Yes, please. I signed the online petition, I begged on the forums, now I've pretty much just given up.
I have to use another computer or reboot to another operating system whenever I want to go to a site that requires flash.
There are more 64bitters than people think.
I would recommend getting a certificate of deposit. Browse different banks asking about their "specials." It's not unusual to be able to get over 5% APY for a CD as short as 1 year.
I've only heard of it from kernel compiling. I never bothered reading about it to learn what it was. I did read some about ARCnet however, since I saw there was an intriguing comment in the menuconfig--"check out the (arguably) beautiful poetry in file:Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt" I looked in there and it found the following text:
"This driver's getting fat and beefy, But my cat is still named Fifi."
I got an All-in-Wonder Radeon several years ago and my experience wasn't very good. It was limited even in windows for a few months until they got their driver act together. In Linux there's a project called gatos I think to work w/ these cards, but last time I tried it was a lot of work and I couldn't get it to work right. Look for something standard, for example a WinTV (=Haugpauge/bt848/whatever) - they work great everywhere, even in Linux for TV tuning, but as for actual capture I'm not sure the best way to go is.
I strongly advise against getting a capture card that's integrated w/ your video card though -- Just my two cents.
Well maybe I shouldn't be answering this question... I'm an 18 year old male geek in MN, and my story may be of some encouragment. My parents gave me my first computer for my birthday when I was in 4th grade. It had no internet access then (I hardly knew what that was) but I thought it was really cool. It has always been in my room (actually I share a room w/ my younger brother). Not long after that we setup a small ethernet network (back then dad would even occasionally join us in 3 player Warcraft II LAN games:) those were the days...) , and just a few years ago, we got DSL along w/ a linux router for our house.
I don't ever remember my parents really giving me any rules for my computer. (though I've had my mom say a few times "no email until you've done ________________") and I'm happy to say there really haven't been any problems, my two brothers have similar accounts. I dunno if that's an exception, if so, praise God, that's cool, but really all my parents ever had to say to me was "we trust you" and that was enough to keep me in line. I think if they would've made me a list of rules for me I would've wanted to break them, just because I don't like having people tell me my limits--I don't mind having restrictions I just don't like it when people think they need to tell me them. Neither our ISP or our own computers do content filtering, though I have considered loading porn filters on my own computer just to keep myself out of trouble (I hope to be married someday and I want my wife to be proud of me), but thankfully it hasn't been necessary. I guess I like being trusted and want to make my parents happy since they probably know what's best for me anyways.
Though I'm not a parent, I would venture to guess that the struggling over rules/ownership of a computer w/ internet access is really a symptom and not a problem. Teenagers like to be respected, and will think if you let them. Don't tell them what to do so much as make them think about what they are doing and set a good example for them in your own life. I hope I've given you at least something to think about, I don't claim to have experience or anything like that, I'm just telling you how things have worked out for me.
Definitely the best "old" part of my current computer. It's one of those black allsop ones - with the matching mousepad. Nice and squishy, and it doesn't slide around (or fall off -- curse those "built-in" plastic annoyances we have at school)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't OS/2, an IBM, closed source, short-lived product w/o all that many applications? If so, how can he compare it to Linux, a worldwide, open source, rapidly growing project w/ tons of applications for just about everything... I think he's a little unaware of the raw magnitude of modern open source stuff- yeah I know, this is/. but I'm really not just saying that, fad's just don't last this long.
As far as costs go, regardless of how many "bets" they've cashed in on, hardly anyone has money these days to invest in the latest and greatest stuff like TabletPCs,.NET and the like. And I highly doubt any home users, and few businesses, will upgrade from xp to 2k3 (legally that is).
I'm really not surprised by Gates' final statement... Linux will have proved itself and the game will be over on the day M$ changes their stance in favor of porting M$ apps to it.
I used this software to make a music server in my car, but they have another project for home audio. I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but check it out anyways - it might help out on the software end of things (yes, it runs on Linux and does not require X - this is/.)
Exactly. You can do whatever you want with your "stolen" machine w/o even modifying it as long as you stay off the net...
