yes, this is completely off topic and uncalled for, but........
PEPSI?!?! how in the hell can you drink that noxious, over-sugared, Brittney Spears supported crap?
I shall assume that you are some uninformed Northerner, as Pepsi is based in New York, but it is not too late to develop some good taste. Try some Coke, or even Royal Crown. It'll help those late night coding runs.....
Your.sig is stupid. Damn stupid. Seriously, I'm smart, and I bet I'm more articulate than 95% (at least) of the other smart ppl who read Slashdot. But I curse like a sailor at times, especially when angry. These are the facts, and they are undisputed.
Well, i knew i'd be flamebait on that one (what with criticizing Linux and all) but anyway....
#1 I actually did use the default one (I forgot whether it was GRUB or LILO).........but when I'd try to log in.........no Windows (or DOS) option. Only Linux. #4 -- o.k., i'll try your advice on that one, but I still think it is dumb that you can add an applet so easily, but can't take it away via the same method. #5 -- you are lucky to have your intuition, because the little two books they give seriously aren't worth a damn. It seems thrown together by like one guy. I resorted to buying a book (Running Linux, o'reilly) which has helped. #6 -- well, I hope you are right, and the 7.3 kernel will support my (very common) soundcard. But won't I still need to re-compile, and answer lots of obscure hardware questions? Not for the faint of heart. #7 -- with the "lokkit" thing, there are only like 3 options, low-medium-high (and then a short custom list), so I still don't think it was my fault there. (also found a couple of other similar testimonies on the Net) My networking was working okay till I messed with that damn thing.
so all in all, not the best experience. I'm leaning toward trying Mandrake now, but I damn sure won't pay for it. I'm a fool for having done so with Red Hat.
oh, one more aside before I bore you to tears -- when I went to register for my "support" (which only covers basic installation questions - no soundcard stuff allowed) - their site said my product ID did not exist. Imagine my anger; already I was pissed off and frustrated! To their credit, they responded promptly to my indignant e-mail with a working number. Alas, by then my mind had been made up.
there is one thing all this has made me realize, though. "Free" software like Linux still has an amateurish, non-integrated feel to it. Windows 98 seems fairly tight by comparison; it even plays my mp3's! (I still despise it of course.) Maybe OS-X?
The solution is all you people who want laws, throw your money into a corporation, and COMPETE. If you can do it for cheaper, THEN DO IT.
We aren't all looking to start a fucking printing company, moron. We just don't want to get ripped off by artificially inflated prices on half-empty printer carts from companies like HP who use chips that server no useful purpose other than to force us to buy more of their crap. You ever heard of fair use?
They found out that the average American barely uses their printer, but enough that spending $100-$150 a year on cartridges is not a bad deal
Bullshit. If I hardly even use my printer (say like a coupla times a month), then that most certainly IS a bad deal.
Think hard. I know you can...I hope that is your.sig and not the end of this post. Take your own advice, you arrogant little karma whore, before you post your cliched, libertarian "gov't is bad but big corporations are good" bullshit.
This is some info for any geeks considering this bloatware concerning my personal exp. with it:
1. LILO does not work. This forced me to rely on a boot floppy.(see next item)
2. The option under the KDE menu to make a boot floppy doesn't work!! This is pathetic.
3. It's slow. Yes, that's right folks, slower than Windows 98, with which is shares a partition.
4. The bottom menu bar, Kicker or whatever the hell its called, sucks. You can easily add an applet, for example, but you can't 'right click' and take the damn thing off. This is stupid.
5. The documentation manual is a FUCKING JOKE, just like with Windows.
6. The driver for my Soundblaster Live! card is straight up BROKEN. There is an open source driver out there, but it entails that the kernel not be compiled with any other drivers for the card. In other words, you must re-compile the kernel. Yep, user friendliness at its best.
