I insist on only genuine, all-natural, organic, peer-reviewed research! Preferably it should also synergize multiple externalities whilst being fully recyclable and good for the environment.
But OTOH "Stephen Conroy" is unlikely to be a unique name. And besides, as a public figure he's a fair target for satire. Then again, I'm not Australian and for all I know their laws could be quite different about that sort of thing.
Sounds terribly draconian though. 3 hours to respond? Come on...
Am I alone in thinking that whoever Bennett is, I have no interest in his vague ramblings?
Certainly you are not alone. AFAICT he's a self-appointed pundit who's in love with his own rather murky ideas. No doubt it's all about the ad sense dollars.
Because it means I have to support windows, and it means that those of us who live far from Silicone Valley will probably always have day jobs forcing us to support windows. Of course OTOH, so long as windows is the de facto standard OS it also means there's a lot more work, so it does have it's plus and minus sides.:P
I wouldn't be so fast to cry "elitism". Those of us who already know our way around *nix and have tried Ubuntu (or openSuse, PCBSD, etc) have been struck by how crappy our fave OS is once it gets dumbed down with automatic everything. Perhaps it's unavoidable. I'd rather see my non-geek associates using dumbed-down, buggy ubuntu than windows, but let's face it -- those of us who use and love Debian, FreeBSD, etc just can't help but feel disappointed by the fact that we can't share our experience of vastly superior performance via these distros aimed at non-geeks. And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
You must not be using it for anything but web browsing and email. I regularly test new versions of ubuntu, kubuntu, and xubuntu for some users I have to support. Kubuntu is still utter krap! I found it to be literally unusable on my test machine (Dell inspiron e1505 laptop).
No, BSD doesn't grant openness forever, as it lets people close it.
This misconception gets repeated a lot, but there's no truth to it whatsoever. BSD-licensed software can be used by anyone for any purpose, but the original code remains free no matter what. There've even been cases of hysterical GNU "developers" thinking they need to re-license BSD-licensed software under the GPL, but it just doesn't work that way.
People might buy more and share less if they knew that more of the money went to the artist.
It works that way for me. For several years now I've been buying music from artists who sell it directly, and using TPB for RIAA music. Though frankly, I seem to require less and less RIAA music as time goes by.
Some of us just find constantly having to adjust the position and size of various app windows to be a tiresome distraction. Ion, xmonad, etc eliminate that factor and let us just focus on getting things done. Though I will admit to the possibility that maybe floating app windows just trigger my neuroses a lot more than nice, orderly tiled ones.:)
The tiling window manager Ion also had tabs since ages
Yes, I used ion3 for years before recently switching to xmonad. There's also dwm, awesome, scrotwm, and several others. A tiling wm is a no-brainer for anyone who wants to maximize productivity and screen real estate. I'm kind of surprised they're not de rigeur for coders and IT people in general. All the auto-everything features in KDE and Gnome are easy enough to script for anyone who wants them, without the DE bloat/sluggishness. Then again, some guy named Linus Torvalds uses a full-bloat DE so I guess one doesn't have to be a n00b to prefer them.
You will notice that the toe jam pickers that claim to have it working will never specify their system and never ever give up an xorg.conf file. They're trolling.
FreeBSD 8.0 (7.2 until just recently) on a Mac Mini 2.0 GHz core2 duo with Intel 945 graphics. No xorg.conf is necessary on this machine -- as on most machines now, it has been rendered obsolete by hald and dbus, in Linux as well as *BSD.
I second xmonad. Don't know about running it within gnome as the parent says though, for me that would defeat the whole point.:)
Xmonad has a small learning curve if you're used to doing everything with the mouse but you can set any keybindings you like, it takes nearly no system resources to run, and handles multiple monitors extremely well.
See, I know now for sure that as a woman in IT I've been hanging around too many men for too long, because the first thing I thought about when I read "3D organ printer" was -- well, you know.
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I was referring to sopssa's post, which alluded to turning in innocent people.
The spirit of McCarthyism lives on.
Works fine for me too, in linux-opera on FreeBSD.
Yes, or HFS+ will work too if you use HFSExplorer for windows, as Linux has very good support for HFS+.
I think we should use anti-animal rights, right-wing wackos as our test subjects. They're just vermin anyway, and we have far too many of them.
