YEAH! Scorched earth! We've played it sooooo much. And the free 3d remake Scorched3d is even greater. It doesn't need a good computer and it'll occupy your lunchtime. We've played it countless hours and it still fun, a bit like tetrinet.
Well, I still have winXP on my box for social reasons (Lan Party). When I set up the system I created 2 users: root and non-admin. The thing is it's a lot of trouble for almost nothing. Personnally, I prefer the unix way of doing tasks as admin (su in a console and exit when it's over) rather than the "run as admin" way. That way was painfull and not confortable, so the non-admin user was dropped.
I prefer the use of actual games when benchmarking a card.
Right! There's nothing like running Doom to have an idea of how the card performs in Doom. If we look the comparisons on tomshardware,
all of them uses different progs and games to see the performance and every card has soooo much performance difference between one and another prog.
Well, I want the ministry of the environment of canada to make better weather and less rain!
The thing is, what can the gov really do? not much for the weather and not much for the net. Yes they can make some laws against pollution and against hackers, but it's all the same: indirect solutions but nothing really efficient, so stop asking impossible stuff to the gov.
I find all this a bit funny. I've been asked a thousand times "which distro is the best to learn how linux works". Now, I read that LFS helps learning how the OS works. Let me disagree:
When we look to Windows admins, do they need to install it from scratch to understand the internals and how to repair things? No!
And that's exactly the same here. We don't need to know how to compile things to know how they interact and how to repair what's broken. Yes, you can learn to assemble an OS but WHO CARES? All the enterprises or people you'll met will ALL used canned distributions of Linux. They all have their own problems installing but also have their way to solve it. If you want to learn the system internal do it with a distro you like. Install packages one by one and see how they work, what they do, etc. but don't give you the trouble to compile all from scratch.
If you are still searching problems to solve to learn something after that, check out your distro's bug tracker. I'm sure they'll appreciate you helping them solve the thousand problem there are!
Well, for those who complain about the lack of MS files compatibility, let me say that:
I've been doing tech support at college for some time already. I've tried to make them install OO.o in some labs and guess what; there are as many people who complains about compat problems on OO.o and MSOffice. What I mean is that OO.o is more compatible with MS formats than MS is with different versions of their own format. Not all students have the same version. And if you compare OfficeXP opening Office2003 documents with OpenOffice opening the same documents, you'll realize that OO.o does a really good job!
It isn't harder to use any alternative. Once you know how to do somethin on one, you can almost easily figure out how to do it on the other. But the thing it to do changes gradually, install OO.o without removing office. Show teachers the resemblance between both both alternatives and impress them with cool and unique features. Make OO.o gain the heart of the people and you'll win you case.
But remember the important is not assimilation; it's more about choice.
So, choosing to hide a banner is a violation of social contract? What if I don't see those banners because I don't have flash, do I violate that contract? And if I use Lynx to browse, do I violate that contract? This is absolutely ridiculous! There is no contract that should force one to see what he doesn't want to see. I am not interested in banners more than I'm interested in looking to that. Sure you may be blocking a site from getting revenue, but if you're wise, you won't do it if you believe it doesn't deseve it.
As for myself, I block what I wish to block and give credit to who merits it. And since I'm not a consumer, there's no reason I should endure all the ads there is to see.
I hope the battery has a better lifetime too. It's been a year since I have my battery (and laptop) and now it's the opposite, one hour charge for one minute discharge...
So, you want more nerds oriented radio, hmmm...
have you tried free radio linux you get bored after a while but you sure look geek by listening to the linux kernel source!
Personally I think blocking popups and ads is the same for news as music piracy is for music industry. I use Adblock when I browse and began by blocking slashdot ads. Then I realised that it was worth encouraging, so I subscribed. I believe that people won't let the occasion to encourage a site if they believe it's worth it. But in a majority of cases, there are a LOT of annoying ads and I think it's normal to want to avoid them, especially if the site's content isn't worth it.
Wow! so we can affect temperature by building wind farms. Just hope they will build a lot of these north of my town so we can stop that freezing north wind.
Well they don't deny they used other project's code, but until they rewrite everything, they really should: release code or keep everything private, as stated in GPL.
My advice is: If you are not sure about sofware raid5 do as I did: Try on vmware (virtual computer software). You'll be able to see if your system runs well with little of ram, lot of ram, drive recovery...
You'll be able to test anything and restore images if somethin goes wrong.
Whoa! it would be cool playing a shooter with this device. It's like having lazers through your eyes. You look the monster and he's dead...:))) I'd be like Cyclop in x-men!
One of my friend had an uptime of 1 month with is XP box.
Considering he does a lot on it and that he was able to last that long without being forced by "setup wizards" to reboot, this is a record.
