Hey everyone! Mandrake 7.2 is doing very well, it didn't choke on my Tekram SCSI card this time, and everything works like a charm.
Here's my problem -- I have NFS setup, and it worked great for 7.1 after a kernel re-do, but when I upgraded to 7.2, it no longer works. I get the "nfssvc fucntion not implemented error", which i got before until i enabled SUN NFS Emulation in my kernel. Am i going to have to re-compile?
Next -- I checked out gkrellm, and i'm constantly running at 100% CPU -- the problem? logrotate! I have like 7m in/var/log... where is it working? Last time to stop it i just deleted my/var/log/mail (which was big for some reason), and logrotate chilled out. Now i don't know what to do or where the problem is.
Next -- It seems that i will FINALLY have a working 3D action in my GeForce 256 (right?).. if so, how do i test this out before going out and finally buying Quake3Arena? Is there some sort of Mesa 3d test?
Aurora looks great, the installation is finally VERY stable, and i'm happy with the packaging. CUPS seems to be working for me, i'll test out the SMB Sharing i need for that later.
My roommates and I have a Nintendo and about 50 games, and we play it ALL the time. It's not the original type of NES though -- its the new kind they re-released after SNES came out, with the SNES look to it. It works very well, and we love games like Rampage, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Dragon Warrior, Bubble Bobble, Marble Madness, Techmo Super Bowl (my fav), Adventure Island, and tons and tons of others! Our competition gets fierce -- but we're not total dorks about it, we still go out, drink beer, get activities done, and study.:-)
Right now, one reason why the corporations are in power is because the government is GIVING them power. Such as Microsoft and Cisco paying no taxes (wasn't this a slashdot link? I can't find it) for the 99 fiscal year. Of course they're going to have an advantage over everyone.
However, bring out the government's meddling, leave in the necessary law components, and bring back FAIR competition, and you'll have battles for high quality and low prices, just like it should be.
Mike Roberto - GAIM: MicroBerto
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Here's what you're ALL missing: the FEDERAL government has no business in these areas. However, local governments should, and that is how it will work. Education should be run locally, along with other decisions suck as local taxation for individual areas with individual needs. The bigger the federal government, the more corrupt and wasteful. However, you keep it more local, and there will not be the problems that you are describing.
Bring the federal government down to its Constitutional rights. Not ALL government. The big and wasteful one that takes 30% of my paycheck and makes me work a hell of a lot more to pay for my education and buy my computer. The government that I pay into, and will never receive out of it. The government that sends my friends out into the Middle East and gets 18 of their peers killed.
I don't want that type of government. Libertarians are NOT saying "no government". We're saying, keep it local, keep it real, keep it limited, and keep the feds out of my personal shit. I can balance my own check book, thank you. If everyone else is too ignorant to save money for health needs, then learn. We'll all be better for it if we accept our own responsibilities.
I like your points a lot, but have you actually read the Green Party's platform? If it even got HALF of those things its way, there would be economic and social chaos. Welcome to Macroeconomics 101. A physical hand on the economy that is as strong as theirs is bad news, and throws everything out of equilibrium.
The answer to this question is simple, the means is not, however.
It's apparent that this country needs better parenting, values, and moral support for youths. This country needs competent parents that don't ship their kids to day care, don't beat the shit out of them, and treat them well.
As a Libertarian, I support a large tax cut, which could get many more mothers back in the home (where they belong...). The children will be better off for it, and don't think otherwise.
Shit. I'm just going to college to drink some beers:)
Ohio State, baby! honors program, in the opensource group, playin water polo, and gonna drink some beers!
Man, I got accepted to Northwestern too. 3x more money, less fun, less beers, worse education, bigger losers, and further from home. I'm PUMPED for some OSU beers!:)
I'm glad to see that slashdot is being nicer to the mirrors - I submitted this yesterday when I saw it appearing in a few mirrors and it had no announcement. Slashdot waited this time for everyone to catch up and get some official word - cool!
I just hope that the install goes well here. I've tried to install Mandrake 7.1 on 6 systems multiple times -- it worked twice. It has major SCSI problems. The guys at mandrake were no help, they basically "bolfed" it. But I sure do love it when it installs well!
Hah, it seems that slashdot's becoming more and more skeptical lately -- "I'll believe it when it's on my desk" -- and so on. I love it, cuz we all know that nothing comes out on time:)
It's quite apparent that there are better technologies out there than what we have, yet it's also quite apparent that the oil companies have such a stronghold over North America that this will never actually take place just for reasons of corporate pressure from them. Don't kid yourself:(
I wouldn't complain if I could get the 3D working, (with Mandrake). I've tried my Asus V6600 Deluxe with XFree 4.0.1 and 4.0.0, the stock XFree drivers work fine, NVidia's keep blowing things away and making me restart the computer. Seems to be glx problems for me.
Since they don't work for me, I will complain. Because if part of them was open-sourced, it would probably be installed and running for me.
It seems that SuSE is so involved in many projects out there, and doesn't get much credit. And they don't have a very large market share on the distribution level either. My favorite thing that they help a lot in is The Alsa Project (great sound drivers). SuSE certainly deserves more credit for helping keep Linux on the bleeding edge, so I just thought I'd toss that in.
We on the Cleveland Linux Users Group actually have 2 or 3 people who use AOL for their E-Mails on the mailing lists! I'm sure that this could benefit from a few, but I just it causing some of us more headaches.
But i see this as a huge support momentum. If companies think that more will use Linux, they might be compelled to have better linux support.
our friend here is speaking of GAIM. It has GREAT gnome panel support, cool/friendly/responsive programmers, and plugin support. I'm going to try AOL's AIM, but I doubt it'll be as good.
BTW - i'm still interested in getting a "call-screening" plugin going for GAIM, which would basically give an away message to anyone except for the people on your list of exceptions. Kind of like for when you wanna be on GAIM, but don't want to be mean to everyone and ignore them. Some will get an away message, while your best buds will get through and you can talk to them! Like it?
Actually, I feel that open-source is more of a capitalist thing than a communist thing. The reasons are that it does not have a massive amount of control from a government (communism does), it is about freedom, and there is the "invisible hand" that will eventually regulate itself. Like if a certain popular program isn't good enough, people will make it good enough. The same goes for competition in a strong capitalist economy.
I feel that this invisible hand is what will make open source LESS like communism than some zealots tend to believe.
Although our projects weren't crazy, we had some good ones. I did bad on the AP test though, I choked.
Anyway, just do things that high schoolers like. Parties... rumors... TV... sports... sex/drugs/beer/violence (haha well maybe not). Just take your standard programs and make it fit for high school mindset.
So instead of like a traveling salesmen problem, they're doing a travelling rumor problem. Makes it that much better.
But to be honest, our class was fine with standard "boring" projects -- because the teacher wasn't boring. Maybe you should consider getting crazy with the kids. Scream, throw chairs, have contests -- inspire competition. That's what we AP kids love, competition.
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Here's my problem -- I have NFS setup, and it worked great for 7.1 after a kernel re-do, but when I upgraded to 7.2, it no longer works. I get the "nfssvc fucntion not implemented error", which i got before until i enabled SUN NFS Emulation in my kernel. Am i going to have to re-compile?
Next -- I checked out gkrellm, and i'm constantly running at 100% CPU -- the problem? logrotate! I have like 7m in /var/log ... where is it working? Last time to stop it i just deleted my /var/log/mail (which was big for some reason), and logrotate chilled out. Now i don't know what to do or where the problem is.
Next -- It seems that i will FINALLY have a working 3D action in my GeForce 256 (right?) .. if so, how do i test this out before going out and finally buying Quake3Arena? Is there some sort of Mesa 3d test?
Aurora looks great, the installation is finally VERY stable, and i'm happy with the packaging. CUPS seems to be working for me, i'll test out the SMB Sharing i need for that later.
Thanks everyone!
-mike
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
doesn't finger sometimes have security holes? Just wondering..
