If you need (unsecure) windows for anything, use vmware player (free), or wine (free), or if you need to play games with 3D acceleration then cedega (nonfree).
it fails to count most traffic for no apparent reason.
it requires javascript turned on, in the visitor's browser. That skips from 5% to 30% of visitors (depending on the nature of your website - ie, homepage of links versus windoze wares site).
limit the number of story submissions per user/IP/submitter_nickname. For example to 1 submission per 24h (or 48h). After clicking "submit" button, the information displayed would be: Thank you for your submission, your next submission will be possible within 24 hours.
- You will get less submissions (more unique submissions!) and,
- their quality will be higher (spammer submitters will have to choose carefully the best one, instead of submitting ten stories).
- nontypical stories (eg. about crazy case-mod, or linux on a hair-dryer) will not get hurt, since those stories are submitted by people who tend to submit one story per month, not one story per day.
Institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get accepted (per day, week, month...whatever). A cap doesn't hurt legitimate submitters, while limiting the payoff for linkwhores.
Agreed.
Let's assume that I'm just an average slashdotter. I regularly get modpoints (about each two weeks), and I have just enough time to spend only 2 or 3 of them before they expire. I submit stories only, when I really, really think that they are worth it. The story appears, but my submission gets rejected, my last accepted submission was 2 years ago. And I submit stories about once per three or four months.
So assuming that I'm an average (not a journalist kind of type who seeks for stories all the time), IMHO I think that a limit of, say - one story per 24h (or 48h) from single user/IP/submitter_name should be just enough.
But I'm not talking about a limit of accepted stories. I'm talking about a limit of submitted stories. When someone clicks button "submit" there should appear an information: Your story has been submitted, your next submission will be possible within next 24 (48) hours, thank you.
Of course people can try to work around that, using different IPs, but can * Beatles Beatles * use a different nick? I doubt. He would appear then as someone else. So better he will choose his story to submit very (very!) carefully. And you, CmdrTaco, will see only one story from him. That one he thinks is the best one. Your job is easier, because you have less stories to choose from, and stories quality gets better! Because people are more careful to choose the best story possible.
It's a win-win solution. I'm sure that after that the amount of Roland's and BB's stories will dramatically decrease, while their quality will increase. And also - after today's discussion people will stop complaining.
Initially I thought, wow! they will be able to test new aeroplanes in real conditions! No more depending on computer simulations of air flow. That's groundbreaking. But my realistic wife said: 'no way, thwy will not put REAL planes there'. So I checked in TFA:
With so much space in average cellphone I imagine that lots of people will try to run linux on them.
Maybe finally with dosbox on an average cellphone (not something extra expensive like treo) I'll be able to play elite2, and adom. Just some perfect entertainment on may way to work:)
this article has been created today about 3 hours ago. I bet that some of/. are feeling the urge to further modify it. Perhaps to make it more fun, or sth (eg. to write that the hoaxer killed JFK himself). Ello guys, it's not how the wikipedia is intended to work.
adom of course. There's no better game, even though I've recently bought 6600 GT (because I need dualhead DVI for development). And even though nexuiz works pretty well on my debian system under 1600x1200, with 70 FPS.
Personally I think that this investment is doomed. That is because m$ business strategy simply does not fit with indian people philosophy. They belive in sharing knowledge (and software), those people are philosophically much closer to OSS ideas. That's why piracy is so widespread in asiatic regions - people simply do not agree that something must be paid for more than once, especially knowledge (which they belive is only worth sharing for free). Of course m$ can make there a big outpost, pay people huge amounts of money to get it running. But people will be unhappy and complain about m$'s strategy. And sooner or later it will all collapse.
my bet is that m$ knows all that what I've said. And they siply want to try to kill their philosophy before OSS will grow there strong enough to fully embrace it (and people there - I mean all the folks, not just IT people). This is sad news, as we will be observers of OSS vs. m$ fight on yet another front.
Vonage told me I had 911 dialing a long time ago. [...] hey said that it was active and I'm assuming they are not making that up.
afaik it should be very easy to check. Just call 911 and tell them that you just want to verify that your 911 actually works. Lots of people are doing that, and the 911 staff is very understanding in that aspect.
bravo! there was a DUPE coming about release 1.5 of firefox, and they have pulled it off! For the first time ever I'm aware of dupe which didn't appear!
the court in which country will handle this? I don't see this, since it is international problem here. Is there any interantional court? Geneva? US? UN? Japan? we are talking about whole earth...
I've seen several posts where people were criticizing the solution chosen by those 'linux experts'. Whether they are experts or not - is a matter of different subject. I think that we should look at the broader picture. And instead of talking about replacing glibc we should talk about the study's conclusion, not how they reached this conclusion.
