I actually had a pet rat a few years back that was much MUCH more intelligent then any of my dogs have ever been.
Taking this in mind, you'd think I was against animal testing... Personally, I think if they breed the animals just FOR that then they aren't harming the ones that know any better, just the ones that were destined to die anyway.
Plus I don't think I'd be willing to try something someone handed to me when they said "Just try a sip... We think it'll do this but it'll possibly hurt more than anything else you've ever felt your entire life."
Probably the reason that it was completely silent is because there wasn't a fan. I'm guessing but that'd probably be it... I wish I could do that to my pII box that runs really loud, probably around talking level. (30db?) - 8Complex
More important things - and the Power Rangers...
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We didn't really start counting years til far, FAR after "A.D." started (I don't know history here) but we could take into account two things...
1 - The person(s) didn't know what the hell year it was since noone can put a set date.
and 2 - The person(s) who set the date were religious and set the date upon the death of Jesus (no offense other religions, catholic or christian is all I know in the religion field).
Taking this into account, I think I'm ready to just denounce the entire year counting system and become a free-floater in time and life... I shall team up with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the major Pokemon characters (cause the smaller ones have to be the losers) to battle evil into the next millennium. No not your millennium!! Mine - which in my book will start in 3 weeks and 4 days and will last for approxmitely 3 months of 43 days each... not including Thursday which will have 12 days.
Join me in my new religion and we shall battle our way through the millenniums together!!
Ok, I think this arguement is one of it's own but it rather belongs around here somewhere...
See, when you start counting, you start at 0. The first year (or whatever) isn't over til you hit 1. Seems pretty clear to me that a millenium starts at 0. Year 0 to year 999, year 1000 to 1999, etc etc.
Life starts when you are born, not when you turn 1, right?
Doh! Next time I'll read a little more slowly... As for those NetGear cards, I think I'll wait and see how Linux progresses over the next 4 months or so... Maybe someone will make a hardware detection and configuration tool that works really well. Or at least works, who knows. Also kinda waiting for XF86 4.0 to come out too... No 3D support blows.
I have tried for a good week to get a machine up and going on RH6.0 with 2 3c509b's in it and have turned off the PnP and configured the I/O and IRQ's correctly by hand. And naturally as soon as I got to the point that it -should- work, everything seems stable and yet nothing works. At all.
*runs around and starts chanting* Linux is a driver nightmare!! Linux is a driver nightmare!!/chant
I don't believe data-guarding (mirroring or parity) is warranted in this case.
Have you ever worked on Government projects before? Talk about stickler for backup and detail... Personally, all I've worked on was on the mechanical side of a government project, but I assure you, according to their specs, they need all the protection they can get.
I agree though, RAID is the way to go. I've never worked with it but I understand it pretty well and the speed alone is worth it.
if you view source, the CSS code on that page is a good 1/3 of the page...
oh wait... i figured out the problem (honestly, i've never noticed this before)
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9" meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"
nice easy conversion i'm sure... too bad it's hard as hell to read, thanks to the converter... shoulda went.doc to.rtf to.html instead
Ok, so you've got to earn money to continue paying people to code, I understand that. (reading the above post about the costs of piracy coming out of the base employees' pay...) I figure it this way - If ALL buisness bought legit copies of software, and all people using it for personal use ONLY got free copies, who is to complain?
Now I'm not talking ALL software, but things like Windows, Office, and other buisness related software (minus MS Money)... if they were free to home users and the buisnesses HAD to pay, it'd even out fine. Things like Photoshop and Sound Forge and even Accelerated X (gotta throw a Linux app in there or I'd be flamed to hell) are also included in there. Buisness pay, home users don't... Or maybe a very small price for home users even to cover the packaging and materials (an almost not-for-profit copy, if you will).
It'd work fine, though there would have to be another buisness in which employees went around checking buisness for licenses on their software. Other applications like Gizmos and Paint Shop Pro and other non-buisness type software can stay just where it is on the shelf. Theose are more non-buisness type software and can be paid for by the home users if they want it.
What I'm saying is, why make the home users pay for something at buisness' prices if they don't use it like a buisness would and they don't make money off the end-products?
