Interesting discussion. I can think of one instance where a strong password mattered. When the torrent site Oink had their servers grabbed by Interpol, the people with easy passwords were the ones that were prosecuted. It wasn't worth the time or the hassle to go after the harder to crack passwords.
I have a brain injury that destroyed my short term memory and ability to organize. Passwords are my personal hell.
T-Mobile has horrible coverage where I live. (A large, rusty, car-dependent metro area.) I could not wait for my two years to be up. My calls were dropped consistently, where it became a joke with my friends. "Dude, your phone sucks". Verizon does cost a more, but I have not had one dropped call in three months. I with they had cheaper plans, but nope.
I hope he lets us know how "telling the CEO" works out for him. Most CEO's seem to genuinely appreciate an applicant educating them and assuming they don't understand an issue.
When I was in charge of hiring, I hated applicants. They assumed I had nothing better to do than listen to them ramble on endlessly. I barely had time to use the bathroom most days, let alone get lectured on semantics.
Some of these people think the server is a "CPU" or a "Hard Drive". I get calls where they say "the internet is down" because they somehow deleted the IE icon. They don't even know how to use the address bar in their browser, they type the url into one of the 10 search toolbars they've installed. You face the wrath of god when you delete their Weather Bug crapware. "my weather doesn't work, the it guy broke it"
If I talk Java or C++ their eyes glaze over as they pretend to know what I am talking about. Never underestimate the stupidity of people. I say that as a stupid person.
I agree. One of the things that was hot about the Eastern Block lesbian porn when it first appeared was that there was a good amount, 10 minutes or so, of passionate kissing.
Now it is all fists being shoved into women and blah blah blah. One of the funniest trends I've seen pop up on the scene lately is amateur video of an attractive woman walking down the street. It is like porn has come full circle, the only hotness is what is imagined. Like seeing an ankle in 1920.
um, forgot the post anonymously checkbox. What I said above was purely speculation, grabbed from the google....
I'm much too busy and happily married to know the first thing about Eastern Block top-notch lesbian porn.
They are much better looking than those fake-boobed idiots from back in the day. Today there are tons of top quality Eastern Block women available that no one would ever have a chance of seeing naked in real life. All readily downloadable. Living in the future has it's perks.
I should have been more specific in my post. The md5sums did match. There isn't a problem with my cd burner, during my second batch of burning 2 cd sets I also burned PCLinuxOS and Arch.6, both of them worked without a problem. I did troubleshoot, though, because when something goes wrong I usually assume that I have done something stupid somewhere.
There are a lot of comments in Mandrake Club and elsewhere where people are having the same problem. Unfortunately, I am not the only one.
I have installed too many distros in the time I have been using linux. Mandrake 9.1 w/ texstar's additions was one of my favorites. I was interested in trying out Mandrake's newest, and get some use out of my membership, so I downloaded the set.
Here are some of the nice things about it: -I had to boot with cd 2, then put in cd 1.Cd 1 isn't bootable for me. Not a huge problem, but not good for a "newbie friendly" install. -It would freeze unless I wiped out my/home partition. -After wiping 30 gigs of media, it froze randomly during "install system". Sometimes at 13 minutes, sometimes at 9 minutes, sometimes at 20 seconds. This is with four different sets of burned discs, from two different bittorrent downloads. -It made me long for the ease of a gentoo install.
I have pretty basic hardware, nothing fancy. Anything else installs easily on it.
It is an embarassment to the linux community to have such a lousy installer unleashed on the public. I hope they publicly acknowledge the failings with this release, and get the isos fixed. It is a big disappointment. I should have known better than to try and leave wonderful Slackware.
Anyone here having these problems? I see in different Mandrake forums that people are.
I keep going back to Mandrake 9.1. I have tried Debian Sarge via Knoppix, Suse 8.2, RedHat 9, J.A.M.D. (nice little distro), Slackware 9, Alt, annoying Yoper, even managed to install the G-word.
They all have good and bad points. It is annoying to install a distro and be missing something that was nicely set up in another. 9.1 has the best combination I have seen. Mandrake seems to be the best mix of not too easy and not too hard. Everything works the way I want it too. There is a wonderful community site Mandrakeusers.org, that is friendly and a great source of info. Texstar provides excellent add-ons through urpmi. If I want eye candy or some helpful command line program (like unrar), it is simple for me to get.
I don't find Mandrake 9.1 makes things too easy for me. I don't feel babied, but I do feel sometimes I save time. I hope the company does well. I find it to be a great distro, and I have tried a lot of them.
