This drives me mad also. People don't understand that they are only contributing to the problem of crappy traffic when they don't drive properly. Someone with balls needs to make it illegal for people who don't know how to use the roads properly to drive.
Unfortunately, the debian/ubuntu devs don't know how to build conky. File a bug report, then download and compile yourself and it should be fine. Also, I think the package at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/conky works. You should be able to download that and use dpkg -i (though I'm not a debian user, don't quote me).
Torsmo is dead and has been for some time. I'm the main dev for Conky, a continuation of torsmo with all its features plus other goodies. See for yourself @ http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Mod parent up. CVS or SVN is the way to go all-round. Make sure its backed up, and set up viewvc and you'll have yourself a great place for keeping code. Not only is it easy to view from any machine, but you can quickly see a history of revisions.
Hmm...looks like your sources suck. I've been happily running amd64 Gentoo for more then a year with no complaints, and loads of stability. See for yourself.
Python is the way go to. For anyone who's built custom sites based on Zope, I think they would agree with me. Python is really easy to use for building big apps for use in web stuff, and Zope provides an easy-to-code-for application server.
Unless you have something to hide from (as in you're doing something illegal over the internet), this is not a problem. Since file trading (including music) is entirely legal in Canada, where is the problem here? Besides, if I want an email (or whatever) to remain private, I click on the "encrypt message" thing in Evolution and it does some GnuPG magic making it very difficult for anyone to read it. Same goes for any type of encryption. To me this sounds like:
Not much of a problem
Mostly typical Slashdot FUD.
Something that will have a very hard time actually going through the parliament here
Ubuntu's cds seem to be sensitive to crappy CDROM drives. I had this problem once, but I popped in a newer LiteOn cdrom drive and all was good! Hopefully the devs will either fix this, or people will upgrade their cdrom drives.
I run 64 bit gentoo, and Xvid is really the best way to go. All the rm/wmv/qt codecs haven't been properly ported yet for 64 bit. Xvid runs on pretty much everything. I can't watch any rm/wmv/qt stuff with mplayer (yet).
How is this going to hurt the economy? There will be a ton of new jobs, because it's going to create an entire new industry based on finding ways to use energy more efficiently. Do you seriously believe that there aren't BILLIONS of dollars in something as big as this? Why do you think car manufacturers are all over this hybrid shit? It's because more effecient energy sources IS the industry of the future. Forget technology, forget whatever else, energy is where it's at.
I'm pretty sure "sky captain and the world of tomorrow" or whatever used this same technique.
I haven't decided whether or not it's really lame or cool yet, mostly because I haven't watched any movies that use the technique. Also, the only movies I know of using this technique look sorta lame.
Now that I have your attention, I think this is one of the lamest "Ask Slashdot" articles ever. With that said, in order to answer the question, the US patriot act has had no affect on me whatsoever. This may be because I'm not an american, or maybe because it probably doesn't affect more then 1% of the US population directly, but I could be wrong. With that said, I would hope that the amount of affect the patriot act has on people remains low, because I don't think the patriot act does anyone on the receiving end any good.
...just think, maybe it'd be on the same level in terms of history events as things like the russian revolution or the french revolution. With the way technology has become a part of most people's lives, I don't see how governments can stand by and let some company run the show. If governments came after software, I bet the governments would want a lot more control over the situation. ie. think health care. The principals behind government is pretty fundamentally similar to open source (well, in Canada anyways). Info is supposed to be made available to the public, and if the government had it's say I think it would probably agree with many open source ideals.
In other words, I don't understand why the government doesn't step in and say "Hey MS, you need to be a little more open, or you can take your products elsewhere". I think the chinese government did something like this, but I'm not up to date on my china news. I would think that government would really like the idea of open source because theres no secrets. Although, some might say that theres too much corruption in some governments (hopefully not here!).
I wonder if in the future kids in school will learn about "hackers" like "lunis toorvalsd" who changed the way we download pr0n and read slashdot.
In all seriousness, as a full time Gentoo user myself, I think I would prefer it if Linux remained a well kept secret (as far as the general public is concerned). Sure, a slightly larger market share would be nice, but it wouldn't be as l33t if everyone and their grandmother was using Linux. I'd love to see Linux thrive, but on the other hand what if Linux became the new monopoly and it's quality began to degrade the same way Windows(tm) has? Ramble ramble ramble. I forget what I'm karma whoring about.
Its about time. The OSS community definitely needs something like this, which hopefully could eventually lead to some high-quality GPL'd games and such. The current profolio of gaming on Linux isn't very impressive in comparison to Windows or even Mac OS. Hopefully this will also encourage companies to ports their games to more platforms (like Linux). I know fellow gentoo'ers would appreciate this. As much as I love Linux, it lacks seriously in the gaming department.
If you read the article through, you'd have learned that older devices will become READ-ONLY. Meaning, you can download from the device to the PC, but not the other way. Not "stop working", but it sure cuts their functionality down quite a bit.
Uhm....asumming Linux doesn't adopt this lame thing, it won't matter. Older devices will only suffer from read-only'age on windows. MS's evil business practices haven't been getting the warmest of welcomes lately. They can only go on for so long bullying everyone else and building on their monopoly. Eventually MS is going to be reduced significantly, it's just a matter of when.
