Aunt Tillie is supposed to be able to do this, eh?
Oh, that's right... I forgot that ESR dragged this fictional (?) auntie into this.
You know what? I don't give a flying fuck about any imaginary auntie or grannie. In fact, truth be known I rarely give a fuck about real users either. I'm not a vendor. I don't have a financial incentive to do anything about "making Linux easy to use". I use Linux and I like to encourage users to(wards) Linux and F/OSS software for various reasons. But I'm not going to lose sleep over losing a whinging dickhead to "the other side". If you're nice and willing to learn and not bug me too much then I might help you with Linux and other stuff. Otherwise I really don't care.
If I remember correctly, the problem ESR was having was with the RedHat GUI. The only "CUPS GUI" is really the web interface on port 631. Every other "real" GUI is made by some other vendor/project e.g RedHat, KDE, Gnome, etc... (OpenOffice?). I have my own complaints about the CUPS web interface, but they're nothing major. I've always just tweaked the cupsd.conf file and added the printer (s)in the web interface. No major biggy there. This all just a storm in a teacup.
Its a heroic undertaking when OSS does it and its stealing when Microsoft do it.
I don't know about out-right stealing... But when MS copies a feature from F/OSS (or Apple for that matter) there is a large amount of annoyance because MS often claims (or strongly implies) that they did it first. And most MS/Windows users (think clueless home users and office worker automatons) don't know any better. They only know MS, so to them the feature *is new*. Which only gets even more annoying when us F/OSS people have to deal with these people and end up in arguments... *sigh*
What do you expect, she repeatedly referred to "chat rooms". My god, how long ago was the term "chat room" used? In fact... is it a real term used by an actual service, or some BS term used by clueless journalists and commentators? Like information superhighway...
The whole article overall had a very low clue value.
Bah, with our small population in relation to our large size we'll probably be the last continent to be covered by Google maps/local. I'd expect western Europe and/or southeast Asia to be covered next. Lots more people there. Even parts of Africa and South America might be covered before us.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of presenting the situation is that Adobe was more than willing to use the DMCA against someone when it suited them, but now they're running up against it themselves. Remember that Adobe is a corporation, they don't have principles (the people inside a corporation have principles, but the corporation as a whole typically doesn't). If they can take advantage of a situation then they will.
In that case, one possible fix then could be to replace "user" with "owner" in the definition. That would cover both home and office/enterprise PC's. But it probably opens other loopholes. I guess the only solution would be to add a clause defining the case for office computers, but I'm no lawmaker...
When was the last time a Windows release felt any pressure from a competitor?
There was a rumour that NT5 was delayed and became Win2K because of the "sudden" competition from Linux around that time. I can't remember where I heard the rumour and I don't know how true it is, but it at least sounds plausible to me. It's nice to see Microsoft finally on the backfoot on so many products/issues : Apple and OS X on the desktop and some server, Linux on the server and some desktop, Mozilla/Firefox and Safari vs IE, and all the rest of the F/OSS software (Apache, Samba, etc) that's slowly eroding Microsofts' monopoly position from many points. It's becoming clear that Microsofts' peak is now behind them.
I'd go with someone else but they're the only broadband provider for my area.
No, Telstra provides the wholesale ADSL service to other ISP's as well. Did you perhaps fall for the old "oh dear you're too far from the exchange, but sign up for Bigpond and we'll try again" trick? Telstra/Bigpond is notorious for turning down applications from other ISP's, only to approve it when the same customer signs up for Bigpond ADSL. It's the same line, the same exchange, the same DSLAM (modem). I'd recommend you sign up with a different ISP. Both WestNet and Internode got very good results in the Whirlpool Australian Broadband survey 2004. I'm looking at moving to WestNet (from Dart/Hotkey) soon.
Actually, if you read the Samba history you'll find that SMB was written by (IIRC) Digital. Microsoft simply co-opted the protocol(s) for their windows network.
Imagine that Microsoft is writing commercial software, and for competitive purposes decides to keep the source for themselves. Suddenly all of the makers of commercial software libraries come running, arms in the air screaming about thawing and re-activating the Balmerbot. If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose commercial software nothing is.
