To think that in the entire universe. The vast span of space, so large that you can barely even begin to comprehend. To think, that in that entire area, that we are the only living life, is just sad.
I think we humans feel that we are the best. Top notch at everything we do, and therefore it could not be possible that there is a more intelligent lifeform out there. How could it be possible?
People need to step down from their high hat and look at the big picture. We're but tiny little beings in this huge space. Our planet is but one of billions, if not trillions in the universe.
Not to get too corny quoting a movie, but if we are truly alone in this universe. Well that's a terrible waste of space.
I have a dell inspiron 5150 running Slackware 10. Mine runs like a champ and then some. I use xfce on it and I get great battery life. I used to use fluxbox, but I don't like how their alt-tabbing works.
The only thing I wish had better support is ACPI. I can't suspend my laptop, so I have to turn it off and on each time I want to go somewhere.
Besides that, everything works great. Even xinerama worked almost out of the box. Only had to change the sync rates and the rest went smooth.
For that much money, I'm more than happy with my Sharp Zaurus SL-C860. It has the whole tablet flippy thing, is cheaper and smaller, and runs full linux.
When you open a can of Coke (I don't drink Coke, so it's all you), you throw that can away as soon as you are done. What use is there to put any electronics into every soda can?
It'd be a huge waste of money. I doubt Coke cares to know where every single can of theirs is going.
About 7 months ago, I was backing up and reformatting my girlfriends computer. We're both in college, so you can imagine how important all our files are.
I backed up all her files onto a cd, and just to be sure I burned 2 extra copies of the cd. I reformat the computer and reinstall windows. I install the programs she needs, and I get one of the cd's to copy her work back on.
Nothing. I freak out. The system does not recognize the cd in the drive. I try another one. Same thing. Another. Same. I get really f'in worried, so I start searching online for data recovery. Meanwhile she doesn't know yet.
I put the cd into my linux box, thinking maybe that'll help. Nothing. Something had to have gone wrong during the burn process, and I stupidly didn't check to make sure they burned correctly.
After finding a program I could buy right there on the spot, I ordered it (you don't want to know the price) and started getting as much as I could, which wasn't much.
I ended up telling her, and she was very upset. Pretty much all her work that she didn't have on Zip disks was gone, which included 3d Work she'd done that took her months. I felt really horrible.
To this day she still jokes about it and I still feel bad. She had some awesome work that took her a whole lot of time. She's made a lot back up, and frankly the new stuff is even better.
I still felt like shit though. Now I make sure that all her files are backed up onto my desktop and my server. On top of that, I make a new cd for each quarter of both our work.
And yes, I check and make sure it burns correctly.
Although I don't agree much with that regulation, I don't understand the whole "companies telling you what to do with your own machine" concept.
Noone is forcing a gun to your head and saying "BUY THIS ITEM". You are all doing it on your own, knowing all full and well what you are buying and getting into. By buying it, you know what restrictions there are and what there aren't.
And if you really have that much of an issue with it, build your own! Granted it won't be easy, but at least you'll learn something along the way. And who knows, maybe enough people will like it and will want to buy one from you.
Because there are 4 and a half billion windows programs that people still need. I've used linux for almost 7 years now, and the whole time I've also had a windows box sitting there next to me.
Thanks to Codeweavers, I can finally only go on that windows box when I want to play games. Soon enough, I won't even have to do that thanks to WineX.
You see, yes linux to us is much much better. But to the rest of the world, of which programs are still mainly suited for, they like windows. And until the programmers stop developing programs for windows that we need, we need to be able to run them. And that's where Transgaming and Codeweavers come in.
And although there are linux alternatives, realize that the Windows counterparts have had years to tweak everything before we even started. It'll be a while till linux catches up and Crossover is helping to keep that while going smooth. OpenOffice is a great alternative to Microsoft Office. Gimp is no alternative to Photoshop though. There is no Macromedia Flash for linux. Crossover fixes all that.
I love linux just as much as everyone else, but even I see the faults that linux has. It's not until you see those faults though and how well linux actually handles them that you truly appreciate this operating system.
I purchased a license to Crossover Office several months ago. At first, I figured it'd run rather slow and wouldn't be good enough for production. I paid anyways just to try and support the programmers.
