The REAL problem with the trailers was showing Gandalf in it! I have read the books many times myself, but most of my friends have not. All of them were asking, "Does Gandalf come back?" after the first movie ended. I lied and told them, "No." to make it more exciting for them, but instead they ruin my whole plan in the trailers!
Don't complain about news like this being posted... It's almost 3:00am EST, I'm working a night shift, and I'm just happy that there is some sort of posting going on at all. More power to these New Zealand geeks...
I gave it a quick read, and it's a good start. Most important thing is to keep working on it. There are already so many problems with people that never take the time to learn how to code securely, you don't want people stopping by, reading only what you have, and thinking they can now pump out error-proof code. And that is exactly what will happen if you leave just that part up. Not attacking you, I really do think it's great work so far. Make sure you do the world justice, however, and continue to work on the project.
The best news is that I now have a Linux distro that is exactly what I'm looking for. I got DISGUSTED with RedHat when I actually started poking around the kernel/packages and realized how bloated it is. I tried Gentoo, but I'll be honest, I just don't think I'm up to that level of Linux knowledge/comfort yet. Took me three installs (which are LENGTHY processes by the way) to even get it installed and working, and by that time the "emerge" function (the basis for the whole portage system) wasn't working right. Gentoo isn't worth much without emerge.:) Anyways, even if the previous installer problems were only myth, that is a mute point. The point is that now people KNOW it has a better installer (on it's way in anycase) and should be able to nicely fill the gap between those than don't care that their Kernel compiles support for RAID, IDE and SCSI drives all at once no matter what your system setup is (i.e. RedHat and Mandrake) and those that enjoying recompiling their kernel 17 times before they have a working installation (i.e. Gentoo and Slackware)
The question I want to raise is this: Could this be bad news for Debian? Is a more friendly installer going to end up with a more bloated distribution as well?
I'm installing Mandrake on a laptop right next to me as we speak.
Yes, you can install Mandrake from a command line.
Not sure about the performance on a lowend machine, however. . .
I'm working on it right now. I needed a new distro to mess around with anyway. I had always heard that the Debian installation was just a complete mess, so this is a step in the right direction. Hearing even slight news like this is enough to make me try it out, and I'm sure it'll help convince other people too.
Are we allowed to include fantasy in this discussion? My favorite books period, ever, have to be the Dragonlance Trilogy. Nevermind that it was part of one of those overplayed TSR worlds that subsequently destroyed that particular universe... the original three books were INCREDIBLE (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night and Dragons of Spring Dawning). The primary reason these books compell me so is because of the character development. The psychological and emotional build up of the characters in the books is astounding. You get happy when something good happens, you want to cry when a charcater dies and you get furious when they are thwarted by the bad guys. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are extremely talented writters, combining both psychological insight and excellent character development with ease-of-reading. I'm no idiot, but personally I prefer to be able to drift off with a book. That why I read fiction. If I wanted to have to re-read each page twice (ala Dune) I'd be reading non-fiction.
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Altavista is difficult to type. Although I used the search engine for years and years (and sometimes even still find myself typing www.altavista.digital.com - lol) typing google.com takes half the time. Your fingers just slide over it. Google will remain #1 for this reason alone.:)
No, it's basically the opposite. Anything falling under definition of GNU (including Linux) is required to have GNU in the name. Infact, almost every major distribution you know should have GNU in the name. GNU/Mandrake, GNU/RedHat, GNU/Debian, GNU/Gentoo... If you really want to get technical (like you obviously are attempting to do) there are many places you should be seeing GNU that you aren't.
GNU/Linux is a perfectly acceptable and legal way of describing Linux.
You do know what GNU stands for and what it means, right?
And, because I don't listen to music much or want to watch the latest films, the only high bandwidth "application" for me is when I do off-site backups (yeah, I work from home). Which I can do overnight.
Who generates enough crud to require transmission of huge amounts of data anyway? Seriously, is there anyone here who has a non-entertainment reason for broadband? (not "here's one, but it doesn't apply to me".. I want to know how many people REALLY need it) "It's faster to download web pages" doesn't count, unless you can read at more than 56kbps.
I do network security work, and occasionally need to VPN in to help with a situation when I'm not in the office. There is no way I could be streaming real-time Intrusion Detection System logs from dozens of sensors as well as monitoring firewall status or changes router ACL's on a 56k connection. Just not going to happen. One of my room mates does web design and graphic design. A lot of flash, fancy, dynamic HTML stuff. There is no way he could upload and download the large graphical files he is working on at an efficient speed over 56k.
