How does this computer compare to say, an AMD of comparable price (price, not MHz)? For which cases would it be better option than an AMD, and which will it be worse?
Well obviously if you're using a distribution without a decent packaging system, or just ignoring your distribution's (decent) packaging system, installing software is going t obe a pain.
Compiling software is for when you want to customize software, or of course, for people who *like* compiling software (certainly not me).
The directory names are short so they're easy to type.
But in any case, if you're going to be editing the configuration files manually, most of the configuration files have comments within them when the package is installed, which makes them very easy to edit. It's usually as simple as finding the file, editing the file, and uncommenting and making variable value modifications (with the help of comments).
If you're going to be editing them with a front end program, what are you doing in/etc?
1) Confusing configuration. Get rid of/etc and replace it with something sane.
I hope you're not trying to imply that the Windows registry is better than/etc? The Windows registry is a huge mess. It's extremely difficult to tell which key was added by which program, and to track down the configuration of a single program. With/etc, I can just do a `ls *programname*` and easily find the configuration file.
And in any case, for most programs the user never uses or even sees/etc. Configuration files are generated automatically and stored in ~/.[programname].
Yes, better configuration front ends would be very helpful, but following the Windows registry would be a huge step down hill.
Out goes modules.conf, samba.conf, XFree86Config, etc, and in comes a unified text file format. Out goes ipconfig and friends entirely.
Considering that the file is XF86Config, and the command is ifconfig (ipconfig is for Windows NT 4.0), my guess is you don't have much experience in Linux.
What makes you think their sole existance is to make people's lives a living hell?
For one thing, a spammer's goal is to make money, not to make people's life a living hell (that's a side effect).
And, the sole existance of both spammers and DoS attackers are rarely to annoy people. That's an exaggeration. The only way *you* know them as, are as spammers and DoS attackers.
I don't like spammers and (unjustified) DoS attackers either, but I don't think they deserve any worse than to pay for the damage they cause (or put them in prison for a short period of time if they can't pay).
Not much of a suprise that a microscope would work past Y2K without a glitch. Why the hell is a microscope going to care what the date is? The only devices that can possibly be affected are devices that need the *correct* date. Very frustrating how the media blew the whole thing out of porportion to suggest that any computer controlled device is likely to break because of Y2K.
Vaporware means it exists only as a concept, and maybe a few pieces of useless code, though. While Mac OS X might not be a complete OS yet, it's still much more than vaporware.
I think you overestimate the stupidity of lawyers. They may be evil, but they're not stupid. If there's a way to win the case, they'll find it (without Slashdot users' help).:-)
> Why do most Americans feel that unless they eat enough to feed a dozen starving African refugees they've somehow been cheated of what is their right?
And I suppose you eat the amount of food as starving African refugees eat, and then give the other 11/12 of your food to other starving Africans?
> There's no real need for a steak the size of a toilet seat, and yet restaurants make this their proud boast.
Sure there's no real need, but why not? People would rather eat good food and not be hungry all the time. I don't see any problem here. As long as people recognize that it will probably shorten their life in the long run...
> Quite frankly its disgusting that people are this selfish and greedy,
It's human nature to be selfish and greedy. The only difference is that Americans can afford it.
> but then again, it's the American Dream to consume as much as possible.
It's called capitalism.
> Maybe if we as a nation were less greedy we wouldn't need this pill. Simply having the willpower to live a healthy lifestyle would do wonders for the average lifespan in the US.
It's easier to swallow a pill than to have willpower.:-)
To me it sounds like your Marvel analogy and what NSI is doing is pretty much a like... except that NSI doesn't really own the domains. The United States government owns the domains, and they let NSI manage them. So the question is whether or not NSI has the legal right to abuse the right to manage the domains by making (ridiculously) higher profits off domains that are in high demand.
Wouldn't it make much more sense for Microsoft to use one of the BSDs?
That way they don't have to worry about legal issues, and they have less to worry about the media making them look evil for destroying Linux... because the media doesn't really care about BSD.
> And the nice thing about the linux community is that it will be difficult (albeit not impossible) for microsoft to pay (and be
> willing to pay) for as many developer hours as there are volunteers willing to spend, simply to fork all the existing GPL code out there.
Umm, are we talking about the same Microsoft here? The one I'm thinking about is the one worth $1/2 trillion.
Microsoft can pay for all the hours that has ever been contributed to every single open source application (although it would put a big dent in there wallet).:-)
"Some analysts have questioned the value of a mass-market encryption product, suggesting that the odds of an email message being intercepted are infinitely smaller than the danger of compromising sensitive data stored on a lost computer or on a hacked Web server."
Big Brother locates evil citizen's SMTP & Server server. Big Brother points gun to server admins. Server admins give Big Brother evil citizen's e-mails.
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How does this computer compare to say, an AMD of comparable price (price, not MHz)? For which cases would it be better option than an AMD, and which will it be worse?
Compiling software is for when you want to customize software, or of course, for people who *like* compiling software (certainly not me).
You can prove something is true to someone, if they're willing to accept it as truth.
You can't prove it to those who will not accept it as truth though.
That's my definition of proof, anyways.
Out of curiousity, if you are no longer employed as a police officer, why do you feel you have to post anonymously?
The directory names are short so they're easy to type.
/etc?
