Not only does SuSE have a huge following in Germany/Europe in general (it's their RedHat), but they also make a fair amount off of services...couldn't find the article, but they set up a major German bank's internet servers a while ago.
Also, while you can download a functional SuSE iso, you're missing a lot. The "evaluation version" doesn't come with anywhere near what the full version does -- 6 CDs worth. Sure, you can download it all, but it's a pain.
So you only need to have the EULA? You don't need to agree to it, or have Windows installed, or even own a copy of Windows? Just need to be in possession of the EULA?
Sounds like running IE on Wine is perfectly legal. You just need a friend who runs Windows, and a photocopier =)
Well, I've only had two nicks that stuck for any amount of time.
The first is my old AOL name -- DOOMGuy. I was obsessed with the game at the time, and as everyone knows whether you've used AOL or not, all the good nicks are taken. Took me the better part of a half hour to find this one (I refused to pick a name with numbers tagged onto the end). That stuck with me for at least 2.5-3 years.
Near the end of my AOL years is when I switched to this nick. I picked up "Cray" from a short story I have since lost, with a character in it named Cray that could easily have been me. Since we were so alike, and I was looking for a new nick, I picked up the name.
The "Drygu" half of it comes from my boyfriend (no, the "DOOMGuy" above wasn't lying, I'm male). His online monicker had that last name, and since I was lacking one, I adopted his.
P.S. If any of you knew me as DOOMGuy on AOL, could you reply to this? I'm just curious to see =)
[this is a repost from here because I'm getting sick of seeing these posts.
First of all, you are the fifth person to post the exact same thing, on page 12 of the comments...I can only imagine how many more times it has already been posted.
Not only this, but your post follows two explanations -- one nicely written, one a flame -- on this page alone explaining why you are wrong.
None of those entries are for microsoft.com's domain, except the last one, which is microsoft.com. The rest? "MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL" is for guts.nl. "MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG" is for takedrugs.org. See the pattern?
Anyone can buy a domain, create microsoft.sucks.mydomain.com, and get it to show up on WHOIS.
Of course you'll never be modded up. You are wrong, you have been proven wrong multiple times, and you are highly redundant.
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I'm picking on you, specifically, because you're convenient, but the same goes for everyone else posting this.
First of all, you are the fourth person to post the exact same thing, on page 12 of the comments...I can only imagine hoe many more times it has already been posted.
Not only this, but your post follows two explanations -- one nicely written, one a flame -- on this page alone explaining why you are wrong.
None of those entries are for microsoft.com's domain, except the last one, which is microsoft.com. The rest? "MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL" is for guts.nl. "MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG" is for takedrugs.org. See the pattern?
Anyone can buy a domain, create microsoft.sucks.mydomain.com, and get it to show up on WHOIS.
Of course you'll never be modded up. You are wrong, you have been proven wrong multiple times, and you are highly redundant.
Step away from your computer for a while, and go to your local library. If they don't have any books on shorthand (and I'd be damn surprised if they don't, even my library has some, and it's tiny), then they can probably get one from another local library (or you could drive one town over). And hey, bonus, it's free!
And come to think of it, I actually do have a beef with Slashdot on Opera (though it happens on other sites, too) -- the text box for the search form is only about 1 character wide.
The buttons have never gotten stuck like that for me on K5, though. And I don't use ExciteMail, so I can't comment on that.
I have gotten so used to running installations in Windows, that when it comes to running tar or rpm file, I don't know what to do. I'm sure that the hardcores are sitting there chuckling to themselves right now chanting "newbie, newbie",
Yep! But hey, I was in your position not too long ago (maybe a year to 1.5 years), and I know what it's like. How to deal with tar and RPM files took me forever to memorize, but I eventually got it. Here's a brief overview that'll work for about 99% of them:
tgz/tar.gz: tar zxf file.tgz
cd file
./configure
make
su -
make install
The z tells it to uncompress the file, since it's been compressed with gzip (if you have just a.tar, you can leave that out). x means extract. f means use the file specified (as opposed to a device like a tape drive or floppy).
