It's a common misnomer to use the term "quantum leap" when in fact the speaker means something more along the lines of a "cosmic leap" or a "galactic leap".
quantum leap
NOUN: An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" (Garry Wills).
NOUN:1. Abrupt change from one energy level to another, especially such a change in the orbit of an electron with the loss or gain of a quantum of energy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
I've been using Mandrake 9.0 download edition since the day it came out, and I think it's great.
I haven't had any problems. It's snappier than past versions. I hear this is because it's compiled with gcc 3.2, which is nice to c++ than previous gcc versions.
The install went faster than in the past.
I don't see what there is to complain about. It's not a quantum leap better than 8.2 was, but it is incrementally better.
I am told the 9.0 designation was because of the gcc 3.2 thing.
Hard to bitch about a quality, free product. (that's quality AND free, not free of quality, smartasses:-)
So many people get trapped into doing what they are "supposed" to do. Society pressures you into it. RESIST!
There's nothing wrong with marrige, children and home ownership, if that's what *you* want.
Think for yourself.
Hell, I'm married, and I'm in escrow on my first house right now. No kids, though, and we probably won't have any. No patience for 'em.
I spent almost 10 years trying to be a rock star before I got tired of being poor and got a real job. If I'd never tried I would have regretted it for the rest of my boring ass life.
Travel the world, dude. Travel for as long as you like. There will always be a job for a man of your skills when your ready (if your ready) to settle down. Jesus, 3 languages and how many tech skills? Write your own ticket.
Do what you want. But make sure it's what *you* want, and not what you're *supposed* to want. That's all I'm saying.
My main use for "internet anywhere" would be ssh. I am on call 1 week out of 6, and if there's a problem, I need to log into the server(s) affected and fix it.
Plus, with a remote term, you can basically do anything a unix box can do.
Holding my Palm m505 next to my co-workers Zaurus, I feel like I have the short end of the stick. Sure, we both have 16 bit color, but he's got a 240x320 screen, and all I got is 160x160. He's got 802.11b networking, and enough processor to play mp3 files and movies. I got no networking (bluetooth just came out, though) and a weak ass processor.
His is way bigger though (that's actually bad in this case, haha), and he get under 2 hours battery life with the network card in. I get 8 hours.
For what I do with my PDA (mostly play World War, a Risk clone, when I'm on the can) the Palm is fine.
So what happens when the GPL is violated? With software for which the Free Software Foundation holds the copyright (either because we wrote the programs in the first place, or because free software authors have assigned us the copyright, in order to take advantage of our expertise in protecting their software's freedom), the first step is a report, usually received by email to . We ask the reporters of violations to help us establish necessary facts, and then we conduct whatever further investigation is required.
Leave your knee-jerk reactions at home for now, people. The FSF is on the case. Don't get all up in arms unless the FSF determines there is an actual problem.
On the other hand, this Register story paints the upper brass at UL as clueless retards. But the Register always does that.:-)
Plus you don't have to do ANYTHING geeky to put Linux on it
If you don't have to do anything geeky, then what's the point?
Linux is too easy these days. You install it and it just works. Many of us pine for the days when it took WEEKS to get all your hardware working correctly under linux. We actually enjoy that stuff. There was a sense of accomplishment when the joystick finally worked or you could actually burn a CD from an IDE CD burner.
Even the 3D acceleration is only a few FPS (2-3) slower in X than it is in Windows
On my Athlon 1.3 G - Geforce 2 MX box, I dual boot Mandrake 8.2 and Win98. Quake 3 Arena is installed under both OS's seperatly. Nvidia drivers for both are up to date.
Linux gets 5 - 10% better frame rates. I notice much less slowdown under linux when all the rockets start flying.
So, I suppose this and this and the other several thousand responses I got to *one* google query "math help" don't exist on the internet. Or maybe they are not "a good source for education".
Make people little red stains from a few miles up.
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I've been at the OSCON all week, and I am shocked at the blatant, ongoing Apple OSX commercial that OSCON is.
Everyone is sporting and flaunting thier iBooks and other OSX machines. I thought this was the *Open Source* convention. Run linux on your laptop like a real geek.
What you really want to do is tell it to install XFree 4.x, then go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers and install them.
Your 3D acceleration will be much faster.
Mandrake does not include these drivers because they are not Open Source.
When Mandrake's installer tells you that only Xfree 3.x had 3D support for your Geforce, that's because those are the only 3D drivers *it* has. The official nvidia drivers are better, and XFree 4.x kicks ass over 3.x any day.
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It's a common misnomer to use the term "quantum leap" when in fact the speaker means something more along the lines of a "cosmic leap" or a "galactic leap".
quantum leap
NOUN: An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" (Garry Wills).
NOUN:1. Abrupt change from one energy level to another, especially such a change in the orbit of an electron with the loss or gain of a quantum of energy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
I've been using Mandrake 9.0 download edition since the day it came out, and I think it's great.
:-)
I haven't had any problems. It's snappier than past versions. I hear this is because it's compiled with gcc 3.2, which is nice to c++ than previous gcc versions.
The install went faster than in the past.
I don't see what there is to complain about. It's not a quantum leap better than 8.2 was, but it is incrementally better.
I am told the 9.0 designation was because of the gcc 3.2 thing.
Hard to bitch about a quality, free product. (that's quality AND free, not free of quality, smartasses
Amen, brother!
So many people get trapped into doing what they are "supposed" to do. Society pressures you into it. RESIST!
There's nothing wrong with marrige, children and home ownership, if that's what *you* want.
Think for yourself.
Hell, I'm married, and I'm in escrow on my first house right now. No kids, though, and we probably won't have any. No patience for 'em.
I spent almost 10 years trying to be a rock star before I got tired of being poor and got a real job. If I'd never tried I would have regretted it for the rest of my boring ass life.
