I've never even looked at the kernel source code. I don't use Linux becuase it is Open Source. I switched to Linux about two years ago when Win3.1 crashed for about the millionth time in a day. I'd had enough and even though there were some programming projects on my hard drive that I'd like to have kept, I deleted the whole kit and kaboodle and put Linux on. I didn't even know much about Linux at the time, I don't even remember if I knew it was Open Source, I just saw a copy of RedHat 5.0 at Electronics Boutique and when Windows crashed that day, I went out the next and bought Linux. So from my perspective whether or not it is open source is irrevalent to me. I think Open Source would be powerful without Linux because I think that open source programs would probably still have a very large home on linux. It is after all a UNIX and it seems to me as though the FSF has its roots in UNIX (yeah yeah I know GNU is not UNIX, but every flavor of UNIX had all the GNU development tools before windows and DOS got a copy, Mac still doesn't have a copy, so the roots are definetly UNIX). Pretty much (and I know the guy that didn't know what a.sig file is that was arguing with me a while back will take offense to this but..) pretty much whether Linux is free or open source or not, Windows still sucks large donkey genitalia, In fact if I had a spare $100 (and a larger hard drive) I would probably get me a copy of BeOS just becuase it seems to be a really great OS and I'd like to see if I can't get my PowerPak lib to work on it. Well those are my opinions but I seem to be less of an Open Source maniac like most linux people are, so I don't know if my opinions reflect what would really happen. I guess the answer to that depends on why it is OK for Quake and Unreal to be commercial software but when the little guy makes commercial software for Linux every jumps down his throat for not opening the code. Answer that question and decide which side of the hypocritical coin that Linux falls on (Quake or small software) and you'll have your answer.
How come everyone complains when something like this comes out and is non-free, but when Unreal or Quake or something comes out everyone is like "Woohoo, finally some commercial games!"? Personally I would pay for the same stuff that I would pay for in the Windows world, even the easy to write stuff, because I've got news for you guys, unless the people currently making commercial software for linux make money we ain't never gonna get the big software houses like EA and Lucasarts to even give Linux a second look. You can keep your free software ideals, Quite frankly I just hope to be playing the Star Wars Episode II games on my Linux box in three years.
There are several ways. First he could simply draw/write all the information down and mail it to himself. The envelope will be dated by the Post Office and so long as he doesn't open it he has proof of when he first came up with the idea. If anyone comes out with it later he will have the necessary evidence to proof that it is his idea. Or you can file a Disclosure Statement with the patent and trademark office, and they will keep it in confidence as evidence of the data of conception of the invention or idea. You can either send a 8 1/2" x 13" drawing, a copy, signed disclosure, SASE and a check or money order for $6 or a request for more information to the address below:
Disclosure Statement Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Patenet and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231
The phone numbers to that office are as follows:
Recorded Message 703-557-3158 Disclosure Office 703-308-HELP Legal Council 703-308-HELP (Yes I know it is the same number as the Disclosure Office)
Note that someone else could still go out and patent the idea first if you don't dispute it while the patent is still pending. So your friend might want to consider getting a patent attorney and filing for the patent before he goes to the VC firms. If I was your friend I wouldn't worry too much about Venture Capital Firms stealing his idea though. VC firms would be out of business if people couldn't trust them. Just make sure to go to a firm that has given capital before. In other words stick to the more established capital firms when introducing new technology. I hope this helps.
If you read any of my previous posts you will see I vary rarely take any position but the offensive when it comes to Billy boy, but in this case I have to take his side. 18 years ago 640 WAS enough for anybody. How many times have we heard tech columnists today say that you don't need more than 128 megs of RAM? are we going to laugh at them in 18 years when RAM usage is measured in Gigabytes? Probably not. The same thing has to go for Bill.
I take it you have never been in a serious debate before have you? You haven't even offered one counterpoint and already you are giving up. If stating a few simple facts is all it takes to get you to crack then I'm sorry bro but the comment about the brocolli stands.
