Make sure that your hardware is fully
supported first! That includes your motherboard, graphics card, cdrom, sound card, and any
accessories like printers, modems, etc. I can't emphasize
this point enough. If you try installing on
unsupported or poorly supported hardware you
will be disappointed and frustrated.
Once you have that down, then figure out which
distribution to use and make sure that it has
a kernel that supports your hardware.
I have been using Mandrake for some time and
it has been my favorite.
I wouldn't say TBL "shoveled all the coal" for
the WWW.
The infrastructure and many protocols were
already in place.
TBL did invent HTTP, HTML, and the use of the URL
which proved very successful for the task,
however, and very innovative compared to WAIS
and Gopher which were already running. The
URL is really what allowed many protocols to
be tied together conveniently.
Oh my god, a month? What is the world coming to??
Nobody should run software more than a few days
old, at the very most.
Please RedHat, if you're reading, please make your
distributions from the very latest alpha and beta
versions, preferrably from developer snapshots done the day of the release. In the past your
releases based on beta-quality code were wonderful
and I'd hate to see you become another SuSE or Mandrake.
I'm tired of the attitude that there's some kind
of open source vs. closed source war going on,
which is pushed by the popular media. There is not.
If there is a genuine need for something, or an
interest in an open source version of some
technology, then someone can build it. But don't make
open source out to be some kind of single-minded
mission. There are many many different kinds
of people with different interests that happen
to do open source work. To me, this is a
bottom-up self organizing process, not anything
that needs one leader or governing body and global strategies.
That will never work! So what if there are
ten.NET-like projects? So much the better I
think.
Hackers dislike authority.
Welcome to anarchy, baby.
I think this antagonistic attitude is very destructive. The best stuff comes out
of need and genuine interest in developing good software.
Fair competition is good, but rememember that
the people developing closed source applications
are people too before you pick up that gun! In fact, some of us do it as
our day job.
Fair use is a copyright term. So it applies
to copies and making copies for personal use
and so on. I was not using it in that legal
sense, but in the colloquial sense which seems
to be emerging. The colloquial usage just means
what can I legally do with this thing I purchased?
<br><br>
Of course you could have explained your position
and the meaning of "fair use" instead of being a prick about it. And I don't think knowing the
legal definition of "fair use" has anything
to do with being smart, certainly not in your
case.
<br><br>
-Kevin
The thing that bugs me about this is that Microsoft
is basically telling OEMs how to use the software
that they have paid for.
This seems very harmful to consumers.
One defense Microsoft does have though is that
they should not be expected to provide support
for any non-MS software preloaded by the OEM.
So the burden should be on the OEM to clarify
this.
There's an infamous troll around here to link
to a disgusting picture at goatse.cx, or
mirrors of it, which is
probably why the original poster mentioned it.
Apparently it is a troll whose posters think
it is funny the millionth time it is posted
when it was never funny in the first place.
For the approximately 10 seconds I had access
to the AtheOS site before the/. effect, it appeared
to be safe and free from goatse pictures.
Yes, this is old news. However, it looks like
the referenced article by Matloff has been updated recently.
I don't think there's a shortage now considering
the dot bombs and the state of the economy. I
guess there's always a shortage of _cheap_
corporate slaves though...
And this is one of the many reasons why SCSI
is better. No master/slave crap or boot limitations. You can set the boot device
ID in the SCSI BIOS to be any connected device.
-Kevin
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Wrong. Either form is acceptable according to
the American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition at
http://www.dictionary.com .
The government consists of/people/, ferchrissakes.
The FDA does more good than harm in my opinion.
Wherever there are people, there will be
corruption and bad decisions sometimes. This is
no different than private corporations. There are
no perfect systems. However, I do not believe
that corporations will do what's in the best
issue of the people without intervention and
regulation - for example pollution.
A private company in my hometown dumped chemical
waste into the town river for years.
The Bells, IBM, Standard Oil, and Microsoft have
all had actions against them for antitrust
activity.
Just becase there have been bad cops
doesn't mean we should get rid of law enforcement.
Slashdot Mirror
You're right. Engineers need bean counters and
someone to keep the office supplies stocked.
-Kevin
Okay, you first then. You will now be known as 0.
I hope you enjoy all the spam and junk mail, 0.
-Kevin
Voltage is only part of the equation.
-Kevin
I get get to them from here just fine.
-Kevin
Yeah, but the Hindenburg was huge! Look at
these stats.
Lengths of Aircraft
747-400: 232 feet (71m)
777-300: 242 feet (74m)
goodyear gz-22: 206 feet (63m)
zeppelin nt: 246 feet (75m)
hindenburg: 804 feet (245m)
-Kevin
What would you think if spammers hooked up to TheftNet and started pumping out tons of junk?
Smells like crime to me.