Ok, so they have chosen to replace glibc, perhaps in their circumstances they couldn't see any other applicable solution. I'm a true linux zealot, I've thrown windows away 5 years ago, and I do the same with computers of my friends and family. And during that time I learned a lot. For instance I've learned that each problem has dozens of solutions, and when I approach each problem for the first time - I do not choose the best solution possible. But I do after solving that same problem several times - because I learn how to do that.
The bottomline is that collective knowledge of all/. readers is far greater than knowledge of single linux administrator. And what he does can be criticized by others. He did the best he could when he approached that specific problem for the first time.
Another bottomline is that even skilled linux administrator - when meets a new kind of problem - will not choose the optimal solution, and most of the time he will spend on it - will be learning stuff, reading man and googling.
to summarize, I'll repeat my other post - I can belive that setting up a linux sever can take longer time than setting up a windows server doing the same.
But such conclusion from a study means nothing, since everybody will agree that UPTIME of linux server, and its need for MAINTIENCE will score far better than windows server doing the same.
And that's the only reason for which I think that this study is totally useless.
1. I agree that setting a linux server takes more time
2. But 1. is irrevelant because it's the uptime, and maintience for years, that really counts.
Dear Dr. Herb Thompson - tell me if you plan to study how linux vs. windows score in "uptime and maintince" in real corporate environment. I think that this test should be at least 1 year long.
Here is an interesting question for all of us: what is actually the world's most popular toy, and how do one measure it?
well I think it's lego. and maybe it can be measured by amount of time spent playing with the toy? (you can buy something very expensive and play for a very short time, so money shouldn't be the measure).
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upgrade to faster connection, switch to kubuntu (free AND secure), or anything else equally secure.
;)
If you need (unsecure) windows for anything, use vmware player (free), or wine (free), or if you need to play games with 3D acceleration then cedega (nonfree).
Remember about http://www.openoffice.org/ for office work, http://www.gimp.org/ for drawing, http://www.k3b.org/ for burning DVDs... and the list goes on and on.
ps: I've got some karma to burn, so here I'm whoring
it's x86 instruction set (even 64bit version) - so a switch sooner or later still is possible.
Pay? For music?
http://www.leapsbeyond.com/
Who has done that?
it fails to count most traffic for no apparent reason.
it requires javascript turned on, in the visitor's browser. That skips from 5% to 30% of visitors (depending on the nature of your website - ie, homepage of links versus windoze wares site).
limit the number of story submissions per user/IP/submitter_nickname. For example to 1 submission per 24h (or 48h). After clicking "submit" button, the information displayed would be: Thank you for your submission, your next submission will be possible within 24 hours.
- You will get less submissions (more unique submissions!) and,
- their quality will be higher (spammer submitters will have to choose carefully the best one, instead of submitting ten stories).
- nontypical stories (eg. about crazy case-mod, or linux on a hair-dryer) will not get hurt, since those stories are submitted by people who tend to submit one story per month, not one story per day.
it's a win-win.
Institute a cap on the total number of stories a given submitter can get accepted (per day, week, month...whatever). A cap doesn't hurt legitimate submitters, while limiting the payoff for linkwhores.
Agreed.
Let's assume that I'm just an average slashdotter. I regularly get modpoints (about each two weeks), and I have just enough time to spend only 2 or 3 of them before they expire. I submit stories only, when I really, really think that they are worth it. The story appears, but my submission gets rejected, my last accepted submission was 2 years ago. And I submit stories about once per three or four months.
So assuming that I'm an average (not a journalist kind of type who seeks for stories all the time), IMHO I think that a limit of, say - one story per 24h (or 48h) from single user/IP/submitter_name should be just enough.
But I'm not talking about a limit of accepted stories. I'm talking about a limit of submitted stories. When someone clicks button "submit" there should appear an information: Your story has been submitted, your next submission will be possible within next 24 (48) hours, thank you.
Of course people can try to work around that, using different IPs, but can * Beatles Beatles * use a different nick? I doubt. He would appear then as someone else. So better he will choose his story to submit very (very!) carefully. And you, CmdrTaco, will see only one story from him. That one he thinks is the best one. Your job is easier, because you have less stories to choose from, and stories quality gets better! Because people are more careful to choose the best story possible.
It's a win-win solution. I'm sure that after that the amount of Roland's and BB's stories will dramatically decrease, while their quality will increase. And also - after today's discussion people will stop complaining.
Initially I thought, wow! they will be able to test new aeroplanes in real conditions! No more depending on computer simulations of air flow. That's groundbreaking. But my realistic wife said: 'no way, thwy will not put REAL planes there'. So I checked in TFA:
The pipe is only 18 inches in diameter
So long, and thanks for the fish.
With so much space in average cellphone I imagine that lots of people will try to run linux on them.
