it wouldn't matter, go read the script/*
Author: Robert Hashemian
http://www.hashemian.com/
You can use this code in any manner so long as the author's
name, Web address and this disclaimer is kept intact.
*/
I have no idea. I beleive that the default kernel on the unstable build that I use is 2.4.21ish, give or take. I unfortunately am not at home right now, and can't confirm this.
My Tyan motherboard boots my Debian DVD with no issues at all.
None at all.
DVD Images (as well as CD images of course...) are available here
http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
but gently remind them that they need you, more than you need them, as you are a very busy person, with a lot on your plate. Point out, gently and politely, that YOU are the one in control, not someone who is coming to you, for a service rendered.
Of course, this does not work all the time, but I have and very good luck with this approach. Hell, sometimes I'm not even all that polite about it...
This reminds me of the day that a client of mine decided that she needed to update her A/V, so she downloaded a cracked version of MacAffee and installed it.
I get the phone call about 30 minutes later that her computer is "acting weird", so I head over to take a look.
Turns out that the download itself had been infected with some worm/word macro/whaterver virus, and her suddenly pristine machine now had half a dozen or so viruses, and was emailing ILOVEYOU to everyone on the block.
She saved about $50 CDN by downloading it, and then wound up spending about $400 to have me clean up after that mess.
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women..."
Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
"I would have posted AC but that have me blocked out for some reason..."
This is a straight forwad, honest answer, that I was honestly going to mod insightful until I saw that. I just wondering, what would have been the point to posting AC?
I work at an Office Depot location, and it absolutely amazes me the number of people who purchase the cheapest printer available, "bacause it's only for home use", without thinking of the long term consequences of buying crap.
Then they get pissed that the cartridges for their $100 printer cost them $120 every 200-300 pages...Assuming they even get that many pages out of the cartirdges before they dry up
One of the things that I like about working at the Depot, rather than at the other retail locations around here (future shop for example), is that i'm not on comission, and as a result I can give my honest, personal opinions on what I sell. People ask me what I think of the Lexmarks, I tell them flat out that the thing is a paper weight. Or a door stop. Take your choice. Epson isn't much beeter really, although you will get arguably the best print quality available, but only by sacrificing speed.
This then leads to Canon and HP. I personally have mixed feeling on Canon. I own a Bubble Jet 2100, which is a bomb-proof reliable printer, that costs me nothing to use, as long as I only print in black, but it's slow slow slow, and then print quality can only be described as fuzzy at best, and don't even bother with color, all you get is a mess of dithered output. Then, there is my Deskjet 932 that I bough, and have absolutely abused for the last two years. It's printed close to 4000 pages of text between my girl friend and I, several color photos, as well as pieces of original Digital Art that she produces. Im on my 4th black cartridge, and maybe my 5th black. That works out to about 1000 pages / cartridge for black and white text. Not to shabby, nice and cheap, and if you choose the right fonts, and the right paper, really hard to tell from laser unless you use a magnifying glass.
In short, the thing has been an absolute workhorse, and I have no regrets of spening the $300 (CDN) at the time on it.
Having said all that though, I was actually thinkinf of this earlier today. There really is nothing compelling going on with printers these days. It's making work incredibly frustrating, because there is all of a sudden no challenge to it. Just hand then a Deskjet 5550, and send them out the door. It's cheap ($200 CDN), it's fast (19 ppm in black) and the cartidges are reasonably priced ($31 CDN) for about 500ish pages.
Would I expect that you'll replace it in two years? Yes, but that's 10 months more than you'll get out of anything else in it's price range, and it'll cost you a lot less long term on your consumables. And really, if you cared about reliability and heavy use, you would pony up for a laser printer instead, wouldn't you?
we use IBM stuff at work as well, and I had a system go down on us about a week or so ago. NT blue screened, and I had to do a hard reboot on it. Only problem was, the machine didn't reboot.
I placed a call to our help desk, and after 20 minutes of having some twit on the other end of the phone tell me to "wiggle the network cable" to see if it was a network problem, they placed a call to IBM.
Less than an hour later, a technician phoned me and asked if i had any idea what the problem was. I said motherboard or Power Supply, one of the two. He showed up about 30 minutes later with a new power supply and mobo in hand, and we replaced both parts (turned out to be a shot ATX power supply) and the machine worked just fine after that.
While he was here, he mentioned that the color was "off" on the monitor, pulled out him blackberry and placed a new service call for me. I had a new monitor in less than an hour.
IBM, really is a company, in my experience that deserves a lot of respect for what they do best. And what they do best, is not home PC's. Go to Dell for that, but if you want top notch support, fuck the savings, and buy IBM.
I have a buddy that raves about his 6416S by yamaha, so much that when it was time for me to get a new drive last may, I picked up a CRW3200 (24X IDE), and had zero complaints about it until it started to refuse to fixate the media...so I took it back to the store that I bought it at, traded in my extended warranty (we all know just how flaky optical drives are, I was smart this time...) and got myself a CRW-F1, which...wouldn't fixate the media...turned out that it was a software configuration issue on my part. I've been using the F1 for about two months now, under four different OS's and can do nothing but rave about this drive.
