I have to wonder why this is modded as a troll. Despite the humor aspect of it, and the fact that hemp isn't smokable, hemp will grow where many other plants won't.
My only thinking is that hemp has got such a bad reputation because it is basically marijuana without the THC that people just dismiss it. It is really quite the versatile plant.
I'll second the vote on Bacula. Its good stuff. Very fast and efficient. I haven't done anything with Windows clients yet, though, so I can't vouch for how well that works.
You're only likely to install Linux once on your machine, so why do you want a friendly installer for it?
I don't. I run Gentoo.;-)
If they want a good configuration interface, they can do like others and have an "Expert" mode or separate dialog.)
If gconf-editor isn't an "expert" mode configuation tool, what is?
If GNOME were designed for usability, why does its file manager want to open up so many windows when I'll end up closing most of them?
It doesn't. You have lots of options. Like clicking the "Browse Filesystem" icon to get the the all-too-familiar Windows Explorer like interface.
Shift-double click, or double middle click will also close the parent window, when it opens the new window. There are also bookmarks in the new file selector, and a browse mode there.
How many people really spend time working with files on their desktop? I for one have just a handful of directories and files that I would use a file manager like this to manage on a regular basis. They're organized and a max of about three layers deep from my home directory.
Things like source code, various archives and such I don't manage with a file manager because the command line runs circles around them. Especially with tabbed terms like gnome-terminal or multi-gnome-terminal. Hotkeys to switch between tabs to edit multiple files on the same project, and two term windows open side or one over the other. Since I'm a touch-typist, I prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard rather than trying constantly be mucking about with the mouse.
For moving files around, spatial mode is much better in many regards. It allows you to easily have two directories (folders) open side by side without all the excess navigation icons, menus, controls etc. I can easily have a half dozen spatial folders open and a web browser (I'm growing rather fond of Epiphany) and a terminal or two open, and be able to see the contents of all of them simultaneously. How many folders can you see at once with file browser windows? Oh, thats right, only one.
At least Microsoft has realized that users don't treat local file systems that differently from web pages, and so many interface modalities should be shared.
Not quite. They do treat web pages differently than local file systems. The interfaces should be different because they are two very different tasks. Compared to the program manager of Windows 3.1, Windows Explorer was a very welcome improvement. Thats because program manager wasn't a file manager, but a way to manage and group programs together -- not data. To manage your files, you had to drop down to DOS and use something like Norton Commander or use X-Tree Pro or something like that. Just because it was better than what Microsoft had before, doesn't mean it was the best idea.
Spatial Nautilus to me is one of those "its about damn time" things. It is a welcome change from all of the browser based interfaces. It takes concepts of the most powerful desktop environment that I've ever used, the Workplace Shell in OS/2 and expands on it.
Every folder should be different because they contain different things. The fact that it remembers icon positions, view, emblems, can have different backgrounds, etc, is a breath of fresh air.
The biggest reason that people don't like it as far as I can tell is that its not just another carbon copy of the way that Windows does it. Its different and people hate change. Because they look at it and its not the same as what they are used to, they hate it and dismiss it -- whether or not they have even used it. Wars have been waged in our worlds past because of the exact same human shortcoming.
You don't have to chose MSN as your ISP. You can pick any ISP that is partnered with Qwest. Qwest has a listing of them on their website. Call one of those ISP's and they can give you more information and usually place your order for you. If the ISP places your order, you can be sure that Qwest won't "accidentally" sign you up for MSN service.
Not quite. I admit, I too am a victim of the mob mentality, a side effect of being constantly bombarded with it, I'm sure. The blame for it doesn't lie with those doing the bombarding, though, it lies within myself for succumbing to it. That is where the search for excellence lies.
If people bitching is searching for excellence, then I can assure them that they are not going to find it where they are looking.
The search for excellence should be sought by asking questions and searching for answers, then sharing those answers, not by complaining. Trust me on this one.
