Let's be honest here, if you were producing a commercial media distribution programme, would you use ROTT or any of it incarnations? This should provide insight to those with similar intrests in mind: The simplier the hack=the dumber you look.
Infact, it's not all that difficult to procure more complex hacks.
s''(insert dollarsign here and remove these parantheses for legal reasons referring to machine parsability...D* the DMCA)/=\2048;while(){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*",_ )[20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb2 5,_;H=73;O=$b[4]>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))> 8^(E&( F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
^S*8^S>=8
)+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}';s/[D-HO- U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval
Their processing abilities are intensive and highly capable, and I haven't had much problem with working with floating point; that really comes down to the compiler of the software that you're using to run floating point calculations. SPARC's are fun for everyone!
This is a group of people trying to save money, and I'm sure their system, extending to unknown clusters of computers, does a good job of consuming energy. Furthermore, as a somewhat amusing joke by SpanishInquisition has pointed out, in some places, like California, the need for energy conservation is quite high, and, I'm sure, watt hours quite expensive.
This isn't meant as a webserver, that would obviously be a fool-hardy need. However, even in areas where power consumption isn't all that important, such as a small business that's only running the inter-office servers for twelve-hours a day, could still find this a useful tool. And, if you noticed, this allows you to decide what is shutdown, ergo, not necessarily shutting down the internet gateway for said small business. This also can restrict departmental use of power or systems...that falls under the stallman definition of tyrant/maniac, but I'm getting over it;-)
I'm willing to bet a sub-porting of NetBSD with a line by line confirmation would work just as well. It seems to defy logic to use gui for anything other than the initial setup. Overall, this looks like a very effective way to manage power systems without investing in extensive and expensive systems. I'm bookmarking this roll-your-own method as a general just-in-case; personally, I'm curious how this will work out in the long run.
This is a common mistake to new linux users, as well as, people doing their first dual-boot with Windows. I've been using Linux since Red Hat 4.0, but when I tried a dual boot on Windows, I got Scandisk-scammed myself twice. That's when I learned the importance of backing up partition tables and making boot disks and recovery disks, even for "toy boxes," if you get my drift.
I've just run scandisk so I can show exactly what you can expect and recognize the "I hate Linux" warning signs. This will appear as a slightly smaller window (dialogue box) over the main window of scandisk.
ScanDisk Found an Error on Local Disk (C:)____[?] [X]
________________________________________________ __ ___
This drive's boot area contains important information that is damaged
or invalid. This can cause Windows to report the drive's free space
incorrectly or slowly. ScanDisk repairs the boot area by recording the
correct values in this area
O Repair this error.
O Ignore this error and continue.
[___OK___] [_CANCEL_]
Click, of course, Ignore, and it'll come up telling you, "Scandisk found errors on this disk, but did not fix all of them," followed by your disks statistics. That is nothing to worry about, because neither LiLo or GRUB are errors;)
Happy computing,
.oO(By Linus, I actually just said that...By Linus, I just said "By Linus!")
Next time you install any distro that dual-boots to windows, you need to make an adjustment to Scandisk. Under "advance", click "Prompt before fixing errors. Then, when it asks if you want to fix an error the master boot record, click NO! If you don't, you will lose your ability to goto Linux.
Worry not, for someone, somewhere, is finding a way to trick Scandisk into allowing the changes created by LiLo or GRUB.
You could search slashdot for an article about "journaling file systems." There was an article, I don't think even two months ago, that discussed which distros have provided, recently provided, and will be providing similar file systems like ReiserFS.
The last development before MS bought that cute toy from Spy Glass was the continuous page recognition ability. As a result, bug or not, the scroll bar causes some script information to misplace. No biggie really, unless you'd prefer to believe it's a MS conspiracy to prevent you from contacting people in the world of Linux...
Progeny is to Debian what Mandrake is to Red Hat. Doesn't make it worse or better, and if you've been updating properly, you should be around 2.4.2 with X 4.2. In my opinion, Debian is the fullfillment of the ideals of the GNU Project, and, quite frankly, pretty darn good one. Furthermore, there ARE several groups developing a graphical install for those who are a little slower on the pick up.
Though, I guess it's hard to answer the question, "What kind of tech support does it have," with, "There are people all around the world with way too much time on their hands willing to help out on USENET and bboards scattered throughout the Linux world."
