"The magazine will contain new original articles not found on the website. "
I guess that to get all of the articles now, I'll have to subscribe to the dead tree edition. It's okay, trees were overrated. What do we need all of this oxygen production for, anyway?
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"Can these dedicated heros reach 1,000 trillion watts and reach high yield fusion?"
I think that a better question is if they can keep the plant from self-destructing every ~100 years or so, like they tended to do in Sim City 2000... That was the most annoying problem when "no natural disasters" was set, unless of course you were also using microwave power beaming *shudder*
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Funny that, Mine's a desktop PC in the bottom of my equipment rack, with my ATI video card outputting the computer video signal, and the RealMagic Hollywood Plus outputting the DVD signal...
It's easier to play mp3s to the surround sound that way...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I just ordered the X10 2.4GHz cam and battery pack, I've got a radio controlled car fashioned after a Chevy Caprice Police Package, and it can transmit voice from the remote to the car, outputting it from a speaker, so I can do bidirectional voice and I can see voice... I'm planning to use it at work instead of having to walk around the cubicle farm...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... are that in theory, the cert will test the individual on basic requirements to be a sysadmin. This doesn't mean that the individual will be a good Sysadmin, I've known several MCSEs that have $10.00/hr US jobs as field techs because they were incompetent as an Admin, but at least indicates that they took the time to go through the test.
Hopefully, the test will cover important stuff like TCP/UDP/ICMP services, security, permissions, file locations, libraries, user management, cron, etc... Otherwise, the test may be worthless...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"I guess I'll just have to stick to the inferior, lower quality and lower choice, VCDs and VHS tapes until content providers are required to be as honest and forthright as they pretend they want the buying public to be."
that's why I collect LaserDiscs... I've got 68 titles on Laserdisc, everything from "Casablanca" to "2001: A Space Odessy", and almost all are "Widescreen Special Edition" versions or director's cuts... and it's hard for people to just walk off with 'em hidden in a coat!:)
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I'm not even concerned with an 'easy' install, I'm just looking for a 'not a pain in the ass' install. When the installer crashes (which may just be a problem I have, but I've had it a lot with debian), I get mad, especially if I'm trying to do anything on a deadline. I had a problem with this at work and had to install via FTP via HTTP Proxy, which took a very long time, and I'm constantly finding pieces missing, because it skipped that nice 'what kind of computer do you want today?' menu, and I had to select packages by hand, with dselect.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
If I'm going to use an OS that I'm going to have to wrangle with all of the time simply to have good package management, I'm going to use FreeBSD. It has a much better tool than dselect, one called 'sysinstall', which will let one manage packages and check dependencies and all that jazz, and it'll install via FTP or HTTP Proxy. I don't have to worry about having a packages list onhand later if I want to add stuff, it'll retrieve it and display it for me when I load sysinstall. In a way, the current FreeBSD has some of the better features of the various linuxes without the crap. I just wish that they were better on the unstable development.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Hey, I got Debian 2.2r1 to install on my 68040 based Mac Centris 660AV, so I'm not saying it's impossible. I've just never had it EVER go as it was 'supposed to'... I've had problems with installing the X Server (in the 2.0 release that I was playing with, the console would cease to respond when working with the X servers and i'd have to manually kill-9 it and try again), I've had problems with dselect, with applications seg faulting on good hardware, and with certain pieces of hardware that worked back in Slackware on the 2.0.0 kernel not work in Debian 2.2r2. Maybe this is being picky, but lots of stuff just gets on my nerves.
Yes, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc are easy to install, very easy, like i can put the disk in, boot, select the shiny red button for 'install' (figuratively speaking) and it'll set all the defaults and select all the basic, normal packages. I don't have to do much. Sometimes, like with that Mac, I don't mind a challenge, but when it's just giving me a headache because I want to be able to play sounds or talk to my NIC, it's quite annoying.
