Apparently you didn't read the article and are just mounting a pathetic attempt to enlighten us with your political beliefs. Save the politics for k5 or at least next time mount a defensible argument instead of wondering when an anti-ballistic missile laser is going to be used to "fry innocent children."
Not very professional of you considering your sig, eh?
"As to the military? Last time I was packing that sort of load and gear, the webbing was MUCH better designed to distribute it than the average laptop bag. And. Well. Why should I suffer if I don't have to?"
Apparently you haven't tried the new MOLLE gear, have you? Seriously, 7 pounds isn't that much.
Who cares? Does 7 pounds really kick your ass that much? Look how much is packed into that 7 pounds! All of this complaining about these "heavy" notebooks is ridiculous. You're actually complaining about a 7 pound laptop that you can carry anywhere, watch DVDs on, burn CDs, and play 3D games on? I own a Dell 8100 w/ 2 batteries always in it and the weight doesn't bother me a bit because I can appreciate what I've got. Maybe all of these people whining about "heavy" notebooks should try joining the military and humping a pack, weapons, body armor, food, water, and ammo. That might change their persepctive...
LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEWIS B. PULLER, USMC
NAMESAKE OF USS LEWIS B. PULLER (FFG 23)
Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller was a colorful veteran of the Korean War, four World War II campaigns, and expeditionary service in China, Nicaragua, and Haiti. He was the only Marine to win the Navy Cross five times for heroism and gallantry in combat.
A Marine officer and enlisted man for 37 years, General Puller served at sea or overseas for all but ten of those years, including a hitch as commander of the "Horse Marines" in China. Excluding medals from foreign governments, he won a total of 14 personal decorations in combat, plus a long list of campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards. In addition to the Navy Crosses, the highest honor the Navy can bestow, he holds its Army equivalent, the Distinguished Service Cross.
Born 26 June 1898, at West Point, Virginia, the general attended Virginia Military Institute until enlisting in the Marine Corps in August 1918. He was appointed a Marine Reserve second lieutenant 16 June 1919, but due to force reductions after World War I, was placed on inactive duty ten days later. He rejoined the Marines as an enlisted man to serve with the Gendarmerie d'Haiti, a military force in that country under a treaty with the United States. Most of its officers were U. S. Marines, while its enlisted personnel were Haitians.
After almost five years in Haiti, where he saw frequent action against the Caco rebels, Puller returned in March 1924 to the United States. He was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant that same month, and during the next two years, served at the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, completed the Basic School at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served with the 10th Marine Regiment at Quantico, Virginia.
In July of 1926, Puller embarked for a two-year tour of duty at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor. Returning in June 1928, he served in San Diego, California, until he joined the Nicaraguan National Guard Detachment that December. After winning his first Navy Cross in Nicaragua, he returned to the United States in July 1931 to enter the Company Officers Course at the Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. He completed the course in June 1932 and returned to Nicaragua the following month to begin the tour of duty that brought him a second Navy Cross.
In January 1933, Puller left Nicaragua for the United States. A month later he sailed from San Francisco to join the Marine Detachment of the American Legation at Peiping, China. There, in addition to other duties, he commanded the famed "Horse Marines." Without coming back to the United States, he began a tour of sea duty in USS AUGUSTA of the Asiatic Fleet. In June 1936 he returned to the United States to become an instructor in the Basic School at Philadelphia. He left there in May 1939 to serve another year as commander of the AUGUSTA's Marine Detachment, and from that cruiser, joined the 4th Marine Regiment at Shanghai, China, in May 1940.
After serving as a battalion executive and commanding officer with the 4th Marines, Puller sailed for the United States in August 1941. In September, he took command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune. That Regiment was detached from the 1st Division in March 1942 and the following month, as part of the 3rd Marine Brigade, sailed for the Pacific theater. The 7th Regiment rejoined the 1st Marine Division in September 1942, and Puller, still commanding its 1st Battalion, went on to win his third Navy Cross at Guadalcanal.
