I have been using Linux ( many flavours - redHat, Mandrake, debian, gentoo ) and i dont have dependency hell. Maybe try packages for your system ?
I also have a Mac OS X box on my G3 350Mhz with a Gig of RAM. Its quite slow on that box. Also i have had other wierd issues with OS X which other users have also reported as in corrupted permissions after using Software Update.
This is not to say Mac OS X sucks, far from it. But it isnt the utopia you make it out to be.
After looking through the posts I see many people complaining that MSFT shouldnt sell Windows for 89% profit margin. Why not ? Hell they can choose to sell it at 1000% profit margin if they wish to. They spent the money on R&D and its their product so they can price it at $0 or $1000.
Being a monopoly isnt illegal. Abusing the power you have when you become a monopoly is. If Microsoft didnt have such licensing agreements with their OEMs where the OEM couldnt bundle another OS without facing repercussions then its all fine. If a company decides to sell coke and pepsi said that if the company sold a coke vending machine their rental rates for the pepsi machine would be higher then thats illegal and bad . Pepsi selling their product at a higher or lower price than coke isnt.
I was laid off from my old employer and I had lots of expense vouchers still unpaid. They announced to me that my last day would be March 25th. I knew the layoff was coming for a while before it was announced so it wasnt a shock to me. I always document all the work I do and put it all together into a binder which I gave my replacement guy. ( The company was shutting down and it was cheaper to get a once a week consultant than pay me a full salary for the next 4 weeks )
They wanted me to change their domain name information to their new sub company which they had purchased and wanted the speedy service from Verisign which costs $29 per domain. They asked me to expense this as well. Now This is the last week Im working there and I refused to expense it since (a) I hadnt been re-imbursed yet and (b) The new guy they hired should be the one who does it.
But they kept calling me over and over again to have me migrate their domains to the new sub company even after they laid me off. Now this is the irony. I am not the Administrative contact on the domain, so the other 2 people on the list could have done it as well. But for some reason they chose to pester me to do upto 5 weeks after they laid me off.
2 weeks ago one of my old bosses contacted me on ICQ and asked me to do some web work for their new company. So far I havent said yes or no.. I just dont want to be stuck in a situation where I do work and dont get the money
AMD XP 1800 with 512mb of ram running Windows XP Professional Dual PIII 550 with 512mb of RAM running Linux ( currently RedHat 8 ) Dual PPro 200 with 256Mb of RAM running FreeBSD ( will be trying out Debian 3 , box serves as test web server/ cvs server ) G3 350 with 1Gb of RAM running OS 10.1
I use the Windows XP box solely for games. While i am a subscriber for WineX, the 1 game i play the most , Counter-Strike , doesnt support voicecom under WineX.
For all my serious work, ( I do image editing, web site design etc ) I use Linux. Quanta or vi as the editor. I use Gimp for image needs ( Gimp and photoshop both work great for me for my image editing needs ). OpenOffice also works great for what i need to do with it. Ogle plays my DVDs and I use xmms for mp3s and oggs.
In the end it all depends on what apps u need to use and if you are willing to learn a new app. I understand for DTP gimp may not be what photoshop could do but for most of my use Linux is perfect.
My friends name is Russell Nash. Now after reading this article i told him he should probably hide or start the battle now.. since well u know.. "There can be only one"
He speaks the truth. He doesnt say that we should stop developing other window managers or other toolkits or anything else, but that to capture the desktop market we need some standardisation. If it be Gnome or KDE or anything else it doesnt matter.
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script the fault still lies with Windows, not Linux/BSD/Solaris or whatever*nix I am running.
Then again I dont dual boot. I have 2 machines, 1 for windows and 1 for Linux and so far neither have been infected.
I don't know about you guys, but CSGuard and HLGuard have just about killed Counterstrike for me. If I go into servers without them there's no problem, with them and it's constant crashing.
I dont know what servers you are playing on but I run my own CS server and admin/manage 3 others and I havent had csguard or HLGuard crash my server even once. Agreed There were issues the day 1.4 was released but that was due to needing a metamod update for Adminmod to work.
