"Brown is not your usual ignorant Microsoft-bribed hack. He has himself contributed macros for OpenOffice users."
Ok now I'm officially amused. I should take this guy for anything more than the idiot he is, just because he can write OpenOffice macros? Sorry, when it comes to taking people's technical opinions seriously my barrier to entry is a bit tougher than that.
I'm not going to keep going back and forth on this. It's retarded. I was trying to point out that the assumption that 32 bit code automagically fails to run on 64bit architectures is fundamentally flawed. It works quite well and yes even on Sparcs. Some of you guys are still under the impression that just because you signed up for a slashdot nick it means you have a clue what the hell you're talking about. Sorry it really doesn't work that way.
Uhhh RedHat does give it away for free. You can go to their site right now and download RHEL, RHAS, or RHWS including one month of RHN subscription for free. Yes, updates and support stop after that month if you decide not to pay, but the OS is there for the taking and update SRPMS are always available.
Not that I would ever allow ZDNet to choose my OS for me but I think they may be a bit confused. The first three distros were basically tossed aside because of "lacks Exchange support", however, the final page has this to say.
"All five distributions come with a good -- and very similar -- selection of core applications, including OpenOffice for office productivity, Gaim for instant messaging and Evolution for email, contact management and calendar functionality."
How many times does this same thing have to be done before people get it? If you want a unified desktop, please go join the KDE, Gnome, or XFCE, developers and do something about it. Nobody cares that you've built yet another website with nothing but your wishlist for improvements on it just to get a mention on slashdot.
Just type your search into the address bar and hit enter.
Finally, an informative moderated post that really is informative and not a karma whore. Just tried that here at work where I have to use Firefox. Works great.
>>There might be a nice market amongst luddites and regressives, and those who think they are sticking it "to the man" by using something with such an aging and nasty interface.
Odd. The interface is exactly why I use Mozilla and not firefox. What genius moved the google search to an entirely new field when on Moz you can just type in the address bar and hit the down arrow? There is also the distinct lack of huge memory leaks which means Mozilla can run for a month or so at a time without a restart on my machine. It also appears (nope I haven't done benchmarks) to render pages much faster than F irefox.
>>And no, Im not running XP on the same hardware I ran Windows 95 on:) My upgrades were not forced by Windows versions tho.
Yes you were forced, directly or indirectly. My 486DX which came with Win95 is currently running OpenBSD 3.8-Beta, the same OS that my 3Ghz P4 runs. If it wasn't the operating system that forced the upgrades then it had to be the apps which got larger thanks to Microsoft. So, yes, you were forced to upgrade.
Could it possibly be because Firefox gets a new subversion release every other day, and the only real way to upgrade is to download it again?
Well, whatever, at the rate those versions are going up soon it'll be at 1.7.8 and they can put back all the features they ripped out to make that bastardised POS to begin with.
Are you smoking crack. When the US and UK go invading other countries and killing thousands of people for the actions of a few (who may not have even been remotely related to the terrorist attacks) it tends to piss people off. Yes GWB and TB are very very fucking responsible for this dumbass.
Yes, TFA is yet another Mac handjob gone too far, but the biggest argument seen from the Windows fanboys is that the GUI is ugly and boring because it's meant to stay out of the way and let you productive work done (read surfing porn and wasting time playing whatever crap game released this week).If they really beleived this crap about the GUI staying outta the way they would be using an interface like http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ or http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/.
Now stfu and admit the windows interface just sucks.
Now we will see 1000 posts by Windows fanboys about how unfair these reports are, and how they somehow manage to do the impossible and secure their Windows box with no effort whatsoever, rather than just moving on to a better OS.
I've been modded troll and flamebait for damn near every opinion I've ever posted on slashdot, yet this guy manages to get the troll of trolls posted front page. No sir, it is I who has definitely missed something here.
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"Brown is not your usual ignorant Microsoft-bribed hack. He has himself contributed macros for OpenOffice users."
Ok now I'm officially amused. I should take this guy for anything more than the idiot he is, just because he can write OpenOffice macros? Sorry, when it comes to taking people's technical opinions seriously my barrier to entry is a bit tougher than that.
I'm not going to keep going back and forth on this. It's retarded. I was trying to point out that the assumption that 32 bit code automagically fails to run on 64bit architectures is fundamentally flawed. It works quite well and yes even on Sparcs. Some of you guys are still under the impression that just because you signed up for a slashdot nick it means you have a clue what the hell you're talking about. Sorry it really doesn't work that way.
