You must be the only person on/. who doesn't use google. But seriously, any large scale document search, particularly done over a large geographical area, has to be electronic. Electronic documents are more accessible, which can only be good for people who want information about their Government.
Actually, I do use google, among several search engines.
Yeah, it's out there, if you want to know what Brad Pitt eats for breakfast or Paris Hilton's panties color and size, or the lyrics to the hottest rap song. But, try to find obscure, OLD, non-mainstream information. Good luck to ya..
First off you have to wade through hundreds of bullshit commercial links. I often try to locate service information, articles, reviews, schematics, photos, etc. for antiquated things, electronics and mechanical. Things 10, 20, 30, 50 years old.. Eh eh.. 90% of the information that I seek is NOT online. It USED to be in books but it's now too old and we all now that OLD is BAD and NEW is GOOD. Out with the old and in with the new!
No, really, for example, I have an antique classic Mercedes. I have SOME of the factory service manuals for it. When I got the car some years back I went to the dealship and ordered a set of printed manuals. They cost me a pretty penny. Well, the kid at the service window informed me that there were about 12 manuals in all and that I didn't really need them all. Already reeling from the shock of the first batch I ordered I trimmed the order down, so that I ended up with only the most critical manuals, engine, chassis, and wiring. Stupid me. At the time, it got me by. Now, I want the HVAC, body and drivetrain/transmission manuals plus some others on the power accessories. Eh eh.... Mercedes no longer prints manuals on paper. Yeah, I prowl ebay trying to
I can order the manuals on CDROM but I do not want them on CDROM. I can't take a laptop out into my driveway when I'm all greasy, trying to find stuff and can't read it in the sun, worrying about dropping and breaking it, spilling something in it, etc.. That's stupid. With the book I can drop it, get it dirty, etc. Big deal. And I can hold that book in my hand and flip the pages and find something in a fraction of the time I would spend trying to find it on a computer.
I'm sorry but I don't embrace this new digital revolution with all the enthusiasm as everyone else.
And one last thing. When those books are mine, in my house, on my shelf, no one is going to virus them up and knock them offline. I can read them anytime I like, under MY terms and conditions, not some draconian bullshit DRM communist copyright shit.
I saw a movie on cable about the future, ALL knowledge was stored on a single computer in Belgium. There were no more printed materials, it was evil to kill trees and the computer made knowledge available, at will.
The guy had to look up something about some shady government plot and as he began to dig into the computer banks, he began to notice big holes in history, big holes in time. The computer was deleting records to cover up crimes committed by big shots at the top.
The more he dug in, the more things vaporized. And being it was the sole repository of knowledge in the universe, well, that was that..
The name of the computer? Yep. You guessed it. The Beast.
I can not for the life of me remember what that movie was named and I've never seen it again since the early 80's.. Did it self-terminate also??
IMO, I would much rather have printed books in my hand, I can pick up a book and find something in seconds, I can spend endless hours trying to find something on the computer. Besides, reading from a screen is just not a very pleasant experience, compared to a book in hand.
It complains that libevent isn't installed, which it IS... Seems the rpms are for fedora, and the source won't compile because of the libevent problem..
I believe in the "none of your f-ing business" concept. I also lock my doors to my house and car.
The reason? Because it's no one else's business what the hell I do, what I like, where I browse, etc..
I deeply despise parasitic corporations that seek to suck my soul away by following my every move, tracking my every breath and step and force feeding shit to me in a fruitless effort to get me to turn over my hard to come by $$ to them in exchange for a cheaply made piece of shit that I don't need and don't want.
I don't want big brother (the New KGB) sniffing my farts. F*ck them all. Leave me alone. Stay the f*ck out of my life. It's none of your GD biz..
Why is it always instantly assumed that anyone that doesn't want to share every intimate momenet of their lives with the rest of the planet, that that person is some evil ne'er do gooder??
Now that there are 6bn people on earth, SOME of them assume that everyone wants to live in one huge, happy hippy commune.. Bzzzzt... Some of us don't like that plan. Some of us simply like to be left the hell alone..
I have secretly placed a ring of 50 satellites in orbit around the planet, and from my space station, I will release a terrible rain of Linux discs upon the unworthy little worms and wipe out all traces of Windows(R) on earth!!
I could not tolerate the jerky camera technique. It leaves me feeling nauseated.
