Don't try running your system at default runlevel 5 when messing with the video. Use runlevel 3 and startx.
Just a quick addendum for the original poster's sake. The easiest/quickest way to do this in RH9 (I think) is the following:
Open a command terminal
Type 'su' and enter the root password
Type 'cd/sbin'
Type './telinit 3'
This should get you to runlevel 3 (ie. no desktop, just a big command line). When you're finished updating your video drivers, follow the steps listed above but change the last command to './telinit 5' Assuming you didn't break anything, this will bring you back to your graphical login screen w/the new drivers running.
I was in a very similar position two years ago after my first year in college.
In my case, I decided to ship my comp. from Chicago back to Boston via the USPS in order to save on cost (we drove in the fall). Including insurance, the total came out to around $25 for regular ground shipping (and nothing broke). If memory serves, the package took about a week to arrive.
For packing, I used the original cardboard box/packing materials the system came in (ie, styrofoam and packing peanuts) and a lot of tape. I left most of my peripherals at school (including my monitor), so I was able to ship the rest in a small, heavily-taped box.
FWIW, I've since given up on shipping my system back and forth. I figured it was more cost-effective (for me, at least) to buy a second system on pricewatch and burn whatever data I needed to take with me. Given your situation, this may not be relevant, but I figured it was worth mentioning. G'luck.
Relax, it's just a ranking, and a largely subjective one at that. Like the reviewer wrote, FF8 was a game you either loved or hated. Some of us (myself included) really did enjoy playing it.
Should it have been ranked #4? Maybe not, given the strong opinions held against it by many people. But then again, the same could also be said about FF9; not everyone enjoys playing as a monkey-man
At any rate, if you really want to show that the list was illegitimate, you'll need to provide a bit more concrete evidence.
Well, if what the article said was accurate, you're not missing much as far as climate-related causes of avalanches. Basically, he said that if avalanches causing fatalities happen, they will most likely be caused by humans disturbing the snow cover, not because of natural conditions. He also said something about being able to predict almost all avalanches, check the article for details.
As for the purpose of his study, it seems to be focused more on with how an avalanche moves once it's triggered than on the actual cause. However, unless I missed something, he didn't make it clear how that data would be of use to most people. Maybe it could be used to construct climbing gear better suited to protecting someone caught in an avalanche, who knows. At any rate, I hope this answers your question.
Of course, at this point, I've lost my primary reason for touting Phoenix, but I do still like where they're going with it as far as modularity/configurability and the enhancements they've added. Image blocking from ad servers is definitely a plus.
In the meantime, I'm going to read up on virtual pages and figure out where it all went horribly, horribly wrong for me. Thanks for the clarification:)
Actually, I've wondered if something's amiss more than a few times, but I've got 512M and not enough time to spend figuring out where it's going right now. Interestingly enough, I still have time to post on/., go figure.
At any rate, the memory ratio between the two is probably right, even if the numbers themselves are horribly skewed.
Well, what jumps out at me is that, already, Phoenix is taking up 2/3 of the memory that Mozilla does. I just installed the 0.3 release, and it resides in 90M of RAM as opposed to ~140M for Mozilla.
While I like/use some of the extras that Mozilla incorporates, I'm going to be keeping an eye on the progress of Phoenix, because I definitely don't need all of them. The concept of a lightweight browser with the power of Mozilla and more configurability options has a lot of appeal to myself and presumably others. As far as the rendering speed, I don't suspect there would be a noticable difference for anyone, unless they were strapped for RAM. Phoenix is built on the Mozilla core, so both browsers would logically both incorporate the Gecko engine for rendering.
My only other suggestion would be to read the release notes for 0.3, they might shed some insight as to why the Phoenix people are doing what they're doing.
To be fair, very few of Microsoft's competitors could actually do the same thing as Microsoft. Doing the same thing, in most cases, would include being readily available on newly purchased computers, and alas, we can't all have a monopoly.
That being said, Linux does a lot more than just the 'same thing' as Windows in many instances. It offers open source, open standards, more stability and much tighter security. As everyone reading this should know, it has a definite lack of task-specific end-user applications, but that's been steadily becoming less and less of a problem over the past few years.
For Microsoft, the rules are the same, but the opponent is a whole lot more resourceful and dangerous than it ever has been before.
You apparently didn't read the papers. Both of them.
The author makes it very clear in his second paper that he has completely changed his opinion on the GPL as a viable licensing model.
He spends a lot of time sorting out both the myths and truths surrounding the GPL's effect on closed-source companies, OSS developers, and consumers/end users. Especially interesting was his analysis of how dynamic linking to GPL code effects proprietary software development/licensing. In short, there was a lot more to the documents than the topic sentences you grabbed from the first couple of pages.
