The following are a few quotes from this article. Exact copies -- the typos are theirs.
"The creation of Linux began nearly a decade ago, in 1991, by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, and was completed in 1994 with the release of version 1.0 of the Linux Kernal."
So Linux was finished in 1994?
"Red Hat is definitely leading the distribution pack, and it's easy to understand why. As far as Linux goes, Red Hat's distributions are relatively simple to configure, and the $79.95 that the latest distribution, 6.0, will cost you gets you not only the OS but also a gang of other goodies as well."
People should stop talking about Red Hat like it's the only distribution worth considering.
I wish this was the case. It would be nice if people would be allowed to browse freely, but would have to take a basic computer literacy test before they were permitted to post. It's a really bad idea and it would never work, but just think of how clean Usenet would be if it was possible.
I think we're talking about overclocked with a higher electricity bill vs. not overclocked with a lower electricity bill. I don't see where the OS fits in. Overclocked running Linux would be faster than not overclocked running Linux, the same way overclocked running NT would be faster than not overclocked running NT.
Anyway, I don't think that the OS will have any significant effect on the machine's rendering capabilities, since the OS isn't used much for that. But even if it does, that has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
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IE5 is also having trouble. The IE version of the ads is loaded in an iframe, and when the iframe can't be loaded, it goes to the "page could not be loaded" message (it's HTML-based in IE5). Then, I have to press Back and see the page I was looking for.
Most of Slashdot's problems start when Rob decides to add some new features. You need to remember that Rob isn't on the budget of a large corporation (or any corporation for that matter), and that he only has one box serving the entire Slashdot.
Had this been a large corporation, there would be some backup machines that could be instantly swapped.
I really don't understand the difference between a Packard Bell shipping with Linux or Windows. Either way, the first computer buyer can't do much if he accidentally screws something over. That's why the home computers come with a 'Restore CD' that wipes the hard drive and restores the factory settings. So the chances of a newbie actually screwing something over in Linux are less if the computer doesn't log in as root by default. The biggest problem I see so far is that AOL doesn't have a Linux client yet. Not that it ever will... but newbies need their AOL.
The article should be titled "RIAA lameness deathwatch" since it talks more about the death of the lameasses' attempts to kill MP3 rather than the MP3 dying off. Just look at their poll: "Are the music industry's attempts to stop or supplant Internet music downloads doomed?"
Furthermore, I don't see anything anti-MP3 except the comment that the quality is usually not CD-quality. Although this is true, it's not the format's fault. You can create practically CD-quality MP3s with almost the same compression ratio, provided that you use the right software.
Well.. just my $.02. As a conclusion, here's a quote from the article: "But what of MP3? In the short run, the format is likely to flourish. Its expected inclusion as a native format in the RealPlayer and the support it receives by all but the very top tier in the music industry ensure that the flow of MP3 files onto the Net will remain unchecked."
Don't get the anti-glare glasses. It costs an extra $60-100 to apply the coating, and it doesn't do shit. I got it for my glasses. It makes no difference, except that some people can't see with its green reflection.
As for typing faster than you write, I'm exactly the same way. That's why I hate those laptop keyboards. I've dealt with about a dozen laptops, and only one (I forget which) had a semi-usable layout, meaning that I could type pretty fast if I didn't use any keys but letters. The numbers caused a lot of problems. Sometimes they only come with one Ctrl and/or Alt key. Ugh.
First of all, don't you just hate it when there are two links with an identical URL? Hehe.
Anyway, here are my $.02 on electronic media replacing paper: I often hate reading things on my screen, and I like to print them out and read them on paper. For one thing, I want to avoid every second I can of looking at the screen, since my vision is dropping rapidly. Also, I'm often annoyed by bad word wrapping, and having to keep my hand on the keyboard or the mouse to scroll down. 'Puters are still the best for research, since you can do things like searching by string, but I'm not buying a tablet until it knows to turn itself off if I fell asleep while reading in bed. Provided I can use it to read in bed of course..
In the last presidential election, you had a choice to vote for three people. Who those three people were was decided by an oligarchy, not a democracy. You don't get to choose who the president is, you only get to choose the best out of three candidates. If it was a true democracy, you'd get to nominate your own candidate. Of course, then the entire government would spend 4 years counting votes, there would usually be three or four candidates with the same amount of votes, and the winner would only have a few thousand votes at the most. What's my point? You decide.
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
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Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
BTW, that date is April the 1st, which has already arrived in Russia - not January the 4th.
Both Netscape and IE will be shot in the foot after I'm done this post.
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to waite and see.
Hehe. Porn guys can be pretty clever. They're known for grabbing lookalike domains, like alta-vista.com. I wouldn't be surprised if someone registered slashdot.com and put up a porn site.
off COURSE it crashed! --frontpage!
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The magnificent "RedHat-supporting" Microsoft-loving site was done in FrontPage. Did you expect anything different?
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I don't see how that RedHat logo fits in with the rest of the site. I think that's the only reason it was posted anyway.
The site was done in FrontPage, there are Windows logos all over, and it bashes Macs, which is done mostly by Windows-loving puppies.
