fedora, ubuntu, suse, debian, rhel, slackware.... the list goes on and on. There are many things to complain about with Microsoft software, but let's not be hypocritical.
All of them except slackware running Kernel 2.6 - which is the fully supported kernel of choice ATM, the only "version" if you will. Just because each one has a different pretty little theme doesn't mean that it's a different version.
Indeed. I have massive hand stregnth due to my mousing and keyboarding, and the girls always like it when we're good with our hands. And of course, if THAT fails...
... but I don't know of many programs that use both cores..i guess it just splits the load between them.
Under Windows it will only use one of the cores for most operations (a small number of programs can use both). Linux SMP kernels will split up the tasks for the two processors as best as it can, supposedly Solaris and the BSDs will do it too but I've never seen those guys at work.
Now where do you get that one? Most "publicly funded" colleges get the majority of their funding from other sources these days, the "state instituition" that I attend gets less than 10% of its income from the state. You want to guess where most of the funding comes from? Try private instituitions expecting a return in the form of well-educated workers or in the technologies the school is looking into. Don't fool yourself by thinking that the government is funding our entire education (or even a significant portion) when it's giving out more in your damn tax refund.
Of course, the Lunix community will begin a new era of six button jokes as of this year.
Well, as a good Linux user I see several buttons: left, right, middle, "thumb 1", "thumb 2", "roll forward", and "roll backward". I suppose you could get rid of one of the thumb buttons, but then how would you reload your weapon without the keyboard?;)
hen you'll have to explain to me why a laser beam (that is light) could be damaging your data (that is stored in a magnetic form. Did I miss a physics course ?
Wikipedia: Electromagnetic radiation is a propagating wave in space with electric and magnetic components. These components oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation. (emphasis added)
You still probably wouldn't be able to damage it with a laser pointer though, that'd make for a pretty poorly designed hard drive.
... but I like to suggest that either the people who are developing the X Window System work on this part of their software or drop the claim that they produce platform-independent software.
What about X11 for Mac OS X? Or how about X11 running on Windows using Cygwin? Seems to me like X11 is about as close as you can get to a platform-independent graphics platform.
What this all translates into is a company that can offer power at a reduced price to its consumer, because of the associated cost savings and secondary revenue stream.
Sorry man but this translates into higher prices for any type of wireless in the area because you wipe out everything with god-damn huge antennas. See relavant wikipedia article:
Some groups oppose the proliferation of this technology, mostly due to its potential to interfere with radio transmissions. As power lines are typically untwisted and unshielded, they are essentially large antennas, and will broadcast large amounts of radio energy (see the American Radio Relay League's article). Because of their lack of shielding, the BPL systems are also at risk of being interfered with by outside radio signals.
Does anyone know if Nokia will be releasing the handwriting recognition software or does anyone know of any good programs for an on-screen keyboard with handwriting recognition for Linux that's free?
Get accustomed to the "Workspace Switcher" and then make some hotkeys to switch between workspaces (I use CTRL+ALT+). If you have a beefy machine it's as if you have 2,4,6,+ monitors rather than just one.
That's why there are environmental test chambers, so if the requirements say that the operating temperature range is +0C to +40C, you can test over that range.
How much you wanna bet that the power brick wasn't put in the chamber or the box wasn't tested? Just because such tests exist doesn't mean that they were performed or performed properly.
Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?
They did, but the test site burned down before they completed the tests.
MS is based in the Pacific Northwest, it's too cold there most of the year for something like the power brick overheating to be a problem. Even if they did have a problem it would be rare - so it would probably be chalked up to a fluke in the particular brick and not a design flaw.
I'm huge Open Source, linux, anti-Microsoft (in the "I-wish-they-would-cut-out-the-monopolistic-abuse- crap" sense), but not at the cost of ethics.
Then I suggest you read both articles carefully, the boston globe one doesn't even list any violations that make sense in reality-land. For example:
Even though a galaxy of computer companies are listed as sponsors of many of the conferences, Quinn did not list any of them on his authorization forms or the business relationships any of them have with the Commonwealth.
If you've ever been to a tech conference you know that the list of sponsors is immense, it would not make sense to list a single company on that list because it is the conference itself (not its sponsors) who decide to pay for your visit when you're a guest. The globe article even points out earlier in the story that the guy's legal advisor didn't know exactly what he needed to do with regards to listing who paid for the trip - and later in the story it notes that when his expenses were paid by a single company he did list the name of the company.
He who controls the past, controls the future;
he who controls the present, controls the past
He who controls the spice, controls the universe!!
Oh wait, sorry - wrong movie. Seriously though, MS doesn't control the past, present, or future - the time of Open Source has come and MS has no choice but to accept the new model or bow out like IBM. MS out-IBM'd IBM, Open Source will out-MS MS.
1)Is it possible to upgrade from FC4 to FC5 test 1 (I cant seem to find the upgrade options)?
