They want less of the money leaving the country and more being spent here in the country. I think it has less to do with protecting "the public" and more about protecting particular interests in the states.
Litigation for this is a flaming waste of time and tax-payer monies! The assistant principal should just blow it off instead she is litigious... that is just so... gay!
Simple... their chain-letters can be forwarded MUCH faster. The average windows computer will then be able to much more quickly communicate with zombie masters. Your system will help to spread virii on a more vast scale in less time throughout p2p network sharing applications.
Users REALLY do not need more than a single core... and MOST do not need the speed they have. Hell I know developers that have MORE than they really need, or even really know how to use... Considering I still have my 200mhz in service... and I am a Systems Administrator by day... Gigolo by night...;-)
Now who out there might need more cores than a gigolo!? hehehe rendering, servers and distributed computing is really what the dual/quad/octal cores are for. All else... well you may want to look at your software for the bottle-neck...
Rule of thumb I have used... stick with Abit motherboards I've had no issues either chipset (nVidia/VIA). For a second choive I go with Gigabyte, third MSI.... I typically do not look at others unless I need a dual-proc or more board.
I've had no major issues with linux on amd based chipsets since the old K6-2 days. The K6 series were less expensive and in that day with linux I could get equal to or better performance over their Win-Tel comparables. Unfortunately the bestbuy managers that were employed as middle managers in many of the "high tech" companies in the mid-late 90's were too sold on catchy names a swag...
Athlon was AMD's major leap forward and the gamers pounced, AMD64 was another layer and smart IT professionals valued the more affordable 64-bit procs... now once again AMD is poised to innovate... (though most manufacturers are still stuck on the OLD pentium buzz word some are throwing AMD procs in their boxes)...
You can also add Systems Administration to the dual monitor usage section previously listed. I would say that I would always prefer 2 smaller monitors as opposed to the single larger monitor. It really is cool to have 2 individual graphical sessions on the same box.... or... I can easily reconfigure the xserver to bring up both monitors sharing 1 session...
I appreciate the versatility and functionality of the dual monitor setup.
2.6 is fine on slackware... 2.4 is more comfortable in a stability sense I think. I've been using the 2.6 vanilla kernel with slack since 2.6.3 or so...
SATA works fine with Slack 11 and 2.6.18... My home box has 2 160G SATA's striped for fast storage. At work I have 1 server that has 4 sata drives in a raid 5 configuration. My ex-employer foolishly did not know what they had in their IT department when I rolled out Enterprise desktops running Slackware. (Hell I heard Ford is doing the same)
My current employer knows exactly what they have in IT and provides me with plenty of breathing room.;-)
>> What does Slackware offer the newbie Linux user that something like Ubuntu doesn't? * My first question would be what is the purpose? Is this new user running it as a replacement OS on a home computer as a hobbie? Or is this person actually attempting to add Linux usage and administration to their skill set for employment!? Slackware is great for both, though more appropriate for the person that wants to add Linux to his/her professional skill set.
Ma & Pa will probably gravitate toward M$ Vi$ta... Crack away black hats... crack away...
>> What selling points does Slackware have for the interested & experienced Linux geek? We'll... from my experiences thus far it seems that Slackware admin tend to make better enterprise admin than say... redhat or mandrake admin. I am not pissing on either company though both distros are basically redhat. The fact that Slackware is more open and versatile when it comes to package management and simplistic yet advanced scripting, tends to provide a more vanilla base with which to continue to grow your skill set.
In truth, I do not recommend Slackware to friends and family unless they show a true affinity toward learning. Why do I want more gumbas like me in the mix f#cking up my favorite distro!?;-) Seriously though, when people ask me I do not allow my preferences to get in the way. I ask them what they are attempting to accomplish and what their skill level is and how much they want to learn or not.
>> Just curious, not trolling. * No worries, slackers, slacking through the void exuding slackitude are less likely to flame a new user than other "Distro-Gods"... in my most humble experience anyway...
I find it funny that residential providers have no problem allowing p2p file sharing of materials as long as their customers are using dynamic ips... yet those of us who would like to use the internet productively and have a mail/web/whatever server at home have to pay out the arse our use a dynamic dns provider...
I do not and will not use a provider that degrades my service between me and a competitor. This is foolish... Understandably businesses need to protect themselves and so too should individuals. In fact I find it appropriate for the ISP to 'require' their new broadband customer to have a router/firewall and boohoo if they have to support it... pay your techs more and get better techs... train them! This is bare minimum to assist with the majority of the major issues regarding the internet traffic created by users of broadband internet service. The major issues that prompt involvement of bureaucrats.
And who's bright f'n idea was it to involve the government in the internet after they let it go!? Eh?
