Hey, can you inform me about your experiment? I've already wiped off Win2K (installed Stormix for 2 weeks - too bad it's just about to go belly up) and I MISS counter-strike. I know it can be done, just kind of want to know exactly how to do it before I really begin...I can even give you some feedbacks.
(sorry if it sounds lazy or leechy to you. i'm under extreme load with a hardcore programming course now)
>I just can't see why Linux users would vote for
>these (I guess that they do not know that they >work under Linux?)
Maybe a lot of them already have bought the Windows version (perhaps before they converted to Linux!), and can't bother themselves to pay for the game twice?
Maybe those games are what keeps them from eradicating Windows from their hard drives?
Anyhow, all we see there is just a -=>ranking=-.
The game at 2nd place might actually get only 5% of the votes the top dog have got. These situations appear almost weekly on your local box office rankings...
The year is 2001 now. The 386 was released in 1986. I think it's time we leave it behind - a kernel that's able to run on a 386 might have been a feature - but this kind of feature can turn into a limitation if it's been a feature for long enough, for dragging our feet.
If you have a 386, I don't see the idea why you can't run kernels 2.2.x. You aren't likely running 386 SMP machines. 386 motherboards don't support USB and firewire - it's all-ISA, and security patches and minor improvements keeps rolling in.
>Did you know that they have open markets, that
>they publish books criticizing the government,
>that they mock Maoist-era politics openly on TV
>sitcoms?
Yeah, except that all of them are government-operated (including the TV channels) and censored. You'll have a hard time finding anything that mock PRESENT-DAY China politics openly on TV, if there's any.
>That they have local elections - with better
>voter turnouts that those in our glorious US of A
Well, there're a bunch of candidates for you to choose from, but all of them are "approved" before the election.
Living in China, having a lot of neighbors supporting you, and want to be a candidate? Tough luck.
>and that they are converting state-owned
>enterprises into private corporations?
Until they convert state-owned *MEDIA* enterprises into private corporations, I won't hold my breath.
WHY does the name of EVERY KDE app has to begin with the letter "K"?
It is VERY annoying, to say the least.
Can the developers be any less creative?
A good desktop environment does not regularly remind you of what you're using. And unless KDE application developers change their stupid naming convention, it's not going ot happen.
(There are a bunch of GNOME apps that starts with "G" or "Gno" too, but not ALL of them, like KDE apparently is)
Yes! Someone pick up their manual, change it a bit to make it the debian manual, and finally into a downloadable PS - and maybe give it to the openbooks projects?
>That's a very narrow-minded view you have. There
>are reasons that some jokes (racist, sexist,
>etc.) aren't funny.
There is an obvious reason that they're called "jokes". I'm not going to state it here.
"Funny" is totally subjective. The only reason you are classifying some jokes as "not funny" is because you don't find them funny.
As long as ONE person finds something funny, it becomes a joke to that person.
>This particular joke happens
>to be unfunny and disrespectful to these people
>who have put in a lot of work developing the
>Itanium.
Can you share what you're smoking? Maybe this Itanium joke is not funny - but it is not even close to "racist, sexist jokes etc".
Not all jokes targetted at some particular group should be regarded as "racist and sexist etc".
People are born with their sexes and races - determined solely by chance.
Itanium's sluggishness is totally manmade. If it fails to deliver, it is a human error - Incompetence.
See the difference here?
I sympathize with those targetted by racist and sexist jokes but I absolutely share no sympathy with the Itanium team, be it struck by any kind of joke, however rude and ruthless.
>Yes, it's so easy to attack the Big Faceless
>Corporation - but have you ever thought about how
>the engineers behind this who have been trying so
>hard to bring this product to completion must
>feel when their brainchild is repeatedly slammed
>in a public forum?
Yeah so? If it is bad *because of incompetence* it DESERVES TO BE RIDICULED. Period.
Very well put. If I had my mod points I'd have moded it way up. It's exactly what every American citizen should write to the FCC (after decapitalizing the CAPSLOCKED WORDS).
I'm not an American. Bringing this comment to your attention is the best thing I can do.
You have the right to comment. Moderators have the right to rate it whatever they please. It is free speech. You exercise your free speech to comment. The moderators exercise their free speech to moderate. Simple.
