My understanding of the intellegensia(sp) is that they are usually people associated with philosophy and humanist persuits. This usually included philosophers and painters and some of the less scientific realms of social science like maybe sociology or history/historic preservation. Perhaps the biggest person in the American and modern time was Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was able to gain a great deal of knowledge and practal experience which eventually lead him to create some very great ideas which were important for ideas sake. Much as Voltaire was able to use the power of satire and political analysis to look at how people were actually interrelating to each other and to their leaders. Perhaps Machivelli would rank up there due to his illustration on how power could be maintained and kept in the hands of one man with cunning skill. Add to the same category Doystoyevsky(sp) who gave us the idea of the Grand inquisitor and George Orwell whol both influenced the concept of the way we create power structures. These three similar and intersecting philosophies are at the height of what could be called power/control concepts of populations and government. It basically says that if the poeple are not willing or if they do not matter that perhaps you can rule them. What differentiates this from Franklin and Jefferson is that Franklin and Jefferson were people that wanted to think of people as equals and to be interacted with as such. Thsi also creates possibility that eventually the government will eventually be abolished or reformed when the people need something different. So what we have in the present (and what will still plague people in the future is the need to balance these forces) is more of the same dramas that these first minds came up with. The next leap will come when we have something that could ammount to an organized form of democracy (or close to anarchy)( where people create webs of experts or systems or even layers of expertice. Such a system could be had through better computers and hish speed internet connections with ease.
Why reinvent the wheel? If you look at http://www.freshmeat.net they have somewhere in their archive a program to post (and most likely obtain new news stories) since this protocol is not dependent on actually retrieving the full text of the articles and does not rely on HTTP or the httpd on slashdot's servers (for your actual front end experience) it addreses most of the problem. I suggest you look the program up and then propose your questions and such to the maintainer for it. Notice this post is not a flame at all in terms of what you believe. I just think you should look at this post and then go back and look for my earlier post on the structural limitations of the NNTP protocol in you rather long thread connected (for some strange reason) to my posts on the distributed.net article. A quick glance on the protocol RFC (request for comments) for NNTP (I forget the number exactly) would be most enlightening. And actually Andover basically has already "taken over" in terms of what they do and how they control slashdot. If Rob is contracted out by Andover then therefore at least partly Rob is an Andover employee. This is legally how it works and hence Rob is called an independent contractor for Andover. What you are implying is I guess that Andover should obtain either a more in house solution for access or hire another independent contractor do do the work? Am I correct in this?
Notice I am really going out on a limb for this. I offer this as a sort of olive branch to you (I assume this is the person from the other day) to try to get some really good ideas and then present them to the revelent people and not in a nested discussion where few of the maintainers are going to be seen. Just for the reccord most people when viewing comments tend to miss a great deal of them even the really good ones. I am still pouring over paper copies that I have of stuff from rstlu October and have seen arguments that were quite intriguing. Please can we have some sanity? And no more personal libel to an individual of the community who has no reason to incur damage to his livelyhood or career through bullying and powermongering via indirect threats to his superiors.
people could actually accomplish less and less. Let's look at this critically for a minute. According to Locke at some point in time society decided to trade it's' natural state for one in which we gave up absolute freedom for some ammount of protection. When was the last time you read a great novel or painting by a cave man? Barring the fact that the cave man didn't probably have the intellegence to do this they could not do all of these things that make us human if it weren't for the fact that someone somewhere decided to trade a little freedom for the ability to accomplish something. I take real exception in the thought that since I live in America that I am suddently a stupid idiot who is just being lead by the ring in my nose by the evil unkie sam. Centralized power has allowed most people to gain more and more actual (I guess the best term would be subsidization) for our word. People don't like the military but what did the military actually do? 1. Highway system taken by military tacticians from implimentations in Natzi Germany during their arms build up. Also taken from internal work done by various FDR labor programs. 2. The satellite systems and the space program in general; the entirety of this was basically because of the cold war and not because we actually cared about getting into space. 3. The internet in it's whole. Also taken from the cold war was the need to communicate and coordinate activity between units in the even of nuclear war. 4. Prevelence of aviation as a career and a science and not just barnstormers and wackos. Sure Lindberg started out this way but does flying around and doing crazy stunts suddently give my a liscence and redence as an actual trained and certified pilot? I guess those guys at the FAA are all wet huh? So basically all the really good things that actually allowed people to do things easier and without the fear that a roving band of savages will come along and slice my head off or that I have to gather stores for the winter and barely survive the winter.
