Caldera released a CBT (Computer based training) for their OpenLinux eDesktop. You can buy the package that includes the CBT with a windows CD that will give you a short tutorial on installing the OS. The CBT Box also includes a CD that will autoinstall OpenLinux onto your computer with minimal user input. It automatically configures your computer to run both linux and windows. I had wanted to get into linux for a long time, but having used windows and DOS for my entire life, i wasn't quite ready for a radical change. My mom bought me the package with the CBT and the Linux Install disk. I had an extra computer onto which i installed linux and now it works perfectly. I haven't tried the windows/linux side-by-side feature because my old crap ass computer doesn't handle windows well. go for the caldera package. I also has options for different uses which install packages such as home desktop use, office use, server use, and all that so that you don't have to go through the trouble of installing programs one by one. also, the install program lets you play pacman while you install. That was a good idea on their part. definitely go for Caldera's OpenLinux.
okay, being a cuban-american i'm a bit biased on this subject. i must agree that english is the major language of the internet and it is suppressing other languages such as spanish. spanish is a major world language which needs to have its place on the web. I own a business called Point5, Incorporated (www.point-5.com) that specializes in bi-lingual webpage development.
I've noticed that most of the posts are pro-american english. I'd like to inform you that though english may be the most widely accepted language in the US, it will not be in the future. The US has no official language so many immigrants don't bother to learn english. Many of us assume that they are uneducated because they don't know the common language of the US.
In about five years, the hispanic-american population will be greater than the populations of every other ethnic heritage in the US combined. As of now these numbers don't mean much because a study showed that many minorities do not have computers because their income is hampered by their recent arrival in the country. As the success rate of hispanic americans increases, they will dominate the american internet and we will have to learn how to speak spanish with them. I'm prepared for that change, but you should be too.
I got a web design email a while back that stressed the importance of making your site ethnically friendly and making sure that most of all, you market to hispanics. I also remember a slashdot article a while back that was predicting the making of one global language such as esperanto for the internet. that way, all languages would be oppressed evenly.
Don't go jumping to conclusions about how the internet will stay in english, because it won't, trust me, it won't.
i hate to jump on the bandwagon with everybody saying how bad the writing was, but i'm going to. I thought the story itself was interesting, but like everyone else, i hate the writing itself. In most articles, you can skip a sentence and catch on later, but you couldn't in this one. the writer couldn't stick to one topic and kept digressing and jumping into new subtopics. In the beginning, it was all about the search for the thief, but then went on to be about the history of bletchley park, then on to the history of Enigma, and then on to more and more historical trivia. The whole article was inconsistent and couldn't stick with a fact. were there 3 rotors or 4 rotors? it said both throughout the article. first it said that the enigma was missing 3 of its 4 rotors, then missing all three implying that there were only three in the first place. who knows? i dont.
this is totally cool. i can see cool prosthetics coming into play. i don't understand why they have it over the internet? what's the purpose of that variable? It would be a whole lot easier to experiment if you didn't have as many variables involved. i love the experiment though. another question is....how do they know that the monkey's making it do what it wants it to do? hmmmmm.
ahhh, okay....so this is just an experiment to see if the CPUs can hold up under these conditions? okay....that makes a hell of a whole lot more sense.
okay, i don't understand this. Why is there a rush to get servers into orbit? is it as if we can't connect to servers to which we are hardwired? having them in orbit just allows more room for errors and lag. The basis of this experiment escapes me. It seems to me that all of the cons here severly outweigh the pros. Hackers, lag, death, destruction, collisions are all cons. and, um.....where are the pros? oh, right, we get to control multi-million dollar equipment from our desktop. what are they thinking? if there are any ideas on what the pros are, tell me.
how much is this beast gonna cost? i'd love to get it. I'm not looking at it as a revolutionary concept, but i still think it's pretty beast. it's a good combination, especially for people like me who are completely out of bays.
what's wrong with.kids? i mean, sure, i wouldn't be visiting the.kids sites all that much, but in order to filter sites for kids and only for kids, then, you could only allow.kids addresses..xxx or.porn, whichever was the actual one, should get in. It's not really fair to the porn sites, but it's more fair to the people of the internet. it helps people get a better idea of what they're about to look at. if you say www.whitehouse.com, then you may think you're getting the whitehouse, but as we all know, you don't. if the suffixes were instituted, if you put in www.whitehouse.com, you'd probably get nothing, that is, if there were filtering controls put in place. and if you wanted the porn site, you'd put in www.whitehouse.xxx or.porn and you'd know you were about to get porn. i like that. i like getting an idea about what i'm gonna see.
