I think the best part was that one I got the site to load the ad servers were still unable to handle the/. load.
I give the/. ad-blocking services a 3/5, great ad-blocking but unfortunately it makes browsing the site a bit of a pain.
Try to get that fixed by the beta and I think you will have a real winner guys.
Yea film can't hold a candle to the imagination but I think the hardest part of translating the HHGG books into a movie is that Douglas Addams was a master in the use of personification and being able to change that into a visual format is near imposable in the way Addams used it. Despite that I still feel the original series, despite technological and financial limitations was a really fun series, even though there is little hope of fully rendering the subtle nuances Addams used in the books on film. Despite all the problems involved in bringing the Hitchhikers Guide to the silver screen I'm still looking forward to the movie (having not heard much about it over the past few years I was worried it might have been canceled after Addams death)I'm just angry I didn't get the chance to audition for the part of Ford Prefect.
fortunately/Unfortunately yes it is getting a little press in mainstream media. I work for a daily newspaper and about a month a go a story on SCO's adventures came across the AP wire and my paper ran it. the only problem was that the story was about 10 months late and out of date. the truly sad part about running the article from the wire is that the paper I work for is located in UTAH and we couldn't spare a writer for a day to send them down to court or to interview McBride or make a call to Linus or any of the other players in this whole ordeal. So unfortunately most of the people getting any info on this eather get poor outdated information or they are a geek and have been following this from day one on sites like/.
Working for a newspaper myself I can vouch for the stupidity of Management when it comes to new software.
/rant
The newspaper I work for recently purchased a production system (server, archive, Workstations, etc.) the problems we saw came about because management went about looking for a new system the same way parents go about looking for their kids first car, ie. "how much is this going to cost us?" verses "Will this system be easy to migrate to both from an IT standpoint as well as end users and will it cover all our needs?"
The consequence of the managements decision is that my newspaper now has a system that parts of it are still being beta tested (at the expense of my work not the companies we bought it from), a system that before hours of hard work by our IT staff just kind of randomly lost files, and still does on occasion, and a system that has an archive thats database is limited by the number of entries and not how big its hard drives are, what this means is that our archive will be full after a year and a half, two years if we're careful.
all of this came after our IT department and all of their advisors let our management know that the wise decision would be to go for the next least expensive system that has show itself to be a good relyable system through use at multiple large news papers. Did Management listen, no they just saw a pricetag. what it got us is a system that after all the extra work that had to be done by our IT staff is mostly usable, and cost us more than managements second choice system. On top of all that the new system almost kept us from putting out our paper. The final effects of putting in this system is that to cover the extra costs jobs had to be cut.
/end rant
So like theshowmecanuck says yea the code may have been flawed, but that should not have been a problem had management gone about impimenting the code properly having done proper testing before implimentation this problem may have been avoided, the same goes for the system I'm forced to use, sure there are bugs in the code, but we got what we paid for when my company purchased a system that still has parts of it in beta.
And it's the users fault that Microsoft threatens OEMs to revoke their license if the OEM installs other products like Netscape or Mozilla!? If Microsoft is going to place such restrictions on OEM's they most definitely have a responsibility to ensure the end users security. A product that according to Microsofts EULA (at least last time I read it) that the end users are only "renting" from Microsoft. If I rent an apartment I expect that the owner will ensure a certain amount of security for myself as well as the other people living there but Microsofts FUBAR EULA steps in here as well covering MS's ass as well.
In a world where something like 92% of all personal computers run Microsoft Windows, and considering that most users ARE NOT power users but instead are Computer illiterate users that just want something that looks nice and lets them do basic tasks like word processing, E-mail, and use the Internet, a company that regularly shouts from it's soap box that is the greatest thing to happen to computers does indeed have a responsibility to the end users despite the users ignorance within reason. If the first thing a user does when they get their computer is run fdisk than yea that user needs to take a class or two and it is their fault, but when the problem is security issues that Microsoft is slow too fix even though they compromise critical user information (bank accounts, SS number) than yes Microsoft is responsible since it is really no fault of the user.
OK maybe I'm interpreting this all wrong because I just woke up and am not thinking coherently, if thats the case please correct me but I read this line:
SCO plans to continue to threaten people who know very little about the state of its information technology shops.
First thing I think this means is that SCO is threatening companies that are not well informed about the history of Unix and Linux. And if what the experts of Unix and Linux are saying SCO is one of those companies that doesn't fully understand the history of Unix and Linux. If this is truly the case than I would expect the lawsuit SCO should file would be against SCO.
If this were to happen than SCO would become a proverbial Oroboros feeding its need to sue off of itself. They could sue for eternity and never cause worry to the rest of the world.
