If it comes with an install CD with all of the necessary drivers included... awesome!
I think thats anyone really asks for on the server end. I understand why pre-installation is nessecary from major OEM's on desktops but servers are not exactly a "one size fits all" scenario.
All they should be required to do is ship a media kit and any drivers for devices that dont work out of the box.
Jesus is a vast improvement over Yahweh, but thats not exactly saying much.
"For those enemys of mine who wish not that I reign over them, bring hereth and slay them before me" -Luke 19:27 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I come not to send peace, but a sword" -Matthew 10:34
And of course, multiple mentions of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" in Mark, Matthew and Luke, upping people for not stoning disobedient children to death, getting people to abandon their families to follow him and of course the entire Book of Revelation
I'm just glad its all bullshit
On a funny note "Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a same unto him" -1 Corinthians 11:14
Spreading FUD form the outside doesn't work so they try spreading it from the inside like creationists try to destroy science by sounding scientific. It works on those that have less knowlege about the facts.
Its interesting that they employ the same tactics
On a side note... I have a suggestion on the "Bill Borg" pic, replace him with the CATS from All Your Base
I for one think spirituality is not beyond the realms of psycology or neuroscience. I have long held the idea that its always been a product of the imagination. The human brain is very good at that.
The theists seem to always be the ones (in my own experiences) been the ones that do the insisting and the forcing and the "hell threats" and I for one dont sit down and take that, of course I will retaliate. Then they go on bitching about how I have no respect for their religion. Which is true but not something I should be ashamed of
They honestly expect me to say "I resepct your belifs" when they say "I belive you deserve to burn forever"? Please thats as big as a double standard as you get, and they dont even deny it being a double standard. And people wonder why retaliate.
This "god box" just helpes me maintain my position for the next time some theist tries to threaten me with a never ending BBQ
I had to deal with a network wide virus infection because AVG didn't detect the particular virus. Lucky for me I didn't get around to uninstalling Norton on my PC and detected a crapload across the network. Norton maybe a bloated piece of crap but I was thankful that one time having it.
I tested and retested it 5 times because my employers at the time were cheap bastards and didn't want to fork out money. Before leaving I reccomended some products but didn't stick round long enough to buy and implement it. Those bastards were slow and reluctent to fork out money even in emergency situations so I figured fuck em.
Despite I agree with you in principle I have to disagree on the examples you provide.
Man pages are mostly designed for people with competent knowledge, I would never recommend it for any n00b, mind you I would advise that a n00b stay away from the shell.
I agree with when a n00b will ask for help and a lot of forum trolls will answer "RTFM". This has gotten better, especially in the Ubuntu forums but there is without doubt room for improvement.
As far as transparent compatibility goes, the major problem still is Office document compatibility, OOo improves this with every release but the major hurdles are VBA macros and Access database compatibility. These have to improve. I have no issues opening standard.doc.xls.ppt files in OOo.
Windows and Linux must co-exist on the same filesystem? Can somebody explain why this is necessary? By that logic you may as well just use Windows.
The 2 main problems with Linux on mainstream desktop are driver support and multimedia codecs.
Alot of people have been telling me if you were ever going to go back to Red Hat, Fedora 7 is a good time to do so.
I've been sticking with Ubuntu for a long time as its been a great system. It's interesting that alot of the new distro's are really catching up and getting hype. I should really test SUSE 10.3 and Fedora 7 before Ubuntu hits its final version, the beta has a few bugs but overall it runs pretty sweet.
As far as the "buggy" remakrs, I remebmer there was a problem with their update system that was abit of an embarrasment. Mind you I have been let down on quite a few distros that turned out to be buggy, Mandriva and Freespire come to mind.
I've been considering with my next box setting up a distro that doesn't really require frequent system upgrades (maybe Debian) and run my OS's under Xen.
These actions are intended on hurting Mono while pretending they intend on "helping". Whats going to happen is they are going to go through the Mono code and find anyone who agreed to this licencse and see if they contributed to Mono.
Its putting cheese in a mouse trap so they can do a SCO only for Mono, I advise nobody working on Mono go near this code. FOSS means the ability to see, modify and rediribute code,.NET is NOT open source: It is pretending to be open source.
Basically Microsoft is the "Intelligent Design" crowd of the software community, open source systems are growing in popularity and Microsoft knows they cannot destroy it from the outside (look at SCO) so they attempt to destroy it from within by pretending to be open like the "Intelligent Design" pretend to be scientific.
So Microsoft are attempting to skew the view of what open source is so they can attack it like the ID crowd attempts to confuse of what abiogenesis and evolution actually are so they can attack their little strawmen
How can you miss this? It's as clear as day! If you are working on the Mono project, stay away from the bait!