Yeah, I know it is a bios problem, that is the same reason I had to put my then FreeBSD partition before the first 8.5 gigs because the BIOS couldn't boot past that. The thing is I have a relatively new computer. It CAME with the big drive, you'd think that companies would put a BIOS in the computer that could at least handle the hardware. Oh well that's Compaq for you I guess. I'll never buy another Compaq that's for sure. They also have a BIOS problem that prevented me from buying a Voodoo3, I had to get the Voodoo2. I guess it is too much to ask for big computer companies to actually think before they act, but I guess it is good that newer computers don't have this problem, I suppose someone finally figured out how dumb they were being (Now if we can just get MS to do the same. hehe)
Actually I've said earlier that I had a problem with Linux (the first distro I tried was the RedHat5.0 CD I had for my old machine) detecting my larger than 8.5 gig hard drive correctly. (this problem is also in partition magic and various other utilities I tried to get to format an ext2 file partition for me.) I tried Caldera 2.0 I think it was, it was the first one with the whole fully graphical install thing. The install looked real sweet and easy, but it didn't detect my hard drive correctly either, so desperate to get away from windows I downloaded all of FreeBSD (over a 56k connection) and installed it. It worked with the hard drive beautifully. FreeBSD wasnt't exactly what I was looking for in a desktop OS though and although I much prefered it to Windows I still wanted Linux again, so I finally figured out that I would just have to manually alter the geometry of the drive to get it to detect the right size. My long-winded point is that if one of the distro's hasn't already fixed this problem then they might alienate would be Linux users. As I said I don't really blame the distros because Partition Magic even suffered, but I just think it is something that needs to be addressed if it hasn't already. There has already been one Windows guy posting here complaining about having to type 'startx' to get X11 started. Certainly people like him aren't going to want to play with drive geometries.
I just have one question. You keep talking about a script to start X-11. Have you EVER used Windows before 95? Windows 3.1 (and Windows95 actually) required you to type 'win' from a DOS prompt to start windows. Did you write the 'win' script? what is the difference between typing 'win' and typeing 'startx' ? I don't understand your point. Besides if it is such a big deal to you just tell Linux to boot directly into X-windows botta bing botta bang problem solved (actually the new OpenLinux distro does the automatically) As far as leaving Bill Gates' worthless arse alone, I'll leave him alone when he leaves me alone, so far because of him and his monopolistic business practices I as a Linux or my neighbor as a Macintosh user, don't have all the same liberties that Windows users do. If Bill "SCUM" Gates actually gave a DAMN about the computing world then he would at least pretend to support cross-platform solutions (no, Win95 and WinNT don't count as cross-platform)
If you need something to happen in linux, you either have read some sort of news group for information or write some sort of script. I use KDE and point and click in an even easier to use environment than Windows. I don't understand your point.
When Linux is in windows mode, it almost looks like a cross between microsoft windows and apple interface There are about 20 different window managers for Linux, which are you talking about.
but yet it doesn't want to be known as a windows application. What the hell does this mean? Linux is an Operating System, how can it be a Windows application? If you don't understand the difference than you have no right to post to a technology group like Slashdot.
Does everyone hate MS that much that they don't want to copy a good idea. First of all the MS style user interface is a copy off of Apple which copied of Xerox and for your information UNIX had a GUI before MS did. Check the dates on the Athena widget set copyrights. Secondly copying the "windows" feel is what KDE and Gnome are doing, and they are doing it so well that schools in Mexico now use Gnome/Linux boxes instead of Windows or Macintosh machines. Please don't speak unless you know what you are talking about
Others may talk about how windows crashes so much compared to linux which some say (i highly doubt) never ever crashes ever since they first installed This proves that you have never used Linux and are unqualified to talk about it. Secondly my Linux box has been up for two years and hasn't crashed. X11 has crashed but I simply hit ctrl-alt-backspace and I am back in console mode and can start X again. If using Windows 95 or NT you would have to reboot. Some linux boxes however have been up for many years. That is why UNIX powers something like 80% of the internet.
