no, I mean, as in most of the files or standard configuration options for gentoo are in/etc right? including alot in/etc/conf.d or/etc/init.d
well, it turns out mdk 10.0 doesn't have the directories/etc/conf.d or/etc/init.d, and alot of the cups configuration in mdk is hidden in a remote folder somewhere in/etc, I had to use locate to find the config file and edit it so it would finally work. Not to mention some options as to whether to set your clock to local or UTC, because I think gui's are mostly a waste of time when they take me longer to start than to edit the config file and restart the service affected...
but that's just me... and I am a freak that cares about how much time his computer spends rendering or how much ram his programs use.
you're losing performance because your memory gets clogged. I'm one of those people that has a valid reason to worry about ram use, because I have a limited amount of it, but I use linux for 3D design, and that so happens to consume ALOT of ram. So every bunch of kilobytes I can scrap off is worth it thank you very much.
And I don't like being insulted either Fucking Cretin
I beg to differ.
In mandrake, when starting acpid, it didn't find any useable acpi events/battery/power supply (on my laptop where I now have gentoo!).
Besides, having the sources for the distro's kernel doesn't really help all that much, because if you inadvertently delete a module you KNOW to be useless then your entire system is screwed, it will refuse to boot if it doesn't have all the modules. Come on, you know you won't be able to find a system with all those network cards, and for god's sake, get rid of hotplug to find all the new network cards at boot, once is enough.
So, that is a waste of time on boot, and a waste of memory, KDE or Gnome are heavy enough in my opinion.
Besides, isn't the average knowledge of the community a good indicator of how good a distro really is? Because you don't get people asking "why doesn't this button work in that window?", you get on average intelligent questions with reasonable amounts of data that allows you to answer efficiently usually in less than a dozen commands.
yes, golden with a trace of truth in it too. Sorry if it sounds like the usual gentoo user bragging, but that guy is definitely right to some extent. Unless you recompile your kernel manually to optimize support for your motherboard, CPU, ram, graphics card, etc. you're losing performance. Not all binairy distros allow you to do that. Especially not redhat/fedora, and others offer kernels that you're not supposed to recompile, lest you break something with the hidden config files. I have mandrake 10.0 at home, and when I ssh into because my sister can't get a wmv streaming working with mplayer, well, I'm as good as a n00b, because I simply CANNOT find where the config is, nor find enough information about the urpmi command. Not to mention that the only reason mandrake is on there is because my family wouldn't let me take 36 hours to emerge both kde and gnome so they could have the choice (my mom uses gnome, my sister KDE, and I use enlightenment). I won't argue that gentoo takes a long time to install, but sometimes it's just worth the tweaking. Simple example: my laptop runs gentoo or windows, dual boot. The laptop was designed for windows XP in mind, so you'd expect it to get the best battery life running win XP, right? Well, I get maybe 2 hours on it when typing text. Using gentoo, well, oh! surprise: almost 4 hours worth of use while typing a paper in openoffice, with the exact same configuration, and actually tested 'til the battery died for both OSes. Only with gentoo did I find the correct acpi codes to use to minimize power when on battery power, mandrake has them, probably, but hidden somewhere that isn't logical. What was that quote about SuSE? They're not worried enough about where things should be on their file system? The same applies to most rpm based distros, and probably most binairy distros in general.
meh, I'm hidden behind the school firewall... I'll use the output of one of my programs from CS with an output of '+'s to that address... they're in for a sad day...
is that stupidly genius or ingeniously stupid?
I spent 3 minutes of the video wondering if it was a real lawnmower casing or not, then I saw the landing gear underneath... The illusion's great though!
Skycutter... I wonder if it'll work to cut off the typhoons or the hurricanes. Ideas?
THE NORTH KOREANS DID IT!!!
What's their army for? To make money!
How do they make money?
They steal personal information and create fake IDs.
Then they sell those fake IDs to whoever wants them to come bomb the US!
well, I know gnome/KDE's virtual desktop isn't great, but have you seen Enlightenment's pagers?
The nice bit is you can run E as the wm for either KDE or gnome. The pager takes snapshots of the content of the apps of every virtual desktop you have.
Maybe worth a look... www.enlightenment.org
Also works for several monitors with multiple desktops:)
thanks for the info, I did not know that.
