Oh yeah, and if you don't have HAL/DBUS, you can always just select the CD Creator from the Places menu on any nautilus window... the window just doesn't come up on it's own.
Well, almost any modern distro based on Linux will have hal/dbus... I know it works with Debian and Gentoo, I assume it works with RedHat, and of course it works with Ubuntu (which is very gnome-centric). That isn't a huge requirement....
That wouldn't work for me. I have a tendancy to get up in the middle of the night, for no particular reason, and login to my computer. I look at the screen for a few minutes, then go back to bed. I had no idea that I did this until my roommate woke me up while I was doing it. I don't have a simple password either.. it has lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and some symbols.
Those pictures are from the Hicks undergrad library basement.
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Not quite as funny as AT&T's blank line, but still weird.. If you look at/bin/clear on a solaris system, you will find a single line of shell script and an exit command. This tiny script has two copyrights attached to it, one from AT&T and one from Microsoft of all places including the line:
#This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft #Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
I'm not sure how microsoft is involved with creating the one line script, why it should be treated as confidential. I'm even more confused as to why two different companies find it necissary to hold a copyright on a single shell command (it just calls/usr/bin/tput with some options). If I run/usr/bin/tput outside of the script, am I violating their copyright? I am so confused.
It has changed hands more than that. Cartoon network had it for a while, and YTV in Canada had it for a while too. Now nobody is funding it... Which is too bad, because the last episode made ended somewhat on a cliffhanger. Need to start petitioning for new episodes. At least the company that made it (Mainframe) won't go out of business anytime soon, they actually do a lot of work, like commercials and other goofy little animations. Most cheap CG you see is done by them.
For those of you who haven't seen the forth season of the geek-classic ReBoot, a supervirus with a French accent named Daemon was attempting to infect and "bring unity" to the entire Net. The ReBoot heros modified Hexidecimal with the cure, and sent her over the net, just before Daemon's timer was up. Why oh why did they cancel that series. It was fun.
I'm wondering they chose to go with VMWare and not Win4Lin. I've used both, and I'm much happier with Win4Lin. It runs as fast as native. You can't really tell a difference between running only Windows, and running Windows inside Win4Lin. Of course I have fairly outdated hardware (Athlon 600), so with beefier hardware the difference might not be as significant. One big difference that I like about win4lin is that it can access your linux filesystem much more easily. In the config you just map a directory in your filesystem to a drive letter in win4lin. With VMWare, you must share everything via Samba, and I could never get that to work with VMWare. Does anyone know of any reasons to use VMware over Win4Lin for using Windows apps? I know that there are some things that VMware can do that Win4Lin cannot, simply because VMware completely emulates a PC, and Win4Lin simply provides a layer on which Windows can be installed and run (so you cannot install any other OS).
I gave up on Evolution when I tried the version that shipped with Red Hat 7.3.
Well, that was a while back. Evolution has gone through some major changes since then. Mainly it is much faster and the configuration is much easier. Just curious.. what turned you off to it?
My experience is that The more geek-oriented distros atract more (here's the shocker!) geeks. Geeks tend to bash Microsoft because they don't respect them (another shocker!). RedHat is much less geek-oriented than say Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo. So I find it shocking that you consider RedHat users the worst of us. I say us because I am a proud Microsoft basher and Debian user.
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Umm.... Why do I have to use a closed source plugin to connect an open source client to an open source server?
I'm inclined to agree with Microsoft and my objection is with the people who invoke Perl and BSd to defend Eazel and Napster.
Alright, what the heck does Napster have to do with ANY of this?? Napster wasn't open source, and don't you dare make the arguement that it operates like open source. With Napster, users download copywrited material and share it with others. With OSS, programmers share their own work and creations with their peers for them to improve and use how they wish. I don't see how they are similar what-so-ever. In ESR's editorial on this very speech he warned that he would try to group OSS, Napster, and software piracy under the same heading. I personally don't understand MS's objection to the GPL, except that they can't take the code and sell it. This "viral" activity of the GPL is only a problem to companies who wish to exploit the code. If everything was distributed under the BSD license, MS would be happy as can be, they would just keep taking the code as they needed and marketing it as their own.
First of all, I am a Christian as well, and I somewhat agree with you, but you are approching this very badly. You are making youself out to be an intolerant biggot, which is something that these people already thought you where when you said you were a Christian. God does not hold any sin greater than another. I detest the ACT of homosexuallity, but you are supposed to love the soul of the sinner. "Love the sinner, hate the sin." You are judging, "Do not judge, lest ye be judged." You are just verifying the stereotype against us, and that makes it much harder to witness. Any sins of non-believers is between them and God, you are not supposed to evaluate their sin, only share with them the message. If they accept it, wonderful, if not, maybe they will eventually, we can only pray. What you are doing will only pull them away from the truth. Your sin of judgement is just as great as their sin of homosexuallity.
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Oh yeah, and if you don't have HAL/DBUS, you can always just select the CD Creator from the Places menu on any nautilus window... the window just doesn't come up on it's own.
