If it were a two-cycle engine, you wouldn't have to, since the fuel mix is the lube, too... unfortunately, those can't achieve the compression necessary to combust diesel/food oil. That would be kind of neat, though... a jet ski, powered by the drippings from lunch and dinner - yum!
Well, in the movies, microwaves, toasters, vacuums, and toilets all explode with the same vigor as transport vehicles... while Pop-Tarts may catch on fire if left in the toaster too long, they don't posses nearly as much explosive force as petroleum products... --
True, but installing Mandrake is at least as easy as installing 95/NT/2000... so that's no big deal. Mandrake seems the most user-friendly for first-time users for an install, which is why I mentioned it... you can get a nice full set of utils and apps without having to worry about selecting things or finding them later... you give someone Debian to install, and after the install is completed, well, it's pretty minimal, and not nearly as obvious for someone new to the system. What distro would you reccomend to someone new to Linux?
The Mandrake installer is pretty slick now - makes it easy to click and go... auto partitioning, somewhat relevant choices for "desktop" and "server"... easy for the first timer.
If the system is to be used as a gaming system - as most are for LAN parties, then the i815 and integrated audio are *really* bad choices, performance-wise. Running the video through a network would be even more painful...
Hey, I wouldn't joke about it - there was a class action suit against First USA for incorrect billing and late charges on their VISA cards... I guess it got settled because I noticed a $0.48 adjustment on this month's statement. That's almost 50 whole cents!!! That's probably in the millions of lira;-)
or use one of the real tools that *will* move the swap file (usually to the top end of the drive, with the rest of your files at the bottom. The defrag tools that come with Windows are just crippled versions of the Norton tools anyway.
You can also boot into dos mode and delete the swap file, and when it recreates, it should be contiguous...
The other (and nicer) option is to create another partition for the swap file, and never worry about it again... of course, you can't take a full memory dump on a blue screen if the swap isn't on the boot partition, but hey... that's a lot of time to waste for something that you are almost guaranteed never to use...
The 3x physical ram can be a problem too (especially for those of us with 768MB of physical):) --
Win95 runs on a 486/33 (I've seen it - not fun), so I'm pretty sure 98 does, too. NT4.0 will run on a 486 - I've seen plenty of those... Where it is compiled, and what architecture you choose to compile it for are two different things. They may well all run on a 386, but who want's to test that.
As another poster mentioned, Mandrake comes compiled out of the box (iso) for the newer versions of the x86 architecture. --
It's true, there are a lot of athleticly active types on/. There are many that are avid climbers, hikers, bikers, cavers, and skiiers. Others play or excel at team sports (baseball, softball, football, hockey)... As someone who programmed his C-64 in ML during middle school and played several varsity sports in high school, I can say it is pretty hard to fully attribute stereotypes. Yeah, I might end up programming well into the night, but I'm just as likely to spend an entire day water skiing. There's no better way to clear your mind than getting good and exhausted with physical activty (all kinds count;-)
The oposite would probably be "News for cyber-apathetics." (cheesy, but maybe I should trademark the term) "Stuff for people who aren't interested in anything harder than freecell." or "News for people who continue through life without any tech interests." Granted, there used to be a large Linux leaning on/., but even that has shifted as the 'community' has become more diverse. The pure science articles aren't read or commented as often, and social issues (including yro, Katz articles copied from other sources, and book reviews like this one) are seeing a lot more press. I don't think that opinions are repressed, as long as they are worded in a non-hostile fashion.
Moderation isn't perfect, but it seems to be better than nothing (there is quite a bit less noise at +1 than below, though that amount is growing, too).
>Why, they're not wasted anymore because everybody now uses Rain, Waterfall, CPUidle or powersaving features on their computers.
(for home users)...or distributed.net or even (gasp) SETI@Home (not affilated with Charter Communications or any other cable modem provider).
(or at work) Either that, or the real workstations are doing far more complex simulations than either of these, and helping make money for the company that bought them. --
Yes, but that doesn't count the thousands (mostly black) who were mistakenly disenfranchised due to the state erroneously thinking they were convicted felons, and also a couple more thousand college students who registered during a voter registration drive that were incorrectly prevented from voting... there's no saying what those votes may have been (though college students and blacks percentage-wise are highly democratic).
Things are as they are right now... the country gets another chance in four years to make sure that we get everything and everyone counted properly and on time, regardless of the outcome. --
This was the fortune on the bottom of the page when I loaded it:
* gb notes that fdisk thinks his cdrom can store one terabyte -- Seen on #Linux Kind of amusing... --
Well, if you improve the code significantly from the process, then the testing, support, and maintenance can complete more quickly, and it can save a lot of money in the long run. Proper design (especially of interfaces) is one of the most critical parts of sucess. --
>We should regress enough to be ready for a Katz essay on XP by midnight or so.
hmmm...
"Is Extreme Programming Corrupting Our Nation's Youth? (sub: Programming in pairs leads to cliques and other anti-social behavior, including gun-totung freaks)" --
The usual trick is to have ssh listen on a higher port (i.e. 2200) and connect to that, rather than 22... that or you need to run it through a SOCKS server... if you have one avaialable...
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Ah... my bad - thinking too much of jet-skis, lawnmowers, etc...
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If it were a two-cycle engine, you wouldn't have to, since the fuel mix is the lube, too... unfortunately, those can't achieve the compression necessary to combust diesel/food oil. That would be kind of neat, though... a jet ski, powered by the drippings from lunch and dinner - yum!
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Well, in the movies, microwaves, toasters, vacuums, and toilets all explode with the same vigor as transport vehicles... while Pop-Tarts may catch on fire if left in the toaster too long, they don't posses nearly as much explosive force as petroleum products...
