I tried to "play" a sandwhich once. After 3 hours of painful surgery, the doctor made his point and I haven't thought of trying that again. I hope your niece learned her lesson too.
I also hope she didn't get the nasty infection that I did.
You are looking at ways from distracting yourself - but it is right there in front of you.
Nothing funnier than killing people that are different from you. With their funny way of talking and their play money. Hell - it is so cute the way they play government and even have those toy news stations.
Of course, they ain't 'merican, so it ain't real. That's why its okay to kill 'em.
Seriously though - if you need a laugh, just lean back in your chair and think of the French. Or the Canadianers. Or the funniest of all - the French Candianers. Bunch of fucking mimes all up there, dancing around on ice skates. Now THAT is pure comedy gold.
Anything that doesn't immediately present itself as obvious to you HAS to be space aliens.
Or super-intelligent mind reading mice.
You have to be kidding me. It scares me that there are so many retards that are allowed to live out there... worst yet they post on slashdot. You are probably even allowed to drive.
Go out and buy Carl Sagan's "A Demon Haunted World" and read it from cover to cover. Then do the world a favor and beat yourself to death with it.
In Nevada, any personal winnings over X amount are reported to taxes (I think it is anything over $10K) - and even with that, there are ways around that. Not to mention the ways that the casinos avoid taxation. The money that gets most easily taxed is the hotel and food money - and it is easier for them to show losses there. There is a lot of missed taxation on the cash transactions.
To say that it is taxed is a valid statement - to say that the taxes are being collected in full is a different statement. They are aware that they are getting dicked over in taxes, and they don't like it.
They can still generate millions in revenue - MA is thinking of starting to allow video poker in I think 4 places and from just that, they feel they can bring in $300 million (and then they are also cutting out 2 schools in the city to save $5million - that is going to piss off a lot of people, bringing in casinos and getting rid of schools... I'm personally ambivalent).
But the millions that they generate theoretically aren't as much as they could generate, and they bring in an increase of people wanting their hands on that money - meaning organized crime... I suppose some arguement could be made at the government being organized crime:)
I've used c2it.com in the past and it is great (and follows bank laws) - but the problem is momentum. PayPal has a huge user list and people aren't likely to switch over - so if you use c2it, you then need to convince others to sign up for it as well. Which is not terribly hard if you are trying to get a friend to pay you back and you live in DC and he lives in Wyoming... But it is an issue if you are trying to sell something on ebay, or if you have an online business - you need to go with what the majority of people will use. Just like a majority of sites don't accept diner's club - not many people have it. so no reason to bother paying to support it.
while I'm certainly not a huge fan of paypal, one should be fair to them.
while paypal did allow some money to get through to gambling sites - it isn't their universal policy to allow all gambling.
I konw from past experience that they do block some gambling sites - the problem is that they make it easy to exchange money without them (paypal) really knowing what you are doing. This is a good thing. But as a side effect, Joe User can give money to an online casino and paypal doesn't necessarily know that. So now they are getting in trouble because of that.
They do have a list of casinos - and some casinos also won't let you use paypal - but it is a matter of them being aware of each other - it isn't something that will automatically work in the current system.
So technically paypal isn't 100% BAD - they were/are doing something the right way - it is just that the legal community isn't happy with that.
I am torn on this one. I use PayPal and have transferred a lot of money back and forth - but never at one time (meaning many small - max under $1000 transactions). They have been just fine for me. It is great if you have a household of shared rent and bills and you want to easily pay one central person without any paper checks.
But I don't think that it is fair that PayPal is allowed to bypass the bank laws for the most part.
I do know (not personally as in "my mother" but personally in the sense that I have "spoken" with them on the net via e-mail and discussion boards) people that have had 10s of thousands of dollars get locked up by PayPal. I trust PayPal for my small $300 transactions, and I even have it hooked up to my bank without too much worry on my part. But from what I have heard of others, I would not keep large sums of money in there (the few people that I know had over $50K in there when it was frozen and then basically taken from them).
To be fair, the people I know that had their money taken were doing illegal things - so it became very hard for them to seek legal action against PayPal. It would be amusing to approach the athorities and try to explain that PayPal stole from you money that you were not going to claim on taxes and was obtained via non-legal ways. Whether or not PayPal kept that money when they realized what was happening, or if they just freeze any high $$ accounts (I had heard that they freeze them all if they are high $$ and/or high traffic so that they can investigate them and then unfreeze them if they are "okay"... not sure what is "okay" and who determines that).
