In the year that I've been using Linux, I've found XFree86 to be quite reliable. It's not perfect, but it's certainly preferable to any version of Windows. One _really_ annoying thing is when xfs isn't running and the X server locks up the console because it crashed and then is respawned by init. The only way to deal with that is to go in be telnet and then reboot in single user mode. I wish that the X server would just halt, and not exit, so that it would be possible to switch VC's and entera different runlevel without rebooting.
On http://accpc.com/founders.html, they claim that they created a multi-processing system based on the 8088 in 1975/1976. Now let's see, my copy of "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" tells me that the 8086 was released in 1978 and the 8088 didn't come out until 1979. Interesting how they were able to use a processor 4 YEARS before it was released.
Great poem. Too bad it will never be part of any class, because if all those stupid teachers who certainly do their part in contributing to this problem.
>They are the key >To making this nation what it claims to be: >The land of the free.
I too have had to deal with my share or crap in school (I am in 8th grade at a private catholic school). Obviously, these things do not happen just in public schools. Private schools do have the power to simply get rid of problem students, but I can think of half a dozen students that the school would be wise to expell right now. It seems that a major problem is that either don't care enough or are afraid of the parents.
Sometimes when I have to deal with people who give me a hard time, I have seriously desired to see them gone. But I could never bring myself to actually kill someone, regardless of the hours I have spent playing Wolf3d/Doom/Quake/Duke3d.
I can definetly see what drives people to lash out - I have experienced it and wish that I did not have to. It really sucks to enjoy different things than everyone else. Why must people be punished for wanting to use their minds, instead of just watching TV?
But what is WAY worse than dealing with crap at school is having to deal with it at home. My two younger sisters, who seem to have fallen in with some sort of 'in' crowd, can't seem to give me enough hell. The least of it is being ridiculed for listening to 'gay' music that's not played solely on keyboards (Pink Floyd, CCR, The Doors, etc.), as opposed to that "Top 40" junk they listen to. And then there's the accusation that I have no friends (can I help it if everyone at school has no brain?) Dealing with this at home feels ten times worse than when it happens at school. There's just no escape. Especially when your parents just don't seem to care/notice.
Until recently, I had high hopes for high school (got a half scholarship into another private school), but now I am not so sure. I thought that maybe things would be different when I was going to school with more "mature" people, but from what I've seen here, that's a only dream.
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In the year that I've been using Linux, I've found XFree86 to be quite reliable. It's not perfect, but it's certainly preferable to any version of Windows. One _really_ annoying thing is when xfs isn't running and the X server locks up the console because it crashed and then is respawned by init. The only way to deal with that is to go in be telnet and then reboot in single user mode. I wish that the X server would just halt, and not exit, so that it would be possible to switch VC's and entera different runlevel without rebooting.
I hate it when companies release stuff under pseudo-open licenses ( like SCSL). Idiots think the compaines are heroic, but it's a joke.
On http://accpc.com/founders.html, they claim that
they created a multi-processing system based on the 8088 in 1975/1976. Now let's see, my copy of "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" tells me that the 8086 was released in 1978 and the 8088 didn't come out until 1979.
Interesting how they were able to use a processor 4 YEARS before it was released.
Great poem.
Too bad it will never be part of any class, because if all those stupid teachers who certainly do their part in contributing to this problem.
>They are the key
>To making this nation what it claims to be:
>The land of the free.
I wonder if the national hipocracy will ever end?
(do forgive me if I ramble, I've got lots to say)
I too have had to deal with my share or crap in school (I am in 8th grade at a private catholic school). Obviously, these things do not happen just in public schools. Private schools do have the power to simply get rid of problem students, but I can think of half a dozen students that the school would be wise to expell right now. It seems that a major problem is that either don't care enough or are afraid of the parents.
Sometimes when I have to deal with people who give me a hard time, I have seriously desired to see them gone. But I could never bring myself to actually kill someone, regardless of the hours I have spent playing Wolf3d/Doom/Quake/Duke3d.
I can definetly see what drives people to lash out - I have experienced it and wish that I did not have to. It really sucks to enjoy different things than everyone else. Why must people be punished for wanting to use their minds, instead of just watching TV?
But what is WAY worse than dealing with crap at school is having to deal with it at home. My two younger sisters, who seem to have fallen in with some sort of 'in' crowd, can't seem to give me enough hell. The least of it is being ridiculed for listening to 'gay' music that's not played solely on keyboards (Pink Floyd, CCR, The Doors, etc.), as opposed to that "Top 40" junk they listen to. And then there's the accusation that I have no friends (can I help it if everyone at school has no brain?) Dealing with this at home feels ten times worse than when it happens at school. There's just no escape. Especially when your parents just don't seem to care/notice.
Until recently, I had high hopes for high school (got a half scholarship into another private school), but now I am not so sure. I thought that maybe things would be different when I was going to school with more "mature" people, but from what I've seen here, that's a only dream.
I wish there was something I could do.