Ummm, sorry but you are wrong. I've worked several consulting jobs (6-12 month terms) at various non-profit and academic institutions and OO.o is just fine. Never once has anyone complained when I've helped them switch over. As far as their use of advanced features in Office, there was none to speak of. Multicolumn documents do not belong in a word processor, that is a DTP function. The only people at the places I've worked for who do multicolumn docs are the people in graphics departments. That is the way real people do their work. Not some goofy secretary who thinks she can do a news letter. Leave the layout and design to the professionals.
You are making a poor assumption. You are assuming that people actually use the features that you are atlkaing about. Trust me, from my share of work at various companies, I've never seen anyone but the most ambitious secretaries use any moderately extended features. OpenOffice.org can compete with MS Office in every way that 98% of the workforce uses MS Office. That small 2% group who actually explore Office suites and use the extended features will have to learn the slightly different way of doing things in OO.o. MS Office does nothing that an average user needs that OpenOffice.org can't do. You are simply spreading more lies.
I've sussed it folks. I've figured out how we can achieve world peace and it's very simple. Historically most wars have been about "us vs. them", or "hey that's mine!" or "Oh yeah? We'll now I'm bigger than you!" But it appears that the "I'm bigger than you" brand of war is the one that has brought about the development of bigger, faster and more accurate machines of destruction. (ie. weapons) Why do we do all of this? Here is the answer kids, and it's as plain as the nose on your face: penis envy.
To achieve world peace, I think all male world leaders should be required to publicly pull out their penises and measure them. That information should be publicly posted so that we would, once and for all, know who is really bigger than who. I think you would find that the countries with the leaders that make the most noise are the ones who are least well endowed. After all, this is just a pissing contest in the end.
To achieve complete world peace among all people, clothes should be designed in such a way that men's penis size should be plainly visible. (No this isn't gay, it's a way to bring men into the 21st century) Add to that, putting a man's penis size on his driver's license. After all, since many women are freely judged by their breast size, why shouldn't men be freely judged by their penis size? After a few generations of this, the stigma attached to penis size should become relatively meaningless and men could get on with the business of actually running the world in a responsible way.
It's fucking silly too. Think about it. Once the distros are all long in the tooth at versions 11 and 12, someone is going to come out with and OS called:
One
Marketroid crap:
One is a Linux based operating system that finally overcomes the issues that have been plaguing OSes for decades. No longer is there any confusion about which application to use to do anything since One is not just your typical OS. One is a distributed OS that will install on your LAN, WAN or even among your family's machines over the internet. With One, your system is no longer your only device. All devices running One become yours. You merely register your presence with a machine and you have access to all of your data. Anywhere. Anytime. Data storage is no longer an issue as your data is distributed amongst the machines you've designated as your store points anywhere on the internet. The data is encrypted and will only be accessible to you by logging in with your presence.
Requirements:
-Registration with Global One Software.org -One time co-operative fee of $500 which is refundable should you decide to leave the One co-operative -Internet access (IPv6 desirable). Preferably a 1 gig line.
One works on any hardware platform that supports the Linux kernel.
So anyone want to be first to jump on the v. 11 bandwagon now?
We'd better start looking at the moon carefully to make sure that the Dolman-Sax Shoe corporation hasn't been beaming Adidas headquarters with the shoe intensifier ray. Unless we want to evolve into mean old angry birds who live in statues ears thirteen miles above the ground. Chips in shoes? I feel this is a sign of the end times.
You speak the truth. However, as always, the car:computer analogy fits here. If you think about what you need to know to use a car, it's not very complicated. There is a core set of knowledge that you need:
1. Operational (How to turn it on/off, put it into gear, brake, accelerate, speed, re-fuel, etc...)
2. Navigational (How to get from point A to point B. Understand traffic flow and direction. Read signs and street lights, etc...)
That is the bare minimum you need to drive a car. Many people these days seem to just barely know (or care) about any of that. In addition there is extended knowledge:
1. Maintenance (Get your oil and filters checked/changed. Tune-ups. Fluid checks. Cleaning.)
2. Enhancement (Learn more about your engine to get it performing to the best of it's abilities. Understanding the interaction between your car's tires, the road and aerodynamics to get the most out of your car)
3. Interior/Exterior Decor ("Trick Out" your car and add high performance with stickers, spoilers, tailfins and fartcans. Make sure your stereo can tip off Richter scales for miles around, etc...)