But when XP runs that long without reboot, it REALLY becomes unstable.
He showed me and I had never seen so much unstability. Every progs crash. That was terrible.
I do believe you don't need to reboot often, but it still is necessary.
Right, I've been running a small lab of computers and it works like charm when working with remotely. We've got some old pentium 2 that are only capable of running X11.
Newer machines run all applications which just connect to the older computers using X11 tunnelling
That gives me cheap lab of computers and they all run smoothly as all machines were new P4.
Looks like XP isn't the only choice after all..!!!
Sincerely, I think there isn't a better way to learn how linux administration works. Let me explain: Yeah, gentoo is good. The installation guide teaches you a lot about the internals of linux, how to compile stuff and which files must be edited to configure "foobar" package properly. However, it can only be used as an introduction. The rest depends on how the systems you admin are built. For example, if your company uses redhat with all gui dialogs and user friendly stuff, you must learn how to use that too. But keep in mind that it will be different on Suse or other disto. Each distro has it's way to be administrated. In gentoo, you emerge, in Fedora you rpm, in Debian you apt-get..... The best way to learn is to "get them all" and install them all!!...
The only convergence between all distro this is the console, so try not to depend on gui too much.
Monopoly kills jobs too. I just wonder what's the worst... lemme think.... Hmmm... I'm not sure of that.
1. It is evident that opensource software is rough with the commecial concurrents. However, as far as I know, opensource projects often evolves much slower. Coders can't live just of writing code and giving it away. This limits their contribution. 2. It is hard for an opensource project without budget to get a part of the market. No money, no publicity, no one to learn about the software. 3. There isn't less jobs; there is only less jobs for programmers. O.S. contributes to the development of the society by letting people concentrate their efforts in other domains.
That's the way I see it. You may not agree. But I still think the best society is one without cash where everyone contributes to the evolution of the human race, as in Star Trek.
What desktop linux needs is ONE desktop to replace them all.
I think you don't get it. This is not a question of choices; it's a question of education. I'm administrator of a lan at my cegep called(clubinfo). we have some good machines on XP and had some old crashin ones on W98. When I arrive I replaced all the w98 ones by some xpde ones. And even if XPDE is not complete it's no problem.
The thing is: students can use any machines without knowing the difference. The menus, progs and windows are the same(we use almost exclusively free software[gimp,oo.o]).
So, even if kde or gnome or icewm are better, I just won't install them due to those questions from everyone: "where is the start menu?" "how do I start windows?" "What's that big K thingy?"
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YEAH! Scorched earth! We've played it sooooo much. And the free 3d remake Scorched3d is even greater. It doesn't need a good computer and it'll occupy your lunchtime. We've played it countless hours and it still fun, a bit like tetrinet.
Well, I still have winXP on my box for social reasons (Lan Party). When I set up the system I created 2 users: root and non-admin. The thing is it's a lot of trouble for almost nothing. Personnally, I prefer the unix way of doing tasks as admin (su in a console and exit when it's over) rather than the "run as admin" way. That way was painfull and not confortable, so the non-admin user was dropped.
Right! There's nothing like running Doom to have an idea of how the card performs in Doom. If we look the comparisons on tomshardware, all of them uses different progs and games to see the performance and every card has soooo much performance difference between one and another prog.
The thing is, what can the gov really do? not much for the weather and not much for the net. Yes they can make some laws against pollution and against hackers, but it's all the same: indirect solutions but nothing really efficient, so stop asking impossible stuff to the gov.
When we look to Windows admins, do they need to install it from scratch to understand the internals and how to repair things? No!
And that's exactly the same here. We don't need to know how to compile things to know how they interact and how to repair what's broken. Yes, you can learn to assemble an OS but WHO CARES? All the enterprises or people you'll met will ALL used canned distributions of Linux. They all have their own problems installing but also have their way to solve it.
If you want to learn the system internal do it with a distro you like. Install packages one by one and see how they work, what they do, etc. but don't give you the trouble to compile all from scratch.
If you are still searching problems to solve to learn something after that, check out your distro's bug tracker. I'm sure they'll appreciate you helping them solve the thousand problem there are!
Watever everyone says, time travel is possible. The thing is you can only travel to the future and it is incredibly slow...
I've been doing tech support at college for some time already. I've tried to make them install OO.o in some labs and guess what; there are as many people who complains about compat problems on OO.o and MSOffice. What I mean is that OO.o is more compatible with MS formats than MS is with different versions of their own format. Not all students have the same version. And if you compare OfficeXP opening Office2003 documents with OpenOffice opening the same documents, you'll realize that OO.o does a really good job!
