Congratz, you just bought a car and ran it at 30km/h.
Get a driver license and do a 100km/h please
Have you considered that the parent might also dual boot into windows? Notice the gp states "I don't play games on linux much." (emphasis mine)
From what I've seen the nvidia drivers on linux can be pretty abysmal and even just getting compiz working is a huge step forward, especially for open source, reverse engineered drivers.
If you want to be a douche bag, at least read the parent's comment before being so quick to fire such a moronic reply. Is that all you can bring to the table? An insult? Because they stated that their graphics driver served their very limited needs? To use your fucking totally shitty analogy: If you are only ever city driving, you only really need to do 30 km/h anyways. Most people's cars will go well over 100. You are totally right. They are wasting all of that vast, untapped potential! I can get people not reading the article (fuck I didn't even RTFA and here I am making some comment!), but when you can't even read the whole comment you are taking the time to reply to, then maybe you need to go over to like digg or 4chan or something. Who knows, you might find some people more on your level there, if you know what I mean. You should learn some proper grammar too.
From what I've seen, it I've only seen Home Premium x86 on most new installs. Especially laptops. I don't see a big push for x64 unless I'm mistaken or something.
I have as well. Graphics drivers are not the greatest, for example, because XP brought DirectX 9. Finding binary drivers for ancient hardware can be quite a chore, especially with all the good driver repositories trying to nickel and dime you for some ancient S3 driver they still have sitting on there servers. Nothing is more supremely frustrating than really needing to complete an install and the only copies you can find still out there on the net are sitting behind some pay wall.
Not really. A lot of newer programs support only XP or newer, so you would have to at least upgrade to XP to get a lot of modern software to run. I'm pretty sure a lot of the major stuff still works, like firefox, and I can't think of any real examples, but there are certainly apps out there that need newer interfaces. I don't believe you can install the.net framework version 3 for instance and a lot of apps have been coded against those libraries. I don't know how much more life support XP has, but I think that within a couple more years the mainstream will have finally moved on to something more modern. I mean there are still windows 2000 holdouts, but the sun set on win2000 quite some time ago.
Oh. Also look at how many humans are dying of hunger right now. What like 33 million or something? The number is really insane. It wouldn't take long for a few billion to slowly die of malnutrition. The world could be a really ugly place for a while. One day those crazy gun nuts are going to suddenly become everyone's new best friend.
I am not a scientist by any stretch of the word, (maybe a computer scientist at heart but I digress) but I know I'm smarter than the average sheep, Record snows do tend to happen. The last one that happened here was in 1996. 14 years ago. I don't see any real pattern here, in fact, in my area I've seen a lot less snow than usual. When I was a kid, we would sometimes get 6-12 inches and that was usually a pretty good snow storm (hah, then I moved up near buffalo....). These would happen maybe once or twice a year. Lately all we ever seem to get is 2-4 inches at the most. I think we got about 2 feet of snow in the last blizzard and probably another foot or so of accumulation since then. Its snowing like hell now. I think we might get 2-4 if it keeps up at the rate its going. So yeah, this is pretty unprecedented, but rare. My theory is that strange shifts seem to be occurring in the weather patterns.
Common theory holds that this indicates that something is happening to the heating/cooling cycle of the Earth. But here we forget that in the 1700s there was a mini ice-age, and that all sorts of bad things have happened to the weather....like Volcanoes and other catastrophes. The methane trapped in siberia that is releasing now is like what 30 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than co2? (slight exaggeration you damned fact nazis) Millions of cubic feet? Billions? What about all the greenhouse gasses sequestered in the ocean? We think its had a few burps. Will it have more? I think if you add it all up nature is dumping much more "runaway" greenhouse gasses than we are, or will be in the relatively near future. Did our hand help the process along? Probably.