I know a close friend that used a credit card only once in 2 years, and the one time that they used it was to sign up for a website subscription (not slashdot) via PayPal. She then quickly had many charges run up on her card - it was someone that had stolen it. She had to run through circles with PayPal and the cc company to resolve it - in the end, it was someone at PayPal.
And then the gambling. I personally have no issues with gambling - I don't have a moral issue with it - and the only reason the states really doesn't like it (no matter what moral claims they state), is that it is not something they can tax. So I don't personally feel that gambling should some get in trouble for this.
Were I for some reason allowed to make decisions on all of this - I would want PayPal to be treated legally like a bank, and I would want gambling to be allowed to stay on the continental states and then taxed. As for the drug dealers that lose their money... I'm pretty ambivalent on that one.
Okay, as a user that never runs a gui on the machine, only ever goes in via ssh over the local intranet, and has a cluster of servers all behind a hardware firewall that blocks all incoming attempts... What is different about RedHat 9.0 that is applicable to me?
I'm just curious if I should bother with upgrading or not - I would guess no since I can just download any one particular thing that I want/need.
The one thing that I can think of justifying it would be that I'd like a working lm_sensors. The existing lm_sensors that it came with for me didn't have anything for my motherboard (epox 8kmm+). I'll admit it - I tried installing lm_sensors on my own and couldn't do it successfully (so much for "following the instructions"). So were there some way that was RetardEasy to get that in... ie "upgrading" - then I'd go for it.
Otherwise, it is just another big number jump in a short period of time that I'm not sure has any real bearing on me - yet leaves me curiously watching all those about me rush to get it.. wondering... why?
I just bought a GPS so that I could track where I go everyday and then plug it into a computer and map it out - then generating statistical models/maps of that over time. Nothing particularly useful - but fun to me.
I think this phone would make that easier for me - but since I just got a GPS (it is still in the mail on the way here), it makes it hard for me to justify getting this phone - plus I'm not even sure the phone would work for me where I live now and where I'm moving.
by specialized tasks I assume you mean that a few are image servers, a few are content servers - do you actually have databases running on these?
How many hits do you handle with these?
I agree that these things use much less power, and therefore also generate less heat and noise, so they would make fantastic cluster machines or servers... were they faster.
From everything I have seen, they just aren't cost efficient when you crunch the numbers.
Can you say some vague figures at how many hits they handle, how much the current setup cost initially, how much it costs to maintain - all compared to the previous setup of Athlons?
I personally can't justify it in the end for a server/cluster node b/c of their crappy network performance (unless you add a card - along with its added cost), and sub par cpu speed.
I'm just curious if you case is a specific one, or if I'm just missing something in the numbers that I looked up a month or two ago.
When I first saw these things, I saw the small cases for them and they were pretty snazzy. There is a french company (can't recal the link) that makes nice shiny boxes for these things that are basically little cubes.
I use laptops for all of my home sitdown machines, and then ssh into servers to do anything that needs more power than the laptop. I don't play games at all. I do financial analsys on the servers that are set up in a cluster (albeit a frequently down cluster these days).
So I had no desire for these boxes as a personal machine, but I thought perhaps they would do well as nodes in a cluster since they are small, use less power, and aren't noisy. But, while they are cheaper, the "bang for the buck" factor then makes them too expensive for clusters. They just aren't that fast and their network performance isn't so hot (without an additional card - which then drives up the cost some more). In the end, I'm currently more more pleased with the Epox 8KMM+ for cluster boards - it is an ATX-Micro - not nearly as small - but still not the full ATX, and it has all the stuff on board.
In May I will be head of a technology group and will have to start caring about business machines for Joe User. These baby machines are great for them - they just need to run Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. They don't need any real power, so these machines are a great way to save money, power, and reduce noise in an office. I will certainly consider these - especially since computers get marked up nearly 2X in cost in Bermuda where I will be. So saving money is essential.
The one I have in my living room on a harwood floor is dead quiet.
I wrote up in my journal about where I got the parts and which ones I used.
It is not a fantastic machine, it is to be a node in a cluster - but you can't sleep while that machine is going, then you have a problem - not with your machine, but a larger sleep issue (I'm also curious what dorm/school you live in where the largest noise issue is your computer).
I have had problems with the case that I have used, but I have a new one on the way that will resolve those issues. I haven't used any padding, carpeting, insulation, or even hard drive covers - and this thing is totally silent - and I have great hearing. If it is running the dnet client for a bit, then I can make out the sound of a fan - but it is still faint.
