Maybe it's just to deal with the/. crowd, but since the story first went up and my checking again a minute ago to show a friend, the flock website seems to have lost all of it's extra pages (Home, About, Download, Extensions, etc...) and the mainpage has a different statement but retains the email gathering box... Did anyone else notice the change?
Between the oversized font, simplistic layout, and lack of anything other than email gathering, it's very difficult to take them seriously... and even harder to understand how they were taken seriously enough to get any press coverage, even if only online.
I have a hard time playing a lot of games full screen anymore. But then, I leave a lot of apps running, including messengers, and don't worry about having every resource dedicated to giving me the full eyecandy effect for a lot of games.
At the same time, I'm not expecting to use Vista when it comes out. I run XP Pro right now, but have switched back and forth between it and Linux as my sole desktop OS a few times. Fiddling with Wine/Cedega can take a little time but it tends to give me enough gaming options in addition to the Linux native ones to fill what free time I have to waste on it anyhow.
Unless I read it wrong, the instructions mentioned installing CentOS (Linux) because it's bootloader (grub) was needed for being able to select which OS you wanted to run at boot time, since neither Windows nor OS X has a bootloader that will load the others, so unless something changes you'll still need to install the linux bootloader. You could probably trim it down to next to nothing but the bootloader though... hrm.
That's the way it is here too. As the months have gone on I've watched more and more of the truly qualified people stream out of here for better opportunities, while the company keeps 'cutting costs' (ie letting higher paid employees go), and hiring more underqualified bodies to poorly fill the role. Of course, as things spiral downward due to low quality, they keep trying to cut more costs. It's gotten to the point where many people are rather vocal about the sinking ship situation and the fact they are looking elsewhere.
Well, I've been building my own from the alsa-source package for the last 9 months, but before that I had no problem setting up the alsa-driver package with the precompiled binaries. Even with the standard package, the most work I had was a single window for selecting the driver (emu10k for an audigy card in my case), which was already highlighted as the detected default.
I haven't taken a peek at the new installer lately, but I believe it detects and suggests the correct alsa driver reliably for all but the most obscure cards out there.
2) As that will inevitably let the occasional, brand-new virus slip through, hire more clueful employees
The problem with this is that most companies don't want to pay for computer literate people for every position. It costs too much from their perspective. I totally agree with you that companies should consider the cost of downtime and loss of productivity due to sticking a monkey in front of a keyboard, but they don't.
Very true, I overgeneralized too much. A definite part of not being able to 'be themselves' is not knowing who they are. Worrying about whether others will accept them for who they are discovering themselves to be plays a part for some of those people.
In any case, your olde country quote is dead on. Discovery of one's self can't be achieved by thought alone, it requires action on your part and feedback from others.
I already mentioned this elsewhere, but I totally agree. That is the biggest problem facing myself and most people I know... being ourselves. Either we feel trapped into doing something we really don't want to be (to pay the bills) or are afraid that being ourselves will alienate us from everyone else.
I'm facing that right now... still entry level corporate IT... but I already know that the structure I face ahead of me will drive me absolutely nuts... but 15k of debt and no college degree makes it hard to walk away and hope that waht makes me feel creative and alive will somehow pay for me to live.
I agree with you for the most part. In my opinion, the biggest reason people have social problems is that they feel that they can't completely be themselves. When one starts worrying about how to behave rather than simply behaving, it often becomes a tangled mess.
Basically it boils down to: People need to be better taught about simply being themselves.
I almost certainly am. My 'natural' clock seems to put sleep between 5AM - 1PM (Though more often 7AM - 1PM). Most of my best creativity has been between 1AM and 5AM...
I fight it a little bit, mostly because it is hard to get anything else done if I sleep until 1pm and have to leave for work at 2:30. So generally my pattern is sleep 2-3AM until 9-10AM.
It doesn't help that I have certain 'checkpoints' (1AM and 4AM) where any tiredness due to lack of sleep seems to get supressed and I sit up another 1-2 hours.
All of the gas stations I've been to do have signs telling you not to get back into your vehicle, some even state that it can cause a static discharge, but their presence may depend on which states/countries you're in.
Hrm... well, I Wine useful for running Photoshop 7, MSVC++ (don't ask:P), Tribes2, SimpleMU, and maybe a couple other things from time to time. Still working on getting Poser 4 fully functional.