Granted, Linux is nice and it is great that it is free but if you are looking for quality in applications, you are almost -always- looking at Windows apps. I don't care how much you insist, Gimp does NOT come even CLOSE to Photoshop. And Linux is still nowhere near up to par with it's hardware compatibilty (2 weeks it took me to get 2 NIC's recognized by PnP and then I get an error on startup about the (ISOLATE PRESERVE) line that noone can answer).
However you take that, I am -NOT- slamming Linux, hell, I am trying to get my server up on it (proxy/ipmasq/portforwarder to run ftp's on other machines behind it)... I just CAN'T do it.
Ok, so you've got to earn money to continue paying people to code, I understand that. (reading the above post about the costs of piracy coming out of the base employees' pay...) I figure it this way - If ALL buisness bought legit copies of software, and all people using it for personal use ONLY got free copies, who is to complain? Now I'm not talking ALL software, but things like Windows, Office, and other buisness related software (minus MS Money)... if they were free to home users and the buisnesses HAD to pay, it'd even out fine. Things like Photoshop and Sound Forge and even Accelerated X (gotta throw a Linux app in there or I'd be flamed to hell) are also included in there. Buisness pay, homes users don't... Or maybe a very small price for home users even to cover the packaging and materials (an almost not-for-profit copy, if you will). It'd work fine, though there would have to be another buisness in which employees went around checking buisness for licenses on their software. Other applications like Gizmos and Paint Shop Pro and other non-buisness type software can stay just where it is on the shelf. Theose are more non-buisness type software and can be paid for by the home users if they want it. What I'm saying is, why make the home users pay for something at buisness' prices if they don't use it like a buisness would and they don't make money off the end-products? Granted, Linux is nice and it is great that it is free but if you are looking for quality in applications, you are almost -always- looking at Windows apps. I don't care how much you insist, Gimp does NOT come even CLOSE to Photoshop. And Linux is still nowhere near up to par with it's hardware compatibilty (2 weeks it took me to get 2 NIC's recognized by PnP and then I get an error on startup about the (ISOLATE PRESERVE) line that noone can answer). However you take that, I am -NOT- slamming Linux, hell, I am trying to get my server up on it (proxy/ipmasq/portforwarder to run ftp's on other machines behind it)... I just CAN'T do it. - 8Complex
No offense guys but I am yet to see apps for X that are decently designed. Most are either good looking and bad functioning or vice versa.
Honestly, if someone came out with a (don't shoot me) Visual Basic type app where you can design your interface smoothly, it would make a world of difference.
If you want to compare take a look at the best of the best apps for Windows for Usenet downloading (text AND files), Forte' Agent. Now compare that to the best Usenet program for X (I forget the name - it's been so long since I actually used linux it's not even funny). You'll see a major major difference in both look, functionality, speed, and even features.
If there IS some sort of Visual Basic type app for X, please someone speak up so I can learn this language and get myself OUT of Windows.
Yeah, I respect him and love the fact that something that he did for hisself turned out to be a world hit, basically.
"Reverse engineering is legal if you don't have access to the source..."
I don't think that this is necessarily true... Cracking, in the sense of cracking programs for serial and registration numbers, isn't really legal, is it? Maybe it is one of those 'grey' areas...
Contrary to popular belief in the Linux community, Linus is NOT God.
The guy wrote a clone of Unix (which I'm surprised he didn't get sued for doing) with great organization and happened to release it freely so other Unix lovers could use it also. This meant hacking your own drivers for the hardware but in time people cover those faster then you can so you just use theirs.
Face it people, Linus isn't a god, just a very organized and generous (for releasing it to the public) guy.
I'm not insulting him or Linux, just bringing up a point that has bugged me a few times.:-)
8Complex
P.S. - This is along those lines of Windows lovers saying Bill Gates was god.:-)
Damn, they deserve it too... I hate Christians like that, think they can change the world with their morality lessons. I mean, no offense to Christians or Christianity in a whole, but being pushy gets you nowhere.