Well haven't you heard of the FDIC?
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This little ol law says that if any bank goes under the ogvernment (yes that "eeeeeevvvvvil" uncle same) will insure my bank account up to 100,000 dollars. This prevented Y2k from actually getting any thin dime of my money.
Hmmm perhaps an episode of Millenium
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They had an episode where some kid decided to shoot up a group of people in some assembly because of some crappy medieval prediction.
To tell you the truth eliminating computers would just make things greatly more simple in terms of dealing with problemw. Most of the survivalists are out in the western part of the US right? Big ol' bunch of hippies are there too right? Well tat would make for a nice little thing called martial law that the government can enact and just bring in the army "for the children". There is nothing stopping people from operating on a method of using pencil and paper; and businesses will not argue ever with a fist full of American green backs for anything.
Just pick up a book and try to read it. Or better yet try to meet new friends or anything else that you don't usually do. This will cause the potential for some process stopping biofeedback.
Conspiracy theorists want no need to believe.
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Just like Fox Mulder conspiracy theorists need something to believe and Y2k was it. Y2k was just an unrealized, untested house of cards anyway. I personally know of one person who quit thier stable job and moved out int the rural countryside because they thought that the apocalypse. They bought a residence and stockpiled on all sorts of things including a generator and lots of what? *looks at audience* guns. Quite sterotypical and quite literally the truth.
I guess since I don't have a beowulf cluster of my own but what exactly is Unreal about? Quake is supposedly about a Marine distroying the Strogg from invading earth but what is Unreal about so that I can anticipate.
If I do something interesting say reach the south pole first then if people want information on how difficult getting there is they would usually ask me because before me they wouldn't know; additionally since no one would have gone before me then any possibility of getting any help would not be there. Now if you happen to go to the south pole and do so with only you and your trusty dog mike with nothing but the clothes on your back and a snickers bar then that is something. However because you don't have the ability to break into the my sphere because I got to the pole first then it gets more difficult to get noticed. The whole point is that you can't blame people for wanting something from an entirely reputable source. To be honest anyone who uses just one or two or even all the posts on slashdot to base a major multi-million dollar decision on would be foolish not because people are stupid but because theoretically you could be getting screwed over by imposters who just happened to gt moderated to a 5 that day.
Then you could prevent all but the most hardy of lawyers from being able to capture the code. Just use an optical storage device or something and put it in a vat or Uranium 238 and wait until they think that they have won and then just start printing it out in morse code, and dropping it from planes and such. Have a porn site add the DeCSS source stenographically to every image they have and then millions of people more will unwittingly have it on their machines. And who these days dosn't have one little ol' porn image anyways.
