Times when the plasma tv doesn't go with you and the digital camera may be useful for taking pictures. But if you don't look good for the event, maybe you don't want that particular picture.
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Because clearly, you're ugly unless you're wearing jewelry.
Oh, nonsense, of course it's about credit. Referring to Debian or Mandrake is disambiguation, but referring to GNU/Linux is purely a credit ploy. It's an expanded version of credit - it's bragging about the whole Free-As-In-Speech-Not-Beer Software movement, and not just abour RMS, but it's definitely about credit.
I'm well aware that the GNU project's push for "GNU/Linux" is about credit. My point (which I probably overstated) is that it is nevertheless valid to use "GNU/Linux" for disambiguation in certain cases. Shell scripts are one such case, where you care mostly about the shell you're using and whether or not you have GNU coreutils in your $PATH, so I disagree that "GNU/Linux" is "purely a credit ploy".
Part of the issue for me is that I feel that Linux-based operating systems should be called something other than just "Linux" (which is just the kernel...and probably userland tools like insmod and iptables). "GNU/Linux" is as good a name as any for this purpose. Well, it would be if it weren't for the backlash against it. Thank you once again, Linus.
I don't use "GNU/Linux" all that often anyway. I find "Debian sarge/amd64", "Linux distros", "Linux kernel", "the kernel", "userland", etc to be more precise and less politically-charged these days than both "Linux" and "GNU/Linux".
Open Source Devs... I think Linux needs something to deal with my 2nd comment, for those systems where the admin needs to bring down a multi-user machine... (presume the kids/family/housemate users left home and left drafts open but their session locked/screen-saved...) for maintenance or hardware change. It would be a "nice to have to be nice and behave" feature...
Done, but you're not going to like what I charged you.;)
On most of the Linux distros I've used, xscreensaver will accept either the user's password or root's password. If it doesn't, or if the user is using an esoteric screensaver program, switch to the console, log in as root, kill the screensaver process, and switch back.
We need lots of cops (compared to, for example, Supreme Court judges)
It's not that difficult to become a cop if you want to
Cops don't get huge salaries
Being a cop is demanding work, but there exists a great opportunity to get away with being lazy.
The result is that people who crave power and who couldn't get better jobs are attracted to policework, and get it. Once they do, they get lazy and start pulling off crap like this.
Ideally, cops would all have law degrees (without lowering current standards) and get paid like lawyers do, but the public is too cheap to pay for that, so instead we pay a lot less and bitch about the resulting quality of service.
Funny but I thought it was due to CERN, The ASF, W3C and other people who actually write code.
How, exactly? Microsoft wouldn't give a shit about standards if it didn't have competition on the client side. That competition is primarily Firefox and Safari, and neither of those would have existed except for the "open source" movement, which would never have started without the free software movement, which is the brainchild of RMS.
If they already have Oracle and Oracle resources why not take advantage of that support in an application rather than learning PostgreSQL, MySQL or some other RDBMS and committing more, possibly stretched or unavailable, resources to another system.
Why not? How about long term cost? From what I've heard, Oracle is neither cheap to acquire nor cheap to keep running. At some point you'll have to upgrade, and that will cost more money. The less stuff you have that needs Oracle, the sooner you'll be able to do away with it altogether, or at least reduce the number of CPUs needed in the Oracle server or whatever (you pay per-CPU for Oracle, right?). With Oracle, you don't even have the "I only know Windows" excuse, because nobody ever runs Oracle on Windows in a production environment (is it even possible?).
A reason not to phase out Oracle in favour of free software for things that don't need Oracle would be that you really can't concern yourself with long-term costs (e.g. if you're SCO). Another reason would be that you have literally one or two small in-house tools that are rarely used, and they happen to use Oracle.
Of course, the businessmen among you know that the real answer is to try to account for all the costs, benefits, and risks of each option, and then make a decision accordingly, but that answer probably won't get me mod points on Slashdot.
Laugh it up. RMS's deliberate actions and dedication resulted in the free software movement, and are more or less the reason why Microsoft doesn't dominate the web today.
RMS is the primary reason why Linux ended up being more than just a toy that was popular among college-age Unix geeks. Give the man some credit.
Perhaps you should do a little research instead of posting the same drivel that I posted when I was in high school.
The phrase "TCP/IP" isn't primarily about credit, and neither is "GNU/Linux", despite what rms may claim. The phrase "GNU/Linux" is about disambiguation. Unlike with, for example, FreeBSD, Linux does not have a single userland, so we need to be specific. GNU runs on top of all sorts of kernels, and there are several userland environments that can be constructed on top of Linux kernel. GNU/Linux is the most popular combination of the two.
I tend to refer to the specific distribution that I'm talking about. Debian and Mandriva, for example, are very different and often should not be grouped together in a discussion. If I said, "Linux has a brain-damaged set of filesystem permissions in 'paranoid' security mode," I would be wrong, because Linux doesn't have a "paranoid" security mode. If I said "GNU/Linux", I would still be wrong. If I said "Mandriva", I would be correct (at least semantically).
As a related note, the ordering of "GNU/Linux" is significant. Like "3/4" can be pronounced "3 over 4", "TCP/IP" can be pronounced "TCP over IP" or "TCP on top of Linux", and "GNU/Linux" can be pronounced "GNU over Linux" or "GNU on Linux".
