The baby bells control the internet? Really. Interesting.
Now to reply to what was MEANT.
I for one will be pissed off if Covad goes out of business. I get my DSL from Speakeasy through Covad. I love the Speakeasy TOS that lets me do whatever I choose, including running DNS servers for my website and mail and web servers. Changing to another TOS where almost 100% of them say "You CANNOT RUN SERVERS!!! OR WE WILL BEAT YOU WITH A BIG STICK!" would really piss me off. I already lost Flashcom who were not charging me which was nice.
I dont think there is anything we can really do though. Anyone have any ideas?
I use several distros. My Webserver runs Progeny Debian. My workstation runs Mandrake, and my iBook runs SuSE 7.1 and they all work fine. They are all different to a certain degree and I dont really have a preferance. I have not had any problems with incompatabilites or anything. I like Debians apt-get but a lot of stuff out there is RPM based which works just as good. I say try em all, I mean they are FREE! Find one or three you like and use those. My DNS servers run OpenBSD but that doesnt count here.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Re:Another PDA Whoopee!!!
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PDAs, PDAs
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I really did not feel like listing all the reasons why I got mine. Some of the major ones were as follows. I needed something to track things and something that was also protable. I track, numbers, appointments, finances. I use it to write notes, I can write in graffiti just as well as on paper. I play games on mine too. Dont use it to write letters or spreadsheets b/c I have a laptop. Also a factor was that later if I needed a (cell phone, GPS, camera, MP3 Player) etc I could get it for the Handspring. Since I got the laptop, I have not needed any of the above. The laptop is inconvenient for small notes and things like shopping lists but the handspring is good. Plus I can sync the laptop and handspring which I do to keep changes current.
Part of my complaint is that there are soo many PDA's coming out the market will get too saturated and companies will start adding useless gizmos to theirs to attract people. These gizmos will up the cost to a good PDA that is now too expensive b/c it has digital camera for example. I dont mind things that are useful, and your's is obviously useful to you which is good. I just want it to get to a point in a few years where each one of these things comes with more things than you need and a nice inexpensive one is impossible to find. Thats what I do not want to happen. Will it happen? I dont know.
With all these new PDA's coming out that are basically the same thing. They either run off of the PalmOS or WinCE. They all do the same thing except for a few tweaks but come on, WHY would you want to record your voice on a PDA. The main reasons you get a PDA is for appointment tracking and keeping phone numbers etc. Adding all these gizmos does not make the PDA any better. Seriously, how many people will record their voices on the PDA, WHY? So they can listen to themselves? Come on. Lets focus on making an inexpensive, good quality PDA that is fast, reliable and user friendly. All gizmos do is make the batteries run out fast and add to the cost of the thing. I have a Handspring Platinum and I like it. I dont have any expansion modules for it becuase I think they are a waste of money. I got the platinum version becuase it was Faster.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Re:Skydiving should not be countenanced
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Just for the cool factor. It looks awesome. If you think back 50 years, people would have laughed at you if you told them that you can see what it feels like to fall from space and smack into the HOLLYWOOD sign.
I dont like heights much and watching that was weird. People that think NASA wastes money can go back to their basements and listen to a transistor radio. I think NASA rocks, and that they make stuff like this is cool. Some people may not appreciate that, but I do and dont mind one bit my tax dollars go to them.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Re:To whom? Re:Another Benefit of Free software.
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Eazel On The Ropes
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Nobody benefits by Eazel going under, however had they only proprietary software users would have to find something else. By having GPL'd code Eazel can die, but their software will continue to be developed by other people.
This sucks that Eazel might go under. But I would like to point out a big benefit of Free Software. For example if a company like MS or Apple were to go under. The current owners of their software would be screwed as all updates etc would stop. Free software is different in the fact that if Eazel dies, a group of people will take over. The advantage is that Free Software will never die as long as there is someone to keep it alive. That is also a disadvantage as you cannot really make money from it.
I think a solution to Eazel would be to consolidate with Red Hat or Mandrake, that way they would have a financial backing to continue.
