actually, they optimized the kernel for pentiums, included a nicely cleaned up version of KDE, fixed alot of bugs and added a great update tool.
I like Mandrake alot. It's RedHat but made well.
What the H-E-double-hockey-stick do you want?
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Troll Tech is a commercial company
If you are gonna make money off thier widget set, then you must pay them for it.
On the other hand, they have been kind enough to say that if you give away your software for free, then you DON'T have to pay them for thier widget set.
I may be dumb, but I don't see aproblem with this.
If you have a problem with the GPL, you aren't gonna find much sympathy on/.
leaving us with applications that will not function reliably in both desktop environments.
I use KDE and I have no problems running Gnome apps in it. I use Gftp and System Info and GnoRPM on a regular basis.
Of course I have both KDE and GNOME installed... The very nice Mandrake 6.0 X-Login Screen (a modified kdm) lets you choose which to use at login, along with WM and others...
sure, way back when artists like Pink Floyd were around and
a) actually cared enough to make a whole album that was good b) had a record label that LET THEM put a bunch of good songs on one album.
I have a friend who is friends with Jewel. She told him (this is heresy, but it rings true) that she went to her record label with the songs that she wanted to put on her album (her debut album) and they told her that all these songs were too good and that she should "save" them for layer albums and just put a few of them on her debut album and write some "filler" songs to fill out the rest of her debut album.
So even if a band does have 15 great songs, the record labels won't let them put "all thier eggs in one (good) basket"
This is one of the many many reasons why the major record lables must go.
The article says to go to precision insights web page to find out more about which 5 chipsets are gonna be supported for OpenGL. I looked all over the PI site. I didn't find anything. Anybody know?
It would suck if it prices above 15, because that's all I can afford. I got past the IOI on E*Trade, so I am in the running for shares, but I only have enough in my account for 100 shares at $15 or less.
COME ON RHAT! UNDER 15 PLEASE!
P.S. I have a little extra in there to cover any commission, but it is my understanding that there is no commision on an IPO. Is this true?
I have voted for Senator Feinstein in the past
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.. but I will not vote for her again.
This is outrageous.
I have sent her an e-mail expressing my dismay at her actions, and relaying the message that she has lost my vote.
With so much money being made in the computer industry today, you'd think there would be a sizable group of people who not only would desire a case like this (I DO!), but would have the cash to not think twice about paying for it.
If I get in on the Red Hat IPO, I'll get some kinda cool looking computer. (that assumes that RHAT actually goes up:-)
I guess VIA is raking in the cash if they can afford all these purchaes....
Considering that they are the "alternative" board maker for the "alternative" chip (super 7 for the AMD) it seems they are doing pretty good fopr themselves.
then again, all my CPU's are AMDs and all my boards are Super 7's
I got in and approved for the IOI. Now I just gotta be lucky enough to get allocated shares.
I had a Perl script running the past few weeks that checked the ETRADE IPO page every ten minutes and paged me when Red Hat appeared. I got a page at 1:30 PST and got in right then.
And because Jews and Moslems still want to kill each other, like they have been for centuries, and this guy tried and failed to stop it, he gets top billing?
I say if two groups want to kill each other, let 'em.
No one would care if there was no oil there.
There are all kinds of groups killing each other in Africa... but, no oil, no money = no press coverage = america doesn't care.
Hell. Give it all the press coverage you want. I still don't care. Unless they are killing each other in my front yard, screw 'em.
It always seem that the guy who trys to break up the fight gets beat the hardest.
I think he and Pinky DID try to get on this list, in one of thier "take over the world" schemes...
Re:First the printers, now this.
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My Epson Stylus color 800 works great - was cheap and I have had zero problems with it. RedHat set it up during the install.
-geekd
Holy Shit! Someone has heard of Enders Game!
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Wow! No one I have ever met in person has read (or even heard of) Ender's Game! (as far as I know. I don't instantly ask people if they've read Ender's Game. "Dave, this is my boyfirend Fred." "Hi Fred. Have you read Ender's Game?")
