>>i would like to donate to the eff, except i don't want to be put on a list of terrorists.
Uhhh, the whole point of subscribing to the EFF is to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Freedom isn't free, so quit being a cheap bastard and donate NOW before your delusion becomes reality.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were a bunch of x86 clones that violated patents. It's no secret that hardware vendors violate patents all the time, and they're mostly pretty good at keeping things secret and proprietary so competitors can't see their patents being violated.
I do find it hilarious that the Chinese are probably going to get away with this and there's hardly a damn thing U.S. powers can do. There's so much economic interest in China that it's unlikely US powers will even be willing to risk upsetting trade relations over MIPS.
Open Firmware is a specification, not an implementation. In case you want an open-source implementation of Open Firmware, check out OpenBIOS. OpenBIOS can also be used as a payload for LinuxBIOS.
>>The AMD chips are 100% Pentium compatible, using an unauthorized and unlicensed variation of the Pentium architecture, and we all benefit from that.
Actually, AMD licenses an enormous amount of IP from Intel, and vice-versa. This cross-licensing is what benefits us, and makes sure that Intel gets what Intel deserves and AMD gets AMD deserves.
In a move equally stunning to neglegent parents everywhere, Captain Obvious has advised that people stop paying attention to the ESRB and take a more proactive stance in monitoring the content that they're buying for their kids. He also advised that parents pay more attention to other aspects of games, such as violence and racial overtones, and not use sex alone as a deciding factor for whether or not to buy a game, movie, music CD, etc. Experts predict that people will ignore this advice and continue to rely on other people to raise their kids for them.
Same here--I'm rather biased in favor of the use of the atomic weapons because my grandfather was on a boat waiting to land in southern Japan, so I can't really look at this from an unbiased perspective. The odds of him surviving the invasion were dismal, it would've been even more of a bloodbath than Operation Overlord. Fatman and Little Boy were the fastest way of ending the war, sparing the most American lives, and coincidentally also saving the most Japanese lives and countless Chinese lives.
Yes, the Japanese government used civilians to do a lot of the dirty work, as any government does when a war is being fought on its homeland. Yes, there were atrocities on both sides. And yes, a lot of civilians were killed. But at least the atomic weapons brought a swift end to much of the struggle (There were many, including POWs, who suffered for long after the war). Incendiary bombing, invasion, and occupation would've brought far more death and destruction across more of Japan than two bombs ever could.
There's certainly something to be said about intriguing pictures, even if they don't represent a huge amount of data in and of themselves. At the very least they give the viewer a way of associating data with an image, which IMO is a great way of remembering information. If you have some extra time and bandwidth to kill, I suggest checking out Molecular Expressions.
Good point. When I go into preferences->homepage, I only see the following sections for which I can selectively filter: Apache, Apple, Ask Slashdot, Book Reviews, BSD, Developers, Features, Games, Hardware, Interviews, IT Linux, Politics, Science, and Your Rights Online. I thought the full list of topics was there at one point. Guess I'll just have to tinker around a little to get it to my liking and see about disabling all television related articles. Thanks!
Oh great, another fanboy. Not even a registered fanboy, but an AC! If I didn't loathe your disgusting pedophilic anime, I'd stick around just to make fun of you for idolizing cartoons. So do us both a favor and help me ignore your sick little clique.
You'd be much better off reading about MPICH if you're into clustering. MPP is a lot more complicated than just networking a bunch of machines in a cluster configuration.
Seriously... I hate to get off topic, but it seems like more and more new technologies are jumping on the 'terrorist detection' bandwagon when they lack more practical applications. I especially love the part where they specify "bioterrorism chemicals" or whatever, as if a primitive computer made of organic cells can detect them any better than a computer with a crapload of transistors can simply because of their biological nature.
Hey, I've invented a great new device that can also be used as an anti-bioterror device! I call it a "dog," and with its evolved processor (A "brain" as some like to call it) it can monitor and detect chemical and biological agents with a special probe called a "nose." Give me money!
It's not the installation process that makes someone respected, it's the ability to 0wn someone else's box.
I simply fail to see your argument as I've never known anyone to think of themselves as an expert just for having installed a Linux distro, even Gentoo with the command line. Sure there can be a feeling of accomplishment for someone who has drudged through the command-line and completed the installation successfully, but I've seen nobody who considers themselves an expert for having done so. I can only imagine that anyone who does is in for a seriously humbling experience when they try to resolve problems down the road.
Great work! Pretty much all the people I know of who are interested in Linux know about things like partitioning and network configuration anyway, so there really isn't much of a reason to dumb it down. However, command-line expertise comes with time even to power users. Your installer will make a huge difference to those who are really interested in learning Linux but lack experience necessary to do a typical Gentoo installation from a CLI.
