I think Mandrake is a good way to get a lot of people using Linux. It's polished GUI is good for proving what Linux can be when you don't need command line control. Glad to see they're still going.
What with RedHat Standard moving to Fedora and Mandrake looking shaky, things were looking bad. Fedora has turned out to be quite good and Madrake are surviving. Just SCO to go bankrupt and the world will be right again.
It's a doped Alumino-silicate. Very impressive making one wih such a vacancy in the structure, and very impressive that it doesn't require the solvent to be in place to maintain the structure.
But, it must be a very hard material to work with, as it is probably the most brittle material know.
The other day I saw a woman parallel park, whilst on a hill (facing upwards), into a gap only just big enough for her saloon car. A real rarity here in the UK.
If you install something like Fedora 1, go along with standard setting. Configure the first mail client you get to (Mozilla Mail or Evolution), you don't end up with huge whole in your security (cf Windows + Outlook), and you don't form part if a chain of virus distribution.
Whilst current Microsoft Windows (2000 and XP) might be simpler to install, Linux is at the standard Windows 3.1 / 95 was in terms of configuration - the only difference is that with Internet support + Google, it's far easier to solve you Linux problems than it was to work out (in the early 90s) why the particular hardware configuration you had didn't work.
In which case, given the rapid growth in open source performance, it will take less than the 10 years it took M$ to get to todays auto-installation level. If poeple coped with Windows in the 90s, they can certainly cope with Linux today.
That would be better. Dump their DMA riddles WMA and concentrate on making a stable OS for the people not computer litterate to use Linux, or clever enough to use OS X.
Before DRM, it was a fuzzy matter.
Once, having an MP3 on your computer and giving it to a friend. But as P2P rose in popularity, and CD writers got cheaper, it has spread.
Now with DRM, in some cases you have to actively circumvent the copyright protection to make the MP3. This makes it seem more criminal. I think the introduction of DRM will not help the P2P case in any official discussions.
Perhaps one day we will see a world where music loses it's copyright after 6months - 1 year, and can be freely distributed. They can't be making much out of the bargain value CDs the companies like Amazon, HMV and Virgin sell after the CD has been out a while.
Unfortunately, those sharing file by P2P are now considered criminals as bad as virus writers and terrorist. I can't imagine any government (especially in America) coming to any useful conclusion.
I moved my machine, but not yet the server. In my research lab to Fedora. I look after about 10 Linux boxes + the group server.
I am very impressed with the Fedora because:
1. Yum is very simple, I even have it installing/updating from a local mirror (in the UK) 2. NPTL has made a real difference, compile time is much quicker than RH 8 and programs run smoother. 3. UTF seems better sorted than it was under RH 8 ( a joke as far as I was concerned) 4. Many more useful packages are included. 5. Out of the box, so to speak, USB worked wonderful for my digital camera and my Sharp Zaurus.
The only thing I would comment on, is that due to the frequent new Kernel releases, I'm not doing wonderful on my UPTIME. I'm losing out to the department IT geek (a windows bloke). Mainly because he's running 2000 and can't be bothered to update.
I would like to re-iterate, for the average Linux home/work (not gaming) user, Fedora is not the flop it was purported to be. I think it it great, by far the best distro I've used. (I haven't done a server install yet though).
A lot of people have been asking what the uses of a supersolid are. In general chemists/physicists to not investigate for practical purposes, but to further the understanding on the nature of materials.
The discovery of superfluids and supersolids is important in testing our understanding of quantum effects. Much like observing the movement of Mercury during a solar ecclipse was necessary to justify General Relativity.
The secrecy comes from the fact that Darl McBride claims to have drawn Tux when he was a small child. The picture is so embarressing that he does not want anyone to see it.
Not sure Mac OS X will hurt Linux. I am much happier though, now that the Macs on my lab group's network are *nix and support NFS. Pity we still have some of those out dated OSes running - you know the one I mean, it runs the BSOD application on a buggy text based thing called DOS.
Although Linux goes stronger, there will always be dedicated proprietry *nix OS for computers managing complicated scientific instruments such as NMRs. The inorganic lab at Oxford University has Irix and Solaris boxes as well as Linux.
... they don't know there's no planets between Earth and Mars Intel@Berkeley
From the Intel at Berkeley site, the page about e-mailing Mars. Tt says planets getting in the way is one problem. As far as I know, no planets come between Earth and Mars!
The majority of Windows users haven't seen a BSOD since late 1999.
You're right. I think we should apologise profusely to all windoze users. It's not their fault they use buggy software - we shouldn't pick on them. Perhaps we should move back to SCO jokes!
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Doesn't Lindows cost money?
They also ship a single button mouse with a computer running a *nix operating system.
I think Mandrake is a good way to get a lot of people using Linux. It's polished GUI is good for proving what Linux can be when you don't need command line control. Glad to see they're still going.
What with RedHat Standard moving to Fedora and Mandrake looking shaky, things were looking bad. Fedora has turned out to be quite good and Madrake are surviving. Just SCO to go bankrupt and the world will be right again.
