Well I don't know about 'cool', but seriously; how can you really make sure you get the components you want unless you build the damn thing yourself? Personally I think the two most critical components in a computer are the mainboard, and the power supply - two things that you never find the specs on when buying a computer from a vendor.
For those who want a true gaming PC that they can tweak, you still have to build it yourself. I think that modding is probably still cool, it's just that high end PC gamer computers are no longer cool by default (if they ever were). Regular people I talk to are still impressed by the fact that I put together my computer myself despite the fact that it isn't even a high end PC. It just has a full tower and a dragon that glows blue on the grill of the intake fan. That's not amazingly cool in itself, but is a bit more prestigious when you put it together on your own.
Well that sort of analogy is a bit strange if you ask me. I mean look at the size of a company like SCO. And look at who they decided to sue: IBM. Seriously, IBM is so huge they could almost build a real death star and man it with layers. Although the amount of evil concentrated in something like the death star manned by lawyers is almost to frightening to comprehend in itself...
That only concerns the software in the ports tree. If you want to optimize the base system you have to use the laborious 5 lines of text (6 for me) needed in a buildworld process. However it's been pretty well documented that very aggresive compile flags (past -O) will break things on FreeBSD, whereas they are usually fine on gentoo. I'm pretty cautious with Gentoo too and only use -O2 and whatever the defaults were in make.conf .
Yeah, that's what people tend not to get with the difference between BSD and Linux. As Linus said, Linux is just the kernel. Everything else is just bolted on from whatever $DISTRO thinks works best. What you end up with is a pachwork system that isn't very consistent across vendors. I'm not saying this is bad, but it can be a problem to the point where you literally have to re-learn a fair portion of how things are done if you switch distros.
BSD is the enire system. Each base system comes with components which are always distributed with that system. It's very consistent, stable, and has great documentation. If you don't like a component, then it's rather easy to use the ports collection to install replacement parts (in/usr/local) and then configure the system to use the replacement. That's one of the things I like about BSD: a consistent solid base to build off of right away, instead of the patching all the parts together on the fly approach.
Yeah, that's the biggest point for me. I could really care less about GM food, but on average it tastes like crap. Just look at the strawberries in stores. They're GIGANTIC and red... and have absolutely no flavor whatsoever. In fact most produce now days is garbage. I count the days until the local farmers market opens and I can get something with flavor.
Sometimes it can be rather slow though. Opening a 48meg PowerPoint presentation (and only 31 pages =P ) in Impress takes about 3-4 minutes on my Athlon 2000. Obviously I know that I'm lucky to be able to open it, but if I were a regular user I don't think I'd be very happy about a huge wait like that.
Yeah I agree. When I asign passwords (more secure) they end up being written down (despite the fact that they're not that hard to remember), but it's a step forward. Even if the password is written everywhere a hacker can't get to postit notes. In an ideal world everyone would remember their 30 character secure password, but the unfortunate reality is, that they don't.
Hell, where I work, the passwords being upgraded to postitnotes was a huge improvement to the person's initals and the number 1 - which half the company seemed to use (and sometimes they were still written down).
You're a lot luckier than me then. I constantly have to fight with Mozilla to get cut and paste to work. There have been times where I just gave up and use konquer to open a page to copy and paste. That's a bit rediculas. Just today I tried to copy some text from mozilla (using the mouse menu) into kate - didn't work. Tried to use ctrl-c since that seems to work 90% of the time (even when the mouse or all other menu options fail). For some reason I thought to try to copy something in kate first, then copy in Mozilla and paste into kate. That worked for some reason.
It's a serious problem "that is going to be fixed shortly" for years now. I think Gnome, KDE, and X.org need to all sit down and say - look, we're just going to use this/dev/clipboard thing (or something to that effect). Until that happens, everyone is going to run around in circles. It needs to work, and reliably and 100% of the time.
Yes, only a domain controller can use this command. (see ntp.org or relavent MS documentation ). As far as I know, this has no effect on a regular windows PC.
*ding* someone got it right. I recall someone telling me that in Germany only the red side goes yellow. Having both sides go yellow actually makes a LOT more sence. Not just fore people with manual transmissions either - a lot of people have extremely slow reaction times and don't move until a while after the light goes green.
Personally I just watch the other set of lights go yellow before putting the car in gear - when I can see them anyway.
It's filler. You charge for say 12 songs, so you need that many for an album. You pay some writers to come up with something. We'll say this gives you 20 workable songs, of which 1 is hit material, 2-3 are iffy follow up stuff. You cut those down to 12 and you have enough for an album. Now you could wait for the writers to come up with lots of really great stuff, but why? You cut the cost and time to release down significantly, and people will probably buy the album just for the one hit song anyway. When you cut the crap out and sell 2-3 songs, you are reducing the profits per album.
