AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Must cease leasing servers from United States (A country to which I have never been and will probably not go to, especially while you all have laws like this!) and move them to... China... err... maybe Netherlands... or Sweden.
The lengths I've had to go to to get Xandros/Ubuntu/Suse 9 and 10/Fedora and a variety of other distros is staggering - hell, I even had to put in the CD and wait for it to install!
I think that was about it... I think one distro (Hoary 5.04, maybe) had issues with the LCD during setup, but X was fine. Other than that I don't seem to recall any other problems with running Linux on my laptop, since I purchased it.
The question I have is, when a company (such as Sony, EMI, Warner etc) produces a CD containing music in the public domain or was [probably] never copyrighted to begin with (perhaps, like the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach etc), where does legality fit in?
How is [insert RIAA-associated label here] to know that this instance of the piece is theirs, save perhaps for some ID3 tags which may - or more often, may not - give away the version of the piece as being their version?
If I were to be handed a notice saying that my copy of "Moonlight Sonata" or "Etude #2 in C Minor" is illegal, where would I stand, in terms of the law?
Surely one could argue that it is NOT, in fact copyright by [insert RIAA-associated label here], given that the piece is 100+ years old and invariably in the public domain, AND, there would be little evidence to support that a particular song/album [copyrighted by RIAA-associated label] had been ripped/downloaded/whatever...
Who are they to suggest that I didn't make a studio recording of this myself? Just because it sounds the same as your version? Funny that, I thought that was the point of recreating music of this nature.
Even the Big Apple Bank had a Swipe Machine and PIN entry device when the teller discovered "We don't seem to have your retina scan, your fingerprint or your colonic map on file." (Script for this episode: http://www.imsdb.com/transcripts/Futurama-A-Fishfu l-Of-Dollars.html)
Ahhh... great memories of Commodore 64 goodness. We only got one 8 years after they came out - when I was 8. Second hand, of course, but still probably the crux of my life up to now and in the future.
I WAS going to be a Piano/Violin/Trumpet playing, Japanese and French speaking Martial-artist tour-guide chef, or something like that. I'd have to ask Mum if she remembers anything else.
From the Finnair website: Do you know where Santa lives? He lives in Lapland, of course. Finnair flies there every day. In fact, Finnair is The Official Airline of Santa Claus.
I'm surprised that Apple is even porting to X86 specifically, rather than having Intel design a PPC variant or license the PPC processor from the current manufacturers/owners of the design.
Why would they do that [Put OS X on X86/Generic Hardware]? Unless Steve J is trying to copy (for once) the marketing techniques of Bill G and co; and just get everyone (who knows the difference) to pirate Mac OS X instead of pirating Windows. I refer to south-east asia, mostly.
It's not often you'll hear me say this, but for once the proprietary nature of Apples product(s) - I think - make those products "better" than those that run Windows, and even Windows itself.
[In case you are wondering, I use 4 different OSes daily, so I'm confident that there is *some* legitimacy to my opinion].
Want economic space travel? Why don't we just copy the aliens who sent us the thing that crashed in Roswell?
We've been studying it for years... I saw independance day, and THEY said we had! Plus that thing worked great. No rockets of anything!
Ok, I'm going to go put on my tinfoil hat now and see if "Pi" is really an alien signal which is just a countdown sequence.
A lot of Linux vendors produce "Personal Editions" - to name one, SuSE, but in no way are they crippleware like Win XP Home or - Windows XP "Starter Edition" if you live in Asia - since all the packages are available via FTP.
While not convenient for the home user to be downloading the packages for GCC and whatnot, most of the people using GCC and/or compiling anything from source wouldn't be using a personal edition! My grandparents are about to change to Linux (they don't know it yet), since I'm off to Europe, and they won't have me to fix their Windows 98 problems.
Everything is just there, and, in ther personal editions (My Grandparents will be going on SuSE Personal with remote-assistance via VNC turned on just in case), what doesn't need to be there, isn't. Check list of roughly what they will be getting (will try to minimise the learning curve):
MS Office 97 -> OO.org Outlook Express -> Evolution IE 6 -> IE6 on Wine (possibly for banking sites) and Mozilla Firefox Card Games in Windows -> Card Games in Linux, Tux Racer, etc. WinAmp/WMP/Real -> XMMS, Juk, Helix (Real 10) WMP/PowerDVD -> MPlayer and/or Kaffeine (with the blue interface thing) Paint Shop Pro 4 -> Gimp 2 and DigiKam
I will hide (or at least move out of the way) things that they don't really need and things that could cause confusion... and only the stuff I (they) want installed will be installed. No extra crapola to deal with.
