These things really piss me off. Many of us don't fit this profile at all. I know alot of geeks, myself included, who have a life, a steady relationship, have hobbies outside of their computer, and many friends. Yes, I like to play on my computer, but I'm also into sports, I go to football games, I play pickup games, I go to the gym. Can't they figure out that many of us are actually well rounded people?
Hold on a second....I never said that SP6 caused problems, I said 5 caused problems on DUAL cpu machines. I have no idea about sp6, i just said that needlessly upgrading to another sp is not a good idea.
......for those of us on dual cpu machines. I have two roomates who have said that SP5 makes it impossible to install ANY software. I run on SP4. The funny thing with service packs is that it's a game of chance whether it'll screw up your box or not. So the best advice is to only upgrade if you have some pressing need.
I've been using Mandrake since 5.2 (about year now). I've tried several different distrobutions, and Mandrake is my favorite. It's got all the compatibility of Redhat, yet overall I find it's just much more polished.
When I first read the headline, I wondered if this really deserved a jump all the way to 7.0, but looking at the new features, Gael has managed to put a shitload of new stuff in there.
I saw the commercial for this yesterday. The part of your view that has night vision is less than the size of a shoe box. If you want to see the sign, look outside of the shoe box:)
Does this mean they'll be able to detect me flying over China even when I'm wearing my composite spandex Robin outfit? Dammit! I new my sexy curves would be the end of me! Why couldn't I just be flat like Bob's Mom?
Because sCary is a cool guy, he is helping to offer q3 for only $33.95. This is not a bad price to pay for such a high quality piece of fraggin software:) Here's the link
Your comment was very informative and insightful, although I must disagree with you on the major point:
Corel has definitely done the right thing by making the interface very windows-ish. Corel Linux was targeted for the Windows user, so why shouldn't they make the interface as similar as possible? Many people disagree with me, but personally I like the Windows GUI. I wish my KDE desktop was more like NT. Why do I use linux then? Because I like the networking features, the stability, and I'm an aspiring network programmer who wants to learn on a Unix-like system:)
I probally won't use the Corel distro, but I'm excited to see such progress on the desktop. I think this goes to show how adaptable Linux really is, that it can be used in anything from embedded systems to medium end servers to the regular users desktop...what else could one ask for?
Napster is the ultimate in mp3 sharing. Imagine this: A huge online community with hundreds of users sharing over 100,000 songs. Each person shares what they have, and each person can download any song from any person, with no ratio! Its like Mp3 communism, but cooler:) There is a nice little search engine on it, so you may find the song your looking for quickly and easily, and it even shows the users connection speed so you can pick that nice T3 to download from instead of the 14.4. Too bad the RIAA is going to sue them to oblivion.....:(
in my experience with switches (only 1), you double tap the scroll-lock button to bring up the menu to switch to another computer..its quite convienent, especially when i'm too lazy to lean forward and hit the switch manually:)
according to the web page: "but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of free software."
Stevens would still be enriching our knowledge of network programming if he were with us.
At last! I'm hoping this window manager will answer a question thats been burning in my mind for quite awhile.....what does the back of an application look like? Did netscape but a gui on the back of navigator? Are there wires or pipes sticking out of the end of your favorite text editor? These are questions I must have answers to dammit! Does XMMS have kill switch hidden on the back? I want the truth!
But think about it. Do you really think that ZD would try to get away with claiming to have had some 12 year old girl buy a game before it was even released? They would recieve way too much heat for that. Perhaps this article was meant to have been in next months issue, or maybe the author should have done some research before making up this article. At the very least he could have lied about the article with a game thats on the shelves now...or even better, wait until Q3 is released!
Subj: Re: Letter to the editor from Subscriber James Gillespie,North Fort Date: 10/12/1999 9:31:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: fpcletters@zdnetonebox.com (FamilyPC Letters) Reply-to: emily_friedlander@zd.com To: JWGflorida@aol.com Mr. Gillespie,
Thanks for bringing this error to our attention. It was a typo on an editor's part that through a series of edits, made it to print. Watch for the correction in our January issue.
