That's why people who choose to use a bike to ride to the store typically only buy enough food for the next day or two.
No. People who choose to use a bike, like me, can carry enough food for weeks on our bike trailers. However, we choose to go every couple of days because that's about how long ripe fresh food lasts. If I wanted to just eat from a box or a can or the freezer (ew) I suppose I could buy more.
My son loves comics and is just starting to read. Unfortunately I've found little in the way of nonviolent, easy to read, not too cutesy, but fun comics. Recommendations?
When I installed Mandrake 8.2 I couldn't find the "Install Everything" button like there is on the RedHat installer. Yes, the extra disk space taken up is worth less than my time going back and installing the extra packages that didn't get installed the first time.
I do it with Dell's 8200, which is similar. No problem. Playing movies takes little power.
I would not, however, recommend repeatly compiling a kernel with the thing on your lap. There is an amazing difference in the amount of power it pulls and the heat it generates when it needs too. I like that. When it sits on my desktop, I use it for encoding movies, compiling code, 3D games (LAN parties!), etc. Usually on an airplane I'm just typing into an editor or watching a movie.
The monitor is the only part of my notebook that I look at. That's why I got a Dell w/ 1600x1200. It's easy on the eyes. I find it amazing that Apple sells those gigantic display laptops w/ such crappy resolution.
I'll never understand people who buy things for looks rather than function, especially when that thing is a computer.
I was pretty amazed when I tried Knoppix. I popped the CD into my relatively new laptop, and everything just came up. The graphics, the sound, the networking (DHCP), it was great!
Give CDs to your friends who have never tried Linux. It's a kick in the pants.
http://www.festvox.org/ I tried the Edinburgh version a few years back. It sounds computerish, but understandable. I used lynx to dump web pages to it. I had it set it up to read articles from the Christian Science Monitor's web site to me while I washed dishes. That fell by the wayside after my son was born...
only 4 government employees whose job description includes looking for asteroids to hit earth; most of the people doing this are amateur astronomers. They won't keep it quiet.
I hate to tell you this, but it's the government guys with the large automated telescopes and racks of computers that find most of the asteroids, like NASA
I don't know what this writer is complaining about. Software RAID on linux is REALLY easily implementable from the FAQ. And secondly, the RAID mailing list (easily searchable) is filled with answers to all sorts of problems. And thirdly, Neil Brown, who wrote much of the kernel RAID software, is on the list and has always been very helpful. Three cheers for Neil!
The original story sounds like someone who is trying to sell his book.
like the site I use to send payments to my credit card.
Time to change credit card companies.
Wouldn't it be weird that MS would break Opera, but not Mozilla, Netscape, or other browsers?
No.
MS's site is a marketing tool.... Breaking their site means potentially shoo'ing off customers. I seriously doubt any PHB would want to do that.
And what company would give away a major piece of software (like IE) for free? That would mean a loss of money from customers. No PHB would do that... Unless their goal is world domination and crushing every other browser on the market.
Every piece of spam has a web site or email address (not the "From" address) to which a luser is supposed to respond. Create a script which hammers on this web site repeatedly. The people hosting the spammers should cut them off.
I'm pretty sure that NFS, despite the large number of changes in recent versions, is still outperformed by AFS.
Not unless AFS transfers data faster than the network can. I get about 90 Mbits per second through my 100 Mbit network with linux NFS. On to gigabit I guess.
Ok, it comes across as flamebait, but I too am sick of going to web sites with movies that I can't watch because apple is too lazy to type "make" on a linux box.
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Has anyone seen the Linux version yet? And no, I don't mean the download-the-binary-and-use-the-Windows-disk version. I mean the actual Linux version.
It loads fasts, never leaves RAM, and stops in a blink, and keyboard short-cuts are easy to implement. Anything else is bloat.
Anything you can do I can do faster.
That's why people who choose to use a bike to ride to the store typically only buy enough food for the next day or two.
No. People who choose to use a bike, like me, can carry enough food for weeks on our bike trailers. However, we choose to go every couple of days because that's about how long ripe fresh food lasts. If I wanted to just eat from a box or a can or the freezer (ew) I suppose I could buy more.
