Funny you should say that, since one of the objectives of the US government when designing the Internet (ARPANET at the time) was to create a decentralized network that would remain in operation even in the event individual nodes were lost...
Unfortunately, the advent of the DNS system lowered the Internet's ability to do that. It didn't completely eliminate it of course, but back in the day each server on the internet had a hosts file which contained every known system on the network, so even if a few servers went down, all the other servers still had that entire list. With DNS each system on the internet depends on the thirteen [logical, maybe 100+ physical] root DNS servers being available at all times, as well as depending on them to give accurate information for each query.
Anyone with the ability to bring down a mere 100 physical servers, could completely bring the internet to a screeching halt.
As for HD-DVD, I don't think it is really that useful. In fact that think the addon is kinda retarded in general. If I get a game console, it is because I want to play games. I've seen people use them for DVD players, it is annoying. None of them have as nice an interface as a real DVD player. I'm sure there is a market of people who want both and want to save money, but I'd bet it isn't all that large, at least not enough to justify the cost.
Actually, I really like the add-on HD-DVD drive. Sure, it would have been nice to have it built into the 360 itself, but other than that it's great, and it saves the built-in player for my games. Besides, there's really nothing wrong with the interface. Once you have the DVD/HDDVD in, the interface is the same as any other DVD player.
As I see it, I already had an XBOX360 for gaming. A standalone HD/BR player [or a PS3:) ] would have cost me $600-1000+. I added HD-DVD functionality to my living-room for $160 [$40 off coupon at Circuit City]. The fact that it included a copy of King Kong, normally $25 [ok not really worth the money cuz it sucked, but still] and a remote control, $30 [which I would have ended up buying anyway], really means I paid $105 for HD-DVD functionality. For that kind of savings, I can live with a slight delay when inserting a movie, and the add-on is selling quite well, so I'm not alone in that.
Well that kinda sucks. I'm already saddened by the fact that I can't get Speakeasy at my current home. It was always worth the extra money for their service, and static IPs. Now I have to live with the fact that by the time I move to another house, Speakeasy will probably suck as badly as SBC.:(
TFA seems surprised by SATA drives lasting as long as Fibre...why one earth would your data interface have any consequences on the drive internals? Or are we talking assuming Interface = Data Throughput?
That statement is based on the long-held assumption that hard drive manufacturers put better materials and engineering into enterprise-targeted drives [Fibre] than they put into consumer-level drives [SATA].
Motorcycles are usually electronically limited to 300 kph. It's an effete Euro thing.....
Except that is not a law [at least in the US]. It's the manufacturers who got together and agreed to do this because they were afraid laws would be passed, perhaps even more restrictive than their voluntary limit.
Now, why on earth would I kick myself later for shelling out $30 ONCE for OTA HD?
Because this isn't a discussion about HD antennas. We're talking about HDTV's which don't have built in Digital/HD tuners. These tuners run $200+ new if you can find them, though much cheaper if you buy used off ebay and such.
How do you feel about Walmart's plan to sell lots of them in their stores, and to try to change peoples opinions on them?
Frankly I think it's a real shame. Not because I don't think almost everyone should switch to CF. I love the CF lights. My entire house uses CF with the exception of 2 light fixtures that use tiny bulbs that no CF fits.
No, it's a real shame because the bulbs that Walmart sells are complete and utter crap. When outfitting our new home with CF's, we bought some Philips bulbs at Home Depot. I think it was 6 bulbs for $5. They work great. They're fairly bright [they make brighter but I prefer a dimmer environment], and they turn on instantly. Recently my wife bought a pack of CF bulbs [GE I think] from Walmart. I don't know what she paid for them. It's a bright bulb but it takes like 2-3 seconds to turn on. It's terribly annoying and certainly not going to leave a good impression on folks who are thinking of switching.
Oh and just to head off the folks complaining about 'technology' in a Kindergarten classroom. As I mentioned, each kid only goes on the program for 15 minutes a day. They are basically unsupervised during this time [just meaning that the teacher continues the normal activities for the rest of the class while the 1 to 3 students are at the computer]. It's not meant as a 'sit at the computer all day and learn' type of thing.
I agree that this sort of thing should be limited, and most time in Kindergarten should be spent socializing, playing with Lego's and Blocks, and playing tag and duck-duck-goose.
As a matter of fact, now that I'm in my 30's, I think most of my time at work should be spent socializing, playing with Lego's and blocks, and playing tag and duck-duck-goose.:)
Since you didn't specify OSS, I can highly recommend one particular commercial product. I used to do tech and field support for this product.
