Three times Governor Doyle vetoed the requirement for a photo ID. The fiasco in Milwaukee wasn't enough. This idiot Gov'nor won't allow us to validate the people who are voting! Currently the state allows same day registration. You can walk up to the voting booth (even if you don't have an ID) and register to vote. All you need is someone else there to "vouch" for you....It's corruption at the highest level.
Make people prove who they are if they want to vote!
I've been a "Slacker" from way back. (version 3.0) Slackware first appealed to me because it didn't have all the fancy-fandangled configuration utilities which prevented a new user from really understanding the inner workings of a Linux distro. I've learned (through just a _few_ mistakes) all the little details and now am quite comfortable working on almost any distro. (although I rarely use anything other than Slackware, even for desktop boxes).
I want the same stability that people want in a server on my desktop. If there are a few programs that are missing, usually a trip over to Linux Packages is enough. If not, take the time to learn about compiling (however use 'checkinstall' rather than just installing the compiled program--makes it much easier to maintain a clean system). Package management tools such as Swaret and slaptget have made it easier than ever to maintain an up to date system (with options to update to the latest security fixes in the specified version (say 10.0) or to the -current tree.
I have a few clients who had previously insisted on remaining with IE because "it works best with the other Microsoft programs". However, when I removed the latest pile of spyware/adware and insisted that they at least TRY Firefox they had nothing but good things to say. Their 13 year old even says that "Hey dad, this is like waayy faster than IE". There have only been a few sites which 'require' IE (some due to incompetent web page coders who determine on their own that "this page won't render correctly with Mozilla", then block access using Javascript).
Linux might not be ready for general public acceptance on their desktop, but using Open Source software such as Firefox, Open Office etc is the first step towards that acceptance. If you don't NEED Windows to run a program, it becomes alot easier to switch the underlying OS.
This whole mail in rebate thing basically stinks. I think we all agree with that. Most stores limit you to one per person. I recall a few months ago that Circuit City had hard drives on sale with a fairly hefty (~$80) rebate (of course the mail in variety). I told the manager that I really needed two drives, but felt that their normal price was way out of whack (which it usually is). He said "You didn't hear this from me, but I bet if you bought one for your dad that he'd give you the rebate when it arrived in his mail box." Needless to say, two drives were purchased as two separate sales. Two mail in rebates were received, one by me, one by my dad. (and yes, he did give me the check).
The moral of the story is Worst Buy isn't the only gig in town.
Who started with cd's? I remember downloading my very first installation of slackware (3.0 I believe) on a pile of floppy disks in the college computer lab (Sun IPX's). Two disks to boot, A, AP...each one of those groups used to be divided up by floppy disk sizes (A1, A2, A3...AP1...) I also could have sworn that Mosaic was included in way back then and not Netscrape, but I could be wrong (hell it's been almost 10 years).
I do have the original book someplace. All I can say is I've tried Redhat a few times but always found myself coming back to what just plain works! Slackers forever!
I've done a bit of work with Cinelerra and have been very pleased with the results. With three Athlon XP 1900 ish machines with no more than 512MB ram I was able to render at 30fps with full DVD resolution (720x480) output.
The render nodes only run cli tools and do not require local storage. A bootable Knoppix cd could be made to create a temporary render node. Imagine using 10 computers in your office to render video in the off hours and reboot into Windoze in the morning with the user not knowing.
Fedora Core 2...that should be enough of a statement. If Slackware would have turned into an abmonination like that release, then that's reason enough to stick with the tried and true XFree stuff. With that being said, Pat gave us the option of using X.org stuff for over a month now. It's just been in the/testing area. I didn't care to test it so others did and reported back that "hey this dog hunts".
With the recent changes and the inclusion of a 2.6 kernel (and udev) I would anticipate a new Slackware release in the next month. (good or bad) Gnome 2.6 was included a few weeks ago. Shortly afterwards, the 2.6.6 kernel and udev. Now X.org...I see Slackware 10.0
As for a reason WHY still use Slackware? I can download and install two CDs (just slightly over 1). The configuration makes sense. While the community isn't quite as strong as the Gentoo users, there is a decent group at www.linuxpackages.net and on the irc channel. It does NOT default to a graphical boot screen. Withing 30 minutes on a relatively fast machine I can have a fully functional system. Windows would still be at the detection stage, Fedora/Redhat? Hell it might be asking for disk 399/500.
Yes I'll keep my simple distro. I've been a Slacker since 94...tried others but keep coming back to the best distro around...
RoadMap is a GPL'd program which uses the tigerline data for gps navigation. (well navigation is perhaps a little strong--it shows you where you are). The maps are rendered from the vector data. Perhaps you can use some of the code to see how the tigerline data can be used for your purpose.
