I had the same problem, re-installed the thing, created a new profile, all that pain... still it crashed multiple time each day. In the end I scrapped adblocker (going randomly through everything to make it work again), since then my 1.0.1 has been running as smoothly as 1.0.0. Irritating.
As I said, it's some time ago, 1995, to be specific (ok, long time in technology, but at least back then IMO the European land lines had a much better quality and were easier to use). I did several calls around NYC (Verizon) and in Massachusetts (?), both from pay phones and Motels. The quality of the pay phones was apalling ; the quality of phoning from the Motels not too bad but still IMO worse than you usually get in Europe.
But what really drove me mad was this whole thing another poster described above "Welcome to *insert whichever long distance operator*. Please enter your major credit card or calling card number." *fighting with entering the card number* *wait* Depending on the operator: "The card number you gave is not valid. Thank you for playing." (back then either Sprint or MCI didn't take non-US credit card numbers, but amazingly not everytime but apparently depending on the geographic region you were in inside the US). So retry, this time trying to reach some other long distance operator using some prefix number, playing again the CC number game, getting thrown out of the system in the middle of the process for no apparent reason, lather rinse repeat. I really liked my stay in the US, but the telephone system really drove me mad.
From phoning home in several European countries I was used to either just put in a half truckload of coins and phone away or getting a calling card that works troughout the whole country and not only for phones of a certain provider, dial my home number with the respective country prefix, and voila ! instant success.
As said before, most likely it got better in the meantime, but back then it really really sucked.
Regarding pricing the US are most likely still much better off than most European countries. Regarding land-line telephony I was shocked when I visited the US the last time (ok, several years ago, maybe it got better in the meantime) how absolutely bad the line quality was on most connections I had (line noise, crackling etc.). Also I nowhere found placing a long-distance call that complicated than in the US. So I really cannot see the mentioned higher quality of US POTS.
As SuSE 9.3 is planned to be released around middle of April and KDE 3.4 is due next week IIRC and KDE usually meets its planned release dates quite accurately for such a large project I assume it will have KDE 3.4 final. SuSE usually supplies RPMs of new KDE versions (sometimes even betas and RCs) for the last 2-3 versions of their distro inside 2-3 days after release, sometimes even on the same day.
This is not true. The parliament voted explicitly against the directive as presented to them by the EU Commission and made many important changes. However, the broken decision process in the EU allowed the Commission to totally ignore the Parliament's decision and revive the Commission's old version of the directive to vote about.
Big surprise for you: Almost all larger companies have mergers and aquisitions as part of their growth strategies, some in some periods of their existence even as a sole means of growth. This is neither a secret nor limited to MS.
But sewage clog can also flood your living room and even a flat several stories high depending who else is connected to the same sewage line if they are above the level of your house. And if the water main to your 1st floor bathroom or of the flat above you breaks your whole flat can be flooded, too.
I think the gp is right: It strongly depends on the location of your house both region-, climate- and height-wise. E.g. here (Southern Germany) it is quite common to build whole flats into one's basement (usually if you are located on the side of a hill, so one side of the flat is below ground level, but the front is outside for having windows and a terrace), and usually they are not flooded by whatever regularly or nobody would use them.
Agreed. SuSE 9.2 in my experience is the best and most polished Linux distro I ever used. 9.1 already was quite good in my book, but 9.2 ran up to now on everything I throw it at, even my old Vaio NX-505N from 5 five years ago that is normally - well - problematic. Also no bigger problems yet.
It's a great give-back for people wanting to try the latest shiny stuff in the Linux world. It is not suited very well for a lot of people that used to run the old RHL and just want to have a stable Linux server without all that "Enterprise" glitz and cost. As you said "big fat beta-testing project". Fedora is not a bad distro, but I always have the feeling that the "permanent beta" character influences the mindset of the people doing the distro; get out one version, rapidly move on and do the next and forget about the old one. Fedora Legacy or not.
Uhm, ok. So radiation sickness is neither lethal nor particularly bad. Yeah right.
