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Author: Tim SmithTim Smith Date: May 15, 2008 19:14
> One of the favorite arguments of the free software and open source
> community for the obvious superiority of such software over
> proprietary alternatives is the user's supposed ability to take
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Author: jebbluejebblue Date: May 15, 2008 21:17
On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:14:40 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>> I can't possibly be the only one seeing that the emperor has no
>> clothes.
The recent SSH fix was spotted and fixed in almost the same day and
distributed planet-wide, same day.
>> I started using Linux in '95, before most of today's Internet-using
I started in 1994 with Slackware, the article author is a newbie.
>> About eight months ago, when I caught myself fighting yet another
>> battle with suspend/resume on my Linux-running laptop, I got so furious
I've not tried Hibernate on the laptops but Suspend
works wonderfully as does everything else. I never used Hibernate when my
laptop ran 'dows either.
>> spontaneously bursting into one giant orgiastic Kumbaya, that's the
>> world we live in. So in the meantime, I switched to OS X and find it to
We should also give up on alternative fuels and whale saving too.
>> be an overwhelmingly more enjoyable computing experience. I still have
My wife gets her finances done with GnuCash browses with Firefox, edits her
fairly simple spreadsheets with Open Office, listens to music with Rhythmbox
and she misses 'dows not at all.
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Author: TimberwoofTimberwoof Date: May 15, 2008 21:52
> My desktop at work, my laptop at work, my desktop at home and my wife's
> laptop all run Ubuntu. It works great.
And you missed the point of the article. You're a Linux Guru. You you
don't have to RTFM because you've MTFM and even WTFMY; no doubt you
WTFCY all the time. But not everyone
Ivan Krstic wrote
> The vast, near-total majority of computer users
> aren't programmers. Of the programmers, a vast, near-total majority
> don't dare in the Land o' Kernel tread. As one of the people who
> actually...
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Author: Tim SmithTim Smith Date: May 15, 2008 22:23
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:14:40 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>
>>> I can't possibly be the only one seeing that the emperor has no
>>> clothes.
>
> The recent SSH fix was spotted and fixed in almost the same day and
> distributed planet-wide, same day.
It's nice that that gap between being spotted and fixed was short. Too
bad the gap between being introduced and being spotted was a couple of
years, though.
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--Tim Smith
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Author: HadronHadron Date: May 16, 2008 00:16
Tim Smith mouse-potato.com> writes:
>> About eight months ago, when I caught myself fighting yet another
>> battle with suspend/resume on my Linux-running laptop, I got so
>> furious that I went to the nearest Apple store and bought a MacBook.
Huh? According to COLA it "just works", and "blazingly fast" too!
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Author: HadronHadron Date: May 16, 2008 00:17
Tim Smith mouse-potato.com> writes:
> In article <482d0af0$0$5718$4c368faf@ roadrunner.com>, jebblue
> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:14:40 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> I can't possibly be the only one seeing that the emperor has no
>>>> clothes.
>>
>> The recent SSH fix was spotted and fixed in almost the same day and
>> distributed planet-wide, same day.
>
> It's nice that that gap between being spotted and fixed was short. Too
> bad the gap between being introduced and being spotted was a couple of
> years, though.
Impossible. It's OSS. Millions of eyes and all that.
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Author: RickRick Date: May 16, 2008 02:46
On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:16:37 +0200, Hadron wrote:
> Tim Smith mouse-potato.com> writes:
> >>> About eight months ago, when I caught myself fighting yet another
>>> battle with suspend/resume on my Linux-running laptop, I got so
>>> furious that I went to the nearest Apple store and bought a MacBook.
>
> Huh? According to COLA it "just works", and "blazingly fast" too!
According to you Windows "just works", according to your reasoning, is a
blatant lie.
--
Rick
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Author: LinonutLinonut Date: May 16, 2008 06:21
* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
Yeah, he sounded like he had anger issues.
>> About eight months ago, when I caught myself fighting yet another
>> battle with suspend/resume on my Linux-running laptop, I got so
>> furious that I went to the nearest Apple store and bought a MacBook.
Bully for him. Personally, I have no impetus to switch from Linux.
Looks like Apple is back on track, and it is good to see a commercial
computer vendor making some headway against the Microsoft monopoly.
And with Linux's roughly 80%% growth per year, things are looking up
for truly being able to offer a /choice/ other than "any system you want
as long as its Windows".
This quote from Paul's note, though, strikes me as stupid:
With OS X, the hackers are back.
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Author: DFSDFS Date: May 16, 2008 06:25
Linonut wrote:
> And with Linux's roughly 80%% growth per year,
Gawd. Another Ballardesque bozo slinging stupid numbers.
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Author: LinonutLinonut Date: May 16, 2008 06:25
* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
> In article <482d0af0$0$5718$4c368faf@ roadrunner.com>, jebblue
> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:14:40 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> I can't possibly be the only one seeing that the emperor has no
>>>> clothes.
>>
>> The recent SSH fix was spotted and fixed in almost the same day and
>> distributed planet-wide, same day.
>
> It's nice that that gap between being spotted and fixed was short. Too
> bad the gap between being introduced and being spotted was a couple of
> years, though.
It is puzzling why the OpenSSH guys didn't follow up on Debian's
changes.
I know I would want to know why somebody made a change to my software.
I'd be all over it.
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