OK so maybe I'm stretching it with that last one but like I said I'm still half way in my dream state so maybe non of this makes sense but it's funny as hell to me.
"Most of Windows' problems come from userspace software."
According to Microsoft in recent court cases Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Windows Operating System and if they are forced to remove it Windows won't work.
Now if I'm not mistaken a great deal of the recent viruses/worms target holes in IE.
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More evidence of this is that the article states that when the stock was up around the $20 mark all the executives lined up to sell, except McBride.
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first of let me just state how impressed I am with the quality of readers/posters here on Saturday, I mean we even have a funny first post that isn't filled with randome nonsensical crap or claims over being the first to post.
OK on to my second comment/question.
If I'm not mistaken, and I very well may be, didn't Novell look at placing Unix into the public domain, but because of all the legal issues and copyrights that exist for all the different parts of Unix they decided that it eather A. was not possable or B. is not worth the time, effort and legal hassle to place it into the public domain.
If this is the case, considering that IBM feels they have a strong enough case, and the funding to fight SCO. might it be a viable option to go to court and fight SCO given that if IBM wins, 1. SCO will die since no one will want to invest in them. 2. a will will add credibility to Linux and open source, something that IBM is banking a good portion of their future business on.
By fighting IBM has the opportunity to show that Linux is a great alternative to the higher priced Unix. In the long run despite the legal costs of fighting SCO, a win for IBM could be seen to be highly profitable. Not to mention the other players involved, Novell and Redhat.
But I need to be able to reliably record multi-track audio at low latency and high resolution, burn cds simply, and be able to LISTEN to music on my computer with xmms or a similar winamp clone.
Some programs to help you:
Ardour - A program designed to record edit and mix multi-track audio. Now my use of audio recording/editing experience is strictly armature but this seems to be a pretty good Cool Edit/Adobe Audition like program when comparing feature lists of both(excluding the new additions by Adobe that allow you to work with video).
K3B - this is one of the best CD/DVD burning programs Iv seen on any platform.
Freeamp - a program similar to winamp and XMMS in look and feel.
amaroK - Another audio player, although this player does not shrink to a compact size that can be place out of the way. It does, however, shrink to an icon in your utility bar in KDE.
from my experience over the last month as well as what has been said on linuxquestions, is seemes like SuSE may have made a mistake by only including the lates versions of a lot of the bigger software packages ie. KDE 3.2.1, Samba3, etc. but also listening to a lot of the posts on linuxquestions it seems that most of the bugs are related to KDE 3.2.1 as you noted. others are changes in the way things are handled, especialy in Samba 3, and the 2.6 kernel.
Not sure what could cause your issues both of my computer run beautifully with 9.1, my desktop has a little delay while booting due to the lack of Nvidia Nforce drivers for the 2.6 kernel but otherwise no issues at all. I guess that doesn't help you much though so if Mandrake works I say use it.
Secondly I'd love to know what you did to get UT2004 to install as Iv had no luck with that so far, admittedly I have not spent much time working on the problem but if you wouldn't mind sharing the secret it would save me and others time as well as a headache or two in the future and we would be eternally grateful.
SuSE 9.1 found my SATA raid controller no problem, both on my new mobo and my old one which had a promise raid controller which are not that Linux friendly. The only issue now is that the 2.6 kernel DOES NOT support hardware RAID configurations, it only supports software RAID. so if you want to use a hardware RAID configuration you will need to stay with the 2.4 kernel. Iv herd no news as to whether this is a temporary thing of if that is how the 2.6 kernel was intentionally designed.
To counter your argument that SuSE is keeping Yast as proprietary software you may have read recently Novell/SuSE have released Yast/Yast2 under the GPL.
A more logical reason behind their continuing with the FTP method over the ISO method might be bandwidth. If you have looked at what bandwidth costs, and when you think that most Linux users will never use all of the programs included in a Linux distribution, and most won't use even half, it makes sense to go the FTP rout. The software may be free, but the bandwidth to distribute that software is not even close to free, not to mention the time that companies like Novell/SuSE, Mandrake and yes even Redhat take to compile all those programs into a distrobution than from a business stand point distributing Linux in an FTP installation format make great business sense. Now I agree that not having the CD's is a real pain-in-the-butt, I go to my CD's/DVD almost daily, but if that is your only gripe with SuSE that why not take the time you spent typing out a complaint on/. and write Novell/SuSE a formal letter explaining to them the reasons why putting ISO's up for download would be a better option to the FTP method they have opted to use, if not than go back to your Fedora core and stop waisting your time and/.'s resources complaining about something that has no affect on you.
