Actually, there are Gateway Country stores (interestingly, they're only in MAJOR commercial zones... the ones that have flattened 5 zillion acres of farmland each... there's one 30 minutes from me, though) So, Gateway DOES have floorspace in some areas. Apple also has stores, in case you didn't know.
Mandrake wasn't preinstalled on it due to possible legal issues. They simply threw a Mandrake 9.1 install CD set in the box with it, and left the hard drive blank.
Basically, my top Windows browsers are in this order:
Opera 7.2x - smallest modern browser, fastest, IMHO best UI Firebird 0.7x - small, fast, feature-loaded, however, it's not good at tabbed browsing - good IE drop-in replacement, though IE 6.0x - It's already installed, but it's huge, slow, and needs Google Toolbar for popup blocking Mozilla 1.5x - Not as big as IE, but VERY slow - making IE better...
As for e-mail, here's the order:
Thunderbird 0.3x - Bayesian filtering, easy UI, what else is there to say? Eudora 6.0x - It's commercial, but they've finally got bayesian-style filtering, and is similar to Opera in it's tabbing and advertising behavior (BTW, it IS faster than Thunderbird, but it's larger) Mozilla 1.5x - Big and VERY slow, but it's supposed to be just like Thunderbird... Outlook Express 6.0x - Big, slow, and virus-prone, but it's easy Opera 7.2x - I HATE M2's UI... so much that virus-prone OE is ahead of it... Outlook XP - MASSIVE, expensive, useless spam filtering, VERY slow, EXTREMELY virus-prone, etc., etc.
Main reason I was asking for integration into WiMP was because it probably wouldn't have a media player with it. VLC looks great, though. Don't know where a DVD to test it with is (damn VHS - I used it too much), but if I find one, I'll download it and try it out.
How exactly do you find that? An AC claimed to have obtained the IP for the site in question and sent it to the FBI, but what about IPs for the ACs posting these trolls?
Windows 1.0 started at 1.01 and went to 1.04 Windows 2.0 started at 2.03, and there were 2.10 and 2.11 versions Windows 3.0 on 3.5" floppies was versioned 3.00a Windows 3.1/3.11 were available in WFWG versions Windows 95 OSR2.5 was the same as OSR2.1, but had a slightly modified kernel and IE4 Windows 2000 SP4, anyone?
Actually, the first and second posts in this thread need modded down, and most of this whole thread needs to be modded offtopic, except for the discussion on how it needs to be modded...
Yes. The grandparent of your post is offtopic, whereas the parent of your post is troll or flamebait (this is why we need a disgusting mod - too much kiddie porn and goatse on/. lately).
I guess I can burn karma here, but I won't use my bonus...
Don't worry, you're actually doing better than most slashdot(ters/ editors). The way most people do it is:
Post -> Maybe RTFA -> Post Apology -> Comprehend TFA -> Post another apology -> Grok it all after 12 hrs -> Start karma whoring to get the karma from that whole sequence back.
Actually, NASCAR Racing (the old DOS version) hard-slowed you down, but if you layed on the gas, you could hit 56-57MPH in pit road and get blackflagged for going too fast.
Piracy != theft. It's not an evil. It may be illegal, but a school project could require some $200 software that you can get for free by violating copyright. Copyright violation != theft.
Hacking is not necessarily bad. Cracking (in the "1 4m 4 1337 h4x0r" sense, not the piracy sense) is bad. Hacking is all about building and defending the systems. Cracking is all about breaking into them. Hacking is a good skill to have. I once traced an eBay scammer down to a Romanian cell (the cell company didn't do anything, though...) A cracker would throw sploits on boxes then throw the eBay scams through.
(as long as they know how to get it for free without screwing up the computer)
Give 'em their own box, and let them read slashdot, especially autopr0n's posts.
As for goatse, I do agree that handconstructed blacklist filtering is a good idea. However, I say handconstructed for a reason. Just read/., find the trolls, add 'em to your blacklist.
Basically, the rules for me are mostly time-based. Not too much time (ways for getting around THAT - Alt-F4 is your friend, run back to whatever you were supposed to be doing in that room (vacuuming, whatever)), basically.
As for actual Internet rules, be careful around strangers, don't reply to spam, bla bla bla, etc., etc., etc., and if I found porn, hand the URL over (I think it was a joke, though... - like I'd admit to finding porn). History? IE4+ allows for partial history deletion, and I use Opera anyway;-) Getting the Cat-5 yanked? It's happened to me, but there's always their XP box (what I'm typing this on, but my Cat-5's been kept in - it's the video card - some freaky combo of SuSE Live-Eval 9.0 RC1, a KHypermedia CD-RW, and a cheapo Trigem Cognac mobo).
Of course, you can display MUCH more info, and kill MUCH less trees, in the same amount of space with a PowerPoint presentation, a laptop, a projector, and a blank wall.
Or you're just cheap. Try a Linksys WPC11 v.4.0 on ANY distro. Anything that'll autodetect it will either give you the RTL8139 (wired module - WPC11 is wireless), orinoco-cs (close - WPC11 v.3.0 used it), or your pre-existing wired module (on my laptop, it's bcm4400). However, it's really a rtl8180!
Slashdot Mirror
$50 after discount, not $50 discount...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=86166&cid=7495 173
Basically says he subscribes on another account, so he saw it 15 minutes early, wrote the troll, then posted it when it hit the front page.
If you want 8.2. 9.0 is the current version (I plan to invoke my right to a student discount - $50)
Actually, there are Gateway Country stores (interestingly, they're only in MAJOR commercial zones... the ones that have flattened 5 zillion acres of farmland each... there's one 30 minutes from me, though) So, Gateway DOES have floorspace in some areas. Apple also has stores, in case you didn't know.
