Is there going to be a Linux version available the same time as the Windows release? If I could get UT2 and Single-Player Return to Castle Wolfenstein in Linux it'd be two less things to reboot for.
I'm about to trade an old PC for a Mac Quadra 700. Has anyone tried the 68k version of Debian? I'm either going to install it or BSD, but I'm leaning more toward Linux since I'm familar with it.
Not a good enough argument; I have my DC, PSX, and c64 hooked up to an old Commodore 1702 monitor with no tuner.
I haven't owned a TV since 98 or so. As far as staying in touch with current events, news websites and AM radio on the drive to and from school/work do that fine. If not knowing who Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys are is a disservice to you, then perhaps a TV does have its advantages.
For the times when I absolutely want to see something, I have a TV card that lets me do that, and at the same time finish some work, read E-mail, etc.
Some people mentioned how easily these tapes deteriorated, and that optical media is a superior replacement. I'm not so sure about that though; I have three Sony CD-R's that the coating has begun chipping off of. Does anyone know what causes this? Out of all my CD's the only brand I ever experienced this with was Sony.
My university still uses VMS/VAX and I noticed as of yesterday, none of my mail is coming through, although I can connect to the POP server. Slowly, this morning, some mail has been funneling through from yesterday.
When I try and install Java through Mozilla's update program it always seems to fail. Anyone know how I can go around this? Do I just have to download the entire runtime environment?
No, Be proved that no matter how cool and innovative an OS is, if the company backing it is incompetent, and unmotivated, it will never become anything.
If the price is right and it can live happily beside another OS, I'd be willing to try out AmigaOS on x86. I always felt bad that C= bit the dust when PC's began to dominate; they went from one of the biggest computer manufactures to nobody in one decade. Maybe this can revamp C=.
I think one of the things that made using Linux not so difficult for me was that I grew up using DOS and VMS, and editing BBS configuration files since Junior High. Think about the newbies who've never had to leave the GUI world? In a lot of respects I think I like Linux so much because it brings me back to BBS days in a sense; it lets you become a provider of something (by setting up minor servers and stuff), and it gives you a chance to play around. Bringing up a config file in pico reminds me of fixing up dropfiles in DOS edit:)
Like a BBS, there was a default install -- but chances are you changed it to represent your own personality; Linux is similar. What packages you install and how you configure everything is almost an expression of yourself. Let us not forget the l33tness attitudes originated from the BBS scene.
Firstly, he didn't specify whether or not he was using common E-Mail addresses, or ones with slight imagination. Lucky for me, my name isn't a Western one, so spammers never guess it. The second thing that should have been taken into account is that commerical mail providers are naturally at high risk for spam. I've had a university account since 1994 and only recieve a few spam messages a month.
One of the policies that my university has is that for students, there is no, for example "jsmith@...edu". Our E-Mail addresses are actually our social security numbers somehow made into a four letter code; sure spammers could guess combinations, but most won't put in the effort.
I can testify that registering two domains was the beginning of spam on my university accounts; for months I would literally go spam free until getting put into the whois database. Contrary to what some people here have found, Hotmail and Yahoo have produced no spam for me, except their own... I think what protected me was having a unique name that wasn't easily gussed by spammers.
Usenet produced *some* spam for me, but nowhere near the amount this guy is reporting. It probably has *a lot* to do with what groups you're posting to, and whether you're crossposting.
He could have mentioned more solid ways of getting off of spam lists, like checking headers to see where spam is originating from. 50% of the spam I've seen comes from someone with a dial-up account and a mail server. Once E-Mailing abuse@, and postmaster@ these people generally go away, either because they don't want to deal with someone like me (a hostile 'customer'), or because their ISP's pull the plug.
If you have a box of your own it's fun sometimes to create a bunch of E-Mail accounts, and see which ones get spammed from who.
I first got on EFNet around 1993, with a VMS account of my sister's from her university and IRC 1.7.3:) My favorite server at that time I think was irc.pitt.edu, mainly because it was only an hour or so from my house.
Anyway, the biggest problem with EFNet began when people joining from.edu's became the minority, and people from AOL and Netcom became the majority. Not to use ".edu" as an elitist symbol or anything, but when IRC access was limited to academic institutions, it did a good job of filtering out complete morons.
In fact, my university banned IRC from running on it's VMS system. I remember a script kid wanted to take over a channel I was on and DOS'ed the entire campus; that could have one of the reasons.
What bothers me about things like this, is that it could be what marks the end of a "free" Internet. There's no incentive for people to offer services like IRC for free anymore, not when it causes this much trouble.
What gets me is that I a couple miles from my home, cable access is available. However, since I don't live in an area that economically well-off, the cable compnay won't bother servicing me. Is there anything you can to do lobby a company into supporting your area, when it's completely possible, but they just won't bother?
