I tried Slackware not long ago when my interest for linux grew. That was 8.1. I wanted to try it because everybody telling me their experience with slackware sounded "funny" such as
"Oh u compile and u compile! It never ends!"
"Slackware is a hard distro to learn and installing softwares won't be as easy as you think"
"Slackware makes you work like in the Russia Regime. No fun, all work!"
Those reasons were good enough to make me try Slackware since I was reading the opposite from the distributions which many people tried (and still do. mdk, rh, suse). I did not want to start with a distribution which made it easy. Making it too easy for the user sometimes avoids them from learning something that they should know.
Slackware isn't hard to learn though. It's just about you finding the proper documentation and ready to learn using 4-5 xterms (or more?). Slackware is straight forward which doesn't do anything weird cause it's rock solid and it only provides you with useful software in the cd's. I've been using slack ever since and still today.
I was waiting for somebody to reply with something similar like this.
This is nothing but the pure truth. It all depends of the person's needs. I remember when I lost my cdkey for red alert 2. I emailed westwood and they simply asked for a picture taken of your game your box and your receipt to at least prove that you own it. By doing so, they shipped me a new, closed box, copy of Red Alert 2. I found that it would of been nice if other companies also cared about their customers.
Companies such as EAGames are too traumatized to even care at that group of customers who actually make LEGAL backups. The media which is in your hands does not have a lifespan, so I assume it should last a lifetime. Well why must companies be against the fact that some of us just want to protect our media which we payed for? So we can buy other copies to fill their deep pockets?
Sure the software can break copy protections but technically, anything in life can break any kind of law. For example, I can take my hammer which is used to bash nails and use it as a doorknob fucking device and technically that would be wrong. It's all in the person's mind. EAGames, when they see a software such as XCopy, they think immediatly that everybody using it will make illegal backups so they have to make sure we, the users, have no way to make backups which *can* be redistributed illegally.
Good thing there's no law against the use of AOL Cd's as coasters
First of all, at the price of the shipping, you mind as well go there yourself and have a nice trip? I mean hey... if you can afford $100 000 on all of this, then you can surely afford to go there AND get the stuff shipped in a private plane piloted by John Travolta (Simpsons anybody? Ah Geez!)
First of all, is all of this even worth 100 000? The number looks just too "round" for something as big as this.
I find it funny that they had "all of a sudden" their source code stolen a bit after the date when they were suppose to release it (late september IIRC). I thought back then "ok this is just an excuse so they can finish the game".
In winter time, the news about half life 2 ceased completely (nothing on planethalflife, etc.) and then we heard about the X800 & GF6800 cards. BOOM all ofa sudden, for the E3 (perfect moment), Half life 2 appears in full strenght! Now, in the month where half life 2 is suppose to come out, they say they finall caught those guys.
I'm not sure what I should believe anymore but all I know is, they better not postpone the game again cause they're killing us!
Anybody else here who thinks or thought like me on some points?
Usually when people care a lot about temperatures of CPU's, you know that they want to do overclocking sooner or later. I guess that's why the P4 northwood/prescott are popular among enthusiasts who can gain 500mhz and more without fuss.
I ignore the overclocking capabilities of the G5 (not even sure why should anybody overclock a fast system like a G5 anyway heh) but those lower temps I'm assuming surely helps Apple to boost their CPU's faster in the not soo distant future? Am I right?
If a company and/or development team offers their program on linux and windows and that both ports are mature, then I'l use the linux port for the simple reason that linux is more reliable. A simple example could be like the following:
I'm writing whatever program in Netbeans. Then for some unknown reason, the startbar freezes and it crashes/reloads itself followed by some other weird explorer freeze which causes me to reload. These are rare on my windows xp machine but it did happend a few times and sometimes it couldn't of been at the worst of time. Therefore, I'l do whatever serious work I can on linux since I know it won't act bizzarely.
Other than realibility of linux, if I can use something in a shorter laps of time and know it will work just as good on linux, then i'l run that on windows. This is why I guess I'm not a zealot, accepting both O/S'es (debian sarge and windows xp) to co-exist on my machine.
the distance is the obvious difference between the eclipse and the venus transit.
venus appears as just a dot and the fact that it will pass just next to the sun will create an effect even more dangerous to the eyes than an eclipse considering the light is more concentrated into a smaller dot.
