Why not? America has become hostile towards it's citizens, I mean obviously the government has chosen to bite off the hand that feeds it. What with all the outsourcing and offshoring and imported crap from third world countries, it would seem obvious that the US Government doesn't care about the people, only about the profiteers on Wall Street and the Elite Banksters that pad the pockets of the politicians that make the laws that keep making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
If there is a country that is intelligent enough to understand that the well being of ALL it's citizens is the key to it's survival then I would say that sounds like a pretty good place to be.
Some of the very first computer games I ever played were text. I used to play some sort of game, I can't remember what, on a teletype in highschool in the mid 70's.. Then I got a Ratshack cocoo and played text games on there. I got an IBM early on and played Zork and HHGTTG on a green screen..
Those were the days! I still have a copy of Zork I, II, and III text only on disk, I play them about once a year on a real IBM XT that I still have. Hard to belive that these games were only about 30k total in size and still they were fun!
I say keep em around, they make you use your imagination. Modern games are just drool and click..
Cigarettes KILL and the STINK.. I quit smoking/STINKING 8 years ago. I went from 3 packs a day (smoked them all the way to the filter, one every 10 minutes) to ZERO.. I quit and never once cheated, I really quit..
I have a few friends that insist on STINKING and when they come over they stink so bad that I want to spray them with something.
When I go over to their houses, I have to remove my clothes in the garage and wash them right away because if I bring them in the house and leave them for later laundry, my house will stink too.
You want to kill yourself, you go ahead.. But keep your stinking ass cigarettes away from me.
I HATE going in the store because all the STINKERS throw their stinking butts on the ground by the door and the smell is horrible. And standing in line at a store next to someone that smokes, man, I have told more than one person to back away from me because they stink...
I think tobacco should be outlawed. All forms. It's nasty, it stinks, it's disgusting and it KILLS.... You don't like my idea, go ahead and continue to cut your life short and continue to STINK.... I'll live longer than you, that's for damn sure.
And to businesses that ban smoking, HURRAY to you! And to cities that ban smoking in public, HURRAY to you too! Now lets ban the sale and use of this filthy product.
Gnome, on the other hand, is pretty much a US development
Erm, no.. Gnome is a Mexican development. Gnome is a product of Mexico.
"Miguel de Icaza, 26, was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He studied math at the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico. He started writing free software in 1994 and has been working on the GNOME project since 1997. He currently works as a Systems Administrator for the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico."
I've been a Suse fan since 8.1 and just purchased 10.0 (I've used all versions of Suse from 8.1 to 10.0) I'm a hardcore KDE fan. I've played with Gnome and I despise it deeply. I despise Gnome equally as much as I despise M$ winders.
This is the dumbest thing I have see Suse do since I've been onboard the Suse fanwagon..
I won't use Fedora so that's out. I guess I'll stick with my 10.0 until it becomes badly outdated then I'll go to Gentoo so I can have it MY way..
Thanks Suse, you've been a great distro for a long time, a good friend. But the time has come for us to part ways...
Thanks but I chose to stay with CRT's forever. I do not like LCD or flat panel TV's or monitors at all. The response time is god awful, the resolution is god awful. They just flat out suck... Not to mention the abysmally short life span of the LCD/plasma/whatever screens.
I have a number of 21" Sony Trinitron CRT's stockpiled as backups. I have a matched pair sitting on my desk right now and 4 spares stuck away because I KNEW this was going to happen...
I have a few 27" TV's that I never really watch but I suppose that sometime in the not to distant future I'll go out and purchase a few of the very large Sony Trinitron CRT TV's. My uncle is a big Sony fan (100% Sony in his home) and has several very large Sony Wega CRT sets in his home and man, I'm here to tell you those sets have magnificent pictures! I can imagine they are very expensive but I expect the price to drop as Sony tries to push old stock out the door to make way for the dinky little flat screens that all the LEMMINGS just *have to* run out and buy. It's the "me too syndrome". You know, keeping up with the Jones and all that.
People are basically stupid and will buy stuff just because the voice on the idiot box tells them it's cool and trendy and that you MUST run out and get yours today.
Not me. I stick with yesterdays technology. It's tried and tested and no one is jealous of my Fred Flintstone equipment and decor... Not to mention, I save a lot of money by not replacing all my stuff every commercial break..
I just built a new machine, Athlon 64 3500+ (939) with a gig of ram. Installed the Suse 10 eval DVD iso I downloaded and burned on my 9.3 box. Install went smooth, no problems. Fast too. Much less than the predicted 1.5 hours.
