> Ummm.... what about comics that are published > every day in newspapers and then compiled into a > book? How is this any different from that?
the entire archive of UF is online, whereas with newspapers, you usually have to go searching somewhere for older strips...like a library with a big newspaper archive. and the ones like dilbert that do have webpages only keep like a month of old stuff online.
having the UF website is sorta like having a newspaper that has every old copy of a comic as well as the new one...
but like somebody else said, it'd be nice to have lying around for people to entertain themselves with when waiting for me (well, not too many people do that yet, but still =)... plus, i don't yet have a puter in the bathroom...;)
yeah, i was definitely surprised when red hat announced this whole 6.0 ordeal. it seems like it came out in a bit of a hurry.
i mean, all of a sudden i hear of this 5.9 (which a friend who used it told me was very buggy) and within a short period of time, there's 6.0
but then again, i like debian, where the version number is still in the 2.*'s... or slackware where they're getting close to the 4 mark...
so i guess this whole bigger number is better thing is sort of a farce...
then again, m$ brought out win98 which wasn't much more than an overglorified service pack. of course, i think they had to, since they made the stupid pr move of putting the year in the title of their product, so that windows 95 was just sounding out of date by its name alone...
so of course, if you're running win95 you have to update to win98 cuz it just sounds so much newer...
marketing is nothing short of brainwashing, methinks... cept you have to make it entertaining too...
oops... well, i don't remember reading about the international version of S.u.S.E. 6.1 on/. and therefore it never happened...;)
thanks for that correction... i just thought i noticed a trend and it just seemed sorta odd to me....
and i definitely must agree on the slackware thing.... excellent learning ground. i think i learned more just from dealing with slackware then i did in an entire semester of my Operating Systems class.
but now i use Debian, cuz i'm lazy... don't have time to keep up to date the slackware way...
I find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to come out with a new version very shortly after Red Hat comes out with another version... and always with a slightly bigger version number...
oh well, I can't say anything bad about S.u.S.E. because I still have to use a boot disk of theirs to boot my system anytime something goes wrong. No other distribution seems to have figured out my scsi controller (which seems odd, since they (initio) have had a linux driver (with source) on their web page for this card for a year or more)
Also, their boot disk has also been kind enough to allow me to run the installers of other distros... like slackware and debian, my distros of choice.
so i guess my point is S.u.S.E. seems to have better hardware support than others... maybe if i have a spare puter lying around someday i'll give S.u.S.E. more of a try. (i don't think using their boot disk to boot another distros installer counts as using their distro... =)
Yes, donating code, bug reports, and documentation would be ideal. But there are people who use free software who don't have the time or knowledge to contribute in these ways, yet still appreciate the time and effort that goes into making free software and wish to contribute.
Many Free Software projects run webservers, which cost money as far as: registering the domain name, getting the hardware for the server to run on, and getting the server a connection to the net. At least two of those are not one-time costs.
But wayne does make some excellent points as far as how to go about donating money. I would definitely recommend checking with the person/project you wish to send money before you actually do.
ok, time to argue semantics... heheheh, weeks after the article got posted...
you are mixing the concepts user-friendly and easy to use. User-friendly i think defines anything that makes the computing experience nice for the user. Sure, it might be easier to figure out how to find a file in a long nested subfolder, and drag it to another deeply nested subfolder... but i don't see how this is friendly to the user when they can just type a simple command...
hmm, i looked into Arla back around when it was at 0.10 or so (don't remember exactly) and it looked like too much effort to be worthwhile, but it seems the time has come again to look into this.
well, actually, the Linux AFS client that's been distributed in binary form hasn't been a Transarc Linux AFS client. Some guy signed a NDA (hmm... non-disclosure agreement is right word, yet that acronym doesn't seem right...) and developed the Linux AFS client on his own. It has supported the latest 2.0 kernels for a while... it had an annoying caching bug that kicked in after longish periods of uptime, but worked well otherwise... course only for x86.
Now Transarc has decided to take over this development on their own, and just finally released their first AFS client for Linux. Course, me being without money, I've not had a chance to use it yet... but i'd imagine it works... course, my university has been having a lot of trouble with transarc lately...
oh, and i've played with Arla. that was a while back tho.. it might be time now to look into it again...
Linux NFS is just not in good shape, IMHO. I would recommend against using it in any critical situation... but then again, I'd recommend against using NFS in general... =)
Since I don't yet have access to Transarcs AFS client for Linux 2.2, I am using NFS to mount AFS off another machine that is capable of AFS. Working out authentication was a pain (luckily somebody did most the work for me) and it still isn't trustworthy. I login remotely to machines that are really on AFS if I have to do anything more than just a quick edit...
but among the odd things i've noticed: files I don't have permission to just don't show up. This is really annoyingish, when say, I accidently open a file with a stupid mode and it suddenly disapears (spent a good while debugging programs tonight before i thought to log into a remote machine and voila... there was my file, mode 000) I don't know for sure, though, if this is Linux's fault or NFS in general...
anyway, to sum up, I'd say stick with something else for NFS for now (I like Slowlaris... it was my first UNIX)... Linux still has a ways to go, methinks...