In this case, this person OBVIOUSLY has wayyy too much time on their hands to have 1. watched that movie so many times that he actually COUNTED how many times they swore in it, 2. took notes, and 3. wrote an entire review up on it saying that it is "*South Park* is an *incredibly dangerous* movie for those who do not understand or are developing an understanding of the Gospel....... INCREDIBLY dangerous." as if he were saying "Satan will take you if you watch this movie!"
BTW, for the record, my favorite part of the review is the "A child was graphically incinerated by igniting his anal wind..." ANAL WIND?!?! Can't this guy even say fart? I mean, hell the word has been around what, a few hundred years? You'd think it'd be ok to call it a fart according to the religious rules by now.
8Complex
woah, woah... it is *NOT* as easy as Windows...
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Let me see if I can make this as unbiased as possible for I really *DO* like Linux...
Windows applications are GUI. Period. Linux applications are half GUI, half Console, and half hidden configuration files.
Windows sets up it's hardware with EASE. Linux drags it's ass and then you *STILL* have to be a genius to get PnP working right for just 3 cards.
Windows is far ahead in the game and there are many more well-designed applications for doing what you want, so productivity and time it takes to get used to it are a lot better then Linux which... ...which has a million applications to do the same thing but 90% of them were designed for the console or by people that use the console a lot, so they are either very badly designed GUI's or need a *TON* of configuration.
Windows is a pre-smoothed GUI so out of the box everything looks good (relatively speaking, that is). Linux on the other hand needs hours to get things working right, and that is IF you know what you are doing. I still to this day haven't figured out how to install and use another font in, say, the titlebars in E (other then installing a theme with it included). And truetype fonts? I still haven't seen them on my machine yet, still looks like hell.
Now, back to my biased side here...
Now I love Linux and I love to play with it and all but that is just it... play. I can't get anything done when it comes to work or anything else because Linux's GUI is so rough. Even working with Gnome & E, the applications are still tough to grasp. I have spent literally hours working at getting Linux usable for working and by that point, I don't want to work anymore, I want to go watch TV or go out or SOMETHING other then sitting in front of the computer. It's really frustrating.
Now I saw a truely good idea in that recent install program by Caldera, and I don't see why people are knocking it because it'll make installation 10 times easier. Granted, Redhat's install is fairly easy, it still lacks details that I'd love to know. Like that question... "What services do you want running on startup?" How the hell should I know? I think I know what 2 of them are.. sendmail and I forget the other.
Now, no offense or anything, but I put my money on the fact that if your mom got onto a Windows machine she'd start doing things faster almost instantly. She'd probably also catch onto the GUI a lot faster.
I could live with it if it was Kilobyte but, damn. They're really cramping my style now. At least it isn't in place in MY area yet. Hopefully I will move directly to a place with ADSL soon. It isn't available anywhere within 30 miles of here, though. I was lucky to get the cable...
I guess I should just be thankful not to be on my 56k (28.8 on a NEW phone line in the house, a**holes...) modem anymore. Unfortunately, since I do web design, I could use every bit of upload speed I can get. Waiting just over a minute at full steam for a 1 meg file to upload seems ridiculous when I can download it within 6-7 seconds from faster servers. BTW, I've capped my downloads before just over 600 Kilobyte/sec, just FYI.
As far as I know, with onboard IDE controllers, it can only be writing or reading from only one of the drives at a time. So in effect, yes he would need 3 different controllers to be writing to all 3 drives at once (which is what makes RAID so fast).
I mean... it may work on some people that are just normal people installing on two machines in their home type of thing, but when it comes down to it, when a pirate group releases their own release of a software they normally include a "crack" or patch to "fix" the software so that way all the little things in the program you woulnd't want happening, wouldn't.
They'd probably just make 1 standard system of shutting down software and the crackers would come back with 1 crack that could "fix" hundreds of pieces of software before a new version of the license checker comes out.
Now don't get me wrong about this all you OSS people, but I haven't seen very many programs that are OSS that are great in functionality and looks all at once. Linux has a lot of software, and it is all OSS, but rarely do I find a good functioning X-Windows program - and when I do, it looks horrible. I personally, can't stand using command line programs (except for one-time doing of things) and woulnd't even know where to begin if I wanted one to run in the background all the time.
