Just to clarify, you mean for the older laptops right ? I have had the pleasure of owning an a20p, a22p, and now an a31P, all of them were freed from windows within the first day that I got them. Apart from the modem, everything worked flawlessly.
This new a31p has a built in wireless card, that was the only thing that needed work, and once I put 2.5.13 on it, even that card worked fine. I used the stock redhat 7.3 CD to install everything. Even X.
The video card on this laptop is an ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800 (64MB video card), it's supposed to be bad-ass, only Dell ships with a 64MB nvidia to compete with this a31 model btw.
Apart from the modem, I think IBM's laptops are the greatest mobile machines to install Linux on.
But aside from that, I agree with the final question. About this time last year, you could find Linux pre-installed on the ibm.com website, hell it was even advertised.. thinkpads with Linux. Was the market really that low ? Or was there pressure from outside forces to sell only MS Laptops ?.
The theatre I went to was filled more with high school kids and handicapped individuals than with people who had real jobs, except for a few of us.
Of course I also went to see the 12:01 screening, where 4 theatres were sold out. But during the 12:30 show the truants were high school kids more than the regular working class.
Then again, not a lot of tech jobs in the town where I went to see the movie.
Not so blatantly illegal, but didn't someone run a story about how MS ends up not paying any taxes due to accounting holes regarding stock options and aquisition etc ? If I remember correctly, for the year of 2000, MS owed $3 billion in taxes, bean counters counted some stuff and ended up with the Govt owing MS some money.. I could be wrong.. but I think the gist of it was similar.
Looking at their "summer specials", a 30 GB player costs $1499.. Thats way too much for anyone to pay
how much time do you spend in your car ? What would require you to need to play 30GB music in one trip ? The idea of having this sorta player is nice, very nice, but the cost is just too much.
If they had been able to make it below $1000, then
they might still have a shot.
$1499 is my insurance for the year, I'm better off buying a mp3-cd player that fits in my deck for $300-400, and just carry a bunch of MP3 cd's with me.
In wake of all the tragic pictures circulating the web, and even the entire issue of Time magazine.. I've put up a site, remembering the twin towers, with pictures I took myself.
The site also offers, different ways to help. The terrorists may have destroyed the Twin Towers, but they can never take away the memories. They can never take away the memories of the fallen, and of all the innocents.
It's great that such a device is coming out finally, but what is the cost of buying this, and then using the phone etc ? If I understand the VisorPhone correctly, I need to get service on top of the phone.. service that is probably not competively priced. Imagine being able to buy the Treo in a cellular store, with a service plan from AT&T or whoever is in your area. I need to use the AT&T National coverage, as do all the other employees of my company, they have a palm V, and a cell phone.. imagine getting rid of both the devices and just using the Treo. Along with the competive rates offered by the celluar companies ?
These devices would sell like hotcakes.
It's not a matter of how you view their content,
You can view slashdot by getting the daily email,
browser, print it out etc.. thats how you view things.
what toptext is doing is changing slashdot, and giving you the impression that slashdot has a link for you.. which is wrong. When people here complain about fair use, they're complaining about where and what you use to view/listen to your legally purchased copyrighted material.
Slashdot is not charging you for talking to your dad about a story you read on slashdot. Nor are they preventing you from copying their story and printing just the facts, without any banners etc.
They don't prevent you from visiting a story more than once etc.. you can visit as much as you want to. You can turn the ads off by using some sort of ad stopper, and they won't come and throw you in jail.
So your attempt at showing OSDN's hypocrisy is feeble.
I have the casio qv3000EX which uses IBM's 340MB drive. Batteries are a big issue, I needed to change them every 3 hrs. I imagine the batteries will be sucked even faster for a PDA accessing the drive. I don't know bout you guys, but I don't recharge my PDA every 3 hrs. Wonder what they'll do.
you would apologize to make someone happy ? even when you know this person you're trying to make happy is wrong ? So what if he's older ? If someone is wrong, they're wrong.
What about the fact that the crew members are being held there ?
If it was truly a matter of honor and old chinese traditions, this matter would be over. This is a matter of China testing the US.