Was it going to happen anyways? Who knows? There are so many pieces to this puzzle that I don't think anyone can really put them together yet. So many variables in the soup. Maybe the sun is somehow different. (I'm sure we have checked this, but for how long?) Maybe we are due for a warming cycle of some kind. There is legend of man stepping foot on dry antarctic land before at one point. Mammoths also walked the earth with man, but where are they now? (oh wait I totally forgot we just slaughtered them all....whoops....) We have seen a lot of changes in our environment and were certainly adaptable to radical changes. More so than any other species. I think we can survive a lot of things of we at least have the means to reproduce food, but even in the absence of that, I'm quite sure we would somehow innovate or simply find some way to find nourishment. Man has lived in some of the harshest environments anywhere and has survived.
We are the cockroaches of the vertebrae world. Even nuclear war would likely not wipe us out. I have hope. How can you not? I just really hope that the world we leave our grandchildren is at least not a complete toxic wasteland devoid of any visible life. Seeing as how even in some of our most polluted environments (like the big beautiful dump, I mean ocean) life has managed carry on, I would worry more about what we can do now just to curb a lot of our pollution, but the excessive consumption of throwaway goods and containers really needs to stop as well as a million other things that are not so obvious. We are smart (sometimes) and I think we can figure this out, but it is indeed a huge problem and most people just don't want it to impact their own lives in some way and that mentality needs to end.
So is global warming real? I guess it is possible. There is also certainly global cooling, like the last ice age that may or may not have formed in the period of 6 months, which I guess is plausible all things considered. So why wouldn't global warming exist if you can have global cooling? So global warming exists. Is it happening now? Well, since ice from the last ice age, like at glacier national park, is finally melting down to rock I guess its warmer relatively. That ice hasn't melted for 100,000 years or so. Why now? The resulting ice age is also something to worry about. Ice ages make it kind of tough to find food.
You sure about that? 75 years is 657,000 hours. At FLAC sized files (350mb/hr) it would require 229,950,000 megabytes. I guess you are pretty close there!
It ran on my laptops geforce 9100m/w 256mb shared memory, but fairly slowly. If you have a midrange videocard with only 256, give it a shot. Pretty neat simulation actually.....
Indeed. A well conceived root can hide itself from pretty much everything. I owns your system. If it wants to return a proper checksum it can without issue. If it wants to copy the real file back in place so nothing looks suspicious after loading, then sure why not? Rootkits can be incredibly hard to detect.
Sure, that is if you ingest lots of LSD and enter a magickal state of streamed consciousness where you can pour your whole thesis out at a rate nearly faster than you can speak it. You know? That really brings back some memories....
I totally agree. Is windows really that bad to admin anymore? I mean when you get a good clean working install just make an image of it or something. Preferably with all your must have programs installed already. I mean is this so complicated? Save user data somewhere away from the machine and reimage when everything fux0rs up. See, the way I look at it, apple is charging $1000 over cost for the OS and the design aesthetic. I used to love the beauty of mac OS as a paradigm. Anymore it feels over 15 years old. The core has been greatly improved, but on the surface, it still feels very much like OS 7.5 in the end. To me windows is immediately so much more flexible, and don't give me that "you can pull up a terminal on it and run unix commands" bullshit. Its 2010. The whole original design of MacOS was the antithesis of the command prompt. (I must admit OS X is somewhat sexy and does quite a few things totally right.......)
They used to have really great hardware that was almost worth the huge prices they arrogantly charged for it (and some really crap hardware as well). I was pretty sad when they switched off the PowerPC. I always was a pretty big PPC fan. Who knows what would have happened if they had stayed their original course, but if you ask me the portability of darwin seemed to clearly point the way towards a break from ibm. intel cpus are certainly much, much cheaper.......
That's what I do. Worst case scenario: I have to reinstall windows and some programs. Better case scenario: I plug in a spare drive and copy an image back over and reboot. I like to live on the edge a little bit. I've found its a good idea to keep semi-updated mirrors of your working drives somewhere, but hey, who does crazy stuff like that? I mean why sweat the small stuff. A patch can ruin your install (I guess), a drive can crash, your logic board can die, your power supply may fail, you may catch a virus, etc, etc. So many things might go wrong. If your system is totally mission critical, you have a spare available somewhere on standby right? I'm just saying there are so many points of failure and sure if you are responsible for some critical multi-user server, than you you might not want to auto-update. In fact they make service packs specifically for people like you.
