Name one thing that runs on Linux that doesn't run on FreeBSD. Can't think of one? That's because there isn't one. As far as support, you can run Linux binaries on FreeBSD with the "linuxator", usually with higher performance than on Linux natively. Pretty cool eh?
If you had bothered to actually read my reply, you'd notice I was specifically targetting the poster, not the original author of the flamebait. So please don't go trying to rescue your ego on my behalf because I wasn't saying anything about you to begin with. I can tell that you put the same amount of attention to detail in your artful flamebait as you did in your reply to my posting.:)
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And that is why you are an anonymous coward! Please don't let the importance of that fail to sink in.
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"Since I'm pretty pathetic, have no life outside of slashdot, and generally pissed off that I'm unattractive, flunked out of college, and can't get laid, I'll find a target for my aggression. Today that target will be Gentoo Linux users. I'll start out by referencing every stereotype that I can think of. I'll texture those references with all sorts of impressive sounding technobabble so people will know how smart I am. Being smart is all I have going for me since I have no people skills to speak of. Generally, I'm afraid of people, but I can flex my frontal lobes on slashdot and feel like the big man I am not. Rest assured, my post will get modded up as funny and not modded down as the flamebait that it is. I know this because I've posted this exact same post 2 times before. It truly resonates with the other people like me on slashdot that have mod points."
I think I pretty much nailed that.:) There are plenty of great reasons to love Gentoo. But by all means, continue to hate the way you do and take it out on everyone. It's very entertaining and an awesome glimpse into a type of person. I should write a paper.
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the performance increase is usually neglible
Depends if a 20 percent increase in performance is what you consider negligable. That's what I easily see over a typical debian install. I can tell you really love debian a lot. That's great. But it would help if you actually tried Gentoo first before spewing forth half-truths. I've used both, and prefer FreeBSD over both of them. It just so happens I had a set requirement for Linux, and couldn't use FreeBSD for a contract, so I tried out Gentoo instead of deb and ian's concoction for once. I'm completely sold. I'm hoping some of the neato options from portage make it into BSD ports.
Gentoo has one... but you need to compile the changes.
That's a little misleading. Gives the impression that it's anything but the easiest thing in the world. The process goes something like this:
emerge sync (updates all your/usr/portage stuff) emerge -up world (test emerge to see what's getting installed) emerge -u world (does all the actual work, including compiling all packages and dependancy packages with optimizations specific to your hardware making a much more stable system with as much as a 20 percent increase in speed)
Alternately, you might have to run etc-update to see if any config files changed. It's a utility that takes the pain out of merging them and updating them.
If there is a book on the same level as "The Complete FreeBSD" but for OSX instead. Having a book like this to read would go a long way towards helping me decide if it's worth paying the hardware tax associated with running it OSX.
You'll get some false positives once in a great while, but it's nice to have all your spam in one folder and weeded out of your regular mail.
I'd also like to give a big thumbs up to register.com's webmail spam filtering. It's easy, and it works very well. My spam has dropped from 400 a week to about 10 a week.
My Mom has a pent 200 with a vx chipset mobo and 64 megs of ram. It has the oldest still working enlight power supply in the world in it. She runs win98se.
My sister has an amd k6 450 and win98se. The only thing she bitches about is how slow Zsnes is with some.fig games, but it's probably her video card.
I, however, upgrade constantly. It has nothing to do with Microsoft at all. It has everything to do with preparing for the next game from ID Software, and others. If ID ever goes out of business, I'll probably stick with playing my favorite snes and nes games with FCEUltra and ZSNES using netplay. It's a blast playing mariokart on a cablemodem. It's also nice that there are clients for windows and linux available.
