I love Gentoo, and use it for servers all the time. As a sysadmin, i find Gentoo to be amazing in the server area.
That being said, i got so pissed at my 15 day insatll nightmare trying to get Gentoo up on my Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook, that i finally gave up and installed Ubuntu (well, it's installing right now actually)
First, the kernel wouldn't display the framebuffer properly for nvidia, and because i couldn't see the screen i wasn't able to check any errors that posted up (as the log files didn't want to log for some reason due to the genkernel)
Then, i just installed the genkernel with default vesa and whatnot. Ok, so i had X and Gnome working.
When i first tried to emerge something, emerge decided to erease my whole portage tree. I reinstalled and tried again. Same thing.
So, after my next re-install, i downloaded a stage3 tarball and unpacked that into my root directory when X booted. Great, emerge works!
I reboot the computer only to have it note that my filesystem is completely corrupt (it's ext3 and was looking for ext2)
So, i did a fsck and things were fine. I rebooted and lo and behold... my whole/bin/bash directory was empty and the system kernel panicked.
At that point, i've lost 8 days of work, 7 days of personal time, and have gained nothing but aggrevation.
I'm not a moron here, and it's certainly not like i've never installed Gentoo (i manage several hundred machines just fine!). After the headache i decided enough was enough.
Maybe it's just me, and not to troll, but is there anything wrong with paper voting?
I read alot of horror stories about the insecurities of 'modern' voting machines, and i ask myself 'what's the point?'
I live in Toronto, and the elections held in Canada use paper. Why? Becasuse there's an audit trail if a recount is needed, and it's simple. No duplicated effort. The system isn't broken, and it _just works_
Technology for it's own sake is fun, but in critical applications such as voting, I ask: "is it really necessary?"
Funny tho, another poster with the same opinion gets modded insightful. I should learn to articulate better, or again, just post anonymously when drinking. There goes my Karma.
Do people even stull use this distro? Everything it does, Ubuntu does better.
Personally, I prefer Gentoo, but for what Mandrake^H^H^Hiva is supposed to be, is there really a userbase for it anymore?
Am I the only one with this symptom?
When I play HL2, I become terribly nauseous after about 20 minutes of gameplay.
This is unusual because I play plenty of FPS's, and have been doing so for some time. I never have this problem after 3 or 4 hours of UT or Quake. Only HL2. Not even HL1.
I recognize that FPS' tend to cause motion sickness in rare cases... but what the heck could make only a single game have this effect?
Yes, it's a little o/t, but i imagine the/. crowd would have a better idea of what i'm talking about than anyone.
They have been the loudest to complain because they cannot be bothered to learn to code a little C#.
It seems to me that the complaint isn't so much that it's not "drag & drop" 'enough', it's that people new to game development (for whom it was understood that this kit would be developed for) have no idea how to write the necessary 'plumbing code' to make trivial tasks, well... trivial.
Please correct me if this isn't the case
For business users, their IT staff should be hooking them up with some sort of VPN, or at least SSL access to the businesses own web server
I completely agree with you, though I wanted to point out that not every business can afford an IT staff.
Heck, many of the businesses I've encountered don't even have legit versions of Office to begin with. (Let alone windows)
How about the lack of open standards, the financial expense, and being forced into the vendor's upgrade cycle? Now, maybe that's not sufficient reason for many people, but it's certainly a reason.
Speaking from my personal experience (growing up in a rural community outside of Toronto), the small business owners I've met wouldn't know an open standard from an automatic transmission.
The vendors upgrade cycle isn't as much
The most effective reason, IMHO, would have to be the cost. Small business hate giving a chunk of their already small profits to a large software vendor. The cost of using pirated copies is worse, as there's no support, and we all know what happens to windoze machines after being used by the less-techie business person.
Though I understand we're speaking about 2 completely different types of business (large-med urban vs. small-soho rural), I think it's important to point out that these types of web based services would be extremely helpful to smaller businesses trying to do things "the right way".
That's all great for uber l337 folks like yourself, but what about the rest of the world?
You think Joe (or Jane) Businessman has any idea what ssh is? Or why on earth you're saving something to anywhere other than your hard drive?
I'll admit, you have a cool setup (as cool as ssh and vnc gets anyway), but it really doesn't help the average business person in the same way that many of TFA's apps do.
