I say outlaw porno. Period. There is more to life than jacking off. If people would put as much effort into bettering themselves as they put into beating the lizard this would be a better world..
and failed too. I tried to get perpetual motion out of my ass. As expected it always stops right in this very chair where it remains motionless for the vast majority of it's life.
Like who gives a crap?? All the "artists" listed suck anyway. And besides, never, ever tell a Linux dude "you CAN'T do that" He'll show you you're wrong. Hey, who stole my sharpie!! Damn!
"I thought, 'Is it God? Is it an attack? Are we going to die?' The light freaked me out. It felt really funny, like it went through me," she said.
Why do so many people jump to attribute unexplained natural events to a supernatural, invisible "being" that lives in the sky and controls everything in existence and know the number of hairs on the head of every living being??
Might as well attribute meteor showers to the Easter Bunny, or hey, maybe it's a "sign" from the Heaven's Gate folks!
"The greatest thing about Mandrake 9.X is that it completely eliminates dependency issues"
BULLSHIT... Are you new to Linux?? That is unless you never tried to install anything before. If you think rpms save you from dependancy problems you must be a total newbie.
Well, too bad for 9.1 No, this is not a troll or flame bait. I LOVE Linux, I'm just frustrated with Mandrake, and with good cause.
I've had enough trouble that I just purchased Suse 8.1
Flakey fonts, flakey video, flakey lilo, flakey sound, flakey you name it. It was fun though, it was my training wheels, Mandrake got me going. I've fought and fought with with it and just can't handle it any more. When I discovered that they took some shortcuts on the kernel source and header files to make it easier for THEM that was the straw that broke the camels back. I've lost an entire month trying to get my VIVO card working so I edit and begin producing some DIY home repair video tapes.
I've tried for weeks to get my VIVO card working and it will not work unless I build a custom kernel. Nope, not gonna do it.
I loaded Suse up just as a trail run and it was beautiful, the fonts were excellent, it was very crisp, very clean. I really liked the look and feel. And the first thing it did was detect my Nvidia card and inform me that they could not distribute drivers for legal reasons. It then asked me if I wanted to connect to the Nvidia server to download and install the drivers. I clicked yes and a few seconds later it informed that I needed to restart X to begin using my newly installed drivers. I did and it was great! I had total HELL getting them installed with Mandrake, I spent weeks trying and printed a REEM of help files, forums, and readme's..
I had HELL with the on board AC97 sound card and stuck in a PCI sound card. It still makes farting noises when I scroll graphics or try to scan with my SCSI HP 4P scanner. I can't scan anything bigger than a postage stamp without a kernel panic. Mandrake handles the interrupts on my brand new mobo like shit.
Every other time I boot the fonts go from big to little. Web pages are so damn tiny you can't read them. I have set the fonts, carefully too, and as I said, sometimes they look great, sometimes they SUCK.
Mandrake Lilo sucks. It just SUCKS. 9 out of 10 times it will not boot. I thought my hard drive was bad until I discovered that with Suse it would boot 100% of the time using GRUB. So I dumped Mandrake lilo and and now it boots everytime with grub.
Supermount superSUCKS. What total shit. I disabled it and just manually mount the CD and floppy when I need it. Never could find UNMOUNT though. I just eject/mnt/cdrom instead. I can't use Konqueror to copy files from the CDR to HDD, I have to use MC.
All in all, all the problems FORCED me to dig in and learn. I'll always remember Mandrake, and I'll still recomend it for beginners. It's an OK system for people that never tinker with things. I have several friends that use it and are very happy, they just click and drool. I set them up to browse, download MP3's, burn music CD's, download pictures from usenet, and email friends. It works fine for them and they are just hunkey dorey happy. But they don't know any different, and they have NO desire to screw around with it.
I HAVE to be on the bleeding edge because I have to have a hi-pref PC for video production and I have to be several steps ahead of the people I support so that I can answer their questions and fix their problems.