But I think it's great you got married. It's a great accomplishment. I enjoyed marriage so much I've done it three times. I don't think anyone would mind if you didn't reference it every other post though.:)
Joe cablemodem user can set up a dns server and click all the boxes he wants, but still won't have control over his reverse DNS most of the time. So clicking the little box will accomplish absolutely nothing. You have to be authoritative for your forward and reverse to muck with it. As for running old versions of bind, I have about as much respect for a so-called company that can't be bothered to set their reverse DNS, as I do for one that can't be bothered to hire a DNS admin smart enough to keep a current version of BIND, djdns, etc. up and running. Also, from extensive industry experience, it's been my observation that most shops running Microsoft DNS are small, don't set their reverse correctly, and don't care because they aren't doing anything that important or they'd use a better platform. No trolling intended at all. It's how things pan out when you have a Microsoft person attempt to manage a traditional UNIX service.
I know I've never taken anyone seriously that can't be bothered to set their forward and reverse DNS properly. Chances are it's joe cablemodem user with his Win2k server. I'd say it's more important to do the checking for things like mail, http, https, etc. and less important for things like gaming servers and p2p file sharing.:)
I can remember literally screaming "NO!!!!!!!!!" at the top of my lungs when palum and porum turned themselves to stone in FF2. I was so fucking pissed and sad. The worst part is that you can rename your characters at namingway. I made all the characters names of relatives and friends. I stopped playing the game for a few hours just walking around in a daze saying "stupid fucking kids. They didn't have to do that". FF2 really got me.
I'm not quite sure how you could manage the technology they have now (or would have, if they had the money to build any...)
Hmmmm. It seems we did manage to end the cold war a while ago making the world a much safer place for just about everyone. You kinda made no sense at all there saying that we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves as well against the technology they don't have because they don't have the money to make it. Amazing.
Stealth bombers? Well, Russians discovered that when you use some kind of old radars (from WWII era), they're not so stealthy anymore.
I'd love to know what you are going on about there. Sounds like something from a poorly written spy novel. Someone should coin a term for an urban legend about military technology. That's right up there with putting foil in your hat to keep the satellites from reading your brainwaves. The stealth technology is designed to deflect radar away at steep angles so as to make little to none reflect back to the gathering dish/antennae, while absorbing as much as possible also. No ancient radar is going to do anything but perform even more poorly, and be 10 times easier to jam.
By the way, you don't actually need bleeding edge laser-guided weapons to destroy Russian tanks 20 years old. The guerillas in Chechnya (also called terrorists) do fine with AK-47's and RPG's. I bet they could do just as well against modern US weapons. It's not the weapons that win the war, it's what you do with them that does.
Where to start.... You are right. You don't need much more than an RPG to destroy older russian tanks. It's a lot different when you are talking about modern US hardware. It seems to me that saddam's forces were using ak-47's and RPG's against our tanks and didn't seem to do so well. You have an actual product test to consider. That's why I have no idea why you'd think they'd do well against our hardware. Not to mention that our military isn't a ragtag bunch of rebels. It's a highly trained, well fed, well commanded killing machine with the most advanced weaponry in the world. It's not the weapons that win the war. It's the General that wins the war. It's the commander that understands how to use what's at his disposal. You should pick up and read Sun Tzu's Art Of War. You'd probably understand what you are trying to talk about a little better.
Wow. If I had a neat little toolkit to make adventure games for my nokia, palm, etc. that would be pretty neat. Someone with more motivation than me could probably set up an interface with java, perl, etc. on a website where you could fill in the blanks and generate these things in the proper file format for small handheld devices. I miss some of the classic adventure games.
*I* am also not a republican. I'm also not a democrat. I'm assuming you are going to get a lot of replies talking about how some planes went into some buildings and how that's why all our civil liberties were suddenly worth squat. Prepare for the onslaught.