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It is called "The Waterford Early Reading Program" [although I believe they now have Math and Science as well, but haven't personally seen these newer products]. It is currently distributed by Pearson Digital Learning [It was called Electronic Education, a division of Addison Wesley Longman when I worked there]
Anyway, the idea is that for Level One, a set of one to three computers [depending on class size] is placed in a Kindergarten [or Pre-K] classroom. Each day the students spend 15 minutes on the computer. Much like many reading programs the program guides the student through the process of learning to read, [actually the first couple days are spent teaching the child to use the mouse] using songs and games. In this case, the instruction is backed by research done by the Waterford Institute and the Waterford School [a private school in Utah]. The software is able to keep track of lessons/concepts which the student has or hasn't mastered, and can keep giving lessons on the items the student still needs help with.
In addition to the 15 minutes on the computer, each student gets a set of videos [with videos from the program], a set of cd's [with music from the program of course], and books [can you guess? With stories from the program]. These are for the students to take home, in the hopes that they can get their family to read with them, or at least play the music/video's to enforce the learning.
After Level One, they have Level 2 [First Grade] and Level 3 [Second grade] to continue building on the lessons].
In my years of supporting the product, and spending time in the classrooms, I have to say that I really believe it was a great program. The kids absolutely LOVED it! If the computers were down, the teacher would tell the kids that I was there to fix the computers. Without fail, the entire class would cheer loudly! Of only one system was down, and I had to stop some kids from using the other working computers, they would plead with me not to make them get off the computers until I swore to them that they would not lose their turn for that day.
I even had one kid stand up, turn around, look at me and pee his pants! The teacher said that this was not uncommon. The kids were so worried about losing their turn at the program, that they didn't want to get up to go to the bathroom!
There is a downside to this wonderful system though. It is NOT cheap. I don't know what the prices are these days [when I worked there, Pentium 2's were hot stuff], and I don't know what kind of deals can be done with private [especially out of US] schools. Generally the system was sold with anywhere from 1 to 3 computers plus a printer, and the cost included student sets [books/vid/cd's] and support for three years.
Generally our sales force spent 20% of their time selling the product to school districts, and 80% of their time helping the school districts find grants or other funding.:)
But if it's something your school might be able to afford, I highly, highly, highly recommend the product. Of course, it's only for English, but your students will get a great start on learning to read English with this program.
/I made sure I had a copy and set of books/tapes before I left, even though I didn't have a kid yet at the time. //My daughter is almost ready to start! Yay! ///I miss working on a product in which I believe so deeply.
When I'm setting up a new system, I hate using sudo for a ton of commands and would rather have access to a root shell while I'm first setting up a computer or when I'm setting up a new application.
There is an easy fix for this. If you've got a bunch of stuff to do as root, just use "sudo su -", and boom, you've got a root shell. Just remember to CTRL-D [or run 'exit'] when you're done.
Not that either method is any better than the other, but you don't have to type 'sudo' before each command, and it still keeps the root account locked.
How much fresh air could a solar powered air system produce?
I believe that the fresh air system is a built in fan in the front of the mask that just sucks in air from outside. As long as it has a reverse setting, to rid your helmet of taco burps.:)
DST was actually invented to give farmers an extra hour of daylight to harvest their crops. It's been around super long (think before lights on tractors:-P) I have trouble believing this. I know it's the usual explanation, but really, did the farmers CARE what *time* it was when they got up to do their work? They got up before sunrise, and went out to work once it was light enough, regardless of what time it was. When it started getting dark, they stopped working, went home, ate dinner and went to bed.
There was certainly no extra daylight created by arbitrarily resetting the time on everyone's clock.
We turn daylight savings time off in the winter because otherwise the kids have to go to school in the dark when the days grow short.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to change the starting time of school back an hour? I've always found this reasoning to be retarded. Not that I should expect any better from our government.
I think that Cingular will yet switch to this phone while you are still under a older contract from them.
Yes, they will "upgrade" you at the cost of an additional 2 years tacked onto your current contract.
It's been my experience that they don't tack it on to your current contract, but simply restart the two years when you do the upgrade. But it's been awhile so maybe they've changed it since then.
Fourth, distribution costs. Shipping thousands of OEM copies to one customer (Dell) is much cheaper than shipping thousands of retail boxed copies to multiple customers (retailers). Also, since you don't have to print up a box and packaging, creating those OEM copies is much cheaper.
