Well, the only reason I care is that it doesn't work correctly. It's a problem, perhaps in the kernel, that, while insignificant, is still a problem. I'd like to see Linux be as nifty as it could be. I can see the kind of treatment people would give windows if it blue screened right after blinking "It's now safe to turn of your crappy winbox".
I've got this one computer at home that crashes EVERY time it hits runlevel 0. I think it's got somehting to do with apmd, but anyways, it's one of those computers that can turn themselves off through software. Normally, the last thing you see is:
Stopping all md devices. System is halted. Power down.
And at that point, you either have to turn it off yourself, or the software (apmd?) does it for you. Well this one box I have (a crappy HP I got for free) gets right to the words "power down" and then it dumps all sorts of crap onto the screen, including the values in the CPU's registers, and what I assume to be some crap from memory. What I'm thinking here though, is that since all the filesystems are already unmounted, LKCD wouldn't make a lick of difference for me. Am I right in assuming this?
oh dood that was the funiest thing ive red all day sumone shoold print that comment out and male it to the kids jale sell so he can reed it too and see how much of a dummas he is for riting such a retarted storee.
Seriously man, 100% for that load of crap?! It makes me afraid to ever have a kid....
With the kind of cash Bill Gates has, he could buy a couple of planets... Just imagine the destruction though, MS Moon would probably crash into the earth a couple times a day....
Unless it's firmware that can be upgraded, what would Transmeta do when Intel introduces a new opcode in their Pentium IV? Wouldn't it be useless trying to run any code optimized for the new Intel chip?
Surgery should be a last resort, it will cause a bunch of scar tissue to form and it doesn't always solve the problem. Try looking for a Chiropractor, not a wussie one, the kind that actually adjusts his patients. I used to go to one, and he had a couple machines specifically for carpal tunnel. Also, try to look for a doctor that graduated from Palmer, it's like the Harvard/Yale for Chiropractic. Oh yeah, an excercise you can do, is put a rubber band around your hand (kind of like on your fingernails) and keep opening and closing your hand. It counteracts the motion that normally causes carpal tunnel (the tightening down of the hand). By the way, I'm no doctor, so talk to a doctor and talk to a chiropracter, then decide which is best...
Thanks for warning me... but I'd rather not:) I hate the fact that I have to use windows here, because everyone on the network uses Exchange for email. I try to use the Linux box behind me as much as I can, but then I have to work on Access databases, so my life sucks:(
You know, thats what the (Microsoft loving) guy in the cubicle next to me always says: "Once one of them smells the money, it's all downhill from there". And you know what? Even though I'd like to think it won't happen, I can't help but fear it will. I guess only time will tell...
Well, if the Linux community is gonna switch to a new GUI, we should do it either now or as soon as possible, the longer we wait, the greater presence Linux will have, and the harder it will be to change over the entire user base. Especially when the desktop battle with M$ is on the horizon, switching GUI's might not be the best thing for Linux right now. I'm not saying we should switch, I definately would, but think of the trouble it might cause newbies to have to switch to a new GUI right after they learned one "not-so user friendly" GUI. But I do think we need something better, and we could come up with a GUI that would blow all the others away...
They're probably getting fed fish and getting their tummies rubbed, kickin' back enjoying Linus' speech n stuff. But I'll bet they do think it's a bit warm there, you know, without any glaciers to lay down on....
I can't believe Sci-Fi channel is so lame. With all the star trek rip-offs it has, and all the bad movies it plays (not counting the ones on MST3K), it cancelled the only good show. I remember watching it on TV before comedy central ever existed. And I don't care what people say about Mike sucking more than Joel, they were equally funny... I didn't see much of a change. Except Pearl Forrester, that was kinda lame. I watched the final episode last night, and boy was that hillarious (MY LEG IS TURNING ONE DIMENSIONAL!!!!). It's so frikkin sad to see it go. With MST3K gone and no scheduled tapings of Mr. Show left.... I guess South Park is all that's left on TV to watch.
My favorite part in any MST3K episode is actually fairly recent, it's this story about these cult ninja's and this guy is looking for his dad, and they come accross a Ted Kazinski(sp?) looking guy, and the kid's like "Did you know my dad?" and Tom Servo jumps in with "Know him?! He was delicious!!!". I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.....
Linux can be integrated easily into NT domains. It can be configured to be more compatible with the windows network, or the windows boxes can be made compatible with the Linux box (installing an NFS client on the 95 boxes, for example).
You can set up Linux as the proxy server for the LAN/WAN or as a profiler, or as your web server...
