This is exactly what I do before I upgrade or switch distributions. I tar the/etc and home directories and unpack all configuration files I need afterwards. Just as simple and hassle-free as it can get.
I always thought they preferred "Ballmør" chairs from Ikea because these have been specially designed to be lightweight and carefully balanced in terms of aerodynamics.
They do - on Avivo powered cards (R500 or later). I am able to to watch digital TV in 1080i with less than 20% CPU utilization (on an Athlon 64 3200+).
PCLinuxOS is notorious for showing up very high on their list without being a major distribution. The list is based on hits to their site, so it is in theory possible someone wrote a bot to distort the stats.
They are just codenames of the development versions. Final releases only have a version number, although they are usually referred to by their code name among geeks.
An explosive story is being suppressed by Microsoft? I'm sure when they can't hold it any more, it will burst out of their asstunnel in true projectile diarrhea fashion.
Technically by the way, the specs would allow a open source Windows driver to be written aswell instead of the one supplied by ati for windows, right? Of course it would be within the realm of possibility with enough effort, but I don't think there are as many ambitious, independent hardware driver developers in the Windows world compared to Linux, or actually the general will to do it. It's a wholly different subculture that perceives itself as not needing a DIY attitude.
Maybe those Windows folks should just dual boot with Linux and play their legacy games in Wine? It should be much less of a hassle than waiting for a fix that will never arrive because it makes Nvidia no money.
From my own experience, many boot sector viruses were tough enough to survive CTRL-ALT-DEL or even a warm reboot via the reset button, so it is imperative to turn the PC completely off after that procedure.
I remember the good old times of DOS bootsector viruses. I had a virus named Tremor that reprogrammed the VGA registers, so from time to time the screen contents would shiver like having a cold, and on some occasions a little Pacman appeared and ate the menu bar of Norton Commander. It was fun until I switched on the PC one day and was greeted with the message "ROM BIOS NOT FOUND" in 40x25 black & white mode.
Thanks to gtk-qt-engine Gimp looks quite "native" on my KDE machine, however, it's a GNOME program, so the file dialogs suck and OK/cancel buttons are reversed.
But I think most people complain about Gimp not because of the widgets, but because it doesn't use nested windows (was that called MDI?) which are quite popular in the Windows world but a strict no-no in Linux UI design. I think a streamlined design with document tabs and dockable toolbars would help a lot here.
In Germany it only gets complicated insofar that a "billion" from US publications is sometimes translated 1:1, i.e not as a "milliard", which leads to a ridiculous number that is 1000 times to high. This almost never happens in stock trade news, fortunately.
Much more likely: you're just not from America, and use a nonstandard "Trillion." (This is a US site, default to US measurements or state otherwise, please.) This is an international site, so I will happily stick to universally accepted standard units like the "real" trillion (a quadrillion for you), celsius, 24 hours format and meters. For non-standard folks there is still this fine Firefox extension.
Yes, I indeed think the guy who created the image installed DOS and various diagnostic/burn-in-testing tools first from some old infected floppies he had lying around at home. Quite dilettanish, because there are special Linux live CDs that do a better task at such preparations.
Do you know why I don't shop at either Lidl or Aldi? The employees look unhappy there and are unfriendly and that says a lot. I prefer shopping at Real. They have their lineup of el cheapo wares too, and the service is much better.
Not that I would buy a PC at a supermarket, anyway. I recommend buying from smaller specialized retailers, which will also be happy to build a PC by your specifications and with your OS of choice (or no OS at all).
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I'm quite sure "boxen" is a germanism - and in that case it would be the correct plural form.
This is exactly what I do before I upgrade or switch distributions. I tar the /etc and home directories and unpack all configuration files I need afterwards. Just as simple and hassle-free as it can get.
That's what shell scripts are for (or at least one of their many possible uses).
I also demonstrates that the GP thinks one can generate prime numbers using an integer overflow.
I always thought they preferred "Ballmør" chairs from Ikea because these have been specially designed to be lightweight and carefully balanced in terms of aerodynamics.
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They do - on Avivo powered cards (R500 or later). I am able to to watch digital TV in 1080i with less than 20% CPU utilization (on an Athlon 64 3200+).
Public Domain isn't a license. It just means you release something without claiming a copyright at all.
PCLinuxOS is notorious for showing up very high on their list without being a major distribution. The list is based on hits to their site, so it is in theory possible someone wrote a bot to distort the stats.
They are just codenames of the development versions. Final releases only have a version number, although they are usually referred to by their code name among geeks.
Wrong. He meant assumbrella.
An explosive story is being suppressed by Microsoft? I'm sure when they can't hold it any more, it will burst out of their asstunnel in true projectile diarrhea fashion.
Maybe those Windows folks should just dual boot with Linux and play their legacy games in Wine? It should be much less of a hassle than waiting for a fix that will never arrive because it makes Nvidia no money.
Okay, dankend angenommen :-)
From my own experience, many boot sector viruses were tough enough to survive CTRL-ALT-DEL or even a warm reboot via the reset button, so it is imperative to turn the PC completely off after that procedure.
I remember the good old times of DOS bootsector viruses. I had a virus named Tremor that reprogrammed the VGA registers, so from time to time the screen contents would shiver like having a cold, and on some occasions a little Pacman appeared and ate the menu bar of Norton Commander. It was fun until I switched on the PC one day and was greeted with the message "ROM BIOS NOT FOUND" in 40x25 black & white mode.
Trotzdem ist die Übersetzung sehr viel akkurater. Auch wenn es den englischsprachigen Lesern egal sein dürfte ... dies ist schließlich Slashdot.
Thanks to gtk-qt-engine Gimp looks quite "native" on my KDE machine, however, it's a GNOME program, so the file dialogs suck and OK/cancel buttons are reversed.
But I think most people complain about Gimp not because of the widgets, but because it doesn't use nested windows (was that called MDI?) which are quite popular in the Windows world but a strict no-no in Linux UI design. I think a streamlined design with document tabs and dockable toolbars would help a lot here.
In Germany it only gets complicated insofar that a "billion" from US publications is sometimes translated 1:1, i.e not as a "milliard", which leads to a ridiculous number that is 1000 times to high. This almost never happens in stock trade news, fortunately.
Yes, I indeed think the guy who created the image installed DOS and various diagnostic/burn-in-testing tools first from some old infected floppies he had lying around at home. Quite dilettanish, because there are special Linux live CDs that do a better task at such preparations.
Do you know why I don't shop at either Lidl or Aldi? The employees look unhappy there and are unfriendly and that says a lot. I prefer shopping at Real. They have their lineup of el cheapo wares too, and the service is much better.
Not that I would buy a PC at a supermarket, anyway. I recommend buying from smaller specialized retailers, which will also be happy to build a PC by your specifications and with your OS of choice (or no OS at all).