Why do open-source people have to redefine the term "support" to suit their arguement? If I can't call the company that makes the device and get help with my iPod working with my Linux distro, then that device is not supported under Linux. Whether you can use some flashy pre-pkg'ed software to provide many of the same functions as the offical software or not is not up for debate.
So, that means that because Apple decided not to release an certain propietary application for X operating system it means that such system is not ready for the desktop.
Pardon me but it one of the most stupid arguments I have read. And I read it quite often here in slashdot. Going in that line of reasoning, Microsoft Windows was not ready for the desktop until October 16, 2003 no?
The only thing that means is that such company decided not to support the operating system, and that is the fault of THE FREAKING COMPANY. When people reffer to "some flashy pre-pkg'ed software" to show you that the Operating System distributors (or company if you want to call it like that) is making their best effort to offer an alternative.
But again, it is the same issue as with hardware drivers, if companies REFUSE to make their products available for certain operating system it is NOT the problem of such operating system. It is for hardware as it is for games as it is for ipods as it is for accounting or any other kind of software.
Yeah! I completley agree with that statement. We should get rid of this OLD keyboard layout intended for mechanical machines of 1868 and use something more in accord with current technology.
Seriously, I *know* it is possible to change the layout in the operating system (in the same way it is possible to remove the CAPSLOCK key from the keyboard) but I believe current typing courses should teach Dvorak, you really wold get impressed on the speed and commodity of typing with that layout.
I've got one and I am not from even from UK (although I've lived here for some time).
Blu-tack.
It was a funny experience when I learn it was called that, because I have seen it sticked in all the bloody places, at first I thought it was bubble gum (kheewwww!) they used to stick the advertisments and other papers (not very logic in a university). Then someone told me it was a special adhesive "thing" they use in the UK.
After that, once I wend to ASDA and did not know where to look for it, so I asked one of the workers for "the clay like thing they use to stick paper and other things to the walls" and immediatly she answered with a smile "Oh, Blue Tack!" and told me where to find it.
I have never used blu tack as in Mexico we often use "cinta durex" which is an adhesive band sold by the brand "durex" among others.
If you think the state of your computer matters to a prospective girlfriend I reckon you are not getting out much....
AAhhh but you will certainly impress that girlfriend that owns the iPod with your new MacBook and you will be able to talk about the wonders of music downloaded from iTunes and the cool iMovie effects.
use WINE you wally... Google is your friend here... a simple search (such as keywords wsftp+linux or irfanview+linux) reveals irfanview [
I just tried to install irfanview without success. I followed the instructions there, I just downloaded and installed the last version of wine. Unfortunately I get an error saying "the ordinal 6880 could not be located int he dynamic link library MFC42.DLL". I tried googling about it but the only result is a forum where the answer does not work (I already placed MFCxxxx in the system32 folder).
Oh, and of course I took the time to do all this *hacking*, the real problem is that non-hacky users would have a really hard time installing WINE in first place (yep I got to compile and install in my home fodler, as i dont have root access:])
C'mon, don't tell me you've never taken your laptop to the "reading room".
Hell yeah, but, I think it is a better idea to keep your GBA over there. I keep mine there, with an Supercard+ 1GB SD + some games. That way I can get very inspired:) [I am playing FF1 now]
So, I am sitting here in my Fedora Core 4 linux office linux distribution (no I dont have to be working as I finish at 5:00 and it is 6:00 GMT over here), when I attempt to watch the video refered by the Slashdot site (a news site which is supposed to be pro open source, anti Microsoft (c)), surprisingly, the video they link is nothing less than a nono-propietary-format WMV file uh?
Unfortunately I can not watch is as my distribution can not handle *that*. And no, I can not install anything (because I do not have r00t privileges). So, could anyone be so pollite to provide a mpeg or at least a FLV (aka youtube | gvideo) link?
But then I presume that the person inside the field would not be able to see a thing, if you were inside the field force you would be inside a black "universe". Interesting uh?
Does he also insist that the company pay for the air they consume, or directly compensate the government for roads they use (beyond paying the usual taxes)? If not, why? I don't understand the logic by which some free (and Free) infrastructure is good, but in other places it's not only not good, but actively bad.
Mmmm, I do not totally disagree with you (although, my ex-ceo was a nice person, but he just did not understand what open source is about), but your analogies are totally flawed. First, the roads we use are being compensated by the taxes (as you state it) so, they are NOT free. Second the air is something available from the nature which is not *produced* by another human.
