In the last presidential election, you had a choice to vote for three people. Who those three people were was decided by an oligarchy, not a democracy. You don't get to choose who the president is, you only get to choose the best out of three candidates. If it was a true democracy, you'd get to nominate your own candidate. Of course, then the entire government would spend 4 years counting votes, there would usually be three or four candidates with the same amount of votes, and the winner would only have a few thousand votes at the most. What's my point? You decide
You can nominate whoever you want. You can even vote for none of the above, which is the best way to curb a candidate's... candidacy, as a politician cannot run again for office if the vote of "none of the above" is in the majority.
The problem though has nothing to do with the popular vote at all though. It does, however, have to do with the electoral vote, something that has chased us even down to Mr. Clinton's first election. (George Bush had beaten him in the popular vote, but the electoral college overrides)
We need to vote for politicians who are willing to abolish the electoral college and let teh citizens think for themselves
I think Slashdot would be a much better place without making a fool out of Microsoft. They're good enough at it themselves. The only thing slashdot achieves with all this MS bashing is looking like a bigger idiot than Microsoft (well... almost).
Well, I look at it in two ways:
1) Slashdot is just displaying the foolishness that Bill Gates created by writing this book (hence, what NEWS is all about, IOW, reporting fact)
2) Most of us probably haven't even bothered to open our ears enough to listen to the announcement of the book, (I didn't know about it until this personally) or care to read the dribble that was going to come out of it. If anything, it would have been nice if Jon and Doc had cited some interesting philosophy in the book, but it seems from the review that they may have not had any examples to cite.
And on the Anti-MS attitude, these things don't just create themselves. No one has the dire hatred for Apple or IBM these days that people have for MS. I for one don't TRUST Apple and IBM to do anything slightly in the public interest, but I'm not going to condemn them in general either, like I would do to MS.
Blaming one's incompetence as a system administrator on the distribution you run is lame. If you can't keep your own systems up to date, you have only yourself to blame. In any case, how hard is it for someone to type./configure --help and/or./configure && make && make install?
No kidding. This is like the guy on IRC that bitches because he installed a script with a backdoor in it, and someone exploited it.
You should always double-check places like bugtraq as soon as you put a full-time server on the net. I've only had one root compromise under slack, and it was related to a NFS bug (due to my own ignorance of not disabling NFS in the first place) that wasn't even posted on bugtraq until 2 days later.
Slack is just as stable as the rest of 'em when properly configured, and I've found that those people that are ranting about deps and automatic upgrades and whatnot generally have less secure boxes than the slack machines that I've seen, because they rely on the program to do the work for them, instead of double-checking the work that was actually done.
Whether this is actual dependence on the upgrade program, laziness, or ignorance on the part of the user, it still comes down to one thing:
Unix machines are about openness, and the fact that the machine is doing what it's told is obviously not the problem, it's the fault of the user not doublechecking what hte machine is doing.
Um, is it just me, or have any of you heard of the "swapon" command? It's rather useful for doing stuff like this, dunno if you can do it in redhat or debian, but if you're put in front of a shell before you setup off of floppy/cdrom, try it! Heaven forbid you might enable swap space.
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm sticking with Slackware and libc5, tried, true, and unfettered by commercialism (Red Hat) and politics (Debian).
No kidding, I can't agree more. While I would *LIKE* all software to be free, asking that is nothing more than spouting pipe dreams at this time.
Slackware, all distro, no political or commercial fat. And it's 10x easier to setup a server that works properly under slack than any other distro that I can think of, especially redhat, IME.
Not to mention, rpm2tgz, my favorite tool in the world.:)
I am not arguing that APSL is good or bad. I am arguing that the self-proclaimed leaders of our community need to get their shit together.
No kidding. It would be really nice to see them all get along, but that's not going to happen and in some cases it's still a good thing.
But, it would be nice if ESR, RMS, BP & friends decided on ONE definition of source code, that is at least able to be maintained by independent developers, and have those developers be able to independently distribute the code that they contributed. This would be a good "minimal requirement" for any definition pertaining to source code that is opened to the public.
This would be something simple that all of these guys could agree on, even though their ideological views don't fit, the programmer is protected, instead of the code.
