Say what you will about Florid, but that is exactly what we have. There is a program called "Florida Bright Future Scholarships" where a high school GPA of 3.5 or higher and a Florida high school diploma gets you 100% of a state school's tuition, and 3.0 gets you 75%. Florida state schools include the University of Florida, which is a very good school, and even if you only get the 75%, tuition is still quite reasonable in state. Look here and here for info.
And EVERYONE was disadvantaged when they came here. Georgia used to be an English penal (prison) colony, with WHITE prisoners, and, like Australia, turned out just fine.
It doesn't mean "average". It means "moderate to inferior in quality" or "barely passable"; definitely on the low end of average. A C- is a mediocre grade; it is passing, but it ain't too great.
For the not-quite-as-geeky-as-me crowd, that zeroes out the marked bytes. That took me maybe five minutes (due to OBO errors) when I am blearily tired at 3 am.
That didn't have anything at all do do with the kernel.
I believe that it was the way Red Hat installer, Anaconda, installed GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, that was at fault. The Linux kernel is generally quite solid, and I certainly will be upgrading.
They could have either done a rewrite, or have gotten all the original writers' permission.
Under the GPL, the original writers stil hold their copyrights. By modifying the code, they submit to the terms of the GPL, but what they write is still theirs. And if the original writer wants to do away with the GPL on a GPL-licensed work, he can contact the other authors, and since they each all hold unencumbered copyrights to their own works, a closed version may be made.
Even if they cannot get permission from all those who wrote the code, if they remove the code written by those who dissent, they can still close the work.
I, too, am a CLI junkie who likes to avoid bloat, and that's the main reason I dropped GNOME like a hot coal and started using Gentoo and Fluxbox. Are you using X.org? I find that X.org's fonts are absolutely horrible. License issues aside, XFree86's are much better.
It is tuned to turn off anti-aliasing for fonts so small it just makes them look bad. I got it from someone here on slashdot, I forget who you are but thank you.
And if you have an OEM Windows license with your computer, find the Microsoft corefonts package ("ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge corefonts" on gentoo)
This is unless you are talking about some fancy special fonts you would like to use. Because I've never been able to figure that stuff out on Linux:-/
This is exactly the reason I bought my GeForce 4 MX440. My computer is a 3 year old Compaq, and I bought it about a year ago, because I absolutely had to play WarCraft III. I can play it on medium graphics with my Pentium III 933 and 384 MB of RAM.
It works well under WineX as well.
well-supported [windows] drivers
They're well supported in Linux too! NVidia makes great Linux drivers, and though they're technically closed source, they are compiled on your machine, and you can get to the code. It's just that you are not licensed to modify or redistribute the code like you are under an OSS license.
Actually, you can't pick a precompiled kernel. You can get a precompiled base system, yes, but even with a stage 3 install you still need to compile a kernel.
You CAN use genkernel, which compiles a kernel for you that can be used on most systems using hotplug to insert the correct modules, but it certainly is not precompiled.
meh, sorry about the typo.
I know that Azureus uses SWT. But I am pretty sure that LimeWire uses Swing, and my main point was that standard Swing applications work just fine with X11.
And that about "Swing does not fit in the X11 word" is just a lie. Swing works fine in X11 under Linux. You should really try some of these things out before posting whatever you pull out of your ass.
Sun's proprietary approach "landed it in this hole," said
Eric A. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, an industry group. "Solaris's high price and closed-source nature directly led to the development of Linux."
ESR makes a good point. I just wish they'd get his name right.
However, if you check out their
FAQ here, you will see that the uptime cannot be measured that high for HP-UX, Linux or Solaris.
Therefore, this really doesn't say much other than the fact that BSD's uptime counter is programmed better than other Unices.
Are those running the Aqua GUI? Or are they Darwin shells? It would be a trivial thing for Apple to mod the OS X copies they gave them to not run a GUI.
What elitist troll are you talking about?
I'm not sure what country you're from the guy was simply stating that he learned something about modern Egyptian culture from a truly good interview.
Your post was, in truth, much more of an inflammatory/troll message than was his.
Give people a little credit. I honestly don't know how that could have been misinterpereted as a troll.
Actually, tar does not have any built-in compression. It is made to make multiple files and directories into one easier-to-work-with file. Tar stands for tape archive. Gzip or Bzip2 or compress do the actual compression. As you probably know, the -j and -g flags add gzip or bzip2 compression.
This simply shows how non-techincal people really don't think about security or responsibility for what goes on under their accounts. It needs to be impressed on these people that their password is NOT TO BE GIVEN AWAY FOR CANDY.
Do these people not realize that Mr. Reseacher could then use their accounts and put scat pr0n all over their home directories and/or send viscious emails to their bosses and/or colleagues?
But hey, I guess this is good news for crackers, eh? No need to write complex toolkits... only a Hershy's bar is really necesssary:-/
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Say what you will about Florid, but that is exactly what we have. There is a program called "Florida Bright Future Scholarships" where a high school GPA of 3.5 or higher and a Florida high school diploma gets you 100% of a state school's tuition, and 3.0 gets you 75%. Florida state schools include the University of Florida, which is a very good school, and even if you only get the 75%, tuition is still quite reasonable in state. Look here and here for info.
And EVERYONE was disadvantaged when they came here. Georgia used to be an English penal (prison) colony, with WHITE prisoners, and, like Australia, turned out just fine.
