Jesus fuck. Calling those chess machines "remote controls" is like saying "let me turn on the television with my remote control" and pressing the power button with a fucking stick. If you tried to claim prior art on the remote control with one of those chess machines, you'd be laughed out of the office.
Stop pretending to be smart; it only makes it painfully obvious that the opposite is true.
Slackware does not do automatic hardware detection and configuration.
Nonsense. It doesn't detect and configure all hardware, but the auto-detection of network devices has been in the installer for a while now. Also, recent releases of Slackware have hotplug support.
You need to know the specs about your video card and monitor, and you need to configure X yourself.
Apparently you're also unfamiliar with "X -configure"
Slackware has a little configuration tool called "pkgtool" that allows you to do some basic configuration (set up your mouse, decide what services will run, etc.)
What? No. pkgtool is a tool for installing/removing packages. It does NOT have configuration options (outside of startup script selection) or setup for input devices.
Jesus Christ, that's one of the stupidest headlines ever to appear on this site. First, it's spelled wrong. It's "Tricorder" and not "Tricoder."
Secondly, these things are not anything even resembling the functions of a tricorder. I read the headline and was instantly thinking, "Wow, a handheld scanning tool. That should be cool." But no, I read on to find it's a stupid unmodified iPAQ. They don't do sensing, they don't take readings, and they don't scan anything. It's not a tricorder, and it's not ALMOST a tricorder. It's a goddamned PDA.
There's also the fact that in most OSNews reviews, if the user (read: Eugenia) can't figure out how something is done, it is automatically the distribution's fault. Plus she'll occasionally spout stuff regarding the distro that is flat out incorrect.
There was one time she couldn't get some Python application(s) working under Slackware, so I tried them on my box. I followed the directions and got them working just fine. It turns out she didn't have her paths set properly. I told her what needed to be done and explained that she failed to set her path properly, so she modded my comment(s) down, continued blaming Slackware for her problems, and pretty much insisted that I shut up. That particular exchange is here. (Be sure to check the "moderated down" comments for that thread as well.)
OSNews is most definitely not the place to go for reviews of any sort.
Uh... Random shuffle isn't some big sociological boom, nor is it some killer new fad exclusive to hipsters with iPods and CD Players.
It's called variety. Ever hear a radio station play an album from beginning to end? Typically an album will have one artist (or group) and every song will be the same style. So if you want to "mix it up" you randomize the playlist. All of my music players are set to randomize, except for my home stereo which I rarely use.
I've never known anyone to listen to music by playing an album from beginning to end. Even back in the days of records, we'd flip through the collections to figure out what we were going to listen to next while the current song was playing.
You would think that dipping a laptop in a liquid would ruin it, and cause anger and irritation in its owner. That's probably an accepted idea, and since this liquid obviously doesn't harm the electronics of the laptop, it can serve to be an interesting solution for laptop storage. You think people would bother to swipe a laptop that's sitting in a tub of "water?"
Clearly, having the laptop immersed in this liquid would be a barrier to unauthorized usage, providing the owner with a STRONG DIGITAL DEFENSE.
I'm just annoyed with every idiot sticking the blue LEDs to their freaking washer nozzles on the hoods of their cars. It's annoying, pointless, and just plain stupid.
Of course, then you have the morons that stick them on the valve stems on their tires too. Ugh.
I can dispute your points, and it's hard to stay level when things get posted that are outright wrong.
All ipod like devices play mp3's
Well then, that pretty much knocks your original point out of play, doesn't it?
My point is that AAC DRM is no better then WMP DRM
Really? Find any WMP-based service that is as generous with user's rights as iTunes' DRM. Or *any* other music service for that matter.
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows.
So? I seem to recall you saying "why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?"
You have to get Apples approval, afaik, to interopt with the iPod.
That's absolute nonsense. If anyone needed a hardware manufacturer's "approval" for 3rd party software to work with their hardware, the technology industry would be crippled. Does "reverse engineering" mean anything to you? Check out fair use guidelines for interoperability, then observe projects like GTKPod who pretty much disclaim a complete lack of support from Apple right off the bat.
And for the record (other replies in the thread) I'm not by any stretch an Apple "fanboy"; I'm still wrestling with the fact that I own any sort of Mac to begin with. The rest of my 10+ boxes run Linux. I just very much like my iPod and iBook, and am willing to defend bullshit statements made against them, just as I would for Linux or anything else I know and like.
Hey! Please, post more untrue crap. Since you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, you're obviously qualified to spout this shit.
The iPod can alsp play mp3s. Mp3 is an open standard. AAC is an open standard. iTunes supports the iPod. MusicMatch Jukebox also supports the iPod. iTunes is available on Mac and PC.
I was looking for someone to mention Sylpheed, and would have done so myself if nobody did.
When you don't need all of the bullshit features of the big and ridiculously bloated mail clients out there, and you want something to do just e-mail, Sylpheed simply cannot be beat. It is bar-none the absolute best mail client I have ever used. Period.