And people look at me weird when I tell them that I refuse to put tires on my car that aren't at least V rated... even though they generally run me $125+ a pop depending on what I get. That started after one blow out (thankfully as I was already slowing down to a stop).
I haven't worked with Subversion too extensively yet, but it does track changes to directories as well as files. Even tracking whether you've deleted, moved, or renamed directories. You can checkout the commit number for whenever those directories were removed, or even checkout the state of that directory at a certain point in time and pull it into your current working environment. The Subversion book covers this in more detail.
It also tracks all kinds of files... source code, documents, even binary files (libraries you may have created, imported, etc...).
Hope that helped.
I definitely agree with your eventual point.;)
I actually got my job simply because I knew the supervisor of the department, and he pushed for me to get in over other applicants who had their degrees. Though, in my own defense, he pushed for me because he had seen me do similar work and he knew that I could easily fill the position.
Now to finish getting my degree and hopefully find a position somewhere for more than $25k/yr...
As already stated, the Nvidia 5336 driver is 2.6 compliant. You should have no problems grabbing the kernel source and nvidia kernel source (or a binary package) from backports.org if you want to stay with Woody. I just helped a friend go through a similar process (his first time building a kernel) and it wasn't a real issue. From backports.org you need the following packages for your custom kernel:
kernel-source-2.6.4
kernel-headers-2.6.4-1
kernel-headers-2.6.4-1- (They are in the kernel-image directory rather than kernel-source, or their own for some reason)kernel-kbuild-2.6-1
kernel-package
module-init-tools
modutils
Then for building your own nvidia driver:
from the nvidia-graphics-driver-binary-i386 directory:
nvidia-kernel-source-1.0.5336-5
nvidia-glx_1.0.5336-5
That should take care of all of the dependencies for both, I think. Then you just install the packages, build your kernel, build the nvidia module, and install the 2 resulting debs. Of course, you can use prepackaged backports of both if you want, which are also available.
Good luck.
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Maybe it's just to deal with the /. crowd, but since the story first went up and my checking again a minute ago to show a friend, the flock website seems to have lost all of it's extra pages (Home, About, Download, Extensions, etc...) and the mainpage has a different statement but retains the email gathering box... Did anyone else notice the change?
Between the oversized font, simplistic layout, and lack of anything other than email gathering, it's very difficult to take them seriously... and even harder to understand how they were taken seriously enough to get any press coverage, even if only online.
It seems to have moved to: http://www.google.com/mac
I have a hard time playing a lot of games full screen anymore. But then, I leave a lot of apps running, including messengers, and don't worry about having every resource dedicated to giving me the full eyecandy effect for a lot of games. At the same time, I'm not expecting to use Vista when it comes out. I run XP Pro right now, but have switched back and forth between it and Linux as my sole desktop OS a few times. Fiddling with Wine/Cedega can take a little time but it tends to give me enough gaming options in addition to the Linux native ones to fill what free time I have to waste on it anyhow.
Well, Mr. Leboswki, let me put it this way... were you planning on having children?
Unless I read it wrong, the instructions mentioned installing CentOS (Linux) because it's bootloader (grub) was needed for being able to select which OS you wanted to run at boot time, since neither Windows nor OS X has a bootloader that will load the others, so unless something changes you'll still need to install the linux bootloader. You could probably trim it down to next to nothing but the bootloader though... hrm.
That's the way it is here too. As the months have gone on I've watched more and more of the truly qualified people stream out of here for better opportunities, while the company keeps 'cutting costs' (ie letting higher paid employees go), and hiring more underqualified bodies to poorly fill the role. Of course, as things spiral downward due to low quality, they keep trying to cut more costs. It's gotten to the point where many people are rather vocal about the sinking ship situation and the fact they are looking elsewhere.
You mean GPL doesn't stand for God's Personal License !?
Well, I've been building my own from the alsa-source package for the last 9 months, but before that I had no problem setting up the alsa-driver package with the precompiled binaries. Even with the standard package, the most work I had was a single window for selecting the driver (emu10k for an audigy card in my case), which was already highlighted as the detected default.
I haven't taken a peek at the new installer lately, but I believe it detects and suggests the correct alsa driver reliably for all but the most obscure cards out there.
Do we know each other? After months of continual firings and replacements... that scenario sounds all too familiar...
