I don't know what "green" means. I exhale CO2, does that mean I'm not "green"? Millions of trees burn all the time in nature, so one can only assume that burning trees can in no way harm our environment. Sure mass genocide of our forests may have some small impact on the environment, but we're just talking about a few trees here.
But you're right, I almost died from the toxic fumes all those times I roasted marshmellows over a campfire. Next time I'll use my bic.
Exactly, it doesn't matter if Linus is slow at accepting kernel patches. It doesn't matter if he has a huge ego. It doesn't even matter if he disappeared. What matters is that you either keep submitting your kernel patches or you don't. Its really up to you to contribute as much or as little as you like. If you decide you don't want to wait for Linus, fine, distribute your own kernel. Who knows, maybe it'll become more stable, efficient, better than Linux. Probably not, but go for it if you can't wait. Or else stop complaining. Cuz the facts show that Linus has done an outstanding job. I'm writing this right now on a fully functional linux system with galeon, evolution and open office. How could I complain? And think about it one second. Thanks to GNU/RMS and the GPL I am able to enjoy this collection of software without copyright/lisencing issues or considerable amounts of $$. Freedom is a wonderful thing. Don't dog it!
Nice one. I personally think our government should put up a website where they can auction off laws to the highest bidder. Right next to the buy-your-own-judge.com.
There's no such thing as an "equivalent PC", since PCs can't run OS X.
OSX is based on darwin BSD, which PCs can run. The only real difference is the proprietary GUI apple added on top of OSX, aqua, which is comparable to XFree86 or even windows. The OS and architecture aside from the GUI can be compared apple to apples since they are so similar.
Exactly. I worked for a few.coms as well as the biguns, SGI, Sun, AOL/TW, etc. There's just something to be said about a startup of 20 people running multiple networks of clusterred systems to push out more personalized content than has ever been done before. Now that the bubble burst and I'm still here making more than ever (I doubled my salery at least 3 times in the last 5 years) I have to laugh at the people who blame the.coms. It was never the technology or the engineering staff in these startups that caused the bubble to burst. First off it was the media giants, look at AOL/TW/CNN. It wasn't 6 months ago when they had the "dotcom crash" stuff going on. Does it honestly surprise you that when the ignorant masses and vcs pull their money out of the only thing driving our blooming economy the ecnomony will crash? Well, I told them back then that it was stupid to pull their money from technology. Technology can only get better, and the rate it gets better is getting faster. Now I'm going to keep my mouth shut, work my easy 10-4:20 job (not nearly as challeging as any.com, plus no documentation required) and collect my dough while the rest of this fucked up country pulls their heads out of their asses... if they ever reallize where their heads are in the first place.
To the stupid Americans: Basicly I've had it. I know how to make this stuff work for me. Now that you've lost your faith in people like myself you're on your own to find a job or the next get-rich-quick scheme. I would have worked for free taking care of this technology for you. I would have helped you automate everything so you could spend time with your family. But what do you do? You trust CNN instead of me, your friend. I don't ask for anything from you. I don't want to sell you anything. I just want to live together with you, work together with you, and share the wealth. You want to hord it for yourself. And now you've lost your job? Don't come crying to me.
P.S. I get such a kick out of kmart, enron, etc. filing for bandrupcy. I guess they were really kmart.com and enron.com, right? Idiots. heh.
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I find the gnome-terminal with the scrollbar and menubar removed, with a shaded transparent background and a nice background image that doesn't conflict with your choice of text coloring make working on the command line fun. In combination with screen for multiple virtual terminals, scrollback buffer, and text searching and processing features, vim and your standard colorful gnu ls you'll find your textual experience much more pleasant and productive than anything GUI based. However I still haven't given up on evolution.
I'm a professional sys admin. The comments about swap space for the 2.4 kernel is greatly exagerated. You don't need double your ram in swap. At most you need a few hundred megs. Often if you have more than 128MB of ram you will only use 100-200MB of swap. Think of it this way (avoiding the current mess with the vm) you only use swap when you run out of ram. The old method of using twice your RAM in swap space used to be a good rule of thumb for those old systems, with around 16-64MB of ram and 100-250MB of swap, but if you have 256+MB of ram you honestly don't even really NEED swap at all. Your system is fully capable of utilizing that ram effectively while running a full suite of apps (50MB for X, 50MB for misc, 50MB for netscape and 50MB for your office/email stuff, leaves 50MB to play around with). If your system can't run in a stable state w/ 256MB RAM and no swap I'd be asking those kernel developers where their head is. Linux used to be able to run in 4MB of RAM with what 8MB of swap? I'd guess you can't even run X in a configuration like that, but that doesn't stop the kernel.