I always welcome constructive criticism.
Also, in case you didn't know it, Fermat's last theorem HAS been proven, or at least so I've heard. I can't remember by whom or when though.
Now how DO you call someone with separate personalities?
Maybe the guy is schizophrenic!
Think about it: two personalities, one writes the article, then the other one finds it open on the desktop... makes sense, in a schizo-kind of way.
But in any case, he needs to get off/. and search help from a psychiatrist, whether he is schizophrenic or not, because he's abusing of our time, and I don't like wasting mine. In fact, I can't read the article because it times out.
But guess what? I did that before he did. Except I thought/. had more interesting things to post than that kinda stupid stuff. Are the moderators of the story half-groggy? I thought they had a little more judgement than that... Guess I was wrong.
I've had the TargusGroove notebook backpack for a couple months. I love it! I nicknamed it "the geek's bag"... It's rough, around $30, contains enough pockets for a laptop, the power cord, an external mouse, a portable music player with headphones hole, a couple of notebooks, two small water bottles on each side. Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I was buying it only to replace my old backpack and I just plain love it. I found mine in Office Depot, and I'm sure you'll find Targus' notebook backpacks good!
Kim Jong Il might have 600 hackers, but the western world has more script kiddies than that. Wait 'til some kiddo out there decides to write a worm that'll shoot DoS attacks on N Korea's network! That'll be funny, having hackers but no network for them to use!
I agree, every private company is pro-itself. However, you can't deny that IBM has helped make their own hardware compatible with Linux or opensource software in general, nor the contributions they've made.
Besides, I think that an IBM monopoly isn't going to happen... which individual bothers to buy IBM hardware anymore? Maybe refurbs, but refurbs from corporations. Big corporations are whom they target.
And that might be something that a sys-admin might like for a chip inside their machine... so you can't run viruses or non-company approved software. Sounds like paradise for the sys-admin if you can't screw up a machine otherwise than using software they know inside out, no?
ok, so IBM is shipping those machines... but does anyone think that IBM could use those chips eventually to block WINDOWS from being installed on them? look at the bright side, we may end up with a 'LINUX ONLY' line of machines... Big Blue is pro-open source, as it's showing in the SCO lawsuit and elsewhere...
So, I wouldn't worry too much about it... yet.
That's all nice and sad to learn that... But honestly, how many more people out there switch from windows to linux and never buy it pre-installed on the computer? And how many build their own boxes from scratch to put linux on it? I am one, and I know several that are. I used to have an illegit copy of windows, but when I realized I could use linux without the scare of being sued, guess what? The CD went straight in the trash never to be recovered. I honestly think that if you're going to do something, might as well do it right. Either you use linux and don't pay, either you use windows and you pay for the license.
Or at least that's how I see it.
wait... lemme read this again...
Microsoft is going to OpenSource something?
I thought putting the two words in one sentence without opposition was an oxymoron???
The world changes I guess...
Yes I am arrogant, but before saying anything about being able to make me eat through a straw for the rest of my life learn how not to underestimate your opponent.
Besides, I think that you're the one with a problem, since I was asking questions, and the only answer I get from you is "shut up, Bush has done nothing wrong, you're just trying to embarass him". For your information, Toxic Mixing Zones had been COMPLETELY closed for about 20 years. And Bush re-opened them. That's where my problem is.
dammit, just realized I made a BIG mistake... it wasn't John F. Kennedy Jr, it's ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr. It's Bobby Kennedy's son. Sorry about that... should re-read my post earlier.
No, it all depends on who's in the white house. And right now I'm disgusted of being american. I wouldn't be surprised if they called us assholes, because that's who's in charge right now.
I remember reading somewhere about making a bullet proof suit for soldiers where the suit was in fact hollow and filled with a gel containing nanoparticles. This thing might help us make more efficient ones: when the bullet hits the gel, the pressure is going to make it increase in heat, isn't it? So as the bullet tries to penetrate, it's going to get harder and harder... thus absorbing a HUGE amount of energy. Once the bullet is fully stopped, the pressure disappears, the temperature goes back down to normal and you have a liquid armor again. One problem is keeping the liquid from spilling out of the holes the bullets make... But I'm quite confident that can be overcome with some brilliant imagination. Of course, the real problem is how breakable is the solid formed? Because if the bullet goes straight through the hard material, then there's not point. But I think that'd be one use of this...
