I agree...we have enough trouble trying to get the image of the disc of another star, as opposed to a pinpoint of light. Now take something much smaller and it'll be even harder.
Still, with the advanced resolution, things are looking prettier!
I wanted to have OpenLDAP use sleepycat's BerkeleyDB instead of GDBM in hopes to fix a problem.
RedHat by default uses GDBM. So, even if I upgraded just that one part of my OS to the latest OpenLDAP, I would still not have what I wanted.
So, I decided I'm a big boy - I can compile my own LDAP server. I figured I could then uninstall what came with RH and put my version in its place. As far as RH would know, I don't have OpenLDAP installed.
Well...easier said than done. RH does a lot of work to force a lot of different packages with different styles as far as file system usage to conform to their own method. They would download the same tarball as me, and then patch the bejevus out of it so that all config files are in etc, all temp files in var, etc...
So...while you can upgrade bit by bit yourself, if you want to keep an orderly system like RH installs, it could be more than of a pain.
Not to mention that even if you take the lazy approach and let RH upgrade to the latest of a particular app, it may have dependency upon dependency, hence the need for the full upgrade.
Well, one could look at it as a) he is doing his job, just with that one company and b) the government is looking to get some of these for the USPS and others, so they have their inside man making sure everything will work okay.
I'm needing to get my CD drive back online. I have a stack of CD's on my desk I want to rip to mp3. I own them all, but I hate having the CD drive occupied and like the ease of switching between artists real fast on the filesystem vs putting the CD in, waiting, etc...
And yup...I'll use a CD blank. That way I can make a CD that has MP3's of all of Stings albums so I can listen to them in the car. Carrying one CD instead of a whole artist library is a lot easier.
Usually in the morning I load up a CD wallet with 10MP3 cd's for the days listening in the car (I'm fickle). About the only law I've broken is that I didn't pay the RIAA for the right to use a different format, like the Iron Maiden Live after Death that I have on vinyl, cassette and CD (original and new release).
(jokes on them - only one of the CD's and the vinyl were not bought used.:)
Believe it or not there are some people on here who like Windows even.
/. has how many readers? I don't remember when I signed up reading that I had to believe in the company line about everything.
It's been said over and over - some people believe in this cause, some don't.
I'm not boycotting Adobe - I wouldn't buy any of their products anyway:) I use windows for a desktop cause I think that KDE and GNOME are both not quite there yet. I can't stand most of the independant bands that people preach I should listen to. I think RMS is a smart guy, but an ass and that the government is barking up the wrong tree with the MS case.
And I probably represent a less vocal population of/.
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My neighboor just bought a new HP computer, a UPS, anti-virus, scanner, etc... - whatever he was talked into by the sales person. His money, not mine.
But when they were looking at the receipt later, they noticed a charge for a $10 gift card. After calling BB, he was told that the card had part of the balance spent the same night he bought the computer, and part the next day.
He explained that he did not buy the card, and why would he spend ~$1700 and buy a $20 card and use part of it later that day? He was told that the cashier must have accidentally rang one up - don't they have to activate them with an amount and stuff?
I need to ask him what became of it. He said at one point the manager said something about other people complaining of the same thing, and basically one cashier doing this on a regular basis.
I only go in BestBuy when absolutely necessary - and usually that is to look at an item before buying it online.
Oddly enough, as you were trying to say that ATI is a little better than Nvidia (cause of the opensource/binary driver thing), you have said that NVidia activey supports linux - goes out of there way as the question said, while ATI just says "here...good luck".
ATI gets a lot of bad press for their drivers for a damn good reason too:)
One reply said becuase users are stupid. Other reasons (not that I disagree with the above):
Market Penetration
At $15 it is dirt cheap. If you had to add ethernet, a tcp/ip stack, dhcp or a web interface for configuring, etc... it would not be $15 and not move as well.
Home Users
If I have DSL/Cable modem, then I already have my connection to the net in use. Not everyone has a NAT, which from what the fobbit docs say would not let this work anyway. But as just a USB device that piggybacks onto your PC's connectivity, someone could just plug it into their already connected machine.
