I had very little programming background, but I was able to learn and use PHP effectively, and put together a web site with a database backend and lots of cool features, in a few weeks time. And I didn't even have to use any code from anyone else.
If I spent more time with it, if I read more websites on PHP (don't underestimate these - there's a LOT of PHP fan sites out there and a lot of training to be had on the web) and applied my newfound skills to new types of sites, I feel as though I could do PHP programming for a job.
Totally... You know, I used to like nVidia cards. Well, I still do. They work. The drivers are usually fairly painless to install, and the single driver package for all cards thing is nice and easy.
The problem I have with them is how they repeatedly try to fool people into buying their GeForce 2 processors over and over and over by slapping on the new "FX" stickers on them. They did the same thing in the past with the GeForce 4 - but at least you knew if it was good if it had the "Ti" at the end.
ATI isn't nearly as bad, although their model numbers are still somewhat convoluted. I had a Radeon 9700 Pro for a long time and it was a great card - I'll definately buy another ATI. I also owned a GF4 4600 and it was a good board as well.
I have *purchased* many software packages based on GPL software such as Codeweaver's Crossover Office and was happy to do so. They contribute their code changes back to the WINE project, and in the meantime I'm paying for a product that's supported and bundled nicely to work the way it is supposed to work.
If you don't want to write GPL software, then DON'T USE GPL CODE in your software. Write it yourself. The people that wrote that code DO NOT want you to use it to make money off their work.
Nobody is forcing you to write GPL code, so don't do it.
I happen to believe that there IS a lot of money to be had on GPL based software.
It's never taken me very long to update my Gentoo machines. Then again, I'm not one of those "I run Pentium 100's and I'm proud of it" types. I have quick boxes with plenty of memory.
Only when doing a full update of all core packages does it take awhile, and I very rarely have to do that. The benefits greatly outweigh this. And all I have to do is type one thing and walk away.
If package A requires package B, and B requires that another package, C, needs to be compiled with support for something, Gentoo will do all this for you with no extra effort.
Debian has many advantages of portage but it still falls a little short in my mind. I mean, sure, you can get your packages through apt just fine but you have to make sure you find and add the right apt sources for your particular version of your particular libraries and other support software. It can still be a pain in the ass. I like Debian because it's proven, and stable. But I like Gentoo more because it's just easier.
..putting Gentoo on "Mac hardware" - it's putting portions of portage on MacOS. There's a difference there - it probably won't help the Linux community any.
I do like Gentoo, and I use it. There's nothing like installing almost any software I want with a two word command line. And if you're a GUI fan, kportage works great too.
Truthfully, I don't have the time to maintain my three home Linux boxes full time. Meaning, I can't always be re-installing them or upgrading them to the latest version of Fedora, or Mandrake, or Debian, just because I want to install xyz software which requires abc library which can only be found on the new release. With Gentoo, I basically say "go." And it does the rest.
I've only had a small few issues with Gentoo, mostly because of major changes in gcc or what-not. These issues would have you buried in the stink for a long time on another distribution, but not on Gentoo. Just recompile the necessary packages and be on your way.
I thought that the Battlestar Galactica miniseries was really good stuff. It was great all around - the music was awesome, the sets/atmosphere was unique, and the actors were really good.
I was actually kinda shocked that it was only the two shows - it was SUCH a cliffhanger. I mean, we know the story already and stuff, but they kinda just made two episodes of the show and ended it =)
Using the same actors is great. I pretty much figured that they would make a series out of it, after it being as good as it was. But I figured they wouldn't be able to use the same actors and it could very well suck. What a pleasant surprise to find out that they were casting the same people!
SG1 will be over this year, but at least we have BSG to look forward to.
I don't know why on earth someone that obviously doesn't like Sci-Fi in general would even think about reviewing a Sci-Fi show. And he doesn't even *attempt* to hide it.
I think that SG-1 is one of the most well thought out Sci-Fi shows ever, if not THE most. The continuity is unmatched, the 'world' of SG-1 is believable and ties in very creatively to ancient human history.
The character development has been really top-notch, and the actors have done an excellent job in the last seven years. Playing a role in a science fiction show/movie can be the most difficult acting there is. You have to be believable, viable, and versatile.
It's entertaining, thought provoking science fiction. It's a shame that some people just can't appreciate it. Science fiction broadens your mind and people just don't know what they're missing.
