Re:Linux w/o the command line? wtf?
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I thought that was what Lindows was for.
I'll debate that Lindows hasn't really succeeded in that regard. Mandrake, I think, is more complete. I tried a download version of Lindows and was quite disappointed. I don't recall configuration being any easier than any other distro I've tried.
Mandrake, on the other hand, has a friendly-looking, consistent, and easy-to-use configuration toolset. Given the GUI tools in Mandrake, you could forget the CLI forever, probably. Drake has been around longer to hone that, and I'd wager Lindows has a long way yet to go. If I were going to show someone "Linux" I would probably do it with Mandrake. Lindows or Lycoris would look like cheap Windows knockoffs to the uninitiated.
Mandrake really is one of the best.
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My favorite distro yet has probably been Mandrake 9.1. It was the easiest to compile DVD playing for, ran my Windows games well with WineX, and didn't jack around with my sound like most other distros (I have some rare BA speakers notorious for Linux incompatibilities. Only Drake9.1/SUSE/Lycoris seem to recognize them). At the moment I'm running the barely tolerable Win98 because frankly, that's the only way I can play Homeworld or Halo.;)
Heh. Good point. I had found it useful for grabbing Linux ISOs--it seemed faster than most mirrors. I also found some really cool informational documents there. And I _do_ like its method of sorting based on amount of disk space shared.
An article where the corporations AREN'T omnipotent. I agree with above posters: give a few spare clams to the EFF.
Hopefully this is the first event among many where we begin to turn the tide against corporate power. What the Internet gives us is too important to get shackled down by bureaucrats. I want to be able to get news and information from anyone anywhere and with no middlemen but the ones *I* designate. We'll win this war eventually.
DirectConnect rocks. The more you share, the more you get! But then, its primary function appears to be software piracy. If it is actually used for more legitimate things, I'd like to hear what they are.
If anyone was still doubtful, the truth can't now be anything but obvious. Whether Microsoft has a claw in this or not, the clear and obvious truth is that SCO is out to sink Open Source at any cost. This Congress thing, after thinking about it for a moment and reading the linked PDF, scares me.
How do insane laws like the DMCA go into effect? Big money lobbies for it. Folks, if you are inclined against SCO at all, it is very important to get a letter off to your representatives in Congress. The EFF has a good page to help you write a letter. If no voice opposes SCO in this then they (and Microsoft) just might get their way. And if they do, what then?
An outcry then would be too late. OSS would be ghettoized. IBM's business model would shift to fit the new environment and OSS's colossus of an ally would vanish.
This must end now. I am writing my congresspeople. They're OUR civil servants. WE are their bosses. They really ought to know what we want them to do with this.
Slap a solar panel on top of everyone's house in America, and with proper energy-saving, energy-sharing, and energy-storing techniques we'd never need a conventional power plant again. It would be a sizable initial investment (mostly infrastructure), but the payoffs are invaluable. We'd annihilate much of the need for foreign oil, power bills would plummet, pollution would decrease, and Chicago wouldn't be a smog-riddled wasteland;).
Heck. Combine just a little solar power with this H3 stuff (assuming they CAN do this) and the "energy crisis" is basically solved. Until the Moon runs out.
Its root, in American, is "unauthorized." In more classical British/Australian/Canadian English, the spelling is usually "unauthorised." And since SCO's claim is that IP was used in Linux "without authorisation," an appropriate word could be "unauthorisedly."
It's just a little creatively concise, not poor grammar.
I wonder if the hassle of guarding code will eventually become outweighed by the benefits of sharing it. Of course, game developers would need to find a new profit model besides point-of-sale...MMORPGs would be the most likely candidates to OS their work. Their revenue already comes from subscription fees for gamers using their servers. The EverQuest people could be giving away cd-roms willy-nilly and still make a profit.
Obviously there are some games (single-player for example) that you really couldn't do that with... yet I wonder about the future of entertainment software.
Because unfortunately, that sort of thing is probably next to impossible. Software that MODIFIES the Windows GUI is exceedingly rare and bogs the system nearly to a halt. I sincerely doubt MS would make concession to ANY software-generating entity to REPLACE their precious UI. It's probably so bound to the OS kernel that any such attempt would require somewhat intimate knowledge of Windows itself.
Some MS guy (Craig Mundie, perhaps?) said once that integration was key to innovation. That man's head is so far up his ass the path from his mouth to stomach is a closed loop. It is this philosophy of total, exclusive, integration that makes Windows almost completely un-customizable.
WinKDE is a wonderful dream, but will probably remain just that.
Bruce Perens finally confessed that his reasons for embracing GNOME rather than KDE were "...a severe lack of Gs, and far too many Ks. All technical aspects aside, I knew RMS would roast me if I chose something that didn't start with a G."