It may seem obvious that no single Disto' is right for everyone, and many people have already recommended trying out a live CD. I happen to think this is the best way to find out which one is right for you, so instead of pontificating about why the disto that I use is right for you and everyone else I'll give you like to downlad sites for many Live Eval CD's:
these four are the main seem to be the main live disks and should give you a feel for what is out there, I've used all of these and find them all easy to use, the advantage to Knoppix and Slax are that the Live disks can be used to do a Hard disk install where the SuSE and Mandrake ones can not. If you would like to look at other distros I'd recommend looking at THIS site, as it is dedicated to giving you access to as many distos as possable.
To use these you will need to make sure that you have CD burning software that allows you to burn an ISO image, most does though some burning software likes to play hide and seek so you may have to look for it. you will also need a High speed internet connection to down load most of these.
One other option is to see if there is a Linux User Group (LUG) in your area, usually someone at these will have a live CD laying around for you to have as well as be able to offer help to you while you start out.
this is by no means a definitive list of Live CDs if anyone knows of other please add to my list with your links, thanks.
First my apologies, I have been using a D1H for the last year so my memory of the D1 specs is a little off I forgot that it was a 2.75MP camera. As far as the rating system goes I'm just repeating what was told to me by my companies Nikon tech rep. perhaps I misunderstood the information. The only problem I see with two sensors with the same amount of MP's is the the larger one ether needs to have larger pixels or the pixels need to be spaced farther apart, doing ether causes the image to become soft, proof of that can be seen with Fuji's octagon pixels, all pictures taken with the Fuji cameras that used those pixels come out soft looking, the D1 shows no sign of that, nor does the D1 show signs of excessive sharpening this led me to believe what I had been told about consumer digital camera MP rating to be true. Of course that does not nessesarily make it true.
If you want to know how to use a Digital camera I'm your man, if you want to know about digital camera specs, I can only pass on what I have been told by people that, I would imagine, "know" what camera specs are and how to read them.
If anyone knows of a web site that goes into details about MP rating or one that explains why two different sized CCD's with the same number of MP's can produce different size/quality images I'd love to see it because honestly when it comes to the camera specs I'm a hobbyist, when it comes to camera handling that's where I'm a professional.
no seriously, I spent ten minutes waiting for this site to load on my works T1 line, finaly gave up, will have to take a look later and see if it is a slow server of if they are feeling the effects of being named on/.
The thing you have to be careful when discussing megapixels is, in what terms are you discussing megapixels. Having talked with Nikon and Canon tech reps, and having talked with university researchers who work with NASA on things like the Hubble is this. When a camera Manufacturer is talking megapixels, they are referring to how many megapixels a sensor has per square inch, when NASA talks about megapixels they usually talk in terms of total megapixels on a sensor despite it's size.
This means that when talking about two different Nikon/Canon/Kodak/Minolta cameras that have the same megapixel rating, they can produce different quality images because they have different sized sensors.
Example: Compare the image produced by the Nikon D1 a 2.1 Megapixel camera, to a Nikon Coolpix 950 also a 2.1 megapixel camera. with the D1 you can print an 8 X 10 print without getting too much digital noise, with the Coolpix 950 the highest you can go it 5 X 7 to get an equal quality print. The reason is that the D1 has a much larger sensor and so has more actual megapixels.
By your description it sounds like this spacecraft is getting the NASA type rating, doing QUICK math it looks like under the consumer camera rating system this would be rated at around a 3.4 to 4.0 megapixel sensor.
If your interested in good reviews/information pertaining to photography and cameras you may try Rob Galbraith's web site, he tends to give good information as well as reviews of camera equipment, both digital and film, plus he has a forum if you have questions, where professional photographers can help you out. The information you'll fine will be a whole lot more accurate than that given by "The tech Lounge." For good information ask someone who works with whats being reviewed as their profession if you ask me.
So you can use cola to clean your car engine and now green tea for your hard drive. . . no wonder I have an ulcer, next a study will show that doritos can take out hard to clean stains. . . ah well green tea anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1: Develop an advance Pong playing AI.
Step 2: Duplicate AI a million times.
Step 3: Epic Pong tournament ensues.
I think the best part was that one I got the site to load the ad servers were still unable to handle the /. load.
I give the /. ad-blocking services a 3/5, great ad-blocking but unfortunately it makes browsing the site a bit of a pain.
Try to get that fixed by the beta and I think you will have a real winner guys.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts\
Longhorn doesn't exist, they're just creating a new GUI for Linux.
WHY OH WHY MUST MY STATE SUCK SO BAD!!!!!! May the god of my fellow Utah residents smite me. Or better yet smite them!
