Use the "nv" driver that comes with X (NVidia's driver is called "nvidia"). You might as well, since you won't have to do anything special to get it going (except writing "nv" in your XF86Config file). If it doeesn't work for you (I think it may not do the extremely high resolutions) then install NVidia's drivers, and pray that they're bug free (they weren't when I tried).
Yeah, I used the nvidia driver for a few months, and recently switched back to the nv driver. Text has much better clarity with the nv driver. Also, I have to disable CTL-ALT-Fn with the nvidia driver because it screwed up everything. I guess there's no point in using the nvidia driver unless you're playing some of those "FPS" games people talk about. Video playback is perfect with the nv driver, and so are all the other features of X. I really don't know why I switched to nvidia in the first place.
Dude, Booble is not a parody. How is "porn search engine with looks, name, and functionality substantially similar to Google" a parody? The primary function of Booble is not parody. Maybe there is a little parody on the site, but that's all. Anyway, that part about Google diluting its own trademark is kinda far-fetched. Car to cite a case on point?
The reason why so many attacks are against Windows is that Windows is usable by complete morons
Remember that story about the guy who was the smartest person in the world? He refused to be friends with anyone of lesser intellect, and was thus a lonely fool.
Do you think learning how to use Windows properly is even interesting to most people? You could call president Bush a moron because he can't slam dunk, but then again, maybe he doesn't even want to? Maybe he can get by shooting jump shots or free throws once in a while.
The "people who click attachments are morons" is such a tired cliche. The sad thing is that it's not even true, and you repeat it nonetheless.
If a destructive virus were written, then all affected people would have to update their machines, thus ending the fun for all virus writers around the world. This looks like spammers and scammers prepping computers for their crimes. It is kinda surprising that no one has done the "rm -rf" virus for Windows, but it looks like the people with these sophisticated tools are just looking for profit, not fun. Capitalism at its best.
you should use you mail server to filter out attachments with microsoft executables; e.g., mime-header-checks with Postfix. I set this up during the last outbreak, and not even one of the latest virus has gotten through my postfix.
At first I didn't think it was SCO who did this DoS. Now with them making the decision (in less than a day) to offer a $250,000 reward, it seems plausible that they are behind this.
I once got an e-mail from Ebay requesting that I upgrade my credit card info since the one on file had expired. It was a legit e-mail. Last week I got a scam email pretending to be from Ebay, asking me to update info, and I actually thought it was legit for ten seconds. The scam would have been amazingly successful if they hadn't asked for every piece of info imaginable. All a scammer has to do is duplicate legit emails, and he'll get money from people you may not consider ignorant.
A clipboard capable of storing ANYTHING, with a series of universal keyboard commands (this is unix, afterall, we should be able to do anything without a mouse) for copy/cut/paste.
It already has a "clipboard" (if you want to call it that) that can store any type of file. You may have never experienced it, that's all. A friend who was using Open Office told me she enjoyed how cut and paste worked on images and such, while it didn't quite work right in Microsoft Word. I use neither OO nor Ms Word, so I wasn't sure what was talking about (maybe you have to turn on Clippy to get cut/paste working in MS Word?), but she was pleased with OO's functionality.
Apparently the ABI code cannot be trade secrets, and in all likelyhood is in the public domain.
Linus didn't copy the header files. He wrote them himself. Remember the interview where he says the spec was ridiculously expensive so he couldn't get it?
Do a Google search on somehting like "XXX teen sluts" and enter your email address at the first ten sites. You'll have all the spam you need. If you want to manually train Spamassassin, then try usenet: news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
Actually, since you can see it while driving on the freeway, I think it's cool that it's outside. No need to buy a ticket to get in the space center. 1.5 million over 40 years isn't that bad. That's like a stock broker's income for the same time period, ignoring inflation.
Actually, your definition of "saving the economy" is probably very different from GW's and the economists who love him. Nevertheless, since space exploration is where the money is going to be, might as well transition into that career change:)
You shouldn't use Wolfram as an "authorative source" for anything except Mathematica. I guess they're claiming that "mean" is now commonly used for "arithmetic mean" which is probably true. Nevertheless, the discussion is about the precise (mathematical) meanings of words like "mean" and "average", which is being confused like crazy in this discussion.
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I'd also like to add that I've run Microsoft Windows since the days of Windows 1.03 and I have NEVER had a virus.
