Yeah yeah graphics, search, safari... Can we PLEASE Finally fix the HUGE bug where you can't print from Adobe (or any other app that uses PICT rather than PDF) to Linux CUPS queues? Its been in the dev tree since before the last relase...
Contrary to all rules of CUPS when Apple ported it to OSX they decided to add client side filters which means when you send a job to a shared queue hosted on a linux box, the local printbox hangs and the linux box either bounces the job or prints garbage.
Don't be turned off by the title. I picked up a copy the a year or 2 ago was just shocked. Its like Time, NewsWeek, rolled up together but writting for and by smart people.
The other nice thing is that it is not a US centric magazine so you get actual news rather than just American Gossip...
They do have a bias, but is rather unique - sort of socially liberal but buisness wise sort of free market.
Mostly a current events / politics mag but a very good read for those in the states as it give you a chance to see what the rest of the world thinks of things.
I aslo like WDRV "the Drive" I'm afraid I can't remmeber the frequency:( Its mostly classic Rock from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. All the dreck pre filtered by time.
Um... No. They were ALL Moderates until colonial period. Then extreamism became a political rallying point to over throw their oppressors. (sometimes sponsored and encouraged by the US when the ruling group was on the wrong side of the iron curtain).
Takeing a big chunk of Holy land, kicking out everyone who lived there, and dropping a bunch of shell shocked and justifiably parinoid/defensive refugees there didn't help much either. (Did you know that the Koran groups Muslims, Christians and Jews all togoether as "people of the Book" and demands that Muslims PROTECT other people of the Book ?)
Anyway, all your reasoning would do is get rid of moderates and liberal muslims, justify the claims of the hardliners, and convert all the moderates that were left.
Buddy, if you think an hour commute is bad you gots some learning comming. I take a bus, a train, and another train to work every day just going from one part of the city to another. Takes me 45-70 minutes each way. At first I was thinking that was such a loss of time. Then I realized I'm GAINING 2 hours a day to spend reading, thinking, whatever I want. Time I have all to myself without wife or family.
Over all, I think your original submission was a troll. From your responses it sounds like you have actually NOTHING to complain about in the world. You have a job, rent that is lower than what I have paid for JUST a parking spot, and are in "hipsville." Let me guess you are also twenty somthing, have all your hair, no kids, a girlfriend, and a disposable income?
This was GOOD troll mind you, rather thought provoking and mildly informative but still a troll. Call back when you have a real problem like the poor guy who is in sooo deep he is asking for advice from SLAHSDOT (??!?!?) about schizophenia.
Obviously the law is there to protect their buisness model against all competition and crush the opposition, right? Its a great thing when applied against OTHER people.
I think it has been proven quiet well that a bunch of determined yahoos with severly out classed weapons CAN make a significant resistance when they are fighting on their home turf and the folks with the Big Guns dare not go for a scorched earth policy.
And yes, your right, it would screw the pooch for the whole country. As I like to say "I used to be an Anarchist till I realized how much I like my indoor plumbing." But like a nuke, some weapons are better used as a deterrant than on your enemies - Thus the importance of an armed populace. Mind you I don't want a gun in my house. But I want to right to obtain one if I feel it necessary.
You'd think so, but for most cases (pun intended) It just ain't true. Maybe we just tend to get cheap cases;) but I've had a LOT of personal experience with systems that crash from heat with the case on, but run fine with it off. I think you are perpetuating a computing myth.
1. There are OODLES of ways of installing on windows, they are just mostly transparent to you;) And I don't know how many times I've tried to use them and they go to hell.
2. SOMETIMES it uninstalls with one click, other times it doesn't or it sort of does and leaves crap all over your HD and registry.
