I worked for a dial up ISP, I did techsupport, I would aways go way out for the customer and I would help fix all the problems they were having with out service. ALot of times I got offers to go to their house and fix their computer, but I always told them I couldnt. But I also Build and fixed computers on the side and I recommended this ISP to alot of people. So one time on the phone I was talking to someone I build a computer for and I guess the manager heard me talking about the computer I built for them over the phone, and word got to the owner and I was fired. They also got mad at me for telling people they needed a new HARDWARE based modem. I had alot of calls that people complained about disconnections and slow connection rates. SO I would recommened them to buy a USR hardware based modem, for some reason the ISP I worked for didnt like this so I would always get in trouble. Im glad I dont work for that company any more, they were more into making a profit then helping their customers.
most online sales you dont pay tax on... But since walmart.com has a presence in almost every state they can get away with charging us sales tax even though they dont carry these computers in stores, Only online. What a crock of shit... SHipping plus sales tax! what a rip off.
SMP support in this new version should rock, Freebsd never had good SMP support until now, If you are a SMP user check this update out! I know its beta but its well worth it..HUGE speed increases.
Why did they get rid of the old make xconfig, it sucks now, it uses gconf or kconfig, stupid.... Makes life harder, I wish they would never had changed, the old system rocked, now I have to have either gnome or kde installed, or use make menuconfig from the terminal! arg! Come on go back to normal! But good work Linus! keep up the great work!
I got fired from my job, and they also fired the main networking guy at the same time, between the both of us, we were the only ones that new how the phones and other things worked. So my exboss calls me up a month down the road and asked me how to add employees to the phone system. It pissed me off so badly. I helped him, but I told him off, and said before I started that I wanted a check for $250 dollars. They paid it, and I had a good laugh.
I lived there for 10 years, why would u ever need a cab? the CAT bus runs every 20 min on every road. They are only $1 buck and free transfers. And they arnt full of crazy people, like NYC... They even have a place for a bike on the front of the BUS. And if you are staying at any of the Hotels you can get a free tram to the LasVegas conference Center.
Las Vegas rocks
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Iv always been afraid they were going to stop comdex because of the security risk of having so much people under one roof. Terrorists could have a field day. Oh well, at least it was the american way of going out of business...Bankrupsy:)
why do you think we buy stuff on the internet? Cheap prices, and no tax! Even though we have to pay shipping its still a good deal. If we have to pay shipping and tax I will never buy anything online ever again!
Knowing Debian it wont be avalible for at least 6 months.... A program needs to be "stable" to make it into "unstable" aka SID. Like for example, Unstable Debian still doesnt have Xfree86 4.2.0!! Its to unstable for debian unstable:)...
For a long time now, I have been wanting to use freebsd for my desktop. But the lack of Nvidia drivers killed that idea. Now that Nvidia has released these drivers its time to explore freebsd for the desktop.
But I have grown very fond of Gentoo Linux so I dont think Im ready to change. I like the idea of CVS ebuilds that dynamicly connect to the cvs server, checkout the src, then compile and install it with in the package manager. Like for example, I made a Gaim cvs ebuild, I just type emerge gaim and it automaticly gives me the latest version of gaim right from the cvs server. I know I would miss stuff like this if I switched to Freebsd. Also Gentoo makes things like Fonts and Optimizations a breaze. Freebsd in my opinion is more conserned with stablity and security and not so much with Uptodateness. If I need security I will run a hardware firewall, and I have never had a stablity problem with using uptodate programs.
I used freebsd 4.5 on my server, I had a hard time with cvsup, maybe there isnt a good howto or something but I couldnt figure out how to update the ports tree. With gentoo i just type emerge rsync..
In my opinion Freebsd is not a desktop OS, Im sure you can get freebsd to do what Linux can do by tweeking it and playing with it, but I find Linux easier to use and more uptodate.
And small things like/proc/ and devfs and putting home users in/home and not/usr makes Linux a friendlier OS. And lets not forget about hdparm!
But what good is Freebsd NVIDIA drivers if things like quake3 and UT2k3 binaries can run in freebsd. Can Linux binary support in the kernel fix these problems?