Very few people ever get to that level of knowledge. There really isn't any real reason for "Joe Average" to get there. But as far as the core knowledge goes, would you want someone out on the road who can't read directional signs, doesn't understand the concept of direction (N, E, S, W) or speed limits? Trust me, I see people on the road every day who appear to be lacking these basic skill sets and they are largely responsible for the accidents we see regularly.
Apply this to computers, and you can see that we are, indeed, in a sorry state by comparison. Again, there is a core skill set that a computer user SHOULD have to be fairly competent. But it's much more complex than what is required for driving a car:
1. File System - An understanding of how files are organized in an OS is very important at this point. It's a LOT like knowing how to read a map and get from point A to point B. Sadly, most users DO NOT have this skill set. In the interest of being "user friendly", applications like MS Office have attempted to abstract where files actually are located. This harms the user because if MS decides to change the location in a new version of the OS or program (My Documents has moved from where it was in NT 4.0 compared to Win2K and WinXP for example) then the user may think their documents are "gone". Tools like "Find Files" aren't any better at helping either because the user will ignore the path and just double click the file to have it open in Word. Or worse, there will be a "shortcut" in the "Recently Used" section of the Start Menu. I ask you, would you set up a physical filing cabinet this way with post-it notes in folders saying "This file is in Cabinet 35, Drawer B, Divider 2, Folder 12"? Shortucts (and sometimes symbolic links in Unix) are a BAD IDEA. 2. File Types - One of the worst things about most OSes (Macintosh pre and post OS X excepted) is the non-existence of standard file types. Part of this is due to the fact that file types and data types are a moving target. HTML files didn't exist in 1984, so a Macintosh from back then wouldnot have had a built in association with an application that could read them. In the Windows world, the association between application and file was (and can still be) manual procedure that will perplex most users. Considering how much data and file types come and go and change, I am still wondering why there is no DNS type of system for file types that any OS worth it's salt would hold to. Imagine... a central DNS like repository that holds a database that an OS queries: "I have a file with the following type: x-application-doc. What applications should I use?" The server responds to the OS: "mswin-winword.exe, mswin-soffice.exe -writer, generic-unix-soffice, linux-kword, multiosapp-abiword". Then the l
Oh my GOD! What the fuck just came out of your mouth!? I can't believe it! You just spoke some harsh TRUTH! No, seriously! I can't disagree with this comment at all. Un-fucking-believable!
Or is it vice-versa? Idiots can be well-meaning people?
Where I work, we installed a Barracuda Spam Firewall. It works fairly well, but crap still gets through. And as we add our own REGEX filters, we find the false-positive rate increasing. The only real solution is to expand existing mail protocols to account for spam. Specifically, some changes to the SMTP protocol that require the sender definitively ID themselves before sending. This would provide accountability of some sort. I know, I know. Some people are going to attack me for proposing the modification of SMTP. What, then, do YOU suggest Oh mighty one?
I see. You sound like a fair man regardless of our differences. But I think I know now that you probably added me to your foes list due to my, sometimes, brash behavior. I am trying my hardest to mimic what I see on the right. There isn't enough of that kind of thing on the left (thank goodness), but it's needed to attract attention. Thanks for unfoeing me. If you wind up adding me back on, I can understand why though.
Slashdot's biggest Bush fanboi comes to the aid of his fair maiden once again.
Thanks to the fact that Brent has barred me from posting in his JEs, I've taken it upon myself to follow him to public comments and present a link in my SIG to my commentary on his lies and deceit. Yes, this is off-topic and I don't mind getting modded down. Anything to present some truth as an antidote to Brent's lies. You asked for it Brent, and now you've got it.
It actually varies based on what the function of the machine is:
Firewall: 1. Latest Kernel (custom compile with console on serial port support. Who needs a video card in a firewall anyway?) 2. Port Sentry 3. Host Sentry 4. Log Sentry 5. Snort 6. Tripwire 7. Not a whole hell of a lot else 8. Not a whole hell of a lot else 9. Not a whole hell of a lot else 10. Not a whole hell of a lot else
Home Server: 1. Latest kernel with Pre-emptible kernel enabled for better desktop performance 2. Latest X (or now Xorg) server (custom compiled) 3. Latest VNC 4.0 beta built into X server and used with gdm to provide remote persistent desktops, unlike XDMP. 4. Latest GNOME 5. Latest Xscreensaver (lots of cool new modules that you don't see in the distros) 6. Latest stable Mozilla 7. Latest stable OO.o 8. Latest MPlayer 9. XMMS with ogg and mp3 support 10. W.I.N.E. (for those games and a few silly apps that I still use from Windows)
There's also the Internet Server (web, mail), the VPN server, (OpenVPN on Linux), the File and Print server (SAMBA and CUPS), the Media Server (Hooked to my Telly) and a whole lot more.
