Given my recent encounters with Dell's support people. I'm not really interested in their products just because I want good support to go with them. After a three hour session where I was forwarded to a fax machine, hung up on, warned that their support service center was under attack by the latest virus and put on hold again indefinatly, and finally tossed on hold in India several times about a month ago.
I'd recomend against buying products from them. Doesn't matter how good the product is, if the support is lousy like Dell's, your going to suffer. I'm still regretting paying $2800 for a laptop that had full at home service coverage. Especially if it takes an act of God to make their support people move.
Oooooh we've terrorized the ocean good.. Whaling industry, fishing industry, oil spills, sewage wastes from the main land running from our rivers and streams. Yes there's plenty of things we've done to hurt the ocean environment w/out even going there.
I wouldn't be suprised if there was radioactive waste at the bottom of the sea somewhere. And this is off the top of my head w/out even looking.
Ever hear of E-waste? The electronics other nations get because they're outdated and only valuable for the minerals in their parts? Imagine all the polution thats been reported from it getting in to the water supply over there. Now realize that their water flows to the ocean eventually. More terrorization of the worlds oceans. All this probebly isn't even the tip of the ice berg so to speak.
If this release lives up to what the article says and more I hope it pulls the company out of the club thing and puts them better on their feet financially. Nows a good time to make a push with MS saying they won't release the new windows till around 2005 or 2006 if I remember right. Take the 9.2 ball and run.
"Boxed sets since 6.0. Keep up the good work." - CFBMoo1
One thing I noticed, the MSN protocol is still in gaim.71 but wasn't installed like it normally was even though I followed the documented install procedures for Gaim on my system anyway.
Well I'm locked out of the MSN messenger network. I'm running Gaim.70, I'm wondering if.71 is as well. Though I know when i did a source compile of.72 I was strangely missing MSN plugins so I went back to.71 on my home box. Though seeing this now I see why.
Amazing, Microsoft was so big on interoperability when they tried to open up the AIM networks. I can't help but think hyopcrits after witnessing their attempts to get in to the AIM network over a year ago. Yeah it's their resources, but they didn't seem to mind back then.
This doesn't really push me towards their products. Infact it makes me want to get further away from them seeing their actions in this regard.
Hell I still can't shutdown the MSN messenger client from my windows box totally even after I close it. It still sticks in memory and sends me alerts and messages even though it's not on my task bar or system tray. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL the task manager up and whack the process.
I don't think this sounds right, I'm not against them making money. However I do feel that if they want to make money off the software perhaps they should concider a comercial only version with their extra features or something along the lines of Red Hat since they are based off that distro really.
I don't mind paying for Mandrake. I've got boxed sets since 6.0. The download version was a great way to show it off and give it out to people. Now I'm a little aprehensive in doing that since it will have advertisements in it come version 9.2.
I feel that company that does Mandrake might be living beyond their means in some regards. Seeing the club and now this really makes me wonder. That really doesn't make me feel good cause it's a good distro and I've enjoyed it. I just feel this is a wrong turn.
I'll also admit my hate for online advertising is playing a major role in my feelings on this. Spam, popups, etc have seriously soured my opinion of ads these days and I know this won't effect me if I buy a copy, but I won't have the same appreciation for Mandrake as did before I heard this.
Great now I have to be careful with cloths of the edible variety like chicken. Last thing I need is to hit my stomach and hearing the latest chic tune because I was careless. Hope atleast it's a good collection.
Atleast yours spoke english unlike the one I spoke with who transfered me to a fax machine, then put me on hold for hours on end to schedual a warrenty repair. I spent the better part of 3 hours memorizing Dell's tech support scripts while waiting for help.
While it is their network and their resources, I couldn't help but send them a letter indicating my disgust over their decision. I also included a reminder of the MNS/AIM tussel to show that some people havn't forgotten and noticed how their stance has changed in regards to interoperability.
I know it won't do much, but who knows? Maybe if enough people notice and respond there may be a change of heart. In any case I'm not giving up my asbestos suit just yet for when I die.:)
Just cause you have a PhD doesn't mean you have to do PhD level stuff if you don't want to. Yeah it may seem somewhat of a waste, but as long as you get satisfaction out of getting that PhD, who really cares about anything else?
You'll be worth more for having it then not having it. Plus you can get other degrees after and apply what you learnd for computer science or computer engineering to other areas people may not have thougt of yet.
If your happy with getting it, go do it. This is just my humble opinion ofcourse.
