Slackware is not a
starter distro, although I did start with it with its very early versions (when you still had to download them on floppies), I wouldn't give it to someone to learn Linux...
I've actually done both of these. I learnt Linux with Slackware 3.3 (pulled by 14.4 modem, no less) and then, some years later introduced a curious friend to Linux by giving him a Slackware 7 CD. Didn't see him for a while, but he now has a real understanding of how "free" Linux is.
Incidentally, my friend has since tried RedHat, Debian and SuSe and can't get on with any of them! I think it's to do with the "do it yourself" mentality that Slackware administration instils. A good thing, I say.
Back in the olden days (pre 2000), I used to use GNOME exclusively over KDE because (a) it looked better to me, (b) it was faster on my old hardware and (c) didn't make me feel like an idiot (anyone remember KDE's cutsey little crash dialog?)
Then I discovered windowmaker, blackbox, finally fluxbox. They ran even faster than sawmill/GNOME, used less memory and generally didn't get in the way.
I now have access to faster hardware and so recently, I had another look at GNOME (probably around 2.2ish). The DE appeared to me to have moved away from all those things that made it "better" or "great" for me. It was now bulky, unresponsive and impenetrable to me.
Interesting, that KDE and GNOME are quite different animals, but I won't use them for the same reasons...
Must be my 4 years of [fluxbox|blackbox|evilwm|xfce|ion] and [xterm|rxvt] speaking...
And why couldn't you get windows if you lived in nebraska?
Re:Those stats don't really mean much though
on
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It's true that we don't have much access to your presidential campaign materials. More accurately, we don't see the US Presidency candidates marching up and down the counties of England (and a good thing too!).
Saying that though, we (being outside of the United States) are perfectly capable of reading about what's going on in the US. In fact, I come across a staggering amount of American news in my day -- staggering not because it's there, but because there's so much of it for a country that's so far away. By contrast, I rarely hear about what's going on in other parts of the EU (in which I live).
So, to come to my point, I agree that those of us outside the US would vote based on less issues than an informed person inside the US. However, I disagree that not paying attention to most of the campaigning has a lot to do with it. We're perfectly capable of reading manifestos and proposed policy documents which, in my case, is preferable anyway.
This happened to me last year. I came back from a holiday (authorised by the boss) to find I had been sacked (by the same woman - bitch!). The real problem here was that my accomodation was tied to the job, so I was also facing impending homelessness.
That last shift of mine wasn't conducted up to the usual standard, I can assure you!
The (considerable) sympathy that I had for the USA as a result of Sept. 11 '01 has been misspent by the subsequent behaviour of the administration there.
I understand that the people feel raw that such iconic structures were destroyed and thousands were killed. However it really starts looking like you (the American "public") have become self indulgent sheep!
People that had nothing to do with the WTC attack play on it as if they were there (and seem to be taken seriously!!). Now, I live south of Worcester in England. If Westminster (London, 150 miles away) was bombed tomorrow, and I tried to play up a terrible sense of loss as a result (I lived in Deptford once), people would laugh. There's no way that any part of the press would be interested, even the gutter press.
It seems to me that the real terrorists are the children in the White House and the Pentagon. Your land of the free (which once was extremely attractive to me as a possible place to live) seems not so free anymore. It seems that your freedoms are steadily eroded in the name of "protection against [terror|evil]" by the gov't and in the name of "fairness" by your mega-corporations ([RI|MP]AA et al.).
Of course, being an Australian citizen and posting from the UK (the other "free" English speaking nations), there is a fair bit of the pot calling the kettle black going on here.
It'd just be nice if you'd get over it. I bet you'll have a hell of a lot of sympathy for Iraqis in 3 years time. In fact, let's look at how you consider the Vietnamese.
Based entirely on my personal experience of touch typing (about 10 years now), there's no issue whatsoever with hitting CTRL keys that sit underneath the shift keys. Of course, this may be something to do with most keyboards of my acquaintance having twin CTRL keys underneath the shift keys.