OK. So why have you foed me again?? I don't get it. We seem to share the same views based on what I've read in your comments. I surely hope that it has nothing to do with my, admittedly, brash approach to discussion. I only wish to intimidate those who intimidate my compatriots.
I wish MP3.com well as they may yet provide another outlet for independent artists that are having trouble getting through the "old boys" network of the RIAA. Just because someone doesn't have a contract doesn't mean that they suck. And that's what the RIAA is afraid of.
Being a musician in my own right, I've been considering the idea of using a P2P client for distribution of my music. Since *I* would be the copyright holder, it would be completely legitimate and get my music heard. In the effort to destroy the RIAA's stranglehold over the music business, I would encourage any of you with a creative bent to distribute your works via P2P. After all, fame is worth a lot more than money because fame can get you places that money can't. I have been experimenting with P2P clients like MUTE and the interesting new file sharing pardigm Konspire. Konspire has the interesting side effect of turning P2P around into something like what Usenet used to be, only it's a LOT cooler.
My suggestions:
-Try out MUTE
-Try out Konspire
-If you are creative, focus on getting your name known via P2P
-Once you have an established reputation, you can keep your fans happy with some free tracks/videos/writing and some exclusive stuff that they would happily pay for. It's the best of both worlds.
While I tend to agree with your stance on the black boxes. I think the phrase "personal responsibility" is overused. The people who lay claim to it are usually using it in the most self-serving way. This is how I imagine you see the term. For you, it's less about "personal responsibility" than it is about what you can personally gain from a situation.
And you are also a FAILURE!!! For those who want to join my rampage against the right, please study my journal entries. The right on Slashdot now has a formidable opponent in the form of a humorist/philosopher! Time to step up the roasting as we approach November!!
Daddy Bush was fond of establishing a "New World Order". Do you suppose that his son is carrying on in the illustrious tradition of the family business? What's really amusing is how the freepers were all up in arms about Clinton establishing a "New World Order" with his "jack booted thugs". Now where are those same complainers?? I ask you, does this not seem like the beginnings of a "New World Order"? It most certainly does to me. No matter, as I noted in my JE today. Humans crave freedom from oppression and this November, we will be freeing ourselves whether at the polls, or afterwards in a revolution.
Umm... Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's not polite or fair to take everything for yourself? Even if you do acquire something "fair and square", which really doesn't apply to the Walmart family at all, don't you think that you are obligated to share? I know that I would. Personally, I think that anyone who makes beyond a certain amount of money (enough to live a comfortable non-extravagant life, i.e. no gold encrusted SUVs, swimming pools, or money to just wste on useless crap) should be regularly reminded of their debt to society since that is how they got there.
I make $50,000 a year in a fairly major metropolitan area. It's just enough to keep me afloat. $75,000 would be the max tht I would need with the current cost of living to give me a very comfortable life. Anything that I would make beyond that, I would gladly hand over to people in need. I would consider people in need in my city to be people who make less that $30,000 a year. If everyone did this, we'd all be pretty evenly provided for. Add to this a system to prevent people (like you) from cheating the system and trying to get more than they should and we'd have a very nice society indeed. No one would be bragging about how much more they have than someone else and showing off with ridiculous status symbols since everyone would have what they NEED. The posturing that the wealthy take is what is so disgusting to me. Dorks like Trump and many of the pro-sports figures and music business celebrities are just appalling in their grandiose displays of insecurity. They "eat cake" while the poor die in the streets. THAT is what I am opposed to.
If you can't relate to that, then you sir have a cold and selfish heart and likely only care about yourself. Am I right, or am I right, or am I RIGHT!
Oh you ARE full of bullshit aren't you??? The supposed lowering of taxes has not worked in my favor. I am at best "middle class". I make about $50,000 a year. And my taxes went up this year across the board. Federal went up by $50. State went up by $200 and Local went up by $500. Yeah... so much for THAT theory dickwad.