The newspaper I work for recently purchased a production system (server, archive, Workstations, etc.) the problems we saw came about because management went about looking for a new system the same way parents go about looking for their kids first car, ie. "how much is this going to cost us?" verses "Will this system be easy to migrate to both from an IT standpoint as well as end users and will it cover all our needs?"
The consequence of the managements decision is that my newspaper now has a system that parts of it are still being beta tested (at the expense of my work not the companies we bought it from), a system that before hours of hard work by our IT staff just kind of randomly lost files, and still does on occasion, and a system that has an archive thats database is limited by the number of entries and not how big its hard drives are, what this means is that our archive will be full after a year and a half, two years if we're careful.
all of this came after our IT department and all of their advisors let our management know that the wise decision would be to go for the next least expensive system that has show itself to be a good relyable system through use at multiple large news papers. Did Management listen, no they just saw a pricetag. what it got us is a system that after all the extra work that had to be done by our IT staff is mostly usable, and cost us more than managements second choice system. On top of all that the new system almost kept us from putting out our paper. The final effects of putting in this system is that to cover the extra costs jobs had to be cut.
So like theshowmecanuck says yea the code may have been flawed, but that should not have been a problem had management gone about impimenting the code properly having done proper testing before implimentation this problem may have been avoided, the same goes for the system I'm forced to use, sure there are bugs in the code, but we got what we paid for when my company purchased a system that still has parts of it in beta.
In a world where something like 92% of all personal computers run Microsoft Windows, and considering that most users ARE NOT power users but instead are Computer illiterate users that just want something that looks nice and lets them do basic tasks like word processing, E-mail, and use the Internet, a company that regularly shouts from it's soap box that is the greatest thing to happen to computers does indeed have a responsibility to the end users despite the users ignorance within reason. If the first thing a user does when they get their computer is run fdisk than yea that user needs to take a class or two and it is their fault, but when the problem is security issues that Microsoft is slow too fix even though they compromise critical user information (bank accounts, SS number) than yes Microsoft is responsible since it is really no fault of the user.
SCO plans to continue to threaten people who know very little about the state of its information technology shops.
First thing I think this means is that SCO is threatening companies that are not well informed about the history of Unix and Linux. And if what the experts of Unix and Linux are saying SCO is one of those companies that doesn't fully understand the history of Unix and Linux. If this is truly the case than I would expect the lawsuit SCO should file would be against SCO.
If this were to happen than SCO would become a proverbial Oroboros feeding its need to sue off of itself. They could sue for eternity and never cause worry to the rest of the world.
OK so maybe I'm stretching it with that last one but like I said I'm still half way in my dream state so maybe non of this makes sense but it's funny as hell to me.
According to Microsoft in recent court cases Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Windows Operating System and if they are forced to remove it Windows won't work.
Now if I'm not mistaken a great deal of the recent viruses/worms target holes in IE.
More evidence of this is that the article states that when the stock was up around the $20 mark all the executives lined up to sell, except McBride.
OK on to my second comment/question.
If I'm not mistaken, and I very well may be, didn't Novell look at placing Unix into the public domain, but because of all the legal issues and copyrights that exist for all the different parts of Unix they decided that it eather A. was not possable or B. is not worth the time, effort and legal hassle to place it into the public domain.
If this is the case, considering that IBM feels they have a strong enough case, and the funding to fight SCO. might it be a viable option to go to court and fight SCO given that if IBM wins, 1. SCO will die since no one will want to invest in them. 2. a will will add credibility to Linux and open source, something that IBM is banking a good portion of their future business on.
By fighting IBM has the opportunity to show that Linux is a great alternative to the higher priced Unix. In the long run despite the legal costs of fighting SCO, a win for IBM could be seen to be highly profitable. Not to mention the other players involved, Novell and Redhat.
kind of makes one wonder what brown charged to write this rebuttle, or if this was just out of the goodness of his heart. {holds in laugh}
Some programs to help you:
Ardour - A program designed to record edit and mix multi-track audio. Now my use of audio recording/editing experience is strictly armature but this seems to be a pretty good Cool Edit/Adobe Audition like program when comparing feature lists of both(excluding the new additions by Adobe that allow you to work with video).
K3B - this is one of the best CD/DVD burning programs Iv seen on any platform.
Freeamp - a program similar to winamp and XMMS in look and feel.
amaroK - Another audio player, although this player does not shrink to a compact size that can be place out of the way. It does, however, shrink to an icon in your utility bar in KDE.
from my experience over the last month as well as what has been said on linuxquestions, is seemes like SuSE may have made a mistake by only including the lates versions of a lot of the bigger software packages ie. KDE 3.2.1, Samba3, etc. but also listening to a lot of the posts on linuxquestions it seems that most of the bugs are related to KDE 3.2.1 as you noted. others are changes in the way things are handled, especialy in Samba 3, and the 2.6 kernel.
