I just pre-ordered SuSE 9.1. I've been using 8.2 Pro on my dual athlon PC for quite a while now and I have really come to like it!
The large difference between the two is that under SuSE, hardware just works. I plug in a USB printer, I can print. I plug in a wireless card, I can surf the web. It seems like every piece of (desktop) hardware is an uphill struggle with redhat.
That being said, the RHEL server is an excellent product IMO. But for the desktop, SuSE is King.
SuSE 9.1 ships next week. Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2. nuff said.
This person appears to have the thinking skills of a duck. He stops supporting Linux because the Military in using it,
but he still uses the internet which the military helped fund and currently uses.
I agree. Perhaps he's never heard of DARPA? This guy sounds like some sort of hippy.
It is somewhat distressing that I have spent 4 years of college and years before that developing my programming skills. I am not trying to get rich, but I was hoping that the high level of skill required would account for something(no offense intended to waiters).
Dude, I totally feel your pain. Six figures just aint what it used to be.
You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do?
Well gee, last time that happened I just called "Q" and had me use one of his high-tech gadgets to rendezvous with another MI6 agent. Failing that, I would just seduce the nearest hot chick.
Seriously though, unless you are 007 (or Austin Powers possibly), who finds themselves in this situation? I suppose if you are an international sales exec this might be helpful, but how many of those are there in the world? Seems like a device that's not very useful to the everyday-joe.
You may be stuck with training your replacement, but no one said you had to do a quality job of it. You can do a very poor job of training your replacement. You can obfuscate your code. You can bury all the important files in endless and meaningless directory structures that have symlinks that grow back on themselves (like a redneck family tree). You can encrypt files, corrupt files, and zip files together than are totally unrelated. Just leave your work in a general state of chaos to make your replacement's job as difficult as possible. At the very least, your employer will be disgusted with the performance of the replacement and wish they had never fired you.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
So now that the job market isn't great (although the economy is doing quite well), and the "cruft" of most organizations has been laid off, you want to blame the president of the country?
Server downtime
Date: Saturday 17th of January 2004
We've had some problems with our server the last few days but it should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience it may have caused
That's what they get for testing this file manager on their server!
I'd like to play psDoom (the bad guys are process ID's!) on SCO's corporate network...
That's about eight blocks from where I live. I'm also in DC. I'm going to go try and find it today! I'll admit - I've lived in the area almost my whole life and this is the first I've heard of this!
'The rejection could pave the way for municipalities to force cable companies to share their broadband Internet lines with third parties.' I personally can't wait for companies like Speakeasy to branch into the Cable Internet market and provide 10-100mbps service."
for now, a hooker can fufil my needs...
too cheap to actually have a wife
No no no. You're going about this all wrong. What you need is an FTF. Yes, an FTF.
Friends That Fuck. No relationship crap, no hidden costs, no hooker diseases. Just a female friend who you are already comfortable around, who will have raw sloppy sex with you and not expect you to buy dinner before hand or even call her the next day. No commitments and no signup fees!
Also something to note: THE LAST WAVE OF CLOSINGS HAD GREAT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES. Any/.ers near a closing Gateway check it out. If not for the tech they had some great office stuff.
Either that or we can just go steal shit out of their stores. Do you honestly think that some pc hocking bloke who KNOWS he's getting canned is even going to give a damn?
People getting fired in an already bad economy isn't funny
The economy is NOT bad. In fact, it's doing quite well. It's the job market that is lagging behind. These are two different things. I think maybe you need to retake macro economics class...
Gateway was reselling CPU time on the PCs showroom PCs in all of their stores for companies to use as a private computing grid. So what happens to the grid? Do they just put all of the PCs that were in the stores in a warehouse and run the grid there? They just signed a new customer a few weeks ago.
No, they tell them "sorry". And that's it.
Basically, they will rape them in the ass just like they do when they sell you their piece of shit PC's.
Don't forget that in the big box retail stores, Apple was often going up against lower priced PCs in the next aisle. If you don't know anything about computers, those Macs looked nice and may have gotten you in the store, but damn that PC across from it was an awful lot less and had rows of boxes of software sitting behind it.
