I work for a small (less than 20 people) company that's branching into web stuff. Their old tech guy still does a lot of "consulting" work, since the company he now works for is often hired by this company for non-IT stuff. So we have 2 T1s to our servers in [city number 1], plus a cable connection or two. If by some weird chance the cable is out when the T-1s fail (thank you Comcast:( ), then we can migrate everything to this guys company, which has 2-3 T1s in a city about an hour's drive away. So, 2 different mediums for in-town, and a third backup that is not only with a different company, but in (obviously) another set of cables (i.e., not subleased by Company1).
As far as drivers and D-Link compatibility, I just googled for "d-link drivers linux" - the first result was D-Link's own "unsupported community drivers" page. As far as distro... look, if you're going to end up with a server, you can probably scratch gentoo off the list; if you're not doing serious optimization, it's got no advantages over (and some disadvantages to) Debian. Don't go with Mandrake; it's just a wimped-down version of Fedora. Fedora or RHEL would be my vote, but Debian is also a good choice. SuSE is there, and it demonstrates the stereotypical good German engineering, but it's harder to get the FTP site to cooperate, and there's less community support.
Don't go with Knoppix, as some have suggested - if you have a few hundred and an afternoon, build the box, or for a bit more, buy a cheapo TV-special from Dell or whoever. You won't need as much of a computer, since Linux tends not to be as resource-hungry. Installing the distro rather than using a CD will erase that many more hassles. Also, USE A DIFFERENT COMPUTER! Do NOT try dual-booting; if something goes south, that extra connection to the web will be a troubleshooting $DIETY{}send. Plus, then you can share stuff more easily between the two computers (Samba, SFTP, etc). Dual-booting is nothing more than a PITA. Especially since your company might foot some of the bill.
Mono can be your IDE for C# stuff.
Whatever you do, find a good IRC channel, and maybe a forum or two, dedicated to the distro. If you go with Fedora, try forward.freenode.net, #fedora
Either he used the one-handed dvorak keyboard, a chording device, or that "half a keyboard, press & hold space to switch sides" device.
Actually, that could do some pretty cool input - display the letters and do a kind of binary search, but easier (for some) to remember than "let's see, h, that's... 5, twice". Or maybe kinda like that typing thing where you "steer" around the screen with the mouse. Disclaimer: I know the phone keypad backwards and forwards, and get pretty good WPM on it. But some folks hate it.
Axe has that connotation, yeah. Largely because of their ads... texting is not so stigmatized among the high school crowd, but it is seen as a secondary option (say, if you're in class and want to do it below your desk) rather than a first choice.
OTOH, a lot of people listen to electronica and electronic dance music. Some only in private, 'cuz it's seen as either gay or weird/geeky, but it's not all stigmatized as gayness.
I agree, though, we do associate the weirdest things with gayness. The floppy hands, though, I think that's a pretty solid indicator. I think that's more intentional, though.
I know you were joking... but didn't they find out that it is finite? Curves in on itself or something? And since quantum mechanics says what you can't "observe" doesn't exist, doesn't that mean that the universe is only a few trillion lightyears across, at most (since nothing travels faster than c?). Thus, the earth is the center of...
Oh shit. The Catholic Church just apologized for the Galileo thing... they'll never let us live this down.
These would require some EE skills that I don't have. Or maybe just some googling for someone who's already done this:
sniper rifles?
grenades/mines/bombs (these do come with off the shelf sets)
These wouldn't require anything but some imagination:
scenarios - like in CS; hostage (one vs. many, one + guard(s) vs. others), assassination
a more lengthy scenario: bomb defusal, with a box with some sort of lock that takes time to open, or get everyone to learn how to pick Masterlock combo locks
Because there's no such thing as a LASCR. And because making the LASER aim by IR (motion detector?) would make it much more expensive, not to mention making it no longer a bomb/mine.
three shotguns and four rifles strapped to my body, holding a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other... As long as... I'm not doing it threateningly
/me cowers in fear of the parents 3 shotguns, 4 rifles, pistol & knife
(wielding a gun in public) is a subset of (wielding things that appear to be guns). I.e. (wielding things that appear to be guns (that are) + (that aren't)) == (wielding things that appear to be guns)
Nearly non-existent? Whaa? I hate IE. I don't use it. At home, I use firefox (Windows and Linux both; about to nuke IE off the Windows box), at work I use Safari on OS X. However, I learned CSS while I was using IE. And I still find it possible (though a major PITA) to get my CSS-heavy pages to work in IE and validate at W3M at the same time.
