This is also the problem with wikipedia. It is useful for pop culture, and some pop technical stuff, but I still go to mathworld when I want to know math, and britannica when I want to know history.
Exaclty. I use Wikipedia for comics characters background. I'm new in DCU and I couldn't manage all this Crisis without Wikipedia.
Mexic, you say?
I predict that in max. 3 years, Mr. Slim will be assasinated by the local mob. Or at least one of his familly member will be taken hostage, for a huge, huge ransom.
I tend to think the opposite: I see no need for a dekstop to have daily updates. Even so, Slackware does have updates for stable branch, but not daily. On the other hand, servers must be updated daily, due to security issues. I think. I'm just speculating, as I don not own a server, for that matter. So what if Ubuntu pops up a question every morning asking you to update? It's frustrating and there is no explicit benefit for upgrading to the very-last-cutting-edge version of compiz, for instance. It's nice to get new versions that includes new features (I remember that once KDE camed in Slackware with a bug for kopete dealing with webcams. Upgrading KDE for that matter was mandatory. Upgrading beryl for some extra themes is not of my interested). I am not a Slackware-Jehova-Witness type propagandist. It's just that I'm not feeling I'm using Linux as long as I run Fedora or Ubuntu. I really feel the power of Linux under Slackware. Fedora and Ubuntu are just nice and almost good imitation of Windows. Every eyecandy here came with a bug there. Slackware is not perfect. It's just the best I could find.
Guys, I simply don't get this package managers wars... It's not like you apt-get something everyday. You install a system, being Slackware, Ubuntu or Vista and then live with it. From time to time, you can (sl)apt-get for some updates. What's the big deal with it?! (I'm speaking from a desktoop user point of view).
So what if Ubuntu/Debian have the largest repository? For every piece of software from that repository, there is a source, just in case LinuxPackages is not enough.
Unfortunatelly, checkinstall as left out of Slackware 12.0. Hope this will be fixed soon. With that, using the power given by the source, you can make your own tgz packages and store them into your own repository.
"Also, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Fermilab and CERN are not in competition. CDF and D0 might be considered to be in competition, as might ATLAS and CMS. But not really even with those pairs. It is science, and it is scientists. We are concerned with getting science done, wherever it is done."
Are you trying to say that there is no competition in science? Because this would be false. Science is a battleground, not a harmony land with happy people dancing together. Higgs might be the biggest latest discovery in particle physics, (suggested also by the name given by the press - God Particle), in a field that didn't have to much to offer (for the common people) in the past 20-30 years. So, whoever will see first the Higgs will go straight in the history (of science) books. Period.
I have no ideea about the old Battlestar Galactica, I was to little back then and it was only aired on German chanells (Sat1), who like to double the voices so that i can't understand a word. I've been watching modern Battlestar Galactica since the miniseries. I was thrilled. The first season was awsome. It was maybe the only true SF series since Star Trek (please, don't give me headaches about Stargate and Babylon Five, I have much interesting dreams at night that those series). On the second season, my pleasure watching Battlestar Galactica dropped a little and I find the third season worst and painfull to watch. Almost transforming itself into a space-soap-opera (stay tuned for more in Caprica - the series). But I continued watching it, becuase of curiosity.
Finding out that the forth season will be the latest one, it means all the wires will be connected. It should be a nice season. I hope they don't make a loose ending for some spin-off BSG-2 series, in a few years (although Caprica - the series is coming, oh boy...). I would like to know what happens to all the stories and characters. It's nice to know when to stop. BSG producers did. I applaud them and wait for the latest advetures of Adama and friends. Unlike Star Trek, BSG is a huuuge movie, which deserve a defined and clear ending. I'll bet they will have huge ratings on the last episode. It's a little sad to know it ends, but it's the right thing to do.
Will I also get modded informative if I post yet another link to http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/? Thanks!
(That server just won't die, now would it?...)
Well, in firefox, http://slashdot/ will look-up on Google (or whatever search engine you set as default) and display the first result. Interesting though, If Google searches trough google.com will display first the website closer to me, while typing it on the adress bar will display the.com/.net/.etc domain (for example, I'm from romania,.ro, searching with google.com for "convertor" will display convertor.ro first, but typing "convertor" in the adress bar will point to "http://www.xe.com/ucc/", wich is in the 5th place in the first case).
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if it is Plutonium, we'll find out in a few days, when all the apopulation will be DEAD.
...maybe AnsiString will accomodate inflation!
So they said about Croc Hunter too...
In Soviet Rusia, particles invents Al Gore!
Exaclty. I use Wikipedia for comics characters background. I'm new in DCU and I couldn't manage all this Crisis without Wikipedia.
Ah, teenagers this days...
I foretell.
Better now?
Mexic, you say? I predict that in max. 3 years, Mr. Slim will be assasinated by the local mob. Or at least one of his familly member will be taken hostage, for a huge, huge ransom.
