I had the rommate problem, the gizmos problem et al.
But the only thing that could slow our network down was another roommate's win95 machine. he originaly had it in a network set up by his father at home. The moron and his dad decided that they needed to set <sp>netbeui</sp> to ping everyone on the network every second.
We couldn't figure out why our 100Mb/s network sucked so bad until we scanned and noticed that one machine in sleep mode made up 94% of all traffic. We fixed that problem quite easily, disconnect the cable.
>what about clock speeds the clock speeds aren't as fast as an athlon or even a pIII, because transmeta chips aren't being made that fast yet. >I wonder if all the OEM hardware will also be linux friendly IBM has sworn to make all of their notepads linux freindly so I have to assume that the thinkpads will be linux ready from the get-go. But NEC has never shown any interest in checking their hardware for compatibility with Linux, but the versa series is renowned for being linux-ready. I just don't know.
I agree that MP3s aren't as good as advertised, but I don't think you're going to be able to tell the difference when it's playing over Palm Pilot speakers.
If you are the same color as your monitor you should get out more. That big yellow thing you see in pictures of the outside is called the sun. There is no reason to fear the sun, unless of course you spend a lot of time outside but staying off the 'net that long is just sick and unhealthy.
a printer's drivers can not be embedded in the printer, e.g how linux operates the printer is very different than how windows operates the printer, the driver has to be different for the two OSes.
However on a machine devoloped only to run one OS, e.g. an appliance would need only one driver and it could be built in, but everything in an appliance is built in anyway.
"The term 'Easter Egg', as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch."
As copied and pasted from http://www.eeggs.com/ and if you can't trust them to define an easter egg who can you trust?
So is this going to be the long awaited replacment for GNOME Midnight Commander? How is this going to suceed where other projects have failed? Sure, the screenshots look nice but they don't really tell me anything except that the developers like to add lots of early features, which is fine as long as they get properly debugged before a stable release (the features not the developers).
*gets up on same soap box* Schools used to be a place for learning how to live. They don't teach anything about life anymore <mumble>they don't teach anything anymore</mumble>, everybody's too scared that their kids need protecting. If you protect them from the relativly controlled atmosphere of school how are they ever supposed to learn how to survive in the real world where there are no teachers to run to?
In high school I took Driver's Education, the closest we got to driving in that class was navigating the halls to get to the room. Sure, I learned lots of driving theories, and about how to park with out breaking any laws. Now if I were less than 3 years away from driving when I took this class it may have been more helpful. But either way it did not and could not teach me how to drive, the only way to do that is to get into a car, start it up, and hope you dont kill anybody (yourself included).
This soap box is getting shaky and I have to get back to work, so you can figure out what I was going to say next without me...
The only good thing I can think of, right now, is that I didn't have to watch it. Wing Commander was a waste of film, but I had to watch it because there was supposed to be a certain trailer before it that just happened to not be at my theatre:-(
When I saw the commercials for Battlefield Earth I was thankful that there were no good trailers to see.
I personally don't see a real problem in paying sales taxes (as long as they are relatively fair). I do see where the money *should* go.
On the web, it's harder to see the infrastructure. The server (equivalent of the mall) is owned by the Ebiz or is paid for by the Ebiz. The phonelines (equivalent of the roads) is owned by a telecomm company and is paid for by the Ebiz.
Then you may be asking yourself: 1. What is his point? 2. Fair Taxes? 3. What was that I just drank? 5. Did he just skip 4? 6. Where would this tax money supposedly go? 7. Is that how you spell equivalent?
So the answers: I don't know. Just Imagine it. You don't want to know. Yes. To the implementation of laws and such. I'm not a dictionary, Go Away.
Now I know other people are ranting and flaming about the police are already paid and they should enforce laws on the web with the money they already have. But that would just make other taxes go above the "fair" line.
The reason I personally don't think this should be done is the cost of implementation. It will cost more to force people to pay the taxes then you will actually recieve. How do you stop a sale going through from a company in Germany that has a server in Canada (hypothetically)? Do you track the traffic on the Canadian server? I don't think they will like that.
