Where I went to school, almost every machine outside of the CompSci dept was a PC/Windows machine. In the compsci dept there were a number of linux, unix and pc workstations. Of course I went to a science and engineering school, which explains the lack of Macs. I think the Metalurgy department had some Macs as there were a few met programs that we Mac based. Also, the mining & geology departments had some old unix workstations that they were replacing with linux and windows 2000.
In my professional life the only places I have ever encountered Macs were graphics designers and journalists. SO for my career, the college environment emulated the real world. That isn't meant to be flame bait, but there really are not a lot of Macs in use compared to Windows machines.
They had something like this on TNG's episode "The Game", where Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler are the only ones on board that have not been taken over by a game you control with your mind. I am sure if Wil Wheaton is reading this he will have an Ashley Judd comment;-)
I got a lot of really good feedback from this posting. I decided to do a little upgrading on an older machine of mine until I am ready to go full Linux on my Laptop. No matter what, I think I am going to need to have a Windows machine at home for dev. My big decision now is if I should leave an older machine for that task, or if I should use my laptop, or if some sort of VMWare is the answer.
I decided to start with Gentoo. A lot of people gave me a lot of good choices, some that I had already researched. Many of the recommendations were "this is easy because...". In the end as a software developer that had used Linux before, I found Gentoo very interesting in that it really gave me choice. I am going with a GNOME only install with Mono, Apache, PHP, and am installing Oracle after the fact. I have been through a few test installs on my Windows VMWare, and am getting to like Gentoo.
I have to say that I really appreciate all of the comments that this "story" got. There were very few trolls. I look forward to my adventure in Linux!
If I recall, SG1 was Sci-Fi's highest rated series last year, but I can't back that up. However, the season premiere last Firday broke almost every record they had.
Do you even watch the Sci-Fi channel? I don't think they have had a commercial break in the last 2 months where they haven't shown the SG1 Season Premiere commercial back-to-back with the Atlantis promo.
Your nerd privileges have been revoked. You must now go hang out with the jocks.
Thanks for the input. I have an old Mandrake 8 server that I used to use for my firewall. It had a hard time with some cheap Linksys netcards but worked well with some cheap 3Coms. I might try them out. I am also looking at Fedora and Gentoo (looking for a headache!).
If nothing else, you might be able to just use a wireless mouse. Isn't left click the next slide button? Can't remember... And with a mouse you can navigate if needed. Don't know if Bluetooth will go that far. A boss of mine had a wireless trackball that worked clear across the room, before the days of bluetooth. It was really cool, you held it like a gun and worked the track ball with your thumb and mouse click with the trigger finger. That might work too.
I found that too, and found quite a few success stories for my card the 650+. It looks like I will be covered there, which is good. I also found some docs on Gentoo 2004.1 and the D-Link card. I would post them here but I found them at home and am at work now (different machine).
I have experience with Mandrake and Redhat, so I have naturally been leading towards those projects (Fedora, that is). I am also seriously looking at Gentoo.
Afraid Mono won't do it (wish it would) as I develop in Winforms and Mono just isn't there yet. They have not concentrated on getting the System.Windows.Forms namespace up to speed like the 1.0 designation would have you believe. That is sad, becuase I am really rooting for those guys.
I believe they use Wine because the System.Windows.Forms classes talk to the Win32 stuff. The listbox in.NET is just the Windows native ListBox being messaged through the Winforms class "ListBox". I bet they are running Wine because you can talk to the native objects underlying these objects to improve / tweak performace and functionality. So, you would need Wine to run the native stuff for you. That is my guess.
Because I am tired of the mounds of shit involved with Windows. Every 5 minutes there seems to be a virus. My disk is 15% fragemented and after running defrags 3 times over the last 48 hours it is no better. Most of the software I use can be replaced with OSS versions, and there are some things are already use on Windows all the time anyway like Firefox that are in Linux.
This is my home dev laptop, which means I probably use it for c# software dev about 5 - 10 hours a week. Also, we are looking at migraiting our Unix backend to Linux, and I would like to play around with that idea on my laptop. I would like to be able to do my server programming on my laptop as well.
I also just want to start using something better. I have a couple of other PCs sitting around that I can put linux on, but X doesn't seem to run that fast. I would really like to use Linux for real on my desktop on a dialy basis so when Linux expertise are needed, I will have them.
I really need some good recommendations for VM software in Linux. A while ago I used VMWare in Linux to run Windows, but it is much more expensive now ($99 vs $198). Are there any other choices someone might recommend to run Win2k or WinXP in Linux?
You are right. They even mention this right in the Sun Press Java 2 books. I don't have a link to back that up, but I remember reading it in there somewhere.
Actually, right now ca$80,000 is us$60,664.00. I am talking about small-town western South Dakota. My brother just bought a 5000 sq-ft (3 floors mostly finished) home for about $50,000 (US). He got a really good deal and it is an older home, but that gives you a ballpark. I bet I could probably find a nice home in the area for the money and size you were speaking of in your post.