Any old chinese wise man, would have looked at the situation practically, said sorry and let the americans go, hell they would probably have treated people's wounds etc. This is the chinese military who uses Jung as a puppet, testing the US. So please don't bring honor into this..
this is a result of greed, power hunger, ego and to see who has the bigger balls. Please don't confuse testicular fortitude with honor and courage.. usually it belongs to stupidity.
I am one of the 100k customers who will be taking it up the tail pipe very soon.. My question is to all you Business/Legal people.. what can I as a business DSL customer do ? AT&T refused to buy Northpoint's customers, it seems northpoint had a lot of customers.. how were they losing money ?
Was my isp that contracted out to them not paying ? Or was it companies like flashcom ? Which went bankrupt and basically screwed northpoint as well all their customers ?
And how can Northpoint and ATT make such a deal ? knowing fully well how badly they're gonna screw over thousands of customers ? This deal hurt consumers..ARGH!!!!! I'm not making any sense.. I know but I have no clue who to get mad at.. NP ? ATT ? My ISP ? I've been paying my bill every month.. how come Northpoint was not recieving money ? and how come they have to shut down due to lack of funds ? especially if the "consortium" is willing to shell out 2.4 million in order to keep their customers happy.. What is northpoint doin with the 135million ? if they're goin bankrupt ?.. they're that badly in debt ? How ? Fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK.. Argh..
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thats why I said.. Change the software so that it does block ALL porn sites.
Did you read my entire message or just look for
stuff you can argue about ?
I do realize that currently the software does block non porn sites, that is why i said the process of adding lists should be done manually and should follow a strict guideline that the taxpayers agree upon. Not some company.
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addendum.. the blocking of sites you feel are objectionable.. should be changed to..
blocking of sites that are pornographic..
depict lewd acts of sex by men and women..
all i'm saying is.. I DON'T WANT PORN in my schools. If Jon or anyone else feels i'm too old fashioned.. then you guys need some serious counseling.
I don't get it.. what is wrong with the idea of blocking some sites kids go to ? If my money is going to the govt and some of that money is going to some E-rate program.. I don't want it going towards some kid who wants to visit porn sites on the web.
I do agree that Bess and other such tools don't do the job properly.. but Jon is set out to make anyone who has strong religous beliefs to be a fanatic and out of touch with the times.
The problem is not blocking access to adult sites, the problem is that the current software doesn't work very well. Instead of lobbying for removal
of this law.. why don't we come up with a better solution ? go through the logs of sites everyday.. and add sites that you feel are objectionable
to a blocklist. Don't just ban just because the words fuck, suck, tits show up in the url.. do some manual work as well.
I for one don't want my money going into a program that will allow some vagrant (not all kids).. to watch porn while in school. Kids are kids.. they will play pranks... and they will want to go to adult sites.. but i'll be dammned if they do it on my money. Remember I worked hard for this money.. I'm quite pissed that I have to give it to the govt.. they better put it to good use.
How do you balance your time with your job and
the project ?
I have my own little project (phpstocks.com).
Whenever I release a new version, it increases my site traffic to around a few thousand hits/day for a around 2-3 weeks.. then things settle down once again. I get a lot of questions on how do something, but no constructive critique
of the code. Or help with the code.
Secondly I have a full time job, in which I work 12-13 hrs/day.. I get paid hourly.. so it's not so bad as base salary only.. but still it makes it so that I can't have enough time to have a social life and to work on the project.
I guess my question is how do you balance your time, specially when there aren't 100's of programmers working round the clock ?
I am willing to pay taxes for military, schools,
property tax (pays indirectly to military twice),
and charitable organizations.. and no I don't want a tax cut for "giving money away". I think what I understand of what Bush is saying, is that I earned the money, I should be smart enough to know how to spend it. If I came from the poor and became rich, and all of a sudden turned on the poor, then there is something wrong with me, not the rich in general. The govt should not decide who or what I spend my money on. I should pay taxes for the things mentioned above, and for roads and highways to be kept in shape etc, for the local police, and the police of my state.. actually.. thats what I'm willing to pay more of my money to. Not welfare, or social security that I won't see. If I choose not to use my social security.. then why make me ? what if I die before I turn 65 ? Where does the social security go ?
does my family get the social security that I already paid for ? There are plans out by Clinton, that would TAKE my property away when i die.. what about my remaining family ?
didn't a similar leak happen with some spies and a report by the nytimes ? Why isn't anyone learning ? or why isn't Adobe making their product better ?
