I'm using mandrake 10. I decided on this distro because it's the easiest I've found and I wanted to introduce myself with my hands held. I've heard of prelinking and I've googled for it but I haven't found anything that can easily explain how it works and how it's used. Most stuff I've read on it just says to "use it." If anyone knows much about it or can point me and I'm sure many other people in its path that would be appriciated.
I have always found Mandrake to be very slow. I started with Mandrake 7 or so. I recently tried the previous (9.x) release before 10 and still found it to be unbearably slow.
That being said, I still say that that is the best distro for someone to start with. I have since moved on to Gentoo. My linux install blows away anything else I have used in respect to speed however I still use XP quite a bit (though not as much since i got by powerbook.) I would suggest putting a new partition on your machine and giving gentoo a shot. The install is a little difficult but you'll learn so much about how to administer your machine through the install.
I'm sure mandrake could be sped up a little but I'm not the person to ask. I think a lot of it it boils down to getting the correct drivers for your hardware, especially your video card and getting read of services that you don't need or want.
And while we're on the subject can we please standardize Control-C vs. ALT-C,
etc.???
That is my biggest issue with the linux/open source world. Not that in particular, but the lack of standardization. The lack of standardization of shortcut keys, graphical interface design and general look-and-feel of the interface.
For me, usability is much more important then functionality. I wouldn't run a server on anything else but a little more maturity is needed to get me to use linux as a home system.
However, if you continue to get e-mails that you're not supposed to get and you don't take a pro-active action to stop them, then you are accepting the information that you're being given...
I don't know that I completely agree with that. I get hundreds of messages a day that are filtered to my spam folder. I may or may not ever read or even look at the subjects.
Although I was hoping to see True Fantasy at E3...
I have issues with all of the online games that charge a subscription. The way I see it, they should either give the software for free and then charge a subscription or you purchase the software and play without a subscription.
I don't buy games unless I am confidant that I'll play it for at least a year. If I pay $50 for the software and then another $10/month for a year, that's $170 for a game. Apparently some people are willing to pay that. I am not.
Oh not to mention the lack of a AC port for us people who do not wish to charge off the firewire port. Ok getting of my soap box now.
If you are saying that you want to charge it away from your computer, it comes with an adapter to plug onto the end of the firewire cable (at least the 2G iPods do). If you are complaining about the use of the actual port to charge, I don't see what the problem is.
If the death penalty applies to spam, and someone might get caught for spamming, then they may as well just go kill someone while they are at it. Maybe kill the witnesses. It can't increase the severity of the penalty, so why not?
Did you read his post? He is talking about Identity theft, not spam. While I don't agree that capital punishment is appropriate for identity theft, 7 years is no where near long enough.
A lot of people today still see OOP is a fad that will pass. On the otherhand, there has always been resistance to new programming paradigms. The early machine-code programmers resisted FORTRAN. The FORTRAN programmers resisted the Algol-like languages. People (including myself) are still not sure about the tradeoffs of OOP. If this is the next big thing, it is really no suprise that the majority of people here seem to oppose it.
Anyways, I recommend people using it if they are interested in begining on linux, because it gives the ease of use that a beginner needs, but its pretty powerful under the hood.
I will agree with that statement. There is very little configuration needed to get it up and running and none from the command line.
I started there but eventually moved to slack and gentoo. There's something about Mandrake that I don't care for much but I can't put my finger on it. I tried the previous release because of the hype but I just went back to slackware. Going back to gentoo after I get broadband.
With them creating their own standards, the bigger issue may be if they will still produce the equipment for the rest of the world's standards or just their own.
They'd be stupid not to. That is a huge part of their economy. Why would they stop producing for 20 (aribtrary number) countries and only focus on producing for domestic purposes. That seems backwards.
The problem is this. Some people, like yourself, have no problems with Windows, and it works great. Some people, like my girlfriend, have Windows installations that crash all the time. So yes, Windows can be perfectly stable, if you're lucky. (I should also point out that shutting the machine down at night shouldn't count; decent computers have sleep modes and never have to be rebooted just to make them stop using electricity.)
With Linux or OS X or whatever, you don't have this kind of inconsistency. Basically everybody who uses them, ignoring people who run experimental kernels or unsupported drivers, never has them crash, even when the computers are up for months at a time. You don't have to be lucky or do anything special. Yes, Windows is better, but it still has a long way to go. When my girlfriend's PC stops crashing a couple of times a week (running XP) then I'll reconsider.
I think it has more to do with the quality of the hardware than windows itself. On my old compaq computer, windows crashed all the time. On the machine that I built, windows is very stable. The difference is that I know what hardware is in the case and I trusted the hardware before I put it in.
Both XFree86 and KDE were unstable on my old compaq machine as well. I had no problems with the kernal though.
OS X is built to run on Apple's hardware so they don't have to worry as much about 3rd party hardware. Most all Linux users that I know build their own machines and know what hardware is supported by linux and what is not.