IANAL, so I wouldn't know the logistics behind it, but I just don't see how this couldn't be achievable, and have it ON PAPER, so it doesn't depend on one guy to "endorse" it to be legitimate to the licence, which is the current case with ESR and RMS. (ESR in particular)
you don't want to give back to the mac community. you're just an opportunist. Having one macos isn't just good for Apple but also mac developers and consumers.
Having one of anything, as history dictates, is bad.
A dictator is bad - one ruler. Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, anyone?
How would you liek it if you went to the store to get a pop and all there was, was pepsi, and you didn't like pepsi? Now, that would suck too, wouldn't it?
Gee, I can go on, and on, and on..... The same applies in any situation. If there is only one of anything, there is nothing to compare it to, and therefore creates a lock of trust based around ignorance, not knowledge or advancement.
After all, how would you like it if you only had the choice of Windows?
Fine, so the Apple liscence isn't 100% pure Open-source-free-as-in-free-speech, but should we be criticizing a company that is opening its code up?
Yes! This dilutes what OSS and Free Software are defined as, and other companies are going to be quick to follow.
Sure ideally it would be nice to have it all GPL'd, but isn't this better than what we had?
NO! I would rather have Apple release no code than to release it, to have tons of programmers work hard on it to have their work squandered by a compnay that's possibly looking to essentially "hire programmers for free".
Note: I'm not accusing them of this (yet), but when stuff like this appears, I tend to be rather cautious.
What does it serve to condemn apple for taking a step in the right direction. And I know that this will certainly help groups like LinuxPPC open up the Mac platform to other OSes.
Apple is taking a step in the right direction, but they are doing it wrong. No one is denying that Apple is trying to do the right thing, but they are venturing into unknown territory, and we need people like Bruce and RMS and ESR to keep these guys on their toes.
If Apple changes their licence they can at least be guaranteed that I'll be purchasing a PPC in the future, if not MacOS X also. (and I have never been the biggest mac fan, but I'm interested)
I'm imagining i'm not the only one who feels this way, and I believe that Apple is counting on that, so, hopefully they'll change their license.
To give you an example the current box I am running at home is a system w/asus mb, 64mb sdram, 233 pentium +mmx, 4gig western digital drive, 24x toshiba, sb 64awe and a diamond viper which cost me about $830 or so and it's been up over 190 days.
Ditto, I go through a wholesaler and I got a PII-350, 128mb, 8gig IDE WD, Adaptech 2940AU SCSI card, SCSI Zip, SCSI 32x Teac CD, 17".26 relisys monitor, logi mouseman+, keyboard, awe32, and ASUS V3400TNT (Nvidia Riva TNT) for about $1100.
I had to return the ram because it was DOA, but I got a replacement the next day and I was up and running. That's what I call support, not "please hold, all of our lines are busy".
Sure wood doesn't start to burn. But I work for a computer company that shall rename very nameless that made some boards that CAUGHT FIRE SPONTANEOUSLY. I won't tell you specifically why they did, but it was a manufacturing error. Also, I know it has happened to other companies. Since these were inside metal cases it was contained. to a single office. A lot better than bringing down the whole building. Extra fans would only serve to spit out more smoldering embers into your workspace (it was that bad - real scary). If you need that wood verneer, glue it to the outside of something metal. There s a reason why your wood case would probably not be UL approved.
Was it the shuttle HOT? I've heard these things catch fire the first time you turn the power on...
If it'd make you happier, send me a list of all the personal addresses to the artists that I pirate music from, and I'll send them the $1.50 or $2 the RIAA and Music Industry actually gives to them.
In fact, I would be more than happy to. I'm not interested in funding the RIAA, or any of the big record labels that literally "pimp" musicians and clean up off of them, and then decide their fate almost like if it were some really high-stakes game of chess.
I find out abuot tons of bands that I would have never been interested in exploring before had I not had the cash, and then I go to their concerts to see them live, where they tend to make a little more money (but not much).
The simple fact is, is that even if I had the money, I wouldn't have bought these albums in the first place. I see no wrong here, as my situation would have never changed. I'm sure you can find a metaphor to cite me as being wrong, but in this case, it's just like having a radio station on for most of the time.
Economic interest is the only thing that matters, or have you forgotten that mommy and daddy are forking over money to keep you in college?
Some of us in college are footing the bill ourselves. Get a clue, you pompous bastard.
Get a job, and soon you will realize that money drives everything.
Get a life, and you'll realize that money means nothing without happiness. Remember that when you're 80 and financially sound, and emotionally void.