Why the fuck do they have to jerk the camera around like a 5 year old kid is handling a 80lb camera??
I guess they figure they can distract you from the digital effects artifacts that way. Rather than take the time and effort to do a good job on the effects, they cover up cheap, shitty effects with shitty camera work.
I was a huge fan of this show when it aired in the 70's, but this mess, no way..
Hey, the machine is not brand new. It's 3 years old. Not all machines are the same. The mobo he has is very decent mobo but it's OBSOLETE now. It works just fine but it's OBSOLETE and unsupported now.
Really, I'm sick of this. You are an asshat. You have no fucking concept of what all was involved and what all transpired.. So really, just STFU..
I stated the facts. The facts are:
A fresh install of XP on my son's computer produced an OS that: had NO SOUND, NO NIC and NO Nvidia because the driver discs were 900 miles away in my house and not in his hands in Oklahoma.
That's the god damn facts.
Want another fact? Bet not.. But here it is. When I installed Suse 9.0 on his machine before he took it to college, the sound WORKED and the NIC worked without having to use ANY driver discs. And the Suse 9.0 install then promptly went to the Nvidia site, downloaded the drivers for his video card and installed them by answering yes to a simple question with a click of the mouse.
That's a fact, pal..
Oh, and one more fact..
What does XP do out of the box? Nothing. IF you can get it online, it can manage to get itself infected very quickly, while you scramble to download all the fucking patches, services packs, and other kludges in a desperate and vain attempt to fix a broken product with empty promises and lies.
And during all this joyous activity, you get the thrill of rebooting the fucker 750 times. Oh, the joy of it. I can't tell you how exciting it is to reboot everytime the dog next door farts..
With XP you get a broken web browser, and a virus reception system called Outlook Express. Want to do ANYTHING with it? Get ready to spend MONEY$$$$$$ Word Processing?? $$$ Paint program?? $$ Games?? $$ You name it, it costs you money. Oh yeah, and all the time you WASTE fighting off constant attacks from every point of the compass.
But hey, if you like that sort of shit, go for it. I use Linux and ONLY Linux. I will never use windows ever again for any reason. I deeply, deeply despise windows.
And as for my son switching to it, it's his choice, he's 20 years old now. He makes his own decisions. He knows the pitfalls. I've warned him.
And really, you should lay off calling people idiots when YOU are the idiot because you have no idea what you are talking about. You are not here or there and you have no knowledge of the situation.
I wish he had computer skills but he has none at all. He's a bible thumper, not a techie..
And he's in "Tornado Alley" in Oklahoma and the power goes out frequently, not to mention kids tripping breakers with banned appliances like microwaves and mini-fridges.. After 2+ years of this, things got so messed up that the machine just need a total overhaul. I wanted him to ship it to me so I could install Suse 9.3 on it but he decided to make the switch to M$ so that he would be in lock step with the rest of the world, despite knowing that he would be facing the typical M$ problems. Not that Linux doesn't have it's own..
Sadly, installing Linux OR windows is beyond his ability. He had to have a friend install XP for him. The friend was not exactly and expert himself. But at this religious college, they focus on bibles not techie stuff. They frown on the modern world anyway and only use computers because they really have no choice in the matter.
Really, the world did quite well without them for the past 5,000+ years.. Now look at all the troubles they have brought.. Just browse/. headlines for the never ending barrage of ID theft and rip-off / scam stories. What' so great about all this? Nothing.
Well, he has been doing his work on a laptop that he borrowed form his ex girlfriend. They broke up and he had to return it.
As for computers, he's a total dummy. He has no clue on earth. Not one. He can use one that's fully configured but that's where it stops. He does not have any remote, vague concept of what makes them tick. And he has NEVER had a windows machine of his own before. This is new territory for him.
And for pirating software, he's at a RELIGIOUS college, studying to be a MINISTER.. Thou shalt not steal... Other kids may do it but he does not and 99% of the other kids at his school do not do so either.
He knows bibles, not computers.. And his grades are pretty darn good, btw, so thanks for insulting my kid..
with a Rolm phone 240. I have quite a few of them so what the hell. Matter of fact, I have a full 12 node Rolm CBX II 9000. And I don't have a POTS line to my name.. Long story..
Anyway, I took the Rolm phone and on the main board in the base unit I soldered two cables to the connection for the handset and speaker. So the handset runs straight into the soundcard of a machine that does Sykpe.
