This was certainly true back when Mandrake was first formed, but not so much anymore. It's not as if every time Red Hat comes out with a new distro, Mandrake adds their touch and calls it their own. They started with Red Hat but have kinda gone off in their own direction with it, creating something that is, while similar in its roots, very different in its appearance and function.
I have a Sony VAIO which I had a wide variety of problems getting any distro to install correctly on. Mandrake 8 was the first that installed where it was all useable (ie X config OK, sound working, networking working, etc). I had problems getting my wlan card to work under 8, but the installer for 8.1 detected and configured it without a hitch.
I've got 4 machines (including the laptop) running Mandrake 8.1 now. I've been running various flavors of Linux on those same 4 machines for a long time and Mandrake 8.1 is the first I ever remember that installed flawlessly on each of the machines.
As someone who's been using Linux desktops since the days of Red Hat 4, it's pretty incredible to me how far Linux on the desktop has come, especially on laptops.
Whether it is stored as actual Unicode or is encoded Unicode in ASCII format is essentially irrelevant. Yes, the file is ASCII, but that doesn't mean it can't contain Unicode characters-- it just means they would be encoded as ASCII characters, meaning (roughly of course) the same 2-to-1 ratio in size of the content.
But it wasn't the impact of the planes that brought down the towers. It was the intense heat created by the jet fuel-fed fires caused by the planes that truly spelled the end for those buildings.
How is being ripped off by someone using PayPal different than being ripped off by someone cashing a money order? I would think with the money order you have that much *less* protection because who knows when the crook received it, cashed it, etc. But with PayPal, you receive notice when the bad guy has accepted your payment. At least that way you can have a more calculated guess at whether you're being screwed or not.
Analogously, PayPal is the messenger service delivering the money order. When's the last time you heard someone bitching at the postal service because they sent a money order to someone and didn't get their expected goods?
I never said the person could mix and match different parts of the licenses. I said they could redistribute under any combination of the licenses they obtained it under. For example, in this case, someone will be able to license a Mozilla derivative under MPL+GPL+LGPL or MPL+GPL or MPL+LGPL or GPL+LGPL, etc etc. Or they can just license it under one of them.
Read a little closer next time before jumping to reply;-)
Yup. I loved those damn things. I thought about them recently and went looking on eBay. I saw 3 or 4 different sets (all mostly complete) for around $50...
There isn't any conflict from having three licenses. The licenses are compatible (meaning no conflicting terms between them) and having the multiple licenses is mostly for the benefit of those redistributing the code-- that person is free to license it under any one or combination of the licenses.
The article specifically mentions that these errors occurred as a result of whatever computer or program miscalculating the date when the year turned over to 2001, not 2000.
IIRC, it's actually DVD-R that can be played in regular DVD movie players. As far as I've seen, the new Mac G4's that have the SuperDrive, which is specifically touted as being able to make DVDs which work in the movie players, is a DVD-R/CD-RW combo drive. Maybe DVD-RW can also be played in DVD movie players, but I am fairly sure it is the DVD-R drives which are mainly being promoted as DVD player compatible...
The flights that crashed into the WTC towers were both American flights. Straight from a story on Boston.com, there's a breakdown on the known plane crashes:
-American Flight 11
Boston to Los Angeles
A Boeing 767 with 81 passengers, nine flight attendants, and two pilots aboard crashed into the World Trade Center.
-American Flight 77
Washington-Dulles to Los Angeles
A Boeing 757 with 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots crashed into the World Trade Center.
-United Flight 93
Newark, N.J. to San Francisco
A Boeing 757 with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants crashed southeast of Pittsburgh.
-United Flight 175
Boston to Los Angeles
A Boeing 767 with 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants crashed, but United won't say where
It's all about convenience. Sure there are other ways to do it, but are they nearly as easy? Nope. Remember that the majority of the people using the Internet are not technically inclined. The rest of us have to come up with ways to deal with that fact.
