I use my ten key pad all the time. I'd consider that the original pie menu. I think im a little biased however. I've used a mouse for the last ten years, and i still dont like it.
5: It is also commercial software not not cheap. I'm not one of your free software religious zealots, I have zero problems
with commercial software. The problem is that if Accelerated X is the only X server with 3d support for FreeBSD, then that
tips the scales decidedly in the favor of Linux where such support part of the base system.
freeBSD has had support for hardware graphics acceleration for some time. currently it works
for native freebsd binaries. support for linux binaries like quake3 and return to castle wolfenstien can be added with the linux_dri
package. take a look for your self
this is a cool time for dri under freebsd.
anholt is currently working with the dri group
at sourceforge. in a little while, XFree86 will
be able to 'officially' support DRI under freebsd.
I dont know about you, but when i 'upgrade', it usually involves pirating a couple of old parts from my old machine. If you are the type of person who doesnt keep your old machines running as mp3 servers and the like, then you have and old keyboard, mouse, pair of speakers, floppy drive, etc...
Hell, if youre like me, your friends give you their old, unwanted hardware. Glancing around my room i see a couple of old keyboards, two old mice (three buttons of course) a couple of gutted cases with a motherboard and 32 megs of slow ram, an old sparc station2, an HP Envizex X-terminal. I havent bought a CD-rom drive for about 3 years. They arent getting much faster. If i count the old cases with floppy drives, i see two 3.5in drives and two 5.5in drives.
Please, if you have extra hardware, give it to a friend who is building a machine. Recycling old hardware can save someone building a new machine around $100.
Which implies that any axiomatic system strong enough to construct the integers suffers from inconsistencies. No wonder Cantor spent the last years of his life in an asylum. It was all Russel's fault...
I understand the way that most 'desktops' are organized.
We have Mac OS, where every disk appears on the desktop. Even in OS X these stupid little disk icons appear.
In Windows we have the My Computer icon. Those stupid little disks appear when I open My Computer.
The unix filesystem hierarchy feels a hell of a lot more natural. Once you get the feeling of mount points, life becomes a lot more tolerable. I am never bothered by the clutter of even my home directory. The same clutter would drive me nuts on win or mac os with their ideas of 'desktop'.
My real question is about VMS. Didn't they have a fairly 'unique' way of representing the filesystem. If I recall, when you log in, you are dumped to your home directory which is effectively the root of the filesystem while everything else branches off of your home directory?
So, some punk ass kid gets one of these things for his birthday. Its got a camera, OCR software, and a computer algebra package. All of a sudden he starts pulling A's in his math classes without learning a thing...
If these things get mass produced, and I hope they do, they will probably be treated by academia like the origonal pocket calculators. If you get caught with one, you get expelled. Watching this industry mature is going to be very interesting. Its just one step closer to the cyberpunk lifestyle in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. And damn, it is cool.
At least the transition between Mac OS 9 and OS X was significant. I find it really lame that microsoft keeps releasing the same crap just so that people are pressured to buy an upgrade. Sure, maybe XP is all candy coated with a cooler gui, but nothing much has changed except for the fact that normal users have access to raw network sockets.
Microsoft claims that XP has better memory protection, better threading... I'm just waiting to see if any of this is true, or if XP has the same problems as 2k.
I've run FreeBSD on three different AMD boxes. I've had nothing but success.
Funny story... Windows wont even run on my k6-2 400 without being patched. It doesnt correctly share interrupts on the FIC-2013+ motherboard. Guess what... Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD cause no problem. I was so proud that I found a motherboard that wasnt 'supported' by Win98.
I would really like it if, when my box crashes, it reboots and fscks, if need be attracts my backup tapes to the DAT drive, restores the system, reconnects to its fellow servers and prints/pages/phones me a groveling apology.
All you need is watchdog support and some good shell scripts. It can be done.
Ah, but framebuffer GTK+ will never be as cool as Berlin. If you're bragging about its ability to do anti-aliasing and other fun stuff like that, Berlin does cool alpha channel stuff, does IPC using CORBA, and it does Unicode. Its kind of like X, but it really isn't, but it's better.
Todd Volz, the guy who wrote the zdnet article, must be a real idiot. He talks too much about ease of use. Apparently, he either doesnt know how to code HTML, or he is just a plain idiot. I'm referring to the fact that such an enlightened individual has linked to a zdnet search page instead of nautilus. Dont believe me? Read the article and try to click on the link to nautilus.
The real problem here is that people still have absoloutely no clue what they are doing. They must be used to using windows, because they dont know how to read documentation. I know, they must all be illiterate. Windows users must need those fuzzy little icons because they cant read.
