Gentoo is not the distro for a linux newbie. I wouldn't recommend Slackware, Debian, SuSe or any other complex distro to a newbie, and I don't see why you should. I've tried Gentoo. Something makes me think a newbie won't know how to configure his network card from a command line.
and then you've got a fully loaded install of Debian.
with:
and then you've got close to Debian, with pretty much everything you'd need for work installed (i.e. KDE, OpenOffice, WINE, Mozilla, and pretty much everything else).
Really? Well I'm running it right now (on both laptop and desktop), and IMO, it's great for semi-newbies. It's a great idea, because if you screw something up, you just reboot. And then, when you're ready, you can install it to the HD, and then you've got a fully loaded install of Debian.
I tried Mandrake 9 recently, and it turned me off linux for weeks. This is what you do: get a different distro. RedHat is good, and KNOPPIX is great too (knoppix.de).
Oh, FYI, All that does happens. The speakers will emit a high-pitched, distorted scream every few hours, the fans don't work on my or my friend's laptops, and the CDs in 2 of his 3 are dead.
And I've got a question, the fans, is it normal or not for the fan on the Compaq Armada 1550DMT to never turn on?
This got me thinking about my laptop. I got it for free from a government project (take obselete computers from companies, give them to schools), so I have no idea who owned it. And I'm getting paranoid about the thing now. What if the fan doesn't work because of dead insects blocking it? What if ants have been eating away at the speaker cables, causing really bad screeching noises to come from it? What if my friend's CD drive is locked shut by a corpse?
ok, I should probably turn down the M$ hate a little bit. I do, after all, have 2 Wheelmouse Opticals, one for the desktop, one for the laptop.
Oh, that 2-3 degrees was taken before I got the laptop. The fan in it is almost definitely dead, so I'd imagine that if I started some distributed computing on it, and rested my feet on it, I'd be really comfy.
AFAIK, anything over 9fps is perceived by the human eye as animated. Higher is always better, but as long as things stay in the double digits, technically it's not actually choppy. Choppy would be like 3-6fps. I'm not saying that 20 or 40 or 60 wouldn't make a difference, but this is fine, esp considering how little money I put into this box.
Overall, I'm happy. I have a lot of fun pushing this machine's limits.
Like I said before, when I finally go out and get that stick of RAM, things should get up to something really acceptable for a sub-$1000 (really rough estimation of CDN->US dollars)machine.
About patches, I'm sure you could look at any game, and see something that could be improved. Doesn't have to be a glitch, could be the AI or something.
Well, patching is great. There's no way to update a PS2 game, AFAIK.
Controls: I heavily prefer a mouse for aiming. Anyone who's played "Bomb Da Base" for GTA3 or "Guardian Angels" for GTA:Vice City will appreciate the mouse.
Screen: I like my screen. It's 17", good enough when you sit up close. Most of my games are at 800*600 or 1024*768, which is really smooth.
There's also the issue of upgrading hardware. Just like on any Mac other than the PowerMac won't let you upgrade a video card, a PS2 won't let you upgrade any component, other than the add-ons.
Oh, I agree, if I could finally convince my mom to let me sell my PC, I'd get a Mac/PS2 combo.
FYI, my PC is worth about $1500 CDN, and it plays most current games fine.
It's about games, and how much I know about Windows. I've been using 98 for years, and I know those ugly little things inside and out. Plus the software. I still can't get my palm to hotsync on Linux, and Gnutella, in my experience, never gets me the stuff I'm looking for.
Another thing I like is how easy it is to install software. Apache on linux totally confused me, although I did get the Mandrake-supplied version (1.3.26) working, I had big trouble finding things. It'd be so nice if I didn't have to jump from/etc to/home to/usr to/opt to/misc whenever I want to find a config file.
Now, at one point, when 98 crumpled itself into a little ball and spontaneusly combusted (clearer version: crashed every 2 hours), I replaced it with Mandrake 9.0, and it turned me off Linux for weeks. It was so slow, I once tried to start OpenOffice, it took about 10 minutes before I just killed the process. It also took about 10 minutes to boot up.
However, I've been experimenting with Knoppix, it's so great because if I screw something up, I just reboot. It's all I've used at all on my laptop (which is a P1 133MHz with 48 megs of RAM) recently, and I've been playing with it on my desktop too.
"I'd love to see you try to play UT2003, Mafia, Morrowind, or NOLF above 640x480 16bit on that 600MHz cpu. Beyond playing games which is huge industry, "average consumers" are doing things like editing their digital photos and movies. "
Well, let's see. MAFIA, at 800x600x16, most details at medium, some at low. Celeron 633. No O/Cing. Radeon 7000 64MB DDR PCI edition. 5400rpm 20gb Maxtor IDE drive. Windows 98 SE. And only 128mb of 100mhz SDRAM. And it still manages 9-15 frames per second, which is not technically choppy.
Some other benchmarks: GTA3, 1024x768x32, trails off, draw distance lower medium: average 15fps. Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen Visualizations, while playing an mp3, and running Kazaa Lite: 20fps.
Oh, and did I mention that while all this is going on, Apache 2.0.43 is serving about 10 images a minutes, generally about half a meg per minute on average.