If you already own the drive, and you somehow manage to botch the firmware update, it's not like the thing is expensive. $70 for a replacement won't kill anyone, especially since they know the risks.
I don't think many people will go buy the $70 drive with the intention of flashing it, for that very reason - the better drive is only a few bucks more.
I agree that the first part was the best, but it was the whole concept of "what if.. this isn't real? What is real?" that made people like it so much.
You can't beat that feeling in a sequel. Well, there's some exceptions. But not many.
I didn't like the second matrix, and I thought that the third one was a little.. *too much* with some of the fight scenes. But all in all, if you look at the trilogy as a whole, it's not bad at all.
They probably could have combined the second and third films together and it would have been better.
It was PROBABLY someone's last name or something, as in the guy that started the chain of hotels.
It's not the best name to have, but do you HONESTLY think that they would build multi-million dollar *resort* hotels and name them something like Gaylord JUST because they want publicity, albeit BAD publicity? No, hotels don't need to do that.
The hotels are really nice, and I'd stay at one for sure. Of course, I'm not a superficial homophobic dweeb that isn't secure in my masculinity like yourself.
It's news to people that don't read slashdot every day.
I don't mind revisiting older topics once in awhile - it's only annoying when it's two days in a row. And even then, it's not that big of a deal, I simply pass over it.
Posts like this are more waste of space then then a duplicate article post, and you get a lot more posts like yours then we do dupes. It's especially annoying when people say "We talked about this TWO YEARS AGO!!!" Well here's some news for you: I don't memorize every slashdot story since the beginning, and there's been a lot of new members since then.
I have tried to use distcc for a lot of stuff, but it doesn't work on some packages, and that's enough to make me not use it.
I don't want to have to hand-pick which packages to use it with and which ones to not use it with. Fortunately, a lot of Gentoo packages have a rule built in to not use distcc automatically, but it's not always the case.
The other thing about distcc is that it won't increase the speed of the compile by any large magnitude with each machine added because the machine performing the actual compile has to do a lot more work then the slaves.
Unless I was trying to compile something on a REALLY slow machine, I don't bother with distcc.
I see nothing special in SP2 really. The firewall is a little better maybe, and IE has a popup blocker.
The rest is Social Engineering. Basically, they've changed around a lot of dialogue boxes and made it more difficult for people to ignore updating their systems.
I don't know how much this is actually going to help anything - we'll see.
You got lucky. Same thing happened to me (except I only had one drive in the machine) and I had the exact same drive in a different machine. I purchased them at the same time, and they came from the same OEM foam box.
Apparently, one of the drives was "1.00.000.1b" and the other was "1.00.000.1." The board didn't work in the fried drive, and I lost 150GB of data. Ontrack would recover it for me for a nominal fee of $12,540. Needless to say, I didn't need my pirated software and porn THAT much. But it was still depressing. (thank god for usenet; I have most of it back now. I was surprised how quickly I was able to fill up 120GB.)
The only way this could have happened was the vendor consolodated two shipments into one box.
Although I'm not in agreement of the whole analog statement, I do agree with the lossy compression one.
I'll never buy a song unless it's at least CD quality (and that means 44.1Khz Stereo uncompressed.) If someone wants to come out with a format that's compressed but REALLY superior to CD, I'd buy it. Maybe something like 96Khz 32-bit audio 5.1 surround compressed down would sound sweet. But nobody has..ogg,.mp3, AAC, ATRAC, whatever.
I have found that 256kbit variable.ogg sounds excellent. Sony's ATRAC used for Minidiscs also sounds really good. But they still fall short of CD Uncompressed quality and I can't live with that.
Maybe for some people it's "good enough" but not me.
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I had very little programming background, but I was able to learn and use PHP effectively, and put together a web site with a database backend and lots of cool features, in a few weeks time. And I didn't even have to use any code from anyone else.
If I spent more time with it, if I read more websites on PHP (don't underestimate these - there's a LOT of PHP fan sites out there and a lot of training to be had on the web) and applied my newfound skills to new types of sites, I feel as though I could do PHP programming for a job.
Java is orders of magnitude more complex.
Totally... You know, I used to like nVidia cards. Well, I still do. They work. The drivers are usually fairly painless to install, and the single driver package for all cards thing is nice and easy.
