But the effects can last longer than the act itself. The in the oil crisis in the 70's the drought didn't last two long, but the high prices lasted years. Some economists believe we're still feeling the effects.
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I just tried that a few minutes ago and X froze up on startup requiring a cold boot. I could probably spend a few hours tweaking my xorg.conf file, but this is a clear example of how tweaking in linux to get a little more performance is a pain. It also shows that when someone offers a suggestion for a setting tweak, it won't always work on someone else's computer.
Well, I got back to the console after rapid firing of the ctrl-alt-backspace and I changed the settings back.
I've used knoppix a lot and I think it's a great distro for a specific need, it's not fast. But I blame that on the fact it runs everything of the CD and into memory. This review is talking about lighting speed. I love knoppix, but it's never the "fast" distro. It's just the one that "works" TM.
I RTFA and I don't see what the big deal is. Companies want to support Linux because they believe as a lot of people here do that it can revolutionize computing and they don't want to be left behind. They can't simply buy it so they influence it's contributors directly and indirectly. Bill Gates hasn't done much to innovate computing and he's the richest guy in America. Obviously that way of doing things wasn't best for everybody so we have a new system here. Let's see how this pans out.
I see it as the other way around. If I'm running Norton and McAfee "seems" to have a more up to date definition because they released a virus and then offered protection quickly, I might be inclined to switch to them. They would have to be very careful about it because if it ever got out they'd be ruined.
But I'm running linux so I don't have to worry about those viruses.
They will have a problem with anything. They fought fission and they got coal which is a lot dirtier.
I'd rather see a few birds go than risking the future of my grandchildren because a bunch of uninformed people decided to protest a wind turbine one day.
But I'm going to apply a simple rule I've learned from switching from Windows to Linux. First, switch to applications they both share and get settled in with that, and then make the big switch. If you try to do both at once, it's too much change to deal with.
How this applies to the article is that car manufacturers should start rolling hydrogen powered cars. Once people are comfortable with hydrogen, then we can start to take advantage of energy sources like wind and (gasp!) fission and hopefully (gasp gasp) cold fusion. If you have huge amounts of electricity, then you can make hydrogen pretty cleanly from just sea water.
Wind energy is great and I would love to have my heating bill reduced, but I still have to buy gas that's on a tight supply from the Middle East.
There's no easy answer to the world's energy problem. Recent growth in China is a big reason why we're paying so much at the pump and that's not going to go away. What most people don't realize is that coal is very dirty and releases more radioactive material because trace amounts of uranium lie in coal. We could use many energy supplies to foster a hydrogen economy.
I think you misunderstood. I meant that users get shafted with there are just a few large companies competing, but it is better to have lots of smaller organizations writing FOSS. For most users, the advances in FOSS haven't affected them in the past few years. OSS projects like firefox and gaim are starting to become popular for the every day folk and that's the advantage to the consumer I was referring too.
Because people disagree what is the right way of doing it. I share some frustration that the choice offered of using linux makes some things more complicated than on a windows machine. But in the end, it just generate more competition, which is what has been killing the software industry for the past few years. Actually the industry has been fine, it's the consumers who are getting shafted.
Yeah exactly. When I saw the grandparent post I slapped my forehead. The EULA clearly states that anything bad that happens to you isn't Microsoft's fault. Most software programs have that same clause in their license. If it weren't for that, Microsoft would have been killed by lawsuits years ago.
Other industries don't have that luxury though. An ice cream company can't say put a label saying if you die eating our product we can't be at fault. One reason is that the FDA would go after them. Another reason is nobody would then buy the ice cream. But since it's so common in the software industry, people don't think twice about agreeing to the EULA.
Since you're trying to sway people to linux, Gentoo might be too difficult for them to start on, but setting up fonts is easy. All you have to do is run emerge a few times and it downloads microsoft's corefonts and some other font packages. You may have to add the paths to the xorg.conf file or it does that for you, I don't remember. It's easy to do though.
The fonts on my system look very nice. Since I have a 15 inch laptop screen at 1600x1200 fonts can sometimes be a pain. They looked horrible in Windows XP because I had to increase the default font size and that threw everything off in certain programs. But fonts are really good on my desktop. Sans Serif is a really nice font and I use it all over my desktop.
