Kudos to you guys. So far, so good here. Looks relatively nice. One suggestion, though, would be flavoring. Let users change gfx from the standard green to an array of colors. Just an idea...
After reading up on it, I'm actually interested. The modem issue can be circumvented no problem. Slap a fat HD in this badboy and you at least have a decent side box to store and work with differant media. The TV out is handy, and is the biggest feature I see. Might use it as an Arcade Cabinet brain. Stick in on a wireless LAN and you have some interesting gaming options...
We're talking about the political process here. We all know that Microsoft has the cash to lobby for this sort of thing in Congress. Other companies, like SGI, Apple, Intel, etc., have the funds to spread their influence on the software.
Linux and it's community, in a way, represents the independant, unbiased view in the matter. Almost like it's own 3 party system. Kinda poetic, actually. Linux has only what money it's users can muster and the flag of the GNU to wave. It has the least lobby power, yet promises to be a cost effective choice in software. It's more secure than Windows probably ever will be, that's for sure...
Microsoft isn't in trouble with the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Devision for nothing. And Apple is just getting it's act together after a long lull. Linux sits there, in the system's face, screaming to be tried...
And to you Anon. Cowards: I'll be the first to admit that what I say is often wrong. I do not mind being corrected, that's all part of the learning process for me. But to berate me behind the Alan Smithee banner is true ignorance. If you must correct me, please do so respectfully. I'm always open to constructive criticism. Otherwise, I speak my mind...
Oh. A possible new planetary system? Just wait. Microsoft will figure out a way to comingle it with Windows HC (Hunk Of Crap) and patent it so we can't talk about it.
And of course, with out the "Windows PS" (Planetary System or Piece of Scheist, take your pick) installed, "Windows VP" (Virus Prone) will become crippled and not run, much like it does anyway...
Gee, must be nice. Here I sit on 56K (barely), in an area where Verizon barely looks when it comes to demand, waiting for the broadband light to kick on. I've been at this ISO for nearly 2 days now, and it shows no signs of slowing (or speeding up, either). It's painful, really, knowing what else is out there. Salvation will come, even if I have to leave my home in search of the tools I need. And oh yeah: Screw Africa. Wire ME first. Then wire the Otehubbehummabob Tribe in southern Zaire...
...to convert all your MP3s to OGG like my nephew did, out comes something else. He spent weeks converting those puppies with command line converters. I think I feel bad for him. Oh well. When Vorbis adopts a standard, I'll switch. Till then, though, I'll watch the "Nephew Follies" and leech info off of his adventures.
Slackware 8.0. I've had this one running through my learning process. Comes with nice stuff, and is fairly secure as far as I can tell. It's not quite as user friendly as a Debian or even a Red Hat, but it's a nice distribution.
Well Happy Birthday Linux ^-^
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Linux Turns 10
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Kickass. 10 years. Here's to many more decades like this one. Thanks, Linus, Allen, and all who work so hard. I owe you all at least one round.
After all the phone calls to AT&T and Verizon, bitching about why I can't get broadband in my area, I'm actually glad I can't. Nah... F that. I'm still gonna call them daily. Any users in rural areas with the same problem, please join me in harassing the h-e-double hockey sticks out of them and get us the service we need.
Will it run for more than 5 min?
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Netscape 6.1
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I downloaded Netscape 6 a while back. Had it running on a Win98 P3-550, and it wouldn't stay alive for more than 5 minutes without crashing totally. Maybe the.1 fixes that, but screw it. Konqueror works just fine for me now that Linux is running well on the same box. The hell with both IE and Netscape. Windows users: Check out Opera, it's rather nice, small, and free...
I say we, the/. faithful, gather in mass and charter a bus to Tampa. Once there, we have shirts screen printed with phrases like "Big Brother Sucks" or "Quit Looking At Me, I'm Already Paranoid" and march around the cameras at random, giving them the occasional bird. We do this for a few hours, and when the cops come to make us disband, we start spouting about the first ammendment. If they did this in my town, I'd be out there with a.22 picking the cameras off...
I could really use a hand-held version of this (possible) technology. It'd help keep those damned Bumpus Hounds (you'll shoot your eye out!) next door at bay. My buddy could use one to repel those 14 year old chicks that keep hitting on him (he's 19). And will there be a car version? That'd be great for giving those "25 in a 55" senior citizens an extra push... Not that I'm anti Senior Citizen...
