanese wouldn't say openly that they hate MS or anything. Plus most IT workers would be thrilled to work for MS Japan... they have lots of cash after all. There seems to be no debate here about "which OS is better" like there is in other western countries.
I saw Lindows here in Japan at a broadband trade show.
They had a nice selection of scantily clad ladies in Lindows outfits, who were giving out snackfood. On the snackfood package was a picture of an octopus punching Bill Gates in the nads with 8 arms. No I am not kidding.
It tasted quite good.
I picked up my Lindows show-bag as well.
In the booth they had Lindows on everything with "Lindows approved" stickers pasted over the "Made for Windows XP" ones.
Everyone was trying to rm -rf / the PCs, but were failing quite miserably.
I've still got my C64, and I'm going to get this cart.
I also have a SuperCPU, and that thing speeds to C64 up to 20Mhz and equips it with 16MB of RAM.
The C64 can even display Jpegs these days, and there is even a Linux syled OS in the works.
I use Windows for gaming... it only makes sense at the moment.
If Linux were going to compete with that, it can't do a Microsoft and continually steal/port games/ideas from other platforms. It will have to innovate.... and when a group of coders release a wicked game on Linux that isn't anywhere else, THEN maybe people will start taking notice.
So far, Linux has only really innovated the server rooms of the world....
Also... I have an ATI Radeon 9700 All in wonder, and Red Hat 9.... and there's no driver for it that runs on the latest version of X. So no tux-racer for me until something gets done about it.
Quite frankly, the situation sucks...
Or maybe it's:
1. Profit
2. ???
3. Release formerly profitable software for free
4. Entice more users
5. ???
6. Start charging for the service again
7. Repeat step 1
What machine did everyone play "Oregon Trail" on?
I remember that the Commodore 64 had that, as well as other impressive games like "Lemonade Stand".... now THAT was a cool game!
It seems to me that the types of games women play usually fall into a few categories:-
I went to my sister to find games she likes:-
The Sims
Lemmings
Theme park
What I find intereting here is that all three games revolve around being God and dealing with a flock of people on screen who don't know what they are supposed to be doing!
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Fedora can't be bad... as a community project with corporate backing, this is a great way for any good OSS developments to gain approval of the mainstream.
Why didn't RedHat give Lindows a plug at least? At least they've actually tried to make a decent competitor to Windows.
http://www.geocities.com/cdsixfour/toberemoved/ lindows.jpg
If only Lindows wouldn't hit below the belt!
Sure, a guy may come off as a sleazeball, but a woman will call him the asshole ex-boyfriend "because if 'just happened', and he doesn't treat me right" the next day. It's a convenient excuse for women to call men sleazeballs to make it look as if the women are innocent victims with no sex drive! *cough* *cough*.
All the crazy stuff women do is based on this one thing. Just avoid letting her make decisions, and never force her to seduce you... that makes her feel slutty.
There is no such thing as rejection... just a warning alarm that you made her feel cheap. (even though she may very well be!)
http://www.geocities.com/cdsixfour/toberemoved/lin dows.jpg
Type that into a new browser window if the link doesn't work.
Come-on Lindows Octopus.... no hitting below the belt!
Believe it or not.... people still manage to make a living out of intellectual property, even when it is pirated like crazy. ...maybe they don't get as rich as they would like, but they still get their pocketmoney.
I am actually looking to get the ethernet card for the Commodore 64 and run Contiki. Should be fun .... even better when a solid version of Wings gets nicely completed to handle it all.
Then I can hack an Atari 8-bit webserver with my C64!
But come on, we all know the C64 was way better than the atari... at least the C64 has hard drives to host files off. There's no way I'm using the 300 baud datasette.
"Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you."
I see you're having trouble filling Microsoft's bank balance. Would you like some help?
Weren't they trying to keep paedophiles out with enhanced "security" measures? How do they know only paedophiles don't use windows? Possibly the same "security" measures as Xbox mods and Xbox live.....
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Pump and dump time!
Don't get me wrong, Red Hat is great and their enterprise editions are probably more stable. BUT, in the office we want the servers as stable as can be, and so there is BSD. I'm downloading FreeBSD 5.1 now, and if I like it, I may stick with it.
Linux has a way to go yet. Until there is more stability and conformity on certain issues, and the average user doesn't have to break out the command line and recompile the kernel to get something working... THEN Linux will rule the desktop AND the server.
I would have thought OS overhead (file tables, directory structuers) would have been the deciding factor. I mean, the 3.5" floppy can only get as far as 1.4MB in windows, but I know of other devices that format the exact same disk to get up to 1.6MB of space out of a single floppy. In fact, I remember that a 3.5" floppy drive for the Commodore 64 did exactly that.
Microsoft will do the same.
One thing that Americans are great at... being salespeople and being entertainers.
Enough to make a grown man cry!
I find it funny, or at least scary, that right in the US, some people are equating something "free" with "communism". Someone should explain this one to the founding fathers of the US. Also, can someone please explain to me what boondoggle is?
My first reaction to this is that here is Microsoft trying to stem the tide against the proposed OS that China, Japan, and Korea are thinking about.
In Japan, Microsoft has a fair bit of prestige... unlike, say, in Europe or the US where MS's reputation is sullied by the anti-trust suits. The Japanese, IMO, don't really think that the general public minds MS dominance... but then the Japanese wouldn't say openly that they hate MS or anything. Plus most IT workers would be thrilled to work for MS Japan... they have lots of cash after all. There seems to be no debate here about "which OS is better" like there is in other western countries.
You forgot Wayne Kerr, Master Bates, Amanda Hugankiss, etc.
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They had a nice selection of scantily clad ladies in Lindows outfits, who were giving out snackfood. On the snackfood package was a picture of an octopus punching Bill Gates in the nads with 8 arms. No I am not kidding. It tasted quite good. I picked up my Lindows show-bag as well.
In the booth they had Lindows on everything with "Lindows approved" stickers pasted over the "Made for Windows XP" ones.
Everyone was trying to rm -rf / the PCs, but were failing quite miserably.
I also have a SuperCPU, and that thing speeds to C64 up to 20Mhz and equips it with 16MB of RAM. The C64 can even display Jpegs these days, and there is even a Linux syled OS in the works.
Why? Because we can....
And the C=1 should be pretty neat as well.
I use Windows for gaming... it only makes sense at the moment. If Linux were going to compete with that, it can't do a Microsoft and continually steal/port games/ideas from other platforms. It will have to innovate.... and when a group of coders release a wicked game on Linux that isn't anywhere else, THEN maybe people will start taking notice. So far, Linux has only really innovated the server rooms of the world.... Also... I have an ATI Radeon 9700 All in wonder, and Red Hat 9.... and there's no driver for it that runs on the latest version of X. So no tux-racer for me until something gets done about it. Quite frankly, the situation sucks...
Green label any day of the week. (I'm suffering withdrawl symptoms.... I'm an expat)
Or maybe it's: 1. Profit 2. ??? 3. Release formerly profitable software for free 4. Entice more users 5. ??? 6. Start charging for the service again 7. Repeat step 1
Yeah, but the Commodore 64 version didn't have a NetSpy trojan running on it, like this one does!
What machine did everyone play "Oregon Trail" on? I remember that the Commodore 64 had that, as well as other impressive games like "Lemonade Stand".... now THAT was a cool game!
It seems to me that the types of games women play usually fall into a few categories:- I went to my sister to find games she likes:- The Sims Lemmings Theme park What I find intereting here is that all three games revolve around being God and dealing with a flock of people on screen who don't know what they are supposed to be doing!