Because physical media are a thing from the past. Future is streaming.
I won't buy a Bluray player. And i plan to sell 90% of my DVD collection. After watching most of them only one time, I put them on the shelf to collect dust, and that's plain stupid. I'm learning from my mistakes and won't buy discs again. Ever.
Python-based init? Hey, i don't think SysVInit it's the best init out there, and there are other init clones that are smaller and faster, but the last thing i want is init DEPEND o Python. Whoaa, i don't know what these guys are thinking when designing new software...
Of course, i've used ffmpeg alone and it's a great piece of work. What i mean it's that you don't need to install additional libraries/packages for using xine, not that xine is not based in other open source projects. That what's great about open source, there a lot of software out here, and probably some does what you need, so there is no need always to rewrite all from scratch (at least you think you can do it better, and with ffmpeg that it's really hard;)).
Yep, just downloaded it, compiled it (after updating my freetype library, it was kind of old;)), and give it a try with the Matrix Reloaded trailer. With Xv extensions it runs smooth and with excellent quality in a PIII 800.
Xine has been always my player because don't depends on external libraries aside from libpng and zlib (Yep, it supports a lot things, but they are optional) so there is no need for gtk/qt toolkits with the standard gui, which is enough for me, and developers seems nice persons;), not like other free software media player developers.
why should they even invest time and money in developing support for something they can't test, use, or deploy internally?
They shouldn't. The problem is that they don't allow ANYBODY to invest his/her/their own time in adding maildir support to pine and release it due to a restrictive license.
If you want Maildir, don't use Pine.
I've said before that i'm not using Pine anymore
If you want the less-capable mail reader, use mutt. Just because mutt supports Maildir does not make it better.
Less-capable? Take your time first looking at all the options mutt offers, and then make your own opinion.
Pine is free.
Yes, if you understand for free: "Make all the changes you like but always as patches because our code is so good that doesn't deserves to be mixed with that Maildir shit"
you should be using Mana [kvaleberg.com]
Yes, or elm, or mutt. All them are good options, and that depends on a personal taste.
you have absolutely no reason to be complaining.
Of course i have reasons. I dislike to see a good MUA like Pine lose users just because their license. But hey, they can do whatever they want, it's their software. I made my choice, and that is mutt. You make your own.
Do you really resent all other licenses that much that you only use GPL'ed applications?
No, i don't mind other open source licenses, although i prefer GPL for my projects. In my opinion there are too
much 'open source' licenses that don't offer anything new (opensource.org), but, in the case of PINE, Washington University license makes pine anything but
free software.
Must be tough living without apps that have other licenses, like the MIT/Athena license (XFree86). Artistic license (Perl), or Python (Python license), and others.
XFree86 license is less restrictive than GPL, you know,
and no, i don't need to use obfuscated code (i.e Perl) or
Python if I can avoid to;).
I stopped using pine as my mail client (about three years i was using it) for three reasons:
1. Doesn't support Maildir in the main code, only thru third-party patches, and pine guys rejects to add Maildir support to the code, and nobody can do it and publish it, because of their license.
Yes, go to mplayer and take a look around. After that, you possibly get an impression about the developer/s. What's that impression? Mine is that that 'childish' guy (it doesn't deserves to be called developer) has no respect for anyone. I only see insults to other companies/people, violations on the GPL (dunno about WarpVision, but in first place someone should ask gnu or whoever about the legality of their 'license').
Have you tried to download and compile mplayer ? It forces you to pass a flag to./configure to force compiling with gcc-2.96 (the guy seems to be an 'expert' in compilers, and not only gives you this warning, also bash redhat and everyone that uses their compilers). I said 'Ok, fine to me, he hates redhat/gcc2.96, but anyway i want to compile with this compiler.
And guess what's the funny part after asking you for a flag to configure? I got in my console a line asking me to enter a key, so i just pressed 'Enter' and a message appeared telling me: 'Gcc 2.96 is broken, so next time type 'gcc2.96 is broken' as a key if you want to compile with it.
