I don't know what my issue is but every single time I see a new device that sports Linux I consider getting one and turning it into a webserver. One of these days that's what's happening to my PS2.
My Linux powered toilet flushes 1000% faster and can handle much larger (sometimes by an order of magnitude) offerings than my Windows based one. It also uses %50 less water. Can you believe that?
I'm sticking with Linux for all my bathroom needs. I can't wait to install Apache on it either. That's gonna rock.
Guess not. Damn. That was almost the most exciting 6:12am event of my entire life. Okay... time to quit programming, read the article and catch some sleep. Blarg.
Interesting. Up until a couple months ago I had a K6-3 450 machine and I had it underclocked too, down to 400 since it ran hot. Tyan board with 2 megs of cache. That little bastard was quite the workhorse!
I'm all Athlon now, but I keep that processor around for good luck. (And it was hard to get a hold of! Of course I still have my k5 PR133 since it was in the first machine I ever built myself. *sniff* *sniff*)
The only one I lost was on an Abit KT133A board (I don't remember the model) but combined with an orb cooler I killed my first 1GHz processor (it was a dark, dark day). I was tired and frustrated and the damn thing didn't fit (incidently I killed the mobo too) and I tried to force it. My own damn fault really.
I never understood the whole T-bird/Flipchip design. I liked my old K6-3 with it's shield on the top and I'm glad to see AMD's gone back to them.
Eh... I'm always really curious about Apple as well and I haven't owned one of their products since my Apple IIgs. For me it's OSX and basically wanting a laptop running it but... then I realize that I cannot justify the cost for aesthetics, since that's all it would be for me.
It's kinda like the classic cars I want but would never buy. If I got one as a gift or as a prize I'd take it, keep it and use it. However, I don't really *need* one. OSX is pretty but there's nothing I use that I need it for. If I was a video editor or a graphic artist I'd spend the extra so I didn't have to use Windows, but as a programmer what does OSX give me that I don't get with Linux or BSD?
I have no problem admitting that I like Macs and would love to own one. At the same time I have no problem admitting that I'm too cheap to follow through with it. This might change with my impending marriage because the intended female seems to think she *needs* a Mac.
I had an old Fujitsu Lifebook. I don't remember the model number, but it was burly. It was a PII 266 and it had one of those weird sorta joystick pointer things (which in my opinion was the best pointer device on a laptop, but given that they don't use them anymore, I'm in some sort of a minority).
That bastard was sturdy! I got really pissed off about work one day and threw it like a frisbee into my wall. It missed hitting the studs directly and broke through the sheetrock. Still works just fine. Ironically I traded it for a Ruger Security Six.
I've been using Gentoo for over a year with a minimal number of problems. I'm not going to say that there were none, but there was nothing some docs and an occasional trip to the forums didn't solve.
Ignore that article. The guy that wrote it was a jackoff in most regards. Not because he likes FreeBSD but because of his constant, unqualfied statements. (Like his attacks on Linux, nVidia, etc.)
That's one of the biggest problems with this OS debate bullshit.
Who has a better car, my friend and his '67 Mustang or me and my '83 Toyota pickup.
His car is faster than mine. It has a working air conditioner. I doubt anyone would argue that his looks better (seeing as all the paint matches). There's more room in the interior (which is also nicer).
But you know what? Only one of those vehicles is gonna be worth anything the moment we step offroad.
"Better" is always a matter of perspective. Some OSes are just better at some things and there is certainly no "best" OS.
Is there some sort of comparison of the two? I'm only familiar with Portage, but I'm curious where it differs from the Ports system. I mean, I'll find out for myself eventually, but it would be nice to know going into it.
That article was pretty crappy. The author made quite a few assumptions without a lot of fact. I'm interested in FreeBSD, but this article is ass and is not a good way of getting people to appreciate much about it.
Gentoo broke a week after its initial install? The guy who wrote the article seemed to think the same thing. Funny, I've been using it since pre-1.0 and have never had a break (with the exception of letting a machine lapse for like... 9 months without doing anything to it).
I've put it on multiple machines and everything is cool. Gentoo community has been nice too. (And the Linux community is one of the reasons I strayed away from desktop usage for a long time.)
Gentoo's link to BSD is actually why I'm interested because I found that the way Gentoo organized things (particularly/etc and bootscripts) was superior to other Linux distributions I've used.
What I'm finding is that every single time I find something I REALLY like about Gentoo... it's something that came from BSD. So, when I have to time to kill next month and a new hard drive... it's time for some BSD action.