> The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to > feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to > "patch -p1 -d/usr/src/linux"...
that would imply a rather large amount of trust, tho... course most people prolly a lot of people just patch everything blind any without making sure it is trustworthy or at least comparing pgp signatures or checksums...
but if you want to go all the way, you'll need to have that procmail rule also call a script that recompiles the kernel, and upon success of that copies it to the proper place, runs lilo, and reboots the machine.
quite a nice maintenance free approach to sys-admining... quite a nice maintenance free approach to security breaches too, imho... but i'm paranoid... =)
They claim that these mice will work on any surface, not just the weird silvery optical mice pad the old optical mice required... plus they look sorta neat and have extra buttons... and extra buttonses is good.
I dunno, i hate m$ as a software company, but i have to admit the hardware of theirs that i have used is decent...
course, i'm a cheap bastard and am happy enough with my current mouse that i wouldn't actually buy one of them thingums...
> The fact is that QuickTime has > succeeded, and I really doubt that support for > additional platforms would help it in any way > whatsoever at this point.
um... if quicktime has succeeded, then why is the article about how Apple is opening the source in order to beat other formats?
Certainly, quicktime has been successful. But I would think that if Apple wants to beat the competing formats out there, releasing the specs on the format itself would be a good first start in gaining more support...
Will they finally open up their codecs that their keeping secret to the public or at least to the xanim guy?
I think I recall there being some story about apple not giving the xanim guy permission to get their latest cool quicktime 3 codec. And of course the latest star wars trailer was in that format.
If they want the format to succeed, they should at least try to make it playable on more architectures...
ok, but for an undiscovered asteroid to hit us any given day (say tomorrow) it would mean that asteroid is really fast, or a whole bunch of scientist people are being paid a lot of money to look into space and miss the obvious (like a big asteroid)
hmmm... then again, i know more of coding than i do of astronomy, so i'll be quiet now...
and besides... once you even figure out the basics of a CLI, it is sooo much more efficient. I hate using GUIs when i have to do stuff that takes a second in a shell....
like
mv/some/ridiculously/long/path/to/my/file/the/other/really/long/path/where/i/now/want/my/fi le
in macos or windoze (if you don't know dos) you have to go open up windows till you get to the original location of the file, then close all those or minimize them or something, and drag the file through nested layers of windows to the new place you want your file.
why do people consider this more userfriendly? it is so damn inefficient.
rather off-topic-esque... i think the shift-page-up/shift-page-down is the right way to go, since plenty of apps, as you say, have page up/page down as valid keys...
my problem: for some reason xterms under solaris don't behave like this... they scroll up/down on page up/page down, without the shift requirement. this annoys me, since now my page up/page down doesn't get sent to the app running in the terminal. grrr...
i've read the xterm man-pages, and perhaps i'm blind, but i can't seem to find any info on this anywhere...
how do i make xterm pass the page up/page down to the program running in terminal and use shift-page-up/shift-page-down to scroll instead... anyone have any ideas?
where is the interesting essay?
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the server linked to afraid of the/. effect or something? I found only a 404... *sniff* that means less procrastinating for me...
well, a change was made a while back so that the lowest score possible was a -1. sometime before this i set my lowest comment thingy to be -10... after today's changes, i found this had set itself to 0. censorship conspiracy? prolly not... but kinda annoying since i almost missed the "me first" post on this thread...
also, i saw a post earlier today with a score of -4
a feature i'd like to see on/. btw would be configurable colors for bg, text, links and the (currently) green bars... i'm a big fan of black backgrounds... much easier on my poor eyes...
I filled out a survey for the penpals section. Mainly cuz the signal to noise ratio of my inbox is too low. I enjoy corresponding with friends, especially geek friends... I just don't have too many geek friends. (Notre Dame isn't known for its geek subculture) So I've made some neat friendships with other geeks over the 'net. Some guys, some girls, it's all ascii text, i don't care how many chromosones of what variety they have. And reading my email in the morning is much more fun if some of it is actually for me. I've too many mailing lists to monitor... 'real' conversation makes me happy.
what also makes me happy is conversation with people who can tell me how to install linux on old ibm ppc machines... =)
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yeah, but i doubt that the backend is running NT...
> Ummm.... what about comics that are published
... plus, i don't yet have a puter in the bathroom... ;)
> every day in newspapers and then compiled into a
> book? How is this any different from that?
the entire archive of UF is online, whereas with newspapers, you usually have to go searching somewhere for older strips...like a library with a big newspaper archive. and the ones like dilbert that do have webpages only keep like a month of old stuff online.
having the UF website is sorta like having a newspaper that has every old copy of a comic as well as the new one...
but like somebody else said, it'd be nice to have lying around for people to entertain themselves with when waiting for me (well, not too many people do that yet, but still =)
yeah, i was definitely surprised when red hat announced this whole 6.0 ordeal. it seems like it came out in a bit of a hurry.
i mean, all of a sudden i hear of this 5.9 (which a friend who used it told me was very buggy) and within a short period of time, there's 6.0
but then again, i like debian, where the version number is still in the 2.*'s... or slackware where they're getting close to the 4 mark...
so i guess this whole bigger number is better thing is sort of a farce...
then again, m$ brought out win98 which wasn't much more than an overglorified service pack. of course, i think they had to, since they made the stupid pr move of putting the year in the title of their product, so that windows 95 was just sounding out of date by its name alone...
so of course, if you're running win95 you have to update to win98 cuz it just sounds so much newer...
marketing is nothing short of brainwashing, methinks... cept you have to make it entertaining too...
oops... well, i don't remember reading about the international version of S.u.S.E. 6.1 on /. and therefore it never happened... ;)
thanks for that correction... i just thought i noticed a trend and it just seemed sorta odd to me....
and i definitely must agree on the slackware thing.... excellent learning ground. i think i learned more just from dealing with slackware then i did in an entire semester of my Operating Systems class.
but now i use Debian, cuz i'm lazy... don't have time to keep up to date the slackware way...
I find it amusing that S.u.S.E. always seems to come out with a new version very shortly after Red Hat comes out with another version... and always with a slightly bigger version number...
oh well, I can't say anything bad about S.u.S.E. because I still have to use a boot disk of theirs to boot my system anytime something goes wrong. No other distribution seems to have figured out my scsi controller (which seems odd, since they (initio) have had a linux driver (with source) on their web page for this card for a year or more)
Also, their boot disk has also been kind enough to allow me to run the installers of other distros... like slackware and debian, my distros of choice.
so i guess my point is S.u.S.E. seems to have better hardware support than others... maybe if i have a spare puter lying around someday i'll give S.u.S.E. more of a try. (i don't think using their boot disk to boot another distros installer counts as using their distro... =)
Yes, donating code, bug reports, and documentation would be ideal. But there are people who use free software who don't have the time or knowledge to contribute in these ways, yet still appreciate the time and effort that goes into making free software and wish to contribute.
Many Free Software projects run webservers, which cost money as far as: registering the domain name, getting the hardware for the server to run on, and getting the server a connection to the net. At least two of those are not one-time costs.
But wayne does make some excellent points as far as how to go about donating money. I would definitely recommend checking with the person/project you wish to send money before you actually do.
again?
go irish...
ok, time to argue semantics... heheheh, weeks after the article got posted...
you are mixing the concepts user-friendly and easy to use. User-friendly i think defines anything that makes the computing experience nice for the user. Sure, it might be easier to figure out how to find a file in a long nested subfolder, and drag it to another deeply nested subfolder... but i don't see how this is friendly to the user when they can just type a simple command...
ah well...
hmm, i looked into Arla back around when it was at 0.10 or so (don't remember exactly) and it looked like too much effort to be worthwhile, but it seems the time has come again to look into this.
thanks!
well, actually, the Linux AFS client that's been distributed in binary form hasn't been a Transarc Linux AFS client. Some guy signed a NDA (hmm... non-disclosure agreement is right word, yet that acronym doesn't seem right...) and developed the Linux AFS client on his own. It has supported the latest 2.0 kernels for a while... it had an annoying caching bug that kicked in after longish periods of uptime, but worked well otherwise... course only for x86.
Now Transarc has decided to take over this development on their own, and just finally released their first AFS client for Linux. Course, me being without money, I've not had a chance to use it yet... but i'd imagine it works... course, my university has been having a lot of trouble with transarc lately...
oh, and i've played with Arla. that was a while back tho.. it might be time now to look into it again...
Linux NFS is just not in good shape, IMHO. I would recommend against using it in any critical situation... but then again, I'd recommend against using NFS in general... =)
Since I don't yet have access to Transarcs AFS client for Linux 2.2, I am using NFS to mount AFS off another machine that is capable of AFS. Working out authentication was a pain (luckily somebody did most the work for me) and it still isn't trustworthy. I login remotely to machines that are really on AFS if I have to do anything more than just a quick edit...
but among the odd things i've noticed: files I don't have permission to just don't show up. This is really annoyingish, when say, I accidently open a file with a stupid mode and it suddenly disapears (spent a good while debugging programs tonight before i thought to log into a remote machine and voila... there was my file, mode 000) I don't know for sure, though, if this is Linux's fault or NFS in general...
anyway, to sum up, I'd say stick with something else for NFS for now (I like Slowlaris... it was my first UNIX)... Linux still has a ways to go, methinks...