Oh this just takes me back.. Back to when I was in elementry school in the early 80's and working on an old NCR with two 5.25" floppy disk drives. Coded a text RPG on that in basic with two full levels.
Then I got a Radio Shack color computer 2 with a tape cassette drive and a thermal printer that made like a cash register tape. Also had a nice 13" color tv monitor to hook it to. Luxury computing... mmmmmm... 16k of memory.
Coded a light cycles of Tron game on that cause I got tired of plopping quarters in the arcades. My elementry school teacher never got over the day I handed her a roll of paper that looked like a grocery reciept when it was actually a typed and printed book report from my Coco2.:D
..We might remember the wisdom of Odysseus, who was offered immortality by a luscious goddess, Calypso, but turned her down to grow old and die with his wife, Penelope.
Being single and a bit of a geek I'm all for immortality from a hot babe. Thats a nice upside.
"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University...
The down side is retirement age will probebly be extended to about 4,000 to 4,500. OY!!!!
When I see this I ask the question of why isn't this made to a standard command instead of distro specific commands? Joe Average user would never figure this out on his own especially if he has some experience in say Mandrake and goes to Redhat knowing somewhat that Mandrake is a variant of Redhat. He would try the Mandrake command first.
There will be people who will complain about that. I for one am one of those people cause I don't like re-learning how to do the same thing. Those 5 commands alone make the whole task confusing as hell if your a person working with multiple distro's for the first time and don't realize this right off.
Setting up X on my laptop. Almost every distro has caused my screen to either not go in to X at all, melt the screen in a cool psycho-drug effect that if I were really doing drugs I'd be thinking I was way beyond being on a high, and finally I do get it setup but hardware acceleration isn't happening.
The best solution I had was from an X configuration file from some guy in Germany, but when I plopped it in I realized I had to change the keyboard to a US keyboard. Ooops.:) That still didn't give me the hardware acceleration I wanted though.
Dell Inspiron 8000 with an ATI Rage Mobility 4 graphics setup. The distro's I tried were Mandrake and Redhat. Out of the box both of them had troubles with the display, but Redhat seemed to pick it up a little better after melting the screen a time or two. Mandrake 9.1 didn't see any screens till I put that German X config file in.
The driver update I got from Dell was an X config file that was so out of date I'm guessing Dell doesn't care about users choice in OS's. It just didn't work on my laptop.
Anyway that has been my biggest Linux annoyance and I'll be honest, as I get older I don't want to play around with config files. I just want to fire up X and load up Quake3 and kick tail err load up Eclipse and work hard, yeah..:)
I have visions of an Episode 1 type battle. Where drone/driods of Microsoft and SCO are on one end of the battlefield and on the other I see hordes of Linux users riding giant Suse mascots and flying red fedora's. Go Gunga's!
One thing I think is important for excersize is doing something you like and can repeatedly do with yourself or others. Situps, pushups, etc are fine. Instead of doing them at work how about when you wakeup in the morning or before you shower in the evening? Walking is just as good as jogging and is less damaging to your feet from what I've been told. Though there's nothing wrong with running or jogging, walking can be enjoyable as well and get you in shape.
One thing I found fun but I can only do with friends is toss around a medicine ball. That just takes me back to being a kid and doesn't seem like work or excersize. I have to admit though I was disapointed when i didn't find any mint flavored cough syrup inside the medicine ball. I felt like I was lied to all those years hearing the name medicine ball.
Tell your mom to have the blood tested before she has her second hip replacement so they find the hepatitus C before they give it to her and not 10 years after the fact.
While the privacy issue is a big factor, I have to say this could make tracking of stolen good much easier especially after the time of purchase if done properly.
Imagine your house getting burglerized and all the objects are tagged as yours. They couldn't be sold anywhere legitamently or even carried anywhere that detects the tags and runs their ID's through a stolen goods database.
Still this will get highly abused since people arn't responsible and/or ethical enough to not abuse that type of system.
Another thought that occured to me is that content industries could enforce stricter viewing practices on their materials with these tags. It would be possible to even detect who's watching what and where and if they don't like the outcome of that formula they could ban or remove the content depending on the medium. This would really kill fair use.
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What about nebula clouds? Granted its still space, but wouldn't there be some friction from the nebula gasses?
Given my recent encounters with Dell's support people. I'm not really interested in their products just because I want good support to go with them. After a three hour session where I was forwarded to a fax machine, hung up on, warned that their support service center was under attack by the latest virus and put on hold again indefinatly, and finally tossed on hold in India several times about a month ago.
