Yup - I read one called "Romeo & Juliet" and another called "Caesar" by a guy named Shakespear - you know a guy's *real* dangerous when his name implies that he shakes spears at people!
So it allows for using features equivalent to cat, grep, and such forth - however, the thing which I believe makes cli on *nix superior is how so many of the programs can be manipulated via command line. For example (ok, so its kinda niche) making a custom script to manipulate a video capture program to take feed from a webcam and put stillshots into an apache web-host directory, making a cheap video surveillance viewable from a browser...
Now to do that in Windows, it would take actual C programming (or a language of the type), correct?
Isn't it obvious? You gotta ditch the 15 year old BSD network stack that used to take 500k because it got bloated to make Aero look pretty and keep WMP11 from letting you listen to your music, thus now making the net-stack 5 gig's... and remember "It's a feature, not a bug!"
No I haven't. While it's not really a fair judgment, I'll admit that when I referred to BSD I was using NetBSD as my reference, which seemed to be rather a pain to install, one of the biggest reasons was that I saw no obvious way to have it use a partition of my HDD for testing it (it only gave options for the whole HDD). Also, each time I screwed up and the installer refused to go further, I basically had to restart the installer...
Again, not really a fair comparison I suppose, and even if NetBSD and PC-BSD were close enough to compare, I guess I dint have much evidence to really bash on NetBSD in the first place...
BTW: I needed NetBSD cuz it seemed to be the only recent OS I could find that fit within the tight constraints of an old "Pizzabox" type Sun SPARCstation20 (approximately that model IIRC)...
Not to bash on Macs, and being as I'm a power-user I don't really care for Macs or GNOME, but if what you say is true, why the hell are Macs with their overly dumbed down interface which gives you almost no choice at all so popular (at least thats what the Mac crowd claims) with people who don't know that when you tell them to click on something, by default you mean "left click"?
While what you say might be half true at the moment while Linux is still more of a niche OS, where would people go if a year or 2 from now, MS is kaput, Best Buy and other average joe consumers buy PC's at, and by odd chance Apple went under too (maybe even though they'd be the only major player left, people wouldn't buy em cuz the things are expensive?) - where would people go to for an OS? (ya, stick with XP 5 or 10 years after it stops getting updates and try even sticking a removable disk/drive in it) Linux is the only other viable option left at this point, where else would granny go? BSD? (not that BSD is bad, but its decidely less friendly than Linux)
My point is that just because you and I are power users who directly edit their xorg.conf fairly often and tweak with every little setting in Beryl, or refuse to use anything but Blackbox WM, doesn't mean that I'm ready to give granny KDE, pops Xfce, and Fido Blackbox. I'm already tech support for family and relatives 24/7 as is, I don't need that extended thank you...
I'm not sure if the UK is different, but this is (well, from a google anyway) the US Discovery Channel site dsc.discovery.com...
discovery.com | Discovery Channel | TLC | Animal Planet | Travel Channel | Discovery Health
Discovery Times | Discovery Kids | The Science Channel | Discovery Home | Military Channel | Discovery HD Theater | FitTV | Turbo
sorry for being a bit lazy on linking all of those, but they seem to be their sister channel websites for others owned by whoever has the Discovery channel...
The only one I ever watch is "the Military Channel" (formerly Discovery Wings) - that is the few times I ever even watch TV anymore. Personally, that ones gone to hell too, with everything either being WW1/2 biplanes or hype on the supposed superiority of our (US's, most of NATO afaik, I think UK dropped/got_cut_out of the F22) F22 and F35 fighters...
you mean the History Channel? since afaik Myth Busters is on Discovery - granted aside from the WW2 stuff, the history channel is also IMHO going to crap with how much they show of UFO's. But I suppose at least they do it in a "semi-scientific" manner and actually examine why UFO's are or aren't real, along with the history and social phenomena of the matter...
I get the same problem on my 7900GT (nVidia) at home, along with a few others such as that when I switch viewports with VLC running, and then minimize/unminimize to bring it up, it takes about 30 trys for it to come up whereas with anything else it would just switch to the viewport. Another includes that with wobbly windows on, when a window snaps to an edge and I try to force a window to snap to an edge, it doesn't loose momentum and keeps spazzing out, making the window contents jump back and forth and become unreadable...
