2.6.2 has been out for several hours now... (changelog here) - surprised/. hasn't picked this up yet. It's not like the/. editors care about hammering a site.:)
As long as they work the way you want, sure. But you can't really customize the way they work. And I consider my firewall to be an important thing, and I would like to build it from source so I can be sure I know what it does.
OK... I'll go with that. But if are so concerned about your firewall, why on Earth would you want to use a GameCube? They aren't exactly designed to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
I bought a GameCube the day they came out and mine died on me with *very* *minimal* usage after about 10 months. (Fortunately it was still under warranty though and Nintendo replaced it and paid for shipping in both directions.)
I ended up replacing the car stereo with a $99 Awia deck that has Aux inputs on the front. Things work great now!
Getting a new car stereo in my Jeep (99 Grand Cherokee Limited) is on my todo list for this year now that I *finally* have it paid off. For now though I'm using a tape deck converter and it's a lot better than the iTrip. (I do have a 10 disc CD changer also but there's no CD converter that I know of.)
The iTrip will fade in and out while I'm driving around. And I can make it completely lose signal just by holding the iPod at the "right" (wrong) angle. Pretty lousy piece of equipment in my opinion.
If all you care about is listening to music it really doesnt matter what you get.
I have to disagree. The audio quality from one player to another is not always equal. Creative Labs' Nomad Zen NX (and some other Creative players) have the highest (meaning best) signal-to-noise ratio of the players I've looked at. (Though I still bought an iPod.)
And based on the reviews I've read about other certain players, the firmware and/or hardware is unresponsive at times causing the user to wait up to 10 or 15 seconds for the UI to "catch up" to their command input. And if the player doesn't have enough cache, you could be waiting a second or two between tracks while the new song is loaded into memory.
I have to agree. Aesthetics isn't the *only* thing that matters to me, but there's no way I'd buy that thing (or the Neuros) just because I couldn't stand to look at it. That white band around it looks like those old white wall Chevy tires from the 1950's.
I've heard that is possible, but I don't know what is involved, how long it would take, or if you would ever get your money back in the end. I'd much rather buy a laptop without the OS to begin with.
Yeah that's what I'd like to see. I e-mailed Dell two months ago about getting a laptop without Windows XP on it and this is what they said: (in short they said tough luck)
> Problem Description: > ------ I tried to purchase the Inspiron 5100 Notebook online but I noticed when I selected the option to customize that I was not able to remove Windows XP from the selection. As a long time "alternative operating system user", I have no desire to pay for an Operating System that I have no intention on using. -------
Dear Sir,
Thank you for choosing Dell Online Customer Care.
I apologize for any inconvenience this matter may have caused.
Unfortunately, we are unable to assist you with your request.
Online Sales Center at 1-800-915-3355 ext 62032 or via e-mail at:
If they had just said "he's a hero" and left it at that, I would agree. But they qualified the statement by saying "heroes of the MP3 revolution". Which I agree with. Within that small, contained area, they have certainly attained hero status. Without WinAmp or Napster, what would be the state of portable music today? (Assuming no on else had come along and achieved a similar status. But if that were the case, you would be arguing that [Some Guy] wasn't a hero instead of Justin Frankel.)
It is made by a german Knoppix hacker named Kano, who has a big page of patches for Knoppix here: http://www.kano.mipooh.net/
It comes with kernel 2.4.23 patched with forcedeth and XFS. It uses grub, Xfree86 4.3, is based on Debian/sid. ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off respectively nodma)
WASTE was great. I just wish it had lasted long enough and generated a big enough of a following for there to be a native (non command line) Linux version. It does work under WINE, but.. it's just not the same.
Is drinking a social activity? Because as near as I can tell, every member of the online Perl community except Damian Conway enjoys getting together often for drinks.
I think "getting together" is one of the key things in determining what is social and what is not. (Though getting together is not in and of itself the sole determining factor. Joining a monastery isn't exactly a social thing.)
But sitting in front of your computer in your underwear for 12 hours a day in an IRC chat room just doesn't seem to qualify as a social thing by the common sense definition of the word. Maybe some people are so completely introverted that they want to believe that IRC is social. I guess that's fine if it works for them. But I miss the days when I would hang out with my friends out in the real world, doing real things away from the computer.
