Cool, I dont run my games though an emulator either, I run them though wine. Whats funny is sometimes the games even run smoother if they are older. But yea, running games on a emulator would suck. Especially because I dont know any main stream emulators that will support 3d graphics. Its too bad you dont like wine though, its a great alternitive to using an emulator.
Their package managment (pacman) doesn't have anyway that I know of to only do security updates. On a production server I want only security updates to my system. Arch Linux only has 2 releases to choose from, current or release. With current, the packages are cutting edge and always changing and upgrading, and as far as I know release is just a snapshot of current that doesn't change until the next release. That makes it a great desktop OS or test machine, but lacking in the production server area imho.
I've used arch in the past and found it a great distro. It has its quirks, but for me it was rock solid and ran like a charm as a development/test server for a side project I was working on. It does require you to know a little bit more about linux and your hardware then most distros, but its not anymore complex then gentoo or slackware. Plus it is targeted at i686 which is nice for speed. I found the package choices a bit small, but it is way easy to make a new package from souce and install it with pacman.
Not sure if this is related to not having a line to check or not, but I called speakeasy and they said I only qualify for sdsl (384/384) for like 120.00 a month. Still not a option to replace cable, but at least I got an answer out of them.
I have comcast cable and I use vonage for phone service. Comcast just raised their rates, and I decided that I dont want to pay that much anymore and my friends dsl speeds are about the same for much less. So I call SBC and click though all the menu's to get to sales. I ask about dsl. She asks my address, my name and my phone number. I give her all 3. She informs me that my number is not under their service. I tell her that I use voice over IP, but I would be willing to get their local phone service if I can get DSL. She said they can't check to see if I can get dsl without me first getting phone service!
So we go round and round about this. I ask what the cheaps phone service I can get is, and we go round and round about that. Can't not choose a long distance carrier, you are charged more for not picking a package deal thing, etc. Finally, I decide you can't get a phone for less then 40.00 a month, and on top of that, because I've never been a customer they want a 150.00 deposit.
So I said screw it. I just canceled my expanded cable package and kept basic cable and cable internet. I'll use BT to get the shows I miss.
Anyone find it odd that WebMD (who owns the nations largest insurance claims clearinghouse that uses about 8 differnt formats from ansi4010 to nsf+) Does want to get in and help build a standard?
Actually ubuntu disables root. You are ment to use sudo for all root commands. The root console in the gnome menu is simply gksudo gnome-terminal I belive. That would run the terminal as if you were root.
I post rumors about Apple on my website. For example, Sources have told me that apple has paid a terrorist group 1 million US dallors to strap iBooks to their chest and blow up microsoft.
Now, lets say investors read this and go "Gee, thats awesome, that will make them millions." And buy tons of Apple stock. Maybe apple shouldn't think "Shit, now they are gonna hate us cause we dont want to do that.", but instead think "Hey, if their is this much public intrest and outcry for a product like this, perhaps we should make this product and increase invenstor profits, that is what a company is supose to do, increase profits."
Or they can sue me over my slashdot post, either way.
They voted for that act because, at the time (just after 9/11), anyone who voted against it would automatically be labeled a "terrorist supporter" and have his/her political career finished.
Remember, people weren't exactly rational at that time.
Yea, glad to know they care enough about the country to put themselves before it. Not to mention the fact that not thinking or not rational is not an excuse. I can't beat the shit out of you and say its ok because I was exactly rational at the time.
Point taken, but why do the HAVE to make it easy. Its your hardware, you figure out how to flash it.
I should of said, the hardware we are producing will only run the software we create.
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So your saying I need to work at walmart?
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- When you find a human companion (or have a pre-teen child), you don't take them to a doctor and have them sterilized so they can't sleep around and have bothersome babies.
Its a great concept, but what is really happening is the restrictions on how you can use GPL'ed software are growing. Eventually, this license is going to have so many restrictions that it will be impossible to release your software under the GPL.
I like what the GPL does for the community. I've watched it help projects grow and prosper. But with statements like the one made above by Stallman, I see wall building between buisness and GPL'ed software. As you've said the GPL isn't about programers, but shouldnt it be about programmers? I mean if you alienate the programers, you wont have software.
This is bad for software development, and will drive people to other free licenses. These maybe the ones that allow companys to keep their changes hidden. Not only that but by making the restricitons harder you drive off the guys with the money, the buisness. What I hear from Stallman is a vison of a world where we all work for mcdonalds and code after work hours. That buisness model just will not work. At least not for me.
I want to be able to leverage my peers work. I want people to be able to leverage my work. I also want to give and receive reconition for my work and others work. I just see future versions of the GPL making it too much work to use other's work, or to release my own under the GPL.
