Anybody else have black text on a black background with firefox. Great job poster, using IE to surf with. Dimwit. I noticed nobody else pointed it out. Afraid to admit that it didn't work right? Come on folks...its just html. Anyway, I fixed the display problem with a simple ctrl-A. With everything highlighted and inversed, it was much easier to read than the scattered links every so often down the page.
We should at least try to hold out some hope here. Really, it could provide an opening to 5+ package managers weaknesses...or it could truly unite program management.
Honestly, this is something that is desparately needed in the linux world...it is pretty obvious that the biggest hurdle to running linux is the fact that it is hard to update and patch. Granny don't know apt-get -dependancyhell -fubarproofmycomputer
Our linux community really needs something as FUBAR proof as microsoft's start menu icon that says autoupdate...or better yet a background app that does it all for us. Gentoo is a start, but not the end.
This is a journey we are on, we have a lot of different starting points, but the thing we need to keep in mind is that we all need to reach the same destination at the same time with package managment. *Nix acceptance and usability will be greatly enhanced by having a stand alone, all encompassing package manager.
exactly...so I know it couldn't come out before when it was super new software. I don't even like mozilla. I was wondering on the forums when other venders would start shipping firefox.
Honestly, I want to know the name of moderator that marked my post flamebait. How is mentioning that just a few days ago I was asking about this very topic on the firefox forums a flame? How is admitting that firefox has a following because it at lease 'seems' to be fast, featureful, and trouble free - and lets not mistake the issue here. All browsers, regardless of your personal philosophy, need to be measured against Microsofts Internet Explorer. Firefox is the only one, as a browser, to beat it in the performance category. Other netscape derived projects are excellent, but still 'seem' inherantly buggy and slow - their featureset is better than IE or even firefox...but they are still slow to render, and buggy.
I was simply asking on the forum the other day if anybody was shipping with firefox since it is near full release quality now. Flame me all you want you half-wit moderating trash eaters.
the other day when Distros were going to start shipping with Firefox. Gosh I hate Konquorer and Netscape and whatever else ships usually. I know it hasn't shipped in the past because it was not a full fledged 1.0 product yet...but jee whiz I can only suffer so long. Really, do you expect morons(aka users) to install a separate browser that doesn't suck and doesn't take all day long to render a screen? This has been a long time in coming. Hopefully now that there seems to be some Distro-wide acceptance, use will spread to other distros.
Kudos to the Firefox team. You guys make a great product. Keep it up.
obviously not in chronological order...as I have been actively using mine since 1997 and mine still says 2MB.
Honestly, my hotmail account is my oldest and most useful account, one of the hangups of going to linux is that I can't use outlook express and its (beta) functionality with hotmail. Are there any linux or alternative choices for win32 codebase mail systems that can access hotmail accounts?
Japan only needs about 25 cell towers to cover their entire frickin country. If all we cared about was something the size of Maine...we'd be pretty proud of our accomplishments too.
America is big. We need big solutions. As soon as their engineers can make our phones do troposcatter at that data rate...let me know and I'll pop the cork.
Yes, we do have some people in here with basic electronic skills that have pointed out that large amperage (current) can indeed spark. My cell phone gets warm, but it doesn't explode...so I know there isn't much current going out of that little 700mah battery.
I do thank the above poster for saying that it can spark, but is not exactly likely while conducting current thru an IC.
About the antennae voltage post...holy crap...do you have an exposed metal end on the tip of your cellphone...just like a spark plug? No. It is wrapped in plastic, which I'm pretty sure is there to prevent sparking and increase durability. Indeed, a cellphone that exploded at gas stations is probably not very durable.
you can flame me if you wish. I deserve it. I just think its rediculous that a normal electronic device in my hand is going to start sparking and blow up a city block. FAR more likely are the poor electrical connections in my car, around the lights, the flourecent bulbs overhead, the guy smoking his cancerstick, and the fat chic wearing too tight nylon clothing in the wintertime.
I haven't taken apart my most recent phone, but in the others there isn't really anything to speak of as far as transformers go. These are digital devices we carry around with us without any motors (except the vibrating ring motor). If you are an engineer for Nokia or another company that actually manufactures these units, then let me know what the voltages are...but I refuse to believe there is anything on my phone that can spark except for the small motor.
If you removed the fans from your computer...I'm pretty sure you could bathe your computer in gasoline...or have it sit in a pan of gas - don't actually try this since you'd have to get all the fans, powersupply, and monitor far enough away for it to actually work.
Repeat after me: 3 volts do not arc. 3 volts do not arc. 3 volts do not arc.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
All the above are excellent reasons to ftp instead of torrent. Mostly though, on my part, I haven't got it set up. Waiting for an ftp is no big deal. I just set the download and go to bed. Is that so hard? Takes 2 hours or so for a full ISO...Even if its slow its done by morning.:)
Not the FTP mirrors...though now that we've slashdoted the damn thing they'll never get updated. Way to go poster dude. The torrents may be out, but the regular ftp/http sites are not synced up yet.