There are still people out there without broadband?
No, seriously, I personally can't even imagine life without a 1.5mbit SDSL connection. Much slower speeds (atleast around here in Northern Virginia) are the same monthly price as an AOL account. I understand reasons for not investing, but for the same amount of money? Why in God's name not? Is broadband that expensive in other area of the country?
..of this that I can think of was the guy who invented the Frappucino for Starbucks. He was a regular employee at one of their stores, and all employees sign a release at Starbucks automatically giving the company all rights to newly invented drinks. Starbucks bought this poor guy a Rolex. That's it. I mean, sure, a Rolex is nice, but how many millions upon millions must Starbucks have made off of Frappucino's by now?
...is when you read Pioneer's press release on the matter. All they care to say is that "damage may occur" to your drive or media. No mention of implosions, explosions, melting, burning or other various hazards.
I'm not specifically picking on the post I replied to, but to all of the posts of this train of thought.
You guys, I thought we were GEEKS here. I would love a VoIP cell phone, purely because it would be a VoIP cell phone. I am logged into AOL Instant Messenger 24 hours a day on my desktop, my laptop (when not in transit) my work machine AND my cellphone under 4 different names. Why? Just cause it's cool. I spend ridiculous amounts of money to constantly keep my computer hardware top-notch, cause I enjoy it. I run 4 different operating systems (Sun, RedHat, Windows and an AMIGA) on my machines, because I think it's neat. I mess around with proto-type and beta operating systems and software cause it's fun. I built a switch for my gaming consoles so I wouldn't have to unplug and replug their RCA cables, cause it was an enjoyable project. I own a 8-line modem switch so I can dial into my house and tape drives from the 1970's cause they're awesome things to have.
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We're geeks, come on. Talk about how cool this is. Don't go attacking everything that comes by that is impracticle! Geeks are all ABOUT impracticle items/obsessions.
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The REAL problem with the trailers was showing Gandalf in it! I have read the books many times myself, but most of my friends have not. All of them were asking, "Does Gandalf come back?" after the first movie ended. I lied and told them, "No." to make it more exciting for them, but instead they ruin my whole plan in the trailers!
Was this not given any foresight?
Don't complain about news like this being posted... It's almost 3:00am EST, I'm working a night shift, and I'm just happy that there is some sort of posting going on at all.
More power to these New Zealand geeks...
Yeah, that one did suck.
How about:
In SOVIET RUSSIA the fiber cable lays YOU!
1. Create popular software program
:)
2. Sell popular software program
3. Force fees on users after the fact
4. ????
5. Profit!!!
Actually, I guess in this cause you can skip number 4 entirely.
I gave it a quick read, and it's a good start. Most important thing is to keep working on it. There are already so many problems with people that never take the time to learn how to code securely, you don't want people stopping by, reading only what you have, and thinking they can now pump out error-proof code. And that is exactly what will happen if you leave just that part up.
Not attacking you, I really do think it's great work so far. Make sure you do the world justice, however, and continue to work on the project.
The best news is that I now have a Linux distro that is exactly what I'm looking for. I got DISGUSTED with RedHat when I actually started poking around the kernel/packages and realized how bloated it is. I tried Gentoo, but I'll be honest, I just don't think I'm up to that level of Linux knowledge/comfort yet. Took me three installs (which are LENGTHY processes by the way) to even get it installed and working, and by that time the "emerge" function (the basis for the whole portage system) wasn't working right. Gentoo isn't worth much without emerge. :)
Anyways, even if the previous installer problems were only myth, that is a mute point. The point is that now people KNOW it has a better installer (on it's way in anycase) and should be able to nicely fill the gap between those than don't care that their Kernel compiles support for RAID, IDE and SCSI drives all at once no matter what your system setup is (i.e. RedHat and Mandrake) and those that enjoying recompiling their kernel 17 times before they have a working installation (i.e. Gentoo and Slackware)
The question I want to raise is this: Could this be bad news for Debian? Is a more friendly installer going to end up with a more bloated distribution as well?
I'm installing Mandrake on a laptop right next to me as we speak.
Yes, you can install Mandrake from a command line.
Not sure about the performance on a lowend machine, however. . .
I'm working on it right now. I needed a new distro to mess around with anyway. I had always heard that the Debian installation was just a complete mess, so this is a step in the right direction. Hearing even slight news like this is enough to make me try it out, and I'm sure it'll help convince other people too.
Are we allowed to include fantasy in this discussion?
