True... Windows does make it easy. unless you are some huge linux zealot, don't try getting new games to work. However, I had CS 1.5 running in linux for my laptop... fun at school. 1.6 with steam is what I would call a hoe.
Yeah... packages.gentoo.org and you can search the portage tree there. I belive there are a couple project with a GUI based portage system that are pretty sweet. I'm a Gentoo Zealot... regular contributer. Run it on a bunch of computer.
emerge sync && emerge -uD world && echo "my system is now updated"
Windows has its place. We call those people, Users. If you want a computer to talk on email or watch a movie, get windows. Even for games. What the heck... yer not gonna kill someone by buying that OS. However, if you want to be a little more of a power user, or oh i dunno... run a large corperation's servers, do go to unix/linux/hp-ux/caldera
Every system has its place and user base. It just happens that Windows manages a staggaring market share with billions in profits. Linux has has the same issue with their image that windows had when it was compeating with Apple 20 years ago. They broke through and now bill gates is rich... Linux will go through the same transformation in the next 2 - 3 years.
I think the more publicity and articles like this will help slide people over and get them onto the penguin much quicker. the internet is a great thing. Anyway, rant aside, Good for this guy.
make menuconfig make && make clean bzImage modules modules_install cp./arch/i386/boot/bzImage/boot/bzImage reboot
well the reason I hate Air Canada is because by next year, the stock will be worthless and even de-listed from the Toronto Stock Exchange.
but as for Nortel, it's comin back. It was down under a dollar a few years ago after being over 75$... if not more. it's at like 5 now.
mmmmmm Ice Cap
I, being a Canadian, would be interested in buying 1 stock. Just for saying I owe approx. 1/14000000th of half of google. But because I am not a U.S. Person, I am stuck owning a small portion of Nortel stock and a little of Air Canada. (canadians would know why I'm kinda bitter about those)
At this point, all programs are easy to install for me... Linux has been on my computers at home for years now. I hate KDE, and do disike Gnome a bit... but if I were to choose, I would take gnome.
Compile in sound drivers into the kernel, add the sound module to the startup scripts, and then find some easy to use interface... I used some obsure little program that was a series of command line statements like cvol 100 or cvol -r 100 for full or full right channel respectivly.
Slack however is one of the most compatable distros out there... I have not had many problems installing programs with it.
A thought just crossed my mind... Since when is Slackware... or any distro other than Fedora, Suse, or Linspire User-Friendly??? Oh well... One more setup guide helps us all... cudos to the author... we need more peeps like him.
Slack is a great distro... last year my university used it as the distro on our laptops for the computer science peeps for their programming. I found that it was a good system that was easily configured, but somewhat lacks in the port department. My suggestion: Install slack 10, then get either Gentoo's portage, or Debian's apt-get and install them. I am sure portage works in other distros and even in FreeBSD... not too sure about apt-get (allthough there should be no reason why it won't work).
Also, don't use KDE... I know you have a slick setup, but that WM is annoyingly simular to windows. Try one of the Window maker clones or if you don't like the minimulist approach, try Gnome... stable and sleek... and easy to install.
Yep... I just got something from New York (I live in Downtown Toronto) and I had to pay brokerage fees and a little duty. Apparently they don't like it when I import Lucky Strike's and get them at 1/3 cost for a carton (13.95 USD regular 55 if you can get them in canada)
but the biggest thing that annoys me is when I go on my roof to chill and smoke, I can see Buffalo, New York (unfortunatly) and can walk to the US to get stuff... but even if I walk back with the carton, SNAP! duty is put on it.
And the free trade legistlation only applies to companies sending certain items like food, some lumber, and un-assembled materials. They spent 10 years putting that together and it will never be perfect... but it's better than living in Mexico.
Flaimbait... didn't want to moderate you to that, but hey... who cares... oh.. wait...
I drink coffee for the caffiene... there are a bunch of people who drink it for the taste and whatnot... a naturally caffiene defficent product would be a great hit and i know it will sell in my town... damn hippies.