Target Market
I doubt these are being aimed at businesses who would have ethernet avail for the desktop and the phone. This is being marketed to home users so they can talk freely over the internet to friends with a little more quality than Netmeeting or something.
I remember when I was a bit younger, some products would have tie ins...perhaps you would get a starwars toy in your frosted flakes or at McDonalds or something.
Now they are not even trying...they just have a "Star Wars Episode II" cereal - not even trying to hide a merchandising tie in.
What's next: "Star Wars Corn Based Merchandising with Sugar"
I have. Still find the Tattooine in ANH kinda boring, but after that it is a good, nonstop movie.
Empire kicks major ass other than Lukes whining to Yoda. Should have more Hoth footage.
RotJ was good, and even the Ewoks have their place in showing how an ignored culture is affected and can make a difference. Oh yeah...and there were speeder bikes:)
I still have trouble sitting through Phantom Menace, even with surround sound. Just way too much meaningless conversation trying to build up liking for a character who a) seems to accomplish everything via serendipity, and b) you know becomes Darth anyway.
My boss knows that when I work from home, I may take my daughter to pre-school or McDonalds. He also knows that I'll probably eat lunch while working, and that if I'm in the middle of something I'll come back to it after dinner and the kids go to bed.
In other words, he gets more work out of me at home where I can concentrate than he does when I'm in the office constantly being interrupted.
Where I work we have performance evals to see if the employee is meeting their objectives. In other words, if I work from home for a month, did I accomplish anything. Seems pretty simple, though this may not work for all types of jobs. And there are some jobs where telecommuting just doesn't work. Our help desk manager can't because she needs to be around to handle irrate walk-up customers (college) and keep the students in line.
As for the increased surveillance, for most phone based customer service job, occasional listening in from a supervisor is a normal thing - to catch things like "JBS checking - penis give me your check number" (how friends in high school would answer the phone - if the other end asked what did you say, it'd then be "JBS checking - please give me your check number".)
So today Bill Gates testified...I may actually read all 163 pages of his testimony.
I just don't get what they expect to get out of this. All the states in it are so damned concerned about MS releasing a version of Windows without IE.
SO FUCKING WHAT?
First off - does anyone really think that a vendor is gonna replace IE or the MS-HTML rendering engine with a piece-of-has-been like Netscape?
Second, why don't the vendors just do it already? Remove the IE icon from the desktop, start bar, etc... and put Netscape or something else on there?
Why - it's not because Windows isn't modular - anyone can do the above. It's because the vendors have signed contracts with MS saying for the deep discounts they are not allowed to remove IE or put NS on, or any of that.
So instead of going after MS and their contracts, the states are gonna force MS to produce a version of windows without IE, so the vendors can license it instead of Windows with IE just so they can put something other than IE on there.
And ya know what - I bet that the price point will be so wrong that the vendors will instead still license the regular version of Windows with IE because MS won't offer a contract for the other version that is cost-efficiant for the vendors.
Does anyone here remember what Windows was like 8-10 years ago? It was a fuckin mess.
While I fully agree that MS has the ability to add things to the OS to squish competition:
- the MS stuff is usually better than the competition - sad but true
- what's next? Now it's HTML. What if some company comes along and claims that MS is killing their market for lightweight text editors (Wordpad/Notepad) or add-on file systems, or memory management. Where does it stop?
And who filed this suit? It started out as a US antitrust suit, and the US backed off. Now the states are going at it - thirsty for blood I guess. I could see if Netscape filed a suit, but I don't buy the state's argument of the consumer being hurt. The consumer gets a stable suite (well...stable compared to a patchwork of OS, applications from different vendors, etc...) that is very intergrated.
Yes - Microsoft have a monopoly, but only because all these vendors signed into these contracts with them that further promoted MS products. Adding a browser to the OS did not use their monopoly status to force others out of the market. Adding a few lines to a contract did.
Yup...who cares about the stuff that MS forces you to do in their licenses - as long as we can have a modular version of windows so that a vendor (not that they would) can include Netscape instead of IE - something they could easily do if not for a license agreement saying they can't.
