TiK is good. The only gripe I have is that some things can be slow at times. Like when you're in a chat room, it can take a while to update the window when someone talks, it seems like it 'freezes' for a few seconds.
It would take a long time to track down songs that have your "watermark" on napster, because you need a large enough chunk of the data to get it to work reliably. During that "hack sdmi" contest thing I emailed them asking why the files were so big (50+MB wav files), and that was the reason they gave me.
All software patents need to be thrown out the window. Thats what they are.. They are soft. written by soft people, who need to be shot. Why are they just going after NetZero? There are hundreds of others who are doing the same thing.
Free ISP's?? They are not ISP's. They are just some login on some other ISP dialup like UUnet or whatever. Can you believe this shit? Their entire company is based on some piece of software that displays banner ads on peoples' desktops. They must be making a shitload of money, cause their costs are almost zero. All they need is 8 or so employees, and some kid in the back to maintain the client program, mostly just making changes to stop people from killing the ad. This d00d probably makes like $200,000/yr. I know people who probably work twice the ammount of hours and get about 10 percent of that. Then you have fuckers like 1stup.com, they make some 'shell' program, so other companies can have their own 'free isp'. Dammit this world sucks, I should kill myself now.
Nevermind, I need to have a little fun before I self-terminate. c-ya later.
I'm not saying you must use slackware or you are stupid for not using it. All I'm saying is, if you want more control over what is going on in your system, use Slackware. If you would rather have things done for you, use RedHat, Caldera, Mandrake, etc.
Here's the deal. Slackware is a distribution. Just a plain and simple distribution. A collection of the linux kernel, and various other software packages that would make up a unix-like system. Along with a few basic config files to make everything workable. As far as hardware detection, that is left up to the user. Actually, the kernel detects most hardware automatically. I would also think most people using linux would already know what type of sound, video, and ethernet card they have. With most new hardware, you don't even need to configure IRQ's or whatever. For the soundblaster live, all you need to do is modprobe emu10k1, or just uncomment that line in one of the startup scripts.
But hey, im not saying the other distributions are bad. It's all a matter of preference. If someone asks me what I recommend, I will say slackware.
All of these security issues have been fixed. If you are really concerned about security, subscribe to the slackware-security mailing list at majordomo@slackware.com. Also, most of the fixes go into slackware-current, not/patches. you can check ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-cu rrent/ChangeLog.txt if you wanna know what has been changed since the last release. To fix a security problem, just download the package from slackware-current, and run 'upgradepkg packagename.tgz', and all is done for you.
Slackware DOES have the easiest install. If you want to resize your windows partition, make sure you defragment, then just use fips. Boot the bootdisk, run cfdisk, make your partitions. That's the hardest part. After that, run setup, and you get a nice menu-based install. Set up your swap, choose your packages, and go. Or you could just do a full install of everything. Takes about 5 minutes to install. After all packages are installed, it asks you if you want to configure stuff, like network settings, etc. Its all menu based, using the "dialog" program. It even gives you a wide variety of default window managers to choose from.
About the hardest part after this is setting up X. And no, you don't have to edit your XF86Config file by hand.
Sure, if you have never used Linux before, it will take you a few hours to LEARN to use Slackware. But after that, everything is pretty simple. You don't have to edit everything by hand. Slack has some configuration tools for the most common things, like setting up a ppp connection to your isp; use pppsetup. Yes, down the line, you will need to edit SOME configuration files by hand, but it's really not that bad. Most of the configuration files are nicely commented, and it doesn't hurt to read a man page every once in a while.
Slackware also has a new update tool called autoslack. It's not considered release material yet, and is unsupported, but it's getting there.
Bottom line is, if you like to learn, use slack; If you like simplicity, use slack; If you like to know what's going on in your system, use slack. If you like having configuration files that say DO NOT EDIT, then use redhat.
Try using slackware exclusively for 30 days. You won't want to go back to your old distro.
Ok, I'll admit, I've never actually used another distribution on my own machine. I was gonna try redhat once, but I never could get it to install.
Who needs all this high speed "broadband" crap. My "56K", errrr, normally 28.8 connection works fine for me. If I need to download some big piece of Warez, like say, Windows 2000, I don't mind leaving my computer on, downloading for 35 hours. Same with MP3's. I just leave my computer on overnight, and it downloads what I need.
