I lucked out. The only floppies I had to deal with were the boot and root. Getting the images written to the floppies was half the battle for a base install! (Remember, this was in the days of Windows 95.)
Time was, this was real. I had The Linux Bible, which had an old Slackware based on kernel 1.2.13. I took notes for 3 hours before I ever did a thing with the CD. One week later, I was online. No GUI yet, so Lynx was my friend. Another week to get XFree86 up and running (I learned more about video timing than I ever wanted). Two more days, and I had Netscape loaded and running. That's when I knew I had taken the first steps of that fateful journey...
FreeBSD can install its own MBR. It just doesn't, by default.
Linux can install its own MBR. Most distros do, by default.
As far as the browser bit, so what? I can set up a Slackware Linux system with no browser, and it's still completely functional, in that it doesn't crash, and everything that is installed runs correctly.
Nice try. Mona wasn't doing too bad until her husband left her. She had been a stay-at-home mother, until he decided his wife should be some shapely blonde bimbo with no kids.
Oh yeah, he cleaned out the bank account before he left. He's also seven months behind on his child support payments.
Take your head out of your ass and see the evil that people do to one another. And see the extraordinary strength that people show in the face of that evil. I dare you to get in Mona's face and say that. Oh yeah, you're Anonymous COWARD.
FYI, Mona is a single mom, working 9 hours a day, and still receiving public assitance. The treatment she got, is exactly why so many states have Public Utility Commissions.
She did show up with payment. That payment was refused due to inability to process it, brought on by an insistence on using the lowest common denominator in software. This shifted the blame for her shut-off from herself to the utility company.
Got that? It was not her fault. She was able to meet her obligation, and showed up with payment ready. The power company couldn't meet theirs. As a result, she lost most of the food in her refrigerator. Did the power company pay to replace that? I seriously doubt it. Did the taxpayers? Not bloody likely. She had to pay for that out of her own money, which already isn't enough to meet the needs of her household.
Until you have gotten to know someone who has to decide between food and diapers, you would do well not to expose your ignorance regarding poverty.
And what you claim is truly important... are you not merely indicating what you have convinced yourself is important?
Nike, Tickle-Me-Elmo (DIE!!), and modern yachts, are all the beneficiaries of space research's new materials. Perfume might be as well (does NASA do research on emulsions?). Don't underestimate how far the benefits of space research can reach.
Someone who beta-tested Unix games while in grade school, *and* she's, well, female... and you have no interest?
Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you gay?
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The petition drive to recall Gray Davis was formally launched by Melanie Morgan. The initial research that established MTBE as a health hazard and ecological disaster, was conducted by the KSFO staff, also led by Melanie Morgan and Lee Rogers. And the people who care might never have known about the Wen Ho Lee award ceremony, if KSFO hadn't picked up the story.
Try again, and this time, find a talk radio station with people who don't care. Then you might be able to make your case.
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Nice try. KSFO in San Francisco, one of the talk-iest stations out there, brought down Gray Davis, MTBE, and the Wen Ho Lee award ceremony.
My point? They do care, and they *are* doing something about it.
1. Land is what we use to define the borders. The radio spectrum doesn't suddenly shift when you cross a state line. We do have federal requirements for how land is parceled and managed. And cars are definitely managed to some degree by the federal government. Look at mileage requirements and pollution controls.
2. How much of your time goes to pay taxes?
3. Everything else you named (shoes, cars, strawberries) is either renewable or reclaimable. The EM spectrum is not, except by legal fiat.
I'm on my second cell phone in four years, and the one I have now is four years old (Motorola StarTAC, obtained, not bought, when I took over the account from my brother). I intend to keep using it until it no longer works, period. Judging by how well it still works, that will be when CDMA is abandoned for something better.
The spectrum-pie includes a lot more than AM, FM, and TV. How about shortwave? Longwave? 802.11b? Remote control toys? Citizens-band radio? Medium-wave (AM) and FM are only tiny slices of the pie.