Everything after the tar command is for compiling programs -- if your tarball isn't source code, you can skip those.
Oh, and no, there's no "-" in front of the "zxf". tar is weird like that (though I think it'll work with the - too).
rpm: rpm -Uvh file.rpm
U means Upgrade, but it works for installs too. v is for Verbose, gives a litte more info on what it's doing. And the h tells it to display hash marks (#) as a sort of progress bar.
Uninstalling RPM files is a little different, as you need to specify the package name instead of the file name. The command is "rpm -e package". To find a package name, it's helpful to make a list of all the packages installed on your system:
rpm -qa |sort > rpmlist.txt
Then just open that file in your favorite text editor and find the package you want. Or do it from the command line with grep:
rpm -qa |grep "package"
Now print this out on an index card and keep it near your linux systems. =)
I work for a small town as the sysadmin for town hall, but I do a lot of work in the schools as well. Recently, the elementary school's sysadmin left for a start-up communications company (I'm sitting at her old desk right now, actually). We ran into a small problem when trying to figure out who to hire in her place, though -- exactly what are we replacing?
Due to some general disorganization by the management here, instead of focusing on more specific tasks, each of the sysadmins here have a building (town hall, high school, middle school, elementary school) where they're expected to take care of the whole thing. We've sortof formed our own sub-positions -- I'm good with UNIX and the hardware, Jeff does networking, Mary does vendor relations, and Katy (the one who left) was great with the software. However, instead of hiring someone to be, essentially, a software techie, we needed to find someone who could be all four.
This made it tough to find a replacement, because we kept taking the approach, "What did Katy do? Now let's hire someone to do that." Well, needless to say, we can't do that. You can't ever find a person to replace the old guy. Instead, you need to find a person who can fit in the position.
No, it's actually the link history thing. In IE, as you type a URL, it shows matching URLs in the History right below. In Windows, the update speed for this is almost instantaneous
I don't know what's up with my computer, but that ranges anywhere from instantaneous to 15 seconds on my system. And it insists on spinning up my second hard drive before it'll autocomplete.
It's better than Windows' version, since to reveal mines, you can middle click instead of left and right click together
You can do that with the Windows version, too. Okay, so I've never tried it with a "real" three button mouse, but clicking the wheel on a wheel mouse is the same as button 3, right? Well, clicking that in Windows Minesweeper does the same as a dual-click.
The president of the United States is a federal election, so why can't the federal government specify how it is carried out.
Because the way you think it happens isn't the way it actually happens.
When electing a president here in the States, there's really two elections that happen. Or, to be nitpicky, fifty-one.
The population of each state casts their vote -- which is what's happening now. These votes determine who the electoral votes for that state should go to. Then, a while later, representatives from each state vote for the president -- and in some states, they aren't legally obligated to vote the way the state's population wanted them to.
So this is why the federal government can't regulate the ballots, or any part of the election. They're state elections, not national ones.
It allows admins from one site to be able to find and contact admins at another site when network problems occur
Now if only these people actually read their email...
I'm sure plenty of them do, but I recently tried contacting the admins at cw.net about a problem with their servers. They appear to be suffering some major traffic overload in the afternoons. My packets get routed through them when going from my ISP to my dedicated server, and two hops in cw.net's domain add over 600ms to the ping time. An 800ms ping may be okay for web surfing, but it makes a linux shell almost useless.
I don't know where you people get the idea that we don't have this. There's several really cheap phone-in-a-box plans -- I saw one for sale in a video rental store, $20 for the phone, I forget how much for minutes. Of course, the coverage area is pretty bad. I went with the AT&T Prepaid plan, which has nationwide coverage, and a Nokia (6100?) phone, works with both digital and analog, and the prepaid plan is nationwide -- no roaming charges. I think it works out to around 45c/minute.