I lost my train of thought, so I hope someone gets my point and then tells everyone else what it is.
I admit it, I haven't bought Quake 3 YET... I still plan to though. I still have a dual-boot, but when I really feel the need to play Sim City 3K I just type: "vmware/win/98/98.cfg" Best $100 I ever spent, somehow windows feels less dirty when it's on Linux:-)
But the day when I can play Sim City 3K without 380M of ram is soon to come according to Loki. After that who knows what games I could be addicted to, all I know for sure is it will not be minesweeper.
I don't yet own this book (I am planning on buying it this summer) but I have read all them. That is unless Illiad added some previously unreleased ones! I suggest everyone but this book, but not before I do, because this many people would drive the price up.
> How would you distinguish the DeCSS case from the Napster disputes of late? Nice tie-in with recent events but the two are far from related.
>What happens if you link into the Coca-Cola code? Why'd they put it on the web , where it could get linked to?
>A different legal system is going to have to be constructed to deal with these issues on the Web. That's something most people can't grasp, they are still trying to fold the old laws over the new world.
It is however a very good point about more bandwidth leading to larger case of piracy (see end of interview). I would never have been able to trade MP3s on my original internet connection, not that I had a sound card or anything.
Favorite Quote: "Cash-strapped students have turned to online music swapping because the record companies have priced the CDs of many popular artists out of students' reach" Then whose fault is it?
The world has gotten more complex and one of the major reasons for this complexity is the net. If a suitable way can be found for the net to peacefully exist in the rest of the world, then those same regulations (or lack of) can be applied to the rest of the world. If the 'net is left to govern itself and be world wide, then you are going to see nations fall (slowly) and everyone join a larger (world wide?) nation. This is of course not something most people in power want to see, and thus part of the reason they fight so hard. But change is not neccessarily bad, a world community will have pitfalls, but the ups may just be worth the effort.
The "gotchas" I know about: There is some kind of bug with networking where the network suddenly dies and you have to reboot, my roommate and I both had problems with it as late as 2.3.99pre5, but another rommate didn't even have a glitch in networking. Also there was no new support for Ultra66 (doesn't bother me, I don't have ultra66).
My questions are: Was support for ultra66 added? Did the networking bug get tracked down/fixed? Does anyone know if ext3 support is included in this version and/or the *real* 2.4? Is it any good as far as JFSes go? How long before we can expect tools developed for ext3, is there anyone working on that now? Will this kernel series have native support for IBM's JFS?
The reason I'm asking so many questions about JFS is that many companies are not going to Linux because of the lack of a Journaling File System.
but... but... the information wants to be free, er I mean, to be on Slashdot. How can one be expected to sit on this story when it pratically posted itself?:-)
If you are planning on removing the rpms, I suggest getting all of the tarballs unpacked and ready, then remove a gnome application, install that application from tarball, remove the next rpm, install that tarball...
remember to recompile everything once you get to compiling gtk+ and glib...
I sugest these cautious steps because I don't trust RPMs very much and I just assume that they won't let everything work right.
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I had the rommate problem, the gizmos problem et al.
But the only thing that could slow our network down was another roommate's win95 machine. he originaly had it in a network set up by his father at home. The moron and his dad decided that they needed to set <sp>netbeui</sp> to ping everyone on the network every second.
We couldn't figure out why our 100Mb/s network sucked so bad until we scanned and noticed that one machine in sleep mode made up 94% of all traffic. We fixed that problem quite easily, disconnect the cable.
Just another reason why this plan may not work.
Devil Ducky
>what about clock speeds
the clock speeds aren't as fast as an athlon or even a pIII, because transmeta chips aren't being made that fast yet.
>I wonder if all the OEM hardware will also be linux friendly
IBM has sworn to make all of their notepads linux freindly so I have to assume that the thinkpads will be linux ready from the get-go. But NEC has never shown any interest in checking their hardware for compatibility with Linux, but the versa series is renowned for being linux-ready. I just don't know.
