My next door neighbors just got their '64 chevy truck out of the mud. I asked how they did it, and they said they jacked it up, and it was hell.
That thing stayed stuck for months.
Moral: Don't keep spinning the wheels, it'll only go deeper into the mud. Quit while you are ahead, and call a tow truck.
I'll go tell them about the stuck Mars Rover, and since they are now good at it, they'll be right over.
I've gotten so lazy using broadband that I just download a new copy for each machine, rather than spend a FEW OF MY PRECIOUS MINUTES burning one downloaded copy to a CD and pass it around that way. So, subtract a few here. Shame on LAZY ME.
If it's looks you want, then there is KDE. I always wind up dual booting XP and some form of linux, currently DSL 0.9.3. Why would that be important? I'm fairly new to the cable modem scene, and today I could not get any of my livecd linux distros to connect, but for some strange reason, XP would connect. Unhappy with that, I decided to press the little button on the top of the cable modem and see what eventually would happen. XP gave me a report on my DHCP, IP, DNS servers, etc. Now I could not connect in XP, having pressed the button, and apparently waiting for a new setup. Finally, all was well, and the XP reports filled out conpletely now. Point is, if you can afford Windows, then it has some advantages when the chips are down. I had no idea how to determine the information in Linux/KDE. Once XP connected satisfactorily, I rebooted into DSL as a test. They have a nice network dockapp. All is now well there, too, and I am making this post via Firefox running on DSL linux, fluxbox. Although I dearly love linux, and I remaster Knoppix (see the screenshots), I want Windows to keep on producing a useful and well thought out OS. Might come in handy some day.
I saw the swim across the atlantic promise when I downloaded Opera 8 to put in my remaster of Knoppix Linux. I didn't think anything of it. I now use the browser, ad bar and all. I might send them $39.00 for a key to my personal copy, but then again, I might not. I recommend my remaster users do the same, to support Opera. If I remember right, most of the channel swimmers had a boat go right ahead of them, and that had a shark net and etc. to protect them. But across the Atlantic?
The Damn Small Linux folks are into the bootable usb stick thing, real big. I have not tried it yet, as none of my motherboards can look to the usb port(s) for a bootable item.
I do use a 256 MB stick for a persistant home directory, and I find that sometimes it will not fire up, and other times it will. The Dell usb sticks always work, however, they are good. I often put several linux OS's restoration or home directory on one stick, each one knows what file to get. Also, I put mouse cursors from KDE-Look.org on the stick, and right now I am running Opera 8 that is stored on the stick. If you use a persistant home directory, rather than a simple restoration of personal settings, that is harder on the memory stick, as it is being written to constantly, just like a hard drive. These are neat little devices, but finding one that always fires up can be a problem. If you have one with a little light, then you know you have it working today.
If I run my livecd distro in the RAM, with the "toram" boot option, then I run out of ram if I try and burn a cd of near 700 MB with K3B. If I plan on doing that, I cannot do "toram", and that slows things down.
Another GB on top of the 1 GB I already have would be interesting.
Kingston says the 512 MB sticks are $65.00 each, and are available April 25. They have to be installed in pairs. Wondering if I might wait, and see if a new, lower price is posted in a month or so.
I'll have to admit that the $65.00 is a lot lower than we used to have to pay for RAM like this.
Visited a Wal*Mart yesterday, and they have an eMachines box with 512 MB RAM, and 120 GB hard drive with XP preinstalled.
The box said "Made in China".
Didn't say "Made in Taiwan", so I assume it was made in Communist China.
In the link you may read all about it. Not that any of that is right or wrong, but it would appear that Microsoft has provided software to a company manufacturing computers in China for sale in Wal*Marts in the USA.
How about some eMachines boxes with Linux preinstalled?
Windows and Mac machines are engineered to fit the operating systems installed on them, so all of the installed hardware works as expected.
Windows has it's "swap file" set up inside the partition.
To install Linux, one has to check out the hardware, or at least experiment with some of it, try out a few sound cards, graphics cards, etc. to see how your chosen linux distro works (or doesn't) with the hardware. You might want to set up a swap partition, not too easy on a PC already preloaded with XP.
So, the kernel has to keep pace with the expectations, and the competition, that already has a pre-engineered edge.
What about one of those boxes that has a bunch of memory card readers on the front?
Will your distro work with those, or will you do like I might, and take that out, and replace it with a cdrom drive? Do we cut back the features we have on the new PC's being offered for sale so Linux can be run or installed on them?
If the kernel is getting unstable because of all of the added features, then that is what we will have to do.
