I started with it in 1998 because I hated getting viruses and putting up with win98 crashing all the time. I bought RedHat 5.0, Debian 2.i_can't_remember and Slackware 3.5. I wound up using Slackware because RedHat reminded me too much of windows and I had trouble with Debian's package manager after the initial install.
Slackware was daunting at first, I hosed my computer for a week before I could get it to boot. I kept windows around for about a year then decided "enough was enough" and have spent 99% of my time in Linux since then. I keep a windows partition on one machine for my Morrowind game, but I refuse to get email or download anything in windows. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but I found it wonderful to be able to download a small utility that doesn't cost $30+. If I can't find what I'm looking for, I can write my own and not have to pay hundreds or thousands for a compiler. My Mom runs Slackware too, I've gotten several of my co-workers to try it.
I find windows cumbersome and the UI difficult to do simple tasks with. Linux just makes more sense.
I own 2 consoles, and plan to buy a wii eventually. I've found a problem with consoles vs PCs.
My favorite game at the moment is Morrowind. I play it on the PC with both expansion packs. If I want to play it on the console, I have to buy an Xbox. But I own a PS2 (and a Dreamcast but that's ancient history). I recently bought Oblivion for the PC, but if I wanted it for the console, I'd have to purchase a PS3. I'm planning on purchasing NWN 1 and 2 in the near future, but they're only available on MAC and PC, AFAIK.
Some consoles get exclusive rights to have a game just on there system. I only need one PC to play games, but I'd need many console systems to play the games I'd like to. The PC gaming platform isn't going anywhere soon.
I believe he moved to California to go to work for Michael Robertson IIRC. I met him last year at the Linux Desktop Summit in San Diego. What a nice kid, all of the teenage "fans" were making him a little uncomfortable.
I use bittorrent...So my ISP doesn't start to bitch at me, I only run it at night. Start it before I go to bed and stop it when I get up. No one has complained, and I download gigs of music every night.
Some gamers have shown concern that the activity level required to play Wii games, especially the sporty titles, may be too high. There are concerns that you have to stand for long periods of time and use body actions such as swinging your arm above your head or at the side of your body. After playing non stop for two hours, did this happen to me? No. I'm not exactly Wonder woman in terms of fitness
Worried about the activity levels required to play a video game?????
Maybe getting outside away from the TV/video games and moving around some would get you in better shape.
What's next? Richard Simmons sweating to FF soundtrack?
Hmmm, maybe we have something here...
We had privacy 150 years ago, but everyone wants an easier life by having technology run every aspect of our lives. Credit cards, cell phones, GPS, grocery store club cards, fast trak, internet, lojacks etc., wasn't all this "stuff" supposed to make our lives easier? safer? And has it?
I wonder if the wii will suffer from the same malady as some 1st generation electronics do. There will be something wrong with the console, probably won't affect everyone, but enough that they'll have to release a 2nd, 3rd generation console to fix the problems.
I learned my lesson with Creative's first mp3 player (the name escapes me, it's been a few years), I try not buy things of this nature right away...I always wait til they fix the problems, then get one.
It's not for a newbie. It's never been meant for a newbie. It makes a great server, fast, stable, all boot scripts are in/etc/rc.d/ really easy to figure out for an "experienced user".
Have you seen that commercial, where the employees are sitting at a meeting and one says to use fedex shipping to save money? Everyone ignores him, the guy sitting at the head of the table says the same thing and everyone agrees. Because he made a hand motion. Next time, make a hand motion and maybe you'll get your story posted =D
Maybe if they stopped making remakes of old movies and never ending sequels to bad movies people would actually go SEE a movie.
I find myself picking up older movies (pre 1990) in a walmart for $5.50...I'd rather watch "Moscow on the Hudson" again than some of the movies that are out now.
And music??? Don't get me started...Maybe they should pull Allan Holdsworth out of that job as a salesman in a used car lot and give him a decent record deal. Why is it impossible to find Pat Metheny CDs in the record store?
"Toyota has announced that all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012. The plan is to eliminate the current $3,000 per vehicle additional cost for hybrid engines through mass production."
With the electric prices in California (San Diego) being very high, having an electric car would cost more than paying $1.80 a gallon for gas.
One 2br house (beach type, big box with rooms 700sqft), a wall gas heater, no dryer, just 110 volt apartment sized washer, 2 computers 1 monitor and a refrigerator costs me right around $120 a month in the winter for my electric bill. Heater can't run all night (not central heating). So I'm assuming for this electric car, it should at least 4x my electric bill every month!