At least with windows, I can start an application by clicking on something. While in linux, I would probably have to type in some dumb command or run some script I don't understand. I start EVERY application by clicking on something, whether it is KDE's start menu or my desktop icons. I delete things by dragging the Icon to the trash, I print things by dragging the icon on top of my printer icon. In fact with KDE or gnome you have more than one desktop and it is alot cleaner to navigate opened programs than windows because each app can run on a seperate desktop, you don't have to constantly close/open windows to get to the desktop icons either.
Oh yea, My netscape doesn't crash in MS windows! Oh gee, guess what, my netscape doesn't crash in linux either! besides earlier you said crashing was just one of lifes little annoyances. And now having one application that crashes as compared to having an OS that crashes is a bad thing? Make up your mind!
If you had to buy linux for 100 dollars and MS window was free, which one would you favor? Not Linux. I paid $50 dollars for Linux as did most everyone else. If it was $100 yes I would pay it, because I get all the updates I want for free. Windows isn't $100 it is $1000's of dollars because every two or three years you have to pay another $100
A free thing is always a good thing b/c it's free. People tend to criticize things that they have paid for. I paid for Linux, I very seldom (if ever) criticize it.
In closing I would just like to say that I have a 16 year old sister that doesn't even understand the concept of a file format, yet she finds her way around KDE without any problem whatsoever. The poster of the parent to this if confused by KDE and indeed the Slashdot website must have an IQ somewhere around that of a piece of brocolli.
I sincerely apologize to all those people reading that have learned to walk upright for responding to this obvious troll. It's just that the stuff he was saying was to stupid not to say something, you know?
How is letting a company that you are prosecuting "buy" their way out of it equal a less corrupt government? I think people fail to realize that this country was founded on the principle that small businesses should be allowed to thrive and that those who go out of there way to stop them should be stopped. What once was the land of opportunity for the entrepreneur is now the land of opportunity for those that actually want to be bought by Microsoft. You compete with them, they stomp you, is this how the country should be ran? If you think so then for the good of all Americans, please leave the country and go to Siberia or some place, frankly I still want the little man to have a chance at chasing his dreams.
I certainly can't see any defense for the city of Denver issuing me a "photo radar" ticket for speeding while attempting to merge into interstate traffic. (Let's see, do I want to get a ticket or killed by the semi? I have 1 second to decide!) Am I the only one that sees a third option "Wait for the Semi to pass"? How is it the governments fault that you or Mr. Smith were impatient? Even though your example isn't one there are cases of unjust tickets sure, but that doesn't mean that we should slack off. I'm sure that crack dealers want the government to slash the DEA's budget too, but should we? Let me ask you another question, if your son/daughter/wife was killed by Mr. Smith in an accident caused by one of his several other speeding tickets would you still be sympathetic to his cause?
In all fairness maybe that is because places like ZDNet and the whole rest of the media world tell US that it doesn't happen. Having only one patch is what makes MS good according to them, are you telling me if you want to stay up to date you have to do more than one patch? So how is security maintenence on NT different from Linux with respect to lots of patches?
He meant sell them as a figure of speech meaning that they "Promote" them as the other way around. I guess it is purely and American reference though and if you are in England or some place you would get confused.
I've found that my particular type of modem did not work, By your particular modem do you mean a WinModem? Those come with alot of computers nowadays and because the idiots that make those modems decide to let the OS control all of the modem it is impossible to right drivers for anything else. I heard of a company that is doing a LinModem (for linux), but it is still a dumb Idea, why would you waste system resources controlling the modem when it can control itself? I can see it now Win3Dfx. Oh wait a minute... We already have those don't we? It's called software mode and it is really really slow. Hmmm, seems to me these WinModem people could've learned from everyone else struggling to build Hardware that takes even more control from software and not done the exact opposite. Go figure.
my video card was not supported by XF86. First of all did you try the SVGA server? That is pretty generic and should handle just about any card. Secondly XF86 isn't the only fish in the sea, you could try MetroX or AcceleratedX or several other commercial X servers that may support your card and will still cost less than NT ever thought about costing.
