Like 333Mhz which you can get for about 50$. On these PC's, don't use gentoo, compiling everything will be much too long.
I have a 333Mhz Pentium II system at home with 192 megs RAM and a 6 GB hard drive. I've installed Gentoo a few times on this box. Although it took a bit longer to install than, say, Mandrake, it wasn't that bad. Certainly don't install Gentoo on a system like that from a stage1 tarball. Use stage3 and GRP packages. When I installed that way, I probably spent about 4 hours or so installing. I didn't time it, and I split the install process through 2 evenings so the multiple reboots took a little extra time. YMMV.
Do you really need a firewall on a broadband connection if you have some sort of NAT-enabled router? Some of them even have firewalling capabilities. Just plug in and go, basic protection.
I'll have to agree with you on this. I happen to enjoy watching Voyager as well. I used to watch it all the time in college. I don't get much time to watch the reruns lately, but I do occasionally.
It seems whenever the topic of Star Trek comes up, people end up bashing Voyager. Personally I don't see what's so bad about it. It was a bit different from other series, like TNG or TOS, but then again they were in a different part of the universe. Things are bound to be different.
There is a paragraph symbol on the Word toolbar that shows all kinds of formatting characters like page breaks, section breaks, spaces, tabs, etc. As far as hidden codes (I'm assuming you're talking about things like tags for the table of contents) They always seem to appear for me if I go into the "edit comments" feature. That's assuming the doc has comments embedded. Also, I'm talking about Word 2000.
However, I do agree that it is time to kill Word. I've had many times where Word has misbehaved on me. One particularly frustrating time was when I was editing a document. I highlighted about 3 words of text and hit DELETE on my keyboard. ZAP! Word crashed with an illegal memory reference error. The OS had a lock on the file so I couldn't open it again until I rebooted. My system crashed about 3 or 4 times in a row from that error, on several occasions.
It is certainly annoying when Word decides to reformat text as you are typing, or if you copy/paste from another document and it doesn't preserve the format.
Yeah that threw me off too at first. However, couldn't the article actually be saying that Office 97 replaced Windows 95 as a Microsoft product for sale in that "region or district?" Rather than saying that office 97 replaced windows 95 as an OS. Although without an OS for sale in that area, what good is office 97?
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Yes, I can completely understand the point that being a non-administrator or non-power-user on XP can make the system difficult to use for the average user. From my experience, the main problem with running as a non-administrator comes when you try to install an application. Your average user expects to be able to just open Install_me.exe and hit next a few times to install the latest application. As a normal user, you cannot take the defaults because your permissions do not allow you to write to certain areas (e.g., C:\Program Files). However, during the install process of that application, you can tell the installer to install it off of your home folder instead (Documents and Settings\).
It's not necessarily the OS's fault, as application installers can be written to install in different location instead. Also, since users like to have that luxury of installing any application with the ease of next... next... done, that opens them up to malicious websites installing the latest and greatest spyware. I'm sure spyware could be written to install in the user's home folder instead, but at least then it wouldn't have access to the entire OS.
I'm currently running my XP Pro system at home as a normal user and haven't had any troubles so far. Granted, I've only installed one application as that user (trillian). I just told the installer to put it in C:\Documents and Settings\ and everything went fine. If that doesn't work, there's always "run as..." Perhaps this can be changed to something similar to the way KDE/Gnome does it in the linux world. I.E., if you run an app that needs admin privileges, prompt the user for the password with any applicable warnings so the user doesn't have to remember to right click the icon and select run as.
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Actually, I wasn't aware of the WFP service. However, from what I read on the site you linked to, if the WFP service cannot locate the correct file to restore (because the file is not in the dllcache folder or the CD-ROM/network is unavailable, it will display a dialog asking the user to supply this medium. There is a note on that site stating
If an administrator is not logged on, WFP cannot display either of these dialog boxes. In this case, WFP displays the dialog box after an administrator logs on. WFP also records an event to the system event log, noting the file replacement attempt. If an administrator cancels the WFP file replacement, an event noting the cancellation is logged. Note that WFP is not a replacement for having properly restricted user accounts and appropriate security policies.
