I happen to have recently installed a Laserjet on my gf computer, and it's Win2000, and the whole process took me 5 minutes (1 config failure, 5 seconds of intensive neuronal action and then the right click on the right button)
I simply used KDE printing tool that came with the nice Knoppix-Cluster cd, and took 5 seconds before hitting buttons.
Also, please remember:
COMPUTER WEREN'T MADE FOR PEOPLE !!! Computers were made for experts in companies, the fact that windows is "easy to use" (damn, it hurts !) or even "intuitive" (I actually wrote that ?) has been the main cause of problems, because the configuration was a "One-Size-Fits-All" solution.
=> Most Windows computer are configured almost all the same, default, and so more or less all exposed to the same problems. They work "perfectly" (my hands start shaking) as long as everything is in the "Normal Scope" (everything open and accessible from anywhere, except if you change it, which users don't)
=> Microsoft made 2000 and XP. One is clearly a server Os, where even access to cdwriter for users has to be configured by hand. Many things are accessible, but you have to RTFM a bit and you can get it almost secure (MS notwhistanding)
XP, on the other hand, is a nice "plug-and-play" thingy with lotsa grease and help so that even Aunt Milly can do it herself (or pester her nephew/son/grandson, as in the 99.99% of real life cases)
You want an easy to use OS ? get a playstation. You want a desktop computer that just works ? get XP. You want a hard, rugged and stable server ? get linux. You want a nice Linux desktop easily running in no time ? be ready to lose most of your security, or wait some more time... MS had 20 years to learn how an UI should look, and they do extensive usability tests, have specialists, teams, and so on dedicated to the problem.
It will come in time, but Linux wasn't thought for the desktop, so the transition will take some time. The poor guys making cups did an excellent job as the server works 100% (for me). If you dislike the UI, please follow usual Open source procedure: 1 / Email the dev and tell him (gently) what's wrong in your opinion and what should be done. If he has the time, he'll fix it. (99% of real life cases ?) 2 / DO IT YOURSELF AND STOP COMPLAINING FOR CHRIS'SAKE !!! you are a guru Linux wizard, so get emacs runing and do your conf files, or write a better UI.
Ahh ! No point in this post, but I somehow feel better 8)
Linux is about choice and RTFMing : always had, server-side, never will, desktop-side...
If Users knew how to do it, they would be sysadmins...
This is a family story about a small boy and his cousine, born 2-3 weeks aprt, put into the same baby park at around one year, that have been found later by the parent having removed their diapers and were nicely fondling and kissing each other...
Babies have a sex life...if they get the opportunity...
and in reality, I would say males are switching between base 10 and base 1, with sex/no-sex as base 1 and "how to get more/better/bigger sex" as first use for base 10...
just putting the link online for easier browsing...
Tablespoon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The tablespoon is a measure of volume used in cooking. It has various values around the world.
1 U.S. tablespoon = 1/2 U.S. fl. oz. (14.8 ml)
The traditional British tablespoon was never standardised, and could vary from 1/2 to 5/8 imperial fl. oz. (14.2 ml to 17.8 ml)
1 metric tablespoon = 15 ml (in Canada, New Zealand, UK)
1 metric tablespoon = 20 ml (in Australia)
=> was locally standardised...
Gosh, just reading it makes my head hurt...
Well, it's just one of the difference that will make Qui Pro Quo more interesting in the times to come and more and more engineers comes to hand over specs 8)
the small chip was actually invented by a french (the same that created BeOS) and has been in use in france for a long long time.
The reason why it didn't catch up in America is taht they didn't likje to have to pay copyrights to a "Foreign Country" and waited up until the fraud cost became greater than the copyright fee.
Just you check for yourself, I won't give you a link...just check on Gassot, BeOS inventor.
"And anyway, pounds is the NAME of the UK currency, it's not the weight of it"
Damn, and I was taught that the value of One Pound() was originaly determined as the countervalue of ONE POUND OF STERLING SILVER, and then evolved in time as the metal lost it's position as universal monetary reference for Gold...
Yeahy, nice conversion scheme, using a non-standard reference...
Or do you mean that everyone has to get a "coffee spoon" (or is it a "Soup Spoon", the large ones) and that cultural revolution is to come to the Chineses, that uses those strange, bowl-like spoons (for Soup, btw)(see what I mean ?)...
