Firstly, anything that starts off with 'Use gpedit' isn't simple. Secondly, if you cannot provide more specific advice than "turn off all cloud content settings," it's not simple. Lastly, gpedit does not come with home edition, which is what most users have.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>gpedit.msc
'gpedit.msc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
USPS is mandated by Congress to budget for future retirements of employees who are not even born yet. Tough to be profitable with that mandate...Easy to target by anti-public-sector folks.
When we are increasingly barraged by misinformation, I'd rather google be a reliable source for good information rather than a conduit for even more political garbage videos.
At a previous job, we used to joke (only half-heartedly) that if something had a light on it, it was obviously IT's responsibility.
Hmmm, the coffee isn't has hot as it used to be. Oh, the coffee-maker has a light on the power switch! Open a ticket and call IT!
Agreed, I think if anyone is expecting the science of "The Martian" meets the made-for-tv drama of "Game of Thrones", they'll be disappointed. The books certainly had some very interesting concepts and, in the case of Arkady, interesting characters and motivation. However, as OP hinted at, there were dozens or hundreds of pages of boring to go in between the fun parts.
I wonder if the quality of speech coming from the cell phone has anything to do with the amount of processing required. When people can't hear things very well, they start piecing together the dropped parts of the conversation by using some sort of contextual implication. You know what the subject is, so you have a good chance of surmising the dropped words due to context.
I would think something similar could be possible for talk radio as well. I think if you listen to one talk show host consistently enough, you develop a better ability to understand what is being said, but a new talk show host can take some getting used to.
Just some thoughts.
Yeah, a good while back, there was discussion about the possibility of inserting malicious kernel modules to take over a system. About that time I decided that all my linux servers would have modules disabled. I'm already an advocate of simply compiling support for hardware directly into the kernel (instead of as modules), but I just started taking it to another level. Sure, it means sometimes that you have to restart a system to gain new functionality, but that's much better than the risk of getting owned by some kernel module.;-)
I don't know what data you base that assumption on. Debian *was* the distro I initially cut my teeth on back in 2000-2001. Also, I know a few other linux newbies who accidentally selected debian.;-)
Oh thank god. I was sooo worried I would actually be able to tell a new linux user what program they used to browse the internet! Now I can just tell them to RTFM and the debian "social contract"!
While you address the two extremes, sync'ing and compiling daily and walking away for a while, there *is* that happy middle ground of doing it every few days or once a week or twice a month or whatever fits your tastes. Constrast this with waiting until the first Tuesday of every month and praying that exploit in IE or ActiveX gets patched this month. Just like all of the other modern distros, gentoo is built to attempt to accomodate all syadmin styles. The people who update every day are probably overdoing it (unless you know of a critical patch that's come down the pipe). People who wait weeks between updates lose the benefit of the same problem being experienced by many other users simultaneously, which makes them easy to find in the forums.
I've always thought of gentoo in an opposite manner. Harder to install than other linux distros, but easier to customize and maintain. I administer about a dozen machines both at home and at work (and have done so for over 3 years), and portage makes updating and maintaining pretty simple. You do an emerge sync && emerge -auv world and look at what is possibly going to break. For instance, on a webserver, when you see php-5 come down the pipe, you know you need to schedule your life around possible breakages. This is what system administration is supposed to be. Keeping an eye on what's going on, and then managing your response appropriately.