The current lines, you're right. The current iPaq has a faster CPU and a slightly better screen than the Jornada. But the Jornada is much more refined and much more business-oriented. And beyond that, the new Jornada 560 series coming out this year has the same CPU and a better screen than the iPaq, as well as the navigation pad thing that the iPaq has. I'd bet that if either is canned altogether, its the iPaq.
The only thing better about the current iPaq vs. the current Jornada is the CPU-- the SA 206mhz vs. the jornada's SH3 133mhz. But, the new Jornada series (the 560 i think) uses the same SA cpu as the iPaq, has the game/touch/round/whatever pad thing that the iPaq has, and has a much better screen. I haven't heard much on the upcoming iPaqs, but I would bet they are discontinued at some point. The Jornada has a much better corporate appeal to it (more refined, more business-oriented), so maybe the iPaq will stay around as something geared at the consumer market. But with the Jornada's performance on par or ahead of the iPaq, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPaq get canned altogether.
Cox has already done testing with Earthlink (which went well on all accounts, supposedly), so I think it would be fairly safe to think Cox will be using Earthlink, at least in some capacity...
It's not so much the chip won't be supported at all-- the standard Trident driver should still work. What they're referring to more is the proprietary acceleration features built into the chip. Those types of added features and benefits (which are actually probably required for any decent output from the card) are what will be missing.
I've built 6 different Athlon systems for myself and family and friends in the past couple years, starting off with an Athlon 550 all the way up to the most recent Athlon 1.33/DDR. No two used the same motherboard and I think only two of the boards were even made by the same company. And not a single one of them required me to set any jumper at all for the CPU or mess with anything in the BIOS. Maybe there are some Athlon mobos out there that do require some jumper setting, but I'd steer clear of them.
It's probably just the laptop-- the mobile PIII chips have that SpeedStep shit where the chip automatically scales its speed up and down as needed in order to save on battery power.
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This was certainly true back when Mandrake was first formed, but not so much anymore. It's not as if every time Red Hat comes out with a new distro, Mandrake adds their touch and calls it their own. They started with Red Hat but have kinda gone off in their own direction with it, creating something that is, while similar in its roots, very different in its appearance and function.
I'd give 8.1 a try with your laptop.
I have a Sony VAIO which I had a wide variety of problems getting any distro to install correctly on. Mandrake 8 was the first that installed where it was all useable (ie X config OK, sound working, networking working, etc). I had problems getting my wlan card to work under 8, but the installer for 8.1 detected and configured it without a hitch.
I've got 4 machines (including the laptop) running Mandrake 8.1 now. I've been running various flavors of Linux on those same 4 machines for a long time and Mandrake 8.1 is the first I ever remember that installed flawlessly on each of the machines.
As someone who's been using Linux desktops since the days of Red Hat 4, it's pretty incredible to me how far Linux on the desktop has come, especially on laptops.
I'm running Win2k Pro and after installing OpenOffice 638, there's definitely an entry for it in Add/Remove Programs.
Whether it is stored as actual Unicode or is encoded Unicode in ASCII format is essentially irrelevant. Yes, the file is ASCII, but that doesn't mean it can't contain Unicode characters-- it just means they would be encoded as ASCII characters, meaning (roughly of course) the same 2-to-1 ratio in size of the content.
But it wasn't the impact of the planes that brought down the towers. It was the intense heat created by the jet fuel-fed fires caused by the planes that truly spelled the end for those buildings.
Bupkis.
How is being ripped off by someone using PayPal different than being ripped off by someone cashing a money order? I would think with the money order you have that much *less* protection because who knows when the crook received it, cashed it, etc. But with PayPal, you receive notice when the bad guy has accepted your payment. At least that way you can have a more calculated guess at whether you're being screwed or not.
Analogously, PayPal is the messenger service delivering the money order. When's the last time you heard someone bitching at the postal service because they sent a money order to someone and didn't get their expected goods?
I never said the person could mix and match different parts of the licenses. I said they could redistribute under any combination of the licenses they obtained it under. For example, in this case, someone will be able to license a Mozilla derivative under MPL+GPL+LGPL or MPL+GPL or MPL+LGPL or GPL+LGPL, etc etc. Or they can just license it under one of them.