Remember the TRUE story of how Microsoft paid lots of people to go into newgroups and claim to be ordinary people then trash OS/2 and promote Windows NT. Well it looks like that is happening again. Only this time it is against them and now all of you people who thought MS was justified are crying how Linux advocates are wrong. This is Hypocracy at its finest (or is that worst?)
I can't understand why people love to compare NT to Linux, while NT is an old code base Funny how Microsoft's Anti-Linux page talks about how old the code base is for Linux huh, 30 years I believe it was. Now in defense of NT you say that NT is the old code base. Can't you MS Defenders at least make up your mind.
but NT's code evolves only in MS's labs for the next version, and new releases don't come out every three months Seems to me this is a perfect argument FOR Linux/Open Source, not against it. Now who is not thinking before they speak. "Oh yeah, well....Linux comes out with updates like every month and NT only updates every few years, and...and you have to pay for the updates so NT is better... no wait a minute" HeHe
You really have been away from UNIX for a long time haven't you? Let's see there is WordPerfect, Applixware, StarOffice, Netscape, GIMP, All of the system administration utilities have at least 5 different graphical front ends for you to chose from, not counting the ones that the distro makers wrote, then theres The entire host of KDE and Gnome utilities that allow you to do everything from set the password to browse the web. Hmm theres Civilization: A Call to Power, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Railroad Tycoon II, Myth II: Soulblighter, Hexen, Descent, Soon to be Heavy Gear II, theres a slew of other commercial games not to mention the freeware games all of which are graphical. Oh and uh, by the way, both Titanic and Star Wars:The Phantom Menace had the graphical work done on UNIX Machines. Come to think of it so did Toy Story, Antz, and a Bugs Life, because well.. Silicon Graphics machines don't run NT. Sorry, I really don't get your point on this one, I do however find it extremely Ironic that you posted this ignorance in reply to an article claiming that Linux users spread to much FUD.
Ooops, doesn't recognize more than 64MB of RAM. Funny, on my computer 'Free' says total memory is 95 megs. Is my computer just special or does Linux detect more than 64mb?
Oooops your geometry was misread When I first tried to install Linux my geometry was misread. Desperate to escape Winblows I installed FreeBSD. The funny thing is while tring out some COMMERCIAL Windows based partition manager such as Partition Magic, it too failed to read my geometry correct. The problem of incorrect geometry lies in the computer's bios which also the root of the problem that causes you to have to put all bootable partitions before 8 gb. I agree Linux should try to find a way around this like FreeBSD did, but you can't blame the OS for something that lots of other programs fall victim too.
and your drive was nuked. Hmmmmm, if you knew your geometry wasn't showing up right (which you can tell because the size of the drive doesn't show up right) then why did you ignore the big ole warnings that say "Pressing yes will erase all data on your hard drive!"? I thought even Windows users were smarter than that.
Ooops you didn't set the admin password on your Redhat default to no password install Egad! You mean I'll have to type 'passwd' and add a password to the system?! The horror! Ohhh the Humanity! Obviously you'll know when you log in that you forgot to set a password and will be able to change it. Also unlike MICROSOFT Windows NT, RED HAT Linux isn't the only fish in the sea, secondly if you forget to set a password you probably shouldn't be a system administrator.
