Dapper Drake will be out next month and it's going to rock!
I love Dapper and all, and have used Ubuntu since 2004, but the last month has seen my laptop slow to a crawl and become unusable. Both laptops in the house running Dapper kernel panic at least once a day, so it's probably not a hardware problem. Beagle can't be installed because programs become impossible to use when it's running -- even when it's niced to 19. No proprietary drivers. Stock install and two days ago my Gnome borked so badly that I had to install KDE to use the computer. I found KDE so much faster that I've stuck with it for a week.
I'm not optimistic about Dapper, though I really want to be. I stopped working the book I was writing about Dapper because I'm unsure whether it will be stable enough for corporate use. I'm waiting a week then looking again.
I think some people are going around marking posts "Troll" just because they disagree with them and think that's the most effective way to strike out at the posters.
Well they're wrong -- overrated is the most effective way to deal with them. When I had my "sex blog" on Slashdot a couple of years back, I regularly got mod-bombed by people who hated it: I would receive five overrated mods on my most recent posts and the modder would be immune from meta-mods.
Personally, I almost never mod down, unless I notice that "informative" posts have their facts wrong. This all reminds me that I need to use those mods points I got days ago.
There are just too many references to "hidden costs" and the inability to find qualified admins -- one part even talks about moving to MS being part of the reduction of IT staff and another about consolidating five servers to two... who'd believe that? I seriously get the feeling that the first two stories were scripted in some way. Can't put my finger on exactly what tipped it off, though.
For example, remote users struggled to grapple with a virtual private network (VPN) login system that required three different passwords to establish a connection. Furthermore, plans to introduce a customer relationship management (CRM) system floundered after it became clear that integrating CRM with the existing environment was simply going to be too much effort.
Ultimately, it was the failure of a network interface card and a hard drive that taught IT systems manager Ross Forgione just how wide the gap can be between vendor promises and reality. "Restoring and recovering of any messages that may have been deleted took 24 hours-plus," he recalls. "We were assured that there were procedures and processes you could follow to recover down to the individual message, but when it came to reality, it was a lengthy process and an absolute nightmare."
Couldn't LDAP-Kerberos have solved the first problem and a reasonable backup system solved the third. CRM has been a problem on linux, but couldn't something like ERP5 handle it? It just sounds like the skillset wasn't there.
As I posted above, this was going on in Thailand three years ago. 99 Baht (~$2.50) bought you a legit DVD. No new releases, of course, but good movies.
When I lived in Thailand (where piracy is also rampant), many older (meaning not new releases, but also not black and white) movies were available on DVD for 99 Baht, or about $2.50. Renting a VCD was a little cheaper, but renting a DVD was virtually the same price as buying. I ended up buying a truckload of them. Even if they were more expensive than pirated versions (which they weren't) I would've paid the small premium for proper sub-titles and better quality.
Well, I'm in Korea, and if I go to lunch at a cheap diner near a high school, the TV there is always tuned to ongame.net, the channel the GP mentioned. Kids are obsessed with watching their role-models and learning new tricks or strategies for Starcraft, CS, or Special Forces. It's no different than anyone who watches experts at his serious hobbies. I doubt, as you say, that it's especially cultural. It just depends on how serious people take their gaming, I think.
No link -- just first-person memory: Lv - Time ------ Languages 1 -- 6 months -- Latin languages and some of the Germanic 2 -- 9 months -- Russian and the more difficult European languages 3 - 11 months -- Farsi, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and the easier Asian languages 4 - 17 months -- Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese 5 - 24 months -- English for foreign officers
Keep in mind that this is from memory, that I was in the Asian school and didn't pay a lot of attention to the ratings, and that the levels may have changed over the last seven years. I always heard rumors that Arabic, Korean, and Japanese were considered for a move to level five because the failure rate was near 80% for these languages.