As far as your belief that it's none of my business what the Walmart heirs are worth. You better fucking believe it is! There is something called "fairness" which is far too overlooked and misappropriated by your kind these days. At one time, there used to be an ideal that it was rightful for an individual to only take what they needed. Now, it's become a battle for who has the most toys and being kind to your fellow man has take a backseat to greed. Hah! You speak of greed?? If you support what you claim to in the above post (that it's OK for people to claim all the wealth for themselves and create an impossible deficit for others), then you are the picture definition of greed my sickening opponent!
I am working with groups of people to tear down people who think like you do. The end of this terrible tyranny WILL end even if it means bloody revolution. I have no problem in defending my freedom and the people who matter. Trust me, whether you like it or not, the people who make $50,000 and less are in the majority. We will defeat your kind.
What really burns me up about a lot of businesses and people these days (especially in the Occupied States of Amerika) is that they put profit ahead of everything else. There used to be a time in the country when businesses were run with respect and dignity for their fellow man. They treated their employees and customers like human beings. Those compnaies did as much as they could to make sure they didn't shit on anyone else in America (of course they were shitting on the rest of the world which wasn't any better). Now, in the name of increased profits, we are losing things that are rightfully ours. As employees we are losing our rights of sick time, head days, vacations, and the 40 hour work week. Who can you thank for the wonderous concept of the 40 hour work week? The former worker's groups of America (unions) which have fallen victim to the stranglehold of greed as well. These days' there are people who work MORE than 40 hours a week and have been folled into treating it like it's some kind of honour. Wake up you damn fools!!! You're wasting your lives! Your personal life (time spent with your kids, your wives, even your pets) is far more important than wasting your time making money for your employer. They should be giving you the respect of a 40 hour workweek AND higher pay commensurate with the cost of living.
Of course many of you have been brainwashed by the propaganda that if you work the 80 hour week you are "macho" or there is a "pot of gold" waiting at the end of the rainbow. Many of you believe this is and always has been the American way. Meanwhile, there are those of you who have been shat upon by industry and are disoriented. Some of you blame the current administration (while they are connected, they are not 100% responsible). Others blame the DotBomb bust (which is evidence of a different kind of greed and being shat upon, but it's not the major source). Back in the 20s, this country used to actually have communist gatherings in every major city. I'm not talking small groups of people either. I'm talking gatherings in the thousands. If things continue to decline as they have for the past few years, maybe some of the more intelligent people will move back to the left a bit. Maybe they'll start realizing that the ONLY thing our corporate owners care about is THEIR bottom line. You can all go get stuffed as far as they are concerned. Their hideousness is showing through lawsuits like this one and all the ridiculous patent and copyright claims and the passage of the DMCA (thanks to the last legitimate president in office).
Yes, Darl McBride is only a sign of the times. And, as expected, he and SCO are being proven out to be FAILURES!!!
I see you are still being an odious liar and a FAILURE and spreading your deceit. This is a good thing because it assures that you have a permanent position on my List of FAILURES!
Personally, I WOULD take a hamburger for free from a guy on street corner who made them just himself this morning, assuming he's preparing them right there. Nothing wrong with that. You weren't specific enough Mr. FAILURE NineNine.
Now, I put it to YOU (you MISERABLE FAILURE), if free ISN'T good, then why do so any corporations insist on giving people free stuff as a perk. Should we NOT trust them? Are you saying that businesses SHOULDN'T be trusted? Hey... aybe you're coming around! Dilhole.
What about those FREE credit card offers you were bragging about last year? YOu were raving about how easy it is to get rich in this country because of the free credit you can use to buy all this computer stuff and start your own business. I have a feling you are STILL a moron.
This is a mistake that a lot of people today make. They think that success = money and wealth. Somehow, the concept of actually making a good product or providing a good service while paying NO ATTENTION to the profit side of things got lost. The system is set up in such a way that people are competitive to a fault. The goal of actually doing something worthwhile is killed off by the goal of just making lots of money. People who believe that success = wealth are fucking idiots. It's all about being the best, and that has nothing to do with money you monkeys.
