Major: Sir, the computer has given us a plausible scenario for operation Sandy Whirlwind General: OK Major, lets see what this pile of junk has to say for itself Major: It says that we can overcome all undesirable outcomes by sending in CL22 using a classic scissor movement. General: Let me see that! How did the computer even know about CL22, our crack regiment of killer circus clowns! That's amazing! Major: There's more sir. It also talks about project CC. General: Project CC! The stealth car capable of carrying thousands of CL22 troops in a vehicle the same size as Robin Reliant? How did the computer even know about that project, it's only been discussed between myself and my 2 year old daughter! Major: This program is amazing sir. Have another star.
"According to the Microsoft website, Windows Vista will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Windows Vista goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Microsoft's retail stores and Microsoft Authorized Resellers, Microsoft announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Microsoft's online store. "Vista, the nth major release of Window, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Bill Gates, Microsoft's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $600.""
I know a few people have replied to your comment about switching. But I think I could probably lend my experience to this by stating that I had exactly the same questions about the switch that you have listed. I've been a windows developer for many years, and I had very little understanding of unix, X, linux or anything to do with this type of kernel. I had fiddled around for a while with various live CD's without being convinced. Then I realised that the reason I didn't switch is because I actually invested no real time in switching. The live CD's were really a 'get a look and feel' but there was no real usage because my data was not there for me to do anything with.
OK, saying that, my specs were a Socket 1 P3 550Mhz, 3/4 of a gig of RAM, TNT2 video card (I treat this like a vintage car), and an ancient awe64 sound card. I was thinking that there would be some problems switching, which there were with the sound card (found out about modprobe), but overall, everything works as advertised. Switching data over was something I had been running through in my head prior, I knew there was some NTFS support in Linux but I didn't know to what extent. I chose Ubuntu as the distro, and there are packages which support NTFS fully. I had installed a new primary drive as the candidate to install the OS on (this was going to be a total switch, no dual booting, dive in a the deep end so to speak) And installed the base OS on that with the intention of transferring data off each drive then converting from NTFS to something more Linuxy like EXTsomething or other.
My real concern was e-mail, stacks of it had to work. But fortunately I had been using Thunderbird for quite some time, so simply copying the files over to the right directory and pointing TB to it restored all my e-mail like magic. Then for some reason, at that exact point, I felt as if I had switched over.
Transferring all the other data over, code, images, audio, was far easier. Then my next concern kicked in, and this turned out to be something that a lot of converts find, expectations of software - or the minor missing stuff. There are a lot of freely available applications which do the same as what you had in windows, but finding the one which does what you expect is tricky, but not impossible. For example, I started using GAIM for my IM, it was ok. There's no video conferencing, which kinda bugs me, then I find out that the supplied GAIM was surpassed by Pidgin, which still has no video conferencing, but it's quite polished and works fine as an IM client, in fact I quite like it, very simple, no bells and whistles, gets on with the job. There's a plug in called gaimvv or something which is supposed to add video in but I haven't tried it yet.
Next was a pop mailbox checker. I was a big fan of poptray, a Delphi based application. And after a little searching, I read a little history about biff, then xbiff and I'm on the track to finding something that matches. Eventually I find kshowmail, an application for KDE which did the one thing I need: delete mail from the pop server directly. I had mail nofication installed before, but you could see loads of mail available on the pop server, but you could see all the junk, with no way of removing it before firing up my mail client. Kshowmail was outside of the package manager, so this was my first./configure|make|make intall, and also my foray into looking for missing dependencies! Reading up, figuring it out and eventually getting a compile and install and a working kshowmail! Actually, before doing that, I was using poptray under WINE and it worked, but when you take a look at the amount of virtual memory it used (the system monitor was reporting 2.6Gb for the single tiny application) it inspired me to look around!
My torrent program before was uTorrent, turns out there's a KTorrent which does the same deal. Installed, working great.
OK, tax software. I'm Australian, and the tax office allow you to lodge online using their own application. I have found instructions to r
It involves typing loads of stuff really quickly, then to earn points, what you type does something special. And then, someone judges your typing by 'testing' how special that something is. If that something special does what the piece of paper says, then you get a pat on the head and maybe a biscuit. You could play it for hours, sometimes you get on a roll, sometimes you bomb. They even have people called 'project managers' who make sure the gameplay doesn't get out of control.
