I can no longer use Kprint. I've lost a MASSIVE amount of features, options and control over my printers.
I just (2 days ago) installed Suse 9.3 and it comes standard with OO.o 2.0 I am NOT pleased with this at all. I had the same problem with Suse 9.2.
I ended up removing the default OO program and installing 1.1.1 I then had FULL control over all the features and options of my printers and was happy. Not to mention, it was free and clear of all the current complaints.
I don't need all the bling-bling crap the 2.0 comes with anyway not to mention, I don't like Java..
So do what I did (am about to do again) and install an older version and STFU.... Newer is not always better........
Rich people can't be bothered with fixing things. It's tedious and time consuming. Much easier to just throw it away and buy a new one.
Here's a few observations on trash pile scavenging. 1. Very rich people. The hired help usually gets first digs on the toss-outs. The *good* stuff usually never makes it to the curb.
2. Poor people. They never throw away anything worth messing with. They will patch it up over and over until it's beyond salvage. Many will destroy it as a final act of frustration before it hits the curb.
3. Upper middle class people. Not rich enough to have hired help but well off enough to toss out stuff when it breaks (or they think it's broken) or just because they want the newest, coolest version of something. They can afford to be trendy.
SOME rich people throw cool stuff away but you have to patrol the neighborhoods with a truck like an eagle. In those neighborhoods there are always lots and lots of "yard work people" everywhere, with trucks, trailers and lawn mowers. They grab stuff too as they see it so you have to compete against them.
I've found some GREAT stuff on trash piles. MOST people have no clue how to repair anything anymore or don't want to bother with it. I get a great kick out of fixing stuff. Man, I have more ceiling fans in my house than Home Depot! And 27" color TV's out the wazoo, several for every room. Computers like you would never, ever believe.. Lawnmowers, weed eaters, lumber, and on and on and on.. I'm like a geek version of "Sanford and Son"
Seriously, outside of groceries, I haven't bought anything "new" from a store in a long time. And I buy army surplus clothes because they are super tough and last 20 times longer than crappy imported blue jeans and have lots of pockets.. A much better value than blue jeans (I hate jeans anyway, they don't fit right...)
You can take this stuff and fix it up, sell it, trade it, use it... I totally believe in recycling everything possible.
This throw away society we live in helps me to get by and to live pretty much outside of the loop...
Sorry Google... You've been dishing out stacked search results for years now, but this pretty much takes the cake. You've joined ranks with the rest of the scumbag profiteers and usurers..
Now, the questions is, how to modify Konqueror (KDE 3.4) to use any OTHER search engine? Google is embedded into Konq in numerous ways and I would very much like to change it to use a different search engine.
I recently bought a DVD that had what seemed like 10 minutes of trailers on it BEFORE the movie. I was very unhappy because I took great offense to some of the subject matter of the trailers. It was offensive, annoying and forced upon me. I was unable to skip the previews.
So, guess what I did? Yep... I ripped the disc, stripped the BS out, including all the evil warnings and useless trailers and reburned it to a new DVD..
Now I have the movie the way *I* want to see it. What's next, are they going to arrest people for showing up late, skipping the preview/trailers in the theater now?
And just who declares the answer to be "factual" ??
Suppose someone asks a religious question, or a political question and someone at google that may have issues with that religious faction or political faction and provides a not quite so factual "fact" to the asker??
Who decides??
Your version of the truth and my version of the truth will most likely always be different..
I see by the "troll" moderation points on this that there are some pro-big brother types lurking around with moderator ability.
The problem with democracy is that it gives people with no clue the ability to vote. People that don't understand or don't know what's at issue should not be participating in the voting process until they fully understand the subject.
It's a bastardized skid steer front end loader. It's very cool looking and all but not very practical. I own a Bobcat 732 skid steer front end loader and I can tell you this, you can flip that puppy pretty easy. And this thing, no way you would get me up there like the driver in the video.. If this things eats shit, the driver is pretty much mush.