I consider any activity where people are interacting with each other a social activity. Using irc, IM, a phone, they're all pretty much the same thing. Even when a bunch of my friends and I meet up for a game of starcraft, it's very much a social activity, not that much unlike all of us heading to one person's dorm to hang out and play risk or monopoly.
I agree with the latter part of your statement but not the former. Getting together with your friends for a night/weekend of Starcraft is pretty social. I agree with that.
But IRC, Instant Messaging, and talking on the phone are all "unattached" forms of "socializing". They *can be* just fine as long as they don't completely replace you actually getting together with your friends and doing other things. (In fact, for day to day stuff, I definitely prefer unattached communication.) But completely replacing normal communication is what I was getting at. And that is what has happened in my case. I moved out of state so I no longer see my friends 1 on 1. We still stay in contact every day of our lives via IM'ing but it's just not the same as getting together and going to see a movie and then hanging out at Denny's afterwards until sunrise. Or having a bunch of people of mixed gender over to the house and drinking yourselves stupid. Or getting together and going to an amusement park. Etc...
I never realized that for the most part all of the friends that you will know in life have been determined by the time you are about 16. I've met new friends since I was 16 but they have come and gone. But my closest friends that I've known since I was 14 or so are the only ones I still stay in touch with to this day. Unfortunately they are all 1,000+ miles away now.
In what way are IRC and Instant Messaging *not* social activities? Unless you're spending all your time interacting with bots, I mean.
I guess there is just something about sitting at my computer in my pajamas, typing text messages to people that lacks the "social" feeling I use to get when my girlfriend (now wife) and I would invite our friends over to our house for an evening of backyard BBQ, music, dancing, and of course drinking.
I am extremely happy with Mandrake 9.2. Except some minor sound problems everything else worked out of the box
I agree. I waited for the Mandrake 9.2 ISO's to become publically available before I decided to check out Mandrake 9.2. I installed it on my wife's computer and after about a week, I was "sold". I ordered the Power Pack DVD from MandrakeStore.com and have been very happy with my purchase.
I installed it on my machine on another hard-drive (was using Fedora Core 1 prior) and once I got all my data copied over from Fedora, I was using Mandrake exclusively there on out. I kept my Fedora install around for 2 or 3 weeks (just in case) but I finally ended up formatting that drive a few days ago so I could use the space for storage. On this machine (and only this machine) the default kernels seem to have something included that causes my computer to hard lock after a seemingly random amount of time. This would definitely be a show stopper for a newbie. But I prefer to compile my own kernel anwyway (and with the announcement of the memory bug in the pre 2.4.24 kernels), compiling your own kernel becomes a really good idea. My custom kernel has been perfectly stable.
I'm able to do everything I want to do with a computer. My current browser of choice is Galeon, though there is a lot to like about Mozilla Firebird. But Galeon has better Gnome integration in my opinion.
Gaim does all I need it to do for Instant Messaging.
I generally prefer the likes of light-weight players like XMMS for basic music listening, but lately (uhh..basically starting today) I'm really starting to appreciate RhythmBox. It just makes it real easy to find and sort songs instead of going through the directory hierarchy with your file manager. Now if RhythmBox would just get some integration with various portable digital music players (iPod for me - but I'd like to see plugins for as many as possible), that would be truly great. GTKpod works for syncing with iPod, but I don't like maintaining two completely different music databases. I'm really starting to like the rating system. So simple, but so useful.
Evolution is just more than I need in an e-mail client so I have been using Thunderbird. I'm happy with it, it works. But I think it could be improved (and I'm sure it will be, it's only version 0.4).
I'm finding that Gimp is kind of hard to get use to. It's kind of awkward in my opinion but I am learning more about it all the time. Like Photoshop though, it's just way more than I need. I'd like to find a high quality, good looking Gnome/GTK Image Editor that can do all of the basic things like resizing, cropping, rotation, etc...