The action that brought him that medal occurred on the night of October 24-25 1942. For a desperate three hours his battalion, stretched over a mile-long front, was the only defense between vital Henderson Airfield and a regiment of seasoned Japanese troops. In pouring jungle rain the Japanese smashed repeatedly at his thin line, as General Puller moved up and down its length to encourage his men and direct the defense. After reinforcements arrived, he commanded the augmented force until late the next afternoon. The defending Marines suffered less than 70 casualties in the engagement while 1400 of the enemy were killed and 17 truckloads of Japanese equipment were recovered by the Americans.
After Guadalcanal, Puller became executive officer of the 7th Marines. He was fighting in that capacity when he won his fourth Navy Cross at Cape Gloucester in January 1944. There, when the commanders of the two battalions were wounded, he took over their units and moved through heavy machine-gun and mortar fire to reorganize them for attack, then led them in taking a strongly fortified enemy position.
In February 1944, Puller took command of the 1st Marines at Cape Gloucester. After leading that regiment for the remainder of the campaign, he sailed with it for the Russell Islands in April 1944. He went on to command it at Peleliu in September and October 1944. He returned to the United States in November 1944, named executive officer of the Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Lejeune in January 1945, and took command of that regiment the next month.
In August 1946, Puller became Director of the 8th Marine Corps Reserve District, with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana. After that assignment, he commanded the Marine Barracks at Pearl Harbor until August 1950, when he arrived at Camp Pendleton, California, to re-establish and take command of the 1st Marines, the same regiment he had led at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu.
Landing with the 1st Marines at Inchon, Korea, in September 1950, he continued to head that regiment until January 1951, when he was promoted to brigadier general and named Assistant Commander of the 1st Marine Division. That May he returned to Camp Pendleton to command the newly reactivated 3rd Marine Division in January 1952. After that, he was assistant at division commander until he took over the Troop Training Unit, Pacific, at Coronado, California, that June. He was promoted to major general in September 1953, and in July 1954, assumed command of the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. Despite his illness, he retained that command until February 1955, when he was appointed Deputy Camp Commander. He served in that capacity until August, when he entered the U. S. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune prior to retirement.
In 1966, General Puller requested to return to active duty to serve in Vietnam, but was turned down because of his age. He died 11 October 1971 in Hampton, Virginia, after a long illness. He was 73.
Well, why don't you run for office and make some changes instead of claiming to have all of the answers on Slashdot? I'm sure you could have a nice chat w/ every country in the world and talk every dictator out of developing nuclear weapons in secret, right?
Why don't we take care of our own? I care more about my neighbors struggling in this economy than people I've never met.
As for all of these napalmed fields, can you name a few napalmed fields in present news?
Who are the people in the middle east fighting against? They're fighting for their beliefs and way of life? Who are they? Who are they fighting against? Sure, there's fanatics who hate America and think it's some sort of holy war and they're protecting their right to have religious dictatorships and monarchies but no one's attacking the middle eastern way of life. I've been to the middle east and I doubt you have.
All of this bitching about Linux on the desktop is making me tired. Why don't you got try an older Linux distro like Redhat 6.2 or SUSE 7.3 and then compare it to the current offerings?
Guess what? Linux gets better and better daily. AND YOU DON'T NEED PROPRIETARY HARDWARE TO RUN IT, UNLIKE A MAC!
I like Macs and I understand brand loyalty but I don't let Sony, Acura, or BMW define the way I think.
Linus works as a desktop for me. Linu works as a desktop for those who like to tinker and are willing to sacrifice GUI point'n'drool for speed and stability. OSX is NOT the answer. Apple has been losing to Microsoft for years and the battle is over. Hacking/etc/fstab? Adding a line in/etc/fstab takes less than 30 seconds and SUSE and Mandrake do it for you.
