I disagree with you disagreeing completely. I have never read any documentation or books or anything on networking, and have built several OS/2 and Windows networks (some homogenuous, some with both) that shared everything perfectly, because it was all relatively easy to figure out what to do.
I've also built Linux networks, as well. But, I've never gotten samba to work to share with windows and os/2. I've tried, but i'm not even going into the freakin manuals. I'll just FTP transfer all the files, because it's a hell of a lot easier than finding the documentation that everyone says is worse than none, for samba.
Yes, I've read lots of other manuals.. but if a task can be done in Windows, OS/2, and several other OS's, without knowing anything about that task beforehand, in under ten minutes.. why does it take weeks for people to figure it out in Linux?
Actually, I'm quite glad this was brought up. Yesterday, I was talking with several clueless computer users on a chat channel, and wanted to show them that they can in fact, live a virus-free life.
I wanted to suggest that they go check out Knoppix. Just to try it out.
Unfortunatly, I found that all of the websites that i could find that have to do with Knoppix are either (a) complete garbage, or (b) geared towards people who already know what, why, and how.
Knoppix could be used quite readily to show people what they are missing out on. Anyone know of any sites that explain to COMPLETE NEWBIES what, why, and how? ie, Knoppix for Dummies!
Sure, but those will also mark virtually every legitimate email as spam, as WELL. Yeah, you can have 95% accuracy... but then you have to go through your hundreds of messages marked spam just to find your real email!
(example, after two weeks of using spam-assassin, it decided that every e-mail sent to me was spam.. i no longer received anything in my Inbox, everything was transferred to the Spambox. It took me another two weeks tweaking spam-assassin's kill rate down to about a 50% accuracy, and now i actually receive all my emails.)
Basically, all I need is a web browser that functions, an email client, instant messengers, and chat programs. That's all I really do with my computer. (and some music playing)
One reason to stay on Linux, is that I can't seem to get Windows to support my computer's SCSI controller.
One reason to get rid of Linux, would be because it's virtually freaking impossible to get all of this working in Mozilla AND Opera for Linux, all at once: Java, Multimedia Plugins, Flash/Shockwave. And then KEEP it all working, as you upgrade versions of Mozilla/Opera.
On my roommate's Windows computer, I can stay up-to-date on web browsers, without having to re-install all my plugins, or risk breaking them badly. Mozilla/Opera do not lock up regularly under the Windows platform. (IE, however, is a supreme piece of garbage)
I could play games if I were using Windows. I might care about that if I had hardware that was actually capable of PLAYING the latest games.. but the fastest puter in the house is a 1.1GHz and doesn't have 3Dhardware worth talking about. My machine is a 600MHz P3 with a Radeon 7000 PCI. Not exactly a power house. It plays Quake 3 ok, but that's about the extent of it's power. (Return to CW didn't run at all on it, and barely ran on the 1.1GHz machine)
Of course, my router computer uses Linux. And before it used Linux, it used OS/2. And it did the exact same things that it did with OS/2 that it does with Linux.. except on Linux, it can be booted from floppy, and run without the hard drive (without the additional services i have it running, such as email/web/database). No compelling reason to keep it with Linux, except that there's no compelling reason to go back to OS/2, and Windows just plain wouldn't cut it.
Well, I figure that BeOS has a somewhat Unix-like kernel, and was really not so much of a Unix-like operating system. My thought was that it actually took all the bad things about Unix, and combined them with all the bad things from other operating systems. (i've never spent more than a day figuring out the basics of an operating system only to get frustrated and give up.. except with Be.)
So, why couldn't the kernel be mated to a completely different set of software?
GNU already runs on virtually all versions of DOS/Windows...
Is supposed to be the original Windows copy/cut/paste buttons:
Copy: Ctrl-Insert Paste: Shift-Insert
(I can't remember what Cut is, I never use it.. probably ctrl-delete)
Then, sometime in the Win95 or Win98 era, Microsoft changed it to the less-intuitive and less-standard Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
And Microsoft was a member of the body of people/organizations that made Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert the standard.. then went and trashed it...
This is the CUA92 user interface universal standard, by the way.. and i'm a bit busy right now to do a google search for it, but I'm sure anyone interested could find it..
that's about how long it would take any average geek that doesn't know everything about wine to install it, anyway.