As I read at an anti-linux site*, PHB's seem to be looking for someone to sue.
*two friends of mine seem to enjoy sending me tidbits from anti-linux sites. that's not as bad as "Microsoft's PenguiNT"...
dricci.com/mspr-pnt1.shtml
First, most distros tend to add a little something to the kernel to help the system work better as whole, not unlike the NSA release 2.2 SE. This is especially noticable when some creates a worm that only effects distros using those specifications, usually with Red Hat and its descendants.
Second, thought Woody does use 2.4, it's not the "officially stable" release of 2.4, and those test implementations combined with the test implementations from Debian for the system as whole does cause the overall distribution of Woody to experience problems, and often with the graphical X-drivers.
Err...not that I know...you didn't hear that from me...I'm a Red Hat man...yeah....
Which is made obvious by your last remark...you could consider reading my minimally comical post that occurs earlier in this series.
Now, you should also know, the only linear structuring of sites are those that work on bboards, not search engines. GOOGLE! actually uses four seperate mathematical sequences before arising at an order for the sites, popular linkage is the only one most people seem to know about. Also taken into consideration is size, the theory that is a sign of comprehensive material, popularily travelled, which comes in two parts, to work out more of a density-of-hits ratio, so as not to make it unfair for newer sites.
Now, I would think, if someone is at a comprehensive sciences site, they're there for a reason, and are probably able to figure out specifically what they're looking for. If not, I'm sure something like the old Altavista (before the buy out) could be made, where someone can see the sites organized in a giant tree and work from there.
As I pointed out, I specifically mention GOOGLE! because I like saying it. There is no need to patronizing or pseudo-prudential.
Though, what I meant was that the site would have rated the quality of the articles, thus, you'd be searching at the site, not at Google, but I do like to say GOOGLE!, so, it works for me.
Imagine if Slashdot had an "I'm feeling lucky" button. Ooh, someone tell Cowboy Neil!
If all the factors are properly accounted for and weighed-out, it should come out fair for everyone, no matter how small or new they are.   After all, a newer company would have fewer blackmarks in its history, and a smaller company would have a better porportional fund allocation than a larger company, assuming they're not attempting to do too much.
I mean, these articles could be rated on quality; and the quality rated on how much research time, grant money and people working on the project, combined with other factors of course, and one can see which one is more valid. It's not a perfect system, but nothing's really perfect. Eventually, people may start working harder on quality to have the "most referred to" paper on a given topic. Actually, most real researches do try for that.
In the meantime, let's just use GOOGLE! I just like to say GOOGLE! It's fun to say. Googledy-googley-goobery-gooberdy...
Remember any discussion you had, and there was a disagreement of the facts? Remember when you were obviously right, and the other person was complete and total moron? Well, if it were possible to easily and cheaply (preferably, freely) access information online to prove your point, at a place that was garrunteed not to be full of "it," you could finally say, "Hey, check out freedoc.sci/physics/subatomic/w-particle.htm, and after you see I'm right, feel free to worship my A*, or fsck off!"
It'll be beneficial to large sums of people who've always been right, but were the only ones in the discussion with the physical proof, and in the online world, referring someone to amazon.com means nothing.
Why, if this kicks-off, we can outlaw idiocy! "Excuse me, sir, but we have reports your an ignorant peice of crap, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to fine you...hmm, oh, your Windows user...I'll have to fine you your life..."
WE CAN COUNTER FUD AND IGNORANCE WITH ONE SINGLE BLOW! HORDES OF CLUELESS MEDIA WILL FINALLY BE FORCED TO CHECK THEIR FACTS AT A SINGLE, VERIFIABLE LOCATION! This will also cause a drop in the number of articles produced by Ziff-Davis, but that's not a loss at all. Then again...it's not like they actually check with Open Bench Labs when the put out some unconfirmable or one-sided test result as absolute "fact." BUT IF WE COULD FINE THEM...
Linus Torvalds Outlaws Cluelessness
PHB on Trial for Mispronouncing Linux
Ziff-Davis Bankrupt
Slashdot Reduces User Overhead to Only 14
I see arguments are right
articles too
I see PHBs, shoved in a zoo
And I think to myself,
"What a Wonderful World."
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
Who meta-meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
Who meta-meta-meta-moderates the meta-meta-moderators?