As another poster here has said, using twin CTRL keys is just like using twin shift keys -- one simply uses opposing sides of the keyboard. To clarify, CTRL-I is performed by hitting left CTRL and I, and so on.
I am a relatively heavy user of things like BASH and EMACS, which have useful key combinations like CTRL-A, CTRL-B, CTRL-F, META-B, META-F, etc. In these cases I find that I am able to control the cursor position exclusively with the left hand, simply by shifting fingers one key to the left, so that the fingers on the left hand rest above CTRL, A, S, D/F, ALT/SPACE (thumb).
So to bring this rather verbose and questionable post to a close, I contest the parent's statement that it requires exceptional flexibility to hit the CTRL key under a SHIFT key. Naturally, your mileage may vary.
Our company's fileserver will continue to use ReiserFS 3 until there's a good enough reason to upgrade it. For me, this would be something like
replacing the server through hardware failure. At the moment, it just works. It's only accessible from the inside of our network, doesn't see much of a load, and the software has shown itself to be stable enough for me to almost forget that it's there.
Basically the bottom line is that Reiser 4 may be the best thing since sliced bread, but until I need to update the software on that machine, it's not going to be updated. After all, if it ain't broke...
Seems young George is a constant source of amusement (and frustration) to many of us.
In much the same way as John Prescott is over here (in the UK).
Some choice quotes:
"I would like to make some start in my speech."
"The city of York already is a city, as is my own city of Hull is a city, and that I think is the definition of city and town."
"If I decide it is right to make a statement to this house, that's what I do, that's what I have done, and it didn't come from anybody else."
"At the end of the day it's a negotiated settlement, they're always the more difficult ways of finding acts of violence or unilateral actions like this will not help, and we just see the matter escalating from day to day, again just walk the table - that's still the only solution!"
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I've actually done both of these. I learnt Linux with Slackware 3.3 (pulled by 14.4 modem, no less) and then, some years later introduced a curious friend to Linux by giving him a Slackware 7 CD. Didn't see him for a while, but he now has a real understanding of how "free" Linux is.
Incidentally, my friend has since tried RedHat, Debian and SuSe and can't get on with any of them! I think it's to do with the "do it yourself" mentality that Slackware administration instils. A good thing, I say.
I have to agree with this.
Back in the olden days (pre 2000), I used to use GNOME exclusively over KDE because (a) it looked better to me, (b) it was faster on my old hardware and (c) didn't make me feel like an idiot (anyone remember KDE's cutsey little crash dialog?)
Then I discovered windowmaker, blackbox, finally fluxbox. They ran even faster than sawmill/GNOME, used less memory and generally didn't get in the way.
I now have access to faster hardware and so recently, I had another look at GNOME (probably around 2.2ish). The DE appeared to me to have moved away from all those things that made it "better" or "great" for me. It was now bulky, unresponsive and impenetrable to me.
Interesting, that KDE and GNOME are quite different animals, but I won't use them for the same reasons...
Must be my 4 years of [fluxbox|blackbox|evilwm|xfce|ion] and [xterm|rxvt] speaking...
Thanks -- I'll be hearing that all day now...
>> As for the lightsaber, I forsee a few beaten up monitors in the clouds....
Well that'd be good for the monitor makers...
Excellent tools.
Once again, I'm in awe that so many people give so much high quality stuff away. (And keep it up to date!)
Thanks for 5 great years guys, and here's to another 5!
You can't buy that sort of comedy...
And why couldn't you get windows if you lived in nebraska?
It's true that we don't have much access to your presidential campaign materials. More accurately, we don't see the US Presidency candidates marching up and down the counties of England (and a good thing too!).
Saying that though, we (being outside of the United States) are perfectly capable of reading about what's going on in the US. In fact, I come across a staggering amount of American news in my day -- staggering not because it's there, but because there's so much of it for a country that's so far away. By contrast, I rarely hear about what's going on in other parts of the EU (in which I live).