:)
Maybe finally with dosbox on an average cellphone (not something extra expensive like treo) I'll be able to play elite2, and adom. Just some perfect entertainment on may way to work
if not wine it, then just whine at it ;)
this article has been created today about 3 hours ago. I bet that some of /. are feeling the urge to further modify it. Perhaps to make it more fun, or sth (eg. to write that the hoaxer killed JFK himself). Ello guys, it's not how the wikipedia is intended to work.
adom of course. There's no better game, even though I've recently bought 6600 GT (because I need dualhead DVI for development). And even though nexuiz works pretty well on my debian system under 1600x1200, with 70 FPS.
next question, this one was easy.
I'm using galeon too (the best browser ever made), and right-click is not working for me, because I'm using gestures (they are quite useful ;).
Personally I think that this investment is doomed. That is because m$ business strategy simply does not fit with indian people philosophy. They belive in sharing knowledge (and software), those people are philosophically much closer to OSS ideas. That's why piracy is so widespread in asiatic regions - people simply do not agree that something must be paid for more than once, especially knowledge (which they belive is only worth sharing for free). Of course m$ can make there a big outpost, pay people huge amounts of money to get it running. But people will be unhappy and complain about m$'s strategy. And sooner or later it will all collapse.
my bet is that m$ knows all that what I've said. And they siply want to try to kill their philosophy before OSS will grow there strong enough to fully embrace it (and people there - I mean all the folks, not just IT people). This is sad news, as we will be observers of OSS vs. m$ fight on yet another front.
Is it Yet Another Public Relations Stunt? How much claria paid "wired magazine" so that they will write something positive about them, huh?
Vonage told me I had 911 dialing a long time ago. [...] hey said that it was active and I'm assuming they are not making that up.
afaik it should be very easy to check. Just call 911 and tell them that you just want to verify that your 911 actually works. Lots of people are doing that, and the 911 staff is very understanding in that aspect.
(this is on topic in this thread ;)
bravo! there was a DUPE coming about release 1.5 of firefox, and they have pulled it off! For the first time ever I'm aware of dupe which didn't appear!
the court in which country will handle this? I don't see this, since it is international problem here. Is there any interantional court? Geneva? US? UN? Japan? we are talking about whole earth...
I've seen several posts where people were criticizing the solution chosen by those 'linux experts'. Whether they are experts or not - is a matter of different subject. I think that we should look at the broader picture. And instead of talking about replacing glibc we should talk about the study's conclusion, not how they reached this conclusion.
/. readers is far greater than knowledge of single linux administrator. And what he does can be criticized by others. He did the best he could when he approached that specific problem for the first time.
Ok, so they have chosen to replace glibc, perhaps in their circumstances they couldn't see any other applicable solution. I'm a true linux zealot, I've thrown windows away 5 years ago, and I do the same with computers of my friends and family. And during that time I learned a lot. For instance I've learned that each problem has dozens of solutions, and when I approach each problem for the first time - I do not choose the best solution possible. But I do after solving that same problem several times - because I learn how to do that.
The bottomline is that collective knowledge of all
Another bottomline is that even skilled linux administrator - when meets a new kind of problem - will not choose the optimal solution, and most of the time he will spend on it - will be learning stuff, reading man and googling.
to summarize, I'll repeat my other post - I can belive that setting up a linux sever can take longer time than setting up a windows server doing the same.
But such conclusion from a study means nothing, since everybody will agree that UPTIME of linux server, and its need for MAINTIENCE will score far better than windows server doing the same.
And that's the only reason for which I think that this study is totally useless.
1. I agree that setting a linux server takes more time
2. But 1. is irrevelant because it's the uptime, and maintience for years, that really counts.
Dear Dr. Herb Thompson - tell me if you plan to study how linux vs. windows score in "uptime and maintince" in real corporate environment. I think that this test should be at least 1 year long.
both libranet and ubuntu are based on debian. They both use debian's package system. Libranet is dead, long live ubuntu.
Here is an interesting question for all of us: what is actually the world's most popular toy, and how do one measure it?
well I think it's lego. and maybe it can be measured by amount of time spent playing with the toy? (you can buy something very expensive and play for a very short time, so money shouldn't be the measure).
Only 39 days left for the AMD vs. Intel dual core duel. Help them and sign the petition.
AMD has also published why they think that Intel will not participate...
good that the summary didn't use 'penis enlargement' as a counterexample, as it was my first thought - 40% of spam is about that.
I'll take one.
2560x2048 spread across 2 monitors? I hope he means 2560 x 1024 .. Otherwise that'd be one helluva 17" LCD monitor!
:>
I guess that he is speaking about virtual desktop. Probably he has two 1280x1024 monitors. But 2560x2048 would also work with two 800x600 monitors