Why aren't there some people that do OSS for Linux that strictly fix the GUI of the program and have nothing to do with the functionality? That'd greatly increase how good the finished product looks and also would make it more usable, by far. (I've seen program that might've worked great but I could NOT find a simple function cause it was hidden too deeply into the program).
Now, as for me, I mainly use Windows since the GUI is tuned (just wish it didn't crash so much - not like I don't crash X either though). The mouse moves EXACTLY the way I want it to - something I can't get Linux to do if I spend an hour playing with just the mouse movements. Drag and Drop works perfectly, and I have a desktop that I can drag and drop files to temporarily, if I'm in the moddle of moving files around, or permanently if I want a link to startup a program there.
Also, (it's early so I feel stupidly brave enough to take a stab at it) cut and paste and the mouse DO NOT belong together. It is inconvienient and stupid the way it works in X. I'd MUCH rather have that middle button set to something like "roll-up" for the windows and Ctrl-c,v,x set up for cut and paste commands. If there IS a way to do this, forgive me and please explain how. I am by far not an expert on X or Linux, but I am a very experienced user of different programs, and I know exactly what I like to use and what I use to make productivity the fastest for me.
The use of accelerating air to propel yourself, that is. I mean, why can't we harness the powers of the magnetic field of the Earth and turn that into an energy that we can ride on/be propelled by? This'd be MUCH more economic and would make less noise. Although I must admit, one of these things would make for some REALLY clean streets.:-)
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I actually had a pet rat a few years back that was much MUCH more intelligent then any of my dogs have ever been.
Taking this in mind, you'd think I was against animal testing... Personally, I think if they breed the animals just FOR that then they aren't harming the ones that know any better, just the ones that were destined to die anyway.
Plus I don't think I'd be willing to try something someone handed to me when they said "Just try a sip... We think it'll do this but it'll possibly hurt more than anything else you've ever felt your entire life."
- 8Complex
Probably the reason that it was completely silent is because there wasn't a fan. I'm guessing but that'd probably be it... I wish I could do that to my pII box that runs really loud, probably around talking level. (30db?) - 8Complex
We didn't really start counting years til far, FAR after "A.D." started (I don't know history here) but we could take into account two things...
1 - The person(s) didn't know what the hell year it was since noone can put a set date.
and 2 - The person(s) who set the date were religious and set the date upon the death of Jesus (no offense other religions, catholic or christian is all I know in the religion field).
Taking this into account, I think I'm ready to just denounce the entire year counting system and become a free-floater in time and life... I shall team up with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the major Pokemon characters (cause the smaller ones have to be the losers) to battle evil into the next millennium. No not your millennium!! Mine - which in my book will start in 3 weeks and 4 days and will last for approxmitely 3 months of 43 days each... not including Thursday which will have 12 days.
Join me in my new religion and we shall battle our way through the millenniums together!!
- 8Complex
Ok, I think this arguement is one of it's own but it rather belongs around here somewhere...
See, when you start counting, you start at 0. The first year (or whatever) isn't over til you hit 1. Seems pretty clear to me that a millenium starts at 0. Year 0 to year 999, year 1000 to 1999, etc etc.
Life starts when you are born, not when you turn 1, right?
- 8Complex
Doh! Next time I'll read a little more slowly... As for those NetGear cards, I think I'll wait and see how Linux progresses over the next 4 months or so... Maybe someone will make a hardware detection and configuration tool that works really well. Or at least works, who knows. Also kinda waiting for XF86 4.0 to come out too... No 3D support blows.
- 8Complex
I have tried for a good week to get a machine up and going on RH6.0 with 2 3c509b's in it and have turned off the PnP and configured the I/O and IRQ's correctly by hand. And naturally as soon as I got to the point that it -should- work, everything seems stable and yet nothing works. At all.
/chant
*runs around and starts chanting* Linux is a driver nightmare!! Linux is a driver nightmare!!
- 8Complex
I don't believe data-guarding (mirroring or parity) is warranted in this case.
Have you ever worked on Government projects before? Talk about stickler for backup and detail... Personally, all I've worked on was on the mechanical side of a government project, but I assure you, according to their specs, they need all the protection they can get.
