XP has one of the easiest installations I've ever seen, and no distribution of Linux has ever succesfully installed on my box!
Are you sure you don't have it backwards? For me installing Mandrake 8.1 or RedHat 7.2 is like a warm and pleasant dream. I honestly believe a total Linux newbie could manage it.
When I protestingly installed XP on a friend's machine last week (me: "I don't wanna touch Windows, I'm a Linux geek!" him: "But I want it *professionally* installed!") I was floored by the requisite 3 reboots and by major portions of the install being in text mode. It brought back a dusty old memory of installing NT4 before I discovered the Goodness of the Penguin.
No modern Linux distro would be caught with such a clunky setup. It would *immediately* be flamed for being too hard to install. I think it is time to have the "Linux is hard to install" FUD declared obsolete. Anyone who can install XP can certainly install a current Linux distro.
More than just a *simple* IDE. JEdit plugins are really powerful. You can use plugins to enable CodeAid (i.e. autocomplete or "intelli-sense"), vfs, project management, GUI wizards, and much more. Using the window docking facilites of jedit you can even get the Visual* IDE look and feel.
The thing that really hooked me on jedit is the whole promise of "run anywhere". I have used (and felt comfortable with) jedit on Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.
I'm not scared of face-recognition cameras at public places, because I don't ever plan on committing a crime.
Well neither do I... yet. But I imagine a scenario where "they" put face-recognition cameras everywhere, and then make it illegal to speak freely / pray freely / carry a gun / be immune to unlawful search and seizure / <your freedom here> . Then I might change my mind, but it will be too late.
The other problem is that the designers of OpenAL dont want to fix these problems, or let 3rd party developers do it for them.
Huh? Just like with OpenGL, an OpenAL developer can create extensions to the core API, if there is need. If the extensions are generally useful, they often get folded back into the "main" API. A lot of useful functionality for OpenAL is implemented in Loki created extensions, some of which are obsoleted by the 2.0 API.
WTF?? How exactly is a request to pray a denial of most of america's ethnicity?
I agree. Where I am from (Houston, Texas) the population is 70 percent hispanic. Almost ALL of the latin population here is Christian. And they *certainly* pray.
Surely, no peace loving person can condone the killing of civilian people regardless of what race, nationality or creed they possess.
Yet...
Over and over we have heard this for the last few days. People who claim to love peace saying that this violence were deserved. You belittle the horror of this incident by trying to make it a platform for your own political agenda.
It would not bounce off of the floor, it would simply make a hole in it and continue down, slowing down until it reaches the center of our gravity.
That is exactly what happens to the earth in Dan's Simmons Hugo winning novel Hyperion. Of all the scifi novels I have read, I always figured that one to be among the least plausible. Pretty freaky idea., but at least *that* would get us off the planet.
They probably feel exactly the way you do - eager to "kick some ass".
That is not what he said. He said:
It's time for Sheriff Uncle Same to ride into town, and kick some bad-guy ass.
And there is the difference. We fight the bad guys. Those "poor suffering bitter angry people" (whatever!) just killed hundreds of rescue workers in New York City. And hundreds of secretaries. And hundreds of parents. Etc.
To liken military action to terrorist action is absurd. I am sure that whatever the US response is, it will likely *not* include destroying the 6th tallest building in the world and every innocent person inside it, then denying responsibility.
Your attitude towards Americans is part of the problem. You are just as prejudiced as the ones you accuse. The first part of your post says "You suck!" and then the last part says "Give us money!" I think you are ungrateful to the part America plays in the world.
Do you think innocent people aren't going to die when we retaliate? Do you think innocent people aren't going to die when the terrorists respond to our retaliation?
So what should we do, tree-hugger? Sit back and watch the barbarians sack Rome?
Anonymous Cowards destroyed my way of life today. They destroyed the security, peace, and privacy for all Americans and their children (and their children). Do you think I have any sympathy to spare for foreigners (or locals, I don't know) who *hate* me and my people?
but violence doesn't solve violence
You're a fool. The only thing that has *ever* stopped violence against a people is to out-violence the perpetrators. That has been true since the stone age. Use of force has solved every major conflict in the history of mankind. Ask the Jews killed by Germany or the Chinese killed by the Japanese in WW2 if violence solved the violence done to them.