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
My roommates and I have a Nintendo and about 50 games, and we play it ALL the time. It's not the original type of NES though -- its the new kind they re-released after SNES came out, with the SNES look to it. It works very well, and we love games like Rampage, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Dragon Warrior, Bubble Bobble, Marble Madness, Techmo Super Bowl (my fav), Adventure Island, and tons and tons of others! Our competition gets fierce -- but we're not total dorks about it, we still go out, drink beer, get activities done, and study. :-)
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
However, bring out the government's meddling, leave in the necessary law components, and bring back FAIR competition, and you'll have battles for high quality and low prices, just like it should be.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Bring the federal government down to its Constitutional rights. Not ALL government. The big and wasteful one that takes 30% of my paycheck and makes me work a hell of a lot more to pay for my education and buy my computer. The government that I pay into, and will never receive out of it. The government that sends my friends out into the Middle East and gets 18 of their peers killed.
I don't want that type of government. Libertarians are NOT saying "no government". We're saying, keep it local, keep it real, keep it limited, and keep the feds out of my personal shit. I can balance my own check book, thank you. If everyone else is too ignorant to save money for health needs, then learn. We'll all be better for it if we accept our own responsibilities.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
I like your points a lot, but have you actually read the Green Party's platform? If it even got HALF of those things its way, there would be economic and social chaos. Welcome to Macroeconomics 101. A physical hand on the economy that is as strong as theirs is bad news, and throws everything out of equilibrium.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Probably not. It takes a clue to do something like that.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
It's apparent that this country needs better parenting, values, and moral support for youths. This country needs competent parents that don't ship their kids to day care, don't beat the shit out of them, and treat them well.
As a Libertarian, I support a large tax cut, which could get many more mothers back in the home (where they belong...). The children will be better off for it, and don't think otherwise.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Whereas prohibition brought out much of the gansters of the 1920's, the drug prohibition has brought on gangs such as the Bloods and Crips.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Yeah, and "rehab is for quitters" !!
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Ohio State, baby! honors program, in the opensource group, playin water polo, and gonna drink some beers!
Man, I got accepted to Northwestern too. 3x more money, less fun, less beers, worse education, bigger losers, and further from home. I'm PUMPED for some OSU beers! :)
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Oh, and if there's any informative replies, mod THIS up so that everyone can see! haha :)
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
I just hope that the install goes well here. I've tried to install Mandrake 7.1 on 6 systems multiple times -- it worked twice. It has major SCSI problems. The guys at mandrake were no help, they basically "bolfed" it. But I sure do love it when it installs well!
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Hah, it seems that slashdot's becoming more and more skeptical lately -- "I'll believe it when it's on my desk" -- and so on. I love it, cuz we all know that nothing comes out on time :)
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
It's quite apparent that there are better technologies out there than what we have, yet it's also quite apparent that the oil companies have such a stronghold over North America that this will never actually take place just for reasons of corporate pressure from them. Don't kid yourself :(
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Since they don't work for me, I will complain. Because if part of them was open-sourced, it would probably be installed and running for me.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Ask Jeeves!
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
It seems that SuSE is so involved in many projects out there, and doesn't get much credit. And they don't have a very large market share on the distribution level either. My favorite thing that they help a lot in is The Alsa Project (great sound drivers). SuSE certainly deserves more credit for helping keep Linux on the bleeding edge, so I just thought I'd toss that in.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
I'm a gnome supporter, and I'm happy, but I can just smell KDE getting pissy very soon.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
But i see this as a huge support momentum. If companies think that more will use Linux, they might be compelled to have better linux support.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
I am a small-time perl programmer, but i just don't get this joke. What am i missing? :(
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
BTW - i'm still interested in getting a "call-screening" plugin going for GAIM, which would basically give an away message to anyone except for the people on your list of exceptions. Kind of like for when you wanna be on GAIM, but don't want to be mean to everyone and ignore them. Some will get an away message, while your best buds will get through and you can talk to them! Like it?
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
I feel that this invisible hand is what will make open source LESS like communism than some zealots tend to believe.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
This "privacy" talk is just a bullcrap fog wall for people who want to pirate files. Don't kid yourself.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Anyway, just do things that high schoolers like. Parties... rumors... TV... sports... sex/drugs/beer/violence (haha well maybe not). Just take your standard programs and make it fit for high school mindset.
So instead of like a traveling salesmen problem, they're doing a travelling rumor problem. Makes it that much better.
But to be honest, our class was fine with standard "boring" projects -- because the teacher wasn't boring. Maybe you should consider getting crazy with the kids. Scream, throw chairs, have contests -- inspire competition. That's what we AP kids love, competition.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto