And just where does this "freshmeat" come from? Hmm?
Much of it from gnus it seems.
Unfortunately they're overexploiting that so I suspect that nowadays most of the meat is not even real gnu, but generic gnu-flavored beef instead.
Ubuntu isn't even close to being as stable as debian
Please tell that to the Sun Enterprise 450 I've got at work.
And we're talking about a SPARC-based server, it's not really that obscure.
Now the irony is the fact that ~2 years ago I got a old HP (PA-RISC-based) server and the only Linux which installed without glitches was Ubuntu (5.10). After the reboot the X started and we had a graphic login (horribly slow, the machine is a dinossaur, but still).
I like Debian, it's my preferred Linux for anything serious, we use that in several x86 servers. But no distro is perfect.
One day PPC Macs started to use commodity chipset (started with G3 Macs, I think).
Then Macs switched to x86 (Intel processors btw, makes me remember that advertisement Apple did showing a Pentium II carried by a snail).
Soon after Boot Camp arrived, so people started to run Windows in Macs.
Now a clone appears, called "XT"?
What next, Macs shipping with a DB15 joystick connector?
That's exactly the same as the difference between American English and British English. Actually, in a purely morphological way, it's *less* than the difference between American English and British English.
That's your point of view, my opinion is that the noteworty differences between are just pronounciation and regional vocabulary.
The structural differences are actually almost non existing (assuming we are talking about the regular, cultured versions of the languages, since I somehow get the impression that many people think that everyone in Brazil speaks the language as spoken in the favelas(...)
The formal language (written in respectable magazines, etc) is almost identical, but it does not reflect the colloquial language at all. And I'm not talking about slum broken dialects.
That language you read from news sites does not exist as a spoken language.
You're however not considering the fact that most prime-time television in Portugal is actually spoken in the Brazilian variant (novelas),
It's foreign enough for portuguese people to speak about "contamination" of Portuguese by the so-called Brazilian language (due to those shows). You can see that reaction even from respectable portuguese TV programs. Once I even watched an african (from Angola AFAIR) talking about "proper" portuguese, while referring to the European-African variant.
I presume that you consider Galician and Portuguese the same language then?
To start with, Russia is not part of the EU, so its a completely separate issue, plus, you have to learn crylic so its not much use outside russia and some former soviet states.
Why you people make such a big deal about Cyrillic?
Cyrillic by itself is very easy and regular, much more than most european writting systems (and my native language uses latin characters).
Russian may be hard because of its grammar, and even the pronounciation. But absolutely not the writting system.
o French (which shares quite a bit with other Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish and Romanian). It's possibly less alien to an English speaker than Spanish or Portugese, although if South America is on the itinerary one or both of those is a no-brainer.
French may be easier that Spanish for an English speaker, but Spanish is much more a Romance language than French. French language was strongly influenced by languages other than Latin.
o Czech (a Slavic language without that bother of the Cyrillic alphabet; shares a fair bit with Russian).
If you're learning a Slavic language, the fact it's written with either Cyrillic or Latin characters is a lesser concern.
Just speak in a foreign language (no matter which) and they'll fall for you.
Seriously now, if you're into talking with brazilians just make sure to learn Brazilian Portuguese. Learning that as a foreign language, the structural and pronunciation differences are enough to be functionally incompatible, unless you are almost fluent.
The situation is such that often multilingual instructions booklets come with both variants. When it comes in just one, usually it's the Brazilian variant (unless it's an euro-specific product).
In Portugal it's very common for people to refer to Brazilian Portuguese as "Brazilian" instead (like a foreign language).
Now that you've mentioned UUCP, I remembered that at some point (since 1991, 1992..) echomail networks started to offer a e-mail (internet) gateway in certain Fidonet-based networks.
Fidonet itself had this, RBT (AFAIR) had it too, probably others (major ones) aswell.
It was something like you sent a netmail to Gateway@1:234/5 and the subject was the e-mail address.
Your "email" would be something like YourName%2:345/6@gateway.blabla.org.
It might sound awful now but back then, for most people, it was the only way you could contact someone in the internet.
I remember the first time I've heard about I was like "oh, this is so cool" and shortly after "uh, I don't know anyone with an e-mail address"
Fidonet and all the echomail networks which appeared after that, using the very same protocol.
Fidonet used zones from 1-6 (1-North America, 2-Europe, 3-Asia(?), 4-Latin America.. etc), each BBS had an unique address, such as 4:804/3 etc.
Fidonet addressing was organized as ZONE:REGION/NODE or (less common) ZONE:REGION/NODE.USER.
Other networks used unallocated zones, such as 39-Amiga Net, 20-Lusonet, 65-Mufonet.. etc.
In Brazil there were a number of nationwide Portuguese-speaking networks too: 12-RBT, 30-Syncnet, 100-Canal 100, 120-AmigaNET-BR etc etc.