Also you have to realise that many server admins dont know or dont follow the hlds server mailing lists so they may be unaware of necessary updates for the different mods they run on the server.
As for cheating, any form of cheating takes away all the fun in the game. 90% of the people who cheat, dont cheat to get a good score, they cheat to piss off the players who are on the server. HLG and CSG arent *that* accurate , the best anti cheat for CS was Cheating Death and even if the person had cheats it didnt really matter since C-D would disable most of them. But no anti-cheat is as good as an experienced Admin who is playing and who can tell the difference from a cheater and a good player.
Maybe I am coming off differently, but what I am trying to say is that if someone plans to use the computer as a tool, they should try to get a Basic knowledge on how it works. My response isnt toward the Kazaa interface or Windows..
I am not saying that a person who bought his first computer should learn how to write an OS from scratch using nothing but obfuscated perl. All I am suggesting is that when a person buys a tool for a job, he/she makes an attempt to learn some of the functionality. I know people who can do magic with Excel spreadsheets but when it comes to asking them to double click on an icon they get lost. I mean come on! Whats so hard about double clicking? Or finding the start button on your taskbar ? Are you telling me that expecting users to find that button labelled START is asking too much ??
I dont expect everyone to be computer whiz, but I *do* expect people to try and get a working knowledge on using the tool they just bought.
What does operate a computer mean when new uses are found for it every few years. Your analogy fails because a 1950s car is pretty much a 2002 car. A 1950s computer on the other hand...
My point is that from 1995 to 2002 Windows which is pretty much the dominant OS on computers these days have had a task bar, a My Computer icon (in XP of course you have to set it ) and easily accessible control panel. Users should at least know where to access this. Also ever since the creation of the mouse single click and double click have remained the same (and I dont see the process for either single or double click changing i.e double will mean 2 and single will mean 1 ).
Is it really too much to ask that a user at least makes the attempt to learn a bit about the computer he/she just spent $1000 for? When I was a help desk tech I remember asking people to single click and hearing them click at least 10 times instead.
As far as applications are concerned yes they all differ but I still say that the user should at least know the basics of operating a piece of equipment ( which is basically what a computer is )
We as techs believe that a user must have rudeimentary knowledge on how to OPERATE the computer. Noone is asking them to be techs but they should know the minimum required to use the damn thing.
If you are going to drive, you learn how to drive. If you are cooking you consult a cookbook and cook. Its not like you dont put effort into learning the task at hand.
What bugs me the most is that people believe the computer should just work on whatever task they want it to. Do you get in your car and it should immediately read your mind and take you where you want to go? Or do you put all your groceries on top of the stove and hope for a gourmet meal?
My mother went to a 2 week computer course when she bought a computer and she can do all basic tasks required. She knows where the Start Button is, how to get to the control panel and can distinguish between left, right and double click.
Thats really all we techs want from the users. When we try to help them they should know the basic functionality of the computer so we can help them with their problems
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I have been using Linux ( many flavours - redHat, Mandrake, debian, gentoo ) and i dont have dependency hell. Maybe try packages for your system ?
I also have a Mac OS X box on my G3 350Mhz with a Gig of RAM. Its quite slow on that box. Also i have had other wierd issues with OS X which other users have also reported as in corrupted permissions after using Software Update.
This is not to say Mac OS X sucks, far from it. But it isnt the utopia you make it out to be.
dvnull
You work for the PR dept of SCO dont you ?
dvNuLL
At that time TTC wasnt going after people who gave away their Tetris clones but after people who sold the clones. I dont know how it is right now.
Since they dont have a playable Tetris version in Caldera Linux anymore ( last i checked in 2001, it was solitaire), this may be a moot point.
dvnull
MSI Mobo, Infineon DDR memory, PNY Gfx card, Seagate drives, Windows XP. Hasnt had a crash in hmm almost 2 years now .
dvnull
BTW i knew people who worked for The Tetris Company who planned on making a case against Caldera for infringing on the Tetris copyright.
I always knew that in Santa Cruz you got some real good quality weed. I think its time for me to go buy some now.
