I remember installing a copy of Slackware 3.5 that I got for Christmas '98 - it wasn't all that hard, certainly no more difficult that the copy of RH 5.2 that I also got that year. Of course, setting up a ppp connection really *was* a challenge.
Don't forget the 't' (test) option - use in place of 'x' to make tar perform a test unpack - it shows you what will happen when you use x, without actually writing any files. I always do this before unpacking an archive, to see whether it's going to make a folder for the unpaced files or make a mess of the current directory.
Oh, and pipe 'less' or 'more' to keep everything from flying by before you can read it.
If your program isn't running up to snuff then well my friend, as buddies in tech support used to say: PEBUAK.
(Problem Exists Between User And Keyboard)
What, might I ask, is there between the user and the keyboard? I think that's why the expression is usually "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair".
for example, I'm abhorred by Windows 2000's "browser like" clicking, where a single click will open a file rather than selecting it, and it isn't particularly obvious when it behaves the old way or the new
To set things straight:
1. This is not the default behavior in Win2k - the default is to use single-click to select and double-click to open. The option to use single-click to open and point to select does of course exist.
2. This feature is not new to Win2k - it has existed since 98 (and was not the default then, either).
Actually, it did. Dell has been shipping RedHat pre-loaded on workstations and servers for quite some time now. I'm not sure exactly, but it's probably been at least a year - so I don't see how exactly this is news.
Microsoft Works 2000 also has this problem - MS was able to do something to the CDs that makes it impossible to copy them. My first thought when I discovered this was "If I can't copy the CD, this means they're infringing on my legal right to make a backup copy of the CD." The license agreement did mention the fact that the CD could not be copied and that a utility was provided to make a backup copy (I never got around to finding out exactly what this was, but my assumption is that it could only backup to a hard drive, not burn a duplicate). Anyone else know anything about this?
It would sure be nice if the 'pause' key worked during boot, but I've never seen a board where it would.
Really? I use the Pause key a lot to pause the boot process after SCSI cards detect devices so I can see what was detected before it goes away. I've done this on numerous boards.. ABIT's the only brand name I can recall.
Supply and demand: it may be retailing for $300, but those units are rather hard to obtain and the moment. Thus, the people who do have them are being paid rather large sums of money for them because those people are the only ones who have the things.
It may not make a lot of sense to waste that kind of money, but everyone has their priorities..
Microchannel, IMO, was great technology (and a lot of other tech IBM came up with for the PS/2 line) - they just should have let it become an open standard instead of charging high licensing fees to board manufacturers.
Why does this remind me of the Dilbert strip where no one is allowed to move their computers themselves because they aren't propperly trained.
I think that was more of a political statement about unions and how they prevent even simple things from getting done, rather than a statement specifically about certification or training..
This could actually be used to get around content-based 'net access filters. You could use this method of requesting compressed text to thwart and keyword-scanning filter. Of course, if this became very popular, it would only be a matter of time before the filtering programs added the capability to decode gzip or whatever other compression people were using.
bind File and Print sharing to
something OTHER than TCP/IP (like NetBUEI)
I seem to recall (but I could be wrong) that in NT4, it was possible to bind services to protocols on particular interfaces, so you could have filesharing running only on the NIC connected to the internal network. I haven't checked to see if this is possible in 2K, though.
I dont think the FCC could say much about it either, because you not
useing part of the electromagentic spectrum.
*bzzt* No. Microwaves are indeed electromagnetic radiation. They have very short wavelength (hence the term "micro" waves) and high frequency, but they're certainly radio waves.
I'd love to put money on my FSU smart card. Any ideas?
The amount of money available is NOT stored in credit/ATM cards. All that's stored is the account number, expiration date, and possible other miscellaneous info. When a credit card is swiped for a transaction, the account info is sent back to processing agent (or the credit card company, I'm not completely clear on that part) where the cardholder database is checked to see if that account has enough money available to pay for the transaction. If the actual funds available information was stored right on the card, credit card fraud would be a lot easier. But, the credit card companies know better than to do that.
A short URL might be the case for going straight to a company website (say, the website for a new game), but the savings is even greater for jumping stright to the detailed information for a catalog item: URLs like that are typically rather long.
You gotta understand that most people don't have DSL.
I don't have DSL, but I still have a LAN for internet access. Because there are so many computers all over the house, sharing the connection with IPMasq makes life much easier - no need for multiple modems and more than one computer can be on the net at once.
Also, there are so many configurations for network setups that it may not always be possible to support all of them. It would be a technical support nightmare if they had to support DHCP routers, static IPs, PPPoE and so many other different kinds of logins that a network card could use.
Devices with built in ethernet for LANs would obviously be targetted at people who were able to set up a LAN in the first place. In addition, DHCP would take care of most situations. Supporting manual network configuration probably wouldn't be a big deal, either (for devices with some sort of display). I don't know why you bring up PPPoE - that might be used over the DSL line itself, but whatever router was present would handle that and the clients would not need to deal with it. There really aren't lots of common configurations aside from DHCP/bootp and static configuration.
Apple is already working on porting Darwin (the Open Source core of Mac OS X) to x86. When they finish that, the Transmeta chips will be able to run it without emulating PPC.
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Have you tried kwrite? You may be missing out on a lot..
I remember installing a copy of Slackware 3.5 that I got for Christmas '98 - it wasn't all that hard, certainly no more difficult that the copy of RH 5.2 that I also got that year. Of course, setting up a ppp connection really *was* a challenge.