Ok, I'm running 4.x stable. I'm also dual booting Gentoo at the moment. I was running Gentoo for a while waiting for issues with the nforce2 support to sort themselves out. I ran hdparm under Gentoo. Steve's IBM drive is faster than my WD800JB. Pre 3.2.2 GCC was pulling 23 minutes for everything BUT I whack my/usr/obj tree before running make buildworld && make installworld
&& make buildkernel && make installkernel. If something dies in any of those, I want it to stop dead. At this point it's taking 27 minutes for those 4 steps. I have 768 megs of ram clocked at the same speed as the processor. If you are going to overclock an Athlon, make sure you get a 1700+. Make very sure it's a TBredB. When I picked mine up I bought three for 129. I cherry picked the one that overclocked the best and sold the rest on eBay. Since you are overclocking, there is little point in getting the Boxed CPU unless you want to intentionally void a warrantee. I HIGHLY recommend my cooling setup. I have a thermalright SLK800 heatsink, and a 80mm to 120mm fan adapter. I have an AOC 120mm aluminum fan to match the aluminum fan adapter. You can run the Thermalright's wire fan harness through the holes in the fan adapter backwards to fasten it very securely. The AOC 120mm fan rocks because it pushs 80 feet of air, but only makes 29db of noise. It's also cheap as sin. The only downside is it has a 4 pin molex connector, so no speed sensing. Even if you can only get 166 x 11 out of your 1700+, that's still comparable to the 2600+. You don't want to go much higher than 1.85 volts to stabilize the processor. I'd suggest starting with the voltage there, then seeing what you can get. Bus speed is a ton more important than multiplier. Also, the Nforce2 chipset is the ONLY choice at this point because overclocking your bus speed does not overclock your other system buses like it does on a kt266, kt333, or kt400. I also recommend either corsair, or kingmax brand ram. The UT2003 benchmarks are great for noticing the different between clocked and nonclocked. Messing with the nVidia driver settings is about pointless unless 3 or 4 frames per second difference is worth the instability potential. I was able to get SBA and AGP 4x running, but no fast writes. It's rocks solid at 2x. You see more performance using nvclock to push your card than you will going above agp 2x. Don't forget to kick a tiny bit of voltage to your ram. 0.2 volts should be enough. Make sure your case has very good cooling characteristics. I'm a big fan of generic Cheiftek aluminum cases with thermaltake powersupplies and Vantec stealth fans. Don't go crazy with fan filters, you'll just cut off your airflow. Keep a couple cans of air around. I set up a cron job to remind me to dust the case out once a month. It's not a bad idea to make a leka bootdisk with memtest86 on it so you can run a thorough memtest on your system if you get a successful high clock. It's really crappy what pissed off ram will do to your system. My rule is that if the system doesn't lock up, explode, or have a single failure with all 16 of the tests ten times through, it's good. And last but not least, get some arctic silver 3. Nothing else even comes close, it's not just hype. At 72F room temp my system never gets above 47C under extreme load and idles at 38C. Hope this helps.
It amazes me that I can quote chapter and verse from the book, but my mind did a mental s/BSD/FREEBSD/g. Probably because it's one of the best books to read to learn the "UNIX Way" of doing things, and FreeBSD is the "UNIX Way" to do things. Damn you forcing me to actually dig the book out and face the shame of my mistake.
I didn't insult you. Suggesting you read the book was not insulting. Had I used profanity, or said something negative about your lineage, that would have been insulting. Read the post again and imagine the smarmy, conversation level voice that it was supposed to represent instead of some loud obnoxious thing.
It is amusing that my post got modded up, but that's par for course here and most places. In fact, this will be my first post with my shiny new excellent karma rating and +1. My completely bogus post helped in it's own way. I think it has something to do with having a lot of originating posts, and not quite as many "Re:" posts.
I stole the homepage from somewhere. It's good for a few laughs. It's not politically correct to pick on republicans anymore (referencing the title of the page) but oh well. People are waving flags so hard right now they forgot how to question authority.
I'm very sorry I was mistaken. I shall endeavor to do better. When you've recommended the same book to countless junior admins to learn FreeBSD the right way, you get silly ideas in your head.
I know my bud with a p4 3.04 gets steaming pissed when my athlon 1700+ running a 184 bus times 12 crushes his machine by 10 minutes on 'make world' on FreeBSD. Even using a -j flag to take advantage of the HT goodness doesn't seem to help him much. I thought it might be I/O, but his drive is faster than mine too with hdparm -t and -T. My UT2003 benchmarks are faster than his even though he has a ti4200 with 128mb and I'm running a ti500. All the supposed memory bandwidth just doesn't seem to be there for him. Nforce2 plus Athlon TbredB overclocked is a great way to fly.
