SuSE is easy to install, on the same level as Mandrake I would say - a few clicks with the mouse, the DVD goes whrr-whrr-whrr for a little while and it is installed and ready to use.
ONLY IF the intermediate to expert user wants to tinker, can he start the package manager and start tinkering. The whole point is that it is still outrageously easy for the novice, but that SuSE have made the package manager much more powerful for the more experienced user who has some tinkering wish.
Actually on my old days I have started to always select "everything", I have a 60GB disk and a few gigs of/usr and/opt is really nothing. This way I never have to install anything again, just remove a few unneeded daemons after install. I once installed another distro which came on one CD and had an "extras" CD and while it was easy to install I had to spend two weeks downloading all kinds of things I needed afterwards and discovered was lacking as I started using my new system.
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Just bought one of these ingenious gadgets for my T39: http://www.wanna-save.dk/specialtilbud/defau lt.asp ?VareID=355 Price: About $50. I plan on buying a P800 ASAP (MP3 or not - it ROCKS) and sent SONY-Ericsson a letter asking about MP3 support, they answered:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for contacting Sony Ericsson,
With regard to your enquiry, the P800 does not have a built in MP3 player.
Details of compatibility with accessories are not currently available.
For further available information regarding this product you should log onto our website www.sonyericsson.com
Should you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us.
-----Original Message----- Sent: 23 April 2002 18:49 To: questions.gb@support.sonyericsson.com Subject: Contact form CWS
Product: MP3 Handsfree HPM-10
Opinion: Buying a HPM-10 I wonder: Will it work with the P800 or will the P800 have a more practical builtin MP3 capabilities and a flashmemory expansion slot of sorts? (yes, I can actually imagine listening to music during a boring meeting).
Hmm, being from Europe I have noticed that quite often the VERY attractive girl(s) in the Standard American Low Cost Soap or Cheap Movie is a Marine Biologist.
From this I deduce that a rather large percentage of the US (and I see a growing tendency in Australia as well) Marine Biologists are incredible beautiful model type young girls, although often with with larger key features (aehmn). They also quite often are very naive and have affairs with men who Only Are Up To No Good.
Even girls in their late teens (with mid-twenties female features) can be fully professional Marine Biologists over there if they are beautiful enough (and aren't already scientists, a profession with also have many beautiful women or works for a advertisement agency).
So I want to quit my SW development job and go to the US working as a Marine Biologist, Scientist or Advertisement Something That Doesn't Require Any Education because of all the incredibly beautiful and naive or at least flimsy girls working in these jobs.
Only downside is ofcourse that they seem to be unable to maintain a long term relationship (say between a week and a few months on the max), but one should not smell only one flower anyway...
People have started to often ask that question and while I agree that for many purposes this kind of power is not needed, I also see many purposes where it is a blessing with some extra "muscles".
I often compile large C/C++ or Java projects (also non-job related) and when compiling a project takes 10+ minutes, a faster CPU or a new disk is a blessing:-)
I am sure people could come up with many other use-cases for fast machines.
For people not needing to live on the edge, a cheap Duron is really not that bad when talking price/performance.
The reason we get faster CPU's is competition. When Intel were alone on the market, prices were high and technology progress were slower.
For me this region-encoding-stuff is a very big issue, because DVD's are sort of a hobby for me. I like many slightly older movies and live in region 2, where very few movies are released that are not the latest and greatest "Leornardo DiPaprica" movie for the masses. So several of my DVD's are region 1, because they simply do not exist in region 2.
Exactly.
I like many slightly older movies and live in region 2, where very few movies are released that are not the latest and greatest "Leornardo DiPaprica" movie for the masses.
So several of my DVD's are region 1, because they simply do not exist in region 2.
Having said that; I do have a DVD player that changes region manually. So I feel in no danger, so far.
Yes it looks nice, but also difficult to overlook.
There are 2-3 different sets of GUI widgets - making it extremely inconsistent. Every time you open a new dialog you can expect it to look different in a confusing, but good-looking way.
I would call it "perceived userfriendly".
Maybe it's just me:-)
There have been plenty of problems with Intel CPU's and chipsets over the last 1-2 years. Less with AMD. But nonetheless, having that "good ole' Intel(TM) feeling" many don't believe in this. People "remembering like elephants" in an industry so rapidly changing that only immidiate evaluation is valid. One can be good one generation and poor with the next.
