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I have Red Hat, and I am relatively satisfied with rpms. When I first started, I was afraid of tarballs, and RPMs helped me. Pretty easy to say rpm -ivh whatever-0.1.13.i386.rpm. They have their flaws, but at least you don't have to worry about what directory you should be in, etc.
About printers, I agree. Red Hat obviously has no problem with including a little closed-source, e.g. the whole Applications disc and the XBFCom X-servers, so why can't they just inclue Ghostscript 5? They make you download it, which presupposes that your modem is working, or that you can reboot into Windows, or that you have a Zip drive or a CD burner and access to another computer (I think it's more that 1.44MB, I might be wrong). In any case, it's extra hassle. Also, if you're new, you might not know how to do tar xvzf or rpm -ivh. And that's not even the OS's fault -- it's the distro's.
Don't get me wrong -- I love Linux. But Red Hat's setup really really sucks. Besides that, and I understand why, but the hardware support sucks, too. I bought a whole computer so I could run X (my previous one was a Dell with an onboard video controller). I finally got all my hardware working in Linux a couple days ago, after using this computer for about 2 months. I had very bad experiences with RH5.2, but 6.0 has been great. I think Red Hat has finally matured. Today, I wen't to my friend's house, and in about two hours, got his whole system working (he'd already installed the OS, but not configured it). My fairly computer-illiterate mom, who is a lawyer, will be using Linux when she finaly buys a new computer this summer, replacing her Altima 1 286 notebook with character-based monochrome screen and parallel-port, single-speed CD-ROM. This because of Corel's porting of WordPerfect. I have been using Enlightenment for a while now, and I think that since DR 0.15, it is very usable. KDE is probably even more usable, but it's ugly. However, it has better applets bundled (not to say that there's anything preventing you from running Qt apps in Gnome). I used KDE for a while until DR 0.15 came out, because 14 was a bitch to use. Now, though, I think it's pretty good. a couple things still bug me, like a few flaws in the Gnome panel, and the way Midnight Commander sucks, but it's very usable, on the whole. I am not hacker, and my computer is not a server. I am a nerd, though, and Linux is my toy, but that doesn't mean I can't get work done in it. I run WordPerfect, print, use the Gimp, play MP3s, and do everything else in it except run Terragen, Alpha Centauri, and Quake 3 (I know there's a Linux port, but I don't want to download 22MB again).
NT doesn't even have DirectX. That means you can't play Q3 unless you have OpenGL, which means I can't play it in my AP Chem class. I have to either do it in Journalism or at home.:)
I agree with you. I go to another "rich" school in Santa Monica, CA. Even though we are relatively rich, we still have too few textbooks & not enough paper for the copiers. We have a bunch of Macintosh SEs and LCs all over the place that nobody uses, and a computer lab with a bunch of Pentiums running 95. We have AP compuer Science, but I'm not in it. As far as I can tell, we have about 7 good computers on campus. There are 2 Mac G3s in the Yearbook room, another 2 in the Journalism room (I'm on the paper), and 2 new G3s in the Journalism room. We're buying another 2, and Yearbook is getting one. We use them for Pagemaker in laying out the paper, and Quake 3. A large percentage of the student body is poor, though, and not the type to be on the paper or in Yearbook, so I doubt they ever see a computer better than my calculator in their whole four years. It's a shame.
I agree that mozilla is a worhty project, but why can't they just release the code for regular Netscape? I understand that they have to take out all the roprietary stuff, e.g. Java, and the crypto, but other than that, I don't see the hassle.
I think it does, potentially, since Linux has been ported to PPC already. So if somebody really wanted to, they could probably modify it to run on a Nintendo, just like they did to make it run on a PalmPilot. Although I'm not sure why they'd want to, except just for fun. Which is a good enough reason.
I would like to run it on Linux, but I can't. I have Linux, and I'm not a total newbie. I still can't get my modem working under Red Hat 5.2, though. So I guess I'll have to wait until tonight.