Your strike 4 is blaming Bush for allegedly relaxing standards for mercury emission at all.
Untrue. There was an act in place for a VERY long time that forbid any kind of toxic dump in the American waterways. The EPA under Bush has changed that to allow "Toxic Mixing Zones". What that means is that you can dump anything considered toxic in a river in a certain zone as long as it cannot be detected 1000 yards further downstream.
And I don't believe that Kennedy is an idiot either. How he came up with those numbers I'm not sure, but I'd rather find out that he's exaggerated them rather than find out he's underestimated them. Even the numbers you give are way too low to be acceptable, and the White House sure isn't doing anything to help the situation either!
Kennedy's best quote that night was "80% of the Republicans are Democrats that don't know what's going on." And quite honestly, I think he's right. Americans in general have a bad tendency of trusting their media and not their senses. I grew up overseas, and I know what I mean when I say that American media sucks and does not tell you what you need to know. Again, that was in Kennedy's lecture, when Reagan repealed an act that forced the media to talk about things of public interest he created media that is more a show than reporting of news. And PLEASE don't tell me that Fox News are the most objective news services because I'd have to punch you in the face.
I'd say you check up on John F. Kennedy's background. He's not just anybody, he leads a national environmental protection organization, and keeps sueing the government over pollution issues. If you're too lazy to google his name it's not my problem.
There's no point answering that because you know you're right, even though nobody else thinks so. Single minded, stupid, idiotic person as you are. You have no respect for others, and no constructive criticism. I care about the world my kids will grow up in. If you don't then you're just a stupid punk that only wants cash.
Go tell that to John F. Kennedy Jr. He said that they donated $48 million up front (where I don't know, might've been before this year), and then they have donated $58 million since. It's what he says, and I believe he knows where the numbers come from. Besides, I doubt it'd be official, as their whole industry is illegal under some laws regarding the environment. Unfortunately, the EPA has since changed those laws, as Bush has put people that are less than careful about preserving our natural ressources. And when does the count of your contributions start?
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no, I mean, as in most of the files or standard configuration options for gentoo are in /etc right? including alot in /etc/conf.d or /etc/init.d
well, it turns out mdk 10.0 doesn't have the directories /etc/conf.d or /etc/init.d, and alot of the cups configuration in mdk is hidden in a remote folder somewhere in /etc, I had to use locate to find the config file and edit it so it would finally work. Not to mention some options as to whether to set your clock to local or UTC, because I think gui's are mostly a waste of time when they take me longer to start than to edit the config file and restart the service affected...
but that's just me... and I am a freak that cares about how much time his computer spends rendering or how much ram his programs use.
you're losing performance because your memory gets clogged.
I'm one of those people that has a valid reason to worry about ram use, because I have a limited amount of it, but I use linux for 3D design, and that so happens to consume ALOT of ram.
So every bunch of kilobytes I can scrap off is worth it thank you very much.
And I don't like being insulted either
Fucking Cretin
I beg to differ. In mandrake, when starting acpid, it didn't find any useable acpi events/battery/power supply (on my laptop where I now have gentoo!). Besides, having the sources for the distro's kernel doesn't really help all that much, because if you inadvertently delete a module you KNOW to be useless then your entire system is screwed, it will refuse to boot if it doesn't have all the modules. Come on, you know you won't be able to find a system with all those network cards, and for god's sake, get rid of hotplug to find all the new network cards at boot, once is enough. So, that is a waste of time on boot, and a waste of memory, KDE or Gnome are heavy enough in my opinion. Besides, isn't the average knowledge of the community a good indicator of how good a distro really is? Because you don't get people asking "why doesn't this button work in that window?", you get on average intelligent questions with reasonable amounts of data that allows you to answer efficiently usually in less than a dozen commands.
yes, golden with a trace of truth in it too.
Sorry if it sounds like the usual gentoo user bragging, but that guy is definitely right to some extent. Unless you recompile your kernel manually to optimize support for your motherboard, CPU, ram, graphics card, etc. you're losing performance. Not all binairy distros allow you to do that. Especially not redhat/fedora, and others offer kernels that you're not supposed to recompile, lest you break something with the hidden config files.
