I like how you all spelled "dam" "damn". hehe. Damn the water to hell!! The Bastards!
I think that what is throwing off the earth's balance is the millions of fat asses in north america. We need to fatten up the Australians to counter our fatitude.
Any technology can be used for good and evil purposes. Does that mean we don't develop it so that no one "bad" can use it? No. It means we develop it and hope that no one uses it for bad.
I can stab you to death with a pencil. Uh oh. We better stop making pencils because someone bad can use them to do bad things. They can write notes about hate and distribute them to people.
License clause.... my ass. We must keep the children safe. troll.
The old shows were great with the guy from Red Dwarf and old those silly British people. I've watched a couple episodes of the new season and its all a bunch of rednecks and the new host sucks. The British version is MUCH better. Brits are funnier in general. They have all these wierd little words and phrases that we don't say in English that make it fun.
Even the episodes with the American team were ok because they were reasonably funny as well. They were rednecks like this season. In one of the first episodes (drag racer or something) I saw TWO mullets.
And the old host was hilarious. He'd look at a teams work, crack a joke and laugh hysterically. It was great.
1. Throw out the whole election and redo it with different candidates. If you can't get more than 50% than you suck and shouldn't be president.
2. (this one is the best) Put Bush and Gore in a boxing ring. Give each one a gigantic club. Let them proceed to beat eachother to a pulp. Whoever is left standing gets to be president. This is the only fair way to do it with such a close election. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!
I'm going to have a clause in my will that says before anyone gets any of my loot, i have to be stuffed and placed on the couch in the living room for at least 5 years. hehe. My cat has to be there (stuffed) too. Otherwise, no one gets anything.
not because it's got better hardware, but because of the cleverness of the hardware and software combination - the particular combination that Amiga uses
Well if the main reason it was (is) so much better is the combination of hardware and software that the Amiga uses... the "cleverness" of that combination, as you put it... I'm guessing that taking that clever combination of finely tuned hardware and software, putting it in a Just-In-Time compiled setting, and putting it on all the crappy generic (not finely tuned) hardware is not going to achieve the same effect at all. In fact from what little I admittedly know on the subject, I don't see how it can compete...
-Uberminy (not logged in on his computer)
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MPW is a pain because it is not a good CLI. its a pain in the ass. if i could use the same commands as linux it would be fine. For MacOS its not acceptable. The interface is not intuitive, the commands suck.... etc.
I will admit though that i never did go through the whole tutorial or anything. It was too much work. Compiling programs in linux is easier.
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I like versiontracker. There is a lot of shareware for Macs... some pretty cool shareware. My problem with shareware is that it isn't like in the old days where you would get an app, and if you liked it you'd send the guy $10. Now lots of shareware is crippled until you pay outrageous fees. Some shareware is $45-60 or more. I don't call that shareware. I call it a demo.
There are lots of other things that linux is better for though. Example, whenever i want to program, I do it in linux. The programming environment is much better. In macos you have to get CodeWarrior or MPW or some other IDE that either costs lots of money or is a pain in the ass (MPW).
I love MacOS.. I use MacOS probably 10 hours a day... Its great for productivity, graphics, word processing, email... but when I need to program, run a server, do complex networking tasks, I use linux... (well, really, i use my k6-2 running FreeBSD in the other room) but the point is, that MacOS has its place, and Linux has its place.. on Mac hardware.
MacOS is fun but playing with other OS's is fun as well and is a good learning experience. MacOS just can't do all the things you can do in linux (as easily anyways). Say I wanted to set my G3 up so that my dialup connection could be used from all 5 computers on my network. In MacOS, I'd have to get Apple IP or something like that and configure it.... you have to pay for stuff or find warez. In linux, you'd just set up your modem, like you would anyway. Set up your ethernet card like you would anyway. Then set up masquerading and you're done. No extra software needed.
Mac hardware is great but often MacOS can't handle the things I want to do. Therefore, I use linux. (virtual desktops...mmmmm... i know there is shareware that does it but they suck).
