http://www.canoe.ca/JamOscar2000/mar9_murray.htm l
From the article:
"Far from being offended by the song's lyrics, publicist Marlene Palmer said the singer was amused by the song and would have performed at the show, except it conflicts with a long-planned holiday."
I get my (non-tech) news here in Halifax, NS, Canada from two major sources.
(1) CBC Radio 1 They provide excellent depth of coverage with a good balance of local, regional, national, and international news. I listen mostly in the car, and first thing in the morning when I'm trying to get out of bed.
(2) The Chronicle Herald This is Canada's last major independant newspaper. Sure its tech coverage is laughable, but its a good all around paper. The only problem is that its competiton (a horrible rag called the Daily News that got bought by Conrad Black) has the rights to Dilbert. I do most of my reading on the throne.
I've sometimes considered dropping the newspaper and relying only on the radio for news. Maybe if I put a radio in the bathroom. But the net and even the radio just can't beat the tactile feeling of a newspaper.
The net is far too confined for general news. I will never have a computer in my bathroom, or read a web page while I'm driving.
I just had a look at the site, and was shocked that they don't include YTV in their lineup. They show great stuff on that channel, (Reboot, Shadow Raiders, Dragon Ball Z, etc). It is the only reason that I bother to pay for cable.
I just looked at the NFB (National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca) website. In their online shopping section they've got collections of some AMAZING award winning animation shorts. Most people that grew up here in the Great White North will remember ones like these:
How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly The Cat Came Back The Log Drivers Waltz
and the all time classic The Sweater
They also have "Bob's Birthday", the short that launched the Bob and Margaret series.
Not especially geeky stuff, but very high quality.
If I ever setup a network, I've decided to name the boxen using the first names of Bond villians (only from the books.) They'd be easy to remember but not so obviously related to make me feel silly. Here at work all of our *NIX boxes are have generic dog names.
I just read the article and the first page of replies here at/. The article started well, and listed some good strengths of FreeBSD. Unfortunately it ran into FUD territory. Naturally some of us slashdotters couldn't stand that and had to fight FUD with FUD. Lotsa fun to read.
I've never used any *BSD, but from what I've heard, they are perfectly fine OSen.
It seems to me that a good combination between the slow release cycle/nice packaging of FreeBSD and the other strengths of linux is Debian. (Advocacy mode on) Debian goes through a very thourough(sp?) testing phase and handles dependencies beautifully. I've been using it for nearly 2 years now, and have had very few problems. I've gone from 1.3 to 2.0 to 2.1 and have always been impressed. The gnome and KDE.debs that I installed went on without a hitch. (They also disappeared just as easily when I decided that I like windowmaker better).
Disclaimer #1: The only linux dist that I have used is Debian. I have no experience with any other dists, so my opinions on them are solely based on hearsay.
Disclaimer #2: My computer experience is limited to: (1) TI-99/4A, (2) C64 (3) DOS, win3.1, win95 (4) limited use of VMS on a couple boxes (5) an email only account on an AIX box (6) Debian GNU/Linux I am not a guru of any sorts.
About 2 hours after writing this comment I was writing a report using Orifice word97 when it crashed on me and took my box down. After rebooting, I fired up word again, expecting it to automatically load the last autosave of the document I was working on. It usually does this after a crash. When it came up with a blank document, I went looking for the autosave file and found a nice FILE0002.CHK that looked strangely familiar. I ignored it and opened the original file since I had manually saved 5 minutes before the crash. If I hadn't just saved and didn't know to look at scandisk files, I would have been up the creek and lost a couple hours of work.
I should not have mocked the all knowing pundit Moody (Jesse Berst Jr.)
(1) Windows Crashes once per day. Okay, I'll believe that one. Sometimes I get uptimes of over a week, but sometimes I crash once an hour. Depends on what I'm doing.
(2) Two hour recovery time per crash. Total insanity. My C64 word processor had an auto-save feature. So has every office program worth its salt since. Anyone doing more interesting work on a computer (coding,design, etc) will definately be clueful enough save regularly if their program of choice doesn't do it automatically. And I find that if I do lose a piece of code to a crash or oops of some sort, the rewrite will be better thought out.
(3) $40 bucks per document lost. That number seems okay, but not every crash will destroy documents.
I know that/., linuxtoday, etc take away a lot more from my working day than annoying windows crashes.
