Of course, it'd also be nice if they included support for pptp out of box...but I digress.;)
This, I agree with.
Lack of a pptp is pain in the ass since my braindead ISP has decided that to do friggin' net access with pptp. You heard that right, it's an inverted VPN, you make a tunnel from LAN to internet instead of the other way around.
Also, unlike the reviewer in article, my nforce2 ethernet was autodetected and worked right away. I'm impressed, didn't realize that forcedeth has already improved to level where it was included in vanilla kernel. Much kudos to Manfred Spraul, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and Andrew de Quincey. You folks have saved a day of quite a few people with nforce mobos.
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If Linux is EVER going to stop being a niche OS, it's going to have to find a way to legally ship with corporate video drivers, mp3/divx, etc.
You can just go and "find a way" where ways don't exist. As far as I can see, there are only four of those ways, and they're as follows:
1) Pay the license. This is obviously not an option for free-as-in-beer distro. 2) Get software patents abolished or the relevant patents withdrawn somehow. This is obviously not something a mere linux distribution can do. 3) Wait 'til they expire. Whee, only 20 or so years to go. 4) Do your business somewhere were the technologies in question are not (yet) patented, or software is not (yet) patentable. Again, not really an option for most people, even if it's perhaps the only that is even remotely possible.
If you figure a one that is practical for someone in US to do, be feel to mention it. I'm sure fedora Folks will be thrilled.
Considering the current litigilism model society you unfortunate folks are living in, I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if someone decided that if you make that simple gui, it's no longer "unofficial" (after all, you condone it and include the things to do it in default distro) and drags you to court.
And anyway. Weeks? More like five minutes to add the damnable thee lines for rpm.livna.org & fedora.us or freshrpms&folks -megamerge, whichever you prefer, and at max few hours depending on bandwidth to dl the stuff.
Yup. AC's right, the Gnome default theme is "Simple".
I think it has better window borders than bluecurve, but bc has much nicer icons and controls, fortunately the theme manager can even combine different elements from those and create/save new one from that.
You can change 'em with themes:/// as well as prefs->theme (aka gnome-theme-manager)
The little "search for files" thing in FC1/GNOME works like a charm, very fast.
It's pretty fast if it can use locate, true.
But if it falls down to find, not to mention grep if you need to search for content... well, fast is pretty far from the list of things one would say about it.
do that, then. It shouldn't be your customer responsibility to house that data.
Why not. It's YOUR data after all. How YOU want Google to behave.
Secondly, logging in would be just as much (or worse) "bad" for your "privacy".
Last but certainly not least, it's hugely inconvenient compared to a cookie. I don't know about you but I don't want to log in to google every time I want to search, I have better things to do - like the damn search that brought me to there in the first place.
Why should they create a login that vast majority of their users would never, ever, use because it's not as easy as automatically via cookie, and those that otherwise would are tinfoil hatters that wouldn't use it because they're scared of even their own shadow?
K6-2 was pretty fast in integer math but it had a very lousy FPU.
It was faster than P2 in some things, but due to that FPU, even Celeron badly beat it in the one area that values speeds over anything - games.
K6-3 was fast, but they never managed to run it beyond 450MHz, and even that was too late.
And Pentium wasn't "same day", but previous generation, so of course it was slower. Nor were there any that were same speed, the last pentium was 233MHz and K6-2 started from 300.
Well, these are not meant for you. Opteron is first and foremost a workstation/server CPU, it's obviously marketed and priced for companies.
The regular A64 is much better bang for the buck, quite competive with P4. Not to mention the "old" Athlon XP's still here and still beats the living daylights of any other CPU on price/performance ratio.
This doesn't have anything to do with socialism, if anything, it's hardcore corporatism.
Of course, most of the EU countries are somewhat socialistic (and have always been, which is good). When government pays your studies, it's socialism. When the government gives you money when you're out of job it's socialism, when the government subsidies your health costs it's socialism.
Of course, that'll only make them work with 2.6 & Fedora patches and X.org, the rest is same as with FC1 (except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf), which isn't really that hard if you know how... I had hard time with it in FC1 too, until I realized that internal AGPGART in ATI drivers didn't work with NForce2, after turning that off... piece of cake.