Actually, it's even worse. MS doesn't ship thousands of anything to the OEM's. Maybe it's not still the case, but at one point, the OEM's were responsible for the ordering and cost of pressing and printing the OEM CD's that they distributed with the systems they sold. It's one of the reasons many OEM's don't like to ship an install CD, as that's just more money they have to spend.
the question is how to get a Wii (congrats to you on getting one), everyplace I go they are out of stock,
Well, the Fry's in Arlington, TX had about 15 of them 2 days ago, while I was buying an Xbox 360. They also had about 25 PS3s and a small mountain of Xbox360s.
I don't know if they were being sold as a bundle or anything. I just saw the wall of PS3 and Wii boxes in the cage behind the registers, and heard the cashier commenting on how many they had.
Wouldn't it suck to have your HD-DVD player stop working for new titles, because someone was using its key? Or are all HD-DVD players networked, so their keys can be changed at any time?
I'm going to laugh especially hard when the keys for the HD-DVD addon to the Xbox 360, and the BlueRay player in the PS3 are compromised. Does anyone really believe for a moment that Sony [for instance] would be crazy enough to revoke the key to the PS3? If they revoke they key, causing PS3 owners to be unable to play new BlueRay titles, it would be a PR nightmare, possibly killing both BlueRay *AND* the PS3, which are Sony's two biggest products at the moment.
If they choose not to revoke the key they would be hard-pressed to justify revoking any other compromised hardware keys lest they be seen as highly hypocritical, also possibly killing the format.
I suppose there would be a chance that PS3 sales surge as it becomes the player of choice for ripping High-Def movies. But does Sony really want to take that chance? The MPAA wouldn't be too happy to hear that Sony was staking its future sales on the hopes that people will use the PS3 to get around all the protections the MPAA has tried to put on the format.
What if you split 10 dollars among 0 people? You can't say each person gets 10 dollars becayse there are no people to give dollars to. So 10/0 must be 0. Nobody gets no dollars. The 10 dollars just dissapears into the ether.
Wouldn't you just get 0 with a remainder of 10? Each person would get $0, and there would be $10 left over?
So it stands to reason that any number divided by zero should equal zero with a remainder of the original number.
Seems pretty simple to me. Then again, I failed Algebra 2 in highschool!:)
FTA: ... and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet
And I used to wonder why the younger folks like my brother were avoiding email and only using IM. 90% SPAM? This is just ridiculous. Yet for some reason, the industry seems to be focusing on trying to 'catch' the spam [and as a result, constantly playing catch-up], instead of working on a real solution, such designing an email system that isn't vulnerable to spam. I'm sure this is partially because the anti-spam companies are making a fortune.
So far I've done ok, trying to stay ahead of the spammers. I recently implemented greylisting on my mail server, and the number of spams has dropped significantly. But I know that soon the spammers will figure out what we're doing, and my spam levels will again increase.
I can't say that I know what kind of solution would be successful, but I've seen very little indication that it's seriously being worked on.
Am I wrong? Are there any serious contenders for a new, secure, non-spammable store-and-forward messaging system being worked on?
Then why is it being Touted as "a possible challenger to Windows Vista". It would only be a challenger to Windows Vista if it was going to be used by the same userbase.
Well if you had actually read the summary and the article you would understand that the product is called "Xandros Desktop Professional, and that based on the features listed and discussed, is most likely being touted as a possible challenger to Vista Business Edition. Maybe Techworld didn't spell it out for you, but I assumed that features such as "Thin clients and terminal emulation", "Seamless Microsoft Exchange connectivity", or "Ready for mass deployment in enterprise settings via xDMS, Xandros Deployment and Management Server" would have clued you in on that fact.
You said THIS distro is not for me. OK ill bite. Which Linux distro would fit my needs as listed above ? Are there any like that ?
No, I'm not aware of any distro that caters to people who whine that a distro targeted at enterprise customers doesn't support games written for a completely different operating system. Don't complain that Linux doesn't support every piece of software written for Windows. It's hardly the fault of Linux, and quite frankly amazing that it can be made to run any software written for Windows. If you want to complain that Linux can't run your games, start bitching at the game developers. It is their choice to write games for Windows. Other developers are capable of writing cross-platform games, such as Doom 3, Quake 4, UT2004, Neverwinter Nights etc.
Trust me, I'd be very happy if all the best games ran in Linux, whether it be because the developer's wrote it that way, or because the smart folks who hack on Linux figured out a way to make them all work. But it just isn't there yet, so if you want to play games and use specific software written for Windows, just use Windows.
Also I dont ring up Fries. I run 4 group homes for mental patients with dozens of clients and a dozen or so employees.Is this yet another example of Linux Leetness . You dont Understand Linux You must work at some Burger Joint.
