The only thing that I miss in Google is the ability to _properly_ search for a phrase, showing only those results which contain the exact phrase. (In my experience, quotation marks get ignored in Google)
Google's quotation mark phrase search is screwier (is that a word?) than that. I once searched for a phrase quoted, and got a "no results" message. Then later on when searching on the same phrase without the quotes, I found the exact same phrase in the page, same case and everything. Either Google doesn't index the whole page or something.... I never did figure it out.
No offense, but why did you even ship back the whole laptop if you knew it was the ethernet card.... You really need to learn to keep bitching at these tech support people until they do the right thing... The FIRST time.
Had you done what you did on the last phone conversation, on the first, rather than blindly sending the laptop back, it would have been a much easier experience.
This is not meant to be a flame. I've just dealt with idiot tech support so much that I never assume that the person on the other end of the line knows more than I do. Sure it pisses off the few that DO know more than I do, but those are in the very small minority, especially with big companies and the first line of phone in support. Also I can usually tell if the person knows what they are talking about or not.
It's pretty obvious, like when my cable modem kept screwing up because of shitty infrastructure, he told me to reboot my machine (Linux). I told him to hold on, went to take a piss, and then came back and said "OK, all rebooted, still doesn't work":)
In no other industry do the products double their performance in such a short time frame. That coupled with frequent halving in price, makes computers unlike any other industry.
Re:Which releases are production stable?
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This is not the way it's "supposed" to be. It might be true, but don't present it that way. Even versioned kernels are SUPPOSED to be stable. All of them. Patchlevel kernel revisions on the even number trees are not supposed to be anything but bugfixes.
Re:Give me some targetted marketing
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Uhhh, Unless you were kidding....
People PAY for ads. You can't just go to one of your advertisers and be like "sorry, our readership didn't like your ads, here is your million dollars back."
Re:to forestall the inevitable -- why not reiserfs
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OK, cool, just wondering. One other thing I was wondering is that Namesys recommends a 2.4.10pre kernel or later to safely use reiserfs... does the 2.4.9 with 7.1 or the 2.4.7 with 7.2 have the necessary patches to run reiser safely without going to a Linus kernel?
Re:to forestall the inevitable -- why not reiserfs
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Please provide a testcase. Our tests have shown that (unless you compile in full debugging), ext3 is actually faster than ext2.
You know, while you're thinking about FS and all, I want to know why ReiserFS debugging was turned on in 7.1 and all the sample kernel configs.
It made reiserfs incredibly slow unless one recompiled the kernel, and did something other than make oldconfig. Was this deliberate to make reiserfs look bad or what?
Do not meddle in the affairs of mice, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
No really, it could have been the mouse was "detecting" the wrong mode. I'm not sure exactly how those ps2/serial combo mice tell which protocol to use, but it could either be a connection in the adapter that is made (similar to a jumper), or something sent on bootup. Either that or I am totally off-base, but that seems like a likely explanation.
I don't think paypal is so malicious. They prefer bank draft because they don't have to pay credit card merchant fees on it, something that seriously eats away their bottom line when the transaction is between two normal accounts, rather than involving a premium account.
Lotus smartsuite wasn't that bad really. LotusScript was a huge buggy mess though, and the stupid startup file cabinet thing sucked... but in all it was pretty ok.
Shared with your neighbors, their microwave oven, their cordless phones. "Shared" in the 802.11 wireless sense is a lot different from "shared collision domain".
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And I guess microsoft would have to buy microsoft.xxx, or sue the first person that registered it...
.comnetorg counterparts.
There are other issues with new content specific TLDs, especially ones that could be used to easily defame their
I don't know man, I searched for "write only memory" without the quotes, on Google, and the URL you provided was the very first hit.
:)
Maybe you are trying too hard to force Google to do what you want, when if you let it do it's magic, it would have known what you meant.
