A friend of mine worked at webHancer for a while. Trust me, there's a nice dialog that:
1. tells you what webHancer is
2. tells you what webHancer does
3. asks you if you want to install audiogalaxy with or without it.
I've installed audiogalaxy several times, and all you have to do is uncheck the check box. But most people click "Next" without even reading the dialogs.
You consented to it. That doesn't make it spyware, it makes it ignorantware.
And "Word" if not a ripoff of "WordPerfect"?
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.. or Wordstar?
Lindows could be an acronym for LINus DOes Windows Software....
So the way I see it, make linux exaclly the same as windows 98 and linux will have much more success?
Oh, and I really would like to see you install Win98 in 10 minutes. Win98 is now 3 years old. Three years ago, I was using something like Red Hat 5.2 or 6.0. If you want to match up windows to linux install times, compare today's linux with today's windows: XP. XP does NOT install in 10 minutes.
If you (a Linux user) masquerades as an IE/NT user, it will just convince web developers to develop *only* on IE.
I wrote two e-mails to ATI because their site didn't support Netscape 6.x. I told them I was a paying customer like everyone else, and that I used Netscape 6 on Linux. They eventually re-designed their site to support Netscape6/Linux.
Do us all a favor: show the developers your true colors.
You raise some good points... I still believe that a bit of censorship should be applied to what kids see and do, but you have some interesting points. Thanks!
[...] breeding types to consider is that kids do take notice of their parents approvals and disapprovals. If Mom & Dad consistently say "No" to violent games, Junior does pick up on that. He may rebel and go seek those violent games out on his own, but that's part of growing up too. Deep down, though, he does learn that mom considers violence wrong. What he chooses to do with that knowledge makes him his own individual.
This is well said. I'm glad you pointed that out. As a kid I was often disgruntled because of what Mom & Pop disallowed, but that grew on me.
Thanks for that insightful post. We need more of your down-to-earth breed on/.
I agree that much of this has to do with your upbringing, but in a society where the PlayStation has replaced the mom, the pop and the babysitter, it's not the same.
When I was 8 years old I was cutting wood and building rafts and treehouses, then I got my first computer when I was 9 (in 1981). My 8 year old cousin spends his days on his PlayStation. Video games are okay, but they should be a means of entertainment, not of total waste of time. At 8 years old, a kid's brain is just rotting on a PlayStation.
I spent a lot of my time playing FPS style games, but I was 17 years old + (today I'm 29) and I was mature enough to realize that it's a game, and that there's nothing fun about violence except when it's in a movie or in a video game.
I would NOT let a 10 year-old play Quake 3 or Half-Life. Just like I wouldn't let the same kid watch a porno movie or a gory horror film.
I feel it desensitizes a child too much. So I have to say I agree.
I remember when blackened.org went offline because of DoS attacks. They had the ability to serve up to 7000 IRC clients. One of the main reasons for killing the server, IIRC, was because of an evening where a bunch of idiots threw tons of garbage down blackened's pipes, causing the entire state of (arizona?) to be deprived of internet access. Although I cannot find Matt's original letter, I did find the config of irc2.blackened.com:
oldcharred.blackened.com: AMD K6-2 @ 333mhz, 128M of ram, 18G-10k rpm scsi primary, 9G secondary. This server houses the origional irc2.blackened.com EFnet server, the largest EFnet server in the world before it de-linked. Still running with the origional IRCD, I, O, C/N lines and TCM.
It's a pity that, in blackened's case, volunteer workers such as mjr are forced to abandon what they love to do, because of immature kiddies flooding the network with useless garbage.
The need for proper spelling is as important anywhere. It portrays your intelligence as well as the overall intelligence of the community you belong to. If no one on Slashdot can spell properly, it will be said that "The entire Slashdot community is a bunch of uneducated people".
So let's all make an effort to spell and punctuate properly.
The standard is not CPI, it's MIPS: millions of instructions per second.
For people used to comparing Intel with SPARC, ALpha, PPC and other similar chips, the standard measures for CPU performance are MIPS and FLOPS (floating Operations per sec).
