They do, and there is. PCLinuxOS 2k4 is the distro you mention, version pre5 should be out fairly soon. The mklivecd project was Mandrake's christmas gift to you guys. If you'd like to give pclinuxos a shot, hit www.pclinuxonline.com and hunt for the download link on the left. There are active forums too.
Argh, I fixed the contrib list file problem on my box a few days ago. It's annoying but nothing is broken. Do a 'locate contrib.list', login as root and delete the file it finds. Nothing will break..it seems someone at Mandrake accidentally created a list file where one doesn't need to be. Should be/var somewhere.
This isn't really accurate. Mandrake has, in the past and now, free updates from dozens of mirrors worldwide. They're dead easy when you use tools like easy urpmi to add a handful of sources. Easy urpmi can be found at plf.zarb.org and other sites. For those of you new to mandrake, I suggest you add the following sources.
1. standard mandrake source (your choice)
2. plf source (for useful but dubiously legal stuff)
3. contrib source (unofficial but mainly necessary packages; this includes new kernels)
4. security source. You can choose this from within the package manager gui. It will hit mandrake's site and pull down a list of mirrors for security updates.
There are a few other sources that you may need in the future (like rpmhelp.net's) but the 4 listed above with help you get nearly any software package you can think of.
Man if you want to learn, go use slackware or debian. Mandrake is for people who want to set a computer up and have it running within the day, if not the afternoon.
If you want to monkey around and built your system from the ground up, software-wise, then Gentoo is your penguin. If you just want things to work the first time (or if you're deploying something to a large network of machines) Mandrake and other distros are probably your best bet. Just be smart and use the right tool for the job.
There's an old comic that was popular in the US and in France called Mandrake the Magician. Hence the top hat with the magic wand, the star logo, etc. They got in some trouble with the publisher of that comic a few years ago, not sure what the result was but it didn't hurt them too much. You may have noticed their logo changed significantly from 1999 to now, I think the lawsuit and not corporate refreshening had something to do with that.
What? Are you high? Even when I was a kid a few decades ago they were expensive.
Can someone please explain to me why the small castle sets need to cost over $50? It's just colored plastic. There's nothing special or expensive about manufacturing and shipping these little blocks. It's not like they all have titanium cores for strength or the plastic is some military-grade stealth fighter radar-invisible stuff.
If this was a chinese company they'd sell 5lb buckets of assorted pieces for $5.
Er, IANAS, but last time I checked, ozone was the reason the earth's sky appears blue. Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere beyond carbon dioxide and some trace elements, so there's no reason it would appear blue from any angle.
You guys have watched Total Recall way too many times.
Well King George didn't exactly provide any value for taxation. The whole uprising was to defeat taxation without representation. We were paying an assload of money in taxes and getting nothing in return. No say in government policy, no military defense, nothing.
On the other hand, our taxation provides us with city and country roads, working sewage (ask mexicans where toilet paper goes- in the trash can), public utilities, jails and police protection...the list goes on. If the roads were full of holes, the cops were corrupt, the toilets wouldn't flush and nobody had electricity, AND a foreign power was exerting military control over us, we'd have a problem. Again.
I've been thinking of building a freevo box for awhile, but until I go through my next upgrade cycle sometime later this year, it'll be expensive.
Re-using your own legacy hardware for a pvr is what makes it cheap. Rolling your own with new parts is where the high price comes in. TiVO is always cheaper than what you can build NEW, but if you're recycling your 'old' p3 1ghz or so, then it can be more cost effective.
I imagine cd/dvd will be first in priority. The old Apex dvd players supported this so you could update the bios via a cd with a new binary image of the bios burned onto it. That's how I unlocked my AD1200.
The reason they do this is to make manufacturing simple. Every single box coming down the line has identical parts in it. Once a completed unit is ready to be boxed, they send it to the nationalization part of the assembly line. Depending on what country it's going to, it gets flashed (probably via a cd) with the proper bios and country code. This is also part of the Q&A process so they know if they can fire one up and flash it, it'll probably work.
At the end of the line you end up with mechanically and electronically identical units, each supporting various country codes. This makes manufacturing cheap, simple, and quick.
That must be magical. I know you probably thought I was some kind of Intel fanboy but I have a pair of xp2100's over here, and when they're under full load, you can probably defrost a frozen pizza behind the case in minutes. These chips run hot, no doubt about it.
PCLInuxOS 2k4 pr4 is a pretty good test of this, you can find it at pclinuxonline.com in the left hand column. It's basically mandrake 9.2 with a handful of tweaks so it has incredible hardware support. Phlak at phlak.org is a decent little distro for hardware testing as well. Both generally do well on laptops. Phlak won't boot on my desktop but it worked fine on every laptop I stuck it in...go figure.