3. Permissions CAN be a pain, but they are usually set up in a very sane fasion. If a normal user can't change it, they probably shouldn't be. BUT try running Win2000/XP as a limited users... MS is getting more unix-like everyday. If it bothers you you can just run as root *shudder*, or put your power users in sudoers
4. See the response above - The registry is gobblety gook. I'll take plaintext with man pages:) As for access methods I use one tool for editing my config files too./bin/vi
6. Try knoppix/Mandrake/Lindows or some other "intro" distro. I takes me less time to do a default RH 9 install than it does a MS XP install. And when I get done with my linux install I have 90% of the software I will need. After I install windows I then have to install the Office suite, winzip, mozilla, virus protection, and then do 6 reboots of windows update for the OS and Office. To be fair that redhat system will need at least one reboot and a run of up2date, but if I'm installing a debian system on then lan, I install from 2 floppies and using net install my system is fully up to date after one reboot.
I apologize too. I'm being a bit of a smart-ass today myself.;)
Oi! VS.net OI! I just got done doing that for a users so they can run geant4 under cygwin. I FEEL FOR YOU!
Is it the Prereq Disk? The user is at a site that has a blanket MS licence so the ISO for the Preq Disk was avaialabe... except its bogus. For the life of me we could NOT get that thing to burn, mad a really nice set of shiney coasters though. Finally had to get a Made-In-Redmond version of the disk to get it to install.
If you are having some other problem let me know and I might be able to help.
BTW, thanks for defending my post better than I could have;)
1. Dpkg or RPM 2. Dpkg/RPM 3. Permissions!!:) Just say no to worms and viruses. 4. Have you tried to read your windows Registry recently? 5. 2.6 reads all MS filesystems 6. My 2.6 kernel "just works" with most everthing I plug into it. I have to install drivers for a new MOUSE under MS XP.
Lastly: Because diversity is the spice of life, mother of invention, and conformity breeds monoculture, incest, and extinction.
Linux IS a great free software movement. Part of that free is Freedom, freedom to do your computing how you want and if you disagree, spin off your own version. If you would like to help, start coding and/or stop purchasing non-linux compatible software and start asking the companies who's software you want to use to start providing it under linux.
As for getting around Xscreensaver locks, get the newest version of KDE 3.x from the KDE website. They have an apt repository for woody and Unstable has a 3.x version already in.
Anyway, under the newer KDE's when the deskopt is locked with screen saver, you have the option of Starting Another Desktop for a different user. Yep, Fast User Switching is already available for Linux under Debian Stable (with the KDE addon;) ).
I've read the first 3 or for Hyperion books... And I don't see Anything even similar to the matrix in them. Afer the first they started to bore me silly though so I never did learn the origin of the shrike.. maybe it starts geting matrix like then?
As for the original topic, Read King Rat about 4 years ago and REALLY liked it. I think the original reviewer needs to read more urban fantasy;). The similarities between Gaiman's works and King Rat are weak at best, mostly just both drawing from common themes in the genre.
I think I actually prefered King Rat over China's recent stuff. In Station he got much more into the world building and atmosphere, and frankly a bit wordy. King Rat is a a clean crisp bucket of cold water. Perhaps not quite as much a work of literature as his later works, but a Damn good read and qutie the page turner.
From someone who is self made so to speak in the computing field, don't get a degree in networking. It is in a way a dead end. Most of what you learn in school will be almost obsolete by the time you graduate. Get a degree is MIS or a related field, technology managment, Information Systems Management , ect. Because while it is fun to be a tech for a while eventually you will want to be the boss and for that you will want a degree that mixes tech and buisness/management.
Indiana University ( 2 to 1.5 female to male ratio) has a pretty good MIS degree through their business school.
The newer IDE RAID PCI cards from 3 ware supposedly do hot swap. I have the card, but since its in a TB array with important data I've never tested it.
Under linux it would just be a umount and then pull the drive caddy.
Win2k/XP... Dang good question. Under linux the 3ware card and attached devices is seen as a scsi device. Does Windows support SCSI hot swap?
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Erm, if you go overseas to work in India or such, your standard of living is going to go way, way, way down.
Not true. Depending on what sort of position he manages to get you can live a life of luxury in India relatively cheaply. A middle class white collar worker can very easily afford a servant to do cooking and cleaning for them. A very nice property is also affordable.
The problem is that once you move there long term, there is no comming back as your life savings will be near worthless in the states. I and my wife have considered moving to India for a few years so she can be closer to family, but while we could both get good jobs there and live well, it would set us back too far in our retirement savings.
