I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 last night, and I must say, Redhat would have to do something pretty spectacular to top it. I installed it on my laptop, and not only did it install with room to spare on a 400MB Partition, it comes with many lightweight WMs which are great for a machine with a mere 32 MB of RAM. After seeing the installer(which actually took into consideration that I might not have all three CDs -- something I've been burned by RedHat with several times), and seeing Mandrake resize my Windows partition automatically, I'd be hard-pressed to find a reason to move back -- on my desktop and laptop machines, that is. The server would definitely be RedHat -- It's just something that RedHat is better for.
Sorry for ranting about Mandrake in a thread about RedHat.
That's actually what's wanted. The whole idea of administrator accounts is to ensure that users can't do things like install software. This is especially important in public schools, where the users are children who will install things like kazaa and games. There is the odd time where a user needs to install software legitimately, but more times than not, it will be students installing software which will waste bandwidth, fill up server space, and make your network a target for the upcoming MPAA DoS attacks.
Sure, there's a learning curve -- but more for the administrators. Instead of installing on first use, install all of office to the hard drive. It takes a little longer, but then you don't have to worry nearly as much about dealing with shares and stuff.
Of course, I'm just speaking from personal experience at the school I'm working at right now, so the circumstances might be completely different at the school you're working at. I can relate to having a group of people who are violently "not computer people", so perhaps in this situation, win98 was the best choice...but I hope to god you're at least behind a NAT.:)
As I understand it, the Opteron will act exactly like a regular x86 processor until you start using the 64-bit instructions. That's it's claim to fame, that it will be extremely fast for 32-bit apps, and will also support 64-bit extentions. For a practical example, having MMX or 3DNow! or SSE doesn't affect the processor when it's doing a regular integer divide, and I expect that the Opteron will be the same.
Though I have been known to be wrong...once...and I was drunk at the time...
From what I understand of AOL, you're still an not that bright. Am I to understand that you get charged twice the price of other ISPs, yet are inundated by advertising sent by the ISP, DESPITE the higher charges?
Discipline must be paired with catharsis, but simply bottling up your emotions is unhealthy, and is part of what leads to school shootings. If one of those kids at colombine had taken the initiative to pop one of those thugs in the jaw(rather than shooting dozens of classmates), we might not even be talking about this mess.
One should only supress emotions such as anger and hatred, so they can stoke a fire inside you, rather than making you look angry, until you destroy the world in a fit of rage! DEATH TO INFIDELS!!! DEATH TO NON INFIDELS!!! Oh. I feel better now. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Supression, not control, is the answer!
Ask me, three time serial-killer killcount award winner SJ Zero!
Now, here's the thing. In "Billy Madison", Billy went off on a tangent on a book about a boy losing his dog in response to a question about the ramifications of the industrial revolution. It was quite clear he was winging it, and had no idea what he was talking about. In my case, I argue that good reasons for switching away from Internet Explorer are the common and observable effects of security holes which affect the common individual, and that Microsoft will cut off support to their older OSes without a solid technical reason, while other web browsers will continue to support Microsofts otherwise fully functional Operating Systems.
I propose that you have either a low reading comprehension level, or that you are unintelligent enough that the meaning of my post eludes you entirely. If this is the case, I sympathize with your handicaps; however, don't force the rest of us with coherent points of view to "dumb them down" so you can understand a conversation whose context and implications so far exceed your mental capacity.
This is a post I wrote a few days ago on a message board. I think it applies here.
I know that I miss some features of IE sometimes...
the ability of low-life scum to use a buffer overflow to set a clients webpage to http://~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ultraporn.com, the ability of low-life scum to use another exploit to install gator on my machine without asking me, the ability of low life scum to add http://www.hotgayporn.com to my bookmarks...
I mean, what is life without low-life scum taking advantage of me? I feel so alone, with my secure, stable, quick web browser.
I also miss the helpful hard disk clattering which accompanies web pages loading on my p500 with 32 megabytes of ram.
I also miss how I can no longer download plugins for my aunts 486/66 running IE5, unless I install Windows 98 and ruin her machine.
sorry, being sarcastic... It's hard NOT to be sarcastic when you see the real-life impact of IE bugs affect people you know.
And to dodge a bullet, you don't nessessarily have to go to a warez or porn site to have this happen to you.
When people have a problem with thier computers, said people go into "dummy mode". In this mode, even the most basic concepts of logic are too complex because they are "computer stuff".
It's the same reason why even when every piece of hardware and software is working fine, tech support still gets calls.
I didn't know what to think of palladium, but then I realized two things; this might make the MPAA less squeamish about releasing content specifically for computers, and I mostly make my own content anyway, or download it from other small, independant sources.
