For the 115th time, Mandrake was named after a comic book called Mandrake the Magician, and King Syndication wasn't too happy about it after 5 years. They had to change the name eventually regardless. But yes, the name totally blows. It's too bad that someone made such an awful decision.
You're missing the whole point here. There was an article earlier this week (NYT) that mentioned Southwestern Bell was trying to get IPTV into action so when they finish their fiber-to-the-curb rollout, they can provide television programming along with telephony and data services.
This article is just stating that Bell is going to have alot of trouble with their future if this kind of thing keeps up.
Seriously though, why cry about a software firewall missing anyway? Anyone worth their weight in penguin poop uses a Cisco or other router to do alot of their dirty work for them. A software firewall is more like a last line of defense. I'd hate to see these guys running a group of servers in an average IT department. "No software firewall? Oh well! I'll just plug it into the t1 on it's public IP and away we go!"
The try-before-you-buy thing is actually already in use by Movie Trading Co., Blockbuster's baby brother company. All rental fees can go towards the full purchase price if you choose to buy the movie after you rent it. This way, you don't get gouged twice.
I learned about one of these with Windows XP sp2 recently. Evidently, the NX bit on athlon64 chips allow for hardware DEP (data execution prevention). You have to implicitly allow and disallow some programs from running. Sometimes Windows prompts you for permission, sometimes it doesn't. I didn't figure out why Battlefield Vietnam was crashing on a client's machine randomly until I came across a page mentioning this 'feature'. After implicitly allowing BFV to execute whatever, the crashing stopped.
Most of the time, the PSU failures I've seen are unrelated to dust (although fan failure in any part of the computer is usually due to dust, cat hair and other particulates). The majority of the time, it's a junky, no-name PSU that has blown at least one capacitor. It's always easy to spot. Crack it open, look for the cap with the brown goo spewed out of the top, with a millimeter of dust glued to that.
Gee, the reason the Mandrake install was so much larger than the Windows XP install didn't have anything to do with software did it? Microsoft gives you almost nothing. A crappy mail client, a bad browser, a bad IM client that needs to be upgraded immediately, and a slow, buggy, nearly codec-less media player. They throw in a few drivers as well, but most of the time post-install, the first thing you do is go get all new drivers for everything.
When Microsoft starts including every major app most people use, then we'll talk about size.
You *just* found PLF? Welcome to 2005 brother. Don't forget about easyurpmi.zarb.org for your easy package goodness.
With contrib, main, plf free and non-free, jpackage and maybe one other, there's a gigantic heap of software an urpmi packagename* away.
By the way, totally offtopic, but how do you get those 'other' distros to guess package names? I don't understand how apt does that, haven't seen anything in the docs for it either.
You gotta realize, of course, that if Sony is allowing firmware upgrades, then each firmware is encoded with one of their keys somehow. It may take awhile to crack, or be completely uncrackable like the Quake3/Doom3 keys.
I think he knows who this will appeal to: the slashdot crowd and antique collectors. Hence a few screenshots running Linux and the Linux magazine. Take a look at some of the other shots: he's rocking a Fostex reel-to-reel, an actual record player, some DAT equipment, and one of those super old tyme fans that have the canvas-wrapped, burn-down-the-house cords on it.
"What happens in a year or two when the codecs has become obsolete."
Two words: programmable firmware. You store the base PSP OS on a memory stick-ish device embedded in the machine. You then issue firmware updates to users via snail mail or free from local retailers, on a standard PSP disc that's bootable. The PS2 did it, why not a portable?
Yeah, you don't remember? It was kind of a side bonus I think, towards the end of the airboat chapter. You had to get out and move cinder blocks into a steel cage to get some panel to slide upwards IIRC.
Game physics possibilities have already been pushed to their limits. In Half Life 2, the amazing physics engine gave you incredible powers. You could use floating barrels to solve puzzles! You could break things into individual pieces for fun! Cinder blocks dropped into baskets could open doors!
Those days are over for the average computer user at home, but it's very alive for corporate users. Alot of CAD and design software requires keys on the workstation AND the server.
AFAIK, Sun and SGI play in different sandboxes. SGI originally focused on - surprise - high end Unix graphics workstations and servers that handle rendering. Hence the name Silicon Graphics Inc.
Dude, you're surrounded by geeks so start acting like one. If your wiring sucks, and it's just phone wiring, REWIRE IT. It's not that hard and phones are nearly the simplest thing you can do (next to CATV). I can explain to anyone with a drill and some cabling how to wire a place up in a few short lessons.
I ran cable for Comcast/AT&T for 9 months. It's not nearly as difficult as you would think.
Hmm..a guy named Dago (an insult to italians) posting a link to an italian search engine result, completely irrelevant to anything geeks care about, let alone the topic.
I just tried NeroLinux, and it pales in comparison to k3b. It looks nothing like it's windows counterpart and has shit all for options (i.e. almost none). To Nero's credit, they call it version 2.0, so you can't expect much yet.
I'll take k3b over this noobware anyday. Call me in 3 years when Nero is mature.
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So in Sweden, if you do a piledriver on someone, does that mean you make a pile out of a pile?
For the 115th time, Mandrake was named after a comic book called Mandrake the Magician, and King Syndication wasn't too happy about it after 5 years. They had to change the name eventually regardless. But yes, the name totally blows. It's too bad that someone made such an awful decision.
Yeah, it was meant as a point of reference for the /. crowd, who in general are too young to remember the original 70's skits.
Moron. He's making a joke about the awful Coneheads movie..when asked where they're from, the Coneheads reply 'we're from France'.