Mandrake is a good system for beginners if your needs are lightweight but if you have to have a workhorse you better be prepared to do battle with it to get it there and to keep it there. If you just want something other than winblows for simple Internet use and as a first Linux box, Mandrake it OK.
It was fun but I must move up to a more serious distro. No time for fiddling around, I have to go to work now. Well Mandrake, all I can say is Auf Wiedersehen!!
I had one that I lugged around for work, it was heavy as hell (all steel) compared to the Compaq luggable (all plastic with aluminum frame).
I also sold these things for a while and worked on them too. Come to think of it, I never really worked on one. I knew how but never saw one break. CPM was freaky being that I got my start on IBM DOS 1.0 I never could get used to the HDD being drive A !!
Damn, 64 is too young to die. What a shame. I will always have strong memories of the Osborne, it was one of the first. I wish I still had that old box. I could prop it up on top of my Columbia just for old times sakes. I used to play Zork on an amber Taxan monitor on the Columbia.. Damn, those were the days!!
(note to moderators, need to add "trippy flashback" to mod list..)
No, they worked, but the 1.2m floppy drive would malfunction. We overclocked AT's left and right to 8mhz and even got a few to run at 12mhz but they were very flakey at that speed. 8mhz was fine if you didn't need floppy IO..
*I* am *NOT* going to pay extra to send email. I say *SHOOT* spammers in the head on national television. ALL CHANNELS without exception, FORCE everyone to watch PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
"We interupt this broadcast for the public execution of a spammer"
I like my number being unlisted. As a matter of fact, on caller ID mine shows up as - unknown name - but the number does show. I requested it that way. I LIKE having my number private. If people start harassing me on my cell phone I will drive to where they are and whip thier asses. I give my cell number only to the people that matter, everyone else can kiss my ass.
I just rescued a pristine IBM XT yesterday, totally original, even the factory screws are there. I used to deliver and set these things up for doctors, lawyers, refineries in 1982-1989 as a tech. This one has a 10m PLUS hardcard, 640k ram. 2 FDD, CGA card and monitor. It was going to the dump. They were $7,500+ new and they were to die for. This one is going to run as either a terminal to my Linux box or it will run 8088 Linux. Just for kicks I may boot it up and play the pure text versions of Zork, THHGTTG, and even Star Trek.. Just for flashback purposes only..:-)
I rescue old PC's from the trash all the time. I have mountains of them. I'll take an old Pentium90 and drop Smoothwall into it, spray paint it black and put some super bright LEDs on for special effect and sell it from $800.
At $800 my customers are thrilled to get a router that is quite a bit lower than a Cisco and much better.
And the $800 fits just perfectly in my pocket considering that I get the damn things off the side of the road!!
make up for bad acting?? poor casting, low budget, low rent. Not impressed. The original is the ONLY Dune. Accept no immitaions. Sarandon should have stuck with the RHPS..
For christs sake! Are people JUST NOW figuring this shit out??
Hell, jobs have been leaving this country since I was a kid in the 60's. I remember Japanese crap was just that, crap and Chinese imports were limited to china (plates, cups) and bamboo/paper toys. It was novelty crap for kids to blow spare pennies on. Then the Japs got serious on cars and that's when it all started. Then Nixon f*cked us over by making nice with China and they began to gear up to flood us with more trash.
I remember in 1979 I had just moved out on my own and gotten a good paying job. I wanted to buy a TV but I was pissed because EVERYTHING said "Made in Chicago"
I shopped and shopped and I finally found a 25" Curtis Mathis console TV that said in BIG letters on the back, "Made in Texas" so I bought it! I was so happy to have found something made in Texas and NOT in Chicago that I had to have it. And I paid $1,200 in 1979 dollars for it, no remote control and with rotory knobs no less!
It's too late folks. This country is gone. We build NOTHING here anymore.
What do we produce? More consumers for cheaply made, imported CRAP!
You know, that CRAPPY TRASH made of glue and sawdust/wood chips!
And cut your own wood! Get a DIY sawmill, I mean really get one, they are not that expensive.