How does that take into account shortwave radio? Remote control airplanes? Ship-to-shore? By your logic, the big fish eats the small fish, and the entire spectrum ends up owned by Clear Channel, rather than simply medium-wave and FM.
The RF spectrum is truly a pie, and the slices are handed out by a central body. Since the spectrum is an interstate resource, it properly falls under federal (and, by treaty extension, international) jurisdiction. Without the FCC, enforcement of spectrum allocations would be left to other bodies that already don't have the resources to understand things like Internet crime.
OTOH, when it comes to things like content regulation...
Ask the children of workaholic dads. Sure, they have Little League and soccer and the YMCA and football and softball and piano and marching band and chorus, but if their fathers aren't there to cheer them on, what's the point? Do they not care? That's what those children ask.
The poster is asking the question now. If he can get the right answer now, he won't have to fret about it when it matters.
Computers will advance. You might get carpal tunnel. Any of a million things could happen. If it comes to a question of family vs. job, take the family. What you gain will far outweigh what you lose. Or, think of it this way: a computer won't hug you tenderly the way a kid will.
Try copying between a GNOME app and a small Xlib-based program that knows nothing about GNOME's handling. I've seen failures doing this time after time.
But where does the problem have to be fixed? That's like saying Fedora Core 2 sucks because it includes GNOME 2.6. By your logic, the way to fix Linux would be to ditch X.
Get your mind out of its rut. Linux isn't the only platform that uses X. Any Unix that runs X will exhibit the same behavior. Would you be making the same complaint if the original poster had said he was running FreeBSD?
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Never mind the grammar (and ignore the double negative). Just follow the concepts. And if you can't do that, just read the last line. It says enough.
I lucked out. The only floppies I had to deal with were the boot and root. Getting the images written to the floppies was half the battle for a base install! (Remember, this was in the days of Windows 95.)
Time was, this was real. I had The Linux Bible, which had an old Slackware based on kernel 1.2.13. I took notes for 3 hours before I ever did a thing with the CD. One week later, I was online. No GUI yet, so Lynx was my friend. Another week to get XFree86 up and running (I learned more about video timing than I ever wanted). Two more days, and I had Netscape loaded and running. That's when I knew I had taken the first steps of that fateful journey...
FreeBSD can install its own MBR. It just doesn't, by default.
Linux can install its own MBR. Most distros do, by default.
As far as the browser bit, so what? I can set up a Slackware Linux system with no browser, and it's still completely functional, in that it doesn't crash, and everything that is installed runs correctly.
Nice try. Mona wasn't doing too bad until her husband left her. She had been a stay-at-home mother, until he decided his wife should be some shapely blonde bimbo with no kids.
Oh yeah, he cleaned out the bank account before he left. He's also seven months behind on his child support payments.
Take your head out of your ass and see the evil that people do to one another. And see the extraordinary strength that people show in the face of that evil. I dare you to get in Mona's face and say that. Oh yeah, you're Anonymous COWARD.
FYI, Mona is a single mom, working 9 hours a day, and still receiving public assitance. The treatment she got, is exactly why so many states have Public Utility Commissions.
She did show up with payment. That payment was refused due to inability to process it, brought on by an insistence on using the lowest common denominator in software. This shifted the blame for her shut-off from herself to the utility company.
Got that? It was not her fault. She was able to meet her obligation, and showed up with payment ready. The power company couldn't meet theirs. As a result, she lost most of the food in her refrigerator. Did the power company pay to replace that? I seriously doubt it. Did the taxpayers? Not bloody likely. She had to pay for that out of her own money, which already isn't enough to meet the needs of her household.
Until you have gotten to know someone who has to decide between food and diapers, you would do well not to expose your ignorance regarding poverty.
And what you claim is truly important... are you not merely indicating what you have convinced yourself is important?
Nike, Tickle-Me-Elmo (DIE!!), and modern yachts, are all the beneficiaries of space research's new materials. Perfume might be as well (does NASA do research on emulsions?). Don't underestimate how far the benefits of space research can reach.
And if you do come to a total stop in traffic, just hook it up to the car's antenna and find a hot spot. Voila! Instant portable office!
Then, when Free Speech is considered a terrorist act, only terrorists will have Free Speech.
Oh, sh--.
I've found several comedy streams at ShoutCast. Just search for "comedy", or choose it as a genre in the pull-down menu to the right.
Someone who beta-tested Unix games while in grade school, *and* she's, well, female... and you have no interest?
Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you gay?
The petition drive to recall Gray Davis was formally launched by Melanie Morgan. The initial research that established MTBE as a health hazard and ecological disaster, was conducted by the KSFO staff, also led by Melanie Morgan and Lee Rogers. And the people who care might never have known about the Wen Ho Lee award ceremony, if KSFO hadn't picked up the story.
Try again, and this time, find a talk radio station with people who don't care. Then you might be able to make your case.
Nice try. KSFO in San Francisco, one of the talk-iest stations out there, brought down Gray Davis, MTBE, and the Wen Ho Lee award ceremony.
My point? They do care, and they *are* doing something about it.
I warned about this over a year ago.
I thought it was funny.
Except that:
1. Land is what we use to define the borders. The radio spectrum doesn't suddenly shift when you cross a state line. We do have federal requirements for how land is parceled and managed. And cars are definitely managed to some degree by the federal government. Look at mileage requirements and pollution controls.
2. How much of your time goes to pay taxes?
3. Everything else you named (shoes, cars, strawberries) is either renewable or reclaimable. The EM spectrum is not, except by legal fiat.
I'm on my second cell phone in four years, and the one I have now is four years old (Motorola StarTAC, obtained, not bought, when I took over the account from my brother). I intend to keep using it until it no longer works, period. Judging by how well it still works, that will be when CDMA is abandoned for something better.
The spectrum-pie includes a lot more than AM, FM, and TV. How about shortwave? Longwave? 802.11b? Remote control toys? Citizens-band radio? Medium-wave (AM) and FM are only tiny slices of the pie.
How does that take into account shortwave radio? Remote control airplanes? Ship-to-shore? By your logic, the big fish eats the small fish, and the entire spectrum ends up owned by Clear Channel, rather than simply medium-wave and FM.
That's an entire CD's worth of data to the DVD in 50 seconds.
Holy crap.
The RF spectrum is truly a pie, and the slices are handed out by a central body. Since the spectrum is an interstate resource, it properly falls under federal (and, by treaty extension, international) jurisdiction. Without the FCC, enforcement of spectrum allocations would be left to other bodies that already don't have the resources to understand things like Internet crime.
OTOH, when it comes to things like content regulation...
Ask the children of workaholic dads. Sure, they have Little League and soccer and the YMCA and football and softball and piano and marching band and chorus, but if their fathers aren't there to cheer them on, what's the point? Do they not care? That's what those children ask.
The poster is asking the question now. If he can get the right answer now, he won't have to fret about it when it matters.
Then just don't do it.
Computers will advance. You might get carpal tunnel. Any of a million things could happen. If it comes to a question of family vs. job, take the family. What you gain will far outweigh what you lose. Or, think of it this way: a computer won't hug you tenderly the way a kid will.
Try copying between a GNOME app and a small Xlib-based program that knows nothing about GNOME's handling. I've seen failures doing this time after time.
But where does the problem have to be fixed? That's like saying Fedora Core 2 sucks because it includes GNOME 2.6. By your logic, the way to fix Linux would be to ditch X.
Get your mind out of its rut. Linux isn't the only platform that uses X. Any Unix that runs X will exhibit the same behavior. Would you be making the same complaint if the original poster had said he was running FreeBSD?