Being one of the most experienced Windows users in the world, I'm not surprised you never got a virus
Use the "nv" driver that comes with X (NVidia's driver is called "nvidia"). You might as well, since you won't have to do anything special to get it going (except writing "nv" in your XF86Config file). If it doeesn't work for you (I think it may not do the extremely high resolutions) then install NVidia's drivers, and pray that they're bug free (they weren't when I tried).
You must have a killer anti-spam setup.
Here's a question for you: do you need to use the nvidia driver? If so, why?
Yeah, I used the nvidia driver for a few months, and recently switched back to the nv driver. Text has much better clarity with the nv driver. Also, I have to disable CTL-ALT-Fn with the nvidia driver because it screwed up everything. I guess there's no point in using the nvidia driver unless you're playing some of those "FPS" games people talk about. Video playback is perfect with the nv driver, and so are all the other features of X. I really don't know why I switched to nvidia in the first place.
Dude, Booble is not a parody. How is "porn search engine with looks, name, and functionality substantially similar to Google" a parody? The primary function of Booble is not parody. Maybe there is a little parody on the site, but that's all. Anyway, that part about Google diluting its own trademark is kinda far-fetched. Car to cite a case on point?
The reason why so many attacks are against Windows is that Windows is usable by complete morons
Remember that story about the guy who was the smartest person in the world? He refused to be friends with anyone of lesser intellect, and was thus a lonely fool. Do you think learning how to use Windows properly is even interesting to most people? You could call president Bush a moron because he can't slam dunk, but then again, maybe he doesn't even want to? Maybe he can get by shooting jump shots or free throws once in a while. The "people who click attachments are morons" is such a tired cliche. The sad thing is that it's not even true, and you repeat it nonetheless.
If a destructive virus were written, then all affected people would have to update their machines, thus ending the fun for all virus writers around the world. This looks like spammers and scammers prepping computers for their crimes. It is kinda surprising that no one has done the "rm -rf" virus for Windows, but it looks like the people with these sophisticated tools are just looking for profit, not fun. Capitalism at its best.
you should use you mail server to filter out attachments with microsoft executables; e.g., mime-header-checks with Postfix. I set this up during the last outbreak, and not even one of the latest virus has gotten through my postfix.
At first I didn't think it was SCO who did this DoS. Now with them making the decision (in less than a day) to offer a $250,000 reward, it seems plausible that they are behind this.
all this does is raise their stock price even more.
Stop being an elitist snob.
I once got an e-mail from Ebay requesting that I upgrade my credit card info since the one on file had expired. It was a legit e-mail. Last week I got a scam email pretending to be from Ebay, asking me to update info, and I actually thought it was legit for ten seconds. The scam would have been amazingly successful if they hadn't asked for every piece of info imaginable. All a scammer has to do is duplicate legit emails, and he'll get money from people you may not consider ignorant.
That doesn't sound right. Why would Linux refuse to boot past a nonexistent floppy drive? Could it be a buggy RedHat init script?
It already has a "clipboard" (if you want to call it that) that can store any type of file. You may have never experienced it, that's all. A friend who was using Open Office told me she enjoyed how cut and paste worked on images and such, while it didn't quite work right in Microsoft Word. I use neither OO nor Ms Word, so I wasn't sure what was talking about (maybe you have to turn on Clippy to get cut/paste working in MS Word?), but she was pleased with OO's functionality.
This is not true. Your assumptions are wrong, but I won't get into it. Nevertheless, you have fooled a lot of people here.
Linus didn't copy the header files. He wrote them himself. Remember the interview where he says the spec was ridiculously expensive so he couldn't get it?
Do a Google search on somehting like "XXX teen sluts" and enter your email address at the first ten sites. You'll have all the spam you need. If you want to manually train Spamassassin, then try usenet: news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
Brilliant! I'll be implementing this one real soon. Go ahead and mod this up boys and girls.
Abiword doesn't suck. Go ahead and try the latest version. Please don't lie and say that you have.
Actually, since you can see it while driving on the freeway, I think it's cool that it's outside. No need to buy a ticket to get in the space center. 1.5 million over 40 years isn't that bad. That's like a stock broker's income for the same time period, ignoring inflation.
And so the obvious question: does it run Linux?
Actually, your definition of "saving the economy" is probably very different from GW's and the economists who love him. Nevertheless, since space exploration is where the money is going to be, might as well transition into that career change :)
You shouldn't use Wolfram as an "authorative source" for anything except Mathematica. I guess they're claiming that "mean" is now commonly used for "arithmetic mean" which is probably true. Nevertheless, the discussion is about the precise (mathematical) meanings of words like "mean" and "average", which is being confused like crazy in this discussion.
"higher" should be "hire"