I've been running Linux at work (unofficially, of course) for a long time. I finally upgraded my laptop a couple of weeks ago, and now I have no reason to run Windows at work at all (even though I am officially a Novell/NT geek at work).
I have still been reluctant to switch my main home machine over, though. I decided I could deal with rebooting for DVDs and games, but I didn't want to live without a good audio system, as I have MP3s playing all the time.
So I made some room on my hard drive, and my first task of this morning was to track down a driver for my SB Live card before I installed RH 6.1. So I put on the coffee, started/. loading (very slow connection here), and what a shock - the first story is exactly what I wanted. Thanks, Creative, and thanks,/.
I think this story is a good enough reason to ask you folks to implement a new feature: statea-moderation. Could somebody please take some points away from Mass so they don't get past my hard limit of one?
I thought it couldn't get any worse than Sun's last ad campaign. I thought wrong.
I don't know about the rest of the net, but on/. I think the number one mistake is lose/loose. Not actually a typo, but it is everywhere. Every day or two it rears its ugly head.
As far as digital signatures go: I don't see a whole lot of use for this in my life, but it beats using a thumbprint for anything. I don't know how widespread this is, but many banks in this area now require a thumbprint if you go in to cash a check and you are not a customer of said bank.
Okay, I'll start by admitting a slight bias here. I started with an Amiga 1000, moved on to a 3000, used my brother's 500 while the 3000 was in the shop (CIA chip, of course), my brother bought a 1200, and a few months ago I traded some stereo equipment for a 2000.
I learned how to work with a CLI on an Amiga, and loved the integration with the GUI. The multitasking was great, and I still think it did many things better than any other OS out there.
But let us say that the OS is open sourced. What do we do with it? Am I wrong in thinking that it is so outdated that it would have to be completely rewritten? Is there something else we can get out of an open sourcing? Intellectual property rights maybe?
Maybe somebody could hack this thing into a window manager? Nico Francois, are you still out there? I want Powersnap under X.
Okay, that is it. I need to get away from computers and technology for a while. I managed to read your whole post straight through. Which wouldn't be odd, except for that acronym, which I didn't even think about.
I could only manage to read a few paragraphs of this before I had to stop. The spelling was terrible, the grammar was terrible. In short, it looked as if he didn't bother to read what he had wrote before submitting this.
I know I am off topic with this, but this is just one example of low standards of grammar and spelling endemic throughout this community. At the very least, can't people run spell checkers? Why are geeks so bad at this?
By the way, loose != lose. I left a couple of errors in this post, because everyone knows the rules of spelling and grammar flames, but the question still remains. How can people be so good with code, where the smallest errors can make the biggest difference, and still write so poorly?
I have had mixed results with RH6 and a Jet Direct. Most apps print fine, however Star Office still seems a bit buggy. I can print from the spreadsheet just fine, but the word processor and presentation packages almost always fail.
That being said, printing from Netscape (the majority of my printing) works fine most of the time, but I had to kill a 29 day uptime this week to get some jobs out of the queue. Turned out that I just needed to reset the Jet Direct box. After I did that, everything I had printed came spooling out, and no problems since then. I don't know what to blame, since I've had no problem using the same Jet Direct box under other operating systems, and it had been up for many months without a problem.
One other factor I have been considering is memory on the printer. I'm using a 5SI MX, but it has the default amount of memory, and no postscript. Complex graphics usually don't print, with no indication of error from the Jet Direct, printer, or my system. I've tried dropping down to 300 DPI, but with no change (except to the output of less complex graphics). Some sort of integrated solution for all of this would be nice, but I don't think I'm ready for CUPS yet. What I'm doing is (or should be) quite standard and easily supported, but this is one thing that I can't impress the Windows folks at work with.
Fortunately, my home printer has Postscript, for the sole reason of not having to deal with issues like this.
The weight and travel on the keys of the old IBM AT keyboards are the best I have found. You can pick them up for as little as $5 at used computer places, and they are easy enough to clean up. I have three at home and two at work, and I will use nothing else. Although I still have some severe shoulder pain (mostly from an unrelated injury) when I use the mouse for extended periods, I have no problems with my left wrist. The gel wrist rest helps, also.
