I do find it interesting that there a lot of scholarships for out their that you can only get if you are a certain non-white race, but there aren't any scholarships restricted to white people.
I just found this web page that is a great resource with instructions for setting up a variety of specific laptops with linux and so-forth. It's worth a look.
Okay, this is probably more appropriate for an "ask slashdot" piece, but I think it fits here too.
I'm getting a new laptop in 2 days, and it's going to have NT 4 installed on it. It's a very nice machine (esp. compared to anything I've had before), with a Celeron 466 (the use the desktop processors!) 128 megs of RAM, and a pretty nice video card, and other neat things. What I was wondering was, how hard would it be to get everything up in running with linux? I'm most likely going to want a dual-boot environment as well... and I have a 3COM PCMCIA 10/100 +56k Modem card... will that work alright? Just looking for general ideas and opinions as to the possibilities I'll have with this. Thanks.
Right on! I drag this old giant Mid-Tower Box back forth from work everyday, as well as anywhere else I go. Who says you need a notebook or smaller to have a "portable" computer anyways? =]
This is much comparable to tapes and cd's. Sure cd's are way more popular now than tapes, but tapes still exist, and people still make their own. Why? It's cheaper and easier to do. Until CD-R's and DVD-writers and other removable storage become alot cheaper (and bootable) Floppies will be around I work for a local ISP and many many times we have to use floppies to run out to somebody's house and fix something for them. It is much faster and efficient to format 8 floppies and put the stuff on them you need than to post it to a website and then download it over a modem (Esp. if they can't even get connnected.) SneakerNets will never die!
I must say that I find it disturbing that we have to go to lengths like this to make things better for everyone. It is much this way in the real world as well, and was really only a matter of time before it came to/. as well. For example, the same thing with labeling's on coffee stating that it is hot, or any kind of sign declaring common sense to the world, in case we forgot about it. People whom abuse those privleges given to them (posting comments would be one these privleges) deserve to have them taken away. It's just a real shame that we have to do this for people like that. More of this world needs to grow up, or it will never leave its infancy.
I think that we need to vote for non-partyism. Political parties have led to alot of problems in our government, such as lame duck sessions and so forth. All they do is create great divides among people, which leads to hatred among citizens, and people despising those of other "parties" Political parties are pointless IMHO. I see nothing wrong with maybe hanging out with people who share your views and so forth, but by creating parties like this, you are creating an incredibly exclusive group, because you exclude anybody who does fully agree with you. w/o political parties, people would be more likely to come forth with their own ideas and views rather than those of their parties. Abolish political parties!
If you'll look the the preferences settings a little closer, you'll notice that you can set it up to give a story greater than any particular length a +1 rating, as well as for other reasons.
I meant exactly what you said, and apologize for my use of the term "McCarthyism". I did mean the fact of the result of what McCarthy did, being that people would rat out their friends to save their own asses. Sorry bout that.
Is it possible to guarantee that those people won't get into trouble? Idealistically (and I think we all must agree that the entire linux "movement" is pretty idealistic, as well Americans as a whole (sorry for excluded everyone else, I don't know what your countries are like, so I don't want to include them unknowingly)) your plan would work great, but theoretically, I think that the only way to do it, if you feel that this is an invasion of privacy in the workplace, is that you should go up to those who told you to do it, and let them know that. If you value your job enough, and let them know it, I doubt they'll threaten your job with it. That, or demand that if they won't do it themselves, that you'll simply cover everything up. I think that'll make em think.
So in otherwords you're saying that we should recreate the entire McCarthy era? What you've just suggested is the epitomy of MrCarthyism. Ratting out a few people to get yourself off the hook. I have no respect for people like that, and I don't think anyone else should either. It's thing like this that really make the human race look pitiful.
I'm just curious as to what the intended uses of this large fiber network are? I read the article, and still find it very unclear. I don't think Canada currently has any kind of capacity to qualify the need for this. It's a big waste of fiber optic cable that could be running to my house instead if you ask me.
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fsck.com would more likely be a website devoted to cleaning up hard drives, nothing wrong with that now is there?
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fsck -p [-f] [-m mode] [filesystem]
I'm getting a new laptop in 2 days, and it's going to have NT 4 installed on it. It's a very nice machine (esp. compared to anything I've had before), with a Celeron 466 (the use the desktop processors!) 128 megs of RAM, and a pretty nice video card, and other neat things. What I was wondering was, how hard would it be to get everything up in running with linux? I'm most likely going to want a dual-boot environment as well... and I have a 3COM PCMCIA 10/100 +56k Modem card... will that work alright? Just looking for general ideas and opinions as to the possibilities I'll have with this. Thanks.
This is much comparable to tapes and cd's. Sure cd's are way more popular now than tapes, but tapes still exist, and people still make their own. Why? It's cheaper and easier to do. Until CD-R's and DVD-writers and other removable storage become alot cheaper (and bootable) Floppies will be around
I work for a local ISP and many many times we have to use floppies to run out to somebody's house and fix something for them. It is much faster and efficient to format 8 floppies and put the stuff on them you need than to post it to a website and then download it over a modem (Esp. if they can't even get connnected.)
SneakerNets will never die!
Improper reference to Big Brother there. Think about it.