This is something I have come to like about Linux, and also there is the whole fact of 'if I don't like something, I can re-write it', or at least find a modification. Don't like the interface? Install a different one.
I really think myself that the Linux interface(s), the programs (especially the ones that are under continual development - which is a lot!) are coming of age.
My preference on the underlying System is Novell Linux 9 (a nicely polished product, but still room for improvement) or Suse Pro 9.2 - but Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo - hell even Fedora, Linspire Xandros and Ubuntu all have their places.
I've used most of these systems - used to like RedHat, but, like many others have moved on. I'm not saying I don't like them, I'm simply saying that my preference is different. When something better comes along (or when I get to Singapore or London and get a Mac), I will stick to what I know and like, but of course, I will never stop playing with other systems.
They all feel... less dirty... than Windows, and, in many cases easier to install and configure than Windows. My laptop says "Designed for Windows XP" on it - but XP requires drivers from the manufacturer. Suse/NLD in particular just works! How is that for a tipping point?
Man, you think your comments are strange? I tend to inject humor in to my comments. I sometimes code while drunk. Not often though.
An example:
If you are reading this, this is commented out code. Use Linux. We do.
It has a good preview function, so I know how fudged up it's going to look by changing a given element.
I was going to put in the code to this to "format c:\" but decided not to after the initial reacti... err... out of lazyness and lack of code to do so
If you want to steal, steal Mozilla. It's free with a four finger discount (some countries cut off your entire hand, you know... but I just take fingers)
What an age we live in... mmmm donuts. Go Homer Simpson.
If you got all the way to here, the comments in the code are better highlighted with something other than notepad.
Check out the last couple of years Mercedes Benz S Class (I think it was the S600)... if you can afford one, they have excellent RADAR guided cruise control, which was demonstrated on a Motorway in England, for BBC's "Top Gear".
(In the same episode, they show the Audi A8 and Maybach 62... it is probably available for download somewhere)
He probably got sick of the amount of email coming through his @microsoft.com address, so he probably got something like billgates@hotmail.com - that way, the mailbox would never receive more than a couple thousand messages before filling up. Assuming there were no images, of course.
I was speaking with a quiet German bloke AKA the VP of something or other (I think it was for the Linux division or something) for Novell (who is/was formerly the co-founder or something for SuSE), and he told us the other week that SuSE was the first actual distribution, released in about 1992, I think it was.
Now, we aren't just counting custom Kernels etc, but I think it was the first commercial distro...
If your drive is only writing at 2.4x, perhaps you should check what media you have there - DVD+RW and DVD-RW will usually only write around the 2.4x mark - if you have an 8x, 12x or 16x burner, you usually have to be using DVD+R to achieve that speed.
How many dumb users out there are running Linux? I would imagine very few. Those that get the email probably know better, anyway. If a patch like that came out, and it really was serious, I would expect RHN to be pushing it at me, not an email from from random website that as a Fedora user I probably wouldn't have otherwise known existed.
For the record, I use SuSE Pro 9.2 anyway - I wouldn't download a patch (especially one that required me to do a make-install like that) from anywhere unless I knew it was an official mirror anyway... Most of the time, YaST keeps me nice and up to date:)
Man... sucks to be you guys. I've only come across around three Win95 machines in the last couple of years of contracting. One of the companies I contract to is a medical-software-development company... most of the clients run Windows 98, but they just run that as the base OS so that they can log in to a terminal server (most of them, anyway). Sure, they could run Windows 2000/XP - and some of them do - but for what they are doing on the machines, and with all those cool bugs and viruses out there which no longer affect Windows 9x, Windows 98 with Terminal Services on 2000 or 2003 is fine.
Try also running the ~2001 versions of those distros of Linux. Alot has happened in the Linux/OS arena over the past 3 years, whereas Windows has had mostly service packs/patches, viruses and spyware.
I may have some of my version numbers screwed up, but you'll be looking at: Xandros: Unsure OTTOMH Mandrake: 8 or 9 Fedora: N/A - Red Hat 7 or 8 Suse: 7 or 8 Sun Java System: N/A. MAYBE Solaris 9 x86, but is probably not the same. TurboLinux: 8 Linspire: 1.0/2.0
Linux certainly runs faster on my Laptop. I use mostly Suse 9.1, and plan to install Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 to see how it all goes.
I noticed this too - it flies compared to Hotmail or Yahoo, but I'm a little worried that the honeymoon will end when it moves from beta and allows millions of more users.
What if gmail never moves out of beta- sure google could "pull it off" - but, with the whole 6-invitation-at-a-time system in place, maybe they are strategically converting users from every other email service.
It becomes a mathmatical thing - to the power of 6... and we all know that google and its whole thing is big on fun mathmatical algorithms...
And Here I was, about to brag bthat my WinXP Pro box had been up for 8½ days (since I upgraded video card) when the NIC sh*t itself, requiring a reboot.
My Win2k Adv Server has been up for about 28 days (since we moved house) and my Fedora, Gentoo, Solaris and OpenBSD boxes the same.
I am not currently aware of the uptime of my laptop (Suse 9.1).
Slashdot Mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Must cease leasing servers from United States (A country to which I have never been and will probably not go to, especially while you all have laws like this!) and move them to... China... err... maybe Netherlands... or Sweden.
Land of the Free? My arse.
The lengths I've had to go to to get Xandros/Ubuntu/Suse 9 and 10/Fedora and a variety of other distros is staggering - hell, I even had to put in the CD and wait for it to install!
I think that was about it... I think one distro (Hoary 5.04, maybe) had issues with the LCD during setup, but X was fine. Other than that I don't seem to recall any other problems with running Linux on my laptop, since I purchased it.
The question I have is, when a company (such as Sony, EMI, Warner etc) produces a CD containing music in the public domain or was [probably] never copyrighted to begin with (perhaps, like the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach etc), where does legality fit in?
How is [insert RIAA-associated label here] to know that this instance of the piece is theirs, save perhaps for some ID3 tags which may - or more often, may not - give away the version of the piece as being their version?
If I were to be handed a notice saying that my copy of "Moonlight Sonata" or "Etude #2 in C Minor" is illegal, where would I stand, in terms of the law?
Surely one could argue that it is NOT, in fact copyright by [insert RIAA-associated label here], given that the piece is 100+ years old and invariably in the public domain, AND, there would be little evidence to support that a particular song/album [copyrighted by RIAA-associated label] had been ripped/downloaded/whatever...
Who are they to suggest that I didn't make a studio recording of this myself? Just because it sounds the same as your version? Funny that, I thought that was the point of recreating music of this nature.
Security by obsolescence, eh?
u l-Of-Dollars.html)
Even the Big Apple Bank had a Swipe Machine and PIN entry device when the teller discovered "We don't seem to have your retina scan, your fingerprint or your colonic map on file."
(Script for this episode: http://www.imsdb.com/transcripts/Futurama-A-Fishf
Ahhh... great memories of Commodore 64 goodness. We only got one 8 years after they came out - when I was 8. Second hand, of course, but still probably the crux of my life up to now and in the future.
I WAS going to be a Piano/Violin/Trumpet playing, Japanese and French speaking Martial-artist tour-guide chef, or something like that. I'd have to ask Mum if she remembers anything else.
No, he lives in Lapland. He even has his own "official airline" ( http://www.finnair.com/ )
From the Finnair website:
Do you know where Santa lives? He lives in Lapland, of course. Finnair flies there every day. In fact, Finnair is The Official Airline of Santa Claus.
Shouldn't it be:
RRRRRRRRRRRRinggggg
Hello?
Based on your recent searches, we know your favorite scary movie!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
(Ahem, I'll stop now.)
I'm surprised that Apple is even porting to X86 specifically, rather than having Intel design a PPC variant or license the PPC processor from the current manufacturers/owners of the design.
Why would they do that [Put OS X on X86/Generic Hardware]? Unless Steve J is trying to copy (for once) the marketing techniques of Bill G and co; and just get everyone (who knows the difference) to pirate Mac OS X instead of pirating Windows. I refer to south-east asia, mostly.
