I question #3, but the top two are solid; of course, they are only just the start if you take your civic obligations seriously (as, I'd argue, more citizens will finally begin doing in the coming years).
Some others that are more direct:
1. start maintaining a political weblog
2. write and call your representatives
3. write to the media: letters to the editor, letters to specific reporters on the quality (or lack thereof) of their coverage
4. work for a political party/candidate
My point, increasingly, is in creating and growing linux software companies that actually make money
and provide good livings for their employees. If Ximian doesn't SELL something soon they're going to be gone. If you hate the obscene power of MS the only answer is to contribute to a ecosystem that can compete with MS, i.e., one that makes money!
The issue, IMHO, is not whether GNOME/KDE are useable by Joe Average. I side with those that have trained people to use them and report that, after a brief training period, they do just fine.
The issue is: people aren't using GNOME/KDE (linux) because THE APPS THEY NEED AREN'T THERE.
I was running 2.4.3 with reiser and knfsd patches for a week or so with NO problems. I first tried NFS over reiser 6 months ago (or so) and this is the FIRST TIME that I've had no problems.
I also, just today, compiled 2.4.4/w knfsd patches; seems fine too.
Silly question, but last night I looked through the blooger site and was unable to find a download link. Does the service HAVE to be used as you say (rather than on my server - which is what I want) or is the software available?
Does anyone use reiser in combination with NFS? I have been for some time and (depending on the kernel version) get bad inodes (the file can't be read/stated). Anyone had the same problem (The problem is trivial to reproced and I've been surprised that more people haven't reported it).
I used 2.4.0-test8 for some time on my home NFS server (40gigs). Occationally, I'd get:
Dec 18 09:38:18 zdd kernel: vs-13048: eiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (59369205036) not found
With 2.4.0, I got so many of these that I had to back out.
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I question #3, but the top two are solid; of course, they are only just the start if you take your civic obligations seriously (as, I'd argue, more citizens will finally begin doing in the coming years).
Some others that are more direct:
1. start maintaining a political weblog
2. write and call your representatives
3. write to the media: letters to the editor, letters to specific reporters on the quality (or lack thereof) of their coverage
4. work for a political party/candidate
Nice! It never occurred to me to do this (though what I do with MS products is fairly mimimal).
Do you have a somewhat more specific HOWTO outlining this?
Thanks.
Nicely detailed and knowledge based ;-)
John Milnor, who knew Nash at Princeton in in 50's, says:
http://www.ams.org/notices/199810/milnor.pdf
My point, increasingly, is in creating and growing linux software companies that actually make money
./|GNU folks not see this?
and provide good livings for their employees. If Ximian doesn't SELL something soon they're going to be gone. If you hate the obscene power of MS the only answer is to contribute to a ecosystem that can compete with MS, i.e., one that makes money!
Why do so many
The issue, IMHO, is not whether GNOME/KDE are useable by Joe Average. I side with those that have trained people to use them and report that, after a brief training period, they do just fine.
The issue is: people aren't using GNOME/KDE (linux) because THE APPS THEY NEED AREN'T THERE.
I was running 2.4.3 with reiser and knfsd patches for a week or so with NO problems. I first tried NFS over reiser 6 months ago (or so) and this is the FIRST TIME that I've had no problems.
I also, just today, compiled 2.4.4/w knfsd patches; seems fine too.
Does anyone agree that linuxconfig, as compared to Webmin, totally sucks? I've been really impressed with Webmin.
Silly question, but last night I looked through the blooger site and was unable to find a download link. Does the service HAVE to be used as you say (rather than on my server - which is what I want) or is the software available?
Thanks much
Does anyone use reiser in combination with NFS? I have been for some time and (depending on the kernel version) get bad inodes (the file can't be read/stated). Anyone had the same problem (The problem is trivial to reproced and I've been surprised that more people haven't reported it).
I used 2.4.0-test8 for some time on my home NFS server (40gigs). Occationally, I'd get:
Dec 18 09:38:18 zdd kernel: vs-13048: eiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (59369205036) not found
With 2.4.0, I got so many of these that I had to back out.