Relevant portions of my current (FC2) xorg.conf looks like this:
fedora.redhat.com is still showing test 3. That seems odd to me. Why would some other site have the release version before the project's site?
Well, the schedule states that: 14 May Release to mirrors (morning) 18 May Release open, announced
So it's been released to mirrors by now, but the official release is not until tomorrow.
The four days are to make sure that every mirror is synchronized so everyone opens up at the same time which will, hopefully, prevent 'em from getting swarmed. This is probably a leak from one of those mirrors.
Am I just being paranoid?
As for being paranoid, that's a healthy attitude to take with everything downloaded from an anonymous torrent. Heck, everything downloaded from the internet for that matter. Checking GPG signatures and MD5SUMS should show if it's a real deal or something else.
I was going to post the same thing, but I'll give you a MAJOR advantage of the US sizing system (A,B,C,D,E)...
Every single size sheet can fold down to an 8.5x11 size. This makes it VERY easy to keep a binder full of technical drawings.
Huh? What are you trying to say? That this doesn't work with metric papers? Every sheet from 4A0 will (well, would, given thin enough paper) fold down to miniscule A10 or more practically to A4.
This means that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly, and two sheets of A3 will equal an A2."
Turn this backwards and it says: you can fold a sheet of A2 to just A3, and you can fold an A3 to exactly A4.
The same ratio is nice for a few things, but the doubling the length of the long edge is MUCH more convienent for those of us that actually use large paper sizes in everyday life.
Good then, that both systems use doubling of one edge to help folding, eh? Ratio is just extra bonus to help scaling, it doesn't prevent this.
For 10 lbs you could have a shuttle system that would blow the hell out of any laptop
A shuttle system without keyboard or display is not blowing hell out of anything, except in seti@home.
You see, it's not just the weight that makes a laptop a laptop, it's the fact that it's an integrated package, all there is to it is in it, self-contained, no need to drag separate monitor or separate mouse or separate keyboard or....
Well, considering that previous versions of RTG's (though they're using thermocouples - peltier elements - instead of thermionic parts) have been sailing aboard space vessels since 1961, I'd say they're quite space qualified by now.
However, those things are HUGE. Everyone who wants to drag a thingy weighting probably few tons along with their laptop? A-ha. I really doubt moving to use thermionic emissions will bring the needed several orders of magnitude of improvement for this tech to be useful in portable electronics.
So who do you think launched all those tons of chemical agents on Iran in the Iran-Iraq war?
Iraq, probably. Both sides used chemical agents, trying to make Iraq bigger of those two evils is hypocrisy of worst sort, especially considering that it was probably US government - who were, at the time, utilizing Iraq as a tool against Iran - who supplied those weapons.
Of course few months after the war, since the tool had done it's job and no longer usable, it was convenient to start blaming it.
Who gassed the Kurds with nerve agents?
Just as likely that Iran did. Or both. It was a war after all. The fact is, during these almost 20 years there have been quite a few of viewpoints on this, and nobody knows the plain truth, if there even is one, and anyone claiming to is lying.
Likely the pictures that got him convicted were likely some some sixteen year old girls from Europe.
Does it matter? He wasn't in the Europe when looking at the pictures (would even that matter?). He's a citizen of USA and plays by their rules, even the pics come from Europe and are perfectly legal here.
On similar tracks of thought, but in the physical world: what happens if american tourist shags, let's say, 17 year old while on vacation in Europe? Is s/he a criminal when returning home.
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Of course, it'd also be nice if they included support for pptp out of box...but I digress. ;)
This, I agree with.
Lack of a pptp is pain in the ass since my braindead ISP has decided that to do friggin' net access with pptp. You heard that right, it's an inverted VPN, you make a tunnel from LAN to internet instead of the other way around.
Also, unlike the reviewer in article, my nforce2 ethernet was autodetected and worked right away. I'm impressed, didn't realize that forcedeth has already improved to level where it was included in vanilla kernel. Much kudos to Manfred Spraul, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and Andrew de Quincey. You folks have saved a day of quite a few people with nforce mobos.
If Linux is EVER going to stop being a niche OS, it's going to have to find a way to legally ship with corporate video drivers, mp3/divx, etc.
You can just go and "find a way" where ways don't exist. As far as I can see, there are only four of those ways, and they're as follows:
1) Pay the license. This is obviously not an option for free-as-in-beer distro.
