Actually, I found portage, and Gentoo in general a pain in the neck.
Emerge is not as simple as apt-get, and not as flexible as manually compiling from source. (actually, you can manually compile packages from source and still have them as part of the package system, but it's still more of a hassle than just grabbing the tarball yourself - and if you want to work with bleeding edge stuff you're often pretty much screwed)
I recognise the educational benefits of going through the process of installing Gentoo - although they hide enough of the details that it's more of a case of enough pain to make it feel like you should have learnt something, when actually, you've barely scraped the surface.
I much prefer to use a distribution that has been designed to provide the best possible experience in binary form, and then hand compile the packages that I care about. Usually that means using distro packages for pretty much everything except QT and KDE. I'll also hand compile stuff if the distro doesn't have the latest version, but only if I really need the newer version.
if you think about it, they pretty much HAVE to have port forwarding off by default.
Assuming you're talking SNAT, which most people are, then where would you forward the packets? You'd have to specifically enable it so you could tell the router which one of the machines it's masquerading for gets the forwarded packets....
> Coming next, 'OpenOpen'! With the word 'Open' used twice it MUST be incredible! Praise Linus!
Actually, companies like Sun, Oracle, DEC, HP, and of course "The Open Group" have been using the word "Open" in that manner long before anyone came up with "Open Source"
The term "Open System" used to basically mean Oracle on UNIX. And of course there was Sun's OpenLook/OpenWindow and DEC & HPA used the "Open Software Foundation"'s OSF/1 operating system, etc... It's always been a bit of a buzword.
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> truly horrifying and offensively private questions
You mean like Name, Date of Birth, Country or State of origin, and Email address?
You did realise the rest was optional didn't you? Most fields can be left blank, and most dropdowns have a "no answer" value.
But remember, it _is_ a personal networking site. The whole point of these sites is for people to see whether or not you might interest them by the answers you give to the questions...
I'm really curious where this stereotype of French surrenders comes from?
I'd like to see a list of the surrenders that have given them the reputation.
I find it strange that people in a country with only a few hundred years of history, who have never seen an invading army on their shores seem to think it's appropriate to critise a country with thousands of years of history involving hundreds of wars for deciding that living to fight another day is a better option a couple of times.
Actually, the Exchange server has to have IMAP or POP access turned on. The standard Exchange protocol is not something Thunderbird (or Mozilla) can handle, and NTLM authentication wont help that.
There's also the fact that both Mozilla and Thunderbird cant use all the groupware features of Exchange, so it'd have to be mail only.
The result is, sometimes it's just easier to go with the flow and use Outlook. It's not actually all that bad if you're using a current version, and fiddle with some of the settings a bit. (Though I'll never like their "sort by conversation" approach to threading)
You know, starting FireFox and Thunderbird takes longer in total than starting Mozilla.
And together they use more memory than Mozilla does, or at least no less memory.
As far as usage goes there's no perceptible difference in browsing speed between Mozilla and Firebird.
I think people like to say Mozilla is "bloatware" because it's the trendy thing to do, but I don't think it deserves the title. The interface used to be fairly slow in pre 1.0 versions, particularly in the Mail/News component...but that really didn't have a hell of a lot to do with "bloat". Now I don't notice any difference between the speed of Mozilla's interface or any other Windows Program.
The trouble with OpenSourceCMS is that it only lists php CMSs What I want in a CMS is both the ability to use without touching any code, and the ability to extend it. But if extending means having to touch php then I don't want to go near it.
Plone (a Python / Zope based CMS) is nearly perfect, but it's really......really......slllooow. I've been trying to find something else like it preferably Java based, but just about any language other than php would do, but I haven't had much luck.
1. Dual booting saves resources. Why have 2 computers to run two operating systems if I'm only going to use one at a time?
2. So what? lots of things are problematic. I've never had much problem with dual booting, even back in the days when fat32 was new and you had to hunt for a version of fips that could handle it.
3. That's not my problem. I want to get my job done, I'll use the tool I think is most usefull for the job. I have no obligation to use one tool over another if it does not meet my criteria.
