Re:recall time longer than memorizing time
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The Memory Masters
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Do they use special recalling techniques in which you don't continuesly write those numbers?Depending on the technique, the problem becomes an order of operation error. Generally, certain consonants are assigned to 1's and others to 0, then nouns comprise of those consonants are remembered via visualization & or story line visualing. While it's easy to remember the order in 'the cow jumped over the moon', or 'a meteorite strikes Albany', it's not always obvious that a bottle of Pepsi fell off a mini-van, or whether the minivan struck a bottle of Pepsi, but it's either 0111 01100 or 01100 0111, and it sucks to remember thousands of these groupings and get the order switched on just one. So the time is probably just to allow for a mental double check.
What's apparently missed here is that mnemonic methodology can be used to sharpen attention and therefore retention to a remarkable degree. I've used it to memorize dates, then equations, then multiple decks of cards. Not only does it work, but it takes what would otherwise seem to be an impossible task and makes it entirely plausible, and therefore my mind no longer automatically filters out some challenges I'd usually shrink from.
The one caveat is that you have to have some degree of interest in retaining the information. But clearly most of these methods can easily be used by anyone with a normal IQ to achieve relatively astounding results.
Solar panel in a dust storm?
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Who okay's these stupid ideas at NASA? What dumbass is running the show there now, and how many astronauts did he have to barbecue to float to the top of that bowl?
It's called nuclear power folks, and you can use it to create extremely reliable electric generators with a shelf life on the order of decades, and extend the life of sattelites and roving projectiles for years, not days. Day or night 'til the wheels fall off.
In fact, if you use said nuclear/electric power generators to power ion drives, you can use less than half the propellant to get to [insert planet here].
I don't get it. When did NASA become a jobs program for morons? I mean, morons have to make a living too, but shit, can't we let them execute water fountain projects instead?
So you get thrown the hell out of a quisinart onto hostile territory? Glad you're all happy about that outcome.
I think the real problems with the suitability of the catapult system is the # of downed and dead pilots recently. If it's such a hot freakin' idea, why are our pilots failing to survive the ultimate test thereof? Putting men in a hovering, or relatively stationary vehicles amounts to a suicide of stupidity, not heroic necessity. If my guys gotta get shot down, I wanna make sure their sacrifice counted, not that I forced them to die because I was too stupid to adapt to available technology.
Putting human sacrifices in vehicles with the flight charactersitics of a rock will continue to be obsurd as long as a field hand can wield an RPG, automatic rifle or sling a rock which can hit the props.
And where do you propose they catapult pilots who are having to fly below 300 feet to avoid becoming targets? My hunch is this system has never been vetted successfully below a thousand feet.
On the other hand, you can send in 50 armed RC planes for the cost of one attack helicopter and cover a tousand square miles of air space with 200 controllers 24/7 getting buzzed on Skittles.
The documentation on the sight is dated / plagued:
"Last 10 Releases"
31-Dec-1969 firebird 1.5.0-Release (Source)...
1969? That's a neat trick. Hopefully development is a little more dedicated than documentation.
Looking at the list of who's deploying the DB on which platforms, the organization list is impressive, but where's current information? "This page was last updated on 2000-12-31 21:23:04 -0400" doesn't impart warm fuziness, nor do the few references to Linux kernel 2.2.x.
Who's managing the project, and why do they suck at advocating it?
No, it's more like the subject line in its importance. The fact that we have a plethora of OS developers spitting kittens about which tpe of license to use will in fact lead to more project variants. The strongest and best will live through the winnowing process, and make the entire OS/FSF movement even stronger.
I'm more encouraged by this than by the by the stupid advertising IBM throws up, which teaches about Linux to potential users. (May you marketing drones dance on the suns surface.)
I just saw Master and Commander @ the second hand theater on digital projection. It was awesome. No loss of resolution, and no annoying out of frame/focus period while projector is adjusted by a fast food flunky.
