Liberals spend all their time diverting attention away from everything else and just focus on the income tax. They also screw with the economy to the point that any 'poor' person has to go and beg the government to live.
Perfect example of this would be where I live. Developers saw an explosive population boom in our area, and wanted to build a small town with lots of apartments. All the liberals freaked out and forced them to build endless lines of McMansions, and called it the 'rural crescent'. They claimed they were saving the enviorment, which is a huge load of crap. Apartments house people much more efficiently power wise, and make mass transit much easier. It's absolutely impossible to implement mass transit in this 'rural crescent'. The rest of the county has it now, and for over ten years has yet to be financially stable. They''ll probably never bother in this new area, they know it's just not feasible.
And what about the poor (working class) that can't afford a POS $500,000 house? Tough shit. Maybe you can spend all day in line the one day every 4 years the waiting list for government housing(that doesn't exist) is open.
But hey, maybe the poor will save a couple hundred dollars a year in income tax. But in the mean time they can't afford a place to live, gas to get work through the ridiculous traffic(worst in the nation) or anything else that comes with this 'Utopian, environmentally friendly' new community.
Five year warranties are pretty common, even in power tools and other things with moving parts and high duty cycles. And yes, there are companies that honor their warranties too.
There are numerous studies about the longevity of different bulb types under different conditions(number of times turned on/off, temperature, etc). Start looking in electrical trade magazines.
Really though, there are usually ways to change the bulbs out easily. Most places have their own maintenance staff take care of it, who come up with shortcuts for their building when they need to.
I think it's very easy to see that the Slashdot community is very interested in topics like this.
Slashdot is about the only place where nerds convene on a regular basic to discuss politics. The editors simply need to look at the comments to see that the majority of people posting here are very interested in political and, especially, topics regarding society in general.
I don't care if I get modded flamebait, people rarely take this much time to argue against political news on Slashdot these days. People (not me) are simply sick of hearing about the case and don't feel that it warrants the attention it's gotten. So they bitch about the relevence here, and on every other news site.
Personally, I find it very disturbing and absurd that self defense laws can be used to justify deadly force against someone you were chasing at 7pm.
Lawyers represent people. Your free to ignore a lawyer's advice, and hire them anyway to make your argument. The lawyers reputation may suffer, guilty by association type thing.
Yeah, usb wireless adapters can be a pain. I'm luck enough to have a computer store nearby that has an Ubuntu setup inside, and they don't mind hooking it up for you to see if it'll work. Unfortunately though, I realize most areas don't have anyone like that.
Having the separate directories still comes in handy when rescuing systems. Something Fedora is missing here is that it's not the separate directories that confuse people, it's the abbreviations.
In all honesty, users this new don't need to be messing around with the system at such a low level, Windows actively discourages it as well. The problem is that there is still not enough mature applications available for new users. They are not always satisfied with what comes prepackaged, so they venture out on the web. Source tarballs, random executable no automated installation, and distro specific software is just plain intimidating.
They could change the names of the directories to something obvious, but then experienced users will be stuck typing in unnecessarily long directory names all day long.
And as far as gobolinux is concerned, my system is already a giant mess of symlinks. I would prefer to not have that.
You do realize that 8 mHZ computers could display text? All your quadcore 500ghz toaster does on a daily basis is compensate for the millions of layers of abstraction that is called computer programming these days.
Actually I think I might take back what I said. I like version numbers, and don't see why you would need to have several years worth of snapshots in the same directory. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of space that nobody will ever need to go through(assuming you manage to ever finish something). Past few months worth of snapshots can be worth keeping around.
It has happened to Microsoft in the past, they just tried to keep it quiet. This was back in the NT days. To their credit though, nobody at Microsoft has access to their entire codebase. On the other hand, this is also what makes it next to impossible for them to track down bugs and fix security issues. It also explains why it takes them so long to develop software.
A really well hidden back door would either consist of introducing a security breach, or exposing api's not normally found in that section of the code. Either way, it'll be found especially now that it is under scrutiny.
There are so many copies of the kernel sitting on thousands of different unrelated servers around the world, not to mention peoples personal backups. Anything changed can and will be found easily.