You say KDE can't hold a candle to OSX on the desktop, I say OSX can't keep up with KDE's speed, KDE is catching up with Apple's oh-so-important eye candy, and KDE is FREE.
Thank you for that quote. It makes me feel a bit better I wear the same uniform as Smedley Butler rather than some jackass like Admiral Poindexter.
I think there's quite a few Marines who have spoken their mind a bit freely like that. I remember reading that Chesty Puller got a lot of flak for saying that whiskey and beer are better for the troops than ice cream and soft training.
I've argued in my journal over Bush and his questionable service record. Perhaps if we made enlisted service mandatory before becoming an officer and if our politicians have each seen firsthand the horrors of war we wouldn't be in the current mess we're in now.
What's so enterprise ready about PLD linux? I've only seen a few references to it and in my mind enterprise and Linux usually equates to Redhat or SUSE. I know there's others out there but that's the ones that pop up immediately.
I bought a used HP 1100 for $86 shipped on eBay and I couldn't be happier. Most laserjet printers are supported in Linux and it seems from the little research I did, there's a whole industry devoted to refurbishing and reselling laserjets, especially HPs. After a year of cursing over trying to get a Lexmark inkjet running in Linux, it was wonderful to see the HP running on my Samba box after about 40 seconds of configuration.
Save your color printouts for an inkjet and try a laserjet for everything else! You'll save money in the long run.
I never had problems w/.18 but have you configured/etc/sysconfig/hardiskx(a,b, etc) with the appropriate lines for DMA and other parameters for disk performance. You can do it yourself by setting some hdparm parameters in/etc/rc.local ro use the method mentioned above. Redhat doesn't enable DMA by default.... Something like this in your/etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdx would help
USE_DMA=1
MULTIPLE_IO=16
EIDE_32BIT=3
No they didn't. We beat them on the battlefield every time they faced us. We gave up because we weren't supported at home and the South Vietnamese people hated their own government. The Viet Cong were much more effective at winning hearts minds than we were.
I don't think that urpmi compares to apt for Debian yet. apt-get dist-upgrade is something I don't think Mandrake can do yet and I have never had any problems with broken packages, lib dependencies, lib dependencies, and more lib dependencies while using apt.
urpmi is nice but why not just use apt for rpm? More rpm-based distributions running apt repositories, the better. As far as I know the apt repositiories I use are run by volunteers so I need to go volunteer a little cash to thank them:)
Before anyone flames me, I do realize apt for rpm doesn't have the capabilities of Debian apt either. I just believe apt is a better tool than urmpi.
I suppose you have the cash to pay developers full time to bring an Aqua equivalent to KDE?
Seriously, if any of you griping about KDE's interface haven't tried KDE 3.1, you owe it to yourself to try it. Phenomenal...
Well, instead of spending 8 hours configuring WineX, you could do about 20 minutes of research and buy games that either have been ported to Linux or games that run on Linux straight out of Best Buy like say... Unreal Tournament 2003.
Michael, relax the rants please
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What does the Super Bowl have to do with patriotism? Aren't the two teams just two competing entertainment businesses? This isn't the first time Michael has let a snide comment slip in regards to America or American government. I'd much rather read about News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters but maybe I have ridiculously high expectations of Slashdot and its editors.
In all fairness, the other editors seem apolitical. Perhaps Michael should follow their example.
I hate to say it but that was a much better written article than I expected. City politics, threats by Microsoft, that article had everything!
I was disappointed about the lack of OSS but hell at least people are out there proving there's a choice in software. System and network administrator's jobs are going to be FUN in the years ahead. People will have to know more than Wintel to get a job.
I wonder how long before riaa.org goes down again? That website seems to have quite a few people hacking it... wonder how the RIAA made so many enemies?
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Apparently you didn't read the article and are just mounting a pathetic attempt to enlighten us with your political beliefs. Save the politics for k5 or at least next time mount a defensible argument instead of wondering when an anti-ballistic missile laser is going to be used to "fry innocent children."