> The truly wicked could setup a procmail rule to /usr/src/linux" ...
> feed mail from linux-kernel-patch directly to
> "patch -p1 -d
that would imply a rather large amount of trust, tho... course most people prolly a lot of people just patch everything blind any without making sure it is trustworthy or at least comparing pgp signatures or checksums...
but if you want to go all the way, you'll need to have that procmail rule also call a script that recompiles the kernel, and upon success of that copies it to the proper place, runs lilo, and reboots the machine.
quite a nice maintenance free approach to sys-admining... quite a nice maintenance free approach to security breaches too, imho... but i'm paranoid... =)
ftp.be.kernel.org has it already as well... full tree and patch... but only in bz2
They claim that these mice will work on any surface, not just the weird silvery optical mice pad the old optical mice required... plus they look sorta neat and have extra buttons... and extra buttonses is good.
I dunno, i hate m$ as a software company, but i have to admit the hardware of theirs that i have used is decent...
course, i'm a cheap bastard and am happy enough with my current mouse that i wouldn't actually buy one of them thingums...
> The fact is that QuickTime has
> succeeded, and I really doubt that support for
> additional platforms would help it in any way
> whatsoever at this point.
um... if quicktime has succeeded, then why is the article about how Apple is opening the source in order to beat other formats?
Certainly, quicktime has been successful. But I would think that if Apple wants to beat the competing formats out there, releasing the specs on the format itself would be a good first start in gaining more support...
Will they finally open up their codecs that their keeping secret to the public or at least to the xanim guy?
I think I recall there being some story about apple not giving the xanim guy permission to get their latest cool quicktime 3 codec. And of course the latest star wars trailer was in that format.
If they want the format to succeed, they should at least try to make it playable on more architectures...
hmmm...
ok, but for an undiscovered asteroid to hit us any given day (say tomorrow) it would mean that asteroid is really fast, or a whole bunch of scientist people are being paid a lot of money to look into space and miss the obvious (like a big asteroid)
hmmm... then again, i know more of coding than i do of astronomy, so i'll be quiet now...
and besides... once you even figure out the basics of a CLI, it is sooo much more efficient. I hate using GUIs when i have to do stuff that takes a second in a shell....
/some/ridiculously/long/path/to/my/file /the/other/really/long/path/where/i/now/want/my/fi le
like
mv
in macos or windoze (if you don't know dos) you have to go open up windows till you get to the original location of the file, then close all those or minimize them or something, and drag the file through nested layers of windows to the new place you want your file.
why do people consider this more userfriendly? it is so damn inefficient.
rather off-topic-esque... i think the shift-page-up/shift-page-down is the right way to go, since plenty of apps, as you say, have page up/page down as valid keys...
my problem: for some reason xterms under solaris don't behave like this... they scroll up/down on page up/page down, without the shift requirement. this annoys me, since now my page up/page down doesn't get sent to the app running in the terminal. grrr...
i've read the xterm man-pages, and perhaps i'm blind, but i can't seem to find any info on this anywhere...
how do i make xterm pass the page up/page down to the program running in terminal and use shift-page-up/shift-page-down to scroll instead... anyone have any ideas?
the server linked to afraid of the /. effect or something? I found only a 404... *sniff* that means less procrastinating for me...
well, a change was made a while back so that the lowest score possible was a -1. sometime before this i set my lowest comment thingy to be -10... after today's changes, i found this had set itself to 0. censorship conspiracy? prolly not... but kinda annoying since i almost missed the "me first" post on this thread...
/. btw would be configurable colors for bg, text, links and the (currently) green bars... i'm a big fan of black backgrounds... much easier on my poor eyes...
also, i saw a post earlier today with a score of -4
a feature i'd like to see on
isn't the "bottom part" of the OS just a mach kernel? if so, this could probably make life a bit easier for some of the mklinux guys...
yes it is... chances are tho, that someone will do this at the same time as me. let's see...
CricketGraph rules! Saved me much frustration during many chemistry labs. and even a few physics ones...
I filled out a survey for the penpals section. Mainly cuz the signal to noise ratio of my inbox is too low. I enjoy corresponding with friends, especially geek friends... I just don't have too many geek friends. (Notre Dame isn't known for its geek subculture) So I've made some neat friendships with other geeks over the 'net. Some guys, some girls, it's all ascii text, i don't care how many chromosones of what variety they have. And reading my email in the morning is much more fun if some of it is actually for me. I've too many mailing lists to monitor... 'real' conversation makes me happy.
what also makes me happy is conversation with people who can tell me how to install linux on old ibm ppc machines... =)