I have found that often, the thing not working in Linux if not the hardware.. but the grey matter.
-- my sound doesn't work == volume turned down
-- my CD doesn't play == cable not connected to player
these are simple common mistakes they are made over and over again.. and easily solved with a little research,
Some distro's are better than others at "pre-solving" common mistakes like these. Some set the volume for you during install.. others like Mandrake give you a choice of reveiwing the hardware before finalizing the install (helpful when you have onboard hardware conflicting with add in cards)
I've done quite a bit of distro switching, perhaps too much to still be considered sane, and I keep heading back to the Debian based distros (currently I am Mepis - Zen dual booting) It's
probably my lack of networking setup knowledege.. but they seem to always work with my DSL without doing a thing. (not that others haven't either just that is ALWAYS works with Debian based)
I remember the day (should take out my dentures for this).. when I spent days trying to get my modem to work in Linux.. what was it.. pppsetup.. and setserial or something (I forget).. now I don't use the modem, but it is always configured automagily for me now.
Dual booting is a good start (or live CD's if your chicken) but heck why not use Linux as it is bcoming now ? sheesh you might be surprised.
Are there "new" genes being created in genetic engineering ? I don't think so. These people are are only mixing existing genes to create traits they beleive can be sold. Raw materials cannot be patented, however the process of combining them can, and the end product can. However, I think patenting living organisims is pushing the limits of our new "ownership" society.
I think of polyester. If suddenly all your clothes in you closet became polyester without your consent, and the manufacturers of polyester sent you a bill, how would you react ?
Perhaps another analogy would be interesting to examine, what would happen if you started a beer compay, and you create a beer that is identical to another major beer, to the point that the FBI forensics team couldn't tell, except for labeling of course. This is just a mixture of ingredients after all and it is possible that your mixtures somehow ends up the same. Unless you used some special patented process of brewing there would be no infringment, and of course the purchasers of the beer would have zero liabilty, AND if someone left cases of the stuff in your yard you don't owe either of the beer companies ANYTHING !
GM is nothing more that receipes. If they lose the secret sauce by not containing it, too bad for them. If it ends up in my yard I should owe them nothing. If they won't contain it and pay for it's removal and the restoring of my yard to it's original state, then they obviously don't accept the liabilties of ownership, and give up rights of ownership.
I am not much of a gamer myself, but I wonder how the whole xfree vs xorg compares in all of this.
personaly, I like all the debian based distros.. because of apt.. I tried the others but apt seems to be so great solving dependency problems.
The situation now with the Debian distros is they seem to be xfree right now for the most part.
I have run some older games, like unreal goty & quake, and it was not too terrible to figure out, but I havent tried cedega or anything cutting edge.
If it was me, I would just pick a distro I liked, set it up for dual boot, and what works.. works, and what doesn't you reboot for... VectorLinux has a nice lilo menu... (had to tie this in somehow...)
I don't think this is true. It is Debian - Knoppix based I beleive.
It is a great distro to use for a base Debian install, and I love the new xfce4.
The only problem I have with XFLD and Debian (as it is now) is that they are not using xorg server yet.
I went the long route of net installing Suse, and then xfce4 to get the xorg/xfce4 combo, because I wanted to try and experiment with transparencies. It's working, but I am happier with XFLD and synaptic than Suse and Yast.. even with the older kernel and xserver.
sorry, bout that. Yes of course I know that these ships predate 1980. I suppose what is more precise is that our "economy" has been innovated.
Interesting story I heard on BBC radio about a british reporter following a couple of Chinese tourists here in California (where I live)... They had waited till the last few hours of their vacation to buy some souvineers, and left empty handed because guess where all the souvineers were made ?
I am not chinese bashing by the way, just observing.
very well written ! fits right in, I find it kind of funny when this is pulled off well, such as this, however the copycats that will lamely attempt more spoofs such as this will of course make it annoying..
Clinton killed more Arabs with sanctions (500,000 of them were children) than the invasion and occupation of Iraq under Bush. Clinton's secretary of State Madeline Albright went on 60 Minutes and said that that was a hard choice but ultimately "worth it". The anti-war movement marched millions of people in the streets in opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. No comparable action occurred over the sanctions.
I would submit that that the pride and stubborness of a certain now jailed leader is the cause of these deaths you mention, and that it is a bit unfair to suggest that these sanctions were imposed by one man or one country
And this major incident, analyzed frame by frame I'm sure, was noticed.
However nobody noticed the "W" ignoring the moderator, spewing forth his tirade, when it clearly was not his turn to speak
I continue to read the polls, and I hope they contine to say what I don't beleive.. so that the media can be shocked into reality.
If "w" wins, then I know that things have been tampered with.. and this is no "tin foil hat" opinion for me.
