I totally loved my Celeron 266. Shove it into a BX board with the retail fan, and it purred at 400mhz true stable.
Nothing since has been worth it though, unfortunately... the big problem being all of the unsocket, voltage change, bios tweak, retry, get all anxious that something could explode now, dam... trying that 43mhz pci speed was a bad idea, loops.
Unless you really love overclocking, or have found that it improves your apparent penis size, its not worth it if you value your time about 25 cents/hour.
Linux stability is a croc when comparing to windows.
Sure the kernel can stay up for months, but that doesn't mean a desktop user's X server stays up that long. Its just that in windows, when the gui goes down it takes down the whole machine.
... well i'm speaking for myself, but I haven't found the x desktop more stable than win98.
I expect a severe backlash in face of XPs forced adherence to strict licenses, rather than what the user may think is fair.
KDE useability is just as good
Installation is pretty easy
Its only administration thats arcane and retarded still.
Even if you don't think the useability level is equal to MS yet, it is gaining on it rapidly. By the time XP hits the shelves, there's a good chance it will have a hard time justifying its purchase, compared to the distributions available then. Even if MS wins this year, it'll have a harder time wining next year, and a harder time the year after that.
Linux standards base, Red carpet, apt-rpm are all important projects, but something missing is a channel that allows closed source programs to just ship in a.gz file with perhaps a setup.bin program, and where all the files just get dumped into a directory of the user's choice, and runs from there. That model is useful too.
I'll throw in another reason why I'm pretty interested in Corel's distribution.
Debian's package archive deliverred by a company I'd assume understands useability. The hope is that its Mandrake based on debian.
Now why is it their ftp requires login?
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I'm new to linux, and Im a very big IE fan. I still think w98 is a better desktop os than linux, but I'm currently using kde 2.0.
As much as I love IE, I prefer browsing in konqueror 2.0. The things it does as good as ie:
The fonts look fine in mandrake 7.2, I can easily configure it to respond to the backspace key, it has good page history support, mouse wheel, same important key bindings, lets me have 15 browsers loaded in 128M with no swapping.
What I like better than IE 5.5 is better autocompletion, handling of missing www, google search with ? keyword.
The only truely annoying things missing in kde 2.0 are incomplete clipboard support, and lack of a Send to... link for files.
Though I can appreciate your importance for loading all pages correctly, konqueror is a worthwile browser, and the only reason I'd ever bother booting into linux.
Re:Game Developers ARE optimizing for Modems too m
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there is one easy approach, actually.
Subspace (what could be the best multiplayer game of all time, but little known) used a simple 10k gateway program (called Fun-O-tron) that you would install on your proxy/firewall/NAT machine.
From your client machines you would connect to your gateway as if it was the game server, and FunOTron would route that appropriately.
This may be low tech, but I'd assume most gaming is done on home networks, and not corporate environment where they are locked out from the firewall machine.
Why should people be loyal to a RPM based distribution? If they have RH 6.2, and find the 25 line bash session required to upgrade to kde 2.1 intimidating, are they going to wait until RH 7.1 is out?
No. They'll switch to the first distro that provides kde 2.1, and pcmag tells them is easy to install and use.
By having an unfriendly software installer, distributions provide a good reason for their installed base to abandon them. Assuming a user base is a good thing for those "long range plans", an easy to use installer is a key to success.
Is it possible to downgrade your distribution from say woody/testing to potato/stable through dpkg's config files?
Game Developers ARE optimizing for Modems too much
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From my perspective, broadband connected gamers are ignored.
More specifically, those players using ICS/Masquerading, have no way to tell if they will be able to play multi-player without buying it. They're better off assuming any specific game will fail to work though, since 95% of them indeed fail.
12 year olds are stupid. They can have difficulty internalizing concepts such as conscience and social responsibility.
Sure coddling and an absense of real consequences can cause minor delinquent behaviours to escalate, but condemning a child cause he's still too stupid is wrong.
MS's definition here, is that companies won't innovate because the competition is free. So they shouldn't even bother trying to make a product, cuz a free version exists already or will be made.
For me, as a windows developer, I find MS stiffles a great deal of innovation, since anything I produce that is of great value, can be reproduced by them. They have after all very smart and talented developers in larger quanities than anyone else. They can furthermore enhance the OS to favour their competing product.
So, I as an innovating potential commercial application developer have more to fear from the MS monopoly than OSS software.
OSS can stifle commercial competition, but innovation is not really affected. The Software's customers can innovate and contribute to the benefit of all the product's customers.
Static linking may not be an ideal solution for all cases, but its usually an easy one that works for all specific cases.
The GPL does not allow this in all cases (closed software), but what if the GPL were modified in cases where static linking to a library is forbidden.