Honestly, I think KDE is a technical masterpiece. It gives me a GUI which can easily be configured in pretty much every conceivable way.
GNOME, MacOS, and Windows just don't have that kind of room for personality.
Arthur C. Clarke had it right (read 3001). Build a flexible elevator column up to a geosynchronous space station and haul stuff up that way. Build the spacecraft in space where it belongs. Cost of launch will plummet, safety will skyrocket, coolness will exponate. Mod parent up!
The text medium simply leaves too much room for misunderstanding.
I agree IM's do not at present lend themselves to understanding, but I agree with previous posters here that text-mode communication lets you think about what you say first. This post has gone through at least two revisions before I ever hit Submit.
The real problem is this maddening IM shorthand which has become so popular. There is no form or structure to most IM communications except a vague adherence to English syntax. I HATE getting IM's from my sister, as much as I'd like to hear from her, because her writing skills drop to nil within an instant messenger.
"Kids these days" need to learn to write properly. Intra-family IMs could actually help this if parents reprimanded kids for incomprehensible messages./wishfulthinking
You're right: families do need to deal with each other. Yet I can think of scenarios where IM's might actually help--as long as those damn teenagers stop writing like first-graders.
...but I'm sick of the KDE/GNOME debate. Let's just pick one. There are things I like about GNOME. There are things I like about KDE. I prefer KDE, but GNOME is a fine choice. It DOES look more professional, GNOME 2.4 happens to run faster than KDE 3.1 on my hardware. If someone made it as customizable as KDE, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.
I kind of like the competition. It keeps both camps on their toes. But unified efforts might be a better idea. In doing that, Longhorn could end up looking paltry indeed.
Besides, if choosing GNOME can make GNOME pushersshut up then what are we waiting for!
I know the RIAA is not good people. That's why I advocate indie music whenever possible.
What needs to be fixed is the RIAA itself. Once the musicians actually make money from the work they distribute through labels, then the defense of the copyrighted material becomes more legitimate. Yet copyright infringement is still copyright infringement.
I don't see how your comparison to software connects. A software writer can license his work however he pleases. Personally, I'm going to stick with Free Software. It's a simple decision: I personally disagree with many Microsoft EULAs, so I don't use their products.
Not to draw flames, but what use does anyone put these p2p networks to other than pirating copyrighted media? If there was a p2p network where you could be assured that the only available music/video available were by indie artists who WANTED to share, then that would be terrific. Unfortunately, the behaviors of p2p users have only strengthened the case for DRM. The architecture of this one is obviously meant to thumb its nose at the RIAA.
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I'll debate that Lindows hasn't really succeeded in that regard. Mandrake, I think, is more complete. I tried a download version of Lindows and was quite disappointed. I don't recall configuration being any easier than any other distro I've tried.
Mandrake, on the other hand, has a friendly-looking, consistent, and easy-to-use configuration toolset. Given the GUI tools in Mandrake, you could forget the CLI forever, probably. Drake has been around longer to hone that, and I'd wager Lindows has a long way yet to go. If I were going to show someone "Linux" I would probably do it with Mandrake. Lindows or Lycoris would look like cheap Windows knockoffs to the uninitiated.
My favorite distro yet has probably been Mandrake 9.1. It was the easiest to compile DVD playing for, ran my Windows games well with WineX, and didn't jack around with my sound like most other distros (I have some rare BA speakers notorious for Linux incompatibilities. Only Drake9.1/SUSE/Lycoris seem to recognize them). At the moment I'm running the barely tolerable Win98 because frankly, that's the only way I can play Homeworld or Halo. ;)
Heh. Good point. I had found it useful for grabbing Linux ISOs--it seemed faster than most mirrors. I also found some really cool informational documents there. And I _do_ like its method of sorting based on amount of disk space shared.
An article where the corporations AREN'T omnipotent. I agree with above posters: give a few spare clams to the EFF.
Hopefully this is the first event among many where we begin to turn the tide against corporate power. What the Internet gives us is too important to get shackled down by bureaucrats. I want to be able to get news and information from anyone anywhere and with no middlemen but the ones *I* designate. We'll win this war eventually.
I think all this really shows is that yes, your problem-solving skills do indeed deteriorate if some scientist keeps you awake all night.
DirectConnect rocks. The more you share, the more you get! But then, its primary function appears to be software piracy. If it is actually used for more legitimate things, I'd like to hear what they are.
How do insane laws like the DMCA go into effect? Big money lobbies for it. Folks, if you are inclined against SCO at all, it is very important to get a letter off to your representatives in Congress. The EFF has a good page to help you write a letter. If no voice opposes SCO in this then they (and Microsoft) just might get their way. And if they do, what then?