My TiVo is by far the loudest thing in my living room now (although to be honest, right now my quiet machine is turned off until I get a new case for it and I have a noisy dual PIII running right now).
It is one thing to want to build something ultra quiet for the "just because" factor - but if you can't sleep through the noise of what I have, then I would imagine that it is an imaginary problem or something else beyond the computer at that point.
I have worked on large scale DHTML projects in the past, and I currently work at a company that does a lot of Flash work.
The problem is that you have a very limited mindset and knowledge of what Flash can do. Your statement is very much like the people that think Java is just those little applets you see on web pages.
The products we make are on CD and very complex - if you are going to make an argument that XYZ is better than Flash - then you should be arguing that Director is better than it - not DHTML.
It terms of random crap on web pages - it depends on what you are doing. Flash is designed to quickly animate and display vector graphics. If you are displaying bitmap grpahics in Flash, you are then not doing what it is good at, and should likely be using another tool - perhaps this is where DHTML falls into play. Flash is very small and very fast if used correctly. DHTML on the other hand can quickly bloat and can't do anything all that serious aside from visual cues.
There *is* a lot of overlap where you could argue either way that you should use either tool and be right. But I find it annoying, having worked with both a lot and considering myself good with them - to then see people on here just mindlessly state that XYZ sucks when they don't know what the hell to do with it. I also see far too many people on here saying that it crashes and sucks - which to me sounds more like a poor implementation of a client - likely on Linux.
I bought the book as an impulse in line shopping one day. Upon reading it, I immediately thought it sucked major ass - but I thought that perhaps I was just being rash and pressed on through. It was like dental surgery - it kept getting more painful, but me apparently being a glutton for punishment, I just kept reading it.
I got through 75% of the 8 billion pages and finally just admitted that it was a part of my life that I will never get back - it all sucked. Sucked. Sucked. Dear lord, it sucked. It is the only book I have torn up in rage and thrown out to assure that nobody else will acidentally pick it up and read it and have to endure what I did.
I don't know if all of his books sucked that bad, but holy shnikies that was an awful book.
I thought the same thing - but even more to the point - why any monitor at all?
I have a cluster and I am too lazy to set up a kvm on it (right now a monitor and keyboard just gets plugged into the newest node when I set it up, and then I never use it after that). *although I should note that if you don't have fixed IPs setup on those nodes, if they reboot or change their IP via dhcp, it gets annoying to track them down again if you want to connect to them. That should be an obvious point, but I'm retarded - some of mine still have the dynamic addresses and some are static - I like the challange after power outages, which seem increasing in frequency the past 2 months here in Cambridge (between Harvard Square and Central Square).
If it is a linux box, just ssh into it, and if you really need the UI - do as they did and use VNC - VNC is a great client!
I don't get why they use VNC *and* the little flatscreen monitor - other than the "money and time to burn" factor, which I suppose it a good enough reason if you care about such things.
That's the one where you have to get a car/truck to drive Vegas to LA (or is it vice versa?) soley controlled by computer... this sounds like it is a start (although without any physical part)
I admit I'm a moron and couldn't get lm_sensors to install/work correctly on my system, so I sheepishly am hoping that it will eventually just show up in a newer rpm so that it is easy for the morons like myself.
Other than that and security patches, I don't really need/want anything new. I don't use any GUI (meaning non-terminal) on my linux systems, so I don't really care about any new stuff in there.
Maybe I'll just hold out until version 12. I hear that one is coming out in a month - it will be even better than Mac OS 10.x because it is one more! (and yes, I'm joking -- see my other post in here)
people are retarded and must have the newest version number, or the fastest clockspeed - even if that doesn't necessarily denote "better"
I would have thought that the linux crowd would be smart enough to be above that... which isn't to say that they aren't - perhaps it is the sales and marketing people at redhat that are retarded here.
They should just step it up to 34 and show their customers that all the others suck.
(of course nothing should ever go past version 42)
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First try... not really that funny.
Second try... not funny.
Third try... yeah... still not funny.
Try for another 8 times or so - maybe there is a threshold that isn't obvious. Maybe on it takes 9 or 10 tries before the hilarity kicks in.
I tried to "play" a sandwhich once.
After 3 hours of painful surgery, the doctor made his point and I haven't thought of trying that again.
I hope your niece learned her lesson too.
I also hope she didn't get the nasty infection that I did.
You are looking at ways from distracting yourself - but it is right there in front of you.
Nothing funnier than killing people that are different from you.
