Please, you're giving me the chills thinking about those things.
As a kid I ran over one with my bike. I continued to go back and forth on top of him. It continued to "crunch" no matter how many times I ran over him.
Scary thought. I look around my little room and the LAN cable running along the wall. Wonder... "Could someone be tapping into my connection right under my nose?" If they were in my house, why not just take the computers.
I'm just messing with you, I know you meant larger enviroments.
I agree partially. I love how linux does this but at the same time it's not perfect. It sounds like you may have a configuration related issue. I'm running purely devfs on gentoo. Permissions stick and I have links for/dev/hda ->/dev/bus....whatever. Although my hdd recently died and I'm going to rebuild from udev, since that is the "new and better" way. Maybe that will give me some new issues.
I should add, that I found the tag specification somewhat confusing. The default is ".", which is current. Current is now FreeBSD-6.0 probably very unstable.
Your tag should be tag=RELENG_5_3, although it may need to be tag=RELENG_5. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that for the most up to date 5.3 you need tag=RELENG_5_3. This will make sense after reading the make world section of the handbook.
I did google on the make world process for clarity. You may come across a site "BSDVault" that is rather helpful.
Sorry I can't provide any links. The school net connection is always overloaded, so all I can stand waiting on is the gentoo forums and slashdot.
What is the best way to upgrade to this version? Download the CDs? Through the ports? Do you have some sort of strange method that no one else has heard of?
The answer falls under then 3rd option. Although every FreeBSD user should have heard of it. It's called cvsup. Take a look at the FreeBSD handbook. It will describe the process much better than I ever could. Look for the heading "make world".
Lol, nothing like blowing on your games. I don't think that ever made a difference.
The reality is I would much rather use an emulator... which I do.
Their reaction would be worth even the newest console. Then seeing if they could come up with it. I'm sure they got some orginal stuff in a museum somewhere though.
It could be faulty filters, internal wiring issue, faulty modem, too long of a phone cable from wall to modem, to name a few. Ugh, I'm glad I don't do DSL tech support. They'd end up sending a tech out, only to stick his fingers up his ass and claim there's nothing wrong.
Hey cool, thanks. Well I'm not too excited about running memtest on it. It's got 3 ram slots. With a 256, 128, 64. Found another 64, I just swaped them... maybe that will be the bad one. I can always hope.
I have had almost no problems. My system is almost always under load. Except randomly when compiling I get "cc:segfaults". I can restart the make process and it will skip on through. Some times it will segfault elsewhere depends on how long the compile is. Then sometimes it will go through a long compile without incident. Doing a "make -jX" doesn't seem to make a difference. My cflags are basic "-O2 -pipe" with the processor type set at "p2". I don't think it's hardware no other applications segfault or any strange problems. I'm upding to RC1 now, maybe that will stop it, but I've been hoping that for the past few Beta releases. Just curious if I'm the only one.
I have to second that. The last time I ripped ogg on Windows it was incredibly easy. Nice drag n drop interface. Recently I was looking for software to help my Dad create a custom CD from his existing CD's. I thought I'd try out what he has installed. First tried some HP branded version of MusicMatch jukebox, that was unsable. Then attempted using WMP again just as worthless. Neither of them could rip to plain old wav. He didn't want to keep the music on his computer just rip it to disk, burn and delete. Sheesh! And people complain about the Linux command line being hard.
Well if you feel like taking on a task. I configured an imap (courior) server on my FreeBSD box. Which turned out to be very easy. Then configured getmail to download the messages to the imap server. So I can use any software client on the local network. I then setup squirel mail as web based client to send/recieve from else where. Works great, can't live without it.
If you use FireFox there is a gmail notifier extenstion. I'm running linux, so a native notifier that does not require FireFox to be open would be nice. I can make due with this extension. Seems to work flawlessly.
The other issue is the name is very close to some of the crappiest software you can find known as Print Shop Pro. Back when I used windows, I prefered Paint Shop Pro over Photoshop. My Mac buddy insisted I was using amatuer software since obviously on a Mac he used Photoshop. After explaining the huge difference between Paint Shop Pro and and Print Shop Pro, I got him to atleast believe Paint Shop Pro was just a step below Photoshop. Then once you compare price/features/performance (smaller memory footprint) Paint Shop Pro is actually better. He didn't buy that of course.
Are you sure it's gimp 2.x that you tried. Since 2.x the gimp has come a long way. I started messing with it, in minutes I was doing all sorts of nice affects.
Even though linux's ndiswrapper is older, I've found FreeBSD's works better. I have 3 comps, 2 Gentoo Linux desktops and 1 FreeBSD server at Beta5.
All computers have the same DWL-G520 cards in them running with SuperG. All using the latest official DLink drivers.