You need to change which repository tree you're downloading from, I can't remember exactly the config file (my FC machine is in the shop) but it's something like/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
2)Is it possible to upgrade the i386 version to the x64 version?
Not to my knowledge, you could attempt to change to the x86_64 repo tree and you might get away with it (the i386 packages are actually the same in both trees) but unless you specifically asked it to install x86_64 packages it would probably be confused because it would be "missing" a lot of important packages and if you tried to install the x86_64 version it would believe it had a duplicate. If you were to attempt this I would suggest starting with the packages libc, gcc, rpm, kernel, up2date, kde|gnome, and e2fsprogs - you will need enough x86_64 packages updated to boot the system or your upgrade attempt might hose you.
It sounds great until you find out they want to 30 students doing graphics or medical imaging at the same time. Of course we mention that it may not perform up to their expectations and that they should do some testing. They never follow through with the testing.
We recently issued 60 wireless tablets thanks to a grant from HP and were able to get them all to work fine. We did get a couple of additional access points in the room where the tablets would primarily be used, but we had the foresight to get them installed first. Granted, the tablets aren't simultaneously running remote graphics or imaging applications but we haven't had any problems so far.
mean, what the hell are real male geeks good for other than setting up networks, getting you online, removing spyware, deleting viruses, upgrading software, programming the VCR.....
Male geeks have feelings, desires, hopes, and dreams just like everyone else. What good are sports people or politicians or you name it? Everyone has something they're especially good at and I think that the recognition that everyone wants to be appreciated for what they do is the most important thing here. However, this popularizing the geek persona does not do this for geeks (at least in my mind), all it really does it re-inforce the existing stereotypes so "cool" people can make themselves feel better because they have someone to pick on.
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fedora, ubuntu, suse, debian, rhel, slackware.... the list goes on and on. There are many things to complain about with Microsoft software, but let's not be hypocritical.
All of them except slackware running Kernel 2.6 - which is the fully supported kernel of choice ATM, the only "version" if you will. Just because each one has a different pretty little theme doesn't mean that it's a different version.
Indeed. I have massive hand stregnth due to my mousing and keyboarding, and the girls always like it when we're good with our hands. And of course, if THAT fails...
You're going to learn to type with your tongue?
... but I don't know of many programs that use both cores..i guess it just splits the load between them.
Under Windows it will only use one of the cores for most operations (a small number of programs can use both). Linux SMP kernels will split up the tasks for the two processors as best as it can, supposedly Solaris and the BSDs will do it too but I've never seen those guys at work.
Now we have primarily public funding in college.
Now where do you get that one? Most "publicly funded" colleges get the majority of their funding from other sources these days, the "state instituition" that I attend gets less than 10% of its income from the state. You want to guess where most of the funding comes from? Try private instituitions expecting a return in the form of well-educated workers or in the technologies the school is looking into. Don't fool yourself by thinking that the government is funding our entire education (or even a significant portion) when it's giving out more in your damn tax refund.
Heck, I can't even find an actual "ring" tone in many of these modern phones.
I discovered that the f****** hid the "ring" option with the volume on mine - took me like a half hour to find it.
Of course, the Lunix community will begin a new era of six button jokes as of this year.
;)
Well, as a good Linux user I see several buttons: left, right, middle, "thumb 1", "thumb 2", "roll forward", and "roll backward". I suppose you could get rid of one of the thumb buttons, but then how would you reload your weapon without the keyboard?
hen you'll have to explain to me why a laser beam (that is light) could be damaging your data (that is stored in a magnetic form. Did I miss a physics course ?
Wikipedia:
Electromagnetic radiation is a propagating wave in space with electric and magnetic components. These components oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation. (emphasis added)
You still probably wouldn't be able to damage it with a laser pointer though, that'd make for a pretty poorly designed hard drive.
... but I like to suggest that either the people who are developing the X Window System work on this part of their software or drop the claim that they produce platform-independent software.
What about X11 for Mac OS X? Or how about X11 running on Windows using Cygwin? Seems to me like X11 is about as close as you can get to a platform-independent graphics platform.
What this all translates into is a company that can offer power at a reduced price to its consumer, because of the associated cost savings and secondary revenue stream.
Sorry man but this translates into higher prices for any type of wireless in the area because you wipe out everything with god-damn huge antennas. See relavant wikipedia article:
Some groups oppose the proliferation of this technology, mostly due to its potential to interfere with radio transmissions. As power lines are typically untwisted and unshielded, they are essentially large antennas, and will broadcast large amounts of radio energy (see the American Radio Relay League's article). Because of their lack of shielding, the BPL systems are also at risk of being interfered with by outside radio signals.
wikipediOWNED!
/.
UGH, it's wikipediPWNED! I'm so sick and tired of poor spelling on
Then isn't it wikiPWNED?