Mocroshaft (DOW: MSUX) should be forced to fix it's security holes, remove script handeling from it's e-mail clients, and generally clean up it's act when it comes to the holes in its OS and software. How many Mac virii/worms do you hear about? What about UNIX/Linux? Virtually NO BSD problems. Microshaft (NASDAQ: MSHT) looks to be the butt of every joke (aka Virii) and almost invite the problems. Forget making users keep IE, forget the blocking that XP is said to do to competitor's software. FIX THE DAMNED THING ALREADY! Then you can worry about the anti-trust violations.
Damned Anonymous Cowards. Hey, the transition to Linux has been a difficult one. Apart from learning the ins and outs, getting a modem to work required many hours of reading. That FAR SURPASSES any AOL lamer (so easy to use, no wonder idiots sign up and get ripped off), who reads absolutly nothing. Not even the ToS, they're in such a hurry to blow their credit lines doing mindless things. So piss off! I might be a Linux Newbie, but there's no way I could EVER be compared to an AOL Loser.
How about "The Death Of Jar Jar?" Or maybe "Jar Jar's Slow, Painful, Torturous Demise?" Or en espanol, "La Dia De La Muerta De Jar Jar?" Anything with Jar Jar dying, I'll pay $15 bucks to see. Maybe "Jar Jar Gets Flung Into A Blender and C3P0 Sets It To Puree?"
I discovered this format thanks to/. and I plan to fully convert my library (1600 files) fairly soon. Apart from the space saving implications, it's OPEN SOURCE! Why the heck wouldn't you go OGG? Winamp has a plugin for it (though they don't do Tags yet), XMMS supports it in 1.2.5, and it fits with our "Penguinist" views of free software.
Side note: Finally got a modem working in my Slack 8.0 box! This is my first post under Linux! Yay for me!
Can you get to their HTML? Replace their main page with one that says something like "This server is poorly secured and has been infected with CodeRedII. Please e-mail the administrator and tell them to remedy this solution." And save a copy of the original index file so they can go right back to using it. Just a thought.
It was just a tiny mention, and it was in a little hickville newspaper, but SirCam finally got some print attention. Of course, it was in a Code Red article, which was careful to let the sticks dwellers know that as long as they didn't use NT or 2000 (why would they?) they were safe. I myself recieved SirCam, but since my e-mail client doesn't use scripts, I was safe. Now, if the mainstream net media could only see that we, the wee users, are in more trouble than the big bad companies...
Does anyone think that the feds were looking for another scapegoat after they released Kevin Mitnick? This comment may be looked at as an open letter to our "benevolent" government: "Leave us the hell alone. We have a desire to simply know more about the world inside our little boxes. Back the hell off already."
Is/. the only news site that covers the SirCam virus? I actually got a copy of the damn thing the other day, and I'm glad I don't use Outlook. I'm also glad that I had a resource like/. to tell me what it looked like before I got the damned thing. The mainstream media needs to look more at a virus that DOES affect the casual MS user (95/98/ME) instead of an NT-based worm like Code Red that falls flat on it's face.
If Pi is pretty much random (aside from the 3.14), then what the hell happens to pi(r)? Does this mean that a circle has a different circumferance each time? Thank the maker I'm a designer and not a number cruncher. And does anyone know the equasion they used to get pi from the base of the Pyramids of Giza? I remember seeing it like 10 years ago on TV...
Chick friend of mine told me about KaZaA, so I checked the site. Decided not to download it when I saw that it "requires" Media Player 6 and IE 4 at least. Good thing I didn't download it, because I would have been on the warpath when I figured out what the hell it was doing. I guess Microsoft did something good for once: Kept me from downloading a shady piece of software.
Crap. So close to Williamsport, yet so far away. And here I was hoping it was punishment from [insert desired religious icon here] sent to my ex fiance (who attends Lycoming College) for what she did to me. Oh well, a man can dream, can't he?
What the hell? A high speed, fiber connection in a 3rd world continent that can't decide who it wants to run it's countries? Rubbish.
What the hell are people doing wiring some desert plain when people right here in the US (Rural PA in my case) are still fighting to get beyond 56K? We've been waiting for months for broadband, and we still can't get a straight answer as to when! WHAT ABOUT US?!? Once we get ourselves wired, then we can worry about the Sahara.