I want to write software and not have a read my code and test my hardware before release. I also want to write code and make a living off it. Not make a living off something I dont enjoy and write code.
An area of investigation is getting GPL software to run on devices such as TiVo's digital video recorders, which use a specific version of Linux but won't run modified versions. But prohibitions on modifications violates the spirit of the GPL. "This is not what free software is supposed to be," Stallman said.
What the hell is wrong with that. I make some hardware, I put linux on it. I say here's my code, feel free to read it, to tell me what you think might need updating, and feel free to make your own, but my hardware will only run my version of the sofware. Thats freedom to me. If you keep putting stupid restrictions like this on the GPL eventually it will be too much work to release your code as gpl. It will be, will some random guy's hack work on my hardware device, did I comply with subset by law 005 that says on mondays of every 3rd month the software should auto display a list of all devs who worked on the code and automatically download the source.
To me, this is loosing sight of what freedom is about. Yes you must protect the rights of the people who worked on the code so some company can't snatch it up and not give back, but when you start talking about imposing restrictions on hardware your taking it too far. As long as the company gives you an easy way to get their source they are giving back to the community any changes they made, that should be good enough.
Makes me think about this: How is having a page with a bunch of.torrent files on it copywright infringment?
The site is linking to a file, that has the location of a server. That server distrubutes copywrighted material illegally, but not the website. It is not giving the user anything that belongs to the MPAA/RIAA.
Now I know in this case that the site was also running a tracker, and that was violating the MPAA's copywright. But what about sites that down run their own tracker? Could they not win protection this way?
I was curious about how much spam gets auto generated. I have a fairly common name so I used one of my gmail invites with my normal gmail account to make an account with my firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
I havn't used or given it out to anbody, the spam folder gets about 25 messages a day. Luckly google has done a perfect job with marking them all spam.
My only problem with gaim is I can't figure out how to make the individual contact name flash when i get a message like ICQ does. So I can click it and have the message pop up. That and I can't dock gaim.
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Cool, I dont run my games though an emulator either, I run them though wine. Whats funny is sometimes the games even run smoother if they are older. But yea, running games on a emulator would suck. Especially because I dont know any main stream emulators that will support 3d graphics. Its too bad you dont like wine though, its a great alternitive to using an emulator.
The next version of filezilla supports linux. I have downloaded and compiled the alpha, it works great.
Their package managment (pacman) doesn't have anyway that I know of to only do security updates. On a production server I want only security updates to my system. Arch Linux only has 2 releases to choose from, current or release. With current, the packages are cutting edge and always changing and upgrading, and as far as I know release is just a snapshot of current that doesn't change until the next release. That makes it a great desktop OS or test machine, but lacking in the production server area imho.
I've used arch in the past and found it a great distro. It has its quirks, but for me it was rock solid and ran like a charm as a development/test server for a side project I was working on. It does require you to know a little bit more about linux and your hardware then most distros, but its not anymore complex then gentoo or slackware. Plus it is targeted at i686 which is nice for speed. I found the package choices a bit small, but it is way easy to make a new package from souce and install it with pacman.
Anyways, its a great distro.
Not sure if this is related to not having a line to check or not, but I called speakeasy and they said I only qualify for sdsl (384/384) for like 120.00 a month. Still not a option to replace cable, but at least I got an answer out of them.
I really only watch discover, history channel, and comedy central. Other then those channels, I really could do without a TV
I have comcast cable and I use vonage for phone service. Comcast just raised their rates, and I decided that I dont want to pay that much anymore and my friends dsl speeds are about the same for much less. So I call SBC and click though all the menu's to get to sales. I ask about dsl. She asks my address, my name and my phone number. I give her all 3. She informs me that my number is not under their service. I tell her that I use voice over IP, but I would be willing to get their local phone service if I can get DSL. She said they can't check to see if I can get dsl without me first getting phone service!
So we go round and round about this. I ask what the cheaps phone service I can get is, and we go round and round about that. Can't not choose a long distance carrier, you are charged more for not picking a package deal thing, etc. Finally, I decide you can't get a phone for less then 40.00 a month, and on top of that, because I've never been a customer they want a 150.00 deposit.
So I said screw it. I just canceled my expanded cable package and kept basic cable and cable internet. I'll use BT to get the shows I miss.
Anyone find it odd that WebMD (who owns the nations largest insurance claims clearinghouse that uses about 8 differnt formats from ansi4010 to nsf+) Does want to get in and help build a standard?
Now I can finally complete my monkey with 4 human asses.
It was more like 15 seconds looking 2:45 seconds crying in the corner.