The Qu'ran, far from being "the unaltered word of God", is actually an horrific and savage compilation of distilled hatred. Work on collecting the verses wasn't even begun until long after Mohammed was dead, and it was pieced together from people who claimed to have known him or known people who knew him. Thus it's put together out of chronological order (already one alteration) and to try to claim "Mohammed" wrote it is laughable.
Your point being? They were smart in the fact that anything that contained contradictions were burnt, one thing that the boys who compiled the bible were not so smart in doing as they never expected people to look at it criticly (there a handful in the Qu'ran but not many, making a Muslim apologist's job alot easier than a Christian one)
The same is true for the other Muslim "holy books", the various collections of hadith (sayings of the so-called "prophet") that various factions believe are more or less authentic (the Sunni and Shi'a have their own favored set each, same for other sects).
Anyone who claims to be a ]prophet is full of shit (including Paul of Tarsus) you should know better. Hadith makes the religion funny if you look hard enough. The sects mostly revolve around who should have aquired Mohammed's mantle. Then there are those who belive only Qu'ran has authority and those that belive both Qu'ran and Hadith have authority (in both Sunni and Shi'a sects)
Islam is not simply a religion; it is a design guidebook for the creation of a totalitarian state in which the "supreme leader" (Caliph) and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to everyone else. And it's a lot easier to keep your population under control if they're too stupid to know better and terrified that a revolt might stop them from reaching "heaven."
Explain to me how that is any different from Christianity? It is a religion, thats the entire point of religion. The churches have lost their power in the west but in the old days they were very much based on totalitarian principles. The west went backwards because of Christianity which is a shame because of how far the Greeks advanced before the time of the alleged Jesus of Nazarath. When you troll Islam at least get it right, he married Aisha at 6 and f**ked her at 9. So he's still a kid f**ker but I just wanted to fix that one.
Muslims like to try to rewrite history to hide embarassing details - such as the nature of the Ka'aba, their "holy box", which predates Mohammed. Mohammed's grandfather was a pagan priest of a specific deity of the Quraish tribe. He named his son (Mohammed's dad) "Abd'allah", literally "Slave of Allah."
How is that any different than most religions? Not a single trace of Moses and his tribes "exile from egypt" Not a single contemparanious account of the alleged Jesus of Nazarath where they rewrite history to say Augustus and Herod ruled at the same time (read the first few verses Matthew and Luke chapters 2) 6CE and 4BC are a decade apart last time I checked. And thats just one simple example.
This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
It wasn't cooked up, he stole it from the monothesitic Yahweh (YHWH). Haven't you read the Qu'ran? Simple plagerism
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for?
Yahweh the jewish war god, one of the "Sons of El" or "Elohim" who the jews turned made interchangable with El and adapted it to a monotheistic ideology. Judaism and as a result Christianity and Islam did start as pagan mythology.
Islam is a joke. The more educated Muslims you get, the more educated ex-Muslims you'll have as they wake up to the utter absurdity of this bullshit. That's why Muslim leaders hate education so much.
How does that differ from other religions? We have seen it first hand with Christianity
Hell, that's why the Muslim religion has a standing death threat for converting away.
Where do you think they got that idea? Its in the bible
If you are going to single out Islam, make sure its what makes it especially more repulsive than other religions, not pointing out the same flaws the others have.
1) Look at the price
2) Look at the price
3) DVD's are much cheaper
4) DVD's look good enough
5) Nobody who doesnt have a DVD player will be interested in Blu Ray
6) Look at the numbers of HD penetration
7) Look at the price
8) Wii appeals to the family audience much better
9) Their marketing guys have been on a slump since E306
10) Look at the price
Agreed, Linus may be a complete asshole but at least he doesn't wank around. Problem with assholes is more often than not they are right, and this is a case where Linus is right. He may not be the nicest of guys but he gets the job done.
LSM is good because it gives you the options of choosing between the likes the different models out there. I personally think its a good idea, that way the likes of the NSA can keep their SELinux and I wont have to touch it.
Basically they want SELinux as THE security framework for Linux as a whole, which alot of people just dont like. They are doing the same old "my product is the best" crap and its good that the kernel developers wont put up with it. Especially as AppArmor is a better product for SMB's and home servers
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If it comes with an install CD with all of the necessary drivers included ... awesome!
I think thats anyone really asks for on the server end. I understand why pre-installation is nessecary from major OEM's on desktops but servers are not exactly a "one size fits all" scenario.
All they should be required to do is ship a media kit and any drivers for devices that dont work out of the box.
Q: What do you tell a woman who has 2 black eyes?
A: Nothing you already told the bitch twice
I second that. Poor sales will proberbly give them the hint thats not what we want in a distro
Good news is that Ubuntu is out next week
Jesus is a vast improvement over Yahweh, but thats not exactly saying much.
