dude those are mega bits not mega bytes, just move the decimal one place to the left to get an inaproximate guestamite of the speed, so your 15-25 megabits is close to 1.5-2.5 megabytes. 3 megabytes upstream is insane for a home user.
for many users ease of use is paramont. that doesn't mean some new age high tech uber revoloutionary post-spatial pre post apple ui, it means if they learned how to use a computer on windows and are used to it, then that's what's easiest. if you take away the familiarity, it takes away productivity, which many buisinesses cannot afford to do.
packages aren't added to the stable branch until they are verified to be *stable* which can take some time. getting added to unstable branch isn't an instant process either. there are some gentoo specific bugs that might need to be worked out which takes time, and also someone needs to write the ebuild and add it. this is a pretty good guide on makeing your own ebuilds. if you get an ok one working submit it.
i agree, although it can be frusterating becuase it feals like you're acutally driving a 1920's automobile, which is damn_slow. the manual shifting mode is kinda irfy but on the hole the game is good. if you go above 35 mph the police will catch you and traffic rules apply. great game but rather hard at times.
the gentoo guide is great, it helped me as a ubern00b install gentoo from scratch. but if you're going to compile your own kernel, make sure you know your system specs and read every help item for every option. that way you can know what you need and want and what you dont.
i've seen it done, with 10.3 none thee less. not the fasted fruit on the block but works and is tolerable espically by those who browse in internet cafés.
at my friends school they have a bunch of imacs running 10.3, you dont need to log on, just walk up to it and you can use a limited account, however to retirve your personal files you have to log onto the central fileserver which everycomputer has access too. not a bad setup in my opinion, unless you forget to logout of the fileserver whichin that case you are fucked.
this is just like how consoles work, except due to the varrying nature and specs of pc hardware, your experiance may vary. users with little ram will experiance lagging frame rates and sloooow loading times, even worse with a slow optical drive. make a live dvd would be nice as games that require multiple cd's wouldnt require cd swapping, but then again if you want seamless operation with games get a ps2!
its not only about down speeds, but space. my school is fiber around campus but cat5 in classes, none of the boxen here could handle the raw power of a fiber connection, but it gives them room for file sharing and accomidating several thousand pc's on one network.
in order to get speed you need a wireless speedometer, which takes power, beyond that i dont know what you want, and if you *need* that get a handlebar mounted display whichis the best. a bike isn't a car.
this may sound weird, but getting out and lifting weights may be a good idea, you'll look and feal built, which will also help with confidence, even if its just 20 minutes a day you'll notice an improvement
i know this may come out sounding like a gentoo zealot troll, but its not. gentoo is an excellent way to learn the guts of your linux system, even if you dont use it for your servers, install it on an extra box and you will garunteed learn a great deal. even just reading the thourough install docs will help. plus gentoo makes updateing and compiling from scratch as well as distribution of selfcompiled binaries a sinch. i highley recomend it.
i dunno call me a nerd or whatnot but aqua is just plain sexy. everytime i even so much see the word osx i get turned on, its really just a sexy desktop.
honestly, no matter what anyone tells you longhorn won't be out until late 2006 at the earliest. Most reports from microsoft say that 2006, but its already been delayed a few times so don't get your hopes up.
think about it, the reason why google works so effectivly is because they have a multi terrabyte index of the internet, mirrored multiple times, its a large and space consuming (physically and in terms of hd space). without a similar local index how effective can a similar system to the one currently used be? and wouldnt that be kinda like the windows indexing service?
but they wouldn't do that becuase if they did, then they would piss off the big guys like dell, who migh t make money off of wmc. however because of all of microsofts built in drm crap they kinda shot themselves in the foot and locked themselves outa that one.
kind of ironic that there is the 'department of justice' which is not really that full of justice anymore. My favorite however is the "George Bush Center of Intelligence." Its a CIA building in I belive georgia. Kind of ironic huh? However they've already started building the ministry of truth which should stop silly little things like that from escaping to the public in the future.
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maybe big bro can use searchlight technology to find terrorists quicker...
dude those are mega bits not mega bytes, just move the decimal one place to the left to get an inaproximate guestamite of the speed, so your 15-25 megabits is close to 1.5-2.5 megabytes. 3 megabytes upstream is insane for a home user.
...as a norton rep.