Guess I'll just have to wait. Tried every server across the globe and saw no version 3.4
Must agree. Tigerdirect is my shopping place of choice when I build new units. Unfortunately I've also dealt with their returns process several times. I can't complain about it. Their sales, support and return staff are all good and implement good policy. Better than most. Fair prices on almost everything too.
I would have to agree with this sentiment. No offense to those that make far more money than I while working for Nintendo or anybody else, but I haven't bought a Nintendo for years. I played perfect dark and bond007 on the N64, but I played it on a friends unit while deployed overseas with the military.
Here, when I have a choice, I play games without the tuti-fruity anime characters - on playstation. I'm not going to purchase a Nintendo system for that one cool game that might be similar to bond or perfect dark. I don't want to race go-carts around with stupid sounding cartoon characters. I want NASCAR, or NFL football.
but those games sucked. 3DO, while an excellent console, was poorly marketed and suffered from poor business decisions as well as lack of game developers due to Nintendo's monopolizing practices.
XBox...come on. The dang thing isn't really doing that well here either is it? Yeah it is surviving, but barely. We were all surprised when Sony was able to make a good console. Xbox is a nice unit to be sure, but it is basically a full fledged computer, not a console.
I know that there are some incredibly high performance and extremely technical aircraft available to the person with lots of money, skills, tools, and materials. These planes outperform commercial offerings, and provide the incredible sense of 'I built it myself' and 'I know everything there is to know about this aircraft'.
I feel these things about the computer systems that I build, and I appreciate the feeling. I also have a fetish for flying, and joined the Air Force to enjoy aircraft and being around them...even though my job is with computers.
Still, it stands out to me...I would not trust anything that I built to fly my ass down to the other end of the state...let alone over something as barren and deadly as the north/south poles.
It certainly takes a special kind of person to look at the plane that he built and say to himself "Yes, technically it can perform this task." and completely ignore the other voice in his soul saying "Although perhaps I should not force my luck."
I love flying, I really do. I love fixing aircraft and flying them. I also know not to try to fly over the damn south pole, north pole, or anywhere else that I might die in...assuming that I survive that 1 in 1,000,000,000 flight hours crash.
My gosh son. There is a reason that only military aircraft regularly fly over antarctica. Its because if it goes down...supposedly they can send another one...and...those people signed up to die in the service of their country.
There is one other person that I can think of with this mentality, and only one. Chuck Yeager. Perhaps this man should take his fearless and confident self down to the local recruiter and tell them he needs a new job as a test pilot.
ahhh...
You didnt say you were paying for THREE phone lines. No kidding it is going to be more. Extra phone with minutes is usually like 20 bucks...so there...we are pretty much even then. You still aren't getting any kind of sweet deal, but at least you aren't getting a watermellon shoved up your backside with no lube.:)
No kidding. Son, I have a great used car...scratch that...pre driven car to sell you. Heck, the odometer is broken, it doesn't actually have that many miles on it, that pesky 1 in front of the 15,000 is just stuck there. Honestly, it only has 15,000 miles on it and is in great shape. Brand new engine.
You are paying 120 bucks a month for your cell service? No crap. You are right, they don't care about the termination fee, because they are anal raping you each month and you love it. Poke your head out of the sand for a few minutes and look around. I've got an older phone, but I get a thousand anytime, unlimited off peak, and free long distance in the 48 states...for 39 bucks...taxes and stupid fees bump it up to 48...but holy crap you must be getting screwed.
Wonder who the jiggy guy will be that reads this, then sends out email with an attachemnt that does this automatically for everybody. I know everybody with a winblows box would love to experience this new feature. Simple command box is all they need. Simple. Elegant.
Sorry man. This is redundant, but I still can't get over how dumb the FCC comment was.
Even if you DO go over that FCC limit...whos checking? Do you think the FCC is going to wander by my house, directly in line of sight of my dish and measure me?
It is directional...they can't monitor it from their spaceship parked over washington.
I submitted this review on July 6th of this year. It was immediately accepted...I guess they were waiting for the accompanying book reviews to come around too. Sorry for the time delay, honestly, I read the book a long time ago...and then wrote a review. I still recommend it though. Its good.
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I've used information in this book to also setup and admin debian and mandrake current versions. There are a couple differences in directory tree, and some tools that are written specifically for mandrake/debian are obviously not mentioned - however the unleashed book moderately gravitates toward the text files that are modified by those easy-to-use admin programs.
basically, it bypasses the fluff and lets you at the main files.