If you're editting extremely large images or video you may need up to 1GB of swap like some database servers enjoy. But most likely you will never use anymore than 300MB. Personally I prefer using around 500MB of swap if I have a 20+ GB harddrive because I never know when I may want to run 6 copies of X or some really poorly written perl script. But my point is you don't need to pay any attention to recommended swap sizes, just choose what you will use. If you don't know what you need, choose what works best for your system.
I remember that, plus it always offerred the option of installing the latest kernel source so you could do it yourself after it gave you the bare essentials.
That's a great way to look at it. We should have a set of automated mining systems orbitting our planet at all times in case something this big comes our way again. We could grab all that we can from it before it gets too far away and maybe even catch some of the small ones. Fly them over to an orbital factory and build our space ships to travel to mars or whatever M$ decides to call their planet, etc.
You create a small track to launch raw materials. Hopefully they can withstand the gs. Then once the tech is proven you create larger and larger rails allowing you to launch larger objects with smaller accelerations. Eventually it could be possible to launch human payloads safely. Once the vehicle is launched you have an orbital shuttle that docks with the payload and brings it safely to a station or orbital factory. These things will take time to build, but at least we're starting to get on the right track with this article. There's no way we'll ever be able to build our space stations or factories without maglev launches. The materials to build these things are simply too heavy to launch affordably any other way, and we're too stupid to learn how to mine them in space. (Oh and since electricity can come directly from the sun it is in abundance and hella cheap. Don't make me smoke you out and show you the light).
Hopefully nuclear fusion will improve within the next couple decades to help us reach the asteroids or mars or at least the moon efficiently and safely.
Actually I'm hoping something like this lands in the pacific ocean. No more continental US OR China, Japan, Australia, South America, etc. The waves would destroy 99% of the coastline. I'd just hope that the rest of the world would be smart enough to not make the same mistakes again. Here's hoping.
No, by my logic the Nazi's should have scrapped their weapons so their government couldn't use them against the rest of the world. I am comparing America to Nazi Germany, not France, Britain or the USSR. Do you honestly think stupid ignorant Americans would not elect Hitler president if he ran today (under another name of course)?
It is! Its absolutely outrageous that I can only justify something like the slaughter of thousands of innocent lives, isn't it? I mean, my government justified the deaths of over half a million lives last decade alone. You're right, sir. I need to seek help because I can only justify those few thousand. Perhaps one day when I learn enough I will be able to justify the millions in the name of capitalism, oh, and of course justice and TAW.
The bad people can't kill us all, and right now there are many people who I do not consider to be good using the collective arsenal of the American public at their disposal. The bad people will always be there. Disarm and maybe the terrorism will go away.
I don't know about you, but I love to waste cheap gas, smoking my tires and bathing in oil. How many people, do you think, lost their lives to bring me this oil? Heh, doesn't matter to me as long as its cheap! Man there's just no substitute for filthy American greed!
Being American its hard for me to understand how so many other American's refuse to review our history. They refuse to dig for information about what our government has done that could ever possibly upset people to the point of attacking the US. They are simple minded folk that learn by watching TV and accept blindly what their false gods tell them.
America has killed so many innocent people with its foreign policy and world-police actions within the last couple decades that it isn't funny anymore. Well, ok, its a little funny. I find it hillarious, actually, that we can kill so many innocent people without anyone retaliating. I mean, they didn't really attack us on sep 11th because we killed innocent people. We have yet to see a retaliation. Since there's no concequences for our actions we should kill again and again and again and again and again. Hell, by the time they can stop us we'll have an unstoppable military. $350 billion a year! Mmmm, death.