My 1968 Mustang (302 V8 Holley 4bbl) is cheaper to put gas in! Hmmm, cheaper to keep her =]
I am a Progressive Metal fan/musician. I listen to artists like After Forever, Nightwish, Symphony X, Lacuna Coil, Alas, Secret Sphere etc.,
Never heard of them? There's a reason...
I have to pay upwards of $40 US per cd to listen to these artists, because they are not popular here in the US. They are signed and release their CDs in Japan and Europe...Not in the US.
My exposure to Dream Theater pushed me to find other prog rock bands, which let me to the IRC, mainly #mp3_metal on Undernet.
I have downloaded 100+ Gigs of music, a lot of which pretty much suck hard, but artists like Nightwish and Edenbridge are just what I was looking for.
Yes, i have quite the mp3 collection, but I also have quite the Cd collection, finding sites like impulsemusic.com where I can actually FIND these artists's CDs, but of course at a price.
What the hell is the point? Well, these artists, aren't "boy bands", they dont play rap/metal, and they're actually quite talented, so the music industry buries them, ignores them and never gives the audience a chance to hear them. So, my downloading Mp3s has, if nothing else, turned me on to a whole different area of music, that I would have never heard otherwise. Radio is a joke, record stores are more interested in stocking shit on their shelves than variety...
So yeah, I will continue to download Mp3s (and buy the CDs of the artists i LIKE if I can find them for under $40 a pop. I do NOT like having crap music shoved down my throat, I am not sheep, I want to listen to what I like, not radio fodder or what's playing on eMpTyVee.
One quick fix for this is, go grab a classic auto trader, look for a nice car built before 1970, you can do whatever you want, if you get a 60s Mustang, parts are readily available, you get a mean car, with an ACTUAL carborator, made out of steel and chrome, no plastic bumpers. It's built like a tank, and hauls serious ass, not to mention it looks 1000 times better than any piece of shit out on the road. And you can work on it yourself.
3 years ago, i tried redhat, debian and slackware (most popular in 98) the only one i could figure out how to get working was slackware. Slackware is IMHO the easiest distro to install, one of the toughest to configure and get working. Because of the lack of GUI tools (thank god!), slack users are forced to edit bash scripts, learn slack for your first linux distro and redhat and the others are a piece of cake. I do like the other ones, but Slackware is it for me..
If development does stop, I'll just take the last official release and maintain my own distribution of it by updating packages myself. It's simple =]
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I used dos for many years, ran a dialup bbs in the 619 (Metal Edge), it had it's limitations, non-multitasking except for Desqview and having to use QEMM for memory management (which crashed sometimes), but it was fun writing batch files for tossing mail, getting files and running my own message net (MetalNet). LORDNet, BRENet etc.,
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Now I run my bbs under Linux, (Mystic bbs software) which runs so much better, multi-tasking it runs just like a DOS based bbs but a hell of a lot more functional. BASH scripts are more functional than batch files, I can run LORD, BRE, Clans under DOSEMU now and they're a little slow, but not too bad for a ten node board =]<P>
telnet://metaledge.darktech.org<BR>
If your curious =]
Everyone keeps saying that linux isn't ready for the desktop. What everyone fails to realize is that when you buy a new pc, windows comes installed and all hardware is configured, and all extra software is installed and the system is tested before the end user buys the pc.
So what if you do the same for a Linux box? If Computer manuf's install and configure Linux, add some games and applications like Mp3 software, staroffice, adobe acrobat (unix) and all the little card games, etc., put on the kde or gnome xwindow manager and carefully configured no one would have a problem using it.
The end user would have just as many problems installing any windows installation as they would Linux. Ever reinstall windows (or on a new hd) and find that it doesn't have the driver for your network card that came with the pc and you don't have a hard copy? What do you do? Especially if you have dsl/cable? You can't get on the net to find it...Linux it's built into the kernel or can be added as a module. My point being that if more pc's came bundled with Linux as the OS and some end user (fun) software and maybe a few games (Quake, Quake ii) more people would buy the pc bundled with linux (cost less maybe?).
Your normal user has never/will never install a windows product on their own, so sure it's easy to use, they've never had to install it!
I put RedHat on my Mom's machine and she loves it, she's never had to install it, it works with her hardware, and it doesn't crash =]
You already are...I have mp3s on my bbs, I get quite a few calls for them too.
