Well I guess that explains the post, which by the way had no creativity behind it. Of course, I am afraid to ask how much booze did the moderator have. He must have been really enibriated to laugh at that.
I sure as hell ain't a sysadmin. I lack training, knowledge, and patience. I am a poweruser who just happened to find linux. However, certain members of my family are stuck with windows so they can take some of their work home. Unfortunately they can not set up a underadministered windows network that has a basic necessities. That is where i come in. I needed a server, a vpn, etc etc. No I did not forget some kind of minimal firewall. I am not hiring a sysadmin to set up two computers.
and you know what upset me most about this. LAN PPPOE and VPN connecting and setting up the routing tables, and nothing works. Now I had to write my own routing script that would make all these networks work.
Sorry I am being very bitter. I think it had something to do with me, trying to find documentation on using route command in windows, for which i could not find enough docs. Even my msce friend had no clue. thank goodness for my linux experience, i actually had a clue.
Since now I can't claim carpal tunnel, i will go back to the old fashioned ADD. They won't take that from me. And yesss, all the spee^H^H^H^H ritalin i will ever need.
The game of the year award was given to the half-life. And although outdated in terms of the graphics engine, it still kicks azz in terms of gameplay.
Some games do not last half a year on the shelves. But if you look around. Various editions of halflife are still selling for 20+ and even for 40 with extra mods.
So if that is the standard to jusdge valve by, I would not mind waiting as long as it takes for TF2. Remember they have to improve upon a revolutionary FPS. It is not an easy task.
(Yes, I AM a CS and TFC addict, but I do not own any valve/whatever studios stock)
I believe that linux cdrecord has to run over scsi-ide, so make sure to use the scsi-ide module.
The following are some relevant docs:
cdrecord They mention something about dvd-r, so it seems that cdrecord can record dvds. They say it works on most unices.
Yeah I had something like that. It read Unknown Damn Error. Was designed to tell me of all the unhandled errors. Worked great.
That is until I distributed it to my company's internal user group (and forgot to remove that, and substitute a more generic item). 4 hours later, i had to explain to someone afraid to use a computer, what unknown damn error meant.
My excuse was that that was a debug beta built. Next time I am putting in something nice right from the start
All nice and well, till someone sends a word virus. -- I did not see.doc on that list. Same with the pdf virus, which caused havoc on javascript enabled acrobats at my work. In other words, you are not safe till you block all mail attachments, unless the applications are written with protections in mind
If you play ncurses like stuff (Angband type stuff), u prolly want Matrox G400 --- mmmmmmmmmmm, antialiased console fonts and screaming fast refresh rates at a high color count. If on the other hand you want to play compile the 2.6 kernel text based adventure, you would need a 1-D acceleration. Do not know any cards that do that very well.:)
If your area has cell phone towers, then radio relays can cannect you. (It uses those microwave dishes that are on each cell tower, thus you do not have to set up a single huge dish up high.) I do not know the price, but it has been the way my company has linked remote offices in the mountains. I heard it is pricey for a subscription, but bearable. It is also not too fast, but it will be faster than 56k, and is essentially your network...you set it up, they maintain the dishes. BUT You will also have to deal with telco BS.
Well, she contradicted every statement on this page...Critiques ..True these are opposing ideas, but my side has back ups too.
Anf if you can't trust someone in Stanford U who backs up his opinion with reasons (unlike the professor who just spitted out opinions, and backed them up with more opinions) who can you trust?
All this said and done, I would like to make a comment that I really do not oppose their views, I am just tired of the snotty types, who believe they are fighters for rights..freedom, whatever, while in reality, they do not know jack about what they are trying to achieve.
This goes for other flamewars as well. Personally I am tired of anti-microsoft people who can't run their linux systems without KDE/other graphical management installed, and then claim that NT is bloated with unnecessary crap. For that I am willing to be devil's advocate. Oh well, I am moving off topic..
Anyway just to get back to my opinion -- ethernet in class makes for good discussion topics.