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I've been running Linux at work (unofficially, of course) for a long time. I finally upgraded my laptop a couple of weeks ago, and now I have no reason to run Windows at work at all (even though I am officially a Novell/NT geek at work).
/. loading (very slow connection here), and what a shock - the first story is exactly what I wanted. Thanks, Creative, and thanks, /.
I have still been reluctant to switch my main home machine over, though. I decided I could deal with rebooting for DVDs and games, but I didn't want to live without a good audio system, as I have MP3s playing all the time.
So I made some room on my hard drive, and my first task of this morning was to track down a driver for my SB Live card before I installed RH 6.1. So I put on the coffee, started
I think this story is a good enough reason to ask you folks to implement a new feature: statea-moderation. Could somebody please take some points away from Mass so they don't get past my hard limit of one?
I thought it couldn't get any worse than Sun's last ad campaign. I thought wrong.
I don't know about the rest of the net, but on /. I think the number one mistake is lose/loose. Not actually a typo, but it is everywhere. Every day or two it rears its ugly head.
As far as digital signatures go: I don't see a whole lot of use for this in my life, but it beats using a thumbprint for anything. I don't know how widespread this is, but many banks in this area now require a thumbprint if you go in to cash a check and you are not a customer of said bank.
Okay, I'll start by admitting a slight bias here. I started with an Amiga 1000, moved on to a 3000, used my brother's 500 while the 3000 was in the shop (CIA chip, of course), my brother bought a 1200, and a few months ago I traded some stereo equipment for a 2000.
I learned how to work with a CLI on an Amiga, and loved the integration with the GUI. The multitasking was great, and I still think it did many things better than any other OS out there.
But let us say that the OS is open sourced. What do we do with it? Am I wrong in thinking that it is so outdated that it would have to be completely rewritten? Is there something else we can get out of an open sourcing? Intellectual property rights maybe?
Maybe somebody could hack this thing into a window manager? Nico Francois, are you still out there? I want Powersnap under X.
Okay, that is it. I need to get away from computers and technology for a while. I managed to read your whole post straight through. Which wouldn't be odd, except for that acronym, which I didn't even think about.
I could only manage to read a few paragraphs of this before I had to stop. The spelling was terrible, the grammar was terrible. In short, it looked as if he didn't bother to read what he had wrote before submitting this.
I know I am off topic with this, but this is just one example of low standards of grammar and spelling endemic throughout this community. At the very least, can't people run spell checkers? Why are geeks so bad at this?
By the way, loose != lose. I left a couple of errors in this post, because everyone knows the rules of spelling and grammar flames, but the question still remains. How can people be so good with code, where the smallest errors can make the biggest difference, and still write so poorly?
I have had mixed results with RH6 and a Jet Direct. Most apps print fine, however Star Office still seems a bit buggy. I can print from the spreadsheet just fine, but the word processor and presentation packages almost always fail.
That being said, printing from Netscape (the majority of my printing) works fine most of the time, but I had to kill a 29 day uptime this week to get some jobs out of the queue. Turned out that I just needed to reset the Jet Direct box. After I did that, everything I had printed came spooling out, and no problems since then. I don't know what to blame, since I've had no problem using the same Jet Direct box under other operating systems, and it had been up for many months without a problem.
One other factor I have been considering is memory on the printer. I'm using a 5SI MX, but it has the default amount of memory, and no postscript. Complex graphics usually don't print, with no indication of error from the Jet Direct, printer, or my system. I've tried dropping down to 300 DPI, but with no change (except to the output of less complex graphics). Some sort of integrated solution for all of this would be nice, but I don't think I'm ready for CUPS yet. What I'm doing is (or should be) quite standard and easily supported, but this is one thing that I can't impress the Windows folks at work with.
Fortunately, my home printer has Postscript, for the sole reason of not having to deal with issues like this.
Isn't it obvious? Someone let Mr. Sparkle into the plant.
The weight and travel on the keys of the old IBM AT keyboards are the best I have found. You can pick them up for as little as $5 at used computer places, and they are easy enough to clean up. I have three at home and two at work, and I will use nothing else. Although I still have some severe shoulder pain (mostly from an unrelated injury) when I use the mouse for extended periods, I have no problems with my left wrist. The gel wrist rest helps, also.
"...overhead gets so high that you loose any kind of advantage of the communications."
Working fine from here, and much faster than it has been. Thanks guys.