When TV came out everyone thought that was the end of radio. But it wasn't. One can't really watch TV while driving or working, but they can listen. Similar concept with books vs computers. I can take a book to the crapper to the park or whereever. I can't take my desktop to those places.
Sure maybe someday laptops will come down in price compared to a PC but a lot of people cannot afford a computer either way and poor people still need to learn to read. I don't see public schools having the funds to hand out laptops to every student either. Books are here to stay for a long time. --
It's not like Microsoft is asking for donations. We're talking Mandrake. They actually *lose* money putting their distro together so they bought a profitable company a little while back so they would have a revenue source coming in to support their distro.
You can't (legally) download M$ products for free, but you can download Mandrake Linux for free. If you do grab the ISO and like the distro, donating is good choice for those of us who really feel like Mandrake's worth supporting.
As for those who get upset because Mandrake, RedHat, etc... sell distros and didn't write all the code themselves - wake up!! The companies selling the distros spent a lot of payroll cash to put it all together for you. Take Mandrake 8.0 for example. The install auto-detected all my hardware, non-destructively re-sized my Windblows partition and set up a dual-boot for me. Mandrake had to go through a lot of work to get that install working so beautifully. They deserve every penny they can get. --
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...but I've noticed a performance gain when I compiled the 2.4.X kernels on my old Pentium I. Before I was using 2.2.18. This is a Red Hat 6.2 system. Apache & PHP under 2.4.X are definitely faster than with the various 2.2.X versions I compiled.
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The human mind is extremely complex and the reasons that a person (young or old) would snap and kill their peers are many. Different people also react to circumstances different. While most people who are teased tend to turn their anger inward (and sometimes commit suicide), many others turn that same anger outward towards their perpetrators.
The average 10 year-old has seen more than 7,000 murders on tv & in movies and has most likely shot countless "enemies" playing video games. Believe it or not, this is actually what our military does to get soldiers over their reluctence to kill. As part of their training, soldiers watch films of people being shot & bombed and play video games (role-playing) where they shoot & kill the enemy.
People don't just act out in violence unless they have learned somehow to be violent. On top of that the values of our society have gone downhill since the sixties. And kids have gotten meaner. If Big Johny has seen countless violence on tv, why would he have any mercy on geeky Fred? And if Fred blown the heads off of countless enemies on his computer, why wouldn't he just blow Big Johny's head off too? --
Well at least they weren't written in Java. Then my sshd would run 3 or 4 times slower and needlessly suck up memory and CPU cycles as the VM churned all day. Criminy, when's Java finally gonna die? --
Hey do you know how to use color coding in emacs in a text console? If so please e-mail rich@argohaus.com with a link or instructions or anything.
I would be much obliged. --
It doesn't matter whether a company is a monopoly or not to the DOJ. What matters is if they use illegal or anti-competitive practices to obtain or maintain a monopoly status. --
Why not just use touch screens where you would just touch the name (or even the picture) of the candidate that they wanted. At the end of the voting screen a person could touch a button that said, "submit" and if the person voted for two candidates for president (or any other office) they'd get an error message and the opportunity to correct their mistake. That would pretty idiot-proof and not near as many votes would need to be disqualified. --
I understand your frustration. I'm a newbie too. I'm not sure what distros you tried, but the newer versions of RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and others have a relatively decent graphical install. (Stay away from Slackware while you're a newbie). You still have to do some homework though before you install. I bought Running Linux before even attempting an install. Not a bad book.
Even if you never buy a book, there are tons of documentation and help sites. I highly recommend Linux Coffee Talk at eunuchs.org/cgi-bin/lct.pl. I've posted questions there and have gotten rather quick and helpful responses. Hang in there, I have thoroughly been impressed with the sheer number of powerful and lightning quick packages that Linux has to offer. Windows is easier, but near as much fun. --
MySQL is a database. No, it's not an RDBMS. It's not BS either. MySQL is perfect for creating blazing fast dynamic Web pages if a database file isn't more than 100MB and/or the data isn't mission critical. Oracle has way too much overhead for dynamic pages in those situations. Plus if you're a small to medium sized business you really can't afford Oracle and don't need it anyway.
Oracle certainly is awsome though when you are a mulimillion dollar corporation with vast amounts of data. Oracle and MySQL can't really be compared because they really serve different markets.
I just wish everyone would quit whining about filtering software. I personally use CyberPatrol at home on the Windoze machine (no one else knows how to use the Linux box yet) and it works just fine. Yes there is the very occasional "legitimate" site that gets blocked, but by and large the package works great.
