AOL is usually pretty realiable for dial up. They've dropped the requirement of the browser. Maybe if they drop: -The fee thats atleast $10 more than everyone else -The buggy browser by default -The advertisements (haven't used it for a while, does it still advertise when you sign on?) More people will find it appealing, and the people who already use it will be happier
Most people think its SCO free already, and couldn't care less, but the insurance is a great thing. Just wondering, what is up with the SCO case? Haven't heard about 'em in a while now.
I wouldn't consider Gigablast a major contender, yet.... It looks nice, minimalist like google. The ads (Gigabits) are in a seperated section. Also, Gigablast appears to be handling the Slash blast just fine. If it can survive./, thats a good sign. I haven't had much time to test out its search capabilities, and yes, it doesn't have that many pages indexed compared to google, but it has a chance. I could see it picking up.
It really exists guys. Don't we all just love our text mode pacman!
> Up
The ghost looms ahead!
Download it here:
www.freewebs.com/dansworlddomination/PACMAN.EXE
Thats a great idea. Never seen anything like it. I have similar problems. For example, while my sister visits barbie, I wouldn't get kicked off,we could both be on it and not know it. Playing two intensive games at once might not work though. Its a great idea. All I can say
That sounds pretty sweet. The cool factors pretty high, but what is the use? Some good recognition there. The only complaint I have, is how much R&D money went into this. This doesn't have much use besides "that song on the radio you've being dying to know". I'm thinking, couldn't R&D money go towards something better?
This is perfect. Linux does have other problems, I must admit. But, hardware was a huge one. For example, the first time I installed debian, it took me forever to figure out how to get X how to use anything but VGA. Once I figured out my way around linux, it became easy, but it still took my a while to figure out how to install my graphic's card driver and such. Having default hardware, where they know what drivers to use, etc. will take a lot of scare and hastle away from the user. For example, if Debian new that every user used an NVidia GeForce, they'd probably bundle the GeForce driver as default. Standard hardware will solve many headaches. All the power to them!
Yes, it helps the firewall a lot. It also forces the user to choose or not choose auto-update (Great idea), and, it modifies IE. IE lets you know when something tries to install itself, and you need to right click and go through some steps. Its not just a simple yes/no dialog that the user always clicks yes on without reading. Helps keep people from getting spyware IMO.
At first, I thought: stupid troll, I hate trolls and people that post offtopic for now reason. But after reading it, I can't disagree. We need something like this as a story. Its 100% true.
Yes, IE does add to the problem, but many free games and programs come bundled with spyware, and some people even download Bonzi Buddy because it looks interesting.
Spyware is a big problem which isn't Window's fault. Because windows is the biggest, it gets targetted by spyware. You can still right a program which uses 100% CPU Usage and makes everything really slow,etc. for another OS, no matter how secure. Unfortunetly, its targeted at windows. My friend thought that windows XP was horrible because it was running so slow. On a 2ghz, it would take 5 minutes to load IE. I showed him Ad-Aware from lavasoft. It detected 589 spyware objects, quite a few of them different. I found that a big problem with spyware, is not only the spying, yet the fact that it slows your system to a hault. If this works, and makes spyware go away, or atleast well known spyware label itself (such as gator), I will rejoice.
I think he is good for the same reason. Hackers, in the cracker sense do deserve large amounts of jail time. If you steal a CD, your fined more than the $30 retail value. You contribute to the worms and viruses which ruin many new computer users internet experiences, take down websites, etc. you deserve big time and fines.
Warning, the above link is not what it appears. It attempts to redirect to various website that you do not want to vist (hint hint: goatse). But, before you can ever reach those, so many pop ups pop up that it would freeze a windows computer. I never got a chance at looking at the source, but I'm guessing its just a java loop generating pop up windows. This usually will freeze Win 9x computers, so don't click it.
I think the solution to your problem(s) would be semi obvios.
First off, if your booting from the cd-rom, the only way you could possibly save to your desktop is if Knoppix created a ramdisk as a temp HD(you just said it doesn't use partitions). Thus, powering down your computer would kill that. Next, booting of a cd-rom is never fast. Lets compare the speed:
CD-Rom Drive : 52x Max (above might have been using a slow model)
Hard Drive : Usually around 7200x although, some 5400x are around today. Plus, the harddisk has a lot more per plader. 52x a small cd-rom track, or 7200x a huge hd track. That would make up for the boot time. Install linux to your HD... It will boot quite a bit faster. Plus, certain CD-R's don't operate at full 52x. Install to HD. No missing files (no viruses or crashes either), and a boot time similar to XP (a little longer but restarting less then 1/year it doesn't really matter).
To be truthfull, I wouldn't find it practical to run of a cd-rom boot. I installed Mandrake to harddrive. Disk Drake created partitions for me without frying my NTFS Partition(thats right, non destructive resizing built into the install). Then, it booted and hasn't crashed yet. I've installed linux and never looked back. Trust me, Windows works pretty good, but once you get the right Linux setup, there is no comparison.
