Um, if you followed the link, and read the comments about the reference in questions, I'd concur, that Ku-buntu, is something of an oxymoron (at least within the frame of that reference).
Im sorry, but it was Tribes, that added huge outdoors world.:) Not to mention vehicles. Although iirc, Tribes or even Tribes 2 vehicles are incomparable to Operation Flashpoint ones, aren't they?
Tanks are more like Silent service's kid brother there, right?
The One Brand Owned By The Goverment, for USSR stuff is a bunch of bullshit.
Starting from toilet paper, to whatever, to cars, to planes...
Of course, there were a lot of standards there, that something had to meet before it could be produced/sold/bought, etc, but if you read the old soviet standards (most of them are still used in Russia) they are quite useful.
Err. It never been that way. Adobe for example releases one version of the Acrobat (for some arch), and its a dozen of those distro people that package it and make sure that it runs on their system. One of the hurdles is that there's more then x86 when linux^H^H^H^H^H*nix is concerned.
ALSA can run from outside of the kernel. Check out their site. They have a 'dmixer' software mixer, that is compatible with oss sound implementation, if some software insists on using oss api.
Im a gentoo user, so I have a link to good howto (its somewhat gentoo centric, but I've set up the sound in slack more or less similiar way, before I even heard of gentoo). In any case HOWTOs are your friend. Google for somethign that has 'howto oss software mixing' or the like. I suspect you'll find a solution.
The thing is, that it is not all that hard to either write your own ebuild (I haven't figured ebuilds enough to easily do it myself for everything I want, and that it is not already in portage) or find that there is an unofficial ebuild somewhere, or ask on the forums for someone to create the ebuild.
For a linux newbie, that has a box that can be 'sacrificed', that is, fully converted to Linux (or bsd, but for a newbie that doesn't matter, unless its OpenBSD, which is very newbie unfriendly. It is good, it isn't hard to install, but -very- unfriendly, that is an imho and is as of version 3.5). I would suggest doing it a double/tripple booting box.
But not a Windows/Linux one. Doublebooting Linux distros. Actually, just as the guy in this same thread I would suggest SuSE (and nope, Im not affiliated in any way) as your primary newbie friendly distro. Just wait a month or so till 9.2 is out if you're getting a commercial version (which I do suggest, even as I haven't used it... yet, I am also waiting for 9.2) and get a 'hard' distro as your second boot.
I would suggest gentoo or slackware for that (or even, if you are comfortable with it the LFS. I have no experience with it, but supposedly it has, or rather is, a superb guide on building your own system just as you like it). Perhaps even, have SuSE (but leave some diskspace unpartitioned), use it untill you feel comfortable, then install Slackware and tweak it as and till you like what you see, and at some later point, say remove the slackware and put gentoo there.
Counting the time I was using Linux on my home machine(s) I can be considered a Linux newbie (although I had some experience with *nix way beforehands). I switched to Linux after I was forced to two upgrades on short notice, both of which killed Windows XP (mobo switch did it most probably). First time I reinstalled, then I given up and went and got myself a Linux distro. I was in kind of a hurry, and the first and only thing I found was Slackware 9.1 (it was a couple of weeks before 10 release).
Afterwards I got myself Gentoo and lived happily with it untill three or so days ago (and I am still happy with it). Before I installed SuSE (their free version) for 'just works' system, that my mother can also use. Now I am using SuSE for most stuff, and Gentoo for testing most recent neat stuff, betatesting stuff I like (i.e. XFCE 4.2beta1, which is sweet!). I also suspect that once I get back into programming swing, I'll go back to Gentoo. I am not sure yet. In any case, good luck with it!
While I really appreciate BSDs (I have an Open at home, and if I switch jobs, I'll get to administrate some flavour of BSD), there was an iffy thing that I encountered where I work now.
We have two ISP links, one costing us little, but sometimes prone to short-ish periods of downtime, and another one costs premium, but is always available.
And the problem encountered is that without some third party kernel patches, BSD does not know metrics. I am sure it can probably be emulating using flags, but its quite inconvenient. Linux has metrics. Solaris has metrics. For crying out loud, even windows has metrics.
After poking around the net, most times I found an answer saying BSD is an OS, not a router.:/
Is there some good way to enable metrics without third party kernel hacks?
Actually, XFCE4 is going into the direction of the proper DE. Moreso with the newest 4.2 release that is planned (I am using beta, and it is quite good, pretty and whatnot).
Of course, in a DE sence, that is kde or gnome with their plethora of utilities, it is perhaps not a proper DE, but that is the premise of 'lightweight'-ness that XFCE strives to mantain, and is quite good at. I hope its development continues to go into the same direction as it does now.
The economy of trading air. And worth tens of thousands. How appropriate. By the way, Russia is almost on the bottom of the bying prority list, topped by EU countries, then newest additions to EU, ex USSR republics and whatnot.