Yes that is absolutely what I'm saying...and for the Linux guys I'll even point out the rpm http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/s earch/MPlayer-w32codecs-1.0pre7try2-15.sparc.rpm
Uhhh...you do know that 64bit machines can run 32bit binaries right? Mplayer works just fine here on my NetBSD powered 64bit SparcStation.
Uhhh RedHat does give it away for free. You can go to their site right now and download RHEL, RHAS, or RHWS including one month of RHN subscription for free. Yes, updates and support stop after that month if you decide not to pay, but the OS is there for the taking and update SRPMS are always available.
Not that I would ever allow ZDNet to choose my OS for me but I think they may be a bit confused. The first three distros were basically tossed aside because of "lacks Exchange support", however, the final page has this to say.
"All five distributions come with a good -- and very similar -- selection of core applications, including OpenOffice for office productivity, Gaim for instant messaging and Evolution for email, contact management and calendar functionality."
Maybe because GConf is only a tool to flip switches in human readable xml files..not a registry.
Nice, I get modded troll for pointing out the obvious. What the hell are you mods smoking? Here's a few links to projects just like this that blew hot air and wasted bandwidth by talking and not doing, just like this one.5 &view=full/
http://www.desktoplinuxconsortium.org/
http://freedesktop.org/ http://www.freestandards.org/news/press.php?id=21
How many times does this same thing have to be done before people get it? If you want a unified desktop, please go join the KDE, Gnome, or XFCE, developers and do something about it. Nobody cares that you've built yet another website with nothing but your wishlist for improvements on it just to get a mention on slashdot.
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about:config
keyword.URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=
Just type your search into the address bar and hit enter.
Finally, an informative moderated post that really is informative and not a karma whore. Just tried that here at work where I have to use Firefox. Works great.
>>There might be a nice market amongst luddites and regressives, and those who think they are sticking it "to the man" by using something with such an aging and nasty interface.
Odd. The interface is exactly why I use Mozilla and not firefox. What genius moved the google search to an entirely new field when on Moz you can just type in the address bar and hit the down arrow? There is also the distinct lack of huge memory leaks which means Mozilla can run for a month or so at a time without a restart on my machine. It also appears (nope I haven't done benchmarks) to render pages much faster than F irefox.
You know you could do something completely outrageous and actually learn apache before bitching. Try this one
/var/run/httpd.pid`
# kill -HUP `cat
There's no need to restart the server just to reread the config file.
>>And no, Im not running XP on the same hardware I ran Windows 95 on :) My upgrades were not forced by Windows versions tho.
Yes you were forced, directly or indirectly. My 486DX which came with Win95 is currently running OpenBSD 3.8-Beta, the same OS that my 3Ghz P4 runs. If it wasn't the operating system that forced the upgrades then it had to be the apps which got larger thanks to Microsoft. So, yes, you were forced to upgrade.
Holy god. Queue the endless stream of goatse images
Could it possibly be because Firefox gets a new subversion release every other day, and the only real way to upgrade is to download it again?
Well, whatever, at the rate those versions are going up soon it'll be at 1.7.8 and they can put back all the features they ripped out to make that bastardised POS to begin with.
Are you smoking crack. When the US and UK go invading other countries and killing thousands of people for the actions of a few (who may not have even been remotely related to the terrorist attacks) it tends to piss people off. Yes GWB and TB are very very fucking responsible for this dumbass.
Dammit, it's only a troll if it isn't true. Give the guy a break mods, or at least attempt to pull your head outta your ass.
I don't think "switching to the dark side" means what you think it means. Most of us still screw women.
Yes, TFA is yet another Mac handjob gone too far, but the biggest argument seen from the Windows fanboys is that the GUI is ugly and boring because it's meant to stay out of the way and let you productive work done (read surfing porn and wasting time playing whatever crap game released this week).If they really beleived this crap about the GUI staying outta the way they would be using an interface like http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ or http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/. Now stfu and admit the windows interface just sucks.
If you're gonna whore, at least get the formatting right. Bad, bad whore.
Subscription my ass, AC hit it dead on
Nelson: HA HA!
Nice troll, problem is I hate Linux. It's almost as bad as Windows these days.
Now we will see 1000 posts by Windows fanboys about how unfair these reports are, and how they somehow manage to do the impossible and secure their Windows box with no effort whatsoever, rather than just moving on to a better OS.
yawn
I've been modded troll and flamebait for damn near every opinion I've ever posted on slashdot, yet this guy manages to get the troll of trolls posted front page. No sir, it is I who has definitely missed something here.