This has led the growing open source ecosystem to Novell, which is partner-centric and easy-going almost to a fault. Ron Hovsepian is changing this, and Novell is starting to become much more choosy about opportunities (customer and partnering) that come its way.
Yes... that's because Novell has woken up and realised that just because a company is pro-OSS it doesn't make them good. Hopefully IBM will figure it out soon.
I just looked at the picture of the layout and typed "What are you doing" in COLMAK, and it's true, most of the work is done on the main line. I don't think I'll switch, QWERTY is just too convenient for me.
I, Todd Aspeotis invented the iPod! iShall send forth my iLawyers to iSue you for my iPatent. iWish iHad some iFriends so they could see my name iN the iMedia, but iDon't.
I don't keep my/. account up to date. I disbanded that site and moved onto http://kyve.net/, not that I use the domain for anything other than FTP/SMTP/POP/VPN.
I dunno how much foresight went into this question: "Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?", but it obviously wasn't enough.
People who use these popular services probably aren't smart enough to set up their own blogs, like 'professional' bloggers do. 'Pro' bloggers host their own blogs, and consequently aren't going to max out their webhosts data center.
And let's not forget, it's only temporarily 'rocky'.
Common people, it's not that hard. Despite what Linus "I'm smart" Torvalds thinks, the real reason Ubuntu is powering along is because of Gnome and it's ease of use. A lot more people would use Linux if KDE kame with a Knome mode.
Let's not forget that Gnome doesn't have spelling that's kool to the makks.
Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
That's 1984. Not your laws.
...to be used by governments in their fight against 'crime and terrorism'... oh, and child porn, of course...
What exactly are we crying about here? Oh no, you can't download kiddy porn, wage war against the infidels and generally do stuff you're not supposed to in Europe any more. Who cares about privacy?
Hiding nothing is nothing to hide
The government doesn't really care what you're doing in your personal life, what you're doing with your friend tomorrow, and they're not going to bother following along with it.
Don't do the wrong thing, Don't get arrested, Don't cry about it.
If you're really serious about the longevity of your data, you probably should get it backed up onto a commercial dvd. Otherwise, just use a DVD-R or something.
I dunno what the other guy was complaining about when he said he couldn't read it straight after he burnt it. Here's a hint: Maybe it's not the disc? Maybe it's your burner. I've got DVD's lying around the place from years ago that I've burnt at 2x and they still work.
Anyway, Serious: Commercial DVD Not so serious: DVD-R Half assed solution: Put the files on Bittorrent and hope someone's seeding in the years to come.
Open source distros shouldn't need to get the attention of the big players, the big players should make everything to a standard of sorts, so everybody can be 'certified' regardless.
Blah Blah Blah... invented by US military... blah blah blah... used by other people/organisations... blah blah blah... expect it to be free.
It might be cynical, but this was essentially my stance on the 'make the internet free' thing. Yes, I think we should make the internet free, but it's not up to the European Union to decide whether it's free or not, it's up to the US and it's their decision that matters.
And don't take this viewpoint too seriously, because at the moment it's based off my knowledge of current happenings, which may or may not be too correct.
It's nothing 'new', there have been reports from Africa of this happening ever since the outbreak, but because of their developing nation status they haven't had the technology to confirm it, and nobody's bothered investigating.
It's sort of sad that it's taken this long to confirm.
I think it's a new method to combat OSS. It's been long known that OSS is fairly slow to come around, and so far, Windows and that has taken a long time, too. But if Microsoft can push out the next version of Windows/Office/VS.NET faster and with a higher quality of code, potentially they can take on OSS faster and harder than ever before.
And I'm not talking upgrading software, like VS.NET 2007 or Office 13 (lucky), but also new software, if not new software from codebases such as Microsoft Tool X or Tool Y, like the Speech SDK that they've got out there, - or any other Microsoft Research project.
Although it might not be too popular an idea, it's logical considering that Linksys doesn't want their $60 dollar router to be a $600 dollar one (Article: "The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks.") so that people are forced to buy their more expensive products.
If I'm right, I don't know where the article got "It's also the story of how the open source movement can produce a win-win scenario for both consumers and commercial vendors", because I haven't seen too many commercial vendors 'win' from allowing people with enough expertise to convert their routers to the next level and lose them money.
