And if you're setting up a kiosk with with a z80 and 1k of RAM ? Huh ? How are you going to run Windows 3.1 on that ? As long as we're making stuff up.
I used to run Linux and X11 just fine on my 486DX50 with 32Megs btw, back in the Win 3.1 days.
Quite. Although abroad most of us foreigners aren't familiar with him, it's fairly easy to find relatively straightforward documentation that he seems to be a decent enough guy (he actually considered switching sides at one point). There was, however, the Palin issue. She is clearly a raving lunatic and shouldn't be allowed to hold any kind of political office. It's bad enough that's she's allowed to raise children. I don't know who convinced him to get her as a co-candidate but it lost him the election for good.
Regarding Obama, we'll see. If he's a scheming politician, well, lots of US presidents have been, and if he isn't maybe the US will get lucky for a change.
If the USAF wants a secure network, then they should create their own isolated network completely divorced from the civilian Internet. I'm sorry if that means generals can't look at porn sites from their office, but that's the way things go.
Which is presumably why everybody has switched to the modular Xorg X11 server instead of the crufty XFree86 one ages ago. Seems to work fine for everybody involved.
Maybe you should upgrade too. Xorg even comes with twm so you won't really notice the change.
People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder never happens, right?
If humans bothered to evolve to be immune from bullets, there would be less murders which just goes to show how flaky that science is. So obviously, it's not linked to sunspots (I blame the TimeCube).
There's a very large gap in usability between: 1. Googling on how to install language support, the most pertinent results all being forum posts, and having to enter in incantations on the command line to do it, and after spending several hours, still having it not work. 2. Going to Control Panel, selecting locality, add language and choosing my languages.
That is not "isn't Windows" that's "god this sucks". I understand this may be only a problem with the distro that came with the EeePC. That also doesn't change the fact that I'm not going to deal with this BS to use a tool and returned my EeePC.
Apparently the universal opinion seems to be that the distro Asus came up with for its Eee is fairly crappy, hence the Ubuntu variant most people seem to replace it with.
Normally any of the tasks you listed is a couple minute job at the most, apart from the VPN which can always be tricky depending on your specific setup.
Thats where all of us low income users get our iPhones, from people turned off by the high cost forced data plan + voice plan who have swiched to a S60 based phone running Symbian OS with WIFI.
Why I have just found 2 more iPhones in the bin just this afternoon. I have seven now.
You power down the server (briefly) when : - you apply deep patches (when upgrading kernels) - you have meddled with the software at a deep enough level that it warrants it (like a kernel recompile) - you upgrade a bit of hardware (like adding some RAM) - you're green enough to believe it will help fix your problem (as in you called the MS hotline)
You power down the server (lengthily) when : - you retire it - you realise that (at least) two of the RAID disks are AWOL (that'll teach you not to buy from eBay) - it's suddenly starting to spew SPAM - a SWAT team crashes through your window - your mom says "I need a machine for my church group" (assuming you're in the US, just because this doesn't exist elsewhere, no offence meant)
My town, and most others in California, has a curfew for minors, 10:00pm. I've been hassled before walking around passed midnight.
In lots of places in the US you can be hassled by the local enforcement for just walking, whatever the time and whatever your age. Apparently if you aren't in a car, you're a suspect.
Your comment was well modded. My dad always told me "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".
If you experience it yourself it MIGHT be fact. If you read it in a book, it's probably fiction. Much of what was considered fact a few hundred years ago is now known to be untrue.
From what I read recently, your dad seems to be what is commonly known as "anti-american" (whatever that means). But then being in Europe I'm not really familiar with US semantics.
The truly sad thing is, we don't know whether to mod you as "funny" or not, because we're not sure if you're serious.
I was actually considering whether to lean one way or the other while writing the reply, but I didn't know which one was more credible. So I chickened out and just left the reader to decide for himself (and the typo does suck, mea maxima culpa even though English isn't my first language, I certainly should have spotted it).
