Lesson for terrorists: Paint a smiley face with big eyes on your roving bomb, give it a "help me" flag, and the public will help deliver it to your intended target.:-)
Your cell phone is designed to have a range of several miles. RFID is designed to have a range of about 30cm. I suspect the power levels involved are VERY different.
'Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007.'? I thought Finland used little-endian date format 7/11/2007, or even ISO format 2007-11-07? Did a Fin really use the screwey US-style middle-endian date format? Or was this really back on July 11th?
The only flaw in your plan is that your cosy house and internet connection etc depend on public services which would drop out during a serious epidemic. Electricity,
Have you ever visited a power station? There's actually very few people there, and it would be fairly easy for them to avoid coughing over each other. Delivery of power to your door needs engineers to go out into the middle of nowhere and mend cables, but they don't need to interact much with other people.
Water
Again, water treatment plants are not highly populated, and as long as the engineers can get to their machines and make adjustments, mend pumps, run tests, adjust concentrations of this and that, change filters, all without getting too close to other people, what's the problem?
and Telephone service
Much of that's run like datacenters, with engineers remote from the machines logging into the kit and reconfiguring stuff. Much of this could be done from home. Call centers can also be done with VoIP from home. Engineers who go play with wires and other hardware frequently work pretty much alone...
If you can work from home, or work in a place that doesn't involve sharing air with too many other people, you're probably kinda OK. The big problems will be schools and other institutions that involve getting lots of people in the same room (especially kids who have little appreciation for extra hygiene) , commuters who hustle together on the same tube, international flyers sharing the same tin-can as 200 other people for an 8-hour flight, possibly shops where you're sharing an environment with a hundred other strangers...
Microsoft always knows better than the user! Hence installing patches which Microsoft knows are important but the user might have decided not to install, or telling you to reboot when you don't need to, or throttling your net connection when you play an mp3, making paperclips compulsory because those pesky users might want to turn off this useful feature, disabling software which the stupid user installed because windows knows it's a pirate copy, etc etc;-)
Prediction: Microsoft patent to tell them what the W3C MEANS rather than what they actually WROTE in the standards, so MS can do "the right thing" (as opposed to the standard thing) there too:-)
The REAL news has been missed here. Look at the graph about halfway down Dragons_flight's Log analysis. BOTS are making 91% "normal edits", and 8% reverts. See, bots are making NORMAL edits. The Turing test has been passed on Wikipedia! I for one welcome... never mind:-)
I never mentioned mono once. What are you talking about?
I was replying to a post after yours (modded Troll, so maybe you didn't see it) which said "Does 10.3 still rely on Zen and mono?" ... and since you mention it...
% rpm --query zmd
package zmd is not installed
I probably deliberately un-ticked "mono" during install and spent a few seconds helping it satisfy dependencies. SUSE MAY install mono if you just select a default bundle, but it certainly doesn't NEED to install mono, or zen, or zmd...
I've used Windows all my life and I'm wondering which desktop would be the one for me (Gnome or KDE). I realize there are differences, I'm just not sure what they are, and what can be easily overcome simply by installing the software into the other desktop.
There's license differences, which most people won't care about, there's graphical differences, but either one is so configurable it can be configured to look a lot like the other. Apps from one will run pretty seamlessly in the other if you have both sets of libraries installed (and the package managers will do that for you, you don't need to worry about it). Personally I chose Gnome because it's a bit more GNU, but I doubt you'll be too offended by either.
Also I'm wondering whether openSuse or Fedora is more newbie friendly (again not meant as flamebait!)
Having used both, I suspect SUSE. Fedora probably has more packages in the distro, but SUSE seems to have now made it incredibly easy to add extra community repositories anyway. SUSE's installer has felt more polished than fedora's for quite a while.
What I want to do on my computer would be to: [...]
Are MUDs still telnet-based these days? To be honest, you'll find just about ANY linux can do all the things you just listed, though I'm hoping you're not expecting Wine to work for EVERYTHING. It's not bad, but it's a perpetual catch-up game for the wine developers.
Ease of installation and use - I've tried installing Linux before and it was not newbie friendly enough.
SUSE was widely reported as being easier to install than windows, and that was several releases ago, and it's got better since... However, that's probably just saying WINDOWS installation isn't newbie friendly enough either. When it comes down to it, OS installation is not simple, though SUSE is probably simpler than most, including Windoze.:-/
Partitioning - Do you have to have a linux partition, swap partition and a Fat32 partition to be able to access files from both Windows XP and Linux?
Linux really deserves a Linux partition AT LEAST for booting. Windows can't read linux filesystems (easily), so yeah, you probably want a data partition that's readable by both for transfers between them. Linux can read just about any Windows filesystem as long as it's not encrypted.
Another possibility is to run windows inside vmware or xen or something, and share files between them with something like samba, whereby linux serves parts of its filesystems over the network (which needn't be a real physical network) to windows boxes.
swap partition - theoretically you can have a swap FILE instead of a swap partition, but you'll get better performance out of a dedicated partition.
Does the installation CD handle that? Or do I have to do it myself?
SUSE will make a damned good guess and say "here's what I intend to do", and you can accept it, or edit it if you're feeling clever.
Detecting networks and peripherals - The last time I tried installing Linux (I can't remember the distro) this was a particularly bad problem.
SUSE is pretty damned good at this, better than several other Linux distros I've tried, and arguably better than recent Windows releases, HOWEVER you may still find some hardware is ONLY Windows compatible (because the manufacturers refuse to work with developers who have offered to write drivers for free). There's also quite a lot of hardware that is ONLY Linux compatible (especially some of the older stuff, and some of the more scientific stuff), but you're obviously unlikely to have any of that:-)
Being able to compile and run programs in Fedora 7
Interesting. USUALLY this will work and you can just copy the binaries across. On those rare occasions when it doesn't "just work", you can usually take the
Slashdot Mirror
This akin to you having to pay a partial speeding ticket every time you start your car; you're guilty, period.
