And Kerry, having made his fortune being a litigious bastard, is probably the least likely to reform the patent system. I hate Dubya as much as the next guy, but Kerry is a lawyer, and the last thing you'll ever see is legal reform.
Good luck America - I hope everything works out after today for you in a positive way.
Any nerd worth his keep has known this for a long time. This is not an article for professional nerds - it's an article for 15 year old nerds learning to build a peecee for the first time.
If you really want to bring it down, invalidate it.
Write an exe that searches for sites with doubleclick ads and hammer them. I mean really, really hammer those ads. Then contact the same advertisers and tell them what they are actually paying for - a shell script to see their ads.
Never said adding drivers was difficult, and really installing the nVidia drivers is just as quick. Download installer and double-click.
Oh, and how long have you waited for portage to sync up?
I'm still talking about wireless cards being a royal pain in the arse. And if it's not wireless cards it'll be something else. Like Scanner? DVD Burner?
There's a whole plethora of hardware that will not work easily under a Linux box... As soon as I find a gotcha, I move back to XP for the desktop.
Think about it - I have all this hardware I've invested in. If one piece doesn't work in Linux, I've just justified the price of XP.
Admittedly though, being from the rest of the world, I'm eager to find out who the "leader of the free world" would chose to bomb next. With Kerry it might not happen. At least dubya will keep things interesting.
Signed: A Canadian who can't wait for the Canadian Dollar to surpass the US dollar so I can go do some serious shopping for a digital camera:)
You're right, it's never impossible, but it can be a real big pain in the arse though!
With FC2 - I had trouble getting it to copy the source over from DVD as well - it was dum. Apparantly it only recognized disk 2, and the dvd was unsupported. That was the point I got frustrated and said screw it and went back to XP. I like it, but it's not worth the frustration.
Hm... I thought the thing with Linux was that there aren't any drivers - it's kernel level hardware support I thought.
A HAL adds the layer so you don't need to recompile the kernel to add hardware support, and Torvalds vehemently opposes that notion of a HAL.
You're right about the manufacturer support, but in order to overcome this chicken / egg scenario, i'm afraid linux devs need to write the hardware support. Look at nVidia and ATi - they are both writing drivers now. As are many other vendors now.
I take two different approaches with FF. If it's a friend, and I'm working for free, I install it and tell them to switch over, or I won't do any more spyware cleanups without billing them. It's a waste of my time to go fix people's computers for free and have them not listen to my warnings about IE. Actually it's disrespectful of the free service I provide for them.
I equate it to having a mechanic fix the heads on your engine for free after you ran it dry of oil. If you run your engine dry of oil again, the mechanic should charge you double for being a moron.
If it's a paying customer, I introduce them to FF and tell them that they'll save money on me if they switch. It's an easy sell. If they chose to go back to IE, I've given them the tools they need to stay away from spyware. I can't do anything more.
It's ready until you stuff a wireless PCMCIA card in your laptop and the Kernel doesn't recognize it. And then the dum end user has to call an IT friend over who'll switch them back to XP.
Do you consider a wireless PCMCIA card random parts? Give me a break. It's not FUD.
I just installed FC2 from DVD. I wanted to install Linux-wlan and needed the source for it. Am I the only one that thinks it's stupid to need the Kernel source to add hardware support?
Linux on the server rocks, and is almost as good as FreeBSD, but IMHO Linux still sucks ass on the desktop (although it's gotten better). I've been trying to like it since RH5, so I'm not green to it.
lol I was just at someone's house and I tried to switch them to Firefox. I got the "I'd rather not switch" routine, while I removed 12 spyware programs he had installed. I reminded him that he called me over to fix his computer, and that's what I was doing. If he chose to break it again by using IE, that's his problem, and it'll be his to fix. And wholly crap did he have a lot of spyware.
You obviously have never installed Linux on a laptop, especially with wireless. Sorry, but wireless on Linux desktops is really, really stupid. I should not need the source for the whole Kernel and need to recompile the kernel in order to add wireless support. Until Linux engineers figure out that a HAL is a very good idea, or find a better alternative than recompile to add support for a piece of hardware, I'm afraid that Linux won't be ready for the desktop. I like Linux and worship FreeBSD, and absolutely can't stand either on the desktop yet. And I've been trying since Redhat 5 and Mandrake 6 to like it.
So you're saying England is stupid for providing free university? Most of Europe understands the need for free, govt sponsored education. This American system of higher education is stupid. The smart should be educated, not the rich. The rich already have money - they don't need to be educated as much as the poor do.