On a side note, I get really frustrated with people who only buy based on price. I paid a premium for my drive, I could have gotten a lite-on 40X at the same time for considerably cheaper, but something inside of me warned me off of it. Another buddy called me a fool, bought the lite-on and happily installed it. he was burning CD's about 30 seconds faster than i was (big deal) but, would burn a coaster about every third time that he would burn a CD..not only that, but the drive just bags on his system (2.0 P4 with a gig of PC2100, IDE RAID etc etc...) to the point of not even being able to open a text file while burning. Meahwhile, my yammy burns at full speed, and let's my multitask effective on my somewhat slower box (Dual PIII866 with 512 PC 133 and a single Quantum 40GB drive). Who got the better deal? I would honestly still have no worries about buying another yammy. I'll miss the drives...
same platform that i'm on, i have the newest of intellitype software, newest service pack, and all updates installed...it started happening about two months ago, for no rhyme or reason. honestly, i'm not too worried about it, it's more of a nuisance than anything else, and the keys work perfectly in Debian...which is what I am booted into more than 90% of the time now
half-wit...the point of the post was that even if i DO delete it, which I have...windows puts it back...there are several HUNDRED of these so called "protected, crucial files" that MS claims are 100% required for windows to run properly. how the hell did notepad (for example) ever make it to that list?
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it wouldn't matter, go read the script /*
Author: Robert Hashemian
http://www.hashemian.com/
You can use this code in any manner so long as the author's
name, Web address and this disclaimer is kept intact.
*/
oh well....
Customer: But I won't have any protection if you go bankrupt, right?
If? That sounds awfully optimistic.
Do you mean the Cenatec Rocket Drive?
#!/bin/sh
/mnt/ext/
/mnt/ext/backups/"$DATE.tar.gz" $HOME
/mnt/ext
/mnt/ext is an external 200 gig usb drive. simple
#qndb. Quick N Dirty Backup
DATE=`date '+%B %d %Y'`
#delete excess crap
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/*
rm -rf ~/tmp/gnutella/incomplete/*
~/tmp/gnutella/broken/*
mount
tar -pzcf
umount
Maybe too well?
dan@intermission: ~
; ; ; ; ;
$ cat bin/updatepage
#!/bin/bash
touch $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/testing
vim $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/testing
ispell $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/testing
cat $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/current > $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/temp ;
cat $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/archive >> $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/temp ;
mv $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/temp $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/archive
cat $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/testing > $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/current ;
rm $HOME/www/content/datfiles/dan/testing
Quick, dirty and very simple....more than enough for my needs
dan@stinkfist:~$ wget http://img-nex.theonering.net/movies/gollum_mtvawa rds_Bband.mov
--18:46:35-- http://img-nex.theonering.net/movies/gollum_mtvawa
=> `gollum_mtvawa'
Resolving img-nex.theonering.net... 66.118.172.6
Connecting to img-nex.theonering.net[66.118.172.6]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:46:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.
--18:46:36-- http://rds_bband.mov/
=> `index.html'
Resolving rds_bband.mov... failed: Host not found.
FINISHED --18:46:36--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
I have no idea. I beleive that the default kernel on the unstable build that I use is 2.4.21ish, give or take. I unfortunately am not at home right now, and can't confirm this.
My Tyan motherboard boots my Debian DVD with no issues at all. None at all. DVD Images (as well as CD images of course...) are available here http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
fp mother fucker!
but gently remind them that they need you, more than you need them, as you are a very busy person, with a lot on your plate. Point out, gently and politely, that YOU are the one in control, not someone who is coming to you, for a service rendered. Of course, this does not work all the time, but I have and very good luck with this approach. Hell, sometimes I'm not even all that polite about it...
This reminds me of the day that a client of mine decided that she needed to update her A/V, so she downloaded a cracked version of MacAffee and installed it.
I get the phone call about 30 minutes later that her computer is "acting weird", so I head over to take a look.
Turns out that the download itself had been infected with some worm/word macro/whaterver virus, and her suddenly pristine machine now had half a dozen or so viruses, and was emailing ILOVEYOU to everyone on the block.
She saved about $50 CDN by downloading it, and then wound up spending about $400 to have me clean up after that mess.
Yeah, downloading pirated A/V is a GREAT idea.
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women..." Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
MY OS (Debian) isn't getting smacked around...sorry to break your heart about that
Spell-checking in textareas. No tpyos in this post!
oh the irony...
"I would have posted AC but that have me blocked out for some reason..."
This is a straight forwad, honest answer, that I was honestly going to mod insightful until I saw that. I just wondering, what would have been the point to posting AC?
http://linuxhardware.org/
i don't think that I could have said this better.
I work at an Office Depot location, and it absolutely amazes me the number of people who purchase the cheapest printer available, "bacause it's only for home use", without thinking of the long term consequences of buying crap.
