Subject: Please consider using linux for the provided computers
Hello
I believe it would worth your time to investigate potential usage of linux
in the hopeful possibility of everyone being provided a computer. Linux, though
seemingly hard to use, and often slandered as not suitable for the desktop,
is an extremely viable platform, optimal for this situation since it can run
on weaker hardware than windows and is completely and entirely free.
Furthermore, making any changes to the platform to better suit Belgians would
be trivial, as full source code (calling source code a programmer's blueprint
is an understatement--it provides all necessary to make any level of alterations
and adjustment to the programs) is provided.
Linux, when configured properly can be extremely easy and fun to use, as
well as powerful and stable. I believe it would of great advantage for you
to consider linux
Alan Cox seems to be the source of some 25% of the fixes. If that's taking it easy, than I'm a 17 tongued goat.
Yeah yeah, parts of it are merges of old fixes, but even with that in consideration, he is definitely superhuman
my thanks
The new kernel maintainer is doing a great job too. I can't believe he stepped in and had so much momentum immediately! Rather amazing. He's definitely living up to the very high expectations
...Because they will already have to create some efficient and persistent way to connect to microsoft to get hotfixes/updates/massive exploit patches (all the time).
thanks for keeping our astrounauts alive. (a literal BSOD? scary?)
Think consumer. Do you think it would sell if it had less? The masses see the numbers and ogle. Sure, I use 486s for routers and file servers. But you put something on the market with a low rating and people will have an idiotic adverse reaction
99% of what most people think/say/believe about computers is FUD/crap/wrong. This follows in with that. People are suckered by crap.
ALSA is a major code change and will not happen on a minor release. Expect it for inclusion only with development trees (and then rather early on).
I won't believe any claims regarding this until it happens however. There has been a push to include it for a long time.
Luckily the project has gotten past it's biggest old problem, which was constantly, drastically, and suddenly changing the API, breaking many programs and pissing lots of people off, not to mention making it completely in flux.
I think it's very discouraging to most users how lame linux is out of the box. The install of most dists sucks, and after the install, not enough is set up. Most of the functionality of linux is seemingly hidden functionality--you need to know things to use it. I know lots and lots of people that install linux and even use it for a month and then end up hating it because they never got it into even a semi-respectable condition.
Whenever I install a new box, the first thing I do is recompile a new kernel (a nice side effect of this that isn't all the usual reasons you hear is that boot time is cut by more than half (since all the crap is out)), and then install a bunch of my own 'packages', which are xdm-config files, bash configs,/etc/skel, X configs (including Xresources and WM themes/styles)),/etc/issue, etc etc etc etc. These files have been following me a while and have evolved much; I use them to make any linux rule very fast.
But the newbie doesn't have things looking really nice.
As a side note more to the actual topic, I don't think linux is hard at all. I think it's easy; people simply must get used to a slightly altered ideaology. If people used linux for a long time/were brought up with it, they'd feel natural with it too.
Much work needs to be done to make the 'hidden' functionality more accessible to the unlearned.
that will be the best thing for linux.
Addiction is the wrong term. Addiction has severely negative connotations. Just because you do something very much it isn't necessarily an addiction. Reading, exercize, traveling, etc. are all legitimate pasttimes that you will never hear termed as addictions.
Gaming has simply gotten to the point where it can be considered as a serious hobby/activity.
And I'm not saying this to defend myself. I game only now and then. But I definitely don't think this is negative (especially when you consider many things people do that are not termed addictions).
I practice violin very much. Am I addicted? Well, I like it very much. But you wouldn't call it an addiction.
Heh, if we got you guys into space, I think it would motivate you to finally do another geeks in space... you could called it "Revenge of the Pun" or something.
the community created an open source plug-in that
was analogous to connector?
As a side note, I think they've found a great balance between being open source and still selling code. Most of the mass of the app is free, and that rules.
Nothing moving solely on wheels is revolutionary
on
This is IT?
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
The next revolution in locomotion will be when personal transport leaves the ground. I consider any moves until then to be simple stepwise evolution.
I mean, the car was not even the "revolution" (if it was one) that the train was. When you compare Car to Horse drawn cart, You CAN NOT compare horse drawn cart to MODERN car. You have to compare it to the car at the outset.
evolutionary.
Back to the "IT", in it's current state it would need to be faster to appeal more. But if it is faster it gets massively dangerous. So it needs.. computer control? And computer control on other moving objects sending information to eachother? Ouch, that'll take a while.