I installed Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. Microsoft Office is practically transparent as to how fast it runs. It loads up very fast and runs very smooth. As far as Photoshop, it runs pretty good as well. There are little bugs with the different windows and the toolboxes, but it works. for the most part.
For production, I dont think Adobe Photoshop is ready yet (version 7 by the way). Office I think is more than ready. I also installed IE so I could preview websites I'm working on in IE natively without having to go to another windows computer. On top of that, I installed the Quicktime plugin and I watch trailers from Apple.com with no lag.
I give Crossover Office a 10/10. Well worth every penny I spent.
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Ya, I actually purchased a license to CrossOver Office and use it to run Adobe Photoshop 7. The last time I tried Macromedia Flash on CO though, the animations ran very slow and it was hard to actually develop in it.
I read a while ago that Macromedia was going to try for native support for linux, so I hope that also means their development suite.
And ya, I wish Flight Sim was supported. Although Flightgear is pretty good, I think MS's product is much better looking (don't tell anyone here that I said that, I'll get beat) and has more support.
Stability. It has always been extremely stable for me.
I also never liked things like 'apt-get' and slackware is mainly gzipped tar. Although there is 'pkgtool', I don't really use it that much. I like configuring, compiling, and installing on my own.
I guess Slackware just gives admins more 'admin' power, rather than putting it all into a bunch of programs. Use RedHat or Gentoo for a while and you'll forget how many different options you have when configuring or compiling something.
Consider my opinion biased though, as I have only used Gentoo for a month, the last time I used RedHat I was in junior high, and any other distro I don't even remember.
RedHat was the very first distro I ever used, which was several years ago. Eventually, I tried out several other distros once I was comfortable with RedHat and once I came to Slackware, I hated it more than life. It was so hard to configure and was much different than RedHat.
Eventually, I did get it working and I am so happy that I did. Slackware has been my favorite distribution of Linux ever since, and I continue to use it today on all my linux pc's. Gentoo was ok, but something about Slackware keeps me coming back. I'm currently on my P4 3.2ghz Laptop running Slackware 9.1, while my server upstairs which hosts all my projects and work is running Slackware 9. At my parents' house (I live with my gf in an apartment at college), my mp3 server still runs to this day running some oooold version of Slackware from 1998. It still is just as stable and just as good. It's a 486, so it has no reason to upgrade anything. The system runs stable and fine for all the hardware and all the tasks it needs.
Eventually, I'd like to have my desktop upstairs running linux. It's hard to part with MS Flight Simulator though and I need Macromedia Flash for development.
Either way, this is my thank you to Patrick for giving me a beautiful and stable distro.
http://ltilib.sourceforge.net/doc/homepage/index .s html
I think the kill switch should be completely seperate from the entire system though. That way if other things fail, the kill switch can still be hit and no matter what goes on with the rest of the system it still kills the power.
Eventually, once it's all done, tweak it to see how fast you can make it work. Then make it so it can use a set of waypoints. After all that's done, enter it in the DARPA Grand Challenge and judging by last years results, you might actually have a chance!
Ok honestly, is it really that bad installing windows that you get hit that quick?
I run Slackware mainly on my laptop, but on my desktop I have Windows XP. I have never had any problems installing windows, nor have I had any issue with doing it on anyone else's computer. I've gotten full installs, with updates and never had any kind of virus. I also use AntiVir, which is a free windows antivirus. That's usually one of the first things that goes on.
Am I lucky, or is it seriously that large of a problem? If it was, I'd imagine Microsoft would have quite the issue with new users installing windows. Not everyone is a techie that knows how to install it without getting hit by virii.
Slashdot Mirror
Could someone please inform the rest of us what this is? I have GTA:Vice City, but I've never heard of this and the site is Slashdotted.
Hopefully we'll be more successful in this years Grand Challenge, as I'm sure that could help with NASA's whole plan.
To think that in the entire universe. The vast span of space, so large that you can barely even begin to comprehend. To think, that in that entire area, that we are the only living life, is just sad.
I think we humans feel that we are the best. Top notch at everything we do, and therefore it could not be possible that there is a more intelligent lifeform out there. How could it be possible?
People need to step down from their high hat and look at the big picture. We're but tiny little beings in this huge space. Our planet is but one of billions, if not trillions in the universe.