[begin mini-rant]
Working in a service industry (as the owner of an ISP), I am much more likely to spend time and give extensive support to someone who asks questions about a problem they are having. Most people would rather bitch for 5 minutes about how everything sucks because it doesn't do this, or it does this but not they way they want it to. Oh, and while they're bitching about it, they will of course tell you that whatever it is they are having problems with is somehow your fault. Even if its not your fault, its someone elses, thats for sure.
Its like they feel they are entitled to something and love the sound of their own voice and want to blame everything they don't understand or don't know on everyone else. Quite frankly, they need to get over themselves and realize they're not as entitled as they think they are.
[end mini-rant]
Back to the topic at hand. nVidia is under no obligation to provide drivers at all, let alone open source drivers. Granted, it is in their best interests to provide drivers since it means more potential platforms that their cards will work on. This means more sales -- the goal of any company. Compared to many other companies, nVidia is doing pretty well with their releases. They stay more current than most companies do and actually address bugs and problems in their drivers.
For the record, I don't have an nVidia card. I have Matrox cards in all of my systems. I still support nVidia's efforts and release of this driver.
Its not just the Linux people that like to complain. Its everyone these days. It seems that most people just aren't happy unless they're bitching about something or someone.
Kudos to nVidia for releasing 2.6 drivers in any form this soon after the initial release of 2.6.
I'm really surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Thats the one thing that I miss the most since switching from OS/2 to Linux about 9 years ago. The GUI of the future has been buried in the past. The Workplace Shell in OS/2 was the most impressive GUI I have ever used. It was very simple to keep thing organized, each folder on the desktop was a fully customizable container that could contain any sort of data you wanted. It even had the concept of symbolic links so you could have one document or file referenced in multiple locations and still have only one copy of it.
Using Gnome 2.2 (work) and 2.4 (home) now and have used KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, BlackBox, Enlightenment and everything else. About once every 6 months or so, I try various window managers and desktop "environments" and I can safely say that nothing comes close to being as good as the WorkPlace Shell was. If it were modernized a bit in appearance (icons and text prettied up a bit) I would switch to it in a heartbeat.
Okay, this may be a silly question, and one that has been asked many times before, but I haven't seen it here.
In every interview with Ralsky that I've read, I've seen him mention that he had to use open proxies, open relays, etc, etc. He doesn't seem to ever admit to having any systems that do the actual mail sending, instead he has always stated that he hijacks other systems to send out his garbage. There are many computer tresspass laws on the books here in the US already, and Ralsky is in the US. With his public statements, why hasn't the FBI picked him up for computer tresspassing charges?
With all he has done, it would not surprise me in the least if the examination of his computer network revealed the source for at least a few of the worms/viruses used to turn an Outlook Express user's computer into a spam sending drone. Again, there are laws on the books already that cover these sorts of illegal activities in the US.
Another thought that popped into my head, is why the IRS hasn't come after him for tax evasion? With all of his wealth, and his admitted morals, you know he hasn't claimed all of his income on his 1040's. A nice tax audit in the face of an FBI investigation would likely reveal all of those companies that are paying him to break the law and send their garbage out through these (essentially) hacked systems. They could also be brought up on charges as accomplices in any computer tresspass actions.
I guess the biggest problem is that there would need to be damages shown. Well, having run a regional ISP's mail servers for the last 10 years I can tell you, there are a lot of damages to be accounted for that are the direct cause of spam. The countless hours writing and implementing anti-spam filters, the angry customer phone calls, and all of the emails we get accusing us of selling our customer lists to spammers, etc. Not to mention the lost revenue from people switching providers because they were getting too much spam. The damages to our company over the last few years alone amounts to tens of thousands of dollars if not more. The AOL's, Verizon Online's, etc. have lost a lot more.
Its next to impossible to quantify in exact dollar amounts though. The process goes like this, "our mail servers need to be upgraded because the volume of mail is higher". Can it be attributed directly to spam, or to a growing customer base? Things may get easier after January 1st for us, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.
