There are certain creative ventures, notes from a series of novels I am writing, and many things that I intend to make a profit with that are fully legal and fully ethical, moral, you name it... that I can see encrypting (and do encrypt) simply to protect myself and my creations for reasons of well... I would prefer not to be plagiarized by unscrupulous authors...
When you're a writer, and you're good, people will plagiarize you. It's happened to me before, on three different unrelated occasions. When it comes to my flagship writing venture, I'd prefer to keep the good stuff under lock and key, lest I be plagiarized by some hack with a big name. So do I use encryption when sharing my material with beta readers and editors, you're damned right I do.
In general, I'd love to see a psychological profile of George Lucas sometime. Especially considering some of the truly bizarre moral commandments he's put into his recent films (missing your mom is wrong, getting angry at things is bad and makes you a bad person, if you want to be a hero then relationships are forbidden, etc.)
Apparently you missed the point. Those strictures were illustrating the level of legalism that shackled those who followed the way of the Jedi. Scruples versus morals & ethics if you will. If you follow the story of Luke Skywalker, he had attachments, he did get a bit pissed, and he still did not fall to the dark side. Its more of an illustration of the pitfalls of religious legalism than it is an expression of such.
Holy crap. Awesome post. You're already maxxed on mod points, so I will reply instead of mod you up.
I've been a Trek fan for years. Much like you, I stood by and was loyal to every series, up until season two of Enterprise. Interest was slipping, though honestly it had begun to slip somewhere during Voyager's run. I liked the Hirogen, but they ruined the Borg. In the beginning it looked to me like there was a lot of potential for good storyline about the birth of the Federation, with episodes such as The Andorian Incident and the one that followed it up (I liked Shran), but for every good episode I watched I would see six or more completely ludicrous episodes. There were cheesy episodes in TOS, DS9, and even TNG, but they were the exceptions rather than the rule, for the most part.
Anyways, I abandoned Enterprise a bit over a year ago. Evil Time Travelling Space Nazis. They should just tack on a "From Hell", make it a B-Movie and be done with it.
Star Trek was over with First Contact. That was the end.
At least Star Wars still has one good movie left... and at least Lucas has the wisdom to let Star Wars die (as a movie franchise) after Revenge of the Sith.
A parsec is equal to the distance where an object will show a parallax of one second (as in a 360th of a degree, not an increment of time). Its a little over 3.1 light years, IIRC. A kiloparsec is a thousand of those. Figure over 30,000 light years per kiloparsec.
I think Revenge of the Sith is going to change alot of people's views of the Prequels and the Original Trilogy, in a good way. Judging from various leaks, spoilers, and Hyperspace tidbits, I think Revenge of the Sith will be the best of the prequels, and will be more than worthwhile.
As for Jar-Jar - we're supposed to hate him. He's the dumb bitch who hands the Republic over to Palpatine on a silver platter, so...
To be honest, I'd say Gentoo because it has the optimization and configurability advantages of LFS, yet is far easier to maintain and keep updated with portage.
I have always used the plain vanilla kernel.org kernels, compiled to my needs, no matter what the distro. If I need to download one of their kernels as a dependency, I simply emerge the sources but never compile or install it. If you have an existing kernel install with a source tree in/usr/src/linux* - if the kernels are within a couple of releases of each other you can usually get away with copying the.config over to your new (old) kernel tree and skip the 'make config/menuconfig/xconfig' portion of the install.
That memory leak is nasty. I had to roll back my install to 2.6.7 because of the way it would slow down my system to sub-Pentium levels if I left it up for more than a few hours. I was starting to wonder if my IDE bus was blowing up on me when I'd try to burn audio cd's, and then I read about that leak which explained the slowdowns. So I would have to concur with the parent. 2.6.7 works just fine, but 2.6.8 should be skipped.
Install an absolutely basic Debian distro, skip dselect and tasksel, and apt-get what you want and need for your basic distro, then build up from there. If you want to invest a lot of time in configuration, but build a system completely tailored to your wants and needs there's Gentoo and LFS - depends on how much support you want to find, how much time you wish to invest, and how much package management infrastructure you want.
I have been using 2.6 sporadically since the last 2.5.X releases and the prereleases, and using it as my main kernel since 2.6.0 when I the minion.de NVidia drivers were released.
I dual-boot with Windows XP
Still using 2.6 at 2.6.6 and my partition table has been just fine.
Heh. This is getting to be as temporally skewed as the 5-part HHGTTG series. Next thing Star Trek will need is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's "Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 tense formations.";)
If I had points, I would mod you insightful. I personally started to lose interest with Deep Space Nine, and then my interest went six feet under with Voyager. Seeing what I have of Enterprise, they have deviated far from the continuity of the Star Trek franchise that was established in the original series and Next Generation years (Romulan cloaking devices a century before Kirk? First contact with the Klingons before the Federation even existed? Xindi? Come on!)
The only thing that would save this show would be to cancel the show and have a final episode where an Ensign Daniels walked out of a holodeck on Enterprise-D, to be railed on about historical inconsistencies by Data.