If you get a chance, try it. I doubt you'll ever go to another celluloid film if you can find digital. Note that the cost of tickets did go up in my area, but it's been well worth it.
Sure, you laugh, but what are astronauts burned up in billion dollar bottle rockets if not human sacrifices to NASA's stupidity? Intrepid explorers? Baah, you're part of the problem set then, not the solution set.
Burn down NASA before they blow themselves up, or send up another rover with 8 year old technology.
I've got an eight page dissertation on what MS needs to fix in their OS before I can consider switching to it from Linux, and I send it in every time a company rep. is drunk enough to ask.
How many respones have I received? 0.
The problem is not Linux users inability to express dissatisfaction. Many of us have installed and administered large MS implementations and found them to be architectural horse shit. The problem is literally with the MS OS cap-a-pe.
Need examples? Great, how about default install of pagefile (swap) to system partition, DLL caching to disk, PIO default HD access, and kernel cached to disk by default? When base systems are coming with >= 256 meg RAM by default, none of the these choices make any sense whatsoever, but because MS's setup is completely retarded, you're stuck with a machine working at 20-40% capacity directly from install.
I've got 7.8 pages of more friendly suggestions, but frankly since Samba 3.0, it's easier to completely ignore MS at least on the servers. Hopefully UserLinux will pull a miracle out of Peren's sphincter and do the same for the DE.
It's time to stop screwing around and just incorporate Magenta Smurfette Linux for the desktop. Who cares if some tin hat socialist judicial system wants to object. Let 'em.
But at least we now know it was the Norweigan's who had the Swedish jokes right, and not the versa vice.
Sorry to twang the subject, but as a stage 4 cancer tweak, I don't really give a shit about dying, I just hate hanging around 'til I resemble nuked shadow on a wall. Your point is valid.
As a nation we completely suck at making any sense of death or aborting babies. I mean hell, you've already whacked the aborted, what the hell? Respect for the carcass seems a bit tin headed after that.
The reason for T cell research is so we can hypothetically cure some of these screwed up diseases, rather than just keep people chronically alive. We're unintentionally screwing up the whole genome through the use of medication anyway. At some point in the near future, we're going to need to reverse the trend through a genetic annealing processes, or get really used to widespread pandemics.
I know of more than a few Type I diabetic genetic researchers who have taken the understandable step of completely ignoring the law in hopes of developing probable cures. I doubt we can realistically control any researcher with a terminal disease without becoming proactive advocates for their cures rather than being demagogic obstructionists. At least I'd like to hear the guy who has to take 1000 injections a year explain the slow, safe, and save the dead babies idealogy clearly.
First, it should be noted we developed the protocols and the resolution methodology. As the current level of success of the internet seems to indicate, we're proficient in the field without forcing it on anyone.
Second, we are the rest of the world. 99.8% of the US population has completely 'foreign' ancestry. Spitting and railing against the US is no more intelligent than spitting and railing against your own family, and vis versa.
If the UN has some legitimate concerns about the current administration of the internet, it can hardly exceed the complaints vetted here. Out of respect for our own populous, we should at least listen to suggestions offered without experiencing immediate cardiac arrest.
After all, we get a yearly infusion of the best and brightest people from everywhere; the very least we can do is listen in bemused silence, and THEN start lobbing hand grenades. If secreat meetings @ the UN actually caused anything to happen, the US would've disappeared in a blazing white vapor decades ago, so having a sense of humor is probably in order.
Humans actually over time bred them selectively.. so is selective breeding OK but technological gene manipulation OK?
Good line of questioning, and yes, breeding the stronger, tastier, disease resistant plants and animals is is just a common method of gene manipulation.
Of course, apparently it's only okay to unintentionally weaken the human genome through medical technology, not to use it to correct the mutations created by keeping people alive who would otherwise have died @ birth or in childhood.
At least there's a real future for doctors in the typical line of ignorance.
