| That is, the comments on topics of biology are | generally pretty clueless.
Be fair. A fair portion of the comments on Slashdot on any scientific subject other than CS are clueless. It's not just biology. (Speaking as a chemist/chemical engineer here)
Regardless, though, it *is* interesting stuff. Much better than the porn site Slashdot was hawking last night (the 30 days thing). I'm all for more scientific articles. Pity this ones basically a CNN blurb.
$30 or so for a 16M 4x36 SIMM (you must use pairs), so $60 for 32 megabytes, which is the absolute minimum amount I'd consider sticking into a Multia to use as a thin client. I'd recommend 64 megs or greater to use the Multia for actual work, as Alphas tend to suck more memory.
The Multia has four SIMM slots, so keep that in mind when sizing your SIMMs.
I'm typing this from a Multia, so I suppose I know enough about them to get them running. You'll need:
* True parity SIMMs (in pairs). In other words, not EDO. These SIMMs come at a premium price today, though you can usually pick up some on Ebay cheaply.
* Floppy drive - this is (I think) a standard laptop floppy. You'll likely want to have one available for the install.
* Hard drive. My Multia uses an internal 3.5" SCSI drive. They can use 2.5" SCSI drives or 2.5" IDE drives as well, though I've heard you have to update the firmware to get the IDE working.
* Keyboard/mouse - Normal PS/2 stuff.
* Video - 256 colors, pretty much any res/refresh rate you want Normal VGA connector.
* Network - AUI, 10bT, 10b2. Pick one.:)
* Serial - semi-standard. You should be able to hook a modem up with a normal 25-pin cable. There's a funky cable available that can split up the port into two ports.
* Parallel - standard.
What you can put inside depends on what riser card you get. One allows for an internal 3.5" drive. The other allows only a 2.5" drive, but also provides on PCI slot.
| Perhaps this project, above all others | illustrates the obvious failure of the open | source system. The source code to a huge and | monumentally important piece of software was | released, a project that was professionally | worked on by paid developers.
Oh geesz - not *this* tired argument again. Your first point is false. The source code to a huge and monumentally important piece of software was not released. What was released was huge, but not monumentally important. Why? Because THE RELEASE WAS NONFUNCTIONAL. Had they released the code to an actualy working product, the open source community could have more quickly run with it. As it was, they released a huge, largely unintelligible, broken mess.
Now that Mozilla actually seems to be getting somewhere, here come the bashers.:)
As for the Linux kernel - well, it works. So people are motivated to work on it, because they can actually use the thing.
[Start off the post with a bad pun - what has/. come to?:) ]
Anyone note that the prime objection Universal appears to have had to the linking was that people could see the content without seeing 2 or 3 banner ads that Universal has on their site?
So what are Universal and other going to do about the ever-increasing (in personal experience - I don't have hard figures here) use of proxies like Junkbuster and Proxomitron (local windows-user uses this) that besically exist for the sole purpose of filtering out unwanted banner ads? With sites like weather.com which throw a dozen ad banners at you when you try to get your local weather information, it's only going to make more people look for ways to get rid of them.
As to the issue of linking - I don't think I'd have a legal leg to stand on if someone linked to content on my site - assuming I didn't want them to. Me, I like watching the webalizer bars go up.:) As the article points out, the whole point of links is to make it a world wide WEB.
For the record, I'll agree with the sentiment that Katz is off his rocker with this last rant, but I'll make a comment on the below:
| Films with mild swearing are rated 12, films | with violence are rated 15 and films with | sexual content are rated 18.
This I've never really understood. Excessive violence is indeed more permissible than any sexual content - and it isn't just an American thing. The attitude is thus -
"Let's make sex mysterious and 'adult' - that way, teens won't have sex and get pregnant or get diseases or anything."
Of course, that's the way we've typically tried to influence teen bahavior (by turning undesirable behaviors into rites of passage). I don't expect reason to take over any time soon.:)
| You see, I happen to be a part of a minority | (?) group of Slashdot readers who actually | think that such moral limitations and the so on | are actually worthwhile.