In response to the GP, the DoD also strongly believes in natural ability to learn a language and tests for this ability using the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB). The various levels have minimum scores required for entry. I scored extremely high on the test and have been called a "language sponge." The GP may lack language ability or motivation or both. I knew a Canadian who went through a similar immersion for French and didn't seem to get much, either, so maybe it's just the teaching method. There are so many factors at work in language learning that nothing guarantees success, though many things can virtually guarantee failure.
First of all, so that you know I'm not talking out of my ass, I am an American who has successfully learned Mandarin, Thai, and Lao. I have also tried but failed to learn Khmer and Korean (a language similar to Japanese in many ways).
Last time I checked, the US DoD rated Japanese as a level four language, meaning that in order to get a working proficiency, they expect a full time language student to take about a year and a half of five to six hours a day in small classes with two to three hours of homework a day. My guess is that, as a gamer, you don't have the two thousand free hours they expect you to study for, nor do you have qualified native-speaker teachers to help you. You are therefore extremely limited in what you can achieve without going to live in Japan.
In the end, that is what I suggest if you REALLY want to become proficient in the language. If you have a four year degree, you can become an English teacher there (though it looks as though you'll need to improve your English skills before you go...), take lessons in your free time, and get totally immersed in the language. I don't think that there's really any other option for you. Even immersion will probably take two to three years.
Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease.
Why would they bother doing this? I doubt heart disease is a major cause of death in pigs. Most of them don't live long enough to get past middle age. Maybe we should focus our DNA testing on animals which live over five years, like the turtle. Jeez! What a waste of funding!;)
I, too, have been running the Dapper pre-release for some time now and have recently begun having severe problems with Nautilus over an smb connection: when a folder containing videos is open, Nautilus zooms to 100% CPU usage, even though preview is set to ignore remote files over 5MB. It cripples the machine and even logging out often hangs unresponsively, I asume waiting for Nautilus to be killed properly.
OK. The link might be a little misleading, because only the first 8(?) projects are Apple's, while the other 160+ aren't. Even those eight include X11.app, and I'm not sure how much development they actually did on that one. If you want to count those for Apple, you might as well count NT3.5 as pro Open Source for including the BSD TCP stack.
I'm not anti-Apple, but the only things on that page that I see as useful for anyone not running an Apple OS are the Quicktime server (Does anyone really use that? I knew a buddy at a job 3-4 years ago who tried to get it running on his BSD servers and couldn't get it to work reliably) and OpenDirectory. I don't think that the length of that page should make someone believe that Apple is more pro-OSS than they really are. Kind of the same deal as the famous Safari/Konqueror problem.
There was never really anything about this in English. I translated the stories from Thai into English for my journal here, but have since deleted them. You'll have to trust me that it happened. There's not a lot of detail about what happened anyway, so everyone just assumed that MS applied the right kind of pressure / lubricant to make the Ministry of Ed go against the govenment policy and derail the whole effort. The timing and the result have to be more than coincidence, since it was right before that that Thailand destroyed MS's "one price 'round the world" policy by selling a million computers preloaded with LinuxTLE.
No one here will really know about it, but LinuxTLE was gunning hard to be the official OS of Thailand and the government had a plan to move 90% of desktops over within five years when MS came in with threats of audits and "convinced" the Ministry of Education to go on a five year deal with MS in order to legitimize all the currently installed operating systems, freely upgradable to Win98. This was a bout 2 1/2 years ago, when I lived there and was involved in the FLOSS movement there. The last release of LinuxTLE was over a year ago, and the shell of the team that's left has just announced that they'll move the distro base from Fedora Core to Ubuntu. Good luck to them getting something out in the next six months....
I can't believe that you have a five digit UID but have never installed Linux on a laptop before or feel that 700MHz is an older machine! I think that you would've been fine on your laptop if you'd upped the memory to 512. Ubuntu is a memory hog. If you try Xubuntu, though, you might be able to get away with it. Even my brand new laptop (came with 256MB RAM) regularly slowed down before I purchased more memory. Before the laptop, though, I was running Ubuntu 5.10 on a PIII 700MHz with no problems ever, including videos, and it did double duty as web/mail server, too.