Unfortunately, it's been held up as an example of how horrible nuclear power is. But what happened in Chernobyl would almost certainly never happen in a Western plant.
That's true but what happens after 20-30 years of nuclear power with no accidents? What I fear is that that some inspectors somewhere will become complacent. They have checked the same reactor for 20 years and nothing bad has happen. It would be easy to miss something.
One little miss and we could have something worse then Chernobyl.
et me point you to the sun as an an example of what it takes to keep fusion conditions viable over long timescales without extra energy input. Thats a hell of a lot of mass to produce the gravitational energy to keep a burning plasma self-confined, not to mention the large scale bulk motion of the solar plasma that is still not completely understood that allows the sun to create its own magnetic field via a dynamo effect. Regardless of what the open scientific questions about how our sun and other stars operate, few if any competent researchers will argue that a self-sustaining magneticially confined plasma is something that can be created on earth, simply because of the scales invovled to produce a dynamo. Earth's core for example, is probably a good example of the amount of material needed to produce a dynamo..and thats not even a fusion plasma..just a magnetic dynamo..getting to the much higher pressure/temperature conditions required to produce a self-sustaining magneticlly confided plasma will require stellar mass.
I'll be honest in that I don't understand a lot of what you posted. I believe the grandparent AC was asking if the energy that that the plasma creates will be enough to power the machinery to create the magnetic fields and whatever else is needed.
If you ARE addressing this, could you dumb it down a little?
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I have issues with paying for the game then paying for a subscription to play Everquest or whatever.
Obviously I am in the minority but if they want me to pay for a subscription, they have better give me the software for free.
I'm using mandrake 10. I decided on this distro because it's the easiest I've found and I wanted to introduce myself with my hands held. I've heard of prelinking and I've googled for it but I haven't found anything that can easily explain how it works and how it's used. Most stuff I've read on it just says to "use it." If anyone knows much about it or can point me and I'm sure many other people in its path that would be appriciated.
I have always found Mandrake to be very slow. I started with Mandrake 7 or so. I recently tried the previous (9.x) release before 10 and still found it to be unbearably slow.
That being said, I still say that that is the best distro for someone to start with. I have since moved on to Gentoo. My linux install blows away anything else I have used in respect to speed however I still use XP quite a bit (though not as much since i got by powerbook.) I would suggest putting a new partition on your machine and giving gentoo a shot. The install is a little difficult but you'll learn so much about how to administer your machine through the install.
I'm sure mandrake could be sped up a little but I'm not the person to ask. I think a lot of it it boils down to getting the correct drivers for your hardware, especially your video card and getting read of services that you don't need or want.
Not sure how that qualifies as old news...
And while we're on the subject can we please standardize Control-C vs. ALT-C, etc.???
That is my biggest issue with the linux/open source world. Not that in particular, but the lack of standardization. The lack of standardization of shortcut keys, graphical interface design and general look-and-feel of the interface.
For me, usability is much more important then functionality. I wouldn't run a server on anything else but a little more maturity is needed to get me to use linux as a home system.
However, if you continue to get e-mails that you're not supposed to get and you don't take a pro-active action to stop them, then you are accepting the information that you're being given...
I don't know that I completely agree with that. I get hundreds of messages a day that are filtered to my spam folder. I may or may not ever read or even look at the subjects.
Seriously...
No matter what they do, they can not take serious action without breaking compatibility with the millions of cd players already out there.
It has to be completely voluntary. I'm sure we all know how that will work.
Although I was hoping to see True Fantasy at E3...
I have issues with all of the online games that charge a subscription. The way I see it, they should either give the software for free and then charge a subscription or you purchase the software and play without a subscription.
I don't buy games unless I am confidant that I'll play it for at least a year. If I pay $50 for the software and then another $10/month for a year, that's $170 for a game. Apparently some people are willing to pay that. I am not.
Jeez - talk about stating the obvious.
Perhaps it is obvious to the average slashdot user. CNN is making an attempt to make it obvious to more users. What is your problem here?
The more people that realize the security issues with WiFi, the more secure the net will be.
This should not be modded insightful. I don't understand the people who feel it necessary to change words in articles. Makes no sense to me.
Slashdot is a mix of drama-queens and over-sensationalizing news anchors.
Oh not to mention the lack of a AC port for us people who do not wish to charge off the firewire port. Ok getting of my soap box now.
If you are saying that you want to charge it away from your computer, it comes with an adapter to plug onto the end of the firewire cable (at least the 2G iPods do). If you are complaining about the use of the actual port to charge, I don't see what the problem is.
If the death penalty applies to spam, and someone might get caught for spamming, then they may as well just go kill someone while they are at it. Maybe kill the witnesses. It can't increase the severity of the penalty, so why not?
Did you read his post? He is talking about Identity theft, not spam. While I don't agree that capital punishment is appropriate for identity theft, 7 years is no where near long enough.