Check out http://www.lsl.com, I'm on dial-up and it would take me ages to get both RH 7.1 to upgrade my server, and Mandrake 8.0 for my desktop. RH 7.1 is free except for shipping right now, Mandrake is something like $3. By the time you actually get it via FTP you could probably have it by UPS groud . . .
I have my drive sitting on a shelf above my computer desk; the drive ejects so hard that the disk usually flys out of the drive and five feet onto the ground. Why in the hell do these drives eject so hard?
I would hope that they fixed it a few years ago when this problem first started happening. I remember about two years ago seeing tons of refurbished ZIP drives for sale in stores; the fact that there were some serious problems with the drives should've been obvious.
Has anyone had problems with drives bought within the past year or so? Mine has been okay, but if Iomega never considered it a "problem" then they might not have fixed them until last month.
Amongst my friends it's been exactly the opposite; two of my friends lost important data when their internal zip drives broke. They replaced the drives with externals and they've been okay since.
My external broke once too, but it wasn't the click of death. For some reason any computer I would plug it into wouldn't recognize it; luckily I was able to exchange it for a new one.
I was a little excited at first when I saw there was a $40 debate; although I don't have a need for any Iomega hardware, I could've got a few extra ZIP disks (they're expensive as hell anyway). From the looks of the offer though, it seems the rebates don't go toward any old product you want, only specified amounts for specific products. Here's what the posted notice says:
$17.50 for a Zip 250 drive
$12.50 for a Zip 100 drive
$40.00 for a Zip 250 drive and a 6 pack of ZIP 250 disks
$27.50 toward Zip 100 drive and a 6 pack of ZIP 100 disks
$17.50 toward the purchase of six ZIP 250 disks
$12.50 toward the purchase of six ZIP 100 disks . . .
There's some more but you get the idea. The rebate doesn't really reimburse anybody, just offers some incentives to buy more Iomega products; the more expensive the product the greater the discount.
I was going to fill in a request hoping I could use the $40 and buy like three or four ZIP disks, but since I'll only get $12.50 off for a pack of six, which probably costs $50 anyway, this offer seems pretty lame.
I saw some people asking why on earth anyone would use a ZIP drive in 2001. At my university the computers in the lab have zip drives, sometimes it's a convenient way to get stuff larger than 1.44MB back and forth between home and school. As far as home use though I never touch it.
ZIP drives are like the 8 tracks of computer media, I expect that they'll be dead in a short amount of time.
Anyone know of a site that just documents really horrible sites? By horrible I mean purely stupid or very poorly designed? The Olsen Twins site someone posted here amused me for about 30 minutes.
If one doesn't exist a Slashdot-like site site of horrible web sites would be great.
Fortunately the majority of the younger people in Arab countries are beginning to move away from Windows, and begin using Linux. Here are some pages related to the subject:
Arabic Howto for Linux:
http://members.tripod.com/Adeveloper/ahowto/arab ic -howto.html
Arazilla, the Arabized version of Mozilla for Linux. The same site also has some information about Hebrew if I remember correctly:
http://www.langbox.com/AraZilla/
Linux4Arabs, a page about Linux in Arabic:
http://www.linux4arab.com/
Saudi Linux User Group:
http://www.linux.org.sa/
Arabized Xterm and some Islamic software for Linux:
http://www.linux.org.sa/arabicsw/right.html
There's also an Egroup list for Saudi users of Linux.
Foriegn countries in particular have a reaosn not to be using closed source operating systems, where companies very likely can put backdoors in that jeopardize national security; China seems to have figured that out already.
I used to be a big fan of Be, and actually bought r4.5.2 and r5 as opposed to warezing it. I even have the BeOS Bible, but anyway . . .
One thing you could do to get Arabic, and I assume Hebrew fonts working in Be was so just import the fonts from Windows. Be could display them, but couldn't display them right to left, or even connect them properly. I remember asking some guys who progammed for Be about extended language support, and they essentially said for some reason right now Be couldn't support any language that went from right to left, due to limitations in the OS itself.
Regardless of language limitations, Be was a really great thing; unfortunately the company didn't give a damn about it. For a desktop OS, it was excellent. I wish Be hadn't abandoned it, then I'd have a reason to put it back on my system.
Mac's actually were much more popular than PC's in Arabia because they supported Arabic letters long before PC's did. That's changed nowadays since Windows has been Arabized.
I assume if they support Arabic, a right to left language, they would also support Hebrew, or at least it wouldn't be difficult to get working.
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Is there going to be a Linux version available the same time as the Windows release? If I could get UT2 and Single-Player Return to Castle Wolfenstein in Linux it'd be two less things to reboot for.
