Steps of action when joe six-pack brings me a windoz box:
1. Uninstall Norton
2. Install AVG
3. Delete all "e"'s from everywhere
4. Install Firefox
5. Install Opera
6. Delete all Outlook shortcuts
7. Install Thunderbird
8. Install VLC and associate all media with it
9. Teach the guy to right-click/scan with AVG everything he downloads from the internet
It worked nice in most occasions
My 2p
Yes I see your point and I am NOT a Debian fan-boy, and never was in the past. I haven't installed Debian to any of my computers. Only at work. Slack, SUSE, gentoo at home depending on the hardware.
But I insist that the only way to get Linux on the desktop is to have PCs sold with some-kind-of-Linux preinstalled. Whether the big breakthrough in this field is gonna come with Ubuntu, Mandrake or sth else I don't have a clue!
I hope that your views are going to be proved correct and mine wrong. I really wish Ubuntu to be a huge success and open doors for Linux on the desktop (although I think is very difficult to achieve that)
OTOH I don't think that the fact that is GPL'd gives an answer to the question of whether it will stop or not?
Many GPL'd projects had stopped in the past, although I can see(I'm not an idiot, nor a troll) that Ubuntu gives the impression that is going to continue.
Anyway, I'm always sceptical on the whole Linux-on-the-desktop thing. We keep on preaching that for years now and the progress is dissapointing.
OTOH Debian on the server is sth that we see even here in Greece.
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Steps of action when joe six-pack brings me a windoz box: 1. Uninstall Norton 2. Install AVG 3. Delete all "e"'s from everywhere 4. Install Firefox 5. Install Opera 6. Delete all Outlook shortcuts 7. Install Thunderbird 8. Install VLC and associate all media with it 9. Teach the guy to right-click/scan with AVG everything he downloads from the internet It worked nice in most occasions My 2p
Have you tried telnet host 25?
You sure got a dodgy copy.. All copies were dodgy IIRC.
You mean you shower? :o :o Every morning? :o ooops this place has changed radically lately :|
$_ =~ s/(.*a)(king.*)/$1n$2/g;
Of course it doesn't hurt to read a book like "the elements of Java style".. What hurts is programming in java in the first place
True you must admit though that Paris, Texas is a special one :)
bug fixers. Bug Fixers!. Bug Fixers!!!. BUG FIXERS!!!!!!
semi-attractive women only?? and in the ass?? what about their sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins, pets?? what about 2 hours on Google Earth??
As a reader of a CONSIDERABLE number of troll-posts, I would like to congatulate you for a nice trolling effort
No there isn't. It is proven though that Google cannot cover more than a percentage of it.
There is a whole part of it (e.g sites that are not linked by others) that Google's algorithm cannot track.
www.fravia.com
for more info on how search engines work
Yes, I do that too and I keep recommending the site to anyone I can. That guy's work is extra-ordinary
Google covers 1/3rd of the web maximum
www.fravia.com
Good post, congrats!
Yes I see your point and I am NOT a Debian fan-boy, and never was in the past. I haven't installed Debian to any of my computers. Only at work. Slack, SUSE, gentoo at home depending on the hardware.
But I insist that the only way to get Linux on the desktop is to have PCs sold with some-kind-of-Linux preinstalled. Whether the big breakthrough in this field is gonna come with Ubuntu, Mandrake or sth else I don't have a clue!
Ah I see. Yes it's a good idea but it has to be combined with other techniques in order to give decent results. But, it's a good start anyway.
I insist that it's going take years to get good results. Maybe not 10 years (as I said in my first post) but surely more than 5.
I hope that your views are going to be proved correct and mine wrong. I really wish Ubuntu to be a huge success and open doors for Linux on the desktop (although I think is very difficult to achieve that)
OTOH I don't think that the fact that is GPL'd gives an answer to the question of whether it will stop or not?
Many GPL'd projects had stopped in the past, although I can see(I'm not an idiot, nor a troll) that Ubuntu gives the impression that is going to continue.
Anyway, I'm always sceptical on the whole Linux-on-the-desktop thing. We keep on preaching that for years now and the progress is dissapointing.
OTOH Debian on the server is sth that we see even here in Greece.
So you think that everything that has to be done is find a corresponding translation for each word??
Unfortunately that is NOT true from what I've seen in the field.
Maybe it's good enough (not perfect of course) for some technical documents.
But for speeches, news etc. and especially literature this oversimplified technique sucks.
So what?
What does HP have to do with the fact that Ubuntu development relies on this guy's mood.
HP does not offer support for Slackware either. But Slackware is here and others are not - e.g Corel Linux.
Good luck to them, but I doubt that they are gonna make it.
OK, make in 10 years or sth
I'm into natural language processing myself and it seems to me that it's very difficult to build a system that works globally on all kinds of input.
They'll have to LISP it to death!
Anyway my $0.02
Sure pal Ubuntu is fine with me, but comparing it with Debian??
Debian is a huge thing (community, support).
Debian stable is for servers.
OTOH Ubuntu is a rich South African's eccentric toy.
It's here today, who knows tomorrow?
To install it on a f* server.
I mean chill out from this Ubuntu trend.
Playmates?
Those 5 minutes are going to come from...well...er..
maybe waking up 5 minutes earlier?
Please consider this option... Oh please!
Yeah...
:(
Well it seems that Turkey and USA go hand-in-hand in eveything that has to do with human rights (schools, prisons etc).
How sad