If people are willing to do things for free maybe you should try developing some real skills. I couldn't care less about dumbasses making little crappy download managers complaining about teenagers writting replacements for free. Maybe restraunts should try to force grocery stores out of business, just because people can cook their own food for themselves dosen't mean people should be allowed to.
Opera still makes money even though their just about the only web browser you need to pay money for, just goes to show that if you actually have a better product people will stay pay for it.
Try taking your electronics apart and look at the names/logos on the chips to see who made them. I'm sure you'll see plenty of motorola, texas instruments and plenty of other American companies. All the Japs did was take away all the profit from the electronics industry, no one makes any money off just about any of it. They just sell it to build up "brand awareness" -- marketing speak.
I would look in to getting some laptops with really good power supplies, I had an old twinhead laptop for a while that would run off 60 to 300 volts which would probably be more than enough.
Really though the safest bet would probably be your own generator since from what I understand the power goes off in Africa in places for hours at a time. I doubt you'll find a UPS or many laptops that'll make it. Used generaters can be had for a couple hundred from a pawn shop, and will be worth something when you get back if you want to sell it(unlike your computers).
I would also possible recommend looking at some more industrial/military type of solutions. I've seen a lot that weren't much more expensive than normal computer equipment. Most computer equipment(and electronics) simply isn't made to operate at much higher than room temperature, not to mention what humidity could possibly do(I'm not sure on this one but I doubt it's good). I think the upper ranges are around 90-100 degrees. That could actually be what cause the problem instead of brownouts/power surges.
Was this a business or someone independent? Either way it doesn't matter, Let say 25 an hour for labour which would cover two inexperienced people, that's 400 right there. After materials, insurance and everything that a business would need that sounds like a good deal.
Lots of people have mentioned about building codes, you can't just throw wire anywhere you feel like it. What if you had an old house, did you know the electric comming in off the powerlines could be just bare copper with no insulation? Touch that and your dead.
Running wire over rooftops and around outside walls is very dangerous, what happens if in a storm if it get's pulled off somewhere and then pulls some electric cord inside your house somewhere? Have you ever looked inside an outlet? It wouldn't take a lot of tugging on a cord to make a lot of outlets short out and just about any house built ever is built like shit and as quickly as possible.
How about a fire getting started because you threw some cord up on a hot water pipe or part of your heating system? That stuff will be alright for a while but the wire will get weaker and weaker as time goes on, not to mention what could happen if the Offices and other buildings are a hell of a lot worse, with 240 volts running everywhere. And lets not mention the hell you can possible make for anybody that has to come in and do any work after you.
Doing a little bit is alright, but it really can be possibly dangerous to try and do too much yourself.
Well gtk1 is alright with me. I was thinking about it because of the wma support but I don't know how much it costs anyways. I usually use K3B but it crashes on me a lot depending on the file I'm using. Usually because of the ID3 tags but sometimes I can't figure out why. Different versions just crash on different files.
Why are proprietary programs for linux always using motif? They look like crap and they're harder to use. Is it really that difficult to use QT or GTK? I'm not even going to consider buying a motif app unless they actually have tons of different unix versions justifying the use.
It has been proven to make people more creative. Maybe this is why the Dutch still have a consumer electronics company and we can barely make cell phones.
Your car is most efficient for the amount of power put out along your torque curve. in all my cars, accelerating as quickly as a can to where my car has peak torque always gives me an extra 5 mpg at least. If your car dosen't have much torque until very high rpms like a lot of Japanese cars it probably isn't worth it though.
For some reason I have no problems reading the text on a 15" running at 1400x1050 and a 17" at 1600x1200. I don't see why so many people are having problems at high resolutions. I come across a couple websites here and there that don't look right but thats about it.
Why should anyone give a fuck if microsoft was finally able to provide a stable operating system for desktops after 20 fucking years. And when longhorn is released in a few years it'll have half the features of other operating systems from 10 years ago.
When microsoft is able to provide all the features I have come to expect, things like ReiserFS and XFS(NTFS doesn't hold a candle to these), security features included in grsecurity, software raid, and a system documented down to practically every single file at a price competetive with Mandrake I might begin to give a shit if they're still in business.
I don't see what the problem is, seeing as how he feels that unsolicited phone calls are protected by free speech. Is he going to reverse his ruling to protect the phone's in his office?
theres the 3d window manager(3dwm.org) which does stuff like this(runs on linux, irix and nt at least). Also, the ggi project did some stuff with it too. This can actually do primitives and is being used to create 3d enviroments and virtual reality type stuff.
You can't embed fonts and images inside of html documents.