Being able to access documents via the web from anywhere needs to be as easy as possible for regular joe's, otherwise they have no reason to leave MS Office.
When you're competing with the WoW's, FF's and EQ's of the world the little guys don't stand much of a chance.
It's in the numbers. How many people does it take to develop a successful 'big box' game?
With independantly driven communities, the users tend to be of the 'anti-esatablishment' type anyway (take indie music as an example), and don't particularly feel like paying for something like this.
As a business model, it just isn't going to work.
But I hope i'm wrong and a crew of like 5 folks team up and write the best game ever, but that's rather unlikely.
Sounds neet, but what practical applications could be made from this service?
I'm not trolling, rather genuinely interested in what/. thinks this may be used for...
Well, that's it. I'll never buy another creative product again. As if just making shitty sound cards wasn't enough. I've always hoped that the latest greatest sound card would be decent, I shell out the $300 or so for the one with hte front panel (to plug my midi gear etc into) and i'm totally let down. Shitty drivers, crackling sound whenever internet traffic is high (yah, go figure...)/rant...
UGH
Fuck them. That was the straw.
The Zen sucked, and really, how much different can you make an interface on a handheld music player?
And the shoddy business practise of waiting until the iPod is nice and successfull before laying down the legal gauntlet just makes me sick.
I've swore by creative's products since day 1, and now I say 'Fuck you, Creative. You just blew it.'
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But when will they finally breed the North American House Hippo!? Huh? That's what I want to know.
The same time they breed the pot bellied elephant. But we all know those genes just don't splice anyways.
What i'm waiting for is a cat that doesn't shed. *scratches self*
I love Gentoo, and use it for servers all the time. As a sysadmin, i find Gentoo to be amazing in the server area.
/bin/bash directory was empty and the system kernel panicked.
That being said, i got so pissed at my 15 day insatll nightmare trying to get Gentoo up on my Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook, that i finally gave up and installed Ubuntu (well, it's installing right now actually)
First, the kernel wouldn't display the framebuffer properly for nvidia, and because i couldn't see the screen i wasn't able to check any errors that posted up (as the log files didn't want to log for some reason due to the genkernel)
Then, i just installed the genkernel with default vesa and whatnot. Ok, so i had X and Gnome working.
When i first tried to emerge something, emerge decided to erease my whole portage tree. I reinstalled and tried again. Same thing.
So, after my next re-install, i downloaded a stage3 tarball and unpacked that into my root directory when X booted. Great, emerge works!
I reboot the computer only to have it note that my filesystem is completely corrupt (it's ext3 and was looking for ext2)
So, i did a fsck and things were fine. I rebooted and lo and behold... my whole
At that point, i've lost 8 days of work, 7 days of personal time, and have gained nothing but aggrevation.
I'm not a moron here, and it's certainly not like i've never installed Gentoo (i manage several hundred machines just fine!). After the headache i decided enough was enough.
If Gentoo died tomorrow I'd just go to FreeBSD
Not trolling, but what's keeping you from going there now?
Wow... for a second had to double check my address bar to make sure I was still on slashdot.
Maybe it's just me, and not to troll, but is there anything wrong with paper voting?
I read alot of horror stories about the insecurities of 'modern' voting machines, and i ask myself 'what's the point?'
I live in Toronto, and the elections held in Canada use paper. Why? Becasuse there's an audit trail if a recount is needed, and it's simple. No duplicated effort. The system isn't broken, and it _just works_
Technology for it's own sake is fun, but in critical applications such as voting, I ask: "is it really necessary?"
if you're an apt man (as opposed to a man apt, which is rather informative) you should enjoy the following:
Sudo T-Shirt
i gotta learn to post anonymously when I drink.
Funny tho, another poster with the same opinion gets modded insightful. I should learn to articulate better, or again, just post anonymously when drinking. There goes my Karma.
Do people even stull use this distro? Everything it does, Ubuntu does better.
Personally, I prefer Gentoo, but for what Mandrake^H^H^Hiva is supposed to be, is there really a userbase for it anymore?
Though you're clearly trolling, the lack of a linux 'equivilant' to Dreamweaver is the only reason I still dual boot.
/. will prove me otherwise =)
Sure some prorgams compare, but at this stage Dreamweaver, IMO, is top shelf. Here's hoping
Am I the only one with this symptom?
/. crowd would have a better idea of what i'm talking about than anyone.
