You're probably not going to alienate any zealots if you just go ahead and autodetect the network adaptor without creating a committee and waiting for someone to second the motion.
Heh, heh. For someone who says he doesn't use Debian....
I've decided one of the best features of Knoppix -- install a Debian foundation without being annoyed as all hell.
Oh, sure. GUI installer. But isn't there a mandatory minimum 1/2 page on how it is the prettiest GUI ever with the best choice of backgrounds ever with the cleverist, cleverist default choice of program icons ever devised?
If I spend 2 hours comparing deals, checking competitors, and surfing sites to track down $50 savings on a gadget, did I gain anything? I could have spent that 2 hours with my family,
Well, that's $50 _NET_ money savings on outflow. So, sadly, for two hours time I suspect that is a worthwhile effort for a lot of us. Not all of us make $35-$50 an hour.
I make sure I have periodic bare metal backups and build personalized systems of increasing complexity over several years between reinstalls. And I always try an upgrade first -- dust bunnies be damned! I've had four stable desktop installs since '95. One reinstall was "recommended" and another seemed the easier path because of hardware funkyness and bad backups.
I have a removable XP drive on another machine. I loaded it with the OpenCD.
I think I've worked through the anthropomorphizing to more of a "magic desktop" stage. But I swear it seemed like my OS/2 installs would "settle into their hardware." Crash a few times the first couple weeks and then run reliably forever. Apparently had load balancing too since I could play 24K streams and cruise the web on a 56K without dropping out. Which I thought was cool at the time because NT couldn't do it.
When they come standard with facial recognition and a factory set of preprogrammed responses, it'll get interesting again.
I guess I'm ahead of the game: 2 bad Zip disks since '95. But the same # of bad Jaz disks and I can't say I would trust that today. 4 assorted Zip drives still working fine.
Did anybody else notice the top-of-the-hour news announcement on Air America, I think, that the mission was extended and the probes would "remain on Mars"? Yup, I bet they will. Few things amuse me more than confused science reporting.
Of course, then there is always the issue of older machines being less power efficient; Perhaps reusing them could be considered not green at all:)
Happens. I have a laser printer sitting in the closet that I am fond of because I did a lower roller replacement myself. But it would be insane to keep it powered up. The extra thick power cord is a give-away.
This is more for math geeks because you'll have to work it out today with your computer of choice. But back in the Dark Ages, I found that my PRs formed a perfect power curve of time vs. distance using a TI-58 and the business stat chip. Great for choosing a pace for the annual marathon.
>>Apple computers are created for, and solely used by people who know, and want to know nothing about computers, the "proudly ignorants".
>Now that Apple is *nix based I find this kind of statement quite suprising. What a bunch of proudly ignorant [bioitworldexpo.com] people.
Yeah. I thought there were plenty of reasons to be underimpressed with Apple OSes. And if I could have afforded top of the line hardware, I could just as well have gotten it for an X86 machine and paid top dollar there.
But when Mac went OS X, I decided it was time for a paradigm opinion shift. Doesn't mean I'll switch, what with my knowledge investment in linux, but just saying.....truce.
Yes, I think Leary started out sincere and did trials with divinity students and the like. The current drug/health doc of the stars, Andrew Weil, was reported to be pissed because he was an undergrad and Leary would only use grad students as volunteers.
But later Leary was saying stuff like, "If you don't have a pilot's license, you shouldn't fly" which, for some strange reason, struck ordinary people as an insincere statement that one should be certified mentally healthy before attempting something like LSD.
Some of the anti-acid movies should be resurrected. They were dumber than Reefer Madness.
Got my first dial-up CompuServe account in late '86. Coincidentially, we got a 19" TV spring '87 with a mechanical clunk tuner. My parents pushed a 19" with remote on me that they won in '00 (what would they do with _only_ a 19" and who would want it?). Put the old TV by the trash with a note saying, "Works". It disappeared. It appeared back at the trash about three weeks ago. Cool. Somebody else got almost another 4 years out of it.
That's how much TV we've been watching the last few decades.
The pony would probably be more trouble to bring along than not, all things considered.
Actually, the local DIAL-UP ISP pulled out of the county in the middle of nowhere where my parents are located about six months ago. There really are parts of the U.S. that could benefit from third world initiatives. Provide the high school computer club with a four or five modem bank and a cheap linux mail server.
But why not broadband? Money for everything in the Bush budget.
It's gotten pretty interesting in a purely scholarly way. We have a backlogged stockpile of literally 100 years of audio and video entertainment now. I mean, how much can a person consume? Entertainment _should_, by economic laws of supply and demand, be as cheap as tap water.
Ergo, draconian protectionism. Something has to give.
But many of us remain concerned that using criminal law enforcement remedies to act against these infringers could have an overly-harsh effect, perhaps, for example, putting thousands of otherwise law-abiding teenagers and college students in jail and branding them with the lifelong stigma of a felony criminal conviction.
Yeah, that's right ethical of him to worry so much about that. But he knows where his campaign contibutions have come from.
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You're probably not going to alienate any zealots if you just go ahead and autodetect the network adaptor without creating a committee and waiting for someone to second the motion.
Heh, heh. For someone who says he doesn't use Debian....
I've decided one of the best features of Knoppix -- install a Debian foundation without being annoyed as all hell.
Oh, sure. GUI installer. But isn't there a mandatory minimum 1/2 page on how it is the prettiest GUI ever with the best choice of backgrounds ever with the cleverist, cleverist default choice of program icons ever devised?
If I spend 2 hours comparing deals, checking competitors, and surfing sites to track down $50 savings on a gadget, did I gain anything? I could have spent that 2 hours with my family,
Well, that's $50 _NET_ money savings on outflow. So, sadly, for two hours time I suspect that is a worthwhile effort for a lot of us. Not all of us make $35-$50 an hour.
Format the drive monthly? Windows there?
I make sure I have periodic bare metal backups and build personalized systems of increasing complexity over several years between reinstalls. And I always try an upgrade first -- dust bunnies be damned! I've had four stable desktop installs since '95. One reinstall was "recommended" and another seemed the easier path because of hardware funkyness and bad backups.
I have a removable XP drive on another machine. I loaded it with the OpenCD.
Training kids to have a different brain than I developed. Books are still the best random access devices.
So many of the comments here are just on the technical and expense issues. Interesting.
Not finding the ark could be the peak of his career
I think I've worked through the anthropomorphizing to more of a "magic desktop" stage. But I swear it seemed like my OS/2 installs would "settle into their hardware." Crash a few times the first couple weeks and then run reliably forever. Apparently had load balancing too since I could play 24K streams and cruise the web on a 56K without dropping out. Which I thought was cool at the time because NT couldn't do it.
When they come standard with facial recognition and a factory set of preprogrammed responses, it'll get interesting again.
I guess I'm ahead of the game: 2 bad Zip disks since '95. But the same # of bad Jaz disks and I can't say I would trust that today. 4 assorted Zip drives still working fine.
Yes, it is pretty bad. You can buy an external 250 GiB drive for $70 less than that with similar data transfer rates.
Or if you can shut down, that much money buys a few hard drives with trays and a bay for rotating backups.
Did anybody else notice the top-of-the-hour news announcement on Air America, I think, that the mission was extended and the probes would "remain on Mars"? Yup, I bet they will. Few things amuse me more than confused science reporting.
From my experience, no. Several computers and I don't _have_ any blue LEDs. So, one of those weird articles for me to read, at least.
How long before we read the first story of some, um, inappropriate footage captured with one of these?"
I'd only look at a KEY019 for the articles!
What is the point of this? Presumably they will just hear a few wind noises as it blows past the microphones?
Indeed. Conceptual art either wows you -- or is stupid. Maybe I'm wowed by the stupidity of this one.
Considering we might see three Japanese uploaded this weekend.
Of course, then there is always the issue of older machines being less power efficient; Perhaps reusing them could be considered not green at all
Happens. I have a laser printer sitting in the closet that I am fond of because I did a lower roller replacement myself. But it would be insane to keep it powered up. The extra thick power cord is a give-away.
This is more for math geeks because you'll have to work it out today with your computer of choice. But back in the Dark Ages, I found that my PRs formed a perfect power curve of time vs. distance using a TI-58 and the business stat chip. Great for choosing a pace for the annual marathon.
>>Apple computers are created for, and solely used by people who know, and want to know nothing about computers, the "proudly ignorants".
>Now that Apple is *nix based I find this kind of statement quite suprising. What a bunch of proudly ignorant [bioitworldexpo.com] people.
Yeah. I thought there were plenty of reasons to be underimpressed with Apple OSes. And if I could have afforded top of the line hardware, I could just as well have gotten it for an X86 machine and paid top dollar there.
But when Mac went OS X, I decided it was time for a paradigm opinion shift. Doesn't mean I'll switch, what with my knowledge investment in linux, but just saying.....truce.
Yes, I think Leary started out sincere and did trials with divinity students and the like. The current drug/health doc of the stars, Andrew Weil, was reported to be pissed because he was an undergrad and Leary would only use grad students as volunteers.
But later Leary was saying stuff like, "If you don't have a pilot's license, you shouldn't fly" which, for some strange reason, struck ordinary people as an insincere statement that one should be certified mentally healthy before attempting something like LSD.
Some of the anti-acid movies should be resurrected. They were dumber than Reefer Madness.
Probably a dozen years ago, writing a DOS lotus spreadsheet to track expenses with about 70 (non-tabbed) grid regions
-- because that's what they had, don't you know.
Although a guy at a tech temp agency once told me about a WordPerfect macro writing job and we both sort of simultaneously starting giggling.
Got my first dial-up CompuServe account in late '86. Coincidentially, we got a 19" TV spring '87 with a mechanical clunk tuner. My parents pushed a 19" with remote on me that they won in '00 (what would they do with _only_ a 19" and who would want it?). Put the old TV by the trash with a note saying, "Works". It disappeared. It appeared back at the trash about three weeks ago. Cool. Somebody else got almost another 4 years out of it.
That's how much TV we've been watching the last few decades.
The pony would probably be more trouble to bring along than not, all things considered.
Actually, the local DIAL-UP ISP pulled out of the county in the middle of nowhere where my parents are located about six months ago. There really are parts of the U.S. that could benefit from third world initiatives. Provide the high school computer club with a four or five modem bank and a cheap linux mail server.
But why not broadband? Money for everything in the Bush budget.
It's gotten pretty interesting in a purely scholarly way. We have a backlogged stockpile of literally 100 years of audio and video entertainment now. I mean, how much can a person consume? Entertainment _should_, by economic laws of supply and demand, be as cheap as tap water.
Ergo, draconian protectionism. Something has to give.
It's a natural progression. The Inquisition wound down after they grabbed a few nobles.
But many of us remain concerned that using criminal law enforcement remedies to act against these infringers could have an overly-harsh effect, perhaps, for example, putting thousands of otherwise law-abiding teenagers and college students in jail and branding them with the lifelong stigma of a felony criminal conviction.
Yeah, that's right ethical of him to worry so much about that.
But he knows where his campaign contibutions have come from.
Under the bill, even sharing a single file (if a judge decides the value is over $10,000) could land a user in jail
I was wondering if that meant it was still OK to pirate Gigli.