So essentially you sell half a pizza and a bunch of maggots, but you still CHARGE for a full pizza.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aside from a disk image, if you formatted with UFS instead of HFS+ then this doesn't really work at all. The first real thing I did on my iBook (15 minutes after I got it) was dumped classic and reformatted with UFS... guess it's a lucky quirk that it might protect me against stuff too (like the last version of Windows Media player that couldn't work with UFS).
I don't know as far as setup, but you can build packages on one of your other machines, then move them over to the laptop and you don't have compile. I'm not sure about configuration stuff either, but you could always symlink them to a directory with all of your config stuff, and then rsync them over.
But I'm not sure what you're trying to do or how everything is set up, so this is only guesswork.
SuSE does offer a service to keep some things more recent. Their KDE Service might be what you're looking for. Unfortunatly I've had my share of wierd problems when upgrading KDE through this method. Going from KDE 3.1 to 3.2 didn't go well at all. Going from 3.1 to 3.2.1 went okay, although there are more than a few quirks.
I've never used Gentoo, but as a FreeBSD user (which uses ports that portage is based off of), I'd say you're probably better off with Gentoo for bleeding edge and updated stuff.
It's called an ODBC connection. Just create a connector to you db of choice (I use Posgresql all the time). Most spreadsheets (Excel and OO Calc) then allow you view the database table through the spreadsheet.
I think the problem is that people use Excel as the database, not as a front end for a database (which it does okay). 90% of the time most people would be far better off using MS Access instead of the way they use Excel. The difference being that you have to make table fields in Access, whereas Excel you can just start typing away.
Get a junk computer, and set up a samba postscript printer. You can then have people print to this printer, samba spools it and passes it on to ghostscript which writes a pdf. There are a few tutorials on how to do this, and while it sounds complicated to set up, with directions it's quite easy (having done it myself). Then just make sure the PDF drops into a share on the samba server where a person can pick it up.
Yeah, I'd have to agree there. Just because you aren't familiar with using some software or an OS doesn't make you a bad coder. But then again it comes at all levels. I spend my day doing database/network/system administration (Linux,BSD,Win2k) among coding programs and designing stuff for the company website... so it's not like I don't know anything about computers, but for some reason people seem to think I know the answers to really obscure questions about mail merging with MS Excel (and I've only used Excel like twice in my life).
And then you get people who ask you something about AOL (or some such thing), and you say that you don't know anything about AOL. Then they give you this look like you are SUCH an idiot because even THEY know about AOL... Of course if they know so much, why don't they answer their own damn questions? =)
I'm thinking that MS wont make very big gains until.
1) they bundle it with the OS which offers them to sign up
2) they integrate it into Windows Media player
Now just to make sure that I get modded into oblivion as troll and/or flamebait, I think that this is something which Microsoft should be directly blocked from doing due to their monopoly status. Bad enough that they continue to "absorb" parts of the software industry, but becomming a content distributor crosses the line. MS is now poised to eventually become the main distributor of music due to their monopoly on operating systems, and control over the music player that is bundled with that operating system, and control over their proprietary format that the music is distributed in.
If MS does gain control here, this could be VERY bad news for consumers, and I think that despite the fact that over a period of time they can even force this stuff through using WMA.
While it's true that the software is written already, no one collects it and puts it together for you. And even once you collect it, it needs to integrate into the system - this is what a distro does. I used RedHat for years and was too often fustrated it. Once I got bitten by 7.3 support death, hated 8, and wasn't impressed by 9, so I was looking for a new distro. After a few tries with other distros, I gave SuSE a shot on a test machine at work. I liked it so much, that I dumped Win2k on my home machine and now use Linux full time there as well =)
Now how is it that one distributor can make a distro that can have such a difference in experience? Someone packaged it right. SuSE is very easy to use, and most of it works perfectly out of the box. My only problems being with them Crippling DVD support, and issues with playing movies. Where it really shines is Yast. Finally everything comes together in a control panel that makes sense, works, and is integrated with the KDE control panel (maybe Gnome too?). Yast isn't proprietary btw, you can get the source; it's just that only SuSE can charge money for it (if I remember correctly).
The GPL says nothing about cost. I can charge you $800 for Samba and that's fine under the GPL, BUT I am required to make the source code available to you. You can download SuSE via FTP for free, but they don't give out ISO's, yet STILL everyone complains.
SuSE professional is a bit pricey (although still worth it IMHO), but putting all that together for the home edition at $30 is certainly worth it.
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Well I don't know about 'cool', but seriously; how can you really make sure you get the components you want unless you build the damn thing yourself? Personally I think the two most critical components in a computer are the mainboard, and the power supply - two things that you never find the specs on when buying a computer from a vendor.