Then they get pissed that the cartridges for their $100 printer cost them $120 every 200-300 pages...Assuming they even get that many pages out of the cartirdges before they dry up
One of the things that I like about working at the Depot, rather than at the other retail locations around here (future shop for example), is that i'm not on comission, and as a result I can give my honest, personal opinions on what I sell. People ask me what I think of the Lexmarks, I tell them flat out that the thing is a paper weight. Or a door stop. Take your choice. Epson isn't much beeter really, although you will get arguably the best print quality available, but only by sacrificing speed.
This then leads to Canon and HP. I personally have mixed feeling on Canon. I own a Bubble Jet 2100, which is a bomb-proof reliable printer, that costs me nothing to use, as long as I only print in black, but it's slow slow slow, and then print quality can only be described as fuzzy at best, and don't even bother with color, all you get is a mess of dithered output. Then, there is my Deskjet 932 that I bough, and have absolutely abused for the last two years. It's printed close to 4000 pages of text between my girl friend and I, several color photos, as well as pieces of original Digital Art that she produces. Im on my 4th black cartridge, and maybe my 5th black. That works out to about 1000 pages / cartridge for black and white text. Not to shabby, nice and cheap, and if you choose the right fonts, and the right paper, really hard to tell from laser unless you use a magnifying glass.
In short, the thing has been an absolute workhorse, and I have no regrets of spening the $300 (CDN) at the time on it.
Having said all that though, I was actually thinkinf of this earlier today. There really is nothing compelling going on with printers these days. It's making work incredibly frustrating, because there is all of a sudden no challenge to it. Just hand then a Deskjet 5550, and send them out the door. It's cheap ($200 CDN), it's fast (19 ppm in black) and the cartidges are reasonably priced ($31 CDN) for about 500ish pages.
Would I expect that you'll replace it in two years? Yes, but that's 10 months more than you'll get out of anything else in it's price range, and it'll cost you a lot less long term on your consumables. And really, if you cared about reliability and heavy use, you would pony up for a laser printer instead, wouldn't you?
i only wish more people understood this as well as you do.
we use IBM stuff at work as well, and I had a system go down on us about a week or so ago. NT blue screened, and I had to do a hard reboot on it. Only problem was, the machine didn't reboot.
I placed a call to our help desk, and after 20 minutes of having some twit on the other end of the phone tell me to "wiggle the network cable" to see if it was a network problem, they placed a call to IBM.
Less than an hour later, a technician phoned me and asked if i had any idea what the problem was. I said motherboard or Power Supply, one of the two. He showed up about 30 minutes later with a new power supply and mobo in hand, and we replaced both parts (turned out to be a shot ATX power supply) and the machine worked just fine after that.
While he was here, he mentioned that the color was "off" on the monitor, pulled out him blackberry and placed a new service call for me. I had a new monitor in less than an hour.
IBM, really is a company, in my experience that deserves a lot of respect for what they do best. And what they do best, is not home PC's. Go to Dell for that, but if you want top notch support, fuck the savings, and buy IBM.
even more relevant...remember this? [giveboobs.com]
I have a buddy that raves about his 6416S by yamaha, so much that when it was time for me to get a new drive last may, I picked up a CRW3200 (24X IDE), and had zero complaints about it until it started to refuse to fixate the media...so I took it back to the store that I bought it at, traded in my extended warranty (we all know just how flaky optical drives are, I was smart this time...) and got myself a CRW-F1, which...wouldn't fixate the media...turned out that it was a software configuration issue on my part. I've been using the F1 for about two months now, under four different OS's and can do nothing but rave about this drive.
On a side note, I get really frustrated with people who only buy based on price. I paid a premium for my drive, I could have gotten a lite-on 40X at the same time for considerably cheaper, but something inside of me warned me off of it. Another buddy called me a fool, bought the lite-on and happily installed it. he was burning CD's about 30 seconds faster than i was (big deal) but, would burn a coaster about every third time that he would burn a CD..not only that, but the drive just bags on his system (2.0 P4 with a gig of PC2100, IDE RAID etc etc...) to the point of not even being able to open a text file while burning. Meahwhile, my yammy burns at full speed, and let's my multitask effective on my somewhat slower box (Dual PIII866 with 512 PC 133 and a single Quantum 40GB drive). Who got the better deal? I would honestly still have no worries about buying another yammy. I'll miss the drives...
same platform that i'm on, i have the newest of intellitype software, newest service pack, and all updates installed...it started happening about two months ago, for no rhyme or reason. honestly, i'm not too worried about it, it's more of a nuisance than anything else, and the keys work perfectly in Debian...which is what I am booted into more than 90% of the time now
half-wit...the point of the post was that even if i DO delete it, which I have...windows puts it back...there are several HUNDRED of these so called "protected, crucial files" that MS claims are 100% required for windows to run properly. how the hell did notepad (for example) ever make it to that list?