I think you'll find 99% of people won't give a crap and there will be a small number who will scream and shout that they can't get Dell with Dyne:Bolic installed.
Given the documentation LFS doesn't make you an uber geek. I'm pretty certain they could train a chimp to follow the instructions. The key is to understand WTF is going on as you are doing it, that's what most in our dear race have problems with. How many times must you teach someone to be able to send E-Mail before they learn to do it.
Now LFS undocumented would be a learning experience:).
A big advantage to business is that Ubuntu makes no differentiation between premium and community products. They can give their workforces copies of exactly the same software without paying any further fees. The same does not happen with SLED and that fact should be a big selling point for Ubuntu in future provided they can prove they have the people in place to handle support.
There is no problem with sharing knowledge in the software market. Reverse engineering works. Patents were not introduced here to enable the spread of knowledge but to provide companies with a source of state protection to account for how easily reverse engineering disposed of trade secrets in the tech industry.
The original basis for patents have gone altogether.
Patents are logically justified on the position that it is impossible to run out of ideas. If there are 'no more new ideas' then patents have destroyed one of their few justifying principles.
Mepis is really just a modified Ubuntu these days so can be updated fine from the Ubuntu repos. In the past you had to pick one of the Debian repos and then you'd get problems with updating.
Exactly, the surge of idiots is proportional to the amount of effort put into idiotproofing. If they dropped idiotproofing for security then the problem disappears since people will be forced to learn to simply do their jobs.
Reality is most users will see 5 minutes activating the administrator account to be less troublesome than constantly fighting the security policy.
The whole system is based on a flawed premise 'Users clever enough to activate administrator priviledges are clever enough to secure their system'. In reality within a week of Vista release somebody will blog 'how to make Vista useful' and all the morons will follow the instructions getting rid of all those painful dialogs. Users are capable of attacking a single facit of the OS, I could teach my brother how to run 'sudo rm -rf/' in 5 seconds and he'd understand it but he wouldn't know the whole system. By the same token Windows users will become good at disabling security.
There have been MEP's that wanted software patents but everytime its come to a vote its always been something like 10:1 against software patents. Maybe they are so strongly against them due to the protestations of the OSS community and others opposed to them but in reality they have never been close to allowing them and get futher away with each attempt by the next corperate whore.
Remember bringing a private bill is not an indication that the majority want it and there has never been a majority in support of this madness. Thats not to say we shouldn't continue to fight the nonsense, MEP's change after all.
They could buy it and just allow people to use it by licensing with a permissive OSS license though. It would also help IBM protect themselves from this sort of thing in future if they actually own the IP. It doesn't necessarily mean that IBM need to claim money over it.
In futher news. They extend their legal bid to cover the HURD and Duke Nukem Forever. "We were the original creators of vapourware and DNF and the HURD are stealling food off our plate. We are taking the defense of our patent on non existent code very seriously and expect anyone who doesn't use DNF and HURD code to pay us licensing fees".
RMS of the FSF replied by claiming that non existent code must be free for all people to not use, modify and redistribute without restriction.
Duke Nukem was unavailable for commentary at the time but inside sources claim he's all out of gum.
Can IBM potentially buy their IP off them in order to give SCO enough cash to pay off what they owe IBM as a result of the court case or is this a bit of an oversimplifaction.
I have to agree, the distraction in the Middle East may yet save Britain from becoming a police state. It's almost as if Israel heard our plees for a distraction and started to make one causing Blair to hold off in the latest round of how much can I set Britain back into the dark ages. Hopefully it will end for Blair to push his nonsense and he will get a crushing defeat in the commons* and get his arse royally handed to him leading he who must steal our money (Gordon Brown) to think very carefully about NL's policy heading into the next election.
*If the Israel/Lebanon thing ends and Blair returns to push ID cards surely opposition from Cameron must end Blairs career. It would cause a mass rebellion on the NL backbenchs who are already against Blair and he's hardly going to get much support from Ming the Mute is he. I think people are tired of the endless 'what if the Tories get back in?' nonsense.
Don't be daft the last country that tried that was invaded by the USA and the UK within a few months of agreeing it. Not that I believe we invaded Iraq because they were selling oil in Euros it just happens to be a happy coincident. To be honest it was probably just the last nail in the coffin when Iraq started to sell through France and Russia though.
You are right though, a few countries switching to Euro standard for oil would cripple America (Iran is talking about doing this currently by the way;) ). Also if China started selling off its dollars it would cause a crash in America that would make the great depression look like a blip.
The newspapers are a reflection of our population at the moment unfortunately. There were a lot of people hurt in the Socialism vs Thatcher conflict and a lot of them are still struggling to find a useful output for their anger and will quite frankly blame anyone for their problems. It's been some time since Thatcher could be a valid excuse so now the problem is the 2% of our countries population that are immigrants (admittedly that figure varies wildly with region but 2% is the national figure).
