uhhhhh we're missing the boat here guys BIG TIME! Getting a decent browser for linux is and would be nice. However having one WON'T make Linux a viable business software. 3 componets are missing, one a word processor (not a text editor a real honest to bloated god word processor) that is compatible 100% with MSWord, a spread sheet that is 100% compatible with excell and a presentation sweet that is compatible with with PowerPoint. No more no less. If I can take a PowerPoint presentation, edit the parts that come from excell and Word, repackage it and send it to my associate across the world who is using Microsoft and He/She can open it, read it and use it without having to stand on thier head (or me mine) then and only then will I switch my company to Linux. My secratarial personell, auditing dept and Sales staff are not computer guru's but they do need and use them extensively. I've got a Linux box or two at home (Actually I think it's 3 but one is belly up due to hardware biting the dust) I also have a FreeBSD system for my corporate Intranet and Internet. (It can't be beat for robust and secure behavior one server has I believe 525hrs up without a reboot and the last reboot was due to a system upgrade) However I use and probably will continue to use Windows95/98 as well as Mac OS 7&8 simply because despite the FUD to the reverse, they work, in fact if you really want to know the truth I havent found a piece of software that was worth a dang since HDD's came on the market.
Actually It was a lesson in my cobol class back in college circa 1975 (I'm old ok!) to build a two number date system that went from 1950 to 2050. It also is used in the pager on my belt. It goes from 1985 to 2030 (why the odd number I don't know) on it's calendar. This pager is now 6 years old. In other words prior art means nothing. Ask Tesla.
I've had it. It's time we the geeks who write these programs start flexing a little political muscle. It can begin with something as simple as flooding our Senators and Congressmen/women with e-mails faxes and yes even snail mail. It's getting to the point where you can't even write #include **** without violating some jackapes patent. We wrote the code and yet idiots like these patent it and steal the money from our hands. What's next a patent on breathing? Count the patent violations on this page alone. Links, gif images, color, lists, the very page I'm using to submit this ramble are all in violation of some jackape suits patent. It's time those fatcats in DC hear about this. For Non-Americans you can help as well write your governments. Inform them how patents like this stiffle your economies. How they inhibit your ability to import code and products into the US and abroad. Make your government put pressure on ours to change what has become a feeding trough for suits who can't create just steal. Nov 5th may be burn your gif day but frankly that isn't the answer, we need to stand up to these suit banstards and say FSCK Q!!! We aren't going to take it. It's time the fat cats learned the true power and influance of the geek communitte. We have the numbers, the brains and the means, lets use it. I therefore submit to the geek communitte a proposal. National flood the gov day. And just for fun let's make it Thanksgiving...
Here's a book for you. How to Build a Beowulf (a guide to the implementation and application of PC clusters) By Thomas L Sterling, John Salmon, Donald J. Becker and Daniel F. Savarese. ISBN 0-262-69218-X From M.I.T Press Published 1999
I've read this book and although some of it is very basic (such as how to install Linux) It is a very informative book, well referenced throughout If you are intrested in building clusters on other OS's as well.
Reading this article as well as some of the grossly underaged comments that follow a few things come to mind. The rules for finding a life partner are the same regardless of your sexual persuasion. I have a wife and one of my best friends has a "life partner" duh... it doesn't matter who your other is, treating them with respect does. Sex is easy love is hard. The secret to getting laid is not trying to get laid. Seriously, if you're constantly trying to fsck her, all of her defenses are up and in place. Even he she wants t fsck you! It's automatic on her part. Try to make a friend, smile, make her laugh, be a gentlemen. That "Makin Bacon" T-shirt may be all the rage in the cyber cafe but not with her. Don't try to prove your smart. If you are she'll/he'll know, nothing is more boring than a know it all. So don't, you might find out that she/he can teach you a lot about what she/he knows. Her/His favorite subject is themselves just as yours is you. Talk about that for a while. If you want to be listened too, learn to listen. There is no "one person for me" If you think about it there is a one type of person, but not one person for anyone. Love and passion get you through the honeymoon. Affection lasts a lifetime (old Sicilian proverb or at least I learned this from an old Sicilian) Gifts for no reason are great but if your partner seems to only respond when you buy them a gift..... GET A NEW PARTNER! If you need to buy love it's cheaper in the red light district. (and they at least know when to go home) If he/she splits on you.... so what! Analyze and correct your mistakes, get off your duff and try again. 24 hours is mourning, 48 hrs is boring. Be on time, Being late says you don't care. Buy a freaking watch. Don't judge the book by it's cover, in short you'll be amazed what you find under some of those ugly clothes out there. I've been extremely suprised on a number of occasions. Stop planning and just do it. News groups don't have the answers, chat rooms might be fun, but face to face is the only way it's gonna work, period. Ok so much for my soap box but I guess this is a subject that can naturally get soapy Speaking of which I wonder if my wife needs a shower (hehe)
I Want It. I've use this product on the Amiga before, If it has just kept up with current trends it will exceed both Photoshop 5 and Fireworks for windows systems and anything else I could through at it. I remember the code and interface were solid and it did what I wanted without my having to "outthink" the program. I'll buy it, it worked before and should work again.