As long as the publisher makes available a packaged version which conforms to the existing GPL, he may also distribute a staticly linked version as well.
The compression results were seen as plausible, when the context was only text files, but now that he explicitly refers to.zip files, he's claiming results far below the entropy of those files.
What's surprising though, is that he's a high positioned academic, and so should understand and have ample opportunity to review theory for mistakes before going to the press.
I will give any Linux fan the point that the desktop and widget sets looks awesome, and are superior to windows.
The point that the author is trying to make in reffering to UI is application consistency, and widget interaction. Things like consistent keyboard handling, having combo boxes close when u click the down arrow.
MS's leadership in UI standards allowed them to get dominant positions with its Office suite. Experienced windows users can usually use software without any documentation or help files.
Applications that break consistency are extremely frustrating to them, and using them long enough to discover their supposedly superior UI is unlikely.
I started developing at the time of win3.1. Emulating MS UIs was the only acceptable option in the industry at the time. I know of no successful software that introduced new UI concepts to windows and cought on.
MS's UI is improvable, but it takes an industry wide adoption of a standard to make it successful
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Ur probably the same guy that posts topical lyrics to other songs around here... They're some of the most entertaining posts on/. My favorite was the Limelight (Rush) parody I read last year.
This could be made cheaper through MB integration.
I think all you would need to do is have battery backup of one dimm slot. A feature, that without including the battery, would add less than $1 to a MB.
Basically the MB already has the memory controller and DIMM slot. BIOS programs are probably unneeded (for linux anyway) since kernel startup routines could just scan the ram.
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I think this flash intro is great.
http://www.xdude.com/flashed-mar2001.htm
The number can possibly be rewritten as a single line equation (or at least a much shorter message than it currently is).
ie. some 3 digit prime ^ some 2 digit number + what's left over factored.
Maybe there exists a 1 or 2 line equation that evaluates to this number.
that is indeed the retarded part of this article.
All zips, and in fact all files, can be converted into decimal or binary numbers. Whether or not they happen to be prime is only a peculiarity.
If distributing a file is illegal, then so is the base64, mime, and decimal encodings of that file.
You could make it even shorter, and easier to remembmer, by calling it the 354th 720 decimal digit prime (exact shorthand not calculated.)
Imposing on the users a gag order on performance issues is a pretty clear indicator that the company's performance claims are fraudulent.
There should be conusumer protection legislation that prevents such clauses in EULAs.
btw, Rambus has a similar clause in its licensing contracts.
I totally loved my Celeron 266. Shove it into a BX board with the retail fan, and it purred at 400mhz true stable.
Nothing since has been worth it though, unfortunately... the big problem being all of the unsocket, voltage change, bios tweak, retry, get all anxious that something could explode now, dam... trying that 43mhz pci speed was a bad idea, loops.
Unless you really love overclocking, or have found that it improves your apparent penis size, its not worth it if you value your time about 25 cents/hour.
its ATA only, and then only some model numbers Check Mandrakeforum.com. Its more specific.
Linux stability is a croc when comparing to windows.
Sure the kernel can stay up for months, but that doesn't mean a desktop user's X server stays up that long. Its just that in windows, when the gui goes down it takes down the whole machine.
... well i'm speaking for myself, but I haven't found the x desktop more stable than win98.
I expect a severe backlash in face of XPs forced adherence to strict licenses, rather than what the user may think is fair.
.gz file with perhaps a setup.bin program, and where all the files just get dumped into a directory of the user's choice, and runs from there. That model is useful too.
KDE useability is just as good
Installation is pretty easy
Its only administration thats arcane and retarded still.
Even if you don't think the useability level is equal to MS yet, it is gaining on it rapidly. By the time XP hits the shelves, there's a good chance it will have a hard time justifying its purchase, compared to the distributions available then. Even if MS wins this year, it'll have a harder time wining next year, and a harder time the year after that.
Linux standards base, Red carpet, apt-rpm are all important projects, but something missing is a channel that allows closed source programs to just ship in a
I'll throw in another reason why I'm pretty interested in Corel's distribution.
Debian's package archive deliverred by a company I'd assume understands useability. The hope is that its Mandrake based on debian.
Now why is it their ftp requires login?
I'm new to linux, and Im a very big IE fan. I still think w98 is a better desktop os than linux, but I'm currently using kde 2.0.
As much as I love IE, I prefer browsing in konqueror 2.0. The things it does as good as ie:
The fonts look fine in mandrake 7.2, I can easily configure it to respond to the backspace key, it has good page history support, mouse wheel, same important key bindings, lets me have 15 browsers loaded in 128M with no swapping.
What I like better than IE 5.5 is better autocompletion, handling of missing www, google search with ? keyword.
The only truely annoying things missing in kde 2.0 are incomplete clipboard support, and lack of a Send to... link for files.