And the 250cc engine? Big deal, my Bobcat has a small V4 gas engine in it, not much bigger than a motorcycle engine. 250cc is nothing to just move and aluminum skeleton around like this, it doesn't have to lift heavy loads.
Really, this thing looks very dangerous to the driver.. I would NOT try it my self..
It takes more than one loop to calculate speed. Sure, they can guestimate size of vehicle, but that's about it.
Yes, but if you pay attention, there are always multiple loops in the ground at the intersections. Just what the doctor ordered..
It also is used in apartments and mini-storage areas to let cars out and shut the gate behind the car to prevent tailgaters from sneaking in.
This is a pretty old use of induction loops...
Yep, it sure is. And it's still in WIDE use. I've installed many of these, from cutting the concrete and laying the loop in existing locations and laying premade loops in before the pouring of the concrete in new installations, then installing the detector circuits, card readers, gate operators, call boxes, cameras, intercoms, etc...
Somehow, an antenna buried inches in tarmac or concrete doesn't seem like a good way to read RFID tags.
Maybe not to you but guess what? It works just fine. The concrete and tar does not impede it's operation. If it did, they wouldn't use this.
It takes a LOT of energy to compress air. And an air tank can't possibly hold enough air to power a compressed air motor for more than a few seconds.
MAYBE, if the air were liquefied, it might be feasible but still, the energy consumbed to liquefy the air would negate any possible savings that the vehicle would hope to achieve.
They are everywhere. At most intersections you will see diamonds cut in the concrete and covered with tar and a line from the diamond that runs to the curb, usually headed towards a big silver box that operates the traffic lights.
When a car passes over the loop the magnetic field changes and the system knows a car went over. Not only can it count cars, it can tell the size of the vehicle (motorcycle v. car v. truck) and estimate the speed and direction. This is usually to help control traffic lights so that the light doesn't sit on red when there are no cars there. It also is used in apartments and mini-storage areas to let cars out and shut the gate behind the car to prevent tailgaters from sneaking in.
This loop can also act as a receiving antenna and it would be a very, very simple matter to have these loops "light up" the RFID chips and read them, then the equipment could pass the data upstream to what ever EVIL BIG BROTHER system you want (or don't want) to imagine.
This is BAD... My suggestion? If this passes, you should destroy the chips. A couple hundred thousand volts should do it. A $30 stun gun should fry these nasty little bastards.
Texas WILL pass this. I know how they work, Texas is very much into being a BIG BROTHER state.. They are wanking off at the thought of this right now..
Why use java anyway? Java is complete shit. I despise Java and javascript with a passion. If you want to drop a machine to it's knees, run some java..
Get rid of it..
Also, did OO take care of the printing problems? They had made access to kprinter an absolute pain in the ass, I ended up going DOWN to OO 1.1 because of piss poor printing capabilities. I have a myriad of network printers all of them serve different purposes and the more recent versions of OO (whatever shipped with Suse 9.2) wouldn't let me use kprinter without major pains. I said to hell with it and loaded 1.1
Overall OO is a decent product but it needs some things seen to and they need to dump that damn java. I wish everyone would dump java..
"He then flames the whole world of computer repairmen as 'a bunch of unqualified amateurs.'"
I've known this for 25 years.. I've been repairing computers since waaaaay back, back before the IBM PC. In the early 80's, we were GODS... We were the elite few, we were the "healers"...
We had to isolate a single flaky 64k ram chip on an AST (384k) 6-pack, or the 256k motherboard and replace it. That was nothing. I could read the POST error messages and know the exact chip out of the 90 possible chips. We had to isolate and repair defective capacitors in CRT's or replace printheads in dot matrix and keep continuous duty band printers running.
A soldering iron was always on in our shop, we REPAIRED things. We didn't play swaptronics like these kids nowdays do. We had to hunt down and repair problems..
I remember one dufus at a drafting company had decided to hop up his compaq deskpro 386 Autocad station all on his own without permission. It was company property but he wanted to be the unauthorized office superhero so he ordered a $900 80387 from Compaq then tried to install it himself. True brilliance, he installed it 90deg off and it cooked. It melted the legs into the socket and the mobo was dead. In a total panic he brought the machine to me and I told him that there was not much chance of repairing it but I would try. I found a replacement 80387 socket so I fired up my desoldering station and after many tedious hours, I removed and replaced the cooked socket and the mobo was back in biz.