Devil Ducky
I agree that MP3s aren't as good as advertised, but I don't think you're going to be able to tell the difference when it's playing over Palm Pilot speakers.
Devil Ducky
If they truly believed that all images are of
>blond-haired, blue-eyed people
They're going about it all wrong. They could just block aryanporn.com.
Devil Ducky
If you are the same color as your monitor you should get out more. That big yellow thing you see in pictures of the outside is called the sun. There is no reason to fear the sun, unless of course you spend a lot of time outside but staying off the 'net that long is just sick and unhealthy.
Devil Ducky
a printer's drivers can not be embedded in the printer, e.g how linux operates the printer is very different than how windows operates the printer, the driver has to be different for the two OSes.
However on a machine devoloped only to run one OS, e.g. an appliance would need only one driver and it could be built in, but everything in an appliance is built in anyway.
Devil Ducky
"The term 'Easter Egg', as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their
creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch."
As copied and pasted from http://www.eeggs.com/ and if you can't trust them to define an easter egg who can you trust?
Devil Ducky
information...
>For the first time, the industry is providing hard statistics on how much material on Napster it believes is breaking copyright law.
What are the statistics? Who took them? How much were they paid? Was the process reviwed by both sides to insure that it is at least partially fair?
I understand not dismissing a case based on these "statistics" but before an actual injunction is heard I hope they come up with more than this.
Devil Ducky
So is this going to be the long awaited replacment for GNOME Midnight Commander?
How is this going to suceed where other projects have failed?
Sure, the screenshots look nice but they don't really tell me anything except that the developers like to add lots of early features, which is fine as long as they get properly debugged before a stable release (the features not the developers).
Devil Ducky
*gets up on same soap box*
Schools used to be a place for learning how to live. They don't teach anything about life anymore <mumble>they don't teach anything anymore</mumble>, everybody's too scared that their kids need protecting. If you protect them from the relativly controlled atmosphere of school how are they ever supposed to learn how to survive in the real world where there are no teachers to run to?
In high school I took Driver's Education, the closest we got to driving in that class was navigating the halls to get to the room. Sure, I learned lots of driving theories, and about how to park with out breaking any laws. Now if I were less than 3 years away from driving when I took this class it may have been more helpful. But either way it did not and could not teach me how to drive, the only way to do that is to get into a car, start it up, and hope you dont kill anybody (yourself included).
This soap box is getting shaky and I have to get back to work, so you can figure out what I was going to say next without me...
Devil Ducky
The only good thing I can think of, right now, is that I didn't have to watch it. Wing Commander was a waste of film, but I had to watch it because there was supposed to be a certain trailer before it that just happened to not be at my theatre :-(
When I saw the commercials for Battlefield Earth I was thankful that there were no good trailers to see.
Devil Ducky
I personally don't see a real problem in paying sales taxes (as long as they are relatively fair). I do see where the money *should* go.
On the web, it's harder to see the infrastructure. The server (equivalent of the mall) is owned by the Ebiz or is paid for by the Ebiz. The phonelines (equivalent of the roads) is owned by a telecomm company and is paid for by the Ebiz.
Then you may be asking yourself:
1. What is his point?
2. Fair Taxes?
3. What was that I just drank?
5. Did he just skip 4?
6. Where would this tax money supposedly go?
7. Is that how you spell equivalent?
So the answers:
I don't know.
Just Imagine it.
You don't want to know.
Yes.
To the implementation of laws and such.
I'm not a dictionary, Go Away.
Now I know other people are ranting and flaming about the police are already paid and they should enforce laws on the web with the money they already have. But that would just make other taxes go above the "fair" line.
The reason I personally don't think this should be done is the cost of implementation. It will cost more to force people to pay the taxes then you will actually recieve. How do you stop a sale going through from a company in Germany that has a server in Canada (hypothetically)? Do you track the traffic on the Canadian server? I don't think they will like that.
I lost my train of thought, so I hope someone gets my point and then tells everyone else what it is.