This all being said, I run ubuntu on my new laptop (though I did run gentoo on my old laptop until I sold it). I'm a big proponent of diversifying your servers to hopefully limit your exposure to big problems simultaneously. This is very much unlike the Windows side of the house, where they have a dozen machines all break at once, with linux I can choose to stagger my breakages (sarcasm intentional).;-)
That is the point. I didn't tell it to install X, so it didn't. I have a system up and running and ready for work (which means something that is currently undefined). This box is "running" linux. From here I can go and With the package CD, I can mount the CD (or the ISO), and do an emerge -k gnome openoffice-bin and come back later. There's always hitches, but hey, this is linux. Don't tell me debian doesn't have its warts, too...Or ubuntu...Or Windows...Or MacOS...Or MacOS X.;-)
Besides, can't I just as easily retort and say to a Windows user that they don't have bash installed. To me, that would be a 'toy' with limited functionality.;-)
As others have posted already, gentoo is not for everybody...It's certainly not for someone who would manage to find 10 days' worth of frustrations...I mean the article talks about "grub" starting "gdm", so there's really not much substance to this 'testimonial'. Sure gentoo is hard to install, but it's easier to maintain. How many RH 7.2 installs are now running 2.6.17 kernels and don't have sysadmins praying the HD holds out until they are in their next job?:-)
This is my own guide from my personal wiki. If all goes well, with the appropriate ISOs in hand, I can typically get a desktop up and running in about 3 hours (2+ghz cpu-class machine). Note I haven't updated this with the latest ISOs, and the exact details aren't enumerated because they are already done so with great depth in the gentoo handbook already. For instance, when I say 'install kernel', I am skipping a bunch of stuff, but that's because I've done it before.;-)
Gentoo seems to get a bad rap from two types of people. 1: People who have never tried using it, and 2: People who have never tried using it correctly
Clearly gentoo is not intended as a turnkey solution for gramma (not that there's any linux distro that can make that claim, I'm looking at you, Ubuntu). However, this sort of flamebait story on the frontpage of/. only serves to further the misconception that gentoo is 'hard' to use. Anyone who's used Redhat knows what RPM-hell is, and while it sounds simple to tell my brother 'use synaptec to install the xvid codecs', he still came back with, 'What?!?'.
/. is complaining that I have too few characters per line in this post, so please excuse the formatting. I'm only trying to demonstrate that once you know HOW to do something, it becomes really simple. Sure, Windows is easy to use after you know HOW to remove viruses and adware and spyware and whatever HP decided to install on your box.
STILL we gnome faithful are saddled with having only one desktop picture for all workspaces. This became ridiculous at gnome 2.10, IMO. Gnome devs still say they are all for the spatial paradigm (which I like, btw), yet they miss the opportunity to use different desktop pics for each workspace, which would make each workspace...different (wait for it) spatially.
Yes, it was Red Mars that had this scenario. A pretty dramatic, quick death for anyone within a few dozen miles on the cable's second pass, iirc.
You unwind the cable from the counterweight. In this trilogy, I believe they mined the asteroid they were using as the counterweight for material and it just kinda slowly descended to the surface to be attached to the socket. Basically, the only thing holding the cable in position is the counterweight and centripetal force.
I can't figure out if this post got modded up "funny" because of the death star^W^W Walrus part or the mixing up of Star Trek's "photon" torpedoes with Star Wars' "proton" torpedoes.;-)
Its not just Verizon customers. I can only hope that I (as a Sprint customer) receive some sort of "umbrella" benefit from this.
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Any view of a folder with 5000 files will take a long time to load...Even if you have the thumbnails off. If it's all images and the thumbnails aren't generated yet, take a nap or come back tomorrow...It takes a while for this to happen.
I have fond memories of running MacOS 7, and I remember who slow 8 felt when I "upgraded". I seem to recall checking my "About this Mac" box and seeing my system memory running at about 6MB of RAM with Virtual Memory enabled.
As for the actual folder tree view thingie, I do like it, and I miss it. It's nice to have that *option* in list view.
One other thing I'd like to see implemented (as an option, off by default) are interactivity sounds. I remember 8.0 or maybe it was 8.1 that introduced sounds. You grab a window and a very light, unobtrusive sound would follow where you dragged that window around on the desktop...IN STEREO. It was annoying for about 3 seconds until you got used to it, and when you don't have it any more (*cough* MacOS X *cough* Windows *cough* linux-anything), it takes a long time to get used to it not being there any more...It's part of the feedback that you got used to.