I don't think that's true. From what I can tell, this hangs off your computer. Your computer has a fairly recent, powerful, and expensive chip in it. Therefore, you'd have to do a bit more to this board. However, if I misunderstood you, and what you really meant was that you could modify the circuit so it has a 486 or something built in, plus a power supply, etc, then maybe you could.
Alta Vista sold spots. Slashdot does not sell reviews. Amazon Associates make less than a dollar per click, and only if the customer buys from the first page linked to -- no browsing allowed. There's a difference between selling something and acting as an intermediary.
You're right about LPs sounding better than CDs, but they are NOT longer-lived. I'm listening to LPs that were produced in the 50s, but CDs will not last longer than 15 to 20 years, due to improper sealing of the metal layer. Possibly gold CDs will, but you can hardly get anything on gold, and you wouldn't want to pay the extra 10 smackeroos for the privilege anyway. At least I wouldn't.
Another related issue is that of when it stops being your right. I won't try to argue with anything you have said, even though I'm not sure I agree to all of it, but I do think that an important thing to consider is postmortem rights. That is, if you die, do your descendants have the rights to your creations? If so, then for how long? Isn't it in the interest of mankind to have the process for, say, polio vaccination public? I think that that is what society and government are for: to decide when mankind's interest overrides individuals' rights.
He said pure democracies. The U.S. is not a pure democracy. It is a representative democracy, a.k.a. a republic. Besides that, the U.S. is not so hot. Democracy is good. Capitalism is bad. This is my opinion, and you can disagree, but the first paragraph is fact.
Also, having a single standard means that you won't need to install netatalk, samba _and_ lpr to be able to talk to any printer you want. Ideally, everyone would support IPP so you'donly need one thing.
It's sort of flawed reasoning to say that by making one more "standard," everyone will follow it automatically. All it will do is force people to be able to handle one more protocol, because plenty will stay with the old methods, but to be compatible, servers etc. will have to have IPP as well.
Several years ago, Wired had a spread of "sexual" art -- that is, random pictures that were combined with each other and with occasional mutations. It was cool. I wonder what happened to it.
I have a no-name (Kensiko) Natural Keyboard ripoff. It tilts back, which I like, and it has traditional F keys, arrow keys, and Ins, Home, End etc. It also has a Mac-style power key in the corner, which doesn't work on my computer, and three buttons in the area between the two halves of the letter portion: 1) a mouse key, which turns the number pad into a pointer controller; 2) a Tab key; and 3) a backspace key. I never use any of them, but some people might like them. Anyway, they don't get in the way, so there's not downside. I bought it at Office Depot for about $40, and I've been very happy with it.
The New York Times had an article a while back in the mildly amusing Thursday Circuits section, about this very issue. It said that the MS kind is NOT what you want, that an adjustable one is better for your wrists. I don't know. I'm not an ergonomist. I just type. All I can say is that this one's pretty comfortable anyway.
I went to Rushmore thinking it was going to be really good (I see a lot of movies--usually one a week and sometimes as many as four or five), but I was disappointed. It was okay, I guess, but it wasn't really too nerdy or entertaining, or anything. Now, what was really good was Pi. Other nerdy ones I liked were Tron, and Good Will Hunting was pretty good, too. I count myself as a nerd/geek, but I don't really care about that side of things when I go to movies. I just go to see good acting and scriptwriting, like in Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, Buffalo '66, Pi, A Simple Plan, Ronin, and Waking Ned Devine. All these movies have in common is that a) I saw them in the past year and b) I liked them a lot. That's just because they were good movies.
It's not actually completely true that RedHat won't include binary-only. They include XBFCom NeoMagic X servers, which are only binary. I don't know if this means that they'll use the Creative drivers, though, because it is generally true that they refuse.
Something I've always wanted to do, but never done, is to order "bill me later" Franklin Mint dishes and dolls and subscriptions to Hustler, etc. for spammers who only give their snail-mail addresses. Maybe I'll do it one day...
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I have Red Hat, and I am relatively satisfied with rpms. When I first started, I was afraid of tarballs, and RPMs helped me. Pretty easy to say rpm -ivh whatever-0.1.13.i386.rpm. They have their flaws, but at least you don't have to worry about what directory you should be in, etc.
