I keep wanting to like/use Linux, I really do. Every once in a while I download a bunch of ISO's, take a deep breath, install 4-5 different distro's, play with each one until I break it, and move on to the next.
Still haven't found the "right" distro for me, for some reason, but I do know that I like Debian's installation/configuration, Mandrake's GUI/advanced feature set, Slack's ascetic tendencies, and Red Hat's ubiquity. *shrug*
So sometimes I feel a little weird reading Slashdot all the time, but I do believe in open source, so I don't question it... at least I'm not alone.;-)
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No kidding, that nubile little empathic grrrl with the tail ain't bad either.
Perhaps you meant this article http://www.maximumpc.com/route66/intro.html for the goatse.cx-weary, in MaximumPC. It's a pretty kickass system and I've been thinking of throwing one together myself.
This one is penguin-powered, too, which I think is pretty cool, since I wouldn't want to spend another $90 on an operating system for my car stereo. Please consider Ogg Vorbis though; MP3 is patent-encumbered and I'd like to see it die out.
Unfortunately, it's still gonna be spendy no matter how you do it. The parts and prices listed in the article are a little bit outdated, but the system they built cost about $1200 I think...
It would hold a helluva lot of music, though, and you'd be very popular with the Geek girls.;-)
When you hear Apple say that a Mac is twice as fast as an Intel system, just assume they're talking about the kinds of tasks their target market would care about.
Or, do what I do, and assume Steve Jobs is trying to blow hot flower-powered smoke up my ass. Again.
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"My current problem is that the Visio chart isn't auto-arranging...."
Err, no offense, dude, but that doesn't sound like it's your main problem.;-)
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Looks like you're the one who's full of crap. I'm writing this on a BSD system right now, and I have all the source code to everything on it. It's hardly "locked up", as you say.
By the way, dude, convince Nvidia to release their hardware specs and I *will* write a driver for OpenBSD, which will then be trivial to port to the other BSDs. It's not like you GPL programmers do all the work around here... *grumbles something about IP stacks*
Hmm... I'm trying to think about how you'd make an HTML web page that updated dynamically, using XML, with a floorplan done in 3/4 view, which updates the current location of everyone in the building on-the-fly. Oh, that's right; YOU CAN'T DO IT IN HTML.
I'd say that as an overall cross-platform, web-accessible application-building toolkit, Flash excels. Of course, that's not what most half-assed web designers do with it, (can you say 30-second commercials? yuck.) but I personally think you're just blowing smoke out your ass, and looking for something to complain about in this poor guy's well-written Flash app.
The HTML 4.0 spec is far too limiting for most innovative weblications to be implented, so instead of writing cross-platform apps in HTML, which I'm sure neo-Luddites such as yourself would prefer, people like Shawn Fanning write Napster in Visual Studio instead, and lock people in to using WIndows (until the Open Source community figures out the protocol and reverse-engineers it, only to find out that they are too late, and RIAA got there first.) As has been pointed out, Flash is an open standard, it's cross-platform, it is (relatively) quick to download, and it's not vaporware. (Where is SVG? Oh, yeah, right over by the 1996-era HTML 3.2 spec. Wake me when it gets here.)
What we really need is obscene gesture control. I'm thinking Evolution might be a likely candidate for this natural turn of events, so that the recipient of my emails can somehow interpret what finger I was holding up when I flamed them.;-)
I think you're thinking of FreeBSD's jail feature. Although I think OpenBSD can do it as well.
Why does one need "...a Telnet and SSH client"? If you're going to be safe, just use SSH; don't bother with telnet.
I guess I'm not really that excited about this. Huge CPU banks and enormous storage capacities just aren't the same these days, now that we have 1 Ghz+ laptops with 60 GB hard drives. Although, I gotta admit, running several thousand copies of Linux at once would be a cool trick to perform at cocktail parties.
The BSD troll gets +1, Interesting? Look, I have two OpenBSD boxes to my left, and a Mandrake dual-cpu box in front of me; they are all excellent quality OS's that help me get my work done. Can't you just give it a rest already?;-)
Seriously, though, I get asked why I use such a user-friendly distro like Mandrake, but the fact is, it's a very high quality distro that installs most of the dev stuff I need quickly and easily. I know it's not exactly Slack or Debian, but it gets the job done, and I don't mind not setting up every little source package myself. I hope Mandrake finds a way to restructure, so they can continue their fine work.
It's, um, sort of a peer-to-peer technology, since it automatically propogates itself through my peer Linux networks, and fixes the unsecured installations in the process.
In fact, I, er, use it to maintain all my network installations. Yeah, that's the ticket... it has saved me mucho time and frustration.
This is a stupid question, but I've wanted to ask it for a while anyway and it is sort of slightly on topic here for a change.
How does one go about buying a block of IP addresses? And don't say, "Lease them from your ISP", because that's doesn't answer the question. How did my ISP buy them?!?
I'm really curious, because it is frequently a point of contention around these here parts and I'm wondering if it's possible for me to get my hands on a small block of them. Is there a governing body that deals them out? Have they already all been distributed? Sigh.... so many questions about TCP/IP....
lol, I just spent a moment translating your name into decimal. Nice work!
:-)
Oh, and QT/Embedded looks pretty cool. I just picked up the O'Reilly "Learning QT" book, and I'm sort of excited that I'll be able to code for handhelds/embedded systems pretty soon.
I'm even considering writing a car stereo system/GPS/wireless mobile internet system with QT Embedded as the GUI, since I'll probably be able to hand select the hardware, and I don't really need super high resolution for it.
You're right, it's not economical at all to pirate single DVD's onto single DVD-r's.
