i'd have to say i agree with you. i just switched back to gentoo, and am ready to go back to slack or debian. i love portage, but i hate compiling things when it really isn't needed. also, i like to complain about how the USE flags tend to not work right on occassion but, i won't here.
i actually, just reinstalled gentoo (after getting bored with debian). emerged the 2.6 kernel, compiled, ran fine right away. 2.6.1. check out the forums and see if you might have not compiled in something.:)
vendor support, and vendor fear of losing microsoft. face it. when dell starting shipping linux, microsoft basically said, "we can cut your licenses if we want, you'd be advised to stop bundling linux." this takes away from more vendors supporting linux and thus less user base than windows. if more vendors were supporting linux and not being afraid of those people in redmond, linux would be a viable platform for desktop use for general folks.
check out ebay. you also may be able to rig up an old laptop screen, though it might be more difficult.
also search and check out car pc projects. alot of times they'll link to places where they get their lcd stuff. for instance dashpc.com links to earthlcd.com which isn't exactly cheap, but worth a look.
nope. this one looks like this.
it makes sense to me that they'd want to change the logo. i'm quite a fan of it, it's pretty funny and fun, but, the new logo might be even better! just hope someone is creative.
it's the trend now to be like windows. people use windows. that's a fact. people are probably more willing to buy something that mimics windows. we live in a windows world. face it.
yeah, i KNOW i _COULD_ run all that stuff on my box now. however, i'd rather dedicate a machine to it, which
a) is low power and can be left on 24/7 without doubling my electric bill.
b) provides a more customizable gateway and firewall, than my current linksys router and iptables setup.
c) provide a lot less noise in my living room by not having to keep my computer on all the time.
d) store everything on one computer, rather than having to sftp/scp stuff all the time between my laptop/desktop and my other desktop.
since my desktop system, is loud and uses a 300 watt power supply, it cannot be left on all the time, unless i:
a) rebuild it with a smaller power supply (but eve n still i'm going to need much more than 60 watts (whereas the mini-itx i can get away with 60watts.. or less)
b) kinda with a. convince my girlfriend that it makes sense to waste more power than is necessary.
c) buy a new case and eliminate noise via noise reduction techniques.
all in all, it seems as though, the little server would be the best for all of this.
until i realized i didn't have the money, i was going to build a mini-itx system to serve nfs, do NAT, pppoe, serve ssh into my local network, and some other things. i had everything planned out, just no money..:(
seems to be about the same as a pentax k-1000 (i'm not much of a photographer though, so what do i know). i do know that it supports k-mount lenses so basically all the features of the k-1000 are there, and it hasn't been discontinued!
did i say anything about killing people? no. i made no such comment. as far as shooting guns, hey if you do it in a controlled environment, than there really is nothing wrong with it. i personally do not like guns. that's it
no, the Internet is a bunch of autonomous networks, connected together through the use of routers. to simulate it, you would have to connect a bunch of little networks (mock autonomous systems, which are internally routed using RIP or some other internal network routing protocol) with each other in which traffic is routed to the mock AS's by something like BGP or another protocol.
All in one building? Right, cuz that's how the internet is.
the only real problem with it _NOT_ being in one building is simulating different propagation times, data rates, latency, etc... . However, (i'm just guessing here) the connections between autonomous systems on the internet must be pretty damn fast, because most of the "speed" problems at home for me
deal with _MY_ connection to my isp. Temple University being it's own autonomous system, most of the problems here, deal with the internal network, not the connection to the rest of the Internet.
So, I really don't see why this couldn't be simulated in one building. Please correct me if I'm missing something.
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i'd have to say i agree with you. i just switched back to gentoo, and am ready to go back to slack or debian. i love portage, but i hate compiling things when it really isn't needed. also, i like to complain about how the USE flags tend to not work right on occassion but, i won't here.
to tell me that they aren't called "labtop" computers? ... you could've fooled my dad.
i actually, just reinstalled gentoo (after getting bored with debian). emerged the 2.6 kernel, compiled, ran fine right away. 2.6.1. check out the forums and see if you might have not compiled in something. :)
you apple hippie. (i know you're not using apple, but, you sound like one of those users)
could those 5 clients be build easily enough on FreeBSD with minimal code changes? most likely. do you need 5 clients? not a chance.