When an event such at this occurs once in a lifetime, for the scientific enthusiasts or hobbyist, this is more than just a round disc blocking another shiny round disc.
We will learn more about this planet and how the corona varies compared to an eclipse.
I said "(in case he upgrades his desktop, he can swap video cards and use this for his gaming) ".
Second, I never said anything serious. It's for his studies at home so he can practice considering his main desktop is weak.
Third, when did I say that he has windows installed on it? I said SuSE.
Fourth, that motherboard supports Raid of SATA drives so he can try that later if he wants (but I doubt it)
Fifth, superior package? For me superior package is stable hardware. When you got stable hardware, you can get stable software working in a matter of time and I could careless for Apple's technical support as far as computers@home goes. My technical support for my home usage is the internet and it does a damn good job.
Sixth, in this world we live in there are many choices and linux distributors are proving to the world that Linux is an efficient solution for the PC so don't come telling me mac is a superior package when you can also have a superior package on pc running linux at the simple price of $0.
I suggest for people to buy a new pair of eyes in case yours are blinded from the dreaded shock sites.
I have helped my friend choose and built a server for his studies in databases which is IMO "kickass". His budget was anything below $2000 Hardware price from newegg.com
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 XP3200+ - $274.00
RAM: 2x512MB Corsair XMS PC4200 - $279.00
HD: Seagate 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer - $110.50
Video: Ati Radeon 9800 128mb - $222.00 (in case he upgrades his desktop, he can swap video cards and use this for his gaming)
SoundCard: Creative Audigy OEM - $42.00
Motherboard: Abit KV8-MAX3 - $139.00
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 480W - $83.00
Case: Kingwin KT-424-S - $76.00
OS: None (he uses SuSE) but if u want to put windows there, add whatever wintendo costs.
I did not add a monitor or the other usual devices (mouse/keyboard) considering he has those lying around at home so he doesn't need any of those.
There u got a kickass 64bit pc for $1225 (~1500 if u add windows xp pro).
Now compare that with the slowest G5 on apple's website which starts at ONLY $1900. And at "only" $1900, remember that you have to add a monitor so that + whatever choice = much more than an athlon64 based pc/server.
just a simple comparison and just my $0.03 (yep)
Fucking people. You buy the cd with your money, the cd therefore becomes yours! You can do whatever you want with it. Why are they trying to change that? They are changing that from "The cd is yours" to "The cd is yours until you burn X number of times, then all your cd's are belong to us!"
Obviously there will always be an alternative way to get a cd copied and RIAA must really dig hard to find a way to do such a thing (and I doubt they will). There are also those other burning tools which claim that they can help make perfect images (Alcohol 110% which works almost perfectly). How would RIAA stop companies who just want people to make backups no matter what? Sometimes cd protections are FAR TOO ANNOYING. For example (maybe a bit off topic but same kind of frustration towards these protectionn)
I hate putting my BF1942 cd everytime (turn and turn babyyyyyyyy) so I wanted to mount an image to make the process go faster. Result? Every program I try ends up freezing/crashing. Thanks to EAGame's protection, I have to be annoyed taking in/out my cd. Which good shooter nowadays even requirs you to put a cd! (quake 2, quake 3, ut, ut 2003/2004, hl/cs, cod, moh give you ability to play online without cd)
Bottom line is, RIAA and other money digging music industry has to find a better way to protect their music. Something that might not affect the people who want to do these things legit.
No wonder those wifi bicycles came out. We just need now one with two seats. Put your GF/wife in front, you in back with a laptop and let them do the pedaling while you get kicked by console cause you're owning in CS. Yep, the perfect life!
at the PCI Express Specification Page, they call it PCI-Express and nothing more. The use of the term PCI-X should stop and we already got the idea from the first few posts heh.
I'm just hoping that the future boards will keep at least two standard pci slots consdering that I doubt I'd change my soundcard or nic card to something which needs an incredible amount of bandwith. Or is this another way to tell consumers "hey, buy this one, its newer and better and FASTER!"
they still work but their still pitiful. Frankly this is off topic but I just wish that ATI could just put more heart into their drivers like Nvidia does. I've read that they are writing from scratch the win32 opengl driver. Is it that hard to get some crazy linux driver developpers?