Is it too much to ask the manufacturers to install a sound card that works with Linux as well as Windows?
Knoppix does not run as root. Many of the things that have to be done require a su to root, and that is done on a per case basis.
Perhaps Linspire runs as root to make things easier. That is not an entirely Live CD distro, however, like Knoppix. It can be installed on the hard drive.
I wonder what kind of damage or intrusions Linspire users could expect, as compared to a Knoppix Live CD distro.
Yes, a dual head graphics card is needed, as there are two sets of ports on the back. The report reflects the fact that it is complicated to set up, and I for one would like to see one up and running before spending that kind of money.
For example, document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself.
Using Konqueror, even if in the iceWM environment, or Fluxbox, the icons have a tooltip, if you can call it that, that shows the image and text files. The image ones are really big, and easily seen, the text ones are actually readable, the first page as said.
Almost everything one would like to know about the file is also given, very detailed. I have not tried it, but don't the sound files also run as a preview? All of this is very helpful to the user, whether in KDE, or in Mac or Windows OS's. Help one get some work done, and be sure of what you have in that folder. This is what I have using KDE 3.2, which became available in February 2004. The latest probably has more features.
Would hope that the Windows version does not disappoint.
Well, I put a page up a while back that has some information on connecting a Redhat 6.1 box to the internet, using a modem. Maybe something in there will be of use to someone.
Also, I have gotten into livecd distro's lately, and have had to remaster to get WvDial in, so I could connect with some of my modems. I do use a cable modem also, but that takes all of the fun out of it. Nothing to configure.
Arn't they talking about "extensions". Some Firefox extensions are pretty neat, and easy to install, but as they upgraded the browser, some of the older ones would not work with the new version. Chatzilla is one of the new ones, an add-on IRC client. Looks pretty good.
I saw a show on the History channel about fast food, and they said KFC always put a serving of mashed potatoes in the bag, to add weight. That way, the customers would think they got their money's worth. I think of this when I visit other fast food resturants, and the bag seems light for the money I have paid. Guess the Colonel was right.
About the colors, Ronald McDonald has to wear those same Yellow and Red colors.
How am I supposed to open these.mov files. I am using the AmaroK LiveCD, which has KDE, and I am currently viewing the page in Mozilla Firefox. I'm running Firefox from a pen drive, as it is not included in the PClinuxOS AmaroK LiveCD.
I can reboot into Windows XP and return here, but what would be the fun in that?
If the bird flu problem in North Korea cannot be contained, then DMZ robots would take a back seat to the greater problem of widespread infection, pandemic throughout Korea:
Concerning the North's efforts to contain bird flu, the ROK has been asked to help/send assistance to the North. The threat of bird flu (H5N1) and the resulting destruction of an important food source does not bode well for the DPRK.
Perhaps the South's robot technology can lead to robots that can spray disinfectants in the big chicken farms the North Koreans have (or had). Humans have to wear protective suits to do that.
A few years back, Banks did have the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, and one could easily get a hundred or two of them for a purpose such as this.
It is unfortunate for Best Buy that this happened to them, and got picked up on Slashdot. All because of the actions of one clerk. It could happen to any retailer, most of which are not of particular interest to those of us who work with computers, as a hobby, or for a living.
One wonders where the manager was? I've shopped at Walmart, and the cashiers are backed up by watchful managers, right there, to prevent something like this getting out of control. Not only does the business have a right to a peaceful place in which to conduct business, but the shoppers do too. I would rather not go in a store, and come across a situation like this, that could escellate into a dangerous confrontation. That may have been why the man was arrested, not just because of the money.
Imagine going into a computer store with a sackful of the Susan B. Anthony coins, and buying something. Most cashiers would just put up with you, and go ahead and accept your payment. But, a customer putting up a fuss while making a purchase, with an obvious delaying tactic such as unusual money, is out of line. On the cashiers side, they are held accountable for their cash-drawer, and they could be fired or forced out for shortages over time. So, they can get a little unhappy with customers that have a statement like this to present, at their expense, and the other customers waiting in the line.
Hey, I liked Mandrake. Installed Mandrake 8 lots of times, and found it to be very reliable and easy to use, especially the XF86config part. Got a kick out of going back and forth through their wizard to maximize my graphics setup. Still had to hand-edit the file to get the vertical refresh to "60" to accommodate my ADI Microscan 4V.
Didn't like the package selection setup where Mandrake picked the packages you needed, rather than you picking them as in Redhat. Seemed to have a mind of it's own.