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Ummm, sorry but you are wrong. I've worked several consulting jobs (6-12 month terms) at various non-profit and academic institutions and OO.o is just fine. Never once has anyone complained when I've helped them switch over. As far as their use of advanced features in Office, there was none to speak of. Multicolumn documents do not belong in a word processor, that is a DTP function. The only people at the places I've worked for who do multicolumn docs are the people in graphics departments. That is the way real people do their work. Not some goofy secretary who thinks she can do a news letter. Leave the layout and design to the professionals.
You are making a poor assumption. You are assuming that people actually use the features that you are atlkaing about. Trust me, from my share of work at various companies, I've never seen anyone but the most ambitious secretaries use any moderately extended features. OpenOffice.org can compete with MS Office in every way that 98% of the workforce uses MS Office. That small 2% group who actually explore Office suites and use the extended features will have to learn the slightly different way of doing things in OO.o. MS Office does nothing that an average user needs that OpenOffice.org can't do. You are simply spreading more lies.
It IS relatively meaningless for anyone with a brain. Now... we just need to work on getting people connected to brains.
I've sussed it folks. I've figured out how we can achieve world peace and it's very simple. Historically most wars have been about "us vs. them", or "hey that's mine!" or "Oh yeah? We'll now I'm bigger than you!" But it appears that the "I'm bigger than you" brand of war is the one that has brought about the development of bigger, faster and more accurate machines of destruction. (ie. weapons) Why do we do all of this? Here is the answer kids, and it's as plain as the nose on your face: penis envy.
To achieve world peace, I think all male world leaders should be required to publicly pull out their penises and measure them. That information should be publicly posted so that we would, once and for all, know who is really bigger than who. I think you would find that the countries with the leaders that make the most noise are the ones who are least well endowed. After all, this is just a pissing contest in the end.
To achieve complete world peace among all people, clothes should be designed in such a way that men's penis size should be plainly visible. (No this isn't gay, it's a way to bring men into the 21st century) Add to that, putting a man's penis size on his driver's license. After all, since many women are freely judged by their breast size, why shouldn't men be freely judged by their penis size? After a few generations of this, the stigma attached to penis size should become relatively meaningless and men could get on with the business of actually running the world in a responsible way.
Damn! What a great idea.
It's fucking silly too. Think about it. Once the distros are all long in the tooth at versions 11 and 12, someone is going to come out with and OS called:
One
Marketroid crap:
One is a Linux based operating system that finally overcomes the issues that have been plaguing OSes for decades. No longer is there any confusion about which application to use to do anything since One is not just your typical OS. One is a distributed OS that will install on your LAN, WAN or even among your family's machines over the internet. With One, your system is no longer your only device. All devices running One become yours. You merely register your presence with a machine and you have access to all of your data. Anywhere. Anytime. Data storage is no longer an issue as your data is distributed amongst the machines you've designated as your store points anywhere on the internet. The data is encrypted and will only be accessible to you by logging in with your presence.
Requirements:
-Registration with Global One Software.org
-One time co-operative fee of $500 which is refundable should you decide to leave the One co-operative
-Internet access (IPv6 desirable). Preferably a 1 gig line.
One works on any hardware platform that supports the Linux kernel.
So anyone want to be first to jump on the v. 11 bandwagon now?
We'd better start looking at the moon carefully to make sure that the Dolman-Sax Shoe corporation hasn't been beaming Adidas headquarters with the shoe intensifier ray. Unless we want to evolve into mean old angry birds who live in statues ears thirteen miles above the ground. Chips in shoes? I feel this is a sign of the end times.
You speak the truth. However, as always, the car:computer analogy fits here. If you think about what you need to know to use a car, it's not very complicated. There is a core set of knowledge that you need:
1. Operational (How to turn it on/off, put it into gear, brake, accelerate, speed, re-fuel, etc...)
2. Navigational (How to get from point A to point B. Understand traffic flow and direction. Read signs and street lights, etc...)
That is the bare minimum you need to drive a car. Many people these days seem to just barely know (or care) about any of that. In addition there is extended knowledge:
1. Maintenance (Get your oil and filters checked/changed. Tune-ups. Fluid checks. Cleaning.)
2. Enhancement (Learn more about your engine to get it performing to the best of it's abilities. Understanding the interaction between your car's tires, the road and aerodynamics to get the most out of your car)
3. Interior/Exterior Decor ("Trick Out" your car and add high performance with stickers, spoilers, tailfins and fartcans. Make sure your stereo can tip off Richter scales for miles around, etc...)