I can understand them needing 20K. First off, they probably get just as much traffic as slashdot if not more. After seeing what a slashdotting does, and figuring how many people visit slashdot and don't even click the link, those are some heavy load servers. They are also mainly having problems because of redundancy. At least thats what they appear to have said. They don't need just one high power server, they need 3 or 4. I have to admit, those are some great deals. I'm not sure if eBay is the best place to get servers though. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Its free as in libra.
Think, every know and then you get free beer.
If there was a beer company that always gave out free beer, it would go out of business. Hopefully, people would realize that it was giving out so much that it needed support and would donate. You can only bring free beer so far without needing some kind of support. Yes, it is free as in libra. And, it pushes the limits of free beer.
Actually, depending on your Distro, those Linux problems can be solved. Mandrake, had a reputation for being unstable, I know. Try it though. 9.2 is increadibly stable. I have no problems with it except for a long boot up time. This isn't a problem because I don't need to reboot. Lets see how many big problems are solved...
The Mandrake Installer is 100% Graphical. It is also much better looking than Windows. It starts off, loads everything, and comes up with prettier gradients than Mac OS(I don't care about this but some people do). It then allows you to repartition your drive with DiskDrake, pretty, graphical, easy. Resize NTFS Partitions without killing your data, etc. Than, choose packages, from 1000nd's of software packages if you have all 3 CD's. Click install, and watch as everything installs in less than half hour, less than the time it takes windows to install less. Now, reboot and you have a graphical boot loader (lilo), already preconfigured with all operating systems that were already installed plus linux. Boot up, it boots into X instantly. Want to configure something? Use Mandrake Control Center. It looks like Windows Control Panel, except it is more organized and has more options. I haven't needed to edit a config file yet. You can also disable all the bells and whistles and use it like any other Distro. It also includes RPM and URPMI. This includes a graphical RPM installer. Than, there's RPM Drake for additional packages from Mandrake, Mandrake Update, and various other utilities. The only problem left is really dependencies. Unless you figure out URPMI, you can still have trouble with dependencies. The high majority are included, but I've had trouble with Glade#2. Most holes are gone.
I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile, a variant of Windows CE. It hasn't crashed once, is as fast at loading as dos, etc. When Microsoft is forced to make a small OS, they do a good job. Just think, Windows CE, Ms-Dos(Ok, not quite Microsoft but, you get the idea), Windows 3.1. Those are very stable. In some cases, MS does a good job. Just because the 9x line was pretty bad doesn't mean that the mobile line is too.
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AOL is usually pretty realiable for dial up.
They've dropped the requirement of the browser. Maybe if they drop:
-The fee thats atleast $10 more than everyone else
-The buggy browser by default
-The advertisements (haven't used it for a while, does it still advertise when you sign on?)
More people will find it appealing, and the people who already use it will be happier
Most people think its SCO free already, and couldn't care less, but the insurance is a great thing. Just wondering, what is up with the SCO case? Haven't heard about 'em in a while now.
I wouldn't consider Gigablast a major contender, yet.... It looks nice, minimalist like google. The ads (Gigabits) are in a seperated section. Also, Gigablast appears to be handling the Slash blast just fine. If it can survive ./, thats a good sign. I haven't had much time to test out its search capabilities, and yes, it doesn't have that many pages indexed compared to google, but it has a chance. I could see it picking up.
It really exists guys. Don't we all just love our text mode pacman! > Up The ghost looms ahead! Download it here: www.freewebs.com/dansworlddomination/PACMAN.EXE
Thats a great idea. Never seen anything like it. I have similar problems. For example, while my sister visits barbie, I wouldn't get kicked off,we could both be on it and not know it. Playing two intensive games at once might not work though. Its a great idea. All I can say
That sounds pretty sweet. The cool factors pretty high, but what is the use? Some good recognition there. The only complaint I have, is how much R&D money went into this. This doesn't have much use besides "that song on the radio you've being dying to know". I'm thinking, couldn't R&D money go towards something better?
This is perfect. Linux does have other problems, I must admit. But, hardware was a huge one. For example, the first time I installed debian, it took me forever to figure out how to get X how to use anything but VGA. Once I figured out my way around linux, it became easy, but it still took my a while to figure out how to install my graphic's card driver and such. Having default hardware, where they know what drivers to use, etc. will take a lot of scare and hastle away from the user. For example, if Debian new that every user used an NVidia GeForce, they'd probably bundle the GeForce driver as default. Standard hardware will solve many headaches. All the power to them!
Yes, it helps the firewall a lot. It also forces the user to choose or not choose auto-update (Great idea), and, it modifies IE. IE lets you know when something tries to install itself, and you need to right click and go through some steps. Its not just a simple yes/no dialog that the user always clicks yes on without reading. Helps keep people from getting spyware IMO.
At first, I thought: stupid troll, I hate trolls and people that post offtopic for now reason. But after reading it, I can't disagree. We need something like this as a story. Its 100% true.
Use Windows for Defense Applications...
When the missile launcher fails, reboot
Yes, IE does add to the problem, but many free games and programs come bundled with spyware, and some people even download Bonzi Buddy because it looks interesting.