ANYWAY, decent books, (2 of 'em), and I guess the first time I read 'em I didn't notice this (when was that? mid-late 80's I guess) but then I read 'em again in '93 and I was like "Hey! That's the newsgroups they are talking about!" but now, it really was the WWW, wasn't it? (maybe not.. that was 6 years ago last I read them)
Any way, here's this way future society, and the internet is basically still the same (except, of course, that it's instantanious transmission from one human-settled planet to another...)
DISCLAIMER: It was a freakin' long time ago when I read these books, AND I am buzzin nicely, AND I just saw Blair Witch and I am still a little FREAKED OUT by it, so take my comments with that in mind. I may not be 100% accurate in my recall.
I love Python (the show. I am more partial to Perl when it comes to comp. langs.)
But nothing is more boring than a bunch of old farts sitting around talking about thier "glory days" 30 years ago.
Hopefully this book gets better and talks about some actual episodes and how they came about. I care less about how these guys met and what goofy college theater stuff they did back in 1963.
It's like saying "If you pay us money, we'll let you know what towns have adult book stores. That way you can avoid those towns alltogether, if you so choose."
But Cyber Patrol doesn't tell thier customers that they block whole "towns" they just say they block specific sites. So in effect, they say "If you pay us money, we'll let you know what stores sell adult books" but then they just report every store in a "town" that contains one store that might have adult books.
I say might, because these programs cue on certain words. So if there is, say, a Gay and Lesbian site on a server, even if it contains no sexual material (it could be a purely political site) many "cyber watch" type programs just see "Gay and Lesbian" and scream "ADULT!"
There is one very good way to keep your kids off adult site: Put the computer in a public room.
well, yeah, but someone wearing sunglasses in the office would be afully easy top spot.
My wife is an accountant, but she has to cover for the receptionist when the receptionis is at lunch. She always bitches that she has to drop everything to cover, because she can't do her accounting stuff at the receptionists desk (even though everything is networked and she COULD do it but - ) becuase the computer is in a public area and she can't have everyones salary information displayed on that screen.
I see your point, and when HDTV comes out, everything will change (well, not when it comes out, but when it's affordable)
and I almost never pay for my PC games...:-)
and my whole computer was $800, and upgrading it will be much less. Actually, I'll just get another whole new computer and replace my P100 Linux server with my AMD 350 box.
I see what people are saying. I just think most Console games SUCK, are very "arcade-ey" (I have no desire to play driving games or Mortal combat clones or baseball. If I wanna play baseball, I'll grab my bat and go play baseball!) I play mostly more in-depth games like Starcraft, Civ, etc...
PLUS, computer geek that I am, I like to do more with my PC than just play games.
I just don't see PC game sales declining. Maybe 5 years from now, but not anytime soon.
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it's not that so much as the fact that Mandrake comes out a few weeks after Red Hat so they catch all the little bugs.
.iso image for download
:-)
Plus providing an
It's like they they re-package Red Hat with added *love* (awwwwwwww)
actually, they optimized the kernel for pentiums, included a nicely cleaned up version of KDE, fixed alot of bugs and added a great update tool.
I like Mandrake alot. It's RedHat but made well.
Troll Tech is a commercial company
/.
If you are gonna make money off thier widget set, then you must pay them for it.
On the other hand, they have been kind enough to say that if you give away your software for free, then you DON'T have to pay them for thier widget set.
I may be dumb, but I don't see aproblem with this.
If you have a problem with the GPL, you aren't gonna find much sympathy on
-geekd
leaving us with applications that will not function reliably in both desktop environments.
I use KDE and I have no problems running Gnome apps in it. I use Gftp and System Info and GnoRPM on a regular basis.
Of course I have both KDE and GNOME installed... The very nice Mandrake 6.0 X-Login Screen (a modified kdm) lets you choose which to use at login, along with WM and others...
