I've put mandrake 7.0 on my girls new box thrice just to try out the different configurations. "Lothar", Mandrake's config tool is the first linux config tool that rivels M$'s win98 control panel. Mandrake 7.0 found all of her hardware while it was installing, but I shuffled IRQ's on her PCI soundcard just for kicks. Smooth.
Lucky for you, Mandrake 7.0 is a drop in upgrade from Redhat 4.x and above, which goes back a couple years, ya dig?
The Corel linux 1.0 tools are damn nice, too. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend either distribution to anyone's gramma, but I tend to like Mandrake more. Ok?
I got a $50 B&N gift certificate from my brother for Christmas. I spent about an hour getting my shopping cart together, only to go to the check out and find it empty. Went back, found everything again and it made it out.
My books and cd's came to $42, which, through my keen math skills, I figured $50 would cover including S/H. B&N's checkout process wouldn't let me out without putting in my credit card nums. Plus after triing to get through without inputting the afformentioned CC nums, it lost my stuff again!
After reacumulating the books and cd's I wasn't sure I really needed, putting in my credit card that wouldn't even get billed, I tried to complete the tranny, only to get an error that the Microsoft SQL server couldn't process my transaction. Annoying.
So I calls up the customer service 800 number, waited on hold for 10 minutes between being tranferred three times, (30 minutes total) before getting someone to take my order. She didn't speak english (my overly complex native language) very well, but we got there after I spelled out every title of 3 books and 2 cd's. I talked to her about 15 minutes total, and she waived my shipping costs (good lookin out, kid!), leaving me well under my $50 GC amount, but still wouldn't let me off without broadcasting my credit card numbers yet again.
All in all, I'm seriously over the e-commerce revolution. I'm also really tired of voice-mail systems that seemingly EVERY company hides behind. I'm getting a little online shop together for a skateboard shop I swing with, but I'm going to emphasize the 800 numbers and the ability to talk to real people more than the shopping cart ish.
All this from a long time internet enthusist. I'm predicting a backlash of good old-style REAL customer service that actually makes it easy for people to get what they want. Power to the people! : )
There's a stand-off between about 200 cops in riot gear and 300 protesters about three blocks away. They're firing off tear-gas canisters 10 at a time.
All in all, not really that bad. I got tear-gassed three times today, but made it out alive be breathing through my trusty beanie (knit cap, old guy...). Bill Clinton gets here tonight. I doubt anything too crazy will happen.
TONS of video cameras! There's gonna be alot of documentarys about what's happening here. The news anchor behind the desk made the statment, "I've been told by the cheif of police that NO rubber bullets were used." Then the reporter on the street says, "That's not true." and holds up a couple rubber bullets. Then a bystander holds up about 10 rubber bullets!
I think this one might be the winner. I've never thought of that one.
In my years of dreaming about VR, I imagined a sort of deflated rubber ball/treadmill kinda dealie. It'd be a little bowl shaped for the stride (of bipeds, VR is so human-centric) and it would be able to rotate any direction.
I've seen something similar at the HIT lab at the University of Washington. It was a bowled out platform that you kinda leaned on one side, but didn't need to simulate walking. heel, toe. heel, toe.
Everybody likes to diss the guy on top. I run redhat 6.0 and I like it. When my Mandrake CD get here I'll probably run that, but that's built on top of redhat anyway, so yea!
Redhat has a great install process. Better than the others, excluding OpenLinux 2.2. OL 2.2 hasn't installed on most of my machines, so I quit it for RH 6.0.
As for CodeWarrier being RH only, so what. Use GNU C you wimp! And installing tar files IS harder than RPM's. Yes, I can install anything, but I'd rather waste my time playing with it after the install, thank you.
As for them making tons of money, great! They're a business. And they're building a great distro. They're also helping to convert NT admins that have better things to do than twist thier minds into UNIX-space. That's a good thing.
And (and, and, and) they GPL thier $80 distro. I get mine from linuxcentral.com for $1.95. Great! More power to them.
