The problem with wood case mods and I'm sure monitors is proper heat dissapation. The wood must be thicker than plastics and certainly metal and would hold a lot more heat compared to these other materials. This constant heat expansion and contraction would probably lead to cracking over the years, as regular furniture.
Seriously, I was working on removing blaster from my friends computer less than an hour ago.
I don't get this shit on my computer because I use a firewall and PC-Cillin updates daily. It's a shame because as linux becomes popular, viruses will exist for it too. True, they may not exploit holes known publicly for months, but they'll still exist.
I find it funny that people think this is a great idea, but if Microsoft did 1/10th of what they're doing everyone would freak. People go nuts about windows registration sending a serial number. This article would have fallen under YRO also. But I know the response, at least you guys would have the source to Popcon and know what it transmits, but how many people are going to go sifting through that? Not meant to troll, just pointing out some bias.
Between a release canidate and SuSE 9.1, isn't this pushing it a little for one day? What's for this evening, kernel 2.6.2.3.54.3.1.3.4 RC3? I don't mean to troll, but this is supposed to be a site for news, not the latest release for coding projects, at least not on the main page. I'd rather see no news than petty news on a slow news day. Maybe it's just me.
Saying it's a good thing that software is hard to install because then people have to invest a lot of time in installing it so they only ever install the stuff they actually use often is fucking dumb.
Not necessarily, they could break it down into a really generic format that would allow others to code new grammer settings in. I don't think you need access to everything to simply change the language around. They're not going to open it up and that's their choice. They spend the money to develop it and it's their right to keep it closed. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
This sounds to me like they're just outsourcing the task of translating their software to different languages to other small countries that wouldn't make it financially worth it for microsoft to do it.
It depends on the signal. Analog cable looks great when the signal is perfect and you're located next door to the cable company. However, a few miles out and a decade of degradation to the actual cable will worsen the signal substantially. However with digital, as long as there is a signal, the picture is always the same. I have comcast which has some analog and some digital. I'd say the digital is pretty good, usually better than the analog channels. I guess it's easier for them to send digital down the lines instead of analog because the signal doesn't always have to be perfect.
Thousands of Gentoo users sitting in their mother's basements are laughing histerically now. They're imagining all those "stupid M$ winbloze users" scratching their heads asking why their 'puter isn't working. Ironically, they had to read this article on their mom's wintel machine because they're still compiling last night's release and their computer is unusable at the moment.
No, most people don't know what it is. The people who dismiss it are those who have tried a couple distros and are sick of it. Hardware support is always hit or miss. You can say oh with distro x my device Y works so anyone complaining that using distro X with any hardware is an idiot or using device Y with any distro is an idiot too.
I'm so sick of people chanting that linux is the greatest and easiest thing to use. If it were, then lots of OEMs would be putting it on their high end machines and not their lowest price pc's to save $40.
I've tried a bunch of distros on a bunch of computers and every time into it after a couple weeks I get sick and tired of it and I go back to windows cause it works a lot better and it's a lot easier. I'm seeing this more and more around here on/. of people responding back to these zealots and telling them to shut up because linux is a pain in the ass. And the command line always comes up in some way or another on linux installs, I don't care what you say. Maybe not in the beginning, but for the video card or the sound card or something, it's going to be required.
You can't directly compare this to the DMCA because when you're talking about music, movies, and software, you're talking about 1's and 0's that can be copied over and over. They're talking about codes to ensure fairness in repairing automobiles so the dealers don't steal all the business. The reason congress is stepping in is because no one is going to put their 2004 Explorer on kazaa and share it. They're not talking about opening up all the software. This isn't about open source at all, it's about knowing what is wrong with the care based on the error code the computer spits out.
The people who buy these machines are going to just wipe them clean and install an illegal copy of windows and spend their $40 on ice cream. The other people just want a cheap PC. Think about it, Mandrake is free so what makes HP the big hero here by offering it. They'll probably support like shit anyway. It's like leaving a casino with a free buffet after losing $500 on craps.
Any photographer knows that the intensity of sunlight is far far greater than the light found in a house. Some light would still seep through, but unless you have a thousand watt light spotlight in your living room, you should be fine.
Before linux was the rage, overclocking 200Mhz cpu's to 500Mhz was king. I remember when people were buying slow "celeries" and overclocking the shit out of them and kicking AMD out of the water on floating point. It's good to see people still risk life and fire to eek more performance out of their hardware, whatever it may be.
Isn't "dvd quality" just low compression, high quality mpeg4? The problem arises in this format when you move something from 3gb to 700mb to fit on a cd. In my experience, xvid looks the best on all my downloaded movies. however, now that I've learned it's open source I'll watch what I say so I don't down like an ogg-head.
Unlike viewers of corporate or media websites, these people won't complain if something doesn't work properly. No one's going to make a stink if their favorite porn website's flash animation isn't working properly, at least not publically.
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The problem with wood case mods and I'm sure monitors is proper heat dissapation. The wood must be thicker than plastics and certainly metal and would hold a lot more heat compared to these other materials. This constant heat expansion and contraction would probably lead to cracking over the years, as regular furniture.
I don't run a software firewall, it's in the router, SMART ASS!
That is only compatible with Windows XP Longhorn Professional XPR Edition.NET
Man, what ever happened to naming software like DOS?