For those who want a true gaming PC that they can tweak, you still have to build it yourself. I think that modding is probably still cool, it's just that high end PC gamer computers are no longer cool by default (if they ever were). Regular people I talk to are still impressed by the fact that I put together my computer myself despite the fact that it isn't even a high end PC. It just has a full tower and a dragon that glows blue on the grill of the intake fan. That's not amazingly cool in itself, but is a bit more prestigious when you put it together on your own.
Well that sort of analogy is a bit strange if you ask me. I mean look at the size of a company like SCO. And look at who they decided to sue: IBM. Seriously, IBM is so huge they could almost build a real death star and man it with layers. Although the amount of evil concentrated in something like the death star manned by lawyers is almost to frightening to comprehend in itself...
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That only concerns the software in the ports tree. If you want to optimize the base system you have to use the laborious 5 lines of text (6 for me) needed in a buildworld process. However it's been pretty well documented that very aggresive compile flags (past -O) will break things on FreeBSD, whereas they are usually fine on gentoo. I'm pretty cautious with Gentoo too and only use -O2 and whatever the defaults were in make.conf .
Yeah, that's what people tend not to get with the difference between BSD and Linux. As Linus said, Linux is just the kernel. Everything else is just bolted on from whatever $DISTRO thinks works best. What you end up with is a pachwork system that isn't very consistent across vendors. I'm not saying this is bad, but it can be a problem to the point where you literally have to re-learn a fair portion of how things are done if you switch distros.
/usr/local) and then configure the system to use the replacement. That's one of the things I like about BSD: a consistent solid base to build off of right away, instead of the patching all the parts together on the fly approach.
BSD is the enire system. Each base system comes with components which are always distributed with that system. It's very consistent, stable, and has great documentation. If you don't like a component, then it's rather easy to use the ports collection to install replacement parts (in
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Yeah, that's the biggest point for me. I could really care less about GM food, but on average it tastes like crap. Just look at the strawberries in stores. They're GIGANTIC and red... and have absolutely no flavor whatsoever. In fact most produce now days is garbage. I count the days until the local farmers market opens and I can get something with flavor.
Maybe if you made a Perl based web front end for a MySQL of all your Ogg Vorbis songs on Windows2003/IIS?
Sometimes it can be rather slow though. Opening a 48meg PowerPoint presentation (and only 31 pages =P ) in Impress takes about 3-4 minutes on my Athlon 2000. Obviously I know that I'm lucky to be able to open it, but if I were a regular user I don't think I'd be very happy about a huge wait like that.
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This is Verisign we're talking about here. It would be a miricle if they could write a line of code that tells them if the sky is blue.
Yeah I agree. When I asign passwords (more secure) they end up being written down (despite the fact that they're not that hard to remember), but it's a step forward. Even if the password is written everywhere a hacker can't get to postit notes. In an ideal world everyone would remember their 30 character secure password, but the unfortunate reality is, that they don't.
Hell, where I work, the passwords being upgraded to postitnotes was a huge improvement to the person's initals and the number 1 - which half the company seemed to use (and sometimes they were still written down).
You're a lot luckier than me then. I constantly have to fight with Mozilla to get cut and paste to work. There have been times where I just gave up and use konquer to open a page to copy and paste. That's a bit rediculas. Just today I tried to copy some text from mozilla (using the mouse menu) into kate - didn't work. Tried to use ctrl-c since that seems to work 90% of the time (even when the mouse or all other menu options fail). For some reason I thought to try to copy something in kate first, then copy in Mozilla and paste into kate. That worked for some reason.
/dev/clipboard thing (or something to that effect). Until that happens, everyone is going to run around in circles. It needs to work, and reliably and 100% of the time.
It's a serious problem "that is going to be fixed shortly" for years now. I think Gnome, KDE, and X.org need to all sit down and say - look, we're just going to use this
Yeah there are some really cool things worth looking at for KDE users.
An unfortunate irony for me is that I can't seem to find kappfinder... To bad it couldn't find itself. Now that would be a cool app!
Yes, only a domain controller can use this command. (see ntp.org or relavent MS documentation ). As far as I know, this has no effect on a regular windows PC.
*ding* someone got it right. I recall someone telling me that in Germany only the red side goes yellow. Having both sides go yellow actually makes a LOT more sence. Not just fore people with manual transmissions either - a lot of people have extremely slow reaction times and don't move until a while after the light goes green.
Personally I just watch the other set of lights go yellow before putting the car in gear - when I can see them anyway.
