He just dosnt understand that the machine isnt really dead, just the head. 99% of the time you can still blindly restart X and recover fine. The Magic SysRq key helps a lot for recovering from X problems. As for just crashing X, thats why I run my games on a seperate X server, something you can't do in windows. I keep:0 for gaim, moz, Eterm.. and:1 for rtcw/winex/q3/q2/qw
Because when a linux driver goes bad, you loose your game of rtcw. When a windows driver goes bad, you get a BSOD and need to reboot loosing anything you had left open while gaming.
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I strongly disagree. 'Offensive' ideas are what causes innovation. Most people are offended by what isnt the norm, so in a way most changes are offensive at some point to some..and those people might have modpoints. Slashdot already suffers bad enough from rehashed ideas getting reposted each half-related story, This would just make it worse.
(Sorry if this was offensive, I was only trying to argue the idea, nothing personal to you)
Microsoft lost $177M in three months on the xbox. They couldnt of done that without the desktop monopoly cashcow.They can just shovel money at anything and get away with it, further expanding their monopoly, making them more money..
" but I think what people fail to realize is that for many business, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying. "
More accurately, Non paying companys actually cost you bandwidth and resources. I was talking about this with a friend (who's webpage I host on a soon-to-be hosting company).. She was joking about how we're going to loose customers because of all the downtime (some mailserver problems badly timed).. I told her loosing our current customers would actually be a net gain because right now they're just costing bandwidth and cpu.
I'm an admin for several production servers, I know what I'm doing. The nvidia drivers installer is totaly insane. It leave behind dead symlinks that manually have to be corrected, and never mentions it in the install. As for the commands you listed, even if I was a rpm user, It still wouldnt work. You forget to mention what happens when games need to change bitdepth, or change rez (winex can handle this now, it couldnt before).
And you're assuming I have commercial winex (I do, but thats beside the point). If you've ever compared what the clutter in cvs compiles to the official binaries, you'd wonder why they even provide it.
Compared to linux, where your GLX module will decied to break randomly every few weeks. In linux I spent more time getting games to work than I did playing them. Finally I got fed up enough to just switch to XP, which is much slower but atleast it works consistently. (For reference, most of that time spent was reinstalling wine, followed by reinstalling nvidia's drivers).
DirectInput dosnt provide this AFAIK, but do any of these allow you to transfer keymaps between games? That would be a verry time saving function, imagine if the lib just saved that you want 'w' as forward, then the game does a lookup and makes the local binds for you. Currently I just copy a input config from a game based on the same engine (most games will run with a quake2 or 3 config, even my quakeworld conf with some mods will run like a charm on rtcw)
Wouldnt something that dense have a tendancy to try to burst into flames? It must take a lot to cool it, which would make it pretty loud. Yet more mind numbing whirring in the server room, wee.
I think slackware teaches you just as well, If you want to learn. man 1 bash should be required reading, as should vimtutor. Gentoo is also nice for learning, but I definitly agree with you about nothing working until you go and recompile 1000 libs. Thats why I prefer debian, Most things work by default, and anything that dosnt is an apt-get or two away. Debians menu system is great to, All packages install a menu file entry, then window manager menu's are dynamicly created based on that. For example, if you have blackbox and kde installed, when you startx the kde and blackbox menu files are created based on a database of installed apps.
But what am I stealing? Bandwidth/cpu of slashdot? doubt it. Time of the readers? No ones complained yet. I'm not stealing anything, unless you use some twisted RIAA-esque definition of the word stealing. Theres a huge difference between a bank loosing a few thousand and me posting a little misinformation on Xvid.
Not at all, I personally know a few people that were fine posting at -1, until slashdot took that away from them.
If they can post at -1 then everyone else can read at 0 (relativly) safely, But because of the 2 post a day limit they are forced to post anonymously, thus killing the signal to noise ratio at 0.
Funny, You dont seem to realise that the best trolls are the ones that start huge debates. I'm not ruining anyones experience, I'm giving many a topic of discussion. The difference between -1 Troll and +1 Insightful is in who moderates it. Personally the only time I've ever posted something with no value whatsoever was as a reply to another troll's journal entry. Examples of good trolling that provides plenty of great content:
Purposely giving misleading info -- this causes atleast 10 people to reply with informative posts, probably more info than the article had.