It doesn't mean "average". It means "moderate to inferior in quality" or "barely passable"; definitely on the low end of average. A C- is a mediocre grade; it is passing, but it ain't too great.
It's trivially easy to do.
cp cedega-4.01.tgz cedega-4.01-backup.tgz &&
dd bs=1 seek=16 count=19 if=/dev/zero of=cedega-4.01.tgz &&
dd if=yay2.txtcedega-4.01-backupt.tgz of=cedega-4.01.tgz seek=36 bs=1
and later you can remove the backup.
For the not-quite-as-geeky-as-me crowd, that zeroes out the marked bytes. That took me maybe five minutes (due to OBO errors) when I am blearily tired at 3 am.
They're going to have to do better than that.
At this nerdiness level, probably PowerPC :-)
That didn't have anything at all do do with the kernel.
I believe that it was the way Red Hat installer, Anaconda, installed GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, that was at fault. The Linux kernel is generally quite solid, and I certainly will be upgrading.
They could have either done a rewrite, or have gotten all the original writers' permission.
Under the GPL, the original writers stil hold their copyrights. By modifying the code, they submit to the terms of the GPL, but what they write is still theirs. And if the original writer wants to do away with the GPL on a GPL-licensed work, he can contact the other authors, and since they each all hold unencumbered copyrights to their own works, a closed version may be made.
Even if they cannot get permission from all those who wrote the code, if they remove the code written by those who dissent, they can still close the work.
The GPL is a very solid license. It is also quite readable. You can read it at http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html.
I, too, am a CLI junkie who likes to avoid bloat, and that's the main reason I dropped GNOME like a hot coal and started using Gentoo and Fluxbox. Are you using X.org? I find that X.org's fonts are absolutely horrible. License issues aside, XFree86's are much better.
/etc/fonts/local.conf
:-/
Also, this is my
It is tuned to turn off anti-aliasing for fonts so small it just makes them look bad. I got it from someone here on slashdot, I forget who you are but thank you.
And if you have an OEM Windows license with your computer, find the Microsoft corefonts package ("ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge corefonts" on gentoo)
This is unless you are talking about some fancy special fonts you would like to use. Because I've never been able to figure that stuff out on Linux
It works well under WineX as well.
They're well supported in Linux too! NVidia makes great Linux drivers, and though they're technically closed source, they are compiled on your machine, and you can get to the code. It's just that you are not licensed to modify or redistribute the code like you are under an OSS license.
Actually, you can't pick a precompiled kernel. You can get a precompiled base system, yes, but even with a stage 3 install you still need to compile a kernel.
You CAN use genkernel, which compiles a kernel for you that can be used on most systems using hotplug to insert the correct modules, but it certainly is not precompiled.
Look here for details.
support@microsoft.com seems to do quite nicely :-)
meh, sorry about the typo. I know that Azureus uses SWT. But I am pretty sure that LimeWire uses Swing, and my main point was that standard Swing applications work just fine with X11.
I personally use a couple of Java client applications on my Linux desktop..
Azureus and LimeWire are both written in Java.
And that about "Swing does not fit in the X11 word" is just a lie. Swing works fine in X11 under Linux. You should really try some of these things out before posting whatever you pull out of your ass.
Goo348@yahoo.com would appreciate one...
I, too, was at first impressed when I saw that.
However, if you check out their FAQ here, you will see that the uptime cannot be measured that high for HP-UX, Linux or Solaris. Therefore, this really doesn't say much other than the fact that BSD's uptime counter is programmed better than other Unices.
Question: Would it be necessary to develop their own DirectX? How embedded in the OS is directx?
If they implement all the low-level stuff well, it seems to me that they could easily use the MS binaries for DirectX compatibility.
Are those running the Aqua GUI? Or are they Darwin shells? It would be a trivial thing for Apple to mod the OS X copies they gave them to not run a GUI.
d'oh! ****ing typo. :s/18/8
He IS real...
:-P
Marry Me
Depends on how old-school your computer is...
:-)
l8 inches could be a possibility
No, I immediately thought of it as well.
Just like one of my friends thought The Warped Tour (alternative rock metaconcert) was about OS/2 Warp. The geekiness pervades all aspects of life...
What elitist troll are you talking about?
I'm not sure what country you're from the guy was simply stating that he learned something about modern Egyptian culture from a truly good interview.
Your post was, in truth, much more of an inflammatory/troll message than was his.
Give people a little credit. I honestly don't know how that could have been misinterpereted as a troll.
Actually, tar does not have any built-in compression. It is made to make multiple files and directories into one easier-to-work-with file. Tar stands for tape archive. Gzip or Bzip2 or compress do the actual compression. As you probably know, the -j and -g flags add gzip or bzip2 compression.
This simply shows how non-techincal people really don't think about security or responsibility for what goes on under their accounts. It needs to be impressed on these people that their password is NOT TO BE GIVEN AWAY FOR CANDY.
:-/
Do these people not realize that Mr. Reseacher could then use their accounts and put scat pr0n all over their home directories and/or send viscious emails to their bosses and/or colleagues?
But hey, I guess this is good news for crackers, eh? No need to write complex toolkits... only a Hershy's bar is really necesssary
Jeez, some people's children...
Good job on the obligatory Underpants Gnome reference! Good use of a classic.