Heh. I think the problem is in my lamefulness too. I would just have kept installing new versions of distros on whatever hardware my trying-out-linux-box has in it at the time. Why would i flail around with xconf or whatever it is when i have no idea if it is possible to get it working on my particular system? I am happier learning by tinkering with a working system than blundering haphazardly around a non-working 3d setup hoping to fluke it into functioning. Sun Tzu wouldn't faff around for weeks assembling an army if he could burn another iso and install a new army in a couple of hours. or something. especially if the stroggs were attacking.
Just out of curiosity I wanted to run quake4 and doom3 on linux. I tried at least 10 linuxes and only got it working once (debian , but then when i reinstalled it a few days later, my parrot-fashion editing of configuration files no longer worked). I am an old git who has used micro$oft products from dos 3.3 on, but never a unix system, so i am floundering somewhat with the permissions, filesystem structure etc if it doesn't work 'out of the box' (yay for knoppix, DSL and Freespire). Yes, Freespire found my nvidia card, set it up, and i was playing torcs and steering tux down the mountain straight away. Hurrah! Soon i was playing doom3 and quake4, albeit clunkily on this hand-me-down 1.8gHz box.
Depends upon which gallon you use. And which gas are you thinking of? Nitrogen? Propane? I would venture the GP was puzzled that three-quarters density of 4.54 kilos is 2.5 kilos rather than 3 kilos. I have always got 4.54 litres in every gallon of fuel I have bought. But then, my cars require petrol, rather than some gas.:-)
What's that? It is a gas when it goes in the combustion chamber? I use a fine spray of droplets, you insensitive clod!
Try measuring the power consumed. Older machines, headless, once they have booted up and 'got settled', consume much less wattage than the psu rating would lead you to believe. While you are measuring things, check out the myth of power used by your tv on 'standby', mine is about a watt while my mum's doesn't register on the scale at all ( ie 0.0W ). You can measure the power used by 'power bricks' under no load conditions too. All good fun.
Wrong. We are talking about government. If this turns out to be a huge waste of resources, more taxes will be levied in order to expand the operation into a gigantic waste of resources.
'You're there to make sure the shit they bought runs' Uh... right. Just like the bosses are there to make the company run efficiently, rather than build their own self-serving empires. Management doesn't care about your hard work, it just wants you to appear to work hard. Put that creativity into a false facade of working hard, stress, and excuses for failure. It isn't like you will benefit from doing your job well.
These non-existant handguns seem to kill some kid in the UK every week. The gun prohibition is as effective as all prohibitions in removing the prohibited thing from society.
Well, there is probably only a few k of data per machine, so you could easily maintain a database of all the copies of windows phoning home. It would just take a few computers, some bespoke software and a fair bit of cash. You could work out what to do with the data later, maybe a targetted "you have been using this pirated os for yonks, give us fifty bucks or we will sue your ass, here are some of the data we will be showing the judge.." mailshot? It would cost pennies to send out, but rake in $$$. Hey! Maybe that is where all the real programming effort at redmond is going?
I bought a cd-burner and set one machine up with the old adaptec 1542 and drivers and easy-cd software. Then i bought a zip drive to collect data from other machines for backing up on the dedicated 2x cd-writing wonder. The zip drive remains the worst purchase EVAR! It was quicker to dismantle both machines and mount the hd as a slave than to try and copy files to and from the POS zip drive. I haven't been back to my local computer shop that recommended and sold me that crap pile.
Steel plating on the leading edges of the prop blades on a dinosaur? What the hell are you smoking? It is the lower surface of the propellor blade that would be struck by the bullets.
Does anyone know if the 2 windows 'features' that annoy me most have been fixed? 1) everything going on hold while the cdrom clatters and clangs around until it has sorted out a newly inserted disk. 2) when dragging and dropping 97,000 files, a read error on just one fricken file causes the whole operation to hold until a popup window is responded to. I have been waiting for these to be fixed for some time now, so long in fact that my firewall/router, fileserver and laptop are all now linux. If i ever figure out how to get accelleratified 3d graphics working on my desktop box, i will be gaming on linux too.
