Why waste all that brainpower typing in the same command twice. Or pressing the up arrow key?
emerge -uvDa world
Plus it saves you all that time that it would take to recalculate dependencies!
My company inquired about getting some of these from Dell a couple of months ago. We kind of liked the one that we got from HP (although for us, in financial services, there's not much usefulness beyond the coolness factor). According to our rep, Dell has no plans to market them any time soon. Until there's a profit to make by selling them en masse I wouldn't expect anything.
Tejas is the Spanish pronunciation of the Caddo Indian word "Tayshas" (Americanized spelling notwithstanding), which was their word for "friend" - the Caddo tribe was one of the major tribes in the Gulf Coast region during Spanish Imperialism, and were generally on good terms with the Spaniards.
Umm, is this a paid advert or something? Geez, I've never seen someone this excited about this! It's not like WINE hasn't been doing this kind of thing for years.
Of course, I just use OO.o, and Evolution. OpenOffice does absolutely everything I need it to, and I swear that Evolution is an exact clone of Outlook 2k. Okay, maybe not exactly, but it's so close in functionality (minus the Exchange add-in) that I've been used to, before my work switched to Office 2003. Very happy!
Freakin Rygar, man! 86 hours of game, ONE lonely, solitary sad little life. Play the game for a week, keep it on pause while you sleep, and die near the end, only to have to start over from square one.
Gentoo is not "for system admins." Sure, it's a pain to set up the first time, if you're a Linux n00b (which I am), but once it's going, it's fantastic. I've been through the gamut of Linux distros in the last 6 months (SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and finally Gentoo), and you couldn't make me switch back to anything else. Like they say in their documentation, once you've recompiled your kernel a few times, you'll forget that it used to be hard.
Along with that, if you have a standard sound card, that'll usually be picked up by one of the precompiled kernels that you'll use (this is for pretty much any distro, not just Gentoo). When you compile the new kernel, sure, you have to make sure you compile support for it, but that's not a big deal, especially if you have a good set of directions.
You know, it's not always easy right out of the box - I know I had my problems when I first started, but once you get it configured the way you want, you'll never go back to Windows again (unless you're a big-time gamer, because WineX is spotty, at best).
You know, is it just me, or is that "middle east terrorist suspect" a priest? It's a sad state when a man of the cloth in a highly Catholic country (is it REALLY Mexico City?) is a terrorist...
And then there's the fact that it runs on OpenBSD (stolen from post below) and Windows 3.11 (wtf?) - I'm sorry, but unless it runs on MS/DOS 5.0, it's just not worth getting. Save up for something that's more "standards compliant."
A 3D rendered rifle, and the other product thingy on their page, also a rendering, and not a photo. Remind anyone of a certain vaporware system that we've seen before? **please don't sue me!**
"We're sorry, Mike Jones, our lead developer already has that name assigned to him in the phone system. So, we're calling you Mike W. Jones. We're sorry for the inconvenience, so here, take this red shirt, on the company.
"Oh, and here's your first assignment. You're going to try to sell our new deployment solution to the Romulans. Be sure to wear the red shirt - they love those!"
Then he goes there, in his red shirt, with the entire senior executive staff of the company - who do you think wins in this business deal?
That's exactly what first caused me to switch over to Linux - I was angry at WinXP for being dumb, when a buddy of mine showed me WineX, and how it would run EverQuest nearly flawlessly on Linux (I was starting up with SuSE 8.2 at the time, after a couple of years away from my Linux Experiment).
Of course, since then, I've stopped playing EQ, and switched from SuSE to Gentoo. I'm sorry to say, sometimes, that I still dual-boot WinXP for a few games (I'm still liking Knights of the Old Republic), but I've also started supporting a few Linux games (Uplink, anyone?), and I'll never go back to Windows for my day-to-day operating system again.
You can look at the WineX "issue" both ways. I'm not convinced that it's a big enough blip on the radar of the game development companies yet to convince them that they only need to develop for Windows, but it can definitely be seen as such. But, at the same time, I also agree that it can be a big help to get people to switch over to Linux. That's what got me started, and in turn, it got me to get a couple of people started on running Random Distro B (tm) of Linux. Sure, it's not much, but it's a start.
Nope, this one's legit. This one was just recently discovered, according to this article.
While I admit that it's kind of cool that they found something like this and could publish it, I'm not sure of how good an idea it is - it was obviously unpublished for a reason. And according to a couple of reviews (particularly the one that this article mentions), that might be for the best...
Of course, I'm still buying it. I have to round out my collection somehow.
I've actually looked at a couple of those kinds of postings, myself. Sure, you have to enlist in the military to play trumpet in the US Army Band, for example. But, in a lot of those types of positions (I haven't looked at all of them), once you go through Basic Training, your sole job is to play music. No combat duty, nothing else like that. It's actually a pretty sweet deal, if you can get it.
That's assuming, of course, you can survive basic. Being a giant geek, myself, I wouldn't make it past the second day.
Actually, at the moment, 3DES is still being adopted. I know that in my bank (a local community bank in Houston, with about 120 branches), we're in the process of upgrading all of our incredibly old systems right now.
It's about damn time, too. DES is okay, and we haven't had any security issues or anything, but some of the things are just plain ugly. And isn't that what's really important?
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Why waste all that brainpower typing in the same command twice. Or pressing the up arrow key? emerge -uvDa world Plus it saves you all that time that it would take to recalculate dependencies!
Don't hold your breath...
