Sorry but as I'm Anti-Social, I'd rather you not force this upon me. Otherwise I'll be forced to go Postal and give you a major paper-cut before mailing you to the middle of Zimbabwe with Do Not Open Until Xmas 2400 AD or after the 2nd Coming of Christ" to ensure you stay fresh.
Oh, and if you drive a car of any kind and put more than 10k/year on it, I bet I've used less gas than you in the past year. Am I still selfish? Well I'll Bite:
I drive an average of 250 miles a day, 4 days a week (52k per year) and average 42mpg. The car I'm driving is a paid in full 1968 VW Bug with a 71 1600cc Dual Port motor using the stock Pict30 Single barrel carburetor. I'm also using the stock 165/75/15 tires at 35 psi (44 psi max).
The reason is that I'm involved in the county Senior/Low Income checkup program and have to visit clients every week with 5 - 25 miles between clients. I live in the largest county in the United States (San Berndino, Ca) and perform my duties in the eastern desert region. Communities are few and far between; hell most aren't even cities; and my clients can and do live anywheres within 200 miles from the county seat.
Freddy has a problem. He's fallen into a black hole called my mind and can no longer escape to terrorize the rest of you dreamers. In fact, Jason has been transformed into such a cute little kitten that can't cross the road to reach the katnip patch.
There's a better way to handle Azureus under Gentoo: Simply restrict the damn client to no more then 10-20 connections per torrent and limit your torrents to 4 connections. The other thing is to change the cache memory limit from the default 2m to 6-8m as this actually helps things go faster. Finally the last element is to restrict the open files to =10 as that helps both the cache and memory usage of Azureus over time.
Apparantly they put their $ where their mouth is, which deserves respect in itself. And regardless how small a part that may be on the annual budget of either J+J or the (American) Red Cross, more than a cool million and a half per year is no small contribution. Actually that's a damn pitiful contribution of cash/supplies as that doesn't even cover the cost of 3 truck loads of bandages/gloves and other basic medical supplies each year. Now if they were talking about that much on an annual basis, then I'd be willing to accept the definition about it not being a small contribution. Simply put, One million Dollars a year is what J&J Spends in Petty Cash and they'd never even notice such a contribution.
and we see that you have a pre-existing medical condition that we will never cover. We also see that you tend to engage in risky behavior (smoking/STD's) so we are now terminating all insurance policies as we don't want people who increase our risk of loosing money. Goodbye
I'm sorry Joe but based upon your Google Health Records, we have to let you go. We simply can't afford the loss of insurance coverage for everyone else in the company. No hard feelings.
That's just a couple of reasons for HIPPA. Do you really want to loose your job because the insurance company can deny you coverage and enforce it through employers? How about having a diabetic child, spouse, autism, other disability. Each and everyone of them could then be listed as a pre-existing medical condition and legally denied coverage for.
I know damn well that here in the states that unless we get a universal medical care (EU/Canada/UK) this is a piss poor idea though now that someone has figured out a loophole to HIPPA it looks like the insurance companies are going to push to kill it as fast as they can.
What sort of distro insists that you install software that you don't want or need? Answer: any prepackaged binary distro.
AFAIK: the only types that give "you" the end user the ability to decide what optional dependencies will be installed are source code based such as Gentoo or LFS. Otherwise you are stuck with some one else's decisions in regard to optional dependencies.
The Woman lived in the victims neighborhood. This was not an individual across the country that had no physical contact with the victim but someone who actually lived in her local community, which is why in hell the victims parents were so damn incensed that the D.A. and Attorney General felt no crime had been committed.
Now ask yourself this question: How would you feel if a neighbor was able to drive your child/disabled parent/S.O to suicide and was told that no crime had been committed.
around the OpenGL certification, which involves far more testing of the GPU design then the Geforce models go through. The second issue is that a CAD shop doesn't care why the card screwed up - they simply want Nvidia/ATI/who-ever to fix the problem. This actually involves a legal Liability issue because if any design errors are resolved back to either the application (CAD/CAM) or the GPU (Quadro/FireGL) then the designer can push any legal claims for damage onto deeper pockets then theirs.
As a end-note, the cost of Quadro & FireGL cards is no longer $1000.00 dollars as both Nvidia and ATI have released budget versions (older chips) that still function well.
No! No! No! We Gentoo Users redirect the extreme militants over the Slackware as helps reduce the knowledgeable posts in the forums.
On the Canonical Front, they're simply following in the footsteps of Red Hat and selling support/customization of a product to businesses as desired by them.
