My distro (OpenSUSE) has included HP drivers and HP's print job manager since forever. Detected my DeskJet 1050A printer/scanner/copier and offered to set it up as soon as I plugged in the USB cable and powered up the printer. Setup and printing a test page took about 3 minutes. Has worked flawlessly ever since.
CentOS is nice for a server or testbed but I don't think I'd run it as a full-time desktop.
He apparently doesn't even meet the requirements for becoming a Slashdot editor. Since the average/. editor is slightly less intelligent than bread mold, that tells you a lot about Bennett. Why would anybody pay attention to him?
On account of his awesome magnetic poetry skillz, naturally!
Try growing up in the Deep South in the 1960s, and you'll know from experience that "LOCAL COMMUNITY VALUES" is almost always code for some type of oppressive BS or other. In the US, that's often been in the form of "WHITE ONLY" and "COLORED ONLY" signs on building entrances, busses and trains, and drinking fountains.
Or perhaps your community values say such signs are OK, as long as they read "JUDEN VERBOTEN"?
...respect & social values (by community not state and absolutely not federal)...
So if my kid goes to school in an area that's predominantly Catholic, she'll be taught to venerate the Virgin Mary and that birth control goes against the will of the Almighty? In spite of the fact that I'm a Buddhist and do not share these values? Thanks, but no thanks.
(Translation: Your Ebbul Fedril Gummint fetish is out of place in this discussion.)
The Firefox welcome page says "We've partnered with Yahoo to bring you better search results".
It means that: - internal testing showed that Yahoo results were better, - the Firefox team cares more about the quality of search results than the bid money.
This is code by someone who routinely trolls Debian. I doubt we want any more poisonous upstreams in Debian, so I at least would prefer this never get packaged.
He doesn't mention anything about the author's views on women. But you do.
Then he shouldn't phrase his nonsense as statements of fact.
Resorting to crapflooding from multiple accounts when he didn't get the cheering throngs he was apparently expecting in response doesn't add to his credibility, either.
(Not to mention the Troll mods that started showing up on my recent posts about 10 minutes after I made the above response; I suspect that's not a coincidence.)
There's considerable difference between "bits of it might infringe, but I can always point a finger at the distro maintainers if that's the case, since they warrant that it doesn't" and "entirely commercial product which I should have bought instead of torrented, and definitely have no legal basis to redistribute sans contractual agreement with the copyright owner".
And if the US Supreme Court has its head so far up its arse that it can't see that allowing copyright/exclusivity of APIs is a death sentence for the US software industry, so be it. I live in Europe.
And if the software industry craters here as well? I'll cash in my options, sell my home here, move back to Oz, and start a wok/takeaway shop on the beach somewhere.
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My distro (OpenSUSE) has included HP drivers and HP's print job manager since forever. Detected my DeskJet 1050A printer/scanner/copier and offered to set it up as soon as I plugged in the USB cable and powered up the printer. Setup and printing a test page took about 3 minutes. Has worked flawlessly ever since.
CentOS is nice for a server or testbed but I don't think I'd run it as a full-time desktop.
Wait! Stop! Don't!
It gets better in the future, you'll see!
I hear he's a frequent contributor.
He apparently doesn't even meet the requirements for becoming a Slashdot editor. Since the average /. editor is slightly less intelligent than bread mold, that tells you a lot about Bennett. Why would anybody pay attention to him?
On account of his awesome magnetic poetry skillz, naturally!
We had a Burroughs programmable calculator. We wrote programs for it using assembler.
Try growing up in the Deep South in the 1960s, and you'll know from experience that "LOCAL COMMUNITY VALUES" is almost always code for some type of oppressive BS or other. In the US, that's often been in the form of "WHITE ONLY" and "COLORED ONLY" signs on building entrances, busses and trains, and drinking fountains.
Or perhaps your community values say such signs are OK, as long as they read "JUDEN VERBOTEN"?
...respect & social values (by community not state and absolutely not federal)...
So if my kid goes to school in an area that's predominantly Catholic, she'll be taught to venerate the Virgin Mary and that birth control goes against the will of the Almighty? In spite of the fact that I'm a Buddhist and do not share these values? Thanks, but no thanks.
(Translation: Your Ebbul Fedril Gummint fetish is out of place in this discussion.)
Please don't try to disguise your racism by attempting to redefine racist epithets. You're fooling no-one, except possibly yourself.
It isn't that po' white trash can't read, write or respect social values. They choose not to.
TFTFY.
You aren't really paying for other peoples kids to get an education, you're paying back for yours.
Just burned up my mod points, or this would get a +1, Insightful.
"Setup" (one word) is a noun. The verb is "set up" (two words).
They're even pronounced differently: This is a sétup. I'm going to set úp the router.
(Doing the grammar Nazi thing since the parent is basically insensible.)
The Firefox welcome page says
"We've partnered with Yahoo to bring you better search results".
It means that:
- internal testing showed that Yahoo results were better,
- the Firefox team cares more about the quality of search results than the bid money.
Please mod parent Funny.
My big peeve (other than unannounced un-revertable UI changes) is... uh, wait.
My big peeve (other than unannounced un-revertable UI changes and breaking extensions with every release)... oops, let me start again
My big peeve (other than unannounced un-revertable UI changes, breaking extensions with every release, and mothballing Sunbird) is...
Aw, crap. Now I forget. :)
You keep posting a link to this:
Hi,
This is code by someone who routinely trolls Debian. I doubt we want
any more poisonous upstreams in Debian, so I at least would prefer this
never get packaged.
He doesn't mention anything about the author's views on women. But you do.
This is known as "giving yourself away".
This is my objection to systemd in a nutshell:
If Lennart wants to write a new OS, why doesn't he, y'know, write a new OS, instead of taking over one that's doing just fine already?
I'm not liking any of the answers I can come up with to that question.
Then he shouldn't phrase his nonsense as statements of fact.
Resorting to crapflooding from multiple accounts when he didn't get the cheering throngs he was apparently expecting in response doesn't add to his credibility, either.
(Not to mention the Troll mods that started showing up on my recent posts about 10 minutes after I made the above response; I suspect that's not a coincidence.)
I note that someone's going around hitting all my recent posts with Troll mods. I hope he feels better now.
Flooding in an attempt to dissuade rebuttal?
Time for Slashdot Meme #23: You're about 12 years old, right?
Think of the chi---er, sheep, won't you?
You're easily proven wrong, and your response is to commit karmacide?
Good riddance to bad rubbish, saith the Mindless One.
I'm glad you're not my attorney.
I hope like hell you're not trying to be *anyone's* attorney.
Where's the guy who's trying to start fires with his mind when you need him?
I don't recall (it was something like 45 years ago, after all), but I don't think we were taught to hold it anyway other than straight.
But I sometimes have the same problem as you. I can solve that problem by mirror-writing but then everyone else needs a mirror to read it. :)
Precisely because they're teaching against appearance rather than function. So thanks for proving my point.
Yeah, I'm probably too nice for my own good.
There's considerable difference between "bits of it might infringe, but I can always point a finger at the distro maintainers if that's the case, since they warrant that it doesn't" and "entirely commercial product which I should have bought instead of torrented, and definitely have no legal basis to redistribute sans contractual agreement with the copyright owner".
And if the US Supreme Court has its head so far up its arse that it can't see that allowing copyright/exclusivity of APIs is a death sentence for the US software industry, so be it. I live in Europe.
And if the software industry craters here as well? I'll cash in my options, sell my home here, move back to Oz, and start a wok/takeaway shop on the beach somewhere.