What was Microsoft's ad campaign back in the day? "Windows: Where do you want to go today?" I swear sometimes they are becoming masters of intentional self parody.
You know, I was going to say that OS X was mach based and a microkernel, but I looked it up and....bzzzzzt...wrong! OS X is also a hybrid. Very interesting. How long until linux becomes hybridized?
I wonder how many reboots would a windows 2000 pre-service pack 1 install take to be up to date? IIRC there are hundreds of updates after SP4 for windows 2000. Did they ever roll them all up to SP5 or anything? Last I knew it took a good while to get Win2000 up to date and then you had to go and change all kinds of things like security and whatnot, find a firewall, etc..... At least with XP SP2 and above you had a passable install out of the box with a firewall and all the other things they added with SP1.
They are indeed hopeless when it comes to that. Its funny, that was one of the things Bill Gates complained about in his alleged e-mail to windows developers that he may or may not have written. The only thing that seems to do updates well and integrates them with application updates is linux. At least all of your stuff installed via package manager will keep up-to-date with the right entries in your sources list. What I wish someone would do is make some sort of master source list that somehow gets updated from time to time. I find it irritating when I install ubuntu or debian that I have to go and add a bunch of entries into the source list, which may quit working when a server goes down one day or a project changes hosts. I wish there were like some kind of master universe repository that just kept near the bleeding edge for those people that get all bent out of shape (like me) if they don't have the latest versions of certain things. OS X seems to cause a lot of reboots at update time, but it doesn't always seem necessary. I think windows has gotten better, but really it seems like part of the problem is that so many services are so dependent on other services that taking one of the stack , even briefly, results in the others to crash in a spiraling chain reaction. Is one reboot a month or so all that bad? Usually some driver gets stuck or starts acting up forcing a reboot before anything else, but I have had this machine running W7 for over a month easily without a reboot and I could imagine it just running nearly indefinitely if it weren't for the monthly updates. Even my XP machine ran for months at a time with nary a problem.
I've often wondered how they push updates down on big iron. I mean some of these machines are up for years without a reboot. Do they just keep them in walled off gardens and use the old "if it ain't broke" axiom or do they actually have scheduled downtime?
You CAN peacefully overthrow the government. Unfortunately nobody really cares, so we get a bunch of self-serving rich schmucks to run our country instead. We really deserve to reap the bitter harvest from the seeds of disinterest that we have sown.
I can see other states passing laws such as this. I would think that if you were planning on overthrowing the government, doing so "legally" by registering your intent probably wouldn't seem like the brightest idea. This is akin to requiring bank robbers to register before they go rob a bank. Who in their right mind would do anything? Also notice that it says on the clause:
"(1) "Subversive organization" means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means;
"advocate"........."advise".......... These words are the result of sharing your opinion. You "advocate" or you "advise" somebody on a matter. This basically makes thought and speech crimes if you do not register to speak your opinion. If we share opinions then we need to register. I honestly cannot fathom what crime this useless law is meant to deter from, nor see how it will protect anyone from anything. Any sort of restrictions on free speech and the right to assembly (also attacked here) are movements towards taking power and freedoms away from people. My oh my how utterly un-american we have so become........the sad part is that the people that vote these laws into action consider themselves patriots (notice how patriotism is explicitly exempt from this law, which opens up all sorts of avenues......militias are patriotic too........) I hope they gave George and Tom lots of space to roll in their coffins......................
So you are saying that even in a "liquid" state, water has crystals that have formed? Fascinating. It truly amazes me how little we know about water and how we keep discovering new things about it. There are a lot of quacky people that think the homeopathic effect works, but if you ask me, it really sounds like pseudo-science. The placebo effect may actually be more powerful, so what does that say?
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Congratz, you just bought a car and ran it at 30km/h.
Get a driver license and do a 100km/h please
Have you considered that the parent might also dual boot into windows? Notice the gp states "I don't play games on linux much." (emphasis mine)
From what I've seen the nvidia drivers on linux can be pretty abysmal and even just getting compiz working is a huge step forward, especially for open source, reverse engineered drivers.