Sit there and spout your touchy-feely pacifist rhetoric until someone shoves a jumbo jet up your ass. I personally hope Bush "speaks softly and carries a big stick."
Be serious. This is an act of war. The WTC is gone! More people were killed today than in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
And the above post's sentiment of "let's play nice now or someone will get hurt" is ridiculous. It is a little too late for that. Many innocent Americans lost their lives today in a cowardly attack on this country. I hope that the perpetrators (whoever they are) find US vengeance to be swift, merciless, and complete.
Does anyone know how to make Mozilla lie about what User-Agent it is?
Set "general.useragent.override" in prefs.js. Like this:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 98; en-US; rv:0.9.2)"); (Don't ask why I make Netscape 6.1 lie like that.:)
They just provided one-button mice and designed the interface accordingly.
Actually, this is not *quite* true. Macs do have two mouse buttons, the "other" mouse button is on the keyboard. In order to get context menu functionality, you press and hold the Control key and click the mouse button. It is functionally the same as a right click. In fact, my USB logitech mouse assigned the "Ctrl+click" to its right mouse button by default.
Since the Control key on my Mac has (to me) never been used for anything else, I have always considered it the "right mouse button."
Much of the moderation here appears to be done based on whether or not the moderator personally agrees with you, regardless of how intelligent or relevent your comments may be.
I don't know how true this really is. I usually browse at +2, and slashdot is reasonably nice to read. And I see a moderate (heh) amount of slashdot/editor/moderator/linux bashing. Since unpopular opinions *do* get through the moderation process, I figured all was right in the world. But recently, I decided to see for myself how "censored" slashdot comments really are. I spend a week browsing at -1, flat.
It was nightmare. Barely intelligible racial and sexual slurs. ASCII art (what is this? An 1980s bbs?) Offtopic rants about censorship that were modded <gasp> offtopic! Porn, violence, profanity, ad nauseum. One could list for days the horrors that go on (and on) in AC land. I won't bore anyone with the details. (But don't take my word for it, it's there for anyone with the courage to see.)
Sure, there was the occasion funny or insightful post that was labeled incorrectly by humourless or thick-headed moderators, but they were few. Nothing seemed to have been unjustly downgraded.
So thank you, unsung slashdot moderators. As much as the editors, story submitters, and insightful comment makers, *you* make slashdot a place worth visiting. Without your tireless efforts, I would have given up on this site full of teenage potty-mouths months ago. Keep up the good work!
Now I am returning to the relative safety of +2, threaded.:)
While the latest ALSA drivers sound wonderful on my SB Live, I have a non-technical problem with them.
I have tried to build several programs and libraries that have "native" ALSA support, and ALSA gets detected properly at configure-time. Then I proceed to make, and the build will die because the app only supports the 0.5.0 ALSA interface, and not 0.9.0. It is not really the fault of the ALSA drivers, the configure scripts (and ideally the software package itself) need updating to be aware of the newer ALSA interface.
I just feel like I am losing functionality when I have to reconfigure the software with "--disable-alsa" and let the OSS emulation layer get used. <sigh> I wish I had more time to hack on my favorite projects. ALSA 0.9 for everyone!
This story may just be a thinly veiled ad, but I am always seeing X10 software for Linux. There is often a new X10 util posted on freshmeat, and there has been X10/Linux software on metalab for as long as I can recall. I assumed the hardware would cost more, so I never bothered to check it out. Now I have a new (cheap!) linux toy. What could be more appropriate for slashdot?
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XP has one of the easiest installations I've ever seen, and no distribution of Linux has ever succesfully installed on my box!
Are you sure you don't have it backwards? For me installing Mandrake 8.1 or RedHat 7.2 is like a warm and pleasant dream. I honestly believe a total Linux newbie could manage it.