And while Moz/FF's first priority is (are?) standards, Firefox is fairly fast. Mozilla is still slow, and Firefox used to be slow. But it's not very slow anymore.
I've had a few sites refuse to work with IE. Redirected me to a page saying "M$ is evil; IE is crap; use a better browser". Real hassle when you're not at home and you're stuck with dialup, or when you're on a locked down web cafe computer.
IIRC, it was a polish (gTLD, not language) website about prism2 drivers for linux.
Were the bookmarks there because of the crapware, or because they put 'em there, thus exposing themselves to sites that left the crapware behind? And while you're at it, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Define real tabbed browsing? Sure, there are lots of features that Firefox's tabs don't have (session saving, etc), but that's more of a "not everyone likes it, keep the browser small & modular" thing. What do you think is missing?
If you use tabbed browsing, then leaving it minimized doesn't slow down alt-tabbing much. Only one extra tab, versus however many websites you have opened (assuming you're using a new window for each site, as with IE).
What overcomes the human tendency to hoard knowledge? The human tendency to show off that knowledge. Maybe some altruism, too. Or a sense of pride; group membership (hey, look what I and guys like me did).
I care about a subset of pages; thus, I keep an eye on it so my contributions (and others' contributions, that are positive). You do the same for the subset that matches your special interests, and so on.
Contributions come because people thought it was a cool idea, and it was fun to write.
You won't get the same number of contributors, but you could put your manual in wiki form on your server - my favorites are PHPWiki and Media Wiki, but there are lots of others. Just make sure you know how to back it up in case some jerk decides to vandalize it.
Um... what about splash screens, easter eggs, etc., being put in by: GNAA? goatse/tubgirl? Microsoft/SCO/Alexand re de Tocqueville/whoever-we-hate-today? general @$$holes? the other fork (bad feelings? politics?)
And the whole matching input thing only works for performance improvements - not for new features, new software, etc. And it would only work with CLI software.
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I work for a small (less than 20 people) company that's branching into web stuff. Their old tech guy still does a lot of "consulting" work, since the company he now works for is often hired by this company for non-IT stuff. So we have 2 T1s to our servers in [city number 1], plus a cable connection or two. If by some weird chance the cable is out when the T-1s fail (thank you Comcast :( ), then we can migrate everything to this guys company, which has 2-3 T1s in a city about an hour's drive away. So, 2 different mediums for in-town, and a third backup that is not only with a different company, but in (obviously) another set of cables (i.e., not subleased by Company1).
As far as drivers and D-Link compatibility, I just googled for "d-link drivers linux" - the first result was D-Link's own "unsupported community drivers" page. As far as distro ... look, if you're going to end up with a server, you can probably scratch gentoo off the list; if you're not doing serious optimization, it's got no advantages over (and some disadvantages to) Debian. Don't go with Mandrake; it's just a wimped-down version of Fedora. Fedora or RHEL would be my vote, but Debian is also a good choice. SuSE is there, and it demonstrates the stereotypical good German engineering, but it's harder to get the FTP site to cooperate, and there's less community support.
Don't go with Knoppix, as some have suggested - if you have a few hundred and an afternoon, build the box, or for a bit more, buy a cheapo TV-special from Dell or whoever. You won't need as much of a computer, since Linux tends not to be as resource-hungry. Installing the distro rather than using a CD will erase that many more hassles. Also, USE A DIFFERENT COMPUTER! Do NOT try dual-booting; if something goes south, that extra connection to the web will be a troubleshooting $DIETY{}send. Plus, then you can share stuff more easily between the two computers (Samba, SFTP, etc). Dual-booting is nothing more than a PITA. Especially since your company might foot some of the bill.
Mono can be your IDE for C# stuff.
Whatever you do, find a good IRC channel, and maybe a forum or two, dedicated to the distro. If you go with Fedora, try forward.freenode.net, #fedora
Either he used the one-handed dvorak keyboard, a chording device, or that "half a keyboard, press & hold space to switch sides" device.
... 5, twice". Or maybe kinda like that typing thing where you "steer" around the screen with the mouse. Disclaimer: I know the phone keypad backwards and forwards, and get pretty good WPM on it. But some folks hate it.
Actually, that could do some pretty cool input - display the letters and do a kind of binary search, but easier (for some) to remember than "let's see, h, that's
Axe has that connotation, yeah. Largely because of their ads ... texting is not so stigmatized among the high school crowd, but it is seen as a secondary option (say, if you're in class and want to do it below your desk) rather than a first choice.