Actually ubuntu disables root. You are ment to use sudo for all root commands. The root console in the gnome menu is simply gksudo gnome-terminal I belive. That would run the terminal as if you were root.
well, thats 3 minutes of my life i'll never get back.
Well that and the nightmares.
Hey, if slashdot would build in spellcheck, then mistakes like that wouldn't happen.
Then again, I'd never learn to spell.
Can she help me fsk my hardisk?
I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist.
How about this take.
I post rumors about Apple on my website. For example, Sources have told me that apple has paid a terrorist group 1 million US dallors to strap iBooks to their chest and blow up microsoft.
Now, lets say investors read this and go "Gee, thats awesome, that will make them millions." And buy tons of Apple stock. Maybe apple shouldn't think "Shit, now they are gonna hate us cause we dont want to do that.", but instead think "Hey, if their is this much public intrest and outcry for a product like this, perhaps we should make this product and increase invenstor profits, that is what a company is supose to do, increase profits."
Or they can sue me over my slashdot post, either way.
Remember, people weren't exactly rational at that time.
Yea, glad to know they care enough about the country to put themselves before it. Not to mention the fact that not thinking or not rational is not an excuse. I can't beat the shit out of you and say its ok because I was exactly rational at the time.
Point taken, but why do the HAVE to make it easy. Its your hardware, you figure out how to flash it.
I should of said, the hardware we are producing will only run the software we create.
So your saying I need to work at walmart?
- When you find a human companion (or have a pre-teen child), you don't take them to a doctor and have them sterilized so they can't sleep around and have bothersome babies.
Damn it. Stupid lying friends.
Is that reversable? I want to have children.
Its a great concept, but what is really happening is the restrictions on how you can use GPL'ed software are growing. Eventually, this license is going to have so many restrictions that it will be impossible to release your software under the GPL.
I like what the GPL does for the community. I've watched it help projects grow and prosper. But with statements like the one made above by Stallman, I see wall building between buisness and GPL'ed software. As you've said the GPL isn't about programers, but shouldnt it be about programmers? I mean if you alienate the programers, you wont have software.
This is bad for software development, and will drive people to other free licenses. These maybe the ones that allow companys to keep their changes hidden. Not only that but by making the restricitons harder you drive off the guys with the money, the buisness. What I hear from Stallman is a vison of a world where we all work for mcdonalds and code after work hours. That buisness model just will not work. At least not for me.
I want to be able to leverage my peers work. I want people to be able to leverage my work. I also want to give and receive reconition for my work and others work. I just see future versions of the GPL making it too much work to use other's work, or to release my own under the GPL.
I want to write software and not have a read my code and test my hardware before release. I also want to write code and make a living off it. Not make a living off something I dont enjoy and write code.
An area of investigation is getting GPL software to run on devices such as TiVo's digital video recorders, which use a specific version of Linux but won't run modified versions. But prohibitions on modifications violates the spirit of the GPL. "This is not what free software is supposed to be," Stallman said.
What the hell is wrong with that. I make some hardware, I put linux on it. I say here's my code, feel free to read it, to tell me what you think might need updating, and feel free to make your own, but my hardware will only run my version of the sofware. Thats freedom to me. If you keep putting stupid restrictions like this on the GPL eventually it will be too much work to release your code as gpl. It will be, will some random guy's hack work on my hardware device, did I comply with subset by law 005 that says on mondays of every 3rd month the software should auto display a list of all devs who worked on the code and automatically download the source.
To me, this is loosing sight of what freedom is about. Yes you must protect the rights of the people who worked on the code so some company can't snatch it up and not give back, but when you start talking about imposing restrictions on hardware your taking it too far. As long as the company gives you an easy way to get their source they are giving back to the community any changes they made, that should be good enough.
You make an interesting point.
.torrent files on it copywright infringment?
Makes me think about this: How is having a page with a bunch of
The site is linking to a file, that has the location of a server. That server distrubutes copywrighted material illegally, but not the website. It is not giving the user anything that belongs to the MPAA/RIAA.
Now I know in this case that the site was also running a tracker, and that was violating the MPAA's copywright. But what about sites that down run their own tracker? Could they not win protection this way?
Kinda like installing a ubisof or EA game.
I was curious about how much spam gets auto generated. I have a fairly common name so I used one of my gmail invites with my normal gmail account to make an account with my firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
I havn't used or given it out to anbody, the spam folder gets about 25 messages a day. Luckly google has done a perfect job with marking them all spam.
My only problem with gaim is I can't figure out how to make the individual contact name flash when i get a message like ICQ does. So I can click it and have the message pop up. That and I can't dock gaim.