If applications like Open Office fail to open an Office document even 1% of the time then they're useless if that document is really something you need to open. Gimp still isn't a satisfactory replacement for Photoshop. Sound in flash still doesn't work correctly out of the box, there's no mp3 support by default, nor does Quicktime really work plus there's no decent movie player. Well as a small Business owner, I'm sorry that flash doesn't work on your computer and that you don't have a music or video player app but you happen to be using my equipment to do the job I hired you for and you get the tools I find necessary for you to do that job and if you don't like it, then you are free to find employment elsewhere.
Now as the IT Officer, I use Gentoo on my computers with PXE-boot capabilities because all of my employees are using smart terminals that boot from the network. The advantage is that should a terminal puke/crash/xplode, then all I need to do is switch out the broken unit and have them up and running within minutes and all of this occurs without data loss since everything is on the server.
As part of my decision, my employees use fluxbox as their WM and it is configured to automatically start the only applications that they use, email for those in that position, Open Office for those who need the office suite and a very restrictive set of apps. Hell I even give em Dillo for html file access as it's good enough for that and as far as my customers are concerned, I don't have any problem with Office file formats because by contract, they have to submit in either RTF or Word 97 format though my new contracts are finally moving to a Combination of ODF and RTF as the failsafe formats.
So from the business standpoint, my employees are using the tools I provide at company expense in the manner I deem appropriate instead of doing what ever in hell they want and because of this everyone actually gets enough done cheaply enough that I can continue to pay them for working. Now I'm not a task master or slave driver as I do give them access to a few extras like Pysol and Minesweeper. They offer enough of a mental break while being easy enough to interupt when things get busy.
Some Good Points about the initial costs but then you forgot something; that a property owner might be willing to spend the money if it's run as a bond issue with a 25 year period. Overall, the cost needs to be less then $250 a year additional until the bond is paid off.
Note that I live in such a rural area and would be quite willing to spend double the cost of Dialup ($40 a month) if I could get T1 speeds in both directions. Hell they wouldn't even have to provide email or usenet support (Google works well and is free), which certainly drops maintenance costs to a minimum.
In the downtown business areas, it would be possible to offer higher speeds for increased prices that would likely be accepted.
Go right ahead and we'll see how many of the big 3 Windows boxes crash with you and don't forget the odd Pinto that explodes, the Explorer the rolls over and such
as it means any and all criminal actions that I've taken over the years will be attributed to someone else because my biometrics have and continue to change as I grow older and suffer irrepairable minor damange from that.
and although it now copies/moves files from system to external at a better rate 10mbps instead of 100-200kbps, it has still not resolved the Anti-Social behaviour of Vista on my home network. Simply put, I am unable to reliably access the shared resources on my XP Boxes from Vista and Vista simply refuses to allow access to any shared resources even with UAC disabled by the XP boxes.
Due to this failure, I have decided to begin the transition to a 64bit version of Gentoo on my Desktop (Vista Business64) and laptop (XP-Pro) after full backups of all critical files (thank god for Gmail) on 3/19/2008 because on 3/20/2008 I'm wiping Windows completely and starting the Gentoo Installations. Once those are completed and I have a true VM working, I will start the transition of the other Desktop and Laptop over to the same 64bit Gentoo.
It's nice having 2 laptops that are identical as it means the transition for the second one will be far shorter as I can simply copy over the settings and actual binaries from the other first unit. This means the transition should take less then 10 minutes after the backup has been completed on that unit and after all systems are converted with all backups restored from the external, I can then wipe the external and reformat the external into fat32 partitions for moving data to/from Windows boxes over sneaker net.
Hell, I love tabbed browsing and have configured 3 tabs for my homepage in both IE7 & FF. That's just to start them up. When I hit certain websites (/. being one) I've opened as many tabs as I'm interested in though it depends on how many times I've hit the page that day. In the real world. I've had as many as 120 tabs in FF open at the same time (got real sluggish then 2.0.12) and IE7 seems to get cranky with more then 30 open and thats when I'm checking Windows KB/Catalog for Downloads.
Under Linux (Gentoo Ricer here) I've had as many as 150 tabs open in Firefox but I've also set the cache size much larger then the default 50M since I've got 4GB of memory installed. That's the biggest thing I like about tabbed browsing. Select all the links I want and simply open them in new tabs and let em load in the background.
The funniest thing about the blast from the past is that on the Ides of March (3/20/2008) I'll be wiping Vista Business64 from my drive and installing Gentoo64 even though Vista Business64/SP1 has not given me any major problems.