You are both right and wrong. I've seen VC's who understand the need for NDA's and will sign them, I've also seen ones who won't. One way around this we use is to get them to either sign a reciept for the Business Plan or to get them to sign a memorandum saying that they met with you on XX day and discussed YY. What's even more important is that you get your shite together on the business plan. DON'T leave any stone unturned in creating a solid and comprehesive plan. This plan once created (and dated) can become your proof that you created this idea and when. The worry is not that VC's will steal your idea, they don't have time to develop stolen ideas. The worry is that you won't be able to convice them that you have a viable product. This is where the Business plan is vital. We just got 2 million in start up capitol because even though my bosses English isn't the greatest (He can code but forget spelling) it was so complete in facts and details that it blew them away. They had seen proposals in this market before, but they went with us because of the quality of his research. 20 research teams with the same tools will eventually come up with 20 nearly identical solutions. The reason you get funding is because you know your shite better than anyone else. Don't sweat the NDA sweat the business plan.
Intresting side point, that means that Lincoln couldn't have become a lawyer in todays world. Since he didn't even have a high school diploma. hmmmmmmm Not sure what that means but I believe it speaks of elitism. What next, you can't be an inventor without and engineering degree? Pity poor Edison.
Ok it's flashy. it's a big pic. It doesn't work. Sorry folks but if this is the way you intend to watch the Who concert your in for a bad time all around. It seems they can't even handle the slashdot effect. I'm on a 1.5mbps down 728 up adsl connection AMD 450 CPU 100mhz bus on a 10mbps ethernet (Note I'm currently the only computer in up the office, it's Sunday) and I can't recieve the video smooth enough to watch it. (Unless I download the entire video stream first to my hdd.) Then of course once you've downloaded the video it's yours to keep right? I see a tonne of copywrite problems here. In fact as far as I can tell it's sortof a cross between AVI and MOV files. The Alanis Morrisette video took about 2.5 minutes to buffer on my connection and about 30 secs to play that buffer and begin breaking up. The video is clear, large and the sound is fairly good quality. It also says on the site that a 256k minumum line is needed. So that immediately means that if you are the average modem or cable modem user (most cable modems I've seen are limited to either 128k or 256k download speed even though they should be faster) You're not going to be able to view the concert. So in other words it's slightly less than vaporware. Not to mention I've now got some huge downloads on my hdd (about 200megs all total) In short I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. Some great ideas on the interface. Some really neat buttons that maybe might someday do something. But that's about it. I think I had better buy tickets because the net isn't the place yet. Now if they had, had Hazardous Media and Sokol and Assoc, do it like with HALS birthday and Eden Fest the picture would have been smaller but at least you could have watched it. Sorry if I bored anyone with the eval but it's in the blood. I do this for a living.
As for why 6.1 locks up with KDE I don't have an answer sorry. I run the same and don't get that at all. hmmmmmmm As for a way to get to your console ctrl-alt-f3 will drop you immediately to a login prompt without killing X (then you can just kill the parts causing problems and then use ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X providing you didn't kill it all. As for a way to kill X without a reboot try ctrl-alt-backspace. Hope this helps. Give the guys at mandrake a shout. They have always been helpful with problems like this and they love to shoot bugs.
I tend to agree with your assement. Most of the problems I find with MS products tend to come from either A: improper install B: Improper deletetion of another program C: IE4.x I've found that by taking the time to COMPLETELY delete IE (reg editing etc) I get a win system or an NT system that is very stable. The other thing I find is occasionally cause for lock up (on both Linux and MS systems ) is too many open projects for the ram/swap to handle. One must remember you can't exceed the ability of the system. (Try and do a POVray rendering on a 386 compared to a PIII and you'll see what I mean.) Last I would rather surf the web under windows than under linux. Without a stable browser and plugins the web just isn't as rich under linux.