When the phone is on hook, the magnet in the handset cause a reed relay to pass audio from the soundcard to the speakerphone speaker in the base unit so you can hear it ring and hear normal sound events through it. When you lift the handset the sound re-routes to the handset and you use it like a normal phone.
You can't dial from it, none of the buttons or lights work, but the sound quality is excellent and you can rest it on your shoulder because it's a full sized handset, unlike the dinky cell phones of today.
To use it, you would SWEAR you are talking on a standard POTS phone. My friends are amazed and befuddled by it, so I have been building them for all my friends.
Next project is to go buy a cheapo cordless, my local grocery has them on the imported crap isle for $14 for a 2.4ghz.. It's probably crap but it's cheap enough to experiment on. I have a $300 Vtech 2 line cordless that I don't want to experiment on, I'll save it for when I get an adapter..
About 2.5 years ago I installed Suse 9.0 on my son's PC and he hauled it 900 miles away up to college. Since then, it has crashed several times during power failures and became so badly corrupted that it was unusable. Not to mention, 9.0 is soooo old now..
My son is no computer prodigy and was left without a working PC. He was unable to find a single person in his school or area that could help him fix the problems and I can't just drive up 900+ miles to reinstall Suse.
His only option left was to install XP. There are plenty of XP "hotshots" around. So, he bought a student discounted version at the campus bookstore and his friend set about to install it for him.
Onboard nic = not recognized. Onboard audio = not recognized. Nvidia video card = not recognized.
One thing he forgot to take with him, the mobo and video drivers discs (which were NOT needed for Linux). So, for the past two weeks he's sat around with no internet and no sound and shitty video while I tore the house apart looking for the discs. I finally found them and overnighted them to him.
What I want to know now is, how/where is he going to get the program M$ word which is REQUIRED by his school? ALL of his classes distribute word files and require homework to be turned in in word format and powerpoint.
Is the college going to provide him with a free copy of these programs? (they should, at $8k a semester!) I hope so because I sure as hell ain't gonna pay for it.
And now he is open to all the problems the winders people constantly suffer.. His first year there, the entire campus became a huge petri dish, EVERY computer on campus was infected, except his Suse machine. No longer will he enjoy that exclusive privilege..
Too bad this is all they can do to these scums. A good and thorough thrashing would do wonders on these low lifes.
I fully, 100% support the actions of these vigilantes. When the law fails or refuses to distribute justice, it falls to the people to take the law into their own hands.
Thank you to everyone involved and keep up the great work!!
or most any other google goodies just don't play in konqueror.
You either get an "unsupported browser" message or it just locks up tight if you try to change the browser ID..
I hope KDE gets this fixed. I hate to have to keep going back and forth between Konq and firefox.
There are many things I don't like about each of the two browsers. If they could both work it out and take the best of both browser and combine them into one, they could slaughter all the other browsers..
But for now, forget google goodies and konqueror...
I would like to see (and it may already be a reality) a home made DVR like a Myth-TV box that has bittorrent or some type of P2P integrated into it.
Have the box pull up an onscreen TV guide, click the program you want to see, like last weeks "Deadwood" that you missed because someone freaking called you during the show, and it goes out and finds it and downloads it for you. Yeah, I know it repeats again on the west channel and again on Monday night but you know what I am getting at.
And if everyone else had a similar setup, it would be all but impossible to miss your favorite program.
As for TV in general though, I find the only things I can tolerate are the educational channels, like the science channel, etc.. Sometimes I like to watch Deadwood or the Sopranos or Carnival but that's it outside of educational TV..
The Sci-Fi channel is so badly ate up with commercials that the have to put "To be continued" on screen before every commercial break. I mean like they run 150 hours of commercials per day. They got so bad that it turned me off to that channel forever. I just can't stand to watch it no matter what they are running. I'm bloody sick of the bitch with the nasty hair hawking the $150 diet pills or the retarded insurance commercials, or the f-ing onstar "push it real good" shit.. And the home loan ads. Or the "Bob's got a big prick!" pills. Or those screaming assholes, Billy Mays and Matthew Lesko. Those two assholes should get married to each other, they are true soul mates..
God damn, TV is nothing but a huge parasitic freak show of scum bags trying to rob you blind and steal your soul. It's continual brainwashing.