Maybe that's why we never saw an 'American Restaurant' (or, lol, an English Restaurant 8)
Learnt that a long time ago... when doing calculus in n-base (first time I had a use for the converting options of the calculator 8) the teacher told us of the different systems and there advantages/disavantages.
He told us the Inca had a base 20 calculus system, for they were using both fingers ans toes to count.
Also, the Psychlos (Ron Hubbard's Sci-Fi "litterature") had a nice base 11 system that was fun to read about, for the calculus was a mix of both Maths and tradition (just like the Kabale had, meaning that each number is also a word or letter and changes the value of the equation as you read it...Cryptography before our time 8)
That's all folks, just a few remaining synaptic connections dying in their last burst. So long 8)
Hubble : nice, powrfull telescope (works best in the dark, placed in orbit) Nasa : has to make with what they have, go to the moon and take the money everywhere they can...
=> !!!::: NASA MISSION TO PUT HUBBLE ON THE MOON:::!!!
preferably on the dark side thereoff...
=> !!! Nasa gets first permanent installment on Moon !!! Lol (well, one has to do whith what one have 8)
Otherwise.. Nasa take Hubble closer to Space Station, get outsourced indian tech for doing oil-and-pressure, have it close to cut shuttle-taxi costs... (proximity is dangerous, but what about a 1 mile distance ?)
Yes, plenty of possibility...
now, for this is slashdot, the paranoiac point of view... They take Hubble and point it BACK ON EARTH... if it is geostationery, they could get the best Territory Observation sat ever, capable of saying how many whiskers you missed this morning 8)
Just, if you have that old 16 bits apps running on a dying computer, I'm sure you can find an old desktop somewhere, slap 98 or DOS 5 on it and keep it running...
I made the jump to full Linux less than 6 month ago, and now all my computers are Linux Based (Firewall is Astaro Linux, web/mail is E-smith, the rest (file server + desktop) is installed with Knoppix Cluster (debian))
Whenever I must do something Windows only, I ask my girlfriend for her keyboard, and later look for an alternative Linux solution.
Usually, I end up either with a multiplatform Java app, or with a Beta project from Sourceforge, and my need is fullfiled.
The problem is not with Legacy softz, for they will run on their old versions of whatever OS they need.
The problem is completing Linux's software portofolio so that Large Editors find it attractive to support their soft on Linux...
Choice, the cheap (as in free) against the best (as in payed-for version), until the free soft becomes better again, and so on...
Re:CrossOver ? with MS Blessings...?
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Well, the point had always been that the Office division of MS is a milk cow, System brings quite some money in but is attacked by Linux and XBOX Division (as well as the media division) is loosing money like hell...
Wine continuation just means that when (rofl) Linux has dethroned Windows on the desktop(/rofl) Microsoft can with no problem continue pushing it's Office suite everywhere...
Maybe putting all this devellopment time and brains on OpenOffice / MSOffice compatibility and TheGimp Tools/Dev/Filters would allow us what we really need..a really free, top to bottom OS...with all the goodies softs available for free...
"This and Photoshop are two very important steps to getting Linux on more desktops"
I might be wrong, but I think I'm closer to the mark than you are...
Get Oppenoffice working for cheap AND MS doc compatible (almost totally done), push for the SMEs and Big Companies to get cheaper hardware by getting them Microsoft free and then you will see that Photoshop is announcing a native Linux version by it's nice, userfriendly editor...
When you are at that point, most editors will come and shell out Linux versions... Binaries only, maybe, but Linux versions anyhow...
Wine was all right and fine an idea 2-3 years ago, when Linux didn't fully have the basic apps.
Now that we have them...
There is only two position in IT Market, the best or the cheapest... If we get all for free, editors will try and provide the best for a fee... Or so it was to work...
In "Terminale" (last class before university) I had the good mind to take the A1 course (Maths+Phylosophy with additional Biology course)
30 ppl, 4 guys, one of them gay.
The ratio is weaker than your 6 to 400 but I confirm: MOST Girls in group are Neurotic (and if not, YOU'ill become neurotic after a semester with them)
The killer ratio wasn't so important, the worst part was "girls politics" (Don't speak to that one caus he's friendly with that other that said *9sdfg* about the her/him/me), Hence the Neurotic Fugue I had just after graduating, where I made sure the class would be closer to the 50/50 "sane" mix.
