and please tell me how many times a month you buy shit that is unique? do you buy a couch every week? do you buy a tv every other week? do you buy towels every day? FUCK NO.
the stuff you buy most often is the same shit you need to survive, and provide you with basic comfort, aka food, light bulbs, soap, deodorant, diapers, etc. stuff that doesn't matter if it's unique or not. if i want to buy some decent spices, i go to a local food store, but for the regular shopping - i go to local walmart. i get all the stuff i need, for the lowest price around and in less time than by going to all the other little podunk stores.
people do not go to walmart for uniqueness, they go there for convinience. they go there, because they can get majority of their daily/weekly/monthly shopping done at once in one place. and if you're dumb enough to use walmart as a basis for your house garnishing, you got problems of your own.
indeed; however, kde is only a window manager. reloading kde does not mean rebooting the server [thus affecting everything else that the server is doing]
the biggest problem was the iso. slack-current up until the release didn't have the official iso, so the mirrors made their own. updating the packages from last -current to -release was not a big problem, but the iso was. that's why some mirrors were behind, and we got hammered today [heck, even last night when we knew that it came out, we had a tough time trying to update the mirrors, and slashdot didn't announce it yet]
quick info on inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu: 1) anon client limit is set to 20 2) passive ftp only 3) we're on ds3 4) so far 220+ people downloaded the iso since midnight. btw, #slackware on OPN should be thanked for creating that list, we've been trying to provide mirrors to help the slackware community for awhile.
ps) make sure to use md5sum to check the integrity of your iso [to be positive, use the md5sum from ftp.slackware.com]. some of the unoffficial mirrors got a corrupted iso last night, and although most of them have the good one now, there is a chance you may bump into one of those.
funny you mention slack. i love slack, it's very clean and very stable. i highly suggest you look into the new slack-current, which is at slack 8.1rc1 now. patrick seems to be moving towards some of the LSB elements, and the overall distro is great. they changed the format of naming the packages to more detailed one. also, upgradepkg with those new packages works like a charm.
at work i set up mailscanner, which uses sophos anti-virus engine, and also spamassassin to tag all the spam. overall, very nice setup. ohh, i use sendmail for the transport.
what's even funnier is the fact that www.wehavethewayout.com switched today to w2k box. i guess due to the bad press somebody decided to fire somebody else, and switch to windows.
except when you're a foreigner, thanks to our new anti-terrorist laws. it's 7 days for poor guys, 7 freaking days in jail being detained without being charged.
my old boss even knew that if he wanted me to do overtime, he had to buy alcohol UP FRONT, and have it ready before i start working that day. and boy, after few beers, my admin skills were enhanced. i blame it on my polish nationality.
hmm, i believe this is a great idea. often i'd like to contribute a buck or two for a project, and often these projects do not have a unified way of accepting contributions. say, have your 'funding' site allow users to vote for the the features of a given project. this could be good just to give the project developers an idea of what users want. then, on the top of that, add ability to donate say 50 cents via paypal to the given development team, under a given feature. once the feature is in place and works, unlock the money that was put in, so the developers have $$ for their case of beer at the end of the week. of course, this is very general, and i don't claim to solve all the problems with creating this thing, but damn, the idea is great.
Great comment. I have to agree, Stanislaw Lem is an amazing author. I've read a lot of his books back when I was a kid in Poland, now I'm trying to get enough money to buy his english translations in the USA. The letter you attached is also interesting, I never knew about Lem's dislike of many sci-fi works. The things you learn...
I'm sorry, but how can you claim we live in the 70's? Does the broad family of UNIX-like operating systems still has to offer nothing but ed and roff?
Seriously, just because something is that old, doesn't mean it's 'not good anymore, and we shall move onto better things'. Damnit, a wheel is pretty darn old, yet the basic concept still exists. The surface look and feel of a wheel has changed, we added things like bearings, tires, and more. Yet, it remains basically the same principle, and works in a similar way. Same thing with UNIX family.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because it's a slow day at work... I mirrored it too
I know this is a bit off topic, but for the folks who are interested in trying another live linux cd, I suggest taking a look at knoppix.
