I've used Mandrake, Red-Hat, SuSE and now Gentoo. Gentoo was by far the most difficult one to install.
It also taught me more about linux than any other distro I ever tried. Now, that's great for me and anyone else who has the *time* to learn, but bad for someone just wanting a desktop they can uber-customize. The answer is, of course, an installer that is easy and painless. I think there should be 2 ways to do this with a gui installer:
1.) The advanced option to install everything from source using either the ~x86 or the stable lines.
2.) The option to install everything from GRP, or the already previously built packages that Gentoo already offers for all the major software. If you need it quick, there is no reason in hell this gui process should take any longer than mandrake, red hat or suse. Plus, once it's installed you can still either emerge the stuff you need or even go back and compile the entire friggin thing in the background with just ONE command. I can see this being the most used option.
Either way, what Gentoo needs is a graphic installer and it needs it BAD. The funny thing is, there is a whole other class of Gentoo zealot that would rail against this and proclaim from the top of the mountain that it is unclean and an offense against God himself. You can still use the CLI guys, just because a gui exists won't mean you'll be forced to use it.
As for using Gentoo in the enterprise enviornment, that would take some balls and someone confident of their abilities to do so. But if they can do it, why the hell not?
Jesus, it's not that bad at all. Stop crying about it. The traffic is nothing compared to Houston or Dallas. It's an amazing place to live and the job market is re-bounding. An hour commute? What, are you taking 35? You can get from south Austin to North on Mopac in way under 45 minutes during the morning rush.
FarCasters myself. Open portals between various areas of the Earth. We start local and then hit the moon, the planets and then the stars. Only this time we do it without the damm pesky Technocore to ruin it for us.
I sometimes wish Simmons would do a series with farcasters and no technocore shrike business..that future history would be good. Illium is a close second;)
For the number of machines you're talking about, I dunno if source is the best way to go. Personally, I've never understood the hate some have for those of us who build from source instead of using packages. If I was going to do something for a production machine though, It would probably be a package distro like Fedora or SuSE. Maybe Debian, but I've never been that impressed by it. For my own personal use, it will always be from source like Gentoo. I just prefer it.
The problem is SuSE and distros like it are NOT suited for you. You sound like someone who wants to do everything themself. Try slack, gentoo or arx, not SuSE. Use the CLI, it sounds like what you want and need. Or, as an alternative, a version of YaST that has various levels of interaction, like simple, moderate or expert.
..it's one of the most buggiest pieces of crap that's ever been released. The application rarely works as advertised unless you complile it to use Xine as a backend and not gstreamer. I pray the talk of including it in the default GNOME is just that, talk. A nice interface though..but that does nothing when it won't friggin work.
Having been to Origin Austin and seen their digs, there is no way a company like that could even justify the real estate costs they run up. It's crazy.
"Thanks to my American science education, I had never heard of this feat.I asked around (friends and coworkers) and nobody else I've talked to has heard of them either."
Let's place the blame where it belongs, with yourself. This is hardly something that was hidden from the public, it's always been there for anyone who cared to look. Was it as well known as the current crop of NASA rovers? No, but there wasn't an internet, etc to splash the latest images around the world in moments either. It has nothing to do with your education, but rather your lack of curiosity up until this moment.
On the subject of Russian space feats, they were also the first country to mount a specially designed machine gun to a satellite and fire it in space. For peacefull purposes only, of course..
..while it lasted. But seriously, it is rather interesting, but there where niggling problems (mostly UI in my opinion) that needed to be fixed. Kudos to them for addressing them so quickly.
If someone walked into my home or jimmied the door to gain access, and stood in my living room to say "by the way, your door sucks", he's guilty of trespassing at the very least. This guy is no different. There is nothing that gives him or any other hacker a special "permit" to go where they do not belong just because they claim to do it "for the greater good". He deserves some kind of punishment.
Regarding the forthcoming Bush announcement on space policy:
From the various sources reporting on the subject, here's what the Presidents plan will look like.
1. Manned space flight will be NASAs only priority. Almost all non-manned projects will done away with or rolled into the manned program if appropriate.
2. The space shuttle fleet will be retired. Done. Finished. They will stay in service long enough to finish construction of the space station in the next few years.
3. A new space vehicle, the CEV (Crew Exploration Vehicle) will be built and rolled into production in place of the shuttle. The era of winged spacecraft is over for nasa, the CEV is akin to a large Apollo capsule, only able to carry up to 6-8 crew. The CEV is usable in earth orbit AND lunar orbit. The shuttle was only capable of reaching earth orbit, the CEV will be able to leave earth orbit and fly to the moon!
4. Europe's Ariane rockets and Russia's Soyuz capsules will be used to access the space station until the CEV in finished and ready for use.
5. The hierarchy of NASA will be changed so that the Defense Department is now included in the planning and future use of future technology. Expect big stuff from this. Having the military involved is a GOOD thing.
6. The first return trip to the moon is planned for 2013 and the following missions will begin the process of building a permanent, manned presence there.