It is impossible for me to beleive that "most" Americans are behind this guy,.. And that they would vote for him to in effect say "I agree with you dubbya, and lets do more good stuff like you been a doin"
One of my points, lost somehow in the smoke ?.. is that there are always a group of people somehwere, living a litlle differently than you, who are more than FANATICAL at telling you how you should live..
As I stated, this person clearly went out of his way to go into the smoking area..
My main point... clearly skipped past, it that sure, people other than Americans should have an opinion as to what is going on with us in the US, and that is funny that all these posters against such an intrusion.. just can't see the hypocracy when ranting this, when compared with whole Iraq situation.
I watched the employee orientaion video for a retail chain (un-named).... In this video, it made clear that this was a buisness, and that the profit margin of "gndkjgn" corporation (our supplier for this chain) was 20 percent.
I, as a person, would love to have such a clear cut standard for my wage !
Perot, Dole, Clinton race.. I was working in a small retail store. The owner (my boss) talked for weeks of voting for Perot (after all Perot was a bidnessman)... I watched the store while he went to vote. He came back and blew my mind by stating "I voted for Clinton, because he is going to win anyway" (this is what I call the football game mentality of polls... he wanted to be a "WINNER")
Of course after that I always thought of him as a real winner !:)
I firmly beleived polls should be blacked out at some time period before the actual election day
Personaly, I can wait until the next day to find out the results...especialy if it encourages people to vote for who they "really" wanted.
By voting.., YOU become the employer who has given this person a job.
You are now free to complain about how this person performs his job.
By voting you can also FIRE someone who is not doing their job to your satisfaction
By not voting either way, you are in effect saying I don't care who does the job
If you don't care who is hired to do the job, then you deserve what you get, and therefore you CAN complain.. (at least until the wrong person you didn't vote for takes away your rights to complain)
But it is not a God given right, it is a constitutional right.
http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?order= working&showall=1http://www.transgaming.com/dogame search.php?order=working&showall=1
Yes your game is listed.
Yes Linux does games
regards
dbcad7
The only reason I use it, is because of the Messenger tie-in. I absouletly hate the ads on hotmail, but live with it for messenger. I hope google does their own messenger like service, and then they will really be cookin with gas.
I know there are other messengers (actualy I use amsn on mandrake) and perhaps I should get back to the old ICQ days and put whatever email account I want into my messenger. I think that what led me to the MSN/hotmail thing was that I didn't get unsolicited messages with it like ICQ.
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weird.., second time today I posted about it.
awsome stuff... you will be suprised how you advance.
I hate that.
The Pimsleur language tapes are great for commutes.. sure you get stared at for talking to yourself... but they are really awsome.
I always thought German was too much for me, but I did make it through 60 lessons before other things came into my life
-- If you are brodcasting an mp3, you are not offering the file for download as in p2p.. however that does not stop someone from recording the stream.
-- It is the same with radio broadcasting, there is nothing to stop someone from recording the broadcast
-- now granted the quality of a radio broadcast is not the same.. but then neither is the quality of an mp3
I wonder if the day will come, when there are crackdowns on internet broadcasters as well... I hope not, shoutcast is pretty slick IMHO
There it's been said... deal with that !
-- my sound doesn't work == volume turned down
-- my CD doesn't play == cable not connected to player
these are simple common mistakes they are made over and over again.. and easily solved with a little research,
Some distro's are better than others at "pre-solving" common mistakes like these. Some set the volume for you during install.. others like Mandrake give you a choice of reveiwing the hardware before finalizing the install (helpful when you have onboard hardware conflicting with add in cards)
I've done quite a bit of distro switching, perhaps too much to still be considered sane, and I keep heading back to the Debian based distros (currently I am Mepis - Zen dual booting) It's probably my lack of networking setup knowledege.. but they seem to always work with my DSL without doing a thing. (not that others haven't either just that is ALWAYS works with Debian based)
I remember the day (should take out my dentures for this).. when I spent days trying to get my modem to work in Linux.. what was it .. pppsetup.. and setserial or something (I forget).. now I don't use the modem, but it is always configured automagily for me now.
Dual booting is a good start (or live CD's if your chicken) but heck why not use Linux as it is bcoming now ? sheesh you might be surprised.
regards
dbcad7
I think of polyester. If suddenly all your clothes in you closet became polyester without your consent, and the manufacturers of polyester sent you a bill, how would you react ?
Perhaps another analogy would be interesting to examine, what would happen if you started a beer compay, and you create a beer that is identical to another major beer, to the point that the FBI forensics team couldn't tell, except for labeling of course. This is just a mixture of ingredients after all and it is possible that your mixtures somehow ends up the same. Unless you used some special patented process of brewing there would be no infringment, and of course the purchasers of the beer would have zero liabilty, AND if someone left cases of the stuff in your yard you don't owe either of the beer companies ANYTHING !