It cost him $900 for the first 80387, then $400 for me to repair the mobo, then another $900 for another 80387. The next one, he let me install it for him, I only charged him $20 to install the chip. The chips, he ordered those on his employers dime so he had to choke up $900 out of his on pocket to replace the chip he trashed.
This was back about 1986, when $900 was a healthy chunk of change and a 20mhz 80386 system was still a few grand.
Now, no one fixes anything, they swap some suspect crap around and chunk the suspect. Hell, I even did hard drive salvage, back in the days of 10mb to 20mb drives. It was nothing unusual for me to open a drive up with siezed bearings and move the platters into another drive to get the data off. It was a one shot deal but I did it on numerous occasions. I had no fear of taking on ANY level of repair.
Now, you have numbnuts like these "Geek Squad" morons at Best Buy who can't find their own asses without both hands and a flashlight. Most of them have never once held a soldering iron, they don't know crap. They might be able to diagnose a dead PSU or a dead HDD or an unplugged display but they are really just junior grade virus cleaners. As the story tells, most problems are caused by windows. MOST computer "repair" now involves cleaning up windows problems..
These kids these days, they are NOT technicians... I was REPAIRING computers before most of these "techs" were even born... Nothing offends me more than to go into best buy and some kid starts trying to chat me up with his buzz words, trying to impress me to make me think he's some sort of guru. I'll shoot him down in flames in 30 seconds or less. Last time I went in best buy I came close to punching the little asshole, I ended up going to the manager and filing a complaint, the kid followed me around the store harassing me about windows, I had asked if a particular part was Linux compatible and he went psycho on me..
Really, Windows itself is what keeps these places going, there really is very, very little actual "repair" going on anymore..
the 8gb is a PIII tower for the garage. I have loads of old machines and a stack of old craptops that I want to do something with. I can't and won't throw them out, I'm too much of a cheap SOB to do that. Fix it, recycle it, but don't throw it away..
So are you saying then that I could compile it on a P133 with a 300 megabyte hard drive?????? I have several of those. I find it hard to belive that it could be compiled in just 300mb...
Nice.... I have a few old craptops laying around, I may put them to use. I've been wanting to get one going as a lite browser so I can be lazy and lay in bed, browse the web, check status of stuff in the house, look at security cam (from server), etc...
Maybe an ultralite install on a craptop would cut it. I just hope it will handle the fonky pcmcia nics I have.. But, what the hell, I'll try it. Long over due..
My main concern is the compiling, the temporary space needed to do it. I can't remember from the last time I tried if it asks you what gui you want, that way you only end up compiling a light system, like an xfce box. I see no need for KDE just to listen to MP3's in my garage and thus no need to even compile it in the first place. I really could do quite well with DSL but it has a few shortcomings that are a little annoying. I can live with DSL but I thought I would try Gentoo again, just to be mean to myself..
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I can no longer use Kprint.
I've lost a MASSIVE amount of features, options and control over my printers.
I just (2 days ago) installed Suse 9.3 and it comes standard with OO.o 2.0
I am NOT pleased with this at all. I had the same problem with Suse 9.2.
I ended up removing the default OO program and installing 1.1.1
I then had FULL control over all the features and options of my printers and was happy. Not to mention, it was free and clear of all the current complaints.
I don't need all the bling-bling crap the 2.0 comes with anyway not to mention, I don't like Java..
So do what I did (am about to do again) and install an older version and STFU....
Newer is not always better........
Heh!
Let me tell you....
Rich people can't be bothered with fixing things.
It's tedious and time consuming.
Much easier to just throw it away and buy a new one.
Here's a few observations on trash pile scavenging.
1. Very rich people. The hired help usually gets first digs on the toss-outs. The *good* stuff usually never makes it to the curb.
