ISOs are probably the easiest installation method for many people. You say that you can install Debian directly from the FTP server using only a small boot disk, you can do the same with Mandrake! Just download the file network.img and dd it to a floppy disk. You can then install directly from the internet. This is only feasible however if you have an ethernet internet connection (DSL, cable etc), which many people don't. If you're going to perform multiple installations on the same network, download the ISOs (easier download), then extract the contents to a local NFS/FTP/HTTP server, then do network installations. Makes things much easier and faster than using CDs!
Maybe it's because the service is so awful, you'd have to be pretty stupid to use them? Let's take the actual dialup service - you have to use nasty propietary software to be able to even connect, then there's the whole "you can only run on supported platforms thing" which means Win9X/2k/XP/MacOSX. Then there's the horrible compulsory software that looks as though it's been designed for 5-year-olds to use (it probably has). Also, and this may only apply to the UK, there's the really annoying adverts with some stupid know-it-all woman. Did I mention credit card fraud or annoying CDs? And what's with the "version" of an ISP? Sorry? What?
Sorry, the problem *is* the guns. Take away the guns, and nobody would be dead. Simple as that. You're right in saying guns don't kill people, but bullets do!
My college (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) has been using this kind of software for years for CS code (mainly Java, but also Haskell, C, Occam and a few others. Isn't really news!
Most Britons would gladly pay a TV license rather than watch adverts every 5 minutes. It's certainly worth it for that (the license pays for the BBC, whose channels have no adverts on).
Is it just me that noticed that most of these technologies are not expected for three or four years? It seems to me that they were stuck for new things that would actually come in 2002.
Not everyone gets thunderstorms all the time. And when they do occur, it is very rare that you'll struck by lightning! Also, why do you think mains plugs have fuses, and that people use surge protectors?
I'm sorry but this is only a sporting event. It's not as though the security of it is that important. And besides, why would crackers want to attack such an event - what information would there be to steal/alter?
OK then, I suggest you get rid of your car or phone. You'll surely manage, after all people went without either for millennia. What did they do before phones or cars or even a postal service?
Would you expect to walk into Walmart and see adverts for other supermarkets? No. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that AOL-Time Warner (or any other company) should not want competitors advertising using their media, be that posters, newspapers or TV channels. And it's certainly not the case that AOL has a monopoly over internet access!
Why is it that./ers seem so opposed to suing vidoe game manufactures, yet are all for blaming the guns?
Here's some logic for you:
If these kids didn't have access to guns, they definitely wouldn't have been able to shoot these people.
Whether or not they had access to computer games does not affect their ability to shoot people.
Therefore, guns can be much more easily blamed for the shootings as video games, as their easy availability makes the shootings more likely to occur, indeed their presence is required .
However, the preence of video games has no such direct association.
I'll 3rd that. I use duct-tape to route most of the cables in my home LAN - the reason being my parents are unwilling to have permanent cat5 cable routed along/through the walls and ceilings. Duct-tape can be vacuumed over by our cleaner, and removed cheaply and easily when I decide to move/add PCs. Plastic cable-ties (the ones with mini locking teeth) are also essential for bundling cables together; I used to use electrical tape but that leaves a sticky residue when removed from cables.
In most countries, you have to be 18 to buy liquor. In some countries, only 16. In the UK you have to be 18 to buy it from a store/bar, but you can drink it if you are over 16 with a meal in a restaurant.
A minimum age of 21 (US) is ridiculous, especially when you only have to be 16 to drive!
Here in the UK, most video games carry the same ratings as movies: U, PG, 12, 15 and 18. And it is illegal to supply say an 18-rated video to anyone under 18 (the store can get fined £1000s. The same applies for 12 and 15 rated games (and of course movies). On non-government-rated games, the games industry themselves have their own ratings system, which most larger stores adhere to. I work in a large supermarket, and often have to sell videos and DVDs, and occasionally video games. If I were to sell to someone under-age, and it was discovered and reported, I'd probably get sacked and possibly fined. It's not a risk I'm prepared to take.
Seems like this problem is confined to Japan and USA only (where NTSC is used). In the UK (using PAL video system), it is quite simple to connect DVD Player to VCR (directly) and get good quality recordings.
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ISOs are probably the easiest installation method for many people. You say that you can install Debian directly from the FTP server using only a small boot disk, you can do the same with Mandrake! Just download the file network.img and dd it to a floppy disk. You can then install directly from the internet. This is only feasible however if you have an ethernet internet connection (DSL, cable etc), which many people don't. If you're going to perform multiple installations on the same network, download the ISOs (easier download), then extract the contents to a local NFS/FTP/HTTP server, then do network installations. Makes things much easier and faster than using CDs!
