What can I say, my dad is a power user, and when he buys computers, he buys a computer. I guess I use it because I usually multitask quite heavily, but my dad doesn't much, but I'm not complaining:-)
My dad went off to Comdex yesterday, and I begged him to death to make sure and pick up the Corel Linux distro. I'm really interested in it since I am still a Linux newbie, and this distro is geared toward people like me. I just hope he can get a disc.
I am sorry to say I do not run Quake. My computer is definitly fast enough (PII 450, 256 MB RAM, TNT), and the one I'm getting in Spring, oh man:-), but it's my dad. He doesn't believe that he should spend $4,000 on a computer to play games on it. SOOOO, no games. I could install them of course, but when would I play them? The computer is in the middle of the living room, and my parents aren't gone that often, so maybe only once a week for a few hours I'd get to play. Not worth it. I did download and play the Quake 3 tests, but again, I hardly ever get to play them so it's not worth buying. Sucks to be me, I know. : (
As a Linux newbie, I first saw this article on linux.com on Saturday. It has proved VERY helpful. I had tried to recompile/compile kernels before, but I had always gotten errors, or something went wrong. But, I had finally recompiled my kernel on Saturday night (he, 16 and compiling a kernel on a Saturday night, scary:-) and with that success, I tried to compile the latest kernel. Unfortunatly, I still haven't gotten that to work because at bootup, it says VFS is unable to mount the root fs. I'm not sure what's wrong, but it's fun to try to figure it out. Anyway, I really liked this article, and found it extremely helpful.
Sorta off topic, but I was thinking about the slashdot effect in English yesterday. Our teacher was saying that words are made up a lot for specialized area's, or to teach something. So what immediatly popped to my mind was "slashdotted". It pratically is a word, if you know what it means. But to just about everyone who hasn't visted Slashdot, you'd have to explain it to them. And um, I'm stop babbling now. : )
But how exactly do you run xkill when Netscape controls the whole screen, and you can't minimize it? Not to mention the fact that I have never gotten it to work for me when some other app crashed. I click it, drag it, double click it, etc, and nothing happens.
Not legally they can't. You either have to have special permission, or else look like your over 18 (they don't actually check your age according to my dad). Or else you're a child star actor. I unfortuantly, will not be going because of the over 18 thing, and because I have school (the main reason I'm not going (stupid semester test exemption policy, argh)). So I'm begging my Microsoft drone dad to stop by some of the Linux booths and pick me up some distros and shirts/buttons/stickers etc. I can't wait till I'm 18.
Who copied the "rumble pack" idea? Who copied the idea of a _standard_ controller with analog stick buit in? Sega's "game expandibility" has led to the 32X and Sega CD, and boy, were'nt those just quality products that were definitly worth the money. Yea, thought so. And considering Sega is the first console to come with internet access, that is innovation, but you can't really compare that to the N64 or PSX. And FYI, the 64DD is coming out in Japan. I however, believe it shouldn't come out, as it's never going to really succeed, but Nintendo needs whatever it can for the sorry state it is in for the N64 in Japan. And this wasn't really meant as flamebait, I own a DC and love it (can't wait for Sega Rally 2) but I disagree that Nintendo never innovates.
That problem HAS to be fixed (which I understand it will be) before Linux can be a desktop OS. You can't have users reinstalling Linux every day because they reboot the computer when Netscape crashes, and then don't know how to fix it when X doesn't come back up.
And because those users don't know about the kill command, they'll reboot when X crashes, or Netscape locks up, and then, well, it's not pretty. Speaking from past experiance here.......
I live in Tampa, and I haven't noticed a mosquito problem at all. I don't go outside much (and leave my computer, no way:-) but I do go to Disney World about every weekend during the fall and spring, and have never been bothered by bugs.