Intel's number of errata have been accelerating recently, but then again AMD's number of errata was quite low the last time I looked at Athlon "Classic" - and if that still holds we are not suffering lower quality (at least from AMD), but only lower prices. As for those who say we don't need faster processors, I can only say: *Speak for yourself*. I sure can and I am not even a gamer. Faster RAM (etc) is also good, ofcourse.
Well, nothing major will change in an instant. But improvements are creeping up on us in a steady pace, day by day. [I am level 26 and have a 4 point blizzard (3 point added by magic staff). Mephisto were a piece of cake]
You are absolutely right, I seem to remember such comment from him as well. Anyway, ReiserFS is not part of the kernel now and still at least two distributions ship with Reiser-enabled kernels. That's the beauty of distributions, no sweat really. Linus controls the core-kernel, that's it. Many distrib kernels seem to have added a huge amount of patches not in the core-kernel.
When I started at the university we had 21 inch B&W (grayscale) monitors. It were sufficient for browsing with Netscape 1.0 and Mosaic, reading mail and get a lot of real work done. Why would anyone want colour monitors? Our B&W's were excellent quality. The point being,- never restrict oneself because of the inability to see the usage. Somebody WILL eventually usually find good use to things that we didn't think of, so let's encourage things (such as transparency) instead of questioning the relevance of it. I know you weren't exactly DIScouraging, only asking, but a lot of posts on this site ask the same question.
I have a simple question, that maybe you or someone else can answer: My GUI under Linux is very slow compared to Windows. And I am NOT talking 3D here, but the day-to-day 2D used in GUI apps and windowmanagers in general. Full drag is sloow, application redraws are painful in comparison to Windows, etc, etc.
Everytime someone here asks for direct access to HW they are either told that this is available for 3D in XFree86 4.0 (I don't care about 3D) or that it has been available for 2D/3D in Xfree86 for ages and claims the questioner to be a troll.
So I will not ask for direct access, but the more general question: Why are my X so slow in general? Because the fact remains, X/Xfree86 is slower by the feel that any other GUI out there and I was hoping that XFree86 had the architectural changes required for improvement, whatever they might be.
A supercomputer is not the same thing as an enterprise server, far from it, and as such a supercomputer can have very different requirements - often directly related to the precise task it is made for and the architectural decisions taken when designing/building the supercomputer.
An example: You mention journaled filesystems. A supercomputer doesn't neccesarily need large capacity storage or quick failure recovery. It may just need a small fast storage instead, or maybe none at all.
"enterprise businesses would not want to apply 21 individual fixes"
The usual "manager vs. IT dude" problem, I suppose:
The average enterprise manager could probably easily be persuaded to order their IT guys not use Linux for that reason. They always scare easily for things that are not their area of competence.
If the IT guy take the OS decision himself, it probably doesn't matter whether it is one fix or many. If he already selected Linux, then he probably also like the power and control it gives him.
In every Slashdot thread about related issues, I see a lot of people immidiately taking their distance from IDE's, with the appearant opinion that poor programmers use IDE's and good programmers use CLI. That is not true.
This is simply not relevant. I have seen very poor developers use vi/emacs and very good/talented developers use Microsoft Developer Studio. It is a matter of individual taste what environment people prefer to use.
I prefer the best of both worlds; I usually start projects with an IDE (like KDevelop) that sets up the GUI framework quickly and easily, then does the source editing with xemacs.
Please, boys and girls, put yourself above that. There's no point.
Mayby there are other advantages to mp3. E.g. I have terrible dicipline, and cannot help scratching my CD's. Having all my music on a HD enables me to protect my music from myself.
I want a useful PDA, but I am also a geek. I like the Palm because it is useful and a wonderful toy as well.
Practical is important, therefore I don't buy slow bloated WinCE devices but have a small quick Palm, but funky is good, therefore I wish for colours, with lithium ion accu's that are recharged whenever the Palm is put in the cradle that should have little impact.
I want both KDE and GNOME apps on my desktop, colours on my palm, a lightsabre in my hand, a portable mp3 player in my pocket and one on my stereo as well.