I remember there was even a e-mail-like service (called netmail), so you could send a private message to JoeUser@12:345/6.
There are so many histories.. Such as the power struggle between Brazil vs Mexico (in ~1993) for being the main Latin America hub of Fidonet. It was quite a dirty war, at some point Mexico stopped routing messages from Brazil and things like that. -- I remember in the end Mexico "won" but both brazilians users and sysops were so pissed off that everyone migrated to RBT and Fidonet in Brazil suddenly died (later it recovered, but RBT remained the most active network in this country).
Remember that BBC is a non-profit entity funded by TV tax.
The international bandwidth costs come from those taxes, so it wouldn't be fair to the brits.
It would be nice if they made ad-sponsored videos, though. BBC news site already works that way, international users have advertisements rendered in the pages.
Yeah, he won't have his nose in the air when their economy collapses and we see 1USD = 0.073CAD.
When it happens, I am going to head down to Minneapolis, find some hookers and then pay them to fight some other hookers I picked up in Tijuana.
Really? Look at this then.
Over 80% of canadian exports go to the US.
How do you think canadian economy will be if US collapses?
Meanwhile <16% of what is exported from Brazil goes to the US, as you can see here.
I guess it's more likely that brazilians would be paying cheap canadian hookers.
From where I am C64 did not exist, it was more like MSX vs Spectrum vs Apple II.
The problem with Spectrum-to-MSX ports (and Codemasters are not alone) it's that developers simply added a Spectrum hardware emulator layer (both machines used Z80 processors) and, presto, port done.
Often the game was slower than the original version.
There are games which list 'joystick' as 'kempston' in the MSX version. C'mon!
The only game I can remember from them is Vampire, which has a MSX version (and looked awful like any game ported from Spectrum).
Spectrum users probably know more games from them.
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Well, they *have* been known to kill their wives. :-(
You cannot deny the guy was acting preemptively.
And people still say that open source is just reactive to proprietary stuff. Huh!
And just where does this "freshmeat" come from? Hmm?
Much of it from gnus it seems.
Unfortunately they're overexploiting that so I suspect that nowadays most of the meat is not even real gnu, but generic gnu-flavored beef instead.
Because a tree falling in your house is so nerdy.
Well I accessed the page under Linux and Firefox 2 and the following things happened:
The middle mouse button pastes as usual.
The hijacked content only appeared with CTRL-V.
All I need to do is to close the page tab and it's gone.
Disappointing.
Ubuntu isn't even close to being as stable as debian
Please tell that to the Sun Enterprise 450 I've got at work.
And we're talking about a SPARC-based server, it's not really that obscure.
Now the irony is the fact that ~2 years ago I got a old HP (PA-RISC-based) server and the only Linux which installed without glitches was Ubuntu (5.10). After the reboot the X started and we had a graphic login (horribly slow, the machine is a dinossaur, but still).
I like Debian, it's my preferred Linux for anything serious, we use that in several x86 servers. But no distro is perfect.
You mean Australia? That's ok for me.
What I find amusing is certain, northern ones, countries like Norway and UK claiming vast chunks of Antarctica. That's chutzpah at its best.
68020 is a full 32-bit processor.
and XT (which includes an Intel Core 2
One day PPC Macs started to use commodity chipset (started with G3 Macs, I think).
Then Macs switched to x86 (Intel processors btw, makes me remember that advertisement Apple did showing a Pentium II carried by a snail).
Soon after Boot Camp arrived, so people started to run Windows in Macs.
Now a clone appears, called "XT"?
What next, Macs shipping with a DB15 joystick connector?
This is the very essence of all that controversy.
Very good, I wish I had mod points.
Fuck you, ShaunC.
Don't you mean "fsck you?"
Man, the guy has a journal.
That's exactly the same as the difference between American English and British English. Actually, in a purely morphological way, it's *less* than the difference between American English and British English.
That's your point of view, my opinion is that the noteworty differences between are just pronounciation and regional vocabulary.
The structural differences are actually almost non existing (assuming we are talking about the regular, cultured versions of the languages, since I somehow get the impression that many people think that everyone in Brazil speaks the language as spoken in the favelas(...)
The formal language (written in respectable magazines, etc) is almost identical, but it does not reflect the colloquial language at all. And I'm not talking about slum broken dialects.
That language you read from news sites does not exist as a spoken language.
You're however not considering the fact that most prime-time television in Portugal is actually spoken in the Brazilian variant (novelas),
It's foreign enough for portuguese people to speak about "contamination" of Portuguese by the so-called Brazilian language (due to those shows). You can see that reaction even from respectable portuguese TV programs. Once I even watched an african (from Angola AFAIR) talking about "proper" portuguese, while referring to the European-African variant.
I presume that you consider Galician and Portuguese the same language then?
