"Much slower" and "less stable"? Do you have anything to back that up? I'm running several Mandriva boxes with either 2005 LE or 2006 on them, and don't notice either of these issues. I disabled the Kat desktop search thing - I don't need it, I don't want it, and it just slows things down. Mandriva's version of Apache 2.0, called ADVX, runs in "pre-fork" mode, so that avoids the issues with non-thread-safe 3rd party PHP modules. As a desktop, Mandriva 2006 is really nice. The one gripe I have is the default settings for the desktop are annoying - with the big popup thingies, and the dumb "use a web browser" KDE menu. But all of these things are really easy to change using the KDE setup and KDE menu editor.
You could only buy the Linux version of Q3A online from Loki. I don't believe there was ever a version available at mainstream retailers. Most linux users probably didn't know you could buy it, or would rather just buy the Windows retail version and downloaded the Linux client.
I don't think you can say "it didn't work". Id obviously knows about us Linux users, or they wouldn't keep releasing Linux versions, would they?
I purchased the Windows version (in the spiffy tin box), then later bought the Linux version from Loki. Oh, and the Dreamcast version. Dang. Carmack should be sending me xmas cards or something.
I will give Id feedback thanking them for the Linux version. And the Doom3, and the OSS release of their older stuff...
We should also remind those humps over at Valve and Dice that Id and Activision are giving us linux clients, and not just servers.
So, you want them to hold up their release for one package out of thousands? If they (or any other distro) followed this strategy, they'd never be able to release anything. As someone already stated, Mandriva addresses these security issues with backports. If you can't be bothered to do security updates, then you *deserve* to be hacked.
How does this apply to Linux User Groups (i.e. "My Town Linux User Group")? If I read the Groklaw article correctly, wouldn't they fall under the $200 / year non-profit category?
I've been using a Treo 600 for about a month now, I like it a lot. It does a fair job at everything you mention, except the camera on the Treo 600 isn't very good (640x480).
I had a Handspring Visor & Visorphone, but only used it for a couple months before switching back to my Nokia phone, because it was too big, and the sound quality sucked. I pretty much quit using the Visor all together after that.
The Treo 600 (or 650) is a pretty good device. When you throw in the huge catalog of PalmOS software it can run, it's very useful, and a lot of fun. Games, pTunes for mp3 + a $68 1gb SD card, web browsing, ssh client...
Now... they're not for everyone. They are a lot bigger than a normal cell phone (but smaller than a Blackberry), expensive (most providers sell them for about $300), and the battery life isn't so good (I charge mine every 1 to 2 days depending on how much playing around I do) compared to my Nokia phone that lasted 3 to 4 days.
I was at a client site once, looking at some code that wasn't working, with a lady looking over my shoulder. I opened up the source and the first thing was a comment from another developer saying "This fucking shit does not work". She wasn't impressed at all.
Nah. Just that the Mandrake (now Mandriva) users have found it pointless to comment, because they'll just be feeding the Ubuntu / Gentoo trolls. They'd rather be productive than spend all their time looking at their softcore desktop pr0n, or compiling KDE from source. (Yes, that was a troll.)
p.s. Mandriva is such a silly sounding name. A cow-orker suggested that we should write a script to replace all instances of "Mandriva" with "Mandrake" in our installation.
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Check your voicemail, or your credit card balance, or anything else that you can do with a phone that requires you to enter a pin, zip code, or account number - without a numeric keypad. Go ahead. Try it.
There's also text messaging... which is a big deal for some people. I only use it for my one friend who works the night shift and can't answer the phone while at work.
Most people I know never use the voice activated dialing, mostly because it doesn't work, and they don't want to look like a moron saying "Bob! Bob! Bob!" at their phone in a public place. Of course, this assumes that they're not one of those folks who thinks it's OK to talk on a cell phone at any time and place (see: "Shaun of the Dead")
Everything on CD4 should be on the "urpmi" sources. Just add your sources from http://www.urpmi.org and install away. This is like someone saying they don't like Debian because there's not XYZ package on the CD. But there's tons of stuff available via apt.
There still is a Free Mandrake "Download Edition", and they promise to keep it that way. This announcement is about a version with commercial support and added features. Mandrake is a commercial company, but they're all about the Free as in Free Speech thing.
It's a really simple game to learn. If you can't learn it in 2 game sessions, you may have a problem. Most people I've played Settlers with learned it after the first. Like most strategy games, it takes far longer to master.
Sad that Clone Bandits didn't make it to the finals. They were finishers in previous stages of the contest. And the mod is just crazy fun to play. Of the remaining finalists, Deathball gets my vote. Congrats to everyone involved in the contest... I think it did help motivate people to make some really interesting mods.
I think you're cornfused about the term "1D". IANANP (I Am Not A Nuclear Physicist), but if you only have one dimension, the most you can represent would be a single point. So your terminal would look like so:
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Not especially useful. I have seen terminals that looked like that. It usually indicates a blowed-up picture tube.