Um, actually, the Russia will have to cut down on the emissions. Which emissions are those? Nope, not the industry. Its the emissions, that keep people from freezing during winters (read 7/12 months).
Russian scientists from Russian Academy of Sciences (however it is called in english, I mean RAN - Rossiskaya Akademiya Nauk) was against signing of Kyoto treaty, since there is no solid proof about greenhouse theory.
Russian signing of the treaty was entirely a political move.:-/ And a bad one at that.
Well, after disassembling that many joysticks I can tell you.;)
So, the 'digital' joysticks have microswitches, that can be either on or off.
The analog ones are the resistors (um, Im not sure for the word, will have to look it up, ah yup appears to be the right word). So as the joystick moves the current changes gradualy, so it is analog.
Analog joysticks I seen have two such resistors, for x and y axis. PS2 ones also have a switch so the joystick itself can be used as a button.
The D pad is digital though.
I wonder if he is related to Yakov Perelman, the author of a lot of superb Physics textbooks, and "Zanimatelnaya Fizika" books (Im not sure, I think there were 3 tomes, but I own only 2 of them, don't want to google it).
By the way while bl-i form a pair bl they are not a lalatized/unpalatized pair.
And yeah, when I said about j I also mentioned that it is for phonetic writing. I remember that english has a lot of things like ae and 0 (one for closed th) and stuff. We have j.:)
As for transliterating and writing it like ruskii and other things that you mentioned several parents ago, it is probably an american oversimplification, and it is quite/somewhat (depending on an individual russian) annoying to us russians.;)
Different places, different approaches.
In middle asia (countries that were along the silk route and thereabouts) it is customary to drink warm/hot tea. They put a little bit of salt in it. They also wear very warm clothes.
The thing is:
a) They are accustomised to heat and low humidity.
b) Warm clothes are actually a good heat isolation, they can keep you warm on cold winter day, or they can keep the heat out on the hot summer day (if you know what you are doing, that is).
c) slow drinking of hot slightly salty tea keeps the thirst at bay (it acctually does work)
OTOH the more you drink cold drinks, the more you sweat (at least theoreticly, it all depends on individual's methabolism).
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Only the magnetic north pole is.
No, it sounds more like Marvel/DC comics. They are Internet providers by day, and they fight crime by night!
Um, if you followed the link, and read the comments about the reference in questions, I'd concur, that Ku-buntu, is something of an oxymoron (at least within the frame of that reference).
But Ku does sound like a good sound!
There's a language in which ku means all and any words (with only few exceptions), somewhere .
I thought in the original it was:
Jesus saves. And takes half damage.
Im sorry, but it was Tribes, that added huge outdoors world. :) Not to mention vehicles. Although iirc, Tribes or even Tribes 2 vehicles are incomparable to Operation Flashpoint ones, aren't they?
Tanks are more like Silent service's kid brother there, right?
The One Brand Owned By The Goverment, for USSR stuff is a bunch of bullshit. Starting from toilet paper, to whatever, to cars, to planes... Of course, there were a lot of standards there, that something had to meet before it could be produced/sold/bought, etc, but if you read the old soviet standards (most of them are still used in Russia) they are quite useful.
Err. It never been that way. Adobe for example releases one version of the Acrobat (for some arch), and its a dozen of those distro people that package it and make sure that it runs on their system.
One of the hurdles is that there's more then x86 when linux^H^H^H^H^H*nix is concerned.
ALSA can run from outside of the kernel. Check out their site. They have a 'dmixer' software mixer, that is compatible with oss sound implementation, if some software insists on using oss api.
Im a gentoo user, so I have a link to good howto (its somewhat gentoo centric, but I've set up the sound in slack more or less similiar way, before I even heard of gentoo).
In any case HOWTOs are your friend. Google for somethign that has 'howto oss software mixing' or the like. I suspect you'll find a solution.
The thing is, that it is not all that hard to either write your own ebuild (I haven't figured ebuilds enough to easily do it myself for everything I want, and that it is not already in portage) or find that there is an unofficial ebuild somewhere, or ask on the forums for someone to create the ebuild.
IIRC Linux was originally intended as a terminal emulator.
For a linux newbie, that has a box that can be 'sacrificed', that is, fully converted to Linux (or bsd, but for a newbie that doesn't matter, unless its OpenBSD, which is very newbie unfriendly. It is good, it isn't hard to install, but -very- unfriendly, that is an imho and is as of version 3.5). I would suggest doing it a double/tripple booting box.
But not a Windows/Linux one. Doublebooting Linux distros. Actually, just as the guy in this same thread I would suggest SuSE (and nope, Im not affiliated in any way) as your primary newbie friendly distro. Just wait a month or so till 9.2 is out if you're getting a commercial version (which I do suggest, even as I haven't used it... yet, I am also waiting for 9.2) and get a 'hard' distro as your second boot.