I'm gonna buy a bunch of thier stock, too. So nyah!
The Ikonos satelitte was not intended to be a spy satelitte. It's resolution (each pixel) is one square meter. All that talk of "The government/Russians/Big Bussiness has satelittes that can read a newspaper on the ground" are unfounded.
Certainly, the US and other governments have technologies that are classified, but by most accounts the rummors are exagerated.
But that's what they want you to believe...
Or, lost in space? hmm.. No more accountability. Snap away.
If I'm wearing a white shirt on a black road, the satelitte will see a one meter, dark grey spot. Not very good evidence in most courts.
-=nft=- Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching...
1. Dual 300 PII, file and print server 2. dual 350 PII, Exchange server 3. Pent 133, Proxy and web server. 4. It only goes down from here.
My point? Not every company buys $60,000 quad xeon servers. In the ZD Lab tests showing linux being faster on normal hardware, attainable by normal companies. That's more important to me right now than benchmarks of huge machines I won't get for another couple years.
A local computer store had a cyrix MB/CPU combo with sound,video,usb,56k modem and tv out on it for $99. add memory, a HD, and CD and you've got a box. Can you say playstation? If sombody could make a real net-surfin, game playin, plug in to yer tv and go linux box I'd think it'd be a hit. I'd put my grandmother on KDE... : )
I'm running KDE 1.1 beta2 on my RedHat 5.2 box without incident. I think it's a great gui. I don't understand RH's insitance on using Gnome, but hey, whatever.
BTW there's links to RH rpm's on the kde.org site for whoever wants to try it.
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To this, I can only reply, "no shit." : )
I've put mandrake 7.0 on my girls new box thrice just to try out the different configurations. "Lothar", Mandrake's config tool is the first linux config tool that rivels M$'s win98 control panel. Mandrake 7.0 found all of her hardware while it was installing, but I shuffled IRQ's on her PCI soundcard just for kicks. Smooth.
Lucky for you, Mandrake 7.0 is a drop in upgrade from Redhat 4.x and above, which goes back a couple years, ya dig?
The Corel linux 1.0 tools are damn nice, too. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend either distribution to anyone's gramma, but I tend to like Mandrake more. Ok?
-=nft1999=-
I got a $50 B&N gift certificate from my brother for Christmas. I spent about an hour getting my shopping cart together, only to go to the check out and find it empty. Went back, found everything again and it made it out.
My books and cd's came to $42, which, through my keen math skills, I figured $50 would cover including S/H. B&N's checkout process wouldn't let me out without putting in my credit card nums. Plus after triing to get through without inputting the afformentioned CC nums, it lost my stuff again!
After reacumulating the books and cd's I wasn't sure I really needed, putting in my credit card that wouldn't even get billed, I tried to complete the tranny, only to get an error that the Microsoft SQL server couldn't process my transaction. Annoying.
So I calls up the customer service 800 number, waited on hold for 10 minutes between being tranferred three times, (30 minutes total) before getting someone to take my order. She didn't speak english (my overly complex native language) very well, but we got there after I spelled out every title of 3 books and 2 cd's. I talked to her about 15 minutes total, and she waived my shipping costs (good lookin out, kid!), leaving me well under my $50 GC amount, but still wouldn't let me off without broadcasting my credit card numbers yet again.
All in all, I'm seriously over the e-commerce revolution. I'm also really tired of voice-mail systems that seemingly EVERY company hides behind. I'm getting a little online shop together for a skateboard shop I swing with, but I'm going to emphasize the 800 numbers and the ability to talk to real people more than the shopping cart ish.
All this from a long time internet enthusist. I'm predicting a backlash of good old-style REAL customer service that actually makes it easy for people to get what they want. Power to the people! : )
-=nft1999=-
There's BLACK HELICOPTORS flying around!
There's a stand-off between about 200 cops in riot gear and 300 protesters about three blocks away. They're firing off tear-gas canisters 10 at a time.