(The first google page of results were all relevant, the second page was about 80% relevant, on the unquoted string)
The only thing that I miss in Google is the ability to _properly_ search for a phrase, showing only those results which contain the exact phrase. (In my experience, quotation marks get ignored in Google)
Google's quotation mark phrase search is screwier (is that a word?) than that. I once searched for a phrase quoted, and got a "no results" message. Then later on when searching on the same phrase without the quotes, I found the exact same phrase in the page, same case and everything. Either Google doesn't index the whole page or something.... I never did figure it out.
No offense, but why did you even ship back the whole laptop if you knew it was the ethernet card.... You really need to learn to keep bitching at these tech support people until they do the right thing... The FIRST time.
:)
Had you done what you did on the last phone conversation, on the first, rather than blindly sending the laptop back, it would have been a much easier experience.
This is not meant to be a flame. I've just dealt with idiot tech support so much that I never assume that the person on the other end of the line knows more than I do. Sure it pisses off the few that DO know more than I do, but those are in the very small minority, especially with big companies and the first line of phone in support. Also I can usually tell if the person knows what they are talking about or not.
It's pretty obvious, like when my cable modem kept screwing up because of shitty infrastructure, he told me to reboot my machine (Linux). I told him to hold on, went to take a piss, and then came back and said "OK, all rebooted, still doesn't work"
In no other industry do the products double their performance in such a short time frame. That coupled with frequent halving in price, makes computers unlike any other industry.
Hell no.
This is not the way it's "supposed" to be. It might be true, but don't present it that way. Even versioned kernels are SUPPOSED to be stable. All of them. Patchlevel kernel revisions on the even number trees are not supposed to be anything but bugfixes.
Uhhh, Unless you were kidding....
People PAY for ads. You can't just go to one of your advertisers and be like "sorry, our readership didn't like your ads, here is your million dollars back."
OK, cool, just wondering. One other thing I was wondering is that Namesys recommends a 2.4.10pre kernel or later to safely use reiserfs... does the 2.4.9 with 7.1 or the 2.4.7 with 7.2 have the necessary patches to run reiser safely without going to a Linus kernel?
Radio waves ARE an EM field.
Please provide a testcase. Our tests have shown that (unless you compile in full debugging), ext3 is actually faster than ext2.
You know, while you're thinking about FS and all, I want to know why ReiserFS debugging was turned on in 7.1 and all the sample kernel configs.
It made reiserfs incredibly slow unless one recompiled the kernel, and did something other than make oldconfig. Was this deliberate to make reiserfs look bad or what?
Which OS company will create the most used operating system by 2020?
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> Linux
Yeah and that "Linux company"... who are they again?
It's just as effective. Many antennas are made from aluminum.
Do not meddle in the affairs of mice, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
No really, it could have been the mouse was "detecting" the wrong mode. I'm not sure exactly how those ps2/serial combo mice tell which protocol to use, but it could either be a connection in the adapter that is made (similar to a jumper), or something sent on bootup. Either that or I am totally off-base, but that seems like a likely explanation.
If you don't get the joke, don't mod it down, idiot.
Or vote for Bill Redpath and Gary Reams, the libertarian candidates, if you really give a fuck about freedom.
His term is almost up, he isn't running in november.
I don't think paypal is so malicious. They prefer bank draft because they don't have to pay credit card merchant fees on it, something that seriously eats away their bottom line when the transaction is between two normal accounts, rather than involving a premium account.
p://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pio neers/
Try Sylpheed
The best IMAP implementation I have seen thus far.
Lotus smartsuite wasn't that bad really. LotusScript was a huge buggy mess though, and the stupid startup file cabinet thing sucked... but in all it was pretty ok.
:)
I don't know what my point was anymore.
Effectively the seller is earning his money by finding audiences who aren't otherwise aware of the information and promoting it to them.
You mean like Slashdot and every other newspaper, TV news and web site?
Quixtar is the WWW storefront part of Amway, the way I understand it. I believe both companies still exist, both are part of the Amway family.
Shared with your neighbors, their microwave oven, their cordless phones. "Shared" in the 802.11 wireless sense is a lot different from "shared collision domain".
Well since Ether means Airwaves, maybe we should call it Ethernet.
Oh, wait.