That is the whole problem. My mom works in an elderly home and she told me that most of them have signs of dementia. The problem is not that our bodies cannot live very long, the problem is that the brain usually starts malfunctioning first.
Sad, but true....
Two years ago I bought an iBook G3 600Mhz with 384Meg RAM (12.1" TFT). While not a powerhouse, it runs Mac OS X Jaguar just fine. While I paid over 2000$ for it back then, you can get that right now for only 999$ (G3 800Mhz, 128Meg RAM), slap in some extra RAM (which is cheap) and for a bit more than $1K you have an Apple.
I guess you want to do Dynamic Fluid Calculations, and simulate some nuclear reaction on the road, so you really *need* that G5 Powerbook....
If you are new to Mac, just start with the low end. If you're happy with that, you know why people spend so much on the high-end models. I know now, and if I had 4000$ spare, I'd be first in line to buy a new G5 Powerbook. (And my sister would be most happy with my current iBook)
Uhm, I dunno about you.... But if my compiles take more than a minute, I just go out and take coffee... chat with the cute gal from marketing and eventually pull some practical jokes on my coworkers.
Don't complain.... For my measily 256/64kbps, I pay 70Euro/month. Many people take DSL here though. Dail-up is on the way down..
On the other hand, my ISDN connection fees (to the ISP) used to be around 70Euro/month too. So I'm actually better off;-) I won 24/7 connection, and a little speed.
Why exactly do you install drivers for a mouse and/or a keyboard? I like the Logitech hardware, all my mice are Logitech but I have never installed their software (yeah, long ago and I decided it was crap). Traditional mice (3-button mice, these days even with scrollwheel) are supported by any modern operating system.
For keyboards I don't know. I just did the mistake of buying a logitech keyboard and the only thing that really is annoying is the F-lock key I have to press in order to use the function keys. There are extra keys on that keyboard which would need drivers, but I really couldn't care less for a "Mail-button" or a "MP3-button".
Besides, Ad-Aware detects spyware in the default install of Windows 2000, namely MediaPlayer. It's just a registry key, but hey.... one does need to keep up the paranoia....
Yeah, SMP would be great. OpenBSD doesn't even boot on my Dual AMD Athlon. I did expect to boot and only use once CPU, alas it doesn't even do that.
If you wonder why I wanted to do this: simple, my OpenBSD firewall/NAT is a Pentium 166. I though of compiling the patches on my fast machine and just copy the stuff over. Alas, I cannot do it, so I just compile on the P166.
These line says it all about the OpenBSD culture, which is arguably the most hostile towards newbies of any of the major open source OSes.
I personally don't find OpenBSD hard at all. Two years ago, I installed OpenBSD for the first time on a spare machine to toy around with it. My experience with any *BSD was about nil, and my Linux knowlegde didn't get further than "stick in CD and wait". Later, I took a dedicated machine and made a firewall/NAT out of it. Did I find it hard? No, not at all. The configuration scripts are easy and simple. The FAQ's and HOW-TO's on the internet are usually well written and explain a lot about it. It is true that you should not be scared from the command line, but I never have been. However, neither is the typical Linux user. I have used Linux in different distributions including Corel, Debian, SuSE, Redhad and also Slackware. Only in Slackware I found the simplicity of OpenBSD, so guess which Linux I now use?
Installing OpenBSD is as easy as answering a few questions (oh, granted you need to know partitions), what you get is a minimal enabled system where you need to activate whatever you want to run. I personally find this a Good Thing.
I'll grant the system it's amazing technical merits, but the worst thing about OpenBSD is its vocal users.
As opposed to Mac Zealots or Linux fanatics? Honesty, look at this message board. You will barely see OpenBSD comments (well, in other threads of course, here the topic *is* OpenBSD). If you mean that we OpenBSD users are not willing to help, then you are wrong. I have found help on the internet, and I am willing to help anyone that asks. (Within my own capacities of course). Look OpenBSD is just a great choice for a specific task, I use a iBook as laptop, I use Linux and Windows 2000 on my x86 desktop, I just choose the right tool for the job.