Agreed. Why would anyone buy a BMW from a Kia dealer when they could buy it from a real BMW dealer? The fact that the price is identical in both places doesn't help the Kia dealer any. Add that to the Kia salesman's complete lack of knowlege about the BMW product, and it seems only a fool would buy that new BMW from the Kia dealer.
When I asked them about Linux, or a machine without an O/S, I was told "Microsoft won't let us do that." Double Duh.
Speaking of which, I've been wondering... does fungus have any nutritional value? I had mushrooms on my pizza this evening and also on my salad for lunch. They're pretty tasty but I can't imagine they bring much to the table as far as nutrition goes...
if you search for "Gateway 2000" at images.google.com you get a bunch of results that have nothing to do with computers such as This and This and even This!.
That's sad when they don't have brand recognition even in a search engine.
As crappy as Gateway PC's might be, they can never surpass the Packard Bell (Packard Hell) for overall shittiness. Packard Bell's have to be the absolute shittiest x86 PC's ever sold. Wow... what trash they were. Every piece, every component reeked of cheapness and trash.
They don't still make PC's do they? If not, anyone remember when they stopped?
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I just pre-ordered SuSE 9.1. I've been using 8.2 Pro on my dual athlon PC for quite a while now and I have really come to like it!
The large difference between the two is that under SuSE, hardware just works. I plug in a USB printer, I can print. I plug in a wireless card, I can surf the web. It seems like every piece of (desktop) hardware is an uphill struggle with redhat.
That being said, the RHEL server is an excellent product IMO. But for the desktop, SuSE is King.
SuSE 9.1 ships next week. Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2. nuff said.
This person appears to have the thinking skills of a duck. He stops supporting Linux because the Military in using it, but he still uses the internet which the military helped fund and currently uses.
I agree. Perhaps he's never heard of DARPA? This guy sounds like some sort of hippy.
I get about 6 emails a day at my personal (not work) email address. I get about 25-30 SPAM's per day at the same address.
That's about 5/6's - more than double this 1/3 figure.
I would probably hang myself if it wasn't for Mozilla's excellent SPAM filter.
64MB in a freaking parking meter? That's more than my PC you insensitive clod!!
It is somewhat distressing that I have spent 4 years of college and years before that developing my programming skills. I am not trying to get rich, but I was hoping that the high level of skill required would account for something(no offense intended to waiters).
Dude, I totally feel your pain. Six figures just aint what it used to be.
You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do?
Well gee, last time that happened I just called "Q" and had me use one of his high-tech gadgets to rendezvous with another MI6 agent. Failing that, I would just seduce the nearest hot chick.
Seriously though, unless you are 007 (or Austin Powers possibly), who finds themselves in this situation? I suppose if you are an international sales exec this might be helpful, but how many of those are there in the world? Seems like a device that's not very useful to the everyday-joe.
Gotta shuttle all that porn around the home network huh? ;-)
;-)
All he wants is to multicast stream DVD quality pr0n videos to every room in his house. What's wrong with that?
You may be stuck with training your replacement, but no one said you had to do a quality job of it. You can do a very poor job of training your replacement. You can obfuscate your code. You can bury all the important files in endless and meaningless directory structures that have symlinks that grow back on themselves (like a redneck family tree). You can encrypt files, corrupt files, and zip files together than are totally unrelated. Just leave your work in a general state of chaos to make your replacement's job as difficult as possible. At the very least, your employer will be disgusted with the performance of the replacement and wish they had never fired you.
It worked for me!
First, there is the matter of command recall. A command line without this is a lot more user hostile than one that is.
/? or -? options that gives a page of information.
In bash, the UP arrow will do this.
Whether command and/or file completion is present is another issue.
In bash, The TAB key will do this.
A set of standard commands to indicate what is possible, eg ? to list available commands. 4DOS uses this, and i have seen it a few other places.
fair enough. You could check your PATH env variable and 'ls' each of those directories. But this wouldn't be readily apparent to a newbie.
Some common 'exit' command, that will close the program.
'exit'?
Supporting
'--help' or '-h' works on all the GNU programs and most other programs too.
* Command names that actually suggest what they are going to do.
