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Christopher Sawtell
I'm having trouble geting through to both slashdot and sourceforge
this evening. I tried pinging both but still no response. Anyone else
having this trouble?
Kerry
Vik Olliver wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:21 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
According to their CIO, 'Microsoft
Office is not any cheaper, but it was almost impossible to work out
what
open-source was actually costing because of issues such as
incompatibility
and training.'
Would this be th
http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/spot/821D68A0B8F6C33ECC25730C00839AD0?Opendocument&HighLight=microsoft
On 18/07/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/17/1815210&from=rss
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
"The NZ Automobile Association has just
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:21 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> According to their CIO, 'Microsoft
> Office is not any cheaper, but it was almost impossible to work out
> what
> open-source was actually costing because of issues such as
> incompatibility
> and training.'
Would this be their new ex-Microsof
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/17/1815210&from=rss
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
"The NZ Automobile Association has just announced that it is dropping Open
Office and switching back to MS Office. According to their CIO, 'Microsoft
Office is not any cheaper, but it was
The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less
on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are
lining up to help make this happen.
from http://www.linuxworld.com/newsletters/linux/2007/0507linux2.html
When a government this powerful moves to ope
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 22:18 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> Anyone know of anyone in the ESA http://www.esa.int/ I should perhaps contact?
Try this lot:
http://www.space-mining.com/GMI-FINAL.htm
That's who I'm working with.
Vik :v)
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The Olliver Family
Anyone see this today?
http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/12/18/1923257.shtml?tid=160&tid=14
As it happens I've got an idea for long-term exploration of the Jovians -
jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus: "Project Overstayer" ;) - but not being an
American citizen I turn out to be ineligible.
A
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:19 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> >...and following from Chris referring us all to NerdTV
> >
> >Here is a site that lists "Techie" TV shows available for download.
> >
> >http://www.filefarmer.com/techshows/
> >
> >Goodbye bandwidth, hello new hard d
Nick Rout wrote:
...and following from Chris referring us all to NerdTV
Here is a site that lists "Techie" TV shows available for download.
http://www.filefarmer.com/techshows/
Goodbye bandwidth, hello new hard drive!
Any chance of screening the most interesting stuff for CLUG, on a
regul
...and following from Chris referring us all to NerdTV
Here is a site that lists "Techie" TV shows available for download.
http://www.filefarmer.com/techshows/
Goodbye bandwidth, hello new hard drive!
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 28/05/05, Wesley Parish wrote:
> As someone whose major concern in the St Albans NN room is attempting to
> disinfect the torrential downpour of spyware and viruses, not to forget the
> times when machines just pack up and go away without providing any clue, I
> would say that Microsoft Windows
As someone whose major concern in the St Albans NN room is attempting to
disinfect the torrential downpour of spyware and viruses, not to forget the
times when machines just pack up and go away without providing any clue, I
would say that Microsoft Windows _never_ has been ready for the desktop.
This article is an amusing take on the "Linux not ready for the desktop"
mythmakers:
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216
As someone whose windows world slowed at 98 and barely acknowledges 2k,
and who is constantly frustrated when trying to do much at all on other
people's XP
If you don't like ads use Firefox, download the extension adblock
(http://adblock.mozdev.org/) and import the attached settings (Tools ->
Extension Manager -> Adblock -> Options -> Adblock Otions -> Import). I
don't get any ads on any major site I visit.
Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 23:51 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Slashdot article about Blender (you know the 3D drawing suite that Caleb
> showed us a while ago)
>
> Google ad?
>
> "Kitchen Appliances rated [snip] www.consumer.org.nz"
At least looking for the ArtOfIllusion mo
Slashdot article about Blender (you know the 3D drawing suite that Caleb
showed us a while ago)
Google ad?
"Kitchen Appliances rated [snip] www.consumer.org.nz"
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On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:43, Carey Evans wrote:
> Linux has good support for ATM
[snip]
> Its designers probably didn't think it would be
> relegated to the link layer of home Internet connections though.
Exactly, ATM is normally only used as the link-layer, rather than the
full protocol stack :)
Michael JasonSmith wrote:
While I am thinking of things that became popular because they are free,
think of the Internet, which is only successful because anyone can
implement the standards, suggest new standards, or alter the existing
ones. ATM, which was designed to perform the same task as the I
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:23, Zane Gilmore wrote:
>
> And musicians should make money from concerts not from flogging copies
> of recordings
>
The music publishers have seen to it that this is the case for the
majority of bands ;)
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Nick Rout wrote:
> this is where it gets difficult for me, are you also saying that an
author of a book should not get royalties of be able to have copyright
protection? where is the difference?
The copyright laws (at least the original ones) were designed for
authors of paper books.
Where the
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:56, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> But as Mike JS has pointed to on the GNU site there is a *moral/ethical*
> argument here. They make an argument that it is fundamentally wrong on a
> *moral* level to hide source code and restrict freedom of software.
Exactly. None of the sites
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:27, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> nVidia have lucrative IP technologies at risk.. .protecting that from
> prying eyes is only protecting their core business.
No, their core business is selling designs for graphics chipsets. The
various patent and copyright laws protect there int
> No we were discussing the video drivers!
Oops, I haven't heard the video chip being referred to as chip*set* so
far.
