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While SuSE has done a great job of the 'bit' distributions, they've been terrible (at least in Canada and I'm guessing US) at the 'atom' (physical mass - books/CDs/colorful boxes) distributions. Go to any Chapters bookstore, Future Shop (only if you must) or any vendor and try to find a SuSE box! Nothing. Lots of Red Hat, some Mandrake, and more Corel (no comment). If anybody I talked to in the last six months has heard about Linux they will start talking about Red Hat -- they've never heard of SuSE. And after a year of using 6.0 myself I still don't know the correct pronunciation for it!
Re:When it is finally out can I just download an I
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SuSE 6.4 Announced
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I bought the SuSE 6.0 box last year and have been a happy user since. YaST setup / updates via FTP have kept me with SuSE. On Tuesday of this week I took the plunge into 6.3, but instead of trying the upgrade path I went for the whole biscuit and installed on a new partition. You can get 6.3 from download.sourceforge.net (try/pub/suse/suse/i386/6.3/suse), although I don't recall if it's just the eval version. After making a boot disk and a modules disk (I needed the old DEC Tulip module) I rebooted with the floppy and installed via FTP onto my machine. Total time to install the default setup, configure X (using SaX), and get and/net install Star Office (from sun.com) was under two hours on a cable modem. This weekend I'll be wiping out a buddy's Win box to do the same to his.
The revolution will not be televised, it wil be slashdotted.
Like most Linux users I plunked a Linux partition on an old box (clunky'486) after upgrading a few years ago (geesh, that was back in '96...). It was merely an experiment I would pick up every now and again, but only as at the command line - never loaded up any Xfree servers. Whenever I got a new box (Windows always pre-installed) I'd throw whatever distro I had handy onto the HDD and tinker yet again. It wasn't until Spring '99 that I got the bug again (wanted to see what that old overclocked 166 could really do) I went shopping for new distibutions. I finally settled on SuSE 6.0 and after a month of runnig a dual-boot system I found that it had become my everday desktop.Time to upgrade to a new PIII. Everthing went fine until I tried to get the rest of the family to switch. Here's a few of the things keeping them stuck to the MS desktop.
A nasty addiction to media-intesive plug-ins.
My niece wants to paint Barney things on the PBS website, which uses Macromedia Director and not currently available for the Linux platform.
Quicktime for sites like AdCritic which won't let you download the.mov files.
Peripheral support. I know that this is mostly a hardware vendor issue, but I've got stuff I can only use in Win9x. A few vendors and a lot of helpful Linux developers are making sure that new hardware will run under linux, but legacy product will be forgotten. (1998/99 goods should not be relegated to the legacy folder)
USB Quick cam (anything USB for that matter)
Nikon digital camera
Nokia cell phone (requires virtual drivers only avialable for Win9x). I had to dump a very happy SuSE off my Toshiba notebook to get wireless connectivity.
My nerdy Timex DataLink watch.
Games. Big-time issue again, for the family and me.
Flight sims for me
educational software for the kids.
I'm faithful in the prospect of seeing more games for next Xmas, but it's difficult to tell people that things will be better soon. I've been hearing that for a while now and yes it is happening but slowly (especially measured in Internet years). People will be very slow to convert when you tell them that gadget 'X' which they just got last Xmas won't be supported in the current kernel.
When in Ireland you can tell where a Guinness drinker is from using the ring method. (Counting the number of foam rings left inside the glass after each sip)
7 - 10 rings = pretty much any local pub regular
20+ rings = an American tourist
less than 3 rings = most Canadians and all Australians
I've been wrestling with this problem for a few years and here's some of the things i've learned:
Long distance calls from a hotel are extremely expensive. Avoid usung LD to connect from a hotel at all costs. Buy lots of prepaid phone cards if you have to use LD to connect.
Be very careful where you plug your PCMCIA modem!!! If you huck your little rj-11 into a digital phone outlet you will fry the teeny-weent relay. IBM makes a little rig that you plug into a phone jack to check what kind of line it is. Another poster said to get an external modem - that's always a good thing to have as they're a lot harder to kill.
If ya go with AOL it will leave a greasy stain on your soul. Just try to het them to leave you alone after you drop 'em. Ha!
Any tmie I can get to a www terminal I check my mail with one of those free accounts through yahoo or that microsoft one. They'll allow you to get your POP3 mail as well.
web mail is OK, but you don't want to connect to it using a cell phone/modem. I only use it to get send/recieve POP3 mail. I've got a Nokia 6190 with a data cable and it's great for connecting on the road. One major drawback - the Nokia uses a proprietary protocol (virtual modem) that will only function under windows. That is the only reason I keep a 300MB win98 partition on my notebook.
I suppose s'more horsepower in my PDA would be nice, but on thing I've noticed since using a Palm device since the Palm Pilot 5000 first came out is it's lack of real estate. The longer I used the unit, the more stuff I wanted to cram into it. A Gigabyte-Plus Palm is the killer app.
OK so maybe some level of wireless connectivity would be necessary, and higher-resolution displays. But these are not Crusoe-solvable issues.