One of my favorite activities, is to go into class and then contradict everything the teacher says, with stuff from credible sources on the internet. Let the teacher control the network, and I would not be able to give the truth, contradicting to one coming from the teacher of, say, militant feminism, or something like that.
Hi, and welcome to the club. I am glad that you are now considering the transition. Just to give some of my credentials: I am ungraduate at a fairly well known university, taking computer science. I also have about 3 years of summertime employment in ASP, VB, and minimal web server management.
Well now to the point. I have made the transition to linux environment about a year ago -- and I now consider myself an average user/admin. The main question in performing the transition is to ask yourself, how much unix/linux/BSD you already know. If the answer is none -- I recommend to not do an immediate transition, but instead get a separate computer, install a distro of linux, and just play with it, to get stuff figured out and working. This step will take a few weeks of devoted time. The main thing is DO NOT GIVE UP. Linux has all the features, but if you do not know where they are, stuff won't work. In which cases post questions to those who know. Or even better yet get a book. $50 will give you up front useful info on networking, and may tell you how to get the webserver running. I am using the book Using Linux, Sixth Edition SE. It has been a lifesaver, although it is oriented towards redhat, debian, and caldera versions.
I recommend downloading (or purchasing) one of the distros above. The first two try to be really user friendly, and do a decent job at it. The third one is a bit more cryptic, but you will probably want that version for your real server, since it does not have a ton of annoying unnecessary flashy things, like graphical bootup. Besides the install the real diference is update management, which both redhat and mandrake do using rpm system. It is easy to figure graphical rpm. Once you get comfortable with that, consider using that book that yau bought, along with linuxdoc (the fourth link) to figure out how to get all that networking, like VPN, DNS, etc, using the configuration files -- the only good way of setting up the network.
After you figure out basic administartion, Try getting some simple pages to learn apache.
Apache web server Perhaps a book on apache Perl and PHP programming might help. Do not actually know any specific titles. Basic idea is the same as in IIS. There is a public directory, similar to inetpub\wwwroot. where you can put the files. I believe that PHP is most similar to ASP. And since you did not use SQL server for database access, but Access, I assume that you do not need the speed of a full blown server. In this case MYSQL will do the trick. For something more significant you should check out Postgres db, or a commercial product such as db2. Learning these will take some time, but remember, these things have been written with an simplicity in mind. It just takes a little bit, to see where this simplicity is.
Well this msg is already too long. To sum it up, do not throw away your old system yet. Take time to learn linux, and in a little time you will possess the necessary skills to do transition. As for the tools that will make the transition for you, I have not heard of them, however they probably do exist. And starting somewhat anew is not always a bad thing. A lot of us hope that some version of windows will be written anew, but I doubt it will happen.
Well, good luck! The switch is not easy, but there are plenty of benefits in the long run. Do not give up, and you will see them soon.
People still don't get what the problem is. In China MS Office is essentially free. Let's do some math. Cost of office professional is $500. Now divide that by 1 billion (that's trillion for you in Britain if I am not mistaken). The total cost per individual is $.0000005, or essentially zero. So we have two free competing office installs, and Microsoft is already estabsished. Hence a dillema!
Slashdot Mirror
Well I guess that explains the post, which by the way had no creativity behind it. Of course, I am afraid to ask how much booze did the moderator have. He must have been really enibriated to laugh at that.
I suggest more booze, that could possibly help.
Why port the games that run at 99% speed through wine. (given that opengl works fast, not rage 128 pro 1 year ago, which did not accelerate anything)
Here is a link to some programs if looking for win version.
vorbis
oggdrop is as easy as it can be (right click for advanced menu)
Now I am offended.
I sure as hell ain't a sysadmin. I lack training, knowledge, and patience. I am a poweruser who just happened to find linux. However, certain members of my family are stuck with windows so they can take some of their work home. Unfortunately they can not set up a underadministered windows network that has a basic necessities. That is where i come in. I needed a server, a vpn, etc etc. No I did not forget some kind of minimal firewall. I am not hiring a sysadmin to set up two computers.
and you know what upset me most about this. LAN PPPOE and VPN connecting and setting up the routing tables, and nothing works. Now I had to write my own routing script that would make all these networks work.
