hello? that's the best time to get stocked up on your favorite beverage and snack food. i turn on my ps2 & tv, let it get all set up at the start screen, while i raid the kitchen and come back and get comfortable.
if we had no start-up screens then i would sit and game and go hungry and thirsty.:-(
i sold my ati card months ago and replaced it with a nice nvidia. ati's linux support has always been spotty. drivers are out months later, bug ridden and don't support various features. they might as well not have any support at all. not to say nvidia is a lot better, they have a long way to go, but they are better than ati's support.
no.. maybe it's about time the goverment took care of matters on the planet before worrying about matters in space. maybe they should get out of the space program entirely. leave it up to the commerical interests and private folk. look at all the private ventures we see now shooting up rockets quicker, faster and cheaper than what the government bothered to do.
would it be such a loss if we let the world's smart, bright engineers launch themselves into space and left the fat, dumb-ass politicans at home?
i got mine done 3 and a half years ago from lasik plus and am still very happy with the results. after the surgery i was rated at 20/15 vision and it settled down to 20/20 after a year or so. i did have some starring around bright lights (especially those blue car lights) at night when i was tired but they were gone after 9 months or so.
my advice, get it while and enjoy the years without glasses. just make sure you go to a respectable doctor who knows what they are doing. this is definately not something you want to get from a fly-by-night clinic because they advertise the "cheapest price in town." real doctors are leasing and using the latest equipment, doctors who own their equipment upgrade it far less often.
take your time, do your research on the doctor who will perform the surgery and the exact equipment they will use (watch out for bait and switch!). a good place will give you all the details you can ask for. google the equipment they are using (i did, the B&L laser they were using had all its specs online).
anyway. i'm a very happy success story. hope you are too.
and you can have that control in gentoo as well, emerge -k (or -K) will use a binary package, if available.
people want to make fun of gentoo's "forever" compile times but face it, on any half-decent system compiles are a few minutes, maybe 10? only "big" things like KDE, Gnome, GCC 3.0 take more than 10-15 minutes. there is the option to download and use a binary package install. you can't tell me all pacakges install instantly either (some have quite a few levels of dependencies that you'll have to download and install first).
if you don't like gentoo, don't use it. the nice thing is there are other options available. but people claiming that every time you install a package into gentoo that you will have to wait for a long compile are just slinging FUD. you'd have to wait to compile that source rpm just as long as i'd have to wait to compile my ebuild. i've got more control over my installation than a red bloat install, but theirs will go faster (assuming i'm starting from stage 1 and not stage 3). it's all what really meets your needs in the end.
and some people might need their package manager to tell them to get out of the house because if it didn't, no one would!
your compiles take "forever"? wow. man. time to upgrade your box. really.
for all the people bitching that kde takes "forever" to compile. here's a tip.
1. emerge kde
2. LEAVE THE HOUSE FOR A FEW HOURS!!!!!!! get some damn fresh air already. take a shower. see LoTR for the 9999th time. go play D&D with your friends, in person, no irc/evercrack. get up off your butt for a few hours! OMG!
3. come back and kde is ready to go
if you want something "instant" then install mandrake/redbloat/windows/etc.
if you want something you have a little more control over (mess with your use flags, the.ebuild file, etc.) try gentoo
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na. i'm guessing in the next 5 or so congress will find an excuse to extend patents for 1,000 years or so.. and it shouldn't take them 18 years. the movies never took that long, just felt like it.
when they did their demo they never mentioned their movie business. then again we were looking at graphics modeling systems, not movies. the systems were to take mri scans and assemble them into 3d images that could be manipulated in real time. not something most computers could do back then with any serious speed (at 32 bits of color).
i remember pixar demoing some of their medical imaging systems at princeton university back in 1987.. they sold some high-end unix-based servers to help generate graphics, the kind that are easily done on a PS1 these days. making movies wasn't even on their radar back then.
didn't buy any of the servers, but they were pretty pictures (for the time).
nope. number portability hasn't done a thing for me. my contract is up in a month and i'll be switching providers, t-mobile has very poor coverage in the area i moved to recently.
getting a new number is something i actually want. this way i know who has the new number and no calls from people i'm hiding out from who knew the old one.
well. if the person with the MSFT can read, it will cost him the price of this book to get him up to speed on samba. if he can't, then hire someone else:-)
please. heh. i don't think anything could stop sco from their rampage. jesus, satan and the man-in-the-moon could all show up at sco's offices begging for sco to stop what their doing and daryl mcb and crew would keep on sueing along i think.
linksys used the chipset in their product. they also used linux as the OS in the product. they wrote drivers for the broadcom chips and patched them into the linux kernel. actually linksys didn't necessarily write the code themselves, they could have contracted it out to consultants, india, broadcom, mars, atlantis.