The issue is - as always - whose responsibility is it? And what's "moral"? Oh sure - we all agree that murder is bad - but what about the sexual education of our kids? I hold the opinion that our society's inability to deal with sexual matters with regards to educating children is probably one of the biggest reasons we have problems like teen pregnancy / VD / etc. Security through obscurity doesn't help secure computer systems - what makes anyone think it'll help secure a child from making an uninformed decision?
While I agree that lying to the film nazis (NO MOVIE FOR YOU!) wasn't the way to go about this, I have no problem with a mom taking her teens to see South Park - especially considering what the actual message of the movie was.
| "Mom" is a word which represents a caring, | nuturing class of women who have the BEST | interest of the children in mind.
Arming a child with education would do this, no? (And I'm not speaking specifically about South Park here...)
| Our country is closer now to "religious | discrimination" then in ever has been - but | only in the context of restricting prayer in | school and the like.
Does anyone restrict the actual *child* praying in school? If so, that's obviously wrong - the child should be able to pray if he wants. It's teacher-led or forced prayer that's the problem for us non-religious types.
| On my friend's PS (he's going to get a DC soon) | I see way too many "Virtua-Tekken-Mortal-Street | Figter Beta Gamma V Gold edition" clones [snip] | I also see too many crappy driving/racing games
This is mainly a symptom of what's currently in video arcades. Fortunately, there's much more available with even a cursory glance at Wal-Mart.
(I'm not saying that there's no variety on PCs, either. I just don't believe that consoles are dead or even dying.)
I also don't buy the idea that any kind of strategy game needs top-of-the-line PC hardware, despite what the folks who are *FINALLY* bringing Star Fleet Battles to the PC might wish us to believe. The essence of that game could be programmed onto a Commodore 64 given a talented programmer. Just draw the damn grid and add up the numbers in the energy allocations, please. Oh, and handle cloaked ship movement.
By the way - consoles have mice. That's the only way X-Com for the PSX is even *remotely* playable. Console mice go back at least to the Genesis/SNES - I don't recall whether there was an NES mouse. If you'll take a trackball as substitute, we go back to the Atari 2600.
I just hope that if consoles and PCs do "converge" for gaming purposes, the end result will have the ease of use the consoles have. I don't know about the rest of you folks, but when I want to play a game, I want the actual process of starting the game to be a no-brainer. I do *NOT* want a repeat of my experience getting Half Life to run.;)
| And I know that people can say "But Joe Blow | won't ever use this." No, he won't, but the | "real gamer" is a quite sophisticated computer | user. They buy $4000 computers with top of the | line sound and video cards to | play their games on.
But the point that the original poster was making was that it would be these sorts of things that would cause consoles to die. You have just pointed out one reasons why consoles will *NOT* die anytime soon. That is - the fact that to be a real PC gamer, you have to buy a $4000 PC every six months. (Top of the line in the PC world lasts 6 months or less). So while this customization may have its good points, it's not going to contribute one whit to the death of consoles as we know them - which is what we were talking about in the first place.
What will kill either way of gaming, IMO, is what killed off the consoles in the mid eighties. A lack of original games. Too many cookie-cutter games, if you will. To an extent, we're seeing this with PC games these days. I mean, just how many Quake clones does one warm body need?:)
| Even with a network connection, show me how | with a console, I can log on and chat with my | buddies across the country and then arrange a 1 | on 1 deathmatch for later that night. Maybe | someday, but not today and until I can do that | on a console, it's PC's for me.
| The PC gaming market is bigger than ever! | Consoles will die a slow death
Er, don't you remember the mid eighties? Consoles *did* die out in the dark times betweeen the Atari/Coleco/Intellivision and the original NES. However, *since* the NES (and actually, during the time that PC gaming actually started to take off), consoles have been doing just fine. But let's examine your points:
1) Multiplayer. Done on colsoles (link cables, the Netlink, etc., as well as splitscreen). Why do you thnink most consoles have 2-4 joystick ports anyhow?:) Will probably be more common on the next-generation consoles.
