i have an AMD athlonXP 1600+ (1.4Gig MHz) CPU and i just ordered a new motherboard to slide under it that has better support for different BUS speeds (266/333/400).
RAM @ PC1600, PC2100, PC2700, PC3200
IDE Controller @ ATA33/ATA66/ATA100/ATA133
i know it is not new, but for what i do i dont need bleeding edge. but if i want to slap a new CPU in then no problem, faster RAM no problem, and salvaging used components is gravy too:^)
since most computers still come with a 56k dialup modem why dont banks offer a private phone number for the modem to dial to their customers, it would sure improve privacy and security becuase a direct line to the bank would bypass ISPs & the WWW that normal channels use for internet connections...
GNU/Linux is user friendly, it is not idiot friendly or stupid friendly, maybe you need to spend a little time learning to use a computer from a GNU/Linux point of view, i think you been sitting in front of a MS Windows machine for so long it has turned your brain in to mush...
games such as quake is not only reason people use computers, some people actually use an office suite to do actual work...
it is all a matter of personal preference in web browsers, like i said before IMHO konquerer is a great file manager but i dont like it as a web browser - it has lots of features -- too many features maybe, what i like about firefox is it seems to have the right features for customizing to my personal taste...
you use konqueror as your main web browser? fine, use it and be happy:^P
if it was not for other family members & friends wanting to use my computer i would not even have KDE installed and only use fvwm or an older version of xfce as a WM...
KDE is somewhat modular, if you choose you can get away with only installing KDEbase, KDElibs, KDEartwork, (arts & QT are needed too), all the rest of the packages are optional...
i agree, Konquerer makes for a great file manager, but as a web browser it needs work, i think i will stick with Firefox or Opera for web browsers...
there is a project called SimleKDE i am going to keep an eye on- http://www.simplekde.org/ i hope SimpleKDE makes a good fork (little brother) of KDE...
...if they want to survive, when FOSS gains enough market share that most the world has moved on and been using FOSS and it puts msft in fear of becoming obsolete they will cooperate, make microsoft cooperate with FOSS first! to show good faith, the sooner msft realises the IT industry can live without them the better...
so if this little detail is not made known, it can be used as marketers to make an ISP's offerings sound better than it really is (the spinzone)...
so a 24 Megabit per second connection is a 3 megabyte per second connection, not bad but can be misleading to some that are unfamilier with this fact...
I will continue to use GNU/GPLed FOSS software ONLY!
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i use GNU/Linux (slackware) as my desktop OS, using Mozilla/Firefox with the flash plugin & RealPlayer http://news.yahoo.com/video used to work until they changed to this new format, (which requires Flash i know of, as far as media player i tried RealPlayer and i tried MPlayer compiled from source with the codecs package and MPlayerplig-in compiled from source with gecko-sdk and Yahoo/news/video still does not work!!! so out of frustration i an serously thinking of abandoning Yahoo too...
and i WILL NOT buy WinXP or WinVista just to watch yahoo video and other website's media content...
my experience when composing email at http://mail.yahoo.com/ is that with any web browser besides Internet Explorer in Windows, such as mozilla/firefox/konqueror/opera only get a plain text option, with IE i can do HTML email including imbedding jpg files too...
i have not tried the new beta yet, but before you praise Yahoo's new mail composer try it with alternative browsers and maybe in GNU/Linux to see what is missing compared to what yahoo offers when using IE & Windows...
look at mozilla.org at thunderbird email client for Linux as an example, you dont actually run any installer, just unpack a tar.gz file and open the directory and run the executable, make whatever symlinks, menu or desktop icons/shortcuts needed
i understand where your point of view, i just delete all email that is not from friends or family unopened anyway so spam is not much of an issue to me, sometimes i like to make fonts have a different color or make a particular word italic or bold to provide emphasis...
i been using yahoo since the late 1990's and i am starting to become disgusted with them, there has been about three revisions of Yahoo Instant Messenger for Windows but their YIM for Linux has not been updated and left pretty much featureless, and since it has not been updated i somehow wonder if it is a security problem for users of Yahoo's Linux/BSD IM...
and their web based email when accessed with ANY web browser other than Internet Explorer is featureless and plain text only, when even google's gmail using Firefox on Linux offers more as in the ability of changing text font styles, size & color, gmail even has a built in spell checker too, i am just about to abandon yahoo like i abandoned msn back in 1998...
just get rid of the Windows style government that has a draconion EULA and a ClosedSource philosophy and install an OpenSource/GPLed government that does not lean to the left or right that keeps to the middle of the road with a better perspective...
["Possibly the whole state bureaucracy, whole state machine is just like a Windows installation. It degrades over time and at some point you have to re-install from scratch."]
good analogy:)
the grandparent poster could be forgetting that seemingly useless discoveries can sometimes prove usefull and serve practical purposes after other discoveries are made like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle.
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i have an AMD athlonXP 1600+ (1.4Gig MHz) CPU and i just ordered a new motherboard to slide under it that has better support for different BUS speeds (266/333/400).