I still find it very interesting that Apple is supporting the porting of linux to the Mac platform at all. They hold all the cards on the Macintosh platform, they have chosen to give up the OS Monopoly. I know they have problems with Be and I don't know what that is about so I can't formulate an opinion, but for a company that has been the only source of an OS to support bringing in another OS is pretty impressive to me. They opensourced their Quicktime server which is also fairly impressive. Of course IBM is doing more to help Linux though, I mean 90% of Linux computers are running on Intel machines, thus IBM and Intel have more to gain right now. If MkLinux or Linux/PPC get more popular and more mainstream I think that there will be more support from Apple. The important thing with Apple's Linux support though is that maybe one day we will see off the shelf iMac/Linux boxes. Sure IBM is supporting it in the background, but why can't I go to CompUSA and get an IBM with Linux on it. That would do more for the popularity of Linux than probably anything before. I think the recent M$ Linux Myths page solidifies this, they name several large companies that use NT, but Intel didn't step up and say, "Hey, when we debuted our 64Bit Merced chip it was running Linux, NOT NT." Sony didn't step up and say, "Hey, our development environment, A computer three times more powerful than the Pentium III and immensely more powerful graphically than anything out now, is running Linux, NOT NT" or Tivo didn't say "We chose Linux over CE", Nokia didn't either. So the support is there but it is not mainstream support. I don't have a Mac so I don't know the difference between MkLinux and LinuxPPC (are they even different projects?) but for Apple to help open up a whole new platform to Linux is not to go unnoticed. Of course you also have to consider Darwin, Apple's new open source OS based on Mac OS X. Does anybody know anything about this? I'd say that could be a major contributer to the open source movement. Even if it isn't any good, I don't see Microsoft releasing any open source operating systems. And although I'm not a lawyer and have a hard time reading licensing agreements the Apple Public License seems to be fairly open, unlike the Sun public License. If I am wrong please correct me, but it seems as though they are saying if you make changes for internal use only then you don't have to release your code but if you "deploy" the software than you have to release your code. Sounds kinda GPLish to me. So maybe they aren't helping Linux greatly per se, but they are helping the open source movement become more mainstream. And regardless of what we think, for a company that is in the business of making money that is pretty impressive.
Yes there was a patch that could stop him. I seem to remember when the first notice of the crack was posted here the details where that he got in via the bad CGI script, but did the damage via a security hole that had a patch up on the RedHat site for about a month before the test began. I forget what the patch was for so I don't know where the hole was, but there was one, that is why the issue of them not installing patches became such a big topic.
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I don't really understand what you are saying here. Why would one have to purchase Windows, the API, etc? Microsoft would be the one doing the porting, and IE is already free for some UNIX OS's. If someone else is to do the porting then there will be an extra $20,000 or so to kill Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer so that they can get their hands on the code. I don't think Bill and Steve are just going to hand the code over and say here port it.
As others have said it doesn't support Java, but it does support Javascript (which is kinda impressive for a small floppy), but when I went to my page PowerPak GSDK it didn't show up, the page has pop-ups from the hosting service, and the javascript didn't open a new window, so all that showed was the banner in the popup on a blank page. And an error message about Javascript. These services usually place thier Javascript code at the very top of the page which is the incorrect place for javascript and does not conform to strict HTML guidelines, but with so many pages using pop-up ads one has to wonder whose fault the incompatibilty is "QNX or the hosting services?" I Think the QNX guys could have at least tested the browser on a page with popups.
If this is true and we ever make space travel a common thing, this could really decrease the value of diamonds, as they wouldn't be rare anymore. Who'da thought diamonds would ever be a bad investment?
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So from my perspective whether or not it is open source is irrevalent to me.
I think Open Source would be powerful without Linux because I think that open source programs would probably still have a very large home on linux. It is after all a UNIX and it seems to me as though the FSF has its roots in UNIX (yeah yeah I know GNU is not UNIX, but every flavor of UNIX had all the GNU development tools before windows and DOS got a copy, Mac still doesn't have a copy, so the roots are definetly UNIX).
Pretty much (and I know the guy that didn't know what a
Well those are my opinions but I seem to be less of an Open Source maniac like most linux people are, so I don't know if my opinions reflect what would really happen. I guess the answer to that depends on why it is OK for Quake and Unreal to be commercial software but when the little guy makes commercial software for Linux every jumps down his throat for not opening the code. Answer that question and decide which side of the hypocritical coin that Linux falls on (Quake or small software) and you'll have your answer.
You can keep your free software ideals, Quite frankly I just hope to be playing the Star Wars Episode II games on my Linux box in three years.
What website?