At the very least taking that embarrasing hole out ?
Secondly.. who picked these guys ? The spooks themselves ? If they're already in bed with the FBI or other Super Secret Agency.. why would they be objective ?
how come they don't provide installation methods for people using Slackware ? or are they assuming that since a user uses slackware, they don't need something as simple as our products.. i'm all for compiling from source.. but not when i need 25 different things.... Patrick.. please make something like apt for Slack. Will make my life soooooooooo much easier. then I'll actually be able to slack:).
and your're not supposed to hate Magneto.. he's the good guy gone bad.. you're supposed to think of him as a friend who sees differently than you..
what terrifies the mutants is the legislation by congress to register the mutants.. same as it would terrify you, if congress passed legislation that everyone who's smarter than the average jock or politician should register.. because we don't know how smart they really are.
But then again.. even though i'm not a rabid x-men fan.. I do know a bit more about X-men than what Jon seems to know... interesting to see how a person new to the x-men world saw the movie..
I thought it was pretty cool myself.. just like the comic books.. leaving u with a feeling of.. damnit i don't want this to end..
As for the worst part of the movie.. when Storm tried to make a wisecrack or i don't even know what that was.. (the part when she's fightin toad).. that should go down in history as one of the gayest lines ever..
Well I tried to install debian.. but the install really wasn't as intuitive. Maybe because I've been using Slack since the 3.0 series, and I'm so used to the method of install now. But all in all, if you know what you're doing Slackware might very well be your best choice for a server or even a desktop. I've heard about apt, getting stuff from ftp sites etc to update stuff, kinda like the cvsupd, on freebsd.. which sounds really nifty. If slack had something like that.. it would make my life soooo much easier. I've timed myself, I can get a slackware installation customized to my needs, with X. up and running from scratch in about 25 minutes. The debian install I spent a lot of time figuring out all the options etc it gave me. If for somereason slackware went stagnant and no new releases were planned, I'd prolly switch to debian..but so far Patrick's been kickin ass, and thanks a lot to the slack team. PS: I've tried redhat.. 4 times.. I just keep goin back to slack.. too bad there's no Slack Certified Engineer:).. but I guess the LPI's linux certification is good.
Ford and Intel get it.. Jon Katz doesn't.
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"It can advance technology while it helps eliminate potentially bitter social divisions, upgrades literacy, education and research, liberates information, enhances democracy, strengthens community. "
Care to tell me how having a computer will make someone who was once illiterate literate ?.. or even "upgrade" their literacy ? How will it liberate information when you have DMCA and other crap going on trying to censor everything ?
A computer, like a car,is a tool.. It doesn't make things better just because you have one.. there are still a lot of crazy people out there who drive cars.. just like there are lots of crazy people out there with a computer and access to scripts.. (a.ka. script kiddies).. before you run around giving people computers or cars.. teach them responsibility first.
"Universal Access is one of the most unambivalently moral issues relating to technology and contemporary society. It helps fulfill the real promise of technology --- the bring information to everyone on the planet. Not to take anything away from the sweatshop issue, it?s hard to think of a cause that would do more for the disadvantaged right here at home. While middle-class Americans are hooking up to the Net like mad, poor Americans aren?t. Nor has most of the underdeveloped world. Without Universal Access, they will soon be hating the technologically-connected (especially the American variety) who monopolize and dominate the new technologies driving the global economy.
It?s interesting that corporations, of all entities, rather than educational or political institutions ( colleges and universities rarely provide personal computers to students taking these strides). Business grasps that internal communications networks, interconnected business environments and systems that involve the whole family are good for business. That they are, in fact, potentially good for everybody."
you obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.. countries that aren't where the US is in terms of wealth and technology.. are teaching their kids.. and their kids are growing up knowing and wanting to make their country better.. it's called healthy competition.. every entrepeneur in this world had the same desire to have what he didn't have. Giving away free computers though might be good initially.. but in the long run it's bad.. what do u tell the neighbors kid who's father doesn't work for Ford or Intel or enRamp ?.. this is just another situation.. looking to become a welfare nightmare.