2. Poor people. They never throw away anything worth messing with. They will patch it up over and over until it's beyond salvage. Many will destroy it as a final act of frustration before it hits the curb.
3. Upper middle class people. Not rich enough to have hired help but well off enough to toss out stuff when it breaks (or they think it's broken) or just because they want the newest, coolest version of something. They can afford to be trendy.
SOME rich people throw cool stuff away but you have to patrol the neighborhoods with a truck like an eagle. In those neighborhoods there are always lots and lots of "yard work people" everywhere, with trucks, trailers and lawn mowers. They grab stuff too as they see it so you have to compete against them.
I've found some GREAT stuff on trash piles.
MOST people have no clue how to repair anything anymore or don't want to bother with it.
I get a great kick out of fixing stuff. Man, I have more ceiling fans in my house than Home Depot! And 27" color TV's out the wazoo, several for every room. Computers like you would never, ever believe.. Lawnmowers, weed eaters, lumber, and on and on and on..
I'm like a geek version of "Sanford and Son"
Seriously, outside of groceries, I haven't bought anything "new" from a store in a long time.
And I buy army surplus clothes because they are super tough and last 20 times longer than crappy imported blue jeans and have lots of pockets..
A much better value than blue jeans (I hate jeans anyway, they don't fit right...)
You can take this stuff and fix it up, sell it, trade it, use it... I totally believe in recycling everything possible.
This throw away society we live in helps me to get by and to live pretty much outside of the loop...
I can't wait for all the trend setters to toss their now quaint old plasma screens on the trash heap...
Oh happy days, digging in the trash in rich neighborhoods!!
God it's great to be such a cheap SOB like me!!
This thing looks like it can't carry much of a payload.
What about schoolbus sized satellites?
This looks like a simple space taxi, not a space truck...
Waste of money..
I think we need to go back to basics and use the simple rockets to lift huge payloads, like the Russian Energia.
The Russians space program is pretty basic and could be very effective..
First step is to keep meddling politicians out of it all...
Sorry Google... You've been dishing out stacked search results for years now, but this pretty much takes the cake. You've joined ranks with the rest of the scumbag profiteers and usurers..
Now, the questions is, how to modify Konqueror (KDE 3.4) to use any OTHER search engine?
Google is embedded into Konq in numerous ways and I would very much like to change it to use a different search engine.
I recently bought a DVD that had what seemed like 10 minutes of trailers on it BEFORE the movie.
I was very unhappy because I took great offense to some of the subject matter of the trailers.
It was offensive, annoying and forced upon me.
I was unable to skip the previews.
So, guess what I did? Yep...
I ripped the disc, stripped the BS out, including all the evil warnings and useless trailers and reburned it to a new DVD..
Now I have the movie the way *I* want to see it.
What's next, are they going to arrest people for showing up late, skipping the preview/trailers in the theater now?
Why have a computer?
Just have a terminal that boots into the all new Google OS 1.0
Isn't that what Google is shooting for anyway?
And just who declares the answer to be "factual" ??
Suppose someone asks a religious question, or a political question and someone at google that may have issues with that religious faction or political faction and provides a not quite so factual "fact" to the asker??
Who decides??
Your version of the truth and my version of the truth will most likely always be different..
I see by the "troll" moderation points on this that there are some pro-big brother types lurking around with moderator ability.
The problem with democracy is that it gives people with no clue the ability to vote.
People that don't understand or don't know what's at issue should not be participating in the voting process until they fully understand the subject.
And it ain't pretty.
Death penalty for virus writers.
No second offenders. Public execution broadcast on ALL forms of media, all channels, including CELL PHONES!
Write a virus, get a bullet in the head on international TV...
Simple. Cost effective. Guaranteed..
It's a bastardized skid steer front end loader.
It's very cool looking and all but not very practical. I own a Bobcat 732 skid steer front end loader and I can tell you this, you can flip that puppy pretty easy. And this thing, no way you would get me up there like the driver in the video.. If this things eats shit, the driver is pretty much mush.
And the 250cc engine? Big deal, my Bobcat has a small V4 gas engine in it, not much bigger than a motorcycle engine. 250cc is nothing to just move and aluminum skeleton around like this, it doesn't have to lift heavy loads.