It's filler. You charge for say 12 songs, so you need that many for an album. You pay some writers to come up with something. We'll say this gives you 20 workable songs, of which 1 is hit material, 2-3 are iffy follow up stuff. You cut those down to 12 and you have enough for an album. Now you could wait for the writers to come up with lots of really great stuff, but why? You cut the cost and time to release down significantly, and people will probably buy the album just for the one hit song anyway. When you cut the crap out and sell 2-3 songs, you are reducing the profits per album.
So essentially you sell half a pizza and a bunch of maggots, but you still CHARGE for a full pizza.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aside from a disk image, if you formatted with UFS instead of HFS+ then this doesn't really work at all. The first real thing I did on my iBook (15 minutes after I got it) was dumped classic and reformatted with UFS... guess it's a lucky quirk that it might protect me against stuff too (like the last version of Windows Media player that couldn't work with UFS).
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I don't know as far as setup, but you can build packages on one of your other machines, then move them over to the laptop and you don't have compile. I'm not sure about configuration stuff either, but you could always symlink them to a directory with all of your config stuff, and then rsync them over.
But I'm not sure what you're trying to do or how everything is set up, so this is only guesswork.
SuSE does offer a service to keep some things more recent. Their KDE Service might be what you're looking for. Unfortunatly I've had my share of wierd problems when upgrading KDE through this method. Going from KDE 3.1 to 3.2 didn't go well at all. Going from 3.1 to 3.2.1 went okay, although there are more than a few quirks.
I've never used Gentoo, but as a FreeBSD user (which uses ports that portage is based off of), I'd say you're probably better off with Gentoo for bleeding edge and updated stuff.
It's called an ODBC connection. Just create a connector to you db of choice (I use Posgresql all the time). Most spreadsheets (Excel and OO Calc) then allow you view the database table through the spreadsheet.
I think the problem is that people use Excel as the database, not as a front end for a database (which it does okay). 90% of the time most people would be far better off using MS Access instead of the way they use Excel. The difference being that you have to make table fields in Access, whereas Excel you can just start typing away.
Get a junk computer, and set up a samba postscript printer. You can then have people print to this printer, samba spools it and passes it on to ghostscript which writes a pdf. There are a few tutorials on how to do this, and while it sounds complicated to set up, with directions it's quite easy (having done it myself). Then just make sure the PDF drops into a share on the samba server where a person can pick it up.
Yeah, I'd have to agree there. Just because you aren't familiar with using some software or an OS doesn't make you a bad coder. But then again it comes at all levels. I spend my day doing database/network/system administration (Linux,BSD,Win2k) among coding programs and designing stuff for the company website... so it's not like I don't know anything about computers, but for some reason people seem to think I know the answers to really obscure questions about mail merging with MS Excel (and I've only used Excel like twice in my life).
And then you get people who ask you something about AOL (or some such thing), and you say that you don't know anything about AOL. Then they give you this look like you are SUCH an idiot because even THEY know about AOL... Of course if they know so much, why don't they answer their own damn questions? =)
I'm thinking that MS wont make very big gains until.
1) they bundle it with the OS which offers them to sign up
2) they integrate it into Windows Media player
Now just to make sure that I get modded into oblivion as troll and/or flamebait, I think that this is something which Microsoft should be directly blocked from doing due to their monopoly status. Bad enough that they continue to "absorb" parts of the software industry, but becomming a content distributor crosses the line. MS is now poised to eventually become the main distributor of music due to their monopoly on operating systems, and control over the music player that is bundled with that operating system, and control over their proprietary format that the music is distributed in.
If MS does gain control here, this could be VERY bad news for consumers, and I think that despite the fact that over a period of time they can even force this stuff through using WMA.
While it's true that the software is written already, no one collects it and puts it together for you. And even once you collect it, it needs to integrate into the system - this is what a distro does. I used RedHat for years and was too often fustrated it. Once I got bitten by 7.3 support death, hated 8, and wasn't impressed by 9, so I was looking for a new distro. After a few tries with other distros, I gave SuSE a shot on a test machine at work. I liked it so much, that I dumped Win2k on my home machine and now use Linux full time there as well =)
Now how is it that one distributor can make a distro that can have such a difference in experience? Someone packaged it right. SuSE is very easy to use, and most of it works perfectly out of the box. My only problems being with them Crippling DVD support, and issues with playing movies. Where it really shines is Yast. Finally everything comes together in a control panel that makes sense, works, and is integrated with the KDE control panel (maybe Gnome too?). Yast isn't proprietary btw, you can get the source; it's just that only SuSE can charge money for it (if I remember correctly).
The GPL says nothing about cost. I can charge you $800 for Samba and that's fine under the GPL, BUT I am required to make the source code available to you. You can download SuSE via FTP for free, but they don't give out ISO's, yet STILL everyone complains.
SuSE professional is a bit pricey (although still worth it IMHO), but putting all that together for the home edition at $30 is certainly worth it.