You are capable of running 4 group homes and dealing with a dozen employees, yet you come into this forum and post like a 16year old who just got off the night-shift at Wendy's [No offense to those few intelligent 16yr olds working at burger joints:)]. It has nothing to do with whether or not you 'understand Linux'. It's about your attitude of 'Waaah, this distro doesn't fit my needs perfectly so I'm going to complain'.
...Will I be able to Watch the same movies and video clips I do now? What about my E-Book Collection? Will I be able to use the programs I use now for backing up my DVD Collection ? ( AnyDVD and CloneDVD ) Will I Be able to play the games I own right now ? ( Battlefield series Ect......Not that I did'nt reallllly enjoy Tux Racer) What about my hardware , will I have to "Roll my own" drivers for my computer ? Will it do all of this out of the Box (or the download) How much will I have to Relearn about computers (sorry I have very little free time to put away for learning a lot of new crap to do the same stuff I do now.) I do not mind spending a little time on learning a new operating system. I do mind spending a lot of time on Kernels and drivers and all of this other crap. When I can install this ( on the same computer as my XP just in case ) And it gives me the same uses as XP does without a trip thru Geekfest 4000 then i'll do something besides yawn)...
NEWSFLASH! This distro is NOT for you. It's not developed for you, it's not designed for you, it's not intended for you. You want to game? Use Windows [for now], or buy a console.
This is intended for business desktops. Nobody should be playing Battlefield on it. Nobody should be messing around with kernels and drivers on it. An IT team will install it on supported hardware, and set it up for you. You just need to use it to ring up that order of fries.
If a few 100,000 (at the very, very most) terrorists fighting a guerrilla war can keep half a million US soldiers occupied and kill a few thousand of them, one should shudder to think what 'the World' could do to the US.
They're only keeping our troops occupied, because our government doesn't think we have anything better to do. You'd better believe that if a major war broke out against the U.S., our troops would leave Iraq so fast the insurgents would have trouble breathing from the vacuum it creates. At that point, we wouldn't care at all that they were blowing each other up.
Why, Guitar Hero 2 of course. GH1 was mediocre at best as a two player game, but GH2 is sweet as a two player game thanks to both cooperative multiplayer and the new pro-face off. It's easy to learn, challenging as hell, and each player can play at their skill level so nobody feels like they're just wasting their time.
It makes a great party game.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is pretty cool on cooperative multiplayer too.
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I understand people hate Microsoft. But, how is this any different than the mono project and their microsoft deal?
Microsoft advertises on slashdot as well.
Microsoft is, in the end, just a company. It may be a monopoly, but it is just a company. It's not going to destroy linux if one company makes a deal with another one. Linux is an operating system that spans MANY companies. If anything, this may get linux into more of those pro-windows IT shops. The ones that aren't pro-windows won't care about the deal either way.
It just seems odd to me that people are foaming at the mouth over this.
Too bad I can't reply directly to you [darn you slashdot admins!]. Microsoft isn't trying to kill Linux as an operating system. They are trying to eliminate any possibility that large corporations will switch to Linux in large numbers over the long term.
If things go as the article predicts, Microsoft will prop up Novell/Suse, and get it into some wide use in businesses. At the end of five years, Microsoft significantly raises the amount Novell must pay for indemnity against any patent infringements. At that point one of two things happen:
1. Novell pays, and pays dearly. Result? The price of Suse goes up, and Microsoft makes as much money selling Suse as they do selling Windows. Winner? Microsoft 2. Novel doesn't pay. Result? Microsoft sues Novell for distributing patented code, and sues any companies using that code. Companies become very fearful of using Linux lest they get sued by Microsoft. Linux itself won't die, I'll keep using Debian. But no large corporations would be willing to touch it. Winner? Microsoft.
Has anyone bothered to sit down with a friend and play co-op? I'm talking running through the levels together, none of this deathmatch shit. It's really quite fun and alot more enjoyable than playing the game one player. This is coming from someone who doesn't tend to like or play FPSes.
Well, no as a matter of fact I haven't. Mainly because I don't own an Xbox, and MS/Bungie was unkind enough to remove co-op play from the PC version. I remember hearing something about them not being able to handle co-op with PC's/Internet, which is funny, because I've played lots of Serious Sam: The Second Edition, and a small group of developers from Croatia managed to make co-op work quite nicely on PC's over the Internet.