RAID 5 or 6 will stripe the data across all drives in the array. You will basically need about 8 - 10 % of the total space set aside for data recovery. You can loose 2 hard drives (as long as they are not next to eachother) and not loose any data. RAID 5 and 6 are only incredibly useful in application with more than 4 hard drives and about 500 gb of storage. It's a little faster than the lower raids becuase the redundancies are simple pairity bit calculations, and are done twice for each single data change on disk. The lower raids will have a set of disks that actually mirror the data in tact (raid 1) or perform more intensive Hamming Distance calculations and store the results on another set of disks.
So, RAID 5 or 6 would be the best (RAID 6 is worth the extra bit of space for the 2nd calculation, and really helps when you can test the pairity bits against another pairity to create the lost data.)
There will be some slow down associated with RAID, but it wont be as bad with 5 or 6 and generally, you can live through it with the thought of having relativly robust file servers.
Allthough I am an avid gamer, my programming has kept me from using windows as a primary OS on a few of my computers. I would not say I am a total L/UNIX advocate as there are certain tasks that Windows excels at. Like gaming, and certian media applications. But there are other things, like hardcore development, networking, security and internet usage that L/UNIX is just plain better at.
But, in my mind, each have their weaknesses aswell as their strengths. L/UNIX is harder to dive into as an inexperienced user with the longer processess to install and maintain software. also the diver confilicts and that dark kernel area tend to keep people off the horse. Windows makes it easy to go out and get hardware for it and software is much easier to install with these so-called Wizards. On the other side of the coin widows has the security issues, and a very rigid set of licences that make it hard to be confidant that your system is safe from those kiddies out there.
Personally, the concept of an operating system that works out of the box, accepts most new hardware, and is so easy my 80 year old grandmother can use it explains why M$ is the market standard (or was, or won't be for long). However, the fact that Windows based worms and virii outnumber L/UNIX virii 100000 to 1 (in the mainstream enviroment) makes me wonder how long they will stay there.
L/UNIX however, for the most part distributes their source with the system so if a hole is discovered, there are many personal programmers like me out there who fix that kind of stuff in their spare time. that way, we find and deal with those problems and everyone is happy. But this comes back to the licences. If someone who got their hands on the Win2k source found and patched a hole, M$ would see the book thrown at them (or offer them a job... depends on the resume).
So, I only really use windows on my laptop and one desktop for gaming. I have UNIX (Solais 9) on my Server cluster, Gentoo on my programming box, and FreeBSD on my gateway. But most people out there who refuse to go back or onto windows do it because of the security issues (in my mind) and I keep it off my servers because of that and the long update cycle.
P.S. distro's like gentoo and debian have excellent update programs. Portage and apt-get respectivly. I really can't live without my emerge -uD world.
Some people don't give it two thoughts, but my school is quite buisness oriented, so our profs know that the buisness world does indeed use COBOL still.
and any program that takes ~40 lines of code to open a file and print its contents is great for me!
Someone said that COBOL was the only real language to use the lock, and that's almost true. But hey we can all forget FORTRAN, ADA, and even ASM or asembler was first written all in caps.
My univeristy still teaches a course in COBOL, its the first data processing course and it really was useful. Mainly because most major corperations that have mainframes still use COBOL for their data warehouses.
COBOL ain't dead... well... it may be. but it's still warm.
and where would we be without the all caps flame wars of the fark forums and irc??
I agree... however, HP still does almost 40 billion in sales per annum...
HP is trying to get to what Canon has. Market experience and a name people trust. Did you know that HP holds 80% of the market share in printers? And they are in the process of releasing the R707 camera. its a hand held point and shoot that is quite amazing. 2 more in the R series are comin in the fall, and they are developing more cameras to combat the Canon powerhouse in the SLR field.
Are canon using CCD's now? they were using another type of capture sensor and I thought they went towards the better brands of CCDs for the rebel.