Personally I couldn't agree more. XFree is as stable as a rock on my system (Mandrake 6.1 and XFree 3.3.5) Netscape now there is another problem altogether. Still can't run java applets on Netscape for linux (works fine in windblows not on Linux. I've never lost my mouse or my keyboard though. In fact I've found that crashing X or Linux takes some effort. My job entails trying to crash systems. A lot of what I've learned is that most of the time unstable systems come from unstable setup's or people trying to "outthink" Linus and his crew. What I've found is the following. Keep/root directory and the / directory at 60% or less capacity. If you do it really makes the system stable. One of the ways to do this is to make the/home directory act like it does in FreeBSD. Home is in/usr/home and the/home is just a symlink. Most of the instability I've encountered seems to lie in just this area. Nutscrape then becomes the only unstable element in what is otherwise a very stable system. Second, watch your hardware. Bleeding edge is by definition unstable. Many of the problems I encounter in testing has to do with the fact that the manuals etc on the hardware aren't matching the actual figures on some of the bleeding edge stuff (shure the two chips are the same under windows but the bios and linux see the real difference) Example AMD 450's have two different voltage settings 2.2 and 2.4 the manual doesn't recognize the lower setting. But it does make a difference in cpu performance if you get it wrong. Check your settings. Remembering just because you can change it doesn't mean you should. And if you do leave yourself a way to "unchange" what you did. It's a system not a standalone.
Ok ridiculus has reached a new level. So my suggestions are first boycott Amazon. The only voice we have is with our credit cards therefore we should invoke the privilage of withoulding our credit cards. Besides Barnes and Nobles has a better selection. Second everyone has to stop breathing. I just applied for a patent on organic autonomic oxeygen intake systems, as well as organic autonomic plasma distribution systems. That way if you breath or your heart pumps blood I get paid.
Amen if I had concentrated on the languages I would still be using Fortran77 Algol Cobol and Pascal only. All good languages mind you but with out a firm grounding in theory I would have been quickly left behind. Things change too fast in the computer world but if you have a strong theory background you can change right along with it.
Actually these cables usually follow major access roads whenever possible. This allows for access to the lines regardless of weather conditions. (the mud in an Ohio cornfield can get 2 feet deep after a really good rain) Next 4 to 6 feet above the cable they bury a bright orange tape that warns about cable below. Hopefully this can be seen and Hopefully it doesn't settle out of alignment with the cable below. Third most cable cuts I've seen were not the result of direct contanct with the cable by the backhoe but rather the result of mud and rock slides/shifts due to digging near them. Cables aren't and can't be that strong. More so pulling a cable isn't as easy as you make it sound. This isn't a piece of thread It can weigh several tons (tonnes) and requires heavy equipment to pull it through a pipe. Finally one of the problems with using train tracks is how in the hell do I get a truck back where the cable is? Finally glass doesn't stretch.
About 8 years ago while working in Asia in a country to be left unamed (to protect the guilty). We had, had about 20 line cuts in a two week period. All within the same five mile stretch of Highway. It was because local farmers whereout backhoeing their field dikes to prepare for the next seasons planting as well as crews from Highway construction. We kept repairing the cuts in the fiber, putting larger and larger signs and underground tapes all in the local language (none of which helped they dug where they wanted too.) One of our local co-workers came up with a solution to the problem. We place signs along the stretch in ENGLISH only. The locals, and highway crews became so sure that this was some special secret government project that over the course of the next 6 months we had only one cut in our area of responsibility. *sigh* Kinda like my physics prof who said the only thing fibre optics would be good for is "hippy" lamps and nothing more.
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I used to live in Korea up untill 4 months ago. (Got transfered back to the good ol' US of A) I used to spend about $150.00 a month on phone charges related to my internet calls alone. Anything anywhere that brings down this cost can only expand out into other areas and nations. Good luck lowering those phone bills. Besides lower costs means more use, means more knowledge gained, means the more we all gain from increased brainpower in the pool.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm You can grab a pen. Sounds like a project to me. A word processor that allows you to use a pen like mouse to make notes and scribble on it. Just a thought.