An old TTY without curses still understands horizontal and vertical spacing (i.e. CRLF). That would make exactly two dimensions. Now, mind you they originally only went right and down, because that's all you could do when printing on paper, but that's still two dimensions.
Would be nice if they could share. Stanford's project already has a pretty good head start. And they have clients for Windows, Linux x86, and MacOSX. I've been running folding@home for a quite a while, my team has submitted over 8000 work units now. See Team Champion.
Yet again? Do I know you? Are you just grouping me in with some other group of people who are immediately wrong because they disagreed with you.
USB 2.0 is the physical interface. While I do happen to have a IEEE 1394 port on all 3 of my PC's plus my PC at work, most (i.e. 90% of computer users) don't have one, they have USB 1.x or 2.0.
As far as the file uploading interface, I believe I mentioned that you CAN use iTunes or MusicMatch with the Carbon if you choose. I, like probably a large percentage of Slashdot users (those not surrounded by a Steve Jobs Distortion Field), may prefer not to be encumbered by someone else's idea of how they should acces their device. I can use a manager like one of those, I can use Windows Explorer, or the Mac equivalent, or a cmd prompt & xcopy, or a linux bash prompt, or a shell script, or a perl script I schedule with cron, or... (insert freedom to use my device as I choose rather than how someone else thinks I should ad nasuem.)
I will guarantee you that your "single click" process involves more clicks than mine.
I used a first generation iPod for a while. There were some things I did like about it - for instance I really like the physical wheel on the 1st gen), but I like the freedom, and choices that the Rio Carbon gives me.
So, maybe it's you who doesn't get that some people just don't want to be spoon fed ideas about what it good and what is not. Some people really think different, they don't just think the different thoughts that some flashy marketing campaign put in our heads.
Odd that none of the 4 articles mention the Rio Carbon mp3 player. I just got one a week ago, and love it. It's a 5gb HD based player, smaller than the iPod Mini with more space, and the battery lasts up to 20 hours. Plus, you don't need to use iTunes / MusicMatch type software (although you can if you want to) - I just plug in the USB 2.0 and copy files to it.
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Isn't it funny that Sourceforge.net is the most popular repository and project tracker for OSS projects, yet it's run on closed-source software?
Of course, there's always gforge.org if you want something similar, that's actually Open Source.
D'oh! I pulled a Hemos.
"... makes no sense to me".
I read that sentence 5 times, and it still makes not sense to me.
"Much slower" and "less stable"? Do you have anything to back that up?
I'm running several Mandriva boxes with either 2005 LE or 2006 on them, and don't notice either of these issues. I disabled the Kat desktop search thing - I don't need it, I don't want it, and it just slows things down.
Mandriva's version of Apache 2.0, called ADVX, runs in "pre-fork" mode, so that avoids the issues with non-thread-safe 3rd party PHP modules.
As a desktop, Mandriva 2006 is really nice. The one gripe I have is the default settings for the desktop are annoying - with the big popup thingies, and the dumb "use a web browser" KDE menu. But all of these things are really easy to change using the KDE setup and KDE menu editor.
Welcome to the official Slashdot "Nobody gives a rat's ass" thread.
You could only buy the Linux version of Q3A online from Loki. I don't believe there was ever a version available at mainstream retailers. Most linux users probably didn't know you could buy it, or would rather just buy the Windows retail version and downloaded the Linux client.
I don't think you can say "it didn't work". Id obviously knows about us Linux users, or they wouldn't keep releasing Linux versions, would they?
I purchased the Windows version (in the spiffy tin box), then later bought the Linux version from Loki. Oh, and the Dreamcast version. Dang. Carmack should be sending me xmas cards or something.
I will give Id feedback thanking them for the Linux version. And the Doom3, and the OSS release of their older stuff...
We should also remind those humps over at Valve and Dice that Id and Activision are giving us linux clients, and not just servers.
So, you want them to hold up their release for one package out of thousands? If they (or any other distro) followed this strategy, they'd never be able to release anything.
As someone already stated, Mandriva addresses these security issues with backports. If you can't be bothered to do security updates, then you *deserve* to be hacked.
BTW, someone commented on this on Groklaw, but they don't have a definitive answer, only "probably not".
How does this apply to Linux User Groups (i.e. "My Town Linux User Group")? If I read the Groklaw article correctly, wouldn't they fall under the $200 / year non-profit category?
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I've been using a Treo 600 for about a month now, I like it a lot. It does a fair job at everything you mention, except the camera on the Treo 600 isn't very good (640x480).
I had a Handspring Visor & Visorphone, but only used it for a couple months before switching back to my Nokia phone, because it was too big, and the sound quality sucked. I pretty much quit using the Visor all together after that.
The Treo 600 (or 650) is a pretty good device. When you throw in the huge catalog of PalmOS software it can run, it's very useful, and a lot of fun. Games, pTunes for mp3 + a $68 1gb SD card, web browsing, ssh client...