PS: Jon.. please.. double check your post before you post it.. I'm sick of seeing "Intel topped Ford?s idea"... now I know you aren't a good writer.. but geeez.. even AC's don't make such stupid mistakes. What's an it?s ?
I don't understand this.. the artists work countless hours makin their music, then the editors/sound producers work their hours.. a lot of work goes into the publicity.. and a lot of money too.. in the end.. an individual buys a new cd for $16-$18 (go to any CD store in new jersey).. how much profit did the Recording company make from that one sale ? atleast $5.. now imagine selling 1 million of these cds..thats a $5 million profit. How much money do the artists get from this profit ? I don't know.. but I would wager to say not very much..
How much of this profit goes back into giving the secretaries,agents their money ? not very much again.. yet the RIAA has everyone thinking that they need these high profits to stay in business or their artists and the execs will die of starvation.. in a country where the average yearly income is 40k, how can these suits justify making $5 million from a few months worth of work ?
Didn't I work 70 hours last week ? just like the artists did ? didn't Joe construction worker spend so much of his time to build the studio in which the band made it's recording ? how much money went to him ? NONE.. How much money did I make for my 70 hours of work ? none compared to these artists..
my point is that for everything I do, my company can justify.. sometimes wrongly.. for not paying me as much as I'd like to get paid.. (health insurance, building maintenance, the company isn't profitable yet... etc etc.).. but what about the RIAA ?? don't we have a right to know why we're being charged so much for a music cd ? if there is a good explanation for these high costs and i've looked in the wrong place.. please direct me..
redhat suse caldera all of them make money from media sales and more from Services. Linuxmall sells cds for each distro at 1.99/cd.. thats not enough money to retire on.. the service is where the value is.. as for ibm.. they make money by selling the mainframe and services on top of that.
whoever thinks there is no market for mainframes.. hasn't dealt with a true enterprise system. Right now
linux on a x86 is a promising student Sparc is the adolescent.. very good at what he does.. but not the best.. not wise etc.. IBM's mainframes are the old masters.. strong, wise mature and proven.
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Just to clarify, you mean for the older laptops right ? I have had the pleasure of owning an a20p, a22p, and now an a31P, all of them were freed from windows within the first day that I got them. Apart from the modem, everything worked flawlessly.
.. thinkpads with Linux. Was the market really that low ? Or was there pressure from outside forces to sell only MS Laptops ?.
This new a31p has a built in wireless card, that was the only thing that needed work, and once I put 2.5.13 on it, even that card worked fine. I used the stock redhat 7.3 CD to install everything. Even X.
The video card on this laptop is an ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800 (64MB video card), it's supposed to be bad-ass, only Dell ships with a 64MB nvidia to compete with this a31 model btw.
Apart from the modem, I think IBM's laptops are the greatest mobile machines to install Linux on.
But aside from that, I agree with the final question. About this time last year, you could find Linux pre-installed on the ibm.com website, hell it was even advertised
The theatre I went to was filled more with high school kids and handicapped individuals than with people who had real jobs, except for a few of us.
Of course I also went to see the 12:01 screening, where 4 theatres were sold out. But during the 12:30 show the truants were high school kids more than the regular working class.
Then again, not a lot of tech jobs in the town where I went to see the movie.
Not so blatantly illegal, but didn't someone run a story about how MS ends up not paying any taxes due to accounting holes regarding stock options and aquisition etc ? If I remember correctly, for the year of 2000, MS owed $3 billion in taxes, bean counters counted some stuff and ended up with the Govt owing MS some money.. I could be wrong.. but I think the gist of it was similar.
Looking at their "summer specials", a 30 GB player costs $1499.. Thats way too much for anyone to pay
how much time do you spend in your car ? What would require you to need to play 30GB music in one trip ? The idea of having this sorta player is nice, very nice, but the cost is just too much.
If they had been able to make it below $1000, then
they might still have a shot.
$1499 is my insurance for the year, I'm better off buying a mp3-cd player that fits in my deck for $300-400, and just carry a bunch of MP3 cd's with me.
In wake of all the tragic pictures circulating the web, and even the entire issue of Time magazine.. I've put up a site, remembering the twin towers, with pictures I took myself.
http://pictures.linuxpowered.com
The site also offers, different ways to help. The terrorists may have destroyed the Twin Towers, but they can never take away the memories. They can never take away the memories of the fallen, and of all the innocents.