This is really sad. I'm laughing my ass off at the sad reality of it all. And the Gentoo references are hilarious too.
Maybe BSD is the answer?
Seriously though, I doubt the problems in the this country will be resolved without some major, catastrophic breakdown first. Either that or a group of like minds need to, more or less, move into a county, take it over and work from there. When slim government spending, good schools, and other such things work as they should, it'll become a Mecca and others will follow lead.
Still... I doubt anything but a major catastrophe will fix much of anything. A huge depression or something that breaks the power structure as it is. I don't want that... but when people talk about court appeals... I just think, "Yeah, Second Amendment Court appeals. That's the answer."
# emerge -p liberty These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies...done! [ebuild N ] liberty-base/educatedpopulation-1.0 [ebuild N ] liberty-base/responsiblepopulation-1.0 [ebuild N ] liberty-base/informedpopulation-1.0 [ebuild N ] liberty-base/liberty-1.0
I just got back from a city council meeting where our jackoff mayor is using city funds to, more or less, hire an attorney for a friend of his. Assholes. And the worst of it is half these bloodsucking city employees show up to say, "I think this is great... he's a sucha good guy. I proudly give him muh money."
Fucking pricks! Their money!? Fine. But mine? Haaaaate them.
I'm fighting because the attitude and mentality that is here will grow. It's the kind of thing you can never get away from and if you do... your kids won't.
And eh... hehehe... nice sig. I'm a Gentoo user.:P
Bush the poster child for the radical right? Since when was the current crowned king of socialism part of the right?
If you think that Bush has anything to do with the radical right then you are so ridiculously mistaken that it's laughable. Compared to Bush's policies, JFK would be considered a flaming conservative.
Now, comparing Bush to Hitler, that's fine. Because as far as being a fascist, flag waving, violence encouraging nationalist and worshipper of modern corporatism he's right on the ball. But please, most people have little understanding of the radical right. Your view is about on par with the guy who wrote this article as far as his view of "zealots" goes.
Basically, if you think that the average elected official in the Republican party has anything to do with the "radical right" then you're kidding yourself. In fact, I'll just inclide 99.9% of the Republican party.
There's really only one difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats say: Okay, we're socialists. We want your money, we're going to tax you to death and hand your paycheck over to people who are too lazy too work, too lazy to seak private charities or are illegal immigrants. Then they do it.
Republicans say: We want to trim the budget and lower taxes. We're not going to do what those dirty rotton Democrats do. Then they go ahead and do the above.
The biggest tax increase seen in the history of Nevada was passed not too long ago by... guess what? A Republican Gov. and assembly.
Bush and the radical right... what... a... fucking... joke.
By saying this he probably equates me to some sort of a zealot, even if I'm platform agnostic (though I prefer Linux).
It's like, "Hey... just because people point out the obvious fact that you're a fucking retard doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with them."
Fine, he wants to throw so-called Linux zealots into the same camp as terrorists that blow up buildings. Fine. Let's toss him into a camp. He's the sort of do-nothing would would have made an excellent Nazi citizen that just sort of allowed a nation to become imperialistic butchers.
Terrorists really are small potatos compared to large business and imperialist nations. Gimme a break.
I may be platform agnostic, but I'm not people agnostic. I generally do not integrate well with cocksuckers.
And I read his article. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have had anything more to say than "cocksucker" and "jackoff."
What the fuck? Attached storage appliances replacing file servers? Maybe on home LANs where all you need a file server for is sharing files.
However if you want a single machine that does nightly backups of important data on a network with multiple user permissions and well... file servers are nice! A fine tuned file server saves to much time and aggrivation as a sysadmin.
"Did you make a backup?"
"Uhhh... no."
"Good thing the server did."
Why would I trade the flexibility of my file server for some attached storage device? I'm not saying the latter is useless, but the two items really are for people/organizations with difference needs. If all you're doing is building a single repository for mp3s and video on a household network, then yeah... attached storage is fine.
Anything more complicated, particularly scripted backups (or anything else that's scripted) you need a server. I can't upgrade the hard drives with attached storage devices nor can I just decide to make it RAID, etc. I'm going to guess that while the initial investment in a server is more, over time it'll cost less. (How powerful does the system outside of the hard drives need to be?)
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I don't know what my issue is but every single time I see a new device that sports Linux I consider getting one and turning it into a webserver. One of these days that's what's happening to my PS2.
Links to some results? Of course not.
Here's a summary of MY results:
My Linux powered toilet flushes 1000% faster and can handle much larger (sometimes by an order of magnitude) offerings than my Windows based one. It also uses %50 less water. Can you believe that?