Only if 100% of the connections causing the site to go down come from /.
Well how it should be done is to block everything and then allow what you need. Doing the reverse is just plain silly.
Ogle works perfectly with menus too.
dvNuLL
How about MacOS ?
dvNuLL
If you shoot youself in the head so as to not succumb to our neuroads you are stealing!
After looking through the posts I see many people complaining that MSFT shouldnt sell Windows for 89% profit margin. Why not ? Hell they can choose to sell it at 1000% profit margin if they wish to. They spent the money on R&D and its their product so they can price it at $0 or $1000.
Being a monopoly isnt illegal. Abusing the power you have when you become a monopoly is. If Microsoft didnt have such licensing agreements with their OEMs where the OEM couldnt bundle another OS without facing repercussions then its all fine. If a company decides to sell coke and pepsi said that if the company sold a coke vending machine their rental rates for the pepsi machine would be higher then thats illegal and bad . Pepsi selling their product at a higher or lower price than coke isnt.
dvNuLL
I was laid off from my old employer and I had lots of expense vouchers still unpaid. They announced to me that my last day would be March 25th. I knew the layoff was coming for a while before it was announced so it wasnt a shock to me. I always document all the work I do and put it all together into a binder which I gave my replacement guy. ( The company was shutting down and it was cheaper to get a once a week consultant than pay me a full salary for the next 4 weeks )
.. I just dont want to be stuck in a situation where I do work and dont get the money
They wanted me to change their domain name information to their new sub company which they had purchased and wanted the speedy service from Verisign which costs $29 per domain. They asked me to expense this as well. Now This is the last week Im working there and I refused to expense it since (a) I hadnt been re-imbursed yet and (b) The new guy they hired should be the one who does it.
But they kept calling me over and over again to have me migrate their domains to the new sub company even after they laid me off. Now this is the irony. I am not the Administrative contact on the domain, so the other 2 people on the list could have done it as well. But for some reason they chose to pester me to do upto 5 weeks after they laid me off.
2 weeks ago one of my old bosses contacted me on ICQ and asked me to do some web work for their new company. So far I havent said yes or no
dvNuLL
If you are a homesite user, you can use quanta on *nix ..
dvNuLL
I have 4 machines at home:
AMD XP 1800 with 512mb of ram running Windows XP Professional
Dual PIII 550 with 512mb of RAM running Linux ( currently RedHat 8 )
Dual PPro 200 with 256Mb of RAM running FreeBSD ( will be trying out Debian 3 , box serves as test web server/ cvs server )
G3 350 with 1Gb of RAM running OS 10.1
I use the Windows XP box solely for games. While i am a subscriber for WineX, the 1 game i play the most , Counter-Strike , doesnt support voicecom under WineX.
For all my serious work, ( I do image editing, web site design etc ) I use Linux. Quanta or vi as the editor. I use Gimp for image needs ( Gimp and photoshop both work great for me for my image editing needs ). OpenOffice also works great for what i need to do with it. Ogle plays my DVDs and I use xmms for mp3s and oggs.
In the end it all depends on what apps u need to use and if you are willing to learn a new app. I understand for DTP gimp may not be what photoshop could do but for most of my use Linux is perfect.
dvNuLL
My friends name is Russell Nash. Now after reading this article i told him he should probably hide or start the battle now .. since well u know .. "There can be only one"
dvNuLL
Okay .. i dont know what HOWTO you have been reading but for redhat and Mandrake all you have to do is:
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/NVIDIA*.spec
rpm -ivh NVIDIA*.src.rpm
and then
rpmbuild -bb
and edit the XF86Config file
Or you can build directly from the tarball.
AT no time do you have to build a custom kernel to install nvidia drivers.
You had to compile a custom kernel to get xfs support and not for nvidia drivers.
dvNuLL
He speaks the truth. He doesnt say that we should stop developing other window managers or other toolkits or anything else, but that to capture the desktop market we need some standardisation. If it be Gnome or KDE or anything else it doesnt matter.
dvNuLL
You have to remember the golden rule in 99% of the major multiplayer first person games.