No, both the $1 and $2 coins have partial serations. They have gaps in the serations, about the same size as the serated sections. Can't seem to find a photo..:(
My devious mind starts wondering.... Take a random Wikipedia article, use the Google language tools to translate it to some other language and then back to English. Submit it to MS Encarta under the name of another randomly chosen Wikipedia article. The only problem I envision is that MS will probably require a complex login and verification process instead of allowing anonymous contributions. That'd make scripting more difficult. I could do it manually a few times a day just for shits and giggles.
Um... we're talking about servers/CPUs that produce less heat in the first place. Not simply putting more fans in them.
Look at the 1.xGHz G4's in the Mac mini. I have a 750MHz Athlon that needs a pretty good heatsink and fan, while the mini gets by on one little fan.
It looks like they've painted plain colours over the roofs of the white house the the two buildings to the left and right of it. I imagine they have a few ground-to-air missile batteries on there and perhaps other things they wouldn't like anyone to know the existance/positions of.
I dunno. But Triple J recently celebrated 30 years of being on the air and released this recording from 1981. Karl (not yet a doctor) rang up Triple J to offer his help with a program on the space shuttle they were doing. The best bit is at the end:
Presenter: Well, you'd better come in! [...] How will I recognize you?
Karl: I'm... very tall and very skinny and I wear a bright shirt.
Perhaps because it's made and distributed by 'Beyond', the Australian company that started by making the once-great 'Beyond 2000' program (I'm old enough to just remember when it was called 'Towards 2000' and on the ABC). I wonder if SBS requested the aussie dub or if Beyond had done it for other reasons.
Yeah, the "insightful" mod always puzzled me. It gets overused a lot and I'm sure most of the moderators don't really know the meaning of the word. IMHO, "interesting" should be used in place of "instightful" in most situations.
Back on topic, one pentium 4 EE is hot enough, so two must be really hot. Everyone knows the P4 is hot, just ask anyone on slashdot!;)
...contains a beefed-up power management system to keep the CPUs running cool during use
So in other words... unless you have extreme cooling this thing will never run at full speed for long. Because when it does, it will quickly heat up and this power management will throttle the clock speed and core voltage. Apps may start up a little faster, but long-term consumers of CPU cycles (e.g media encoding, some games, etc) won't see much improvement. But I'm sure lots of clueless consumers will go for this new eXtreme CPU. Can't wait to see what bullshit analogy Intel will come up with for the TV ads...
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Oh, that's right... I forgot that ESR dragged this fictional (?) auntie into this.
You know what? I don't give a flying fuck about any imaginary auntie or grannie. In fact, truth be known I rarely give a fuck about real users either. I'm not a vendor. I don't have a financial incentive to do anything about "making Linux easy to use". I use Linux and I like to encourage users to(wards) Linux and F/OSS software for various reasons. But I'm not going to lose sleep over losing a whinging dickhead to "the other side". If you're nice and willing to learn and not bug me too much then I might help you with Linux and other stuff. Otherwise I really don't care.
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If I remember correctly, the problem ESR was having was with the RedHat GUI. The only "CUPS GUI" is really the web interface on port 631. Every other "real" GUI is made by some other vendor/project e.g RedHat, KDE, Gnome, etc... (OpenOffice?). I have my own complaints about the CUPS web interface, but they're nothing major. I've always just tweaked the cupsd.conf file and added the printer (s)in the web interface. No major biggy there. This all just a storm in a teacup.
I don't know about out-right stealing... But when MS copies a feature from F/OSS (or Apple for that matter) there is a large amount of annoyance because MS often claims (or strongly implies) that they did it first. And most MS/Windows users (think clueless home users and office worker automatons) don't know any better. They only know MS, so to them the feature *is new*. Which only gets even more annoying when us F/OSS people have to deal with these people and end up in arguments... *sigh*
What do you expect, she repeatedly referred to "chat rooms". My god, how long ago was the term "chat room" used? In fact... is it a real term used by an actual service, or some BS term used by clueless journalists and commentators? Like information superhighway...
The whole article overall had a very low clue value.
Bah, with our small population in relation to our large size we'll probably be the last continent to be covered by Google maps/local. I'd expect western Europe and/or southeast Asia to be covered next. Lots more people there. Even parts of Africa and South America might be covered before us.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of presenting the situation is that Adobe was more than willing to use the DMCA against someone when it suited them, but now they're running up against it themselves. Remember that Adobe is a corporation, they don't have principles (the people inside a corporation have principles, but the corporation as a whole typically doesn't). If they can take advantage of a situation then they will.
