I doubt many/.'ers would fall into the category of a normal consumer. Nor would many "consumers" read such an article as how to run 2000 on an older system.
Of course if I really want to revamp an old system, id be grabbin a copy of VectorLinux to do it with, not Win2k.
Both Restricted Area and Battlefield 2 (fairly current releases) state they require / only tested on XP , I happened to get both games running on a win2k box without problem or error, and no special tweaks either, just a vanilla install.
Big Brother control please. The more I hear these sorts of things, the more I fear we are getting closer and closer to "1984". Though Im sure that Orwell never intended for it to be this bad. Perhaps we are much closer to the Thought Criminal Winston.......sigh
Teaching religion in schools , specifically on the level in which you speak would be seen in two aspects. The Frist being Non Parochial institutions, where supposedly the settings of religion is devoid of existence (yeah right, Christian Atheletes of America, Future Homemakers of America, and other such clubs and organizations motivate the education of good Judeo-Christian Ethic, despite what our beloved government, and the moronic asshole who leads them says) , whereby in Parochial institutions you might find a greater level of education about relgions, not just ones specific to the institution itself. The Catholics are infamous for this. Educate the masses to understand the other religions so that they can "combat" it easier. Either way, the proper education of wordly beliefs doesnt exist in any decent form in American education. Nor is the education of choice made or allowed in any form either. Which is largely why less free minds are bred in this country.
This news is of great interest to me. Though im clearly sure that Shuttleworth will continue to fund the project, it having its own foundation seems proper. Of course Redhat is doing the same similar fashion with Fedora, and perhaps that will help its ailing problems.
"It's important for us to distinguish the philanthropic and non-commercial work that is at the heart of the Ubuntu project, from the commercial support and certification programs that are the focus of Canonical Ltd." -- Shuttleworth speaks volumes with this statement. Its clear to his intent for the project to stay stable and current.
Im reading and I see a lot of bad talk about ubuntu in here. Disgruntled Debian users that dont like the product because it upstages their own distrubtion , while still using debian as its base? perhaps. Other users that think that it sucks because its not what they are used to or that what they use is better? Sounds like Distro-Wars to me. Gentoo is better than Redhat, Kanotix is better than Knoppix. MiniSlack is better than Vector. Vidalinux is for users that want to use Gentoo but are too chicken to try to install it. If we stopped all this constant infighting with each other and actually tried to support each other, I think taking out the monster that is Microsoft would actually be easier.
Only through standardization, documentation, and some loose sense of unity coupled with the Freedom and choice of FOSS can this end be met.
Ubuntu is doing a damn good job. I have 4 Ubuntu boxes on my 15+ machine network, and the better that ubuntu gets, the more machines get converted. Ive introduced this product to over 50 people, 30 or so of which are now standard to power users. I consider that to be a clear sign of the Dist's ability to capture an audience. Would you say so?
Sempron out performs the Celeron on the Game front, but they are pretty neck and neck on the desktop front.
Athlon vs Pentium 4 = http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20001206/p4-11.htm l ergo, " If you have dedicated areas in which you want your computer to perform particularly well, if those areas should be 3D gaming, video encoding or other bandwidth intensive software and if you should not shy away from high system costs and the missing upgrade path, you should indeed consider Pentium 4. However, if you want a balanced system with excellent performance at a good price I heavily suggest Athlon...."
The Point being to say that 1 processor is why AMD has the right or not the right is kind of a rather narrow view. All three of AMDs Procs either match or beat Intel based product.
Antitrust away AMD. Im behind you all the way. Cheaper product that "just works" is far better than monopolistic product that costs too much.
Whats really sad about most of all of this is that AMD's product out performs a large portion of Intel's products.
Yet companies like HP and Dell hold on to Intel like it was a mewling babe in need of a mothers teet.
This story , http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/0,2000061702,39160769,00.htm, from last year rings true. Itanium procs dont compete. So if AMD has a better product, why shouldnt it attemp to push antitrust. Even if companies are undercutting Intel by guilting them into selling for cheaper prices , its still a form of monopoly. Likely they encourage it.
Im reminded of Ballmer offering the germans a 90% discount on good/services if they didnt take a FOSS solution earlier this year.
Its proven that Games run natively in linux fine. UT2004 clearly proved this. I still support Transgaming in their aims, but ultimately, for PCgamers , its native installers that we need to support, not wrappers to emulate the envoirnment.
"Some also feel that Microsoft is trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of an incomplete and not accepted standard."
Hmmm, yet another thing to push into the faulty standard of Exchange to go along with the rather non accepted Outlook Web Access, and the fairly undermineable Outlook.
Ill just stay with Postfix-Squirrellmail-Evolution , with decent PGP.
Dr. Hank Mccoy from 2nd or 3rd Epp of Xmen:animanted series. Upon entering the mutant detention facility , he reaches into the security switch box, disabling the security sytem and spouts that line.