I don't really need a fish that glows in flourescent light, but should my lack of curiousity legislate others ability to care for them as pets?
WHY?
What the hell happened to freedom in this country? These fish represent zero threat to the public or the environment. Having a neon stripe on your side makes you an attractive entre in the wilds, not a super fish destined to spawn with whales.
Or what the hell, continue to create laws which legislate which direction you can fart. When congress legislates how you're allowed to think, don't say you weren't warned, or deny your infamous responsibility. (Whoop, I think Rumsfeld beat you to it!)
Zeig heil mein fuhrer, when do we start rounding up the squirrels and burning their nuts?
1) Debian stable is horribly slow in evolutionary speed. How can Debian be considered a decent base without advanced QA tools to move stable along at > retarded pace? App. developers are not going to dig worrying about a distro stuck dozens of minor # off the latest kernels. At this pace it won't be up to 2.6 'til '08.
2) I know Bruce noted this, but come the hell on folks, there's no excuse for the condition of the installation (interface not applicable here). We're coming up on '04, not '94. If that's not a palpable disdain for new users, a 2X4 between the eyes must be a friendly greeting where y'all live.
3) Can the recent kernel hack being premiered on the Deb base be considered good advertising about quality control on the distro or competence of the core structure? I know every distro using 2.4 was vulnerable, but the timing of this sucks rocks.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good distribution for an advanced niche. But I'm concerned that the hurdles to making it accessible are much higher than are being presented. The last core reorg. may have left them in worse shape than advertised.
I think not deciding is a greater danger than making any decision for a lot of these questions.
Not to be an a$$ kissing aggrandizer, but exactly correct. Last time I checked, we have ~20 desktops on 100's of distros. Obviously, now is the time to stand up and be counted, or shut the hell up and let the status quo continue flailing about.
Making a poor decision is far better than no decision when starting a project that's been considered to death. Any mistake you make now can be patched later, excepting the failure to act when the tide is with you.
IMHO of course, with the exception I don't possess any humility.
Re:I guess I better roll back my Fedora deployment
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What does your deployment of Linux have to do with Unix?
Nothing, if you have your filters set high enough:-)
Otherwise, you'd see an insane level of flame headed toward RH, and my complacent adaptation of their OS to fit business needs.
UNIX is sorta croaked though dude, or I wouldn't be whomping major $ from using *nix instead. And don't give me that MCPU arguemnt, 2.6 handles at least 8 pretty damn well.
We've recently analyzed IM via IRC and Jabber, and though it's subjective due to our business type, the finances broke down as a 8k savings monthly for my department vs. telephone and fax usage.
Like freakin' duh, we needed a financial analyst to tell us using paid for bandwidth rather than incurring added phone expenses saved the company $'s?! I'm slightly happier to see we weren't quite as stupid as AT&T in having to invent a new analysis methodology prior to realizing the blaringly obvious.
I guess I better roll back my Fedora deployment :)
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So I guess my clients saving > $250k by deploying 40+ servers and 180+ desktops on Fedora instead of MS was a bad decision on my part eh?
Oh well, wait 'til we upgrade the kernels to 2.6, then if I get fired, I'll reconsider. (It's blowing the doors off 2003 in our lab tests, so why not?)
BTW, RH can keep spouting this nonsense til the cows come home. The clients seem to have figured out the savings, and don't give a shit, but it seems pretty weird to FUD your own product.
Synaptic is certainly the best GUI I've seen in this case. I'd wager that when apt is included as an official part of the distribution, synaptic will be too.
I agree with you on synaptic. The dependency problem is particularly well handled via apt with a decent repository, so I can't really see the necessity of bothering with anything else (though yum wasn't a bad choice). Honestly, I'll never use anything but the command line once the bash programmable completion list is expanded to include apt-*.
Aside from a delay on RHN registration (like why bother), up2date is working fine.
