Yep. Back when I had AOL and a 14.4 dialup connection, I used Encarta. Now, I have broadband. The internet is no longer a pain to use, taking forever to load anything, and thus find the information you are looking for. Now the internet is convenient, so people have no use for encyclopaedias. Not to mention the additional bonus of being able to search the text electronically.
Uh, NOTHING is too strict, IMHO. I would put the limit at 0.03 or so. If you have been drinking, you have no business on the road. Don't try to justify it with "I only had one beer" or shit like that.
Thats how I feel.I just put together a dual Athlon 2600+ system with a Radeon 9700 pro. My next upgrade will be to a (hopefully dual) Athlon 64 system, but it won't be for at least a year or two. My 9700 pro and dual 2600s should play most any game that I can buy for the next two years. Hell, my Pentium III 450 with a Rage 128 ran Quake III quite playably. It was at 800x600 with minimum detail, but it was playable.
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Or you are stuck behind some idiot going 35...
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What happened to the other half of my post?!?! Grr, guess I have to type it again.
Whats the point of drag racing a VIPER? Its a track car. Meant for road courses. Not drag racing. Straight line speed is about as useless in determining a car's overall performance as autocross. You want a real test of performace? Go to a track. And make sure it has more than just left turns.
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You're not one of those people that puts a coffee can on your exhaust pipe and bolts an aluminum bookshelf to your trunk, are you?
IIRC, many of the moz- things are CSS3 properties. Since CSS3 has not been finalized, though, they are just using moz- for them. IE has some much weirder stuff though. Some "filter" thing that I haven't looked much into.
Windows has a slicker presentation and more gee-whiz factor, but Linux is more stable, more secure, fast enough in all respects for my purposes, and excluding some oneshot self-retraining costs, it is overall less expensive to operate.
Heh, partially true. I would say that Linux has just as much gee-whiz factor as Windows, if not more. Just look at some screenshots of people that have spent a few months messing with Windowmaker and Enlightenment and stuff just to make a slick screenshot. The difference is, in Linux, you can have just as much gee-wiz as you want, or just as much speed and stability as you want. Personally, I use a very clean and simple fvwm2 setup.
Congrats on starting on the road to switching. I was dual booting the family computer for over a year, before I finally got my own computer. I took the opportunity to switch totally, by just simply never "getting around to" installing Windows on my new computer. I left room for it, but never had a chance to install it. Then I realized that all I would end up using Windows for is the few games that I actually play that do not run in Linux. I reformatted the big empty fat32 partition as ReiserFS, and haven't looked back. Of course, now I have to incorperate that into my filesystem somewhere other than "/crap-dump."
I do not belive I have seen any of these "Mozilla hacks." Most of the "hacks" I have seen are for things that every browser except IE works properly with, such as the so-called "IE Box Model Hack" that I hear talked about a lot. Can you provide an example of one of these nessicary Mozilla hacks please?
I have found that as long as you code to standards, and test your page a bit in different browsers, you should be able to code up a page that looks the same, or at least acceptable in all browsers. I suggest coding for Mozilla, as it is more standards compliant, then testing for IE, and applying the (very few) IE hacks that are nessicary to get it to look right. You would be suprised at how similarly they work, unless you are doing some very complex CSS.
Or at the VERY least, the ability to CHECK THE OIL REGULARLY, check the TIRE PRESSURE now and then, change their own oil, jump-start a car, and change a flat tire. Those are basic skills that should be required to know to get a liscence.
But really, its not that hard to just recompile it when you add new devices. I do that all the time. If you don't want to reboot, you can just add it as a module when you get the device, and save a few megs of hard drive space. Hell, you could probably make room for another couple oggs by deleting all those unused modules. Just hit m on the new device, then make modules, make modules_install, and depmod -a and you are all set.
I have had two problems with 2.6.2:
My ATI drivers aren't working. When I type in startx, I get a black, black screen. Changing the driver in XF86Config to vesa gets me X, but of course with no 3d acceleration. I did indeed compile the ATI kernel modules that come with the drivers for 2.6.2, so it is not that. I followed the same steps I did for 2.4.21. Are there any differences in getting them working between the two versions?