With their funny way of talking and their play money.
Hell - it is so cute the way they play government and even have those toy news stations.
Of course, they ain't 'merican, so it ain't real. That's why its okay to kill 'em.
Seriously though - if you need a laugh, just lean back in your chair and think of the French. Or the Canadianers. Or the funniest of all - the French Candianers.
Bunch of fucking mimes all up there, dancing around on ice skates.
Now THAT is pure comedy gold.
fucking canadians.
Well duh, the answer HAS to be space aliens.
Anything that doesn't immediately present itself as obvious to you HAS to be space aliens.
Or super-intelligent mind reading mice.
You have to be kidding me. It scares me that there are so many retards that are allowed to live out there... worst yet they post on slashdot. You are probably even allowed to drive.
Go out and buy Carl Sagan's "A Demon Haunted World" and read it from cover to cover.
Then do the world a favor and beat yourself to death with it.
In Nevada, any personal winnings over X amount are reported to taxes (I think it is anything over $10K) - and even with that, there are ways around that.
:)
Not to mention the ways that the casinos avoid taxation.
The money that gets most easily taxed is the hotel and food money - and it is easier for them to show losses there. There is a lot of missed taxation on the cash transactions.
To say that it is taxed is a valid statement - to say that the taxes are being collected in full is a different statement.
They are aware that they are getting dicked over in taxes, and they don't like it.
They can still generate millions in revenue - MA is thinking of starting to allow video poker in I think 4 places and from just that, they feel they can bring in $300 million (and then they are also cutting out 2 schools in the city to save $5million - that is going to piss off a lot of people, bringing in casinos and getting rid of schools... I'm personally ambivalent).
But the millions that they generate theoretically aren't as much as they could generate, and they bring in an increase of people wanting their hands on that money - meaning organized crime... I suppose some arguement could be made at the government being organized crime
I've used c2it.com in the past and it is great (and follows bank laws) - but the problem is momentum.
PayPal has a huge user list and people aren't likely to switch over - so if you use c2it, you then need to convince others to sign up for it as well.
Which is not terribly hard if you are trying to get a friend to pay you back and you live in DC and he lives in Wyoming...
But it is an issue if you are trying to sell something on ebay, or if you have an online business - you need to go with what the majority of people will use.
Just like a majority of sites don't accept diner's club - not many people have it. so no reason to bother paying to support it.
while I'm certainly not a huge fan of paypal, one should be fair to them.
while paypal did allow some money to get through to gambling sites - it isn't their universal policy to allow all gambling.
I konw from past experience that they do block some gambling sites - the problem is that they make it easy to exchange money without them (paypal) really knowing what you are doing.
This is a good thing.
But as a side effect, Joe User can give money to an online casino and paypal doesn't necessarily know that.
So now they are getting in trouble because of that.
They do have a list of casinos - and some casinos also won't let you use paypal - but it is a matter of them being aware of each other - it isn't something that will automatically work in the current system.
So technically paypal isn't 100% BAD - they were/are doing something the right way - it is just that the legal community isn't happy with that.
I am torn on this one. I use PayPal and have transferred a lot of money back and forth - but never at one time (meaning many small - max under $1000 transactions). They have been just fine for me.
It is great if you have a household of shared rent and bills and you want to easily pay one central person without any paper checks.
But I don't think that it is fair that PayPal is allowed to bypass the bank laws for the most part.
I do know (not personally as in "my mother" but personally in the sense that I have "spoken" with them on the net via e-mail and discussion boards) people that have had 10s of thousands of dollars get locked up by PayPal.
I trust PayPal for my small $300 transactions, and I even have it hooked up to my bank without too much worry on my part. But from what I have heard of others, I would not keep large sums of money in there (the few people that I know had over $50K in there when it was frozen and then basically taken from them).
To be fair, the people I know that had their money taken were doing illegal things - so it became very hard for them to seek legal action against PayPal. It would be amusing to approach the athorities and try to explain that PayPal stole from you money that you were not going to claim on taxes and was obtained via non-legal ways.
Whether or not PayPal kept that money when they realized what was happening, or if they just freeze any high $$ accounts (I had heard that they freeze them all if they are high $$ and/or high traffic so that they can investigate them and then unfreeze them if they are "okay"... not sure what is "okay" and who determines that).
I know a close friend that used a credit card only once in 2 years, and the one time that they used it was to sign up for a website subscription (not slashdot) via PayPal.