Very few people ever get to that level of knowledge. There really isn't any real reason for "Joe Average" to get there. But as far as the core knowledge goes, would you want someone out on the road who can't read directional signs, doesn't understand the concept of direction (N, E, S, W) or speed limits? Trust me, I see people on the road every day who appear to be lacking these basic skill sets and they are largely responsible for the accidents we see regularly.
Apply this to computers, and you can see that we are, indeed, in a sorry state by comparison. Again, there is a core skill set that a computer user SHOULD have to be fairly competent. But it's much more complex than what is required for driving a car:
1. File System - An understanding of how files are organized in an OS is very important at this point. It's a LOT like knowing how to read a map and get from point A to point B. Sadly, most users DO NOT have this skill set. In the interest of being "user friendly", applications like MS Office have attempted to abstract where files actually are located. This harms the user because if MS decides to change the location in a new version of the OS or program (My Documents has moved from where it was in NT 4.0 compared to Win2K and WinXP for example) then the user may think their documents are "gone". Tools like "Find Files" aren't any better at helping either because the user will ignore the path and just double click the file to have it open in Word. Or worse, there will be a "shortcut" in the "Recently Used" section of the Start Menu. I ask you, would you set up a physical filing cabinet this way with post-it notes in folders saying "This file is in Cabinet 35, Drawer B, Divider 2, Folder 12"? Shortucts (and sometimes symbolic links in Unix) are a BAD IDEA.
2. File Types - One of the worst things about most OSes (Macintosh pre and post OS X excepted) is the non-existence of standard file types. Part of this is due to the fact that file types and data types are a moving target. HTML files didn't exist in 1984, so a Macintosh from back then wouldnot have had a built in association with an application that could read them. In the Windows world, the association between application and file was (and can still be) manual procedure that will perplex most users. Considering how much data and file types come and go and change, I am still wondering why there is no DNS type of system for file types that any OS worth it's salt would hold to. Imagine... a central DNS like repository that holds a database that an OS queries: "I have a file with the following type: x-application-doc. What applications should I use?" The server responds to the OS: "mswin-winword.exe, mswin-soffice.exe -writer, generic-unix-soffice, linux-kword, multiosapp-abiword". Then the l
Oh my GOD! What the fuck just came out of your mouth!? I can't believe it! You just spoke some harsh TRUTH! No, seriously! I can't disagree with this comment at all. Un-fucking-believable!
Or is it vice-versa? Idiots can be well-meaning people?
Where I work, we installed a Barracuda Spam Firewall. It works fairly well, but crap still gets through. And as we add our own REGEX filters, we find the false-positive rate increasing. The only real solution is to expand existing mail protocols to account for spam. Specifically, some changes to the SMTP protocol that require the sender definitively ID themselves before sending. This would provide accountability of some sort. I know, I know. Some people are going to attack me for proposing the modification of SMTP. What, then, do YOU suggest Oh mighty one?
I see. You sound like a fair man regardless of our differences. But I think I know now that you probably added me to your foes list due to my, sometimes, brash behavior. I am trying my hardest to mimic what I see on the right. There isn't enough of that kind of thing on the left (thank goodness), but it's needed to attract attention. Thanks for unfoeing me. If you wind up adding me back on, I can understand why though.
Slashdot's biggest Bush fanboi comes to the aid of his fair maiden once again.
Thanks to the fact that Brent has barred me from posting in his JEs, I've taken it upon myself to follow him to public comments and present a link in my SIG to my commentary on his lies and deceit. Yes, this is off-topic and I don't mind getting modded down. Anything to present some truth as an antidote to Brent's lies. You asked for it Brent, and now you've got it.
It actually varies based on what the function of the machine is:
Firewall:
1. Latest Kernel (custom compile with console on serial port support. Who needs a video card in a firewall anyway?)
2. Port Sentry
3. Host Sentry
4. Log Sentry
5. Snort
6. Tripwire
7. Not a whole hell of a lot else
8. Not a whole hell of a lot else
9. Not a whole hell of a lot else
10. Not a whole hell of a lot else
Home Server:
1. Latest kernel with Pre-emptible kernel enabled for better desktop performance
2. Latest X (or now Xorg) server (custom compiled)
3. Latest VNC 4.0 beta built into X server and used with gdm to provide remote persistent desktops, unlike XDMP.
4. Latest GNOME
5. Latest Xscreensaver (lots of cool new modules that you don't see in the distros)
6. Latest stable Mozilla
7. Latest stable OO.o
8. Latest MPlayer
9. XMMS with ogg and mp3 support
10. W.I.N.E. (for those games and a few silly apps that I still use from Windows)
There's also the Internet Server (web, mail), the VPN server, (OpenVPN on Linux), the File and Print server (SAMBA and CUPS), the Media Server (Hooked to my Telly) and a whole lot more.
