What a fantastic idea. If there's one thing the internet needs more of it's intrusive popups. I browse with IE and have popups disabled anyway. Mozilla is far too slow and clunky. Phoenix is kinda cool though, but the interface is still far too slow to be usable.
No need to get sarky. What is it with you linux people that makes you arrogant? No wonder it's always a nightmare getting help with linux as a newbie.
I did try selecting expert mode with mandrake, but I would have been there for god knows how many hours selecting and deselecting thousands of packages - most of which I have no idea what they do.
Seems that one of linux's greatest strengths is also its greatest weakness - "choice".
I'm a newbie. I didn't like Mandrake or Redhat. Call me stupid, but the ide of having tens of identical apps installed doesn't appeal to me. Who needs 10 text editors ffs?
So, I tried installing debian3. Install seemed to go fine, but I could not get X to start. Spent an evening fiddling and searching on google and in the mailing lists, but no help.
Installed Slackware8.1 - great! Stuff just works now.
The problem was a few days ago I needed to get some DV from a camera. I had a quick look at my options in linux and soon decided to stick XP back on that box to do the firewire capture.
I'll be putting slackware back on that machine as soon as I can get round to it, but as that's the only machine with a FW port, I may have to keep putting XP/Pinnacle Studio8 back on there. If anyone has a better solution using linux I'd very much like to hear it, even though it's a little off topic.
Once it's running, hit CTRL+T under Windows to open a new tab; it's much faster than opening a new window because of the reduced window manager overhead.
How does that work then? When I click on an IE icon to open another browser window, the window is open and ready for input by the time my finger leaves the mouse button... what's the problem?
As a father and a geek, this makes me sick. If your body does not have the ability to make children, you are not supposed to. Period.
As a 25yr old who, due to a hell of a lot of chemotherapy, has recently discovered his inability to father children, I find your remarks rather distasteful.
Do you or does anyone you know wear glasses?
Lets think about what you've just said, and change a few words - People who wear glasses make me sick! How disgusting. If your body does not have the ability to see properly, you weren't supposed to. Period. - sound familiar?
Glasses, walking sticks, hearing aids, artificial heart valves, not to mention things like kidney dialysis should presumably would be stopped too, if you had your way? Now you see how silly your statement sounds...?
This is a time for cool heads and rational thought, not for knee-jerk emotional reactions.
Of course, one initially hopes for a decent script. Something hollywood has failed to provide for a number of years. Youthful and rugged actors aren't that high on my list of what makes for a good movie.
I did everything possible to enhance the machine's performance, but to no avail. It STILL took several minutes to just get me to the desktop! Albeit under XP that startup changed a bit and I now have a desktop up and running in under 3 minutes instead of the earlier 10.
This is a joke right? Win2k takes 10 minutes to boot? Something in your house/office is seriously knackered. It's either your computer or your stopwatch;-)
My Win2k box includes a full registry backup and defrag. It actually boots one and a half times because of this, and still only takes around 4 minutes to boot to a usable desktop.
When I was trying out XP Pro, the bootup time on the same machine was between 30 and 40 seconds. The machine in question is a 384MB dual Celeron - which btw, refuses to run anything but a very hacked up slackware. Go figure.
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Yeah, of course they do. I guess the part where I said "yes, that was a joke" was missed by somebody in another post. Glad you noticed it!
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Wow. Not only do you lot have no foreign language classes, it seems you have no history classes either... for shame
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Sure, they can, but IIRC, Germans speak German and the French speak French. See the problem?
No, not really. You see, we have these things over here in Europe called schools, and instead of guns our teachers carry books (or at least they did back in the day). Now some of those books are for teaching foreign languages.
Don't tar Europeans with your American monolingual brush.
What do you call someone who can speak three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who can speak two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who can speak one language? American.
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Uhmm.. I live in the UK and have been using a TiVo since I purchased it a few months ago.
What a fantastic idea. If there's one thing the internet needs more of it's intrusive popups. I browse with IE and have popups disabled anyway. Mozilla is far too slow and clunky. Phoenix is kinda cool though, but the interface is still far too slow to be usable.
No need to get sarky. What is it with you linux people that makes you arrogant? No wonder it's always a nightmare getting help with linux as a newbie.
I did try selecting expert mode with mandrake, but I would have been there for god knows how many hours selecting and deselecting thousands of packages - most of which I have no idea what they do.
Seems that one of linux's greatest strengths is also its greatest weakness - "choice".
