The problem with the Distributions is that they're totally outdated: especially newbies have no use for RedHat 6, SuSe 6.4 or Slackware 5...
What? So, by your same assumption, even if somebody has a pentium 200 with 32mb of ram THEY have no use for Windows 95 because Windows XP is out there?
I know tons of people, myself included, who like the older distros. It's nice to have linux on A CD instead of A DUMP TRUCK FULL OF CDs like this fucking 11 CD Redhat install. True, you get more stuff, but do you really need it if you're just starting out with Linux?
My guess is that anybody who's hard up enough that they check linux out of the library probably doesn't have an Athlon XP; otherwise they'd happily spend twelve bucks at cheapbytes or the thirty at Wal-Mart for a distro. Probably the main group this would be targeted at would be people who go to the library a lot (traditionally lower-class people), who have hand-me-down computers.
Don't knock those old-school distros. They boot up just fine.
With NeoMagic's 3D chipset for handhelds and XScale on the horizon, how long is it going to be until we're playing Quake III: Arena on the train into work?"
Is this not fucking good enough? I'm tired of people saying, This is cool, but it'd be *REALLY* cool if a:we made a fucking cluster of them, b:you could store mp3's on it, or b: we could get an even more impressive program to run on it.
Goddammit. When you've played THIS game enough to wear out any possible replay value, spend that hour on the train to and fro (which i assume is the time that you're wasting with this) porting it yourself. You probably shouldn't be running bullshit like this on the handheld that your company possibly gave you so graciously.
He also said that he was selling them to Japan, so it soulds like he knows what he is doing.
Because anybody who can sell a product to a country that sells 14 year old girls' used panties, shrinkwrapped, out of vending machines definitely has their shit together.
Oh God. Another "DIGITAL DJ" plastic toy/flashy app. IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
I'm a drum and bass dj, and I actually started out by mixing digital music. How did I do it? Two copies of Winamp, panned hard left and right, a little plugin called Pitchfork, and a five dollar Radio Shack mixer from a flea market. I learned the basics of beatmatching and mixing whilst I was broke.
What's the difference? It was hard as shit. It sounded horrible when I fucked up. It was not automatic beatmatching. I had no tactile feedback.
Fast forward two years. Got myself twenty records to start spinning when I got a real job. Hopped on a friend's tables. Within two weeks, i had ten-year veterans of the local house and jungle scene pushing me up against the wall, yelling "You have had to be spinning for a year to mix like that!"
I learned the basics with a FREE, difficult interface. Now i've got a crate full of records, a booking every weekend, and I have fun. Crutches like this only hinder it and propagate the notion that a:dj'ing is easy and everybody can sound good, so everybody should be a dj, and b: only shitty club CD DJ's exist. Not that CD DJ'ing is totally worthless, but it's not the same art.
Point 1: If @whatever requires people to have a business class account to VPN, and they need VPN for work, then their work will pay for it if there is a true need.
Point 2: I believe there was a story about cable companies letting various spooks spy on connections lately.
Point 3: Business traffic is not interesting to spooks.
Point 4: In the eyes of the spooks, there is a good chance that people who a:run VPN's over a cable link and b:aren't doing work-related material might be doing unsavory things, like conpsiring to blow up a building.
Conclusion: This very well may be a veiled attempt to weed out any possible "TERRORISM" communications on the network.
Yes, yes, i know that all the geeks are paranoid and want eleventy-billion-bit encryption on every byte they send or receive, and i'll get flamed for this, whatever. Just playing devil's advocate and conspiracy theorist.:)
Well if you have a really customized OS you can just toss it on the iPod and take it to any Mac and be right at home.
*any* Mac? I've got two macs, and i've tried to move the HD from one to another. Saw that fucker crash and BURN! But that's just my experience. It may work better on newer ones.
Especially useful for those at college who hate how some Mac labs may be locked down with software. Again, just plug in and boot your own setup.
Shhhhhhh...you're going to get the FBI to label iPods as terrorism devices!
Yup! Map a drive letter to your friend's install over the LAN and you're done! A friend of a friend of this girl's boyfriend's uncle's brother's son's roommate installed Illustrator this way.:)
500 million messages / 9 million customers - 55.5 messages per year per customer on average.
Just over one message per week. Is it that much of a pain, once a week, to spend two minutes typing out an SMS instead of 45 seconds hunting and pecking on an array of Tic-Tacs glued onto a Gameboy Advance? Then comes the ridiculousness factor of talking into what seems to be a portable gaming system in a quasi-offensive "Extreme" primary color.