I think the part of this that's actually _useful_ would be that theives don't know how useless the protection is and are scared (kinda like the "warning premesis protected by electronic system" stickers). They probably won't think to change network cards because they're not geeks, they're thugs, and thus they're not going to be running Linux either;)
It's a targus 128cd container (using also as a music holder that's why) (wallet/book/binder/whatever) I have 4 bootdisks in the front pocket
Dos 6.11 w/ 5 cdrom drivers (Generic IDE, SCSI, Hit-DVD, and 2 others I've never used) w/ rawrite.exe, debug.exe, fdisk.exe, format.exe, edit.com, and a few other utils
Linux install (currently debian, but I keep rewriting it w/ rawrite everytime I need to load linux w/ a floppy)
A fancy-pants one I picked up called Techw0rm... has some stuff that I hope I'll never need...TSRs, ramdisk support, etc
tomsrtbt - one disk loaded w/ tools, if you work w/ Linux boxes, especially old ones, you want this
Then I have a number of CDs sorted by type of application.
O/S discs.
A few big linux distros like debian, redhat, mandrake, and slackware plus NetBSD. (I've honestly never played w/ that though)
Win95, win98, win2k, and xp (w/ WPA deactivated because it's a pain in the rear)
(I'm not a Mac user, but if I was I'd put OSX here)
System recovery/utilities
Norton Anti-Virus
Norton Utilities (these two are unbeatable on windows boxes IMHO)
One CD-RW of windows tools like PuTTY, DirectX, and an unofficial pack w/ batch file of nearly all the windows updates as of about two months ago
One CD-RW of a few linux rpms that aren't on the distro cds such as WineX and vmware as well as a tarball of the latest kernel source + prepatch.
Drivers -- For Linux all I have are some nVidia drivers, the rest seems to be built in. Then I have a pile of common Windows drivers and hardware configuration tools, especially for 95, including some 3com NICs (3c5x9cfg.exe has been very handy on a few occasions), most creative sound cards, most ATI *cringe* cards, and several diamond video cards.
The rest is just my junk-games, visual studio, and whatnaught -- now if you were actaully going to Africa for example, you'd definitely want to change a few things, and if it were me, I'd bring some hardware -- hard drives seem like the first things to go.
It's that simple. The client has to trust the developer, and if that developer gets caught doing something malicious, it goes into 'big news' and that coder just lost his career.
Just my $.02
P.S. I can't resist blabbing here how this problem might vaporize if everyone wrote 100% GPL code and had that code analysed by many eyes... after all this is/. and I mean, "IMAGINE A BEOWOLF CLUSTER OF THESE," ok enough:)
At my home server farm there are a few machines (that thankfully don't do anything important) that need to be "jump started" (power cycled repeatedly, hitting lightly, etc) whenever they get turned off or they don't spin up.....
Oh and I remember one time I had switched a cpu fan out because a bearing in it had died, and the fan I stuck in it's place didn't have any nice molex power connector, so I just stripped off insultation and twisted the wires to the 5v supply....(of course the machine was powered up this whole time) I spread the bare spots apart so they wouldn't touch while I grabbed something to tape them up with, well they had a bit more spring in them than I anticipated and I had a small, short fire inside my case... unfortunately that meant I had to reboot, but that was it, no problems...
Yeah I've done a lot of hotswaps on non-hotswappable stuff too, but I've been lucky... seems like all this kind of stuff just happens because we get lazy... Everyone knows better than to install new hardware while the power is on and the O/S is running, but sometimes you just don't have time/reason to do everything by the book...
Well IPSEC for instance has it's own protocols (e.g. not TCP) I believe they're called AH (authentication Header) and ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload or something like that) and they're proto numbers 50 and 51...
True you can do VPN over tcp, but at least in my case, tcp/ip runs (transparently to the user) through IPSEC to the other gateway where it's turned back into IP. Sorta like ICMP is another protocol right? Or maybe I'm all screwed and they're just types, I don't recall, go ahead and correct me one this one.
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Seriously everyone, KaZaA is a very handy tool for getting stuff quickly. You just need to fix it out of the box, kinda like win98:). Get DietK a spyware/ad blocker. Then you just need an anon proxy and you're good to go...
You can have more than one user on the same desktop. Like say you've got a friend who's a linux n00b across the world and you wanna help him/her. He/she can just activate shared desktop, you connect to it, and boom there's another cursor in there. Or ideally at least.