Neither the comment nor the moderation gets cencored. (AND NO, if you can adjust your threshold and read the comment, it is NOT cencored.)
>Gnome is currently providing Win95 levels of
>functionality - actually, a more accurate
>statement would be somewhere between Win3.1 and
>Win95 - there are still critical features
>regarding drag and drop that Windows users have
>enjoyed for nearly five years that Gnome still
>does not support.
There's no such thing as "Win95 levels of functionality".
Functionalities are sets. You can say GNOME and Win95 have different sets of functionalities, but definitely one is not a subset of another.
Does Win95 provides the following in its default installation?
1. Multiple desktops and workspaces
2. A weather ticker on the panel
3. A date planner that is accessible from the clock on the panel
4. A "start" button that is well-aligned to the corner of the screen, so that you can drag the mouse directly to the screen corner and click, without having to look and target the menu.
See, they're just different, definitely not equivalent, but no subset of each other either.
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Hey, can you inform me about your experiment? I've already wiped off Win2K (installed Stormix for 2 weeks - too bad it's just about to go belly up) and I MISS counter-strike. I know it can be done, just kind of want to know exactly how to do it before I really begin...I can even give you some feedbacks.
(sorry if it sounds lazy or leechy to you. i'm under extreme load with a hardcore programming course now)
My email is: wy2lam@student.math.uwaterloo.ca
Thanks in advance!
Hm. Hard drives and Windows 2000 are quite a bit more expensive than the average game you can get at Fry's or Radio Shack...
>I just can't see why Linux users would vote for
>these (I guess that they do not know that they >work under Linux?)
Maybe a lot of them already have bought the Windows version (perhaps before they converted to Linux!), and can't bother themselves to pay for the game twice?
Maybe those games are what keeps them from eradicating Windows from their hard drives?
Anyhow, all we see there is just a -=>ranking=-.
The game at 2nd place might actually get only 5% of the votes the top dog have got. These situations appear almost weekly on your local box office rankings...
Oops, here's the correct link:
Pango
I know Qt can handle unicode and Gtk+ somehow also supports it via <a href="http://www.pango.org">Pango</a>.<
Question: when is it going to be standard for desktop distributions?
I'm doing the same thing - ssh to my university machine and pine, on a cable modem with about 70ms ping.
I'm masq'ing this connection with 2 housemates and ssh is not even breaking a sweat. Pine's very snappy. Every keystroke echoes immediately.
Shit happens tho, when everyone's doing their assignments in the labs - they just CLOG bandwidth. But then even telnet becomes non-responsive.
Therefore, I think your university needs to upgrade. It's not ssh's fault.
Calm dude, you can find ISO's of Debian at
http://www.linuxiso.org
If you find dselect annoying, download Progeny's ISO at
http://www.progenylinux.com
It's Debian with a nice installer.
The year is 2001 now. The 386 was released in 1986. I think it's time we leave it behind - a kernel that's able to run on a 386 might have been a feature - but this kind of feature can turn into a limitation if it's been a feature for long enough, for dragging our feet.
If you have a 386, I don't see the idea why you can't run kernels 2.2.x. You aren't likely running 386 SMP machines. 386 motherboards don't support USB and firewire - it's all-ISA, and security patches and minor improvements keeps rolling in.
Peace
>Did you know that they have open markets, that
>they publish books criticizing the government,
>that they mock Maoist-era politics openly on TV
>sitcoms?
Yeah, except that all of them are government-operated (including the TV channels) and censored. You'll have a hard time finding anything that mock PRESENT-DAY China politics openly on TV, if there's any.
>That they have local elections - with better
>voter turnouts that those in our glorious US of A
Well, there're a bunch of candidates for you to choose from, but all of them are "approved" before the election.
Living in China, having a lot of neighbors supporting you, and want to be a candidate? Tough luck.
>and that they are converting state-owned
>enterprises into private corporations?
Until they convert state-owned *MEDIA* enterprises into private corporations, I won't hold my breath.
I think China already has missiles that are targetted at Washington. Search it on CNN or ABC, it must be somewhere.
WHY does the name of EVERY KDE app has to begin with the letter "K"?
It is VERY annoying, to say the least.