I've mainly used their pxe server for booting eepcs to install mandriva. To be honest with you, I doubt that they've done much work at all in improving it for 2011, especially since thin clients aren't all the buzz anymore. I think most of what your seeing are the leftovers from their cluster projects. I did notice that they have meta packages(tasks) for clustering now, which I've never seen before.
You'll probably have to manually set up an image to boot. From there though, it looks like urpmi could be easily adapted to providing distributed copies of the applications for faster loading.
Also, when I said thin client, I was thinking of diskless clients that still ran the programs locally. I know that theres a lot of commercial solutions these days for small scale linux "thin" client setups, running 4 to maybe 20 or so desktops off of one computer. But I think most of these bypass the whole client and are basically hardware dongles that attach to one computer with I guess really long cords.
Unfortunately, if you want something more modern you'll probably have to do a mostly custom setup. The easiest thing I could think of would be to use the older version of GDM that supports remote computers logging in easily, I think 2.20 but not sure off hand. I didn't have much of a problem getting it installed in 2010. Haven't tried in 2011 yet. I'm sure it works better than 20 vnc connections. Then of course picking a simple theme and desktop like lxde, or rox.
I was pointing out why it is relevent to some of us.
And yes, maturity can be a great thing in a linux distro. Mandriva has around for years for and can easily be adapted for running servers, desktops, thin clients, clusters, and even embedded systems if you try hard enough. Not to mention having been ported at one point or another to just about desktop/workstation platform.
It grows on you, for those of us that have better things to do than type in sudo all day long, spend time configuring or building a system from scratch when defaults will do, but want easy access to take advantage of all the flexibility of linux just when and were we need it.
And yes, I realize that's a run on sentence. For the trolls out there, some of us also have better things to do than just try to sound intelligent on a web forum.
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I'd be anonymous too if that was the best attempt at being condescending I could come up with.
Liberals spend all their time diverting attention away from everything else and just focus on the income tax. They also screw with the economy to the point that any 'poor' person has to go and beg the government to live.
Perfect example of this would be where I live. Developers saw an explosive population boom in our area, and wanted to build a small town with lots of apartments. All the liberals freaked out and forced them to build endless lines of McMansions, and called it the 'rural crescent'. They claimed they were saving the enviorment, which is a huge load of crap. Apartments house people much more efficiently power wise, and make mass transit much easier. It's absolutely impossible to implement mass transit in this 'rural crescent'. The rest of the county has it now, and for over ten years has yet to be financially stable. They''ll probably never bother in this new area, they know it's just not feasible.
And what about the poor (working class) that can't afford a POS $500,000 house? Tough shit. Maybe you can spend all day in line the one day every 4 years the waiting list for government housing(that doesn't exist) is open.
But hey, maybe the poor will save a couple hundred dollars a year in income tax. But in the mean time they can't afford a place to live, gas to get work through the ridiculous traffic(worst in the nation) or anything else that comes with this 'Utopian, environmentally friendly' new community.
Five year warranties are pretty common, even in power tools and other things with moving parts and high duty cycles. And yes, there are companies that honor their warranties too.
There are numerous studies about the longevity of different bulb types under different conditions(number of times turned on/off, temperature, etc). Start looking in electrical trade magazines.
Really though, there are usually ways to change the bulbs out easily. Most places have their own maintenance staff take care of it, who come up with shortcuts for their building when they need to.
The first useful first post!
I think it's very easy to see that the Slashdot community is very interested in topics like this.
Slashdot is about the only place where nerds convene on a regular basic to discuss politics. The editors simply need to look at the comments to see that the majority of people posting here are very interested in political and, especially, topics regarding society in general.
I don't care if I get modded flamebait, people rarely take this much time to argue against political news on Slashdot these days. People (not me) are simply sick of hearing about the case and don't feel that it warrants the attention it's gotten. So they bitch about the relevence here, and on every other news site.
Personally, I find it very disturbing and absurd that self defense laws can be used to justify deadly force against someone you were chasing at 7pm.
Whats funny is that the contact for the website is a gmail address. I wonder if they opted out of googles user data retention....
Lawyers represent people. Your free to ignore a lawyer's advice, and hire them anyway to make your argument. The lawyers reputation may suffer, guilty by association type thing.
Correction, they're gonna use it for deporting illegal aliens.
Believe me, this all makes perfect sense in Virginia. I live here, I should know.