> this is where it gets difficult for me, are you also saying that an
> author of a book should not get royalties of be able to have copyright
> protection? where is the differe
/me waits in baited anticipation of some of the opencores stuff to get
moving . ;p
Dale.
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: nvidia on slashdot
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:10:59 +1
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:10:59 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Open Source advocates say that the argument is about the quality of the
> > resultant code. (a consequentialist or utilitarian view)
> > The Free Software Foundation say that it is morally wrong to buy, write
> > or
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:44:10 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> well they obviously think that the source code to their software is
> something thats worth protecting. debate it with them.
In fact we are not debating what nVidia has to do (not our concern), but what could do
to make us
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:56, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> Chris Wilkinson wrote:
>
> > The authors of free software AGREE and WANT to allow people to
> > view their source...nVidia have lucrative IP technologies at
> > risk...protecting that from prying eyes is only protecting their
> > core business. Wi
Nick Rout wrote:
I like nVidia, they have a reputation of being one of the best supported
linux drivers, despite not being at the point of GPL'ing their drivers
(and they may never be to that point).
But the point should be made that maybe they should be congratulated for
supportting Linux but sho
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
The authors of free software AGREE and WANT to allow people to
view their source...nVidia have lucrative IP technologies at
risk...protecting that from prying eyes is only protecting their
core business. Without that we'd have no decent cards...
Hiding their driver software
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:27, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> [stir] it worked ;)
>
> > >>[0]Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their
> > >>chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks.
>
> > Rubbish? Do you have a reason for stating this? Perhaps a reason
> > backed up som
[stir] it worked ;)
> >>[0]Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their
> >>chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks.
> Rubbish? Do you have a reason for stating this? Perhaps a reason
> backed up some very good objective analysis of why nVidia should
> release the
Hi there,
Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:56, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Rubbish? Do you have a reason for stating this?
Freedom.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/comics1
http://www.debian.org/intro/free
The authors of f
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:56:47 +1200
Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> >>[0]Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their
> >>chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks.
> >
> > Of course, decent hardware companies have
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:56, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Rubbish? Do you have a reason for stating this?
Freedom.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/comics1
http://www.debian.org/intro/free
Having said that â in a fairly argumentative way,
Hi there,
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
[0]Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their
chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks.
Of course, decent hardware companies have the drivers for their chipsets
already in the kernel source tree, eliminating the need for stuffing
aro
> [0]Supermathie writes "NVidia has finally released drivers for their
> chipsets and the 2.6 kernel that support 4K stacks.
Of course, decent hardware companies have the drivers for their chipsets
already in the kernel source tree, eliminating the need for stuffing
around with binary only rubbish
Just since there was mention of nvidia drivers while discussing the
installfest at the meeting.
++
| NVidia Releases Linux Drivers Supporting 4K Stacks |
| from the stack-em-up dept.
like it is just you as there has been only one vote and that
one
was "No Preference" for location.
Ciao, Dave
-Original Message-
From: InfoHelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004
3:02 p.m.
To: CLUG (E-mail)
Subject: slashdot meetup Q
Hi folks,
anyone here a
LOL. Looks like it is just you as there has been only one vote and that one
was "No Preference" for location.
Ciao, Dave
-Original Message-
From: InfoHelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004 3:02 p.m.
To: CLUG (E-mail)
Subject: slashdot meetup Q
Hi folks,
a
Hi folks,
anyone here a part of this?:
Thurs 22/4/4 7pm
http://slashdot.meetup.com/884
Cheers
Rik
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Paul William wrote:
Of course, if you actually look at the numbers, RH outnumbers all of the
Of course debian is free so sales figures are irrelevant.
The numbers in question were not sales figures.
They were, IIRC, http server responses collected by netcraft.
Cheers,
Carl.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:57:40PM +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
> > > But RH does beat Debian hands down for friendly installers.
> > Indeed. The Debian developers are slowly working on a new installation
> > system, but don't expect it to be particularly flashy first-time-out.
> Others are simply po
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:15, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:00:29PM +1300, mjm159 wrote:
> > But RH does beat Debian hands down for friendly installers.
>
> Indeed. The Debian developers are slowly working on a new installation
> system, but don't expect it to be particularly
> Of course, if you actually look at the numbers, RH outnumbers all of the
Of course debian is free so sales figures are irrelevant.
(I am not denying red hat is not the biggest)
> other distributions *combined*. Their wedge got slightly smaller, but
> the pie got way bigger. (Although, when
mjm159 wrote:
Hi all,
I had a look at Slashdot today, there's a post about Debian making number
gains in the distro front. This at the expense of Red Hat I assume (and it's
implied) after they changed to Fedora.
Of course, if you actually look at the numbers, RH outnumbers all of
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:00:29PM +1300, mjm159 wrote:
> But RH does beat Debian hands down for friendly installers.
Indeed. The Debian developers are slowly working on a new installation
system, but don't expect it to be particularly flashy first-time-out.
> Now the question: I have installed
Hi all,
I had a look at Slashdot today, there's a post about Debian making number
gains in the distro front. This at the expense of Red Hat I assume (and it's
implied) after they changed to Fedora. As an ardent RH fan who's now a newbie
Debian user I don't think I'l
wooohooo
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/08/25/0024204.shtml?tid=111&tid=126&tid=95
is this the closest clug has got to slashdot??
Slashdot seems to have gone all static. Anybody have any idea what's up?
Maybe /. has been /.'ed?
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