It's the redhat-config-packages python script which is having major dependency tree detection problems.
Apt and yum are so much easier, I frankly haven't/don't use rh-conf-pck, but it's giving Fedora a lot of bad press with the OS/News crowd.
You make a great point, this setup makes a lot of sense for developers, and Fedora Core 1 is proving to be a great distro.
Word to the wise, the desktop app installer is busted, always fails on dependencies, so just use apt or yum, they're hella user friendly.
PS apt didn't install 'out of the box', or maybe I missed it during setup. D/L from apt.freshrpms.net
What a load of crap. I'm using Fedora Core 1 now, and have just successfully setup pptpd tunneling with mppe support in the kernel, gaim works fine out of the box. Mozilla v. 1.4 apparently can't crash, Webmin works wonderfully, Samba 3.0 is serving as PDC for 6 other workstations. xine and mplayer installed with yum in a few minutes.
Exactly what am I doing wrong here? Did I miss the secret FC1 broken distro the author got? I even installed it cross country on my brothers new Dell workstation via VNC in an hour, and got him installing his favorite FSF/OS apps via yum in a few minutes.
I have a few nits: ext3 filesystem support is loaded as a module, as well as much of the encryption and SCSI support, which was all significantly sped up by rebuilding them into the kernel for my server, but it's much more solid than RH 8 or 9 were upon release.
I'd give it 4.5 stars out of 5, and a big thanks to the Fedora crew.
I've run into the same problem, this has something to do with nautilus+mozzila.
To solve it, and upgrade most of the stuff on the boxen more or less automagically: http://freshrpms.net/apt/
Download and install apt-get for Redhat.
Now, as root: #apt-get update...This will take a few minutes depending on your internet connection speed... #apt-get upgrade mozilla...Maybe 50 apps will be downloaded, so this takes a little while... Enter 'Y' to accept the install.
After about 20 minutes, you should be able to run Mozilla without any further problems, and all of your packages will have been upgraded.
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Do they use special recalling techniques in which you don't continuesly write those numbers?Depending on the technique, the problem becomes an order of operation error. Generally, certain consonants are assigned to 1's and others to 0, then nouns comprise of those consonants are remembered via visualization & or story line visualing. While it's easy to remember the order in 'the cow jumped over the moon', or 'a meteorite strikes Albany', it's not always obvious that a bottle of Pepsi fell off a mini-van, or whether the minivan struck a bottle of Pepsi, but it's either 0111 01100 or 01100 0111, and it sucks to remember thousands of these groupings and get the order switched on just one. So the time is probably just to allow for a mental double check.
Attention -> Intention -> Retention
What's apparently missed here is that mnemonic methodology can be used to sharpen attention and therefore retention to a remarkable degree. I've used it to memorize dates, then equations, then multiple decks of cards. Not only does it work, but it takes what would otherwise seem to be an impossible task and makes it entirely plausible, and therefore my mind no longer automatically filters out some challenges I'd usually shrink from.
The one caveat is that you have to have some degree of interest in retaining the information. But clearly most of these methods can easily be used by anyone with a normal IQ to achieve relatively astounding results.
Who okay's these stupid ideas at NASA? What dumbass is running the show there now, and how many astronauts did he have to barbecue to float to the top of that bowl?
It's called nuclear power folks, and you can use it to create extremely reliable electric generators with a shelf life on the order of decades, and extend the life of sattelites and roving projectiles for years, not days. Day or night 'til the wheels fall off.
In fact, if you use said nuclear/electric power generators to power ion drives, you can use less than half the propellant to get to [insert planet here].
I don't get it. When did NASA become a jobs program for morons? I mean, morons have to make a living too, but shit, can't we let them execute water fountain projects instead?
So you get thrown the hell out of a quisinart onto hostile territory? Glad you're all happy about that outcome.
