One of the coolest live recordings I've heard is called Live Bootleg from Audio Adrenaline. It started with un-authorized audience recordings of their concerts in several cities, and the band collected several of these and made a CD of some of the best recordings. It has my favorite versions of several of their songs that they did a little differently live. There are also a couple songs there that they only do in concert, like "If you're happy and you know it, bang your head!"
It could possibly be due to hard drive space or lack of memory. I had Win98SE working very well on an AMD K6/2 300MHz with 192M RAM. All I had for HD space was a 1GB drive, though. That was fine for Win98, which took only about 4-500MB. As an experiment, I tried XP on that, and it did complete installation, but it popped up a warning about low hard drive space as soon as it got to the desktop.
I got a bigger HD for $10, so I've tried a few Linux distros on it, but they run really slowly. Is it KDE that's being such a hog? Is it the 300MHZ or the 192MB of RAM that's slowing it down? I'm want to try IceWM to see if that speeds things up; I just have to figure out how to do that.
I really misread that sentence from the article because of the comma they left out: "Instead of missing that knock out punch Koolio could deliver you,..."
I don't know that I really want a robot that would give me a knockout punch.
I've never known the difference between IMAP and POP3. What are the differences between them? Most mail clients I've seen can do either, and I've never paid attention to which kinds mail providers have because I considered the protocols interchangeable.
I had a great sound clip for received mail when I was in college. I think this is based on the puppet dog from Letterman who would insult anything that was mentioned by adding his trademark quote at the end. So my mail announcement was: "You've got mail!..for me to POOP ON!"
They just got a way to make the proper submissions through the Yahoo web interface for your POP3 client to retrieve mail through their utility. Yahoo mail is sweet. I have used it for several years, and it has these excellent things going for it: I have been able to keep that email address through 3 different ISPs so I don't have to keep changing my email address. Since they are free, I just have a separate one for junk stuff only, so I can give that one out wherever I want, and I just check up on it a couple times a week to see if there's anything I want. They have a really good spam filtering system built in. It goes into a Bulk Mail folder and doesn't count against your space quota, so you can take a look in case they mis-filtered something. It's accessible everywhere without having to set up a mail client to access it.
Yeah, that and a fat guy in a butterf^H^H^H^H^Hpenguin suit to follow people around and interfere in people's lives. Hm, maybe I could patent...oh, wrong article.
Exactly, the dialog is really dull, it's delivered dully, and the actors look rather stiff and bored. I'll bet the uninterested acting has to do with the fact that there are no sets behind any of them. It is hard to get excited on a green-screen sound stage. How are you supposed to get into the part when there's nothing there, but your own imagination to interact with?
Please don't bring up Knoppix. That's a totally different animal because it's not installing anything. Sure, anyone can make a 0-click bootable disc if it's not going to put anything on your hard drive.
I haven't tried Red Hat. I did Debian, but the install process is a PITA, and I hate it. I did Mandrake, and that's better, but still a lot of hoops to jump through. I tried MEPIS, to get an easy to setup Debian system, but MEPIS couldn't even boot because it didn't like my hardware. Knoppix would boot to KDE fine, but when I tried their install script, it croaked.
Yeah, I did find out that it was usable after much searching on the web. There is an X server that works for the S3 cards, and it is even included on the distro CD, but the Debian install won't correctly identify my card and install that X server.
This is apparently too late for your particular situation, but if you want to disable an onboard sound/video device, you will probably have to disable it in your bios setup. Odds are, Windows will do a worse job trying to make only one of the two work than if it only sees the one you want.
Huh? I found pretty much the opposite of your entire post. I had a legacy Opti sound card and an S3 video card from 1995. Neither card could be detected in several distros of Linux (except for Knoppix getting the display to work with a generic driver, which the other distros couldn't even do), but the video card and sound card worked fine through Win 3.1, 95, and 98.
Yeah, I know they're cheap to replace, but it's still disappointing when trying Linux for the first time.
OK, I've got a serious question here about non-packaged software installation. I'm fairly new to Linux, and have tried several distros. Using packaged stuff is easy. They all have nice GUI frontends to select the packages you want and take care of them. For programs that are source only, though, I don't know how to compile them and get an icon into the Kicker menu. Is there a GUI program, where you can give it a source.tar and it will extract and compile it and give me a desktop shortcut or icon?
