"but because Linux is still quite hard for non-geeks to use."
Can't speak for linux, but it's definitly not true with FreeBSD.
I just download a couple of ISOs, burn them, pop them in, "slice" the drive, select the BSD "partitions", answer 1000 and 1 more incredibly complicated questions, and as a reward for my success, I reboot and let it start, log in... and am greeted by a command prompt. After trying "startx", and it failing, I spend the next hour or so of my life attempting to figure out how to configure X windows since the configuration program that comes with the OS is broken, figure that out, put the config file in the right spot, then get X started. Wow, I have 3 xterm windows. So I wait about 30 minutes while gnome installs, tinker with X for another 30 to get gnome to load. Then I am greeted by... what I should have had a few hours ago. Then, I spend the next 30 minutes modifying and recompiling my kernel to enable the ipfw firewall. After this, I spend a few hours installing some other essential software such as Firefox and Thunderbird...
My point? Get these users to attempt FreeBSD first, then Linux will seem very user friendly!
(I am not trying to bash FreeBSD, this was simply my experience installing it for the first time. Other than the difficulties getting it off and running, I quite like it.)
Well, we need to make this hamburger into a fighting machine, so maybe if we just take of the buns and replace them with titanium armour, and take out the hamburger and replace it with some electronics...
My point is, although your idea is good, they are probably looking for a fix to the RSS system, not a whole new, much more complex one:)
Maybe he doesn't have a server on his toaster, but maybe on his air conditioner. So he's sitting at work and decides, "You know what. I'm going to turn the air conditioner on so it is nice and cool when I get come.". Well, if that air conditioner is behind some sort of NAT device, he can't.
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"on a modern hard drive do we even have allocation units measured in kB anymore?"
Who says everyone has a modern hard-drive? I have one hard-drive around here that (just to prove it could be done) has a fresh install of Windows 98 on it, plus Firefox and Thunderbird. The hard-drive is approx. 540 MB. Not everyone has even 28KB to spare for cookies:)
When you say that there are "plenty of legitimate uses for p2p file sharing, even if you don't count music/movies/pirated code", it seems to me that you are implying that music and such is a legitimate use?
Sorry, just in a nitpicking mood today. Feel free to ignore this comment.
I have a laptop, server (the hard-drive is about as loud as a jackhammer - not kidding, and it is almost constantly running), two hubs that sound like something taking off, my desktop, which I'll often forget a CD, in only to have it be incredibly loud, and I'll go sleep 4 feet away from this all without a problem. I've actually grown so used to it, that I have trouble sleeping when nothing is running.
"If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox"
That sounds about as likely as the claim that "MUDs will die out soon unless they are converted to better languages like.NET."
You'll also notice that all these 'utilities' seem to be "Designed for XP", which I'm guessing means they paid Microsoft a bunch of money to have their software certified and for permission to put the XP logo on their software...
"XP Pro is essentially 2K Pro with a cleaner interface (once you turn off all the Luna crap). It's more stable and tends to boot faster on the same hardware than 2K Pro."
Yeah, in my regular re-install of my desktop machine, I decided to try XP rather than W2K again. A bit of configuration has gotten it to look a lot like W2K. Although it hasn't been long enough for me to say much about stability, the boot time is definitly improved.
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"but because Linux is still quite hard for non-geeks to use."
Can't speak for linux, but it's definitly not true with FreeBSD.
I just download a couple of ISOs, burn them, pop them in, "slice" the drive, select the BSD "partitions", answer 1000 and 1 more incredibly complicated questions, and as a reward for my success, I reboot and let it start, log in... and am greeted by a command prompt. After trying "startx", and it failing, I spend the next hour or so of my life attempting to figure out how to configure X windows since the configuration program that comes with the OS is broken, figure that out, put the config file in the right spot, then get X started. Wow, I have 3 xterm windows. So I wait about 30 minutes while gnome installs, tinker with X for another 30 to get gnome to load. Then I am greeted by... what I should have had a few hours ago. Then, I spend the next 30 minutes modifying and recompiling my kernel to enable the ipfw firewall. After this, I spend a few hours installing some other essential software such as Firefox and Thunderbird...