I have to assume the tests that show filtering software filtering out thousands of legit sites and letting hundreds of porn sites through is simply botched. I've never had the kind of trouble that these folks are coming up with. I think the tests must be bogus.
Because it would be that much harder to raise a child if porn & violence weren't filtered out of schools.
How can one "raise your children with open, healthy minds, and the ability to make decisions that are 'good' for them" when porn and/or violence is daily thrust in their faces by some sick 6th-grader in the computer lab? Someday my kids will be on their own and will have to make decisions all on their own, but in the meantime it would be nice if the school my kid attends could have at least a neutral environment to learn and develop in. Meanwhile my wife and I can attempt to teach lil' Johnny right from wrong. You don't honestly expect a second grader to turn his head when Big Billy flashes penthouse.com on his screen? Come on.
Actually the decline in violent crimes (and most other crimes as well) over the past decade has widely been attributed to the booming economy. Statistics show that during times of economic boom crime rates decline and during recessions and depressions crime rates increase.
However, even though crime rates are as low as they have been in over a decade, they are still much higher than they were 50 to 100 years ago. The biggest increase in crime rates actually began in the 1960's and for the most part kept going up until the economy got fired up with the technology revolution of the 1990's.
Here's where my opinion kicks in:
I doubt very highly there is one single cause for the large increase in violent crimes since the 1960's. It is probably a combination of increased violence in films and video games (and yes most likely the internet too), pushing Judeo-Christian values out of the public schools and replacing them with relativism, not disciplining our children to teach them right from wrong because we don't want to hurt their self-esteem and not really caring enough about our kids to find out what their problems really are because we're so busy with our careers that we don't have time for them anyway.
I've been a Bush supporter up to this point and I really wish he'd of said something like the above instead. The internet, guns and bombs wouldn't have been a problem with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris if their parents would have involved enough in their lives to know that they had guns and bombs in plain view site in their bedrooms. Being a parent is not easy - I know I have two of my own - but it is a big responsibility and the reason so many kids these days are so messed up is because so many parents are taking this responsibility way too lightly.
I don't see anywhere in the article where Bob admitted that Red Hat made any mistakes. He's just saying that we're free to think that Red Hat made a mistake and tell them about it. How's that really any different from Microsoft or any software manufacturer? I mean, you can always write a company a letter.
I'm rather disappointed in Bob's letter. I just wish he'd said, "hey we messed up a couple thingsk but..."
According to the article before using the write-off Cisco owed "$1.8 billion in federal taxes" but that "its employees earned more than $7 billion exercising stock options". I'm no tax expert, but if you divide 1.8 by 7, you get about 25.7%. I'm sure Uncle Sam sqeezed at least that out of Cisco's employees.
I would say paying $7 billion to employees instead of $1.8 billion to the government was a wise investment. I really don't have any doubt that Cisco's employees spent the money better than the government possibly could have.
I highly recommend a book called Running Linux by by Matt Welsh, et al. After going through that I think you'll see how much more Linux can do than W2K. Linux gives you a lot more bang for your buck.
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Sure maybe someday laptops will come down in price compared to a PC but a lot of people cannot afford a computer either way and poor people still need to learn to read. I don't see public schools having the funds to hand out laptops to every student either. Books are here to stay for a long time.
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You can't (legally) download M$ products for free, but you can download Mandrake Linux for free. If you do grab the ISO and like the distro, donating is good choice for those of us who really feel like Mandrake's worth supporting.
As for those who get upset because Mandrake, RedHat, etc... sell distros and didn't write all the code themselves - wake up!! The companies selling the distros spent a lot of payroll cash to put it all together for you. Take Mandrake 8.0 for example. The install auto-detected all my hardware, non-destructively re-sized my Windblows partition and set up a dual-boot for me. Mandrake had to go through a lot of work to get that install working so beautifully. They deserve every penny they can get.
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Are there any real benchmarks out there that compare the different kernels?
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The average 10 year-old has seen more than 7,000 murders on tv & in movies and has most likely shot countless "enemies" playing video games. Believe it or not, this is actually what our military does to get soldiers over their reluctence to kill. As part of their training, soldiers watch films of people being shot & bombed and play video games (role-playing) where they shoot & kill the enemy.
People don't just act out in violence unless they have learned somehow to be violent. On top of that the values of our society have gone downhill since the sixties. And kids have gotten meaner. If Big Johny has seen countless violence on tv, why would he have any mercy on geeky Fred? And if Fred blown the heads off of countless enemies on his computer, why wouldn't he just blow Big Johny's head off too?