What gets me is that you have to PAY for this shit. I thought that's what commercials were for, so that TV could be free. At least it was when I was a kid, that was the theory then.
But really, the thing is, as people work harder and harder to make Linux more MS friendly, the more likely it is that Linux will begin to experience the PROBLEMS of the MS world. And I don't think I need to list those, we all know about them.
Running MS apps on a Linux box is just the camels nose under the tent. I get virus and trojans emailed to me all the time and I just laugh them away.. For now..
As Linux becomes more MS friendly I can see that I will just sit back in the stone age and run my older versions so that they can't be hammered like the flavor of the moment will be..
nothing to do with running any MS code, this affects us how?
I see people wringing their hands like this is the end of the world.
Hey, this is the "GNU/Linux" world were talking about, isn't it?
I dumped MS a few years ago and switched to Linux because I wanted to dump MS and run Linux, not because I wanted to run Linux so I could run MS.
I'm sorry but I fail to see why everyone is so gung-ho to run MS apps under Linux. I don't. Yeah, I have wine installed on my Suse 9.3 machine but I have no use for it. I can't think of or name ONE windows program that I would want to run.
So far I've been able to find an equivalent Linux program for all of my needs.
OOTB, my Suse 9.3 pro does HUNDREDS of times more things than an OOTB MS XP "Pro" system does. And for the few things that it doesn't do OOTB, there's apt-get & Synaptic. A few minutes of following the instructions at the "guru" page to install apt & synaptic and I'm totally taken care of. EVERYTHING I want my PC to do, it does.
I really wish people would quit trying so hard to make Linux into Windows. It ain't windows and that's exactly why I love it so much!
Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course.
Not on my side...
I flat out refuse to use ANY M$ based product.
Besides, I don't want all that crap. When I'm not at my desk, I'm doing something, driving, working, etc. I don't have time to screw around with a stupid device like this. Besides, I'm old and I can't deal with the "Nintendo thumbs" syndrome. I watched my kids operate those tiny little controllers and I hated the damn things. And doing that on a cell phone while I am trying to drive, that phone is going to get zinged out the window!
I want a phone that I can call people on, has a totally dependable battery, has a large send and hang up button, that I F--king can SEE in daylight (I hate my V120T) and get's a good signal everywhere. Screw games, music and text messages, screw notes and all the other nerd-bling.
I just want a phone that I can depend on when I need it and that everyone doesn't want to steal from me.
I bought a jug of fuser oil on ebay for $6 and after filling the fuser tank I started using the rest of it around the house. Great stuff! Slick as hell, doesn't seize up like motor oil.
I have a lot of various fans around the house that I have to oil frequently. I have been using motor oil but it gums up after a while and the motors seize up. So I cleaned them all up and used the silicon oil on them. Man, it doesn't get any smoother than that. Not one seizure yet. And, it does NOT break down plastic and rubber like other types of oil does so it's safe to use on just about anything. And as far as I know, it's non conductive and non-flamable. I just don't know about the cooling properties of it. Though I can't imagine that it would be any worse than the cooking oil or mineral oils, which BOTH are flamable and both will break down plastics and rubber..
I have a WD 120gig and it sounds like an A-10 Warthog pulling out of a dive after straffing a Taliban T-72...
God I hate WD drives... OTOH, I installed a new Maxtor 250g for a friend and it was so quiet I had to pick the drive up and feel it gyro in my hand to be able to tell it was running.
I don't mind fans so much but the whine of hard drives is pretty unbearable, especially when you have 7 pc's running at the same time.
But it would be nice if they could work on quieting everything down. It's a noisy world we live in. Too noisy.
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You must be the only person on /. who doesn't use google.
But seriously, any large scale document search, particularly done over a large geographical area, has to be electronic.
Electronic documents are more accessible, which can only be good for people who want information about their Government.
Actually, I do use google, among several search engines.
Yeah, it's out there, if you want to know what Brad Pitt eats for breakfast or Paris Hilton's panties color and size, or the lyrics to the hottest rap song. But, try to find obscure, OLD, non-mainstream information. Good luck to ya..
First off you have to wade through hundreds of bullshit commercial links. I often try to locate service information, articles, reviews, schematics, photos, etc. for antiquated things, electronics and mechanical. Things 10, 20, 30, 50 years old.. Eh eh..
