You're either running a development/experimental branch (so crashes are expected) or you have hardware problems. Try running some diagnostic tools and see what bad RAM you have, or if problems go away if you stop overclocking, etc.
Either that, or you're running Bill & Ted's Bogus-brand Motherboard.
find - dir can practically do this too, dir/s filename -- and I've never been able to actually USE find successfully(emphasis mine)
1. It's not anyone else's fault you didn't Read The Fine/fooking Manual 2. dir/ls cannot search files by file type (extensions are not types), directories (ok, you can do/ad/s I suppose), ctime, mtime, atime, size, controlled ranges of filesystem depth, and it cannot execute an action against the found files.
with "dir/s" you're SOL. Oh, sure, you could fiddle with the weak.bat/.cmd language to find ways to make it work, but why spend many hours banging your head against the wall when a proper shell environment will do the same thing right there and then with a single command line?
ps - the best I can come up with is netstat which will list all the open connections. Linux has got this one kill -9 - Never even heard of this
They're like task manger, only kill -i actually WILL terminate a process, whereas the "End Task" button in Windows serves as an indicator that it's time to reboot.;) (a little tongue-in-cheek comment, no offense intended)
cp - I'd say this one goes to the copy command
No, cp is more like "robocopy" from the resource kit.
mv - Can anyone say "move" and "rename" commands?
mv is move/rename on steroids. See --backup option.
ln - NTFS supports symbolic linking, but until we have something like this to use it.....
NTFS supports a type of linking which is kinda-sorta similar but different from other systems which support linking.
You can obtain all of those utilities (except unix-style linking) from either Microsoft's Services for Unix, mks toolkit, Cygwin, or downloading the tools separately. Also note that you can even enable true case sensitivity in Windows, but at a huge risk of breaking backwards compatibility. The SFU (and other) "kill" utilities don't fix the problem of not being able to kill broken processes in Windows though.
Actually, Real does produce free/OSS implementations of their software for servers and clients. Helix, anyone?
The proprietary media player just happens to work very, very well, and there is NO reason for there to NOT be a choice in media players. You happen to like Media Player Classic on Windows, but some people prefer Quicktime, Others like (ugh!) Microsoft's media player. Still others prefer VLC. Why should there NOT be a choice for people, or should all other media players be discontinued because YOU prefer Media Player Classic?
Why waste mod points on someone expressing their "information wants to be free" opinion? It's a waste of mod points, and one should mod great posts up rather than using mod points to knock down opinions they disagree with.
With that out of the way,
Is your comment based on the fact that they do allow users to use proprietary drivers and codecs in their distro? Free is about Freedom.
there is much to be said for pure F/OSS distributions. If you are in a corporate environment, you may want to go all F/OSS to avoid "license violation" issues. That way, as you deploy software to each workstation you KNOW for ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that you are not exceeding your "license" terms. I have Linux deployed on most of the machines at my office, and I must say, it makes keeping track of proprietary licenses an absolute breeze. The handful of Windows machines left are here to stay,
Now, as far as F/OSS drivers are concerned: they are pretty much a necessity, because as chipsets age proprietary vendors tend to phase support out of their binary drivers (often when they're still selling older products!). Do you think that Nvidia will still actively maintain drivers for the fx5200 chipset, or the old Riva chipsets? I'd be very surprised if they do. Oh sure, the kernel module wrapper might still compile, and it might still work, but will one be able to use the drivers with X.org 8.0 or XGL 2.0 whatever is out by then? Look at ATI as the perfect example of how NOT to work with open source. They offer binary drivers, but for many newer chipsets the proprietary drivers do not support accelerated 3D, and for the older chipsets that they do support (Radeon 8500, 9500) the F/OSS drivers actually outperform the proprietary crap drivers. NVidia has produced great drivers that Just Work(tm) and ATI consistently ships crappy drivers (I take it Bill & Ted are responsible for them). I've read complaints that neither driver will work with X.org 7.1 (I can't verify, I'm just upgrading to 6.9 and 7.0 now myself). Sure, that problem may be addressed in time, but will ATI drop Radeon support altogether? Will NVidia finally say that if you have the old Riva chipsets, have fun with the NV driver (which is s-l-o-w) and still not release specifications on the registers?