7. There's a little peice of shit prog called "lokkit" that is supposed to configure your firewall. It is BROKEN as well. I used it once and couldn't get on the 'Net no matter how hard I tried to fix it. I had to re-install.
sound good to you? admittedly, I'm no Linux veteran. So if you are and enjoy recompiling kernels and poring over thousands of configuration files, then have at it. But please, don't pay for this shit like I did.
$60 bucks for a fucking Red Hat sticker is not a good deal.
"GM has taken a little different tack in hybrids," Sloane explained. The researchers asked themselves, "What is it we're trying to solve or fix? Is it that our customers are demanding higher fuel economy? The honest answer to that is no. The cheapest fluid you can get at a gas station is what? The gasoline. It's sure cheaper per gallon than this is," she said, raising some bottled water from the dais. "But we do have a societal interest in reducing the use of fuel. So maybe it's the places where you use a lot of it that you should try to make the reductions."
Heh. This mildly amusing, and mildy insulting, bit of spin-doctoring aside, it's good to see that the American auto makers aren't actually light-years behind their Japanese counterparts anymore. They've closed the gap to just a few generations.:-)
This is true...........and, won't we just uninstall this Kazaa shit once the courts decide that Fastrack's so-called P2P network is basically another Napster and they shut it down? (their control of, and ability to profit off, the network is )
Or will the trojan/spy software still be lurking on the hard drive?
--all this deception and greed is perturbing.........but DAMN the mp3's are still flowin' (and Gnutella still sucks).
i can see why you post your plagiarism anonymously, you coward! Were it not for severe time constraints, I'd gladly enlighten you on several aspects of bombastic attack, the likes of which YOU are obviously uninformed.
I have my Pentium 3 650 (64M RAM) partitioned with Win98 and RH 7.2, and I have been dissappointed with my first Linux experience, as far as speed anyway. Windows just runs a bit faster (which is not to say "fast"), and Red Hat hasn't been without it's instability either (nor can it play my damn Soundblaster card).
Some friends have blamed the partition/dual-boot scenario as the problem, saying that Linux occupies the "ass-end" of the drive (it does), but I'm doubtful, Windows, god bless it;-), is exactly the same as before.
Then again, the guy who wrote the article has had the same background for a decade, so who the hell knows............
I assume from your screen name that you are an expert on gators, crocs, and all animals in general? You make the statement that crocs and gators are almost the same exept for minor differences. You don't back that up, however. In fact, your own analogy proves you wrong. Elements that differ by a single atom are in fact quite different in behavior (a helium bomb), and animals that are related like dogs and coyotes (or humans and chimpanzees) are DIFFERENT in more than just a superficial way.
This may be a bit off-topic, but the other day my old Morpheus program stopped working, because it "is too old to connect to the network". This seemed like bullshit, but I dutifully dl'ed KazaaMediaDesktop (same thing, only more adds). Now my question is this: why can't somebody design a prog that utilizes the technology that makes Morpheus usable and relatively quick, but without the (alleged) spyware, pop-up ads, and lousy interface? Music City doesn't control the network, right? It's weird, it's "peer-to-peer", but you always gotta hit their stupid add servers.........umm, obviously my understanding of P to P and whatnot is a bit shallow, so any illumination is appreciated.
I'm in the same boat. Where do these ppl come up with their "at least 6 years on blah-blah" anyway? Not to mention all the arcane, most likely outdated, proprietary bullshit they ask for. And don't even get me started on these bitches that "require" a Bachelor's in CS (or similar).......a Bachelor's proves nothing, except maybe that Daddy was paying for classes while you were out partying. All of my friends that graduated had somebody paying the bills, and all the ones that didn't (including me) did not. Obviously I'm a bit bitter and disillusioned, so excuse my rant.
ahh, but the depiction of violence, especially that which is known to occur in the real world, is not necessarily advocation of said violence. If it were, then [place your percentage here] of today's movies would be placed on the same level of GTA3 and censured as such. And what select few are fit to make these distinctions, anyway?
borderline parents who buy games for their kids if the parent is asked for an I.D. at the register.