So, I have a PalmIII and will not buy the next palm before I get a Palm V equivalent with colours. Colours does not neccesarily make impractical or bloat.
A shame they are not porting WordPro, it is the best wordprocessor I have ever used. I love the way almost everything from text formatting to style sheet usage/configuration is available in a right click menu popup box. Almost all functionality are very easy to reach with few clicks/keys. Also font, etc selections does not take up so much space as in e.g. Word.
In contrast is Microsof~1 Word where one have to go through many menu/dialog levels just to reach simple things.
Yes I never quite understood how so many Danish companies jumped on the NT wagon, even when their existing technology were ok, thus just causing pains and money.
Many even announce "prestige projects" (e.g. the Danish Technical University), dependent upon Win2000. A completely unfinished, not to mention unproven OS, that should not be used for anything important till' it has been proven for a few years at least (if ever, following the NT4 example).
Is it that important to be trendy? Is it due to lack of education in the IT business? Is the lack of tech people causing a degration in quality of the average IT person in charge of business decisions?
Maybe also company CEO's, etc. interfering with the IT department business, under the influence of Micros~1 hype. Buy them a good dinner and you can trick them into anything. - Denmark is a small country, only a few dinners are needed.
Agreed, it conains a programmable microprocessor, memory, IO circuits, etc. It is a perfectly good computer. Just like a PC, a RISC workstation or even a cable modem board.
Anyway, China steeling secrets (business or millitary) are not exactly a good thing, but the US spys on about anything and everything they can get their hands on as well, so there are no "good guys" in these games. Just the lucky ones and the not so lucky ones.
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SuSE is easy to install, on the same level as Mandrake I would say - a few clicks with the mouse, the DVD goes whrr-whrr-whrr for a little while and it is installed and ready to use.
/usr and /opt is really nothing. This way I never have to install anything again, just remove a few unneeded daemons after install.
ONLY IF the intermediate to expert user wants to tinker, can he start the package manager and start tinkering. The whole point is that it is still outrageously easy for the novice, but that SuSE have made the package manager much more powerful for the more experienced user who has some tinkering wish.
Actually on my old days I have started to always select "everything", I have a 60GB disk and a few gigs of
I once installed another distro which came on one CD and had an "extras" CD and while it was easy to install I had to spend two weeks downloading all kinds of things I needed afterwards and discovered was lacking as I started using my new system.
Just bought one of these ingenious gadgets for my T39:u lt.asp ?VareID=355
http://www.wanna-save.dk/specialtilbud/defa
Price: About $50.
I plan on buying a P800 ASAP (MP3 or not - it ROCKS) and sent SONY-Ericsson a letter asking about MP3 support, they answered:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for contacting Sony Ericsson,
With regard to your enquiry, the P800 does not have a built in MP3 player.
Details of compatibility with accessories are not currently available.
For further available information regarding this product you should log onto
our website www.sonyericsson.com
Should you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Kind regards
Mike Rowlands
SonyEricsson Customer Support
Telephone: 08705 237 237
Fax: 0845 300 2439
Email: questions.gb@sonyericssonmobile.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: 23 April 2002 18:49
To: questions.gb@support.sonyericsson.com
Subject: Contact form CWS
Product: MP3 Handsfree HPM-10
Opinion: Buying a HPM-10 I wonder: Will it work with the P800 or will the
P800 have a more practical builtin MP3 capabilities and a flashmemory
expansion slot of sorts? (yes, I can actually imagine listening to music
during a boring meeting).
Thanks
Best regards.
Hmm, being from Europe I have noticed that quite often the VERY attractive girl(s) in the Standard American Low Cost Soap or Cheap Movie is a Marine Biologist.
From this I deduce that a rather large percentage of the US (and I see a growing tendency in Australia as well) Marine Biologists are incredible beautiful model type young girls, although often with with larger key features (aehmn). They also quite often are very naive and have affairs with men who Only Are Up To No Good.
Even girls in their late teens (with mid-twenties female features) can be fully professional Marine Biologists over there if they are beautiful enough (and aren't already scientists, a profession with also have many beautiful women or works for a advertisement agency).
