its hard enough for them to support windows users and all of there troubles, looking from a buisness point of view why should they help linux users? If you are going to run linux and want support from isp, either just fake it and act like you are running windows, or understand that they probably dont have resources to help you.
Although even when I do fake it and act like a windows user sometimes they still can be unhelpfull and on some occasions even rude.
I wish I had mod points for you... Mod this person up
I completely agree... I dont want government involved in internet at all. Lets say that the US makes some legislation --and actually enforces spam laws-- what the hell prevents someone from across the world from still doing the same old thing?
The ONLY thing that will stop spam is a better protocol for email.
why the hell should I pay 50 bucks to download software that is mostly FREE? Also the interface for click and run is fucking confusing, and Im not going to even start about how stupid the different "levels" of membership are. I bought a lindows laptop and the first and best thing I did to it was install another operating system.
Lindows is nothing special, they dont offer any software that makes linux more user friendly, all they do is modify existing software to be more like windows and attempt to hide the guts of the machine(no icon for terminal, no compiler, lack of basic command line tools, etc)
who needs to use there cell phone... IN AN AIRPLANE?? If you need to call someone.. just wait a couple hours until your plane lands then hit the nearest pay phone.. if its an emergency... your on a friggin plane anyway..theres nothing your going to do.
Besides.. alot of the larger planes have phones built into the seats anyway, why not just use those?
And for those of you who need to play nibbles or whatever... you need to unplug and get more fresh air or something.
we should punish those people who try to use cell phones by taking thier cell phone away and making them use satalite phones(when they get off the plane that is)
...if you bought lindows you're most likey on a computer that cannot run WinXp very well anyways...
correct, I purchased the lindows laptop. It has no floppy and no cdrom drive.. I have to use a usb-cdrom to boot. Just for kicks before I put on RH9 I wanted to see if windows would install. Windows 98/2000 WONT INSTALL from a usb-cdrom, and XP sucks a nut anyway so its not worth it.
Under UCITA, software vendors could booby-trap software so they could remotely disable it if a customer was suspected of violating the software license.
Hmm.. I might be worried about this.... if I used windows....
IF you were in charge of IT for a large company, and had a large amount of money at stake. Would you still take that chance, or pay the small amount of money to take no chance at all?
In short anecdotal evidence based on a single machine doesn't mean a whole lot.
I dont expect RH9 to work for everyone under every situation, its working great for me and I say atleast give it a try.
One thing I suggest is try and stick with packages that came with redhat if possible to avoid version conflicts. If the package sent with redhat doesn't work with what you need to install, remove the package and build whatever you need from source.
I use both gnome and enlightenment, infact I did a minimum install and just installed the rpm packages I needed. Worked out pretty good, not a terribly bloated install, but no trouble dependicies.
Networking was a sinch as well, firewall was a peice of cake, no trouble with dhcp or static ip setup, no trouble setting up servers, it even plays nice with windows.
not only do you get customer support, you know that OS your getting isn't infected with anything nasty, I try not to download from mirrors. I understand there is the md5sum and all, but its still nice to know that there is 0 percent chance of any bad data.
ive tried pretty much all of the RH versions, and I find that RH 9 is the best. I have never had a single crash once, ive never had any trouble with any of the configuration utilities, and ive never had to mess around with hardware issues(kernel modules and so on). It might just be that RH 9 suits the hardware im using very well, but I cant say the same things about any of the previous versions. Well thats my suggestion.
after taking calc III, Ive come up with a great way to describe 4d objects.
Example, take a room, it has 3 standard dimensions, now lets add another dimension, lets say temperature. Now we have a 4d object, we could even try and make a function to model temperature based on postion, temp = f(x,y,z);
You can even do neat things like make 3d objects out of 4d objects by taking a level surface of the 4d object. In simpler terms, take all of the points in the room that are one temperature, that will form a 3d object.
