no reason not to get macs, for a company? how about the fact that mac hardware comes only from a handful of vendors (mainly apple themselves), thereby guaranteeing less competition, less availability of replaceable bits, and higher prices? "one source" works if you want to use your computer as a toaster; I do'nt think toaster-computers are a good strategy for a company where computing plays a significant role. why not just use the tools most appropriate to the job? macs for designers and those who ask for them, Linux or Unix for servers, Linux for developper machines, and any-system-will-do for web-browsing/word-processing kind of boxes.
Bicentennial Man, as in the Asimov story? now that is an unusual choice for a film! I wonder how the production machine will manage to butcher this definitely un-filmy story!
not an emacs person either, so when I wanted to learn autoconf (no automake for the mometn), I found it best to compile the texinfo pages into.dvi and view them under xdvi. it's pretty much the only way to make GNU docs palatable.
not really. iBCS lets Linux run SCO apps, a remnant of the time when Linux didn't have much in terms of commercial apps. now apps are coming out for Linux without SCO versions, so it's up to the SCO guys to worry about emulation (hence, lxrun). someone commented, way before Linux broke into the mainstream, that "linux would really have made it when other OSs start emulating it, not hwen it learns to emulate others". that time is now.
well of course PHP will fun faster than perl *as CGI*. use mod_perl and be happy. PHP is a pretty close imitation of perl, but perl has a much more complete, mature and flexible programming environment. the main advantage of PHP is that, by being simpler and smaller, it's easier to start working with. for a complex site, where you want a fair amount of real programming on the backend, I'll take perl over PHP anyday. mod_perl has many modes of operation; the simplest (Apache::Registry) emulates CGI scripting without much of the fork/compile overhead. Embperl lets you put perl inside the html (this is the way PHP does it too), and you can write complete handlers if you want too.
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if you already read the major news sites, then yeah, a lot of the submissions in/. must seem quite redundant for you. I've found that/. is a good way to read stories that I'm likely to be interested in, so I never go to the main pages at the big traditional news sites. For non-nerd news, I follow newsgroups and other websites that, again, point me to traditional-news stories at times. I don't know how many of the/. readers do things this way too, but for those of us who do, it really is a time saver -- and the comments about "needing to supplement with less biased sources" are pure bullshit. everything is biased, but at least here we know in which way, and we have comments coming from all directions. so yeah, if you're stupid enough that you need to read exactly what you're going to believe, then/. is not for you. I don't think most people aren't like that though.
this is Linux at the end of the 90s, not proprietary Unix 8 years ago. Motif is clearly on the way out, and it wouldnt be very smart for Inprise to use it. GTK or Qt, or even better both. or why not wxWindows.
same here. at times i've been on for over 12 hours a day, but I don't have a problem getting away from the net for a whole month and just do something else (except that then I dread having to read all the accumulated mai^H^H^Hspam, but oh well).
I'm amazed at how many people attack this distribution for having a luser-friendly interface and a number of windows borrowings that hadn't made it to linux so far.
guess what people... the great thing about Linux is not that everyone has to learn fdisk, vi and sendmail.cf to use it; the great thing about Linux is that it's infinitely configurable and that you can use and setup whichever tools you choose to! and from there, it's only logical that specific distributions will be catering to specific kinds of users by offering a default environment that those users will like.
Linux has already largely cracked the server nut, and just now the desktop is starting to look decent. I'm waiting for the day when I can put Linux on the desktop computers of willing non-techs in the office, and they'll LIKE it. With Corel Linux, this is one step closer. When Mozilla gets usable and polished, that will be another (Windows people hate the Motif widgets that come with Netscape 4, and for good reason; the drop-down menus are massively fugly, and the corresponding Windows widget is actually reasonable). Mozilla uses GTK, so if it comes out with ugly widgets we can always theme it or hack on it.
Me, I'll take any distribution, as long as it has recent libraries (glibc 2.1), sysvinit, and puts its stuff in reasonably standard places. And I'll run fvwm2 and vi, because those are the tools I'm most comfortable and productive with. But that's only my choice, and I sure don't want *that* kind of config to be the default for any distribution that actually wants to sell in large numbers.
It's weird how many people are afraid of the rest of the world discovering what once was their well kept secret (Linux). I for one am very glad that Linux is succeeding everywhere, if only because it makes it much easier to find jobs that don't require working under Micros~1 environments.
yep, UF kicks serious butt. I think it's time to re-read the whole series soon. btw, tehre's a similar strip at geekculture.com. It's not quite as funny, but still great. dunno about Dilbert, I don't read it... isn't that a dead-tree one only?
exactly. it's only a matter of a 10x increase in storage capacity and network bandwith, and mp3 won't be such a big deal. just use wavs or some other plain PCM format. now let's see the RIAA try to make.wav players illegal...
yep, it's been done before, quite a few times too. check out Talossa (they even have their own made-up language or conlang) for a pretty complete one, and this link for an index of micronations with explanations and FAQs.