So if anyone out there sees this, and has a cousin or friend that works for the FBI or the IRS, you may want to turn them on to Ralsky and crew. Make him an example and others may (but probably won't) be deterred from entering the same line of (ahem) "work".
Ummm, no. Video games do not introduce violence to kids. Parents, society, movies, friends, neighbors, the news media, and.... wait for it.... history lessons in school introduce violence to kids. Some of the first lessons in school are taught to kids, that explain how we took this country violently from opressors, then we made a holiday from it that we celebrate every July. And lets not forget another holiday, Thanksgiving, where we tricked the natives in this country into helping us then took their land -- violently from them. Then there is of course the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam, the Gulf War, 9/11, etc., just to mention some of the highlights.
Face it, we as a species are violent.
Way off on point 2. Most places log calls and email. If someone starts bitching every time that effective througput drops below 190K, guess what? That ISP is going to stop listening, and quick. These are the sorts of customers ISP's hate hearing from, becuase most of the time customers that bitch like this think that the ISP actually can do point 1.
<Begin Rant>
Working for a regional ISP for the last 8 years, I can say that most of the time calls about bandwidth are from customers that we often call "Henny Penny" or "Boy crying wolf" type customers. If their ping time ever varies more than 3ms or their througput ever drops below what they think they should get, they call. More often than not, the problem is with the CPE, and not with the ISP. "Oh, you mean Kaaza on my other workstation will use bandwidth from this one?" I can't tell you how many times I've answered that question and had to bite my tounge trying not to call the caller on the other end of the phone a complete moron. Most of the time these are the sorts of speed complaints that come into an ISP call center, and you just have to be polite and explain to them in small words they will understand that their bandwidth, and the global Internet bandwidth is shared.
</End Rant>
The public Internet is the way it is (in wide spread use) because everyone does overbook. Broadband has made sure of that. There is no way an ISP can stay in business without overbooking, it just doesn't make financial sense. All ISP's now sell broadband connections -- including the Tier 1 ISP's. Where are these broadband customers getting their bandwidth? The same connections that they are providing to their business customers. Without heavy overbooking, $20-$30/month T1 speed DSL and Cable lines (not counting telco charges) would not be possible. The hard part of that equation for ISP's is making sure that you have enough aggregate bandwidth to enough other networks to satisfy peak traffic loads without maxing out all of your pipes.
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My first thought was "thats a good way to entice people to vote for you -- sue a school."
At least this way the'll get a little ink in the papers. *shrug*
I have to wonder why this is modded as a troll. Despite the humor aspect of it, and the fact that hemp isn't smokable, hemp will grow where many other plants won't. My only thinking is that hemp has got such a bad reputation because it is basically marijuana without the THC that people just dismiss it. It is really quite the versatile plant.
No, but I do think you're really uptight.
You seem extremely uptight. Perhaps you just need to get laid.
What is "rapeseed"? Is that what happens to soy beans in prison?
And here I thought the purpose of Congress was to provide balance and be the opposite of Progress. Silly me.
I'll second the vote on Bacula. Its good stuff. Very fast and efficient. I haven't done anything with Windows clients yet, though, so I can't vouch for how well that works.
Shift-double click, or double middle click will also close the parent window, when it opens the new window. There are also bookmarks in the new file selector, and a browse mode there.
How many people really spend time working with files on their desktop? I for one have just a handful of directories and files that I would use a file manager like this to manage on a regular basis. They're organized and a max of about three layers deep from my home directory.
Things like source code, various archives and such I don't manage with a file manager because the command line runs circles around them. Especially with tabbed terms like gnome-terminal or multi-gnome-terminal. Hotkeys to switch between tabs to edit multiple files on the same project, and two term windows open side or one over the other. Since I'm a touch-typist, I prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard rather than trying constantly be mucking about with the mouse.