As an aside and a personal opinion, the first of your quotations is actually a truth, not garbage. OSS has been playing catch up for quite some time, as it had a much later start. Granted, it's come a lot farther in a lot less time, but that doesn't change history.
Anyways, if this sounds like a rant, it probably is. After reading all 47 pages, the last thing I wanted to see was a blatent troll cluttering the forums.
Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?
Answer: Both. There's never been as great a need to end corporate influence over government as there is today. With the advent of the net, we have more to lose as a society (as a world) than ever before.
That being said, don't stop asserting digital rights. Furthermore, if you're serious about stopping political corruption now instead of later, take a look at the Clean Election movement. Cut out the campaign contributions and you instantly relieve the stranglehold that corporations have over government.
Well, here's a thought: Maybe Apple should consider support for a limited set of x86 hardware. This makes sense for a couple reasons.
1. They can do extensive testing on a small set of hardware and make sure it works, then sell it all bundled with virtually the same experience (stability, etc.) that Mac users have now.
2. If they provide the OS available seperately (I can always hope) then there's pretty much a guarantee that people will start writing drivers and experimenting with other hardware.
I'm not too shortsighted to acknowledge that there's a lot more too it than that, but I figure if there's any chance that the OS could somehow appear on x86, I may as well try and add my support. I can't afford two sets of hardware at this point in my life, and I've got a lot more options on x86 for the time being. I (and probably more than a few others) would love to give Apple a chance to win my support, but that just isn't possible until there's an x86 version.
Because there are a lot of college kids out there like myself who would gladly buy the OS, but just can't afford more hardware. If it were available to the less financially well off college age crowd on x86, there would be a much better chance of us moving over to Apple's hardware down the line. However, for myself, and probably for a lot of other people, the means and incentive to even check it out just aren't there.
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One of those things they bought up and sort of forgot about.
Pipes wasn't an acquired product, it was built in-house at the now-defunct Yahoo! Brickhouse.
Someone should hash it out for you...
Don't try running your system at default runlevel 5 when messing with the video. Use runlevel 3 and startx.
/sbin'
Just a quick addendum for the original poster's sake. The easiest/quickest way to do this in RH9 (I think) is the following:
Open a command terminal
Type 'su' and enter the root password
Type 'cd
Type './telinit 3'
This should get you to runlevel 3 (ie. no desktop, just a big command line). When you're finished updating your video drivers, follow the steps listed above but change the last command to './telinit 5' Assuming you didn't break anything, this will bring you back to your graphical login screen w/the new drivers running.
I was in a very similar position two years ago after my first year in college.
In my case, I decided to ship my comp. from Chicago back to Boston via the USPS in order to save on cost (we drove in the fall). Including insurance, the total came out to around $25 for regular ground shipping (and nothing broke). If memory serves, the package took about a week to arrive.
For packing, I used the original cardboard box/packing materials the system came in (ie, styrofoam and packing peanuts) and a lot of tape. I left most of my peripherals at school (including my monitor), so I was able to ship the rest in a small, heavily-taped box.
FWIW, I've since given up on shipping my system back and forth. I figured it was more cost-effective (for me, at least) to buy a second system on pricewatch and burn whatever data I needed to take with me. Given your situation, this may not be relevant, but I figured it was worth mentioning. G'luck.
Relax, it's just a ranking, and a largely subjective one at that. Like the reviewer wrote, FF8 was a game you either loved or hated. Some of us (myself included) really did enjoy playing it.
Should it have been ranked #4? Maybe not, given the strong opinions held against it by many people. But then again, the same could also be said about FF9; not everyone enjoys playing as a monkey-man
At any rate, if you really want to show that the list was illegitimate, you'll need to provide a bit more concrete evidence.
Looks like we may be in for some good times in the near future...
It's a sad commentary on the current state of communications when 'good times' are those in which we are merely free from spam.
Well, if what the article said was accurate, you're not missing much as far as climate-related causes of avalanches. Basically, he said that if avalanches causing fatalities happen, they will most likely be caused by humans disturbing the snow cover, not because of natural conditions. He also said something about being able to predict almost all avalanches, check the article for details.
As for the purpose of his study, it seems to be focused more on with how an avalanche moves once it's triggered than on the actual cause. However, unless I missed something, he didn't make it clear how that data would be of use to most people. Maybe it could be used to construct climbing gear better suited to protecting someone caught in an avalanche, who knows. At any rate, I hope this answers your question.
Right, so you can block images from ad servers under Mozilla too, I really need to start getting more sleep.
That would make sense.
:)
Of course, at this point, I've lost my primary reason for touting Phoenix, but I do still like where they're going with it as far as modularity/configurability and the enhancements they've added. Image blocking from ad servers is definitely a plus.