2) Get software patents abolished or the relevant patents withdrawn somehow. This is obviously not something a mere linux distribution can do.
3) Wait 'til they expire. Whee, only 20 or so years to go.
4) Do your business somewhere were the technologies in question are not (yet) patented, or software is not (yet) patentable. Again, not really an option for most people, even if it's perhaps the only that is even remotely possible.
If you figure a one that is practical for someone in US to do, be feel to mention it. I'm sure fedora Folks will be thrilled.
I guess they're just playing careful.
Considering the current litigilism model society you unfortunate folks are living in, I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if someone decided that if you make that simple gui, it's no longer "unofficial" (after all, you condone it and include the things to do it in default distro) and drags you to court.
And anyway. Weeks? More like five minutes to add the damnable thee lines for rpm.livna.org & fedora.us or freshrpms&folks -megamerge, whichever you prefer, and at max few hours depending on bandwidth to dl the stuff.
Yup. AC's right, the Gnome default theme is "Simple".
I think it has better window borders than bluecurve, but bc has much nicer icons and controls, fortunately the theme manager can even combine different elements from those and create/save new one from that.
You can change 'em with themes:/// as well as prefs->theme (aka gnome-theme-manager)
OK - locate not good enough for you
No. Locate does not search for content, only names.
This, on the other hand, would be something like grep that's as fast as locate.
The little "search for files" thing in FC1/GNOME works like a charm, very fast.
It's pretty fast if it can use locate, true.
But if it falls down to find, not to mention grep if you need to search for content... well, fast is pretty far from the list of things one would say about it.
Normally I just need to know file names, so I do something simple like du -ak / > /var/tmp/all so "all" is a catalog of all files.
... but if it's possible to use a ready-made tool, why bother reinventing the wheel.
As mccrew stated, (s)locate/updatedb does this.
Most linux distros should have it installed (and integrated, database is updated each night by a cron job, etc.) by default.
Of course there still might be use for homebrewn methods
do that, then. It shouldn't be your customer responsibility to house that data.
Why not. It's YOUR data after all. How YOU want Google to behave.
Secondly, logging in would be just as much (or worse) "bad" for your "privacy".
Last but certainly not least, it's hugely inconvenient compared to a cookie. I don't know about you but I don't want to log in to google every time I want to search, I have better things to do - like the damn search that brought me to there in the first place.
Why should they create a login that vast majority of their users would never, ever, use because it's not as easy as automatically via cookie, and those that otherwise would are tinfoil hatters that wouldn't use it because they're scared of even their own shadow?
K6-2 was pretty fast in integer math but it had a very lousy FPU.
It was faster than P2 in some things, but due to that FPU, even Celeron badly beat it in the one area that values speeds over anything - games.
K6-3 was fast, but they never managed to run it beyond 450MHz, and even that was too late.
And Pentium wasn't "same day", but previous generation, so of course it was slower. Nor were there any that were same speed, the last pentium was 233MHz and K6-2 started from 300.
Well, these are not meant for you. Opteron is first and foremost a workstation/server CPU, it's obviously marketed and priced for companies.
The regular A64 is much better bang for the buck, quite competive with P4. Not to mention the "old" Athlon XP's still here and still beats the living daylights of any other CPU on price/performance ratio.
This doesn't have anything to do with socialism, if anything, it's hardcore corporatism.
Of course, most of the EU countries are somewhat socialistic (and have always been, which is good). When government pays your studies, it's socialism. When the government gives you money when you're out of job it's socialism, when the government subsidies your health costs it's socialism.
Instructions here.
Of course, that'll only make them work with 2.6 & Fedora patches and X.org, the rest is same as with FC1 (except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf), which isn't really that hard if you know how... I had hard time with it in FC1 too, until I realized that internal AGPGART in ATI drivers didn't work with NForce2, after turning that off... piece of cake.
Relevant portions of my current (FC2) xorg.conf looks like this:The only differences from original rh config file are commented out load extmod, and the lines followed by #ati comments.
Hope it helps.
... in PPC emulation, would x86-64 version of PearPC be much faster than one for i386?
[juhaz@localhost juhaz]$ rpm -q redhat-artwork
redhat-artwork-0.96-1
Sigh, the thought of women who care about gaming nearly naked drives me mad.