VNC allows like you to run GUI remotely, just as ssh allows you to shell remotely, but the difference is, more than one person can be controlling the same display. It'd be like having two people typing on the same shell line, cept it's a lot more useful in the GUI world than in the console world.
Take this advice at your own risk: This requires that you are really crazy about technology, but so far it's been working out ok for me. Learn everything and then master one part at a time. Read/Skim a lot of books. No, I'm not saying RTFM, I'm saying there are many good books out there that can get you up to speed quickly (don't need to waste time and money on fancy classes-though perhaps it would be worth your time to get certified in a few areas [RHCE, MSCE, and A+ is a powerful combination])Be fluent in M$ Windows (9x/NT/2k/XP), OS X, and Linux/UNIX and be able to code with some decency in Perl, C++, C#/VB, PHP(or ASP I suppose), and XML per say. You can pick and choose to favor your interests somewhat. Once you have something like that going, then you peek at the market out there, to see what the 'big need' is. Say it's XML devels-then you get the job, because you know your XML enough to get in, but while you're there you specialize in that so they don't give you the boot. The key is to have many skillz in many areas so you are "multi-purpose"
I think a lot of people will disagree w/ me and say that this requires too much time and is a waste if you only need to learn one skill to get a job. On the contrary, so far this has worked for me, and as long as you stay up on what you know (DON'T FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T USE IT!) and get educated about the latest and greatest technology, then you will never need to "start from scratch" (like perhaps where you are now) you will simply need to master another area.
Example: If you get a job as a web devel, your *ML skills will become excellant along w/ perhaps your PHP/MySQL and JavaScript abilities. However, if you don't practice them, your sys/net admin skills will waste away along w/ any others you let the dust collect on, so be sure to keep up your other skills at home, such as linux/perl. You could say, set up an automated backup server on your network or something.
This prevents you from forgetting everything and it lets you have some fun w/ other technologies then your forte.
Perhaps why this approach works for me is because I am an exicted engineering student w/ a lot of projects. (how many other people have their own linux based MAME in their basement and a music server in their car?)
I hope that's good advice, again, depending on who you are this could help you or confuse you. GL
Yeah that would be nice, but I think the biggest obstacle for users converting to linux is the rude awakening of knowledge required to setup and use it to its potential, now they need to know what a computer is:)
It hasn't been a problem for me, I'm been ripping computers apart and putting them back together for a long time, but for some of my friends who I thought were fairly technical, I've been shocked at how much they stuggle with linux. "How do I get back to the windows part if I swith a dos thing or console or whatever you call it?" "What do you mean manually set?" "How do I play game xyz in here?" The solution to the problem of the user's knowledge requirement I think is installed/configured linux computers, which get/. time now and then...and they also need an idiotproof wizard/lizard/druid/thing that will come up the first time the computer is booted which has the user change the root password, setup at least one user, and give the user the change to take like a tutorial of basic operations (I mean like, how to use the window manager, where to put files etc)
The "good windows emulator" you spoke of will be around soon, when winex reaches their goal and merges their code with the wine project, which I think will happen and once it does, a simple windows skeleton will be there on the system, and some sort of software can detect the user trying to user a windows binary or inserting a windows cdrom and prompt them with a box asking if they are trying to run windows software, and if so, translate their actions to winex syntax etc etc. In the end I think for linux to be a hit w/ "normal users" (non-technical, semi-computer literate) it has to be able to run windows applications (like games, m$ office, quicken, yourfavoritewindowsprogramhere, etc) without the hassle of wine/winex hacking or the purchase of fancy software like VMware (which would require you to buy windows anyway so to the user "pointless") Sounds like LindowsTM? Well it's not, Lindows costs money. I think Open Source software can work, but if advocates of it (hi devels:)) want it to be popular, they need to ungreedily write some pretty code and hype it up for a distribution like mandrake to include. Then when that's settled, we linux users, show it off to our friends and say "See this? It does everything windows does, everything OSX does, and lots more, and its' free. (So why the heck are you still running this?)"
Well this is too long already, but what I'm trying to say to everyone, is that I think we go about marketing linux in the wrong ways- we need to keep it technical, for the geeks and servers and stuff, but make some like "easy mode" for the non-computer savvy so we can push it out on the masses and then more 3rd parties will devel for it and presto, it's _the_ OS of the 21st century...