Measure some boards from the lumberyard and see why. Measure a 2x4 and get back with me. Or measure a 2x12 and see what you get.
In the day of the 11ozs of coffee in a 16oz can consider that they are screwing you on wood.
Cut 8x8's or bigger. Go look at some of the old houses built during the 1600's and 1700's up in the northern states. They built those houses to last a LONG time, and they are still here 200 and 300 years later.. No chipboard or sawdust boards in those homes!
Or, just go buy a used castle. There are some islands for sale that have castles on them. http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/home_e. html
Damn! I just purchased a copy of 8.1 last night on ebay! I tried to install it on top of my Mandrake 9.0 (w/KDE 3.1) from the friggin 5.5gig glob I downloaded. It did NOT like it when I tried to mount my 120gig data drive (hdb5 -/home)
It looked and worked GREAT until I mounted my data drive. I assume it was polluted with old MDK 8.2 and 9.0 files and the permissions and ownerships just freaked it out.
It KP'ed like a fool every few minutes once I mounted the big drive, but before that it looked and worked GREAT!!
It even installed the drivers for my GF4 4200 card with a single click.
Well, when I get the 8.1 disks in I'll BACK UP my data and nuke the drive so that it's all nice and clean. Then I'll just update from 8.1 to 8.2 over ftp.
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already produce porno.
I say outlaw porno. Period. There is more to life than jacking off. If people would put as much effort into bettering themselves as they put into beating the lizard this would be a better world..
Eat shit Gnome! Never liked you anyway.
KDE 3.1.1 gives me a stiffy anyhow...
you are 100% completely correct!
I want to run Linux on a hacked xbox with the sole purpose in life is to spam M$ with "F*CK YOU BILL" emails on a relentless schedule.
Let the games begin!
HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
I LIKE it!!
and failed too.
I tried to get perpetual motion out of my ass. As expected it always stops right in this very chair where it remains motionless for the vast majority of it's life.
Like who gives a crap??
All the "artists" listed suck anyway.
And besides, never, ever tell a Linux dude "you CAN'T do that"
He'll show you you're wrong.
Hey, who stole my sharpie!! Damn!
Buwhaahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I thought, 'Is it God? Is it an attack? Are we going to die?' The light freaked me out. It felt really funny, like it went through me," she said.
Why do so many people jump to attribute unexplained natural events to a supernatural, invisible "being" that lives in the sky and controls everything in existence and know the number of hairs on the head of every living being??
Might as well attribute meteor showers to the Easter Bunny, or hey, maybe it's a "sign" from the Heaven's Gate folks!
They should have thought of this before they started importing all the crap from Mexico and China.
Don't put a bowtie on a turd and call it well dressed.
"The greatest thing about Mandrake 9.X is that it completely eliminates dependency issues"
BULLSHIT... Are you new to Linux??
That is unless you never tried to install anything before.
If you think rpms save you from dependancy problems you must be a total newbie.
there are problems with the version you have.
Dump it and go get the final release.
Well, too bad for 9.1
/mnt/cdrom instead. I can't use Konqueror to copy files from
No, this is not a troll or flame bait. I LOVE Linux, I'm just frustrated
with Mandrake, and with good cause.
I've had enough trouble that I just purchased Suse 8.1
Flakey fonts, flakey video, flakey lilo, flakey sound, flakey you name it.
It was fun though, it was my training wheels, Mandrake got me going.
I've fought and fought with with it and just can't handle it any more.
When I discovered that they took some shortcuts on the kernel source and
header files to make it easier for THEM that was the straw that broke the
camels back. I've lost an entire month trying to get my VIVO card working
so I edit and begin producing some DIY home repair video tapes.
I've tried for weeks to get my VIVO card working and it will not work unless
I build a custom kernel. Nope, not gonna do it.
