Depends on the point of view: there were people there who knew that "America" existed:-)
There's also the vikings, who might have come to America much before Columbus.
And no, Columbus did not "discover" that the Earth was not flat.
Admittedly he never set foot on the mainland (from what I remember), but he discovered it as much as anyone can really discover anything.
He did set foot on the mainland (1502). And again, there's the issue that he didn't really knew this was not Asia but a "new" continent. In that sense, he did not discover America.
there's no rational way to deduce that from his posting
The original poster said (emphasis mine)
Now of course all those students weren't (and probably still haven't) thought that while rain forest is good protecting it
necesserily involves hurting farmers.
No. It does not necesserily hurt farmers. If you get carried away, and start thinking rain forests are more important than everything else, then, yes, it does necesserily hurt farmers (and everybody else in the meantime). But if you take a rational approach to it, no, it doesn't hurt farmers, it helps them. Problem is, you have to think globally, not locally. The rain forest desvastation happening in Central and South America as well as Asia is something people in the UK, UK, Australia or whatever happens to be your current place of residence, have to care about. And that includes the farmers being hurt.
That "farmers getting hurt" argument is a) mooth and b) FUD (and in my dictionary, that's flamebait). It's used by people who don't have a clue regarding where they stand (hint: it's big, mostly blue and it wanders thru space), and whose primary concern is how to become richer faster. If larger (but not better) crops (at the expense of less rain forest coverage) is how, they do it. Who cares it the whole thing kicks back in five years? I've gotten richer now!
Yes, you should be given both sides of the story. This guy might not be doing that with those 3rd graders. Tesla had some wakky ideas, but at least he had ideas of his own. It's generally accepted that Edison (very much like Newton) used to "borrow" ideas from others... was Edison alive today, his "employees" would be graduate and post graduate students getting zero recognition for their work. And, btw, the Physics book I used, did say why those units bear the Gauss and Tesla names.
When I was in high school I had a biology teacher which offered us extra credit if we wrote to our congressmen lobbying them to prevent destruction of the rain forest. Now of course all those students weren't (and probably still haven't) thought that while rain forest is good protecting it necesserily involves hurting farmers.
Got news for you buddy... while the oceans are responsible for a large chunk of the oxygen processed on Earth, the rain forest is still needed to process water, which your starving farmers need to produce the food eat, required for you to be sitting there at your computer complaining about your high school biology teacher. If you keep thinking that protecting farmers is more important than protecting rain forests (after all, it's a bunch of dumb trees weighted against some supreme human beings), go ahead, bulldoze them. Pretty fast you'll realize there are no more farmers to protect, because they just could not possibly grow anything in the quantities your "civilized society" demands, if all they have is dry sterile soil.
I'm sure your biology teacher talked about "cycles" and "ecosystems"... I just wonder if you were paying any attention. Perhaps you were more interested in that farmer's daughter sitting next to you...
A2218 contains images of 50+ galaxies some 10^9 lightyears away, that's what could be called the "edge" of the Universe... gravitational lensing is soooo cool!
This might have more to do with the usefulness of freedos beyond being able to run legacy programs or mind bogging fast DOS games:)
Would it be possible at some point to install FreeDOS without using floppies? Or more precisely, would it be possible to install FreeDOS using an El Torito CD-ROM or a ZIP disc? I've got a Linux-only box where I simply refuse to put a floppy disk drive (IMO the floppy is dead), but I have a little problem: I can't flash the BIOS (neither the motherboard nor the graphics card BIOS) from Linux (there was a project to do that, but it got assassinated). Since I don't want to install Windows (and pay US$120) to flash a BIOS, my next option is to use DOS. MS-DOS is not an option (it's hard to find someone who has it, and the installation media is floppy disks, so it's back to square one). FreeDOS seems like an option, except that I haven't been able to install it using neither a CD-ROM nor a ZIP disc (which is the only removable media my box has)
So, I think there must be hundreds of similar uses for FreeDOS, and I was wondering if it's planned to take it just a bit further than its predecessor. Bring DOS into this millenium, so to speak.
This is insightful dammit! Not informative! We all know Intel does this. There's no need to "inform" us about Intel's market strategies. On the other hand, not everyone realizes Intel will do this again! That's insight, not information.