:^)
RAM @ PC1600, PC2100, PC2700, PC3200
IDE Controller @ ATA33/ATA66/ATA100/ATA133
i know it is not new, but for what i do i dont need bleeding edge. but if i want to slap a new CPU in then no problem, faster RAM no problem, and salvaging used components is gravy too
since most computers still come with a 56k dialup modem why dont banks offer a private phone number for the modem to dial to their customers, it would sure improve privacy and security becuase a direct line to the bank would bypass ISPs & the WWW that normal channels use for internet connections...
i use mcedit you insensitive clod!
Google also hired Gaim's Programmer :^)
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051015/tc_cmp/17230
GNU/Linux is user friendly, it is not idiot friendly or stupid friendly, maybe you need to spend a little time learning to use a computer from a GNU/Linux point of view, i think you been sitting in front of a MS Windows machine for so long it has turned your brain in to mush...
games such as quake is not only reason people use computers, some people actually use an office suite to do actual work...
it is all a matter of personal preference in web browsers, like i said before IMHO konquerer is a great file manager but i dont like it as a web browser - it has lots of features -- too many features maybe, what i like about firefox is it seems to have the right features for customizing to my personal taste...
:^P
you use konqueror as your main web browser? fine, use it and be happy
if it was not for other family members & friends wanting to use my computer i would not even have KDE installed and only use fvwm or an older version of xfce as a WM...
_HappyTrails:)
KDE is somewhat modular, if you choose you can get away with only installing KDEbase, KDElibs, KDEartwork, (arts & QT are needed too), all the rest of the packages are optional...
i agree, Konquerer makes for a great file manager, but as a web browser it needs work, i think i will stick with Firefox or Opera for web browsers...
there is a project called SimleKDE i am going to keep an eye on- http://www.simplekde.org/ i hope SimpleKDE makes a good fork (little brother) of KDE...
...if they want to survive, when FOSS gains enough market share that most the world has moved on and been using FOSS and it puts msft in fear of becoming obsolete they will cooperate, make microsoft cooperate with FOSS first! to show good faith, the sooner msft realises the IT industry can live without them the better...
drink the koolaide monkeyboy
am i correct on this?
it takes 8 bits to make 1 byte.
so if this little detail is not made known, it can be used as marketers to make an ISP's offerings sound better than it really is (the spinzone)...
so a 24 Megabit per second connection is a 3 megabyte per second connection, not bad but can be misleading to some that are unfamilier with this fact...
I will continue to use GNU/GPLed FOSS software ONLY!
i use GNU/Linux (slackware) as my desktop OS, using Mozilla/Firefox with the flash plugin & RealPlayer http://news.yahoo.com/video used to work until they changed to this new format, (which requires Flash i know of, as far as media player i tried RealPlayer and i tried MPlayer compiled from source with the codecs package and MPlayerplig-in compiled from source with gecko-sdk and Yahoo/news/video still does not work!!! so out of frustration i an serously thinking of abandoning Yahoo too...
and i WILL NOT buy WinXP or WinVista just to watch yahoo video and other website's media content...
my experience when composing email at http://mail.yahoo.com/ is that with any web browser besides Internet Explorer in Windows, such as mozilla/firefox/konqueror/opera only get a plain text option, with IE i can do HTML email including imbedding jpg files too...
i have not tried the new beta yet, but before you praise Yahoo's new mail composer try it with alternative browsers and maybe in GNU/Linux to see what is missing compared to what yahoo offers when using IE & Windows...
look at mozilla.org at thunderbird email client for Linux as an example, you dont actually run any installer, just unpack a tar.gz file and open the directory and run the executable, make whatever symlinks, menu or desktop icons/shortcuts needed
IBM buys Novell...
SUN buys Redhat...
it fits, considering their characters...
--life is a bitch, you either become one or get killed by one...
i understand where your point of view, i just delete all email that is not from friends or family unopened anyway so spam is not much of an issue to me, sometimes i like to make fonts have a different color or make a particular word italic or bold to provide emphasis...
i been using yahoo since the late 1990's and i am starting to become disgusted with them, there has been about three revisions of Yahoo Instant Messenger for Windows but their YIM for Linux has not been updated and left pretty much featureless, and since it has not been updated i somehow wonder if it is a security problem for users of Yahoo's Linux/BSD IM...
/rant!
and their web based email when accessed with ANY web browser other than Internet Explorer is featureless and plain text only, when even google's gmail using Firefox on Linux offers more as in the ability of changing text font styles, size & color, gmail even has a built in spell checker too, i am just about to abandon yahoo like i abandoned msn back in 1998...
if Panasonic started selling Toughbooks with Linux preloaded i would buy one, maybe two...
prior art?
http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/watchmakers/
there is a book by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournell called "The Mote in God's Eye" and the moties are some interesting charactors...
it started out downloading at a good pace, as it continued it slowed to almost a crawl, i canceled it...
i will check back in a few days
a 93.6 meg video file? it will be a miricle if it finishes downloading considering the parent web page was posted at /.
just get rid of the Windows style government that has a draconion EULA and a ClosedSource philosophy and install an OpenSource/GPLed government that does not lean to the left or right that keeps to the middle of the road with a better perspective...
["Possibly the whole state bureaucracy, whole state machine is just like a Windows installation. It degrades over time and at some point you have to re-install from scratch."] good analogy :)
i am only supporting OpenSource/GPLed governments...
the grandparent poster could be forgetting that seemingly useless discoveries can sometimes prove usefull and serve practical purposes after other discoveries are made like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle.