I run vnc with icewm, so I Can keep xchat, rtin, gaim, ssh terminals that never close. Very nice. Then you can play with KDE or Gnome, and never have to worry about losing your active sessions.
IceWM also can snap window edges, support gnome and kde. So its my favorite for vnc.
Added benefit, you can vnc from another computer on the net and have your desktop, like using your laptop on wifi from the living room.
And you even run multiple VNC servers on the same machine, have one with kde, or gnome, etc, but you loose accelerated gfx.
Good now that libranet is dead...maybe they'll open source their adminmenu tool so other distros can use it.
If it was in so much demand someone would of created an opensource version. Yast will be open source, Debian and Ubuntu both have projects. Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude.
As for "Good" that libranet is dead is rather harsh, libranet showed how someone could take opensource software and create a business out of it.
They forget about people who dont have a computer or inet access to download an mp3. And when your out and about, 1.99 or so for a ringtone is a nice impluse buy.
And for ringtone sites, they have to pay kick backs to the telco they work with, unless you are a 3rd party site not linked on your "walled garden" homepage on your phone's ringtone site.
Also size, ringtones are small files compared to a 192k full length mp3, and most phones have limited memory.
I guess in a couple years when everyone has umts and a gig of memory in the phones the WSJ article might make some sense about price fixing.
Spoken like someone who never had to reboot or re-login during an outage. Boot time for old windows laptop's of 2 minutes and 3-4 minutes for IT scripts was horrible. I would always put "IT Network Scripts" down as extenders to outages.
Nortel just wont let you download the linux client, and IT wont give it to me. So here I am, cant use linux to VPN into work.
For business use, we need a Nortel Extranet client that supports SecureID.
BTW, Switched to Ubuntu on my work laptop, love it. Infact its made me install debian testing and dapper on a few boxes, I've dumped Mandrake er, Mandriva now.
Microsoft is generally easier and quicker to deploy, but then
To be fair, you normally choose the OS and Hardware for the job. Microsoft likes to point out OEM boxes that are hard to install linux on, but then, thats like trying to put XP on all those old beige boxes and saying Microsoft sux0rs because of bad driver support.
When I got my first linux 1.x distro on floppy, thats what I did, I man'ed every command to understand what they did. After awhile you figure out what each is for, and read a few scripts, things just click. Looking around, poking your nose around the system, reading the man pages is the most important thing someone knew to unix can do.
Couple things I hated about man pages.
groff -Tascii -man Then you can read all those man files directly! (check/etc/man.conf for directories)
Also, use man -a when you read, or you only get the first page of the man file.. Always hated that, if you want to search an entire manual gotta use -a.
RTFM while 90% of the time helps, the man pages dont always give good details on the syntax or command switchs and how they interact.
I would still be using win2000 if it had cleartype and remote desktop. As for search features, I dont think it will help Thunderbird, so no reason to upgrade. And firefox instead of IE and tabs.
Firewall, I have a nat router for that reason and turned off upnp, and avg freeware.
Quicker tcp/ip stack, now if it improves my downloads or ping, maybe we have a winner.
Cows standing asleep (they sleep both standing and on the ground.) can be tipped, I've seen it done on my grandmothers farm, but the cow was on a mound.
Its tipping, not pushing. They article shows what it would take to *push* a cow over..
But whats really funny is when dogs bite the tail of a cow and the cow spins lifting the dog up in the air, thats funny.
Isn't Debian 3 already certified? So ubuntu which is based on Debian shouldnt be hard.
I recently started playing with Ubuntu after seeing it climb to #1 on distrowatch.com, and I must say, very nice. Made me switch from Mandriva, and I wont touch Gentoo again after this. SuSE seems a little more polished, but debian has more packages.
Also think I'll dump gentoo, really liking having all the packages I need and not compiling. Going to try sparc debian tomorrow at work, kinda interested to see how the install goes.
You can cancel your cable and save that cost of a tivo every month. Or Live in a cardboard box under a bridge!
There are always ways to cut money from your budget, but do we need to hear about it for every article? Just because you dont watch TV, doesnt mean our wanting to watch TV is less important.
