I have had Linux From Scratch bookmarked for a couple of years now. Sadly I can never find the time to actually do it. In a world where every boy and his dog thinks that Linux starts and ends with Unbuntu, I feel if I want to know Linux, I have to start with rolling my own kernel and then building from there.
Most younglings wouldn't get it; they just want Stuff To Work, Right Now. Who do they think creates this Stuff in the first place?!
I'm also hindered by the fact that I am Windows Guru. No, a real one. I _know_ Windows, right now to the nuts and bolts like decompiling DLLs to work out why they crash. I'm a rare breed in that arena too, in fact the desktop Linux fanboi's are now all starting to sound a lot like the idiot 20-something 'Windows Admins' with spiky hair and loud suits that I have to suffer.:(
I have a legacy 32bit XP install with 4Gb ram, which obviously XP can only see 3.2Gb - are you saying I can RAM disk the 'lost' 800Mb? if so - got a link that shows me how?
Kinda. XP 64bit RTM is patched to XP 32Bit SP1. So effectively XP 64bit SP2 is equal to XP 32bit SP3, patch level wise. They did the same with Server 2003 also iirc.
Heads up though.... it's gone in Windows 8 (of course) - it's been replaced by Client Hyper V. Yes, a cut down Hyper-V service for running XP (or whatever) as a VM. Plus you also lose that nice seamless windows thing it could do.
Me, I just installed VirtualBox. It's the best VM software out there. And it's free.
Dark Knight (& Rises) change aspect ratios on blu-ray because the original versions had sections optimised for IMAX format. That said, you still lost vertical image info as full IMAX ratio is 4:3 - I recall seeing The Dark Knight at the London IMAX and the full 4:3 ratio was used, I've not seen Rises yet but it looks like it only shifts between 21:9 and 16:9 as newer IMAXs don't go 4:3.
This is why I love my Dell 2408WFP - it's getting on a bit now, and the color management isn't as good as it should be (but I have a Huey for that), but it's 16:10 with a resolution of 1920x1200 - absolutely wonderful. I never maximise anything, and mostly have several cascaded portrait shaped windows displayed across it.
Back to topic. I think what Linus actually means is that he wants a higher resolution so that there are no jaggies on fonts, and scrollbars and widgets look sharper. The actual perceived font size (in inches etc.) would be the same - so all these comments about tiny fonts, and 8 way code diffs, are completely missing the point.
Think of it this way, you watch the same movie on a 720p screen, and then on a 1080p screen - do you see more of the movie picture on the latter? No. It's just _sharper_.
I'll get modded off-topic for this, but I'm gonna post anyway...
The above is great comment, it's informative and contains good grammar and useful information.
The above is also a bad/. comment because it's been posted as AC with a value of 0. This means it will be hidden to most/. users and the modders will ignore it as modding it up doesn't help the poster.
I'm seeing more and more good comments posted as AC - why is this? The/. community is shrinking, and everyone hiding behind AC is just making things worse.
If it was down to me, there'd be no AC option at all.
Over the past 18 months or so, I've been watching TNG with my (now) almost-14 year old daughter. To start things off we shot through the first 6 films, then switched to TNG. Having recently finished TNG we've flipped back to the films (from Generations onwards) and are about to watch Insurrection. Due to time constraints (she's also chewing her way through Buffy* plus normal evening TV) we only did 'highlights' of TNG - about 10-12 episodes per season picked by me. I tried to ensure that all the key episodes were watched and that each character had enough screen time to develop over the seven seasons (interestingly, Seasons 6 and 7 are on reflection, almost all about Data).
Her stand-out TNG moment so far are the Four Lights scenes in Chain of Command. Her favourite character is unsurprisingly Data**.
Not sure where to go next to be honest, thinking of doing ENT - mainly because I've only seen it through once, so a revisit would be nice for me too.
As far as Star Trek (2009) stands - I really didn't gel with it. Can't put my finger on what was wrong, but it definitely isn't proper Trek for me.:(
* Thankfully she hates Twilight:D ** SPOILER ALERT: The end of Nemesis is really going to hit her HARD.:/
Oh while, I'm at it - on topic for the OP: Almost 13 years ago I went to a house party. On the shelf there was a limited edition numbered box set of the first 5 Trek films on VHS so I asked whose it was. I'm now rapidly approaching my 10 year wedding anniversary with the owner of those tapes, and she is my soulmate, my inner trill, and a woman who loves Sci-Fi even more than I do.:D
"Historians are at a loss to explain the demise of the first pan-human civilisation, as although they agree that the populous dwindled and went almost extinct at around AD 3500, there seems to be no surviving written historical records that can be dated any later than circa AD 2000."
