I had my 2007 MacBookBook wall charger replaced by the Genius Bar because it had a defective cable and was part of some class action suit IIRC. I've had it less than 3 years and have been very careful with it. It always stays in the house and I never coil up the cord. In less than 3 years the white insulation material is disintegrating and coming off in various places in little pieces. The Genius Bar looked at it this time and said I would have to buy a new one. After asking some more questions, they didn't have any to replace it with anyway. I have since redone the cable with 3 layers of shrink tubing, which works fine, but now it looks and feels more like a power cord for an appliance. This is one area where Apple worries more about design than making sure the basics are covered.
Wrong! Hermit Crabs found in most US pet shops or on the boardwalk are commonly referred to as "Purple Pinchers". They carry around water in their shells and need access to both fresh and salt water (or a mix made from Instant Ocean) which they to adjust to their preferred salinity. A crab without its shell is in distress either because it needs to molt, has outgrown its shell or it's sick. Crabs will resist like crazy before they give up their shells because they have an instinctive need to have a shell protecting them. They always choose a shell with an opening that will be completely sealed by their large pinching claw.
I have 5 crabs in a 20 gallon tank. They are an absolute riot to watch, especially when Shell-O-Rama occurs. When one crab swaps shells, the other ones watch and then try on the discarded shell. This can lead to a hilarious episode of frantic crabs running around trying to get their old shells back or rocking another crab back and forth to coax one out of a desirable shell. Eventually, things settle down and peace returns to the Crabitat.
In our area the only option is Dish network. In the small town of Quarryville, PA, the basic no-frills package includes the major networks and an equal number of religious channels. I laughed in the face of the Dish network sales guy because I thought he was kidding. Because he was a Mennonite and easily offended, I asked if they could provide a number of raunchy porn channels instead of all that "religious crap". The sales call ended badly of course.
I haven't had cable or even a TV set for the last 8 years. Being an early adopter, I had cable before any of my friends and remember MTV having maybe 20 videos on rotation at the time. Then I moved to rural Pennsylvania where there is no cable TV and opted out of the ridiculously overpriced satellite packages. I'm somewhat shocked these days when I visit friends who have cable and see what's currently popular. It seems impossible, but to me, TV is even more of a vast wasteland than it was 8 years ago. You can keep it. I do miss NFL games but there's a sports bar only 11 miles down the road.........
Yoicks! I've been snottied by someone who failed at being a New Age Traveler who now makes a living being rude to people on the phone. Where's the Kleenex?
Speaking from the standpoint of someone trying to get friends and associates to switch to ANY flavour of Linux, this Mandriva release was a big step forward. An IBM Thinkpad I tried to install to with the latest Debian release was marginal at best. I could never get the screen fonts to be acceptable when in X-Windows for any application. Firefox was a mess to look at. Also, it kept reverting to 800x600 resolution. The sound didn't work either.
With the free Mandriva 3 CD install set, the entire installation went perfect with all the correct choices for screen driver, PCMCIA enet card, etc., pre-selected. The fonts were excellent when it went into the GUI and the client was thrilled. Since it was running Win 98, he felt like he had a processor upgrade. While it may have been possible to get all this running correctly with Debian, I am kinda short on time these days. If I don't have to root around for fixes, so much the better.
Also, the client loves OpenOffice. Kudos to the latest version of that as well.
No drug related crime? The Amish are well known growers of pot and operators of meth labs. There was a huge scandal about 10 years ago concering Amish making "crank" for the Pagan motorcycle club in Philadelphia.
Nobody has mentioned the "Black Bumper Mennonites". At a tractor pull, they sit together in the stands wearing Blues Brothers type hats. They tend to drive black american-made cars and they spray paint over all of the chrome, especialy the bumpers, with black paint. Like most of the sects in Solanco (Southern Lancaster County), they can be very nice to us "English".
As to the Amish "leaving in droves", that is because the developers are offering a lot of money for their farmland. Usually, they sell out because they have exhausted the soil anyway. They are not known as good stewards of the land.
They are also criticized by many for being cruel to horses and their women.
My son wanted to watch your interview on his Media Center PC, but RealPlayer has caused an exception fault and now the whole thing has locked up so he can't watch Spongebob either. Does the Media Center PC have a "excessively silly" filter built in?
Same problem and the same fix works with Mandrake 10.0. Anybody seen this mentioned on BugZilla yet?
This is a new problem I didn't have with FireFox 9.3.
