I've been thinking the same exact thing, it has supposedly been getting better since the late 90's. The day I walk in to Compuglobalhypermeganet and purchase that shiny new piece of hardware and it includes a linux driver along side the mac and windows ones I'll think linux has reached critical mass. The most current distribution when I purchased my laptop was Redhat 9. I had to patch and recompile the kernel to get minimal ACPI support and I had to use the VESA X server as my chipset wasn't supported. The modem wasn't supported and the sound driver left something to be desired with all sorts of oddities in the sound.
You are ignoring the fundamental problem with Linux, same problem that has existed for as long as I can remember and that people keep saying is getting better, support for new hardware always lags behind Windows and the Mac. Linux will see critical mass when I go buy any piece of hardware and there is a device driver on the media that ships with it.
Weirdest moderation I've seen... I wrote this before somebody else pointed out that Microsoft owned a lot of the code in OS/2 and they were modded +5 and for some reason I was modded... funny??? Remind me to not use improper english anymore.
Sounds like a place I worked... IT was incompetent and kept blaming things on the workers. NIMDA was the fault of people that opened the attachments or visiting the website that installed it don't you know? It wasn't the fault of the admins that were too fucking lazy to apply the patch that had been out months in advance. I remember that day, no work got done as they ran the cube farm like the monkeys they were. Of course this same place wouldn't allow zip drives for security reasons but had no problem with me tunneling to my home machine... I was only streaming my MP3 collection but they had no way of knowing that.
Run the most stable software that Microsoft has ever put out... Windows 2000. Sadly I have lockups 2-4 times a week on my 2 year old laptop when I run XP on it. When I run Windows 2000 or Linux, no lockups whatsoever. XP looks nice with clear type and boots up much faster than Win2k which helps when the system freezes but Win2k beats it hands down for stability.
I'm not going to "switch" but I'd like to add a Mac to my Windows, Linux and Solaris collective. A Mac Mini with 512megs of ram and 1.25GHz G4 would cost me under $600 so why is it that you find used G4 towers with less memory and cpu power for more than that? I mean seriously I'm finding 733 G4s for $100 more than that. It is utterly ridiculous.
To clarify, I was saying that Slashdot wasn't providing anything worth subscribing to. I agree, value comes from the particpants, but still, I wouldn't pay money for it.
You really found it worth a subscription before? I'll be honest and say I frequent it almost everyday but I would never pay for this, nothing of value is really offered.
I happen to have Season Three in front of me and look at this list of Episodes
Stark Raving Dad - Homer's commited for wearing a pink shirt, big white guy that thinks he's the little black guy...
Ms Lisa Goes to Washington - Lisa wins an essay contest and goes to nationals and finds out Sen Bob Arnolds little secret...
When Flanders failed - Flanders opens a left handed shop and Homes wishbone wish for failure comes true
Bart the Murderer - Bart is implicated for the murder of Principal Skinner buy his mobster boss
Homer Defined - Homer stops a core meltdown by pure luck
Like Father, Like Clown - Bart and Lisa work to reunite Krusty with his father
That is just disc 1 and they are all damn good episodes.
The rest without commentary
Treehouse of Horror II Lisa's Pony Saturdays of Thunder Flaming Moes's Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk I married Marge Radio Bart Lisa the Greek Home Alone Bart the Lover Homer at Bat Seperate Vocations Dog of Death Colonel Homer Black Widower The Otto Show Bart's Friend Falls in Love Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Note one bad show in the bunch and it was all one season.
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How being the operative word... I have the first five seaons on DVD and oh man... the writing back then was so much better. The stories had so much more depth to them. I remember cooling off on it in the late 90s when they started to retread and the writing started going downhill.
Another way of saying employee that I don't pay health insurance or taxes on. I know plenty of people that are in this situation, they work just as a regular employee but have to collect their own taxes and pay for own health costs. I know it is easy to say that nobody is making them take the contract but you do what you have to do to survive. Contracting, like outsourcing, is just another way for corporations to cut the bottom line and quite frankly most contractors don't meet the IRS definition of a contractor.
The Church made him renounce his teachings... turned out he was right and they were wrong. Those that lead their life based on beliefs and dogma rather than observations and the facts that come from them need to be eradicated from this planet for the better of it.
One of them new fanlged popups that gets past firefox let me know that I might be infected with spyware and offered a free scan. Frankly, it really drags my opinion of a site down if they are serving up ads like that.
I used Napster for exactly the reason that I downloaded music that I didn't think was worth buying. I downloaded litterally hundreds of songs for a theme party. I personally wouldn't want to purchase the singles or albums but I would've paid $.05-$.10 for each download of those songs, because that is about what I thought they were worth to me. I buy CD's of music I like and rip them to put on my iPod and then download music that I don't feel is worth the asking price.
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I've been thinking the same exact thing, it has supposedly been getting better since the late 90's. The day I walk in to Compuglobalhypermeganet and purchase that shiny new piece of hardware and it includes a linux driver along side the mac and windows ones I'll think linux has reached critical mass. The most current distribution when I purchased my laptop was Redhat 9. I had to patch and recompile the kernel to get minimal ACPI support and I had to use the VESA X server as my chipset wasn't supported. The modem wasn't supported and the sound driver left something to be desired with all sorts of oddities in the sound.
