I was always fascinated by flipping my tennis racket. It sort always appears to do a lateral spin as well as a vertical flip. I suspect it's something to do with least path of energy.
To see what I'm talking about take a racket, hold it flat by the handle, and just flip it up and catch it by the handle. You'll see at one point it's vertical. Try to get it flip while remaining horizontal. I was never able to do this. It always went straight up, turned what appeared to be 180 degrees, and then came right back down.
"Notebook support" is an arbitrary statement about a specific end use environment.
So let's go over Gentoo's "support" for anything...
Gentoo runs the Linux kernel, so your support is going to be the same as any other distro that runs the Linux kernel.
In Gentoo you have to either a.) configure your own kernel; b.) use genkernel and accept the gentoo config; or c.) use genkernel and tweak the default config (genkernel all --menuconfig)
I've run Gentoo on my laptop for I don't know how long.. well I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's been well over a year.
I have a howto for my laptop brant (HP ZT1150) and it's actually the link in my sig.
Here's another HP ZT1000 site, and he also runs Gentoo..
So, without trying to flame you, the "distro" support is, at least, misleading. As the support for things is generally based on the kernel you build, or someone builds for you.
The real advantages of Gentoo are it's all to easy upgrade path. I used to reinstall Linux every 4-6 months just to get the latest base system. With Gentoo I just emerge system every month or so. It's almost a drawback if you're someone who likes to wipe the slate clean and start over, as there's little reason to...
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton
Of course they don't, security researchers find the wholes. They believe in full disclosure, and tell the hackers. Who create exploits, way before there is a patch, and often before the vendor (especially in the case of Microsoft) has responded to the notice.
Now that's good, but c'mon "We have never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known" is just criminal ignorance. Let's all go visit Packet Storm and click on last 20 exploits, or Bugtraq and see if there's any talk of exploits without patches. Or, wait, we could go straight for Vuln-dev
and see exploits as they are developed.. which is [sarcasm]OBVIOUSLY by reverse engineering patches[/sarcasm].
If this guy wasn't fed this FUD by marketing droids, and he's really supposed to be in charge of "security", he should be fired.
This IS the same thing that enlightenment's
pager does.
It can make miniture pictures of all your apps and you can rearrange them, etc.
Checkout my desktop screenshot
Note: this is my desktop on 2.21.03 almost exactly a year ago. And I've run E for at least 5 years.
I don't get it... I'm anti-telemarketing. But do we really want more government? Much less more government involvement in commerce? They blow it every chance they get, and I'm not very interested in giving them another chance.
Apparently you all are for big, bloated, ineffecient government?
If the average tax per citizen is $50k/year and you pay less than that, then you pay less than your share. So shutup about any tax cuts for the wealthy. The fact is that the weathly pay most of the taxes.
Read this article, titled " Income Taxes - Do the rich really pay their fair share?"
here
I'll spoil the article by telling you in advance that they pay far more than their share.
PS, vote no to big government, no to government intrusions into our privacy, no to government breaking the laws, and no to taxes, vote libertarian
I would rephrase your statement, to something like this.
Cloning is like prostitution, it's none of the governments damn business what people do with their own lives, and they should be free *anything* as long as it doesn't impact others equal share of this same type of freedom..
I'm so a Libertarian
And so are you if you could only get past your fear, lack of self-respect, and trust.
The cable company has the freedom, as does any business, to provide whatever the hell services they want. If you don't like it, you stop paying them for it, and if it's bad enough you start your own cable company.
quote :
"Because letting business do whatever they want certainly isn't going to lead to healthy competition."
Sorry, but again you're wrong. Basic free market theory says that if you have an open market, that businesses will follow the evolutionary path to the perfect solution. The free market is arguably tougher on businesses than it is on consumers. Look at some service you get from a business that you're not happy with, and you'll see the governments hand there. Now look at some business you do like, and I'll be you it has little or no government interference.
