In all honesty with Mozilla Thunderbird having RSS and Mozilla Firefox having live bookmarks, why would I want a seperate programme on my machine just to deal with RSS feeds when I already have two capable programmes to do it ?
Slackware doesn't even include the Gnome desktop anymore.
PV is of the opinion that it's just too much hassle to compile and package as far as I remember.
Having compiled a Gnome desktop as part of LFS I can agree with him. All those little bits of library are a monumental pain in the arse to configure and compile just to get something that can be done by compiling 2 or 3 large packages in KDE
"On the corporate front giving control of DNS to some UN body removes the first ammendment protections for parody and commentary from play."
I find this idea intriguing, in what way would I have "first ammendment protection" if I have a.com domain that is hosted on a server in the UK ?
This is one of the biggest grey areas in the whole thing, if the domain is registered with ICANN (.com) through a UK based registrar (say 123-reg), hosted on a server which is physically located in say Sweden, with content that is authored in the UK, which legal code applies to any problems with the site ?
I believe that it is this international nature of the internet which demands an international solution such as the ITU.
Why should Microsoft build applications for an operating system directly competing with their own?
Therein lies the problem, the Office business unit should be concentrating on shifting as many copies of Office as it can.
Currently the Office unit is being used to maintain the Windows monopoly, possibly illegally.
I wonder if anybody at Microsoft has ever done a revenue analysis of what happens when you cut the Office unit loose and LET them sell as a seperate unit instead of propping up Windows ? Be an interesting read if they have.....
Is that like the WORLD series that only North American teams can enter ?
Come to think of it, wasn't there a huge fuss the year Toronto won it because they weren't an American team ?
Most of the create your own internet posts entirely miss the point. Europe isn't just connected to "your" internet, America is connected to "ours".
I like being able to connect to almost any computer in the world via the internet, at the end of the day though, most of the stuff relevant to me and what I do can be found on European servers. I don't really neeed to be able to connect to the US for anything.
You can keep the internet if we can have the world wide web back, after all, that was invented in Europe by a British man.
I suppose some of the posters here will be technically minded enough to work gopher, mind you, some of them seem barely able to work the world wide web.
Mebbe the economy would be a little better if employees would focus on the job they're employed to do rather than finding new and interesting ways of goofing off using their work net conn ?
And yes, our firewall blocks all outgoing internet access to non approved sites and ports.
The music industry has been coming down from historically high sales for the last few years.
There was a huge sales burst when CD players became commodity items and people rushed to convert their old vinyl collection to CD for many reason (storage, perceived sound quality, etc). Most of the CDs that sold in that period were back catalogue LPs that had already made their money back and CD sales were almost pure profit for the record companies.
During that time we saw the rise of manufactured pop bands where real musical talent was overlooked in favour of a good looking band and studio trickery.
Now that the great format conversion has tailed off to nothing and people realise that the vast majority of new pop is being produced by talentless nobodies with the shelf life of a pint of milk in a broken fridge, record companies are scrambling about trying everything in their power to preserve what were windfall profit levels.
The sooner record companies get back to producing real music from artists with talent instead of manufacturing pap on the cheap the better for everybody.
Demanding that iTunes charge an unrealistic price for garbage will just drive ordinary listeners back to the P2P networks that record companies are still trying desperately to shut down.
If I had to advise the record companies I'd say take what you can, a small profit is better than no profit and huge legal and congressional fees.
Not like windows then where you have to root around CDs following badly translated install instructions which tell you to install the wrong driver for your cheap scanner ?
Where's the difference between scrambling round the net trying to find a driver for windows and scrambling round the net trying to find a driver for linux ?
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Game didn't look finished or balanced when they gave about 2 days notice that beta was closing and the game had gone gold.
Sounds like it hasn't changed much in that respect then....
In all honesty with Mozilla Thunderbird having RSS and Mozilla Firefox having live bookmarks, why would I want a seperate programme on my machine just to deal with RSS feeds when I already have two capable programmes to do it ?
He wont post again, I cut off his internet access.......
Slackware doesn't even include the Gnome desktop anymore.
PV is of the opinion that it's just too much hassle to compile and package as far as I remember.
Having compiled a Gnome desktop as part of LFS I can agree with him. All those little bits of library are a monumental pain in the arse to configure and compile just to get something that can be done by compiling 2 or 3 large packages in KDE
If you're going to take that sort of attitude then have a look here
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http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/greatscots.
As a Scot I believe I'm entitled to claim "We innovated technology in the high-tech space which makes what we have today even possible."
I'll send you my bill later
Any idea if that is US only ?
I'm signed up to go to the launch tour thing in Edinburgh in December
Do they not call it PERL these days ?