4. That's not even a point. That's just an opinion, and one that's irrelevant too. The fact that "lame wannabes" do something for the wrong reasons does not mean that others don't do it for the right reasons.
Personally I've been using Linux since 1997, I've been using it both on the desktop and as a server. I've worked both as a sysadmin and a developer (C mostly) during that time. For my purposes, it's been a viable desktop plaform the whole time, and since KDE 2 has provided a better desktop experience to Windows. However, I still need to use Windows at times. I like to play Windows games (but buy the linux versions if they exist), and when I work on my music, the lack of mature professional audio solutions in Linux forces me to use Windows too. I prefer to use Open Source Software if it works well enough to suit my purposes, even in windows, but I do not believe in sacrificing my productivity or user experience for the sake of supporting a cause.
I'm sorry, last time I checked an operating system was a tool, not a comitment.
Using the right tool for the job is not "sitting on the fence".
I'll use Windows if I want to use Windows, and Linux if I want to use linux. I don't see why I should have to choose one over the other if I don't want to.
It is almost impossible to judge the obviousness of something after it has been done.
Everything is obvious after the fact.
The best obviousness test is not "can you think of a more obvious method", it's "How many other people have been doing this for ages, but never thought to patent it because they thought it was obvious"
It doesn't matter how obvious it is in hindsite, if you were first to think of it, then you get the patent.
Actually, I heard that people really _arent_ watching it, and that the only reason it's still on air, is because so much money has been thrown in to it already. They're wanting to get to the 100 episode mark which is apparently the benchmark by which a series is considered to have succeeded.
I heard this from one of the writers at a SF/Fantasy convention...
I know about those pages, and I often read Kernel Traffic.
But knowing about the Linux kernel does not make the NT kernel inferior, just unknown. You can't claim that one is better than the other unless you actually know about both.
So it was links to archetecture / feature comparisons between them that woud be most relevant.
Most people really don't pay attention to what happens at kernel level - or understand any of it, so I'm not inclined to believe the rantings of anyone about these matters unless they can provide references, or otherwise demonstrate that they know what they're talking about.
Note: I'm no better than anyone else when it comes to paying attention to the kernel, but I know enough about operating systems to know that I don't know stuff - so I'm genuinely interested in being enlightened.
Next time I'll read all of the comment, not just random words;)
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You can't put restrictions on Public Domain.
If it's in the public domain, then anyone can do anything they want with it - you are revoking all ownership so have no more right to impose restrictions such as copyright notices than the guy down the street does.
Actually, I'd guess that the name "Microsoft" is what causes most people to buy them... Your average user looking at trying wireless for the first time, is far more likely to have actually heard of Microsoft than a lot of the other companies in the market.
I think you'll find that it is far cheaper to obtain the level of 3D performance you get from current video cards using dedicated processors designed for that purpose alone, than by the use of any number of general purpose vector coprocessors....
And you'd still have the upgrade issue, only you'd be upgrading the co-processor instead -or buying a new one to put on the board - but realistically there's not a lot of room on a motherboard for many extra large processors especially when you start taking cooling into consideration.
You'd also have memory issues to deal with - currently video card makers can far more easily experiment with new memory technologies than motherboard manufacturers....and the co-processor idea would probably mean a shared memory model, so you'd be tied to whatever the current consumer standards were.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work...I don't know enough to know that, but those are some of the potential problems I can see.
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ack!, too many gradients....making my head hurt
> Only an idiot /. groupthinker would suggest otherwise.
Ahh yes, the ultimate proof of anything.
Actually, I found portage, and Gentoo in general a pain in the neck.
Emerge is not as simple as apt-get, and not as flexible as manually compiling from source. (actually, you can manually compile packages from source and still have them as part of the package system, but it's still more of a hassle than just grabbing the tarball yourself - and if you want to work with bleeding edge stuff you're often pretty much screwed)
I recognise the educational benefits of going through the process of installing Gentoo - although they hide enough of the details that it's more of a case of enough pain to make it feel like you should have learnt something, when actually, you've barely scraped the surface.