Since most home users of XP run as administrator, they will see these dialogs and have the option to cancel them. Many users may do just that if they don't understand what the dialog box is saying. I've seen users ignore zonealarm/norton internet security dialogs asking to block/allow some app accessing the internet because they didn't know what it meant.
My main point was that a majority of average XP users run the system as administrator, which defeats the purpose of most OS protections. You don't normally see UNIX/Linux users running their systems as root, especially when connected to the net.
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deleting various system files such as explorer.exe
That may be a bit misleading. Explorer.exe is set (on my system at least) so users in the Everyone group and the Power Users group can only read and execute this file. Members of the Administrators group and the SYSTEM account have full control. I'm sure other key files on the system are set this way as well.
The problem with Windows XP (and 2000?) isn't really that it allows users to delete key files, but that the default installation (at least in XP) makes the user a local administrator. Since the user is a local admin, he or she can delete these files. Most average Windows users are not aware of this, so they don't know that they can (or should) switch it. Running a Windows system as a normal user would cut down a bit on these problems and others.
Any installation manual on linux I've seen informs the user that he or she should create a regular user account. Even the graphical installers (e.g., Mandrake) have a screen to create a normal user account. This way, linux users do not run the entire system as root (unless they purposely do not create a user account or choose not to log in with it.
forgive me if this sounds naive, but how necessary would it be to have a NAT router for a dial-up connection? I certainly agree that it is needed for a broadband connection.
I've never quite understood this, but then again I've never worked for an ISP. Why do they always seem to need the user's password? One time I called my ISP to find out how to change my password, and they asked me what I want it to be. I had to tell it to them over the phone to change it, rather than there being a system for me to do it myself.
I was just thinking of a treadmill too, but I don't own one. There's one problem I can see with this, which is similar to a treadmill. The user can be happily jogging (or running) along and suddenly stop (because something in the VR world scared them.) Seems that would have the same effect as if you stopped in your tracks on a treadmill. Sure, the floor tiles would slow to a stop too, but it wouldn't be instant. It'd be a bit difficult to keep balance in that situation.
Yes, but in this sense, "execute" does not mean "end his life." It's "execute" in the sense of "allow to run". I agree in this case it should be 'rm -rf/bin/laden' or perhaps 'killall laden && rm -rf/bin/laden' in case/bin/laden is already running.
Well I guess that would make sense. There's no Gentoo icon either. Gentoo stories go under some other icon (I forget which one.) I do agree with C Kode that they should have an ID icon for ID stories. Although maybe there are not enough ID stories to warrant an icon for it?
I was just thinking of the same kind of thing. Although, wouldn't each computer in the distcc farm have to be the same architecture to compile the packages? Or can you be on an x86 system and compile for PPC or the like? I'm not familiar with distcc.
why would you have to trash 2004.1? Just install 2004.1. Once finished, log on as root and type 'emerge sync' followed by 'emerge -u world'. Then your system will be totally up to date, as in you will then be running 2004.2.
The version numbers for the LiveCD's are just to get a new system *fairly* up-to-date before downloading any updates. This keeps people from having to download tons of files to update a version that's too old.
I agree completely. I've never used Lindows/Linspire, but I've heard about the default of running as root. I've used Mandrake and Gentoo where the installation automatically asks you to create a "normal" user account.
Any time I've installed Windows XP (home or Pro) it does the same thing. XP does prompt you to create a user account, but that account is set by default in the administrator group. Looks like linspire is going down the same trail.