I live 20 steps from Times Square in the only residential building on my block. As such, I probably can't pick my nose without being recorded on 15 different cameras.
Sadly, this is all that NBC has to offer for their fall lineup:)
What in the world would harry knowles know about multiple orgasms, or does that mean a full box of tissues?
But I agree...the guy is an idiot and his site tries to hard with all the bullshit scoops from people that read like they wish they were fiction writers.
When the police are right there with you saying "hey man...look at that car...we should steal it. Here's a slim jim. Let me show you how to jimmie the lock".
From his document about things to be added to the C++ standard - talking about Random Number Generators:
RNGs are used all the time for all sorts of things, from unimportant things like generating die rolls in a board game, to important modeling applications like generating random input for stock market simulations, to vital and crucial and easy-to-get-wrong security applications like creating unguessable input for cryptographically secure secret key generation.
So...the die rolls are unimportant eh? Yeah...this guy has lost it.:)-
He got a new computer, got all excited about Morpheus and then they switched. Since then he hasn't been able to get anything to start downloading. So he was telling me he was going to install this Kaaza thing and try it, and asked me if I'd heard of it.
As I explained some of the functionality surplus to him, you could see his jaw just dropping and dropping.
But I betcha he'll still install it - cause he loves the CD burner he has and how easy it is to burn MP3's-> CDDA.
The 32 player limit is a pain. I think it should have thousands of players and you shouldn't respawn on overlord until all allies or axis are dead...now that'd be realisic:)
I'm with you though - I was gonna get Medal of Honor and someone told me bout DoD. I was sick of CS as well, and have spent quite a lot of time getting my head blown off all over Europe.
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I agree...we have enough trouble trying to get the image of the disc of another star, as opposed to a pinpoint of light. Now take something much smaller and it'll be even harder.
Still, with the advanced resolution, things are looking prettier!
Guess the best answer to that is cause I'm a dumbass. :)
:)
Never knew that option existed - never looked into building rpm's - thought that was more for packaging stuff you've compiled.
Learn something everyday...cool.
Heaven and Hell is a much better album though
Hmmm...cool I guess...though to me it looks more like someone missed the toilet.
alt.binaries.fetish.scat.nanotubes?
I wanted to have OpenLDAP use sleepycat's BerkeleyDB instead of GDBM in hopes to fix a problem.
RedHat by default uses GDBM. So, even if I upgraded just that one part of my OS to the latest OpenLDAP, I would still not have what I wanted.
So, I decided I'm a big boy - I can compile my own LDAP server. I figured I could then uninstall what came with RH and put my version in its place. As far as RH would know, I don't have OpenLDAP installed.
Well...easier said than done. RH does a lot of work to force a lot of different packages with different styles as far as file system usage to conform to their own method. They would download the same tarball as me, and then patch the bejevus out of it so that all config files are in etc, all temp files in var, etc...
So...while you can upgrade bit by bit yourself, if you want to keep an orderly system like RH installs, it could be more than of a pain.
Not to mention that even if you take the lazy approach and let RH upgrade to the latest of a particular app, it may have dependency upon dependency, hence the need for the full upgrade.
Well, one could look at it as a) he is doing his job, just with that one company and b) the government is looking to get some of these for the USPS and others, so they have their inside man making sure everything will work okay.
Or am I stretching it too far?
I'm needing to get my CD drive back online. I have a stack of CD's on my desk I want to rip to mp3. I own them all, but I hate having the CD drive occupied and like the ease of switching between artists real fast on the filesystem vs putting the CD in, waiting, etc...
:)
And yup...I'll use a CD blank. That way I can make a CD that has MP3's of all of Stings albums so I can listen to them in the car. Carrying one CD instead of a whole artist library is a lot easier.
Usually in the morning I load up a CD wallet with 10MP3 cd's for the days listening in the car (I'm fickle). About the only law I've broken is that I didn't pay the RIAA for the right to use a different format, like the Iron Maiden Live after Death that I have on vinyl, cassette and CD (original and new release).
(jokes on them - only one of the CD's and the vinyl were not bought used.