Thanks for the awarding of bonus points, I wouldn't say that it was a pointless jab. Europe is largely the land of big government, the welfare state, and everything I dispise about government. On the other hand it's a nice continent, with a lot of nice countries there. I can't stand paying the 30% or so tax that I get here, but across the pond they're paying out 40-50%. I'd revolt. True the jab doesn't directly belong with my other rant about the FCC, considering European television seems much more open to us. But I think they'd say the same about our television. We (Americans) are ok with horrible violence on TV, and they're (Europeans) ok with nudity, sex, and porn on theirs.
Oh, and all politicians are asshats, at least all the ones I've seen or met.
I'm going to vote libertarian becuase they have the fundamentals that agree with my opinions. Privatize everything. Government is here to protect our freedoms and not take them away for the safety of anyone. Anyone is free to do anything they want as long as it doesn't infringe on other peoples freedom to do the same.
I'll never blindly vote any party, but when in doubt I'll choose a libertarian over a dem, repub, or green.
Laws should be based on things that make sense, not 200 years of repressive precedent, or over hyped "concerns" of the day that get legislated to death and stick.
Congressmen who throw out stupid ideas about taking away freedoms, privacies, or putting government punishments in place where nobody has been hurt, should be fired for violating the basic tenants of freedom, and the constitution.
The government shouldn't be punishing people who falsify private documents. I believe it's not (currently) a crime to misrepresent yourself, and online there's a lot to be said for the added safeties of misrepresentation, anonymity, and privacy.
The FCC doesn't need to decide what we watch on TV, we do. If we don't like what we see on channel whatever we don't watch it anymore. The only thing worse than the government trying to control our private lives is the people asking them to. Go to Europe you bunch of repressed whiners.
I'm sick of this all.
I don't care how this gets modded, I'm fed up, and/. is a as good a place as any to vent.
Microsoft and Yahoo are getting ahead of themselves here.. They can't even STOP the spammers, what makes them think they'll be able to enforce a toll?
Of course I know the answer to this, it's called change the nature of email. Which is a subtle way of saying let's move everyone to a new set of protocols/services that we could control so we can make them pay for their spamming...
If you're going to go to those lengths, just redo the protocol without the new tax. Make it harder to send forged email.
To quote "11 Mommy, can I have something to drink with my cheesesteak?
Fast-food sandwich chain Quiznos launches its new Philly cheesesteak with a TV commercial featuring two businessmen eating lunch alfresco. One's a smart Quiznos customer; the other, a non-Q loser. "Were you raised by wolves?" asks appalled Guy No. 1. Yes, indeed--and he still calls the wolf den home. Cut to a shot of Guy No. 2 lying on the ground and suckling a mama wolf's teat.
"
I remember seeing that commercial and falling violently to the floor in a spat of uncontrolled laughter.
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I agree completely. We dont allow port 25 except through our mail server, and it scans every peice of email, and updates its definitions hourly. It's qmail and uses the free clamav. It caught the SCO/MyDoom virus.
For people scared of things like a virus protected, spam filtered, web based, high performance, free email server there's the easy route, and that's to use Matt Simmerson's Mail Toaster & FreeBSD
Here's a link
Anyone have any good places they use that get old computers from us to someone who really needs it?
I've got plenty of hardware, from old pentiums to dual p2 300's with SCSI drives, and I've got more workstations and servers than I need... I'm sure I'm not alone.. maybe the local library could use some, but I've always been partial to latin america..
Initial design was for a nuclear power cell, but the green goop leaked out of the super strong container and turned all the lead scientists into mutated super heros.
Needless to say, they left NASA and are now fighting crime in South America.
attn: spirit, drill hole into rock, post soil analysis
send
meanwhile back on mars...
receive
attn: spit, drill into ps
send
attn: nasa, spitting drill into main power supp...
Don't you remember, at the beginning of this charade Microsoft announced a licensing agreement for Unix with SCO.
