So, suspend to disk is totally fucked, or is it just a little wonky? Also, how much battery does it drain in normal 'soft' suspend? I am merely curious because I haven't met many notebooks that behave properly 100% of the time with Linux. Which is odd, because I have run Linux on some of the shittiest, strangest, and most bizarre hardware without issue.
I'll second that. Powell's is my Mecca. Luckily for me I live a short (and free) streetcar ride or walk (depending on laziness) away. What a sweet place. They also have a cat named "FUP" and a good collection of ancient computers there.
Of particular interest is the huge collection of used, and hard-to-find books interspersed with the new books. There are no 'used' and 'new' sections at Powell's tech books.
My bones have become soft and mushy because of the new beverage. They said it contained milk products - I believed them. I haven't been able to move in over three months, so I depend on my daily Raging Cow IV to be hung by the friendly Dr. Pepper people.
Day 392
Oh god, I think I am going to metamorphose! My body has begun to cornificate into a giant cocoon like structure. I am scared. They are bringing more and more Raging Cow every day now.
Day 396
Help me! Somebody please, have mercy on me!
Day 593
MOOOOOOOOOO! (as a giant cow emerges from the cornified cocoon)
Buying a device that can only use Memory Sticks is like asking to get reaped in the ass with a spiked dildo. When you are all bloody afterwards, you don't really have to wonder why.
Seriously, Memory Sticks are just there to fuck you over.
Sony has had the living room all along. Worldwide, there is about 1 Xbox owner for every 40 PS2 owners. No hard-core gamer worth his controller-thumb callous would touch the thing with a 10 foor pole.
What do you have for Xbox, in terms of hit titles, that you don't have on every other platform? Halo, OK. That's it.
So does OS X. It's in the apple menu and can list a whole bunch of the most recently used applications, kind of like XP.
It also has a way to get to the System Preferences. Pretty similar to the old way; unless you're a rabid Old School Mac User you shouldn't notice a difference.
*BSDs are interesting but don't have the mindshare Linux does.
True, true. The punters and pundits oftin brandish this phrase, and twirl their virtual mustaches as if this is deep philosophy.
On my planet, the majority of computers that run Unix from the factory run BSD. Sun and Apple. In fact, BSD has a lot more mindshare than one might think. I can't think of very many programs for Linux that won't run on a BSD, and the BSD networking stack certainly outperforms the Linux TCP/IP stack. BSD has a lot of mindshare in academia, the government, and corporate areas. BSD was the basis for some or most of many of the commercial operating systems out there, including MS Windows.
Rather than something with security built in from the lowest level and all the way up, the average internet server is running an OS with security hack over security hack on top.
Gosh, I bet you are referring to Windows.
Built for the '70s - Intel 8086 - CPM
Kludges nailed on for the '80s - Intel 286, 386, 386SX - MS-DOS 'OS' (those are quotation marks of sarcasm)
I couldn't believe, and still can't believe to this day, the concept of having a purposefully neutered chip! x86SX, Celerons, etc.
Patches sown on for the '90s - Intel Pentium family - Multitasking with Windows 3, Win32, Trumpet Winsock, Windows NT and derivatives.
I have no idea what you mean by implying that Windows, or any other OS hasn't evolved and changed over time? You are completely ignorant of how software works, hence the AC.
I have a Lite-on CD-ROM drive from 1998 "40x MAX" which has been abused like that several times. It is the most reliable CD-ROM drive that I have ever seen. I can use CDParanoia to rip playable digital audio from CD's that aren't even shiny anymore with it! Truly an amazing drive. Has digital audio out, too, so it plays beautifully as well.
Sure, IBM makes a pretty good laptop case. Except, when it comes down to all the stuff that makes a laptop work, IBM sucks goat ass. Crappy power adapters, crappy keyboards, crappy erasers which always lost their little eraser hat and become a painful hard + shaped piece of crap. The batteries are the worst! Or wait, is it the drivers, or the completely shite BIOS?
If your IBM still works well after a year or two, you are lucky.
The Nuremburg trials set a precident here: that the excuse that somebody is 'just taking orders' or 'just doing his job' is not a valid one. When we are confronted with leeches on society, don't heed their bleatings about how they are "just taking orders." Call them out as the pimples they are! This goes for spammers, politicians, the BSA / MPAA / RIAA / &c. We must have no mercy for them. By trying to intimidate and frighten people while, by their own admission, they are commiting PURJURY is obviously wrong.
DON'T PRINT SHIT OUT UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Jeez, I don't even have a printer. If I need to print stuff out, I do it at a service bureau!
It's not bribery, it's just voting with dollars! Never mind that the dollar vote is exponentially more powerful than the ballot. Also, never mind that almost every elected official in the federal government betray the public trust, engage in shady dealings, and sell their souls and votes to the largest contributor.
As you can see, I'm pretty jaded on this issue as well.
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So, suspend to disk is totally fucked, or is it just a little wonky? Also, how much battery does it drain in normal 'soft' suspend? I am merely curious because I haven't met many notebooks that behave properly 100% of the time with Linux. Which is odd, because I have run Linux on some of the shittiest, strangest, and most bizarre hardware without issue.
It would then be up to the white supremecists in Portland to defend the state.
God knows we have enough of 'em here. Ever been to Pendleton? If you like wool and racism, that's the town for you!
What's the 1% that doesn't work well with Linux? The power management?
iMovie (Windows Movie Maker 2 is actually pretty competitive;
Methinks you meant "primative" and not "competitive!"