I would suggest gentoo or slackware for that (or even, if you are comfortable with it the LFS. I have no experience with it, but supposedly it has, or rather is, a superb guide on building your own system just as you like it). Perhaps even, have SuSE (but leave some diskspace unpartitioned), use it untill you feel comfortable, then install Slackware and tweak it as and till you like what you see, and at some later point, say remove the slackware and put gentoo there.
Counting the time I was using Linux on my home machine(s) I can be considered a Linux newbie (although I had some experience with *nix way beforehands). I switched to Linux after I was forced to two upgrades on short notice, both of which killed Windows XP (mobo switch did it most probably). First time I reinstalled, then I given up and went and got myself a Linux distro. I was in kind of a hurry, and the first and only thing I found was Slackware 9.1 (it was a couple of weeks before 10 release).
Afterwards I got myself Gentoo and lived happily with it untill three or so days ago (and I am still happy with it). Before I installed SuSE (their free version) for 'just works' system, that my mother can also use. Now I am using SuSE for most stuff, and Gentoo for testing most recent neat stuff, betatesting stuff I like (i.e. XFCE 4.2beta1, which is sweet!). I also suspect that once I get back into programming swing, I'll go back to Gentoo. I am not sure yet.
In any case, good luck with it!
While I really appreciate BSDs (I have an Open at home, and if I switch jobs, I'll get to administrate some flavour of BSD), there was an iffy thing that I encountered where I work now.
:/
We have two ISP links, one costing us little, but sometimes prone to short-ish periods of downtime, and another one costs premium, but is always available.
And the problem encountered is that without some third party kernel patches, BSD does not know metrics. I am sure it can probably be emulating using flags, but its quite inconvenient. Linux has metrics. Solaris has metrics. For crying out loud, even windows has metrics.
After poking around the net, most times I found an answer saying BSD is an OS, not a router.
Is there some good way to enable metrics without third party kernel hacks?
Actually, XFCE4 is going into the direction of the proper DE. Moreso with the newest 4.2 release that is planned (I am using beta, and it is quite good, pretty and whatnot). Of course, in a DE sence, that is kde or gnome with their plethora of utilities, it is perhaps not a proper DE, but that is the premise of 'lightweight'-ness that XFCE strives to mantain, and is quite good at. I hope its development continues to go into the same direction as it does now.
The economy of trading air. And worth tens of thousands. How appropriate. By the way, Russia is almost on the bottom of the bying prority list, topped by EU countries, then newest additions to EU, ex USSR republics and whatnot.
Um, actually, the Russia will have to cut down on the emissions. Which emissions are those? Nope, not the industry. Its the emissions, that keep people from freezing during winters (read 7/12 months).
:-/ And a bad one at that.
Russian scientists from Russian Academy of Sciences (however it is called in english, I mean RAN - Rossiskaya Akademiya Nauk) was against signing of Kyoto treaty, since there is no solid proof about greenhouse theory.
Russian signing of the treaty was entirely a political move.
Well, after disassembling that many joysticks I can tell you. ;)
So, the 'digital' joysticks have microswitches, that can be either on or off.
The analog ones are the resistors (um, Im not sure for the word, will have to look it up, ah yup appears to be the right word). So as the joystick moves the current changes gradualy, so it is analog.
Analog joysticks I seen have two such resistors, for x and y axis. PS2 ones also have a switch so the joystick itself can be used as a button.
The D pad is digital though.
I wonder if he is related to Yakov Perelman, the author of a lot of superb Physics textbooks, and "Zanimatelnaya Fizika" books (Im not sure, I think there were 3 tomes, but I own only 2 of them, don't want to google it).
Actually, if you're talking about processors (and nothing changed since last time I checked), shouldn't it be:
take two down,
pass them around,
*sigh* Funny being modded down by people who don't understand the refference. :>
Like this Lesbian GNU/Linux?
I think you're mixing him up with Nikolai Gogol. :)
Read Taras Bulba, thats a line from there.
That Soviet Russia joke is one of the bigger oxymorons I ever saw! :D
By the way while bl-i form a pair bl they are not a lalatized/unpalatized pair. :) ;)
And yeah, when I said about j I also mentioned that it is for phonetic writing. I remember that english has a lot of things like ae and 0 (one for closed th) and stuff. We have j.
As for transliterating and writing it like ruskii and other things that you mentioned several parents ago, it is probably an american oversimplification, and it is quite/somewhat (depending on an individual russian) annoying to us russians.
Different places, different approaches. In middle asia (countries that were along the silk route and thereabouts) it is customary to drink warm/hot tea. They put a little bit of salt in it. They also wear very warm clothes. The thing is:
a) They are accustomised to heat and low humidity.
b) Warm clothes are actually a good heat isolation, they can keep you warm on cold winter day, or they can keep the heat out on the hot summer day (if you know what you are doing, that is).
c) slow drinking of hot slightly salty tea keeps the thirst at bay (it acctually does work)
OTOH the more you drink cold drinks, the more you sweat (at least theoreticly, it all depends on individual's methabolism).