Seriously, I was working on removing blaster from my friends computer less than an hour ago.
I don't get this shit on my computer because I use a firewall and PC-Cillin updates daily. It's a shame because as linux becomes popular, viruses will exist for it too. True, they may not exploit holes known publicly for months, but they'll still exist.
I find it funny that people think this is a great idea, but if Microsoft did 1/10th of what they're doing everyone would freak. People go nuts about windows registration sending a serial number. This article would have fallen under YRO also. But I know the response, at least you guys would have the source to Popcon and know what it transmits, but how many people are going to go sifting through that? Not meant to troll, just pointing out some bias.
(Modding this down hurts my feelings)
The random anti-m$ generator hits again. Do you think before you write something like this, or is it another knee jerk reaction. FUD FUD
At least I got the joke.
Between a release canidate and SuSE 9.1, isn't this pushing it a little for one day? What's for this evening, kernel 2.6.2.3.54.3.1.3.4 RC3? I don't mean to troll, but this is supposed to be a site for news, not the latest release for coding projects, at least not on the main page. I'd rather see no news than petty news on a slow news day. Maybe it's just me.
That is retarded.
Saying it's a good thing that software is hard to install because then people have to invest a lot of time in installing it so they only ever install the stuff they actually use often is fucking dumb.
Mod me down, I don't care, that's retarded
Not necessarily, they could break it down into a really generic format that would allow others to code new grammer settings in. I don't think you need access to everything to simply change the language around. They're not going to open it up and that's their choice. They spend the money to develop it and it's their right to keep it closed. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
Yeah I mean really, does everything they do translate into a cynical prediction?
This sounds to me like they're just outsourcing the task of translating their software to different languages to other small countries that wouldn't make it financially worth it for microsoft to do it.
It depends on the signal. Analog cable looks great when the signal is perfect and you're located next door to the cable company. However, a few miles out and a decade of degradation to the actual cable will worsen the signal substantially. However with digital, as long as there is a signal, the picture is always the same. I have comcast which has some analog and some digital. I'd say the digital is pretty good, usually better than the analog channels. I guess it's easier for them to send digital down the lines instead of analog because the signal doesn't always have to be perfect.
Thousands of Gentoo users sitting in their mother's basements are laughing histerically now. They're imagining all those "stupid M$ winbloze users" scratching their heads asking why their 'puter isn't working. Ironically, they had to read this article on their mom's wintel machine because they're still compiling last night's release and their computer is unusable at the moment.
Something that large moving that fast sounds like a weapon of mass destruction to me.
Thousands of geeks applied to Guinness for creating the smallest linux distro. At the end of the day, only 3 were left standing.
No, most people don't know what it is. The people who dismiss it are those who have tried a couple distros and are sick of it. Hardware support is always hit or miss. You can say oh with distro x my device Y works so anyone complaining that using distro X with any hardware is an idiot or using device Y with any distro is an idiot too.
/. of people responding back to these zealots and telling them to shut up because linux is a pain in the ass. And the command line always comes up in some way or another on linux installs, I don't care what you say. Maybe not in the beginning, but for the video card or the sound card or something, it's going to be required.
I'm so sick of people chanting that linux is the greatest and easiest thing to use. If it were, then lots of OEMs would be putting it on their high end machines and not their lowest price pc's to save $40.
I've tried a bunch of distros on a bunch of computers and every time into it after a couple weeks I get sick and tired of it and I go back to windows cause it works a lot better and it's a lot easier. I'm seeing this more and more around here on
You can't directly compare this to the DMCA because when you're talking about music, movies, and software, you're talking about 1's and 0's that can be copied over and over. They're talking about codes to ensure fairness in repairing automobiles so the dealers don't steal all the business. The reason congress is stepping in is because no one is going to put their 2004 Explorer on kazaa and share it. They're not talking about opening up all the software. This isn't about open source at all, it's about knowing what is wrong with the care based on the error code the computer spits out.
The people who buy these machines are going to just wipe them clean and install an illegal copy of windows and spend their $40 on ice cream. The other people just want a cheap PC. Think about it, Mandrake is free so what makes HP the big hero here by offering it. They'll probably support like shit anyway. It's like leaving a casino with a free buffet after losing $500 on craps.
I thought it was 4,285,199,774 pages
Any photographer knows that the intensity of sunlight is far far greater than the light found in a house. Some light would still seep through, but unless you have a thousand watt light spotlight in your living room, you should be fine.
Before linux was the rage, overclocking 200Mhz cpu's to 500Mhz was king. I remember when people were buying slow "celeries" and overclocking the shit out of them and kicking AMD out of the water on floating point. It's good to see people still risk life and fire to eek more performance out of their hardware, whatever it may be.
Isn't "dvd quality" just low compression, high quality mpeg4? The problem arises in this format when you move something from 3gb to 700mb to fit on a cd. In my experience, xvid looks the best on all my downloaded movies. however, now that I've learned it's open source I'll watch what I say so I don't down like an ogg-head.
Um, ogg of course! Don't you know everyone uses ogg? Every wednesday night we get together and make fun of wma users for their lossy drm'ed spyware.
Unlike viewers of corporate or media websites, these people won't complain if something doesn't work properly. No one's going to make a stink if their favorite porn website's flash animation isn't working properly, at least not publically.