If people are willing to PAY for mp3s, it will stay alive.
If they aren't, its dead. Its simple as that, and we haven't seen yet if people are willing to actually PAY for mp3s.
Then explain to me why I have roughly 2 gigs of mp3's that I've never paid for?
If was going to pay for the music, I'd have a cd of it too, as I do with another 1.2gb of mp3's that I have. I see no point is "pay for play" music selling tactics. I will pirate all my music before I am restricted to how many times I can listen to a song, relative to the amount of greenbacks in my wallet.
It's sad to see someone so shortsighted and unenlightened. You'd probably be a lot happier if you'd realize how little of importance money really is.
Winamp deliberately took amp's code and wrote a shell around it.... It originally just bothered me until they actually started having hte gall to CHARGE for it.
amp still is one of the least resource intensive mp3 players out theee, and I didn't see any difference in resource usage between winamp 1.x, and 2.x, when nullsoft wrote their own engine, and started to charge for the software.
Frankly I'm happier than shit that nullsoft is finally getting what's been coming to them.
My antipathy (I only FEAR my doctor's opinion) for RMS comes from the fact that trying to turn people on to Linux is like beating back high tide with a hammer, thanks to certain freakazoids who make the whole enterprise look about as respectable as distilling gin in your bathtub.
The problem with most "newage" Free Software users is that they either don't recognize what people have given them, or they just don't care.
Go to FreeBSD. Please. They have a good movement, and if you can't handle what's been given to you, the BSD group requires no moral authorities to recognize.
The fact is, is that people see this raving freak, they aren't seeing the mind behind it, nor the ideals that created all this hoopla. After all, if that fanatical hairy freak wasn't spending months with lawyers creating and revising the GPL, would we be having this discussion? Would you be using a Linux machine to type your messages here, or run a server?
No.
Just remember that, everytime you type gcc, to compile your GPL'd code, on your OS made of Free Software.
Then think of the person who created every single one of those terms, and remember how much you criticize him for doing nothing but stifling linux's growth.
Let the OS shape itself in the minds of others, some of the best things in the world have come from the eccentrics.
Since when do you have your finger on the pulse of 'a majority of Slashdotters'? I assure you that most posts I see on Slashdot are extremely pro-Linus (as well they should be), and I think the majority (not all) of posts come from US readers. In fact I don't think I've ever seen an anti-Linus post on Slashdot (from anyone, anywhere).
No kidding, I love being generalized by someone accusing me of generalization. You know, one of those "oxymoronic" things.
You don't think there's a tax on import items already?
Yeah, but they can't tax a business in another country directly, only on their export of goods, AFAIK.
Do you really believe that tax will kill internet business? Remember, in the US tax goes to pay for government services which help everyone out, from education to military spending. Tax is not evil, taxes keep the US running.
Remove brain from head, wash thoroghly with government propaganda.
You have to be kidding. This is the same govt. that spent $5 million a year studying varying brands of ketchup?
Yes, you know, red, made of tomatoes...
Until we become a utopian society where money is a thing of the past, people like you have to understand how capitalistic societies work. If you don't like it, move to China.
Understanding it and liking it are two different things. I don't see how the first poster misunderstood it at all, he just stated that it's probably going to kill a lot of US internet companies. He's probably right.
Can't use God. That's reserved by us SysAdmins. -Erik
This has nothing to do with this at all, but Eric Raymond is right - there is a giant conspiracy of people named "Eric" (insert different spelling here) that tend to grow beards and use a *nix of some sort...
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
Big deal. Spielberg's made his bombs, too. No artist is going to impress 100% of the people 100% of the time, or even his previous audience 100% of the time.
Personally I can't wait until all of you get back and say "wow, it was good, but not what I expected".
Then, I'm goign to have quite the laugh in this comment section.
Enough Already! Stop these silly articles. I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles here. Isn't there anything more instersting to talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now.
I'm tired of seeing it on slashdot too, (and i'm goign to filter it out) but then again, i'm really sick of seeing it everywhere else also, which is just slightly harder to avoid. Not to mention the fact that the 6 weeks surrounding the release of a movie, with a trailer that's just not that impressive on a standalone basis, (that is, if you don't hide it behind all the background and fanfare of the first 3 movies) there aren't going to be any other movies to go see.