Sorry I am being very bitter. I think it had something to do with me, trying to find documentation on using route command in windows, for which i could not find enough docs. Even my msce friend had no clue. thank goodness for my linux experience, i actually had a clue.
Since now I can't claim carpal tunnel, i will go back to the old fashioned ADD. They won't take that from me. And yesss, all the spee^H^H^H^H ritalin i will ever need.
here is my solution
void main()
{
int i;
for(i=0;i (lessthan -- do not know any html) 1000000;i++) {
printf("%c",random(256));
}
}
since real random data carries no information, i have achieved lossless compression of 100 to 1.
PS. Just add a couple more zeroes to achieve an even better compression
Now do i get my own story on slashdot.
Didn't think so
I think that late releases by blizzard are intentional.
IIRC:
Warcraft II was the most anticipated game of the year.
Starcraft was the most anticipated game of year
Diablo was the most anticipated game of year
Diablo II was the most anticipated game of the year
Warcraft III is probably going to be the most anticipated game of two years if ths trend continues.
The game of the year award was given to the half-life. And although outdated in terms of the graphics engine, it still kicks azz in terms of gameplay.
Some games do not last half a year on the shelves. But if you look around. Various editions of halflife are still selling for 20+ and even for 40 with extra mods.
So if that is the standard to jusdge valve by, I would not mind waiting as long as it takes for TF2. Remember they have to improve upon a revolutionary FPS. It is not an easy task.
(Yes, I AM a CS and TFC addict, but I do not own any valve/whatever studios stock)
I believe that linux cdrecord has to run over scsi-ide, so make sure to use the scsi-ide module.
m l
The following are some relevant docs:
cdrecord They mention something about dvd-r, so it seems that cdrecord can record dvds. They say it works on most unices.
The frontend i use
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.ht
and the obligatory HOWTO.
Hope that helps
Yeah I had something like that. It read Unknown Damn Error. Was designed to tell me of all the unhandled errors. Worked great.
That is until I distributed it to my company's internal user group (and forgot to remove that, and substitute a more generic item). 4 hours later, i had to explain to someone afraid to use a computer, what unknown damn error meant.
My excuse was that that was a debug beta built. Next time I am putting in something nice right from the start
All nice and well, till someone sends a word virus. -- I did not see .doc on that list. Same with the pdf virus, which caused havoc on javascript enabled acrobats at my work.
In other words, you are not safe till you block all mail attachments, unless the applications are written with protections in mind
Just one question....Were you using Mozilla 0.6.4 and whatever was the previous version of Staroffice?
If you play ncurses like stuff (Angband type stuff), u prolly want Matrox G400 --- mmmmmmmmmmm, antialiased console fonts and screaming fast refresh rates at a high color count. If on the other hand you want to play compile the 2.6 kernel text based adventure, you would need a 1-D acceleration. Do not know any cards that do that very well. :)
Time to add "Browser preference" to XV amendment.
If your area has cell phone towers, then radio relays can cannect you. (It uses those microwave dishes that are on each cell tower, thus you do not have to set up a single huge dish up high.) I do not know the price, but it has been the way my company has linked remote offices in the mountains. I heard it is pricey for a subscription, but bearable. It is also not too fast, but it will be faster than 56k, and is essentially your network...you set it up, they maintain the dishes. BUT You will also have to deal with telco BS.
I would say try getting T1 if you can
How TRUE....Only RIAA would use VB for their entire business plan.
Well, she contradicted every statement on this page...Critiques
..True these are opposing ideas, but my side has back ups too.
Anf if you can't trust someone in Stanford U who backs up his opinion with reasons (unlike the professor who just spitted out opinions, and backed them up with more opinions) who can you trust?
All this said and done, I would like to make a comment that I really do not oppose their views, I am just tired of the snotty types, who believe they are fighters for rights..freedom, whatever, while in reality, they do not know jack about what they are trying to achieve.