And frankly I'm still bitter about the the whole MS/Bungie/Halo thing in the first place. It was going to be a great game, for PC's [Windows/Linux/Mac]. Instead it was turned into a mediocre console game, with a mediocre PC port that took 2 years to finally release. It was disappointing, so I opted to stick with Serious Sam TSE and UT2004. I'm not particularly looking forward to Halo 3.
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Funny you should say that, since one of the objectives of the US government when designing the Internet (ARPANET at the time) was to create a decentralized network that would remain in operation even in the event individual nodes were lost...
Unfortunately, the advent of the DNS system lowered the Internet's ability to do that. It didn't completely eliminate it of course, but back in the day each server on the internet had a hosts file which contained every known system on the network, so even if a few servers went down, all the other servers still had that entire list. With DNS each system on the internet depends on the thirteen [logical, maybe 100+ physical] root DNS servers being available at all times, as well as depending on them to give accurate information for each query.
Anyone with the ability to bring down a mere 100 physical servers, could completely bring the internet to a screeching halt.
As for HD-DVD, I don't think it is really that useful. In fact that think the addon is kinda retarded in general. If I get a game console, it is because I want to play games. I've seen people use them for DVD players, it is annoying. None of them have as nice an interface as a real DVD player. I'm sure there is a market of people who want both and want to save money, but I'd bet it isn't all that large, at least not enough to justify the cost.
:) ] would have cost me $600-1000+. I added HD-DVD functionality to my living-room for $160 [$40 off coupon at Circuit City]. The fact that it included a copy of King Kong, normally $25 [ok not really worth the money cuz it sucked, but still] and a remote control, $30 [which I would have ended up buying anyway], really means I paid $105 for HD-DVD functionality. For that kind of savings, I can live with a slight delay when inserting a movie, and the add-on is selling quite well, so I'm not alone in that.
Actually, I really like the add-on HD-DVD drive. Sure, it would have been nice to have it built into the 360 itself, but other than that it's great, and it saves the built-in player for my games. Besides, there's really nothing wrong with the interface. Once you have the DVD/HDDVD in, the interface is the same as any other DVD player.
As I see it, I already had an XBOX360 for gaming. A standalone HD/BR player [or a PS3
Well that kinda sucks. I'm already saddened by the fact that I can't get Speakeasy at my current home. It was always worth the extra money for their service, and static IPs. Now I have to live with the fact that by the time I move to another house, Speakeasy will probably suck as badly as SBC. :(
TFA seems surprised by SATA drives lasting as long as Fibre...why one earth would your data interface have any consequences on the drive internals? Or are we talking assuming Interface = Data Throughput?
That statement is based on the long-held assumption that hard drive manufacturers put better materials and engineering into enterprise-targeted drives [Fibre] than they put into consumer-level drives [SATA].
Guess not...
Motorcycles are usually electronically limited to 300 kph. It's an effete Euro thing .....
Except that is not a law [at least in the US]. It's the manufacturers who got together and agreed to do this because they were afraid laws would be passed, perhaps even more restrictive than their voluntary limit.
Now, why on earth would I kick myself later for shelling out $30 ONCE for OTA HD?
Because this isn't a discussion about HD antennas. We're talking about HDTV's which don't have built in Digital/HD tuners. These tuners run $200+ new if you can find them, though much cheaper if you buy used off ebay and such.
How do you feel about Walmart's plan to sell lots of them in their stores, and to try to change peoples opinions on them?
Frankly I think it's a real shame. Not because I don't think almost everyone should switch to CF. I love the CF lights. My entire house uses CF with the exception of 2 light fixtures that use tiny bulbs that no CF fits.
No, it's a real shame because the bulbs that Walmart sells are complete and utter crap. When outfitting our new home with CF's, we bought some Philips bulbs at Home Depot. I think it was 6 bulbs for $5. They work great. They're fairly bright [they make brighter but I prefer a dimmer environment], and they turn on instantly. Recently my wife bought a pack of CF bulbs [GE I think] from Walmart. I don't know what she paid for them. It's a bright bulb but it takes like 2-3 seconds to turn on. It's terribly annoying and certainly not going to leave a good impression on folks who are thinking of switching.
Oh and just to head off the folks complaining about 'technology' in a Kindergarten classroom. As I mentioned, each kid only goes on the program for 15 minutes a day. They are basically unsupervised during this time [just meaning that the teacher continues the normal activities for the rest of the class while the 1 to 3 students are at the computer]. It's not meant as a 'sit at the computer all day and learn' type of thing.
:)
I agree that this sort of thing should be limited, and most time in Kindergarten should be spent socializing, playing with Lego's and Blocks, and playing tag and duck-duck-goose.
