I use an XDMCP connection to transform my old PII266 laptop into an AthnlonXP 2800+ powerhouse;)
It's much faster than vnc and takes just a few minutes to set up.
There are advantages to having a second soundcard particularly for games. I use my on board sound for Flight Simulator as an online ATC sound system allowing for quick and independant volume control of the ATC service. You can also use it as an extra set of outputs for music production if the need arises.:)
If Paramount goes ahead with the cancellation, Enterprise fans should protest by downloading any future paramount films by p2p instead of buying their DVD releases. Hit them in the hip pocket as punishment!
Now let's look at my army of typists. None of them know how to use Linux/GNOME, OpenOffice or Evolution. So I train them. I hire a training guy to come in for a day to give them a crash course on how to use Linux, and he charges me $200. However, I've got to pay my typists anyway, $100/ea for the day. So that's $100x10 + $200 = $1200.
You have to spend all that to train them?? I've installed more than a few copies of Linux on Office machines where the boss has been too tight to buy a windows licence
All I do is place icons in the default Gnome taskbar for Open Office, Firefox, or any other programs the secretary/worker need to use.
Not one of them has complained that is is hard to use and they adapt to OOffice very quickly without extra training apart from a 5 minute familiarity crash course in the Gnome desktop. All they need is just one click away!:)
I know what you mean about dropping them.
I used to get right royally pissed at Aus commercial television when they would start showing a new series of (for example) Star Trek Voyager, then half way through, dump it for some stupid tennis tournament never to be seen again until they needed to fill a gap in the schedule.
On a slightly different tagent, Have you ever tried to get a hold of the latest programs in English in France? There's no other option but the internet here.
Ok, I have an Athlon 2800+ with 512mb RAM, but Xfce isnt underkill.
It's nice and lean but has plenty of features without getting in the way of actually doing any work.;)
In the last 6 months I have gone from KDE to Gnome to Xfce and I think (as of 4.2) Xfce is the best of the lot.
If you compile Gentoo on a slower system (PII, PIII etc) you will notice a huge increase in performance over a pre-packaged system.
I have a PII-366 laptop that could not play movies until I installed Gentoo on it. Sure, it took 4 days to get everything installed, but in the end the old laptop is now quite usable with a cutting edge, new OS rather than just opting for the recommended win98;)
3.4 is there but masked. The current stable version according to portage is 3.3.2. I'm sure in a few weeks, I will wake up to a new KDE and a smoking CPU after all that compiling. Funny thing is, I use Xfce these days.;)
Well done Adobe. Acroread on Linux loads up almost instantly and displays even large documents in rapid fashion. Unlike the windows version which is a bit slow;)
It's a fine piece of software worthy of much praise from all linix users!:) Thanks guys.
Once, when I was a working as one of those door to door salesmen, I picked up a interesting rock and proceeded to sell it to this guy for $10. I gave him all the benefits of this amazing rock and a detailed history behind it. He looked a little confused as to why this guy was trying to sell him a rock until I told him I would throw in a free torch! (which is what I was selling in the first place)
So, you see, selling rocks isn't that bad;)
They are doing a similar thing as Doom 3 and Unreal Tournemant. Buy the windows version and you can use the native Linux client. It's good for those windows users used to Nero and want to migrate to Linux.
Personally, k3b does all I need, but if I had bought a copy of Nero for windows, I'd consider this a nice gesture. Thanks Nero guys!:)
Just say no to those "helpful" browser toolbars, download accellerators etc..
In my job, I literally have to remove layers upon layers of the things from very broken office PCs. Malware is everywhere these days, especially for IE users;)
"WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL."
This should not sound strange to US citizens. They've been living under the concept of guilty until proven innocent for years. The climate of fear is digging deeper into US society.
>Why do spammers try so hard to get through to >people who hate spam enough to block it? They're >definitely not going to be customers!
Thats because the spammers are usually not the vendors. They are just the advertisers and get paid to Spam whether you are stupid enough to buy the V1@gr4 or not.
It may be a surprise, but there are a lot of people who don't live on the East Coast of the US and I'm not talking about those who live on the West Coast;)
But we don't have to wait until tuesday to get a patch for those;)
All of those are in 3rd party software anyway and are usually fixed before any major damage can be done by anyone clever enough to actually manage to break into a linux box in time to use the exploit!:D
Face it. We all filter our email with Spamassassin or something similar so we don't see any of the SPAM anyway! All SPAM could then be considered wasting bandwidth. Is there a law against creating useless traffic on a server? You could probably somehow call SPAM a sort of low-level DDOS attack particularly on small mail servers like mine as precious bandwidth and CPU cycles(when the SPAM filter kicks in) are used up just in dealing with it. What if you are on a limited bandwidth ADSL plan and the SPAM actually puts you over the limit and costs money. Could you then sue the Spammers?
Unfortunately, there will be no real sounds. The mike is more of a sensor than a recording device and due to the limited time and bandwidth available to Huygens for data transmission, there is no space for more than using it to detect thunder rather than hearing it.
They will however be creating sound files from the low resolution sonograms for the those of us with vivid imaginations.;)
More info here
Unfortunately, there will be no real sounds. The mike is more of a sensor than a recording device and due to the limited time and bandwidth available to Huygens for data transmission, there is no space for more than using it to detect thunder rather than hearing it.
They will however be creating sound files from the low resolution sonograms for the those of us with vivd imaginations.
More info here
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I use an XDMCP connection to transform my old PII266 laptop into an AthnlonXP 2800+ powerhouse ;)
It's much faster than vnc and takes just a few minutes to set up.