You don't need to set up the clients with Linux, generally most users aren't very computer knowledgable, and Windoze is right for them. Linux should be used on the servers and in mission critical applications.
You could easily make Linux work in *your* unit. Mines not so much different than yours, yet we have a plethora of *NIX boxes scattered accross our network, and guess what? They are the ones that rarely ever go down....
I'm a programmer in the US Air Force, and am a Linux hacker. There are a few Linux boxes in use on base, including the one sitting right behind me, (my baby). Unfortunately, _they_ are trying to push NT down our throats. If you call up the sysadmins on base and ask them to reboot a *NIX server, the answer you'll hear is "I thought that box wasn't an running NT". The techie people who know what works and what doesn't unfortunately aren't the same people that make the decisions. In my neck of the woods, Commercial Off the Shelf software is being used more and more than stuff we develop.
In order to get the Linux box in my cubicle, I had to whine and whine for a month and write up all sorts of crap before it was approved. Since then, I've been coming up with all sorts of excuses to use it. They use Red Hat on a few servers, like the profiling box and others, but for some strange reason, they put NT on the proxy, which explains why the web is down half the time....
The funny thing is though, the military is supposed to buy from the lowest bidder and spend as little money as possible, and here we have a free OS that could be used and they go NT (WTF?!). Oh, they tend to think maintenence costs are higher for *NIX systems too (another WTF?!).
Oh yeah, and the opinions I've stated here aren't necessarily the views of the USAF (but they should be).
That's a really true statement...
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"There are two ways to get something done -- the right way and the cheap way."
I like that.
I can see only two good uses for Linmodems:
1. Used in an iToaster type of device (cheap $200 web surfing box).
Not only are there soft modems, but then there's dumb printers and other hardware too. I have a piece of crap printer from HP that is also controllerless, luckily some great guy wrote a Linux driver for it, but it still wont print in color:( But if you think soft modems are bad for the CPU, whenever I print, my computer slows to a freaking crawl for the whole time I print. Hardware like this just adds to the bloat found in software these days. They build a faster CPU, and then tax it with crap to where the CPU is just as useless as the previous generation one. It's a sad thing to see companies putting this crap into their computers. It's always better to have peripherals take the load off of CPU's just like playing a game with a 3Dfx card as opposed to using software rendering. Or having a seperate DVD or MP3 decoder card as opposed to having the CPU do it. I think the money is better spent on more expensive peripherals than a hella-fast CPU...
I'm 99% sure that the stuff inside the nifty little bundle of sticks was Josh's tongue and teeth. Heather should have have known what it was, and therefore when he was screaming in the middle of the night, she must have known it was a trick. Also, someone would have to have basketball sized nuts to go into that house, I'm talking balls the size of that "Crocodile Hunter" guy on Animal Planet. I think the movie was hella-sweet. People that complained about it should realize that this wasn't meant to be a mega-blockbuster hollywood release, it was meant to be something you see on IFC in between Skitzopolis (sp?) and Pi. Oh yeah, and the little kids handprints on the walls would have had me out of that house so frikkin fast you wouldn't believe it.
Hehe, the whole time I was watching the movie, the dude behind me was like "Burn the forest down!" "Burn the motherfucker!", and then at the end he was like "Burn the house down! Burn it!" it was pretty funny. Also, when we were leaving the theater we decided to go out one of those EXIT doors by the screen, you know, where no one else is leaving through? Bad Idea, appearently someone either thought the movie was hella-scary or really thought it sucked, 'cause they yacked all over the hallway. Pretty nasty pink colored too....
All this talk about tiny CD's being easy to lose and stuff aside, imagine using a laptop to serve 16 penny sized cd's to a LAN. That would be killer. Also imagine how much data (although static) you could fit in a mega-tower server with daisy-chained SCSI penny CD drives. Penny CD's would probably find a good market with laptop folks though, you could fit a lot more nifty stuff in there without the huge tray and everything...
Hey Mr. Church of Satan guy, what he said about MP3's was an analogy. He meant what was being done to the music industry now, could be done to the film industry as well. Besides, I think MPEG encoding was first developed for video anyways, I think the MP in MPEG stands for Motion Picture. I could be wrong on that one though, but I know my sattelite transciever has a little tag on it that says MPEG-1. Oh yeah my spelling sucks, there I said it before someone else could flame me for it.
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Well, the only reason I care is that it doesn't work correctly. It's a problem, perhaps in the kernel, that, while insignificant, is still a problem. I'd like to see Linux be as nifty as it could be. I can see the kind of treatment people would give windows if it blue screened right after blinking "It's now safe to turn of your crappy winbox".