My favorite books period, ever, have to be the Dragonlance Trilogy. Nevermind that it was part of one of those overplayed TSR worlds that subsequently destroyed that particular universe... the original three books were INCREDIBLE (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night and Dragons of Spring Dawning).
The primary reason these books compell me so is because of the character development. The psychological and emotional build up of the characters in the books is astounding. You get happy when something good happens, you want to cry when a charcater dies and you get furious when they are thwarted by the bad guys.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are extremely talented writters, combining both psychological insight and excellent character development with ease-of-reading. I'm no idiot, but personally I prefer to be able to drift off with a book. That why I read fiction. If I wanted to have to re-read each page twice (ala Dune) I'd be reading non-fiction.
Altavista is difficult to type. Although I used the search engine for years and years (and sometimes even still find myself typing www.altavista.digital.com - lol) typing google.com takes half the time. Your fingers just slide over it. Google will remain #1 for this reason alone. :)
No, it's basically the opposite. Anything falling under definition of GNU (including Linux) is required to have GNU in the name. Infact, almost every major distribution you know should have GNU in the name. GNU/Mandrake, GNU/RedHat, GNU/Debian, GNU/Gentoo... If you really want to get technical (like you obviously are attempting to do) there are many places you should be seeing GNU that you aren't. GNU/Linux is a perfectly acceptable and legal way of describing Linux. You do know what GNU stands for and what it means, right?
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things?
FIRST POST!
And something about a beowulf cluster.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
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I'm going to get kicked off of Slashdot for this, aren't I?
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these? Sorry. :(
Repost. About a month ago.
And, because I don't listen to music much or want to watch the latest films, the only high bandwidth "application" for me is when I do off-site backups (yeah, I work from home). Which I can do overnight. Who generates enough crud to require transmission of huge amounts of data anyway? Seriously, is there anyone here who has a non-entertainment reason for broadband? (not "here's one, but it doesn't apply to me".. I want to know how many people REALLY need it) "It's faster to download web pages" doesn't count, unless you can read at more than 56kbps.
I do network security work, and occasionally need to VPN in to help with a situation when I'm not in the office. There is no way I could be streaming real-time Intrusion Detection System logs from dozens of sensors as well as monitoring firewall status or changes router ACL's on a 56k connection. Just not going to happen.
One of my room mates does web design and graphic design. A lot of flash, fancy, dynamic HTML stuff. There is no way he could upload and download the large graphical files he is working on at an efficient speed over 56k.
There are still people out there without broadband?
No, seriously, I personally can't even imagine life without a 1.5mbit SDSL connection. Much slower speeds (atleast around here in Northern Virginia) are the same monthly price as an AOL account. I understand reasons for not investing, but for the same amount of money? Why in God's name not? Is broadband that expensive in other area of the country?
..of this that I can think of was the guy who invented the Frappucino for Starbucks. He was a regular employee at one of their stores, and all employees sign a release at Starbucks automatically giving the company all rights to newly invented drinks.
Starbucks bought this poor guy a Rolex. That's it. I mean, sure, a Rolex is nice, but how many millions upon millions must Starbucks have made off of Frappucino's by now?
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Entirely off topic, but sad none the less. God bless Slashdot. Up to the minute news, even when reading entirely unrelated threads. :)
...is when you read Pioneer's press release on the matter. All they care to say is that "damage may occur" to your drive or media. No mention of implosions, explosions, melting, burning or other various hazards.
I'm not specifically picking on the post I replied to, but to all of the posts of this train of thought.
You guys, I thought we were GEEKS here. I would love a VoIP cell phone, purely because it would be a VoIP cell phone. I am logged into AOL Instant Messenger 24 hours a day on my desktop, my laptop (when not in transit) my work machine AND my cellphone under 4 different names. Why? Just cause it's cool. I spend ridiculous amounts of money to constantly keep my computer hardware top-notch, cause I enjoy it. I run 4 different operating systems (Sun, RedHat, Windows and an AMIGA) on my machines, because I think it's neat. I mess around with proto-type and beta operating systems and software cause it's fun. I built a switch for my gaming consoles so I wouldn't have to unplug and replug their RCA cables, cause it was an enjoyable project. I own a 8-line modem switch so I can dial into my house and tape drives from the 1970's cause they're awesome things to have.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
We're geeks, come on. Talk about how cool this is. Don't go attacking everything that comes by that is impracticle! Geeks are all ABOUT impracticle items/obsessions.
Send me one. I'll start using it now.
Is this a big deal for us? I don't see how it's a big deal for anyone. I thought everyone already owned a DVD player or two or three.
Is Holland really utopia?
:D
Yup. Just about.