They're not trying to show friendliness toward free software, they just realize their inferior product is doomed and they don't have the clout to bundle commercial products, so they fill in the voids with free software; which is completely hypocritical and I think they should rot in hell for that but well, SCO are the ones who don't give a damn about the GPL; the software authors do and recognize that since the software is free, SCO can do what they're doing. That's respect for you SCO.
um, Robert J. Sawyer already has a whole novel on the topic, Mindscan. Did he have a chat with Pearson? because the way he portrays the process in the novel is almost completely the same; even the year (2047 in Mindscan).
I'm a single developer working mostly on small projects, and svn has been a godsend for me, mainly because I do development from one of many different locations, so svn lets me keep an accessible and centralized copy, so I just do an update when I'm going to start working, a commit when I'm about to leave a particular location and that way I don't mess things up. It's easier than using rsync, with which I've clobbered more than one project because I wasn't paying attention to which direction I was syncing files to.
Also, it gives me a lot of freedom to make changes and mess things up since I can always go back a revision or two. I've yet to use it for a large, multiple-person dev project but at least I know the technology is there when I need it. And svn was dead-simple to install and use!
Windows thinking: "Hey dude, it's a good thing you lost your thread of thought, because you just emailed your card numbers to everyone in your address book! so now we've snapped you out of your daydreaming and you can worry about important things, such as calling your bank and cancelling all your cards!"
I have the bad habit of putting stuff I want to keep in a directory named temp. I usually keep stuff for 2 or 3 days in/tmp as well. This habit came to bite me when I installed debian which, by default, deletes stuff in/tmp/ at every reboot. I lost some important files. Rather than stop doing this, I configured debian's tmp maintenance subsystem so that stuff there is kept for 10 days.:)
A sad day specially for those of us outside the US; however bad bush might be in domestic affairs, it's his handling of international politics that's most worrisome (" I don't like that country, let's blow them to smithereens and have the american people pay for it in money and blood"). Sad indeed.
There, there. Calm down or your windows server's going to crash. And no need to "fuck" twice, trust me, I know plenty well what I'm doing, and I'm not impressed by your alleged 6-month uptime, since as even you might know, it's the exception rather than the rule.
However you'll have little need to keep rebooting your box with linux/kde as opposed to the instability of windows. A (vastly) more stable OS is a good tradeoff for a slower boot time (since the days of OS/2); any (little) time you "waste" booting is more than offset by the several times you'll have to reboot windows in the same day.
Because someone already has prosco.com (a cybersquatter, so I won't even provide a link). It's good, however, people tend to mis-think URLs and think they're all.com so a lot of people will land at some random squatty search engine and think SCO can't even open a decent web site.
Once you use the T3 for any amount of time you realize it's too powerful a machine to stay unconnected; and bluetooth/IR through the cellphone is way too expensive. WiFi enables connection in any of the plenty of hotspots in town, and the T3 already comes with software to check e-mail and do browsing (full-fledged browser, although sometimes the screen size is a bit limiting). I also have a ssh app which will be far more useful if I can actually connect; not to mention VNC which will be great for remote diagnostics. I can actually see myself using one of these...
Not viable technologies yet. Few people can handwrite faster than they can type and even if they did, recognition software is far from perfect. Don't get me started on voice recognition, probably the single most useless technology I've used in the last 10 years and it keeps appearing!
typing won't be obsolete any time now. I learned as a hunt-and-pecker, due to 20 years of practice I pretty much can touch-type now and I'm quite slow let me tell you, at 40 wpm. But it gets me by faster than any handwriter or voice recognizer.
we had just gotten a used 386/40 computer and I was looking at it. I had the flu so I was feeling pretty bad. Suddenly I got the idea to yank the CPU to see what was beneath it; I did, but in my diminished physical condition I miscoordinated and ended up ripping off all the pins on one edge. Since I realized I was better off doing something else, I left the apparently dead CPU lying on the table. When some friends came back one of them took a soldering iron and proceeded to solder and straighten up the destroyed pins. Some were missing so he just soldered small pieces of wire in place. He then plugged the CPU back in and the computer worked! and did so for about two years after that, when the original owner took it back and for all I know it kept working for a while. So now I don't do any important work when I have the flu:)
Is it? I can say "no" since I started using debian. Now installing software on my red hat systems feels like a chore, but so far I haven't had problems using apt to install software that's prepackaged for debian, this includes a vast majority of programs you could possibly need so it covers the requirements of most users. I'll agree that dependency hell is just that, hell.
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well it looks quite nasty.
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congrats guys!
DUH.. you'd also have to wire the nano's screen to the camera because since you glued it to the back, you can no longer see the camera's LCD %)
The Dawn and Drew show, of course. You'll be laughing your ass off all the way.
No need to worry then, chances are it gets stripped from longhorn before release and it's another 10 years before this sees the light.
