Concerns about stability?
Yes, I hate to see my box crashing everytime I open a word doc and IE while playing AOC. Security?
Not really. Dislike of Microsoft's business practices?
Now, that's more like it. Dislike? Hatred would be a better word. Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?
Exactly. Linux rocks:-)
...and here goes my first post on slashdot with my brand new browser. It's good-looking than my previous 0.8, and it seems to be faster. My bookmars, passwords and all the stuff from older version are cleanly imported. How do the guys at Mozilla.org manage to make each release better and better? Just a thought, is it possible to include Firefox as default browser in various Linux distros? It sure is faster than the plain old Mozilla.
I'm starting out as a system administrator and I'm playing a lot of quake lately. Maybe I'll come up with something after a couple of years. Guys, watch out!!!
Carnegie-Mellon University is in a process of setting up a Universal Digital Library. Got an impressive list of partners, including the richest pilgrimage in the world(no, it's not the Vactican). The pilot project is to scan a million books first.
Well, that's 'cos the MINIX and UNIX codes are copyrighted. Ken Brown informed Santa that his ass will be busted this chirs'mas. Santa's on the run..he's the next Papillon:-)
And to quote Ken Brown "Santa couldn't have written the code by himself - he hasn't finished his OS course and did just one year of C programming". Tell you what Ken "sonofabitch" Brown, Osama Bin Laden helped Linus write the kernel...in a cave in Afghanistan.
open-source enthusiasts are 'libertarian freaks, nuttily suspicious of centralized power', who would 'scream to the high heavens if they found anything wrong'.
The same NY Times that got Adrian Lamo busted while he found a f**king open-proxy on their network.
This, I think is the single-most important problem Open-Source software is facing. Sponsors - Money. Since most of the software is free(both as in free-beer and freedom of speech), financially supporting the developers is a bit difficult. What can be done about this? All the big corporations using the open-software can be forced to pay a nominal amount - by nominal, I mean something very less than what a typical prorietary software owner charges. It should be a one-time nominal amount, with upgrades and patches available free of cost. Will it work? We sure can't afford to lose good software due to the lack of sponsors.
The site seems to be slashdotted. And, entire apps written in Java are damn slow, particularly on Linux. but does it have enough to have people switching from MS Office?
No, not as long as Openoffice is kicking ass!!!
Windows sucks...and outlook will be still doing the great job of spreading viruses all over the world. M$ would still be campaigning against open-source, not that anyone will care about it then. RMS and ESR would be long dead. I'd still be reading Slashdot everyday.
People who started using computers after the PC revolution have no idea about the miserable user experience that centralised computers imposed. Even the worst PC designs today feel positively liberating by comparison./
That would be me. The first computer I ever used seriously has 64MB RAM and it's a 600MHz Celeron and that was just 5 years ago, keeping in mind the delayed PC revolution in India. I'm still using the same computer, though, with an extra 128MB RAM added. I still remember those days when having a computer at home was a "prestige-symbol". Anyone who had a computer was considered to be rich. Now, multiple computers per home's becoming a necessity rather than a luxary. I don't want to make predictions about the future 'cos i'll be very much alive:-)
...but such a rule in the land of Mafia? And how excatly does publishing the deeds in newspapers serve the purpose? Italian governement sure hasn't heard of Omerta.
Since Oracle itself is transforming to Linux, may be installing Oracle Server on a Linux box will become easy. It took me 3 days to figure out how to install and configure Oracle on my Linux box.
Ummm...It's an open secret that he loves his alcohol and is quite tippsy almost any given evening.
What's wrong with that? Nothing! Everybody's got a right to drink (well, if you are above 18). Atleast there are no incidents of his slapping women's butt-cheeks after a few drinks.
Again, the common man on the street may not know what is well known in Indian intel circles (they have to provide for protection, etc.) about his long time lady-friend from Luchnow who is herself high up in the BJP cadre (as is her son, who, by all accounts is not ABV's progeny, so no scandals there!)
Again, a man can't stay pure forever. In India, all that matters is what a comman man knows and what he thinks. No publicly-known scandals - no problems...
But let's try not to propagate the party line and make ABV out to be a demi-god.
In a country where actresses have temples and where cut-outs of movie starts are decorated with blood(yeah, real blood - I got a live show once), demi-god status of Vajpayee is negligable. I'm not condemning your point, you see.
but probably the least currupt PM since Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Least "publicly-known" corrupt leader. Again, it's what a common man thinks!!! Wait a couple of years under Congress rule, and they'll dig up some really dirty stuff about ABV.
But, the secularism is being abused in some cases.
Ever heard of religious riots in India? I've seen a couple of them. It's nothing like they show in movies. People slaying each others - friends, relatives, children, old people...and why? I'm an orthodox Brahmin and 2 of my best friends are orthodox muslims. We have no problem getting along. That's the everyday case - hindu people helping their muslim neighbours and vice versa. Then a dirty politician comes up - he wants to win the elections - he stirs up the crowd saying that the other religion is stamping all over his religion and fights start.