I'm sure there's a few other quirks, but I can't think of em at the moment...
The only thing I saw on the fallingleafsystems.com site was a youtube/google-video clip of Prey running in windowed mode on Mac OS-X. Now I'm not exactly sure, but isn't Prey a modded Doom3 engine - which was OpenGL and cross platform, being able to run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS-X? So their only example of DX10 working on a non-Vista or even XP machine not only doesn't use a DX10 example, its not even a DX9 (or any DX) example...
perhaps Boing Boing was banned for having something up about the equally asinine event where the police were called in to a church which somebody as a "prank" had placed stereos with obscene music playing, and then detonated the stereos by means of bomb squad, yet claimed the 3rd as "evidence" - which I also believe was in Boston...
Its been a while since I read on muni-wifi, so I can't exactly remember how it works, but if it's outsourced to a 3rd party company and only paid for by the city govt' - would the 3rd party/private company be able to block it without bringing the Constitution into this, or because it would be funded by govt' money then it would have to comply with the Constitution??? Even if this isn't the case in Boston, if it is so in other places, I would think it would be a valid question...
while you could be joking, who knows what countries can't figure out that it's a television show (hell, even some American citizens) - one of these days North Korea, China, or any of the other shows that American TV uses as the target of some world domination plot, or makes just a bit too many bad jokes at is gonna get pissed.
ex: American Idol or some such show will be mistranslated as: "We're going to slaughter you all... lalalala.... we're going to eat your babies at the weekend BBQ... alala... cuz' we're Americans!"
this was their "Radiant AI" which they scrapped in favor of scheduled and balanced task loads, because they found that it would be too much of a pita to use Radiant AI with possibilites like that and still have a playable game - Ex: can't finish the game because npc-a was killed by npc-b for stepping on his lawn, and you need the final boss quest from npc-a...
KDE4 and appropriate libaries for will supposedly be compatible with Windows, though last I checked I think the estimated release date is sometime like October 23, 07...
If Fedora users who are KDE fans are lucky and I remember Fedora's release cycle right, Fedora 8 should be out around late October or November...
...it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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I'm gonna try to not flame a whole bunch here, and I don't know if I'm expected to hold a grudge against de Raadt (is he supposed to be like an asshole or something?) - but my first response is kinda on semantic grounds - the section you quoted from is the "Unsourced" - how do I know he's said that as part of the license agreements for OpenBSD?
Second - if its only his personal opinion and not in the BSD license it pretty much amounts to nothing legally. It could be God himself speaking through a whole in the clouds with light shining down who says "XYZ program under the BSD license cannot be used by the military" - and even then if it's not in the BSD license which program XYZ is under, it doesn't mean a damned thing in court...
Sorry but I don't remember anything in the GPL or BSD licenses stating anything about denying specific parties from running software under said licenses due to being government military powers...
While I'm still in the stage of trying out distro's and primarily boot to WinXP Pro (games), I recently went from Fedora Core 6 (my CIS *nix courses use Fedora based books) to Debian Etch, the package management seems much nicer than FC. While I've heard that Gentoo's method of building from source lets you leave parts of programs out and can cut down on dependencies - Debian (and.deb based distro's) seems to be able to select unneeded dependencies when you remove packages. Since my primary machine for toying with *nix is my 60GB Laptop drive, with only a 10GB partition for whatever distro I'm going through, it helps save space...
first off, maybe I'm not hardcore enough, but I'd consider that to be rather a bitch of a process to go through if you've got loads of that format to go through, and second off, I'm betting with good probability that redistributing somebody's media files without their consent (hard to get consent if you plan to do it in a format they'll never agree to - not to mention they wouldn't get paid for ads) is justifiably illegal in court...
while thats all true and good and all, I find it easier to just install VLC or MPlayer - thus saying the hell with it all and be able to play pretty much whatever gets thrown at me...
Hrmm... only if its an old 8086 with loads of those "Core 2 Duo" and "Intel Inside" stickers on it that magically improve clockspeed by 2 or 3GHz per sticker...
yes, but does ATI have any cards such as the 7950GX2 which has 2 cards bundled together on one PCIX slot - allowing for a total maximum of 4 cards (quad-sli)???