vendor support, and vendor fear of losing microsoft. face it. when dell starting shipping linux, microsoft basically said, "we can cut your licenses if we want, you'd be advised to stop bundling linux." this takes away from more vendors supporting linux and thus less user base than windows. if more vendors were supporting linux and not being afraid of those people in redmond, linux would be a viable platform for desktop use for general folks.
check out ebay. you also may be able to rig up an old laptop screen, though it might be more difficult.
also search and check out car pc projects. alot of times they'll link to places where they get their lcd stuff. for instance dashpc.com links to earthlcd.com which isn't exactly cheap, but worth a look.
if you're looking for more of the mac plus feel, you should probably be using a black and white lcd anyway. in which case, they are much much cheaper.
yes, that is a better picture, however, i searched google for iwa jima and that was the first photo that was decent. :)
nope. this one looks like this. it makes sense to me that they'd want to change the logo. i'm quite a fan of it, it's pretty funny and fun, but, the new logo might be even better! just hope someone is creative.
hell with "news for nerds, stuff that matters." i like Slashdot: We set them up, you knock 'em down much better
it's the trend now to be like windows. people use windows. that's a fact. people are probably more willing to buy something that mimics windows. we live in a windows world. face it.
yeah, you're right, however, i have :wq! embedded into my fingers and is a natural reflex.
yeah, i KNOW i _COULD_ run all that stuff on my box now. however, i'd rather dedicate a machine to it, which
: .. or less)
a) is low power and can be left on 24/7 without doubling my electric bill.
b) provides a more customizable gateway and firewall, than my current linksys router and iptables setup.
c) provide a lot less noise in my living room by not having to keep my computer on all the time.
d) store everything on one computer, rather than having to sftp/scp stuff all the time between my laptop/desktop and my other desktop.
since my desktop system, is loud and uses a 300 watt power supply, it cannot be left on all the time, unless i
a) rebuild it with a smaller power supply (but eve n still i'm going to need much more than 60 watts (whereas the mini-itx i can get away with 60watts
b) kinda with a. convince my girlfriend that it makes sense to waste more power than is necessary.
c) buy a new case and eliminate noise via noise reduction techniques.
all in all, it seems as though, the little server would be the best for all of this.
until i realized i didn't have the money, i was going to build a mini-itx system to serve nfs, do NAT, pppoe, serve ssh into my local network, and some other things. i had everything planned out, just no money.. :(
seems to be about the same as a pentax k-1000 (i'm not much of a photographer though, so what do i know). i do know that it supports k-mount lenses so basically all the features of the k-1000 are there, and it hasn't been discontinued!
he was simply making a joke based on the recent mass of outsourcing to... china and india.
If the kernel was coded in visual basic, this wouldn't be happening. doesn't an integer in visual basic only go to 65000?
did i say anything about killing people? no. i made no such comment. as far as shooting guns, hey if you do it in a controlled environment, than there really is nothing wrong with it. i personally do not like guns. that's it
i'd say 'yes' but with the recent privacy laws which allows the FBI or CIA to cease any information from any organization might come back to haunt me.
just kidding, i hate guns.
i'm not sure about you guys, but i think bernard is a girl, and i must say, she's pretty happy to be speaking to noone
I live in philadelphia. I would not feel safe without a land line in the house. Two cell phones or not.
this was due to a breach of security on the box they were hosted on. only files from a "secure" backup were put back up.
no, the Internet is a bunch of autonomous networks, connected together through the use of routers. to simulate it, you would have to connect a bunch of little networks (mock autonomous systems, which are internally routed using RIP or some other internal network routing protocol) with each other in which traffic is routed to the mock AS's by something like BGP or another protocol.
or something like that...
All in one building? Right, cuz that's how the internet is.
the only real problem with it _NOT_ being in one building is simulating different propagation times, data rates, latency, etc... . However, (i'm just guessing here) the connections between autonomous systems on the internet must be pretty damn fast, because most of the "speed" problems at home for me deal with _MY_ connection to my isp. Temple University being it's own autonomous system, most of the problems here, deal with the internal network, not the connection to the rest of the Internet.
So, I really don't see why this couldn't be simulated in one building. Please correct me if I'm missing something.