but once again it rolls around to what I've always said... I don't expect Linux to overtake the desktop market... Windows does a good enough job for those who use it and used to it.
And a simple tool for apt could be written that works similiar to a P2P app (which I put to you that your mom or grandmom could use) simply search for your software.
It can be made to be quite simpler. As of yet there just isn't a real need. "Mom" and Grandmom" are happy with Windows (ignoring the spyware, adware and other malware issues for a sec).
Linux has a niche, just as Apple has it's niche. I don't forsee this changing in the near future. Nor am I 100% I want to.
You know... I'm getting quite sick of hearing this bullshit.
"1) Linux becomes easier to use (install/uninstall/update software)"
That's crap and you know it. Or at least anyone who has used a modern Linux distro in the past few years knows it.
RPM, APT, YUM, URPMI... any of these ring a bell. I find it easier to install software. I don't even have to go looking for it half the time.
A friend of mentions a really cool audioplayer he just found on freshmeat. *lets call it BSPlayer*
I decide to check it out. It's been out for a few years so I open an Xterm, su and apt-get install bsplayer.
It pulls it down and any dependencies I don't have and I'm set.
If I just happen to be installing something newer then it may get more complicated with downloading src, configuring and compiling... trivial to me, but yeah a pain to average joe-six-pack. But average joe-six-pack's software choices would most like be things that came loaded with the OS or things that have been out for quite a while.
Linux isn't widespread and *taking over the desktop* because honestly most people are just comfortable with Windows. OS X won't change that for alot of them.
As long as there is still consumer demand for CRT monitors, someone will make and sell them.
Personally, I prefer CRT monitors. Although I seem to be in the minority with everyone I know. There is something about LCD monitors that just doesn't sit well with me. But I'm also the same person who can't stand flat screen CRT's as well.
I made my funny little comments in here. But what honestly frightens about all this woot, confuzzled, OMGWTFR2D2BBQ, LOL crap is that it's come to the point where I find myself actually saying this crap in real life talking to people.
Especially the word "woot". "LOL" being the scariest one I use in real life sometimes in place of actually... oh I dunno... *gasp* laughing!
My MythTv box gets abused in alot more ways... it also encodes and streams on the fly TV to me in remote locations... honestly I don't think I've ever seen the HD light stop with everything I put that poor thing through;P
But there's still the issue of space atm even if the write # isn't an issue...
aye that is a decent application for this drive. I had thought about running a MythTV frontend box this way from a 1GB flash drive before as well... but I like my system as it is now with everything (frontend/backend) all in one box.
Actually number 5 would be a gripe of mine. But perhaps this will open the way to larger flash based drives with enough writes and priced to make them feasible in time for a MythTV application.
I'm always looking for new ways to quiet my Myth box.
I happen to use PearPC on a daily basis and would say that it has achieved somewhere around 10x slower then the host. It is getting faster. True the "official releases" haven't been updated in a while, but I promise you ALOT of work is still going on.
Slashdot Mirror
Well what about Mandrake's graphical URPMI?
RPM?
There are ways even easier then apt...
but once again it rolls around to what I've always said... I don't expect Linux to overtake the desktop market... Windows does a good enough job for those who use it and used to it.
And a simple tool for apt could be written that works similiar to a P2P app (which I put to you that your mom or grandmom could use) simply search for your software.
It can be made to be quite simpler. As of yet there just isn't a real need. "Mom" and Grandmom" are happy with Windows (ignoring the spyware, adware and other malware issues for a sec).
Linux has a niche, just as Apple has it's niche. I don't forsee this changing in the near future. Nor am I 100% I want to.
You know... I'm getting quite sick of hearing this bullshit.
"1) Linux becomes easier to use (install/uninstall/update software)"
That's crap and you know it. Or at least anyone who has used a modern Linux distro in the past few years knows it.
RPM, APT, YUM, URPMI... any of these ring a bell. I find it easier to install software. I don't even have to go looking for it half the time.
A friend of mentions a really cool audioplayer he just found on freshmeat. *lets call it BSPlayer*
I decide to check it out. It's been out for a few years so I open an Xterm, su and apt-get install bsplayer.
It pulls it down and any dependencies I don't have and I'm set.