And of course, while a bit off-reply, there's my ever-present astonishment with the lack of individual background pics for each workspace. At this point I prefer to just refer to the gnome devs who refuse to accept it as RAVING LUNATICS. Ever seen a thread where someone proposes it? It's not pretty. Claiming to have a focus on "spatiality" while not allowing each workspace to appear "spatially different" is retarded, IMO.
I'm sure I'll think of more, but not for now.
You could try running imwheel and gaining even more functionality out of your mouse. I mention it in my blog, and I'm not afraid to whore it out!;-)
http://www.delayofgame.com/?q=node/45
What about all those zombie machines scouring google for topic.php? or phpnuke's latest exploit? Do those get counted for WindowsOS or what? If so, that'd greatly inflate the perceived relative percentage of machines running that(those) OS's. The fact is that just about all zombie traffic and other automated hits on sites come from non-Mac OS's.
Anyone who runs a ssh server on the internet has seen their server hit (probably daily) with with dictionary attacks from machines trying to gain access. I bet a *VERY* small percentage of the machines trying to get into my servers via ssh are running MacOS...Does that mean that there aren't any Macs out there at all?
"Unfortunately, he is also predicting that the process will be only available to the wealthy for years after its release. I guess we should all start saving our pennies now."
I for one will wait for openbrain.sourceforge.net.
I think it's brilliant, but I don't think it'd be too long before some software consortium/lobby group/group of "concerned citizens" pulls out the whole "don't use government resources to promote the anti-competitive forces of OSS" argument.
I'd bet you can expect to see legislation drafted within a year.
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Firstly, anything that starts off with 'Use gpedit' isn't simple. Secondly, if you cannot provide more specific advice than "turn off all cloud content settings," it's not simple. Lastly, gpedit does not come with home edition, which is what most users have.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>gpedit.msc
'gpedit.msc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
USPS is mandated by Congress to budget for future retirements of employees who are not even born yet. Tough to be profitable with that mandate...Easy to target by anti-public-sector folks.
When we are increasingly barraged by misinformation, I'd rather google be a reliable source for good information rather than a conduit for even more political garbage videos.
At a previous job, we used to joke (only half-heartedly) that if something had a light on it, it was obviously IT's responsibility. Hmmm, the coffee isn't has hot as it used to be. Oh, the coffee-maker has a light on the power switch! Open a ticket and call IT!
Agreed, I think if anyone is expecting the science of "The Martian" meets the made-for-tv drama of "Game of Thrones", they'll be disappointed. The books certainly had some very interesting concepts and, in the case of Arkady, interesting characters and motivation. However, as OP hinted at, there were dozens or hundreds of pages of boring to go in between the fun parts.
I wonder if the quality of speech coming from the cell phone has anything to do with the amount of processing required. When people can't hear things very well, they start piecing together the dropped parts of the conversation by using some sort of contextual implication. You know what the subject is, so you have a good chance of surmising the dropped words due to context. I would think something similar could be possible for talk radio as well. I think if you listen to one talk show host consistently enough, you develop a better ability to understand what is being said, but a new talk show host can take some getting used to. Just some thoughts.
Yeah, a good while back, there was discussion about the possibility of inserting malicious kernel modules to take over a system. About that time I decided that all my linux servers would have modules disabled. I'm already an advocate of simply compiling support for hardware directly into the kernel (instead of as modules), but I just started taking it to another level. Sure, it means sometimes that you have to restart a system to gain new functionality, but that's much better than the risk of getting owned by some kernel module. ;-)
I don't know what data you base that assumption on. Debian *was* the distro I initially cut my teeth on back in 2000-2001. Also, I know a few other linux newbies who accidentally selected debian. ;-)
Oh thank god. I was sooo worried I would actually be able to tell a new linux user what program they used to browse the internet! Now I can just tell them to RTFM and the debian "social contract"!
While you address the two extremes, sync'ing and compiling daily and walking away for a while, there *is* that happy middle ground of doing it every few days or once a week or twice a month or whatever fits your tastes. Constrast this with waiting until the first Tuesday of every month and praying that exploit in IE or ActiveX gets patched this month. Just like all of the other modern distros, gentoo is built to attempt to accomodate all syadmin styles. The people who update every day are probably overdoing it (unless you know of a critical patch that's come down the pipe). People who wait weeks between updates lose the benefit of the same problem being experienced by many other users simultaneously, which makes them easy to find in the forums.