My virtual consoles are gone. I only have one. Or at least I cannot switch between them. I think I am going to set up serial console support so I can have a console when X gets to that black screen, because ctrl+alt+backspaces isn't killing off X.
Which is why I am considering setting my grandmother up with Linux. She has very few tasks she uses her computer for. These are limited to:
Email
Reading stuff on the internet
Playing Solitaire
Writing her weekly column for her church newsletter, writing letters to friends, etc
With Linux I could set her up with just a big, clean desktop with four giant buttons on it: "EMAIL," "INTERNET," "SOLITAIRE," and "WORD PERFECT." Once she gets into Word Perfect, she has no trouble. She knows more about Word Perfect than anyone I have seen. She has been writing her column for years, first on a typewriter, then she moved to a 286 running DOS 5, and Word Perfect for DOS. THAT was perfect for her. It booted up quickly, and she would type WP (batch file in her path) to run Word Perfect. SOL to play Solitaire, etc. Then she got a Pentium 75 with Windows 95. Now, I have to come over and move the icons back to where she is used to having them whenever "I can't find Word Perfect." Since she only uses the computer for those four things, I can just make it so she can do those four things, and nothing else. Luckily, there is a version of Word Perfect for Linux.
My idea: require everyone that wants to send you an email to put a specific string somewhere in the message. Say, something like 489g67298f&89398h*S*. If an email does not have this string, or is not in your whitelist, send it to the spam folder.
As far as web forums go, don't let them display your email. If someone needs to get in touch with you, they can send you a "private message." Since the admin already has your email address, you can always just tell the forum to send you an email to alert you to new private messages.
Whitelists are great. When you give someone your email address, send them an email asap and get their address and add it to your whitelist.
Filter things into different boxes. Don't just use IN and TRASH boxes. I have a box where all my emails from amazon.com go. They don't clog up my inbox, which is only whitelist addresses, and they don't get junked. It is easy to deal with the one or two fake amazon.com spams I get now and then when they are mixed in with only other amazon.com emails.
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Yep. Back when I had AOL and a 14.4 dialup connection, I used Encarta. Now, I have broadband. The internet is no longer a pain to use, taking forever to load anything, and thus find the information you are looking for. Now the internet is convenient, so people have no use for encyclopaedias. Not to mention the additional bonus of being able to search the text electronically.
Good. Serves him right for drinking and driving. Irresponsible idiot.
Uh, NOTHING is too strict, IMHO. I would put the limit at 0.03 or so. If you have been drinking, you have no business on the road. Don't try to justify it with "I only had one beer" or shit like that.
Hmm, I better try the Gatos drivers then. I was running it with Slackware 8 and the DRI drivers that came with X.
Thats how I feel.I just put together a dual Athlon 2600+ system with a Radeon 9700 pro. My next upgrade will be to a (hopefully dual) Athlon 64 system, but it won't be for at least a year or two. My 9700 pro and dual 2600s should play most any game that I can buy for the next two years. Hell, my Pentium III 450 with a Rage 128 ran Quake III quite playably. It was at 800x600 with minimum detail, but it was playable.
Or you are stuck behind some idiot going 35...
What happened to the other half of my post?!?! Grr, guess I have to type it again.
Whats the point of drag racing a VIPER? Its a track car. Meant for road courses. Not drag racing. Straight line speed is about as useless in determining a car's overall performance as autocross. You want a real test of performace? Go to a track. And make sure it has more than just left turns.
You're not one of those people that puts a coffee can on your exhaust pipe and bolts an aluminum bookshelf to your trunk, are you?
btw, do you know how I can do an alias in DOS? I keep typing ls and getting "BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME"
OH NOES!!!
for(int i = 0; i MAX_LENGTH; i++)
It was only 3.6 volts...
IIRC, many of the moz- things are CSS3 properties. Since CSS3 has not been finalized, though, they are just using moz- for them. IE has some much weirder stuff though. Some "filter" thing that I haven't looked much into.
I can't type on those things. I like my Model M.
also works...