Really, this thing looks very dangerous to the driver.. I would NOT try it my self..
most consumers really don't have 500 gb of crap they need to store.
You're new here aren't you.. google > pr0n
It takes more than one loop to calculate speed. Sure, they can guestimate size of vehicle, but that's about it.
Yes, but if you pay attention, there are always multiple loops in the ground at the intersections. Just what the doctor ordered..
It also is used in apartments and mini-storage areas to let cars out and shut the gate behind the car to prevent tailgaters from sneaking in.
This is a pretty old use of induction loops...
Yep, it sure is. And it's still in WIDE use. I've installed many of these, from cutting the concrete and laying the loop in existing locations and laying premade loops in before the pouring of the concrete in new installations, then installing the detector circuits, card readers, gate operators, call boxes, cameras, intercoms, etc...
Somehow, an antenna buried inches in tarmac or concrete doesn't seem like a good way to read RFID tags.
Maybe not to you but guess what? It works just fine. The concrete and tar does not impede it's operation. If it did, they wouldn't use this.
It takes a LOT of energy to compress air.
And an air tank can't possibly hold enough air to power a compressed air motor for more than a few seconds.
MAYBE, if the air were liquefied, it might be feasible but still, the energy consumbed to liquefy the air would negate any possible savings that the vehicle would hope to achieve.
Sorry, I don't buy it..
I've installed "vehicle loop detectors" inground for traffic control, security, etc..
They are everywhere. At most intersections you will see diamonds cut in the concrete and covered with tar and a line from the diamond that runs to the curb, usually headed towards a big silver box that operates the traffic lights.
When a car passes over the loop the magnetic field changes and the system knows a car went over. Not only can it count cars, it can tell the size of the vehicle (motorcycle v. car v. truck) and estimate the speed and direction. This is usually to help control traffic lights so that the light doesn't sit on red when there are no cars there. It also is used in apartments and mini-storage areas to let cars out and shut the gate behind the car to prevent tailgaters from sneaking in.
This loop can also act as a receiving antenna and it would be a very, very simple matter to have these loops "light up" the RFID chips and read them, then the equipment could pass the data upstream to what ever EVIL BIG BROTHER system you want (or don't want) to imagine.
This is BAD... My suggestion? If this passes, you should destroy the chips. A couple hundred thousand volts should do it. A $30 stun gun should fry these nasty little bastards.
Texas WILL pass this. I know how they work, Texas is very much into being a BIG BROTHER state.. They are wanking off at the thought of this right now..
I guess Google is going to be the do-all of the future, ala "Demolition Man" and not Taco Bell..
Hey, I'm hungry, let's all get dressed up and go to eat at Google tonight! Yea!! (friends cheering)
a slut and a whore.
Who in their right mind would recruit a filthy piece of trash such as this woman to promote their product?
I would not ever buy any product that is represented by gabage like this woman..
BAD MOVE.....
true, but that doesn't excuse the fact that both items in question SUCK...
Both items should be banned from planet earth.
I hate java.
I hate javascript.
two separate statements for two separate offenders. Happy now? Asshole..
Why use java anyway?
Java is complete shit.
I despise Java and javascript with a passion.
If you want to drop a machine to it's knees, run some java..
Get rid of it..
Also, did OO take care of the printing problems?
They had made access to kprinter an absolute pain in the ass, I ended up going DOWN to OO 1.1 because of piss poor printing capabilities.
I have a myriad of network printers all of them serve different purposes and the more recent versions of OO (whatever shipped with Suse 9.2) wouldn't let me use kprinter without major pains.
I said to hell with it and loaded 1.1
Overall OO is a decent product but it needs some things seen to and they need to dump that damn java. I wish everyone would dump java..
"He then flames the whole world of computer repairmen as 'a bunch of unqualified amateurs.'"
I've known this for 25 years..
I've been repairing computers since waaaaay back, back before the IBM PC.
In the early 80's, we were GODS... We were the elite few, we were the "healers"...
