Lets not forget that the National Socialist German Workers' Party was democratically elected by the Weimar Republic; a democratic state established by the Allies after The Great War (WW1).
According to Wikipedia, the Weimar Republic grew out of the November Revolution of 1918, not through any allied imposition.
The autotools package is designed to make source code easily portable to different UNIX systems. Visual Studio is an IDE for creating a program on the Windows operating system. You (and the GP) are comparing apples to oranges.
National TLDs are derived from ISO 3166 which is a standard set by an international body - ISO.
As for the United Nations - The Universal Postal Union is a UN organization. The telephone system is governed by a UN organization - the ITU. Use +886 to reach Taiwan. Use +850 to reach North Korea.
Too bad John Bolton never was e.g. in the State department in charge of international arms control or perhaps even working as the US representative to the United Nations where his winning personality and humble approach would have isolated Kim Jong-il and wrapped this North Korea thing up once and for all.
B. ) what real reason is there to pay for a support contract through RedHat? What am I gaining (and I am being 100% serious) over installing the software without support?
Support. I have had network performance problems running RHEL on DL360G4s which RedHat solved after a week. The new patch was then tested, commited and served through RHN - complete with driver patches delivered upstream. I have seen communities work just as commited (postfix is one), but RedHat gives you this on all the software it ships. This is a guarantee that you can present to your customer.
Even more seriously, RedHat backports security patches onto a given stable set of software. This is tedious work which I am more than willing to compensate someone for.
Lastly - it is actually important to inject money into the OpenSource model. This in turn lays the fundament of solidity which is crucial for letting us play with OpenSource in a business environment.
OSS solutions like Zimbra, eGroupware, Open-Xchange, SOGo and Citadel all do most of the stuff Exchange does (except the MAPI part). AFAIK none of them has built-in site failover functionality but most of them support a HA setup.
As an aside, Companies that want extreme scalability go for products like Sun JES, CriticalPath Memova or simply Postfix/Cyrus/Apache/WebDAV. When you pass 500.000 users, you dont want a server that does "all kinds of crazy shit" - you want something that is rugged and easy to debug:-)
Additionally, most distributions now ship compatibility packages.
Tell me more, I'm listening. I would guess RHAS 3 didn't have those, 'cause I was really into resolving the issue and I should have bumped into them, if they were there, but I am definitely willing to learn about these compatibility packages.
Distributions supply older versions of libraries for older software through these compatibility packages. This may not be what you were looking for if you had a "bleeding edge" release of mozilla.
No working version for the Eee PC 701. In fact, even many of the Eee PC 901 have complained that it just doesn't boot. Maybe there will be a better version later, maybe not. After all, it's a community effort, so I have not right to complain, so screw me for even opening my mouth about it, right? So, nlited Winxp it is.
Hmm. How about Ubuntu eee/Easy Peasy? It should work out of the box on a 701 according to Wikipedia. Easy Peasy v1 seems to be based on the slightly older Ubuntu 8.04, but a newer version based on Ubuntu 9.04 seems to be scheduled for May. Ubuntu 8.04 is a LTS release btw.
Finding people freely admitting that Linux has faults is not hard at all. This story and every "Linux on the desktop" story like it is packed with them.
As for your claim that nobody is actually using Linux - you seem to be wrong. Oh, and if you start your comments with something incendiary and patently false, people will show up 'debunking' your negative opinions.
There will allways be arrogant people on forums. I have found that Windows fanboys shows by far the worst combination of cluelessness and arrogance. YMMV.
I ran into a library hell and there just didn't seem any way to resolve the dependancies
An easy way to resolve library dependency problems are to simply compile the libraries yourself. With autoconfig it should be a matter of configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install. Additionally, most distributions now ship compatibility packages.
So my EeePC doesn't get used very much lately, and I am thinking of just putting an nlited WinXP on it.
Convention (I) from the Geneva Conventions states:
Art. 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:
(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.
To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;"
Both Iraq and Afghanistan are "High Contracting Parties".
Additionally USA is a signatory of the "United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". Article 2 in this convention states:
1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.
2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
Yeah, it's funny how many of those "ordinary people" after their release were subsequently recaptured after getting right back to killing our boys again
If I had been abducted and tortured for years by a foreign power, I would certainly pick up a rifle and try to take out as many of them as I could. That does not "prove" anything about my intentions before I was abducted. But I guess logic is not your strength, you twat.
Why do I care about your lousy browser? If it only runs on Mac and PC, it is not a serious browser. The Linux browser market is expanding due to netbooks and phones.
The latest safari nightly (r41176) compiles and runs just fine on my stock Ubuntu Hardy box. The only pain I encountered was the libsoup 2.25 library dependency which I had to pull down and compile myself instead of using the older library supplied from the Hardy repository.
Think Differently? I don't see any difference between Apple and MS these days. They both try to tie you into proprietary formats and do a piss poor job of supporting other operating systems. IE runs poorly on Mac and (relatively) well on Windows, Safari barely ran on Windows and was well supported on Mac. I don't see how Apple is any better. They're just Microsoft in a prettier dress.