Yes, that would hold true if you want to index the WWW. But what about indexing an intranet? Now businesses are paying Google for indexing servers (not that I think it is bad), but an Opensource searchengine could save costs for medium sized businesses. Just toss in another Quad Xeon with a few Gigs of RAM and it will do fine for a normal intranet.
Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan". Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan. Doc: Unbelievable.
Thanks dude... I have an old IBM keyboard that I love and it has no windows key. At work the windows key gets used quite often (especially Windows-E) and I didn't know what the equivalent was on a normal keyboard. (Tried Ctrl-Alt, Ctrl-Shift, Alt-Shift, but none worked) I'm gonna try out that Ctrl-Esc thing as soon as I get home!
Thanks again!
That entirely depends on the consumer. I was in the shop just an hour ago. I wanted a wine for tonight. I had the choice out of many. There was Californian one, French one and local one. The first two were much cheaper than the local one, but what did I take? The local one, because I care about my economy and rather have my money go to the people of my country.
And I'm not even nationalistic: I'm a foreigner in this country....
Compare it to buying your paper at the local paper stand instead of at the supermarket.... Support the small businessmen.
I have seen the word "pouriel" for the first time today here on slashdot. While I like the word, I've never heard it in spoken language and I work dayly with french speaking people. The word "courriel" I have heard before. Perhaps, here (a small country north of La Lorraine) it just hasn't come through yet.
Never heard of "tourne disque" either, I though that was a LP-player. Disque dur is widely used is IMHNFO (I My Humble Non French Opinion) a good description of the actualy hardware. You don't have to translate french words for me you know;-)
The Germans sometimes call it an 'EDV' (Elektronische DatenanlagenVerarbeitungsmachine)
Before you keep misinforming people around here: EDV means "Elektronische Datenverarbeiting". Yes, and I looked it up in the "Duden". As far as I know it doesn't translate to "computer" but is more the german equivalent of "IT".
For the rest I agree, as my native language is dutch too.
I was only speaking out of experience. Since I usually don't think about prefixing mail with "e-", I have been in that situation. Keep in mind that the people who were confused were not in IT.
You are probably in IT, so am I. I guess that is the cause.
Oh, and in writing/typing I also use "mail" for "e-mail". For me the meaning of "mail" *is* "e-mail", but english is not my native language.
Actually, the term I have mostly heard for SPAM would be "mail polluant". ("courriel polluant", it seems now) I think that's a very good description.
Anyways, I have heard the term "courriel" years ago. It is not a new word, it is just not widely used. As for the matter, most languages I know don't use "e-mail". Usually we refer to "e-mail" as "mail". That can be quite confusing when talking to an english person. If you say "mail me it", they often look in a confused way like "what? by snailmail"?
The only place where you will see "courriel" is in administrative documents. The general populace will stick to "mail" or "courrier éléctronique" (which *is* widely used)
I don't think you can blame the French to try to keep a national identity by adapting their language. After all, they have words for about anything in IT. Think of "télécharger" (to download), or "ordinateur" (computer), or "carte graphique" (graphics card). The funniest one for me is "octet" instead of "byte", but that is mainly because I always thought that the difference between "octet" and "byte" is the bit-alignment.
Well... I don't know how it went for many people, but for my first contact with Linux, I just bought a book about Linux which included a distro. That way I had documentation to hold my hand and a "free" distro.
I have never bought a boxed set of Linux (ow, sorry... yes, I did... I bought Corel Linux. Worst buy ever).
Nowadays I just run over to LinuxISO.org to get my disto of choice.
Have you got a link to that list? Not that I don't believe you, but I thought I lived in a "socialist wellfare state", but I live in #16... Perhaps I have been lied to;-)
Alcohol...and yes, I'm drunk right now.... And I don't want to be there either anymore....but I am... Trusting a girl is like shaving your dick with an army knife. Damned dangerous.