About printers, I agree. Red Hat obviously has no problem with including a little closed-source, e.g. the whole Applications disc and the XBFCom X-servers, so why can't they just inclue Ghostscript 5? They make you download it, which presupposes that your modem is working, or that you can reboot into Windows, or that you have a Zip drive or a CD burner and access to another computer (I think it's more that 1.44MB, I might be wrong). In any case, it's extra hassle. Also, if you're new, you might not know how to do tar xvzf or rpm -ivh. And that's not even the OS's fault -- it's the distro's.
Don't get me wrong -- I love Linux. But Red Hat's setup really really sucks. Besides that, and I understand why, but the hardware support sucks, too. I bought a whole computer so I could run X (my previous one was a Dell with an onboard video controller). I finally got all my hardware working in Linux a couple days ago, after using this computer for about 2 months. I had very bad experiences with RH5.2, but 6.0 has been great. I think Red Hat has finally matured. Today, I wen't to my friend's house, and in about two hours, got his whole system working (he'd already installed the OS, but not configured it).
My fairly computer-illiterate mom, who is a lawyer, will be using Linux when she finaly buys a new computer this summer, replacing her Altima 1 286 notebook with character-based monochrome screen and parallel-port, single-speed CD-ROM. This because of Corel's porting of WordPerfect. I have been using Enlightenment for a while now, and I think that since DR 0.15, it is very usable. KDE is probably even more usable, but it's ugly. However, it has better applets bundled (not to say that there's anything preventing you from running Qt apps in Gnome). I used KDE for a while until DR 0.15 came out, because 14 was a bitch to use. Now, though, I think it's pretty good. a couple things still bug me, like a few flaws in the Gnome panel, and the way Midnight Commander sucks, but it's very usable, on the whole. I am not hacker, and my computer is not a server. I am a nerd, though, and Linux is my toy, but that doesn't mean I can't get work done in it. I run WordPerfect, print, use the Gimp, play MP3s, and do everything else in it except run Terragen, Alpha Centauri, and Quake 3 (I know there's a Linux port, but I don't want to download 22MB again).
Also there are astronomy hackers, etc.
NT doesn't even have DirectX. That means you can't play Q3 unless you have OpenGL, which means I can't play it in my AP Chem class. I have to either do it in Journalism or at home. :)
I agree with you. I go to another "rich" school in Santa Monica, CA. Even though we are relatively rich, we still have too few textbooks & not enough paper for the copiers. We have a bunch of Macintosh SEs and LCs all over the place that nobody uses, and a computer lab with a bunch of Pentiums running 95. We have AP compuer Science, but I'm not in it. As far as I can tell, we have about 7 good computers on campus. There are 2 Mac G3s in the Yearbook room, another 2 in the Journalism room (I'm on the paper), and 2 new G3s in the Journalism room. We're buying another 2, and Yearbook is getting one. We use them for Pagemaker in laying out the paper, and Quake 3. A large percentage of the student body is poor, though, and not the type to be on the paper or in Yearbook, so I doubt they ever see a computer better than my calculator in their whole four years. It's a shame.
I agree that mozilla is a worhty project, but why can't they just release the code for regular Netscape? I understand that they have to take out all the roprietary stuff, e.g. Java, and the crypto, but other than that, I don't see the hassle.
I think it does, potentially, since Linux has been ported to PPC already. So if somebody really wanted to, they could probably modify it to run on a Nintendo, just like they did to make it run on a PalmPilot. Although I'm not sure why they'd want to, except just for fun. Which is a good enough reason.
I would like to run it on Linux, but I can't. I have Linux, and I'm not a total newbie. I still can't get my modem working under Red Hat 5.2, though. So I guess I'll have to wait until tonight.
I don't think that's true. From what I can tell, this hangs off your computer. Your computer has a fairly recent, powerful, and expensive chip in it. Therefore, you'd have to do a bit more to this board. However, if I misunderstood you, and what you really meant was that you could modify the circuit so it has a 486 or something built in, plus a power supply, etc, then maybe you could.
