In Linux you usually have to have proper privelages on the filesystem to install a plugin. That isn't always the case when browsing as a non-root user. Of course, you could open your system up so that plugins never fail, but then you would just be recreating the whole IE/ActiveX nightmare...
If a package install requires an rpm for some strange reason, the ebuild can be made to handle the rpm. So the end-user never needs to deal with the rpm, just the ebuild maintainers.
So how does Gentoo stack up in production environments? Here's another surprise for you from the source-based distribution: Portage can be told to build binary packages. This allows you to have one machine over in the corner doing all the compilation work. Then, the packages can be shared and used by all your target machines, instead of them having to build the packages themselves. You might be tempted to say "isn't that what the other Linux distributions do?" The difference is selecting the right mix of packages is a site decision, and the newer version problem definitely is a site burden to deal with. Gentoo gives local systems teams the tools to deal with solving these version issues themselves.
Drive him to the hospital:
Drive him to the hospital if you live in the Fargo, North Dakota area; free plane tickets would be nice if he needs to travel for treatment.
Send money to pay for his treatment?
Call his cell to make arrangements: (925) 535-9062
Develop a miracle drug to cure him:
Treatments already exist. What he needs is an infectious disease MD to diagnos him and start treatment.
Contribute time or money to Slackware Linux:
Donate your time or your money as you see fit.
Don't forget to 'vote' in every contest, even if the person is running unopposed. Election officials seem to find the most moronic reasons to throw out a ballot...
It's not for the art. George Lucas is all about the money and his ego. I submit two choice quotes from an AP/Yahoo! article mentioned previously on Slashdot:
Money:
AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy.
That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
Ego:
AP: Do you pay much attention to fan reactions to your choices?
Lucas: Not really. The movies are what the movies are.... The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way.
Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.
Episodes IV through VI were great because either somebody else directed them or George wasn't fat headed enough at that time to always get his way. Watch the behind-the-scenes making of the special editions and you will see a whole lot George-ass-kissing-yes-men.
Sadly, the business world is full of idiot-greed-mongers just like Darl. I'm sure he is a cult hero at Forbes. So I would suggest that there are probably many such 'business leaders' who either do believe him or would believe him if they knew anything about the on-going litigation.
I'm not going to name any names, but there is at least one Fortune-500 company that has a "no F/OSS unless absolutely neccessary" policy that is a direct result of SCO's rhetoric.
According to this article, IBM is ditching OS/2 so NCR, Diebold, and the rest are only offering Windows XP based ATMs now. I think they are all foolish bastards:P
Intels still run faster, even if they don't crunch the big numbers all in one cycle.
Raw CPU speeds are fairly meaningless.
Its like the RPM guage on your car. Lets say that a Corvette has a lower RPM per mile per hour than a Porche and it also costs less. Now lets pretend that they both top out at 165 mph. If all you're worried about is how fast you get from point A to point B (and what else is there when talking about CPUs?), then the Corvette obviously gets you more bang per buck. Who cares if the Porche has higher RPM per MPH (its actually a bad thing!).
If somebody writes a LSB compliant application that you want to run at home on your Debian or Gentoo or {insert your favorite here} distro, LSB certification suddenly becomes very important to you. The whole idea is that developers write their applications to the LSB spec instead of worrying about particular distros.
The LSB already has a set of test suites, but my question is "why aren't there any certified community distros" not "what would be an ideal way to get a community distro certified".
By doing this, Congress will be making research cheaper for their corporate sponsors. Do you really think they are looking out for the little guy, or are they screwing scientific journal publishers in the name of corporate greed? Any benifit to the public is purley coincidence, IMHO.
I'm running Gentoo Linux, and I have a ATI Radeon 9800SE that has never given me any problems. When I play Americas Army at 1024x768 and the higher detail settings, I regularly get 60+ fps.
The way that Bush/Cheney are giving your tax dollars to Halliburtion is disgusting.
The left wing Bush/Cheney conspiracies today are just as silly as the right wing Clinton/Gore conspiracies of the 1990s. Halliburton is just another Beltway Bandit, just like the hundreds of other companies that milk the Federal government on a daily basis. This is how the Federal government has functioned since before WWII!