Well, not that I've spent anything more than trying to install the rpm's and deb's in the last couple years.. but every time i do get a bug to try to install a functioning WINE, I end up getting out the latest RedHat or Debian discs.
Working in the largest Arabic city in the world outside of the Middle East (Dearborn, MI).. I can tell you.. that a large quantity of them just don't follow the old prayer rules.
Just like the Christian religions are selectively followed, so are the other faiths. (I have a Muslim employee who refused to drink water to help cure his hangover during Ramadan... lol)
And, with the luck of the world, he was probably a "paranoid high" kinda guy. I dunno how many people you hang with that smoke pot (most all of my friends do regularly, i only partake once or twice a year).. but a lot of people just get insanely paranoid when they are high on pot... they are fun, especially to the rest of us that are just a little high and not paranoid, or who are stone cold sober. (those who get the munchies when high tend to completely ignore the funny things the paranoid high people do, because they are too busy with their scooby snacks)
Sure, Best Buy sells hardware cheap as shit, and RadioShack ain't the cheapest place in the world, but it's a hell of a lot more of a fair price on accessories and cables than the big box stores...
Ahh.. we use cable for internet, and satellite for TV. One day, we discovered that the roommate who had cable service in his name, had not paid the cable bill in several months. We discovered this because a guy from the cable company came out to the house, and disconnected the satellite dish.
So, our internet service was still on, and our tv was off. Go outside, look at the connection on the satellite grounding block.. it's got a block thing on it, with an attached "Please contact Comcast to restore service" tag.
We called Comcast, explained to them that they'd best be out there within approximately 15 minutes to restore the satellite connection they disconnected. When that failed, we also contacted DirecTV.. DTV was VERY pissed off, and spent quite a while getting all the details from us.. and they also suggested we contact the FCC.. which we did. We did get COmcast out there about 3 hours after all this was done.
I keep telling my tech support lines (since if we want to reset the system, we have to call them so they can give us the password of the day) that rebooting the computer may get me running, but it obviously doesn't actually SOLVE the problem..
on my server, if i run several of the same report (for different date ranges, for example) back to back, then after i think 12 of them, the server just plain refuses to generate any more of that type of report. i called and wanted to report this, and they wouldn't report it as a bug, they'd just give me the reset password.
Resetting a system puts you into a state where "everything should work". And that's all they want to do. They don't give one shit about actually fixing the problem.
I haven't seen any cars post-1971 that were subject to this issue. Had a guy tell my brother that his 1984 Citation had it for a problem, but it turned out that my brother managed to shoot a rod through the engine, and didn't want to tell anyone.
Hehehe.. I had a complete hard drive failure on one of my cash register computers at work. Called support, said "i've got a terminal with a bad hard drive, can you please send me a new one" he said "did you try to restore the system?" i said "no i didn't try to restore the system, the hard drive's dead, the computer won't even recognize that it has a hard drive plugged into it." he said "please try to restore the computer." i said "ok, fine. send me a restore cd since i can't find ours." next day, i get a restore cd in the mail. The restore cd craps out with the error "Fixed Disk Not Present". I call back to support, explain this, guy says "alright, give me the serial number, Dell will have someone out within 24 hours to replace the hard drive and/or the entire unit."
Sweet.
It's now been a week, and we still can't get Dell's tech people out here. Fucking Michael Dell can EAT MY BALLS.
Wow, someone posted an exact duplicate article, and after scanning all 500 responses, it appears that not ONE other comment mentions that this exact same story was posted yesterday!
a bbs a long time ago, one machine.. but lots of roots.. (had tons and tons of users)
just had personal UID0 accounts for each person holding root. That way if you have to remove someone's root access, you just rmuser on them, and it's done.
their convention was to use each person's first initial of either their first or last name + (oot).. so they had root, zoot, woot, loot, toot, etc...
Wow, the moron that wrote THAT rebuttal, obviously can "hear but not listen", because although he responds perfectly to every word that is said, he doesn't actually respond to the complaint in one bit!
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I disagree with you disagreeing completely. I have never read any documentation or books or anything on networking, and have built several OS/2 and Windows networks (some homogenuous, some with both) that shared everything perfectly, because it was all relatively easy to figure out what to do.
I've also built Linux networks, as well. But, I've never gotten samba to work to share with windows and os/2. I've tried, but i'm not even going into the freakin manuals. I'll just FTP transfer all the files, because it's a hell of a lot easier than finding the documentation that everyone says is worse than none, for samba.
