Well considering Athlon X2 is bleeding edge , and you probably have an older distro with an older kernel which doesnt have support for you System (causing it to emulate things such as IDE Sata which makes any computer extremely slow.
Also in many cases a new kernel or even a recompile may be needed to enable the full potential of dual cores.
I had the same problem with Windows XP It did support my SIS180 Sata controller so my maxtor 16m cache hdd was transfering slower than a cd could.
Konqueror isn't a dedicated web browser so it's expected to be slower at web pages.
I found KDE 3.4.1 extremely fast on my Athlon XP 1.4gz (1700+) with 512m ram , however my duron 1.0ghz with 512m ram crawls along.
but that should be expected duron has a much smaller cache.
have you not seen Samba Lately?
The protocol of sharing files on Windows Networks, it changes a lot between windows versions and has poor documentation for linux developers to make Samba
after reading the blurb there was not even a mention of web based.
OSS community is itching for an effect Desktop search algorythm
maybe this is it.
Software to index anything
actually since day one MS has made massive losses on the console hardware.
They were more expensive to make than Playstation 2
Yet they had to undercut Sony on price to make it in the door.
Their only profits are from game and LIVE royalties.
I'm on board i Posted a letter to the ATO last year with the same grevance.
ATO should post out a linux live cd with tax software on it.
it would prevent any chance of uneducated people giving all their personal details to a keylogger in their crappy windows honey pot:)
We will proabably start seeing gangs of Air pirates in the next 60 years - 100 years, men with eye patches swinging from ropes and grunting boarding Google freight and cargo planes.
Kinda scary really:)
Pirates have moved from the seas to our citys next step in the Air:)
and then ohhh:0 they will infect space shuttles by the year 3000 will be prey for astropirates
I use KDE and everything konquoror saves is stored /home/me/.konqueror
Amarok saves /home/me/.amarok
AMSN saves /home/me/.amsn/
it has access restricted to Root/Admin and me
you can't access it and i can't access /home/you/
all hardware settings and data is stored/etc/
it is not accesible by any one bah Root/admin
Many programs (non MS adopt a similar concept in c:/Document/me/Localsettings/Applicationdata ?
Linux doesnt have the ultimate solution but it is more
a. user friendly
b. safer no hardware data contained to be damaged
c. has a longer life span (performance degrades slower)
d. It is completely mobile. i can store it on an independant hdd, portible drive/flash.
i can even copy my complete/home/me/ directory to another completely different computer and all my personal setting remain in tact
(the windows registry can not be moved between machines due to hardware related settings.)
where as MS software likes filling the registry. to max capacity
I used Mac a couple times at TAFE because i was annoyed at how unsteady the windows network setup was.
MAC OS/X has evoled very rapidly and various tools are extremely nice, however i didnt get to use the Widget due to system policy, i was so in love with mac OSX but couldnt afford a mac so install Linux
With KDE and GNOME both of which support widgets.
I have Weather Widget and the clock is a widget:P
A widget displaying the temperature status of my hardware.
i do wish i had lots more widgets,
in particular
one that displayed whats currently on the 3 TV local channels (whats on TV NOW! do i wanna watch?)
Widget are an innovation that windows doesnt offer.
Windows has not changed since 95, same start menu (it did evolve in XP but isnt very original)
The worst thing a person can learn is can't windows has shoved it down our throat for years can't do this can't do that
anything is possible and if it possible people will use it.
I'm guilty of it windows 3.1 came out i received a copy and i thought what the hell is the point i can do every thing i need in DOS but i ended up using 3.1 due to the convenience.
there have been daYs where things were so unthinkable that many believed why bother making that noone will ever use it
Bill Gates himself said noone will ever ever ever use email, or internet for business.
hense why Windows 95 was internet friendly
Win98 was fully internet orentated.
those figure inflated they may be
ar making admin support Firefox better and releasing compatible products.
Opera masquerading as IE doesnt get everything done that IE can
what about IE only applets, extensions, media content?
they don't all work and if opera showed it presence that would change just like it did for firefox
many online tools , security, antivirus, games email websites have shifted from IE only scripting, language or Activex along with specific reliance on Windows instead opting to extend their support for non WintelIE products
thanks to influence from Mozilla-Firefox and the mobile browsers (phones) users.
Software Patents dont protect the software industry as a whole, it mearly protects the companies with the most money. aka the company with the capacity to buy the most patents.