40 ft is about 12 meters I think, and you can get good svhs cables up to 20-25 meters. 15 meters svhs should be around 25-30 Euros... don't know where you live, got mine in the Paris computer area at a guy doing only cables, cartriges and small components...
svhs has a lot less loss than YUV/RGB, so you can find a long enough svhs cable and a "peritel" converter to stick to your tv.
Sound can be plugged into tv the same way using long low grade audio cable or go to your hi-fi or whatever...
That's how I did mine on a tight budget...and your TV doesn't need a Top-of-the-line signal...
Also the 10 meters PS/2 cords for the wireless logitech can be reduced to only one cable using the laptop bi-connectors for PS/2.
In my younger time, I had a top of the line Nvidia TNT2 Ultra the one with the fastest memory and the only one with tv out...made my wallet cry at the time, it was just out...) and a glorious PII350 (actually converted as firewall) with an additional MPEG Decoder card and...ahem...Win98...
Being just out of student stripend and just into "my money, my pleasures" I had the pleasure of watching dvds, vcds, svcds, Divxs and Anime in the main room
The pc was in the chamber, input was done with a wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse and the 9 feet emission limit over-ruled by 2* 5 meters PS/2 connectors...
It was a perfect solution, except for th 98 part..
Are you all telling me that what I could do quite easily some years ago with 98 is much more difficult to get at today ?
Think about investing into a long svhs cable and long audio cords, plug them into your tv/vcr/home Theater/whatever and you will be up and running in no time.
Also, if you want to do it faster, just use the good for nothing, average in everything Win2000... It is actually easier than a linux solution...
thanks for your kind look on people who don't want to serve. I quite like your point of view.
Now just a small story to thank you:
As a french citizen, in my time, you had to give 12 month military service. Most people that didn't want to do it tried to go with a notorious label which is P4. For the non-french-military ppl here, the french used a system called SYGIPOP to rate you on the the military scale. the second P is for "Psychologie", and the lower the note the saner you are, so if you got P4, it meant you were 'slightly off-base" and wouldn't have to du military service. Many people tried getting that P4 rating to avoid military service, doing thing like pissing or mastubating in front of senior military psys...
Some ppl went too far and got P5 rating (direct confinement in a Military Mental Hospital for screening/observation , Aouch ! 8)
When I went to the revision screening (had a broken shoulder and ankle after a stupid skiing accident, and they drafted me 1 week after 8) I had the mandatory consultation with the military psy, who happened to be drafted psy graduate. During the quick chat, I told him that I already knew how to read/write/shoot/fight, and 12 month being shouted at by military personel would result in me killing one of them out of pure frustration/boredom.
When I finally finished all the tests, I had a leave from the army with a G5 condition (General Physical Condition, and 5 is bad...) Strangely, the P rating I had from the psy was 1, as in perfectly sane... nice world, isn't it 8)
"Kernel configures itself leaves very few options"
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" It wasn't difficult to configure at all. But then, I'm a seasoned unix user and I've used linux and freebsd for awhile."
I'm not. I'm a noob.
"The thing that concerns me is that for some reason there's a mode of thought throughout most slashdot articles as of late (2-3 years) that linux should be as easy to use as windows. Do you really want this to be the case?
Think of it.
A kernel that configures itself but leaves very few tuning options."
"Ls, instead of being a few tens to a hundred k in size, is instead 100 meg in size and has a security patch released for it every week or so.
You install linux and do a cd/etc. Then type ls. You see nothing, because you have to configure ls to allow you to see/etc.
Then we can integrate DMCA stuff into gcc to make sure that you aren't compiling and running anything you shouldn't be."
remember, if I'm installing software on debian, I AM ROOT anyhow...
And compiling a kernel is mostly understanding what it does, so you need a quite good doc or background to do it.
Just that it IS quite complicated (or can seem complicated) if you are just a noob, or even half-linux educated ( =>can do his own kernel compile, can recover ON HIS OWN from his kernel crash 8p yes, I know the requisites 8)
first, don't go extremes...there is a difference between, say, make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig. I just prefer the cosy "almost all in one" make xconfig to the make config that is sure to bring me Major RSI just after compiling one kernel.
the "setup.exe" solution has its advantages, as long as you, the developer or the UI maker provides an interface with "almost" all options and the how-to to do without the GUI.
remember, if I'm installing software on debian, I AM ROOT anyhow...an easier way to configure (think make xconfig again) all the parameters, with a nice how-to on the webpage next to it or integrated together is nothing to spit on.