I'll run out and buy one for my blind neighbor. so I can cream him on tokara forest. Maybe I can hook up a more advanced version of that cool braille output doohickey from the movie sneakers so he can feel the pain with his fingers.
Having owned an s110 and every camera in between to s400, I'd say I'm a pretty huge fan of the tiny S series powershot cameras. They are a lot heavier than you think they are going to be before you pick one up for the first time. It's feels like a hunk of metal in your hand. It feels like you could use it to load your fist and hit someone. Still, that's not something you want to try. You love this camera. I think I dropped my s110 about a hundred times, once from a moving car. It's scratched all the hell but it still works great. The finish does scratch easily. The S400 is worth the money. It's nice having a camera that will take pictures well enough that you can do a full page print with a cheap printer like an epson C42UX, and it will look nearly flawless. With Gentoo even. The entire line of camera's is supported by gphoto2. I'm a big fan of the GTkam front end. An S110 is probably more than adequate for your needs. You can sometimes find them if you look hard enough. The s200 is in the sub 200 range right now and a great choice also if you can find one. The s230 is a little more and probably overkill, but may be the only one you can find at your local bestbuy.
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Name one thing that runs on Linux that doesn't run
on FreeBSD. Can't think of one? That's because there isn't one. As far as support, you can run Linux
binaries on FreeBSD with the "linuxator", usually
with higher performance than on Linux natively.
Pretty cool eh?
If you had bothered to actually read my reply, :)
you'd notice I was specifically targetting the
poster, not the original author of the flamebait.
So please don't go trying to rescue your ego on my
behalf because I wasn't saying anything about you
to begin with. I can tell that you put the same
amount of attention to detail in your artful
flamebait as you did in your reply to my posting.
And that is why you are an anonymous coward!
Please don't let the importance of that fail
to sink in.
"Since I'm pretty pathetic, have no life outside
:)
of slashdot, and generally pissed off that I'm
unattractive, flunked out of college, and can't
get laid, I'll find a target for my aggression.
Today that target will be Gentoo Linux users.
I'll start out by referencing every stereotype
that I can think of. I'll texture those references
with all sorts of impressive sounding technobabble
so people will know how smart I am. Being smart is
all I have going for me since I have no people
skills to speak of. Generally, I'm afraid of
people, but I can flex my frontal lobes on
slashdot and feel like the big man I am not.
Rest assured, my post will get modded up as
funny and not modded down as the flamebait that
it is. I know this because I've posted this
exact same post 2 times before. It truly resonates
with the other people like me on slashdot that
have mod points."
I think I pretty much nailed that.
There are plenty of great reasons to love Gentoo.
But by all means, continue to hate the way you
do and take it out on everyone. It's very
entertaining and an awesome glimpse into a type
of person. I should write a paper.
the performance increase is usually neglible
Depends if a 20 percent increase in performance is
what you consider negligable. That's what I easily
see over a typical debian install. I can tell you
really love debian a lot. That's great. But it would
help if you actually tried Gentoo first before
spewing forth half-truths. I've used both, and
prefer FreeBSD over both of them. It just so happens
I had a set requirement for Linux, and couldn't
use FreeBSD for a contract, so I tried out Gentoo
instead of deb and ian's concoction for once.
I'm completely sold. I'm hoping some of the
neato options from portage make it into BSD
ports.
Gentoo has one... but you need to compile the changes.
/usr/portage stuff)
That's a little misleading. Gives the impression
that it's anything but the easiest thing in the
world. The process goes something like this:
emerge sync (updates all your
emerge -up world (test emerge to see what's getting
installed)
emerge -u world (does all the actual work,
including compiling all packages and dependancy
packages with optimizations specific to your
hardware making a much more stable system with
as much as a 20 percent increase in speed)
Alternately, you might have to run etc-update
to see if any config files changed. It's a utility
that takes the pain out of merging them and
updating them.
If there is a book on the same level as
"The Complete FreeBSD" but for OSX instead.