I saw a rather interesting graph a few months back, which tracked number of violet crimes in the US since the release of DOOM, and it was steadily decreasing. What we've got here now, are games that are necessarily violent, but get players a little too passionate about the game, and are causing them to go out and do what they'd probably do in the real world if they're going to kill people for selling stuff in a virtual world - that is, kill them.
I'll admit, I have no interest in MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, or collectables like Warhammer 40 billion thousand, but I see why these people are doing it, and I think that if we're going to decrease MMORPG-related killings, we're going to have to get Blizzard and all them out there to put up a ToS where no real money is involved for the purpose of buying/purchasing, and they have an online police for sorting these things out.
Depressing, isn't it? You could probably put something about how as children they spent all their time rolling 2d6's and that instead of adjusting to the outside world blah blah blah, but that's just more bullshit for Tack Jhompson.
Finally! A/. article just for me! I've written an OS before, a small one. It didn't do much. But I didn't understand shit about the ASM involved, or even why 0x700h or whatever was the correct place to put the stack. So kudos to/.. Kudos.
"NewScientist is reporting that anonymous sperm donation is not so anonymous anymore. An enterprising 15 year old..."
What I'm noticing here is that these records have had to be held since around 1980... which suggests that it never really was that anonymous. I mean, back in 1990 you could still get DNA testing done (for a price).
I've watched the MSOffice 2k3 Format != MSOffice '97 Format, and it turns out that Microsoft does have proper support between the various versions for MS Word at least, and I'm assuming Excel, Access and Publisher have perfect compatibility on account of the type of data they're using/the logical way to store it. Although I have seen first hand where Powerpoint 2k3 fails to set a few animation speeds incorrectly, I think that Microsoft has done a fair enough job in making Office interoperatable with itself.
after blind and other visually impaired state workers raised concerns
I never would have thought lack of accessibility and lack of 1:1 copying of Microsoft would come back and bite OSS in the ass.
Even though I'd like to see the OpenDocument format tested in a government-sized scenario (I'm pro-Microsoft, but I'm still supportive of OSS), I'd put impaired government workers futures over the file format.
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This has led the growing open source ecosystem to Novell, which is partner-centric and easy-going almost to a fault. Ron Hovsepian is changing this, and Novell is starting to become much more choosy about opportunities (customer and partnering) that come its way.
Yes... that's because Novell has woken up and realised that just because a company is pro-OSS it doesn't make them good. Hopefully IBM will figure it out soon.
I just looked at the picture of the layout and typed "What are you doing" in COLMAK, and it's true, most of the work is done on the main line. I don't think I'll switch, QWERTY is just too convenient for me.
I, Todd Aspeotis invented the iPod! iShall send forth my iLawyers to iSue you for my iPatent. iWish iHad some iFriends so they could see my name iN the iMedia, but iDon't.
I don't keep my /. account up to date. I disbanded that site and moved onto http://kyve.net/, not that I use the domain for anything other than FTP/SMTP/POP/VPN.
I dunno how much foresight went into this question: "Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?", but it obviously wasn't enough.
People who use these popular services probably aren't smart enough to set up their own blogs, like 'professional' bloggers do. 'Pro' bloggers host their own blogs, and consequently aren't going to max out their webhosts data center.
And let's not forget, it's only temporarily 'rocky'.
Common people, it's not that hard. Despite what Linus "I'm smart" Torvalds thinks, the real reason Ubuntu is powering along is because of Gnome and it's ease of use. A lot more people would use Linux if KDE kame with a Knome mode.
Let's not forget that Gnome doesn't have spelling that's kool to the makks.
Be a responsible parent. Your kids don't listen to you? Beat them.
Freedom is slavery.
...to be used by governments in their fight against 'crime and terrorism' ... oh, and child porn, of course...
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
That's 1984. Not your laws.
What exactly are we crying about here? Oh no, you can't download kiddy porn, wage war against the infidels and generally do stuff you're not supposed to in Europe any more. Who cares about privacy?
Hiding nothing is nothing to hide
The government doesn't really care what you're doing in your personal life, what you're doing with your friend tomorrow, and they're not going to bother following along with it.
Don't do the wrong thing,
Don't get arrested,
Don't cry about it.
If you're really serious about the longevity of your data, you probably should get it backed up onto a commercial dvd. Otherwise, just use a DVD-R or something.
I dunno what the other guy was complaining about when he said he couldn't read it straight after he burnt it. Here's a hint: Maybe it's not the disc? Maybe it's your burner. I've got DVD's lying around the place from years ago that I've burnt at 2x and they still work.