If you want to be a douche bag, at least read the parent's comment before being so quick to fire such a moronic reply. Is that all you can bring to the table? An insult? Because they stated that their graphics driver served their very limited needs? To use your fucking totally shitty analogy: If you are only ever city driving, you only really need to do 30 km/h anyways. Most people's cars will go well over 100. You are totally right. They are wasting all of that vast, untapped potential! I can get people not reading the article (fuck I didn't even RTFA and here I am making some comment!), but when you can't even read the whole comment you are taking the time to reply to, then maybe you need to go over to like digg or 4chan or something. Who knows, you might find some people more on your level there, if you know what I mean. You should learn some proper grammar too.
From what I've seen, it I've only seen Home Premium x86 on most new installs. Especially laptops. I don't see a big push for x64 unless I'm mistaken or something.
I have as well. Graphics drivers are not the greatest, for example, because XP brought DirectX 9. Finding binary drivers for ancient hardware can be quite a chore, especially with all the good driver repositories trying to nickel and dime you for some ancient S3 driver they still have sitting on there servers. Nothing is more supremely frustrating than really needing to complete an install and the only copies you can find still out there on the net are sitting behind some pay wall.
Not really. A lot of newer programs support only XP or newer, so you would have to at least upgrade to XP to get a lot of modern software to run. I'm pretty sure a lot of the major stuff still works, like firefox, and I can't think of any real examples, but there are certainly apps out there that need newer interfaces. I don't believe you can install the .net framework version 3 for instance and a lot of apps have been coded against those libraries. I don't know how much more life support XP has, but I think that within a couple more years the mainstream will have finally moved on to something more modern. I mean there are still windows 2000 holdouts, but the sun set on win2000 quite some time ago.
Oh. Also look at how many humans are dying of hunger right now. What like 33 million or something? The number is really insane. It wouldn't take long for a few billion to slowly die of malnutrition. The world could be a really ugly place for a while. One day those crazy gun nuts are going to suddenly become everyone's new best friend.
I am not a scientist by any stretch of the word, (maybe a computer scientist at heart but I digress) but I know I'm smarter than the average sheep, Record snows do tend to happen. The last one that happened here was in 1996. 14 years ago. I don't see any real pattern here, in fact, in my area I've seen a lot less snow than usual. When I was a kid, we would sometimes get 6-12 inches and that was usually a pretty good snow storm (hah, then I moved up near buffalo....). These would happen maybe once or twice a year. Lately all we ever seem to get is 2-4 inches at the most. I think we got about 2 feet of snow in the last blizzard and probably another foot or so of accumulation since then. Its snowing like hell now. I think we might get 2-4 if it keeps up at the rate its going. So yeah, this is pretty unprecedented, but rare. My theory is that strange shifts seem to be occurring in the weather patterns.
Common theory holds that this indicates that something is happening to the heating/cooling cycle of the Earth. But here we forget that in the 1700s there was a mini ice-age, and that all sorts of bad things have happened to the weather....like Volcanoes and other catastrophes. The methane trapped in siberia that is releasing now is like what 30 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than co2? (slight exaggeration you damned fact nazis) Millions of cubic feet? Billions? What about all the greenhouse gasses sequestered in the ocean? We think its had a few burps. Will it have more? I think if you add it all up nature is dumping much more "runaway" greenhouse gasses than we are, or will be in the relatively near future. Did our hand help the process along? Probably.
Was it going to happen anyways? Who knows? There are so many pieces to this puzzle that I don't think anyone can really put them together yet. So many variables in the soup. Maybe the sun is somehow different. (I'm sure we have checked this, but for how long?) Maybe we are due for a warming cycle of some kind. There is legend of man stepping foot on dry antarctic land before at one point. Mammoths also walked the earth with man, but where are they now? (oh wait I totally forgot we just slaughtered them all....whoops....) We have seen a lot of changes in our environment and were certainly adaptable to radical changes. More so than any other species. I think we can survive a lot of things of we at least have the means to reproduce food, but even in the absence of that, I'm quite sure we would somehow innovate or simply find some way to find nourishment. Man has lived in some of the harshest environments anywhere and has survived.