OTOH, a lot of people listen to electronica and electronic dance music. Some only in private, 'cuz it's seen as either gay or weird/geeky, but it's not all stigmatized as gayness.
I agree, though, we do associate the weirdest things with gayness. The floppy hands, though, I think that's a pretty solid indicator. I think that's more intentional, though.
I know you were joking ... but didn't they find out that it is finite? Curves in on itself or something? And since quantum mechanics says what you can't "observe" doesn't exist, doesn't that mean that the universe is only a few trillion lightyears across, at most (since nothing travels faster than c?). Thus, the earth is the center of ...
... they'll never let us live this down.
Oh shit. The Catholic Church just apologized for the Galileo thing
These wouldn't require anything but some imagination:
Because there's no such thing as a LASCR. And because making the LASER aim by IR (motion detector?) would make it much more expensive, not to mention making it no longer a bomb/mine.
three shotguns and four rifles strapped to my body, holding a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other ... As long as ... I'm not doing it threateningly
/me cowers in fear of the parents 3 shotguns, 4 rifles, pistol & knife
(wielding a gun in public) is a subset of (wielding things that appear to be guns). I.e. (wielding things that appear to be guns (that are) + (that aren't)) == (wielding things that appear to be guns)
Nearly non-existent? Whaa? I hate IE. I don't use it. At home, I use firefox (Windows and Linux both; about to nuke IE off the Windows box), at work I use Safari on OS X. However, I learned CSS while I was using IE. And I still find it possible (though a major PITA) to get my CSS-heavy pages to work in IE and validate at W3M at the same time.
And while Moz/FF's first priority is (are?) standards, Firefox is fairly fast. Mozilla is still slow, and Firefox used to be slow. But it's not very slow anymore.
I've had a few sites refuse to work with IE. Redirected me to a page saying "M$ is evil; IE is crap; use a better browser". Real hassle when you're not at home and you're stuck with dialup, or when you're on a locked down web cafe computer.
IIRC, it was a polish (gTLD, not language) website about prism2 drivers for linux.
Doesn't look like crap to me. Mind linking to a screenshot? Actually, I like the sparsity of /.'s pages.
Were the bookmarks there because of the crapware, or because they put 'em there, thus exposing themselves to sites that left the crapware behind? And while you're at it, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Not true. Apache/*nix is more common as a server combo than IIS/Windows, yet there are more (and nastier) attacks on IIS than Apache.
Define real tabbed browsing? Sure, there are lots of features that Firefox's tabs don't have (session saving, etc), but that's more of a "not everyone likes it, keep the browser small & modular" thing. What do you think is missing?
If you use tabbed browsing, then leaving it minimized doesn't slow down alt-tabbing much. Only one extra tab, versus however many websites you have opened (assuming you're using a new window for each site, as with IE).
There is. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with File -> Quit, only if you hit the x in the upper right.
Thus, the computer illiterates who "borrow" my computer still screw up my browsing session.
Oh, no. There goes all hope of impartiality in the distro pages on the Wikipedia.
Why does this smell like shameless self promotion? ;-)
What overcomes the human tendency to hoard knowledge? The human tendency to show off that knowledge. Maybe some altruism, too. Or a sense of pride; group membership (hey, look what I and guys like me did).
I care about a subset of pages; thus, I keep an eye on it so my contributions (and others' contributions, that are positive). You do the same for the subset that matches your special interests, and so on.
Contributions come because people thought it was a cool idea, and it was fun to write.
You won't get the same number of contributors, but you could put your manual in wiki form on your server - my favorites are PHPWiki and Media Wiki, but there are lots of others. Just make sure you know how to back it up in case some jerk decides to vandalize it.
Not if karma is voted for by users - say, give old-timers mod points to vote for pages. 2 or 3 a day, more points for older-timers.
/. does. It'd be a real-time election.
Kinda like what
Roman? Y'mean Latin, or Rhaeto-Romansche (spoken, I think, in the Basque regions around the French-Spanish border)?
Um ... what about splash screens, easter eggs, etc., being put in by:d re de Tocqueville/whoever-we-hate-today?
GNAA?
goatse/tubgirl?
Microsoft/SCO/Alexan
general @$$holes?
the other fork (bad feelings? politics?)
And the whole matching input thing only works for performance improvements - not for new features, new software, etc. And it would only work with CLI software.