I really should know better than to respond to flamebait comments that have modded into the stoneage... but sometimes it's irresistible:
> someone who is mentally handicapped probably woudn't be reading
> slashdot (though to be honest I think the parent comes close).
Gee, this remark kinda detracts somewhat from your "down with the mentally handicapped" line, don'tcha think? Fuck you too, kid! Hope you go deaf soon!
I was going to mod this as +1 Funny, but what it REALLY deserves is -1 Grumpy Old Man.
No really... if it's the only OS on the harddrive, Ubuntu is easier to install than anything Microsoft ever released.
If you have a spare partition getting it to dual-boot with XP is not too bad either, but not recommended to anyone who's never played with a partition editor.
I've been using Linux since 0.99 and I've gone from Slackware to FreeBSD to Red Hat to Fedora to SUSE to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu install is almost painless. In fact it's damn near fun! (Though Fedora and SUSE were pretty good too... in fact I'd like to get a look at the latest SUSE..)
The only step that was unintuitive was getting the NVidia drivers and Cedega working. But even that was possible from resources on the web without editing any config files.
Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
They do have a point here. Usenet is, and always has been, the bargain basement of the Internet. But there are lots of really useful newsgroups that are mostly spam free. Perhaps if they stopped supporting the binary groups...
If I was still a Rogers client, losing access to my comp.lang newsgroups would really piss me off. If Videotron goes the same way I'll be quite peeved.
Then I move back to the command-line and vim and ramp up the pace.
Of course... because everyone knows that the edit/compile cycle will speed you up and you've got the whole class library memorized... that will speed you up no end.
If I ever catch any of my developers editing Java in vim or notepad it will probably be the last day they work for me. (More likely because I'll be rushed to hospital because of heart failure...)
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This must be an obscure usage of the word survive of which I was previously unaware.
Now that would make a great O'Reilly title:
Application Development in Perl: Obfuscation by Design
Forgive me Larry... I must be grumpy today.
Larry is a God but Perl makes my head hurt just thinking about it...
Obfuscation by design?
with factual event about Iraq
Trying to tell the truth about Iraq will only get you whisked off to some far away secret compound, the one with all the WMD no doubt.
I really should know better than to respond to flamebait comments that have modded into the stoneage... but sometimes it's irresistible:
> someone who is mentally handicapped probably woudn't be reading
> slashdot (though to be honest I think the parent comes close).
Gee, this remark kinda detracts somewhat from your "down with the mentally handicapped" line, don'tcha think? Fuck you too, kid! Hope you go deaf soon!
I was going to mod this as +1 Funny, but what it REALLY deserves is -1 Grumpy Old Man.
Informative?
The British, great innovators and world leaders in matters of plumbing, as all visitors know
I'm pretty sure this was an attempt at humor...
No really... if it's the only OS on the harddrive, Ubuntu is easier to install than anything Microsoft ever released.
If you have a spare partition getting it to dual-boot with XP is not too bad either, but not recommended to anyone who's never played with a partition editor.
I've been using Linux since 0.99 and I've gone from Slackware to FreeBSD to Red Hat to Fedora to SUSE to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu install is almost painless. In fact it's damn near fun! (Though Fedora and SUSE were pretty good too... in fact I'd like to get a look at the latest SUSE..)
The only step that was unintuitive was getting the NVidia drivers and Cedega working. But even that was possible from resources on the web without editing any config files.
A fellow Piper fan? Where have you been all my life?
:-)
Well... my favorite Piper book was Uller Uprising... but don't tell anyone.
Yes, I rather liked the use of the storyline... I was rather enjoying it up until the Hollywood ending.
I've read 8 of the first 10 but only two of 11 - 20. Since I've been reading S.F. for 25 years I find that a little odd.
What would I add? Off the top of my head:
- Utopia - Thomas More
- News From Nowhere - William Morris
- Startide Rising - David Brin
- A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
- The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Leguin
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
- Inherit the Stars - James P. Hogan
And what about Tolkien? Can't have a geek list without a Hobbit or an Elf getting in the way!We sit on our fat asses, because we can.
Rick: If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
Sam: My watch stopped.
Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
They do have a point here. Usenet is, and always has been, the bargain basement of the Internet. But there are lots of really useful newsgroups that are mostly spam free. Perhaps if they stopped supporting the binary groups...
If I was still a Rogers client, losing access to my comp.lang newsgroups would really piss me off. If Videotron goes the same way I'll be quite peeved.
So Linux conquering the world isn't enough? You need people to KNOW that Linux conquered the world?
The answer appears be no... and maybe:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/So you're part of an even smaller minority?
Clearly the French are less gullible than they used to be!
Then I move back to the command-line and vim and ramp up the pace.
Of course... because everyone knows that the edit/compile cycle will speed you up and you've got the whole class library memorized... that will speed you up no end.
If I ever catch any of my developers editing Java in vim or notepad it will probably be the last day they work for me. (More likely because I'll be rushed to hospital because of heart failure...)
I've got Half-Life 2 running under Cedega (aka WineX) on Ubuntu. I get about 10 fps less than under XP, but it's playable.
It's not free however... but then, neither is Half-Life! So to play commercial games under Linux, it costs me an extra $5 a month.
Worth it? Haven't decided yet, but it's damn cool.
Which part of vendor don't you understand?
As a vendor you end up having to choose which distros to support. The more you support the most it costs.
I think this is what I love most about Slashdot... it's so easy to get other people to prove your point for you! (Thanks!)
Like it or not, we need to do business with people all over the planet.
Careful where you say that, you may find yourself on the midnight flight to Guantanamo!
Will work. Microsoft is in trouble.
It will work for some people, some of the time.
Here are some real world scenarios that have happened to me and people I know in the last few years:
Today they're a fad. 10 to 20 years from now we can look back and call it a trend.
When it started, Amazon.com was part of the WWW fad, they're just the 5% that stayed around long enough to be a trend.