First read a lot of reviews for mobo's, cpu's, graphics and other cards.
Good places to start are anandtech and Tom's Hardware
Once you have decided what you want, you can do this for most of your items:
Check Pricewatch for lowest prices. (they now include S&H in the total)
Check the credibility of the companies with the lowest prices on pricewatch with ResellerRatings.com. I cant emphasize this enough. THIS is the most important step.
Side note: Memmory.
The only Item I would recommend you go to a specific store for is memmory. This is very important if you're looking to overclock and are going to be running at higher FSB's. Even if you're not, it can save you a lot of headaches to be sure your memmory is good.
I'd recommend Mushkin or Corsair memmory, they always come out tops in every review I've read. Also, every stick I've bought of these have been of the best quality and can usually be run above spec.
Other stuff:
You may be interested in special items, like a modded case, or a watercooling setup, these you have to look into yourself and you won't find them on pricewatch. Not necessary to build a computer.
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cool, sorry about the profanity and thanks for the cordeal reply. I was just waking up:-/
It's a post ripped from the last thread where there were rebuttals to the AdTI report.
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what are you fucking retarded? when you're transfering source, you can also transfer the diff instead of the whole thing. Try doing that with a binary package.
Very feasable. My gf wanted to use my computer. I did a quick adduser and told her to log in. She's your average windows user, don't ask her about hardware or drivers she just wants browse the web etc.
She had no trouble logging in through kdm.
she had no trouble using the default kde3 setup. All this with no help from me (i wasn't even watching)
She can check her email, browse the web, listen to music and print stuff out (thanks cups + kdeprint).
A couple of months went by, I haven't watched her use it at all...
I asked her the other day, so how do you like linux?
her answer: "It's just like using windows" and "I like the way it looks".
Seems to me unsophisticated users aren't able to set up a kde3 box but they are sure able to use one.
I'll explain it to you really simply. For the benefit of anyone else reading the thread.
1. A sale only occurs when willingness to pay > price.
2. Software, unlike material goods costs nothing to reproduce, especially if someone else reproduces it.
3. There is no direct damage caused by it's reproduction since nothing is diminished during the process.
4. Proprietary software companies always claim every copy reproduced illegally looses them the full value of one copy of their software.
Therefore what proprietary software companies claim is false (point 4). They do not suffer damages from a diminishable resource (they agree with this, points 2 and 3). Furthermore they do not loose a potential customer with every sale because many copyright infringers do not meet the requirements to buy their software (point 1).
Admit it, their figures are bogus.
As far as your last example of company violting the GPL:
Yes, if anyone claims the same as the proprietary companies, point 4, then they too are full of shit.
what are you fucking dumb? I'm sorry but that really had to be said.
When you copy software you don't diminish a supply. When you take gas, you diminish the supply of the vendor thus producing the damage. YOU, sir are a moron AND a troll.
I was talking about willingness to pay because a sale can only happen if WTP is greater than the price. Also make sure to take the preceeding paragraph of this post into account.
..How much one is willing and able to pay for the good or services.
examples:
I am a copyright infringer. I am wealthy. I copy a version of a $2,000.00 CAD software just to try it out. I end up thinking it's ok but definately not worth $2,000.00, I _continue_ to use it though. Has the company lost revenue on me? Answer: NO. I was able to pay, but not willing.
I am a copyright infringer. I am a poor student/foreigner (how common is this among those who ignore copyright?). I copy a version of a $100 popular OS. I know I need it very much and would pay ANYTHING to get it for without it I would drop out of school or whatever. Has the company lost revenue on me? Answer: NO. I was willing to pay, but not able.
I am a copyright infringer. I am a free-software advocate. I use a small program to tell the vmware trial it hasn't expired. I use vmware to run a copy of windows XP with MS office so that I can more easily send things to my professors. I didn't purchase them. I have $200.00 in my bank account. Has any company lost money on me? Answer: no. Because I am not willing to pay their prices AND because I am not able to pay their prices.
It appears I've jinxed myself. Slashdot posts must have some magical effects. As soon as I complain that the previous 19 2.5 kernels won't build for me the 20th is released and now I'll have to eat my words.
uh.. not quite. As I write this I'm having to disable scsi support because "Error: please fix me". I'll do w/o my burner to test it anyway.
Thanks magical/.
Now I'm off to post some complaints about other stuff so it should all be fixed in a minute. No need to thank me.
(or is it here here? I've never seen it explained.)
Anyway. Well fuckin said. I second your oppinion and put forth that my linux box is also comprised similarly.
I call it linux, because the GNU is implied. Everyone who uses linux probably knows this. Also, if I had a Hurd system, I would likewise call it 'Hurd' and not GNU/Hurd because the GNU is also implied in that case.