I for one am just sick of the hype. 90% of slashdot readers are ridiculed for ridiculing "hype", which is exactly what all this crap is, until the actual movie comes out and all of you bitch that it didn't meet your expectations, which, it obviously won't no matter how good of a god damned movie it is. I find this more amazing than any of the hype out there, the fact that 90% of it is fan-based and the other 10% is just George Lucas saying "star wars this" every now and then.
Worse than a fscking star trek convention and William Shatner showing up in the middle of it.
WHY DO THESE PEOPLE EVEN HAVE JOBS??????? Sheesh...the minute I learned I'd hired someone THAT stupid, they'd be out the door!
You'd be surprised what kinds of idiots recieve MCSE's...
I had a boss that was working on an atx powered machine, he has a MCSE, A+ Cert, MCP, and a BS in CE. (lots of initials, you're about to find out how little they mean)
For a good 6 hours on a sunday, he was working on this box... about 4 hours into it, I can hear him grumbling in the other room, so I figured I'd poke my head in there and check it out, the lines were slow (i was tech support there). He was with another MCSE, with the fully built machine, pushing hte power, seeing nothing happen, and griping. I asked if I could help, but because I wasn't part of the MCSE club (and pointedly told him I wouldn't be), I couldn't help.
About 2 hours later, he leaves, still not getting the machine to work, so I figure I'll go in and check on it.
On all ATX power supplies (as most of you know), there's a "soft" power switch on the front of the case, and on a "hard" power switch on the back of the power supply.
I flicked the one on the back, and went back to my tech support calls. He comes back in an hour, hits the soft power-on, and thinks god has smiled on him or something, because, obviously, the machine started up.
I've never experienced such silent gratification in my life. The Linux sysadmin got quite the laugh too.
(you konw, the type of sysadmin that doesn't know anything because he doesn't know NT, but if he left the job the ISP would fly like a lead balloon)
Debian is Slackware for hackers who think Volkerding is stuck back in the Stone Ages with his retro distribution).
Really? I won't use RedHat because of it's insane coddling of the user, and in the same case been evasive to try out debian also...
Slackware is notoriously easy to maintain and is known for not interfering with the system as a whole... Could I expect the same out of Debian?
If I could be guaranteed of this, I'd probably be all over Debian.:) Not saying I'm blindly discriminating, but if it would be anything like redhat I'd probably purchase a nail gun just to use on the cd I'd burn it to..:)
Any previous slack converts to debian have something to say about this? I'd really like some feedback.
-Erik-
Please, explain your commenting strategy!
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Or do you just assume that Rob's little place is so fucking gay that no one can keep away? I'm sure that an intelligent reply on ZDNet would be worth a couple of thousand replies on this site. Then again if one think about the usual quality of comments on this site - perhaps it is far better that all the elite d00dez stay away.
First off, I couldn't reply to your post on ZDNet. The article system there is very.. poor. I would have to write a post there, quote yours, and never have any referencing in the visual output whatsoever that it is a reply to your topic.
Second, if you were a regular visitor here, you would know that ZDNet puts some half-assed rumor like this up at least once a week, to stir guys like you and me up to go to their site to generate ad revenue. ZDNet has enough money, and Rob Malda, IMO, doesn't. I'd rather fund his back pocket to know that I have a place where I can talk freely, which brings me to the third point.
Censorship. Read the other replies, i'm not going to restate the obvious.
Right. Accidently. The Unix-Haters handbook has this right - xauth et la is a pain; no one is ever going to accidently discover X is network transparent.
Uh.
1) Telnet to shell 2) set DISPLAY 3) run xterm 4) type xauth +(ip of shell) 5) run program from shell
This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no way that Microsoft office could compete on Linux with free software equivalents that have 80% of the functionality and 0% of the cost.
For free applications to be used over commercial apps they need 150% of the functionality. Cost is not an issue, Microsoft has made a business out of having their software pirated, and benefitted very much so in the long run.
Even if they NEVER made a damn DIME on an Office port for linux, that insures that they can push that market in their direction on multiple platforms, which means laying the final blow to Wordperfect.
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In the last presidential election, you had a choice to vote for three people. Who those three people were was decided by an oligarchy, not a democracy. You don't get to choose who the president is, you only get to choose the best out of three candidates. If it was a true democracy, you'd get to nominate your own candidate. Of course, then the entire government would spend 4 years counting votes, there would usually be three or four candidates with the same amount of votes, and the winner would only have a few thousand votes at the most. What's my point? You decide
... candidacy, as a politician cannot run again for office if the vote of "none of the above" is in the majority.
