Normally I try to avoid M$ products, but considering how much of a loss they are eating on the X-Box, if it drops below $200, I just might buy it, see how well Linux runs.
Now I'm a linux ninja, but as I said, I lacked the skills. But for people who aren't, Linux Care and the Linux Bootable Toolkit are iso's that will fit on business card size cdrs and are excellent tools for recovery.
Mix root with a nice, easy to use GUI and you've got trouble. Having a CLI provides a level of protection (But still, the difference between rm -rf/tmp/somedirectory and / tmp/somedirectory may only be a space, but I hope you've got backups).
Anyways I was using the Gnome filemanager at the time and was logged in as root, and moved the/lib directory into the/usr directory. As libc couldn't be found, I was unable to run any commands, and this resulted in a reinstall, as I didn't have the skills to restore the problem.
I have to agree, that's one thing that's turned me off about KDE, the gradients feel weird, and that alpha blending can really look bad. Gnome's no spring chicken either, but I must say nautilus impresses me. For the record, I'm a Window Maker man myself, it is simplicity itself. Run a little Gnome panel, and I'm set. Though I'm very excited about Enlightenment 17
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Seriously though, there was this kid I knew who would spend a week at a time to download software off AOL. He had heard about Linux and wanted to try it out. So he asked me where a good place to get pirated iso's of it were.
> The uninstaller launched a browser and loaded a > page telling you why you shouldn't uninstall. > Geez, go away already!
Yes Gator, after I've gone through the painful process of removing all your little hooks (like getting my sisters cat off my shirt) from the system so you'll finally give me the privelege of even accessing the unistaller, your website has completly changed my mind.
To me it seems that the patent has nothing with google's adwords. Doesn't the patent only cover adjusting the ranking, and not actually showing an ad based on keywords.
I'm still waiting for my patent on Method of Communication by Modulating Fiberous Organic Chords.
I don't know about the specific job you are looking at, but 15 months might actually be a long time to work for a company. Many technical jobs have lower turnover rates than that. In tech support if you've worked 8 months you are considered senior.
This reminds me of the situation on the Galapagos islands.
Goats had been introduced back when the first sailors had arrived. Now they are upsetting the balance of the ecosystem and must be erradicated. Unfortunatly, due to the delicate nature of the ecosystem, and the general lack of navigability around the island, goat removal options are few.
One is to use $20,000 dollar goat attack dogs (I swear on my karma I'm not making this up) with self-destruct collars (if they attack anything besides goats)
The other is called the judas goat program. One goat is captured, his horns painted and a tracking device attached, then let lose. In a few days he will find another goat herd, at which time a helicopter with hunters (goat snipers, again I'm not making this up) flys over the herd, and methodicaly pick off each goat except the judas goat.
Here's the problem, often time the media or the news portrays a sort of lone genius that doesn't need to go to college and gets a great job.
This may have been possible before the internet boom, due to a lack in college educated cs people, and the knowledge difference between those with a highschool education and those with a college wasn't that great. Such is not the case now.
You'll be competing against those with bachelors and masters, and you won't have as much to offer the company. Even if you know worlds more than a particular college educated person, the piece of paper they hold is more valuable. Most managers are held accountable for the people they higher, and that diploma acts as insurance.
Also, if you do get a job with the company, you'll not be able to rise above grunt coder or lower management. Those are skills taught in college, that can't be learned by just hacking code.
I used to work tech support for a telecom that merged shortly after I joined. We had been using Lotus Notes without problem to do e-mail scheduling and the smaller database stuff. One of the things to be considered during the merger was a move over to Outlook. I'm not sure what finally happened (I left before that decision was made) but the Outlook people had to explain why it was a good idea in the face of the LOVEBUG and other vbscript ilk (It managed to crash several of the other companies servers)
I was at an install fest helping someone put linux on a day old HP laptop. He was actually a lucky one and did get three recovery CD's. Because the partitioning tool we used, DiskDrake couldn't resize NTFS partitions without destroying them, we split the disk in half, and the used the recovery CD. It was actually well-behaved enough to stay in its half.
It really depends on how close each API is to the other, with something like this, very little translation would be needed, most of the code would be thunks.
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Normally I try to avoid M$ products, but considering how much of a loss they are eating on the X-Box, if it drops below $200, I just might buy it, see how well Linux runs.
Now I'm a linux ninja, but as I said, I lacked the skills. But for people who aren't, Linux Care and the Linux Bootable Toolkit are iso's that will fit on business card size cdrs and are excellent tools for recovery.