I understand what he is going through in being made fun of etc. My friends and I were made fun of, taunted and generally laughed at through Junior High. I went to a private school for High School so it did not apply there. But going through school and being made fun of because youre, smart and different sucks. There were many times I thought about how to win. No matter what I did or didnt do it was always the same, some punk ass jock showing off to his friends. They always traveled in groups too, which sucked because I would have loved to find one by himself.
Junior High sucked sucked shit. I left private school for my senior year and went to the local high school. By that time people stopped making fun becuase I was 6' and 180 lbs. I still was not accepted but at least they left me alone which is all good. I truly feel for the kids going through all that shit these days.
My advice is as follows...hang in there, it gets better. By the time you're in college it should stop. Thats it, I know it sucks and there is no reason why people should go through that sort of thing. You can take satisfaction in the fact that the people who make fun of you will one day be parking your car at a Valet restaurant. Then the tide will turn.
I dont think you are grammatically wrong, but it should read.
Excuse me, did I miss something?
The excuse me being the preface as to why the question is being asked. The way you have it Excuse Me is a statement. And the question following it can apply to anything.
EASY TO GET
Download. Burn. Put in CD. Reboot. Smile.
INSTALLATION
Can run through windows for the true beginer.
Graphical Partitioning.
Support for a LOT of file systems.
Full Graphical Installation.
Single User Mode, its really nice. No Login, KDE, bad security but for the beginer its good.
Very good hardware detection.
USE
Auto mounting file systems.
Packed with applications. 2 ISO Images of RPMS. I think this is one of the most important ones. You literally get EVERYTHING you might need.
Compatible with *MOST* Red Hat RPM's.
Great online support. Mailing lists etc.
Graphical Configurations for everything.
Comes with KDE and Gnome + like 7 other window managers. Easily log in and out for some apps that dont like Gnome, or KDE, depending.
Free
Easy to install. Easy to use. Fully functional. It blows Windows away in useability. Its nicley secure and has different security settings during installation. Pick Paranoid for a almost uncrackable system.
I had a bunch of problems compiling stuff like you. The problem comes with Mandrake renaming libraries. Annoying yes. For a first time user like I was, YES!!! Mandrake RPM's are the way to go, and Apache is included on the 2nd ISO image. For compiling things, it included a lot of links to what the library should be named. Also their directory structure is a little tweaked.
Does Microsoft have to ask for handouts after a release of their OS? I take that selling support isn't going tremendously well either.
True MS doesnt ask for handouts. You have to rethink your stance though. Think about WHEN MS became big. Around 1995-1996 with Windows 95. Why? Becuase there was no alternative and computers were just hitting the main stream. All MS had to do was ride the wave. They got lucky, a LOT of companies start out by being lucky on one thing. Today is very different. The majority of people dont know about Linux. They dont want to know and they dont care. Their Windows computer works just fine for internet surfing.
The Linux companies CANNOT charge for their products becuase they are all similar and you can get it somewhere else for free. And with newsgroups and email lists, tech support becomes trivial. I agree with you that they're pretty much screwed but Supply and Demand comes brutually into play especially when its free.
These same companies cant make proprietary software because the Linux uses bitch about their GPL and FREE software. They are basically fucked. Dont think im Linux bashing becuase I'm not. I use Linux daily and I do think it eventually will become competition for the desktop market. Stability and power will be the selling points. With the restricting Windows XP and as computer users become more and more knowledgeable they will move to os's that let them do what they want to. Mandrake will be powerful in this regard with its simple install and ease of use. Give it time, it will happen, if I had to guess, 2 - 5 years.
My treading into Linux was with Mandrake. I have other distros, Progeny, but I think Mandrake is more than a simple Distro. The 2 cd iso's are packed with software. Mandrake spent the time and effort to get the coolest free software out there and made sure it works with their distro, then put them into RPM's and packed them all up and gives everything away for free. Cool.
I would recommend the Mandrake distro to people who want to learn Linux becuase after installing it, you dont need to really do anything more except for use it. Its a great complete product. I just their FTP servers are going to be tanked. I'll just have to wait.
I thought it was generally a BAD idea to drop small electronic devices with fragile screens. Then again if it did explode when hit against something hard...Hand Grenades.whoa.
That's right! Every contributor making a donation of either money or project-related services is automatically entered for a chance to win the very first production MyLinux PDA unit.
You see the word money in there. There is a reason why its there.
I do believe the biggest problem with the PDA market is that there are tons out there to choose from. Palm and Handspring pretty much have the PDA market wrapped up. Recently we have seen Linux versions out there but the reviews have been less than good. So many bad things why would this one work. I think the biggest problem with a company wanting to get into the PDA market is financing. And with the market financing is about as hard to get as the RIAA to endorse anything that "might" infringe on their profits. By getting well funded organizations into the fray getting a good, stable and inexpensive PDA that runs Linux to the market becomes more of a reality.
I know about the IPaq but I dont like Windows. So I bought a Handspring which I love. The biggest reason for the Handspring was that I needed good applications which is one of the PalmOS based PDA's greatest selling factor. That and the Handspring has the expandable modules.
Linux PDA's will be out in due time. They will be good and they will be inexpensive. The key is we need to get the RD factor funded by a company that wont fold because their stock drops. Only money will get the Linux PDA's out there and able to compete with the current one. Money and Linux, two words that do not usually go nicely together.
I ONLY buy maxtor hard drives. I have never had one fail on me. The hard drives that i've bought before always failed, Seagate, Western Digital all of them. Maxtor NEVER. I still have a 40 MB Maxtor drive from 1990 that still works. I dont know you people are smoking.
If, heaven forbid, the United States was attacked on our own land.
That is not a likley thing that will happen. Most countries that are considered threats are very far away. You cant count Mexico or Canada. If a country tried a land attack against the US, they would have to transport their troops either by Sea or Air. Sea is a better option than air because our Fighter Pilots will easily shoot down enemy air craft transporters as they are slow etc. Granted they will be accompanied by fighters and thats fine. Our Radar systems will intercept enemy plans a LONG time before they get even close.
By Sea would be a better choice as most of the US Navy is not near the US coastland. Although a country sending in troops by sea would run into a LOT of US Citizens who would not be too happy. Granted a lot of them would run far away, there would also be a lot who would fight back.
If the US got invaded by land you would see a milita form faster than you could blink. Using Cell phones and radio equipment could coordinate a nice counter-attck. Granted the losses would be HUGE compared to a trained army. And granted we as citizens dont have the weaponry to take out tanks and heavy artillery but we do have enough people to slow down a attack until the Military gets there. I do have weaponry at home that will go through any military body armor out there from a nice distance. Its called a 50 Caliber rifle. It will nicely stop a lightly armored vehicle and go through ANY personal body armor. It also has a very nice range.
RAM is the key. My slowest computer a Pentium 1, 200 MHz has 128MB RAM. My AMD 1 Gig has 384 MB RAM. I build computers for people and I never put less than 128 MB of RAM in there, and if they plan playing games, 256 MINIMUM. Then they come back and boast how fast and stable their computer is. Yup I know. Took me a long time to figure out good balancing in a system. I have Linux and X on my AMD computer with the 384 MB of RAM, it NEVER touches the swap file. apps load almost instantly and it never crashes, its beautiful.
It takes the same amount of skill to set up a Windows 2000 server as it does to wipe your own ass. I had Win2000 server set up in 4 hours with 4 different domains. It nicely died a few days later becuase it sucks as a server.
You point out a very real problem. Many times someone who is right under the law cannot prove it because they dont have enough money. This is 100% wrong. Solution. If you cannot afford to fight ANY case in court, you dont have to pay the lawyer. Make the court system faster, there should be "Honorable Lawyers" (oxymoron?) that fight cases for free. I mean the number one thing people think about when being sued are can they afford to fight the case, that's not right. Justice should not cost any money! Companies can sue anyone they please, except richer companies, becuase they know they can drag it out for so long the other side will go bankrupt. I forget what the movie was called with John Travolta that pointed this very thing out. "A Civil something"
I am drawing several similarities between this and the case against Kevin Mitnick.
"Let's single out somone and beat them into the ground with lawsuits, jail etc... and soon people will be afraid to cross us. We Rule!" The Music Industry.
We live in a strange world, and it keeps getting BETTER!
Slashdot Mirror
The baby bells control the internet? Really. Interesting.
Now to reply to what was MEANT.