Come on, people. Remind me when exactly was this thing going to start?
I'm a newbie. I didn't like Mandrake or Redhat. Call me stupid, but the ide of having tens of identical apps installed doesn't appeal to me. Who needs 10 text editors ffs?
So, I tried installing debian3. Install seemed to go fine, but I could not get X to start. Spent an evening fiddling and searching on google and in the mailing lists, but no help.
Installed Slackware8.1 - great! Stuff just works now.
The problem was a few days ago I needed to get some DV from a camera. I had a quick look at my options in linux and soon decided to stick XP back on that box to do the firewire capture.
I'll be putting slackware back on that machine as soon as I can get round to it, but as that's the only machine with a FW port, I may have to keep putting XP/Pinnacle Studio8 back on there. If anyone has a better solution using linux I'd very much like to hear it, even though it's a little off topic.
Many ISPs will sooner block systems and reveal user details than face the wrath of the RIAA and MPAA.
What does the last letter of those acronyms represent?
Hint: There is a world outside America.
Your TiVo doesn't record any comedy shows, does it..
No, you didn't miss anything. Damn thing can't recognise the NIC in the box I was going to install it on. Strange, as every other OS or distro does.
Ahh well. Maybe the next version will have support - then again, maybe by then I won't care.
That's why we have things like load balancing and clusters.
IIS is installed by default on WinNT and 2k. I think the Win98FE (yes, 1st ed) installs the personal web server by default as well.
Not on NT, not on 2K, not on XP. Can't remember about Win98, but I'd be surprised if it did.
How does that work then? When I click on an IE icon to open another browser window, the window is open and ready for input by the time my finger leaves the mouse button... what's the problem?
i fucking hate all p2p networks, and this is a really stupid concept, but check it out.
and if the editor's Timothy, tag this onto the end:
i bet this doesn't work on windows.
As a 25yr old who, due to a hell of a lot of chemotherapy, has recently discovered his inability to father children, I find your remarks rather distasteful.
Do you or does anyone you know wear glasses?
Lets think about what you've just said, and change a few words - People who wear glasses make me sick! How disgusting. If your body does not have the ability to see properly, you weren't supposed to. Period. - sound familiar?
Glasses, walking sticks, hearing aids, artificial heart valves, not to mention things like kidney dialysis should presumably would be stopped too, if you had your way? Now you see how silly your statement sounds...?
This is a time for cool heads and rational thought, not for knee-jerk emotional reactions.
LOL indeed. For the other side of that rather paranoid argument, go here for a piece on women eliminating men and still perpetuating the species!
I figured it was something to do with astroturf :-)
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MCSE? Uhmm.. That would be 'Arse University' wouldn't it?
Thanks Slashdot. When I get back from work today I can shout to her "Hey! Size does matter after all."
No wait.....
Of course, one initially hopes for a decent script. Something hollywood has failed to provide for a number of years. Youthful and rugged actors aren't that high on my list of what makes for a good movie.
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It's great being in a minority...
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.. where's my bullwhip?
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erm dude, VCD is MPEG.
Video is encoded at 1.15Mbit/s and audio at 224Kbit/s MPEG1 layer2.
The only differences are that PAL VCDs are 352x288 at 25fps, while NTSC VCDs are 352x240 at 29.97fps.
This is a joke right? Win2k takes 10 minutes to boot? Something in your house/office is seriously knackered. It's either your computer or your stopwatch ;-)
My Win2k box includes a full registry backup and defrag. It actually boots one and a half times because of this, and still only takes around 4 minutes to boot to a usable desktop.
When I was trying out XP Pro, the bootup time on the same machine was between 30 and 40 seconds. The machine in question is a 384MB dual Celeron - which btw, refuses to run anything but a very hacked up slackware. Go figure.
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Yeah, of course they do. I guess the part where I said "yes, that was a joke" was missed by somebody in another post. Glad you noticed it!
Wow. Not only do you lot have no foreign language classes, it seems you have no history classes either... for shame
Sure, they can, but IIRC, Germans speak German and the French speak French. See the problem?
No, not really. You see, we have these things over here in Europe called schools, and instead of guns our teachers carry books (or at least they did back in the day). Now some of those books are for teaching foreign languages.
Don't tar Europeans with your American monolingual brush.
What do you call someone who can speak three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who can speak two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who can speak one language? American.
Yes, that was a joke.. sheesh