I'm a debian user, so I already use a nice autoinstaller system, that does most of the configuration on its own. This system is based on trust. I'm installing.debs that have been precompiled by someone else///
I still have to fiddle in/etc to get my config files right, but I would also LOVE have them all provided with (or within) a GUI configurator...setup.exe,.deb, no much difference.
I just takes someone to take on and make an UI.
Maybe it should even become an almost mandatory procedure if Linux wants to go to larger masses, the possibility to have the CHOICE, as in only installing what I need, but of doing it "Half-Assed" with a GUI and the help file being displayed on the nice interface, or Hardcore with vi or Emacs over ssh and ripping though XF86config by heart...
I want to have both.
My other nick is Knewbie_One_Kenewbie, Debian Knight v0.0-1-beta...
I'm ready to take any help when I install something I don't fully comprehend 8)
Slashdot Mirror
So he took option 2/ DIY, in a nice following of the tradition of open source...If you are not happy with how things are, DIY.
btw, thanx for the link, I will surely get his package directly next time ! Cheers 8)
Please just remember that part...
:
:
I happen to have recently installed a Laserjet on my gf computer, and it's Win2000, and the whole process took me 5 minutes (1 config failure, 5 seconds of intensive neuronal action and then the right click on the right button)
I simply used KDE printing tool that came with the nice Knoppix-Cluster cd, and took 5 seconds before hitting buttons.
Also, please remember
COMPUTER WEREN'T MADE FOR PEOPLE !!! Computers were made for experts in companies, the fact that windows is "easy to use" (damn, it hurts !) or even "intuitive" (I actually wrote that ?) has been the main cause of problems, because the configuration was a "One-Size-Fits-All" solution.
=> Most Windows computer are configured almost all the same, default, and so more or less all exposed to the same problems. They work "perfectly" (my hands start shaking) as long as everything is in the "Normal Scope" (everything open and accessible from anywhere, except if you change it, which users don't)
=> Microsoft made 2000 and XP. One is clearly a server Os, where even access to cdwriter for users has to be configured by hand. Many things are accessible, but you have to RTFM a bit and you can get it almost secure (MS notwhistanding)
XP, on the other hand, is a nice "plug-and-play" thingy with lotsa grease and help so that even Aunt Milly can do it herself (or pester her nephew/son/grandson, as in the 99.99% of real life cases)
You want an easy to use OS ? get a playstation.
You want a desktop computer that just works ? get XP.
You want a hard, rugged and stable server ? get linux.
You want a nice Linux desktop easily running in no time ? be ready to lose most of your security, or wait some more time... MS had 20 years to learn how an UI should look, and they do extensive usability tests, have specialists, teams, and so on dedicated to the problem.
It will come in time, but Linux wasn't thought for the desktop, so the transition will take some time. The poor guys making cups did an excellent job as the server works 100% (for me). If you dislike the UI, please follow usual Open source procedure
1 / Email the dev and tell him (gently) what's wrong in your opinion and what should be done. If he has the time, he'll fix it. (99% of real life cases ?)
2 / DO IT YOURSELF AND STOP COMPLAINING FOR CHRIS'SAKE !!! you are a guru Linux wizard, so get emacs runing and do your conf files, or write a better UI.
Ahh ! No point in this post, but I somehow feel better 8)
Linux is about choice and RTFMing : always had, server-side, never will, desktop-side...
If Users knew how to do it, they would be sysadmins...
Lets say it's a smiley for us myopic minority, okay ?
8)
Or is it the other way around ?
:
... to Debian 8)
say [pun]"Only Microsoft exploits exploits"[/pun]...
from the article
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems," he said.
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
Here you are. They said it, officially.
I seem to remember that my debian stable is composed of 1-2 years old software, and, regularly patched, will say secure without even have to reboot...
PEOPLE !!! "If you want more secure software, upgrade."