We'll see where this goes.
Someone made a comment on a robot using this for locomotion. Now that Actually is pretty damned cool.
I guess this leaves the scope of th article, however this is kindof a forum...
Why are we so different? Compare the genomes. You think we have some magical essence inside that beings removed 1 millimeter from us on the evolutionary tree don't have?
please..
Besides. It seems to me that animals are much closer to a god than humans.
So we would basically have vats/farms of super dumbed down humans tweaked to be resilient, have certain bloodtypes, have well formed organs etc. etc., receiving perfect combinations of nutrients and be genetically engineered to be totally uncomprehending.. not aware of what is happening.
The controls were penises, one up your ass and one in your mouth, and they went in/out up/down as you rode it. It had hand controls shaped like penises too (I think).
The whole thing fit inside a large (7-8ft diameter).
It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost died.
He also took an opportunity to criticize the overzealous US government and airlines.
I never like short term solutions over long term solutions.
IF we get in the habit or scrounging up every bit of good minerals/power from everywhere near us, we will leave a trail of trash wherever we go. In 1000 years do we want a string of dead solar systems pointing to us, who now need a galaxy's power for a few star systems?
His Song of Ice and Fire series has to be the most
mature and realistic Fantasy series I've read.
Elaboration;
I like it in fantasy when the setting is a fantasy setting; say, different time, added swords and violence, magic, dragons etc.
What I don't like is fantastic circumstanes/events. Say, newbie swordsman defeats experienced soldiers on first battle, or nasty loser gets hot girl against all odds, etc.
In Martin's books, when the hero is against big odds, HE DIES. In the third book the whole course of the series is turned in one paragraph ALL OF A SUDDEN with the death of a great driving force.
The timing. Things may be given in detail, or sometimes things move so fast that you FEEL the chaos of the moment.
The Portrayal. Each chapter is from the standpoint of a different character, sometimes on opposing sides. It really makes you respect different forces. Sometimes months have past since you read about a character and you have to fill in the gaps. Sometimes a description a character gives of something is so subjective that it does not readily become apparent that it is what another character is discussing. Sometimes you read about something that has happened and another character who is directly involved with it doesn't know about it because of the speed of communication/misinformation.
The series actually gets better with each novel
By the third book you can hardly breath.
So, I was too lazy to use proper grammar or fully explain why he is the master. sorry, busy. But honestly this series pushes the Genre forward way past the contemporaries.
The price of this computer is simply
frightening. It is simply ridiculous to pay
that much for a desktop.
Besides, most things in the worl (computers fall
under the umbrella) are priced on a logarithmic scale, meaning after a point drastically increased price gives mediocre return, and vice versa going behind a certain earlier point. I always like to build a machine that has it's cost efficiency at a maximum, sitting at a very healthy point in the curve. Buying a Geforce3 card, for instance is ludicrous. Geforce2 MX 400 (Abit siluro for instance) with 64 megs ram is 69 bucks. excuse me? That is cheap as dirt.
IT's always very satisfying, also, to get a
slightly cheaper machine like this and it performs
within 10% of a machine 5x as expensive.
Neither of those are the most severe issue in my opinion. Scariest for me is what kind of extensibility/hidden features will this thing have? I am rather certain that the paranoid state right now will cause it to have lots of add-ons on it that we don't exactly enjoy.
We are still skirting the main issue. There are solutions that don't hinder the freedom of most people.. lots of them involve damaging the US's ego, but supporters (like me, who is for the most part a happy US citizen) may argue this would actually strength the US's position... for whatever it's worth
DAmn this page REALLY sucks. I mean, sure cases are nice, but there is no way in hell I'm gonna order from them. I bookmarked it because it sucks so bad and I can laugh at it with friends.
I think a better idea is just get an SGI case, and put a beowulf cluster in it.
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Taco, you really outdid yourself. You need rubber for your jack bot? What
other tools do you require? A good lubricant, I assume.
Every little help counts.
Subject: Please consider using linux for the provided computers
Hello
I believe it would worth your time to investigate potential usage of linux
in the hopeful possibility of everyone being provided a computer. Linux, though
seemingly hard to use, and often slandered as not suitable for the desktop,
is an extremely viable platform, optimal for this situation since it can run
on weaker hardware than windows and is completely and entirely free.
Furthermore, making any changes to the platform to better suit Belgians would
be trivial, as full source code (calling source code a programmer's blueprint
is an understatement--it provides all necessary to make any level of alterations
and adjustment to the programs) is provided.