I have been tried out MacOS X (thank you hotline) and I must say that it is *very* slick. Network configuration is a snap. Turning on extra services services such as Apache is a snap (one click of a button). Everything looks great and flows smoothly. Terminal.app is pretty good although I prefer ksh to tcsh.
My only complaints are the mouse speed and lack of virtual desktops. MacOS X is going to be really good, but it is different and right now I think there is a steeper learning curve than say, MacOS 9.
Thank you. Sorry for the long, sort of offtopic, post.
A bunch of people have mentioned how we should help the starving people first. I'd just like to point out that just because a country is considered 3rd world doesn't mean everyone is starving. I've lived in several third world countries where there is plenty of food and have fairly stable economies. They just aren't as rich as the US so they can't clean up a bit and start the industries that would help them.
I think this would be a good way to help boost 3rd world economies.
I don't think you're being very fair. There are plenty of reasons why having linux compatability is good and none of them have anything to do with being too lazy to port software. You'll find that lots of linux programs are binary only. The linux compatability in the BSD's allow one to run those programs. Its not a matter of getting the source and porting because the source is closed.
I agree that we should be advocating source compatability but to say that the binary compatibility in the BSD's is a cheap ride on the linux wave is silly.
All you people replying to this troll need to chill out. Son of a bitch! get over it. every single story has some idiot posting about how slashdot is going downhill because of repeat stories, poor quality stories, bad spelling...... trolls like this guy. GET OVER IT!
go somewhere else. Write a filter that spell checks everything. Just stop posting stupid ass comments. And whoever moderated this up needs to pull that stick out of their ass. This is supposed to be a laid-back interesting news site. Not a spell-check nazi trolling ground.
I would like to commend cmdrtaco and hemos and everyone else on a job well done!
no. upgrade cards are not supported in the 6100 with any linux except perhaps MkLinux. All the linux distributions for ppc require a computer that has pci, not nubus like the 6100s.
How do you feel about the blatant ripoff of the Gnome name in South Park by the Underpants Gnomes. I mean, come on, they don't even have anything to do with linux or opensource. They're just stupid midgets that steal your underwear!
Ok, your post was a little silly. First, the order of the distros doesn't mean anything. So YDL is first, so what? Uh oh they didn't mention SuSE. Steve Jobs must not like suse. Otherwise why wouldnt they be on the page? Second, listing bootx last does not imply anything. Notice that Apple is now hosting Ben Herrenschmidt's (author of bootx and yaboot) site. If they don't want people to install linux on ppc over macos, why are they hosting the site? Your point is silly.
Next, what makes you think YDL is the most commercial distro and LinuxPPC the most functional. I'd wager that LinuxPPC sells more CD's than Yellow Dog, not because it is better but because it is more well known. When you get down to it, YDL and LinuxPPC are exactly the same after install. I have run both and actually found YDL to work better immediately after installation. I don't want to discredit either group tho. Both are putting lots of work into linux on ppc and both should be commended for their efforts. The more the merrier.
dude, you are on crack. if you read the page, those three domain names are what's left after the linux names were removed. it states:
"The auction for the pick of 250 corporate consulting type Linux® domain names has been discontinued at the request of attorneys for Linus Torvalds, trademark owner of Linux®."
linus owns the trademark on Linux not on opensource.
My wrists have been popping a LOT recently. Would this be an early warning sign of RSI or something? It generally doesn't hurt but it can't be good. What are some other early warning signs?
On the contrary, i think Linux is great for aunt helga who just wants to check email and use a word processor. you set up her box with kde or gnome, show her how to open the email and netscape, and koffice or staroffice. don't give her root access. perfect. she can do what she needs and can't damage the machine. she doesn't even need to see the command line. she can do what she wants and doesn't hurt the computer.
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Oh no! The witch frequency!!! RUN AWAY!
I like how you all spelled "dam" "damn". hehe. Damn the water to hell!! The Bastards!
I think that what is throwing off the earth's balance is the millions of fat asses in north america. We need to fatten up the Australians to counter our fatitude.
Any technology can be used for good and evil purposes. Does that mean we don't develop it so that no one "bad" can use it? No. It means we develop it and hope that no one uses it for bad.