Just like communism how is it moving anything forward? If you mean finite fine grained control for every possible function to be something that is advanced. You know I guess that their are two considerations here. 1. Bandwidth that you have is limited 2. NNTP solves the bandwidth problem by allowing you to access things at least as fast or at least competitively due to the lack of moving more data. Now in all the implimentations that I have seen of any newsgroup program you have an option to download headers and then you can look at the subject and determine what it says. If this is your argument then it is dead wrong. Try this experiment for me. Find a browser preferably some version of netscape because IE messes up the formatting. Find a story that is either scrolled off the page of stories in either standad but preferably on maxium stories for today and then save it as text. Go back and look at the actual difference between the text of the subject and the text of the article (in NNTP language the news body) you will see a striking difference between the actual content of the body and what is being discused. That plan would only usually use just having more user intervention and most likely almost the same download time. Having a high user threshold usually helps for downloads takig less time plus the other tips I have given in posts. As far as being a fool for replying well I guess I am but that is only because I have seen too many examples where people wanted to "improve" something and it just made things much, much worse that as Shakespeare said "it moves me to stand"
Gee when I took a class in communications for the work place they said the first and foremost people need contact information in order to actually get your point across. Taking the "clinton sucks" message reference it does not good for two reasons the second of which besides the fact that you are not addressing the person directly is that you are not making any credible measure of your point because you are implying that you need to hide because what you say is dangerous or stupid. Quite frankly I don't think Malda gives a pile of horse shit about what you say and neither do I. He owns creative liscence to that site and that is his affair. What anonymous cowards say in his forum is of little concern to him or almost anyone else. In fact I would think that because I have not seen evidence that slashdot can expire old and or unused accounts that one of the main reasons that anonymous coward posting (versus posting anonymously) was implimenting was because he didn't want his ewntire database filled with expired logins for microsoft stoolies.
Ok your comments about NNTP really have little revelency with actual experience. Have you ever seen the actual nntp distribution system? It relies on servers that need to transfer several hundred gigs a day at the very least. Not only that but when you get right down to it you then could effectively block anonymity that you are so lavishly enjoying (most likely you are a person with already high karma) so that you can say whatever you want. The http/perl interface is the best for all around compatability issues when things like this are involved. Personally if your little plan does go into production taco better provide an interface that everyone can use and not just the elities. If not a little lawsuit under the ADA will be in order to correct the matter for the betterment of the community. I really find this intreesting that you can't even just post to items and then you can see if anyone has actually read your remarks and then posted back by using the user page. Even if you submit several thousand submissions a day only the last 50 will be counted and then you can see the responses to them. Another interesting fact I have used slow and low bandwitch connections at various locations and slashdiot works find and dandy in even the most low key setup. For starters you could change the HTML created to "lite" mode and that would most likely reduce the useless details of the posts to a minimum (in informal test that I have run preformance increased by at least 20-50%). So quite frankly quite your bitching and let us enjoy things the way we want ok?
People the world over have usually found the need for vanity wheather it be in gold or silver or in rank. Basically this reduces the team standing and allows for Billy Bo Bob's 31337 team of W2k people to get ahead.
I think that most people value the reasoning of people asking why and with what means. The question that people should ask is why is this necessary and important. I believe it was Socrates who said that "tge unexamined life is not worth living" or some such.
I have no idea on what so called "improvements" have been done but most graphical apps have yet to actually work with 100% efficiency for me. I have a suspicion that I am underutilizing the graphics hardware on my machine but am not able to actually do anything because it dosn't actually display properly. Now I have never had much success with the various support "forums" that the Xfree project actually provides. I really don't care what they do as long as they do it right and not concentrate all development resources on the newest Voodoo 3 6000 or something. I have a couple of questions related to this 1. Does anyone make any decent video cards (actually new things) that would run on classic PC hardware say something that would be found on a "regular" computer on a 486/33 or 486/66 motherboard 2. If not why not 3. Is there ongoing development in creating either a modular windowing system or something lightweight (similar to Qnx or similar). Most of my hard crashes in Linux are usually due to running graphical apps that take almost all the system resources and then make the system totally unresponsive to even direct calls to the X server. 4. Something that would allow for better setting of parameters or perhaps autodetection for various modes a little better. I tried to set up my videocard a few times before I got anything that would work. First video: Super-VGA;Chipset: ATI 68800-6 (Port Probed);Memory: 1024 Kbytes; RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit HiColor (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode));Attached graphics coprocessor:Chipset: ATI Mach32 Memory: 1024 Kbytes I got the above when I attempted to superprobe it so I was at least able to run the Super VGA server but when I attempted to run the Mach32 server the screen was extremely elongonigated or it allowed for a high resolution but when I ran something like a window manager or an application all of the little details like the menus and buttons and such were just eliminated with their text. Now not to create something that may be a source of shame but does anyone still care about this type of thing anymore or is this release and the up comming one just going to be a little thing for all the big boys to play with around town with their brand new $7,000 graphics adapters. I think that the server may increase preformance but I'll be damned if I can get the thing to adaquately work.