I'm sticking with Linux for all my bathroom needs. I can't wait to install Apache on it either. That's gonna rock.
I felt like calling someone a dumbass today. You're the lucky winner.
Dumbass.
Guess not. Damn. That was almost the most exciting 6:12am event of my entire life. Okay... time to quit programming, read the article and catch some sleep. Blarg.
My first, first post?
Interesting. Up until a couple months ago I had a K6-3 450 machine and I had it underclocked too, down to 400 since it ran hot. Tyan board with 2 megs of cache. That little bastard was quite the workhorse! I'm all Athlon now, but I keep that processor around for good luck. (And it was hard to get a hold of! Of course I still have my k5 PR133 since it was in the first machine I ever built myself. *sniff* *sniff*)
The only one I lost was on an Abit KT133A board (I don't remember the model) but combined with an orb cooler I killed my first 1GHz processor (it was a dark, dark day). I was tired and frustrated and the damn thing didn't fit (incidently I killed the mobo too) and I tried to force it. My own damn fault really. I never understood the whole T-bird/Flipchip design. I liked my old K6-3 with it's shield on the top and I'm glad to see AMD's gone back to them.
Eh... I'm always really curious about Apple as well and I haven't owned one of their products since my Apple IIgs. For me it's OSX and basically wanting a laptop running it but... then I realize that I cannot justify the cost for aesthetics, since that's all it would be for me.
It's kinda like the classic cars I want but would never buy. If I got one as a gift or as a prize I'd take it, keep it and use it. However, I don't really *need* one. OSX is pretty but there's nothing I use that I need it for. If I was a video editor or a graphic artist I'd spend the extra so I didn't have to use Windows, but as a programmer what does OSX give me that I don't get with Linux or BSD?
I have no problem admitting that I like Macs and would love to own one. At the same time I have no problem admitting that I'm too cheap to follow through with it. This might change with my impending marriage because the intended female seems to think she *needs* a Mac.
Well... I wasn't gonna say it.
I had an old Fujitsu Lifebook. I don't remember the model number, but it was burly. It was a PII 266 and it had one of those weird sorta joystick pointer things (which in my opinion was the best pointer device on a laptop, but given that they don't use them anymore, I'm in some sort of a minority).
That bastard was sturdy! I got really pissed off about work one day and threw it like a frisbee into my wall. It missed hitting the studs directly and broke through the sheetrock. Still works just fine. Ironically I traded it for a Ruger Security Six.
I'm sorry... but that was fucking hilarious.
I've been using Gentoo for over a year with a minimal number of problems. I'm not going to say that there were none, but there was nothing some docs and an occasional trip to the forums didn't solve.
Ignore that article. The guy that wrote it was a jackoff in most regards. Not because he likes FreeBSD but because of his constant, unqualfied statements. (Like his attacks on Linux, nVidia, etc.)
That's one of the biggest problems with this OS debate bullshit.
Who has a better car, my friend and his '67 Mustang or me and my '83 Toyota pickup.
His car is faster than mine. It has a working air conditioner. I doubt anyone would argue that his looks better (seeing as all the paint matches). There's more room in the interior (which is also nicer).
But you know what? Only one of those vehicles is gonna be worth anything the moment we step offroad.
"Better" is always a matter of perspective. Some OSes are just better at some things and there is certainly no "best" OS.
Is there some sort of comparison of the two? I'm only familiar with Portage, but I'm curious where it differs from the Ports system. I mean, I'll find out for myself eventually, but it would be nice to know going into it.
That article was pretty crappy. The author made quite a few assumptions without a lot of fact. I'm interested in FreeBSD, but this article is ass and is not a good way of getting people to appreciate much about it.
Gentoo broke a week after its initial install? The guy who wrote the article seemed to think the same thing. Funny, I've been using it since pre-1.0 and have never had a break (with the exception of letting a machine lapse for like... 9 months without doing anything to it).
/etc and bootscripts) was superior to other Linux distributions I've used.
I've put it on multiple machines and everything is cool. Gentoo community has been nice too. (And the Linux community is one of the reasons I strayed away from desktop usage for a long time.)
Gentoo's link to BSD is actually why I'm interested because I found that the way Gentoo organized things (particularly
What I'm finding is that every single time I find something I REALLY like about Gentoo... it's something that came from BSD. So, when I have to time to kill next month and a new hard drive... it's time for some BSD action.
Or at least how it is integrated into the OS as a whole.
Is this a proper assumption on my part? I'm going for 4 OSes on this box by the end of the year and FreeBSD is next!