There's a lot of stuff out there that requires "configure && make && make install". And some of the RPM stuff is a version or two behind. Or doesn't exist at all. One example is getting the Linux Seti client installed. The last time I searched, there wasn't an RPM for that.
I just replaced 9.3 with the PR edition for Linux and applied the patch. I was waiting for the full 1.0 release but decided to get the PR version now and test out the transfer of cookies, bookmarks, etc. (everything transferred over just fine, BTW)
I have been avidly watching the progress of the FireFox project, so I don't rely on the browser itself to check for updates, because I vist the website regularly. Also, reading/. makes one aware of any issues very quickly.
I just installed and patched the PR edition on my system and added AdBlock and Firesomething. My friend who is a Microsoft developer was watching this process which took 2 minutes. He was taken aback and had to admit that things have improved for installing applications for Linux.
He also said that most Windows users would be lost following the instructions to install from a terminal window or doing any installation requiring "./configure, make, make install."
He has a point. We need more "Windows-like" app installation to get more Windoze users to migrate to Linux.
While at DuPont, the Defense Waste Processing Facility for the Savannah River Plant was a huge boondoggle based on similar technology. The idea was to mix the same bitch's brew together in a vat and vitrify it, but form small glass beads about the size of a marble using a mixture called "frit" which was sprayed into the vessel through a jet. We all have the little souvenir cards with black marbles attached that represented the final, "safe" form of the waste. I keep this next to my "Radioactive Dime" I got from the 1965 World's Fair.
I mainly paid for it to get support. But I never got a single question answered. I also agree that it is best to avoid the Community Editions. I had a lot of instability problems that went away with the stable 10.0 release. And that is available for free from a lot of sites that ain't French!
I settled on Mandrake 10 Community Edition. This is mostly because I have been using Mandrake distros since Mandrake 8.0 on various hardware, including some laptops.
I have a Shuttle SK41G. All I had to do was change the sound driver to via82cxxx_audio and I had to play around with permissions to get K3B to burn DVDs and CDs correctly. The other installs required more tweaking.
I tried Fedora recently using a DVD install on my Shuttle w/Athlon XP2400. This was the only distro that completely got lost and went away when trying to start X-Windows. Had to hit reset to start over but eventually gave up. Debian, SuSe and Mandrake all installed fine. Don't know why it happened, but there it is.
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I had my 2007 MacBookBook wall charger replaced by the Genius Bar because it had a defective cable and was part of some class action suit IIRC. I've had it less than 3 years and have been very careful with it. It always stays in the house and I never coil up the cord. In less than 3 years the white insulation material is disintegrating and coming off in various places in little pieces. The Genius Bar looked at it this time and said I would have to buy a new one. After asking some more questions, they didn't have any to replace it with anyway. I have since redone the cable with 3 layers of shrink tubing, which works fine, but now it looks and feels more like a power cord for an appliance. This is one area where Apple worries more about design than making sure the basics are covered.
Wrong! Hermit Crabs found in most US pet shops or on the boardwalk are commonly referred to as "Purple Pinchers". They carry around water in their shells and need access to both fresh and salt water (or a mix made from Instant Ocean) which they to adjust to their preferred salinity. A crab without its shell is in distress either because it needs to molt, has outgrown its shell or it's sick. Crabs will resist like crazy before they give up their shells because they have an instinctive need to have a shell protecting them. They always choose a shell with an opening that will be completely sealed by their large pinching claw. I have 5 crabs in a 20 gallon tank. They are an absolute riot to watch, especially when Shell-O-Rama occurs. When one crab swaps shells, the other ones watch and then try on the discarded shell. This can lead to a hilarious episode of frantic crabs running around trying to get their old shells back or rocking another crab back and forth to coax one out of a desirable shell. Eventually, things settle down and peace returns to the Crabitat.
In our area the only option is Dish network. In the small town of Quarryville, PA, the basic no-frills package includes the major networks and an equal number of religious channels. I laughed in the face of the Dish network sales guy because I thought he was kidding. Because he was a Mennonite and easily offended, I asked if they could provide a number of raunchy porn channels instead of all that "religious crap". The sales call ended badly of course.
I haven't had cable or even a TV set for the last 8 years. Being an early adopter, I had cable before any of my friends and remember MTV having maybe 20 videos on rotation at the time. Then I moved to rural Pennsylvania where there is no cable TV and opted out of the ridiculously overpriced satellite packages. I'm somewhat shocked these days when I visit friends who have cable and see what's currently popular. It seems impossible, but to me, TV is even more of a vast wasteland than it was 8 years ago. You can keep it. I do miss NFL games but there's a sports bar only 11 miles down the road.........