I had problems with fonts in Mandrake, so that's what I'm comparing it too. Some programs in mandrake didn't look too nice.
At work we had this Dell XPS running a 3.4 ghz p4. That thing ran hot as hell. We had problems with the machine when it was rendering for 3dsmax and when we opened the case the heatsink was very hot. Actually, it was a pretty crappy heatsink considering the cost and thermal needs of th 3.4 ghz p4. Anyway, I'm assuming your joke was to point out how hot AMD's can get, well Intel chips can get very hot themselves.
I don't use Gentoo just because it's a little faster than other distros. It does feel faster than Mandrake 10 and Fedora 2. I use Gentoo because I find portage to be a lot better than URPMI which I tried to use for a while. I had trouble because I wanted a package that was less than 8 months old. Upgrading packages meant compiling from source. That's not a big deal until you have 4 layers of dependencies and you've wasted two hours and you still don't have the package. I'd rather let portage chug and churn for two hours than I having to do the work.
Yeah, I have an external firewire drive. One end connects to a pcmcia card in my laptop, the other connects to this large enclosure. Inside that, the hard drive connects up to an EIDE to Firewire board. Just because the connector is small doesn't mean the overhead to get it there is.
I think you're mistaking the problem they're trying to solve here, the overhead.
I have digital cable and I almost never see fragments. The picture is a lot more clear than analog. I'd rather see a fragment once in a while than constant fuzz. Fragmentation does occur more on DirecTV, but digital cable from Comcast is pretty good.
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Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that a security measure created by Microsoft has been beat? Get the fuck out of here!
http://packages.gentoo.org/
everything you'll need is right there.
Umm...where do I insert the pun about the empty thirty case floating in a pool of my own enibriation?
But the effects can last longer than the act itself. The in the oil crisis in the 70's the drought didn't last two long, but the high prices lasted years. Some economists believe we're still feeling the effects.
I just tried that a few minutes ago and X froze up on startup requiring a cold boot. I could probably spend a few hours tweaking my xorg.conf file, but this is a clear example of how tweaking in linux to get a little more performance is a pain. It also shows that when someone offers a suggestion for a setting tweak, it won't always work on someone else's computer.
Well, I got back to the console after rapid firing of the ctrl-alt-backspace and I changed the settings back.
I think you have to copy the CD off the internet and download it to your RAM (or ROM). Make sure you have enough memory on your hard disc.
I was thinking about installing linux 10.0 on my computer, but I'm not sure it's compatible with dells. I think I need an IBM/PC.
Yeah I've done that a few times, but I never felt like it worked better than other common distros. I prefer it for use as a live CD.
I've used knoppix a lot and I think it's a great distro for a specific need, it's not fast. But I blame that on the fact it runs everything of the CD and into memory. This review is talking about lighting speed. I love knoppix, but it's never the
"fast" distro. It's just the one that "works" TM.
As I saw this, I am watching the Myth Busters episode that had the car they threw a dead pig in for a while and then sold the car.
So I guess it's possible to at least sell the hardware.
I RTFA and I don't see what the big deal is. Companies want to support Linux because they believe as a lot of people here do that it can revolutionize computing and they don't want to be left behind. They can't simply buy it so they influence it's contributors directly and indirectly. Bill Gates hasn't done much to innovate computing and he's the richest guy in America. Obviously that way of doing things wasn't best for everybody so we have a new system here. Let's see how this pans out.
I see it as the other way around. If I'm running Norton and McAfee "seems" to have a more up to date definition because they released a virus and then offered protection quickly, I might be inclined to switch to them. They would have to be very careful about it because if it ever got out they'd be ruined.
But I'm running linux so I don't have to worry about those viruses.
They will have a problem with anything. They fought fission and they got coal which is a lot dirtier.
I'd rather see a few birds go than risking the future of my grandchildren because a bunch of uninformed people decided to protest a wind turbine one day.
But I'm going to apply a simple rule I've learned from switching from Windows to Linux. First, switch to applications they both share and get settled in with that, and then make the big switch. If you try to do both at once, it's too much change to deal with.