This goes for other flamewars as well. Personally I am tired of anti-microsoft people who can't run their linux systems without KDE/other graphical management installed, and then claim that NT is bloated with unnecessary crap. For that I am willing to be devil's advocate. Oh well, I am moving off topic..
Anyway just to get back to my opinion -- ethernet in class makes for good discussion topics.
"Your school using screen savers to generate revenue" would be great on this list.
Alas it is too late to post.
One of my favorite activities, is to go into class and then contradict everything the teacher says, with stuff from credible sources on the internet. Let the teacher control the network, and I would not be able to give the truth, contradicting to one coming from the teacher of, say, militant feminism, or something like that.
And I am not even in the class.
Hi, and welcome to the club. I am glad that you are now considering the transition. Just to give some of my credentials: I am ungraduate at a fairly well known university, taking computer science. I also have about 3 years of summertime employment in ASP, VB, and minimal web server management.
Well now to the point. I have made the transition to linux environment about a year ago -- and I now consider myself an average user/admin. The main question in performing the transition is to ask yourself, how much unix/linux/BSD you already know. If the answer is none -- I recommend to not do an immediate transition, but instead get a separate computer, install a distro of linux, and just play with it, to get stuff figured out and working. This step will take a few weeks of devoted time. The main thing is DO NOT GIVE UP. Linux has all the features, but if you do not know where they are, stuff won't work. In which cases post questions to those who know. Or even better yet get a book. $50 will give you up front useful info on networking, and may tell you how to get the webserver running. I am using the book Using Linux, Sixth Edition SE. It has been a lifesaver, although it is oriented towards redhat, debian, and caldera versions.
Some usefel links:
RedHat Linux
Mandrake Linux
Debian
Linux Documantation Project
I recommend downloading (or purchasing) one of the distros above. The first two try to be really user friendly, and do a decent job at it. The third one is a bit more cryptic, but you will probably want that version for your real server, since it does not have a ton of annoying unnecessary flashy things, like graphical bootup. Besides the install the real diference is update management, which both redhat and mandrake do using rpm system. It is easy to figure graphical rpm. Once you get comfortable with that, consider using that book that yau bought, along with linuxdoc (the fourth link) to figure out how to get all that networking, like VPN, DNS, etc, using the configuration files -- the only good way of setting up the network.
After you figure out basic administartion, Try getting some simple pages to learn apache.
Apache web server
Perhaps a book on apache Perl and PHP programming might help. Do not actually know any specific titles. Basic idea is the same as in IIS. There is a public directory, similar to inetpub\wwwroot. where you can put the files. I believe that PHP is most similar to ASP. And since you did not use SQL server for database access, but Access, I assume that you do not need the speed of a full blown server. In this case MYSQL will do the trick. For something more significant you should check out Postgres db, or a commercial product such as db2. Learning these will take some time, but remember, these things have been written with an simplicity in mind. It just takes a little bit, to see where this simplicity is.
Well this msg is already too long. To sum it up, do not throw away your old system yet. Take time to learn linux, and in a little time you will possess the necessary skills to do transition. As for the tools that will make the transition for you, I have not heard of them, however they probably do exist. And starting somewhat anew is not always a bad thing. A lot of us hope that some version of windows will be written anew, but I doubt it will happen.
Well, good luck! The switch is not easy, but there are plenty of benefits in the long run. Do not give up, and you will see them soon.
MSNBC left out the most obvious choice of all!!!!
CowboyNeal
I found the end of internet
And what the hell is this: Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted
Yup, and I will let the web speak for me. Ban DHMO
People still don't get what the problem is. In China MS Office is essentially free. Let's do some math. Cost of office professional is $500. Now divide that by 1 billion (that's trillion for you in Britain if I am not mistaken). The total cost per individual is $.0000005, or essentially zero. So we have two free competing office installs, and Microsoft is already estabsished. Hence a dillema!
Sorry about spelling...still getting used to dvorak...forgot to check.