Re:Good news for Mandrake users.
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Err.. I am not a Gentoo fanatic and have never used it, but since you compile EVERYTHING when you install Gentoo, all is compiled with the appropriate optimizations for your processor, hence the speed increase.
Not to mention, AFAIK you don't end up with a million and one useless daemons starting a la RedHat or Mandrake (yes, they are bad for this.)
Re:Good news for Mandrake users.
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Aging? Slackware is still under development and the last release had GCC 3.2.2, kernel 2.4.20, KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2.2.
Re:Thats how you pay for "products"
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HanszoSan clearly says he is talking about buying from a store. This is a reasonable assumption since you did not specify you were buying from Mandrake directly.
I'm just wondering.. if you install a sendmail alternative (exim, let's say), will it break any CGI scripts you are using for your webpage that call on sendmail to send mail?
What you probably noticed was the laquer layer was thick when we started making discs, but over the years laquer has improved to the point that only a very thin layer is needed.
But doesn't the thickness of the laquer affect whether or not a scratch will be fatal to a CD? I have some pressed CD's from the early 90's that are rather thick looking compared to current ones. They're covered in scratches but still work, where as more lightly scratched CD's I've bought recently fail..
For example, I use it often with bison when writing parsers, and for writing cool Zoo example programs where you call a function MakeSound and it automatically says "Ooo Ooo" for the Monkey, and "Eeeee haaaaa" for the Ass.
you could quite easily use it to show what kind of music you like, for example. and still not really share anything(because you have set the speed to zero, or by other means).
By other means, then, beause you can't set the speed lower than 24 kilobits per second in KaZaa.
I have to agree that they have crappy drivers. I bought an ATI TV Wonder VE with Remote Wonder and gave up and installed the opensource generic drivers (http://btwincap.sourceforge.net) since ATI's drivers and software froze and generally misbehaved so much.
The scary thing is; it's better than an older card I had.. built-in hardware MPEG decoding and so you needed to use ATI's player software for that.. if you breathed the wrong way it crashed..
.. but if it set up with a system that is one-time only (like the current challenge/response systems), the server would be authorized during the subscription process, and extra processing time would not be needed on the server.
Agreed. Where I am (South-eastern ontario), MSN Messenger is king probably due also to the fact that MSN Messenger is included with Windows and that nearly noone uses AOL here. AOL is available under the crappy moniker AOL Canada (America Online Canada!?) but is too expensive and never got much market share.
Err.. first of all I can run OOo 1.01 on my P2-350 (256mb RAM). Slow to start, fine after that.
You do know that Microsoft Office loads part of itself into RAM when Windows starts, right? (AFAIK) This gives faster "load" times..
Thunderbird is an e-mail client.. not a front-end.. You mean Firebird? it's a whole new browser with a differrent rendering engine.
The reason you can't get OOo to work nicely in 128MB ram is because KDE or GNOME is eating a lot of that with eye-candy.. try with IceWM and be amazed.
You haven't explained why you need a new hard drive for OpenOffice, and how it costs $500 to throw in another 128mb RAM into the computers ($150 000 / 300 = $500 per computer). RAM isn't very expensive now.. I can get 128mb SD-133 (I assume that is what is in that generation of computers) for ~CDN$45.. cheaper when on sale. Therefore, I estimate USD$9000, not USD$150 000.
Finally, we have the participants. This is where AOL wins, hands down. Everyone and her mother and her dog use AIM....
In the US, maybe. Where I am (South-eastern Ontario) MSN Messenger is king.
This is probably due to the fact that most Canadians do not get service from AOL. Yes, they have a Canadian service but any of our national or regional ISPs is far cheaper than AOL Canada.
In addition, when you look at the historical record of English usage, you find viruses, not virii, as the established plural. So although virii has turned up upon recent occasions, that word is far from standard.
Nothing in English is standard and it has a tendancy to change and accept new words on a regular basis.. next thing you'll be telling me is that it is RADAR and using radar is absolutely wrong.
Oddly, they didn't have near the problems one might expect for all this (impressively, ad-aware came up clean aside from cookies) but when I mentioned "Windows Update", which sits right there on the Start Menu plain as day, to my relative who runs the '98 box, all I got was "what's that?".
My early-teen cousin was running his family's 98 box similarly. Unpatched. Ad-aware found all manner of crap that might just have, with luck, woken him up.
This is all because "the relatives" aren't the ones likely to install random crap of the internet (Bonzi Buddy!).. they're likely to use the PC for what they need to to and get off it.. they really don't want to fiddle with it.
The early-teen cousin is likely to be downloading all sorts of shit off the Internet and generally thinking he or she has some idea what they are doing.
Whatever you say. I'm under Windows right now and I don't see what is wrong with my fonts. They are well-hinted, and look fine (and the larger point sizes are smoothed.). My fonts under Linux are far poorer.
Err.. first of all, I was under the understanding that you can't have TRULY random numbers, as it has to be affected by SOMETHING to get numbers, and though the pattern is very complex, there is one.
Secondly, what do you mean it would be bad to have 'truly' (or good pseudo-) random numbers? If you are doing something security related, why is it good to be able to duplicate the process again?
IE with bad font rendering? Err.. if you mean anti-aliasing and the like.. what does that have to do with the browser? More to do with the OS, I'd say.