I cant wait to see a screenshot of UT2003 running in freebsd! And I would like to see a benchmark to test freebsd nvidia drivers to the linux nvidia drivers. (im sure since linux can be heavily optimizied it will be alot faster)
With Batteries like this there is no need to limit the RPMs of a harddrive in laptops. Im sure Limiting the rpm has to do more with size, but couldnt we develop a 7200rpm harddrive for our laptops? With this kind of battery we dont need to worry about it straining our batteries. I currently dont have a Laptop because the speed of a laptop is not onpar with Desktop computers. With Batteries like this, we could pack anything into a laptop and wouldnt have to worry about Battery life.
I bought a cordless mouse and keyboard today made by microsoft today at compusa, and now I see this!!! hehe, oh well, they are working great.... Im sure no one else in my apartment is using them too.
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People are idiots, who would put a mac in a radio anyways?
I want a mirror image on the screen but I want to set different resolutions, get it?
like for example.... I would want to take my ibook and hook it up to my 19" monitor when I am home. But I would want it so I could use the 19" monitor with a higher resolution.
the Highest resolution that a ibook supports is 1024x768, but maybe with this hack I can allow the mirrored monitor to go up to 1280x1024. I currently do that with my current nvidia card. I have it set up in my XF86Config file for my monitor to be at 1024x768 and my tv to be set to 800x600. Can this be done?
that would rock, I am also wondering if I could have a 1024x768 res on the 12.1 ibook lcd screen then use this hack to have 1280x1024 on my 19" desktop. I want to do mirroring but I want to set the individual reselutions. Is this only for spanning?
if someone emulatated a PS2 console on the computer, then turned their Xbox into a computer and started playing ps2 games, I dont see a problem with that. Microsoft was dumb for taking a PC and putting it in a small package and calling it a XBOX game console.
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I worked for a dial up ISP, I did techsupport, I would aways go way out for the customer and I would help fix all the problems they were having with out service. ALot of times I got offers to go to their house and fix their computer, but I always told them I couldnt. But I also Build and fixed computers on the side and I recommended this ISP to alot of people. So one time on the phone I was talking to someone I build a computer for and I guess the manager heard me talking about the computer I built for them over the phone, and word got to the owner and I was fired. They also got mad at me for telling people they needed a new HARDWARE based modem. I had alot of calls that people complained about disconnections and slow connection rates. SO I would recommened them to buy a USR hardware based modem, for some reason the ISP I worked for didnt like this so I would always get in trouble. Im glad I dont work for that company any more, they were more into making a profit then helping their customers.
Oh well..
Oh well, good news is bad news..
most online sales you dont pay tax on... But since walmart.com has a presence in almost every state they can get away with charging us sales tax even though they dont carry these computers in stores, Only online. What a crock of shit... SHipping plus sales tax! what a rip off.
How is this flamebate? He stated the truth, go into any compusa and look at the COMPUSA ATI cards.. Idiot Moderators.
isnt this old. I remember seeing one a long time ago that will farrell did, he was talking about pudding and it appered at the mac world show.
Not surprising he is doing more.... Since he probably is broke since he stoped doing SNL.
he is the funniest man alive
"now pee your pants"
SMP support in this new version should rock, Freebsd never had good SMP support until now, If you are a SMP user check this update out! I know its beta but its well worth it..HUGE speed increases.
Why did they get rid of the old make xconfig, it sucks now, it uses gconf or kconfig, stupid.... Makes life harder, I wish they would never had changed, the old system rocked, now I have to have either gnome or kde installed, or use make menuconfig from the terminal! arg! Come on go back to normal! But good work Linus! keep up the great work!
I got fired from my job, and they also fired the main networking guy at the same time, between the both of us, we were the only ones that new how the phones and other things worked. So my exboss calls me up a month down the road and asked me how to add employees to the phone system. It pissed me off so badly. I helped him, but I told him off, and said before I started that I wanted a check for $250 dollars. They paid it, and I had a good laugh.
every 3 min on the las vegas strip...
I lived there for 10 years, why would u ever need a cab? the CAT bus runs every 20 min on every road. They are only $1 buck and free transfers. And they arnt full of crazy people, like NYC... They even have a place for a bike on the front of the BUS. And if you are staying at any of the Hotels you can get a free tram to the LasVegas conference Center.