Sorry to see the name change, however, I liked the name as it was.
I'm using a 17 inch Dell Ultrasharp, and find that it does as good a job as I need. I have an old ADI Microscan 4V that I use for production work, but wish I could use this Dell more often. I share that box, so can't get to use it 24/7. I note that Dell charges $349.00 today for this monitor, I paid much more for it a year or so ago when I bought it with the Dell system. Have not noticed any dead pixels. The colors look very good to me.
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Moral: Don't keep spinning the wheels, it'll only go deeper into the mud. Quit while you are ahead, and call a tow truck.
I'll go tell them about the stuck Mars Rover, and since they are now good at it, they'll be right over.
I've gotten so lazy using broadband that I just download a new copy for each machine, rather than spend a FEW OF MY PRECIOUS MINUTES burning one downloaded copy to a CD and pass it around that way.
So, subtract a few here. Shame on LAZY ME.
If it's looks you want, then there is KDE.
I always wind up dual booting XP and some form of linux, currently DSL 0.9.3. Why would that be important? I'm fairly new to the cable modem scene, and today I could not get any of my livecd linux distros to connect, but for some strange reason, XP would connect. Unhappy with that, I decided to press the little button on the top of the cable modem and see what eventually would happen. XP gave me a report on my DHCP, IP, DNS servers, etc.
Now I could not connect in XP, having pressed the button, and apparently waiting for a new setup.
Finally, all was well, and the XP reports filled out conpletely now.
Point is, if you can afford Windows, then it has some advantages when the chips are down. I had no idea how to determine the information in Linux/KDE. Once XP connected satisfactorily, I rebooted into DSL as a test. They have a nice network dockapp. All is now well there, too, and I am making this post via Firefox running on DSL linux, fluxbox.
Although I dearly love linux, and I remaster Knoppix (see the screenshots), I want Windows to keep on producing a useful and well thought out OS. Might come in handy some day.
I saw the swim across the atlantic promise when I downloaded Opera 8 to put in my remaster of Knoppix Linux. I didn't think anything of it. I now use the browser, ad bar and all. I might send them $39.00 for a key to my personal copy, but then again, I might not. I recommend my remaster users do the same, to support Opera. If I remember right, most of the channel swimmers had a boat go right ahead of them, and that had a shark net and etc. to protect them. But across the Atlantic?
Unless they have IE7 for Linux, then I'll have to stick with Firefox, or the new Opera 8.
I do use a 256 MB stick for a persistant home directory, and I find that sometimes it will not fire up, and other times it will. The Dell usb sticks always work, however, they are good. I often put several linux OS's restoration or home directory on one stick, each one knows what file to get. Also, I put mouse cursors from KDE-Look.org on the stick, and right now I am running Opera 8 that is stored on the stick. If you use a persistant home directory, rather than a simple restoration of personal settings, that is harder on the memory stick, as it is being written to constantly, just like a hard drive. These are neat little devices, but finding one that always fires up can be a problem.
If you have one with a little light, then you know you have it working today.
If I run my livecd distro in the RAM, with the "toram" boot option, then I run out of ram if I try and burn a cd of near 700 MB with K3B. If I plan on doing that, I cannot do "toram", and that slows things down.
Another GB on top of the 1 GB I already have would be interesting.
Kingston says the 512 MB sticks are $65.00 each, and are available April 25. They have to be installed in pairs. Wondering if I might wait, and see if a new, lower price is posted in a month or so.
I'll have to admit that the $65.00 is a lot lower than we used to have to pay for RAM like this.
The box said "Made in China".
Didn't say "Made in Taiwan", so I assume it was made in Communist China.
In the link you may read all about it. Not that any of that is right or wrong, but it would appear that Microsoft has provided software to a company manufacturing computers in China for sale in Wal*Marts in the USA.
How about some eMachines boxes with Linux preinstalled?
Windows has it's "swap file" set up inside the partition.
To install Linux, one has to check out the hardware, or at least experiment with some of it, try out a few sound cards, graphics cards, etc. to see how your chosen linux distro works (or doesn't) with the hardware. You might want to set up a swap partition, not too easy on a PC already preloaded with XP.
So, the kernel has to keep pace with the expectations, and the competition, that already has a pre-engineered edge.
What about one of those boxes that has a bunch of memory card readers on the front?
Will your distro work with those, or will you do like I might, and take that out, and replace it with a cdrom drive? Do we cut back the features we have on the new PC's being offered for sale so Linux can be run or installed on them?
If the kernel is getting unstable because of all of the added features, then that is what we will have to do.