When I protestingly installed XP on a friend's machine last week (me: "I don't wanna touch Windows, I'm a Linux geek!" him: "But I want it *professionally* installed!") I was floored by the requisite 3 reboots and by major portions of the install being in text mode. It brought back a dusty old memory of installing NT4 before I discovered the Goodness of the Penguin.
No modern Linux distro would be caught with such a clunky setup. It would *immediately* be flamed for being too hard to install. I think it is time to have the "Linux is hard to install" FUD declared obsolete. Anyone who can install XP can certainly install a current Linux distro.
it qualifies as a really simple IDE.
More than just a *simple* IDE. JEdit plugins are really powerful. You can use plugins to enable CodeAid (i.e. autocomplete or "intelli-sense"), vfs, project management, GUI wizards, and much more. Using the window docking facilites of jedit you can even get the Visual* IDE look and feel.
The thing that really hooked me on jedit is the whole promise of "run anywhere". I have used (and felt comfortable with) jedit on Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.
Oh, yeah, and it' s OSS too.
Don't worry... GNU's Not Unix!
Be an American and fight for our survival.
Rather odd to hear "Che Guevarra" say that, considering he was executed by the CIA in Bolivia in 1967.
I'm not scared of face-recognition cameras at public places, because I don't ever plan on committing a crime.
Well neither do I... yet. But I imagine a scenario where "they" put face-recognition cameras everywhere, and then make it illegal to speak freely / pray freely / carry a gun / be immune to unlawful search and seizure / <your freedom here> . Then I might change my mind, but it will be too late.
The other problem is that the designers of OpenAL dont want to fix these problems, or let 3rd party developers do it for them.
Huh? Just like with OpenGL, an OpenAL developer can create extensions to the core API, if there is need. If the extensions are generally useful, they often get folded back into the "main" API. A lot of useful functionality for OpenAL is implemented in Loki created extensions, some of which are obsoleted by the 2.0 API.
The NIN song refers to control by religion, not the government.
Huh? "Head Like a Hole" is about the pursuit of money, and how unbridled greed is bad.
You are thinking of "Terrible Lie" which is about religion and the lack of real answers that it gives.
WTF?? How exactly is a request to pray a denial of most of america's ethnicity?
I agree. Where I am from (Houston, Texas) the population is 70 percent hispanic. Almost ALL of the latin population here is Christian. And they *certainly* pray.
Surely, no peace loving person can condone the killing of civilian people regardless of what race, nationality or creed they possess.
...
Yet
Over and over we have heard this for the last few days. People who claim to love peace saying that this violence were deserved. You belittle the horror of this incident by trying to make it a platform for your own political agenda.
It would not bounce off of the floor, it would simply make a hole in it and continue down, slowing down until it reaches the center of our gravity.
That is exactly what happens to the earth in Dan's Simmons Hugo winning novel Hyperion. Of all the scifi novels I have read, I always figured that one to be among the least plausible. Pretty freaky idea., but at least *that* would get us off the planet.
They probably feel exactly the way you do - eager to "kick some ass".
That is not what he said. He said:
It's time for Sheriff Uncle Same to ride into town, and kick some bad-guy ass.
And there is the difference. We fight the bad guys. Those "poor suffering bitter angry people" (whatever!) just killed hundreds of rescue workers in New York City. And hundreds of secretaries. And hundreds of parents. Etc.
To liken military action to terrorist action is absurd. I am sure that whatever the US response is, it will likely *not* include destroying the 6th tallest building in the world and every innocent person inside it, then denying responsibility.
Your attitude towards Americans is part of the problem. You are just as prejudiced as the ones you accuse. The first part of your post says "You suck!" and then the last part says "Give us money!" I think you are ungrateful to the part America plays in the world.
Terrorists aren't necessarily "sick" or "cowards".
Then step up and take credit (blame?). The US took responsibility for the Sudan bombing. Who did this attack today? Cowards.
Do you think innocent people aren't going to die when we retaliate? Do you think innocent people aren't going to die when the terrorists respond to our retaliation?
So what should we do, tree-hugger? Sit back and watch the barbarians sack Rome?