Hardware vendors have a responsibility to their customers to provide specifications for interoperability. There is NO excuse for not providing info saying "to do foo, put value (n) at register c7ee." This USED to be the norm back in the 1980s, Even printer companies now hide their printer controls, making print filter development a near-impossibility in many cases. Back in the 1980s through early 1990s you either received FULL specs on all printer control codes, or you could call the company and receive the spec. This is untrue any more - they won't provide it to you, citing "intellectual property" issues. If you buy a Kyocera business-class laser printer today, will print drivers for Linux still be available in 7 or 10 years? Or, will Kyocera tell you to "buy a new printer," oh, and by the way, that asterisk/hylafax server you have running on the 2.6.16 kernel won't run our new drivers because we only support the 3.2.4 and higher kernel. So sad, too bad." (ignoring the fact that Linux will always be able to print to postscript for the sake of argument)
CleanFlicks was distributing outside of Fair Use, right? They were in the wrong.
Making backups, format-shifting, time-shifting, viewing unlimited times - THOSE are Fair Use. Copying and then transferring copies to others for a fee is clearly not Fair Use. Copying the majority of a work, modifying it and distributing the derivative work is not Fair Use.
Parodying? Satire? Fair Use, depending on the extent of the original content copied, etc.
Real helps to keep Microsoft playing somewhat fair by continuing to exist. Users who need Real Player will get Firefox in the bargain. Firefox, although not the perfect browser, is a far cry from the pig that is MSIE. They make more than a token attempt to support CSS and PNG As more users discover Firefox, they will use it rather than MSIE (even the white elephant known as MSIE7)
This means that web developers can use CSS2 more, rendering table layouts a thing of the past (oops, no pun intended!), and PNG can be used for ANY element in a page, not being restricted to only elements that a DirectX filter can access. THe word will spread that Firefox is better than MSIE (and folks, discovering there is software from vendors other than Microsoft, might venture out and discover Opera while they are at it). Other browsers' share will rise, MSIE's will fall.
Microsoft will then be forced to FINALLY bring their browser into compliants and knock off their embrace-extend-extinguish methodology. Eventually it really won't matter whether you're using Firefox, MSIE, konqueror, safari, opera, or {other} to view a web page - every browser will come close to being standards-compliant.
is this an idealistic view? Certainly, but it is not infeasible.
Actually Real plays it clean with the Linux version of the software - they don't sneak spyware in with the product, they don't try to take over your configuration, they don't hide checked items down in the out-of-site areas of picklists where all the visible items are checked. Why? Because they know that Linux users generally have at least half a clue WILL NOT tolerate that sneaky crap.
I find it amusing however is that I work with people right now who have made critical business decisions for reasons just as shallow as the color of the box or whether or not they like the logo.
The English are the only people on the planet who could have read 1984 and said "Hey, that sounds like a nice place to live- let's give it a try."
I presume you're unaware of what's going on here in America? It seems that a majority of folks here consider government surveillance programs (CCTV, mass wiretapping, etc.) not only okay but a necessity to keep us "safe"
I don't know about you, but I prefer the risk of Al Quaeda members possibly living next door than Big Brother knowing whom I talk to, what I talk about (however mundane it may be), where I go and why I go there. Even though I'm not doing anything illegal or even questionable, it just weirds me out that someday, maybe one day soon, some administration will suddenly consider that if I espouse an opposing view during a phone conversation that I'm a potential threat to his second term, so I am a "dissident"/"enemy combatent" that needs to be dealt with because I plan on voting "incorrectly." 1984 isn't such a huge leap, especially with the mass wiretapping, carnivore, and data mining.