Here in the outskirts of Austin, TX I paid $125k for a 1700 sq-ft home that was built in 1999, in a nice neighborhood with good schools.
I know in some parts of the US land values have really been artificially inflated by Californians and others moving in that are used to paying high prices for property. I think some of the land values here in Austin are idiotic. With the tech boom in Austin land values went way up as people from out of town were willing to pay the prices when they moved in. Same thing happened in Denver. A friend of mine in Denver sent me an article a few months ago showing how people that had bought homes in the Denver area for $350k were selling them for $250k and below since the real estate market had adjusted. A lot of people that had lost jobs held onto their property as long as they could hoping to get the old market price back, and are now having to sell at a more realistic market price. My house was built for more that what I paid for it as well.
I have heard that Canada is really nice and would love to visit. My friend says it is great. But, I made my post because I thought it was funny how he was packing his truck with supplies every time he went back. Everything has trade offs.
Funny side note of the universal healthcare. I have a friend here in the US that is currently working a "few years" assignment in Canada. He drives back to his home in the US about once a month to see friends, family and to do house chores. On his return trip to Canada his pickup is packed full of groceries for the month, plus any number of other items he may want like beer, cigs, moter oil, etc, etc, etc. From what I was told it is cheaper to drive a few hundred miles south into the US to buy these products and drive back than to buy them in Canada. This is thanks to high taxes in Canada, thanks to universal health care in Canada. He even picks up items for some of his coworkers that are in a similar situation.
With all of the various companies/qualities/methods to connect, I really wonder about the quality of such a survey. I would seem to me that these numbers seem rediculous. When I think of all the non-nerd (non-broadband) people I know, I don't think one of them has ever downloaded a movie.
I know corporations are not really given any rights under the constitution. However, the 5th Amendment specifically says, "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". Could being forced by the government to keep tapes for the specific purpose that said tapes might be used against you in the future during a criminal proceeding go against this concept?
This was one game I was good at. I was big, slow and clumsy but for some reason I could catch the farking ball. Having that skill is a big deal. I couldn't dodge, and couldn't help that well. But I could catch even the hardest throws.
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I thought this was only if you had a blank partition to install it on. The newest distro I have installed outside of VMWare is Mandrake 8 so I am a little behind on what options the current installers give you on a "real" system.
Unfortunately, to install any of these versions without wiping out most Windows installations, you'll need to buy a third-party program to partition your hard drive.
Do any of the Linux Distros come with some sort of "Magic Partition" style software that can be run on install? If not, this might be a very nice addition. I know Live CD allows you to try out Linux without risk to your windows install, but a partition manager that creates a linux or windows boot up automatically would be very cool. And of course, the windows partition could be mouted under linux and directories like "My Documents" could be linked into the GUI on Lunx.
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Where I went to school, almost every machine outside of the CompSci dept was a PC/Windows machine. In the compsci dept there were a number of linux, unix and pc workstations. Of course I went to a science and engineering school, which explains the lack of Macs. I think the Metalurgy department had some Macs as there were a few met programs that we Mac based. Also, the mining & geology departments had some old unix workstations that they were replacing with linux and windows 2000.
In my professional life the only places I have ever encountered Macs were graphics designers and journalists. SO for my career, the college environment emulated the real world. That isn't meant to be flame bait, but there really are not a lot of Macs in use compared to Windows machines.
They had something like this on TNG's episode "The Game", where Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler are the only ones on board that have not been taken over by a game you control with your mind. I am sure if Wil Wheaton is reading this he will have an Ashley Judd comment ;-)
I decided to start with Gentoo. A lot of people gave me a lot of good choices, some that I had already researched. Many of the recommendations were "this is easy because...". In the end as a software developer that had used Linux before, I found Gentoo very interesting in that it really gave me choice. I am going with a GNOME only install with Mono, Apache, PHP, and am installing Oracle after the fact. I have been through a few test installs on my Windows VMWare, and am getting to like Gentoo.
I have to say that I really appreciate all of the comments that this "story" got. There were very few trolls. I look forward to my adventure in Linux!
The games section still has its old skin.
If I recall, SG1 was Sci-Fi's highest rated series last year, but I can't back that up. However, the season premiere last Firday broke almost every record they had.
Do you even watch the Sci-Fi channel? I don't think they have had a commercial break in the last 2 months where they haven't shown the SG1 Season Premiere commercial back-to-back with the Atlantis promo.
Your nerd privileges have been revoked. You must now go hang out with the jocks.
The problem is that I need to run Visual Studio .NET
Thanks for the input. I have an old Mandrake 8 server that I used to use for my firewall. It had a hard time with some cheap Linksys netcards but worked well with some cheap 3Coms. I might try them out. I am also looking at Fedora and Gentoo (looking for a headache!).
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They specifically mentioned they are good for presentations. Do I get an A, Prof?
If nothing else, you might be able to just use a wireless mouse. Isn't left click the next slide button? Can't remember... And with a mouse you can navigate if needed. Don't know if Bluetooth will go that far. A boss of mine had a wireless trackball that worked clear across the room, before the days of bluetooth. It was really cool, you held it like a gun and worked the track ball with your thumb and mouse click with the trigger finger. That might work too.