Yep, you're right, this guy is a fucking asshole, so instead typing the key, i typed 'rm -rf Mplayer*'. What a beautiful command!;)
And if you need a good mpeg/avi player, downloand xine or vlc. They're very good players, use the GPL license and are programmed by grown up, 'not childish', respectful and fine people.
Bullshit, geek doesn't rule the world. If they did, then the world wouldn't be the huge disaster that is today.
Please read this day newspaper, or turn on your radio or tv and tune in some news program. Listen to it, and after tell me who rules the world. Yes, you're right, they do.
1. You can download the source of any version of ssh.
2. You only have to pay if you use ssh in a commercial way
Start documenting before bashing any product that doesn't have 'Open' before its name. It's a good product, you have access to the source and it's free for non-commercial use (it works great in my home server). Most of the people saying that ssh sucks, doesn't even know how to setup their ssh/openssh server to use public key authentication, and not the password authentication used by default. Real security is in public key.
Why every ridiculous post in Slashdot contains the words GNOME? Maybe because they don't know how to improve the desktop (o whatever they think it is) and spend their time doing useless ports and useless "projects".
I downloaded yesterday Netscape 6. It's pure bullshit.Sincerely, on Windows, MSIE is better than Netscape 6. So rather than use a big,bloated and slooooow browser, let's use a efficient and fast browser. If you're a graphic guy, then konqueror is the solution, and for console freaks, lynx is the king. Anyway netscape 4.76 is an option, but i'm really sure that version >4.76 of Netscape are the start of the death of Netscape. R.I.P
I'm working right now half-day, but I expect one month later to start working full-time, and i'm only work full-time if my boss give me flex time, because i want freedom. Just like i want to use free software cause i can adapt it to me, i want a free schedule to adapt my work to my life. Adapt my life to my work is a big error, people should reject that kind of jobs to force every enterprise to give freedom to their workers.
By the way, printing press was invented by Chinese about 800 hundreds years ago, not by Gutenberg as we Europeans believe.
Americans need to care more about the rest of the world, and we need to care more about the East.
It's not about the name. I don't care if his name is part of the filesystem name. It's about him. He think ReiserFS MUST be in the Linux kernel, he thinks is a right, not a privilege. He created ReiserFS as a future part of linux kernel, he wanted a piece of his huge ego inside/usr/src/linux. But he didn't thinked his ego is too big to fit in the linux kernel.
I give all my support to Alexander Viro. Besides the technical details of ReiserFS and its realibility, i've always thinked that Hans Reiser made that filesystem, not for linux users, but him. His ego is bigger than Bill Gates fortune.
I wish all the companies in the free software movement make donations like RedHat. No matter the amount of money they contribute, or the point behind these donations. What really matters is that they give back something (money or anything else) to the community. While the Linux movement continues growing up, with more companies joining to the "cause", i don't see the same number of companies giving back what they get from us, because the users, the linux users, are the beginning and the end of this OS.
Total Control(tm) over your system: that's useability. Today's systems tend to adapt to stupid users. I think it's the wrong way. Users must get better, not systems. If you can't, then don't use. Jakob is just another corporated-minded guy, he didn't say nothing new or interesting in its interview. Just how-to-make-more-money stuff.
How do you think the relationship between linux and C++ is? Just guessing;), if Linux will become the predominant OS, do you think the use of C++ will go down?
You all know what is the problem?? Microsoft only made me laugh, but AOL/Time-Warner mega-company scares me. No company and no man should have so much power. You have freedom if you can choose, and to choose, you need two or more options, in other case, your're a prisoner.
I think genetics is really more important for medicine. Do you want to eat food genetically altered? Why? Natural food tastes good, therefore i don't need to eat that shit.
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Because physical media are a thing from the past. Future is streaming.
I won't buy a Bluray player. And i plan to sell 90% of my DVD collection. After watching most of them only one time, I put them on the shelf to collect dust, and that's plain stupid. I'm learning from my mistakes and won't buy discs again. Ever.