I think the easiest way to portray a 4d object is by using colour. Image taking a pair of thermal gogles and walking around a room. The only problem is that a colour approach cant be used for rubix cubes, becuase colour is already used to distinguish different sides of the cube. Perhaps to visualize a 4d rubix cube the different sides of the cube could be represented by shapes, or perhaps a numbering system. I think that taking the 4d cube and trying to flatten it into 3d looks ugly.
One of the big problems we solved was the printing UI. Using CUPS as the backend, most printers are now automatically detected and configured, even if they're on the network. We also added a simple printer configuration wizard. Configured Printers show up in your file manager and can be easily reconfigured to change things like paper sizes, using a familiar interface. Small things matter: your printer jobs appear on the panel until they are done, so you know when to pick up the results. Large things matter too: when printing from an application, just click on the printer you want to print to. For most people, this solves the Linux printing problem pretty well.
they must have read the artice on cups that was just posted a little while ago
is it just me or are these people taking it a little to far, metal detectors and night-vision goggles? They have more security at the movie theatre then at school, what type of statement does that make?
In April, a 33-year-old California man was arrested and charged with illegally videotaping films - if convicted, he faces up to 26 years in federal prison.
if I pay to go to the movies and contribute to the million and million of dollars of profit, if I wanna take a peice of crap video recorder and have a grainy, shitty sounding, bad quality copy of the movie, WHO FUCKING CARES?
Now if I go and sell it to my friends, or share it on kazaa, then great, ORDER ME TO STOP, AND GIVE ME A FINE. 26 years in a federal prison is fucking insane, drunk drivers dont get that much time.
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oh my god that was funny.. im going to have to remember that
I agree... but all of my friends use it, so I dont really have much of a choice.
people who install patches manually on lots of machines should NOT be sys admins
its hard enough for them to support windows users and all of there troubles, looking from a buisness point of view why should they help linux users? If you are going to run linux and want support from isp, either just fake it and act like you are running windows, or understand that they probably dont have resources to help you.
Although even when I do fake it and act like a windows user sometimes they still can be unhelpfull and on some occasions even rude.
I wish I had mod points for you... Mod this person up
I completely agree... I dont want government involved in internet at all. Lets say that the US makes some legislation --and actually enforces spam laws-- what the hell prevents someone from across the world from still doing the same old thing?
The ONLY thing that will stop spam is a better protocol for email.
your one of those people that carries around a 6 inch think laptop and a satellite phone arent you
Im posting from one, and I love it.
Its extremely light weight, extremely thin, barely ever gets hot enough to be uncomfortable, and even has a pretty good battery life.
The downside is that it sometimes a little slow, like when I want to open up openoffice it takes a bit of time. The other downside is no floppy/cdrom.
Btw lindows sucks, the best thing I did to it was install RH9.
Overall I would give this laptop a 9 out of 10.
lindows still has the market on cheap linux laptops though
why the hell should I pay 50 bucks to download software that is mostly FREE? Also the interface for click and run is fucking confusing, and Im not going to even start about how stupid the different "levels" of membership are. I bought a lindows laptop and the first and best thing I did to it was install another operating system.
Lindows is nothing special, they dont offer any software that makes linux more user friendly, all they do is modify existing software to be more like windows and attempt to hide the guts of the machine(no icon for terminal, no compiler, lack of basic command line tools, etc)
Permutation Scanning
Is that when a virus changes itself slightly every time its sent out?
who needs to use there cell phone... IN AN AIRPLANE?? If you need to call someone.. just wait a couple hours until your plane lands then hit the nearest pay phone.. if its an emergency... your on a friggin plane anyway..theres nothing your going to do.
Besides.. alot of the larger planes have phones built into the seats anyway, why not just use those?
And for those of you who need to play nibbles or whatever... you need to unplug and get more fresh air or something.
we should punish those people who try to use cell phones by taking thier cell phone away and making them use satalite phones(when they get off the plane that is)
...if you bought lindows you're most likey on a computer that cannot run WinXp very well anyways...
correct, I purchased the lindows laptop. It has no floppy and no cdrom drive.. I have to use a usb-cdrom to boot. Just for kicks before I put on RH9 I wanted to see if windows would install. Windows 98/2000 WONT INSTALL from a usb-cdrom, and XP sucks a nut anyway so its not worth it.