"For those enemys of mine who wish not that I reign over them, bring hereth and slay them before me" -Luke 19:27
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I come not to send peace, but a sword" -Matthew 10:34
And of course, multiple mentions of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" in Mark, Matthew and Luke, upping people for not stoning disobedient children to death, getting people to abandon their families to follow him and of course the entire Book of Revelation
I'm just glad its all bullshit
On a funny note "Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a same unto him" -1 Corinthians 11:14
It's like the creationists.
Spreading FUD form the outside doesn't work so they try spreading it from the inside like creationists try to destroy science by sounding scientific. It works on those that have less knowlege about the facts.
Its interesting that they employ the same tactics
On a side note... I have a suggestion on the "Bill Borg" pic, replace him with the CATS from All Your Base
I for one think spirituality is not beyond the realms of psycology or neuroscience. I have long held the idea that its always been a product of the imagination. The human brain is very good at that.
The theists seem to always be the ones (in my own experiences) been the ones that do the insisting and the forcing and the "hell threats" and I for one dont sit down and take that, of course I will retaliate. Then they go on bitching about how I have no respect for their religion. Which is true but not something I should be ashamed of
They honestly expect me to say "I resepct your belifs" when they say "I belive you deserve to burn forever"? Please thats as big as a double standard as you get, and they dont even deny it being a double standard. And people wonder why retaliate.
This "god box" just helpes me maintain my position for the next time some theist tries to threaten me with a never ending BBQ
Maybe the "born agains" will shut up now we can re-create these experiences.
I had to deal with a network wide virus infection because AVG didn't detect the particular virus. Lucky for me I didn't get around to uninstalling Norton on my PC and detected a crapload across the network. Norton maybe a bloated piece of crap but I was thankful that one time having it.
I tested and retested it 5 times because my employers at the time were cheap bastards and didn't want to fork out money. Before leaving I reccomended some products but didn't stick round long enough to buy and implement it. Those bastards were slow and reluctent to fork out money even in emergency situations so I figured fuck em.
Despite I agree with you in principle I have to disagree on the examples you provide.
.doc .xls .ppt files in OOo.
Man pages are mostly designed for people with competent knowledge, I would never recommend it for any n00b, mind you I would advise that a n00b stay away from the shell.
I agree with when a n00b will ask for help and a lot of forum trolls will answer "RTFM". This has gotten better, especially in the Ubuntu forums but there is without doubt room for improvement.
As far as transparent compatibility goes, the major problem still is Office document compatibility, OOo improves this with every release but the major hurdles are VBA macros and Access database compatibility. These have to improve. I have no issues opening standard
Windows and Linux must co-exist on the same filesystem? Can somebody explain why this is necessary? By that logic you may as well just use Windows.
The 2 main problems with Linux on mainstream desktop are driver support and multimedia codecs.
Hey Kids! uncle George W says: Don't steel music of the internets!
Wrong one, we are talking 2 1/2 mile deep not 2 1/2 wide
Who said anything about joking?
Could be worse: at least its not as bad the mentality of US voters
I bet they used the Chewbacca defense didn't they
Alot of people have been telling me if you were ever going to go back to Red Hat, Fedora 7 is a good time to do so.
I've been sticking with Ubuntu for a long time as its been a great system. It's interesting that alot of the new distro's are really catching up and getting hype. I should really test SUSE 10.3 and Fedora 7 before Ubuntu hits its final version, the beta has a few bugs but overall it runs pretty sweet.
As far as the "buggy" remakrs, I remebmer there was a problem with their update system that was abit of an embarrasment. Mind you I have been let down on quite a few distros that turned out to be buggy, Mandriva and Freespire come to mind.
I've been considering with my next box setting up a distro that doesn't really require frequent system upgrades (maybe Debian) and run my OS's under Xen.
These actions are intended on hurting Mono while pretending they intend on "helping". Whats going to happen is they are going to go through the Mono code and find anyone who agreed to this licencse and see if they contributed to Mono.
.NET is NOT open source: It is pretending to be open source.
Its putting cheese in a mouse trap so they can do a SCO only for Mono, I advise nobody working on Mono go near this code. FOSS means the ability to see, modify and rediribute code,
Basically Microsoft is the "Intelligent Design" crowd of the software community, open source systems are growing in popularity and Microsoft knows they cannot destroy it from the outside (look at SCO) so they attempt to destroy it from within by pretending to be open like the "Intelligent Design" pretend to be scientific.
So Microsoft are attempting to skew the view of what open source is so they can attack it like the ID crowd attempts to confuse of what abiogenesis and evolution actually are so they can attack their little strawmen
How can you miss this? It's as clear as day! If you are working on the Mono project, stay away from the bait!