Yes, I've read lots of other manuals.. but if a task can be done in Windows, OS/2, and several other OS's, without knowing anything about that task beforehand, in under ten minutes.. why does it take weeks for people to figure it out in Linux?
Actually, I'm quite glad this was brought up. Yesterday, I was talking with several clueless computer users on a chat channel, and wanted to show them that they can in fact, live a virus-free life.
I wanted to suggest that they go check out Knoppix. Just to try it out.
Unfortunatly, I found that all of the websites that i could find that have to do with Knoppix are either (a) complete garbage, or (b) geared towards people who already know what, why, and how.
Knoppix could be used quite readily to show people what they are missing out on. Anyone know of any sites that explain to COMPLETE NEWBIES what, why, and how? ie, Knoppix for Dummies!
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Sure, but those will also mark virtually every legitimate email as spam, as WELL. Yeah, you can have 95% accuracy... but then you have to go through your hundreds of messages marked spam just to find your real email!
(example, after two weeks of using spam-assassin, it decided that every e-mail sent to me was spam.. i no longer received anything in my Inbox, everything was transferred to the Spambox. It took me another two weeks tweaking spam-assassin's kill rate down to about a 50% accuracy, and now i actually receive all my emails.)
Basically, all I need is a web browser that functions, an email client, instant messengers, and chat programs. That's all I really do with my computer. (and some music playing)
One reason to stay on Linux, is that I can't seem to get Windows to support my computer's SCSI controller.
One reason to get rid of Linux, would be because it's virtually freaking impossible to get all of this working in Mozilla AND Opera for Linux, all at once: Java, Multimedia Plugins, Flash/Shockwave. And then KEEP it all working, as you upgrade versions of Mozilla/Opera.
On my roommate's Windows computer, I can stay up-to-date on web browsers, without having to re-install all my plugins, or risk breaking them badly. Mozilla/Opera do not lock up regularly under the Windows platform. (IE, however, is a supreme piece of garbage)
I could play games if I were using Windows. I might care about that if I had hardware that was actually capable of PLAYING the latest games.. but the fastest puter in the house is a 1.1GHz and doesn't have 3Dhardware worth talking about. My machine is a 600MHz P3 with a Radeon 7000 PCI. Not exactly a power house. It plays Quake 3 ok, but that's about the extent of it's power. (Return to CW didn't run at all on it, and barely ran on the 1.1GHz machine)
Of course, my router computer uses Linux. And before it used Linux, it used OS/2. And it did the exact same things that it did with OS/2 that it does with Linux.. except on Linux, it can be booted from floppy, and run without the hard drive (without the additional services i have it running, such as email/web/database). No compelling reason to keep it with Linux, except that there's no compelling reason to go back to OS/2, and Windows just plain wouldn't cut it.
Well, I figure that BeOS has a somewhat Unix-like kernel, and was really not so much of a Unix-like operating system. My thought was that it actually took all the bad things about Unix, and combined them with all the bad things from other operating systems. (i've never spent more than a day figuring out the basics of an operating system only to get frustrated and give up.. except with Be.)
So, why couldn't the kernel be mated to a completely different set of software?
GNU already runs on virtually all versions of DOS/Windows...
Just because you have a Unixish kernel does not mean you have to have a Unixish operating system.
Surprisingly, not everything in the world has to be Unix!
Is supposed to be the original Windows copy/cut/paste buttons:
Copy: Ctrl-Insert
Paste: Shift-Insert
(I can't remember what Cut is, I never use it.. probably ctrl-delete)
Then, sometime in the Win95 or Win98 era, Microsoft changed it to the less-intuitive and less-standard Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
And Microsoft was a member of the body of people/organizations that made Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert the standard.. then went and trashed it...
This is the CUA92 user interface universal standard, by the way.. and i'm a bit busy right now to do a google search for it, but I'm sure anyone interested could find it..
that's about how long it would take any average geek that doesn't know everything about wine to install it, anyway.
Well, not that I've spent anything more than trying to install the rpm's and deb's in the last couple years.. but every time i do get a bug to try to install a functioning WINE, I end up getting out the latest RedHat or Debian discs.
Working in the largest Arabic city in the world outside of the Middle East (Dearborn, MI).. I can tell you.. that a large quantity of them just don't follow the old prayer rules.