Thanks again, Emily Friedlander
Even though, I must say that is really some shady reporting!
That the USPS is a private entity chartered by the government to deliever all of our mail. That would pretty much make them a company with special powers.
I could be wrong though, I'm usally pretty ignorant and often pull stuff out of my ass.
Here at Penn State, the university just struck a deal with MS that would let them distribute software to all students/faculty. All the press coverage of the deal mentioned nothing about requiring the school to move their workstations/servers over to NT. I couldn't see that happening anyway. Overall, each department seems to choose their system independantly of the other.
Computer Science --> Unix
Electrical Eng. --> NT
etc.
Then on top of that we've got different administrative departments:
The Office of Telecommunications -->Unix
Center for Academic Computing --> Mix of both
I'm not all that familiar with what every department uses. Maybe some other Penn Stater knows more than I do. The general computer labs all seem to be running NT, with Macs scattered about it for those students who use them.
Overall I can't see some of our services ever using NT. Our mail system is a very nice example. Penn State has over 100,000 students spread out all over the state. If you add all the TA's and faculty, that number rises even more. All of us use the same POP and SMTP server. Can you honestly see 100,000 + people all using an NT server for email? God save us if that were to happen. Overall, we seem to have a very knowledgable staff supporting the university's computing needs. If MS were to pressure them to use their products, I have faith that our staff wouldn't make the wrong decision.
To add to that. I don't need any MS software. Just leave me alone dammit.
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These things really piss me off. Many of us don't fit this profile at all. I know alot of geeks, myself included, who have a life, a steady relationship, have hobbies outside of their computer, and many friends. Yes, I like to play on my computer, but I'm also into sports, I go to football games, I play pickup games, I go to the gym. Can't they figure out that many of us are actually well rounded people?
Hold on a second....I never said that SP6 caused problems, I said 5 caused problems on DUAL cpu machines. I have no idea about sp6, i just said that needlessly upgrading to another sp is not a good idea.
......for those of us on dual cpu machines. I have two roomates who have said that SP5 makes it impossible to install ANY software. I run on SP4. The funny thing with service packs is that it's a game of chance whether it'll screw up your box or not. So the best advice is to only upgrade if you have some pressing need.
c) real security comes not from obscurity but from minimum disclosure.
I've been using Mandrake since 5.2 (about year now). I've tried several different distrobutions, and Mandrake is my favorite. It's got all the compatibility of Redhat, yet overall I find it's just much more polished.
:)
When I first read the headline, I wondered if this really deserved a jump all the way to 7.0, but looking at the new features, Gael has managed to put a shitload of new stuff in there.
Sweeet
I saw the commercial for this yesterday. The part of your view that has night vision is less than the size of a shoe box. If you want to see the sign, look outside of the shoe box
Is why ESR has never given a talk in Central Pennsylvania? I mean, isn't Amish country the technology capital of the world?
Sigh.........
Does this mean they'll be able to detect me flying over China even when I'm wearing my composite spandex Robin outfit? Dammit! I new my sexy curves would be the end of me! Why couldn't I just be flat like Bob's Mom?
Because sCary is a cool guy, he is helping to offer q3 for only $33.95. This is not a bad price to pay for such a high quality piece of fraggin software :)
Here's the link
Your comment was very informative and insightful, although I must disagree with you on the major point:
:)
Corel has definitely done the right thing by making the interface very windows-ish. Corel Linux was targeted for the Windows user, so why shouldn't they make the interface as similar as possible? Many people disagree with me, but personally I like the Windows GUI. I wish my KDE desktop was more like NT. Why do I use linux then? Because I like the networking features, the stability, and I'm an aspiring network programmer who wants to learn on a Unix-like system
I probally won't use the Corel distro, but I'm excited to see such progress on the desktop. I think this goes to show how adaptable Linux really is, that it can be used in anything from embedded systems to medium end servers to the regular users desktop...what else could one ask for?
