"Every Doctor, or at least every Doctor since Tom Baker, has had a certain absurdity to him."
I can't speak for Hartnell (#1) or Colin Baker (#7), since I haven't seen any of their episodes (gasp), but all the other Doctors have been quite silly. The second Doctor (Troughton) was particularly loony. Something about those plaind pants always made me laugh.
I can second this. I have MkLinux running on a PowerMac 7100/80. Not running fast, mind you, but running.
I know that work has been done more recently to get Linux to run natively on NuBus hardware, but I haven't played with it. I'd recommend that you try that first.
"It's fun to use 'anal' when speaking of homonyms...asshole"
It's also fun to use your brain. If you somehow learned to enjoy that experience, you would know that 'anus' and 'asshole' are synonyms, not homonyms. This is particularly disappointing, since I linked to the definition of "homonym" in my previous post.
I'll gloss over your confusion of "anal" ("of or related to the anus") and "anus" for now. In fact, I'll just cut this comment short. I'm sure that my frequent usage of the word "anus" has gotten you pretty hot and bothered by now. Even if you don't understand what "homonym" means, you certainly seem to be familiar with the meaning of "homo." At least you're halfway there.
I direct you to the definition of the word vulgar: "conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; 'coarse language'; 'a revoltingly gross expletive';"
Calling you Einstein is not vulgar, it's sarcastic. Just to make things perfectly clear, I will present you with a practical example of vulgarity:
"Thanks for sorting that out, you fucking prat. Gee, Open Source Software isn't the same fucking thing as Free Software. I never would have fucking guessed. Jesus Christ, did you win your brain in a farting competition, or did it come with a box of fucking Cracker Jacks? Did you have problems with addition in elementary school, or were you expelled for your rankling malodorous fetor before you had the chance to learn?"
Let's hope you can make a clear distinction next time. In case you are confused, this comment is condescending, with a dash of vulgarity.
"Maybe, but you can also download the binaries from RedHat."
That was my point - It's the same as what Red Hat does, with that one difference.
"I'm not going to argue that the UnitedLinux companies are immoral for only distributing the source freely--I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL isn't it?"
No, it isn't. The point of the GPL is to allow free redistribution of the source. Binaries don't really matter when you have source. Under the GPL, you are only required to provide an offer for the source, though you have to honor anyone's request for the source. Incidentally, if United Linux is completely GPL'd, anyone can rip a copy of the CD and make copies for anyone else, under section 3 of the GPL.
"But you have to admit that it is certainly a lot more convienient to be able to download an ISO if you want to try out a distro."
Sure, if you have broadband. If you're on dialup, it's a lot easier to just fork out a few bucks for some official media in a box. It's easier still to fork out that money when the only alternative is to compile everything yourself, which is the point of not offering binaries for download.
It sounds like they are just raising the barrier to entry. If you want to download the source & build your own copy, go right ahead. But you already have to have Linux (possibly some othe *nix with a cross-compiler) installed, as well as the ability to compile all those packages. And I'd be surprised if they released tools that made it easy to build the binary installation CDs.
Of course, anyone who already has a Linux box and the ability to compile all that source probably is going to be runningsomething elsealready, and won't be inclined to switch. Besides, if you want to compile all that crap, why not just run Gentoo, LFS, or *BSD?
Uh, this is pretty common practice. For example, you can compile all the source that makes up Red Hat and distribute binaries of it, you just can't call it "Red Hat".
I assume that they made this decision to try and increase their sales of official boxed products, versus having everyone download a free ISO. There's nothing to stop you from compiling the whole system, building an ISO, and distributing it under the name "Divided Linux".
"The site www.stallman.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on FreeBSD."
I think you mean GNU/FreeBSD, don't you?
Quoth RMS: "Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is more often known as ``FreeBSD'', and many users are not aware of the extent of its connection with the GNU Project.
"There really is a FreeBSD; it is a kernel, and these people are using it. But you can't use a kernel by itself; a kernel is useful only as part of a whole operating system. FreeBSD is normally used in a combination with the GNU operating system: the system is basically GNU, with FreeBSD functioning as the kernel.