Correct and proper, like wooing a nice and attractive young lady, takes time, hard work, and if it works out, leads to something wonderful and long-lasting.
Considering the fact that that all your efforts are usually vain. Even if you still believe in love and think you found the one. Don't be fooled, the bitch will drop you.... coldhearted...
So give me the fuck with no responsibility, because the girl you want will dump you anyway.... What are you more proud of to tell to your mom: that you have a healthy sex life or that a girl broke your heart. I'll take the first one any day.
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That is the whole problem. My mom works in an elderly home and she told me that most of them have signs of dementia. The problem is not that our bodies cannot live very long, the problem is that the brain usually starts malfunctioning first.
Sad, but true....
I guess you want to do Dynamic Fluid Calculations, and simulate some nuclear reaction on the road, so you really *need* that G5 Powerbook....
If you are new to Mac, just start with the low end. If you're happy with that, you know why people spend so much on the high-end models. I know now, and if I had 4000$ spare, I'd be first in line to buy a new G5 Powerbook. (And my sister would be most happy with my current iBook)
Of course, other people actually work at work.
Don't complain.... For my measily 256/64kbps, I pay 70Euro/month. Many people take DSL here though. Dail-up is on the way down.. ;-) I won 24/7 connection, and a little speed.
On the other hand, my ISDN connection fees (to the ISP) used to be around 70Euro/month too. So I'm actually better off
They mention in the article that only 2% of the BSD servers get hacked. This was meant funny.... Here's a nickel, go buy some humour.... :-(
But since we all know that *BSD is dying, we soon will all get 0wN3d!
For keyboards I don't know. I just did the mistake of buying a logitech keyboard and the only thing that really is annoying is the F-lock key I have to press in order to use the function keys. There are extra keys on that keyboard which would need drivers, but I really couldn't care less for a "Mail-button" or a "MP3-button".
Besides, Ad-Aware detects spyware in the default install of Windows 2000, namely MediaPlayer. It's just a registry key, but hey.... one does need to keep up the paranoia....
Yeah, SMP would be great. OpenBSD doesn't even boot on my Dual AMD Athlon. I did expect to boot and only use once CPU, alas it doesn't even do that.
If you wonder why I wanted to do this: simple, my OpenBSD firewall/NAT is a Pentium 166. I though of compiling the patches on my fast machine and just copy the stuff over. Alas, I cannot do it, so I just compile on the P166.
I personally don't find OpenBSD hard at all. Two years ago, I installed OpenBSD for the first time on a spare machine to toy around with it. My experience with any *BSD was about nil, and my Linux knowlegde didn't get further than "stick in CD and wait". Later, I took a dedicated machine and made a firewall/NAT out of it. Did I find it hard? No, not at all. The configuration scripts are easy and simple. The FAQ's and HOW-TO's on the internet are usually well written and explain a lot about it.
It is true that you should not be scared from the command line, but I never have been. However, neither is the typical Linux user. I have used Linux in different distributions including Corel, Debian, SuSE, Redhad and also Slackware. Only in Slackware I found the simplicity of OpenBSD, so guess which Linux I now use?
Installing OpenBSD is as easy as answering a few questions (oh, granted you need to know partitions), what you get is a minimal enabled system where you need to activate whatever you want to run. I personally find this a Good Thing.
I'll grant the system it's amazing technical merits, but the worst thing about OpenBSD is its vocal users.
As opposed to Mac Zealots or Linux fanatics? Honesty, look at this message board. You will barely see OpenBSD comments (well, in other threads of course, here the topic *is* OpenBSD). If you mean that we OpenBSD users are not willing to help, then you are wrong. I have found help on the internet, and I am willing to help anyone that asks. (Within my own capacities of course). Look OpenBSD is just a great choice for a specific task, I use a iBook as laptop, I use Linux and Windows 2000 on my x86 desktop, I just choose the right tool for the job.