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At least it won't bring the whole box down.
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If Office crashes under Windows, it will probably freeze the whole box and you'll have to reboot. If Office crashes under Linux, you just kill it and the box will keep running. I don't think that even Microsoft has the power to write something buggy enough to crash Linux. Anyway, Office is one of the more stable Microsoft apps, and it's the only thing keeping most people inside of Windows. The only problem is that I'm not sure how serious this article is.
First of all, Office is one of the better MS apps. I've used it on multiple machines, and it is _usually_ pretty stable, which is enough for the average user. The good thing about this is that Office is one of the main things that are keeping people inside of Windows. Even if you're an anti-Microsoft fanatic, it's pretty hard to survive without Office if you're running a business or anything else. Us geeks prefer other text editors, but most business people don't know what a formatting tag is, let alone how to use it. They don't have time for that. Sure, _we_ could probably create a document in our editors with the same speed they create theirs in Office, but it would probably take them 3 times as long. If this turns out to be true, I will sing and rejoice. And about Microsoft making their own Linux distribution: extremely unlikely to impossible. They'd have to release the source.
After all, Office97 for the Mac looks about 99% the same as Office97 for Win32. The major differences are the ones that have to be there because the users are used to that OS being that way, like the file open/save dialogs, menus, etc. Office97 even comes with VBA, which is pretty much the same as the VBA that comes with Office97 for Win32. The only difference I have noticed so far is that the Mac version treats file/directory paths a little differently, expected on a Mac.
I have mixed feelings about this, but my first, and most important, thought was that Office97 is the only thing keeping a lot of people inside Win95/98. Once that's out of the way, Windows will rapidly decrease in popularity. I wonder if AOL will do a port of their software to Linux. Hehehe.
Finally, a conference within a reasonable distance from my house. I'd probably go even if it was about something I don't really need. I just need the company of some fellow geeks. Hehe.
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The following are a few quotes from this article. Exact copies -- the typos are theirs.
"The creation of Linux began nearly a decade ago, in 1991, by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, and was completed in 1994 with the release of version 1.0 of the Linux Kernal."
So Linux was finished in 1994?
"Red Hat is definitely leading the distribution pack, and it's easy to understand why. As far as Linux goes, Red Hat's distributions are relatively simple to configure, and the $79.95 that the latest distribution, 6.0, will cost you gets you not only the OS but also a gang of other goodies as well."
People should stop talking about Red Hat like it's the only distribution worth considering.
I guess I should stop being so negative...
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I think your parents should spank your prepubescent butt more often.
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I wish this was the case. It would be nice if people would be allowed to browse freely, but would have to take a basic computer literacy test before they were permitted to post. It's a really bad idea and it would never work, but just think of how clean Usenet would be if it was possible.
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I think we're talking about overclocked with a higher electricity bill vs. not overclocked with a lower electricity bill. I don't see where the OS fits in. Overclocked running Linux would be faster than not overclocked running Linux, the same way overclocked running NT would be faster than not overclocked running NT.
Anyway, I don't think that the OS will have any significant effect on the machine's rendering capabilities, since the OS isn't used much for that. But even if it does, that has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
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IE5 is also having trouble. The IE version of the ads is loaded in an iframe, and when the iframe can't be loaded, it goes to the "page could not be loaded" message (it's HTML-based in IE5). Then, I have to press Back and see the page I was looking for.
Don't ask why i'm using IE.
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Actually, Hotmail still runs Apache on FreeBSD. From what I've heard, Microsoft tried to move them to NT but it didn't work.
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Most of Slashdot's problems start when Rob decides to add some new features. You need to remember that Rob isn't on the budget of a large corporation (or any corporation for that matter), and that he only has one box serving the entire Slashdot.
Had this been a large corporation, there would be some backup machines that could be instantly swapped.
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I really don't understand the difference between a Packard Bell shipping with Linux or Windows. Either way, the first computer buyer can't do much if he accidentally screws something over. That's why the home computers come with a 'Restore CD' that wipes the hard drive and restores the factory settings. So the chances of a newbie actually screwing something over in Linux are less if the computer doesn't log in as root by default. The biggest problem I see so far is that AOL doesn't have a Linux client yet. Not that it ever will... but newbies need their AOL.
Just my $.02...
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The article should be titled "RIAA lameness deathwatch" since it talks more about the death of the lameasses' attempts to kill MP3 rather than the MP3 dying off. Just look at their poll: "Are the music industry's attempts to stop or supplant Internet music downloads doomed?"
Furthermore, I don't see anything anti-MP3 except the comment that the quality is usually not CD-quality. Although this is true, it's not the format's fault. You can create practically CD-quality MP3s with almost the same compression ratio, provided that you use the right software.
Well.. just my $.02. As a conclusion, here's a quote from the article: "But what of MP3? In the short run, the format is likely to flourish. Its expected inclusion as a native format in the RealPlayer and the support it receives by all but the very top tier in the music industry ensure that the flow of MP3 files onto the Net will remain unchecked."
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Don't get the anti-glare glasses. It costs an extra $60-100 to apply the coating, and it doesn't do shit. I got it for my glasses. It makes no difference, except that some people can't see with its green reflection.