From the link...
.... if I used windows....
Under UCITA, software vendors could booby-trap software so they could remotely disable it if a customer was suspected of violating the software license.
Hmm.. I might be worried about this
lol.. thats shit is funny...
IF you were in charge of IT for a large company, and had a large amount of money at stake. Would you still take that chance, or pay the small amount of money to take no chance at all?
In short anecdotal evidence based on a single machine doesn't mean a whole lot.
I dont expect RH9 to work for everyone under every situation, its working great for me and I say atleast give it a try.
One thing I suggest is try and stick with packages that came with redhat if possible to avoid version conflicts. If the package sent with redhat doesn't work with what you need to install, remove the package and build whatever you need from source.
I use both gnome and enlightenment, infact I did a minimum install and just installed the rpm packages I needed. Worked out pretty good, not a terribly bloated install, but no trouble dependicies.
Networking was a sinch as well, firewall was a peice of cake, no trouble with dhcp or static ip setup, no trouble setting up servers, it even plays nice with windows.
well.. you get some cool stickers as well
not only do you get customer support, you know that OS your getting isn't infected with anything nasty, I try not to download from mirrors. I understand there is the md5sum and all, but its still nice to know that there is 0 percent chance of any bad data.
ive tried pretty much all of the RH versions, and I find that RH 9 is the best. I have never had a single crash once, ive never had any trouble with any of the configuration utilities, and ive never had to mess around with hardware issues(kernel modules and so on). It might just be that RH 9 suits the hardware im using very well, but I cant say the same things about any of the previous versions. Well thats my suggestion.
hey fuck head, wanna tell me exactly what he stole?
after taking calc III, Ive come up with a great way to describe 4d objects.
Example, take a room, it has 3 standard dimensions, now lets add another dimension, lets say temperature. Now we have a 4d object, we could even try and make a function to model temperature based on postion, temp = f(x,y,z);
You can even do neat things like make 3d objects out of 4d objects by taking a level surface of the 4d object. In simpler terms, take all of the points in the room that are one temperature, that will form a 3d object.
I think the easiest way to portray a 4d object is by using colour. Image taking a pair of thermal gogles and walking around a room. The only problem is that a colour approach cant be used for rubix cubes, becuase colour is already used to distinguish different sides of the cube. Perhaps to visualize a 4d rubix cube the different sides of the cube could be represented by shapes, or perhaps a numbering system. I think that taking the 4d cube and trying to flatten it into 3d looks ugly.
does anybody else find it interesting that a person with a nick of "Nutsquasher" submited a story about violent video games?
One of the big problems we solved was the printing UI. Using CUPS as the backend, most printers are now automatically detected and configured, even if they're on the network. We also added a simple printer configuration wizard. Configured Printers show up in your file manager and can be easily reconfigured to change things like paper sizes, using a familiar interface. Small things matter: your printer jobs appear on the panel until they are done, so you know when to pick up the results. Large things matter too: when printing from an application, just click on the printer you want to print to. For most people, this solves the Linux printing problem pretty well.
they must have read the artice on cups that was just posted a little while ago
somehow I dought anybody will be sheading a tear for searchking
Am I wrong it thinking that because google is a private company they can do whatever they want with their own service?
is it just me or are these people taking it a little to far, metal detectors and night-vision goggles? They have more security at the movie theatre then at school, what type of statement does that make?
In April, a 33-year-old California man was arrested and charged with illegally videotaping films - if convicted, he faces up to 26 years in federal prison.
if I pay to go to the movies and contribute to the million and million of dollars of profit, if I wanna take a peice of crap video recorder and have a grainy, shitty sounding, bad quality copy of the movie, WHO FUCKING CARES?
Now if I go and sell it to my friends, or share it on kazaa, then great, ORDER ME TO STOP, AND GIVE ME A FINE. 26 years in a federal prison is fucking insane, drunk drivers dont get that much time.