Actually, you're pretty close. It's sue-ZEH. However, accepted practice in the US is to say it as sue-ZEE (this is how I say it...)
Mandrake wasn't preinstalled on it due to possible legal issues. They simply threw a Mandrake 9.1 install CD set in the box with it, and left the hard drive blank.
Basically, my top Windows browsers are in this order:
Opera 7.2x - smallest modern browser, fastest, IMHO best UI
Firebird 0.7x - small, fast, feature-loaded, however, it's not good at tabbed browsing - good IE drop-in replacement, though
IE 6.0x - It's already installed, but it's huge, slow, and needs Google Toolbar for popup blocking
Mozilla 1.5x - Not as big as IE, but VERY slow - making IE better...
As for e-mail, here's the order:
Thunderbird 0.3x - Bayesian filtering, easy UI, what else is there to say?
Eudora 6.0x - It's commercial, but they've finally got bayesian-style filtering, and is similar to Opera in it's tabbing and advertising behavior (BTW, it IS faster than Thunderbird, but it's larger)
Mozilla 1.5x - Big and VERY slow, but it's supposed to be just like Thunderbird...
Outlook Express 6.0x - Big, slow, and virus-prone, but it's easy
Opera 7.2x - I HATE M2's UI... so much that virus-prone OE is ahead of it...
Outlook XP - MASSIVE, expensive, useless spam filtering, VERY slow, EXTREMELY virus-prone, etc., etc.
Nope - it's a problem with the HTML. It happens in Opera 7.21 too...
IAL? I Am Lawyer? How 'bout IAAL?
The performance on that thing blows, though. It somehow made PCW's subnotebook value list, due to sheer price and some plain ol' voodoo...
Main reason I was asking for integration into WiMP was because it probably wouldn't have a media player with it. VLC looks great, though. Don't know where a DVD to test it with is (damn VHS - I used it too much), but if I find one, I'll download it and try it out.
Any freeware or OSS dvd decoders that will run on windows with seamless integration with WiMP (like Power/WinDVD are capable of), then?
How exactly do you find that? An AC claimed to have obtained the IP for the site in question and sent it to the FBI, but what about IPs for the ACs posting these trolls?
Especially when you have a WPC11 v4... really fun for a newb, trying to compile a new kernel for the rtl8180 drivers...
You forgot the following:
Windows 1.0 started at 1.01 and went to 1.04
Windows 2.0 started at 2.03, and there were 2.10 and 2.11 versions
Windows 3.0 on 3.5" floppies was versioned 3.00a
Windows 3.1/3.11 were available in WFWG versions
Windows 95 OSR2.5 was the same as OSR2.1, but had a slightly modified kernel and IE4
Windows 2000 SP4, anyone?
Actually, the first and second posts in this thread need modded down, and most of this whole thread needs to be modded offtopic, except for the discussion on how it needs to be modded...
Yes. The grandparent of your post is offtopic, whereas the parent of your post is troll or flamebait (this is why we need a disgusting mod - too much kiddie porn and goatse on /. lately).
I guess I can burn karma here, but I won't use my bonus...
Don't worry, you're actually doing better than most slashdot(ters/ editors). The way most people do it is:
Post -> Maybe RTFA -> Post Apology -> Comprehend TFA -> Post another apology -> Grok it all after 12 hrs -> Start karma whoring to get the karma from that whole sequence back.
Actually, NASCAR Racing (the old DOS version) hard-slowed you down, but if you layed on the gas, you could hit 56-57MPH in pit road and get blackflagged for going too fast.
If it were my school, they'd just pirate it anyway...
BTW, what exactly is softwrae?
evils of piracy, hacking,
Piracy != theft. It's not an evil. It may be illegal, but a school project could require some $200 software that you can get for free by violating copyright. Copyright violation != theft.
Hacking is not necessarily bad. Cracking (in the "1 4m 4 1337 h4x0r" sense, not the piracy sense) is bad. Hacking is all about building and defending the systems. Cracking is all about breaking into them. Hacking is a good skill to have. I once traced an eBay scammer down to a Romanian cell (the cell company didn't do anything, though...) A cracker would throw sploits on boxes then throw the eBay scams through.
(as long as they know how to get it for free without screwing up the computer)
/., find the trolls, add 'em to your blacklist.
Give 'em their own box, and let them read slashdot, especially autopr0n's posts.
As for goatse, I do agree that handconstructed blacklist filtering is a good idea. However, I say handconstructed for a reason. Just read
Basically, the rules for me are mostly time-based. Not too much time (ways for getting around THAT - Alt-F4 is your friend, run back to whatever you were supposed to be doing in that room (vacuuming, whatever)), basically.
;-) Getting the Cat-5 yanked? It's happened to me, but there's always their XP box (what I'm typing this on, but my Cat-5's been kept in - it's the video card - some freaky combo of SuSE Live-Eval 9.0 RC1, a KHypermedia CD-RW, and a cheapo Trigem Cognac mobo).
As for actual Internet rules, be careful around strangers, don't reply to spam, bla bla bla, etc., etc., etc., and if I found porn, hand the URL over (I think it was a joke, though... - like I'd admit to finding porn). History? IE4+ allows for partial history deletion, and I use Opera anyway
Of course, you can display MUCH more info, and kill MUCH less trees, in the same amount of space with a PowerPoint presentation, a laptop, a projector, and a blank wall.
Or you're just cheap. Try a Linksys WPC11 v.4.0 on ANY distro. Anything that'll autodetect it will either give you the RTL8139 (wired module - WPC11 is wireless), orinoco-cs (close - WPC11 v.3.0 used it), or your pre-existing wired module (on my laptop, it's bcm4400). However, it's really a rtl8180!