We are the cockroaches of the vertebrae world. Even nuclear war would likely not wipe us out. I have hope. How can you not? I just really hope that the world we leave our grandchildren is at least not a complete toxic wasteland devoid of any visible life. Seeing as how even in some of our most polluted environments (like the big beautiful dump, I mean ocean) life has managed carry on, I would worry more about what we can do now just to curb a lot of our pollution, but the excessive consumption of throwaway goods and containers really needs to stop as well as a million other things that are not so obvious. We are smart (sometimes) and I think we can figure this out, but it is indeed a huge problem and most people just don't want it to impact their own lives in some way and that mentality needs to end.
So is global warming real? I guess it is possible. There is also certainly global cooling, like the last ice age that may or may not have formed in the period of 6 months, which I guess is plausible all things considered. So why wouldn't global warming exist if you can have global cooling? So global warming exists. Is it happening now? Well, since ice from the last ice age, like at glacier national park, is finally melting down to rock I guess its warmer relatively. That ice hasn't melted for 100,000 years or so. Why now? The resulting ice age is also something to worry about. Ice ages make it kind of tough to find food.
Subs for sure. If they were still on the surface, they would have been cleared by now. Submarine mines were typically anchored deep in the water.
waaaaaay nicer. ben heck is THE master at modding consoles into a portable format.
You sure about that? 75 years is 657,000 hours. At FLAC sized files (350mb/hr) it would require 229,950,000 megabytes. I guess you are pretty close there!
It ran on my laptops geforce 9100m /w 256mb shared memory, but fairly slowly. If you have a midrange videocard with only 256, give it a shot. Pretty neat simulation actually.....
Indeed. A well conceived root can hide itself from pretty much everything. I owns your system. If it wants to return a proper checksum it can without issue. If it wants to copy the real file back in place so nothing looks suspicious after loading, then sure why not? Rootkits can be incredibly hard to detect.
Did you remember to fill out your tps report?
Sure, that is if you ingest lots of LSD and enter a magickal state of streamed consciousness where you can pour your whole thesis out at a rate nearly faster than you can speak it. You know? That really brings back some memories....
No, but you can get off mine!
Get off my lawn!
I totally agree. Is windows really that bad to admin anymore? I mean when you get a good clean working install just make an image of it or something. Preferably with all your must have programs installed already. I mean is this so complicated? Save user data somewhere away from the machine and reimage when everything fux0rs up. See, the way I look at it, apple is charging $1000 over cost for the OS and the design aesthetic. I used to love the beauty of mac OS as a paradigm. Anymore it feels over 15 years old. The core has been greatly improved, but on the surface, it still feels very much like OS 7.5 in the end. To me windows is immediately so much more flexible, and don't give me that "you can pull up a terminal on it and run unix commands" bullshit. Its 2010. The whole original design of MacOS was the antithesis of the command prompt. (I must admit OS X is somewhat sexy and does quite a few things totally right.......)
They used to have really great hardware that was almost worth the huge prices they arrogantly charged for it (and some really crap hardware as well). I was pretty sad when they switched off the PowerPC. I always was a pretty big PPC fan. Who knows what would have happened if they had stayed their original course, but if you ask me the portability of darwin seemed to clearly point the way towards a break from ibm. intel cpus are certainly much, much cheaper.......
That's what I do. Worst case scenario: I have to reinstall windows and some programs. Better case scenario: I plug in a spare drive and copy an image back over and reboot. I like to live on the edge a little bit. I've found its a good idea to keep semi-updated mirrors of your working drives somewhere, but hey, who does crazy stuff like that? I mean why sweat the small stuff. A patch can ruin your install (I guess), a drive can crash, your logic board can die, your power supply may fail, you may catch a virus, etc, etc. So many things might go wrong. If your system is totally mission critical, you have a spare available somewhere on standby right? I'm just saying there are so many points of failure and sure if you are responsible for some critical multi-user server, than you you might not want to auto-update. In fact they make service packs specifically for people like you.