Devil Ducky
I admit it, I haven't bought Quake 3 YET... I still plan to though. I still have a dual-boot, but when I really feel the need to play Sim City 3K I just type: "vmware /win/98/98.cfg" Best $100 I ever spent, somehow windows feels less dirty when it's on Linux :-)
But the day when I can play Sim City 3K without 380M of ram is soon to come according to Loki. After that who knows what games I could be addicted to, all I know for sure is it will not be minesweeper.
Devil Ducky
I got really excited when I first saw the title: "Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light."
:-)
:-(
I mean who wouldn't be excited? You could reheat that leftover pizza before you're brain finshed realizing you're hungry.
Turns out they're talking about microWAVES not Microwave Ovens.
Devil Ducky
>by not installing windows, :-)
well Windows is internet ready, at least since Win95b.
Devil Ducky
>All producers will owe me royalties
Would you really want that check sitting in your mailbox?
Devil Ducky
I don't yet own this book (I am planning on buying it this summer) but I have read all them. That is unless Illiad added some previously unreleased ones! I suggest everyone but this book, but not before I do, because this many people would drive the price up.
Devil Ducky
> How would you distinguish the DeCSS case from the Napster disputes of late?
Nice tie-in with recent events but the two are far from related.
>What happens if you link into the Coca-Cola code?
Why'd they put it on the web , where it could get linked to?
>A different legal system is going to have to be constructed to deal with these issues on the Web.
That's something most people can't grasp, they are still trying to fold the old laws over the new world.
It is however a very good point about more bandwidth leading to larger case of piracy (see end of interview). I would never have been able to trade MP3s on my original internet connection, not that I had a sound card or anything.
Devil Ducky
I didn't even know there were such things as "music stores." I always buy my CD's online.
C|NETlink to the story
Favorite Quote: "Cash-strapped students have turned to online music swapping because the record companies have priced the CDs of many popular artists out of students' reach"
Then whose fault is it?
Devil Ducky
The world has gotten more complex and one of the major reasons for this complexity is the net. If a suitable way can be found for the net to peacefully exist in the rest of the world, then those same regulations (or lack of) can be applied to the rest of the world. If the 'net is left to govern itself and be world wide, then you are going to see nations fall (slowly) and everyone join a larger (world wide?) nation. This is of course not something most people in power want to see, and thus part of the reason they fight so hard. But change is not neccessarily bad, a world community will have pitfalls, but the ups may just be worth the effort.
Devil Ducky
it's not sites that France is trying to block on Yahoo it's auctions
Devil Ducky
>was Win2000 RC1 beta software or was it the final version?
that's like saying was Win95 a beta for Win98? Of course it's a beta...
The only question that remains is: why was win95(b) stabler than win98, and why was win98 so much better than win98 _second edition_?
Oh, can't I go one day without trolling microsoft? but they do ask for it.
Devil Ducky
The "gotchas" I know about:
There is some kind of bug with networking where the network suddenly dies and you have to reboot, my roommate and I both had problems with it as late as 2.3.99pre5, but another rommate didn't even have a glitch in networking.
Also there was no new support for Ultra66 (doesn't bother me, I don't have ultra66).
My questions are:
Was support for ultra66 added?
Did the networking bug get tracked down/fixed?
Does anyone know if ext3 support is included in this version and/or the *real* 2.4?
Is it any good as far as JFSes go?
How long before we can expect tools developed for ext3, is there anyone working on that now?
Will this kernel series have native support for IBM's JFS?
The reason I'm asking so many questions about JFS is that many companies are not going to Linux because of the lack of a Journaling File System.
Devil Ducky
but... but... the information wants to be free, er I mean, to be on Slashdot. How can one be expected to sit on this story when it pratically posted itself? :-)
Devil Ducky
If you are planning on removing the rpms, I suggest getting all of the tarballs unpacked and ready, then remove a gnome application, install that application from tarball, remove the next rpm, install that tarball...
remember to recompile everything once you get to compiling gtk+ and glib...
I sugest these cautious steps because I don't trust RPMs very much and I just assume that they won't let everything work right.
Devil Ducky