Then the universe would in fact be turqoise, caused by all those original iMacs.
Maybe it's because the service is so awful, you'd have to be pretty stupid to use them? Let's take the actual dialup service - you have to use nasty propietary software to be able to even connect, then there's the whole "you can only run on supported platforms thing" which means Win9X/2k/XP/MacOSX. Then there's the horrible compulsory software that looks as though it's been designed for 5-year-olds to use (it probably has). Also, and this may only apply to the UK, there's the really annoying adverts with some stupid know-it-all woman. Did I mention credit card fraud or annoying CDs? And what's with the "version" of an ISP? Sorry? What?
Sorry, the problem *is* the guns. Take away the guns, and nobody would be dead. Simple as that. You're right in saying guns don't kill people, but bullets do!
All you need is LUV!
If you want to pay for AOL, that's your misfortune!
My college (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) has been using this kind of software for years for CS code (mainly Java, but also Haskell, C, Occam and a few others. Isn't really news!
Most Britons would gladly pay a TV license rather than watch adverts every 5 minutes. It's certainly worth it for that (the license pays for the BBC, whose channels have no adverts on).
Umm, that's what he said!
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Is it just me that noticed that most of these technologies are not expected for three or four years? It seems to me that they were stuck for new things that would actually come in 2002.
Not everyone gets thunderstorms all the time. And when they do occur, it is very rare that you'll struck by lightning! Also, why do you think mains plugs have fuses, and that people use surge protectors?
I'm sorry but this is only a sporting event. It's not as though the security of it is that important. And besides, why would crackers want to attack such an event - what information would there be to steal/alter?
OK then, I suggest you get rid of your car or phone. You'll surely manage, after all people went without either for millennia. What did they do before phones or cars or even a postal service?
Alex.
Please not that the plural of Lego is Lego, not "Legos".
Also, the plural of "box" is "boxes", not "boxen"!
Would you expect to walk into Walmart and see adverts for other supermarkets? No. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that AOL-Time Warner (or any other company) should not want competitors advertising using their media, be that posters, newspapers or TV channels. And it's certainly not the case that AOL has a monopoly over internet access!
Why is it that ./ers seem so opposed to suing vidoe game manufactures, yet are all for blaming the guns?
Here's some logic for you:
If these kids didn't have access to guns, they definitely wouldn't have been able to shoot these people.
Whether or not they had access to computer games does not affect their ability to shoot people.
Therefore, guns can be much more easily blamed for the shootings as video games, as their easy availability makes the shootings more likely to occur, indeed their presence is required . However, the preence of video games has no such direct association.
I'll 3rd that. I use duct-tape to route most of the cables in my home LAN - the reason being my parents are unwilling to have permanent cat5 cable routed along/through the walls and ceilings. Duct-tape can be vacuumed over by our cleaner, and removed cheaply and easily when I decide to move/add PCs. Plastic cable-ties (the ones with mini locking teeth) are also essential for bundling cables together; I used to use electrical tape but that leaves a sticky residue when removed from cables.
Surely you mean *last* century? I'm forever reading "...this century...", people keep forgetting that it's now the 21st century, *not* the 20th!
Alex. -- Sigs are a waste of space.
In most countries, you have to be 18 to buy liquor. In some countries, only 16. In the UK you have to be 18 to buy it from a store/bar, but you can drink it if you are over 16 with a meal in a restaurant. A minimum age of 21 (US) is ridiculous, especially when you only have to be 16 to drive!
Here in the UK, most video games carry the same ratings as movies: U, PG, 12, 15 and 18. And it is illegal to supply say an 18-rated video to anyone under 18 (the store can get fined £1000s. The same applies for 12 and 15 rated games (and of course movies). On non-government-rated games, the games industry themselves have their own ratings system, which most larger stores adhere to. I work in a large supermarket, and often have to sell videos and DVDs, and occasionally video games. If I were to sell to someone under-age, and it was discovered and reported, I'd probably get sacked and possibly fined. It's not a risk I'm prepared to take.
Although Australia is large by area, the population is less than half that of the UK.
Quite. This can only work for non-post office deliverers. The postman has to deliver the mail, they can't decide what mail is junk and what is wanted.
Surely the refresh rate of a VGA monitor is higher than that of a TV?
Maybe so that the VHS tapes can be sold to people who don't have DVD Players? Everyone's got a VCR, not so many people have DVD.
Seems like this problem is confined to Japan and USA only (where NTSC is used). In the UK (using PAL video system), it is quite simple to connect DVD Player to VCR (directly) and get good quality recordings.