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True, but installing Mandrake is at least as easy as installing 95/NT/2000... so that's no big deal. Mandrake seems the most user-friendly for first-time users for an install, which is why I mentioned it... you can get a nice full set of utils and apps without having to worry about selecting things or finding them later... you give someone Debian to install, and after the install is completed, well, it's pretty minimal, and not nearly as obvious for someone new to the system. What distro would you reccomend to someone new to Linux?
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The Mandrake installer is pretty slick now - makes it easy to click and go... auto partitioning, somewhat relevant choices for "desktop" and "server"... easy for the first timer.
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Ewwwwwwwww...... I had forgotten about those [shudder].
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Ah, but it's well worth the pennies per month more to get the Monsoon audio 8^) (for the car... though I'm told they do computer speakers now, too)
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Might it be that you have a TNT2 Ultra, and he only a regular TNT2? That would certainly account for a big difference.
I build my own systems, but I haven't seen an 800MHz PIII get beat by a 450MHZ PIII yet (assuming they are identical graphics cards).
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If the system is to be used as a gaming system - as most are for LAN parties, then the i815 and integrated audio are *really* bad choices, performance-wise. Running the video through a network would be even more painful...
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Oddly enough, "Running With Scissors" is in my CD drive right now here at work... though the Truck Drivin' song is playing... what a great disc.
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Hey, I wouldn't joke about it - there was a class action suit against First USA for incorrect billing and late charges on their VISA cards... I guess it got settled because I noticed a $0.48 adjustment on this month's statement. That's almost 50 whole cents!!! That's probably in the millions of lira ;-)
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or use one of the real tools that *will* move the swap file (usually to the top end of the drive, with the rest of your files at the bottom. The defrag tools that come with Windows are just crippled versions of the Norton tools anyway.
:)
You can also boot into dos mode and delete the swap file, and when it recreates, it should be contiguous...
The other (and nicer) option is to create another partition for the swap file, and never worry about it again... of course, you can't take a full memory dump on a blue screen if the swap isn't on the boot partition, but hey... that's a lot of time to waste for something that you are almost guaranteed never to use...
The 3x physical ram can be a problem too (especially for those of us with 768MB of physical)
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Win95 runs on a 486/33 (I've seen it - not fun), so I'm pretty sure 98 does, too. NT4.0 will run on a 486 - I've seen plenty of those... Where it is compiled, and what architecture you choose to compile it for are two different things. They may well all run on a 386, but who want's to test that.
As another poster mentioned, Mandrake comes compiled out of the box (iso) for the newer versions of the x86 architecture.
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It's true, there are a lot of athleticly active types on /. There are many that are avid climbers, hikers, bikers, cavers, and skiiers. Others play or excel at team sports (baseball, softball, football, hockey)... As someone who programmed his C-64 in ML during middle school and played several varsity sports in high school, I can say it is pretty hard to fully attribute stereotypes. Yeah, I might end up programming well into the night, but I'm just as likely to spend an entire day water skiing. There's no better way to clear your mind than getting good and exhausted with physical activty (all kinds count ;-)
/., but even that has shifted as the 'community' has become more diverse. The pure science articles aren't read or commented as often, and social issues (including yro, Katz articles copied from other sources, and book reviews like this one) are seeing a lot more press. I don't think that opinions are repressed, as long as they are worded in a non-hostile fashion.
The oposite would probably be "News for cyber-apathetics." (cheesy, but maybe I should trademark the term) "Stuff for people who aren't interested in anything harder than freecell." or "News for people who continue through life without any tech interests." Granted, there used to be a large Linux leaning on
Moderation isn't perfect, but it seems to be better than nothing (there is quite a bit less noise at +1 than below, though that amount is growing, too).
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Is that Homer, the writer of a Greek Epic, or Homer, yellow-skinned consumer of D'OHnuts?
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>Why, they're not wasted anymore because everybody now uses Rain, Waterfall, CPUidle or powersaving features on their computers.
...or distributed.net or even (gasp) SETI@Home (not affilated with Charter Communications or any other cable modem provider).
(for home users)
(or at work) Either that, or the real workstations are doing far more complex simulations than either of these, and helping make money for the company that bought them.
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Yes, but that doesn't count the thousands (mostly black) who were mistakenly disenfranchised due to the state erroneously thinking they were convicted felons, and also a couple more thousand college students who registered during a voter registration drive that were incorrectly prevented from voting... there's no saying what those votes may have been (though college students and blacks percentage-wise are highly democratic).
Things are as they are right now... the country gets another chance in four years to make sure that we get everything and everyone counted properly and on time, regardless of the outcome.
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This was the fortune on the bottom of the page when I loaded it:
* gb notes that fdisk thinks his cdrom can store one terabyte -- Seen on #Linux
Kind of amusing...
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Well, if you improve the code significantly from the process, then the testing, support, and maintenance can complete more quickly, and it can save a lot of money in the long run. Proper design (especially of interfaces) is one of the most critical parts of sucess.
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>We should regress enough to be ready for a Katz essay on XP by midnight or so.
hmmm...
"Is Extreme Programming Corrupting Our Nation's Youth? (sub: Programming in pairs leads to cliques and other anti-social behavior, including gun-totung freaks)"
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And SP5 is notably unstable... SP6a was the next best thing after SP3...
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Haven't seen a cell phone w/ Chinese language support yet...
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More of a quantum superposition thing...
Maybe Hamlet is the cat!
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The usual trick is to have ssh listen on a higher port (i.e. 2200) and connect to that, rather than 22... that or you need to run it through a SOCKS server... if you have one avaialable...
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You could always check the changelog at kernel.org for each of the versions... it has been posted here a few times, also...
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