As a matter of fact, now that I'm in my 30's, I think most of my time at work should be spent socializing, playing with Lego's and blocks, and playing tag and duck-duck-goose.
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It is called "The Waterford Early Reading Program" [although I believe they now have Math and Science as well, but haven't personally seen these newer products]. It is currently distributed by Pearson Digital Learning [It was called Electronic Education, a division of Addison Wesley Longman when I worked there]
Anyway, the idea is that for Level One, a set of one to three computers [depending on class size] is placed in a Kindergarten [or Pre-K] classroom. Each day the students spend 15 minutes on the computer. Much like many reading programs the program guides the student through the process of learning to read, [actually the first couple days are spent teaching the child to use the mouse] using songs and games. In this case, the instruction is backed by research done by the Waterford Institute and the Waterford School [a private school in Utah]. The software is able to keep track of lessons/concepts which the student has or hasn't mastered, and can keep giving lessons on the items the student still needs help with.
In addition to the 15 minutes on the computer, each student gets a set of videos [with videos from the program], a set of cd's [with music from the program of course], and books [can you guess? With stories from the program]. These are for the students to take home, in the hopes that they can get their family to read with them, or at least play the music/video's to enforce the learning.
After Level One, they have Level 2 [First Grade] and Level 3 [Second grade] to continue building on the lessons].
In my years of supporting the product, and spending time in the classrooms, I have to say that I really believe it was a great program. The kids absolutely LOVED it! If the computers were down, the teacher would tell the kids that I was there to fix the computers. Without fail, the entire class would cheer loudly! Of only one system was down, and I had to stop some kids from using the other working computers, they would plead with me not to make them get off the computers until I swore to them that they would not lose their turn for that day.
I even had one kid stand up, turn around, look at me and pee his pants! The teacher said that this was not uncommon. The kids were so worried about losing their turn at the program, that they didn't want to get up to go to the bathroom!
There is a downside to this wonderful system though. It is NOT cheap. I don't know what the prices are these days [when I worked there, Pentium 2's were hot stuff], and I don't know what kind of deals can be done with private [especially out of US] schools. Generally the system was sold with anywhere from 1 to 3 computers plus a printer, and the cost included student sets [books/vid/cd's] and support for three years.
Generally our sales force spent 20% of their time selling the product to school districts, and 80% of their time helping the school districts find grants or other funding.
But if it's something your school might be able to afford, I highly, highly, highly recommend the product. Of course, it's only for English, but your students will get a great start on learning to read English with this program.
When I'm setting up a new system, I hate using sudo for a ton of commands and would rather have access to a root shell while I'm first setting up a computer or when I'm setting up a new application.
There is an easy fix for this. If you've got a bunch of stuff to do as root, just use "sudo su -", and boom, you've got a root shell. Just remember to CTRL-D [or run 'exit'] when you're done.
Not that either method is any better than the other, but you don't have to type 'sudo' before each command, and it still keeps the root account locked.
I believe that the fresh air system is a built in fan in the front of the mask that just sucks in air from outside. As long as it has a reverse setting, to rid your helmet of taco burps.
There was certainly no extra daylight created by arbitrarily resetting the time on everyone's clock.
We turn daylight savings time off in the winter because otherwise the kids have to go to school in the dark when the days grow short.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to change the starting time of school back an hour? I've always found this reasoning to be retarded. Not that I should expect any better from our government.
I think that Cingular will yet switch to this phone while you are still under a older contract from them.
Yes, they will "upgrade" you at the cost of an additional 2 years tacked onto your current contract.
It's been my experience that they don't tack it on to your current contract, but simply restart the two years when you do the upgrade. But it's been awhile so maybe they've changed it since then.
Fourth, distribution costs. Shipping thousands of OEM copies to one customer (Dell) is much cheaper than shipping thousands of retail boxed copies to multiple customers (retailers). Also, since you don't have to print up a box and packaging, creating those OEM copies is much cheaper.
Actually, it's even worse. MS doesn't ship thousands of anything to the OEM's. Maybe it's not still the case, but at one point, the OEM's were responsible for the ordering and cost of pressing and printing the OEM CD's that they distributed with the systems they sold. It's one of the reasons many OEM's don't like to ship an install CD, as that's just more money they have to spend.
the question is how to get a Wii (congrats to you on getting one), everyplace I go they are out of stock,
Well, the Fry's in Arlington, TX had about 15 of them 2 days ago, while I was buying an Xbox 360. They also had about 25 PS3s and a small mountain of Xbox360s.