So how about a large-format Palm OS-like device? 8-1/2 x 11 x 3/8 and either folding or flexible,terabyte storage, nice hi-res/contrast color display, hi speed wireless (RF or Ir) networking, voice communications, and a calculator too!
I'm pretty sure this post will be buried under the multitude of others but I gotta ask... Is an encypted movie a movie, or a collection of zeroes and ones?It's not really a movie until you play it IMHO.
If you purchase a DVD (ownership can have several connotations here), are you obligated to view it only as the manufacturer and distributor intended? Never having purchased or rented a movie on DVD myself - did anybody who bought/rented a DVD movie engage in a contract to use only approved equipment to view the content contained on the media? DVD's are marketed as movies and consumers buy a movie in order to view it for entertainment purposes. They are not marketed as software and consumers do not purchase them for that role. Hacking your own movie should not be a crime.
Can I re-encrypt or scramble a CSS-encoded movie so that nobody could use it?
Back to the locked book analogy - can the manufacturer legally bind (no pun intended) you to only open the book with the combination provided? If I find out that I can open any book with the code 99L-99R-99L and publish this am I in violation of the DMCA? (Trick question - I'm Canadian). Just because the lock technology improves the copyright can become more restrictive? At what technological stage of advance will I become liable?
Can I publish a paper document that is only visible with my own super-duper-spy-decoder glasses and get the same protection under the DMCA if someone else figures out how to view the pages without my proprietary eyewear?
Jon Johansen discovered how to decrypt the CSS. Is this an invention or copyright-able idea?
Did Jon Johansen break the law by discussing how to decrypt CSS encoded DVD's?
If the only technology available to me is a 16mm film projector and I want to see a movie that is stored on a VHS format tape, then to me the content of the tape is scrambled (It is only machine readable). As the owner of of that VHS tape am I allowed to find a way to view it on my 16mm film projector?
Mr. Ballmer has brought up some very interesting points in his rant. He should have used something other than 'c:\windows\calc.exe' to do the age calculations.
On an editorial note; "...that you are disrupting our precious military systems with your childish pranks." should read "...that you are disrupting our childish military systems with your precious pranks." (reader please note: this reply is a prime example of the first law of computing - GIGO)
It's the convenience for notebook types. However it's more than just a wireless card - it would be nice to get a wireless hub/repeater. There isn't a lot of growth potential in a 'home run' from my notebook to a wireless NIC in the server (you'll run outta PCI slots), and you'd have to down the server to add NIC's as you add wireless users (boink!).
All that really matters to the end user is the wireless notebook/workstation; so I'd be happy to get the wireless 'base station' on the same copper playing field everyone else is on.
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While SuSE has done a great job of the 'bit' distributions, they've been terrible (at least in Canada and I'm guessing US) at the 'atom' (physical mass - books/CDs/colorful boxes) distributions. Go to any Chapters bookstore, Future Shop (only if you must) or any vendor and try to find a SuSE box! Nothing. Lots of Red Hat, some Mandrake, and more Corel (no comment). If anybody I talked to in the last six months has heard about Linux they will start talking about Red Hat -- they've never heard of SuSE. And after a year of using 6.0 myself I still don't know the correct pronunciation for it!
I bought the SuSE 6.0 box last year and have been a happy user since. YaST setup / updates via FTP have kept me with SuSE. On Tuesday of this week I took the plunge into 6.3, but instead of trying the upgrade path I went for the whole biscuit and installed on a new partition. You can get 6.3 from download.sourceforge.net (try /pub/suse/suse/i386/6.3/suse), although I don't recall if it's just the eval version. After making a boot disk and a modules disk (I needed the old DEC Tulip module) I rebooted with the floppy and installed via FTP onto my machine. Total time to install the default setup, configure X (using SaX), and get and /net install Star Office (from sun.com) was under two hours on a cable modem. This weekend I'll be wiping out a buddy's Win box to do the same to his.
The revolution will not be televised, it wil be slashdotted.
Like most Linux users I plunked a Linux partition on an old box (clunky'486) after upgrading a few years ago (geesh, that was back in '96...). It was merely an experiment I would pick up every now and again, but only as at the command line - never loaded up any Xfree servers. Whenever I got a new box (Windows always pre-installed) I'd throw whatever distro I had handy onto the HDD and tinker yet again. It wasn't until Spring '99 that I got the bug again (wanted to see what that old overclocked 166 could really do) I went shopping for new distibutions. I finally settled on SuSE 6.0 and after a month of runnig a dual-boot system I found that it had become my everday desktop.Time to upgrade to a new PIII. Everthing went fine until I tried to get the rest of the family to switch. Here's a few of the things keeping them stuck to the MS desktop.
I'm faithful in the prospect of seeing more games for next Xmas, but it's difficult to tell people that things will be better soon. I've been hearing that for a while now and yes it is happening but slowly (especially measured in Internet years). People will be very slow to convert when you tell them that gadget 'X' which they just got last Xmas won't be supported in the current kernel.
When in Ireland you can tell where a Guinness drinker is from using the ring method. (Counting the number of foam rings left inside the glass after each sip)
7 - 10 rings = pretty much any local pub regular
20+ rings = an American tourist
less than 3 rings = most Canadians and all Australians
I just patented Internet patent lawsuits.