I for one will be pissed off if Covad goes out of business. I get my DSL from Speakeasy through Covad. I love the Speakeasy TOS that lets me do whatever I choose, including running DNS servers for my website and mail and web servers. Changing to another TOS where almost 100% of them say "You CANNOT RUN SERVERS!!! OR WE WILL BEAT YOU WITH A BIG STICK!" would really piss me off. I already lost Flashcom who were not charging me which was nice.
I dont think there is anything we can really do though. Anyone have any ideas?
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I use several distros. My Webserver runs Progeny Debian. My workstation runs Mandrake, and my iBook runs SuSE 7.1 and they all work fine. They are all different to a certain degree and I dont really have a preferance. I have not had any problems with incompatabilites or anything. I like Debians apt-get but a lot of stuff out there is RPM based which works just as good. I say try em all, I mean they are FREE! Find one or three you like and use those. My DNS servers run OpenBSD but that doesnt count here.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I really did not feel like listing all the reasons why I got mine. Some of the major ones were as follows. I needed something to track things and something that was also protable. I track, numbers, appointments, finances. I use it to write notes, I can write in graffiti just as well as on paper. I play games on mine too. Dont use it to write letters or spreadsheets b/c I have a laptop. Also a factor was that later if I needed a (cell phone, GPS, camera, MP3 Player) etc I could get it for the Handspring. Since I got the laptop, I have not needed any of the above. The laptop is inconvenient for small notes and things like shopping lists but the handspring is good. Plus I can sync the laptop and handspring which I do to keep changes current.
Part of my complaint is that there are soo many PDA's coming out the market will get too saturated and companies will start adding useless gizmos to theirs to attract people. These gizmos will up the cost to a good PDA that is now too expensive b/c it has digital camera for example. I dont mind things that are useful, and your's is obviously useful to you which is good. I just want it to get to a point in a few years where each one of these things comes with more things than you need and a nice inexpensive one is impossible to find. Thats what I do not want to happen. Will it happen? I dont know.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
With all these new PDA's coming out that are basically the same thing. They either run off of the PalmOS or WinCE. They all do the same thing except for a few tweaks but come on, WHY would you want to record your voice on a PDA. The main reasons you get a PDA is for appointment tracking and keeping phone numbers etc. Adding all these gizmos does not make the PDA any better. Seriously, how many people will record their voices on the PDA, WHY? So they can listen to themselves? Come on. Lets focus on making an inexpensive, good quality PDA that is fast, reliable and user friendly. All gizmos do is make the batteries run out fast and add to the cost of the thing. I have a Handspring Platinum and I like it. I dont have any expansion modules for it becuase I think they are a waste of money. I got the platinum version becuase it was Faster.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I know kung fu. Whoa!
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Just for the cool factor. It looks awesome. If you think back 50 years, people would have laughed at you if you told them that you can see what it feels like to fall from space and smack into the HOLLYWOOD sign.
I dont like heights much and watching that was weird. People that think NASA wastes money can go back to their basements and listen to a transistor radio. I think NASA rocks, and that they make stuff like this is cool. Some people may not appreciate that, but I do and dont mind one bit my tax dollars go to them.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Nobody benefits by Eazel going under, however had they only proprietary software users would have to find something else. By having GPL'd code Eazel can die, but their software will continue to be developed by other people.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
This sucks that Eazel might go under. But I would like to point out a big benefit of Free Software. For example if a company like MS or Apple were to go under. The current owners of their software would be screwed as all updates etc would stop. Free software is different in the fact that if Eazel dies, a group of people will take over. The advantage is that Free Software will never die as long as there is someone to keep it alive. That is also a disadvantage as you cannot really make money from it.
I think a solution to Eazel would be to consolidate with Red Hat or Mandrake, that way they would have a financial backing to continue.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I understand what he is going through in being made fun of etc. My friends and I were made fun of, taunted and generally laughed at through Junior High. I went to a private school for High School so it did not apply there. But going through school and being made fun of because youre, smart and different sucks. There were many times I thought about how to win. No matter what I did or didnt do it was always the same, some punk ass jock showing off to his friends. They always traveled in groups too, which sucked because I would have loved to find one by himself.