Just like the Christian religions are selectively followed, so are the other faiths. (I have a Muslim employee who refused to drink water to help cure his hangover during Ramadan... lol)
Right.. and the next thing we know, you'll be trying to tell us that engineers are not the Supreme Nerds.
...trusting in God's One and Only Son...
Newsflash: Jesus passed on almost a couple thousand years ago.
Don't forget to believe in YOURSELF.
And, with the luck of the world, he was probably a "paranoid high" kinda guy. I dunno how many people you hang with that smoke pot (most all of my friends do regularly, i only partake once or twice a year).. but a lot of people just get insanely paranoid when they are high on pot... they are fun, especially to the rest of us that are just a little high and not paranoid, or who are stone cold sober. (those who get the munchies when high tend to completely ignore the funny things the paranoid high people do, because they are too busy with their scooby snacks)
where on earth is there a best buy but not a radioshack? hmm..
Well, last car I bought was $16,000, payment on the car was $240. Insurance payment was $400.
Don't you guys ever go to RadioShack?
Sure, Best Buy sells hardware cheap as shit, and RadioShack ain't the cheapest place in the world, but it's a hell of a lot more of a fair price on accessories and cables than the big box stores...
Ahh.. we use cable for internet, and satellite for TV. One day, we discovered that the roommate who had cable service in his name, had not paid the cable bill in several months. We discovered this because a guy from the cable company came out to the house, and disconnected the satellite dish.
So, our internet service was still on, and our tv was off. Go outside, look at the connection on the satellite grounding block.. it's got a block thing on it, with an attached "Please contact Comcast to restore service" tag.
We called Comcast, explained to them that they'd best be out there within approximately 15 minutes to restore the satellite connection they disconnected. When that failed, we also contacted DirecTV.. DTV was VERY pissed off, and spent quite a while getting all the details from us.. and they also suggested we contact the FCC.. which we did. We did get COmcast out there about 3 hours after all this was done.
I keep telling my tech support lines (since if we want to reset the system, we have to call them so they can give us the password of the day) that rebooting the computer may get me running, but it obviously doesn't actually SOLVE the problem..
on my server, if i run several of the same report (for different date ranges, for example) back to back, then after i think 12 of them, the server just plain refuses to generate any more of that type of report. i called and wanted to report this, and they wouldn't report it as a bug, they'd just give me the reset password.
Resetting a system puts you into a state where "everything should work". And that's all they want to do. They don't give one shit about actually fixing the problem.
I haven't seen any cars post-1971 that were subject to this issue. Had a guy tell my brother that his 1984 Citation had it for a problem, but it turned out that my brother managed to shoot a rod through the engine, and didn't want to tell anyone.
Hehehe.. I had a complete hard drive failure on one of my cash register computers at work. Called support, said "i've got a terminal with a bad hard drive, can you please send me a new one" he said "did you try to restore the system?" i said "no i didn't try to restore the system, the hard drive's dead, the computer won't even recognize that it has a hard drive plugged into it." he said "please try to restore the computer." i said "ok, fine. send me a restore cd since i can't find ours." next day, i get a restore cd in the mail. The restore cd craps out with the error "Fixed Disk Not Present". I call back to support, explain this, guy says "alright, give me the serial number, Dell will have someone out within 24 hours to replace the hard drive and/or the entire unit."
Sweet.
It's now been a week, and we still can't get Dell's tech people out here. Fucking Michael Dell can EAT MY BALLS.
Try this one:
$200-$400 a month for car payments (what on earth do you buy that nets you with a $500+ payment??!) , and then double that for insurance!
I wrote Drug addictions into the MUD that I had over ten years ago. This is neither news, nor anything that matters.
This is not a flamebait post, either. I'm just stating the truth. No one gives a fuck.
Wow, someone posted an exact duplicate article, and after scanning all 500 responses, it appears that not ONE other comment mentions that this exact same story was posted yesterday!
a bbs a long time ago, one machine.. but lots of roots.. (had tons and tons of users)
just had personal UID0 accounts for each person holding root. That way if you have to remove someone's root access, you just rmuser on them, and it's done.
their convention was to use each person's first initial of either their first or last name + (oot).. so they had root, zoot, woot, loot, toot, etc...
Wow, the moron that wrote THAT rebuttal, obviously can "hear but not listen", because although he responds perfectly to every word that is said, he doesn't actually respond to the complaint in one bit!
Note to self/all:
WINE cannot run the Windows Installer.