Well one can only hope that when the bacteria are released into the wild and are then mutated into some super virus (which was totally unexpected), we may have the saving grace of the virii BSOD.
Seriously though... interesting stuff... let's hope the evil people (choose your people) don't do something *evil* (or stupid) with it...;-)
Assumption of innocence died quite some time ago. You are guilty the moment you are written up. It is your word as a layman or potential criminal against an "Officer of the Law". You are merely capital (cattle) in the form of fines for the general fund. The law of the land (the constitution) is for the most part chopped and diced to fit whatever the current agenda may be.
Damn judges... I hate when they get in the way of Executive or Legislative posturing.
Oh I don't know... I run it on my desktop... oh... and I run it on my users desktops at work too...
Openoffice and Koffice are quite sufficient for MS Office replacements. Firefox makes a fantastic replacement for IE and Thunderbird for Outlook. I could easily go on.
The issues you have mentioned... some of them worthwhile, are still somewhat minimal. Build a good image, specify / build all the boxes the same... it's cake after that...
I would personally attribute it to less "wow" factor. For awhile there we had some real innovation. Sure video manufacturers always innovate, however the leaps and bounds are less pronounced. Now it seems as if it's merely window dressing.
Can we make images look even better than a digital display? Sure.... and then?
Can we keep piling on memory and shrinking the proc components? Sure.... and how long till we reach our limit?
2 slots for video? For speed!? Only if it runs at least 2 heads.... That is the only reason I would take up 2 slots for video. uh... one will suffice thanks.
Just give me a simple 64-128MB AGP card I can use in X.
Which is more than evident with a cursory look at kernel.org or reading through the changelog. I have to admit that the headline drew me in. I could not believe it.
To me a comment of that nature was probably uttered from Linus himself first. Or, it was a friendly dig to an old time friend.
I think this has been blown way out of proportion.
Wait! I thought when the bubble burst all of the dead weight was lost!? I guess that was not the case with management...
As a Net/SysAdmin that has pulled some of the long hours, I feel for the developers.... no matter what "industry".
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I don't know it looks nice and clean to me... it is a little painful with the white text.... but overall the gold/tan/bronze is a nice color.
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Wow... I would much rather see less emphasis placed on weeding out paper-MCSE's and more toward weeding out folks who have NEVER used a computer. OR that do not want to know more than they 'have' to.
I have worked in several software companies that hired people merely for common religious beliefs or because they had a degree in hand. This could be for physical therapy, perfect candidate for network administration.
The majority of the 'tests' I have taken for jobs are a joke anyway.
Personality tests... anyone with half a brain can skew these. IQ tests... ok these take a little more than half a brain... not much though. Troubleshooting tests... aren't these subjective? It seems this would be up to interpretation by the test giver/checker... thus not really unbiased.
BTW, I am not an MCSE. I view certifications as merely a secondary income for corporations such as Microsoft/Cisco. Woohoo you can memorize shitake, but when the receptionist can't print to the network printer.... better replace the mouse and keyboard cause there could be an IRQ conflict!
yeesh.... let's drop the certs already.
Mod me down for being an antagonist, mark me as freak/foe because I don't believe in your certification that you shelled out hard earned cash for when a little knob polishing could have gotten you further (and may have). *-4 Flamebait/Troll*
My time posting online is such a small part of my overall life. How about yours?
Shocking is right! It's too bad that our judicial branch is not as suited to puting our executive branch in check as they should be. Equally disconcerting is the fact that our legislative branch willingly handed over the military to our sabre rattling "commander in chief".
Found recently was a site dedicated to debunking the MYTH that the CPD is a non-partisan service for the people.
You are correct it does seem like he is more concerned with winning. This is understandable, this is how we are taught to be. Everything in our society is based on competition and only recently it seems we've found a few things to be cooperative about....ie OpenSource community.
I don't mind that Jehrico thinks I am a "dumb", I merely wish to inform. If you decide the Libertarian ideals are worth supporting, it is your decision. And THAT is the whole point.
Ahhh but ASU students and faculty are working on the debate setup. The debate is held on-campus in the Gammage auditorium, which was built with public money.
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They want less of the money leaving the country and more being spent here in the country. I think it has less to do with protecting "the public" and more about protecting particular interests in the states.
Unfortunately it didn't work. How do I know!? No mention of contact from the future in ANY of the history books! It MUST be a conspiracy! ;-)
Litigation for this is a flaming waste of time and tax-payer monies! The assistant principal should just blow it off instead she is litigious... that is just so... gay!
For the user!?
;-)
Simple... their chain-letters can be forwarded MUCH faster. The average windows computer will then be able to much more quickly communicate with zombie masters. Your system will help to spread virii on a more vast scale in less time throughout p2p network sharing applications.