Unless, of course, you took your DVD collection (well, in the sense that you "collected" them from Blockbuster Video for a couple days at $1.99 a pop), ground down the file sizes to ~500 MB using DIVX;-), and then turned around and burnt 8-9 full-length DVD's in DIVX;-) format back onto a single DVD-R. Now, that might worry a couple MPAA gold ol' boys out there. *smirk*
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Well, maybe if it's just a Tribes2 server I guess, but STILL... roflmao.
Hey, thanks for the very cool link, I'll check it out! I'm sort of a do-it-yourself kinda guy anyway, and this looks like a great way to learn...
Still haven't found the "right" distro for me, for some reason, but I do know that I like Debian's installation/configuration, Mandrake's GUI/advanced feature set, Slack's ascetic tendencies, and Red Hat's ubiquity. *shrug*
So sometimes I feel a little weird reading Slashdot all the time, but I do believe in open source, so I don't question it... at least I'm not alone. ;-)
No kidding, that nubile little empathic grrrl with the tail ain't bad either.
Dang... the cards my company provides don't allow variable interpretation. :-(
Well, yeah. But I can dream, can't I. ;-)
This one is penguin-powered, too, which I think is pretty cool, since I wouldn't want to spend another $90 on an operating system for my car stereo. Please consider Ogg Vorbis though; MP3 is patent-encumbered and I'd like to see it die out.
Unfortunately, it's still gonna be spendy no matter how you do it. The parts and prices listed in the article are a little bit outdated, but the system they built cost about $1200 I think...
It would hold a helluva lot of music, though, and you'd be very popular with the Geek girls. ;-)
Or, do what I do, and assume Steve Jobs is trying to blow hot flower-powered smoke up my ass. Again.
Err, no offense, dude, but that doesn't sound like it's your main problem. ;-)
By the way, dude, convince Nvidia to release their hardware specs and I *will* write a driver for OpenBSD, which will then be trivial to port to the other BSDs. It's not like you GPL programmers do all the work around here... *grumbles something about IP stacks*
Smoking Man has a secret briefcase with a button and a knob marked 'Decrypt', which renders this technology and it's kin useless.
Woohoo, I just love a good old-fashioned smear campaign. Ad hominem attacks and name-calling, just like the old days, can't beat that.
Who are you to tell me how to license my work?
I'd say that as an overall cross-platform, web-accessible application-building toolkit, Flash excels. Of course, that's not what most half-assed web designers do with it, (can you say 30-second commercials? yuck.) but I personally think you're just blowing smoke out your ass, and looking for something to complain about in this poor guy's well-written Flash app.
The HTML 4.0 spec is far too limiting for most innovative weblications to be implented, so instead of writing cross-platform apps in HTML, which I'm sure neo-Luddites such as yourself would prefer, people like Shawn Fanning write Napster in Visual Studio instead, and lock people in to using WIndows (until the Open Source community figures out the protocol and reverse-engineers it, only to find out that they are too late, and RIAA got there first.) As has been pointed out, Flash is an open standard, it's cross-platform, it is (relatively) quick to download, and it's not vaporware. (Where is SVG? Oh, yeah, right over by the 1996-era HTML 3.2 spec. Wake me when it gets here.)
Besides, those who can't do, criticize.
What we really need is obscene gesture control. I'm thinking Evolution might be a likely candidate for this natural turn of events, so that the recipient of my emails can somehow interpret what finger I was holding up when I flamed them. ;-)
Why does one need "...a Telnet and SSH client"? If you're going to be safe, just use SSH; don't bother with telnet.
I guess I'm not really that excited about this. Huge CPU banks and enormous storage capacities just aren't the same these days, now that we have 1 Ghz+ laptops with 60 GB hard drives. Although, I gotta admit, running several thousand copies of Linux at once would be a cool trick to perform at cocktail parties.
Seriously, though, I get asked why I use such a user-friendly distro like Mandrake, but the fact is, it's a very high quality distro that installs most of the dev stuff I need quickly and easily. I know it's not exactly Slack or Debian, but it gets the job done, and I don't mind not setting up every little source package myself. I hope Mandrake finds a way to restructure, so they can continue their fine work.
In fact, I, er, use it to maintain all my network installations. Yeah, that's the ticket... it has saved me mucho time and frustration.
well, *I* liked it. Moderators these days should be ashamed of themselves!
So far, so good...
How does one go about buying a block of IP addresses? And don't say, "Lease them from your ISP", because that's doesn't answer the question. How did my ISP buy them?!?
I'm really curious, because it is frequently a point of contention around these here parts and I'm wondering if it's possible for me to get my hands on a small block of them. Is there a governing body that deals them out? Have they already all been distributed? Sigh.... so many questions about TCP/IP....
All this talk about tights and masks is turning me on.
Oh, and QT/Embedded looks pretty cool. I just picked up the O'Reilly "Learning QT" book, and I'm sort of excited that I'll be able to code for handhelds/embedded systems pretty soon.
I'm even considering writing a car stereo system/GPS/wireless mobile internet system with QT Embedded as the GUI, since I'll probably be able to hand select the hardware, and I don't really need super high resolution for it.
Unless, of course, you took your DVD collection (well, in the sense that you "collected" them from Blockbuster Video for a couple days at $1.99 a pop), ground down the file sizes to ~500 MB using DIVX;-), and then turned around and burnt 8-9 full-length DVD's in DIVX;-) format back onto a single DVD-R. Now, that might worry a couple MPAA gold ol' boys out there. *smirk*
Finally, a SQ..., *cough* I mean, sequel to the the last database article.