I want peace. I'd chop off a hand or sell my soul for peace. But Americans don't want peace. They want revenge and money. Money comes at the cost of foreign lives, which is legal in America, or any capitalist nation for that matter... Well, if that's all it takes, then lets fucking get it over with. Just declare all foreigners are terrorists and nuke 'em all. Then give me my fucking mansion and ferrari so I can be happy. Heh, I hate being an American. I'm sorry, I'm ashamed of my people and my country.
I'm an American, but I ain't no friend of the US government or anyone who supports its actions. It MUST change! I feel that we got what we deserve. And as for the fruits of my labor, I benefit from them not because I'm living in this wonderfully rich country but because I'm not a stupid ignorant American. Its not hard to compete with idiots. And personally I don't care about the 6 figure salery. I'd much rther have my free time or a job I cared about. Its hard to fine a company in this country that truely cares about the quality of their products. Most corps only care about money, just like our faithful government, and as it appears from your post, most of our citizens. Its sad to think that people care more about this little paper dollar bill than the very food they require to survive, hence fast food. Its sad that a dead tree means more to people that a living being. And this is what makes me feel that EVERYONE who agrees with the actions of the government, including myself for letting it happen (ignornantly), we deserved what we got.
So... you must decide do you honestly want someone like me against you? I'm certainly more capable than any terrorist you have ever encountered. I'm a brilliant young technically compotent conceptual thinker without anything to lose, but money. And I don't care about your fuckin dead trees.
Exactly, and its important to remember that the crazies don't represent any one individual country but instead any one of the billions of individual people on earth. You never know who's going to punch you in the nose. It could easily be your next door neighbor who flies the next plane ito the next WTC. So don't support the US government if you don't like the long lines at the airport or the checkpoint stops or the police states or the IP laws or the taxes or the lies or the corruption and greed. Support the government when it does what it is meant to do, educate the people. (I'm a libertarian and I don't even think the government can do that effectively, I personally feel that the gov't is supposed to speak as one voice for the collective opinions of the people, and they didn't even ask me what I think.)
No! You fucking twit. Its not funny how the media system screws rival companies and consumers while their parent corporations act like greedy twisted children from hell. MSNBC, AOLTW, Fox, Disney, Xerox. Its all the same anti-competitive monopolistic bullshit as it has been for the last 30 years. When will these companies grow up and get focussed on their real job? Make us some quality modular well-designed products and make them cheap! FUCK!
I have never met a professional geek that didn't have a love for the technology they develope.
Can't agree with you more. Its so much crack! My favorite games at work are alpha centauri to waste those vast expanses of time and postal to vent frustration on innocent civilians. I'm a well balanced individual.:)
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I don't know what "green" means. I exhale CO2, does that mean I'm not "green"? Millions of trees burn all the time in nature, so one can only assume that burning trees can in no way harm our environment. Sure mass genocide of our forests may have some small impact on the environment, but we're just talking about a few trees here.
But you're right, I almost died from the toxic fumes all those times I roasted marshmellows over a campfire. Next time I'll use my bic.
I wonder if NASA will be required to pay for any damages of uncontrolled reentries if they occur.
Yeah, it sucks. I'm gonna have to wait until 2005 before I can map my family's DNA and search for anomolies.
Exactly, it doesn't matter if Linus is slow at accepting kernel patches. It doesn't matter if he has a huge ego. It doesn't even matter if he disappeared. What matters is that you either keep submitting your kernel patches or you don't. Its really up to you to contribute as much or as little as you like. If you decide you don't want to wait for Linus, fine, distribute your own kernel. Who knows, maybe it'll become more stable, efficient, better than Linux. Probably not, but go for it if you can't wait. Or else stop complaining. Cuz the facts show that Linus has done an outstanding job. I'm writing this right now on a fully functional linux system with galeon, evolution and open office. How could I complain? And think about it one second. Thanks to GNU/RMS and the GPL I am able to enjoy this collection of software without copyright/lisencing issues or considerable amounts of $$. Freedom is a wonderful thing. Don't dog it!
Nice one. I personally think our government should put up a website where they can auction off laws to the highest bidder. Right next to the buy-your-own-judge.com.
There's no such thing as an "equivalent PC", since PCs can't run OS X.
OSX is based on darwin BSD, which PCs can run. The only real difference is the proprietary GUI apple added on top of OSX, aqua, which is comparable to XFree86 or even windows. The OS and architecture aside from the GUI can be compared apple to apples since they are so similar.