I don't understand the US. In all Euro countries a kid would be sentenced according to juvenile law (with much, much lower sentences) and it would be highly unlikely that he could get any prison sentence for stuff like that. Heck even the German guy who wrote the Blaster worm (?) just got some fine and social work to do. Furthermore, all records are officially deleted after a relatively short time (2 years ?), so a kid would never be screwed for the rest of his life.
Shouldn't you make super cooled cables with an on-site refrigeration system with liquid nitrogen (low end) or liquid helium (real audiophiles) ? It seems to me that super conductive cables should be better. After all they're more expensive.
There's a difference between fact and belief, although the less intellectually honest people will try to say that their beliefs are equivalent to fact.
It's easy to distinguish them. If it comes from a book, then it's a fact.
Anybody who wants to work with scientific data should take a real data-crunching package like R or Matlab, and avoid Excel like the plague.
Scientific or other. Unfortunately Excel is a nasty virus that propagates not only to every office computer in the universe, but also to pretty much every mind, obliterating every other useful skill that used to be present there...
Need to store your addressbook ? Excel Need to run diffs on files ? Excel Need a quick script ? Excel Need to analyse a huge dataset ? Excel Need to build a database ? Excel Need to build a quick billing app ? Excel
Just a few of the numerous examples I've come across. And people wonder why most places find it so hard to transition to FOSS (hint: Excel).
As one of the commenters there points out, with their tiny brains and their impressive reproductive abilities, they presumably make an uncomfortably close study model for some republican candidates...
Palin is comedic gold (to us that don't have her as a politician of course)
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And if you're setting up a kiosk with with a z80 and 1k of RAM ? Huh ? How are you going to run Windows 3.1 on that ?
As long as we're making stuff up.
I used to run Linux and X11 just fine on my 486DX50 with 32Megs btw, back in the Win 3.1 days.
Quite. Although abroad most of us foreigners aren't familiar with him, it's fairly easy to find relatively straightforward documentation that he seems to be a decent enough guy (he actually considered switching sides at one point).
There was, however, the Palin issue. She is clearly a raving lunatic and shouldn't be allowed to hold any kind of political office. It's bad enough that's she's allowed to raise children. I don't know who convinced him to get her as a co-candidate but it lost him the election for good.
Regarding Obama, we'll see. If he's a scheming politician, well, lots of US presidents have been, and if he isn't maybe the US will get lucky for a change.
You need a 64 bit system with more than 3 gigs of RAM to watch video in Windows ?
Wow.
I thought it more or less worked nowadays.
If the USAF wants a secure network, then they should create their own isolated network completely divorced from the civilian Internet. I'm sorry if that means generals can't look at porn sites from their office, but that's the way things go.
But military porn is so dull !
Which is presumably why everybody has switched to the modular Xorg X11 server instead of the crufty XFree86 one ages ago. Seems to work fine for everybody involved.
Maybe you should upgrade too. Xorg even comes with twm so you won't really notice the change.
Poor analogy, you can still use your buggy whip on your bicycle (especially tandem bicycles).
People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder never happens, right?
If humans bothered to evolve to be immune from bullets, there would be less murders which just goes to show how flaky that science is. So obviously, it's not linked to sunspots (I blame the TimeCube).
There's a very large gap in usability between:
1. Googling on how to install language support, the most pertinent results all being forum posts, and having to enter in incantations on the command line to do it, and after spending several hours, still having it not work.
2. Going to Control Panel, selecting locality, add language and choosing my languages.
That is not "isn't Windows" that's "god this sucks". I understand this may be only a problem with the distro that came with the EeePC. That also doesn't change the fact that I'm not going to deal with this BS to use a tool and returned my EeePC.
Apparently the universal opinion seems to be that the distro Asus came up with for its Eee is fairly crappy, hence the Ubuntu variant most people seem to replace it with.
Normally any of the tasks you listed is a couple minute job at the most, apart from the VPN which can always be tricky depending on your specific setup.
Thats where all of us low income users get our iPhones, from people turned off by the high cost forced data plan + voice plan who have swiched to a S60 based phone running Symbian OS with WIFI.
Why I have just found 2 more iPhones in the bin just this afternoon. I have seven now.
Actually there are two categories (work or home).
