Oh what a world of whiners we are today. Certainly don't do anything productive like offer services for clarifying English material written by people who don't have it as their primary language. How many languages do you know again, and if more than one, how often might you misspell something in a secondary one? Unfortunately for those of us in the US, since English is perhaps the most universal language, we're not motivated to learn another language.
Take what you read with a grain of salt, or don't read it at all, let alone whine about it...
By all means don't do anything yourself. After all this is a GPL'ed product, meaning you let other people do the hard work and just sit back and moan about how ti doesn't do X, Y or Z. Let alone time a moment to think about how to implement such a product. One thing that comes to my mind is to have a core library or set of routines that do the actual work on the disk, then provide a separate handy user interface. Since that interface is separate, it could be implemented in any way, GUI, Command line, ncurses, etc as long as it calls the appropriate routines in the back end. I haven't (yet) looked through the code, but this just came to my mind. I doubt I'm all that enlightened that none of the Mandrake folks have thought of it either. But I could be...
If a feature is wanted, do it. Others have said here how they want support for this/that filesystem type. It all comes down to a developer scratching an itch. If you can't code, find information about filesystems for the developers. But just whining will get you no where. Does anyone know where some source for the ext2 filesystem might be?:)
That goes along with anything in "beta" or earlier. If you are not a developer, or fairly intelligent tester (ie you can say more than, "it broke my hard drive") you should not use betas of anything unless you accept the chance or ruining things. If you are real cautious of disk partitioning programs, wait until a few weeks after version 1.0 is released. Then read mail lists and do research to make sure the more adventurous folks are using it without problem. Then maybe, give it a shot yourself.
I haven't bought Partition Magic myself, but does anyone want to guess if their EULA has a line like, "PowerQuest is not responsible for any damage done to your computer..."? I'd prefer an Open Source product for such a task. If the $50 (or whatever) for PM doesn't get you any guarantee, what hope is there? If I'm wrong, and they do take responsibility say so, I would commend them, but I have yet to see a piece of software for Windows that does not have a line like the above in the EULA.
I liked the comment by "a security manager at a top financial services company who requested anonymity" (meaning, he was made up:) ), that it "allows an army of hackers to leverage" the program for their own purposes.
For what it's worth, if the OS being "attacked" is open source, there are even larger of number of people ready to close up holes and what-not within a few hours, days at most. As Jason Garms is quoted, "There's nothing wrong with [Microsoft] systems until Back Orifice is installed." NT is perfect, therefore there will never be any fixes. BO2k will just be labeled a virus/trojan and to most people, that's considered sufficient protection.
... I'd put my money in companies that do support Linux. Let's face it, some companies just will never port their products to Linux or use Linux for simple network services (namely, my last job:)). If a company shows interest, fill out these sort of surveys only if you really intend on buying it, not warezing it once it's released. If they absolutely refuse, move on to a better target.
Well, certainly companies want to make as much as possible in the short run. The only people buying a K7 right now are those that are just too antsy to wait. Hell, there isn't even a motherboard to put one of these things in yet, so why pre-order something you cannot test? I called one place, they were taking pre-orders but once the chips came in they would ship 'em to you. The catch was that they gave a 15-day return policy, but didn't expect motherboards for at least an additional month. Go figure...
After a few more months, once there's enough chips/boards in the marketplace, expect them to come down to more reasonable levels. I'd say $399/449/799 for the three. But then, there'll be big warehouse type places that are willing to take a loss, hoping you buy all the parts for a whole PC, so maybe another hundred bucks off those guesses.
Whoa, TNT2 doesn't work with Alladin chipsets? Then, what does work and works well? I've been looking to get a 2d/3d card, and having read things here that TNT2 has open source drivers was leaning that way.
For what it's worth, I have a WinTV card in my Win box when it started locking up. After browsing their web page I found that it too doesn't work all the time with Alladin chipsets. But, after loading a searies of VIA (AGP, PCI, IDE busmaster, etc) patches everything is fine again. Perhaps they could be pestered to find what these patches did and incorporate them in the kernel...
I just clicked on the "port of Kingpin" link Hemos provided (not Rob:)), which takes you to this guy's.plan. Then in there are the two links as well, and they worked just fine. Now all I need is to go get Kingpin, and a 3d card, and mesa, and whatever else is needed...