You haven't actually fallen for the "Honest, we're SCO !" bullshit their telling have you ?
The only reason they call themselves SCO now is to encourage confusion.
"On the corporate front giving control of DNS to some UN body removes the first ammendment protections for parody and commentary from play."
.com domain that is hosted on a server in the UK ?
I find this idea intriguing, in what way would I have "first ammendment protection" if I have a
This is one of the biggest grey areas in the whole thing, if the domain is registered with ICANN (.com) through a UK based registrar (say 123-reg), hosted on a server which is physically located in say Sweden, with content that is authored in the UK, which legal code applies to any problems with the site ?
I believe that it is this international nature of the internet which demands an international solution such as the ITU.
Don't those usually draw charges under your RICO Act ?
Why should Microsoft build applications for an operating system directly competing with their own?
Therein lies the problem, the Office business unit should be concentrating on shifting as many copies of Office as it can.
Currently the Office unit is being used to maintain the Windows monopoly, possibly illegally.
I wonder if anybody at Microsoft has ever done a revenue analysis of what happens when you cut the Office unit loose and LET them sell as a seperate unit instead of propping up Windows ? Be an interesting read if they have.....
"Ths "I" in ICANN is for "International""
Is that like the WORLD series that only North American teams can enter ?
Come to think of it, wasn't there a huge fuss the year Toronto won it because they weren't an American team ?
Most of the create your own internet posts entirely miss the point. Europe isn't just connected to "your" internet, America is connected to "ours".
I like being able to connect to almost any computer in the world via the internet, at the end of the day though, most of the stuff relevant to me and what I do can be found on European servers. I don't really neeed to be able to connect to the US for anything.
You can keep the internet if we can have the world wide web back, after all, that was invented in Europe by a British man.
I suppose some of the posters here will be technically minded enough to work gopher, mind you, some of them seem barely able to work the world wide web.
the US going "It's our ball and we're going to say how the game is played"
I'd expect that from a child, not what is supposed to be th worlds leading democracy.
When a laptop will let me rip its graphics card out and drop the latest and greatest in then I'll consider buying one.
Until then I'll stick with my desktop, I can upgrade it when I want with stock parts.
Well, there's a turnup for the books.
When I played UO, all the competitions were US and Canada only.
Nice to see the tables turned around.
But, unfortunately just another example of a company that doesn't seem to have worked out that two of the Ws in WWW stand for WORLDWIDE.
the old saying "If it's not broken, don't fix it"
Soyuz has been successfully sending stuff into space for an awful long time and as far as we know has a very impressive safety record.
The space shuttle was a compromise design built by the lowest bidder.
Our IT manager insisted that we switch off both virus checking on the mail server AND the firewall.
;-)
Was very surprised when the mail server stopped working and there was no external network traffic going in or out.
We took him at his word and just switched them off
Did you miss the Redundant bit in Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ?
The idea is that one drive going bad doesn't take out the whole array in mirror, not that you have it all on one drive you fool.
People ARE that stupid, just remember half of them are stupider than average.
Personally, I'd settle for one version that actually worked and didn't have its first security patch BEFORE release.
Mebbe the economy would be a little better if employees would focus on the job they're employed to do rather than finding new and interesting ways of goofing off using their work net conn ?
And yes, our firewall blocks all outgoing internet access to non approved sites and ports.
The music industry has been coming down from historically high sales for the last few years.
There was a huge sales burst when CD players became commodity items and people rushed to convert their old vinyl collection to CD for many reason (storage, perceived sound quality, etc). Most of the CDs that sold in that period were back catalogue LPs that had already made their money back and CD sales were almost pure profit for the record companies.
During that time we saw the rise of manufactured pop bands where real musical talent was overlooked in favour of a good looking band and studio trickery.
Now that the great format conversion has tailed off to nothing and people realise that the vast majority of new pop is being produced by talentless nobodies with the shelf life of a pint of milk in a broken fridge, record companies are scrambling about trying everything in their power to preserve what were windfall profit levels.
The sooner record companies get back to producing real music from artists with talent instead of manufacturing pap on the cheap the better for everybody.
Demanding that iTunes charge an unrealistic price for garbage will just drive ordinary listeners back to the P2P networks that record companies are still trying desperately to shut down.
If I had to advise the record companies I'd say take what you can, a small profit is better than no profit and huge legal and congressional fees.
About 2 days ago when one of the programmers at work emailed the source to me by mistake, why ?
Not in the EU it wont, they'll have it bumped up to 1.50 here.
Plug it in and it just work ?
Not like windows then where you have to root around CDs following badly translated install instructions which tell you to install the wrong driver for your cheap scanner ?
Where's the difference between scrambling round the net trying to find a driver for windows and scrambling round the net trying to find a driver for linux ?