Just my two cents worth...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I like my rpm based distro, SuSE. I like how they have implemented booting, system changes, etc. I like what options they give at install. I don't like trying to change it ever after it's on there though, because it makes upgrading impossible because the downloaded tar.gz's don't work the same way as they otherwise would have. Maybe in the next six months to a year something will FINALLY be done... Debian is a nice distro, but it's definitely not easy to install...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... a 'virtual community' is possible. There's one here in the Phoenix area, and it has many unique characters. There are people in the circles of the Phoenix Linux Users Group, the Arizona chapter of SAGE, the the ASU Linux Users Group, the various BBSes (yes, there are some BBSes with even Fidonet nodes and Tradewars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon, BarneySplat!, etc still running), and freenets that do have 'community' feel, where many of the technically minded people know each other. These spill over into the Sci-Fi realm with The United Federation of Phoenix, Tardis, and the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society. All of these groups contribute.
also, when one uses protocols like SSH and FTP and older text-mode IRC clients and such, the "dotcom" world doesn't really invade. As far as I am concerned, because of how it's implemented the web just sucks.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Have you begun to plan what you want to do with your life post-high school? I remember when I was that age (which wasn't that long ago), and I had plans for Comp-Sys-Eng. in college, and how unrealistic that was...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I threw out Enlightenment quite a while ago. My box in question started as a SuSE 6.2 box that went 6.3 then 7.0, and it wasn't until 7 that I dropped KDE in favour of Gnome. While I have used Enlightenment and liked it, it didn't seem to get along with Gnome as well as I wanted something to, so Ice became my toy. As long as Gnome gives me the foot menu and run at alt-f1 or whatever it is, I'm relatively happy. Once I get a Dual-head video card and get my two 17" monitors at 1280x1024 then I'll consider more work on it, but not until then...
Oh, SuSE is really spiffy for an out of the box Linux distro, far better than redhat IMHO, but isn't the easiest to install software on. Debian handles that well, but Potato seems to be lagging in Java, making playing with new tools a headache...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
if you'd like a good text-mode "help!" manual, I found that an older copy of UNIX for Dummies (probably written while Linux was a 1.2 kernel) was good, it talked about.bashrc and.profile and such as well as vi and emacs and mutt and other programs that will make life a LOT easier. It also talked about how to get help, how to change environment stuff, permissions, ownership of files, etc. When that book is really really clear, they recommend a book (printed in the intro) that they like for UNIX administration. That'd be my next step.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... are really annoying. I've been using Linux for my only OS for almost a year now, and I still haven't touched the Gnome or Ice menus to configure them, instead operating out of an X-Term (not that this is a problem, but X-Terms aren't as "pretty", and some users don't like them). This may sounds heretic, but I actually did like Windows 95/NT 4.0's UI. These OSes weren't great for their stability, but they were easy to use. Everything on the day to day levelm like icons, fonts, programs on the start menu and desktop, etc were very easy to adjust. The time that it became annoying was when one wanted to do something drastic. Most of the X window managers seem to be the other way around, in they are really easy to drastically change, but difficult to perform minor tweaking on. When I was using KDE I gave up on making a desktop link to my root filesystem, it was just proving annoying. Maybe if I'd RTFM it would have been clear, but sometimes it makes sense for something to be idiot designed, for I don't want to spend four hours tweaking the really piddly crap of my UI to get it right. Right now I (and I'd guess many other users who don't feel like digging) are sitting with default Gnome and KDE installs with the standard menu items and don't feel like playing with them.
I use CDE on some HP terms at school, and they're relatively easy to configure. Maybe someone in the design team could model changes after that. It sure would make Linux more attractive to your standard M$ following dialogue junkie...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
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"(Not flaming you, just people who are idiots, in general.)"
good, 'cause all I was trying to do was to get the comment moderated "funny" and still make somewhat a point...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"The magazine will contain new original articles not found on the website. "
I guess that to get all of the articles now, I'll have to subscribe to the dead tree edition. It's okay, trees were overrated. What do we need all of this oxygen production for, anyway?
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
A play based on this:
Government: "If you can hack us, well hire you!"
JoeSchmoeHacker: "Cool! I can hack you!"
Government operatives storm in, destroying windows, doors, walls, etcetera, and smash the computer, beat and handcuff the guy, and haul his ass away
Government Operative: This is gettin' just too easy! Pretty soon, we'll get everyone who can take us down!