This is a family story about a small boy and his cousine, born 2-3 weeks aprt, put into the same baby park at around one year, that have been found later by the parent having removed their diapers and were nicely fondling and kissing each other...
Babies have a sex life...if they get the opportunity...
But thank you for the nice retaliation idea...8)
"BSA ! Nous Voila !!!" Or whatever their local M$ doggy is called there....
and in reality, I would say males are switching between base 10 and base 1, with sex/no-sex as base 1 and "how to get more/better/bigger sex" as first use for base 10...
And that a guy speaking 8)
just putting the link online for easier browsing...
Tablespoon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The tablespoon is a measure of volume used in cooking. It has various values around the world.
1 U.S. tablespoon = 1/2 U.S. fl. oz. (14.8 ml)
The traditional British tablespoon was never standardised, and could vary from 1/2 to 5/8 imperial fl. oz. (14.2 ml to 17.8 ml)
1 metric tablespoon = 15 ml (in Canada, New Zealand, UK)
1 metric tablespoon = 20 ml (in Australia)
=> was locally standardised...
Gosh, just reading it makes my head hurt...
Well, it's just one of the difference that will make Qui Pro Quo more interesting in the times to come and more and more engineers comes to hand over specs 8)
the small chip was actually invented by a french (the same that created BeOS) and has been in use in france for a long long time.
The reason why it didn't catch up in America is taht they didn't likje to have to pay copyrights to a "Foreign Country" and waited up until the fraud cost became greater than the copyright fee.
Just you check for yourself, I won't give you a link...just check on Gassot, BeOS inventor.
"And anyway, pounds is the NAME of the UK currency, it's not the weight of it"
Damn, and I was taught that the value of One Pound() was originaly determined as the countervalue of ONE POUND OF STERLING SILVER, and then evolved in time as the metal lost it's position as universal monetary reference for Gold...
Gosh, the disappointment 8)
Also, you have to remember that for Roman, the foot (or feet, or goddam it 8) is of the size of Hero Hercules' foot.
The lengh of a stadium (625 feet) makes me tell that Heracles was wearing a nice size 47 (Eu), or size 12 for you americans 8)
Ah, how I love useless knowledge 8p
Yeahy, nice conversion scheme, using a non-standard reference...
Or do you mean that everyone has to get a "coffee spoon" (or is it a "Soup Spoon", the large ones) and that cultural revolution is to come to the Chineses, that uses those strange, bowl-like spoons (for Soup, btw)(see what I mean ?)...
Maybe that's why we never saw an 'American Restaurant' (or, lol, an English Restaurant 8)
only fast foods and steak house...
Learnt that a long time ago... when doing calculus in n-base (first time I had a use for the converting options of the calculator 8) the teacher told us of the different systems and there advantages/disavantages.
He told us the Inca had a base 20 calculus system, for they were using both fingers ans toes to count.
Also, the Psychlos (Ron Hubbard's Sci-Fi "litterature") had a nice base 11 system that was fun to read about, for the calculus was a mix of both Maths and tradition (just like the Kabale had, meaning that each number is also a word or letter and changes the value of the equation as you read it...Cryptography before our time 8)
That's all folks, just a few remaining synaptic connections dying in their last burst. So long 8)
Hubble : nice, powrfull telescope (works best in the dark, placed in orbit)
:::!!!
.. Nasa take Hubble closer to Space Station, get outsourced indian tech for doing oil-and-pressure, have it close to cut shuttle-taxi costs... (proximity is dangerous, but what about a 1 mile distance ?)
... They take Hubble and point it BACK ON EARTH... if it is geostationery, they could get the best Territory Observation sat ever, capable of saying how many whiskers you missed this morning 8)
Nasa : has to make with what they have, go to the moon and take the money everywhere they can...
=> !!!::: NASA MISSION TO PUT HUBBLE ON THE MOON
preferably on the dark side thereoff...
=> !!! Nasa gets first permanent installment on Moon !!!
Lol (well, one has to do whith what one have 8)
Otherwise
Yes, plenty of possibility...
now, for this is slashdot, the paranoiac point of view
Not muslim... He's Animist ...
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=122598&owner=( International%20Herald%20Tribune)&date=20031225142 337
And yes this guy is still alive 8)
But be assured he won't have that much problems on this Valentines day...
The guy is in Southern Sudan and is muslim...