"fvwn isn't the prettiest wm out there so don't use it" ??? I don't think so. fvwm is fast, light, infinitely configurable, and nice looking enough as far as I'm concerned. for actual work, I care more about configurability, speed and stability, than about pretty dressing. with fvwm2 *and* my configuration for it, I'm more productive than with any of GNOME, KDE or win*. the windoze GUI is a joke as far as I'm concerned... it wastes way too much space with window borders, and doesn't even have a way to move a window behind the others to get it out of the way w/o minimizing. or if it does, it's not immediately findable.
every part of me sure does want to see the fortune split up.. it's just crazy to have such an amount of money at the whim of a single person or organization. OTOH, this loooks more like a PR move than anything else; BG is young enough that his posturing now about where he wants his $$ to go when he dies doesn't mean he can't change his mind 12 times over. I'd be more willing to consider him a "nice guy" if he and his company stopped being the asshole bullies of the software industry.
so a distributed computing experiment succeeds past its own expectations, and an article manages to put a negative spin on it because some AMD fans don't get to optimize the code for 3dnow while there's talk of Intel doing it for MMX or its successor. colour me unimpressed about the complaint, and congrats to the Seti@Home people for managing to get their work done!
I would have agreed with that comment more a year or two ago. At this point Linux *is* usable by non-techies, esp. if the install process sets up KDE or GNOME with a rich set of defaults and GUI tools.
sounds rather worthless to me... anyone w/ polarized glasses can see everyone else's screens. this is barely a step above talking in pig latin for "secrecy".
same here... it sucks that someone crashed and died, sure. but face it folks, thousands of people die in accidents every day, and this one doesnt mean more to me than any other.
I got it at the address I put on README files, so I guess I got on the list because of maintaining some package or other that they distribute. I didn't get one at the bugzilla address, so if they did that list too they must have uniq'd on real name.
too bad their offer is limited to 'US residents only', I'd probably been interested otherwise.
disagree. major versions of important open source projects *are* "news for nerds stuff that matters". sure, you can read find them in freshmeat too, but you have to wade through 50 minor updates to random GUI CD players and the like. even if I don't use PHP (at the moment, anyway), I do want to have an idea where it's going, and the same goes for Mozilla and Zope and FreeBSD and other big projects.
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what's so wrong about xmodmapping your keys? i'll admit that i'm lazy enough to do it that way rather than go read about Xkb. I also have a modmap file for the whole qwerty keyboard with left-alt-is-meta-adds-128-to-the-code for all keys wehre it makes sense, and I use it wherever I go (as long as it's x86 Linux), no matter what is written on the actual keys.
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no reason not to get macs, for a company? how about the fact that mac hardware comes only from a handful of vendors (mainly apple themselves), thereby guaranteeing less competition, less availability of replaceable bits, and higher prices? "one source" works if you want to use your computer as a toaster; I do'nt think toaster-computers are a good strategy for a company where computing plays a significant role. why not just use the tools most appropriate to the job? macs for designers and those who ask for them, Linux or Unix for servers, Linux for developper machines, and any-system-will-do for web-browsing/word-processing kind of boxes.
Bicentennial Man, as in the Asimov story? now that is an unusual choice for a film! I wonder how the production machine will manage to butcher this definitely un-filmy story!
not an emacs person either, so when I wanted to learn autoconf (no automake for the mometn), I found it best to compile the texinfo pages into .dvi and view them under xdvi. it's pretty much the only way to make GNU docs palatable.
not really. iBCS lets Linux run SCO apps, a remnant of the time when Linux didn't have much in terms of commercial apps. now apps are coming out for Linux without SCO versions, so it's up to the SCO guys to worry about emulation (hence, lxrun). someone commented, way before Linux broke into the mainstream, that "linux would really have made it when other OSs start emulating it, not hwen it learns to emulate others". that time is now.
well of course PHP will fun faster than perl *as CGI*. use mod_perl and be happy. PHP is a pretty close imitation of perl, but perl has a much more complete, mature and flexible programming environment. the main advantage of PHP is that, by being simpler and smaller, it's easier to start working with. for a complex site, where you want a fair amount of real programming on the backend, I'll take perl over PHP anyday. mod_perl has many modes of operation; the simplest (Apache::Registry) emulates CGI scripting without much of the fork/compile overhead. Embperl lets you put perl inside the html (this is the way PHP does it too), and you can write complete handlers if you want too.
if you already read the major news sites, then yeah, a lot of the submissions in /. must seem quite redundant for you. I've found that /. is a good way to read stories that I'm likely to be interested in, so I never go to the main pages at the big traditional news sites. For non-nerd news, I follow newsgroups and other websites that, again, point me to traditional-news stories at times. I don't know how many of the /. readers do things this way too, but for those of us who do, it really is a time saver -- and the comments about "needing to supplement with less biased sources" are pure bullshit. everything is biased, but at least here we know in which way, and we have comments coming from all directions. so yeah, if you're stupid enough that you need to read exactly what you're going to believe, then /. is not for you. I don't think most people aren't like that though.
nor is it meant to be.
this is Linux at the end of the 90s, not proprietary Unix 8 years ago. Motif is clearly on the way out, and it wouldnt be very smart for Inprise to use it. GTK or Qt, or even better both. or why not wxWindows.
same here. at times i've been on for over 12 hours a day, but I don't have a problem getting away from the net for a whole month and just do something else (except that then I dread having to read all the accumulated mai^H^H^Hspam, but oh well).
guess what people... the great thing about Linux is not that everyone has to learn fdisk, vi and sendmail.cf to use it; the great thing about Linux is that it's infinitely configurable and that you can use and setup whichever tools you choose to! and from there, it's only logical that specific distributions will be catering to specific kinds of users by offering a default environment that those users will like.