"It can only be assumed that around this time, that there was a sudden uptake of illiteracy, maybe caused by a new religion or global-governmental policy. There are surviving references to an organisation or group known as the Inter Nets. We can only guess at what this actually was, but the commonly accepted theory is that it was actually some type of wearable mesh harness that prevented humans of this era from actually writing anything down."
Useless without a key/crack of course, but then we've all got legal keys haven't we?;) [1]
-Jar
[1] I'm a Technet subscriber so this link is worthless to me as I can download ALL MS OSs with multiple activation keys - if you can afford Technet, it's truly worth it.
Early Heinlein (his thinner) novels are good examples of early Sci-Fi - I thoroughly recommend 'The Door into Summer' as a good starting point.
Later Heinlein (fatter more rambling books) were all written during and after his mental breakdown - from that set I recommend working through the Lazarus Long stuff initially:
1. Time Enough for Love 2. The Number of the Beast 3. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 4. To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Additionally the novel 'Friday' is a good stand-alone easy to read Heinlein.
Oh yeah... They are in a hotel room at 1am trying to complete some urgent work and their laptop throws a panic, resulting in an emergency OS re-install and you are wanting them to go out and find DVD-Rs? Optical drives are becoming increasingly uncommon on lighter laptops so a recovery partition that rebuilds the boot OS back to day 1 is the least inconvenient option.
Off you lot go then, knock up a Linux distro that does exactly that, and let the masses have it, otherwise your solution is too archaic for 90% of users.
People need to realise that a solely Linux solution is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
I for one would love a nice GUI that in a few clicks, would image/compress the installed OS, put that image on a small recovery partition and alter the bootmgr to allow a 'recovery' option at boot time (accepting at this point, that the recovery utility _may_ be a tiny Linux distro).
I don't want to spend hours on every machine that needed this, which is where all your shiny Linux command line tools fall down.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. You basically described exactly how I work in Outlook, right down to the 'mark it as unread again' and emails bridging two subjects.
I'm constantly in a love/hate relationship with outlook (and, no, I can't change clients as I'm talking about my work inbox), always trying to new way to manage my mail, and always basically failing and reverting back to the search function to find anything.
My current tactic is that I plan to write a macro that files any mail in my inbox older than 1 month into the relevant archive folder, i.e. 2011-Q1 - I want this done automatically, as I will almost definitely forget.
I get on average 200 mails a day, of which 100+ are important enough that I have to at least read them or at most deal with them. Such is the life of a first tier manager (as mentioned further up in the comments).
What most people have overlooked, is the perfect way to deal with a busy inbox; Hire a PA. Granted that's not always an option (certainly not where I work for the level I'm at). But having someone else dedicated to managing your email really does free up a lot of time and can make you uber efficient (or so my Better Half tells me...).
As I understand it, they restricted Light Sabres to levelled up Jedis/Sith in Star Wars Galaxies and the playerbase hated it, so Galaxies tanked and died.
I seriously doubt that ANY online Star Wars game will work, when 90% of the playerbase want to be uber Jedi/Sith from the moment they first log in. People just do not want to be scruffy nerf herders, or sail barge waiters in their favourite universe.
This isn't just confided to Star Wars; Star Trek, Stargate, and My Little Ponyland all suffer this problem.
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I have had Linux From Scratch bookmarked for a couple of years now. Sadly I can never find the time to actually do it. In a world where every boy and his dog thinks that Linux starts and ends with Unbuntu, I feel if I want to know Linux, I have to start with rolling my own kernel and then building from there.
Most younglings wouldn't get it; they just want Stuff To Work, Right Now. Who do they think creates this Stuff in the first place?!
I'm also hindered by the fact that I am Windows Guru. No, a real one. I _know_ Windows, right now to the nuts and bolts like decompiling DLLs to work out why they crash. I'm a rare breed in that arena too, in fact the desktop Linux fanboi's are now all starting to sound a lot like the idiot 20-something 'Windows Admins' with spiky hair and loud suits that I have to suffer. :(
Grumble, Grumble, I'm back off to my cave.
-Jar.
WTF? PATRICK Moore, not ROGER Moore.
