You must not be old enough to have been alive during the cold war or you are not from USA. Us dumb americans know that all those who used to live in CCCP(USSR) are "russians".
No the real answer would be to stop having stupid children that are influenced by stupid crap and start putting them in jail for crimes they commit rather than allow them to blame games. Its not like the only exposure to grafitti is GTA. Its like commercial advertising, they can't sell you something you don't already want. But they can influence your descision to go with something you may otherwise have passed on. These kids are probably hoodlums with or without GTA.
Thats funny because I was new to linux and started gentoo because i heard it was easy. Once I got it installed it was so easy that I made it further with gentoo than with SuSE Mandrake Redhat and JAMD. Yet I:
Learned how to partition disks with other distros (trivial and the docs tell you step by step how to do it)
Still don't know how GCC actually functions
How to install the kernel is trivial just copy it to the right directory and learn grub (easy) and as for configuration you just have to know what your system has in it and since most linux dudes roll their own comps thats not an issue. make menuconfig then find your stuff and wham
And I still know nothing about runlevels and very little about init scripts but I am typing this from a old 750 mhz intel laptop that I installed gentoo on from a previous knoppix installation.
I also installed gentoo on my home computer amd Athlon 2000XP+ that i built myself. Both systems run KDE. One boots directly into KDE and the other goes to a login prompt. I have installed MythTV and MySQL to make my home system into a PVR.
i am curious if you have ever tried gentoo since 1.2 came out. 1.2 is old yet was very easy to install. As a matter of fact I even wrote my own installation manual that allowed me to install a working gentoo system with kde in 1 hour flat using the GRP packages for version 1.4. If you think gentoo is dificult to understand then you have not read the manual as it is step by step as easy as setting the clock on your VCR.
If I could run windows on mac hardware as well as on my amd then I would switch to mac hardware. Then I could enjoy windows, mac osx and Linux. I think it would be nice to use all three. Then again I would also switch if Mac would run stably on amd hardware. I guess switch isnt the word but I would buy it.
That is quite odd I have been using gaim and msn for years now and I have never had any problems with it. My most used protocol is msn. I thought I was gonna be in big trouble when msn switched there protocol over to the newest stuff but I upgraded and everything was just honky dorey. So I think the problem you have is yours and yours alone.
Since when?
The Republicans in this state are pretty much a bunch of liberals. And in this last local election a bunch of libs won hands down.
Southern VA is quite republican but Northern VA is Liberal and out numbers the southerners
Ever think that maybe the slashdot effect is a result of lots of people with a common interest, not some conspiricy to take down small servers? If you have a public website and have something worth seeing and have a limited bandwidth or pay mass more bux then you have to be willing to suffer the consequences.
I am not a Gentoo fanboy and your right I don't understand all of the cflags I use but I try. I don't push gentoo on everyone I meet. As a matter of fact to a newb I reccomend JAMD or SuSE. Gentoo is for those that want to learn but not go full bore with LFS. I personnally use Gentoo because its easy to install stuff without dependancy probs and I can get up to date stuff. Debian is cool like I said I use Knoppix (installed) on my laptop which is a Debian unstable easy to install and use distro. But at home I have bandwidth and horsepower to spare so I use gentoo which works for me. But please use what works for you. If interested in Gentoo try it but don't give up on it til you got it installed and functioning all the way just like any distro you want to try.
But I got to say if you want to run Debian try out knoppix and install it to the harddrive its sweet fast and easy.
Just curious have you ever used Gentoo?
I mean its not just the optimizations, that make gentoo great, its the fact that you can get up to date software faster than the mojority of distros. CVS and experimental software are a breeze. And the fact that you can just type a command and come back later with it working is great. I have a knoppix system install on my laptop and so I am familiar with the apt-get system. It is nice when you set it to use the ultra-unstable software so you can actually use something recent but _I_ still _think_ its a bit more of a pain to use apt than portage. Gentoo is actually faster installing small programs than most distros since I dont even have to know where to get it. And the large stuff like KDE well I just go to bed and at the latest its ready to roll when I get back from work.
I am not trying to convince you to use Gentoo just trying to say your statement sounds quite ignorant. And if you use Debian the way it was designed you won't get KDE 3.2 for another 3-5 years.
Can't we say the same about windows. I mean have they really removed all of the DOS from the backend? DOS dates back to 81 if I remember correctly. So Linux is a clone of a 20+ year old OS and Windows _IS_ a 20 plus year old OS
Just curious if anyone here likes the nimbus sans font. I like the Vera stuff but the width is a little much for me. I am going to give it a try for a while but Nimbus Sans is my favorite so far for normal every day use. In my opinion its the best font that comes with some linux distros.
I agree with a lot of what you say because I prefer to be able to configure things and make my desktop personal. But I think you have it wrong when you think that the average person will want to change their desktop. The next time you think everyone or even a majority of people want to change their configuration just go look at the closest windows users desktop. I guarantee that 9 times out of 10 it will be grey or blue like the defaults in windows. The only thing that really changes is the background.
I think that gnome is nice I like it and I think it looks beautiful right our of the box. But since I like configurability I use KDE. But for a fairly fast and pretty desktop gnome is a good choice. If you dont like it you can feel free to fork it and start your own DE, or switch to another DE.
sweet nice to see someone else doing this. downloading semon now to see how well it works. There is a speex plugin for xmms linked on there site but I have not been able to compile it. Not sure why, I am new to linux. It should also be noted that it is an older version of speex like.8 or so but curious to see if anyone can get it to work. Or if anyone decides to make a speex plugin that is up to date and want to help me get it working I would appreciate it.
I have been investigating the feasability of moving my church into digital recording instead of to tape. I thought with ogg vorbis I could archive older sermons in mass quantities without too horrible of sound. But alas ogg vorbis sux with plain voice because it still needs the higher bitrates to sound good like 64 or so. But then I found speex. And I found that a good sounding (not taxing to the ear but noticeable compression) could fit forty 45 minute sermons on one cd (assuming the compression I got on small samples would pan out on 45 minute sermons) Then I could archive a lot of sermons to a 5 cent cd instead of 2 sermons per tape. So now I need to setup my latptop and try it one sunday. If the laptop gets decent sound then I assume that a desktop system with a decent sound card will only do better.
Has anyone done things similar to this? What compression settings do you like? what program you using (linux or windows) to record before compression?
Slashdot Mirror
Holy crap thats expensive for an open-source pile of apps. Man who would pay that when a lot of distributions have the same toolset free.
http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=gmail.com according to them it was setup in 95 maybe it was a typo. whois also says that google.com was set up in september 1997
Looks like google has owned gmail.com since 1995 so looks like that is prior use to me!
Now I won't even be able to take my car keys into secure areas. It's bad enough that every cdr I take in can never come out but now my keys too!
You must not be old enough to have been alive during the cold war or you are not from USA. Us dumb americans know that all those who used to live in CCCP(USSR) are "russians".
No the real answer would be to stop having stupid children that are influenced by stupid crap and start putting them in jail for crimes they commit rather than allow them to blame games. Its not like the only exposure to grafitti is GTA. Its like commercial advertising, they can't sell you something you don't already want. But they can influence your descision to go with something you may otherwise have passed on. These kids are probably hoodlums with or without GTA.
[quote]What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? - Gandhi [/quote] the kind where I win and someone loses. Smells like victory to me!
Learned how to partition disks with other distros (trivial and the docs tell you step by step how to do it)
Still don't know how GCC actually functions
How to install the kernel is trivial just copy it to the right directory and learn grub (easy) and as for configuration you just have to know what your system has in it and since most linux dudes roll their own comps thats not an issue. make menuconfig then find your stuff and wham
And I still know nothing about runlevels and very little about init scripts but I am typing this from a old 750 mhz intel laptop that I installed gentoo on from a previous knoppix installation.
I also installed gentoo on my home computer amd Athlon 2000XP+ that i built myself. Both systems run KDE. One boots directly into KDE and the other goes to a login prompt. I have installed MythTV and MySQL to make my home system into a PVR.
i am curious if you have ever tried gentoo since 1.2 came out. 1.2 is old yet was very easy to install. As a matter of fact I even wrote my own installation manual that allowed me to install a working gentoo system with kde in 1 hour flat using the GRP packages for version 1.4. If you think gentoo is dificult to understand then you have not read the manual as it is step by step as easy as setting the clock on your VCR.
If I could run windows on mac hardware as well as on my amd then I would switch to mac hardware. Then I could enjoy windows, mac osx and Linux. I think it would be nice to use all three. Then again I would also switch if Mac would run stably on amd hardware. I guess switch isnt the word but I would buy it.
That is quite odd I have been using gaim and msn for years now and I have never had any problems with it. My most used protocol is msn. I thought I was gonna be in big trouble when msn switched there protocol over to the newest stuff but I upgraded and everything was just honky dorey. So I think the problem you have is yours and yours alone.