So, to come to my point, I agree that those of us outside the US would vote based on less issues than an informed person inside the US. However, I disagree that not paying attention to most of the campaigning has a lot to do with it. We're perfectly capable of reading manifestos and proposed policy documents which, in my case, is preferable anyway.
Very well, I order you to relax!
Haha.
This happened to me last year. I came back from a holiday (authorised by the boss) to find I had been sacked (by the same woman - bitch!). The real problem here was that my accomodation was tied to the job, so I was also facing impending homelessness.
That last shift of mine wasn't conducted up to the usual standard, I can assure you!
Why not extradite and imprison the entire city of Amsterdam? Remember to pay attention to coffee houses.
Well said indeed, sir.
If I had points, you'd get em!
[flamepants firmly on]
The (considerable) sympathy that I had for the USA as a result of Sept. 11 '01 has been misspent by the subsequent behaviour of the administration there.
I understand that the people feel raw that such iconic structures were destroyed and thousands were killed. However it really starts looking like you (the American "public") have become self indulgent sheep!
People that had nothing to do with the WTC attack play on it as if they were there (and seem to be taken seriously!!). Now, I live south of Worcester in England. If Westminster (London, 150 miles away) was bombed tomorrow, and I tried to play up a terrible sense of loss as a result (I lived in Deptford once), people would laugh. There's no way that any part of the press would be interested, even the gutter press.
It seems to me that the real terrorists are the children in the White House and the Pentagon. Your land of the free (which once was extremely attractive to me as a possible place to live) seems not so free anymore. It seems that your freedoms are steadily eroded in the name of "protection against [terror|evil]" by the gov't and in the name of "fairness" by your mega-corporations ([RI|MP]AA et al.).
Of course, being an Australian citizen and posting from the UK (the other "free" English speaking nations), there is a fair bit of the pot calling the kettle black going on here.
It'd just be nice if you'd get over it. I bet you'll have a hell of a lot of sympathy for Iraqis in 3 years time. In fact, let's look at how you consider the Vietnamese.
Move on. (now where's that fire extinguisher?)
It would appear that the site has been "removed"...
All I get is gibberish. Hack?
I would have thought that we linuxers had understood how to connect to the net through dialup by now...
Still, it's nice(?!) to see them take it seriously enough to release software for linux, even if it's been done several times before...
As a certified member of the "liberati", I must absolutely agree. The man is a loon.
In fact, does anyone here know of a committee to unelect Blunkett?
Based entirely on my personal experience of touch typing (about 10 years now), there's no issue whatsoever with hitting CTRL keys that sit underneath the shift keys. Of course, this may be something to do with most keyboards of my acquaintance having twin CTRL keys underneath the shift keys.
As another poster here has said, using twin CTRL keys is just like using twin shift keys -- one simply uses opposing sides of the keyboard. To clarify, CTRL-I is performed by hitting left CTRL and I, and so on.
I am a relatively heavy user of things like BASH and EMACS, which have useful key combinations like CTRL-A, CTRL-B, CTRL-F, META-B, META-F, etc. In these cases I find that I am able to control the cursor position exclusively with the left hand, simply by shifting fingers one key to the left, so that the fingers on the left hand rest above CTRL, A, S, D/F, ALT/SPACE (thumb).
So to bring this rather verbose and questionable post to a close, I contest the parent's statement that it requires exceptional flexibility to hit the CTRL key under a SHIFT key. Naturally, your mileage may vary.
Our company's fileserver will continue to use ReiserFS 3 until there's a good enough reason to upgrade it. For me, this would be something like replacing the server through hardware failure. At the moment, it just works. It's only accessible from the inside of our network, doesn't see much of a load, and the software has shown itself to be stable enough for me to almost forget that it's there.
Basically the bottom line is that Reiser 4 may be the best thing since sliced bread, but until I need to update the software on that machine, it's not going to be updated. After all, if it ain't broke...
Seems young George is a constant source of amusement (and frustration) to many of us.
In much the same way as John Prescott is over here (in the UK).
Some choice quotes:
More here and here.
If education has gone downhill since he was a lad, we're all in trouble!