Im still a Lego fanatic. While I dont have the cash yet for Mindstorms, I still ahve enough fun on my own trying to build auto transmissions strictly from Technic. Where did I put that 4 speed tranny blueprint?
Is this the same Caldera Linux i have a slightly older distro of that didn't have "finger" or "pine", and refused to find any sort of network card? I've gotten much further in RH 6.0. I only had to isntall that twice, since it hung on starting the sendmail daemon for infinity.
What bites me the most on seeing computers in movies(anyone remember that awful NetForce?) was you always see the computer operator type really super fast, yet you see no reflection of typed text on the screen. Usually they are flying through some simulation or some Winamp Plugin.
Minneapolis has night life, good coffee shops and all that, but you wouldn't want to live there. It's safer to live in St. Paul(where you can actually park), and have fun in Minneapolis.
Am I the only person to notice that our tax dollars were used to make the absolute worst(a la Geocities level) web pages ever? Could we have a few more color changes and cheap.WMF file artwork?
Oh i forgot, that's right. I forget if you say anything nearing the opposite of MS bashing, I have to put in the obligatory disclaimer of "now by me saying this i am no way a MS advocate.." sorry i fsckin' forgot
What I like about IE5(so far Ive only used it at work) is the zoom in/out feature for images(right click menu), the fact that ie5 and 4 support fixed backgrounds(never could get it to work in Netscape), and that even if i accidentally start up the browser, I don't wait a half hour looking at a splash screen that says "loading java". It comes up real nice and fast. I don't like the custom MS messages for 404 errors(if an ad banner fails, soemtiems the whole window gets taken over by the error message, and it takes away URLs for retries on slow/slashdotted websites), but it is EXTREMLY stable compared to Netscape.
Each time netscape crashes on me, the last thing I want to do is send a little note to their little quality feed back agent(and that even scerws up), well, except "sit on this and spin"
I'm glad to see a response to all the linux advocacy shown here.
One thing, bashing MS 99% of the time is not going to benefit the Linux movement one bit. You can quote differences, make comparasons, etc, but nitpicking on every little bad(or what you percieve* as bad) thing about Windows,etc isn't going to help at all
It's funny to see people talk about MS trying to take over the computer world(or simply "being successful"), and then they talk about installing Linux on everyone's computers, toasters, PDAs, cars, etc. So MS used by the masses is bad, but linux used by the masses is good?
I would prefer to see a safe co-existence. I'm figuring most, if not all the slashdot readers here are not racially prejudiced, but it seems like most of them are prejudiced against Microsoft. Linux and Windows both have their good sides and bad sides. I mean, if I wanted to run a web server, I'd choose Linux. If I want to make web pages, drafting, imaging, I'd chose Windows.
Hmm, if only all the MS bashing ever posted on here could be converted to useful source code.....
So how far are they in research where they won't need to do any sort of surgery to see through other people's eyes? To think Strange Days(with the ereet SQUID device) takes place only a couple months from now.
Gee, first the 10th planet, now this. Too much life imitating art
:I claim my 10 points, and humbly point out that someone cracked that one higher in the thread. nb, I think you got the spelling correct. Was that the one where Adric bought the farm?
Actually the story name was "The Tenth Planet", and was aired in 1965 I believe. It was patrick troughton's last story. The story where Adric bought the farm was Earthshock, aired in 1983. That's when some freigher explodes, and goes back in time, killing off the dinosaurs on earth.
The correct spelling of the planet is Mondas. Either way, ive sent a warning email to the BBC telling them to get The Doctor before this situation gets out of hand. Wonder what the reply will be.
One thing I have noticed is that a nice catchy domain name nowhere near reflects the effort people put into the websites. Some people slap domain names on web sites that are worse than most angelfire or geocities pages, and vise versa. If you're gonna pay x$ for a domain name, why can't you spend time putting up a decent site behind it?
As a QA tester, I have to reply to this one. Yes, software ships with known bugs in it. The only thing the testers/qa people can do is tell the rest of the development team about it. Product deadlines are a big factor. Windows for shipping(burning the CDs, printing the manuals, etc) can be missed and hence, software has to be shipped with x amount of bugs.
If you were to work on a program until ALL the bugs were gone, it would never see the light of day.
Yeah I remember the GoBots. They were the inferior competitor to the Transformers. Heh. They should make a PC out of that huge transformable Gobots station they had(the one that had legs that were collapsable.)
You know, on a Triumphs mailing list I was on, this guy had problems of flames shooting out of his exhaust.
His car was just like mine, a SPITFIRE. Now that's a car that lived up to its name! I should of emailed him on how to do it for my car just in case those Honda drivers get out of line. Hmm..
Remember when RealPlayer was just realplayer? Nowadays on RP, quicktime, winamp, etc, they decided to bloat it with minibrowser windows, CONSTANT upgrade nags, constant nags for your email address, links to sports/entertainment websites, etc. argh. How about just the bare essentials?