The first desktop is just a video player running ndiswrapper 0.9. It works well except it does lose assoication randomly but seems get it back on it's own after maybe 1 minute max.
The second desktop is my main computer using ndiswrapper 0.10 it loses association more often and for longer periods of time, more like 2-5 minutes.
The FreeBSD box never loses association, at least not long enough for me to notice. It's extremely solid.
I have experimented with different versions of the win32 Atheros drivers, but they never seem to work right. Even, when I had Windows on my main desktop, I was never able to get the Atheros drivers to work right. I have also tried the native ath drivers on both FreeBSD and Linux, again FreeBSD's seemed more solid, but neither could use SuperG turbo mode.
I switched over my 5.2.1 personal server to 5.3-Beta3. Mostly for the NDIS driver so I can get my atheros wireless card to work in turbo mode. It runs great. Their ath drivers are much more mature than linux's madwifi they still can't do turbo, all though the man file said otherwise. I'm guessing it's an issue with my card(DWL-G520). I now have my 2 linux computers and this one using windows drivers using ndis wrappers. My wireless speeds are now up to acceptable.
I suppose I'll give this one ago, although by the time I get around to it, I'll probably be cvs up'ing beta5.
I agree 100% about what a lot (maybe not typical) gentoo user does their cflags. I spend more time in the gentoo forums than I do here. As soon as somebody posts some wacky cflags, they are quickly pointed out. Those people have the same mentality when sticking Type-R stickers on their computer case thinking it will go faster.
But oh well... some one gave me a troll moderation. Not that I care if poeple think Gentoo is crap or not, I do like to do my part and correct any errors. I've also got a FreeBSD box *gasp*
Ah, you come out in defense... don't worry it's ok to be a New Jerseian(?). I lived in SC from age 7 to 17. Then lived in TN the rest of the time. I'm 22, now. Only recently did I move to MD. My surroundings are not something I'm happy about. On the plus side my first 7 years were spent in MD.
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Please, you're giving me the chills thinking about those things.
As a kid I ran over one with my bike. I continued to go back and forth on top of him. It continued to "crunch" no matter how many times I ran over him.
Scary thought. I look around my little room and the LAN cable running along the wall. Wonder... "Could someone be tapping into my connection right under my nose?" If they were in my house, why not just take the computers.
I'm just messing with you, I know you meant larger enviroments.
Actually you can get the MAC address before cracking the encryption. That information is not encrypted.
He was already in Gnome
I agree partially. I love how linux does this but at the same time it's not perfect. It sounds like you may have a configuration related issue. I'm running purely devfs on gentoo. Permissions stick and I have links for /dev/hda -> /dev/bus....whatever. Although my hdd recently died and I'm going to rebuild from udev, since that is the "new and better" way. Maybe that will give me some new issues.
It really bugs me to compare scientific theory and religious theory as being the same thing.
A scientific theory must be testable. When something in the scientific community becomes theory it is nearly fact. See here
On the other hand religous theory is just that. Some guy's idea while he was smoking a little pot.
Np, glad to help
I should add, that I found the tag specification somewhat confusing. The default is ".", which is current. Current is now FreeBSD-6.0 probably very unstable.
Your tag should be tag=RELENG_5_3, although it may need to be tag=RELENG_5. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that for the most up to date 5.3 you need tag=RELENG_5_3. This will make sense after reading the make world section of the handbook.
I did google on the make world process for clarity. You may come across a site "BSDVault" that is rather helpful.
Sorry I can't provide any links. The school net connection is always overloaded, so all I can stand waiting on is the gentoo forums and slashdot.
What is the best way to upgrade to this version? Download the CDs? Through the ports? Do you have some sort of strange method that no one else has heard of? The answer falls under then 3rd option. Although every FreeBSD user should have heard of it. It's called cvsup. Take a look at the FreeBSD handbook. It will describe the process much better than I ever could. Look for the heading "make world".
Lol, nothing like blowing on your games. I don't think that ever made a difference.
The reality is I would much rather use an emulator... which I do.
Their reaction would be worth even the newest console. Then seeing if they could come up with it. I'm sure they got some orginal stuff in a museum somewhere though.
Just to really throw them off, I would ask for an original Nintendo system.
Yea, type message and click send always confused me. I like the other interfaces better.
It could be faulty filters, internal wiring issue, faulty modem, too long of a phone cable from wall to modem, to name a few. Ugh, I'm glad I don't do DSL tech support. They'd end up sending a tech out, only to stick his fingers up his ass and claim there's nothing wrong.
Hey cool, thanks. Well I'm not too excited about running memtest on it. It's got 3 ram slots. With a 256, 128, 64. Found another 64, I just swaped them... maybe that will be the bad one. I can always hope.