Care? About gaming?
Bah. These are actors/models/pr folks.
They're there because they get paid for it, and that's just about all there is to this "caring".
I can find more fun things to do in emacs than on that entire system.
Time to port Emacs for Series 60, then?
Stock charts are not supposed to look like a bell curve.
Dropping that fast from top of an "enormous peak" like that pretty much means they very much *ARE* dying.
Sure, the directors may still get out of the sinking ship, and be richer to boot, but the company is going down.
The post...
God help the rest of the universe when life finally manages to get off this planet...
... and the sig
There is no God
I guess universe is doomed, then.
Did you intend that to be as ironic as it sounds?
fedora.redhat.com is still showing test 3. That seems odd to me. Why would some other site have the release version before the project's site?
Well, the schedule states that:
14 May Release to mirrors (morning)
18 May Release open, announced
So it's been released to mirrors by now, but the official release is not until tomorrow.
The four days are to make sure that every mirror is synchronized so everyone opens up at the same time which will, hopefully, prevent 'em from getting swarmed. This is probably a leak from one of those mirrors.
Am I just being paranoid?
As for being paranoid, that's a healthy attitude to take with everything downloaded from an anonymous torrent. Heck, everything downloaded from the internet for that matter. Checking GPG signatures and MD5SUMS should show if it's a real deal or something else.
I was going to post the same thing, but I'll give you a MAJOR advantage of the US sizing system (A,B,C,D,E)...
Every single size sheet can fold down to an 8.5x11 size. This makes it VERY easy to keep a binder full of technical drawings.
Huh? What are you trying to say? That this doesn't work with metric papers? Every sheet from 4A0 will (well, would, given thin enough paper) fold down to miniscule A10 or more practically to A4.
This means that you can place two sheets of A4 side-by-side and they will equal an A3 sheet exactly, and two sheets of A3 will equal an A2."
Turn this backwards and it says: you can fold a sheet of A2 to just A3, and you can fold an A3 to exactly A4.
The same ratio is nice for a few things, but the doubling the length of the long edge is MUCH more convienent for those of us that actually use large paper sizes in everyday life.
Good then, that both systems use doubling of one edge to help folding, eh? Ratio is just extra bonus to help scaling, it doesn't prevent this.
For 10 lbs you could have a shuttle system that would blow the hell out of any laptop
....
A shuttle system without keyboard or display is not blowing hell out of anything, except in seti@home.
You see, it's not just the weight that makes a laptop a laptop, it's the fact that it's an integrated package, all there is to it is in it, self-contained, no need to drag separate monitor or separate mouse or separate keyboard or
Well, considering that previous versions of RTG's (though they're using thermocouples - peltier elements - instead of thermionic parts) have been sailing aboard space vessels since 1961, I'd say they're quite space qualified by now.
However, those things are HUGE. Everyone who wants to drag a thingy weighting probably few tons along with their laptop? A-ha. I really doubt moving to use thermionic emissions will bring the needed several orders of magnitude of improvement for this tech to be useful in portable electronics.
Think? What has parents thinking to do with w3c's names?
And no, they're Microsoft's invention.
Never existed?
Not during the time they were claimed to exist.
So who do you think launched all those tons of chemical agents on Iran in the Iran-Iraq war?
Iraq, probably. Both sides used chemical agents, trying to make Iraq bigger of those two evils is hypocrisy of worst sort, especially considering that it was probably US government - who were, at the time, utilizing Iraq as a tool against Iran - who supplied those weapons.
Of course few months after the war, since the tool had done it's job and no longer usable, it was convenient to start blaming it.
Who gassed the Kurds with nerve agents?
Just as likely that Iran did. Or both. It was a war after all. The fact is, during these almost 20 years there have been quite a few of viewpoints on this, and nobody knows the plain truth, if there even is one, and anyone claiming to is lying.
Fuck you.
Fuck off and die.
Likely the pictures that got him convicted were likely some some sixteen year old girls from Europe.
Does it matter? He wasn't in the Europe when looking at the pictures (would even that matter?). He's a citizen of USA and plays by their rules, even the pics come from Europe and are perfectly legal here.
On similar tracks of thought, but in the physical world: what happens if american tourist shags, let's say, 17 year old while on vacation in Europe? Is s/he a criminal when returning home.