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I first thought "Oh no! rotary spirals down? I won't be able to use my older telephones anymore!"
Boy was I relieved...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"Can these dedicated heros reach 1,000 trillion watts and reach high yield fusion?"
I think that a better question is if they can keep the plant from self-destructing every ~100 years or so, like they tended to do in Sim City 2000... That was the most annoying problem when "no natural disasters" was set, unless of course you were also using microwave power beaming *shudder*
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Funny that, Mine's a desktop PC in the bottom of my equipment rack, with my ATI video card outputting the computer video signal, and the RealMagic Hollywood Plus outputting the DVD signal...
It's easier to play mp3s to the surround sound that way...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I just ordered the X10 2.4GHz cam and battery pack, I've got a radio controlled car fashioned after a Chevy Caprice Police Package, and it can transmit voice from the remote to the car, outputting it from a speaker, so I can do bidirectional voice and I can see voice... I'm planning to use it at work instead of having to walk around the cubicle farm...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... are that in theory, the cert will test the individual on basic requirements to be a sysadmin. This doesn't mean that the individual will be a good Sysadmin, I've known several MCSEs that have $10.00/hr US jobs as field techs because they were incompetent as an Admin, but at least indicates that they took the time to go through the test.
Hopefully, the test will cover important stuff like TCP/UDP/ICMP services, security, permissions, file locations, libraries, user management, cron, etc... Otherwise, the test may be worthless...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... damn 2.5" hard disks...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Maxtor and IBM and others have really really big hard disks, like, 80GB+. Why'd they pick only 20GB?
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... and drive it into places that it otherwise wouldn't be able to get to! just think of the possibilities!
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"I guess I'll just have to stick to the inferior, lower quality and lower choice, VCDs and VHS tapes until content providers are required to be as honest and forthright as they pretend they want the buying public to be."
:)
that's why I collect LaserDiscs... I've got 68 titles on Laserdisc, everything from "Casablanca" to "2001: A Space Odessy", and almost all are "Widescreen Special Edition" versions or director's cuts... and it's hard for people to just walk off with 'em hidden in a coat!
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I'm not even concerned with an 'easy' install, I'm just looking for a 'not a pain in the ass' install. When the installer crashes (which may just be a problem I have, but I've had it a lot with debian), I get mad, especially if I'm trying to do anything on a deadline. I had a problem with this at work and had to install via FTP via HTTP Proxy, which took a very long time, and I'm constantly finding pieces missing, because it skipped that nice 'what kind of computer do you want today?' menu, and I had to select packages by hand, with dselect.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
If I'm going to use an OS that I'm going to have to wrangle with all of the time simply to have good package management, I'm going to use FreeBSD. It has a much better tool than dselect, one called 'sysinstall', which will let one manage packages and check dependencies and all that jazz, and it'll install via FTP or HTTP Proxy. I don't have to worry about having a packages list onhand later if I want to add stuff, it'll retrieve it and display it for me when I load sysinstall. In a way, the current FreeBSD has some of the better features of the various linuxes without the crap. I just wish that they were better on the unstable development.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Hey, I got Debian 2.2r1 to install on my 68040 based Mac Centris 660AV, so I'm not saying it's impossible. I've just never had it EVER go as it was 'supposed to'... I've had problems with installing the X Server (in the 2.0 release that I was playing with, the console would cease to respond when working with the X servers and i'd have to manually kill-9 it and try again), I've had problems with dselect, with applications seg faulting on good hardware, and with certain pieces of hardware that worked back in Slackware on the 2.0.0 kernel not work in Debian 2.2r2. Maybe this is being picky, but lots of stuff just gets on my nerves.
Yes, RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc are easy to install, very easy, like i can put the disk in, boot, select the shiny red button for 'install' (figuratively speaking) and it'll set all the defaults and select all the basic, normal packages. I don't have to do much. Sometimes, like with that Mac, I don't mind a challenge, but when it's just giving me a headache because I want to be able to play sounds or talk to my NIC, it's quite annoying.