Essentially, one "MIPS" (or MIP) is 1,000,000 instructions per second. If you have a 1,000 MHz chip that does 4 instructions per cycle, then you get 4,000 MIPS.
Another chip that also does 4 instructions per cycle (.25 CPI) but that opeates at 200MHz only accomplishes 800 MIPS.
So you can't rely on Cycles Per Instruction as the only measure of performance. Rely on MIPS.
I remember when blackened.org went offline because of DoS attacks. They had the ability to serve up to 7000 IRC clients. One of the main reasons for killing the server, IIRC, was because of an evening where a bunch of idiots threw tons of garbage down blackened's pipes, causing the entire state of (arizona?) to be deprived of internet access. Although I cannot find Matt's original letter, I did find the config of irc2.blackened.com:
oldcharred.blackened.com: AMD K6-2 @ 333mhz, 128M of ram, 18G-10k rpm scsi primary, 9G secondary. This server houses the origional irc2.blackened.com EFnet server, the largest EFnet server in the world before it de-linked. Still running with the origional IRCD, I, O, C/N lines and TCM.
It's a pity that, in blackened's case, volunteer workers such as mjr are forced to abandon what they love to do, because of immature kiddies flooding the network with useless garbage.
Please inform me as to how RedHat is less secure than Slackware? RedHat has a nice "errata" section where you can download all the RPMS for bugfixes on assorted non-RedHat daemons such as lpd, bind, apache, etc...
Just because RedHat post all the security advisories and offer patches doesn't mean they are less secure than another distro who uses the same daemons but yet does not post security any advisories.
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A friend of mine worked at webHancer for a while. Trust me, there's a nice dialog that:
1. tells you what webHancer is
2. tells you what webHancer does
3. asks you if you want to install audiogalaxy with or without it.
I've installed audiogalaxy several times, and all you have to do is uncheck the check box. But most people click "Next" without even reading the dialogs.
You consented to it. That doesn't make it spyware, it makes it ignorantware.
.. or Wordstar?
Lindows could be an acronym for LINus DOes Windows Software....
So the way I see it, make linux exaclly the same as windows 98 and linux will have much more success?
Oh, and I really would like to see you install Win98 in 10 minutes. Win98 is now 3 years old. Three years ago, I was using something like Red Hat 5.2 or 6.0. If you want to match up windows to linux install times, compare today's linux with today's windows: XP. XP does NOT install in 10 minutes.
If you (a Linux user) masquerades as an IE/NT user, it will just convince web developers to develop *only* on IE.
I wrote two e-mails to ATI because their site didn't support Netscape 6.x. I told them I was a paying customer like everyone else, and that I used Netscape 6 on Linux. They eventually re-designed their site to support Netscape6/Linux.
Do us all a favor: show the developers your true colors.
From your intelligent and mature post, I can see that your mummy and daddy still pay for your goodies.
Well I guess I was wrong... My first FPS game *was* Wolf, so I guess I was 19.
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Dammit dude, I'm really feeling old now!! Bastard!
You raise some good points... I still believe that a bit of censorship should be applied to what kids see and do, but you have some interesting points. Thanks!
And it gets kids into reading... Excellent!
It is understood that younger children are unable to comprehend what is right and what is wrong as a mature adult can.
So you shelter the innocent children from such garbage until they are old enough to understand and take a judgement by themselves.
[...] breeding types to consider is that kids do take notice of their parents approvals and disapprovals. If Mom & Dad consistently say "No" to violent games, Junior does pick up on that. He may rebel and go seek those violent games out on his own, but that's part of growing up too. Deep down, though, he does learn that mom considers violence wrong. What he chooses to do with that knowledge makes him his own individual.
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This is well said. I'm glad you pointed that out. As a kid I was often disgruntled because of what Mom & Pop disallowed, but that grew on me.
Thanks for that insightful post. We need more of your down-to-earth breed on
I agree that much of this has to do with your upbringing, but in a society where the PlayStation has replaced the mom, the pop and the babysitter, it's not the same.