For moving files around, spatial mode is much better in many regards. It allows you to easily have two directories (folders) open side by side without all the excess navigation icons, menus, controls etc. I can easily have a half dozen spatial folders open and a web browser (I'm growing rather fond of Epiphany) and a terminal or two open, and be able to see the contents of all of them simultaneously. How many folders can you see at once with file browser windows? Oh, thats right, only one.
Not quite. They do treat web pages differently than local file systems. The interfaces should be different because they are two very different tasks. Compared to the program manager of Windows 3.1, Windows Explorer was a very welcome improvement. Thats because program manager wasn't a file manager, but a way to manage and group programs together -- not data. To manage your files, you had to drop down to DOS and use something like Norton Commander or use X-Tree Pro or something like that. Just because it was better than what Microsoft had before, doesn't mean it was the best idea.Spatial Nautilus to me is one of those "its about damn time" things. It is a welcome change from all of the browser based interfaces. It takes concepts of the most powerful desktop environment that I've ever used, the Workplace Shell in OS/2 and expands on it.
Every folder should be different because they contain different things. The fact that it remembers icon positions, view, emblems, can have different backgrounds, etc, is a breath of fresh air.
The biggest reason that people don't like it as far as I can tell is that its not just another carbon copy of the way that Windows does it. Its different and people hate change. Because they look at it and its not the same as what they are used to, they hate it and dismiss it -- whether or not they have even used it. Wars have been waged in our worlds past because of the exact same human shortcoming.
Why are they leary of OSS?
Without knowing this, the discussion seems somewhat pointless.
You don't have to chose MSN as your ISP. You can pick any ISP that is partnered with Qwest. Qwest has a listing of them on their website. Call one of those ISP's and they can give you more information and usually place your order for you. If the ISP places your order, you can be sure that Qwest won't "accidentally" sign you up for MSN service.
Not quite. I admit, I too am a victim of the mob mentality, a side effect of being constantly bombarded with it, I'm sure. The blame for it doesn't lie with those doing the bombarding, though, it lies within myself for succumbing to it. That is where the search for excellence lies.
The search for excellence should be sought by asking questions and searching for answers, then sharing those answers, not by complaining. Trust me on this one.
[begin mini-rant]
Working in a service industry (as the owner of an ISP), I am much more likely to spend time and give extensive support to someone who asks questions about a problem they are having. Most people would rather bitch for 5 minutes about how everything sucks because it doesn't do this, or it does this but not they way they want it to. Oh, and while they're bitching about it, they will of course tell you that whatever it is they are having problems with is somehow your fault. Even if its not your fault, its someone elses, thats for sure.
Its like they feel they are entitled to something and love the sound of their own voice and want to blame everything they don't understand or don't know on everyone else. Quite frankly, they need to get over themselves and realize they're not as entitled as they think they are.
[end mini-rant]
Back to the topic at hand. nVidia is under no obligation to provide drivers at all, let alone open source drivers. Granted, it is in their best interests to provide drivers since it means more potential platforms that their cards will work on. This means more sales -- the goal of any company. Compared to many other companies, nVidia is doing pretty well with their releases. They stay more current than most companies do and actually address bugs and problems in their drivers.
For the record, I don't have an nVidia card. I have Matrox cards in all of my systems. I still support nVidia's efforts and release of this driver.
Kudos to nVidia for releasing 2.6 drivers in any form this soon after the initial release of 2.6.
Using Gnome 2.2 (work) and 2.4 (home) now and have used KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, BlackBox, Enlightenment and everything else. About once every 6 months or so, I try various window managers and desktop "environments" and I can safely say that nothing comes close to being as good as the WorkPlace Shell was. If it were modernized a bit in appearance (icons and text prettied up a bit) I would switch to it in a heartbeat.
In every interview with Ralsky that I've read, I've seen him mention that he had to use open proxies, open relays, etc, etc. He doesn't seem to ever admit to having any systems that do the actual mail sending, instead he has always stated that he hijacks other systems to send out his garbage. There are many computer tresspass laws on the books here in the US already, and Ralsky is in the US. With his public statements, why hasn't the FBI picked him up for computer tresspassing charges?