I agree though, RAID is the way to go. I've never worked with it but I understand it pretty well and the speed alone is worth it.
- 8Complex
if you view source, the CSS code on that page is a good 1/3 of the page...
.doc to .rtf to .html instead
oh wait... i figured out the problem (honestly, i've never noticed this before)
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document
meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"
meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"
nice easy conversion i'm sure... too bad it's hard as hell to read, thanks to the converter... shoulda went
- 8Complex
1211 Removed in 1991 and I think its a page next to it 19259, but who the hell would have a copy of this thing on their shelf with THAT many pages...
t e.cgi?WAISdocID=203086071+14+0+0&WAISactio n=retrieve
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http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisga
That is the line where I found it... If you're too lazy to go see it I'll paste that small section here...
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1204.503 (b), (f)(3)(i)(D), (ii), (g) and (i) revised.............57592
1204.504 (a), (e)(3)(ii)(B), (iii), (f) and (h) revised...........57592
1204.1400--1204.1407 (Subpart 14) Revised................35812
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Hope the HTML works, I'm not too familiar with it on
[after preview] Ok... so you can't use PRE on the board? What a pain in the ass... So I formatted with Period's by hand... hope you all can read it
- 8Complex
Ok, so you've got to earn money to continue paying people to code, I understand that. (reading the above post about the costs of piracy coming out of the base employees' pay...) I figure it this way - If ALL buisness bought legit copies of software, and all people using it for personal use ONLY got free copies, who is to complain?
Now I'm not talking ALL software, but things like Windows, Office, and other buisness related software (minus MS Money)... if they were free to home users and the buisnesses HAD to pay, it'd even out fine. Things like Photoshop and Sound Forge and even Accelerated X (gotta throw a Linux app in there or I'd be flamed to hell) are also included in there. Buisness pay, home users don't... Or maybe a very small price for home users even to cover the packaging and materials (an almost not-for-profit copy, if you will).
It'd work fine, though there would have to be another buisness in which employees went around checking buisness for licenses on their software.
Other applications like Gizmos and Paint Shop Pro and other non-buisness type software can stay just where it is on the shelf. Theose are more non-buisness type software and can be paid for by the home users if they want it.
What I'm saying is, why make the home users pay for something at buisness' prices if they don't use it like a buisness would and they don't make money off the end-products?
Granted, Linux is nice and it is great that it is free but if you are looking for quality in applications, you are almost -always- looking at Windows apps. I don't care how much you insist, Gimp does NOT come even CLOSE to Photoshop. And Linux is still nowhere near up to par with it's hardware compatibilty (2 weeks it took me to get 2 NIC's recognized by PnP and then I get an error on startup about the (ISOLATE PRESERVE) line that noone can answer).
However you take that, I am -NOT- slamming Linux, hell, I am trying to get my server up on it (proxy/ipmasq/portforwarder to run ftp's on other machines behind it)... I just CAN'T do it.
- 8Complex
Ok, so you've got to earn money to continue paying people to code, I understand that. (reading the above post about the costs of piracy coming out of the base employees' pay...) I figure it this way - If ALL buisness bought legit copies of software, and all people using it for personal use ONLY got free copies, who is to complain? Now I'm not talking ALL software, but things like Windows, Office, and other buisness related software (minus MS Money)... if they were free to home users and the buisnesses HAD to pay, it'd even out fine. Things like Photoshop and Sound Forge and even Accelerated X (gotta throw a Linux app in there or I'd be flamed to hell) are also included in there. Buisness pay, homes users don't... Or maybe a very small price for home users even to cover the packaging and materials (an almost not-for-profit copy, if you will). It'd work fine, though there would have to be another buisness in which employees went around checking buisness for licenses on their software. Other applications like Gizmos and Paint Shop Pro and other non-buisness type software can stay just where it is on the shelf. Theose are more non-buisness type software and can be paid for by the home users if they want it. What I'm saying is, why make the home users pay for something at buisness' prices if they don't use it like a buisness would and they don't make money off the end-products? Granted, Linux is nice and it is great that it is free but if you are looking for quality in applications, you are almost -always- looking at Windows apps. I don't care how much you insist, Gimp does NOT come even CLOSE to Photoshop. And Linux is still nowhere near up to par with it's hardware compatibilty (2 weeks it took me to get 2 NIC's recognized by PnP and then I get an error on startup about the (ISOLATE PRESERVE) line that noone can answer). However you take that, I am -NOT- slamming Linux, hell, I am trying to get my server up on it (proxy/ipmasq/portforwarder to run ftp's on other machines behind it)... I just CAN'T do it. - 8Complex
stewardesses
;-)
Don't ask me where I found that out... I have no idea.
