AOL Time Warner might crumble if it tried to overextend itself to, say, Alpha Centauri, but something tells me it'll do just fine capturing, say, 99% of the market share.
Sure, maybe briefly, until some revolutionary technology comes along. Like, say, the availability of Firewire-based DV studios for under $3000.
I always say, the bigger they come, the harder they fall.
It could, of course, be the end to World Unemployment - just give every unemployed person a net connection and ask them to rate porn sites for the German government.
Yeah, I just installed the 2.2.2 RPMs, and now Konqueror is hanging up a lot. Even as I type this message it's taking like 1 sec per character, and dropping characters if I type fast.
This is on a 1.5 GHz system with 256M RAM. I think I'll go back to 2.2.0, unless anyone has any suggestions.
Actually, no. If you don't have any money coming in, you spend ALL of your time trying to land something that pays. Programming for free is the LAST thing on your mind when you're unemployed.
Your problem is that Mandrake blows. I was a diehard 'drake advocate until recently, when their quality started going downhill.
For now I am using Red Hat, with the stock KDE 2.2 install. Although Red Hat doesn't include gazillions of applications like Mandrake does, it's much more stable and polished. Still, it's not really a desktop distro. I'm keeping a close eye on Xandros, which will be based on KDE, Debian and Corel Linux.
KDE 2.2 is slick as all hell. Still a few minor hiccups every now and then (many of which would probably be fixed if I upgraded to 2.2.1) but overall it's the most solid and robust *nix desktop environment I've ever used. (I've used OS X, but am not really impressed with it).
While everyone was busy harping about Mozilla, Konqueror grew up. It's now tantalizingly close to being an IE-killer. I shit you not. It's a very pleasant browsing experience, standards compliant, and to top it all off it's a great file manager as well.
KOffice is a great start at an integrated office suite. It's at the 'basic' stage right now. It reminds me of Clarisworks for the Mac, in that it's all integrated together and, while it doesn't support some of the fancier features, it can handle 90% of what most people want to do.
I'm really looking forward to KDE 3.0.
Go KDE.
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Yep, KOffice is pretty slick. I'm in the middle of converting all of my files from StarOffice to KOffice formats.
It still has a few features I miss, and I've run into a few annoyances getting the print preview to actually match what comes out of the printer, but overall it's pretty usable for everything I need to do - mostly spreadsheets and typing contracts.
I totally agree that cultural homogenization is horrendous, but the vast majority of people the world over apparently don't agree! That doesn't prevent small, unique businesses and institutions from existing! There are still mom-and-pop ISPs out there! There are still small manufacturing companies!
My theory is that homogenization is partly a result of the regulatory barriers to entry that small businesses face. Only those which are big enough to hire teams of lawyers and tax consultants are able to deal with all the acronymic agencies which govern their existence.
Try Dialtone (http://www.dialtoneinternet.com). $195/mo gets you a dedicated box sitting on multiple OC-3s, on which you can run whatever the hell you want, as long as you're not spamming people or being otherwise obnoxious. They also occasionally have some great closeout specials.
Rackspace offers similar services, but I think they're a bit pricier.
Yeah, I have been using Analog for about 5 years. It's fast as blazes and produces pretty useful reports (especially for my hosting customers who are not rocket scientists) but it's not perfect. Although it will cache DNS lookups, it doesn't checkpoint, so if you want your report to reflect the last 6 months of activity you have to crunch the last 6 months worth of log. The configuration syntax is also a bear to work with. Too many directives that sound alike, and it can be hard to dig through the documentation.
I don't like the reports generated by anything else, including Webalizer, so I stick with Analog.
I noticed it in the CompUSA store yesterday (Gaithersburg, MD)-- in a theft-control case. Which I took to be an excellent sign... when someone wants your operating system bad enough to steal it, you must be doing something right.:)
I can see the headline now: "Local man arrested for stealing free software"
Man, I've thoroughly had it with Mandrake. It was great back in the 6.x days, but the last few releases have been unstable and bug ridden as hell. I'm giving Red Hat a try now...
I just bought a "small business" Dell Dimension 4300 a couple days ago. Base price for 1.5 GHz, 20G space, 256M RAM was $599. After adding a 3Com NIC for $50, plus shipping and tax it came to $805. I tinkered with the included Windows ME for a day or so, then wiped it and installed Linux. It works pretty well - it's definitely a solid machine that's worth the money. Supposedly the PC133 RAM doesn't take full advantage of the P4, but I was really on a budget, and I'm just happy to have something semi-zippy to replace my old AMD 350.
Sound was scratchy under Mandrake 8.1, but worked fine under Red Hat 7.1. (I tried Mandrake but didn't like it, so I installed Red Hat)
Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the machine.