I keep missing where the FP is so horrible in AMD chips. I've used AMD's since a 486 DX4/120; I have yet to find a game that doesn't work or works so horribly on my AMD CPUs that I rush out for an Intel stickered CPU.
If it's FP benchmark performance that everyone relies on, then consult the recent stories on the performance of Linux vs NT. NT may be faster on the quad-Xeon machines, but it would take many, many T3s and millions of hits a second for 24 hours every day for it to be too much for lowly Linux to handle. I don't care how fast a Quake demo runs, just how the game plays. With a 3d card, K6's play Quake, etc just fine. I have issues with the dull game style of all these 3d FPS games, but not with the drawing/calculating of graphics or anything.
Come to think of it, when I got my DX4/120 was about the time the huge 60MB Diablo demo came out. It put up a warning that it required an Intel Pentium to run, but worked just fine without. I just consider these sort of games, pushing for a one-vendor world evil and dislike them even more.
This article is annoying me so much as I read it, typical media.
- The boy "walked more than a mile in 90-degree heat." It's the middle of July, that's the way it's supposed to be. And you know what, in January it'll be cold. Yet, it's considered news to have a "reporter" stand outside and say, "Yep, it's 100 degrees here" on the local news. And the always sage advice, "Don't go outside if you don't have to." Damn, my whole evening was going to be filled with needlessly going outside and coming back inside over and over. The media pisses me off. I won't even go to the amazing point that the kid was able to walk a mile; the country's full of lazy bastards that think that's a feat in itself.:)
- "dodging traffic" Yeah, I picture the kid weaving lane to lane passing cars, flippin people off. I'm sure he dodged the traffic, not the other way around.
- "Monster truck" Yeah, sure. Even if you scale it down to a 6 yr old's height, it is hardly equal to what a monster truck is to adults.
- Trisha Taylor, the store owner says "he reconnected the wires without anyone seeing him," like he did it ninja-style, camoflaged with the environment, rapelling down a rope from the ceiling, takes out two guards, then breaks the impenetrable defense of unhooking the wires. All the meanwhile, constantly looking around the sides of the car watching for passers-by, hiding underneath the car when someone approaches and getting back out when it's clear. The store did all it could do, but the kid was just too smart, yeah that's it.
- She continues, "I was just floored. I couldn't believe it. This kid is only 6, and he had to have lifted up that hood and knew which wires to put together." Again, an impossible to penetrate defense. What more could the store have done?? Six year olds aren't supposed to know how to even read in public schools until about 8th grade, let alone lift a plastic hood or connect two wires. See what liberal education has produced? We expect kids to be morons just like most adults.
- "One frightened motorist..." It's sad how many unfrightened motorists went by. She continues, "he just about got hit...I about wrecked." No mention if she stopped, probably not. The world's too freakin busy to pull over, stop the kid, make sure he's safe and then call police. Besides, the parents would sue you if you did that; he has a right to drive around, you can't discriminate against him like that.
- The Kiddie Kampus day care, "did not know he was gone." So many people surrender their kids to people who aren't even aware of who is in their building. Yes, this is a better situation for kids today than staying home and being a PARENT yourself. The story doesn't mention the day care's defense system. My guess is it involves a door... Obviously, no system would have kept this young Einstein inside.
- Finally, at the end, the store co-owner says, "The next time I get one, I'll have to chain it up out there, I guess." Her doubt of what to do amazes me that anything is kept on the store's grounds without being stolen, not just by six year olds.
In the words of Eric Cartman, "Liberals piss me off!" (liberals, media, same thing essentially:) )
It isn't all that AMAZING, and it doesn't take much electrical engineering.:)
WLS-AM (www.wlsam.com) talked about this story this morning. One guy called in saying his 3 year old is familiar with how these cars work. The fact is children are good at observing the world around them, and then imitating what they see or hear. After a few times of watching a parent take the battery out to charge, put it back, etc, they will pick up the process. Open hood, put battery in, plug in wires, close hood, go.
It is a cute story, but by no means an impossible feat for someone as old as six.
I decided to check my account on My Netscape, which I haven't advertised or really used much. 57 emails waiting for me to see. They used to have a pretty decent service there with very little spam. Then something happened a few months ago and immediately I was getting several spams a day. It may have been around the time NetAddress decided they wanted to charge for accounts. I guess their philosophy is to bombard your free account so you'll pay for their filtering service.
They are all covering up the fact that aliens built both our heart and brain. And you'll never hear the government admit this fact. Partly because it's not true, but primarily because they must cover it up or else something bad might happen...