What apps cause problems?
Perl is about as easy as easy gets:
you don't have to declare variables
if you go past the bounds of an array, that's just dandy! Perl will extend the array!
you can use C-type syntax or BASIC-type syntax, or even both together
you can read a whole file into a single string! Up to the limit of you systems memory!
If you use a String variable as an Integer, or an Foat as a Srting, or any other type-changing, Perl knows this and does the right thing.
What do you want?
the only thing easier would be to have the code written for you!
(oh wait. that's what VB does. I forgot.)
-geekd
Dude!
That was funny!
-geekd
writing is like any other creative endeavor, painting, programming, whatever.
:-)
You do one article (painting, program, whatever).
you do another one
etc...
some are gonna be good.
some are gonna suck.
When you look back at your creative career, you can only hope that the good ones out-number the ones that suck.
Even Michael Jordan had bad games. (though not many
personally, I liked this piece. ('course, I didn't read his other BWP piece)
sure, way back when artists like Pink Floyd were around and
a) actually cared enough to make a whole album that was good
b) had a record label that LET THEM put a bunch of good songs on one album.
I have a friend who is friends with Jewel. She told him (this is heresy, but it rings true) that she went to her record label with the songs that she wanted to put on her album (her debut album) and they told her that all these songs were too good and that she should "save" them for layer albums and just put a few of them on her debut album and write some "filler" songs to fill out the rest of her debut album.
So even if a band does have 15 great songs, the record labels won't let them put "all thier eggs in one (good) basket"
This is one of the many many reasons why the major record lables must go.
long live MP3 and indie label distrobution!
-geekd
Intel? i740? That would be SSSWWWWEEEEETTTT because thats what I got.
:-)
-thanks for the info
geekd
The article says to go to precision insights web page to find out more about which 5 chipsets are gonna be supported for OpenGL. I looked all over the PI site. I didn't find anything. Anybody know?
Thanks,
geekd
Pretty colors = bloat?
/. alot.
/. While I agree that substance is the more important of the two, style is important, too.
This is an attitude that I see here on
Especially from die-hard lynx users.
I like pretty colors.
I like multi-media on the web.
I like eye-candy.
Of course, the OS underneath has to be able to handle all this....
There is alot of "Substance over style" feeling here on
If we have both, there will be no stopping us!
It would suck if it prices above 15, because that's all I can afford. I got past the IOI on E*Trade, so I am in the running for shares, but I only have enough in my account for 100 shares at $15 or less.
COME ON RHAT! UNDER 15 PLEASE!
P.S. I have a little extra in there to cover any commission, but it is my understanding that there is no commision on an IPO. Is this true?
.. but I will not vote for her again.
This is outrageous.
I have sent her an e-mail expressing my dismay at her actions, and relaying the message that she has lost my vote.
-geekd
(But it's a SERVER. Who needs a pretty SERVER?)
:-)
It's not a matter of need, it's a matter of Want
:-)
With so much money being made in the computer industry today, you'd think there would be a sizable group of people who not only would desire a case like this (I DO!), but would have the cash to not think twice about paying for it.
If I get in on the Red Hat IPO, I'll get some kinda cool looking computer. (that assumes that RHAT actually goes up
-geekd
I guess VIA is raking in the cash if they can afford all these purchaes....
Considering that they are the "alternative" board maker for the "alternative" chip (super 7 for the AMD) it seems they are doing pretty good fopr themselves.
then again, all my CPU's are AMDs and all my boards are Super 7's
:-)
-geekd
I got in and approved for the IOI. Now I just gotta be lucky enough to get allocated shares.
I had a Perl script running the past few weeks that checked the ETRADE IPO page every ten minutes and paged me when Red Hat appeared. I got a page at 1:30 PST and got in right then.
Ain't technology great?
-geekd
And because Jews and Moslems still want to kill each other, like they have been for centuries, and this guy tried and failed to stop it, he gets top billing?