I'm trying to setup a site remembering NYC and WTC before all of this happened. I've setup a site
with pictures of more pleasant times..
Linuxpowered
If you have pictures of the city/twin towers before this incident, please send them to me.
It's great that such a device is coming out finally, but what is the cost of buying this, and then using the phone etc ? If I understand the VisorPhone correctly, I need to get service on top of the phone.. service that is probably not competively priced. Imagine being able to buy the Treo in a cellular store, with a service plan from AT&T or whoever is in your area. I need to use the AT&T National coverage, as do all the other employees of my company, they have a palm V, and a cell phone.. imagine getting rid of both the devices and just using the Treo. Along with the competive rates offered by the celluar companies ?
These devices would sell like hotcakes.
It's not a matter of how you view their content,
You can view slashdot by getting the daily email,
browser, print it out etc.. thats how you view things.
what toptext is doing is changing slashdot, and giving you the impression that slashdot has a link for you.. which is wrong. When people here complain about fair use, they're complaining about where and what you use to view/listen to your legally purchased copyrighted material.
Slashdot is not charging you for talking to your dad about a story you read on slashdot. Nor are they preventing you from copying their story and printing just the facts, without any banners etc.
They don't prevent you from visiting a story more than once etc.. you can visit as much as you want to. You can turn the ads off by using some sort of ad stopper, and they won't come and throw you in jail.
So your attempt at showing OSDN's hypocrisy is feeble.
I have the casio qv3000EX which uses IBM's 340MB drive. Batteries are a big issue, I needed to change them every 3 hrs. I imagine the batteries will be sucked even faster for a PDA accessing the drive. I don't know bout you guys, but I don't recharge my PDA every 3 hrs. Wonder what they'll do.
you would apologize to make someone happy ? even when you know this person you're trying to make happy is wrong ? So what if he's older ? If someone is wrong, they're wrong.
What about the fact that the crew members are being held there ?
If it was truly a matter of honor and old chinese traditions, this matter would be over. This is a matter of China testing the US.
Any old chinese wise man, would have looked at the situation practically, said sorry and let the americans go, hell they would probably have treated people's wounds etc. This is the chinese military who uses Jung as a puppet, testing the US. So please don't bring honor into this..
this is a result of greed, power hunger, ego and to see who has the bigger balls. Please don't confuse testicular fortitude with honor and courage.. usually it belongs to stupidity.
I am one of the 100k customers who will be taking it up the tail pipe very soon.. My question is to all you Business/Legal people.. what can I as a business DSL customer do ? AT&T refused to buy Northpoint's customers, it seems northpoint had a lot of customers.. how were they losing money ?
Was my isp that contracted out to them not paying ? Or was it companies like flashcom ? Which went bankrupt and basically screwed northpoint as well all their customers ?
And how can Northpoint and ATT make such a deal ? knowing fully well how badly they're gonna screw over thousands of customers ? This deal hurt consumers..ARGH!!!!! I'm not making any sense.. I know but I have no clue who to get mad at.. NP ? ATT ? My ISP ? I've been paying my bill every month.. how come Northpoint was not recieving money ? and how come they have to shut down due to lack of funds ? especially if the "consortium" is willing to shell out 2.4 million in order to keep their customers happy.. What is northpoint doin with the 135million ? if they're goin bankrupt ?.. they're that badly in debt ? How ? Fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK.. Argh..
thats why I said.. Change the software so that it does block ALL porn sites.
Did you read my entire message or just look for
stuff you can argue about ?
I do realize that currently the software does block non porn sites, that is why i said the process of adding lists should be done manually and should follow a strict guideline that the taxpayers agree upon. Not some company.
addendum.. the blocking of sites you feel are objectionable.. should be changed to..
blocking of sites that are pornographic..
depict lewd acts of sex by men and women..
all i'm saying is.. I DON'T WANT PORN in my schools. If Jon or anyone else feels i'm too old fashioned.. then you guys need some serious counseling.
I don't get it.. what is wrong with the idea of blocking some sites kids go to ? If my money is going to the govt and some of that money is going to some E-rate program.. I don't want it going towards some kid who wants to visit porn sites on the web.
I do agree that Bess and other such tools don't do the job properly.. but Jon is set out to make anyone who has strong religous beliefs to be a fanatic and out of touch with the times.