Your best bet is to change the Mozilla icon to the default IE icon and the Mozilla mail icon to the Outlook/Express icon. Then just claim its an upgrade, and run like hell. >:)
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In Linux you usually have to have proper privelages on the filesystem to install a plugin. That isn't always the case when browsing as a non-root user. Of course, you could open your system up so that plugins never fail, but then you would just be recreating the whole IE/ActiveX nightmare...
If a package install requires an rpm for some strange reason, the ebuild can be made to handle the rpm. So the end-user never needs to deal with the rpm, just the ebuild maintainers.
Andrew Cowie makes a pretty darn good argument for using Gentoo in a production environment:
How to help (using your list):
Email medical advice to volkerdi@slackware.com
Drive him to the hospital if you live in the Fargo, North Dakota area; free plane tickets would be nice if he needs to travel for treatment.
Call his cell to make arrangements: (925) 535-9062
Donate your time or your money as you see fit.
Like most people on this earth, we don't like being told how to vote, "you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies". ;)
Georgia is entirely a Diebold operation. :(
Don't forget to 'vote' in every contest, even if the person is running unopposed. Election officials seem to find the most moronic reasons to throw out a ballot...
It's not for the art. George Lucas is all about the money and his ego. I submit two choice quotes from an AP/Yahoo! article mentioned previously on Slashdot:
Money:
Ego:
Episodes IV through VI were great because either somebody else directed them or George wasn't fat headed enough at that time to always get his way. Watch the behind-the-scenes making of the special editions and you will see a whole lot George-ass-kissing-yes-men.
Sadly, the business world is full of idiot-greed-mongers just like Darl. I'm sure he is a cult hero at Forbes. So I would suggest that there are probably many such 'business leaders' who either do believe him or would believe him if they knew anything about the on-going litigation.
I'm not going to name any names, but there is at least one Fortune-500 company that has a "no F/OSS unless absolutely neccessary" policy that is a direct result of SCO's rhetoric.
According to this article, IBM is ditching OS/2 so NCR, Diebold, and the rest are only offering Windows XP based ATMs now. I think they are all foolish bastards :P
Raw CPU speeds are fairly meaningless.
Its like the RPM guage on your car. Lets say that a Corvette has a lower RPM per mile per hour than a Porche and it also costs less. Now lets pretend that they both top out at 165 mph. If all you're worried about is how fast you get from point A to point B (and what else is there when talking about CPUs?), then the Corvette obviously gets you more bang per buck. Who cares if the Porche has higher RPM per MPH (its actually a bad thing!).
If somebody writes a LSB compliant application that you want to run at home on your Debian or Gentoo or {insert your favorite here} distro, LSB certification suddenly becomes very important to you. The whole idea is that developers write their applications to the LSB spec instead of worrying about particular distros.
The LSB already has a set of test suites, but my question is "why aren't there any certified community distros" not "what would be an ideal way to get a community distro certified".
Actually, RPM is the standard packaging format for LSB. Thank God for gentoo...
All of the certified distros are commercial products. Where are the community distros in all of this?
Could it have something to do with the Fee Schedule? The fees don't seem that steep.
Darl just described SCOX's 3rd quarter as "active & productive". Riiiiight.
By doing this, Congress will be making research cheaper for their corporate sponsors. Do you really think they are looking out for the little guy, or are they screwing scientific journal publishers in the name of corporate greed? Any benifit to the public is purley coincidence, IMHO.
The last line of the article states:
I thought that idea was still very much in doubt, if not null and void..?
Or how about a Free/Open Source voting machine where the paper is the legal ballot...
I'm running Gentoo Linux, and I have a ATI Radeon 9800SE that has never given me any problems. When I play Americas Army at 1024x768 and the higher detail settings, I regularly get 60+ fps.
By the way, where do I get ClamWinAV? ClamAV is *nix only.
Your best bet is to change the Mozilla icon to the default IE icon and the Mozilla mail icon to the Outlook/Express icon. Then just claim its an upgrade, and run like hell. >:)
I'm assuming this is because you don't have a good answer for the question I did ask. The OVC system trumps your 'scratch-n-sniff' system hands down.
I sent an email to the editor, and I got a response from the author, Andreas Kluth.
In the resulting dialog Andreas admitted:
So much for journalistic integrity. At least he was honest though! You can reach Andreas at:
andreaskluth@sbcglobal.net or
andreaskluth@economist.com