Or you can file a Disclosure Statement with the patent and trademark office, and they will keep it in confidence as evidence of the data of conception of the invention or idea. You can either send a 8 1/2" x 13" drawing, a copy, signed disclosure, SASE and a check or money order for $6 or a request for more information to the address below:
Disclosure Statement Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Patenet and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231
The phone numbers to that office are as follows:
Recorded Message 703-557-3158
Disclosure Office 703-308-HELP
Legal Council 703-308-HELP (Yes I know it is the same number as the Disclosure Office)
Note that someone else could still go out and patent the idea first if you don't dispute it while the patent is still pending. So your friend might want to consider getting a patent attorney and filing for the patent before he goes to the VC firms. If I was your friend I wouldn't worry too much about Venture Capital Firms stealing his idea though. VC firms would be out of business if people couldn't trust them. Just make sure to go to a firm that has given capital before. In other words stick to the more established capital firms when introducing new technology.
I hope this helps.
I guess it is too much to ask for big computer companies to actually think before they act, but I guess it is good that newer computers don't have this problem, I suppose someone finally figured out how dumb they were being (Now if we can just get MS to do the same. hehe)
My long-winded point is that if one of the distro's hasn't already fixed this problem then they might alienate would be Linux users. As I said I don't really blame the distros because Partition Magic even suffered, but I just think it is something that needs to be addressed if it hasn't already. There has already been one Windows guy posting here complaining about having to type 'startx' to get X11 started. Certainly people like him aren't going to want to play with drive geometries.
Besides if it is such a big deal to you just tell Linux to boot directly into X-windows botta bing botta bang problem solved (actually the new OpenLinux distro does the automatically)
As far as leaving Bill Gates' worthless arse alone, I'll leave him alone when he leaves me alone, so far because of him and his monopolistic business practices I as a Linux or my neighbor as a Macintosh user, don't have all the same liberties that Windows users do. If Bill "SCUM" Gates actually gave a DAMN about the computing world then he would at least pretend to support cross-platform solutions (no, Win95 and WinNT don't count as cross-platform)
du jour is french, how is this an English lesson?, furthermore it's spelled "s-p-e-l-l-e-d" not "s-p-e-l-l-e-r-d"
I use KDE and point and click in an even easier to use environment than Windows. I don't understand your point.
When Linux is in windows mode, it almost looks like a cross between microsoft windows and apple interface
There are about 20 different window managers for Linux, which are you talking about.
but yet it doesn't want to be known as a windows application.
What the hell does this mean? Linux is an Operating System, how can it be a Windows application? If you don't understand the difference than you have no right to post to a technology group like Slashdot.
Does everyone hate MS that much that they don't want to copy a good idea.
First of all the MS style user interface is a copy off of Apple which copied of Xerox and for your information UNIX had a GUI before MS did. Check the dates on the Athena widget set copyrights.
Secondly copying the "windows" feel is what KDE and Gnome are doing, and they are doing it so well that schools in Mexico now use Gnome/Linux boxes instead of Windows or Macintosh machines. Please don't speak unless you know what you are talking about
Others may talk about how windows crashes so much compared to linux which some say (i highly doubt) never ever crashes ever since they first installed
This proves that you have never used Linux and are unqualified to talk about it. Secondly my Linux box has been up for two years and hasn't crashed. X11 has crashed but I simply hit ctrl-alt-backspace and I am back in console mode and can start X again. If using Windows 95 or NT you would have to reboot. Some linux boxes however have been up for many years. That is why UNIX powers something like 80% of the internet.
At least with windows, I can start an application by clicking on something. While in linux, I would probably have to type in some dumb command or run some script I don't understand.
I start EVERY application by clicking on something, whether it is KDE's start menu or my desktop icons. I delete things by dragging the Icon to the trash, I print things by dragging the icon on top of my printer icon. In fact with KDE or gnome you have more than one desktop and it is alot cleaner to navigate opened programs than windows because each app can run on a seperate desktop, you don't have to constantly close/open windows to get to the desktop icons either.
Oh yea, My netscape doesn't crash in MS windows!
Oh gee, guess what, my netscape doesn't crash in linux either! besides earlier you said crashing was just one of lifes little annoyances. And now having one application that crashes as compared to having an OS that crashes is a bad thing? Make up your mind!