How this applies to the article is that car manufacturers should start rolling hydrogen powered cars. Once people are comfortable with hydrogen, then we can start to take advantage of energy sources like wind and (gasp!) fission and hopefully (gasp gasp) cold fusion. If you have huge amounts of electricity, then you can make hydrogen pretty cleanly from just sea water.
Wind energy is great and I would love to have my heating bill reduced, but I still have to buy gas that's on a tight supply from the Middle East.
There's no easy answer to the world's energy problem. Recent growth in China is a big reason why we're paying so much at the pump and that's not going to go away. What most people don't realize is that coal is very dirty and releases more radioactive material because trace amounts of uranium lie in coal. We could use many energy supplies to foster a hydrogen economy.
I think you misunderstood. I meant that users get shafted with there are just a few large companies competing, but it is better to have lots of smaller organizations writing FOSS. For most users, the advances in FOSS haven't affected them in the past few years. OSS projects like firefox and gaim are starting to become popular for the every day folk and that's the advantage to the consumer I was referring too.
Because people disagree what is the right way of doing it. I share some frustration that the choice offered of using linux makes some things more complicated than on a windows machine. But in the end, it just generate more competition, which is what has been killing the software industry for the past few years. Actually the industry has been fine, it's the consumers who are getting shafted.
Yeah exactly. When I saw the grandparent post I slapped my forehead. The EULA clearly states that anything bad that happens to you isn't Microsoft's fault. Most software programs have that same clause in their license. If it weren't for that, Microsoft would have been killed by lawsuits years ago.
Other industries don't have that luxury though. An ice cream company can't say put a label saying if you die eating our product we can't be at fault. One reason is that the FDA would go after them. Another reason is nobody would then buy the ice cream. But since it's so common in the software industry, people don't think twice about agreeing to the EULA.
Since you're trying to sway people to linux, Gentoo might be too difficult for them to start on, but setting up fonts is easy. All you have to do is run emerge a few times and it downloads microsoft's corefonts and some other font packages. You may have to add the paths to the xorg.conf file or it does that for you, I don't remember. It's easy to do though.
The fonts on my system look very nice. Since I have a 15 inch laptop screen at 1600x1200 fonts can sometimes be a pain. They looked horrible in Windows XP because I had to increase the default font size and that threw everything off in certain programs. But fonts are really good on my desktop. Sans Serif is a really nice font and I use it all over my desktop.
I had problems with fonts in Mandrake, so that's what I'm comparing it too. Some programs in mandrake didn't look too nice.
I guess Apple's initial thoughts that online music distribution wouldn't yeild much of a profit hasn't quite shown to be true.
Yeah, but we're talking about problems in Microsoft's software, not new or enhanced features.
I'm running a 1.8 p4 and it loads in a few seconds. Yeah, I'm running gentoo, but I think acroread was binary and not compiled from source.
At work we had this Dell XPS running a 3.4 ghz p4. That thing ran hot as hell. We had problems with the machine when it was rendering for 3dsmax and when we opened the case the heatsink was very hot. Actually, it was a pretty crappy heatsink considering the cost and thermal needs of th 3.4 ghz p4. Anyway, I'm assuming your joke was to point out how hot AMD's can get, well Intel chips can get very hot themselves.
Wait, they also have Intel chips in them.
I don't use Gentoo just because it's a little faster than other distros. It does feel faster than Mandrake 10 and Fedora 2. I use Gentoo because I find portage to be a lot better than URPMI which I tried to use for a while. I had trouble because I wanted a package that was less than 8 months old. Upgrading packages meant compiling from source. That's not a big deal until you have 4 layers of dependencies and you've wasted two hours and you still don't have the package. I'd rather let portage chug and churn for two hours than I having to do the work.
Yeah, I have an external firewire drive. One end connects to a pcmcia card in my laptop, the other connects to this large enclosure. Inside that, the hard drive connects up to an EIDE to Firewire board. Just because the connector is small doesn't mean the overhead to get it there is.
I think you're mistaking the problem they're trying to solve here, the overhead.
I have digital cable and I almost never see fragments. The picture is a lot more clear than analog. I'd rather see a fragment once in a while than constant fuzz. Fragmentation does occur more on DirecTV, but digital cable from Comcast is pretty good.