When did Most of these software companies grow exponentially?
well during the biggest peaks in the IT industry there was absolutely no thought of Software patents
the software industry as a whole didnt need patents to help them grow.
The most powerful and influencial software companies are pushing for this to create a world, which will be disaster.
This mistake happened once before in physical technology.
The Car (automobile) one car company owned the patent on the tyre, another the wheel, another the steering wheel.
If this stupid practice wasn't settled and dismissed the car would never be produced till all patents had expired. That debarcle would have wasted 25 years of human revolution, if the car makers hadn't agreed to a patent sharing agreement and started building cars.
Open Source isnt dead though
Redhat, Novell, IBM and Sun have vowed to defend and retaliant to threats of software patent litegation against Open Source interests.
Probably can add apple to that list due to reliance on Opensource projects as integral parts of Mac OSx.
i didnt think paypal made any money from fees I figured they made money on the interest of average $20 x 20 million users
$400 million dollars equates to a lot of interest
that is why i don't use standard banks or paypal to store my money they make money out of my money and either charge me fees or offer me free storage.
HSBC:) and ING may make millions from my money but at least i get some interest from it.
I wouldnt mind it
Hypersensitive doesnt mean it will violently, uncontrolably rock back and forward,
Currently an Optical mouse is a hypersensitive device
compare it to a Mechanical mouse (aka ball mouse)
A current scroll is mechanical also in many cases the exact same wheel with cogs over infra red picks up movement,
sometimes you scroll one line
sometimes 2 lines at a time.
and you have no way to scroll less any other factor than 1. aka no scrolling 1 and a half lines.
a good optical mouse can just about be moved by pixels.
i remember my last ball mouse in 2000 which sometimes moved an inch other times moved much more making it unresponsive and unreliable.
your info isnt the only thing google wont forget
on
Google Never Forgets
·
· Score: 1
google image from homepage late 1999
http://www.google.com/images/Title_HomPg.gif
check out the first google image 1998
http://www.google.com/google.jpg
i guess they forgot to delete them too
noone here can blame google for covering themselves saying info may remain on their servers for a long time.
I bet the main people complaining arent aware that when you delete a file on your computer it doesnt actually get deleted
it remains physically on the hdd till it is over written, Google uses hdd too and delete stuff as do we.
what's this talk only about redhat what's wrong with SUSE?
Powered by novell they apparently have reasonable pricing structure, and most windows systems i've seen use patch up windows flaws by paying for Novell network products anyways.
I'm a little worried
some psychologists regard
red as the colour of passion and rage.
Blue as a colour is smooth and calming.
Have you seen how mad some people get at a blue screen? smashed keyboards, mice , cursing.
what would happen under the influence of red?
i for one will be very hestitant on using a lornhorn powered windows machine in the same room as any other machine.
ok this thread is stupid we have two topics running simultaneously.
1. Computer store have no reaon to find it important to stop spyware fullstop, just provide a reason level of protection aka adaware.
2. Open source software is a avenure that may be worth pursueing.
How much does MS Windows, Office etc add to the cost of a computer you sell?
$150?
that margin can be used to undercut competitors prices,
*ad*
Blazing fast Pentium 3.06ghz with Hyperthreading technology
512megs of ram
5.1 channel sound
15" LCD flat panel monitor
comes ready to use with Windows XP home
and Office software to get your work done fast.
also including mouse and keyboard
all for $50 cheaper than your competitor due to substitution of MS Office for OpenOffice.
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Microsoft clearly did not INVENT once only dvd,
i have seen numerous designs the best is a DVD with plastic surface that withing 24 hours Oxygen causes it to decompose
Fine by me everytime i open the paper
a raft of annoying brousures and surveys fall out.
Then all the full page graphic ads disturbing my reading
Well considering Athlon X2 is bleeding edge , and you probably have an older distro with an older kernel which doesnt have support for you System (causing it to emulate things such as IDE Sata which makes any computer extremely slow.
Also in many cases a new kernel or even a recompile may be needed to enable the full potential of dual cores.
I had the same problem with Windows XP It did support my SIS180 Sata controller so my maxtor 16m cache hdd was transfering slower than a cd could.
Konqueror isn't a dedicated web browser so it's expected to be slower at web pages.
I found KDE 3.4.1 extremely fast on my Athlon XP 1.4gz (1700+) with 512m ram , however my duron 1.0ghz with 512m ram crawls along.
but that should be expected duron has a much smaller cache.