So what if you don't open the mail until the 16th? What happens then?
Just because they're providing the means to return it doesn't mean you're obligated to. You're right, they don't say you can keep it. They don't say you can't, either. If the only thing that says you must return it is the MA, and the MA becomes invalid, you are no longer obligated to return it.
I'd rather watch TV (especially an HDTV signal) on my 17" monitor than on my 13" TV.
What I like about having them seperate, though, is that I can turn on the news, or Drew Carey, or whatever, and still work on the computer while I'm watching it. ('Work' of course meaning 'chat on IRC' or 'read Slashdot.')
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Also, while you can download a functional SuSE iso, you're missing a lot. The "evaluation version" doesn't come with anywhere near what the full version does -- 6 CDs worth. Sure, you can download it all, but it's a pain.
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So you only need to have the EULA? You don't need to agree to it, or have Windows installed, or even own a copy of Windows? Just need to be in possession of the EULA?
Sounds like running IE on Wine is perfectly legal. You just need a friend who runs Windows, and a photocopier =)
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Well, I've only had two nicks that stuck for any amount of time.
The first is my old AOL name -- DOOMGuy. I was obsessed with the game at the time, and as everyone knows whether you've used AOL or not, all the good nicks are taken. Took me the better part of a half hour to find this one (I refused to pick a name with numbers tagged onto the end). That stuck with me for at least 2.5-3 years.
Near the end of my AOL years is when I switched to this nick. I picked up "Cray" from a short story I have since lost, with a character in it named Cray that could easily have been me. Since we were so alike, and I was looking for a new nick, I picked up the name.
The "Drygu" half of it comes from my boyfriend (no, the "DOOMGuy" above wasn't lying, I'm male). His online monicker had that last name, and since I was lacking one, I adopted his.
P.S. If any of you knew me as DOOMGuy on AOL, could you reply to this? I'm just curious to see =)
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First of all, you are the fifth person to post the exact same thing, on page 12 of the comments...I can only imagine how many more times it has already been posted.
Not only this, but your post follows two explanations -- one nicely written, one a flame -- on this page alone explaining why you are wrong.
None of those entries are for microsoft.com's domain, except the last one, which is microsoft.com. The rest? "MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL" is for guts.nl. "MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG" is for takedrugs.org. See the pattern?
Anyone can buy a domain, create microsoft.sucks.mydomain.com, and get it to show up on WHOIS.
Of course you'll never be modded up. You are wrong, you have been proven wrong multiple times, and you are highly redundant.
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I'm picking on you, specifically, because you're convenient, but the same goes for everyone else posting this.
First of all, you are the fourth person to post the exact same thing, on page 12 of the comments...I can only imagine hoe many more times it has already been posted.
Not only this, but your post follows two explanations -- one nicely written, one a flame -- on this page alone explaining why you are wrong.
None of those entries are for microsoft.com's domain, except the last one, which is microsoft.com. The rest? "MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL" is for guts.nl. "MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG" is for takedrugs.org. See the pattern?
Anyone can buy a domain, create microsoft.sucks.mydomain.com, and get it to show up on WHOIS.
Of course you'll never be modded up. You are wrong, you have been proven wrong multiple times, and you are highly redundant.
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Apparently someone hasn't been to the ebooks newsgroups. Granted, it's not done with a photocopier, but there is indeed book piracy.
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Yep! But hey, I was in your position not too long ago (maybe a year to 1.5 years), and I know what it's like. How to deal with tar and RPM files took me forever to memorize, but I eventually got it. Here's a brief overview that'll work for about 99% of them:
tgz/tar.gz:
tar zxf file.tgz
cd file
./configure
make
su -
make install
The z tells it to uncompress the file, since it's been compressed with gzip (if you have just a .tar, you can leave that out). x means extract. f means use the file specified (as opposed to a device like a tape drive or floppy).
Everything after the tar command is for compiling programs -- if your tarball isn't source code, you can skip those.