- What does it mean to "patent software"? Are such patents not in fact patents on ideas?
NO. Patents are supposed to be a limited monopoly granted on a very specific implementation of an idea, e.g., a specific type of physical device/machine/etc. and it cannot be broad, e.g., one cannot (legally) patent a cylindrical steel fastening device and then turn around and sue nail and screw manufacturers for patent infringement.
I hope that Ubuntu does grow and RedHat does die. I used to buy RedHat for the desktop and never, ever needed any of the complimentary support. I bought it even though I could have downloaded it for free, just to support continued development of the distribution. It wasn't the cheap downloaded-by-someone-else-and-packaged-in-a-cheap -jewel-case distro, but the official RedHat distribution in the shiny color (well, the hat was in color) box. At the time, it was an excellent desktop distribution, considering the state of Linux at the time.
As far as RHEL goes. it's ok. From the command line perspective it's excellent - they provide many scripts to make a lot of tasks one would write shell scripts for anyway to make the admin's job easier. But the GUI - good lord, I've never, ever seen such a disorganized user interface in my life. Sure, one could argue "but it's a server, don't run X on it" but when getting the initial setup together, it makes things go much more quickly to do the initial setup in X, then go to the command line and tidy up config files and turn X off, then create a disk image of that configuration for deployment. The RHEL gui is pain to the extreme. If you want to see a GUI done right, check out SuSE/NLD with KDE, or check out ubuntu. They are organized in a logical manner.
I refuse to pay for RHEL. I now run CentOS on one box because I needed RHEL for a proprietary application, but am unwilling to pay for RHEL. I'll gladly pay for a great distribution (I pay for every release of SuSE, and I'd pay for Ubuntu if I could). Here is the real reason I truly hate RedHat: check out the CentOS web site and you will see: "prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" - this is because RedHat threatened to sue CentOS over mentioning that CentOS is derived from RHEL SRPMs. WTF? Crediting a development company for their contributions is NOT trademark infringement, no matter how you look at it. RHEL, IMHO, is a pack of litigious bastards who should be run out of business. They love to proclaim "open source, open source, open source" but when someone actually exercises the rights granted by the license and actually credit them for their conributions, they threaten to sue? WTF?
It theoretically "simplifies" spelling, however it results in our butchering pronounciation as well. Here in America we bastardize the English language. Perhaps the real reason was to thumb our noses at the crown after the American Revolution?
The extra "u" is necessary. The "or" the word "or" and the word "colour" are pronounced differently, and the (Correct/British) English spelling just seems more accurate/correct. The "-ise" vs. "-ize" thing makes slightly more sense, but that kind of thing only results in spelling "errors" in things like term papers, when the "-ise" spelling is actually more correct than our bastardization of the language.
- do not engage in typical cyclical layoffs like many big public companies do
- pay your employees above market, and when someone not in sales closes a deal or saves a dealer from going sour, do NOT give the credit and high five-figure bonuses to the salesman or account support rep when it was actually senior QA or development staff which rescued the multi-million dollar accounts after sales and support dropped the ball resulting in the account threatening to break the contract and/or sue for breach of contract
In other words, if you are running a company, don't be an asswipe to your employees (NOR to your customers)
. . . but if you are listening to progressive rock or classical then you'll want to smash the fooking thing because it's stopping three or more times every single song because the "tracks" aren't at a normalized volume like manufactured pop is.
Upgrade to BSD or Linux, then your conscience will be clear. By the way, on Linux we have great games. Tetris, Lbreakout, Tux Racer, The Gimp. . . bash
Meanwhile, drives with mere hundreds of gigabytes will be small enough to wear as jewelry. "You'll have with you every album and tune you've ever bought, every picture you've ever taken, every tax record," says Bill Healy, an executive at Hitachi, which acquired IBM's storage business in 2003.