Just my two cents worth...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I like my rpm based distro, SuSE. I like how they have implemented booting, system changes, etc. I like what options they give at install. I don't like trying to change it ever after it's on there though, because it makes upgrading impossible because the downloaded tar.gz's don't work the same way as they otherwise would have. Maybe in the next six months to a year something will FINALLY be done... Debian is a nice distro, but it's definitely not easy to install...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
"to boldly encode where no one has encoded before."
It's regionless actually, at least that's what Amazon.com has to say...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... at Amazon.com for $118 US, I've not found it listed anywhere else. 7 DVD Discs.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
whew! I was afraid that we'd have to send up four old men into space to stabilize it and hope they don't find the nukes!
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... a 'virtual community' is possible. There's one here in the Phoenix area, and it has many unique characters. There are people in the circles of the Phoenix Linux Users Group, the Arizona chapter of SAGE, the the ASU Linux Users Group, the various BBSes (yes, there are some BBSes with even Fidonet nodes and Tradewars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon, BarneySplat!, etc still running), and freenets that do have 'community' feel, where many of the technically minded people know each other. These spill over into the Sci-Fi realm with The United Federation of Phoenix, Tardis, and the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society. All of these groups contribute.
also, when one uses protocols like SSH and FTP and older text-mode IRC clients and such, the "dotcom" world doesn't really invade. As far as I am concerned, because of how it's implemented the web just sucks.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
Have you begun to plan what you want to do with your life post-high school? I remember when I was that age (which wasn't that long ago), and I had plans for Comp-Sys-Eng. in college, and how unrealistic that was...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
I threw out Enlightenment quite a while ago. My box in question started as a SuSE 6.2 box that went 6.3 then 7.0, and it wasn't until 7 that I dropped KDE in favour of Gnome. While I have used Enlightenment and liked it, it didn't seem to get along with Gnome as well as I wanted something to, so Ice became my toy. As long as Gnome gives me the foot menu and run at alt-f1 or whatever it is, I'm relatively happy. Once I get a Dual-head video card and get my two 17" monitors at 1280x1024 then I'll consider more work on it, but not until then...
Oh, SuSE is really spiffy for an out of the box Linux distro, far better than redhat IMHO, but isn't the easiest to install software on. Debian handles that well, but Potato seems to be lagging in Java, making playing with new tools a headache...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
This part falls in the 'do not' category, if I'm not mistaken...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
if you'd like a good text-mode "help!" manual, I found that an older copy of UNIX for Dummies (probably written while Linux was a 1.2 kernel) was good, it talked about .bashrc and .profile and such as well as vi and emacs and mutt and other programs that will make life a LOT easier. It also talked about how to get help, how to change environment stuff, permissions, ownership of files, etc. When that book is really really clear, they recommend a book (printed in the intro) that they like for UNIX administration. That'd be my next step.
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
... are really annoying. I've been using Linux for my only OS for almost a year now, and I still haven't touched the Gnome or Ice menus to configure them, instead operating out of an X-Term (not that this is a problem, but X-Terms aren't as "pretty", and some users don't like them). This may sounds heretic, but I actually did like Windows 95/NT 4.0's UI. These OSes weren't great for their stability, but they were easy to use. Everything on the day to day levelm like icons, fonts, programs on the start menu and desktop, etc were very easy to adjust. The time that it became annoying was when one wanted to do something drastic. Most of the X window managers seem to be the other way around, in they are really easy to drastically change, but difficult to perform minor tweaking on. When I was using KDE I gave up on making a desktop link to my root filesystem, it was just proving annoying. Maybe if I'd RTFM it would have been clear, but sometimes it makes sense for something to be idiot designed, for I don't want to spend four hours tweaking the really piddly crap of my UI to get it right. Right now I (and I'd guess many other users who don't feel like digging) are sitting with default Gnome and KDE installs with the standard menu items and don't feel like playing with them.
I use CDE on some HP terms at school, and they're relatively easy to configure. Maybe someone in the design team could model changes after that. It sure would make Linux more attractive to your standard M$ following dialogue junkie...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."