I've done it before with both Phlak.20 and PCLinuxOS pr4. It's pretty interesting to see what can/will boot and what absolutely refuses to. I was 'caught' doing it at Compusa and all the salespeople started gathering around. Nobody had ever seen linux being used before and was surprised at how windows-ish it was.
The kicker came when they found out it was free. I ended up giving both cds away to people that wanted to play with it at home.
Last time I saw a Chinese protestor he got run over by a tank.
Chinese laborers don't have the same leverage there as they do in the US or other countries. For every job you create in China, 5 people will get in line for it. The gigantic population helps add to this, because after all, labor is a numbers game. If you have a larger population, you have a larger sample to draw labor from, and statistically the employer always wins.
That has to be the most insightful yet resigned statement I've read all year.
Does this mean that if we buy MORE dvd players, the Chinese folks making them will have a better life? Maybe this is a rare instance where the opposite isn't true.
I hope you still have your AD1500. My AD1200 had some power issues...it was a dying capacitor in the power supply module (which is conveniently seperate). A trip to Radio Shack and some soldering later, and it was working just as good as ever.
Substandard components are the death of most electronics. See: ECS motherboards. I had one blow not one, not two, but 14 capacitors at the same time.
From what I've seen about the 64's, they run alot cooler with 1.5v core voltages. They may indeed run cooler than the nuclear furnaces that the XP chips currently double as.
You know, I was in the local Post Office here in Dallas a week ago, and those damn AOL cd's were in a box there. Waiting for innocent victims. I'm thinking, ok, the Postal Service is supposed to be a government agency right? All that money we spend for stamps and shipping goes to the branch of gov't that deals with mailing right? So why the hell do they get to advertise in a public company for FREE? I grabbed the whole box and marched it to the nearest trash can. People clapped.
Why would anyone trade goat for chickens? It's either buffalo wings for a few days or gyro sandwiches for a month. Bonus if the goat is female, then you can make cheese and yogurt.
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They do, and there is. PCLinuxOS 2k4 is the distro you mention, version pre5 should be out fairly soon. The mklivecd project was Mandrake's christmas gift to you guys. If you'd like to give pclinuxos a shot, hit www.pclinuxonline.com and hunt for the download link on the left. There are active forums too.
Argh, I fixed the contrib list file problem on my box a few days ago. It's annoying but nothing is broken. Do a 'locate contrib.list', login as root and delete the file it finds. Nothing will break..it seems someone at Mandrake accidentally created a list file where one doesn't need to be. Should be /var somewhere.
This isn't really accurate. Mandrake has, in the past and now, free updates from dozens of mirrors worldwide. They're dead easy when you use tools like easy urpmi to add a handful of sources. Easy urpmi can be found at plf.zarb.org and other sites. For those of you new to mandrake, I suggest you add the following sources.
1. standard mandrake source (your choice)
2. plf source (for useful but dubiously legal stuff)
3. contrib source (unofficial but mainly necessary packages; this includes new kernels)
4. security source. You can choose this from within the package manager gui. It will hit mandrake's site and pull down a list of mirrors for security updates.
There are a few other sources that you may need in the future (like rpmhelp.net's) but the 4 listed above with help you get nearly any software package you can think of.
Man if you want to learn, go use slackware or debian. Mandrake is for people who want to set a computer up and have it running within the day, if not the afternoon.
If you want to monkey around and built your system from the ground up, software-wise, then Gentoo is your penguin. If you just want things to work the first time (or if you're deploying something to a large network of machines) Mandrake and other distros are probably your best bet. Just be smart and use the right tool for the job.
That's not what Mandrake means for this company.
There's an old comic that was popular in the US and in France called Mandrake the Magician. Hence the top hat with the magic wand, the star logo, etc. They got in some trouble with the publisher of that comic a few years ago, not sure what the result was but it didn't hurt them too much. You may have noticed their logo changed significantly from 1999 to now, I think the lawsuit and not corporate refreshening had something to do with that.
What? Are you high? Even when I was a kid a few decades ago they were expensive.
Can someone please explain to me why the small castle sets need to cost over $50? It's just colored plastic. There's nothing special or expensive about manufacturing and shipping these little blocks. It's not like they all have titanium cores for strength or the plastic is some military-grade stealth fighter radar-invisible stuff.
If this was a chinese company they'd sell 5lb buckets of assorted pieces for $5.
Cowboyneal has nothing to do with this. Or does he? After all, someone had to approve the story before it got posted!
Er, IANAS, but last time I checked, ozone was the reason the earth's sky appears blue. Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere beyond carbon dioxide and some trace elements, so there's no reason it would appear blue from any angle.
You guys have watched Total Recall way too many times.
