Except that I constantly find my clumsy fingers nudging the trackpoint when I type. Even disabling it doesn't help, because I still find the little protrusion in the middle of the keyboard annoying. Granted, thats a small quibble, but frustrating none the less.
Hmm, my local Computer Store opens at 9 am tomorrow, by 9:01 I could by a PC without Windows in a second.
Look at it this way, Dell, HP, etc don't give a damn what Microsoft says, If they could turn a decent profit selling window Less machines, they would. The problem is, we/. geeeks are not their Market, so they don't.
Sorry, not to be a Microsoft apologist, but if you bought that license with your machine, you didn't buy a full license, you bought the OEM license, which is intended to be used on that machine and that machine only. Because of this restriction, you did not pay the full retail price of Windows.
Many people pay much more then $45 dollars for their OS, hell, even Mandrake and Suse cost more then that if you buy it.
Nobody forces you to buy a computer with Windows on it, yet. If you don't like Microsoft's practices, buy a computer with no OS, or build your own. The vast majority of people would rather pay extra and not have to worry about loading the OS manually. And those who know how to load an OS also usually know where and how to build or buy a system without an OS.
Last time I checked Safari out was few years ago when it first started. Based on your advice I revisited, and was amazed at the amoount of books they have now. This is absolutely an amazing resource. Thanks for the reminder!!!
Now the only question is what to spend the remaining monthly $230 left out of my training and books stipend on.
Hey I can could save up a few months and by me one of them there Linux licenses from SCO. Then I'll be knowledgable & LEGAL!!!:)
Funny this should come up. I just spent the last day trying to wrestle with setting up a 54g bridge.
If a promised feature doesn't work right out of the box, it should't be advertised on the box!
First I went with d-link, because the box promised 108 mb speeds, using Super G. Only after I bought 2 of these bridges did I find on their Website in the small print that 108 speeds were not available until I downloaded the firmware upgrade, which was due out in the 3RD QUARTER of 2004!!! This seems like a pretty clear cut case of false advertising.
I returned those items and bought 2 netgear 54g bridges, only to find out their was a flaw in the firmware and I needed to upgrade it. No problem, except that their upgrade utility for this bridge only works in Windows. This from a device that promises on the box thats it (and I quote) "works under any OS and any platform." I used one of my servers to run the upgrade and it fried the first one bridge.
If this is the future of electronics, I'm very worried.
Actually, I think the video stores pay much more for their stock because they have to buy licensing rights for each movie. My memory fails me, but the the stroy Kozmo.com gave me when I lost a movie was that they pay 89.00 for it. I couldn't believe they wanted to charge me $89 bucks for a copy of Inspector Gadget! I bought a copy at walmart, told 'em I lost the case and sent it back.
While I agree we see a lot of these types of stories on./ this one seems worthy of the front page. It's not everyday that you can buy a fighter jet on the internet.
It's been said the Internet is the great equalizer, a single man can be as big as a large corporation, but this levels the playing field at the nation building level.:) At least it can bring you equal to many 3rd world country's Air forces.
Not true. Most Coke and Pepsi is bottled by a regional distributor. that distributor may only handle the bottling for 2 or 3 states, 1 if its a big state, so they do bar code them according to their distribution point, by region.
No thats stupid. The programming language is free and open, but the meaning is protected. Just like I can't buy a book, copy word for word and turn around and sell it. If people don't like my format (or my book) they don't have to use/read it.
In the end, the market will decide if my proprietary format is worth it.
How is this Insightful? The Lead in stated the reasons as a less power consumption, less room needed, and less heat produced. Last I checked trying to save money on Electricity, Cooling and Floor space was simple good use of students tuition dollars.
No, but I do have quite a few license's of Windows lying around, so cost was not an issue.
As far as the other poster, I agree about making sure the Hardware you have is Compatible before you buy. The problem I had was that while all the hardware did have Linux support, it didn't necessarily all work right with each and I didn't have the time to make it.
Interesting my ass! Nobody said this article was about using Linux to build a Tivo. This was one users experience, and frankly, I am tech savvy, I know my way around a command line, and I still found it a pain in the ass.
Linux is great at alot of things, but that doesn't mean it's the answer to everything. Sometimes people want something that works painlessly. They would rather watch the Daily Show then dink around at their computer. That doesn't make him a moron, or inferior. Contrary to what you think.