Yes, that would hold true if you want to index the WWW. But what about indexing an intranet? Now businesses are paying Google for indexing servers (not that I think it is bad), but an Opensource searchengine could save costs for medium sized businesses. Just toss in another Quad Xeon with a few Gigs of RAM and it will do fine for a normal intranet.
What??? And nobody sent me the memo.... (Posting from Lynx from a *BSD shell)
So what about TCP/IP over HAM? You get the best of the two worlds... ;-)
try to buy only things that are made in the USA.
Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Doc: Unbelievable.
Thanks dude... I have an old IBM keyboard that I love and it has no windows key. At work the windows key gets used quite often (especially Windows-E) and I didn't know what the equivalent was on a normal keyboard. (Tried Ctrl-Alt, Ctrl-Shift, Alt-Shift, but none worked) I'm gonna try out that Ctrl-Esc thing as soon as I get home!
Thanks again!
That entirely depends on the consumer. I was in the shop just an hour ago. I wanted a wine for tonight. I had the choice out of many. There was Californian one, French one and local one. The first two were much cheaper than the local one, but what did I take? The local one, because I care about my economy and rather have my money go to the people of my country.
And I'm not even nationalistic: I'm a foreigner in this country....
Compare it to buying your paper at the local paper stand instead of at the supermarket.... Support the small businessmen.
Never heard of "tourne disque" either, I though that was a LP-player. Disque dur is widely used is IMHNFO (I My Humble Non French Opinion) a good description of the actualy hardware. You don't have to translate french words for me you know ;-)
Before you keep misinforming people around here: EDV means "Elektronische Datenverarbeiting". Yes, and I looked it up in the "Duden". As far as I know it doesn't translate to "computer" but is more the german equivalent of "IT".
For the rest I agree, as my native language is dutch too.
You are probably in IT, so am I. I guess that is the cause.
Oh, and in writing/typing I also use "mail" for "e-mail". For me the meaning of "mail" *is* "e-mail", but english is not my native language.
Anyways, I have heard the term "courriel" years ago. It is not a new word, it is just not widely used. As for the matter, most languages I know don't use "e-mail". Usually we refer to "e-mail" as "mail". That can be quite confusing when talking to an english person. If you say "mail me it", they often look in a confused way like "what? by snailmail"?
The only place where you will see "courriel" is in administrative documents. The general populace will stick to "mail" or "courrier éléctronique" (which *is* widely used)
I don't think you can blame the French to try to keep a national identity by adapting their language. After all, they have words for about anything in IT. Think of "télécharger" (to download), or "ordinateur" (computer), or "carte graphique" (graphics card). The funniest one for me is "octet" instead of "byte", but that is mainly because I always thought that the difference between "octet" and "byte" is the bit-alignment.
I have never bought a boxed set of Linux (ow, sorry... yes, I did... I bought Corel Linux. Worst buy ever).
Nowadays I just run over to LinuxISO.org to get my disto of choice.
Have you got a link to that list? Not that I don't believe you, but I thought I lived in a "socialist wellfare state", but I live in #16... Perhaps I have been lied to ;-)
No, I didn't check. I always forget it when I'm over at my parents (who actually own the DVD)
I am absolutely astonished they allow diskettes. Insane.
Alcohol...and yes, I'm drunk right now.... And I don't want to be there either anymore....but I am... Trusting a girl is like shaving your dick with an army knife. Damned dangerous.
Considering the fact that that all your efforts are usually vain. Even if you still believe in love and think you found the one. Don't be fooled, the bitch will drop you.... coldhearted...
So give me the fuck with no responsibility, because the girl you want will dump you anyway.... What are you more proud of to tell to your mom: that you have a healthy sex life or that a girl broke your heart. I'll take the first one any day.
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