People need to wake up and smell the coffee in this regard. We live in a country where the state is the solution to everything and thats the problem. We need less government and more from people, not in hours but in risk taking and innovation. People are afraid to do anything that isn't safe and thats why we have problems. The worse part is people tend to drag down those that are willing to take their future into their own hands because quitely they know that they should as well and people doing it makes them look bad. Making money is frowned upon in Britain so nobody who has the noose or will to make any is going to stay here.
The other argument is red tape from the EU when our own government generates plenty of red tape and artifical monopolies. It is currently illegal for anyone who doesn't have the correct qualification to plumb in their own central heating. My father did his own (soldering is piss easy, especially now joining lead and copper pipes is less of an issue) and now thats against the law meaning plumbers can charge what they like. They are also talking about banning non qualified mechanics from repairing cars, I always fix my own car since mechanics is also easy, now thats going to be illegal. I'll have to go to a mechanic and pay their extortionate prices for a likely second rate job changing break pads and risk my life in the hands of people I do not trust (they claimed that 79% of qualified mechanics weren't capable so their solution was to make it so only qualified mechanics could fix cars, confused greatly I think).
So it truely is racism. This in a country which is entirely formed as a mongrel race (bar Celts such as myself of course;) ). Tell me what is your heritage, are you decended from the Celts, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Vikings, French, Normans a mixture of them or something else entirely. Culture is irrelevant since peoples view differ and nobody has the right to impose culture on an entire country. The economy is key and if immigration was hurting the economy then I'd agree with you.
I have no problem with people coming in to work and do the jobs that Brits are either unwilling to do or due to skills gaps are incapable of doing. Certainly we should pay for trademen to come in given the housing gap and the unsustainable amount being borrowed on the housing market.
Go ahead and move to Canada, they currently have a very successful policy of promoting one culture over another and I'm sure you'll enjoy learning French.
The public sector is full of egotistical idiots who'd think using free software is a slight on their existence. Quite frankly the British public sector could do with culling.
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I think you'll find 99% of people won't give a crap and there will be a small number who will scream and shout that they can't get Dell with Dyne:Bolic installed.
Given the documentation LFS doesn't make you an uber geek. I'm pretty certain they could train a chimp to follow the instructions. The key is to understand WTF is going on as you are doing it, that's what most in our dear race have problems with. How many times must you teach someone to be able to send E-Mail before they learn to do it.
:).
Now LFS undocumented would be a learning experience
A big advantage to business is that Ubuntu makes no differentiation between premium and community products. They can give their workforces copies of exactly the same software without paying any further fees. The same does not happen with SLED and that fact should be a big selling point for Ubuntu in future provided they can prove they have the people in place to handle support.
There is no problem with sharing knowledge in the software market. Reverse engineering works. Patents were not introduced here to enable the spread of knowledge but to provide companies with a source of state protection to account for how easily reverse engineering disposed of trade secrets in the tech industry.
The original basis for patents have gone altogether.
The GPL does not make this illegal unless they are redistributing.
Patents are logically justified on the position that it is impossible to run out of ideas. If there are 'no more new ideas' then patents have destroyed one of their few justifying principles.
You realise that you can pin critical applications at a specific version in the package.keywords file.
I've got a gym plan but keep putting it off. I need to end my procrastination to enable me to end my procrastination. Same goes for meditation.
Mepis is really just a modified Ubuntu these days so can be updated fine from the Ubuntu repos. In the past you had to pick one of the Debian repos and then you'd get problems with updating.
Mepis already has APT of course. So Freespire will be level with Mepis then.
No that was a troll. He could have pointed out how brilliant OSX was without
"but you kids go ahead on now, go and play with your toys"
or
"Ho-hum, another "first impressions" post about another scatterbrained Linux distro. Gee how exciting."
Definition of troll.
Exactly, the surge of idiots is proportional to the amount of effort put into idiotproofing. If they dropped idiotproofing for security then the problem disappears since people will be forced to learn to simply do their jobs.
Reality is most users will see 5 minutes activating the administrator account to be less troublesome than constantly fighting the security policy.
/' in 5 seconds and he'd understand it but he wouldn't know the whole system. By the same token Windows users will become good at disabling security.
The whole system is based on a flawed premise 'Users clever enough to activate administrator priviledges are clever enough to secure their system'. In reality within a week of Vista release somebody will blog 'how to make Vista useful' and all the morons will follow the instructions getting rid of all those painful dialogs. Users are capable of attacking a single facit of the OS, I could teach my brother how to run 'sudo rm -rf
You don't even have to use safe mode. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the login screen and you can login as admin there.
This is the problem though. Most Windows users are unwilling to accept that their ease of use is getting in the way of security.