I completely understand that. There are more packages available under Debian than Mandrake or Fedora. I'm a Gentoo user myself, so everything is compiled from source. (That's quite daring of me since I'm on dialup...):-P
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I have a 333Mhz Pentium II system at home with 192 megs RAM and a 6 GB hard drive. I've installed Gentoo a few times on this box. Although it took a bit longer to install than, say, Mandrake, it wasn't that bad. Certainly don't install Gentoo on a system like that from a stage1 tarball. Use stage3 and GRP packages. When I installed that way, I probably spent about 4 hours or so installing. I didn't time it, and I split the install process through 2 evenings so the multiple reboots took a little extra time. YMMV.
Do you really need a firewall on a broadband connection if you have some sort of NAT-enabled router? Some of them even have firewalling capabilities. Just plug in and go, basic protection.
Fortunate, or perhaps protected by a NAT router?
I'll have to agree with you on this. I happen to enjoy watching Voyager as well. I used to watch it all the time in college. I don't get much time to watch the reruns lately, but I do occasionally.
It seems whenever the topic of Star Trek comes up, people end up bashing Voyager. Personally I don't see what's so bad about it. It was a bit different from other series, like TNG or TOS, but then again they were in a different part of the universe. Things are bound to be different.
Myabe garammr is mroe dfifilcut wehn tpynig tihs way.
There was a story posted on Slashdot a while back about this. The story can be found here.
Pretty neat stuff.
There is a paragraph symbol on the Word toolbar that shows all kinds of formatting characters like page breaks, section breaks, spaces, tabs, etc. As far as hidden codes (I'm assuming you're talking about things like tags for the table of contents) They always seem to appear for me if I go into the "edit comments" feature. That's assuming the doc has comments embedded. Also, I'm talking about Word 2000.
However, I do agree that it is time to kill Word. I've had many times where Word has misbehaved on me. One particularly frustrating time was when I was editing a document. I highlighted about 3 words of text and hit DELETE on my keyboard. ZAP! Word crashed with an illegal memory reference error. The OS had a lock on the file so I couldn't open it again until I rebooted. My system crashed about 3 or 4 times in a row from that error, on several occasions.
It is certainly annoying when Word decides to reformat text as you are typing, or if you copy/paste from another document and it doesn't preserve the format.
Yeah that threw me off too at first. However, couldn't the article actually be saying that Office 97 replaced Windows 95 as a Microsoft product for sale in that "region or district?" Rather than saying that office 97 replaced windows 95 as an OS. Although without an OS for sale in that area, what good is office 97?
Yes, I can completely understand the point that being a non-administrator or non-power-user on XP can make the system difficult to use for the average user. From my experience, the main problem with running as a non-administrator comes when you try to install an application. Your average user expects to be able to just open Install_me.exe and hit next a few times to install the latest application. As a normal user, you cannot take the defaults because your permissions do not allow you to write to certain areas (e.g., C:\Program Files). However, during the install process of that application, you can tell the installer to install it off of your home folder instead (Documents and Settings\).
It's not necessarily the OS's fault, as application installers can be written to install in different location instead. Also, since users like to have that luxury of installing any application with the ease of next... next... done, that opens them up to malicious websites installing the latest and greatest spyware. I'm sure spyware could be written to install in the user's home folder instead, but at least then it wouldn't have access to the entire OS.
I'm currently running my XP Pro system at home as a normal user and haven't had any troubles so far. Granted, I've only installed one application as that user (trillian). I just told the installer to put it in C:\Documents and Settings\ and everything went fine. If that doesn't work, there's always "run as..." Perhaps this can be changed to something similar to the way KDE/Gnome does it in the linux world. I.E., if you run an app that needs admin privileges, prompt the user for the password with any applicable warnings so the user doesn't have to remember to right click the icon and select run as.
Actually, I wasn't aware of the WFP service. However, from what I read on the site you linked to, if the WFP service cannot locate the correct file to restore (because the file is not in the dllcache folder or the CD-ROM/network is unavailable, it will display a dialog asking the user to supply this medium. There is a note on that site stating
Since most home users of XP run as administrator, they will see these dialogs and have the option to cancel them. Many users may do just that if they don't understand what the dialog box is saying. I've seen users ignore zonealarm/norton internet security dialogs asking to block/allow some app accessing the internet because they didn't know what it meant.