On a system I made out of spare parts, I had the opportunity to try several different video cards with RH 5.2 and X.
My first was with a messed up ATI rage 2 card. It worked fine, but the video card was messed up, so i borrowed a AverMedia 3dLabs card.
Okay, so let me just install the libs for the 3dlabs card. Nope. couldn't find any. I even tried just plain vanilla VGA, and all it did was lock up my system time and time again. Gave up.
So then I tried(I think, there were so many video cards) a Diamond Stealth S220, but there was no easy way to install different video card libraries. I eventually gave up and reinstalled RH 5.2 again
I had an offbrand sound card that never was able to be detected by sndconfig. Works fine in windows, so I lived without sound in RH.
Then I bought this cheap-0 motherboard with onboard sound and video. Just to test things out, I installed '98 on it, and the sound and video worked perfectly.
Tried RH 5.2 on it, and was in for more fun. There were no drivers for it on the CD, so I FTPed some drivers from xfree86.org, and FTPed it back to the linux box. Followed the instructions to the T, and I had two choices in X. A) 320x200,B) totally messed up and unusable display. I gave up. That and the onboard sound didn't work either.
I then tried Caldera openlinux with an ATI Xpert 98 card. Tried it beforehand in '98 and I didn't even need to install the CD. Fortunately this worked in X to, after my friend played "guess the refresh rates" game.
No WONDER I could not get onto slashdot at work today. heh. this reminds me when someone made a ghetto fire under a bridge somewhere in Minneapolis(I think), cutting most connectivity off for the twin cities. I think it was through MR.NET. anyone remember this a couple years ago?
I would like to see a side-by-side comparason of installing Linux vs. installing Windows 98. I wonder what the results would be then, seeing is that 98 is not in alpha.
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Im still a Lego fanatic. While I dont have the cash yet for Mindstorms, I still ahve enough fun on my own trying to build auto transmissions strictly from Technic. Where did I put that 4 speed tranny blueprint?
Is this the same Caldera Linux i have a slightly older distro of that didn't have "finger" or "pine", and refused to find any sort of network card? I've gotten much further in RH 6.0. I only had to isntall that twice, since it hung on starting the sendmail daemon for infinity.
What bites me the most on seeing computers in movies(anyone remember that awful NetForce?) was you always see the computer operator type really super fast, yet you see no reflection of typed text on the screen. Usually they are flying through some simulation or some Winamp Plugin.
Minneapolis has night life, good coffee shops and all that, but you wouldn't want to live there. It's safer to live in St. Paul(where you can actually park), and have fun in Minneapolis.
Blondie(top)
Devo MP3s
Warren Zevon
The Who
newer/techno stuff
"domino" by APhex Twin(great song)
some Prodigy
"Escape from New York" soundtrack(great for synth)
"Blade Runner" soundtrack
I have several video cards that have worked iwth X to make the whole system freeze. Fun fun fun.
HAHHA! I thought I was gonna be able to be the first to make reference to a late 70s/early 80s show. "Wanna buy a watch?"
Am I the only person to notice that our tax dollars were used to make the absolute worst(a la Geocities level) web pages ever? Could we have a few more color changes and cheap .WMF file artwork?
Oh i forgot, that's right. I forget if you say anything nearing the opposite of MS bashing, I have to put in the obligatory disclaimer of "now by me saying this i am no way a MS advocate.." sorry i fsckin' forgot
What I like about IE5(so far Ive only used it at work) is the zoom in/out feature for images(right click menu), the fact that ie5 and 4 support fixed backgrounds(never could get it to work in Netscape), and that even if i accidentally start up the browser, I don't wait a half hour looking at a splash screen that says "loading java". It comes up real nice and fast. I don't like the custom MS messages for 404 errors(if an ad banner fails, soemtiems the whole window gets taken over by the error message, and it takes away URLs for retries on slow/slashdotted websites), but it is EXTREMLY stable compared to Netscape.
Each time netscape crashes on me, the last thing I want to do is send a little note to their little quality feed back agent(and that even scerws up), well, except "sit on this and spin"
I'm glad to see a response to all the linux advocacy shown here.
One thing, bashing MS 99% of the time is not going to benefit the Linux movement one bit. You can quote differences, make comparasons, etc, but nitpicking on every little bad(or what you percieve* as bad) thing about Windows,etc isn't going to help at all
It's funny to see people talk about MS trying to take over the computer world(or simply "being successful"), and then they talk about installing Linux on everyone's computers, toasters, PDAs, cars, etc. So MS used by the masses is bad, but linux used by the masses is good?