7. Also starting in 2013, NASA will end almost all involvement with the ISS. Expect this to possibly become a private venture.
8. The CEV and moon base construction will be a test-bed for the Mars missions that will follow.
9. MARS
10. After mars, there will be manned missions to the asteroids.
NASA will become one of only 3 federal agencies to get a spending increase (5%) in its budget over the next 5 years. The other two being the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. In 2005 a lump sum of $800 Million will be awarded to NASA. If this is indeed the Presidents plan, it is nothing short of remaking NASA in the image of what it once was in the days of Apollo.
Manned space flight with a purpose, the days of space truckers in orbit is *over*.
It was hinted at. I think what it boils down to is that they got religion. I'm serious. 6 makes refers to her "God" early on and the other Cylon they found in the arms depot goes on to talk about what if God had stopped giving souls to humans and started giving them to other more worthy creatures.
An excellent direction if you ask me, it allows all sorts of bizzare and seemingly illrational behavior for a group of robots.
But when I sat down to watch it, man, I was really impressed. It was simply one of the best sci-fi mini series I've ever seen. I can't say it enough, it didn't suck, it was great fun. If they don't make this a series there is something seriously wrong.
The way they showed the end of the colonies was excellent. My only pet peve was the last 15 seconds of the show. I thought that was a tad contrived..but it did have a surprise and a the very last comment was..."By your command".
Highly recommend it.
Such a non-issue and so not worth a story here. He broke the law and will go to jail; simple really. Who cares if he's "homeless" or living in the lap of luxury. Let's pile on some more hype to this idiot, shall we?
A business has the right to protect their communications and ideas. Frankly, a lot of people here sound upset about that because they think it will inable corporations to hide more information, etc. The idea of transparency in the business/information world is an interesting one, but all it takes is one group determined not to subscribe to it to sink it for everyone else.
Having said that, information on corporate wrong-doings will still seep out, DRM or no DRM. I think this is really being blown-up into more of an issue than it will ever become. If someone doesn't want you to see something they wrote, you have no right to see it. Period. If the complaint is more about Open Source companies being unable to compete with MS because of this functionality, then open source needs to rise above the problem, adapt, or play second fiddle. My hunch, they rise above. Hand wringing on this issue helps no one, not MS or open source.
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I've used Mandrake, Red-Hat, SuSE and now Gentoo. Gentoo was by far the most difficult one to install.
It also taught me more about linux than any other distro I ever tried. Now, that's great for me and anyone else who has the *time* to learn, but bad for someone just wanting a desktop they can uber-customize. The answer is, of course, an installer that is easy and painless. I think there should be 2 ways to do this with a gui installer:
1.) The advanced option to install everything from source using either the ~x86 or the stable lines.
2.) The option to install everything from GRP, or the already previously built packages that Gentoo already offers for all the major software. If you need it quick, there is no reason in hell this gui process should take any longer than mandrake, red hat or suse. Plus, once it's installed you can still either emerge the stuff you need or even go back and compile the entire friggin thing in the background with just ONE command. I can see this being the most used option.
Either way, what Gentoo needs is a graphic installer and it needs it BAD. The funny thing is, there is a whole other class of Gentoo zealot that would rail against this and proclaim from the top of the mountain that it is unclean and an offense against God himself. You can still use the CLI guys, just because a gui exists won't mean you'll be forced to use it.
As for using Gentoo in the enterprise enviornment, that would take some balls and someone confident of their abilities to do so. But if they can do it, why the hell not?
emerge -u giant balls
It's obviously the result of a grand conspiracy involving the masons, jews and gentoo users. Those dirty, dirty Gentoo users..
Best of the lot. One hell of a good read, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
Jesus, it's not that bad at all. Stop crying about it. The traffic is nothing compared to Houston or Dallas. It's an amazing place to live and the job market is re-bounding. An hour commute? What, are you taking 35? You can get from south Austin to North on Mopac in way under 45 minutes during the morning rush.
FarCasters myself. Open portals between various areas of the Earth. We start local and then hit the moon, the planets and then the stars. Only this time we do it without the damm pesky Technocore to ruin it for us.
;)
I sometimes wish Simmons would do a series with farcasters and no technocore shrike business..that future history would be good. Illium is a close second
For the number of machines you're talking about, I dunno if source is the best way to go. Personally, I've never understood the hate some have for those of us who build from source instead of using packages. If I was going to do something for a production machine though, It would probably be a package distro like Fedora or SuSE. Maybe Debian, but I've never been that impressed by it. For my own personal use, it will always be from source like Gentoo. I just prefer it.
The problem is SuSE and distros like it are NOT suited for you. You sound like someone who wants to do everything themself. Try slack, gentoo or arx, not SuSE. Use the CLI, it sounds like what you want and need. Or, as an alternative, a version of YaST that has various levels of interaction, like simple, moderate or expert.
..it's one of the most buggiest pieces of crap that's ever been released. The application rarely works as advertised unless you complile it to use Xine as a backend and not gstreamer. I pray the talk of including it in the default GNOME is just that, talk. A nice interface though..but that does nothing when it won't friggin work.
