1).. I thought you could imbed the mozilla rendering engin in Konq... oh that's right you can embed mozilla in anything.. that is what Nautelous (sp) does.. in GNOME... yes it still needs work, but hey the company went under...
Filesystem scan? uh ext3 does then automatically for me, besides windows 98 does this too.. and so does NT when it crashes or is shutdown improperly.. BDF...
3).. don't know... I don't print that much.. I can see if the driver does not exist..
4) as you said.. there is also linuxdoc and www.google.com where boat loads of info are on whatever you want.. I go to google to find out info on just about all my Linux needs.. and programming too;-).. this guy is not a windows users , he is a moron..
5) hmm cleaner redraws.. he's never seen my Win2k desktop.. that is all a part of the video subsystem and the drivers... and hardware.. it's not the *nix communities fault that he got a crapy video card... get an ATI or Nvedia.. mine works great...
6) not sure what he it talking about.. in windowmaker you click on the window title bar, right click and select kill.. how simple is that..
7) samba works real easy.. one it is setup.. setting it up is not that easy, but the rpms make it more easy.. and with kde I think there is some sort of GUI...
8) Sound ssupport is actually pretty good if you get supported hardware.. again not the *nix community fault that he got a bad card, blame the manufacture on that one..
9).. I use nedit and have no idea what he is talking about... you hit CR you get a CR.. simple as that...
10) XF86Setup is not shipped with most distros (at least not RH) and that is a shame.. as that would allow you to set up the system to use multiple resolutions.. I believe that there are ways of switching http://www.caldera.com/support/docs/openlinux/1.3/ english/xwindows.html
look at the bottom of the page.. if your distro can't do this it is not because it is specific to Caldera, itis cause you did not use XF86Setup to configure the desktop....
you may or may not know when one craps out. That all depends on the programmer and what they check for. In the case of tcp / ip if a programmer assumes that all is okay they can keep sending data to a connection that is failing. If they do not check for certain statuses then it could fail and you wont know it. Same is true I'm sure for udp.
The best method is really a send / reply setup in your code. You send data and the other side replys with I got it (or something). Like what is done in RFC 821 - SMTP.
I'm not sure what he's talking about. I installed RH 7.1 and it recognized all my hardware. I've since upgraded to RH 7.2 and recently 7.3 and no problems like he is talking about.
I too like the control, but I use grub and have not had to edit it since I installed in in RH 7.1.
I compiled my kernel a few times, but I really did not need to. I just like doing that.
Yes, Linux is not something I'd give to my mother, but I'd certainly not want her to use XP eitehr. Maybe Win 2k, but I'd really push a Mac on her.
X has yet to crash on me with RH 7.x. 6.2 yes, 7.x never.
Personally at this point I'd say what OS you 'choose' to use is a choice now. Linux used to require MUCH more tinkering, but now it is much less. I get home, I turn my computer on, I start up mozilla and connect to my ISP and download my mail and surf the web. The added bonus is that my ISP connection is shared and I have a firewall set up too. The connection to my isp is stable, since I started using wvdial I no longer get drops. I'm quite happy with Linux. When other people tell me all the problems they have with windows, I usually just look at them like, I don't know what you are talking about. GNOME makes a nice desktop and X is not any slower than windows IMHO.
Rather funny but impossible. You have 1 year from the time you come up with an idea to file for a patent. I.E. if you go public with a new patentable idea tomorrow, you have 1 year from tomorrow. While I'm sure everyone realizes that this is a joke, it would be like someone today trying to patent a GUI interface and claiming it to be original.
This is the toyota rav4 made into an EV (not a hybrid). http://rav4ev.toyota.com/consumer/rav4ev_0_home/ra v_home.htm
got to ford as they have a ranger (if you really want a ford.. yuck) as they have an electric ranger..
And then go to evworld.com and read about what else is available and coming.. there are several companies that seem to be moving electic and hybrid vehicles into their lines...
So then that would make it more like MS SourceSafe or PVCS, both of which handle source code control and configuration. I could not see what features it has as the connection was refused. Does it handle binary files????
Oh and don't take my comment about eros to heart, where I live we have a club called eros.. and it is for just that getting 'sore'....
Isn't "Microsoft security" an oxymoron like army intelligence?
"People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards."..... trusting it less..
The truth is, outside of the slashdot and SOME of the technical community, many computer users don't know enough NOT to trust the system. Its like all those people who trust their employers (think enron), car manufacturers (remember Fords / Firestones exploding tires), cable companies (monoploies in many cases), phone companies, electric companies (think PGE in CA) etc.. they don't know any better till they get screwed by one (or all) of these companies...