India is great for a healthy 20 something yearold, but unless you are loaded to begin with I would not like to try living my declining years there.
Ooops. You are absolutly right. The mouse you are talking about is VERY similar to the MS Explorer I was bragging on. When you wrote about the trackman Marble I was remembering the older logitech trackballs with the much smaller thumb controlled ball. Mea Culpa!
And to correct my earlier post, I should have said Kensington, not Kingston.
I think that one is dangerous. I had friends who tried a LOT of ways to get fuc'd up in highschool but you could literally see the IQ drop after robotrippin. I think the acid chaged them less in the short term. Long term on the other hand... I have literally seen folks reprogram themselves into a different person with extended acid use. Still don't think any "recreational" drugs should be illegal though. Costs too much, creates too much crime, finances too much violence, blah blah blah.
Heh Welcome to the world of trackballs. Marbles are nice, but real men go with either the Kingston BIG ball tracball, or the MS optical Explorer series.;) Seriously though I much prefer the larger control sphere. Then you can use 2 or 3 fingers to control the ball with more accuracy and have 5 buttons, plus scroll, but scroll sphere. Check it out. If you like the marble you will probabably fall in love with the optical explorer.
It will take a litte bit of extra configuration to get all your buttons working under linux though.
I had to add a script to my x startup that runs/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 7 6 3 4 5" But that is just to get my personal preference as to which button does what.
Hmm. I saw that and I'm mildly hopefull that will fix my problem, but I think that referes to a problem with thunderbird not being easily set to use your default browers. For instance, if you have set Konquerer as default rather than say Firebird it would still open the link in firebird. Wasn't my the issue I was having though so I didn't look to deeply into it.
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Yeah yeah graphics, search, safari... Can we PLEASE Finally fix the HUGE bug where you can't print from Adobe (or any other app that uses PICT rather than PDF) to Linux CUPS queues? Its been in the dev tree since before the last relase...
Contrary to all rules of CUPS when Apple ported it to OSX they decided to add client side filters which means when you send a job to a shared queue hosted on a linux box, the local printbox hangs and the linux box either bounces the job or prints garbage.
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Please!?!
Don't be turned off by the title. I picked up a copy the a year or 2 ago was just shocked. Its like Time, NewsWeek, rolled up together but writting for and by smart people.
The other nice thing is that it is not a US centric magazine so you get actual news rather than just American Gossip...
They do have a bias, but is rather unique - sort of socially liberal but buisness wise sort of free market.
Mostly a current events / politics mag but a very good read for those in the states as it give you a chance to see what the rest of the world thinks of things.
Thanks for the tips!
:( Its mostly classic Rock from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. All the dreck pre filtered by time.
I aslo like WDRV "the Drive" I'm afraid I can't remmeber the frequency
Also In Chicago but not a long time resident. Mostly I keep the dial on NPR but could you mention the frequency's for those stations you mentioned?
Also curious about what stations on the chicago dial are still independent.
What is wrong with this picture? Someone says the most intelligent thing I've seen on slashdot in weeks and they have to post anonymously?
Um... No. They were ALL Moderates until colonial period. Then extreamism became a political rallying point to over throw their oppressors. (sometimes sponsored and encouraged by the US when the ruling group was on the wrong side of the iron curtain).
Takeing a big chunk of Holy land, kicking out everyone who lived there, and dropping a bunch of shell shocked and justifiably parinoid/defensive refugees there didn't help much either. (Did you know that the Koran groups Muslims, Christians and Jews all togoether as "people of the Book" and demands that Muslims PROTECT other people of the Book ?)
Anyway, all your reasoning would do is get rid of moderates and liberal muslims, justify the claims of the hardliners, and convert all the moderates that were left.
I'm sorry but that was just stupid.
Buddy, if you think an hour commute is bad you gots some learning comming. I take a bus, a train, and another train to work every day just going from one part of the city to another. Takes me 45-70 minutes each way. At first I was thinking that was such a loss of time. Then I realized I'm GAINING 2 hours a day to spend reading, thinking, whatever I want. Time I have all to myself without wife or family.
