i built a k6-2 450 out of spare parts a few days ago (192 mb ram/ 4gb scsi 2 harddrive pirated from an old mac/ 32mb tnt 2 ultra)
i wasted a stack of cd's downloading and attempting to install redhat 8 which froze at precisely 13% during the install regardless of what I did (i tried *everything* to make it work, different filesystems/different partitioning schemes/different bootloaders).
i then gave up and made 2 diskettes for a debian install and a couple hours later had a perfectly good working debian install w/ the net install option (a fan of which I had been previously from my extremely positive experiences with OpenBSD), yea the mouse which is a usb trackball -> ps/2 adapter -> 9 pin serial adapter doesn't work and neither does X but at least I have a workable system where RedHat failed miserably for all it's pretty GUI-installer fame
having said that, and being a 7 year *nix veteran, i can say that dselect STILL sucks (as it did when i first tried debian 2.2 on my laptop years ago) but at least most of the library dependency problems seemt o hav ebeen fixed and apt-get is badass (read fuckabunchofrpms)
the first AC bitchy nay-sayer didn't even bother to read the article
here is a quote from the first paragraph:
"I really want Debian to succeed. I want to use it daily, and recommend it to my friends. But I can't do that right now and I think it's important people understand why."
maybe you can get someone to read it for you (illiterate fuckwit)
we change industries, i dunno about you but i've had enough of people's inflated ego problems and the total 3 year void of decent jobs pretty much everywhere
so as for your going back to college comment, yea i am, but i'm not planning on going back in to IT (professionally anyway).. of course it will probably always be a hobby of mine as it is for many others
but i dont' see the tech situation improving at all, i would assume if anything it will continue to get worse as the big companies move their operations overseas where they don't have to pay people anything (quality? what's that?)
oh, and the mental state of the terrorists is not the problem; ti's the mental state of the other passengers and paranoid gov't officials stealing away civil rights liek there is no tomorrow (there isn't right?) that are the real dangers. i'm sure you know that if some psycho in a turban jumped up on a flight today he would be immediately jumped on by however many large male passengers are onboard
in fact this has already happened to several people (including one guy who got stuck with a series of injections by two on-board french doctors) who tried to start shit on flights
phd's flipping burgers need to learn how to remove their tunnel vision and move
and as for the DMCA and other bullshit anti-consumer legislation, bush can't stay in office forever (with his nazi lackies led by ashcroft) can he? (having said that i'm glad al gore isn't around)
i think people need to ask themselves why our open free system of gov't (supposedly) is so limited to being a two party system when there are so many other viable candidates around (check my sig)
I bet you'll start caring once the Thought Police (spelled h-m-l-nd s-c-r-t-, previous example also includes DRM Gov't Approved removal of vowels as per the Free Thought Prevention Act of 2005 -- move along citizen) have your balls in a vice.
yea but who cares for a surf/Word-for-your-dad-type-machine, where an integrated geforce 2 is still a substantial increase from what he currently has and is more than enough to run Diablo
just because it doesn't fit your needs doesn't mean it doesn't meet someone elses, besides many integrated boards come with the ability to disable the on board video as well as add a card if you want,a nd coupled with integrated 10/100 and decent sound they can save you tons of money w/o sacrificing much flexibility if all you are is an end user do you really need to go beyond changing out harddrives and adding some ram later maybe anyway? probably not, my $.02
And not a Civil action? He didn't hurt anyone, He didn't threaten anyone with a gun and rob a liqour store. He didn't make any money or gain anything at all financially for having done this? Why isn't this a civil suit for money instead of a PRISON term for COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?? WTF?
this is the clip from the cybercrime.gov website: "As of July, 2002, 16 defendants have been convicted in the U.S. of felony criminal copyright offenses, including conspiracy to commit those offenses, and nine defendants have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging in length from 30 to 46 months"
and i say again FELONY copyright offenses?? WTF?!?!?