CoPy, ReMove, MoVe, Change Directory. Seems pretty apparent to me...
Just my two cents.
Fuck you, you tight-assed conservative republican motherfucker!
Again, spoken like a true liberal.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
So now that the job market isn't great (although the economy is doing quite well), and the "cruft" of most organizations has been laid off, you want to blame the president of the country?
Spoken like a true liberal.
Someone should make an email client that has an FPS interface. now THAT would be fun.
Server downtime Date: Saturday 17th of January 2004 We've had some problems with our server the last few days but it should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience it may have caused
That's what they get for testing this file manager on their server!
I'd like to play psDoom (the bad guys are process ID's!) on SCO's corporate network...
That's about eight blocks from where I live. I'm also in DC. I'm going to go try and find it today! I'll admit - I've lived in the area almost my whole life and this is the first I've heard of this!
I want one!
The economy is bad when it doesn't provide jobs.
Wow.... you really don't have the first clue about the economy, do you?
'The rejection could pave the way for municipalities to force cable companies to share their broadband Internet lines with third parties.' I personally can't wait for companies like Speakeasy to branch into the Cable Internet market and provide 10-100mbps service."
I agree, imagine the impact this could have on modern bandwidth intensive technologies!
for now, a hooker can fufil my needs... too cheap to actually have a wife
No no no. You're going about this all wrong. What you need is an FTF. Yes, an FTF.
Friends That Fuck. No relationship crap, no hidden costs, no hooker diseases. Just a female friend who you are already comfortable around, who will have raw sloppy sex with you and not expect you to buy dinner before hand or even call her the next day. No commitments and no signup fees!
Oh yes,.... FTF!
Also something to note: THE LAST WAVE OF CLOSINGS HAD GREAT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES. Any /.ers near a closing Gateway check it out. If not for the tech they had some great office stuff.
Either that or we can just go steal shit out of their stores. Do you honestly think that some pc hocking bloke who KNOWS he's getting canned is even going to give a damn?
People getting fired in an already bad economy isn't funny
The economy is NOT bad. In fact, it's doing quite well. It's the job market that is lagging behind. These are two different things. I think maybe you need to retake macro economics class...
Gateway was reselling CPU time on the PCs showroom PCs in all of their stores for companies to use as a private computing grid. So what happens to the grid? Do they just put all of the PCs that were in the stores in a warehouse and run the grid there? They just signed a new customer a few weeks ago.
No, they tell them "sorry". And that's it.
Basically, they will rape them in the ass just like they do when they sell you their piece of shit PC's.
hope i can score some cheap shit!
Cheap shit is right. Why bother? I'd rather pay $4000 for a dual G5 than $400 for a Gateway celeron. Cheap shit is too expensive in the long run.
still looking for a wife...
You won't find her in Gateway Country.
Don't forget that in the big box retail stores, Apple was often going up against lower priced PCs in the next aisle. If you don't know anything about computers, those Macs looked nice and may have gotten you in the store, but damn that PC across from it was an awful lot less and had rows of boxes of software sitting behind it.
Agreed. Why would anyone buy a BMW from a Kia dealer when they could buy it from a real BMW dealer? The fact that the price is identical in both places doesn't help the Kia dealer any. Add that to the Kia salesman's complete lack of knowlege about the BMW product, and it seems only a fool would buy that new BMW from the Kia dealer.
Same thing.
When I asked them about Linux, or a machine without an O/S, I was told "Microsoft won't let us do that." Double Duh.
Speaking of which, I've been wondering... does fungus have any nutritional value? I had mushrooms on my pizza this evening and also on my salad for lunch. They're pretty tasty but I can't imagine they bring much to the table as far as nutrition goes...
if you search for "Gateway 2000" at images.google.com you get a bunch of results that have nothing to do with computers such as This and This and even This!.
That's sad when they don't have brand recognition even in a search engine.
As crappy as Gateway PC's might be, they can never surpass the Packard Bell (Packard Hell) for overall shittiness. Packard Bell's have to be the absolute shittiest x86 PC's ever sold. Wow... what trash they were. Every piece, every component reeked of cheapness and trash.
They don't still make PC's do they? If not, anyone remember when they stopped?