Hopefully they find a use for the spaceport before they decide to use it for deporting illegal immigrants.
Yeah, usb wireless adapters can be a pain. I'm luck enough to have a computer store nearby that has an Ubuntu setup inside, and they don't mind hooking it up for you to see if it'll work. Unfortunately though, I realize most areas don't have anyone like that.
Having the separate directories still comes in handy when rescuing systems. Something Fedora is missing here is that it's not the separate directories that confuse people, it's the abbreviations.
In all honesty, users this new don't need to be messing around with the system at such a low level, Windows actively discourages it as well. The problem is that there is still not enough mature applications available for new users. They are not always satisfied with what comes prepackaged, so they venture out on the web. Source tarballs, random executable no automated installation, and distro specific software is just plain intimidating.
They could change the names of the directories to something obvious, but then experienced users will be stuck typing in unnecessarily long directory names all day long.
And as far as gobolinux is concerned, my system is already a giant mess of symlinks. I would prefer to not have that.
Just make sure you dry it out first.
Easy.
Buy one that has drivers for linux.
Yeah, your right. It's been awhile.
You do realize that 8 mHZ computers could display text? All your quadcore 500ghz toaster does on a daily basis is compensate for the millions of layers of abstraction that is called computer programming these days.
You can buy Dell laptops and pc's with either Windows, Ubuntu, Redhat or even FreeDOS.
Actually I think I might take back what I said. I like version numbers, and don't see why you would need to have several years worth of snapshots in the same directory. That sounds like a ridiculous waste of space that nobody will ever need to go through(assuming you manage to ever finish something). Past few months worth of snapshots can be worth keeping around.
So there! Americans Rule again :)
Ok so that makes sense. I'm used to seeing releases sorted by version numbers though, I don't go for snapshots very often.
It has happened to Microsoft in the past, they just tried to keep it quiet. This was back in the NT days. To their credit though, nobody at Microsoft has access to their entire codebase. On the other hand, this is also what makes it next to impossible for them to track down bugs and fix security issues. It also explains why it takes them so long to develop software.
I suggest you look up the definitions of these words before you start using them.
A really well hidden back door would either consist of introducing a security breach, or exposing api's not normally found in that section of the code. Either way, it'll be found especially now that it is under scrutiny.
There are so many copies of the kernel sitting on thousands of different unrelated servers around the world, not to mention peoples personal backups. Anything changed can and will be found easily.
Yeah, like I need to be reminded what year it is on a daily basis.
I've mainly used their pxe server for booting eepcs to install mandriva. To be honest with you, I doubt that they've done much work at all in improving it for 2011, especially since thin clients aren't all the buzz anymore. I think most of what your seeing are the leftovers from their cluster projects. I did notice that they have meta packages(tasks) for clustering now, which I've never seen before.
You'll probably have to manually set up an image to boot. From there though, it looks like urpmi could be easily adapted to providing distributed copies of the applications for faster loading.
Also, when I said thin client, I was thinking of diskless clients that still ran the programs locally. I know that theres a lot of commercial solutions these days for small scale linux "thin" client setups, running 4 to maybe 20 or so desktops off of one computer. But I think most of these bypass the whole client and are basically hardware dongles that attach to one computer with I guess really long cords.
Unfortunately, if you want something more modern you'll probably have to do a mostly custom setup. The easiest thing I could think of would be to use the older version of GDM that supports remote computers logging in easily, I think 2.20 but not sure off hand. I didn't have much of a problem getting it installed in 2010. Haven't tried in 2011 yet. I'm sure it works better than 20 vnc connections. Then of course picking a simple theme and desktop like lxde, or rox.
I was pointing out why it is relevent to some of us.
And yes, maturity can be a great thing in a linux distro. Mandriva has around for years for and can easily be adapted for running servers, desktops, thin clients, clusters, and even embedded systems if you try hard enough. Not to mention having been ported at one point or another to just about desktop/workstation platform.
It grows on you, for those of us that have better things to do than type in sudo all day long, spend time configuring or building a system from scratch when defaults will do, but want easy access to take advantage of all the flexibility of linux just when and were we need it.
And yes, I realize that's a run on sentence. For the trolls out there, some of us also have better things to do than just try to sound intelligent on a web forum.