You go for one you know can give you the support you need. Other than that, go for a big one unless you have a reason to go for a particular other one. Many of the distros are just someone making their own LFS system and then deciding to release it.
Fedora is just red hat's public beta and gives you all the disadvantages of redhat with none of its advantages: namely, you have a heavily modified system, but none of the big support structure. If you try suse or mandrake or basically anything non-redhat I think you'll have a much better experience.
That's how you tell. Look at the way the light's coming down in the winning entry - absolutely uniform. Natural light is never that good. The water in the sixth-placed entry is amazing - but it's ruined by the sails. They're far too clean, and those crisp shadows look nothing like reality. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to add randomness to make pure digital textures look real, but at the moment they don't.
I think they should remove the M2-affecting-mod-ability. It's so arbitrary, especially for things like funny mods, though at the same time I can see how it could be considered necessary to stop the GNAA et al co-opting the M2 system. After that we'd just need people to believe in that - mod up opposing points of view, and, especially, M2 down anyone who mods it down as troll.
That's exactly it. Nokia has said "Oh, don't worry, they're just to protect us, we promise not to use them against you". That's good, but at the same time it's not really enough, we need to disarm everyone entirely before letting them in the house.
They've tested it and been unable to reproduce the vulnerability. But vulnerabilities are tricky things. I'm glad they still bothered to patch the kernel.
I think you misunderstand it. The NRA argument (which is where I've seen the line used most) is that if you make guns illegal it won't make it harder for criminals to get guns, only for lawful citizens. So making guns illegal only means less "good guys" having guns.
If only. People listen and say "ah, terrorism, must stop that, yes, here, take all our rights and freedoms, they don't matter". It's still working. Look at realID etc.
only outlaws will participate in piracy. So naturally the organised crime groups got involved. It's the same reason crime gangs run the drug trade, it's the same reason the Mafia controlled alcohol distribution in the Prohibition, and abortions before they became legal. Whenever legitimate businesses can't do something that's very much profitable, the illegitimate ones will. Piracy funds terrorism because it is illegal, not the other way around.
It doesn't matter, I criticised cowboyneal or their horrible perl code some time and now I never get mod points. But I'm still concerned to see how my posts get moderated. My highest scores come from what I see as trolling, saying a stupid, obvious comment, angrily, and waiting for the replies.
Huh? Back then the US was a controlled colony and revenue source of a pretty strong (not absolute, but far from purely symbolic) monarchy. Yes, they later rebelled and set up a representative democracy - but who says china won't do the same?
Possibly, but there are far far easier ways. Get it embedded into the compiler, so it doesn't show up in any source (read "Reflections on trusting trust"). Or plonk it in a bit of inlined assembly, since there's about 12 people in the world who would actually try and read and modify someone else's assembly.
It could promote reasoned argument and (hah) sensible discussion, encouraging people to present unusual ideas if they want to, but sensibly and well thought out, so that peopl actually think about them.
The latter. Most drivers already work as a scsi device - usb mass storage, cd burners, etc. The only one which doesn't, the ide disk driver, was completely rewritten halfway through 2.4 and could very well have been done using the scsi interface. The two layers could be maintained for a while, but the scsi one is better done and could be more efficient by being "promoted" up a layer. Instead linus keeps ide separate, deliberately breaks scsi emulation cd burning (nice one, never mind people who actually want to use the kernel, linus' preferences and ego are far more important) and now appears to be trying to get usb mass storage rewritten as a different block device, for no reason at all other than ensuring his broken design carries on.
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Don't do that. Torvalds and the cdrecord guy fell out and now cd burning doesn't work.
Seriously, if your tool gives you that serious problems it's time to use another one.
Surely having been arrested and got off should vindicate what he does?
Fedora is just red hat's public beta and gives you all the disadvantages of redhat with none of its advantages: namely, you have a heavily modified system, but none of the big support structure. If you try suse or mandrake or basically anything non-redhat I think you'll have a much better experience.