Plone require Zope, but once you get past that, a very good solution as well. Actually for that matter, I think AngelineCMS has the Plone Look and Feel, and its a LAMP CMS. But for that matter, just do a Wiki, like MediaWiki the project that runs WikiPedia.
They were certainly central in carrying such items and for a while was the only store in my area , Metro Atlanta GA, that had an entire shelf devoted to Linux related software packages. I think even at the time I was there, they even had a retail package version of BeOS on the shelf.
Gotta give em credit there.
Now as to the selection of Linspire....that I kinda have to question. I wasnt aware that Linspire was THAT profitable or THAT popular amongst the retail consumer base.
Free-,Net-,Open-, and all the other BSD Variants, its a little hard to swallow a statement like that coming from De Raadt.
Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is.
Sounds more like Windows than it does Linux. I have to aggree with a few in here on this, most Linux users dont care about the code, its all about functionality. Am I saying that BSD is a piece of crap? Nope. BSD for all its vaunt and ability is what it is. And its functional. For some it gets the job done, and it does not a bad job at all. In De Raadt's case it sounds like hes trying to have a mine is bigger than yours pissing match, or start one at least. Inflammatory comments, calling something useless and devoid of meaning, commonly spurns in return that which you are giving.
I mean honestly, lets go down the list of things that people hate about BSD, shall we? The installer sucks. The Partitioner is counter-intuitive, especially for the common end user. Ports is hard to figure out for the end user as well. Ive heard that and more.
Might as well go out and install Linux or some other derivative. At least most of them are built around the end user and his ability to function.
But is BSD free of problems and things that need fixing? No. It has as much to fix as Linux does, both on the code level and on the visible level.
clearly there is probably little way that any of the "real" black hatter's were there. So if a bunch of GreyHat types were able to do it, what would one have to assume about the "real bad guys" , as M$ would describe them , and how fast they could do it?
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Cheese....
Need some wine and crackers to go with that.
What the hell, This isnt Knight Rider.
I doubt many /.'ers would fall into the category of a normal consumer. Nor would many "consumers" read such an article as how to run 2000 on an older system.
Of course if I really want to revamp an old system, id be grabbin a copy of VectorLinux to do it with, not Win2k.
Actually.....Your a bit on the wrong side there.
Both Restricted Area and Battlefield 2 (fairly current releases) state they require / only tested on XP , I happened to get both games running on a win2k box without problem or error, and no special tweaks either, just a vanilla install.
Get a Linux system at the local Walmart, and never worry about it again.
Big Brother control please. The more I hear these sorts of things, the more I fear we are getting closer and closer to "1984". Though Im sure that Orwell never intended for it to be this bad.
Perhaps we are much closer to the Thought Criminal Winston.......sigh
Teaching religion in schools , specifically on the level in which you speak would be seen in two aspects. The Frist being Non Parochial institutions, where supposedly the settings of religion is devoid of existence (yeah right, Christian Atheletes of America, Future Homemakers of America, and other such clubs and organizations motivate the education of good Judeo-Christian Ethic, despite what our beloved government, and the moronic asshole who leads them says) , whereby in Parochial institutions you might find a greater level of education about relgions, not just ones specific to the institution itself. The Catholics are infamous for this. Educate the masses to understand the other religions so that they can "combat" it easier. Either way, the proper education of wordly beliefs doesnt exist in any decent form in American education. Nor is the education of choice made or allowed in any form either. Which is largely why less free minds are bred in this country.
This news is of great interest to me. Though im clearly sure that Shuttleworth will continue to fund the project, it having its own foundation seems proper. Of course Redhat is doing the same similar fashion with Fedora, and perhaps that will help its ailing problems.
"It's important for us to distinguish the philanthropic and non-commercial work that is at the heart of the Ubuntu project, from the commercial support and certification programs that are the focus of Canonical Ltd." -- Shuttleworth speaks volumes with this statement. Its clear to his intent for the project to stay stable and current.
Im reading and I see a lot of bad talk about ubuntu in here. Disgruntled Debian users that dont like the product because it upstages their own distrubtion , while still using debian as its base? perhaps. Other users that think that it sucks because its not what they are used to or that what they use is better? Sounds like Distro-Wars to me. Gentoo is better than Redhat, Kanotix is better than Knoppix. MiniSlack is better than Vector. Vidalinux is for users that want to use Gentoo but are too chicken to try to install it. If we stopped all this constant infighting with each other and actually tried to support each other, I think taking out the monster that is Microsoft would actually be easier.
Only through standardization, documentation, and some loose sense of unity coupled with the Freedom and choice of FOSS can this end be met.
Ubuntu is doing a damn good job. I have 4 Ubuntu boxes on my 15+ machine network, and the better that ubuntu gets, the more machines get converted. Ive introduced this product to over 50 people, 30 or so of which are now standard to power users. I consider that to be a clear sign of the Dist's ability to capture an audience. Would you say so?