If I just happen to be installing something newer then it may get more complicated with downloading src, configuring and compiling... trivial to me, but yeah a pain to average joe-six-pack. But average joe-six-pack's software choices would most like be things that came loaded with the OS or things that have been out for quite a while.
Linux isn't widespread and *taking over the desktop* because honestly most people are just comfortable with Windows. OS X won't change that for alot of them.
*ahem* I have a Mac and a PC. BOTH run a flavor of Linux on a daily basis (the Mac dual boots) and I have neither extra time or money.
I'll admit I love OS X for it's elegance and style, but I'll stick with Linux for getting my work done.
I tend to actually take this a step forward in my thinking...
If it's important enough for me to feel I need to back it up, it's important enough I would not trust anyone else besides me backing it up.
Couple of external drives works great for me. Important stuff is backed up twice (once to each drive).
YMMV
Sage Advice:
;)" - Linus Torvalds
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it
I would take a gander everyone is reading the article... I mean it's about sex [in games].
:)
Most likely first article most have read all day.
I think you replied to the wrong article...
Unless your inferring MS is a cancer and we can use math to fight them...
Nah you just got the wrong topic bud.
As long as there is still consumer demand for CRT monitors, someone will make and sell them.
:)
Personally, I prefer CRT monitors. Although I seem to be in the minority with everyone I know. There is something about LCD monitors that just doesn't sit well with me. But I'm also the same person who can't stand flat screen CRT's as well.
Give me a "bubble" CRT and I'm happy.
I made my funny little comments in here. But what honestly frightens about all this woot, confuzzled, OMGWTFR2D2BBQ, LOL crap is that it's come to the point where I find myself actually saying this crap in real life talking to people.
Especially the word "woot". "LOL" being the scariest one I use in real life sometimes in place of actually... oh I dunno... *gasp* laughing!
It's all very confuzzling.
So you're saying that you are confuzzled by the use of the word confuzzle?
W00t!!!!
My MythTv box gets abused in alot more ways... it also encodes and streams on the fly TV to me in remote locations... honestly I don't think I've ever seen the HD light stop with everything I put that poor thing through ;P
But there's still the issue of space atm even if the write # isn't an issue...
aye that is a decent application for this drive. I had thought about running a MythTV frontend box this way from a 1GB flash drive before as well... but I like my system as it is now with everything (frontend/backend) all in one box.
I typically record 4-5 shows during the work day and then watch them when I get home and then delete them... so yeah i would be writing over and over.
No it will save power on the hard drive which stores the divx/xvid file pulled off bittorrent...
oops did I say that out loud?
Actually number 5 would be a gripe of mine. But perhaps this will open the way to larger flash based drives with enough writes and priced to make them feasible in time for a MythTV application.
I'm always looking for new ways to quiet my Myth box.
What's sad is that I actually have quite alot of the animated series at home. It was pretty good. It was TOS with cheap animation.
I don't think of it as a lesser offense. I just consider it still to be a form of thievery.
/sigh.. ok semantics aside. We are agree he is scum.
So in most ways we agree. He is a copyright violator.
We just disagree on whether copyright violation is another form of theft.
Sheepshaver for Windows :)
Actually it has been ported!
PearPC Downloads (oops hit plain old text on last comment out of habit messing up the link)
Try a release from my site:
PearPC Downloads
I happen to use PearPC on a daily basis and would say that it has achieved somewhere around 10x slower then the host. It is getting faster. True the "official releases" haven't been updated in a while, but I promise you ALOT of work is still going on.
Bah another slashdot semantic war over the word "stolen".
v. stole, (stl) stolen, (stln) stealing, steals:
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
Did he or did he not take property? The code belonged to the developers. He had taken code that belonged to someone and else.
It's theft of intellectual property. Yes it's plagiarism as well. I consider plagiarism just another form of theft.
To steal doesn't imply that the victim no longer has something. It states that something was taken from them.
Bah! it's Saturday and I'm arguing semantics on Slashdot.
Ummm no... it's never been a derivative of Wine.
It's always been a direct rip off of PearPC.
Slashdot Posters are getting weirder and weirder and less cohesive everyday.
Oh yeah?
He stole code from one open sourced GPL'd project and put it into his closed project.
I call him a thief.
Let the Geordi jokes begin!