I loaded Suse up just as a trail run and it was beautiful, the fonts were
excellent, it was very crisp, very clean. I really liked the look and
feel. And the first thing it did was detect my Nvidia card and inform me
that they could not distribute drivers for legal reasons. It then asked me
if I wanted to connect to the Nvidia server to download and install the
drivers. I clicked yes and a few seconds later it informed that I needed
to restart X to begin using my newly installed drivers. I did and it was
great! I had total HELL getting them installed with Mandrake, I spent
weeks trying and printed a REEM of help files, forums, and readme's..
I had HELL with the on board AC97 sound card and stuck in a PCI sound card.
It still makes farting noises when I scroll graphics or try to scan with my
SCSI HP 4P scanner. I can't scan anything bigger than a postage stamp
without a kernel panic. Mandrake handles the interrupts on my brand new
mobo like shit.
Every other time I boot the fonts go from big to little. Web pages are so
damn tiny you can't read them. I have set the fonts, carefully too, and as
I said, sometimes they look great, sometimes they SUCK.
Mandrake Lilo sucks. It just SUCKS. 9 out of 10 times it will not boot.
I thought my hard drive was bad until I discovered that with Suse it would
boot 100% of the time using GRUB. So I dumped Mandrake lilo and and now it
boots everytime with grub.
Supermount superSUCKS. What total shit. I disabled it and just manually
mount the CD and floppy when I need it. Never could find UNMOUNT though.
I just eject
the CDR to HDD, I have to use MC.
All in all, all the problems FORCED me to dig in and learn. I'll always
remember Mandrake, and I'll still recomend it for beginners. It's an OK
system for people that never tinker with things. I have several friends
that use it and are very happy, they just click and drool. I set them up
to browse, download MP3's, burn music CD's, download pictures from usenet,
and email friends. It works fine for them and they are just hunkey dorey
happy. But they don't know any different, and they have NO desire to screw
around with it.
I HAVE to be on the bleeding edge because I have to have a hi-pref PC for
video production and I have to be several steps ahead of the people I
support so that I can answer their questions and fix their problems.
Mandrake is a good system for beginners if your needs are lightweight but if
you have to have a workhorse you better be prepared to do battle with it to
get it there and to keep it there. If you just want something other than
winblows for simple Internet use and as a first Linux box, Mandrake it OK.
It was fun but I must move up to a more serious distro.
No time for fiddling around, I have to go to work now.
Well Mandrake, all I can say is Auf Wiedersehen!!
I had one that I lugged around for work, it was heavy as hell (all steel) compared to the Compaq luggable (all plastic with aluminum frame).
I also sold these things for a while and worked on them too. Come to think of it, I never really worked on one. I knew how but never saw one break. CPM was freaky being that I got my start on IBM DOS 1.0
I never could get used to the HDD being drive A !!
Damn, 64 is too young to die. What a shame.
I will always have strong memories of the Osborne, it was one of the first. I wish I still had that old box. I could prop it up on top of my Columbia just for old times sakes. I used to play Zork on an amber Taxan monitor on the Columbia.. Damn, those were the days!!
(note to moderators, need to add "trippy flashback" to mod list..)
No, they worked, but the 1.2m floppy drive would malfunction. We overclocked AT's left and right to 8mhz and even got a few to run at 12mhz but they were very flakey at that speed. 8mhz was fine if you didn't need floppy IO..
*I* am *NOT* going to pay extra to send email.
I say *SHOOT* spammers in the head on national television. ALL CHANNELS without exception, FORCE everyone to watch PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
"We interupt this broadcast for the public execution of a spammer"
Within a week ALL spam will cease to exist...
Totally winbloz, totally bogus. Not a peep for us Linux Zealots..
I guess that Linux users don't matter eh??
I like my number being unlisted.
As a matter of fact, on caller ID mine shows up as
- unknown name - but the number does show.
I requested it that way. I LIKE having my number private.
If people start harassing me on my cell phone I will drive to where they are and whip thier asses.
I give my cell number only to the people that matter, everyone else can kiss my ass.