We had to isolate a single flaky 64k ram chip on an AST (384k) 6-pack, or the 256k motherboard and replace it. That was nothing. I could read the POST error messages and know the exact chip out of the 90 possible chips. We had to isolate and repair defective capacitors in CRT's or replace printheads in dot matrix and keep continuous duty band printers running.
A soldering iron was always on in our shop, we REPAIRED things. We didn't play swaptronics like these kids nowdays do. We had to hunt down and repair problems..
I remember one dufus at a drafting company had decided to hop up his compaq deskpro 386 Autocad station all on his own without permission. It was company property but he wanted to be the unauthorized office superhero so he ordered a $900 80387 from Compaq then tried to install it himself. True brilliance, he installed it 90deg off and it cooked. It melted the legs into the socket and the mobo was dead. In a total panic he brought the machine to me and I told him that there was not much chance of repairing it but I would try. I found a replacement 80387 socket so I fired up my desoldering station and after many tedious hours, I removed and replaced the cooked socket and the mobo was back in biz.
It cost him $900 for the first 80387, then $400 for me to repair the mobo, then another $900 for another 80387. The next one, he let me install it for him, I only charged him $20 to install the chip. The chips, he ordered those on his employers dime so he had to choke up $900 out of his on pocket to replace the chip he trashed.
This was back about 1986, when $900 was a healthy chunk of change and a 20mhz 80386 system was still a few grand.
Now, no one fixes anything, they swap some suspect crap around and chunk the suspect.
Hell, I even did hard drive salvage, back in the days of 10mb to 20mb drives. It was nothing unusual for me to open a drive up with siezed bearings and move the platters into another drive to get the data off. It was a one shot deal but I did it on numerous occasions. I had no fear of taking on ANY level of repair.
Now, you have numbnuts like these "Geek Squad" morons at Best Buy who can't find their own asses without both hands and a flashlight. Most of them have never once held a soldering iron, they don't know crap. They might be able to diagnose a dead PSU or a dead HDD or an unplugged display but they are really just junior grade virus cleaners.
As the story tells, most problems are caused by windows. MOST computer "repair" now involves cleaning up windows problems..
These kids these days, they are NOT technicians... I was REPAIRING computers before most of these "techs" were even born...
Nothing offends me more than to go into best buy and some kid starts trying to chat me up with his buzz words, trying to impress me to make me think he's some sort of guru. I'll shoot him down in flames in 30 seconds or less. Last time I went in best buy I came close to punching the little asshole, I ended up going to the manager and filing a complaint, the kid followed me around the store harassing me about windows, I had asked if a particular part was Linux compatible and he went psycho on me..
Really, Windows itself is what keeps these places going, there really is very, very little actual "repair" going on anymore..
the 8gb is a PIII tower for the garage.
I have loads of old machines and a stack of old craptops that I want to do something with.
I can't and won't throw them out, I'm too much of a cheap SOB to do that. Fix it, recycle it, but don't throw it away..
Oh, and I found a minimalist linux distro to turn old craptops into digital picture frames, http://www.barwap.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Photo-Ix
So are you saying then that I could compile it on a P133 with a 300 megabyte hard drive??????
I have several of those. I find it hard to belive that it could be compiled in just 300mb...
Nice.... I have a few old craptops laying around, I may put them to use.
I've been wanting to get one going as a lite browser so I can be lazy and lay in bed, browse the web, check status of stuff in the house, look at security cam (from server), etc...
Maybe an ultralite install on a craptop would cut it. I just hope it will handle the fonky pcmcia nics I have.. But, what the hell, I'll try it. Long over due..
thanks!
okay, thanks, that helps some..
My main concern is the compiling, the temporary space needed to do it. I can't remember from the last time I tried if it asks you what gui you want, that way you only end up compiling a light system, like an xfce box. I see no need for KDE just to listen to MP3's in my garage and thus no need to even compile it in the first place.
I really could do quite well with DSL but it has a few shortcomings that are a little annoying.
I can live with DSL but I thought I would try Gentoo again, just to be mean to myself..