Remember that last year Gmail was announced on April Fool's. Besides, there's no way that our good friend Google would give us a fantastic and believable gift then brutally take it away.
My only fear is that Google can't resist the draw to become evil forever. If they start making some of these new toys for-pay-features. *shakes fist*
Hmmm... I think you've just further demonstrated my point. Mepis and Knoppix (know nothing of Ubuntu) are based on Debian. Don't think those smaller distros would be able to survive without the Debian team.
I care. So does anyone looking for a comprehensive and stable distribution of Linux!
I was trying to decide which distro to install for a friend's wife who, and I quote, wants "Linux on my computer because I'm sick of Windows crashing!" I was going to pick one of the more colorful and intuitive distros for her, even though I use Debian myself. Package management is obviously important. I'd like to direct her to RPMs or something rather than going over there to compile from source. Much had changed since I last looked a couple years ago:
1. SuSE: Gone and re-branded as Novel Linux Desktop. Now it's all tailored for business.
2. Mandrake: Used to be my second choice, but now you have to pay to get most of the enticing features included. Three CDs for free version, and six CDs for paid version.
3. Linspire: Free unless you want to use the built in package management system. Then you have to pay for it.
4. Red Hat: Gone. I hear Fedora Core is good. Nice that they gave us the free version, but it doesn't have near the support or attention that Red Hat does.
5. Slackware: Going strong. Great distro. Package management? Nope...
The truth is that Debian is still totally free and offers the strongest package management out there. Anyone who actually uses Linux, no matter what distro, understands that Debian is important.
If there is an application I run more often than my Web browser, particularly since I also use it as my email client, then I don't know what it might be. As a Firefox convert
If there is any English that would make me not want to read this article, particularly since English is my first language, then I don't know what that might be.
I agree to an extent. I'm not as much separating America from the people, as much as I'm trying not to generalize my discontent over the roughly 295,769,895 people who live there. And it's the US Government who's doing most of the sensationalizing. Moving from one war to the next (I'm talking "war on drugs" "war on crime" etc.) using fear to unite the US population in support of the President. Filtering what news comes back from Iraq (as a current example) to hide the thousands dying, atrocities committed by US soldiers, and complete disorganization and only letting through false American heroism. The media and the population is only following the government because it's working. Not to mention it sells.
I don't have a problem with most americans. I have a problem with America. I agree with you that it's a shame, but you've got to admit that the US is doing a pretty damn good job at looking bad.
Besides, the US needs us for power and water. There are many things that we need the US for evidently, but military is not one of them. We protect ourselves by not making enemies of the rest of the planet. I like to think that the rest of the world would not stand by while the US forcefully took us over...
Whenever I read articles like this I think two things:
1. So happy I live in Canada. It could be almost anywhere that isn't the US though. The rampant paranoia there is baffling.
2. So happy I'm on a dynamic IP pool. You want my address? Have it. I'll just cycle mine if I'm ever worried.
Guh. Exactly why I avoid music that uses DRM. I'm a musician and a good portion of my music is legally acquired. I encode from CDs or get from musicians who make it available. I would never pay almost as much for a low grade digital representation of the data on a CD with unpredictable copy protection and a complete lack of physical backup.
So, was all that music trashed or could it be recovered? Like I said, I don't understand DRMs or WMV.
Create a great piece of hardware with one of the primary functions being to skip commercials. Wait till you've gained a strong market share. Then put commercials on top of the commercials you're skipping.
It's like when the movie theaters started showing adds on the projectors (with sound) before the movie started. The day I saw the same damn Honda commercial fourteen times in a row before a movie was the day I stopped seeing flicks in theaters.
... Between legit software and malware? You don't want the toolbar, it's hard to get rid of the toolbar, it's an eyesore that you never use and don't remember asking for. Sounds like 'XXX Teen Search Buddy' to me!
How about the Mini Mac? How about lower pricepoint iBooks? I think Apple has done quite a bit to make themselves a more serious contender in the desktop market.
Yup. Looks just like my Inspiron 8000. Except... woodier.
Good eye! Those things are heavy beasts, but didn't run too hot. Sorry to everyone hoping for a fire!
The open source world is highly fragmented and factioned. It's hard enough to write software to run on most *NIX systems without it and a hand full of dependances being ported over.
Unfortunately that, IMHO, the biggest thing holding open source/free software back (other than Microsoft of course).
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I can see my house in pretty impressive detail...
Better watch out or we'll burn the White House down again!
(Well, technically it was the Brittish because Canada Didn't exist yet.)
Java is big and slow!
Next breaking story:
Microsoft is insecure!
It's because nobody is at work! Do you know anyone in IT who doesn't spend at least some of their day on /.?
Kill!