all these space stories depress me. I mean, sure, we just noticed something amazing happening in the sky. this is, literally, old news. These events occured hundreds of thousands of years ago and the light is just now getting here. we'll never be able to see what's happening realtime until we get close enough, and even then it's not quite realtime, but slightly lagged. oh well, i won't get anal about it, but it's old news, but i still care.
why can't they use this kind of display on my TV? i'd really like to get a nice TV that'd be that sharp. I just wasted 800 bucks on a tv that has a "3-line digital comb filter" and it's hardly sharp. Why waste that kind of resolution on a computer where any program that fully utilizes the monitor would fill the hard drive in a heartbeat. I'd rather use that kind of technology with a streaming display.
yeah, the gibson version wasn't very fun. The stephenson metaverse was cool. If you set up a project, i'm there. It's a whole lot easier to navigate some sort of environment with which we are familiar. for most computer people that's either the physical world (still a challenge for some of us) and X-ish screens. We've already mastered the creation of x, so now it's time for a new challenge, a.k.a. a GUI that mimics the world. I like it.
it looks pretty damn slick...but navigation of 2d environments looks like it'd be a bitch. In the screenshots, the shots of netscape and GIMP are slanted in order to demonstrate the 3d capabilities, but how hard is it to line up and make the interface practical and seemingly 2d?
shut up, i don't need your crap...so i can't add!!!! SO WHAT??!!! Neal stephenson says, "If you can do math, learn how to tell computers to do it for you" That's my life. I think that the hackers were just trying to figure out microsoft's non-mathematical programmers' approach to telling computer to do math for us. and don't bug me about run-on sentences!!!! or, commas,.
this is seeming a lot like the crypt idea from neal stephenson's cryptonomicon. the page said that someday we could use the mojos to buy beer, that'd be cool. This would be a fully digital economic system. it's way cool.
the prices are going to be sky high, who the hell's gonna buy them? i mean, robot goes up there, collects rocks. mad money spent right there, then shipping them back, vehicles to transport them are gonna be a bitch, well, at least the postage won't be bad since they're weightless.
the article mentions a bathtub, but, though the waves in a bathtub are all existing simultaneously, they eventually hit the edge and dissipate. the computer could recover the information just before it hit the end of the bathtub and then reinsert it towards the middle of the tub, but this puts definite strain on the entire process, especially power issues. if power was lost, all data would be lost. i see it as a dead end.
this thing is gonna be entertaining, but mostly as a stepping stone. I agree that we need some serial killer and violent(just for fun) add-ons. i know that eventually, the concept will be recreated by a slashdotter, run in linux, and become it's own web. then people can buy virtual real estate just like in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. people will be able to buy this real estate the same way they buy web space now. they'll be able to develop their own little place as they like. and they'll be able to travel around the metaverse and cruise public real estate and talk to people. a prototype of this kind of thing was on display at the technology museum in San Jose. eventually, people will be able to work in this metaverse, and get credits put towards a real world debit card which can be used as actual money. wow, that would be cool.
--i don't know about being crazy, but my pile of clay eyebrows is getting larger every day--
dood, what's up with the whole CD idea? sure, they won't have players, but i'm figuring they'll send up a player, then again, languages may have changed and the info will be useless. anyways, of course it makes perfect sense that our language and logic will live on forever, but that's what the egyptians thought, and the difference in time between them and us is much less than that between us and the people who will open this capsule. we never would've cracked heiroglyphics without the rosetta stone. is a rosetta stone going to be enclosed? i just think this whole thing is dumb.
battlebots is awesome, but it should stay on comedy central. i see the sport, but it's hilarious. i mean, i think it's geared towards all the people who sat around laughing their asses off when the ninja turtles kicked bebop's ass. i mean, it's funny to see someone, or something, get its ass completely whooped. i was laughing my ass off while i was admiring the sport. sure, it's a sport, and i'll follow it like mad, but i think it's hilarious. i'm surprised they don't have any guys sitting there programming these bots to fight on their own. then it'd quite entertaining. it'd be especially cool if they could somehow get some AI involved and teach the bots how to hold a grudge. and if there were more than 2 bots in the arena at a time it'd be pretty damn phat. the one thing i don't like is the lag between fights. i'd like it more if they could move from one fight to the next more quickly. maybe run 2 staggered rings. they could have one being cleaned while the other was fighting so they could move the ass kicking along faster.