I can stab you to death with a pencil. Uh oh. We better stop making pencils because someone bad can use them to do bad things. They can write notes about hate and distribute them to people.
License clause.... my ass. We must keep the children safe. troll.
Andrew
The old shows were great with the guy from Red Dwarf and old those silly British people. I've watched a couple episodes of the new season and its all a bunch of rednecks and the new host sucks. The British version is MUCH better. Brits are funnier in general. They have all these wierd little words and phrases that we don't say in English that make it fun.
Even the episodes with the American team were ok because they were reasonably funny as well. They were rednecks like this season. In one of the first episodes (drag racer or something) I saw TWO mullets.
And the old host was hilarious. He'd look at a teams work, crack a joke and laugh hysterically. It was great.
Oh well. so i don't make any sense.
Bloody Rednecks.
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I see two ways to solve this matter.
1. Throw out the whole election and redo it with different candidates. If you can't get more than 50% than you suck and shouldn't be president.
2. (this one is the best) Put Bush and Gore in a boxing ring. Give each one a gigantic club. Let them proceed to beat eachother to a pulp. Whoever is left standing gets to be president. This is the only fair way to do it with such a close election. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!
I'm going to have a clause in my will that says before anyone gets any of my loot, i have to be stuffed and placed on the couch in the living room for at least 5 years. hehe. My cat has to be there (stuffed) too. Otherwise, no one gets anything.
Damn disrespectful children.
Well if the main reason it was (is) so much better is the combination of hardware and software that the Amiga uses... the "cleverness" of that combination, as you put it... I'm guessing that taking that clever combination of finely tuned hardware and software, putting it in a Just-In-Time compiled setting, and putting it on all the crappy generic (not finely tuned) hardware is not going to achieve the same effect at all. In fact from what little I admittedly know on the subject, I don't see how it can compete...
-Uberminy (not logged in on his computer)
MPW is a pain because it is not a good CLI. its a pain in the ass. if i could use the same commands as linux it would be fine. For MacOS its not acceptable. The interface is not intuitive, the commands suck.... etc.
I will admit though that i never did go through the whole tutorial or anything. It was too much work. Compiling programs in linux is easier.
I like versiontracker. There is a lot of shareware for Macs... some pretty cool shareware. My problem with shareware is that it isn't like in the old days where you would get an app, and if you liked it you'd send the guy $10. Now lots of shareware is crippled until you pay outrageous fees. Some shareware is $45-60 or more. I don't call that shareware. I call it a demo.
There are lots of other things that linux is better for though. Example, whenever i want to program, I do it in linux. The programming environment is much better. In macos you have to get CodeWarrior or MPW or some other IDE that either costs lots of money or is a pain in the ass (MPW).
I love MacOS.. I use MacOS probably 10 hours a day... Its great for productivity, graphics, word processing, email... but when I need to program, run a server, do complex networking tasks, I use linux... (well, really, i use my k6-2 running FreeBSD in the other room) but the point is, that MacOS has its place, and Linux has its place.. on Mac hardware.
Andrew
Because they can.
MacOS is fun but playing with other OS's is fun as well and is a good learning experience. MacOS just can't do all the things you can do in linux (as easily anyways). Say I wanted to set my G3 up so that my dialup connection could be used from all 5 computers on my network. In MacOS, I'd have to get Apple IP or something like that and configure it.... you have to pay for stuff or find warez. In linux, you'd just set up your modem, like you would anyway. Set up your ethernet card like you would anyway. Then set up masquerading and you're done. No extra software needed.
Mac hardware is great but often MacOS can't handle the things I want to do. Therefore, I use linux. (virtual desktops...mmmmm... i know there is shareware that does it but they suck).
I have been tried out MacOS X (thank you hotline) and I must say that it is *very* slick. Network configuration is a snap. Turning on extra services services such as Apache is a snap (one click of a button). Everything looks great and flows smoothly. Terminal.app is pretty good although I prefer ksh to tcsh.