What fucking world do you live in, Mr. Roger's neighborhood? What self-respecting little kid depends on their Mom to procure all their games? If they have a damn PS2 in the first place they are probably savvy enough to find the games of their choosing. Your argument is not only self-righteous, but naive to the point of uselessness.
I agree, virtually anything can be an art. You guys should see the elegant, clever, yet ever so functional layout of my Windows 98 desktop.
I mean, icon placement is an underrated science - and the wallpaper? Sheer inspiration.
first hand experience huh? i hope you mean "playing" and not "developing for" because you sure don't sound like a developer.
as for your claim that PS2 isn't easy to develop for......
from what i've read that is true. However, it allows you more freedom, and thus more creative possiblities for those who can master it. (appropriate example: vi editor)
So, in other words, your claim is rather specious, or at least it doesn't appear to take both factors into account.
I doubt Sega is going out of business. Their skill is games anyway, so forsaking the 'Cast is the smart move. Besides, by doing this, and with the subsequent huge drops in price (providing ppl can still buy the games), it could actually extend the life of the Dreamcast for some time to come.
Now, Sega has moved into a position where they can actually influence the sales of the respective consoles, since they are now a pure, and elite, game publisher. They always, like Nintendo, come up with some new shit (super monkey ball), then throw in their sports and other franchises and they have clout.
cared about the students and having the freedom to educate students by their own methods, not to mention little freedoms like being able to talk openly about God and other religious subjects without so much fear of offending some brat with an overpaid underworked lawyer
personally I'd rather not hear my Algebra teacher blather on about God or anything else religious. Teachers who care about their students do their best to teach them the relevant information in an unbiased, objective fashion, to the extent that that is possible.
i do like those private school uniforms though....mmmmmmm
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yes, this is completely off topic and uncalled for, but........
PEPSI?!?! how in the hell can you drink that noxious, over-sugared, Brittney Spears supported crap?
I shall assume that you are some uninformed Northerner, as Pepsi is based in New York, but it is not too late to develop some good taste. Try some Coke, or even Royal Crown. It'll help those late night coding runs.....
Pepsi. For those who think dumb.
~mantis
Your .sig is stupid. Damn stupid. Seriously, I'm smart, and I bet I'm more articulate than 95% (at least) of the other smart ppl who read Slashdot. But I curse like a sailor at times, especially when angry. These are the facts, and they are undisputed.
~mantis
#1 I actually did use the default one (I forgot whether it was GRUB or LILO).........but when I'd try to log in.........no Windows (or DOS) option. Only Linux.
#4 -- o.k., i'll try your advice on that one, but I still think it is dumb that you can add an applet so easily, but can't take it away via the same method.
#5 -- you are lucky to have your intuition, because the little two books they give seriously aren't worth a damn. It seems thrown together by like one guy. I resorted to buying a book (Running Linux, o'reilly) which has helped.
#6 -- well, I hope you are right, and the 7.3 kernel will support my (very common) soundcard. But won't I still need to re-compile, and answer lots of obscure hardware questions? Not for the faint of heart.
#7 -- with the "lokkit" thing, there are only like 3 options, low-medium-high (and then a short custom list), so I still don't think it was my fault there. (also found a couple of other similar testimonies on the Net) My networking was working okay till I messed with that damn thing.
so all in all, not the best experience. I'm leaning toward trying Mandrake now, but I damn sure won't pay for it. I'm a fool for having done so with Red Hat.
oh, one more aside before I bore you to tears -- when I went to register for my "support" (which only covers basic installation questions - no soundcard stuff allowed) - their site said my product ID did not exist. Imagine my anger; already I was pissed off and frustrated! To their credit, they responded promptly to my indignant e-mail with a working number. Alas, by then my mind had been made up.
there is one thing all this has made me realize, though. "Free" software like Linux still has an amateurish, non-integrated feel to it. Windows 98 seems fairly tight by comparison; it even plays my mp3's! (I still despise it of course.) Maybe OS-X?