Everything was detected properly. Only complaint I have, and this isn't a Suse or Linux complaint, I have an Epson GT-10000 scanner and it uses evil proprietary 32bit ONLY drivers. Ruh roh.. So now I am stuck using the sucky iscan program. Oh joy. Also, I can't seem to find a copy of tleds that works on 64bit. Ugh, I depend on it heavily.
Outside of that, everything is hunkydory. It really smokes. Once I discovered it was automatically throttling the system down and I forced it to run in high performance mode it's nice.
The install was so simple even a windows user could handle it. OTOH, I've installed XP and as I recall, you have to do countless reboots and download a gob of patches and reboot after each patch is installed. Drivers are fun too on M$.. I've played the game so don't try your Jedi mind tricks on me. I quit M$ because of the constant HELL and the constant bleeding to death through my wallet.
I put a patch on the hemmorage to stop the bleeding. The patch is called LINUX.. Insert disc. Wipe drives. Install Linux. Don't look back..
BTW, I've switched totally to Linux back around Suse 8.2 but dabbled with it for years. I have a factory original Redhat 3.0 CDROM.. (I also still have a factory original IBM DOS 1.0 package. yay..)
The videos are all in windows media 9 format. Errrr.. "Windows Media Player
You need Windows Media Player 9 to be able to watch these movies. If you do not have that version installed, please click on the link below:
Windows Media Player 9 - Download (Microsoft)
Operating system requirements
You need to have at least Windows 98 Second Edition to download Windows Media Player 9. If you have an older version of Windows 98, please visit the Windows Update page below before downloading Windows Media Player 9:
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So much for my plans to print and distribute Dubya toilet paper. My 4500n is on the list and I see Ricoh too, though they don't list my AP3800c. But I wouldn't be surprised if it does it too..
A portable propane stove is no more dangerous indoors than a natural gas stove is indoors.
In the country people have HUGE propane tanks in their yards and run their entire homes on them, their central heating system, hot water heaters and KITCHEN STOVES..
and I'm digging the hell out of the 9 3.5kw rack mount UPS units I have.
Just as a test, I plugged a 75 watt incandescent lamp and a 12" oscillating desk fan into one, it kept them running just fine for over nine hours before they low battery alarm started. I finally shut it down and went to bed after 11 hours of non stop power.
I bought a bunch of compact fluorescent blubs (which I replaced all my old bulbs with) and I figure one of these UPS units will run several of those bulbs for an easy 24 hours if I disconnect it's internal cooling fan. I easily have power for several days, can't run the fridge or AC but I won't be sitting in the dark. I can string a few extension cords around the house and have fluorescent lights, a small TV and a fan when everyone else is in the dark.
Large, HEAVY rack mount UPS system can be purchased used for pretty cheap. The shipping will kill you though. Best to buy them local if you can and pick them up yourself. Replacement batteries are about $4-$6 each on ebay.
Another easy thing to do. I have LOTS of empty coffee cans around here. Last night I filled them with water and froze them. My freezer is packed with lots of big cans of rock hard ice now. I turned the temp to MAX cold in the freezer and fridge and filled a bunch of 3 liter and 1 gallon bottles with water and they are in the fridge too.. The idea is to get everything as cold as it can get before the power goes out them move some of the ice cans down to the fridge. I should have cold, clean drinking water for me and my dog for several days. Also, get a gallon of bleach and some coffee filters, you can filter and boil water if need be and add a 1/4 teaspoon of plain bleach. Rain water is usually much better to drink than ground water if you can catch any.
Canned goods are mandatory. Propane lanterns are CHEAP and safe. A propane stove is also a good thing to have.
Think "CAMPING TRIP" What would you need to go camping in the woods away from stores and the rest of the world. In an emergency you WILL be cut off from these luxaries, like it or not.
If you are lucky enough to have a generator, has gas for it and check it out BEFORE the emergency to make sure it runs! And run cords from outside to inside to a power strip. DON'T wire it into your breaker box if the power goes out! You could get killed or burn your house down if the power comes back on.
Cell phone. Make sure you have a spare battery and a car charger. That is if your car doesn't go under water.:/
Pocket TV's are good to have, in some places you can listen to local TV audio on 87FM. A weather radio with weather alert is good too.
I've always been alarmed and disturbed at the mad rush to make Linux into a Windows look-a-like system.
I'm sorry but I didn't leave Windows to switch over to Windows. I left Windows because I despise it deeply and want nothing at all to do with it.