No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of
Can't really give out an ISO since it's in beta it keeps changing so any ISO anyone makes is out of date by the time it gets to the web. These guys are working fast and furious on the bug side.
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Mandrakes new version 6.1 (currently called cassini to be called Helios) is in beta testing and has RPM's for KDE 1.1.2 available. Just head over to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and check it out. I've been using it for about two weeks and it's a vast improvement.
I agree with the concept of Office being the "killer ap" that drives M$. I recently was working with the CTO of one of the largest Cable companies (as in leased line) in Asia, who told me that if Office or something that could guarantee 100% compatability with M$Office (both in read/write and user interface) were available he would switch all 20,000 (yes the number is correct) of his corporate desktops to Linux immediately. This by the way is comming from a man who has linux on his desktop and notebook with Staroffice. Currently Staroffice comes close but it doesn't do what is needed. Porting of Doc and Excell files is still a little iffy. It comes close and doesn't lose too much data but it seems to usually require a cleanup, which drives secerataries and bookeepers nuts, and costs companies $$$ in lost productivity. Look at what M$ did to Lotus, Harvard Graphics, Dbase, and Multimate (Yes these were once the dominate force in corporate software) by giving the user 100% compatability with their current DB of information and archives in one package with 1 licensing fee they gained total dominance of the market. Dynamic DNS won't sell servers in and of itself. Most good sysadmins have already created a work around for this problem. What drives M$ is Office and it's lack of competition.
Just got Linux and X windows up and running on a Libretto 30. Only hassle was VI'ing the XF86Config file so that it would run X windows correctly. Got all the info from a site at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/ including a copy of his XF86Config File. He also mentions a way to get multiple (Read 2 and only 2) pcmcia slots up on the libretto. One question I have has anyone any advice on getting a NIC running. I've got a 3com 3CXE589ET but I'm game to buy whatever I can get working. As for everything else it runs like a charm. Next step will be a hard drive upgrade. With only 500megs - 20 megs for the suspend doesn't leave a whole lotta room for data. The nice part is that if you pick up one of these they go for about $250.00 used (only used not making any more) This comp was made for Linux...... the backslash key doesn't work. GO PENGUIN!!!
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uhhhhh we're missing the boat here guys BIG TIME! Getting a decent browser for linux is and would be nice. However having one WON'T make Linux a viable business software. 3 componets are missing, one a word processor (not a text editor a real honest to bloated god word processor) that is compatible 100% with MSWord, a spread sheet that is 100% compatible with excell and a presentation sweet that is compatible with with PowerPoint. No more no less. If I can take a PowerPoint presentation, edit the parts that come from excell and Word, repackage it and send it to my associate across the world who is using Microsoft and He/She can open it, read it and use it without having to stand on thier head (or me mine) then and only then will I switch my company to Linux. My secratarial personell, auditing dept and Sales staff are not computer guru's but they do need and use them extensively. I've got a Linux box or two at home (Actually I think it's 3 but one is belly up due to hardware biting the dust) I also have a FreeBSD system for my corporate Intranet and Internet. (It can't be beat for robust and secure behavior one server has I believe 525hrs up without a reboot and the last reboot was due to a system upgrade) However I use and probably will continue to use Windows95/98 as well as Mac OS 7&8 simply because despite the FUD to the reverse, they work, in fact if you really want to know the truth I havent found a piece of software that was worth a dang since HDD's came on the market.
Actually It was a lesson in my cobol class back in college circa 1975 (I'm old ok!) to build a two number date system that went from 1950 to 2050. It also is used in the pager on my belt. It goes from 1985 to 2030 (why the odd number I don't know) on it's calendar. This pager is now 6 years old. In other words prior art means nothing. Ask Tesla.
Although you are right about the buy out of MD They still exist as a division. The mostly build Military jets.
I've had it. It's time we the geeks who write these programs start flexing a little political muscle. It can begin with something as simple as flooding our Senators and Congressmen/women with e-mails faxes and yes even snail mail. It's getting to the point where you can't even write #include **** without violating some jackapes patent. We wrote the code and yet idiots like these patent it and steal the money from our hands. What's next a patent on breathing? Count the patent violations on this page alone. Links, gif images, color, lists, the very page I'm using to submit this ramble are all in violation of some jackape suits patent. It's time those fatcats in DC hear about this. For Non-Americans you can help as well write your governments. Inform them how patents like this stiffle your economies. How they inhibit your ability to import code and products into the US and abroad. Make your government put pressure on ours to change what has become a feeding trough for suits who can't create just steal. Nov 5th may be burn your gif day but frankly that isn't the answer, we need to stand up to these suit banstards and say FSCK Q!!! We aren't going to take it. It's time the fat cats learned the true power and influance of the geek communitte. We have the numbers, the brains and the means, lets use it. I therefore submit to the geek communitte a proposal. National flood the gov day. And just for fun let's make it Thanksgiving...
