I'm sure the sabre-toothed tiger never sat back and thought "Shit, i'm killing off these wooly mammoths like crazy! I better think of a way to encourage repopulation before they're extinct!". It just thought "Hey look! It's my next meal to ensure my survival".
Funny you mention the sabre-tooth tiger. What's it doing nowdays?
oh yeah
I agree. I've always built my own machines, and do the same for many others I know. But I cannot compete with Best Buy, and the likes. When a company makes 100000 machines, it can get pretty good bulk hardware prices (especially since i chose good hardware and they...). When the store buys 5000 of those machines to sell, they can get a pretty good bulk deal on those. I remember the day when I did it to save money, now I do it out of quality (I know what I'm getting).
I recently bought a laptop though. And although it is possible to roll your own, I couldnt do anything even remotely econimically feasable, or as small/pretty as the prebuilt ones, so I settled for a gateway.
Luckily, I've been quite impressed with the machine so far (works flawlessly in linux), but had to contact tech support about opengl not working and directx being flakey (both in xp). They told me basically that it was something I installed, and I should use the recovery cd to reimage the machine. I thought this was interesting, as I figured the machine was pretty fresh after having it for all of 36 hours. All I had installed was Mozilla Firebird and neverwinter nights. No big loss, just no win vs. nix graphics benchmarks.
But the point I've been skipping around was that tech support essentially told me that "that shouldnt happen" and it was "something you've [I] installed". Naturally, the former was something I knew, which was the whole reason for emailing them in the first place. I'll admit this wasnt over the phone tech support, and could have very well been answered in north america. However, I don't think the tech thought for more than two or three seconds before formulating his answer.
Maybe tech was shipped overseas because the quality offered here wasnt worth the extra cash. Again, I'll point out this is more-or-less my first experiences with tech support, but it's just the idea that popped into my head
Sadly, it doesnt appear some people are even reading the article before basing Mr. Love. If they were to scroll down to the first paragraph, they might actually get something:
But Love left in 2002, before the company renamed itself SCO Group and launched a legal attack on IBM and the open-source operating system.
check out videolan, it is one of the few media players that I've found that doesnt just embed a WMP control in it's own interface. It's also around for a few other platforms.
Is there anything like rhythmbox/itunes for windows? (although I see itunes is supposed to make an appearance)
Instead of organizing my $HOME into file types, i organized it into unix-like directories (var, etc, tmp, bin, and so on). Everything goes to tmp until i move it to, say, doc, or etc.
Email, on the other hand, is difficult. Account info goes into a folder called accounts, mail-lists are sorted, any specific topic i get large amounts of info on is usually identifiable by being a separate address, and it gets sorted appropriately.
Most email ends up filed under "Trash" eventually, though.
After all this, we *did* try to boot off a Linux install CD. That just took us to the same screen as before. So we had to go into the BIOS so that it would try to boot off the CD before the hard disk, but after we did that, Windows started to boot, without having displayed the "press a key to agree" screen. We quickly powered the machine down before Windows started. [Though now you no longer get the "press a key to agree" screen when you turn it on, even with the BIOS settings back the way they were.]
I just bought a gateway laptop, after shopping around for several months. I'm quite impressed with the quality thus far. I did not purchase the product direct from gateway, however, so I cannot comment on that part of their sales.
For all I know, their sales personel could be slimey commission-driven fast talkers that will sell anything their wallet can carry home. The same could be said of most companies.
In the same respect, your comment could be said about compaq, apple, microsoft, or customers of almost any company.
Ah, a fellow defraggler i see! My mother discs were very heavy this spring. much easier to carry after it was defraggled.
http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
Actually, there are ipv6 options for windows right down to 95. A good example would be the new version trumpet winsock from Trumpet software. I used their older version a long time ago, to get online with Windows 3.1 (think: IPv4 stack:)
I'm sure there are more projects out there, I have not even tried a google search on the subject, but am quite confident.
I'm using a Cisco aironet 350 pcmcia card, it has excellent linux support from three places:
included kernel module, airo and airo_cs
pcmcia_cs driver (possibly the same source as above? I havent looked.)
Cisco also provides their own driver, and diagnostic tools for linux. They are very handy.
I'm using this card with 2.4.20 just fine. Whether you go with the pcmcia_cs driver or not (i'm using included kernel driver) you will want the tools from the package. They monitor for cards to be inserted/removed and handle all the module stuff for you, which is quite handy.
On the windows XP side of things, i must very, very strongly reccommend not using any driver provided by microsoft. I had one update the firmware (to non-cisco provided firmware) and the card would no longer work with linux until I used Cisco's actual firmware from their website.
Cisco recently closed a deal to buy linksys as well, so it may be worth it to keep an eye on their products if you will be waiting a few months before the purchase.
Also, what does it say about the artists when the record company can easily put the entire album on the same disc not once, but twice (although compressed the second).