Oh, and no, there's no "-" in front of the "zxf". tar is weird like that (though I think it'll work with the - too).
rpm:
rpm -Uvh file.rpm
U means Upgrade, but it works for installs too. v is for Verbose, gives a litte more info on what it's doing. And the h tells it to display hash marks (#) as a sort of progress bar.
Uninstalling RPM files is a little different, as you need to specify the package name instead of the file name. The command is "rpm -e package". To find a package name, it's helpful to make a list of all the packages installed on your system:
rpm -qa |sort > rpmlist.txt
Then just open that file in your favorite text editor and find the package you want. Or do it from the command line with grep:
rpm -qa |grep "package"
Now print this out on an index card and keep it near your linux systems. =)
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I work for a small town as the sysadmin for town hall, but I do a lot of work in the schools as well. Recently, the elementary school's sysadmin left for a start-up communications company (I'm sitting at her old desk right now, actually). We ran into a small problem when trying to figure out who to hire in her place, though -- exactly what are we replacing?
Due to some general disorganization by the management here, instead of focusing on more specific tasks, each of the sysadmins here have a building (town hall, high school, middle school, elementary school) where they're expected to take care of the whole thing. We've sortof formed our own sub-positions -- I'm good with UNIX and the hardware, Jeff does networking, Mary does vendor relations, and Katy (the one who left) was great with the software. However, instead of hiring someone to be, essentially, a software techie, we needed to find someone who could be all four.
This made it tough to find a replacement, because we kept taking the approach, "What did Katy do? Now let's hire someone to do that." Well, needless to say, we can't do that. You can't ever find a person to replace the old guy. Instead, you need to find a person who can fit in the position.
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I don't know what's up with my computer, but that ranges anywhere from instantaneous to 15 seconds on my system. And it insists on spinning up my second hard drive before it'll autocomplete.
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You can do that with the Windows version, too. Okay, so I've never tried it with a "real" three button mouse, but clicking the wheel on a wheel mouse is the same as button 3, right? Well, clicking that in Windows Minesweeper does the same as a dual-click.
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Because the way you think it happens isn't the way it actually happens.
When electing a president here in the States, there's really two elections that happen. Or, to be nitpicky, fifty-one.
The population of each state casts their vote -- which is what's happening now. These votes determine who the electoral votes for that state should go to. Then, a while later, representatives from each state vote for the president -- and in some states, they aren't legally obligated to vote the way the state's population wanted them to.
So this is why the federal government can't regulate the ballots, or any part of the election. They're state elections, not national ones.
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Now if only these people actually read their email...
I'm sure plenty of them do, but I recently tried contacting the admins at cw.net about a problem with their servers. They appear to be suffering some major traffic overload in the afternoons. My packets get routed through them when going from my ISP to my dedicated server, and two hops in cw.net's domain add over 600ms to the ping time. An 800ms ping may be okay for web surfing, but it makes a linux shell almost useless.
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I don't know where you people get the idea that we don't have this. There's several really cheap phone-in-a-box plans -- I saw one for sale in a video rental store, $20 for the phone, I forget how much for minutes. Of course, the coverage area is pretty bad. I went with the AT&T Prepaid plan, which has nationwide coverage, and a Nokia (6100?) phone, works with both digital and analog, and the prepaid plan is nationwide -- no roaming charges. I think it works out to around 45c/minute.
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Also, since the law is open to interpretation but the judge/jury, I doubt either of you would have gotten in any trouble.
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Just because they're providing the means to return it doesn't mean you're obligated to. You're right, they don't say you can keep it. They don't say you can't, either. If the only thing that says you must return it is the MA, and the MA becomes invalid, you are no longer obligated to return it.
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What I like about having them seperate, though, is that I can turn on the news, or Drew Carey, or whatever, and still work on the computer while I'm watching it. ('Work' of course meaning 'chat on IRC' or 'read Slashdot.')
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