I tried this out today, and within a minute I was already scrambling to close the browser window. ClearType is forced on and doesn't respect global system settings. Doing a little searching, it apparently cannot be turned off.
Some people like it, some people hate it (like me), but it should at least respect the user's preference. That's pretty basic.
I guess you don't live near the sea. Salt water is extremely corrosive, which would seem to me to present some problems when it comes to cooling a datacenter.
I realize all the cool kids hate all over Dell for some ridiculous reason, but they actually make really good flat panels, especially for the price. You might want to actually read a review or do something beyond blindly hate a name, before you call someone out for their "plebian[sic] level of consumerism."
There seems to be some... dissent about the quality and veracity of that article.
I mean, parts of that article are horribly wrong. Should IGN hold themselves to some shred of a standard for quality? Or do they get a free pass because they write about video games?
You're lying! There were no girls at UMR in the 80s.
Of course, its not such a bad situation these days - as far as the food goes anyway. And by not so bad bad, I mean people won't get heart disease from it, because no one will eat it. Especially at T.J., which is where I imagine you are talking about.
Rolla's never had any good pranks. I think this needs to be rectified.
I can't stand them either. I love my notebook, but whoever thought to put a shiny screen on something that might be used near sunlight deserves to be shot. It's almost impossible to use something with a screen like this in a car, or even next to a bright light in a room.
As much as I dislike a lot of patent law, I think abolishing patents, at least with regard to pharmaceuticals, would be a bad idea. If you remove almost all monetary incentive to keep developing drugs, no one is going to develop them. People will go where the money is - corporations generally don't care about any silly perceived obligation to society. Also keep in mind that the government gets quite a bit of money from taxes on these corporations (even after random tax breaks), and so would have a double burden if all medical researched was to be funded by the government. And, if this trend of moralizing the government continues, certain paths of research that could have been pursued by private corporations will be blocked in state-sponsored research.
Maybe I am some sort of super human, but I don't breathe ozone (although I do breathe oxygen). In fact, ozone is rather bad for me, being extremely reactive (it oxidizes things - who would have guessed?). Which is good, because it only occupies about 0.0 to 0.07 ppmv of our atmosphere, while good 'ol 02 occupies about 20%. At least according to NASA.
So, a fire suppression system that gets rid of ozone sounds rather useless...
Which is one of the reasons why autorun is one of the most insecure things about windows. Yay for randomly running arbitrary commands from unknown sources!
Unfortunately, if you turn it off, anyone else using you computer becomes incredibly confused as to why windows "doesn't work".
Also, I've run fdisk/mbr on windows xp machines in the past (fixing botched dual boot attempts), and not had an issue. As far as I know, that command simply resets the MBR to the deafult value - that is, run ntoskern or whatever on block 0 of partition 0. More or less. Or is that completely wrong?
Wait? No one liked Chrono Cross? I very vividly remember that game, and how much I enjoyed it. The story was interesting, the graphics were amazing for the PSX, and it had just enough references to Chrono Trigger to make those who played the first game feel at home. I can't recall anyone who played Chrono Cross who didn't find it to be an excellent game. Hell, I bought a Playstation to play the game, and I didn't feel disappointed.
It's got to be priced damn near dirt by now, but it's worth picking up at any price.
Sounds like you weren't in safe mode... That's absolutely crucial for cleaning off a hosed windows box.
Honestly, I've never seen a computer that has had more than 1 or 2 files that were hard to get rid of once the computer was booted into safe mode with system restore turned off.
Where I work *cough* it goes something like boot into normal mode and install MAS, boot into safe mode, turn off sys restore, clean temp files, run MAS, run Spybot, run Ad-Aware, run SpySweeper, TrojanHunter, HijackThis, and a special version of McAfee corporate. Lather, rinse, repeat. That completely takes care of a good 90% of infections we see. Another maybe 7% or so require a bit of manual cleaning, and the other 3% require some hard manual scrubbing. Rarely do we see anything we can't fix without a format restore, given enough time.
Let me say that I'm not a very experienced gentoo user. Not a very experienced linux user either. Oh, I've tried dabbling for the longest time, my interested started long, long ago when I found some RH5 CDs someplace.
Forward to now. Now, I'm building a media center-ish pc. Also acting as a fileserver. Uses wireless, with WPA encryption and all that cool stuff.
Now, I could have gone with some other distro and saved myself quite a bit of time (I'm reinstalling it for the 3rd time as I write this), but honestly, gentoo is just plain fun to set up and I've learned way too much for me to just put it down now.
There are tons of ways to get it started. I've always opted to use a minimal livecd, but bootstrapping from knoppix or another livecd works well too.
Portage is just awesome, the most package-specific setup you'll ever really need to do is edit a new config file. There's even a tool to let you easily merge old config files when new revisions come out. And while I don't know how much speed I'm getting out of compiling everything from source, I do know what's on my computer, as I compulsively check use flags just to see what I can do with my system. With portage, I've found incredibly useful software I never knew existed, and don't know how I lived without. It's all about choices, choices, choices. And the only penalty for changing your mind is a bit of your time.
My only bad experiences stem from me using insane compiler flags that mess up your system completely. I had no idea it was possible to screw up rm, but I managed to do it. My hardware is also not the best, I went for cheap and older components I had lying around. However, gentoo hasn't told me "no" yet, I've just needed to be clever about doing things, which has taught me a huge amount about how linux, and computers in general, work. I've always been the "computer guy" around here, but I just feel... closer;)
So long story short, I think gentoo is really, really worth it if you've got some spare time and some curiosity.
And being able to use bleeding-edge everything is just cool.
... what the hell are you doing calling me at work?
Seriously, if you're so damn smart, why are you trying to call Best Buy?