Who is up for volleyball?
This is practically unrelated, but I'm having fun:
From CNN!
The USENET flaming comes at a task-critical time in U.S.-China relations. Bush, the incompetent dictator, is due to release a patch Real Soon Now(TM) whether to approve a Taiwanese chmod for the United States to multi-task it with advanced development environments and firewalls, as well as, scalable SMP platforms, since Taiwan only has two Linux boxes, both being used to play "Quake" with Chinese friends on Red Flag, made further difficult as they are on kernel 2.2.14. Beijing has warned that the open sourcing of such weapons could loop formation of a runtime pointer error resulting in a cross-straits nuking and DoS attack.
So as not to be marked off topic, I'd like to point out I'm spying on you.
G4 having the power it has and it flexibility...how is it a shakey CPU? Not only would I prefer a G4 to Intel, but AMD as well.
Now Crusoe...that's a processor you can put an egg on...and not cook it!
A point a made in a different article was about how the Linux OS is structured. You have the kernel, then the shell, the the graphic managment, then the virtual machines, then the gui. A well constructed, though more massive shell, could have everything but the kernel, and, if anyone wants to do what MS started doing, shove said shell et ref. into the kernel in a cute little modular format.
A point I feel I should make is that the running the COSE, classic-os-emulator (normally LOSE for Legacy...wonder why that never caught on) is in fact optional, and will become unnecessary within two years as all your favourites, and even the lesser known, will be ported over to Unix-base soon enough. What many of you should be looking forward to is the accessibility you'll have to great progammes that were never before intended for a unix-based environment.
Personally, I like Linux, but I haven't tried OS X, myself, though, I could download an Aqua like GUI and get the general idea of what it's like. What I'm hoping to be released (one day real soon I hope) from Apple is the Classic emulator they use, which, in theory, must be better than Basilisk.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's be honest here, if you were producing a commercial media distribution programme, would you use ROTT or any of it incarnations? This should provide insight to those with similar intrests in mind: The simplier the hack=the dumber you look.
_ )[20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb2 5,_;H=73;O=$b[4]>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))> 8^(E&( F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
^S*8^S>=8
)+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}';s/[D-HO- U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval
Infact, it's not all that difficult to procure more complex hacks.
s''(insert dollarsign here and remove these parantheses for legal reasons referring to machine parsability...D* the DMCA)/=\2048;while(){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*",
Their processing abilities are intensive and highly capable, and I haven't had much problem with working with floating point; that really comes down to the compiler of the software that you're using to run floating point calculations. SPARC's are fun for everyone!
This is a group of people trying to save money, and I'm sure their system, extending to unknown clusters of computers, does a good job of consuming energy. Furthermore, as a somewhat amusing joke by SpanishInquisition has pointed out, in some places, like California, the need for energy conservation is quite high, and, I'm sure, watt hours quite expensive.
This isn't meant as a webserver, that would obviously be a fool-hardy need. However, even in areas where power consumption isn't all that important, such as a small business that's only running the inter-office servers for twelve-hours a day, could still find this a useful tool. And, if you noticed, this allows you to decide what is shutdown, ergo, not necessarily shutting down the internet gateway for said small business. This also can restrict departmental use of power or systems...that falls under the stallman definition of tyrant/maniac, but I'm getting over it;-)
Now go forth and get a life. I have no intention of reading your "Hack Shoeboy" replies throughout this article's posts.
I'm willing to bet a sub-porting of NetBSD with a line by line confirmation would work just as well. It seems to defy logic to use gui for anything other than the initial setup. Overall, this looks like a very effective way to manage power systems without investing in extensive and expensive systems. I'm bookmarking this roll-your-own method as a general just-in-case; personally, I'm curious how this will work out in the long run.
This is a common mistake to new linux users, as well as, people doing their first dual-boot with Windows. I've been using Linux since Red Hat 4.0, but when I tried a dual boot on Windows, I got Scandisk-scammed myself twice. That's when I learned the importance of backing up partition tables and making boot disks and recovery disks, even for "toy boxes," if you get my drift.
_ __ ___
I've just run scandisk so I can show exactly what you can expect and recognize the "I hate Linux" warning signs. This will appear as a slightly smaller window (dialogue box) over the main window of scandisk.