Is it too much to ask the manufacturers to install a sound card that works with Linux as well as Windows?
Perhaps Linspire runs as root to make things easier. That is not an entirely Live CD distro, however, like Knoppix. It can be installed on the hard drive.
I wonder what kind of damage or intrusions Linspire users could expect, as compared to a Knoppix Live CD distro.
Yes, a dual head graphics card is needed, as there are two sets of ports on the back. The report reflects the fact that it is complicated to set up, and I for one would like to see one up and running before spending that kind of money.
Using Konqueror, even if in the iceWM environment, or Fluxbox, the icons have a tooltip, if you can call it that, that shows the image and text files. The image ones are really big, and easily seen, the text ones are actually readable, the first page as said.
Almost everything one would like to know about the file is also given, very detailed. I have not tried it, but don't the sound files also run as a preview? All of this is very helpful to the user, whether in KDE, or in Mac or Windows OS's. Help one get some work done, and be sure of what you have in that folder. This is what I have using KDE 3.2, which became available in February 2004. The latest probably has more features.
Would hope that the Windows version does not disappoint.
Running livecd linux today, just fine. No linux installed on the drive, only personal settings on a removable pen drive.
I have plenty of other boxes with linux installs, but cannot run Turbotax on any of them, only this Microsoft XP box.
Also, I have gotten into livecd distro's lately, and have had to remaster to get WvDial in, so I could connect with some of my modems. I do use a cable modem also, but that takes all of the fun out of it. Nothing to configure.
Arn't they talking about "extensions". Some Firefox extensions are pretty neat, and easy to install, but as they upgraded the browser, some of the older ones would not work with the new version. Chatzilla is one of the new ones, an add-on IRC client. Looks pretty good.
About the colors, Ronald McDonald has to wear those same Yellow and Red colors.
I can reboot into Windows XP and return here, but what would be the fun in that?
Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor Mountaineer barely kept his family fed
An' then one day, he was shootin' at some food,
An' up thru the ground came a bubblin' crude.
Oil that is! Black gold! Texas tea!
Complete text here.
Concerning the North's efforts to contain bird flu, the ROK has been asked to help/send assistance to the North. The threat of bird flu (H5N1) and the resulting destruction of an important food source does not bode well for the DPRK.
Perhaps the South's robot technology can lead to robots that can spray disinfectants in the big chicken farms the North Koreans have (or had). Humans have to wear protective suits to do that.
Check out what one scientist says about bird flu killing 1 billion people.
Hope North Korea gets the aid it needs to contain the virus for a while longer.
The US is sending testing kits needed to determine the scope of the problem.
It's based on PClinuxOS, so it's good.
Guess I'm stuck here. Lemme see... how about some XTC radio 160 kps...
Yeah, that's the ticket...
It is unfortunate for Best Buy that this happened to them, and got picked up on Slashdot. All because of the actions of one clerk. It could happen to any retailer, most of which are not of particular interest to those of us who work with computers, as a hobby, or for a living.
One wonders where the manager was? I've shopped at Walmart, and the cashiers are backed up by watchful managers, right there, to prevent something like this getting out of control. Not only does the business have a right to a peaceful place in which to conduct business, but the shoppers do too. I would rather not go in a store, and come across a situation like this, that could escellate into a dangerous confrontation. That may have been why the man was arrested, not just because of the money.
Imagine going into a computer store with a sackful of the Susan B. Anthony coins, and buying something. Most cashiers would just put up with you, and go ahead and accept your payment. But, a customer putting up a fuss while making a purchase, with an obvious delaying tactic such as unusual money, is out of line. On the cashiers side, they are held accountable for their cash-drawer, and they could be fired or forced out for shortages over time. So, they can get a little unhappy with customers that have a statement like this to present, at their expense, and the other customers waiting in the line.
Didn't like the package selection setup where Mandrake picked the packages you needed, rather than you picking them as in Redhat. Seemed to have a mind of it's own. Sorry to see the name change, however, I liked the name as it was.
There is one less SUV in Mississippi tonight. It was hit by a train in Clinton, MS this morning.
I'm using a 17 inch Dell Ultrasharp, and find that it does as good a job as I need. I have an old ADI Microscan 4V that I use for production work, but wish I could use this Dell more often. I share that box, so can't get to use it 24/7. I note that Dell charges $349.00 today for this monitor, I paid much more for it a year or so ago when I bought it with the Dell system. Have not noticed any dead pixels. The colors look very good to me.
Then, once the deal is done, all they have to do is go catch it.