The problem I have with them is how they repeatedly try to fool people into buying their GeForce 2 processors over and over and over by slapping on the new "FX" stickers on them. They did the same thing in the past with the GeForce 4 - but at least you knew if it was good if it had the "Ti" at the end.
ATI isn't nearly as bad, although their model numbers are still somewhat convoluted. I had a Radeon 9700 Pro for a long time and it was a great card - I'll definately buy another ATI. I also owned a GF4 4600 and it was a good board as well.
I have *purchased* many software packages based on GPL software such as Codeweaver's Crossover Office and was happy to do so. They contribute their code changes back to the WINE project, and in the meantime I'm paying for a product that's supported and bundled nicely to work the way it is supposed to work.
If you don't want to write GPL software, then DON'T USE GPL CODE in your software. Write it yourself. The people that wrote that code DO NOT want you to use it to make money off their work.
Nobody is forcing you to write GPL code, so don't do it.
I happen to believe that there IS a lot of money to be had on GPL based software.
On the contrary, I used my PIN with the ATM, and it did give me money.
Ohh and everything on your "BSD'r" machine uses the BSD license? Suuuure...
You sound more like a BS'r then a BSD'r.
Can't be running SERVERS now! That would be a bad little web surfer, yes it would. And make sure you renew your DHCP lease once every 10 minutes!
Umm, I know. That's why I replied to the guy.
It's never taken me very long to update my Gentoo machines. Then again, I'm not one of those "I run Pentium 100's and I'm proud of it" types. I have quick boxes with plenty of memory.
Only when doing a full update of all core packages does it take awhile, and I very rarely have to do that. The benefits greatly outweigh this. And all I have to do is type one thing and walk away.
If package A requires package B, and B requires that another package, C, needs to be compiled with support for something, Gentoo will do all this for you with no extra effort.
Debian has many advantages of portage but it still falls a little short in my mind. I mean, sure, you can get your packages through apt just fine but you have to make sure you find and add the right apt sources for your particular version of your particular libraries and other support software. It can still be a pain in the ass. I like Debian because it's proven, and stable. But I like Gentoo more because it's just easier.
Like I said, I'm lazy, therefore I use Gentoo.
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..putting Gentoo on "Mac hardware" - it's putting portions of portage on MacOS. There's a difference there - it probably won't help the Linux community any.
I do like Gentoo, and I use it. There's nothing like installing almost any software I want with a two word command line. And if you're a GUI fan, kportage works great too.
Truthfully, I don't have the time to maintain my three home Linux boxes full time. Meaning, I can't always be re-installing them or upgrading them to the latest version of Fedora, or Mandrake, or Debian, just because I want to install xyz software which requires abc library which can only be found on the new release. With Gentoo, I basically say "go." And it does the rest.
I've only had a small few issues with Gentoo, mostly because of major changes in gcc or what-not. These issues would have you buried in the stink for a long time on another distribution, but not on Gentoo. Just recompile the necessary packages and be on your way.
I use Gentoo because I'm lazy.
See above..
It's called GentooX. A simple google would have shown that. It's not just LIKE Gentoo, it *is* gentoo.
I thought that the Battlestar Galactica miniseries was really good stuff. It was great all around - the music was awesome, the sets/atmosphere was unique, and the actors were really good.
I was actually kinda shocked that it was only the two shows - it was SUCH a cliffhanger. I mean, we know the story already and stuff, but they kinda just made two episodes of the show and ended it =)
Using the same actors is great. I pretty much figured that they would make a series out of it, after it being as good as it was. But I figured they wouldn't be able to use the same actors and it could very well suck. What a pleasant surprise to find out that they were casting the same people!
SG1 will be over this year, but at least we have BSG to look forward to.
You nailed it.
I don't know why on earth someone that obviously doesn't like Sci-Fi in general would even think about reviewing a Sci-Fi show. And he doesn't even *attempt* to hide it.
I think that SG-1 is one of the most well thought out Sci-Fi shows ever, if not THE most. The continuity is unmatched, the 'world' of SG-1 is believable and ties in very creatively to ancient human history.
The character development has been really top-notch, and the actors have done an excellent job in the last seven years. Playing a role in a science fiction show/movie can be the most difficult acting there is. You have to be believable, viable, and versatile.
