Oh yeah, what a huge disaster! That's more important than anything else in the country! Sure, they did a pretty good job of preventing civilian casualties, but the museum got looted!
I know that! But what the hell does that have to do with what Lindows is doing now? That's not their focus NOW, if the question was asked back THEN, it would be relevent.
Lindows is not "dedicated to emulating" windows. Personally, I don't like Lindows because I think it's a poorly made distro, but it is definately not what you said.
Why was it decided that Lindows would always run as `root' by default? That seems like a pretty bad decision to me, and many others as it's the number 1 complaint of many Linux users who would otherwise like to give Lindows a try, but perhaps we should hear why that decision was made.
Is this how Lindows is going to continue to work in the future? I think this is one "feature" of Win9x that would really be better to leave in the past.
I am testing it right now, port 135 is blocked. Nothing goes in or out of our network on port 135. This is freakin weird, I got no idea wtf is going on here. Guess I'm gonna have to do some sniffin to figure this out.
A couple weeks ago my coworker closed down the port for netbios on our firewall. Over the next couple weeks these messenger spams continued to get through. Thinking my coworker must be an idiot, I checked out the firewall myself, and tested it from outside our network. NETBIOS is indeed blocked. Frustrated as hell, I double triple and quadrouple checked to be sure as hell it is blocked. Indeed, it is.
I do not wish to manually turn off the messenger service on every single win box on our network, so does anyone have any idea what could be going on?, or do I need to just start sniffing?
KDE and GNOME are not "catching up" to Windows. Windows is an OS, KDE/GNOME are GUI Desktops. Where they compare to windows, however, they have already far surpassed it in some ways, and still have some catching up to do. KDE and GNOME both do not rely on a silly "registry". GNOME has GCONF, but GCONF is fundamentally different from the registry where it counts, resulting in superior performance and stability. Both are now easier to use than Windows(note: I'm only talking about KDE/GNOME, not using Linux in general, that's another discussion)
Mozilla is far superior to IE. I find it absolutely incredible that you would list Mozilla as something that is "trying to catch up". Mozilla is one of the most innovative pieces of software I've seen in a long time. XUL, Gecko, standards compliance, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, fine-grained cookie control, platform independence... I use Mozilla even when I'm forced to use Windows, and I'm not a Moz zealot, I used IE on Win until Mozilla was ready. My wife(complete non-techie) prefers Mozilla to IE.
The Kernel. Is it playing "catch up"? In some areas, yes. But so is windows, even more so is windows if you compare it to Solaris and BSD. Just wait for the next major kernel, performance improvements and features galore. There is serious innovation going on in the development kernel these days. As for innovation with the Linux kernel, can you say "portable"? I thought you could. What other OS kernel runs on such a wide variety of hardware? None.
De Raadt made some stupid comments that upset people at DARPA. They decided they didn't want to fund his project anymore because of this. How does that make us "prisoners"...
Grow the hell up, this is the real world here. There's a price to pay when you exercise your free speech. No one has called him a terrorist. No one has been arrested. Good will towards him has been damaged, that is all.
I despise the name Firebird, especially for a web browser. For a database it kind of makes sense, something fast and efficient. A browser is supposed to be a vessel in which you navigate the web.
Personally, I think they should come up with a nautical style name, or something generally to do with exploration, would definately be much cooler, IMO.
Firebird... Bah, that's just stupid.
Galeon, Konqueror, Safari, Explorer(a bit too generic)... Names like that are good, IMO.
if and when the pendulum swings back from reality television shot on location on video to filmed dramas shot on soundstages... just MAYBE they'll be ready.
Idiot, fucking idiot, you completely missed the fucking point! Dramas take YEARS to get large followings. If they were competent, they'd be supporting shows that had a chance of being really good, instead they go and cancel everything that isn't an instant cash infusion.
When the reality shit bombs, they will have nothing keeping them stable for years.
I put down Cosmonaut Keep. It was just ridiculously silly and blatantly attacking America. I myself strongly criticize America, my home, because it is deserving of a lot of criticism with freedoms being abridged recklessly by some. But that book was ridiculous, and McLeod's socialist ideas were... juvenile.
As far as I can tell, people are getting sick and tired of "reality television". While reality shows may still be gaining viewers(I dunno, do you?), many, many people I know are sick to death of them and are turning away from television moreso than before.
I think this just goes to demonstrate your point even further, that networks are only thinking short-term these days.
Is there not a single competent businessman among the bunch? A competent businessman would think long-term instead of going after short-term gain.
What are the networks going to have left when the reality tv ratings drop off? Nothing.
This font is probably the most beautiful font I have ever seen, especially the serif font. It is by far the most easily readable serif font ever. I normally despise serif fonts because I find them pretty unreadable, but Bitstream Vera Serif rocks.
It's really good to finally have a high-quality free font set.
Um, does many thousands of people starving daily due to rampant overpopulation count?
Don't you mean, "starving daily due to despotic dictators"? Most of the starving around the world is due to politics, not technology.
