I just installed Mandrake 8.1 Release Candidate two days ago. I don't know if your post is a troll, or just sadly misinformed. I'll take the bait...
This distro might work ok on your 1ghz 512mb pc, but 8.0 ran like crap on my 128mb P200mmx.
That's one of the risks you run of keeping an old computer. I just upgraded from a P166 to a P2-350; I find the Mandrake's speed to be more than adequate on the P2, but I never would have installed it on the P166. More than adequate means that it will be years before I will need to upgrade my hardware.
Call me a hacker, but not having the standard BSD unix tools by default really annoys me to no end ( ftp, telnet, and many others were not installed without individual package selection ).
I too was suprised to find telnet missing, but I understand the rational behind weaning users away from unsafe tools. Besides you say that you have a set of rpm hand selected on installation. Well, whose fault is it then that you forgot to install telnet and ftp?
All of this emulating m$ makes me want to go BSD.
That's funny, I just come from planet BSD. I enherited a new computer, replacing my aging beast that's been running FreeBSD for the past 6 years. I would have stayed with FreeBSD but getting X to work with an nVidia card was a joyless hell.
Don't get me wrong, I am a freebsd enthusiast. Even if I end up being a debian user, I will sorely miss the ports system. But for me, a newbie Linux user, Mandrake has a strong appeal. It works. And it works now on my hardware, without days of fidgeting. My printer works, my video drivers are installed, my sound card was auto-detected. If that's what you mean by emulating Microsoft, bring it on.
I'm assuming that there wouldn't be any services running during the install/upgrade, and no listening ports, so my guess is that I'd be relatively safe during the process, but I want to be sure.
I have relied on cvsup; make world for so long I'm not too sure what goes on with a fresh install. I can only guess that you would be safe using an ftp upgrade/install, I'm not sure exactly what is on the bootdisk. Sorry.
If you have a freebsd machine inside of the firewall you can use that to grab the latest sources and run make buildworld. Some pointers can be found here. That would allow highest security and the least downtime.
cvsup is your answer. It grabs the newest sources, and then you can compile them and install them on your own with make world. It saves bandwidth and is pretty cool in general.
A change in your firewall rules to allow cvsup will not affect your security.
Camp David, in Thurmont Md, is a possible location that has been said numerous times. It has a symbolic meaning to the Arab world as the location on the Camp David Accords, a 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
I saw Ollie North on CNN, he discounted the Camp David speculation in favor of a military command and control center in Maryland, but I didn't cath the name. Anyone?
Or the plane could have continued onto Washington DC for any number of tagets there.
with open source, there's no way [to make money] because you don't control your intellectual property.
Wrong! I have complete control over my intellectual property in the open source software that I have written. With that control I have chosen to allow other to use it as they see fit. That makes me much happier than a few dollars.
I have no control over the closed source stuff I write to pay the bills. My employer controls that. They use that control to restrict the freedom of the purchasers of that software.
I think what Derek Burney actually means is that open source software removes his ability to extort money from his user base.
And what's up with the Microsoft ass kissing? I guess someone thinks you can't beat them, join them. And then give an interview pretending that they are joining you. Way to go Corel! You've earned my contempt.
This is true. qmail can deliver mail to mailbox and maildir. If you want to know how to use qmail and mailbox, look at/var/qmail/boot/home in a qmail installation.
Do some resarch, maybe qmail can do the job for you after all.
Why do people hate Internet Explorer have you used it lately?
No, it doesn't run on FreeBSD, so I haven't used it at all. I am bothered that fools like you provide Microsoft a fulcrum point to leverage their 'standards' on the rest of us for the sake of quick-to-loadness. Lynx is quick to load, try using that. I am quite sure that it is usable on any platform of your choice.
Whats to stop M$ from releasing W2K for the G4 the following quarter?
That's worth a laugh or two. NT used to run on PPC, Alpha and MIPS R4x00. Used to. All these platforms were dropped for financial reasons (no sales), but now there are some serious technical chalenges to port them back. Don't think that MS could do it in a quarter, or even a year. How is 64bit Win2000 coming? How about Win2k for Itanium?
MS Office really is the trump card. Perhaps the recent announcement was a sign that Apple has indicated to MS that it will not release OSX on intel for some time.
Correct, I use a 3% solution. I find the taste to be neutral, both initially and after using it. Also I like the foaming action.
A broader point is that mouthwash in general is a bad idea perpetrated on North American culture by years of FUD advertising.
