I'd recommend the distro Siduction (basically Debian Unstable with a few tweaks - previously Sidux->AptoSid) and use the "smxi" script to run updates, install virtualbox/vmware and graphics drivers. I've been doing this on my desktop for years (through the above mentioned distro iterations), and it's worked great. If you install apt-listbugs, and keep an eye on the forums before big dist-upgrades, you get always current software with very few breakages (I've only had a couple of major ones in those years).
The problem is, this isn't a story about stopping the government, you're mouthing off against positions that are widely popular. Restricting assault weapons and the sale of bulk ammunition has more than 50% support in the U.S. You are talking about killing me, and your other neighbors, because you have decided that your minority opinion is more valid than the majority opinion........
The conceit of your argument is that the "jackbooted thug" isn't a human being. It's BS.
The conceit of YOUR opinion is that the current minority opinion will never be the majority opinion in the future. I don't believe that the grandparent post is suggesting that the time for a rebellion is NOW... However, if, in the future, the government gradually becomes more and more oppresive, there may come a time when a tipping point is reached. This would be a time when a huge majority opinion would be in favor of potentially giving their own lives for their freedom, and would be opposing the small minority of tyrannical oppressors. I doubt anyone in their right mind would propose trying to overthrow the current US government. It is not time for that, and hopefully that time would never come, but it is not outside the realm of possibility for it to one day arrive, especially without vigilant watchmen.
America's first and deadliest school massacre - in 1927 - no games or guns involved. Games don't make people crazy, and if guns are "controlled", mass destruction can still be utilized, and it will make it harder for law abiding citizens to stop them..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
I wish I had mod points today to mod up all your posts BlueStrat. You are exactly correct in all your statements. People forget that our founding fathers overthrew their oppressive government through use of their militia (common citizenry), and wanted to insure that ability for future generations in the event that the government they forged went awry. I believe in that idea, that it is our responsibility to our own freedom to keep our government in line, if necessary. I'd like to see no gun control on non-criminal US citizens. The one thing I worry about is our guns crossing over our borders to arm drug gangs in other countries (I've seen several very troublesome documentaries on that topic). So, I might accept more stringent regulations when it comes to background checks for certain weapons even when sold by a private individual to help limit this issue. (I'd also legalize all drugs to cut off funds to those same drug gangs, but that's another issue)
The article was not about "computer enthusiasts", it was about "enthusiast PCs", which in fact have a very specific meaning. They are the kinds of PCs that have $600 video cards, packed with RAM, SSDs, water cooling etc, and are upgraded way more often than probably necessary - hence the desire for a socketed motherboard.
Yes, obviously you can be "enthusiastic" about computers and not build one of those, but that's not what this article is remotely about, so why bother trying to change the semantics for some irrelevant point?
No, the article summary was about "enthusiast PCs", the article was about "enthusiasts." Obviously you didn't actually read the article... I've considered myself an enthusiast for over 30 years, and haven't built a high-end PC in over 20 (not counting servers here, as the article was about PC's). I like to engineer my systems to do what they need to do for the least amount of money, which is why they almost never run Windows (or Apple).
Because the article is talking about gamers. And while Steam is in the process of making a valiant effort, gaming on Linux sucks. You can get some stuff to work with WINE but the overall experience is something I would rate along the lines of a root canal.
You didn't read the article, did you.... There is not a mention of gamers in the article...
RedHat->Caldera->Mandrake->RedHat->Mandrake->Debian->(personal branch) Mandrake->Debian Testing->Debian Sid->Sidux->AptoSid->Siduction
*with some gentoo, arch, Ubuntu, Mint and various others thrown in there somewhere for short periods
Also - for work there has been RHEL, CentOS and Debian Stable
That may be true literally -- that it isn't "based on" Tolkien. However, I don't think there is any denying that there are many things in D&D heavily inspired by Tolkien's universe...
The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.