Since the poster talks about switching from OutLook to Mozilla, my impression is that they are probably still on windows. If this is the case then Evolutuion will not work for them.
My guess is that they are like the company I work at where we have to use windows as some of the software we use requires windows (for now) but we still want to move away from msmail / exchange and the calendering of outlook. Ldap does mail but does not solve the calendaring problem.
Do it yourself. There are some out there. I have seen several video projects out there that allow capture from like sony handy cams. Basically you'd need a firewire card ($50) and then a vode camera with firewire (about $500+) and a linux box (cheap 500Mhz+ lots of RAM for $500+). For a total of about $1050. You can then stream the mpegs, of jpegs...
Offer more assistance, and a 'client' based approach. Rather than just selling hardware like Walmart offer your expertise and help too. If someone goes to walmart do you really think the guy selling the computer know enough about them to give you good advise? Even if he does is he going to spend the time to really listen to your needs? Probably not, but if you ffer the same computer at a little more of a price but offer help in setup and updates and upgrades and understanding the needs of the buyer then maybe you can make teh sales. Also you can offer more customization then walmart will do.
"The "theory" part of evolution is not stated as heavily as it should be in public schools. The "fact" is mandated to students because no alternates are taught alongside."
True, so which creation stories do you teach? There are several stories. There are stories that the american indians have, as well as islam creation, buda creation, etc. What I'd like to see is an impartial teaching of all of these. Unfortunately there are many who think that the teaching of any other theories other than their own are evil. Yes these people do exist, just see Jerry Falwell and Fred Phelps.
"As you know, the English language is not as descriptive as Hebrew." Well actually it is not a matter of 'descriptive' as it is a matter of words just do not transulate. In india I am told, by friends who lived there, that their language has NO word for 'gay' or 'queer'. While there are gay people there they just don't have a word for it. The same is true about Hebrew, and yes I do have friends who are Jewish and read the bible in Hebrew. In fact the laptop I got from on of them had a Hebrew transulation program. More like a dictionary. I wish I kept that program.
I was taught the story of creationism and evolution, so I know both angles. My conclusion is that if God == Nature then they are both true. There is nothing in the bible that says that this cannot be true. NOTHING.
The problem that many are missing is that there are many people who are taught evolution is completely evil and they are ONLY taught creation and that it is a 6 day creation.
on the first "DAY" God seperated the light from the darkness and called the light "DAY" and the dark night. - two meanings for the word day. So is this the "light" day or the day day?
So what DAY was the earth created? Also what DAY was man created? So what is a DAY? Is it our 24 hour day? Probably not, but many who belive in pure creationism, think so. Extra Terristeral's would probably burst their bubbles.
Also if Adam and Eve were the first humans and we are all their decendants, wouldn't that mean that their children would have had to have sex with each other or their parents to propagate?
Read the story of Cain and Able if that has not been edited out of your bible. It says Cain took his wife and left. So where did his wife come from? Was it his sister?
Here is a good read -> http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/creati on/cstorymenu.html
There is a difference between not taking a class (opting out of evolution) and being in a class and having been forced to say the pledge that refers to god. What if the child is Hindu or Budist or believes in many gods, which god does this nation then fall under? What about athiest? For them it would fall under a none belief. What do they plug their ears too?
Evolution is just that a theory. So are black holes. Does this mean that a discussion of black holes and the possiblity that they are real is also a bad idea? Learnig about the theory of evolution is not evil, unles you consider having knowledge evil. Noone is telling you you must believe it.
The problem that you fail to realize is that the the bible that you read today in 'us english' has been transulated from Ancient Hebrew, to many other languages, like Latin and Greek and Roman, and interpreted, books have been dropped and added to it and then misinterpreted. There are many words that do not transulate or have been transulated with questionable transulations. Also before it was ever written down it was passed down by word of mouth for thousands of years. Do you think Abraham wrote about himself? Did Adam have a paper and pencil? Probably not. Ever play the telephone game? Things get misconstrued.
In the original text of Hebrew there are beliefs by people who spend their lives studing the bible that the words Nature and God are actually interchangable. Thus Nature is God and God is Nature. If this is true then evolution was both by God (as Nature) and creation was by Nature (as God) and BOTH Creation and Evolution are true! It does not matter which one then you believe becase they are the same.
The title is misleading.. I was thinking someone was going to talk about their ant farm.