~mantis
If you can do it for cheaper, THEN DO IT.
We aren't all looking to start a fucking printing company, moron. We just don't want to get ripped off by artificially inflated prices on half-empty printer carts from companies like HP who use chips that server no useful purpose other than to force us to buy more of their crap. You ever heard of fair use?
They found out that the average American barely uses their printer, but enough that spending $100-$150 a year on cartridges is not a bad deal
Bullshit. If I hardly even use my printer (say like a coupla times a month), then that most certainly IS a bad deal.
Think hard. I know you can...I hope that is your
is that Primus quote from the Brown (read: shit) albumn? get something off Chesse or Frizzle Fry for god's sake....
This is some info for any geeks considering this bloatware concerning my personal exp. with it:
1. LILO does not work. This forced me to rely on a boot floppy.(see next item)
2. The option under the KDE menu to make a boot floppy doesn't work!! This is pathetic.
3. It's slow. Yes, that's right folks, slower than Windows 98, with which is shares a partition.
4. The bottom menu bar, Kicker or whatever the hell its called, sucks. You can easily add an applet, for example, but you can't 'right click' and take the damn thing off. This is stupid.
5. The documentation manual is a FUCKING JOKE, just like with Windows.
6. The driver for my Soundblaster Live! card is straight up BROKEN. There is an open source driver out there, but it entails that the kernel not be compiled with any other drivers for the card. In other words, you must re-compile the kernel. Yep, user friendliness at its best.
7. There's a little peice of shit prog called "lokkit" that is supposed to configure your firewall. It is BROKEN as well. I used it once and couldn't get on the 'Net no matter how hard I tried to fix it. I had to re-install.
sound good to you? admittedly, I'm no Linux veteran. So if you are and enjoy recompiling kernels and poring over thousands of configuration files, then have at it. But please, don't pay for this shit like I did.
$60 bucks for a fucking Red Hat sticker is not a good deal.
what the fuck is an "indescration" ???
the Dark Side has clouded your mind and spelling abilities, Jedi.
i'm not scared of some little damn cell phone. It aint' nothing that some chain smoking and heavy drinking won't fix.
Heh. This mildly amusing, and mildy insulting, bit of spin-doctoring aside, it's good to see that the American auto makers aren't actually light-years behind their Japanese counterparts anymore. They've closed the gap to just a few generations. :-)
This is true...........and, won't we just uninstall this Kazaa shit once the courts decide that Fastrack's so-called P2P network is basically another Napster and they shut it down? (their control of, and ability to profit off, the network is )
Or will the trojan/spy software still be lurking on the hard drive?
--all this deception and greed is perturbing.........but DAMN the mp3's are still flowin' (and Gnutella still sucks).
Why is it that some dolt (you) feels it necessary to reply to some cliched anti-Microsoft post with a cliched 'you linux geeks suck' post of his own?
and by the way, where did you come up with your 99% figure? did your imaginary friend give you that one?
i can see why you post your plagiarism anonymously, you coward! Were it not for severe time constraints, I'd gladly enlighten you on several aspects of bombastic attack, the likes of which YOU are obviously uninformed.
I have my Pentium 3 650 (64M RAM) partitioned with Win98 and RH 7.2, and I have been dissappointed with my first Linux experience, as far as speed anyway. Windows just runs a bit faster (which is not to say "fast"), and Red Hat hasn't been without it's instability either (nor can it play my damn Soundblaster card).
;-), is exactly the same as before.
Some friends have blamed the partition/dual-boot scenario as the problem, saying that Linux occupies the "ass-end" of the drive (it does), but I'm doubtful, Windows, god bless it
Then again, the guy who wrote the article has had the same background for a decade, so who the hell knows............
