How do you know that the tree exists regardless of the observer? We know nothing. The only things that might be held "real" are our sensory perceptions. What is true and what really exists are questions that cannot be answered by a scientific process. They should be left to philosophers.
Actually the cost of the physical medium is really small, they get them really cheap (I'd say $0.20 off the top of my head) when mass-produced. The largest part of the price is marketing, studio personnel and rent, and of course record company margins.
Well, kde isn't exactly loved here in finland either, so I guess the dislike has got to have something to do with the bloated clunkiness of kde that most people dislike.
Of course, it's a lie (see Minix and GNU) but that is what Mr. Torvalds has always claimed.
Linux was influenced by Minix but that doesn't mean it wasn't written from scratch. Of course the best thing we have to prove this is Linus's word, but all sources (the "Just for Fun" biography, Glyn Moody's "Rebel Code" etc.) can tell you that Linux started out as a terminal emulator.
And what has GNU to do with this? Linux is a kernel, the GNU project consists of the userland side of UNIX (well, they do have Hurd, but its structure is so different from Linux that it isn't relevant).
I've noticed the same kind of thing among many people: they just see no reason to try linux although their windows box is entirely not working. Kinda sad.
IMO everybody should use what they like, but should at least *try* the alternatives... Converting people to use linux is hard, the kinds of people who will/would like linux naturally gravitate towards it. Just keep people informed about linux and wipe some of that FUD out and the ones who can switch, will switch.
I seriously hope this one is an April Fools joke too: HTML formatting in gmail. I can't believe they did it. the scourge of email has made its way into the best webmail there is.
"man stty" might be useful. Your shell might some have nifty shortucts too, so "man bash" (or "man zsh" in my case) is nice. You might also want to check your wm's man page.
A ; separates two sentences. "Ati at the top" is not a sentence but is understandable because headlines usually omit the verb. "Graphics Chip Maker for 2004" makes it sound like ATI is the only graphics chip maker in the world. Here are some versions that would've made sense:
Your ip has been logged. A strike team is en route to youe location. Please move away from the computer, close your eyes and put your hands behind your head.
Yours sincerely,
Robert S. Mueller
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Such a company cannot use so much as a line of GPL code without legally binding themselves to commit suicide, hence for them GPL != free. For them, GPL is the most expensive thing in the world.
The GPL is free as in freedom not free as in beer. True, the company can't use GPL in their current bussiness model and nobody is forcing them to use it! Software companies managed to do their own coding even before free software became so widely known and used.
However, from your description I'd say that the company could perfectly well use a support bussiness model. Their primary clients are probably bussinesses (and not individuals) which usually want a support contract with their software. Software is (usually) sold only once, but support contracts continue as long as the software is used. The software also sounds like it sometimes needs per client customization: opening the source will enable the clients themselves to do these modifications, which improves the software and saves Qualystem the expense of making it theirselves (they could also charge for customizations the clients can't do themselves).
This is just another example, though. I know nothing of the actual company itself.
I compiled Gentoo on a similar machine, took less than one day. I update my system about once a week, takes ~20min usually, ~60min if there is something big to compile (gcc, glibc, xorg). I don't use kde or gnome, though. I've heard they can be real bastards to compile.
I haven't got a dvd drive, so I can't comment on that. I play my dvds on a PS2.
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How do you know that the tree exists regardless of the observer? We know nothing. The only things that might be held "real" are our sensory perceptions. What is true and what really exists are questions that cannot be answered by a scientific process. They should be left to philosophers.
Actually the cost of the physical medium is really small, they get them really cheap (I'd say $0.20 off the top of my head) when mass-produced. The largest part of the price is marketing, studio personnel and rent, and of course record company margins.
Well, kde isn't exactly loved here in finland either, so I guess the dislike has got to have something to do with the bloated clunkiness of kde that most people dislike.
Mu!
Oh.... geee... I guess that means Palpatine would never have risen to power as he used the friggin' clone troopers to kill the jedi! Ha!
Actually reminds me of the novels of Daniil Harms, a russian avantgardist writer.