This is really sad. I'm laughing my ass off at the sad reality of it all. And the Gentoo references are hilarious too.
Maybe BSD is the answer?
Seriously though, I doubt the problems in the this country will be resolved without some major, catastrophic breakdown first. Either that or a group of like minds need to, more or less, move into a county, take it over and work from there. When slim government spending, good schools, and other such things work as they should, it'll become a Mecca and others will follow lead.
Still... I doubt anything but a major catastrophe will fix much of anything. A huge depression or something that breaks the power structure as it is. I don't want that... but when people talk about court appeals... I just think, "Yeah, Second Amendment Court appeals. That's the answer."
# emerge -p liberty
...done!
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
[ebuild N ] liberty-base/educatedpopulation-1.0
[ebuild N ] liberty-base/responsiblepopulation-1.0
[ebuild N ] liberty-base/informedpopulation-1.0
[ebuild N ] liberty-base/liberty-1.0
I just got back from a city council meeting where our jackoff mayor is using city funds to, more or less, hire an attorney for a friend of his. Assholes. And the worst of it is half these bloodsucking city employees show up to say, "I think this is great... he's a sucha good guy. I proudly give him muh money."
Fucking pricks! Their money!? Fine. But mine? Haaaaate them.
Socialists and Fascists more or less.
:P
I'm fighting because the attitude and mentality that is here will grow. It's the kind of thing you can never get away from and if you do... your kids won't.
And eh... hehehe... nice sig. I'm a Gentoo user.
Bush the poster child for the radical right? Since when was the current crowned king of socialism part of the right?
If you think that Bush has anything to do with the radical right then you are so ridiculously mistaken that it's laughable. Compared to Bush's policies, JFK would be considered a flaming conservative.
Now, comparing Bush to Hitler, that's fine. Because as far as being a fascist, flag waving, violence encouraging nationalist and worshipper of modern corporatism he's right on the ball. But please, most people have little understanding of the radical right. Your view is about on par with the guy who wrote this article as far as his view of "zealots" goes.
Basically, if you think that the average elected official in the Republican party has anything to do with the "radical right" then you're kidding yourself. In fact, I'll just inclide 99.9% of the Republican party.
There's really only one difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats say: Okay, we're socialists. We want your money, we're going to tax you to death and hand your paycheck over to people who are too lazy too work, too lazy to seak private charities or are illegal immigrants. Then they do it.
Republicans say: We want to trim the budget and lower taxes. We're not going to do what those dirty rotton Democrats do. Then they go ahead and do the above.
The biggest tax increase seen in the history of Nevada was passed not too long ago by... guess what? A Republican Gov. and assembly.
Bush and the radical right... what... a... fucking... joke.
So few words... so much truth.
This guy is a jackoff.
By saying this he probably equates me to some sort of a zealot, even if I'm platform agnostic (though I prefer Linux).
It's like, "Hey... just because people point out the obvious fact that you're a fucking retard doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with them."
Fine, he wants to throw so-called Linux zealots into the same camp as terrorists that blow up buildings. Fine. Let's toss him into a camp. He's the sort of do-nothing would would have made an excellent Nazi citizen that just sort of allowed a nation to become imperialistic butchers.
Terrorists really are small potatos compared to large business and imperialist nations. Gimme a break.
I may be platform agnostic, but I'm not people agnostic. I generally do not integrate well with cocksuckers.
And I read his article. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have had anything more to say than "cocksucker" and "jackoff."
What the fuck? Attached storage appliances replacing file servers? Maybe on home LANs where all you need a file server for is sharing files.
However if you want a single machine that does nightly backups of important data on a network with multiple user permissions and well... file servers are nice! A fine tuned file server saves to much time and aggrivation as a sysadmin.
"Did you make a backup?"
"Uhhh... no."
"Good thing the server did."
Why would I trade the flexibility of my file server for some attached storage device? I'm not saying the latter is useless, but the two items really are for people/organizations with difference needs. If all you're doing is building a single repository for mp3s and video on a household network, then yeah... attached storage is fine.
Anything more complicated, particularly scripted backups (or anything else that's scripted) you need a server. I can't upgrade the hard drives with attached storage devices nor can I just decide to make it RAID, etc. I'm going to guess that while the initial investment in a server is more, over time it'll cost less. (How powerful does the system outside of the hard drives need to be?)
That's odd. Nautilus and KDE.
I was in your boat. I was using Konqueror in Gnome and then just went back to KDE. On my box the speed difference isn't noticeable.