I think the real problems with the suitability of the catapult system is the # of downed and dead pilots recently. If it's such a hot freakin' idea, why are our pilots failing to survive the ultimate test thereof? Putting men in a hovering, or relatively stationary vehicles amounts to a suicide of stupidity, not heroic necessity. If my guys gotta get shot down, I wanna make sure their sacrifice counted, not that I forced them to die because I was too stupid to adapt to available technology.
'Guess I'll agree to disagree with ya'all.
Putting human sacrifices in vehicles with the flight charactersitics of a rock will continue to be obsurd as long as a field hand can wield an RPG, automatic rifle or sling a rock which can hit the props.
And where do you propose they catapult pilots who are having to fly below 300 feet to avoid becoming targets? My hunch is this system has never been vetted successfully below a thousand feet.
On the other hand, you can send in 50 armed RC planes for the cost of one attack helicopter and cover a tousand square miles of air space with 200 controllers 24/7 getting buzzed on Skittles.
The documentation on the sight is dated / plagued:
...
"Last 10 Releases"
31-Dec-1969 firebird 1.5.0-Release (Source)
1969? That's a neat trick. Hopefully development is a little more dedicated than documentation.
Looking at the list of who's deploying the DB on which platforms, the organization list is impressive, but where's current information?
"This page was last updated on 2000-12-31 21:23:04 -0400" doesn't impart warm fuziness, nor do the few references to Linux kernel 2.2.x.
Who's managing the project, and why do they suck at advocating it?
No, it's more like the subject line in its importance. The fact that we have a plethora of OS developers spitting kittens about which tpe of license to use will in fact lead to more project variants. The strongest and best will live through the winnowing process, and make the entire OS/FSF movement even stronger.
I'm more encouraged by this than by the by the stupid advertising IBM throws up, which teaches about Linux to potential users. (May you marketing drones dance on the suns surface.)
Putting on your boxing gloves men, let's dance!
I just saw Master and Commander @ the second hand theater on digital projection. It was awesome. No loss of resolution, and no annoying out of frame/focus period while projector is adjusted by a fast food flunky.
If you get a chance, try it. I doubt you'll ever go to another celluloid film if you can find digital. Note that the cost of tickets did go up in my area, but it's been well worth it.
Human sacrifices on mars.
Sure, you laugh, but what are astronauts burned up in billion dollar bottle rockets if not human sacrifices to NASA's stupidity? Intrepid explorers? Baah, you're part of the problem set then, not the solution set.
Burn down NASA before they blow themselves up, or send up another rover with 8 year old technology.
I've got an eight page dissertation on what MS needs to fix in their OS before I can consider switching to it from Linux, and I send it in every time a company rep. is drunk enough to ask.
How many respones have I received? 0.
The problem is not Linux users inability to express dissatisfaction. Many of us have installed and administered large MS implementations and found them to be architectural horse shit. The problem is literally with the MS OS cap-a-pe.
Need examples? Great, how about default install of pagefile (swap) to system partition, DLL caching to disk, PIO default HD access, and kernel cached to disk by default? When base systems are coming with >= 256 meg RAM by default, none of the these choices make any sense whatsoever, but because MS's setup is completely retarded, you're stuck with a machine working at 20-40% capacity directly from install.
I've got 7.8 pages of more friendly suggestions, but frankly since Samba 3.0, it's easier to completely ignore MS at least on the servers. Hopefully UserLinux will pull a miracle out of Peren's sphincter and do the same for the DE.
It's time to stop screwing around and just incorporate Magenta Smurfette Linux for the desktop. Who cares if some tin hat socialist judicial system wants to object. Let 'em.
But at least we now know it was the Norweigan's who had the Swedish jokes right, and not the versa vice.
Sorry to twang the subject, but as a stage 4 cancer tweak, I don't really give a shit about dying, I just hate hanging around 'til I resemble nuked shadow on a wall. Your point is valid.
