The probability of me installing this over MDK10.2//2005 LE which I STILL haven't switched to approaches zero, but I'm sure many folks would be curious.(mythtv/mysql not talking, and 10.1 works fine, + lazy)
MDk10.1 has always worked VERY well for me, and urpmi tools always seem to work far better than apt or yum. YMMV.
"Great Value" brand from Frys... Had Linspire on it. Didn't suck, much to my surprise.
For most users web/e-mail/office use, that should be more than enough... unless you want to do anything else, then there's the near vertical learing curve to configuring a Debian based system. (Linspires tools help minimize that, but I'm sorry, but apt-get isn't "all that".)
Worked fine for the hour or so I played with Linspire, and works fine for many months with Mandrake on it.
I think the "news" in this article is that you can now get $300 with Dell et al including the Windows tax. (IIRC, I've seen such sytems for ~ 6 months advertized..)
I work at a medium sized, (mostly) defense related company as a Sr. maintenance tech, ~6K employees worldwide.
One of the things that I LOVE about this place is the it has an (almost) excruciatingly SHORT food chain//chain of command.
There are (at last count) 4 layers between myself (layer zero) and the CEO.
I'm not thinking of job progression here... I'm thinking communication. IMHO THAT'S NASAs issue.
Where I work, when there is an "issue", it gets dealt with at the lowest possible layer, and QUICKLY. If it doesn't happen quickly, it progresses quickly.
(Sort of like the military is supposed to (and occasionally does) work)
I learned "dicipline" when I went in the USAF, aside from basic personal discipline I recieved at home. For "enterdianment I read, watched a LITTLE TV (~4 hr/week) and took stuff apart.
I could have taken my HS senior finals in 7th or 8th grade in most subjects, and passed.
HS is a HUGE waste for _SOME_ few people... The same boring information over and over and over....And homework is (with few exceptions) a LIFE SUCKING WASTE OF TIME, with the exception of long term projects, which should IMHO require parental notification at the start.
I have 3 kids, and 7 grandkids, and if I had MORE kids, I would tell the school to shove any assigned homework over ~2 hr/week up their collective asses. (Hint---I'm not 12)
There's more to life. There are better ways to learn things. That's what PARENTS are for.
KDE 3.4 (pulled from THACS repository) seems to have a SMALLER memory footprint than 3.2, and feels faster. YMMV, no empirical testing other than using it and looking at gkrellm for free memory while in use.
Running 10.1 and quite happy, glad to see a longer release cycle for stabilities sake. (Not of the "it crashes" variety, it never has, but of the package versioning type)
I have no idea what EPS is, but 10.1 found and used my Epson CX5400 and its built in scanner without issue. The prints are amazing.
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Do your mom a favor and use that mythtv setup you don't have to preserve her opera tapes. Or anything else.
An X-Box mythfrontend is pretty child proof. I have 7 grandkids, it gets tested regularly.
Please define "crippled" in this case.
The probability of me installing this over MDK10.2//2005 LE which I STILL haven't switched to approaches zero, but I'm sure many folks would be curious.(mythtv/mysql not talking, and 10.1 works fine, + lazy)
MDk10.1 has always worked VERY well for me, and urpmi tools always seem to work far better than apt or yum. YMMV.
"Great Value" brand from Frys... Had Linspire on it. Didn't suck, much to my surprise.
For most users web/e-mail/office use, that should be more than enough...
unless you want to do anything else, then there's the near vertical learing curve to configuring a Debian based system.
(Linspires tools help minimize that, but I'm sorry, but apt-get isn't "all that".)
Worked fine for the hour or so I played with Linspire, and works fine for many months with Mandrake on it.
I think the "news" in this article is that you can now get $300 with Dell et al including the Windows tax. (IIRC, I've seen such sytems for ~ 6 months advertized..)
On PC hardware, margins are razor thin, probably even for Apple, %10 would be excellent.
On an OS CD/DVD set, @$129, it must approach %100.
I want to run Tiger.
I have my $129. I run an Athlon on an NF2 chipset, NVidia graphics. Where do I send the money?
(I'm pretty sure I speak for several million other protential customers)
Selling JUST the OS on a documented HW platfoem will not hurt Apple IMHO. It's free money.
I work at a medium sized, (mostly) defense related company as a Sr. maintenance tech, ~6K employees worldwide.
One of the things that I LOVE about this place is the it has an (almost) excruciatingly SHORT food chain//chain of command.
There are (at last count) 4 layers between myself (layer zero) and the CEO.