Even if I *did* need the features offered by other mail applications (calendar, journal, etc.) I'd use those separately and still keep Sylpheed as my mail client. It's that good.
The basis for SCO's belief is the precision and efficiency with which the migration to Linux occurred, which suggests the use of shared libraries to run legacy applications on Linux. Among other things, this was a breach of the Autozone OpenServer License Agreement for use of SCO software beyond the scope of the license.
So essentially what they're saying is, "We think they violated our license and are using our code because they did TOO GOOD A JOB OF PORTING THE SOFTWARE." What utter bullshit.
This is so much like their argument against Linux when they said "Linux MUST be using our code, because without it, Linux wouldn't be as good as it is." (Their bicycle/luxury car argument.) Seems to me they have some overinflated opinion of their capabilities, and believe that nobody else anywhere on Earth could possibly be better than them.
sounds more like 98SE to me (that one was free, btw).
No. Windows 98 Second Edition was NOT a free upgrade. You could download the fixes and patches, but any new features were only available if you bought the 98SE retail box.
On all Speak & Spells there is a "Code" mode where up to 8 letters can by typed and transposed into a code that only people with other Speak & Spells could decipher (ROT13, or something else very weak)
Similar principle as ROT13 except it's more like a reverse ROT6. I figured this out and memorized it years ago.
But source code isn't the blueprint: it is the thing itself. The source is the set of instructions given to the computer that, when executed, cause the behaviour we see on screen."
Reminds me of those cheesy toothbrushes that had a colored set of bristles in the center that faded over time, and when it got to a certain point of fade, it was time to replace your toothbrush.
I've never used one, but I imagine that when it actually hit the alleged "replace now" mark, the toothbrush was probably still just fine. I don't even know if they still make them.
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Jesus fuck. Calling those chess machines "remote controls" is like saying "let me turn on the television with my remote control" and pressing the power button with a fucking stick. If you tried to claim prior art on the remote control with one of those chess machines, you'd be laughed out of the office.
Stop pretending to be smart; it only makes it painfully obvious that the opposite is true.
True. But most of the complainers want Slackware to find and configure everything.
Doesn't matter. You still said it doesn't do automatic hardware detection. That's wrong.
I know about it. It's part of X, not Slackware.
But you said "You need to know the specs about your video card and monitor, and you need to configure X yourself." which is again, not true.
That's pretty much what I said:" (set up your mouse, decide what services will run, etc.)"
I know that's what you said, and you're wrong. You CANNOT set up your mouse with pkgtool.
Slackware does not do automatic hardware detection and configuration.
Nonsense. It doesn't detect and configure all hardware, but the auto-detection of network devices has been in the installer for a while now. Also, recent releases of Slackware have hotplug support.
You need to know the specs about your video card and monitor, and you need to configure X yourself.
Apparently you're also unfamiliar with "X -configure"
Slackware has a little configuration tool called "pkgtool" that allows you to do some basic configuration (set up your mouse, decide what services will run, etc.)
What? No. pkgtool is a tool for installing/removing packages. It does NOT have configuration options (outside of startup script selection) or setup for input devices.
the firefox style where the new tabs are opened in backround
That's not really "firefox style" tabs; the "Load links in background" option has been in Mozilla for a long time.
Jesus Christ, that's one of the stupidest headlines ever to appear on this site. First, it's spelled wrong. It's "Tricorder" and not "Tricoder."
Secondly, these things are not anything even resembling the functions of a tricorder. I read the headline and was instantly thinking, "Wow, a handheld scanning tool. That should be cool." But no, I read on to find it's a stupid unmodified iPAQ. They don't do sensing, they don't take readings, and they don't scan anything. It's not a tricorder, and it's not ALMOST a tricorder. It's a goddamned PDA.
(TOS means "The Original Show")
Actually, it's accepted to mean "The Original Series."
There's also the fact that in most OSNews reviews, if the user (read: Eugenia) can't figure out how something is done, it is automatically the distribution's fault. Plus she'll occasionally spout stuff regarding the distro that is flat out incorrect.
There was one time she couldn't get some Python application(s) working under Slackware, so I tried them on my box. I followed the directions and got them working just fine. It turns out she didn't have her paths set properly. I told her what needed to be done and explained that she failed to set her path properly, so she modded my comment(s) down, continued blaming Slackware for her problems, and pretty much insisted that I shut up. That particular exchange is here. (Be sure to check the "moderated down" comments for that thread as well.)
OSNews is most definitely not the place to go for reviews of any sort.
I've been extremely happy with CodeTek Virtual Desktop.
I typically swore by HotBot, since I had the most luck with them. I never had a use for the directory sites (Yahoo) though.
Uh... Random shuffle isn't some big sociological boom, nor is it some killer new fad exclusive to hipsters with iPods and CD Players.
It's called variety. Ever hear a radio station play an album from beginning to end? Typically an album will have one artist (or group) and every song will be the same style. So if you want to "mix it up" you randomize the playlist. All of my music players are set to randomize, except for my home stereo which I rarely use.