Huh? I just read two posts in a row saying how installing Windows XP is not easy. I'm wondering if there is a difference in the installation procedures between XP Home version and XP Professional version. I'm betting there is because after having done installations many times with Windows 3.1, 95, and 98, I was amazed at how simple the XP Home version install was. It was almost scary that the thing would just go on by itself for long periods of time, and I only had to click 3 or 4 times before it was done. Maybe the Professional version is what you have used, where it asks a lot more questions, so it seems harder.
There are a few cable channels I would like a la carte, but none of them are enough to make me buy cable or satellite. The big one for me (probably unlike many here at/.) is sports. Right now it's hockey playoffs, and my wife and I want to watch a lot of the games. There are a few that are on ABC, so we can watch those at home, but most are on ESPN, ESPN2, TSN, or CBC. We've been going out a few times to sports bars to have dinner and watch the games, and my wife pointed out that with the amount we're spending at these pricey eating places, we're more than paying for a month of cable. I checked with DirecTV, and they will let me turn it on or off month to month with no fees for the time it's not active, but I'm afraid I'd get hooked and want to keep it on all the time.
I know; I've used the flashlight in the rooms that are pitch black. What I'm talking about is that almost every hallway is just dimly lit to give this scary type of feeling. They are playable at night when the room is dark, but not if there's some sunlight coming in. Even the flashlight doesn't do anything then because it doesn't light it up more than those hanging bulbs in the game hallways do.
When I was typing my original post, I thought of mentioning that I'm not talking about "Just turn on your flashlight.", but I hoped people would know what I was talking about. I guess too many people play at night and don't even think about it.
We have analyzed your surroundings from the picture you sent and have determined that you are in a movie theater. Please be patient and authorities will be there shortly to "assist" you.:)
While I personally don't agree with being watched in a movie theatre...
Oh, then you don't want a regular movie ticket, you want the $2,000 reserve-the-whole-theater ticket, so no one else will be in there watching you. How are you going to sit in a room with hundreds of other people and be concerned with people watching you??
Your argument makes no sense at all. I've seen that complaint of "There's no contract!" used with respect to software that you purchase, but I've never seen it applied to movie theaters. As you said, "I paid for the privilege of being allowed to occupy a given room at a given time." Yeah, that's what the implied contract was for. The movie ticket you pay for is an entry pass--you know how tickets usually say "admit one"? And yes, most tickets say it is for theater 10 or whatever, so that's not free reign to roam around watching whatever movies you want in other theaters on the same ticket. They are trying to enforce that you are being admitted to sit in one of their theaters, but you are not purchasing any property that you can take with you.
I don't know why you brought up the contract/license thing here. I think that applies to a purchased package of WindowsXP and not being allowed to use it on multiple computers at home.
I am totally with you about the darkness thing. (Forget the butterflies, though.) I'm not a big FPS gamer (mainly because I didn't want to shell out the money for the top-of-the-line video cards they need, and I don't have a lot of time to get good enough at them to play online.) I recently downloaded and played the demo of Half Life to see how it was since I heard so much about it. I could barely play it on a Saturday afternoon because even with the brightness settings in the game turned all the way up, the stinkin' hallways were still too dark to see very well in. I could play pretty well at night because there is dim stuff there to be seen if you are playing in the dark. I haven't played a lot of other ones, but Doom and Descent were decently lit. Is this an on going trend of games getting darker and darker? Pretty soon, every video card is going to have to be sold with a pair of night vision goggles to actually be able to see the games you play.
I'm not claimin a conspiracy, just good old-fashioned
capitolism. That's right, people striving to make their business thrive. In this case, it's the gov't.
Heh, you had an unintentional misspelling that actually made this funnier and more appropriate. Capital deals with money, and capitol is the building that is the center of government. I think "capitolism" is a great word for this.