You frikkin idiots. Slither back to 4Chan where you belong. :(
-Jar
Ok - Instead of whinging about it, let's all form a working group, and create a /. type site that has all the best features that /. USED to have.
I'd definitely contribute if such an effort existed.
-Jar
I have a legacy 32bit XP install with 4Gb ram, which obviously XP can only see 3.2Gb - are you saying I can RAM disk the 'lost' 800Mb? if so - got a link that shows me how?
Thanks,
-Jar
I don't think XP 64bit ever had a SP3 either.
Kinda. XP 64bit RTM is patched to XP 32Bit SP1. So effectively XP 64bit SP2 is equal to XP 32bit SP3, patch level wise. They did the same with Server 2003 also iirc.
-Jar
Heads up though.... it's gone in Windows 8 (of course) - it's been replaced by Client Hyper V. Yes, a cut down Hyper-V service for running XP (or whatever) as a VM. Plus you also lose that nice seamless windows thing it could do.
Me, I just installed VirtualBox. It's the best VM software out there. And it's free.
-Jar
Real Life LOL right here. AND you made me spew my tea you bastard. ;)
Dark Knight (& Rises) change aspect ratios on blu-ray because the original versions had sections optimised for IMAX format. That said, you still lost vertical image info as full IMAX ratio is 4:3 - I recall seeing The Dark Knight at the London IMAX and the full 4:3 ratio was used, I've not seen Rises yet but it looks like it only shifts between 21:9 and 16:9 as newer IMAXs don't go 4:3.
This is why I love my Dell 2408WFP - it's getting on a bit now, and the color management isn't as good as it should be (but I have a Huey for that), but it's 16:10 with a resolution of 1920x1200 - absolutely wonderful. I never maximise anything, and mostly have several cascaded portrait shaped windows displayed across it.
Back to topic. I think what Linus actually means is that he wants a higher resolution so that there are no jaggies on fonts, and scrollbars and widgets look sharper. The actual perceived font size (in inches etc.) would be the same - so all these comments about tiny fonts, and 8 way code diffs, are completely missing the point.
Think of it this way, you watch the same movie on a 720p screen, and then on a 1080p screen - do you see more of the movie picture on the latter? No. It's just _sharper_.
-Jar
Fujitsu. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/fujitsu-blacklisted-government-92249
Same company. They just dropped the Siemens suffix in 2009 when they finalised the takeover.
Your information is out of date, according to this BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19622330
Which cheered me up no end, considering that I'm 40 myself.
-Jar
I'll get modded off-topic for this, but I'm gonna post anyway...
The above is great comment, it's informative and contains good grammar and useful information.
The above is also a bad /. comment because it's been posted as AC with a value of 0. This means it will be hidden to most /. users and the modders will ignore it as modding it up doesn't help the poster.
I'm seeing more and more good comments posted as AC - why is this? The /. community is shrinking, and everyone hiding behind AC is just making things worse.
If it was down to me, there'd be no AC option at all.
Over the past 18 months or so, I've been watching TNG with my (now) almost-14 year old daughter. To start things off we shot through the first 6 films, then switched to TNG. Having recently finished TNG we've flipped back to the films (from Generations onwards) and are about to watch Insurrection. Due to time constraints (she's also chewing her way through Buffy* plus normal evening TV) we only did 'highlights' of TNG - about 10-12 episodes per season picked by me. I tried to ensure that all the key episodes were watched and that each character had enough screen time to develop over the seven seasons (interestingly, Seasons 6 and 7 are on reflection, almost all about Data).
Her stand-out TNG moment so far are the Four Lights scenes in Chain of Command. Her favourite character is unsurprisingly Data**.
Not sure where to go next to be honest, thinking of doing ENT - mainly because I've only seen it through once, so a revisit would be nice for me too.
As far as Star Trek (2009) stands - I really didn't gel with it. Can't put my finger on what was wrong, but it definitely isn't proper Trek for me. :(
* Thankfully she hates Twilight :D :/
** SPOILER ALERT: The end of Nemesis is really going to hit her HARD.
Oh while, I'm at it - on topic for the OP: Almost 13 years ago I went to a house party. On the shelf there was a limited edition numbered box set of the first 5 Trek films on VHS so I asked whose it was. I'm now rapidly approaching my 10 year wedding anniversary with the owner of those tapes, and she is my soulmate, my inner trill, and a woman who loves Sci-Fi even more than I do. :D
"Historians are at a loss to explain the demise of the first pan-human civilisation, as although they agree that the populous dwindled and went almost extinct at around AD 3500, there seems to be no surviving written historical records that can be dated any later than circa AD 2000."