I don't know if they were being sold as a bundle or anything. I just saw the wall of PS3 and Wii boxes in the cage behind the registers, and heard the cashier commenting on how many they had.
Wouldn't it suck to have your HD-DVD player stop working for new titles, because someone was using its key? Or are all HD-DVD players networked, so their keys can be changed at any time?
I'm going to laugh especially hard when the keys for the HD-DVD addon to the Xbox 360, and the BlueRay player in the PS3 are compromised. Does anyone really believe for a moment that Sony [for instance] would be crazy enough to revoke the key to the PS3? If they revoke they key, causing PS3 owners to be unable to play new BlueRay titles, it would be a PR nightmare, possibly killing both BlueRay *AND* the PS3, which are Sony's two biggest products at the moment.
If they choose not to revoke the key they would be hard-pressed to justify revoking any other compromised hardware keys lest they be seen as highly hypocritical, also possibly killing the format.
I suppose there would be a chance that PS3 sales surge as it becomes the player of choice for ripping High-Def movies. But does Sony really want to take that chance? The MPAA wouldn't be too happy to hear that Sony was staking its future sales on the hopes that people will use the PS3 to get around all the protections the MPAA has tried to put on the format.
What if you split 10 dollars among 0 people? You can't say each person gets 10 dollars becayse there are no people to give dollars to. So 10/0 must be 0. Nobody gets no dollars. The 10 dollars just dissapears into the ether.
:)
Wouldn't you just get 0 with a remainder of 10?
Each person would get $0, and there would be $10 left over?
So it stands to reason that any number divided by zero should equal zero with a remainder of the original number.
Seems pretty simple to me. Then again, I failed Algebra 2 in highschool!
FTA: ... and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet
And I used to wonder why the younger folks like my brother were avoiding email and only using IM. 90% SPAM? This is just ridiculous. Yet for some reason, the industry seems to be focusing on trying to 'catch' the spam [and as a result, constantly playing catch-up], instead of working on a real solution, such designing an email system that isn't vulnerable to spam. I'm sure this is partially because the anti-spam companies are making a fortune.
So far I've done ok, trying to stay ahead of the spammers. I recently implemented greylisting on my mail server, and the number of spams has dropped significantly. But I know that soon the spammers will figure out what we're doing, and my spam levels will again increase.
I can't say that I know what kind of solution would be successful, but I've seen very little indication that it's seriously being worked on.
Am I wrong? Are there any serious contenders for a new, secure, non-spammable store-and-forward messaging system being worked on?
Then why is it being Touted as "a possible challenger to Windows Vista". It would only be a challenger to Windows Vista if it was going to be used by the same userbase.
:)]. It has nothing to do with whether or not you 'understand Linux'. It's about your attitude of 'Waaah, this distro doesn't fit my needs perfectly so I'm going to complain'.
Well if you had actually read the summary and the article you would understand that the product is called "Xandros Desktop Professional, and that based on the features listed and discussed, is most likely being touted as a possible challenger to Vista Business Edition. Maybe Techworld didn't spell it out for you, but I assumed that features such as "Thin clients and terminal emulation", "Seamless Microsoft Exchange connectivity", or "Ready for mass deployment in enterprise settings via xDMS, Xandros Deployment and Management Server" would have clued you in on that fact.
You said THIS distro is not for me. OK ill bite. Which Linux distro would fit my needs as listed above ? Are there any like that ?
No, I'm not aware of any distro that caters to people who whine that a distro targeted at enterprise customers doesn't support games written for a completely different operating system. Don't complain that Linux doesn't support every piece of software written for Windows. It's hardly the fault of Linux, and quite frankly amazing that it can be made to run any software written for Windows. If you want to complain that Linux can't run your games, start bitching at the game developers. It is their choice to write games for Windows. Other developers are capable of writing cross-platform games, such as Doom 3, Quake 4, UT2004, Neverwinter Nights etc.
Trust me, I'd be very happy if all the best games ran in Linux, whether it be because the developer's wrote it that way, or because the smart folks who hack on Linux figured out a way to make them all work. But it just isn't there yet, so if you want to play games and use specific software written for Windows, just use Windows.
Also I dont ring up Fries. I run 4 group homes for mental patients with dozens of clients and a dozen or so employees.Is this yet another example of Linux Leetness . You dont Understand Linux You must work at some Burger Joint.