She then quickly had many charges run up on her card - it was someone that had stolen it. She had to run through circles with PayPal and the cc company to resolve it - in the end, it was someone at PayPal.
And then the gambling. I personally have no issues with gambling - I don't have a moral issue with it - and the only reason the states really doesn't like it (no matter what moral claims they state), is that it is not something they can tax.
So I don't personally feel that gambling should some get in trouble for this.
Were I for some reason allowed to make decisions on all of this - I would want PayPal to be treated legally like a bank, and I would want gambling to be allowed to stay on the continental states and then taxed.
As for the drug dealers that lose their money... I'm pretty ambivalent on that one.
Okay, as a user that never runs a gui on the machine, only ever goes in via ssh over the local intranet, and has a cluster of servers all behind a hardware firewall that blocks all incoming attempts...
What is different about RedHat 9.0 that is applicable to me?
I'm just curious if I should bother with upgrading or not - I would guess no since I can just download any one particular thing that I want/need.
The one thing that I can think of justifying it would be that I'd like a working lm_sensors. The existing lm_sensors that it came with for me didn't have anything for my motherboard (epox 8kmm+). I'll admit it - I tried installing lm_sensors on my own and couldn't do it successfully (so much for "following the instructions").
So were there some way that was RetardEasy to get that in... ie "upgrading" - then I'd go for it.
Otherwise, it is just another big number jump in a short period of time that I'm not sure has any real bearing on me - yet leaves me curiously watching all those about me rush to get it.. wondering... why?
How do you feel about RUN DMC? Were they influential in any ways aside from naming choices?
I just bought a GPS so that I could track where I go everyday and then plug it into a computer and map it out - then generating statistical models/maps of that over time.
Nothing particularly useful - but fun to me.
I think this phone would make that easier for me - but since I just got a GPS (it is still in the mail on the way here), it makes it hard for me to justify getting this phone - plus I'm not even sure the phone would work for me where I live now and where I'm moving.
But Garmin's isn't as small and cute.
that is pretty sweet - and right when I just bought my own GPS thing.
no - after doing a search I see that it was this type of thing that I was thinking of.
by specialized tasks I assume you mean that a few are image servers, a few are content servers - do you actually have databases running on these?
How many hits do you handle with these?
I agree that these things use much less power, and therefore also generate less heat and noise, so they would make fantastic cluster machines or servers... were they faster.
From everything I have seen, they just aren't cost efficient when you crunch the numbers.
Can you say some vague figures at how many hits they handle, how much the current setup cost initially, how much it costs to maintain - all compared to the previous setup of Athlons?
I personally can't justify it in the end for a server/cluster node b/c of their crappy network performance (unless you add a card - along with its added cost), and sub par cpu speed.
I'm just curious if you case is a specific one, or if I'm just missing something in the numbers that I looked up a month or two ago.
I read the article, I read this thing, I flipped through some jokes on here about the references to the basketball player by the same name...
but why the hell is this on the front page of slashdot?
I think I'm missing some part where I should care about who is appointed as CEO of some company?
When I first saw these things, I saw the small cases for them and they were pretty snazzy. There is a french company (can't recal the link) that makes nice shiny boxes for these things that are basically little cubes.
I use laptops for all of my home sitdown machines, and then ssh into servers to do anything that needs more power than the laptop. I don't play games at all. I do financial analsys on the servers that are set up in a cluster (albeit a frequently down cluster these days).
So I had no desire for these boxes as a personal machine, but I thought perhaps they would do well as nodes in a cluster since they are small, use less power, and aren't noisy.
But, while they are cheaper, the "bang for the buck" factor then makes them too expensive for clusters. They just aren't that fast and their network performance isn't so hot (without an additional card - which then drives up the cost some more).
In the end, I'm currently more more pleased with the Epox 8KMM+ for cluster boards - it is an ATX-Micro - not nearly as small - but still not the full ATX, and it has all the stuff on board.
In May I will be head of a technology group and will have to start caring about business machines for Joe User. These baby machines are great for them - they just need to run Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
They don't need any real power, so these machines are a great way to save money, power, and reduce noise in an office.
I will certainly consider these - especially since computers get marked up nearly 2X in cost in Bermuda where I will be. So saving money is essential.
The one I have in my living room on a harwood floor is dead quiet.
I wrote up in my journal about where I got the parts and which ones I used.
It is not a fantastic machine, it is to be a node in a cluster - but you can't sleep while that machine is going, then you have a problem - not with your machine, but a larger sleep issue (I'm also curious what dorm/school you live in where the largest noise issue is your computer).