From what I read of what this guy is looking for, is something a little less than a Saturn Capturing Digital camera. I agree that HP is new to digital photography, but Canon is new to computers. I also agree that things are not as simple as light entering a box. But, If someone is looking to take picutres of a bird on a branch from 100 yards or an ant on a flower, they will need something a little more than the 945, and franlky, a little more than a canon rebel.
I am still though a firm believer in the traditional 35mm SLR camera. Infact, I have one that my father gave me and it is quite powerful, and I still get better shots than a digital camera. But, it's alot less flexable, and I hate developing film. If you are looking for something a little less expensive, the HP 945 won't limit you as much. I know that when I was looking for a camera, I was more concerned about the price than features. (some of the time)
the HP 945 digital camera is great... 5.3 mp 56X zoom and got all the aperture and Tv setting you want. It retails for about 499 CDN and has a great support deal.
You can get the attachments for lenses and such, but digital SLR cameras dont need that stuff... anyone who says more lenses make a digital camera better is stupid. Light hits the CCD and the computer on the inside does the junk needed for those different shots. You gotta remember that these are just light capturing computers. Canon does not make computer... HP makes great computers. And they all get their lenses and ccd's from the same spot, so you make the choice.
Yeah... now that I look back, I should have done it a while ago too. But I kept it because all the bank machines in my town are RBC, and BMO.
I was too pissed to read into what the manager actually said. The guy in there before me tore a strip off the poor guy too... It kinda reminded me of the drill sargent in Full Metal Jacket.
I am a Royal Bank customer too... fortunatly my company uses CIBC, so I went down to the bank on my way to work this morning with my paystub and left with my pay, and all my funds from my account. I closed it and gave my financial buddy at work a new account with CIBC.
Honestly though. Being a software developer and knowing the development cycle like the back of my computer leads me to wonder how in the world they didnt test it fully. I mean... comeon guys. And that kind of institution using SCO's brand of UNIX? face + palm
Oh well... i dont care anymore... i close the accounts and visa card and when they asked me why, I just said: "I can't trust a bank that can't deal with this kind of glitch."
I've done some applying for positions at various software houses throughout north america and while I am still in univeristy, alot of their responses have been constructive. The general idea is a test for an overall skill set like programming languages and development cycles, and a test or two in the logic and reasoning ability. Just to make sure that you are not a talking box, and you have a brain that can deal with a changing enviroment.
I am presently working a 4 - 8 strech in tech support as a co-op term. With the market the way it is, I took the first job I could get my hands on. So right now, I'm sitting in Toronto as a bilingual techsupportist not programming, but generating another skill set I hope I do not end up exploiting for the rest of my life. With the market, my university (Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada. Yes... I know you have not heard of it.:)) has only sent out 3 comp-sci 2nd year co-op students. This is normal, but honestly, I'm getting scared for when I start looking for a real job in the next 2 years.
ANYWAY, the general plan for an application procedure is to weed out what the management or HR people get at. I know for my company, I'm involved (for some unknown reason) in the hiring process for the september set of co-op people. And we have designed an application procedure that they enter in answers for 50 questions, and we search a database of answers for the proper skill set. That way we don't waste our time dealing with duds.
The big thing is that people are looking for a person who can back up their resume, and think for themselves when they are allowed the opportunity. If you get talking heads sitting there always doin exactly what you say, then even wrong paths get confirmed.
"Are you guys just a bunch of yes men??" "Yes sir!" (CM burns talking to his team of legal professionals.)
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True... Windows does make it easy. unless you are some huge linux zealot, don't try getting new games to work. However, I had CS 1.5 running in linux for my laptop... fun at school. 1.6 with steam is what I would call a hoe.
cheers
Yeah... packages.gentoo.org and you can search the portage tree there. I belive there are a couple project with a GUI based portage system that are pretty sweet. I'm a Gentoo Zealot... regular contributer. Run it on a bunch of computer.
emerge sync && emerge -uD world && echo "my system is now updated"
I just hope the right people read this.
./arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage
Windows has its place. We call those people, Users. If you want a computer to talk on email or watch a movie, get windows. Even for games. What the heck... yer not gonna kill someone by buying that OS. However, if you want to be a little more of a power user, or oh i dunno... run a large corperation's servers, do go to unix/linux/hp-ux/caldera
Every system has its place and user base. It just happens that Windows manages a staggaring market share with billions in profits. Linux has has the same issue with their image that windows had when it was compeating with Apple 20 years ago. They broke through and now bill gates is rich... Linux will go through the same transformation in the next 2 - 3 years.
I think the more publicity and articles like this will help slide people over and get them onto the penguin much quicker. the internet is a great thing. Anyway, rant aside, Good for this guy.
make menuconfig
make && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
cp
reboot
and I got a new system. wheeeee that was fun!!
well the reason I hate Air Canada is because by next year, the stock will be worthless and even de-listed from the Toronto Stock Exchange. but as for Nortel, it's comin back. It was down under a dollar a few years ago after being over 75$... if not more. it's at like 5 now. mmmmmm Ice Cap
I, being a Canadian, would be interested in buying 1 stock. Just for saying I owe approx. 1/14000000th of half of google. But because I am not a U.S. Person, I am stuck owning a small portion of Nortel stock and a little of Air Canada. (canadians would know why I'm kinda bitter about those)
Yarr.
At this point, all programs are easy to install for me... Linux has been on my computers at home for years now. I hate KDE, and do disike Gnome a bit... but if I were to choose, I would take gnome.
Fluxbox is my primary Window Manager though
True, but getting the sound working isn't hard.
Compile in sound drivers into the kernel, add the sound module to the startup scripts, and then find some easy to use interface... I used some obsure little program that was a series of command line statements like cvol 100 or cvol -r 100 for full or full right channel respectivly.
Slack however is one of the most compatable distros out there... I have not had many problems installing programs with it.
A thought just crossed my mind... Since when is Slackware... or any distro other than Fedora, Suse, or Linspire User-Friendly??? Oh well... One more setup guide helps us all... cudos to the author... we need more peeps like him.
Slack is a great distro... last year my university used it as the distro on our laptops for the computer science peeps for their programming. I found that it was a good system that was easily configured, but somewhat lacks in the port department. My suggestion: Install slack 10, then get either Gentoo's portage, or Debian's apt-get and install them. I am sure portage works in other distros and even in FreeBSD... not too sure about apt-get (allthough there should be no reason why it won't work).
Also, don't use KDE... I know you have a slick setup, but that WM is annoyingly simular to windows. Try one of the Window maker clones or if you don't like the minimulist approach, try Gnome... stable and sleek... and easy to install.
Yep... I just got something from New York (I live in Downtown Toronto) and I had to pay brokerage fees and a little duty. Apparently they don't like it when I import Lucky Strike's and get them at 1/3 cost for a carton (13.95 USD regular 55 if you can get them in canada)
but the biggest thing that annoys me is when I go on my roof to chill and smoke, I can see Buffalo, New York (unfortunatly) and can walk to the US to get stuff... but even if I walk back with the carton, SNAP! duty is put on it.
And the free trade legistlation only applies to companies sending certain items like food, some lumber, and un-assembled materials. They spent 10 years putting that together and it will never be perfect... but it's better than living in Mexico.
meh.
I perfer the simpler languages for pure number crunching and for OO, Smalltalk, Java, or QT... they manage to be easy enough to use in most setups.
but my fav has gotta be Lisp. pure unadultrated Lisp. and when I feel sadistic, ProLog helps.
a little lisp for ya.
(defun firstElement (list)
(car list)
)
great eh?
and recursion is great too... wanna get the last of the list? SURE!!!
(defun last (list)
(cond
((= (length list) 1) list)
(T (last (cdr list)))
)
)
but hey.... lisp is grrrrrreat... car cdr... defun.... length.... what a language.
I think why these are potential specs. Cheap computers come with 256 and by the time they release this console, they will come with 512.
It's still gonna be a brick. I just wish they would use a gig of Corsair ram.