Junior High sucked sucked shit. I left private school for my senior year and went to the local high school. By that time people stopped making fun becuase I was 6' and 180 lbs. I still was not accepted but at least they left me alone which is all good. I truly feel for the kids going through all that shit these days.
My advice is as follows...hang in there, it gets better. By the time you're in college it should stop. Thats it, I know it sucks and there is no reason why people should go through that sort of thing. You can take satisfaction in the fact that the people who make fun of you will one day be parking your car at a Valet restaurant. Then the tide will turn.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I'll second that thought.
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Excuse me. Did I miss something?
I dont think you are grammatically wrong, but it should read.
Excuse me, did I miss something?
The excuse me being the preface as to why the question is being asked. The way you have it Excuse Me is a statement. And the question following it can apply to anything.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I could not find a mention of why they are suing anywhere.
It is sad though.
Good Idea...free.
Venture Capital...10,000
Hire a few people...100,000+
Company makes money...$$$
The People you hired fire you...priceless.
Life's full of greedy people, for everything else theres Mastercard, esp for rent since you're no unemployed
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Sure...
EASY TO GET
Download. Burn. Put in CD. Reboot. Smile.
INSTALLATION
Can run through windows for the true beginer.
Graphical Partitioning.
Support for a LOT of file systems.
Full Graphical Installation.
Single User Mode, its really nice. No Login, KDE, bad security but for the beginer its good.
Very good hardware detection.
USE Auto mounting file systems.
Packed with applications. 2 ISO Images of RPMS. I think this is one of the most important ones. You literally get EVERYTHING you might need.
Compatible with *MOST* Red Hat RPM's.
Great online support. Mailing lists etc.
Graphical Configurations for everything.
Comes with KDE and Gnome + like 7 other window managers. Easily log in and out for some apps that dont like Gnome, or KDE, depending.
Free
Easy to install. Easy to use. Fully functional. It blows Windows away in useability. Its nicley secure and has different security settings during installation. Pick Paranoid for a almost uncrackable system.
I would recomend it to anyone.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I had a bunch of problems compiling stuff like you. The problem comes with Mandrake renaming libraries. Annoying yes. For a first time user like I was, YES!!! Mandrake RPM's are the way to go, and Apache is included on the 2nd ISO image. For compiling things, it included a lot of links to what the library should be named. Also their directory structure is a little tweaked.
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
Does Microsoft have to ask for handouts after a release of their OS? I take that selling support isn't going tremendously well either.
True MS doesnt ask for handouts. You have to rethink your stance though. Think about WHEN MS became big. Around 1995-1996 with Windows 95. Why? Becuase there was no alternative and computers were just hitting the main stream. All MS had to do was ride the wave. They got lucky, a LOT of companies start out by being lucky on one thing. Today is very different. The majority of people dont know about Linux. They dont want to know and they dont care. Their Windows computer works just fine for internet surfing.
The Linux companies CANNOT charge for their products becuase they are all similar and you can get it somewhere else for free. And with newsgroups and email lists, tech support becomes trivial. I agree with you that they're pretty much screwed but Supply and Demand comes brutually into play especially when its free.
These same companies cant make proprietary software because the Linux uses bitch about their GPL and FREE software. They are basically fucked. Dont think im Linux bashing becuase I'm not. I use Linux daily and I do think it eventually will become competition for the desktop market. Stability and power will be the selling points. With the restricting Windows XP and as computer users become more and more knowledgeable they will move to os's that let them do what they want to. Mandrake will be powerful in this regard with its simple install and ease of use. Give it time, it will happen, if I had to guess, 2 - 5 years.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
My treading into Linux was with Mandrake. I have other distros, Progeny, but I think Mandrake is more than a simple Distro. The 2 cd iso's are packed with software. Mandrake spent the time and effort to get the coolest free software out there and made sure it works with their distro, then put them into RPM's and packed them all up and gives everything away for free. Cool.
I would recommend the Mandrake distro to people who want to learn Linux becuase after installing it, you dont need to really do anything more except for use it. Its a great complete product. I just their FTP servers are going to be tanked. I'll just have to wait.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I thought it was generally a BAD idea to drop small electronic devices with fragile screens. Then again if it did explode when hit against something hard...Hand Grenades.whoa.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
This is straight from the site you linked to.