90% of the information that I seek is NOT online. It USED to be in books but it's now too old and we all now that OLD is BAD and NEW is GOOD.
Out with the old and in with the new!
No, really, for example, I have an antique classic Mercedes. I have SOME of the factory service manuals for it. When I got the car some years back I went to the dealship and ordered a set of printed manuals. They cost me a pretty penny. Well, the kid at the service window informed me that there were about 12 manuals in all and that I didn't really need them all.
Already reeling from the shock of the first batch I ordered I trimmed the order down, so that I ended up with only the most critical manuals, engine, chassis, and wiring. Stupid me. At the time, it got me by. Now, I want the HVAC, body and drivetrain/transmission manuals plus some others on the power accessories. Eh eh....
Mercedes no longer prints manuals on paper.
Yeah, I prowl ebay trying to
I can order the manuals on CDROM but I do not want them on CDROM. I can't take a laptop out into my driveway when I'm all greasy, trying to find stuff and can't read it in the sun, worrying about dropping and breaking it, spilling something in it, etc.. That's stupid.
With the book I can drop it, get it dirty, etc. Big deal. And I can hold that book in my hand and flip the pages and find something in a fraction of the time I would spend trying to find it on a computer.
I'm sorry but I don't embrace this new digital revolution with all the enthusiasm as everyone else.
And one last thing. When those books are mine, in my house, on my shelf, no one is going to virus them up and knock them offline. I can read them anytime I like, under MY terms and conditions, not some draconian bullshit DRM communist copyright shit.
I saw a movie on cable about the future, ALL knowledge was stored on a single computer in Belgium. There were no more printed materials, it was evil to kill trees and the computer made knowledge available, at will.
The guy had to look up something about some shady government plot and as he began to dig into the computer banks, he began to notice big holes in history, big holes in time. The computer was deleting records to cover up crimes committed by big shots at the top.
The more he dug in, the more things vaporized.
And being it was the sole repository of knowledge in the universe, well, that was that..
The name of the computer? Yep. You guessed it.
The Beast.
I can not for the life of me remember what that movie was named and I've never seen it again since the early 80's.. Did it self-terminate also??
IMO, I would much rather have printed books in my hand, I can pick up a book and find something in seconds, I can spend endless hours trying to find something on the computer. Besides, reading from a screen is just not a very pleasant experience, compared to a book in hand.
It complains that libevent isn't installed, which it IS... Seems the rpms are for fedora, and the source won't compile because of the libevent problem..
help?
I believe in the "none of your f-ing business" concept. I also lock my doors to my house and car.
The reason? Because it's no one else's business what the hell I do, what I like, where I browse, etc..
I deeply despise parasitic corporations that seek to suck my soul away by following my every move, tracking my every breath and step and force feeding shit to me in a fruitless effort to get me to turn over my hard to come by $$ to them in exchange for a cheaply made piece of shit that I don't need and don't want.
I don't want big brother (the New KGB) sniffing my farts. F*ck them all. Leave me alone. Stay the f*ck out of my life. It's none of your GD biz..
Why is it always instantly assumed that anyone that doesn't want to share every intimate momenet of their lives with the rest of the planet, that that person is some evil ne'er do gooder??
Now that there are 6bn people on earth, SOME of them assume that everyone wants to live in one huge, happy hippy commune.. Bzzzzt... Some of us don't like that plan. Some of us simply like to be left the hell alone..
Wow!
"via Mac OS X's BSD compatibility layer?"
I didn't know Macs could do the Blue Sreen of Death too! Imagine that!
Now that innovation for ya!!
1. Choose your password and memorize it. (Yeah right!)
2. Implement it.
3. Put your password into a ROT-13 proggy and --write down-- the output of THAT.
If anyone finds the rot-13d password youve written down they wont get anywhere at all with it. Only you will know..
I have secretly placed a ring of 50 satellites in orbit around the planet, and from my space station, I will release a terrible rain of Linux discs upon the unworthy little worms and wipe out all traces of Windows(R) on earth!!
Love, Hugo.
about 10 minutes of this show a few months ago.
I could not tolerate the jerky camera technique. It leaves me feeling nauseated.
Why the fuck do they have to jerk the camera around like a 5 year old kid is handling a 80lb camera??
I guess they figure they can distract you from the digital effects artifacts that way.
