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Almost all of Rio Rancho is desert. Literally, well over half of it is void.
There's practically nothing east of Unser.
As for all of you wondering how this will be secured, I worked at one of the local ISPs until April. There wasn't a solution as of when I left.
I've always heard RISC chips aren't supposed to be coded by hand. CISC with its expanded instruction set is a much better candidate for hand coding, even at the cost of backwards compatibility.
I'm very much an INTP, and fit the poster's description as well. Hated school, likes learning. I registered for college, cause that's what you're supposed to do. Finished the first semester with a 4.0, had to force myself to register for the next semester. One of my teachers in semester one told me about a job opening in the company she works for. So I applied and got hired as a programmer. With 1 college CS class and 1 high school CS course under my belt. Admitadly, I'm self taught over many years in programming, but still, that's all the formal education I have. Continuing college isn't a condition of holding the job.
So check into something like that. Doesn't have to be programming, but as long as you aren't living in Silicon Valley or anywhere like that, you may well be able to get a good job without the degree.
Oh come now - you're on Slashdot! When something involves Linux, it doesn't have to be reasonable.
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Isn't CF incredabily slow? I've used a 128MB card on USB2.0 for a maildir and there was delay (drastic on one system, noticeable on another) whenever reading/writing from/to it. Swaping has got to me more disk-intensive than writing and opening emails.
There is still a certain minimum threshold. In the last year, I've gone from an XP1600-> XP2200-> A64 3000-> G4 450. And I see delays that just aren't there on faster machines. Opening pages with lots of JPEGS (ok, ok, pr0n) and it just sits for a minute because it has to render JPEGs. You may well be happy with a Celeron 500, but use a faster machine for a solid week or two and revert to the Celeron. Those little delays will irrate you. The question is, what is the minimal level of aggrivation neccessary to make a faster machine wortwhile. That is an implicit part of your needs, and often overlooked.
I managed to get Darwin installed, but I'm lost from there. I tried both my OSX.0 and OSX.3 CDs. Pear claims neither is bootable. Has anyone else encountered this?
They are real CDs that I'm ripping to ISO, no chance they're corrupt P2P copies. Yeah, this post is offtopic, but I don't see any forums on the Pear site.
And every day brings new record highs for gas prices. Gas prices have been a roller coaster for years. I'm not arguing the surcharge is right, in fact it seems like a basic business cost, but gas prices certainly haven't levelled off, and therefore, the logic is right.
Thats interesting, what with IE6 not existing as of the last time Opera fit on a floppy! In early 2001, IE5.5 existed, 6 was in beta, and I had to burn Opera to CD to use it at school in order to avoid using Netscape Navigator 3. And no, I did not use the Java-enabled version of Opera.
IIS Can be uninstalled. Easily. It's not even installed by default. Control Panel -> Add/Remove -> Windows Components -> Uncheck Internet Information Systems. It really does uninstall it, its not like the IE/OE "uninstalls".
But from my expierence, it is still faster than running FreeBSD, at least, in VMWare. Any to be running the Linux kernel alongside the NT Kernel, one of them is going to have to act a little more like VMWare than translated code. This is more a guess that fact, but I suspect a 1.6 GHz PPC running Virtual PC isn't going to be as fast as an 800 MHz Transmeta CPU running it closer to natively. There's just less overhead to deal with that way. Cygwin is Transmeta, the question of speed will have to be answered in just how the Linux kernel was implemented.
You mean the already available binaries bundled with Cygwin? Or coming up with a Win 32 copy of Mozilla? Or GCC? Or even the Gimp? Or do you mean Open GL apps? Or Vim? Emacs? Etc etc etc.
Whats the difference between this and Cygwin? Or (though I haven't tried it, MS SFU). Cygwin seems to run extremely fast and reliably already.
Of course, Cygwin doesn't run executables other than standard Windows EXEs, but what isn't available for Cygwin (or natively on Windows) already? This seems like a project to run Linux for the sake of Linux
Can't respond to Killfiles, because I don't know what they are.
Popup Blockers? Good popup blockers only block unwanted popups. When you click on something legit and needed, it appears? Its not 100% accurate, as there theoretically could be legitmate windows that popup in onload=, and those can be set to be allowed on a per-site basis.
Commercial Skips? Nothing to do with the creative squad, unless its a product placement, and then you can't effectively skip it anyway.
Of course, the catch is that not all retail CDs can be ripped (without some work at least.) I'm not defending it, in fact it seems like borderline extorition. But there it is.
The reason thats an option is the employees, themselves. They need to work X hours at Y dollars an hour to achieve self-susteinance. With your plan, the employees make only half of what they used to.
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And by east, I mean west. My directional skills are t3h l33t.
Eh Almost all of Rio Rancho is desert. Literally, well over half of it is void. There's practically nothing east of Unser. As for all of you wondering how this will be secured, I worked at one of the local ISPs until April. There wasn't a solution as of when I left.
I've always heard RISC chips aren't supposed to be coded by hand. CISC with its expanded instruction set is a much better candidate for hand coding, even at the cost of backwards compatibility.