On the note of this post, my favorite bug is something everyone who has programed in C has dealt with. The float and double. While this may not be considered a 'bug', when I first discovered that doubles and floats were so.. well unpredictable, I thought it was a bug. I know this has more to do with precession than a 'real bug' but to me I should be able to use a double on any platform and get the same results, but you don't always. On one machien I had precission of 2 decimal places and on another it was 6. It would be better if in the implementation it was 6 everywhere.
Compile and run this:
int main() {
do uble d, e;
d = 1234567890.1234567890;
e = d;
pr intf ("%f %f \n", d, e);
I have not played with Lindows, but have tinkered with wine. Do I think the Linux community will support Lindows? Probably yes and no. Linux has actually settled down and there are basically a few distribustions that people use. To name a few RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, debian, and Suse. Yes there are others. Having settled down so to speak, there is a project called wine, which has been going on for some time. Many Linux (and UNIX) users like myself realize the value in wine. Sine Lindows is based on wine there is support already there.
Now will I go out and buy a Lindows machine? Probably not, but if they say that they can run Word and Office and Powerpoint and serveral other programs like that then I may recommend it to a friend as an alternative to windows.
I found out that the problem was that after I chowned the file and ran open office as my user it created a 'dot file'. This dot file was why I could not do a net install. After removing the dot file aI deleted the install and then edited the install scipt to install in OpenOffice instead of OpenOffice.org1.0 (or whatever). Then I ran the script and then loged in as my user and ran the set up and then it worked. I really think that they should redo that setup program such that logged in as root you run the setup and it gives you the option in the GUI of net or none net. Then the first time that your run the program it creates the stuff in the home directory and all. Like most other programs do. This would be to confusing I think for new UNIX users.
When they outlaw in the US it will still be available abroad. Here we see an example of where the US has outlawed cloning, but they are doing it in Cuba. So you want to clone your child, I'm sure if you have the funds then you can go to cuba and have it done. (well maybe not now, but when it is possible and tested it will happen outside the US).
I'm the only user so I was not trying a multi user install, I just wanted it installed on a directory that was owned by root (/opt) at the time which is why I chaned the permissions. Nobody logs onto my machine but me.
I downloaded this a few days ago and last night I finally installed it. I tested it out on the few word docs and excel spreadsheets I have at home. It worked okay, but then I do not do that much with word and my word and excel docs do not test many features. I do more with email and html.
So far it starts up quicker than staroffice and there is no so desktop which is nice. It failed to recognize my jvm during the install, but I'm not that bothered by that just yet. I am using it on Linux and installed it as root, and ran into a problem with permissions it seems. I had to change ownership to (chown -R : ) to then run it as myself. It would start up and then crash right away until I did this. Or I could run it as root. Not sure why though, and now I dont care as it works. It does use lots of disk space but then so does MS office and SO 5.x. So far I am pleased with it, as it gives me yet another option to deaeling with MS docs and excel spread sheets... I give it a thumbs up;-)
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Filesystem scan? uh ext3 does then automatically for me, besides windows 98 does this too.. and so does NT when it crashes or is shutdown improperly.. BDF...
3) .. don't know... I don't print that much .. I can see if the driver does not exist..
4) as you said.. there is also linuxdoc and www.google.com where boat loads of info are on whatever you want.. I go to google to find out info on just about all my Linux needs.. and programming too ;-) .. this guy is not a windows users , he is a moron..
5) hmm cleaner redraws.. he's never seen my Win2k desktop.. that is all a part of the video subsystem and the drivers... and hardware.. it's not the *nix communities fault that he got a crapy video card... get an ATI or Nvedia.. mine works great ...
6) not sure what he it talking about.. in windowmaker you click on the window title bar, right click and select kill.. how simple is that..
7) samba works real easy .. one it is setup.. setting it up is not that easy, but the rpms make it more easy.. and with kde I think there is some sort of GUI...
8) Sound ssupport is actually pretty good if you get supported hardware.. again not the *nix community fault that he got a bad card, blame the manufacture on that one..
9).. I use nedit and have no idea what he is talking about... you hit CR you get a CR.. simple as that...
10) XF86Setup is not shipped with most distros (at least not RH) and that is a shame.. as that would allow you to set up the system to use multiple resolutions.. I believe that there are ways of switching http://www.caldera.com/support/docs/openlinux/1.3/ english/xwindows.html
look at the bottom of the page.. if your distro can't do this it is not because it is specific to Caldera, itis cause you did not use XF86Setup to configure the desktop....