I didn't like FB from the beginning. I have several misleading and erroneous accounts on FB and Twitter also. Market that data Zuckerberger!!!
Yoicks! I've been snottied by someone who failed at being a New Age Traveler who now makes a living being rude to people on the phone. Where's the Kleenex?
This exploit came in handy because I had forgotten my root password. Thanks!
I paid out the 0.77 just to be iconoclastic. Not a bad song. Hope the lads do well in the future (unless they are another PreFab Four).
With the free Mandriva 3 CD install set, the entire installation went perfect with all the correct choices for screen driver, PCMCIA enet card, etc., pre-selected. The fonts were excellent when it went into the GUI and the client was thrilled. Since it was running Win 98, he felt like he had a processor upgrade. While it may have been possible to get all this running correctly with Debian, I am kinda short on time these days. If I don't have to root around for fixes, so much the better.
Also, the client loves OpenOffice. Kudos to the latest version of that as well.
No drug related crime? The Amish are well known growers of pot and operators of meth labs. There was a huge scandal about 10 years ago concering Amish making "crank" for the Pagan motorcycle club in Philadelphia.
Nobody has mentioned the "Black Bumper Mennonites". At a tractor pull, they sit together in the stands wearing Blues Brothers type hats. They tend to drive black american-made cars and they spray paint over all of the chrome, especialy the bumpers, with black paint. Like most of the sects in Solanco (Southern Lancaster County), they can be very nice to us "English". As to the Amish "leaving in droves", that is because the developers are offering a lot of money for their farmland. Usually, they sell out because they have exhausted the soil anyway. They are not known as good stewards of the land. They are also criticized by many for being cruel to horses and their women.
My son wanted to watch your interview on his Media Center PC, but RealPlayer has caused an exception fault and now the whole thing has locked up so he can't watch Spongebob either. Does the Media Center PC have a "excessively silly" filter built in?
Looks like he just finished a dooby! Far out Bill!
Same problem and the same fix works with Mandrake 10.0. Anybody seen this mentioned on BugZilla yet?
This is a new problem I didn't have with FireFox 9.3.
There's a lot of stuff out there that requires "configure && make && make install". And some of the RPM stuff is a version or two behind. Or doesn't exist at all. One example is getting the Linux Seti client installed. The last time I searched, there wasn't an RPM for that.
I just replaced 9.3 with the PR edition for Linux and applied the patch. I was waiting for the full 1.0 release but decided to get the PR version now and test out the transfer of cookies, bookmarks, etc. (everything transferred over just fine, BTW) /. makes one aware of any issues very quickly.
I have been avidly watching the progress of the FireFox project, so I don't rely on the browser itself to check for updates, because I vist the website regularly. Also, reading
I just installed and patched the PR edition on my system and added AdBlock and Firesomething. My friend who is a Microsoft developer was watching this process which took 2 minutes. He was taken aback and had to admit that things have improved for installing applications for Linux. He also said that most Windows users would be lost following the instructions to install from a terminal window or doing any installation requiring "./configure, make, make install." He has a point. We need more "Windows-like" app installation to get more Windoze users to migrate to Linux.
While at DuPont, the Defense Waste Processing Facility for the Savannah River Plant was a huge boondoggle based on similar technology. The idea was to mix the same bitch's brew together in a vat and vitrify it, but form small glass beads about the size of a marble using a mixture called "frit" which was sprayed into the vessel through a jet. We all have the little souvenir cards with black marbles attached that represented the final, "safe" form of the waste. I keep this next to my "Radioactive Dime" I got from the 1965 World's Fair.
I mainly paid for it to get support. But I never got a single question answered. I also agree that it is best to avoid the Community Editions. I had a lot of instability problems that went away with the stable 10.0 release. And that is available for free from a lot of sites that ain't French!
I settled on Mandrake 10 Community Edition. This is mostly because I have been using Mandrake distros since Mandrake 8.0 on various hardware, including some laptops. I have a Shuttle SK41G. All I had to do was change the sound driver to via82cxxx_audio and I had to play around with permissions to get K3B to burn DVDs and CDs correctly. The other installs required more tweaking.
I tried Fedora recently using a DVD install on my Shuttle w/Athlon XP2400. This was the only distro that completely got lost and went away when trying to start X-Windows. Had to hit reset to start over but eventually gave up. Debian, SuSe and Mandrake all installed fine. Don't know why it happened, but there it is.