From wordnet:
informative: 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; 2: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform; 3: providing or conveying information
insightful: exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
If you were on crack when you moderated that comment as informative, please stop using it, it's making your brain melt. If you were not on crack, please get some, your brain can use the melting.
Why do I complain? Because sometimes I'm not in the mood of reading insightful comments, but I'd like to have some extra information, or viceversa... someone's sig reads "my threshold is set at 2, post accordingly". I'd go a bit further and say "my threshold is nil, moderate accordingly"
Thanks. (and I hope you don't waste moderation points marking this as off-topic, go find some insightful comment and mark it so!
AFAIK, chaos says that two identical events won't necessarily be the same.
Careful there. Chaotic systems are detherministic. Problem is they are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. In this case, depending on the model, initial conditions might involve knowing temperature, pressure, velocity, density, etc of very small chunks of air. It's not like you want to predict weather at room-level scales, but in order to accurately predict weather at global scales over long periods, you might need data at room-level scales.
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Actually, it's a 32-bit signed variable (to allow for dates before 1970), which has a range of approximately plus or minus 2 billion. The rollover will occur on 19 Jan 2038 (not 2037). This will likely cause immense problems, as most people will have no clue why this will be a problem (Y2K is much easier to understand for the unwashed masses).
Actually, that's good. There's no need to explain it to anyone else but the people who actually can understand the explaination and are able to fix it. There's no mass hysteria and no stupid "Doomday: the 32-bit bug" books piling up on the libraries, and people getting richer while ripping other people's hearts with such things... and, if that matters, doomsdate is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038. And that's the better part of it, it's UTC! What kind of self-repected doomsday depends on the time zone you are standing on!?!?
Re:Minor Glitches - More amusing than terrifying..
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And rumours that Auckland airport's y2k compliant system was reporting the year 100 (unconfirmed) - Or the swiss time website also having a defective year indication...
Submitted. Rejected. We obviously don't have a common idea of amusing.
Re:Forget Y2K... how about Y10K?
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Y2K is a result of early computers being designed to only record dates as two digits for the year. Now that most of the machines are set up using four digit year fields, Y2K is not too serious of a problem. But what happens when we roll over to 5 digit years? Will our computers be able to handle the new dates, or will everyone suddenly think that we are back at year 0? This is a serious problem, and we better start thinking about it. There are only 8000 years remaining until Y10K!
Shut up you moron! How are we suppossed to pull the scam if you start telling people about it with 8000 years of anticipation??? And I guess now you are going to say you are also telling them to stop using four character wide text fields for integer numbers that fit perfectly on two bytes??!?!?! Oh... gosh... you are!
Since the media seems to be hopping on the "stupid geeks, working us up over nothing" bandwagon, despite the fact that they were the ones spilling hype themselves, it only seems natural what will follow next. The next major forseen disaster will go unacknowledged. We'll jump and cry and scramble to get things in working order, but the media will dismiss it as "crying wolf" again, and only the employers with the most vision and foresight will think to fund any emergency efforts.
Nah, that one is easy! We did a superb job, we worked our asses out, we stayed up endless nights hacking away in order to fix systems all over the world... oh, what a coincidence!
Did you really expect some of that Armaggedon thing to happen? I can't but imagine the total coolness of white horses ridding on the sky, leaving fire prints on the air behind them as they passed... wait, that's Binky. I would have paid to see that! And it was suppossed to happen for free, and everywhere! But it was only suppossed to happen... We are also suppossed to be hit by a giant meteor, and I give that one more credit... at least, it's statistically possible
Assuming you keep your/home as a separate partition, and you don't have anything anywhere else worth saving, I would just make backups of/home (just in case, but we all back up already, right?), mkfs the *other* partitions, and Debian should install just fine after that:)
RH's base uid and Debian's base uid for normal users is different (500 vs 1000). You might want to have a copy of/etc arround, to avoid reconfiguring everything. But don't just dump the old/etc directory on top of the new one, it will probably break more than a couple of things!
at the graphical login screen, you can choose KDE, Gnome, IceWM and 4 other WindowMans
Last time I checked, I integrated support for that kind of thing into the Debian wdm package a long time ago. Basically, wdm supports window manager selection at the login screen, I just made sure it supports Debian's window manager setup. It might have broken recently, but I'm sure the current wdm maintainer won't have a problem figuring it out...
What you really need is a process that has a multiple levels - a brain dead process for newbies to get them up and running, an intermediate mode with a few options and a chance to override some things, and an expert mode where everything is wide open. RedHat anyway fails on the brain dead mode, and by a lot.
Welcome to the Debconf's Wonderful World! The Future is right here right now...
Not being a native English speaker, I have a doubt: aren't all these "Windows", "Money", "Explorer", "Exchange", "Word", "Office" and even "Power Point" nouns? Isn't "Windows Powered" an adjetive phrase? Does it make sense to use "Windows Powered" as a noun?
D.net source code is available to anyone who wants to improve or just review it : http://www.distributed.net/source/
I don't want to start nitpicking, but I can't help pointing out the fact that althought there is code for something like the d.net client, it is not the source code for the client. I personally don't mind much this (it's their code, they get to pick the license), but I don't like their reasons for not releasing the source for the client. Basically I read them as "ok, you have to trust us not to make conffetti out of your pc, but we choose not to trust you not to make conffetti out of our project..."
I really don't see the reasoning behind cracking these encryption routines. Surely we know that by throwing enough computing power at it, we'll get there eventually. So why bother with it? What does it actually achieve? This isn't flamebait. I'm generally interested in why people want to do something like this.
The whole point is to make a point.
What I mean is for some people it is more important to help some goverments in this planet realize that 56-bit encription is a joke and by imposing some arbitrary limit on the number of bits that "exportable" crypto-software (or hardware for that matter) can legally employ, they are only damaging themselves and their citizens. Basically this gets press coverage and the average person then says "uh, that's not good, this bunch of crazy psychos got together and cracked what my goverment says it safe enough to use" (they won't even get past the headline, so they won't realize it took months for this "bunch of psychos" to crack the thing). In other words, this promotes public awareness of crypto issues.
On the other hand, helping SETI look for some form of evidence regarding the existance of civilizations somewhere in the Universe will help to create a "we belong to a greater thing" feeling, which for some odd reason, most humans on this side of the planet seem to need to get on with their lives...
I don't know, one day you will be able to tell your children the world is a better place... even if that world is ruled by an all mighty goverment or some alien counsel
What's the difference between this and distributed.net?
If distributed.net does what it has done in the past, then there's about EU 2000,- for you and they keep (or donate to some charity) EU 8000,- (they haden't updated this info on their site last time I looked). With dcypher.net, you get EU 10000,- they keep nothing. I get the feeling that dcypher.net wants to attrack former distributed.net team(member)?s. They sell ads, so I think they have figured out they can at least pay for their time and resources, and in case a person using their client finds the correct key, they they "lose" nothing, yet gain some publicity. The distributed.net client is well tested and has a large stablished user base...
Something tells me that some "warez" groups are going to release the Windows binaries anyway. If you really want to play across the two, your chances of getting a Windows binary is better than your chances of getting a Linux binary. So if you do own the CD, getting Windows binaries for use with the Linux version seems better than finding Linux binaries to work with the Windows version.
Then, the obvious solution is Id to put the Windows binary out for download, i.e., don't think of Linux as "something weird out there"... Windows is a weird thing, it's not installed on any machine I use... Something like: "buy the CD for any arch, rest assured you will be able to download the binaries for any other"
If I were to add the patient skin with realistic semi-transparence and wanted to do functional animation as well, things bet much messier, and I (would) do that in pov... The problem then becomes, okay, everybody does it with clusters, but why? is it because 3D accelerated hardware is looked at the wrong way, or is it because this is not really the main focus (a.k.a games!:)
Well, there is people working on taking advantage of 3d hardware acceleration for computation, but for know, it's pretty much SGI related, because many things that could be called "high" end on the usual Intel world, is standard on SGIs, so, from the SGI user point of view, some of these things can be called "comodity" hardware (really fast buses, texture memory, and the extensions to support and take advantage of those)
A side note: for hardware accelerated opengl and computation, I use IDL on NT but am waiting for a comparable solution in Linux (yep, sure do!)
IDL is available for Linux. Real support for 3d hardware acceleration is on its way.../me is looking forward for the GLX for G400 support, Matrox provides real specs so real drivers can be developed.
What you are talking about is accelerating raytracing/radiance type imaging which does not make such simple approximations and hence at root just requires a bunch of computational power (hence why titanic was rendered on hundreds of linux boxes and not "rendering cards").