It isn't harder to use any alternative. Once you know how to do somethin on one, you can almost easily figure out how to do it on the other. But the thing it to do changes gradually, install OO.o without removing office. Show teachers the resemblance between both both alternatives and impress them with cool and unique features. Make OO.o gain the heart of the people and you'll win you case.
But remember the important is not assimilation; it's more about choice.
This is absolutely ridiculous! There is no contract that should force one to see what he doesn't want to see. I am not interested in banners more than I'm interested in looking to that. Sure you may be blocking a site from getting revenue, but if you're wise, you won't do it if you believe it doesn't deseve it.
As for myself, I block what I wish to block and give credit to who merits it. And since I'm not a consumer, there's no reason I should endure all the ads there is to see.
I hope the battery has a better lifetime too. It's been a year since I have my battery (and laptop) and now it's the opposite, one hour charge for one minute discharge...
So, you want more nerds oriented radio, hmmm...
have you tried free radio linux
you get bored after a while but you sure look geek by listening to the linux kernel source!
Well, they should consider changing their image. Something like Yooha! with colored letters could do the trick...
Personally I think blocking popups and ads is the same for news as music piracy is for music industry. I use Adblock when I browse and began by blocking slashdot ads. Then I realised that it was worth encouraging, so I subscribed. I believe that people won't let the occasion to encourage a site if they believe it's worth it. But in a majority of cases, there are a LOT of annoying ads and I think it's normal to want to avoid them, especially if the site's content isn't worth it.
Wow! so we can affect temperature by building wind farms.
Just hope they will build a lot of these north of my town so we can stop that freezing north wind.
Well they don't deny they used other project's code, but until they rewrite everything, they really should:
release code or
keep everything private,
as stated in GPL.
My advice is: If you are not sure about sofware raid5 do as I did: Try on vmware (virtual computer software). You'll be able to see if your system runs well with little of ram, lot of ram, drive recovery...
You'll be able to test anything and restore images if somethin goes wrong.
Whoa! it would be cool playing a shooter with this device. It's like having lazers through your eyes. You look the monster and he's dead... :)))
I'd be like Cyclop in x-men!
One of my friend had an uptime of 1 month with is XP box.
Considering he does a lot on it and that he was able to last that long without being forced by "setup wizards" to reboot, this is a record.
But when XP runs that long without reboot, it REALLY becomes unstable.
He showed me and I had never seen so much unstability. Every progs crash. That was terrible.
I do believe you don't need to reboot often, but it still is necessary.
That's not what I call competition with gentoo: Who would want to install a disto without Larry the cow as a logo?
We've got some old pentium 2 that are only capable of running X11.
Newer machines run all applications which just connect to the older computers using X11 tunnelling
That gives me cheap lab of computers and they all run smoothly as all machines were new P4.
Looks like XP isn't the only choice after all..!!!
Let me explain:
Yeah, gentoo is good. The installation guide teaches you a lot about the internals of linux, how to compile stuff and which files must be edited to configure "foobar" package properly.
However, it can only be used as an introduction. The rest depends on how the systems you admin are built.
For example, if your company uses redhat with all gui dialogs and user friendly stuff, you must learn how to use that too. But keep in mind that it will be different on Suse or other disto. Each distro has it's way to be administrated.
In gentoo, you emerge, in Fedora you rpm, in Debian you apt-get.....
The best way to learn is to "get them all" and install them all!!...
The only convergence between all distro this is the console, so try not to depend on gui too much.
Monopoly kills jobs too. I just wonder what's the worst... lemme think.... Hmmm... I'm not sure of that.
1. It is evident that opensource software is rough with the commecial concurrents. However, as far as I know, opensource projects often evolves much slower. Coders can't live just of writing code and giving it away. This limits their contribution.
2. It is hard for an opensource project without budget to get a part of the market. No money, no publicity, no one to learn about the software.
3. There isn't less jobs; there is only less jobs for programmers. O.S. contributes to the development of the society by letting people concentrate their efforts in other domains.
That's the way I see it. You may not agree. But I still think the best society is one without cash where everyone contributes to the evolution of the human race, as in Star Trek.
What desktop linux needs is ONE desktop to replace them all.
I think you don't get it. This is not a question of choices; it's a question of education. I'm administrator of a lan at my cegep called(clubinfo). we have some good machines on XP and had some old crashin ones on W98. When I arrive I replaced all the w98 ones by some xpde ones. And even if XPDE is not complete it's no problem.
The thing is: students can use any machines without knowing the difference. The menus, progs and windows are the same(we use almost exclusively free software[gimp,oo.o]).
So, even if kde or gnome or icewm are better, I just won't install them due to those questions from everyone: "where is the start menu?" "how do I start windows?" "What's that big K thingy?"
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