Las Vegas rocks
Iv always been afraid they were going to stop comdex because of the security risk of having so much people under one roof. Terrorists could have a field day. Oh well, at least it was the american way of going out of business...Bankrupsy:)
why do you think we buy stuff on the internet? Cheap prices, and no tax! Even though we have to pay shipping its still a good deal. If we have to pay shipping and tax I will never buy anything online ever again!
wrong, those are unofficial packages only for x86...
Knowing Debian it wont be avalible for at least 6 months.... A program needs to be "stable" to make it into "unstable" aka SID. Like for example, Unstable Debian still doesnt have Xfree86 4.2.0!! Its to unstable for debian unstable:)...
Debian sucks, Gentoo rules...
For a long time now, I have been wanting to use freebsd for my desktop. But the lack of Nvidia drivers killed that idea. Now that Nvidia has released these drivers its time to explore freebsd for the desktop.
/proc/ and devfs and putting home users in /home and not /usr makes Linux a friendlier OS. And lets not forget about hdparm!
But I have grown very fond of Gentoo Linux so I dont think Im ready to change. I like the idea of CVS ebuilds that dynamicly connect to the cvs server, checkout the src, then compile and install it with in the package manager. Like for example, I made a Gaim cvs ebuild, I just type emerge gaim and it automaticly gives me the latest version of gaim right from the cvs server. I know I would miss stuff like this if I switched to Freebsd. Also Gentoo makes things like Fonts and Optimizations a breaze. Freebsd in my opinion is more conserned with stablity and security and not so much with Uptodateness. If I need security I will run a hardware firewall, and I have never had a stablity problem with using uptodate programs.
I used freebsd 4.5 on my server, I had a hard time with cvsup, maybe there isnt a good howto or something but I couldnt figure out how to update the ports tree. With gentoo i just type emerge rsync..
In my opinion Freebsd is not a desktop OS, Im sure you can get freebsd to do what Linux can do by tweeking it and playing with it, but I find Linux easier to use and more uptodate.
And small things like
But what good is Freebsd NVIDIA drivers if things like quake3 and UT2k3 binaries can run in freebsd. Can Linux binary support in the kernel fix these problems?
I cant wait to see a screenshot of UT2003 running in freebsd! And I would like to see a benchmark to test freebsd nvidia drivers to the linux nvidia drivers. (im sure since linux can be heavily optimizied it will be alot faster)
With Batteries like this there is no need to limit the RPMs of a harddrive in laptops. Im sure Limiting the rpm has to do more with size, but couldnt we develop a 7200rpm harddrive for our laptops? With this kind of battery we dont need to worry about it straining our batteries. I currently dont have a Laptop because the speed of a laptop is not onpar with Desktop computers. With Batteries like this, we could pack anything into a laptop and wouldnt have to worry about Battery life.
What is the fastest RPM drive that is 2.5"?
Speaking of skateboards when are we gonna get hovering skateboards like in Back to the future. /me crosses fingers
I bought a cordless mouse and keyboard today made by microsoft today at compusa, and now I see this!!! hehe, oh well, they are working great.... Im sure no one else in my apartment is using them too.
People are idiots, who would put a mac in a radio anyways?
The noise my computer makes helps put me to sleep. When I have my computer off It is way to quiet in my apartment. So I dont mind a loud case.
I want a mirror image on the screen but I want to set different resolutions, get it?
like for example.... I would want to take my ibook and hook it up to my 19" monitor when I am home. But I would want it so I could use the 19" monitor with a higher resolution.
the Highest resolution that a ibook supports is 1024x768, but maybe with this hack I can allow the mirrored monitor to go up to 1280x1024. I currently do that with my current nvidia card. I have it set up in my XF86Config file for my monitor to be at 1024x768 and my tv to be set to 800x600. Can this be done?
that would rock, I am also wondering if I could have a 1024x768 res on the 12.1 ibook lcd screen then use this hack to have 1280x1024 on my 19" desktop. I want to do mirroring but I want to set the individual reselutions. Is this only for spanning?
if someone emulatated a PS2 console on the computer, then turned their Xbox into a computer and started playing ps2 games, I dont see a problem with that. Microsoft was dumb for taking a PC and putting it in a small package and calling it a XBOX game console.
they should be making it longer range, I cant wait until I can go 2 miles from my house and connect to my home network.
Yeah debian isnt mainstream anymore, programs have to be stable to get into debian "unstable".... How smart are they?