Heh, partially true. I would say that Linux has just as much gee-whiz factor as Windows, if not more. Just look at some screenshots of people that have spent a few months messing with Windowmaker and Enlightenment and stuff just to make a slick screenshot. The difference is, in Linux, you can have just as much gee-wiz as you want, or just as much speed and stability as you want. Personally, I use a very clean and simple fvwm2 setup.
Congrats on starting on the road to switching. I was dual booting the family computer for over a year, before I finally got my own computer. I took the opportunity to switch totally, by just simply never "getting around to" installing Windows on my new computer. I left room for it, but never had a chance to install it. Then I realized that all I would end up using Windows for is the few games that I actually play that do not run in Linux. I reformatted the big empty fat32 partition as ReiserFS, and haven't looked back. Of course, now I have to incorperate that into my filesystem somewhere other than "/crap-dump."
No, Cracker's Delight.
I do not belive I have seen any of these "Mozilla hacks." Most of the "hacks" I have seen are for things that every browser except IE works properly with, such as the so-called "IE Box Model Hack" that I hear talked about a lot. Can you provide an example of one of these nessicary Mozilla hacks please?
I have found that as long as you code to standards, and test your page a bit in different browsers, you should be able to code up a page that looks the same, or at least acceptable in all browsers. I suggest coding for Mozilla, as it is more standards compliant, then testing for IE, and applying the (very few) IE hacks that are nessicary to get it to look right. You would be suprised at how similarly they work, unless you are doing some very complex CSS.
So... who gets foo? Does it go to the owners of foo.com, foo.net, foo.org, or foo.info?
Yeah, Empire Strikes Back was pretty good. Definately better than episode six, which was a hell of a lot better than episode one or two.
Hmm... 66.66666666666667%
Or at the VERY least, the ability to CHECK THE OIL REGULARLY, check the TIRE PRESSURE now and then, change their own oil, jump-start a car, and change a flat tire. Those are basic skills that should be required to know to get a liscence.
AHH!! A Phoenix! A Phoenix!! Ahhhh, its a Phoenix!!!
Firebird Firebird Firebird...
sorry...
Well, I only have 8 in there...
But really, its not that hard to just recompile it when you add new devices. I do that all the time. If you don't want to reboot, you can just add it as a module when you get the device, and save a few megs of hard drive space. Hell, you could probably make room for another couple oggs by deleting all those unused modules. Just hit m on the new device, then make modules, make modules_install, and depmod -a and you are all set.
I have had two problems with 2.6.2:
Which is why I am considering setting my grandmother up with Linux. She has very few tasks she uses her computer for. These are limited to:
With Linux I could set her up with just a big, clean desktop with four giant buttons on it: "EMAIL," "INTERNET," "SOLITAIRE," and "WORD PERFECT." Once she gets into Word Perfect, she has no trouble. She knows more about Word Perfect than anyone I have seen. She has been writing her column for years, first on a typewriter, then she moved to a 286 running DOS 5, and Word Perfect for DOS. THAT was perfect for her. It booted up quickly, and she would type WP (batch file in her path) to run Word Perfect. SOL to play Solitaire, etc. Then she got a Pentium 75 with Windows 95. Now, I have to come over and move the icons back to where she is used to having them whenever "I can't find Word Perfect." Since she only uses the computer for those four things, I can just make it so she can do those four things, and nothing else. Luckily, there is a version of Word Perfect for Linux.
My idea: require everyone that wants to send you an email to put a specific string somewhere in the message. Say, something like 489g67298f&89398h*S*. If an email does not have this string, or is not in your whitelist, send it to the spam folder.
As far as web forums go, don't let them display your email. If someone needs to get in touch with you, they can send you a "private message." Since the admin already has your email address, you can always just tell the forum to send you an email to alert you to new private messages.
Whitelists are great. When you give someone your email address, send them an email asap and get their address and add it to your whitelist.
Filter things into different boxes. Don't just use IN and TRASH boxes. I have a box where all my emails from amazon.com go. They don't clog up my inbox, which is only whitelist addresses, and they don't get junked. It is easy to deal with the one or two fake amazon.com spams I get now and then when they are mixed in with only other amazon.com emails.