Exactly. I worked for a few
To the stupid Americans: Basicly I've had it. I know how to make this stuff work for me. Now that you've lost your faith in people like myself you're on your own to find a job or the next get-rich-quick scheme. I would have worked for free taking care of this technology for you. I would have helped you automate everything so you could spend time with your family. But what do you do? You trust CNN instead of me, your friend. I don't ask for anything from you. I don't want to sell you anything. I just want to live together with you, work together with you, and share the wealth. You want to hord it for yourself. And now you've lost your job? Don't come crying to me.
P.S. I get such a kick out of kmart, enron, etc. filing for bandrupcy. I guess they were really kmart.com and enron.com, right? Idiots. heh.
I find the gnome-terminal with the scrollbar and menubar removed, with a shaded transparent background and a nice background image that doesn't conflict with your choice of text coloring make working on the command line fun. In combination with screen for multiple virtual terminals, scrollback buffer, and text searching and processing features, vim and your standard colorful gnu ls you'll find your textual experience much more pleasant and productive than anything GUI based. However I still haven't given up on evolution.
I'm a professional sys admin. The comments about swap space for the 2.4 kernel is greatly exagerated. You don't need double your ram in swap. At most you need a few hundred megs. Often if you have more than 128MB of ram you will only use 100-200MB of swap. Think of it this way (avoiding the current mess with the vm) you only use swap when you run out of ram. The old method of using twice your RAM in swap space used to be a good rule of thumb for those old systems, with around 16-64MB of ram and 100-250MB of swap, but if you have 256+MB of ram you honestly don't even really NEED swap at all. Your system is fully capable of utilizing that ram effectively while running a full suite of apps (50MB for X, 50MB for misc, 50MB for netscape and 50MB for your office/email stuff, leaves 50MB to play around with). If your system can't run in a stable state w/ 256MB RAM and no swap I'd be asking those kernel developers where their head is. Linux used to be able to run in 4MB of RAM with what 8MB of swap? I'd guess you can't even run X in a configuration like that, but that doesn't stop the kernel.
If you're editting extremely large images or video you may need up to 1GB of swap like some database servers enjoy. But most likely you will never use anymore than 300MB. Personally I prefer using around 500MB of swap if I have a 20+ GB harddrive because I never know when I may want to run 6 copies of X or some really poorly written perl script. But my point is you don't need to pay any attention to recommended swap sizes, just choose what you will use. If you don't know what you need, choose what works best for your system.
I remember that, plus it always offerred the option of installing the latest kernel source so you could do it yourself after it gave you the bare essentials.
No, money is all that matters.
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That's a great way to look at it. We should have a set of automated mining systems orbitting our planet at all times in case something this big comes our way again. We could grab all that we can from it before it gets too far away and maybe even catch some of the small ones. Fly them over to an orbital factory and build our space ships to travel to mars or whatever M$ decides to call their planet, etc.
You create a small track to launch raw materials. Hopefully they can withstand the gs. Then once the tech is proven you create larger and larger rails allowing you to launch larger objects with smaller accelerations. Eventually it could be possible to launch human payloads safely. Once the vehicle is launched you have an orbital shuttle that docks with the payload and brings it safely to a station or orbital factory. These things will take time to build, but at least we're starting to get on the right track with this article. There's no way we'll ever be able to build our space stations or factories without maglev launches. The materials to build these things are simply too heavy to launch affordably any other way, and we're too stupid to learn how to mine them in space. (Oh and since electricity can come directly from the sun it is in abundance and hella cheap. Don't make me smoke you out and show you the light).
Hopefully nuclear fusion will improve within the next couple decades to help us reach the asteroids or mars or at least the moon efficiently and safely.
Actually I'm hoping something like this lands in the pacific ocean. No more continental US OR China, Japan, Australia, South America, etc. The waves would destroy 99% of the coastline. I'd just hope that the rest of the world would be smart enough to not make the same mistakes again. Here's hoping.
No, by my logic the Nazi's should have scrapped their weapons so their government couldn't use them against the rest of the world. I am comparing America to Nazi Germany, not France, Britain or the USSR. Do you honestly think stupid ignorant Americans would not elect Hitler president if he ran today (under another name of course)?