I've never known anyone to listen to music by playing an album from beginning to end. Even back in the days of records, we'd flip through the collections to figure out what we were going to listen to next while the current song was playing.
You would think that dipping a laptop in a liquid would ruin it, and cause anger and irritation in its owner. That's probably an accepted idea, and since this liquid obviously doesn't harm the electronics of the laptop, it can serve to be an interesting solution for laptop storage. You think people would bother to swipe a laptop that's sitting in a tub of "water?"
Clearly, having the laptop immersed in this liquid would be a barrier to unauthorized usage, providing the owner with a STRONG DIGITAL DEFENSE.
I'm just annoyed with every idiot sticking the blue LEDs to their freaking washer nozzles on the hoods of their cars. It's annoying, pointless, and just plain stupid.
Of course, then you have the morons that stick them on the valve stems on their tires too. Ugh.
I can dispute your points, and it's hard to stay level when things get posted that are outright wrong.
All ipod like devices play mp3's
Well then, that pretty much knocks your original point out of play, doesn't it?
My point is that AAC DRM is no better then WMP DRM
Really? Find any WMP-based service that is as generous with user's rights as iTunes' DRM. Or *any* other music service for that matter.
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows.
So? I seem to recall you saying "why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?"
You have to get Apples approval, afaik, to interopt with the iPod.
That's absolute nonsense. If anyone needed a hardware manufacturer's "approval" for 3rd party software to work with their hardware, the technology industry would be crippled. Does "reverse engineering" mean anything to you? Check out fair use guidelines for interoperability, then observe projects like GTKPod who pretty much disclaim a complete lack of support from Apple right off the bat.
And for the record (other replies in the thread) I'm not by any stretch an Apple "fanboy"; I'm still wrestling with the fact that I own any sort of Mac to begin with. The rest of my 10+ boxes run Linux. I just very much like my iPod and iBook, and am willing to defend bullshit statements made against them, just as I would for Linux or anything else I know and like.
Hey! Please, post more untrue crap. Since you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, you're obviously qualified to spout this shit.
The iPod can alsp play mp3s. Mp3 is an open standard. AAC is an open standard. iTunes supports the iPod. MusicMatch Jukebox also supports the iPod. iTunes is available on Mac and PC.
Dumbass.
It doesn't have to be pretty or unique or flashy. It just needs to do a job and do it well. For that, Sylpheed fits the bill.
I was looking for someone to mention Sylpheed, and would have done so myself if nobody did.
When you don't need all of the bullshit features of the big and ridiculously bloated mail clients out there, and you want something to do just e-mail, Sylpheed simply cannot be beat. It is bar-none the absolute best mail client I have ever used. Period.
Even if I *did* need the features offered by other mail applications (calendar, journal, etc.) I'd use those separately and still keep Sylpheed as my mail client. It's that good.
The basis for SCO's belief is the precision and efficiency with which the migration to Linux occurred, which suggests the use of shared libraries to run legacy applications on Linux. Among other things, this was a breach of the Autozone OpenServer License Agreement for use of SCO software beyond the scope of the license.
So essentially what they're saying is, "We think they violated our license and are using our code because they did TOO GOOD A JOB OF PORTING THE SOFTWARE." What utter bullshit.
This is so much like their argument against Linux when they said "Linux MUST be using our code, because without it, Linux wouldn't be as good as it is." (Their bicycle/luxury car argument.) Seems to me they have some overinflated opinion of their capabilities, and believe that nobody else anywhere on Earth could possibly be better than them.
Fantastic.
sounds more like 98SE to me (that one was free, btw).
No. Windows 98 Second Edition was NOT a free upgrade. You could download the fixes and patches, but any new features were only available if you bought the 98SE retail box.
On all Speak & Spells there is a "Code" mode where up to 8 letters can by typed and transposed into a code that only people with other Speak & Spells could decipher (ROT13, or something else very weak)
K JIHG
Similar principle as ROT13 except it's more like a reverse ROT6. I figured this out and memorized it years ago.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
FEDCBAZYXWVUTSRQPONML
I actually still have a Speak & Spell (and a Speak & Math) at home somewhere.
While SLAX is listed in that list, the author didn't note that Disc 2 of Slackware's 4 CD set is a bootable live CD.
Go Slackware!
we'll see Mickey mouse using windows soon...
Ugh.
"HaHa! I'm Mickey! It looks like you're trying to write a letter!"
But source code isn't the blueprint: it is the thing itself. The source is the set of instructions given to the computer that, when executed, cause the behaviour we see on screen."
That's still dead wrong.
Reminds me of those cheesy toothbrushes that had a colored set of bristles in the center that faded over time, and when it got to a certain point of fade, it was time to replace your toothbrush.
I've never used one, but I imagine that when it actually hit the alleged "replace now" mark, the toothbrush was probably still just fine. I don't even know if they still make them.
As far as I understand a substantial chunk of p2p network is used for porn sharing. So I dont think its anything even closer to 90%.
Ah, so all porn is completely public domain, and not at all copyrighted?
You can't seriously believe that.
How about a link to the better, more informative article where the actual information lies?