I don't know Patrick, but I hope someone who does can convince him, on the phone, that he should not necessarily be making decisions right now, he may not be in the space to. It does sound like he needs to be admitted.
Since he says he's at his parent's house, that shouldn't be neccessary. However, if you know a specialist using Slackware, _that_ might help...
It may not be the #1 choice for your kids, but using it to just read stuff like news, it really saves your time, and the information is displayed surprisingly well.
Lockheed Martin says the aeronautics giant will be replacing 10,000 of its Solaris seats with Linux.
I wouldn't be proud. Actually, I am ashamed that one of the biggest producers of Weapons of Mass Destruction and most hypocritical corporation uses the same system as I do.
I started out on Linux with SuSE. Nice beginner's system, easily set up, a lot of stuff works without configuring too much. But it's exactly that which began to bother me - after each installation I would rewrite the kinda messy/etc/fstab, and was already pissed that it had been entwined with links on the KDE Desktop.
Well, this tendency, I think has, gotten worse. SuSE is all Windows-style, lots of colors and it's hard to configure the real stuff. Even updating a library can result in a disaster, for example when sources and precompiled RPMs get in each others way (a friend tried to update his SuSE 9.1-glib 1.2 to 2.4 and screwed his system).
So, I'd like to try some other system, and after a lot of surfing (no trying tho, I haven't been at home for a year and am just about to get back) I decided to give Slackware a try.
I am confident, but sometimes I shudder when I think of getting my TV Card, scanner or CF-reader up running manually. Anyone got experiences, tips, anything?
Come on, bust out some even faster processors! I'm sure, with PCI and IDE, we'll be able to get the best out of every single additional Mhz in comparison to those slow and obsolete 2Ghz machines!
The SunnComm and BMG execs quoted in the article say that they're pleased with the apparent consumer acceptance of the anti-piracy technology, [...] Yeah, and right after its discovery, people used to pump their bodies full of penicillin in toothpaste and whatnot, before they found out that exactly that f*cked up their bodies. Bet the distributing companies in those times claimed the same "apparent consumer acceptance"...
There isn't much sense in bossting MegaHertz numbers anyway, as long as technologies like IDE, PCI and SD-RAM are around. It's like putting an airplane engine into a Ford Fiesta.
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I don't know Patrick, but I hope someone who does can convince him, on the phone, that he should not necessarily be making decisions right now, he may not be in the space to. It does sound like he needs to be admitted.
Since he says he's at his parent's house, that shouldn't be neccessary. However, if you know a specialist using Slackware, _that_ might help...
...text browsers!
It may not be the #1 choice for your kids, but using it to just read stuff like news, it really saves your time, and the information is displayed surprisingly well.
Lockheed Martin says the aeronautics giant will be replacing 10,000 of its Solaris seats with Linux. I wouldn't be proud. Actually, I am ashamed that one of the biggest producers of Weapons of Mass Destruction and most hypocritical corporation uses the same system as I do.
Thanks a lot for your experiences, it gave me some courage to Not Be Led Into Temptation and install SuSE ;)
I started out on Linux with SuSE. Nice beginner's system, easily set up, a lot of stuff works without configuring too much. But it's exactly that which began to bother me - after each installation I would rewrite the kinda messy /etc/fstab, and was already pissed that it had been entwined with links on the KDE Desktop.
Well, this tendency, I think has, gotten worse. SuSE is all Windows-style, lots of colors and it's hard to configure the real stuff. Even updating a library can result in a disaster, for example when sources and precompiled RPMs get in each others way (a friend tried to update his SuSE 9.1-glib 1.2 to 2.4 and screwed his system).
So, I'd like to try some other system, and after a lot of surfing (no trying tho, I haven't been at home for a year and am just about to get back) I decided to give Slackware a try.
I am confident, but sometimes I shudder when I think of getting my TV Card, scanner or CF-reader up running manually. Anyone got experiences, tips, anything?
Come on, bust out some even faster processors! I'm sure, with PCI and IDE, we'll be able to get the best out of every single additional Mhz in comparison to those slow and obsolete 2Ghz machines!
The SunnComm and BMG execs quoted in the article say that they're pleased with the apparent consumer acceptance of the anti-piracy technology, [...]
Yeah, and right after its discovery, people used to pump their bodies full of penicillin in toothpaste and whatnot, before they found out that exactly that f*cked up their bodies. Bet the distributing companies in those times claimed the same "apparent consumer acceptance"...
There isn't much sense in bossting MegaHertz numbers anyway, as long as technologies like IDE, PCI and SD-RAM are around. It's like putting an airplane engine into a Ford Fiesta.
www.spamgourmet.com has always worked well for me. Give your adress to whom you want, receive just as much mail from them as you want.