Err... gentoo's portage resembles ports ins the bsd world and possibly apt-get in the linux world. Lets see how much it resembles rpm:
RPM - portageThats all i can think of now but it doesn't seems like rpm resembles portage very much.
Would you care to elaborate on that?
AFAIK load avg is avg number of processes waiting for execution and cpu load can be measured as how much non-idle work the processor is doing.
Of course, it's a lie (see Minix and GNU) but that is what Mr. Torvalds has always claimed.
Linux was influenced by Minix but that doesn't mean it wasn't written from scratch. Of course the best thing we have to prove this is Linus's word, but all sources (the "Just for Fun" biography, Glyn Moody's "Rebel Code" etc.) can tell you that Linux started out as a terminal emulator.
And what has GNU to do with this? Linux is a kernel, the GNU project consists of the userland side of UNIX (well, they do have Hurd, but its structure is so different from Linux that it isn't relevant).
Wow that seems really cool. When can we hope for this as a PAM module?
I've noticed the same kind of thing among many people: they just see no reason to try linux although their windows box is entirely not working. Kinda sad.
IMO everybody should use what they like, but should at least *try* the alternatives... Converting people to use linux is hard, the kinds of people who will/would like linux naturally gravitate towards it. Just keep people informed about linux and wipe some of that FUD out and the ones who can switch, will switch.
What is this [tt] thing?
How exactly were you trying to install fluxbox on gentoo? Is
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Too difficult? The thing about XP I find irritating is the registry, removing a program cleanly can be hell on XP.
Me too, for some quick replace things it is the best alternative. "sed -i" is nice too, though.
This april fools stuff is getiing really lame.
I seriously hope this one is an April Fools joke too: HTML formatting in gmail. I can't believe they did it. the scourge of email has made its way into the best webmail there is.
Well RTFA:
High-tech tethers could play an important role in space missions if a proposal to build a so-called space elevator ever gets off the ground.
And I'm not gonna even get started on the matter of bone-headed mods. Sheesh.
Well, ^U is kill line...
;
jam:~% stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol =
eol2 = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke
"man stty" might be useful. Your shell might some have nifty shortucts too, so "man bash" (or "man zsh" in my case) is nice. You might also want to check your wm's man page.
Bah. I use the first *real* distro: Caldera Linux! No updates in a while, though, but it's rock-solid.
Bravo! Well said. I sure hope I had some mod points.
Quantum cryptography of course!
A ; separates two sentences. "Ati at the top" is not a sentence but is understandable because headlines usually omit the verb. "Graphics Chip Maker for 2004" makes it sound like ATI is the only graphics chip maker in the world. Here are some versions that would've made sense:
Your ip has been logged. A strike team is en route to youe location. Please move away from the computer, close your eyes and put your hands behind your head.
Yours sincerely,
Robert S. Mueller
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Such a company cannot use so much as a line of GPL code without legally binding themselves to commit suicide, hence for them GPL != free. For them, GPL is the most expensive thing in the world.
The GPL is free as in freedom not free as in beer. True, the company can't use GPL in their current bussiness model and nobody is forcing them to use it! Software companies managed to do their own coding even before free software became so widely known and used.
However, from your description I'd say that the company could perfectly well use a support bussiness model. Their primary clients are probably bussinesses (and not individuals) which usually want a support contract with their software. Software is (usually) sold only once, but support contracts continue as long as the software is used. The software also sounds like it sometimes needs per client customization: opening the source will enable the clients themselves to do these modifications, which improves the software and saves Qualystem the expense of making it theirselves (they could also charge for customizations the clients can't do themselves).
This is just another example, though. I know nothing of the actual company itself.
I compiled Gentoo on a similar machine, took less than one day. I update my system about once a week, takes ~20min usually, ~60min if there is something big to compile (gcc, glibc, xorg). I don't use kde or gnome, though. I've heard they can be real bastards to compile.
I haven't got a dvd drive, so I can't comment on that. I play my dvds on a PS2.