...... The criminals in the UK also use guns. It is so commonplace for criminals to use guns that the increasingly armed cops keep shooting unarmed serfs because they think the serf may have a gun.
Yeah, right, like you will have access to the logs! You probably won't even be able to get anyone to admit the logs exist. Especially from your cell in gitmo.
erm, wandering off topic slightly... how many IRA were there in the uk at any one time? Why is there such a fuss about islamic extremists blowing things up? Irish extremists blowing things up for decades never had this much hysteria, it was just 'They blew what up now? Crap, i will have to alter my shopping/travel plans slightly.' MI5 has expanded by 50% since 9/11, it is probably costing 100 times as much as the foiled 'terror plots' would have.
Maintenance cutbacks cause train crash: "Hey ho, these things happen." Guy blows himself up on train: "OMFG the sky is falling."
What do you think the response of a government official would be when an underling brings him/her a proposal for some new project/legislation that will benefit the official? a) 'Sounds interesting, but lets get some more input and make sure there is no downside for our employers, the public'. b) 'Woot! More power and influence for me! Promotion for you, but if it goes wrong, you will get the blame!'
I would imagine it is because they get their money given to them. The cost of M$ software is probably insignificant compared to the 'expenses' paid to the top brass at the charity for travel, accomodation etc. Apologies to any of the top brass who never claim any expenses.
Slightly off-topic, what cell phones are good for reading plain old ascii text files? It seems to be an easy thing to build in, but never seems to be attempted.
Why would they want the place covered in crap for years? Anybody capable of getting here could just lease their technology to us, then buy our governments just like any other big corporation.
While you are waiting to travel into space with virgin galactic, why not try my similar ocean voyages? You are put into a canoe and pushed 20 feet into the atlantic on the end of a rope, then pulled back after a few minutes. It is far cheaper and simpler than those crazily over-complex 'ocean liners'.
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Heh. I think the problem is in my lamefulness too.
I would just have kept installing new versions of distros on whatever hardware my trying-out-linux-box has in it at the time. Why would i flail around with xconf or whatever it is when i have no idea if it is possible to get it working on my particular system?
I am happier learning by tinkering with a working system than blundering haphazardly around a non-working 3d setup hoping to fluke it into functioning.
Sun Tzu wouldn't faff around for weeks assembling an army if he could burn another iso and install a new army in a couple of hours. or something. especially if the stroggs were attacking.
Just out of curiosity I wanted to run quake4 and doom3 on linux. I tried at least 10 linuxes and only got it working once (debian , but then when i reinstalled it a few days later, my parrot-fashion editing of configuration files no longer worked).
I am an old git who has used micro$oft products from dos 3.3 on, but never a unix system, so i am floundering somewhat with the permissions, filesystem structure etc if it doesn't work 'out of the box' (yay for knoppix, DSL and Freespire).
Yes, Freespire found my nvidia card, set it up, and i was playing torcs and steering tux down the mountain straight away. Hurrah! Soon i was playing doom3 and quake4, albeit clunkily on this hand-me-down 1.8gHz box.
Depends upon which gallon you use. And which gas are you thinking of? Nitrogen? Propane? :-)
I would venture the GP was puzzled that three-quarters density of 4.54 kilos is 2.5 kilos rather than 3 kilos. I have always got 4.54 litres in every gallon of fuel I have bought. But then, my cars require petrol, rather than some gas.
What's that? It is a gas when it goes in the combustion chamber? I use a fine spray of droplets, you insensitive clod!
Try measuring the power consumed. Older machines, headless, once they have booted up and 'got settled', consume much less wattage than the psu rating would lead you to believe.
While you are measuring things, check out the myth of power used by your tv on 'standby', mine is about a watt while my mum's doesn't register on the scale at all ( ie 0.0W ).
You can measure the power used by 'power bricks' under no load conditions too. All good fun.
Wrong. We are talking about government. If this turns out to be a huge waste of resources, more taxes will be levied in order to expand the operation into a gigantic waste of resources.
'You're there to make sure the shit they bought runs'
Uh... right. Just like the bosses are there to make the company run efficiently, rather than build their own self-serving empires.