Bottom line is, if you can ditch Gnome or KDE and go with XFCE or even IceWM with Nautilus running the desktop icons, I bet that you won't have any problems doing what you've said you want to do.
It wasn't a sarcastic question when I asked it. It was meant sincerely. I suspected that the hatred shown in the original text sprang from some trauma in your life. I still stick with my original point, that you shouldn't paint all soldiers as uncaring sociopaths simply because something bad happened to you in you past from one or two or ten of them, otherwise the same thinking will lead you to hate other groups of people.
Wow. What is in your past that causes you to have such hate for soldiers? Was your entire family killed by one? You should learn to differentiate between a single person, or even a group of people, who behaves badly and a whole class of individuals, otherwise you're one short step from anti-semitism, white supremacy, or any of the other hard-core racist ideals. That is, unless you were just flame-baiting, which I suspect you were.
Actually, in Korea, everybody uses Windows. The article claims that the desktop penetration is 1%, as opposed to the 3% globally. I, myself, have never met anyone who uses it besides myself, and people whom I mention it to give me confused looks. Hangul Office puts out a version of Linux (I think they just merged with Asianux), but it's given away for free in computer stores and still gathers dust.
Great timing for the article: I'll start looking for a new job here the end of next month, and will certainly put in a resume at the university chosen by ROK.
What you say about getting soldiers past the point of firing (or firing AT something) is true, and the DoD has known about it since WWII, and changed training methods specifically to get past the 90% rate of ineffective fire they saw there. Bullseyes were replaced with more man-like targets and many more sophisticated changes were made. The resulting shift in effective fire to near the 90% level is credited by the professor of psychology at Westpoint as the reason for the increase in post-traumatic stress disorder after Vietnam.
Anyone really interested in this subject should read On Killing, because it covers the subject very well and even talks about the role of FPSs in the "training" of civilians. You may not agree with its contents, but it may change the way you think about modern warfare.
I initially found it amusing when dark matter began to be discussed seriously, because originally, there was the "Ether" (a substance which we can't see or measure in space), then it was laughed at as absurd, then something stikingly similar appeared in the form of dark matter. Why don't we just rename dark matter to ether and be done with it?
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Dapper Drake will be out next month and it's going to rock!
I love Dapper and all, and have used Ubuntu since 2004, but the last month has seen my laptop slow to a crawl and become unusable. Both laptops in the house running Dapper kernel panic at least once a day, so it's probably not a hardware problem. Beagle can't be installed because programs become impossible to use when it's running -- even when it's niced to 19. No proprietary drivers. Stock install and two days ago my Gnome borked so badly that I had to install KDE to use the computer. I found KDE so much faster that I've stuck with it for a week.
I'm not optimistic about Dapper, though I really want to be. I stopped working the book I was writing about Dapper because I'm unsure whether it will be stable enough for corporate use. I'm waiting a week then looking again.
I think some people are going around marking posts "Troll" just because they disagree with them and think that's the most effective way to strike out at the posters.
Well they're wrong -- overrated is the most effective way to deal with them. When I had my "sex blog" on Slashdot a couple of years back, I regularly got mod-bombed by people who hated it: I would receive five overrated mods on my most recent posts and the modder would be immune from meta-mods.
Personally, I almost never mod down, unless I notice that "informative" posts have their facts wrong. This all reminds me that I need to use those mods points I got days ago.
IPCop should be listed as an offshoot of Smoothwall, because it was forked after a flamewar over the license (If I remember correctly).
There are just too many references to "hidden costs" and the inability to find qualified admins -- one part even talks about moving to MS being part of the reduction of IT staff and another about consolidating five servers to two... who'd believe that? I seriously get the feeling that the first two stories were scripted in some way. Can't put my finger on exactly what tipped it off, though.
I wasn't promoting piracy, just commenting that this policy isn't new, since I saw it in action in Thailand about three years ago.
As I posted above, this was going on in Thailand three years ago. 99 Baht (~$2.50) bought you a legit DVD. No new releases, of course, but good movies.