As a nation we completely suck at making any sense of death or aborting babies. I mean hell, you've already whacked the aborted, what the hell? Respect for the carcass seems a bit tin headed after that.
The reason for T cell research is so we can hypothetically cure some of these screwed up diseases, rather than just keep people chronically alive. We're unintentionally screwing up the whole genome through the use of medication anyway. At some point in the near future, we're going to need to reverse the trend through a genetic annealing processes, or get really used to widespread pandemics.
I know of more than a few Type I diabetic genetic researchers who have taken the understandable step of completely ignoring the law in hopes of developing probable cures. I doubt we can realistically control any researcher with a terminal disease without becoming proactive advocates for their cures rather than being demagogic obstructionists. At least I'd like to hear the guy who has to take 1000 injections a year explain the slow, safe, and save the dead babies idealogy clearly.
First, it should be noted we developed the protocols and the resolution methodology. As the current level of success of the internet seems to indicate, we're proficient in the field without forcing it on anyone.
Second, we are the rest of the world. 99.8% of the US population has completely 'foreign' ancestry. Spitting and railing against the US is no more intelligent than spitting and railing against your own family, and vis versa.
If the UN has some legitimate concerns about the current administration of the internet, it can hardly exceed the complaints vetted here. Out of respect for our own populous, we should at least listen to suggestions offered without experiencing immediate cardiac arrest.
After all, we get a yearly infusion of the best and brightest people from everywhere; the very least we can do is listen in bemused silence, and THEN start lobbing hand grenades. If secreat meetings @ the UN actually caused anything to happen, the US would've disappeared in a blazing white vapor decades ago, so having a sense of humor is probably in order.
Humans actually over time bred them selectively.. so is selective breeding OK but technological gene manipulation OK?
Good line of questioning, and yes, breeding the stronger, tastier, disease resistant plants and animals is is just a common method of gene manipulation.
Of course, apparently it's only okay to unintentionally weaken the human genome through medical technology, not to use it to correct the mutations created by keeping people alive who would otherwise have died @ birth or in childhood.
At least there's a real future for doctors in the typical line of ignorance.
I don't really need a fish that glows in flourescent light, but should my lack of curiousity legislate others ability to care for them as pets?
WHY?
What the hell happened to freedom in this country? These fish represent zero threat to the public or the environment. Having a neon stripe on your side makes you an attractive entre in the wilds, not a super fish destined to spawn with whales.
Or what the hell, continue to create laws which legislate which direction you can fart. When congress legislates how you're allowed to think, don't say you weren't warned, or deny your infamous responsibility. (Whoop, I think Rumsfeld beat you to it!)
Zeig heil mein fuhrer, when do we start rounding up the squirrels and burning their nuts?
1) Debian stable is horribly slow in evolutionary speed. How can Debian be considered a decent base without advanced QA tools to move stable along at > retarded pace? App. developers are not going to dig worrying about a distro stuck dozens of minor # off the latest kernels. At this pace it won't be up to 2.6 'til '08.
2) I know Bruce noted this, but come the hell on folks, there's no excuse for the condition of the installation (interface not applicable here). We're coming up on '04, not '94. If that's not a palpable disdain for new users, a 2X4 between the eyes must be a friendly greeting where y'all live.
3) Can the recent kernel hack being premiered on the Deb base be considered good advertising about quality control on the distro or competence of the core structure? I know every distro using 2.4 was vulnerable, but the timing of this sucks rocks.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good distribution for an advanced niche. But I'm concerned that the hurdles to making it accessible are much higher than are being presented. The last core reorg. may have left them in worse shape than advertised.
Flame away damned pirates!
I think not deciding is a greater danger than making any decision for a lot of these questions.
Not to be an a$$ kissing aggrandizer, but exactly correct.
Last time I checked, we have ~20 desktops on 100's of distros. Obviously, now is the time to stand up and be counted, or shut the hell up and let the status quo continue flailing about.