You power down the server (briefly) when :
- you apply deep patches (when upgrading kernels)
- you have meddled with the software at a deep enough level that it warrants it (like a kernel recompile)
- you upgrade a bit of hardware (like adding some RAM)
- you're green enough to believe it will help fix your problem (as in you called the MS hotline)
You power down the server (lengthily) when :
- you retire it
- you realise that (at least) two of the RAID disks are AWOL (that'll teach you not to buy from eBay)
- it's suddenly starting to spew SPAM
- a SWAT team crashes through your window
- your mom says "I need a machine for my church group" (assuming you're in the US, just because this doesn't exist elsewhere, no offence meant)
Irony, dude. Look it up.
What has metallurgy got to do with politics ?
sed users don't get "whooshed".
?
My town, and most others in California, has a curfew for minors, 10:00pm. I've been hassled before walking around passed midnight.
In lots of places in the US you can be hassled by the local enforcement for just walking, whatever the time and whatever your age.
Apparently if you aren't in a car, you're a suspect.
If they wanted a pro-America government in Iraq, they should have installed a pro-America dictator.
They tried that already and it seems to have backfired.
Stupid dictators not doing what they're told to.
Your comment was well modded. My dad always told me "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".
If you experience it yourself it MIGHT be fact. If you read it in a book, it's probably fiction. Much of what was considered fact a few hundred years ago is now known to be untrue.
From what I read recently, your dad seems to be what is commonly known as "anti-american" (whatever that means). But then being in Europe I'm not really familiar with US semantics.
In their defence(sic) they didn't shoot him.
The truly sad thing is, we don't know whether to mod you as "funny" or not, because we're not sure if you're serious.
I was actually considering whether to lean one way or the other while writing the reply, but I didn't know which one was more credible. So I chickened out and just left the reader to decide for himself (and the typo does suck, mea maxima culpa even though English isn't my first language, I certainly should have spotted it).
As long as "virtual worlds" get virtual enough that I don't hear about them any more, it's fine by me. I can't wait actually.
I don't understand the US.
In all Euro countries a kid would be sentenced according to juvenile law (with much, much lower sentences) and it would be highly unlikely that he could get any prison sentence for stuff like that.
Heck even the German guy who wrote the Blaster worm (?) just got some fine and social work to do.
Furthermore, all records are officially deleted after a relatively short time (2 years ?), so a kid would never be screwed for the rest of his life.
What's wrong with the US ?
In their defence they didn't shoot him.
The global warming of ducks is known as roasting and isn't a hoax. I have seen it happen with my very own eyes.
Shouldn't you make super cooled cables with an on-site refrigeration system with liquid nitrogen (low end) or liquid helium (real audiophiles) ? It seems to me that super conductive cables should be better. After all they're more expensive.
There's a difference between fact and belief, although the less intellectually honest people will try to say that their beliefs are equivalent to fact.
It's easy to distinguish them. If it comes from a book, then it's a fact.
It still boils down to "if I can make stuff up, then it must exist" which isn't much of an argument however well it's formulated.
I think the Azure Screen of Death (ASOD) has a nice ring to it. It could be a selling point given the difficulty of bringing new ideas to the desktop.
Anybody who wants to work with scientific data should take a real data-crunching package like R or Matlab, and avoid Excel like the plague.
Scientific or other. Unfortunately Excel is a nasty virus that propagates not only to every office computer in the universe, but also to pretty much every mind, obliterating every other useful skill that used to be present there...
Need to store your addressbook ? Excel
Need to run diffs on files ? Excel
Need a quick script ? Excel
Need to analyse a huge dataset ? Excel
Need to build a database ? Excel
Need to build a quick billing app ? Excel
Just a few of the numerous examples I've come across. And people wonder why most places find it so hard to transition to FOSS (hint: Excel).
At the same moment, Sarah Palin wants to stop all research on Drosophila : http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/
As one of the commenters there points out, with their tiny brains and their impressive reproductive abilities, they presumably make an uncomfortably close study model for some republican candidates...
Palin is comedic gold (to us that don't have her as a politician of course)