I find that most of the exciting applications I recently discovered are mono based: muine (you must try this one if any), f-spot, and beagle! tomboy seems cool too.
What is freedom for you? Is more freedom always good? Cerainly not: people should not be "free" to hurt other people right?
Maybe true legitimate freedom is freedom that doesn't affect others. There is a better word to descibe freedom that affects other people: power.
The GPL gives you absolutely all the (personal) freedom you have with BSD licenses: zero restriction on use, you can do absolutely what you want with the program on your computer. However when it comes to other people the GPL does restrics you: contrary to BSD licenses it doesn't grant you power on other people (ie. no freedom to affect, diminish other people's freedom)
I think your script conflicts with Totem or something... Since I executed it Totem keeps complaining about not being able to load some movie file at startup...
If I understand correctly, you advise the more advanced user NOT to try ubuntu because (apart from your experience at install time, I think those users are interested in the installed product):
After a few hours my athlon-xp 1600+ with 1GB ram slowed to a crawl. There were a few hundred megabytes of free memory and cpu usage was always well uner 5%, however even typing at the console was unbearably slow and loading the desktop took a couple of minutes. Never did figure that one out and killing allmost all running processes didn't help a bit. Doubt this was a kernel driver bug too, since I've run other late 2.6 based distros on this machine with no problems. This didn't occur again however...but I didn't have it installed many hours after that.
A mysterious one-time problem. Then:
Boot times were atrocious, maybe worse than fedora due to innumerable services being started by default...many of them which I did not recognize. I seriously doubt postfix is a necessary service for the desktop audience they're targeting.
Long boot time. Bad indeed (how long exactly? Since I upgraded to hoary I think the boot time has much decreased. As for postfix: what do Suse or Mandrake use as mail transport agent? Or isn't there any? (!)
These are very weak reasons to discourage people to "try out"!
We remember a company which knew so little about its own network protocols that it went to the Samba team for information - and today is working pretty much as hard as it can (without getting obviously unclean hands) to slow down development of that same Samba.
That sounds interesting! Do you have more information, a link,... ?
the size of the IP stockpile that RMS is essentially sitting on due to the GPL sounds like you think Stallman or the FSF owns the copyright of every GPL-licensed program. This is absolutely wrong. Unless you decide to transfer the copyright to someone else, all IP rights are yours.
I agree with a lot of your points and hope that Gnome developpers will try and fix them, but it's really unfair when you say "they told me to upgrade to 2.6 just like Microsoft!". You see, unlike Microsoft, Gnome is free (and Free). Hopefully developpers move forward. I don't want them to spend their time fixing bugs in 2.4 that don't apply to 2.6 (and now 2.8), I want them to enhance Gnome (this means also fixing bugs, of course) so that I can get a better desktop... for free!
My point is not "it's OK when they don't fix bugs since it's free". What I mean is: it's OK when they work on the latest release since the upgrade is free.
1) Debian is just about to deliver a new release (a painful process) and putting in gnome 2.8 is really not an option at this stage (it was thought initially that gnome 2.6 would not make in!). So gnome 2.8 should not enter unstable now.
2) Gnome 2.8 has been in debian experimental for a while, though I'v no idea whether it's fully functional or not.
What you say looks like something insightful, but when I go and look for some examples I see it more like FUD. Take the latest gtk vulnerabilities. Disclosed on bugtraq: 2004-09-15 (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=1095289 94916275&w=2) New corrected packages from Red Hat: 2004-09-15 (http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-447.html) New corrected packages from Debian: 2004-09-17 (http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-549)
Looking at other security advisories show similar delays. Seems OK to me...
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I guess that's why you don't see anything after april here.
I thank you in advance for listing some movies ("a lot" shall earn you still more thanks) in the same category as Neon Genesis Evangelion. Something I've been looking for, for a long time.
Just wondering: did people really find many bugs/bad coding/etc. in this code? I've only heard of this bmp thing, and that it was only in IE prior to version 6.
You really did? I guess you've set nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0, but did you enable pipelining? network.http.pipelining : true network.http.proxy.pipelining : true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 100
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I remember having read this some time ago...
I thought the problem was a lack of OS X hackers willing to work on OOo... Then in a sense OOo isn't the only one to blame...
I find that most of the exciting applications I recently discovered are mono based: muine (you must try this one if any), f-spot, and beagle! tomboy seems cool too.
By making tons of standards (optional cause it would be hard to respect them all) eventually Microsoft will HAVE to respect some! THAT's the idea!