I don't recognize any of the movies after First Contact either, so forget about B-4.
Supporting parent, I've used a SCSI card from my RS/6000 (powerPC based) on my x86 based PC under Linux without any problems. Modprobe and go. It was a Symbios chipset based differential SCSI card used for an Andataco RAID system that I needed some data off of. Detected it, modprobed the JFS modules, it worked, no problem.
One may wish to try this out for setting up a Linux pc for a beginner, or perhaps in a special kiosk-type situation where Joe Sixpack might sit down to check his email or search the web, say in a library or perhaps a net cafe. This isn't designed for seasoned Linux users.
I tried this out one night when I was planning out a desktop for a person I knew who wanted to try out Linux. On a visual level, it was very well put together, and one could forget they were in Linux until one tried out the control panel, or wanted to get any work done. Menus and things still had to be assembled manually also, which didn't mean too much to me, as it was still 0.31 at the time. It wasn't ready for my friend's system, and I ended up putting Gnome 2.2 on there which they were more than happy with. I'd say this project definitely has a future, from what I see their mock-up of the Win2K desktop was pretty right on target, behaviors and all. The lack of some key features are what kept it from being ready, but I imagine much of it will be dependent on the distribution, placing icons in the start menu, etc when one installs a.deb,.rpm, or runs an emerge.
Earlier this morning, a forum site that I help run was getting swamped by about ten 'guests' that traced from Microsoft, and I told one of the other admins that it looked like Microsoft is getting ready to roll out their new search engine because their bots were spidering us alot more than the usual two or three guests we got from the old-style MSN search bots.
Not everybody codes, and many people do go in and shell out X dollars at Fry's or CompUSA for a Linux distro. People actually do pay for Linux. I've purchased Debian, SuSE and a Walnut Creek distro pack with several distros.
Pointing out the inherent problems in Linux is not grounds for flames, in my opinion. If you want to see Linux go beyond a hobbyist OS or a server OS, then recognition of the problems is called for as well as willingness to help rectify said problem, if you are an coder who works on such projects. Just because "it works perfect" on your machine does not mean problems do not exist for others, and it certainly does not mean that one who points out said problems is a troll.
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Probably all the Opera users using the handy little user agent spoof thingy to make the web server think its IE. Just my guess.
Cats and dogs, living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!
There are certain creative ventures, notes from a series of novels I am writing, and many things that I intend to make a profit with that are fully legal and fully ethical, moral, you name it... that I can see encrypting (and do encrypt) simply to protect myself and my creations for reasons of well... I would prefer not to be plagiarized by unscrupulous authors...
When you're a writer, and you're good, people will plagiarize you. It's happened to me before, on three different unrelated occasions. When it comes to my flagship writing venture, I'd prefer to keep the good stuff under lock and key, lest I be plagiarized by some hack with a big name. So do I use encryption when sharing my material with beta readers and editors, you're damned right I do.
In general, I'd love to see a psychological profile of George Lucas sometime. Especially considering some of the truly bizarre moral commandments he's put into his recent films (missing your mom is wrong, getting angry at things is bad and makes you a bad person, if you want to be a hero then relationships are forbidden, etc.)
Apparently you missed the point. Those strictures were illustrating the level of legalism that shackled those who followed the way of the Jedi. Scruples versus morals & ethics if you will. If you follow the story of Luke Skywalker, he had attachments, he did get a bit pissed, and he still did not fall to the dark side. Its more of an illustration of the pitfalls of religious legalism than it is an expression of such.
Holy crap. Awesome post. You're already maxxed on mod points, so I will reply instead of mod you up.
I've been a Trek fan for years. Much like you, I stood by and was loyal to every series, up until season two of Enterprise. Interest was slipping, though honestly it had begun to slip somewhere during Voyager's run. I liked the Hirogen, but they ruined the Borg. In the beginning it looked to me like there was a lot of potential for good storyline about the birth of the Federation, with episodes such as The Andorian Incident and the one that followed it up (I liked Shran), but for every good episode I watched I would see six or more completely ludicrous episodes. There were cheesy episodes in TOS, DS9, and even TNG, but they were the exceptions rather than the rule, for the most part.
Anyways, I abandoned Enterprise a bit over a year ago. Evil Time Travelling Space Nazis. They should just tack on a "From Hell", make it a B-Movie and be done with it.
Star Trek was over with First Contact. That was the end.
At least Star Wars still has one good movie left... and at least Lucas has the wisdom to let Star Wars die (as a movie franchise) after Revenge of the Sith.
A parsec is equal to the distance where an object will show a parallax of one second (as in a 360th of a degree, not an increment of time). Its a little over 3.1 light years, IIRC. A kiloparsec is a thousand of those. Figure over 30,000 light years per kiloparsec.
I think Revenge of the Sith is going to change alot of people's views of the Prequels and the Original Trilogy, in a good way. Judging from various leaks, spoilers, and Hyperspace tidbits, I think Revenge of the Sith will be the best of the prequels, and will be more than worthwhile.