I deeply respect RMS and furthermore agree with much of what he says. This is one issue I DISSAGREE with him on. I wish he would listen to what others have to say, especially others who like me agree with 99% of his other stances. It would make him a better representative for the FSF, better liked and would not diminish his philosophical goals one iota. People who never listen to anyone else's oppinions may one day find their oppinions lacking.
Oh, I forgot the most important thing... Sometimes I wish people would make some animated icons for kde3. Yes, they are supported via mng.
No I don't mean like in win95 PLUS. I mean with mouse over animation as in some VERY cool websites, glowing symbols etc.
Your desktop could look VERY spiffy with a custom theme+colorset+animated icons. Think dark background, toombraider, glowing aincient runes.
Does anyone have any cool examples of websites with nice animated buttons?
haha, you got a little messed up. Thats 2 different sets of icons. 'crystal icons' by conectiva and iKons by i dunno who. Another good original set is the 'free icons'. Now kde3.0.1 is out, maybe we'll see some of those vector based icons show up too.
apt-get install john
then just use unshadow to combine the passwd and shadow files and run john on it.
I just did it and one of the passwords on my system was cracked within 10 seconds.
Bah! It's time to tell the system to expire my gf's password... wonder if she'll be pissed:)
Oh yeah, on debian, you can have john run as a cron job which mails users with weak passwords to change them.
*I have a feeling gf will be complaining to me soon how she's getting spam from somone named john. heh.*
He spammed. 29,000 x 6 = 174,000 unrequested emails. If he wanted to raise employee awareness of something, he went about it the wrong way. He should have posted his grievances on the www and let people who were interested find them, not spam them. Granted, Intel would have sued him regardless and he'd still be in the shithouse, but he would have been in the right. If he did the same thing today, couldn't he be sued under anti-spam laws in some states?
What's worse? Well, consider that you're pretty attached to your body in general. Though it's possible for you to get fake ID, a fake birth certificate, etc. there's very little in the way of a fake body you can get (plastic surgery aside, modifying the bits used for biomentrics isn't generally feasble - think retinal scans). So now, if for some reason you need a new identity, you pretty much can't have one. There's just no slipping through the cracks.
Why is that bad? Well, it's really only bad if you are doing something illegal, right?
Wrong! What if you're in a witness protection program? OR if you simply have a stalker and need to change your identity? Or if you have a shite name and you wanna change it. Or if things about you change, like you had leprosy but are now cured. Somone with outdated info will read you still have leprosy. Your data is probably readily available from many sources, some of which will be insecure. You're screwed.
Don't chop off the letter. Let everyone read it in full. I was amazed by it, maybe you will be too. That letter is a flaming example of lucid thinking and straight talking... and it's from a politician folks. I wish I could vote for THAT guy to represent ME here in the US. When was the last time you heard an american politician talk about this issue at all? Hell, I've never heard an american politician even manage to take an important and complicated issue such as this and state it so clearly a teenager could understand it. Let's see M$ try to wriggle out of this response (hint: you'll not see it).
Now back to the U.S. What can we do to get OUR government to pass a bill like this? Any suggestions? I'm thinking about sending a letter to congressmen informing them of how free software is starting to be used in other countries and maybe even sending them letters like these as supporting evidence.
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Good places to start are anandtech and Tom's Hardware
Once you have decided what you want, you can do this for most of your items:
- Check Pricewatch for lowest prices. (they now include S&H in the total)
- Check the credibility of the companies with the lowest prices on pricewatch with ResellerRatings.com
.
Side note: Memmory.I cant emphasize this enough. THIS is the most important step.
The only Item I would recommend you go to a specific store for is memmory. This is very important if you're looking to overclock and are going to be running at higher FSB's. Even if you're not, it can save you a lot of headaches to be sure your memmory is good.
I'd recommend Mushkin or Corsair memmory, they always come out tops in every review I've read. Also, every stick I've bought of these have been of the best quality and can usually be run above spec.
Other stuff:
You may be interested in special items, like a modded case, or a watercooling setup, these you have to look into yourself and you won't find them on pricewatch. Not necessary to build a computer.
cool, sorry about the profanity and thanks for the cordeal reply. I was just waking up :-/
It's a post ripped from the last thread where there were rebuttals to the AdTI report.
what are you fucking retarded? when you're transfering source, you can also transfer the diff instead of the whole thing. Try doing that with a binary package.
They seem to be going along fine and that's probably where this 'firstbios' originated.
Check them out, they can boot your machine so fast your HD's don't have time to spin up.
She's your average windows user, don't ask her about hardware or drivers she just wants browse the web etc.
She had no trouble logging in through kdm.
she had no trouble using the default kde3 setup. All this with no help from me (i wasn't even watching)
She can check her email, browse the web, listen to music and print stuff out (thanks cups + kdeprint).
A couple of months went by, I haven't watched her use it at all...
I asked her the other day, so how do you like linux?
her answer: "It's just like using windows" and "I like the way it looks".