I much prefer to use a distribution that has been designed to provide the best possible experience in binary form, and then hand compile the packages that I care about.
Usually that means using distro packages for pretty much everything except QT and KDE.
I'll also hand compile stuff if the distro doesn't have the latest version, but only if I really need the newer version.
if you think about it, they pretty much HAVE to have port forwarding off by default.
Assuming you're talking SNAT, which most people are, then where would you forward the packets?
You'd have to specifically enable it so you could tell the router which one of the machines it's masquerading for gets the forwarded packets....
If you think JSP, Struts and JSF are part of the language, then I think PHP is more your style.
Sun are promoting them as standard technoligies in web applications, but they are definitely not calling them part of "Java"
Learn to differentiate between the Language (Java), the platform(s) (J2SE, J2ME, J2EE), and extra libraries you can use if you want to (JAI, etc).
> Coming next, 'OpenOpen'! With the word 'Open' used twice it MUST be incredible! Praise Linus!
Actually, companies like Sun, Oracle, DEC, HP, and of course "The Open Group" have been using the word "Open" in that manner long before anyone came up with "Open Source"
The term "Open System" used to basically mean Oracle on UNIX.
And of course there was Sun's OpenLook/OpenWindow and DEC & HPA used the "Open Software Foundation"'s OSF/1 operating system, etc...
It's always been a bit of a buzword.
> truly horrifying and offensively private questions
You mean like Name, Date of Birth, Country or State of origin, and Email address?
You did realise the rest was optional didn't you?
Most fields can be left blank, and most dropdowns have a "no answer" value.
But remember, it _is_ a personal networking site. The whole point of these sites is for people to see whether or not you might interest them by the answers you give to the questions...
I'm really curious where this stereotype of French surrenders comes from?
I'd like to see a list of the surrenders that have given them the reputation.
I find it strange that people in a country with only a few hundred years of history, who have never seen an invading army on their shores seem to think it's appropriate to critise a country with thousands of years of history involving hundreds of wars for deciding that living to fight another day is a better option a couple of times.
Actually, the Exchange server has to have IMAP or POP access turned on.
The standard Exchange protocol is not something Thunderbird (or Mozilla) can handle, and NTLM authentication wont help that.
There's also the fact that both Mozilla and Thunderbird cant use all the groupware features of Exchange, so it'd have to be mail only.
The result is, sometimes it's just easier to go with the flow and use Outlook. It's not actually all that bad if you're using a current version, and fiddle with some of the settings a bit. (Though I'll never like their "sort by conversation" approach to threading)
You know, starting FireFox and Thunderbird takes longer in total than starting Mozilla.
And together they use more memory than Mozilla does, or at least no less memory.
As far as usage goes there's no perceptible difference in browsing speed between Mozilla and Firebird.
I think people like to say Mozilla is "bloatware" because it's the trendy thing to do, but I don't think it deserves the title.
The interface used to be fairly slow in pre 1.0 versions, particularly in the Mail/News component...but that really didn't have a hell of a lot to do with "bloat".
Now I don't notice any difference between the speed of Mozilla's interface or any other Windows Program.
The trouble with OpenSourceCMS is that it only lists php CMSs
What I want in a CMS is both the ability to use without touching any code, and the ability to extend it. But if extending means having to touch php then I don't want to go near it.
Plone (a Python / Zope based CMS) is nearly perfect, but it's really......really......slllooow. I've been trying to find something else like it preferably Java based, but just about any language other than php would do, but I haven't had much luck.
1. Dual booting saves resources. Why have 2 computers to run two operating systems if I'm only going to use one at a time?
2. So what? lots of things are problematic. I've never had much problem with dual booting, even back in the days when fat32 was new and you had to hunt for a version of fips that could handle it.
3. That's not my problem. I want to get my job done, I'll use the tool I think is most usefull for the job. I have no obligation to use one tool over another if it does not meet my criteria.