I have mandrake 10.0 at home, and when I ssh into because my sister can't get a wmv streaming working with mplayer, well, I'm as good as a n00b, because I simply CANNOT find where the config is, nor find enough information about the urpmi command.
Not to mention that the only reason mandrake is on there is because my family wouldn't let me take 36 hours to emerge both kde and gnome so they could have the choice (my mom uses gnome, my sister KDE, and I use enlightenment).
I won't argue that gentoo takes a long time to install, but sometimes it's just worth the tweaking.
Simple example: my laptop runs gentoo or windows, dual boot.
The laptop was designed for windows XP in mind, so you'd expect it to get the best battery life running win XP, right?
Well, I get maybe 2 hours on it when typing text.
Using gentoo, well, oh! surprise: almost 4 hours worth of use while typing a paper in openoffice, with the exact same configuration, and actually tested 'til the battery died for both OSes.
Only with gentoo did I find the correct acpi codes to use to minimize power when on battery power, mandrake has them, probably, but hidden somewhere that isn't logical.
What was that quote about SuSE? They're not worried enough about where things should be on their file system? The same applies to most rpm based distros, and probably most binairy distros in general.
meh, I'm hidden behind the school firewall... I'll use the output of one of my programs from CS with an output of '+'s to that address... they're in for a sad day...
is that stupidly genius or ingeniously stupid? I spent 3 minutes of the video wondering if it was a real lawnmower casing or not, then I saw the landing gear underneath... The illusion's great though! Skycutter... I wonder if it'll work to cut off the typhoons or the hurricanes. Ideas?
THE NORTH KOREANS DID IT!!! What's their army for? To make money! How do they make money? They steal personal information and create fake IDs. Then they sell those fake IDs to whoever wants them to come bomb the US!
why use vnc? ssh -X blahblah And you can use a windows X-client for windows apps... Can't remember the name, but they exist, and that works well.
well, I know gnome/KDE's virtual desktop isn't great, but have you seen Enlightenment's pagers? The nice bit is you can run E as the wm for either KDE or gnome. The pager takes snapshots of the content of the apps of every virtual desktop you have. Maybe worth a look... www.enlightenment.org Also works for several monitors with multiple desktops :)
thanks for the info, I did not know that. I always welcome constructive criticism. Also, in case you didn't know it, Fermat's last theorem HAS been proven, or at least so I've heard. I can't remember by whom or when though. Now how DO you call someone with separate personalities?
Maybe the guy is schizophrenic! Think about it: two personalities, one writes the article, then the other one finds it open on the desktop... makes sense, in a schizo-kind of way. But in any case, he needs to get off /. and search help from a psychiatrist, whether he is schizophrenic or not, because he's abusing of our time, and I don't like wasting mine. In fact, I can't read the article because it times out.
But guess what? I did that before he did. Except I thought /. had more interesting things to post than that kinda stupid stuff. Are the moderators of the story half-groggy? I thought they had a little more judgement than that... Guess I was wrong.
I've had the Targus Groove notebook backpack for a couple months.
I love it! I nicknamed it "the geek's bag"... It's rough, around $30, contains enough pockets for a laptop, the power cord, an external mouse, a portable music player with headphones hole, a couple of notebooks, two small water bottles on each side.
Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I was buying it only to replace my old backpack and I just plain love it.
I found mine in Office Depot, and I'm sure you'll find Targus' notebook backpacks good!
Kim Jong Il might have 600 hackers, but the western world has more script kiddies than that. Wait 'til some kiddo out there decides to write a worm that'll shoot DoS attacks on N Korea's network! That'll be funny, having hackers but no network for them to use!
I agree, every private company is pro-itself. However, you can't deny that IBM has helped make their own hardware compatible with Linux or opensource software in general, nor the contributions they've made. Besides, I think that an IBM monopoly isn't going to happen... which individual bothers to buy IBM hardware anymore? Maybe refurbs, but refurbs from corporations. Big corporations are whom they target. And that might be something that a sys-admin might like for a chip inside their machine... so you can't run viruses or non-company approved software. Sounds like paradise for the sys-admin if you can't screw up a machine otherwise than using software they know inside out, no?
ok, so IBM is shipping those machines... but does anyone think that IBM could use those chips eventually to block WINDOWS from being installed on them? look at the bright side, we may end up with a 'LINUX ONLY' line of machines... Big Blue is pro-open source, as it's showing in the SCO lawsuit and elsewhere... So, I wouldn't worry too much about it... yet.