You are capable of running 4 group homes and dealing with a dozen employees, yet you come into this forum and post like a 16year old who just got off the night-shift at Wendy's [No offense to those few intelligent 16yr olds working at burger joints
...Will I be able to Watch the same movies and video clips I do now? What about my E-Book Collection? Will I be able to use the programs I use now for backing up my DVD Collection ? ( AnyDVD and CloneDVD ) Will I Be able to play the games I own right now ? ( Battlefield series Ect......Not that I did'nt reallllly enjoy Tux Racer) What about my hardware , will I have to "Roll my own" drivers for my computer ? Will it do all of this out of the Box (or the download) How much will I have to Relearn about computers (sorry I have very little free time to put away for learning a lot of new crap to do the same stuff I do now.) I do not mind spending a little time on learning a new operating system. I do mind spending a lot of time on Kernels and drivers and all of this other crap. When I can install this ( on the same computer as my XP just in case ) And it gives me the same uses as XP does without a trip thru Geekfest 4000 then i'll do something besides yawn)...
NEWSFLASH! This distro is NOT for you. It's not developed for you, it's not designed for you, it's not intended for you. You want to game? Use Windows [for now], or buy a console.
This is intended for business desktops. Nobody should be playing Battlefield on it. Nobody should be messing around with kernels and drivers on it. An IT team will install it on supported hardware, and set it up for you. You just need to use it to ring up that order of fries.
If a few 100,000 (at the very, very most) terrorists fighting a guerrilla war can keep half a million US soldiers occupied and kill a few thousand of them, one should shudder to think what 'the World' could do to the US.
They're only keeping our troops occupied, because our government doesn't think we have anything better to do. You'd better believe that if a major war broke out against the U.S., our troops would leave Iraq so fast the insurgents would have trouble breathing from the vacuum it creates. At that point, we wouldn't care at all that they were blowing each other up.
Why, Guitar Hero 2 of course. GH1 was mediocre at best as a two player game, but GH2 is sweet as a two player game thanks to both cooperative multiplayer and the new pro-face off. It's easy to learn, challenging as hell, and each player can play at their skill level so nobody feels like they're just wasting their time.
It makes a great party game.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is pretty cool on cooperative multiplayer too.
by tannhaus (152710) Alter Relationship on Thursday November 09, @09:06 (#16785319)
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I understand people hate Microsoft. But, how is this any different than the mono project and their microsoft deal?
Microsoft advertises on slashdot as well.
Microsoft is, in the end, just a company. It may be a monopoly, but it is just a company. It's not going to destroy linux if one company makes a deal with another one. Linux is an operating system that spans MANY companies. If anything, this may get linux into more of those pro-windows IT shops. The ones that aren't pro-windows won't care about the deal either way.
It just seems odd to me that people are foaming at the mouth over this.
Too bad I can't reply directly to you [darn you slashdot admins!]. Microsoft isn't trying to kill Linux as an operating system. They are trying to eliminate any possibility that large corporations will switch to Linux in large numbers over the long term.
If things go as the article predicts, Microsoft will prop up Novell/Suse, and get it into some wide use in businesses. At the end of five years, Microsoft significantly raises the amount Novell must pay for indemnity against any patent infringements. At that point one of two things happen:
1. Novell pays, and pays dearly. Result? The price of Suse goes up, and Microsoft makes as much money selling Suse as they do selling Windows. Winner? Microsoft
2. Novel doesn't pay. Result? Microsoft sues Novell for distributing patented code, and sues any companies using that code. Companies become very fearful of using Linux lest they get sued by Microsoft. Linux itself won't die, I'll keep using Debian. But no large corporations would be willing to touch it. Winner? Microsoft.
That's why people are upset at the possibilities.
Has anyone bothered to sit down with a friend and play co-op? I'm talking running through the levels together, none of this deathmatch shit. It's really quite fun and alot more enjoyable than playing the game one player. This is coming from someone who doesn't tend to like or play FPSes.
Well, no as a matter of fact I haven't. Mainly because I don't own an Xbox, and MS/Bungie was unkind enough to remove co-op play from the PC version. I remember hearing something about them not being able to handle co-op with PC's/Internet, which is funny, because I've played lots of Serious Sam: The Second Edition, and a small group of developers from Croatia managed to make co-op work quite nicely on PC's over the Internet.
And frankly I'm still bitter about the the whole MS/Bungie/Halo thing in the first place. It was going to be a great game, for PC's [Windows/Linux/Mac]. Instead it was turned into a mediocre console game, with a mediocre PC port that took 2 years to finally release. It was disappointing, so I opted to stick with Serious Sam TSE and UT2004. I'm not particularly looking forward to Halo 3.