I'm glad that slack switched to X.org. Doing the DropLine-Gnome update, I accepted to update everything thus replacing Xfree 4.4 by X.org and everything works smoothly, and I for one welcome our new and improved system to remind them that I am satisfied.
can you imagine the coach when you lost an important position in a tournament?
coach: No you imbecile. I told you 200 hydralisks that side! NOT 200 Zerglings THAT SIDE. ARE YOU DEAF! *smack*
player: sorry coach. I'l be better next time
coach: You better, otherwise I'l sell you to that other coach with the glass eye who always talks about his encounter with sasquatch
One fact I can give you is that my friend with Bell Sympatico transfers AT least 80GB down 80GB up per month and he gets absolutely no warning for his excessive usage of the "unlimited dsl connection".
on a different note, yes I understand french (forced to in Quebec) so I find that pretty ridiculious for a missing "de". Even MapQuest can find something if you have a missing "de".
I have so much stories that I'm not sure from where to start. I'l go with my latest and the one which drove me almost nuts.
with aei.ca ISP. I just wanted to know a simple information which isn't on the website (upstream)
machine: for general information, press 1, for technical support, press 2, to re-listen press 3
me: *press 1*
me: hello, I would like to know what r the complete changes of the dsl service
her: How am I suppose to know those details! I'l transfer you to technical support
me: Hello, I was transfered cause she didn't know shit
him: *laff*
me: So, is the upload of the dsl service still 800kbit?
him: yes
me: is it the same for the ultra?
him: wait a second, I'l transfer you
me: *shrug*
me: Hello, I'd like to know if upload speed of the two services are the same, of 800kbit?
her: what?! you again? WAit I'l transfer you. please wait a minute
me: A()%#()%*)@#(!
me: Hey don't transfer me anymore! IS THE ULTRA AND DSL BOTH 800KBIT OF UPLOAD
him: yeah I think so
me: ok finally an answer. thanks I guess.
me: One more thing, dsl service has no cap right?
him: yes but don't abuse your connection. above 40GB and you get a warning
me: so what the fuk does no cap mean? mind as well put flying leprechauns on your screen
him: listen sir, it's expensif for us after 40GB
me: yes but you're doing false advertisment with your "UNLIMITED!"
him: Let me transfer you wait a minute
me: *burst a vein on forhead*
*hangup*
They couldn't even explain a simple thing. Everytime the person tried to just get rid of the customer being me asking for simple piece of information and explanation behind their false undertisement of "UNLIMITED" which is really 40GB.
that's because you're soo used to clicking "NEXT NEXT NEXT" when installing something.
I scanned after the Piolet installation and when the program was launched (everything setup) and ad-aware finds 0 objects.
Is it even considered illegal for somebody to download a song which he owns the original album cause the way they are sueing people, doesn't look like they are paying attention at what the user owns legally.
Also on a different note, I would like to pointout the frustration of knowing that in an average album, you'll only enjoy 2-3 songs and that paying for the whole album seems ridiculious. I guess this is why online music stores exist I guess, right?
I have to agree. Although they don't accept strong competitors, they do make it damn easy to develop tools via Visual Studio and MSDN libraries are full of useful ressources.
Other than M$ Visio, their other Office Tools aren't beaten but aren't the best compared to the alternatives (OpenOffice, KOffice, GnomeOff...)
Many people replied thinking its a cpu to work in multi-cpu systems when it clearly says
""They're also taking advantage of their new manufacturing capability, which allows them to put two processors onto one (chip)," he said."
So basically we got ONE cpu chip which is suppose to be exactly like TWO Single-Chip Processors if I understood well. IF that's the issue, I'l just be surprised to see the temperature resulsts of such chip compared to a single-proc chip.
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the announcer in the background go "Excellent!" when the camping railgunner kills two enemy soldiers with one shot.
At the point that we are, I doubt to see any of this anytime soon.
We have trouble transforming some places on earth which badly need transformation.