-Kevin
-Kevin
Once you have that down, then figure out which distribution to use and make sure that it has a kernel that supports your hardware.
I have been using Mandrake for some time and it has been my favorite.
-Kevin
I submitted this weeks ago and it was rejected.
-Kevin
The infrastructure and many protocols were already in place.
TBL did invent HTTP, HTML, and the use of the URL which proved very successful for the task, however, and very innovative compared to WAIS and Gopher which were already running. The URL is really what allowed many protocols to be tied together conveniently.
-Kevin
Please RedHat, if you're reading, please make your distributions from the very latest alpha and beta versions, preferrably from developer snapshots done the day of the release. In the past your releases based on beta-quality code were wonderful and I'd hate to see you become another SuSE or Mandrake.
-Kevin
I'm tired of the attitude that there's some kind of open source vs. closed source war going on, which is pushed by the popular media. There is not.
If there is a genuine need for something, or an interest in an open source version of some technology, then someone can build it. But don't make open source out to be some kind of single-minded mission. There are many many different kinds of people with different interests that happen to do open source work. To me, this is a bottom-up self organizing process, not anything that needs one leader or governing body and global strategies. That will never work! So what if there are ten .NET-like projects? So much the better I
think.
Hackers dislike authority. Welcome to anarchy, baby.
I think this antagonistic attitude is very destructive. The best stuff comes out of need and genuine interest in developing good software.
Fair competition is good, but rememember that the people developing closed source applications are people too before you pick up that gun! In fact, some of us do it as our day job.
-Kevin
Where can I buy a 64 processor G4 box?
-Kevin
Fair use is a copyright term. So it applies
to copies and making copies for personal use
and so on. I was not using it in that legal
sense, but in the colloquial sense which seems
to be emerging. The colloquial usage just means
what can I legally do with this thing I purchased?
<br><br>
Of course you could have explained your position
and the meaning of "fair use" instead of being a prick about it. And I don't think knowing the
legal definition of "fair use" has anything
to do with being smart, certainly not in your
case.
<br><br>
-Kevin
The thing that bugs me about this is that Microsoft is basically telling OEMs how to use the software that they have paid for.
This seems very harmful to consumers.
One defense Microsoft does have though is that they should not be expected to provide support for any non-MS software preloaded by the OEM. So the burden should be on the OEM to clarify this.
-Kevin
32MB on a P333? That's awfully low.
Too bad laptop RAM is so expensive - I think
more like 256MB would make a big difference.
-Kevin
>The 867 MHz single chip G4 leaves the 1.7 P4 >breathing for air
In your dreams, where the only application running is Adobe Photoshop optimized for Altivec.
The P4 *smokes* the G4 in integer and floating point according to spec.
(disclaimer - I didn't get these #s direct from spec.org)
g4@733
SPECint95 - 32.1
SPECfp95 - 23.9
p4@1400
SPECint95 - 54.4
SPECfp95 - 53.5
extrapolating:
g4@867
int - 38.0
fp - 28.3
p4@1700
int - 66.1
fp - 64.9
-Kevin
FYI, When I did a traceroute to the site, the last
nodes with DNS entries were in Norway.
-Kevin
There's an infamous troll around here to link to a disgusting picture at goatse.cx, or mirrors of it, which is probably why the original poster mentioned it. Apparently it is a troll whose posters think it is funny the millionth time it is posted when it was never funny in the first place.
/. effect, it appeared
to be safe and free from goatse pictures.
For the approximately 10 seconds I had access to the AtheOS site before the
-Kevin
Yes, this is old news. However, it looks like
the referenced article by Matloff has been updated recently.
I don't think there's a shortage now considering
the dot bombs and the state of the economy. I
guess there's always a shortage of _cheap_
corporate slaves though...
-Kevin
ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Computer?
-Kevin
And this is one of the many reasons why SCSI
is better. No master/slave crap or boot limitations. You can set the boot device
ID in the SCSI BIOS to be any connected device.
-Kevin
Wrong. Either form is acceptable according to
the American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition at
http://www.dictionary.com .
-Kevin
Many gamers change their resolutions often
because games have trouble driving graphics
at the full resolution of a normal desktop.
With a laptop, you get a black border
and your game in the middle instead of full
screen, for example.
I think that software scaling would solve the
problem though.
-Kevin
The government consists of /people/, ferchrissakes.
The FDA does more good than harm in my opinion.
Wherever there are people, there will be
corruption and bad decisions sometimes. This is
no different than private corporations. There are
no perfect systems. However, I do not believe
that corporations will do what's in the best
issue of the people without intervention and
regulation - for example pollution.
A private company in my hometown dumped chemical
waste into the town river for years.
The Bells, IBM, Standard Oil, and Microsoft have
all had actions against them for antitrust
activity.
Just becase there have been bad cops
doesn't mean we should get rid of law enforcement.
-Kevin