I've been using Open Office for a while and I'm pretty happy with it. But I'd like to see better API? integration. (Not sure if API is the right term.) But basically where OO fits in better with the Gnome HIG. OO just looks really out of place on my system. But it works, and works well and that's the most important thing to me. I'm confident the aesthetics will catch up eventually.
Between Totem and GXine, I'm able to view every video file format I've ran into. And the playback is perfectly smooth. I use to have a real issue with video playback under Linux.
I also installed my Mandrake 9.2 DVD on my Laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-FX140) and have been very happy with it. The only problem I've had on the laptop has been with the power management stuff not working. For some people that would probably be a show stopper but for my uses it isn't really an issue. And I could probably resolve it if I took the time to figure it out. All of my hardware works "out of the box". (The onboard modem may or may not work. I'm not sure, I've never used it whether using Linux or Windows.)
I still have the download version on my wife's machine and she has been using it without any complaints ever since I installed it. She surfs the web (Galeon), checks her e-mail (Thunderbird), enjoys all the little dumb games that come w
Slashdot Mirror
2.6.2 has been out for several hours now ... (changelog here) - surprised /. hasn't picked this up yet. It's not like the /. editors care about hammering a site. :)
As long as they work the way you want, sure. But you can't really customize the way they work. And I consider my firewall to be an important thing, and I would like to build it from source so I can be sure I know what it does.
... I'll go with that. But if are so concerned about your firewall, why on Earth would you want to use a GameCube? They aren't exactly designed to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
OK
I bought a GameCube the day they came out and mine died on me with *very* *minimal* usage after about 10 months. (Fortunately it was still under warranty though and Nintendo replaced it and paid for shipping in both directions.)
A GameCube would make a sweet firewall/router box if you could get two network ports on it and Linux. The price would be right too.
Seems like a dumb use for it practically speaking.
Wouldn't one of those $30-$40 Linksys/D-Link/Netgear router/switches be a better solution? And you wouldn't even have to hack it to make it work.
Though doing it "just for fun" is certainly understandable.
I ended up replacing the car stereo with a $99 Awia deck that has Aux inputs on the front. Things work great now!
Getting a new car stereo in my Jeep (99 Grand Cherokee Limited) is on my todo list for this year now that I *finally* have it paid off. For now though I'm using a tape deck converter and it's a lot better than the iTrip. (I do have a 10 disc CD changer also but there's no CD converter that I know of.)
The iTrip will fade in and out while I'm driving around. And I can make it completely lose signal just by holding the iPod at the "right" (wrong) angle. Pretty lousy piece of equipment in my opinion.
If all you care about is listening to music it really doesnt matter what you get.
I have to disagree. The audio quality from one player to another is not always equal. Creative Labs' Nomad Zen NX (and some other Creative players) have the highest (meaning best) signal-to-noise ratio of the players I've looked at. (Though I still bought an iPod.)
And based on the reviews I've read about other certain players, the firmware and/or hardware is unresponsive at times causing the user to wait up to 10 or 15 seconds for the UI to "catch up" to their command input. And if the player doesn't have enough cache, you could be waiting a second or two between tracks while the new song is loaded into memory.
and I love my iTrip FM transmitter
Really? I hate mine. I don't even consider it usable.
Just what has a scroll wheel and excellent UI got to do with your music?
Oh gee I don't know. What does your keyboard, mouse, monitor and Operating System have to do with your computer?
Its also twice as ugly though.
I have to agree. Aesthetics isn't the *only* thing that matters to me, but there's no way I'd buy that thing (or the Neuros) just because I couldn't stand to look at it. That white band around it looks like those old white wall Chevy tires from the 1950's.
Best idea: just return the operating system
I've heard that is possible, but I don't know what is involved, how long it would take, or if you would ever get your money back in the end. I'd much rather buy a laptop without the OS to begin with.
...laptops?
Yeah that's what I'd like to see. I e-mailed Dell two months ago about getting a laptop without Windows XP on it and this is what they said: (in short they said tough luck)
> Problem Description:
>
------
I tried to purchase the Inspiron 5100 Notebook online but I noticed when I selected the option to customize that I was not able to remove Windows XP from the selection. As a long time "alternative operating system user", I have no desire to pay for an Operating System that I have no intention on using.