Over all, I think your original submission was a troll. From your responses it sounds like you have actually NOTHING to complain about in the world. You have a job, rent that is lower than what I have paid for JUST a parking spot, and are in "hipsville." Let me guess you are also twenty somthing, have all your hair, no kids, a girlfriend, and a disposable income?
This was GOOD troll mind you, rather thought provoking and mildly informative but still a troll. Call back when you have a real problem like the poor guy who is in sooo deep he is asking for advice from SLAHSDOT (??!?!?) about schizophenia.
Obviously the law is there to protect their buisness model against all competition and crush the opposition, right? Its a great thing when applied against OTHER people.
I think it has been proven quiet well that a bunch of determined yahoos with severly out classed weapons CAN make a significant resistance when they are fighting on their home turf and the folks with the Big Guns dare not go for a scorched earth policy.
And yes, your right, it would screw the pooch for the whole country. As I like to say "I used to be an Anarchist till I realized how much I like my indoor plumbing." But like a nuke, some weapons are better used as a deterrant than on your enemies - Thus the importance of an armed populace. Mind you I don't want a gun in my house. But I want to right to obtain one if I feel it necessary.
It only applies if your not talking about Nazi's. I'm not sure that's true in this case. We have a concentration camp in cuba already...
Charles Fort is amused.
You'd think so, but for most cases (pun intended) It just ain't true. Maybe we just tend to get cheap cases ;) but I've had a LOT of personal experience with systems that crash from heat with the case on, but run fine with it off. I think you are perpetuating a computing myth.
1. There are OODLES of ways of installing on windows, they are just mostly transparent to you ;) And I don't know how many times I've tried to use them and they go to hell.
:) As for access methods I use one tool for editing my config files too. /bin/vi
;)
2. SOMETIMES it uninstalls with one click, other times it doesn't or it sort of does and leaves crap all over your HD and registry.
3. Permissions CAN be a pain, but they are usually set up in a very sane fasion. If a normal user can't change it, they probably shouldn't be. BUT try running Win2000/XP as a limited users... MS is getting more unix-like everyday. If it bothers you you can just run as root *shudder*, or put your power users in sudoers
4. See the response above - The registry is gobblety gook. I'll take plaintext with man pages
5. apt-get dist-upgrade unstable && apt-get install kernel-image kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686
6. Try knoppix/Mandrake/Lindows or some other "intro" distro. I takes me less time to do a default RH 9 install than it does a MS XP install. And when I get done with my linux install I have 90% of the software I will need. After I install windows I then have to install the Office suite, winzip, mozilla, virus protection, and then do 6 reboots of windows update for the OS and Office.
To be fair that redhat system will need at least one reboot and a run of up2date, but if I'm installing a debian system on then lan, I install from 2 floppies and using net install my system is fully up to date after one reboot.
I apologize too. I'm being a bit of a smart-ass today myself.
Oi! VS.net OI! I just got done doing that for a users so they can run geant4 under cygwin. I FEEL FOR YOU!
;)
Is it the Prereq Disk? The user is at a site that has a blanket MS licence so the ISO for the Preq Disk was avaialabe... except its bogus. For the life of me we could NOT get that thing to burn, mad a really nice set of shiney coasters though. Finally had to get a Made-In-Redmond version of the disk to get it to install.
If you are having some other problem let me know and I might be able to help.
BTW, thanks for defending my post better than I could have
1. Dpkg or RPM :) Just say no to worms and viruses.
2. Dpkg/RPM
3. Permissions!!
4. Have you tried to read your windows Registry recently?
5. 2.6 reads all MS filesystems
6. My 2.6 kernel "just works" with most everthing I plug into it. I have to install drivers for a new MOUSE under MS XP.
Lastly: Because diversity is the spice of life, mother of invention, and conformity breeds monoculture, incest, and extinction.
Linux IS a great free software movement. Part of that free is Freedom, freedom to do your computing how you want and if you disagree, spin off your own version. If you would like to help, start coding and/or stop purchasing non-linux compatible software and start asking the companies who's software you want to use to start providing it under linux.
I know I'm over simplifing a bit
As for getting around Xscreensaver locks, get the newest version of KDE 3.x from the KDE website. They have an apt repository for woody and Unstable has a 3.x version already in.
