I believe either redhat or mandrake (not sure which) do this, but its not really special - just put a windows exe on the disk and reference it with the autorun.ini file
do you mean mounted as read only, or booted from readonly media (eg. knoppix), because if its only mounted as read only a rootkit could get root and then its just mount/dev/hda -o remount,rw
everythings overtaxed here - beer, tobacco, petrol
How much is it for a pint in the US? it works out about a pount a pint in most of mainland europe, IIRC, £2 here, in the local pubs, upto a fiver in nightclubs
I think IBM would prefer a more friendly distro like SuSE or Red Hat (im not saying i dont like slackware - i used to love slackware until i found gentoo)
i cant speak for gnome, but kde runs just fine (about the same as windows 98, faster than xp) on a Pentium-MMX 233mhz, with most of the fancy things turned off. This was on slackware 10 on my gf's PC.
thats why i get it imported from mainland europe (the writing on this packet looks german or dutch), where its much cheaper - i pay £4.50 for 50 grams, less than half what i would pay from the shop.
Thats £4.50 after the german/dutch tax, the shops markup, the smugglers markup, the person that buys it off the smugglers markup, etc
i live in the UK and get my tobacco imported from europe, because its about £10 for a 50g pouch of golden virginia, or about £4.90 for a 20 pack of marlboro
There's nothing wrong with mushy pea butties, or pie butties, or brown sauce, or fish and chips. <sarcasm> infact, there's nothing wrong with my,grammer,,. </sarcasm
pan is supposed to be good, apparently its the only unix newsreader to be rated at 100% (not sure who by).
anyway, he wants a gui newsreader that works much the same way as xnews.
He's decided to not bother with BNR2 as its, like you say, a heap of ineficient shit.
I wouldn't, im happy with open office for my needs, but for some people Microsoft Office on linux is the only barrier to migration, obviously this would be bad for their Windows product line.
wine is getting better and better, and it is useful. my gf's dad wants to move to linux (he keeps trying, but doesn't have the time to learn), and the only thing stopping him is bnr (newsgroup client) doesn't let you queue a download without it downloading straight away.
His way round this, will be to run xnews in wine (he has before, but he would rather use native software). Also, he'l be using wine for his par software, but im not sure if thats stable in wine or not.
what about the LGPL - you need that if you dont want to go BSD and have everybody steal your code and put it in commercial software, but you want commercial software to beable to link to it
in 1900 russia was hundreds of years behind the rest of the world, with communism came vast improvements in the economy (and then 'a bit' of a downfall at the end because of all the military spending)
would we? if we were all using mac style hardware, would apple beable to hold a monopoly like microsoft.
i personally think apple would be much much more relevant, but they wouldn't have a clear monopoly like microsoft does.
Maybe microsoft would have bought their unix back of SCO, broken into some scandinavian blokes house and put the sourcecode to SCO UNIX on his computer as a practical joke.
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I believe either redhat or mandrake (not sure which) do this, but its not really special - just put a windows exe on the disk and reference it with the autorun.ini file
i agree, although i haven't tried debian
do you mean mounted as read only, or booted from readonly media (eg. knoppix), because if its only mounted as read only a rootkit could get root and then its just mount /dev/hda -o remount,rw
i just found out its not a techie site - ive always gone there for basic programming tutorials
everythings overtaxed here - beer, tobacco, petrol How much is it for a pint in the US? it works out about a pount a pint in most of mainland europe, IIRC, £2 here, in the local pubs, upto a fiver in nightclubs
I think IBM would prefer a more friendly distro like SuSE or Red Hat (im not saying i dont like slackware - i used to love slackware until i found gentoo)
i cant speak for gnome, but kde runs just fine (about the same as windows 98, faster than xp) on a Pentium-MMX 233mhz, with most of the fancy things turned off. This was on slackware 10 on my gf's PC.
thats why i get it imported from mainland europe (the writing on this packet looks german or dutch), where its much cheaper - i pay £4.50 for 50 grams, less than half what i would pay from the shop.
Thats £4.50 after the german/dutch tax, the shops markup, the smugglers markup, the person that buys it off the smugglers markup, etc
i just thought i would bring it to your attention that the unabbreviated version of what you just said is:
Shut The Fuck Up the fuck up already
also people who die younger get less pension back too
i live in the UK and get my tobacco imported from europe, because its about £10 for a 50g pouch of golden virginia, or about £4.90 for a 20 pack of marlboro
tabs in applications is good, plus system tray icons:
konsole (kde's console) has tabs, so i only need one konsole taking up space on the taskbar, same with opera and quanta (web development).
kmail, akregator, juk, kmix, kopete in the system tray, which is useful because i like those applications open all the time.
with this setup, my taskbar isn't cluttered and there aren't _too_ many system tray icons
There's nothing wrong with mushy pea butties, or pie butties, or brown sauce, or fish and chips.
<sarcasm>
infact, there's nothing wrong with my,grammer,,.
</sarcasm
cool, thanks.
you stopped reading slashdot eh? When you returned, were you shunned and labeled anonymous coward?
pan is supposed to be good, apparently its the only unix newsreader to be rated at 100% (not sure who by). anyway, he wants a gui newsreader that works much the same way as xnews. He's decided to not bother with BNR2 as its, like you say, a heap of ineficient shit.
I wouldn't, im happy with open office for my needs, but for some people Microsoft Office on linux is the only barrier to migration, obviously this would be bad for their Windows product line.
wine is getting better and better, and it is useful. my gf's dad wants to move to linux (he keeps trying, but doesn't have the time to learn), and the only thing stopping him is bnr (newsgroup client) doesn't let you queue a download without it downloading straight away.
His way round this, will be to run xnews in wine (he has before, but he would rather use native software). Also, he'l be using wine for his par software, but im not sure if thats stable in wine or not.
They made that change so the login was more secure (ssl instead of md5 hashes)
i wasn't saying i like qtk (im a kde user myself, and much prefer the feel of qt widgets).
My point is, there are probably libs used by commercial software vendors, i just know gtk is lgpl'd
what about the LGPL - you need that if you dont want to go BSD and have everybody steal your code and put it in commercial software, but you want commercial software to beable to link to it
like for libraries, like gtk
or make it 'talk' too much and just call it Lippy
in 1900 russia was hundreds of years behind the rest of the world, with communism came vast improvements in the economy (and then 'a bit' of a downfall at the end because of all the military spending)
mutambi wikimbo is a bastard. i sent him my $5000 and i haven't heard back from him.
hmm. maybe we share a grandfather
would we? if we were all using mac style hardware, would apple beable to hold a monopoly like microsoft.
i personally think apple would be much much more relevant, but they wouldn't have a clear monopoly like microsoft does.
Maybe microsoft would have bought their unix back of SCO, broken into some scandinavian blokes house and put the sourcecode to SCO UNIX on his computer as a practical joke.