IANALBIATSOO (i am not a lawyer but i am the son of one, yes i have been called a bastard;) anyway)
you know you can say whatever you want about a company as long as it is *TRUE* (and that includes opinions)
but making shit up and making it look real (yea no one would pay shipping on a 50 lb bag of dog food but the court would look at what a REASONABLE person would do and it could be argued that a REASONABLE person would order it if it were some special brand or wahtever) IS libelous:
From WordNet (r) 1.7 :
libel
n : a tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
in addition to this, my business law class says that all that is really required is that a negative comment generated because of a relationship between x and y be transmitted in any form to z which is certainly the case here
just trying to give yall a heads up before you're "served" by opening an email from some lawyer;)
i meant to add that i have no recourse because i didn't keep my contract for 3 fucking years in a safety deposit box somewhere so that i could contest what they're doing
the biggest problem with cell phones is that the companies who hawk them don't offer decent service and their billing practices are worse than even the least reputable credit card scam
i've had a cellphone 2 times and both times it ended ina percieved breach of contract by them on my part because they're so fucking incompetent, even now after over a year of having no cell phone service (besides road side assistance what reason do i have for being tracked by everyone who knows me??) i'm still dealing with a collections agency who has been sicked on my by Cingular (formerly Cellular One) for a $100 when they still OWE ME $200+ from my deposit which they flat out stole from me and I have no recourse
I talked to the engineer who designed verizon's 56k datapaths (he taught my datacomm class at a community college in indianapolis) and he was the first one to tell me to avoid them like the plague and gave numerous examples of their unscrupulous behavior as well
why not take that $50 a month and do something useful with it like investing it or anything other than funding huge evil corporations
i've even seen people picketing with signs out in front of cellphone stores here in cincinnati trying to ward people away from the absolutely vicious and illegal practices which they *all* have.. when someone is that dedicated, to take time off of work and have his kids there with signs as well you know that he got fucked over and ii'm sure he and i and a lot of you are not alone.. so ask yourself do you really need that cell phone? and if so you do you really need one that has shitty distorted video and a 1 hour battery? why not get a pre paid phone for emergencies and tell them to go fuck themselves for the rest
why not just send me the $50 instead of the MPAA and i'll send you a divx and copies of all the books which beat any lame inserts they have in the boxed set
the warg riding orcs are bad ass and so was the half second clip of hte elephant, i'm already impressed (never ever ever happens by a trailer) and for hte first time in a long time i'm actually looking forward to seeing a movie
it's about fucking time good old school fantasy gets made into quality movies
one of my old schools still does this at $5 a disk, which is only to cover the costs of printing the cds and making some money for the bookstore presumably.. as their consideration in this arrangement the said college is not allowed to teach classes based around any other software; only microsoft products are used throughout the school in the teaching processes etc
the reasoning is obvious, you create a demand for your product and then mark up the price (from almost free to whatever the poor corp you work for is gouged in to spending).. you don't care because it doesn't come out of your pocket you're just used as a pawn to get them more money in the end game
This story has been out for days on news.com. I guess boosting M$ X-BOX sales by helping their publicity w//.'s saavy crowd couldn't hurt.. especially after the other X-BOX story, maybe this is supposed to balance it out..
it's much simpler than that, business execs don't understand software, it's a black pandora's box to them, along comes M$ and says "give us some money and we'll take care of everything" and they have all the answers tightly integrated with a huge available and (realatively) inexpensive (especially compared to a good unix admin) labor supply as well as having th ebenefit of being the established standard..
those are all things which shouldn't be taken so lightly, not everyone cares if linux is technically superior in one area (clustering or wahtever) if they have to replace their entire infrastructure with their operating system (especially if they assume that Linux "solutions" are comparably priced to those of M$)
my $.02, maybe i've just had a long day of economics class
and this comes on the heels of their announcement to fully support DRM and Palladium starting secretly with p4 3 ghz cpus.. make the children beg their parents for a computer as they lock them into their own formats.. sieg heil
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i built a k6-2 450 out of spare parts a few days ago (192 mb ram/ 4gb scsi 2 harddrive pirated from an old mac/ 32mb tnt 2 ultra)
i wasted a stack of cd's downloading and attempting to install redhat 8 which froze at precisely 13% during the install regardless of what I did (i tried *everything* to make it work, different filesystems/different partitioning schemes/different bootloaders).
i then gave up and made 2 diskettes for a debian install and a couple hours later had a perfectly good working debian install w/ the net install option (a fan of which I had been previously from my extremely positive experiences with OpenBSD), yea the mouse which is a usb trackball -> ps/2 adapter -> 9 pin serial adapter doesn't work and neither does X but at least I have a workable system where RedHat failed miserably for all it's pretty GUI-installer fame
having said that, and being a 7 year *nix veteran, i can say that dselect STILL sucks (as it did when i first tried debian 2.2 on my laptop years ago) but at least most of the library dependency problems seemt o hav ebeen fixed and apt-get is badass (read fuckabunchofrpms)
$.02
the first AC bitchy nay-sayer didn't even bother to read the article
here is a quote from the first paragraph:
"I really want Debian to succeed. I want to use it daily, and recommend it to my friends. But I can't do that right now and I think it's important people understand why."