-------
Dear Sir,
Thank you for choosing Dell Online Customer Care.
I apologize for any inconvenience this matter may have caused.
Unfortunately, we are unable to assist you with your request.
Online Sales Center at 1-800-915-3355 ext 62032 or via e-mail
at:
DHS_On-Line_Order@Dell.com
What brand of motherboard do they put in these things?
What's the wattage of the Power Supply?
What kind of RAM is used? DDR Dual Channel? What brand is the RAM?
What brand is the hard-drive? What is the rotational speed of the hdd? How much cache does the hdd have?
Sounds like a decent deal as long as they are using decent hardware.
For the Dean Supporters.
Dean has supporters?
I'm no zealot, but I've got compiles running here in the background that aren't bothering my use of the system at all. (Thanks, 2.6).
Get your facts right before...
OK. While you're compiling in the background, I'll work on getting my facts straight.
Hero - within the context of the message.
If they had just said "he's a hero" and left it at that, I would agree. But they qualified the statement by saying "heroes of the MP3 revolution". Which I agree with. Within that small, contained area, they have certainly attained hero status. Without WinAmp or Napster, what would be the state of portable music today? (Assuming no on else had come along and achieved a similar status. But if that were the case, you would be arguing that [Some Guy] wasn't a hero instead of Justin Frankel.)
http://kano.mipooh.net/kanotix/
- PREVIEW.iso.torrent
It is made by a german Knoppix hacker named Kano, who has a big page of patches for Knoppix here:
http://www.kano.mipooh.net/
It comes with kernel 2.4.23 patched with forcedeth and XFS.
It uses grub, Xfree86 4.3, is based on Debian/sid.
ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off respectively nodma)
The forum (german and english):
http://kanotix.mipooh.net/index.php
Download:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/kanotix/
Torrent:
http://kano.mipooh.net/kanotix/KANOTIX-X-MAS-2003
Should have did this research before I posted. Looks promising.
WASTE was great. I just wish it had lasted long enough and generated a big enough of a following for there to be a native (non command line) Linux version. It does work under WINE, but .. it's just not the same.
What is it? Is it just you typing text and sending it into oblivion, getting unexpected packages of chocolate back through the wormhole?
... read my other replies. I've already answered why *I* don't think it's social in the common sense definition.
Blah
Or maybe many people have _no_ idea how much time they spend online. I don't.
That's a good indication that it's too much.
Is drinking a social activity? Because as near as I can tell, every member of the online Perl community except Damian Conway enjoys getting together often for drinks.
I think "getting together" is one of the key things in determining what is social and what is not. (Though getting together is not in and of itself the sole determining factor. Joining a monastery isn't exactly a social thing.)
But sitting in front of your computer in your underwear for 12 hours a day in an IRC chat room just doesn't seem to qualify as a social thing by the common sense definition of the word. Maybe some people are so completely introverted that they want to believe that IRC is social. I guess that's fine if it works for them. But I miss the days when I would hang out with my friends out in the real world, doing real things away from the computer.
I consider any activity where people are interacting with each other a social activity. Using irc, IM, a phone, they're all pretty much the same thing. Even when a bunch of my friends and I meet up for a game of starcraft, it's very much a social activity, not that much unlike all of us heading to one person's dorm to hang out and play risk or monopoly.
I agree with the latter part of your statement but not the former. Getting together with your friends for a night/weekend of Starcraft is pretty social. I agree with that.
But IRC, Instant Messaging, and talking on the phone are all "unattached" forms of "socializing". They *can be* just fine as long as they don't completely replace you actually getting together with your friends and doing other things. (In fact, for day to day stuff, I definitely prefer unattached communication.) But completely replacing normal communication is what I was getting at. And that is what has happened in my case. I moved out of state so I no longer see my friends 1 on 1. We still stay in contact every day of our lives via IM'ing but it's just not the same as getting together and going to see a movie and then hanging out at Denny's afterwards until sunrise. Or having a bunch of people of mixed gender over to the house and drinking yourselves stupid. Or getting together and going to an amusement park. Etc...