It is something similar to water. See, water is free for all, however, the transporting service (tubes) costs. That is why water (bottled, purified, tubed) is a grat buisness. (Did you know that in a Latin American country the water providing company wanted to avoid people from gathering their water from the rain? saying that the contract established that water was their property?), --
I remembered the CEO of the company I worked for sometime ago (they are making an Expedia like web portal for Mexico tourism).
He called me to his office (I was the "Open Source evangelist") and asked me what was the good thing in Open Source (specifically Linux at that time). After I tried to explain him, trying to supress my "enthusiastic bachellors" spirit, about the benefit of using an open source solution to do what they were doing (a "service based" buisness, instead of a "software" based company), he told me (something I will always remember) that free things are not good for companies, because it is the total oposite of an economy and, for there to be an economy there assets/services must be traded for money. In the absense of this (e.g. with "free lunch") a company can not be inside the "economic circle". [sorry, rough english translation of what I remember].
If I were to tell him now, something like 5 years later, I would tell him that, in reality Open Source (at least GPL/Linux) is not a "payless" or "gratis" asset. Because, when any company uses the software they have to (a) contribute to the community (pay, in terms of intellectual property) and (b) pay for support/integration, because the advantage of the closed source solutions is the cohesion they achieve in their software (something really nice about Microsoft products is that they work happy togheter, although for some people this is something bad because they "tie" the client), unlike open source software for which there exist thousands of possible combinations which, if the company is lucky, would be able find a half assed script to make two make 2 programs poorly interact with each other.
I know there is a joke inside there but as a non native American I could not catch it. So my first reaction was to copy/paste the question to Google and the humor insensitive search engine answered exactly what I was not looking for.
So, could anyone be so kind to tell me, what is the reason that everybody in the room I laughing out loud? I just imagine the scene =oP.
Well, I can read spanish, and after reading the What's new information I found two or three quite interesting things. I will try to summarize them here:
Primer arranque (First boot): Allows graphics booting using gfxboot, something quite nice for "normal" users, as I remember my flatmate got scared at the Ubuntu screen boot, with the list of the [OK] and [FAILED] services status (background here).
Instalación (Installing): Just a graphical installer with graphical partition resizing, I saw this already when installing Ubuntu and Mandriva.
Más comodidad (More confortability [is that a word?]): Just the old root/user password option with automatic login.
Un Escritorio más vivo (more alive desktop),Mantente a la última (stay at the edge), El nuevo Actualizar LinEx (New LinEx Update): Some desktop backgrounds, system update and package installer. Nothing too fancy IMHO.
Aptéalo con APTZILLA ("Aptate it" with APTZILLA) : This is something which I believe is worth to mention, I have never seen something simillar in any other distribution. It seems to be a Firefox extension that enables to install software from an internet page. It would be very interesting to try it because from what it seems it would be a way to achieve the "click+download+click^x+install" behaviour in Windows for the end user (my father for example wont be able to install Repast framework in Ubuntu because it is not in the repositores, whereas to install it on Windows he just have to download the installer and run it).
El Panel de Control de gnuLinEx: A control panel similar to what a lot of other distributions have. HOWEVER I find quite relevant that they embed the WINE emulator (which btw I.N.an E.), I imagine they try to make as easy as possible to enable Windows applications to run in Linux. That is the other property worth to note, as I have not seen any distribution that gives so much importance to it (well, besides the commecial distros like xandros, lindows [ya ya I like to call it Lindows], etc).
El wiki personal (The Personal Wiki [see, spanish is not that hard]): That is the other interesting application, which a wiki like note taker (the application seems to be Tomboy.
Well, all the other properties I did not listed are the ones that I have seen in other distributions.
Interestingly enough, there are three things I look at when buying a notebook: 1. Weight 2. Size 3. Battery life.
And I think it is in these three properties that we need a real improvement. Granted, maybe size is not much of an issue (although doing laptops slimmer would help). I like 15 or even 14.5 inches screens because I cant see on smaller screens.
Now, about the weight, That is a *big* issue for me. I have an HP notebook ZV5000la, the whole beast weights 3.5 Kg, and although it is a great machine it is not by any means portable. It was rejected once from the hand bagagge of a plane because it was too heavy. I had, in my Notebook bag, the notebook,the charger and some CD's, and it was more than 5 Kg !!!.
I would love to have a notebook that weighted about 1 kg or less.
And that brings us to battery power. Darn, how I hate current batery power. As you parent stated on his message, all the notebook manufacturers sell the battery life as 6 hours or 8 hours but only if you do nothing or you are in suspend state. My laptop lasts like 2 hours with the battery full charged. That is a hell too litle, nada.