It is not perfect, and with any book, the online documentation is probably better and more up to date. However I did find most of the information to be cross platform relevant.
Wow. Thank you for showing up here Bill. Just so that you know, I submitted the review a couple months ago(July 7th). I think they were letting it age like fine wine or something.
Just for you, I double checked to make sure I was talking about the right book...and I was. At the end of the index in the back...it ends with zone transfers, zope, and zsh shell...there are indeed 8 completely blank pages before the full page ads for InformIT Online Books and such. I don't know if its supposed to be there or not, and at first I thought it was dumb, but then I decided it would be handy to write things on...like my root password and important IP addresses.
I still enjoy your book, in fact I lent it to a friend for a while and he decided that it was worth purchasing also.
My good wishes go out to you in your current and future work. I hope all is prosperous, and more importantly, interesting and challenging. God Bless.
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Anybody else have black text on a black background with firefox. Great job poster, using IE to surf with. Dimwit. I noticed nobody else pointed it out. Afraid to admit that it didn't work right? Come on folks...its just html. Anyway, I fixed the display problem with a simple ctrl-A. With everything highlighted and inversed, it was much easier to read than the scattered links every so often down the page.
I just joined late in the evening...I am now number 1438...and team Slashdot is definitely in the lead.
Never get involved in a landware in Asia. Axim of physical combat.
Never challenge slashdotters and their computers. Axim of the internet.
We should at least try to hold out some hope here. Really, it could provide an opening to 5+ package managers weaknesses...or it could truly unite program management.
Honestly, this is something that is desparately needed in the linux world...it is pretty obvious that the biggest hurdle to running linux is the fact that it is hard to update and patch. Granny don't know apt-get -dependancyhell -fubarproofmycomputer
Our linux community really needs something as FUBAR proof as microsoft's start menu icon that says autoupdate...or better yet a background app that does it all for us. Gentoo is a start, but not the end.
This is a journey we are on, we have a lot of different starting points, but the thing we need to keep in mind is that we all need to reach the same destination at the same time with package managment. *Nix acceptance and usability will be greatly enhanced by having a stand alone, all encompassing package manager.
exactly...so I know it couldn't come out before when it was super new software. I don't even like mozilla. I was wondering on the forums when other venders would start shipping firefox. Honestly, I want to know the name of moderator that marked my post flamebait. How is mentioning that just a few days ago I was asking about this very topic on the firefox forums a flame? How is admitting that firefox has a following because it at lease 'seems' to be fast, featureful, and trouble free - and lets not mistake the issue here. All browsers, regardless of your personal philosophy, need to be measured against Microsofts Internet Explorer. Firefox is the only one, as a browser, to beat it in the performance category. Other netscape derived projects are excellent, but still 'seem' inherantly buggy and slow - their featureset is better than IE or even firefox...but they are still slow to render, and buggy. I was simply asking on the forum the other day if anybody was shipping with firefox since it is near full release quality now. Flame me all you want you half-wit moderating trash eaters.
the other day when Distros were going to start shipping with Firefox. Gosh I hate Konquorer and Netscape and whatever else ships usually. I know it hasn't shipped in the past because it was not a full fledged 1.0 product yet...but jee whiz I can only suffer so long. Really, do you expect morons(aka users) to install a separate browser that doesn't suck and doesn't take all day long to render a screen? This has been a long time in coming. Hopefully now that there seems to be some Distro-wide acceptance, use will spread to other distros. Kudos to the Firefox team. You guys make a great product. Keep it up.
obviously not in chronological order...as I have been actively using mine since 1997 and mine still says 2MB.
Honestly, my hotmail account is my oldest and most useful account, one of the hangups of going to linux is that I can't use outlook express and its (beta) functionality with hotmail. Are there any linux or alternative choices for win32 codebase mail systems that can access hotmail accounts?
just curious
I searched google for a torrent link...no cigar.
America is big. We need big solutions. As soon as their engineers can make our phones do troposcatter at that data rate...let me know and I'll pop the cork.
I do thank the above poster for saying that it can spark, but is not exactly likely while conducting current thru an IC.
About the antennae voltage post...holy crap...do you have an exposed metal end on the tip of your cellphone...just like a spark plug? No. It is wrapped in plastic, which I'm pretty sure is there to prevent sparking and increase durability. Indeed, a cellphone that exploded at gas stations is probably not very durable.
you can flame me if you wish. I deserve it. I just think its rediculous that a normal electronic device in my hand is going to start sparking and blow up a city block. FAR more likely are the poor electrical connections in my car, around the lights, the flourecent bulbs overhead, the guy smoking his cancerstick, and the fat chic wearing too tight nylon clothing in the wintertime.
If you removed the fans from your computer...I'm pretty sure you could bathe your computer in gasoline...or have it sit in a pan of gas - don't actually try this since you'd have to get all the fans, powersupply, and monitor far enough away for it to actually work.