SCO is not only targeting Linux, with IBM they've claimed to have revoked IBM's license for Unix, and ordered them to recall AIX, or some other such nonsense.
I believe Sun had a lil blurb months back about their license from SCO covers the ability to do whatever they want with their Unix.
I just typed microsoft in my browser and hit CTRL+ENTER and it took me straight to their page, the URL didn't seem to change but it was microsoft.com, I'm pretty sure... looks like a software company of some time, nice logo...
Also I tried some other domains and they all worked just the same..
Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031209
I agree completely. I don't return to a news site if they were discussing a product/site/event that occured online without a link directly to the source. It's like they're trying to keep you on their site, and it feels pathetic.
zdnet take note, I don't go to your site anymore becuase you did this one time to many.
If what you say was the case, wouldn't the law disallow fat and ugly people from walking around nude, and encourage super models, maybe with tax breaks?
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Advice given to me by my father.
Of course I haven't followed it, but I'm seriously considering starting.
To see what I'm talking about take a racket, hold it flat by the handle, and just flip it up and catch it by the handle. You'll see at one point it's vertical. Try to get it flip while remaining horizontal. I was never able to do this. It always went straight up, turned what appeared to be 180 degrees, and then came right back down.
Any physics geek care to explain?
So let's go over Gentoo's "support" for anything...
Gentoo runs the Linux kernel, so your support is going to be the same as any other distro that runs the Linux kernel.
In Gentoo you have to either a.) configure your own kernel; b.) use genkernel and accept the gentoo config; or c.) use genkernel and tweak the default config (genkernel all --menuconfig)
I've run Gentoo on my laptop for I don't know how long.. well I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's been well over a year. I have a howto for my laptop brant (HP ZT1150) and it's actually the link in my sig.
Here's another HP ZT1000 site, and he also runs Gentoo..
So, without trying to flame you, the "distro" support is, at least, misleading. As the support for things is generally based on the kernel you build, or someone builds for you.
The real advantages of Gentoo are it's all to easy upgrade path. I used to reinstall Linux every 4-6 months just to get the latest base system. With Gentoo I just emerge system every month or so. It's almost a drawback if you're someone who likes to wipe the slate clean and start over, as there's little reason to...
Of course they don't, security researchers find the wholes. They believe in full disclosure, and tell the hackers. Who create exploits, way before there is a patch, and often before the vendor (especially in the case of Microsoft) has responded to the notice.
Now that's good, but c'mon "We have never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known" is just criminal ignorance. Let's all go visit Packet Storm and click on last 20 exploits, or Bugtraq and see if there's any talk of exploits without patches. Or, wait, we could go straight for Vuln-dev and see exploits as they are developed.. which is [sarcasm]OBVIOUSLY by reverse engineering patches[/sarcasm].
If this guy wasn't fed this FUD by marketing droids, and he's really supposed to be in charge of "security", he should be fired.
It can make miniture pictures of all your apps and you can rearrange them, etc.
Checkout my desktop screenshot Note: this is my desktop on 2.21.03 almost exactly a year ago. And I've run E for at least 5 years.
Apparently you all are for big, bloated, ineffecient government?
here
I'll spoil the article by telling you in advance that they pay far more than their share.
PS, vote no to big government, no to government intrusions into our privacy, no to government breaking the laws, and no to taxes, vote libertarian
Cloning is like prostitution, it's none of the governments damn business what people do with their own lives, and they should be free *anything* as long as it doesn't impact others equal share of this same type of freedom..
I'm so a Libertarian
And so are you if you could only get past your fear, lack of self-respect, and trust.
The cable company has the freedom, as does any business, to provide whatever the hell services they want. If you don't like it, you stop paying them for it, and if it's bad enough you start your own cable company.
quote : "Because letting business do whatever they want certainly isn't going to lead to healthy competition."