Yes, but this could be used for generating so called low quality animations really fast (keyworkd here: non-interactive)... the new G400 MAXX has some very interesting bitmap bumping capabilities that could be implemented as OpenGL extensions (now it's just available in DirectSomething mode). Or you could use that for medical imaging. Network banwidth would be a problem, but I think it's worth considering...
I'm amazed to see this on PC World. They must perceive some sort of demand among their generic Win32 users for basic Linux installation help.
While on a general basis I agree this is a Good Thing, it's sad to find out this is distribution specific. What's worse are things like:
Keeping in mind that the Linux command line is case-sensitive, start the discovery process by typing:
rpm -q kernel [...]
Whew! This command tells Linux[...]
(strong emphasis mine) Linux? Linux!?!? it's rpm, and it's rpm taking a look at its own database and telling you what is in there. I read a few mailing lists where newbies ask questions, and I do read them because of that... on one hand, I like to help people that are starting with Linux... I don't do hand holding, I just explain things to them, give them enough information so they can find the answers by themselves, this helps them and it also helps me to get less RTFM type of questions. On the other hand, it helps me spot flaws and problems in my favorite distro, so adding all up, I get something out of it, they get something out of it, and many other people get something out of it... but I do get sick of two things:
Linux == whatever distro statements. This is the media's fault, or to put it in another way, uninformed technical journalists that make statements like the one I quoted...
too much and not enough information questions. This is probably Fate's way of reminding me of my tech-support days... "let me explain it for the nth time: the fact that you can't list the contents of/etc/shadow as a normal user is not related to the fact that you are running kernel version one gazillion and a half, got it?"
This is also "funny", to say the least:
The version numbers you see here correspond to version 6.1 of the Red Hat distribution; if you have another version, then different numbers will appear.
That's no problem.
That's no problem? Well, it can be a problem... not likely with "recent" versions of RH, but I know some people that like pre 6.0 versions of RH better, and they recommend those pre 6.0 versions to newbies, which means there are cases where it might be a problem.
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Depends on the point of view: there were people there who knew that "America" existed :-)
There's also the vikings, who might have come to America much before Columbus.
And no, Columbus did not "discover" that the Earth was not flat.
He did set foot on the mainland (1502). And again, there's the issue that he didn't really knew this was not Asia but a "new" continent. In that sense, he did not discover America.
You said:
The original poster said (emphasis mine)
No. It does not necesserily hurt farmers. If you get carried away, and start thinking rain forests are more important than everything else, then, yes, it does necesserily hurt farmers (and everybody else in the meantime). But if you take a rational approach to it, no, it doesn't hurt farmers, it helps them. Problem is, you have to think globally, not locally. The rain forest desvastation happening in Central and South America as well as Asia is something people in the UK, UK, Australia or whatever happens to be your current place of residence, have to care about. And that includes the farmers being hurt.
That "farmers getting hurt" argument is a) mooth and b) FUD (and in my dictionary, that's flamebait). It's used by people who don't have a clue regarding where they stand (hint: it's big, mostly blue and it wanders thru space), and whose primary concern is how to become richer faster. If larger (but not better) crops (at the expense of less rain forest coverage) is how, they do it. Who cares it the whole thing kicks back in five years? I've gotten richer now!
Yes, you should be given both sides of the story. This guy might not be doing that with those 3rd graders. Tesla had some wakky ideas, but at least he had ideas of his own. It's generally accepted that Edison (very much like Newton) used to "borrow" ideas from others... was Edison alive today, his "employees" would be graduate and post graduate students getting zero recognition for their work. And, btw, the Physics book I used, did say why those units bear the Gauss and Tesla names.
I'm surprised this is not marked flamebait...
Got news for you buddy... while the oceans are responsible for a large chunk of the oxygen processed on Earth, the rain forest is still needed to process water, which your starving farmers need to produce the food eat, required for you to be sitting there at your computer complaining about your high school biology teacher. If you keep thinking that protecting farmers is more important than protecting rain forests (after all, it's a bunch of dumb trees weighted against some supreme human beings), go ahead, bulldoze them. Pretty fast you'll realize there are no more farmers to protect, because they just could not possibly grow anything in the quantities your "civilized society" demands, if all they have is dry sterile soil.