All in all, not really that bad. I got tear-gassed three times today, but made it out alive be breathing through my trusty beanie (knit cap, old guy...). Bill Clinton gets here tonight. I doubt anything too crazy will happen.
TONS of video cameras! There's gonna be alot of documentarys about what's happening here. The news anchor behind the desk made the statment, "I've been told by the cheif of police that NO rubber bullets were used." Then the reporter on the street says, "That's not true." and holds up a couple rubber bullets. Then a bystander holds up about 10 rubber bullets!
More news if anything nuts happens....
-=nft1999=-
I think this one might be the winner. I've never thought of that one.
In my years of dreaming about VR, I imagined a sort of deflated rubber ball/treadmill kinda dealie. It'd be a little bowl shaped for the stride (of bipeds, VR is so human-centric) and it would be able to rotate any direction.
I've seen something similar at the HIT lab at the University of Washington. It was a bowled out platform that you kinda leaned on one side, but didn't need to simulate walking. heel, toe. heel, toe.
-=nft=-
Everybody likes to diss the guy on top. I run redhat 6.0 and I like it. When my Mandrake CD get here I'll probably run that, but that's built on top of redhat anyway, so yea!
Redhat has a great install process. Better than the others, excluding OpenLinux 2.2. OL 2.2 hasn't installed on most of my machines, so I quit it for RH 6.0.
As for CodeWarrier being RH only, so what. Use GNU C you wimp! And installing tar files IS harder than RPM's. Yes, I can install anything, but I'd rather waste my time playing with it after the install, thank you.
As for them making tons of money, great! They're a business. And they're building a great distro. They're also helping to convert NT admins that have better things to do than twist thier minds into UNIX-space. That's a good thing.
And (and, and, and) they GPL thier $80 distro. I get mine from linuxcentral.com for $1.95. Great! More power to them.
I'm gonna buy a bunch of thier stock, too. So nyah!
-=nft=-
The Ikonos satelitte was not intended to be a spy satelitte. It's resolution (each pixel) is one square meter. All that talk of "The government/Russians/Big Bussiness has satelittes that can read a newspaper on the ground" are unfounded.
Certainly, the US and other governments have technologies that are classified, but by most accounts the rummors are exagerated.
But that's what they want you to believe...
Or, lost in space? hmm.. No more accountability. Snap away.
If I'm wearing a white shirt on a black road, the satelitte will see a one meter, dark grey spot. Not very good evidence in most courts.
-=nft=-
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching...
Where I work, our servers consist of:
1. Dual 300 PII, file and print server
2. dual 350 PII, Exchange server
3. Pent 133, Proxy and web server.
4. It only goes down from here.
My point? Not every company buys $60,000 quad xeon servers. In the ZD Lab tests showing linux being faster on normal hardware, attainable by normal companies. That's more important to me right now than benchmarks of huge machines I won't get for another couple years.
Ya Know?
-=nft=-
I, too, didn't find the essay. But lo and behold, a fellow slashdot reader has the answer. I'm sure cmdrtaco will have fixed it by now.
BUT! the site is kinda cool, too. But, um, where's the decoder card from? I'm guessing the book flappy cover thingie.
So who's got a password?
here's the answers...
1. 055357861
2. snowcrash
3. shanghai
4. waterhouse
5. your ssn.
-=nft=-
A local computer store had a cyrix MB/CPU combo with sound,video,usb,56k modem and tv out on it for $99. add memory, a HD, and CD and you've got a box. Can you say playstation? If sombody could make a real net-surfin, game playin, plug in to yer tv and go linux box I'd think it'd be a hit. I'd put my grandmother on KDE... : )
-=nft=-
I'm running KDE 1.1 beta2 on my RedHat 5.2 box without incident. I think it's a great gui. I don't understand RH's insitance on using Gnome, but hey, whatever.
BTW there's links to RH rpm's on the kde.org site for whoever wants to try it.
-=nft=-