With all he has done, it would not surprise me in the least if the examination of his computer network revealed the source for at least a few of the worms/viruses used to turn an Outlook Express user's computer into a spam sending drone. Again, there are laws on the books already that cover these sorts of illegal activities in the US.
Another thought that popped into my head, is why the IRS hasn't come after him for tax evasion? With all of his wealth, and his admitted morals, you know he hasn't claimed all of his income on his 1040's. A nice tax audit in the face of an FBI investigation would likely reveal all of those companies that are paying him to break the law and send their garbage out through these (essentially) hacked systems. They could also be brought up on charges as accomplices in any computer tresspass actions.
I guess the biggest problem is that there would need to be damages shown. Well, having run a regional ISP's mail servers for the last 10 years I can tell you, there are a lot of damages to be accounted for that are the direct cause of spam. The countless hours writing and implementing anti-spam filters, the angry customer phone calls, and all of the emails we get accusing us of selling our customer lists to spammers, etc. Not to mention the lost revenue from people switching providers because they were getting too much spam. The damages to our company over the last few years alone amounts to tens of thousands of dollars if not more. The AOL's, Verizon Online's, etc. have lost a lot more.
Its next to impossible to quantify in exact dollar amounts though. The process goes like this, "our mail servers need to be upgraded because the volume of mail is higher". Can it be attributed directly to spam, or to a growing customer base? Things may get easier after January 1st for us, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.
So if anyone out there sees this, and has a cousin or friend that works for the FBI or the IRS, you may want to turn them on to Ralsky and crew. Make him an example and others may (but probably won't) be deterred from entering the same line of (ahem) "work".
DS3's are full duplex. They have seperate upload and download channels, so its 45Mb in each direction.
Ummm, no. Video games do not introduce violence to kids. Parents, society, movies, friends, neighbors, the news media, and.... wait for it.... history lessons in school introduce violence to kids. Some of the first lessons in school are taught to kids, that explain how we took this country violently from opressors, then we made a holiday from it that we celebrate every July. And lets not forget another holiday, Thanksgiving, where we tricked the natives in this country into helping us then took their land -- violently from them. Then there is of course the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam, the Gulf War, 9/11, etc., just to mention some of the highlights. Face it, we as a species are violent.
Way off on point 2. Most places log calls and email. If someone starts bitching every time that effective througput drops below 190K, guess what? That ISP is going to stop listening, and quick. These are the sorts of customers ISP's hate hearing from, becuase most of the time customers that bitch like this think that the ISP actually can do point 1.
<Begin Rant>
Working for a regional ISP for the last 8 years, I can say that most of the time calls about bandwidth are from customers that we often call "Henny Penny" or "Boy crying wolf" type customers. If their ping time ever varies more than 3ms or their througput ever drops below what they think they should get, they call. More often than not, the problem is with the CPE, and not with the ISP. "Oh, you mean Kaaza on my other workstation will use bandwidth from this one?" I can't tell you how many times I've answered that question and had to bite my tounge trying not to call the caller on the other end of the phone a complete moron. Most of the time these are the sorts of speed complaints that come into an ISP call center, and you just have to be polite and explain to them in small words they will understand that their bandwidth, and the global Internet bandwidth is shared.
</End Rant>
The public Internet is the way it is (in wide spread use) because everyone does overbook. Broadband has made sure of that. There is no way an ISP can stay in business without overbooking, it just doesn't make financial sense. All ISP's now sell broadband connections -- including the Tier 1 ISP's. Where are these broadband customers getting their bandwidth? The same connections that they are providing to their business customers. Without heavy overbooking, $20-$30/month T1 speed DSL and Cable lines (not counting telco charges) would not be possible. The hard part of that equation for ISP's is making sure that you have enough aggregate bandwidth to enough other networks to satisfy peak traffic loads without maxing out all of your pipes.