BTW, IRC is the BEST place to get mp3s, not napster, gnutella or freenet. If you want mp3s, get an irc client and jump on Undernet. If you're really bold and run Linux, get Syrup leech script...
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Wasn't it in the 1950s that the auto industry predicted we'd all be operating flying cars by 2000?
Whatever happened to keeping church and state separate?
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I started with it in 1998 because I hated getting viruses and putting up with win98 crashing all the time. I bought RedHat 5.0, Debian 2.i_can't_remember and Slackware 3.5. I wound up using Slackware because RedHat reminded me too much of windows and I had trouble with Debian's package manager after the initial install.
Slackware was daunting at first, I hosed my computer for a week before I could get it to boot. I kept windows around for about a year then decided "enough was enough" and have spent 99% of my time in Linux since then. I keep a windows partition on one machine for my Morrowind game, but I refuse to get email or download anything in windows. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but I found it wonderful to be able to download a small utility that doesn't cost $30+. If I can't find what I'm looking for, I can write my own and not have to pay hundreds or thousands for a compiler. My Mom runs Slackware too, I've gotten several of my co-workers to try it.
I find windows cumbersome and the UI difficult to do simple tasks with. Linux just makes more sense.
With the lousy music the "industry" puts out, they should pay us $5/month to download it.
They also don't come home pregnant if you're smart enough to get them fixed.
I own 2 consoles, and plan to buy a wii eventually. I've found a problem with consoles vs PCs.
My favorite game at the moment is Morrowind. I play it on the PC with both expansion packs. If I want to play it on the console, I have to buy an Xbox. But I own a PS2 (and a Dreamcast but that's ancient history). I recently bought Oblivion for the PC, but if I wanted it for the console, I'd have to purchase a PS3. I'm planning on purchasing NWN 1 and 2 in the near future, but they're only available on MAC and PC, AFAIK.
Some consoles get exclusive rights to have a game just on there system. I only need one PC to play games, but I'd need many console systems to play the games I'd like to. The PC gaming platform isn't going anywhere soon.
If you don't make any money, or have any money to spend, how do you have money to buy a house?
I believe he moved to California to go to work for Michael Robertson IIRC. I met him last year at the Linux Desktop Summit in San Diego. What a nice kid, all of the teenage "fans" were making him a little uncomfortable.
If it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't HAVE a social life/friends.
It must've been that HP laptop I just bought that sent them over the top =D
I use bittorrent...So my ISP doesn't start to bitch at me, I only run it at night. Start it before I go to bed and stop it when I get up. No one has complained, and I download gigs of music every night.
We had privacy 150 years ago, but everyone wants an easier life by having technology run every aspect of our lives. Credit cards, cell phones, GPS, grocery store club cards, fast trak, internet, lojacks etc., wasn't all this "stuff" supposed to make our lives easier? safer? And has it?
I wonder if the wii will suffer from the same malady as some 1st generation electronics do. There will be something wrong with the console, probably won't affect everyone, but enough that they'll have to release a 2nd, 3rd generation console to fix the problems.
I learned my lesson with Creative's first mp3 player (the name escapes me, it's been a few years), I try not buy things of this nature right away...I always wait til they fix the problems, then get one.
It's not for a newbie. It's never been meant for a newbie. It makes a great server, fast, stable, all boot scripts are in /etc/rc.d/ really easy to figure out for an "experienced user".
Run it and write your own thesis
Have you seen that commercial, where the employees are sitting at a meeting and one says to use fedex shipping to save money? Everyone ignores him, the guy sitting at the head of the table says the same thing and everyone agrees. Because he made a hand motion. Next time, make a hand motion and maybe you'll get your story posted =D
Maybe if they stopped making remakes of old movies and never ending sequels to bad movies people would actually go SEE a movie.
I find myself picking up older movies (pre 1990) in a walmart for $5.50...I'd rather watch "Moscow on the Hudson" again than some of the movies that are out now.
And music??? Don't get me started...Maybe they should pull Allan Holdsworth out of that job as a salesman in a used car lot and give him a decent record deal.
Why is it impossible to find Pat Metheny CDs in the record store?
I'd rather live in a "house" and have 6mb/768k DSL than a condo or apartment and faster internet.
"Toyota has announced that all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012. The plan is to eliminate the current $3,000 per vehicle additional cost for hybrid engines through mass production."
With the electric prices in California (San Diego) being very high, having an electric car would cost more than paying $1.80 a gallon for gas.