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http://www.canoe.ca/JamOscar2000/mar9_murray.ht
From the article:
"Far from being offended by the song's lyrics,
publicist Marlene Palmer said the singer was
amused by the song and would have performed at
the show, except it conflicts with a long-planned
holiday."
I get my (non-tech) news here in Halifax, NS, Canada from two major sources.
(1) CBC Radio 1
They provide excellent depth of coverage with a good balance of local, regional, national, and international news. I listen mostly in the car, and first thing in the morning when I'm trying to get out of bed.
(2) The Chronicle Herald
This is Canada's last major independant newspaper. Sure its tech coverage is laughable, but its a good all around paper. The only problem is that its competiton (a horrible rag called the Daily News that got bought by Conrad Black) has the rights to Dilbert.
I do most of my reading on the throne.
I've sometimes considered dropping the newspaper and relying only on the radio for news. Maybe if I put a radio in the bathroom. But the net and even the radio just can't beat the tactile feeling of a newspaper.
The net is far too confined for general news. I will never have a computer in my bathroom, or read a web page while I'm driving.
I just had a look at the site, and was shocked that they don't include YTV in their lineup. They show great stuff on that channel, (Reboot, Shadow Raiders, Dragon Ball Z, etc). It is the only reason that I bother to pay for cable.
Mark
As a resident of Cole Harbour, NS, I was wondering the same thing.
I just looked at the NFB (National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca) website.
In their online shopping section they've got collections of some AMAZING award winning animation shorts. Most people that grew up here in the Great White North will remember ones like these:
How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
The Cat Came Back
The Log Drivers Waltz
and the all time classic
The Sweater
They also have "Bob's Birthday", the short that launched the Bob and Margaret series.
Not especially geeky stuff, but very high quality.
If I ever setup a network, I've decided to name the boxen using the first names of Bond villians (only from the books.) They'd be easy to remember but not so obviously related to make me feel silly. Here at work all of our *NIX boxes are have generic dog names.
I'd much rather have Julius, Ernst, Hugo, etc.
I just read the article and the first page of replies here at /. The article started well, and listed some good strengths of FreeBSD. Unfortunately it ran into FUD territory. Naturally some of us slashdotters couldn't stand that and had to fight FUD with FUD. Lotsa fun to read.
.debs that I installed went on without a hitch. (They also disappeared just as easily when I decided that I like windowmaker better).
I've never used any *BSD, but from what I've heard, they are perfectly fine OSen.
It seems to me that a good combination between the slow release cycle/nice packaging of FreeBSD and the other strengths of linux is Debian.
(Advocacy mode on) Debian goes through a very thourough(sp?) testing phase and handles dependencies beautifully. I've been using it for nearly 2 years now, and have had very few problems. I've gone from 1.3 to 2.0 to 2.1 and have always been impressed. The gnome and KDE
Disclaimer #1: The only linux dist that I have used is Debian. I have no experience with any other dists, so my opinions on them are solely based on hearsay.
Disclaimer #2: My computer experience is limited to:
(1) TI-99/4A,
(2) C64
(3) DOS, win3.1, win95
(4) limited use of VMS on a couple boxes
(5) an email only account on an AIX box
(6) Debian GNU/Linux
I am not a guru of any sorts.
About 2 hours after writing this comment I was writing a report using Orifice word97 when it crashed on me and took my box down. After rebooting, I fired up word again, expecting it to automatically load the last autosave of the document I was working on. It usually does this after a crash. When it came up with a blank document, I went looking for the autosave file and found a nice FILE0002.CHK that looked strangely familiar. I ignored it and opened the original file since I had manually saved 5 minutes before the crash. If I hadn't just saved and didn't know to look at scandisk files, I would have been up the creek and lost a couple hours of work.
I should not have mocked the all knowing pundit Moody (Jesse Berst Jr.)
His assumptions on document loss are ridiculous:
/., linuxtoday, etc take away a lot more from my working day than annoying windows crashes.
(1) Windows Crashes once per day.
Okay, I'll believe that one. Sometimes I get uptimes of over a week, but sometimes I crash once an hour. Depends on what I'm doing.
(2) Two hour recovery time per crash.
Total insanity. My C64 word processor had an auto-save feature. So has every office program worth its salt since. Anyone doing more interesting work on a computer (coding,design, etc) will definately be clueful enough save regularly if their program of choice doesn't do it automatically. And I find that if I do lose a piece of code to a crash or oops of some sort, the rewrite will be better thought out.
(3) $40 bucks per document lost.
That number seems okay, but not every crash will destroy documents.
I know that