windows is hard and annoying to use, and completely unintuitive. (if you are familiar with unix)
but i'm sure if you already knew what you were doing, then moving from say 2k to xp wouldn't be that big a deal. same for me, moving from debian to freebsd isn't that big a deal. a lot of it is the same stuff.
well sure, but if all you've used is mandrake, my bet is you'll be lost. mandrake is a good newbie userfriendly start. freebsd is unix. there's a difference.
windows IS hard to use, the gui is unintuitive, and the configuration is confusing! where are the text files? how come there's no init scripts?
i spent a good hour on my dads laptop trying to get the wireless card software to install, and recognize, the card. i don't know why it finally worked, but by voodoo magic at some point it worked.
on my laptop, i simply made sure the module was correct for the card in/etc/pcmcia/config double checked/etc/pcmcia/wireless.ops, put the card in and it worked flawlessly. had there been a problem, no voodoo would have been required, i would have just checked syslog.
i've got more examples. like when i clicked stop on a print job in win2k, and it broke printing. no joke. microsoft recommended a reinstall.
i still think this is a bad idea, i'd rather have a subnotebook like the toshiba libretto L2, or the ibm thinkpad 240x, or the fujitsu FMV biblo Loox-S.
but, he means 2.5" wide. they are like.7" thick or somthing like that. i've got one in my thinkpad 240. and it's less than 1 inch thick.
i agree with this method. buy not the fastest thing. but a few steps down, the most mhz for $ ratio. you'll pay about 50-60% of the top of the line and get about 90% of the performance.
oh yeah, i don't think i've seen another window manager look as nice as i have blackbox. but window mangers are all about personal preferance, there's no right or wrong way, it's just what you want from it.
also, you can drag the iconified menu out, put it in the corner somewhere and leave it. and make it so it's only one click like anything else. but, thats a waste of screen space.
on a 1024x512 screen, you don't waste space with crap like that.
well, you think they're going to stand on a big sign in an open field that says "bomb me, i'm guilty"?
nazi's mobilized an entire army and conquered nations. bin laden killed a few thousand people. i think if you think those are the same type of actions, maybe you need to go back to school with the rest of the sheep...
bullshit. the people did not make that choice. the leadership did. if you really feel that there is a need for killing, assasinate everyone you feel is to blame. pick them off one by one surgicaly. don't hit the fucking country with a hammer. that isn't justified at all.
and you think airstrikes are going to only kill those supposedly responseable? dream on....
wars destroy infastructure that is needed for a functional society, they will kill many many inocent people. we really aren't any better than the people that flew the planes into those buildings we're so mad about.
oh but my bad, we're justified in doing it. i forgot about that.
the "barbarians" as you say, hate the taliban as much as you do. all we're doing is killing a population living in fear. but oh thats no big deal right, they're "barbarians" after all, so what do we care?
yup, i love being flamebait for saying i don't want ANY distro to become a defacto standard... makes so much sense.
mandrake i remember working ok on the desktop. very good for newbies, or if you're trying to setup workstations in a small office where it doesn't make sense to automate the install further using somthing like replicator or kickstart (i think thats it anyhow)
i think any version of linux becoming defacto standard (like red hat), would be a disaster. choices and competition are good. they all have their place, none have their place being the standard, not even my favorite (no i don't want a flamewar, i'm not saying which one it is).
add to that my personal opinion that mandrake is far to windows like and does way to many things without asking...
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makes sense to me... for example:
windows is hard and annoying to use, and completely unintuitive. (if you are familiar with unix)
but i'm sure if you already knew what you were doing, then moving from say 2k to xp wouldn't be that big a deal. same for me, moving from debian to freebsd isn't that big a deal. a lot of it is the same stuff.
well sure, but if all you've used is mandrake, my bet is you'll be lost. mandrake is a good newbie userfriendly start. freebsd is unix. there's a difference.
thats because debian adheres strongly to the LSB (linux standards base). redhat does not.
"The drums will shake the castle wall, the ring wraiths ride in black, Ride on."
from the battle of evermore
this is an excellent point.
