I was trying to show there are differences inherent in delivery systems. When you say X distributes Y code, and mention OSS in the process, there must be some distinctions given. The point I was trying to make is that Mandrake distributes (via the web) 100% OSS software and distributes (via boxed sets) mostly OSS software. Wanted to make you and others aware of the distinction, which may have been nitpicking but nevertheless enlightened someone.
I really doubt it's in usable condition, and the first hint is that it's linked from Enlightenment's page.
E17 will probably be released the same day that Duke Nukem Forever comes out. Sorry for trolling, but seriously, the E dudes are slower than Christmas.
Mentioning Mandrake as a distributor of (mostly) OSS is wrong. Mandrake distributes 100% free code, including their in-house apps like drakx, urpmi, mcc, you name it. The download edition that anyone can get for free (as in beer and speech) is actually that: FREE. The boxed sets include some useful commercial and/or closed source apps (mainly to make life easier, like nvidia accelerated drivers) but overall, their distro and the work they contribute is open and free.
Redhat is another can of worms, however, as is SuSE and the other 'big' commercial distros. They have a few closed-source tools they won't distribute code for. There is more than one way to contribute to OSS so I respect their actions.
The "Mormon" religion doesn't condone or practice polygamy
That's not quite true. The LDS doctrine teaches that polygamy is the natural order of things in the highest level of heaven (the celestial kingdom), that our Heavenly Father (GOD) has multiple wives, and that polygamy will be reinstated after the second coming of Christ.
brigham young: "If we could make every man upon the earth get him a wife, live righteously and serve God, we would not be under the necessity, perhaps, of taking more than one wife. But they will not do this; the people of God, therefore, have been commanded to take more wives."
Mormon Doctrine, p. 578: "Obviously the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millenium.(Isa. 4)"
The LDS church history is full of all sorts of uncomfortable beliefs and dogma. The modern LDS church has been sanitized quite a bit to appear as "mainstream christian" as possible, but there is still a lot of these uncomfortable truths hidden there.
Also check out the changes made to Endowment cerimony text over the years. Mormon's can't talk about what does on inside the temple for this cerimony (and other ordinances) but they have extremely similiar links to acts practiced by the Mason's and other occult influences.
At the risk of being modded down for being offtopic, good point Anonymous Coward. Too bad I don't have mod points or I'd give you props.
Ironically enough though, most artists who started out as traditional artists and moved to the pc/mac use tablets (not tablet pc's) to make their artwork. I did some digital retouching years ago for Glamour Shots and all we used was the Wacom tablets, even on the SGI Irix workstations. For drawing or painting, they're hard to beat.
It helps if you shout 'work it girl!' and 'the camera loves you!' while you take pictures. That way they assume you're some fruitcake that's not going to go home and wank to the pictures. Which you are, of course, but they don't need to know that.;)
If there's one thing I hate, it's having a battle of wits with an unarmed person. FYI, there are 'pillared coupes' that DO have B pillars, and have been around since AT LEAST 1956, starting with the 1956 Studebaker PowerHawk Pillared Coupe.
If that's not enough links for you, google should come in handy. Coupes have 2 doors, sedans have 4, and I don't give a rat's ass about B pillars. Also, just to add insult to injury since you're probably some beer-swilling, uneducated musclecar fan, this one is just for you: http://www.71superbee.com/VINBreakdown/. Scroll down until you see pillared coupe. There are more than one.
You can't 'know' that you've been killed. Either you're alive (and aware of that) or dead (unaware of that). Awareness and knowledge stops the second you die, so you can only 'know' life.
Your experiment is flawed, because if you use ANY form of measurement, the answer is clear. The act of observation is what ultimately determines the state of the cat. So, the EKG would be the observer, and making an observation determines that state.
Basically, anything that provides you with information as to the state of the cat *is* the observer. A mouse eating cheese in the corner, if he only eats cheese after the cat dies, is the observer.
That's the nature of quantum mechanics. Everything exists in a dual state until it is measured (quantified). So the cat is both dead AND alive until you check.