I have had various problems with some packages in debian unstable. Because of ongoing levels of development substantial changes can occur from say package-1.0.4-45 to package-1.0.4-46 with various security fixes and improvements etc. Upgrading to the newest version will often times allow you to use the latest features that the community around you uses. If you don't upgrade I think that some people are just afraid or clueless. Just like some idiots who still run dos version say 6.0 instead of 6.22 despite various changes ( I have seen them). Running say kernel 2.0.33 differences from 2.0.34 may not be in the actual changes to the kernel but from various contemporary changes in patches and add on features that the community will add to 2.0.34 and not 2.0.33 because it is the latest thing.
I used slaskware when I guess versioning was a bit more sane 3.4 and 3.5 and 3.6. Why do people get so irritated about being hassled via e-mail? If I get hassled via e-mail I can just ignore the more innane e-mails and go on in life. What would be more irritating would be personal harassment via face-to-face communication.
I think that there would not have been any comparable utilities that are as a better quality than what is uot there. Could someone name a comparable product with all of the features as emacs? I doubt it.
There are actually several software houses that I know of that do operate outside of the US. The problem comes in getting enough capital and the specific barriers to entry closed. I would more than happily use a piece of software made in Zaire if: 1. It has various UI things and such written in english. 2. It works well. As it stands now for various console games and such there are games that limit an English speaking audience to play (written in Japanese charaters). I don't see a problem with people writing softwre of myself using that software that was made.
interests can actually influence acceptance of an OS purely on country of origin as long as their language is supported as well as any other. I started to use linux because it worked not because it was multi-national in origin. I would be quite suprised if people didn't use it if it wasd created in the US.
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My understanding of the intellegensia(sp) is that they are usually people associated with philosophy and humanist persuits. This usually included philosophers and painters and some of the less scientific realms of social science like maybe sociology or history/historic preservation.
Perhaps the biggest person in the American and modern time was Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was able to gain a great deal of knowledge and practal experience which eventually lead him to create some very great ideas which were important for ideas sake. Much as Voltaire was able to use the power of satire and political analysis to look at how people were actually interrelating to each other and to their leaders.
Perhaps Machivelli would rank up there due to his illustration on how power could be maintained and kept in the hands of one man with cunning skill. Add to the same category Doystoyevsky(sp) who gave us the idea of the Grand inquisitor and George Orwell whol both influenced the concept of the way we create power structures. These three similar and intersecting philosophies are at the height of what could be called power/control concepts of populations and government. It basically says that if the poeple are not willing or if they do not matter that perhaps you can rule them.
What differentiates this from Franklin and Jefferson is that Franklin and Jefferson were people that wanted to think of people as equals and to be interacted with as such. Thsi also creates possibility that eventually the government will eventually be abolished or reformed when the people need something different.
So what we have in the present (and what will still plague people in the future is the need to balance these forces) is more of the same dramas that these first minds came up with. The next leap will come when we have something that could ammount to an organized form of democracy (or close to anarchy)( where people create webs of experts or systems or even layers of expertice. Such a system could be had through better computers and hish speed internet connections with ease.
Why reinvent the wheel? If you look at http://www.freshmeat.net they have somewhere in their archive a program to post (and most likely obtain new news stories) since this protocol is not dependent on actually retrieving the full text of the articles and does not rely on HTTP or the httpd on slashdot's servers (for your actual front end experience) it addreses most of the problem. I suggest you look the program up and then propose your questions and such to the maintainer for it.
Notice this post is not a flame at all in terms of what you believe. I just think you should look at this post and then go back and look for my earlier post on the structural limitations of the NNTP protocol in you rather long thread connected (for some strange reason) to my posts on the distributed.net article.
A quick glance on the protocol RFC (request for comments) for NNTP (I forget the number exactly) would be most enlightening.
