How many packages do Gentoo have in their repo? about 8000?
If you can name one of the 800 packages (9193 in Portage)in the Mandrake repos that aren't in Gentoo (minus urpmi or whatever), I'd be pretty surprised. I get six million results when I search for "blah" in Google, but I'm probably not going to go past the first couple of pages, if that. Volume doesn't necessarily mean much.
Any distro released every 6 months will have packages that are slightly behind - Fedora and Suse have this problem too. Gentoo may not but often the price is a bit less stability
I've never really understood the "stability" argument. It's not like you're forced to upgrade all the time with Gentoo. It's just an option. You can certainly stick with older versions if that makes you happy.
and less of the polish of a 'shrink-wrapped' distro (installer, hardware detection, out-of-the-box functionality, etc) as you mentioned.
That I'll agree with. I wouldn't describe the Gentoo install as difficult, but it is long and involved. The benefit I see is that you only have to do it once. I always hated having to upgrade Mandrake with every new version.
I'm no blinded fanboi though. I think it's good to have different distributions. Gentoo's right for me, but I know people I'd much rather have running Mandrake or whatever.:-)
There is a white colored rca (2 plug for use in all home audio) to iPod (aka 3.5 mm stereo plug) for sale... only $69.99 (Canadian, but still)... while one isle over, there is the same damned thing for $5.99
Maybe they manufacture the cheap ones right on that isle, but the expensive ones include the cost of transportation and export fees (air is fast, but a boat is probably cheaper, depending on how far apart the isles are).
One factor that makes concerts more damaging is that consuming alcohol makes your ears more susceptable to damage. Wear your earplugs, folks! If you're that concerned about your appearance, get some flesh-coloured electronic suckers. I know it's badass to go see Motorhead without anything, but when your ears are ringing the next day, you've been through too much.
I have Gentoo on a 2650. Pretty painless install, and it's dual-booting with XP (although that's rarely hit). I think the only thing not working fully is the ACPI, which I still have to screw around with.
For 600 bucks including tax and shipping though, I have no complaints.
Oh please. You act like potential is something you can quantifiably measure. "Oh look, little Johnny should have been a 4859 on the Frutz-Bluggum scale, but since he smoked weed once in a while, he only got a 3780!" I hope that was just a sorry troll, and not what you believe.
Perhaps a better one would be:
Georgy, evidence actually shows that if children drink coffee once a week from the age of 13, they will NEVER grow taller than 5'. How do you plan on combatting the EVILS of Starbucks given this FACT?
I just see a bug in his ass making a big issue and wasting time and taxpayer dollars to make some silly point that noone in the world really gives a shit about.
I paid for a copy of XP that I don't use on my laptop. I give a shit. He asked for a refund, which he's entitled to. They wouldn't give it to him. He went to court. They gave him a refund. Who's wasting taxpayer money, really?
"Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named 'N-Ten)', a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
-Mark Lucovsky
Distinguished Engineer
Windows Server Architect
Reminds me of the letter Bruce Schneier posted in the last issue of Crypto-Gram:
[This is the strangest piece of mail I have ever received, by several
orders of magnitude. I reprint it here solely for entertainment purposes.]
From: Somewhere
Subject: I haven't a clue, really
On January 15, 2003, I was banking on-line at Lee bank in Lee,
Massachusetts. Zone Alarm informed me on the computer (mostly
everything I have is documented) that a "would be hacker" was trying to
penetrate my account. I wrote down the port numbers, called the bank,
and was told by a very young secretary that I would have to come in and
change my password. The Lee Bank of course later denied it, wanting to
pretend that our systems are all secure. I thought "oh, they are just
changing their systems -- I'll call back in 15 minutes. I was told to
come in and change my password. The bank of course, later denied
it. The portal numbers were the same as the one I would run into later.
Fifteen minutes later I was back to my on-line computer and there was
my ex-husband's (and now wife's) yellow e-mail staring me in the
face. He was mailing things back to himself as he had done over the
years. He had all sorts of "spy ware" installed on the first computer
in our house. When we outgrew our, "Windows 95," I decided to get Jake
a new computer. (I have 2 children, Jake and Hallie, and had remarried
in 2000.) The new Compaq was bought in 1999. I don't know how long he
had been e-mailing things back to himself. What came through when I
pressed file, was our daughter's picture. Then, I pressed source &
view and print. Pages started printing out -- So many that I ran out
of paper. I showed these to a computer forensic person in Boston. He
said that the program might show that they were laundering money,
running pornography or Chuck could have been stealing money from George
Gilder's bank account. George Gilder is the man responsible for
predicting the stocks on the Gilder Technology report.