I cant wait until one of these morons tries cleaning excess programs with 'rm'. Has anyone heard of packages? I guess not, because they cant read the man page for dpkg, rpm, or the BSD pkg tools.
The world of personal computers will probably become just like the world of cars. People take their computers in to the shop when something goes wrong. Just imagine...
Mechanic: So what seems to be the problem.
Luser: Well, i just bought it, but its using too much disk space. Can you remove some of these 'programs', or whatever you call them?
So Mr. Mechanic spends about ten minutes freeing up some disk space, smokes a couple of cigarettes, and charges you for three hours of work.
The lesson being taught here, is that if you dont want to rely on someone else, then read some damn man pages. If you want to waste your time and money having someone else fix your machine, then bitch for a better GUI and complain about how 'bloated' your flavor of unix is (because you dont know the means to thin it out). Point and click your way to happiness.
PS. Win2K takes about 850MB for a default install. Think about that, then bitch and moan about how big your unix distro is. Hm... I remember stripping down a bare bones FreeBSD install to about 30MB. And you know how? I can read.
What region are you in? Im stuck in San Luis Obispo. I know that charter their main offices are in LA (at least thats where i send the check) and that they are starting to provide for a significant part of the US.
At least you guys dont have to deal with charter cable. They have bocked all incoming ftp, smtp, and http instead of booting customers who serve. And they did this without a warning.
Theoretical Physics and some of this stuff that you call daydreaming is not detrimental to society and it is not a waste of your money. Just because it is happening a couple million light years away doesnt mean that it doesnt involve you.
<Personal Oppinion>Because I dont follow a major religion, this is what i consider searching for God. Life, The Universe, and Everything... It all ends up linking itself somehow with you. I just wish that people would be less concerned with making a dollar and pay a little more attention to learning about themselves and their surroundings.</Personal Oppinion>
Everyone is talking about looking at black holes, but does anyone know if we have the ability to study the hubble horizon with the telescopes that we currently can build? What kind of research is going on concerning that swampy reigon of space where we can see galaxies forming?
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I use my ten key pad all the time. I'd consider that the original pie menu. I think im a little biased however. I've used a mouse for the last ten years, and i still dont like it.
burning a cd to run memtest would be a little silly.
5: It is also commercial software not not cheap. I'm not one of your free software religious zealots, I have zero problems with commercial software. The problem is that if Accelerated X is the only X server with 3d support for FreeBSD, then that tips the scales decidedly in the favor of Linux where such support part of the base system.
freeBSD has had support for hardware graphics acceleration for some time. currently it works for native freebsd binaries. support for linux binaries like quake3 and return to castle wolfenstien can be added with the linux_dri package. take a look for your self
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/
this is a cool time for dri under freebsd. anholt is currently working with the dri group at sourceforge. in a little while, XFree86 will be able to 'officially' support DRI under freebsd.
I dont know about you, but when i 'upgrade', it usually involves pirating a couple of old parts
from my old machine. If you are the type of person who doesnt keep your old machines running as mp3 servers and the like, then you have and old keyboard, mouse, pair of speakers, floppy drive, etc...
Hell, if youre like me, your friends give you their old, unwanted hardware. Glancing around my room i see a couple of old keyboards, two old mice (three buttons of course) a couple of gutted cases with a motherboard and 32 megs of slow ram, an old sparc station2, an HP Envizex X-terminal. I havent bought a CD-rom drive for about 3 years. They arent getting much faster. If i count the old cases with floppy drives, i see two 3.5in drives and two 5.5in drives.
Please, if you have extra hardware, give it to a friend who is building a machine. Recycling old
hardware can save someone building a new machine around $100.
Strange... It happened on March 16, 2001. Thats almost exactly a year ago today. It's especially amazing because of sleep-dep.
Let's see... If someone in this thread links to a page thats super critical of scientology, could the scientologists go after slashdot too?
Which implies that any axiomatic system strong enough to construct the integers suffers from inconsistencies. No wonder Cantor spent the last years of his life in an asylum. It was all Russel's fault...
Hm... I guess nobody bothered to read this article.
Ever seen fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu?
How happy would freespeechcenter.org be if I registered freespeechcentersucks.org?
I understand the way that most 'desktops' are organized.
We have Mac OS, where every disk appears on the desktop. Even in OS X these stupid little disk icons appear.
In Windows we have the My Computer icon. Those stupid little disks appear when I open My Computer.
The unix filesystem hierarchy feels a hell of a lot more natural. Once you get the feeling of mount points, life becomes a lot more tolerable. I am never bothered by the clutter of even my home directory. The same clutter would drive me nuts on win or mac os with their ideas of 'desktop'.
My real question is about VMS. Didn't they have a fairly 'unique' way of representing the filesystem. If I recall, when you log in, you are dumped to your home directory which is effectively the root of the filesystem while everything else branches off of your home directory?