I'm sure your biology teacher talked about "cycles" and "ecosystems"... I just wonder if you were paying any attention. Perhaps you were more interested in that farmer's daughter sitting next to you...
These people are soooooooo amusing! They'll trademark anything!. In fact, I guess I can start dropping TM at random places...
Ciao(TM)
A lot more impressive is the next set of pictures.
A2218 contains images of 50+ galaxies some 10^9 lightyears away, that's what could be called the "edge" of the Universe... gravitational lensing is soooo cool!
This might have more to do with the usefulness of freedos beyond being able to run legacy programs or mind bogging fast DOS games :)
Would it be possible at some point to install FreeDOS without using floppies? Or more precisely, would it be possible to install FreeDOS using an El Torito CD-ROM or a ZIP disc? I've got a Linux-only box where I simply refuse to put a floppy disk drive (IMO the floppy is dead), but I have a little problem: I can't flash the BIOS (neither the motherboard nor the graphics card BIOS) from Linux (there was a project to do that, but it got assassinated). Since I don't want to install Windows (and pay US$120) to flash a BIOS, my next option is to use DOS. MS-DOS is not an option (it's hard to find someone who has it, and the installation media is floppy disks, so it's back to square one). FreeDOS seems like an option, except that I haven't been able to install it using neither a CD-ROM nor a ZIP disc (which is the only removable media my box has)
So, I think there must be hundreds of similar uses for FreeDOS, and I was wondering if it's planned to take it just a bit further than its predecessor. Bring DOS into this millenium, so to speak.
This is insightful dammit! Not informative! We all know Intel does this. There's no need to "inform" us about Intel's market strategies. On the other hand, not everyone realizes Intel will do this again! That's insight, not information.
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If you were on crack when you moderated that comment as informative, please stop using it, it's making your brain melt. If you were not on crack, please get some, your brain can use the melting.
Why do I complain? Because sometimes I'm not in the mood of reading insightful comments, but I'd like to have some extra information, or viceversa... someone's sig reads "my threshold is set at 2, post accordingly". I'd go a bit further and say "my threshold is nil, moderate accordingly"
Thanks. (and I hope you don't waste moderation points marking this as off-topic, go find some insightful comment and mark it so!
Careful there. Chaotic systems are detherministic. Problem is they are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. In this case, depending on the model, initial conditions might involve knowing temperature, pressure, velocity, density, etc of very small chunks of air. It's not like you want to predict weather at room-level scales, but in order to accurately predict weather at global scales over long periods, you might need data at room-level scales.
As I said, butterflies...
One word: butterflies.
Actually, that's good. There's no need to explain it to anyone else but the people who actually can understand the explaination and are able to fix it. There's no mass hysteria and no stupid "Doomday: the 32-bit bug" books piling up on the libraries, and people getting richer while ripping other people's hearts with such things... and, if that matters, doomsdate is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038. And that's the better part of it, it's UTC! What kind of self-repected doomsday depends on the time zone you are standing on!?!?
Submitted. Rejected. We obviously don't have a common idea of amusing.
Shut up you moron! How are we suppossed to pull the scam if you start telling people about it with 8000 years of anticipation??? And I guess now you are going to say you are also telling them to stop using four character wide text fields for integer numbers that fit perfectly on two bytes??!?!?! Oh... gosh... you are!
Nah, that one is easy! We did a superb job, we worked our asses out, we stayed up endless nights hacking away in order to fix systems all over the world... oh, what a coincidence!
Did you really expect some of that Armaggedon thing to happen? I can't but imagine the total coolness of white horses ridding on the sky, leaving fire prints on the air behind them as they passed... wait, that's Binky. I would have paid to see that! And it was suppossed to happen for free, and everywhere! But it was only suppossed to happen... We are also suppossed to be hit by a giant meteor, and I give that one more credit... at least, it's statistically possible
RH's base uid and Debian's base uid for normal users is different (500 vs 1000). You might want to have a copy of /etc arround, to avoid reconfiguring everything. But don't just dump the old /etc directory on top of the new one, it will probably break more than a couple of things!
Last time I checked, I integrated support for that kind of thing into the Debian wdm package a long time ago. Basically, wdm supports window manager selection at the login screen, I just made sure it supports Debian's window manager setup. It might have broken recently, but I'm sure the current wdm maintainer won't have a problem figuring it out...