"To make USB ports really secure we'll need a modified USB standard," says one of the geeks. "The USB device makers will love this because they can sell another billion devices. We'll change the BIOS and the OS so that older, non-serialized, devices can be used but just for read-only applications. So you can still hook-up your older digital camera and download pictures. But to upload any data you'll need a new-standard USB device. Not only will these devices be more secure, but we'll earn a royalty on every one."
As a gentooer, I'm not too concerned. This sounds like a replay of the sender-ID thing. I somehow doubt that manufacturers will gladly adopt this standard. Also, this doesn't make older USB devices stop working. I doubt it will be the end of Linux as we know it. Windows can support or not support whatever they want, it's not going to change Linux.
To me, this sounds more like Cringely being Cringely.
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This drives me mad also. People don't understand that they are only contributing to the problem of crappy traffic when they don't drive properly. Someone with balls needs to make it illegal for people who don't know how to use the roads properly to drive.
that depends on how crappy your employer is
No. http://conky.sourceforge.net/aboutconky.html
Unfortunately, the debian/ubuntu devs don't know how to build conky. File a bug report, then download and compile yourself and it should be fine. Also, I think the package at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/conky works. You should be able to download that and use dpkg -i (though I'm not a debian user, don't quote me).
Torsmo is dead and has been for some time. I'm the main dev for Conky, a continuation of torsmo with all its features plus other goodies. See for yourself @ http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Mod parent up. CVS or SVN is the way to go all-round. Make sure its backed up, and set up viewvc and you'll have yourself a great place for keeping code. Not only is it easy to view from any machine, but you can quickly see a history of revisions.
Its really easy to fix: don't use winders
Hmm...looks like your sources suck. I've been happily running amd64 Gentoo for more then a year with no complaints, and loads of stability. See for yourself.
Python is the way go to. For anyone who's built custom sites based on Zope, I think they would agree with me. Python is really easy to use for building big apps for use in web stuff, and Zope provides an easy-to-code-for application server.
Actually he didn't - we just made that quote up.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Ubuntu's cds seem to be sensitive to crappy CDROM drives. I had this problem once, but I popped in a newer LiteOn cdrom drive and all was good! Hopefully the devs will either fix this, or people will upgrade their cdrom drives.
I run 64 bit gentoo, and Xvid is really the best way to go. All the rm/wmv/qt codecs haven't been properly ported yet for 64 bit. Xvid runs on pretty much everything. I can't watch any rm/wmv/qt stuff with mplayer (yet).
How is this going to hurt the economy? There will be a ton of new jobs, because it's going to create an entire new industry based on finding ways to use energy more efficiently. Do you seriously believe that there aren't BILLIONS of dollars in something as big as this? Why do you think car manufacturers are all over this hybrid shit? It's because more effecient energy sources IS the industry of the future. Forget technology, forget whatever else, energy is where it's at.
I haven't decided whether or not it's really lame or cool yet, mostly because I haven't watched any movies that use the technique. Also, the only movies I know of using this technique look sorta lame.
I have plenty of karma to burn.
In other words, I don't understand why the government doesn't step in and say "Hey MS, you need to be a little more open, or you can take your products elsewhere". I think the chinese government did something like this, but I'm not up to date on my china news. I would think that government would really like the idea of open source because theres no secrets. Although, some might say that theres too much corruption in some governments (hopefully not here!).
Just my 3 cents.
In all seriousness, as a full time Gentoo user myself, I think I would prefer it if Linux remained a well kept secret (as far as the general public is concerned). Sure, a slightly larger market share would be nice, but it wouldn't be as l33t if everyone and their grandmother was using Linux. I'd love to see Linux thrive, but on the other hand what if Linux became the new monopoly and it's quality began to degrade the same way Windows(tm) has? Ramble ramble ramble. I forget what I'm karma whoring about.
I managed to coralize the first video just before the server went bye-bye: here
Yeah...apparently I was looking at the wrong thing anyways. It was only with the query count that I saw this, but it's still amusing.
Hm...I would have thought things like "the", "and" or "or" would have beat out "dog" "pussy" "sex".
Its about time. The OSS community definitely needs something like this, which hopefully could eventually lead to some high-quality GPL'd games and such. The current profolio of gaming on Linux isn't very impressive in comparison to Windows or even Mac OS. Hopefully this will also encourage companies to ports their games to more platforms (like Linux). I know fellow gentoo'ers would appreciate this. As much as I love Linux, it lacks seriously in the gaming department.
Uhm....asumming Linux doesn't adopt this lame thing, it won't matter. Older devices will only suffer from read-only'age on windows. MS's evil business practices haven't been getting the warmest of welcomes lately. They can only go on for so long bullying everyone else and building on their monopoly. Eventually MS is going to be reduced significantly, it's just a matter of when.
As a gentooer, I'm not too concerned. This sounds like a replay of the sender-ID thing. I somehow doubt that manufacturers will gladly adopt this standard. Also, this doesn't make older USB devices stop working. I doubt it will be the end of Linux as we know it. Windows can support or not support whatever they want, it's not going to change Linux.
To me, this sounds more like Cringely being Cringely.
Hmm...I forsee great business opportunities for camera repair shops.