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Yup - I read one called "Romeo & Juliet" and another called "Caesar" by a guy named Shakespear - you know a guy's *real* dangerous when his name implies that he shakes spears at people!
So it allows for using features equivalent to cat, grep, and such forth - however, the thing which I believe makes cli on *nix superior is how so many of the programs can be manipulated via command line. For example (ok, so its kinda niche) making a custom script to manipulate a video capture program to take feed from a webcam and put stillshots into an apache web-host directory, making a cheap video surveillance viewable from a browser...
Now to do that in Windows, it would take actual C programming (or a language of the type), correct?
Isn't it obvious? You gotta ditch the 15 year old BSD network stack that used to take 500k because it got bloated to make Aero look pretty and keep WMP11 from letting you listen to your music, thus now making the net-stack 5 gig's... and remember "It's a feature, not a bug!"
what do you mean "almost"? the only one that you didn't mention is SCO...
No I haven't. While it's not really a fair judgment, I'll admit that when I referred to BSD I was using NetBSD as my reference, which seemed to be rather a pain to install, one of the biggest reasons was that I saw no obvious way to have it use a partition of my HDD for testing it (it only gave options for the whole HDD). Also, each time I screwed up and the installer refused to go further, I basically had to restart the installer...
Again, not really a fair comparison I suppose, and even if NetBSD and PC-BSD were close enough to compare, I guess I dint have much evidence to really bash on NetBSD in the first place...
BTW: I needed NetBSD cuz it seemed to be the only recent OS I could find that fit within the tight constraints of an old "Pizzabox" type Sun SPARCstation20 (approximately that model IIRC)...
Not to bash on Macs, and being as I'm a power-user I don't really care for Macs or GNOME, but if what you say is true, why the hell are Macs with their overly dumbed down interface which gives you almost no choice at all so popular (at least thats what the Mac crowd claims) with people who don't know that when you tell them to click on something, by default you mean "left click"?
While what you say might be half true at the moment while Linux is still more of a niche OS, where would people go if a year or 2 from now, MS is kaput, Best Buy and other average joe consumers buy PC's at, and by odd chance Apple went under too (maybe even though they'd be the only major player left, people wouldn't buy em cuz the things are expensive?) - where would people go to for an OS? (ya, stick with XP 5 or 10 years after it stops getting updates and try even sticking a removable disk/drive in it) Linux is the only other viable option left at this point, where else would granny go? BSD? (not that BSD is bad, but its decidely less friendly than Linux)
My point is that just because you and I are power users who directly edit their xorg.conf fairly often and tweak with every little setting in Beryl, or refuse to use anything but Blackbox WM, doesn't mean that I'm ready to give granny KDE, pops Xfce, and Fido Blackbox. I'm already tech support for family and relatives 24/7 as is, I don't need that extended thank you...
The only one I ever watch is "the Military Channel" (formerly Discovery Wings) - that is the few times I ever even watch TV anymore. Personally, that ones gone to hell too, with everything either being WW1/2 biplanes or hype on the supposed superiority of our (US's, most of NATO afaik, I think UK dropped/got_cut_out of the F22) F22 and F35 fighters...
you mean the History Channel? since afaik Myth Busters is on Discovery - granted aside from the WW2 stuff, the history channel is also IMHO going to crap with how much they show of UFO's. But I suppose at least they do it in a "semi-scientific" manner and actually examine why UFO's are or aren't real, along with the history and social phenomena of the matter...
I get the same problem on my 7900GT (nVidia) at home, along with a few others such as that when I switch viewports with VLC running, and then minimize/unminimize to bring it up, it takes about 30 trys for it to come up whereas with anything else it would just switch to the viewport. Another includes that with wobbly windows on, when a window snaps to an edge and I try to force a window to snap to an edge, it doesn't loose momentum and keeps spazzing out, making the window contents jump back and forth and become unreadable...
I'm sure there's a few other quirks, but I can't think of em at the moment...