Go change my pants...
that has more guts than my desktop... but i bet it will crush someone when falling from 3 feet instead of 6 feet.
Flaimbait... didn't want to moderate you to that, but hey... who cares... oh.. wait... I drink coffee for the caffiene... there are a bunch of people who drink it for the taste and whatnot... a naturally caffiene defficent product would be a great hit and i know it will sell in my town... damn hippies.
RAID 5 or 6 will stripe the data across all drives in the array. You will basically need about 8 - 10 % of the total space set aside for data recovery. You can loose 2 hard drives (as long as they are not next to eachother) and not loose any data. RAID 5 and 6 are only incredibly useful in application with more than 4 hard drives and about 500 gb of storage. It's a little faster than the lower raids becuase the redundancies are simple pairity bit calculations, and are done twice for each single data change on disk. The lower raids will have a set of disks that actually mirror the data in tact (raid 1) or perform more intensive Hamming Distance calculations and store the results on another set of disks.
So, RAID 5 or 6 would be the best (RAID 6 is worth the extra bit of space for the 2nd calculation, and really helps when you can test the pairity bits against another pairity to create the lost data.)
There will be some slow down associated with RAID, but it wont be as bad with 5 or 6 and generally, you can live through it with the thought of having relativly robust file servers.
Allthough I am an avid gamer, my programming has kept me from using windows as a primary OS on a few of my computers. I would not say I am a total L/UNIX advocate as there are certain tasks that Windows excels at. Like gaming, and certian media applications. But there are other things, like hardcore development, networking, security and internet usage that L/UNIX is just plain better at.
.
But, in my mind, each have their weaknesses aswell as their strengths. L/UNIX is harder to dive into as an inexperienced user with the longer processess to install and maintain software. also the diver confilicts and that dark kernel area tend to keep people off the horse. Windows makes it easy to go out and get hardware for it and software is much easier to install with these so-called Wizards. On the other side of the coin widows has the security issues, and a very rigid set of licences that make it hard to be confidant that your system is safe from those kiddies out there.
Personally, the concept of an operating system that works out of the box, accepts most new hardware, and is so easy my 80 year old grandmother can use it explains why M$ is the market standard (or was, or won't be for long). However, the fact that Windows based worms and virii outnumber L/UNIX virii 100000 to 1 (in the mainstream enviroment) makes me wonder how long they will stay there.
L/UNIX however, for the most part distributes their source with the system so if a hole is discovered, there are many personal programmers like me out there who fix that kind of stuff in their spare time. that way, we find and deal with those problems and everyone is happy. But this comes back to the licences. If someone who got their hands on the Win2k source found and patched a hole, M$ would see the book thrown at them (or offer them a job... depends on the resume).
So, I only really use windows on my laptop and one desktop for gaming. I have UNIX (Solais 9) on my Server cluster, Gentoo on my programming box, and FreeBSD on my gateway. But most people out there who refuse to go back or onto windows do it because of the security issues (in my mind) and I keep it off my servers because of that and the long update cycle.
P.S. distro's like gentoo and debian have excellent update programs. Portage and apt-get respectivly. I really can't live without my emerge -uD world
**wipes hands on pants, takes a drink of Bawls.
yeah... we programmers are quite... interesting.
Some people don't give it two thoughts, but my school is quite buisness oriented, so our profs know that the buisness world does indeed use COBOL still.
and any program that takes ~40 lines of code to open a file and print its contents is great for me!
Someone said that COBOL was the only real language to use the lock, and that's almost true. But hey we can all forget FORTRAN, ADA, and even ASM or asembler was first written all in caps.
My univeristy still teaches a course in COBOL, its the first data processing course and it really was useful. Mainly because most major corperations that have mainframes still use COBOL for their data warehouses.
COBOL ain't dead... well... it may be. but it's still warm.
and where would we be without the all caps flame wars of the fark forums and irc??
I agree... however, HP still does almost 40 billion in sales per annum...