I insist on only genuine, all-natural, organic, peer-reviewed research! Preferably it should also synergize multiple externalities whilst being fully recyclable and good for the environment.
But OTOH "Stephen Conroy" is unlikely to be a unique name. And besides, as a public figure he's a fair target for satire. Then again, I'm not Australian and for all I know their laws could be quite different about that sort of thing. Sounds terribly draconian though. 3 hours to respond? Come on...
Certainly you are not alone. AFAICT he's a self-appointed pundit who's in love with his own rather murky ideas. No doubt it's all about the ad sense dollars.
Because it means I have to support windows, and it means that those of us who live far from Silicone Valley will probably always have day jobs forcing us to support windows. Of course OTOH, so long as windows is the de facto standard OS it also means there's a lot more work, so it does have it's plus and minus sides. :P
I wouldn't be so fast to cry "elitism". Those of us who already know our way around *nix and have tried Ubuntu (or openSuse, PCBSD, etc) have been struck by how crappy our fave OS is once it gets dumbed down with automatic everything. Perhaps it's unavoidable.
I'd rather see my non-geek associates using dumbed-down, buggy ubuntu than windows, but let's face it -- those of us who use and love Debian, FreeBSD, etc just can't help but feel disappointed by the fact that we can't share our experience of vastly superior performance via these distros aimed at non-geeks. And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
I know, I know... "-1, Uncomfortable Truth"
You must not be using it for anything but web browsing and email. I regularly test new versions of ubuntu, kubuntu, and xubuntu for some users I have to support. Kubuntu is still utter krap! I found it to be literally unusable on my test machine (Dell inspiron e1505 laptop).
Mac has Perian which is FOSS, so while it would be a shame to lose VLC on OS X it won't be the end of support for codecs Apple doesn't support.
The voice of experience, I presume? :D
Nope.
Nope. The originally BSD licensed code remains BSD licensed code. This is why BSD licensing is more free than the GPL. The only thing more free is PD.
This misconception gets repeated a lot, but there's no truth to it whatsoever. BSD-licensed software can be used by anyone for any purpose, but the original code remains free no matter what. There've even been cases of hysterical GNU "developers" thinking they need to re-license BSD-licensed software under the GPL, but it just doesn't work that way.
It works that way for me. For several years now I've been buying music from artists who sell it directly, and using TPB for RIAA music. Though frankly, I seem to require less and less RIAA music as time goes by.
Ow, my eye! The doctor told me never to put roof in my eye.
That's one reason I prefer Terminal(also called xfce4-terminal) over the barebones xterm.
Some of us just find constantly having to adjust the position and size of various app windows to be a tiresome distraction. Ion, xmonad, etc eliminate that factor and let us just focus on getting things done. Though I will admit to the possibility that maybe floating app windows just trigger my neuroses a lot more than nice, orderly tiled ones. :)
Yes, I used ion3 for years before recently switching to xmonad. There's also dwm, awesome, scrotwm, and several others. A tiling wm is a no-brainer for anyone who wants to maximize productivity and screen real estate. I'm kind of surprised they're not de rigeur for coders and IT people in general. All the auto-everything features in KDE and Gnome are easy enough to script for anyone who wants them, without the DE bloat/sluggishness. Then again, some guy named Linus Torvalds uses a full-bloat DE so I guess one doesn't have to be a n00b to prefer them.
Oh, forgot to mention this, which makes two displays possible from my intel graphics card, and xrandr.
FreeBSD 8.0 (7.2 until just recently) on a Mac Mini 2.0 GHz core2 duo with Intel 945 graphics. No xorg.conf is necessary on this machine -- as on most machines now, it has been rendered obsolete by hald and dbus, in Linux as well as *BSD.
And you were saying what now?
I second xmonad. Don't know about running it within gnome as the parent says though, for me that would defeat the whole point. :)
Xmonad has a small learning curve if you're used to doing everything with the mouse but you can set any keybindings you like, it takes nearly no system resources to run, and handles multiple monitors extremely well.
See, I know now for sure that as a woman in IT I've been hanging around too many men for too long, because the first thing I thought about when I read "3D organ printer" was -- well, you know.
Probably almost. But will there be generic budget-priced solutions?