You forgot to mention the cheapest food in America is also the most fattening (on average). So 2/3 of the country living close to the poverty line can't afford enough of the good food to make them feel full, and venture to Burger King or McDonalds for a lard-filled meal.
Being poor or close to it also has a tendency to keep your ass on the couch. You'd like to go out to a movie or restaurant, but that costs money. You'd like to get up from the computer and go shopping for some new shoes, but that costs money. Eventually your mind gets paralyzed by your lack of funds and you just sit and flip channels. Trust me, this is how most Americans live.
The biggest problem in this country isn't obesity, it's the disparity caused by the widening gap in the classes. The rich are much richer, the poor are much poorer, fattening food is cheap, hence America is fatter.
It's the opportunistic spirit that drives many would-be-free-camwhores into a life of 'click here to see my naughty parts live'. Think about how many people used to throw old crap away, now they hock it on Ebay. The same concept applies to camwhores. They figure, hell, if I'm going to show my tits on the internet to some anonymous pervs and skript kiddies that cracked the password server, I might as well make a few bucks.
I tell ya, there just aren't enough quality whores anymore.
The point I was trying to make is that, out of the box, many Linux distros come with critical software that you need. You don't have to go out and purchase 3rd party software the day you do your install.
Good luck with your wireless stuff. It may be easier than you think, get on #mandrake on irc.freenode.net or something.:)
That's exactly my point. You BOUGHT easy cd creator. K3b comes *with* many distros, along with Eroaster and a million other great burning programs.
I have very little experience with laptops, but I had the exact same opposite experience as you had with them. I borrowed a Dell Latitude from a buddy, installed Mandrake 9.2 on it, and within seconds of installing it was on the wireless network via the minipci orinoco card inside. Zero configuration, other than 'ifup eth1' since pcmcia would bring the card up *after* eth0 and eth1 came up (mandrake bug I guess, could probably fix it with some editing).
When I finished with the laptop I reinstalled windows xp. Couldn't get on the wireless network, and after screwing randomly with the settings for 30 minutes I got on. Seriously lacking, but a different perspective than yours.
I believe FLAK is one of these ids-on-a-cd distros. I tried to give it a shot once but it kept hosing itself. Kinda pissed me off. Things might have changed since that release though.
Yeah, because no matter how you look at it, the usb drive is a practical idea. With knoppix you don't have it modifying partitions and data on the hard drive and therefore can only go so far. With this usb drive setup you can actually save things and create a decent environment without ever touching the hd.
It's pretty clever, and I guess this is what they were hinting at a few months ago.
That's why webmin is installed as part of the server packages installation. Webmin will let you edit pretty much anything on your box and it's graphical. Doesn't require apache either, and can run secure via ssl and port 10000.
I realize you're new, but there are many resources out there for you to learn from. irc.freenode.net #mandrake is but one.
I guess that depends on friction coefficents changing related to traction loss and weight transfer front to rear. Even if you're going uphill, you still have forward momentum, and in an FF (front engined, front wheel drive) car you have an added bonus of serious weight focused over the drive wheels. FR (front engined, rear wheel drive) cars are at a distinct disadvantage in inclement weather where traction isn't a constant. You do get that initial weight transfer from a dead stop (and with each upshift) but it's not constant and the rear end lightens up once momentum builds. FF cars, OTOH, have a predictable force constantly pushing down over the drive wheels which increases traction and predictability (at the expense of understeer).
I've owned and driven both types of cars and for winter or rain, I'll take FF over FR any day. Of course, 4WD outperforms both categories but that's another story.
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I was trying to show there are differences inherent in delivery systems. When you say X distributes Y code, and mention OSS in the process, there must be some distinctions given. The point I was trying to make is that Mandrake distributes (via the web) 100% OSS software and distributes (via boxed sets) mostly OSS software. Wanted to make you and others aware of the distinction, which may have been nitpicking but nevertheless enlightened someone.
I really doubt it's in usable condition, and the first hint is that it's linked from Enlightenment's page.
E17 will probably be released the same day that Duke Nukem Forever comes out. Sorry for trolling, but seriously, the E dudes are slower than Christmas.
