I've used/put up with, Suse for 3 years. Its gone from terribly buggy to fairly good, and back to terrible. I have never had printing, faxing, PIM & PDA functions working in Suse, because I knew from experience that it'd take 3 days to hunt down each of the hidden errors and get each little function working; and these were usually dumb errors too... distro errors. My conclusion is, the guys at Suse must hate their job. I had given them chance, after chance, after chance. Got absolutely fed up when Suse9 recently fell apart into a steaming pile.
See, what is really happening is, something's bad wrong at Suse, and they are effectively transferring their costs to the customer. To all who have tried Linux and failed to get it working satisfactorily, experienced people have this problem too. Assuming you hate M$ like I do, it's a question of how you want to spend your time: bit-twiddling, or with family/friends.
In desperation I tried Mandrake9.2, about two weeks ago. I was skeptical because I'd heard bad things about Mandrake8.x, and of their financial problems. But man, 9.2 works.
I can actually print on my beloved Alps MD5000, I can capture photos from a camera, capture video and compress to DivX... IOW stuff just works. Only problems I've had with Mandrake were because my bios was set to Legacy (for the benefit of Suse), and the weird abstracted (Debian) menuing. But nothing does not work -- a very functional, fast tool to actually get work done.
Thank you Mandrake. May you continue this trend.
Re: Israel -- In my opinion, Israel is now perpetrating its own Holocaust, and has been so for years. God will damn you, Gen. Sharon. 'Nuff said.
Did you know that one of our Generals recently, actually said that if there is a national emergency, the first American dictator would have to be appointed?
WTF?! Are we being prepared?
How bad of an emergency? Like 9/11? And exactly who decides? Dick Cheney, as usual?!?!
For those who doubt the concerns about RFID, it's about who controls your own information: you... or others.
We will get no regulation of the uses RFID is put to, while the Party is in power, and so it's up to us to sort this out.
Be advised that cellphone mfgrs are now adding technology that PUSHes ads to you. Will you be able to turn it off? Doubtful; if all the carriers do it, there's no place else to go.
And of course CDMA has always had geo-location... they promise it's only used to catch indicted criminals, but that claim is very doubtful, given some recent events.
Delegates at a conference could be identified as they approach their car. Obscuring codes don't matter; a sample could be taken at any time prior, at great distance with a parabolic dish. Soldiers could be accurately geo-located by the enemy.
Did you know that all GM cars since 1999 have black boxes in them, which are NOT being used to help you understand what happened 5 seconds before an accident, but to INDICT you for that accident, and expose you to civil litigation as well. Your inanimate *car* has become a prosecution witness against you, even though your own wife isn't supposed to be forced to testify against you.
This is the difference between the old way, and the neo-way, of managing the citizens. The deeper question is, why is our society becoming more and more adversarial, so fast? How do Nordic countries and Canada, get away with cooperation, rather than ever strengthening offense and defense, every day? They don't worry about NOT being something, like we Americans do. Double-plus ungood.
You say that when out in public, you have no expectation of privacy? True, but RFID expands that 'public' from your immediate surroundings (which you are aware of, and choose to inhabit), to the known universe, and for all time. If in 10 years it is considered treasonous to question RFID, some of us will be screwed, now, won't we? We all go places we'd like to keep private sometimes, now, don't we? Care to give that up, for no good reason other than FEAR?! Of our own government/corporate oligopoly? How much of your day do you spend in FEAR?! WTF are you afraid of NOW, FGS?!
RFID is a great idea for inventory, but should be disabled/disablable when purchased. I doubt those chips now in tires, can be disabled, given the vulcanization process. And tags will soon be microscopic.
RFID has no business on a person, as long as corporations and politicians behave adversarially toward their public at the highest levels.
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Good luck with Suse9... it was completely busted for me.
Happily running Mandrake 9.2 now. Simply don't have time to learn BSD.
I've used/put up with, Suse for 3 years. Its gone from terribly buggy to fairly good, and back to terrible. I have never had printing, faxing, PIM & PDA functions working in Suse, because I knew from experience that it'd take 3 days to hunt down each of the hidden errors and get each little function working; and these were usually dumb errors too... distro errors. My conclusion is, the guys at Suse must hate their job. I had given them chance, after chance, after chance. Got absolutely fed up when Suse9 recently fell apart into a steaming pile.
See, what is really happening is, something's bad wrong at Suse, and they are effectively transferring their costs to the customer. To all who have tried Linux and failed to get it working satisfactorily, experienced people have this problem too. Assuming you hate M$ like I do, it's a question of how you want to spend your time: bit-twiddling, or with family/friends.
In desperation I tried Mandrake9.2, about two weeks ago. I was skeptical because I'd heard bad things about Mandrake8.x, and of their financial problems. But man, 9.2 works.
I can actually print on my beloved Alps MD5000, I can capture photos from a camera, capture video and compress to DivX... IOW stuff just works. Only problems I've had with Mandrake were because my bios was set to Legacy (for the benefit of Suse), and the weird abstracted (Debian) menuing. But nothing does not work -- a very functional, fast tool to actually get work done.
Thank you Mandrake. May you continue this trend.
Re: Israel -- In my opinion, Israel is now perpetrating its own Holocaust, and has been so for years. God will damn you, Gen. Sharon. 'Nuff said.
Actually, that's when intellectuals depart from the masses, but have little effect.
The masses will put up with anything, witness Soviet Russia and N. Korea.
Did you know that one of our Generals recently, actually said that if there is a national emergency, the first American dictator would have to be appointed?
WTF?! Are we being prepared?
How bad of an emergency? Like 9/11? And exactly who decides? Dick Cheney, as usual?!?!
For those who doubt the concerns about RFID, it's about who controls your own information: you... or others.
We will get no regulation of the uses RFID is put to, while the Party is in power, and so it's up to us to sort this out.
Be advised that cellphone mfgrs are now adding technology that PUSHes ads to you. Will you be able to turn it off? Doubtful; if all the carriers do it, there's no place else to go.
And of course CDMA has always had geo-location... they promise it's only used to catch indicted criminals, but that claim is very doubtful, given some recent events.
Delegates at a conference could be identified as they approach their car. Obscuring codes don't matter; a sample could be taken at any time prior, at great distance with a parabolic dish. Soldiers could be accurately geo-located by the enemy.
Did you know that all GM cars since 1999 have black boxes in them, which are NOT being used to help you understand what happened 5 seconds before an accident, but to INDICT you for that accident, and expose you to civil litigation as well. Your inanimate *car* has become a prosecution witness against you, even though your own wife isn't supposed to be forced to testify against you.
This is the difference between the old way, and the neo-way, of managing the citizens. The deeper question is, why is our society becoming more and more adversarial, so fast? How do Nordic countries and Canada, get away with cooperation, rather than ever strengthening offense and defense, every day? They don't worry about NOT being something, like we Americans do. Double-plus ungood.
You say that when out in public, you have no expectation of privacy? True, but RFID expands that 'public' from your immediate surroundings (which you are aware of, and choose to inhabit), to the known universe, and for all time. If in 10 years it is considered treasonous to question RFID, some of us will be screwed, now, won't we? We all go places we'd like to keep private sometimes, now, don't we? Care to give that up, for no good reason other than FEAR?! Of our own government/corporate oligopoly? How much of your day do you spend in FEAR?! WTF are you afraid of NOW, FGS?!
RFID is a great idea for inventory, but should be disabled/disablable when purchased. I doubt those chips now in tires, can be disabled, given the vulcanization process. And tags will soon be microscopic.
RFID has no business on a person, as long as corporations and politicians behave adversarially toward their public at the highest levels.