MandrakeSoft moved North American production to the United States because tariff laws for imported products effectively increased the manufacturing cost by a factor of two or three, said Jean Mar, business operations manager.
Consider this: How many times have you watched TV coverage of a subject you know and understand and you find yourself thinking "they're getting it wrong, that's false, they're missing it,..."?
Exactly. Just about every time television covers a subject I'm knowledgeable on, they totally miss the essence of it and present an inaccurate report. That's why I don't trust TV news for the most part.
TV was great on Sept 11 because it gave us live feeds of the events as they unfolded. It ceased to be useful about 36 hours later, when the talking heads took over.
There have been a few good programs in the last month on PBS, BBC, C-Span, MSNBC and CNN, but for the most part it's homogenous, prepackaged crap - basically press releases and official statements repeated verbatim. I'm very grateful to have the Internet.
I've written some of my state reps but I'm just not sure that's doing the job. Is there a bigger organization that will stand up for us and privacy?
Then maybe it's time to replace your state reps. Try the Libertarian Party.
Whether you otherwise love or hate them, you have to admit their platform plank on privacy sounds a hell of a lot better than that of the virtually indistinguishable ElephantDonkey policitians:
The individual's right to privacy, property, and right to speak or not to speak should not be infringed by the government. The government should not use electronic or other means of covert surveillance of an individual's actions or private property without the consent of the owner or occupant....
We oppose all restrictions and regulations on the private development, sale, and use of encryption technology. We specifically oppose any requirement for disclosure of encryption methods or keys, including the government's proposals for so-called "key escrow" which is truly government access to keys, and any requirement for use of government-specified devices or protocols. We also oppose government classification of civilian research on encryption methods....
We oppose the issuance by the government of an identity card, to be required for any purpose, such as employment, voting, or border crossing.
We further oppose the nearly universal requirement for use of the Social Security Number as a personal identification code, whether by government agencies or by intimidation of private companies by governments. "
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Ditto with Word, although I have not been smart enough to actually program it.
Wow - thanks for an interesting link!
AOL Time Warner might crumble if it tried to overextend itself to, say, Alpha Centauri, but something tells me it'll do just fine capturing, say, 99% of the market share.
Sure, maybe briefly, until some revolutionary technology comes along. Like, say, the availability of Firewire-based DV studios for under $3000.
I always say, the bigger they come, the harder they fall.
I think you must mean:
... Gallian, Mozzila, Oppirra ...
Hrmph. There ought to be a "+ 0.3, Mildly Amusing" moderation option.
It could, of course, be the end to World Unemployment - just give every unemployed person a net connection and ask them to rate porn sites for the German government.
Hehe. www.amipornornot.gov.de
Yeah, I just installed the 2.2.2 RPMs, and now Konqueror is hanging up a lot. Even as I type this message it's taking like 1 sec per character, and dropping characters if I type fast.
This is on a 1.5 GHz system with 256M RAM. I think I'll go back to 2.2.0, unless anyone has any suggestions.
Actually, no. If you don't have any money coming in, you spend ALL of your time trying to land something that pays. Programming for free is the LAST thing on your mind when you're unemployed.
:)
I can attest to this
Your problem is that Mandrake blows. I was a diehard 'drake advocate until recently, when their quality started going downhill.
For now I am using Red Hat, with the stock KDE 2.2 install. Although Red Hat doesn't include gazillions of applications like Mandrake does, it's much more stable and polished. Still, it's not really a desktop distro. I'm keeping a close eye on Xandros, which will be based on KDE, Debian and Corel Linux.
KDE 2.2 is slick as all hell. Still a few minor hiccups every now and then (many of which would probably be fixed if I upgraded to 2.2.1) but overall it's the most solid and robust *nix desktop environment I've ever used. (I've used OS X, but am not really impressed with it).
While everyone was busy harping about Mozilla, Konqueror grew up. It's now tantalizingly close to being an IE-killer. I shit you not. It's a very pleasant browsing experience, standards compliant, and to top it all off it's a great file manager as well.
KOffice is a great start at an integrated office suite. It's at the 'basic' stage right now. It reminds me of Clarisworks for the Mac, in that it's all integrated together and, while it doesn't support some of the fancier features, it can handle 90% of what most people want to do.
I'm really looking forward to KDE 3.0.
Go KDE.
Yep, KOffice is pretty slick. I'm in the middle of converting all of my files from StarOffice to KOffice formats.
It still has a few features I miss, and I've run into a few annoyances getting the print preview to actually match what comes out of the printer, but overall it's pretty usable for everything I need to do - mostly spreadsheets and typing contracts.
I totally agree that cultural homogenization is horrendous, but the vast majority of people the world over apparently don't agree! That doesn't prevent small, unique businesses and institutions from existing! There are still mom-and-pop ISPs out there! There are still small manufacturing companies!
