We moved into this building in the 60's, theres all sorts of cables, coax (digital video, rf, analog video, probably some old networking), fibre (video, av and computer), multicore (audio, cat5, old phone cables, rs232, or just 2 wires to complete a circuit), power (a variety of AC and DC voltages), and probably some more.
We are talking *tens* of thousands of miles of cable throughout the building.
First of all, Debian has the most out of date software packages of any major mainstream distros. Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1 (A version that really sucks).
Secondly, its a pain in the goatse to set up, first of all, you are forced to use Kernel 2.2, which is horribly hacked with "backports" to get any use on any modern machine (Read, made after 1999). Good luck memorizing all the *.ko files in/lib/modules, as you are going to need it.
WTF's a.ko? modconf does all that nasty module stuff
$ uname -r 2.4.20
Configuring XFree86 is hell! If you don't have a Thick X11 orilley book, and a list of your horizontal sync values from your monitor's intruction manual (if you even have one), BOOM! There goes your monitor.
You must have a *really* old monitor if it can't cope with an out of range signal. I admit its been A few years, but xf86config or xf86setup or something was fine when I set up my X.
Even then, good luck getting anything over 640x480@16 colours.
Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!
Yes, pay for the manuals and phone support if you want. For online stuff, I used to go to linuxnewbie.org
Debian has ZERO support for any decent hardware, including USB mice, scanners, Sound cards, heck even Serial devices struggle.
Well, my usb mouse (cordless, mouse # 2 so I can control xine from across the room, but not my main mouse) works fine, as does my USB mp3 player and sound card. My modem was fine too when I used one, but I don't have a scanner. Printer worked too, but I sold it when I emmigrated.
Apt-get has many flaws. First of all it uses a non standard package format (the rest of the world uses RPM, deprecate the DEB format!)
It's a superior format
Debian is falling to pieces, if it is to survive any market share
That's just it, Debian isn't a commercial distro, it'll go As long as people develop it. If it's not for you, fine. TBH If I had time I'd probably migrate my desktop away from Debian. My laptop's too slow to run a modern distro though. Use whatever floats your boat.
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Who cares about the home market? It's corporations, with a narrow hardware and software specification, where users have hardly any control over their machine, where Linux will make inroads. No problems installing apps, no problems with hardware compatibility, as long as the software is there Linux is viable.
Of course this raises the whole issue of apt-get. We all rely on apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, all it takes is someone to compromise the servers and insert a backdoor
I assumed so to, then I did some quick figures and realised the acceleration due to gravity on Earth by Jupiter (at the closest point) is arround 1/3 nanometres per second per second.
I don't get it. Up-Down and left-right, but forwards backwards makes no sense. Is the third for rotation?
Think about it, hubble can point to any spot in the night sky by calling the line from hubble to the centre of the galaxy the X axis, rotating +-180 degrees arround the Z axis of the galaxy, and +-90 degrees arround the Y axis. 2 gyros, one around Y and one around Z.
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We moved into this building in the 60's, theres all sorts of cables, coax (digital video, rf, analog video, probably some old networking), fibre (video, av and computer), multicore (audio, cat5, old phone cables, rs232, or just 2 wires to complete a circuit), power (a variety of AC and DC voltages), and probably some more.
We are talking *tens* of thousands of miles of cable throughout the building.
I never have a problem with sid (unless I type apt-get remove libc6), but testing is usually a good compromise
All apted from sid and http://marillat.free.fr/ and possibly a couple more down the line
First of all, Debian has the most out of date software packages of any major mainstream distros. Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1 (A version that really sucks).
/lib/modules, as you are going to need it.
.ko? modconf does all that nasty module stuff
$ konqueror --version
Qt: 3.1.1
KDE: 3.1.3
Konqueror: 3.1.3
$ xdpyinfo |grep "XFree86 version"
XFree86 version: 4.2.1.1
Secondly, its a pain in the goatse to set up, first of all, you are forced to use Kernel 2.2, which is horribly hacked with "backports" to get any use on any modern machine (Read, made after 1999). Good luck memorizing all the *.ko files in
WTF's a
$ uname -r
2.4.20
Configuring XFree86 is hell! If you don't have a Thick X11 orilley book, and a list of your horizontal sync values from your monitor's intruction manual (if you even have one), BOOM! There goes your monitor.
You must have a *really* old monitor if it can't cope with an out of range signal. I admit its been A few years, but xf86config or xf86setup or something was fine when I set up my X.
Even then, good luck getting anything over 640x480@16 colours.
screen #0:
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (260x195 millimeters)
resolution: 100x100 dots per inch
depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32
Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!
Yes, pay for the manuals and phone support if you want. For online stuff, I used to go to linuxnewbie.org
Debian has ZERO support for any decent hardware, including USB mice, scanners, Sound cards, heck even Serial devices struggle.
Well, my usb mouse (cordless, mouse # 2 so I can control xine from across the room, but not my main mouse) works fine, as does my USB mp3 player and sound card. My modem was fine too when I used one, but I don't have a scanner. Printer worked too, but I sold it when I emmigrated.
Apt-get has many flaws. First of all it uses a non standard package format (the rest of the world uses RPM, deprecate the DEB format!)
It's a superior format
Debian is falling to pieces, if it is to survive any market share
That's just it, Debian isn't a commercial distro, it'll go As long as people develop it. If it's not for you, fine. TBH If I had time I'd probably migrate my desktop away from Debian. My laptop's too slow to run a modern distro though. Use whatever floats your boat.
Where does Michael Jackson go on holiday?
To Tampa with the kids
He'll end up like This guy
Who cares about the home market? It's corporations, with a narrow hardware and software specification, where users have hardly any control over their machine, where Linux will make inroads. No problems installing apps, no problems with hardware compatibility, as long as the software is there Linux is viable.
Of course it bounces, you shouldn't top-post
We will sue one cute 12-year-old girl per week
And if that doesn't Work we'll send Micheal Jackson after them!
Of course this raises the whole issue of apt-get. We all rely on apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, all it takes is someone to compromise the servers and insert a backdoor
No, when a user has access to a machine *that* makes it a "recipe for disaster as far as tech support is concerned".
I assumed so to, then I did some quick figures and realised the acceleration due to gravity on Earth by Jupiter (at the closest point) is arround 1/3 nanometres per second per second.
Yes, you could heat up the Earth by one million degrees a day. For Five days.
like social security?
Depends on the mass. Move jupiter? That'd probably fsck things arround a *tiny* bit. Move a 5km asteroid, pah!
If he owns an n-gage he deserves to be beaten *with* a chess board
WTF is the western zone?
Ever forget your keys?
don't ya think?
my string vest's got more holes than this guy, but both should still be fixed.
windows ui: liberally, uh, borrowed from apple
MS and Apple nabbed it from Xerox.
Geology, Biology, Chemistry
Do you want a 12 tons falling on your house? ...
eliminating any possibility that the 12.5-ton telescope could fall on, say, Mexico City or Miami.
That's OK, I don't live in either of those places
but I believe the marginal cost of building one more B-2 is about $600 billion.
FUCK ME! That's like 1% of the *worlds* GDP! IT's like the U.S. spending one dollar in 5 on one plane.
I don't get it. Up-Down and left-right, but forwards backwards makes no sense. Is the third for rotation?
Think about it, hubble can point to any spot in the night sky by calling the line from hubble to the centre of the galaxy the X axis, rotating +-180 degrees arround the Z axis of the galaxy, and +-90 degrees arround the Y axis. 2 gyros, one around Y and one around Z.