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Kudos to you guys. So far, so good here. Looks relatively nice. One suggestion, though, would be flavoring. Let users change gfx from the standard green to an array of colors. Just an idea...
After reading up on it, I'm actually interested. The modem issue can be circumvented no problem. Slap a fat HD in this badboy and you at least have a decent side box to store and work with differant media. The TV out is handy, and is the biggest feature I see. Might use it as an Arcade Cabinet brain. Stick in on a wireless LAN and you have some interesting gaming options...
We're talking about the political process here. We all know that Microsoft has the cash to lobby for this sort of thing in Congress. Other companies, like SGI, Apple, Intel, etc., have the funds to spread their influence on the software.
Linux and it's community, in a way, represents the independant, unbiased view in the matter. Almost like it's own 3 party system. Kinda poetic, actually. Linux has only what money it's users can muster and the flag of the GNU to wave. It has the least lobby power, yet promises to be a cost effective choice in software. It's more secure than Windows probably ever will be, that's for sure...
Microsoft isn't in trouble with the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Devision for nothing. And Apple is just getting it's act together after a long lull. Linux sits there, in the system's face, screaming to be tried...
And to you Anon. Cowards: I'll be the first to admit that what I say is often wrong. I do not mind being corrected, that's all part of the learning process for me. But to berate me behind the Alan Smithee banner is true ignorance. If you must correct me, please do so respectfully. I'm always open to constructive criticism. Otherwise, I speak my mind...
Oh. A possible new planetary system? Just wait. Microsoft will figure out a way to comingle it with Windows HC (Hunk Of Crap) and patent it so we can't talk about it.
And of course, with out the "Windows PS" (Planetary System or Piece of Scheist, take your pick) installed, "Windows VP" (Virus Prone) will become crippled and not run, much like it does anyway...
Gee, must be nice. Here I sit on 56K (barely), in an area where Verizon barely looks when it comes to demand, waiting for the broadband light to kick on. I've been at this ISO for nearly 2 days now, and it shows no signs of slowing (or speeding up, either). It's painful, really, knowing what else is out there. Salvation will come, even if I have to leave my home in search of the tools I need. And oh yeah: Screw Africa. Wire ME first. Then wire the Otehubbehummabob Tribe in southern Zaire...
...to convert all your MP3s to OGG like my nephew did, out comes something else. He spent weeks converting those puppies with command line converters. I think I feel bad for him. Oh well. When Vorbis adopts a standard, I'll switch. Till then, though, I'll watch the "Nephew Follies" and leech info off of his adventures.
Slackware 8.0. I've had this one running through my learning process. Comes with nice stuff, and is fairly secure as far as I can tell. It's not quite as user friendly as a Debian or even a Red Hat, but it's a nice distribution.
Kickass. 10 years. Here's to many more decades like this one. Thanks, Linus, Allen, and all who work so hard. I owe you all at least one round.
After all the phone calls to AT&T and Verizon, bitching about why I can't get broadband in my area, I'm actually glad I can't. Nah... F that. I'm still gonna call them daily. Any users in rural areas with the same problem, please join me in harassing the h-e-double hockey sticks out of them and get us the service we need.
I downloaded Netscape 6 a while back. Had it running on a Win98 P3-550, and it wouldn't stay alive for more than 5 minutes without crashing totally. Maybe the .1 fixes that, but screw it. Konqueror works just fine for me now that Linux is running well on the same box. The hell with both IE and Netscape. Windows users: Check out Opera, it's rather nice, small, and free...
I say we, the /. faithful, gather in mass and charter a bus to Tampa. Once there, we have shirts screen printed with phrases like "Big Brother Sucks" or "Quit Looking At Me, I'm Already Paranoid" and march around the cameras at random, giving them the occasional bird. We do this for a few hours, and when the cops come to make us disband, we start spouting about the first ammendment. If they did this in my town, I'd be out there with a .22 picking the cameras off...
I could really use a hand-held version of this (possible) technology. It'd help keep those damned Bumpus Hounds (you'll shoot your eye out!) next door at bay. My buddy could use one to repel those 14 year old chicks that keep hitting on him (he's 19). And will there be a car version? That'd be great for giving those "25 in a 55" senior citizens an extra push... Not that I'm anti Senior Citizen...