Spyware is a big problem which isn't Window's fault. Because windows is the biggest, it gets targetted by spyware. You can still right a program which uses 100% CPU Usage and makes everything really slow,etc. for another OS, no matter how secure. Unfortunetly, its targeted at windows. My friend thought that windows XP was horrible because it was running so slow. On a 2ghz, it would take 5 minutes to load IE. I showed him Ad-Aware from lavasoft. It detected 589 spyware objects, quite a few of them different. I found that a big problem with spyware, is not only the spying, yet the fact that it slows your system to a hault. If this works, and makes spyware go away, or atleast well known spyware label itself (such as gator), I will rejoice.
I think he is good for the same reason. Hackers, in the cracker sense do deserve large amounts of jail time. If you steal a CD, your fined more than the $30 retail value. You contribute to the worms and viruses which ruin many new computer users internet experiences, take down websites, etc. you deserve big time and fines.
But does it run Linu..... oh!
Do they run linux? j/k
Does it run linu.... oh
Warning, the above link is not what it appears. It attempts to redirect to various website that you do not want to vist (hint hint: goatse). But, before you can ever reach those, so many pop ups pop up that it would freeze a windows computer. I never got a chance at looking at the source, but I'm guessing its just a java loop generating pop up windows. This usually will freeze Win 9x computers, so don't click it.
I think the solution to your problem(s) would be semi obvios. First off, if your booting from the cd-rom, the only way you could possibly save to your desktop is if Knoppix created a ramdisk as a temp HD(you just said it doesn't use partitions). Thus, powering down your computer would kill that. Next, booting of a cd-rom is never fast. Lets compare the speed: CD-Rom Drive : 52x Max (above might have been using a slow model) Hard Drive : Usually around 7200x although, some 5400x are around today. Plus, the harddisk has a lot more per plader. 52x a small cd-rom track, or 7200x a huge hd track. That would make up for the boot time. Install linux to your HD... It will boot quite a bit faster. Plus, certain CD-R's don't operate at full 52x. Install to HD. No missing files (no viruses or crashes either), and a boot time similar to XP (a little longer but restarting less then 1/year it doesn't really matter). To be truthfull, I wouldn't find it practical to run of a cd-rom boot. I installed Mandrake to harddrive. Disk Drake created partitions for me without frying my NTFS Partition(thats right, non destructive resizing built into the install). Then, it booted and hasn't crashed yet. I've installed linux and never looked back. Trust me, Windows works pretty good, but once you get the right Linux setup, there is no comparison.
I can understand them needing 20K. First off, they probably get just as much traffic as slashdot if not more. After seeing what a slashdotting does, and figuring how many people visit slashdot and don't even click the link, those are some heavy load servers. They are also mainly having problems because of redundancy. At least thats what they appear to have said. They don't need just one high power server, they need 3 or 4. I have to admit, those are some great deals. I'm not sure if eBay is the best place to get servers though. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Its free as in libra. Think, every know and then you get free beer. If there was a beer company that always gave out free beer, it would go out of business. Hopefully, people would realize that it was giving out so much that it needed support and would donate. You can only bring free beer so far without needing some kind of support. Yes, it is free as in libra. And, it pushes the limits of free beer.
You people only have closets! I have a room! Actually its just 2/3 of a room.
Only 14 posts and the site appears to be Slashdotted...
Actually, depending on your Distro, those Linux problems can be solved. Mandrake, had a reputation for being unstable, I know. Try it though. 9.2 is increadibly stable. I have no problems with it except for a long boot up time. This isn't a problem because I don't need to reboot. Lets see how many big problems are solved... The Mandrake Installer is 100% Graphical. It is also much better looking than Windows. It starts off, loads everything, and comes up with prettier gradients than Mac OS(I don't care about this but some people do). It then allows you to repartition your drive with DiskDrake, pretty, graphical, easy. Resize NTFS Partitions without killing your data, etc. Than, choose packages, from 1000nd's of software packages if you have all 3 CD's. Click install, and watch as everything installs in less than half hour, less than the time it takes windows to install less. Now, reboot and you have a graphical boot loader (lilo), already preconfigured with all operating systems that were already installed plus linux. Boot up, it boots into X instantly. Want to configure something? Use Mandrake Control Center. It looks like Windows Control Panel, except it is more organized and has more options. I haven't needed to edit a config file yet. You can also disable all the bells and whistles and use it like any other Distro. It also includes RPM and URPMI. This includes a graphical RPM installer. Than, there's RPM Drake for additional packages from Mandrake, Mandrake Update, and various other utilities. The only problem left is really dependencies. Unless you figure out URPMI, you can still have trouble with dependencies. The high majority are included, but I've had trouble with Glade#2. Most holes are gone.
Dang, I was hoping we could control gravity like in Ender's Game. Zero Gravity Coming to a Walmarts Near You
I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile, a variant of Windows CE. It hasn't crashed once, is as fast at loading as dos, etc. When Microsoft is forced to make a small OS, they do a good job. Just think, Windows CE, Ms-Dos(Ok, not quite Microsoft but, you get the idea), Windows 3.1. Those are very stable. In some cases, MS does a good job. Just because the 9x line was pretty bad doesn't mean that the mobile line is too.