I'm not thinking of job progression here... I'm thinking communication. IMHO THAT'S NASAs issue.
Where I work, when there is an "issue", it gets dealt with at the lowest possible layer, and QUICKLY. If it doesn't happen quickly, it progresses quickly.
(Sort of like the military is supposed to (and occasionally does) work)
MAC on Intel...
I expected to see monkeys flying out of peoples asses...
Is this the second or third sign of the apocalypse...I lost count.
Hmph.
Spelling errors courtesy of slashdots spell checker, and being pissed off this morning, with insufficient coffee..
I learned "dicipline" when I went in the USAF, aside from basic personal discipline I recieved at home. For "enterdianment I read, watched a LITTLE TV (~4 hr/week) and took stuff apart.
...And homework is (with few exceptions) a LIFE SUCKING WASTE OF TIME, with the exception of long term projects, which should IMHO require parental notification at the start.
I could have taken my HS senior finals in 7th or 8th grade in most subjects, and passed.
HS is a HUGE waste for _SOME_ few people... The same boring information over and over and over.
I have 3 kids, and 7 grandkids, and if I had MORE kids, I would tell the school to shove any assigned homework over ~2 hr/week up their collective asses.
(Hint---I'm not 12)
There's more to life. There are better ways to learn things. That's what PARENTS are for.
I can only speak for myself, but if they manage to make watching and time shifting TV difficult in any way, I will probably just stop watching TV.
/. is more intellectually stimulating than most TV/movies.
For the MPAA, just to be clear, note that if you manage to implement the broadcast flag "I will probably just stop watching TV."
There are too many other _productive_ things I could be doing... Even trolling
I work nights, like a decent percentage of the population. For folks like me, it's time shifting or watch infomercials...
I haven't been to a theater in several years (nor my kids, nor 7 grandkids), and if it wasn't for my MythTV setup, I wouldn't watch TV at ALL.
Where is the problem?
If Google cuts their publishing expenses to essentially zero, this is a good thing, right?
Non-profit orgs usually don't exist to keep a few (paid) people employed: they are usually (supposedly) trying to accomplish some worthy goal.
Google is going to help them.
"...just use a bazooka"
It's called a JAVELIN, you insensitive clod...
Correction--- $50 M opening DAY.
So what exactly is their beef?
Maybe a hunderd people worldwide have actually managed to fully download some garbage grade, tiny fuzzy avi of ROTS.
A few hundred is probably optomistic.
The MPAA needs to move on, and do something constructive, like preventing the STUDIOS from making me pay to sit thru COMMERCIALS.
I no longer "do" theatres, nor do my 3 kids, or 7 grandkids. That's why they make bigscreen TVs.
The popcorns better anyway, there is usually no line for the bathroom, and there is this thing called "pause"...
This is why they make MythTV, and PVRs in general.
I work evenings, so I would never watch ANYTHING if it wasn't fo my Myth box.(happens to be my workstation too)
I bought my X-Box used.
I have never seen this mysterious "EULA" you speak of, or signed it.
Bill Gates can suck my left nut.
(UUUUUUUUUGH... That visual didn't work...)
OK, perhaps one of Bills 20-something secretaries...
Daaaa-aaaa-aaaa--aaa--dy.
(ducks)
...and another one bites the dust...
Do you mean like "speech"?
I second that, MDK (or whatever) 10.1
I didn't even have any issues with getting XP to use it.
(Epson CX5200, using the built-in MS publisher imagesetter driver on the Win side)
OK, google gives zero hits on "flspsed"
Same for freshmeat, sourceforge, and in packages.debian.org
Care to provide a link?
GOVERING is also a privelege, a resposibilty, not a right as some seem to think.
If he boneheads keep it up, they will lose it sooner than later.
Time to build that HERF gun...
The car anology works, but IMHO, it works AGAINST your argument.
If people had to post in HUGE letters their name and address, I suspect many people would drive in a far more courteous manner.
OK, Mandrakesoft. Here's you chance to kick Bill in the nuts...
I bet you could do it for a fraction of the cost as well.
Do it for France. Do it for the World.
KDE 3.4 (pulled from THACS repository) seems to have a SMALLER memory footprint than 3.2, and feels faster. YMMV, no empirical testing other than using it and looking at gkrellm for free memory while in use.
Running 10.1 and quite happy, glad to see a longer release cycle for stabilities sake.
(Not of the "it crashes" variety, it never has, but of the package versioning type)
I have no idea what EPS is, but 10.1 found and used my Epson CX5400 and its built in scanner without issue. The prints are amazing.