When I was 8 years old I was cutting wood and building rafts and treehouses, then I got my first computer when I was 9 (in 1981). My 8 year old cousin spends his days on his PlayStation. Video games are okay, but they should be a means of entertainment, not of total waste of time. At 8 years old, a kid's brain is just rotting on a PlayStation.
I spent a lot of my time playing FPS style games, but I was 17 years old + (today I'm 29) and I was mature enough to realize that it's a game, and that there's nothing fun about violence except when it's in a movie or in a video game.
I would NOT let a 10 year-old play Quake 3 or Half-Life. Just like I wouldn't let the same kid watch a porno movie or a gory horror film.
I feel it desensitizes a child too much. So I have to say I agree.
Why do you call me a moron for making one mistake? The two other references to blackened were correct. There is no need to be rude.
I remember when blackened.org went offline because of DoS attacks. They had the ability to serve up to 7000 IRC clients. One of the main reasons for killing the server, IIRC, was because of an evening where a bunch of idiots threw tons of garbage down blackened's pipes, causing the entire state of (arizona?) to be deprived of internet access. Although I cannot find Matt's original letter, I did find the config of irc2.blackened.com:
oldcharred.blackened.com: AMD K6-2 @ 333mhz, 128M of ram, 18G-10k rpm scsi primary, 9G secondary. This server houses the origional irc2.blackened.com EFnet server, the largest EFnet server in the world before it de-linked. Still running with the origional IRCD, I, O, C/N lines and TCM.
It's a pity that, in blackened's case, volunteer workers such as mjr are forced to abandon what they love to do, because of immature kiddies flooding the network with useless garbage.
I just got 350 KB/sec from you. Thanks, dude!
Lame.
Does Slashdot count as a "foreign news site"?
I can't imagine not being allowed to read Slashdot.
That was a good tune... Tommy Tutone, circa 1980.
How many people must have tried to dial that number when the song came out?
That's the drawback of being able to speak and write in more languages than one. In french, the punctuation must be outside of the quotes.
Actually, " is illegal in french. and must be used.
Thanks for the pointer, though.
The need for proper spelling is as important anywhere. It portrays your intelligence as well as the overall intelligence of the community you belong to. If no one on Slashdot can spell properly, it will be said that "The entire Slashdot community is a bunch of uneducated people".
So let's all make an effort to spell and punctuate properly.
The standard is not CPI, it's MIPS: millions of instructions per second.
For people used to comparing Intel with SPARC, ALpha, PPC and other similar chips, the standard measures for CPU performance are MIPS and FLOPS (floating Operations per sec).
Essentially, one "MIPS" (or MIP) is 1,000,000 instructions per second. If you have a 1,000 MHz chip that does 4 instructions per cycle, then you get 4,000 MIPS.
Another chip that also does 4 instructions per cycle (.25 CPI) but that opeates at 200MHz only accomplishes 800 MIPS.
So you can't rely on Cycles Per Instruction as the only measure of performance. Rely on MIPS.
Thank you. That was entertaining.
=)
I wrote Arizona this way: (Arizona?)
There was a reason for that.
I remember when blackened.org went offline because of DoS attacks. They had the ability to serve up to 7000 IRC clients. One of the main reasons for killing the server, IIRC, was because of an evening where a bunch of idiots threw tons of garbage down blackened's pipes, causing the entire state of (arizona?) to be deprived of internet access. Although I cannot find Matt's original letter, I did find the config of irc2.blackened.com:
oldcharred.blackened.com: AMD K6-2 @ 333mhz, 128M of ram, 18G-10k rpm scsi primary, 9G secondary. This server houses the origional irc2.blackened.com EFnet server, the largest EFnet server in the world before it de-linked. Still running with the origional IRCD, I, O, C/N lines and TCM.
It's a pity that, in blackened's case, volunteer workers such as mjr are forced to abandon what they love to do, because of immature kiddies flooding the network with useless garbage.
Please inform me as to how RedHat is less secure than Slackware? RedHat has a nice "errata" section where you can download all the RPMS for bugfixes on assorted non-RedHat daemons such as lpd, bind, apache, etc...
Just because RedHat post all the security advisories and offer patches doesn't mean they are less secure than another distro who uses the same daemons but yet does not post security any advisories.