Have you _EVER_ considered that is how the average non-Linux user views Slashdot? Everyone I know that just reads the stories, that doesn't respond, and that don't use Linux view all the Open Source and Linux people the same way as did ZDNet. This is the kind of publicy you get for Linux, whether you like it or not. This is not soley "ZD yellow journalism", this is how the rest of the non-Linux community views the Linux community. I'm frankly disgusted and ashamed at the way Slashdot acted in response to the Microsoft ruling.
So basically it means that if a newbie linux user presses the reset button after X crashes, it won't fsck up their file system and maybe have to reinstall Linux because they don't know how to fix it? (speaking from personal experiance : ) If so, then that is a very Good Thing (tm).
I've been to a site where it dumped me because I was using IE with Windows. He objected MS's practices, and I guess that was his way of striking back. It was sorta humourous though, as the site I was trying to see was about how bad MS was. Isn't it sorta beating a dead horse when you can't even reach the people you are trying to persuade?:-)
Yea, the AOL browser doesn't look or act anything like IE. I've used it a little bit (was forced to, only internet connection I had for a while moving) and it is so incredibly bad, but I guess a newbie would like it. And considering AOL'ers think that AOL IS the internet, they would have no clue that their browsers changed.
Well, I have Netscape in Linux crash on me at least once a day, and it's the one that came with my distro (Mandrake). In fact, I even upgraded to the "stable" version, but that hasn't helped at all.
About your point #4, you can stop that. It's in the Internet Options thing somewhere on the menu bar. I forgot exactly how I did it, but it's on the options somewhere.
Also on point #3, I *somehow* got it to give me back the auto-complete URL. I have no idea how I did it, but I was messing with options one night, and now it works.
One of the things it doesn't support, and that I personally think looks REALLY cool is the A:HOVER { COLOR:FF0000; TEXT-DECORATION: UNDERLINE; } CSS command. A:HOVER doesnt' do anything in Netscape. Again, it's nothing major, but it's just something that IE supports and Netscape doesn't.
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What can I say, my dad is a power user, and when he buys computers, he buys a computer. I guess I use it because I usually multitask quite heavily, but my dad doesn't much, but I'm not complaining :-)
My dad went off to Comdex yesterday, and I begged him to death to make sure and pick up the Corel Linux distro. I'm really interested in it since I am still a Linux newbie, and this distro is geared toward people like me. I just hope he can get a disc.
I am sorry to say I do not run Quake. My computer is definitly fast enough (PII 450, 256 MB RAM, TNT), and the one I'm getting in Spring, oh man :-), but it's my dad. He doesn't believe that he should spend $4,000 on a computer to play games on it. SOOOO, no games. I could install them of course, but when would I play them? The computer is in the middle of the living room, and my parents aren't gone that often, so maybe only once a week for a few hours I'd get to play. Not worth it. I did download and play the Quake 3 tests, but again, I hardly ever get to play them so it's not worth buying. Sucks to be me, I know. : (
As a Linux newbie, I first saw this article on linux.com on Saturday. It has proved VERY helpful. I had tried to recompile/compile kernels before, but I had always gotten errors, or something went wrong. But, I had finally recompiled my kernel on Saturday night (he, 16 and compiling a kernel on a Saturday night, scary :-) and with that success, I tried to compile the latest kernel. Unfortunatly, I still haven't gotten that to work because at bootup, it says VFS is unable to mount the root fs. I'm not sure what's wrong, but it's fun to try to figure it out. Anyway, I really liked this article, and found it extremely helpful.
Of course, if they are a home user they wouldn't have a sys admin to call, now would they?
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Sorta off topic, but I was thinking about the slashdot effect in English yesterday. Our teacher was saying that words are made up a lot for specialized area's, or to teach something. So what immediatly popped to my mind was "slashdotted". It pratically is a word, if you know what it means. But to just about everyone who hasn't visted Slashdot, you'd have to explain it to them. And um, I'm stop babbling now. : )
You could have used Star office. That's what I use.
But how exactly do you run xkill when Netscape controls the whole screen, and you can't minimize it? Not to mention the fact that I have never gotten it to work for me when some other app crashed. I click it, drag it, double click it, etc, and nothing happens.