Making a poor decision is far better than no decision when starting a project that's been considered to death. Any mistake you make now can be patched later, excepting the failure to act when the tide is with you.
IMHO of course, with the exception I don't possess any humility.
What does your deployment of Linux have to do with Unix?
:-)
Nothing, if you have your filters set high enough
Otherwise, you'd see an insane level of flame headed toward RH, and my complacent adaptation of their OS to fit business needs.
UNIX is sorta croaked though dude, or I wouldn't be whomping major $ from using *nix instead. And don't give me that MCPU arguemnt, 2.6 handles at least 8 pretty damn well.
grovelling thanx to Linus!
We've recently analyzed IM via IRC and Jabber, and though it's subjective due to our business type, the finances broke down as a 8k savings monthly for my department vs. telephone and fax usage.
Like freakin' duh, we needed a financial analyst to tell us using paid for bandwidth rather than incurring added phone expenses saved the company $'s?! I'm slightly happier to see we weren't quite as stupid as AT&T in having to invent a new analysis methodology prior to realizing the blaringly obvious.
So I guess my clients saving > $250k by deploying 40+ servers and 180+ desktops on Fedora instead of MS was a bad decision on my part eh?
Oh well, wait 'til we upgrade the kernels to 2.6, then if I get fired, I'll reconsider. (It's blowing the doors off 2003 in our lab tests, so why not?)
BTW, RH can keep spouting this nonsense til the cows come home. The clients seem to have figured out the savings, and don't give a shit, but it seems pretty weird to FUD your own product.
Synaptic is certainly the best GUI I've seen in this case. I'd wager that when apt is included as an official part of the distribution, synaptic will be too.
I agree with you on synaptic. The dependency problem is particularly well handled via apt with a decent repository, so I can't really see the necessity of bothering with anything else (though yum wasn't a bad choice). Honestly, I'll never use anything but the command line once the bash programmable completion list is expanded to include apt-*.
Aside from a delay on RHN registration (like why bother), up2date is working fine. It's the redhat-config-packages python script which is having major dependency tree detection problems. Apt and yum are so much easier, I frankly haven't/don't use rh-conf-pck, but it's giving Fedora a lot of bad press with the OS/News crowd.
You make a great point, this setup makes a lot of sense for developers, and Fedora Core 1 is proving to be a great distro. Word to the wise, the desktop app installer is busted, always fails on dependencies, so just use apt or yum, they're hella user friendly. PS apt didn't install 'out of the box', or maybe I missed it during setup. D/L from apt.freshrpms.net
What a load of crap. I'm using Fedora Core 1 now, and have just successfully setup pptpd tunneling with mppe support in the kernel, gaim works fine out of the box. Mozilla v. 1.4 apparently can't crash, Webmin works wonderfully, Samba 3.0 is serving as PDC for 6 other workstations. xine and mplayer installed with yum in a few minutes.
Exactly what am I doing wrong here? Did I miss the secret FC1 broken distro the author got? I even installed it cross country on my brothers new Dell workstation via VNC in an hour, and got him installing his favorite FSF/OS apps via yum in a few minutes.
I have a few nits: ext3 filesystem support is loaded as a module, as well as much of the encryption and SCSI support, which was all significantly sped up by rebuilding them into the kernel for my server, but it's much more solid than RH 8 or 9 were upon release.
I'd give it 4.5 stars out of 5, and a big thanks to the Fedora crew.
I've run into the same problem, this has something to do with nautilus+mozzila.
...This will take a few minutes depending on your internet connection speed... ...Maybe 50 apps will be downloaded, so this takes a little while...
To solve it, and upgrade most of the stuff on the boxen more or less automagically:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/
Download and install apt-get for Redhat.
Now, as root:
#apt-get update
#apt-get upgrade mozilla
Enter 'Y' to accept the install.
After about 20 minutes, you should be able to run Mozilla without any further problems, and all of your packages will have been upgraded.