Welcome to the Debconf's Wonderful World! The Future is right here right now...
Not being a native English speaker, I have a doubt: aren't all these "Windows", "Money", "Explorer", "Exchange", "Word", "Office" and even "Power Point" nouns? Isn't "Windows Powered" an adjetive phrase? Does it make sense to use "Windows Powered" as a noun?
I don't want to start nitpicking, but I can't help pointing out the fact that althought there is code for something like the d.net client, it is not the source code for the client. I personally don't mind much this (it's their code, they get to pick the license), but I don't like their reasons for not releasing the source for the client. Basically I read them as "ok, you have to trust us not to make conffetti out of your pc, but we choose not to trust you not to make conffetti out of our project..."
The whole point is to make a point.
What I mean is for some people it is more important to help some goverments in this planet realize that 56-bit encription is a joke and by imposing some arbitrary limit on the number of bits that "exportable" crypto-software (or hardware for that matter) can legally employ, they are only damaging themselves and their citizens. Basically this gets press coverage and the average person then says "uh, that's not good, this bunch of crazy psychos got together and cracked what my goverment says it safe enough to use" (they won't even get past the headline, so they won't realize it took months for this "bunch of psychos" to crack the thing). In other words, this promotes public awareness of crypto issues.
On the other hand, helping SETI look for some form of evidence regarding the existance of civilizations somewhere in the Universe will help to create a "we belong to a greater thing" feeling, which for some odd reason, most humans on this side of the planet seem to need to get on with their lives...
I don't know, one day you will be able to tell your children the world is a better place... even if that world is ruled by an all mighty goverment or some alien counsel
If distributed.net does what it has done in the past, then there's about EU 2000,- for you and they keep (or donate to some charity) EU 8000,- (they haden't updated this info on their site last time I looked). With dcypher.net, you get EU 10000,- they keep nothing. I get the feeling that dcypher.net wants to attrack former distributed.net team(member)?s. They sell ads, so I think they have figured out they can at least pay for their time and resources, and in case a person using their client finds the correct key, they they "lose" nothing, yet gain some publicity. The distributed.net client is well tested and has a large stablished user base...
Then, the obvious solution is Id to put the Windows binary out for download, i.e., don't think of Linux as "something weird out there"... Windows is a weird thing, it's not installed on any machine I use... Something like: "buy the CD for any arch, rest assured you will be able to download the binaries for any other"
Well, there is people working on taking advantage of 3d hardware acceleration for computation, but for know, it's pretty much SGI related, because many things that could be called "high" end on the usual Intel world, is standard on SGIs, so, from the SGI user point of view, some of these things can be called "comodity" hardware (really fast buses, texture memory, and the extensions to support and take advantage of those)
IDL is available for Linux. Real support for 3d hardware acceleration is on its way... /me is looking forward for the GLX for G400 support, Matrox provides real specs so real drivers can be developed.
Yes, but this could be used for generating so called low quality animations really fast (keyworkd here: non-interactive)... the new G400 MAXX has some very interesting bitmap bumping capabilities that could be implemented as OpenGL extensions (now it's just available in DirectSomething mode). Or you could use that for medical imaging. Network banwidth would be a problem, but I think it's worth considering...
One word: pbuffer. It's an SGI GLX extension, but it would be really cool to have...
Long live OpenGL!
While on a general basis I agree this is a Good Thing, it's sad to find out this is distribution specific. What's worse are things like:
(strong emphasis mine) Linux? Linux!?!? it's rpm, and it's rpm taking a look at its own database and telling you what is in there. I read a few mailing lists where newbies ask questions, and I do read them because of that... on one hand, I like to help people that are starting with Linux... I don't do hand holding, I just explain things to them, give them enough information so they can find the answers by themselves, this helps them and it also helps me to get less RTFM type of questions. On the other hand, it helps me spot flaws and problems in my favorite distro, so adding all up, I get something out of it, they get something out of it, and many other people get something out of it... but I do get sick of two things:
This is also "funny", to say the least:
That's no problem? Well, it can be a problem... not likely with "recent" versions of RH, but I know some people that like pre 6.0 versions of RH better, and they recommend those pre 6.0 versions to newbies, which means there are cases where it might be a problem.