maybe you can get someone to read it for you (illiterate fuckwit)
most people don't need those features
most people do need the ability to change resolution and color depth on their desktops easily
maybe the X team has finally changed direction to The Right Way (ie, what most people need instead of a handfull of computer scientists)
1.) rob london bank
2.) toss cell phone contained in ziplock bag into thames
3.) profit
we change industries, i dunno about you but i've had enough of people's inflated ego problems and the total 3 year void of decent jobs pretty much everywhere
so as for your going back to college comment, yea i am, but i'm not planning on going back in to IT (professionally anyway).. of course it will probably always be a hobby of mine as it is for many others
but i dont' see the tech situation improving at all, i would assume if anything it will continue to get worse as the big companies move their operations overseas where they don't have to pay people anything (quality? what's that?)
oh, and the mental state of the terrorists is not the problem; ti's the mental state of the other passengers and paranoid gov't officials stealing away civil rights liek there is no tomorrow (there isn't right?) that are the real dangers. i'm sure you know that if some psycho in a turban jumped up on a flight today he would be immediately jumped on by however many large male passengers are onboard
in fact this has already happened to several people (including one guy who got stuck with a series of injections by two on-board french doctors) who tried to start shit on flights
phd's flipping burgers need to learn how to remove their tunnel vision and move
and as for the DMCA and other bullshit anti-consumer legislation, bush can't stay in office forever (with his nazi lackies led by ashcroft) can he? (having said that i'm glad al gore isn't around)
i think people need to ask themselves why our open free system of gov't (supposedly) is so limited to being a two party system when there are so many other viable candidates around (check my sig)
men use bandaids and soldier onward princess zelda needs our attentions and school can only stay shut down from sheets of ice for so long..
that's when games focused on playability (read: FUN) rather than flashy (8 bits, mmm) graphics
not in pursuit of a "larger good"
tool? puppet? troll? some combination?
I bet you'll start caring once the Thought Police (spelled h-m-l-nd s-c-r-t-, previous example also includes DRM Gov't Approved removal of vowels as per the Free Thought Prevention Act of 2005 -- move along citizen) have your balls in a vice.
happy halloween
as an addendum, would you buy one? NO. Would I buy one? FUCK NO, but we're not the intended market..
yea but who cares for a surf/Word-for-your-dad-type-machine, where an integrated geforce 2 is still a substantial increase from what he currently has and is more than enough to run Diablo
just because it doesn't fit your needs doesn't mean it doesn't meet someone elses, besides many integrated boards come with the ability to disable the on board video as well as add a card if you want,a nd coupled with integrated 10/100 and decent sound they can save you tons of money w/o sacrificing much flexibility if all you are is an end user do you really need to go beyond changing out harddrives and adding some ram later maybe anyway? probably not, my $.02
/. read my mind
they shoudl get an 800 # and steal all of ms cleo's disgruntled customers
And not a Civil action? He didn't hurt anyone, He didn't threaten anyone with a gun and rob a liqour store. He didn't make any money or gain anything at all financially for having done this? Why isn't this a civil suit for money instead of a PRISON term for COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?? WTF?
this is the clip from the cybercrime.gov website: "As of July, 2002, 16 defendants have been convicted in the U.S. of felony criminal copyright offenses, including conspiracy to commit those offenses, and nine defendants have been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging in length from 30 to 46 months"
and i say again FELONY copyright offenses?? WTF?!?!?