ScanDisk Found an Error on Local Disk (C:)____[?] [X]
_______________________________________________
This drive's boot area contains important information that is damaged
or invalid. This can cause Windows to report the drive's free space
incorrectly or slowly. ScanDisk repairs the boot area by recording the
correct values in this area
O Repair this error.
O Ignore this error and continue.
[___OK___] [_CANCEL_]
Click, of course, Ignore, and it'll come up telling you, "Scandisk found errors on this disk, but did not fix all of them," followed by your disks statistics. That is nothing to worry about, because neither LiLo or GRUB are errors;)
Happy computing,
.oO(By Linus, I actually just said that...By Linus, I just said "By Linus!")
Eric
I'm sure that's redundant.
Reference: Any Ziff-Davis article that made it to Slashdot.
Next time you install any distro that dual-boots to windows, you need to make an adjustment to Scandisk. Under "advance", click "Prompt before fixing errors. Then, when it asks if you want to fix an error the master boot record, click NO! If you don't, you will lose your ability to goto Linux.
Worry not, for someone, somewhere, is finding a way to trick Scandisk into allowing the changes created by LiLo or GRUB.
Stormix is commercial, and Slackware is Phat. Now, that we have that out of the way, who's up for golf?
You could search slashdot for an article about "journaling file systems." There was an article, I don't think even two months ago, that discussed which distros have provided, recently provided, and will be providing similar file systems like ReiserFS.
The last development before MS bought that cute toy from Spy Glass was the continuous page recognition ability. As a result, bug or not, the scroll bar causes some script information to misplace. No biggie really, unless you'd prefer to believe it's a MS conspiracy to prevent you from contacting people in the world of Linux...
Progeny is to Debian what Mandrake is to Red Hat. Doesn't make it worse or better, and if you've been updating properly, you should be around 2.4.2 with X 4.2. In my opinion, Debian is the fullfillment of the ideals of the GNU Project, and, quite frankly, pretty darn good one. Furthermore, there ARE several groups developing a graphical install for those who are a little slower on the pick up.
Though, I guess it's hard to answer the question, "What kind of tech support does it have," with, "There are people all around the world with way too much time on their hands willing to help out on USENET and bboards scattered throughout the Linux world."
As I read at an anti-linux site*, PHB's seem to be looking for someone to sue.
*two friends of mine seem to enjoy sending me tidbits from anti-linux sites. that's not as bad as "Microsoft's PenguiNT"...
dricci.com/mspr-pnt1.shtml
First, most distros tend to add a little something to the kernel to help the system work better as whole, not unlike the NSA release 2.2 SE. This is especially noticable when some creates a worm that only effects distros using those specifications, usually with Red Hat and its descendants.
Second, thought Woody does use 2.4, it's not the "officially stable" release of 2.4, and those test implementations combined with the test implementations from Debian for the system as whole does cause the overall distribution of Woody to experience problems, and often with the graphical X-drivers.
Err...not that I know...you didn't hear that from me...I'm a Red Hat man...yeah....
So...who's up for volleyball!?
Which is made obvious by your last remark...you could consider reading my minimally comical post that occurs earlier in this series.
Now, you should also know, the only linear structuring of sites are those that work on bboards, not search engines. GOOGLE! actually uses four seperate mathematical sequences before arising at an order for the sites, popular linkage is the only one most people seem to know about. Also taken into consideration is size, the theory that is a sign of comprehensive material, popularily travelled, which comes in two parts, to work out more of a density-of-hits ratio, so as not to make it unfair for newer sites.
Now, I would think, if someone is at a comprehensive sciences site, they're there for a reason, and are probably able to figure out specifically what they're looking for. If not, I'm sure something like the old Altavista (before the buy out) could be made, where someone can see the sites organized in a giant tree and work from there.
As I pointed out, I specifically mention GOOGLE! because I like saying it. There is no need to patronizing or pseudo-prudential.
Though, what I meant was that the site would have rated the quality of the articles, thus, you'd be searching at the site, not at Google, but I do like to say GOOGLE!, so, it works for me.
Imagine if Slashdot had an "I'm feeling lucky" button. Ooh, someone tell Cowboy Neil!
combined with other factors of course
If all the factors are properly accounted for and weighed-out, it should come out fair for everyone, no matter how small or new they are.   After all, a newer company would have fewer blackmarks in its history, and a smaller company would have a better porportional fund allocation than a larger company, assuming they're not attempting to do too much.