That's all nice and sad to learn that... But honestly, how many more people out there switch from windows to linux and never buy it pre-installed on the computer? And how many build their own boxes from scratch to put linux on it? I am one, and I know several that are. I used to have an illegit copy of windows, but when I realized I could use linux without the scare of being sued, guess what? The CD went straight in the trash never to be recovered. I honestly think that if you're going to do something, might as well do it right. Either you use linux and don't pay, either you use windows and you pay for the license. Or at least that's how I see it.
wait... lemme read this again... Microsoft is going to OpenSource something? I thought putting the two words in one sentence without opposition was an oxymoron??? The world changes I guess...
Yes I am arrogant, but before saying anything about being able to make me eat through a straw for the rest of my life learn how not to underestimate your opponent. Besides, I think that you're the one with a problem, since I was asking questions, and the only answer I get from you is "shut up, Bush has done nothing wrong, you're just trying to embarass him". For your information, Toxic Mixing Zones had been COMPLETELY closed for about 20 years. And Bush re-opened them. That's where my problem is.
dammit, just realized I made a BIG mistake... it wasn't John F. Kennedy Jr, it's ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr. It's Bobby Kennedy's son. Sorry about that... should re-read my post earlier.
No, it all depends on who's in the white house. And right now I'm disgusted of being american. I wouldn't be surprised if they called us assholes, because that's who's in charge right now.
I remember reading somewhere about making a bullet proof suit for soldiers where the suit was in fact hollow and filled with a gel containing nanoparticles. This thing might help us make more efficient ones: when the bullet hits the gel, the pressure is going to make it increase in heat, isn't it? So as the bullet tries to penetrate, it's going to get harder and harder... thus absorbing a HUGE amount of energy. Once the bullet is fully stopped, the pressure disappears, the temperature goes back down to normal and you have a liquid armor again. One problem is keeping the liquid from spilling out of the holes the bullets make... But I'm quite confident that can be overcome with some brilliant imagination. Of course, the real problem is how breakable is the solid formed? Because if the bullet goes straight through the hard material, then there's not point. But I think that'd be one use of this...
Your strike 4 is blaming Bush for allegedly relaxing standards for mercury emission at all. Untrue. There was an act in place for a VERY long time that forbid any kind of toxic dump in the American waterways. The EPA under Bush has changed that to allow "Toxic Mixing Zones". What that means is that you can dump anything considered toxic in a river in a certain zone as long as it cannot be detected 1000 yards further downstream. And I don't believe that Kennedy is an idiot either. How he came up with those numbers I'm not sure, but I'd rather find out that he's exaggerated them rather than find out he's underestimated them. Even the numbers you give are way too low to be acceptable, and the White House sure isn't doing anything to help the situation either! Kennedy's best quote that night was "80% of the Republicans are Democrats that don't know what's going on." And quite honestly, I think he's right. Americans in general have a bad tendency of trusting their media and not their senses. I grew up overseas, and I know what I mean when I say that American media sucks and does not tell you what you need to know. Again, that was in Kennedy's lecture, when Reagan repealed an act that forced the media to talk about things of public interest he created media that is more a show than reporting of news. And PLEASE don't tell me that Fox News are the most objective news services because I'd have to punch you in the face.
I'd say you check up on John F. Kennedy's background. He's not just anybody, he leads a national environmental protection organization, and keeps sueing the government over pollution issues. If you're too lazy to google his name it's not my problem.
There's no point answering that because you know you're right, even though nobody else thinks so. Single minded, stupid, idiotic person as you are. You have no respect for others, and no constructive criticism. I care about the world my kids will grow up in. If you don't then you're just a stupid punk that only wants cash.
Go tell that to John F. Kennedy Jr. He said that they donated $48 million up front (where I don't know, might've been before this year), and then they have donated $58 million since. It's what he says, and I believe he knows where the numbers come from. Besides, I doubt it'd be official, as their whole industry is illegal under some laws regarding the environment. Unfortunately, the EPA has since changed those laws, as Bush has put people that are less than careful about preserving our natural ressources. And when does the count of your contributions start?