It's not often you'll hear me say this, but for once the proprietary nature of Apples product(s) - I think - make those products "better" than those that run Windows, and even Windows itself.
[In case you are wondering, I use 4 different OSes daily, so I'm confident that there is *some* legitimacy to my opinion].
Want economic space travel? Why don't we just copy the aliens who sent us the thing that crashed in Roswell? We've been studying it for years... I saw independance day, and THEY said we had! Plus that thing worked great. No rockets of anything! Ok, I'm going to go put on my tinfoil hat now and see if "Pi" is really an alien signal which is just a countdown sequence.
A lot of Linux vendors produce "Personal Editions" - to name one, SuSE, but in no way are they crippleware like Win XP Home or - Windows XP "Starter Edition" if you live in Asia - since all the packages are available via FTP.
While not convenient for the home user to be downloading the packages for GCC and whatnot, most of the people using GCC and/or compiling anything from source wouldn't be using a personal edition! My grandparents are about to change to Linux (they don't know it yet), since I'm off to Europe, and they won't have me to fix their Windows 98 problems.
Everything is just there, and, in ther personal editions (My Grandparents will be going on SuSE Personal with remote-assistance via VNC turned on just in case), what doesn't need to be there, isn't. Check list of roughly what they will be getting (will try to minimise the learning curve):
MS Office 97 -> OO.org
Outlook Express -> Evolution
IE 6 -> IE6 on Wine (possibly for banking sites) and Mozilla Firefox
Card Games in Windows -> Card Games in Linux, Tux Racer, etc.
WinAmp/WMP/Real -> XMMS, Juk, Helix (Real 10)
WMP/PowerDVD -> MPlayer and/or Kaffeine (with the blue interface thing)
Paint Shop Pro 4 -> Gimp 2 and DigiKam
I will hide (or at least move out of the way) things that they don't really need and things that could cause confusion... and only the stuff I (they) want installed will be installed. No extra crapola to deal with.
This is something I have come to like about Linux, and also there is the whole fact of 'if I don't like something, I can re-write it', or at least find a modification. Don't like the interface? Install a different one.
I really think myself that the Linux interface(s), the programs (especially the ones that are under continual development - which is a lot!) are coming of age.
My preference on the underlying System is Novell Linux 9 (a nicely polished product, but still room for improvement) or Suse Pro 9.2 - but Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo - hell even Fedora, Linspire Xandros and Ubuntu all have their places.
I've used most of these systems - used to like RedHat, but, like many others have moved on. I'm not saying I don't like them, I'm simply saying that my preference is different. When something better comes along (or when I get to Singapore or London and get a Mac), I will stick to what I know and like, but of course, I will never stop playing with other systems.
They all feel... less dirty... than Windows, and, in many cases easier to install and configure than Windows. My laptop says "Designed for Windows XP" on it - but XP requires drivers from the manufacturer. Suse/NLD in particular just works! How is that for a tipping point?
Man, you think your comments are strange? I tend to inject humor in to my comments. I sometimes code while drunk. Not often though.
An example:
If you are reading this, this is commented out code. Use Linux. We do.
It has a good preview function, so I know how fudged up it's going to look by changing a given element.
I was going to put in the code to this to "format c:\" but decided not to after the initial reacti... err... out of lazyness and lack of code to do so
If you want to steal, steal Mozilla. It's free with a four finger discount (some countries cut off your entire hand, you know... but I just take fingers)
What an age we live in... mmmm donuts. Go Homer Simpson.
If you got all the way to here, the comments in the code are better highlighted with something other than notepad.
et al, ad infinitum!!
Check out the last couple of years Mercedes Benz S Class (I think it was the S600)... if you can afford one, they have excellent RADAR guided cruise control, which was demonstrated on a Motorway in England, for BBC's "Top Gear". (In the same episode, they show the Audi A8 and Maybach 62... it is probably available for download somewhere)
He probably got sick of the amount of email coming through his @microsoft.com address, so he probably got something like billgates@hotmail.com - that way, the mailbox would never receive more than a couple thousand messages before filling up. Assuming there were no images, of course.