Don't run it on RedHat's Phoebe beta... My freind runs Gentoo and he emerged it before it was even written, a year ago. I think he is at the mall right now, yelling at the mall walkers about how optimized his system is.
no cigs or sig.
Great post, but I cannot be silent on how lousy the fonts look in your screenshot. I don't recognize the OS. You should try Mandrake or RedHat, the fonts are beautiful right out of the box.
RedHat's phoebe has a nice version of KDE 3.1 that works well for me. Alt Linux has KDE 3.1 as well, and is a bit better than phoebe. Would someone please explain to me what is broken in RedHat KDE? I ask out of ignorance. When I used RedHat 8.0, I ran KDE with no problems.
I agree with the people calling for the dropping of the K-names. It reminds me too much of bad comics, like "Kooky Klowns".
Thanks.
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I really like AltLinux. I haven't needed support beyond what my books have, but I suppose there must be some way to translate the mailing lists. I hope as it gets bigger there will be stuff available in english. Learning about new releases is no big deal, since they have an english website. I use apt-get with the Sisyphus repositories to keep up with all the latest things.
I highly recommend it. I have run SuSE 8.0, RedHat 8.0/8.1b, Knoppix with hard drive install, and Yoper rc3. This is my favorite distro so far. KDE 3.1 is setup nicely.
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You might want to check out what the commies (not debian) have put out. Alt Linux's new beta named Master 2.2 beats the hell out of RedHat's Pheobe. It has apt-get (I know, I know... gentoo, blah, emerge, blah...)and their Sisyphus repositories have most of the newer packages available. It comes Xft enabled, so the fonts look good. I am so stupid, I thought this was about Alt. Yoper does look good, too.
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Is there an easy way to burn ogg files in Linux? (sorry, GNU/Linux...don't hit me!) I am reasonably new to Linux, not a total idiot, but I just cannot figure out how to do it. Someone please show me how stupid I am, and how easily done it is.
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Interesting discussion. I can think of one instance where a strong password mattered. When the torrent site Oink had their servers grabbed by Interpol, the people with easy passwords were the ones that were prosecuted. It wasn't worth the time or the hassle to go after the harder to crack passwords.
I have a brain injury that destroyed my short term memory and ability to organize. Passwords are my personal hell.
T-Mobile has horrible coverage where I live. (A large, rusty, car-dependent metro area.) I could not wait for my two years to be up. My calls were dropped consistently, where it became a joke with my friends. "Dude, your phone sucks". Verizon does cost a more, but I have not had one dropped call in three months. I with they had cheaper plans, but nope.
You can't win in the US.
I hope he lets us know how "telling the CEO" works out for him. Most CEO's seem to genuinely appreciate an applicant educating them and assuming they don't understand an issue.
When I was in charge of hiring, I hated applicants. They assumed I had nothing better to do than listen to them ramble on endlessly. I barely had time to use the bathroom most days, let alone get lectured on semantics.
Some of these people think the server is a "CPU" or a "Hard Drive". I get calls where they say "the internet is down" because they somehow deleted the IE icon. They don't even know how to use the address bar in their browser, they type the url into one of the 10 search toolbars they've installed. You face the wrath of god when you delete their Weather Bug crapware. "my weather doesn't work, the it guy broke it"
If I talk Java or C++ their eyes glaze over as they pretend to know what I am talking about. Never underestimate the stupidity of people. I say that as a stupid person.
I agree. One of the things that was hot about the Eastern Block lesbian porn when it first appeared was that there was a good amount, 10 minutes or so, of passionate kissing. Now it is all fists being shoved into women and blah blah blah. One of the funniest trends I've seen pop up on the scene lately is amateur video of an attractive woman walking down the street. It is like porn has come full circle, the only hotness is what is imagined. Like seeing an ankle in 1920.
um, forgot the post anonymously checkbox. What I said above was purely speculation, grabbed from the google.... I'm much too busy and happily married to know the first thing about Eastern Block top-notch lesbian porn.
They are much better looking than those fake-boobed idiots from back in the day. Today there are tons of top quality Eastern Block women available that no one would ever have a chance of seeing naked in real life. All readily downloadable. Living in the future has it's perks.
sup cody diablo. while you are here, wtf is home skillet?
September? God, now I have to wait forever to use the new default theme!
It might be the sweetest, most awesome theme ever created, ever!
"dag" is an rpm repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
This link gets you up and running. Basically you add the repo to your apt sources list.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
Hope that helps.