Honestly, I'm going to be late for work, because I'm too busy getting gentoo running with reiser4 and udev. The vast majority of geek squad employees are just a bit smarter than you think.
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Relatively trivial?
If this is something you consider commonplace or ordinary, I'd like to know what you'd actually consider impressive or of merit.
Incredible variety? There are four types: A, B, and the mini variants of each.
I tried this out today, and within a minute I was already scrambling to close the browser window. ClearType is forced on and doesn't respect global system settings. Doing a little searching, it apparently cannot be turned off.
Some people like it, some people hate it (like me), but it should at least respect the user's preference. That's pretty basic.
I guess you don't live near the sea. Salt water is extremely corrosive, which would seem to me to present some problems when it comes to cooling a datacenter.
I realize all the cool kids hate all over Dell for some ridiculous reason, but they actually make really good flat panels, especially for the price. You might want to actually read a review or do something beyond blindly hate a name, before you call someone out for their "plebian[sic] level of consumerism."
That "some guy" was Al Capone, one of the biggest gangsters ever to grace the annals of American history, subject of many films and suchlike.
So, this means that I get to download anything I want while in Canada free of guilt and cost... right?
There seems to be some... dissent about the quality and veracity of that article. I mean, parts of that article are horribly wrong. Should IGN hold themselves to some shred of a standard for quality? Or do they get a free pass because they write about video games?
I bet the guy faked his own death, just so he could have the last laugh at the hands of the musicians of the world!
Of course, its not such a bad situation these days - as far as the food goes anyway. And by not so bad bad, I mean people won't get heart disease from it, because no one will eat it. Especially at T.J., which is where I imagine you are talking about.
Rolla's never had any good pranks. I think this needs to be rectified.
I can't stand them either. I love my notebook, but whoever thought to put a shiny screen on something that might be used near sunlight deserves to be shot. It's almost impossible to use something with a screen like this in a car, or even next to a bright light in a room.
As much as I dislike a lot of patent law, I think abolishing patents, at least with regard to pharmaceuticals, would be a bad idea. If you remove almost all monetary incentive to keep developing drugs, no one is going to develop them. People will go where the money is - corporations generally don't care about any silly perceived obligation to society. Also keep in mind that the government gets quite a bit of money from taxes on these corporations (even after random tax breaks), and so would have a double burden if all medical researched was to be funded by the government. And, if this trend of moralizing the government continues, certain paths of research that could have been pursued by private corporations will be blocked in state-sponsored research.
Well, you gotta nuke somethin'
Maybe I am some sort of super human, but I don't breathe ozone (although I do breathe oxygen). In fact, ozone is rather bad for me, being extremely reactive (it oxidizes things - who would have guessed?). Which is good, because it only occupies about 0.0 to 0.07 ppmv of our atmosphere, while good 'ol 02 occupies about 20%. At least according to NASA.
So, a fire suppression system that gets rid of ozone sounds rather useless...
Which is one of the reasons why autorun is one of the most insecure things about windows. Yay for randomly running arbitrary commands from unknown sources!
/mbr on windows xp machines in the past (fixing botched dual boot attempts), and not had an issue. As far as I know, that command simply resets the MBR to the deafult value - that is, run ntoskern or whatever on block 0 of partition 0. More or less. Or is that completely wrong?
Unfortunately, if you turn it off, anyone else using you computer becomes incredibly confused as to why windows "doesn't work".
Also, I've run fdisk
It's got to be priced damn near dirt by now, but it's worth picking up at any price.
Honestly, I've never seen a computer that has had more than 1 or 2 files that were hard to get rid of once the computer was booted into safe mode with system restore turned off.
Where I work *cough* it goes something like boot into normal mode and install MAS, boot into safe mode, turn off sys restore, clean temp files, run MAS, run Spybot, run Ad-Aware, run SpySweeper, TrojanHunter, HijackThis, and a special version of McAfee corporate. Lather, rinse, repeat. That completely takes care of a good 90% of infections we see. Another maybe 7% or so require a bit of manual cleaning, and the other 3% require some hard manual scrubbing. Rarely do we see anything we can't fix without a format restore, given enough time.
Forward to now. Now, I'm building a media center-ish pc. Also acting as a fileserver. Uses wireless, with WPA encryption and all that cool stuff.
Now, I could have gone with some other distro and saved myself quite a bit of time (I'm reinstalling it for the 3rd time as I write this), but honestly, gentoo is just plain fun to set up and I've learned way too much for me to just put it down now.
There are tons of ways to get it started. I've always opted to use a minimal livecd, but bootstrapping from knoppix or another livecd works well too.
Portage is just awesome, the most package-specific setup you'll ever really need to do is edit a new config file. There's even a tool to let you easily merge old config files when new revisions come out. And while I don't know how much speed I'm getting out of compiling everything from source, I do know what's on my computer, as I compulsively check use flags just to see what I can do with my system. With portage, I've found incredibly useful software I never knew existed, and don't know how I lived without. It's all about choices, choices, choices. And the only penalty for changing your mind is a bit of your time.
My only bad experiences stem from me using insane compiler flags that mess up your system completely. I had no idea it was possible to screw up rm, but I managed to do it. My hardware is also not the best, I went for cheap and older components I had lying around. However, gentoo hasn't told me "no" yet, I've just needed to be clever about doing things, which has taught me a huge amount about how linux, and computers in general, work. I've always been the "computer guy" around here, but I just feel... closer ;)
So long story short, I think gentoo is really, really worth it if you've got some spare time and some curiosity.
And being able to use bleeding-edge everything is just cool.
Seriously, if you're so damn smart, why are you trying to call Best Buy?
Honestly, I'm going to be late for work, because I'm too busy getting gentoo running with reiser4 and udev. The vast majority of geek squad employees are just a bit smarter than you think.