If you had to buy linux for 100 dollars and MS window was free, which one would you favor? Not Linux.
I paid $50 dollars for Linux as did most everyone else. If it was $100 yes I would pay it, because I get all the updates I want for free. Windows isn't $100 it is $1000's of dollars because every two or three years you have to pay another $100
A free thing is always a good thing b/c it's free. People tend to criticize things that they have paid for.
I paid for Linux, I very seldom (if ever) criticize it.
In closing I would just like to say that I have a 16 year old sister that doesn't even understand the concept of a file format, yet she finds her way around KDE without any problem whatsoever. The poster of the parent to this if confused by KDE and indeed the Slashdot website must have an IQ somewhere around that of a piece of brocolli.
I sincerely apologize to all those people reading that have learned to walk upright for responding to this obvious troll. It's just that the stuff he was saying was to stupid not to say something, you know?
How is letting a company that you are prosecuting "buy" their way out of it equal a less corrupt government? I think people fail to realize that this country was founded on the principle that small businesses should be allowed to thrive and that those who go out of there way to stop them should be stopped. What once was the land of opportunity for the entrepreneur is now the land of opportunity for those that actually want to be bought by Microsoft. You compete with them, they stomp you, is this how the country should be ran? If you think so then for the good of all Americans, please leave the country and go to Siberia or some place, frankly I still want the little man to have a chance at chasing his dreams.
Am I the only one that sees a third option "Wait for the Semi to pass"? How is it the governments fault that you or Mr. Smith were impatient? Even though your example isn't one there are cases of unjust tickets sure, but that doesn't mean that we should slack off. I'm sure that crack dealers want the government to slash the DEA's budget too, but should we? Let me ask you another question, if your son/daughter/wife was killed by Mr. Smith in an accident caused by one of his several other speeding tickets would you still be sympathetic to his cause?
He meant sell them as a figure of speech meaning that they "Promote" them as the other way around. I guess it is purely and American reference though and if you are in England or some place you would get confused.
By your particular modem do you mean a WinModem? Those come with alot of computers nowadays and because the idiots that make those modems decide to let the OS control all of the modem it is impossible to right drivers for anything else. I heard of a company that is doing a LinModem (for linux), but it is still a dumb Idea, why would you waste system resources controlling the modem when it can control itself?
I can see it now Win3Dfx. Oh wait a minute... We already have those don't we? It's called software mode and it is really really slow. Hmmm, seems to me these WinModem people could've learned from everyone else struggling to build Hardware that takes even more control from software and not done the exact opposite. Go figure.
my video card was not supported by XF86.
First of all did you try the SVGA server? That is pretty generic and should handle just about any card. Secondly XF86 isn't the only fish in the sea, you could try MetroX or AcceleratedX or several other commercial X servers that may support your card and will still cost less than NT ever thought about costing.
Funny how Microsoft's Anti-Linux page talks about how old the code base is for Linux huh, 30 years I believe it was. Now in defense of NT you say that NT is the old code base. Can't you MS Defenders at least make up your mind.
but NT's code evolves only in MS's labs for the next version, and new releases don't come out every three months ...and you have to pay for the updates so NT is better... no wait a minute" HeHe
Seems to me this is a perfect argument FOR Linux/Open Source, not against it. Now who is not thinking before they speak. "Oh yeah, well....Linux comes out with updates like every month and NT only updates every few years, and
You really have been away from UNIX for a long time haven't you? Let's see there is WordPerfect, Applixware, StarOffice, Netscape, GIMP, All of the system administration utilities have at least 5 different graphical front ends for you to chose from, not counting the ones that the distro makers wrote, then theres The entire host of KDE and Gnome utilities that allow you to do everything from set the password to browse the web. Hmm theres Civilization: A Call to Power, Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Railroad Tycoon II, Myth II: Soulblighter, Hexen, Descent, Soon to be Heavy Gear II, theres a slew of other commercial games not to mention the freeware games all of which are graphical. Oh and uh, by the way, both Titanic and Star Wars:The Phantom Menace had the graphical work done on UNIX Machines. Come to think of it so did Toy Story, Antz, and a Bugs Life, because well.. Silicon Graphics machines don't run NT. Sorry, I really don't get your point on this one, I do however find it extremely Ironic that you posted this ignorance in reply to an article claiming that Linux users spread to much FUD.