Secondly I'd love to know what you did to get UT2004 to install as Iv had no luck with that so far, admittedly I have not spent much time working on the problem but if you wouldn't mind sharing the secret it would save me and others time as well as a headache or two in the future and we would be eternally grateful.
SuSE 9.1 found my SATA raid controller no problem, both on my new mobo and my old one which had a promise raid controller which are not that Linux friendly. The only issue now is that the 2.6 kernel DOES NOT support hardware RAID configurations, it only supports software RAID. so if you want to use a hardware RAID configuration you will need to stay with the 2.4 kernel. Iv herd no news as to whether this is a temporary thing of if that is how the 2.6 kernel was intentionally designed.
A more logical reason behind their continuing with the FTP method over the ISO method might be bandwidth. If you have looked at what bandwidth costs, and when you think that most Linux users will never use all of the programs included in a Linux distribution, and most won't use even half, it makes sense to go the FTP rout. The software may be free, but the bandwidth to distribute that software is not even close to free, not to mention the time that companies like Novell/SuSE, Mandrake and yes even Redhat take to compile all those programs into a distrobution than from a business stand point distributing Linux in an FTP installation format make great business sense. Now I agree that not having the CD's is a real pain-in-the-butt, I go to my CD's/DVD almost daily, but if that is your only gripe with SuSE that why not take the time you spent typing out a complaint on /. and write Novell/SuSE a formal letter explaining to them the reasons why putting ISO's up for download would be a better option to the FTP method they have opted to use, if not than go back to your Fedora core and stop waisting your time and /.'s resources complaining about something that has no affect on you.
Slax
SuSE
Mandrake
Knoppix
these four are the main seem to be the main live disks and should give you a feel for what is out there, I've used all of these and find them all easy to use, the advantage to Knoppix and Slax are that the Live disks can be used to do a Hard disk install where the SuSE and Mandrake ones can not. If you would like to look at other distros I'd recommend looking at THIS site, as it is dedicated to giving you access to as many distos as possable.
To use these you will need to make sure that you have CD burning software that allows you to burn an ISO image, most does though some burning software likes to play hide and seek so you may have to look for it. you will also need a High speed internet connection to down load most of these.
One other option is to see if there is a Linux User Group (LUG) in your area, usually someone at these will have a live CD laying around for you to have as well as be able to offer help to you while you start out.
this is by no means a definitive list of Live CDs if anyone knows of other please add to my list with your links, thanks.
A solution to the problem of killing all other internet clients of course.
If you want to know how to use a Digital camera I'm your man, if you want to know about digital camera specs, I can only pass on what I have been told by people that, I would imagine, "know" what camera specs are and how to read them.
If anyone knows of a web site that goes into details about MP rating or one that explains why two different sized CCD's with the same number of MP's can produce different size/quality images I'd love to see it because honestly when it comes to the camera specs I'm a hobbyist, when it comes to camera handling that's where I'm a professional.
no seriously, I spent ten minutes waiting for this site to load on my works T1 line, finaly gave up, will have to take a look later and see if it is a slow server of if they are feeling the effects of being named on /.
This means that when talking about two different Nikon/Canon/Kodak/Minolta cameras that have the same megapixel rating, they can produce different quality images because they have different sized sensors.
Example: Compare the image produced by the Nikon D1 a 2.1 Megapixel camera, to a Nikon Coolpix 950 also a 2.1 megapixel camera. with the D1 you can print an 8 X 10 print without getting too much digital noise, with the Coolpix 950 the highest you can go it 5 X 7 to get an equal quality print. The reason is that the D1 has a much larger sensor and so has more actual megapixels.
By your description it sounds like this spacecraft is getting the NASA type rating, doing QUICK math it looks like under the consumer camera rating system this would be rated at around a 3.4 to 4.0 megapixel sensor.
If your interested in good reviews/information pertaining to photography and cameras you may try Rob Galbraith's web site, he tends to give good information as well as reviews of camera equipment, both digital and film, plus he has a forum if you have questions, where professional photographers can help you out. The information you'll fine will be a whole lot more accurate than that given by "The tech Lounge." For good information ask someone who works with whats being reviewed as their profession if you ask me.
So you can use cola to clean your car engine and now green tea for your hard drive. . . no wonder I have an ulcer, next a study will show that doritos can take out hard to clean stains. . . ah well green tea anyone?