Rather than take the time and effort to do a good job on the effects, they cover up cheap, shitty effects with shitty camera work.
I was a huge fan of this show when it aired in the 70's, but this mess, no way..
"We have this thing called the internet now"
No shit??
Hey, the machine is not brand new. It's 3 years old. Not all machines are the same. The mobo he has is very decent mobo but it's OBSOLETE now.
It works just fine but it's OBSOLETE and unsupported now.
Really, I'm sick of this. You are an asshat.
You have no fucking concept of what all was involved and what all transpired.. So really, just STFU..
I stated the facts.
The facts are:
A fresh install of XP on my son's computer produced an OS that:
had NO SOUND, NO NIC and NO Nvidia because the driver discs were 900 miles away in my house and not in his hands in Oklahoma.
That's the god damn facts.
Want another fact? Bet not..
But here it is. When I installed Suse 9.0 on his machine before he took it to college, the sound WORKED and the NIC worked without having to use ANY driver discs. And the Suse 9.0 install then promptly went to the Nvidia site, downloaded the drivers for his video card and installed them by answering yes to a simple question with a click of the mouse.
That's a fact, pal..
Oh, and one more fact..
What does XP do out of the box?
Nothing. IF you can get it online, it can manage to get itself infected very quickly, while you scramble to download all the fucking patches, services packs, and other kludges in a desperate and vain attempt to fix a broken product with empty promises and lies.
And during all this joyous activity, you get the thrill of rebooting the fucker 750 times. Oh, the joy of it. I can't tell you how exciting it is to reboot everytime the dog next door farts..
With XP you get a broken web browser, and a virus reception system called Outlook Express.
Want to do ANYTHING with it? Get ready to spend MONEY$$$$$$
Word Processing?? $$$
Paint program?? $$
Games?? $$
You name it, it costs you money.
Oh yeah, and all the time you WASTE fighting off constant attacks from every point of the compass.
But hey, if you like that sort of shit, go for it. I use Linux and ONLY Linux. I will never use windows ever again for any reason. I deeply, deeply despise windows.
And as for my son switching to it, it's his choice, he's 20 years old now. He makes his own decisions. He knows the pitfalls. I've warned him.
And really, you should lay off calling people idiots when YOU are the idiot because you have no idea what you are talking about. You are not here or there and you have no knowledge of the situation.
I suggest you grow up buddy..
He was using OO..
/. headlines for the never ending barrage of ID theft and rip-off / scam stories. What' so great about all this? Nothing.
I wish he had computer skills but he has none at all. He's a bible thumper, not a techie..
And he's in "Tornado Alley" in Oklahoma and the power goes out frequently, not to mention kids tripping breakers with banned appliances like microwaves and mini-fridges.. After 2+ years of this, things got so messed up that the machine just need a total overhaul. I wanted him to ship it to me so I could install Suse 9.3 on it but he decided to make the switch to M$ so that he would be in lock step with the rest of the world, despite knowing that he would be facing the typical M$ problems. Not that Linux doesn't have it's own..
Sadly, installing Linux OR windows is beyond his ability. He had to have a friend install XP for him. The friend was not exactly and expert himself. But at this religious college, they focus on bibles not techie stuff. They frown on the modern world anyway and only use computers because they really have no choice in the matter.
Really, the world did quite well without them for the past 5,000+ years.. Now look at all the troubles they have brought.. Just browse
Wrong. $8k a semester IS expensive for ME. I'm disabled and have been for the last several years with a broken back. My income is VERY limited.
You claim what you want about windows. That's YOUR opinion. I know the facts. XP did NOT work with his mobo. No sound, no NIC, no Nvidia..
I did overnight the discs to him because he had no access to the internet. He is off campus for the summer now.
You have no idea what the facts are. You should think about that before you go around calling people liars.
Well, he has been doing his work on a laptop that he borrowed form his ex girlfriend. They broke up and he had to return it.
As for computers, he's a total dummy. He has no clue on earth. Not one. He can use one that's fully configured but that's where it stops.
He does not have any remote, vague concept of what makes them tick. And he has NEVER had a windows machine of his own before. This is new territory for him.
And for pirating software, he's at a RELIGIOUS college, studying to be a MINISTER.. Thou shalt not steal... Other kids may do it but he does not and 99% of the other kids at his school do not do so either.