Now... they're not for everyone. They are a lot bigger than a normal cell phone (but smaller than a Blackberry), expensive (most providers sell them for about $300), and the battery life isn't so good (I charge mine every 1 to 2 days depending on how much playing around I do) compared to my Nokia phone that lasted 3 to 4 days.
I was at a client site once, looking at some code that wasn't working, with a lady looking over my shoulder. I opened up the source and the first thing was a comment from another developer saying "This fucking shit does not work". She wasn't impressed at all.
I for one welcome our new Frenchy Overlords...
Nah. Just that the Mandrake (now Mandriva) users have found it pointless to comment, because they'll just be feeding the Ubuntu / Gentoo trolls. They'd rather be productive than spend all their time looking at their softcore desktop pr0n, or compiling KDE from source. (Yes, that was a troll.)
p.s. Mandriva is such a silly sounding name. A cow-orker suggested that we should write a script to replace all instances of "Mandriva" with "Mandrake" in our installation.
Check your voicemail, or your credit card balance, or anything else that you can do with a phone that requires you to enter a pin, zip code, or account number - without a numeric keypad. Go ahead. Try it.
There's also text messaging... which is a big deal for some people. I only use it for my one friend who works the night shift and can't answer the phone while at work.
Most people I know never use the voice activated dialing, mostly because it doesn't work, and they don't want to look like a moron saying "Bob! Bob! Bob!" at their phone in a public place. Of course, this assumes that they're not one of those folks who thinks it's OK to talk on a cell phone at any time and place (see: "Shaun of the Dead")
Everything on CD4 should be on the "urpmi" sources. Just add your sources from http://www.urpmi.org and install away.
This is like someone saying they don't like Debian because there's not XYZ package on the CD. But there's tons of stuff available via apt.
There still is a Free Mandrake "Download Edition", and they promise to keep it that way. This announcement is about a version with commercial support and added features. Mandrake is a commercial company, but they're all about the Free as in Free Speech thing.
It's a really simple game to learn. If you can't learn it in 2 game sessions, you may have a problem. Most people I've played Settlers with learned it after the first.
Like most strategy games, it takes far longer to master.
Sad that Clone Bandits didn't make it to the finals. They were finishers in previous stages of the contest. And the mod is just crazy fun to play. Of the remaining finalists, Deathball gets my vote. Congrats to everyone involved in the contest... I think it did help motivate people to make some really interesting mods.
I think you're cornfused about the term "1D". IANANP (I Am Not A Nuclear Physicist), but if you only have one dimension, the most you can represent would be a single point. So your terminal would look like so:
.
Not especially useful. I have seen terminals that looked like that. It usually indicates a blowed-up picture tube.
An old TTY without curses still understands horizontal and vertical spacing (i.e. CRLF). That would make exactly two dimensions. Now, mind you they originally only went right and down, because that's all you could do when printing on paper, but that's still two dimensions.
Gotta love this:
Joel on Software is a collection of essays from the Joel Spolsky's Joel on Software web log.
Would be nice if they could share. Stanford's project already has a pretty good head start. And they have clients for Windows, Linux x86, and MacOSX. I've been running folding@home for a quite a while, my team has submitted over 8000 work units now. See Team Champion.
Yet again? Do I know you? Are you just grouping me in with some other group of people who are immediately wrong because they disagreed with you.
USB 2.0 is the physical interface. While I do happen to have a IEEE 1394 port on all 3 of my PC's plus my PC at work, most (i.e. 90% of computer users) don't have one, they have USB 1.x or 2.0.
As far as the file uploading interface, I believe I mentioned that you CAN use iTunes or MusicMatch with the Carbon if you choose. I, like probably a large percentage of Slashdot users (those not surrounded by a Steve Jobs Distortion Field), may prefer not to be encumbered by someone else's idea of how they should acces their device. I can use a manager like one of those, I can use Windows Explorer, or the Mac equivalent, or a cmd prompt & xcopy, or a linux bash prompt, or a shell script, or a perl script I schedule with cron, or... (insert freedom to use my device as I choose rather than how someone else thinks I should ad nasuem.)
I will guarantee you that your "single click" process involves more clicks than mine.
I used a first generation iPod for a while. There were some things I did like about it - for instance I really like the physical wheel on the 1st gen), but I like the freedom, and choices that the Rio Carbon gives me.
So, maybe it's you who doesn't get that some people just don't want to be spoon fed ideas about what it good and what is not. Some people really think different, they don't just think the different thoughts that some flashy marketing campaign put in our heads.
Odd that none of the 4 articles mention the Rio Carbon mp3 player. I just got one a week ago, and love it. It's a 5gb HD based player, smaller than the iPod Mini with more space, and the battery lasts up to 20 hours. Plus, you don't need to use iTunes / MusicMatch type software (although you can if you want to) - I just plug in the USB 2.0 and copy files to it.
Does it look anything like this?