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There's always Backports.
In other words, you used nvidia.com's installer, which breaks on Debian-based operating systems.
Talk to Nvidia. They're the ones pushing binary proprietary drivers on Linux.
Wrong endianness.
Those same studies were unable to determine whether women shit. The women in the studies deny any such accusations.
Just got served the restraining order, eh?
Pfft. It's not technology unless you need to have your own welder, your own soldering iron, or assembly language in order to use it.
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Because clearly, you're ugly unless you're wearing jewelry.
</offtopic>Maybe you're a woman? Maybe you know some women?
Don't even go there.
I'm well aware that the GNU project's push for "GNU/Linux" is about credit. My point (which I probably overstated) is that it is nevertheless valid to use "GNU/Linux" for disambiguation in certain cases. Shell scripts are one such case, where you care mostly about the shell you're using and whether or not you have GNU coreutils in your $PATH, so I disagree that "GNU/Linux" is "purely a credit ploy".
Part of the issue for me is that I feel that Linux-based operating systems should be called something other than just "Linux" (which is just the kernel...and probably userland tools like insmod and iptables). "GNU/Linux" is as good a name as any for this purpose. Well, it would be if it weren't for the backlash against it. Thank you once again, Linus.
I don't use "GNU/Linux" all that often anyway. I find "Debian sarge/amd64", "Linux distros", "Linux kernel", "the kernel", "userland", etc to be more precise and less politically-charged these days than both "Linux" and "GNU/Linux".
How long will she have to be immunosuppressed?
Maybe in the 1970s. Today, people who make decisions see through that BS.
Done, but you're not going to like what I charged you. ;)
On most of the Linux distros I've used, xscreensaver will accept either the user's password or root's password. If it doesn't, or if the user is using an esoteric screensaver program, switch to the console, log in as root, kill the screensaver process, and switch back.
No, I didn't.
Like most things international, the U.S. didn't sign that.
The result is that people who crave power and who couldn't get better jobs are attracted to policework, and get it. Once they do, they get lazy and start pulling off crap like this.
Ideally, cops would all have law degrees (without lowering current standards) and get paid like lawyers do, but the public is too cheap to pay for that, so instead we pay a lot less and bitch about the resulting quality of service.
How, exactly? Microsoft wouldn't give a shit about standards if it didn't have competition on the client side. That competition is primarily Firefox and Safari, and neither of those would have existed except for the "open source" movement, which would never have started without the free software movement, which is the brainchild of RMS.
Why not? How about long term cost? From what I've heard, Oracle is neither cheap to acquire nor cheap to keep running. At some point you'll have to upgrade, and that will cost more money. The less stuff you have that needs Oracle, the sooner you'll be able to do away with it altogether, or at least reduce the number of CPUs needed in the Oracle server or whatever (you pay per-CPU for Oracle, right?). With Oracle, you don't even have the "I only know Windows" excuse, because nobody ever runs Oracle on Windows in a production environment (is it even possible?).
A reason not to phase out Oracle in favour of free software for things that don't need Oracle would be that you really can't concern yourself with long-term costs (e.g. if you're SCO). Another reason would be that you have literally one or two small in-house tools that are rarely used, and they happen to use Oracle.
Of course, the businessmen among you know that the real answer is to try to account for all the costs, benefits, and risks of each option, and then make a decision accordingly, but that answer probably won't get me mod points on Slashdot.
I wonder if he has any relation to the infamous Zonk on /.
Guido van Rossum? Doesn't the U.S. have a trade and travel embargo against Cuba because of him?
Laugh it up. RMS's deliberate actions and dedication resulted in the free software movement, and are more or less the reason why Microsoft doesn't dominate the web today.
RMS is the primary reason why Linux ended up being more than just a toy that was popular among college-age Unix geeks. Give the man some credit.
Flamebait, possibly. Troll? Only if you've never used or only used PHP.
Perhaps you should do a little research instead of posting the same drivel that I posted when I was in high school.
The phrase "TCP/IP" isn't primarily about credit, and neither is "GNU/Linux", despite what rms may claim. The phrase "GNU/Linux" is about disambiguation. Unlike with, for example, FreeBSD, Linux does not have a single userland, so we need to be specific. GNU runs on top of all sorts of kernels, and there are several userland environments that can be constructed on top of Linux kernel. GNU/Linux is the most popular combination of the two.
I tend to refer to the specific distribution that I'm talking about. Debian and Mandriva, for example, are very different and often should not be grouped together in a discussion. If I said, "Linux has a brain-damaged set of filesystem permissions in 'paranoid' security mode," I would be wrong, because Linux doesn't have a "paranoid" security mode. If I said "GNU/Linux", I would still be wrong. If I said "Mandriva", I would be correct (at least semantically).
As a related note, the ordering of "GNU/Linux" is significant. Like "3/4" can be pronounced "3 over 4", "TCP/IP" can be pronounced "TCP over IP" or "TCP on top of Linux", and "GNU/Linux" can be pronounced "GNU over Linux" or "GNU on Linux".
Have you used Unix and, for example, Debian? They're very dissimilar.
Yes, that would probably work. Does rsync.net support that?
Also, I personally wouldn't fully trust that, given the number of local-root holes that Linux seems to be prone to having.