I could give a damn about drawing the Windows people over. I don't want the Windows problems that are sure to follow when Linux becomes so much like Windows that you can't tell one from the other. And when all the deviant, malicious little script kiddies decide to jump on the band wagon, oh boy.
I really, really enjoy the isolation and separation from the M$ world and the M$ problems. Why people are so gung-ho to do so is beyond me.
Run Windows or run Linux. But FFS, leave Linux alone to be Linux.
and I abandoned it because it was plain and simple crap. Two years I used it and it was every bit as god awful as winders. I finally abandoned it for Suse and I've had no regrets. Just for grins, I loaded up Mandrake 10.1 on a spare machine to see if having a few more years experience would help make it run any better. Nope. Still crap. Lax security, MOST stuff doesn't work without heavy tweaking. CUPS is screwed up, and forget getting a winmodem working.. Macromedia flash doesn't work and is hell to get working, Java doesn't work worth a damn, most mozilla plugins don't work.
It's a terrible distro. I would never recommend it to anyone. You want a distro that works straight out of the box? Suse.
where you can find LARGE wallpaper sized (1400w or bigger) pictures of the planets and stars? I miss The Science Channel so much. It's the only thing worth watching but you have to get the $55 a month top level tier to get it. That's a lot of money for a single channel. ALL the other channels are trash.
I tried to get some numbers in cities where I have friends and family.. Nope.. There was ONE number available in one city I check and that number, while in the right area code was of a prefix that was long distance. Same thing with other cities I tried.
I'm not impressed with the Skype landline deals at all. But as far as PC to PC, it's great. But not all my friends and family have PC's...
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Thank you for that brief flash of reality.
And now we return you to our regularly scheduled stupor.
troll? I think not. +5 TRUTH
Sure.
Why not? America has become hostile towards it's citizens, I mean obviously the government has chosen to bite off the hand that feeds it.
What with all the outsourcing and offshoring and imported crap from third world countries, it would seem obvious that the US Government doesn't care about the people, only about the profiteers on Wall Street and the Elite Banksters that pad the pockets of the politicians that make the laws that keep making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
If there is a country that is intelligent enough to understand that the well being of ALL it's citizens is the key to it's survival then I would say that sounds like a pretty good place to be.
Some of the very first computer games I ever played were text.
I used to play some sort of game, I can't remember what, on a teletype in highschool in the mid 70's.. Then I got a Ratshack cocoo and played text games on there. I got an IBM early on and played Zork and HHGTTG on a green screen..
Those were the days! I still have a copy of Zork I, II, and III text only on disk, I play them about once a year on a real IBM XT that I still have.
Hard to belive that these games were only about 30k total in size and still they were fun!
I say keep em around, they make you use your imagination. Modern games are just drool and click..
which one supports genuine unfettered free speech?
I mean TRUE FREE SPEECH, no matter who it offends?
You find one that fits that ticket and get back with us.
analyze p2p traffic??
Real easy to find whats hot and whats not..
Works for movies, music, whatever.
+5 DUH..
(your sig)
(Also they think the CIA is after them; in the 19th century it was the masons)
Well DUH.........
Cigarettes KILL and the STINK..
I quit smoking/STINKING 8 years ago. I went from 3 packs a day (smoked them all the way to the filter, one every 10 minutes) to ZERO.. I quit and never once cheated, I really quit..
I have a few friends that insist on STINKING and when they come over they stink so bad that I want to spray them with something.
When I go over to their houses, I have to remove my clothes in the garage and wash them right away because if I bring them in the house and leave them for later laundry, my house will stink too.
You want to kill yourself, you go ahead.. But keep your stinking ass cigarettes away from me.
I HATE going in the store because all the STINKERS throw their stinking butts on the ground by the door and the smell is horrible.
And standing in line at a store next to someone that smokes, man, I have told more than one person to back away from me because they stink...
I think tobacco should be outlawed. All forms. It's nasty, it stinks, it's disgusting and it KILLS.... You don't like my idea, go ahead and continue to cut your life short and continue to STINK.... I'll live longer than you, that's for damn sure.
And to businesses that ban smoking, HURRAY to you! And to cities that ban smoking in public, HURRAY to you too! Now lets ban the sale and use of this filthy product.
Gnome, on the other hand, is pretty much a US development
Erm, no.. Gnome is a Mexican development. Gnome is a product of Mexico.
"Miguel de Icaza, 26, was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He studied math at the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico. He started writing free software in 1994 and has been working on the GNOME project since 1997. He currently works as a Systems Administrator for the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico."