Python-based init? Hey, i don't think SysVInit it's
the best init out there, and there are other init
clones that are smaller and faster, but the last
thing i want is init DEPEND o Python. Whoaa, i don't
know what these guys are thinking when designing
new software...
Of course, i've used ffmpeg alone and it's a great piece of work. What i mean it's that you don't need to install additional libraries/packages for using xine, not that xine is not based in other open source projects. That what's great about open source, there a lot of software out here, and probably some does what you need, so there is no need always to rewrite all from scratch (at least you think you can do it better, and with ffmpeg that it's really hard ;)).
Cheers
Yep, just downloaded it, compiled it (after updating ;)), and give it a
;), not like other free software media player developers.
my freetype library, it was kind of old
try with the Matrix Reloaded trailer. With Xv extensions
it runs smooth and with excellent quality in a PIII 800.
Xine has been always my player because don't depends on external libraries aside from libpng and zlib (Yep, it supports a lot things, but they are optional) so there is no need for gtk/qt toolkits with the standard gui, which is enough for me, and developers seems nice persons
why should they even invest time and money in developing support for something they can't test, use, or deploy internally?
They shouldn't. The problem is that they don't allow ANYBODY to invest his/her/their own time in adding maildir support to pine and release it due to a restrictive license.
If you want Maildir, don't use Pine.
I've said before that i'm not using Pine anymore
If you want the less-capable mail reader, use mutt. Just because mutt supports Maildir does not make it better.
Less-capable? Take your time first looking at all the options mutt offers, and then make your own opinion.
Pine is free.
Yes, if you understand for free: "Make all the changes you like but always as patches because our code is so good that doesn't deserves to be mixed with that Maildir shit"
you should be using Mana [kvaleberg.com]
Yes, or elm, or mutt. All them are good options, and
that depends on a personal taste.
you have absolutely no reason to be complaining.
Of course i have reasons. I dislike to see a good MUA like Pine lose users just because their license. But hey, they can do whatever they want, it's their software. I made my choice, and that is mutt. You make your own.
Do you really resent all other licenses that much that you only use GPL'ed applications?
;).
No, i don't mind other open source licenses, although i prefer GPL for my projects. In my opinion there are too much 'open source' licenses that don't offer anything new (opensource.org), but, in the case of PINE, Washington University license makes pine anything but free software.
Must be tough living without apps that have other licenses, like the MIT/Athena license (XFree86). Artistic license (Perl), or Python (Python license), and others.
XFree86 license is less restrictive than GPL, you know, and no, i don't need to use obfuscated code (i.e Perl) or Python if I can avoid to
I stopped using pine as my mail client (about three years
i was using it) for three reasons:
1. Doesn't support Maildir in the main code, only thru third-party patches, and pine guys rejects to add Maildir
support to the code, and nobody can do it and publish it,
because of their license.
2. Is not GPL
3. Mutt is waaaaay more configurable
Yes, go to mplayer and take a look around. After that, you possibly get an impression about the developer/s. What's that impression? Mine is that that 'childish' guy (it doesn't deserves to be called developer) has no respect for anyone. I only see insults to other companies/people, violations on the GPL (dunno about WarpVision, but in first place someone should ask gnu or whoever about the legality of their 'license'). ./configure to force compiling with gcc-2.96 (the guy seems to be an 'expert' in compilers, and not only gives you this warning, also bash redhat and everyone that uses their compilers). I said 'Ok, fine to me, he hates redhat/gcc2.96, but anyway i want to compile with this compiler.
;)
Have you tried to download and compile mplayer ? It forces you to pass a flag to
And guess what's the funny part after asking you for a flag to configure? I got in my console a line asking me to enter a key, so i just pressed 'Enter' and a message appeared telling me: 'Gcc 2.96 is broken, so next time type 'gcc2.96 is broken' as a key if you want to compile with it.
