As a long time Austin resident, I beg you, go back to California or wherever you came from. All the things that made Austin a perfect geek city (stuff to do inside (culture) and outside (nature)) is being overrun by the mass influx of young professionals and the trappings of money turning this city into a sprawl like Houston and the rest of the US (Dellionaires go away). I know it's too late, the secret's out. Everything cool about the city is dying (RIP Desert Books, the Drag and the "alternative" live music scene). The truly sad thing is the more cities I see, the more I realize every "alternative" city (SF, Seattle, Boston) is being taken over by mass culture and everything that made it good is being drowned in a sea of homogeneity. I for one believe there is no such thing as a "perfect" geek city, you just go where the things are that make you happy (friends, family, bandwidth, etc.).
Forgive my ranting, F.O.Dobbs
ps- Yes Austin is still probably the best city south of San Francisco (bandwidth, jobs, weather, culture, etc.).
Do you think Micro$oft would have given Linux.com back for $35? I think not. I'm just glad he's decent enough not to try to squat the site and inconvenience all those hotmail users (not really a good PR move).
F.O.Dobbs
ps- a redirect to www.hotmale.com would have been interesting though...
I got rid of the vast majority of my sound problems (Celeron 366->567 with 5 fans) by purchasing extension cables for my monitor, keyboard and mouse and putting the computer in a closet. I drilled a 2" hole through the wall, passed the cables through the hole and covered it with some foam rubber. The only problems that arose were getting to the computer for changing media and my closet is about 100 degrees. Make sure you get a high-quality video cable so you don't have any image problems.
Since then moving my primary machine into the closet, I've also put my gateway/firewall/cd-burner/X10 server machine in there on a 2 machine switch box. Again, don't skimp on the quality of the switchbox (get one for professional AV, around $80 or so). Of course, you could just ssh into the machine if you prefer (I use the box because I've installed a gaming OS on one of the machines).
From the specs if you click on operating system next to Linux 2.0 you get a wide variety of Micro$oft products (fragmentation) but no Linux info. Where do they post information on the distro?
Last I heard Debian was debating a code-freeze for sometime in November. Do they wait for the 2.4 kernel or continue with the freeze and have the most stable 2.2 release? Will the 2.4 kernel break lots of stuff like the 2.2 did?
I picked up A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark Sobell based on the very positive review in/. a few months back. I highly recommend it as a general Unix/Linux reference. It's very distro-independent which is both good and bad (I use it as a reference for my work- Solaris/NetBSD/Debian).
My $.02, the buildup could have been scarier (I've been more terrified in the woods before), but the payoff was stunning. Read the Mythology page before seeing the movie (blairwitch.com).
If the mkLinux kernel is based on the Open Group's Mach microkernel, shouldn't it be called mkMach or GNU/mkMach since it's the Linux kernel that makes up GNU/Linux?
F.O.Dobbs
it doesn't seem to be on the mirrors yet either
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Gnome 0.99.8 released
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ftp.gnome.org is hammered, the mirrors only have.99.7. I'm ready to download it, why can't I have it?
Slashdot Mirror
As a long time Austin resident, I beg you, go back to California or wherever you came from. All the things that made Austin a perfect geek city (stuff to do inside (culture) and outside (nature)) is being overrun by the mass influx of young professionals and the trappings of money turning this city into a sprawl like Houston and the rest of the US (Dellionaires go away). I know it's too late, the secret's out. Everything cool about the city is dying (RIP Desert Books, the Drag and the "alternative" live music scene). The truly sad thing is the more cities I see, the more I realize every "alternative" city (SF, Seattle, Boston) is being taken over by mass culture and everything that made it good is being drowned in a sea of homogeneity. I for one believe there is no such thing as a "perfect" geek city, you just go where the things are that make you happy (friends, family, bandwidth, etc.).
Forgive my ranting,
F.O.Dobbs
ps- Yes Austin is still probably the best city south of San Francisco (bandwidth, jobs, weather, culture, etc.).
Where did you get these numbers?
Do you think Micro$oft would have given Linux.com back for $35? I think not. I'm just glad he's decent enough not to try to squat the site and inconvenience all those hotmail users (not really a good PR move).
F.O.Dobbs
ps- a redirect to www.hotmale.com would have been interesting though...
I got rid of the vast majority of my sound problems (Celeron 366->567 with 5 fans) by purchasing extension cables for my monitor, keyboard and mouse and putting the computer in a closet. I drilled a 2" hole through the wall, passed the cables through the hole and covered it with some foam rubber. The only problems that arose were getting to the computer for changing media and my closet is about 100 degrees. Make sure you get a high-quality video cable so you don't have any image problems.
Since then moving my primary machine into the closet, I've also put my gateway/firewall/cd-burner/X10 server machine in there on a 2 machine switch box. Again, don't skimp on the quality of the switchbox (get one for professional AV, around $80 or so). Of course, you could just ssh into the machine if you prefer (I use the box because I've installed a gaming OS on one of the machines).
F.O.Dobbs
How am I supposed to read the news if you guys keep taking every server down that posts anything interesting? :p
From the specs if you click on operating system next to Linux 2.0 you get a wide variety of Micro$oft products (fragmentation) but no Linux info. Where do they post information on the distro?
Seems to me 95,98 and especially 2000 are unlucky numbers.
Last I heard Debian was debating a code-freeze for sometime in November. Do they wait for the 2.4 kernel or continue with the freeze and have the most stable 2.2 release? Will the 2.4 kernel break lots of stuff like the 2.2 did?
Just wondering aloud,
F.O. Dobbs
I picked up A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark Sobell based on the very positive review in /. a few months back. I highly recommend it as a general Unix/Linux reference. It's very distro-independent which is both good and bad (I use it as a reference for my work- Solaris/NetBSD/Debian).
They probably miss Earth and they're slowing down to come back.
Bowie already sold "Heroes" to M$.
I didn't see anyone else post links to these, so here are:
The Blair Witch Project FAQ
and the companion
The BWP Spoiler FAQ
My $.02, the buildup could have been scarier (I've been more terrified in the woods before), but the payoff was stunning. Read the Mythology page before seeing the movie (blairwitch.com).
F.O.Dobbs
If the mkLinux kernel is based on the Open Group's Mach microkernel, shouldn't it be called mkMach or GNU/mkMach since it's the Linux kernel that makes up GNU/Linux?
F.O.Dobbs
ftp.gnome.org is hammered, the mirrors only have .99.7.
I'm ready to download it, why can't I have it?
Nothing on the webpage about 0.99.8 yet, but I am glad they finally updated the RH installation documentation.