How many average windows users do you know that have actually installed windows?
Most of them (in my experience) don't even know how to change their desktop wallpaper.
As for Linux installation, I have worked professionally doing tech-support and i much prefer installing Linux to windows. Windows 98 or NT are fine and dandy if everything goes according to plan, but frequently it doesn't. If NT screws up and can't use the network card, it sometimes takes a long time to mess around with it to get it to work, whereas with Linux it takes a lot less time to fix something.
Most of the people i worked with thought this too....In trying to make windows ultra-friendly, they've crippled it in many ways.
I think one of the big reasons there are complaints about Linux' install process is that many people don't actually install their own OS until they decide to try Linux. How can someone be expected to install ANY OS if they don't even know what a partition is? I've helped out many many people like this.
Since Windows is (unfortunately) pre-installed on most (x86) machines, average joe user often never installs windows.
-Doviende
"The value of a man resides in what he gives, and not in what he is capable of receiving."
The windows client is a lot slower than the Linux client. Under win98, it takes me over twice the time to do a block...my celeron @450 does a block every 8 hours in Linux (using the i686-glibc2.1 client) and about 17 hours with that silly screensaver shit in win98. My 300 in Linux goes faster than a 450 in windows....
"The value of a man resides in what he gives, and not in what he is capable of receiving."
At my previous job, i had a Linux box doing 30+ Gigs of backup every night. It read the info from the network via NFS, and used GNU tar to put it onto a 40G DLT. One of the servers involved had at least 13G of stuff on it alone...the others had 9G and 8G and stuff like that.
I'd recommend the DLT drives to anyone who can afford them....they're awesome.
"The value of a man resides in what he gives, and not in what he is capable of receiving."
I agree. All of the CDs i've purchased this year wouldn't have been purchased if i hadn't first heard part (or occasionally all) of them as MP3 first. Now that i've heard Duel of the Fates, i will definitely be buying it the first chance i get. (and then i'll run home and immediately encode it, because i love having all of my music at my fingertips...i hate searching around for a CD.)
As a side note, to demonstrate that, I was recently thinking about the fact that since Lightsabers have blades of pure energy, they should have no mass. And yet, they film the movies with the actors using metal rods, which means the lightsabers move as if they had mass. Odd, eh?
Actually, saying that they're "pure energy" makes them sound insubstantial. If they can chop through things, they have to interact via the electromagnetic force. This means that they will also interact with the air, so they (at a minimum) have some air resistance.
also, rather than just being "pure energy", they could be a some kind of plasma (ionized gas). I obviously have no idea how they would implement the containment of such a thing, but if this were the case, the blade would have a mass too.
Then there's the fact that they would probably want to artificially weight them so that they balance properly. I've been in the fencing club at university, and i think it would be quite a nuisance (sp?) to have a sword that had all of its weight behind your hands instead of in front. You'd have to use a different set of muscles i think (although i'm not a kinesiologist).
There was an article in Canada's National Post recently, where they said that Michael Cowpland was using the Linux programming language to revive Corel.
I think Beavis and Butthead say it best: "Uhhh...huhuh....some people are dumb"
Then again, you're assuming that it takes the average human lifespan to do a test of the program. That would be a useless program anyway.
Instead, consider that an "evolved" program can go through many generations very quickly...it doesn't necessarily need 5 million years or anything silly like that.
ok...what about the thing in windoze where it says "sb16 compatibility"? Is that just an interface for old dos games, or is it actually a hardware feature?
Right now, i just want a way to play my mp3s in linux so that i can limit my windows usage to just playing Tribes.
Off-topic: It seems like whenever i play Tribes, some loser tries to use netbus on my firewall (ie they try to access port 12345). It's happened about 4 times, and always from a different dial-up modem connection, and from various different parts of the US. Anyone else notice weird shit like this?
It was my understanding that if you clustered some machines, you'd have to re-write your programs to make calls to some kind of library like PVM.
Is there any way just to take a standard multi-threaded program like, say, an oracle server, and run it on a cluster without recompiling the oracle stuff to use PVM or whatever other library?
lemme know...i'm quite interested, but not so informed (yet).
What if i am not satisfied with the decisions of the group and i wish to fork the code? Do i still have to deal with all of the silly licensing stuff?
One of the big parts of free software is that no one has any more rights than anyone else. This method seems to restrict me from becoming a distributor myself, and giving away copies that don't have payment restrictions. I'd say this resembles proprietary software since even though i have some rights to copying, everything is still somewhat controlled by a central body.
Is it truly free if there can only be one group in control of it?
One of my machines runs Slackware 3.5 (which comes with 2.0.35 i think), and it required absolutely no fiddling to get 2.1.130 working, or 2.2.1 or 2.2.4. They all worked perfectly the first time i compiled them.
Also, my other machine is Slackware 3.6, and the scenario was the same....make xconfig, make dep, make zImage, reboot, and that's all the configuration it required.