Yes, there's taxes on cars too, not to mention the licensing
... which is roughly what I think when I see many CAPTCHAs too - there's supposed to be a word in THAT?!? Is this some sort of elaborate joke?!?
Lesson for terrorists: Paint a smiley face with big eyes on your roving bomb, give it a "help me" flag, and the public will help deliver it to your intended target. :-)
Domain Name: CANADACOMPUTERS.COM Record created on 06-Nov-1996. ;-)
Perhaps a technicality - aircraft vs spacecraft?
Could you translate that into more meaningful units, like furlongs-per-fortnight please? ;-)
Everyone's favourite videophone works again. Hmmmm.
... so he's quite literally losing his marbles?
Your cell phone is designed to have a range of several miles. RFID is designed to have a range of about 30cm. I suspect the power levels involved are VERY different.
Is it also sexist because HE wrote the program HIMself? I mean, c'mon!
3: C'mon, I have things in my fridge more intelligent. ;-)
8: You're welcome to throw rocks at Starbucks, but leave Timmy's alone, OK?
'Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007.'? I thought Finland used little-endian date format 7/11/2007, or even ISO format 2007-11-07? Did a Fin really use the screwey US-style middle-endian date format? Or was this really back on July 11th?
If you can work from home, or work in a place that doesn't involve sharing air with too many other people, you're probably kinda OK. The big problems will be schools and other institutions that involve getting lots of people in the same room (especially kids who have little appreciation for extra hygiene) , commuters who hustle together on the same tube, international flyers sharing the same tin-can as 200 other people for an 8-hour flight, possibly shops where you're sharing an environment with a hundred other strangers...
Hey, RIAA, please send me all your original media and I'll make sure there are no shared copies of any of it in my collection ;-)
Microsoft always knows better than the user! Hence installing patches which Microsoft knows are important but the user might have decided not to install, or telling you to reboot when you don't need to, or throttling your net connection when you play an mp3, making paperclips compulsory because those pesky users might want to turn off this useful feature, disabling software which the stupid user installed because windows knows it's a pirate copy, etc etc ;-)
:-)
Prediction: Microsoft patent to tell them what the W3C MEANS rather than what they actually WROTE in the standards, so MS can do "the right thing" (as opposed to the standard thing) there too
No shipping outside the US? Why not?
He then went back to stroking his pussy, safe in the knowledge that his giant space laser would deal with Mr Bond.
The REAL news has been missed here. Look at the graph about halfway down Dragons_flight's Log analysis. BOTS are making 91% "normal edits", and 8% reverts. See, bots are making NORMAL edits. The Turing test has been passed on Wikipedia! I for one welcome... never mind :-)
Do I remember the noise? I can still HUM the noise convincingly enough to have the borders start to follow along with me. :-)
Ve have vays of makin you not stressed! ;-)
% rpm --query zmd
package zmd is not installed
I probably deliberately un-ticked "mono" during install and spent a few seconds helping it satisfy dependencies. SUSE MAY install mono if you just select a default bundle, but it certainly doesn't NEED to install mono, or zen, or zmd...
There's license differences, which most people won't care about, there's graphical differences, but either one is so configurable it can be configured to look a lot like the other. Apps from one will run pretty seamlessly in the other if you have both sets of libraries installed (and the package managers will do that for you, you don't need to worry about it). Personally I chose Gnome because it's a bit more GNU, but I doubt you'll be too offended by either.
Having used both, I suspect SUSE. Fedora probably has more packages in the distro, but SUSE seems to have now made it incredibly easy to add extra community repositories anyway. SUSE's installer has felt more polished than fedora's for quite a while.
Are MUDs still telnet-based these days? To be honest, you'll find just about ANY linux can do all the things you just listed, though I'm hoping you're not expecting Wine to work for EVERYTHING. It's not bad, but it's a perpetual catch-up game for the wine developers.
SUSE was widely reported as being easier to install than windows, and that was several releases ago, and it's got better since... However, that's probably just saying WINDOWS installation isn't newbie friendly enough either. When it comes down to it, OS installation is not simple, though SUSE is probably simpler than most, including Windoze. :-/
Linux really deserves a Linux partition AT LEAST for booting. Windows can't read linux filesystems (easily), so yeah, you probably want a data partition that's readable by both for transfers between them. Linux can read just about any Windows filesystem as long as it's not encrypted.
Another possibility is to run windows inside vmware or xen or something, and share files between them with something like samba, whereby linux serves parts of its filesystems over the network (which needn't be a real physical network) to windows boxes.
swap partition - theoretically you can have a swap FILE instead of a swap partition, but you'll get better performance out of a dedicated partition.
SUSE will make a damned good guess and say "here's what I intend to do", and you can accept it, or edit it if you're feeling clever.
SUSE is pretty damned good at this, better than several other Linux distros I've tried, and arguably better than recent Windows releases, HOWEVER you may still find some hardware is ONLY Windows compatible (because the manufacturers refuse to work with developers who have offered to write drivers for free). There's also quite a lot of hardware that is ONLY Linux compatible (especially some of the older stuff, and some of the more scientific stuff), but you're obviously unlikely to have any of that :-)
Interesting. USUALLY this will work and you can just copy the binaries across. On those rare occasions when it doesn't "just work", you can usually take the
This isn't a programming problem, it's a silly licensing / patent / legal problem...
... and only really in the US, in fact.