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Oh, I totally agree with you; problem is that there's tonnes of LAMP apps written with the standard mysql package. I can only speculate that though, and don't have a concrete list of them lol...
Problem is that mysql-stable doesn't work with the imysql package... mysql-stable is still mysql 4.1 last time I checked. In a production environment you need a stable database (granted going to PHP5 is a bit of premature ejaculation IMO).
No nerds, it's not a friggin' Dyson Sphere, and Scotty isn't there in a transporter locked in loopback.
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Woah silver - Have you LOOKED at PHP5 recently? Inheritence, Overrides, Private Methods and properties, static methods. Looks like a pretty good implementation of OOP.
And for those zealots who bitch about the fact that everything's a function, dive into Pear...
The only thing that'll keep php5 from getting into the mainstream is the fact that it doesn't offer too much more other than a much better implementation of OOP, and default installs don't have the mysql package by default - they only have imysql, which means there's a lot of apps out there for php4 that won't work on a default php5 install. Keep in mind in hosted environments this can be a bit of a problem.
Keep in mind that mysql4-stable doesn't work with imysql yet AFAIK.
I love PHP5, but the lack of default support for the standard mysql package is bad for many existing apps that rely on that package.
(yes the onus is on programmers to get their code updated to something like, oh, adodb maybe?)
What if the flood itself changed the typical ratios of C14 to C12 and N14?
Has any other flood done that? Humour me for a second being a a bit dense:
C14 -> C12 + N14
Am I missing something?
Uhm, as far as I knew Christians do not believe in any form of evolution. As soon as you throw the word in, you acknowledge the possibility of Darwin.
Furthermore, until a creation theorist accepts the theory of carbon dating, they cannot be called scientists, and ergo dismiss any form of empirical reasoning.
And while were at it, if the bible is the first book, we acknowledge that history is as old as written text, yet there are no written accounts of man walking with dinosars.
And how the hell did the Kangaroos and Koalas make it to Australia after the flood? God give them jet packs?
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Don't forget about Commander Keen!
And Kerry, having made his fortune being a litigious bastard, is probably the least likely to reform the patent system. I hate Dubya as much as the next guy, but Kerry is a lawyer, and the last thing you'll ever see is legal reform.
Good luck America - I hope everything works out after today for you in a positive way.
Professional what? Graphic Desingers? Video Editors? Architects and Engineers? Yeah, these guys all have a clue.
Must have been either Dragonfly or BSD/OS - why would they pick (Open|Net|Free)BSD? :)
Seriously though, FreeBSD is the most likely - it's got the most market share of all the BSD flavours.
Any nerd worth his keep has known this for a long time. This is not an article for professional nerds - it's an article for 15 year old nerds learning to build a peecee for the first time.
If you really want to bring it down, invalidate it.
Write an exe that searches for sites with doubleclick ads and hammer them. I mean really, really hammer those ads. Then contact the same advertisers and tell them what they are actually paying for - a shell script to see their ads.
The advertisers pull out. Easy.
Never said adding drivers was difficult, and really installing the nVidia drivers is just as quick. Download installer and double-click.
Oh, and how long have you waited for portage to sync up?
I'm still talking about wireless cards being a royal pain in the arse. And if it's not wireless cards it'll be something else. Like Scanner? DVD Burner?
There's a whole plethora of hardware that will not work easily under a Linux box... As soon as I find a gotcha, I move back to XP for the desktop.
Think about it - I have all this hardware I've invested in. If one piece doesn't work in Linux, I've just justified the price of XP.
I'm referring to the media that refers to the President of the US as leader of the free world.
And FWIW, those wars had international backing, this one didn't.
I'm more curious to see who dubya bombs next - Kerry's next four years are pretty easy to envision.
Bush OTOH can bankrupt America in the next four years.
Admittedly though, being from the rest of the world, I'm eager to find out who the "leader of the free world" would chose to bomb next. With Kerry it might not happen. At least dubya will keep things interesting.
:)
Signed: A Canadian who can't wait for the Canadian Dollar to surpass the US dollar so I can go do some serious shopping for a digital camera
And about the rejected black and hispanic voters? Most of them don't tend to vote republican...
You're right, it's never impossible, but it can be a real big pain in the arse though!
With FC2 - I had trouble getting it to copy the source over from DVD as well - it was dum. Apparantly it only recognized disk 2, and the dvd was unsupported. That was the point I got frustrated and said screw it and went back to XP. I like it, but it's not worth the frustration.
Hm... I thought the thing with Linux was that there aren't any drivers - it's kernel level hardware support I thought.
A HAL adds the layer so you don't need to recompile the kernel to add hardware support, and Torvalds vehemently opposes that notion of a HAL.