Repeat after me: 3 volts do not arc. 3 volts do not arc. 3 volts do not arc.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
Repeat after me: My fat butt getting out of the car sparks repeatedly and could probably ignite and inferno.
All the above are excellent reasons to ftp instead of torrent. Mostly though, on my part, I haven't got it set up. Waiting for an ftp is no big deal. I just set the download and go to bed. Is that so hard? Takes 2 hours or so for a full ISO...Even if its slow its done by morning. :)
Guess I'll just have to wait. Tried every server across the globe and saw no version 3.4
Oh well.
Must agree. Tigerdirect is my shopping place of choice when I build new units. Unfortunately I've also dealt with their returns process several times. I can't complain about it. Their sales, support and return staff are all good and implement good policy. Better than most. Fair prices on almost everything too.
Here, when I have a choice, I play games without the tuti-fruity anime characters - on playstation. I'm not going to purchase a Nintendo system for that one cool game that might be similar to bond or perfect dark. I don't want to race go-carts around with stupid sounding cartoon characters. I want NASCAR, or NFL football.
but those games sucked. 3DO, while an excellent console, was poorly marketed and suffered from poor business decisions as well as lack of game developers due to Nintendo's monopolizing practices. XBox...come on. The dang thing isn't really doing that well here either is it? Yeah it is surviving, but barely. We were all surprised when Sony was able to make a good console. Xbox is a nice unit to be sure, but it is basically a full fledged computer, not a console.
I feel these things about the computer systems that I build, and I appreciate the feeling. I also have a fetish for flying, and joined the Air Force to enjoy aircraft and being around them...even though my job is with computers.
Still, it stands out to me...I would not trust anything that I built to fly my ass down to the other end of the state...let alone over something as barren and deadly as the north/south poles.
It certainly takes a special kind of person to look at the plane that he built and say to himself "Yes, technically it can perform this task." and completely ignore the other voice in his soul saying "Although perhaps I should not force my luck."
I love flying, I really do. I love fixing aircraft and flying them. I also know not to try to fly over the damn south pole, north pole, or anywhere else that I might die in...assuming that I survive that 1 in 1,000,000,000 flight hours crash.
My gosh son. There is a reason that only military aircraft regularly fly over antarctica. Its because if it goes down...supposedly they can send another one...and...those people signed up to die in the service of their country.
There is one other person that I can think of with this mentality, and only one. Chuck Yeager. Perhaps this man should take his fearless and confident self down to the local recruiter and tell them he needs a new job as a test pilot.
how can SCO be so swarthy...dirty...underhanded...immoral...mean...s elfish...prideful...ignorant...
ahhh... You didnt say you were paying for THREE phone lines. No kidding it is going to be more. Extra phone with minutes is usually like 20 bucks...so there...we are pretty much even then. You still aren't getting any kind of sweet deal, but at least you aren't getting a watermellon shoved up your backside with no lube. :)
You are paying 120 bucks a month for your cell service? No crap. You are right, they don't care about the termination fee, because they are anal raping you each month and you love it. Poke your head out of the sand for a few minutes and look around. I've got an older phone, but I get a thousand anytime, unlimited off peak, and free long distance in the 48 states...for 39 bucks...taxes and stupid fees bump it up to 48...but holy crap you must be getting screwed.
Wonder who the jiggy guy will be that reads this, then sends out email with an attachemnt that does this automatically for everybody. I know everybody with a winblows box would love to experience this new feature. Simple command box is all they need. Simple. Elegant.
Even if you DO go over that FCC limit...whos checking? Do you think the FCC is going to wander by my house, directly in line of sight of my dish and measure me?
It is directional...they can't monitor it from their spaceship parked over washington.
I submitted this review on July 6th of this year. It was immediately accepted...I guess they were waiting for the accompanying book reviews to come around too. Sorry for the time delay, honestly, I read the book a long time ago...and then wrote a review. I still recommend it though. Its good.
basically, it bypasses the fluff and lets you at the main files.
It is not perfect, and with any book, the online documentation is probably better and more up to date. However I did find most of the information to be cross platform relevant.
Just for you, I double checked to make sure I was talking about the right book...and I was. At the end of the index in the back...it ends with zone transfers, zope, and zsh shell...there are indeed 8 completely blank pages before the full page ads for InformIT Online Books and such. I don't know if its supposed to be there or not, and at first I thought it was dumb, but then I decided it would be handy to write things on...like my root password and important IP addresses.
I still enjoy your book, in fact I lent it to a friend for a while and he decided that it was worth purchasing also.
My good wishes go out to you in your current and future work. I hope all is prosperous, and more importantly, interesting and challenging. God Bless.
Thank You.