Rage to anger.... That doesn't seem to be much of a range, or even mixed for that matter... Range and anger are basically synonymous in my book... That is strange wording.
the console packaging states that the product's design and specifications are subject to change without notice and that the system software within the console is subject to a limited licence between SCE and the consumer, and this licence permits SCE to update the system software and services offered from time to time.
It seems like they should be able to update and/or change the "other os" feature, but nowhere here does it state they can remove it...
I use clamwin in some vm's. I create a folder with a small txt file inside, schedule clamwin to scan that folder every minute, and include a memory scan....
Close enough to on access scanning for the purposes for which I use it. Maybe not on my main desktop, though. Of course, my main desktop is Linux...
It's easy to turn the human-centric view of the world upside-down. If you put 1000 humans out in the wilderness, naked and without any tools, you'd soon see how advanced we are as a lifeform.
Yeah, I'm guessing it would take approximately 2-5 minutes before those humans began making tools to improve their situation. I think that is what sets us apart as an advanced life form (along with the intelligence to continually improve those tools and communicate).
Ahhh, too bad. I love playing medics and reviving people. My kils/deaths ratio usually sucks big time, because I'm too worried about reviving people. There should be a stat for that, too. (although I do frequently get best medic, so I suppose that is built in there)
http://www.smokin-guns.net/
This is a spaghetti-western lover's wet dream. I can't stop playing this free FPS. Sure, the graphics might be a bit dated, but it is still a blast. It is also nicely cross-platform. With a stand-alone version (it was until recently a quake3 mod called western quake) just released, there is a growing community around this game.
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I'd recommend the distro Siduction (basically Debian Unstable with a few tweaks - previously Sidux->AptoSid) and use the "smxi" script to run updates, install virtualbox/vmware and graphics drivers. I've been doing this on my desktop for years (through the above mentioned distro iterations), and it's worked great. If you install apt-listbugs, and keep an eye on the forums before big dist-upgrades, you get always current software with very few breakages (I've only had a couple of major ones in those years).
The problem is, this isn't a story about stopping the government, you're mouthing off against positions that are widely popular. Restricting assault weapons and the sale of bulk ammunition has more than 50% support in the U.S. You are talking about killing me, and your other neighbors, because you have decided that your minority opinion is more valid than the majority opinion. .......
The conceit of your argument is that the "jackbooted thug" isn't a human being. It's BS.
The conceit of YOUR opinion is that the current minority opinion will never be the majority opinion in the future. I don't believe that the grandparent post is suggesting that the time for a rebellion is NOW... However, if, in the future, the government gradually becomes more and more oppresive, there may come a time when a tipping point is reached. This would be a time when a huge majority opinion would be in favor of potentially giving their own lives for their freedom, and would be opposing the small minority of tyrannical oppressors. I doubt anyone in their right mind would propose trying to overthrow the current US government. It is not time for that, and hopefully that time would never come, but it is not outside the realm of possibility for it to one day arrive, especially without vigilant watchmen.
America's first and deadliest school massacre - in 1927 - no games or guns involved. Games don't make people crazy, and if guns are "controlled", mass destruction can still be utilized, and it will make it harder for law abiding citizens to stop them.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
I wish I had mod points today to mod up all your posts BlueStrat. You are exactly correct in all your statements. People forget that our founding fathers overthrew their oppressive government through use of their militia (common citizenry), and wanted to insure that ability for future generations in the event that the government they forged went awry. I believe in that idea, that it is our responsibility to our own freedom to keep our government in line, if necessary. I'd like to see no gun control on non-criminal US citizens. The one thing I worry about is our guns crossing over our borders to arm drug gangs in other countries (I've seen several very troublesome documentaries on that topic). So, I might accept more stringent regulations when it comes to background checks for certain weapons even when sold by a private individual to help limit this issue. (I'd also legalize all drugs to cut off funds to those same drug gangs, but that's another issue)
No, he didn't read it... see my comment above.. If I had mod points today, I'd have mod'ed your comments up.
