I actually never did see it, but I've heard. I'm not sure how accurate the person is who replied to you. But I have heard JMS did struggle horribly with TNT. SciFi has put out a lot of crap, but with the taking over of Stargate, the quality has hardly dropped. I wish the same producers would work up a deal with JMS, the B5 universe has so much to be explored.
You are absolutely correct, but in most cases the creater has the dream and passion. Everyone around him does not, they want the money. If the creator dies chances are the franchise will fall into the hands of some one wants a quick buck. If we are lucky the franchise will be taken over by a family member or friend that has the same passion. Maybe by some slim chance a random producer/director will continue the franchise honourably.
It's time for Star Trek to die. It really should have stopped with the death of Rodenberry.
What they should focus on is Babylon 5. I think the B5 universe as a whole has much more depth than the Star Trek universe. I just got done digging up a lot of the made for TV B5 movies even with bad production value they were quite good.
When the creater of B5 croaks, so should the franchise. While he's alive, I want more!
I thnink he's meaing you can right(or something) click somewhere on a PPT and insert word/excel/etc file here. Good idea, but works like crap. As soon as you take it to someone else's machine it seems to have about 50-80% chance of working correctly.
I see you've gotten may replies, but I'll add a me too. I don't think this has happened since I've started using the 2.6.x kernel. Almost 80% of the time my system hard locked,,all open files, whether being written to or read from (config files, etc) would be hosed. Very bad... I'm still using reiserfs v3, but now it is ROCK solid. Especially with the write barriers kernel patch.
For example, I've had issues with athcool locking my system. Finally recently decided to troubleshoot. In about a week's period I experienced about 50 hard locks. Tracked down the problem, turned out to be BIOS settings. My system is perfectly stable never lost any data.
How would the 2.6 kernel have any affect on causing issues with a Windows install? It does not toucht the MBR, now maybe there was a grub or lilo version that has a bug in it, but that is completely independent of the kernel.
In some aspects you may be right, but in Linux if something is not working right you can dig down and find out the cause... is it loading the wrong kernel module, is correct kernel module for your net card even compiled, etc. While in Windows all you can do is look at device manager and hope it shows up and reinstalling the driver fixes the problem. What I like about Linux versus Windows is after it's installed. I've found through maintenence Linux can be easier. When I forget a particular setting, I can just browse in/etc and find it. In Windows I gotta remember which Control Panel icon the setting is hidden within. Which can be quite hard as I use Windows less and less.
It all comes down to what each person prefers, at least we have a choice at the moment. Some of us Linux/*BSD/Mac users fear that one day we may not have the choice anymore. Others are just ranting idiots who want to think they are 1337.
A simple tip I always use. When typing the sentence say in your mind "It is" regardless. If it makes since, then "It's" is ok. If not then it should be "Its".
I'm not a spelling nazi, but when typing something important then you must be a "nazi". Most of the posts on/. people were drunk anyway. I've posted a few times drunk myself.
We are probably the only 2 people that read this article. I'm with you though. I'm currenly running all Gentoo switched from some use of FreeBSD. I'm seriously considering switching my firewall box to OpenBSD, the features sound awesome.
Sorry to reply again. Just wanted to thank you actually. A quick google after about 5 mins revealed
this.
You are 100% correct although it was comparing with WinME I doubt 98 will be much different. An interesting note is Win2k is WinXP are the same in performance.
Well, I did a check on my Winnt Directory. It is at 968.5 MB. My progam files directory is 107.5 MB. I did not count 3rd party applications as I installed everything in the default program files directory.
I did the count from Linux and the filesystem is fat32 for Win2k.
Some one replied to me and said Win98 is not faster, so I'm not sure. I'm just going to google on that.
I had no bubble, I tend to hear people say how Win98 is faster if that no longer holds true, then I won't fiddle with it. I suppose I'll google on it, see if I can find performance comparisons.
I primarly run Linux, but I just recently installed Windows 2000(can't stand XP) dual boot, purely for games. The only thing I do on it other than games is the occasional download for updates and things.
Everybody says how much better 98 is at even modern games, plus it uses less HDD space. The 20GB drive dedicated for Windows is already about full. With 512MB limit fixed, I have 768MB of RAM. This is seriously starting to tempt me.
Even worse, you ever notice how much those lights flicker as the car bounces. At times I almost quickly move to the side thinking an emergency vehicle is behind me.
Try the Gentoo forums. Even if you don't use Gentoo, I almost always find an answer when I search on it. I'm sure you'll be able to ignore the gentoo specific stuff and pull out the non distribution specific answers. Just don't post any questions of course.
Generaly the difference is just like any other OS. Newer kernel has newer stuff in it. The advantage of an older kernel is if it's drivers cover all your hardware, then you can use a more tried and true kernel, I would imagine the only people that would use a pre 2.4 kernel would be debian-stable people.
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All my configs are stored in /etc/ under Gentoo.
I actually never did see it, but I've heard. I'm not sure how accurate the person is who replied to you. But I have heard JMS did struggle horribly with TNT. SciFi has put out a lot of crap, but with the taking over of Stargate, the quality has hardly dropped. I wish the same producers would work up a deal with JMS, the B5 universe has so much to be explored.