If you mean size issues.. have you ever seen Mozilla or Opera on Linux? Eeek! Mozilla is a lot worse than Opera in this respect; you can fairly easily do something about Opera's fonts (although it doesn't seem to scale exactly the same way on different sites..)
Both of the above are fine under Windows, and have fonts that are identical to IE. What are you bitching about?
That said, I really don't fancy IE and am using Opera right now (with a half-dozen tabs open).
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Not to mention, AFAIK you don't end up with a million and one useless daemons starting a la RedHat or Mandrake (yes, they are bad for this.)
Aging? Slackware is still under development and the last release had GCC 3.2.2, kernel 2.4.20, KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2.2.
HanszoSan clearly says he is talking about buying from a store. This is a reasonable assumption since you did not specify you were buying from Mandrake directly.
Anyway, movies are not real. Enjoy them.
I'm just wondering.. if you install a sendmail alternative (exim, let's say), will it break any CGI scripts you are using for your webpage that call on sendmail to send mail?
Great. Thanks. I figured TechTV would be running it again soon.
That's cheap; Serial Experiments Lain (13 ep. anime) costs CDN$200 (!!).
A related urban legend/joke regarding 'fuck': "Pluck Yew"
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ;)?
But doesn't the thickness of the laquer affect whether or not a scratch will be fatal to a CD? I have some pressed CD's from the early 90's that are rather thick looking compared to current ones. They're covered in scratches but still work, where as more lightly scratched CD's I've bought recently fail..
Whatever you're smoking, can I get some?
(IANAP: This makes absolutely no sense to me.)
By other means, then, beause you can't set the speed lower than 24 kilobits per second in KaZaa.
The scary thing is; it's better than an older card I had.. built-in hardware MPEG decoding and so you needed to use ATI's player software for that.. if you breathed the wrong way it crashed..
They did. Read the article. It says federal marshalls showed up at the door.
.. but if it set up with a system that is one-time only (like the current challenge/response systems), the server would be authorized during the subscription process, and extra processing time would not be needed on the server.
Agreed. Where I am (South-eastern ontario), MSN Messenger is king probably due also to the fact that MSN Messenger is included with Windows and that nearly noone uses AOL here. AOL is available under the crappy moniker AOL Canada (America Online Canada!?) but is too expensive and never got much market share.
Err.. first of all I can run OOo 1.01 on my P2-350 (256mb RAM). Slow to start, fine after that.
You do know that Microsoft Office loads part of itself into RAM when Windows starts, right? (AFAIK)
This gives faster "load" times..
Thunderbird is an e-mail client.. not a front-end.. You mean Firebird? it's a whole new browser with a differrent rendering engine.
The reason you can't get OOo to work nicely in 128MB ram is because KDE or GNOME is eating a lot of that with eye-candy.. try with IceWM and be amazed.
You haven't explained why you need a new hard drive for OpenOffice, and how it costs $500 to throw in another 128mb RAM into the computers ($150 000 / 300 = $500 per computer). RAM isn't very expensive now.. I can get 128mb SD-133 (I assume that is what is in that generation of computers) for ~CDN$45.. cheaper when on sale. Therefore, I estimate USD$9000, not USD$150 000.
You, sir, are full of shit.
In the US, maybe. Where I am (South-eastern Ontario) MSN Messenger is king.
This is probably due to the fact that most Canadians do not get service from AOL. Yes, they have a Canadian service but any of our national or regional ISPs is far cheaper than AOL Canada.
Nothing in English is standard and it has a tendancy to change and accept new words on a regular basis.. next thing you'll be telling me is that it is RADAR and using radar is absolutely wrong.
My early-teen cousin was running his family's 98 box similarly. Unpatched. Ad-aware found all manner of crap that might just have, with luck, woken him up.
This is all because "the relatives" aren't the ones likely to install random crap of the internet (Bonzi Buddy!).. they're likely to use the PC for what they need to to and get off it.. they really don't want to fiddle with it.
The early-teen cousin is likely to be downloading all sorts of shit off the Internet and generally thinking he or she has some idea what they are doing.
(Ages ago there was a ZDTV (now TechTV) personality, Jim Louderback fond of comparing the iBook to a Hello Kitty purse..)
And here I was thinking this was some sort of obscure Canadian BASIC..
Whatever you say. I'm under Windows right now and I don't see what is wrong with my fonts. They are well-hinted, and look fine (and the larger point sizes are smoothed.). My fonts under Linux are far poorer.
Err.. first of all, I was under the understanding that you can't have TRULY random numbers, as it has to be affected by SOMETHING to get numbers, and though the pattern is very complex, there is one.
Secondly, what do you mean it would be bad to have 'truly' (or good pseudo-) random numbers? If you are doing something security related, why is it good to be able to duplicate the process again?
IE with bad font rendering? Err.. if you mean anti-aliasing and the like.. what does that have to do with the browser? More to do with the OS, I'd say. If you mean size issues.. have you ever seen Mozilla or Opera on Linux? Eeek! Mozilla is a lot worse than Opera in this respect; you can fairly easily do something about Opera's fonts (although it doesn't seem to scale exactly the same way on different sites..) Both of the above are fine under Windows, and have fonts that are identical to IE. What are you bitching about? That said, I really don't fancy IE and am using Opera right now (with a half-dozen tabs open).