You can nominate whoever you want. You can even vote for none of the above, which is the best way to curb a candidate's
The problem though has nothing to do with the popular vote at all though. It does, however, have to do with the electoral vote, something that has chased us even down to Mr. Clinton's first election. (George Bush had beaten him in the popular vote, but the electoral college overrides)
We need to vote for politicians who are willing
to abolish the electoral college and let teh citizens think for themselves
-Erik-
I think Slashdot would be a much better place without making a fool out of Microsoft. They're good enough at it themselves. The only thing slashdot achieves with all this MS bashing is looking like a bigger idiot than Microsoft (well... almost).
Well, I look at it in two ways:
1) Slashdot is just displaying the foolishness that Bill Gates created by writing this book (hence, what NEWS is all about, IOW, reporting fact)
2) Most of us probably haven't even bothered to open our ears enough to listen to the announcement of the book, (I didn't know about it until this personally) or care to read the dribble that was going to come out of it. If anything, it would have been nice if Jon and Doc had cited some interesting philosophy in the book, but it seems from the review that they may have not had any examples to cite.
And on the Anti-MS attitude, these things don't just create themselves. No one has the dire hatred for Apple or IBM these days that people have for MS. I for one don't TRUST Apple and IBM to do anything slightly in the public interest, but I'm not going to condemn them in general either, like I would do to MS.
-Erik-
Blaming one's incompetence as a system administrator on the distribution you run is lame. If you can't keep your own systems up to date, you have only yourself to blame. In any case, how hard is it for someone to type ./configure --help and/or ./configure && make && make install?
No kidding. This is like the guy on IRC that bitches because he installed a script with a backdoor in it, and someone exploited it.
You should always double-check places like bugtraq as soon as you put a full-time server on the net. I've only had one root compromise under slack, and it was related to a NFS bug (due to my own ignorance of not disabling NFS in the first place) that wasn't even posted on bugtraq until 2 days later.
Slack is just as stable as the rest of 'em when properly configured, and I've found that those people that are ranting about deps and automatic upgrades and whatnot generally have less secure boxes than the slack machines that I've seen, because they rely on the program to do the work for them, instead of double-checking the work that was actually done.
Whether this is actual dependence on the upgrade program, laziness, or ignorance on the part of the user, it still comes down to one thing:
Unix machines are about openness, and the fact that the machine is doing what it's told is obviously not the problem, it's the fault of the user not doublechecking what hte machine is doing.
-Erik-
Um, is it just me, or have any of you heard of the "swapon" command? It's rather useful for doing stuff like this, dunno if you can do it in redhat or debian, but if you're put in front of a shell before you setup off of floppy/cdrom, try it! Heaven forbid you might enable swap space.
-Erik-
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm sticking with Slackware and libc5, tried, true, and unfettered by commercialism (Red Hat) and politics (Debian).
:)
No kidding, I can't agree more. While I would *LIKE* all software to be free, asking that is nothing more than spouting pipe dreams at this time.
Slackware, all distro, no political or commercial fat. And it's 10x easier to setup a server that works properly under slack than any other distro that I can think of, especially redhat, IME.
Not to mention, rpm2tgz, my favorite tool in the world.
-Erik-
I am not arguing that APSL is good or bad. I am arguing that the self-proclaimed leaders of our community need to get their shit together.
No kidding. It would be really nice to see them all get along, but that's not going to happen and in some cases it's still a good thing.
But, it would be nice if ESR, RMS, BP & friends decided on ONE definition of source code, that is at least able to be maintained by independent developers, and have those developers be able to independently distribute the code that they contributed. This would be a good "minimal requirement" for any definition pertaining to source code that is opened to the public.
This would be something simple that all of these guys could agree on, even though their ideological views don't fit, the programmer is protected, instead of the code.
IANAL, so I wouldn't know the logistics behind it, but I just don't see how this couldn't be achievable, and have it ON PAPER, so it doesn't depend on one guy to "endorse" it to be legitimate to the licence, which is the current case with ESR and RMS. (ESR in particular)
-Erik-
you don't want to give back to the mac community. you're just an opportunist. Having one macos isn't just good for Apple but also mac developers and consumers.
Having one of anything, as history dictates, is bad.