The best method is really a send / reply setup in your code. You send data and the other side replys with I got it (or something). Like what is done in RFC 821 - SMTP.
I too like the control, but I use grub and have not had to edit it since I installed in in RH 7.1.
I compiled my kernel a few times, but I really did not need to. I just like doing that.
Yes, Linux is not something I'd give to my mother, but I'd certainly not want her to use XP eitehr. Maybe Win 2k, but I'd really push a Mac on her.
X has yet to crash on me with RH 7.x. 6.2 yes, 7.x never.
Personally at this point I'd say what OS you 'choose' to use is a choice now. Linux used to require MUCH more tinkering, but now it is much less. I get home, I turn my computer on, I start up mozilla and connect to my ISP and download my mail and surf the web. The added bonus is that my ISP connection is shared and I have a firewall set up too. The connection to my isp is stable, since I started using wvdial I no longer get drops. I'm quite happy with Linux. When other people tell me all the problems they have with windows, I usually just look at them like, I don't know what you are talking about. GNOME makes a nice desktop and X is not any slower than windows IMHO.
Rather funny but impossible. You have 1 year from the time you come up with an idea to file for a patent. I.E. if you go public with a new patentable idea tomorrow, you have 1 year from tomorrow. While I'm sure everyone realizes that this is a joke, it would be like someone today trying to patent a GUI interface and claiming it to be original.
got to ford as they have a ranger (if you really want a ford .. yuck) as they have an electric ranger..
And then go to evworld.com and read about what else is available and coming.. there are several companies that seem to be moving electic and hybrid vehicles into their lines ...
Oh and don't take my comment about eros to heart, where I live we have a club called eros.. and it is for just that getting 'sore'....
They already own stock in apple so step 3 is already under way.. passport is where they are collecting info about their users...
"People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards."..... trusting it less..
The truth is, outside of the slashdot and SOME of the technical community, many computer users don't know enough NOT to trust the system. Its like all those people who trust their employers (think enron), car manufacturers (remember Fords / Firestones exploding tires), cable companies (monoploies in many cases), phone companies, electric companies (think PGE in CA) etc.. they don't know any better till they get screwed by one (or all) of these companies...
On another note EROS spelled backward is SORE. Do you really want to use a sore OS?
I thought linuxconf was supposed to be the start of a 'generic' configuration management system. Supposedly it would work on other UNIXes as well.
Oh well guess just one more. I actually prefer using the very basic tools, like useradd/adduser and eiting the config files sometimes.
My guess is that they are like the company I work at where we have to use windows as some of the software we use requires windows (for now) but we still want to move away from msmail / exchange and the calendering of outlook. Ldap does mail but does not solve the calendaring problem.
For al the 80plus spam I get EACH day... spam that I do NOT opt in for that all says that I ahve opted in for the service...
Do it yourself. There are some out there. I have seen several video projects out there that allow capture from like sony handy cams. Basically you'd need a firewire card ($50) and then a vode camera with firewire (about $500+) and a linux box (cheap 500Mhz+ lots of RAM for $500+). For a total of about $1050. You can then stream the mpegs, of jpegs...
Offer more assistance, and a 'client' based approach. Rather than just selling hardware like Walmart offer your expertise and help too. If someone goes to walmart do you really think the guy selling the computer know enough about them to give you good advise? Even if he does is he going to spend the time to really listen to your needs? Probably not, but if you ffer the same computer at a little more of a price but offer help in setup and updates and upgrades and understanding the needs of the buyer then maybe you can make teh sales. Also you can offer more customization then walmart will do.
Yours and mine.
True, so which creation stories do you teach? There are several stories. There are stories that the american indians have, as well as islam creation, buda creation, etc. What I'd like to see is an impartial teaching of all of these. Unfortunately there are many who think that the teaching of any other theories other than their own are evil. Yes these people do exist, just see Jerry Falwell and Fred Phelps.
"As you know, the English language is not as descriptive as Hebrew." Well actually it is not a matter of 'descriptive' as it is a matter of words just do not transulate. In india I am told, by friends who lived there, that their language has NO word for 'gay' or 'queer'. While there are gay people there they just don't have a word for it. The same is true about Hebrew, and yes I do have friends who are Jewish and read the bible in Hebrew. In fact the laptop I got from on of them had a Hebrew transulation program. More like a dictionary. I wish I kept that program.
I was taught the story of creationism and evolution, so I know both angles. My conclusion is that if God == Nature then they are both true. There is nothing in the bible that says that this cannot be true. NOTHING.