I say if two groups want to kill each other, let 'em.
No one would care if there was no oil there.
There are all kinds of groups killing each other in Africa... but, no oil, no money = no press coverage = america doesn't care.
Hell. Give it all the press coverage you want. I still don't care. Unless they are killing each other in my front yard, screw 'em.
It always seem that the guy who trys to break up the fight gets beat the hardest.
I think he and Pinky DID try to get on this list, in one of thier "take over the world" schemes...
My Epson Stylus color 800 works great - was cheap and I have had zero problems with it. RedHat set it up during the install.
-geekd
Wow! No one I have ever met in person has read (or even heard of) Ender's Game!
(as far as I know. I don't instantly ask people if they've read Ender's Game. "Dave, this is my boyfirend Fred." "Hi Fred. Have you read Ender's Game?")
ANYWAY, decent books, (2 of 'em), and I guess the first time I read 'em I didn't notice this (when was that? mid-late 80's I guess) but then I read 'em again in '93 and I was like "Hey! That's the newsgroups they are talking about!" but now, it really was the WWW, wasn't it? (maybe not.. that was 6 years ago last I read them)
Any way, here's this way future society, and the internet is basically still the same (except, of course, that it's instantanious transmission from one human-settled planet to another...)
DISCLAIMER:
It was a freakin' long time ago when I read these books, AND I am buzzin nicely, AND I just saw Blair Witch and I am still a little FREAKED OUT by it, so take my comments with that in mind. I may not be 100% accurate in my recall.
-geekd
I love Python (the show. I am more partial to Perl when it comes to comp. langs.)
But nothing is more boring than a bunch of old farts sitting around talking about thier "glory days" 30 years ago.
Hopefully this book gets better and talks about some actual episodes and how they came about. I care less about how these guys met and what goofy college theater stuff they did back in 1963.
-geekd
It's like saying "If you pay us money, we'll let you know what towns have adult book stores. That way you can avoid those towns alltogether, if you so choose."
But Cyber Patrol doesn't tell thier customers that they block whole "towns" they just say they block specific sites. So in effect, they say "If you pay us money, we'll let you know what stores sell adult books" but then they just report every store in a "town" that contains one store that might have adult books.
I say might, because these programs cue on certain words. So if there is, say, a Gay and Lesbian site on a server, even if it contains no sexual material (it could be a purely political site) many "cyber watch" type programs just see "Gay and Lesbian" and scream "ADULT!"
There is one very good way to keep your kids off adult site: Put the computer in a public room.
-geekd
Yeah you can! Just put a plorized condom on!
then no one could see it!
HEY! Why don't our military guys all wear polorizer suits and glasses! The they could see each other, but to the enemy, they'd be invisible!
:-)
-geekd
well, yeah, but someone wearing sunglasses in the office would be afully easy top spot.
My wife is an accountant, but she has to cover for the receptionist when the receptionis is at lunch. She always bitches that she has to drop everything to cover, because she can't do her accounting stuff at the receptionists desk (even though everything is networked and she COULD do it but - ) becuase the computer is in a public area and she can't have everyones salary information displayed on that screen.
This would be perfect for that situation.
-geekd
I see your point, and when HDTV comes out, everything will change (well, not when it comes out, but when it's affordable)
:-)
and I almost never pay for my PC games...
and my whole computer was $800, and upgrading it will be much less. Actually, I'll just get another whole new computer and replace my P100 Linux server with my AMD 350 box.
I see what people are saying. I just think most Console games SUCK, are very "arcade-ey" (I have no desire to play driving games or Mortal combat clones or baseball. If I wanna play baseball, I'll grab my bat and go play baseball!) I play mostly more in-depth games like Starcraft, Civ, etc...
PLUS, computer geek that I am, I like to do more with my PC than just play games.
I just don't see PC game sales declining. Maybe 5 years from now, but not anytime soon.