My point? Get these users to attempt FreeBSD first, then Linux will seem very user friendly!
(I am not trying to bash FreeBSD, this was simply my experience installing it for the first time. Other than the difficulties getting it off and running, I quite like it.)
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One handed keyboard, you say?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/6c82/
The point is, though, why put it behind the NAT at all if you can just connect it directly to the internet (well, through a firewall)?
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(Bye Karma! Nice knowing you!)
"If the bomb were ever to destroy civilisation, only cockroaches and lawyers would survive"
Don't forget IBM keyboards.
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Well, we need to make this hamburger into a fighting machine, so maybe if we just take of the buns and replace them with titanium armour, and take out the hamburger and replace it with some electronics...
:)
My point is, although your idea is good, they are probably looking for a fix to the RSS system, not a whole new, much more complex one
ND
Maybe he doesn't have a server on his toaster, but maybe on his air conditioner. So he's sitting at work and decides, "You know what. I'm going to turn the air conditioner on so it is nice and cool when I get come.". Well, if that air conditioner is behind some sort of NAT device, he can't.
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"on a modern hard drive do we even have allocation units measured in kB anymore?"
:)
Who says everyone has a modern hard-drive? I have one hard-drive around here that (just to prove it could be done) has a fresh install of Windows 98 on it, plus Firefox and Thunderbird. The hard-drive is approx. 540 MB. Not everyone has even 28KB to spare for cookies
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When you say that there are "plenty of legitimate uses for p2p file sharing, even if you don't count music/movies/pirated code", it seems to me that you are implying that music and such is a legitimate use?
Sorry, just in a nitpicking mood today. Feel free to ignore this comment.
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I believe he was attempting to say that the gameplay in FPS is so bad, that they should not be considered a game at all.
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I have a laptop, server (the hard-drive is about as loud as a jackhammer - not kidding, and it is almost constantly running), two hubs that sound like something taking off, my desktop, which I'll often forget a CD, in only to have it be incredibly loud, and I'll go sleep 4 feet away from this all without a problem. I've actually grown so used to it, that I have trouble sleeping when nothing is running.
ND
"If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox"
.NET."
That sounds about as likely as the claim that "MUDs will die out soon unless they are converted to better languages like
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It's all a conspiracy... they're in it with the weather people...
They put 1048576 (1024*1024) cpus in one building thereby insuring hot weather, and the weather people will never be wrong again...
I'm telling you, it's the weather people. It's ALWAYS the weather people.
Doom 3? Queue the apocalypse...
Like I've said before, they'll relize their mistake when they find several thousand votes for a "CowboyNeal".
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Well, usual story. Got bored and decided to try and find out something about you...
My best guess was your name is "Steven Jeffery" and lived in Kimberly. You stated you had a long and weird name, though, so this is obviously wrong.
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You'll also notice that all these 'utilities' seem to be "Designed for XP", which I'm guessing means they paid Microsoft a bunch of money to have their software certified and for permission to put the XP logo on their software...
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While we're on the topic of true or false statements:
The statement below this is true.
The statement above this is false.
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Great idea, I think I just might do that.
"XP Pro is essentially 2K Pro with a cleaner interface (once you turn off all the Luna crap). It's more stable and tends to boot faster on the same hardware than 2K Pro."
Yeah, in my regular re-install of my desktop machine, I decided to try XP rather than W2K again. A bit of configuration has gotten it to look a lot like W2K. Although it hasn't been long enough for me to say much about stability, the boot time is definitly improved.
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My computers are named: CHAOS, INSANITY, DESPERATION and GATEWAY.
I wont even bother to touch on my mental issues...
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Ran it on XP Pro Server (more or less the same as XP Pro). Worked fine.
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"I'll take 'hor seman' for $500..."
(Before you mod me down, it's from SNL, he was pronouncing 'horseman')
Parent is on-topic. Grandparent said: "Nothing is not worth knowing." then parent says "goatse?"
Maybe I just need more caffiene...
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