Can the developers be any less creative?
A good desktop environment does not regularly remind you of what you're using. And unless KDE application developers change their stupid naming convention, it's not going ot happen.
(There are a bunch of GNOME apps that starts with "G" or "Gno" too, but not ALL of them, like KDE apparently is)
Typical .NET service
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...
Yes! Someone pick up their manual, change it a bit to make it the debian manual, and finally into a downloadable PS - and maybe give it to the openbooks projects?
Yeah, like, if you're in a police academy, play counter-strike or tactical-ops!
From your original comment, "if you don't have good things to say then don't say anything".
it's obvious you're trying to correct people's "attitude", which probably is none of your business.
I'd say to you now:
Good luck with your mind control and get a life.
>That's a very narrow-minded view you have. There
>are reasons that some jokes (racist, sexist,
>etc.) aren't funny.
There is an obvious reason that they're called "jokes". I'm not going to state it here.
"Funny" is totally subjective. The only reason you are classifying some jokes as "not funny" is because you don't find them funny.
As long as ONE person finds something funny, it becomes a joke to that person.
>This particular joke happens
>to be unfunny and disrespectful to these people
>who have put in a lot of work developing the
>Itanium.
Can you share what you're smoking? Maybe this Itanium joke is not funny - but it is not even close to "racist, sexist jokes etc".
Not all jokes targetted at some particular group should be regarded as "racist and sexist etc".
People are born with their sexes and races - determined solely by chance.
Itanium's sluggishness is totally manmade. If it fails to deliver, it is a human error - Incompetence.
See the difference here?
I sympathize with those targetted by racist and sexist jokes but I absolutely share no sympathy with the Itanium team, be it struck by any kind of joke, however rude and ruthless.
>Yes, it's so easy to attack the Big Faceless
>Corporation - but have you ever thought about how
>the engineers behind this who have been trying so
>hard to bring this product to completion must
>feel when their brainchild is repeatedly slammed
>in a public forum?
Yeah so? If it is bad *because of incompetence* it DESERVES TO BE RIDICULED. Period.
1000.times do
puts "Hello? World? What?"
end
Very well put. If I had my mod points I'd have moded it way up. It's exactly what every American citizen should write to the FCC (after decapitalizing the CAPSLOCKED WORDS).
I'm not an American. Bringing this comment to your attention is the best thing I can do.
Good luck.
You have the right to comment. Moderators have the right to rate it whatever they please. It is free speech. You exercise your free speech to comment. The moderators exercise their free speech to moderate. Simple.
Neither the comment nor the moderation gets cencored. (AND NO, if you can adjust your threshold and read the comment, it is NOT cencored.)
Include them in your coding team?
Have each of them write a line of code, or a comment. Then all the pilots are technically developers.
So you need not distribute the code and yet all of them can use it.
Is it another GPL loophole?
>Gnome is currently providing Win95 levels of
>functionality - actually, a more accurate
>statement would be somewhere between Win3.1 and
>Win95 - there are still critical features
>regarding drag and drop that Windows users have
>enjoyed for nearly five years that Gnome still
>does not support.
There's no such thing as "Win95 levels of functionality".
Functionalities are sets. You can say GNOME and Win95 have different sets of functionalities, but definitely one is not a subset of another.
Does Win95 provides the following in its default installation?
1. Multiple desktops and workspaces
2. A weather ticker on the panel
3. A date planner that is accessible from the clock on the panel
4. A "start" button that is well-aligned to the corner of the screen, so that you can drag the mouse directly to the screen corner and click, without having to look and target the menu.
See, they're just different, definitely not equivalent, but no subset of each other either.
Go to the foot menu.
Browse a submenu.
Do you notice you really have to be SO PRECISE to get into the menu without it closing just because you're one pixel off (namely, above) the menu?
Can the submenus be adjusted higher so that they REALLY ALIGNS with the menu items that bring up the submenus?
I forged my browser identification before going and it worked. Problem solved.
What if it checks the MAC address on every reboot?
Given the frequency of reboots associated with Windows machines, all of your unlicensed installations will stop working in a day or two.
Ah. Now I see. Forced rebooting is an anti-piracy feature too!
Does it mean you can move the license to another machine, as long as you move a network card along with it?