yes, the net is dying, maybe not literally, but yes, the concept of the internet was to connect, and it is gradually being taken away. I'm at a boarding summer school right now and their network has blocked everything except email and websites. no IRC, no ICQ, no AIM, no Gnutella, no hotline, no nothing. It's really pissing me off, well, anyways, if any of you have any suggestions for how i can hack around the restrictions please tell me. I'm so isolated.
you're exactly right, though you're taking a bit of a hitchhiker's guide approach. If you'd like to research this, i reccommend you read "Making Violence Sexy" feminist views on pornography. What happens is that men who are homophobes, will want to prove to themselves that they are not homosexuals as you have said. they will buy pornography in order to prove to themselves that they are still turned on by women. they'll enjooy the porn, as most men do, and continue to buy it. unfortunately, most porn is violent. they will see the violent porn in which no means yes. well, these people begin to believe that no really does mean yes when it comes to sex, and that when women say no and scream, it's because they're enjoying it. porn has way too much of a rape theme. well, these homophobes, now having lost touch with reality now believe that by raping a woman, he is doing her a favor and that she enjoys it. he goes out and rapes a woman. 99% of all rapists mention wanting to do something that they have seen in porn (mostly violent porn). that my friends, is the track from homophobia to porn.
that's totally freaky cool, they should make a movie out of that. i mean, it'd be like the tick, but the fly, or maybe it'd be like the tick's friend the moth guy dude, but that would be cool. i bet if they plugged in that bad genome to their gene mapping software, they could figure out exactly what amino acids would be human and which would be fly. that would mean that they would be able to accurately figure out if they could possibly make something like that. whoa, wait, here he comes, AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! !!!!!!!!!
okay, i'm not a huge techie or anything, but would someone please explain how this sat could stay at 36000km above the earth without being affected by the graviational pull of some other celestial object pulling it away from the earth. also, if it was still within the area where it is really affected by the earth's gravity, wouldn't it orbit? also, this is going to be a huge problem because if the sat is just positioned ina certain place in space, it'll be a huge pain in the ass for anyone who happens to be quite far away from this position and their latency will be greatly increased. does anyone know how many of these sats they're going to put up?
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Caldera released a CBT (Computer based training) for their OpenLinux eDesktop. You can buy the package that includes the CBT with a windows CD that will give you a short tutorial on installing the OS. The CBT Box also includes a CD that will autoinstall OpenLinux onto your computer with minimal user input. It automatically configures your computer to run both linux and windows. I had wanted to get into linux for a long time, but having used windows and DOS for my entire life, i wasn't quite ready for a radical change. My mom bought me the package with the CBT and the Linux Install disk. I had an extra computer onto which i installed linux and now it works perfectly. I haven't tried the windows/linux side-by-side feature because my old crap ass computer doesn't handle windows well. go for the caldera package. I also has options for different uses which install packages such as home desktop use, office use, server use, and all that so that you don't have to go through the trouble of installing programs one by one. also, the install program lets you play pacman while you install. That was a good idea on their part. definitely go for Caldera's OpenLinux.
exactly. keep everybody happy....just make sure you have someone who really knows the language so they don't make an ass of the website.
okay, being a cuban-american i'm a bit biased on this subject. i must agree that english is the major language of the internet and it is suppressing other languages such as spanish. spanish is a major world language which needs to have its place on the web. I own a business called Point5, Incorporated (www.point-5.com) that specializes in bi-lingual webpage development.
I've noticed that most of the posts are pro-american english. I'd like to inform you that though english may be the most widely accepted language in the US, it will not be in the future. The US has no official language so many immigrants don't bother to learn english. Many of us assume that they are uneducated because they don't know the common language of the US.
In about five years, the hispanic-american population will be greater than the populations of every other ethnic heritage in the US combined. As of now these numbers don't mean much because a study showed that many minorities do not have computers because their income is hampered by their recent arrival in the country. As the success rate of hispanic americans increases, they will dominate the american internet and we will have to learn how to speak spanish with them. I'm prepared for that change, but you should be too.
I got a web design email a while back that stressed the importance of making your site ethnically friendly and making sure that most of all, you market to hispanics. I also remember a slashdot article a while back that was predicting the making of one global language such as esperanto for the internet. that way, all languages would be oppressed evenly.