I was going to comment on that section of the article too, but from a different angle. When I read, "The question is how Microsoft will react and whether it will allow support for Windows systems if they have Linux systems installed on them.", I thought of how that applies to the antitrust suit. The judgement against MS is what has given freedom to the OEMs to be able to offer different operating systems or no operating systems with the computers they sell, without being pressured or threatened by MS. In the same way, I would think that this would raise a huge red flag if MS would not support systems that had CoLinux on them.
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One of the coolest live recordings I've heard is called Live Bootleg from Audio Adrenaline. It started with un-authorized audience recordings of their concerts in several cities, and the band collected several of these and made a CD of some of the best recordings. It has my favorite versions of several of their songs that they did a little differently live. There are also a couple songs there that they only do in concert, like "If you're happy and you know it, bang your head!"
It could possibly be due to hard drive space or lack of memory. I had Win98SE working very well on an AMD K6/2 300MHz with 192M RAM. All I had for HD space was a 1GB drive, though. That was fine for Win98, which took only about 4-500MB. As an experiment, I tried XP on that, and it did complete installation, but it popped up a warning about low hard drive space as soon as it got to the desktop.
I got a bigger HD for $10, so I've tried a few Linux distros on it, but they run really slowly. Is it KDE that's being such a hog? Is it the 300MHZ or the 192MB of RAM that's slowing it down? I'm want to try IceWM to see if that speeds things up; I just have to figure out how to do that.
I really misread that sentence from the article because of the comma they left out:
"Instead of missing that knock out punch Koolio could deliver you,..."
I don't know that I really want a robot that would give me a knockout punch.
I've never known the difference between IMAP and POP3. What are the differences between them? Most mail clients I've seen can do either, and I've never paid attention to which kinds mail providers have because I considered the protocols interchangeable.
I had a great sound clip for received mail when I was in college. I think this is based on the puppet dog from Letterman who would insult anything that was mentioned by adding his trademark quote at the end. So my mail announcement was: ..for me to POOP ON!"
"You've got mail!
Yahoo POP3 access is available to all, thanks to SourceForge!
They just got a way to make the proper submissions through the Yahoo web interface for your POP3 client to retrieve mail through their utility. Yahoo mail is sweet. I have used it for several years, and it has these excellent things going for it:
I have been able to keep that email address through 3 different ISPs so I don't have to keep changing my email address.
Since they are free, I just have a separate one for junk stuff only, so I can give that one out wherever I want, and I just check up on it a couple times a week to see if there's anything I want.
They have a really good spam filtering system built in. It goes into a Bulk Mail folder and doesn't count against your space quota, so you can take a look in case they mis-filtered something.
It's accessible everywhere without having to set up a mail client to access it.
Yeah, that and a fat guy in a butterf^H^H^H^H^Hpenguin suit to follow people around and interfere in people's lives. Hm, maybe I could patent...oh, wrong article.
Exactly, the dialog is really dull, it's delivered dully, and the actors look rather stiff and bored. I'll bet the uninterested acting has to do with the fact that there are no sets behind any of them. It is hard to get excited on a green-screen sound stage. How are you supposed to get into the part when there's nothing there, but your own imagination to interact with?
I've got the answer--a shopping bag.
Please don't bring up Knoppix. That's a totally different animal because it's not installing anything. Sure, anyone can make a 0-click bootable disc if it's not going to put anything on your hard drive.
I haven't tried Red Hat. I did Debian, but the install process is a PITA, and I hate it. I did Mandrake, and that's better, but still a lot of hoops to jump through. I tried MEPIS, to get an easy to setup Debian system, but MEPIS couldn't even boot because it didn't like my hardware. Knoppix would boot to KDE fine, but when I tried their install script, it croaked.
Yeah, I did find out that it was usable after much searching on the web. There is an X server that works for the S3 cards, and it is even included on the distro CD, but the Debian install won't correctly identify my card and install that X server.
This is apparently too late for your particular situation, but if you want to disable an onboard sound/video device, you will probably have to disable it in your bios setup. Odds are, Windows will do a worse job trying to make only one of the two work than if it only sees the one you want.
Huh? I found pretty much the opposite of your entire post. I had a legacy Opti sound card and an S3 video card from 1995. Neither card could be detected in several distros of Linux (except for Knoppix getting the display to work with a generic driver, which the other distros couldn't even do), but the video card and sound card worked fine through Win 3.1, 95, and 98.