A dictator is bad - one ruler. Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, anyone?
How would you liek it if you went to the store to get a pop and all there was, was pepsi, and you didn't like pepsi? Now, that would suck too, wouldn't it?
Gee, I can go on, and on, and on..... The same applies in any situation. If there is only one of anything, there is nothing to compare it to, and therefore creates a lock of trust based around ignorance, not knowledge or advancement.
After all, how would you like it if you only had the choice of Windows?
I think I made my point...
-Erik-
Fine, so the Apple liscence isn't 100% pure Open-source-free-as-in-free-speech, but should we be criticizing a company that is opening its code up?
Yes! This dilutes what OSS and Free Software are defined as, and other companies are going to be quick to follow.
Sure ideally it would be nice to have it all GPL'd, but isn't this better than what we had?
NO! I would rather have Apple release no code than to release it, to have tons of programmers work hard on it to have their work squandered by a compnay that's possibly looking to essentially "hire programmers for free".
Note: I'm not accusing them of this (yet), but when stuff like this appears, I tend to be rather cautious.
What does it serve to condemn apple for taking a step in the right direction. And I know that this will certainly help groups like LinuxPPC open up the Mac platform to other OSes.
Apple is taking a step in the right direction, but they are doing it wrong. No one is denying that Apple is trying to do the right thing, but they are venturing into unknown territory, and we need people like Bruce and RMS and ESR to keep these guys on their toes.
If Apple changes their licence they can at least be guaranteed that I'll be purchasing a PPC in the future, if not MacOS X also. (and I have never been the biggest mac fan, but I'm interested)
I'm imagining i'm not the only one who feels this way, and I believe that Apple is counting on that, so, hopefully they'll change their license.
-Erik-
To give you an example the current box I am running at home is a system w/asus mb, 64mb sdram, 233 pentium +mmx, 4gig western digital drive, 24x toshiba, sb 64awe and a diamond viper which cost me about $830 or so and it's been up over 190 days.
.26 relisys monitor, logi mouseman+, keyboard, awe32, and ASUS V3400TNT (Nvidia Riva TNT) for about $1100.
:)
Ditto, I go through a wholesaler and I got a PII-350, 128mb, 8gig IDE WD, Adaptech 2940AU SCSI card, SCSI Zip, SCSI 32x Teac CD, 17"
I had to return the ram because it was DOA, but I got a replacement the next day and I was up and running. That's what I call support, not "please hold, all of our lines are busy".
And I never paid a bloody windows tax either.
-Erik-
"Based on WebBench benchmark testing performed by ZD Labs...."
Ok, once I got to that, I knew the rest was bullshit. I don't think ZDNet has ever had a fair bench in their existence.
-Erik-
Sure wood doesn't start to burn. But I work for a computer company that shall rename very nameless that made some boards that CAUGHT FIRE SPONTANEOUSLY. I won't tell you specifically why they did, but it was a manufacturing error. Also, I know it has happened to other companies. Since these were inside metal cases it was contained. to a single office. A lot better than bringing down the whole building. Extra fans would only serve to spit out more smoldering embers into your workspace (it was that bad - real scary). If you need that wood verneer, glue it to the outside of something metal. There s a reason why your wood case would probably not be UL approved.
Was it the shuttle HOT? I've heard these things catch fire the first time you turn the power on...
So.. "HOT" is a literal term, heh.
-Erik-
.. or the artist, for that matter.
If it'd make you happier, send me a list of all the personal addresses to the artists that I pirate music from, and I'll send them the $1.50 or $2 the RIAA and Music Industry actually gives to them.
In fact, I would be more than happy to. I'm not interested in funding the RIAA, or any of the big record labels that literally "pimp" musicians and clean up off of them, and then decide their fate almost like if it were some really high-stakes game of chess.
I find out abuot tons of bands that I would have never been interested in exploring before had I not had the cash, and then I go to their concerts to see them live, where they tend to make a little more money (but not much).
The simple fact is, is that even if I had the money, I wouldn't have bought these albums in the first place. I see no wrong here, as my situation would have never changed. I'm sure you can find a metaphor to cite me as being wrong, but in this case, it's just like having a radio station on for most of the time.
-Erik-
Economic interest is the only thing that matters,
or have you forgotten that mommy and daddy are
forking over money to keep you in college?
Some of us in college are footing the bill ourselves. Get a clue, you pompous bastard.