Not to get too corny quoting a movie, but if we are truly alone in this universe. Well that's a terrible waste of space.
I have a dell inspiron 5150 running Slackware 10. Mine runs like a champ and then some. I use xfce on it and I get great battery life. I used to use fluxbox, but I don't like how their alt-tabbing works.
The only thing I wish had better support is ACPI. I can't suspend my laptop, so I have to turn it off and on each time I want to go somewhere.
Besides that, everything works great. Even xinerama worked almost out of the box. Only had to change the sync rates and the rest went smooth.
There was a trailer that a friend showed me in class earlier today. It had Batman and Robin in it, but it also had Superman as well.
Is that the same movie?
For that much money, I'm more than happy with my Sharp Zaurus SL-C860. It has the whole tablet flippy thing, is cheaper and smaller, and runs full linux.
Eh, for 600 bucks, I'm content with my Zaurus C860.
Actually,
1. Get 501(c)(3) approved
2. Post on Slashdot for millions to see
3. ???
4. Profit!
Come on, seriously think about it.
When you open a can of Coke (I don't drink Coke, so it's all you), you throw that can away as soon as you are done. What use is there to put any electronics into every soda can?
It'd be a huge waste of money. I doubt Coke cares to know where every single can of theirs is going.
About 7 months ago, I was backing up and reformatting my girlfriends computer. We're both in college, so you can imagine how important all our files are.
I backed up all her files onto a cd, and just to be sure I burned 2 extra copies of the cd. I reformat the computer and reinstall windows. I install the programs she needs, and I get one of the cd's to copy her work back on.
Nothing. I freak out. The system does not recognize the cd in the drive. I try another one. Same thing. Another. Same. I get really f'in worried, so I start searching online for data recovery. Meanwhile she doesn't know yet.
I put the cd into my linux box, thinking maybe that'll help. Nothing. Something had to have gone wrong during the burn process, and I stupidly didn't check to make sure they burned correctly.
After finding a program I could buy right there on the spot, I ordered it (you don't want to know the price) and started getting as much as I could, which wasn't much.
I ended up telling her, and she was very upset. Pretty much all her work that she didn't have on Zip disks was gone, which included 3d Work she'd done that took her months. I felt really horrible.
To this day she still jokes about it and I still feel bad. She had some awesome work that took her a whole lot of time. She's made a lot back up, and frankly the new stuff is even better.
I still felt like shit though. Now I make sure that all her files are backed up onto my desktop and my server. On top of that, I make a new cd for each quarter of both our work.
And yes, I check and make sure it burns correctly.
Litestep is one of them. I used it a while back; it was neat but it ran slower than explorer. That was years ago though, so it is probably better now.
There are others, but I don't remember either.
Although I don't agree much with that regulation, I don't understand the whole "companies telling you what to do with your own machine" concept.
Noone is forcing a gun to your head and saying "BUY THIS ITEM". You are all doing it on your own, knowing all full and well what you are buying and getting into. By buying it, you know what restrictions there are and what there aren't.
And if you really have that much of an issue with it, build your own! Granted it won't be easy, but at least you'll learn something along the way. And who knows, maybe enough people will like it and will want to buy one from you.
I think I'll wait for this to be tested for more than 24 hours before I try my hand on it.
Because there are 4 and a half billion windows programs that people still need. I've used linux for almost 7 years now, and the whole time I've also had a windows box sitting there next to me.
Thanks to Codeweavers, I can finally only go on that windows box when I want to play games. Soon enough, I won't even have to do that thanks to WineX.
You see, yes linux to us is much much better. But to the rest of the world, of which programs are still mainly suited for, they like windows. And until the programmers stop developing programs for windows that we need, we need to be able to run them. And that's where Transgaming and Codeweavers come in.
And although there are linux alternatives, realize that the Windows counterparts have had years to tweak everything before we even started. It'll be a while till linux catches up and Crossover is helping to keep that while going smooth. OpenOffice is a great alternative to Microsoft Office. Gimp is no alternative to Photoshop though. There is no Macromedia Flash for linux. Crossover fixes all that.
I love linux just as much as everyone else, but even I see the faults that linux has. It's not until you see those faults though and how well linux actually handles them that you truly appreciate this operating system.