It's a really neat distribution, something you could give to your friend if he's interested in what linux is all about.
ps) If you have trouble downloading iso from their mirrors, I have a small mirror here
and boy, their shows are amazing. well worth the ticket.
and please tell me how many times a month you buy shit that is unique? do you buy a couch every week? do you buy a tv every other week? do you buy towels every day? FUCK NO.
the stuff you buy most often is the same shit you need to survive, and provide you with basic comfort, aka food, light bulbs, soap, deodorant, diapers, etc. stuff that doesn't matter if it's unique or not. if i want to buy some decent spices, i go to a local food store, but for the regular shopping - i go to local walmart. i get all the stuff i need, for the lowest price around and in less time than by going to all the other little podunk stores.
people do not go to walmart for uniqueness, they go there for convinience. they go there, because they can get majority of their daily/weekly/monthly shopping done at once in one place. and if you're dumb enough to use walmart as a basis for your house garnishing, you got problems of your own.
indeed; however, kde is only a window manager. reloading kde does not mean rebooting the server [thus affecting everything else that the server is doing]
I'd to know where to get that (heck, i'll pay for the s&h)
the biggest problem was the iso. slack-current up until the release didn't have the official iso, so the mirrors made their own. updating the packages from last -current to -release was not a big problem, but the iso was. that's why some mirrors were behind, and we got hammered today [heck, even last night when we knew that it came out, we had a tough time trying to update the mirrors, and slashdot didn't announce it yet]
quick info on inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu:
1) anon client limit is set to 20
2) passive ftp only
3) we're on ds3
4) so far 220+ people downloaded the iso since midnight. btw, #slackware on OPN should be thanked for creating that list, we've been trying to provide mirrors to help the slackware community for awhile.
ps) make sure to use md5sum to check the integrity of your iso [to be positive, use the md5sum from ftp.slackware.com]. some of the unoffficial mirrors got a corrupted iso last night, and although most of them have the good one now, there is a chance you may bump into one of those.
since midnight i've been putting out roughly 2.5MBps [that's bytes btw]. I'm glad you could use it :)
funny you mention slack. i love slack, it's very clean and very stable. i highly suggest you look into the new slack-current, which is at slack 8.1rc1 now. patrick seems to be moving towards some of the LSB elements, and the overall distro is great. they changed the format of naming the packages to more detailed one. also, upgradepkg with those new packages works like a charm.
at work i set up mailscanner, which uses sophos anti-virus engine, and also spamassassin to tag all the spam. overall, very nice setup. ohh, i use sendmail for the transport.
what's even funnier is the fact that www.wehavethewayout.com switched today to w2k box. i guess due to the bad press somebody decided to fire somebody else, and switch to windows.
URL: http://www.wehavethewayout.com/
Charset: windows-1252
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 01:00:36 GMT
Remote OS guesses: Windows Me or Windows 2000 RC1 through final release, Windows Millenium Edition v4.90.3000
at least they could have edited the source to apache and change that, if they'd want to cover their tracks at least partially. silly folks.
i use mplayer, and i already have all the codecs from avifile. still no video :)
hmm, anybody know how i can get those codecs for linux? the package they have on their website is an exec...
except when you're a foreigner, thanks to our new anti-terrorist laws. it's 7 days for poor guys, 7 freaking days in jail being detained without being charged.
yep! btw, i'm moving across the country *again*.
my old boss even knew that if he wanted me to do overtime, he had to buy alcohol UP FRONT, and have it ready before i start working that day. and boy, after few beers, my admin skills were enhanced. i blame it on my polish nationality.
funny you mention those blocks. few irc channels i often attend to get/provide technical help, those are the ones on permament bans.
hmm, i believe this is a great idea. often i'd like to contribute a buck or two for a project, and often these projects do not have a unified way of accepting contributions. say, have your 'funding' site allow users to vote for the the features of a given project. this could be good just to give the project developers an idea of what users want. then, on the top of that, add ability to donate say 50 cents via paypal to the given development team, under a given feature. once the feature is in place and works, unlock the money that was put in, so the developers have $$ for their case of beer at the end of the week. of course, this is very general, and i don't claim to solve all the problems with creating this thing, but damn, the idea is great.
How ironic: I have no tolerance for people who claim to be smart yet can't spell.
Great comment. I have to agree, Stanislaw Lem is an amazing author. I've read a lot of his books back when I was a kid in Poland, now I'm trying to get enough money to buy his english translations in the USA. The letter you attached is also interesting, I never knew about Lem's dislike of many sci-fi works. The things you learn...
I'm sorry, but how can you claim we live in the 70's? Does the broad family of UNIX-like operating systems still has to offer nothing but ed and roff?
Seriously, just because something is that old, doesn't mean it's 'not good anymore, and we shall move onto better things'. Damnit, a wheel is pretty darn old, yet the basic concept still exists. The surface look and feel of a wheel has changed, we added things like bearings, tires, and more. Yet, it remains basically the same principle, and works in a similar way. Same thing with UNIX family.
/bin,/sbin is descriptive enough. it allowes my system to use majority of stuff written 30 years ago. and i can name additions anything i want.
From the webpage you just provided:
Media-BOX is not open source (yet).
Looks nice, but not open source.