Does anyone know if Nokia will be releasing the handwriting recognition software or does anyone know of any good programs for an on-screen keyboard with handwriting recognition for Linux that's free?
Step 2 - become a closed minded linux douche
Remember this: We think the same thing of you.
(Not to be judgemental, but in today's world if it doesn't target Windows it's not the Nightmare worm)
So you wouldn't consider a worm that took out say... all the Cisco routers running the Internet a nightmare worm?
Get accustomed to the "Workspace Switcher" and then make some hotkeys to switch between workspaces (I use CTRL+ALT+). If you have a beefy machine it's as if you have 2,4,6,+ monitors rather than just one.
That's why there are environmental test chambers, so if the requirements say that the operating temperature range is +0C to +40C, you can test over that range.
How much you wanna bet that the power brick wasn't put in the chamber or the box wasn't tested? Just because such tests exist doesn't mean that they were performed or performed properly.
Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?
They did, but the test site burned down before they completed the tests.
MS is based in the Pacific Northwest, it's too cold there most of the year for something like the power brick overheating to be a problem. Even if they did have a problem it would be rare - so it would probably be chalked up to a fluke in the particular brick and not a design flaw.
I'm huge Open Source, linux, anti-Microsoft (in the "I-wish-they-would-cut-out-the-monopolistic-abuse- crap" sense), but not at the cost of ethics.
Then I suggest you read both articles carefully, the boston globe one doesn't even list any violations that make sense in reality-land. For example:
Even though a galaxy of computer companies are listed as sponsors of many of the conferences, Quinn did not list any of them on his authorization forms or the business relationships any of them have with the Commonwealth.
If you've ever been to a tech conference you know that the list of sponsors is immense, it would not make sense to list a single company on that list because it is the conference itself (not its sponsors) who decide to pay for your visit when you're a guest. The globe article even points out earlier in the story that the guy's legal advisor didn't know exactly what he needed to do with regards to listing who paid for the trip - and later in the story it notes that when his expenses were paid by a single company he did list the name of the company.
He who controls the past, controls the future;
he who controls the present, controls the past
He who controls the spice, controls the universe!!
Oh wait, sorry - wrong movie. Seriously though, MS doesn't control the past, present, or future - the time of Open Source has come and MS has no choice but to accept the new model or bow out like IBM. MS out-IBM'd IBM, Open Source will out-MS MS.
1)Is it possible to upgrade from FC4 to FC5 test 1 (I cant seem to find the upgrade options)?
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
You need to change which repository tree you're downloading from, I can't remember exactly the config file (my FC machine is in the shop) but it's something like
2)Is it possible to upgrade the i386 version to the x64 version?
Not to my knowledge, you could attempt to change to the x86_64 repo tree and you might get away with it (the i386 packages are actually the same in both trees) but unless you specifically asked it to install x86_64 packages it would probably be confused because it would be "missing" a lot of important packages and if you tried to install the x86_64 version it would believe it had a duplicate. If you were to attempt this I would suggest starting with the packages libc, gcc, rpm, kernel, up2date, kde|gnome, and e2fsprogs - you will need enough x86_64 packages updated to boot the system or your upgrade attempt might hose you.
It sounds great until you find out they want to 30 students doing graphics or medical imaging at the same time. Of course we mention that it may not perform up to their expectations and that they should do some testing. They never follow through with the testing.
We recently issued 60 wireless tablets thanks to a grant from HP and were able to get them all to work fine. We did get a couple of additional access points in the room where the tablets would primarily be used, but we had the foresight to get them installed first. Granted, the tablets aren't simultaneously running remote graphics or imaging applications but we haven't had any problems so far.
mean, what the hell are real male geeks good for other than setting up networks, getting you online, removing spyware, deleting viruses, upgrading software, programming the VCR.....
Male geeks have feelings, desires, hopes, and dreams just like everyone else. What good are sports people or politicians or you name it? Everyone has something they're especially good at and I think that the recognition that everyone wants to be appreciated for what they do is the most important thing here. However, this popularizing the geek persona does not do this for geeks (at least in my mind), all it really does it re-inforce the existing stereotypes so "cool" people can make themselves feel better because they have someone to pick on.
Everyone is now using GAIM or some other alternate client, so people miss all of AOL's annoying (yet profit-generating) ads.
I don't know about you but GAIM pestered me about these bots this morning too.
So don't look for a stamped "X", chances are all your caps have them ..
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You mean like all those pits mysteriously appear on your windshield?
http://www.washington.historylink.org/output.cfm?
I wonder how much could be gained via compiler improvements, anyone know what compiler they use?
Since it runs Linux and PowerPC? Probably GCC.
That's in the stratosphere, well above even commerical airline flightpaths.
Yeah, but it's not out of the range of a rail-gun and I happen to know some bored/motivated college students who build them in their spare time.