Anyway,
Serious: Commercial DVD
Not so serious: DVD-R
Half assed solution: Put the files on Bittorrent and hope someone's seeding in the years to come.
I want one. And I want a Cortana floating over it. And I want her defragmenting my data and writing my school reports on the fly.
Open source distros shouldn't need to get the attention of the big players, the big players should make everything to a standard of sorts, so everybody can be 'certified' regardless.
But it's not a perfect world, after all.
Blah Blah Blah ... invented by US military ... blah blah blah ... used by other people/organisations ... blah blah blah ... expect it to be free.
It might be cynical, but this was essentially my stance on the 'make the internet free' thing. Yes, I think we should make the internet free, but it's not up to the European Union to decide whether it's free or not, it's up to the US and it's their decision that matters.
And don't take this viewpoint too seriously, because at the moment it's based off my knowledge of current happenings, which may or may not be too correct.
I'm not making a stab at the quality of the article here, but this seems to be like a little bit of self promotion. I mean, http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr? http://www.when.was.this.in.style.com? And the poster comes from the website.
/.
Please don't mod this up or down, I'm just saying that I find there's something wrong with how this story got on
It's nothing 'new', there have been reports from Africa of this happening ever since the outbreak, but because of their developing nation status they haven't had the technology to confirm it, and nobody's bothered investigating.
It's sort of sad that it's taken this long to confirm.
Thank God for Freedom of Spe-
*beating noises*
I think it's a new method to combat OSS. It's been long known that OSS is fairly slow to come around, and so far, Windows and that has taken a long time, too. But if Microsoft can push out the next version of Windows/Office/VS .NET faster and with a higher quality of code, potentially they can take on OSS faster and harder than ever before.
.NET 2007 or Office 13 (lucky), but also new software, if not new software from codebases such as Microsoft Tool X or Tool Y, like the Speech SDK that they've got out there, - or any other Microsoft Research project.
And I'm not talking upgrading software, like VS
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Although it might not be too popular an idea, it's logical considering that Linksys doesn't want their $60 dollar router to be a $600 dollar one (Article: "The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks.") so that people are forced to buy their more expensive products.
If I'm right, I don't know where the article got "It's also the story of how the open source movement can produce a win-win scenario for both consumers and commercial vendors", because I haven't seen too many commercial vendors 'win' from allowing people with enough expertise to convert their routers to the next level and lose them money.
Just my two cents.
You provide access to it for learning purposes, but don't want anybody to view it? Just put it inside a password protected archive or something.
I saw a rather interesting graph a few months back, which tracked number of violet crimes in the US since the release of DOOM, and it was steadily decreasing. What we've got here now, are games that are necessarily violent, but get players a little too passionate about the game, and are causing them to go out and do what they'd probably do in the real world if they're going to kill people for selling stuff in a virtual world - that is, kill them.
I'll admit, I have no interest in MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, or collectables like Warhammer 40 billion thousand, but I see why these people are doing it, and I think that if we're going to decrease MMORPG-related killings, we're going to have to get Blizzard and all them out there to put up a ToS where no real money is involved for the purpose of buying/purchasing, and they have an online police for sorting these things out.
Depressing, isn't it? You could probably put something about how as children they spent all their time rolling 2d6's and that instead of adjusting to the outside world blah blah blah, but that's just more bullshit for Tack Jhompson.
Finally! A /. article just for me! I've written an OS before, a small one. It didn't do much. But I didn't understand shit about the ASM involved, or even why 0x700h or whatever was the correct place to put the stack. So kudos to /.. Kudos.
What I'm noticing here is that these records have had to be held since around 1980... which suggests that it never really was that anonymous. I mean, back in 1990 you could still get DNA testing done (for a price).
Last time I checked, AutoCAD was free for Bittorrent users.
I've watched the MSOffice 2k3 Format != MSOffice '97 Format, and it turns out that Microsoft does have proper support between the various versions for MS Word at least, and I'm assuming Excel, Access and Publisher have perfect compatibility on account of the type of data they're using/the logical way to store it. Although I have seen first hand where Powerpoint 2k3 fails to set a few animation speeds incorrectly, I think that Microsoft has done a fair enough job in making Office interoperatable with itself.
Even though I'd like to see the OpenDocument format tested in a government-sized scenario (I'm pro-Microsoft, but I'm still supportive of OSS), I'd put impaired government workers futures over the file format.