My company inquired about getting some of these from Dell a couple of months ago. We kind of liked the one that we got from HP (although for us, in financial services, there's not much usefulness beyond the coolness factor). According to our rep, Dell has no plans to market them any time soon. Until there's a profit to make by selling them en masse I wouldn't expect anything.
Ummmm...check the link to the $999 Tablet PC. at the end of the writeup.
Isn't Lycoris Linux? Okay, maybe it's no Gentoo, but I'm sure it could do the job just fine. =P
Tejas is the Spanish pronunciation of the Caddo Indian word "Tayshas" (Americanized spelling notwithstanding), which was their word for "friend" - the Caddo tribe was one of the major tribes in the Gulf Coast region during Spanish Imperialism, and were generally on good terms with the Spaniards.
Umm, is this a paid advert or something? Geez, I've never seen someone this excited about this! It's not like WINE hasn't been doing this kind of thing for years.
Of course, I just use OO.o, and Evolution. OpenOffice does absolutely everything I need it to, and I swear that Evolution is an exact clone of Outlook 2k. Okay, maybe not exactly, but it's so close in functionality (minus the Exchange add-in) that I've been used to, before my work switched to Office 2003. Very happy!
Freakin Rygar, man! 86 hours of game, ONE lonely, solitary sad little life. Play the game for a week, keep it on pause while you sleep, and die near the end, only to have to start over from square one.
Thank [insert deity here] for Game Genie...
Ummm...all of the Family Guy episodes that were released are out on DVD right now. I've practically worn them out already, I've played them so much.
A couple of points:
begin rant
Gentoo is not "for system admins." Sure, it's a pain to set up the first time, if you're a Linux n00b (which I am), but once it's going, it's fantastic. I've been through the gamut of Linux distros in the last 6 months (SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and finally Gentoo), and you couldn't make me switch back to anything else. Like they say in their documentation, once you've recompiled your kernel a few times, you'll forget that it used to be hard.
Along with that, if you have a standard sound card, that'll usually be picked up by one of the precompiled kernels that you'll use (this is for pretty much any distro, not just Gentoo). When you compile the new kernel, sure, you have to make sure you compile support for it, but that's not a big deal, especially if you have a good set of directions.
You know, it's not always easy right out of the box - I know I had my problems when I first started, but once you get it configured the way you want, you'll never go back to Windows again (unless you're a big-time gamer, because WineX is spotty, at best).
end of rant
You know, is it just me, or is that "middle east terrorist suspect" a priest? It's a sad state when a man of the cloth in a highly Catholic country (is it REALLY Mexico City?) is a terrorist...
And then there's the fact that it runs on OpenBSD (stolen from post below) and Windows 3.11 (wtf?) - I'm sorry, but unless it runs on MS/DOS 5.0, it's just not worth getting. Save up for something that's more "standards compliant."
A 3D rendered rifle, and the other product thingy on their page, also a rendering, and not a photo. Remind anyone of a certain vaporware system that we've seen before? **please don't sue me!**
I can see it now...
"We're sorry, Mike Jones, our lead developer already has that name assigned to him in the phone system. So, we're calling you Mike W. Jones. We're sorry for the inconvenience, so here, take this red shirt, on the company.
"Oh, and here's your first assignment. You're going to try to sell our new deployment solution to the Romulans. Be sure to wear the red shirt - they love those!"
Then he goes there, in his red shirt, with the entire senior executive staff of the company - who do you think wins in this business deal?
That's exactly what first caused me to switch over to Linux - I was angry at WinXP for being dumb, when a buddy of mine showed me WineX, and how it would run EverQuest nearly flawlessly on Linux (I was starting up with SuSE 8.2 at the time, after a couple of years away from my Linux Experiment).
Of course, since then, I've stopped playing EQ, and switched from SuSE to Gentoo. I'm sorry to say, sometimes, that I still dual-boot WinXP for a few games (I'm still liking Knights of the Old Republic), but I've also started supporting a few Linux games (Uplink, anyone?), and I'll never go back to Windows for my day-to-day operating system again.
You can look at the WineX "issue" both ways. I'm not convinced that it's a big enough blip on the radar of the game development companies yet to convince them that they only need to develop for Windows, but it can definitely be seen as such. But, at the same time, I also agree that it can be a big help to get people to switch over to Linux. That's what got me started, and in turn, it got me to get a couple of people started on running Random Distro B (tm) of Linux. Sure, it's not much, but it's a start.
Nope, this one's legit. This one was just recently discovered, according to this article. While I admit that it's kind of cool that they found something like this and could publish it, I'm not sure of how good an idea it is - it was obviously unpublished for a reason. And according to a couple of reviews (particularly the one that this article mentions), that might be for the best... Of course, I'm still buying it. I have to round out my collection somehow.
I've actually looked at a couple of those kinds of postings, myself. Sure, you have to enlist in the military to play trumpet in the US Army Band, for example. But, in a lot of those types of positions (I haven't looked at all of them), once you go through Basic Training, your sole job is to play music. No combat duty, nothing else like that. It's actually a pretty sweet deal, if you can get it. That's assuming, of course, you can survive basic. Being a giant geek, myself, I wouldn't make it past the second day.
Actually, at the moment, 3DES is still being adopted. I know that in my bank (a local community bank in Houston, with about 120 branches), we're in the process of upgrading all of our incredibly old systems right now. It's about damn time, too. DES is okay, and we haven't had any security issues or anything, but some of the things are just plain ugly. And isn't that what's really important?