Napster is the ultimate in mp3 sharing. :) There is a nice little search engine on it, so you may find the song your looking for quickly and easily, and it even shows the users connection speed so you can pick that nice T3 to download from instead of the 14.4.
Imagine this:
A huge online community with hundreds of users sharing over 100,000 songs. Each person shares what they have, and each person can download any song from any person, with no ratio! Its like Mp3 communism, but cooler
Too bad the RIAA is going to sue them to oblivion.....:(
in my experience with switches (only 1), you double tap the scroll-lock button to bring up the menu to switch to another computer..its quite convienent, especially when i'm too lazy to lean forward and hit the switch manually :)
according to the web page: "but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of free software."
Stevens would still be enriching our knowledge of network programming if he were with us.
At last! I'm hoping this window manager will answer a question thats been burning in my mind for quite awhile.....what does the back of an application look like? Did netscape but a gui on the back of navigator? Are there wires or pipes sticking out of the end of your favorite text editor? These are questions I must have answers to dammit! Does XMMS have kill switch hidden on the back? I want the truth!
:)
You know you want to know also
I used this book in my intro to logic design course.
:)
All I can say is that this book made me switch majors from Comp Eng to Electrical Engineering
Wow! Do you work for Family PC by any chance? ;)
But think about it. Do you really think that ZD would try to get away with claiming to have had some 12 year old girl buy a game before it was even released? They would recieve way too much heat for that.
Perhaps this article was meant to have been in next months issue, or maybe the author should have done some research before making up this article. At the very least he could have lied about the article with a game thats on the shelves now...or even better, wait until Q3 is released!
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Subj: Re: Letter to the editor from Subscriber James Gillespie,North Fort
Date: 10/12/1999 9:31:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: fpcletters@zdnetonebox.com (FamilyPC Letters)
Reply-to: emily_friedlander@zd.com
To: JWGflorida@aol.com
Mr. Gillespie,
Thanks for bringing this error to our attention. It was a typo on an editor's part that through a series of edits,
made it to print. Watch for the correction in our January issue.
Thanks again,
Emily Friedlander
Even though, I must say that is really some shady reporting!
That the USPS is a private entity chartered by the government to deliever all of our mail. That would pretty much make them a company with special powers.
I could be wrong though, I'm usally pretty ignorant and often pull stuff out of my ass.
At least under windows. Your NIC mac address usually starts with 00, while your PPP adapter has a number that starts with 44.
has mulit-platform emulation written all over it.
I think
They also claim that blacksburg, VA is the most wired town in the US. I believe that VA Tech is located there, strangely enough.
I don't feel I can trust any entity that wasn't quick enough to grab the .com domain before other people (COUGH freshmeat!!!).
:) j/k
Seriously though, $29.99 for a BETA distro? Who are they trying to be, Microsoft????
Jeez. Keep me away from these guys.
I was looking at their "Open Positions". Mostly sales and marketing. Perhaps they should add one for "Web Designer" My little brother has done better.
Here at Penn State, the university just struck a deal with MS that would let them distribute software to all students/faculty. All the press coverage of the deal mentioned nothing about requiring the school to move their workstations/servers over to NT. I couldn't see that happening anyway. Overall, each department seems to choose their system independantly of the other.
Computer Science --> Unix
Electrical Eng. --> NT
etc.
Then on top of that we've got different administrative departments:
The Office of Telecommunications -->Unix
Center for Academic Computing --> Mix of both
I'm not all that familiar with what every department uses. Maybe some other Penn Stater knows more than I do.
The general computer labs all seem to be running NT, with Macs scattered about it for those students who use them.
Overall I can't see some of our services ever using NT. Our mail system is a very nice example. Penn State has over 100,000 students spread out all over the state. If you add all the TA's and faculty, that number rises even more. All of us use the same POP and SMTP server. Can you honestly see 100,000 + people all using an NT server for email? God save us if that were to happen.
Overall, we seem to have a very knowledgable staff supporting the university's computing needs. If MS were to pressure them to use their products, I have faith that our staff wouldn't make the wrong decision.
To add to that. I don't need any MS software. Just leave me alone dammit.