My only complaints are the mouse speed and lack of virtual desktops. MacOS X is going to be really good, but it is different and right now I think there is a steeper learning curve than say, MacOS 9.
Thank you. Sorry for the long, sort of offtopic, post.
Andrew
A bunch of people have mentioned how we should help the starving people first. I'd just like to point out that just because a country is considered 3rd world doesn't mean everyone is starving. I've lived in several third world countries where there is plenty of food and have fairly stable economies. They just aren't as rich as the US so they can't clean up a bit and start the industries that would help them.
I think this would be a good way to help boost 3rd world economies.
Andrew Sharp
In macos 9, the ads only show up when you do an internet search. I assume its the same in OSX.
I don't think you're being very fair. There are plenty of reasons why having linux compatability is good and none of them have anything to do with being too lazy to port software. You'll find that lots of linux programs are binary only. The linux compatability in the BSD's allow one to run those programs. Its not a matter of getting the source and porting because the source is closed.
I agree that we should be advocating source compatability but to say that the binary compatibility in the BSD's is a cheap ride on the linux wave is silly.
Please pull your head out of your ass. Thank you.
Andrew
All you people replying to this troll need to chill out. Son of a bitch! get over it. every single story has some idiot posting about how slashdot is going downhill because of repeat stories, poor quality stories, bad spelling...... trolls like this guy. GET OVER IT!
go somewhere else. Write a filter that spell checks everything. Just stop posting stupid ass comments. And whoever moderated this up needs to pull that stick out of their ass. This is supposed to be a laid-back interesting news site. Not a spell-check nazi trolling ground.
I would like to commend cmdrtaco and hemos and everyone else on a job well done!
Andrew
no. upgrade cards are not supported in the 6100 with any linux except perhaps MkLinux. All the linux distributions for ppc require a computer that has pci, not nubus like the 6100s.
How do you feel about the blatant ripoff of the Gnome name in South Park by the Underpants Gnomes. I mean, come on, they don't even have anything to do with linux or opensource. They're just stupid midgets that steal your underwear!
So are you going to sue or what!
Andrew
You may think is fair but its also illegal. Andrew
It would be the same if the "top" musician took a baseball bat and broke the other musicians' arms so they couldn't make any more music. Andrew
Ok, your post was a little silly. First, the order of the distros doesn't mean anything. So YDL is first, so what? Uh oh they didn't mention SuSE. Steve Jobs must not like suse. Otherwise why wouldnt they be on the page? Second, listing bootx last does not imply anything. Notice that Apple is now hosting Ben Herrenschmidt's (author of bootx and yaboot) site. If they don't want people to install linux on ppc over macos, why are they hosting the site? Your point is silly.
Next, what makes you think YDL is the most commercial distro and LinuxPPC the most functional. I'd wager that LinuxPPC sells more CD's than Yellow Dog, not because it is better but because it is more well known. When you get down to it, YDL and LinuxPPC are exactly the same after install. I have run both and actually found YDL to work better immediately after installation. I don't want to discredit either group tho. Both are putting lots of work into linux on ppc and both should be commended for their efforts. The more the merrier.
Andrew Sharp
dude, you are on crack. if you read the page, those three domain names are what's left after the linux names were removed. it states:
"The auction for the pick of 250 corporate consulting type Linux® domain names has been discontinued at the request of attorneys for Linus
Torvalds, trademark owner of Linux®."
linus owns the trademark on Linux not on opensource.
WeeMadArthur
My wrists have been popping a LOT recently. Would this be an early warning sign of RSI or something? It generally doesn't hurt but it can't be good. What are some other early warning signs?
WEEMADARTHUR
i call first whack!
no way. the grits guy is cool. every time i see it i burst out laughing. maybe coming up with a couple different phrases would be a good idea tho.
On the contrary, i think Linux is great for aunt helga who just wants to check email and use a word processor. you set up her box with kde or gnome, show her how to open the email and netscape, and koffice or staroffice. don't give her root access. perfect. she can do what she needs and can't damage the machine. she doesn't even need to see the command line. she can do what she wants and doesn't hurt the computer.
i second that one. penguins are bastards. i eat them for dinner.