An outcry then would be too late. OSS would be ghettoized. IBM's business model would shift to fit the new environment and OSS's colossus of an ally would vanish.
This must end now. I am writing my congresspeople. They're OUR civil servants. WE are their bosses. They really ought to know what we want them to do with this.
...when SCO could absolutely surprise me with their lunacy.
To this act of SCO I dare to say for the first time in months:
WHAT THE FUCK?
Slap a solar panel on top of everyone's house in America, and with proper energy-saving, energy-sharing, and energy-storing techniques we'd never need a conventional power plant again. It would be a sizable initial investment (mostly infrastructure), but the payoffs are invaluable. We'd annihilate much of the need for foreign oil, power bills would plummet, pollution would decrease, and Chicago wouldn't be a smog-riddled wasteland ;).
Heck. Combine just a little solar power with this H3 stuff (assuming they CAN do this) and the "energy crisis" is basically solved. Until the Moon runs out.
People AREN'T ignoring OGG format. Hooray!
I don't need it in my peripherals, too!
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It's about damn time!
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Its root, in American, is "unauthorized." In more classical British/Australian/Canadian English, the spelling is usually "unauthorised." And since SCO's claim is that IP was used in Linux "without authorisation," an appropriate word could be "unauthorisedly."
It's just a little creatively concise, not poor grammar.
Obviously there are some games (single-player for example) that you really couldn't do that with... yet I wonder about the future of entertainment software.
If Google goes Yahoo on us, we still have Turbo10.
Some MS guy (Craig Mundie, perhaps?) said once that integration was key to innovation. That man's head is so far up his ass the path from his mouth to stomach is a closed loop. It is this philosophy of total, exclusive, integration that makes Windows almost completely un-customizable.
WinKDE is a wonderful dream, but will probably remain just that.
Honestly, I think KDE is a technical masterpiece. It gives me a GUI which can easily be configured in pretty much every conceivable way.
GNOME, MacOS, and Windows just don't have that kind of room for personality.
Arthur C. Clarke had it right (read 3001). Build a flexible elevator column up to a geosynchronous space station and haul stuff up that way. Build the spacecraft in space where it belongs. Cost of launch will plummet, safety will skyrocket, coolness will exponate. Mod parent up!
I agree IM's do not at present lend themselves to understanding, but I agree with previous posters here that text-mode communication lets you think about what you say first. This post has gone through at least two revisions before I ever hit Submit.
The real problem is this maddening IM shorthand which has become so popular. There is no form or structure to most IM communications except a vague adherence to English syntax. I HATE getting IM's from my sister, as much as I'd like to hear from her, because her writing skills drop to nil within an instant messenger.
"Kids these days" need to learn to write properly. Intra-family IMs could actually help this if parents reprimanded kids for incomprehensible messages. /wishfulthinking
You're right: families do need to deal with each other. Yet I can think of scenarios where IM's might actually help--as long as those damn teenagers stop writing like first-graders.
This X server is now the ultimate power in the universe!
...politics gets in the way of science and the common good of the planet.
Humanity can be so very, very stupid.
What it sounds like is streamlining the kernel to make it faster, and give it a better capacity for making the UI experience grandma-ready.
;)
If there are improvements that can be made to the kernel that also make it easier for people to improve the UI, I'm all for it.
That was my impression...time to go RTFA, myself.
...but I'm sick of the KDE/GNOME debate. Let's just pick one. There are things I like about GNOME. There are things I like about KDE. I prefer KDE, but GNOME is a fine choice. It DOES look more professional, GNOME 2.4 happens to run faster than KDE 3.1 on my hardware. If someone made it as customizable as KDE, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.
I kind of like the competition. It keeps both camps on their toes. But unified efforts might be a better idea. In doing that, Longhorn could end up looking paltry indeed.
Besides, if choosing GNOME can make GNOME pushersshut up then what are we waiting for!
I know the RIAA is not good people. That's why I advocate indie music whenever possible.
What needs to be fixed is the RIAA itself. Once the musicians actually make money from the work they distribute through labels, then the defense of the copyrighted material becomes more legitimate. Yet copyright infringement is still copyright infringement.
I don't see how your comparison to software connects. A software writer can license his work however he pleases. Personally, I'm going to stick with Free Software. It's a simple decision: I personally disagree with many Microsoft EULAs, so I don't use their products.
Not to draw flames, but what use does anyone put these p2p networks to other than pirating copyrighted media? If there was a p2p network where you could be assured that the only available music/video available were by indie artists who WANTED to share, then that would be terrific. Unfortunately, the behaviors of p2p users have only strengthened the case for DRM. The architecture of this one is obviously meant to thumb its nose at the RIAA.