The article was not about "computer enthusiasts", it was about "enthusiast PCs", which in fact have a very specific meaning. They are the kinds of PCs that have $600 video cards, packed with RAM, SSDs, water cooling etc, and are upgraded way more often than probably necessary - hence the desire for a socketed motherboard.
Yes, obviously you can be "enthusiastic" about computers and not build one of those, but that's not what this article is remotely about, so why bother trying to change the semantics for some irrelevant point?
No, the article summary was about "enthusiast PCs", the article was about "enthusiasts." Obviously you didn't actually read the article... I've considered myself an enthusiast for over 30 years, and haven't built a high-end PC in over 20 (not counting servers here, as the article was about PC's). I like to engineer my systems to do what they need to do for the least amount of money, which is why they almost never run Windows (or Apple).
Because the article is talking about gamers. And while Steam is in the process of making a valiant effort, gaming on Linux sucks. You can get some stuff to work with WINE but the overall experience is something I would rate along the lines of a root canal.
You didn't read the article, did you.... There is not a mention of gamers in the article...
No, it isn't rigged. I sided the most with Gary Johnson, Libertarian. (then Mitt - Jill was 3rd)
RedHat->Caldera->Mandrake->RedHat->Mandrake->Debian->(personal branch) Mandrake->Debian Testing->Debian Sid->Sidux->AptoSid->Siduction *with some gentoo, arch, Ubuntu, Mint and various others thrown in there somewhere for short periods Also - for work there has been RHEL, CentOS and Debian Stable
Gygax denied D&D was based on Tolkien.
That may be true literally -- that it isn't "based on" Tolkien. However, I don't think there is any denying that there are many things in D&D heavily inspired by Tolkien's universe...
...and what are you going to think of that when you come across the rare system where someone has setup r to alias to "rm -rf"?
A reason for greedy corporations to invent faster than light space travel for us! Now we're getting somewhere.
6 digit accounts? Better try that one again...
Nice explanation... :) Monday morning prior to coffee.... the humor gear hasn't kicked in yet.
The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.
Rage to anger.... That doesn't seem to be much of a range, or even mixed for that matter... Range and anger are basically synonymous in my book... That is strange wording.
the console packaging states that the product's design and specifications are subject to change without notice and that the system software within the console is subject to a limited licence between SCE and the consumer, and this licence permits SCE to update the system software and services offered from time to time.
It seems like they should be able to update and/or change the "other os" feature, but nowhere here does it state they can remove it...
I use clamwin in some vm's. I create a folder with a small txt file inside, schedule clamwin to scan that folder every minute, and include a memory scan.... Close enough to on access scanning for the purposes for which I use it. Maybe not on my main desktop, though. Of course, my main desktop is Linux...
I preferred to run RBBS - as it was open source... :)
It's easy to turn the human-centric view of the world upside-down. If you put 1000 humans out in the wilderness, naked and without any tools, you'd soon see how advanced we are as a lifeform.
Yeah, I'm guessing it would take approximately 2-5 minutes before those humans began making tools to improve their situation. I think that is what sets us apart as an advanced life form (along with the intelligence to continually improve those tools and communicate).
I'd give you a +1 funny if I had the points... I had a good LOL from it :)
but it seems that a car-sized isotope battery would
It would be difficult to fit a battery the size of a car into a car....
Actually, I can't spot a single one
Before you get too gushy, here's one:
but if the bulk of that is communication with peers that doesn't utilize proper language, it may be
Ahhh, too bad. I love playing medics and reviving people. My kils/deaths ratio usually sucks big time, because I'm too worried about reviving people. There should be a stat for that, too. (although I do frequently get best medic, so I suppose that is built in there)
"Need a Medic!" has become a catch phrase around the house :)
http://www.smokin-guns.net/ This is a spaghetti-western lover's wet dream. I can't stop playing this free FPS. Sure, the graphics might be a bit dated, but it is still a blast. It is also nicely cross-platform. With a stand-alone version (it was until recently a quake3 mod called western quake) just released, there is a growing community around this game.