Please forgive this very unprofessional letter. My house was broken
into night after night. My jewelry was all changed with copper wire
and numbered. Everything I touched looked like a little disk to hold
information on it and it was covered in microchips in silver and copper.
No one believed me. I had recently started taking medications for
ADD. That made my second husband furious. Little did I know that he
may have been involved in what I believe to be cryptography? I found a
bag that the FBI will test for substances. I woke up groggy. I was
followed by the same car day in and day out. They wanted to know when
they could use my house. A private investigator from New York is
coming tonight. The FBI will come tomorrow. I had a bag from New
Mexico that I looked up on the internet. I was not allowed to use the
computer when I wouldn't do my ex-husband's program. My calls were
intercepted. We thought we had Verizon DSL. My computer was
controlled by my ex-husband Edward Charles Frank. I had read in his
notes of his running the v2ks. When I would wake up in the morning,
floppy disks would be at my bedside, I was to run them and I am not a
computer forensic person but I knew they weren't bible verses.
Now comes the hard part. My house was broken into at least a dozen
times. Watches, purses, coats, and my own belief in myself disappeared
and reappeared on a daily basis.
The Lee Police never visited my house one time. They, in fact, called
in mental health -- one of the most humiliating experiences I have ever
endured. The social worker said that my problems seemed to be called
externally, the state police threw me out and I know how to ask calm
and mannerly, as I am an opera singer. I stopped singing. They had
already (I assume) been told that I was crazy, or maybe they were paid
off. I just couldn't believe the treatment I received. When I called
to tell them my purse was stolen out of my house in the night, I heard
"Oh, you'll have to wait to talk to
Slashdot Mirror
How many packages do Gentoo have in their repo? about 8000?
:-)
If you can name one of the 800 packages (9193 in Portage)in the Mandrake repos that aren't in Gentoo (minus urpmi or whatever), I'd be pretty surprised. I get six million results when I search for "blah" in Google, but I'm probably not going to go past the first couple of pages, if that. Volume doesn't necessarily mean much.
Any distro released every 6 months will have packages that are slightly behind - Fedora and Suse have this problem too. Gentoo may not but often the price is a bit less stability
I've never really understood the "stability" argument. It's not like you're forced to upgrade all the time with Gentoo. It's just an option. You can certainly stick with older versions if that makes you happy.
and less of the polish of a 'shrink-wrapped' distro (installer, hardware detection, out-of-the-box functionality, etc) as you mentioned.
That I'll agree with. I wouldn't describe the Gentoo install as difficult, but it is long and involved. The benefit I see is that you only have to do it once. I always hated having to upgrade Mandrake with every new version.
I'm no blinded fanboi though. I think it's good to have different distributions. Gentoo's right for me, but I know people I'd much rather have running Mandrake or whatever.
:-D
There is a white colored rca (2 plug for use in all home audio) to iPod (aka 3.5 mm stereo plug) for sale... only $69.99 (Canadian, but still)... while one isle over, there is the same damned thing for $5.99
Maybe they manufacture the cheap ones right on that isle, but the expensive ones include the cost of transportation and export fees (air is fast, but a boat is probably cheaper, depending on how far apart the isles are).
Oddly, one alcoholic drink subdues my sensation of the ringing.
Not odd at all. Alcohol relaxes your ear bits. The AC marijuana suggestion might actually be a good one, if that doesn't go against your world view.
One factor that makes concerts more damaging is that consuming alcohol makes your ears more susceptable to damage. Wear your earplugs, folks! If you're that concerned about your appearance, get some flesh-coloured electronic suckers. I know it's badass to go see Motorhead without anything, but when your ears are ringing the next day, you've been through too much.
Yeesh. Beats the hell out of my site. Feel free to click on it to console me though. :-)
You mean like these?
Who's editing that poor bastard's stuff? Fire 'em outta there!
Maybe he rounded it to the nearest 600 pages, hmm? Ever think of that?
Who's bigger, Amazon or IBM?
Who has more patents, Amazon or IBM?
Who are we supporting this week, Amazon or IBM?
And we know how much regard people here have for copyright law now, don't we ?
Yeah, but we're not suing IBM.
There's a great collection of Dr. Seuss material (not kid stuff) named the Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough. Eno, eno, I'm thruff!
2. fill out the info (this is legit info folks)
"Yes, that's Mr. 'DWord' - capital 'D,' capital 'W' . . . "
Where are you from?
I have Gentoo on a 2650. Pretty painless install, and it's dual-booting with XP (although that's rarely hit). I think the only thing not working fully is the ACPI, which I still have to screw around with.
For 600 bucks including tax and shipping though, I have no complaints.
How do you feel about Slashdot crushing your puny server right in the middle of a campaign?
