Like someone else already posted, Mepis is a better KDE Debian distro than a Knoppix hd install. Knoppix really is good but its an utter mess trying to update once installed on a hard drive.
Just for an FYI to the thread, I'm using Ubuntu as I write this now and Ubuntu is certainly my distro of choice now. Try it, you'll like it.
When did we suddenly become able to patent Mathematics?
Perhaps when you do you mathematical calculations with someone else's calculator - a calculator {OS} which you've agreed to their license to use for a short term, and proliferates so quickly that no one sees the mathematics anymore, just the calculator.
When was the last time you did some nasty differential equations by hand? The modern tools are great, but sometimes users forget that they are only a tool - of which there are many more.
In order to make the non-MS file formats more popular, you can't continue to think that always using them is the best way to interact with other businesses. Instead, use better file formats for the tasks at hand.
For example, try using PDF and XML documents instead of.doc and.xls for a change. And guess what? These file formats work on virtually all systems, and even modern MS systems can read and write these formats!
The benefit, to me at least, is this is the first distro that has me 100% spending my time in Linux anymore. This is the first distro I've liked that much and Ubuntu's creator's are largely responsible.
I was aware of failures in other brands due to the poor fluid, but Abit just seemed to have an especially high failure rate when compared to the others even. Perhaps its because they use more in their power regulation circuits (usually a good thing). However, my dealings with Abit over the matter with many, many RMA's jaded my Abit experience - never again. RMA an non-functioning board, and gets one that 'works' but has so many memory error you can't count. BTW, trying to exchange an RMA again...same thing. Like they stockpiled broken boards and just keep sending them to different RMAs. The end solution is to have to reformat and reinstall with a NEW motherboard, from a different brand!
Perhaps you'll feel confortable knowing that all of those machines will be donated in three years when they upgrade all their labs again to the latest technology!
"Typically the motherboard fails first because manufacturers use cheap electrolytic capacitors that leak..."
You must be a(n) [former?] Abit Customer also?
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I disagree with one point. If you own a computer, and can't do the basic maintenance, you should at least be smart enough to use an OS that highly minimizes the required maintenance.
Just like someone who isn't mechanically inclined shouldn't buy a "fixerupper", instead, they should realize they should buy the new, and warranted, Honda.
If you purchased this item for the price you paid, you obviously had good reason, and resources, to do so. So then, how is that not a fair price? No one held a gun to your head. You willfully agreed to purchase their product at and established price, again, willfully.
I had a 21" Sony Artisan, and I wouldn't call any loss of it a bad thing. The bugger was the poorest focused monitor I've ever purchased! The colors were the best I've ever seen on a monitor, but without consistant edge-to-edge focus it doesn't mean diddly.
Along with the other posters suggestions, SQLyog is a decent GUI manager. Trial versions are available, and a non-trial (as far as I know) is included in BigApache. Other than that, Google is your friend, and you can find plenty to feed your brain on the topic; but start with the documentation on MySQL.com.
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I just need to get a patent on all computer power switchs.
I've only been using MySQL for about a month from first downloading it, and have been quite impressed. Learn a system like this, and you'll have a great long-term solution. There are quite a few GUI based tools to make administration of MySQL relatively painless, but don't expect that you won't need to read up some.
Where will it all end?
Why not just a vanilla 'NIX keyboard...or, or,....just one big dial like and iPod?
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Maybe the ports system makes most people nice?? If Linux weren't such a buzz-word these days, I'd bet FreeBSD would have been a great target OS for this article. And as with Gentoo, the BSD folks are much more "noob" friendly in my experiences than the typical Linux groupies.
Of course, your mileage will vary, and granted I do prefer FreeBSD over Linux in general...once installed.
I've got to hand it to the Linux distro developers for easy installs! Especially to those that started Knoppix; that's a great tool! Now if only we can get a FreeBSD CD to install that easily.
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Like someone else already posted, Mepis is a better KDE Debian distro than a Knoppix hd install. Knoppix really is good but its an utter mess trying to update once installed on a hard drive.
Just for an FYI to the thread, I'm using Ubuntu as I write this now and Ubuntu is certainly my distro of choice now. Try it, you'll like it.
When did we suddenly become able to patent Mathematics?