;) ).
Anyway, under the newer KDE's when the deskopt is locked with screen saver, you have the option of Starting Another Desktop for a different user. Yep, Fast User Switching is already available for Linux under Debian Stable (with the KDE addon
I've read the first 3 or for Hyperion books... And I don't see Anything even similar to the matrix in them. Afer the first they started to bore me silly though so I never did learn the origin of the shrike .. maybe it starts geting matrix like then?
;). The similarities between Gaiman's works and King Rat are weak at best, mostly just both drawing from common themes in the genre.
As for the original topic, Read King Rat about 4 years ago and REALLY liked it. I think the original reviewer needs to read more urban fantasy
I think I actually prefered King Rat over China's recent stuff. In Station he got much more into the world building and atmosphere, and frankly a bit wordy. King Rat is a a clean crisp bucket of cold water. Perhaps not quite as much a work of literature as his later works, but a Damn good read and qutie the page turner.
From someone who is self made so to speak in the computing field, don't get a degree in networking. It is in a way a dead end. Most of what you learn in school will be almost obsolete by the time you graduate. Get a degree is MIS or a related field, technology managment, Information Systems Management , ect. Because while it is fun to be a tech for a while eventually you will want to be the boss and for that you will want a degree that mixes tech and buisness/management.
Indiana University ( 2 to 1.5 female to male ratio) has a pretty good MIS degree through their business school.
When GNU needs an Enema, SCO is where they put in the tube.
The newer IDE RAID PCI cards from 3 ware supposedly do hot swap. I have the card, but since its in a TB array with important data I've never tested it.
Under linux it would just be a umount and then pull the drive caddy.
Win2k/XP... Dang good question. Under linux the 3ware card and attached devices is seen as a scsi device. Does Windows support SCSI hot swap?
Erm, if you go overseas to work in India or such, your standard of living is going to go way, way, way down.
Not true. Depending on what sort of position he manages to get you can live a life of luxury in India relatively cheaply. A middle class white collar worker can very easily afford a servant to do cooking and cleaning for them. A very nice property is also affordable.
The problem is that once you move there long term, there is no comming back as your life savings will be near worthless in the states. I and my wife have considered moving to India for a few years so she can be closer to family, but while we could both get good jobs there and live well, it would set us back too far in our retirement savings.
India is great for a healthy 20 something yearold, but unless you are loaded to begin with I would not like to try living my declining years there.
Ooops. You are absolutly right. The mouse you are talking about is VERY similar to the MS Explorer I was bragging on. When you wrote about the trackman Marble I was remembering the older logitech trackballs with the much smaller thumb controlled ball. Mea Culpa!
And to correct my earlier post, I should have said Kensington, not Kingston.
I think that one is dangerous. I had friends who tried a LOT of ways to get fuc'd up in highschool but you could literally see the IQ drop after robotrippin. I think the acid chaged them less in the short term. Long term on the other hand... I have literally seen folks reprogram themselves into a different person with extended acid use. Still don't think any "recreational" drugs should be illegal though. Costs too much, creates too much crime, finances too much violence, blah blah blah.
Heh Welcome to the world of trackballs. Marbles are nice, but real men go with either the Kingston BIG ball tracball, or the MS optical Explorer series. ;) Seriously though I much prefer the larger control sphere. Then you can use 2 or 3 fingers to control the ball with more accuracy and have 5 buttons, plus scroll, but scroll sphere. Check it out. If you like the marble you will probabably fall in love with the optical explorer.
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 7 6 3 4 5"
It will take a litte bit of extra configuration to get all your buttons working under linux though.
I had to add a script to my x startup that runs
But that is just to get my personal preference as to which button does what.
(thumb "left click", wheel, "middle", pinky "right" , middle "scroll ball in mozilla", thumb2 "right click w/ applicable"
Hmm. I saw that and I'm mildly hopefull that will fix my problem, but I think that referes to a problem with thunderbird not being easily set to use your default browers. For instance, if you have set Konquerer as default rather than say Firebird it would still open the link in firebird. Wasn't my the issue I was having though so I didn't look to deeply into it.