Heh! I also have a PII 350 covered in dust and an interest in learning about linux. After struggling with many installs, i found that the BX440 chipset screws many distros. Meh.
My advice would be to go for http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
It can get to your windows shares, you can use it from the livecd till you have got the hang of it, then install it to hd. Re-install is quick and easy when you break it.You can put together a useful 200mb mini-cd (i can't find any shops with 50mb credit card sized cd) that you can carry with you.
All-in-all, I found it the best thing for experimenting and learning the linux system.
We are already desperate enough for power that we have to make tons of nuclear power plants, we just haven't faced up to it yet. We will start building once the situation passes beyond critical into brown-out, the situation will be so desperate that the new plants will be shoddily made and badly thought out whilst still costing more than if they had been built over the last decade.
Nope, low wages and lack of job security mean I can't afford to move closer to work and that work will move around. Thanks for your concern. And I already pay £4 per gallon, thanks again.
Nope, sorry, doesn't work like that. The hippies haven't made dope legal. The punks haven't reduced the state's stranglehold.
What gets made law is whatever benefits the lawmakers financially or increases their power. Politicians at that level have no ideals beyond selfishness, nor can they achieve that level without ridding themselves of such ideals.
The vulnerabilities found are just a function of how popular the system is in the real world. Microsoft is a victim of its own success.
If Linux had as huge an installed base as Microsoft Vista then we would see all the script kiddies exploiting and 'owning' Linux boxes.
(c)2007
It is a kind of portable media player that allows you to travel the world's surface and receive advertisements tailored to who is paying them to show their ads.
You will be bombarded with ads for crazy frog ringtones , personal loans and other crap wherever you go.
Is the entertainment industry doomed because everyone is accepting a loss of visual quality to download films for free, or is the industry saved because everyone is desperate to pay more for higher definition content?
Just what the heck is going on?
Well, your other choice is to have a clock/calender and a lookup table tailored for whichever part of the world your building is in. Good luck with making and installing those cheaper than a $50 GPS unit.
1. Build shabby code to allow windows machines to interoperate with those cheap linux boxes that some firms are thinking about using.
2. Make a MicrosoftLinux to run on those cheap linux boxes 'to ensure it all works great together'.
3. Create incompatible MsLinux counterparts to any new Linux apps.
4. (Even more) Profit!
Well, maybe you don't want to maintain the sensors or keep them clean and free of distorting raindrops. With gps you can predict the position of the sun and aim at it without all the tedious seeking that an aquisition system would go through when there were scattered clouds. You can build one unit that can do this no matter what part of the world it is placed in.
.... send the collecting plate around? Try some of those desk-bound career bureaucrats at NASA, they might be interested in getting involved in some science as a break from office politics.
"Money only has meaning in that it is an abstract representation of materials and the time spent by people to make those materials useful. I could sit here for 3 months reading Slashdot and I wouldn't be creating wealth OR I could spend those three months developing some product that people would want to buy (give me money for, or, actually, do some work to create some wealth that they can then trade for the work I did)"
A reasonable view, but the monetary value is set by the market, not by the owner. The effort put in to distort the market by byzantine licencing and usage restrictions does not create wealth.
.... if it meant we did away with the stupid fixed speed limits. Make the speed limits variable, so maybe 20mph near schools only when the kids are going in/out, 100mph on empty motorways at 3am....
But that wouldn't raise money for the government.
I would have thought that the temperatures and pressures in a fusion reactor could make quite a boom under the right(wrong) circumstances.
That aside, like many other UK serfs, I am totally ok with ANY explosion that hits france earlier and harder than us. A meteor that vaporises france a few milliseconds before us would be a 'win'.
Yeah. My phone (nokia 6800) has a foldy-out qwerty keypad. I bet i can send messages with special characters (*&^%$£"!?~@:}{+_) and case sensitivity at least as fast as a morse keyer.
It won't be long before iPods are unfashionable and uncool. Then you can try and sell something better. An mp3 + divx player that ran on linux and let you plug standard USB keyboards and mice in sounds good to me.
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Eating through a naso-gastric tube is easier than using one's mouth, you insensitive clod! You can even do it whilst sleeping.