I'd recomend against buying products from them. Doesn't matter how good the product is, if the support is lousy like Dell's, your going to suffer. I'm still regretting paying $2800 for a laptop that had full at home service coverage. Especially if it takes an act of God to make their support people move.
Oooooh we've terrorized the ocean good.. Whaling industry, fishing industry, oil spills, sewage wastes from the main land running from our rivers and streams. Yes there's plenty of things we've done to hurt the ocean environment w/out even going there.
I wouldn't be suprised if there was radioactive waste at the bottom of the sea somewhere. And this is off the top of my head w/out even looking.
Ever hear of E-waste? The electronics other nations get because they're outdated and only valuable for the minerals in their parts? Imagine all the polution thats been reported from it getting in to the water supply over there. Now realize that their water flows to the ocean eventually. More terrorization of the worlds oceans. All this probebly isn't even the tip of the ice berg so to speak.
If this release lives up to what the article says and more I hope it pulls the company out of the club thing and puts them better on their feet financially. Nows a good time to make a push with MS saying they won't release the new windows till around 2005 or 2006 if I remember right. Take the 9.2 ball and run.
"Boxed sets since 6.0. Keep up the good work." - CFBMoo1
One thing I noticed, the MSN protocol is still in gaim .71 but wasn't installed like it normally was even though I followed the documented install procedures for Gaim on my system anyway.
Well I'm locked out of the MSN messenger network. I'm running Gaim .70, I'm wondering if .71 is as well. Though I know when i did a source compile of .72 I was strangely missing MSN plugins so I went back to .71 on my home box. Though seeing this now I see why.
Amazing, Microsoft was so big on interoperability when they tried to open up the AIM networks. I can't help but think hyopcrits after witnessing their attempts to get in to the AIM network over a year ago. Yeah it's their resources, but they didn't seem to mind back then.
This doesn't really push me towards their products. Infact it makes me want to get further away from them seeing their actions in this regard.
Hell I still can't shutdown the MSN messenger client from my windows box totally even after I close it. It still sticks in memory and sends me alerts and messages even though it's not on my task bar or system tray. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL the task manager up and whack the process.
I don't think this sounds right, I'm not against them making money. However I do feel that if they want to make money off the software perhaps they should concider a comercial only version with their extra features or something along the lines of Red Hat since they are based off that distro really.
I don't mind paying for Mandrake. I've got boxed sets since 6.0. The download version was a great way to show it off and give it out to people. Now I'm a little aprehensive in doing that since it will have advertisements in it come version 9.2.
I feel that company that does Mandrake might be living beyond their means in some regards. Seeing the club and now this really makes me wonder. That really doesn't make me feel good cause it's a good distro and I've enjoyed it. I just feel this is a wrong turn.
I'll also admit my hate for online advertising is playing a major role in my feelings on this. Spam, popups, etc have seriously soured my opinion of ads these days and I know this won't effect me if I buy a copy, but I won't have the same appreciation for Mandrake as did before I heard this.
Great now I have to be careful with cloths of the edible variety like chicken. Last thing I need is to hit my stomach and hearing the latest chic tune because I was careless. Hope atleast it's a good collection.
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Dang if only it was that easy.
CNN is giving March 21, 2012 as the impact date.
Atleast yours spoke english unlike the one I spoke with who transfered me to a fax machine, then put me on hold for hours on end to schedual a warrenty repair. I spent the better part of 3 hours memorizing Dell's tech support scripts while waiting for help.
While it is their network and their resources, I couldn't help but send them a letter indicating my disgust over their decision. I also included a reminder of the MNS/AIM tussel to show that some people havn't forgotten and noticed how their stance has changed in regards to interoperability.
:)
I know it won't do much, but who knows? Maybe if enough people notice and respond there may be a change of heart. In any case I'm not giving up my asbestos suit just yet for when I die.
To much education is never bad.
Just cause you have a PhD doesn't mean you have to do PhD level stuff if you don't want to. Yeah it may seem somewhat of a waste, but as long as you get satisfaction out of getting that PhD, who really cares about anything else?
You'll be worth more for having it then not having it. Plus you can get other degrees after and apply what you learnd for computer science or computer engineering to other areas people may not have thougt of yet.
If your happy with getting it, go do it. This is just my humble opinion ofcourse.