And actually Andover basically has already "taken over" in terms of what they do and how they control slashdot. If Rob is contracted out by Andover then therefore at least partly Rob is an Andover employee. This is legally how it works and hence Rob is called an independent contractor for Andover. What you are implying is I guess that Andover should obtain either a more in house solution for access or hire another independent contractor do do the work? Am I correct in this?
Notice I am really going out on a limb for this. I offer this as a sort of olive branch to you (I assume this is the person from the other day) to try to get some really good ideas and then present them to the revelent people and not in a nested discussion where few of the maintainers are going to be seen.
Just for the reccord most people when viewing comments tend to miss a great deal of them even the really good ones. I am still pouring over paper copies that I have of stuff from rstlu October and have seen arguments that were quite intriguing.
Please can we have some sanity? And no more personal libel to an individual of the community who has no reason to incur damage to his livelyhood or career through bullying and powermongering via indirect threats to his superiors.
people could actually accomplish less and less.
Let's look at this critically for a minute. According to Locke at some point in time society decided to trade it's' natural state for one in which we gave up absolute freedom for some ammount of protection. When was the last time you read a great novel or painting by a cave man? Barring the fact that the cave man didn't probably have the intellegence to do this they could not do all of these things that make us human if it weren't for the fact that someone somewhere decided to trade a little freedom for the ability to accomplish something.
I take real exception in the thought that since I live in America that I am suddently a stupid idiot who is just being lead by the ring in my nose by the evil unkie sam. Centralized power has allowed most people to gain more and more actual (I guess the best term would be subsidization) for our word.
People don't like the military but what did the military actually do?
1. Highway system taken by military tacticians from implimentations in Natzi Germany during their arms build up. Also taken from internal work done by various FDR labor programs.
2. The satellite systems and the space program in general; the entirety of this was basically because of the cold war and not because we actually cared about getting into space.
3. The internet in it's whole. Also taken from the cold war was the need to communicate and coordinate activity between units in the even of nuclear war.
4. Prevelence of aviation as a career and a science and not just barnstormers and wackos. Sure Lindberg started out this way but does flying around and doing crazy stunts suddently give my a liscence and redence as an actual trained and certified pilot? I guess those guys at the FAA are all wet huh?
So basically all the really good things that actually allowed people to do things easier and without the fear that a roving band of savages will come along and slice my head off or that I have to gather stores for the winter and barely survive the winter.
This little ol law says that if any bank goes under the ogvernment (yes that "eeeeeevvvvvil" uncle same) will insure my bank account up to 100,000 dollars.
This prevented Y2k from actually getting any thin dime of my money.
They had an episode where some kid decided to shoot up a group of people in some assembly because of some crappy medieval prediction.
To tell you the truth eliminating computers would just make things greatly more simple in terms of dealing with problemw. Most of the survivalists are out in the western part of the US right? Big ol' bunch of hippies are there too right? Well tat would make for a nice little thing called martial law that the government can enact and just bring in the army "for the children".
There is nothing stopping people from operating on a method of using pencil and paper; and businesses will not argue ever with a fist full of American green backs for anything.
Surely you get paid the standard overtime mandated by federal law or else some people are breaking it.
Just pick up a book and try to read it. Or better yet try to meet new friends or anything else that you don't usually do. This will cause the potential for some process stopping biofeedback.
Just like Fox Mulder conspiracy theorists need something to believe and Y2k was it.
Y2k was just an unrealized, untested house of cards anyway. I personally know of one person who quit thier stable job and moved out int the rural countryside because they thought that the apocalypse. They bought a residence and stockpiled on all sorts of things including a generator and lots of what? *looks at audience* guns. Quite sterotypical and quite literally the truth.
I guess since I don't have a beowulf cluster of my own but what exactly is Unreal about? Quake is supposedly about a Marine distroying the Strogg from invading earth but what is Unreal about so that I can anticipate.
