Man, you're lucky. URPMI gave me such headaches. It rarely had an up to date package which forced me to compile from scratch and face dependency hell. The list of apps was also limited. URPMI is great if you don't mind settling for old and only popular packages. Mandrake is easy to install, but a pain to maintain. I recommend people look at other distros if Mandrake is their first flavor of linux and they get fed up with it.
Didn't you read the instructions to close all your applications before installing??? Sheesh! What a windows noob! Just remember to restart when your finished:)
I'm sure the problems with leaving a windows xp box open to the internet without a firewall (presumably) will lead to more problems than the windows update.
I think this was modded funny because you recommended mandrake. I think I'll take windows over mandrake because even with viruses and spyware, it's still faster!
Actually, there has been a rising of anti-american crap from celebrities and other people that the media puts on tv. You are right in that criticizing our politions is not anti-american. I think it's our duty as american citizens to question our leaders, but lately some left wing groups have been getting nasty about the country in general.
I'm still unconvinced about 64-bit computing for the present. I think most businesses will wait a long while before making upgrades based on this. One obvious reason is that software is compiled for 32-bit processors, but how much faster is say Gentoo compiled for a 64-bit AMD processor?
A lot of people's arguments defending 64-bit computing is that no software is designed for it. I'm sure I'm completely ignorant on this, but how well does gcc take advantage of it if I were to compile programs to make use of it?
Come on. He asked the slashdot community for help because he needed it. If you think it's wasteful government spending, then write to your congressman. Don't put this guy down because he admits he would like some technical input by people who he knows have more experience than he does.
You did give some useful information, but there was no need to start it off by calling him clueless.
Seriously? I've heard the "in soviet russia," "beowulf," "clippy," "bsod," and I'm sure a bunch others that are equally lame. I'd say I should read slashdot more often to pick these up, but I think 5 hours a day combined over the 18 I'm awake for is long enough. I'll b
I think this is a dumb idea. The pc market is already flooded with competition it's almost impossible to turn a profit. And I've always considered it most important to set up the desktop to suite each person's needs. Naming and placing the icon on the desktop properly means a whole lot to make people feel secure. I switched one of my family's computers from Windows XP to Gentoo last week and I'm paying close attention to what works and doesn't work. So far it's been smooth, but I'm very aware that the most subtle differences can scare the hell out of people.
Actually, I think a lot of repairmen simply replace faulty components rather than try to mend them. I am thinking of a bad compressor on a fridge that's simply replaced. Belts on a dryer that are old and replaced. Auto mechanics replacing entire exhaust systems. I see the point you were trying to make, however the old image of repairmen actually fixing something has gone out of fashion. Most of them just find the broken part and replace it. So in that sense, if the hard drive is broken, replace it. Windows is broken, run the idiot proof Norton tools and hope they fix it. Replacing Windows with Linux? I haven't heard of that one, but who knows.
On a side and off-topic note, I can't wait in 50 years when most people will have grown up with computers and the basics of them will be familiar. I'm not saying old people are dumb, it's just hard for them sometimes to understand what a desktop is.
I doubt it. Mandrake seemed slow on releasing new versions compared to other distros. Maybe you have to join the club for them. When I was using Mandrake 10 just a month ago they still had only KDE 3.2. If you want bleeding edge in one of those "easy" distros, go with Fedora and see how everything is half-broken. I don't think it would be a wise move for them to release the beta with KDE 3.3.
However, Once they release the stable KDE 3.3 I'll upgrade.
What? Version numbers don't mean anything. Closed source version numbers seem to be based on a marketting department and open source version numbers seem to be based on some geeky lingo. Firefox may be at 0.93, but the underlying technologies have been in development for years.
It's a great browser and I use it on windows at work and linux at home, but just because it's version 0.93 doesn't mean I can bitch at microsoft and appologize for mozilla.
I haven't used SuSE in a while, but I'm happy they chose it over Linspire or those other "distros". Actually, for this purpose, I can't think of a better distro. Mandrake is kind of slow and Fedora is more beta testers tinkering than a distro I'd want to offer to my customers. I'm not trolling there, Red Hat agrees with me:)
SuSE also has a good repuation of GPL'ing their work where as Linspire won't even offer a free download AFAIK.
I wouldn't bother to listen to your argument if you are calling Microsoft "M$". That's biased, and so that doesn't help make rational decisions that are needed when you're dealing with a project of this magnitude. Leave the M$ WinBlowz speak for the IRC chatrooms.
Sorry to sound like a troll or spread flamebait, I just think this talk has to stop because it makes Apple, Linux, etc, users seem like biased morons.
I'd rather this be replied to harshly than modded down if you find what I said to be disagreeable.
