Sigh. The fact that can't morally discriminate between intentional, targeted murder and collatoral damage shows how seriously deluded you are. You have to go back 20 years??? They RECENTLY killed 3000 of our brothers, sisters, uncles, fathers... They RECENTLY cut the heads off innocent civilians. And they did it with cold, calculated malice. They are evil, and must be destroyed. We are all nerds, but it's time to grow up and recognize the realities of the world we live in.
What difference does it really make? Am I missing something?
A control of the media player used by the majority gives microsoft leverage, and I think we can all agree that giving microsoft control over anything a bad idea..
The point was that you have to redo these types of installs with every new kernel. Thats the WHOLE POINT. It obviously went over your head.
Just keep a copy of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-xxxx-pkg2.run
in/root. Then next time you update the kernel and you meet an X failure on boot it's easy enough to type init 3 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-xxxx-pkg2.run (batter enter until prompt returns) init 5
With closed source, you never enter the room, something breaks and is visible from the outside and you say "Microsoft, thou shalt fix this or I will take my maintenance contract elsewhere!", and then Microsoft sends its devs into the room of razor blades with their own lights to fix the problem. (Now you might debate their effectiveness, but thats another issue.)
With open source, stuff breaks, no one is there to help you and you have to visit hundreds of howto sites in order to get the exact path to traverse the razor blades in the dark without killing yourself, just so you can fix the problem yourself.
Have you actually heard of MS fixing a bug specifically for a customer? I'd be interested to hear about that.
Also I think you're ignoring that there are service contracts available for support on OSS. Infact it's better because you've got some choice in the matter with MS your stuck with MS.
It's not just the performance though. I seriously find the detailed walls and fancy weapon flashes distracting. A wall is a wall is a wall as far as gameplay is concerned, so I don't want it to be distracting me.
Maybe it's good training for you to learn to pick out and pay attention to only important information in your vision? Kind of like how a pilot only reads instruments that are relavent at a particular moment.
That's because animals are aware that they need to procreate, and more often than not, they consider the survival of the race as more important as the survival of one member.
The animals are acting on instincts designed to selfishly ensure the survival of their genes, not the species. The animals at best "care" for themselves and immediate family members, who carry a lot of the same genes.
SuSE has given out free.iso's of their Personal edition for some time, at least since 8.2. Since the personal edition is missing some software I use, I tend to stick to the boxed version.
...the _best_ hardware detection. Plug in a camera it mounts it automagically. Plug in a printer, it finds the correct driver. Mandrake and fedora were seriously lacking in this capability.
I was always pretty lucky with mandrake. I switched to fedora 'cos I couldn't afford the 64bit mandrake.
Where does one go to find the list of good Linux distros vs bad Linux distros?
That really depends on what you want to do and your tastes. If you don't mind sacrificing a bit of stability for the latest stuff Mandrake is nice for a desktop, I popped my cherry on that one heh.
For stability I'd have to say debian is king. Slackware is nice for those that like doing everything their way. Gentoo is for the insane (don't flame, I'm taking the piss!) I've not use SuSE is supposed to be nice but I've never used it seeing as they don't give out free.iso downloads Fedora core is my particular brand but it's all down to personal opinion. They are all free so find out what you like!
What makes Xandros buggy? Isn't it all the same basic sets of open source code that's so much more secure and stable than anything Microsoft produces?
An unsafe and a safe house can be built from exactly the same bricks, it's the way you arrange those bricks.
All the best open software is tested to hell and back through lots of release candidates etc.. If a distro chooses to use these development versions of software or doesn't test the combination of software they are using throughly (essentially making it a development distro) then you can't expect the security and stability that open source software done properly provides
If you're going to freak out about someone else "stealing" your work then you've totally missed the point and should probably just sit quietly in the corner until you get it.
I write open source code because I want my work to benifit society, not to make some company to rich stealing my code and using it not to peoples benifit (not giving it to them for free) I choose GPL rather than BSD specifically for that reason. I think that's probably the reason why there are alot more contributors to Linux than any of the BSDS
I usually get about 400MB ram consumption but that's at least 40 windows open at a time (konqueror sessions end up running for weeks hidden in the fray) I'm running 64bit too so perhaps 400MB isn't typical.
So I almost want to wish the conspiracy mongers well on their propaganda efforts -- anything that causes the public to distrust that air of secrecy, and the actions of spooky secret people supposedly in their interest, for there is no force on Earth so horrifying as that of people willing to do wrong things for what they think are right reasons, things like that that work towards increasing that distrust are somewhat positive in my book.