Each six months I flight for about 13 hours (UK- Mexico), I want a computer in which I can program (Eclipse Java, DevC++ or VS 2003, OpenGL graphics mostly) at least half of the time I am there.
And of course, the better the battery life the bigger and heavier the battery. I know this is a shameless rant because none of the technologies available now are able to fix it (solar panels covering the case? =op). But anyway I believe there are still a lot of improvements to be done to notebooks.
Shees, I cant understand why people do those kind of "cryptic" writing like fsck, d!ck or masturb*tion. The words exist and are in a dictionary, nothing hapens you see?
What I have never understood is, why does this people continue with their record company once they have been screwed?
I mean, I know they must sign some contract to make an specific number of CD's. But after that, they will have the fame and fortune that the record corporation can yield, Why not just quit and continue their careers independently?
If that artist girl on somebody else comment is so pissed off of being screwed why didnt she just finishes with the company and starts?,
Maybe someone with more music industry knowledge can clarify that to me as I do not know if there are usually clausules in the contracts that states that you will be forever and ever with certain company (you hear often that bands change companies). The only thing they must do is finish their contract (I believe it is usually for a number of CDs in a period of time).
My p2p software is on my desktop. I DL tracks from CDs I own all the time, because it's easier than finding the CD.
Unfortnately it is, the illegal action you are commiting is distributing the material because as you download you are also uploading. If I am right what you will be sued for is copyright infringment which is illegal distribution of their intellectual works.
On a serious note, instead of "fragmenting" and making harder to see where to go, what they are doing is homogenizing (spell??) it. All those kazaa users will go ([to bittorrent+emule+X]-1) P2P software that is available. That is great from my point of view because that way you will have to hunt less places to get what you need.
I remember once I downloaded winmx and could found the GAMEDEV magazine ISO disks, unfortunately I could not download it because my connction was still a modem. In those days you had edonkey, kazaa, imesh, napster, and I dont remember how many others.
The more of those netwoks they close, the better another network will become (in anonymity, content and users).
Slashdot Mirror
He says nothing about what it is that he actually does in IT or what his own experiences are
So, would you like his phone number too?,
Colin Bondi
Systems Manager at Newkirk Products, Inc.
Portland, Oregon Area | Financial Services
cmbondi_AVOID_SPAM_@_AVOID_SPAM!hotmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/636/780
Why do open-source people have to redefine the term "support" to suit their arguement? If I can't call the company that makes the device and get help with my iPod working with my Linux distro, then that device is not supported under Linux. Whether you can use some flashy pre-pkg'ed software to provide many of the same functions as the offical software or not is not up for debate.
So, that means that because Apple decided not to release an certain propietary application for X operating system it means that such system is not ready for the desktop.
Pardon me but it one of the most stupid arguments I have read. And I read it quite often here in slashdot. Going in that line of reasoning, Microsoft Windows was not ready for the desktop until October 16, 2003 no?
The only thing that means is that such company decided not to support the operating system, and that is the fault of THE FREAKING COMPANY. When people reffer to "some flashy pre-pkg'ed software" to show you that the Operating System distributors (or company if you want to call it like that) is making their best effort to offer an alternative.
But again, it is the same issue as with hardware drivers, if companies REFUSE to make their products available for certain operating system it is NOT the problem of such operating system. It is for hardware as it is for games as it is for ipods as it is for accounting or any other kind of software.
Sort the rest of the keyboard
Yeah! I completley agree with that statement. We should get rid of this OLD keyboard layout intended for mechanical machines of 1868 and use something more in accord with current technology.
Seriously, I *know* it is possible to change the layout in the operating system (in the same way it is possible to remove the CAPSLOCK key from the keyboard) but I believe current typing courses should teach Dvorak, you really wold get impressed on the speed and commodity of typing with that layout.
I've got one and I am not from even from UK (although I've lived here for some time).
Blu-tack.
It was a funny experience when I learn it was called that, because I have seen it sticked in all the bloody places, at first I thought it was bubble gum (kheewwww!) they used to stick the advertisments and other papers (not very logic in a university). Then someone told me it was a special adhesive "thing" they use in the UK.
After that, once I wend to ASDA and did not know where to look for it, so I asked one of the workers for "the clay like thing they use to stick paper and other things to the walls" and immediatly she answered with a smile "Oh, Blue Tack!" and told me where to find it.