"Many users are not fully aware of the distinction between the kernel, which is FreeBSD, and the whole system, which they also call ``FreeBSD''. The ambiguous use of the name doesn't promote understanding.
Allegedly, transcode has some sort of clustering stuff as well. I can't testify for it, but dvd::rip's cluster mode is great, except that it won't do AC3 audio pass-through.
However, I've found that the XviD codec is fast enough to encode 2:1 on my P3 866. That is, it takes 2x as long to encode as the movie lasts - it gets around 12fps. DiVX 4.02 put out slightly better quality, at 4-6fps on the same system. I haven't done anything with DivX 5.xx yet, so I can't speak for that.
What, exactly, does this have to do with My Rights Online? Ooh, a registrar screwed up. People make mistakes. What a shock.
Just to put things into perspective, the editors here can't work out correct spelling and grammar, got their production site hacked by (gasp!) by making a test server accessible to the general 'net public. And that's not even dipping into the other problems here, such as (meta-)moderation abuse, bitchslaps, editor moderations, etc. Michael, you have absolutely no right to say what you said.
And what an ironic twist that this article was posted "from the competence-not-required dept." Thanks for making that clear.
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"Sherilyn Fenn in a box, Serena in a box... hmm, what will the MPAA say?"
PG-13. LEGO women don't have breasts.
"Every Doctor, or at least every Doctor since Tom Baker, has had a certain absurdity to him."
I can't speak for Hartnell (#1) or Colin Baker (#7), since I haven't seen any of their episodes (gasp), but all the other Doctors have been quite silly. The second Doctor (Troughton) was particularly loony. Something about those plaind pants always made me laugh.
Why not just edit the HTML so the steps are laid out vertically?
I was under the impression that most people signed MD5SUMS files with PGP/GPG. I know I do.
I can second this. I have MkLinux running on a PowerMac 7100/80. Not running fast, mind you, but running.
I know that work has been done more recently to get Linux to run natively on NuBus hardware, but I haven't played with it. I'd recommend that you try that first.
"You're so incredibly anal it's funny."
Thanks. I try.
"It's fun to use 'anal' when speaking of homonyms...asshole"
It's also fun to use your brain. If you somehow learned to enjoy that experience, you would know that 'anus' and 'asshole' are synonyms, not homonyms . This is particularly disappointing, since I linked to the definition of "homonym" in my previous post.
I'll gloss over your confusion of "anal" ("of or related to the anus") and "anus" for now. In fact, I'll just cut this comment short. I'm sure that my frequent usage of the word "anus" has gotten you pretty hot and bothered by now. Even if you don't understand what "homonym" means, you certainly seem to be familiar with the meaning of "homo." At least you're halfway there.
"If you can't resist being so vulgar..."
I direct you to the definition of the word vulgar:
"conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; 'coarse language'; 'a revoltingly gross expletive';"
Calling you Einstein is not vulgar, it's sarcastic. Just to make things perfectly clear, I will present you with a practical example of vulgarity:
"Thanks for sorting that out, you fucking prat. Gee, Open Source Software isn't the same fucking thing as Free Software. I never would have fucking guessed. Jesus Christ, did you win your brain in a farting competition, or did it come with a box of fucking Cracker Jacks? Did you have problems with addition in elementary school, or were you expelled for your rankling malodorous fetor before you had the chance to learn?"
Let's hope you can make a clear distinction next time. In case you are confused, this comment is condescending, with a dash of vulgarity.
"Through me for a loop when I was 12."
Well, the last year sure has treated you well.
In other words, Open Source Software is not Free Software. Thanks, Einstein.
How is that insightful?
If you are using Ogle, you can skip anything. It ignores the idiotic DVD button restrictions, and it supports DVD menus.
Try:
`tar cf - foo | ssh bar tar -C daz -xvf -'
Which instructs tar to change into `daz' before performing any operations and eliminates the cd command.
Silently, as opposed to a dialog that says "Corrupting preferences" with a progress bar?