Am I too silly to expect a cd that is longer than 40 minutes?
No mention of which titles will be affected, but Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G."
Well, dispite the fact that this seems to largely not directly affect me (with the exception of, maybe, santana), I am stipp pretty annoyed by the precident it sets for other labels.
One other question, maybe somebody could elaborate for me: It will contain DRM windows media files on the second session.. I'm assuming i don't need a Microsoft Windows Media Discman to listen to these discs when I'm on my way out, so whats stopping us from simply using the music on the first session.
Obviously these discs are not damaged in the way most DRM cds are nowadays since the point, assumingly, would be to allow use of them in a windows-based computer. So, while an awful precident, and terribly annoying, (and voiding any future purchases I may have ever made from them), how will this really change anything?
I believe that there is a.kids.us domain, if i'm not mistaken.
Personally, I think this is a good idea (I'm in.ca myself). Why not create a separate netowork for kids? Its easy enough to limit a child's browser profile to.kids.us, or.kids.ca (which doesnt exist yet). This would also be a very easy way to give children email as well.
Porn spammers dont want to get involved with sending porn spam to kids. Whether or not they are worried about getting in trouble or not, children dont have credit cards, and thus they are wasting their money by sending mail there.
Setting up.kids domians, and having kids webmail would be great and simple. Anyone who can write spamming scripts can do a regular expression to ignore any @kids.?? domains it comes across. As I said earlier, it's useless spamming kids (at least with the kind of spam I get).
When the child and their parent are creating an email address at, for example, mail.kids.ca, they can select from a list of registered mailing lists (i.e. Poka-dot-door updates list, etc). If a child wishes to add a mailing list to their account, maybe it could email their guardian for permission. Any parent, especially of younger children, should be making sure nothing bad comes in anyway.
This doesnt neccessarily need to be a TLD, but part of country's domain. That way one could also get localized information (i.e. Mr. Dressup vs. Mr. Rogers).
The idea of limiting current domains is kind of nuts, I think.
I'm actually more excited about PPC 970, thus finally allowing Apple to have a decent amount of hardware horsepower.
I too, am waiting to see how this chip compares. I doubt I would buy apple hardware still (although I would love a powerbook and OSX), but the idea of possibly building your own low power (comaratively) 64-bit PPC machine is tempting, especially when I try to imagine the power consumption from an Athlon64..
I had a book report to do in high school. It was obvious that I had to do science fiction, as I rather enjoy reading such literature.
Unfortunately, thrown into that section of the library, I was a little lost, if only by the size of the science fiction shelves. I took a browse through, and recognized names of authors I've read before, but came across one called "ringworld", by a fellow named "Larry Niven". I hadn't heard of him (I, myself, find this hard to believe now), but figured it was probably rather good, as it had five copies in a public library.
I started the book on a friday night, and while I cannot remember if it was saturday night or sunday night that I finished it, I couldnt put the book down for more than a few moments without deciding to read "just one more chapter." That is the only assignment I finished in high school without waiting for the deadline to approach.
This probably wont interest anybody, but I just figured I would share my story of my first experience with Niven's work. I'd highly reccommend his work to anyone.
Agreed, I've always thought of the XP interface to be acceptable if the machine I was working on was called "Sony's My First PC".
Fisher Price, isnt it?
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds good, I could sure go for a few beers at the office.
Funny you mention the sabre-tooth tiger. What's it doing nowdays? oh yeah
He'd have no data left by the end of the semester
I recently bought a laptop though. And although it is possible to roll your own, I couldnt do anything even remotely econimically feasable, or as small/pretty as the prebuilt ones, so I settled for a gateway.
Luckily, I've been quite impressed with the machine so far (works flawlessly in linux), but had to contact tech support about opengl not working and directx being flakey (both in xp). They told me basically that it was something I installed, and I should use the recovery cd to reimage the machine. I thought this was interesting, as I figured the machine was pretty fresh after having it for all of 36 hours. All I had installed was Mozilla Firebird and neverwinter nights. No big loss, just no win vs. nix graphics benchmarks.
But the point I've been skipping around was that tech support essentially told me that "that shouldnt happen" and it was "something you've [I] installed". Naturally, the former was something I knew, which was the whole reason for emailing them in the first place. I'll admit this wasnt over the phone tech support, and could have very well been answered in north america. However, I don't think the tech thought for more than two or three seconds before formulating his answer.
Maybe tech was shipped overseas because the quality offered here wasnt worth the extra cash. Again, I'll point out this is more-or-less my first experiences with tech support, but it's just the idea that popped into my head
But Love left in 2002, before the company renamed itself SCO Group and launched a legal attack on IBM and the open-source operating system.
I lost my mod points about 2.5 hours ago, but you would have been +funny for sure :)
Try totem, or one of the other frontends that use the xine libraries. There are dozens.