Because not *everyone* is raised on the shell. Believe it or not, a lot of good intelligent people out there have only used Windows and MacOS without ever opening up a command prompt in their life. It's alien, and even easy commands like "cd" require a great deal of practice before becoming second nature. There's a lot of memorization involved in mastering the syntax, and it doesn't come as easy to some as to others.
Microsoft and Apple have proven that you can have a good system without ever looking at a command line interface, so don't even try telling me that CLI skills are or should be necessary to operate a computer. If Gentoo can go 100% graphical (And leave the CLI option available to experienced users, of course), then more power to them.
What, you're too damn good to share a distro with some newbies? Get over yourself. People running "easier" distros like SuSE and Redhat are using pretty much the same kernel and same apps as you, so what makes you any better than them?
No good power user is going to abandon Gentoo because it's become easier. But if you really think Gentoo isn't l33t enough for you anymore, perhaps you can switch to FreeBSD.
If they include this in the official release, than they should also include some other graphical stuff such as Porthole to manage Portage graphically. It doesn't do much good to help a newbie through the install process graphically and then expect them to use a Portage from the command line.
Still, it's a good thing. Even people who have been doing Linux-related stuff for a while can miss or screw up some steps in Gentoo installation. Anything that can simplify the process should be welcomed.
Interesting you mention PC-133 in specific. It was extremely expensive to begin with, but then all the sudden the market tanked and RAM was at an all time low. I think that was back when Hynix was recieving their illegal subsidies from the Korean government and were underselling everyone else. I remember buying 128MB of Micron/Crucial memory for about $35. They posted huge losses and cut thousands of jobs.
Now DRAM prices seem to have stablized. If the manufacturers haven't learned their lessons by now to keep the market fair and to make sure nobody is doing anything illegal, then I really can't feel much pity for them should the same thing happen in the future.
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I use Firefox on the school computers, but I usually find myself installing at least two or three extensions before it feels even remotely close to my Opera setup at home. Sometimes I have to try many extensions that perform the same function because the version of FF at school isn't necessarily compatible with the extensions listed on FF's extension site, even though the version numbers seem to match. It's almost as bad as dealing with RPM-hell all over again.
I don't recall ever installing any third party software in Opera to make it work the way I like, it just always has these nice features built-in that far bulkier browsers seem to lack somehow. They also seem to be first with most of the best features such as mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, and integrated pop-up blocking. The most I've ever had to change my default Opera installation is to get a minimalistic icon set (Which was installed effortlessly with Opera's skin downloader and installer) to maximize content on my screen.
Anyway, cheers to Opera and I hope to test their latest creation. I'm already looking forward to version 9!
Does he really deserve jail time for spamming? Shouldn't we just stick him with a huge fine, freeze any offshore bank accounts, and leave him financially ruined? Yes, spammers are scum. Yes, I hate them too. But something bothers me about sending people to jail for that long for crimes that couldn't really cause physical harm to anyone else. Maybe a little time would be good, say 8-14 months. 9 years seems excessive to me. If the appeals court rejects the case and the sentence sticks, he'll spend more time than some rapists, murderers, and child molestors. This almost sounds like something the RIAA would have done to P2P users.
Does anyone remember what happened to the DRAM market tanked after Hynix had been recieving subsidies from the South Korean government? Basically, all major DRAM manufacturers (Samsung, Micron/Crucial, Fujitsu/Seimens, etc) suffered huge losses because of it and took a few years to recover. The point is that China is not the only state guilty of subsidizing a tech company. Hell, how long did the US gov't keep SGI on a respirator?
Of course, being a computer building geek at the time I had a lot of fun shoving enormous amounts of RAM in my system for under a hundred bucks. Maybe this whole Huawei thing will mean I can afford a good cell phone for less than $200 without signing up for some rediculously restrictive service plan.
>> Do you have to print out 100+ pages of install documentation to install Gentoo?
I wish. I'd much prefer having too much documentation as opposed to having too little.
Fortunately, the authors of the Gentoo installation guide are really quite good. I used their original install guide to get started. They had examples and walked through every step in good detail (Things like fdisk can be very confusing for a newbie). It has since been made obsolete and it looks like they now have a quick install reference and an extended handbook.
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>>i would like to donate to the eff, except i don't want to be put on a list of terrorists.
Uhhh, the whole point of subscribing to the EFF is to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Freedom isn't free, so quit being a cheap bastard and donate NOW before your delusion becomes reality.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were a bunch of x86 clones that violated patents. It's no secret that hardware vendors violate patents all the time, and they're mostly pretty good at keeping things secret and proprietary so competitors can't see their patents being violated.