You can't really call CD dead.
it should be supported for another 5-10 years
until music CD's disappear from the picture give or take 5 years before DVD bluray etc drives dont bother adding cd read capability.
as far as i'm concerned DVD will die long before CD will.
Don't forget the sub-address support.
:)
I sign up to almost all online things with
example for my slashdotaccount
carl0ski+slashdot@gmail.com
a + symbol and any string can be added between you gmail account name and the at symbol.
They are vaild addresses an delivered to you.
In my case i use them for security purposes, suspect sites i use carl0ski+spam
as my address.
then filter it straight to trash
Gmail does arrogantly supply use with a
:)
HTML Gmail interface for times im using lynx
have you not seen Samba Lately? The protocol of sharing files on Windows Networks, it changes a lot between windows versions and has poor documentation for linux developers to make Samba
after reading the blurb there was not even a mention of web based. OSS community is itching for an effect Desktop search algorythm maybe this is it. Software to index anything
actually since day one MS has made massive losses on the console hardware. They were more expensive to make than Playstation 2 Yet they had to undercut Sony on price to make it in the door. Their only profits are from game and LIVE royalties.
have you tried the muliplier of 6 on that k6-3?
:)
some k6-2+ and k6-3
let you set the muliplier to 2x and
it assumes it is 6x
very handy i once had a k6-2 at 6x83 on a p1 board maxed out
it retired 2 years ago
you clearly never had a pre 586 cpu
i dont think he is not talking anything about the memory controller
IO Hardware control was the reposibily of extra hardware
network cards handled all io traffic
sound cards were very complex and the cpu did
absolutely nothing to help
A prime example is the Wintel modem
Linux doesnt support them well as drivers/software pass all the work to the processor
more expensive modems dont use the cpu at all extenal modems generally.
Example my tv tuner PCI used to work flawless on my old pentium 100
however with my current much newer 1ghz machine it has a cpu usage and slows (drops heaps frames) when i'm loading programs.
now everything has been offloaded for the cpu to do
mainly at the time it was because they were fast enough and the io components add extra cost.
You still buy IO cards but are they compatible with new boards?
I'm on board i Posted a letter to the ATO last year with the same grevance.
:)
ATO should post out a linux live cd with tax software on it.
it would prevent any chance of uneducated people giving all their personal details to a keylogger in their crappy windows honey pot
We will proabably start seeing gangs of Air pirates in the next
:)
:)
:0 they will infect space
60 years - 100 years, men with eye patches swinging from ropes and grunting
boarding Google freight and cargo planes.
Kinda scary really
Pirates have moved from the seas to our citys next step in the Air
and then ohhh
shuttles by the year 3000 will be prey for astropirates
you shouldnt need tools though
/home/me/.konqueror
/home/me/.amarok
/home/me/.amsn/
/home/you/
/etc/
/home/me/ directory to another completely different computer and all my personal setting remain in tact
I use KDE and everything konquoror saves is stored
Amarok saves
AMSN saves
it has access restricted to Root/Admin and me
you can't access it and i can't access
all hardware settings and data is stored
it is not accesible by any one bah Root/admin
Many programs (non MS adopt a similar concept in
c:/Document/me/Localsettings/Applicationdata ?
Linux doesnt have the ultimate solution but it is more
a. user friendly
b. safer no hardware data contained to be damaged
c. has a longer life span (performance degrades slower)
d. It is completely mobile. i can store it on an independant hdd, portible drive/flash. i can even copy my complete
(the windows registry can not be moved between machines due to hardware related settings.) where as MS software likes filling the registry. to max capacity
really?
:P
I used Mac a couple times at TAFE because i was
annoyed at how unsteady the windows network
setup was.
MAC OS/X has evoled very rapidly and various tools
are extremely nice, however i didnt get to use the Widget due to system policy, i was so
in love with mac OSX but couldnt afford a mac
so install Linux
With KDE and GNOME both of which support widgets.
I have Weather Widget and the clock is a widget
A widget displaying the temperature status of my hardware.
i do wish i had lots more widgets,
in particular
one that displayed whats currently on the 3 TV
local channels (whats on TV NOW! do i wanna
watch?)
Widget are an innovation that windows doesnt offer.
Windows has not changed since 95, same start menu
(it did evolve in XP but isnt very original)
The worst thing a person can learn is can't
windows has shoved it down our throat for years
can't do this can't do that
anything is possible and if it possible people will use it.