GM is nothing more that receipes. If they lose the secret sauce by not containing it, too bad for them. If it ends up in my yard I should owe them nothing. If they won't contain it and pay for it's removal and the restoring of my yard to it's original state, then they obviously don't accept the liabilties of ownership, and give up rights of ownership.
regards
dbcad7
personaly, I like all the debian based distros.. because of apt.. I tried the others but apt seems to be so great solving dependency problems.
The situation now with the Debian distros is they seem to be xfree right now for the most part.
I have run some older games, like unreal goty & quake, and it was not too terrible to figure out, but I havent tried cedega or anything cutting edge.
If it was me, I would just pick a distro I liked, set it up for dual boot, and what works.. works, and what doesn't you reboot for... VectorLinux has a nice lilo menu ... (had to tie this in somehow...)
regards
dbcad7
been there, done that
dbcad7
It is a great distro to use for a base Debian install, and I love the new xfce4.
The only problem I have with XFLD and Debian (as it is now) is that they are not using xorg server yet.
I went the long route of net installing Suse, and then xfce4 to get the xorg/xfce4 combo, because I wanted to try and experiment with transparencies. It's working, but I am happier with XFLD and synaptic than Suse and Yast.. even with the older kernel and xserver.
Just my 2 cents
dbcad7
Interesting story I heard on BBC radio about a british reporter following a couple of Chinese tourists here in California (where I live)... They had waited till the last few hours of their vacation to buy some souvineers, and left empty handed because guess where all the souvineers were made ?
I am not chinese bashing by the way, just observing.
dbcad7
I think the CNN list is a bit lame, and some of the timings to make it within the 25 years are questionable.
Also to lump in Flash memory with CD technology is ... well wrong !
regards
dbcad7
very well written ! fits right in, I find it kind of funny when this is pulled off well, such as this, however the copycats that will lamely attempt more spoofs such as this will of course make it annoying..
I would submit that that the pride and stubborness of a certain now jailed leader is the cause of these deaths you mention, and that it is a bit unfair to suggest that these sanctions were imposed by one man or one country
regards
dbcad7
shoulda Preveiwed, but who'd a thunk I could mess up such a short post
dbcad7
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dbcad7
However nobody noticed the "W" ignoring the moderator, spewing forth his tirade, when it clearly was not his turn to speak
I continue to read the polls, and I hope they contine to say what I don't beleive.. so that the media can be shocked into reality.
If "w" wins, then I know that things have been tampered with.. and this is no "tin foil hat" opinion for me.
It is impossible for me to beleive that "most" Americans are behind this guy,.. And that they would vote for him to in effect say "I agree with you dubbya, and lets do more good stuff like you been a doin"
regards
dbcad7
As I stated, this person clearly went out of his way to go into the smoking area..
My main point ... clearly skipped past, it that sure, people other than Americans should have an opinion as to what is going on with us in the US, and that is funny that all these posters against such an intrusion.. just can't see the hypocracy when ranting this, when compared with whole Iraq situation.
happy colon
dbcad7
I, as a person, would love to have such a clear cut standard for my wage !
Formula..... (Rent + Utils + Food + gasoline)*1.337 = wage
regards
dbcad7
Perot, Dole, Clinton race.. I was working in a small retail store. The owner (my boss) talked for weeks of voting for Perot (after all Perot was a bidnessman)... I watched the store while he went to vote. He came back and blew my mind by stating "I voted for Clinton, because he is going to win anyway" (this is what I call the football game mentality of polls ... he wanted to be a "WINNER")
Of course after that I always thought of him as a real winner ! :)
I firmly beleived polls should be blacked out at some time period before the actual election day
Personaly, I can wait until the next day to find out the results.. .especialy if it encourages people to vote for who they "really" wanted.
regards
dbcad7
just food for thought.
. America is a wonderful country, but why do so many of us think we must enforce our values on everyone else ?...
boycott Olympics in China, because they eat dog ?
When I was in Frankfurt airport,, an American walked out of his way into the smoking area,, waving his hands in front of his face clearly offended..
Think people... not everyone has the same values.
Cultural differences are ok and interesting !
I am an American, but I check out the news from many other countries.... I have an opinion, If asked I would give it for what it's worth
I guess all I am saying is .. ego check people !
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. dbcad7
You are now free to complain about how this person performs his job.
By voting you can also FIRE someone who is not doing their job to your satisfaction
By not voting either way, you are in effect saying I don't care who does the job
If you don't care who is hired to do the job, then you deserve what you get, and therefore you CAN complain.. (at least until the wrong person you didn't vote for takes away your rights to complain)
But it is not a God given right, it is a constitutional right.
regards
dbcad7
http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?order= working&showall=1http://www.transgaming.com/dogame search.php?order=working&showall=1
Yes your game is listed.
Yes Linux does games
regards
dbcad7
I know there are other messengers (actualy I use amsn on mandrake) and perhaps I should get back to the old ICQ days and put whatever email account I want into my messenger. I think that what led me to the MSN/hotmail thing was that I didn't get unsolicited messages with it like ICQ.
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dbcad7