Read the title of my fucking post. "If you are going to troll Islam, do it right". Point out stuff that makes Islam worse... ITS NOT FUCKING HARD
The M5 in Sydney on a Friday night ;)
No joke, theres this American muslim who does alot of traveling, who talks about "blowing up" and trying to discredit big bang theory by saying
Hello, were muslims... WERE the experts on blowing up
No joke he seriously says that
The "Shelly the Republican" links should be a giveaway that the parent post is a parody
The Qu'ran, far from being "the unaltered word of God", is actually an horrific and savage compilation of distilled hatred. Work on collecting the verses wasn't even begun until long after Mohammed was dead, and it was pieced together from people who claimed to have known him or known people who knew him. Thus it's put together out of chronological order (already one alteration) and to try to claim "Mohammed" wrote it is laughable.
Your point being? They were smart in the fact that anything that contained contradictions were burnt, one thing that the boys who compiled the bible were not so smart in doing as they never expected people to look at it criticly (there a handful in the Qu'ran but not many, making a Muslim apologist's job alot easier than a Christian one)
The same is true for the other Muslim "holy books", the various collections of hadith (sayings of the so-called "prophet") that various factions believe are more or less authentic (the Sunni and Shi'a have their own favored set each, same for other sects).
Anyone who claims to be a ]prophet is full of shit (including Paul of Tarsus) you should know better. Hadith makes the religion funny if you look hard enough. The sects mostly revolve around who should have aquired Mohammed's mantle. Then there are those who belive only Qu'ran has authority and those that belive both Qu'ran and Hadith have authority (in both Sunni and Shi'a sects)
Islam is not simply a religion; it is a design guidebook for the creation of a totalitarian state in which the "supreme leader" (Caliph) and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to everyone else. And it's a lot easier to keep your population under control if they're too stupid to know better and terrified that a revolt might stop them from reaching "heaven."
Explain to me how that is any different from Christianity? It is a religion, thats the entire point of religion. The churches have lost their power in the west but in the old days they were very much based on totalitarian principles. The west went backwards because of Christianity which is a shame because of how far the Greeks advanced before the time of the alleged Jesus of Nazarath. When you troll Islam at least get it right, he married Aisha at 6 and f**ked her at 9. So he's still a kid f**ker but I just wanted to fix that one.
Muslims like to try to rewrite history to hide embarassing details - such as the nature of the Ka'aba, their "holy box", which predates Mohammed. Mohammed's grandfather was a pagan priest of a specific deity of the Quraish tribe. He named his son (Mohammed's dad) "Abd'allah", literally "Slave of Allah."
How is that any different than most religions? Not a single trace of Moses and his tribes "exile from egypt" Not a single contemparanious account of the alleged Jesus of Nazarath where they rewrite history to say Augustus and Herod ruled at the same time (read the first few verses Matthew and Luke chapters 2) 6CE and 4BC are a decade apart last time I checked. And thats just one simple example.
This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
It wasn't cooked up, he stole it from the monothesitic Yahweh (YHWH). Haven't you read the Qu'ran? Simple plagerism
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for? Yahweh the jewish war god, one of the "Sons of El" or "Elohim" who the jews turned made interchangable with El and adapted it to a monotheistic ideology. Judaism and as a result Christianity and Islam did start as pagan mythology.
Islam is a joke. The more educated Muslims you get, the more educated ex-Muslims you'll have as they wake up to the utter absurdity of this bullshit. That's why Muslim leaders hate education so much.
How does that differ from other religions? We have seen it first hand with Christianity
Hell, that's why the Muslim religion has a standing death threat for converting away.
Where do you think they got that idea? Its in the bible
If you are going to single out Islam, make sure its what makes it especially more repulsive than other religions, not pointing out the same flaws the others have.
In the name of the father (Linus) and of the son (Tux) and of the holy Gecko I smite this AC to an eternity of using Windows Vista
1) Look at the price
2) Look at the price
3) DVD's are much cheaper
4) DVD's look good enough
5) Nobody who doesnt have a DVD player will be interested in Blu Ray
6) Look at the numbers of HD penetration
7) Look at the price
8) Wii appeals to the family audience much better
9) Their marketing guys have been on a slump since E306
10) Look at the price
Google Translator is your friend
Agreed, Linus may be a complete asshole but at least he doesn't wank around. Problem with assholes is more often than not they are right, and this is a case where Linus is right. He may not be the nicest of guys but he gets the job done.
LSM is good because it gives you the options of choosing between the likes the different models out there. I personally think its a good idea, that way the likes of the NSA can keep their SELinux and I wont have to touch it.
Basically they want SELinux as THE security framework for Linux as a whole, which alot of people just dont like. They are doing the same old "my product is the best" crap and its good that the kernel developers wont put up with it. Especially as AppArmor is a better product for SMB's and home servers