I remember seeing a movie on TBS/TNT or something from the early 70's. Basically it had the moon landings as being all from a studio. Then during re-entry, they had the capsule explode. They planned on then killing the astronaut-actors, but they caught on and escaped to tell America everything...
The story behind the Russian reentry accident is really quite interesting. The mission had a couple close-calls up in orbit. During one, a thruster got stuck on and the capsule started spinning uncontrollably. They brought the astronauts' family in and they were saying their goodbyes. But the astronaut(s) didn't give up, and were able to get the thing stable again. Then with just a few hundred feet left to go, the parachutes fail to open...
I picked up this DVD from Best Buy for $10 recently which is essentially just a compilation of tapes from Nasa-TV. One about the Challenger, details just about everything that happened. They show, and zoom in on, the crew cabin as it left the main explosion. One peculiarity is they said the shuttle did not break apart as a result of the main external tank exploding, but they don't say what did break it apart.
Anyway, taking that just after the explosion the announcer guy said they were nine nautical miles up, that would be one hell of a fall. Wouldn't they eventually black out from the Gs, long before impact? Still, I'm sure it'd be quite terrifying.
One of the early moon astronauts, perhaps the recently deceased Pete Conrad, said he didn't expect to return to Earth. So, certainly there was doubt in their minds, and they had to have been thinking what NASA would do when something broke down. They may not have known the exact plan, but they knew there was some plan.
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There's gotta be a reason they keep choosing KDE. Think about it.
Yes, how is this justified? And why wasn't the Linux board of directors consulted before using clauses in a license to distribute packages? More people should consult the grand poobahs before doing anything with free software. It's the natural way of things. Just because the license says you can isn't reason enough any more. We've got stockholders that want to know, dammit!
This is the good ol' US of A, where suing is a sport. It's too much trouble to sue for something so trivial clear across the great oceans. But here, it's a sin not to sue, even if the two products are not competing, not even mistakable for the same thing, etc.
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Oh what a world of whiners we are today. Certainly don't do anything productive like offer services for clarifying English material written by people who don't have it as their primary language. How many languages do you know again, and if more than one, how often might you misspell something in a secondary one? Unfortunately for those of us in the US, since English is perhaps the most universal language, we're not motivated to learn another language.
Take what you read with a grain of salt, or don't read it at all, let alone whine about it...
By all means don't do anything yourself. After all this is a GPL'ed product, meaning you let other people do the hard work and just sit back and moan about how ti doesn't do X, Y or Z. Let alone time a moment to think about how to implement such a product. One thing that comes to my mind is to have a core library or set of routines that do the actual work on the disk, then provide a separate handy user interface. Since that interface is separate, it could be implemented in any way, GUI, Command line, ncurses, etc as long as it calls the appropriate routines in the back end. I haven't (yet) looked through the code, but this just came to my mind. I doubt I'm all that enlightened that none of the Mandrake folks have thought of it either. But I could be...
If a feature is wanted, do it. Others have said here how they want support for this/that filesystem type. It all comes down to a developer scratching an itch. If you can't code, find information about filesystems for the developers. But just whining will get you no where. Does anyone know where some source for the ext2 filesystem might be? :)
That goes along with anything in "beta" or earlier. If you are not a developer, or fairly intelligent tester (ie you can say more than, "it broke my hard drive") you should not use betas of anything unless you accept the chance or ruining things. If you are real cautious of disk partitioning programs, wait until a few weeks after version 1.0 is released. Then read mail lists and do research to make sure the more adventurous folks are using it without problem. Then maybe, give it a shot yourself.
I haven't bought Partition Magic myself, but does anyone want to guess if their EULA has a line like, "PowerQuest is not responsible for any damage done to your computer..."? I'd prefer an Open Source product for such a task. If the $50 (or whatever) for PM doesn't get you any guarantee, what hope is there? If I'm wrong, and they do take responsibility say so, I would commend them, but I have yet to see a piece of software for Windows that does not have a line like the above in the EULA.
I liked the comment by "a security manager at a top financial services company who requested anonymity" (meaning, he was made up :) ), that it "allows an army of hackers to leverage" the program for their own purposes.
For what it's worth, if the OS being "attacked" is open source, there are even larger of number of people ready to close up holes and what-not within a few hours, days at most. As Jason Garms is quoted, "There's nothing wrong with [Microsoft] systems until Back Orifice is installed." NT is perfect, therefore there will never be any fixes. BO2k will just be labeled a virus/trojan and to most people, that's considered sufficient protection.