I have had almost no problems. My system is almost always under load. Except randomly when compiling I get "cc:segfaults". I can restart the make process and it will skip on through. Some times it will segfault elsewhere depends on how long the compile is. Then sometimes it will go through a long compile without incident. Doing a "make -jX" doesn't seem to make a difference. My cflags are basic "-O2 -pipe" with the processor type set at "p2". I don't think it's hardware no other applications segfault or any strange problems. I'm upding to RC1 now, maybe that will stop it, but I've been hoping that for the past few Beta releases. Just curious if I'm the only one.
I have to second that. The last time I ripped ogg on Windows it was incredibly easy. Nice drag n drop interface. Recently I was looking for software to help my Dad create a custom CD from his existing CD's. I thought I'd try out what he has installed. First tried some HP branded version of MusicMatch jukebox, that was unsable. Then attempted using WMP again just as worthless. Neither of them could rip to plain old wav. He didn't want to keep the music on his computer just rip it to disk, burn and delete. Sheesh! And people complain about the Linux command line being hard.
Well if you feel like taking on a task. I configured an imap (courior) server on my FreeBSD box. Which turned out to be very easy. Then configured getmail to download the messages to the imap server. So I can use any software client on the local network. I then setup squirel mail as web based client to send/recieve from else where. Works great, can't live without it.
If you use FireFox there is a gmail notifier extenstion. I'm running linux, so a native notifier that does not require FireFox to be open would be nice. I can make due with this extension. Seems to work flawlessly.
Maybe he meant a Knoppix with a 2.6.x kernel.
Probably would have made more sense to say the latest version of Knoppix.
The other issue is the name is very close to some of the crappiest software you can find known as Print Shop Pro. Back when I used windows, I prefered Paint Shop Pro over Photoshop. My Mac buddy insisted I was using amatuer software since obviously on a Mac he used Photoshop. After explaining the huge difference between Paint Shop Pro and and Print Shop Pro, I got him to atleast believe Paint Shop Pro was just a step below Photoshop. Then once you compare price/features/performance (smaller memory footprint) Paint Shop Pro is actually better. He didn't buy that of course.
Are you sure it's gimp 2.x that you tried. Since 2.x the gimp has come a long way. I started messing with it, in minutes I was doing all sorts of nice affects.
Even though linux's ndiswrapper is older, I've found FreeBSD's works better. I have 3 comps, 2 Gentoo Linux desktops and 1 FreeBSD server at Beta5. All computers have the same DWL-G520 cards in them running with SuperG. All using the latest official DLink drivers.
;)
The first desktop is just a video player running ndiswrapper 0.9. It works well except it does lose assoication randomly but seems get it back on it's own after maybe 1 minute max.
The second desktop is my main computer using ndiswrapper 0.10 it loses association more often and for longer periods of time, more like 2-5 minutes.
The FreeBSD box never loses association, at least not long enough for me to notice. It's extremely solid.
I have experimented with different versions of the win32 Atheros drivers, but they never seem to work right. Even, when I had Windows on my main desktop, I was never able to get the Atheros drivers to work right. I have also tried the native ath drivers on both FreeBSD and Linux, again FreeBSD's seemed more solid, but neither could use SuperG turbo mode.
So there's my experience
I switched over my 5.2.1 personal server to 5.3-Beta3. Mostly for the NDIS driver so I can get my atheros wireless card to work in turbo mode. It runs great. Their ath drivers are much more mature than linux's madwifi they still can't do turbo, all though the man file said otherwise. I'm guessing it's an issue with my card(DWL-G520). I now have my 2 linux computers and this one using windows drivers using ndis wrappers. My wireless speeds are now up to acceptable.
I suppose I'll give this one ago, although by the time I get around to it, I'll probably be cvs up'ing beta5.
I agree 100% about what a lot (maybe not typical) gentoo user does their cflags. I spend more time in the gentoo forums than I do here. As soon as somebody posts some wacky cflags, they are quickly pointed out. Those people have the same mentality when sticking Type-R stickers on their computer case thinking it will go faster.
But oh well... some one gave me a troll moderation. Not that I care if poeple think Gentoo is crap or not, I do like to do my part and correct any errors. I've also got a FreeBSD box *gasp*
Ah, you come out in defense... don't worry it's ok to be a New Jerseian(?). I lived in SC from age 7 to 17. Then lived in TN the rest of the time. I'm 22, now. Only recently did I move to MD. My surroundings are not something I'm happy about. On the plus side my first 7 years were spent in MD.
You God damn, Yankee's!!!
I really get annoyed at this argument. I've only seen one article showing this, I believe they used some stupid cflags. Can you backup your claim?