Not legally they can't. You either have to have special permission, or else look like your over 18 (they don't actually check your age according to my dad). Or else you're a child star actor. I unfortuantly, will not be going because of the over 18 thing, and because I have school (the main reason I'm not going (stupid semester test exemption policy, argh)). So I'm begging my Microsoft drone dad to stop by some of the Linux booths and pick me up some distros and shirts/buttons/stickers etc. I can't wait till I'm 18.
Who copied the "rumble pack" idea? Who copied the idea of a _standard_ controller with analog stick buit in? Sega's "game expandibility" has led to the 32X and Sega CD, and boy, were'nt those just quality products that were definitly worth the money. Yea, thought so. And considering Sega is the first console to come with internet access, that is innovation, but you can't really compare that to the N64 or PSX. And FYI, the 64DD is coming out in Japan. I however, believe it shouldn't come out, as it's never going to really succeed, but Nintendo needs whatever it can for the sorry state it is in for the N64 in Japan. And this wasn't really meant as flamebait, I own a DC and love it (can't wait for Sega Rally 2) but I disagree that Nintendo never innovates.
That problem HAS to be fixed (which I understand it will be) before Linux can be a desktop OS. You can't have users reinstalling Linux every day because they reboot the computer when Netscape crashes, and then don't know how to fix it when X doesn't come back up.
And because those users don't know about the kill command, they'll reboot when X crashes, or Netscape locks up, and then, well, it's not pretty. Speaking from past experiance here.......
I live in Tampa, and I haven't noticed a mosquito problem at all. I don't go outside much (and leave my computer, no way :-) but I do go to Disney World about every weekend during the fall and spring, and have never been bothered by bugs.
Of course, as everyone knows, Y2K was created soley by the government. : )
Have you _EVER_ considered that is how the average non-Linux user views Slashdot? Everyone I know that just reads the stories, that doesn't respond, and that don't use Linux view all the Open Source and Linux people the same way as did ZDNet. This is the kind of publicy you get for Linux, whether you like it or not. This is not soley "ZD yellow journalism", this is how the rest of the non-Linux community views the Linux community. I'm frankly disgusted and ashamed at the way Slashdot acted in response to the Microsoft ruling.
So basically it means that if a newbie linux user presses the reset button after X crashes, it won't fsck up their file system and maybe have to reinstall Linux because they don't know how to fix it? (speaking from personal experiance : ) If so, then that is a very Good Thing (tm).
Here's a listing of features that IE supports but that Netscape doesn't. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/ie.html
I've been to a site where it dumped me because I was using IE with Windows. He objected MS's practices, and I guess that was his way of striking back. It was sorta humourous though, as the site I was trying to see was about how bad MS was. Isn't it sorta beating a dead horse when you can't even reach the people you are trying to persuade? :-)
Yea, the AOL browser doesn't look or act anything like IE. I've used it a little bit (was forced to, only internet connection I had for a while moving) and it is so incredibly bad, but I guess a newbie would like it. And considering AOL'ers think that AOL IS the internet, they would have no clue that their browsers changed.
Well, I have Netscape in Linux crash on me at least once a day, and it's the one that came with my distro (Mandrake). In fact, I even upgraded to the "stable" version, but that hasn't helped at all.
Do you even surf the web at all? Almost every site uses tables, in fact, I can't think of one major site that doesn't use tables offhand.
About your point #4, you can stop that. It's in the Internet Options thing somewhere on the menu bar. I forgot exactly how I did it, but it's on the options somewhere.
Also on point #3, I *somehow* got it to give me back the auto-complete URL. I have no idea how I did it, but I was messing with options one night, and now it works.
One of the things it doesn't support, and that I personally think looks REALLY cool is the A:HOVER { COLOR:FF0000; TEXT-DECORATION: UNDERLINE; } CSS command. A:HOVER doesnt' do anything in Netscape. Again, it's nothing major, but it's just something that IE supports and Netscape doesn't.