Instead the reason revolves around the ability of MS to disable my access to MY creative efforts at anytime and for any damn reason at all and it's that reason I'm moving back to Gentoo though having 4GB of memory is another reason I'm going with the 64bit version instead.
Also installing/running something like Gentoo on flash wouldn't be pretty... Sorry to disappoint you but a properly configured Gentoo setup works even better on a flash drive then you'd expect. The main issue is how much disk thrashing goes on when compiling and for that aspect, you simply use a normal HD.
Using Gentoo, what I've found works nicely is a 2GB flash drive that holds only the/boot / partitions as both are rarely written to. What this does is improve the boot times of the system by anywheres from 2-4x making my system boot into run level 5 in less then 15 seconds (cheap stop watch timing). As to Gentoo thrashing a drive when installing/compiling, you don't use a flash drive for that, instead use a standard HD because it offers better performance and longevity. The other reason is that unless you're installing, gentoo doesn't thrash a drive anymore then any other OS except Vista.
Yes: I do believe that public floggings are needed along with the usage of stocks and for those who've crossed the line, hanging. Instead of coddling the criminals, we need to revert back to a harsher sentencing structure that inflicts actual pain and suffering as a punishment. Read Robert Heinlen's Star Ship Troopers (not the damn movie) to see what I'm talking about.
I suspect that if we finally got around to actually making criminals responsible for their crimes instead of free food/medical/housing that crime would drop pretty quickly in the United States. Of course with all the brainwashing that's been going on about not being responsible for your actions, that's about as likely to happen as the 2nd coming of Christ
Mind you I run it on a 4Ghz machine with 4Gigs of RAM so it sure as hell ought to be snappy!
I find it funny that you needed a 4Ghz rig to run Vista Ultimate becuase I'm running Vista Business64/SP1 on a E6300 C2D@1.8Ghz with 4GB and it's snappy.
Bad Ettiqute but Transparent Aluminum cost is 8x that of Armored Glass but it's still being developed by Military Interests as it's stronger/lighter then Armored Glass in Aircraft and should soon make its way into ground vehicles (think Hummers/armored cars).
Is this the science that is the RL equivalent of the Star Trek fictional "transparent aluminum? Answer = No because Transparent Aluminum already exists.
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Sorry but as I'm Anti-Social, I'd rather you not force this upon me. Otherwise I'll be forced to go Postal and give you a major paper-cut before mailing you to the middle of Zimbabwe with Do Not Open Until Xmas 2400 AD or after the 2nd Coming of Christ" to ensure you stay fresh.
I drive an average of 250 miles a day, 4 days a week (52k per year) and average 42mpg. The car I'm driving is a paid in full 1968 VW Bug with a 71 1600cc Dual Port motor using the stock Pict30 Single barrel carburetor. I'm also using the stock 165/75/15 tires at 35 psi (44 psi max).
The reason is that I'm involved in the county Senior/Low Income checkup program and have to visit clients every week with 5 - 25 miles between clients. I live in the largest county in the United States (San Berndino, Ca) and perform my duties in the eastern desert region. Communities are few and far between; hell most aren't even cities; and my clients can and do live anywheres within 200 miles from the county seat.
Freddy has a problem. He's fallen into a black hole called my mind and can no longer escape to terrorize the rest of you dreamers. In fact, Jason has been transformed into such a cute little kitten that can't cross the road to reach the katnip patch.
There's a better way to handle Azureus under Gentoo: Simply restrict the damn client to no more then 10-20 connections per torrent and limit your torrents to 4 connections. The other thing is to change the cache memory limit from the default 2m to 6-8m as this actually helps things go faster. Finally the last element is to restrict the open files to =10 as that helps both the cache and memory usage of Azureus over time.
Digistan sounds like where Digi-Mon would come from. So can I find a Renamon as a pet now?
I'm sorry Joe but based upon your Google Health Records, we have to let you go. We simply can't afford the loss of insurance coverage for everyone else in the company. No hard feelings.
That's just a couple of reasons for HIPPA. Do you really want to loose your job because the insurance company can deny you coverage and enforce it through employers? How about having a diabetic child, spouse, autism, other disability. Each and everyone of them could then be listed as a pre-existing medical condition and legally denied coverage for.
I know damn well that here in the states that unless we get a universal medical care (EU/Canada/UK) this is a piss poor idea though now that someone has figured out a loophole to HIPPA it looks like the insurance companies are going to push to kill it as fast as they can.