If I do something interesting say reach the south pole first then if people want information on how difficult getting there is they would usually ask me because before me they wouldn't know; additionally since no one would have gone before me then any possibility of getting any help would not be there. Now if you happen to go to the south pole and do so with only you and your trusty dog mike with nothing but the clothes on your back and a snickers bar then that is something. However because you don't have the ability to break into the my sphere because I got to the pole first then it gets more difficult to get noticed.
The whole point is that you can't blame people for wanting something from an entirely reputable source. To be honest anyone who uses just one or two or even all the posts on slashdot to base a major multi-million dollar decision on would be foolish not because people are stupid but because theoretically you could be getting screwed over by imposters who just happened to gt moderated to a 5 that day.
Then you could prevent all but the most hardy of lawyers from being able to capture the code. Just use an optical storage device or something and put it in a vat or Uranium 238 and wait until they think that they have won and then just start printing it out in morse code, and dropping it from planes and such. Have a porn site add the DeCSS source stenographically to every image they have and then millions of people more will unwittingly have it on their machines. And who these days dosn't have one little ol' porn image anyways.
Just like communism how is it moving anything forward?
If you mean finite fine grained control for every possible function to be something that is advanced. You know I guess that their are two considerations here.
1. Bandwidth that you have is limited
2. NNTP solves the bandwidth problem by allowing you to access things at least as fast or at least competitively due to the lack of moving more data.
Now in all the implimentations that I have seen of any newsgroup program you have an option to download headers and then you can look at the subject and determine what it says. If this is your argument then it is dead wrong. Try this experiment for me. Find a browser preferably some version of netscape because IE messes up the formatting. Find a story that is either scrolled off the page of stories in either standad but preferably on maxium stories for today and then save it as text.
Go back and look at the actual difference between the text of the subject and the text of the article (in NNTP language the news body) you will see a striking difference between the actual content of the body and what is being discused.
That plan would only usually use just having more user intervention and most likely almost the same download time. Having a high user threshold usually helps for downloads takig less time plus the other tips I have given in posts.
As far as being a fool for replying well I guess I am but that is only because I have seen too many examples where people wanted to "improve" something and it just made things much, much worse that as Shakespeare said "it moves me to stand"
Gee when I took a class in communications for the work place they said the first and foremost people need contact information in order to actually get your point across. Taking the "clinton sucks" message reference it does not good for two reasons the second of which besides the fact that you are not addressing the person directly is that you are not making any credible measure of your point because you are implying that you need to hide because what you say is dangerous or stupid.
Quite frankly I don't think Malda gives a pile of horse shit about what you say and neither do I. He owns creative liscence to that site and that is his affair. What anonymous cowards say in his forum is of little concern to him or almost anyone else. In fact I would think that because I have not seen evidence that slashdot can expire old and or unused accounts that one of the main reasons that anonymous coward posting (versus posting anonymously) was implimenting was because he didn't want his ewntire database filled with expired logins for microsoft stoolies.
Ok your comments about NNTP really have little revelency with actual experience. Have you ever seen the actual nntp distribution system? It relies on servers that need to transfer several hundred gigs a day at the very least. Not only that but when you get right down to it you then could effectively block anonymity that you are so lavishly enjoying (most likely you are a person with already high karma) so that you can say whatever you want.
The http/perl interface is the best for all around compatability issues when things like this are involved. Personally if your little plan does go into production taco better provide an interface that everyone can use and not just the elities. If not a little lawsuit under the ADA will be in order to correct the matter for the betterment of the community. I really find this intreesting that you can't even just post to items and then you can see if anyone has actually read your remarks and then posted back by using the user page.
Even if you submit several thousand submissions a day only the last 50 will be counted and then you can see the responses to them. Another interesting fact I have used slow and low bandwitch connections at various locations and slashdiot works find and dandy in even the most low key setup. For starters you could change the HTML created to "lite" mode and that would most likely reduce the useless details of the posts to a minimum (in informal test that I have run preformance increased by at least 20-50%). So quite frankly quite your bitching and let us enjoy things the way we want ok?