2) Strategy games? When there's a big enough market to make them worthwhile, they'll show up. There's nothing about a strategy game that requires a 500 MHz Pentium III with 512 megs of RAM.
3) Customization. For Joe Average, is that such a big deal? As for "patches for improved play", I read that as "the game was released with annoying bugs". This is more common on PCs than consoles due to the fact that there *are* so many damned graphics cards, sound cards, versions of Direct(su)X, etc. For the consoles, their unity in terms of what hardware will be there is a strength. The games typically work out-of-the-box.
4) Well, that's really rhe same point as above. When I want to tweak a system, it's usually not for a *game*. I put in a game to relax.;)
I don't believe that consoles are going away anytime soon, so long as PC gaming remains complicated (to just get games running, not in the level of gameplay) and expensive and console gaming remains easy and inexpensive.
| That's just what they need now - a split in the | community. Sure, fragment that user base even | more!
At this point, should either "Amiga" developer really give a rat's ass about fragmenting the community? There just aren't enough die-hard "I will buy anything with the Amiga badge on it" Amigans left to make a financial dent these days.
If any company pusing a new "Amiga" is to survive, IMO they've got to shed the ashes of the Amiga's former life and reach out to a whole bunch of *new* blood.
Anyway, it's pretty certain that Redhat got the email addresses they're sending this to from their bugzilla, as that's the permutation of my e-mail address the e-mail I got from them on this subject was addressed to.
At any rate, whether it's "spam" or not depends on what the sign-up form for bugzilla said with regards to what they'll do with your address. They at least haven't been mining newsgroups for addresses, it seems.:)
| Today on comp.sys.amiga.misc, we've had | regulars complaining that linux was so | ludicrously bloated that it couldn't run on a | p100
And this was on c.s.a.*misc*? Things have indeed gotten bad down Amiga way. Such silly prattle used to rarely make it out of c.s.a.advocacy in the old days.
Just don't tell "scanner" (my 486 - serves as a host for my scanner and X10 firecracker)that. Or at least two of the webservers here at Clemson - they're both P75s.:)
I'll have to come out and agree with the sentiment that some others are posting here: Amiga *announcing* this and that just isn't news anymore. All that's come out of anything officially connected with the Amiga for *years* has been vapor. Vapor!
I've owned various Amigas since 1987, though the A3000 and A500 I still own are boxed and in the attic at the moment. I quit the roller coaster in 1996 and started using Linux and Windows to get my work done. Now I just use Linux at home. I do still like to read about Amiga news occasionally, though. But who really cares which kernel AmigaVaporOS will be based on?
Though hearing an AmigaOS user say that *Linux* is unstable really does crack me up...:)
| I think that Amiga really has the muscle to push | linux into the mainstream.
In all honestly, I think that *Linux* just might have the muscle to put the *Amiga* into the mainstream. Linux has been steadily growing for years now. The Amiga has been dying since 1992.
Of course, these days I just can't get excited anymore about a new "Amiga" coming out - if in fact it ever does.
| The trouble with ALT is that in common usage | it's not used for text with the intention of | being shown instead of the image, but for | tooltip-like mouse-overs for breathless ad copy | like "Click here for the greatest e-deals on | books and music!!!"
That bit I won't fault them (much) for, since all tha ad is usually trying to say is "Click here for the greatest deals on books and music". It's perhaps better than the alt tag doesn't try to describe every annoying frame of the GIF animation.
My criterion for judging web pages is usually "If the page makes no sense at all in Lynx, it's probably crap." Sites like an image gallery might be immune to this, but in general if it's information you seek, the usuful stuff can be seen by Lynx.
|I think the company (CPU Micromart) is ready for |some great things. Definitely worth considering |as an investment.
I sincerely hope these guys have cleaned up their act before joining the ranks of happy Linuc resellers. My dealings with them were nothing short of painful - though I *finally* got what I ordered. Heck, they didn't respond to my e-mails until I responded to an ad they posted in a newsgroup.
Like I said, I hope they've cleaned up their act...
| Macrovision on DSS dishes? I'll | have a macrovision killer permanently | installed. I refuse to have my right to record | infringed upon.