It's entertaining, thought provoking science fiction. It's a shame that some people just can't appreciate it. Science fiction broadens your mind and people just don't know what they're missing.
If you already own the drive, and you somehow manage to botch the firmware update, it's not like the thing is expensive. $70 for a replacement won't kill anyone, especially since they know the risks.
I don't think many people will go buy the $70 drive with the intention of flashing it, for that very reason - the better drive is only a few bucks more.
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The management isn't telling these guys "Write me a buffer overflow, STAT!!"
If they can't code good software, that's their own damned fault and I don't feel bad for them.
That Thinkpad should work find with a standard size low profile notebook HD.
I agree that the first part was the best, but it was the whole concept of "what if.. this isn't real? What is real?" that made people like it so much.
.. *too much* with some of the fight scenes. But all in all, if you look at the trilogy as a whole, it's not bad at all.
You can't beat that feeling in a sequel. Well, there's some exceptions. But not many.
I didn't like the second matrix, and I thought that the third one was a little
They probably could have combined the second and third films together and it would have been better.
You fucking moron.
It was PROBABLY someone's last name or something, as in the guy that started the chain of hotels.
It's not the best name to have, but do you HONESTLY think that they would build multi-million dollar *resort* hotels and name them something like Gaylord JUST because they want publicity, albeit BAD publicity? No, hotels don't need to do that.
The hotels are really nice, and I'd stay at one for sure. Of course, I'm not a superficial homophobic dweeb that isn't secure in my masculinity like yourself.
It's news to people that don't read slashdot every day.
I don't mind revisiting older topics once in awhile - it's only annoying when it's two days in a row. And even then, it's not that big of a deal, I simply pass over it.
Posts like this are more waste of space then then a duplicate article post, and you get a lot more posts like yours then we do dupes. It's especially annoying when people say "We talked about this TWO YEARS AGO!!!" Well here's some news for you: I don't memorize every slashdot story since the beginning, and there's been a lot of new members since then.
Which makes it a pain in the ass if you ask me.
I have tried to use distcc for a lot of stuff, but it doesn't work on some packages, and that's enough to make me not use it.
I don't want to have to hand-pick which packages to use it with and which ones to not use it with. Fortunately, a lot of Gentoo packages have a rule built in to not use distcc automatically, but it's not always the case.
The other thing about distcc is that it won't increase the speed of the compile by any large magnitude with each machine added because the machine performing the actual compile has to do a lot more work then the slaves.
Unless I was trying to compile something on a REALLY slow machine, I don't bother with distcc.
L0phtcrack is also very easy to get from Usenet, and you can crack it and run it on any machine you want.
Although not really good for the IT professional doing a security audit, it is good for some joe shmoe on your network that wants to cause trouble.
I see nothing special in SP2 really. The firewall is a little better maybe, and IE has a popup blocker.
The rest is Social Engineering. Basically, they've changed around a lot of dialogue boxes and made it more difficult for people to ignore updating their systems.
I don't know how much this is actually going to help anything - we'll see.
You got lucky. Same thing happened to me (except I only had one drive in the machine) and I had the exact same drive in a different machine. I purchased them at the same time, and they came from the same OEM foam box.
Apparently, one of the drives was "1.00.000.1b" and the other was "1.00.000.1." The board didn't work in the fried drive, and I lost 150GB of data. Ontrack would recover it for me for a nominal fee of $12,540. Needless to say, I didn't need my pirated software and porn THAT much. But it was still depressing. (thank god for usenet; I have most of it back now. I was surprised how quickly I was able to fill up 120GB.)
The only way this could have happened was the vendor consolodated two shipments into one box.
Although I'm not in agreement of the whole analog statement, I do agree with the lossy compression one.
.ogg, .mp3, AAC, ATRAC, whatever.
.ogg sounds excellent. Sony's ATRAC used for Minidiscs also sounds really good. But they still fall short of CD Uncompressed quality and I can't live with that.
I'll never buy a song unless it's at least CD quality (and that means 44.1Khz Stereo uncompressed.) If someone wants to come out with a format that's compressed but REALLY superior to CD, I'd buy it. Maybe something like 96Khz 32-bit audio 5.1 surround compressed down would sound sweet. But nobody has.
I have found that 256kbit variable
Maybe for some people it's "good enough" but not me.