Posting far-left or far-right wing posts in an attempt to get a reply from the opposite group -- this is the basis of all the great arguments on slashdot, most of which are filled with information or ideas, and are generaly interesting.
Everyone has their own style and goals. Crapflooding prooves moderation dosnt work. Ever since the two post limit for bad karma, people that used to crapflood at -1 now posts anonymously (at scoore:0). What happened? Now reading at 0 is impossible, and thus its hard to get a point across unless you're logged in. Therefore crapflodding has ruined anoniminity on slashdot thanks to the uneffective moderation system.
A lot of first posts arnt so much done by trolls as they are by the 'HI MOM!' sign guys at a football game or wrestling match. They just want to be seen.
As for more traditional forms of trolling, Thats usually its own game, and only loosely related to disprooving the moderation systems effectivness. I could explain further, but I've already said far more than anyones interested in. Go ahead and mod me down and have a nice day.
"I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone? "
This argument would hold some relevance if it wasnt for the fact that the sites that get hit hardest are the "Joe user adds window to his case" stories.
Not everything that gets posted is late breakign news, most of it is just cool stuff that could wait a few hours/days without anyone noticing. Infact, I'd wager that the majority of the late breaking news comes from sites that can withstand the/. effect (bbc, nytimes, etc)
http://insecuresite.com/cgi-bin/rmdashrfslash ? or maybe it was the last time we all downloaded a website at the same time and hurt the bandwidth of some server.
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He just dosnt understand that the machine isnt really dead, just the head. :0 for gaim, moz, Eterm.. and :1 for rtcw/winex/q3/q2/qw
99% of the time you can still blindly restart X and recover fine. The Magic SysRq key helps a lot for recovering from X problems.
As for just crashing X, thats why I run my games on a seperate X server, something you can't do in windows. I keep
Because when a linux driver goes bad, you loose your game of rtcw. When a windows driver goes bad, you get a BSOD and need to reboot loosing anything you had left open while gaming.
But dax wasnt captain. If we're going for non-captains to, T'Pol all the way.
proof for any disbelievers
I strongly disagree.
'Offensive' ideas are what causes innovation.
Most people are offended by what isnt the norm, so in a way most changes are offensive at some point to some..and those people might have modpoints.
Slashdot already suffers bad enough from rehashed ideas getting reposted each half-related story, This would just make it worse.
(Sorry if this was offensive, I was only trying to argue the idea, nothing personal to you)
Microsoft lost $177M in three months on the xbox. They couldnt of done that without the desktop monopoly cashcow.They can just shovel money at anything and get away with it, further expanding their monopoly, making them more money..
" but I think what people fail to realize is that for many business, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying. "
More accurately, Non paying companys actually cost you bandwidth and resources.
I was talking about this with a friend (who's webpage I host on a soon-to-be hosting company)..
She was joking about how we're going to loose customers because of all the downtime (some mailserver problems badly timed).. I told her loosing our current customers would actually be a net gain because right now they're just costing bandwidth and cpu.
I'm an admin for several production servers, I know what I'm doing.
The nvidia drivers installer is totaly insane. It leave behind dead symlinks that manually have to be corrected, and never mentions it in the install. As for the commands you listed, even if I was a rpm user, It still wouldnt work. You forget to mention what happens when games need to change bitdepth, or change rez (winex can handle this now, it couldnt before).
And you're assuming I have commercial winex (I do, but thats beside the point). If you've ever compared what the clutter in cvs compiles to the official binaries, you'd wonder why they even provide it.
Compared to linux, where your GLX module will decied to break randomly every few weeks.
In linux I spent more time getting games to work than I did playing them. Finally I got fed up enough to just switch to XP, which is much slower but atleast it works consistently.
(For reference, most of that time spent was reinstalling wine, followed by reinstalling nvidia's drivers).
Oh great, time for the -1 Truthful.
Does it matter when you're machine is setup to only allow .kids.us connections?
"If the trend continues "
Industry Fact: When Elvis Presley died in 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world.
Today there are 48,000.
If the current trend continues, by the year 2010, one out of every three people in the world will be an Elvis impersonator.