BTW my opinion on dvorak vs. qwerty is this : LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I JUST LEARNED QWERTY!!!
- 8Complex
kph makes perfect sense to me, man... all of you metric people will just have to get used to it :-P
- 8Complex
No offense guys but I am yet to see apps for X that are decently designed. Most are either good looking and bad functioning or vice versa.
Honestly, if someone came out with a (don't shoot me) Visual Basic type app where you can design your interface smoothly, it would make a world of difference.
If you want to compare take a look at the best of the best apps for Windows for Usenet downloading (text AND files), Forte' Agent. Now compare that to the best Usenet program for X (I forget the name - it's been so long since I actually used linux it's not even funny). You'll see a major major difference in both look, functionality, speed, and even features.
If there IS some sort of Visual Basic type app for X, please someone speak up so I can learn this language and get myself OUT of Windows.
8Complex
Yeah, I respect him and love the fact that something that he did for hisself turned out to be a world hit, basically.
"Reverse engineering is legal if you don't have access to the source..."
I don't think that this is necessarily true... Cracking, in the sense of cracking programs for serial and registration numbers, isn't really legal, is it? Maybe it is one of those 'grey' areas...
8Complex
Contrary to popular belief in the Linux community, Linus is NOT God.
:-)
:-)
The guy wrote a clone of Unix (which I'm surprised he didn't get sued for doing) with great organization and happened to release it freely so other Unix lovers could use it also. This meant hacking your own drivers for the hardware but in time people cover those faster then you can so you just use theirs.
Face it people, Linus isn't a god, just a very organized and generous (for releasing it to the public) guy.
I'm not insulting him or Linux, just bringing up a point that has bugged me a few times.
8Complex
P.S. - This is along those lines of Windows lovers saying Bill Gates was god.
Damn, they deserve it too... I hate Christians like that, think they can change the world with their morality lessons. I mean, no offense to Christians or Christianity in a whole, but being pushy gets you nowhere.
....... INCREDIBLY dangerous." as if he were saying "Satan will take you if you watch this movie!"
In this case, this person OBVIOUSLY has wayyy too much time on their hands to have 1. watched that movie so many times that he actually COUNTED how many times they swore in it, 2. took notes, and 3. wrote an entire review up on it saying that it is "*South Park* is an *incredibly dangerous* movie for those who do not understand or are developing an understanding of the Gospel
BTW, for the record, my favorite part of the review is the "A child was graphically incinerated by igniting his anal wind..." ANAL WIND?!?! Can't this guy even say fart? I mean, hell the word has been around what, a few hundred years? You'd think it'd be ok to call it a fart according to the religious rules by now.
8Complex
Let me see if I can make this as unbiased as possible for I really *DO* like Linux...
Windows applications are GUI. Period.
Linux applications are half GUI, half Console, and half hidden configuration files.
Windows sets up it's hardware with EASE.
Linux drags it's ass and then you *STILL* have to be a genius to get PnP working right for just 3 cards.
Windows is far ahead in the game and there are many more well-designed applications for doing what you want, so productivity and time it takes to get used to it are a lot better then Linux which...
...which has a million applications to do the same thing but 90% of them were designed for the console or by people that use the console a lot, so they are either very badly designed GUI's or need a *TON* of configuration.
Windows is a pre-smoothed GUI so out of the box everything looks good (relatively speaking, that is).
Linux on the other hand needs hours to get things working right, and that is IF you know what you are doing. I still to this day haven't figured out how to install and use another font in, say, the titlebars in E (other then installing a theme with it included). And truetype fonts? I still haven't seen them on my machine yet, still looks like hell.
Now, back to my biased side here...
