A T1's price is set by regulation. Those regulations have not kept up with either the times nor technology. The profit on a T1 is quite significant. Therefore the carriers will go out of their way to convince us all that it is indeed a superior service. That is upto and including making the other lesser services appear inferior. There are anecdotal stories on either side of the argument. Just keep your eyes openn with the RBOC sales guy comes in and says "You get what you pay for."
Until they find and display the liquid explosives, I will reamain somewhat scepticle. Most liquid explosives are unstable and heard to handle. It would not be the first time a minor detail like that turned out to be vapour ware.
APSFilter is an excellent tool. It is not graphical however.
4. Make it easy for the user to find out how to do things.
I have come up with something that I call Willy's Theorum. Ease of use is in inverse proportion to robustness.
That is to say the easier something is to use the less you can do with it. The harder something is to use the more you can do with it if you just take the time to learn.
Buy a Mac and go with AOL{8^)
5. Cleaner redraws.
What can you say? When you're right you're right.
6. Die stray processes, die!
Again you are quite right but at lease you CAN kill them as apposed to Winders.
7. Easy way of sharing files.
SMB or NFS? The reason M$ does this to seemingly easily is that by default everyone has full control. This is great if you do not consider security important. Remember it is recommended that you do not even turn NetBios on TCP/IP on if you are directly on the internet.
What this adds up to it should be hard to share something unless you are going to learn a little about security.
8. Sound support.
Once again hitting the nail with the hammer.
9. No common editor which supports "soft wrapping."
I am not sure I understand this.....
I use VI for everything. In VI you can set textwidth for word wrap.....
10. No easy way to configure X - especially change resolution on the fly.
What happened to CTRL+ALT+PLUS on the number pad?
I cycle through 600X400 to 1280X1024 regularly.
Xconfigurator is a Redhat thing I think. xf86config comes with the standard MIT X.
I hope GNU/Linux never becomes the desk top of choice because you would have to cripple it so bad to make it user friendly.
As a hardcore follower of P Volkerding I would say this. The same killer app that has put RH on sooooo many desktops and made it soooo user friendly is RPM.
The reason I hate RH is RPM. You must do a post-install-mortem to find out where it put anything.
IMHO we have been distracted to the real issue. The issue is NOT about copying or piracy. There are DVD copiers on the market that I can afford that make viable copies of any DVD disks.
The issue IS about what platform the DVD is played from. GNU/Linux will not pay for the rights therefore will not be permitted to play DVD's.
The idea that the qwerty keyboard was made to be slower is urban legend. Neither is faster, unless of course you ask Dvorak. My speed nearly doubled when I went to the natural type key board.
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It is really hard to talk about why one likes a distro more than another with out it becoming an opinion poll. As for me,I bought my first 52 floppy set from LSL in the early 90's, I continue to like the fact that a Slackware machine is closer to a roll you own. When you use RPM's to manage that packages on your machine you loose some flexability and freedom in your design. I like compiling my own applications and setting the directories the way I want them. And editing those pesky files....... I love it. Finally to be short and specific, It is my box mistakes and all. I built, configured, compiled and screwed up all by myself.
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A T1's price is set by regulation. Those regulations have not kept up with either the times nor technology. The profit on a T1 is quite significant. Therefore the carriers will go out of their way to convince us all that it is indeed a superior service. That is upto and including making the other lesser services appear inferior. There are anecdotal stories on either side of the argument. Just keep your eyes openn with the RBOC sales guy comes in and says "You get what you pay for."
Until they find and display the liquid explosives, I will reamain somewhat scepticle. Most liquid explosives are unstable and heard to handle. It would not be the first time a minor detail like that turned out to be vapour ware.
willy
Q: Where does the hydrogen come from?
A: Huge electrical power generation plants burning coal or diesel......
1. No 'best' browser.
Well the Best Browser is still Lynx{8^)
2. Prompting for a filesystem scan.
Small price for data integrity?
3. Printing needs to be easier to configure.
APSFilter is an excellent tool. It is not graphical however.
4. Make it easy for the user to find out how to do things.
I have come up with something that I call Willy's Theorum.
Ease of use is in inverse proportion to robustness.
That is to say the easier something is to use the less you can do with it. The harder something is to use the more you can do with it if you just take the time to learn.
Buy a Mac and go with AOL{8^)
5. Cleaner redraws.
What can you say? When you're right you're right.
6. Die stray processes, die!
Again you are quite right but at lease you CAN kill them as apposed to Winders.
7. Easy way of sharing files.
SMB or NFS? The reason M$ does this to seemingly easily is that by default everyone has full control. This is great if you do not consider security important. Remember it is recommended that you do not even turn NetBios on TCP/IP on if you are directly on the internet.
What this adds up to it should be hard to share something unless you are going to learn a little about security.
8. Sound support.
Once again hitting the nail with the hammer.
9. No common editor which supports "soft wrapping."
I am not sure I understand this.....
I use VI for everything. In VI you can set textwidth for word wrap.....
10. No easy way to configure X - especially change resolution on the fly.
What happened to CTRL+ALT+PLUS on the number pad?
I cycle through 600X400 to 1280X1024 regularly.
Xconfigurator is a Redhat thing I think. xf86config comes with the standard MIT X.
I hope GNU/Linux never becomes the desk top of choice because you would have to cripple it so bad to make it user friendly.
Willy
RMS = GOD
As a hardcore follower of P Volkerding I would say this. The same killer app that has put RH on sooooo many desktops and made it soooo user friendly is RPM.
The reason I hate RH is RPM. You must do a post-install-mortem to find out where it put anything.
Give me tar-balls or give me DEATH!!!!!!!!
Live Streaming Slack the true distro!!!!!
willy
IMHO we have been distracted to the real issue. The issue is NOT about copying or piracy. There are DVD copiers on the market that I can afford that make viable copies of any DVD disks.
The issue IS about what platform the DVD is played from. GNU/Linux will not pay for the rights therefore will not be permitted to play DVD's.
willy
There was once a great Man (Voltaire?) who said "I may not agree with what you say, though I will defend to the death your right to say it."
That used to go a long way in this country. Maybe this is an old-school thought and I should give up any hope for the freedom of my progeny.
Have you seen some of the language in the source? I would not read it to either one of my daughters.
The idea that the qwerty keyboard was made to be slower is urban legend. Neither is faster, unless of course you ask Dvorak. My speed nearly doubled when I went to the natural type key board.
It is really hard to talk about why one likes a distro more than another with out it becoming an opinion poll. As for me ,I bought my first 52 floppy set from LSL in the early 90's, I continue to like the fact that a Slackware machine is closer to a roll you own. When you use RPM's to manage that packages on your machine you loose some flexability and freedom in your design. I like compiling my own applications and setting the directories the way I want them. And editing those pesky files....... I love it. Finally to be short and specific, It is my box mistakes and all. I built, configured, compiled and screwed up all by myself.