What was Microsoft's ad campaign back in the day? "Windows: Where do you want to go today?" I swear sometimes they are becoming masters of intentional self parody.
You know, I was going to say that OS X was mach based and a microkernel, but I looked it up and....bzzzzzt...wrong! OS X is also a hybrid. Very interesting. How long until linux becomes hybridized?
I wonder how many reboots would a windows 2000 pre-service pack 1 install take to be up to date? IIRC there are hundreds of updates after SP4 for windows 2000. Did they ever roll them all up to SP5 or anything? Last I knew it took a good while to get Win2000 up to date and then you had to go and change all kinds of things like security and whatnot, find a firewall, etc..... At least with XP SP2 and above you had a passable install out of the box with a firewall and all the other things they added with SP1.
They are indeed hopeless when it comes to that. Its funny, that was one of the things Bill Gates complained about in his alleged e-mail to windows developers that he may or may not have written. The only thing that seems to do updates well and integrates them with application updates is linux. At least all of your stuff installed via package manager will keep up-to-date with the right entries in your sources list. What I wish someone would do is make some sort of master source list that somehow gets updated from time to time. I find it irritating when I install ubuntu or debian that I have to go and add a bunch of entries into the source list, which may quit working when a server goes down one day or a project changes hosts. I wish there were like some kind of master universe repository that just kept near the bleeding edge for those people that get all bent out of shape (like me) if they don't have the latest versions of certain things. OS X seems to cause a lot of reboots at update time, but it doesn't always seem necessary. I think windows has gotten better, but really it seems like part of the problem is that so many services are so dependent on other services that taking one of the stack , even briefly, results in the others to crash in a spiraling chain reaction. Is one reboot a month or so all that bad? Usually some driver gets stuck or starts acting up forcing a reboot before anything else, but I have had this machine running W7 for over a month easily without a reboot and I could imagine it just running nearly indefinitely if it weren't for the monthly updates. Even my XP machine ran for months at a time with nary a problem.
I've often wondered how they push updates down on big iron. I mean some of these machines are up for years without a reboot. Do they just keep them in walled off gardens and use the old "if it ain't broke" axiom or do they actually have scheduled downtime?
You CAN peacefully overthrow the government. Unfortunately nobody really cares, so we get a bunch of self-serving rich schmucks to run our country instead. We really deserve to reap the bitter harvest from the seeds of disinterest that we have sown.
Oh...so revolution is legal down there huh? You just gotta register before you do it? Makes total sense to me!
I can see other states passing laws such as this. I would think that if you were planning on overthrowing the government, doing so "legally" by registering your intent probably wouldn't seem like the brightest idea. This is akin to requiring bank robbers to register before they go rob a bank. Who in their right mind would do anything? Also notice that it says on the clause:
"(1) "Subversive organization" means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means;
"advocate"........."advise".......... These words are the result of sharing your opinion. You "advocate" or you "advise" somebody on a matter. This basically makes thought and speech crimes if you do not register to speak your opinion. If we share opinions then we need to register. I honestly cannot fathom what crime this useless law is meant to deter from, nor see how it will protect anyone from anything. Any sort of restrictions on free speech and the right to assembly (also attacked here) are movements towards taking power and freedoms away from people. My oh my how utterly un-american we have so become........the sad part is that the people that vote these laws into action consider themselves patriots (notice how patriotism is explicitly exempt from this law, which opens up all sorts of avenues......militias are patriotic too........) I hope they gave George and Tom lots of space to roll in their coffins......................
America.....pure irony at its best!
That is six months or longer!! Paypal should be illegal because of crap like this.
So you are saying that even in a "liquid" state, water has crystals that have formed? Fascinating. It truly amazes me how little we know about water and how we keep discovering new things about it. There are a lot of quacky people that think the homeopathic effect works, but if you ask me, it really sounds like pseudo-science. The placebo effect may actually be more powerful, so what does that say?