I've got this one computer at home that crashes EVERY time it hits runlevel 0. I think it's got somehting to do with apmd, but anyways, it's one of those computers that can turn themselves off through software. Normally, the last thing you see is:
Stopping all md devices.
System is halted.
Power down.
And at that point, you either have to turn it off yourself, or the software (apmd?) does it for you. Well this one box I have (a crappy HP I got for free) gets right to the words "power down" and then it dumps all sorts of crap onto the screen, including the values in the CPU's registers, and what I assume to be some crap from memory. What I'm thinking here though, is that since all the filesystems are already unmounted, LKCD wouldn't make a lick of difference for me. Am I right in assuming this?
oh dood that was the funiest thing ive red all day sumone shoold print that comment out and male it to the kids jale sell so he can reed it too and see how much of a dummas he is for riting such a retarted storee.
Seriously man, 100% for that load of crap?! It makes me afraid to ever have a kid....
With the kind of cash Bill Gates has, he could buy a couple of planets... Just imagine the destruction though, MS Moon would probably crash into the earth a couple times a day....
Set up AfterStep and customize a nifty wharf, he'll thank you for it...
I sure hope you mean 1GB of RAM, and most NT server practically require that much RAM to run effectively....
Unless it's firmware that can be upgraded, what would Transmeta do when Intel introduces a new opcode in their Pentium IV? Wouldn't it be useless trying to run any code optimized for the new Intel chip?
Surgery should be a last resort, it will cause a bunch of scar tissue to form and it doesn't always solve the problem. Try looking for a Chiropractor, not a wussie one, the kind that actually adjusts his patients. I used to go to one, and he had a couple machines specifically for carpal tunnel. Also, try to look for a doctor that graduated from Palmer, it's like the Harvard/Yale for Chiropractic. Oh yeah, an excercise you can do, is put a rubber band around your hand (kind of like on your fingernails) and keep opening and closing your hand. It counteracts the motion that normally causes carpal tunnel (the tightening down of the hand). By the way, I'm no doctor, so talk to a doctor and talk to a chiropracter, then decide which is best...
... before they find all the goat porn Bill Gates has on his computer...
Thanks for warning me... but I'd rather not :) I hate the fact that I have to use windows here, because everyone on the network uses Exchange for email. I try to use the Linux box behind me as much as I can, but then I have to work on Access databases, so my life sucks :(
You know, thats what the (Microsoft loving) guy in the cubicle next to me always says: "Once one of them smells the money, it's all downhill from there". And you know what? Even though I'd like to think it won't happen, I can't help but fear it will. I guess only time will tell...
That damn talking paperclip is the most anoying thing I've ever seen in any piece of software ever.
Well, if the Linux community is gonna switch to a new GUI, we should do it either now or as soon as possible, the longer we wait, the greater presence Linux will have, and the harder it will be to change over the entire user base. Especially when the desktop battle with M$ is on the horizon, switching GUI's might not be the best thing for Linux right now. I'm not saying we should switch, I definately would, but think of the trouble it might cause newbies to have to switch to a new GUI right after they learned one "not-so user friendly" GUI. But I do think we need something better, and we could come up with a GUI that would blow all the others away...
Microsoft's been producing digital bugs in all of their software for years :)
They're probably getting fed fish and getting their tummies rubbed, kickin' back enjoying Linus' speech n stuff. But I'll bet they do think it's a bit warm there, you know, without any glaciers to lay down on....
I can't believe Sci-Fi channel is so lame. With all the star trek rip-offs it has, and all the bad movies it plays (not counting the ones on MST3K), it cancelled the only good show. I remember watching it on TV before comedy central ever existed. And I don't care what people say about Mike sucking more than Joel, they were equally funny... I didn't see much of a change. Except Pearl Forrester, that was kinda lame. I watched the final episode last night, and boy was that hillarious (MY LEG IS TURNING ONE DIMENSIONAL!!!!). It's so frikkin sad to see it go. With MST3K gone and no scheduled tapings of Mr. Show left.... I guess South Park is all that's left on TV to watch.
My favorite part in any MST3K episode is actually fairly recent, it's this story about these cult ninja's and this guy is looking for his dad, and they come accross a Ted Kazinski(sp?) looking guy, and the kid's like "Did you know my dad?" and Tom Servo jumps in with "Know him?! He was delicious!!!". I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.....
Ever heard of Samba?
Linux can be integrated easily into NT domains. It can be configured to be more compatible with the windows network, or the windows boxes can be made compatible with the Linux box (installing an NFS client on the 95 boxes, for example).
You can set up Linux as the proxy server for the LAN/WAN or as a profiler, or as your web server...