Yep, you're right, this guy is a fucking asshole, so instead typing the key, i typed 'rm -rf Mplayer*'. What a beautiful command!
And if you need a good mpeg/avi player, downloand xine or vlc. They're very good players, use the GPL license and are programmed by grown up, 'not childish', respectful and fine people.
Bullshit, geek doesn't rule the world. If they did, then the world wouldn't be the huge disaster that is today.
Please read this day newspaper, or turn on your radio or tv and tune in some news program. Listen to it, and after tell me who rules the world. Yes, you're right, they do.
1. You can download the source of any version of ssh. 2. You only have to pay if you use ssh in a commercial way
Start documenting before bashing any product that doesn't have 'Open' before its name. It's a good product, you have access to the source and it's free for non-commercial use (it works great in my home server). Most of the people saying that ssh sucks, doesn't even know how to setup their ssh/openssh server to use public key authentication, and not the password authentication used by default. Real security is in public key.
Repeat after me: You cannot patent words.
Patents are about creations & ideas. Laws that allow to patent common words are stupid. And yes, i know, the world we live in is stupid.
Why every ridiculous post in Slashdot contains the words GNOME? Maybe because they don't know how to improve the desktop (o whatever they think it is) and spend their time doing useless ports and useless "projects".
I downloaded yesterday Netscape 6. It's pure bullshit.Sincerely, on Windows, MSIE is better than Netscape 6. So rather than use a big,bloated and slooooow browser, let's use a efficient and fast browser. If you're a graphic guy, then konqueror is the solution, and for console freaks, lynx is the king. Anyway netscape 4.76 is an option, but i'm really sure that version >4.76 of Netscape are the start of the death of Netscape. R.I.P
I'm working right now half-day, but I expect one month later to start working full-time, and i'm only work full-time if my boss give me flex time, because i want freedom. Just like i want to use free software cause i can adapt it to me, i want a free schedule to adapt my work to my life. Adapt my life to my work is a big error, people should reject that kind of jobs to force every enterprise to give freedom to their workers.
By the way, printing press was invented by Chinese about 800 hundreds years ago, not by Gutenberg as we Europeans believe.
Americans need to care more about the rest of the world, and we need to care more about the East.
Amen
It's not about the name. I don't care if his name is part of the filesystem name. It's about him. He think ReiserFS MUST be in the Linux kernel, he thinks is a right, not a privilege. He created ReiserFS as a future part of linux kernel, he wanted a piece of his huge ego inside /usr/src/linux. But he didn't thinked his ego is too big to fit in the linux kernel.
I give all my support to Alexander Viro. Besides the technical details of ReiserFS and its realibility, i've always thinked that Hans Reiser made that filesystem, not for linux users, but him. His ego is bigger than Bill Gates fortune.
I wish all the companies in the free software movement make donations like RedHat. No matter the amount of money they contribute, or the point behind these donations. What really matters is that they give back something (money or anything else) to the community. While the Linux movement continues growing up, with more companies joining to the "cause", i don't see the same number of companies giving back what they get from us, because the users, the linux users, are the beginning and the end of this OS.
Total Control(tm) over your system: that's useability.
Today's systems tend to adapt to stupid users. I think it's the wrong way. Users must get better, not systems. If you can't, then don't use.
Jakob is just another corporated-minded guy, he didn't say nothing new or interesting in its interview. Just how-to-make-more-money stuff.
How do you think the relationship between linux and C++ is? Just guessing ;), if Linux will become the predominant OS, do you think the use of C++ will go down?
"Don't think, we do for you" its their motto
You all know what is the problem??
Microsoft only made me laugh, but AOL/Time-Warner mega-company scares me.
No company and no man should have so much power.
You have freedom if you can choose, and to choose, you need two or more options, in other case, your're a prisoner.
Yeah, looks like you'll have to go back
to school and learn count.
2 goes after 1 XDDDDDD
I think genetics is really more important for medicine. Do you want to eat food genetically altered? Why? Natural food tastes good, therefore i don't need to eat that shit.