I'd provide a link but several of the mirrors are down. Quote the mirror page:
"This RoadMap mirror is down until bandwidth issues can be resolved. Thank an asshole in Japan who pushed me 350 GB over my bandwidth limit, costing me hundreds of dollars. These are US only maps. Some morons out there just don't get that."
...didn't think so! This was Gateway's first attempt at an internet appliance. They teamed with AOL (to force people to use their internet service), offered the poorly designed hardware at a very low price (almost gave them away at the end-$199), and discontinued the product after less than a year on the market. They can still be found on E-bay. Many people have converted them to useful touch screen devices (cheap lcd's were only capable of 800x600 with 8 bit color) running Linux (yes it did run Linux--Midori Linux for that matter).
Basically, high hopes for a poor product. Sound familiar?
It does have USB 2.0 and firewire so why in the h-e double hockey sticks, would you use a pcmcia adaptor for the cdrom? Simple external usb cdrom will work just fine. Battery life on one of these should be alot better than a comparable P2/P3 processor. The C3 processor is very low power consumption and does have throttling capabilities (if you really want to stretch the battery life). I'd like to get one and set it up to dual boot a linux distro and windoze something or other (maybe).
Speed may be relative, but you speed freaks need to take a step back and look at what you're trying to accomplish. A chip which requires a helicopter on top to cool it is not in the same class as a cool to the touch Transmeta Crusoe or VIA (Cyrix) Eden processor.
If my application doesn't use more than 60% of the power of one of the low power chips yet has a requirement of long battery life, I'm idiotic to use an Intel anything! Off-loading mpeg decoding or other processor intensive tasks to a task specific chip and reduce cpu load and cpu requirements.
Kinda like using a sledgehammer to pound in a finishing nail. Both will do the job but which one is less likely to cause unwanted side effects? (ie smashed fingers)
Actually I hope you meant fiberglass not plastic. Corvettes have always been fiberglass as afar as I know. Fiberglass for you non-material science people is a mixture of resin and glass fibers. These glass fibers can be woven in to numerous patterns or cut short and used without orientation. The same cut fibers can be used to reinforce plastic to improve the rigidity. Glass is (as most people who have played baseball know) brittle. The plastic resin provides a ductile property to the non-forgiving fibers.
Most high production fiberglass parts are manufactured by blowing the resin and glass mixture onto a mold. The color is typically applied either as a mixture in the resin or by coating the mold prior to applying the resin and glass. I believe all current automotive applications for fiberglass are painted though--mostly because of the non-glossy finish. It's all about picking the right material for the application.
Kevlar uses aramid fibers in place of the glass, but works along the same theory.
...but the question is, could you take your PII into your dynamics class and play 5 card draw on it during the lecture (back 8 years ago when laptops weren't popular in classrooms and when pda's were useless). Hell if you want to go to the other end of the spectrum, my C64 (4 bit) could probably do more than the HP48G...now if someone would write a good scientific calculator program for the C64.
This all depends on the desired quality. I think yould be hard pressed to do more than one channel on anything below an Athlon XP 1800 if you want full DVD quality. If VCD quality is acceptable, you'd probably get away with a few simultaneous recordings. You'd definately want a stripped array for the hard disks to maximize write speed. I have two 40 GB ide's striped with a hardware raid to do DVD quality video editing. Even then, if I try to access the drive at all while it's capturing the video, I'll drop frames, sometimes lose sync on the audio.
If you were doing something useful like surveillance, then I can see the reason for multiple encoded streams at the same time. Even then, most surveillance programs capture a snap shot every X seconds until motion is detected, then dedicate all the resources to that one camera instead.
I'm a slacker from way way. I have yet to find an easier or faster install than a Slackware install (PROVIDED that you actually have a clue what is going on). No Slackware isn't a good choice for a newbie unless you want to learn alot which could actually help you with whatever other distros you choose later.
What Slackware has that other distros don't is a clean system not cluttered by extra frills that many people don't want.
The installer is the beauty of Slackware. You don't need a fancy graphical system. It's functional, fast and works well. I'd prefer to compile the extra programs I want anyway so I get the optimizations set the way I want them. My current target is a C3 processor. A package created for an i686 just won't work in all circumstances.
Someone mentioned not needing the store...that you can buy the software for free. Yes you can download it free, but I like to buy a copy just to support Patrick's efforts.
You didn't learn on an International H. You learned on a FARMALL H. International Harvester wasn't in business back in 1940 when that tractor was build! Of course that's CaseIH now anyway...but then again who cares?
I you want to talk about a tricky POS to drive, that Farmall F20 was much worse! Your clutch was also a lever.