Is there anything like rhythmbox/itunes for windows? (although I see itunes is supposed to make an appearance)
Email, on the other hand, is difficult. Account info goes into a folder called accounts, mail-lists are sorted, any specific topic i get large amounts of info on is usually identifiable by being a separate address, and it gets sorted appropriately.
Most email ends up filed under "Trash" eventually, though.
So, did they just violate the DMCA?
For all I know, their sales personel could be slimey commission-driven fast talkers that will sell anything their wallet can carry home. The same could be said of most companies.
In the same respect, your comment could be said about compaq, apple, microsoft, or customers of almost any company.
However, there are other game device makers. I have a logitech "wingman strike force 3d" force feedback stick, and i love it.
How do you upgrade if you cant 'apt-get upgrade'?
The tragically hip did this as well with their "in violet light" album.
Now they can learn to crash planes in the comfort of their computer chairs, just like seven year olds with computers have been doing for years.
Ah, a fellow defraggler i see! My mother discs were very heavy this spring. much easier to carry after it was defraggled. http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
I'm sure there are more projects out there, I have not even tried a google search on the subject, but am quite confident.
My sincerest apologies. I read your question as asking for 802.11b devices.
I'm using this card with 2.4.20 just fine. Whether you go with the pcmcia_cs driver or not (i'm using included kernel driver) you will want the tools from the package. They monitor for cards to be inserted/removed and handle all the module stuff for you, which is quite handy.
On the windows XP side of things, i must very, very strongly reccommend not using any driver provided by microsoft. I had one update the firmware (to non-cisco provided firmware) and the card would no longer work with linux until I used Cisco's actual firmware from their website.
Cisco recently closed a deal to buy linksys as well, so it may be worth it to keep an eye on their products if you will be waiting a few months before the purchase.
Am I too silly to expect a cd that is longer than 40 minutes?
Well, dispite the fact that this seems to largely not directly affect me (with the exception of, maybe, santana), I am stipp pretty annoyed by the precident it sets for other labels.
One other question, maybe somebody could elaborate for me: It will contain DRM windows media files on the second session.. I'm assuming i don't need a Microsoft Windows Media Discman to listen to these discs when I'm on my way out, so whats stopping us from simply using the music on the first session.
Obviously these discs are not damaged in the way most DRM cds are nowadays since the point, assumingly, would be to allow use of them in a windows-based computer. So, while an awful precident, and terribly annoying, (and voiding any future purchases I may have ever made from them), how will this really change anything?
Personally, I think this is a good idea (I'm in .ca myself). Why not create a separate netowork for kids? Its easy enough to limit a child's browser profile to .kids.us, or .kids.ca (which doesnt exist yet). This would also be a very easy way to give children email as well.
Porn spammers dont want to get involved with sending porn spam to kids. Whether or not they are worried about getting in trouble or not, children dont have credit cards, and thus they are wasting their money by sending mail there.
Setting up .kids domians, and having kids webmail would be great and simple. Anyone who can write spamming scripts can do a regular expression to ignore any @kids.?? domains it comes across. As I said earlier, it's useless spamming kids (at least with the kind of spam I get).
When the child and their parent are creating an email address at, for example, mail.kids.ca, they can select from a list of registered mailing lists (i.e. Poka-dot-door updates list, etc). If a child wishes to add a mailing list to their account, maybe it could email their guardian for permission. Any parent, especially of younger children, should be making sure nothing bad comes in anyway.
This doesnt neccessarily need to be a TLD, but part of country's domain. That way one could also get localized information (i.e. Mr. Dressup vs. Mr. Rogers).
The idea of limiting current domains is kind of nuts, I think.
I too, am waiting to see how this chip compares. I doubt I would buy apple hardware still (although I would love a powerbook and OSX), but the idea of possibly building your own low power (comaratively) 64-bit PPC machine is tempting, especially when I try to imagine the power consumption from an Athlon64..
I had a book report to do in high school. It was obvious that I had to do science fiction, as I rather enjoy reading such literature. Unfortunately, thrown into that section of the library, I was a little lost, if only by the size of the science fiction shelves. I took a browse through, and recognized names of authors I've read before, but came across one called "ringworld", by a fellow named "Larry Niven". I hadn't heard of him (I, myself, find this hard to believe now), but figured it was probably rather good, as it had five copies in a public library. I started the book on a friday night, and while I cannot remember if it was saturday night or sunday night that I finished it, I couldnt put the book down for more than a few moments without deciding to read "just one more chapter." That is the only assignment I finished in high school without waiting for the deadline to approach. This probably wont interest anybody, but I just figured I would share my story of my first experience with Niven's work. I'd highly reccommend his work to anyone.
Agreed, I've always thought of the XP interface to be acceptable if the machine I was working on was called "Sony's My First PC". Fisher Price, isnt it?