I do find it hilarious that the Chinese are probably going to get away with this and there's hardly a damn thing U.S. powers can do. There's so much economic interest in China that it's unlikely US powers will even be willing to risk upsetting trade relations over MIPS.
Open Firmware is a specification, not an implementation. In case you want an open-source implementation of Open Firmware, check out OpenBIOS. OpenBIOS can also be used as a payload for LinuxBIOS.
Modern PC BIOSes are in no way free in any sense of the word. Just try to get the source code to PhoenixBIOS.
If you want free, then check out LinuxBIOS.
>>The AMD chips are 100% Pentium compatible, using an unauthorized and unlicensed variation of the Pentium architecture, and we all benefit from that.
Actually, AMD licenses an enormous amount of IP from Intel, and vice-versa. This cross-licensing is what benefits us, and makes sure that Intel gets what Intel deserves and AMD gets AMD deserves.
In a move equally stunning to neglegent parents everywhere, Captain Obvious has advised that people stop paying attention to the ESRB and take a more proactive stance in monitoring the content that they're buying for their kids. He also advised that parents pay more attention to other aspects of games, such as violence and racial overtones, and not use sex alone as a deciding factor for whether or not to buy a game, movie, music CD, etc. Experts predict that people will ignore this advice and continue to rely on other people to raise their kids for them.
Same here--I'm rather biased in favor of the use of the atomic weapons because my grandfather was on a boat waiting to land in southern Japan, so I can't really look at this from an unbiased perspective. The odds of him surviving the invasion were dismal, it would've been even more of a bloodbath than Operation Overlord. Fatman and Little Boy were the fastest way of ending the war, sparing the most American lives, and coincidentally also saving the most Japanese lives and countless Chinese lives.
Yes, the Japanese government used civilians to do a lot of the dirty work, as any government does when a war is being fought on its homeland. Yes, there were atrocities on both sides. And yes, a lot of civilians were killed. But at least the atomic weapons brought a swift end to much of the struggle (There were many, including POWs, who suffered for long after the war). Incendiary bombing, invasion, and occupation would've brought far more death and destruction across more of Japan than two bombs ever could.
There's certainly something to be said about intriguing pictures, even if they don't represent a huge amount of data in and of themselves. At the very least they give the viewer a way of associating data with an image, which IMO is a great way of remembering information. If you have some extra time and bandwidth to kill, I suggest checking out Molecular Expressions.
Good point. When I go into preferences->homepage, I only see the following sections for which I can selectively filter: Apache, Apple, Ask Slashdot, Book Reviews, BSD, Developers, Features, Games, Hardware, Interviews, IT Linux, Politics, Science, and Your Rights Online. I thought the full list of topics was there at one point. Guess I'll just have to tinker around a little to get it to my liking and see about disabling all television related articles. Thanks!
Oh great, another fanboy. Not even a registered fanboy, but an AC! If I didn't loathe your disgusting pedophilic anime, I'd stick around just to make fun of you for idolizing cartoons. So do us both a favor and help me ignore your sick little clique.
Hmm, I could swear there was a toggle switch somewhere to disable Anime headlines like you can with SCO headlines, political headlines, etc.
Did Slashdot change the preferences recently, or am just flat out wrong?
Has anyone else with Anime specifically disabled seen it a lot on the front page recently?
You'd be much better off reading about MPICH if you're into clustering. MPP is a lot more complicated than just networking a bunch of machines in a cluster configuration.
Seriously... I hate to get off topic, but it seems like more and more new technologies are jumping on the 'terrorist detection' bandwagon when they lack more practical applications. I especially love the part where they specify "bioterrorism chemicals" or whatever, as if a primitive computer made of organic cells can detect them any better than a computer with a crapload of transistors can simply because of their biological nature.
Hey, I've invented a great new device that can also be used as an anti-bioterror device! I call it a "dog," and with its evolved processor (A "brain" as some like to call it) it can monitor and detect chemical and biological agents with a special probe called a "nose." Give me money!
It's not the installation process that makes someone respected, it's the ability to 0wn someone else's box.
I simply fail to see your argument as I've never known anyone to think of themselves as an expert just for having installed a Linux distro, even Gentoo with the command line. Sure there can be a feeling of accomplishment for someone who has drudged through the command-line and completed the installation successfully, but I've seen nobody who considers themselves an expert for having done so. I can only imagine that anyone who does is in for a seriously humbling experience when they try to resolve problems down the road.