Macrovision - at least the ability to use Macrovision - has been on DSS units (and Dish Network units) since day 1. I've never seen it used on any programming I've watched, though. (I don't do PPV wrestling, etc - I'd expect it to be used there first)
This is off on a bit of a tangent, but I'd avoid the combination of RH5.2, an S3 (virge?) DX, and Afterstep - at least, unless you *like* regularly killing/restarting X due to a memory leak. Windowmaker under the same other conditions doesn't show this problem. A recent Windowmaker will stomp the Afterstep that comes with RH 5.2 into a pulp anyhow.:)
Of course, if you're only dabbling in Linux, you might not notice the memory leak - I use Linux as my only OS at home and leave the main machine on 24/7, so it was an issue for me.
BTW- you *can* set up Windowmaker so that it uses the same "database" that the other window managers are set up to use - that's how my systems are configured.
As for "intuitive" - what's intuitive? I sit my mother in front of Windows 95 *or* a Linux box. Either is like asking her to sit in front of the GC/MS setup we have in the lab (and she's not a chemist). I really wonder how much of this is due to Linux not being installed with the comnputer when you bought it and how much is due to the "difficulty" of Linux once it's been configured.
On Windows I woder why I don't get a nice menu of applications when I right click in the desktop (a la Windowmaker) - and where's the damn dock? Windows isn't intuitive!
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| That is, the comments on topics of biology are
| generally pretty clueless.
Be fair. A fair portion of the comments on Slashdot on any scientific subject other than CS are clueless. It's not just biology. (Speaking as a chemist/chemical engineer here)
Regardless, though, it *is* interesting stuff. Much better than the porn site Slashdot was hawking last night (the 30 days thing). I'm all for more scientific articles. Pity this ones basically a CNN blurb.
$30 or so for a 16M 4x36 SIMM (you must use pairs), so $60 for 32 megabytes, which is the absolute minimum amount I'd consider sticking into a Multia to use as a thin client. I'd recommend 64 megs or greater to use the Multia for actual work, as Alphas tend to suck more memory.
The Multia has four SIMM slots, so keep that in mind when sizing your SIMMs.
I'm typing this from a Multia, so I suppose I know enough about them to get them running. You'll need:
:)
* True parity SIMMs (in pairs). In other words, not EDO. These SIMMs come at a premium price today, though you can usually pick up some on Ebay cheaply.
* Floppy drive - this is (I think) a standard laptop floppy. You'll likely want to have one available for the install.
* Hard drive. My Multia uses an internal 3.5" SCSI drive. They can use 2.5" SCSI drives or 2.5" IDE drives as well, though I've heard you have to update the firmware to get the IDE working.
* Keyboard/mouse - Normal PS/2 stuff.
* Video - 256 colors, pretty much any res/refresh rate you want Normal VGA connector.
* Network - AUI, 10bT, 10b2. Pick one.
* Serial - semi-standard. You should be able to hook a modem up with a normal 25-pin cable. There's a funky cable available that can split up the port into two ports.
* Parallel - standard.
What you can put inside depends on what riser card you get. One allows for an internal 3.5" drive. The other allows only a 2.5" drive, but also provides on PCI slot.
Cafeteria food? Bah ... the term "spam" itself, as used on the Internet.
... :)
I *wish* our cafeteria had served something as edible as SPAM
Oh, and baked beans.
| Perhaps this project, above all others
:)
| illustrates the obvious failure of the open
| source system. The source code to a huge and
| monumentally important piece of software was
| released, a project that was professionally | worked on by paid developers.
Oh geesz - not *this* tired argument again. Your first point is false. The source code to a huge and monumentally important piece of software was not released. What was released was huge, but not monumentally important. Why? Because THE RELEASE WAS NONFUNCTIONAL. Had they released the code to an actualy working product, the open source community could have more quickly run with it. As it was, they released a huge, largely unintelligible, broken mess.
Now that Mozilla actually seems to be getting somewhere, here come the bashers.