Oops!
More like 7 years back. This thing is thick and clunky like an old Powerbook 5300!
Ugh.
I'll second that. Powell's is my Mecca. Luckily for me I live a short (and free) streetcar ride or walk (depending on laziness) away. What a sweet place. They also have a cat named "FUP" and a good collection of ancient computers there.
Of particular interest is the huge collection of used, and hard-to-find books interspersed with the new books. There are no 'used' and 'new' sections at Powell's tech books.
I don't know, is your current IasomAar5aw ( I am sitting on my ass and reading 5lashdot at work) ?
My bones have become soft and mushy because of the new beverage. They said it contained milk products - I believed them. I haven't been able to move in over three months, so I depend on my daily Raging Cow IV to be hung by the friendly Dr. Pepper people.
Day 392
Oh god, I think I am going to metamorphose! My body has begun to cornificate into a giant cocoon like structure. I am scared. They are bringing more and more Raging Cow every day now.
Day 396
Help me! Somebody please, have mercy on me!
Day 593
MOOOOOOOOOO! (as a giant cow emerges from the cornified cocoon)
Developers won't be able to simply refuse to make Xbox games, as MS is owning more and more game companies every day.
Buying a device that can only use Memory Sticks is like asking to get reaped in the ass with a spiked dildo. When you are all bloody afterwards, you don't really have to wonder why.
Seriously, Memory Sticks are just there to fuck you over.
Sony has had the living room all along. Worldwide, there is about 1 Xbox owner for every 40 PS2 owners. No hard-core gamer worth his controller-thumb callous would touch the thing with a 10 foor pole.
What do you have for Xbox, in terms of hit titles, that you don't have on every other platform? Halo, OK. That's it.
Shit, though, MS would LOVE to use this bar to shove banner ads in your face all the time!
So does OS X. It's in the apple menu and can list a whole bunch of the most recently used applications, kind of like XP.
It also has a way to get to the System Preferences. Pretty similar to the old way; unless you're a rabid Old School Mac User you shouldn't notice a difference.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! I hope you don't mean America!
*BSDs are interesting but don't have the mindshare Linux does.
True, true. The punters and pundits oftin brandish this phrase, and twirl their virtual mustaches as if this is deep philosophy.
On my planet, the majority of computers that run Unix from the factory run BSD. Sun and Apple. In fact, BSD has a lot more mindshare than one might think. I can't think of very many programs for Linux that won't run on a BSD, and the BSD networking stack certainly outperforms the Linux TCP/IP stack. BSD has a lot of mindshare in academia, the government, and corporate areas. BSD was the basis for some or most of many of the commercial operating systems out there, including MS Windows.
[Mustache twirling]
Rather than something with security built in from the lowest level and all the way up, the average internet server is running an OS with security hack over security hack on top.
Gosh, I bet you are referring to Windows.
Built for the '70s - Intel 8086 - CPM
Kludges nailed on for the '80s - Intel 286, 386, 386SX - MS-DOS 'OS' (those are quotation marks of sarcasm)
I couldn't believe, and still can't believe to this day, the concept of having a purposefully neutered chip! x86SX, Celerons, etc.
Patches sown on for the '90s - Intel Pentium family - Multitasking with Windows 3, Win32, Trumpet Winsock, Windows NT and derivatives.
I have no idea what you mean by implying that Windows, or any other OS hasn't evolved and changed over time? You are completely ignorant of how software works, hence the AC.
I banish thee, troll!
Oh GOD! IS THAT YOU REV?
This may be the first time that the words "COBOL" and "works fine" were put together this way!
Seriously, COBOL is a waste of both hard drive and brain space.
Not many experienced ones do though.
I see more people using their numpads than I do people using the arrow keys.
I have a Lite-on CD-ROM drive from 1998 "40x MAX" which has been abused like that several times. It is the most reliable CD-ROM drive that I have ever seen. I can use CDParanoia to rip playable digital audio from CD's that aren't even shiny anymore with it! Truly an amazing drive. Has digital audio out, too, so it plays beautifully as well.
What's a "dreid?"
Sure, IBM makes a pretty good laptop case. Except, when it comes down to all the stuff that makes a laptop work, IBM sucks goat ass. Crappy power adapters, crappy keyboards, crappy erasers which always lost their little eraser hat and become a painful hard + shaped piece of crap. The batteries are the worst! Or wait, is it the drivers, or the completely shite BIOS?
If your IBM still works well after a year or two, you are lucky.
The Nuremburg trials set a precident here: that the excuse that somebody is 'just taking orders' or 'just doing his job' is not a valid one. When we are confronted with leeches on society, don't heed their bleatings about how they are "just taking orders." Call them out as the pimples they are! This goes for spammers, politicians, the BSA / MPAA / RIAA / &c. We must have no mercy for them. By trying to intimidate and frighten people while, by their own admission, they are commiting PURJURY is obviously wrong.
Take 'em to court!
DON'T PRINT SHIT OUT UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Jeez, I don't even have a printer. If I need to print stuff out, I do it at a service bureau!
Seriously, you can read shit on-line. Do that!
It's not bribery, it's just voting with dollars! Never mind that the dollar vote is exponentially more powerful than the ballot. Also, never mind that almost every elected official in the federal government betray the public trust, engage in shady dealings, and sell their souls and votes to the largest contributor.
As you can see, I'm pretty jaded on this issue as well.