The problem is not blocking access to adult sites, the problem is that the current software doesn't work very well. Instead of lobbying for removal
of this law.. why don't we come up with a better solution ? go through the logs of sites everyday.. and add sites that you feel are objectionable
to a blocklist. Don't just ban just because the words fuck, suck, tits show up in the url.. do some manual work as well.
I for one don't want my money going into a program that will allow some vagrant (not all kids).. to watch porn while in school. Kids are kids.. they will play pranks... and they will want to go to adult sites.. but i'll be dammned if they do it on my money. Remember I worked hard for this money.. I'm quite pissed that I have to give it to the govt.. they better put it to good use.
How do you balance your time with your job and
the project ?
I have my own little project (phpstocks.com).
Whenever I release a new version, it increases my site traffic to around a few thousand hits/day for a around 2-3 weeks.. then things settle down once again. I get a lot of questions on how do something, but no constructive critique
of the code. Or help with the code.
Secondly I have a full time job, in which I work 12-13 hrs/day.. I get paid hourly.. so it's not so bad as base salary only.. but still it makes it so that I can't have enough time to have a social life and to work on the project.
I guess my question is how do you balance your time, specially when there aren't 100's of programmers working round the clock ?
As for Gore's favorite line about Bush's tax cuts
giving more money to the Richest.. simple math.
I pay 1000 in taxes,
you pay 100 in taxes.
now we both get 10% back of what we paid..
who gets more back ? and who still paid more in taxes ?
The math isn't too hard is it ?
I am willing to pay taxes for military, schools,
property tax (pays indirectly to military twice),
and charitable organizations.. and no I don't want a tax cut for "giving money away". I think what I understand of what Bush is saying, is that I earned the money, I should be smart enough to know how to spend it. If I came from the poor and became rich, and all of a sudden turned on the poor, then there is something wrong with me, not the rich in general. The govt should not decide who or what I spend my money on. I should pay taxes for the things mentioned above, and for roads and highways to be kept in shape etc, for the local police, and the police of my state.. actually.. thats what I'm willing to pay more of my money to. Not welfare, or social security that I won't see. If I choose not to use my social security.. then why make me ? what if I die before I turn 65 ? Where does the social security go ?
does my family get the social security that I already paid for ? There are plans out by Clinton, that would TAKE my property away when i die.. what about my remaining family ?
didn't a similar leak happen with some spies and a report by the nytimes ? Why isn't anyone learning ? or why isn't Adobe making their product better ?
At the very least taking that embarrasing hole out ?
Secondly.. who picked these guys ? The spooks themselves ? If they're already in bed with the FBI or other Super Secret Agency.. why would they be objective ?
how come they don't provide installation methods for people using Slackware ? or are they assuming that since a user uses slackware, they don't need something as simple as our products.. i'm all for compiling from source.. but not when i need 25 different things.... Patrick.. please make something like apt for Slack. Will make my life soooooooooo much easier. then I'll actually be able to slack :).
so was netscape, so was IBM as the #1 pc manufacturer..
Nothing is impossible
a.k.a claws.. like a wolves..
and your're not supposed to hate Magneto.. he's the good guy gone bad.. you're supposed to think of him as a friend who sees differently than you..
what terrifies the mutants is the legislation by congress to register the mutants.. same as it would terrify you, if congress passed legislation that everyone who's smarter than the average jock or politician should register.. because we don't know how smart they really are.
But then again.. even though i'm not a rabid x-men fan.. I do know a bit more about X-men than what Jon seems to know... interesting to see how a person new to the x-men world saw the movie..
I thought it was pretty cool myself.. just like the comic books.. leaving u with a feeling of.. damnit i don't want this to end..
As for the worst part of the movie.. when Storm tried to make a wisecrack or i don't even know what that was.. (the part when she's fightin toad).. that should go down in history as one of the gayest lines ever..