I've been a Suse fan since 8.1 and just purchased 10.0 (I've used all versions of Suse from 8.1 to 10.0)
I'm a hardcore KDE fan. I've played with Gnome and I despise it deeply.
I despise Gnome equally as much as I despise M$ winders.
This is the dumbest thing I have see Suse do since I've been onboard the Suse fanwagon..
I won't use Fedora so that's out. I guess I'll stick with my 10.0 until it becomes badly outdated then I'll go to Gentoo so I can have it MY way..
Thanks Suse, you've been a great distro for a long time, a good friend.
But the time has come for us to part ways...
Bahahaha!!! +5 0wn3d!!
With backwards, religious zealots running the country, like DUMBya and his minions, you get the mess we are in now.
..
All this "Intelligent design" crap is for the physical adults that chose to remain mental children
Just look at the banning of the nature videos at the Imax theaters recently because the films discuss evolution..
The zealots in washington would have the scientists put to death if they could get away with it for denying their precious book of fairy tales.
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
Thanks but I chose to stay with CRT's forever.
I do not like LCD or flat panel TV's or monitors at all.
The response time is god awful, the resolution is god awful.
They just flat out suck... Not to mention the abysmally short life span of the LCD/plasma/whatever screens.
I have a number of 21" Sony Trinitron CRT's stockpiled as backups.
I have a matched pair sitting on my desk right now and 4 spares stuck away because I KNEW this was going to happen...
I have a few 27" TV's that I never really watch but I suppose that sometime in the not to distant future I'll go out and purchase a few of the very large Sony Trinitron CRT TV's. My uncle is a big Sony fan (100% Sony in his home) and has several very large Sony Wega CRT sets in his home and man, I'm here to tell you those sets have magnificent pictures!
I can imagine they are very expensive but I expect the price to drop as Sony tries to push old stock out the door to make way for the dinky little flat screens that all the LEMMINGS just *have to* run out and buy. It's the "me too syndrome". You know, keeping up with the Jones and all that.
People are basically stupid and will buy stuff just because the voice on the idiot box tells them it's cool and trendy and that you MUST run out and get yours today.
Not me. I stick with yesterdays technology. It's tried and tested and no one is jealous of my Fred Flintstone equipment and decor... Not to mention, I save a lot of money by not replacing all my stuff every commercial break..
I just built a new machine, Athlon 64 3500+ (939) with a gig of ram.
Installed the Suse 10 eval DVD iso I downloaded and burned on my 9.3 box.
Install went smooth, no problems. Fast too. Much less than the predicted 1.5 hours.
Everything was detected properly. Only complaint I have, and this isn't a Suse or Linux complaint, I have an Epson GT-10000 scanner and it uses evil proprietary 32bit ONLY drivers. Ruh roh.. So now I am stuck using the sucky iscan program.
Oh joy. Also, I can't seem to find a copy of tleds that works on 64bit. Ugh, I depend on it heavily.
Outside of that, everything is hunkydory. It really smokes. Once I discovered it was automatically throttling the system down and I forced it to run in high performance mode it's nice.
The install was so simple even a windows user could handle it.
OTOH, I've installed XP and as I recall, you have to do countless reboots and download a gob of patches and reboot after each patch is installed.
Drivers are fun too on M$.. I've played the game so don't try your Jedi mind tricks on me. I quit M$ because of the constant HELL and the constant bleeding to death through my wallet.
I put a patch on the hemmorage to stop the bleeding. The patch is called LINUX..
Insert disc. Wipe drives. Install Linux. Don't look back..
BTW, I've switched totally to Linux back around Suse 8.2 but dabbled with it for years. I have a factory original Redhat 3.0 CDROM.. (I also still have a factory original IBM DOS 1.0 package. yay..)
The videos are all in windows media 9 format. Errrr..
"Windows Media Player
You need Windows Media Player 9 to be able to watch these movies. If you do not have that version installed, please click on the link below:
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Operating system requirements
You need to have at least Windows 98 Second Edition to download Windows Media Player 9. If you have an older version of Windows 98, please visit the Windows Update page below before downloading Windows Media Player 9:
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So much for my plans to print and distribute Dubya toilet paper.
My 4500n is on the list and I see Ricoh too, though they don't list my AP3800c. But I wouldn't be surprised if it does it too..
build a device similar to a Star Trek communicator badge, like in TNG. Should be easy to do with todays tech and the short range..