HP is trying to get to what Canon has. Market experience and a name people trust. Did you know that HP holds 80% of the market share in printers? And they are in the process of releasing the R707 camera. its a hand held point and shoot that is quite amazing. 2 more in the R series are comin in the fall, and they are developing more cameras to combat the Canon powerhouse in the SLR field.
Are canon using CCD's now? they were using another type of capture sensor and I thought they went towards the better brands of CCDs for the rebel.
From what I read of what this guy is looking for, is something a little less than a Saturn Capturing Digital camera. I agree that HP is new to digital photography, but Canon is new to computers. I also agree that things are not as simple as light entering a box. But, If someone is looking to take picutres of a bird on a branch from 100 yards or an ant on a flower, they will need something a little more than the 945, and franlky, a little more than a canon rebel.
I am still though a firm believer in the traditional 35mm SLR camera. Infact, I have one that my father gave me and it is quite powerful, and I still get better shots than a digital camera. But, it's alot less flexable, and I hate developing film. If you are looking for something a little less expensive, the HP 945 won't limit you as much. I know that when I was looking for a camera, I was more concerned about the price than features. (some of the time)
P.S. can you tell I work for HP?
the HP 945 digital camera is great... 5.3 mp 56X zoom and got all the aperture and Tv setting you want. It retails for about 499 CDN and has a great support deal.
You can get the attachments for lenses and such, but digital SLR cameras dont need that stuff... anyone who says more lenses make a digital camera better is stupid. Light hits the CCD and the computer on the inside does the junk needed for those different shots. You gotta remember that these are just light capturing computers. Canon does not make computer... HP makes great computers. And they all get their lenses and ccd's from the same spot, so you make the choice.
yeah my parents use that.
i've heard good things.
oh well... back to work.,
Yeah... now that I look back, I should have done it a while ago too. But I kept it because all the bank machines in my town are RBC, and BMO.
I was too pissed to read into what the manager actually said. The guy in there before me tore a strip off the poor guy too... It kinda reminded me of the drill sargent in Full Metal Jacket.
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"
thats a fun game to play as an admin at Canada's largest bank.
I am a Royal Bank customer too... fortunatly my company uses CIBC, so I went down to the bank on my way to work this morning with my paystub and left with my pay, and all my funds from my account. I closed it and gave my financial buddy at work a new account with CIBC.
Honestly though. Being a software developer and knowing the development cycle like the back of my computer leads me to wonder how in the world they didnt test it fully. I mean... comeon guys. And that kind of institution using SCO's brand of UNIX? face + palm
Oh well... i dont care anymore... i close the accounts and visa card and when they asked me why, I just said: "I can't trust a bank that can't deal with this kind of glitch."
I've done some applying for positions at various software houses throughout north america and while I am still in univeristy, alot of their responses have been constructive. The general idea is a test for an overall skill set like programming languages and development cycles, and a test or two in the logic and reasoning ability. Just to make sure that you are not a talking box, and you have a brain that can deal with a changing enviroment.
I am presently working a 4 - 8 strech in tech support as a co-op term. With the market the way it is, I took the first job I could get my hands on. So right now, I'm sitting in Toronto as a bilingual techsupportist not programming, but generating another skill set I hope I do not end up exploiting for the rest of my life. With the market, my university (Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada. Yes... I know you have not heard of it.:)) has only sent out 3 comp-sci 2nd year co-op students. This is normal, but honestly, I'm getting scared for when I start looking for a real job in the next 2 years.
ANYWAY, the general plan for an application procedure is to weed out what the management or HR people get at. I know for my company, I'm involved (for some unknown reason) in the hiring process for the september set of co-op people. And we have designed an application procedure that they enter in answers for 50 questions, and we search a database of answers for the proper skill set. That way we don't waste our time dealing with duds.
The big thing is that people are looking for a person who can back up their resume, and think for themselves when they are allowed the opportunity. If you get talking heads sitting there always doin exactly what you say, then even wrong paths get confirmed.
"Are you guys just a bunch of yes men??"
"Yes sir!"
(CM burns talking to his team of legal professionals.)