for months people have been hounding linksys to release the source code for using the broadcom chips (which would greatly enhance open source support for these chips). linksys has been stalling.
cisco recently bought linksys, so they inherited the whole fiasco.
cisco's responsibility now is to provide the source code or write new firmware from scratch, patch every one of the offending products out there and still provide source code for the previous versions of firmware (just because you fixed the problem doesn't mean it didn't exist).
guess what people.. sharing your works derived on GPL code is part of what comes with using GPL'ed code in the first place. don't like the rules? don't use the code! it's as simple as that.
as for this being cisco's problem, someone there should have noticed this before they bought out linksys. if cisco thought it was a show-stopper they could have backed out. they don't like it now? they can settle up with the FSF and publish their code or write their own code and give everyone a nice firmware upgrade (meanwhile i expect they'd have to share the code for already published firmware versions).
companies are smart enough to use gpl'ed code in the first place then they are smart enough to know their responsibilities afterwards. you can't claim ignornace after-the-fact.
as for the forbes article, it is pretty obviously biased and any developer/manager/phb who has an IQ out of the single digits will spot that. wouldn't surprise me to find out that the article was paid-for/commissioned/suggested/offered by sco/microsoft/satan.
well. they should be. but whose side do you think the FCC is on anyway? the publics? LOL. did you see how they're pushing to allow mega-multi-media corporations to own 45% of local markets?
pretty soon the american public won't be voting for a president, the stockholders will just pick a ceo.
ok. granted. it will fit in your pocket. but it's going to take up the whole pocket and it's not as light as my wallet, definately not back pocket material unless you wanna hear it go crunch when you forget about it and sit down. and i don't see it fitting in my shirt pocket (it won't fit in my protector;-)
just because something is "pocket sized" it doesn't mean you'd want to carry it in your pocket all day long.
"While the majority of Linux customers probably would not participate in a SCO licensing program, Haff predicted some companies might be willing to pay SCO for the security of knowing they would not be sued."
Well no. Because we want one person to cover the whole weekend. We also want some time off where you aren't on duty at all. So rotate thru the days and then off entirely for a period of time.
But thanks.
obviously you're more of a *nix bigot than i am. we could argue this point until we're both blue in the face. as far as corporate america is concerned ms windows/office is the way to go, regardless of what the readers of/. thinks...
no os is perfect. no application is perfect. none ever will be (else we'd all be out of jobs).
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hello? that's the best time to get stocked up on your favorite beverage and snack food. i turn on my ps2 & tv, let it get all set up at the start screen, while i raid the kitchen and come back and get comfortable.
:-(
if we had no start-up screens then i would sit and game and go hungry and thirsty.
i sold my ati card months ago and replaced it with a nice nvidia. ati's linux support has always been spotty. drivers are out months later, bug ridden and don't support various features. they might as well not have any support at all. not to say nvidia is a lot better, they have a long way to go, but they are better than ati's support.
no.. maybe it's about time the goverment took care of matters on the planet before worrying about matters in space. maybe they should get out of the space program entirely. leave it up to the commerical interests and private folk. look at all the private ventures we see now shooting up rockets quicker, faster and cheaper than what the government bothered to do.
would it be such a loss if we let the world's smart, bright engineers launch themselves into space and left the fat, dumb-ass politicans at home?
my advice, get it while and enjoy the years without glasses. just make sure you go to a respectable doctor who knows what they are doing. this is definately not something you want to get from a fly-by-night clinic because they advertise the "cheapest price in town." real doctors are leasing and using the latest equipment, doctors who own their equipment upgrade it far less often.
take your time, do your research on the doctor who will perform the surgery and the exact equipment they will use (watch out for bait and switch!). a good place will give you all the details you can ask for. google the equipment they are using (i did, the B&L laser they were using had all its specs online).
anyway. i'm a very happy success story. hope you are too.
solution is simple. don't like the protection? don't buy the content. no one buys it, it will eventually go away.
and you can have that control in gentoo as well, emerge -k (or -K) will use a binary package, if available.
people want to make fun of gentoo's "forever" compile times but face it, on any half-decent system compiles are a few minutes, maybe 10? only "big" things like KDE, Gnome, GCC 3.0 take more than 10-15 minutes. there is the option to download and use a binary package install. you can't tell me all pacakges install instantly either (some have quite a few levels of dependencies that you'll have to download and install first).
if you don't like gentoo, don't use it. the nice thing is there are other options available. but people claiming that every time you install a package into gentoo that you will have to wait for a long compile are just slinging FUD. you'd have to wait to compile that source rpm just as long as i'd have to wait to compile my ebuild. i've got more control over my installation than a red bloat install, but theirs will go faster (assuming i'm starting from stage 1 and not stage 3). it's all what really meets your needs in the end.
and some people might need their package manager to tell them to get out of the house because if it didn't, no one would!
your compiles take "forever"? wow. man. time to upgrade your box. really.