You are ignoring the fundamental problem with Linux, same problem that has existed for as long as I can remember and that people keep saying is getting better, support for new hardware always lags behind Windows and the Mac. Linux will see critical mass when I go buy any piece of hardware and there is a device driver on the media that ships with it.
Was JFS developed for OS/2?
Weirdest moderation I've seen... I wrote this before somebody else pointed out that Microsoft owned a lot of the code in OS/2 and they were modded +5 and for some reason I was modded... funny??? Remind me to not use improper english anymore.
It taint gonna happen.
Sounds like a place I worked... IT was incompetent and kept blaming things on the workers. NIMDA was the fault of people that opened the attachments or visiting the website that installed it don't you know? It wasn't the fault of the admins that were too fucking lazy to apply the patch that had been out months in advance. I remember that day, no work got done as they ran the cube farm like the monkeys they were. Of course this same place wouldn't allow zip drives for security reasons but had no problem with me tunneling to my home machine... I was only streaming my MP3 collection but they had no way of knowing that.
Run the most stable software that Microsoft has ever put out... Windows 2000. Sadly I have lockups 2-4 times a week on my 2 year old laptop when I run XP on it. When I run Windows 2000 or Linux, no lockups whatsoever. XP looks nice with clear type and boots up much faster than Win2k which helps when the system freezes but Win2k beats it hands down for stability.
I'm not going to "switch" but I'd like to add a Mac to my Windows, Linux and Solaris collective. A Mac Mini with 512megs of ram and 1.25GHz G4 would cost me under $600 so why is it that you find used G4 towers with less memory and cpu power for more than that? I mean seriously I'm finding 733 G4s for $100 more than that. It is utterly ridiculous.
To clarify, I was saying that Slashdot wasn't providing anything worth subscribing to. I agree, value comes from the particpants, but still, I wouldn't pay money for it.
You really found it worth a subscription before? I'll be honest and say I frequent it almost everyday but I would never pay for this, nothing of value is really offered.
I happen to have Season Three in front of me and look at this list of Episodes
Stark Raving Dad - Homer's commited for wearing a pink shirt, big white guy that thinks he's the little black guy...
Ms Lisa Goes to Washington - Lisa wins an essay contest and goes to nationals and finds out Sen Bob Arnolds little secret...
When Flanders failed - Flanders opens a left handed shop and Homes wishbone wish for failure comes true
Bart the Murderer - Bart is implicated for the murder of Principal Skinner buy his mobster boss
Homer Defined - Homer stops a core meltdown by pure luck
Like Father, Like Clown - Bart and Lisa work to reunite Krusty with his father
That is just disc 1 and they are all damn good episodes.
The rest without commentary
Treehouse of Horror II
Lisa's Pony
Saturdays of Thunder
Flaming Moes's
Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
I married Marge
Radio Bart
Lisa the Greek
Home Alone
Bart the Lover
Homer at Bat
Seperate Vocations
Dog of Death
Colonel Homer
Black Widower
The Otto Show
Bart's Friend Falls in Love
Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Note one bad show in the bunch and it was all one season.
How being the operative word... I have the first five seaons on DVD and oh man... the writing back then was so much better. The stories had so much more depth to them. I remember cooling off on it in the late 90s when they started to retread and the writing started going downhill.
It would probably also provide for higher productivity. Imagine right now that you are starting your 3 day weekend.
You guys are dorks, not geeks...
Every year it does. A few really seemingly real well placed stories work better than all joke stories.
The first one is the posters problem with their machine, there is no repeatable issue that is described.
The second comment has a +5, at least the one that I saw asking about having to turn off Javascript
The third is a webserver problem
The fourth has been pretty much proven true.
Another way of saying employee that I don't pay health insurance or taxes on. I know plenty of people that are in this situation, they work just as a regular employee but have to collect their own taxes and pay for own health costs. I know it is easy to say that nobody is making them take the contract but you do what you have to do to survive. Contracting, like outsourcing, is just another way for corporations to cut the bottom line and quite frankly most contractors don't meet the IRS definition of a contractor.
The Church made him renounce his teachings... turned out he was right and they were wrong. Those that lead their life based on beliefs and dogma rather than observations and the facts that come from them need to be eradicated from this planet for the better of it.
It was sarcasm.
As long as you have enough money you are above the law?
One of them new fanlged popups that gets past firefox let me know that I might be infected with spyware and offered a free scan. Frankly, it really drags my opinion of a site down if they are serving up ads like that.
I used Napster for exactly the reason that I downloaded music that I didn't think was worth buying. I downloaded litterally hundreds of songs for a theme party. I personally wouldn't want to purchase the singles or albums but I would've paid $.05-$.10 for each download of those songs, because that is about what I thought they were worth to me. I buy CD's of music I like and rip them to put on my iPod and then download music that I don't feel is worth the asking price.
Last year. I'm about to install 3.6 on an Ultra 10 I was given too.
nuff said for me...
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