I just rescued a pristine IBM XT yesterday, totally original, even the factory screws are there. I used to deliver and set these things up for doctors, lawyers, refineries in 1982-1989 as a tech. This one has a 10m PLUS hardcard, 640k ram. 2 FDD, CGA card and monitor. It was going to the dump. They were $7,500+ new and they were to die for. :-)
This one is going to run as either a terminal to my Linux box or it will run 8088 Linux. Just for kicks I may boot it up and play the pure text versions of Zork, THHGTTG, and even Star Trek.. Just for flashback purposes only..
I rescue old PC's from the trash all the time. I have mountains of them. I'll take an old Pentium90 and drop Smoothwall into it, spray paint it black and put some super bright LEDs on for special effect and sell it from $800.
At $800 my customers are thrilled to get a router that is quite a bit lower than a Cisco and much better.
And the $800 fits just perfectly in my pocket considering that I get the damn things off the side of the road!!
God I love to recycle!!
make up for bad acting??
poor casting, low budget, low rent.
Not impressed. The original is the ONLY Dune.
Accept no immitaions.
Sarandon should have stuck with the RHPS..
I mean really, this is getting out of hand.
We Linux folks take pride in distancing ourselves from M$, winbloz and Gate$..
Why are a tiny few hell bent on dragging us back into the seventh circle of hell?
If I NEVER see another M$ product ever again my life will be complete....
If you people like M$ so F'ing much, USE IT and LEAVE LINUX ALONE DAMN IT !!!
You know, us. The folks that use Linux?
When ya gonna take care of us??
How about updating us??
For christs sake! Are people JUST NOW figuring this shit out??
Hell, jobs have been leaving this country since I was a kid in the 60's. I remember Japanese crap was just that, crap and Chinese imports were limited to china (plates, cups) and bamboo/paper toys. It was novelty crap for kids to blow spare pennies on. Then the Japs got serious on cars and that's when it all started. Then Nixon f*cked us over by making nice with China and they began to gear up to flood us with more trash.
I remember in 1979 I had just moved out on my own and gotten a good paying job. I wanted to buy a TV but I was pissed because EVERYTHING said "Made in Chicago"
I shopped and shopped and I finally found a 25" Curtis Mathis console TV that said in BIG letters on the back, "Made in Texas" so I bought it! I was so happy to have found something made in Texas and NOT in Chicago that I had to have it. And I paid $1,200 in 1979 dollars for it, no remote control and with rotory knobs no less!
It's too late folks. This country is gone. We build NOTHING here anymore.
What do we produce? More consumers for cheaply made, imported CRAP!
You know, that CRAPPY TRASH made of glue and sawdust/wood chips!
. html
And cut your own wood! Get a DIY sawmill, I mean really get one, they are not that expensive.
Measure some boards from the lumberyard and see why.
Measure a 2x4 and get back with me. Or measure a 2x12 and see what you get.
In the day of the 11ozs of coffee in a 16oz can consider that they are screwing you on wood.
Cut 8x8's or bigger. Go look at some of the old houses built during the 1600's and 1700's up in the northern states. They built those houses to last a LONG time, and they are still here 200 and 300 years later.. No chipboard or sawdust boards in those homes!
Or, just go buy a used castle. There are some islands for sale that have castles on them.
http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/home_e
Damn! I just purchased a copy of 8.1 last night on ebay! /home)
I tried to install it on top of my Mandrake 9.0 (w/KDE 3.1) from the friggin 5.5gig glob I downloaded. It did NOT like it when I tried to mount my 120gig data drive (hdb5 -
It looked and worked GREAT until I mounted my data drive.
I assume it was polluted with old MDK 8.2 and 9.0 files and the permissions and ownerships just freaked it out.
It KP'ed like a fool every few minutes once I mounted the big drive, but before that it looked and worked GREAT!!
It even installed the drivers for my GF4 4200 card with a single click.
Well, when I get the 8.1 disks in I'll BACK UP my data and nuke the drive so that it's all nice and clean. Then I'll just update from 8.1 to 8.2 over ftp.
Gotta love that broadband!!