I assume from your screen name that you are an expert on gators, crocs, and all animals in general? You make the statement that crocs and gators are almost the same exept for minor differences. You don't back that up, however. In fact, your own analogy proves you wrong. Elements that differ by a single atom are in fact quite different in behavior (a helium bomb), and animals that are related like dogs and coyotes (or humans and chimpanzees) are DIFFERENT in more than just a superficial way.
This may be a bit off-topic, but the other day my old Morpheus program stopped working, because it "is too old to connect to the network". This seemed like bullshit, but I dutifully dl'ed KazaaMediaDesktop (same thing, only more adds). Now my question is this: why can't somebody design a prog that utilizes the technology that makes Morpheus usable and relatively quick, but without the (alleged) spyware, pop-up ads, and lousy interface? Music City doesn't control the network, right? It's weird, it's "peer-to-peer", but you always gotta hit their stupid add servers.........umm, obviously my understanding of P to P and whatnot is a bit shallow, so any illumination is appreciated.
I'm in the same boat. Where do these ppl come up with their "at least 6 years on blah-blah" anyway?
Not to mention all the arcane, most likely outdated, proprietary bullshit they ask for. And don't even get me started on these bitches that "require" a Bachelor's in CS (or similar).......a Bachelor's proves nothing, except maybe that Daddy was paying for classes while you were out partying. All of my friends that graduated had somebody paying the bills, and all the ones that didn't (including me) did not.
Obviously I'm a bit bitter and disillusioned, so excuse my rant.
ahh, but the depiction of violence, especially that which is known to occur in the real world, is not necessarily advocation of said violence. If it were, then [place your percentage here] of today's movies would be placed on the same level of GTA3 and censured as such. And what select few are fit to make these distinctions, anyway?
What fucking world do you live in, Mr. Roger's neighborhood? What self-respecting little kid depends on their Mom to procure all their games? If they have a damn PS2 in the first place they are probably savvy enough to find the games of their choosing. Your argument is not only self-righteous, but naive to the point of uselessness.
I agree, virtually anything can be an art. You guys should see the elegant, clever, yet ever so functional layout of my Windows 98 desktop.
I mean, icon placement is an underrated science - and the wallpaper? Sheer inspiration.
-swerve D.
first hand experience huh? i hope you mean "playing" and not "developing for" because you sure don't sound like a developer.
as for your claim that PS2 isn't easy to develop for......
from what i've read that is true. However, it allows you more freedom, and thus more creative possiblities for those who can master it. (appropriate example: vi editor)
So, in other words, your claim is rather specious, or at least it doesn't appear to take both factors into account.
I doubt Sega is going out of business. Their skill is games anyway, so forsaking the 'Cast is the smart move. Besides, by doing this, and with the subsequent huge drops in price (providing ppl can still buy the games), it could actually extend the life of the Dreamcast for some time to come.
Now, Sega has moved into a position where they can actually influence the sales of the respective consoles, since they are now a pure, and elite, game publisher. They always, like Nintendo, come up with some new shit (super monkey ball), then throw in their sports and other franchises and they have clout.
wait a sec:
do you mean
1. linux sucks, or is slow
2. a "run on" linux, as in surge in sales/popularity, would never happen...
either way, i'm drunk
personally I'd rather not hear my Algebra teacher blather on about God or anything else religious. Teachers who care about their students do their best to teach them the relevant information in an unbiased, objective fashion, to the extent that that is possible.
i do like those private school uniforms though....mmmmmmm
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.........it is annoying and argumentative but offers no insight whatsoever.
oh please. your specious brand of relativistic logic is vaguely nauseating.
Your post isn't insightful in the least
and please, for god's sake don't reply with your useless semantics or cries of "hypocrite!", they are too predictable.
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QT rocks!
well-lit, lots of pumps, beef-dogs for under a dollar, friendly employess (though a bit dorky); overall a very good gas station.