Travel the world, dude. Travel for as long as you like. There will always be a job for a man of your skills when your ready (if your ready) to settle down. Jesus, 3 languages and how many tech skills? Write your own ticket.
Do what you want. But make sure it's what *you* want, and not what you're *supposed* to want. That's all I'm saying.
I didn't saw MS *users* are a plague. They mostly just don't know any better.
I love the little moderation war that's going on my original post:
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Troll=2, Insightful=3, Interesting=1, Overrated=2, Total=9.
if you run a relatively secured machine and have some sort of firewall, this probably shouldn't concern you.
Or, if you avoid MS products like the plague they are, this shouldn't concern you.
Now MS is a spam enabler? too funny.
My main use for "internet anywhere" would be ssh. I am on call 1 week out of 6, and if there's a problem, I need to log into the server(s) affected and fix it.
Plus, with a remote term, you can basically do anything a unix box can do.
Anybody know if it can do ssh?
For $200, I'd definitly pick one up if it can.
Holding my Palm m505 next to my co-workers Zaurus, I feel like I have the short end of the stick. Sure, we both have 16 bit color, but he's got a 240x320 screen, and all I got is 160x160. He's got 802.11b networking, and enough processor to play mp3 files and movies. I got no networking (bluetooth just came out, though) and a weak ass processor.
His is way bigger though (that's actually bad in this case, haha), and he get under 2 hours battery life with the network card in. I get 8 hours.
For what I do with my PDA (mostly play World War, a Risk clone, when I'm on the can) the Palm is fine.
-geekd
What do I think of /.'s bias?
/. was *not* biased, they would be a much less fun and much less popular web site. /.'s anti-MS, pro-Linux stance is what makes it.
I think if
If you want un-biased reporting, go to MSNBC (apparently). I'll stay here where the fun is.
Homer: "It's funny because it's true."
Mandrake/KDE has had this for a long time.
KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse -> Advanced -> Pointer Acceleration (nice slider)
The "one desktop for everyone to focus on" argument sucks ass.
If you want one desktop, use Windows.
I, on the other hand, *like* choice.
That's right - save the knee-jerk reactions for when Red Hat changes a desktop theme.
Now *that's* funny.
Seriously, that's the funniest thing I read all day so far (we'll it's only 11:45 am. early still for me)
I'd mod you up, but I can't since I posted in this thread already.
who is going to prosecute them?
The FSF asks that authors of GPL software tranfer the copyright to the FSF, so that the FSF can take action against violators.
From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html
So what happens when the GPL is violated? With software for which the Free Software Foundation holds the copyright (either because we wrote the programs in the first place, or because free software authors have assigned us the copyright, in order to take advantage of our expertise in protecting their software's freedom), the first step is a report, usually received by email to . We ask the reporters of violations to help us establish necessary facts, and then we conduct whatever further investigation is required.
Oops, register story and newsforge story are the same story.
My bad.
Leave your knee-jerk reactions at home for now, people. The FSF is on the case. Don't get all up in arms unless the FSF determines there is an actual problem.
:-)
On the other hand, this Register story paints the upper brass at UL as clueless retards. But the Register always does that.
The downside? It is currently only going to available in a P4 chipset that Intel has not authorized."
Why is this a downside? Why should I give a rat's ass what Intel "authorizes".
Intel sure as hell didn't authorize my Athlon on it's Abit mobo with a Via chipset.
Is there an actual downside to not getting Intel's blessing (downside for consumers, not the company making the mobo)?
Plus you don't have to do ANYTHING geeky to put Linux on it
If you don't have to do anything geeky, then what's the point?
Linux is too easy these days. You install it and it just works. Many of us pine for the days when it took WEEKS to get all your hardware working correctly under linux. We actually enjoy that stuff. There was a sense of accomplishment when the joystick finally worked or you could actually burn a CD from an IDE CD burner.
I think that is part of the appeal of XBox Linux.
for $300 you could buy a pretty decent PC that would run suse much better.
Ah, but an XBox is only $199.
And linux on an XBox will get better.
Even the 3D acceleration is only a few FPS (2-3) slower in X than it is in Windows
On my Athlon 1.3 G - Geforce 2 MX box, I dual boot Mandrake 8.2 and Win98. Quake 3 Arena is installed under both OS's seperatly. Nvidia drivers for both are up to date.
Linux gets 5 - 10% better frame rates. I notice much less slowdown under linux when all the rockets start flying.
anyway...
So, I suppose this and this and the other several thousand responses I got to *one* google query "math help" don't exist on the internet. Or maybe they are not "a good source for education".
You da man.
Great. As if Flash isn't bad enough, now everybody's going to have a huge 3D intro to thier web site.
Note to web designers:
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should
I can see how this would be sweet for colaborative development in the CAD field, but you know people are going to screw up thier web pages with it.
I like text only web pages. Is that so wrong?
Furthermore, if it's in space, it might just be sent to a higher orbit around the earth.
Orbital Sniper
Make people little red stains from a few miles up.
I've been at the OSCON all week, and I am shocked at the blatant, ongoing Apple OSX commercial that OSCON is.
Everyone is sporting and flaunting thier iBooks and other OSX machines. I thought this was the *Open Source* convention. Run linux on your laptop like a real geek.
posers
XFree 3.3.6 had 3D support.
While this is true, it is sub-optimal.
What you really want to do is tell it to install XFree 4.x, then go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers and install them.
Your 3D acceleration will be much faster.
Mandrake does not include these drivers because they are not Open Source.
When Mandrake's installer tells you that only Xfree 3.x had 3D support for your Geforce, that's because those are the only 3D drivers *it* has. The official nvidia drivers are better, and XFree 4.x kicks ass over 3.x any day.