Umm, last I checked 'negative acceleration' as you call it was termed DE-celeration. So technically, in future transportation pods, we would want an acceleration event and a deceleration event. These events could be handled by your hands as described in this article, your feet as in conventional cars or by voice (or telepathy).
Just thinking that you should be going faster would make the car speed up. Or if you're that woman driving the car pool with the satellite receiver and you yell, "you kids shut up or I'll stop this car", you might be lucky enough for the car to interpret "stop this car" as a command to stop immediately. At this point, all people end up flying through the windshield with Ms. Twinkie ass jammed behind the steering wheel because she wouldn't FIT through the window...
Sorry I'm lacking the proper amount of caffeine this morning. Thanks for pointing out my grammatical inadequacies. I'm sure I'll sleep better tonight knowing that someone will be there to correct me if I slip.
Puppets? I don't know what school you went to, but most, if not all, undergraduate programs exist only out of necessity. Universities reward professors based on the amount of funding they bring into the system. Maybe this type of funding, while it may be racist, is just what we need to encourage more US born people to pursue advanced degrees. The percentage of foreign grad students is pretty high in most universities (I'm talking technology based degrees...who cares about a PhD in History)
So you can go on living that fairy tail...I'll just rememeber who to contact when I decide to sell my swamp land in Florida.
They have such a 'spin detector'...check out Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly "The Factor".
On topic...spinning has generally been considered 'bad form' from where I'm from. Generally your hand must remain in contact with the handle through the shot. I've played in places where they will disallow a goal if the ball even touches another player (I call that bogus) AND where they don't allow goals from the center bar (with 5 players).
Come on! Wwww Windows starts with a W (unlike one which sounds like it starts with a Wuh), Lindows (help me out here...where are the hooked oh Phonics people?) Or are you trying to say people are stupid?
"I was confused. It had a picture of a graphical menuing system...therefore it just has to be Windows"
I think this whole law suit is just a way for Bill Gates and his billion dollar attorneys to fritter away more of the money that Lindows doesn't have. Lindows is a bad idea gone dead.
Wonder what the EULA will look like when you buy your car in 10 years? If we don't do something quickly, Micro$oft will have it's lawyers in ALL parts of our lives. Then they will be able to send spam to our cars, telling us about how we can increase our various sex parts through useless wonder drugs. Support the Open source community.
Projects like http://sourceforge.net/projects/freediag/ are trying to develop information on the OBDII codes.
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Three times Governor Doyle vetoed the requirement for a photo ID. The fiasco in Milwaukee wasn't enough. This idiot Gov'nor won't allow us to validate the people who are voting! Currently the state allows same day registration. You can walk up to the voting booth (even if you don't have an ID) and register to vote. All you need is someone else there to "vouch" for you. ...It's corruption at the highest level.
Make people prove who they are if they want to vote!
I want the same stability that people want in a server on my desktop. If there are a few programs that are missing, usually a trip over to Linux Packages is enough. If not, take the time to learn about compiling (however use 'checkinstall' rather than just installing the compiled program--makes it much easier to maintain a clean system). Package management tools such as Swaret and slaptget have made it easier than ever to maintain an up to date system (with options to update to the latest security fixes in the specified version (say 10.0) or to the -current tree.
Slack on!
Linux might not be ready for general public acceptance on their desktop, but using Open Source software such as Firefox, Open Office etc is the first step towards that acceptance. If you don't NEED Windows to run a program, it becomes alot easier to switch the underlying OS.
The moral of the story is Worst Buy isn't the only gig in town.
I do have the original book someplace. All I can say is I've tried Redhat a few times but always found myself coming back to what just plain works! Slackers forever!
The render nodes only run cli tools and do not require local storage. A bootable Knoppix cd could be made to create a temporary render node. Imagine using 10 computers in your office to render video in the off hours and reboot into Windoze in the morning with the user not knowing.
With the recent changes and the inclusion of a 2.6 kernel (and udev) I would anticipate a new Slackware release in the next month. (good or bad) Gnome 2.6 was included a few weeks ago. Shortly afterwards, the 2.6.6 kernel and udev. Now X.org...I see Slackware 10.0
As for a reason WHY still use Slackware? I can download and install two CDs (just slightly over 1). The configuration makes sense. While the community isn't quite as strong as the Gentoo users, there is a decent group at www.linuxpackages.net and on the irc channel. It does NOT default to a graphical boot screen. Withing 30 minutes on a relatively fast machine I can have a fully functional system. Windows would still be at the detection stage, Fedora/Redhat? Hell it might be asking for disk 399/500.
Yes I'll keep my simple distro. I've been a Slacker since 94...tried others but keep coming back to the best distro around...
