I used to go around with my own root-boot floppy, but with many installer CDROMs being bootable in shell mode (at least, recent Slackware ISOs are, in any case) there's not much point in bothering with it any more. Chroot is your friend.
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Hmmm. Not much good for me; that would delete my nice squeaky-clean karma-free Linux/boot partition:-)
I seem to remember posts saying Win98 was to be EOLed last June. It has nothing to do with me (my network is a MS-free zone) but the Linux 2.2 kernels are still maintained.
It seems to me to me that these benchmarks would probably have been more meaningful (and useful) if they had run the same tests against 2.4.21. Anybody got any thoughts on this? I know there are low-latency features and so forth with the new kernel, but I would be curious to know if that has any real impact on disk I/O.
I don't know about 2.6 yet, but Reiserfs hasn't let me down so far.
For a long time I resisted moving away from ext2, as I didn't want the journalling overhead and didn't mind the occasional e2fsck. After I got a few power outages I changed my mind:-) but I haven't been disappointed with Reiserfs' speed.
Little things like quarks are hard to see, but I would like to see what they manage to make of any the reactions of organic compounds and substrates. It would be a real challenge to be able to make sense of that mess visually.
Hell, what about this one: tha action of LSD on the brain?
If Mandrake says you need qt to run Gnome, there is assuredly something wrong, because qt should be unnecessary. Are you installing on top of a previous distribution or something? OK, Mandrake isn't my distro of choice for the precise reason that their packaging doesn't make sense to me - by which I mean that in my considered opinion it is a crock of shit:-). Mandrake has always worked well (for me) "out of the box", but it can be a bugger of a job to upgrade packages. I'm a simple man, and I prefer Slackware, but my experience has generally been that the mdk installs pretty much left everybody else's for dead. I have to admit I don't have a lot of personal experience with mdk 9.1 though...
Gentoo is a great idea, and I'm in no doubt that it's nery cool to compile everything on your computer before you can get productive with it.
As I'm no longer in IT I don't need to maintain a massive network any more, but my modest home network of 3 computers of various architectures would have been very tedious to get into a useable state with Gentoo.
My preference is to keep it simple: install Slackware and just recompile the applications (and the kernel, of course) that will actually accrue some performance benefit.
Is it not possible to start a thread on any issue without including 150 posts bashing SCO? I heartily agree that they should be pilloried, but preferably when it's on-topic.
I guess it depends on the kind of textbook. There are probably many publishers who don't want books that are currently in print to be represented radically differently from the dead-tree version. Fortunately, the better ones don't really suffer much as a result of preparing them for presentation online.
A good selection of examples in my area (biotechnology and related disciplines) can be seen here at PubMed, one of my favourite reference sites. Some of these are very expensive standard texts, and I have actually forked out real dollars for hard copy as a result of seeing them.
I still find the printed page easier to read than the screen.
There are other desktop environments than KDE out there, and I presume you don't need me to bang drums to advertise them. But I thought I used a large-ish number of programs (molecular modelling, math applications, programming, wp, web browsing, email, graphics manipulation, spreadsheets, cd burning mainly) but nowhere near 9000, even including all the programs running that don't need a UI. I can't really say the differences in interfaces bother me.
Come to think of it, last time I looked at WinZip or PhotoShop, they didn't look that native to Windows. The only real similarity was the title-bar, and that's unified under any *nix window manager I've ever seen.
As for useability, my wife, an utter non-geek is just as able to function on a Linux machine as she is on Windows. In fact more so, since Linux *never* crashes.
Names that mean something (Internet Explorer vs Mozilla...
Sorry, but Outlook Express means something? Apart from bugs and viruses, that is:-). OK, what about PowerPoint then?
And last time I looked, Windows XP didn't fit on a floppy, either. And I've set up Linux of a variety of flavours on many machines over the last 10 years, and I have never once done it by swapping HDDs. I can't think of anything more ridiculous. The install from CD is as easy as Windows if you try something like Mandrake or RedHat (easier, in fact, as you don't have to load up separate CDs for each device) They're not my distros of choice, but anybody who has tried it over the last 2-3 years shouldn't be able to deny that it was easy.
And those directories: You're not going to tell me you mess around in all those Windows system files and Dlls, are you? Well, surprise, Linux has directories the average "user" doesn't need to mess about in too.
Yeah, I got bitten years ago when I tried to install Linux on a system with an on-board SIS AGP graphics chipset. I never did get anything better than 16-bit graphics out of it until the mobo blew up and I got a real graphics card.