The only thing which this could cause problems with would be if I downloaded movies and MP3s off of kazaa, but since I have a 56k connection, I don't bother. I can't blame the evil powers that be for trying *something* to protect their interests, and to be honest, I'd rather have it so I need the new kickass AMD processor than have it so the MPAA and RIAA can DoS everyone they please or suing the creators of a GPL'd DVD Player.
So who wants to do something about the latter measures?
congratulations on taking the most controversial post from the message board there and posting it here verbatim. You've done a great service for all of us who want a good excuse to discuss this on a threaded forum.
There is no faith in atheism, just as there is no colour in white. It represents a vacuum.
If the hand of god came down, and the sky thundered "The day of judgement is neigh, only true believers shall be spared from my wraith", you can be sure as hell that every atheist would convert to whatever religion the hand told us to.
Any theory which states "we do not exist" is flawed terminally. Incidently, this paticular study is the single most used piece of "evidence" used to support the idea that god, not science rules the world.
Of course, sitting here, at my computer, in this climate controlled building, surrounded by phones, laptops with 802.11b network cards, the very epitomy of our modern technology, I'm extremely cynical about any attempt to say that there is no science, only god.
Occams razor(misspelled, most likely...) comes up a lot in these discussions, but from the wrong side. Which is simpler; that there's an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful, completely benevolent being, backed up by a chorus of angels, or that the universe was formed by a big bang caused by a single, infinitely dense piece of material exploded, and that because we exist, any arguement saying we shouldn't is flawed.
Because I exist, I cannot question whether or not I exist. If I did not exist, I wouldn't be able to question whether or not I exist.
The action itself is far more important than the actions one might have taken. While others talk of change(for decades), those who make it happen should answer to no one in terms of what else they could have done.
In my case, I believe that making a difference is more important than following any given principle. If I can change something, no matter how small, I've done something more important than merely avoiding that situation. In a world where everything you own was build by a rich company somewhere, simply avoiding all things which you are morally apprehensive about is impossibe, so go for changing that which you can instead.
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I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 last night, and I must say, Redhat would have to do something pretty spectacular to top it. I installed it on my laptop, and not only did it install with room to spare on a 400MB Partition, it comes with many lightweight WMs which are great for a machine with a mere 32 MB of RAM. After seeing the installer(which actually took into consideration that I might not have all three CDs -- something I've been burned by RedHat with several times), and seeing Mandrake resize my Windows partition automatically, I'd be hard-pressed to find a reason to move back -- on my desktop and laptop machines, that is. The server would definitely be RedHat -- It's just something that RedHat is better for.
Sorry for ranting about Mandrake in a thread about RedHat.
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I miss my colecovision.
Scandalous!!! I actually spelled it right the first time!
My first comment still stands -- I make no guarantee that I'm literate, to any degree.
I never said I was a good typist or even functionally literate. Try not to make such assumptions about people.
Isn't the whole point that college students, as a whole, are not competent techs?
That's actually what's wanted. The whole idea of administrator accounts is to ensure that users can't do things like install software. This is especially important in public schools, where the users are children who will install things like kazaa and games. There is the odd time where a user needs to install software legitimately, but more times than not, it will be students installing software which will waste bandwidth, fill up server space, and make your network a target for the upcoming MPAA DoS attacks.
:)
Sure, there's a learning curve -- but more for the administrators. Instead of installing on first use, install all of office to the hard drive. It takes a little longer, but then you don't have to worry nearly as much about dealing with shares and stuff.
Of course, I'm just speaking from personal experience at the school I'm working at right now, so the circumstances might be completely different at the school you're working at. I can relate to having a group of people who are violently "not computer people", so perhaps in this situation, win98 was the best choice...but I hope to god you're at least behind a NAT.
As I understand it, the Opteron will act exactly like a regular x86 processor until you start using the 64-bit instructions. That's it's claim to fame, that it will be extremely fast for 32-bit apps, and will also support 64-bit extentions. For a practical example, having MMX or 3DNow! or SSE doesn't affect the processor when it's doing a regular integer divide, and I expect that the Opteron will be the same.
Though I have been known to be wrong...once...and I was drunk at the time...
How many Nimdas and Code Reds are there for Win9x?
Fucking mod.
overrated my hairy ass.
Laws vs. Laws. If they want to bring in the big guns, don't expect us to continue using spitballs.
Perhaps they're trying a pogue style catalytic cracking system to increase fuel efficiency?
hehehe.
From what I understand of AOL, you're still an not that bright. Am I to understand that you get charged twice the price of other ISPs, yet are inundated by advertising sent by the ISP, DESPITE the higher charges?
Sorry freind, you've been had.
Discipline must be paired with catharsis, but simply bottling up your emotions is unhealthy, and is part of what leads to school shootings. If one of those kids at colombine had taken the initiative to pop one of those thugs in the jaw(rather than shooting dozens of classmates), we might not even be talking about this mess.