A portable propane stove is no more dangerous indoors than a natural gas stove is indoors.
In the country people have HUGE propane tanks in their yards and run their entire homes on them, their central heating system, hot water heaters and KITCHEN STOVES..
I'm afraid you were ill informed.
and I'm digging the hell out of the 9 3.5kw rack mount UPS units I have.
:/
Just as a test, I plugged a 75 watt incandescent lamp and a 12" oscillating desk fan into one, it kept them running just fine for over nine hours before they low battery alarm started. I finally shut it down and went to bed after 11 hours of non stop power.
I bought a bunch of compact fluorescent blubs (which I replaced all my old bulbs with) and I figure one of these UPS units will run several of those bulbs for an easy 24 hours if I disconnect it's internal cooling fan.
I easily have power for several days, can't run the fridge or AC but I won't be sitting in the dark.
I can string a few extension cords around the house and have fluorescent lights, a small TV and a fan when everyone else is in the dark.
Large, HEAVY rack mount UPS system can be purchased used for pretty cheap. The shipping will kill you though. Best to buy them local if you can and pick them up yourself. Replacement batteries are about $4-$6 each on ebay.
Another easy thing to do. I have LOTS of empty coffee cans around here. Last night I filled them with water and froze them. My freezer is packed with lots of big cans of rock hard ice now. I turned the temp to MAX cold in the freezer and fridge and filled a bunch of 3 liter and 1 gallon bottles with water and they are in the fridge too.. The idea is to get everything as cold as it can get before the power goes out them move some of the ice cans down to the fridge. I should have cold, clean drinking water for me and my dog for several days.
Also, get a gallon of bleach and some coffee filters, you can filter and boil water if need be and add a 1/4 teaspoon of plain bleach. Rain water is usually much better to drink than ground water if you can catch any.
Canned goods are mandatory.
Propane lanterns are CHEAP and safe. A propane stove is also a good thing to have.
Think "CAMPING TRIP" What would you need to go camping in the woods away from stores and the rest of the world. In an emergency you WILL be cut off from these luxaries, like it or not.
If you are lucky enough to have a generator, has gas for it and check it out BEFORE the emergency to make sure it runs! And run cords from outside to inside to a power strip. DON'T wire it into your breaker box if the power goes out! You could get killed or burn your house down if the power comes back on.
Cell phone. Make sure you have a spare battery and a car charger. That is if your car doesn't go under water.
Pocket TV's are good to have, in some places you can listen to local TV audio on 87FM. A weather radio with weather alert is good too.
Flashlights and batteries. Duh.
Main thing, think ahead. Pay attention.
Well worth it..
will reap what they sow.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
By George, you've called it spot on.
I've always been alarmed and disturbed at the mad rush to make Linux into a Windows look-a-like system.
I'm sorry but I didn't leave Windows to switch over to Windows. I left Windows because I despise it deeply and want nothing at all to do with it.
I could give a damn about drawing the Windows people over. I don't want the Windows problems that are sure to follow when Linux becomes so much like Windows that you can't tell one from the other.
And when all the deviant, malicious little script kiddies decide to jump on the band wagon, oh boy.
I really, really enjoy the isolation and separation from the M$ world and the M$ problems. Why people are so gung-ho to do so is beyond me.
Run Windows or run Linux. But FFS, leave Linux alone to be Linux.
and I abandoned it because it was plain and simple crap. Two years I used it and it was every bit as god awful as winders. I finally abandoned it for Suse and I've had no regrets. Just for grins, I loaded up Mandrake 10.1 on a spare machine to see if having a few more years experience would help make it run any better. Nope. Still crap. Lax security, MOST stuff doesn't work without heavy tweaking.
CUPS is screwed up, and forget getting a winmodem working.. Macromedia flash doesn't work and is hell to get working, Java doesn't work worth a damn, most mozilla plugins don't work.
It's a terrible distro. I would never recommend it to anyone. You want a distro that works straight out of the box? Suse.
where you can find LARGE wallpaper sized (1400w or bigger) pictures of the planets and stars?
I miss The Science Channel so much. It's the only thing worth watching but you have to get the $55 a month top level tier to get it. That's a lot of money for a single channel. ALL the other channels are trash.
I tried to get some numbers in cities where I have friends and family.. Nope.. There was ONE number available in one city I check and that number, while in the right area code was of a prefix that was long distance. Same thing with other cities I tried.
I'm not impressed with the Skype landline deals at all.
But as far as PC to PC, it's great. But not all my friends and family have PC's...
Keep trying Skype...