My theory is that homogenization is partly a result of the regulatory barriers to entry that small businesses face. Only those which are big enough to hire teams of lawyers and tax consultants are able to deal with all the acronymic agencies which govern their existence.
Try Dialtone (http://www.dialtoneinternet.com). $195/mo gets you a dedicated box sitting on multiple OC-3s, on which you can run whatever the hell you want, as long as you're not spamming people or being otherwise obnoxious. They also occasionally have some great closeout specials.
Rackspace offers similar services, but I think they're a bit pricier.
Yeah, I have been using Analog for about 5 years. It's fast as blazes and produces pretty useful reports (especially for my hosting customers who are not rocket scientists) but it's not perfect. Although it will cache DNS lookups, it doesn't checkpoint, so if you want your report to reflect the last 6 months of activity you have to crunch the last 6 months worth of log. The configuration syntax is also a bear to work with. Too many directives that sound alike, and it can be hard to dig through the documentation.
I don't like the reports generated by anything else, including Webalizer, so I stick with Analog.
I noticed it in the CompUSA store yesterday (Gaithersburg, MD)-- in a theft-control case. Which I took to be an excellent sign... when someone wants your operating system bad enough to steal it, you must be doing something right. :)
I can see the headline now: "Local man arrested for stealing free software"
Well-formed rants. Now I've seen it all.
Man, I've thoroughly had it with Mandrake. It was great back in the 6.x days, but the last few releases have been unstable and bug ridden as hell. I'm giving Red Hat a try now...
Does anyone know what is on disc 2? Do I really need to download that?
Nothing to fear with GRUB. I've been using it for about a year. Configuring it is a little different than with LILO, but it works fine.
I just bought a "small business" Dell Dimension 4300 a couple days ago. Base price for 1.5 GHz, 20G space, 256M RAM was $599. After adding a 3Com NIC for $50, plus shipping and tax it came to $805. I tinkered with the included Windows ME for a day or so, then wiped it and installed Linux. It works pretty well - it's definitely a solid machine that's worth the money. Supposedly the PC133 RAM doesn't take full advantage of the P4, but I was really on a budget, and I'm just happy to have something semi-zippy to replace my old AMD 350.
Sound was scratchy under Mandrake 8.1, but worked fine under Red Hat 7.1. (I tried Mandrake but didn't like it, so I installed Red Hat)
Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the machine.
MandrakeSoft moved North American production to the United States because tariff laws for imported products effectively increased the manufacturing cost by a factor of two or three, said Jean Mar, business operations manager.
Chalk another one up for regulation.
Consider this: How many times have you watched TV coverage of a subject you know and understand and you find yourself thinking "they're getting it wrong, that's false, they're missing it,..."?
Exactly. Just about every time television covers a subject I'm knowledgeable on, they totally miss the essence of it and present an inaccurate report. That's why I don't trust TV news for the most part.
TV was great on Sept 11 because it gave us live feeds of the events as they unfolded. It ceased to be useful about 36 hours later, when the talking heads took over.
There have been a few good programs in the last month on PBS, BBC, C-Span, MSNBC and CNN, but for the most part it's homogenous, prepackaged crap - basically press releases and official statements repeated verbatim. I'm very grateful to have the Internet.
???
I use rsync-over-ssh to sync my dev and production servers. It works *great*. Just add the --rsh=ssh option to the rsync command.
Is the data transfer portion of that not encrypted?
For web projects I use Quanta. It's definitely on par with Windows web editors like Allaire Homesite - I highly recommend it.
Some of us use the GUI as more than just a place to put 47 xterm windows, you know.
I've written some of my state reps but I'm just not sure that's doing the job. Is there a bigger organization that will stand up for us and privacy?
...
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Then maybe it's time to replace your state reps. Try the Libertarian Party.
Whether you otherwise love or hate them, you have to admit their platform plank on privacy sounds a hell of a lot better than that of the virtually indistinguishable ElephantDonkey policitians:
The individual's right to privacy, property, and right to speak or not to speak should not be infringed by the government. The government should not use electronic or other means of covert surveillance of an individual's actions or private property without the consent of the owner or occupant.
We oppose all restrictions and regulations on the private development, sale, and use of encryption technology. We specifically oppose any requirement for disclosure of encryption methods or keys, including the government's proposals for so-called "key escrow" which is truly government access to keys, and any requirement for use of government-specified devices or protocols. We also oppose government classification of civilian research on encryption methods.
We oppose the issuance by the government of an identity card, to be required for any purpose, such as employment, voting, or border crossing.
We further oppose the nearly universal requirement for use of the Social Security Number as a personal identification code, whether by government agencies or by intimidation of private companies by governments. "
more here
stop being so jaded. there are lots of emericans, including those in power, that are a lot more rational and cautious than people here think.
Where are these people hiding?