Linux has already largely cracked the server nut, and just now the desktop is starting to look decent. I'm waiting for the day when I can put Linux on the desktop computers of willing non-techs in the office, and they'll LIKE it. With Corel Linux, this is one step closer. When Mozilla gets usable and polished, that will be another (Windows people hate the Motif widgets that come with Netscape 4, and for good reason; the drop-down menus are massively fugly, and the corresponding Windows widget is actually reasonable). Mozilla uses GTK, so if it comes out with ugly widgets we can always theme it or hack on it.
Me, I'll take any distribution, as long as it has recent libraries (glibc 2.1), sysvinit, and puts its stuff in reasonably standard places. And I'll run fvwm2 and vi, because those are the tools I'm most comfortable and productive with. But that's only my choice, and I sure don't want *that* kind of config to be the default for any distribution that actually wants to sell in large numbers.
It's weird how many people are afraid of the rest of the world discovering what once was their well kept secret (Linux). I for one am very glad that Linux is succeeding everywhere, if only because it makes it much easier to find jobs that don't require working under Micros~1 environments.
yep, UF kicks serious butt. I think it's time to re-read the whole series soon. btw, tehre's a similar strip at geekculture.com. It's not quite as funny, but still great. dunno about Dilbert, I don't read it... isn't that a dead-tree one only?
exactly. it's only a matter of a 10x increase in storage capacity and network bandwith, and mp3 won't be such a big deal. just use wavs or some other plain PCM format. now let's see the RIAA try to make .wav players illegal...
yep, it's been done before, quite a few times too. check out Talossa (they even have their own made-up language or conlang) for a pretty complete one, and this link for an index of micronations with explanations and FAQs.
"fvwn isn't the prettiest wm out there so don't use it" ??? I don't think so. fvwm is fast, light, infinitely configurable, and nice looking enough as far as I'm concerned. for actual work, I care more about configurability, speed and stability, than about pretty dressing. with fvwm2 *and* my configuration for it, I'm more productive than with any of GNOME, KDE or win*. the windoze GUI is a joke as far as I'm concerned... it wastes way too much space with window borders, and doesn't even have a way to move a window behind the others to get it out of the way w/o minimizing. or if it does, it's not immediately findable.
every part of me sure does want to see the fortune split up.. it's just crazy to have such an amount of money at the whim of a single person or organization. OTOH, this loooks more like a PR move than anything else; BG is young enough that his posturing now about where he wants his $$ to go when he dies doesn't mean he can't change his mind 12 times over. I'd be more willing to consider him a "nice guy" if he and his company stopped being the asshole bullies of the software industry.
so a distributed computing experiment succeeds past its own expectations, and an article manages to put a negative spin on it because some AMD fans don't get to optimize the code for 3dnow while there's talk of Intel doing it for MMX or its successor. colour me unimpressed about the complaint, and congrats to the Seti@Home people for managing to get their work done!
you forgot the 4th option: Klingon Opera: Magma. never heard of them? you should!
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I would have agreed with that comment more a year or two ago. At this point Linux *is* usable by non-techies, esp. if the install process sets up KDE or GNOME with a rich set of defaults and GUI tools.
right, but the small-fonts trend still sucks. it seems like "professional designers" tend to forget that text in pages is tehre so people can READ it.
sounds rather worthless to me... anyone w/ polarized glasses can see everyone else's screens. this is barely a step above talking in pig latin for "secrecy".
same here... it sucks that someone crashed and died, sure. but face it folks, thousands of people die in accidents every day, and this one doesnt mean more to me than any other.
too bad their offer is limited to 'US residents only', I'd probably been interested otherwise.
disagree. major versions of important open source projects *are* "news for nerds stuff that matters". sure, you can read find them in freshmeat too, but you have to wade through 50 minor updates to random GUI CD players and the like. even if I don't use PHP (at the moment, anyway), I do want to have an idea where it's going, and the same goes for Mozilla and Zope and FreeBSD and other big projects.
what's so wrong about xmodmapping your keys? i'll admit that i'm lazy enough to do it that way rather than go read about Xkb. I also have a modmap file for the whole qwerty keyboard with left-alt-is-meta-adds-128-to-the-code for all keys wehre it makes sense, and I use it wherever I go (as long as it's x86 Linux), no matter what is written on the actual keys.