One 2br house (beach type, big box with rooms 700sqft), a wall gas heater, no dryer, just 110 volt apartment sized washer, 2 computers 1 monitor and a refrigerator costs me right around $120 a month in the winter for my electric bill. Heater can't run all night (not central heating). So I'm assuming for this electric car, it should at least 4x my electric bill every month!
My 1968 Mustang (302 V8 Holley 4bbl) is cheaper to put gas in! Hmmm, cheaper to keep her =]
I have to pay upwards of $40 US per cd to listen to these artists, because they are not popular here in the US. They are signed and release their CDs in Japan and Europe...Not in the US.
My exposure to Dream Theater pushed me to find other prog rock bands, which let me to the IRC, mainly #mp3_metal on Undernet.
I have downloaded 100+ Gigs of music, a lot of which pretty much suck hard, but artists like Nightwish and Edenbridge are just what I was looking for.
Yes, i have quite the mp3 collection, but I also have quite the Cd collection, finding sites like impulsemusic.com where I can actually FIND these artists's CDs, but of course at a price.
What the hell is the point? Well, these artists, aren't "boy bands", they dont play rap/metal, and they're actually quite talented, so the music industry buries them, ignores them and never gives the audience a chance to hear them. So, my downloading Mp3s has, if nothing else, turned me on to a whole different area of music, that I would have never heard otherwise. Radio is a joke, record stores are more interested in stocking shit on their shelves than variety...
So yeah, I will continue to download Mp3s (and buy the CDs of the artists i LIKE if I can find them for under $40 a pop. I do NOT like having crap music shoved down my throat, I am not sheep, I want to listen to what I like, not radio fodder or what's playing on eMpTyVee.
Just my 2cents =/
One quick fix for this is, go grab a classic auto trader, look for a nice car built before 1970, you can do whatever you want, if you get a 60s Mustang, parts are readily available, you get a mean car, with an ACTUAL carborator, made out of steel and chrome, no plastic bumpers. It's built like a tank, and hauls serious ass, not to mention it looks 1000 times better than any piece of shit out on the road. And you can work on it yourself.
3 years ago, i tried redhat, debian and slackware (most popular in 98) the only one i could figure out how to get working was slackware. Slackware is IMHO the easiest distro to install, one of the toughest to configure and get working. Because of the lack of GUI tools (thank god!), slack users are forced to edit bash scripts, learn slack for your first linux distro and redhat and the others are a piece of cake. I do like the other ones, but Slackware is it for me..
If development does stop, I'll just take the last official release and maintain my own distribution of it by updating packages myself. It's simple =]
I used dos for many years, ran a dialup bbs in the 619 (Metal Edge), it had it's limitations, non-multitasking except for Desqview and having to use QEMM for memory management (which crashed sometimes), but it was fun writing batch files for tossing mail, getting files and running my own message net (MetalNet). LORDNet, BRENet etc.,
<P>
Now I run my bbs under Linux, (Mystic bbs software) which runs so much better, multi-tasking it runs just like a DOS based bbs but a hell of a lot more functional. BASH scripts are more functional than batch files, I can run LORD, BRE, Clans under DOSEMU now and they're a little slow, but not too bad for a ten node board =]<P>
telnet://metaledge.darktech.org<BR>
If your curious =]
So what if you do the same for a Linux box? If Computer manuf's install and configure Linux, add some games and applications like Mp3 software, staroffice, adobe acrobat (unix) and all the little card games, etc., put on the kde or gnome xwindow manager and carefully configured no one would have a problem using it. The end user would have just as many problems installing any windows installation as they would Linux. Ever reinstall windows (or on a new hd) and find that it doesn't have the driver for your network card that came with the pc and you don't have a hard copy? What do you do? Especially if you have dsl/cable? You can't get on the net to find it...Linux it's built into the kernel or can be added as a module. My point being that if more pc's came bundled with Linux as the OS and some end user (fun) software and maybe a few games (Quake, Quake ii) more people would buy the pc bundled with linux (cost less maybe?).
Your normal user has never/will never install a windows product on their own, so sure it's easy to use, they've never had to install it!
I put RedHat on my Mom's machine and she loves it, she's never had to install it, it works with her hardware, and it doesn't crash =]
Metal Edge BBS! telnet://metaledge.darktech.org
You already are...I have mp3s on my bbs, I get quite a few calls for them too. BTW, IRC is the BEST place to get mp3s, not napster, gnutella or freenet. If you want mp3s, get an irc client and jump on Undernet. If you're really bold and run Linux, get Syrup leech script...