There was one game during the days of FMV that showed a rape. And of course there is the Venerable Leisure Suit Larry. Fallout as well
Mix root with a nice, easy to use GUI and you've got trouble. Having a CLI provides a level of protection (But still, the difference between rm -rf /tmp/somedirectory and / tmp/somedirectory may only be a space, but I hope you've got backups).
/lib directory into the /usr directory. As libc couldn't be found, I was unable to run any commands, and this resulted in a reinstall, as I didn't have the skills to restore the problem.
Anyways I was using the Gnome filemanager at the time and was logged in as root, and moved the
Except on the examination to become a patent clerk, they don't ask you if you know the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.
Turning TRON into a video game, now that's just crazy
in the computer security journal "Duh"
I have to agree, that's one thing that's turned me off about KDE, the gradients feel weird, and that alpha blending can really look bad. Gnome's no spring chicken either, but I must say nautilus impresses me. For the record, I'm a Window Maker man myself, it is simplicity itself. Run a little Gnome panel, and I'm set. Though I'm very excited about Enlightenment 17
www.gnu.org
Seriously though, there was this kid I knew who would spend a week at a time to download software off AOL. He had heard about Linux and wanted to try it out. So he asked me where a good place to get pirated iso's of it were.
I see your point, but that usually means that people aren't going to buy the new stuff, but instead purchase used.
In times of a recession entertainment is generally the first thing people stop spending money on.
> The uninstaller launched a browser and loaded a
> page telling you why you shouldn't uninstall.
> Geez, go away already!
Yes Gator, after I've gone through the painful process of removing all your little hooks (like getting my sisters cat off my shirt) from the system so you'll finally give me the privelege of even accessing the unistaller, your website has completly changed my mind.
To me it seems that the patent has nothing with google's adwords. Doesn't the patent only cover adjusting the ranking, and not actually showing an ad based on keywords.
I'm still waiting for my patent on Method of Communication by Modulating Fiberous Organic Chords.
I don't know about the specific job you are looking at, but 15 months might actually be a long time to work for a company. Many technical jobs have lower turnover rates than that. In tech support if you've worked 8 months you are considered senior.
This reminds me of the situation on the Galapagos islands.
Goats had been introduced back when the first sailors had arrived. Now they are upsetting the balance of the ecosystem and must be erradicated. Unfortunatly, due to the delicate nature of the ecosystem, and the general lack of navigability around the island, goat removal options are few.
One is to use $20,000 dollar goat attack dogs (I swear on my karma I'm not making this up) with self-destruct collars (if they attack anything besides goats)
The other is called the judas goat program. One goat is captured, his horns painted and a tracking device attached, then let lose. In a few days he will find another goat herd, at which time a helicopter with hunters (goat snipers, again I'm not making this up) flys over the herd, and methodicaly pick off each goat except the judas goat.
Here's the problem, often time the media or the news portrays a sort of lone genius that doesn't need to go to college and gets a great job.
This may have been possible before the internet boom, due to a lack in college educated cs people, and the knowledge difference between those with a highschool education and those with a college wasn't that great. Such is not the case now.
You'll be competing against those with bachelors and masters, and you won't have as much to offer the company. Even if you know worlds more than a particular college educated person, the piece of paper they hold is more valuable. Most managers are held accountable for the people they higher, and that diploma acts as insurance.
Also, if you do get a job with the company, you'll not be able to rise above grunt coder or lower management. Those are skills taught in college, that can't be learned by just hacking code.
I used to work tech support for a telecom that merged shortly after I joined. We had been using Lotus Notes without problem to do e-mail scheduling and the smaller database stuff. One of the things to be considered during the merger was a move over to Outlook. I'm not sure what finally happened (I left before that decision was made) but the Outlook people had to explain why it was a good idea in the face of the LOVEBUG and other vbscript ilk (It managed to crash several of the other companies servers)
Did anybody else catch that bit about linux being only for Intel?
/usr/src/linux/arch | wc counts 15 different architectures, not to mention all of the other architectures not in the main kernel.
A quick ls
Now that's just stupid.
I assume you've found handhelds.org and the iPaq mailing list?
I can't think of any reason why not. But you would need a special bootloader and a lot of memory.
I was at an install fest helping someone put linux on a day old HP laptop. He was actually a lucky one and did get three recovery CD's. Because the partitioning tool we used, DiskDrake couldn't resize NTFS partitions without destroying them, we split the disk in half, and the used the recovery CD. It was actually well-behaved enough to stay in its half.
When I saw this I thought, man people on slashdot would get a kick out of this, I should submit it!
Best of luck to the both of you.
Now we can use a $5,000 OpenGL card to play any DirectX games
It really depends on how close each API is to the other, with something like this, very little translation would be needed, most of the code would be thunks.