I have never used blu tack as in Mexico we often use "cinta durex" which is an adhesive band sold by the brand "durex" among others.
Alternately, bang head on keyboard.
Oh god, how I wish I had mod points =o)
You are both wrong, it is the short of the brand of ciggarettes "Newport"
Now that is a good one.
Go to the parents link, then click the murderpeople.com link. That will take you to one of those domain for sale pages with tons of ads.
The interesting thing is the page's title "AOL FUCKED UP AGAIN" and one link that reads "aolsucksass".
Does anyone know who are the registers of this page?
If you think the state of your computer matters to a prospective girlfriend I reckon you are not getting out much....
AAhhh but you will certainly impress that girlfriend that owns the iPod with your new MacBook and you will be able to talk about the wonders of music downloaded from iTunes and the cool iMovie effects.
So yep, there is a difference
use WINE you wally... Google is your friend here... a simple search (such as keywords wsftp+linux or irfanview+linux) reveals irfanview [
:])
I just tried to install irfanview without success. I followed the instructions there, I just downloaded and installed the last version of wine. Unfortunately I get an error saying "the ordinal 6880 could not be located int he dynamic link library MFC42.DLL". I tried googling about it but the only result is a forum where the answer does not work (I already placed MFCxxxx in the system32 folder).
Oh, and of course I took the time to do all this *hacking*, the real problem is that non-hacky users would have a really hard time installing WINE in first place (yep I got to compile and install in my home fodler, as i dont have root access
I just installed Picasa in a P3-400mhz machine with Ubuntu Linux!
:).
It rocks and it is a typical IAgree->Next->Next installer
The only thing that is lacking is a User installing option (i.e. not installing as ROOT but in the User homepage) but it is cool anyways.
Perhaps it wold work if you picked your keyboard up and held it like a guitar.
Ja but you even doing that you would not be able to play like mich because you SUCK.
C'mon, don't tell me you've never taken your laptop to the "reading room".
:) [I am playing FF1 now]
Hell yeah, but, I think it is a better idea to keep your GBA over there. I keep mine there, with an Supercard+ 1GB SD + some games. That way I can get very inspired
So, I am sitting here in my Fedora Core 4 linux office linux distribution (no I dont have to be working as I finish at 5:00 and it is 6:00 GMT over here), when I attempt to watch the video refered by the Slashdot site (a news site which is supposed to be pro open source, anti Microsoft (c)), surprisingly, the video they link is nothing less than a nono-propietary-format WMV file uh?
Unfortunately I can not watch is as my distribution can not handle *that*. And no, I can not install anything (because I do not have r00t privileges). So, could anyone be so pollite to provide a mpeg or at least a FLV (aka youtube | gvideo) link?
Cheers mates!
But then I presume that the person inside the field would not be able to see a thing, if you were inside the field force you would be inside a black "universe". Interesting uh?
Does he also insist that the company pay for the air they consume, or directly compensate the government for roads they use (beyond paying the usual taxes)? If not, why? I don't understand the logic by which some free (and Free) infrastructure is good, but in other places it's not only not good, but actively bad.
Mmmm, I do not totally disagree with you (although, my ex-ceo was a nice person, but he just did not understand what open source is about), but your analogies are totally flawed. First, the roads we use are being compensated by the taxes (as you state it) so, they are NOT free. Second the air is something available from the nature which is not *produced* by another human.
It is something similar to water. See, water is free for all, however, the transporting service (tubes) costs. That is why water (bottled, purified, tubed) is a grat buisness. (Did you know that in a Latin American country the water providing company wanted to avoid people from gathering their water from the rain? saying that the contract established that water was their property?),
--
I remembered the CEO of the company I worked for sometime ago (they are making an Expedia like web portal for Mexico tourism).
He called me to his office (I was the "Open Source evangelist") and asked me what was the good thing in Open Source (specifically Linux at that time). After I tried to explain him, trying to supress my "enthusiastic bachellors" spirit, about the benefit of using an open source solution to do what they were doing (a "service based" buisness, instead of a "software" based company), he told me (something I will always remember) that free things are not good for companies, because it is the total oposite of an economy and, for there to be an economy there assets/services must be traded for money. In the absense of this (e.g. with "free lunch") a company can not be inside the "economic circle". [sorry, rough english translation of what I remember].