Heh! I also have a PII 350 covered in dust and an interest in learning about linux. After struggling with many installs, i found that the BX440 chipset screws many distros. Meh. My advice would be to go for http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ It can get to your windows shares, you can use it from the livecd till you have got the hang of it, then install it to hd. Re-install is quick and easy when you break it.You can put together a useful 200mb mini-cd (i can't find any shops with 50mb credit card sized cd) that you can carry with you. All-in-all, I found it the best thing for experimenting and learning the linux system.
And if your lightbulb broke, you could feel the data.
Erm, Stalin methodically and intentionally caused the starvation and famine, along with the more traditional shootings etc.
We are already desperate enough for power that we have to make tons of nuclear power plants, we just haven't faced up to it yet. We will start building once the situation passes beyond critical into brown-out, the situation will be so desperate that the new plants will be shoddily made and badly thought out whilst still costing more than if they had been built over the last decade.
Nope, low wages and lack of job security mean I can't afford to move closer to work and that work will move around. Thanks for your concern. And I already pay £4 per gallon, thanks again.
And what is worse, they must have ditched their hippy ethos to become employable to get money!
Or did they ALL have well-off parents?
Nope, sorry, doesn't work like that. The hippies haven't made dope legal. The punks haven't reduced the state's stranglehold.
What gets made law is whatever benefits the lawmakers financially or increases their power. Politicians at that level have no ideals beyond selfishness, nor can they achieve that level without ridding themselves of such ideals.
The vulnerabilities found are just a function of how popular the system is in the real world. Microsoft is a victim of its own success.
If Linux had as huge an installed base as Microsoft Vista then we would see all the script kiddies exploiting and 'owning' Linux boxes.
(c)2007
Try You will be bombarded with ads for crazy frog ringtones , personal loans and other crap wherever you go.
Is the entertainment industry doomed because everyone is accepting a loss of visual quality to download films for free, or is the industry saved because everyone is desperate to pay more for higher definition content?
Just what the heck is going on?
Well, your other choice is to have a clock/calender and a lookup table tailored for whichever part of the world your building is in. Good luck with making and installing those cheaper than a $50 GPS unit.
1. Build shabby code to allow windows machines to interoperate with those cheap linux boxes that some firms are thinking about using.
2. Make a MicrosoftLinux to run on those cheap linux boxes 'to ensure it all works great together'.
3. Create incompatible MsLinux counterparts to any new Linux apps.
4. (Even more) Profit!
Well, maybe you don't want to maintain the sensors or keep them clean and free of distorting raindrops. With gps you can predict the position of the sun and aim at it without all the tedious seeking that an aquisition system would go through when there were scattered clouds. You can build one unit that can do this no matter what part of the world it is placed in.
Fan noise! Dammit!
I'm old! And senile!
Whaaaaaa?
The hearing damage will take all the noisey fans away (and replace it with tinnitus).
.... send the collecting plate around? Try some of those desk-bound career bureaucrats at NASA, they might be interested in getting involved in some science as a break from office politics.
"They that give up liberty for security receive neither" - zmollusc
BTW, is it considered 'giving up your liberties' when you aren't even fricken consulted about it?
Don't you damned kids remember Expanded ram boards in the PC? And get OFF my DAMNED lawn!
.... if it meant we did away with the stupid fixed speed limits. Make the speed limits variable, so maybe 20mph near schools only when the kids are going in/out, 100mph on empty motorways at 3am.... But that wouldn't raise money for the government.
What do you think they burn to get the energy to isolate the hydrogen, dood?
I would have thought that the temperatures and pressures in a fusion reactor could make quite a boom under the right(wrong) circumstances. That aside, like many other UK serfs, I am totally ok with ANY explosion that hits france earlier and harder than us. A meteor that vaporises france a few milliseconds before us would be a 'win'.
Yeah. My phone (nokia 6800) has a foldy-out qwerty keypad. I bet i can send messages with special characters (*&^%$£"!?~@:}{+_) and case sensitivity at least as fast as a morse keyer.
It won't be long before iPods are unfashionable and uncool. Then you can try and sell something better. An mp3 + divx player that ran on linux and let you plug standard USB keyboards and mice in sounds good to me.