I know I'm tottering a little OT, but I think it's something to be proud of, when a country and it's citizens can be secular/open-minded enough to ignore religious/cultural differences and choose their leader based on personal merit
OT. The leaders are not selected on personal merit. Had it been the case, no Indian leader can parallel Shri Vajpayee's clean, moral and inspiring career. Active in national level since 1957 - a lifelong bachelor - he's beyond doubt the last leader with moral obligations. Well, I'm in no authority to criticise the millions of democratic voters of India. Just to let you know, if it's personal merits, Vajpayee can kick anybody's ass.
I totally agree with you that India is a truly secular and open-minded country. But, the secularism is being abused in some cases.
Isotope bombs, which are not even feasible at this point and require a pretty massive technological base to even think about playing with
A few years ago, someone said "650KB ought to be enough for anybody" (for off-topic discussion, see more of this here). We are now in an age where sending stuff
to mars is about to become a routine exercise to the governments. So, we are not far away from building a golfball-sized hafnium bomb that would cause rather devastating effects. It's time for all the nuclear-powers to wake up and do something about it.
In fact, I'd say the nuclear materials and research inside the US are probably better locked-down than just about anywhere else.
Correct, but there's no other nation close enough to become a super-power comparable to US. Buildings are just as tall in the rest of the world, but why those twin towers in NYC? US has the power to start a nuclear war and it is still the number 1 target for many terrorist organizations. Prevention is better than cure, buddy.
Instead of making money, which they have enough, they can actually try to make computers better and better. A better chip available at a reasonable price can bring on a new revolution in computer industry. As you sig says, I'm not against any particular company or language, I'm just against the high money-monks who always aim at earning more bucks than chaning the society for good.
Rival chip maker AMD says they have the capability to produce dual-core chips and will introduce the technology when they "feel there is a market need".
When are they going to feel the need from market? If it's a better chip that the ones currently being used, then there's already a market need. Can't those morons see it? How else are they going to determine the market need? If I need a dual-core chip that increases the performance while using lower power, do I have to run on the streets yelling AMDs name? If AMDs planning to wait, they are going to lose a major share of the marked to Intel.
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Cool, I had a feeling that my Celeron 600MHz is f*cking slow...Not anymore.
Concerns about stability? :-)
Yes, I hate to see my box crashing everytime I open a word doc and IE while playing AOC.
Security?
Not really.
Dislike of Microsoft's business practices?
Now, that's more like it. Dislike? Hatred would be a better word.
Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?
Exactly. Linux rocks
...and here goes my first post on slashdot with my brand new browser. It's good-looking than my previous 0.8, and it seems to be faster. My bookmars, passwords and all the stuff from older version are cleanly imported. How do the guys at Mozilla.org manage to make each release better and better? Just a thought, is it possible to include Firefox as default browser in various Linux distros? It sure is faster than the plain old Mozilla.
How many geeks are out there anyway? I think there should be an offical geek-census software to keep track all these kindred spirits.
I'm starting out as a system administrator and I'm playing a lot of quake lately. Maybe I'll come up with something after a couple of years. Guys, watch out!!!
Carnegie-Mellon University is in a process of setting up a Universal Digital Library. Got an impressive list of partners, including the richest pilgrimage in the world(no, it's not the Vactican). The pilot project is to scan a million books first.
Well, that's 'cos the MINIX and UNIX codes are copyrighted. Ken Brown informed Santa that his ass will be busted this chirs'mas. Santa's on the run..he's the next Papillon :-)
And to quote Ken Brown "Santa couldn't have written the code by himself - he hasn't finished his OS course and did just one year of C programming". Tell you what Ken "sonofabitch" Brown, Osama Bin Laden helped Linus write the kernel...in a cave in Afghanistan.
Look at this file you insensitive clod. Linus did write the kernel!!!
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
I'm using a Cannon PowerShot A80 digital cam. Any idea what are the hidden menus?
open-source enthusiasts are 'libertarian freaks, nuttily suspicious of centralized power', who would 'scream to the high heavens if they found anything wrong'.
The same NY Times that got Adrian Lamo busted while he found a f**king open-proxy on their network.
PERL. Easy, clean, fun!!! Perl rocks. She should toatally learn PERL.
This, I think is the single-most important problem Open-Source software is facing. Sponsors - Money. Since most of the software is free(both as in free-beer and freedom of speech), financially supporting the developers is a bit difficult. What can be done about this? All the big corporations using the open-software can be forced to pay a nominal amount - by nominal, I mean something very less than what a typical prorietary software owner charges. It should be a one-time nominal amount, with upgrades and patches available free of cost. Will it work? We sure can't afford to lose good software due to the lack of sponsors.
The site seems to be slashdotted. And, entire apps written in Java are damn slow, particularly on Linux.
but does it have enough to have people switching from MS Office?
No, not as long as Openoffice is kicking ass!!!