Kick ass and thanks mods. I'm getting really sick of people thinking they're either clever or funny for purposely misspelling windows or microsoft. Now I can't spell for shit, but I don't find misspelling to be an insult to the intelligence other than of myself.
Keep up the good work of selling linux for what it is and not what assholes (who think they can actually achieve gigabit ethernet on their home network using 3 nics) do to hurt its reputation.
It's a sad fact you had to go out of your way to say you're running linux But I've learned if you don't, some condecending moron will try to convince you to switch to linux or label you an "ms-fanboy."
I wish I had your luck. I have a 1.8 ghz pentium 4 mobile and I can get maybe 2-2.5 hours. It's an inspiron 8200 with a beautiful "ultra-sharp" display. However, it's marketed as and I use it as a desktop replacement. It's too heavy to move around much. I purchased it because I'm a college student and it's great for moving back and forth from school and home. I can manually slow it down to 1.2 ghz using cpuspeedy (linux application) and I'm sure I could get better battery times. I purchased a second battery when I ordered it so I can take it on longer hauls.
I don't care much though. If I wanted a laptop with a better battery life, I would have chosen one designed for such purposes. I purchased it in 2002 and for my needs, it was a good tradeoff to get a fast computer.
Weellll, sort of. 90% of people "say" they use linux here...
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Good point. I only got one blue screen from windows xp after 2 years of use. It was when I connected my cell phone to my computer and tried to do something. I am going to assume it was entirely the poor driver's fault. Now that I'm running linux, I see the artsd segfault all the time.
Linux zealots continually babble about bsod and clippy and I can see how the "community" gets a bad wrap. I guess if the only forum you read about linux is slashdot then you're getting a one-sided view. The gentoo forums are a lot better.
All this windows bashing reminds me of a John Kerry speech.
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Man, you're lucky. URPMI gave me such headaches. It rarely had an up to date package which forced me to compile from scratch and face dependency hell. The list of apps was also limited. URPMI is great if you don't mind settling for old and only popular packages. Mandrake is easy to install, but a pain to maintain. I recommend people look at other distros if Mandrake is their first flavor of linux and they get fed up with it.
Didn't you read the instructions to close all your applications before installing??? Sheesh! What a windows noob! Just remember to restart when your finished :)
I'm sure the problems with leaving a windows xp box open to the internet without a firewall (presumably) will lead to more problems than the windows update.
I think this was modded funny because you recommended mandrake. I think I'll take windows over mandrake because even with viruses and spyware, it's still faster!
This is very interesting, but does anyone know when kernel 2.6.8 or KDE 3.3 will be stable?
good point. Here in america many people feel the same way. corporations really have a stronghold on our country as well.
Actually, there has been a rising of anti-american crap from celebrities and other people that the media puts on tv. You are right in that criticizing our politions is not anti-american. I think it's our duty as american citizens to question our leaders, but lately some left wing groups have been getting nasty about the country in general.
Maybe now they can simulate proper management.
I need to know what proper cflags I should use.
Anyway
I'm still unconvinced about 64-bit computing for the present. I think most businesses will wait a long while before making upgrades based on this. One obvious reason is that software is compiled for 32-bit processors, but how much faster is say Gentoo compiled for a 64-bit AMD processor?
A lot of people's arguments defending 64-bit computing is that no software is designed for it. I'm sure I'm completely ignorant on this, but how well does gcc take advantage of it if I were to compile programs to make use of it?
Come on. He asked the slashdot community for help because he needed it. If you think it's wasteful government spending, then write to your congressman. Don't put this guy down because he admits he would like some technical input by people who he knows have more experience than he does.
You did give some useful information, but there was no need to start it off by calling him clueless.
They want their once good idea back!
Seriously? I've heard the "in soviet russia," "beowulf," "clippy," "bsod," and I'm sure a bunch others that are equally lame. I'd say I should read slashdot more often to pick these up, but I think 5 hours a day combined over the 18 I'm awake for is long enough. I'll b
I think this is a dumb idea. The pc market is already flooded with competition it's almost impossible to turn a profit. And I've always considered it most important to set up the desktop to suite each person's needs. Naming and placing the icon on the desktop properly means a whole lot to make people feel secure. I switched one of my family's computers from Windows XP to Gentoo last week and I'm paying close attention to what works and doesn't work. So far it's been smooth, but I'm very aware that the most subtle differences can scare the hell out of people.
