I read about the bug at the www.linuxquestions.org when Fedora Core2 came out. The discussion there seemed quite confusing, with only 6 posts and some people who never suffered from this problem.
So I tried my best to ignore it and installed FC2 on my 2 machines at home... both dual-booting into XP/Linux. No problems, although the hardware used is totally different. So even if it is a bug, it doesn't automatically strike every single install.
And then, there is always a golden rule.. backup your system before you start doing anything that can possibly leave it in an unbootable state =)
Totally agree
I have a small company and really TRIED to switch to OO. That's why I gave up:
- lack of comprehensible, user-friendly database. Sure, you can hire a MySQL expert, but it is cheaper to buy MSAccess. And for any business, it's not wordprocessing that counts, it's databases!
- presentations one can create are quite nice, if not for one thing.... I would NEVER show then to any client. ONE world-lack of antialising makes any drawing/schema look totally unprofessional and amateurish. I'd rather show them a sequence of JPGs instead.
- any post-creation work on a document is a mess. Notes are just supersmall yellow rectangles that you can't see when you review something, and the whole logic of reviewing is in its infancy.
Do not misunderstand me, both OO and StarOffice are great products. But for businesses where efficiency is the key and the OS you run is quite irrelevant, every single piece of functionality is a very valuable asset.
Re:Openness is the first casualty of going public?
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How does Google do it?
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Not necessary. The shareholder information is mostly and primarily business information relating to investments, profits etc. As to the technology used, there is a pretty simple excuse... confidentiality of technology used. For instance, Colc-Cola does not have to publish their secret formula just because they have shareholders to report to. The know-how and technical details are their only and most valuable asset, and describing how they index, how they patch and what OS they use would be suicidal.
As a biased supporter of PG, I would really argue that switching to PDF goes against the whole idea of a free, easily-accessible and voluntary-based project. Doing so would cut down any possible motivation for thousands of people to contribute time and work to something that will become proprietary products sold later on to all of us.
But that is not the point, as I am quite sure this idea will be expressed with different accents in thousands of posts. The points are:
1) yes, it is good that PG is trying to get away from pure text. That is the way to go.
2) There already exists a mature project called FictionBook. Basically, it is a derivative of the DocBook format, XML-based, but optimized for books instead of documentation (yes, there IS a difference!) Thousands of books (unfortunately most of them in Russian) are already published and readily available on the net. The standart itself has survived so far for at least 2-3 years, so it is proven by time to work. And there are lots of tools to create, modify and archive books, and readers for almost every platform.
So why reinvent the weel????
One thing that always bugs me (oops, I mean... "enchants me") about these reviews is the obligatory sentence "slick and polished desktop". Look at the picture... it's an empty grayish uniform square with nothing on it...
Now if the Gnome developers could only remove the remaining 1-2 icons and the menubar, add a command prompt right over it (alpha-channel of course)... would be an extra-clen super-polished desktop! Oh the joys of removing everything, and going back to the CLI!
The second I saw the headline I realized it was one of those Microsoft-basing days... but wait... just yesterday there was a big discussion about how the CLI is way better than any GUI... so... Microsoft's idea is just a logical conclusion of someone there reading Slashdot =)
Just my 2C
The big costs are a sum of the following:
- wasted work time due to reading panic articles
- wasted work time because the IT department immediately shuts down all email communication;
- wasted time because "my wife just lost all her files... must be a virus"; and finally
- lost time trying to calculate jurnalist estimates = total waste of brainpower
And... if you sum all that, the above-mentionned costs start looking like peanuts
I believe that the RIAA is just trying to switch to another business model. They can't sell any more $19 CDs... so...
- they sue users at random
- everyone gets an offer for a $5000 settlement
- no one appeals to lawyers, as this immediately increases the settelment figure by ten
- the RIAA gets lots of money for... nothing
It's like an extorsion scheme, only legally viable. Too bad for them
Amazing stuff... now what? let me guess...
1) a KDE emulator for the console, with COLORS!
2) most games ported... imagine WarCraftIII in pure ASCII... well, the refresh rate got to be good, though =)
And all those posts that say it's a waste of time... just think broad!
"Gamal" is translated in Swedish as "old". Those who came out with this name knew how soon it would become obsolete!
A simplier explanation
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ISS Fender Bender
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The Russian Space Agency has just issued a simplier explanation. They've been trying to figure out what happened and came out with a different idea.
No debris have hit the station. The sound was internal, coming from something that jammed a fan in the internal air ventilation system.
This also has been confirmed by specialists from RosAviaKosmos (the company that built IIS =)
Sorry, folks, the Mars attack theory will have to wait till next time =)
Every week, Slashdot has a compulsory article about companies who are going to push Linux on the desktop... great... but, once again, the whole IDEA of Linux on the desktop is malformed. Why? Simple!
Repeat after me as many times as it takes to understand the concept... IT'S NOT THE DESKTOP THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, IT'S THE SOFTWARE. KDE, GNome, or even XFCE are great, user-friendly, nice-looking, eye-candy-stuffed environments. Breautiful. Now what? At the end of the day, people want to work. It's not the OS, it's what you do with it. What makes Windows so popular... it's not the OS itself, it's the tons of professional programs that run on it.
Unless companies like Adobe, Macromedia etc start porting their apps under Linux, there won't be any wide adoption. Databases, 3d design, word processors (StarOffice IS the most significant thing that happened to Linux in the last 2 years), financial soft, etc - those are the only things that will make Linux a success
Just my 2C
Slashdot Mirror
While talking about passwords... still can't figure out if a root user needs one. Why? After all I work as root all the time!