A lot of people today still see OOP is a fad that will pass. On the otherhand, there has always been resistance to new programming paradigms. The early machine-code programmers resisted FORTRAN. The FORTRAN programmers resisted the Algol-like languages. People (including myself) are still not sure about the tradeoffs of OOP. If this is the next big thing, it is really no suprise that the majority of people here seem to oppose it.
It only has two native structures, the 'atom' and the 'sequence'. An atom is a single value, a sequence is an array of atoms and or sequences.
That sounds like it is at least based on lisp. That is the basic premise of lisp as well. I believe the term "atom" orininated in lisp.
I don't think you have any reason to apologize.
Anyways, I recommend people using it if they are interested in begining on linux, because it gives the ease of use that a beginner needs, but its pretty powerful under the hood.
I will agree with that statement. There is very little configuration needed to get it up and running and none from the command line.
I started there but eventually moved to slack and gentoo. There's something about Mandrake that I don't care for much but I can't put my finger on it. I tried the previous release because of the hype but I just went back to slackware. Going back to gentoo after I get broadband.
Personally, if the Chinese standards don't include restrictive concepts such as CSS and region-encoding, I'd rather have my movies on EVD than DVD.
But do you honestly thing that US movie companies are going to release movies on EVD without copy-protection? That will never happen.
With them creating their own standards, the bigger issue may be if they will still produce the equipment for the rest of the world's standards or just their own.
They'd be stupid not to. That is a huge part of their economy. Why would they stop producing for 20 (aribtrary number) countries and only focus on producing for domestic purposes. That seems backwards.
The problem is this. Some people, like yourself, have no problems with Windows, and it works great. Some people, like my girlfriend, have Windows installations that crash all the time. So yes, Windows can be perfectly stable, if you're lucky. (I should also point out that shutting the machine down at night shouldn't count; decent computers have sleep modes and never have to be rebooted just to make them stop using electricity.)
With Linux or OS X or whatever, you don't have this kind of inconsistency. Basically everybody who uses them, ignoring people who run experimental kernels or unsupported drivers, never has them crash, even when the computers are up for months at a time. You don't have to be lucky or do anything special. Yes, Windows is better, but it still has a long way to go. When my girlfriend's PC stops crashing a couple of times a week (running XP) then I'll reconsider.
I think it has more to do with the quality of the hardware than windows itself. On my old compaq computer, windows crashed all the time. On the machine that I built, windows is very stable. The difference is that I know what hardware is in the case and I trusted the hardware before I put it in.
Both XFree86 and KDE were unstable on my old compaq machine as well. I had no problems with the kernal though.
OS X is built to run on Apple's hardware so they don't have to worry as much about 3rd party hardware. Most all Linux users that I know build their own machines and know what hardware is supported by linux and what is not.
I may be off here but that is my take on it.
Unfortunately, it's been held up as an example of how horrible nuclear power is. But what happened in Chernobyl would almost certainly never happen in a Western plant.
That's true but what happens after 20-30 years of nuclear power with no accidents? What I fear is that that some inspectors somewhere will become complacent. They have checked the same reactor for 20 years and nothing bad has happen. It would be easy to miss something.
One little miss and we could have something worse then Chernobyl.
et me point you to the sun as an an example of what it takes to keep fusion conditions viable over long timescales without extra energy input. Thats a hell of a lot of mass to produce the gravitational energy to keep a burning plasma self-confined, not to mention the large scale bulk motion of the solar plasma that is still not completely understood that allows the sun to create its own magnetic field via a dynamo effect. Regardless of what the open scientific questions about how our sun and other stars operate, few if any competent researchers will argue that a self-sustaining magneticially confined plasma is something that can be created on earth, simply because of the scales invovled to produce a dynamo. Earth's core for example, is probably a good example of the amount of material needed to produce a dynamo..and thats not even a fusion plasma..just a magnetic dynamo..getting to the much higher pressure/temperature conditions required to produce a self-sustaining magneticlly confided plasma will require stellar mass.
I'll be honest in that I don't understand a lot of what you posted. I believe the grandparent AC was asking if the energy that that the plasma creates will be enough to power the machinery to create the magnetic fields and whatever else is needed.
If you ARE addressing this, could you dumb it down a little?
And why would an essay of gibberish deserve an A? Just because something is cool doesn't change the fact that it is not what was assigned.
What really needs to happen is at least part of what the article suggests -- the movie needs a talented director (aka, not Lucas).
How cool of a movie would it be if Terrentino directed it??
A company isn't going to hold a convention at a back-country campsite. This isn't a camping trip. This is a convention.
Well designed applications never need more than a single button.
Perhaps most applications never need a two button mouse but it makes it a lot easier. OS X in fact encourages it by having so many context menus.
But since they are two stubburn to update their mouse, they resort to having their users use the ctrl-click.