Linux, when configured properly can be extremely easy and fun to use, as
well as powerful and stable. I believe it would of great advantage for you
to consider linux
-mateusz-
the pic says it all:
Here's a picture of marcelo wearing FreeBSD horns
I'm fireproof so don't bother with flames. I'm just having a good time, you know.
Alan Cox seems to be the source of some 25% of the fixes. If that's taking it easy, than I'm a 17 tongued goat.
Yeah yeah, parts of it are merges of old fixes, but even with that in consideration, he is definitely superhuman
my thanks
The new kernel maintainer is doing a great job too. I can't believe he stepped in and had so much momentum immediately! Rather amazing. He's definitely living up to the very high expectations
thanks.
...Because they will already have to create some efficient and persistent way to connect to microsoft to get hotfixes/updates/massive exploit patches (all the time).
thanks for keeping our astrounauts alive. (a literal BSOD? scary?)
Think consumer. Do you think it would sell if it had less? The masses see the numbers and ogle. Sure, I use 486s for routers and file servers. But you put something on the market with a low rating and people will have an idiotic adverse reaction
99% of what most people think/say/believe about computers is FUD/crap/wrong. This follows in with that. People are suckered by crap.
ALSA is a major code change and will not happen on a minor release. Expect it for inclusion only with development trees (and then rather early on).
I won't believe any claims regarding this until it happens however. There has been a push to include it for a long time.
Luckily the project has gotten past it's biggest old problem, which was constantly, drastically, and suddenly changing the API, breaking many programs and pissing lots of people off, not to mention making it completely in flux.
we'll see
I think it's very discouraging to most users how lame linux is out of the box. The install of most dists sucks, and after the install, not enough is set up. Most of the functionality of linux is seemingly hidden functionality--you need to know things to use it. I know lots and lots of people that install linux and even use it for a month and then end up hating it because they never got it into even a semi-respectable condition.
/etc/skel, X configs (including Xresources and WM themes/styles)), /etc/issue, etc etc etc etc. These files have been following me a while and have evolved much; I use them to make any linux rule very fast.
Whenever I install a new box, the first thing I do is recompile a new kernel (a nice side effect of this that isn't all the usual reasons you hear is that boot time is cut by more than half (since all the crap is out)), and then install a bunch of my own 'packages', which are xdm-config files, bash configs,
But the newbie doesn't have things looking really nice.
As a side note more to the actual topic, I don't think linux is hard at all. I think it's easy; people simply must get used to a slightly altered ideaology. If people used linux for a long time/were brought up with it, they'd feel natural with it too.
Much work needs to be done to make the 'hidden' functionality more accessible to the unlearned.
that will be the best thing for linux.
Because the laymen does not understand GB or MB... that is simply an artificial buzz term. But number of songs they can easily grasp.
/. to post the technical term. damn =)
of course you'd expect
Addiction is the wrong term. Addiction has severely negative connotations. Just because you do something very much it isn't necessarily an addiction. Reading, exercize, traveling, etc. are all legitimate pasttimes that you will never hear termed as addictions.
Gaming has simply gotten to the point where it can be considered as a serious hobby/activity.
And I'm not saying this to defend myself. I game only now and then. But I definitely don't think this is negative (especially when you consider many things people do that are not termed addictions).
I practice violin very much. Am I addicted? Well, I like it very much. But you wouldn't call it an addiction.
Heh, if we got you guys into space, I think it would motivate you to finally do another geeks in space... you could called it "Revenge of the Pun" or something.
or not.
the community created an open source plug-in that
was analogous to connector?
As a side note, I think they've found a great balance between being open source and still selling code. Most of the mass of the app is free, and that rules.
The next revolution in locomotion will be when personal transport leaves the ground. I consider any moves until then to be simple stepwise evolution.
I mean, the car was not even the "revolution" (if it was one) that the train was. When you compare Car to Horse drawn cart, You CAN NOT compare horse drawn cart to MODERN car. You have to compare it to the car at the outset.
evolutionary.
Back to the "IT", in it's current state it would need to be faster to appeal more. But if it is faster it gets massively dangerous. So it needs.. computer control? And computer control on other moving objects sending information to eachother? Ouch, that'll take a while.
We'll see where this goes.
Someone made a comment on a robot using this for locomotion. Now that Actually is pretty damned cool.
I guess this leaves the scope of th article, however this is kindof a forum...