He's come across the one stumbling block that I have when switching back and forth from the 2000/Mac/Linux platforms in my home lab. What *ARE* the commands? He's looking for a master list of all those hundereds and thousands of commands so he can poke through and see if anything fits his needs. I know that i would absolutely *ADORE* something like this. Sure, *nix can do anything you damn well please, but to a casual Redhat user, you may start out knowing what you want to do but not how to do it.
I know that in the past, i've known exactly what I want to do (for example, start a new service and open an ipchains port for it from only a certain IP), but what would i look at to fix this?
Just a one command per line index would be wonderful.
I purchased a standard AdultCheck account once. Not the gold one, mind you. It's a fucking scam. I actually did an objective test, and out of 50 sites, 50 of them were teaser sites that gave you three pictures and THEN, oh wait! do you want the real porn in the VIP section? just buy the ADULTCHECK GOLD! I swear to god, it was so ridiculous. Very underhanded. I demanded my money back and got it. Of course, that was when i cared about porn.
I'm getting kinda tired of all the AOL bashing. You know who uses AOL? Clueless users who want to e-mail pictures of their kids to Granny and 13 year olds in chat rooms. They've made the software easy to use on purpose. I work tech support for a medium-sized ISP, and we've gotten a few users from AOL. And they were idiots. But ya know what? If they want to use a garbage front-end to a content controlled ISP, they have the right to choose that, or choose any other ISP if they so desire. Eighty percent of our customers think of computers as televisions with typewriters attached. When you or I want dialup, all we want are a fucking phone number, login, password and maybe DNS. These average Americans want to see a nicely integrated, easy to understand front-end. They want to see the AOL logo everywhere because it gives them confidence that they are connected through a famous major ISP. AOL versus *real* ISP is like apple pie versus tiramisu- AOL's American as shit, but tiramisu's better in many people's eyes. But 80 percent of people don't wanna try it because it's different and strange. They want the security that AOL *APPEARS* to provide. No pity for AOL users, and no love for AOL haters.
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Maybe they could upgrade to a Pentium and convinced Lance Armstrong to give it a try...
Yeah! I'm sure that Lance Armstrong has the balls to do this!
The problem with the Distributions is that they're totally outdated: especially newbies have no use for RedHat 6, SuSe 6.4 or Slackware 5...
What? So, by your same assumption, even if somebody has a pentium 200 with 32mb of ram THEY have no use for Windows 95 because Windows XP is out there?
I know tons of people, myself included, who like the older distros. It's nice to have linux on A CD instead of A DUMP TRUCK FULL OF CDs like this fucking 11 CD Redhat install. True, you get more stuff, but do you really need it if you're just starting out with Linux?
My guess is that anybody who's hard up enough that they check linux out of the library probably doesn't have an Athlon XP; otherwise they'd happily spend twelve bucks at cheapbytes or the thirty at Wal-Mart for a distro. Probably the main group this would be targeted at would be people who go to the library a lot (traditionally lower-class people), who have hand-me-down computers.
Don't knock those old-school distros. They boot up just fine.
With NeoMagic's 3D chipset for handhelds and XScale on the horizon, how long is it going to be until we're playing Quake III: Arena on the train into work?"
Is this not fucking good enough? I'm tired of people saying, This is cool, but it'd be *REALLY* cool if a:we made a fucking cluster of them, b:you could store mp3's on it, or b: we could get an even more impressive program to run on it.
Goddammit. When you've played THIS game enough to wear out any possible replay value, spend that hour on the train to and fro (which i assume is the time that you're wasting with this) porting it yourself. You probably shouldn't be running bullshit like this on the handheld that your company possibly gave you so graciously.
He also said that he was selling them to Japan, so it soulds like he knows what he is doing.
Because anybody who can sell a product to a country that sells 14 year old girls' used panties, shrinkwrapped, out of vending machines definitely has their shit together.
Oh God. Another "DIGITAL DJ" plastic toy/flashy app. IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
:)
I'm a drum and bass dj, and I actually started out by mixing digital music. How did I do it? Two copies of Winamp, panned hard left and right, a little plugin called Pitchfork, and a five dollar Radio Shack mixer from a flea market. I learned the basics of beatmatching and mixing whilst I was broke.
What's the difference? It was hard as shit. It sounded horrible when I fucked up. It was not automatic beatmatching. I had no tactile feedback.
Fast forward two years. Got myself twenty records to start spinning when I got a real job. Hopped on a friend's tables. Within two weeks, i had ten-year veterans of the local house and jungle scene pushing me up against the wall, yelling "You have had to be spinning for a year to mix like that!"
I learned the basics with a FREE, difficult interface. Now i've got a crate full of records, a booking every weekend, and I have fun. Crutches like this only hinder it and propagate the notion that a:dj'ing is easy and everybody can sound good, so everybody should be a dj, and b: only shitty club CD DJ's exist. Not that CD DJ'ing is totally worthless, but it's not the same art.