As for the Linux kernel - well, it works. So people are motivated to work on it, because they can actually use the thing.
| Why are people still stuck in Mozilla? IE has
:)
| 80% of the browser market now
Mozilla will run on my Alpha under Linux. Internet Explorer won't.
Kinda gives me little incentive to download IE, doesn't it?
Next question.
[Start off the post with a bad pun - what has /. come to? :) ]
:) As the article points out, the whole point of links is to make it a world wide WEB.
Anyone note that the prime objection Universal appears to have had to the linking was that people could see the content without seeing 2 or 3 banner ads that Universal has on their site?
So what are Universal and other going to do about the ever-increasing (in personal experience - I don't have hard figures here) use of proxies like Junkbuster and Proxomitron (local windows-user uses this) that besically exist for the sole purpose of filtering out unwanted banner ads? With sites like weather.com which throw a dozen ad banners at you when you try to get your local weather information, it's only going to make more people look for ways to get rid of them.
As to the issue of linking - I don't think I'd have a legal leg to stand on if someone linked to content on my site - assuming I didn't want them to. Me, I like watching the webalizer bars go up.
| This new Amiga looks like something you'd find
| in the batcave.
I was thinking that I could fix some popcorn in it.
Like in the subject line - this isn't significant. We've seen cool Amiga cases before over the years. and they've contained nothing but vapor.
Until there's actually something there *in* the box, it's not news and it certainly doesn't matter.
For the record, I'll agree with the sentiment that Katz is off his rocker with this last rant, but I'll make a comment on the below:
:)
| Films with mild swearing are rated 12, films
| with violence are rated 15 and films with
| sexual content are rated 18.
This I've never really understood. Excessive violence is indeed more permissible than any sexual content - and it isn't just an American thing. The attitude is thus -
"Let's make sex mysterious and 'adult' - that way, teens won't have sex and get pregnant or get diseases or anything."
Of course, that's the way we've typically tried to influence teen bahavior (by turning undesirable behaviors into rites of passage). I don't expect reason to take over any time soon.
| You see, I happen to be a part of a minority
| (?) group of Slashdot readers who actually
| think that such moral limitations and the so on
| are actually worthwhile.
The issue is - as always - whose responsibility is it? And what's "moral"? Oh sure - we all agree that murder is bad - but what about the sexual education of our kids? I hold the opinion that our society's inability to deal with sexual matters with regards to educating children is probably one of the biggest reasons we have problems like teen pregnancy / VD / etc. Security through obscurity doesn't help secure computer systems - what makes anyone think it'll help secure a child from making an uninformed decision?
While I agree that lying to the film nazis (NO MOVIE FOR YOU!) wasn't the way to go about this, I have no problem with a mom taking her teens to see South Park - especially considering what the actual message of the movie was.
| "Mom" is a word which represents a caring,
| nuturing class of women who have the BEST
| interest of the children in mind.
Arming a child with education would do this, no? (And I'm not speaking specifically about South Park here...)
| Our country is closer now to "religious
| discrimination" then in ever has been - but
| only in the context of restricting prayer in
| school and the like.
Does anyone restrict the actual *child* praying in school? If so, that's obviously wrong - the child should be able to pray if he wants. It's teacher-led or forced prayer that's the problem for us non-religious types.
| On my friend's PS (he's going to get a DC soon)
;)
| I see way too many "Virtua-Tekken-Mortal-Street
| Figter Beta Gamma V Gold edition" clones [snip]
| I also see too many crappy driving/racing games
This is mainly a symptom of what's currently in video arcades. Fortunately, there's much more available with even a cursory glance at Wal-Mart.
(I'm not saying that there's no variety on PCs, either. I just don't believe that consoles are dead or even dying.)
I also don't buy the idea that any kind of strategy game needs top-of-the-line PC hardware, despite what the folks who are *FINALLY* bringing Star Fleet Battles to the PC might wish us to believe. The essence of that game could be programmed onto a Commodore 64 given a talented programmer. Just draw the damn grid and add up the numbers in the energy allocations, please. Oh, and handle cloaked ship movement.