Here's a book for you.
How to Build a Beowulf (a guide to the implementation and application of PC clusters)
By Thomas L Sterling, John Salmon, Donald J. Becker and Daniel F. Savarese. ISBN 0-262-69218-X
From M.I.T Press
Published 1999
I've read this book and although some of it is very basic (such as how to install Linux) It is a very informative book, well referenced throughout If you are intrested in building clusters on other OS's as well.
Reading this article as well as some of the grossly underaged comments that follow a few things come to mind. ... it doesn't matter who your other is, treating them with respect does. ..... GET A NEW PARTNER! If you need to buy love it's cheaper in the red light district. (and they at least know when to go home)
The rules for finding a life partner are the same regardless of your sexual persuasion. I have a wife and one of my best friends has a "life partner" duh
Sex is easy love is hard. The secret to getting laid is not trying to get laid. Seriously, if you're constantly trying to fsck her, all of her defenses are up and in place. Even he she wants t fsck you! It's automatic on her part. Try to make a friend, smile, make her laugh, be a gentlemen. That "Makin Bacon" T-shirt may be all the rage in the cyber cafe but not with her.
Don't try to prove your smart. If you are she'll/he'll know, nothing is more boring than a know it all. So don't, you might find out that she/he can teach you a lot about what she/he knows.
Her/His favorite subject is themselves just as yours is you. Talk about that for a while.
If you want to be listened too, learn to listen.
There is no "one person for me" If you think about it there is a one type of person, but not one person for anyone.
Love and passion get you through the honeymoon. Affection lasts a lifetime (old Sicilian proverb or at least I learned this from an old Sicilian)
Gifts for no reason are great but if your partner seems to only respond when you buy them a gift
If he/she splits on you.... so what! Analyze and correct your mistakes, get off your duff and try again. 24 hours is mourning, 48 hrs is boring.
Be on time, Being late says you don't care. Buy a freaking watch.
Don't judge the book by it's cover, in short you'll be amazed what you find under some of those ugly clothes out there. I've been extremely suprised on a number of occasions.
Stop planning and just do it. News groups don't have the answers, chat rooms might be fun, but face to face is the only way it's gonna work, period.
Ok so much for my soap box but I guess this is a subject that can naturally get soapy Speaking of which I wonder if my wife needs a shower (hehe)
I Want It. I've use this product on the Amiga before, If it has just kept up with current trends it will exceed both Photoshop 5 and Fireworks for windows systems and anything else I could through at it. I remember the code and interface were solid and it did what I wanted without my having to "outthink" the program. I'll buy it, it worked before and should work again.
You are both right and wrong. I've seen VC's who understand the need for NDA's and will sign them, I've also seen ones who won't. One way around this we use is to get them to either sign a reciept for the Business Plan or to get them to sign a memorandum saying that they met with you on XX day and discussed YY. What's even more important is that you get your shite together on the business plan. DON'T leave any stone unturned in creating a solid and comprehesive plan. This plan once created (and dated) can become your proof that you created this idea and when. The worry is not that VC's will steal your idea, they don't have time to develop stolen ideas. The worry is that you won't be able to convice them that you have a viable product. This is where the Business plan is vital. We just got 2 million in start up capitol because even though my bosses English isn't the greatest (He can code but forget spelling) it was so complete in facts and details that it blew them away. They had seen proposals in this market before, but they went with us because of the quality of his research. 20 research teams with the same tools will eventually come up with 20 nearly identical solutions. The reason you get funding is because you know your shite better than anyone else. Don't sweat the NDA sweat the business plan.
Intresting side point, that means that Lincoln couldn't have become a lawyer in todays world. Since he didn't even have a high school diploma. hmmmmmmm Not sure what that means but I believe it speaks of elitism. What next, you can't be an inventor without and engineering degree? Pity poor Edison.
Yes I agree it is overating ...... But it does prove that monkeys can type!!!
Ok it's flashy. it's a big pic. It doesn't work. Sorry folks but if this is the way you intend to watch the Who concert your in for a bad time all around. It seems they can't even handle the slashdot effect. I'm on a 1.5mbps down 728 up adsl connection AMD 450 CPU 100mhz bus on a 10mbps ethernet (Note I'm currently the only computer in up the office, it's Sunday) and I can't recieve the video smooth enough to watch it. (Unless I download the entire video stream first to my hdd.) Then of course once you've downloaded the video it's yours to keep right? I see a tonne of copywrite problems here. In fact as far as I can tell it's sortof a cross between AVI and MOV files. The Alanis Morrisette video took about 2.5 minutes to buffer on my connection and about 30 secs to play that buffer and begin breaking up. The video is clear, large and the sound is fairly good quality. It also says on the site that a 256k minumum line is needed. So that immediately means that if you are the average modem or cable modem user (most cable modems I've seen are limited to either 128k or 256k download speed even though they should be faster) You're not going to be able to view the concert. So in other words it's slightly less than vaporware. Not to mention I've now got some huge downloads on my hdd (about 200megs all total) In short I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. Some great ideas on the interface. Some really neat buttons that maybe might someday do something. But that's about it. I think I had better buy tickets because the net isn't the place yet. Now if they had, had Hazardous Media and Sokol and Assoc, do it like with HALS birthday and Eden Fest the picture would have been smaller but at least you could have watched it. Sorry if I bored anyone with the eval but it's in the blood. I do this for a living.
As for why 6.1 locks up with KDE I don't have an answer sorry. I run the same and don't get that at all. hmmmmmmm As for a way to get to your console ctrl-alt-f3 will drop you immediately to a login prompt without killing X (then you can just kill the parts causing problems and then use ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to X providing you didn't kill it all. As for a way to kill X without a reboot try ctrl-alt-backspace. Hope this helps. Give the guys at mandrake a shout. They have always been helpful with problems like this and they love to shoot bugs.
I tend to agree with your assement. Most of the problems I find with MS products tend to come from either A: improper install B: Improper deletetion of another program C: IE4.x I've found that by taking the time to COMPLETELY delete IE (reg editing etc) I get a win system or an NT system that is very stable. The other thing I find is occasionally cause for lock up (on both Linux and MS systems ) is too many open projects for the ram/swap to handle. One must remember you can't exceed the ability of the system. (Try and do a POVray rendering on a 386 compared to a PIII and you'll see what I mean.) Last I would rather surf the web under windows than under linux. Without a stable browser and plugins the web just isn't as rich under linux.
Personally I couldn't agree more. XFree is as stable as a rock on my system (Mandrake 6.1 and XFree 3.3.5) Netscape now there is another problem altogether. Still can't run java applets on Netscape for linux (works fine in windblows not on Linux. I've never lost my mouse or my keyboard though. In fact I've found that crashing X or Linux takes some effort. My job entails trying to crash systems. A lot of what I've learned is that most of the time unstable systems come from unstable setup's or people trying to "outthink" Linus and his crew. What I've found is the following. Keep /root directory and the / directory at 60% or less capacity. If you do it really makes the system stable. One of the ways to do this is to make the /home directory act like it does in FreeBSD. Home is in /usr/home and the /home is just a symlink. Most of the instability I've encountered seems to lie in just this area. Nutscrape then becomes the only unstable element in what is otherwise a very stable system. Second, watch your hardware. Bleeding edge is by definition unstable. Many of the problems I encounter in testing has to do with the fact that the manuals etc on the hardware aren't matching the actual figures on some of the bleeding edge stuff (shure the two chips are the same under windows but the bios and linux see the real difference) Example AMD 450's have two different voltage settings 2.2 and 2.4 the manual doesn't recognize the lower setting. But it does make a difference in cpu performance if you get it wrong. Check your settings. Remembering just because you can change it doesn't mean you should. And if you do leave yourself a way to "unchange" what you did. It's a system not a standalone.
Ok ridiculus has reached a new level. So my suggestions are first boycott Amazon. The only voice we have is with our credit cards therefore we should invoke the privilage of withoulding our credit cards. Besides Barnes and Nobles has a better selection. Second everyone has to stop breathing. I just applied for a patent on organic autonomic oxeygen intake systems, as well as organic autonomic plasma distribution systems. That way if you breath or your heart pumps blood I get paid.