There have been MEP's that wanted software patents but everytime its come to a vote its always been something like 10:1 against software patents. Maybe they are so strongly against them due to the protestations of the OSS community and others opposed to them but in reality they have never been close to allowing them and get futher away with each attempt by the next corperate whore.
Remember bringing a private bill is not an indication that the majority want it and there has never been a majority in support of this madness. Thats not to say we shouldn't continue to fight the nonsense, MEP's change after all.
They could buy it and just allow people to use it by licensing with a permissive OSS license though. It would also help IBM protect themselves from this sort of thing in future if they actually own the IP. It doesn't necessarily mean that IBM need to claim money over it.
In futher news. They extend their legal bid to cover the HURD and Duke Nukem Forever. "We were the original creators of vapourware and DNF and the HURD are stealling food off our plate. We are taking the defense of our patent on non existent code very seriously and expect anyone who doesn't use DNF and HURD code to pay us licensing fees".
RMS of the FSF replied by claiming that non existent code must be free for all people to not use, modify and redistribute without restriction.
Duke Nukem was unavailable for commentary at the time but inside sources claim he's all out of gum.
Can IBM potentially buy their IP off them in order to give SCO enough cash to pay off what they owe IBM as a result of the court case or is this a bit of an oversimplifaction.
Mod me flamebait but the point is accurate unfortunately.
I have to agree, the distraction in the Middle East may yet save Britain from becoming a police state. It's almost as if Israel heard our plees for a distraction and started to make one causing Blair to hold off in the latest round of how much can I set Britain back into the dark ages. Hopefully it will end for Blair to push his nonsense and he will get a crushing defeat in the commons* and get his arse royally handed to him leading he who must steal our money (Gordon Brown) to think very carefully about NL's policy heading into the next election.
*If the Israel/Lebanon thing ends and Blair returns to push ID cards surely opposition from Cameron must end Blairs career. It would cause a mass rebellion on the NL backbenchs who are already against Blair and he's hardly going to get much support from Ming the Mute is he. I think people are tired of the endless 'what if the Tories get back in?' nonsense.
Don't be daft the last country that tried that was invaded by the USA and the UK within a few months of agreeing it. Not that I believe we invaded Iraq because they were selling oil in Euros it just happens to be a happy coincident. To be honest it was probably just the last nail in the coffin when Iraq started to sell through France and Russia though.
;) ). Also if China started selling off its dollars it would cause a crash in America that would make the great depression look like a blip.
You are right though, a few countries switching to Euro standard for oil would cripple America (Iran is talking about doing this currently by the way
The newspapers are a reflection of our population at the moment unfortunately. There were a lot of people hurt in the Socialism vs Thatcher conflict and a lot of them are still struggling to find a useful output for their anger and will quite frankly blame anyone for their problems. It's been some time since Thatcher could be a valid excuse so now the problem is the 2% of our countries population that are immigrants (admittedly that figure varies wildly with region but 2% is the national figure).
People need to wake up and smell the coffee in this regard. We live in a country where the state is the solution to everything and thats the problem. We need less government and more from people, not in hours but in risk taking and innovation. People are afraid to do anything that isn't safe and thats why we have problems. The worse part is people tend to drag down those that are willing to take their future into their own hands because quitely they know that they should as well and people doing it makes them look bad. Making money is frowned upon in Britain so nobody who has the noose or will to make any is going to stay here.
The other argument is red tape from the EU when our own government generates plenty of red tape and artifical monopolies. It is currently illegal for anyone who doesn't have the correct qualification to plumb in their own central heating. My father did his own (soldering is piss easy, especially now joining lead and copper pipes is less of an issue) and now thats against the law meaning plumbers can charge what they like. They are also talking about banning non qualified mechanics from repairing cars, I always fix my own car since mechanics is also easy, now thats going to be illegal. I'll have to go to a mechanic and pay their extortionate prices for a likely second rate job changing break pads and risk my life in the hands of people I do not trust (they claimed that 79% of qualified mechanics weren't capable so their solution was to make it so only qualified mechanics could fix cars, confused greatly I think).
So it truely is racism. This in a country which is entirely formed as a mongrel race (bar Celts such as myself of course ;) ). Tell me what is your heritage, are you decended from the Celts, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Vikings, French, Normans a mixture of them or something else entirely. Culture is irrelevant since peoples view differ and nobody has the right to impose culture on an entire country. The economy is key and if immigration was hurting the economy then I'd agree with you.
I have no problem with people coming in to work and do the jobs that Brits are either unwilling to do or due to skills gaps are incapable of doing. Certainly we should pay for trademen to come in given the housing gap and the unsustainable amount being borrowed on the housing market.
Go ahead and move to Canada, they currently have a very successful policy of promoting one culture over another and I'm sure you'll enjoy learning French.
The public sector is full of egotistical idiots who'd think using free software is a slight on their existence. Quite frankly the British public sector could do with culling.