Not very professional of you considering your sig, eh?
Perhaps they want IBM to buy them out. In any case, I expect this to get ugly.
Magic. Got it.
"As to the military? Last time I was packing that sort of load and gear, the webbing was MUCH better designed to distribute it than the average laptop bag. And. Well. Why should I suffer if I don't have to?" Apparently you haven't tried the new MOLLE gear, have you? Seriously, 7 pounds isn't that much.
Myt Targus backpack dsitributes my whopping 8 pound laptop's weight just fine
Who cares? Does 7 pounds really kick your ass that much? Look how much is packed into that 7 pounds! All of this complaining about these "heavy" notebooks is ridiculous. You're actually complaining about a 7 pound laptop that you can carry anywhere, watch DVDs on, burn CDs, and play 3D games on? I own a Dell 8100 w/ 2 batteries always in it and the weight doesn't bother me a bit because I can appreciate what I've got. Maybe all of these people whining about "heavy" notebooks should try joining the military and humping a pack, weapons, body armor, food, water, and ammo. That might change their persepctive...
LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEWIS B. PULLER, USMC NAMESAKE OF USS LEWIS B. PULLER (FFG 23) Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller was a colorful veteran of the Korean War, four World War II campaigns, and expeditionary service in China, Nicaragua, and Haiti. He was the only Marine to win the Navy Cross five times for heroism and gallantry in combat. A Marine officer and enlisted man for 37 years, General Puller served at sea or overseas for all but ten of those years, including a hitch as commander of the "Horse Marines" in China. Excluding medals from foreign governments, he won a total of 14 personal decorations in combat, plus a long list of campaign medals, unit citation ribbons and other awards. In addition to the Navy Crosses, the highest honor the Navy can bestow, he holds its Army equivalent, the Distinguished Service Cross. Born 26 June 1898, at West Point, Virginia, the general attended Virginia Military Institute until enlisting in the Marine Corps in August 1918. He was appointed a Marine Reserve second lieutenant 16 June 1919, but due to force reductions after World War I, was placed on inactive duty ten days later. He rejoined the Marines as an enlisted man to serve with the Gendarmerie d'Haiti, a military force in that country under a treaty with the United States. Most of its officers were U. S. Marines, while its enlisted personnel were Haitians. After almost five years in Haiti, where he saw frequent action against the Caco rebels, Puller returned in March 1924 to the United States. He was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant that same month, and during the next two years, served at the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, completed the Basic School at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served with the 10th Marine Regiment at Quantico, Virginia. In July of 1926, Puller embarked for a two-year tour of duty at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor. Returning in June 1928, he served in San Diego, California, until he joined the Nicaraguan National Guard Detachment that December. After winning his first Navy Cross in Nicaragua, he returned to the United States in July 1931 to enter the Company Officers Course at the Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia. He completed the course in June 1932 and returned to Nicaragua the following month to begin the tour of duty that brought him a second Navy Cross. In January 1933, Puller left Nicaragua for the United States. A month later he sailed from San Francisco to join the Marine Detachment of the American Legation at Peiping, China. There, in addition to other duties, he commanded the famed "Horse Marines." Without coming back to the United States, he began a tour of sea duty in USS AUGUSTA of the Asiatic Fleet. In June 1936 he returned to the United States to become an instructor in the Basic School at Philadelphia. He left there in May 1939 to serve another year as commander of the AUGUSTA's Marine Detachment, and from that cruiser, joined the 4th Marine Regiment at Shanghai, China, in May 1940. After serving as a battalion executive and commanding officer with the 4th Marines, Puller sailed for the United States in August 1941. In September, he took command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune. That Regiment was detached from the 1st Division in March 1942 and the following month, as part of the 3rd Marine Brigade, sailed for the Pacific theater. The 7th Regiment rejoined the 1st Marine Division in September 1942, and Puller, still commanding its 1st