As for Jar-Jar - we're supposed to hate him. He's the dumb bitch who hands the Republic over to Palpatine on a silver platter, so...
To be honest, I'd say Gentoo because it has the optimization and configurability advantages of LFS, yet is far easier to maintain and keep updated with portage.
I have always used the plain vanilla kernel.org kernels, compiled to my needs, no matter what the distro. If I need to download one of their kernels as a dependency, I simply emerge the sources but never compile or install it. If you have an existing kernel install with a source tree in /usr/src/linux* - if the kernels are within a couple of releases of each other you can usually get away with copying the .config over to your new (old) kernel tree and skip the 'make config/menuconfig/xconfig' portion of the install.
That memory leak is nasty. I had to roll back my install to 2.6.7 because of the way it would slow down my system to sub-Pentium levels if I left it up for more than a few hours. I was starting to wonder if my IDE bus was blowing up on me when I'd try to burn audio cd's, and then I read about that leak which explained the slowdowns. So I would have to concur with the parent. 2.6.7 works just fine, but 2.6.8 should be skipped.
There is always Debian.
Install an absolutely basic Debian distro, skip dselect and tasksel, and apt-get what you want and need for your basic distro, then build up from there. If you want to invest a lot of time in configuration, but build a system completely tailored to your wants and needs there's Gentoo and LFS - depends on how much support you want to find, how much time you wish to invest, and how much package management infrastructure you want.
And the Sith.
I can mod about 15 percent of the posts in here. All of the moddable ones are the more recent posts.
I have been using 2.6 sporadically since the last 2.5.X releases and the prereleases, and using it as my main kernel since 2.6.0 when I the minion.de NVidia drivers were released.
I dual-boot with Windows XP
Still using 2.6 at 2.6.6 and my partition table has been just fine.
Heh. This is getting to be as temporally skewed as the 5-part HHGTTG series. Next thing Star Trek will need is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's "Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 tense formations." ;)
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
:)
Its free as in speech (GPL), runs natively on Linux, Windows, BSD, and MacOSX now.
Sure its based on the 3DO Port, but with --cscan=pc --menu=pc it plays like an enhanced PC version.
If I had points, I would mod you insightful. I personally started to lose interest with Deep Space Nine, and then my interest went six feet under with Voyager. Seeing what I have of Enterprise, they have deviated far from the continuity of the Star Trek franchise that was established in the original series and Next Generation years (Romulan cloaking devices a century before Kirk? First contact with the Klingons before the Federation even existed? Xindi? Come on!)
The only thing that would save this show would be to cancel the show and have a final episode where an Ensign Daniels walked out of a holodeck on Enterprise-D, to be railed on about historical inconsistencies by Data.
I don't recognize any of the movies after First Contact either, so forget about B-4.
Supporting parent, I've used a SCSI card from my RS/6000 (powerPC based) on my x86 based PC under Linux without any problems. Modprobe and go. It was a Symbios chipset based differential SCSI card used for an Andataco RAID system that I needed some data off of. Detected it, modprobed the JFS modules, it worked, no problem.
One may wish to try this out for setting up a Linux pc for a beginner, or perhaps in a special kiosk-type situation where Joe Sixpack might sit down to check his email or search the web, say in a library or perhaps a net cafe. This isn't designed for seasoned Linux users.
And the default for xpde is actually the classic Win2K style.
I tried this out one night when I was planning out a desktop for a person I knew who wanted to try out Linux. On a visual level, it was very well put together, and one could forget they were in Linux until one tried out the control panel, or wanted to get any work done. Menus and things still had to be assembled manually also, which didn't mean too much to me, as it was still 0.31 at the time. It wasn't ready for my friend's system, and I ended up putting Gnome 2.2 on there which they were more than happy with. I'd say this project definitely has a future, from what I see their mock-up of the Win2K desktop was pretty right on target, behaviors and all. The lack of some key features are what kept it from being ready, but I imagine much of it will be dependent on the distribution, placing icons in the start menu, etc when one installs a .deb, .rpm, or runs an emerge.
Actual results:
#1. Amazon's Linux software store.
#2. Linux Online (linux.org)
#3. A linux utilities site.
#4. Redhat.com
#5. Linux.com
Earlier this morning, a forum site that I help run was getting swamped by about ten 'guests' that traced from Microsoft, and I told one of the other admins that it looked like Microsoft is getting ready to roll out their new search engine because their bots were spidering us alot more than the usual two or three guests we got from the old-style MSN search bots.
Not everybody codes, and many people do go in and shell out X dollars at Fry's or CompUSA for a Linux distro. People actually do pay for Linux. I've purchased Debian, SuSE and a Walnut Creek distro pack with several distros.
Pointing out the inherent problems in Linux is not grounds for flames, in my opinion. If you want to see Linux go beyond a hobbyist OS or a server OS, then recognition of the problems is called for as well as willingness to help rectify said problem, if you are an coder who works on such projects. Just because "it works perfect" on your machine does not mean problems do not exist for others, and it certainly does not mean that one who points out said problems is a troll.
YHBT.