A doctor can't be all that stupid, a lawyer can't be all that stupid, a CEO can't be that stupid, but when they sit down in front of a computer, they seem to forget that they are thinking, intellegent human beings and turn into flatworms, with all the technological savy of one. This does not happen to everyone, of course.
The "I don't have time to learn this" excuse is silly. If you want to use a computer then learn how to use the computer, if you don't want to learn to use a computer, don't use one, but don't whine to me about not having time to learn it. Much of the blame goes to management for not having decent training available, but much of the blame goes to the user as well.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't play games. About as close to a "game" as I get is running xantfarm in my root window. 8-) Should I still care about 3D stuff? All I want is a nice graphics card for my UI (KDE, specifically). XFree86 4.0 does seem to have some clever stuff (getting available refresh rates directly from the monitor is Way Cool), but if I don't do 3D (games, modeling, etc), should I care about the 3DFX/MESA/OpenGL/whatever? --Eric
Actually ICMP Packet Too Big is used for MTU discovery. There are several ICMP packet types that are useful. I block most ICMP from most machines I admin, but there are some types that are handy. I tend to allow more types of ICMP packets inbound than I do outbound. It's nice to get a port/address/net unreachable inbound so I don't have to wait for a timeout.
No, I think Slashdot/Andover.Net/VA Linux/Whoever has plenty of money for lawyers. Back when Slashdot was a "two guys website" I'd prolly contribute to a legal fund, but not when they and their company have more money than God. Let them spend their own money on lawyers.
IIRC, the Supreme Court has already ruled that free speech rules are different for commercial free speech and personal free speech. Anyway, I like idea in another post in this thread that suggests passing a law to not allow anyone to sell you anything via an unsolicited call. They can "free speech" all they want, they just can't sell anything.
I've not been a big prank person, but I did once switch the red (up) and white (down) elevator indicator lights on one side of our lobby once. Nobody noticed for a couple of weeks.
I believe that current projections (based on the speed at which consensus currently being reached on this subject) indicate that the universe will implode quite a while before any new top-level domains are added.
If they have not added any value to the distro they are based on, then why should I use their distro? I looked at Mandrake 5.2 when it came out and about the only thing they added was KDE. That wasn't enough extra value for me to switch from Redhat. When I looked at Mandrake 6.1 they seemed to have a commitment to KDE and to having a Pentium optimized system. *THAT* was enough added value to switch to Mandrake.
I've been rather unimpressed with Mandrake's quality control. 6.1 had a bug in the initscripts that prevented you from configureing IP Aliases. It took them several weeks to release a "fixed" initscripts, which didn't work for me. I can certinally understand a distro having bugs, but to me this one would be a show stoper for many people. Many of the SRPMS that I've tried to recompile failed (including the SRPM of the kernel *sigh*) I never had problems recompileing the SRPMS when I was using Redhat. I've not had any significant stability problems (unlike some other posts). I still use Mandrake for most of my systems though. They seem to use slightly more recent versions of the software included in the distro.
Whatever happened to "fitting on a floppy"?
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For some reason I seem to remember around the time they were first working on Gecko that there was talk of the entire browser fitting on a floppy. It was supposed to be incredibly fast, small, and stable. Now all I hear about it is that it's slow and bloated.
As mentioned in the comments, other companies are doing this or have done this. Quarterdeck did this on the early 90's with their DESQview/X product, VNC does it, VMware can do it, pcANYWHERE (I think they have a Java PCAW client), Sun's SunRay(?), I don't know if Citrix has a unix client, but it should be easy to write, in fact, just about any application that allows you to run MS Windows under X (Wabi? WINE?) could do this. Granted, most of these apps simply grab the bitmap and put it in an X Window. PCAW, SunRay, Citrix, and I think DESQView/X, however, intercept the calls to either the graphics driver, or the API calls from the app to MS Windows. --Eric
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A doctor can't be all that stupid, a lawyer can't be all that stupid, a CEO can't be that stupid, but when they sit down in front of a computer, they seem to forget that they are thinking, intellegent human beings and turn into flatworms, with all the technological savy of one. This does not happen to everyone, of course.
The "I don't have time to learn this" excuse is silly. If you want to use a computer then learn how to use the computer, if you don't want to learn to use a computer, don't use one, but don't whine to me about not having time to learn it. Much of the blame goes to management for not having decent training available, but much of the blame goes to the user as well.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't play games. About as close to a "game" as I get is running xantfarm in my root window. 8-) Should I still care about 3D stuff? All I want is a nice graphics card for my UI (KDE, specifically). XFree86 4.0 does seem to have some clever stuff (getting available refresh rates directly from the monitor is Way Cool), but if I don't do 3D (games, modeling, etc), should I care about the 3DFX/MESA/OpenGL/whatever? --Eric
Actually ICMP Packet Too Big is used for MTU discovery. There are several ICMP packet types that are useful. I block most ICMP from most machines I admin, but there are some types that are handy. I tend to allow more types of ICMP packets inbound than I do outbound. It's nice to get a port/address/net unreachable inbound so I don't have to wait for a timeout.
No, I think Slashdot/Andover.Net/VA Linux/Whoever has plenty of money for lawyers. Back when Slashdot was a "two guys website" I'd prolly contribute to a legal fund, but not when they and their company have more money than God. Let them spend their own money on lawyers.
IIRC, the Supreme Court has already ruled that free speech rules are different for commercial free speech and personal free speech. Anyway, I like idea in another post in this thread that suggests passing a law to not allow anyone to sell you anything via an unsolicited call. They can "free speech" all they want, they just can't sell anything.
I've not been a big prank person, but I did once switch the red (up) and white (down) elevator indicator lights on one side of our lobby once. Nobody noticed for a couple of weeks.
I believe that current projections (based on the speed at which consensus currently being reached on this subject) indicate that the universe will implode quite a while before any new top-level domains are added.
If they have not added any value to the distro they are based on, then why should I use their distro? I looked at Mandrake 5.2 when it came out and about the only thing they added was KDE. That wasn't enough extra value for me to switch from Redhat. When I looked at Mandrake 6.1 they seemed to have a commitment to KDE and to having a Pentium optimized system. *THAT* was enough added value to switch to Mandrake.
I've been rather unimpressed with Mandrake's quality control. 6.1 had a bug in the initscripts that prevented you from configureing IP Aliases. It took them several weeks to release a "fixed" initscripts, which didn't work for me. I can certinally understand a distro having bugs, but to me this one would be a show stoper for many people. Many of the SRPMS that I've tried to recompile failed (including the SRPM of the kernel *sigh*) I never had problems recompileing the SRPMS when I was using Redhat. I've not had any significant stability problems (unlike some other posts). I still use Mandrake for most of my systems though. They seem to use slightly more recent versions of the software included in the distro.
For some reason I seem to remember around the time they were first working on Gecko that there was talk of the entire browser fitting on a floppy. It was supposed to be incredibly fast, small, and stable. Now all I hear about it is that it's slow and bloated.
As mentioned in the comments, other companies are doing this or have done this. Quarterdeck did this on the early 90's with their DESQview/X product, VNC does it, VMware can do it, pcANYWHERE (I think they have a Java PCAW client), Sun's SunRay(?), I don't know if Citrix has a unix client, but it should be easy to write, in fact, just about any application that allows you to run MS Windows under X (Wabi? WINE?) could do this. Granted, most of these apps simply grab the bitmap and put it in an X Window. PCAW, SunRay, Citrix, and I think DESQView/X, however, intercept the calls to either the graphics driver, or the API calls from the app to MS Windows. --Eric