Sounds rough. Road Runner didn't mind very much. I called them when I was installing Linux the first time, and asked about my NIC settings, which they told me. But they didn't have any software for it, and the guy told me they didn't support Linux at all. He did tell me about a newsgroup for roadrunner Linux users, roadrunner.help.linux, and that's where I got my login program.
6. Customers are strictly prohibited from running server-based applications on Residential Road Runner accounts. This would include, without limitation to the running of HTTP Web servers, FTP servers, Gaming servers, SMTP and POP Mail servers, Domain Name Servers, Chat servers, etc.
If you use RR in Tampa, you can't. I have a friend though, that I think runs a FTP server off his machine, or did for a little while for MP3's.
That's my ISP too, in the Tampa area. I've had little problem from them, except for one call to tech support. But they've been fairly prompt, I've had 2 modems go out in the 3 months I've had it due to lightning, and I've gotten a new one in about 48 hours usually. And I have no problem with the speed. I saw the fastest d/l I had ever had yesterday, d/l StarOffice at 345 KB/sec. 70 Meg file in 3 minutes. God I love my cable modem. : )
The Onion did a little thing about Columbine recently, which you can read here. It's pretty funny, except that it's also very true. The media has talked about how everyone should love one another, and that there should be no little "groups", but I see no sign that is happening. In my opinion, that article is more truth than fiction.
Can you install this thing directly from Windows? I ask this, because of a incedent that happened recently. We were loading up Red Hat onto some of the computers at school. This kid was interested, so he takes it home one night to install on his machine. He comes back the next day and says it doesn't work. He thought that when he put the CD in the CD-Rom drive, it would read it automatically, like most windows CD's will do, and then go to a nice little install process, like a normal Windows program, and then there would be a little Red Hat icon under his programs menu when he wanted to run Red Hat. Remember, these are the kinds of people that Linux will have to cater to if you want it to overtake Microsoft. So to help poor people like him, will this thing have a.exe file to start it off with, or even a little program icon in Windows that would restart his machine to boot into Linux?
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If you destroy it, call it a lesson learned. Re-install and repeat.
That's what I'm doing right now. I've reinstalled Linux about 4 times since I got it about a month ago. I probally didn't really NEED to do it, but I had no idea how to fix what I broke, so it was easier to just reinstall. I've come from a complete Windows GUI user (never really did DOS), to a semi-competent Unix user, which is better than I was. And I still have problems with it, but I chalk it up as learning, and I don't fret it, the worst I can do is have reinstall, and that only takes 30 minutes.
Just to point out some inaccuracies, First off, console games for the PSX cost at most $50 at launch. Nintendo games cost at most $60. A new console (DC) also costs $200, not $300. And you say most of America has a computer, that is "sorta" true, but how good is that computer? Capable of playing the latest games and decent frame rates? Also, you can play your old console games, keep your old console. Simple as that. And just as a little help, the GameBoy color is doing some of what you wanted with playing old games. They already have SMB out on it, and they are planning on porting a couple of other NES games, like Zelda. And yes, the clincher to your arguement is that people already have computers. But some people don't want to put up with the hassle of installing, upgrading, configuring, and all that crap, so they get a console to do it for them. I personally see the computer market going down, not completely gone because as you said, RTS games are not really good for a console, but computers are just too expensive and fustrating for the Average Joe to mess with.
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Hit the search button, and it'll take you to some Netscape page. Then look to the left of the gray box, and you'll see the names of a bunch of other search engines. Click on Google, and then there will be a checkbox that asks if you want to keep Google as your search engine. Check it, and then whenever you hit the search button again, it'll take you to the Netscape/Google search.
I don't think the GB is a crummy product, I love it. If some other company could have come up with one that had better games, not neccasarly better technology (as the Sega handheld proved) then they could have a market share of the handheld market. But now it's harder because of Nintendo's goldmine, Pokemon. The GB is FAR FAR FAR from dead because of Pokemon. And you can bet that the GBA will have a Pokemon game for it. They promote the GB because it makes them money, simple as that. The GBC is really good, and the GBA sounds to be better yet.
The Game Boy Advance is already planning a feature similar to this. You can connect and play against other people through your cell phone. Read about it here. (about midway through it)
The high school I used to go with had one of those deals with Coke. There were coke machines all over the campus, and the faulculty encourged us to drink them becuase they supposedly got a percentage of the money to spend on tech supplies. I never did see an result on that in the two years I was there, so I'm not sure I believe it.
Isn't this similar to what Apple did back in the 80's? They gave great discounts to schools if they used Apple computers, and so Macintosh's are the only things I used before I got to high school because the schools are cheap when it comes to computers.
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The "Worlds Best Operating System" can mean different things to different people. For some, Linux, for others, Windows. Or for you, FreeBSD. It's all subjective. Myself, I prefer Windows because it's the best for me.
Take a look at the size of the PS2. This thing is incredibly huge for a console, it's like a big tower desktop computer. I don't even think it could fit in the shelves that I store my consoles on. I wonder how much this thing weighs?
So they only have two controller ports because they expect you to play networked games, and then they make you buy the modem? Gee, this thing just keeps getting expensiver by the moment.
To hit the streets with an entire established library of games is a good thing
But it really isn't a library. I could play the same things on a PSX, and if I didn't already own a PSX, I could pick one up for real cheap. Why buy a PS2 if I can get the same game experiance for $300 cheaper? Counting the current PSX library in with the PS2 is not right.
But compared to the DC at $200 (now, and will probally be $150 by fall) and the rumored price of the Dolphin (around $150 at launch) Sony will have the highest price machine by far. And when people see, oh, I can get a PS2 for $300 or a Nintendo Dolphin for $150 or even $200, and they both have comparable graphics, then which one do you think they'll pick?
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Sounds rough. Road Runner didn't mind very much. I called them when I was installing Linux the first time, and asked about my NIC settings, which they told me. But they didn't have any software for it, and the guy told me they didn't support Linux at all. He did tell me about a newsgroup for roadrunner Linux users, roadrunner.help.linux, and that's where I got my login program.
6. Customers are strictly prohibited from running server-based applications on Residential Road Runner accounts. This would include, without limitation to the running of HTTP Web servers, FTP servers, Gaming servers, SMTP and POP Mail servers, Domain Name Servers, Chat servers, etc.
If you use RR in Tampa, you can't. I have a friend though, that I think runs a FTP server off his machine, or did for a little while for MP3's.
That's my ISP too, in the Tampa area. I've had little problem from them, except for one call to tech support. But they've been fairly prompt, I've had 2 modems go out in the 3 months I've had it due to lightning, and I've gotten a new one in about 48 hours usually. And I have no problem with the speed. I saw the fastest d/l I had ever had yesterday, d/l StarOffice at 345 KB/sec. 70 Meg file in 3 minutes. God I love my cable modem. : )
Then how does a Space Shuttle stay up and survive in space? They will protect them of course.
The Onion did a little thing about Columbine recently, which you can read here. It's pretty funny, except that it's also very true. The media has talked about how everyone should love one another, and that there should be no little "groups", but I see no sign that is happening. In my opinion, that article is more truth than fiction.
This is how it has to do with geeks. Just read the stories:
Voices From the Hellmouth
More stories fron the Hellmouth
The price of being different
That's the theory, but no one really follows it anymore.
Can you install this thing directly from Windows? I ask this, because of a incedent that happened recently. We were loading up Red Hat onto some of the computers at school. This kid was interested, so he takes it home one night to install on his machine. He comes back the next day and says it doesn't work. He thought that when he put the CD in the CD-Rom drive, it would read it automatically, like most windows CD's will do, and then go to a nice little install process, like a normal Windows program, and then there would be a little Red Hat icon under his programs menu when he wanted to run Red Hat. Remember, these are the kinds of people that Linux will have to cater to if you want it to overtake Microsoft. So to help poor people like him, will this thing have a .exe file to start it off with, or even a little program icon in Windows that would restart his machine to boot into Linux?
If you destroy it, call it a lesson learned. Re-install and repeat.
That's what I'm doing right now. I've reinstalled Linux about 4 times since I got it about a month ago. I probally didn't really NEED to do it, but I had no idea how to fix what I broke, so it was easier to just reinstall. I've come from a complete Windows GUI user (never really did DOS), to a semi-competent Unix user, which is better than I was. And I still have problems with it, but I chalk it up as learning, and I don't fret it, the worst I can do is have reinstall, and that only takes 30 minutes.
Just to point out some inaccuracies, First off, console games for the PSX cost at most $50 at launch. Nintendo games cost at most $60. A new console (DC) also costs $200, not $300. And you say most of America has a computer, that is "sorta" true, but how good is that computer? Capable of playing the latest games and decent frame rates? Also, you can play your old console games, keep your old console. Simple as that. And just as a little help, the GameBoy color is doing some of what you wanted with playing old games. They already have SMB out on it, and they are planning on porting a couple of other NES games, like Zelda. And yes, the clincher to your arguement is that people already have computers. But some people don't want to put up with the hassle of installing, upgrading, configuring, and all that crap, so they get a console to do it for them. I personally see the computer market going down, not completely gone because as you said, RTS games are not really good for a console, but computers are just too expensive and fustrating for the Average Joe to mess with.
Google Linux
Hit the search button, and it'll take you to some Netscape page. Then look to the left of the gray box, and you'll see the names of a bunch of other search engines. Click on Google, and then there will be a checkbox that asks if you want to keep Google as your search engine. Check it, and then whenever you hit the search button again, it'll take you to the Netscape/Google search.
I've checked it under IE5 in Windows 98, Netscape 4.61 in Windows 98, and Netscape 4.6 in Linux, and I've had no problems with all of them.
I don't think the GB is a crummy product, I love it. If some other company could have come up with one that had better games, not neccasarly better technology (as the Sega handheld proved) then they could have a market share of the handheld market. But now it's harder because of Nintendo's goldmine, Pokemon. The GB is FAR FAR FAR from dead because of Pokemon. And you can bet that the GBA will have a Pokemon game for it. They promote the GB because it makes them money, simple as that. The GBC is really good, and the GBA sounds to be better yet.
Here is the actual link to the story. I don't know why he only put cnn.com instead of a direct link.
The Game Boy Advance is already planning a feature similar to this. You can connect and play against other people through your cell phone. Read about it here. (about midway through it)
The high school I used to go with had one of those deals with Coke. There were coke machines all over the campus, and the faulculty encourged us to drink them becuase they supposedly got a percentage of the money to spend on tech supplies. I never did see an result on that in the two years I was there, so I'm not sure I believe it.
Isn't this similar to what Apple did back in the 80's? They gave great discounts to schools if they used Apple computers, and so Macintosh's are the only things I used before I got to high school because the schools are cheap when it comes to computers.
The "Worlds Best Operating System" can mean different things to different people. For some, Linux, for others, Windows. Or for you, FreeBSD. It's all subjective. Myself, I prefer Windows because it's the best for me.
Take a look at the size of the PS2. This thing is incredibly huge for a console, it's like a big tower desktop computer. I don't even think it could fit in the shelves that I store my consoles on. I wonder how much this thing weighs?
You mean the media takes things out of context and then reports them as facts? Whoa, I bet that's never happened before.......
So they only have two controller ports because they expect you to play networked games, and then they make you buy the modem? Gee, this thing just keeps getting expensiver by the moment.
To hit the streets with an entire established library of games is a good thing
But it really isn't a library. I could play the same things on a PSX, and if I didn't already own a PSX, I could pick one up for real cheap. Why buy a PS2 if I can get the same game experiance for $300 cheaper? Counting the current PSX library in with the PS2 is not right.
But compared to the DC at $200 (now, and will probally be $150 by fall) and the rumored price of the Dolphin (around $150 at launch) Sony will have the highest price machine by far. And when people see, oh, I can get a PS2 for $300 or a Nintendo Dolphin for $150 or even $200, and they both have comparable graphics, then which one do you think they'll pick?
Oh, never seen that movie, that's probally why I didn't get it.