.ebuild file, etc.) try gentoo
for all the people bitching that kde takes "forever" to compile. here's a tip.
1. emerge kde
2. LEAVE THE HOUSE FOR A FEW HOURS!!!!!!! get some damn fresh air already. take a shower. see LoTR for the 9999th time. go play D&D with your friends, in person, no irc/evercrack. get up off your butt for a few hours! OMG!
3. come back and kde is ready to go
if you want something "instant" then install mandrake/redbloat/windows/etc.
if you want something you have a little more control over (mess with your use flags, the
na. i'm guessing in the next 5 or so congress will find an excuse to extend patents for 1,000 years or so.. and it shouldn't take them 18 years. the movies never took that long, just felt like it.
Ouch, SCO, that had to hurt a bit. Definately made me smile this morning.
how long ya think before the b0rg come sue for patent infringement on their cube ship design?
how come larry has a fully head of hair and a beard but no eyebrows..?
i stand corrected..
when they did their demo they never mentioned their movie business. then again we were looking at graphics modeling systems, not movies. the systems were to take mri scans and assemble them into 3d images that could be manipulated in real time. not something most computers could do back then with any serious speed (at 32 bits of color).
i remember pixar demoing some of their medical imaging systems at princeton university back in 1987.. they sold some high-end unix-based servers to help generate graphics, the kind that are easily done on a PS1 these days. making movies wasn't even on their radar back then.
didn't buy any of the servers, but they were pretty pictures (for the time).
nope. number portability hasn't done a thing for me. my contract is up in a month and i'll be switching providers, t-mobile has very poor coverage in the area i moved to recently.
getting a new number is something i actually want. this way i know who has the new number and no calls from people i'm hiding out from who knew the old one.
well. if the person with the MSFT can read, it will cost him the price of this book to get him up to speed on samba. if he can't, then hire someone else :-)
please. heh. i don't think anything could stop sco from their rampage. jesus, satan and the man-in-the-moon could all show up at sco's offices begging for sco to stop what their doing and daryl mcb and crew would keep on sueing along i think.
broadcom made the chips..
linksys used the chipset in their product. they also used linux as the OS in the product. they wrote drivers for the broadcom chips and patched them into the linux kernel. actually linksys didn't necessarily write the code themselves, they could have contracted it out to consultants, india, broadcom, mars, atlantis.
for months people have been hounding linksys to release the source code for using the broadcom chips (which would greatly enhance open source support for these chips). linksys has been stalling.
cisco recently bought linksys, so they inherited the whole fiasco.
cisco's responsibility now is to provide the source code or write new firmware from scratch, patch every one of the offending products out there and still provide source code for the previous versions of firmware (just because you fixed the problem doesn't mean it didn't exist).
guess what people.. sharing your works derived on GPL code is part of what comes with using GPL'ed code in the first place. don't like the rules? don't use the code! it's as simple as that.
as for this being cisco's problem, someone there should have noticed this before they bought out linksys. if cisco thought it was a show-stopper they could have backed out. they don't like it now? they can settle up with the FSF and publish their code or write their own code and give everyone a nice firmware upgrade (meanwhile i expect they'd have to share the code for already published firmware versions).
companies are smart enough to use gpl'ed code in the first place then they are smart enough to know their responsibilities afterwards. you can't claim ignornace after-the-fact.
as for the forbes article, it is pretty obviously biased and any developer/manager/phb who has an IQ out of the single digits will spot that. wouldn't surprise me to find out that the article was paid-for/commissioned/suggested/offered by sco/microsoft/satan.
jeeze..
let's see.. riaa.. sco.. mpaa.. riaa.. sco.. mpaa..
so hard to decide.
well. they should be. but whose side do you think the FCC is on anyway? the publics? LOL. did you see how they're pushing to allow mega-multi-media corporations to own 45% of local markets?
pretty soon the american public won't be voting for a president, the stockholders will just pick a ceo.
just because something is "pocket sized" it doesn't mean you'd want to carry it in your pocket all day long.
"excuse me, is that a clie in your pocket or a brick???"
Excuse me, but isn't extortion illegal in the US?
Well no. Because we want one person to cover the whole weekend. We also want some time off where you aren't on duty at all. So rotate thru the days and then off entirely for a period of time. But thanks.
obviously you're more of a *nix bigot than i am. we could argue this point until we're both blue in the face. as far as corporate america is concerned ms windows/office is the way to go, regardless of what the readers of /. thinks...
no os is perfect. no application is perfect. none ever will be (else we'd all be out of jobs).