Having said that, on-board chipsets aren't as bad as they used to be. I set up Slackware on my wife's new computer the other week. She's not a geek, but she's cool:-). Who said you can't have Linux on the Desktop?
The box is a Pentium 4 on an MSI mobo with on-board sound. It came with a GeForce4 (I have consistently had good results with nvidia cards). I expected sound to be a problem, but it worked out of the box without complaint.
Documentation is where Linux applications often fall down. Granted, it's not always that good on Windows either, but there is generally an expectation among Windows users that it should be there.
Indeed, we can do wonderful things with statistics. E.g. 25% of all road accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Therefore 75% must be caused by sober ones. Therefore you're safer driving drunk than sober...:-)
80% of the Linux users believed that they needed only one week to become as competent with the new system as with their existing one, compared with 85% of the XP users.
Most XP users I have seen never become competent with it:-)
The 48G keyboard is also much better quality than the 49G. I always found the latter's spongy keys a bit of a disappointment, and the ENTER button is much better placed on the 48: right under your index finger (assuming you're right-handed, that is).
I guess I could have tried cheating in my early exams with my old HP48G+, though only one fellow-student at that level had one; most had TIs or Casios. But the machines are so slow (though I love them still) that it would only have slowed me down.
Sometimes there's no substitute for talent, or at least hard work. I got a pretty good grade anyway. For "real" maths, calculators are superfluous in any case.
I got rid of my HP48G+ two years ago mainly for the reason that it was just too damn slow. I loved the RPN-by-default entry, though, and I seriously loved the clackety keys and the big fat ENTER button on the middle-left-hand side of the keyboard. It was really the lack of the latter that led me to buy my Texas Instruments TI-89 instead of the HP49, since the TI can be made to accept RPN.
If only HP had kept the HP48 keyboard layout on the HP49 I wouldn't have deserted. Seems the new model seems to be following the same pattern.
There's still a definite market for SUN, and it's still my preferable server platform - but it's losing out on price
I suspect that by now, even if Sun were giving away Solaris x86 they would find they've missed the boat in the x86 arena. There's enough market acceptance now for Linux as a free or very cheap and very robust solution, and I suspect that we'll be seeing a lot of corporate systems taking it up over the next 3-5 years. Sure, the BSDs are also great, but they are commonly perceived (rightly or otherwise) as having a smaller range of applications.
companies waiting to dispose of these monsters would probably love for you to haul it away
Not necessarily; it all depends how old the machine is. I remember a time (back when the Earth was newly-cooled, and Real Programmers got their assembly-coding done while trying not to get eaten by dinosaurs...) a shop I worked at decommissioned a Burroughs B3700.
The contractors were only too happy to take it away, as there was enough 3/4 inch-thick silver cable under the floor to fill a small truck. I'm pretty sure they would not have lost money on that operation.
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Setting print preferences so that I can print more than one page to a sheet of paper. I know there's psnup, but it's not that convenient.
I used to go around with my own root-boot floppy, but with many installer CDROMs being bootable in shell mode (at least, recent Slackware ISOs are, in any case) there's not much point in bothering with it any more. Chroot is your friend.
Hmmm. Not much good for me; that would delete my nice squeaky-clean karma-free Linux /boot partition :-)
I seem to remember posts saying Win98 was to be EOLed last June. It has nothing to do with me (my network is a MS-free zone) but the Linux 2.2 kernels are still maintained.
Useless now that I don't have a single computer left with Windows of any variety on it :-)
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It seems to me to me that these benchmarks would probably have been more meaningful (and useful) if they had run the same tests against 2.4.21. Anybody got any thoughts on this? I know there are low-latency features and so forth with the new kernel, but I would be curious to know if that has any real impact on disk I/O.
For a long time I resisted moving away from ext2, as I didn't want the journalling overhead and didn't mind the occasional e2fsck. After I got a few power outages I changed my mind :-) but I haven't been disappointed with Reiserfs' speed.
Hell, what about this one: tha action of LSD on the brain?
If Mandrake says you need qt to run Gnome, there is assuredly something wrong, because qt should be unnecessary. Are you installing on top of a previous distribution or something? OK, Mandrake isn't my distro of choice for the precise reason that their packaging doesn't make sense to me - by which I mean that in my considered opinion it is a crock of shit:-). Mandrake has always worked well (for me) "out of the box", but it can be a bugger of a job to upgrade packages. I'm a simple man, and I prefer Slackware, but my experience has generally been that the mdk installs pretty much left everybody else's for dead. I have to admit I don't have a lot of personal experience with mdk 9.1 though...