;-)
I've always thought of gentoo in an opposite manner. Harder to install than other linux distros, but easier to customize and maintain. I administer about a dozen machines both at home and at work (and have done so for over 3 years), and portage makes updating and maintaining pretty simple. You do an emerge sync && emerge -auv world and look at what is possibly going to break. For instance, on a webserver, when you see php-5 come down the pipe, you know you need to schedule your life around possible breakages. This is what system administration is supposed to be. Keeping an eye on what's going on, and then managing your response appropriately.
This all being said, I run ubuntu on my new laptop (though I did run gentoo on my old laptop until I sold it). I'm a big proponent of diversifying your servers to hopefully limit your exposure to big problems simultaneously. This is very much unlike the Windows side of the house, where they have a dozen machines all break at once, with linux I can choose to stagger my breakages (sarcasm intentional).
That is the point. I didn't tell it to install X, so it didn't. I have a system up and running and ready for work (which means something that is currently undefined). This box is "running" linux. From here I can go and With the package CD, I can mount the CD (or the ISO), and do an emerge -k gnome openoffice-bin and come back later. There's always hitches, but hey, this is linux. Don't tell me debian doesn't have its warts, too...Or ubuntu...Or Windows...Or MacOS...Or MacOS X. ;-)
;-)
:-)
Besides, can't I just as easily retort and say to a Windows user that they don't have bash installed. To me, that would be a 'toy' with limited functionality.
As others have posted already, gentoo is not for everybody...It's certainly not for someone who would manage to find 10 days' worth of frustrations...I mean the article talks about "grub" starting "gdm", so there's really not much substance to this 'testimonial'. Sure gentoo is hard to install, but it's easier to maintain. How many RH 7.2 installs are now running 2.6.17 kernels and don't have sysadmins praying the HD holds out until they are in their next job?
This is my own guide from my personal wiki. If all goes well, with the appropriate ISOs in hand, I can typically get a desktop up and running in about 3 hours (2+ghz cpu-class machine). Note I haven't updated this with the latest ISOs, and the exact details aren't enumerated because they are already done so with great depth in the gentoo handbook already. For instance, when I say 'install kernel', I am skipping a bunch of stuff, but that's because I've done it before. ;-)
Gentoo seems to get a bad rap from two types of people. 1: People who have never tried using it, and 2: People who have never tried using it correctly
Clearly gentoo is not intended as a turnkey solution for gramma (not that there's any linux distro that can make that claim, I'm looking at you, Ubuntu). However, this sort of flamebait story on the frontpage of /. only serves to further the misconception that gentoo is 'hard' to use. Anyone who's used Redhat knows what RPM-hell is, and while it sounds simple to tell my brother 'use synaptec to install the xvid codecs', he still came back with, 'What?!?'.
/. is complaining that I have too few characters per line in this post, so please excuse the formatting. I'm only trying to demonstrate that once you know HOW to do something, it becomes really simple. Sure, Windows is easy to use after you know HOW to remove viruses and adware and spyware and whatever HP decided to install on your box.
version 20060802adownload, burn as iso, and boot off this cd http://somewebsite/install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso
ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y ; route add default gw x.x.x.x ; echo "nameserver YOURNAMESERVER" >
passwd
fdisk
mount
cd
wget http://somewebsite/stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2 ; tar -xjf stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2 ; mount -t proc none
cp
chroot
emerge vim
hahahahahahha eat it emacs!
vi
emerge gentoo-sources ; cd
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage
emerge grub syslog-ng
grub
grub>root (hd0,0)
grub>setup (hd0)
vi
rc-update add net.eth0 default ; rc-update add sshd default ; rc-update add syslog-ng default ; rc-update add numlock default
reboot
STILL we gnome faithful are saddled with having only one desktop picture for all workspaces. This became ridiculous at gnome 2.10, IMO. Gnome devs still say they are all for the spatial paradigm (which I like, btw), yet they miss the opportunity to use different desktop pics for each workspace, which would make each workspace...different (wait for it) spatially.