Does BSD = People with way too much free time?
I mean, I admire the O/S but the song lol, maybe a lil too much, or maybe I just don't have a good apprecition for this modern genre of "Geek" or maybe it's "Romance" I dunno:)
I guess I shouldn't be talking about too much free time, here I am posting on/. and running mdk cooker, go figure....
I'd read something about "serial ata" when I was drueling at RAID stuff on 3ware's site but I didn't realize what it was until now... To me it looks/sounds really cool, and I'd love to get a small raid array of these in my next computer, but has anyone seen any SATA drives on the market? Dirt Cheap Drives and yahoo shopping show nothing....and no, neither does pricewatch.... I take it these drives don't exist yet? Then why are there RAID cards for them?
I remember the good ole days, well not really even old but...
ex: Starcraft.... cd burned so easily, worked so well, never had annoying issues... No, no, I didn't pirate it, don't get that idea, I own several copies at my house, but I did put the iso on our server, mount it, share it over samba, mount that smb share on all the client computers (linux + wine), and tell wine the cdrom drive was the network iso mount point:) worked like a charm and wine'd beautifully fast too...
Nowadays even with winex (and even if you *gasp* go into windows) it gets difficult to make things work right with all these "anti-piracy" mechanisms...
I think what they really need is some sort of keying system, (well open source would be great too but that's beyond the mental capacities of the public) so that, rather having to worry about people copying cds all over, they can rest easy and know that users (legal cd or otherwise) need to have a valid, registered, unique, not-in-use key. Then you can make cd's easy to "legit copy" w/o worrying about "warez d00ds" having a hayday.
Check around freshmeat, there are tons of free players/jukeboxes what have you, and some of them are controllable by joystick, which would solve the not seeing the buttons part. (xmms does that also I believe)
As for a standalone player, I've seen MP3 and MP3CD players all over, but ogg is still a little undeveloped in the consumer world I think (someone's gonna come and correct me w/ some links to ogg players, that's fine, but there are still many more MP3 players). I think a small linux client would be best, even w/o X11, just get some sort of remote control such as a joystick or IR and don't even mess with the TV...unless of course you really wanna watch discotux, which I think is one of the coolest things in xmms:)
One thing I was personally thinking of doing sometime was a music server in my car, I'd get a UPS, plug it into a power-inverter, and build a small machine, say Pentium 90Mhzish, then I'd throw a 60 or 80gig hard drive on there and wire it;s sound card output to an AUX in on my receiver..... still a dream at this point, and not too economically friendly when you realize that you can get a kenwood 10-MP3CD changer (100 hours of music is enough for driving around right?)from crutchfield for about the same price...
You know you've been using linux too long when you were thinking of the Direct Rendering Module stuff you config in the kernel to allow DRI acceleration to work in X11...
And honestly, that was the first thing that came to mind -- my bad
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Yes, please. I signed the online petition, I begged on the forums, now I've pretty much just given up. I have to use another computer or reboot to another operating system whenever I want to go to a site that requires flash. There are more 64bitters than people think.
I would recommend getting a certificate of deposit. Browse different banks asking about their "specials." It's not unusual to be able to get over 5% APY for a CD as short as 1 year.
I've only heard of it from kernel compiling. I never bothered reading about it to learn what it was. I did read some about ARCnet however, since I saw there was an intriguing comment in the menuconfig--"check out the (arguably) beautiful poetry in file:Documentation/networking/arcnet.txt"
:)
I looked in there and it found the following text:
"This driver's getting fat and beefy,
But my cat is still named Fifi."
how cute
I got an All-in-Wonder Radeon several years ago and my experience wasn't very good. It was limited even in windows for a few months until they got their driver act together. In Linux there's a project called gatos I think to work w/ these cards, but last time I tried it was a lot of work and I couldn't get it to work right. Look for something standard, for example a WinTV (=Haugpauge/bt848/whatever) - they work great everywhere, even in Linux for TV tuning, but as for actual capture I'm not sure the best way to go is.
I strongly advise against getting a capture card that's integrated w/ your video card though -- Just my two cents.