:(
so sad
for many users ease of use is paramont. that doesn't mean some new age high tech uber revoloutionary post-spatial pre post apple ui, it means if they learned how to use a computer on windows and are used to it, then that's what's easiest. if you take away the familiarity, it takes away productivity, which many buisinesses cannot afford to do.
packages aren't added to the stable branch until they are verified to be *stable* which can take some time. getting added to unstable branch isn't an instant process either. there are some gentoo specific bugs that might need to be worked out which takes time, and also someone needs to write the ebuild and add it. this is a pretty good guide on makeing your own ebuilds. if you get an ok one working submit it.
i agree, although it can be frusterating becuase it feals like you're acutally driving a 1920's automobile, which is damn_slow. the manual shifting mode is kinda irfy but on the hole the game is good. if you go above 35 mph the police will catch you and traffic rules apply. great game but rather hard at times.
the gentoo guide is great, it helped me as a ubern00b install gentoo from scratch. but if you're going to compile your own kernel, make sure you know your system specs and read every help item for every option. that way you can know what you need and want and what you dont.
it just said it partition, not write to ntfs partitions.
i've seen it done, with 10.3 none thee less. not the fasted fruit on the block but works and is tolerable espically by those who browse in internet cafés.
at my friends school they have a bunch of imacs running 10.3, you dont need to log on, just walk up to it and you can use a limited account, however to retirve your personal files you have to log onto the central fileserver which everycomputer has access too. not a bad setup in my opinion, unless you forget to logout of the fileserver whichin that case you are fucked.
>I don't want a printer by my stereo.
:p
thats why you buy two
this is just like how consoles work, except due to the varrying nature and specs of pc hardware, your experiance may vary. users with little ram will experiance lagging frame rates and sloooow loading times, even worse with a slow optical drive. make a live dvd would be nice as games that require multiple cd's wouldnt require cd swapping, but then again if you want seamless operation with games get a ps2!
uhh wouldn't you need to *be* at the computer to do that? i dunno if you can vnc that
its not only about down speeds, but space. my school is fiber around campus but cat5 in classes, none of the boxen here could handle the raw power of a fiber connection, but it gives them room for file sharing and accomidating several thousand pc's on one network.
in order to get speed you need a wireless speedometer, which takes power, beyond that i dont know what you want, and if you *need* that get a handlebar mounted display whichis the best. a bike isn't a car.
if you think thats bad try going from getting used to that back to windows, i still middle select and expect to have it paste :p
this may sound weird, but getting out and lifting weights may be a good idea, you'll look and feal built, which will also help with confidence, even if its just 20 minutes a day you'll notice an improvement
he's being catalogued in a database...
oh come on! this is america they wouldnt do that here!
i know this may come out sounding like a gentoo zealot troll, but its not. gentoo is an excellent way to learn the guts of your linux system, even if you dont use it for your servers, install it on an extra box and you will garunteed learn a great deal. even just reading the thourough install docs will help. plus gentoo makes updateing and compiling from scratch as well as distribution of selfcompiled binaries a sinch. i highley recomend it.
i dunno call me a nerd or whatnot but aqua is just plain sexy. everytime i even so much see the word osx i get turned on, its really just a sexy desktop.
honestly, no matter what anyone tells you longhorn won't be out until late 2006 at the earliest. Most reports from microsoft say that 2006, but its already been delayed a few times so don't get your hopes up.
think about it, the reason why google works so effectivly is because they have a multi terrabyte index of the internet, mirrored multiple times, its a large and space consuming (physically and in terms of hd space). without a similar local index how effective can a similar system to the one currently used be? and wouldnt that be kinda like the windows indexing service?
I think it's telling that half the items you list as remedies include downloading third-party software
yes but all *linux* is is a kernel, distributions are nearly entirly composed of third party software.
but they wouldn't do that becuase if they did, then they would piss off the big guys like dell, who migh t make money off of wmc. however because of all of microsofts built in drm crap they kinda shot themselves in the foot and locked themselves outa that one.
kind of ironic that there is the 'department of justice' which is not really that full of justice anymore. My favorite however is the "George Bush Center of Intelligence." Its a CIA building in I belive georgia. Kind of ironic huh? However they've already started building the ministry of truth which should stop silly little things like that from escaping to the public in the future.