Perhaps when you do you mathematical calculations with someone else's calculator - a calculator {OS} which you've agreed to their license to use for a short term, and proliferates so quickly that no one sees the mathematics anymore, just the calculator.
When was the last time you did some nasty differential equations by hand? The modern tools are great, but sometimes users forget that they are only a tool - of which there are many more.
Hell, you didn't purchase any MS code. Only a license to temporarily use it.
So they really didn't give anything away for free did they?
"What's wrong?
Mplayer doesn't insist on using proprietary file formats that only work on mplayer does it?
The chicken or the egg?
.doc and .xls for a change. And guess what? These file formats work on virtually all systems, and even modern MS systems can read and write these formats!
In order to make the non-MS file formats more popular, you can't continue to think that always using them is the best way to interact with other businesses. Instead, use better file formats for the tasks at hand.
For example, try using PDF and XML documents instead of
The benefit, to me at least, is this is the first distro that has me 100% spending my time in Linux anymore. This is the first distro I've liked that much and Ubuntu's creator's are largely responsible.
Give it a try. It's a GREAT distro!
I was aware of failures in other brands due to the poor fluid, but Abit just seemed to have an especially high failure rate when compared to the others even. Perhaps its because they use more in their power regulation circuits (usually a good thing). However, my dealings with Abit over the matter with many, many RMA's jaded my Abit experience - never again. RMA an non-functioning board, and gets one that 'works' but has so many memory error you can't count. BTW, trying to exchange an RMA again...same thing. Like they stockpiled broken boards and just keep sending them to different RMAs. The end solution is to have to reformat and reinstall with a NEW motherboard, from a different brand!
Perhaps you'll feel confortable knowing that all of those machines will be donated in three years when they upgrade all their labs again to the latest technology!
"Typically the motherboard fails first because manufacturers use cheap electrolytic capacitors that leak ..."
You must be a(n) [former?] Abit Customer also?
I disagree with one point. If you own a computer, and can't do the basic maintenance, you should at least be smart enough to use an OS that highly minimizes the required maintenance.
Just like someone who isn't mechanically inclined shouldn't buy a "fixerupper", instead, they should realize they should buy the new, and warranted, Honda.
But I happen to like the 'noise from painted blue freaks'!
How about a paper called "Dilbert on Open Source"?
-An Idiot's guide written by another Idiot.
And isn't firewire superior to USB on almost every technical specification? Of course I mean between similar versions in time.
If you purchased this item for the price you paid, you obviously had good reason, and resources, to do so. So then, how is that not a fair price? No one held a gun to your head. You willfully agreed to purchase their product at and established price, again, willfully.
Too cool for, eecch, Google!
I had a 21" Sony Artisan, and I wouldn't call any loss of it a bad thing. The bugger was the poorest focused monitor I've ever purchased! The colors were the best I've ever seen on a monitor, but without consistant edge-to-edge focus it doesn't mean diddly.
They don't need to run Seti@home. They've already found their aliens/ET lifeforms!
Along with the other posters suggestions, SQLyog is a decent GUI manager. Trial versions are available, and a non-trial (as far as I know) is included in BigApache. Other than that, Google is your friend, and you can find plenty to feed your brain on the topic; but start with the documentation on MySQL.com.
I just need to get a patent on all computer power switchs.
It worked fantastically for the origins of the BSDs!
I've only been using MySQL for about a month from first downloading it, and have been quite impressed. Learn a system like this, and you'll have a great long-term solution. There are quite a few GUI based tools to make administration of MySQL relatively painless, but don't expect that you won't need to read up some.
It could also be the $50/year antivirus subscription you'd need on a Windows machine.
Where will it all end? Why not just a vanilla 'NIX keyboard...or, or,....just one big dial like and iPod?
Maybe the ports system makes most people nice?? If Linux weren't such a buzz-word these days, I'd bet FreeBSD would have been a great target OS for this article. And as with Gentoo, the BSD folks are much more "noob" friendly in my experiences than the typical Linux groupies. Of course, your mileage will vary, and granted I do prefer FreeBSD over Linux in general...once installed. I've got to hand it to the Linux distro developers for easy installs! Especially to those that started Knoppix; that's a great tool! Now if only we can get a FreeBSD CD to install that easily.
With with 2k+ it not a blue screen when you crash, just explorer crashing on you all the time.