Users REALLY do not need more than a single core... and MOST do not need the speed they have. Hell I know developers that have MORE than they really need, or even really know how to use... Considering I still have my 200mhz in service... and I am a Systems Administrator by day... Gigolo by night...
Now who out there might need more cores than a gigolo!? hehehe rendering, servers and distributed computing is really what the dual/quad/octal cores are for. All else... well you may want to look at your software for the bottle-neck...
Rule of thumb I have used... stick with Abit motherboards I've had no issues either chipset (nVidia/VIA). For a second choive I go with Gigabyte, third MSI.... I typically do not look at others unless I need a dual-proc or more board.
I've had no major issues with linux on amd based chipsets since the old K6-2 days. The K6 series were less expensive and in that day with linux I could get equal to or better performance over their Win-Tel comparables. Unfortunately the bestbuy managers that were employed as middle managers in many of the "high tech" companies in the mid-late 90's were too sold on catchy names a swag...
Athlon was AMD's major leap forward and the gamers pounced, AMD64 was another layer and smart IT professionals valued the more affordable 64-bit procs... now once again AMD is poised to innovate... (though most manufacturers are still stuck on the OLD pentium buzz word some are throwing AMD procs in their boxes)...
You can also add Systems Administration to the dual monitor usage section previously listed. I would say that I would always prefer 2 smaller monitors as opposed to the single larger monitor. It really is cool to have 2 individual graphical sessions on the same box.... or... I can easily reconfigure the xserver to bring up both monitors sharing 1 session...
I appreciate the versatility and functionality of the dual monitor setup.
2.6 is fine on slackware... 2.4 is more comfortable in a stability sense I think. I've been using the 2.6 vanilla kernel with slack since 2.6.3 or so...
;-)
SATA works fine with Slack 11 and 2.6.18... My home box has 2 160G SATA's striped for fast storage. At work I have 1 server that has 4 sata drives in a raid 5 configuration. My ex-employer foolishly did not know what they had in their IT department when I rolled out Enterprise desktops running Slackware. (Hell I heard Ford is doing the same)
My current employer knows exactly what they have in IT and provides me with plenty of breathing room.
Slackitude... get you some!
>> What does Slackware offer the newbie Linux user that something like Ubuntu doesn't?
;-) Seriously though, when people ask me I do not allow my preferences to get in the way. I ask them what they are attempting to accomplish and what their skill level is and how much they want to learn or not.
* My first question would be what is the purpose? Is this new user running it as a replacement OS on a home computer as a hobbie? Or is this person actually attempting to add Linux usage and administration to their skill set for employment!? Slackware is great for both, though more appropriate for the person that wants to add Linux to his/her professional skill set.
Ma & Pa will probably gravitate toward M$ Vi$ta... Crack away black hats... crack away...
>> What selling points does Slackware have for the interested & experienced Linux geek?
We'll... from my experiences thus far it seems that Slackware admin tend to make better enterprise admin than say... redhat or mandrake admin. I am not pissing on either company though both distros are basically redhat. The fact that Slackware is more open and versatile when it comes to package management and simplistic yet advanced scripting, tends to provide a more vanilla base with which to continue to grow your skill set.
In truth, I do not recommend Slackware to friends and family unless they show a true affinity toward learning. Why do I want more gumbas like me in the mix f#cking up my favorite distro!?
>> Just curious, not trolling.
* No worries, slackers, slacking through the void exuding slackitude are less likely to flame a new user than other "Distro-Gods"... in my most humble experience anyway...
I find it funny that residential providers have no problem allowing p2p file sharing of materials as long as their customers are using dynamic ips... yet those of us who would like to use the internet productively and have a mail/web/whatever server at home have to pay out the arse our use a dynamic dns provider...
I do not and will not use a provider that degrades my service between me and a competitor. This is foolish... Understandably businesses need to protect themselves and so too should individuals. In fact I find it appropriate for the ISP to 'require' their new broadband customer to have a router/firewall and boohoo if they have to support it... pay your techs more and get better techs... train them! This is bare minimum to assist with the majority of the major issues regarding the internet traffic created by users of broadband internet service. The major issues that prompt involvement of bureaucrats.
And who's bright f'n idea was it to involve the government in the internet after they let it go!? Eh?
Well one can only hope that when the bacteria are released into the wild and are then mutated into some super virus (which was totally unexpected), we may have the saving grace of the virii BSOD.
;-)
Seriously though... interesting stuff... let's hope the evil people (choose your people) don't do something *evil* (or stupid) with it...