So I want to quit my SW development job and go to the US working as a Marine Biologist, Scientist or Advertisement Something That Doesn't Require Any Education because of all the incredibly beautiful and naive or at least flimsy girls working in these jobs.
Only downside is ofcourse that they seem to be unable to maintain a long term relationship (say between a week and a few months on the max), but one should not smell only one flower anyway...
So even if the users would see no war, the companies still would all by themselves.
People have started to often ask that question and while I agree that for many purposes this kind of power is not needed, I also see many purposes where it is a blessing with some extra "muscles". :-)
I often compile large C/C++ or Java projects (also non-job related) and when compiling a project takes 10+ minutes, a faster CPU or a new disk is a blessing
I am sure people could come up with many other use-cases for fast machines.
For people not needing to live on the edge, a cheap Duron is really not that bad when talking price/performance.
The reason we get faster CPU's is competition. When Intel were alone on the market, prices were high and technology progress were slower.
Intel have had a really bad time lately, errata-wise, while AMD have done really well with their Athlons.
Ofcourse there are mobo's, RAM, etc. but with those you have to make wise choices and can be unfortunate, with either brand of CPU.
In the CPU business you can have one poor generation, while the next one turn out really good - or the other way around.
For me this region-encoding-stuff is a very big issue, because DVD's are sort of a hobby for me.
I like many slightly older movies and live in region 2, where very few movies are released that are not the latest and greatest "Leornardo DiPaprica" movie for the masses. So several of my DVD's are region 1, because they simply do not exist in region 2.
Having said that; I do have a DVD player that changes region manually. So I feel in no danger, so far.
Yes it looks nice, but also difficult to overlook. There are 2-3 different sets of GUI widgets - making it extremely inconsistent. Every time you open a new dialog you can expect it to look different in a confusing, but good-looking way. I would call it "perceived userfriendly". Maybe it's just me :-)
Adolescent trolls, be gone. This is just preposterous.
There have been plenty of problems with Intel CPU's and chipsets over the last 1-2 years. Less with AMD. But nonetheless, having that "good ole' Intel(TM) feeling" many don't believe in this. People "remembering like elephants" in an industry so rapidly changing that only immidiate evaluation is valid. One can be good one generation and poor with the next.
Intel's number of errata have been accelerating recently, but then again AMD's number of errata was quite low the last time I looked at Athlon "Classic" - and if that still holds we are not suffering lower quality (at least from AMD), but only lower prices. As for those who say we don't need faster processors, I can only say: *Speak for yourself*. I sure can and I am not even a gamer. Faster RAM (etc) is also good, ofcourse.
Well, nothing major will change in an instant. But improvements are creeping up on us in a steady pace, day by day. [I am level 26 and have a 4 point blizzard (3 point added by magic staff). Mephisto were a piece of cake]
You are absolutely right, I seem to remember such comment from him as well. Anyway, ReiserFS is not part of the kernel now and still at least two distributions ship with Reiser-enabled kernels. That's the beauty of distributions, no sweat really. Linus controls the core-kernel, that's it. Many distrib kernels seem to have added a huge amount of patches not in the core-kernel.
When I started at the university we had 21 inch B&W (grayscale) monitors. It were sufficient for browsing with Netscape 1.0 and Mosaic, reading mail and get a lot of real work done. Why would anyone want colour monitors? Our B&W's were excellent quality. The point being,- never restrict oneself because of the inability to see the usage. Somebody WILL eventually usually find good use to things that we didn't think of, so let's encourage things (such as transparency) instead of questioning the relevance of it. I know you weren't exactly DIScouraging, only asking, but a lot of posts on this site ask the same question.
Why don't someone give a complete review of the latest snapshot. From a users point of view that is.
* Font appearance, (do they look better, worse, the same)
* 2D performance (ie full drag of 2D windows, etc.)
* 3D performance (gaming?)
* Whatever
I can read lists of brilliant features, but what is the actual real world gain? What can I see, feel and measure on my workstation in my daily usage?
Just a thought.
I have a simple question, that maybe you or someone else can answer: My GUI under Linux is very slow compared to Windows. And I am NOT talking 3D here, but the day-to-day 2D used in GUI apps and windowmanagers in general. Full drag is sloow, application redraws are painful in comparison to Windows, etc, etc.