I never realized that for the most part all of the friends that you will know in life have been determined by the time you are about 16. I've met new friends since I was 16 but they have come and gone. But my closest friends that I've known since I was 14 or so are the only ones I still stay in touch with to this day. Unfortunately they are all 1,000+ miles away now.
In what way are IRC and Instant Messaging *not* social activities? Unless you're spending all your time interacting with bots, I mean.
I guess there is just something about sitting at my computer in my pajamas, typing text messages to people that lacks the "social" feeling I use to get when my girlfriend (now wife) and I would invite our friends over to our house for an evening of backyard BBQ, music, dancing, and of course drinking.
But that's just me.
Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users:
.. True
... True
... Definitely false. Unless IRC and Instant Messaging is now considered a social activity.
internet users watch less television
read more books
and engage in more social activities.
I am extremely happy with Mandrake 9.2. Except some minor sound problems everything else worked out of the box
I agree. I waited for the Mandrake 9.2 ISO's to become publically available before I decided to check out Mandrake 9.2. I installed it on my wife's computer and after about a week, I was "sold". I ordered the Power Pack DVD from MandrakeStore.com and have been very happy with my purchase.
I installed it on my machine on another hard-drive (was using Fedora Core 1 prior) and once I got all my data copied over from Fedora, I was using Mandrake exclusively there on out. I kept my Fedora install around for 2 or 3 weeks (just in case) but I finally ended up formatting that drive a few days ago so I could use the space for storage. On this machine (and only this machine) the default kernels seem to have something included that causes my computer to hard lock after a seemingly random amount of time. This would definitely be a show stopper for a newbie. But I prefer to compile my own kernel anwyway (and with the announcement of the memory bug in the pre 2.4.24 kernels), compiling your own kernel becomes a really good idea. My custom kernel has been perfectly stable.
I'm able to do everything I want to do with a computer. My current browser of choice is Galeon, though there is a lot to like about Mozilla Firebird. But Galeon has better Gnome integration in my opinion.
Gaim does all I need it to do for Instant Messaging.
I generally prefer the likes of light-weight players like XMMS for basic music listening, but lately (uhh..basically starting today) I'm really starting to appreciate RhythmBox. It just makes it real easy to find and sort songs instead of going through the directory hierarchy with your file manager. Now if RhythmBox would just get some integration with various portable digital music players (iPod for me - but I'd like to see plugins for as many as possible), that would be truly great. GTKpod works for syncing with iPod, but I don't like maintaining two completely different music databases. I'm really starting to like the rating system. So simple, but so useful.
Evolution is just more than I need in an e-mail client so I have been using Thunderbird. I'm happy with it, it works. But I think it could be improved (and I'm sure it will be, it's only version 0.4).
I'm finding that Gimp is kind of hard to get use to. It's kind of awkward in my opinion but I am learning more about it all the time. Like Photoshop though, it's just way more than I need. I'd like to find a high quality, good looking Gnome/GTK Image Editor that can do all of the basic things like resizing, cropping, rotation, etc...
I've been using Open Office for a while and I'm pretty happy with it. But I'd like to see better API? integration. (Not sure if API is the right term.) But basically where OO fits in better with the Gnome HIG. OO just looks really out of place on my system. But it works, and works well and that's the most important thing to me. I'm confident the aesthetics will catch up eventually.
Between Totem and GXine, I'm able to view every video file format I've ran into. And the playback is perfectly smooth. I use to have a real issue with video playback under Linux.
I also installed my Mandrake 9.2 DVD on my Laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-FX140) and have been very happy with it. The only problem I've had on the laptop has been with the power management stuff not working. For some people that would probably be a show stopper but for my uses it isn't really an issue. And I could probably resolve it if I took the time to figure it out. All of my hardware works "out of the box". (The onboard modem may or may not work. I'm not sure, I've never used it whether using Linux or Windows.)
I still have the download version on my wife's machine and she has been using it without any complaints ever since I installed it. She surfs the web (Galeon), checks her e-mail (Thunderbird), enjoys all the little dumb games that come w
here