Oh, now that was fun. I just made my obselete, windows 98-running piece of no-name crap sound like a tolerable computer.
(oh, BTW, I fully expect MAFIA framerates to stay above 10 when I get some more RAM).
I feel like such a geek newbie, I have so little crap in my room. All there is is one desk with a tower, 17" monitor, some cheap speakers, plus my random accessories (i.e. old 4x CD-RW drive that I still use, my router and DSL modem, plus a fan that keeps the air moving around, and also the empty penguin mint tins).
I also have some cables running to my laptop, which sits on the floor and warms my feet on chilly days. The entire setup, even though it's pretty small, causes the room to be 2 or 3 degrees celsius higher than the rest of the house.
And then I have the box of CD cases, from failed burns (my HD must really suck, if I try and burn at 4x, I get a buffer underrun, LOL). There's also a sledgehammer in here somewhere, I used it recently on a full/sealed bottle of coke (boy, do those 58 cent RC Colas have "punch").
The only real amazing part of this setup is the power cables. I have everything running on 2 outlets, using 2 power bars. It doesn't even dim the lights when I switch everything on at once, though, so I guess I'm fine. Guess there's an upside to 145 watt power supplies.
In my experience, my PC running Win98SE does the same thing. You should see what it looks like when I've got Opera downloading a linux ISO. Add that to Winamp scrolling a song title, plus random resource monitors, it makes one hell of a taskbar. Oh, and don't forget the peaceful hue of BSOD blue.
You can submit your sample(s) one of two ways:
1. For online materials, send an e-mail message with the subject line Microsoft Publisher Customer Stories to insider@microsoft.com. (Note: Please do not send any attachments over 1 megabyte in size.)
That's strange. I can honestly say that I could read it just fine, better than the text on many other sites. And I'm using Mozilla 1.1 on Mandrake 9.0.
You know GTA3? My CD drive put a big, circular scratch on the Play disc. I knew I should have burned a copy, but I hadn't, so I was stuck for a week without my favorite game, until I could have a friend come over with his (legit) copy, and burn one for myself. It's totally legit.
I've since learned to burn backups. Once I get a dual-boot running (I switched from 98 to Mandrake 9.0, and miss my games), the first thing I'll do is burn a copy of MAFIA, a game I bought just one or two weeks before I killed Windows 98.
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This really anooys me.
Gentoo is not the distro for a linux newbie. I wouldn't recommend Slackware, Debian, SuSe or any other complex distro to a newbie, and I don't see why you should. I've tried Gentoo. Something makes me think a newbie won't know how to configure his network card from a command line.
oops, replace:
and then you've got a fully loaded install of Debian.
with:
and then you've got close to Debian, with pretty much everything you'd need for work installed (i.e. KDE, OpenOffice, WINE, Mozilla, and pretty much everything else).
Really? Well I'm running it right now (on both laptop and desktop), and IMO, it's great for semi-newbies. It's a great idea, because if you screw something up, you just reboot. And then, when you're ready, you can install it to the HD, and then you've got a fully loaded install of Debian.
What were your problems?
I tried Mandrake 9 recently, and it turned me off linux for weeks. This is what you do: get a different distro. RedHat is good, and KNOPPIX is great too (knoppix.de).
Oh, FYI, All that does happens. The speakers will emit a high-pitched, distorted scream every few hours, the fans don't work on my or my friend's laptops, and the CDs in 2 of his 3 are dead.
And I've got a question, the fans, is it normal or not for the fan on the Compaq Armada 1550DMT to never turn on?
This got me thinking about my laptop. I got it for free from a government project (take obselete computers from companies, give them to schools), so I have no idea who owned it. And I'm getting paranoid about the thing now. What if the fan doesn't work because of dead insects blocking it? What if ants have been eating away at the speaker cables, causing really bad screeching noises to come from it? What if my friend's CD drive is locked shut by a corpse?
Uggggh.
(damn 2 minutes between posts, lost all that typing)
I've gotta do that sometime. I'd assume it needs to be between drives/partitions?
Mmm, sounds cozy.
Wait... BLASPHEMIST! That's a Microsoft mouse!
ok, I should probably turn down the M$ hate a little bit. I do, after all, have 2 Wheelmouse Opticals, one for the desktop, one for the laptop.
Oh, that 2-3 degrees was taken before I got the laptop. The fan in it is almost definitely dead, so I'd imagine that if I started some distributed computing on it, and rested my feet on it, I'd be really comfy.
AFAIK, anything over 9fps is perceived by the human eye as animated. Higher is always better, but as long as things stay in the double digits, technically it's not actually choppy. Choppy would be like 3-6fps. I'm not saying that 20 or 40 or 60 wouldn't make a difference, but this is fine, esp considering how little money I put into this box.
Overall, I'm happy. I have a lot of fun pushing this machine's limits.
Like I said before, when I finally go out and get that stick of RAM, things should get up to something really acceptable for a sub-$1000 (really rough estimation of CDN->US dollars)machine.
Oh, I forgot: MODS. Mods are a big thing.