When I play HL2, I become terribly nauseous after about 20 minutes of gameplay.
This is unusual because I play plenty of FPS's, and have been doing so for some time. I never have this problem after 3 or 4 hours of UT or Quake. Only HL2. Not even HL1.
I recognize that FPS' tend to cause motion sickness in rare cases... but what the heck could make only a single game have this effect?
Yes, it's a little o/t, but i imagine the
They have been the loudest to complain because they cannot be bothered to learn to code a little C#.
It seems to me that the complaint isn't so much that it's not "drag & drop" 'enough', it's that people new to game development (for whom it was understood that this kit would be developed for) have no idea how to write the necessary 'plumbing code' to make trivial tasks, well... trivial.
Please correct me if this isn't the case
Only under the pressure of regulators cracking down on them did they back off from this unwarranted charge
Proof positive that giant companies will do whatever they want until forced otherwise.
likely thanks to the multitude of users who arn't sure how to change either a) their home page, or b) their msn messenger start-pop-up-of-doom
First, this law would simply be unconstitutional here in the US.
You make it sound like the US has never passed a law that was unconstitutional.
For business users, their IT staff should be hooking them up with some sort of VPN, or at least SSL access to the businesses own web server
I completely agree with you, though I wanted to point out that not every business can afford an IT staff.
Heck, many of the businesses I've encountered don't even have legit versions of Office to begin with. (Let alone windows)
How about the lack of open standards, the financial expense, and being forced into the vendor's upgrade cycle? Now, maybe that's not sufficient reason for many people, but it's certainly a reason.
Speaking from my personal experience (growing up in a rural community outside of Toronto), the small business owners I've met wouldn't know an open standard from an automatic transmission.
The vendors upgrade cycle isn't as much The most effective reason, IMHO, would have to be the cost. Small business hate giving a chunk of their already small profits to a large software vendor. The cost of using pirated copies is worse, as there's no support, and we all know what happens to windoze machines after being used by the less-techie business person.
Though I understand we're speaking about 2 completely different types of business (large-med urban vs. small-soho rural), I think it's important to point out that these types of web based services would be extremely helpful to smaller businesses trying to do things "the right way".
That's all great for uber l337 folks like yourself, but what about the rest of the world?
You think Joe (or Jane) Businessman has any idea what ssh is? Or why on earth you're saving something to anywhere other than your hard drive?
I'll admit, you have a cool setup (as cool as ssh and vnc gets anyway), but it really doesn't help the average business person in the same way that many of TFA's apps do.
Being able to access documents via the web from anywhere needs to be as easy as possible for regular joe's, otherwise they have no reason to leave MS Office.
Thank you.. that was amazing to watch
Much appreciated, I hope others get something out of it too.
True that, however the US certainly does not have the resources to engage in 2 wars in the middle east.
MAybe, until the next generation iPods are released at least.
oh yes, we love tetris...
I too, admit my cell phone tetris addiction =)
for the most part suck.
When you're competing with the WoW's, FF's and EQ's of the world the little guys don't stand much of a chance.
It's in the numbers. How many people does it take to develop a successful 'big box' game?
With independantly driven communities, the users tend to be of the 'anti-esatablishment' type anyway (take indie music as an example), and don't particularly feel like paying for something like this.
As a business model, it just isn't going to work.
But I hope i'm wrong and a crew of like 5 folks team up and write the best game ever, but that's rather unlikely.
Sounds neet, but what practical applications could be made from this service? /. thinks this may be used for...
I'm not trolling, rather genuinely interested in what
damnit, there go my mod points... just when my karma was turning positive. /singleTear
Well, that's it. I'll never buy another creative product again. As if just making shitty sound cards wasn't enough. I've always hoped that the latest greatest sound card would be decent, I shell out the $300 or so for the one with hte front panel (to plug my midi gear etc into) and i'm totally let down. Shitty drivers, crackling sound whenever internet traffic is high (yah, go figure...)/rant...
UGH
Fuck them. That was the straw.
The Zen sucked, and really, how much different can you make an interface on a handheld music player?
And the shoddy business practise of waiting until the iPod is nice and successfull before laying down the legal gauntlet just makes me sick.
I've swore by creative's products since day 1, and now I say 'Fuck you, Creative. You just blew it.'
Maybe I'm overreacting, but hey. Fuck them.