/etc/pcmcia/config double checked /etc/pcmcia/wireless.ops, put the card in and it worked flawlessly. had there been a problem, no voodoo would have been required, i would have just checked syslog.
windows IS hard to use, the gui is unintuitive, and the configuration is confusing! where are the text files? how come there's no init scripts?
i spent a good hour on my dads laptop trying to get the wireless card software to install, and recognize, the card. i don't know why it finally worked, but by voodoo magic at some point it worked.
on my laptop, i simply made sure the module was correct for the card in
i've got more examples. like when i clicked stop on a print job in win2k, and it broke printing. no joke. microsoft recommended a reinstall.
hell will be a block of ice long before unix keels :)
i've asked the same question to linux game makers, they ignore me too. so i fixed it myself.
/cdrom.
us mkisofs to make yourself an iso9660 copy of the disk. save it to your hard drive. mount the iso as a loopback interface on
it fooled jagged alliance 2.
oh, you can't do this via nfs either, it checks the filesystem. but, this method is better if you want to play games away from your wireless network.
debian, suse, and mandrake all have PPC ports as well.
What it really means is, it has already been audited by more people than a closed source product would have been.
Besides, if you can show anyone, all the plans to your most secure lock in the world, and they still can't break it, i'd say that's amazing.
i still think this is a bad idea, i'd rather have a subnotebook like the toshiba libretto L2, or the ibm thinkpad 240x, or the fujitsu FMV biblo Loox-S.
.7" thick or somthing like that. i've got one in my thinkpad 240. and it's less than 1 inch thick.
but, he means 2.5" wide. they are like
command line interface.
and you're a network engineer? i'm afraid.
i agree with this method. buy not the fastest thing. but a few steps down, the most mhz for $ ratio. you'll pay about 50-60% of the top of the line and get about 90% of the performance.
oh yeah, i don't think i've seen another window manager look as nice as i have blackbox. but window mangers are all about personal preferance, there's no right or wrong way, it's just what you want from it.
:)
but, here's some screenshots of themes i've made
i count 2 clicks
also, you can drag the iconified menu out, put it in the corner somewhere and leave it. and make it so it's only one click like anything else. but, thats a waste of screen space.
on a 1024x512 screen, you don't waste space with crap like that.
blackbox is also getting a complete rewrite, and the codebase is not really usable (so says jeff raven anyhow, and i'll belive him).
but, there are cool features being added, like keyboard access to the menus. somthing i've been wanting on my laptops for a couple years now...
why kill those not at fault.
well, you think they're going to stand on a big sign in an open field that says "bomb me, i'm guilty"?
nazi's mobilized an entire army and conquered nations. bin laden killed a few thousand people. i think if you think those are the same type of actions, maybe you need to go back to school with the rest of the sheep...
bullshit. the people did not make that choice. the leadership did. if you really feel that there is a need for killing, assasinate everyone you feel is to blame. pick them off one by one surgicaly. don't hit the fucking country with a hammer. that isn't justified at all.
moral obligation my ass, thats bloodlust.
and you think airstrikes are going to only kill those supposedly responseable? dream on....
wars destroy infastructure that is needed for a functional society, they will kill many many inocent people. we really aren't any better than the people that flew the planes into those buildings we're so mad about.
oh but my bad, we're justified in doing it. i forgot about that.
the "barbarians" as you say, hate the taliban as much as you do. all we're doing is killing a population living in fear. but oh thats no big deal right, they're "barbarians" after all, so what do we care?
yup, i love being flamebait for saying i don't want ANY distro to become a defacto standard... makes so much sense.
mandrake i remember working ok on the desktop. very good for newbies, or if you're trying to setup workstations in a small office where it doesn't make sense to automate the install further using somthing like replicator or kickstart (i think thats it anyhow)
a default debian or slackware install will be setup much, much lighter.
oh please no...
i think any version of linux becoming defacto standard (like red hat), would be a disaster. choices and competition are good. they all have their place, none have their place being the standard, not even my favorite (no i don't want a flamewar, i'm not saying which one it is).
add to that my personal opinion that mandrake is far to windows like and does way to many things without asking...
so yes, both :)
and running a submission que would be fun, mine would always get in
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