Well, almost any modern distro based on Linux will have hal/dbus... I know it works with Debian and Gentoo, I assume it works with RedHat, and of course it works with Ubuntu (which is very gnome-centric). That isn't a huge requirement....
That wouldn't work for me. I have a tendancy to get up in the middle of the night, for no particular reason, and login to my computer. I look at the screen for a few minutes, then go back to bed. I had no idea that I did this until my roommate woke me up while I was doing it. I don't have a simple password either.. it has lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and some symbols.
Those pictures are from the Hicks undergrad library basement.
Not quite as funny as AT&T's blank line, but still weird.. If you look at /bin/clear on a solaris system, you will find a single line of shell script and an exit command. This tiny script has two copyrights attached to it, one from AT&T and one from Microsoft of all places including the line:
/usr/bin/tput with some options). If I run /usr/bin/tput outside of the script, am I violating their copyright? I am so confused.
#This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
#Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
I'm not sure how microsoft is involved with creating the one line script, why it should be treated as confidential. I'm even more confused as to why two different companies find it necissary to hold a copyright on a single shell command (it just calls
It has changed hands more than that. Cartoon network had it for a while, and YTV in Canada had it for a while too. Now nobody is funding it... Which is too bad, because the last episode made ended somewhat on a cliffhanger. Need to start petitioning for new episodes. At least the company that made it (Mainframe) won't go out of business anytime soon, they actually do a lot of work, like commercials and other goofy little animations. Most cheap CG you see is done by them.
For those of you who haven't seen the forth season of the geek-classic ReBoot, a supervirus with a French accent named Daemon was attempting to infect and "bring unity" to the entire Net. The ReBoot heros modified Hexidecimal with the cure, and sent her over the net, just before Daemon's timer was up. Why oh why did they cancel that series. It was fun.
I'm wondering they chose to go with VMWare and not Win4Lin. I've used both, and I'm much happier with Win4Lin. It runs as fast as native. You can't really tell a difference between running only Windows, and running Windows inside Win4Lin. Of course I have fairly outdated hardware (Athlon 600), so with beefier hardware the difference might not be as significant. One big difference that I like about win4lin is that it can access your linux filesystem much more easily. In the config you just map a directory in your filesystem to a drive letter in win4lin. With VMWare, you must share everything via Samba, and I could never get that to work with VMWare. Does anyone know of any reasons to use VMware over Win4Lin for using Windows apps? I know that there are some things that VMware can do that Win4Lin cannot, simply because VMware completely emulates a PC, and Win4Lin simply provides a layer on which Windows can be installed and run (so you cannot install any other OS).
I gave up on Evolution when I tried the version that shipped with Red Hat 7.3.
Well, that was a while back. Evolution has gone through some major changes since then. Mainly it is much faster and the configuration is much easier. Just curious.. what turned you off to it?
Well, while everyone is overgeneralizing.....
My experience is that The more geek-oriented distros atract more (here's the shocker!) geeks. Geeks tend to bash Microsoft because they don't respect them (another shocker!). RedHat is much less geek-oriented than say Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo. So I find it shocking that you consider RedHat users the worst of us. I say us because I am a proud Microsoft basher and Debian user.
Umm.... Why do I have to use a closed source plugin to connect an open source client to an open source server?
Just curious... what makes you think he is a RedHat person?
I'm inclined to agree with Microsoft and my objection is with the people who invoke Perl and BSd to defend Eazel and Napster.
Alright, what the heck does Napster have to do with ANY of this?? Napster wasn't open source, and don't you dare make the arguement that it operates like open source. With Napster, users download copywrited material and share it with others. With OSS, programmers share their own work and creations with their peers for them to improve and use how they wish. I don't see how they are similar what-so-ever. In ESR's editorial on this very speech he warned that he would try to group OSS, Napster, and software piracy under the same heading. I personally don't understand MS's objection to the GPL, except that they can't take the code and sell it. This "viral" activity of the GPL is only a problem to companies who wish to exploit the code. If everything was distributed under the BSD license, MS would be happy as can be, they would just keep taking the code as they needed and marketing it as their own.
John
First of all, I am a Christian as well, and I somewhat agree with you, but you are approching this very badly. You are making youself out to be an intolerant biggot, which is something that these people already thought you where when you said you were a Christian. God does not hold any sin greater than another. I detest the ACT of homosexuallity, but you are supposed to love the soul of the sinner. "Love the sinner, hate the sin." You are judging, "Do not judge, lest ye be judged." You are just verifying the stereotype against us, and that makes it much harder to witness. Any sins of non-believers is between them and God, you are not supposed to evaluate their sin, only share with them the message. If they accept it, wonderful, if not, maybe they will eventually, we can only pray. What you are doing will only pull them away from the truth. Your sin of judgement is just as great as their sin of homosexuallity. John
Well, I like eye-candy, so I like it.
But some don't, so un-install Aurora, and that should get rid of it.