Yeah, I know they're cheap to replace, but it's still disappointing when trying Linux for the first time.
OK, I've got a serious question here about non-packaged software installation. I'm fairly new to Linux, and have tried several distros. Using packaged stuff is easy. They all have nice GUI frontends to select the packages you want and take care of them. For programs that are source only, though, I don't know how to compile them and get an icon into the Kicker menu. Is there a GUI program, where you can give it a source .tar and it will extract and compile it and give me a desktop shortcut or icon?
Huh? I just read two posts in a row saying how installing Windows XP is not easy. I'm wondering if there is a difference in the installation procedures between XP Home version and XP Professional version. I'm betting there is because after having done installations many times with Windows 3.1, 95, and 98, I was amazed at how simple the XP Home version install was. It was almost scary that the thing would just go on by itself for long periods of time, and I only had to click 3 or 4 times before it was done. Maybe the Professional version is what you have used, where it asks a lot more questions, so it seems harder.
There are a few cable channels I would like a la carte, but none of them are enough to make me buy cable or satellite. The big one for me (probably unlike many here at /.) is sports. Right now it's hockey playoffs, and my wife and I want to watch a lot of the games. There are a few that are on ABC, so we can watch those at home, but most are on ESPN, ESPN2, TSN, or CBC. We've been going out a few times to sports bars to have dinner and watch the games, and my wife pointed out that with the amount we're spending at these pricey eating places, we're more than paying for a month of cable. I checked with DirecTV, and they will let me turn it on or off month to month with no fees for the time it's not active, but I'm afraid I'd get hooked and want to keep it on all the time.
I know; I've used the flashlight in the rooms that are pitch black. What I'm talking about is that almost every hallway is just dimly lit to give this scary type of feeling. They are playable at night when the room is dark, but not if there's some sunlight coming in. Even the flashlight doesn't do anything then because it doesn't light it up more than those hanging bulbs in the game hallways do.
When I was typing my original post, I thought of mentioning that I'm not talking about "Just turn on your flashlight.", but I hoped people would know what I was talking about. I guess too many people play at night and don't even think about it.
We have analyzed your surroundings from the picture you sent and have determined that you are in a movie theater. Please be patient and authorities will be there shortly to "assist" you. :)
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Your argument makes no sense at all. I've seen that complaint of "There's no contract!" used with respect to software that you purchase, but I've never seen it applied to movie theaters. As you said, "I paid for the privilege of being allowed to occupy a given room at a given time." Yeah, that's what the implied contract was for. The movie ticket you pay for is an entry pass--you know how tickets usually say "admit one"? And yes, most tickets say it is for theater 10 or whatever, so that's not free reign to roam around watching whatever movies you want in other theaters on the same ticket. They are trying to enforce that you are being admitted to sit in one of their theaters, but you are not purchasing any property that you can take with you.
I don't know why you brought up the contract/license thing here. I think that applies to a purchased package of WindowsXP and not being allowed to use it on multiple computers at home.
I am totally with you about the darkness thing. (Forget the butterflies, though.) I'm not a big FPS gamer (mainly because I didn't want to shell out the money for the top-of-the-line video cards they need, and I don't have a lot of time to get good enough at them to play online.) I recently downloaded and played the demo of Half Life to see how it was since I heard so much about it. I could barely play it on a Saturday afternoon because even with the brightness settings in the game turned all the way up, the stinkin' hallways were still too dark to see very well in. I could play pretty well at night because there is dim stuff there to be seen if you are playing in the dark. I haven't played a lot of other ones, but Doom and Descent were decently lit. Is this an on going trend of games getting darker and darker? Pretty soon, every video card is going to have to be sold with a pair of night vision goggles to actually be able to see the games you play.
I was going to comment on that section of the article too, but from a different angle. When I read, "The question is how Microsoft will react and whether it will allow support for Windows systems if they have Linux systems installed on them.", I thought of how that applies to the antitrust suit. The judgement against MS is what has given freedom to the OEMs to be able to offer different operating systems or no operating systems with the computers they sell, without being pressured or threatened by MS. In the same way, I would think that this would raise a huge red flag if MS would not support systems that had CoLinux on them.