I'm about to trade an old PC for a Mac Quadra 700. Has anyone tried the 68k version of Debian? I'm either going to install it or BSD, but I'm leaning more toward Linux since I'm familar with it.
Not a good enough argument; I have my DC, PSX, and c64 hooked up to an old Commodore 1702 monitor with no tuner.
I haven't owned a TV since 98 or so. As far as staying in touch with current events, news websites and AM radio on the drive to and from school/work do that fine. If not knowing who Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys are is a disservice to you, then perhaps a TV does have its advantages.
For the times when I absolutely want to see something, I have a TV card that lets me do that, and at the same time finish some work, read E-mail, etc.
Some people mentioned how easily these tapes deteriorated, and that optical media is a superior replacement. I'm not so sure about that though; I have three Sony CD-R's that the coating has begun chipping off of. Does anyone know what causes this? Out of all my CD's the only brand I ever experienced this with was Sony.
My university still uses VMS/VAX and I noticed as of yesterday, none of my mail is coming through, although I can connect to the POP server. Slowly, this morning, some mail has been funneling through from yesterday.
When I try and install Java through Mozilla's update program it always seems to fail. Anyone know how I can go around this? Do I just have to download the entire runtime environment?
No, Be proved that no matter how cool and innovative an OS is, if the company backing it is incompetent, and unmotivated, it will never become anything.
If the price is right and it can live happily beside another OS, I'd be willing to try out AmigaOS on x86. I always felt bad that C= bit the dust when PC's began to dominate; they went from one of the biggest computer manufactures to nobody in one decade. Maybe this can revamp C=.
I think one of the things that made using Linux not so difficult for me was that I grew up using DOS and VMS, and editing BBS configuration files since Junior High. Think about the newbies who've never had to leave the GUI world? In a lot of respects I think I like Linux so much because it brings me back to BBS days in a sense; it lets you become a provider of something (by setting up minor servers and stuff), and it gives you a chance to play around. Bringing up a config file in pico reminds me of fixing up dropfiles in DOS edit :)
Like a BBS, there was a default install -- but chances are you changed it to represent your own personality; Linux is similar. What packages you install and how you configure everything is almost an expression of yourself. Let us not forget the l33tness attitudes originated from the BBS scene.
Firstly, he didn't specify whether or not he was using common E-Mail addresses, or ones with slight imagination. Lucky for me, my name isn't a Western one, so spammers never guess it. The second thing that should have been taken into account is that commerical mail providers are naturally at high risk for spam. I've had a university account since 1994 and only recieve a few spam messages a month.
One of the policies that my university has is that for students, there is no, for example "jsmith@...edu". Our E-Mail addresses are actually our social security numbers somehow made into a four letter code; sure spammers could guess combinations, but most won't put in the effort.
I can testify that registering two domains was the beginning of spam on my university accounts; for months I would literally go spam free until getting put into the whois database. Contrary to what some people here have found, Hotmail and Yahoo have produced no spam for me, except their own... I think what protected me was having a unique name that wasn't easily gussed by spammers.
Usenet produced *some* spam for me, but nowhere near the amount this guy is reporting. It probably has *a lot* to do with what groups you're posting to, and whether you're crossposting.
He could have mentioned more solid ways of getting off of spam lists, like checking headers to see where spam is originating from. 50% of the spam I've seen comes from someone with a dial-up account and a mail server. Once E-Mailing abuse@, and postmaster@ these people generally go away, either because they don't want to deal with someone like me (a hostile 'customer'), or because their ISP's pull the plug.
If you have a box of your own it's fun sometimes to create a bunch of E-Mail accounts, and see which ones get spammed from who.
I first got on EFNet around 1993, with a VMS account of my sister's from her university and IRC 1.7.3 :) My favorite server at that time I think was irc.pitt.edu, mainly because it was only an hour or so from my house.
.edu's became the minority, and people from AOL and Netcom became the majority. Not to use ".edu" as an elitist symbol or anything, but when IRC access was limited to academic institutions, it did a good job of filtering out complete morons.
Anyway, the biggest problem with EFNet began when people joining from
In fact, my university banned IRC from running on it's VMS system. I remember a script kid wanted to take over a channel I was on and DOS'ed the entire campus; that could have one of the reasons.
What bothers me about things like this, is that it could be what marks the end of a "free" Internet. There's no incentive for people to offer services like IRC for free anymore, not when it causes this much trouble.
Do you have a link, or a source for this study?
What gets me is that I a couple miles from my home, cable access is available. However, since I don't live in an area that economically well-off, the cable compnay won't bother servicing me. Is there anything you can to do lobby a company into supporting your area, when it's completely possible, but they just won't bother?
You might find this link interesting.