I wonder if he's mates with the bloke who runs the Firefox myths page linked at the top. It's some guy called Andrew K, who should really be a Microsoft employee as it's obvious that outside of MS, there's really no other software available. In his about page he claims to have built 5000+ PC's in his 25 year IT career. That's an impressive 1 "computer" every 1.8 days! Kudos for not getting bored!
Also, my advice is not to read that myths page if you even remotely know anything about the history of FF and the Mozilla foundation. Even if you don't use FF. It'll just make you mad. Then at the bottom of the page there's a convenient "EXCUSES WILL NEVER BE ADDED TO THIS PAGE" line, so I guess it's just pointless even trying to correct the FUD. Even if there was a small feedback section to the page then it could save face a little.
We've had quite a few different brands including the manufacturers all with the same label (Lexmark even included masks and gloves in the toner box), mind you, Australian standards for particulates and OH&S standards are pretty strict so it's probably a requirement for toners with high iron content to be labelled as dangerous here.
I've had to deal a fair bit with lasers which print financial stubs at the bottom of a page with the magnetic MICR toner. That stuff is certified carcinogenic, with lots of warnings on the box to handle with special gloves and wear a mask while changing toner over. Nasty stuff.
* NOTE 2!! When from==0 we are copying kernel space for the first
* fork(). Then we DONT want to copy a full page-directory entry, as
* that would lead to some serious memory waste - we just copy the
* first 160 pages - 640kB. Even that is more than we need, but it
* doesn't take any more memory - we don't copy-on-write in the low
* 1 Mb-range, so the pages can be shared with the kernel. Thus the
* special case for nr=xxxx.
As long as the text is amber I'm cool with that. Maybe if they replaced the Google logo with the old Zenith logo and made it so that you could press ctrl+alt+ins and it would popup with a debugger...
I had my first Compaq luggable in 1990 for work, then a string of portables, notebooks and laptops with monochrome screens, fold out keyboards, bad heat problems that can burn your nuts off, dead pixels and more crapware than I care to mention.
After a number of years, I came to the conclusion that laptops are great for being able to work anywhere I like. And that is the reason that I use a desktop now, my designated workplace.
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I'm inspired enough to install a second whammy bar on my Fender...
Sounds close to psychopathy, except psychopaths are aware that they are doing something incorrectly but they keep doing it the same way anyway.
Good job we have third party insurance on this sucker, I'd hate to see what we hit...
Major: Sir, the computer has given us a plausible scenario for operation Sandy Whirlwind
General: OK Major, lets see what this pile of junk has to say for itself
Major: It says that we can overcome all undesirable outcomes by sending in CL22 using a classic scissor movement.
General: Let me see that! How did the computer even know about CL22, our crack regiment of killer circus clowns! That's amazing!
Major: There's more sir. It also talks about project CC.
General: Project CC! The stealth car capable of carrying thousands of CL22 troops in a vehicle the same size as Robin Reliant? How did the computer even know about that project, it's only been discussed between myself and my 2 year old daughter!
Major: This program is amazing sir. Have another star.
I must admit that I did kinda pluck a figure out of the air for that one. Although, the Australian dollar is pretty close to .90 US right now...
hmmm...
And it looks like lots of things taking a wee. Once the site is slashdotted, it'll be a veritable golden shower...
Nice work though.
Mutant Algae! Overlords! In soviet Russia! Profit! Help!
If the suit was lodged on talk like a pirate day...
that all the disks are formatted FAT32...
Maybe drug dealers are getting smarter.
That's great advice, thanks very much! I now have a working tax package on Ubuntu.
I know a few people have replied to your comment about switching. But I think I could probably lend my experience to this by stating that I had exactly the same questions about the switch that you have listed. I've been a windows developer for many years, and I had very little understanding of unix, X, linux or anything to do with this type of kernel. I had fiddled around for a while with various live CD's without being convinced. Then I realised that the reason I didn't switch is because I actually invested no real time in switching. The live CD's were really a 'get a look and feel' but there was no real usage because my data was not there for me to do anything with.
./configure|make|make intall, and also my foray into looking for missing dependencies! Reading up, figuring it out and eventually getting a compile and install and a working kshowmail! Actually, before doing that, I was using poptray under WINE and it worked, but when you take a look at the amount of virtual memory it used (the system monitor was reporting 2.6Gb for the single tiny application) it inspired me to look around!