Lets terraform some irradical place on earth (antarctica?) and then see how it goes!
I tried Slackware not long ago when my interest for linux grew. That was 8.1. I wanted to try it because everybody telling me their experience with slackware sounded "funny" such as
"Oh u compile and u compile! It never ends!"
"Slackware is a hard distro to learn and installing softwares won't be as easy as you think"
"Slackware makes you work like in the Russia Regime. No fun, all work!"
Those reasons were good enough to make me try Slackware since I was reading the opposite from the distributions which many people tried (and still do. mdk, rh, suse). I did not want to start with a distribution which made it easy. Making it too easy for the user sometimes avoids them from learning something that they should know.
Slackware isn't hard to learn though. It's just about you finding the proper documentation and ready to learn using 4-5 xterms (or more?). Slackware is straight forward which doesn't do anything weird cause it's rock solid and it only provides you with useful software in the cd's. I've been using slack ever since and still today.
Patrick, great job as always!
The Debian Team releases released a TestCandidate of the Debian-Installer. Does that mean that they "can't" release a testing version?
I was waiting for somebody to reply with something similar like this.
This is nothing but the pure truth. It all depends of the person's needs. I remember when I lost my cdkey for red alert 2. I emailed westwood and they simply asked for a picture taken of your game your box and your receipt to at least prove that you own it. By doing so, they shipped me a new, closed box, copy of Red Alert 2. I found that it would of been nice if other companies also cared about their customers.
Companies such as EAGames are too traumatized to even care at that group of customers who actually make LEGAL backups. The media which is in your hands does not have a lifespan, so I assume it should last a lifetime. Well why must companies be against the fact that some of us just want to protect our media which we payed for? So we can buy other copies to fill their deep pockets?
Sure the software can break copy protections but technically, anything in life can break any kind of law. For example, I can take my hammer which is used to bash nails and use it as a doorknob fucking device and technically that would be wrong. It's all in the person's mind. EAGames, when they see a software such as XCopy, they think immediatly that everybody using it will make illegal backups so they have to make sure we, the users, have no way to make backups which *can* be redistributed illegally.
Good thing there's no law against the use of AOL Cd's as coasters
First of all, at the price of the shipping, you mind as well go there yourself and have a nice trip? I mean hey... if you can afford $100 000 on all of this, then you can surely afford to go there AND get the stuff shipped in a private plane piloted by John Travolta (Simpsons anybody? Ah Geez!)
First of all, is all of this even worth 100 000? The number looks just too "round" for something as big as this.
I find it funny that they had "all of a sudden" their source code stolen a bit after the date when they were suppose to release it (late september IIRC). I thought back then "ok this is just an excuse so they can finish the game".
In winter time, the news about half life 2 ceased completely (nothing on planethalflife, etc.) and then we heard about the X800 & GF6800 cards. BOOM all ofa sudden, for the E3 (perfect moment), Half life 2 appears in full strenght! Now, in the month where half life 2 is suppose to come out, they say they finall caught those guys.
I'm not sure what I should believe anymore but all I know is, they better not postpone the game again cause they're killing us!
Anybody else here who thinks or thought like me on some points?
Usually when people care a lot about temperatures of CPU's, you know that they want to do overclocking sooner or later. I guess that's why the P4 northwood/prescott are popular among enthusiasts who can gain 500mhz and more without fuss.
I ignore the overclocking capabilities of the G5 (not even sure why should anybody overclock a fast system like a G5 anyway heh) but those lower temps I'm assuming surely helps Apple to boost their CPU's faster in the not soo distant future? Am I right?
If a company and/or development team offers their program on linux and windows and that both ports are mature, then I'l use the linux port for the simple reason that linux is more reliable. A simple example could be like the following:
I'm writing whatever program in Netbeans. Then for some unknown reason, the startbar freezes and it crashes/reloads itself followed by some other weird explorer freeze which causes me to reload. These are rare on my windows xp machine but it did happend a few times and sometimes it couldn't of been at the worst of time. Therefore, I'l do whatever serious work I can on linux since I know it won't act bizzarely.