Usually exposing a larger group of people with enough radioactivity to make them sick will be able to jam the whole non-contaminated part of your medical system. And there are zip drugs against radiation sickness. The stuff you refer to is jodite which is supposed to block the thyroid gland in case of a nuclear indicent with non-radioactive jodite to prevent accumulation of radioactive jodite isotopes that will cause very likely thyroid cancer (one of the predominant causes of death after the Tchernobyl incident).
But this will not prevent your other radio-sensitive tissues like the ones inside your intestine to get severely damaged causing bleeding, extreme sickness and other unpleasant stuff. The production of new blood cells will be severely hit as your bone marrow takes a hit and dies. If you catch a high enough dose of radioactivity you will die. Period. No drug in the world can currently change that.
And from all that incidents with highly radioactive material disappearing all over the ex-Eastern block and from misplaced radioactive medical waste it shouldn't be too hard to get the respective material together.
Might be that Mielke also said that, but the most famous one was the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu (sp?), also 1989, when he was approaching an angry mob of protestors from the balcony of his megalomaniac presidential palace. Didn't help him too much, only a short time later he was trialed and immediately shot together with his wife.
I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I understood Novell is offering/is going to offer soon exactly that with Zen works for Linux and their RedCarpet-derived products and their upcoming Netware-SuSE Linux hybrid server OS.
Because the man pages are good references (most of the time at least) but not good for learning ? You don't try to learn a language by reading the respective dictionary from front to back either, don't you ?
I see the greater problem in the fast pace of Open Source development. Lots of books especially on new and developing topics are already outdated once they appear on the shelves.
The problem is not so much the OS (both Linux and XP should be able to make use of multiple CPUs/cores well enough) but the applications. If your main apps that really need that much CPU power cannot make good use of multiple cores it doesn't matter too much if the OS does.
The same with being the family of a bank robber, a killer or a rapist: Most of the time the family didn't have an idea what was going on and so basically is innocent but does have to bear the fallout. But should for that reason bank robbers, killers and rapists not be prosecuted ?
Before you say that one cannot compare some "innocent" snitching to raping, killing and robbing: Basically that is what those people did. In extreme cases they caused other peoples death, they caused them often extreme undeserved hardship, and in the end inflicted similar emotional wounds than rape. And that out of hate, indifference and because of the promise of some petty privileges. Is a new refrigerator really worth your lovers demise ? Is it worth snitching on your patients if you are a doctor, sometimes even recommending a course to ruin them psychically or physically ?
The only thing I really find bad is that a lot of people are on the list who are likely innocent like people refusing to become snitches or worse, even victims.
Regarding the spies themselves: They had it coming to them. They destroyed lives of neighbours, co-workers and even friends and family, so I honestly don't give a rats ass what happens to them.
Like... a gazillion Windows-only programs ? Fred's garden designer ? Comfort Soft club manager 3.4 ? The whole load of stuff most people here give a damn about but that make computers worthwhile for non-geek types ?
Just playing dump and pretend that being able to run ten different smtp servers on your computer replaces the garden designer for Dad who wants to redesign his garden over the winter does not count.
The analogy (as most analogies on/.) doesn't work too well, but what about you got yourself some nice, expensive ticket for that great rock festival. Given the right festival and the right seats, prices should even be similar to XP.;-)
Now you lost your ticket. The guys at the entrance won't go for "I lost my ticket, I already own it, just let me in". They'll show you more or less friendly to the ticket booth to get a new one.
Even if printing the ticket costs more or less nothing and your old seat will remain empty.
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I had the same problem, re-installed the thing, created a new profile, all that pain... still it crashed multiple time each day. In the end I scrapped adblocker (going randomly through everything to make it work again), since then my 1.0.1 has been running as smoothly as 1.0.0. Irritating.
As I said, it's some time ago, 1995, to be specific (ok, long time in technology, but at least back then IMO the European land lines had a much better quality and were easier to use). I did several calls around NYC (Verizon) and in Massachusetts (?), both from pay phones and Motels. The quality of the pay phones was apalling ; the quality of phoning from the Motels not too bad but still IMO worse than you usually get in Europe.