Mocroshaft (DOW: MSUX) should be forced to fix it's security holes, remove script handeling from it's e-mail clients, and generally clean up it's act when it comes to the holes in its OS and software. How many Mac virii/worms do you hear about? What about UNIX/Linux? Virtually NO BSD problems. Microshaft (NASDAQ: MSHT) looks to be the butt of every joke (aka Virii) and almost invite the problems. Forget making users keep IE, forget the blocking that XP is said to do to competitor's software. FIX THE DAMNED THING ALREADY! Then you can worry about the anti-trust violations.
Damned Anonymous Cowards. Hey, the transition to Linux has been a difficult one. Apart from learning the ins and outs, getting a modem to work required many hours of reading. That FAR SURPASSES any AOL lamer (so easy to use, no wonder idiots sign up and get ripped off), who reads absolutly nothing. Not even the ToS, they're in such a hurry to blow their credit lines doing mindless things. So piss off! I might be a Linux Newbie, but there's no way I could EVER be compared to an AOL Loser.
How about "The Death Of Jar Jar?" Or maybe "Jar Jar's Slow, Painful, Torturous Demise?" Or en espanol, "La Dia De La Muerta De Jar Jar?" Anything with Jar Jar dying, I'll pay $15 bucks to see. Maybe "Jar Jar Gets Flung Into A Blender and C3P0 Sets It To Puree?"
I discovered this format thanks to /. and I plan to fully convert my library (1600 files) fairly soon. Apart from the space saving implications, it's OPEN SOURCE! Why the heck wouldn't you go OGG? Winamp has a plugin for it (though they don't do Tags yet), XMMS supports it in 1.2.5, and it fits with our "Penguinist" views of free software.
Side note: Finally got a modem working in my Slack 8.0 box! This is my first post under Linux! Yay for me!
Can you get to their HTML? Replace their main page with one that says something like "This server is poorly secured and has been infected with CodeRedII. Please e-mail the administrator and tell them to remedy this solution." And save a copy of the original index file so they can go right back to using it. Just a thought.
It was just a tiny mention, and it was in a little hickville newspaper, but SirCam finally got some print attention. Of course, it was in a Code Red article, which was careful to let the sticks dwellers know that as long as they didn't use NT or 2000 (why would they?) they were safe. I myself recieved SirCam, but since my e-mail client doesn't use scripts, I was safe. Now, if the mainstream net media could only see that we, the wee users, are in more trouble than the big bad companies...
Does anyone think that the feds were looking for another scapegoat after they released Kevin Mitnick? This comment may be looked at as an open letter to our "benevolent" government: "Leave us the hell alone. We have a desire to simply know more about the world inside our little boxes. Back the hell off already."
Is /. the only news site that covers the SirCam virus? I actually got a copy of the damn thing the other day, and I'm glad I don't use Outlook. I'm also glad that I had a resource like /. to tell me what it looked like before I got the damned thing. The mainstream media needs to look more at a virus that DOES affect the casual MS user (95/98/ME) instead of an NT-based worm like Code Red that falls flat on it's face.
If Pi is pretty much random (aside from the 3.14), then what the hell happens to pi(r)? Does this mean that a circle has a different circumferance each time? Thank the maker I'm a designer and not a number cruncher. And does anyone know the equasion they used to get pi from the base of the Pyramids of Giza? I remember seeing it like 10 years ago on TV...
Funny. My mom can never seem to slice pi with the same kind of normality. Then again, my mom is as odd as pi anyway...
Chick friend of mine told me about KaZaA, so I checked the site. Decided not to download it when I saw that it "requires" Media Player 6 and IE 4 at least. Good thing I didn't download it, because I would have been on the warpath when I figured out what the hell it was doing. I guess Microsoft did something good for once: Kept me from downloading a shady piece of software.
Crap. So close to Williamsport, yet so far away. And here I was hoping it was punishment from [insert desired religious icon here] sent to my ex fiance (who attends Lycoming College) for what she did to me. Oh well, a man can dream, can't he?
What the hell? A high speed, fiber connection in a 3rd world continent that can't decide who it wants to run it's countries? Rubbish. What the hell are people doing wiring some desert plain when people right here in the US (Rural PA in my case) are still fighting to get beyond 56K? We've been waiting for months for broadband, and we still can't get a straight answer as to when! WHAT ABOUT US?!? Once we get ourselves wired, then we can worry about the Sahara.