GOOGLE IT!
I mean, these articles could be rated on quality; and the quality rated on how much research time, grant money and people working on the project, combined with other factors of course, and one can see which one is more valid. It's not a perfect system, but nothing's really perfect. Eventually, people may start working harder on quality to have the "most referred to" paper on a given topic. Actually, most real researches do try for that.
In the meantime, let's just use GOOGLE! I just like to say GOOGLE! It's fun to say. Googledy-googley-goobery-gooberdy...
That could drive someone mad!
Remember any discussion you had, and there was a disagreement of the facts? Remember when you were obviously right, and the other person was complete and total moron? Well, if it were possible to easily and cheaply (preferably, freely) access information online to prove your point, at a place that was garrunteed not to be full of "it," you could finally say, "Hey, check out freedoc.sci/physics/subatomic/w-particle.htm, and after you see I'm right, feel free to worship my A*, or fsck off!"
It'll be beneficial to large sums of people who've always been right, but were the only ones in the discussion with the physical proof, and in the online world, referring someone to amazon.com means nothing.
Why, if this kicks-off, we can outlaw idiocy! "Excuse me, sir, but we have reports your an ignorant peice of crap, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to fine you...hmm, oh, your Windows user...I'll have to fine you your life..."
WE CAN COUNTER FUD AND IGNORANCE WITH ONE SINGLE BLOW! HORDES OF CLUELESS MEDIA WILL FINALLY BE FORCED TO CHECK THEIR FACTS AT A SINGLE, VERIFIABLE LOCATION! This will also cause a drop in the number of articles produced by Ziff-Davis, but that's not a loss at all. Then again...it's not like they actually check with Open Bench Labs when the put out some unconfirmable or one-sided test result as absolute "fact." BUT IF WE COULD FINE THEM...
Linus Torvalds Outlaws Cluelessness
PHB on Trial for Mispronouncing Linux
Ziff-Davis Bankrupt
Slashdot Reduces User Overhead to Only 14
I see arguments are right
articles too
I see PHBs, shoved in a zoo
And I think to myself,
"What a Wonderful World."
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
Who meta-meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
Who meta-meta-meta-moderates the meta-meta-moderators?
Who is up for volleyball?
This is practically unrelated, but I'm having fun:
From CNN!
The USENET flaming comes at a task-critical time in U.S.-China relations. Bush, the incompetent dictator, is due to release a patch Real Soon Now(TM) whether to approve a Taiwanese chmod for the United States to multi-task it with advanced development environments and firewalls, as well as, scalable SMP platforms, since Taiwan only has two Linux boxes, both being used to play "Quake" with Chinese friends on Red Flag, made further difficult as they are on kernel 2.2.14. Beijing has warned that the open sourcing of such weapons could loop formation of a runtime pointer error resulting in a cross-straits nuking and DoS attack.
So as not to be marked off topic, I'd like to point out I'm spying on you.
G4 having the power it has and it flexibility...how is it a shakey CPU? Not only would I prefer a G4 to Intel, but AMD as well.
Now Crusoe...that's a processor you can put an egg on...and not cook it!
We all know my theory...
IT'S ENOCH ROOT!
A point a made in a different article was about how the Linux OS is structured. You have the kernel, then the shell, the the graphic managment, then the virtual machines, then the gui. A well constructed, though more massive shell, could have everything but the kernel, and, if anyone wants to do what MS started doing, shove said shell et ref. into the kernel in a cute little modular format.
A point I feel I should make is that the running the COSE, classic-os-emulator (normally LOSE for Legacy...wonder why that never caught on) is in fact optional, and will become unnecessary within two years as all your favourites, and even the lesser known, will be ported over to Unix-base soon enough. What many of you should be looking forward to is the accessibility you'll have to great progammes that were never before intended for a unix-based environment.
Personally, I like Linux, but I haven't tried OS X, myself, though, I could download an Aqua like GUI and get the general idea of what it's like. What I'm hoping to be released (one day real soon I hope) from Apple is the Classic emulator they use, which, in theory, must be better than Basilisk.
The Q kernel, I'm actually allowed to change how it works and the OS will adapt. You can have everything, just not perfect.
I should have said GNU/Linux, but most of you don't really care, so, I won't get prissy over it.