That's right! Every contributor making a donation of either money or project-related services is automatically entered for a chance to win the very first production MyLinux PDA unit.
You see the word money in there. There is a reason why its there.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I do believe the biggest problem with the PDA market is that there are tons out there to choose from. Palm and Handspring pretty much have the PDA market wrapped up. Recently we have seen Linux versions out there but the reviews have been less than good. So many bad things why would this one work. I think the biggest problem with a company wanting to get into the PDA market is financing. And with the market financing is about as hard to get as the RIAA to endorse anything that "might" infringe on their profits. By getting well funded organizations into the fray getting a good, stable and inexpensive PDA that runs Linux to the market becomes more of a reality.
I know about the IPaq but I dont like Windows. So I bought a Handspring which I love. The biggest reason for the Handspring was that I needed good applications which is one of the PalmOS based PDA's greatest selling factor. That and the Handspring has the expandable modules.
Linux PDA's will be out in due time. They will be good and they will be inexpensive. The key is we need to get the RD factor funded by a company that wont fold because their stock drops. Only money will get the Linux PDA's out there and able to compete with the current one. Money and Linux, two words that do not usually go nicely together.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I ONLY buy maxtor hard drives. I have never had one fail on me. The hard drives that i've bought before always failed, Seagate, Western Digital all of them. Maxtor NEVER. I still have a 40 MB Maxtor drive from 1990 that still works. I dont know you people are smoking.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
If, heaven forbid, the United States was attacked on our own land.
That is not a likley thing that will happen. Most countries that are considered threats are very far away. You cant count Mexico or Canada. If a country tried a land attack against the US, they would have to transport their troops either by Sea or Air. Sea is a better option than air because our Fighter Pilots will easily shoot down enemy air craft transporters as they are slow etc. Granted they will be accompanied by fighters and thats fine. Our Radar systems will intercept enemy plans a LONG time before they get even close.
By Sea would be a better choice as most of the US Navy is not near the US coastland. Although a country sending in troops by sea would run into a LOT of US Citizens who would not be too happy. Granted a lot of them would run far away, there would also be a lot who would fight back.
If the US got invaded by land you would see a milita form faster than you could blink. Using Cell phones and radio equipment could coordinate a nice counter-attck. Granted the losses would be HUGE compared to a trained army. And granted we as citizens dont have the weaponry to take out tanks and heavy artillery but we do have enough people to slow down a attack until the Military gets there. I do have weaponry at home that will go through any military body armor out there from a nice distance. Its called a 50 Caliber rifle. It will nicely stop a lightly armored vehicle and go through ANY personal body armor. It also has a very nice range.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
RAM is the key. My slowest computer a Pentium 1, 200 MHz has 128MB RAM. My AMD 1 Gig has 384 MB RAM. I build computers for people and I never put less than 128 MB of RAM in there, and if they plan playing games, 256 MINIMUM. Then they come back and boast how fast and stable their computer is. Yup I know. Took me a long time to figure out good balancing in a system. I have Linux and X on my AMD computer with the 384 MB of RAM, it NEVER touches the swap file. apps load almost instantly and it never crashes, its beautiful.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
It takes the same amount of skill to set up a Windows 2000 server as it does to wipe your own ass. I had Win2000 server set up in 4 hours with 4 different domains. It nicely died a few days later becuase it sucks as a server.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
You point out a very real problem. Many times someone who is right under the law cannot prove it because they dont have enough money. This is 100% wrong. Solution. If you cannot afford to fight ANY case in court, you dont have to pay the lawyer. Make the court system faster, there should be "Honorable Lawyers" (oxymoron?) that fight cases for free. I mean the number one thing people think about when being sued are can they afford to fight the case, that's not right. Justice should not cost any money! Companies can sue anyone they please, except richer companies, becuase they know they can drag it out for so long the other side will go bankrupt. I forget what the movie was called with John Travolta that pointed this very thing out. "A Civil something"
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
I am drawing several similarities between this and the case against Kevin Mitnick.
"Let's single out somone and beat them into the ground with lawsuits, jail etc... and soon people will be afraid to cross us. We Rule!" The Music Industry.
We live in a strange world, and it keeps getting BETTER!
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!