You are absolutely correct, but in most cases the creater has the dream and passion. Everyone around him does not, they want the money. If the creator dies chances are the franchise will fall into the hands of some one wants a quick buck. If we are lucky the franchise will be taken over by a family member or friend that has the same passion. Maybe by some slim chance a random producer/director will continue the franchise honourably.
It's time for Star Trek to die. It really should have stopped with the death of Rodenberry.
What they should focus on is Babylon 5. I think the B5 universe as a whole has much more depth than the Star Trek universe. I just got done digging up a lot of the made for TV B5 movies even with bad production value they were quite good.
When the creater of B5 croaks, so should the franchise. While he's alive, I want more!
You can have light and pretty... I use FVWM. Although not easy to configure, once you get it you can have your cake and eat it too.
I figure if I'm going to stare at something for 8 hours a day, might as well look as nice as it is functional. To me that's part of the joy.
Judging by your pictures...
I'd hit it.
I thnink he's meaing you can right(or something) click somewhere on a PPT and insert word/excel/etc file here. Good idea, but works like crap. As soon as you take it to someone else's machine it seems to have about 50-80% chance of working correctly.
Simple answer... all the people that use ^H. If it's not funny to you, do what I do, don't laugh and read the next post.
I see you've gotten may replies, but I'll add a me too. I don't think this has happened since I've started using the 2.6.x kernel. Almost 80% of the time my system hard locked,,all open files, whether being written to or read from (config files, etc) would be hosed. Very bad... I'm still using reiserfs v3, but now it is ROCK solid. Especially with the write barriers kernel patch.
For example, I've had issues with athcool locking my system. Finally recently decided to troubleshoot. In about a week's period I experienced about 50 hard locks. Tracked down the problem, turned out to be BIOS settings. My system is perfectly stable never lost any data.
Sounds like possible treatment for ADD. I would be more than willing to take it.
Too bad they block port 80 though. I think I would still rather have Comcast.
You forgot a period as well. ;)
How would the 2.6 kernel have any affect on causing issues with a Windows install? It does not toucht the MBR, now maybe there was a grub or lilo version that has a bug in it, but that is completely independent of the kernel.
In some aspects you may be right, but in Linux if something is not working right you can dig down and find out the cause... is it loading the wrong kernel module, is correct kernel module for your net card even compiled, etc. While in Windows all you can do is look at device manager and hope it shows up and reinstalling the driver fixes the problem. What I like about Linux versus Windows is after it's installed. I've found through maintenence Linux can be easier. When I forget a particular setting, I can just browse in /etc and find it. In Windows I gotta remember which Control Panel icon the setting is hidden within. Which can be quite hard as I use Windows less and less.
It all comes down to what each person prefers, at least we have a choice at the moment. Some of us Linux/*BSD/Mac users fear that one day we may not have the choice anymore. Others are just ranting idiots who want to think they are 1337.
All 3 (different computers) of mine do.
A simple tip I always use. When typing the sentence say in your mind "It is" regardless. If it makes since, then "It's" is ok. If not then it should be "Its".
/. people were drunk anyway. I've posted a few times drunk myself.
I'm not a spelling nazi, but when typing something important then you must be a "nazi". Most of the posts on
We are probably the only 2 people that read this article. I'm with you though. I'm currenly running all Gentoo switched from some use of FreeBSD. I'm seriously considering switching my firewall box to OpenBSD, the features sound awesome.
Sorry to reply again. Just wanted to thank you actually. A quick google after about 5 mins revealed this.
You are 100% correct although it was comparing with WinME I doubt 98 will be much different. An interesting note is Win2k is WinXP are the same in performance.
Well, I did a check on my Winnt Directory. It is at 968.5 MB. My progam files directory is 107.5 MB. I did not count 3rd party applications as I installed everything in the default program files directory. I did the count from Linux and the filesystem is fat32 for Win2k. Some one replied to me and said Win98 is not faster, so I'm not sure. I'm just going to google on that.
I had no bubble, I tend to hear people say how Win98 is faster if that no longer holds true, then I won't fiddle with it. I suppose I'll google on it, see if I can find performance comparisons.
Thanks for your input though.
I primarly run Linux, but I just recently installed Windows 2000(can't stand XP) dual boot, purely for games. The only thing I do on it other than games is the occasional download for updates and things. Everybody says how much better 98 is at even modern games, plus it uses less HDD space. The 20GB drive dedicated for Windows is already about full. With 512MB limit fixed, I have 768MB of RAM. This is seriously starting to tempt me.
Even worse, you ever notice how much those lights flicker as the car bounces. At times I almost quickly move to the side thinking an emergency vehicle is behind me.
Try the Gentoo forums. Even if you don't use Gentoo, I almost always find an answer when I search on it. I'm sure you'll be able to ignore the gentoo specific stuff and pull out the non distribution specific answers. Just don't post any questions of course.
Actually go here. Scroll down to the ES1968 ALSA section.
It's the 2.6 alsa drivers, pretty simple fix. 2.4 and some early versions of 2.6 doesn't have the bug.
Generaly the difference is just like any other OS. Newer kernel has newer stuff in it. The advantage of an older kernel is if it's drivers cover all your hardware, then you can use a more tried and true kernel, I would imagine the only people that would use a pre 2.4 kernel would be debian-stable people.