Management doesn't care about your hard work, it just wants you to appear to work hard. Put that creativity into a false facade of working hard, stress, and excuses for failure. It isn't like you will benefit from doing your job well.
These non-existant handguns seem to kill some kid in the UK every week. The gun prohibition is as effective as all prohibitions in removing the prohibited thing from society.
Well, there is probably only a few k of data per machine, so you could easily maintain a database of all the copies of windows phoning home. It would just take a few computers, some bespoke software and a fair bit of cash. You could work out what to do with the data later, maybe a targetted "you have been using this pirated os for yonks, give us fifty bucks or we will sue your ass, here are some of the data we will be showing the judge.." mailshot? It would cost pennies to send out, but rake in $$$.
Hey! Maybe that is where all the real programming effort at redmond is going?
Simply declare co2 to be the worlds currency and pretty soon it will all be safely locked away in swiss vaults.
I bought a cd-burner and set one machine up with the old adaptec 1542 and drivers and easy-cd software. Then i bought a zip drive to collect data from other machines for backing up on the dedicated 2x cd-writing wonder. The zip drive remains the worst purchase EVAR! It was quicker to dismantle both machines and mount the hd as a slave than to try and copy files to and from the POS zip drive. I haven't been back to my local computer shop that recommended and sold me that crap pile.
Steel plating on the leading edges of the prop blades on a dinosaur? What the hell are you smoking?
It is the lower surface of the propellor blade that would be struck by the bullets.
Hmm... i have just got a hand-me-down nvidia card so you have just encouraged me to have another go :-)
Yoink! Thanks for the info! I will now go back off my cynicismotron one notch :-)
Does anyone know if the 2 windows 'features' that annoy me most have been fixed?
1) everything going on hold while the cdrom clatters and clangs around until it has sorted out a newly inserted disk.
2) when dragging and dropping 97,000 files, a read error on just one fricken file causes the whole operation to hold until a popup window is responded to.
I have been waiting for these to be fixed for some time now, so long in fact that my firewall/router, fileserver and laptop are all now linux. If i ever figure out how to get accelleratified 3d graphics working on my desktop box, i will be gaming on linux too.
...... The criminals in the UK also use guns. It is so commonplace for criminals to use guns that the increasingly armed cops keep shooting unarmed serfs because they think the serf may have a gun.
Yeah, right, like you will have access to the logs! You probably won't even be able to get anyone to admit the logs exist. Especially from your cell in gitmo.
erm, wandering off topic slightly... how many IRA were there in the uk at any one time?
Why is there such a fuss about islamic extremists blowing things up? Irish extremists blowing things up for decades never had this much hysteria, it was just 'They blew what up now? Crap, i will have to alter my shopping/travel plans slightly.'
MI5 has expanded by 50% since 9/11, it is probably costing 100 times as much as the foiled 'terror plots' would have.
Maintenance cutbacks cause train crash: "Hey ho, these things happen."
Guy blows himself up on train: "OMFG the sky is falling."
What do you think the response of a government official would be when an underling brings him/her a proposal for some new project/legislation that will benefit the official?
a) 'Sounds interesting, but lets get some more input and make sure there is no downside for our employers, the public'.
b) 'Woot! More power and influence for me! Promotion for you, but if it goes wrong, you will get the blame!'
What happened to release candidates? Are they making RC2 gold or are they releasing something that hasn't been tested?
I would imagine it is because they get their money given to them. The cost of M$ software is probably insignificant compared to the 'expenses' paid to the top brass at the charity for travel, accomodation etc. Apologies to any of the top brass who never claim any expenses.
Billy Balowski?
Slightly off-topic, what cell phones are good for reading plain old ascii text files? It seems to be an easy thing to build in, but never seems to be attempted.
I once built a wooden computer. It had a wooden psu, a wooden HD, wooden everything.
It wooden work!
Why would they want the place covered in crap for years? Anybody capable of getting here could just lease their technology to us, then buy our governments just like any other big corporation.
While you are waiting to travel into space with virgin galactic, why not try my similar ocean voyages?
You are put into a canoe and pushed 20 feet into the atlantic on the end of a rope, then pulled back after a few minutes. It is far cheaper and simpler than those crazily over-complex 'ocean liners'.