Learn Karate or another martial art and understand it. a Brown Belt can protect him/her self well against an armed attacker. if you can flee or end without conflict then do it, otherwise intend and attempt to disable that person that is very willing to severely hurt or kill you.
I don't know how realistic that is man, being a brown grade in lau gar kung fu the best technique against an armed attacker we've been shown is run-the-fuck-away-fast. Having a solid grounding in martial arts levels the playing field against an intelligent armed opponent at best. Try what an earlier poster said about using a marker pen as a fake knife and see how difficult it is.
PS, if I was caught in a knife fight I couldn't get out of and was lucky enough (yeah, I'd consider it luck) to get the knife off my attacker I'd put it in his neck or I'd be stamping on his throat. No breaking arms. No holds. No bravado. I'm going to kill him 'cos I'll be scared shitless.
The two prongs on the front are all that is really needed, but most tazers are equipped with a second set of prongs which point towards each other. The only point of those prongs are to generate an arc so that you can scare people off.
I thought the point of the two inward facing prongs was to allow a safe discharge when discharging through the two outward facing prongs was not possible?
The current plan makes perfect sense. Think of it this way. Instead of the current two release levels (stable & dev), you now have three: Stable, very-stable & dev. Very-stable is perfect for users who need a high level of stability, servers, office use, your grandma's system. Stable is great for the average user, possibly a bit more adventurous, but still quite stable. Finally you have dev which is for developers & those who want to be on the bleeding edge.
Exactly:-) I'll be using the community version and the official when it gets released but I'll wait until the official version before I distribute it among my not so linux literate friends.
Suits me down to the ground. And who cares if it's similar to Fedora? Just 'cos Red Hat comes up with a great idea it shouldn't be used?
This doesn't follow. If I take your GPL program, add on a do-hicky and keep that closed how does that cause a "loss of freedom".
I wrote the do-hicky, why should you be entitled to it [other than altruistic goodyness].
Well if I'm not entitled to your do-hicky, why should you be entitled to the original GPL program?
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Yup, time to take a hard look at Bush 'n' co.
Depends, the bible seems to have been accepted as Fact.
Only by morons.
What difference does it really make? Am I missing something?
A control of the media player used by the majority gives microsoft leverage, and I think we can all agree that giving microsoft control over anything a bad idea..
The point was that you have to redo these types of installs with every new kernel. Thats the WHOLE POINT. It obviously went over your head.
Just keep a copy of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-xxxx-pkg2.run in /root.
Then next time you update the kernel and you meet an X failure on boot it's easy enough to type
init 3
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-xxxx-pkg2.run
(batter enter until prompt returns)
init 5
With closed source, you never enter the room, something breaks and is visible from the outside and you say "Microsoft, thou shalt fix this or I will take my maintenance contract elsewhere!", and then Microsoft sends its devs into the room of razor blades with their own lights to fix the problem. (Now you might debate their effectiveness, but thats another issue.)
With open source, stuff breaks, no one is there to help you and you have to visit hundreds of howto sites in order to get the exact path to traverse the razor blades in the dark without killing yourself, just so you can fix the problem yourself.
Have you actually heard of MS fixing a bug specifically for a customer? I'd be interested to hear about that.
Also I think you're ignoring that there are service contracts available for support on OSS. Infact it's better because you've got some choice in the matter with MS your stuck with MS.
It's not just the performance though. I seriously find the detailed walls and fancy weapon flashes distracting. A wall is a wall is a wall as far as gameplay is concerned, so I don't want it to be distracting me.
Maybe it's good training for you to learn to pick out and pay attention to only important information in your vision?
Kind of like how a pilot only reads instruments that are relavent at a particular moment.
That's because animals are aware that they need to procreate, and more often than not, they consider the survival of the race as more important as the survival of one member.
The animals are acting on instincts designed to selfishly ensure the survival of their genes, not the species. The animals at best "care" for themselves and immediate family members, who carry a lot of the same genes.
You mean Quest for Glory I (or if you're playing the old EGA version, Hero's Quest). Great games.
Kings Quest was on the Amiga at least and you used mandrake at some point.
SuSE has given out free .iso's of their Personal edition for some time, at least since 8.2. Since the personal edition is missing some software I use, I tend to stick to the boxed version.
Cool, I stand corrected.
I was always pretty lucky with mandrake. I switched to fedora 'cos I couldn't afford the 64bit mandrake.
Where does one go to find the list of good Linux distros vs bad Linux distros?
That really depends on what you want to do and your tastes. If you don't mind sacrificing a bit of stability for the latest stuff Mandrake is nice for a desktop, I popped my cherry on that one heh.