Oh, Earthlink is now starting to block port 25 on outgoing connections, so you can't connect to any SMPT server other than earthlink's. A few other ISP's are doing this too.
so, what would be the difference from.com to.biz ??? I think they should just leave the TLD's alone. If they add a few new TLD's, all of the "good" names will be taken within the next 6 months. The problem is that ANYBODY can register ANY name they want.
But is this really a problem? No. The solution is to eliminate ICANN and WIPO, and any other organization that controls anything on the internet. Sure, it might be a little chaotic at first, but after a while, I'm sure there would be some agreed upon standard.
or, they could just make a million top level domains. they could use something like.aaa.aab.aac.aad... etc. It wouldnt be pretty, but I wouldn't mind.
bottom line is, the whole TLD thing was fucked up from the start. so just leave it how it is. It's fine. there is pretty much an infinite combination of domain names you can produce with.com,.org,.net, etc.
Another solution would be just to disable DNS altogether. All we need is the IP address. This would get rid of corporate domain name lawsuits completely, and free up the courts for something productive. Whenever you see an AOL commercial, they would advertise their website as their IP address. This would be great. Everyone would run their own "dns", so they would just type in the IP address and save it as "aol" or something, so next time they opened their browser all they gotta type is "aol". How could it get any easier? Of course, Microsoft would ship windows with some predefined dns entries.
Ok, an even better solution.. From now on, at birth, everyone gets assigned their own serialized IP address. When they get older, they get to take a test, and if they pass it, they can get a domain name. Ok bad idea.
Ok here it is. Get rid of.com,.org, etc. and have like, name.{person}{business}.city.state.country.planet. solarsystem.galaxy. for example. Microsoft's home page would be: http://microsoft.business.redmond.wa.us.earth.sun. milkyway
seems pretty good, huh? that is the only solution.
Well im gonna go now, I think mozilla is finished compiling;-)
Sega has stated that they are getting out of the hardware business. If they build a PCI card, this statement would be a lie.
Second, there is no use for this at all. Why? The Dreamcast has VGA support built into the console. Most games can be played on your PC monitor with the VGA adapter. Also, the DC does not use normal CD-ROMs. So if they built some PCI card, they would have to include a drive that can read GD-ROMs as well.
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a/s/l ? gotta pic ?
TiK is good. The only gripe I have is that some things can be slow at times. Like when you're in a chat room, it can take a while to update the window when someone talks, it seems like it 'freezes' for a few seconds.
Anyone know how to get the chat window to remember the size it was? I hate having to resize it every time I open a chat window.
It would take a long time to track down songs that have your "watermark" on napster, because you need a large enough chunk of the data to get it to work reliably. During that "hack sdmi" contest thing I emailed them asking why the files were so big (50+MB wav files), and that was the reason they gave me.
Free ISP's?? They are not ISP's. They are just some login on some other ISP dialup like UUnet or whatever. Can you believe this shit? Their entire company is based on some piece of software that displays banner ads on peoples' desktops. They must be making a shitload of money, cause their costs are almost zero. All they need is 8 or so employees, and some kid in the back to maintain the client program, mostly just making changes to stop people from killing the ad. This d00d probably makes like $200,000/yr. I know people who probably work twice the ammount of hours and get about 10 percent of that. Then you have fuckers like 1stup.com, they make some 'shell' program, so other companies can have their own 'free isp'. Dammit this world sucks, I should kill myself now.
Nevermind, I need to have a little fun before I self-terminate. c-ya later.
An sb live value is only about $45
Slackware installs just fine on a Pentium 4. What the hell is a CPUID database ?
These tests are biased toward the literate.
Here's the deal. Slackware is a distribution. Just a plain and simple distribution. A collection of the linux kernel, and various other software packages that would make up a unix-like system. Along with a few basic config files to make everything workable. As far as hardware detection, that is left up to the user. Actually, the kernel detects most hardware automatically. I would also think most people using linux would already know what type of sound, video, and ethernet card they have. With most new hardware, you don't even need to configure IRQ's or whatever. For the soundblaster live, all you need to do is modprobe emu10k1, or just uncomment that line in one of the startup scripts.
But hey, im not saying the other distributions are bad. It's all a matter of preference. If someone asks me what I recommend, I will say slackware.