My main point was that a majority of average XP users run the system as administrator, which defeats the purpose of most OS protections. You don't normally see UNIX/Linux users running their systems as root, especially when connected to the net.
That may be a bit misleading. Explorer.exe is set (on my system at least) so users in the Everyone group and the Power Users group can only read and execute this file. Members of the Administrators group and the SYSTEM account have full control. I'm sure other key files on the system are set this way as well.
The problem with Windows XP (and 2000?) isn't really that it allows users to delete key files, but that the default installation (at least in XP) makes the user a local administrator. Since the user is a local admin, he or she can delete these files. Most average Windows users are not aware of this, so they don't know that they can (or should) switch it. Running a Windows system as a normal user would cut down a bit on these problems and others.
Any installation manual on linux I've seen informs the user that he or she should create a regular user account. Even the graphical installers (e.g., Mandrake) have a screen to create a normal user account. This way, linux users do not run the entire system as root (unless they purposely do not create a user account or choose not to log in with it.
Thanks for the info. I do at least use a software firewall (zonealarm) on my windows system. I may look into one of those products you mentioned.
forgive me if this sounds naive, but how necessary would it be to have a NAT router for a dial-up connection? I certainly agree that it is needed for a broadband connection.
I've never quite understood this, but then again I've never worked for an ISP. Why do they always seem to need the user's password? One time I called my ISP to find out how to change my password, and they asked me what I want it to be. I had to tell it to them over the phone to change it, rather than there being a system for me to do it myself.
Funny... I've used pb4ugo2bed as a username in chat rooms in the past. Some people didn't get it, but it got some laughs out of some people.
That could work, until you are running in the sphere and suddenly stop. You'd go tumbling around it until it stops.
I was just thinking of a treadmill too, but I don't own one. There's one problem I can see with this, which is similar to a treadmill. The user can be happily jogging (or running) along and suddenly stop (because something in the VR world scared them.) Seems that would have the same effect as if you stopped in your tracks on a treadmill. Sure, the floor tiles would slow to a stop too, but it wouldn't be instant. It'd be a bit difficult to keep balance in that situation.
Yes, but in this sense, "execute" does not mean "end his life." It's "execute" in the sense of "allow to run". I agree in this case it should be 'rm -rf /bin/laden' or perhaps 'killall laden && rm -rf /bin/laden' in case /bin/laden is already running.
Well I guess that would make sense. There's no Gentoo icon either. Gentoo stories go under some other icon (I forget which one.) I do agree with C Kode that they should have an ID icon for ID stories. Although maybe there are not enough ID stories to warrant an icon for it?
Just curious, is there a reason this story is posted with a Quake 3 icon? Isn't there a games icon?
I was just thinking of the same kind of thing. Although, wouldn't each computer in the distcc farm have to be the same architecture to compile the packages? Or can you be on an x86 system and compile for PPC or the like? I'm not familiar with distcc.
why would you have to trash 2004.1? Just install 2004.1. Once finished, log on as root and type 'emerge sync' followed by 'emerge -u world'. Then your system will be totally up to date, as in you will then be running 2004.2. The version numbers for the LiveCD's are just to get a new system *fairly* up-to-date before downloading any updates. This keeps people from having to download tons of files to update a version that's too old.
Assuming Mac users are smarter, you must really be a PC user.
I agree completely. I've never used Lindows/Linspire, but I've heard about the default of running as root. I've used Mandrake and Gentoo where the installation automatically asks you to create a "normal" user account.
Any time I've installed Windows XP (home or Pro) it does the same thing. XP does prompt you to create a user account, but that account is set by default in the administrator group. Looks like linspire is going down the same trail.
I completely understand that. There are more packages available under Debian than Mandrake or Fedora. I'm a Gentoo user myself, so everything is compiled from source. (That's quite daring of me since I'm on dialup...) :-P