"If you kill me you cheat"
dvNuLL
Sales in 1999 : 12.8 billion
..
Marketing Director snorts high quality coke purchased with RIAA expense account
Marketing Director in his intoxicated state figured there will be 29.6 billion in 2000
But only 15 billion in 2000
Therefore piracy caused 14.6 billion dollars revenue loss.
Thats how they get their piracy figures
dvNuLL
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script the fault still lies with Windows, not Linux/BSD/Solaris or whatever*nix I am running.
Then again I dont dual boot. I have 2 machines, 1 for windows and 1 for Linux and so far neither have been infected.
dvNuLL
I don't know about you guys, but CSGuard and HLGuard have just about killed Counterstrike for me. If I go into servers without them there's no problem, with them and it's constant crashing.
I dont know what servers you are playing on but I run my own CS server and admin/manage 3 others and I havent had csguard or HLGuard crash my server even once. Agreed There were issues the day 1.4 was released but that was due to needing a metamod update for Adminmod to work.
Also you have to realise that many server admins dont know or dont follow the hlds server mailing lists so they may be unaware of necessary updates for the different mods they run on the server.
As for cheating, any form of cheating takes away all the fun in the game. 90% of the people who cheat, dont cheat to get a good score, they cheat to piss off the players who are on the server. HLG and CSG arent *that* accurate , the best anti cheat for CS was Cheating Death and even if the person had cheats it didnt really matter since C-D would disable most of them. But no anti-cheat is as good as an experienced Admin who is playing and who can tell the difference from a cheater and a good player.
dvNuLL
Maybe I am coming off differently, but what I am trying to say is that if someone plans to use the computer as a tool, they should try to get a Basic knowledge on how it works. My response isnt toward the Kazaa interface or Windows..
I am not saying that a person who bought his first computer should learn how to write an OS from scratch using nothing but obfuscated perl. All I am suggesting is that when a person buys a tool for a job, he/she makes an attempt to learn some of the functionality. I know people who can do magic with Excel spreadsheets but when it comes to asking them to double click on an icon they get lost. I mean come on! Whats so hard about double clicking? Or finding the start button on your taskbar ? Are you telling me that expecting users to find that button labelled START is asking too much ??
I dont expect everyone to be computer whiz, but I *do* expect people to try and get a working knowledge on using the tool they just bought.
dvNuLL
What does operate a computer mean when new uses are found for it every few years. Your analogy fails because a 1950s car is pretty much a 2002 car. A 1950s computer on the other hand...
My point is that from 1995 to 2002 Windows which is pretty much the dominant OS on computers these days have had a task bar, a My Computer icon (in XP of course you have to set it ) and easily accessible control panel. Users should at least know where to access this. Also ever since the creation of the mouse single click and double click have remained the same (and I dont see the process for either single or double click changing i.e double will mean 2 and single will mean 1 ).
Is it really too much to ask that a user at least makes the attempt to learn a bit about the computer he/she just spent $1000 for? When I was a help desk tech I remember asking people to single click and hearing them click at least 10 times instead.
As far as applications are concerned yes they all differ but I still say that the user should at least know the basics of operating a piece of equipment ( which is basically what a computer is )
dvNuLL
I have heard this argument before ..
We as techs believe that a user must have rudeimentary knowledge on how to OPERATE the computer. Noone is asking them to be techs but they should know the minimum required to use the damn thing.
If you are going to drive, you learn how to drive. If you are cooking you consult a cookbook and cook. Its not like you dont put effort into learning the task at hand.
What bugs me the most is that people believe the computer should just work on whatever task they want it to. Do you get in your car and it should immediately read your mind and take you where you want to go? Or do you put all your groceries on top of the stove and hope for a gourmet meal?
My mother went to a 2 week computer course when she bought a computer and she can do all basic tasks required. She knows where the Start Button is, how to get to the control panel and can distinguish between left, right and double click.
Thats really all we techs want from the users. When we try to help them they should know the basic functionality of the computer so we can help them with their problems
dvNuLL