Great work! Pretty much all the people I know of who are interested in Linux know about things like partitioning and network configuration anyway, so there really isn't much of a reason to dumb it down. However, command-line expertise comes with time even to power users. Your installer will make a huge difference to those who are really interested in learning Linux but lack experience necessary to do a typical Gentoo installation from a CLI.
Because not *everyone* is raised on the shell. Believe it or not, a lot of good intelligent people out there have only used Windows and MacOS without ever opening up a command prompt in their life. It's alien, and even easy commands like "cd" require a great deal of practice before becoming second nature. There's a lot of memorization involved in mastering the syntax, and it doesn't come as easy to some as to others.
Microsoft and Apple have proven that you can have a good system without ever looking at a command line interface, so don't even try telling me that CLI skills are or should be necessary to operate a computer. If Gentoo can go 100% graphical (And leave the CLI option available to experienced users, of course), then more power to them.
What, you're too damn good to share a distro with some newbies? Get over yourself. People running "easier" distros like SuSE and Redhat are using pretty much the same kernel and same apps as you, so what makes you any better than them?
No good power user is going to abandon Gentoo because it's become easier. But if you really think Gentoo isn't l33t enough for you anymore, perhaps you can switch to FreeBSD.
If they include this in the official release, than they should also include some other graphical stuff such as Porthole to manage Portage graphically. It doesn't do much good to help a newbie through the install process graphically and then expect them to use a Portage from the command line.
Still, it's a good thing. Even people who have been doing Linux-related stuff for a while can miss or screw up some steps in Gentoo installation. Anything that can simplify the process should be welcomed.
Interesting you mention PC-133 in specific. It was extremely expensive to begin with, but then all the sudden the market tanked and RAM was at an all time low. I think that was back when Hynix was recieving their illegal subsidies from the Korean government and were underselling everyone else. I remember buying 128MB of Micron/Crucial memory for about $35. They posted huge losses and cut thousands of jobs.
Now DRAM prices seem to have stablized. If the manufacturers haven't learned their lessons by now to keep the market fair and to make sure nobody is doing anything illegal, then I really can't feel much pity for them should the same thing happen in the future.
I use Firefox on the school computers, but I usually find myself installing at least two or three extensions before it feels even remotely close to my Opera setup at home. Sometimes I have to try many extensions that perform the same function because the version of FF at school isn't necessarily compatible with the extensions listed on FF's extension site, even though the version numbers seem to match. It's almost as bad as dealing with RPM-hell all over again.
I don't recall ever installing any third party software in Opera to make it work the way I like, it just always has these nice features built-in that far bulkier browsers seem to lack somehow. They also seem to be first with most of the best features such as mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, and integrated pop-up blocking. The most I've ever had to change my default Opera installation is to get a minimalistic icon set (Which was installed effortlessly with Opera's skin downloader and installer) to maximize content on my screen.
Anyway, cheers to Opera and I hope to test their latest creation. I'm already looking forward to version 9!
Does he really deserve jail time for spamming? Shouldn't we just stick him with a huge fine, freeze any offshore bank accounts, and leave him financially ruined? Yes, spammers are scum. Yes, I hate them too. But something bothers me about sending people to jail for that long for crimes that couldn't really cause physical harm to anyone else. Maybe a little time would be good, say 8-14 months. 9 years seems excessive to me. If the appeals court rejects the case and the sentence sticks, he'll spend more time than some rapists, murderers, and child molestors. This almost sounds like something the RIAA would have done to P2P users.
Does anyone remember what happened to the DRAM market tanked after Hynix had been recieving subsidies from the South Korean government? Basically, all major DRAM manufacturers (Samsung, Micron/Crucial, Fujitsu/Seimens, etc) suffered huge losses because of it and took a few years to recover. The point is that China is not the only state guilty of subsidizing a tech company. Hell, how long did the US gov't keep SGI on a respirator?
Of course, being a computer building geek at the time I had a lot of fun shoving enormous amounts of RAM in my system for under a hundred bucks. Maybe this whole Huawei thing will mean I can afford a good cell phone for less than $200 without signing up for some rediculously restrictive service plan.
>>What else do you need?
Games. Though I suppose a lot of people are content with Cedega. Still, that's an awful lot of versions of Wine to have just for compatibility.
>> Do you have to print out 100+ pages of install documentation to install Gentoo?
I wish. I'd much prefer having too much documentation as opposed to having too little.
Fortunately, the authors of the Gentoo installation guide are really quite good. I used their original install guide to get started. They had examples and walked through every step in good detail (Things like fdisk can be very confusing for a newbie). It has since been made obsolete and it looks like they now have a quick install reference and an extended handbook.