But what really drove me mad was this whole thing another poster described above "Welcome to *insert whichever long distance operator*. Please enter your major credit card or calling card number." *fighting with entering the card number* *wait* Depending on the operator: "The card number you gave is not valid. Thank you for playing." (back then either Sprint or MCI didn't take non-US credit card numbers, but amazingly not everytime but apparently depending on the geographic region you were in inside the US). So retry, this time trying to reach some other long distance operator using some prefix number, playing again the CC number game, getting thrown out of the system in the middle of the process for no apparent reason, lather rinse repeat. I really liked my stay in the US, but the telephone system really drove me mad.
From phoning home in several European countries I was used to either just put in a half truckload of coins and phone away or getting a calling card that works troughout the whole country and not only for phones of a certain provider, dial my home number with the respective country prefix, and voila ! instant success.
As said before, most likely it got better in the meantime, but back then it really really sucked.
Regarding pricing the US are most likely still much better off than most European countries. Regarding land-line telephony I was shocked when I visited the US the last time (ok, several years ago, maybe it got better in the meantime) how absolutely bad the line quality was on most connections I had (line noise, crackling etc.). Also I nowhere found placing a long-distance call that complicated than in the US. So I really cannot see the mentioned higher quality of US POTS.
As SuSE 9.3 is planned to be released around middle of April and KDE 3.4 is due next week IIRC and KDE usually meets its planned release dates quite accurately for such a large project I assume it will have KDE 3.4 final. SuSE usually supplies RPMs of new KDE versions (sometimes even betas and RCs) for the last 2-3 versions of their distro inside 2-3 days after release, sometimes even on the same day.
I wish they would do the same for Gnome.
What are you talking about ? Can you elaborate or are you just throwing around some nice sounding phrases ?
This is not true. The parliament voted explicitly against the directive as presented to them by the EU Commission and made many important changes. However, the broken decision process in the EU allowed the Commission to totally ignore the Parliament's decision and revive the Commission's old version of the directive to vote about.
Novell bought Ximian, not Xandros. Also cool stuff but different company. :-) Or did I miss something ?
Big surprise for you: Almost all larger companies have mergers and aquisitions as part of their growth strategies, some in some periods of their existence even as a sole means of growth. This is neither a secret nor limited to MS.
But sewage clog can also flood your living room and even a flat several stories high depending who else is connected to the same sewage line if they are above the level of your house. And if the water main to your 1st floor bathroom or of the flat above you breaks your whole flat can be flooded, too.
I think the gp is right: It strongly depends on the location of your house both region-, climate- and height-wise. E.g. here (Southern Germany) it is quite common to build whole flats into one's basement (usually if you are located on the side of a hill, so one side of the flat is below ground level, but the front is outside for having windows and a terrace), and usually they are not flooded by whatever regularly or nobody would use them.
Where did I leave my frigging whereable ? Maybe I look it up on my wearable.
Agreed. SuSE 9.2 in my experience is the best and most polished Linux distro I ever used. 9.1 already was quite good in my book, but 9.2 ran up to now on everything I throw it at, even my old Vaio NX-505N from 5 five years ago that is normally - well - problematic. Also no bigger problems yet.
It's a great give-back for people wanting to try the latest shiny stuff in the Linux world. It is not suited very well for a lot of people that used to run the old RHL and just want to have a stable Linux server without all that "Enterprise" glitz and cost. As you said "big fat beta-testing project". Fedora is not a bad distro, but I always have the feeling that the "permanent beta" character influences the mindset of the people doing the distro; get out one version, rapidly move on and do the next and forget about the old one. Fedora Legacy or not.
Uhm, ok. So radiation sickness is neither lethal nor particularly bad. Yeah right.