Oh please. You act like potential is something you can quantifiably measure. "Oh look, little Johnny should have been a 4859 on the Frutz-Bluggum scale, but since he smoked weed once in a while, he only got a 3780!" I hope that was just a sorry troll, and not what you believe.
Perhaps a better one would be:
Georgy, evidence actually shows that if children drink coffee once a week from the age of 13, they will NEVER grow taller than 5'. How do you plan on combatting the EVILS of Starbucks given this FACT?
"37% of Americans aged 18-24 can identify England on a map of the world."
If your local to France, sell a French 'speaking' machine. It's that simple.
Uh huh. And if you're local to the US, you'd probably want you're instead. It's that simple.
The whole rant's funnier if you read it in the Comic Book Guy voice.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX&d=c&k=c1&c=ibm&a =v&p=s&t=1d&l=on&z=l&q=l
SCO.com? The one running Apache on Linux?
They'll probably sue themselves next. There's not many targets left anyway.
I just see a bug in his ass making a big issue and wasting time and taxpayer dollars to make some silly point that noone in the world really gives a shit about.
I paid for a copy of XP that I don't use on my laptop. I give a shit. He asked for a refund, which he's entitled to. They wouldn't give it to him. He went to court. They gave him a refund. Who's wasting taxpayer money, really?
"Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860 (code-named 'N-Ten)', a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
-Mark Lucovsky
Distinguished Engineer
Windows Server Architect
Reminds me of the letter Bruce Schneier posted in the last issue of Crypto-Gram:
[This is the strangest piece of mail I have ever received, by several orders of magnitude. I reprint it here solely for entertainment purposes.]
From: Somewhere
Subject: I haven't a clue, really
On January 15, 2003, I was banking on-line at Lee bank in Lee, Massachusetts. Zone Alarm informed me on the computer (mostly everything I have is documented) that a "would be hacker" was trying to penetrate my account. I wrote down the port numbers, called the bank, and was told by a very young secretary that I would have to come in and change my password. The Lee Bank of course later denied it, wanting to pretend that our systems are all secure. I thought "oh, they are just changing their systems -- I'll call back in 15 minutes. I was told to come in and change my password. The bank of course, later denied it. The portal numbers were the same as the one I would run into later.
Fifteen minutes later I was back to my on-line computer and there was my ex-husband's (and now wife's) yellow e-mail staring me in the face. He was mailing things back to himself as he had done over the years. He had all sorts of "spy ware" installed on the first computer in our house. When we outgrew our, "Windows 95," I decided to get Jake a new computer. (I have 2 children, Jake and Hallie, and had remarried in 2000.) The new Compaq was bought in 1999. I don't know how long he had been e-mailing things back to himself. What came through when I pressed file, was our daughter's picture. Then, I pressed source & view and print. Pages started printing out -- So many that I ran out of paper. I showed these to a computer forensic person in Boston. He said that the program might show that they were laundering money, running pornography or Chuck could have been stealing money from George Gilder's bank account. George Gilder is the man responsible for predicting the stocks on the Gilder Technology report.
Please forgive this very unprofessional letter. My house was broken into night after night. My jewelry was all changed with copper wire and numbered. Everything I touched looked like a little disk to hold information on it and it was covered in microchips in silver and copper.
No one believed me. I had recently started taking medications for ADD. That made my second husband furious. Little did I know that he may have been involved in what I believe to be cryptography? I found a bag that the FBI will test for substances. I woke up groggy. I was followed by the same car day in and day out. They wanted to know when they could use my house. A private investigator from New York is coming tonight. The FBI will come tomorrow. I had a bag from New Mexico that I looked up on the internet. I was not allowed to use the computer when I wouldn't do my ex-husband's program. My calls were intercepted. We thought we had Verizon DSL. My computer was controlled by my ex-husband Edward Charles Frank. I had read in his notes of his running the v2ks. When I would wake up in the morning, floppy disks would be at my bedside, I was to run them and I am not a computer forensic person but I knew they weren't bible verses.
Now comes the hard part. My house was broken into at least a dozen times. Watches, purses, coats, and my own belief in myself disappeared and reappeared on a daily basis.
The Lee Police never visited my house one time. They, in fact, called in mental health -- one of the most humiliating experiences I have ever endured. The social worker said that my problems seemed to be called externally, the state police threw me out and I know how to ask calm and mannerly, as I am an opera singer. I stopped singing. They had already (I assume) been told that I was crazy, or maybe they were paid off. I just couldn't believe the treatment I received. When I called to tell them my purse was stolen out of my house in the night, I heard "Oh, you'll have to wait to talk to
Like what, use Opera and turn off referrer logging?
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