Don't go jumping to conclusions about how the internet will stay in english, because it won't, trust me, it won't.
that's disgusting. and no, doing that is NOT a good idea.
i hate to jump on the bandwagon with everybody saying how bad the writing was, but i'm going to. I thought the story itself was interesting, but like everyone else, i hate the writing itself. In most articles, you can skip a sentence and catch on later, but you couldn't in this one. the writer couldn't stick to one topic and kept digressing and jumping into new subtopics. In the beginning, it was all about the search for the thief, but then went on to be about the history of bletchley park, then on to the history of Enigma, and then on to more and more historical trivia. The whole article was inconsistent and couldn't stick with a fact. were there 3 rotors or 4 rotors? it said both throughout the article. first it said that the enigma was missing 3 of its 4 rotors, then missing all three implying that there were only three in the first place. who knows? i dont.
this is totally cool. i can see cool prosthetics coming into play. i don't understand why they have it over the internet? what's the purpose of that variable? It would be a whole lot easier to experiment if you didn't have as many variables involved. i love the experiment though. another question is....how do they know that the monkey's making it do what it wants it to do? hmmmmm.
ahhh, okay....so this is just an experiment to see if the CPUs can hold up under these conditions? okay....that makes a hell of a whole lot more sense.
okay, i don't understand this. Why is there a rush to get servers into orbit? is it as if we can't connect to servers to which we are hardwired? having them in orbit just allows more room for errors and lag. The basis of this experiment escapes me. It seems to me that all of the cons here severly outweigh the pros. Hackers, lag, death, destruction, collisions are all cons. and, um.....where are the pros? oh, right, we get to control multi-million dollar equipment from our desktop. what are they thinking? if there are any ideas on what the pros are, tell me.
how much is this beast gonna cost? i'd love to get it. I'm not looking at it as a revolutionary concept, but i still think it's pretty beast. it's a good combination, especially for people like me who are completely out of bays.
what's wrong with .kids? i mean, sure, i wouldn't be visiting the .kids sites all that much, but in order to filter sites for kids and only for kids, then, you could only allow .kids addresses. .xxx or .porn, whichever was the actual one, should get in. It's not really fair to the porn sites, but it's more fair to the people of the internet. it helps people get a better idea of what they're about to look at. if you say www.whitehouse.com, then you may think you're getting the whitehouse, but as we all know, you don't. if the suffixes were instituted, if you put in www.whitehouse.com, you'd probably get nothing, that is, if there were filtering controls put in place. and if you wanted the porn site, you'd put in www.whitehouse.xxx or .porn and you'd know you were about to get porn. i like that. i like getting an idea about what i'm gonna see.
all these space stories depress me. I mean, sure, we just noticed something amazing happening in the sky. this is, literally, old news. These events occured hundreds of thousands of years ago and the light is just now getting here. we'll never be able to see what's happening realtime until we get close enough, and even then it's not quite realtime, but slightly lagged. oh well, i won't get anal about it, but it's old news, but i still care.
why can't they use this kind of display on my TV? i'd really like to get a nice TV that'd be that sharp. I just wasted 800 bucks on a tv that has a "3-line digital comb filter" and it's hardly sharp. Why waste that kind of resolution on a computer where any program that fully utilizes the monitor would fill the hard drive in a heartbeat. I'd rather use that kind of technology with a streaming display.
yeah, the gibson version wasn't very fun. The stephenson metaverse was cool. If you set up a project, i'm there. It's a whole lot easier to navigate some sort of environment with which we are familiar. for most computer people that's either the physical world (still a challenge for some of us) and X-ish screens. We've already mastered the creation of x, so now it's time for a new challenge, a.k.a. a GUI that mimics the world. I like it.
it looks pretty damn slick...but navigation of 2d environments looks like it'd be a bitch. In the screenshots, the shots of netscape and GIMP are slanted in order to demonstrate the 3d capabilities, but how hard is it to line up and make the interface practical and seemingly 2d?
shut up, i don't need your crap...so i can't add!!!! SO WHAT??!!! Neal stephenson says, "If you can do math, learn how to tell computers to do it for you" That's my life. I think that the hackers were just trying to figure out microsoft's non-mathematical programmers' approach to telling computer to do math for us. and don't bug me about run-on sentences!!!! or, commas,.
this is seeming a lot like the crypt idea from neal stephenson's cryptonomicon. the page said that someday we could use the mojos to buy beer, that'd be cool. This would be a fully digital economic system. it's way cool.
the prices are going to be sky high, who the hell's gonna buy them? i mean, robot goes up there, collects rocks. mad money spent right there, then shipping them back, vehicles to transport them are gonna be a bitch, well, at least the postage won't be bad since they're weightless.