On linux(with my blazingly fast duron 650) a 500 page pdf I made with OpenOffice takes a few seconds to load in konqueror. I had downloaded all the indiv. web pages that made up the book(wasn't avail as one file), used cat to put them together and then waited 20 minutes for open office to load it. Mozilla took about the same time to load the same file, and konqueror was a little bit less than ten minutes. God knows how long IE would have taken, if it would have loaded at all. While were getting off topic here, Word2000 would only bring up the first web page becuase and ignored all the rest in the file. God only knows what IE would have done.
Basically, for big files PDF is the only option as far as I'm concerned. I am sorry that Microsoft and the creaters of pdf can't provide you with a decent computing experience for such basic tasks. There's only $50 billion dollars and decades of experience between the two companies, these poor guys are doing all they can.
All the updates security updates are free with mandrake. Just about any general linux site like linux today will tell you about all the vulns and where to get patches if you would like to do it on your own.
You don't hack into operating systems, you hack into the servers running on it. The article is dead right putting most of the blame on the sysadmins. Only two percent of bsd servers were breached but both linux and bsd run the same servers and software.
I do think the distrubters like Red Hat need to come up with a very comprehensive security program. Basically, sys admins should be able to go to there web site and not just find about what patches are available, but have all the info the need and tools to maintain and keep their systems secure without having a lot of experience with unix in general since so many are comming from windows.
The one there talking about here: http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/ibm.mov And the one about all the computers being replaced by one running linux: http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/heist60. mpeg
Most tv's(especially ones that are a few years old) blur stuff together so much that I seriously doubt you can tell a difference. Then you through in the cheap tv out that'll be on any consumer grade video card at all and the difference will be even less. A few years ago I had the game Janes ATF where the videos were played back at 640x480 skipping every other vertical line, hooked up to a 27" tv it was impossible to tell.
If your comparing it to a video being played back on your monitor thats a world of difference.
urpmi will also be able to figure out the dependencies if the rpm just has the filenames for the dependancies, I've installed a lot of rpms meant for other systems like this. I doesn't work if they put in the name of a package since it'll probably be different than what mandrake goes by.
I know both urpmi and gentoo work just fine with local mirrors whether its a cd or hard drive. All urpmi needs is a file somewhere. I'm sure debian and bsd can be set up the same way but I've never used them to know for sure.
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If people are willing to do things for free maybe you should try developing some real skills. I couldn't care less about dumbasses making little crappy download managers complaining about teenagers writting replacements for free. Maybe restraunts should try to force grocery stores out of business, just because people can cook their own food for themselves dosen't mean people should be allowed to.
Opera still makes money even though their just about the only web browser you need to pay money for, just goes to show that if you actually have a better product people will stay pay for it.
ge sold there electronics division to rca which got bought out by Thompson(french).
Microsoft just licenses out their name to other companies that slap their name on crap.
Microsoft Office loads faster on linux via wine than Openoffice does under linux. I use Openoffice anyways though because I still like it better.
Try taking your electronics apart and look at the names/logos on the chips to see who made them. I'm sure you'll see plenty of motorola, texas instruments and plenty of other American companies. All the Japs did was take away all the profit from the electronics industry, no one makes any money off just about any of it. They just sell it to build up "brand awareness" -- marketing speak.
I would look in to getting some laptops with really good power supplies, I had an old twinhead laptop for a while that would run off 60 to 300 volts which would probably be more than enough.
Really though the safest bet would probably be your own generator since from what I understand the power goes off in Africa in places for hours at a time. I doubt you'll find a UPS or many laptops that'll make it. Used generaters can be had for a couple hundred from a pawn shop, and will be worth something when you get back if you want to sell it(unlike your computers).
I would also possible recommend looking at some more industrial/military type of solutions. I've seen a lot that weren't much more expensive than normal computer equipment. Most computer equipment(and electronics) simply isn't made to operate at much higher than room temperature, not to mention what humidity could possibly do(I'm not sure on this one but I doubt it's good). I think the upper ranges are around 90-100 degrees. That could actually be what cause the problem instead of brownouts/power surges.
Was this a business or someone independent? Either way it doesn't matter, Let say 25 an hour for labour which would cover two inexperienced people, that's 400 right there. After materials, insurance and everything that a business would need that sounds like a good deal.
Lots of people have mentioned about building codes, you can't just throw wire anywhere you feel like it.
What if you had an old house, did you know the electric comming in off the powerlines could be just bare copper with no insulation? Touch that and your dead.
Running wire over rooftops and around outside walls is very dangerous, what happens if in a storm if it get's pulled off somewhere and then pulls some electric cord inside your house somewhere? Have you ever looked inside an outlet? It wouldn't take a lot of tugging on a cord to make a lot of outlets short out and just about any house built ever is built like shit and as quickly as possible.
How about a fire getting started because you threw some cord up on a hot water pipe or part of your heating system? That stuff will be alright for a while but the wire will get weaker and weaker as time goes on, not to mention what could happen if the Offices and other buildings are a hell of a lot worse, with 240 volts running everywhere. And lets not mention the hell you can possible make for anybody that has to come in and do any work after you.