Having a book like this to read would go a long
way towards helping me decide if it's worth paying
the hardware tax associated with running it OSX.
But they don't cover use of the hook in the
battle room.
I've been using these filters for quite some
:)
time, and they catch about 95 percent of it.
Enjoy:
If From/Sender or Subject contain:
post-line, yahoo, mail, (your account name),
postforme, photos, hot, degree, earthlink, aol,
opt, cum, young, hollywood, notme, naked, penis,
bigger, usa, model, women, girl, slut, prize, won
msn, horny, dirty, gang, where, winner, price,
teen, printer
Move to folder spam.
You'll get some false positives once in a great
while, but it's nice to have all your spam in
one folder and weeded out of your regular mail.
I'd also like to give a big thumbs up to
register.com's webmail spam filtering. It's easy,
and it works very well. My spam has dropped from
400 a week to about 10 a week.
My Mom has a pent 200 with a vx chipset mobo and
.fig games, but
64 megs of ram. It has the oldest still working
enlight power supply in the world in it. She
runs win98se.
My sister has an amd k6 450 and win98se.
The only thing she bitches about is
how slow Zsnes is with some
it's probably her video card.
I, however, upgrade constantly. It has nothing to
do with Microsoft at all. It has everything to do
with preparing for the next game from ID Software,
and others. If ID ever goes out of business,
I'll probably stick with playing my favorite
snes and nes games with FCEUltra and ZSNES using
netplay. It's a blast playing mariokart on a
cablemodem. It's also nice that there are clients
for windows and linux available.
But I think it's great you got married. It's a :)
great accomplishment. I enjoyed marriage so much
I've done it three times. I don't think anyone
would mind if you didn't reference it every other
post though.
Joe cablemodem user can set up a dns server and
click all the boxes he wants, but still won't
have control over his reverse DNS most of the time.
So clicking the little box will accomplish
absolutely nothing. You have to be authoritative for
your forward and reverse to muck with it. As for
running old versions of bind, I have about as much
respect for a so-called company that can't be
bothered to set their reverse DNS, as I do for one
that can't be bothered to hire a DNS admin smart
enough to keep a current version of BIND, djdns,
etc. up and running. Also, from extensive industry
experience, it's been my observation that most
shops running Microsoft DNS are small, don't set
their reverse correctly, and don't care because
they aren't doing anything that important or
they'd use a better platform. No trolling
intended at all. It's how things pan out when you
have a Microsoft person attempt to manage a
traditional UNIX service.
I know I've never taken anyone seriously that can't :)
be bothered to set their forward and reverse DNS
properly. Chances are it's joe cablemodem user
with his Win2k server. I'd say it's more important
to do the checking for things like mail, http,
https, etc. and less important for things like
gaming servers and p2p file sharing.
I can remember literally screaming "NO!!!!!!!!!"
at the top of my lungs when palum and porum turned
themselves to stone in FF2. I was so fucking pissed
and sad. The worst part is that you can rename your
characters at namingway. I made all the characters
names of relatives and friends. I stopped playing
the game for a few hours just walking around in
a daze saying "stupid fucking kids. They didn't
have to do that". FF2 really got me.
I'm not quite sure how you could manage the technology they have now (or would have, if they had the money to build any...)
Hmmmm. It seems we did manage to end the cold war
a while ago making the world a much safer place
for just about everyone. You kinda made no sense
at all there saying that we wouldn't be able to
defend ourselves as well against the technology
they don't have because they don't have the money to
make it. Amazing.
Stealth bombers? Well, Russians discovered that when you use some kind of old radars (from WWII era), they're not so stealthy anymore.
I'd love to know what you are going on about
there. Sounds like something from a poorly
written spy novel. Someone should coin a term
for an urban legend about military technology.
That's right up there with putting foil in your
hat to keep the satellites from reading your
brainwaves. The stealth technology is designed
to deflect radar away at steep angles so as to
make little to none reflect back to the
gathering dish/antennae, while absorbing as much
as possible also. No ancient radar is going to
do anything but perform even more poorly, and
be 10 times easier to jam.