Well maybe I shouldn't be answering this question... I'm an 18 year old male geek in MN, and my story may be of some encouragment. My parents gave me my first computer for my birthday when I was in 4th grade. It had no internet access then (I hardly knew what that was) but I thought it was really cool. It has always been in my room (actually I share a room w/ my younger brother). Not long after that we setup a small ethernet network (back then dad would even occasionally join us in 3 player Warcraft II LAN games :) those were the days...) , and just a few years ago, we got DSL along w/ a linux router for our house.
I don't ever remember my parents really giving me any rules for my computer.
(though I've had my mom say a few times "no email until you've done ________________") and I'm happy to say there really haven't been any problems, my two brothers have similar accounts. I dunno if that's an exception, if so, praise God, that's cool, but really all my parents ever had to say to me was "we trust you" and that was enough to keep me in line. I think if they would've made me a list of rules for me I would've wanted to break them, just because I don't like having people tell me my limits--I don't mind having restrictions I just don't like it when people think they need to tell me them. Neither our ISP or our own computers do content filtering, though I have considered loading porn filters on my own computer just to keep myself out of trouble (I hope to be married someday and I want my wife to be proud of me), but thankfully it hasn't been necessary.
I guess I like being trusted and want to make my parents happy since they probably know what's best for me anyways.
Though I'm not a parent, I would venture to guess that the struggling over rules/ownership of a computer w/ internet access is really a symptom and not a problem. Teenagers like to be respected, and will think if you let them. Don't tell them what to do so much as make them think about what they are doing and set a good example for them in your own life. I hope I've given you at least something to think about, I don't claim to have experience or anything like that, I'm just telling you how things have worked out for me.
Definitely the best "old" part of my current computer. It's one of those black allsop ones - with the matching mousepad. Nice and squishy, and it doesn't slide around (or fall off -- curse those "built-in" plastic annoyances we have at school)
w00t - got it yesterday :P
Also, fix link to http not htttp
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't OS/2, an IBM, closed source, short-lived product w/o all that many applications? If so, how can he compare it to Linux, a worldwide, open source, rapidly growing project w/ tons of applications for just about everything... I think he's a little unaware of the raw magnitude of modern open source stuff- yeah I know, this is /. but I'm really not just saying that, fad's just don't last this long.
.NET and the like. And I highly doubt any home users, and few businesses, will upgrade from xp to 2k3 (legally that is).
As far as costs go, regardless of how many "bets" they've cashed in on, hardly anyone has money these days to invest in the latest and greatest stuff like TabletPCs,
I'm really not surprised by Gates' final statement...
Linux will have proved itself and the game will be over on the day M$ changes their stance in favor of porting M$ apps to it.
I used this software to make a music server in my car, but they have another project for home audio. /.)
I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but check it out anyways - it might help out on the software end of things (yes, it runs on Linux and does not require X - this is
CAJUN/HAJUN
Exactly. You can do whatever you want with your "stolen" machine w/o even modifying it as long as you stay off the net...
;)
I think the part of this that's actually _useful_ would be that theives don't know how useless the protection is and are scared (kinda like the "warning premesis protected by electronic system" stickers). They probably won't think to change network cards because they're not geeks, they're thugs, and thus they're not going to be running Linux either
Then I have a number of CDs sorted by type of application.
It's that simple. The client has to trust the developer, and if that developer gets caught doing something malicious, it goes into 'big news' and that coder just lost his career.
/. and I mean, "IMAGINE A BEOWOLF CLUSTER OF THESE," ok enough :)
Just my $.02
P.S. I can't resist blabbing here how this problem might vaporize if everyone wrote 100% GPL code and had that code analysed by many eyes... after all this is
At my home server farm there are a few machines (that thankfully don't do anything important) that need to be "jump started" (power cycled repeatedly, hitting lightly, etc) whenever they get turned off or they don't spin up.....
Oh and I remember one time I had switched a cpu fan out because a bearing in it had died, and the fan I stuck in it's place didn't have any nice molex power connector, so I just stripped off insultation and twisted the wires to the 5v supply....(of course the machine was powered up this whole time) I spread the bare spots apart so they wouldn't touch while I grabbed something to tape them up with, well they had a bit more spring in them than I anticipated and I had a small, short fire inside my case... unfortunately that meant I had to reboot, but that was it, no problems...