He knows bibles, not computers..
And his grades are pretty darn good, btw, so thanks for insulting my kid..
with a Rolm phone 240. I have quite a few of them so what the hell. Matter of fact, I have a full 12 node Rolm CBX II 9000. And I don't have a POTS line to my name.. Long story..
Anyway, I took the Rolm phone and on the main board in the base unit I soldered two cables to the connection for the handset and speaker. So the handset runs straight into the soundcard of a machine that does Sykpe.
When the phone is on hook, the magnet in the handset cause a reed relay to pass audio from the soundcard to the speakerphone speaker in the base unit so you can hear it ring and hear normal sound events through it. When you lift the handset the sound re-routes to the handset and you use it like a normal phone.
You can't dial from it, none of the buttons or lights work, but the sound quality is excellent and you can rest it on your shoulder because it's a full sized handset, unlike the dinky cell phones of today.
To use it, you would SWEAR you are talking on a standard POTS phone. My friends are amazed and befuddled by it, so I have been building them for all my friends.
Next project is to go buy a cheapo cordless, my local grocery has them on the imported crap isle for $14 for a 2.4ghz.. It's probably crap but it's cheap enough to experiment on. I have a $300 Vtech 2 line cordless that I don't want to experiment on, I'll save it for when I get an adapter..
If I had a potty mouth son like you, I would disown you.
begone troll........
This article is dead on.
About 2.5 years ago I installed Suse 9.0 on my son's PC and he hauled it 900 miles away up to college.
Since then, it has crashed several times during power failures and became so badly corrupted that it was unusable. Not to mention, 9.0 is soooo old now..
My son is no computer prodigy and was left without a working PC. He was unable to find a single person in his school or area that could help him fix the problems and I can't just drive up 900+ miles to reinstall Suse.
His only option left was to install XP. There are plenty of XP "hotshots" around. So, he bought a student discounted version at the campus bookstore and his friend set about to install it for him.
Onboard nic = not recognized.
Onboard audio = not recognized.
Nvidia video card = not recognized.
One thing he forgot to take with him, the mobo and video drivers discs (which were NOT needed for Linux).
So, for the past two weeks he's sat around with no internet and no sound and shitty video while I tore the house apart looking for the discs.
I finally found them and overnighted them to him.
What I want to know now is, how/where is he going to get the program M$ word which is REQUIRED by his school? ALL of his classes distribute word files and require homework to be turned in in word format and powerpoint.
Is the college going to provide him with a free copy of these programs? (they should, at $8k a semester!) I hope so because I sure as hell ain't gonna pay for it.
And now he is open to all the problems the winders people constantly suffer.. His first year there, the entire campus became a huge petri dish, EVERY computer on campus was infected, except his Suse machine. No longer will he enjoy that exclusive privilege..
Too bad this is all they can do to these scums.
A good and thorough thrashing would do wonders on these low lifes.
I fully, 100% support the actions of these vigilantes. When the law fails or refuses to distribute justice, it falls to the people to take the law into their own hands.
Thank you to everyone involved and keep up the great work!!
or most any other google goodies just don't play
in konqueror.
You either get an "unsupported browser" message or it just locks up tight if you try to change the browser ID..
I hope KDE gets this fixed. I hate to have to keep going back and forth between Konq and firefox.
There are many things I don't like about each of the two browsers. If they could both work it out and take the best of both browser and combine them into one, they could slaughter all the other browsers..
But for now, forget google goodies and konqueror...
I would like to see (and it may already be a reality) a home made DVR like a Myth-TV box that has bittorrent or some type of P2P integrated into it.
Have the box pull up an onscreen TV guide, click the program you want to see, like last weeks "Deadwood" that you missed because someone freaking called you during the show, and it goes out and finds it and downloads it for you.
Yeah, I know it repeats again on the west channel and again on Monday night but you know what I am getting at.
And if everyone else had a similar setup, it would be all but impossible to miss your favorite program.
As for TV in general though, I find the only things I can tolerate are the educational channels, like the science channel, etc..
Sometimes I like to watch Deadwood or the Sopranos or Carnival but that's it outside of educational TV..
The Sci-Fi channel is so badly ate up with commercials that the have to put "To be continued" on screen before every commercial break. I mean like they run 150 hours of commercials per day. They got so bad that it turned me off to that channel forever. I just can't stand to watch it no matter what they are running.