4. That's not even a point. That's just an opinion, and one that's irrelevant too. The fact that "lame wannabes" do something for the wrong reasons does not mean that others don't do it for the right reasons.
Personally I've been using Linux since 1997, I've been using it both on the desktop and as a server.
I've worked both as a sysadmin and a developer (C mostly) during that time.
For my purposes, it's been a viable desktop plaform the whole time, and since KDE 2 has provided a better desktop experience to Windows.
However, I still need to use Windows at times. I like to play Windows games (but buy the linux versions if they exist), and when I work on my music, the lack of mature professional audio solutions in Linux forces me to use Windows too.
I prefer to use Open Source Software if it works well enough to suit my purposes, even in windows, but I do not believe in sacrificing my productivity or user experience for the sake of supporting a cause.
I'm sorry, last time I checked an operating system was a tool, not a comitment.
Using the right tool for the job is not "sitting on the fence".
I'll use Windows if I want to use Windows, and Linux if I want to use linux. I don't see why I should have to choose one over the other if I don't want to.
It is almost impossible to judge the obviousness of something after it has been done.
Everything is obvious after the fact.
The best obviousness test is not "can you think of a more obvious method", it's "How many other people have been doing this for ages, but never thought to patent it because they thought it was obvious"
It doesn't matter how obvious it is in hindsite, if you were first to think of it, then you get the patent.
So YOUR'RE the guy that came up with that lossess compression technique for randome data!
Yes, laptops have higher resolution screens than stand alone LCD monitors.
I don't know if anyone has ever properly explained why this is......
The implication with this press release though, is that we'll finally start seeing decent resolutions on the standalone ones too.
Actually, I heard that people really _arent_ watching it, and that the only reason it's still on air, is because so much money has been thrown in to it already.
They're wanting to get to the 100 episode mark which is apparently the benchmark by which a series is considered to have succeeded.
I heard this from one of the writers at a SF/Fantasy convention...
you know, a simple solution to that, is not allow the fuel to flow unattended.
Why the hell do your pumps allow you to let go of them and walk away, whilst still pumping?
I know about those pages, and I often read Kernel Traffic.
But knowing about the Linux kernel does not make the NT kernel inferior, just unknown. You can't claim that one is better than the other unless you actually know about both.
So it was links to archetecture / feature comparisons between them that woud be most relevant.
Where are your links to back all this up?
Most people really don't pay attention to what happens at kernel level - or understand any of it, so I'm not inclined to believe the rantings of anyone about these matters unless they can provide references, or otherwise demonstrate that they know what they're talking about.
Note: I'm no better than anyone else when it comes to paying attention to the kernel, but I know enough about operating systems to know that I don't know stuff - so I'm genuinely interested in being enlightened.
so?
paying customs duty doesn't make you the owner. It just means that customs will let it in to the country. They don't care who owns it.
You are correct, and I am a moron.
;)
Next time I'll read all of the comment, not just random words
You can't put restrictions on Public Domain.
If it's in the public domain, then anyone can do anything they want with it - you are revoking all ownership so have no more right to impose restrictions such as copyright notices than the guy down the street does.
Actually, I'd guess that the name "Microsoft" is what causes most people to buy them...
Your average user looking at trying wireless for the first time, is far more likely to have actually heard of Microsoft than a lot of the other companies in the market.
I think you'll find that it is far cheaper to obtain the level of 3D performance you get from current video cards using dedicated processors designed for that purpose alone, than by the use of any number of general purpose vector coprocessors....
And you'd still have the upgrade issue, only you'd be upgrading the co-processor instead -or buying a new one to put on the board - but realistically there's not a lot of room on a motherboard for many extra large processors especially when you start taking cooling into consideration.
You'd also have memory issues to deal with - currently video card makers can far more easily experiment with new memory technologies than motherboard manufacturers....and the co-processor idea would probably mean a shared memory model, so you'd be tied to whatever the current consumer standards were.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work...I don't know enough to know that, but those are some of the potential problems I can see.