"It can only be assumed that around this time, that there was a sudden uptake of illiteracy, maybe caused by a new religion or global-governmental policy. There are surviving references to an organisation or group known as the Inter Nets. We can only guess at what this actually was, but the commonly accepted theory is that it was actually some type of wearable mesh harness that prevented humans of this era from actually writing anything down."
Read More: http://www.mattowen.net/2012/03/the-importance-of-information-preservation
reproduction of a famous church, or London Bridge.
It's TOWER BRIDGE. ffs. You can tell by the, um, towers.
How about we start referring to your landmarks as the Statue of Eiffel, or The Silver Gate Bridge, or the Quite Big Canyon?
-Jar
For accuracy, I think it's worth pointing out that Channel 4 get a teeny-weeny slice of the licence fee also.
I found this interesting so went off to investigate. Found this Gizmodo article with a direct link to a LEGAL Windows 7 ISO download at Digital River:
http://gizmodo.com/5391268/microsoft-fixes-windows-7-student-edition-upgrade-problems
Useless without a key/crack of course, but then we've all got legal keys haven't we? ;) [1]
-Jar
[1] I'm a Technet subscriber so this link is worthless to me as I can download ALL MS OSs with multiple activation keys - if you can afford Technet, it's truly worth it.
No, his comment WAS redundant as installing Linux was inferred by the parent.
Plus, it won't be until 2013 that North America will run out of IPv4 addresses and there's no sense getting worked up before then.
Christ. Arrogant much? last time I looked the Internet existed beyond the terrorist state known as the USA.
There are two Heinleins;
Early Heinlein (his thinner) novels are good examples of early Sci-Fi - I thoroughly recommend 'The Door into Summer' as a good starting point.
Later Heinlein (fatter more rambling books) were all written during and after his mental breakdown - from that set I recommend working through the Lazarus Long stuff initially:
1. Time Enough for Love
2. The Number of the Beast
3. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
4. To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Additionally the novel 'Friday' is a good stand-alone easy to read Heinlein.
Enjoy.
Oh yeah... They are in a hotel room at 1am trying to complete some urgent work and their laptop throws a panic, resulting in an emergency OS re-install and you are wanting them to go out and find DVD-Rs? Optical drives are becoming increasingly uncommon on lighter laptops so a recovery partition that rebuilds the boot OS back to day 1 is the least inconvenient option.
-Jar
Off you lot go then, knock up a Linux distro that does exactly that, and let the masses have it, otherwise your solution is too archaic for 90% of users.
-Jar
People need to realise that a solely Linux solution is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
I for one would love a nice GUI that in a few clicks, would image/compress the installed OS, put that image on a small recovery partition and alter the bootmgr to allow a 'recovery' option at boot time (accepting at this point, that the recovery utility _may_ be a tiny Linux distro).
I don't want to spend hours on every machine that needed this, which is where all your shiny Linux command line tools fall down.
-Jar.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not alone in this. You basically described exactly how I work in Outlook, right down to the 'mark it as unread again' and emails bridging two subjects.
I'm constantly in a love/hate relationship with outlook (and, no, I can't change clients as I'm talking about my work inbox), always trying to new way to manage my mail, and always basically failing and reverting back to the search function to find anything.
My current tactic is that I plan to write a macro that files any mail in my inbox older than 1 month into the relevant archive folder, i.e. 2011-Q1 - I want this done automatically, as I will almost definitely forget.
I get on average 200 mails a day, of which 100+ are important enough that I have to at least read them or at most deal with them. Such is the life of a first tier manager (as mentioned further up in the comments).
What most people have overlooked, is the perfect way to deal with a busy inbox; Hire a PA. Granted that's not always an option (certainly not where I work for the level I'm at). But having someone else dedicated to managing your email really does free up a lot of time and can make you uber efficient (or so my Better Half tells me...).
-Jar
As I understand it, they restricted Light Sabres to levelled up Jedis/Sith in Star Wars Galaxies and the playerbase hated it, so Galaxies tanked and died.
I seriously doubt that ANY online Star Wars game will work, when 90% of the playerbase want to be uber Jedi/Sith from the moment they first log in. People just do not want to be scruffy nerf herders, or sail barge waiters in their favourite universe.
This isn't just confided to Star Wars; Star Trek, Stargate, and My Little Ponyland all suffer this problem.
-Jar