I found that too, and found quite a few success stories for my card the 650+. It looks like I will be covered there, which is good. I also found some docs on Gentoo 2004.1 and the D-Link card. I would post them here but I found them at home and am at work now (different machine).
I have experience with Mandrake and Redhat, so I have naturally been leading towards those projects (Fedora, that is). I am also seriously looking at Gentoo.
Afraid Mono won't do it (wish it would) as I develop in Winforms and Mono just isn't there yet. They have not concentrated on getting the System.Windows.Forms namespace up to speed like the 1.0 designation would have you believe. That is sad, becuase I am really rooting for those guys.
I believe they use Wine because the System.Windows.Forms classes talk to the Win32 stuff. The listbox in .NET is just the Windows native ListBox being messaged through the Winforms class "ListBox". I bet they are running Wine because you can talk to the native objects underlying these objects to improve / tweak performace and functionality. So, you would need Wine to run the native stuff for you. That is my guess.
Because I am tired of the mounds of shit involved with Windows. Every 5 minutes there seems to be a virus. My disk is 15% fragemented and after running defrags 3 times over the last 48 hours it is no better. Most of the software I use can be replaced with OSS versions, and there are some things are already use on Windows all the time anyway like Firefox that are in Linux.
This is my home dev laptop, which means I probably use it for c# software dev about 5 - 10 hours a week. Also, we are looking at migraiting our Unix backend to Linux, and I would like to play around with that idea on my laptop. I would like to be able to do my server programming on my laptop as well.
I also just want to start using something better. I have a couple of other PCs sitting around that I can put linux on, but X doesn't seem to run that fast. I would really like to use Linux for real on my desktop on a dialy basis so when Linux expertise are needed, I will have them.
I am also very curious about dotGNU and Mono.
I really need some good recommendations for VM software in Linux. A while ago I used VMWare in Linux to run Windows, but it is much more expensive now ($99 vs $198). Are there any other choices someone might recommend to run Win2k or WinXP in Linux?
You are right. They even mention this right in the Sun Press Java 2 books. I don't have a link to back that up, but I remember reading it in there somewhere.
Actually, right now ca$80,000 is us$60,664.00. I am talking about small-town western South Dakota. My brother just bought a 5000 sq-ft (3 floors mostly finished) home for about $50,000 (US). He got a really good deal and it is an older home, but that gives you a ballpark. I bet I could probably find a nice home in the area for the money and size you were speaking of in your post.
Here in the outskirts of Austin, TX I paid $125k for a 1700 sq-ft home that was built in 1999, in a nice neighborhood with good schools.
I know in some parts of the US land values have really been artificially inflated by Californians and others moving in that are used to paying high prices for property. I think some of the land values here in Austin are idiotic. With the tech boom in Austin land values went way up as people from out of town were willing to pay the prices when they moved in. Same thing happened in Denver. A friend of mine in Denver sent me an article a few months ago showing how people that had bought homes in the Denver area for $350k were selling them for $250k and below since the real estate market had adjusted. A lot of people that had lost jobs held onto their property as long as they could hoping to get the old market price back, and are now having to sell at a more realistic market price. My house was built for more that what I paid for it as well.
I have heard that Canada is really nice and would love to visit. My friend says it is great. But, I made my post because I thought it was funny how he was packing his truck with supplies every time he went back. Everything has trade offs.
I believe this is short for SnaFU, "Situation normal all F@#ked Up", or "Situation F@#cked Up" for short.
With all of the various companies/qualities/methods to connect, I really wonder about the quality of such a survey. I would seem to me that these numbers seem rediculous. When I think of all the non-nerd (non-broadband) people I know, I don't think one of them has ever downloaded a movie.
Seriously, that is funny!
The only thing they are lacking is "Made of recycle cardboard" to get in with the PC (Politically Correct not Personal Computer) crowd.
I know corporations are not really given any rights under the constitution. However, the 5th Amendment specifically says, "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". Could being forced by the government to keep tapes for the specific purpose that said tapes might be used against you in the future during a criminal proceeding go against this concept?
This was one game I was good at. I was big, slow and clumsy but for some reason I could catch the farking ball. Having that skill is a big deal. I couldn't dodge, and couldn't help that well. But I could catch even the hardest throws.
I actually mentioned a similar idea a few days ago on Slashdot.
I thought this was only if you had a blank partition to install it on. The newest distro I have installed outside of VMWare is Mandrake 8 so I am a little behind on what options the current installers give you on a "real" system.
Unfortunately, to install any of these versions without wiping out most Windows installations, you'll need to buy a third-party program to partition your hard drive.
Do any of the Linux Distros come with some sort of "Magic Partition" style software that can be run on install? If not, this might be a very nice addition. I know Live CD allows you to try out Linux without risk to your windows install, but a partition manager that creates a linux or windows boot up automatically would be very cool. And of course, the windows partition could be mouted under linux and directories like "My Documents" could be linked into the GUI on Lunx.