Why the heck are all of these RedHat people having so much trouble? They can't run anything that isn't a binary in an rpm? maybe that's a little harsh, but I can't figure it out.
As i'm sure many others are aware of, a Mac is NOT the same as a NeXT. At the operating system level, they cannot even be compared because the NeXTs are so much superior. Jeez...Mac's don't even use protected memory. Sure, the NeXTs ran on slow hardware, but i would rather use a NeXT than a Mac.
Have a filter that counts it as a first post if it contains the words first post or i rock!! or whatever. also, maybe limit it to one of the first 20 messages, so if any of the first 20 have the right phrases, they get counted as a first post. voila:)
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Most of them (in my experience) don't even know how to change their desktop wallpaper.
As for Linux installation, I have worked professionally doing tech-support and i much prefer installing Linux to windows. Windows 98 or NT are fine and dandy if everything goes according to plan, but frequently it doesn't. If NT screws up and can't use the network card, it sometimes takes a long time to mess around with it to get it to work, whereas with Linux it takes a lot less time to fix something.
Most of the people i worked with thought this too....In trying to make windows ultra-friendly, they've crippled it in many ways.
I think one of the big reasons there are complaints about Linux' install process is that many people don't actually install their own OS until they decide to try Linux. How can someone be expected to install ANY OS if they don't even know what a partition is? I've helped out many many people like this.
Since Windows is (unfortunately) pre-installed on most (x86) machines, average joe user often never installs windows.
-Doviende
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
or just s/?/'/g and then edit for real question marks
-Doviende
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
I'd recommend the DLT drives to anyone who can afford them....they're awesome.
"The value of a man resides in what he gives,
and not in what he is capable of receiving."
Don't you remember 2.0.36 and 2.1.132, etc? It wasn't that long ago....in fact, neither was 1.2.13 (the one that i started with ;)
I agree. All of the CDs i've purchased this year wouldn't have been purchased if i hadn't first heard part (or occasionally all) of them as MP3 first. Now that i've heard Duel of the Fates, i will definitely be buying it the first chance i get. (and then i'll run home and immediately encode it, because i love having all of my music at my fingertips...i hate searching around for a CD.)
Actually, saying that they're "pure energy" makes them sound insubstantial. If they can chop through things, they have to interact via the electromagnetic force. This means that they will also interact with the air, so they (at a minimum) have some air resistance.
also, rather than just being "pure energy", they could be a some kind of plasma (ionized gas). I obviously have no idea how they would implement the containment of such a thing, but if this were the case, the blade would have a mass too.
Then there's the fact that they would probably want to artificially weight them so that they balance properly. I've been in the fencing club at university, and i think it would be quite a nuisance (sp?) to have a sword that had all of its weight behind your hands instead of in front. You'd have to use a different set of muscles i think (although i'm not a kinesiologist).
that's my two bits for the day.
-Doviende
I think Beavis and Butthead say it best: "Uhhh...huhuh....some people are dumb"
-Doviende
Instead, consider that an "evolved" program can go through many generations very quickly...it doesn't necessarily need 5 million years or anything silly like that.
-Doviende
Right now, i just want a way to play my mp3s in linux so that i can limit my windows usage to just playing Tribes.
Off-topic: It seems like whenever i play Tribes, some loser tries to use netbus on my firewall (ie they try to access port 12345). It's happened about 4 times, and always from a different dial-up modem connection, and from various different parts of the US. Anyone else notice weird shit like this?
Is there any way just to take a standard multi-threaded program like, say, an oracle server, and run it on a cluster without recompiling the oracle stuff to use PVM or whatever other library?
lemme know...i'm quite interested, but not so informed (yet).
-Doviende
One of the big parts of free software is that no one has any more rights than anyone else. This method seems to restrict me from becoming a distributor myself, and giving away copies that don't have payment restrictions. I'd say this resembles proprietary software since even though i have some rights to copying, everything is still somewhat controlled by a central body.
Is it truly free if there can only be one group in control of it?
With your majestic, and superior cackling hen,
Your people i do not understand..
And to you i shall put an end.
then you'll...never hear...surf music again.
-Jimi Hendrix, Third Stone from the Sun
Also, my other machine is Slackware 3.6, and the scenario was the same....make xconfig, make dep, make zImage, reboot, and that's all the configuration it required.
Why the heck are all of these RedHat people having so much trouble? They can't run anything that isn't a binary in an rpm? maybe that's a little harsh, but I can't figure it out.
Doviende
Doviende
2.2.4 fixed it.
Doviende
Wow those guys are moving fast.. Does anyone know when 2.3.x will be started?
Doviende
Doviende
Have a filter that counts it as a first post if it contains the words first post or i rock!! or whatever. also, maybe limit it to one of the first 20 messages, so if any of the first 20 have the right phrases, they get counted as a first post. voila :)