Though I can appreciate your importance for loading all pages correctly, konqueror is a worthwile browser, and the only reason I'd ever bother booting into linux.
there is one easy approach, actually.
Subspace (what could be the best multiplayer game of all time, but little known) used a simple 10k gateway program (called Fun-O-tron) that you would install on your proxy/firewall/NAT machine.
From your client machines you would connect to your gateway as if it was the game server, and FunOTron would route that appropriately.
This may be low tech, but I'd assume most gaming is done on home networks, and not corporate environment where they are locked out from the firewall machine.
Why should people be loyal to a RPM based distribution? If they have RH 6.2, and find the 25 line bash session required to upgrade to kde 2.1 intimidating, are they going to wait until RH 7.1 is out?
No. They'll switch to the first distro that provides kde 2.1, and pcmag tells them is easy to install and use.
By having an unfriendly software installer, distributions provide a good reason for their installed base to abandon them. Assuming a user base is a good thing for those "long range plans", an easy to use installer is a key to success.
Is it possible to downgrade your distribution from say woody/testing to potato/stable through dpkg's config files?
From my perspective, broadband connected gamers are ignored.
More specifically, those players using ICS/Masquerading, have no way to tell if they will be able to play multi-player without buying it. They're better off assuming any specific game will fail to work though, since 95% of them indeed fail.
12 year olds are stupid. They can have difficulty internalizing concepts such as conscience and social responsibility.
Sure coddling and an absense of real consequences can cause minor delinquent behaviours to escalate, but condemning a child cause he's still too stupid is wrong.
http://microwindows.org/ has an X-like API. GTk is being ported t it.
Java's strength is its bundled API.
Neither of these may be as neat as the competition right now, but they have neat headroom TM
The more important advantage of microwindows is simplifying ports of linux desktop apps. Its easier to move them to a linux PDA than PalmOS.
this evidence is only glossed over by the debunkers.
http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/94/moon.html
The badastronomy site's argument seems to be:
"Listen you stupid retard, shadows will be longer when going downhill, and shorter uphill. You dumbass moron."
However, looking at the actual pictures, not all of the extra shadows are explained, and they don't match the sun's supposed location at the time.
MS's definition here, is that companies won't innovate because the competition is free. So they shouldn't even bother trying to make a product, cuz a free version exists already or will be made.
For me, as a windows developer, I find MS stiffles a great deal of innovation, since anything I produce that is of great value, can be reproduced by them. They have after all very smart and talented developers in larger quanities than anyone else. They can furthermore enhance the OS to favour their competing product.
So, I as an innovating potential commercial application developer have more to fear from the MS monopoly than OSS software.
OSS can stifle commercial competition, but innovation is not really affected. The Software's customers can innovate and contribute to the benefit of all the product's customers.
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2001-03-16 06:43:30
Static linking may not be an ideal solution for all cases, but its usually an easy one that works for all specific cases.
The GPL does not allow this in all cases (closed software), but what if the GPL were modified in cases where static linking to a library is forbidden.
As long as the publisher makes available a packaged version which conforms to the existing GPL, he may also distribute a staticly linked version as well.
Users don't know the answer to "should your application use gtk1.2 or gtk 1.3?"
Perhaps a set of tools to try out and manage different version linkings will do what you want?
Thanks for the link...
.zip files, he's claiming results far below the entropy of those files.
The compression results were seen as plausible, when the context was only text files, but now that he explicitly refers to
What's surprising though, is that he's a high positioned academic, and so should understand and have ample opportunity to review theory for mistakes before going to the press.
I will give any Linux fan the point that the desktop and widget sets looks awesome, and are superior to windows.
The point that the author is trying to make in reffering to UI is application consistency, and widget interaction. Things like consistent keyboard handling, having combo boxes close when u click the down arrow.
MS's leadership in UI standards allowed them to get dominant positions with its Office suite. Experienced windows users can usually use software without any documentation or help files.
Applications that break consistency are extremely frustrating to them, and using them long enough to discover their supposedly superior UI is unlikely.
I started developing at the time of win3.1. Emulating MS UIs was the only acceptable option in the industry at the time. I know of no successful software that introduced new UI concepts to windows and cought on.
MS's UI is improvable, but it takes an industry wide adoption of a standard to make it successful
Ur probably the same guy that posts topical lyrics to other songs around here... They're some of the most entertaining posts on /. My favorite was the Limelight (Rush) parody I read last year.
This could be made cheaper through MB integration.
I think all you would need to do is have battery backup of one dimm slot. A feature, that without including the battery, would add less than $1 to a MB.
Basically the MB already has the memory controller and DIMM slot. BIOS programs are probably unneeded (for linux anyway) since kernel startup routines could just scan the ram.