Larry Ellison to hire a bunch of PIs to hang out at the dumpster.
=)
Well actually Semprons, Athlons, Opterons,
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Sempron vs Celeron = http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=61&type=expe
Sempron out performs the Celeron on the Game front, but they are pretty neck and neck on the desktop front.
Athlon vs Pentium 4 =
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20001206/p4-11.ht
ergo, " If you have dedicated areas in which you want your computer to perform particularly well, if those areas should be 3D gaming, video encoding or other bandwidth intensive software and if you should not shy away from high system costs and the missing upgrade path, you should indeed consider Pentium 4. However, if you want a balanced system with excellent performance at a good price I heavily suggest Athlon...."
Itanium vs Opteron =
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-
Ergo....A fairly even heated match.
The Point being to say that 1 processor is why AMD has the right or not the right is kind of a rather narrow view. All three of AMDs Procs either match or beat Intel based product.
Antitrust away AMD. Im behind you all the way. Cheaper product that "just works" is far better than monopolistic product that costs too much.
If Apple was pushed, now doesnt it?
2 ,39160769,00.htm, from last year rings true. Itanium procs dont compete. So if AMD has a better product, why shouldnt it attemp to push antitrust. Even if companies are undercutting Intel by guilting them into selling for cheaper prices , its still a form of monopoly. Likely they encourage it.
Whats really sad about most of all of this is that AMD's product out performs a large portion of Intel's products.
Yet companies like HP and Dell hold on to Intel like it was a mewling babe in need of a mothers teet.
This story , http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/0,200006170
Im reminded of Ballmer offering the germans a 90% discount on good/services if they didnt take a FOSS solution earlier this year.
Monopolies suck.
http://www.astaro.com/
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/
http://www.clarkconnect.org/
those few and some unused hardware will get you going.
Land of the Dead will become reality.
Im often reminded of Loki's work, a large portion of which was run from http://www.lokigames.com/ , and all the installer work thats been done -- http://www.liflg.org/.
Its proven that Games run natively in linux fine. UT2004 clearly proved this. I still support Transgaming in their aims, but ultimately, for PCgamers , its native installers that we need to support, not wrappers to emulate the envoirnment.
"Some also feel that Microsoft is trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of an incomplete and not accepted standard."
Hmmm, yet another thing to push into the faulty standard of Exchange to go along with the rather non accepted Outlook Web Access, and the fairly undermineable Outlook.
Ill just stay with Postfix-Squirrellmail-Evolution , with decent PGP.
usersystem#: freshclam //mounted/samba/share/here -r
usersystem#: clamscan
Dr. Hank Mccoy from 2nd or 3rd Epp of Xmen:animanted series. Upon entering the mutant detention facility , he reaches into the security switch box, disabling the security sytem and spouts that line.
Is anyone ever "truely" secure?
You make a good point.
Mambo is a good LAMP solution.
Plone require Zope, but once you get past that, a very good solution as well. Actually for that matter, I think AngelineCMS has the Plone Look and Feel, and its a LAMP CMS. But for that matter, just do a Wiki, like MediaWiki the project that runs WikiPedia.
http://www.vim.org/
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
http://www.nvu.com/
http://www.eclipse.org/
http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/
They were certainly central in carrying such items and for a while was the only store in my area , Metro Atlanta GA, that had an entire shelf devoted to Linux related software packages. I think even at the time I was there, they even had a retail package version of BeOS on the shelf.
Gotta give em credit there.
Now as to the selection of Linspire....that I kinda have to question. I wasnt aware that Linspire was THAT profitable or THAT popular amongst the retail consumer base.
Sounds more like Windows than it does Linux. I have to aggree with a few in here on this, most Linux users dont care about the code, its all about functionality. Am I saying that BSD is a piece of crap? Nope. BSD for all its vaunt and ability is what it is. And its functional. For some it gets the job done, and it does not a bad job at all. In De Raadt's case it sounds like hes trying to have a mine is bigger than yours pissing match, or start one at least. Inflammatory comments, calling something useless and devoid of meaning, commonly spurns in return that which you are giving.
I mean honestly, lets go down the list of things that people hate about BSD, shall we?
The installer sucks. The Partitioner is counter-intuitive, especially for the common end user. Ports is hard to figure out for the end user as well. Ive heard that and more.
Might as well go out and install Linux or some other derivative. At least most of them are built around the end user and his ability to function.
But is BSD free of problems and things that need fixing? No. It has as much to fix as Linux does, both on the code level and on the visible level.
clearly there is probably little way that any of the "real" black hatter's were there. So if a bunch of GreyHat types were able to do it, what would one have to assume about the "real bad guys" , as M$ would describe them , and how fast they could do it?
http://www.transgaming.org/ for the Linux geek that still wants to game in a M$ Windows dominated world.
Mandrivel + Lycorsh*t + Unconectiva = Unconnected Driveling Sh*t for 25 bucks.