Yeah I've done a lot of hotswaps on non-hotswappable stuff too, but I've been lucky... seems like all this kind of stuff just happens because we get lazy... Everyone knows better than to install new hardware while the power is on and the O/S is running, but sometimes you just don't have time/reason to do everything by the book...
Well IPSEC for instance has it's own protocols (e.g. not TCP) I believe they're called AH (authentication Header) and ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload or something like that) and they're proto numbers 50 and 51...
True you can do VPN over tcp, but at least in my case, tcp/ip runs (transparently to the user) through IPSEC to the other gateway where it's turned back into IP. Sorta like ICMP is another protocol right? Or maybe I'm all screwed and they're just types, I don't recall, go ahead and correct me one this one.
Seriously everyone, KaZaA is a very handy tool for getting stuff quickly. You just need to fix it out of the box, kinda like win98 :).
Get DietK a spyware/ad blocker. Then you just need an anon proxy and you're good to go...
You can have more than one user on the same desktop. Like say you've got a friend who's a linux n00b across the world and you wanna help him/her. He/she can just activate shared desktop, you connect to it, and boom there's another cursor in there. Or ideally at least.
VNC allows like you to run GUI remotely, just as ssh allows you to shell remotely, but the difference is, more than one person can be controlling the same display. It'd be like having two people typing on the same shell line, cept it's a lot more useful in the GUI world than in the console world.
I think someone was just playing too much uplink :)
The guys who made that must not have thought we'd have IPv6 by then (2010)
...as I said, it depends on your life, and in light of your comments, I will appreciate my present situation more.
;)
(Though I think building/securing/optimizing networks/computers can be a home improvement project
Take this advice at your own risk:
This requires that you are really crazy about technology, but so far it's been working out ok for me.
Learn everything and then master one part at a time.
Read/Skim a lot of books. No, I'm not saying RTFM, I'm saying there are many good books out there that can get you up to speed quickly (don't need to waste time and money on fancy classes-though perhaps it would be worth your time to get certified in a few areas [RHCE, MSCE, and A+ is a powerful combination])Be fluent in M$ Windows (9x/NT/2k/XP), OS X, and Linux/UNIX and be able to code with some decency in Perl, C++, C#/VB, PHP(or ASP I suppose), and XML per say. You can pick and choose to favor your interests somewhat. Once you have something like that going, then you peek at the market out there, to see what the 'big need' is. Say it's XML devels-then you get the job, because you know your XML enough to get in, but while you're there you specialize in that so they don't give you the boot. The key is to have many skillz in many areas so you are "multi-purpose"
I think a lot of people will disagree w/ me and say that this requires too much time and is a waste if you only need to learn one skill to get a job. On the contrary, so far this has worked for me, and as long as you stay up on what you know (DON'T FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T USE IT!) and get educated about the latest and greatest technology, then you will never need to "start from scratch" (like perhaps where you are now) you will simply need to master another area.
Example:
If you get a job as a web devel, your *ML skills will become excellant along w/ perhaps your PHP/MySQL and JavaScript abilities. However, if you don't practice them, your sys/net admin skills will waste away along w/ any others you let the dust collect on, so be sure to keep up your other skills at home, such as linux/perl. You could say, set up an automated backup server on your network or something.
This prevents you from forgetting everything and it lets you have some fun w/ other technologies then your forte.
Perhaps why this approach works for me is because I am an exicted engineering student w/ a lot of projects. (how many other people have their own linux based MAME in their basement and a music server in their car?)
I hope that's good advice, again, depending on who you are this could help you or confuse you. GL
Yeah that would be nice, but I think the biggest obstacle for users converting to linux is the rude awakening of knowledge required to setup and use it to its potential, now they need to know what a computer is :)
/. time now and then...and they also need an idiotproof wizard/lizard/druid/thing that will come up the first time the computer is booted which has the user change the root password, setup at least one user, and give the user the change to take like a tutorial of basic operations (I mean like, how to use the window manager, where to put files etc)
:)) want it to be popular, they need to ungreedily write some pretty code and hype it up for a distribution like mandrake to include. Then when that's settled, we linux users, show it off to our friends and say "See this? It does everything windows does, everything OSX does, and lots more, and its' free. (So why the heck are you still running this?)"
It hasn't been a problem for me, I'm been ripping computers apart and putting them back together for a long time, but for some of my friends who I thought were fairly technical, I've been shocked at how much they stuggle with linux.