The only thing I saw on the fallingleafsystems.com site was a youtube/google-video clip of Prey running in windowed mode on Mac OS-X. Now I'm not exactly sure, but isn't Prey a modded Doom3 engine - which was OpenGL and cross platform, being able to run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS-X? So their only example of DX10 working on a non-Vista or even XP machine not only doesn't use a DX10 example, its not even a DX9 (or any DX) example...
yes, so that the bank/saftey-deposit box holder can be subpoenaed for the drive image...
perhaps Boing Boing was banned for having something up about the equally asinine event where the police were called in to a church which somebody as a "prank" had placed stereos with obscene music playing, and then detonated the stereos by means of bomb squad, yet claimed the 3rd as "evidence" - which I also believe was in Boston...
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Its been a while since I read on muni-wifi, so I can't exactly remember how it works, but if it's outsourced to a 3rd party company and only paid for by the city govt' - would the 3rd party/private company be able to block it without bringing the Constitution into this, or because it would be funded by govt' money then it would have to comply with the Constitution??? Even if this isn't the case in Boston, if it is so in other places, I would think it would be a valid question...
while you could be joking, who knows what countries can't figure out that it's a television show (hell, even some American citizens) - one of these days North Korea, China, or any of the other shows that American TV uses as the target of some world domination plot, or makes just a bit too many bad jokes at is gonna get pissed.
ex: American Idol or some such show will be mistranslated as: "We're going to slaughter you all... lalalala.... we're going to eat your babies at the weekend BBQ... alala... cuz' we're Americans!"
this was their "Radiant AI" which they scrapped in favor of scheduled and balanced task loads, because they found that it would be too much of a pita to use Radiant AI with possibilites like that and still have a playable game - Ex: can't finish the game because npc-a was killed by npc-b for stepping on his lawn, and you need the final boss quest from npc-a...
KDE4 and appropriate libaries for will supposedly be compatible with Windows, though last I checked I think the estimated release date is sometime like October 23, 07...
If Fedora users who are KDE fans are lucky and I remember Fedora's release cycle right, Fedora 8 should be out around late October or November...
...it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. use & (ampersand) lt=less than or gt=greater, then ; (semicolon) - this basic html also applies to other characters such as printing an ampersand properly is "& amp ;" (without the spaces)
I'm gonna try to not flame a whole bunch here, and I don't know if I'm expected to hold a grudge against de Raadt (is he supposed to be like an asshole or something?) - but my first response is kinda on semantic grounds - the section you quoted from is the "Unsourced" - how do I know he's said that as part of the license agreements for OpenBSD?
Second - if its only his personal opinion and not in the BSD license it pretty much amounts to nothing legally. It could be God himself speaking through a whole in the clouds with light shining down who says "XYZ program under the BSD license cannot be used by the military" - and even then if it's not in the BSD license which program XYZ is under, it doesn't mean a damned thing in court...
Sorry but I don't remember anything in the GPL or BSD licenses stating anything about denying specific parties from running software under said licenses due to being government military powers...
While I'm still in the stage of trying out distro's and primarily boot to WinXP Pro (games), I recently went from Fedora Core 6 (my CIS *nix courses use Fedora based books) to Debian Etch, the package management seems much nicer than FC. While I've heard that Gentoo's method of building from source lets you leave parts of programs out and can cut down on dependencies - Debian (and .deb based distro's) seems to be able to select unneeded dependencies when you remove packages. Since my primary machine for toying with *nix is my 60GB Laptop drive, with only a 10GB partition for whatever distro I'm going through, it helps save space...
first off, maybe I'm not hardcore enough, but I'd consider that to be rather a bitch of a process to go through if you've got loads of that format to go through, and second off, I'm betting with good probability that redistributing somebody's media files without their consent (hard to get consent if you plan to do it in a format they'll never agree to - not to mention they wouldn't get paid for ads) is justifiably illegal in court...
while thats all true and good and all, I find it easier to just install VLC or MPlayer - thus saying the hell with it all and be able to play pretty much whatever gets thrown at me...
Hrmm... only if its an old 8086 with loads of those "Core 2 Duo" and "Intel Inside" stickers on it that magically improve clockspeed by 2 or 3GHz per sticker...
Probably not - IMHO AGP users were lucky to get 79xx versions in AGP, which may be the last new model agp card made...
yes, but does ATI have any cards such as the 7950GX2 which has 2 cards bundled together on one PCIX slot - allowing for a total maximum of 4 cards (quad-sli)???