I read about the bug at the www.linuxquestions.org when Fedora Core2 came out. The discussion there seemed quite confusing, with only 6 posts and some people who never suffered from this problem. So I tried my best to ignore it and installed FC2 on my 2 machines at home... both dual-booting into XP/Linux. No problems, although the hardware used is totally different. So even if it is a bug, it doesn't automatically strike every single install. And then, there is always a golden rule.. backup your system before you start doing anything that can possibly leave it in an unbootable state =)
Totally agree
I have a small company and really TRIED to switch to OO. That's why I gave up:
- lack of comprehensible, user-friendly database. Sure, you can hire a MySQL expert, but it is cheaper to buy MSAccess. And for any business, it's not wordprocessing that counts, it's databases!
- presentations one can create are quite nice, if not for one thing.... I would NEVER show then to any client. ONE world-lack of antialising makes any drawing/schema look totally unprofessional and amateurish. I'd rather show them a sequence of JPGs instead. - any post-creation work on a document is a mess. Notes are just supersmall yellow rectangles that you can't see when you review something, and the whole logic of reviewing is in its infancy.
Do not misunderstand me, both OO and StarOffice are great products. But for businesses where efficiency is the key and the OS you run is quite irrelevant, every single piece of functionality is a very valuable asset.
Not necessary. The shareholder information is mostly and primarily business information relating to investments, profits etc. As to the technology used, there is a pretty simple excuse ... confidentiality of technology used. For instance, Colc-Cola does not have to publish their secret formula just because they have shareholders to report to. The know-how and technical details are their only and most valuable asset, and describing how they index, how they patch and what OS they use would be suicidal.
1.Get the source
2.build the package
3."unzip" the package
4.analize the source
5.goto 1
As a biased supporter of PG, I would really argue that switching to PDF goes against the whole idea of a free, easily-accessible and voluntary-based project. Doing so would cut down any possible motivation for thousands of people to contribute time and work to something that will become proprietary products sold later on to all of us.
But that is not the point, as I am quite sure this idea will be expressed with different accents in thousands of posts. The points are: 1) yes, it is good that PG is trying to get away from pure text. That is the way to go.
2) There already exists a mature project called FictionBook. Basically, it is a derivative of the DocBook format, XML-based, but optimized for books instead of documentation (yes, there IS a difference!) Thousands of books (unfortunately most of them in Russian) are already published and readily available on the net. The standart itself has survived so far for at least 2-3 years, so it is proven by time to work. And there are lots of tools to create, modify and archive books, and readers for almost every platform.
So why reinvent the weel????
One thing that always bugs me (oops, I mean... "enchants me") about these reviews is the obligatory sentence "slick and polished desktop". Look at the picture... it's an empty grayish uniform square with nothing on it... Now if the Gnome developers could only remove the remaining 1-2 icons and the menubar, add a command prompt right over it (alpha-channel of course)... would be an extra-clen super-polished desktop! Oh the joys of removing everything, and going back to the CLI!
The second I saw the headline I realized it was one of those Microsoft-basing days... but wait... just yesterday there was a big discussion about how the CLI is way better than any GUI... so... Microsoft's idea is just a logical conclusion of someone there reading Slashdot =) Just my 2C
The big costs are a sum of the following: - wasted work time due to reading panic articles - wasted work time because the IT department immediately shuts down all email communication; - wasted time because "my wife just lost all her files... must be a virus"; and finally - lost time trying to calculate jurnalist estimates = total waste of brainpower And... if you sum all that, the above-mentionned costs start looking like peanuts
I believe that the RIAA is just trying to switch to another business model. They can't sell any more $19 CDs... so... - they sue users at random - everyone gets an offer for a $5000 settlement - no one appeals to lawyers, as this immediately increases the settelment figure by ten - the RIAA gets lots of money for... nothing It's like an extorsion scheme, only legally viable. Too bad for them
Amazing stuff... now what? let me guess... 1) a KDE emulator for the console, with COLORS! 2) most games ported ... imagine WarCraftIII in pure ASCII... well, the refresh rate got to be good, though =)
And all those posts that say it's a waste of time... just think broad!
"Gamal" is translated in Swedish as "old". Those who came out with this name knew how soon it would become obsolete!
The Russian Space Agency has just issued a simplier explanation. They've been trying to figure out what happened and came out with a different idea. No debris have hit the station. The sound was internal, coming from something that jammed a fan in the internal air ventilation system. This also has been confirmed by specialists from RosAviaKosmos (the company that built IIS =) Sorry, folks, the Mars attack theory will have to wait till next time =)
Every week, Slashdot has a compulsory article about companies who are going to push Linux on the desktop... great... but, once again, the whole IDEA of Linux on the desktop is malformed. Why? Simple! Repeat after me as many times as it takes to understand the concept... IT'S NOT THE DESKTOP THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, IT'S THE SOFTWARE. KDE, GNome, or even XFCE are great, user-friendly, nice-looking, eye-candy-stuffed environments. Breautiful. Now what? At the end of the day, people want to work. It's not the OS, it's what you do with it. What makes Windows so popular... it's not the OS itself, it's the tons of professional programs that run on it. Unless companies like Adobe, Macromedia etc start porting their apps under Linux, there won't be any wide adoption. Databases, 3d design, word processors (StarOffice IS the most significant thing that happened to Linux in the last 2 years), financial soft, etc - those are the only things that will make Linux a success Just my 2C