Fake Ghostlike Photons
Remember that last year Gmail was announced on April Fool's. Besides, there's no way that our good friend Google would give us a fantastic and believable gift then brutally take it away.
My only fear is that Google can't resist the draw to become evil forever. If they start making some of these new toys for-pay-features. *shakes fist*
Hmmm... I think you've just further demonstrated my point. Mepis and Knoppix (know nothing of Ubuntu) are based on Debian. Don't think those smaller distros would be able to survive without the Debian team.
I care. So does anyone looking for a comprehensive and stable distribution of Linux!
I was trying to decide which distro to install for a friend's wife who, and I quote, wants "Linux on my computer because I'm sick of Windows crashing!" I was going to pick one of the more colorful and intuitive distros for her, even though I use Debian myself. Package management is obviously important. I'd like to direct her to RPMs or something rather than going over there to compile from source. Much had changed since I last looked a couple years ago:
1. SuSE: Gone and re-branded as Novel Linux Desktop. Now it's all tailored for business.
2. Mandrake: Used to be my second choice, but now you have to pay to get most of the enticing features included. Three CDs for free version, and six CDs for paid version.
3. Linspire: Free unless you want to use the built in package management system. Then you have to pay for it.
4. Red Hat: Gone. I hear Fedora Core is good. Nice that they gave us the free version, but it doesn't have near the support or attention that Red Hat does.
5. Slackware: Going strong. Great distro. Package management? Nope...
The truth is that Debian is still totally free and offers the strongest package management out there. Anyone who actually uses Linux, no matter what distro, understands that Debian is important.
It's not wrong, just awkward.
If there is an application I run more often than my Web browser, particularly since I also use it as my email client, then I don't know what it might be. As a Firefox convert
If there is any English that would make me not want to read this article, particularly since English is my first language, then I don't know what that might be.
I'm painfully aware of the seals. I'd still take that over blatant infringements of civil rights by the Government which is supposed to protect me!
I agree to an extent. I'm not as much separating America from the people, as much as I'm trying not to generalize my discontent over the roughly 295,769,895 people who live there. And it's the US Government who's doing most of the sensationalizing. Moving from one war to the next (I'm talking "war on drugs" "war on crime" etc.) using fear to unite the US population in support of the President. Filtering what news comes back from Iraq (as a current example) to hide the thousands dying, atrocities committed by US soldiers, and complete disorganization and only letting through false American heroism. The media and the population is only following the government because it's working. Not to mention it sells.
Evidently it would not.
Damn them and their logs! *shakes fist*
I don't have a problem with most americans. I have a problem with America. I agree with you that it's a shame, but you've got to admit that the US is doing a pretty damn good job at looking bad.
Besides, the US needs us for power and water. There are many things that we need the US for evidently, but military is not one of them. We protect ourselves by not making enemies of the rest of the planet. I like to think that the rest of the world would not stand by while the US forcefully took us over...
Whenever I read articles like this I think two things:
1. So happy I live in Canada. It could be almost anywhere that isn't the US though. The rampant paranoia there is baffling.
2. So happy I'm on a dynamic IP pool. You want my address? Have it. I'll just cycle mine if I'm ever worried.
Guh. Exactly why I avoid music that uses DRM. I'm a musician and a good portion of my music is legally acquired. I encode from CDs or get from musicians who make it available. I would never pay almost as much for a low grade digital representation of the data on a CD with unpredictable copy protection and a complete lack of physical backup.
So, was all that music trashed or could it be recovered? Like I said, I don't understand DRMs or WMV.
... while 100% cursed Microsoft outloud.
Funny that an article about an objective comparison of search engines has the Google logo...
Create a great piece of hardware with one of the primary functions being to skip commercials. Wait till you've gained a strong market share. Then put commercials on top of the commercials you're skipping.
It's like when the movie theaters started showing adds on the projectors (with sound) before the movie started. The day I saw the same damn Honda commercial fourteen times in a row before a movie was the day I stopped seeing flicks in theaters.
... Between legit software and malware? You don't want the toolbar, it's hard to get rid of the toolbar, it's an eyesore that you never use and don't remember asking for. Sounds like 'XXX Teen Search Buddy' to me!
How about the Mini Mac? How about lower pricepoint iBooks? I think Apple has done quite a bit to make themselves a more serious contender in the desktop market.
Yup. Looks just like my Inspiron 8000. Except... woodier.
Good eye! Those things are heavy beasts, but didn't run too hot. Sorry to everyone hoping for a fire!
The open source world is highly fragmented and factioned. It's hard enough to write software to run on most *NIX systems without it and a hand full of dependances being ported over.
Unfortunately that, IMHO, the biggest thing holding open source/free software back (other than Microsoft of course).
That's why I wear my tinfoil hat wherever I go.