Any envious geek can ask to telecommute, but broadband mught be hard to get 8)
I didn't say Wine was useless...
Just, if you have that old 16 bits apps running on a dying computer, I'm sure you can find an old desktop somewhere, slap 98 or DOS 5 on it and keep it running...
I made the jump to full Linux less than 6 month ago, and now all my computers are Linux Based (Firewall is Astaro Linux, web/mail is E-smith, the rest (file server + desktop) is installed with Knoppix Cluster (debian))
Whenever I must do something Windows only, I ask my girlfriend for her keyboard, and later look for an alternative Linux solution.
Usually, I end up either with a multiplatform Java app, or with a Beta project from Sourceforge, and my need is fullfiled.
The problem is not with Legacy softz, for they will run on their old versions of whatever OS they need.
The problem is completing Linux's software portofolio so that Large Editors find it attractive to support their soft on Linux...
Choice, the cheap (as in free) against the best (as in payed-for version), until the free soft becomes better again, and so on...
Well, the point had always been that the Office division of MS is a milk cow, System brings quite some money in but is attacked by Linux and XBOX Division (as well as the media division) is loosing money like hell...
...
Wine continuation just means that when (rofl) Linux has dethroned Windows on the desktop(/rofl) Microsoft can with no problem continue pushing it's Office suite everywhere...
Maybe putting all this devellopment time and brains on OpenOffice / MSOffice compatibility and TheGimp Tools/Dev/Filters would allow us what we really need..a really free, top to bottom OS...with all the goodies softs available for free...
"This and Photoshop are two very important steps to getting Linux on more desktops"
I might be wrong, but I think I'm closer to the mark than you are...
Get Oppenoffice working for cheap AND MS doc compatible (almost totally done), push for the SMEs and Big Companies to get cheaper hardware by getting them Microsoft free and then you will see that Photoshop is announcing a native Linux version by it's nice, userfriendly editor...
When you are at that point, most editors will come and shell out Linux versions... Binaries only, maybe, but Linux versions anyhow...
Wine was all right and fine an idea 2-3 years ago, when Linux didn't fully have the basic apps.
Now that we have them...
There is only two position in IT Market, the best or the cheapest... If we get all for free, editors will try and provide the best for a fee... Or so it was to work
In "Terminale" (last class before university) I had the good mind to take the A1 course (Maths+Phylosophy with additional Biology course)
:
30 ppl, 4 guys, one of them gay.
The ratio is weaker than your 6 to 400 but I confirm
MOST Girls in group are Neurotic (and if not, YOU'ill become neurotic after a semester with them)
The killer ratio wasn't so important, the worst part was "girls politics" (Don't speak to that one caus he's friendly with that other that said *9sdfg* about the her/him/me), Hence the Neurotic Fugue I had just after graduating, where I made sure the class would be closer to the 50/50 "sane" mix.
40 ft is about 12 meters I think, and you can get good svhs cables up to 20-25 meters. 15 meters svhs should be around 25-30 Euros... don't know where you live, got mine in the Paris computer area at a guy doing only cables, cartriges and small components...
svhs has a lot less loss than YUV/RGB, so you can find a long enough svhs cable and a "peritel" converter to stick to your tv.
Sound can be plugged into tv the same way using long low grade audio cable or go to your hi-fi or whatever...
That's how I did mine on a tight budget...and your TV doesn't need a Top-of-the-line signal...
Also the 10 meters PS/2 cords for the wireless logitech can be reduced to only one cable using the laptop bi-connectors for PS/2.
tell me when you are finished 8)
Discussion about machines interconnecting, questions about high-gain path relay ....
The first one that follows the thread with a question about Beowulf Cluster while popping a can of Wi-Fi Antenna... 8)
"-1, Ignorant"
Well, the movie was crap, so you'll have to go with the wantom (and yet to be created) "+ 1 - hazardous, but right, educated guess" 8p
In my younger time, I had a top of the line Nvidia TNT2 Ultra the one with the fastest memory and the only one with tv out...made my wallet cry at the time, it was just out...) and a glorious PII350 (actually converted as firewall) with an additional MPEG Decoder card and...ahem...Win98...