I'd provide a link but several of the mirrors are down. Quote the mirror page:
...didn't think so! This was Gateway's first attempt at an internet appliance. They teamed with AOL (to force people to use their internet service), offered the poorly designed hardware at a very low price (almost gave them away at the end-$199), and discontinued the product after less than a year on the market. They can still be found on E-bay. Many people have converted them to useful touch screen devices (cheap lcd's were only capable of 800x600 with 8 bit color) running Linux (yes it did run Linux--Midori Linux for that matter). Basically, high hopes for a poor product. Sound familiar?
It does have USB 2.0 and firewire so why in the h-e double hockey sticks, would you use a pcmcia adaptor for the cdrom? Simple external usb cdrom will work just fine. Battery life on one of these should be alot better than a comparable P2/P3 processor. The C3 processor is very low power consumption and does have throttling capabilities (if you really want to stretch the battery life). I'd like to get one and set it up to dual boot a linux distro and windoze something or other (maybe).
If my application doesn't use more than 60% of the power of one of the low power chips yet has a requirement of long battery life, I'm idiotic to use an Intel anything! Off-loading mpeg decoding or other processor intensive tasks to a task specific chip and reduce cpu load and cpu requirements.
Kinda like using a sledgehammer to pound in a finishing nail. Both will do the job but which one is less likely to cause unwanted side effects? (ie smashed fingers)
Most high production fiberglass parts are manufactured by blowing the resin and glass mixture onto a mold. The color is typically applied either as a mixture in the resin or by coating the mold prior to applying the resin and glass. I believe all current automotive applications for fiberglass are painted though--mostly because of the non-glossy finish. It's all about picking the right material for the application.
Kevlar uses aramid fibers in place of the glass, but works along the same theory.
...but the question is, could you take your PII into your dynamics class and play 5 card draw on it during the lecture (back 8 years ago when laptops weren't popular in classrooms and when pda's were useless). Hell if you want to go to the other end of the spectrum, my C64 (4 bit) could probably do more than the HP48G...now if someone would write a good scientific calculator program for the C64.
If you were doing something useful like surveillance, then I can see the reason for multiple encoded streams at the same time. Even then, most surveillance programs capture a snap shot every X seconds until motion is detected, then dedicate all the resources to that one camera instead.
I'm a slacker from way way. I have yet to find an easier or faster install than a Slackware install (PROVIDED that you actually have a clue what is going on). No Slackware isn't a good choice for a newbie unless you want to learn alot which could actually help you with whatever other distros you choose later.
What Slackware has that other distros don't is a clean system not cluttered by extra frills that many people don't want.
The installer is the beauty of Slackware. You don't need a fancy graphical system. It's functional, fast and works well. I'd prefer to compile the extra programs I want anyway so I get the optimizations set the way I want them. My current target is a C3 processor. A package created for an i686 just won't work in all circumstances.
Someone mentioned not needing the store...that you can buy the software for free. Yes you can download it free, but I like to buy a copy just to support Patrick's efforts.
Just have another Buzz and call it a day. Enough of those and even the music sounds as good as Mimi looks.
You didn't learn on an International H. You learned on a FARMALL H. International Harvester wasn't in business back in 1940 when that tractor was build! Of course that's CaseIH now anyway ...but then again who cares?
I you want to talk about a tricky POS to drive, that Farmall F20 was much worse! Your clutch was also a lever.
Just thinking that you should be going faster would make the car speed up. Or if you're that woman driving the car pool with the satellite receiver and you yell, "you kids shut up or I'll stop this car", you might be lucky enough for the car to interpret "stop this car" as a command to stop immediately. At this point, all people end up flying through the windshield with Ms. Twinkie ass jammed behind the steering wheel because she wouldn't FIT through the window...
"Shut up kids! Oprah Blimpfree (or blimpy depending on the week) is on Dr. Phil this week and I want to see what her latest fad diet is."
Sorry I'm lacking the proper amount of caffeine this morning. Thanks for pointing out my grammatical inadequacies. I'm sure I'll sleep better tonight knowing that someone will be there to correct me if I slip.
So you can go on living that fairy tail...I'll just rememeber who to contact when I decide to sell my swamp land in Florida.
They have such a 'spin detector'...check out Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly "The Factor". On topic...spinning has generally been considered 'bad form' from where I'm from. Generally your hand must remain in contact with the handle through the shot. I've played in places where they will disallow a goal if the ball even touches another player (I call that bogus) AND where they don't allow goals from the center bar (with 5 players).
"I was confused. It had a picture of a graphical menuing system...therefore it just has to be Windows"
I think this whole law suit is just a way for Bill Gates and his billion dollar attorneys to fritter away more of the money that Lindows doesn't have. Lindows is a bad idea gone dead.
Projects like http://sourceforge.net/projects/freediag/ are trying to develop information on the OBDII codes.
Now when do we know if you're telling the truth?...Honestly :)