As I'm no longer in IT I don't need to maintain a massive network any more, but my modest home network of 3 computers of various architectures would have been very tedious to get into a useable state with Gentoo.
My preference is to keep it simple: install Slackware and just recompile the applications (and the kernel, of course) that will actually accrue some performance benefit.
Is it not possible to start a thread on any issue without including 150 posts bashing SCO? I heartily agree that they should be pilloried, but preferably when it's on-topic.
A good selection of examples in my area (biotechnology and related disciplines) can be seen here at PubMed, one of my favourite reference sites. Some of these are very expensive standard texts, and I have actually forked out real dollars for hard copy as a result of seeing them.
I still find the printed page easier to read than the screen.
Even if it's a bad one?
There are other desktop environments than KDE out there, and I presume you don't need me to bang drums to advertise them. But I thought I used a large-ish number of programs (molecular modelling, math applications, programming, wp, web browsing, email, graphics manipulation, spreadsheets, cd burning mainly) but nowhere near 9000, even including all the programs running that don't need a UI. I can't really say the differences in interfaces bother me.
Come to think of it, last time I looked at WinZip or PhotoShop, they didn't look that native to Windows. The only real similarity was the title-bar, and that's unified under any *nix window manager I've ever seen.
As for useability, my wife, an utter non-geek is just as able to function on a Linux machine as she is on Windows. In fact more so, since Linux *never* crashes.
Sorry, but Outlook Express means something? Apart from bugs and viruses, that is :-). OK, what about PowerPoint then?
And last time I looked, Windows XP didn't fit on a floppy, either. And I've set up Linux of a variety of flavours on many machines over the last 10 years, and I have never once done it by swapping HDDs. I can't think of anything more ridiculous. The install from CD is as easy as Windows if you try something like Mandrake or RedHat (easier, in fact, as you don't have to load up separate CDs for each device) They're not my distros of choice, but anybody who has tried it over the last 2-3 years shouldn't be able to deny that it was easy.
And those directories: You're not going to tell me you mess around in all those Windows system files and Dlls, are you? Well, surprise, Linux has directories the average "user" doesn't need to mess about in too.
Having said that, on-board chipsets aren't as bad as they used to be. I set up Slackware on my wife's new computer the other week. She's not a geek, but she's cool :-). Who said you can't have Linux on the Desktop?
The box is a Pentium 4 on an MSI mobo with on-board sound. It came with a GeForce4 (I have consistently had good results with nvidia cards). I expected sound to be a problem, but it worked out of the box without complaint.
Documentation is where Linux applications often fall down. Granted, it's not always that good on Windows either, but there is generally an expectation among Windows users that it should be there.
Indeed, we can do wonderful things with statistics. E.g. 25% of all road accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Therefore 75% must be caused by sober ones. Therefore you're safer driving drunk than sober... :-)
But Windows Fron Scratch?? Way to go!
Now lemme see, where do I find the kernel...
80% of the Linux users believed that they needed only one week to become as competent with the new system as with their existing one, compared with 85% of the XP users.
Most XP users I have seen never become competent with it :-)
The 48G keyboard is also much better quality than the 49G. I always found the latter's spongy keys a bit of a disappointment, and the ENTER button is much better placed on the 48: right under your index finger (assuming you're right-handed, that is).
Sometimes there's no substitute for talent, or at least hard work. I got a pretty good grade anyway. For "real" maths, calculators are superfluous in any case.
If only HP had kept the HP48 keyboard layout on the HP49 I wouldn't have deserted. Seems the new model seems to be following the same pattern.
I suspect that by now, even if Sun were giving away Solaris x86 they would find they've missed the boat in the x86 arena. There's enough market acceptance now for Linux as a free or very cheap and very robust solution, and I suspect that we'll be seeing a lot of corporate systems taking it up over the next 3-5 years. Sure, the BSDs are also great, but they are commonly perceived (rightly or otherwise) as having a smaller range of applications.
Not necessarily; it all depends how old the machine is. I remember a time (back when the Earth was newly-cooled, and Real Programmers got their assembly-coding done while trying not to get eaten by dinosaurs...) a shop I worked at decommissioned a Burroughs B3700.
The contractors were only too happy to take it away, as there was enough 3/4 inch-thick silver cable under the floor to fill a small truck. I'm pretty sure they would not have lost money on that operation.