Not if the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA have their way,you won't. You'll RENT software, not own it, you'll pay-for-play music and video, and you will be THANKFUL for the privilege of doing so!
Thankfully, I think that the **AA and BSA will utimately lose.
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You're either running a development/experimental branch (so crashes are expected) or you have hardware problems. Try running some diagnostic tools and see what bad RAM you have, or if problems go away if you stop overclocking, etc.
Either that, or you're running Bill & Ted's Bogus-brand Motherboard.
Dir does not even come close to ls.
1. It's not anyone else's fault you didn't Read The Fine/fooking Manual
2. dir
If for example you wanted to purge $TEMP/%temp%
find -mtime -5 -mtime +20 %temp% -exec rm -rf {}
with "dir
They're like task manger, only kill -i actually WILL terminate a process, whereas the "End Task" button in Windows serves as an indicator that it's time to reboot.
No, cp is more like "robocopy" from the resource kit.
mv is move/rename on steroids. See --backup option.
NTFS supports a type of linking which is kinda-sorta similar but different from other systems which support linking.
You can obtain all of those utilities (except unix-style linking) from either Microsoft's Services for Unix, mks toolkit, Cygwin, or downloading the tools separately. Also note that you can even enable true case sensitivity in Windows, but at a huge risk of breaking backwards compatibility. The SFU (and other) "kill" utilities don't fix the problem of not being able to kill broken processes in Windows though.
Actually, Real does produce free/OSS implementations of their software for servers and clients. Helix, anyone?
The proprietary media player just happens to work very, very well, and there is NO reason for there to NOT be a choice in media players. You happen to like Media Player Classic on Windows, but some people prefer Quicktime, Others like (ugh!) Microsoft's media player. Still others prefer VLC. Why should there NOT be a choice for people, or should all other media players be discontinued because YOU prefer Media Player Classic?
Why waste mod points on someone expressing their "information wants to be free" opinion? It's a waste of mod points, and one should mod great posts up rather than using mod points to knock down opinions they disagree with.
With that out of the way,
there is much to be said for pure F/OSS distributions. If you are in a corporate environment, you may want to go all F/OSS to avoid "license violation" issues. That way, as you deploy software to each workstation you KNOW for ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that you are not exceeding your "license" terms. I have Linux deployed on most of the machines at my office, and I must say, it makes keeping track of proprietary licenses an absolute breeze. The handful of Windows machines left are here to stay,
Now, as far as F/OSS drivers are concerned: they are pretty much a necessity, because as chipsets age proprietary vendors tend to phase support out of their binary drivers (often when they're still selling older products!). Do you think that Nvidia will still actively maintain drivers for the fx5200 chipset, or the old Riva chipsets? I'd be very surprised if they do. Oh sure, the kernel module wrapper might still compile, and it might still work, but will one be able to use the drivers with X.org 8.0 or XGL 2.0 whatever is out by then? Look at ATI as the perfect example of how NOT to work with open source. They offer binary drivers, but for many newer chipsets the proprietary drivers do not support accelerated 3D, and for the older chipsets that they do support (Radeon 8500, 9500) the F/OSS drivers actually outperform the proprietary crap drivers. NVidia has produced great drivers that Just Work(tm) and ATI consistently ships crappy drivers (I take it Bill & Ted are responsible for them). I've read complaints that neither driver will work with X.org 7.1 (I can't verify, I'm just upgrading to 6.9 and 7.0 now myself). Sure, that problem may be addressed in time, but will ATI drop Radeon support altogether? Will NVidia finally say that if you have the old Riva chipsets, have fun with the NV driver (which is s-l-o-w) and still not release specifications on the registers?