BTW, how were you in 9th grade at age 12?
Don't forget the 't' (test) option - use in place of 'x' to make tar perform a test unpack - it shows you what will happen when you use x, without actually writing any files. I always do this before unpacking an archive, to see whether it's going to make a folder for the unpaced files or make a mess of the current directory. Oh, and pipe 'less' or 'more' to keep everything from flying by before you can read it.
Pediatrists are doctors to children,
I've never heard that word used, only 'pediatrician' (but that still uses the same root).
If your program isn't running up to snuff then well my friend, as buddies in tech support used to say: PEBUAK.
(Problem Exists Between User And Keyboard)
What, might I ask, is there between the user and the keyboard? I think that's why the expression is usually "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair".
Wouldn't that be a bit like the Postal Service regulating email?
Then shouldn't we have podestrians?
for example, I'm abhorred by Windows 2000's "browser like" clicking, where a single click will open a file rather than selecting it, and it isn't particularly obvious when it behaves the old way or the new
To set things straight:
1. This is not the default behavior in Win2k - the default is to use single-click to select and double-click to open. The option to use single-click to open and point to select does of course exist.
2. This feature is not new to Win2k - it has existed since 98 (and was not the default then, either).
Actually, it did. Dell has been shipping RedHat pre-loaded on workstations and servers for quite some time now. I'm not sure exactly, but it's probably been at least a year - so I don't see how exactly this is news.
Or perhaps a new and improved x86 still.
Microsoft Works 2000 also has this problem - MS was able to do something to the CDs that makes it impossible to copy them. My first thought when I discovered this was "If I can't copy the CD, this means they're infringing on my legal right to make a backup copy of the CD." The license agreement did mention the fact that the CD could not be copied and that a utility was provided to make a backup copy (I never got around to finding out exactly what this was, but my assumption is that it could only backup to a hard drive, not burn a duplicate). Anyone else know anything about this?
It would sure be nice if the 'pause' key worked during boot, but I've never seen a board where it would.
Really? I use the Pause key a lot to pause the boot process after SCSI cards detect devices so I can see what was detected before it goes away. I've done this on numerous boards.. ABIT's the only brand name I can recall.
Is there any particular need for the asterisks when you're greping?
/me wonders if I can sell some of my old IBM PS/2 systems to some unsuspecting fool on Ebay..
Supply and demand: it may be retailing for $300, but those units are rather hard to obtain and the moment. Thus, the people who do have them are being paid rather large sums of money for them because those people are the only ones who have the things.
It may not make a lot of sense to waste that kind of money, but everyone has their priorities..
Microchannel, IMO, was great technology (and a lot of other tech IBM came up with for the PS/2 line) - they just should have let it become an open standard instead of charging high licensing fees to board manufacturers.
Why does this remind me of the Dilbert strip where no one is allowed to move their computers themselves because they aren't propperly trained.
I think that was more of a political statement about unions and how they prevent even simple things from getting done, rather than a statement specifically about certification or training..
Rendering images (or .tar.gz format) with a table.
This could actually be used to get around content-based 'net access filters. You could use this method of requesting compressed text to thwart and keyword-scanning filter. Of course, if this became very popular, it would only be a matter of time before the filtering programs added the capability to decode gzip or whatever other compression people were using.
bind File and Print sharing to something OTHER than TCP/IP (like NetBUEI)
I seem to recall (but I could be wrong) that in NT4, it was possible to bind services to protocols on particular interfaces, so you could have filesharing running only on the NIC connected to the internal network. I haven't checked to see if this is possible in 2K, though.I dont think the FCC could say much about it either, because you not useing part of the electromagentic spectrum.
*bzzt* No. Microwaves are indeed electromagnetic radiation. They have very short wavelength (hence the term "micro" waves) and high frequency, but they're certainly radio waves.
I'd love to put money on my FSU smart card. Any ideas?
The amount of money available is NOT stored in credit/ATM cards. All that's stored is the account number, expiration date, and possible other miscellaneous info. When a credit card is swiped for a transaction, the account info is sent back to processing agent (or the credit card company, I'm not completely clear on that part) where the cardholder database is checked to see if that account has enough money available to pay for the transaction. If the actual funds available information was stored right on the card, credit card fraud would be a lot easier. But, the credit card companies know better than to do that.type in 15-25 characters
A short URL might be the case for going straight to a company website (say, the website for a new game), but the savings is even greater for jumping stright to the detailed information for a catalog item: URLs like that are typically rather long.
You gotta understand that most people don't have DSL.
I don't have DSL, but I still have a LAN for internet access. Because there are so many computers all over the house, sharing the connection with IPMasq makes life much easier - no need for multiple modems and more than one computer can be on the net at once.
Also, there are so many configurations for network setups that it may not always be possible to support all of them. It would be a technical support nightmare if they had to support DHCP routers, static IPs, PPPoE and so many other different kinds of logins that a network card could use.
Devices with built in ethernet for LANs would obviously be targetted at people who were able to set up a LAN in the first place. In addition, DHCP would take care of most situations. Supporting manual network configuration probably wouldn't be a big deal, either (for devices with some sort of display). I don't know why you bring up PPPoE - that might be used over the DSL line itself, but whatever router was present would handle that and the clients would not need to deal with it. There really aren't lots of common configurations aside from DHCP/bootp and static configuration.Apple is already working on porting Darwin (the Open Source core of Mac OS X) to x86. When they finish that, the Transmeta chips will be able to run it without emulating PPC.
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