Battalion, went on to win his third Navy Cross at Guadalcanal. The action that brought him that medal occurred on the night of October 24-25 1942. For a desperate three hours his battalion, stretched over a mile-long front, was the only defense between vital Henderson Airfield and a regiment of seasoned Japanese troops. In pouring jungle rain the Japanese smashed repeatedly at his thin line, as General Puller moved up and down its length to encourage his men and direct the defense. After reinforcements arrived, he commanded the augmented force until late the next afternoon. The defending Marines suffered less than 70 casualties in the engagement while 1400 of the enemy were killed and 17 truckloads of Japanese equipment were recovered by the Americans. After Guadalcanal, Puller became executive officer of the 7th Marines. He was fighting in that capacity when he won his fourth Navy Cross at Cape Gloucester in January 1944. There, when the commanders of the two battalions were wounded, he took over their units and moved through heavy machine-gun and mortar fire to reorganize them for attack, then led them in taking a strongly fortified enemy position. In February 1944, Puller took command of the 1st Marines at Cape Gloucester. After leading that regiment for the remainder of the campaign, he sailed with it for the Russell Islands in April 1944. He went on to command it at Peleliu in September and October 1944. He returned to the United States in November 1944, named executive officer of the Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Lejeune in January 1945, and took command of that regiment the next month. In August 1946, Puller became Director of the 8th Marine Corps Reserve District, with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana. After that assignment, he commanded the Marine Barracks at Pearl Harbor until August 1950, when he arrived at Camp Pendleton, California, to re-establish and take command of the 1st Marines, the same regiment he had led at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Landing with the 1st Marines at Inchon, Korea, in September 1950, he continued to head that regiment until January 1951, when he was promoted to brigadier general and named Assistant Commander of the 1st Marine Division. That May he returned to Camp Pendleton to command the newly reactivated 3rd Marine Division in January 1952. After that, he was assistant at division commander until he took over the Troop Training Unit, Pacific, at Coronado, California, that June. He was promoted to major general in September 1953, and in July 1954, assumed command of the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. Despite his illness, he retained that command until February 1955, when he was appointed Deputy Camp Commander. He served in that capacity until August, when he entered the U. S. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune prior to retirement. In 1966, General Puller requested to return to active duty to serve in Vietnam, but was turned down because of his age. He died 11 October 1971 in Hampton, Virginia, after a long illness. He was 73.
Well, why don't you run for office and make some changes instead of claiming to have all of the answers on Slashdot? I'm sure you could have a nice chat w/ every country in the world and talk every dictator out of developing nuclear weapons in secret, right?
Why don't we take care of our own? I care more about my neighbors struggling in this economy than people I've never met. As for all of these napalmed fields, can you name a few napalmed fields in present news? Who are the people in the middle east fighting against? They're fighting for their beliefs and way of life? Who are they? Who are they fighting against? Sure, there's fanatics who hate America and think it's some sort of holy war and they're protecting their right to have religious dictatorships and monarchies but no one's attacking the middle eastern way of life. I've been to the middle east and I doubt you have.
All of this bitching about Linux on the desktop is making me tired. Why don't you got try an older Linux distro like Redhat 6.2 or SUSE 7.3 and then compare it to the current offerings? Guess what? Linux gets better and better daily. AND YOU DON'T NEED PROPRIETARY HARDWARE TO RUN IT, UNLIKE A MAC! I like Macs and I understand brand loyalty but I don't let Sony, Acura, or BMW define the way I think.
Linus works as a desktop for me. Linu works as a desktop for those who like to tinker and are willing to sacrifice GUI point'n'drool for speed and stability. OSX is NOT the answer. Apple has been losing to Microsoft for years and the battle is over. Hacking /etc/fstab? Adding a line in /etc/fstab takes less than 30 seconds and SUSE and Mandrake do it for you.