By the way - consoles have mice. That's the only way X-Com for the PSX is even *remotely* playable. Console mice go back at least to the Genesis/SNES - I don't recall whether there was an NES mouse. If you'll take a trackball as substitute, we go back to the Atari 2600.
I just hope that if consoles and PCs do "converge" for gaming purposes, the end result will have the ease of use the consoles have. I don't know about the rest of you folks, but when I want to play a game, I want the actual process of starting the game to be a no-brainer. I do *NOT* want a repeat of my experience getting Half Life to run.
| And I know that people can say "But Joe Blow
:)
:)
| won't ever use this." No, he won't, but the
| "real gamer" is a quite sophisticated computer
| user. They buy $4000 computers with top of the
| line sound and video cards to
| play their games on.
But the point that the original poster was making was that it would be these sorts of things that would cause consoles to die. You have just pointed out one reasons why consoles will *NOT* die anytime soon. That is - the fact that to be a real PC gamer, you have to buy a $4000 PC every six months. (Top of the line in the PC world lasts 6 months or less). So while this customization may have its good points, it's not going to contribute one whit to the death of consoles as we know them - which is what we were talking about in the first place.
What will kill either way of gaming, IMO, is what killed off the consoles in the mid eighties. A lack of original games. Too many cookie-cutter games, if you will. To an extent, we're seeing this with PC games these days. I mean, just how many Quake clones does one warm body need?
| Even with a network connection, show me how
| with a console, I can log on and chat with my
| buddies across the country and then arrange a 1
| on 1 deathmatch for later that night. Maybe
| someday, but not today and until I can do that
| on a console, it's PC's for me.
Cripes, man, you can do that on a Sega Saturn.
| The PC gaming market is bigger than ever!
:) Will probably be more common on the next-generation consoles.
;)
| Consoles will die a slow death
Er, don't you remember the mid eighties? Consoles *did* die out in the dark times betweeen the Atari/Coleco/Intellivision and the original NES. However, *since* the NES (and actually, during the time that PC gaming actually started to take off), consoles have been doing just fine. But let's examine your points:
1) Multiplayer. Done on colsoles (link cables, the Netlink, etc., as well as splitscreen). Why do you thnink most consoles have 2-4 joystick ports anyhow?
2) Strategy games? When there's a big enough market to make them worthwhile, they'll show up. There's nothing about a strategy game that requires a 500 MHz Pentium III with 512 megs of RAM.
3) Customization. For Joe Average, is that such a big deal? As for "patches for improved play", I read that as "the game was released with annoying bugs". This is more common on PCs than consoles due to the fact that there *are* so many damned graphics cards, sound cards, versions of Direct(su)X, etc. For the consoles, their unity in terms of what hardware will be there is a strength. The games typically work out-of-the-box.
4) Well, that's really rhe same point as above. When I want to tweak a system, it's usually not for a *game*. I put in a game to relax.
I don't believe that consoles are going away anytime soon, so long as PC gaming remains complicated (to just get games running, not in the level of gameplay) and expensive and console gaming remains easy and inexpensive.
| That's just what they need now - a split in the
| community. Sure, fragment that user base even
| more!
At this point, should either "Amiga" developer really give a rat's ass about fragmenting the community? There just aren't enough die-hard "I will buy anything with the Amiga badge on it" Amigans left to make a financial dent these days.
If any company pusing a new "Amiga" is to survive, IMO they've got to shed the ashes of the Amiga's former life and reach out to a whole bunch of *new* blood.
From the mouth of anonymous cowards... :)
:)
Anyway, it's pretty certain that Redhat got the email addresses they're sending this to from their bugzilla, as that's the permutation of my e-mail address the e-mail I got from them on this subject was addressed to.
At any rate, whether it's "spam" or not depends on what the sign-up form for bugzilla said with regards to what they'll do with your address. They at least haven't been mining newsgroups for addresses, it seems.
| Today on comp.sys.amiga.misc, we've had
:)
... :)
| regulars complaining that linux was so
| ludicrously bloated that it couldn't run on a
| p100
And this was on c.s.a.*misc*? Things have indeed gotten bad down Amiga way. Such silly prattle used to rarely make it out of c.s.a.advocacy in the old days.