I purchased a license to Crossover Office several months ago. At first, I figured it'd run rather slow and wouldn't be good enough for production. I paid anyways just to try and support the programmers.
I installed Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. Microsoft Office is practically transparent as to how fast it runs. It loads up very fast and runs very smooth. As far as Photoshop, it runs pretty good as well. There are little bugs with the different windows and the toolboxes, but it works. for the most part.
For production, I dont think Adobe Photoshop is ready yet (version 7 by the way). Office I think is more than ready. I also installed IE so I could preview websites I'm working on in IE natively without having to go to another windows computer. On top of that, I installed the Quicktime plugin and I watch trailers from Apple.com with no lag.
I give Crossover Office a 10/10. Well worth every penny I spent.
That's cruel.
Ya, I actually purchased a license to CrossOver Office and use it to run Adobe Photoshop 7. The last time I tried Macromedia Flash on CO though, the animations ran very slow and it was hard to actually develop in it.
I read a while ago that Macromedia was going to try for native support for linux, so I hope that also means their development suite.
And ya, I wish Flight Sim was supported. Although Flightgear is pretty good, I think MS's product is much better looking (don't tell anyone here that I said that, I'll get beat) and has more support.
Stability. It has always been extremely stable for me.
I also never liked things like 'apt-get' and slackware is mainly gzipped tar. Although there is 'pkgtool', I don't really use it that much. I like configuring, compiling, and installing on my own.
I guess Slackware just gives admins more 'admin' power, rather than putting it all into a bunch of programs. Use RedHat or Gentoo for a while and you'll forget how many different options you have when configuring or compiling something.
Consider my opinion biased though, as I have only used Gentoo for a month, the last time I used RedHat I was in junior high, and any other distro I don't even remember.
Why are some linux releases still hanging onto the 2.4.26 kernel
:)
The 2.4 kernel has had 26 revisions in it fixing bugs.
The 2.6 kernel has had 7.
That's why
RedHat was the very first distro I ever used, which was several years ago. Eventually, I tried out several other distros once I was comfortable with RedHat and once I came to Slackware, I hated it more than life. It was so hard to configure and was much different than RedHat.
Eventually, I did get it working and I am so happy that I did. Slackware has been my favorite distribution of Linux ever since, and I continue to use it today on all my linux pc's. Gentoo was ok, but something about Slackware keeps me coming back. I'm currently on my P4 3.2ghz Laptop running Slackware 9.1, while my server upstairs which hosts all my projects and work is running Slackware 9. At my parents' house (I live with my gf in an apartment at college), my mp3 server still runs to this day running some oooold version of Slackware from 1998. It still is just as stable and just as good. It's a 486, so it has no reason to upgrade anything. The system runs stable and fine for all the hardware and all the tasks it needs.
Eventually, I'd like to have my desktop upstairs running linux. It's hard to part with MS Flight Simulator though and I need Macromedia Flash for development.
Either way, this is my thank you to Patrick for giving me a beautiful and stable distro.
Ya, but would you/the neighbors be able to tolerate the noise nonstop?
Try looking at something like this:
x .s html
http://ltilib.sourceforge.net/doc/homepage/inde
I think the kill switch should be completely seperate from the entire system though. That way if other things fail, the kill switch can still be hit and no matter what goes on with the rest of the system it still kills the power.
Eventually, once it's all done, tweak it to see how fast you can make it work. Then make it so it can use a set of waypoints. After all that's done, enter it in the DARPA Grand Challenge and judging by last years results, you might actually have a chance!
I always read the bbc news while I'm on the bus, or driving
That's safe.
Ok honestly, is it really that bad installing windows that you get hit that quick?
I run Slackware mainly on my laptop, but on my desktop I have Windows XP. I have never had any problems installing windows, nor have I had any issue with doing it on anyone else's computer. I've gotten full installs, with updates and never had any kind of virus. I also use AntiVir, which is a free windows antivirus. That's usually one of the first things that goes on.
Am I lucky, or is it seriously that large of a problem? If it was, I'd imagine Microsoft would have quite the issue with new users installing windows. Not everyone is a techie that knows how to install it without getting hit by virii.
Ahh ok.. so this was just a small scale test of the bigger main one.
Now it makes sense.
thanks -_-