Whats my point? Following trends is useless.
"How are you going to move all of these discs to that hole?"
I figured we'd frisbee them in.
DirectInput dosnt provide this AFAIK, but do any of these allow you to transfer keymaps between games?
That would be a verry time saving function, imagine if the lib just saved that you want 'w' as forward, then the game does a lookup and makes the local binds for you.
Currently I just copy a input config from a game based on the same engine (most games will run with a quake2 or 3 config, even my quakeworld conf with some mods will run like a charm on rtcw)
Wouldnt something that dense have a tendancy to try to burst into flames?
It must take a lot to cool it, which would make it pretty loud. Yet more mind numbing whirring in the server room, wee.
I think slackware teaches you just as well, If you want to learn.
man 1 bash should be required reading, as should vimtutor.
Gentoo is also nice for learning, but I definitly agree with you about nothing working until you go and recompile 1000 libs. Thats why I prefer debian, Most things work by default, and anything that dosnt is an apt-get or two away.
Debians menu system is great to, All packages install a menu file entry, then window manager menu's are dynamicly created based on that.
For example, if you have blackbox and kde installed, when you startx the kde and blackbox menu files are created based on a database of installed apps.
For more info, See apt-cache show menu
But what am I stealing? Bandwidth/cpu of slashdot? doubt it. Time of the readers? No ones complained yet.
I'm not stealing anything, unless you use some twisted RIAA-esque definition of the word stealing.
Theres a huge difference between a bank loosing a few thousand and me posting a little misinformation on Xvid.
Not at all, I personally know a few people that were fine posting at -1, until slashdot took that away from them.
If they can post at -1 then everyone else can read at 0 (relativly) safely, But because of the 2 post a day limit they are forced to post anonymously, thus killing the signal to noise ratio at 0.
Funny, You dont seem to realise that the best trolls are the ones that start huge debates. I'm not ruining anyones experience, I'm giving many a topic of discussion.
The difference between -1 Troll and +1 Insightful is in who moderates it.
Personally the only time I've ever posted something with no value whatsoever was as a reply to another troll's journal entry.
Examples of good trolling that provides plenty of great content:
Purposely giving misleading info -- this causes atleast 10 people to reply with informative posts, probably more info than the article had.
Posting far-left or far-right wing posts in an attempt to get a reply from the opposite group -- this is the basis of all the great arguments on slashdot, most of which are filled with information or ideas, and are generaly interesting.
Everyone has their own style and goals.
Crapflooding prooves moderation dosnt work. Ever since the two post limit for bad karma, people that used to crapflood at -1 now posts anonymously (at scoore:0).
What happened? Now reading at 0 is impossible, and thus its hard to get a point across unless you're logged in. Therefore crapflodding has ruined anoniminity on slashdot thanks to the uneffective moderation system.
A lot of first posts arnt so much done by trolls as they are by the 'HI MOM!' sign guys at a football game or wrestling match. They just want to be seen.
As for more traditional forms of trolling, Thats usually its own game, and only loosely related to disprooving the moderation systems effectivness.
I could explain further, but I've already said far more than anyones interested in. Go ahead and mod me down and have a nice day.
Its a win/win situation when you think about it.
Microsoft will of course fight this, but what possible results will there be?:
1)Eolas wins, microsoft is crippled.
2)Microsoft wins, stupid patents are crippled.
Either way, we(the consumers) win.
"I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone? "
/. effect (bbc, nytimes, etc)
This argument would hold some relevance if it wasnt for the fact that the sites that get hit hardest are the "Joe user adds window to his case" stories.
Not everything that gets posted is late breakign news, most of it is just cool stuff that could wait a few hours/days without anyone noticing.
Infact, I'd wager that the majority of the late breaking news comes from sites that can withstand the
How much time did you spend getting it to work? Time lost * $/hour = how much it cost. Have a nice day.
Dont forget the version in his native language..
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Funny, I didnt have to sign my first born son over to Debian when I apt-get upgraded.
Not true. You loose support. Many vendors will only support the latest service pack.
http://insecuresite.com/cgi-bin/rmdashrfslash ?
or maybe it was the last time we all downloaded a website at the same time and hurt the bandwidth of some server.