I'm guilty of it
windows 3.1 came out i received a copy and i thought what the hell is the
point i can do every thing i need in DOS
but i ended up using 3.1 due to the convenience.
there have been daYs where things were so
unthinkable that many believed why bother making that noone will ever use it
Bill Gates himself said noone will ever ever ever use email, or internet for business.
hense why Windows 95 was internet friendly
Win98 was fully internet orentated.
He invented a proxy firewall comeon
he has made a lot of money probably
all the best security expert should be equivilent to a master criminal.
maybe he began hacking proxie to highlight the need for his product??
those figure inflated they may be
ar making admin support Firefox better and releasing compatible products.
Opera masquerading as IE doesnt get everything done that IE can
what about IE only applets, extensions, media content?
they don't all work and if opera showed it presence that would change
just like it did for firefox
many online tools , security, antivirus, games email websites have shifted from IE only scripting, language or Activex along with specific reliance on Windows
instead opting to extend their support for non WintelIE products thanks to influence from Mozilla-Firefox and the mobile browsers (phones) users.
Windows Doesnt support clustering that why it isnt there
Software Patents dont protect the software industry as a whole, it mearly protects the companies with the most money. aka the company with the capacity to buy the most patents. When did Most of these software companies grow exponentially? well during the biggest peaks in the IT industry there was absolutely no thought of Software patents the software industry as a whole didnt need patents to help them grow. The most powerful and influencial software companies are pushing for this to create a world, which will be disaster. This mistake happened once before in physical technology. The Car (automobile) one car company owned the patent on the tyre, another the wheel, another the steering wheel. If this stupid practice wasn't settled and dismissed the car would never be produced till all patents had expired. That debarcle would have wasted 25 years of human revolution, if the car makers hadn't agreed to a patent sharing agreement and started building cars. Open Source isnt dead though Redhat, Novell, IBM and Sun have vowed to defend and retaliant to threats of software patent litegation against Open Source interests. Probably can add apple to that list due to reliance on Opensource projects as integral parts of Mac OSx.
i didnt think paypal made any money from fees I figured they made money on the interest of average $20 x 20 million users $400 million dollars equates to a lot of interest that is why i don't use standard banks or paypal to store my money they make money out of my money and either charge me fees or offer me free storage. HSBC :) and ING may make millions from my money but at least i get some interest from it.
I wouldnt mind it Hypersensitive doesnt mean it will violently, uncontrolably rock back and forward, Currently an Optical mouse is a hypersensitive device compare it to a Mechanical mouse (aka ball mouse) A current scroll is mechanical also in many cases the exact same wheel with cogs over infra red picks up movement, sometimes you scroll one line sometimes 2 lines at a time. and you have no way to scroll less any other factor than 1. aka no scrolling 1 and a half lines. a good optical mouse can just about be moved by pixels. i remember my last ball mouse in 2000 which sometimes moved an inch other times moved much more making it unresponsive and unreliable.
google image from homepage late 1999 http://www.google.com/images/Title_HomPg.gif check out the first google image 1998 http://www.google.com/google.jpg i guess they forgot to delete them too noone here can blame google for covering themselves saying info may remain on their servers for a long time. I bet the main people complaining arent aware that when you delete a file on your computer it doesnt actually get deleted it remains physically on the hdd till it is over written, Google uses hdd too and delete stuff as do we.
what's this talk only about redhat what's wrong with SUSE? Powered by novell they apparently have reasonable pricing structure, and most windows systems i've seen use patch up windows flaws by paying for Novell network products anyways.
I'm a little worried some psychologists regard red as the colour of passion and rage. Blue as a colour is smooth and calming. Have you seen how mad some people get at a blue screen? smashed keyboards, mice , cursing. what would happen under the influence of red? i for one will be very hestitant on using a lornhorn powered windows machine in the same room as any other machine.
ok this thread is stupid we have two topics running simultaneously. 1. Computer store have no reaon to find it important to stop spyware fullstop, just provide a reason level of protection aka adaware. 2. Open source software is a avenure that may be worth pursueing. How much does MS Windows, Office etc add to the cost of a computer you sell? $150? that margin can be used to undercut competitors prices, *ad* Blazing fast Pentium 3.06ghz with Hyperthreading technology 512megs of ram 5.1 channel sound 15" LCD flat panel monitor comes ready to use with Windows XP home and Office software to get your work done fast. also including mouse and keyboard all for $50 cheaper than your competitor due to substitution of MS Office for OpenOffice.