Oh this just takes me back.. Back to when I was in elementry school in the early 80's and working on an old NCR with two 5.25" floppy disk drives. Coded a text RPG on that in basic with two full levels.
:D
Then I got a Radio Shack color computer 2 with a tape cassette drive and a thermal printer that made like a cash register tape. Also had a nice 13" color tv monitor to hook it to. Luxury computing... mmmmmm... 16k of memory.
Coded a light cycles of Tron game on that cause I got tired of plopping quarters in the arcades. My elementry school teacher never got over the day I handed her a roll of paper that looked like a grocery reciept when it was actually a typed and printed book report from my Coco2.
Being single and a bit of a geek I'm all for immortality from a hot babe. Thats a nice upside.
"Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years" in rich countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at Cambridge University...
The down side is retirement age will probebly be extended to about 4,000 to 4,500. OY!!!!
Red Hat: up2date
Mandrake: urpmi
Debian: apt-get
Gentoo: emerge
SuSE: yast2
When I see this I ask the question of why isn't this made to a standard command instead of distro specific commands? Joe Average user would never figure this out on his own especially if he has some experience in say Mandrake and goes to Redhat knowing somewhat that Mandrake is a variant of Redhat. He would try the Mandrake command first.
There will be people who will complain about that. I for one am one of those people cause I don't like re-learning how to do the same thing. Those 5 commands alone make the whole task confusing as hell if your a person working with multiple distro's for the first time and don't realize this right off.
Setting up X on my laptop. Almost every distro has caused my screen to either not go in to X at all, melt the screen in a cool psycho-drug effect that if I were really doing drugs I'd be thinking I was way beyond being on a high, and finally I do get it setup but hardware acceleration isn't happening.
:) That still didn't give me the hardware acceleration I wanted though.
:)
The best solution I had was from an X configuration file from some guy in Germany, but when I plopped it in I realized I had to change the keyboard to a US keyboard. Ooops.
Dell Inspiron 8000 with an ATI Rage Mobility 4 graphics setup. The distro's I tried were Mandrake and Redhat. Out of the box both of them had troubles with the display, but Redhat seemed to pick it up a little better after melting the screen a time or two. Mandrake 9.1 didn't see any screens till I put that German X config file in.
The driver update I got from Dell was an X config file that was so out of date I'm guessing Dell doesn't care about users choice in OS's. It just didn't work on my laptop.
Anyway that has been my biggest Linux annoyance and I'll be honest, as I get older I don't want to play around with config files. I just want to fire up X and load up Quake3 and kick tail err load up Eclipse and work hard, yeah..
Amazing what you can dream up with a pile of code to work on and no caffeine in the morning.
I have visions of an Episode 1 type battle. Where drone/driods of Microsoft and SCO are on one end of the battlefield and on the other I see hordes of Linux users riding giant Suse mascots and flying red fedora's. Go Gunga's!
One thing I think is important for excersize is doing something you like and can repeatedly do with yourself or others. Situps, pushups, etc are fine. Instead of doing them at work how about when you wakeup in the morning or before you shower in the evening? Walking is just as good as jogging and is less damaging to your feet from what I've been told. Though there's nothing wrong with running or jogging, walking can be enjoyable as well and get you in shape.
One thing I found fun but I can only do with friends is toss around a medicine ball. That just takes me back to being a kid and doesn't seem like work or excersize. I have to admit though I was disapointed when i didn't find any mint flavored cough syrup inside the medicine ball. I felt like I was lied to all those years hearing the name medicine ball.
It's obvious this article missed the ball, it's a good thing the artist at UserFriendly saw the true nature of the beast.
Well if you must know look here..
Tell your mom to have the blood tested before she has her second hip replacement so they find the hepatitus C before they give it to her and not 10 years after the fact.
After seeing this Ice Berg from Ross Shelf I'm not sure thats such a good idea at that location if things keep warming up.
While the privacy issue is a big factor, I have to say this could make tracking of stolen good much easier especially after the time of purchase if done properly.
Imagine your house getting burglerized and all the objects are tagged as yours. They couldn't be sold anywhere legitamently or even carried anywhere that detects the tags and runs their ID's through a stolen goods database.
Still this will get highly abused since people arn't responsible and/or ethical enough to not abuse that type of system.
Another thought that occured to me is that content industries could enforce stricter viewing practices on their materials with these tags. It would be possible to even detect who's watching what and where and if they don't like the outcome of that formula they could ban or remove the content depending on the medium. This would really kill fair use.