You say KDE can't hold a candle to OSX on the desktop, I say OSX can't keep up with KDE's speed, KDE is catching up with Apple's oh-so-important eye candy, and KDE is FREE.
Bastille is not a distro
Thank you for that quote. It makes me feel a bit better I wear the same uniform as Smedley Butler rather than some jackass like Admiral Poindexter.
I think there's quite a few Marines who have spoken their mind a bit freely like that. I remember reading that Chesty Puller got a lot of flak for saying that whiskey and beer are better for the troops than ice cream and soft training.
I've argued in my journal over Bush and his questionable service record. Perhaps if we made enlisted service mandatory before becoming an officer and if our politicians have each seen firsthand the horrors of war we wouldn't be in the current mess we're in now.
What's so enterprise ready about PLD linux? I've only seen a few references to it and in my mind enterprise and Linux usually equates to Redhat or SUSE. I know there's others out there but that's the ones that pop up immediately.
I bought a used HP 1100 for $86 shipped on eBay and I couldn't be happier. Most laserjet printers are supported in Linux and it seems from the little research I did, there's a whole industry devoted to refurbishing and reselling laserjets, especially HPs. After a year of cursing over trying to get a Lexmark inkjet running in Linux, it was wonderful to see the HP running on my Samba box after about 40 seconds of configuration.
Save your color printouts for an inkjet and try a laserjet for everything else! You'll save money in the long run.
I never had problems w/ .18 but have you configured /etc/sysconfig/hardiskx(a,b, etc) with the appropriate lines for DMA and other parameters for disk performance. You can do it yourself by setting some hdparm parameters in /etc/rc.local ro use the method mentioned above. Redhat doesn't enable DMA by default.... Something like this in your /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdx would help
USE_DMA=1
MULTIPLE_IO=16
EIDE_32BIT=3
What if Wal Mart HAD invented the Thing Longer?
No they didn't. We beat them on the battlefield every time they faced us. We gave up because we weren't supported at home and the South Vietnamese people hated their own government. The Viet Cong were much more effective at winning hearts minds than we were.
I don't think that urpmi compares to apt for Debian yet. apt-get dist-upgrade is something I don't think Mandrake can do yet and I have never had any problems with broken packages, lib dependencies, lib dependencies, and more lib dependencies while using apt. :)
urpmi is nice but why not just use apt for rpm? More rpm-based distributions running apt repositories, the better. As far as I know the apt repositiories I use are run by volunteers so I need to go volunteer a little cash to thank them
Before anyone flames me, I do realize apt for rpm doesn't have the capabilities of Debian apt either. I just believe apt is a better tool than urmpi.
I suppose you have the cash to pay developers full time to bring an Aqua equivalent to KDE?
Seriously, if any of you griping about KDE's interface haven't tried KDE 3.1, you owe it to yourself to try it. Phenomenal...
For gods sake, somebody port this to Linux quick!
Well, instead of spending 8 hours configuring WineX, you could do about 20 minutes of research and buy games that either have been ported to Linux or games that run on Linux straight out of Best Buy like say... Unreal Tournament 2003.
What does the Super Bowl have to do with patriotism? Aren't the two teams just two competing entertainment businesses? This isn't the first time Michael has let a snide comment slip in regards to America or American government. I'd much rather read about News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters but maybe I have ridiculously high expectations of Slashdot and its editors.
In all fairness, the other editors seem apolitical. Perhaps Michael should follow their example.
I hate to say it but that was a much better written article than I expected. City politics, threats by Microsoft, that article had everything!
I was disappointed about the lack of OSS but hell at least people are out there proving there's a choice in software. System and network administrator's jobs are going to be FUN in the years ahead. People will have to know more than Wintel to get a job.
I wonder how long before riaa.org goes down again? That website seems to have quite a few people hacking it... wonder how the RIAA made so many enemies?