Well King George didn't exactly provide any value for taxation. The whole uprising was to defeat taxation without representation. We were paying an assload of money in taxes and getting nothing in return. No say in government policy, no military defense, nothing.
On the other hand, our taxation provides us with city and country roads, working sewage (ask mexicans where toilet paper goes- in the trash can), public utilities, jails and police protection...the list goes on. If the roads were full of holes, the cops were corrupt, the toilets wouldn't flush and nobody had electricity, AND a foreign power was exerting military control over us, we'd have a problem. Again.
I can see it being useful in a 'save file' dialog box, but in an open file dialog? Nope.
Gimp's UI sucks and its always been bad. I think they should copy the look and feel of Photoshop 4.5/5
I've been thinking of building a freevo box for awhile, but until I go through my next upgrade cycle sometime later this year, it'll be expensive.
Re-using your own legacy hardware for a pvr is what makes it cheap. Rolling your own with new parts is where the high price comes in. TiVO is always cheaper than what you can build NEW, but if you're recycling your 'old' p3 1ghz or so, then it can be more cost effective.
I imagine cd/dvd will be first in priority. The old Apex dvd players supported this so you could update the bios via a cd with a new binary image of the bios burned onto it. That's how I unlocked my AD1200.
The reason they do this is to make manufacturing simple. Every single box coming down the line has identical parts in it. Once a completed unit is ready to be boxed, they send it to the nationalization part of the assembly line. Depending on what country it's going to, it gets flashed (probably via a cd) with the proper bios and country code. This is also part of the Q&A process so they know if they can fire one up and flash it, it'll probably work.
At the end of the line you end up with mechanically and electronically identical units, each supporting various country codes. This makes manufacturing cheap, simple, and quick.
That must be magical. I know you probably thought I was some kind of Intel fanboy but I have a pair of xp2100's over here, and when they're under full load, you can probably defrost a frozen pizza behind the case in minutes. These chips run hot, no doubt about it.
Depends on the hardware...seriously. Many newer pcs and laptops support booting from alternate devices like external hard drives, usb devices, etc.
PCLInuxOS 2k4 pr4 is a pretty good test of this, you can find it at pclinuxonline.com in the left hand column. It's basically mandrake 9.2 with a handful of tweaks so it has incredible hardware support. Phlak at phlak.org is a decent little distro for hardware testing as well. Both generally do well on laptops. Phlak won't boot on my desktop but it worked fine on every laptop I stuck it in...go figure.
I've done it before with both Phlak .20 and PCLinuxOS pr4. It's pretty interesting to see what can/will boot and what absolutely refuses to. I was 'caught' doing it at Compusa and all the salespeople started gathering around. Nobody had ever seen linux being used before and was surprised at how windows-ish it was.
The kicker came when they found out it was free. I ended up giving both cds away to people that wanted to play with it at home.
Yeah the worst thing you may hear in 2004 is "G.W. Bush wins re-election". It'll be bad no matter where you live. ;)
Last time I saw a Chinese protestor he got run over by a tank.
Chinese laborers don't have the same leverage there as they do in the US or other countries. For every job you create in China, 5 people will get in line for it. The gigantic population helps add to this, because after all, labor is a numbers game. If you have a larger population, you have a larger sample to draw labor from, and statistically the employer always wins.
That has to be the most insightful yet resigned statement I've read all year.
Does this mean that if we buy MORE dvd players, the Chinese folks making them will have a better life? Maybe this is a rare instance where the opposite isn't true.
I hope you still have your AD1500. My AD1200 had some power issues...it was a dying capacitor in the power supply module (which is conveniently seperate). A trip to Radio Shack and some soldering later, and it was working just as good as ever.
Substandard components are the death of most electronics. See: ECS motherboards. I had one blow not one, not two, but 14 capacitors at the same time.
Just admit it man, you're upset because Tom was your english teacher. Guess that refund refusal is what really pissed you off huh?
From what I've seen about the 64's, they run alot cooler with 1.5v core voltages. They may indeed run cooler than the nuclear furnaces that the XP chips currently double as.
You know, I was in the local Post Office here in Dallas a week ago, and those damn AOL cd's were in a box there. Waiting for innocent victims. I'm thinking, ok, the Postal Service is supposed to be a government agency right? All that money we spend for stamps and shipping goes to the branch of gov't that deals with mailing right? So why the hell do they get to advertise in a public company for FREE? I grabbed the whole box and marched it to the nearest trash can. People clapped.
Why would anyone trade goat for chickens? It's either buffalo wings for a few days or gyro sandwiches for a month. Bonus if the goat is female, then you can make cheese and yogurt.
These kids and their crazy business models.
PLEASE! Like your mom can even connect this thing to the tv, or piece it together in the first place.
Some people just expect way too much of their parents. I bet her vcr is flashing 12:00 right this minute.