OK. So why have you foed me again?? I don't get it. We seem to share the same views based on what I've read in your comments. I surely hope that it has nothing to do with my, admittedly, brash approach to discussion. I only wish to intimidate those who intimidate my compatriots.
Being a musician in my own right, I've been considering the idea of using a P2P client for distribution of my music. Since *I* would be the copyright holder, it would be completely legitimate and get my music heard. In the effort to destroy the RIAA's stranglehold over the music business, I would encourage any of you with a creative bent to distribute your works via P2P. After all, fame is worth a lot more than money because fame can get you places that money can't. I have been experimenting with P2P clients like MUTE and the interesting new file sharing pardigm Konspire. Konspire has the interesting side effect of turning P2P around into something like what Usenet used to be, only it's a LOT cooler.
My suggestions:
-Try out MUTE
-Try out Konspire
-If you are creative, focus on getting your name known via P2P
-Once you have an established reputation, you can keep your fans happy with some free tracks/videos/writing and some exclusive stuff that they would happily pay for. It's the best of both worlds.
I won't actually bring them back with me, but I'll take plenty of pictures to prove they exist.
Hi Brent. Why don't you pull your head out of your ass and accept the fact that you are a FAILURE!!!!
While I tend to agree with your stance on the black boxes. I think the phrase "personal responsibility" is overused. The people who lay claim to it are usually using it in the most self-serving way. This is how I imagine you see the term. For you, it's less about "personal responsibility" than it is about what you can personally gain from a situation.
And you are also a FAILURE!!! For those who want to join my rampage against the right, please study my journal entries. The right on Slashdot now has a formidable opponent in the form of a humorist/philosopher! Time to step up the roasting as we approach November!!
Are you some kind of loon-a-whack religious nutter who takes the bible literally? Oh my god. That just ensures that you are DOOMED TO FAILURE.
Daddy Bush was fond of establishing a "New World Order". Do you suppose that his son is carrying on in the illustrious tradition of the family business? What's really amusing is how the freepers were all up in arms about Clinton establishing a "New World Order" with his "jack booted thugs". Now where are those same complainers?? I ask you, does this not seem like the beginnings of a "New World Order"? It most certainly does to me. No matter, as I noted in my JE today. Humans crave freedom from oppression and this November, we will be freeing ourselves whether at the polls, or afterwards in a revolution.
Umm... Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's not polite or fair to take everything for yourself? Even if you do acquire something "fair and square", which really doesn't apply to the Walmart family at all, don't you think that you are obligated to share? I know that I would. Personally, I think that anyone who makes beyond a certain amount of money (enough to live a comfortable non-extravagant life, i.e. no gold encrusted SUVs, swimming pools, or money to just wste on useless crap) should be regularly reminded of their debt to society since that is how they got there.
I make $50,000 a year in a fairly major metropolitan area. It's just enough to keep me afloat. $75,000 would be the max tht I would need with the current cost of living to give me a very comfortable life. Anything that I would make beyond that, I would gladly hand over to people in need. I would consider people in need in my city to be people who make less that $30,000 a year. If everyone did this, we'd all be pretty evenly provided for. Add to this a system to prevent people (like you) from cheating the system and trying to get more than they should and we'd have a very nice society indeed. No one would be bragging about how much more they have than someone else and showing off with ridiculous status symbols since everyone would have what they NEED. The posturing that the wealthy take is what is so disgusting to me. Dorks like Trump and many of the pro-sports figures and music business celebrities are just appalling in their grandiose displays of insecurity. They "eat cake" while the poor die in the streets. THAT is what I am opposed to.
If you can't relate to that, then you sir have a cold and selfish heart and likely only care about yourself. Am I right, or am I right, or am I RIGHT!
Oh you ARE full of bullshit aren't you??? The supposed lowering of taxes has not worked in my favor. I am at best "middle class". I make about $50,000 a year. And my taxes went up this year across the board. Federal went up by $50. State went up by $200 and Local went up by $500. Yeah... so much for THAT theory dickwad.