Other than realibility of linux, if I can use something in a shorter laps of time and know it will work just as good on linux, then i'l run that on windows. This is why I guess I'm not a zealot, accepting both O/S'es (debian sarge and windows xp) to co-exist on my machine.
One completes the other.
the distance is the obvious difference between the eclipse and the venus transit. venus appears as just a dot and the fact that it will pass just next to the sun will create an effect even more dangerous to the eyes than an eclipse considering the light is more concentrated into a smaller dot.
When an event such at this occurs once in a lifetime, for the scientific enthusiasts or hobbyist, this is more than just a round disc blocking another shiny round disc.
We will learn more about this planet and how the corona varies compared to an eclipse.
I said "(in case he upgrades his desktop, he can swap video cards and use this for his gaming) ".
Second, I never said anything serious. It's for his studies at home so he can practice considering his main desktop is weak.
Third, when did I say that he has windows installed on it? I said SuSE.
Fourth, that motherboard supports Raid of SATA drives so he can try that later if he wants (but I doubt it)
Fifth, superior package? For me superior package is stable hardware. When you got stable hardware, you can get stable software working in a matter of time and I could careless for Apple's technical support as far as computers@home goes. My technical support for my home usage is the internet and it does a damn good job.
Sixth, in this world we live in there are many choices and linux distributors are proving to the world that Linux is an efficient solution for the PC so don't come telling me mac is a superior package when you can also have a superior package on pc running linux at the simple price of $0.
I suggest for people to buy a new pair of eyes in case yours are blinded from the dreaded shock sites.
I have helped my friend choose and built a server for his studies in databases which is IMO "kickass". His budget was anything below $2000 Hardware price from newegg.com
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 XP3200+ - $274.00
RAM: 2x512MB Corsair XMS PC4200 - $279.00
HD: Seagate 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer - $110.50
Video: Ati Radeon 9800 128mb - $222.00 (in case he upgrades his desktop, he can swap video cards and use this for his gaming)
SoundCard: Creative Audigy OEM - $42.00
Motherboard: Abit KV8-MAX3 - $139.00
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 480W - $83.00
Case: Kingwin KT-424-S - $76.00
OS: None (he uses SuSE) but if u want to put windows there, add whatever wintendo costs.
I did not add a monitor or the other usual devices (mouse/keyboard) considering he has those lying around at home so he doesn't need any of those.
There u got a kickass 64bit pc for $1225 (~1500 if u add windows xp pro).
Now compare that with the slowest G5 on apple's website which starts at ONLY $1900. And at "only" $1900, remember that you have to add a monitor so that + whatever choice = much more than an athlon64 based pc/server. just a simple comparison and just my $0.03 (yep)
Fucking people. You buy the cd with your money, the cd therefore becomes yours! You can do whatever you want with it. Why are they trying to change that? They are changing that from "The cd is yours" to "The cd is yours until you burn X number of times, then all your cd's are belong to us!"
Obviously there will always be an alternative way to get a cd copied and RIAA must really dig hard to find a way to do such a thing (and I doubt they will). There are also those other burning tools which claim that they can help make perfect images (Alcohol 110% which works almost perfectly). How would RIAA stop companies who just want people to make backups no matter what? Sometimes cd protections are FAR TOO ANNOYING. For example (maybe a bit off topic but same kind of frustration towards these protectionn)
I hate putting my BF1942 cd everytime (turn and turn babyyyyyyyy) so I wanted to mount an image to make the process go faster. Result? Every program I try ends up freezing/crashing. Thanks to EAGame's protection, I have to be annoyed taking in/out my cd. Which good shooter nowadays even requirs you to put a cd! (quake 2, quake 3, ut, ut 2003/2004, hl/cs, cod, moh give you ability to play online without cd)
Bottom line is, RIAA and other money digging music industry has to find a better way to protect their music. Something that might not affect the people who want to do these things legit.
No wonder those wifi bicycles came out. We just need now one with two seats. Put your GF/wife in front, you in back with a laptop and let them do the pedaling while you get kicked by console cause you're owning in CS. Yep, the perfect life!
at the PCI Express Specification Page, they call it PCI-Express and nothing more. The use of the term PCI-X should stop and we already got the idea from the first few posts heh.