I was speaking with a quiet German bloke AKA the VP of something or other (I think it was for the Linux division or something) for Novell (who is/was formerly the co-founder or something for SuSE), and he told us the other week that SuSE was the first actual distribution, released in about 1992, I think it was.
Now, we aren't just counting custom Kernels etc, but I think it was the first commercial distro...
and not Transmeta's Crusoe (Hello! You forgot Linus' other company) or VIA's C3?
If your drive is only writing at 2.4x, perhaps you should check what media you have there - DVD+RW and DVD-RW will usually only write around the 2.4x mark - if you have an 8x, 12x or 16x burner, you usually have to be using DVD+R to achieve that speed.
How many dumb users out there are running Linux? I would imagine very few. Those that get the email probably know better, anyway. If a patch like that came out, and it really was serious, I would expect RHN to be pushing it at me, not an email from from random website that as a Fedora user I probably wouldn't have otherwise known existed.
:)
For the record, I use SuSE Pro 9.2 anyway - I wouldn't download a patch (especially one that required me to do a make-install like that) from anywhere unless I knew it was an official mirror anyway... Most of the time, YaST keeps me nice and up to date
Man... sucks to be you guys. I've only come across around three Win95 machines in the last couple of years of contracting. One of the companies I contract to is a medical-software-development company... most of the clients run Windows 98, but they just run that as the base OS so that they can log in to a terminal server (most of them, anyway). Sure, they could run Windows 2000/XP - and some of them do - but for what they are doing on the machines, and with all those cool bugs and viruses out there which no longer affect Windows 9x, Windows 98 with Terminal Services on 2000 or 2003 is fine.
What they did worked before the internet, but it doesn't now. They use mass media to control 13yo girls and buy popularity...
So... kinda like what the US government does in the internet age...
Heh... I bet Bill uses that on Melinda all the time...
"Yeah baby... go down on me... go down like Windows"...
I suppose, as long as I don't bring in to your mind any pictures of him using her backoffice... uhh...
[PS: You're welcome]
[PSS: Yes I know...]
[PPSS: I'm a sick bastard], and
So basically, all these people "upgrading" OOO to MS Office 2004 are buying Mac? Didn't know that Mac came (by default) with OOO.
I had always thought that Office 2003 was the x86/Win32 version, and Office 2004 was the PPC/OS X Version
Try also running the ~2001 versions of those distros of Linux. Alot has happened in the Linux/OS arena over the past 3 years, whereas Windows has had mostly service packs/patches, viruses and spyware.
I may have some of my version numbers screwed up, but you'll be looking at:
Xandros: Unsure OTTOMH
Mandrake: 8 or 9
Fedora: N/A - Red Hat 7 or 8
Suse: 7 or 8
Sun Java System: N/A. MAYBE Solaris 9 x86, but is probably not the same.
TurboLinux: 8
Linspire: 1.0/2.0
Linux certainly runs faster on my Laptop. I use mostly Suse 9.1, and plan to install Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 to see how it all goes.
different applications could be hashed out over their morning coffee
THATS IT! SOLIDIFIED, EDIBLE COFFEE! I'm a GENUIS!*
*Spelled wrong on purpose
I noticed this too - it flies compared to Hotmail or Yahoo, but I'm a little worried that the honeymoon will end when it moves from beta and allows millions of more users.
What if gmail never moves out of beta- sure google could "pull it off" - but, with the whole 6-invitation-at-a-time system in place, maybe they are strategically converting users from every other email service.
It becomes a mathmatical thing - to the power of 6... and we all know that google and its whole thing is big on fun mathmatical algorithms...
And Here I was, about to brag bthat my WinXP Pro box had been up for 8½ days (since I upgraded video card) when the NIC sh*t itself, requiring a reboot.
My Win2k Adv Server has been up for about 28 days (since we moved house) and my Fedora, Gentoo, Solaris and OpenBSD boxes the same.
I am not currently aware of the uptime of my laptop (Suse 9.1).
I thought someone had created an extension for Firefox that de-uglified the it.slashdot colourscheme.
Don't ask me where it is though. Someone invariably posts it on any discussion at it.slashdot...
I reckon that the developers got bored and did a bit of crack when they were tasked with coming up with that colour scheme... honestly...