DO NOT REMOVE COVER
This device contains no user serviceable components.
What if some of your 'parts' contained encryption that exceeded export restrictions?
What if you violate the copyright agreements and they come after your wiring?
Will this augmentation be a job requirement in some fields?
Will 'Powered by Microsoft' people be discriminated against?
Will those Microsofties be able to open their front door without having an invalid page fault all over the hallway?
But more importantly...
when can I be BETA?
Netscape 6.0 will give AOL users the speed, reliability and ease of integration that discriminating AOLers demand.
module IRONY has caused an invalid page fault. AOL will now be your defualt form of government.They have become The Blob (in 3d!) consuming everything in its path. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I've been wrestling with this problem for a few years and here's some of the things i've learned:
Long distance calls from a hotel are extremely expensive. Avoid usung LD to connect from a hotel at all costs. Buy lots of prepaid phone cards if you have to use LD to connect.
Be very careful where you plug your PCMCIA modem!!! If you huck your little rj-11 into a digital phone outlet you will fry the teeny-weent relay. IBM makes a little rig that you plug into a phone jack to check what kind of line it is. Another poster said to get an external modem - that's always a good thing to have as they're a lot harder to kill.
If ya go with AOL it will leave a greasy stain on your soul. Just try to het them to leave you alone after you drop 'em. Ha!
Any tmie I can get to a www terminal I check my mail with one of those free accounts through yahoo or that microsoft one. They'll allow you to get your POP3 mail as well.
web mail is OK, but you don't want to connect to it using a cell phone/modem. I only use it to get send/recieve POP3 mail. I've got a Nokia 6190 with a data cable and it's great for connecting on the road. One major drawback - the Nokia uses a proprietary protocol (virtual modem) that will only function under windows. That is the only reason I keep a 300MB win98 partition on my notebook.
I wonder what the biggest application will be; Artificial limbs or augmentation (aesthetics)?
We would definately have some changes in culture:
Augmented Olympics
Record body counts on the Jerry Springer show.
Augmentation as a job requirement
Augmentation as a hinderance to employment
br mcleodnineathomedotcomI suppose s'more horsepower in my PDA would be nice, but on thing I've noticed since using a Palm device since the Palm Pilot 5000 first came out is it's lack of real estate. The longer I used the unit, the more stuff I wanted to cram into it. A Gigabyte-Plus Palm is the killer app.
OK so maybe some level of wireless connectivity would be necessary, and higher-resolution displays. But these are not Crusoe-solvable issues.
So how about a large-format Palm OS-like device? 8-1/2 x 11 x 3/8 and either folding or flexible,terabyte storage, nice hi-res/contrast color display, hi speed wireless (RF or Ir) networking, voice communications, and a calculator too!
If you purchase a DVD (ownership can have several connotations here), are you obligated to view it only as the manufacturer and distributor intended? Never having purchased or rented a movie on DVD myself - did anybody who bought/rented a DVD movie engage in a contract to use only approved equipment to view the content contained on the media? DVD's are marketed as movies and consumers buy a movie in order to view it for entertainment purposes. They are not marketed as software and consumers do not purchase them for that role. Hacking your own movie should not be a crime.
Can I re-encrypt or scramble a CSS-encoded movie so that nobody could use it?
Back to the locked book analogy - can the manufacturer legally bind (no pun intended) you to only open the book with the combination provided? If I find out that I can open any book with the code 99L-99R-99L and publish this am I in violation of the DMCA? (Trick question - I'm Canadian). Just because the lock technology improves the copyright can become more restrictive? At what technological stage of advance will I become liable?
Can I publish a paper document that is only visible with my own super-duper-spy-decoder glasses and get the same protection under the DMCA if someone else figures out how to view the pages without my proprietary eyewear?
Jon Johansen discovered how to decrypt the CSS. Is this an invention or copyright-able idea?
Did Jon Johansen break the law by discussing how to decrypt CSS encoded DVD's?
If the only technology available to me is a 16mm film projector and I want to see a movie that is stored on a VHS format tape, then to me the content of the tape is scrambled (It is only machine readable). As the owner of of that VHS tape am I allowed to find a way to view it on my 16mm film projector?Mr. Ballmer has brought up some very interesting points in his rant. He should have used something other than 'c:\windows\calc.exe' to do the age calculations.
On an editorial note; "...that you are disrupting our precious military systems with your childish pranks." should read "...that you are disrupting our childish military systems with your precious pranks." (reader please note: this reply is a prime example of the first law of computing - GIGO)It's the convenience for notebook types. However it's more than just a wireless card - it would be nice to get a wireless hub/repeater. There isn't a lot of growth potential in a 'home run' from my notebook to a wireless NIC in the server (you'll run outta PCI slots), and you'd have to down the server to add NIC's as you add wireless users (boink!).
All that really matters to the end user is the wireless notebook/workstation; so I'd be happy to get the wireless 'base station' on the same copper playing field everyone else is on.see http://hatewatch.org