Can someone mod the parent to 20 please? :)
It even works on slashdot!
The difference that people are really excited about, but aren't discussing, is the number that comes after the "$" sign.
My son loves comics and is just starting to read. Unfortunately I've found little in the way of nonviolent, easy to read, not too cutesy, but fun comics. Recommendations?
When I installed Mandrake 8.2 I couldn't find the "Install Everything" button like there is on the RedHat installer. Yes, the extra disk space taken up is worth less than my time going back and installing the extra packages that didn't get installed the first time.
Is there an "Install Everything" button in 9.1?
You can also get Knoppix, Debian, and Slackware too. I just searched.
Redhat 8, Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 are available on giFT. I know, because I put them there.
I do it with Dell's 8200, which is similar. No problem. Playing movies takes little power.
I would not, however, recommend repeatly compiling a kernel with the thing on your lap. There is an amazing difference in the amount of power it pulls and the heat it generates when it needs too. I like that. When it sits on my desktop, I use it for encoding movies, compiling code, 3D games (LAN parties!), etc. Usually on an airplane I'm just typing into an editor or watching a movie.
Switch to Linux
My machine is solid w/ NVIDIA drivers.
The monitor is the only part of my notebook that I look at. That's why I got a Dell w/ 1600x1200. It's easy on the eyes. I find it amazing that Apple sells those gigantic display laptops w/ such crappy resolution.
I'll never understand people who buy things for looks rather than function, especially when that thing is a computer.
I was pretty amazed when I tried Knoppix. I popped the CD into my relatively new laptop, and everything just came up. The graphics, the sound, the networking (DHCP), it was great!
Give CDs to your friends who have never tried Linux. It's a kick in the pants.
The Tape stuff is not terribly robust. IRIX seems to handle our DLT tape drive errors better than linux does.
What about my DEC VT240?
http://www.festvox.org/
I tried the Edinburgh version a few years back. It sounds computerish, but understandable. I used lynx to dump web pages to it. I had it set it up to read articles from the Christian Science Monitor's web site to me while I washed dishes. That fell by the wayside after my son was born...
only 4 government employees whose job description includes looking for asteroids to hit earth; most of the people doing this are amateur astronomers. They won't keep it quiet.
I hate to tell you this, but it's the government guys with the large automated telescopes and racks of computers that find most of the asteroids, like NASA
I don't know what this writer is complaining about. Software RAID on linux is REALLY easily implementable from the FAQ. And secondly, the RAID mailing list (easily searchable) is filled with answers to all sorts of problems. And thirdly, Neil Brown, who wrote much of the kernel RAID software, is on the list and has always been very helpful. Three cheers for Neil!
The original story sounds like someone who is trying to sell his book.
I get >160 Megabytes per second off my software striped drives, which is far faster than I've ever gotten off any hardware RAID.
And I've found the RAID 5 overhead is nominal, and very reliable.
like the site I use to send payments to my credit card.
... Breaking their site means potentially shoo'ing off customers. I seriously doubt any PHB would want to do that.
Time to change credit card companies.
Wouldn't it be weird that MS would break Opera, but not Mozilla, Netscape, or other browsers?
No.
MS's site is a marketing tool.
And what company would give away a major piece of software (like IE) for free? That would mean a loss of money from customers. No PHB would do that... Unless their goal is world domination and crushing every other browser on the market.
Grab those media execs addresses and phone numbers, head on down to your local clerk of court and start filling out those forms!
Every piece of spam has a web site or email address (not the "From" address) to which a luser is supposed to respond. Create a script which hammers on this web site repeatedly. The people hosting the spammers should cut them off.
Not to sound like a troll, but IBM seems good at producing reference designs, but not at actually moving out lower end commercial products like this.
I'm pretty sure that NFS, despite the large number of changes in recent versions, is still outperformed by AFS.
Not unless AFS transfers data faster than the network can. I get about 90 Mbits per second through my 100 Mbit network with linux NFS. On to gigabit I guess.
Ok, it comes across as flamebait, but I too am sick of going to web sites with movies that I can't watch because apple is too lazy to type "make" on a linux box.