when i was working the morning tower in the oil field (7PM to 5AM) i made about 2/3s of my paycheck sleeping in the dog house, the driller would throw an old boot on to the top of the dog house from the drilling platform when he need me, and i would have to find that boot and bring it back up to the platform...
nothing better than a borked XP box to herd the sheeple to a new purchase of Vista, i seen this coming as soon as vista started taking hits from critics that mostly proved valid...
isn't Con Kolivas the guy that quit working on the kernel because a patch he submitted was rejected by Linus? if that patch he made was that significant then he should have just offered it to some distributors of desktop orientated Linux' and if it was that significant of an improvement i am sure it would eventually make it upstream to the kernel...
as far as Linux making it mainstream? i don't care one way or the other, i been using Linux since 1998 & learned Linux the old school way...
i sincerely believe the computer industry is a mess, no private corporation or company should be able to dictate an ISO standard, i believe open file formats & open networking protocols should be mandatory for anything & everything that is distributed between different computers anything less is perpetuating a crime allowing a corporation to maintain vendor lock in & a monopoly for $profit$...
you are saying that with PCBSD i can set separate disk partitions for / and/usr and/usr/home (actual separate disk partitions are not slices within a single partition) this is correct?
i do like FreeBSD, PCBSD & DesktopBSD, but PCBSD & DesktopBSD needs a feature during install to allow the person doing the install to allow selecting multiple mount points for / and/usr and/usr/home during the install, seems like with both PCBSD & DesktopBSD i could only select one partition to install everything in, i like to use a small / and a larger/usr and a/usr/home, as a long time slackware user i found FreeBSD's installer to be not much different and did allow selecting multiple mount points, i am looking forward to FreeBSD's next release (6.3? or 7?)
i welcome the competition the *BSDs will bring to the Linux world, and if Ian Murdock can get Solaris in the mix that will be good also...
flooding the PC market with ms-windows PCs that never get updated or virus checked to clueless consumers...
as long as msft & oem pc manufacturers are more interested is making a quick buck and the problems that go along with it are ignored this sort of thing is never going to stop...
-if you mod this comment down it just buries your head deeper in the sand-
the price of the iphone gets below 120 US dollars and I can use the iphone with any provider including the no-contract providers like tracfone or gophone...
i hereby declare ALL religions to be evil, anything that professes to know the truth without proper factual evidence to back it up is from henceforth known as evil...
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once an iphone is sold it is no longer apple's property, it belongs to whomever purchased it...
besides Apple's gadgets are just overpriced fanboy crap & way too over priced...
i once made a radio out of ham, it did not work but it sure tasted good...
i would imagine anyone in New Zealand smart enough to install Debian is also smart enough to fix this manually...
did microsoft find a replacement for vista in just 5 or 6 months?
when i was working the morning tower in the oil field (7PM to 5AM) i made about 2/3s of my paycheck sleeping in the dog house, the driller would throw an old boot on to the top of the dog house from the drilling platform when he need me, and i would have to find that boot and bring it back up to the platform...
nothing better than a borked XP box to herd the sheeple to a new purchase of Vista, i seen this coming as soon as vista started taking hits from critics that mostly proved valid...
isn't Con Kolivas the guy that quit working on the kernel because a patch he submitted was rejected by Linus? if that patch he made was that significant then he should have just offered it to some distributors of desktop orientated Linux' and if it was that significant of an improvement i am sure it would eventually make it upstream to the kernel...
as far as Linux making it mainstream? i don't care one way or the other, i been using Linux since 1998 & learned Linux the old school way...
and/or...
what about picking up radio waves? wires do make good conductors (antennas)...
there are some bad ghetto neighborhoods in big US cities even the cops don't dare go in to...
it wont be long until the US Dollar reaches parity with the Mexican peso...
Kudos to IBM, much appreciated, thanks :)
i sincerely believe the computer industry is a mess, no private corporation or company should be able to dictate an ISO standard, i believe open file formats & open networking protocols should be mandatory for anything & everything that is distributed between different computers anything less is perpetuating a crime allowing a corporation to maintain vendor lock in & a monopoly for $profit$...
Luuucccyyy^^ AAppppllee you got some splainin' to do!!
-Oh' Ricky
one monday in 1929 there was some really bad inflation...
you are saying that with PCBSD i can set separate disk partitions for / and /usr and /usr/home (actual separate disk partitions are not slices within a single partition) this is correct?
i do like FreeBSD, PCBSD & DesktopBSD, but PCBSD & DesktopBSD needs a feature during install to allow the person doing the install to allow selecting multiple mount points for / and /usr and /usr/home during the install, seems like with both PCBSD & DesktopBSD i could only select one partition to install everything in, i like to use a small / and a larger /usr and a /usr/home, as a long time slackware user i found FreeBSD's installer to be not much different and did allow selecting multiple mount points, i am looking forward to FreeBSD's next release (6.3? or 7?)
i welcome the competition the *BSDs will bring to the Linux world, and if Ian Murdock can get Solaris in the mix that will be good also...
fsck you, you can go straight to hell...
this comment is probably redundant and will most likely modded as a troll but i felt i had to say it in response to his comment about ooxml
Easy on the Giggle Cream...
--Giggle Cream, it makes desserts funny...
flooding the PC market with ms-windows PCs that never get updated or virus checked to clueless consumers...
as long as msft & oem pc manufacturers are more interested is making a quick buck and the problems that go along with it are ignored this sort of thing is never going to stop...
-if you mod this comment down it just buries your head deeper in the sand-
i like K3B & KTorrent, both are great software, but they do more than i need,
my alternatives are MyBashBurn for burning CDRs and Transmission for torrents...
more like it should be modded +insightful or at least +interesting
Steven Hawking is getting for xmas...
the price of the iphone gets below 120 US dollars and I can use the iphone with any provider including the no-contract providers like tracfone or gophone...
i agree this is a funny comment, the scary part is entirely accurate...
i hereby declare ALL religions to be evil, anything that professes to know the truth without proper factual evidence to back it up is from henceforth known as evil...