When I lived in Thailand (where piracy is also rampant), many older (meaning not new releases, but also not black and white) movies were available on DVD for 99 Baht, or about $2.50. Renting a VCD was a little cheaper, but renting a DVD was virtually the same price as buying. I ended up buying a truckload of them. Even if they were more expensive than pirated versions (which they weren't) I would've paid the small premium for proper sub-titles and better quality.
Well, I'm in Korea, and if I go to lunch at a cheap diner near a high school, the TV there is always tuned to ongame.net, the channel the GP mentioned. Kids are obsessed with watching their role-models and learning new tricks or strategies for Starcraft, CS, or Special Forces. It's no different than anyone who watches experts at his serious hobbies. I doubt, as you say, that it's especially cultural. It just depends on how serious people take their gaming, I think.
No link -- just first-person memory:
Lv - Time ------ Languages
1 -- 6 months -- Latin languages and some of the Germanic
2 -- 9 months -- Russian and the more difficult European languages
3 - 11 months -- Farsi, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and the easier Asian languages
4 - 17 months -- Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese
5 - 24 months -- English for foreign officers
Keep in mind that this is from memory, that I was in the Asian school and didn't pay a lot of attention to the ratings, and that the levels may have changed over the last seven years. I always heard rumors that Arabic, Korean, and Japanese were considered for a move to level five because the failure rate was near 80% for these languages.
In response to the GP, the DoD also strongly believes in natural ability to learn a language and tests for this ability using the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB). The various levels have minimum scores required for entry. I scored extremely high on the test and have been called a "language sponge." The GP may lack language ability or motivation or both. I knew a Canadian who went through a similar immersion for French and didn't seem to get much, either, so maybe it's just the teaching method. There are so many factors at work in language learning that nothing guarantees success, though many things can virtually guarantee failure.
First of all, so that you know I'm not talking out of my ass, I am an American who has successfully learned Mandarin, Thai, and Lao. I have also tried but failed to learn Khmer and Korean (a language similar to Japanese in many ways).
...), take lessons in your free time, and get totally immersed in the language. I don't think that there's really any other option for you. Even immersion will probably take two to three years.
Last time I checked, the US DoD rated Japanese as a level four language, meaning that in order to get a working proficiency, they expect a full time language student to take about a year and a half of five to six hours a day in small classes with two to three hours of homework a day. My guess is that, as a gamer, you don't have the two thousand free hours they expect you to study for, nor do you have qualified native-speaker teachers to help you. You are therefore extremely limited in what you can achieve without going to live in Japan.
In the end, that is what I suggest if you REALLY want to become proficient in the language. If you have a four year degree, you can become an English teacher there (though it looks as though you'll need to improve your English skills before you go
Sorry for the bad news.
Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease.
;)
Why would they bother doing this? I doubt heart disease is a major cause of death in pigs. Most of them don't live long enough to get past middle age. Maybe we should focus our DNA testing on animals which live over five years, like the turtle. Jeez! What a waste of funding!
I, too, have been running the Dapper pre-release for some time now and have recently begun having severe problems with Nautilus over an smb connection: when a folder containing videos is open, Nautilus zooms to 100% CPU usage, even though preview is set to ignore remote files over 5MB. It cripples the machine and even logging out often hangs unresponsively, I asume waiting for Nautilus to be killed properly.
What do you have against the University of East Anglia? Have they ever done anything underhanded to you?
OK. The link might be a little misleading, because only the first 8(?) projects are Apple's, while the other 160+ aren't. Even those eight include X11.app, and I'm not sure how much development they actually did on that one. If you want to count those for Apple, you might as well count NT3.5 as pro Open Source for including the BSD TCP stack.
I'm not anti-Apple, but the only things on that page that I see as useful for anyone not running an Apple OS are the Quicktime server (Does anyone really use that? I knew a buddy at a job 3-4 years ago who tried to get it running on his BSD servers and couldn't get it to work reliably) and OpenDirectory. I don't think that the length of that page should make someone believe that Apple is more pro-OSS than they really are. Kind of the same deal as the famous Safari/Konqueror problem.