Seems to me unsophisticated users aren't able to set up a kde3 box but they are sure able to use one.
1. A sale only occurs when willingness to pay > price.
2. Software, unlike material goods costs nothing to reproduce, especially if someone else reproduces it.
3. There is no direct damage caused by it's reproduction since nothing is diminished during the process.
4. Proprietary software companies always claim every copy reproduced illegally looses them the full value of one copy of their software.
Therefore what proprietary software companies claim is false (point 4). They do not suffer damages from a diminishable resource (they agree with this, points 2 and 3). Furthermore they do not loose a potential customer with every sale because many copyright infringers do not meet the requirements to buy their software (point 1).
Admit it, their figures are bogus.
As far as your last example of company violting the GPL:
Yes, if anyone claims the same as the proprietary companies, point 4, then they too are full of shit.
Last post.
When you copy software you don't diminish a supply. When you take gas, you diminish the supply of the vendor thus producing the damage. YOU, sir are a moron AND a troll.
I was talking about willingness to pay because a sale can only happen if WTP is greater than the price. Also make sure to take the preceeding paragraph of this post into account.
examples:
Has the company lost revenue on me?
Answer: NO. I was able to pay, but not willing.
Has the company lost revenue on me?
Answer: NO. I was willing to pay, but not able.
Has any company lost money on me?
Answer: no. Because I am not willing to pay their prices AND because I am not able to pay their prices.
Oh no! 2.5.19 is full of trivial bugs for which I have patches, they will all fail in the compile stage and give up *frown*.
Quickly Linus, make a new release!
uh.. not quite. As I write this I'm having to disable scsi support because "Error: please fix me". I'll do w/o my burner to test it anyway.
Thanks magical /.
Now I'm off to post some complaints about other stuff so it should all be fixed in a minute. No need to thank me.
That's a big change from 2.3's, they would almost always build for me.
While this is the topic... does anyone know if 2.4.19 will ever come out of RC stage?
Anyway. Well fuckin said. I second your oppinion and put forth that my linux box is also comprised similarly.
I call it linux, because the GNU is implied.
Everyone who uses linux probably knows this. Also, if I had a Hurd system, I would likewise call it 'Hurd' and not GNU/Hurd because the GNU is also implied in that case.
I deeply respect RMS and furthermore agree with much of what he says. This is one issue I DISSAGREE with him on. I wish he would listen to what others have to say, especially others who like me agree with 99% of his other stances. It would make him a better representative for the FSF, better liked and would not diminish his philosophical goals one iota. People who never listen to anyone else's oppinions may one day find their oppinions lacking.
No I don't mean like in win95 PLUS. I mean with mouse over animation as in some VERY cool websites, glowing symbols etc.
Your desktop could look VERY spiffy with a custom theme+colorset+animated icons. Think dark background, toombraider, glowing aincient runes.
Does anyone have any cool examples of websites with nice animated buttons?
haha, you got a little messed up. Thats 2 different sets of icons. 'crystal icons' by conectiva and iKons by i dunno who. Another good original set is the 'free icons'. Now kde3.0.1 is out, maybe we'll see some of those vector based icons show up too.
they obviously shake it for you.
then just use unshadow to combine the passwd and shadow files and run john on it. I just did it and one of the passwords on my system was cracked within 10 seconds.
Bah! It's time to tell the system to expire my gf's password... wonder if she'll be pissed :)
Oh yeah, on debian, you can have john run as a cron job which mails users with weak passwords to change them.
*I have a feeling gf will be complaining to me soon how she's getting spam from somone named john. heh.*
Does anyone know what happened with that proposal? Did the peruvian congressmen vote on it yet?
He spammed. 29,000 x 6 = 174,000 unrequested emails. If he wanted to raise employee awareness of something, he went about it the wrong way.
He should have posted his grievances on the www and let people who were interested find them, not spam them.
Granted, Intel would have sued him regardless and he'd still be in the shithouse, but he would have been in the right.
If he did the same thing today, couldn't he be sued under anti-spam laws in some states?
Connection to host registernet.passport.com is broken
Why is that bad? Well, it's really only bad if you are doing something illegal, right?
Wrong! What if you're in a witness protection program?
OR if you simply have a stalker and need to change your identity? Or if you have a shite name and you wanna change it. Or if things about you change, like you had leprosy but are now cured. Somone with outdated info will read you still have leprosy.
Your data is probably readily available from many sources, some of which will be insecure. You're screwed.
I was showing a friend how to turn the fan backwards and reverse the airflow in his power supply.
the article said the impact had the force of several tons of tnt. Small pinhole or goodluck finding any of you?
What would happen if one of those hit someone in the head?
Now back to the U.S. What can we do to get OUR government to pass a bill like this? Any suggestions? I'm thinking about sending a letter to congressmen informing them of how free software is starting to be used in other countries and maybe even sending them letters like these as supporting evidence.