I tend to think the opposite: I see no need for a dekstop to have daily updates. Even so, Slackware does have updates for stable branch, but not daily. On the other hand, servers must be updated daily, due to security issues. I think. I'm just speculating, as I don not own a server, for that matter.
So what if Ubuntu pops up a question every morning asking you to update? It's frustrating and there is no explicit benefit for upgrading to the very-last-cutting-edge version of compiz, for instance. It's nice to get new versions that includes new features (I remember that once KDE camed in Slackware with a bug for kopete dealing with webcams. Upgrading KDE for that matter was mandatory. Upgrading beryl for some extra themes is not of my interested).
I am not a Slackware-Jehova-Witness type propagandist. It's just that I'm not feeling I'm using Linux as long as I run Fedora or Ubuntu. I really feel the power of Linux under Slackware. Fedora and Ubuntu are just nice and almost good imitation of Windows. Every eyecandy here came with a bug there.
Slackware is not perfect. It's just the best I could find.
You could also try Bluewhite64: http://www.bluewhite64.com/news.php, which claims to be a pure 64-bit OS based on the latest Slackware.
Guys, I simply don't get this package managers wars... It's not like you apt-get something everyday. You install a system, being Slackware, Ubuntu or Vista and then live with it. From time to time, you can (sl)apt-get for some updates. What's the big deal with it?! (I'm speaking from a desktoop user point of view). So what if Ubuntu/Debian have the largest repository? For every piece of software from that repository, there is a source, just in case LinuxPackages is not enough. Unfortunatelly, checkinstall as left out of Slackware 12.0. Hope this will be fixed soon. With that, using the power given by the source, you can make your own tgz packages and store them into your own repository.
Will a gazillion of cloned monkeys be able to randomly type Shakespeare's work in a billion years?
"Also, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Fermilab and CERN are not in competition. CDF and D0 might be considered to be in competition, as might ATLAS and CMS. But not really even with those pairs. It is science, and it is scientists. We are concerned with getting science done, wherever it is done."
Are you trying to say that there is no competition in science? Because this would be false. Science is a battleground, not a harmony land with happy people dancing together. Higgs might be the biggest latest discovery in particle physics, (suggested also by the name given by the press - God Particle), in a field that didn't have to much to offer (for the common people) in the past 20-30 years. So, whoever will see first the Higgs will go straight in the history (of science) books. Period.
I have no ideea about the old Battlestar Galactica, I was to little back then and it was only aired on German chanells (Sat1), who like to double the voices so that i can't understand a word. I've been watching modern Battlestar Galactica since the miniseries. I was thrilled. The first season was awsome. It was maybe the only true SF series since Star Trek (please, don't give me headaches about Stargate and Babylon Five, I have much interesting dreams at night that those series). On the second season, my pleasure watching Battlestar Galactica dropped a little and I find the third season worst and painfull to watch. Almost transforming itself into a space-soap-opera (stay tuned for more in Caprica - the series). But I continued watching it, becuase of curiosity.
Finding out that the forth season will be the latest one, it means all the wires will be connected. It should be a nice season. I hope they don't make a loose ending for some spin-off BSG-2 series, in a few years (although Caprica - the series is coming, oh boy...). I would like to know what happens to all the stories and characters. It's nice to know when to stop. BSG producers did. I applaud them and wait for the latest advetures of Adama and friends. Unlike Star Trek, BSG is a huuuge movie, which deserve a defined and clear ending. I'll bet they will have huge ratings on the last episode. It's a little sad to know it ends, but it's the right thing to do.
Oh, they have Internet on computers now...
And let's suppose that an article from the CD will wiki-link to an article that was left out. How do they fix that?
Will I also get modded informative if I post yet another link to http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/?
Thanks! (That server just won't die, now would it?...)
Superman is God and those are signs of it's second coming! As Jor-El said: "I have sent you... My only son"
Only for short period. Long exposure to kryponite could cause cancer to humans. Lex Luthor did, after wearing an anti-Superman kryptonite ring.
Yes, but it run EVE online client?
And exactly that's why we had the First War with Cylons...
Well, in firefox, http://slashdot/ will look-up on Google (or whatever search engine you set as default) and display the first result. Interesting though, If Google searches trough google.com will display first the website closer to me, while typing it on the adress bar will display the .com/.net/.etc domain (for example, I'm from romania, .ro, searching with google.com for "convertor" will display convertor.ro first, but typing "convertor" in the adress bar will point to "http://www.xe.com/ucc/", wich is in the 5th place in the first case).
At least I'm not an anonymous coward and I don't use the s-word like others do around here. So, I'm forced to ask you to stop judging me, m'kay?
Gates traveling in space is not a problem at all. Now, Gates traveling trough time would be a serious thing. If he didn't already try it.
"In a Mirror, Darkly..."
Now give some "+5 Funny" or "+5 Informal", 'cause my karma is bad.