Sorry, but again you're wrong. Basic free market theory says that if you have an open market, that businesses will follow the evolutionary path to the perfect solution. The free market is arguably tougher on businesses than it is on consumers. Look at some service you get from a business that you're not happy with, and you'll see the governments hand there. Now look at some business you do like, and I'll be you it has little or no government interference.
Thanks for the awarding of bonus points, I wouldn't say that it was a pointless jab. Europe is largely the land of big government, the welfare state, and everything I dispise about government. On the other hand it's a nice continent, with a lot of nice countries there. I can't stand paying the 30% or so tax that I get here, but across the pond they're paying out 40-50%. I'd revolt. True the jab doesn't directly belong with my other rant about the FCC, considering European television seems much more open to us. But I think they'd say the same about our television. We (Americans) are ok with horrible violence on TV, and they're (Europeans) ok with nudity, sex, and porn on theirs.
Oh, and all politicians are asshats, at least all the ones I've seen or met.
I'm going to vote libertarian becuase they have the fundamentals that agree with my opinions. Privatize everything. Government is here to protect our freedoms and not take them away for the safety of anyone. Anyone is free to do anything they want as long as it doesn't infringe on other peoples freedom to do the same.
I'll never blindly vote any party, but when in doubt I'll choose a libertarian over a dem, repub, or green.
I'm voting libertarian from now on.
Laws should be based on things that make sense, not 200 years of repressive precedent, or over hyped "concerns" of the day that get legislated to death and stick.
Congressmen who throw out stupid ideas about taking away freedoms, privacies, or putting government punishments in place where nobody has been hurt, should be fired for violating the basic tenants of freedom, and the constitution.
The government shouldn't be punishing people who falsify private documents. I believe it's not (currently) a crime to misrepresent yourself, and online there's a lot to be said for the added safeties of misrepresentation, anonymity, and privacy.
The FCC doesn't need to decide what we watch on TV, we do. If we don't like what we see on channel whatever we don't watch it anymore. The only thing worse than the government trying to control our private lives is the people asking them to. Go to Europe you bunch of repressed whiners.
I'm sick of this all.
I don't care how this gets modded, I'm fed up, and /. is a as good a place as any to vent.
I think the technical term is "breach of contract"
The REASON we have spam is because some stupid people are BUYING the CRAP the spammers are selling.
Of course I know the answer to this, it's called change the nature of email. Which is a subtle way of saying let's move everyone to a new set of protocols/services that we could control so we can make them pay for their spamming...
If you're going to go to those lengths, just redo the protocol without the new tax. Make it harder to send forged email.
I remember seeing that commercial and falling violently to the floor in a spat of uncontrolled laughter.
For people scared of things like a virus protected, spam filtered, web based, high performance, free email server there's the easy route, and that's to use Matt Simmerson's Mail Toaster & FreeBSD Here's a link
Upgrade Mozilla!
You're on 1.2.x and they're at 1.6. That's a long way. I'm on Mozilla 1.5 on Linux and sco.com doesn't crash my browser.
I've got plenty of hardware, from old pentiums to dual p2 300's with SCSI drives, and I've got more workstations and servers than I need... I'm sure I'm not alone.. maybe the local library could use some, but I've always been partial to latin america..
Needless to say, they left NASA and are now fighting crime in South America.
attn: spirit, drill hole into rock, post soil analysis
send
meanwhile back on mars...
receive
attn: spit, drill into ps
send
attn: nasa, spitting drill into main power supp...
Press F1 to continue...
SCO is not only targeting Linux, with IBM they've claimed to have revoked IBM's license for Unix, and ordered them to recall AIX, or some other such nonsense.
I believe Sun had a lil blurb months back about their license from SCO covers the ability to do whatever they want with their Unix.
Could this be a last ditch effort to bump their stock so they can sell the last few shares...
Also I tried some other domains and they all worked just the same..
Mozilla 1.5 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031209
Built on gentoo with emerge mozilla.
zdnet take note, I don't go to your site anymore becuase you did this one time to many.