"How do I get back to the windows part if I swith a dos thing or console or whatever you call it?"
"What do you mean manually set?"
"How do I play game xyz in here?"
The solution to the problem of the user's knowledge requirement I think is installed/configured linux computers, which get
The "good windows emulator" you spoke of will be around soon, when winex reaches their goal and merges their code with the wine project, which I think will happen and once it does, a simple windows skeleton will be there on the system, and some sort of software can detect the user trying to user a windows binary or inserting a windows cdrom and prompt them with a box asking if they are trying to run windows software, and if so, translate their actions to winex syntax etc etc. In the end I think for linux to be a hit w/ "normal users" (non-technical, semi-computer literate) it has to be able to run windows applications (like games, m$ office, quicken, yourfavoritewindowsprogramhere, etc) without the hassle of wine/winex hacking or the purchase of fancy software like VMware (which would require you to buy windows anyway so to the user "pointless") Sounds like LindowsTM? Well it's not, Lindows costs money. I think Open Source software can work, but if advocates of it (hi devels
Well this is too long already, but what I'm trying to say to everyone, is that I think we go about marketing linux in the wrong ways- we need to keep it technical, for the geeks and servers and stuff, but make some like "easy mode" for the non-computer savvy so we can push it out on the masses and then more 3rd parties will devel for it and presto, it's _the_ OS of the 21st century...
Does BSD = People with way too much free time? :)
/. and running mdk cooker, go figure....
I mean, I admire the O/S but the song lol, maybe a lil too much, or maybe I just don't have a good apprecition for this modern genre of "Geek" or maybe it's "Romance" I dunno
I guess I shouldn't be talking about too much free time, here I am posting on
I'd read something about "serial ata" when I was drueling at RAID stuff on 3ware's site but I didn't realize what it was until now...
To me it looks/sounds really cool, and I'd love to get a small raid array of these in my next computer, but has anyone seen any SATA drives on the market?
Dirt Cheap Drives and yahoo shopping show nothing....and no, neither does pricewatch.... I take it these drives don't exist yet? Then why are there RAID cards for them?
Someone please unconfuse me...
I remember the good ole days, well not really even old but...
:) worked like a charm and wine'd beautifully fast too...
ex: Starcraft.... cd burned so easily, worked so well, never had annoying issues...
No, no, I didn't pirate it, don't get that idea, I own several copies at my house, but I did put the iso on our server, mount it, share it over samba, mount that smb share on all the client computers (linux + wine), and tell wine the cdrom drive was the network iso mount point
Nowadays even with winex (and even if you *gasp* go into windows) it gets difficult to make things work right with all these "anti-piracy" mechanisms...
I think what they really need is some sort of keying system, (well open source would be great too but that's beyond the mental capacities of the public) so that, rather having to worry about people copying cds all over, they can rest easy and know that users (legal cd or otherwise) need to have a valid, registered, unique, not-in-use key. Then you can make cd's easy to "legit copy" w/o worrying about "warez d00ds" having a hayday.
Well, that's my $.02
Check around freshmeat, there are tons of free players/jukeboxes what have you, and some of them are controllable by joystick, which would solve the not seeing the buttons part. (xmms does that also I believe)
:)
As for a standalone player, I've seen MP3 and MP3CD players all over, but ogg is still a little undeveloped in the consumer world I think (someone's gonna come and correct me w/ some links to ogg players, that's fine, but there are still many more MP3 players). I think a small linux client would be best, even w/o X11, just get some sort of remote control such as a joystick or IR and don't even mess with the TV...unless of course you really wanna watch discotux, which I think is one of the coolest things in xmms
One thing I was personally thinking of doing sometime was a music server in my car, I'd get a UPS, plug it into a power-inverter, and build a small machine, say Pentium 90Mhzish, then I'd throw a 60 or 80gig hard drive on there and wire it;s sound card output to an AUX in on my receiver..... still a dream at this point, and not too economically friendly when you realize that you can get a kenwood 10-MP3CD changer (100 hours of music is enough for driving around right?)from crutchfield for about the same price...
You know you've been using linux too long when you were thinking of the Direct Rendering Module stuff you config in the kernel to allow DRI acceleration to work in X11...
And honestly, that was the first thing that came to mind -- my bad