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Well at least they weren't written in Java. Then my sshd would run 3 or 4 times slower and needlessly suck up memory and CPU cycles as the VM churned all day. Criminy, when's Java finally gonna die?
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Hey do you know how to use color coding in emacs in a text console? If so please e-mail rich@argohaus.com with a link or instructions or anything. I would be much obliged.
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It doesn't matter whether a company is a monopoly or not to the DOJ. What matters is if they use illegal or anti-competitive practices to obtain or maintain a monopoly status.
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Why not just use touch screens where you would just touch the name (or even the picture) of the candidate that they wanted. At the end of the voting screen a person could touch a button that said, "submit" and if the person voted for two candidates for president (or any other office) they'd get an error message and the opportunity to correct their mistake. That would pretty idiot-proof and not near as many votes would need to be disqualified.
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Always was until IE 5.0. NS 6.0 is more standards compliant than IE 5.5. Why all the bad press. Why doesn't this guy blast IE?
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Even if you never buy a book, there are tons of documentation and help sites. I highly recommend Linux Coffee Talk at eunuchs.org/cgi-bin/lct.pl. I've posted questions there and have gotten rather quick and helpful responses. Hang in there, I have thoroughly been impressed with the sheer number of powerful and lightning quick packages that Linux has to offer. Windows is easier, but near as much fun.
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Oracle certainly is awsome though when you are a mulimillion dollar corporation with vast amounts of data. Oracle and MySQL can't really be compared because they really serve different markets.
I have to assume the tests that show filtering software filtering out thousands of legit sites and letting hundreds of porn sites through is simply botched. I've never had the kind of trouble that these folks are coming up with. I think the tests must be bogus.
How can one "raise your children with open, healthy minds, and the ability to make decisions that are 'good' for them" when porn and/or violence is daily thrust in their faces by some sick 6th-grader in the computer lab? Someday my kids will be on their own and will have to make decisions all on their own, but in the meantime it would be nice if the school my kid attends could have at least a neutral environment to learn and develop in. Meanwhile my wife and I can attempt to teach lil' Johnny right from wrong. You don't honestly expect a second grader to turn his head when Big Billy flashes penthouse.com on his screen? Come on.
Amen.
Actually the decline in violent crimes (and most other crimes as well) over the past decade has widely been attributed to the booming economy. Statistics show that during times of economic boom crime rates decline and during recessions and depressions crime rates increase. However, even though crime rates are as low as they have been in over a decade, they are still much higher than they were 50 to 100 years ago. The biggest increase in crime rates actually began in the 1960's and for the most part kept going up until the economy got fired up with the technology revolution of the 1990's. Here's where my opinion kicks in: I doubt very highly there is one single cause for the large increase in violent crimes since the 1960's. It is probably a combination of increased violence in films and video games (and yes most likely the internet too), pushing Judeo-Christian values out of the public schools and replacing them with relativism, not disciplining our children to teach them right from wrong because we don't want to hurt their self-esteem and not really caring enough about our kids to find out what their problems really are because we're so busy with our careers that we don't have time for them anyway. I've been a Bush supporter up to this point and I really wish he'd of said something like the above instead. The internet, guns and bombs wouldn't have been a problem with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris if their parents would have involved enough in their lives to know that they had guns and bombs in plain view site in their bedrooms. Being a parent is not easy - I know I have two of my own - but it is a big responsibility and the reason so many kids these days are so messed up is because so many parents are taking this responsibility way too lightly.
I don't see anywhere in the article where Bob admitted that Red Hat made any mistakes. He's just saying that we're free to think that Red Hat made a mistake and tell them about it. How's that really any different from Microsoft or any software manufacturer? I mean, you can always write a company a letter. I'm rather disappointed in Bob's letter. I just wish he'd said, "hey we messed up a couple thingsk but..."
According to the article before using the write-off Cisco owed "$1.8 billion in federal taxes" but that "its employees earned more than $7 billion exercising stock options". I'm no tax expert, but if you divide 1.8 by 7, you get about 25.7%. I'm sure Uncle Sam sqeezed at least that out of Cisco's employees.
I would say paying $7 billion to employees instead of $1.8 billion to the government was a wise investment. I really don't have any doubt that Cisco's employees spent the money better than the government possibly could have.
I highly recommend a book called Running Linux by by Matt Welsh, et al. After going through that I think you'll see how much more Linux can do than W2K. Linux gives you a lot more bang for your buck.