You're right about the manufacturer support, but in order to overcome this chicken / egg scenario, i'm afraid linux devs need to write the hardware support. Look at nVidia and ATi - they are both writing drivers now. As are many other vendors now.
lol we'll see - too soon to tell, but I've converted a lot of people to Firefox - it's just too rad...
I take two different approaches with FF. If it's a friend, and I'm working for free, I install it and tell them to switch over, or I won't do any more spyware cleanups without billing them. It's a waste of my time to go fix people's computers for free and have them not listen to my warnings about IE. Actually it's disrespectful of the free service I provide for them.
I equate it to having a mechanic fix the heads on your engine for free after you ran it dry of oil. If you run your engine dry of oil again, the mechanic should charge you double for being a moron.
If it's a paying customer, I introduce them to FF and tell them that they'll save money on me if they switch. It's an easy sell. If they chose to go back to IE, I've given them the tools they need to stay away from spyware. I can't do anything more.
It's ready until you stuff a wireless PCMCIA card in your laptop and the Kernel doesn't recognize it. And then the dum end user has to call an IT friend over who'll switch them back to XP.
Do you consider a wireless PCMCIA card random parts? Give me a break. It's not FUD.
I just installed FC2 from DVD. I wanted to install Linux-wlan and needed the source for it. Am I the only one that thinks it's stupid to need the Kernel source to add hardware support?
Linux on the server rocks, and is almost as good as FreeBSD, but IMHO Linux still sucks ass on the desktop (although it's gotten better). I've been trying to like it since RH5, so I'm not green to it.
lol I was just at someone's house and I tried to switch them to Firefox. I got the "I'd rather not switch" routine, while I removed 12 spyware programs he had installed. I reminded him that he called me over to fix his computer, and that's what I was doing. If he chose to break it again by using IE, that's his problem, and it'll be his to fix. And wholly crap did he have a lot of spyware.
You obviously have never installed Linux on a laptop, especially with wireless. Sorry, but wireless on Linux desktops is really, really stupid. I should not need the source for the whole Kernel and need to recompile the kernel in order to add wireless support. Until Linux engineers figure out that a HAL is a very good idea, or find a better alternative than recompile to add support for a piece of hardware, I'm afraid that Linux won't be ready for the desktop. I like Linux and worship FreeBSD, and absolutely can't stand either on the desktop yet. And I've been trying since Redhat 5 and Mandrake 6 to like it.
So you're saying England is stupid for providing free university? Most of Europe understands the need for free, govt sponsored education. This American system of higher education is stupid. The smart should be educated, not the rich. The rich already have money - they don't need to be educated as much as the poor do.
Oh, I totally agree with you; problem is that there's tonnes of LAMP apps written with the standard mysql package. I can only speculate that though, and don't have a concrete list of them lol...
Problem is that mysql-stable doesn't work with the imysql package... mysql-stable is still mysql 4.1 last time I checked. In a production environment you need a stable database (granted going to PHP5 is a bit of premature ejaculation IMO).
No nerds, it's not a friggin' Dyson Sphere, and Scotty isn't there in a transporter locked in loopback.
Woah silver - Have you LOOKED at PHP5 recently? Inheritence, Overrides, Private Methods and properties, static methods. Looks like a pretty good implementation of OOP.
And for those zealots who bitch about the fact that everything's a function, dive into Pear...
The only thing that'll keep php5 from getting into the mainstream is the fact that it doesn't offer too much more other than a much better implementation of OOP, and default installs don't have the mysql package by default - they only have imysql, which means there's a lot of apps out there for php4 that won't work on a default php5 install. Keep in mind in hosted environments this can be a bit of a problem.
Keep in mind that mysql4-stable doesn't work with imysql yet AFAIK.
I love PHP5, but the lack of default support for the standard mysql package is bad for many existing apps that rely on that package.
(yes the onus is on programmers to get their code updated to something like, oh, adodb maybe?)
What if the flood itself changed the typical ratios of C14 to C12 and N14?
Has any other flood done that? Humour me for a second being a a bit dense:
C14 -> C12 + N14
Am I missing something?
Uhm, as far as I knew Christians do not believe in any form of evolution. As soon as you throw the word in, you acknowledge the possibility of Darwin.
Furthermore, until a creation theorist accepts the theory of carbon dating, they cannot be called scientists, and ergo dismiss any form of empirical reasoning.
And while were at it, if the bible is the first book, we acknowledge that history is as old as written text, yet there are no written accounts of man walking with dinosars.
And how the hell did the Kangaroos and Koalas make it to Australia after the flood? God give them jet packs?