Assumption of innocence died quite some time ago. You are guilty the moment you are written up. It is your word as a layman or potential criminal against an "Officer of the Law". You are merely capital (cattle) in the form of fines for the general fund. The law of the land (the constitution) is for the most part chopped and diced to fit whatever the current agenda may be.
Damn judges... I hate when they get in the way of Executive or Legislative posturing.
AVG is hardly noticed running in the background. Fantastic protection as well...
I would assume that it is hard to predict the possible brain death in a mouse/rat. Moving that forward to humans.... you go first... ;-)
Reading the blurb up top.... I wonder where will we store all of those who do not wish to die? It could get pretty packed in the next 10-15 years.
I can't wait for the catchy ad slogans... 2 for 2 tuesday... and such.
Oh I don't know... I run it on my desktop... oh... and I run it on my users desktops at work too... Openoffice and Koffice are quite sufficient for MS Office replacements. Firefox makes a fantastic replacement for IE and Thunderbird for Outlook. I could easily go on. The issues you have mentioned... some of them worthwhile, are still somewhat minimal. Build a good image, specify / build all the boxes the same... it's cake after that...
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I would personally attribute it to less "wow" factor. For awhile there we had some real innovation. Sure video manufacturers always innovate, however the leaps and bounds are less pronounced. Now it seems as if it's merely window dressing.
Can we make images look even better than a digital display? Sure.... and then?
Can we keep piling on memory and shrinking the proc components? Sure.... and how long till we reach our limit?
2 slots for video? For speed!? Only if it runs at least 2 heads.... That is the only reason I would take up 2 slots for video. uh... one will suffice thanks.
Just give me a simple 64-128MB AGP card I can use in X.
Which is more than evident with a cursory look at kernel.org or reading through the changelog. I have to admit that the headline drew me in. I could not believe it.
To me a comment of that nature was probably uttered from Linus himself first. Or, it was a friendly dig to an old time friend.
I think this has been blown way out of proportion.
Slackware, you insensitive clod! ;-)
Actually on a serious note, I install (for my mother, family and friends)...
7-zip
gs / gsview
Firefox / Thunderbird
AVG
WinPT
Eraser
OpenOffice
Gimp (depending on the family member or friend)
Gaim
FileZilla
Amaya (only because bluefish is not available on win32 yet)
RealVNC
VIM
irFanview
Azureus (depending on the family member or friend)
Daemon Tools (depending on the family member or friend)
Wait! I thought when the bubble burst all of the dead weight was lost!? I guess that was not the case with management...
As a Net/SysAdmin that has pulled some of the long hours, I feel for the developers.... no matter what "industry".
I don't know it looks nice and clean to me... it is a little painful with the white text.... but overall the gold/tan/bronze is a nice color.
Wow... I would much rather see less emphasis placed on weeding out paper-MCSE's and more toward weeding out folks who have NEVER used a computer. OR that do not want to know more than they 'have' to.
.... better replace the mouse and keyboard cause there could be an IRQ conflict!
I have worked in several software companies that hired people merely for common religious beliefs or because they had a degree in hand. This could be for physical therapy, perfect candidate for network administration.
The majority of the 'tests' I have taken for jobs are a joke anyway.
Personality tests... anyone with half a brain can skew these.
IQ tests... ok these take a little more than half a brain... not much though.
Troubleshooting tests... aren't these subjective? It seems this would be up to interpretation by the test giver/checker... thus not really unbiased.
BTW, I am not an MCSE. I view certifications as merely a secondary income for corporations such as Microsoft/Cisco. Woohoo you can memorize shitake, but when the receptionist can't print to the network printer
yeesh.... let's drop the certs already.
Mod me down for being an antagonist, mark me as freak/foe because I don't believe in your certification that you shelled out hard earned cash for when a little knob polishing could have gotten you further (and may have). *-4 Flamebait/Troll*
My time posting online is such a small part of my overall life. How about yours?
Shocking is right! It's too bad that our judicial branch is not as suited to puting our executive branch in check as they should be. Equally disconcerting is the fact that our legislative branch willingly handed over the military to our sabre rattling "commander in chief".
Found recently was a site dedicated to debunking the MYTH that the CPD is a non-partisan service for the people.
You are correct it does seem like he is more concerned with winning. This is understandable, this is how we are taught to be. Everything in our society is based on competition and only recently it seems we've found a few things to be cooperative about....ie OpenSource community.
I don't mind that Jehrico thinks I am a "dumb", I merely wish to inform. If you decide the Libertarian ideals are worth supporting, it is your decision. And THAT is the whole point.
Thanks,
-james
Ahhh but ASU students and faculty are working on the debate setup. The debate is held on-campus in the Gammage auditorium, which was built with public money.