... I'd put my money in companies that do support Linux. Let's face it, some companies just will never port their products to Linux or use Linux for simple network services (namely, my last job :)). If a company shows interest, fill out these sort of surveys only if you really intend on buying it, not warezing it once it's released. If they absolutely refuse, move on to a better target.
Well, certainly companies want to make as much as possible in the short run. The only people buying a K7 right now are those that are just too antsy to wait. Hell, there isn't even a motherboard to put one of these things in yet, so why pre-order something you cannot test? I called one place, they were taking pre-orders but once the chips came in they would ship 'em to you. The catch was that they gave a 15-day return policy, but didn't expect motherboards for at least an additional month. Go figure...
After a few more months, once there's enough chips/boards in the marketplace, expect them to come down to more reasonable levels. I'd say $399/449/799 for the three. But then, there'll be big warehouse type places that are willing to take a loss, hoping you buy all the parts for a whole PC, so maybe another hundred bucks off those guesses.
Don't you mean Phantasm? It had the little ball that floated around, shooting a spike into people's heads and assorted fun.
Whoa, TNT2 doesn't work with Alladin chipsets? Then, what does work and works well? I've been looking to get a 2d/3d card, and having read things here that TNT2 has open source drivers was leaning that way.
For what it's worth, I have a WinTV card in my Win box when it started locking up. After browsing their web page I found that it too doesn't work all the time with Alladin chipsets. But, after loading a searies of VIA (AGP, PCI, IDE busmaster, etc) patches everything is fine again. Perhaps they could be pestered to find what these patches did and incorporate them in the kernel...
I just clicked on the "port of Kingpin" link Hemos provided (not Rob :)), which takes you to this guy's .plan. Then in there are the two links as well, and they worked just fine. Now all I need is to go get Kingpin, and a 3d card, and mesa, and whatever else is needed...
I keep missing where the FP is so horrible in AMD chips. I've used AMD's since a 486 DX4/120; I have yet to find a game that doesn't work or works so horribly on my AMD CPUs that I rush out for an Intel stickered CPU.
If it's FP benchmark performance that everyone relies on, then consult the recent stories on the performance of Linux vs NT. NT may be faster on the quad-Xeon machines, but it would take many, many T3s and millions of hits a second for 24 hours every day for it to be too much for lowly Linux to handle. I don't care how fast a Quake demo runs, just how the game plays. With a 3d card, K6's play Quake, etc just fine. I have issues with the dull game style of all these 3d FPS games, but not with the drawing/calculating of graphics or anything.
Come to think of it, when I got my DX4/120 was about the time the huge 60MB Diablo demo came out. It put up a warning that it required an Intel Pentium to run, but worked just fine without. I just consider these sort of games, pushing for a one-vendor world evil and dislike them even more.
This article is annoying me so much as I read it, typical media.
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- The boy "walked more than a mile in 90-degree heat." It's the middle of July, that's the way it's supposed to be. And you know what, in January it'll be cold. Yet, it's considered news to have a "reporter" stand outside and say, "Yep, it's 100 degrees here" on the local news. And the always sage advice, "Don't go outside if you don't have to." Damn, my whole evening was going to be filled with needlessly going outside and coming back inside over and over. The media pisses me off. I won't even go to the amazing point that the kid was able to walk a mile; the country's full of lazy bastards that think that's a feat in itself.
- "dodging traffic" Yeah, I picture the kid weaving lane to lane passing cars, flippin people off. I'm sure he dodged the traffic, not the other way around.
- "Monster truck" Yeah, sure. Even if you scale it down to a 6 yr old's height, it is hardly equal to what a monster truck is to adults.
- Trisha Taylor, the store owner says "he reconnected the wires without anyone seeing him," like he did it ninja-style, camoflaged with the environment, rapelling down a rope from the ceiling, takes out two guards, then breaks the impenetrable defense of unhooking the wires. All the meanwhile, constantly looking around the sides of the car watching for passers-by, hiding underneath the car when someone approaches and getting back out when it's clear. The store did all it could do, but the kid was just too smart, yeah that's it.