What I would love to see is a split-view like in konqueror to see two webpages at the same time in one window.
My emails have been coming like this lately:
Get your v<!feb>ia<!dep>gra h<!dud>ere for fr<!lse>ee
Since when? The Republicans in this state are pretty much a bunch of liberals. And in this last local election a bunch of libs won hands down. Southern VA is quite republican but Northern VA is Liberal and out numbers the southerners
Ever think that maybe the slashdot effect is a result of lots of people with a common interest, not some conspiricy to take down small servers? If you have a public website and have something worth seeing and have a limited bandwidth or pay mass more bux then you have to be willing to suffer the consequences.
We are considering replacing the penny with the euro as soon as the euro comes up a little in its worth!
gentoox is the project name for gentoo for x-box
I am not a Gentoo fanboy and your right I don't understand all of the cflags I use but I try. I don't push gentoo on everyone I meet. As a matter of fact to a newb I reccomend JAMD or SuSE. Gentoo is for those that want to learn but not go full bore with LFS. I personnally use Gentoo because its easy to install stuff without dependancy probs and I can get up to date stuff. Debian is cool like I said I use Knoppix (installed) on my laptop which is a Debian unstable easy to install and use distro. But at home I have bandwidth and horsepower to spare so I use gentoo which works for me. But please use what works for you. If interested in Gentoo try it but don't give up on it til you got it installed and functioning all the way just like any distro you want to try. But I got to say if you want to run Debian try out knoppix and install it to the harddrive its sweet fast and easy.
Just curious have you ever used Gentoo? I mean its not just the optimizations, that make gentoo great, its the fact that you can get up to date software faster than the mojority of distros. CVS and experimental software are a breeze. And the fact that you can just type a command and come back later with it working is great. I have a knoppix system install on my laptop and so I am familiar with the apt-get system. It is nice when you set it to use the ultra-unstable software so you can actually use something recent but _I_ still _think_ its a bit more of a pain to use apt than portage. Gentoo is actually faster installing small programs than most distros since I dont even have to know where to get it. And the large stuff like KDE well I just go to bed and at the latest its ready to roll when I get back from work. I am not trying to convince you to use Gentoo just trying to say your statement sounds quite ignorant. And if you use Debian the way it was designed you won't get KDE 3.2 for another 3-5 years.
Oh crap thats my password now I got to go change it!!! Thanks for posting it all over /. :wq!
Can't we say the same about windows. I mean have they really removed all of the DOS from the backend? DOS dates back to 81 if I remember correctly. So Linux is a clone of a 20+ year old OS and Windows _IS_ a 20 plus year old OS
Just curious if anyone here likes the nimbus sans font. I like the Vera stuff but the width is a little much for me. I am going to give it a try for a while but Nimbus Sans is my favorite so far for normal every day use. In my opinion its the best font that comes with some linux distros.
I agree with a lot of what you say because I prefer to be able to configure things and make my desktop personal. But I think you have it wrong when you think that the average person will want to change their desktop. The next time you think everyone or even a majority of people want to change their configuration just go look at the closest windows users desktop. I guarantee that 9 times out of 10 it will be grey or blue like the defaults in windows. The only thing that really changes is the background.
I think that gnome is nice I like it and I think it looks beautiful right our of the box. But since I like configurability I use KDE. But for a fairly fast and pretty desktop gnome is a good choice. If you dont like it you can feel free to fork it and start your own DE, or switch to another DE.
sweet nice to see someone else doing this. downloading semon now to see how well it works. There is a speex plugin for xmms linked on there site but I have not been able to compile it. Not sure why, I am new to linux. It should also be noted that it is an older version of speex like .8 or so but curious to see if anyone can get it to work. Or if anyone decides to make a speex plugin that is up to date and want to help me get it working I would appreciate it.
I have been investigating the feasability of moving my church into digital recording instead of to tape. I thought with ogg vorbis I could archive older sermons in mass quantities without too horrible of sound. But alas ogg vorbis sux with plain voice because it still needs the higher bitrates to sound good like 64 or so. But then I found speex. And I found that a good sounding (not taxing to the ear but noticeable compression) could fit forty 45 minute sermons on one cd (assuming the compression I got on small samples would pan out on 45 minute sermons) Then I could archive a lot of sermons to a 5 cent cd instead of 2 sermons per tape. So now I need to setup my latptop and try it one sunday. If the laptop gets decent sound then I assume that a desktop system with a decent sound card will only do better. Has anyone done things similar to this? What compression settings do you like? what program you using (linux or windows) to record before compression?