Believe it or not there are some people on here who like Windows even.
:) I use windows for a desktop cause I think that KDE and GNOME are both not quite there yet. I can't stand most of the independant bands that people preach I should listen to. I think RMS is a smart guy, but an ass and that the government is barking up the wrong tree with the MS case.
/.
/. has how many readers? I don't remember when I signed up reading that I had to believe in the company line about everything.
It's been said over and over - some people believe in this cause, some don't.
I'm not boycotting Adobe - I wouldn't buy any of their products anyway
And I probably represent a less vocal population of
My neighboor just bought a new HP computer, a UPS, anti-virus, scanner, etc... - whatever he was talked into by the sales person. His money, not mine.
But when they were looking at the receipt later, they noticed a charge for a $10 gift card. After calling BB, he was told that the card had part of the balance spent the same night he bought the computer, and part the next day.
He explained that he did not buy the card, and why would he spend ~$1700 and buy a $20 card and use part of it later that day? He was told that the cashier must have accidentally rang one up - don't they have to activate them with an amount and stuff?
I need to ask him what became of it. He said at one point the manager said something about other people complaining of the same thing, and basically one cashier doing this on a regular basis.
I only go in BestBuy when absolutely necessary - and usually that is to look at an item before buying it online.
Oddly enough, as you were trying to say that ATI is a little better than Nvidia (cause of the opensource/binary driver thing), you have said that NVidia activey supports linux - goes out of there way as the question said, while ATI just says "here...good luck".
:)
ATI gets a lot of bad press for their drivers for a damn good reason too
One reply said becuase users are stupid. Other reasons (not that I disagree with the above):
Market Penetration
At $15 it is dirt cheap. If you had to add ethernet, a tcp/ip stack, dhcp or a web interface for configuring, etc... it would not be $15 and not move as well.
Home Users
If I have DSL/Cable modem, then I already have my connection to the net in use. Not everyone has a NAT, which from what the fobbit docs say would not let this work anyway. But as just a USB device that piggybacks onto your PC's connectivity, someone could just plug it into their already connected machine.
Target Market
I doubt these are being aimed at businesses who would have ethernet avail for the desktop and the phone. This is being marketed to home users so they can talk freely over the internet to friends with a little more quality than Netmeeting or something.
I remember when I was a bit younger, some products would have tie ins...perhaps you would get a starwars toy in your frosted flakes or at McDonalds or something.
Now they are not even trying...they just have a "Star Wars Episode II" cereal - not even trying to hide a merchandising tie in.
What's next: "Star Wars Corn Based Merchandising with Sugar"
I have. Still find the Tattooine in ANH kinda boring, but after that it is a good, nonstop movie.
:)
Empire kicks major ass other than Lukes whining to Yoda. Should have more Hoth footage.
RotJ was good, and even the Ewoks have their place in showing how an ignored culture is affected and can make a difference. Oh yeah...and there were speeder bikes
I still have trouble sitting through Phantom Menace, even with surround sound. Just way too much meaningless conversation trying to build up liking for a character who a) seems to accomplish everything via serendipity, and b) you know becomes Darth anyway.
My boss knows that when I work from home, I may take my daughter to pre-school or McDonalds. He also knows that I'll probably eat lunch while working, and that if I'm in the middle of something I'll come back to it after dinner and the kids go to bed.
In other words, he gets more work out of me at home where I can concentrate than he does when I'm in the office constantly being interrupted.
Where I work we have performance evals to see if the employee is meeting their objectives. In other words, if I work from home for a month, did I accomplish anything. Seems pretty simple, though this may not work for all types of jobs. And there are some jobs where telecommuting just doesn't work. Our help desk manager can't because she needs to be around to handle irrate walk-up customers (college) and keep the students in line.
As for the increased surveillance, for most phone based customer service job, occasional listening in from a supervisor is a normal thing - to catch things like "JBS checking - penis give me your check number" (how friends in high school would answer the phone - if the other end asked what did you say, it'd then be "JBS checking - please give me your check number".)
So today Bill Gates testified...I may actually read all 163 pages of his testimony.