Hardware vendors have a responsibility to their customers to provide specifications for interoperability. There is NO excuse for not providing info saying "to do foo, put value (n) at register c7ee." This USED to be the norm back in the 1980s, Even printer companies now hide their printer controls, making print filter development a near-impossibility in many cases. Back in the 1980s through early 1990s you either received FULL specs on all printer control codes, or you could call the company and receive the spec. This is untrue any more - they won't provide it to you, citing "intellectual property" issues. If you buy a Kyocera business-class laser printer today, will print drivers for Linux still be available in 7 or 10 years? Or, will Kyocera tell you to "buy a new printer," oh, and by the way, that asterisk/hylafax server you have running on the 2.6.16 kernel won't run our new drivers because we only support the 3.2.4 and higher kernel. So sad, too bad." (ignoring the fact that Linux will always be able to print to postscript for the sake of argument)
CleanFlicks was distributing outside of Fair Use, right? They were in the wrong.
Making backups, format-shifting, time-shifting, viewing unlimited times - THOSE are Fair Use. Copying and then transferring copies to others for a fee is clearly not Fair Use. Copying the majority of a work, modifying it and distributing the derivative work is not Fair Use.
Parodying? Satire? Fair Use, depending on the extent of the original content copied, etc.
Actually, everybody wins.
Real helps to keep Microsoft playing somewhat fair by continuing to exist.
Users who need Real Player will get Firefox in the bargain.
Firefox, although not the perfect browser, is a far cry from the pig that is MSIE. They make more than a token attempt to support CSS and PNG
As more users discover Firefox, they will use it rather than MSIE (even the white elephant known as MSIE7)
This means that web developers can use CSS2 more, rendering table layouts a thing of the past (oops, no pun intended!), and PNG can be used for ANY element in a page, not being restricted to only elements that a DirectX filter can access. THe word will spread that Firefox is better than MSIE (and folks, discovering there is software from vendors other than Microsoft, might venture out and discover Opera while they are at it). Other browsers' share will rise, MSIE's will fall.
Microsoft will then be forced to FINALLY bring their browser into compliants and knock off their embrace-extend-extinguish methodology. Eventually it really won't matter whether you're using Firefox, MSIE, konqueror, safari, opera, or {other} to view a web page - every browser will come close to being standards-compliant.
is this an idealistic view? Certainly, but it is not infeasible.
Actually Real plays it clean with the Linux version of the software - they don't sneak spyware in with the product, they don't try to take over your configuration, they don't hide checked items down in the out-of-site areas of picklists where all the visible items are checked. Why? Because they know that Linux users generally have at least half a clue WILL NOT tolerate that sneaky crap.
You're working in a Mac shop?
(I kid, I kid!)
I presume you're unaware of what's going on here in America? It seems that a majority of folks here consider government surveillance programs (CCTV, mass wiretapping, etc.) not only okay but a necessity to keep us "safe"
I don't know about you, but I prefer the risk of Al Quaeda members possibly living next door than Big Brother knowing whom I talk to, what I talk about (however mundane it may be), where I go and why I go there. Even though I'm not doing anything illegal or even questionable, it just weirds me out that someday, maybe one day soon, some administration will suddenly consider that if I espouse an opposing view during a phone conversation that I'm a potential threat to his second term, so I am a "dissident"/"enemy combatent" that needs to be dealt with because I plan on voting "incorrectly." 1984 isn't such a huge leap, especially with the mass wiretapping, carnivore, and data mining.
Sorry, the public school system has been in shambles far longer than Bush has been in office.
NO. Patents are supposed to be a limited monopoly granted on a very specific implementation of an idea, e.g., a specific type of physical device/machine/etc. and it cannot be broad, e.g., one cannot (legally) patent a cylindrical steel fastening device and then turn around and sue nail and screw manufacturers for patent infringement.
I hope that Ubuntu does grow and RedHat does die. I used to buy RedHat for the desktop and never, ever needed any of the complimentary support. I bought it even though I could have downloaded it for free, just to support continued development of the distribution. It wasn't the cheap downloaded-by-someone-else-and-packaged-in-a-cheap -jewel-case distro, but the official RedHat distribution in the shiny color (well, the hat was in color) box. At the time, it was an excellent desktop distribution, considering the state of Linux at the time.