What about the thousands of asthma sufferers plagued by air pollution?
Move out of the fuckin' city. Plenty of places to live where that's not a problem, in fact, that's not a problem in most cities anyway. Gimme a break.
perhaps these only qualify as gloom...
To be fair, we have trampled on a lot of the natural beauty of the world. Cut down a lot of rainforests, destroyed a lot of land pumping and spilling oil, etc. Nothing I would call doom and gloom though...
I find a mouse wheel to be 1000% more efficient than having to move the mouse over and drag a clumsy scrollbar. And of course, wheels also act as a button when pressing straight down. Yes, it's more difficult to press than a normal button, but not too much, and that's why it is relegated to tasks done less frequently and more deliberately.
FWIW, I used to prefer a 3 button mouse over a mouse w/wheel, until I actually started using them.
Why is it that every other post is some self-righteous tirade about how Iraq has so many other problems right now that people shouldn't be concerned about things like this.
Sure, they need food and safe water first, but there is a future in Iraq that people can think and talk about. There's already huge aid packages being put together.
Iraq needs an economy in order to become self-sufficient. Things like this ARE going to be important. Let's try to make Iraq into a prosperous country.
I agree about 50% being jerks, same experience here. I think 1% in prison seems like to much though, at least considering that so many people are in for petty crimes like smoking dope. We really don't need to put people who infringe copyright in prison, IMO. Or maybe we should, Microsoft committed some serious copyright violations while starting up:)
Nope, our prisons are pretty damn full. It was just the other day that I saw an article in a newspaper saying that for the first time, we now officially have over 2 Million people in prison in the U.S. That's nearly 1% of the population. While I certainly like and support my country, it needs some serious work in many areas.
Slashdot Mirror
Get some fucking priorities!
I would imagine Slashdot will switch to PNG sometime after IE has proper support for it.
Is this how Lindows is going to continue to work in the future? I think this is one "feature" of Win9x that would really be better to leave in the past.
I do not wish to manually turn off the messenger service on every single win box on our network, so does anyone have any idea what could be going on?, or do I need to just start sniffing?
Mozilla is far superior to IE. I find it absolutely incredible that you would list Mozilla as something that is "trying to catch up". Mozilla is one of the most innovative pieces of software I've seen in a long time. XUL, Gecko, standards compliance, tabbed browsing, popup blocking, fine-grained cookie control, platform independence... I use Mozilla even when I'm forced to use Windows, and I'm not a Moz zealot, I used IE on Win until Mozilla was ready. My wife(complete non-techie) prefers Mozilla to IE.
The Kernel. Is it playing "catch up"? In some areas, yes. But so is windows, even more so is windows if you compare it to Solaris and BSD. Just wait for the next major kernel, performance improvements and features galore. There is serious innovation going on in the development kernel these days. As for innovation with the Linux kernel, can you say "portable"? I thought you could. What other OS kernel runs on such a wide variety of hardware? None.
Grow the hell up, this is the real world here. There's a price to pay when you exercise your free speech. No one has called him a terrorist. No one has been arrested. Good will towards him has been damaged, that is all.
Personally, I think they should come up with a nautical style name, or something generally to do with exploration, would definately be much cooler, IMO.
Firebird... Bah, that's just stupid.
Galeon, Konqueror, Safari, Explorer(a bit too generic)... Names like that are good, IMO.
Idiot, fucking idiot, you completely missed the fucking point! Dramas take YEARS to get large followings. If they were competent, they'd be supporting shows that had a chance of being really good, instead they go and cancel everything that isn't an instant cash infusion.
When the reality shit bombs, they will have nothing keeping them stable for years.
Silly AC, get a clue before you go flaimbaiting.
I think this just goes to demonstrate your point even further, that networks are only thinking short-term these days.
Is there not a single competent businessman among the bunch? A competent businessman would think long-term instead of going after short-term gain.
What are the networks going to have left when the reality tv ratings drop off? Nothing.
It's really good to finally have a high-quality free font set.
FWIW. YMMV.
Don't you mean, "starving daily due to despotic dictators"? Most of the starving around the world is due to politics, not technology.
What about the thousands of asthma sufferers plagued by air pollution?
Move out of the fuckin' city. Plenty of places to live where that's not a problem, in fact, that's not a problem in most cities anyway. Gimme a break.
perhaps these only qualify as gloom...
To be fair, we have trampled on a lot of the natural beauty of the world. Cut down a lot of rainforests, destroyed a lot of land pumping and spilling oil, etc. Nothing I would call doom and gloom though...
FWIW, I used to prefer a 3 button mouse over a mouse w/wheel, until I actually started using them.
Of course, YMMV.
Sure, they need food and safe water first, but there is a future in Iraq that people can think and talk about. There's already huge aid packages being put together.
Iraq needs an economy in order to become self-sufficient. Things like this ARE going to be important. Let's try to make Iraq into a prosperous country.
Damn you!!! >P