Anonymous Cowards destroyed my way of life today. They destroyed the security, peace, and privacy for all Americans and their children (and their children). Do you think I have any sympathy to spare for foreigners (or locals, I don't know) who *hate* me and my people?
but violence doesn't solve violence
You're a fool. The only thing that has *ever* stopped violence against a people is to out-violence the perpetrators. That has been true since the stone age. Use of force has solved every major conflict in the history of mankind. Ask the Jews killed by Germany or the Chinese killed by the Japanese in WW2 if violence solved the violence done to them.
Sit there and spout your touchy-feely pacifist rhetoric until someone shoves a jumbo jet up your ass. I personally hope Bush "speaks softly and carries a big stick."
Be serious. This is an act of war. The WTC is gone! More people were killed today than in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
And the above post's sentiment of "let's play nice now or someone will get hurt" is ridiculous. It is a little too late for that. Many innocent Americans lost their lives today in a cowardly attack on this country. I hope that the perpetrators (whoever they are) find US vengeance to be swift, merciless, and complete.
Does anyone know how to make Mozilla lie about what User-Agent it is?
:)
Set "general.useragent.override" in prefs.js. Like this:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 98; en-US; rv:0.9.2)");
(Don't ask why I make Netscape 6.1 lie like that.
what Sam Latigna is working on these days. :)
They just provided one-button mice and designed the interface accordingly.
Actually, this is not *quite* true. Macs do have two mouse buttons, the "other" mouse button is on the keyboard. In order to get context menu functionality, you press and hold the Control key and click the mouse button. It is functionally the same as a right click. In fact, my USB logitech mouse assigned the "Ctrl+click" to its right mouse button by default.
Since the Control key on my Mac has (to me) never been used for anything else, I have always considered it the "right mouse button."
Much of the moderation here appears to be done based on whether or not the moderator personally agrees with you, regardless of how intelligent or relevent your comments may be.
:)
I don't know how true this really is. I usually browse at +2, and slashdot is reasonably nice to read. And I see a moderate (heh) amount of slashdot/editor/moderator/linux bashing. Since unpopular opinions *do* get through the moderation process, I figured all was right in the world. But recently, I decided to see for myself how "censored" slashdot comments really are. I spend a week browsing at -1, flat.
It was nightmare.
Barely intelligible racial and sexual slurs. ASCII art (what is this? An 1980s bbs?) Offtopic rants about censorship that were modded <gasp> offtopic! Porn, violence, profanity, ad nauseum. One could list for days the horrors that go on (and on) in AC land. I won't bore anyone with the details. (But don't take my word for it, it's there for anyone with the courage to see.)
Sure, there was the occasion funny or insightful post that was labeled incorrectly by humourless or thick-headed moderators, but they were few. Nothing seemed to have been unjustly downgraded.
So thank you, unsung slashdot moderators. As much as the editors, story submitters, and insightful comment makers, *you* make slashdot a place worth visiting. Without your tireless efforts, I would have given up on this site full of teenage potty-mouths months ago. Keep up the good work!
Now I am returning to the relative safety of +2, threaded.
Is an Athlon 1600 faster than two Atari 800s?
Or is it slower than my Amiga 4000?
While the latest ALSA drivers sound wonderful on my SB Live, I have a non-technical problem with them.
I have tried to build several programs and libraries that have "native" ALSA support, and ALSA gets detected properly at configure-time. Then I proceed to make, and the build will die because the app only supports the 0.5.0 ALSA interface, and not 0.9.0. It is not really the fault of the ALSA drivers, the configure scripts (and ideally the software package itself) need updating to be aware of the newer ALSA interface.
I just feel like I am losing functionality when I have to reconfigure the software with "--disable-alsa" and let the OSS emulation layer get used. <sigh> I wish I had more time to hack on my favorite projects. ALSA 0.9 for everyone!
This story may just be a thinly veiled ad, but I am always seeing X10 software for Linux. There is often a new X10 util posted on freshmeat, and there has been X10/Linux software on metalab for as long as I can recall.
I assumed the hardware would cost more, so I never bothered to check it out. Now I have a new (cheap!) linux toy. What could be more appropriate for slashdot?