Why are we so different? Compare the genomes. You think we have some magical essence inside that beings removed 1 millimeter from us on the evolutionary tree don't have?
please..
Besides. It seems to me that animals are much closer to a god than humans.
So we would basically have vats/farms of super dumbed down humans tweaked to be resilient, have certain bloodtypes, have well formed organs etc. etc., receiving perfect combinations of nutrients and be genetically engineered to be totally uncomprehending.. not aware of what is happening.
Sounds pretty messed up.
Then again, we eat meat.
Hell I love meat.
Damn. Should've hit preview
that's meant to read
"The whole thing fit inside a large (7-8ft diameter) WHEEL."
sorry
Yes it did.
The controls were penises, one up your ass and one in your mouth, and they went in/out up/down as you rode it. It had hand controls shaped like penises too (I think).
The whole thing fit inside a large (7-8ft diameter).
It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I almost died.
He also took an opportunity to criticize the overzealous US government and airlines.
I never like short term solutions over long term solutions.
IF we get in the habit or scrounging up every bit of good minerals/power from everywhere near us, we will leave a trail of trash wherever we go. In 1000 years do we want a string of dead solar systems pointing to us, who now need a galaxy's power for a few star systems?
Bah. We need to learn efficiency.
short term good sucks.
His Song of Ice and Fire series has to be the most
mature and realistic Fantasy series I've read.
Elaboration;
I like it in fantasy when the setting is a fantasy setting; say, different time, added swords and violence, magic, dragons etc.
What I don't like is fantastic circumstanes/events. Say, newbie swordsman defeats experienced soldiers on first battle, or nasty loser gets hot girl against all odds, etc.
In Martin's books, when the hero is against big odds, HE DIES. In the third book the whole course of the series is turned in one paragraph ALL OF A SUDDEN with the death of a great driving force.
The timing. Things may be given in detail, or sometimes things move so fast that you FEEL the chaos of the moment.
The Portrayal. Each chapter is from the standpoint of a different character, sometimes on opposing sides. It really makes you respect different forces. Sometimes months have past since you read about a character and you have to fill in the gaps. Sometimes a description a character gives of something is so subjective that it does not readily become apparent that it is what another character is discussing. Sometimes you read about something that has happened and another character who is directly involved with it doesn't know about it because of the speed of communication/misinformation.
The series actually gets better with each novel
By the third book you can hardly breath.
So, I was too lazy to use proper grammar or fully explain why he is the master. sorry, busy. But honestly this series pushes the Genre forward way past the contemporaries.
-mateusz-
A great hope of science fiction writers is for one of their hypothetical futures, or some aspect of them, to come true.
Asimov used rings of satellites transmitting power vie Microwave to the earth in many of his stories.
He'd be happy to see this.
..At least this will provide us with a great chance to develop anti-DoS (and DDoS) attack tools =)
*snicker*
honestly though, if they actually initiate this ridiculousness, then you can see us doing this
-mateusz-
Linux Violinist
The price of this computer is simply
frightening. It is simply ridiculous to pay
that much for a desktop.
Besides, most things in the worl (computers fall
under the umbrella) are priced on a logarithmic scale, meaning after a point drastically increased price gives mediocre return, and vice versa going behind a certain earlier point. I always like to build a machine that has it's cost efficiency at a maximum, sitting at a very healthy point in the curve. Buying a Geforce3 card, for instance is ludicrous. Geforce2 MX 400 (Abit siluro for instance) with 64 megs ram is 69 bucks. excuse me? That is cheap as dirt.
IT's always very satisfying, also, to get a
slightly cheaper machine like this and it performs
within 10% of a machine 5x as expensive.
-mateusz-
I'm going to go practice my violin more now
Neither of those are the most severe issue in my opinion. Scariest for me is what kind of extensibility/hidden features will this thing have? I am rather certain that the paranoid state right now will cause it to have lots of add-ons on it that we don't exactly enjoy.
We are still skirting the main issue. There are solutions that don't hinder the freedom of most people.. lots of them involve damaging the US's ego, but supporters (like me, who is for the most part a happy US citizen) may argue this would actually strength the US's position... for whatever it's worth
DAmn this page REALLY sucks. I mean, sure cases are nice, but there is no way in hell I'm gonna order from them. I bookmarked it because it sucks so bad and I can laugh at it with friends.
I think a better idea is just get an SGI case, and put a beowulf cluster in it.
-m-