Just don't tell "scanner" (my 486 - serves as a host for my scanner and X10 firecracker)that. Or at least two of the webservers here at Clemson - they're both P75s.
I'll have to come out and agree with the sentiment that some others are posting here: Amiga *announcing* this and that just isn't news anymore. All that's come out of anything officially connected with the Amiga for *years* has been vapor. Vapor!
I've owned various Amigas since 1987, though the A3000 and A500 I still own are boxed and in the attic at the moment. I quit the roller coaster in 1996 and started using Linux and Windows to get my work done. Now I just use Linux at home. I do still like to read about Amiga news occasionally, though. But who really cares which kernel AmigaVaporOS will be based on?
Though hearing an AmigaOS user say that *Linux* is unstable really does crack me up
| I think that Amiga really has the muscle to push
| linux into the mainstream.
In all honestly, I think that *Linux* just might have the muscle to put the *Amiga* into the mainstream. Linux has been steadily growing for years now. The Amiga has been dying since 1992.
Of course, these days I just can't get excited anymore about a new "Amiga" coming out - if in fact it ever does.
| The trouble with ALT is that in common usage
| it's not used for text with the intention of
| being shown instead of the image, but for
| tooltip-like mouse-overs for breathless ad copy
| like "Click here for the greatest e-deals on
| books and music!!!"
That bit I won't fault them (much) for, since all tha ad is usually trying to say is "Click here for the greatest deals on books and music". It's perhaps better than the alt tag doesn't try to describe every annoying frame of the GIF animation.
My criterion for judging web pages is usually "If the page makes no sense at all in Lynx, it's probably crap." Sites like an image gallery might be immune to this, but in general if it's information you seek, the usuful stuff can be seen by Lynx.
|I think the company (CPU Micromart) is ready for
|some great things. Definitely worth considering
|as an investment.
I sincerely hope these guys have cleaned up their act before joining the ranks of happy Linuc resellers. My dealings with them were nothing short of painful - though I *finally* got what I ordered. Heck, they didn't respond to my e-mails until I responded to an ad they posted in a newsgroup.
Like I said, I hope they've cleaned up their act...
| Macrovision on DSS dishes? I'll
| have a macrovision killer permanently
| installed. I refuse to have my right to record
| infringed upon.
Macrovision - at least the ability to use Macrovision - has been on DSS units (and Dish Network units) since day 1. I've never seen it used on any programming I've watched, though. (I don't do PPV wrestling, etc - I'd expect it to be used there first)
This is off on a bit of a tangent, but I'd avoid the combination of RH5.2, an S3 (virge?) DX, and Afterstep - at least, unless you *like* regularly killing/restarting X due to a memory leak. Windowmaker under the same other conditions doesn't show this problem. A recent Windowmaker will stomp the Afterstep that comes with RH 5.2 into a pulp anyhow. :)
Of course, if you're only dabbling in Linux, you might not notice the memory leak - I use Linux as my only OS at home and leave the main machine on 24/7, so it was an issue for me.
BTW- you *can* set up Windowmaker so that it uses the same "database" that the other window managers are set up to use - that's how my systems are configured.
As for "intuitive" - what's intuitive? I sit my mother in front of Windows 95 *or* a Linux box. Either is like asking her to sit in front of the GC/MS setup we have in the lab (and she's not a chemist). I really wonder how much of this is due to Linux not being installed with the comnputer when you bought it and how much is due to the "difficulty" of Linux once it's been configured.
On Windows I woder why I don't get a nice menu of applications when I right click in the desktop (a la Windowmaker) - and where's the damn dock? Windows isn't intuitive!
| I learned, "Ahh..Mexican food, and badly
;)
| written science fiction..I see the connection."
Except that Taco Bell isn't real Mexican food and Star Wars isn't real science fiction.
| Bill Gates will be revealed as having invented
| the Meridian
I thought Al Gore invented the Meridian...
| i dropped french about 8 years ago, to
| concentrate on italian.
Do you also understand Thousand Island, Honey Mustard, and Ranch?