Mentioning Mandrake as a distributor of (mostly) OSS is wrong. Mandrake distributes 100% free code, including their in-house apps like drakx, urpmi, mcc, you name it. The download edition that anyone can get for free (as in beer and speech) is actually that: FREE. The boxed sets include some useful commercial and/or closed source apps (mainly to make life easier, like nvidia accelerated drivers) but overall, their distro and the work they contribute is open and free.
Redhat is another can of worms, however, as is SuSE and the other 'big' commercial distros. They have a few closed-source tools they won't distribute code for. There is more than one way to contribute to OSS so I respect their actions.
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Insensitive clod!
The "Mormon" religion doesn't condone or practice polygamy
That's not quite true. The LDS doctrine teaches that polygamy is the natural order of things in the highest level of heaven (the celestial kingdom), that our Heavenly Father (GOD) has multiple wives, and that polygamy will be reinstated after the second coming of Christ.
brigham young: "If we could make every man upon the earth get him a wife, live righteously and serve God, we would not be under the necessity, perhaps, of taking more than one wife. But they will not do this; the people of God, therefore, have been commanded to take more wives."
Mormon Doctrine, p. 578: "Obviously the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millenium.(Isa. 4)"
The LDS church history is full of all sorts of uncomfortable beliefs and dogma. The modern LDS church has been sanitized quite a bit to appear as "mainstream christian" as possible, but there is still a lot of these uncomfortable truths hidden there.
Also check out the changes made to Endowment cerimony text over the years. Mormon's can't talk about what does on inside the temple for this cerimony (and other ordinances) but they have extremely similiar links to acts practiced by the Mason's and other occult influences.
At the risk of being modded down for being offtopic, good point Anonymous Coward. Too bad I don't have mod points or I'd give you props.
Ironically enough though, most artists who started out as traditional artists and moved to the pc/mac use tablets (not tablet pc's) to make their artwork. I did some digital retouching years ago for Glamour Shots and all we used was the Wacom tablets, even on the SGI Irix workstations. For drawing or painting, they're hard to beat.
It helps if you shout 'work it girl!' and 'the camera loves you!' while you take pictures. That way they assume you're some fruitcake that's not going to go home and wank to the pictures. Which you are, of course, but they don't need to know that. ;)
Goddammit, the /. editors rejected my Phlak .20 release story for this one? Crackheads.
.20 is out, phlak.org go get it.
Anyway Phlak
If there's one thing I hate, it's having a battle of wits with an unarmed person. FYI, there are 'pillared coupes' that DO have B pillars, and have been around since AT LEAST 1956, starting with the 1956 Studebaker PowerHawk Pillared Coupe.
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Look here: http://www.answerbag.com/t_view.php/76, here: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/coupe. here: http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.
If that's not enough links for you, google should come in handy. Coupes have 2 doors, sedans have 4, and I don't give a rat's ass about B pillars. Also, just to add insult to injury since you're probably some beer-swilling, uneducated musclecar fan, this one is just for you: http://www.71superbee.com/VINBreakdown/. Scroll down until you see pillared coupe. There are more than one.
There's no such thing as a 2 door sedan, sedan = 4 doors. The 99-01 Civic Si was a COUPE.
I can't believe I earned the title 'ricer' by correcting obvious mistakes. FYI I drive a 2003 Accord V6 COUPE. Stock.
No, they're the folks who load the screaming kids into the biggest SUV from Mack Trucks and back into that civic hatchback in the parking lot.
Oh and btw, it's usually the coupes that have clear tails, not hatchbacks.
You can't 'know' that you've been killed. Either you're alive (and aware of that) or dead (unaware of that). Awareness and knowledge stops the second you die, so you can only 'know' life.
Your experiment is flawed, because if you use ANY form of measurement, the answer is clear. The act of observation is what ultimately determines the state of the cat. So, the EKG would be the observer, and making an observation determines that state.
Basically, anything that provides you with information as to the state of the cat *is* the observer. A mouse eating cheese in the corner, if he only eats cheese after the cat dies, is the observer.
That's the nature of quantum mechanics. Everything exists in a dual state until it is measured (quantified). So the cat is both dead AND alive until you check.
Shouldn't that read...
Wanted: Dead AND Alive.
You forgot to mention the cheapest food in America is also the most fattening (on average). So 2/3 of the country living close to the poverty line can't afford enough of the good food to make them feel full, and venture to Burger King or McDonalds for a lard-filled meal.
Being poor or close to it also has a tendency to keep your ass on the couch. You'd like to go out to a movie or restaurant, but that costs money. You'd like to get up from the computer and go shopping for some new shoes, but that costs money. Eventually your mind gets paralyzed by your lack of funds and you just sit and flip channels. Trust me, this is how most Americans live.
The biggest problem in this country isn't obesity, it's the disparity caused by the widening gap in the classes. The rich are much richer, the poor are much poorer, fattening food is cheap, hence America is fatter.
It's the opportunistic spirit that drives many would-be-free-camwhores into a life of 'click here to see my naughty parts live'. Think about how many people used to throw old crap away, now they hock it on Ebay. The same concept applies to camwhores. They figure, hell, if I'm going to show my tits on the internet to some anonymous pervs and skript kiddies that cracked the password server, I might as well make a few bucks.
I tell ya, there just aren't enough quality whores anymore.
The point I was trying to make is that, out of the box, many Linux distros come with critical software that you need. You don't have to go out and purchase 3rd party software the day you do your install.
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Good luck with your wireless stuff. It may be easier than you think, get on #mandrake on irc.freenode.net or something.
That's exactly my point. You BOUGHT easy cd creator. K3b comes *with* many distros, along with Eroaster and a million other great burning programs.
I have very little experience with laptops, but I had the exact same opposite experience as you had with them. I borrowed a Dell Latitude from a buddy, installed Mandrake 9.2 on it, and within seconds of installing it was on the wireless network via the minipci orinoco card inside. Zero configuration, other than 'ifup eth1' since pcmcia would bring the card up *after* eth0 and eth1 came up (mandrake bug I guess, could probably fix it with some editing).
When I finished with the laptop I reinstalled windows xp. Couldn't get on the wireless network, and after screwing randomly with the settings for 30 minutes I got on. Seriously lacking, but a different perspective than yours.
There's two sides to every street I guess.
"an IDS on a CD, etc."
I believe FLAK is one of these ids-on-a-cd distros. I tried to give it a shot once but it kept hosing itself. Kinda pissed me off. Things might have changed since that release though.
Yeah, because no matter how you look at it, the usb drive is a practical idea. With knoppix you don't have it modifying partitions and data on the hard drive and therefore can only go so far. With this usb drive setup you can actually save things and create a decent environment without ever touching the hd.
It's pretty clever, and I guess this is what they were hinting at a few months ago.
That's why webmin is installed as part of the server packages installation. Webmin will let you edit pretty much anything on your box and it's graphical. Doesn't require apache either, and can run secure via ssl and port 10000.
I realize you're new, but there are many resources out there for you to learn from. irc.freenode.net #mandrake is but one.
Yeah, but 'thank you, come again' isn't nearly as funny in text as it is in person.
*quickie mart simpsons reference for the 3 of you that have mod points and didn't get it.
No, actually, I bet SusEvell is going to be next in line for this type of certification.
I guess that depends on friction coefficents changing related to traction loss and weight transfer front to rear. Even if you're going uphill, you still have forward momentum, and in an FF (front engined, front wheel drive) car you have an added bonus of serious weight focused over the drive wheels. FR (front engined, rear wheel drive) cars are at a distinct disadvantage in inclement weather where traction isn't a constant. You do get that initial weight transfer from a dead stop (and with each upshift) but it's not constant and the rear end lightens up once momentum builds. FF cars, OTOH, have a predictable force constantly pushing down over the drive wheels which increases traction and predictability (at the expense of understeer).
I've owned and driven both types of cars and for winter or rain, I'll take FF over FR any day. Of course, 4WD outperforms both categories but that's another story.