About patches, I'm sure you could look at any game, and see something that could be improved. Doesn't have to be a glitch, could be the AI or something.
Well, patching is great. There's no way to update a PS2 game, AFAIK.
Controls: I heavily prefer a mouse for aiming. Anyone who's played "Bomb Da Base" for GTA3 or "Guardian Angels" for GTA:Vice City will appreciate the mouse.
Screen: I like my screen. It's 17", good enough when you sit up close. Most of my games are at 800*600 or 1024*768, which is really smooth.
There's also the issue of upgrading hardware. Just like on any Mac other than the PowerMac won't let you upgrade a video card, a PS2 won't let you upgrade any component, other than the add-ons.
Oh, I agree, if I could finally convince my mom to let me sell my PC, I'd get a Mac/PS2 combo.
FYI, my PC is worth about $1500 CDN, and it plays most current games fine.
It's about games, and how much I know about Windows. I've been using 98 for years, and I know those ugly little things inside and out. Plus the software. I still can't get my palm to hotsync on Linux, and Gnutella, in my experience, never gets me the stuff I'm looking for.
/etc to /home to /usr to /opt to /misc whenever I want to find a config file.
Another thing I like is how easy it is to install software. Apache on linux totally confused me, although I did get the Mandrake-supplied version (1.3.26) working, I had big trouble finding things. It'd be so nice if I didn't have to jump from
Now, at one point, when 98 crumpled itself into a little ball and spontaneusly combusted (clearer version: crashed every 2 hours), I replaced it with Mandrake 9.0, and it turned me off Linux for weeks. It was so slow, I once tried to start OpenOffice, it took about 10 minutes before I just killed the process. It also took about 10 minutes to boot up.
However, I've been experimenting with Knoppix, it's so great because if I screw something up, I just reboot. It's all I've used at all on my laptop (which is a P1 133MHz with 48 megs of RAM) recently, and I've been playing with it on my desktop too.
"I'd love to see you try to play UT2003, Mafia, Morrowind, or NOLF above 640x480 16bit on that 600MHz cpu. Beyond playing games which is huge industry, "average consumers" are doing things like editing their digital photos and movies.
"
Well, let's see. MAFIA, at 800x600x16, most details at medium, some at low. Celeron 633. No O/Cing. Radeon 7000 64MB DDR PCI edition. 5400rpm 20gb Maxtor IDE drive. Windows 98 SE. And only 128mb of 100mhz SDRAM. And it still manages 9-15 frames per second, which is not technically choppy.
Some other benchmarks:
GTA3, 1024x768x32, trails off, draw distance lower medium: average 15fps.
Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen Visualizations, while playing an mp3, and running Kazaa Lite: 20fps.
Oh, and did I mention that while all this is going on, Apache 2.0.43 is serving about 10 images a minutes, generally about half a meg per minute on average.
Oh, now that was fun. I just made my obselete, windows 98-running piece of no-name crap sound like a tolerable computer.
(oh, BTW, I fully expect MAFIA framerates to stay above 10 when I get some more RAM).
I feel like such a geek newbie, I have so little crap in my room. All there is is one desk with a tower, 17" monitor, some cheap speakers, plus my random accessories (i.e. old 4x CD-RW drive that I still use, my router and DSL modem, plus a fan that keeps the air moving around, and also the empty penguin mint tins).
I also have some cables running to my laptop, which sits on the floor and warms my feet on chilly days. The entire setup, even though it's pretty small, causes the room to be 2 or 3 degrees celsius higher than the rest of the house.
And then I have the box of CD cases, from failed burns (my HD must really suck, if I try and burn at 4x, I get a buffer underrun, LOL). There's also a sledgehammer in here somewhere, I used it recently on a full/sealed bottle of coke (boy, do those 58 cent RC Colas have "punch").
The only real amazing part of this setup is the power cables. I have everything running on 2 outlets, using 2 power bars. It doesn't even dim the lights when I switch everything on at once, though, so I guess I'm fine. Guess there's an upside to 145 watt power supplies.
In my experience, my PC running Win98SE does the same thing. You should see what it looks like when I've got Opera downloading a linux ISO. Add that to Winamp scrolling a song title, plus random resource monitors, it makes one hell of a taskbar. Oh, and don't forget the peaceful hue of BSOD blue.
I can't believe people modded up a goatse shop.
Why is it that the warning seems strangely similar to that of goatse.cx?
I was reading the google cache, it's all garbled again.
That's a great idea!
That's strange. I can honestly say that I could read it just fine, better than the text on many other sites. And I'm using Mozilla 1.1 on Mandrake 9.0.
You know GTA3? My CD drive put a big, circular scratch on the Play disc. I knew I should have burned a copy, but I hadn't, so I was stuck for a week without my favorite game, until I could have a friend come over with his (legit) copy, and burn one for myself. It's totally legit.
I've since learned to burn backups. Once I get a dual-boot running (I switched from 98 to Mandrake 9.0, and miss my games), the first thing I'll do is burn a copy of MAFIA, a game I bought just one or two weeks before I killed Windows 98.
I like Shotgun Studios too.
No comments yet and it's already been /.ed? What is the world coming to?
I'd say it's a pretty forgetable format.