The problem that many are missing is that there are many people who are taught evolution is completely evil and they are ONLY taught creation and that it is a 6 day creation.
on the first "DAY" God seperated the light from the darkness and called the light "DAY" and the dark night. - two meanings for the word day. So is this the "light" day or the day day?
So what DAY was the earth created? Also what DAY was man created? So what is a DAY? Is it our 24 hour day? Probably not, but many who belive in pure creationism, think so. Extra Terristeral's would probably burst their bubbles.
Also if Adam and Eve were the first humans and we are all their decendants, wouldn't that mean that their children would have had to have sex with each other or their parents to propagate?
Read the story of Cain and Able if that has not been edited out of your bible. It says Cain took his wife and left. So where did his wife come from? Was it his sister?
Here is a good read -> http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/creati on/cstorymenu.html
if one is mature enough to expand the mind..
Evolution is just that a theory. So are black holes. Does this mean that a discussion of black holes and the possiblity that they are real is also a bad idea? Learnig about the theory of evolution is not evil, unles you consider having knowledge evil. Noone is telling you you must believe it.
The problem that you fail to realize is that the the bible that you read today in 'us english' has been transulated from Ancient Hebrew, to many other languages, like Latin and Greek and Roman, and interpreted, books have been dropped and added to it and then misinterpreted. There are many words that do not transulate or have been transulated with questionable transulations. Also before it was ever written down it was passed down by word of mouth for thousands of years. Do you think Abraham wrote about himself? Did Adam have a paper and pencil? Probably not. Ever play the telephone game? Things get misconstrued.
In the original text of Hebrew there are beliefs by people who spend their lives studing the bible that the words Nature and God are actually interchangable. Thus Nature is God and God is Nature. If this is true then evolution was both by God (as Nature) and creation was by Nature (as God) and BOTH Creation and Evolution are true! It does not matter which one then you believe becase they are the same.
open your mind and realize the possibilities....
On the note of this post, my favorite bug is something everyone who has programed in C has dealt with. The float and double. While this may not be considered a 'bug', when I first discovered that doubles and floats were so .. well unpredictable, I thought it was a bug. I know this has more to do with precession than a 'real bug' but to me I should be able to use a double on any platform and get the same results, but you don't always. On one machien I had precission of 2 decimal places and on another it was 6. It would be better if in the implementation it was 6 everywhere.
Compile and run this:
what do you get? On what platform?
Now will I go out and buy a Lindows machine? Probably not, but if they say that they can run Word and Office and Powerpoint and serveral other programs like that then I may recommend it to a friend as an alternative to windows.
I found out that the problem was that after I chowned the file and ran open office as my user it created a 'dot file'. This dot file was why I could not do a net install. After removing the dot file aI deleted the install and then edited the install scipt to install in OpenOffice instead of OpenOffice.org1.0 (or whatever). Then I ran the script and then loged in as my user and ran the set up and then it worked. I really think that they should redo that setup program such that logged in as root you run the setup and it gives you the option in the GUI of net or none net. Then the first time that your run the program it creates the stuff in the home directory and all. Like most other programs do. This would be to confusing I think for new UNIX users.
When they outlaw in the US it will still be available abroad. Here we see an example of where the US has outlawed cloning, but they are doing it in Cuba. So you want to clone your child, I'm sure if you have the funds then you can go to cuba and have it done. (well maybe not now, but when it is possible and tested it will happen outside the US).
Actually I am talking about open office and it did not work for me. That method actually worked in startoffice 5.2 for me but not in open office 1.0
setup /net, setup -n /install -net , install /net none of them worked on so 1.0. I had to run setup and then chown like I initially stated..
I'm the only user so I was not trying a multi user install, I just wanted it installed on a directory that was owned by root (/opt) at the time which is why I chaned the permissions. Nobody logs onto my machine but me.
So far it starts up quicker than staroffice and there is no so desktop which is nice. It failed to recognize my jvm during the install, but I'm not that bothered by that just yet. I am using it on Linux and installed it as root, and ran into a problem with permissions it seems. I had to change ownership to (chown -R : ) to then run it as myself. It would start up and then crash right away until I did this. Or I could run it as root. Not sure why though, and now I dont care as it works. It does use lots of disk space but then so does MS office and SO 5.x. So far I am pleased with it, as it gives me yet another option to deaeling with MS docs and excel spread sheets... I give it a thumbs up ;-)
.. sell your email address to the asians so that they can spam you to death...