NO!
One should only supress emotions such as anger and hatred, so they can stoke a fire inside you, rather than making you look angry, until you destroy the world in a fit of rage! DEATH TO INFIDELS!!! DEATH TO NON INFIDELS!!! Oh. I feel better now. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Supression, not control, is the answer!
Ask me, three time serial-killer killcount award winner SJ Zero!
Thanks. I really needed a laugh.
I'd take a single user suggestion over one million "HCI experts" any day.
Now, here's the thing. In "Billy Madison", Billy went off on a tangent on a book about a boy losing his dog in response to a question about the ramifications of the industrial revolution. It was quite clear he was winging it, and had no idea what he was talking about. In my case, I argue that good reasons for switching away from Internet Explorer are the common and observable effects of security holes which affect the common individual, and that Microsoft will cut off support to their older OSes without a solid technical reason, while other web browsers will continue to support Microsofts otherwise fully functional Operating Systems.
I propose that you have either a low reading comprehension level, or that you are unintelligent enough that the meaning of my post eludes you entirely. If this is the case, I sympathize with your handicaps; however, don't force the rest of us with coherent points of view to "dumb them down" so you can understand a conversation whose context and implications so far exceed your mental capacity.
Have a nice day.
This is a post I wrote a few days ago on a message board. I think it applies here.
I know that I miss some features of IE sometimes...
the ability of low-life scum to use a buffer overflow to set a clients webpage to http://~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ultraporn.com, the ability of low-life scum to use another exploit to install gator on my machine without asking me, the ability of low life scum to add http://www.hotgayporn.com to my bookmarks...
I mean, what is life without low-life scum taking advantage of me? I feel so alone, with my secure, stable, quick web browser.
I also miss the helpful hard disk clattering which accompanies web pages loading on my p500 with 32 megabytes of ram.
I also miss how I can no longer download plugins for my aunts 486/66 running IE5, unless I install Windows 98 and ruin her machine.
sorry, being sarcastic... It's hard NOT to be sarcastic when you see the real-life impact of IE bugs affect people you know.
And to dodge a bullet, you don't nessessarily have to go to a warez or porn site to have this happen to you.
It's not going to happen; here's why.
When people have a problem with thier computers, said people go into "dummy mode". In this mode, even the most basic concepts of logic are too complex because they are "computer stuff".
It's the same reason why even when every piece of hardware and software is working fine, tech support still gets calls.
I didn't know what to think of palladium, but then I realized two things; this might make the MPAA less squeamish about releasing content specifically for computers, and I mostly make my own content anyway, or download it from other small, independant sources.
The only thing which this could cause problems with would be if I downloaded movies and MP3s off of kazaa, but since I have a 56k connection, I don't bother.
I can't blame the evil powers that be for trying *something* to protect their interests, and to be honest, I'd rather have it so I need the new kickass AMD processor than have it so the MPAA and RIAA can DoS everyone they please or suing the creators of a GPL'd DVD Player.
So who wants to do something about the latter measures?
congratulations on taking the most controversial post from the message board there and posting it here verbatim. You've done a great service for all of us who want a good excuse to discuss this on a threaded forum.
D'oh. I knew it was one of the two, but the coffee I drank wasn't nearly strong enough this morning. Same idea. Different colour.
There is no faith in atheism, just as there is no colour in white. It represents a vacuum.
If the hand of god came down, and the sky thundered "The day of judgement is neigh, only true believers shall be spared from my wraith", you can be sure as hell that every atheist would convert to whatever religion the hand told us to.
Any theory which states "we do not exist" is flawed terminally. Incidently, this paticular study is the single most used piece of "evidence" used to support the idea that god, not science rules the world.
Of course, sitting here, at my computer, in this climate controlled building, surrounded by phones, laptops with 802.11b network cards, the very epitomy of our modern technology, I'm extremely cynical about any attempt to say that there is no science, only god.
Occams razor(misspelled, most likely...) comes up a lot in these discussions, but from the wrong side. Which is simpler; that there's an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful, completely benevolent being, backed up by a chorus of angels, or that the universe was formed by a big bang caused by a single, infinitely dense piece of material exploded, and that because we exist, any arguement saying we shouldn't is flawed.
Because I exist, I cannot question whether or not I exist. If I did not exist, I wouldn't be able to question whether or not I exist.
The action itself is far more important than the actions one might have taken. While others talk of change(for decades), those who make it happen should answer to no one in terms of what else they could have done.
In my case, I believe that making a difference is more important than following any given principle. If I can change something, no matter how small, I've done something more important than merely avoiding that situation. In a world where everything you own was build by a rich company somewhere, simply avoiding all things which you are morally apprehensive about is impossibe, so go for changing that which you can instead.