I should have been more specific in my post. The md5sums did match. There isn't a problem with my cd burner, during my second batch of burning 2 cd sets I also burned PCLinuxOS and Arch .6, both of them worked without a problem. I did troubleshoot, though, because when something goes wrong I usually assume that I have done something stupid somewhere.
There are a lot of comments in Mandrake Club and elsewhere where people are having the same problem. Unfortunately, I am not the only one.
I have installed too many distros in the time I have been using linux. Mandrake 9.1 w/ texstar's additions was one of my favorites. I was interested in trying out Mandrake's newest, and get some use out of my membership, so I downloaded the set.
/home partition.
Here are some of the nice things about it:
-I had to boot with cd 2, then put in cd 1.Cd 1 isn't bootable for me. Not a huge problem, but not good for a "newbie friendly" install.
-It would freeze unless I wiped out my
-After wiping 30 gigs of media, it froze randomly during "install system". Sometimes at 13 minutes, sometimes at 9 minutes, sometimes at 20 seconds. This is with four different sets of burned discs, from two different bittorrent downloads.
-It made me long for the ease of a gentoo install.
I have pretty basic hardware, nothing fancy. Anything else installs easily on it.
It is an embarassment to the linux community to have such a lousy installer unleashed on the public. I hope they publicly acknowledge the failings with this release, and get the isos fixed. It is a big disappointment. I should have known better than to try and leave wonderful Slackware.
Anyone here having these problems? I see in different Mandrake forums that people are.
Thanks,
Rich
They all have good and bad points. It is annoying to install a distro and be missing something that was nicely set up in another. 9.1 has the best combination I have seen. Mandrake seems to be the best mix of not too easy and not too hard. Everything works the way I want it too. There is a wonderful community site Mandrakeusers.org, that is friendly and a great source of info. Texstar provides excellent add-ons through urpmi. If I want eye candy or some helpful command line program (like unrar), it is simple for me to get.
I don't find Mandrake 9.1 makes things too easy for me. I don't feel babied, but I do feel sometimes I save time. I hope the company does well. I find it to be a great distro, and I have tried a lot of them.
Thanks, Rich
not a troll, just a stupid typo. I meant firebird. Your reply made me laugh, though. I was only kidding about the conspiracy.
It is funny, the msn results page for linux completely froze Thunderbird for me. Conspiracy?
Don't run it on RedHat's Phoebe beta... My freind runs Gentoo and he emerged it before it was even written, a year ago. I think he is at the mall right now, yelling at the mall walkers about how optimized his system is. no cigs or sig.
Great post, but I cannot be silent on how lousy the fonts look in your screenshot. I don't recognize the OS. You should try Mandrake or RedHat, the fonts are beautiful right out of the box.
I just did. Download it. I will throw as many distro's as I download onto the network. I am a distro junkie. Hope others do the same. no cigs or sig.
RedHat's phoebe has a nice version of KDE 3.1 that works well for me. Alt Linux has KDE 3.1 as well, and is a bit better than phoebe. Would someone please explain to me what is broken in RedHat KDE? I ask out of ignorance. When I used RedHat 8.0, I ran KDE with no problems. I agree with the people calling for the dropping of the K-names. It reminds me too much of bad comics, like "Kooky Klowns". Thanks.
I really like AltLinux. I haven't needed support beyond what my books have, but I suppose there must be some way to translate the mailing lists. I hope as it gets bigger there will be stuff available in english. Learning about new releases is no big deal, since they have an english website. I use apt-get with the Sisyphus repositories to keep up with all the latest things. I highly recommend it. I have run SuSE 8.0, RedHat 8.0/8.1b, Knoppix with hard drive install, and Yoper rc3. This is my favorite distro so far. KDE 3.1 is setup nicely. Thanks.
You might want to check out what the commies (not debian) have put out. Alt Linux's new beta named Master 2.2 beats the hell out of RedHat's Pheobe. It has apt-get (I know, I know... gentoo, blah, emerge, blah...)and their Sisyphus repositories have most of the newer packages available. It comes Xft enabled, so the fonts look good. I am so stupid, I thought this was about Alt. Yoper does look good, too.
Is there an easy way to burn ogg files in Linux? (sorry, GNU/Linux...don't hit me!) I am reasonably new to Linux, not a total idiot, but I just cannot figure out how to do it. Someone please show me how stupid I am, and how easily done it is.
33. Someone figures out how to say how wonderful their life is now that they use Gentoo, and look forward to using Gentoo on it (thirty three minutes)