You wimp. Do it in befunge. That's a challenging language.
That's how you tell. Look at the way the light's coming down in the winning entry - absolutely uniform. Natural light is never that good. The water in the sixth-placed entry is amazing - but it's ruined by the sails. They're far too clean, and those crisp shadows look nothing like reality. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to add randomness to make pure digital textures look real, but at the moment they don't.
I think they should remove the M2-affecting-mod-ability. It's so arbitrary, especially for things like funny mods, though at the same time I can see how it could be considered necessary to stop the GNAA et al co-opting the M2 system. After that we'd just need people to believe in that - mod up opposing points of view, and, especially, M2 down anyone who mods it down as troll.
That's exactly it. Nokia has said "Oh, don't worry, they're just to protect us, we promise not to use them against you". That's good, but at the same time it's not really enough, we need to disarm everyone entirely before letting them in the house.
You're very wrong. No way do most people have a DVD drive. I don't, and I only know one person who does.
They've tested it and been unable to reproduce the vulnerability. But vulnerabilities are tricky things. I'm glad they still bothered to patch the kernel.
It's quite simple. New OSes run old apps. That helps sell the new OS. New apps require the new OS. That also helps sell the new OS.
Firefox does risk security by allowing developers to extend it. That's what the last big security issue was caused by.
You could just as easily say netscape or opera. Given the brand recognition I can more easily imagine netscape being listed there.
Because it has the stability advantages of XP while looking like it was designed for over-5s.
Netscape goes all the way to 8 though.
No, but there don't seem to be any legal distributions channels selling anywhere near the real marginal cost.
I think you misunderstand it. The NRA argument (which is where I've seen the line used most) is that if you make guns illegal it won't make it harder for criminals to get guns, only for lawful citizens. So making guns illegal only means less "good guys" having guns.
It never occurred to you that maybe they enjoy being critical?
If only. People listen and say "ah, terrorism, must stop that, yes, here, take all our rights and freedoms, they don't matter". It's still working. Look at realID etc.
only outlaws will participate in piracy. So naturally the organised crime groups got involved. It's the same reason crime gangs run the drug trade, it's the same reason the Mafia controlled alcohol distribution in the Prohibition, and abortions before they became legal. Whenever legitimate businesses can't do something that's very much profitable, the illegitimate ones will. Piracy funds terrorism because it is illegal, not the other way around.
It doesn't matter, I criticised cowboyneal or their horrible perl code some time and now I never get mod points. But I'm still concerned to see how my posts get moderated. My highest scores come from what I see as trolling, saying a stupid, obvious comment, angrily, and waiting for the replies.
Huh? Back then the US was a controlled colony and revenue source of a pretty strong (not absolute, but far from purely symbolic) monarchy. Yes, they later rebelled and set up a representative democracy - but who says china won't do the same?
Possibly, but there are far far easier ways. Get it embedded into the compiler, so it doesn't show up in any source (read "Reflections on trusting trust"). Or plonk it in a bit of inlined assembly, since there's about 12 people in the world who would actually try and read and modify someone else's assembly.
It could promote reasoned argument and (hah) sensible discussion, encouraging people to present unusual ideas if they want to, but sensibly and well thought out, so that peopl actually think about them.
The latter. Most drivers already work as a scsi device - usb mass storage, cd burners, etc. The only one which doesn't, the ide disk driver, was completely rewritten halfway through 2.4 and could very well have been done using the scsi interface. The two layers could be maintained for a while, but the scsi one is better done and could be more efficient by being "promoted" up a layer. Instead linus keeps ide separate, deliberately breaks scsi emulation cd burning (nice one, never mind people who actually want to use the kernel, linus' preferences and ego are far more important) and now appears to be trying to get usb mass storage rewritten as a different block device, for no reason at all other than ensuring his broken design carries on.