I've been using SprintPCS for about 7 months and I have been extremely happy with their customer service and their pcs service. I know other people who have been very happy with them too.
Their customer service reps have always been extremely polite and helpful.
Just my 0.02...
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This is exactly why I don't understand this whole y2k thing. It's not going to happen for another 48 years!
> As to your "super bacteria" resistant strains of bacteria crop up all the time, but its not due to radiation in any way. The more we use antibiotics, the more bacteria is exposed to them, which then evolve to be resistant.
There was a really good article in Discover Magazine about a year ago about this. It was really interesting. I no longer use antibiotic products around the house.
They each come with a WM, but you're over simplifying the significance of this announcement.
Really? Gnome comes with a WM? I didn't know that. I've been using Gnome since 0.40 (or soemwhere around there) and I never knew it came with a wm. I've been using icewm with it. So what's the wm Gnome comes with?... I'd like to try it out.
I guess the storage capacity would depend on what sort of compression our brain uses... Maybe it compresses audio to an MP3 format. Then we wouldn't even need to get a Rio. "Hear once, play anywhere".
Wow... That's pretty close to the same path I took. Slackware (with kernel 2.0.0) to Redhat 4.2 (and eventually upgraded to 5.0) to SuSE (5.2 -> 5.3 -> 6.0) to Debian 2.1 when it came out. I haven't looked back since.
Are you using slink or potato? I've been thinking about trying potato, but I'm wary since it's still in development. Is it pretty stable?
Now that I think about it, I tried Stampede for about a week also.
Excuse me Peter, but I was not bitching. I was just stating that I don't like Redhat. I think it is good for many people, just not me. That's the great thing about Linux... CHOICES!
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by (MICROSOFT convert!!!). I haven't used M$ products for about 1.5 years (except at work).
Well, if you want to get to know Linux in an intimate fashion, Slackware is good because everyting isn't automated and prettied up for you. If you want to install a new program, you have to get it unzip and untar it, read the README's with it to see if you have all the dependencies, configure, compile, etc. I feel you get a better understanding of how Linux operates and what is really going on... I know I did. But that being said, Redhat definitely has it's pluses. If you just want to have a computer to go on the internet and check your email and you don't care about the inner-workings of Linux, then Redhat and SuSE are very good distros. Redhat (and especially SuSE) automate a lot of things for you (adding directories to PATH's, setting up xdm or kdm, etc). But that's not always a bad thing. Some people don't want to bother with all that.
I don't necessarily think that Debian is good for experienced users, but that it's not the best for beginners. You have to know what you're doing more than you would with other distros.
I personally don't like Redhat. In my experiences I have found their distro to be sub-par of what I want in a distro. I started off using Slackware (which I think everyone should do) and moved on to Redhat then quickly on to SuSE, and now I'm at Debian. I think Debian is the best distro around for experienced users.
That being said, I believe Redhat is a good distro for beginners (although I still think everyone should start with Slackware).
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How about body modifications instead of limiting it to tattoo's? I have 8 body mods... 7 piercings (incl 2 in my ear) and 1 tat I just got this weekend (ahhhh spring break is great).
I was gonna throw my computer in my pool to keep it nice and cool, but then I thought, "Hey. I'm gonna have to take off my clothes and put on my swim trunks (or just leave them off if I'm feeling frisky) just to change a cd or floppy!"
Then I got the bestest idea in the whole wide world! I have an air compressor in my bedroom. I have it hooked up to a similar contraption as his. The air going into the compressor is cooled by an air conditioner. The only bad part is I have to replace my PII-400 every couple of days (you wouldn't beleive how quickly air tears through silicon). Hopefully a filter will help.
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I've been using SprintPCS for about 7 months and I have been extremely happy with their customer service and their pcs service. I know other people who have been very happy with them too.
Their customer service reps have always been extremely polite and helpful.
Just my 0.02...
