I was amazed when I first installed it, I discovered a menu option on the installation program to open a terminal window with a shell. From that, I could run the programs that was just finished being installed, while the installation of the system continued in the background. I played some games during the rest of the installation, and it ran smoothly. Impressive, considering it was early 90's, on a 386 with 16MB RAM.
OS/2 was the first real operating system I ran, and was pretty amazed by it, falling in love at the first run.
For some years (from 2.0 to "War" 4.x) I used it at my primary OS (ie, a Windows partition for the occasional gaming), and it was sad when it died. The possibility of coming back to Windows was glooming.
But Linux came to the rescue. It was just as good, minus the Presentation Manager (OS/2 neat object-oriented desktop). Although I did not realized at first how important it was, being Free sounded interesting.
What if your ISP just starts to monitor all your traffic by IP? Do you have any reasonable expectation of privacy on the internet?
1)ISP gives you a static IP
2)Monitor all traffic to/from said IP address
3)Sell for profit
That would be OK with you?
Yes, it would.
Or better: yes, it is.
What if they also decided to block any and all encrypted traffic?
No, that's not OK, but at least I would know about it.
The solution is a campaign to educate the general public that "Everything you do online can be monitored, copied, shared. And that includes all date you enter, all sites you visit, all clicks you make, etc."
I used to use the Read Easily Firefox extension, that adds a toolbar button and a hotkey (Ctrl-Z) to toggle styles on and off. Perfect for tiny fonts, bad colors, etc.
Now, Vimperator rendered many smaller extensions obsolete, I mapped the \ key to do it, with:map \:invnum<CR>
For a logo that represents a product (even an Free one), you may be right. People do have to think that they will have if for their lives, and that's something. You can't do it for impulse, it has to be a matured decision.
That's why I got a GNU tattoo. It's not about the GNU system, but about the whole Free Software movement. It won't die. Even if 30 years from now I'm completely away from the scene, or it's still an important part of my life, and it represents important ideals for me.
I'm also considering a Quake III logo. Yes, it's dated. I hardly play it anymore. But it represents something for me. Memories, friends, a great period of my life, etc.
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you can't get cleaner than that!
They missed this one:
"Too many pages on the article."
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
"billions of lines of new Cobol code are being written every year"
that accounts two hello worlds, and one program that shows the first 1000 fibonacci numbers.
Mozilla (Firefox), XFree86 (X.org) and StarOffice (OpenOffice.org), to name a few, had huge code base too, and were successfully forked.
Me too.
I was amazed when I first installed it, I discovered a menu option on the installation program to open a terminal window with a shell. From that, I could run the programs that was just finished being installed, while the installation of the system continued in the background. I played some games during the rest of the installation, and it ran smoothly. Impressive, considering it was early 90's, on a 386 with 16MB RAM.
Ahh.. the memories.
Or just run the legacy OS/2 software on a VM instead?
I, for one, am a fanboy that doesn't care.
OS/2 was the first real operating system I ran, and was pretty amazed by it, falling in love at the first run.
For some years (from 2.0 to "War" 4.x) I used it at my primary OS (ie, a Windows partition for the occasional gaming), and it was sad when it died. The possibility of coming back to Windows was glooming.
But Linux came to the rescue. It was just as good, minus the Presentation Manager (OS/2 neat object-oriented desktop). Although I did not realized at first how important it was, being Free sounded interesting.
Also, it's true for all software projects, not just operating systems.
An appropriate comment, considering your nickname.
so you would be both?
Another possible weak point:
Any developmental milestones which have been assigned but are not complete by the deadline will result in further horsewhipping.
What if he starts to like the whipping?
Flawed solution:
the next person to make a 'killer filesystem' or similar joke will be horsewhipped ..
What about the many others that will continue to make the joke after him?
Great! I'll switch to it as soon as Vimperator is ported.
100% jpeg is not worth it.
98% gives the same result, and half the size.
I mean, as you increase the quality factor, the size grows more and more, and the quality drops less and less.
A-fucking-MEN!
mod this up ^^^^
What if your ISP just starts to monitor all your traffic by IP? Do you have any reasonable expectation of privacy on the internet?
1)ISP gives you a static IP
2)Monitor all traffic to/from said IP address
3)Sell for profit
That would be OK with you?
Yes, it would.
Or better: yes, it is.
What if they also decided to block any and all encrypted traffic?
No, that's not OK, but at least I would know about it.
Right. This law is enforceable and useless.
The solution is a campaign to educate the general public that "Everything you do online can be monitored, copied, shared. And that includes all date you enter, all sites you visit, all clicks you make, etc."
I used to use the Read Easily Firefox extension, that adds a toolbar button and a hotkey (Ctrl-Z) to toggle styles on and off. Perfect for tiny fonts, bad colors, etc.
Now, Vimperator rendered many smaller extensions obsolete, I mapped the \ key to do it, with :map \ :invnum<CR>
Well, he did hot a reply, didn't he?
The best you can do it to just ignore him.
It's "nucular", NU-CU-LAR.
Haven't Bush and Homer thought you nothing?
I don't know why this is downmodded.
The thing has nothing to do with "human memory". What it does is to backup gadgets' memory.
That's a great economic idea!
No, it's not.
Without poor people, there will be no riches, as they depend on exploiting the poor.
Oh wait, maybe it is a good idea after all..
For a logo that represents a product (even an Free one), you may be right. People do have to think that they will have if for their lives, and that's something. You can't do it for impulse, it has to be a matured decision.
That's why I got a GNU tattoo. It's not about the GNU system, but about the whole Free Software movement. It won't die. Even if 30 years from now I'm completely away from the scene, or it's still an important part of my life, and it represents important ideals for me.
I'm also considering a Quake III logo. Yes, it's dated. I hardly play it anymore. But it represents something for me. Memories, friends, a great period of my life, etc.
Why would another big company be better than Google?
It's like changing from six to half-a-dozen.