As far as your belief that it's none of my business what the Walmart heirs are worth. You better fucking believe it is! There is something called "fairness" which is far too overlooked and misappropriated by your kind these days. At one time, there used to be an ideal that it was rightful for an individual to only take what they needed. Now, it's become a battle for who has the most toys and being kind to your fellow man has take a backseat to greed. Hah! You speak of greed?? If you support what you claim to in the above post (that it's OK for people to claim all the wealth for themselves and create an impossible deficit for others), then you are the picture definition of greed my sickening opponent!
I am working with groups of people to tear down people who think like you do. The end of this terrible tyranny WILL end even if it means bloody revolution. I have no problem in defending my freedom and the people who matter. Trust me, whether you like it or not, the people who make $50,000 and less are in the majority. We will defeat your kind.
He would make it onto my List of FAILURES!
What really burns me up about a lot of businesses and people these days (especially in the Occupied States of Amerika) is that they put profit ahead of everything else. There used to be a time in the country when businesses were run with respect and dignity for their fellow man. They treated their employees and customers like human beings. Those compnaies did as much as they could to make sure they didn't shit on anyone else in America (of course they were shitting on the rest of the world which wasn't any better). Now, in the name of increased profits, we are losing things that are rightfully ours. As employees we are losing our rights of sick time, head days, vacations, and the 40 hour work week. Who can you thank for the wonderous concept of the 40 hour work week? The former worker's groups of America (unions) which have fallen victim to the stranglehold of greed as well. These days' there are people who work MORE than 40 hours a week and have been folled into treating it like it's some kind of honour. Wake up you damn fools!!! You're wasting your lives! Your personal life (time spent with your kids, your wives, even your pets) is far more important than wasting your time making money for your employer. They should be giving you the respect of a 40 hour workweek AND higher pay commensurate with the cost of living.
Of course many of you have been brainwashed by the propaganda that if you work the 80 hour week you are "macho" or there is a "pot of gold" waiting at the end of the rainbow. Many of you believe this is and always has been the American way. Meanwhile, there are those of you who have been shat upon by industry and are disoriented. Some of you blame the current administration (while they are connected, they are not 100% responsible). Others blame the DotBomb bust (which is evidence of a different kind of greed and being shat upon, but it's not the major source). Back in the 20s, this country used to actually have communist gatherings in every major city. I'm not talking small groups of people either. I'm talking gatherings in the thousands. If things continue to decline as they have for the past few years, maybe some of the more intelligent people will move back to the left a bit. Maybe they'll start realizing that the ONLY thing our corporate owners care about is THEIR bottom line. You can all go get stuffed as far as they are concerned. Their hideousness is showing through lawsuits like this one and all the ridiculous patent and copyright claims and the passage of the DMCA (thanks to the last legitimate president in office).
Yes, Darl McBride is only a sign of the times. And, as expected, he and SCO are being proven out to be FAILURES!!!
I see you are still being an odious liar and a FAILURE and spreading your deceit. This is a good thing because it assures that you have a permanent position on my List of FAILURES!
Personally, I WOULD take a hamburger for free from a guy on street corner who made them just himself this morning, assuming he's preparing them right there. Nothing wrong with that. You weren't specific enough Mr. FAILURE NineNine.
Now, I put it to YOU (you MISERABLE FAILURE), if free ISN'T good, then why do so any corporations insist on giving people free stuff as a perk. Should we NOT trust them? Are you saying that businesses SHOULDN'T be trusted? Hey... aybe you're coming around! Dilhole.
What about those FREE credit card offers you were bragging about last year? YOu were raving about how easy it is to get rich in this country because of the free credit you can use to buy all this computer stuff and start your own business. I have a feling you are STILL a moron.
Fuck you NineNine.
Oh... and WELCOME TO my List of FAILURES!!!!!
This is a mistake that a lot of people today make. They think that success = money and wealth. Somehow, the concept of actually making a good product or providing a good service while paying NO ATTENTION to the profit side of things got lost. The system is set up in such a way that people are competitive to a fault. The goal of actually doing something worthwhile is killed off by the goal of just making lots of money. People who believe that success = wealth are fucking idiots. It's all about being the best, and that has nothing to do with money you monkeys.