This is exactly why I don't understand this whole y2k thing. It's not going to happen for another 48 years!
At my previous job, our DNS and backup mail server was an old 486 running Linux 1.2.13. The name of this computer was great... linus
> As to your "super bacteria" resistant strains of bacteria crop up all the time, but its not due to radiation in any way. The more we use antibiotics, the more bacteria is exposed to them, which then evolve to be resistant.
There was a really good article in Discover Magazine about a year ago about this. It was really interesting. I no longer use antibiotic products around the house.
They each come with a WM, but you're over simplifying the significance of this announcement.
Really? Gnome comes with a WM? I didn't know that. I've been using Gnome since 0.40 (or soemwhere around there) and I never knew it came with a wm. I've been using icewm with it. So what's the wm Gnome comes with?... I'd like to try it out.
I guess the storage capacity would depend on what sort of compression our brain uses... Maybe it compresses audio to an MP3 format. Then we wouldn't even need to get a Rio. "Hear once, play anywhere".
I have been using Debian 2.1 since it came out. I love it.
Why did you choose Redhat for your servers? (I'm not saying it was a bad choice, I'm just curious).
Wow...
That's pretty close to the same path I took.
Slackware (with kernel 2.0.0) to Redhat 4.2 (and eventually upgraded to 5.0) to SuSE (5.2 -> 5.3 -> 6.0) to Debian 2.1 when it came out. I haven't looked back since.
Are you using slink or potato? I've been thinking about trying potato, but I'm wary since it's still in development. Is it pretty stable?
Now that I think about it, I tried Stampede for about a week also.
Excuse me Peter, but I was not bitching. I was just stating that I don't like Redhat. I think it is good for many people, just not me. That's the great thing about Linux... CHOICES!
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by (MICROSOFT convert!!!). I haven't used M$ products for about 1.5 years (except at work).
Joe
Well, if you want to get to know Linux in an intimate fashion, Slackware is good because everyting isn't automated and prettied up for you. If you want to install a new program, you have to get it unzip and untar it, read the README's with it to see if you have all the dependencies, configure, compile, etc. I feel you get a better understanding of how Linux operates and what is really going on... I know I did. But that being said, Redhat definitely has it's pluses. If you just want to have a computer to go on the internet and check your email and you don't care about the inner-workings of Linux, then Redhat and SuSE are very good distros. Redhat (and especially SuSE) automate a lot of things for you (adding directories to PATH's, setting up xdm or kdm, etc). But that's not always a bad thing. Some people don't want to bother with all that.
I don't necessarily think that Debian is good for experienced users, but that it's not the best for beginners. You have to know what you're doing more than you would with other distros.
I think all distros have value.
I personally don't like Redhat. In my experiences I have found their distro to be sub-par of what I want in a distro. I started off using Slackware (which I think everyone should do) and moved on to Redhat then quickly on to SuSE, and now I'm at Debian. I think Debian is the best distro around for experienced users.
That being said, I believe Redhat is a good distro for beginners (although I still think everyone should start with Slackware).
Joe
How about body modifications instead of limiting it to tattoo's? I have 8 body mods... 7 piercings (incl 2 in my ear) and 1 tat I just got this weekend (ahhhh spring break is great).
funny thing is, I almost got a tatoo of tux this weekend at Jade Dragon in Chicago. I decided to get a tribal instead.
I had a similar idea.
I was gonna throw my computer in my pool to keep it nice and cool, but then I thought, "Hey. I'm gonna have to take off my clothes and put on my swim trunks (or just leave them off if I'm feeling frisky) just to change a cd or floppy!"
Then I got the bestest idea in the whole wide world! I have an air compressor in my bedroom. I have it hooked up to a similar contraption as his. The air going into the compressor is cooled by an air conditioner. The only bad part is I have to replace my PII-400 every couple of days (you wouldn't beleive how quickly air tears through silicon). Hopefully a filter will help.