You don't need to set up the clients with Linux, generally most users aren't very computer knowledgable, and Windoze is right for them. Linux should be used on the servers and in mission critical applications.
You could easily make Linux work in *your* unit. Mines not so much different than yours, yet we have a plethora of *NIX boxes scattered accross our network, and guess what? They are the ones that rarely ever go down....
I know, right? Too bad I had to teach myself to do the Linux admin stuff...
Going through technical school in the Air Force for my career field (programmer), a friend of mine had a nifty saying:
"We are either underpaid programmers or overpaid gardeners".
Don't flame me.
I'm a programmer in the US Air Force, and am a Linux hacker. There are a few Linux boxes in use on base, including the one sitting right behind me, (my baby). Unfortunately, _they_ are trying to push NT down our throats. If you call up the sysadmins on base and ask them to reboot a *NIX server, the answer you'll hear is "I thought that box wasn't an running NT". The techie people who know what works and what doesn't unfortunately aren't the same people that make the decisions. In my neck of the woods, Commercial Off the Shelf software is being used more and more than stuff we develop.
In order to get the Linux box in my cubicle, I had to whine and whine for a month and write up all sorts of crap before it was approved. Since then, I've been coming up with all sorts of excuses to use it. They use Red Hat on a few servers, like the profiling box and others, but for some strange reason, they put NT on the proxy, which explains why the web is down half the time....
The funny thing is though, the military is supposed to buy from the lowest bidder and spend as little money as possible, and here we have a free OS that could be used and they go NT (WTF?!). Oh, they tend to think maintenence costs are higher for *NIX systems too (another WTF?!).
Oh yeah, and the opinions I've stated here aren't necessarily the views of the USAF (but they should be).
"There are two ways to get something done -- the right way and the cheap way."
I like that.
I can see only two good uses for Linmodems:
1. Used in an iToaster type of device (cheap $200 web surfing box).
2. Paperweight.
Not only are there soft modems, but then there's dumb printers and other hardware too. I have a piece of crap printer from HP that is also controllerless, luckily some great guy wrote a Linux driver for it, but it still wont print in color :( But if you think soft modems are bad for the CPU, whenever I print, my computer slows to a freaking crawl for the whole time I print. Hardware like this just adds to the bloat found in software these days. They build a faster CPU, and then tax it with crap to where the CPU is just as useless as the previous generation one. It's a sad thing to see companies putting this crap into their computers. It's always better to have peripherals take the load off of CPU's just like playing a game with a 3Dfx card as opposed to using software rendering. Or having a seperate DVD or MP3 decoder card as opposed to having the CPU do it. I think the money is better spent on more expensive peripherals than a hella-fast CPU...
I'm 99% sure that the stuff inside the nifty little bundle of sticks was Josh's tongue and teeth. Heather should have have known what it was, and therefore when he was screaming in the middle of the night, she must have known it was a trick. Also, someone would have to have basketball sized nuts to go into that house, I'm talking balls the size of that "Crocodile Hunter" guy on Animal Planet. I think the movie was hella-sweet. People that complained about it should realize that this wasn't meant to be a mega-blockbuster hollywood release, it was meant to be something you see on IFC in between Skitzopolis (sp?) and Pi. Oh yeah, and the little kids handprints on the walls would have had me out of that house so frikkin fast you wouldn't believe it.
Hehe, the whole time I was watching the movie, the dude behind me was like "Burn the forest down!" "Burn the motherfucker!", and then at the end he was like "Burn the house down! Burn it!" it was pretty funny. Also, when we were leaving the theater we decided to go out one of those EXIT doors by the screen, you know, where no one else is leaving through? Bad Idea, appearently someone either thought the movie was hella-scary or really thought it sucked, 'cause they yacked all over the hallway. Pretty nasty pink colored too....
All this talk about tiny CD's being easy to lose and stuff aside, imagine using a laptop to serve 16 penny sized cd's to a LAN. That would be killer. Also imagine how much data (although static) you could fit in a mega-tower server with daisy-chained SCSI penny CD drives. Penny CD's would probably find a good market with laptop folks though, you could fit a lot more nifty stuff in there without the huge tray and everything...
Hey Mr. Church of Satan guy, what he said about MP3's was an analogy. He meant what was being done to the music industry now, could be done to the film industry as well. Besides, I think MPEG encoding was first developed for video anyways, I think the MP in MPEG stands for Motion Picture. I could be wrong on that one though, but I know my sattelite transciever has a little tag on it that says MPEG-1. Oh yeah my spelling sucks, there I said it before someone else could flame me for it.