By the way, you don't actually need bleeding edge laser-guided weapons to destroy Russian tanks 20 years old. The guerillas in Chechnya (also called terrorists) do fine with AK-47's and RPG's. I bet they could do just as well against modern US weapons. It's not the weapons that win the war, it's what you do with them that does.
Where to start....
You are right. You don't need much more than an
RPG to destroy older russian tanks. It's a lot
different when you are talking about modern US
hardware. It seems to me that saddam's forces
were using ak-47's and RPG's against our tanks
and didn't seem to do so well. You have an actual
product test to consider. That's why I have no
idea why you'd think they'd do well against our
hardware. Not to mention that our military isn't
a ragtag bunch of rebels. It's a highly trained,
well fed, well commanded killing machine with
the most advanced weaponry in the world. It's
not the weapons that win the war. It's the
General that wins the war. It's the commander that
understands how to use what's at his disposal.
You should pick up and read Sun Tzu's Art Of War.
You'd probably understand what you are trying to
talk about a little better.
Wow. If I had a neat little toolkit to make
adventure games for my nokia, palm, etc. that
would be pretty neat. Someone with more motivation
than me could probably set up an interface with
java, perl, etc. on a website where you could
fill in the blanks and generate these things in
the proper file format for small handheld devices.
I miss some of the classic adventure games.
*I* am also not a republican. I'm also not a
democrat. I'm assuming you are going to get a lot
of replies talking about how some planes went into
some buildings and how that's why all our civil
liberties were suddenly worth squat. Prepare for
the onslaught.
Privacy?
SCO is claiming they have found weapons of mass
destruction in the linux kernel code. The UN will
be assembling an inspection team shortly.
Ok, I'm running 4.x stable. I'm also dual booting /usr/obj tree
Gentoo at the moment. I was running Gentoo for
a while waiting for issues with the nforce2
support to sort themselves out. I ran hdparm
under Gentoo. Steve's IBM drive is faster than
my WD800JB. Pre 3.2.2 GCC was pulling 23 minutes
for everything BUT I whack my
before running make buildworld && make installworld
&& make buildkernel && make installkernel.
If something dies in any of those, I want it to
stop dead. At this point it's taking 27 minutes
for those 4 steps. I have 768 megs of ram clocked
at the same speed as the processor. If you are
going to overclock an Athlon, make sure you
get a 1700+. Make very sure it's a TBredB. When
I picked mine up I bought three for 129. I cherry
picked the one that overclocked the best and sold
the rest on eBay. Since you are overclocking,
there is little point in getting the Boxed CPU
unless you want to intentionally void a warrantee.
I HIGHLY recommend my cooling setup.
I have a thermalright SLK800 heatsink, and a
80mm to 120mm fan adapter. I have an AOC 120mm
aluminum fan to match the aluminum fan adapter.
You can run the Thermalright's wire fan harness
through the holes in the fan adapter backwards to
fasten it very securely. The AOC 120mm fan rocks
because it pushs 80 feet of air, but only makes
29db of noise. It's also cheap as sin. The only
downside is it has a 4 pin molex connector, so
no speed sensing. Even if you can only get
166 x 11 out of your 1700+, that's still
comparable to the 2600+. You don't want to go
much higher than 1.85 volts to stabilize the
processor. I'd suggest starting with the voltage
there, then seeing what you can get. Bus speed
is a ton more important than multiplier. Also,
the Nforce2 chipset is the ONLY choice at this
point because overclocking your bus speed does not
overclock your other system buses like it does
on a kt266, kt333, or kt400. I also recommend
either corsair, or kingmax brand ram. The UT2003
benchmarks are great for noticing the different
between clocked and nonclocked. Messing with the
nVidia driver settings is about pointless unless
3 or 4 frames per second difference is worth
the instability potential. I was able to get
SBA and AGP 4x running, but no fast writes. It's
rocks solid at 2x. You see more performance
using nvclock to push your card than you will
going above agp 2x. Don't forget to kick a tiny
bit of voltage to your ram. 0.2 volts should be
enough. Make sure your case has very good
cooling characteristics. I'm a big fan of generic
Cheiftek aluminum cases with thermaltake
powersupplies and Vantec stealth fans. Don't go
crazy with fan filters, you'll just cut off your
airflow. Keep a couple cans of air around. I
set up a cron job to remind me to dust the case
out once a month. It's not a bad idea to make
a leka bootdisk with memtest86 on it so you can
run a thorough memtest on your system if you get
a successful high clock. It's really crappy what
pissed off ram will do to your system. My rule is
that if the system doesn't lock up, explode, or
have a single failure with all 16 of the tests
ten times through, it's good. And last but not
least, get some arctic silver 3. Nothing else
even comes close, it's not just hype. At 72F
room temp my system never gets above 47C under
extreme load and idles at 38C. Hope this helps.