:)
Time to file a wishlist bug.
to get the top ten hogs in
Also, sometimes there are some big files, and you are only interested in the directories full of crap:
While we're on the subject, you can use this handy-dandy snippet to find the disk usage of one user in any part of the filesystem:
"Maybe, but you can also download the binaries from RedHat."
That was my point - It's the same as what Red Hat does, with that one difference.
"I'm not going to argue that the UnitedLinux companies are immoral for only distributing the source freely--I mean, that's the whole point of the GPL isn't it?"
No, it isn't. The point of the GPL is to allow free redistribution of the source. Binaries don't really matter when you have source. Under the GPL, you are only required to provide an offer for the source, though you have to honor anyone's request for the source. Incidentally, if United Linux is completely GPL'd, anyone can rip a copy of the CD and make copies for anyone else, under section 3 of the GPL.
"But you have to admit that it is certainly a lot more convienient to be able to download an ISO if you want to try out a distro."
Sure, if you have broadband. If you're on dialup, it's a lot easier to just fork out a few bucks for some official media in a box. It's easier still to fork out that money when the only alternative is to compile everything yourself, which is the point of not offering binaries for download.
It sounds like they are just raising the barrier to entry. If you want to download the source & build your own copy, go right ahead. But you already have to have Linux (possibly some othe *nix with a cross-compiler) installed, as well as the ability to compile all those packages. And I'd be surprised if they released tools that made it easy to build the binary installation CDs.
Of course, anyone who already has a Linux box and the ability to compile all that source probably is going to be running something else already, and won't be inclined to switch. Besides, if you want to compile all that crap, why not just run Gentoo, LFS, or *BSD?
Uh, this is pretty common practice. For example, you can compile all the source that makes up Red Hat and distribute binaries of it, you just can't call it "Red Hat".
I assume that they made this decision to try and increase their sales of official boxed products, versus having everyone download a free ISO. There's nothing to stop you from compiling the whole system, building an ISO, and distributing it under the name "Divided Linux".
"The site www.stallman.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on FreeBSD."
I think you mean GNU/FreeBSD, don't you?
Quoth RMS:
"Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is more often known as ``FreeBSD'', and many users are not aware of the extent of its connection with the GNU Project.
"There really is a FreeBSD; it is a kernel, and these people are using it. But you can't use a kernel by itself; a kernel is useful only as part of a whole operating system. FreeBSD is normally used in a combination with the GNU operating system: the system is basically GNU, with FreeBSD functioning as the kernel.
"Many users are not fully aware of the distinction between the kernel, which is FreeBSD, and the whole system, which they also call ``FreeBSD''. The ambiguous use of the name doesn't promote understanding.
Megaceros Gallery Panel of vulvas, the earliest TGP known to man.
Yeah, but I have a lower ./ User # than you.
Yeah, unless you wait for someone to turn their computer off before stealing their MAC.
"Would I be able to patent the act of patenting stupid, obvious ideas?"
No, but you might be able to get one for beating dead horses.
You must be an engineer.
Allegedly, transcode has some sort of clustering stuff as well. I can't testify for it, but dvd::rip's cluster mode is great, except that it won't do AC3 audio pass-through.
However, I've found that the XviD codec is fast enough to encode 2:1 on my P3 866. That is, it takes 2x as long to encode as the movie lasts - it gets around 12fps. DiVX 4.02 put out slightly better quality, at 4-6fps on the same system. I haven't done anything with DivX 5.xx yet, so I can't speak for that.
Screw that. Start playing DOOM 2.
What, exactly, does this have to do with My Rights Online? Ooh, a registrar screwed up. People make mistakes. What a shock.
Just to put things into perspective, the editors here can't work out correct spelling and grammar, got their production site hacked by (gasp!) by making a test server accessible to the general 'net public. And that's not even dipping into the other problems here, such as (meta-)moderation abuse, bitchslaps, editor moderations, etc. Michael, you have absolutely no right to say what you said.
And what an ironic twist that this article was posted "from the competence-not-required dept." Thanks for making that clear.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me down now.