Hmmm, what about anti-persperant, cars that go 160mph, sport utility vehicles, cigarettes? If it weren't for the need to preen our plumage, what whould we be doing with all our time? But you do have a point.
Regularly washing your mouth out with any disinfectant strong enough to kill bacteria is nothing more than a recipe for throat cancer. Hydrogen peroxide (in useful concentration) is particularly bad in that molecular oxygen is such a dangerous oxidant in the body.
I had never actually thought of it that way. I use it sparingly but I can't stop, I'd miss that clean feeling it leaves in my mouth (without the strong flavor that mouthwash leaves). It's especially handy on the nights that I get to make some time with the girlfriend:)
Well, this is completely off topic now, my apologies. Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
I am not surprised that drinking the stuff would keep the nasties from getting hold of you from ingesting them.
Drinking H202 is a bad idea. It's a great disinfectant, but there are all sorts of bacteria in your digestive system that you need to process and digest your food. Drinking hydrogen peroxide will kill all of it if you drink enough.
I use a diluted H2O2 solution as mouthwash, it does a much better job than most things like Listerine without out the awful taste. But if you accidentally swallow some, watch out for diarrhea.
Don't do that to yourself. Pay no attention to that bunk theory.
I have this friend that has a navagation system in his truck. It's a nice system, between the GPS and a CD map of the east coast he is able to get just about anywhere.
But he uses it to get everywhere. He punches in the address for the grocery store (a mile away) and then punches in the address for back home. Maybe the novelty of a $3000 toy wears off slowly, maybe he is really that bad with directions.
For some reason the thought of wacked-out luddite guerrillas jamming his satellite signal on his way home from the corner market really cracks me up. I can just see him driving aimlessly for hours waiting for the navigation system to tell him when to turn.
Man-oh-man, a GPS jammer is a toy that may not lose it's novelty for a while....
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I just installed Mandrake 8.1 Release Candidate two days ago. I don't know if your post is a troll, or just sadly misinformed. I'll take the bait...
That's one of the risks you run of keeping an old computer. I just upgraded from a P166 to a P2-350; I find the Mandrake's speed to be more than adequate on the P2, but I never would have installed it on the P166. More than adequate means that it will be years before I will need to upgrade my hardware.
I too was suprised to find telnet missing, but I understand the rational behind weaning users away from unsafe tools. Besides you say that you have a set of rpm hand selected on installation. Well, whose fault is it then that you forgot to install telnet and ftp?
That's funny, I just come from planet BSD. I enherited a new computer, replacing my aging beast that's been running FreeBSD for the past 6 years. I would have stayed with FreeBSD but getting X to work with an nVidia card was a joyless hell.
Don't get me wrong, I am a freebsd enthusiast. Even if I end up being a debian user, I will sorely miss the ports system. But for me, a newbie Linux user, Mandrake has a strong appeal. It works. And it works now on my hardware, without days of fidgeting. My printer works, my video drivers are installed, my sound card was auto-detected. If that's what you mean by emulating Microsoft, bring it on.
I have relied on cvsup; make world for so long I'm not too sure what goes on with a fresh install. I can only guess that you would be safe using an ftp upgrade/install, I'm not sure exactly what is on the bootdisk. Sorry.
If you have a freebsd machine inside of the firewall you can use that to grab the latest sources and run make buildworld. Some pointers can be found here. That would allow highest security and the least downtime.
cvsup is your answer. It grabs the newest sources, and then you can compile them and install them on your own with make world. It saves bandwidth and is pretty cool in general.
A change in your firewall rules to allow cvsup will not affect your security.
The Computer Emergency Responce Center is in Pittsburgh, but somehow I doubt that it was a target.
Camp David, in Thurmont Md, is a possible location that has been said numerous times. It has a symbolic meaning to the Arab world as the location on the Camp David Accords, a 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
I saw Ollie North on CNN, he discounted the Camp David speculation in favor of a military command and control center in Maryland, but I didn't cath the name. Anyone?
Or the plane could have continued onto Washington DC for any number of tagets there.
Rambus PR critter says:
I think this goes to show that in the future Big Brother will not have us using NewSpeak, but MicroSpeak instead.
Me thinks Rambus is a double-plus-innovative company.
Derek Burney says:
Wrong! I have complete control over my intellectual property in the open source software that I have written. With that control I have chosen to allow other to use it as they see fit. That makes me much happier than a few dollars.