I'm just hoping that the future boards will keep at least two standard pci slots consdering that I doubt I'd change my soundcard or nic card to something which needs an incredible amount of bandwith. Or is this another way to tell consumers "hey, buy this one, its newer and better and FASTER!"
they still work but their still pitiful. Frankly this is off topic but I just wish that ATI could just put more heart into their drivers like Nvidia does. I've read that they are writing from scratch the win32 opengl driver. Is it that hard to get some crazy linux driver developpers?
I'm glad that slack switched to X.org. Doing the DropLine-Gnome update, I accepted to update everything thus replacing Xfree 4.4 by X.org and everything works smoothly, and I for one welcome our new and improved system to remind them that I am satisfied.
can you imagine the coach when you lost an important position in a tournament?
coach: No you imbecile. I told you 200 hydralisks that side! NOT 200 Zerglings THAT SIDE. ARE YOU DEAF! *smack*
player: sorry coach. I'l be better next time
coach: You better, otherwise I'l sell you to that other coach with the glass eye who always talks about his encounter with sasquatch
One fact I can give you is that my friend with Bell Sympatico transfers AT least 80GB down 80GB up per month and he gets absolutely no warning for his excessive usage of the "unlimited dsl connection". on a different note, yes I understand french (forced to in Quebec) so I find that pretty ridiculious for a missing "de". Even MapQuest can find something if you have a missing "de".
I have so much stories that I'm not sure from where to start. I'l go with my latest and the one which drove me almost nuts.
with aei.ca ISP. I just wanted to know a simple information which isn't on the website (upstream)
machine: for general information, press 1, for technical support, press 2, to re-listen press 3
me: *press 1*
me: hello, I would like to know what r the complete changes of the dsl service
her: How am I suppose to know those details! I'l transfer you to technical support
me: Hello, I was transfered cause she didn't know shit
him: *laff*
me: So, is the upload of the dsl service still 800kbit?
him: yes
me: is it the same for the ultra?
him: wait a second, I'l transfer you
me: *shrug*
me: Hello, I'd like to know if upload speed of the two services are the same, of 800kbit?
her: what?! you again? WAit I'l transfer you. please wait a minute
me: A()%#()%*)@#(!
me: Hey don't transfer me anymore! IS THE ULTRA AND DSL BOTH 800KBIT OF UPLOAD
him: yeah I think so
me: ok finally an answer. thanks I guess.
me: One more thing, dsl service has no cap right?
him: yes but don't abuse your connection. above 40GB and you get a warning
me: so what the fuk does no cap mean? mind as well put flying leprechauns on your screen
him: listen sir, it's expensif for us after 40GB
me: yes but you're doing false advertisment with your "UNLIMITED!"
him: Let me transfer you wait a minute
me: *burst a vein on forhead*
*hangup*
They couldn't even explain a simple thing. Everytime the person tried to just get rid of the customer being me asking for simple piece of information and explanation behind their false undertisement of "UNLIMITED" which is really 40GB.
that's because you're soo used to clicking "NEXT NEXT NEXT" when installing something. I scanned after the Piolet installation and when the program was launched (everything setup) and ad-aware finds 0 objects.
Is it even considered illegal for somebody to download a song which he owns the original album cause the way they are sueing people, doesn't look like they are paying attention at what the user owns legally.
Also on a different note, I would like to pointout the frustration of knowing that in an average album, you'll only enjoy 2-3 songs and that paying for the whole album seems ridiculious. I guess this is why online music stores exist I guess, right?
its linux only you insensitive clod!
I have to agree. Although they don't accept strong competitors, they do make it damn easy to develop tools via Visual Studio and MSDN libraries are full of useful ressources. Other than M$ Visio, their other Office Tools aren't beaten but aren't the best compared to the alternatives (OpenOffice, KOffice, GnomeOff...)
Many people replied thinking its a cpu to work in multi-cpu systems when it clearly says
""They're also taking advantage of their new manufacturing capability, which allows them to put two processors onto one (chip)," he said."
So basically we got ONE cpu chip which is suppose to be exactly like TWO Single-Chip Processors if I understood well. IF that's the issue, I'l just be surprised to see the temperature resulsts of such chip compared to a single-proc chip.