/me hugs his vinyl.
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Point 1: If @whatever requires people to have a business class account to VPN, and they need VPN for work, then their work will pay for it if there is a true need.
:)
Point 2: I believe there was a story about cable companies letting various spooks spy on connections lately.
Point 3: Business traffic is not interesting to spooks.
Point 4: In the eyes of the spooks, there is a good chance that people who a:run VPN's over a cable link and b:aren't doing work-related material might be doing unsavory things, like conpsiring to blow up a building.
Conclusion: This very well may be a veiled attempt to weed out any possible "TERRORISM" communications on the network.
Yes, yes, i know that all the geeks are paranoid and want eleventy-billion-bit encryption on every byte they send or receive, and i'll get flamed for this, whatever. Just playing devil's advocate and conspiracy theorist.
Well if you have a really customized OS you can just toss it on the iPod and take it to any Mac and be right at home.
*any* Mac? I've got two macs, and i've tried to move the HD from one to another. Saw that fucker crash and BURN! But that's just my experience. It may work better on newer ones.
Especially useful for those at college who hate how some Mac labs may be locked down with software. Again, just plug in and boot your own setup.
Shhhhhhh...you're going to get the FBI to label iPods as terrorism devices!
Self-booting storage device == circumvention of security policies == hacking tool == terrorist weapon!
Yup! Map a drive letter to your friend's install over the LAN and you're done! A friend of a friend of this girl's boyfriend's uncle's brother's son's roommate installed Illustrator this way. :)
Quite silly, I might say! And derivative! And redundant! And incorrect!
Holy shit. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Good work!
Read the book "Hackers" for a good run down of this stuff. Well up to the early 80's at least.
And for the story from then on, see the movie, "Hackers".
Special Delivery! Fill an envelope with paint and mail it to your enemy. If they happen to inhale the paint, GOTCHA!
Jonny's Super-Duper Al-Qaeda Paintball Technique: Fill a 747 with paint and fly it into your enemy's base.
Just a couple off the top of my head.
Guess Taco won't be able to lust after a Beowulf cluster of 48's any more. :(
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
STUPID!
Spread cheeks, remove head. Stop desecrating the holy FRIST POST with your semi-intelligent drivel. Make it totally stupid, and i'll buy you a beer.
I misread the original post. You're right. I apologize.
500 million messages / 9 million customers - 55.5 messages per year per customer on average.
Just over one message per week. Is it that much of a pain, once a week, to spend two minutes typing out an SMS instead of 45 seconds hunting and pecking on an array of Tic-Tacs glued onto a Gameboy Advance? Then comes the ridiculousness factor of talking into what seems to be a portable gaming system in a quasi-offensive "Extreme" primary color.
Sigh. These things are silly.
He's come across the one stumbling block that I have when switching back and forth from the 2000/Mac/Linux platforms in my home lab. What *ARE* the commands? He's looking for a master list of all those hundereds and thousands of commands so he can poke through and see if anything fits his needs. I know that i would absolutely *ADORE* something like this. Sure, *nix can do anything you damn well please, but to a casual Redhat user, you may start out knowing what you want to do but not how to do it.
I know that in the past, i've known exactly what I want to do (for example, start a new service and open an ipchains port for it from only a certain IP), but what would i look at to fix this?
Just a one command per line index would be wonderful.
I purchased a standard AdultCheck account once. Not the gold one, mind you. It's a fucking scam. I actually did an objective test, and out of 50 sites, 50 of them were teaser sites that gave you three pictures and THEN, oh wait! do you want the real porn in the VIP section? just buy the ADULTCHECK GOLD! I swear to god, it was so ridiculous. Very underhanded. I demanded my money back and got it. Of course, that was when i cared about porn.
I'm getting kinda tired of all the AOL bashing. You know who uses AOL? Clueless users who want to e-mail pictures of their kids to Granny and 13 year olds in chat rooms. They've made the software easy to use on purpose. I work tech support for a medium-sized ISP, and we've gotten a few users from AOL. And they were idiots. But ya know what? If they want to use a garbage front-end to a content controlled ISP, they have the right to choose that, or choose any other ISP if they so desire. Eighty percent of our customers think of computers as televisions with typewriters attached. When you or I want dialup, all we want are a fucking phone number, login, password and maybe DNS. These average Americans want to see a nicely integrated, easy to understand front-end. They want to see the AOL logo everywhere because it gives them confidence that they are connected through a famous major ISP. AOL versus *real* ISP is like apple pie versus tiramisu- AOL's American as shit, but tiramisu's better in many people's eyes. But 80 percent of people don't wanna try it because it's different and strange. They want the security that AOL *APPEARS* to provide. No pity for AOL users, and no love for AOL haters.