In the meantime, I'm going to read up on virtual pages and figure out where it all went horribly, horribly wrong for me. Thanks for the clarification
You tell me and we'll both know :)
/., go figure.
Actually, I've wondered if something's amiss more than a few times, but I've got 512M and not enough time to spend figuring out where it's going right now. Interestingly enough, I still have time to post on
At any rate, the memory ratio between the two is probably right, even if the numbers themselves are horribly skewed.
Well, what jumps out at me is that, already, Phoenix is taking up 2/3 of the memory that Mozilla does. I just installed the 0.3 release, and it resides in 90M of RAM as opposed to ~140M for Mozilla.
While I like/use some of the extras that Mozilla incorporates, I'm going to be keeping an eye on the progress of Phoenix, because I definitely don't need all of them. The concept of a lightweight browser with the power of Mozilla and more configurability options has a lot of appeal to myself and presumably others. As far as the rendering speed, I don't suspect there would be a noticable difference for anyone, unless they were strapped for RAM. Phoenix is built on the Mozilla core, so both browsers would logically both incorporate the Gecko engine for rendering.
My only other suggestion would be to read the release notes for 0.3, they might shed some insight as to why the Phoenix people are doing what they're doing.
Your math was a bit off on one point. 100MB SCSI drives are 1/3000th the size of 300G IDE drives, not 1/3.
:)
That would leave you with a price tag of... $240 million, yikes. Maybe you could get some sort of savings for buying in bulk
At about 1$/G of storage, 50TB comes out to around $50,000.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I couldn't help noticing the timing after the last article.
To be fair, very few of Microsoft's competitors could actually do the same thing as Microsoft. Doing the same thing, in most cases, would include being readily available on newly purchased computers, and alas, we can't all have a monopoly.
That being said, Linux does a lot more than just the 'same thing' as Windows in many instances. It offers open source, open standards, more stability and much tighter security. As everyone reading this should know, it has a definite lack of task-specific end-user applications, but that's been steadily becoming less and less of a problem over the past few years.
For Microsoft, the rules are the same, but the opponent is a whole lot more resourceful and dangerous than it ever has been before.
Probably a better idea to write a dummy server that reads from the keyboard and sends it to the client.
...However, if you do that, it'll be a violation of my IP, and I'll use the DMCA to sue you into oblivion and take home the prize myself :)
Cheers!
You apparently didn't read the papers. Both of them.
The author makes it very clear in his second paper that he has completely changed his opinion on the GPL as a viable licensing model.
He spends a lot of time sorting out both the myths and truths surrounding the GPL's effect on closed-source companies, OSS developers, and consumers/end users. Especially interesting was his analysis of how dynamic linking to GPL code effects proprietary software development/licensing. In short, there was a lot more to the documents than the topic sentences you grabbed from the first couple of pages.
As an aside and a personal opinion, the first of your quotations is actually a truth, not garbage. OSS has been playing catch up for quite some time, as it had a much later start. Granted, it's come a lot farther in a lot less time, but that doesn't change history.
Anyways, if this sounds like a rant, it probably is. After reading all 47 pages, the last thing I wanted to see was a blatent troll cluttering the forums.
Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?
Answer: Both. There's never been as great a need to end corporate influence over government as there is today. With the advent of the net, we have more to lose as a society (as a world) than ever before.
That being said, don't stop asserting digital rights. Furthermore, if you're serious about stopping political corruption now instead of later, take a look at the Clean Election movement. Cut out the campaign contributions and you instantly relieve the stranglehold that corporations have over government.
One of these days I'll start hitting the preview button.
Well, here's a thought: Maybe Apple should consider support for a limited set of x86 hardware. This makes sense for a couple reasons. 1. They can do extensive testing on a small set of hardware and make sure it works, then sell it all bundled with virtually the same experience (stability, etc.) that Mac users have now. 2. If they provide the OS available seperately (I can always hope) then there's pretty much a guarantee that people will start writing drivers and experimenting with other hardware. I'm not too shortsighted to acknowledge that there's a lot more too it than that, but I figure if there's any chance that the OS could somehow appear on x86, I may as well try and add my support. I can't afford two sets of hardware at this point in my life, and I've got a lot more options on x86 for the time being. I (and probably more than a few others) would love to give Apple a chance to win my support, but that just isn't possible until there's an x86 version.
Because there are a lot of college kids out there like myself who would gladly buy the OS, but just can't afford more hardware. If it were available to the less financially well off college age crowd on x86, there would be a much better chance of us moving over to Apple's hardware down the line. However, for myself, and probably for a lot of other people, the means and incentive to even check it out just aren't there.