I have no control over the closed source stuff I write to pay the bills. My employer controls that. They use that control to restrict the freedom of the purchasers of that software.
I think what Derek Burney actually means is that open source software removes his ability to extort money from his user base.
And what's up with the Microsoft ass kissing? I guess someone thinks you can't beat them, join them. And then give an interview pretending that they are joining you. Way to go Corel! You've earned my contempt.
My nick is an anagram of my real name.
Try out the Internet Anagram Server.
This is true. qmail can deliver mail to mailbox and maildir. If you want to know how to use qmail and mailbox, look at /var/qmail/boot/home in a qmail installation.
Do some resarch, maybe qmail can do the job for you after all.
Why do people hate Internet Explorer have you used it lately?
No, it doesn't run on FreeBSD, so I haven't used it at all. I am bothered that fools like you provide Microsoft a fulcrum point to leverage their 'standards' on the rest of us for the sake of quick-to-loadness. Lynx is quick to load, try using that. I am quite sure that it is usable on any platform of your choice.
Whats to stop M$ from releasing W2K for the G4 the following quarter?
That's worth a laugh or two. NT used to run on PPC, Alpha and MIPS R4x00. Used to. All these platforms were dropped for financial reasons (no sales), but now there are some serious technical chalenges to port them back. Don't think that MS could do it in a quarter, or even a year. How is 64bit Win2000 coming? How about Win2k for Itanium?
MS Office really is the trump card. Perhaps the recent announcement was a sign that Apple has indicated to MS that it will not release OSX on intel for some time.
Correct, I use a 3% solution. I find the taste to be neutral, both initially and after using it. Also I like the foaming action.
Hmmm, what about anti-persperant, cars that go 160mph, sport utility vehicles, cigarettes? If it weren't for the need to preen our plumage, what whould we be doing with all our time? But you do have a point.
I had never actually thought of it that way. I use it sparingly but I can't stop, I'd miss that clean feeling it leaves in my mouth (without the strong flavor that mouthwash leaves). It's especially handy on the nights that I get to make some time with the girlfriend :)
Well, this is completely off topic now, my apologies. Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
Drinking H202 is a bad idea. It's a great disinfectant, but there are all sorts of bacteria in your digestive system that you need to process and digest your food. Drinking hydrogen peroxide will kill all of it if you drink enough.
I use a diluted H2O2 solution as mouthwash, it does a much better job than most things like Listerine without out the awful taste. But if you accidentally swallow some, watch out for diarrhea.
Don't do that to yourself. Pay no attention to that bunk theory.
One of my favorites can be read here: /980725/
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q3
Summed up, it says:
That's about when I lost faith in Tom and stopped reading his drivel. Lets all stop playing the fool for Tom's "news" site.
Quoting one email from Alan Cox is as representative of linux kernel development as using only one verse from the Bible to sum up all of Christianity.
Begone troll!
I have this friend that has a navagation system in his truck. It's a nice system, between the GPS and a CD map of the east coast he is able to get just about anywhere.
But he uses it to get everywhere. He punches in the address for the grocery store (a mile away) and then punches in the address for back home. Maybe the novelty of a $3000 toy wears off slowly, maybe he is really that bad with directions.
For some reason the thought of wacked-out luddite guerrillas jamming his satellite signal on his way home from the corner market really cracks me up. I can just see him driving aimlessly for hours waiting for the navigation system to tell him when to turn.
Man-oh-man, a GPS jammer is a toy that may not lose it's novelty for a while....
Only several years AFTER the war was it abolished in the Northern states (and NY only abolished it in the 1830's if I remember correctly).
The Civil War was fought in the 1860's, so I think you mean 1930, if you are not mistaken.
The South has NEVER RECOVERED! Many down in the South lost all and their families NEVER recovered (black and white).
Yeah, war is hell and all that.
But if it's our nation's hypocrisy that bothers you, focus on the present and do something about it, rather than harp on the past.
Sorry about that
http://leg1.s tate.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=001&typ=bil&val =sb372
That does not appear to be the case. You can follow the progress of Senate Bill No. 372, the UCITA, here.
It has passed the Virginia Senate by a vote of 39-Y 0-N.
But the story is correct, it has not yet been signed into law by Governor Gilmore. You can reach him at:
Searching for Senate Bill 372 shows that the bill passed the senate side on Feb 15.
http://leg1.s tate.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=001&typ=bil&val =sb372
Ugh.