As far as RHEL goes. it's ok. From the command line perspective it's excellent - they provide many scripts to make a lot of tasks one would write shell scripts for anyway to make the admin's job easier. But the GUI - good lord, I've never, ever seen such a disorganized user interface in my life. Sure, one could argue "but it's a server, don't run X on it" but when getting the initial setup together, it makes things go much more quickly to do the initial setup in X, then go to the command line and tidy up config files and turn X off, then create a disk image of that configuration for deployment. The RHEL gui is pain to the extreme. If you want to see a GUI done right, check out SuSE/NLD with KDE, or check out ubuntu. They are organized in a logical manner.
I refuse to pay for RHEL. I now run CentOS on one box because I needed RHEL for a proprietary application, but am unwilling to pay for RHEL. I'll gladly pay for a great distribution (I pay for every release of SuSE, and I'd pay for Ubuntu if I could). Here is the real reason I truly hate RedHat: check out the CentOS web site and you will see: "prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" - this is because RedHat threatened to sue CentOS over mentioning that CentOS is derived from RHEL SRPMs. WTF? Crediting a development company for their contributions is NOT trademark infringement, no matter how you look at it. RHEL, IMHO, is a pack of litigious bastards who should be run out of business. They love to proclaim "open source, open source, open source" but when someone actually exercises the rights granted by the license and actually credit them for their conributions, they threaten to sue? WTF?
In software one should sort using this date format:
YYYYMMDD-HHMM
Also: HH should be military/24-hour time, NOT HHMM(a|p)
It theoretically "simplifies" spelling, however it results in our butchering pronounciation as well. Here in America we bastardize the English language. Perhaps the real reason was to thumb our noses at the crown after the American Revolution?
;)
The extra "u" is necessary. The "or" the word "or" and the word "colour" are pronounced differently, and the (Correct/British) English spelling just seems more accurate/correct. The "-ise" vs. "-ize" thing makes slightly more sense, but that kind of thing only results in spelling "errors" in things like term papers, when the "-ise" spelling is actually more correct than our bastardization of the language.
$.02 and then some.
That's only because you want to be part of Europe, and not be known as "America, Jr."
;)
If I were Canadian I'd probably have that attitude as well, given what's been going on under our current administration.
How about:
- not treating employees like crap
- do not engage in typical cyclical layoffs like many big public companies do
- pay your employees above market, and when someone not in sales closes a deal or saves a dealer from going sour, do NOT give the credit and high five-figure bonuses to the salesman or account support rep when it was actually senior QA or development staff which rescued the multi-million dollar accounts after sales and support dropped the ball resulting in the account threatening to break the contract and/or sue for breach of contract
In other words, if you are running a company, don't be an asswipe to your employees (NOR to your customers)
. . . but if you are listening to progressive rock or classical then you'll want to smash the fooking thing because it's stopping three or more times every single song because the "tracks" aren't at a normalized volume like manufactured pop is.
You, sir, are correct. Kudos for catching the reference. :) The original source of the video is Red Vs. Blue
Are you saying that today's "news" doesn't give you a new hope?
http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslat or.html
No, it ended when only a minority of citizens bothered to register to vote, and only a minority of those actually bother to vote.
Upgrade to BSD or Linux, then your conscience will be clear. By the way, on Linux we have great games. Tetris, Lbreakout, Tux Racer, The Gimp. . . bash
Uh, explain to me how that is a troll post? Maybe the person who modded it down works for Capitol/EMI/Sony/etc?
Not if the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA have their way,you won't. You'll RENT software, not own it, you'll pay-for-play music and video, and you will be THANKFUL for the privilege of doing so!
Thankfully, I think that the **AA and BSA will utimately lose.
Five MEGABYTES? Holy crap! My 5.25" floppy disks only hold 170K!!
(my thoughts during the reign of Commodore)