- She continues, "I was just floored. I couldn't believe it. This kid is only 6, and he had to have lifted up that hood and knew which wires to put together." Again, an impossible to penetrate defense. What more could the store have done?? Six year olds aren't supposed to know how to even read in public schools until about 8th grade, let alone lift a plastic hood or connect two wires. See what liberal education has produced? We expect kids to be morons just like most adults.
- "One frightened motorist..." It's sad how many unfrightened motorists went by. She continues, "he just about got hit...I about wrecked." No mention if she stopped, probably not. The world's too freakin busy to pull over, stop the kid, make sure he's safe and then call police. Besides, the parents would sue you if you did that; he has a right to drive around, you can't discriminate against him like that.
- The Kiddie Kampus day care, "did not know he was gone." So many people surrender their kids to people who aren't even aware of who is in their building. Yes, this is a better situation for kids today than staying home and being a PARENT yourself. The story doesn't mention the day care's defense system. My guess is it involves a door... Obviously, no system would have kept this young Einstein inside.
- Finally, at the end, the store co-owner says, "The next time I get one, I'll have to chain it up out there, I guess." Her doubt of what to do amazes me that anything is kept on the store's grounds without being stolen, not just by six year olds.
In the words of Eric Cartman, "Liberals piss me off!" (liberals, media, same thing essentially
It isn't all that AMAZING, and it doesn't take much electrical engineering. :)
WLS-AM (www.wlsam.com) talked about this story this morning. One guy called in saying his 3 year old is familiar with how these cars work. The fact is children are good at observing the world around them, and then imitating what they see or hear. After a few times of watching a parent take the battery out to charge, put it back, etc, they will pick up the process. Open hood, put battery in, plug in wires, close hood, go.
It is a cute story, but by no means an impossible feat for someone as old as six.
No matter how much you pay people, nothing beats the loving eye of a parent... Well, some parents.
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Go listen to Dr. Laura for a while!
I decided to check my account on My Netscape, which I haven't advertised or really used much. 57 emails waiting for me to see. They used to have a pretty decent service there with very little spam. Then something happened a few months ago and immediately I was getting several spams a day. It may have been around the time NetAddress decided they wanted to charge for accounts. I guess their philosophy is to bombard your free account so you'll pay for their filtering service.
They are all covering up the fact that aliens built both our heart and brain. And you'll never hear the government admit this fact. Partly because it's not true, but primarily because they must cover it up or else something bad might happen...
What i took from it is that Neil/Buzz didn't know the EXACT plan. But be assured they were prepared not to return home.
I remember seeing a movie on TBS/TNT or something from the early 70's. Basically it had the moon landings as being all from a studio. Then during re-entry, they had the capsule explode. They planned on then killing the astronaut-actors, but they caught on and escaped to tell America everything...
The story behind the Russian reentry accident is really quite interesting. The mission had a couple close-calls up in orbit. During one, a thruster got stuck on and the capsule started spinning uncontrollably. They brought the astronauts' family in and they were saying their goodbyes. But the astronaut(s) didn't give up, and were able to get the thing stable again. Then with just a few hundred feet left to go, the parachutes fail to open...
Read the story. They mention suicide as one option for the astronauts after Houston kills the radio...
I picked up this DVD from Best Buy for $10 recently which is essentially just a compilation of tapes from Nasa-TV. One about the Challenger, details just about everything that happened. They show, and zoom in on, the crew cabin as it left the main explosion. One peculiarity is they said the shuttle did not break apart as a result of the main external tank exploding, but they don't say what did break it apart.
Anyway, taking that just after the explosion the announcer guy said they were nine nautical miles up, that would be one hell of a fall. Wouldn't they eventually black out from the Gs, long before impact? Still, I'm sure it'd be quite terrifying.
One of the early moon astronauts, perhaps the recently deceased Pete Conrad, said he didn't expect to return to Earth. So, certainly there was doubt in their minds, and they had to have been thinking what NASA would do when something broke down. They may not have known the exact plan, but they knew there was some plan.
There's gotta be a reason they keep choosing KDE. Think about it.
Yes, how is this justified? And why wasn't the Linux board of directors consulted before using clauses in a license to distribute packages? More people should consult the grand poobahs before doing anything with free software. It's the natural way of things. Just because the license says you can isn't reason enough any more. We've got stockholders that want to know, dammit!
:)
This is the good ol' US of A, where suing is a sport. It's too much trouble to sue for something so trivial clear across the great oceans. But here, it's a sin not to sue, even if the two products are not competing, not even mistakable for the same thing, etc.