I'm very much an INTP, and fit the poster's description as well. Hated school, likes learning. I registered for college, cause that's what you're supposed to do. Finished the first semester with a 4.0, had to force myself to register for the next semester. One of my teachers in semester one told me about a job opening in the company she works for. So I applied and got hired as a programmer. With 1 college CS class and 1 high school CS course under my belt. Admitadly, I'm self taught over many years in programming, but still, that's all the formal education I have. Continuing college isn't a condition of holding the job.
So check into something like that. Doesn't have to be programming, but as long as you aren't living in Silicon Valley or anywhere like that, you may well be able to get a good job without the degree.
I do, actually. In VB6 development, I use Ctrl+Scroll lock to break out of execution.
Like the submitter, I never use Caps Lock. Found a program to disable it. Toggler. I'm not the author, but I was a user whilest I ran a Windows box.
Oh come now - you're on Slashdot! When something involves Linux, it doesn't have to be reasonable.
Isn't CF incredabily slow? I've used a 128MB card on USB2.0 for a maildir and there was delay (drastic on one system, noticeable on another) whenever reading/writing from/to it. Swaping has got to me more disk-intensive than writing and opening emails.
And just what has Yahoo done that is anti-competive?
In soviet russia...
Oh, nevermind. I think that covered it.
True. but...
There is still a certain minimum threshold. In the last year, I've gone from an XP1600-> XP2200-> A64 3000-> G4 450. And I see delays that just aren't there on faster machines. Opening pages with lots of JPEGS (ok, ok, pr0n) and it just sits for a minute because it has to render JPEGs. You may well be happy with a Celeron 500, but use a faster machine for a solid week or two and revert to the Celeron. Those little delays will irrate you. The question is, what is the minimal level of aggrivation neccessary to make a faster machine wortwhile. That is an implicit part of your needs, and often overlooked.
Leave it to slashdot to hack the registry over right clicking the dog and telling it to go away.
I managed to get Darwin installed, but I'm lost from there. I tried both my OSX.0 and OSX.3 CDs. Pear claims neither is bootable. Has anyone else encountered this?
They are real CDs that I'm ripping to ISO, no chance they're corrupt P2P copies. Yeah, this post is offtopic, but I don't see any forums on the Pear site.
And every day brings new record highs for gas prices. Gas prices have been a roller coaster for years. I'm not arguing the surcharge is right, in fact it seems like a basic business cost, but gas prices certainly haven't levelled off, and therefore, the logic is right.
You're thinking of PowerPoint. Excel was not bought. Its big moment was being the first spreadsheet on the Mac.
Thats interesting, what with IE6 not existing as of the last time Opera fit on a floppy! In early 2001, IE5.5 existed, 6 was in beta, and I had to burn Opera to CD to use it at school in order to avoid using Netscape Navigator 3. And no, I did not use the Java-enabled version of Opera.
IIS Can be uninstalled. Easily. It's not even installed by default. Control Panel -> Add/Remove -> Windows Components -> Uncheck Internet Information Systems. It really does uninstall it, its not like the IE/OE "uninstalls".
Fair enough. Cygwins not going to win any races.
But from my expierence, it is still faster than running FreeBSD, at least, in VMWare. Any to be running the Linux kernel alongside the NT Kernel, one of them is going to have to act a little more like VMWare than translated code. This is more a guess that fact, but I suspect a 1.6 GHz PPC running Virtual PC isn't going to be as fast as an 800 MHz Transmeta CPU running it closer to natively. There's just less overhead to deal with that way. Cygwin is Transmeta, the question of speed will have to be answered in just how the Linux kernel was implemented.
Yup. Works identical to the Unix version.
Funny. I have screen working right now. It involved extracting it and adding it to the path. No easier or harder than on on real Unix.
You mean the already available binaries bundled with Cygwin? Or coming up with a Win 32 copy of Mozilla? Or GCC? Or even the Gimp? Or do you mean Open GL apps? Or Vim? Emacs? Etc etc etc.
Whats the difference between this and Cygwin? Or (though I haven't tried it, MS SFU). Cygwin seems to run extremely fast and reliably already. Of course, Cygwin doesn't run executables other than standard Windows EXEs, but what isn't available for Cygwin (or natively on Windows) already? This seems like a project to run Linux for the sake of Linux
Can't respond to Killfiles, because I don't know what they are.
Popup Blockers? Good popup blockers only block unwanted popups. When you click on something legit and needed, it appears? Its not 100% accurate, as there theoretically could be legitmate windows that popup in onload=, and those can be set to be allowed on a per-site basis.
Commercial Skips? Nothing to do with the creative squad, unless its a product placement, and then you can't effectively skip it anyway.
Of course, the catch is that not all retail CDs can be ripped (without some work at least.) I'm not defending it, in fact it seems like borderline extorition. But there it is.
The reason thats an option is the employees, themselves. They need to work X hours at Y dollars an hour to achieve self-susteinance. With your plan, the employees make only half of what they used to.