Actually, I think a lot of repairmen simply replace faulty components rather than try to mend them. I am thinking of a bad compressor on a fridge that's simply replaced. Belts on a dryer that are old and replaced. Auto mechanics replacing entire exhaust systems. I see the point you were trying to make, however the old image of repairmen actually fixing something has gone out of fashion. Most of them just find the broken part and replace it. So in that sense, if the hard drive is broken, replace it. Windows is broken, run the idiot proof Norton tools and hope they fix it. Replacing Windows with Linux? I haven't heard of that one, but who knows.
On a side and off-topic note, I can't wait in 50 years when most people will have grown up with computers and the basics of them will be familiar. I'm not saying old people are dumb, it's just hard for them sometimes to understand what a desktop is.
I doubt it. Mandrake seemed slow on releasing new versions compared to other distros. Maybe you have to join the club for them. When I was using Mandrake 10 just a month ago they still had only KDE 3.2. If you want bleeding edge in one of those "easy" distros, go with Fedora and see how everything is half-broken. I don't think it would be a wise move for them to release the beta with KDE 3.3.
However, Once they release the stable KDE 3.3 I'll upgrade.
What? Version numbers don't mean anything. Closed source version numbers seem to be based on a marketting department and open source version numbers seem to be based on some geeky lingo. Firefox may be at 0.93, but the underlying technologies have been in development for years.
It's a great browser and I use it on windows at work and linux at home, but just because it's version 0.93 doesn't mean I can bitch at microsoft and appologize for mozilla.
I haven't used SuSE in a while, but I'm happy they chose it over Linspire or those other "distros". Actually, for this purpose, I can't think of a better distro. Mandrake is kind of slow and Fedora is more beta testers tinkering than a distro I'd want to offer to my customers. I'm not trolling there, Red Hat agrees with me :)
SuSE also has a good repuation of GPL'ing their work where as Linspire won't even offer a free download AFAIK.
I wouldn't bother to listen to your argument if you are calling Microsoft "M$". That's biased, and so that doesn't help make rational decisions that are needed when you're dealing with a project of this magnitude. Leave the M$ WinBlowz speak for the IRC chatrooms.
Sorry to sound like a troll or spread flamebait, I just think this talk has to stop because it makes Apple, Linux, etc, users seem like biased morons.
I'd rather this be replied to harshly than modded down if you find what I said to be disagreeable.
Kick ass and thanks mods. I'm getting really sick of people thinking they're either clever or funny for purposely misspelling windows or microsoft. Now I can't spell for shit, but I don't find misspelling to be an insult to the intelligence other than of myself.
Keep up the good work of selling linux for what it is and not what assholes (who think they can actually achieve gigabit ethernet on their home network using 3 nics) do to hurt its reputation.
It's a sad fact you had to go out of your way to say you're running linux But I've learned if you don't, some condecending moron will try to convince you to switch to linux or label you an "ms-fanboy."
Anyway, keep up the good posts.
Yes you're offtopic and no they're not crazy, they're Lindows users.
You could say the same thing about Need for Speed.
"Accelerate, slow down, make the turn, repeat"
It doesn't mean the game is bad, it just means it fits the genre. Not everyone likes RPGs or MPORGs of whatever you call them.
In fact, I like most people, was not expecting any thing more from Doom 3 than what you described.
I wish I had your luck. I have a 1.8 ghz pentium 4 mobile and I can get maybe 2-2.5 hours. It's an inspiron 8200 with a beautiful "ultra-sharp" display. However, it's marketed as and I use it as a desktop replacement. It's too heavy to move around much. I purchased it because I'm a college student and it's great for moving back and forth from school and home. I can manually slow it down to 1.2 ghz using cpuspeedy (linux application) and I'm sure I could get better battery times. I purchased a second battery when I ordered it so I can take it on longer hauls.
I don't care much though. If I wanted a laptop with a better battery life, I would have chosen one designed for such purposes. I purchased it in 2002 and for my needs, it was a good tradeoff to get a fast computer.
Everyone has their own uniquely bad impression of Crocodile Dundee.
(looks at the current laws)
"That's not a law"
(looks at the proposed laws)
"Now that's a law!"
Of if Crocodile Hunter is more your fancy
"Shh, now look ova theh. Those copyright laws are sitting quietly. Now I'm going to run ovah theh and shove me thumb up his bum"
Weellll, sort of. 90% of people "say" they use linux here...
Good point. I only got one blue screen from windows xp after 2 years of use. It was when I connected my cell phone to my computer and tried to do something. I am going to assume it was entirely the poor driver's fault. Now that I'm running linux, I see the artsd segfault all the time.
Linux zealots continually babble about bsod and clippy and I can see how the "community" gets a bad wrap. I guess if the only forum you read about linux is slashdot then you're getting a one-sided view. The gentoo forums are a lot better.
All this windows bashing reminds me of a John Kerry speech.