I just don't get what they expect to get out of this. All the states in it are so damned concerned about MS releasing a version of Windows without IE.
SO FUCKING WHAT?
First off - does anyone really think that a vendor is gonna replace IE or the MS-HTML rendering engine with a piece-of-has-been like Netscape?
Second, why don't the vendors just do it already? Remove the IE icon from the desktop, start bar, etc... and put Netscape or something else on there?
Why - it's not because Windows isn't modular - anyone can do the above. It's because the vendors have signed contracts with MS saying for the deep discounts they are not allowed to remove IE or put NS on, or any of that.
So instead of going after MS and their contracts, the states are gonna force MS to produce a version of windows without IE, so the vendors can license it instead of Windows with IE just so they can put something other than IE on there.
And ya know what - I bet that the price point will be so wrong that the vendors will instead still license the regular version of Windows with IE because MS won't offer a contract for the other version that is cost-efficiant for the vendors.
Does anyone here remember what Windows was like 8-10 years ago? It was a fuckin mess.
While I fully agree that MS has the ability to add things to the OS to squish competition:
- the MS stuff is usually better than the competition - sad but true
- what's next? Now it's HTML. What if some company comes along and claims that MS is killing their market for lightweight text editors (Wordpad/Notepad) or add-on file systems, or memory management. Where does it stop?
And who filed this suit? It started out as a US antitrust suit, and the US backed off. Now the states are going at it - thirsty for blood I guess. I could see if Netscape filed a suit, but I don't buy the state's argument of the consumer being hurt. The consumer gets a stable suite (well...stable compared to a patchwork of OS, applications from different vendors, etc...) that is very intergrated.
Yes - Microsoft have a monopoly, but only because all these vendors signed into these contracts with them that further promoted MS products. Adding a browser to the OS did not use their monopoly status to force others out of the market.
Adding a few lines to a contract did.
Yup...who cares about the stuff that MS forces you to do in their licenses - as long as we can have a modular version of windows so that a vendor (not that they would) can include Netscape instead of IE - something they could easily do if not for a license agreement saying they can't.
I live 20 steps from Times Square in the only residential building on my block. As such, I probably can't pick my nose without being recorded on 15 different cameras.
:)
Sadly, this is all that NBC has to offer for their fall lineup
It's simple...you found fault in Linux...of course it's an evil troll post.
What in the world would harry knowles know about multiple orgasms, or does that mean a full box of tissues?
But I agree...the guy is an idiot and his site tries to hard with all the bullshit scoops from people that read like they wish they were fiction writers.
When the police are right there with you saying "hey man...look at that car...we should steal it. Here's a slim jim. Let me show you how to jimmie the lock".
Bet it makes a DEA undercover agent's life hell.
From his document about things to be added to the C++ standard - talking about Random Number Generators:
:)-
RNGs are used all the time for all sorts of things, from unimportant things like generating die rolls in a board game, to important modeling applications like generating random input for stock market simulations, to vital and crucial and easy-to-get-wrong security applications like creating unguessable input for cryptographically secure secret key generation.
So...the die rolls are unimportant eh? Yeah...this guy has lost it.
He got a new computer, got all excited about Morpheus and then they switched. Since then he hasn't been able to get anything to start downloading. So he was telling me he was going to install this Kaaza thing and try it, and asked me if I'd heard of it.
As I explained some of the functionality surplus to him, you could see his jaw just dropping and dropping.
But I betcha he'll still install it - cause he loves the CD burner he has and how easy it is to burn MP3's-> CDDA.
Possibly for the same reason as the nazi auction thing - Yahoo has an office in Germany.
While they may not be able to do anything to google, they could possibly to Yahoo.
The 32 player limit is a pain. I think it should have thousands of players and you shouldn't respawn on overlord until all allies or axis are dead...now that'd be realisic :)
I'm with you though - I was gonna get Medal of Honor and someone told me bout DoD. I was sick of CS as well, and have spent quite a lot of time getting my head blown off all over Europe.
That would be the whatever part :)
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Either way, it's still not as straightforward as