There was never really anything about this in English. I translated the stories from Thai into English for my journal here, but have since deleted them. You'll have to trust me that it happened. There's not a lot of detail about what happened anyway, so everyone just assumed that MS applied the right kind of pressure / lubricant to make the Ministry of Ed go against the govenment policy and derail the whole effort. The timing and the result have to be more than coincidence, since it was right before that that Thailand destroyed MS's "one price 'round the world" policy by selling a million computers preloaded with LinuxTLE.
No one here will really know about it, but LinuxTLE was gunning hard to be the official OS of Thailand and the government had a plan to move 90% of desktops over within five years when MS came in with threats of audits and "convinced" the Ministry of Education to go on a five year deal with MS in order to legitimize all the currently installed operating systems, freely upgradable to Win98. This was a bout 2 1/2 years ago, when I lived there and was involved in the FLOSS movement there. The last release of LinuxTLE was over a year ago, and the shell of the team that's left has just announced that they'll move the distro base from Fedora Core to Ubuntu. Good luck to them getting something out in the next six months ....
Pay for Suse or Xandros or Linspire which have MP3 support built in because they can pay the license fee (since you paid them). The problem is solved.
I can't believe that you have a five digit UID but have never installed Linux on a laptop before or feel that 700MHz is an older machine! I think that you would've been fine on your laptop if you'd upped the memory to 512. Ubuntu is a memory hog. If you try Xubuntu, though, you might be able to get away with it. Even my brand new laptop (came with 256MB RAM) regularly slowed down before I purchased more memory. Before the laptop, though, I was running Ubuntu 5.10 on a PIII 700MHz with no problems ever, including videos, and it did double duty as web/mail server, too.
Bottom line is, if you can ditch Gnome or KDE and go with XFCE or even IceWM with Nautilus running the desktop icons, I bet that you won't have any problems doing what you've said you want to do.
It wasn't a sarcastic question when I asked it. It was meant sincerely. I suspected that the hatred shown in the original text sprang from some trauma in your life. I still stick with my original point, that you shouldn't paint all soldiers as uncaring sociopaths simply because something bad happened to you in you past from one or two or ten of them, otherwise the same thinking will lead you to hate other groups of people.
Wow. What is in your past that causes you to have such hate for soldiers? Was your entire family killed by one? You should learn to differentiate between a single person, or even a group of people, who behaves badly and a whole class of individuals, otherwise you're one short step from anti-semitism, white supremacy, or any of the other hard-core racist ideals. That is, unless you were just flame-baiting, which I suspect you were.
Yes, or Maple Story or Lineage. True, that. Gaming is more than a hobby here.
Actually, in Korea, everybody uses Windows. The article claims that the desktop penetration is 1%, as opposed to the 3% globally. I, myself, have never met anyone who uses it besides myself, and people whom I mention it to give me confused looks. Hangul Office puts out a version of Linux (I think they just merged with Asianux), but it's given away for free in computer stores and still gathers dust.
Great timing for the article: I'll start looking for a new job here the end of next month, and will certainly put in a resume at the university chosen by ROK.
What you say about getting soldiers past the point of firing (or firing AT something) is true, and the DoD has known about it since WWII, and changed training methods specifically to get past the 90% rate of ineffective fire they saw there. Bullseyes were replaced with more man-like targets and many more sophisticated changes were made. The resulting shift in effective fire to near the 90% level is credited by the professor of psychology at Westpoint as the reason for the increase in post-traumatic stress disorder after Vietnam.
Anyone really interested in this subject should read On Killing, because it covers the subject very well and even talks about the role of FPSs in the "training" of civilians. You may not agree with its contents, but it may change the way you think about modern warfare.
I initially found it amusing when dark matter began to be discussed seriously, because originally, there was the "Ether" (a substance which we can't see or measure in space), then it was laughed at as absurd, then something stikingly similar appeared in the form of dark matter. Why don't we just rename dark matter to ether and be done with it?