You're missing the whole point here. There was an article earlier this week (NYT) that mentioned Southwestern Bell was trying to get IPTV into action so when they finish their fiber-to-the-curb rollout, they can provide television programming along with telephony and data services.
This article is just stating that Bell is going to have alot of trouble with their future if this kind of thing keeps up.
Ho ho! And it's even funnier now that he's dead!
Long live Johnny Cochran.
Where's the problem?
PEBCAK.
Seriously though, why cry about a software firewall missing anyway? Anyone worth their weight in penguin poop uses a Cisco or other router to do alot of their dirty work for them. A software firewall is more like a last line of defense. I'd hate to see these guys running a group of servers in an average IT department. "No software firewall? Oh well! I'll just plug it into the t1 on it's public IP and away we go!"
The try-before-you-buy thing is actually already in use by Movie Trading Co., Blockbuster's baby brother company. All rental fees can go towards the full purchase price if you choose to buy the movie after you rent it. This way, you don't get gouged twice.
I learned about one of these with Windows XP sp2 recently. Evidently, the NX bit on athlon64 chips allow for hardware DEP (data execution prevention). You have to implicitly allow and disallow some programs from running. Sometimes Windows prompts you for permission, sometimes it doesn't. I didn't figure out why Battlefield Vietnam was crashing on a client's machine randomly until I came across a page mentioning this 'feature'. After implicitly allowing BFV to execute whatever, the crashing stopped.
Most of the time, the PSU failures I've seen are unrelated to dust (although fan failure in any part of the computer is usually due to dust, cat hair and other particulates). The majority of the time, it's a junky, no-name PSU that has blown at least one capacitor. It's always easy to spot. Crack it open, look for the cap with the brown goo spewed out of the top, with a millimeter of dust glued to that.
Gee, the reason the Mandrake install was so much larger than the Windows XP install didn't have anything to do with software did it? Microsoft gives you almost nothing. A crappy mail client, a bad browser, a bad IM client that needs to be upgraded immediately, and a slow, buggy, nearly codec-less media player. They throw in a few drivers as well, but most of the time post-install, the first thing you do is go get all new drivers for everything.
When Microsoft starts including every major app most people use, then we'll talk about size.
You *just* found PLF? Welcome to 2005 brother. Don't forget about easyurpmi.zarb.org for your easy package goodness.
With contrib, main, plf free and non-free, jpackage and maybe one other, there's a gigantic heap of software an urpmi packagename* away.
By the way, totally offtopic, but how do you get those 'other' distros to guess package names? I don't understand how apt does that, haven't seen anything in the docs for it either.
You gotta realize, of course, that if Sony is allowing firmware upgrades, then each firmware is encoded with one of their keys somehow. It may take awhile to crack, or be completely uncrackable like the Quake3/Doom3 keys.
Ok so he's more of an old-school antique collector. But in my book, judging by his sound equipment, he's more of an audiophile.
I think he knows who this will appeal to: the slashdot crowd and antique collectors. Hence a few screenshots running Linux and the Linux magazine. Take a look at some of the other shots: he's rocking a Fostex reel-to-reel, an actual record player, some DAT equipment, and one of those super old tyme fans that have the canvas-wrapped, burn-down-the-house cords on it.
:)
Definitely a renaissance man of some sort.
"I really wouldn't want changes to the input devices."
Too late, he swapped both of the big mouse-clickers built into the keyboard with wooden panels. Look not-so-closely and you'll see them.
Personally I'd try wooden keys. They might actually feel better due to weight and texture but it'd suck to get splinters from typing.
"What happens in a year or two when the codecs has become obsolete."
Two words: programmable firmware. You store the base PSP OS on a memory stick-ish device embedded in the machine. You then issue firmware updates to users via snail mail or free from local retailers, on a standard PSP disc that's bootable. The PS2 did it, why not a portable?
Yeah, you don't remember? It was kind of a side bonus I think, towards the end of the airboat chapter. You had to get out and move cinder blocks into a steel cage to get some panel to slide upwards IIRC.
Game physics possibilities have already been pushed to their limits. In Half Life 2, the amazing physics engine gave you incredible powers. You could use floating barrels to solve puzzles! You could break things into individual pieces for fun! Cinder blocks dropped into baskets could open doors!
;)
I mean, what else is there?
Those days are over for the average computer user at home, but it's very alive for corporate users. Alot of CAD and design software requires keys on the workstation AND the server.
AFAIK, Sun and SGI play in different sandboxes. SGI originally focused on - surprise - high end Unix graphics workstations and servers that handle rendering. Hence the name Silicon Graphics Inc.
Dude, you're surrounded by geeks so start acting like one. If your wiring sucks, and it's just phone wiring, REWIRE IT. It's not that hard and phones are nearly the simplest thing you can do (next to CATV). I can explain to anyone with a drill and some cabling how to wire a place up in a few short lessons.
I ran cable for Comcast/AT&T for 9 months. It's not nearly as difficult as you would think.
Hmm..a guy named Dago (an insult to italians) posting a link to an italian search engine result, completely irrelevant to anything geeks care about, let alone the topic.
Slashdotters, please, continue to amaze me.
What a dumb question! Put them in the nanotrashcan of course!
I just tried NeroLinux, and it pales in comparison to k3b. It looks nothing like it's windows counterpart and has shit all for options (i.e. almost none). To Nero's credit, they call it version 2.0, so you can't expect much yet.
I'll take k3b over this noobware anyday. Call me in 3 years when Nero is mature.