There are advantages to having a second soundcard particularly for games. I use my on board sound for Flight Simulator as an online ATC sound system allowing for quick and independant volume control of the ATC service. You can also use it as an extra set of outputs for music production if the need arises. :)
If Paramount goes ahead with the cancellation, Enterprise fans should protest by downloading any future paramount films by p2p instead of buying their DVD releases. Hit them in the hip pocket as punishment!
Now let's look at my army of typists. None of them know how to use Linux/GNOME, OpenOffice or Evolution. So I train them. I hire a training guy to come in for a day to give them a crash course on how to use Linux, and he charges me $200. However, I've got to pay my typists anyway, $100/ea for the day. So that's $100x10 + $200 = $1200. You have to spend all that to train them?? I've installed more than a few copies of Linux on Office machines where the boss has been too tight to buy a windows licence :)
All I do is place icons in the default Gnome taskbar for Open Office, Firefox, or any other programs the secretary/worker need to use.
Not one of them has complained that is is hard to use and they adapt to OOffice very quickly without extra training apart from a 5 minute familiarity crash course in the Gnome desktop. All they need is just one click away!
I know what you mean about dropping them.
I used to get right royally pissed at Aus commercial television when they would start showing a new series of (for example) Star Trek Voyager, then half way through, dump it for some stupid tennis tournament never to be seen again until they needed to fill a gap in the schedule.
On a slightly different tagent, Have you ever tried to get a hold of the latest programs in English in France? There's no other option but the internet here.
Ok, I have an Athlon 2800+ with 512mb RAM, but Xfce isnt underkill. ;)
It's nice and lean but has plenty of features without getting in the way of actually doing any work.
In the last 6 months I have gone from KDE to Gnome to Xfce and I think (as of 4.2) Xfce is the best of the lot.
If you compile Gentoo on a slower system (PII, PIII etc) you will notice a huge increase in performance over a pre-packaged system. I have a PII-366 laptop that could not play movies until I installed Gentoo on it. Sure, it took 4 days to get everything installed, but in the end the old laptop is now quite usable with a cutting edge, new OS rather than just opting for the recommended win98 ;)
3.4 is there but masked. The current stable version according to portage is 3.3.2. I'm sure in a few weeks, I will wake up to a new KDE and a smoking CPU after all that compiling. Funny thing is, I use Xfce these days. ;)
Sorry. I'll put that typo down to reading slashdot before having my coffee. ;)
Well done Adobe. Acroread on Linux loads up almost instantly and displays even large documents in rapid fashion. Unlike the windows version which is a bit slow ;) :) Thanks guys.
It's a fine piece of software worthy of much praise from all linix users!
Once, when I was a working as one of those door to door salesmen, I picked up a interesting rock and proceeded to sell it to this guy for $10. I gave him all the benefits of this amazing rock and a detailed history behind it. He looked a little confused as to why this guy was trying to sell him a rock until I told him I would throw in a free torch! (which is what I was selling in the first place) ;)
So, you see, selling rocks isn't that bad
Yes, Yes.. did I really spell Tournament like that? It's early and I haven't had my coffee yet ok? ;)
They are doing a similar thing as Doom 3 and Unreal Tournemant. Buy the windows version and you can use the native Linux client. It's good for those windows users used to Nero and want to migrate to Linux. Personally, k3b does all I need, but if I had bought a copy of Nero for windows, I'd consider this a nice gesture. Thanks Nero guys! :)
Cue new websites with new pictures of blue screens on atms :D
Just say no to those "helpful" browser toolbars, download accellerators etc.. ;)
In my job, I literally have to remove layers upon layers of the things from very broken office PCs. Malware is everywhere these days, especially for IE users
"WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL."
This should not sound strange to US citizens. They've been living under the concept of guilty until proven innocent for years. The climate of fear is digging deeper into US society.
>Why do spammers try so hard to get through to >people who hate spam enough to block it? They're >definitely not going to be customers! Thats because the spammers are usually not the vendors. They are just the advertisers and get paid to Spam whether you are stupid enough to buy the V1@gr4 or not.
hehe :) I use a passphrase with every alternate word in a different language, then rendered int 1337! :)
It may be a surprise, but there are a lot of people who don't live on the East Coast of the US and I'm not talking about those who live on the West Coast ;)
But we don't have to wait until tuesday to get a patch for those ;) :D
All of those are in 3rd party software anyway and are usually fixed before any major damage can be done by anyone clever enough to actually manage to break into a linux box in time to use the exploit!
Great idea! Lets do it, then blame it on Q ;)
Face it. We all filter our email with Spamassassin or something similar so we don't see any of the SPAM anyway! All SPAM could then be considered wasting bandwidth. Is there a law against creating useless traffic on a server? You could probably somehow call SPAM a sort of low-level DDOS attack particularly on small mail servers like mine as precious bandwidth and CPU cycles(when the SPAM filter kicks in) are used up just in dealing with it. What if you are on a limited bandwidth ADSL plan and the SPAM actually puts you over the limit and costs money. Could you then sue the Spammers?
My main machine is QWERTY, but living in france, I have a laptop which is AZERTY which messes me up when I switch between the two ;)
Unfortunately, there will be no real sounds. The mike is more of a sensor than a recording device and due to the limited time and bandwidth available to Huygens for data transmission, there is no space for more than using it to detect thunder rather than hearing it. ;)
They will however be creating sound files from the low resolution sonograms for the those of us with vivid imaginations.
More info here
Unfortunately, there will be no real sounds. The mike is more of a sensor than a recording device and due to the limited time and bandwidth available to Huygens for data transmission, there is no space for more than using it to detect thunder rather than hearing it.
They will however be creating sound files from the low resolution sonograms for the those of us with vivd imaginations.
More info here