Now I love Linux and I love to play with it and all but that is just it... play. I can't get anything done when it comes to work or anything else because Linux's GUI is so rough. Even working with Gnome & E, the applications are still tough to grasp. I have spent literally hours working at getting Linux usable for working and by that point, I don't want to work anymore, I want to go watch TV or go out or SOMETHING other then sitting in front of the computer. It's really frustrating.
Now I saw a truely good idea in that recent install program by Caldera, and I don't see why people are knocking it because it'll make installation 10 times easier. Granted, Redhat's install is fairly easy, it still lacks details that I'd love to know. Like that question... "What services do you want running on startup?" How the hell should I know? I think I know what 2 of them are.. sendmail and I forget the other.
Now, no offense or anything, but I put my money on the fact that if your mom got onto a Windows machine she'd start doing things faster almost instantly. She'd probably also catch onto the GUI a lot faster.
8Complex
"embedded Windows NT operating system"
It's Bill Gates, I tell you!!
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I could live with it if it was Kilobyte but, damn. They're really cramping my style now. At least it isn't in place in MY area yet. Hopefully I will move directly to a place with ADSL soon. It isn't available anywhere within 30 miles of here, though. I was lucky to get the cable...
I guess I should just be thankful not to be on my 56k (28.8 on a NEW phone line in the house, a**holes...) modem anymore. Unfortunately, since I do web design, I could use every bit of upload speed I can get. Waiting just over a minute at full steam for a 1 meg file to upload seems ridiculous when I can download it within 6-7 seconds from faster servers. BTW, I've capped my downloads before just over 600 Kilobyte/sec, just FYI.
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As far as I know, with onboard IDE controllers, it can only be writing or reading from only one of the drives at a time. So in effect, yes he would need 3 different controllers to be writing to all 3 drives at once (which is what makes RAID so fast).
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if I remember correctly from my 2600 days...
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I mean... it may work on some people that are just normal people installing on two machines in their home type of thing, but when it comes down to it, when a pirate group releases their own release of a software they normally include a "crack" or patch to "fix" the software so that way all the little things in the program you woulnd't want happening, wouldn't.
They'd probably just make 1 standard system of shutting down software and the crackers would come back with 1 crack that could "fix" hundreds of pieces of software before a new version of the license checker comes out.
Now don't get me wrong about this all you OSS people, but I haven't seen very many programs that are OSS that are great in functionality and looks all at once. Linux has a lot of software, and it is all OSS, but rarely do I find a good functioning X-Windows program - and when I do, it looks horrible. I personally, can't stand using command line programs (except for one-time doing of things) and woulnd't even know where to begin if I wanted one to run in the background all the time.
Why aren't there some people that do OSS for Linux that strictly fix the GUI of the program and have nothing to do with the functionality? That'd greatly increase how good the finished product looks and also would make it more usable, by far. (I've seen program that might've worked great but I could NOT find a simple function cause it was hidden too deeply into the program).
Now, as for me, I mainly use Windows since the GUI is tuned (just wish it didn't crash so much - not like I don't crash X either though). The mouse moves EXACTLY the way I want it to - something I can't get Linux to do if I spend an hour playing with just the mouse movements. Drag and Drop works perfectly, and I have a desktop that I can drag and drop files to temporarily, if I'm in the moddle of moving files around, or permanently if I want a link to startup a program there.
Also, (it's early so I feel stupidly brave enough to take a stab at it) cut and paste and the mouse DO NOT belong together. It is inconvienient and stupid the way it works in X. I'd MUCH rather have that middle button set to something like "roll-up" for the windows and Ctrl-c,v,x set up for cut and paste commands. If there IS a way to do this, forgive me and please explain how. I am by far not an expert on X or Linux, but I am a very experienced user of different programs, and I know exactly what I like to use and what I use to make productivity the fastest for me.
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The use of accelerating air to propel yourself, that is. I mean, why can't we harness the powers of the magnetic field of the Earth and turn that into an energy that we can ride on/be propelled by? This'd be MUCH more economic and would make less noise. Although I must admit, one of these things would make for some REALLY clean streets. :-)
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they'll have to be to catch my ass when I'm driving!! ;-)
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