the article mentions a bathtub, but, though the waves in a bathtub are all existing simultaneously, they eventually hit the edge and dissipate. the computer could recover the information just before it hit the end of the bathtub and then reinsert it towards the middle of the tub, but this puts definite strain on the entire process, especially power issues. if power was lost, all data would be lost. i see it as a dead end.
this thing is gonna be entertaining, but mostly as a stepping stone. I agree that we need some serial killer and violent(just for fun) add-ons. i know that eventually, the concept will be recreated by a slashdotter, run in linux, and become it's own web. then people can buy virtual real estate just like in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. people will be able to buy this real estate the same way they buy web space now. they'll be able to develop their own little place as they like. and they'll be able to travel around the metaverse and cruise public real estate and talk to people. a prototype of this kind of thing was on display at the technology museum in San Jose. eventually, people will be able to work in this metaverse, and get credits put towards a real world debit card which can be used as actual money. wow, that would be cool. --i don't know about being crazy, but my pile of clay eyebrows is getting larger every day--
dood, what's up with the whole CD idea? sure, they won't have players, but i'm figuring they'll send up a player, then again, languages may have changed and the info will be useless. anyways, of course it makes perfect sense that our language and logic will live on forever, but that's what the egyptians thought, and the difference in time between them and us is much less than that between us and the people who will open this capsule. we never would've cracked heiroglyphics without the rosetta stone. is a rosetta stone going to be enclosed? i just think this whole thing is dumb.
battlebots is awesome, but it should stay on comedy central. i see the sport, but it's hilarious. i mean, i think it's geared towards all the people who sat around laughing their asses off when the ninja turtles kicked bebop's ass. i mean, it's funny to see someone, or something, get its ass completely whooped. i was laughing my ass off while i was admiring the sport. sure, it's a sport, and i'll follow it like mad, but i think it's hilarious. i'm surprised they don't have any guys sitting there programming these bots to fight on their own. then it'd quite entertaining. it'd be especially cool if they could somehow get some AI involved and teach the bots how to hold a grudge. and if there were more than 2 bots in the arena at a time it'd be pretty damn phat. the one thing i don't like is the lag between fights. i'd like it more if they could move from one fight to the next more quickly. maybe run 2 staggered rings. they could have one being cleaned while the other was fighting so they could move the ass kicking along faster.
yes, the net is dying, maybe not literally, but yes, the concept of the internet was to connect, and it is gradually being taken away. I'm at a boarding summer school right now and their network has blocked everything except email and websites. no IRC, no ICQ, no AIM, no Gnutella, no hotline, no nothing. It's really pissing me off, well, anyways, if any of you have any suggestions for how i can hack around the restrictions please tell me. I'm so isolated.
you're exactly right, though you're taking a bit of a hitchhiker's guide approach. If you'd like to research this, i reccommend you read "Making Violence Sexy" feminist views on pornography. What happens is that men who are homophobes, will want to prove to themselves that they are not homosexuals as you have said. they will buy pornography in order to prove to themselves that they are still turned on by women. they'll enjooy the porn, as most men do, and continue to buy it. unfortunately, most porn is violent. they will see the violent porn in which no means yes. well, these people begin to believe that no really does mean yes when it comes to sex, and that when women say no and scream, it's because they're enjoying it. porn has way too much of a rape theme. well, these homophobes, now having lost touch with reality now believe that by raping a woman, he is doing her a favor and that she enjoys it. he goes out and rapes a woman. 99% of all rapists mention wanting to do something that they have seen in porn (mostly violent porn). that my friends, is the track from homophobia to porn.
that's totally freaky cool, they should make a movie out of that. i mean, it'd be like the tick, but the fly, or maybe it'd be like the tick's friend the moth guy dude, but that would be cool. i bet if they plugged in that bad genome to their gene mapping software, they could figure out exactly what amino acids would be human and which would be fly. that would mean that they would be able to accurately figure out if they could possibly make something like that. whoa, wait, here he comes, AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! !!!!!!!!!
okay, i'm not a huge techie or anything, but would someone please explain how this sat could stay at 36000km above the earth without being affected by the graviational pull of some other celestial object pulling it away from the earth. also, if it was still within the area where it is really affected by the earth's gravity, wouldn't it orbit? also, this is going to be a huge problem because if the sat is just positioned ina certain place in space, it'll be a huge pain in the ass for anyone who happens to be quite far away from this position and their latency will be greatly increased. does anyone know how many of these sats they're going to put up?