Just curious, what 11g card did you use. I've been trying to find one for my Linux box that I can get working, to no avail.
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I started out on this route using the same instructions, spent 3 days working on it, to no avail. ( my nice hardware wasn't well liked I guess. I forgot, I can only use Linux on crappy hardware thats been out for a year or more.:) )
I decided my time wasn't worth this, so I put Windows on it, paid sixty bucks for Snapstream and have been very happy with it.
You can get listed for one spammer. I had one of our new Admins accidently open a relay once about a year ago. Within 6 hours a spammer found it, used it and we were listed.
Needless to say the relay was closed, the New Admin learned a lesson, and you're still incompetent.
And what should those of us, who only have one ISP in our area do? In my area there is only one high speed provider, and yes in my line of work, I need high speed.
So we should just suck it up, huh? I'm glad we have the brightest minds, like you, working on the problem. I can sleep better at night now, thank you!
Gee, that's the same thinking a terrorist uses. It used to only be acceptable to target Military and Government personell, but man , that just did't provide enough incentive to work, so they started going after civilian targets to get peoples attention. Granted, sending Spam and killing people are two very different things, but the fallacy of your logic appalls.
As the OP said, the ISP he works for does actively shut down accounts of spammers, but it only takes one night for someone to cause a lot of damage. Sure they can shut that account, go through an appeals process with a RBL get of the list, but then 2 months down the road, a completely different spammer does the same thing and it starts all over. Not to mention some RBL's make you wait longer to get of the list for 2nd and 3rd violations, even if it is from 2 different spammers.
Maybe I should force the Post Office not to deliver any email from South Dakota. After all, with all the Credit Card companies located there, I'm sure we could cut down the amount of junk mail offering me great new interest rates.
I see the day when RBL's in the over zealous attempt to stop spam get hit hard for interfering with interstate commerce. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think RBL's are the wrong way of dealing with it.
Easy to call someone a blind follower when you have nothing to fall back on. Its kind of like the people who dress goth, because they want to be different, then end up looking like a every other "outcast."
Judging by your poor logic and self delusions of being "different," you have no idea what it takes to lead people. After all if you had such brilliant insights into leadership, you could easily lead a revolt against against pretty much every government in the world. Hmm. I guess your not as special as you think you are, nor as smart.
The problem I have with your attitude is not that I think every one should have kids, but that you think your better because you haven't bought into the lie of the "family." For me, there is nothing I'd rather do then spend time with my wife and kids. It fulfills me.
You may feel differently, but I unlike you, don't think you're inferior because of that but rather that your inferior because of your judgemental, juvenile and selfish attitude.
Too bad humans are not rational. We are pre-wired to have emotions, to feel love, to want to be part of the larger social order. (Well most of us, maybe you're a defect.)
Then again, that's natural selection at work. Obviously your inability to comprehend the importance of family has been declared a weakness by nature and by you not mating, your defective genteic material will be remove from the pool, and humanity will become stronger.
Go ahead with your rational beliefs, I'll take love and humanity any day of the week.
Apple in their infinite wisdom, only ships 1 button mice and trackpads, but the OS has full support for 3 buttons and more mice. Just plug in your favorite 3rd party mouse and it will work.
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Except that I constantly find my clumsy fingers nudging the trackpoint when I type. Even disabling it doesn't help, because I still find the little protrusion in the middle of the keyboard annoying. Granted, thats a small quibble, but frustrating none the less.
I guess the point is that you can never make everybody happy.
Look at it this way, Dell, HP, etc don't give a damn what Microsoft says, If they could turn a decent profit selling window Less machines, they would. The problem is, we /. geeeks are not their Market, so they don't.
Many people pay much more then $45 dollars for their OS, hell, even Mandrake and Suse cost more then that if you buy it.
Nobody forces you to buy a computer with Windows on it, yet. If you don't like Microsoft's practices, buy a computer with no OS, or build your own. The vast majority of people would rather pay extra and not have to worry about loading the OS manually. And those who know how to load an OS also usually know where and how to build or buy a system without an OS.
Now the only question is what to spend the remaining monthly $230 left out of my training and books stipend on.