I would prefer to see a safe co-existence. I'm figuring most, if not all the slashdot readers here are not racially prejudiced, but it seems like most of them are prejudiced against Microsoft. Linux and Windows both have their good sides and bad sides. I mean, if I wanted to run a web server, I'd choose Linux. If I want to make web pages, drafting, imaging, I'd chose Windows.
Hmm, if only all the MS bashing ever posted on here could be converted to useful source code.....
With my little rinky-dink CPU tool kit, the little plunger-claw thingy to start threading in screws has so far been the handiest tool in the set yet.
So how far are they in research where they won't need to do any sort of surgery to see through other people's eyes? To think Strange Days(with the ereet SQUID device) takes place only a couple months from now.
Gee, first the 10th planet, now this. Too much life imitating art
:I claim my 10 points, and humbly point out that someone cracked that one higher in the thread. nb, I think you got the spelling correct.
Was that the one where Adric bought the farm?
Actually the story name was "The Tenth Planet", and was aired in 1965 I believe. It was patrick troughton's last story. The story where Adric bought the farm was Earthshock, aired in 1983. That's when some freigher explodes, and goes back in time, killing off the dinosaurs on earth.
The correct spelling of the planet is Mondas. Either way, ive sent a warning email to the BBC telling them to get The Doctor before this situation gets out of hand. Wonder what the reply will be.
Heh. I did a search for "mondas" and didnt find it, hoping I'd be the first to make the cyber-ref. shoulda searched for Cybermen instead.
Wait a minute, didn't "The Tenth Planet" story line take place right around this time?
One thing I have noticed is that a nice catchy domain name nowhere near reflects the effort people put into the websites. Some people slap domain names on web sites that are worse than most angelfire or geocities pages, and vise versa. If you're gonna pay x$ for a domain name, why can't you spend time putting up a decent site behind it?
Is this 10th planet perhaps named Mondas? (10 points if you get the reference + 20 points if I screwed up the ref and correct me)
As a QA tester, I have to reply to this one. Yes, software ships with known bugs in it. The only thing the testers/qa people can do is tell the rest of the development team about it. Product deadlines are a big factor. Windows for shipping(burning the CDs, printing the manuals, etc) can be missed and hence, software has to be shipped with x amount of bugs.
If you were to work on a program until ALL the bugs were gone, it would never see the light of day.
My first PC was a TI-994/A. I used it for a VERY long time faithfully.
Let me put it to you this way. When I stopped using the TI, Star Trek: The Next Generation was on the air.
Yeah I remember the GoBots. They were the inferior competitor to the Transformers. Heh. They should make a PC out of that huge transformable Gobots station they had(the one that had legs that were collapsable.)
You know, on a Triumphs mailing list I was on, this guy had problems of flames shooting out of his exhaust.
His car was just like mine, a SPITFIRE. Now that's a car that lived up to its name! I should of emailed him on how to do it for my car just in case those Honda drivers get out of line. Hmm..
Remember when RealPlayer was just realplayer? Nowadays on RP, quicktime, winamp, etc, they decided to bloat it with minibrowser windows, CONSTANT upgrade nags, constant nags for your email address, links to sports/entertainment websites, etc. argh. How about just the bare essentials?
On a system I made out of spare parts, I had the opportunity to try several different video cards with RH 5.2 and X.
My first was with a messed up ATI rage 2 card. It worked fine, but the video card was messed up, so i borrowed a AverMedia 3dLabs card.
Okay, so let me just install the libs for the 3dlabs card. Nope. couldn't find any. I even tried just plain vanilla VGA, and all it did was lock up my system time and time again. Gave up.
So then I tried(I think, there were so many video cards) a Diamond Stealth S220, but there was no easy way to install different video card libraries. I eventually gave up and reinstalled RH 5.2 again
I had an offbrand sound card that never was able to be detected by sndconfig. Works fine in windows, so I lived without sound in RH.
Then I bought this cheap-0 motherboard with onboard sound and video. Just to test things out, I installed '98 on it, and the sound and video worked perfectly.
Tried RH 5.2 on it, and was in for more fun. There were no drivers for it on the CD, so I FTPed some drivers from xfree86.org, and FTPed it back to the linux box. Followed the instructions to the T, and I had two choices in X. A) 320x200,B) totally messed up and unusable display. I gave up. That and the onboard sound didn't work either.
I then tried Caldera openlinux with an ATI Xpert 98 card. Tried it beforehand in '98 and I didn't even need to install the CD. Fortunately this worked in X to, after my friend played "guess the refresh rates" game.
No WONDER I could not get onto slashdot at work today. heh. this reminds me when someone made a ghetto fire under a bridge somewhere in Minneapolis(I think), cutting most connectivity off for the twin cities. I think it was through MR.NET. anyone remember this a couple years ago?
I would like to see a side-by-side comparason of installing Linux vs. installing Windows 98. I wonder what the results would be then, seeing is that 98 is not in alpha.