Everytime someone here asks for direct access to HW they are either told that this is available for 3D in XFree86 4.0 (I don't care about 3D) or that it has been available for 2D/3D in Xfree86 for ages and claims the questioner to be a troll.
So I will not ask for direct access, but the more general question: Why are my X so slow in general?
Because the fact remains, X/Xfree86 is slower by the feel that any other GUI out there and I was hoping that XFree86 had the architectural changes required for improvement, whatever they might be.
Thanks.
A supercomputer is not the same thing as an enterprise server, far from it, and as such a
supercomputer can have very different requirements - often directly related to the precise task it is made for and the architectural decisions taken when designing/building the supercomputer.
An example: You mention journaled filesystems. A supercomputer doesn't neccesarily need large capacity storage or quick failure recovery. It may just need a small fast storage instead, or maybe none at all.
Many supercomputers today are built using Linux.
"enterprise businesses would not want to apply 21 individual fixes"
The usual "manager vs. IT dude" problem, I suppose:
The average enterprise manager could probably easily be persuaded to order their IT guys not use Linux for that reason. They always scare easily for things that are not their area of competence.
If the IT guy take the OS decision himself, it probably doesn't matter whether it is one fix or many. If he already selected Linux, then he probably also like the power and control it gives him.
Aloha
;-)
In every Slashdot thread about related issues, I see a lot of people immidiately taking their distance from IDE's, with the appearant opinion that poor programmers use IDE's and good programmers use CLI. That is not true.
This is simply not relevant. I have seen very poor developers use vi/emacs and very good/talented developers use Microsoft Developer Studio.
It is a matter of individual taste what environment people prefer to use.
I prefer the best of both worlds; I usually start projects with an IDE (like KDevelop) that sets up the GUI framework quickly and easily, then does the source editing with xemacs.
Please, boys and girls, put yourself above that. There's no point.
No, the real enemy are Visual Basic
Mayby there are other advantages to mp3. E.g. I have terrible dicipline, and cannot help scratching my CD's. Having all my music on a HD enables me to protect my music from myself.
:-)
The size of an mp3man is also a good argument.
As for players, I like Freeamp
I want a useful PDA, but I am also a geek. I like the Palm because it is useful and a wonderful toy as well.
Practical is important, therefore I don't buy slow bloated WinCE devices but have a small quick Palm, but funky is good, therefore I wish for colours, with lithium ion accu's that are recharged whenever the Palm is put in the cradle that should have little impact.
I want both KDE and GNOME apps on my desktop, colours on my palm, a lightsabre in my hand, a portable mp3 player in my pocket and one on my stereo as well.
So, I have a PalmIII and will not buy the next palm before I get a Palm V equivalent with colours. Colours does not neccesarily make impractical or bloat.
A shame they are not porting WordPro, it is the best wordprocessor I have ever used. I love the way almost everything from text formatting to style sheet usage/configuration is available in a right click menu popup box. Almost all functionality are very easy to reach with few clicks/keys. Also font, etc selections does not take up so much space as in e.g. Word.
In contrast is Microsof~1 Word where one have to go through many menu/dialog levels just to reach simple things.
Yes I never quite understood how so many Danish companies jumped on the NT wagon, even when their existing technology were ok, thus just causing pains and money.
Many even announce "prestige projects" (e.g. the Danish Technical University), dependent upon Win2000. A completely unfinished, not to mention unproven OS, that should not be used for anything important till' it has been proven for a few years at least (if ever, following the NT4 example).
Is it that important to be trendy? Is it due to lack of education in the IT business? Is the lack of tech people causing a degration in quality of the average IT person in charge of business decisions?
Maybe also company CEO's, etc. interfering with the IT department business, under the influence of Micros~1 hype. Buy them a good dinner and you can trick them into anything.
- Denmark is a small country, only a few dinners are needed.
Agreed, it conains a programmable microprocessor, memory, IO circuits, etc. It is a perfectly good computer. Just like a PC, a RISC workstation or even a cable modem board.
Anyway, China steeling secrets (business or millitary) are not exactly a good thing, but the US spys on about anything and everything they can get their hands on as well, so there are no "good guys" in these games. Just the lucky ones and the not so lucky ones.