Hey I can could save up a few months and by me one of them there Linux licenses from SCO. Then I'll be knowledgable & LEGAL!!! :)
Funny this should come up. I just spent the last day trying to wrestle with setting up a 54g bridge. If a promised feature doesn't work right out of the box, it should't be advertised on the box! First I went with d-link, because the box promised 108 mb speeds, using Super G. Only after I bought 2 of these bridges did I find on their Website in the small print that 108 speeds were not available until I downloaded the firmware upgrade, which was due out in the 3RD QUARTER of 2004!!! This seems like a pretty clear cut case of false advertising. I returned those items and bought 2 netgear 54g bridges, only to find out their was a flaw in the firmware and I needed to upgrade it. No problem, except that their upgrade utility for this bridge only works in Windows. This from a device that promises on the box thats it (and I quote) "works under any OS and any platform." I used one of my servers to run the upgrade and it fried the first one bridge. If this is the future of electronics, I'm very worried.
Actually, I think the video stores pay much more for their stock because they have to buy licensing rights for each movie. My memory fails me, but the the stroy Kozmo.com gave me when I lost a movie was that they pay 89.00 for it. I couldn't believe they wanted to charge me $89 bucks for a copy of Inspector Gadget! I bought a copy at walmart, told 'em I lost the case and sent it back.
It's been said the Internet is the great equalizer, a single man can be as big as a large corporation, but this levels the playing field at the nation building level.
Not true. Most Coke and Pepsi is bottled by a regional distributor. that distributor may only handle the bottling for 2 or 3 states, 1 if its a big state, so they do bar code them according to their distribution point, by region.
In the end, the market will decide if my proprietary format is worth it.
"Are the free lawyers actually any good in Norway?" He got off, didn't he?
How is this Insightful? The Lead in stated the reasons as a less power consumption, less room needed, and less heat produced. Last I checked trying to save money on Electricity, Cooling and Floor space was simple good use of students tuition dollars.
Thanks, very useful info.
As far as the other poster, I agree about making sure the Hardware you have is Compatible before you buy. The problem I had was that while all the hardware did have Linux support, it didn't necessarily all work right with each and I didn't have the time to make it.
Get a life. Oh wait, I forgot I was on /.
Just curious, what 11g card did you use. I've been trying to find one for my Linux box that I can get working, to no avail.
I decided my time wasn't worth this, so I put Windows on it, paid sixty bucks for Snapstream and have been very happy with it.
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Your blatant karma whoring has completely overwhelmed the single 486 running the site.
Needless to say the relay was closed, the New Admin learned a lesson, and you're still incompetent.
So we should just suck it up, huh? I'm glad we have the brightest minds, like you, working on the problem. I can sleep better at night now, thank you!
As the OP said, the ISP he works for does actively shut down accounts of spammers, but it only takes one night for someone to cause a lot of damage. Sure they can shut that account, go through an appeals process with a RBL get of the list, but then 2 months down the road, a completely different spammer does the same thing and it starts all over. Not to mention some RBL's make you wait longer to get of the list for 2nd and 3rd violations, even if it is from 2 different spammers.
Maybe I should force the Post Office not to deliver any email from South Dakota. After all, with all the Credit Card companies located there, I'm sure we could cut down the amount of junk mail offering me great new interest rates.
I see the day when RBL's in the over zealous attempt to stop spam get hit hard for interfering with interstate commerce. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think RBL's are the wrong way of dealing with it.
Judging by your poor logic and self delusions of being "different," you have no idea what it takes to lead people. After all if you had such brilliant insights into leadership, you could easily lead a revolt against against pretty much every government in the world. Hmm. I guess your not as special as you think you are, nor as smart.
The problem I have with your attitude is not that I think every one should have kids, but that you think your better because you haven't bought into the lie of the "family." For me, there is nothing I'd rather do then spend time with my wife and kids. It fulfills me.
You may feel differently, but I unlike you, don't think you're inferior because of that but rather that your inferior because of your judgemental, juvenile and selfish attitude.
Then again, that's natural selection at work. Obviously your inability to comprehend the importance of family has been declared a weakness by nature and by you not mating, your defective genteic material will be remove from the pool, and humanity will become stronger. Go ahead with your rational beliefs, I'll take love and humanity any day of the week.
Apple in their infinite wisdom, only ships 1 button mice and trackpads, but the OS has full support for 3 buttons and more mice. Just plug in your favorite 3rd party mouse and it will work.