Oh, my mistake. Actually in non-crystalline.
It's a doped Alumino-silicate. Very impressive making one wih such a vacancy in the structure, and very impressive that it doesn't require the solvent to be in place to maintain the structure.
But, it must be a very hard material to work with, as it is probably the most brittle material know.
(nor America)
The other day I saw a woman parallel park, whilst on a hill (facing upwards), into a gap only just big enough for her saloon car. A real rarity here in the UK.
If you install something like Fedora 1, go along with standard setting. Configure the first mail client you get to (Mozilla Mail or Evolution), you don't end up with huge whole in your security (cf Windows + Outlook), and you don't form part if a chain of virus distribution. Whilst current Microsoft Windows (2000 and XP) might be simpler to install, Linux is at the standard Windows 3.1 / 95 was in terms of configuration - the only difference is that with Internet support + Google, it's far easier to solve you Linux problems than it was to work out (in the early 90s) why the particular hardware configuration you had didn't work. In which case, given the rapid growth in open source performance, it will take less than the 10 years it took M$ to get to todays auto-installation level. If poeple coped with Windows in the 90s, they can certainly cope with Linux today.
If the US government start using Linux then Bush will have SCO arrested for being terrorists if they threaten him with a $699 bill!!!
:-)
Darl McBride in Camp X-Ray - I bet that would be a popular wallpaper
I felt a disturbance in the force... ...as though a thousand hackers cried out "Show us your tits" and then went silent.
(If you don't get it read the 1st post on the H2K2 Slashdot article)
That would be better. Dump their DMA riddles WMA and concentrate on making a stable OS for the people not computer litterate to use Linux, or clever enough to use OS X.
Before DRM, it was a fuzzy matter. Once, having an MP3 on your computer and giving it to a friend. But as P2P rose in popularity, and CD writers got cheaper, it has spread. Now with DRM, in some cases you have to actively circumvent the copyright protection to make the MP3. This makes it seem more criminal. I think the introduction of DRM will not help the P2P case in any official discussions. Perhaps one day we will see a world where music loses it's copyright after 6months - 1 year, and can be freely distributed. They can't be making much out of the bargain value CDs the companies like Amazon, HMV and Virgin sell after the CD has been out a while.
Unfortunately, those sharing file by P2P are now considered criminals as bad as virus writers and terrorist. I can't imagine any government (especially in America) coming to any useful conclusion.
I moved my machine, but not yet the server. In my research lab to Fedora. I look after about 10 Linux boxes + the group server.
I am very impressed with the Fedora because:
1. Yum is very simple, I even have it installing/updating from a local mirror (in the UK)
2. NPTL has made a real difference, compile time is much quicker than RH 8 and programs run smoother.
3. UTF seems better sorted than it was under RH 8 ( a joke as far as I was concerned)
4. Many more useful packages are included.
5. Out of the box, so to speak, USB worked wonderful for my digital camera and my Sharp Zaurus.
The only thing I would comment on, is that due to the frequent new Kernel releases, I'm not doing wonderful on my UPTIME. I'm losing out to the department IT geek (a windows bloke). Mainly because he's running 2000 and can't be bothered to update.
I would like to re-iterate, for the average Linux home/work (not gaming) user, Fedora is not the flop it was purported to be. I think it it great, by far the best distro I've used. (I haven't done a server install yet though).
A lot of people have been asking what the uses of a supersolid are. In general chemists/physicists to not investigate for practical purposes, but to further the understanding on the nature of materials. The discovery of superfluids and supersolids is important in testing our understanding of quantum effects. Much like observing the movement of Mercury during a solar ecclipse was necessary to justify General Relativity.
Someone's bound to install it! Resistance is futile.....
...Born To Be Mild
The secrecy comes from the fact that Darl McBride claims to have drawn Tux when he was a small child. The picture is so embarressing that he does not want anyone to see it.
How is it off topic? Surely it's very poiniant that a *nix box got first post. They're alive and kicking!
Not sure Mac OS X will hurt Linux. I am much happier though, now that the Macs on my lab group's network are *nix and support NFS. Pity we still have some of those out dated OSes running - you know the one I mean, it runs the BSOD application on a buggy text based thing called DOS.
Although Linux goes stronger, there will always be dedicated proprietry *nix OS for computers managing complicated scientific instruments such as NMRs. The inorganic lab at Oxford University has Irix and Solaris boxes as well as Linux.
Unlikely.
And my Linux box is still alive!
Bugger. I'll never again post before I've drunk my morning cup of tea.
... they don't know there's no planets between Earth and Mars Intel@Berkeley
From the Intel at Berkeley site, the page about e-mailing Mars. Tt says planets getting in the way is one problem. As far as I know, no planets come between Earth and Mars!
The majority of Windows users haven't seen a BSOD since late 1999.
You're right. I think we should apologise profusely to all windoze users. It's not their fault they use buggy software - we shouldn't pick on them. Perhaps we should move back to SCO jokes!