Funny, on my computer 'Free' says total memory is 95 megs. Is my computer just special or does Linux detect more than 64mb?
Oooops your geometry was misread
When I first tried to install Linux my geometry was misread. Desperate to escape Winblows I installed FreeBSD. The funny thing is while tring out some COMMERCIAL Windows based partition manager such as Partition Magic, it too failed to read my geometry correct. The problem of incorrect geometry lies in the computer's bios which also the root of the problem that causes you to have to put all bootable partitions before 8 gb. I agree Linux should try to find a way around this like FreeBSD did, but you can't blame the OS for something that lots of other programs fall victim too.
and your drive was nuked.
Hmmmmm, if you knew your geometry wasn't showing up right (which you can tell because the size of the drive doesn't show up right) then why did you ignore the big ole warnings that say "Pressing yes will erase all data on your hard drive!"? I thought even Windows users were smarter than that.
Ooops you didn't set the admin password on your Redhat default to no password install
Egad! You mean I'll have to type 'passwd' and add a password to the system?! The horror! Ohhh the Humanity! Obviously you'll know when you log in that you forgot to set a password and will be able to change it.
Also unlike MICROSOFT Windows NT, RED HAT Linux isn't the only fish in the sea, secondly if you forget to set a password you probably shouldn't be a system administrator.
They opensourced their Quicktime server which is also fairly impressive. Of course IBM is doing more to help Linux though, I mean 90% of Linux computers are running on Intel machines, thus IBM and Intel have more to gain right now. If MkLinux or Linux/PPC get more popular and more mainstream I think that there will be more support from Apple.
The important thing with Apple's Linux support though is that maybe one day we will see off the shelf iMac/Linux boxes. Sure IBM is supporting it in the background, but why can't I go to CompUSA and get an IBM with Linux on it. That would do more for the popularity of Linux than probably anything before. I think the recent M$ Linux Myths page solidifies this, they name several large companies that use NT, but Intel didn't step up and say, "Hey, when we debuted our 64Bit Merced chip it was running Linux, NOT NT." Sony didn't step up and say, "Hey, our development environment, A computer three times more powerful than the Pentium III and immensely more powerful graphically than anything out now, is running Linux, NOT NT" or Tivo didn't say "We chose Linux over CE", Nokia didn't either. So the support is there but it is not mainstream support. I don't have a Mac so I don't know the difference between MkLinux and LinuxPPC (are they even different projects?) but for Apple to help open up a whole new platform to Linux is not to go unnoticed.
Of course you also have to consider Darwin, Apple's new open source OS based on Mac OS X. Does anybody know anything about this? I'd say that could be a major contributer to the open source movement. Even if it isn't any good, I don't see Microsoft releasing any open source operating systems. And although I'm not a lawyer and have a hard time reading licensing agreements the Apple Public License seems to be fairly open, unlike the Sun public License. If I am wrong please correct me, but it seems as though they are saying if you make changes for internal use only then you don't have to release your code but if you "deploy" the software than you have to release your code. Sounds kinda GPLish to me. So maybe they aren't helping Linux greatly per se, but they are helping the open source movement become more mainstream. And regardless of what we think, for a company that is in the business of making money that is pretty impressive.
If someone else is to do the porting then there will be an extra $20,000 or so to kill Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer so that they can get their hands on the code. I don't think Bill and Steve are just going to hand the code over and say here port it.
These services usually place thier Javascript code at the very top of the page which is the incorrect place for javascript and does not conform to strict HTML guidelines, but with so many pages using pop-up ads one has to wonder whose fault the incompatibilty is "QNX or the hosting services?" I Think the QNX guys could have at least tested the browser on a page with popups.