Where's my Ogg?!? Its open and free, why doesn't any dvd/cd/hardware company support it?
It is! Its absolutely outrageous that I can only justify something like the slaughter of thousands of innocent lives, isn't it? I mean, my government justified the deaths of over half a million lives last decade alone. You're right, sir. I need to seek help because I can only justify those few thousand. Perhaps one day when I learn enough I will be able to justify the millions in the name of capitalism, oh, and of course justice and TAW.
The bad people can't kill us all, and right now there are many people who I do not consider to be good using the collective arsenal of the American public at their disposal. The bad people will always be there. Disarm and maybe the terrorism will go away.
Really? Well, welcome to America! :)
I don't know about you, but I love to waste cheap gas, smoking my tires and bathing in oil. How many people, do you think, lost their lives to bring me this oil? Heh, doesn't matter to me as long as its cheap! Man there's just no substitute for filthy American greed!
Being American its hard for me to understand how so many other American's refuse to review our history. They refuse to dig for information about what our government has done that could ever possibly upset people to the point of attacking the US. They are simple minded folk that learn by watching TV and accept blindly what their false gods tell them.
America has killed so many innocent people with its foreign policy and world-police actions within the last couple decades that it isn't funny anymore. Well, ok, its a little funny. I find it hillarious, actually, that we can kill so many innocent people without anyone retaliating. I mean, they didn't really attack us on sep 11th because we killed innocent people. We have yet to see a retaliation. Since there's no concequences for our actions we should kill again and again and again and again and again. Hell, by the time they can stop us we'll have an unstoppable military. $350 billion a year! Mmmm, death.
I want peace. I'd chop off a hand or sell my soul for peace. But Americans don't want peace. They want revenge and money. Money comes at the cost of foreign lives, which is legal in America, or any capitalist nation for that matter... Well, if that's all it takes, then lets fucking get it over with. Just declare all foreigners are terrorists and nuke 'em all. Then give me my fucking mansion and ferrari so I can be happy. Heh, I hate being an American. I'm sorry, I'm ashamed of my people and my country.
I'm an American, but I ain't no friend of the US government or anyone who supports its actions. It MUST change! I feel that we got what we deserve. And as for the fruits of my labor, I benefit from them not because I'm living in this wonderfully rich country but because I'm not a stupid ignorant American. Its not hard to compete with idiots. And personally I don't care about the 6 figure salery. I'd much rther have my free time or a job I cared about. Its hard to fine a company in this country that truely cares about the quality of their products. Most corps only care about money, just like our faithful government, and as it appears from your post, most of our citizens. Its sad to think that people care more about this little paper dollar bill than the very food they require to survive, hence fast food. Its sad that a dead tree means more to people that a living being. And this is what makes me feel that EVERYONE who agrees with the actions of the government, including myself for letting it happen (ignornantly), we deserved what we got.
So... you must decide do you honestly want someone like me against you? I'm certainly more capable than any terrorist you have ever encountered. I'm a brilliant young technically compotent conceptual thinker without anything to lose, but money. And I don't care about your fuckin dead trees.
Exactly, and its important to remember that the crazies don't represent any one individual country but instead any one of the billions of individual people on earth. You never know who's going to punch you in the nose. It could easily be your next door neighbor who flies the next plane ito the next WTC. So don't support the US government if you don't like the long lines at the airport or the checkpoint stops or the police states or the IP laws or the taxes or the lies or the corruption and greed. Support the government when it does what it is meant to do, educate the people. (I'm a libertarian and I don't even think the government can do that effectively, I personally feel that the gov't is supposed to speak as one voice for the collective opinions of the people, and they didn't even ask me what I think.)
No! You fucking twit. Its not funny how the media system screws rival companies and consumers while their parent corporations act like greedy twisted children from hell. MSNBC, AOLTW, Fox, Disney, Xerox. Its all the same anti-competitive monopolistic bullshit as it has been for the last 30 years. When will these companies grow up and get focussed on their real job? Make us some quality modular well-designed products and make them cheap! FUCK!
I have never met a professional geek that didn't have a love for the technology they develope.
Can't agree with you more. Its so much crack! My favorite games at work are alpha centauri to waste those vast expanses of time and postal to vent frustration on innocent civilians. I'm a well balanced individual.