;-)
Read a little closer next time before jumping to reply
Yup. I loved those damn things. I thought about them recently and went looking on eBay. I saw 3 or 4 different sets (all mostly complete) for around $50...
There isn't any conflict from having three licenses. The licenses are compatible (meaning no conflicting terms between them) and having the multiple licenses is mostly for the benefit of those redistributing the code-- that person is free to license it under any one or combination of the licenses.
The article specifically mentions that these errors occurred as a result of whatever computer or program miscalculating the date when the year turned over to 2001, not 2000.
IIRC, it's actually DVD-R that can be played in regular DVD movie players. As far as I've seen, the new Mac G4's that have the SuperDrive, which is specifically touted as being able to make DVDs which work in the movie players, is a DVD-R/CD-RW combo drive. Maybe DVD-RW can also be played in DVD movie players, but I am fairly sure it is the DVD-R drives which are mainly being promoted as DVD player compatible...
The flights that crashed into the WTC towers were both American flights. Straight from a story on Boston.com, there's a breakdown on the known plane crashes:
-American Flight 11
Boston to Los Angeles
A Boeing 767 with 81 passengers, nine flight attendants, and two pilots aboard crashed into the World Trade Center.
-American Flight 77
Washington-Dulles to Los Angeles
A Boeing 757 with 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots crashed into the World Trade Center.
-United Flight 93
Newark, N.J. to San Francisco
A Boeing 757 with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants crashed southeast of Pittsburgh.
-United Flight 175
Boston to Los Angeles
A Boeing 767 with 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants crashed, but United won't say where
It's all about convenience. Sure there are other ways to do it, but are they nearly as easy? Nope. Remember that the majority of the people using the Internet are not technically inclined. The rest of us have to come up with ways to deal with that fact.
The current lines, you're right. The current iPaq has a faster CPU and a slightly better screen than the Jornada. But the Jornada is much more refined and much more business-oriented. And beyond that, the new Jornada 560 series coming out this year has the same CPU and a better screen than the iPaq, as well as the navigation pad thing that the iPaq has. I'd bet that if either is canned altogether, its the iPaq.
The only thing better about the current iPaq vs. the current Jornada is the CPU-- the SA 206mhz vs. the jornada's SH3 133mhz. But, the new Jornada series (the 560 i think) uses the same SA cpu as the iPaq, has the game/touch/round/whatever pad thing that the iPaq has, and has a much better screen. I haven't heard much on the upcoming iPaqs, but I would bet they are discontinued at some point. The Jornada has a much better corporate appeal to it (more refined, more business-oriented), so maybe the iPaq will stay around as something geared at the consumer market. But with the Jornada's performance on par or ahead of the iPaq, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPaq get canned altogether.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of moron posters on slashdot that have to find some way to relate a beowulf cluster to every story...
eh i love what happens to replies to messages that get mod'd into oblivion
not the real goatse.cx but bad enough
It'd be a fscking miracle, too...
Cox has already done testing with Earthlink (which went well on all accounts, supposedly), so I think it would be fairly safe to think Cox will be using Earthlink, at least in some capacity...
It's not so much the chip won't be supported at all-- the standard Trident driver should still work. What they're referring to more is the proprietary acceleration features built into the chip. Those types of added features and benefits (which are actually probably required for any decent output from the card) are what will be missing.
Cuz some guy who's opinion mattered got to choose the name.
Get a new mobo.
I've built 6 different Athlon systems for myself and family and friends in the past couple years, starting off with an Athlon 550 all the way up to the most recent Athlon 1.33/DDR. No two used the same motherboard and I think only two of the boards were even made by the same company. And not a single one of them required me to set any jumper at all for the CPU or mess with anything in the BIOS. Maybe there are some Athlon mobos out there that do require some jumper setting, but I'd steer clear of them.
It's probably just the laptop-- the mobile PIII chips have that SpeedStep shit where the chip automatically scales its speed up and down as needed in order to save on battery power.
it looks like TP to me