If I were to tell him now, something like 5 years later, I would tell him that, in reality Open Source (at least GPL/Linux) is not a "payless" or "gratis" asset. Because, when any company uses the software they have to (a) contribute to the community (pay, in terms of intellectual property) and (b) pay for support/integration, because the advantage of the closed source solutions is the cohesion they achieve in their software (something really nice about Microsoft products is that they work happy togheter, although for some people this is something bad because they "tie" the client), unlike open source software for which there exist thousands of possible combinations which, if the company is lucky, would be able find a half assed script to make two make 2 programs poorly interact with each other.
What's the square root of 69?
8 something
8.30662386 to be precise, according to google calc
I know there is a joke inside there but as a non native American I could not catch it. So my first reaction was to copy/paste the question to Google and the humor insensitive search engine answered exactly what I was not looking for.
So, could anyone be so kind to tell me, what is the reason that everybody in the room I laughing out loud? I just imagine the scene =oP.
Well, all the other properties I did not listed are the ones that I have seen in other distributions.
Interestingly enough, there are three things I look at when buying a notebook:
1. Weight
2. Size
3. Battery life.
And I think it is in these three properties that we need a real improvement. Granted, maybe size is not much of an issue (although doing laptops slimmer would help). I like 15 or even 14.5 inches screens because I cant see on smaller screens.
Now, about the weight, That is a *big* issue for me. I have an HP notebook ZV5000la, the whole beast weights 3.5 Kg, and although it is a great machine it is not by any means portable. It was rejected once from the hand bagagge of a plane because it was too heavy. I had, in my Notebook bag, the notebook,the charger and some CD's, and it was more than 5 Kg !!!.
I would love to have a notebook that weighted about 1 kg or less.
And that brings us to battery power. Darn, how I hate current batery power. As you parent stated on his message, all the notebook manufacturers sell the battery life as 6 hours or 8 hours but only if you do nothing or you are in suspend state. My laptop lasts like 2 hours with the battery full charged. That is a hell too litle, nada.
Each six months I flight for about 13 hours (UK- Mexico), I want a computer in which I can program (Eclipse Java, DevC++ or VS 2003, OpenGL graphics mostly) at least half of the time I am there.
And of course, the better the battery life the bigger and heavier the battery. I know this is a shameless rant because none of the technologies available now are able to fix it (solar panels covering the case? =op). But anyway I believe there are still a lot of improvements to be done to notebooks.
Almost 80% of the woman I met use the computer...
:)
Let me gess, your sisteer and her 3 friends use the computer to chat, but your mom doesnt.
Uh, that'll sum ur 100% wont it
Masturbation
There! I did it, and I did not burn in hell see?
Masturbation
again! woah this is cool!
Shees, I cant understand why people do those kind of "cryptic" writing like fsck, d!ck or masturb*tion. The words exist and are in a dictionary, nothing hapens you see?
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/reputed
Main Entry: creditable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: praiseworthy
Synonyms: admirable, believable, commendable, decent, deserving, estimable, excellent, exemplary, gnarly, honest, honorable, laudable, meritorious, nasty*, organic, palmary, reputable, reputed, respectable, satisfactory, suitable, worthy
If you are going to be a grammar Nazi, at least learn some grammar faggot
What I have never understood is, why does this people continue with their record company once they have been screwed?
I mean, I know they must sign some contract to make an specific number of CD's. But after that, they will have the fame and fortune that the record corporation can yield, Why not just quit and continue their careers independently?
If that artist girl on somebody else comment is so pissed off of being screwed why didnt she just finishes with the company and starts?,
Maybe someone with more music industry knowledge can clarify that to me as I do not know if there are usually clausules in the contracts that states that you will be forever and ever with certain company (you hear often that bands change companies). The only thing they must do is finish their contract (I believe it is usually for a number of CDs in a period of time).
My p2p software is on my desktop. I DL tracks from CDs I own all the time, because it's easier than finding the CD.
Unfortnately it is, the illegal action you are commiting is distributing the material because as you download you are also uploading. If I am right what you will be sued for is copyright infringment which is illegal distribution of their intellectual works.
Wee Mexico on the TOP 10 list!.
On a serious note, instead of "fragmenting" and making harder to see where to go, what they are doing is homogenizing (spell??) it. All those kazaa users will go ([to bittorrent+emule+X]-1) P2P software that is available. That is great from my point of view because that way you will have to hunt less places to get what you need.
I remember once I downloaded winmx and could found the GAMEDEV magazine ISO disks, unfortunately I could not download it because my connction was still a modem. In those days you had edonkey, kazaa, imesh, napster, and I dont remember how many others.
The more of those netwoks they close, the better another network will become (in anonymity, content and users).