Get a job, and soon you will realize that money drives everything.
Get a life, and you'll realize that money means nothing without happiness. Remember that when you're 80 and financially sound, and emotionally void.
If people are willing to PAY for mp3s, it will
stay alive.
If they aren't, its dead. Its simple as that,
and we haven't seen yet if people are willing
to actually PAY for mp3s.
Then explain to me why I have roughly 2 gigs of mp3's that I've never paid for?
If was going to pay for the music, I'd have a cd of it too, as I do with another 1.2gb of mp3's that I have. I see no point is "pay for play" music selling tactics. I will pirate all my music before I am restricted to how many times I can listen to a song, relative to the amount of greenbacks in my wallet.
It's sad to see someone so shortsighted and unenlightened. You'd probably be a lot happier if you'd realize how little of importance money really is.
-Erik-
Winamp deliberately took amp's code and wrote a shell around it.... It originally just bothered me until they actually started having hte gall to CHARGE for it.
amp still is one of the least resource intensive mp3 players out theee, and I didn't see any difference in resource usage between winamp 1.x, and 2.x, when nullsoft wrote their own engine, and started to charge for the software.
Frankly I'm happier than shit that nullsoft is finally getting what's been coming to them.
-Erik-
My antipathy (I only FEAR my doctor's opinion) for RMS comes from the fact that trying to turn people on to Linux is like beating back high tide with a hammer, thanks to certain freakazoids who make the whole enterprise look about as respectable as distilling gin in your bathtub.
The problem with most "newage" Free Software users is that they either don't recognize what people have given them, or they just don't care.
Go to FreeBSD. Please. They have a good movement, and if you can't handle what's been given to you, the BSD group requires no moral authorities to recognize.
The fact is, is that people see this raving freak, they aren't seeing the mind behind it, nor the ideals that created all this hoopla. After all, if that fanatical hairy freak wasn't spending months with lawyers creating and revising the GPL, would we be having this discussion? Would you be using a Linux machine to type your messages here, or run a server?
No.
Just remember that, everytime you type gcc, to compile your GPL'd code, on your OS made of Free Software.
Then think of the person who created every single one of those terms, and remember how much you criticize him for doing nothing but stifling linux's growth.
Let the OS shape itself in the minds of others, some of the best things in the world have come from the eccentrics.
-Erik-
Since when do you have your finger on the pulse of 'a majority of Slashdotters'? I assure you that most posts I see on Slashdot are extremely pro-Linus (as well they should be), and I think the majority (not all) of posts come from US readers. In fact I don't think I've ever seen an anti-Linus post on Slashdot (from anyone, anywhere).
No kidding, I love being generalized by someone accusing me of generalization. You know, one of those "oxymoronic" things.
-Erik-
You don't think there's a tax on import items already?
Yeah, but they can't tax a business in another country directly, only on their export of goods, AFAIK.
Do you really believe that tax will kill internet business? Remember, in the US tax goes to pay for government services which help everyone out, from education to military spending. Tax is not evil, taxes keep the US running.
Remove brain from head, wash thoroghly with government propaganda.
You have to be kidding. This is the same govt. that spent $5 million a year studying varying brands of ketchup?
Yes, you know, red, made of tomatoes...
Until we become a utopian society where money is a thing of the past, people like you have to understand how capitalistic societies work. If you don't like it, move to China.
Understanding it and liking it are two different things. I don't see how the first poster misunderstood it at all, he just stated that it's probably going to kill a lot of US internet companies. He's probably right.
-Erik-
Can't use God. That's reserved by us SysAdmins.
:)
-Erik
This has nothing to do with this at all, but Eric Raymond is right - there is a giant conspiracy of people named "Eric" (insert different spelling here) that tend to grow beards and use a *nix of some sort...
-Erik-
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
Big deal. Spielberg's made his bombs, too. No artist is going to impress 100% of the people 100% of the time, or even his previous audience 100% of the time.
Personally I can't wait until all of you get back and say "wow, it was good, but not what I expected".
Then, I'm goign to have quite the laugh in this comment section.
-Erik-
Enough Already! Stop these silly articles. I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles here. Isn't there anything more instersting to talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now.