People the world over have usually found the need for vanity wheather it be in gold or silver or in rank. Basically this reduces the team standing and allows for Billy Bo Bob's 31337 team of W2k people to get ahead.
I think that most people value the reasoning of people asking why and with what means. The question that people should ask is why is this necessary and important.
I believe it was Socrates who said that "tge unexamined life is not worth living" or some such.
I can't see how the perl code for slashdot intersects this topic in the fact that maybe they both use perl.
Maybe it seems naive but why are teams necessary for distributed.net or do they increase key rate processing any?
I have no idea on what so called "improvements" have been done but most graphical apps have yet to actually work with 100% efficiency for me. I have a suspicion that I am underutilizing the graphics hardware on my machine but am not able to actually do anything because it dosn't actually display properly. Now I have never had much success with the various support "forums" that the Xfree project actually provides. I really don't care what they do as long as they do it right and not concentrate all development resources on the newest Voodoo 3 6000 or something.
I have a couple of questions related to this
1. Does anyone make any decent video cards (actually new things) that would run on classic PC hardware say something that would be found on a "regular" computer on a 486/33 or 486/66 motherboard
2. If not why not
3. Is there ongoing development in creating either a modular windowing system or something lightweight (similar to Qnx or similar). Most of my hard crashes in Linux are usually due to running graphical apps that take almost all the system resources and then make the system totally unresponsive to even direct calls to the X server.
4. Something that would allow for better setting of parameters or perhaps autodetection for various modes a little better.
I tried to set up my videocard a few times before I got anything that would work. First video: Super-VGA;Chipset: ATI 68800-6 (Port Probed);Memory: 1024 Kbytes;
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit HiColor (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode));Attached graphics coprocessor:Chipset: ATI Mach32 Memory: 1024 Kbytes
I got the above when I attempted to superprobe it so I was at least able to run the Super VGA server but when I attempted to run the Mach32 server the screen was extremely elongonigated or it allowed for a high resolution but when I ran something like a window manager or an application all of the little details like the menus and buttons and such were just eliminated with their text. Now not to create something that may be a source of shame but does anyone still care about this type of thing anymore or is this release and the up comming one just going to be a little thing for all the big boys to play with around town with their brand new $7,000 graphics adapters. I think that the server may increase preformance but I'll be damned if I can get the thing to adaquately work.
I have had various problems with some packages in debian unstable. Because of ongoing levels of development substantial changes can occur from say
package-1.0.4-45 to package-1.0.4-46 with various security fixes and improvements etc. Upgrading to the newest version will often times allow you to use the latest features that the community around you uses. If you don't upgrade I think that some people are just afraid or clueless. Just like some idiots who still run dos version say 6.0 instead of 6.22 despite various changes ( I have seen them). Running say kernel 2.0.33 differences from 2.0.34 may not be in the actual changes to the kernel but from various contemporary changes in patches and add on features that the community will add to 2.0.34 and not 2.0.33 because it is the latest thing.
I used slaskware when I guess versioning was a bit more sane 3.4 and 3.5 and 3.6.
Why do people get so irritated about being hassled via e-mail? If I get hassled via e-mail I can just ignore the more innane e-mails and go on in life. What would be more irritating would be personal harassment via face-to-face communication.
I think that there would not have been any comparable utilities that are as a better quality than what is uot there.
Could someone name a comparable product with all of the features as emacs? I doubt it.
There are actually several software houses that I know of that do operate outside of the US.
The problem comes in getting enough capital and the specific barriers to entry closed. I would more than happily use a piece of software made in Zaire if:
1. It has various UI things and such written in english.
2. It works well.
As it stands now for various console games and such there are games that limit an English speaking audience to play (written in Japanese charaters). I don't see a problem with people writing softwre of myself using that software that was made.
All they care about is hiding, eating, and reproduction (or the failed attempts thereof).
interests can actually influence acceptance of an OS purely on country of origin as long as their language is supported as well as any other.
I started to use linux because it worked not because it was multi-national in origin.
I would be quite suprised if people didn't use it if it wasd created in the US.