So, some punk ass kid gets one of these things for his birthday. Its got a camera, OCR software, and a computer algebra package. All of a sudden he starts pulling A's in his math classes without learning a thing...
If these things get mass produced, and I hope they do, they will probably be treated by academia like the origonal pocket calculators. If you get caught with one, you get expelled. Watching this industry mature is going to be very interesting. Its just one step closer to the cyberpunk lifestyle in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. And damn, it is cool.
Are you telling me that an excel macro cannot start a DoS attack???
At least the transition between Mac OS 9 and OS X was significant. I find it really lame that microsoft keeps releasing the same crap just so that people are pressured to buy an upgrade. Sure, maybe XP is all candy coated with a cooler gui, but nothing much has changed except for the fact that normal users have access to raw network sockets.
Microsoft claims that XP has better memory protection, better threading... I'm just waiting to see if any of this is true, or if XP has the same problems as 2k.
I've run FreeBSD on three different AMD boxes. I've had nothing but success.
Funny story... Windows wont even run on my k6-2 400 without being patched. It doesnt correctly share interrupts on the FIC-2013+ motherboard. Guess what... Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD cause no problem. I was so proud that I found a motherboard that wasnt 'supported' by Win98.
I would really like it if, when my box crashes, it reboots and fscks, if need be attracts my backup tapes to the DAT drive, restores the system, reconnects to its fellow servers and prints/pages/phones me a groveling apology.
All you need is watchdog support and some good shell scripts. It can be done.
Ah, but framebuffer GTK+ will never be as cool as Berlin. If you're bragging about its ability to do anti-aliasing and other fun stuff like that, Berlin does cool alpha channel stuff, does IPC using CORBA, and it does Unicode. Its kind of like X, but it really isn't, but it's better.
Go ahead and flame away. I'm ready for it...
Todd Volz, the guy who wrote the zdnet article, must be a real idiot. He talks too much about ease of use. Apparently, he either doesnt know how to code HTML, or he is just a plain idiot. I'm referring to the fact that such an enlightened individual has linked to a zdnet search page instead of nautilus. Dont believe me? Read the article and try to click on the link to nautilus.
The real problem here is that people still have absoloutely no clue what they are doing. They must be used to using windows, because they dont know how to read documentation. I know, they must all be illiterate. Windows users must need those fuzzy little icons because they cant read.
I cant wait until one of these morons tries cleaning excess programs with 'rm'. Has anyone heard of packages? I guess not, because they cant read the man page for dpkg, rpm, or the BSD pkg tools.
The world of personal computers will probably become just like the world of cars. People take their computers in to the shop when something goes wrong. Just imagine...
Mechanic: So what seems to be the problem.
Luser: Well, i just bought it, but its using too much disk space. Can you remove some of these 'programs', or whatever you call them?
So Mr. Mechanic spends about ten minutes freeing up some disk space, smokes a couple of cigarettes, and charges you for three hours of work.
The lesson being taught here, is that if you dont want to rely on someone else, then read some damn man pages. If you want to waste your time and money having someone else fix your machine, then bitch for a better GUI and complain about how 'bloated' your flavor of unix is (because you dont know the means to thin it out). Point and click your way to happiness.
PS. Win2K takes about 850MB for a default install. Think about that, then bitch and moan about how big your unix distro is. Hm... I remember stripping down a bare bones FreeBSD install to about 30MB. And you know how? I can read.
I can see that your html isnt compliant either...
Looks like microsoft has ported IE to HP-UX and Solaris. Check out microsoft's download site.
yes, and top is so accurate. i have yet to see a version of top that properly accounts for threads.
What region are you in? Im stuck in San Luis Obispo. I know that charter their main offices are in LA (at least thats where i send the check) and that they are starting to provide for a significant part of the US.
At least you guys dont have to deal with charter cable. They have bocked all incoming ftp, smtp, and http instead of booting customers who serve. And they did this without a warning.
PS. Their throughput sucks.
Theoretical Physics and some of this stuff that you call daydreaming is not detrimental to society and it is not a waste of your money. Just because it is happening a couple million light years away doesnt mean that it doesnt involve you.
<Personal Oppinion>Because I dont follow a major religion, this is what i consider searching for God. Life, The Universe, and Everything... It all ends up linking itself somehow with you. I just wish that people would be less concerned with making a dollar and pay a little more attention to learning about themselves and their surroundings.</Personal Oppinion>
Everyone is talking about looking at black holes, but does anyone know if we have the ability to study the hubble horizon with the telescopes that we currently can build? What kind of research is going on concerning that swampy reigon of space where we can see galaxies forming?
Just curious...