Having been to Origin Austin and seen their digs, there is no way a company like that could even justify the real estate costs they run up. It's crazy.
Let's place the blame where it belongs, with yourself. This is hardly something that was hidden from the public, it's always been there for anyone who cared to look. Was it as well known as the current crop of NASA rovers? No, but there wasn't an internet, etc to splash the latest images around the world in moments either. It has nothing to do with your education, but rather your lack of curiosity up until this moment.
On the subject of Russian space feats, they were also the first country to mount a specially designed machine gun to a satellite and fire it in space. For peacefull purposes only, of course..
Certainly. You've just described 99% of the articles posted on /.
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Lets hope it at least gets nominated for a Hugo. Best book I've read in a long time.
On the other hand, I had no Idea that Resnick did a sequel to Santiago. Time to pick it up.
Emerge sync and have fun.
Indeed. Indeed.
..while it lasted. But seriously, it is rather interesting, but there where niggling problems (mostly UI in my opinion) that needed to be fixed. Kudos to them for addressing them so quickly.
If someone walked into my home or jimmied the door to gain access, and stood in my living room to say "by the way, your door sucks", he's guilty of trespassing at the very least. This guy is no different. There is nothing that gives him or any other hacker a special "permit" to go where they do not belong just because they claim to do it "for the greater good". He deserves some kind of punishment.
Just read the various news stories. I pulled all the info from the various ones, some of them cover parts the others don't.
Regarding the forthcoming Bush announcement on space policy: From the various sources reporting on the subject, here's what the Presidents plan will look like. 1. Manned space flight will be NASAs only priority. Almost all non-manned projects will done away with or rolled into the manned program if appropriate. 2. The space shuttle fleet will be retired. Done. Finished. They will stay in service long enough to finish construction of the space station in the next few years. 3. A new space vehicle, the CEV (Crew Exploration Vehicle) will be built and rolled into production in place of the shuttle. The era of winged spacecraft is over for nasa, the CEV is akin to a large Apollo capsule, only able to carry up to 6-8 crew. The CEV is usable in earth orbit AND lunar orbit. The shuttle was only capable of reaching earth orbit, the CEV will be able to leave earth orbit and fly to the moon! 4. Europe's Ariane rockets and Russia's Soyuz capsules will be used to access the space station until the CEV in finished and ready for use. 5. The hierarchy of NASA will be changed so that the Defense Department is now included in the planning and future use of future technology. Expect big stuff from this. Having the military involved is a GOOD thing. 6. The first return trip to the moon is planned for 2013 and the following missions will begin the process of building a permanent, manned presence there. 7. Also starting in 2013, NASA will end almost all involvement with the ISS. Expect this to possibly become a private venture. 8. The CEV and moon base construction will be a test-bed for the Mars missions that will follow. 9. MARS 10. After mars, there will be manned missions to the asteroids. NASA will become one of only 3 federal agencies to get a spending increase (5%) in its budget over the next 5 years. The other two being the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. In 2005 a lump sum of $800 Million will be awarded to NASA. If this is indeed the Presidents plan, it is nothing short of remaking NASA in the image of what it once was in the days of Apollo. Manned space flight with a purpose, the days of space truckers in orbit is *over*.
What is this "copyright" you speak of?
Not even remotely close judging from this turd of a topic.
It was hinted at. I think what it boils down to is that they got religion. I'm serious. 6 makes refers to her "God" early on and the other Cylon they found in the arms depot goes on to talk about what if God had stopped giving souls to humans and started giving them to other more worthy creatures. An excellent direction if you ask me, it allows all sorts of bizzare and seemingly illrational behavior for a group of robots.
But when I sat down to watch it, man, I was really impressed. It was simply one of the best sci-fi mini series I've ever seen. I can't say it enough, it didn't suck, it was great fun. If they don't make this a series there is something seriously wrong. The way they showed the end of the colonies was excellent. My only pet peve was the last 15 seconds of the show. I thought that was a tad contrived..but it did have a surprise and a the very last comment was..."By your command". Highly recommend it.
Firebird is clearly the chosen one. I wish they would put a final stake through the heart of the old mozilla and pass the mantle to Firebird already.
Such a non-issue and so not worth a story here. He broke the law and will go to jail; simple really. Who cares if he's "homeless" or living in the lap of luxury. Let's pile on some more hype to this idiot, shall we?
A business has the right to protect their communications and ideas. Frankly, a lot of people here sound upset about that because they think it will inable corporations to hide more information, etc. The idea of transparency in the business/information world is an interesting one, but all it takes is one group determined not to subscribe to it to sink it for everyone else. Having said that, information on corporate wrong-doings will still seep out, DRM or no DRM. I think this is really being blown-up into more of an issue than it will ever become. If someone doesn't want you to see something they wrote, you have no right to see it. Period. If the complaint is more about Open Source companies being unable to compete with MS because of this functionality, then open source needs to rise above the problem, adapt, or play second fiddle. My hunch, they rise above. Hand wringing on this issue helps no one, not MS or open source.