Well I tried to install debian.. but the install really wasn't as intuitive. Maybe because I've been using Slack since the 3.0 series, and I'm so used to the method of install now. But all in all, if you know what you're doing Slackware might very well be your best choice for a server or even a desktop. I've heard about apt, getting stuff from ftp sites etc to update stuff, kinda like the cvsupd, on freebsd.. which sounds really nifty. If slack had something like that.. it would make my life soooo much easier. I've timed myself, I can get a slackware installation customized to my needs, with X. up and running from scratch in about 25 minutes. The debian install I spent a lot of time figuring out all the options etc it gave me. If for somereason slackware went stagnant and no new releases were planned, I'd prolly switch to debian..but so far Patrick's been kickin ass, and thanks a lot to the slack team. PS: I've tried redhat.. 4 times.. I just keep goin back to slack.. too bad there's no Slack Certified Engineer :).. but I guess the LPI's linux certification is good.
Care to tell me how having a computer will make someone who was once illiterate literate ?
crap going on trying to censor everything ?
A computer, like a car,is a tool.. It doesn't make things better just because you have one.. there are still a lot of crazy people out there who drive cars.. just like there are lots of crazy people out there with a computer and access to scripts.. (a.ka. script kiddies).. before you run around giving people computers or cars.. teach them responsibility first.
"Universal Access is one of the most unambivalently moral issues relating to technology and contemporary society. It helps fulfill the real promise of technology --- the bring information to everyone on the planet. Not to take anything away from the sweatshop issue, it?s hard to think of a cause that would do more for the disadvantaged right here at home. While middle-class Americans are hooking up to the Net like mad, poor Americans aren?t. Nor has most of the underdeveloped world. Without Universal Access, they will soon be hating the technologically-connected (especially the American variety) who monopolize and dominate the new technologies driving the global economy.
It?s interesting that corporations, of all entities, rather than educational or political institutions ( colleges and universities rarely provide personal computers to students taking these strides). Business grasps that internal communications networks, interconnected business environments and systems that involve the whole family are good for business. That they are, in fact, potentially good for everybody."
you obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.. countries that aren't where the US is in terms of wealth and technology.. are teaching their kids.. and their kids are growing up knowing and wanting to make their country better.. it's called healthy competition..
every entrepeneur in this world had the same desire to have what he didn't have. Giving away free computers though might be good initially.. but in the long run it's bad.. what do u tell the neighbors kid who's father doesn't work for Ford or Intel or enRamp ?
PS: Jon.. please.. double check your post before you post it.. I'm sick of seeing "Intel topped Ford?s idea"... now I know you aren't a good writer.. but geeez.. even AC's don't make such stupid mistakes. What's an it?s ?
I don't understand this.. the artists work countless hours makin their music, then the editors/sound producers work their hours.. a lot of work goes into the publicity.. and a lot of money too.. in the end .. an individual
.. sometimes wrongly.. for not paying me as much as I'd like to get paid.. (health insurance, building maintenance, the company isn't profitable yet... etc etc.).. but what about the RIAA ?? don't we have a right to know why we're being charged so much for a music cd ? if there is
buys a new cd for $16-$18 (go to any CD store in new jersey).. how much profit did the Recording company make from that one sale ? atleast $5..
now imagine selling 1 million of these cds..thats
a $5 million profit. How much money do the artists get from this profit ? I don't know.. but I would wager to say not very much..
How much of this profit goes back into giving the
secretaries,agents their money ? not very much again.. yet the RIAA has everyone thinking that they need these high profits to stay in business or their artists and the execs will die of starvation.. in a country where the average yearly income is 40k, how can these suits justify making $5 million from a few months worth of work ?
Didn't I work 70 hours last week ? just like the artists did ? didn't Joe construction worker spend so much of his time to build the studio in which the band made it's recording ? how much money went to him ? NONE.. How much money did I make for my 70 hours of work ? none compared to these artists..
my point is that for everything I do, my company can justify
a good explanation for these high costs and i've looked in the wrong place.. please direct me..
redhat suse caldera all of them make money from media sales and more from Services. Linuxmall sells cds for each distro at 1.99/cd.. thats not enough money to retire on.. the service is where the value is.. as for ibm.. they make money by selling the mainframe and services on top of that.
whoever thinks there is no market for mainframes.. hasn't dealt with a true enterprise system.
Right now
linux on a x86 is a promising student
Sparc is the adolescent.. very good at what he does.. but not the best.. not wise etc..
IBM's mainframes are the old masters.. strong, wise mature and proven.
I think Linux on mainframes is a good thing(tm).