Ok, I stand corrected.
It amazes me that I can quote chapter and verse
from the book, but my mind did a mental
s/BSD/FREEBSD/g. Probably because it's one of
the best books to read to learn the "UNIX Way"
of doing things, and FreeBSD is the "UNIX Way"
to do things. Damn you forcing me to actually
dig the book out and face the shame of my
mistake.
I didn't insult you. Suggesting you read the
book was not insulting. Had I used profanity,
or said something negative about your lineage,
that would have been insulting. Read the post
again and imagine the smarmy, conversation level
voice that it was supposed to represent instead
of some loud obnoxious thing.
It is amusing that my post got modded up, but
that's par for course here and most places.
In fact, this will be my first post with my
shiny new excellent karma rating and +1. My
completely bogus post helped in it's own way.
I think it has something to do with having
a lot of originating posts, and not quite as many
"Re:" posts.
I stole the homepage from somewhere. It's good
for a few laughs. It's not politically correct
to pick on republicans anymore (referencing
the title of the page) but oh well. People are
waving flags so hard right now they forgot how
to question authority.
I'm very sorry I was mistaken. I shall endeavor
to do better. When you've recommended the same
book to countless junior admins to learn FreeBSD
the right way, you get silly ideas in your head.
I know my bud with a p4 3.04 gets steaming pissed
when my athlon 1700+ running a 184 bus times 12
crushes his machine by 10 minutes on 'make world'
on FreeBSD. Even using a -j flag to take advantage
of the HT goodness doesn't seem to help him much.
I thought it might be I/O, but his drive is faster
than mine too with hdparm -t and -T.
My UT2003 benchmarks are faster than his even
though he has a ti4200 with 128mb and I'm running
a ti500. All the supposed memory bandwidth just
doesn't seem to be there for him. Nforce2 plus
Athlon TbredB overclocked is a great way to fly.
I'd pay 50 dollars!
I'll run out and buy one for my blind neighbor.
so I can cream him on tokara forest.
Maybe I can hook up a more advanced version of
that cool braille output doohickey from the
movie sneakers so he can feel the pain with
his fingers.
I'll stop short of rattling off page numbers
(holding second edition right now). It's obvious
you've never read the book.
Having owned an s110 and every camera in between to
s400, I'd say I'm a pretty huge fan of the tiny S
series powershot cameras. They are a lot heavier
than you think they are going to be before you pick
one up for the first time. It's feels like a hunk
of metal in your hand. It feels like you could use
it to load your fist and hit someone. Still, that's
not something you want to try. You love this camera.
I think I dropped my s110 about a hundred times,
once from a moving car. It's scratched all the hell
but it still works great. The finish does scratch
easily. The S400 is worth the money. It's nice
having a camera that will take pictures well
enough that you can do a full page print with
a cheap printer like an epson C42UX, and it will
look nearly flawless. With Gentoo even. The
entire line of camera's is supported by gphoto2.
I'm a big fan of the GTkam front end. An S110
is probably more than adequate for your needs.
You can sometimes find them if you look hard
enough. The s200 is in the sub 200 range right
now and a great choice also if you can find one.
The s230 is a little more and probably overkill,
but may be the only one you can find at your
local bestbuy.