Slackware DOES have the easiest install. If you want to resize your windows partition, make sure you defragment, then just use fips. Boot the bootdisk, run cfdisk, make your partitions. That's the hardest part. After that, run setup, and you get a nice menu-based install. Set up your swap, choose your packages, and go. Or you could just do a full install of everything. Takes about 5 minutes to install. After all packages are installed, it asks you if you want to configure stuff, like network settings, etc. Its all menu based, using the "dialog" program. It even gives you a wide variety of default window managers to choose from.
About the hardest part after this is setting up X. And no, you don't have to edit your XF86Config file by hand.
Sure, if you have never used Linux before, it will take you a few hours to LEARN to use Slackware. But after that, everything is pretty simple. You don't have to edit everything by hand. Slack has some configuration tools for the most common things, like setting up a ppp connection to your isp; use pppsetup. Yes, down the line, you will need to edit SOME configuration files by hand, but it's really not that bad. Most of the configuration files are nicely commented, and it doesn't hurt to read a man page every once in a while.
Slackware also has a new update tool called autoslack. It's not considered release material yet, and is unsupported, but it's getting there.
Bottom line is, if you like to learn, use slack; If you like simplicity, use slack; If you like to know what's going on in your system, use slack. If you like having configuration files that say DO NOT EDIT, then use redhat.
Try using slackware exclusively for 30 days. You won't want to go back to your old distro.
Ok, I'll admit, I've never actually used another distribution on my own machine. I was gonna try redhat once, but I never could get it to install.
300 quid? More like less than $200
Oh, Earthlink is now starting to block port 25 on outgoing connections, so you can't connect to any SMPT server other than earthlink's. A few other ISP's are doing this too.
heh, I know the street name, but I rarely remember how to get there.
If she weighed 3.32 kg on earth then she weighed 3.32 kg on jupiter, or 3.32 kg * 23 m/s^2 = 76.36 newtons * 0.225 = 17.18 lbs
2000-1991 = 9 > 4
And you sir, are a troll! =)
It almost seems like Microsoft WANTS people to run to Linux!
slackware doesn't costumize their kernel.
me too
Who would want to run VMware for academic/educational purposes? I think Plex86 is more educational, since its supposedly open source, right ?
Hmm, wine runs fine with starcraft
But is this really a problem? No. The solution is to eliminate ICANN and WIPO, and any other organization that controls anything on the internet. Sure, it might be a little chaotic at first, but after a while, I'm sure there would be some agreed upon standard.
or, they could just make a million top level domains. they could use something like .aaa .aab .aac .aad ... etc. It wouldnt be pretty, but I wouldn't mind.
bottom line is, the whole TLD thing was fucked up from the start. so just leave it how it is. It's fine. there is pretty much an infinite combination of domain names you can produce with .com, .org, .net, etc.
Another solution would be just to disable DNS altogether. All we need is the IP address. This would get rid of corporate domain name lawsuits completely, and free up the courts for something productive. Whenever you see an AOL commercial, they would advertise their website as their IP address. This would be great. Everyone would run their own "dns", so they would just type in the IP address and save it as "aol" or something, so next time they opened their browser all they gotta type is "aol". How could it get any easier? Of course, Microsoft would ship windows with some predefined dns entries.
Ok, an even better solution.. From now on, at birth, everyone gets assigned their own serialized IP address. When they get older, they get to take a test, and if they pass it, they can get a domain name. Ok bad idea.
Ok here it is. Get rid of .com, .org, etc. and have like, name.{person}{business}.city.state.country.planet. solarsystem.galaxy. for example. Microsoft's home page would be: http://microsoft.business.redmond.wa.us.earth.sun. milkyway
seems pretty good, huh? that is the only solution.
Well im gonna go now, I think mozilla is finished compiling ;-)
Tell me how it makes sense. Nintendo never said they were doing it with gamecube. Are you trying to start another rumor, Anonymous Coward?
Second, there is no use for this at all. Why? The Dreamcast has VGA support built into the console. Most games can be played on your PC monitor with the VGA adapter. Also, the DC does not use normal CD-ROMs. So if they built some PCI card, they would have to include a drive that can read GD-ROMs as well.
3 pkgtool :D
Dammit everyone. Since when has an ethernet adapter been called a "Broadband adapter". Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!