AFAIK: the only types that give "you" the end user the ability to decide what optional dependencies will be installed are source code based such as Gentoo or LFS. Otherwise you are stuck with some one else's decisions in regard to optional dependencies.
Damn Ricers! What's wrong with a perfectly good 300Baud Acoustic Coupler?
Now ask yourself this question: How would you feel if a neighbor was able to drive your child/disabled parent/S.O to suicide and was told that no crime had been committed.
As a end-note, the cost of Quadro & FireGL cards is no longer $1000.00 dollars as both Nvidia and ATI have released budget versions (older chips) that still function well.
On the Canonical Front, they're simply following in the footsteps of Red Hat and selling support/customization of a product to businesses as desired by them.
You mean like Dos 6.2.2 with the window manager feature turned on?
Now as the IT Officer, I use Gentoo on my computers with PXE-boot capabilities because all of my employees are using smart terminals that boot from the network. The advantage is that should a terminal puke/crash/xplode, then all I need to do is switch out the broken unit and have them up and running within minutes and all of this occurs without data loss since everything is on the server.
As part of my decision, my employees use fluxbox as their WM and it is configured to automatically start the only applications that they use, email for those in that position, Open Office for those who need the office suite and a very restrictive set of apps. Hell I even give em Dillo for html file access as it's good enough for that and as far as my customers are concerned, I don't have any problem with Office file formats because by contract, they have to submit in either RTF or Word 97 format though my new contracts are finally moving to a Combination of ODF and RTF as the failsafe formats.
So from the business standpoint, my employees are using the tools I provide at company expense in the manner I deem appropriate instead of doing what ever in hell they want and because of this everyone actually gets enough done cheaply enough that I can continue to pay them for working. Now I'm not a task master or slave driver as I do give them access to a few extras like Pysol and Minesweeper. They offer enough of a mental break while being easy enough to interupt when things get busy.
Note that I live in such a rural area and would be quite willing to spend double the cost of Dialup ($40 a month) if I could get T1 speeds in both directions. Hell they wouldn't even have to provide email or usenet support (Google works well and is free), which certainly drops maintenance costs to a minimum.
In the downtown business areas, it would be possible to offer higher speeds for increased prices that would likely be accepted.
Go right ahead and we'll see how many of the big 3 Windows boxes crash with you and don't forget the odd Pinto that explodes, the Explorer the rolls over and such
as it means any and all criminal actions that I've taken over the years will be attributed to someone else because my biometrics have and continue to change as I grow older and suffer irrepairable minor damange from that.
Due to this failure, I have decided to begin the transition to a 64bit version of Gentoo on my Desktop (Vista Business64) and laptop (XP-Pro) after full backups of all critical files (thank god for Gmail) on 3/19/2008 because on 3/20/2008 I'm wiping Windows completely and starting the Gentoo Installations. Once those are completed and I have a true VM working, I will start the transition of the other Desktop and Laptop over to the same 64bit Gentoo.
It's nice having 2 laptops that are identical as it means the transition for the second one will be far shorter as I can simply copy over the settings and actual binaries from the other first unit. This means the transition should take less then 10 minutes after the backup has been completed on that unit and after all systems are converted with all backups restored from the external, I can then wipe the external and reformat the external into fat32 partitions for moving data to/from Windows boxes over sneaker net.
Under Linux (Gentoo Ricer here) I've had as many as 150 tabs open in Firefox but I've also set the cache size much larger then the default 50M since I've got 4GB of memory installed. That's the biggest thing I like about tabbed browsing. Select all the links I want and simply open them in new tabs and let em load in the background.
Instead the reason revolves around the ability of MS to disable my access to MY creative efforts at anytime and for any damn reason at all and it's that reason I'm moving back to Gentoo though having 4GB of memory is another reason I'm going with the 64bit version instead.
Using Gentoo, what I've found works nicely is a 2GB flash drive that holds only the
I suspect that if we finally got around to actually making criminals responsible for their crimes instead of free food/medical/housing that crime would drop pretty quickly in the United States. Of course with all the brainwashing that's been going on about not being responsible for your actions, that's about as likely to happen as the 2nd coming of Christ
I find it funny that you needed a 4Ghz rig to run Vista Ultimate becuase I'm running Vista Business64/SP1 on a E6300 C2D@1.8Ghz with 4GB and it's snappy.
Bad Ettiqute but Transparent Aluminum cost is 8x that of Armored Glass but it's still being developed by Military Interests as it's stronger/lighter then Armored Glass in Aircraft and should soon make its way into ground vehicles (think Hummers/armored cars).