Huh? 200MB / 1 million =~ 200 bytes each. You're a whole magnitude off with the 2K you think they're "estimating".
Solution:
In that case, one possible fix then could be to replace "user" with "owner" in the definition. That would cover both home and office/enterprise PC's. But it probably opens other loopholes. I guess the only solution would be to add a clause defining the case for office computers, but I'm no lawmaker...
There was a rumour that NT5 was delayed and became Win2K because of the "sudden" competition from Linux around that time. I can't remember where I heard the rumour and I don't know how true it is, but it at least sounds plausible to me. It's nice to see Microsoft finally on the backfoot on so many products/issues : Apple and OS X on the desktop and some server, Linux on the server and some desktop, Mozilla/Firefox and Safari vs IE, and all the rest of the F/OSS software (Apache, Samba, etc) that's slowly eroding Microsofts' monopoly position from many points. It's becoming clear that Microsofts' peak is now behind them.
No, Telstra provides the wholesale ADSL service to other ISP's as well. Did you perhaps fall for the old "oh dear you're too far from the exchange, but sign up for Bigpond and we'll try again" trick? Telstra/Bigpond is notorious for turning down applications from other ISP's, only to approve it when the same customer signs up for Bigpond ADSL. It's the same line, the same exchange, the same DSLAM (modem). I'd recommend you sign up with a different ISP. Both WestNet and Internode got very good results in the Whirlpool Australian Broadband survey 2004. I'm looking at moving to WestNet (from Dart/Hotkey) soon.
Sorry, my bad. I really should get to bed... :P
Actually, if you read the Samba history you'll find that SMB was written by (IIRC) Digital. Microsoft simply co-opted the protocol(s) for their windows network.
Imagine that Microsoft is writing commercial software, and for competitive purposes decides to keep the source for themselves. Suddenly all of the makers of commercial software libraries come running, arms in the air screaming about thawing and re-activating the Balmerbot. If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose commercial software nothing is.
No, both the $1 and $2 coins have partial serations. They have gaps in the serations, about the same size as the serated sections. Can't seem to find a photo.. :(
I dunno, I've got lots of spare time :)
My devious mind starts wondering.... Take a random Wikipedia article, use the Google language tools to translate it to some other language and then back to English. Submit it to MS Encarta under the name of another randomly chosen Wikipedia article. The only problem I envision is that MS will probably require a complex login and verification process instead of allowing anonymous contributions. That'd make scripting more difficult. I could do it manually a few times a day just for shits and giggles.
Um... we're talking about servers/CPUs that produce less heat in the first place. Not simply putting more fans in them.
Look at the 1.xGHz G4's in the Mac mini. I have a 750MHz Athlon that needs a pretty good heatsink and fan, while the mini gets by on one little fan.
Still, it sounds better than this Penny Arcade comic.
Me? Karma whore?
It looks like they've painted plain colours over the roofs of the white house the the two buildings to the left and right of it. I imagine they have a few ground-to-air missile batteries on there and perhaps other things they wouldn't like anyone to know the existance/positions of.
I dunno. But Triple J recently celebrated 30 years of being on the air and released this recording from 1981. Karl (not yet a doctor) rang up Triple J to offer his help with a program on the space shuttle they were doing. The best bit is at the end:
Perhaps because it's made and distributed by 'Beyond', the Australian company that started by making the once-great 'Beyond 2000' program (I'm old enough to just remember when it was called 'Towards 2000' and on the ABC). I wonder if SBS requested the aussie dub or if Beyond had done it for other reasons.
Yeah, the "insightful" mod always puzzled me. It gets overused a lot and I'm sure most of the moderators don't really know the meaning of the word. IMHO, "interesting" should be used in place of "instightful" in most situations.
Back on topic, one pentium 4 EE is hot enough, so two must be really hot. Everyone knows the P4 is hot, just ask anyone on slashdot! ;)
So in other words... unless you have extreme cooling this thing will never run at full speed for long. Because when it does, it will quickly heat up and this power management will throttle the clock speed and core voltage. Apps may start up a little faster, but long-term consumers of CPU cycles (e.g media encoding, some games, etc) won't see much improvement. But I'm sure lots of clueless consumers will go for this new eXtreme CPU. Can't wait to see what bullshit analogy Intel will come up with for the TV ads...
Wow! And all this time I thought it was referring to Polychlorinated biphenyl. Man, they really cleared that up for me!
Member of [the?] European Parliament.