Usually exposing a larger group of people with enough radioactivity to make them sick will be able to jam the whole non-contaminated part of your medical system. And there are zip drugs against radiation sickness. The stuff you refer to is jodite which is supposed to block the thyroid gland in case of a nuclear indicent with non-radioactive jodite to prevent accumulation of radioactive jodite isotopes that will cause very likely thyroid cancer (one of the predominant causes of death after the Tchernobyl incident).
But this will not prevent your other radio-sensitive tissues like the ones inside your intestine to get severely damaged causing bleeding, extreme sickness and other unpleasant stuff. The production of new blood cells will be severely hit as your bone marrow takes a hit and dies. If you catch a high enough dose of radioactivity you will die. Period. No drug in the world can currently change that.
And from all that incidents with highly radioactive material disappearing all over the ex-Eastern block and from misplaced radioactive medical waste it shouldn't be too hard to get the respective material together.
To paraphrase a classic:
;-)
It's spelled "SuSE", but it's pronounced "Novell".
Might be that Mielke also said that, but the most famous one was the Romanian dictator Ceaucescu (sp?), also 1989, when he was approaching an angry mob of protestors from the balcony of his megalomaniac presidential palace. Didn't help him too much, only a short time later he was trialed and immediately shot together with his wife.
And RedHat screws you exactly how ? Maybe you should step back, take a deep breath and enjoy the great sunset.
I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I understood Novell is offering/is going to offer soon exactly that with Zen works for Linux and their RedCarpet-derived products and their upcoming Netware-SuSE Linux hybrid server OS.
Because the man pages are good references (most of the time at least) but not good for learning ? You don't try to learn a language by reading the respective dictionary from front to back either, don't you ?
I see the greater problem in the fast pace of Open Source development. Lots of books especially on new and developing topics are already outdated once they appear on the shelves.
The problem is not so much the OS (both Linux and XP should be able to make use of multiple CPUs/cores well enough) but the applications. If your main apps that really need that much CPU power cannot make good use of multiple cores it doesn't matter too much if the OS does.
The problem is not their implementation, which is likely correct. The problem is that the standard is "wrong" is this respect.
So it will be quite difficult to fix this without breaking and/or changing the standard.
The same with being the family of a bank robber, a killer or a rapist: Most of the time the family didn't have an idea what was going on and so basically is innocent but does have to bear the fallout. But should for that reason bank robbers, killers and rapists not be prosecuted ?
Before you say that one cannot compare some "innocent" snitching to raping, killing and robbing: Basically that is what those people did. In extreme cases they caused other peoples death, they caused them often extreme undeserved hardship, and in the end inflicted similar emotional wounds than rape. And that out of hate, indifference and because of the promise of some petty privileges. Is a new refrigerator really worth your lovers demise ? Is it worth snitching on your patients if you are a doctor, sometimes even recommending a course to ruin them psychically or physically ?
The only thing I really find bad is that a lot of people are on the list who are likely innocent like people refusing to become snitches or worse, even victims.
Regarding the spies themselves: They had it coming to them. They destroyed lives of neighbours, co-workers and even friends and family, so I honestly don't give a rats ass what happens to them.
Like... a gazillion Windows-only programs ? Fred's garden designer ? Comfort Soft club manager 3.4 ? The whole load of stuff most people here give a damn about but that make computers worthwhile for non-geek types ?
Just playing dump and pretend that being able to run ten different smtp servers on your computer replaces the garden designer for Dad who wants to redesign his garden over the winter does not count.
Yeah, Virtual PC, I know.
The analogy (as most analogies on /.) doesn't work too well, but what about you got yourself some nice, expensive ticket for that great rock festival. Given the right festival and the right seats, prices should even be similar to XP. ;-)
Now you lost your ticket. The guys at the entrance won't go for "I lost my ticket, I already own it, just let me in". They'll show you more or less friendly to the ticket booth to get a new one.
Even if printing the ticket costs more or less nothing and your old seat will remain empty.
Without GNU, you do not even have an OS to build your app upon.
Then I guess the BSD's have finally died ? My condolences.