But in any case, if you're going to be editing the configuration files manually, most of the configuration files have comments within them when the package is installed, which makes them very easy to edit. It's usually as simple as finding the file, editing the file, and uncommenting and making variable value modifications (with the help of comments).
If you're going to be editing them with a front end program, what are you doing in
That is, unless they pull an IE.
And all the average user cares about is free beer anyways.
I hope you're not trying to imply that the Windows registry is better than /etc? The Windows registry is a huge mess. It's extremely difficult to tell which key was added by which program, and to track down the configuration of a single program. With /etc, I can just do a `ls *programname*` and easily find the configuration file.
And in any case, for most programs the user never uses or even sees /etc. Configuration files are generated automatically and stored in ~/.[programname].
Yes, better configuration front ends would be very helpful, but following the Windows registry would be a huge step down hill.
Out goes modules.conf, samba.conf, XFree86Config, etc, and in comes a unified text file format. Out goes ipconfig and friends entirely.
Considering that the file is XF86Config, and the command is ifconfig (ipconfig is for Windows NT 4.0), my guess is you don't have much experience in Linux.
iptables
I really do hope you're not serious.
What makes you think their sole existance is to make people's lives a living hell?
For one thing, a spammer's goal is to make money, not to make people's life a living hell (that's a side effect).
And, the sole existance of both spammers and DoS attackers are rarely to annoy people. That's an exaggeration. The only way *you* know them as, are as spammers and DoS attackers.
I don't like spammers and (unjustified) DoS attackers either, but I don't think they deserve any worse than to pay for the damage they cause (or put them in prison for a short period of time if they can't pay).
All you have to do is make a game CD/DVD/cartridge with Linux installed on it, with loadlin.exe (to boot you into Linux).
To me it looks like the configuration of Gnome used in that movie, is an ugly inefficient out of the box type configuration.
Which shows that the characters aren't *that* l337.
I would think Athlon/K7. The Duron is simply a *slightly* crippled Athlon.
Not much of a suprise that a microscope would work past Y2K without a glitch. Why the hell is a microscope going to care what the date is? The only devices that can possibly be affected are devices that need the *correct* date. Very frustrating how the media blew the whole thing out of porportion to suggest that any computer controlled device is likely to break because of Y2K.
Vaporware means it exists only as a concept, and maybe a few pieces of useless code, though. While Mac OS X might not be a complete OS yet, it's still much more than vaporware.
See the Linmodem HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org.
You're living in the ice ages.
128MB DIMMs are $50 *including* shipping.
256MB DIMMs are around $95 *including* shipping.
See http://www.pricewatch.com.
I think you overestimate the stupidity of lawyers. They may be evil, but they're not stupid. If there's a way to win the case, they'll find it (without Slashdot users' help). :-)
> Why do most Americans feel that unless they eat enough to feed a dozen starving African refugees they've somehow been cheated of what is their right?
...
:-)
And I suppose you eat the amount of food as starving African refugees eat, and then give the other 11/12 of your food to other starving Africans?
> There's no real need for a steak the size of a toilet seat, and yet restaurants make this their proud boast.
Sure there's no real need, but why not? People would rather eat good food and not be hungry all the time. I don't see any problem here. As long as people recognize that it will probably shorten their life in the long run
> Quite frankly its disgusting that people are this selfish and greedy,
It's human nature to be selfish and greedy. The only difference is that Americans can afford it.
> but then again, it's the American Dream to consume as much as possible.
It's called capitalism.
> Maybe if we as a nation were less greedy we wouldn't need this pill. Simply having the willpower to live a healthy lifestyle would do wonders for the average lifespan in the US.
It's easier to swallow a pill than to have willpower.
You're trying to censor the content you don't want (spam), and in some cases trying to censor it for other people (such as the MAPS RBL).
Now whether or not it's bad, I don't know. But it is censorware, and if you don't see that, you're terribly biased.
To me it sounds like your Marvel analogy and what NSI is doing is pretty much a like ... except that NSI doesn't really own the domains. The United States government owns the domains, and they let NSI manage them. So the question is whether or not NSI has the legal right to abuse the right to manage the domains by making (ridiculously) higher profits off domains that are in high demand.
Wouldn't it make much more sense for Microsoft to use one of the BSDs?
... because the media doesn't really care about BSD.
That way they don't have to worry about legal issues, and they have less to worry about the media making them look evil for destroying Linux
> And the nice thing about the linux community is that it will be difficult (albeit not impossible) for microsoft to pay (and be
:-)
> willing to pay) for as many developer hours as there are volunteers willing to spend, simply to fork all the existing GPL code out there.
Umm, are we talking about the same Microsoft here? The one I'm thinking about is the one worth $1/2 trillion.
Microsoft can pay for all the hours that has ever been contributed to every single open source application (although it would put a big dent in there wallet).
Welcome to the wonderful world of bloatware.
Or how many people do you know who are going to attempt it without proper knowledge, produce a FAILED version,
:-)
Hey, I have proper knowledge and I produce failed kernels all the time.
"Some analysts have questioned the value of a mass-market encryption product, suggesting that the odds of an email message being intercepted are infinitely smaller than the danger of compromising sensitive data stored on a lost computer or on a hacked Web server."
Big Brother locates evil citizen's SMTP & Server server. Big Brother points gun to server admins. Server admins give Big Brother evil citizen's e-mails.