To start with, Russia is not part of the EU, so its a completely separate issue, plus, you have to learn crylic so its not much use outside russia and some former soviet states.
Why you people make such a big deal about Cyrillic?
Cyrillic by itself is very easy and regular, much more than most european writting systems (and my native language uses latin characters).
Russian may be hard because of its grammar, and even the pronounciation. But absolutely not the writting system.
o French (which shares quite a bit with other Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish and Romanian). It's possibly less alien to an English speaker than Spanish or Portugese, although if South America is on the itinerary one or both of those is a no-brainer.
French may be easier that Spanish for an English speaker, but Spanish is much more a Romance language than French. French language was strongly influenced by languages other than Latin.
o Czech (a Slavic language without that bother of the Cyrillic alphabet; shares a fair bit with Russian).
If you're learning a Slavic language, the fact it's written with either Cyrillic or Latin characters is a lesser concern.
Learn Portugese......Brazillian hot chicks
Just speak in a foreign language (no matter which) and they'll fall for you.
Seriously now, if you're into talking with brazilians just make sure to learn Brazilian Portuguese. Learning that as a foreign language, the structural and pronunciation differences are enough to be functionally incompatible, unless you are almost fluent.
The situation is such that often multilingual instructions booklets come with both variants. When it comes in just one, usually it's the Brazilian variant (unless it's an euro-specific product).
In Portugal it's very common for people to refer to Brazilian Portuguese as "Brazilian" instead (like a foreign language).
Actually it's a C128.
Now that you've mentioned UUCP, I remembered that at some point (since 1991, 1992..) echomail networks started to offer a e-mail (internet) gateway in certain Fidonet-based networks.
Fidonet itself had this, RBT (AFAIR) had it too, probably others (major ones) aswell.
It was something like you sent a netmail to Gateway@1:234/5 and the subject was the e-mail address.
Your "email" would be something like YourName%2:345/6@gateway.blabla.org.
It might sound awful now but back then, for most people, it was the only way you could contact someone in the internet.
I remember the first time I've heard about I was like "oh, this is so cool" and shortly after "uh, I don't know anyone with an e-mail address"
Those were the days.
Fidonet and all the echomail networks which appeared after that, using the very same protocol.
Fidonet used zones from 1-6 (1-North America, 2-Europe, 3-Asia(?), 4-Latin America.. etc), each BBS had an unique address, such as 4:804/3 etc.
Fidonet addressing was organized as ZONE:REGION/NODE or (less common) ZONE:REGION/NODE.USER.
Other networks used unallocated zones, such as 39-Amiga Net, 20-Lusonet, 65-Mufonet.. etc.
In Brazil there were a number of nationwide Portuguese-speaking networks too: 12-RBT, 30-Syncnet, 100-Canal 100, 120-AmigaNET-BR etc etc.
I remember there was even a e-mail-like service (called netmail), so you could send a private message to JoeUser@12:345/6.
There are so many histories.. Such as the power struggle between Brazil vs Mexico (in ~1993) for being the main Latin America hub of Fidonet. It was quite a dirty war, at some point Mexico stopped routing messages from Brazil and things like that. -- I remember in the end Mexico "won" but both brazilians users and sysops were so pissed off that everyone migrated to RBT and Fidonet in Brazil suddenly died (later it recovered, but RBT remained the most active network in this country).
but I'd risk an innocent to keep in a rapist/murderer
Try stating that once you're the innocent in question.
Remember that BBC is a non-profit entity funded by TV tax.
The international bandwidth costs come from those taxes, so it wouldn't be fair to the brits.
It would be nice if they made ad-sponsored videos, though. BBC news site already works that way, international users have advertisements rendered in the pages.
Yeah, he won't have his nose in the air when their economy collapses and we see 1USD = 0.073CAD.
When it happens, I am going to head down to Minneapolis, find some hookers and then pay them to fight some other hookers I picked up in Tijuana.
Really? Look at this then.
Over 80% of canadian exports go to the US.
How do you think canadian economy will be if US collapses?
Meanwhile <16% of what is exported from Brazil goes to the US, as you can see here.
I guess it's more likely that brazilians would be paying cheap canadian hookers.
Uh-oh... Peace, man! :)
From where I am C64 did not exist, it was more like MSX vs Spectrum vs Apple II.
The problem with Spectrum-to-MSX ports (and Codemasters are not alone) it's that developers simply added a Spectrum hardware emulator layer (both machines used Z80 processors) and, presto, port done.
Often the game was slower than the original version.
There are games which list 'joystick' as 'kempston' in the MSX version. C'mon!
The only game I can remember from them is Vampire, which has a MSX version (and looked awful like any game ported from Spectrum).
Spectrum users probably know more games from them.
I guess he meant the fact BSD source may be closed, so one cannot fork it anymore.
If you check this, more specifically the Flavors section:
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Israel
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There are naive people from all ages you know.