I'm bloody sick of the bitch with the nasty hair hawking the $150 diet pills or the retarded insurance commercials, or the f-ing onstar "push it real good" shit.. And the home loan ads.
Or the "Bob's got a big prick!" pills.
Or those screaming assholes, Billy Mays and Matthew Lesko. Those two assholes should get married to each other, they are true soul mates..
God damn, TV is nothing but a huge parasitic freak show of scum bags trying to rob you blind and steal your soul. It's continual brainwashing.
What gets me is that you have to PAY for this shit. I thought that's what commercials were for, so that TV could be free. At least it was when I was a kid, that was the theory then.
shit, the link messed up,
it's supposed to be http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.html
One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
We can only pray that they "hack the planet" and put THIS on all the displays on earth....
granted..
But really, the thing is, as people work harder and harder to make Linux more MS friendly, the more likely it is that Linux will begin to experience the PROBLEMS of the MS world. And I don't think I need to list those, we all know about them.
Running MS apps on a Linux box is just the camels nose under the tent. I get virus and trojans emailed to me all the time and I just laugh them away.. For now..
As Linux becomes more MS friendly I can see that I will just sit back in the stone age and run my older versions so that they can't be hammered like the flavor of the moment will be..
nothing to do with running any MS code, this affects us how?
I see people wringing their hands like this is the end of the world.
Hey, this is the "GNU/Linux" world were talking about, isn't it?
I dumped MS a few years ago and switched to Linux because I wanted to dump MS and run Linux, not because I wanted to run Linux so I could run MS.
I'm sorry but I fail to see why everyone is so gung-ho to run MS apps under Linux. I don't.
Yeah, I have wine installed on my Suse 9.3 machine but I have no use for it.
I can't think of or name ONE windows program that I would want to run.
So far I've been able to find an equivalent Linux program for all of my needs.
OOTB, my Suse 9.3 pro does HUNDREDS of times more things than an OOTB MS XP "Pro" system does.
And for the few things that it doesn't do OOTB, there's apt-get & Synaptic. A few minutes of following the instructions at the "guru" page to install apt & synaptic and I'm totally taken care of. EVERYTHING I want my PC to do, it does.
I really wish people would quit trying so hard to make Linux into Windows. It ain't windows and that's exactly why I love it so much!
Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course.
Not on my side...
I flat out refuse to use ANY M$ based product.
Besides, I don't want all that crap. When I'm not at my desk, I'm doing something, driving, working, etc. I don't have time to screw around with a stupid device like this. Besides, I'm old and I can't deal with the "Nintendo thumbs" syndrome. I watched my kids operate those tiny little controllers and I hated the damn things. And doing that on a cell phone while I am trying to drive, that phone is going to get zinged out the window!
I want a phone that I can call people on, has a totally dependable battery, has a large send and hang up button, that I F--king can SEE in daylight (I hate my V120T) and get's a good signal everywhere. Screw games, music and text messages, screw notes and all the other nerd-bling.
I just want a phone that I can depend on when I need it and that everyone doesn't want to steal from me.
I bought a jug of fuser oil on ebay for $6 and after filling the fuser tank I started using the rest of it around the house. Great stuff!
Slick as hell, doesn't seize up like motor oil.
I have a lot of various fans around the house that I have to oil frequently. I have been using motor oil but it gums up after a while and the motors seize up. So I cleaned them all up and used the silicon oil on them. Man, it doesn't get any smoother than that. Not one seizure yet.
And, it does NOT break down plastic and rubber like other types of oil does so it's safe to use on just about anything. And as far as I know, it's non conductive and non-flamable. I just don't know about the cooling properties of it. Though I can't imagine that it would be any worse than the cooking oil or mineral oils, which BOTH are flamable and both will break down plastics and rubber..
And it's cheap enough...
I have a WD 120gig and it sounds like an A-10 Warthog pulling out of a dive after straffing a Taliban T-72...
God I hate WD drives... OTOH, I installed a new Maxtor 250g for a friend and it was so quiet I had to pick the drive up and feel it gyro in my hand to be able to tell it was running.
I don't mind fans so much but the whine of hard drives is pretty unbearable, especially when you have 7 pc's running at the same time.
But it would be nice if they could work on quieting everything down. It's a noisy world we live in. Too noisy.