;-)
(I still use gnome every day.)
"Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla" Guess we'll have to stop using that product (mozilla) out of fear. ;-)
Yes, it was Red Mars that had this scenario. A pretty dramatic, quick death for anyone within a few dozen miles on the cable's second pass, iirc.
You unwind the cable from the counterweight. In this trilogy, I believe they mined the asteroid they were using as the counterweight for material and it just kinda slowly descended to the surface to be attached to the socket. Basically, the only thing holding the cable in position is the counterweight and centripetal force.
I can't figure out if this post got modded up "funny" because of the death star^W^W Walrus part or the mixing up of Star Trek's "photon" torpedoes with Star Wars' "proton" torpedoes. ;-)
I got a phone call that was automated and in spanish about 2 weeks ago. I googled the number and came up with this page:
. html
http://www.payphone-directory.org/discussion/sub2
Its not just Verizon customers. I can only hope that I (as a Sprint customer) receive some sort of "umbrella" benefit from this.
Any view of a folder with 5000 files will take a long time to load...Even if you have the thumbnails off. If it's all images and the thumbnails aren't generated yet, take a nap or come back tomorrow...It takes a while for this to happen.
Man, I guess I should have tried the "preview" button on that one...My default pref changed from "Plain Old Text" to "HTML Formatted"...WTF?
I have fond memories of running MacOS 7, and I remember who slow 8 felt when I "upgraded". I seem to recall checking my "About this Mac" box and seeing my system memory running at about 6MB of RAM with Virtual Memory enabled. As for the actual folder tree view thingie, I do like it, and I miss it. It's nice to have that *option* in list view. One other thing I'd like to see implemented (as an option, off by default) are interactivity sounds. I remember 8.0 or maybe it was 8.1 that introduced sounds. You grab a window and a very light, unobtrusive sound would follow where you dragged that window around on the desktop...IN STEREO. It was annoying for about 3 seconds until you got used to it, and when you don't have it any more (*cough* MacOS X *cough* Windows *cough* linux-anything), it takes a long time to get used to it not being there any more...It's part of the feedback that you got used to. And of course, while a bit off-reply, there's my ever-present astonishment with the lack of individual background pics for each workspace. At this point I prefer to just refer to the gnome devs who refuse to accept it as RAVING LUNATICS. Ever seen a thread where someone proposes it? It's not pretty. Claiming to have a focus on "spatiality" while not allowing each workspace to appear "spatially different" is retarded, IMO. I'm sure I'll think of more, but not for now.
You could try running imwheel and gaining even more functionality out of your mouse. I mention it in my blog, and I'm not afraid to whore it out! ;-)
http://www.delayofgame.com/?q=node/45
What about all those zombie machines scouring google for topic.php? or phpnuke's latest exploit? Do those get counted for WindowsOS or what? If so, that'd greatly inflate the perceived relative percentage of machines running that(those) OS's. The fact is that just about all zombie traffic and other automated hits on sites come from non-Mac OS's. Anyone who runs a ssh server on the internet has seen their server hit (probably daily) with with dictionary attacks from machines trying to gain access. I bet a *VERY* small percentage of the machines trying to get into my servers via ssh are running MacOS...Does that mean that there aren't any Macs out there at all?
"Unfortunately, he is also predicting that the process will be only available to the wealthy for years after its release. I guess we should all start saving our pennies now." I for one will wait for openbrain.sourceforge.net.
I think it's brilliant, but I don't think it'd be too long before some software consortium/lobby group/group of "concerned citizens" pulls out the whole "don't use government resources to promote the anti-competitive forces of OSS" argument. I'd bet you can expect to see legislation drafted within a year.
Next we'll hear about how marriage is an anti-free sex 'racket'. I love this stuff! Keep the crazies coming!