As for typing faster than you write, I'm exactly the same way. That's why I hate those laptop keyboards. I've dealt with about a dozen laptops, and only one (I forget which) had a semi-usable layout, meaning that I could type pretty fast if I didn't use any keys but letters. The numbers caused a lot of problems. Sometimes they only come with one Ctrl and/or Alt key. Ugh.
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First of all, don't you just hate it when there are two links with an identical URL? Hehe.
Anyway, here are my $.02 on electronic media replacing paper: I often hate reading things on my screen, and I like to print them out and read them on paper. For one thing, I want to avoid every second I can of looking at the screen, since my vision is dropping rapidly. Also, I'm often annoyed by bad word wrapping, and having to keep my hand on the keyboard or the mouse to scroll down. 'Puters are still the best for research, since you can do things like searching by string, but I'm not buying a tablet until it knows to turn itself off if I fell asleep while reading in bed. Provided I can use it to read in bed of course..
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In the last presidential election, you had a choice to vote for three people. Who those three people were was decided by an oligarchy, not a democracy. You don't get to choose who the president is, you only get to choose the best out of three candidates. If it was a true democracy, you'd get to nominate your own candidate. Of course, then the entire government would spend 4 years counting votes, there would usually be three or four candidates with the same amount of votes, and the winner would only have a few thousand votes at the most. What's my point? You decide.
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"Closer to dad!"
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
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Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
BTW, that date is April the 1st, which has already arrived in Russia - not January the 4th.
Both Netscape and IE will be shot in the foot after I'm done this post.
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"Closer to dad!"
As of April 1st, reliable sources have confirmed that Linus Torvalds, who earlier worked for a Californian firm Transmeta, is moving to Elbrus International for a position of a department head.
His move to permanent residence in Moscow is thought to have been influenced by several factors, including a more interesting job (he will be porting the Linux kernel to platforms based on the E2k processor, currently being developed by Elbrus International), a location closer to his father, who has been working as a Moscow correspondent for Finnish radio and television, and a climate that is closer to Finland and more familiar.
Linus's future boss, Boris Babayan, said "Torvald's excellent professional qualities will help to develop a reliable 'home OS' for the E2k processor that will be completely compatible with Linux."
Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe it. It's too serious to be an April Fool's joke, especially since it was posted on a seemingly serious news site, something like the Russian equivalent of ZDNet. I guess I'll just have to waite and see.
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Hehe. Porn guys can be pretty clever. They're known for grabbing lookalike domains, like alta-vista.com. I wouldn't be surprised if someone registered slashdot.com and put up a porn site.
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I think that you're forgetting they're in a different time zone.
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Apparently, you misunderstand the meaning of Infinity, my friend.
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I want dark. White is always too dry.
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The magnificent "RedHat-supporting" Microsoft-loving site was done in FrontPage. Did you expect anything different?
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I don't see how that RedHat logo fits in with the rest of the site. I think that's the only reason it was posted anyway.
The site was done in FrontPage, there are Windows logos all over, and it bashes Macs, which is done mostly by Windows-loving puppies.
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If Office crashes under Windows, it will probably freeze the whole box and you'll have to reboot. If Office crashes under Linux, you just kill it and the box will keep running. I don't think that even Microsoft has the power to write something buggy enough to crash Linux. Anyway, Office is one of the more stable Microsoft apps, and it's the only thing keeping most people inside of Windows. The only problem is that I'm not sure how serious this article is.
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First of all, Office is one of the better MS apps. I've used it on multiple machines, and it is _usually_ pretty stable, which is enough for the average user. The good thing about this is that Office is one of the main things that are keeping people inside of Windows. Even if you're an anti-Microsoft fanatic, it's pretty hard to survive without Office if you're running a business or anything else. Us geeks prefer other text editors, but most business people don't know what a formatting tag is, let alone how to use it. They don't have time for that. Sure, _we_ could probably create a document in our editors with the same speed they create theirs in Office, but it would probably take them 3 times as long. If this turns out to be true, I will sing and rejoice. And about Microsoft making their own Linux distribution: extremely unlikely to impossible. They'd have to release the source.
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They have a monopoly on both, and they used their Windows monopoly to create the Office monopoly, just like they did it with DOS -> Windows before.
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After all, Office97 for the Mac looks about 99% the same as Office97 for Win32. The major differences are the ones that have to be there because the users are used to that OS being that way, like the file open/save dialogs, menus, etc.
Office97 even comes with VBA, which is pretty much the same as the VBA that comes with Office97 for Win32. The only difference I have noticed so far is that the Mac version treats file/directory paths a little differently, expected on a Mac.
I have mixed feelings about this, but my first, and most important, thought was that Office97 is the only thing keeping a lot of people inside Win95/98. Once that's out of the way, Windows will rapidly decrease in popularity. I wonder if AOL will do a port of their software to Linux. Hehehe.
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Finally, a conference within a reasonable distance from my house. I'd probably go even if it was about something I don't really need. I just need the company of some fellow geeks. Hehe.
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