Check out http://www.lsl.com, I'm on dial-up and it would take me ages to get both RH 7.1 to upgrade my server, and Mandrake 8.0 for my desktop. RH 7.1 is free except for shipping right now, Mandrake is something like $3. By the time you actually get it via FTP you could probably have it by UPS groud . . .
I have my drive sitting on a shelf above my computer desk; the drive ejects so hard that the disk usually flys out of the drive and five feet onto the ground. Why in the hell do these drives eject so hard?
I would hope that they fixed it a few years ago when this problem first started happening. I remember about two years ago seeing tons of refurbished ZIP drives for sale in stores; the fact that there were some serious problems with the drives should've been obvious.
Has anyone had problems with drives bought within the past year or so? Mine has been okay, but if Iomega never considered it a "problem" then they might not have fixed them until last month.
Amongst my friends it's been exactly the opposite; two of my friends lost important data when their internal zip drives broke. They replaced the drives with externals and they've been okay since.
My external broke once too, but it wasn't the click of death. For some reason any computer I would plug it into wouldn't recognize it; luckily I was able to exchange it for a new one.
I was a little excited at first when I saw there was a $40 debate; although I don't have a need for any Iomega hardware, I could've got a few extra ZIP disks (they're expensive as hell anyway). From the looks of the offer though, it seems the rebates don't go toward any old product you want, only specified amounts for specific products. Here's what the posted notice says:
$17.50 for a Zip 250 drive
$12.50 for a Zip 100 drive
$40.00 for a Zip 250 drive and a 6 pack of ZIP 250 disks
$27.50 toward Zip 100 drive and a 6 pack of ZIP 100 disks
$17.50 toward the purchase of six ZIP 250 disks
$12.50 toward the purchase of six ZIP 100 disks . . .
There's some more but you get the idea. The rebate doesn't really reimburse anybody, just offers some incentives to buy more Iomega products; the more expensive the product the greater the discount.
I was going to fill in a request hoping I could use the $40 and buy like three or four ZIP disks, but since I'll only get $12.50 off for a pack of six, which probably costs $50 anyway, this offer seems pretty lame.
I saw some people asking why on earth anyone would use a ZIP drive in 2001. At my university the computers in the lab have zip drives, sometimes it's a convenient way to get stuff larger than 1.44MB back and forth between home and school. As far as home use though I never touch it.
ZIP drives are like the 8 tracks of computer media, I expect that they'll be dead in a short amount of time.
Can you suggest some good Word Analysis programs for any OS? You've sparked my curiosity.
I liked your sig.
Could you tell me what source you took it from? I wanna check it out.
Anyone know of a site that just documents really horrible sites? By horrible I mean purely stupid or very poorly designed? The Olsen Twins site someone posted here amused me for about 30 minutes.
If one doesn't exist a Slashdot-like site site of horrible web sites would be great.
Does anyone have a good site(s) supporting the idea that the moon landing *didn't* happen? I'd like to see what some people have to say.
That's most likely becaue if you run Linux you already know how.
Fortunately the majority of the younger people in Arab countries are beginning to move away from Windows, and begin using Linux. Here are some pages related to the subject:
b ic -howto.html
Arabic Howto for Linux:
http://members.tripod.com/Adeveloper/ahowto/ara
Arazilla, the Arabized version of Mozilla for Linux. The same site also has some information about Hebrew if I remember correctly:
http://www.langbox.com/AraZilla/
Linux4Arabs, a page about Linux in Arabic:
http://www.linux4arab.com/
Saudi Linux User Group:
http://www.linux.org.sa/
Arabized Xterm and some Islamic software for Linux:
http://www.linux.org.sa/arabicsw/right.html
There's also an Egroup list for Saudi users of Linux.
Foriegn countries in particular have a reaosn not to be using closed source operating systems, where companies very likely can put backdoors in that jeopardize national security; China seems to have figured that out already.
I used to be a big fan of Be, and actually bought r4.5.2 and r5 as opposed to warezing it. I even have the BeOS Bible, but anyway . . .
One thing you could do to get Arabic, and I assume Hebrew fonts working in Be was so just import the fonts from Windows. Be could display them, but couldn't display them right to left, or even connect them properly. I remember asking some guys who progammed for Be about extended language support, and they essentially said for some reason right now Be couldn't support any language that went from right to left, due to limitations in the OS itself.
Regardless of language limitations, Be was a really great thing; unfortunately the company didn't give a damn about it. For a desktop OS, it was excellent. I wish Be hadn't abandoned it, then I'd have a reason to put it back on my system.
Mac's actually were much more popular than PC's in Arabia because they supported Arabic letters long before PC's did. That's changed nowadays since Windows has been Arabized.
I assume if they support Arabic, a right to left language, they would also support Hebrew, or at least it wouldn't be difficult to get working.