Not only is WebKit open-source, it also seems like Apple has gone to great length to ensure that this piece of software is portable to other operating systems. The key is to actually do the "wget, autogen.sh, make, make install" steps yourself. It's really not that hard.
It would be nice if desktop OSes had an easy way to find and install new programs as well. Oh wait... BSD and Linux do have such a place! How has Apple not jumped on that?
You do have MacOSX repositories as well - macports and fink. They are not integrated into the OS in any way though.
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People are afraid of a rerun of this story. Accusing people vary of Microsofts motives of "wearing tinfoil hats" strikes me as a bit naive.
According to Wikipedia, the Weimar Republic grew out of the November Revolution of 1918, not through any allied imposition.
This document describes the terms of the H.264 license. The license seems to cover both encoding and decoding.
The autotools package is designed to make source code easily portable to different UNIX systems. Visual Studio is an IDE for creating a program on the Windows operating system. You (and the GP) are comparing apples to oranges.
National TLDs are derived from ISO 3166 which is a standard set by an international body - ISO.
As for the United Nations - The Universal Postal Union is a UN organization. The telephone system is governed by a UN organization - the ITU. Use +886 to reach Taiwan. Use +850 to reach North Korea.
Too bad John Bolton never was e.g. in the State department in charge of international arms control or perhaps even working as the US representative to the United Nations where his winning personality and humble approach would have isolated Kim Jong-il and wrapped this North Korea thing up once and for all.
Support. I have had network performance problems running RHEL on DL360G4s which RedHat solved after a week. The new patch was then tested, commited and served through RHN - complete with driver patches delivered upstream. I have seen communities work just as commited (postfix is one), but RedHat gives you this on all the software it ships. This is a guarantee that you can present to your customer.
Even more seriously, RedHat backports security patches onto a given stable set of software. This is tedious work which I am more than willing to compensate someone for.
Lastly - it is actually important to inject money into the OpenSource model. This in turn lays the fundament of solidity which is crucial for letting us play with OpenSource in a business environment.
Use €
The EU budget for 2010 is €139 billion. A fine of €980 million ($1.3 billion) would add 0.71% to this budget.
OSS solutions like Zimbra, eGroupware, Open-Xchange, SOGo and Citadel all do most of the stuff Exchange does (except the MAPI part). AFAIK none of them has built-in site failover functionality but most of them support a HA setup.
As an aside, Companies that want extreme scalability go for products like Sun JES, CriticalPath Memova or simply Postfix/Cyrus/Apache/WebDAV. When you pass 500.000 users, you dont want a server that does "all kinds of crazy shit" - you want something that is rugged and easy to debug :-)
Distributions supply older versions of libraries for older software through these compatibility packages. This may not be what you were looking for if you had a "bleeding edge" release of mozilla.
Hmm. How about Ubuntu eee/Easy Peasy? It should work out of the box on a 701 according to Wikipedia. Easy Peasy v1 seems to be based on the slightly older Ubuntu 8.04, but a newer version based on Ubuntu 9.04 seems to be scheduled for May. Ubuntu 8.04 is a LTS release btw.
Finding people freely admitting that Linux has faults is not hard at all. This story and every "Linux on the desktop" story like it is packed with them.
As for your claim that nobody is actually using Linux - you seem to be wrong. Oh, and if you start your comments with something incendiary and patently false, people will show up 'debunking' your negative opinions.
There will allways be arrogant people on forums. I have found that Windows fanboys shows by far the worst combination of cluelessness and arrogance. YMMV.
An easy way to resolve library dependency problems are to simply compile the libraries yourself. With autoconfig it should be a matter of configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install. Additionally, most distributions now ship compatibility packages.
As other posters have suggested, the Ubuntu netbook remix looks promising.
You could say exactly the same thing about windows you know.
That would probably be prelinking.
Both Iraq and Afghanistan are "High Contracting Parties".
Additionally USA is a signatory of the "United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". Article 2 in this convention states:
If I had been abducted and tortured for years by a foreign power, I would certainly pick up a rifle and try to take out as many of them as I could. That does not "prove" anything about my intentions before I was abducted. But I guess logic is not your strength, you twat.
If you behave like a lunatic, odds are you will be treated like a lunatic.
The latest safari nightly (r41176) compiles and runs just fine on my stock Ubuntu Hardy box. The only pain I encountered was the libsoup 2.25 library dependency which I had to pull down and compile myself instead of using the older library supplied from the Hardy repository.
Not only is WebKit open-source, it also seems like Apple has gone to great length to ensure that this piece of software is portable to other operating systems. The key is to actually do the "wget, autogen.sh, make, make install" steps yourself. It's really not that hard.
You do have MacOSX repositories as well - macports and fink. They are not integrated into the OS in any way though.
So? GNU software also has licences that gives you permission to use the software based on a given set of premises. Your argument is ridiculous.
So? In Sweden you can get 60-100/8-10 Mbps for $33.7 per month. Including phone and 10GB online backup.
Go to the online apple store. The classic is right up there with the other models.
You forget the iPod Touch.
Given the lacklustre security history of NT servers and desktops, the world eagerly awaits your demonstration.