take a look
http://www.sans.org/top20/top20_Oct01.htm is the list from 2001
http://www.sans.org/topten.htm is the list from 2000
IANALBIATSOO (i am not a lawyer but i am the son of one, yes i have been called a bastard ;) anyway)
;)
you know you can say whatever you want about a company as long as it is *TRUE* (and that includes opinions)
but making shit up and making it look real (yea no one would pay shipping on a 50 lb bag of dog food but the court would look at what a REASONABLE person would do and it could be argued that a REASONABLE person would order it if it were some special brand or wahtever) IS libelous:
From WordNet (r) 1.7 :
libel
n : a tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
in addition to this, my business law class says that all that is really required is that a negative comment generated because of a relationship between x and y be transmitted in any form to z which is certainly the case here
just trying to give yall a heads up before you're "served" by opening an email from some lawyer
yea yea i meant to type debian linux not linux, it's been a long day of tests and my brain skipped it
www.progeny.com
for those of you who don't know it is a commercial company founded by the original creator of linux and is based in indianapolis
eventhough it appears that they are no longer releasing their own distribution just modifying debian they are certainly NOT out of business
but you failed to mention what you use
i'm not an audiophile (my stereo is a stock aiwa from '98 with a broken 3 disk cd player) but i'm curious to know what you reccomend
i have standard whatever rca cables from rat shack mostly
i meant to add that i have no recourse because i didn't keep my contract for 3 fucking years in a safety deposit box somewhere so that i could contest what they're doing
/rant at the bottom ;)
and it cut off my
the biggest problem with cell phones is that the companies who hawk them don't offer decent service and their billing practices are worse than even the least reputable credit card scam
i've had a cellphone 2 times and both times it ended ina percieved breach of contract by them on my part because they're so fucking incompetent, even now after over a year of having no cell phone service (besides road side assistance what reason do i have for being tracked by everyone who knows me??) i'm still dealing with a collections agency who has been sicked on my by Cingular (formerly Cellular One) for a $100 when they still OWE ME $200+ from my deposit which they flat out stole from me and I have no recourse
I talked to the engineer who designed verizon's 56k datapaths (he taught my datacomm class at a community college in indianapolis) and he was the first one to tell me to avoid them like the plague and gave numerous examples of their unscrupulous behavior as well
why not take that $50 a month and do something useful with it like investing it or anything other than funding huge evil corporations
i've even seen people picketing with signs out in front of cellphone stores here in cincinnati trying to ward people away from the absolutely vicious and illegal practices which they *all* have.. when someone is that dedicated, to take time off of work and have his kids there with signs as well you know that he got fucked over and ii'm sure he and i and a lot of you are not alone.. so ask yourself do you really need that cell phone? and if so you do you really need one that has shitty distorted video and a 1 hour battery? why not get a pre paid phone for emergencies and tell them to go fuck themselves for the rest
why not just send me the $50 instead of the MPAA and i'll send you a divx and copies of all the books which beat any lame inserts they have in the boxed set
gollum is a hobbit
the warg riding orcs are bad ass and so was the half second clip of hte elephant, i'm already impressed (never ever ever happens by a trailer) and for hte first time in a long time i'm actually looking forward to seeing a movie
it's about fucking time good old school fantasy gets made into quality movies
and antying else that requries more than 2 (or 4 w/ an add on) players to be fun
pc games aren't going away although the recent quality does suck generally (although not completely)
one of my old schools still does this at $5 a disk, which is only to cover the costs of printing the cds and making some money for the bookstore presumably.. as their consideration in this arrangement the said college is not allowed to teach classes based around any other software; only microsoft products are used throughout the school in the teaching processes etc
the reasoning is obvious, you create a demand for your product and then mark up the price (from almost free to whatever the poor corp you work for is gouged in to spending).. you don't care because it doesn't come out of your pocket you're just used as a pawn to get them more money in the end game
2002-09-22 12:36:07 Read an Interview w/ Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative Program Manager (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
2002-09-22 12:50:08 Physicists Create Antimatter (articles,science) (rejected)
This story has been out for days on news.com. I guess boosting M$ X-BOX sales by helping their publicity w/
it's much simpler than that, business execs don't understand software, it's a black pandora's box to them, along comes M$ and says "give us some money and we'll take care of everything" and they have all the answers tightly integrated with a huge available and (realatively) inexpensive (especially compared to a good unix admin) labor supply as well as having th ebenefit of being the established standard..
those are all things which shouldn't be taken so lightly, not everyone cares if linux is technically superior in one area (clustering or wahtever) if they have to replace their entire infrastructure with their operating system (especially if they assume that Linux "solutions" are comparably priced to those of M$)
my $.02, maybe i've just had a long day of economics class
and this comes on the heels of their announcement to fully support DRM and Palladium starting secretly with p4 3 ghz cpus.. make the children beg their parents for a computer as they lock them into their own formats.. sieg heil