Amen if I had concentrated on the languages I would still be using Fortran77 Algol Cobol and Pascal only. All good languages mind you but with out a firm grounding in theory I would have been quickly left behind. Things change too fast in the computer world but if you have a strong theory background you can change right along with it.
Actually these cables usually follow major access roads whenever possible. This allows for access to the lines regardless of weather conditions. (the mud in an Ohio cornfield can get 2 feet deep after a really good rain) Next 4 to 6 feet above the cable they bury a bright orange tape that warns about cable below. Hopefully this can be seen and Hopefully it doesn't settle out of alignment with the cable below. Third most cable cuts I've seen were not the result of direct contanct with the cable by the backhoe but rather the result of mud and rock slides/shifts due to digging near them. Cables aren't and can't be that strong. More so pulling a cable isn't as easy as you make it sound. This isn't a piece of thread It can weigh several tons (tonnes) and requires heavy equipment to pull it through a pipe. Finally one of the problems with using train tracks is how in the hell do I get a truck back where the cable is? Finally glass doesn't stretch.
About 8 years ago while working in Asia in a country to be left unamed (to protect the guilty). We had, had about 20 line cuts in a two week period. All within the same five mile stretch of Highway. It was because local farmers whereout backhoeing their field dikes to prepare for the next seasons planting as well as crews from Highway construction. We kept repairing the cuts in the fiber, putting larger and larger signs and underground tapes all in the local language (none of which helped they dug where they wanted too.) One of our local co-workers came up with a solution to the problem. We place signs along the stretch in ENGLISH only. The locals, and highway crews became so sure that this was some special secret government project that over the course of the next 6 months we had only one cut in our area of responsibility. *sigh* Kinda like my physics prof who said the only thing fibre optics would be good for is "hippy" lamps and nothing more.
I used to live in Korea up untill 4 months ago. (Got transfered back to the good ol' US of A) I used to spend about $150.00 a month on phone charges related to my internet calls alone. Anything anywhere that brings down this cost can only expand out into other areas and nations. Good luck lowering those phone bills. Besides lower costs means more use, means more knowledge gained, means the more we all gain from increased brainpower in the pool.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm You can grab a pen. Sounds like a project to me. A word processor that allows you to use a pen like mouse to make notes and scribble on it. Just a thought.
No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of
Can't really give out an ISO since it's in beta it keeps changing so any ISO anyone makes is out of date by the time it gets to the web. These guys are working fast and furious on the bug side.
Mandrakes new version 6.1 (currently called cassini to be called Helios) is in beta testing and has RPM's for KDE 1.1.2 available. Just head over to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and check it out. I've been using it for about two weeks and it's a vast improvement.
I agree with the concept of Office being the "killer ap" that drives M$. I recently was working with the CTO of one of the largest Cable companies (as in leased line) in Asia, who told me that if Office or something that could guarantee 100% compatability with M$Office (both in read/write and user interface) were available he would switch all 20,000 (yes the number is correct) of his corporate desktops to Linux immediately. This by the way is comming from a man who has linux on his desktop and notebook with Staroffice. Currently Staroffice comes close but it doesn't do what is needed. Porting of Doc and Excell files is still a little iffy. It comes close and doesn't lose too much data but it seems to usually require a cleanup, which drives secerataries and bookeepers nuts, and costs companies $$$ in lost productivity. Look at what M$ did to Lotus, Harvard Graphics, Dbase, and Multimate (Yes these were once the dominate force in corporate software) by giving the user 100% compatability with their current DB of information and archives in one package with 1 licensing fee they gained total dominance of the market. Dynamic DNS won't sell servers in and of itself. Most good sysadmins have already created a work around for this problem. What drives M$ is Office and it's lack of competition.
Just got Linux and X windows up and running on a Libretto 30. Only hassle was VI'ing the XF86Config file so that it would run X windows correctly. Got all the info from a site at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/ including a copy of his XF86Config File. He also mentions a way to get multiple (Read 2 and only 2) pcmcia slots up on the libretto. One question I have has anyone any advice on getting a NIC running. I've got a 3com 3CXE589ET but I'm game to buy whatever I can get working. As for everything else it runs like a charm. Next step will be a hard drive upgrade. With only 500megs - 20 megs for the suspend doesn't leave a whole lotta room for data. The nice part is that if you pick up one of these they go for about $250.00 used (only used not making any more) This comp was made for Linux ...... the backslash key doesn't work. GO PENGUIN!!!