2) As that will inevitably let the occasional, brand-new virus slip through, hire more clueful employees
The problem with this is that most companies don't want to pay for computer literate people for every position. It costs too much from their perspective. I totally agree with you that companies should consider the cost of downtime and loss of productivity due to sticking a monkey in front of a keyboard, but they don't.
Very true, I overgeneralized too much. A definite part of not being able to 'be themselves' is not knowing who they are. Worrying about whether others will accept them for who they are discovering themselves to be plays a part for some of those people.
In any case, your olde country quote is dead on. Discovery of one's self can't be achieved by thought alone, it requires action on your part and feedback from others.
I already mentioned this elsewhere, but I totally agree. That is the biggest problem facing myself and most people I know... being ourselves. Either we feel trapped into doing something we really don't want to be (to pay the bills) or are afraid that being ourselves will alienate us from everyone else.
I'm facing that right now... still entry level corporate IT... but I already know that the structure I face ahead of me will drive me absolutely nuts... but 15k of debt and no college degree makes it hard to walk away and hope that waht makes me feel creative and alive will somehow pay for me to live.
I agree with you for the most part. In my opinion, the biggest reason people have social problems is that they feel that they can't completely be themselves. When one starts worrying about how to behave rather than simply behaving, it often becomes a tangled mess.
Basically it boils down to: People need to be better taught about simply being themselves.
I almost certainly am. My 'natural' clock seems to put sleep between 5AM - 1PM (Though more often 7AM - 1PM). Most of my best creativity has been between 1AM and 5AM... I fight it a little bit, mostly because it is hard to get anything else done if I sleep until 1pm and have to leave for work at 2:30. So generally my pattern is sleep 2-3AM until 9-10AM. It doesn't help that I have certain 'checkpoints' (1AM and 4AM) where any tiredness due to lack of sleep seems to get supressed and I sit up another 1-2 hours.
Actually I'm pretty sure that the metallic element is spelled Aluminum... only one 'i' there...
All of the gas stations I've been to do have signs telling you not to get back into your vehicle, some even state that it can cause a static discharge, but their presence may depend on which states/countries you're in.
I run Photoshop 7 in Wine 20031212 without a problem. There is also apparent work to get the functionality back into newer releases of wine.
Hrm... well, I Wine useful for running Photoshop 7, MSVC++ (don't ask :P), Tribes2, SimpleMU, and maybe a couple other things from time to time. Still working on getting Poser 4 fully functional.
And people look at me weird when I tell them that I refuse to put tires on my car that aren't at least V rated... even though they generally run me $125+ a pop depending on what I get. That started after one blow out (thankfully as I was already slowing down to a stop).
I haven't worked with Subversion too extensively yet, but it does track changes to directories as well as files. Even tracking whether you've deleted, moved, or renamed directories. You can checkout the commit number for whenever those directories were removed, or even checkout the state of that directory at a certain point in time and pull it into your current working environment. The Subversion book covers this in more detail. It also tracks all kinds of files... source code, documents, even binary files (libraries you may have created, imported, etc...). Hope that helped.
I definitely agree with your eventual point. ;)
I actually got my job simply because I knew the supervisor of the department, and he pushed for me to get in over other applicants who had their degrees. Though, in my own defense, he pushed for me because he had seen me do similar work and he knew that I could easily fill the position.
Now to finish getting my degree and hopefully find a position somewhere for more than $25k/yr...
As already stated, the Nvidia 5336 driver is 2.6 compliant. You should have no problems grabbing the kernel source and nvidia kernel source (or a binary package) from backports.org if you want to stay with Woody. I just helped a friend go through a similar process (his first time building a kernel) and it wasn't a real issue. From backports.org you need the following packages for your custom kernel: kernel-source-2.6.4 kernel-headers-2.6.4-1 kernel-headers-2.6.4-1- (They are in the kernel-image directory rather than kernel-source, or their own for some reason)kernel-kbuild-2.6-1 kernel-package module-init-tools modutils Then for building your own nvidia driver: from the nvidia-graphics-driver-binary-i386 directory: nvidia-kernel-source-1.0.5336-5 nvidia-glx_1.0.5336-5 That should take care of all of the dependencies for both, I think. Then you just install the packages, build your kernel, build the nvidia module, and install the 2 resulting debs. Of course, you can use prepackaged backports of both if you want, which are also available. Good luck.