OK, saying that, my specs were a Socket 1 P3 550Mhz, 3/4 of a gig of RAM, TNT2 video card (I treat this like a vintage car), and an ancient awe64 sound card. I was thinking that there would be some problems switching, which there were with the sound card (found out about modprobe), but overall, everything works as advertised. Switching data over was something I had been running through in my head prior, I knew there was some NTFS support in Linux but I didn't know to what extent. I chose Ubuntu as the distro, and there are packages which support NTFS fully. I had installed a new primary drive as the candidate to install the OS on (this was going to be a total switch, no dual booting, dive in a the deep end so to speak) And installed the base OS on that with the intention of transferring data off each drive then converting from NTFS to something more Linuxy like EXTsomething or other.
My real concern was e-mail, stacks of it had to work. But fortunately I had been using Thunderbird for quite some time, so simply copying the files over to the right directory and pointing TB to it restored all my e-mail like magic. Then for some reason, at that exact point, I felt as if I had switched over.
Transferring all the other data over, code, images, audio, was far easier. Then my next concern kicked in, and this turned out to be something that a lot of converts find, expectations of software - or the minor missing stuff. There are a lot of freely available applications which do the same as what you had in windows, but finding the one which does what you expect is tricky, but not impossible. For example, I started using GAIM for my IM, it was ok. There's no video conferencing, which kinda bugs me, then I find out that the supplied GAIM was surpassed by Pidgin, which still has no video conferencing, but it's quite polished and works fine as an IM client, in fact I quite like it, very simple, no bells and whistles, gets on with the job. There's a plug in called gaimvv or something which is supposed to add video in but I haven't tried it yet.
Next was a pop mailbox checker. I was a big fan of poptray, a Delphi based application. And after a little searching, I read a little history about biff, then xbiff and I'm on the track to finding something that matches. Eventually I find kshowmail, an application for KDE which did the one thing I need: delete mail from the pop server directly. I had mail nofication installed before, but you could see loads of mail available on the pop server, but you could see all the junk, with no way of removing it before firing up my mail client. Kshowmail was outside of the package manager, so this was my first
My torrent program before was uTorrent, turns out there's a KTorrent which does the same deal. Installed, working great.
OK, tax software. I'm Australian, and the tax office allow you to lodge online using their own application. I have found instructions to r
My lead wall says no.
It involves typing loads of stuff really quickly, then to earn points, what you type does something special. And then, someone judges your typing by 'testing' how special that something is. If that something special does what the piece of paper says, then you get a pat on the head and maybe a biscuit. You could play it for hours, sometimes you get on a roll, sometimes you bomb. They even have people called 'project managers' who make sure the gameplay doesn't get out of control.
I wonder if he's mates with the bloke who runs the Firefox myths page linked at the top. It's some guy called Andrew K, who should really be a Microsoft employee as it's obvious that outside of MS, there's really no other software available. In his about page he claims to have built 5000+ PC's in his 25 year IT career. That's an impressive 1 "computer" every 1.8 days! Kudos for not getting bored!
Also, my advice is not to read that myths page if you even remotely know anything about the history of FF and the Mozilla foundation. Even if you don't use FF. It'll just make you mad. Then at the bottom of the page there's a convenient "EXCUSES WILL NEVER BE ADDED TO THIS PAGE" line, so I guess it's just pointless even trying to correct the FUD. Even if there was a small feedback section to the page then it could save face a little.
We've had quite a few different brands including the manufacturers all with the same label (Lexmark even included masks and gloves in the toner box), mind you, Australian standards for particulates and OH&S standards are pretty strict so it's probably a requirement for toners with high iron content to be labelled as dangerous here.
I've had to deal a fair bit with lasers which print financial stubs at the bottom of a page with the magnetic MICR toner. That stuff is certified carcinogenic, with lots of warnings on the box to handle with special gloves and wear a mask while changing toner over. Nasty stuff.
As long as the text is amber I'm cool with that. Maybe if they replaced the Google logo with the old Zenith logo and made it so that you could press ctrl+alt+ins and it would popup with a debugger...
Then the next version could be called Windows Snake Eyes.
I had my first Compaq luggable in 1990 for work, then a string of portables, notebooks and laptops with monochrome screens, fold out keyboards, bad heat problems that can burn your nuts off, dead pixels and more crapware than I care to mention.
After a number of years, I came to the conclusion that laptops are great for being able to work anywhere I like. And that is the reason that I use a desktop now, my designated workplace.
It's not dead, it's just in another dimension.
ah crap, the Russian dissapeared. just like nasa's $19M.
By "leg restraints" they mean the roll of (Duct Tape) hanging off the wall next to the crapper...