I have had problems with the case that I have used, but I have a new one on the way that will resolve those issues.
I haven't used any padding, carpeting, insulation, or even hard drive covers - and this thing is totally silent - and I have great hearing.
If it is running the dnet client for a bit, then I can make out the sound of a fan - but it is still faint.
My TiVo is by far the loudest thing in my living room now (although to be honest, right now my quiet machine is turned off until I get a new case for it and I have a noisy dual PIII running right now).
It is one thing to want to build something ultra quiet for the "just because" factor - but if you can't sleep through the noise of what I have, then I would imagine that it is an imaginary problem or something else beyond the computer at that point.
I have worked on large scale DHTML projects in the past, and I currently work at a company that does a lot of Flash work.
The problem is that you have a very limited mindset and knowledge of what Flash can do. Your statement is very much like the people that think Java is just those little applets you see on web pages.
The products we make are on CD and very complex - if you are going to make an argument that XYZ is better than Flash - then you should be arguing that Director is better than it - not DHTML.
It terms of random crap on web pages - it depends on what you are doing. Flash is designed to quickly animate and display vector graphics. If you are displaying bitmap grpahics in Flash, you are then not doing what it is good at, and should likely be using another tool - perhaps this is where DHTML falls into play.
Flash is very small and very fast if used correctly.
DHTML on the other hand can quickly bloat and can't do anything all that serious aside from visual cues.
There *is* a lot of overlap where you could argue either way that you should use either tool and be right.
But I find it annoying, having worked with both a lot and considering myself good with them - to then see people on here just mindlessly state that XYZ sucks when they don't know what the hell to do with it.
I also see far too many people on here saying that it crashes and sucks - which to me sounds more like a poor implementation of a client - likely on Linux.
I bought the book as an impulse in line shopping one day. Upon reading it, I immediately thought it sucked major ass - but I thought that perhaps I was just being rash and pressed on through.
It was like dental surgery - it kept getting more painful, but me apparently being a glutton for punishment, I just kept reading it.
I got through 75% of the 8 billion pages and finally just admitted that it was a part of my life that I will never get back - it all sucked. Sucked. Sucked.
Dear lord, it sucked.
It is the only book I have torn up in rage and thrown out to assure that nobody else will acidentally pick it up and read it and have to endure what I did.
I don't know if all of his books sucked that bad, but holy shnikies that was an awful book.
Can you please forward me those crotch shots of the dog?
I thought the same thing - but even more to the point - why any monitor at all?
I have a cluster and I am too lazy to set up a kvm on it (right now a monitor and keyboard just gets plugged into the newest node when I set it up, and then I never use it after that).
*although I should note that if you don't have fixed IPs setup on those nodes, if they reboot or change their IP via dhcp, it gets annoying to track them down again if you want to connect to them. That should be an obvious point, but I'm retarded - some of mine still have the dynamic addresses and some are static - I like the challange after power outages, which seem increasing in frequency the past 2 months here in Cambridge (between Harvard Square and Central Square).
If it is a linux box, just ssh into it, and if you really need the UI - do as they did and use VNC - VNC is a great client!
I don't get why they use VNC *and* the little flatscreen monitor - other than the "money and time to burn" factor, which I suppose it a good enough reason if you care about such things.
(http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/)
That's the one where you have to get a car/truck to drive Vegas to LA (or is it vice versa?) soley controlled by computer... this sounds like it is a start (although without any physical part)
I just want to know what new changes are in it.
I admit I'm a moron and couldn't get lm_sensors to install/work correctly on my system, so I sheepishly am hoping that it will eventually just show up in a newer rpm so that it is easy for the morons like myself.
Other than that and security patches, I don't really need/want anything new. I don't use any GUI (meaning non-terminal) on my linux systems, so I don't really care about any new stuff in there.
Maybe I'll just hold out until version 12. I hear that one is coming out in a month - it will be even better than Mac OS 10.x because it is one more!
(and yes, I'm joking -- see my other post in here)
people are retarded and must have the newest version number, or the fastest clockspeed - even if that doesn't necessarily denote "better"
I would have thought that the linux crowd would be smart enough to be above that... which isn't to say that they aren't - perhaps it is the sales and marketing people at redhat that are retarded here.
They should just step it up to 34 and show their customers that all the others suck.
(of course nothing should ever go past version 42)
maybe it is related to that other front page article saying that OSX will be on "Intel" one of these days.
"Intel" in this case meaning "not PowerPC"