They're not trying to show friendliness toward free software, they just realize their inferior product is doomed and they don't have the clout to bundle commercial products, so they fill in the voids with free software; which is completely hypocritical and I think they should rot in hell for that but well, SCO are the ones who don't give a damn about the GPL; the software authors do and recognize that since the software is free, SCO can do what they're doing. That's respect for you SCO.
um, Robert J. Sawyer already has a whole novel on the topic, Mindscan. Did he have a chat with Pearson? because the way he portrays the process in the novel is almost completely the same; even the year (2047 in Mindscan).
I bought a universal remote so that I have to get up from the couch even less. And hey, I've cut my battery consumption by 80% as well! :)
I'm a single developer working mostly on small projects, and svn has been a godsend for me, mainly because I do development from one of many different locations, so svn lets me keep an accessible and centralized copy, so I just do an update when I'm going to start working, a commit when I'm about to leave a particular location and that way I don't mess things up. It's easier than using rsync, with which I've clobbered more than one project because I wasn't paying attention to which direction I was syncing files to.
Also, it gives me a lot of freedom to make changes and mess things up since I can always go back a revision or two. I've yet to use it for a large, multiple-person dev project but at least I know the technology is there when I need it. And svn was dead-simple to install and use!
I lost interest in Enterprise a long time ago. I'm personally not sad to see the series go.
Nah, they're already slashdotted. Watch those load graphs.. as they rise like they've never risen before!
I like subversion. why don't they? I found it easy to install the server, and the client is easier to use than cvs.
Windows thinking: "Hey dude, it's a good thing you lost your thread of thought, because you just emailed your card numbers to everyone in your address book! so now we've snapped you out of your daydreaming and you can worry about important things, such as calling your bank and cancelling all your cards!"
I have the bad habit of putting stuff I want to keep in a directory named temp. I usually keep stuff for 2 or 3 days in /tmp as well. This habit came to bite me when I installed debian which, by default, deletes stuff in /tmp/ at every reboot. I lost some important files. Rather than stop doing this, I configured debian's tmp maintenance subsystem so that stuff there is kept for 10 days. :)
A sad day specially for those of us outside the US; however bad bush might be in domestic affairs, it's his handling of international politics that's most worrisome (" I don't like that country, let's blow them to smithereens and have the american people pay for it in money and blood"). Sad indeed.
There, there. Calm down or your windows server's going to crash. And no need to "fuck" twice, trust me, I know plenty well what I'm doing, and I'm not impressed by your alleged 6-month uptime, since as even you might know, it's the exception rather than the rule.
However you'll have little need to keep rebooting your box with linux/kde as opposed to the instability of windows. A (vastly) more stable OS is a good tradeoff for a slower boot time (since the days of OS/2); any (little) time you "waste" booting is more than offset by the several times you'll have to reboot windows in the same day.
Because someone already has prosco.com (a cybersquatter, so I won't even provide a link). It's good, however, people tend to mis-think URLs and think they're all .com so a lot of people will land at some random squatty search engine and think SCO can't even open a decent web site.
so... is ubiquitin the antidote to unobtanium? :)
that its real name is Pennywise, the evil clown, and that it eats children and has evil powers. There's even a movie about IT!
Once you use the T3 for any amount of time you realize it's too powerful a machine to stay unconnected; and bluetooth/IR through the cellphone is way too expensive. WiFi enables connection in any of the plenty of hotspots in town, and the T3 already comes with software to check e-mail and do browsing (full-fledged browser, although sometimes the screen size is a bit limiting). I also have a ssh app which will be far more useful if I can actually connect; not to mention VNC which will be great for remote diagnostics. I can actually see myself using one of these...
I guess they gave you a discount for having to put up with such a hideous operating system, huh?
Not viable technologies yet. Few people can handwrite faster than they can type and even if they did, recognition software is far from perfect. Don't get me started on voice recognition, probably the single most useless technology I've used in the last 10 years and it keeps appearing!
typing won't be obsolete any time now. I learned as a hunt-and-pecker, due to 20 years of practice I pretty much can touch-type now and I'm quite slow let me tell you, at 40 wpm. But it gets me by faster than any handwriter or voice recognizer.
we had just gotten a used 386/40 computer and I was looking at it. I had the flu so I was feeling pretty bad. Suddenly I got the idea to yank the CPU to see what was beneath it; I did, but in my diminished physical condition I miscoordinated and ended up ripping off all the pins on one edge. Since I realized I was better off doing something else, I left the apparently dead CPU lying on the table. When some friends came back one of them took a soldering iron and proceeded to solder and straighten up the destroyed pins. Some were missing so he just soldered small pieces of wire in place. He then plugged the CPU back in and the computer worked! and did so for about two years after that, when the original owner took it back and for all I know it kept working for a while. So now I don't do any important work when I have the flu :)
Is it? I can say "no" since I started using debian. Now installing software on my red hat systems feels like a chore, but so far I haven't had problems using apt to install software that's prepackaged for debian, this includes a vast majority of programs you could possibly need so it covers the requirements of most users. I'll agree that dependency hell is just that, hell.
what if you get robbed by the flash? i bet superman could also move fat enough eh? eh? what about that?