I'm tired of seeing it on slashdot too, (and i'm goign to filter it out) but then again, i'm really sick of seeing it everywhere else also, which is just slightly harder to avoid. Not to mention the fact that the 6 weeks surrounding the release of a movie, with a trailer that's just not that impressive on a standalone basis, (that is, if you don't hide it behind all the background and fanfare of the first 3 movies) there aren't going to be any other movies to go see.
I for one am just sick of the hype. 90% of slashdot readers are ridiculed for ridiculing "hype", which is exactly what all this crap is, until the actual movie comes out and all of you bitch that it didn't meet your expectations, which, it obviously won't no matter how good of a god damned movie it is. I find this more amazing than any of the hype out there, the fact that 90% of it is fan-based and the other 10% is just George Lucas saying "star wars this" every now and then.
Worse than a fscking star trek convention and William Shatner showing up in the middle of it.
-Erik-
WHY DO THESE PEOPLE EVEN HAVE JOBS??????? Sheesh...the minute I learned I'd hired someone THAT stupid, they'd be out the door!
You'd be surprised what kinds of idiots recieve MCSE's...
I had a boss that was working on an atx powered machine, he has a MCSE, A+ Cert, MCP, and a BS in CE. (lots of initials, you're about to find out how little they mean)
For a good 6 hours on a sunday, he was working on this box... about 4 hours into it, I can hear him grumbling in the other room, so I figured I'd poke my head in there and check it out, the lines were slow (i was tech support there). He was with another MCSE, with the fully built machine, pushing hte power, seeing nothing happen, and griping. I asked if I could help, but because I wasn't part of the MCSE club (and pointedly told him I wouldn't be), I couldn't help.
About 2 hours later, he leaves, still not getting the machine to work, so I figure I'll go in and check on it.
On all ATX power supplies (as most of you know), there's a "soft" power switch on the front of the case, and on a "hard" power switch on the back of the power supply.
I flicked the one on the back, and went back to my tech support calls. He comes back in an hour, hits the soft power-on, and thinks god has smiled on him or something, because, obviously, the machine started up.
I've never experienced such silent gratification in my life. The Linux sysadmin got quite the laugh too.
(you konw, the type of sysadmin that doesn't know anything because he doesn't know NT, but if he left the job the ISP would fly like a lead balloon)
-Erik-
Debian is Slackware for hackers who think Volkerding is stuck back in the Stone Ages with his retro distribution).
:) Not saying I'm blindly discriminating, but if it would be anything like redhat I'd probably purchase a nail gun just to use on the cd I'd burn it to.. :)
Really? I won't use RedHat because of it's insane coddling of the user, and in the same case been evasive to try out debian also...
Slackware is notoriously easy to maintain and is known for not interfering with the system as a whole... Could I expect the same out of Debian?
If I could be guaranteed of this, I'd probably be all over Debian.
Any previous slack converts to debian have something to say about this? I'd really like some feedback.
-Erik-
Or do you just assume that Rob's little place is so fucking gay that no one can keep away? I'm sure that an intelligent reply on ZDNet would be worth a couple of thousand replies on this site. Then again if one think about the usual quality of comments on this site - perhaps it is far better that all the elite d00dez stay away.
.. poor. I would have to write a post there, quote yours, and never have any referencing in the visual output whatsoever that it is a reply to your topic.
First off, I couldn't reply to your post on ZDNet. The article system there is very
Second, if you were a regular visitor here, you would know that ZDNet puts some half-assed rumor like this up at least once a week, to stir guys like you and me up to go to their site to generate ad revenue. ZDNet has enough money, and Rob Malda, IMO, doesn't. I'd rather fund his back pocket to know that I have a place where I can talk freely, which brings me to the third point.
Censorship. Read the other replies, i'm not going to restate the obvious.
-Erik-
Right. Accidently. The Unix-Haters handbook has this right - xauth et la is a pain; no one is ever going to accidently discover X is network transparent.
Uh.
1) Telnet to shell
2) set DISPLAY
3) run xterm
4) type xauth +(ip of shell)
5) run program from shell
is that hard?
-Erik-
This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no way that Microsoft office could compete on Linux with free software equivalents that have 80% of the functionality and 0% of the cost.
For free applications to be used over commercial apps they need 150% of the functionality. Cost is not an issue, Microsoft has made a business out of having their software pirated, and benefitted very much so in the long run.
Even if they NEVER made a damn DIME on an Office port for linux, that insures that they can push that market in their direction on multiple platforms, which means laying the final blow to Wordperfect.
-Erik-