Windows sucks...and outlook will be still doing the great job of spreading viruses all over the world. M$ would still be campaigning against open-source, not that anyone will care about it then. RMS and ESR would be long dead. I'd still be reading Slashdot everyday.
People who started using computers after the PC revolution have no idea about the miserable user experience that centralised computers imposed. Even the worst PC designs today feel positively liberating by comparison./ :-)
That would be me. The first computer I ever used seriously has 64MB RAM and it's a 600MHz Celeron and that was just 5 years ago, keeping in mind the delayed PC revolution in India. I'm still using the same computer, though, with an extra 128MB RAM added. I still remember those days when having a computer at home was a "prestige-symbol". Anyone who had a computer was considered to be rich. Now, multiple computers per home's becoming a necessity rather than a luxary. I don't want to make predictions about the future 'cos i'll be very much alive
...but such a rule in the land of Mafia? And how excatly does publishing the deeds in newspapers serve the purpose? Italian governement sure hasn't heard of Omerta.
Since Oracle itself is transforming to Linux, may be installing Oracle Server on a Linux box will become easy. It took me 3 days to figure out how to install and configure Oracle on my Linux box.
Ummm...It's an open secret that he loves his alcohol and is quite tippsy almost any given evening.
What's wrong with that? Nothing! Everybody's got a right to drink (well, if you are above 18). Atleast there are no incidents of his slapping women's butt-cheeks after a few drinks.
Again, the common man on the street may not know what is well known in Indian intel circles (they have to provide for protection, etc.) about his long time lady-friend from Luchnow who is herself high up in the BJP cadre (as is her son, who, by all accounts is not ABV's progeny, so no scandals there!)
Again, a man can't stay pure forever. In India, all that matters is what a comman man knows and what he thinks. No publicly-known scandals - no problems...
But let's try not to propagate the party line and make ABV out to be a demi-god.
In a country where actresses have temples and where cut-outs of movie starts are decorated with blood(yeah, real blood - I got a live show once), demi-god status of Vajpayee is negligable. I'm not condemning your point, you see.
but probably the least currupt PM since Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Least "publicly-known" corrupt leader. Again, it's what a common man thinks!!! Wait a couple of years under Congress rule, and they'll dig up some really dirty stuff about ABV.
But, the secularism is being abused in some cases.
Ever heard of religious riots in India? I've seen a couple of them. It's nothing like they show in movies. People slaying each others - friends, relatives, children, old people...and why? I'm an orthodox Brahmin and 2 of my best friends are orthodox muslims. We have no problem getting along. That's the everyday case - hindu people helping their muslim neighbours and vice versa. Then a dirty politician comes up - he wants to win the elections - he stirs up the crowd saying that the other religion is stamping all over his religion and fights start.
Atal is good, but the party sux..
That's why Atal is dubbed to be Right man in wrong party
I know I'm tottering a little OT, but I think it's something to be proud of, when a country and it's citizens can be secular/open-minded enough to ignore religious/cultural differences and choose their leader based on personal merit
OT. The leaders are not selected on personal merit. Had it been the case, no Indian leader can parallel Shri Vajpayee's clean, moral and inspiring career. Active in national level since 1957 - a lifelong bachelor - he's beyond doubt the last leader with moral obligations. Well, I'm in no authority to criticise the millions of democratic voters of India. Just to let you know, if it's personal merits, Vajpayee can kick anybody's ass.
I totally agree with you that India is a truly secular and open-minded country. But, the secularism is being abused in some cases.
Isotope bombs, which are not even feasible at this point and require a pretty massive technological base to even think about playing with
A few years ago, someone said "650KB ought to be enough for anybody" (for off-topic discussion, see more of this here). We are now in an age where sending stuff to mars is about to become a routine exercise to the governments. So, we are not far away from building a golfball-sized hafnium bomb that would cause rather devastating effects. It's time for all the nuclear-powers to wake up and do something about it.
In fact, I'd say the nuclear materials and research inside the US are probably better locked-down than just about anywhere else.
Correct, but there's no other nation close enough to become a super-power comparable to US. Buildings are just as tall in the rest of the world, but why those twin towers in NYC? US has the power to start a nuclear war and it is still the number 1 target for many terrorist organizations. Prevention is better than cure, buddy.
Instead of making money, which they have enough, they can actually try to make computers better and better. A better chip available at a reasonable price can bring on a new revolution in computer industry. As you sig says, I'm not against any particular company or language, I'm just against the high money-monks who always aim at earning more bucks than chaning the society for good.
Rival chip maker AMD says they have the capability to produce dual-core chips and will introduce the technology when they "feel there is a market need".
When are they going to feel the need from market? If it's a better chip that the ones currently being used, then there's already a market need. Can't those morons see it? How else are they going to determine the market need? If I need a dual-core chip that increases the performance while using lower power, do I have to run on the streets yelling AMDs name? If AMDs planning to wait, they are going to lose a major share of the marked to Intel.