Being just out of student stripend and just into "my money, my pleasures" I had the pleasure of watching dvds, vcds, svcds, Divxs and Anime in the main room
The pc was in the chamber, input was done with a wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse and the 9 feet emission limit over-ruled by 2* 5 meters PS/2 connectors...
It was a perfect solution, except for th 98 part..
Are you all telling me that what I could do quite easily some years ago with 98 is much more difficult to get at today ?
Think about investing into a long svhs cable and long audio cords, plug them into your tv/vcr/home Theater/whatever and you will be up and running in no time.
Also, if you want to do it faster, just use the good for nothing, average in everything Win2000...
It is actually easier than a linux solution...
thanks for your kind look on people who don't want to serve. I quite like your point of view.
:
Now just a small story to thank you
As a french citizen, in my time, you had to give 12 month military service.
Most people that didn't want to do it tried to go with a notorious label which is P4.
For the non-french-military ppl here, the french used a system called SYGIPOP to rate you on the the military scale. the second P is for "Psychologie", and the lower the note the saner you are, so if you got P4, it meant you were 'slightly off-base" and wouldn't have to du military service. Many people tried getting that P4 rating to avoid military service, doing thing like pissing or mastubating in front of senior military psys...
Some ppl went too far and got P5 rating (direct confinement in a Military Mental Hospital for screening/observation , Aouch ! 8)
When I went to the revision screening (had a broken shoulder and ankle after a stupid skiing accident, and they drafted me 1 week after 8) I had the mandatory consultation with the military psy, who happened to be drafted psy graduate.
During the quick chat, I told him that I already knew how to read/write/shoot/fight, and 12 month being shouted at by military personel would result in me killing one of them out of pure frustration/boredom.
When I finally finished all the tests, I had a leave from the army with a G5 condition (General Physical Condition, and 5 is bad...)
Strangely, the P rating I had from the psy was 1, as in perfectly sane... nice world, isn't it 8)
" It wasn't difficult to configure at all. But then, I'm a seasoned unix user and I've used linux and freebsd for awhile."
/etc. Then type ls. You see nothing, because you have to configure ls to allow you to see /etc.
.debs that have been precompiled by someone else///
/etc to get my config files right, but I would also LOVE have them all provided with (or within) a GUI configurator...setup.exe, .deb, no much difference.
I'm not. I'm a noob.
"The thing that concerns me is that for some reason there's a mode of thought throughout most slashdot articles as of late (2-3 years) that linux should be as easy to use as windows. Do you really want this to be the case?
Think of it.
A kernel that configures itself but leaves very few tuning options."
"Ls, instead of being a few tens to a hundred k in size, is instead 100 meg in size and has a security patch released for it every week or so.
You install linux and do a cd
Then we can integrate DMCA stuff into gcc to make sure that you aren't compiling and running anything you shouldn't be."
remember, if I'm installing software on debian, I AM ROOT anyhow...
And compiling a kernel is mostly understanding what it does, so you need a quite good doc or background to do it.
Just that it IS quite complicated (or can seem complicated) if you are just a noob, or even half-linux educated ( =>can do his own kernel compile, can recover ON HIS OWN from his kernel crash 8p yes, I know the requisites 8)
first, don't go extremes...there is a difference between, say, make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig. I just prefer the cosy "almost all in one" make xconfig to the make config that is sure to bring me Major RSI just after compiling one kernel.
the "setup.exe" solution has its advantages, as long as you, the developer or the UI maker provides an interface with "almost" all options and the how-to to do without the GUI.
remember, if I'm installing software on debian, I AM ROOT anyhow...an easier way to configure (think make xconfig again) all the parameters, with a nice how-to on the webpage next to it or integrated together is nothing to spit on.
I'm a debian user, so I already use a nice autoinstaller system, that does most of the configuration on its own.
This system is based on trust. I'm installing
I still have to fiddle in
I just takes someone to take on and make an UI.
Maybe it should even become an almost mandatory
procedure if Linux wants to go to larger masses, the possibility to have the CHOICE, as in only installing what I need, but of doing it "Half-Assed" with a GUI and the help file being displayed on the nice interface, or Hardcore with vi or Emacs over ssh and ripping though XF86config by heart...
I want to have both.
My other nick is Knewbie_One_Kenewbie, Debian Knight v0.0-1-beta...
I'm ready to take any help when I install something I don't fully comprehend 8)