What is freedom for you? Is more freedom always good? Cerainly not: people should not be "free" to hurt other people right?
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Maybe true legitimate freedom is freedom that doesn't affect others. There is a better word to descibe freedom that affects other people: power.
The GPL gives you absolutely all the (personal) freedom you have with BSD licenses: zero restriction on use, you can do absolutely what you want with the program on your computer. However when it comes to other people the GPL does restrics you: contrary to BSD licenses it doesn't grant you power on other people (ie. no freedom to affect, diminish other people's freedom)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.ht
So the "BSD more free than GPL" debate all comes to whether you consider power as a legitimate freedom...
I think your script conflicts with Totem or something... Since I executed it Totem keeps complaining about not being able to load some movie file at startup...
A mysterious one-time problem. Then:
Long boot time. Bad indeed (how long exactly? Since I upgraded to hoary I think the boot time has much decreased.
As for postfix: what do Suse or Mandrake use as mail transport agent? Or isn't there any? (!)
These are very weak reasons to discourage people to "try out"!
Release every 6 months
We remember a company which knew so little about its own network protocols that it went to the Samba team for information - and today is working pretty much as hard as it can (without getting obviously unclean hands) to slow down development of that same Samba.
That sounds interesting! Do you have more information, a link,... ?
the size of the IP stockpile that RMS is essentially sitting on due to the GPL sounds like you think Stallman or the FSF owns the copyright of every GPL-licensed program. This is absolutely wrong. Unless you decide to transfer the copyright to someone else, all IP rights are yours.
I agree with a lot of your points and hope that Gnome developpers will try and fix them, but it's really unfair when you say "they told me to upgrade to 2.6 just like Microsoft!". You see, unlike Microsoft, Gnome is free (and Free). Hopefully developpers move forward. I don't want them to spend their time fixing bugs in 2.4 that don't apply to 2.6 (and now 2.8), I want them to enhance Gnome (this means also fixing bugs, of course) so that I can get a better desktop... for free!
My point is not "it's OK when they don't fix bugs since it's free". What I mean is: it's OK when they work on the latest release since the upgrade is free.
1) Debian is just about to deliver a new release (a painful process) and putting in gnome 2.8 is really not an option at this stage (it was thought initially that gnome 2.6 would not make in!). So gnome 2.8 should not enter unstable now.
2) Gnome 2.8 has been in debian experimental for a while, though I'v no idea whether it's fully functional or not.
Thanks for the answer. I recognize that my allusion to US law was, to say the least, futile. And you definitely have a point with the useful idiots.
Wow you're being rude, Anonymous Coward! I see my post rather so:
legitimate question, e.g. whether one is allowed in China to indicate that something was censored (I do wonder)
poor cynical allusion, e.g. noting that there is such an absurd thing in "our" laws (OK this one is in itself offtopic... so what?)
Your post is cool (nice words and crushing tone) but I fear (hope actually) that you're a bit over the top...
Maybe Chinese law forbids that too (indicating that something was censored)? You know, something like the PATRIOT act...
What you say looks like something insightful, but when I go and look for some examples I see it more like FUD. Take the latest gtk vulnerabilities.9 94916275&w=2)
Disclosed on bugtraq: 2004-09-15 (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109528
New corrected packages from Red Hat: 2004-09-15 (http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-447.html)
New corrected packages from Debian: 2004-09-17 (http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-549)
Looking at other security advisories show similar delays. Seems OK to me...
How can I make a new menu? (Just like the "Applications" one, but with my own icon, submenus...)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124750
Well as it's said on the hurd-devel page:
p ://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/i sts.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/. debian.org/debian-hurd/
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I guess that's why you don't see anything after april here.
But the Hurd is definitely alive. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/
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I thank you in advance for listing some movies ("a lot" shall earn you still more thanks) in the same category as Neon Genesis Evangelion. Something I've been looking for, for a long time.
GCC has been available for a long time for the 68000 based TI calculators with TIGCC. Is this about a port of GCC that runs on the calculator?
The transition to L4/Hurd as default kernel for all architectures? (Almost ready... may require some polishing and porting though)
Just wondering: did people really find many bugs/bad coding/etc. in this code? I've only heard of this bmp thing, and that it was only in IE prior to version 6.
yes ive done all the speed tweaks
You really did? I guess you've set nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0, but did you enable pipelining?
network.http.pipelining : true
network.http.proxy.pipelining : true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 100