Doing a little bit is alright, but it really can be possibly dangerous to try and do too much yourself.
Well gtk1 is alright with me. I was thinking about it because of the wma support but I don't know how much it costs anyways. I usually use K3B but it crashes on me a lot depending on the file I'm using. Usually because of the ID3 tags but sometimes I can't figure out why. Different versions just crash on different files.
Why are proprietary programs for linux always using motif? They look like crap and they're harder to use. Is it really that difficult to use QT or GTK? I'm not even going to consider buying a motif app unless they actually have tons of different unix versions justifying the use.
It has been proven to make people more creative. Maybe this is why the Dutch still have a consumer electronics company and we can barely make cell phones.
Sure, it can be with some stuff from grsecurity or something like Immunix.
Your car is most efficient for the amount of power put out along your torque curve. in all my cars, accelerating as quickly as a can to where my car has peak torque always gives me an extra 5 mpg at least. If your car dosen't have much torque until very high rpms like a lot of Japanese cars it probably isn't worth it though.
I know your trolling anyways but what do you mean there's no more LDP?
For some reason I have no problems reading the text on a 15" running at 1400x1050 and a 17" at 1600x1200. I don't see why so many people are having problems at high resolutions. I come across a couple websites here and there that don't look right but thats about it.
The only computer I've tried it on it wouldn't work because the drive was too fragmented(and of course windows defragmenter wouldn't get all of it).
HP had some software that you would let you pick different schedulers as kernel modules and change them on the fly. I've never used it though.
In win95 through me you could disable it from the settings for the cdrom drive in the device manager.
Why should anyone give a fuck if microsoft was finally able to provide a stable operating system for desktops after 20 fucking years. And when longhorn is released in a few years it'll have half the features of other operating systems from 10 years ago.
When microsoft is able to provide all the features I have come to expect, things like ReiserFS and XFS(NTFS doesn't hold a candle to these), security features included in grsecurity, software raid, and a system documented down to practically every single file at a price competetive with Mandrake I might begin to give a shit if they're still in business.
I don't see what the problem is, seeing as how he feels that unsolicited phone calls are protected by free speech. Is he going to reverse his ruling to protect the phone's in his office?
theres the 3d window manager(3dwm.org) which does stuff like this(runs on linux, irix and nt at least). Also, the ggi project did some stuff with it too. This can actually do primitives and is being used to create 3d enviroments and virtual reality type stuff.
You can't embed fonts and images inside of html documents.
On linux(with my blazingly fast duron 650) a 500 page pdf I made with OpenOffice takes a few seconds to load in konqueror. I had downloaded all the indiv. web pages that made up the book(wasn't avail as one file), used cat to put them together and then waited 20 minutes for open office to load it. Mozilla took about the same time to load the same file, and konqueror was a little bit less than ten minutes. God knows how long IE would have taken, if it would have loaded at all. While were getting off topic here, Word2000 would only bring up the first web page becuase and ignored all the rest in the file. God only knows what IE would have done.
Basically, for big files PDF is the only option as far as I'm concerned. I am sorry that Microsoft and the creaters of pdf can't provide you with a decent computing experience for such basic tasks. There's only $50 billion dollars and decades of experience between the two companies, these poor guys are doing all they can.
All the updates security updates are free with mandrake. Just about any general linux site like linux today will tell you about all the vulns and where to get patches if you would like to do it on your own.
You don't hack into operating systems, you hack into the servers running on it. The article is dead right putting most of the blame on the sysadmins. Only two percent of bsd servers were breached but both linux and bsd run the same servers and software.
I do think the distrubters like Red Hat need to come up with a very comprehensive security program. Basically, sys admins should be able to go to there web site and not just find about what patches are available, but have all the info the need and tools to maintain and keep their systems secure without having a lot of experience with unix in general since so many are comming from windows.
The one there talking about here:
. mpeg
http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/ibm.mov
And the one about all the computers being replaced by one running linux:
http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/heist60
Most tv's(especially ones that are a few years old) blur stuff together so much that I seriously doubt you can tell a difference. Then you through in the cheap tv out that'll be on any consumer grade video card at all and the difference will be even less. A few years ago I had the game Janes ATF where the videos were played back at 640x480 skipping every other vertical line, hooked up to a 27" tv it was impossible to tell. If your comparing it to a video being played back on your monitor thats a world of difference.
Well, your liable as it is with the software your paying for.
urpmi will also be able to figure out the dependencies if the rpm just has the filenames for the dependancies, I've installed a lot of rpms meant for other systems like this. I doesn't work if they put in the name of a package since it'll probably be different than what mandrake goes by. I know both urpmi and gentoo work just fine with local mirrors whether its a cd or hard drive. All urpmi needs is a file somewhere. I'm sure debian and bsd can be set up the same way but I've never used them to know for sure.