For stability I'd have to say debian is king. .iso downloads
Slackware is nice for those that like doing everything their way.
Gentoo is for the insane (don't flame, I'm taking the piss!)
I've not use SuSE is supposed to be nice but I've never used it seeing as they don't give out free
Fedora core is my particular brand but it's all down to personal opinion. They are all free so find out what you like!
What makes Xandros buggy? Isn't it all the same basic sets of open source code that's so much more secure and stable than anything Microsoft produces?
An unsafe and a safe house can be built from exactly the same bricks, it's the way you arrange those bricks.
All the best open software is tested to hell and back through lots of release candidates etc.. If a distro chooses to use these development versions of software or doesn't test the combination of software they are using throughly (essentially making it a development distro) then you can't expect the security and stability that open source software done properly provides
If you're going to freak out about someone else "stealing" your work then you've totally missed the point and should probably just sit quietly in the corner until you get it.
I write open source code because I want my work to benifit society, not to make some company to rich stealing my code and using it not to peoples benifit (not giving it to them for free)
I choose GPL rather than BSD specifically for that reason. I think that's probably the reason why there are alot more contributors to Linux than any of the BSDS
Well said!
I have to agree, KDE 3.3 is quite nippy.
I usually get about 400MB ram consumption but that's at least 40 windows open at a time (konqueror sessions end up running for weeks hidden in the fray) I'm running 64bit too so perhaps 400MB isn't typical.
3000+ = 3.0Ghz P4 3200+ = 3.2GHz P4
Nah dude, XP 3000+ = Thunderbird athlon @ 3000MHz, XP 3200+ = Thunderbird athlon @ 3200MHz
A phone that's good at being a phone, a PDA that's good at being a PDA, and a well thought out scheme of data sharing between the two
Sounds like a particular operating system ideology...
So I almost want to wish the conspiracy mongers well on their propaganda efforts -- anything that causes the public to distrust that air of secrecy, and the actions of spooky secret people supposedly in their interest, for there is no force on Earth so horrifying as that of people willing to do wrong things for what they think are right reasons, things like that that work towards increasing that distrust are somewhat positive in my book.
Well said, that man!
Before long M$ will hire you Jon for a million or so a year just to keep you dormant.
If you wanted him to stay quiet enough to pay that kind of money wouldn't you be more likely to have him knocked off?
Whoa
Learn Karate or another martial art and understand it. a Brown Belt can protect him/her self well against an armed attacker. if you can flee or end without conflict then do it, otherwise intend and attempt to disable that person that is very willing to severely hurt or kill you.
I don't know how realistic that is man, being a brown grade in lau gar kung fu the best technique against an armed attacker we've been shown is run-the-fuck-away-fast.
Having a solid grounding in martial arts levels the playing field against an intelligent armed opponent at best.
Try what an earlier poster said about using a marker pen as a fake knife and see how difficult it is.
PS, if I was caught in a knife fight I couldn't get out of and was lucky enough (yeah, I'd consider it luck) to get the knife off my attacker I'd put it in his neck or I'd be stamping on his throat. No breaking arms. No holds. No bravado. I'm going to kill him 'cos I'll be scared shitless.
The two prongs on the front are all that is really needed, but most tazers are equipped with a second set of prongs which point towards each other. The only point of those prongs are to generate an arc so that you can scare people off.
I thought the point of the two inward facing prongs was to allow a safe discharge when discharging through the two outward facing prongs was not possible?
The current plan makes perfect sense. Think of it this way. Instead of the current two release levels (stable & dev), you now have three: Stable, very-stable & dev. Very-stable is perfect for users who need a high level of stability, servers, office use, your grandma's system. Stable is great for the average user, possibly a bit more adventurous, but still quite stable. Finally you have dev which is for developers & those who want to be on the bleeding edge.
Exactly :-) I'll be using the community version and the official when it gets released but I'll wait until the official version before I distribute it among my not so linux literate friends.
Suits me down to the ground. And who cares if it's similar to Fedora? Just 'cos Red Hat comes up with a great idea it shouldn't be used?
This doesn't follow. If I take your GPL program, add on a do-hicky and keep that closed how does that cause a "loss of freedom".
I wrote the do-hicky, why should you be entitled to it [other than altruistic goodyness].
Well if I'm not entitled to your do-hicky, why should you be entitled to the original GPL program?
when was the last time you were able to run Aftereffects, Bryce, Cinebench, Photoshop, UT2003, and Quake 3, all natively under Linux?
You can run Quake 3 and UT2003 natively on linux