I agree. I think patents are totally mishandled in this legal system, too, which makes it even worse.
Alta Vista sold spots. Slashdot does not sell reviews. Amazon Associates make less than a dollar per click, and only if the customer buys from the first page linked to -- no browsing allowed. There's a difference between selling something and acting as an intermediary.
You're right about LPs sounding better than CDs, but they are NOT longer-lived. I'm listening to LPs that were produced in the 50s, but CDs will not last longer than 15 to 20 years, due to improper sealing of the metal layer. Possibly gold CDs will, but you can hardly get anything on gold, and you wouldn't want to pay the extra 10 smackeroos for the privilege anyway. At least I wouldn't.
Another related issue is that of when it stops being your right. I won't try to argue with anything you have said, even though I'm not sure I agree to all of it, but I do think that an important thing to consider is postmortem rights. That is, if you die, do your descendants have the rights to your creations? If so, then for how long? Isn't it in the interest of mankind to have the process for, say, polio vaccination public? I think that that is what society and government are for: to decide when mankind's interest overrides individuals' rights.
He said pure democracies. The U.S. is not a pure democracy. It is a representative democracy, a.k.a. a republic. Besides that, the U.S. is not so hot. Democracy is good. Capitalism is bad. This is my opinion, and you can disagree, but the first paragraph is fact.
Also, having a single standard means that you won't need to install netatalk, samba _and_ lpr to be able to talk to any printer you want. Ideally, everyone would support IPP so you'donly need one thing.
It's sort of flawed reasoning to say that by making one more "standard," everyone will follow it automatically. All it will do is force people to be able to handle one more protocol, because plenty will stay with the old methods, but to be compatible, servers etc. will have to have IPP as well.
Several years ago, Wired had a spread of "sexual" art -- that is, random pictures that were combined with each other and with occasional mutations. It was cool. I wonder what happened to it.
Hate to defend Satan, but I kinda like the Wheel Mouse, too. Sorry.
Hate to defend Satan, but I kinda like the Wheel Mous, too. Sorry.
I have a no-name (Kensiko) Natural Keyboard ripoff. It tilts back, which I like, and it has traditional F keys, arrow keys, and Ins, Home, End etc. It also has a Mac-style power key in the corner, which doesn't work on my computer, and three buttons in the area between the two halves of the letter portion: 1) a mouse key, which turns the number pad into a pointer controller; 2) a Tab key; and 3) a backspace key. I never use any of them, but some people might like them. Anyway, they don't get in the way, so there's not downside. I bought it at Office Depot for about $40, and I've been very happy with it.
The New York Times had an article a while back in the mildly amusing Thursday Circuits section, about this very issue. It said that the MS kind is NOT what you want, that an adjustable one is better for your wrists. I don't know. I'm not an ergonomist. I just type. All I can say is that this one's pretty comfortable anyway.
I went to Rushmore thinking it was going to be really good (I see a lot of movies--usually one a week and sometimes as many as four or five), but I was disappointed. It was okay, I guess, but it wasn't really too nerdy or entertaining, or anything. Now, what was really good was Pi . Other nerdy ones I liked were Tron, and Good Will Hunting was pretty good, too. I count myself as a nerd/geek, but I don't really care about that side of things when I go to movies. I just go to see good acting and scriptwriting, like in Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, Buffalo '66, Pi, A Simple Plan, Ronin, and Waking Ned Devine. All these movies have in common is that a) I saw them in the past year and b) I liked them a lot. That's just because they were good movies.
It's not actually completely true that RedHat won't include binary-only. They include XBFCom NeoMagic X servers, which are only binary. I don't know if this means that they'll use the Creative drivers, though, because it is generally true that they refuse.
This is going to hit those 7 people really hard.
Something I've always wanted to do, but never done, is to order "bill me later" Franklin Mint dishes and dolls and subscriptions to Hustler, etc. for spammers who only give their snail-mail addresses. Maybe I'll do it one day...