Wow, this just in, a 700 dollar card dual SLI card can play games at resolutions larger than my monitor can handle, at colour depths the human eye can't discern, at a framerate so fast the human eye doesnt pick it up, on a game that probably wasn't made to take advantage of the card, and with an actual visual performance increase I can barely notice. But the good news is I smoke em when I run a benchmark utility.
You can notice 4xAA and 8xAF turned on both visually and framerate. When everyone is running 1920x1200+ with 8xAA/16xAF with max shaders, etc and getting no dips below 60FPS, then you have a valid argument, but we are not even close to that, even using SLI isnt.
Even my single 7800 can dip below 20fps in DOD:Source when too much AA/AF turned on, but it sure looks nice..
Thats why the benchmarks have both 1600x1200/1280x1024 with AA/AF turned on and off...
I'm not undertstanding the whole Kubuntu vs Ubuntu concerns about Gnome and KDE, Ubuntu just uses gnome as its basic install, but you can select KDE installed and use it over Gnome and it works perfectly. Kubuntu is just making the integration smoother between config files, theme and toolkits. I havnt had any issue with KDE on ubuntu.
As far as polish goes, I'd say KDE looks smoother, SuSE shows KDE's strengths. Though I'd like more GTK1/2 theme tweak's native other than a checkmark box under KDE"s preferences. (I said native not 3rd party application.)
Hell, mostly I perfer icewm, give me anti-aliased fonts, theme compatability and a taskbar+quicklaunch and thats desktop for me. I find KDE/Gnome areas of Icon and file management the biggest improvements, which for file browser and dialog boxes really need to become a standard. But is that really a WM issue?
I think people are right when they say H.264, HDDVD and Blue ray will both use it, use quicktime pro, and your good to go for all platforms, even video ipod and psp.
Dell was offering the Demension 9100 system dual core 2.8ghz 820 and 24 inch 2405 widescreen for 1199 (after 100 dollar rebate). They offer the deal every few months, so basically, its buy a 24inch LCD and get a free dual core PC. Awesome deal...
Dell is the company that now sells these uninspiring products. Those 24 and 20 inch LCD's are freaking awesome for the price. Dell just had a sale on a dual core 2.8ghz demension 9100 and 24inch lcd for 1199. (after 100 dollar rebate).
States make money off gambling, sin taxes, property and sales. That should be plenty to run the state. If the state isn't making enough, it needs to cut projects. States shouldn't be allowed to buy new football stadiums, or put off railways for 20 years until the cost is in the billions.
Go over a state budget and look at the pork projects. There is a couple dozen ways to lower taxes, even legalize marijuana and prostitution for taxation.
Bad enough my state (washington) is paying almost 1/2 billion dollars on new buildings when we have empty buildings already owned by the state or empty buildings they can buy..
Everyone I know switched to SSH and dumped RSH. Keyfiles are your friend.
ssh/scp snoop cat (Sometimes easier to paste a file than scp one) tail (-100f, I dont care if you are changing the command!) ksh (solaris standard) du (I always catalog an entire system, quicker than find, and im impatient) But grep, perl and less, vi are always on the list. and bzip/gzip for log files. telnet for testing ports. Cron is more server process, I wouldnt coun't it as a command.
But for home use, wget, screen, links, du. Wget under screen for files.
Check out Dell coupons, do a google search, dell has some good deals as long as you dont buy upgrades from them. Monarch or Newegg are my favorite low cost, and top pricewatch listings for lowest price.
I wanted a Dell 24inch LCD, Dell had a dual core 2.8ghz system with 24 LCD for 1199. So, basically I got the computer for a 2-3 hundred above a 24 inch on sale. Or free on normal prices. (160 HD, Dual DVD/DVR, ATI 300, system)
I picked up a 7800 GT/OC for 350, almost 7000 3dmark, every game can run 1900x1200 or 1600x1200 with AA/AF on. And it included Call of Duty 2.
Figured I can always build an AMD X2 system later and put the GFX card in it, and bump upto 8500-9000 3dmark, next year when the prices drop.
I missed running dual core, since my dual P3-800, so nice.
I dual boot at work, since I'm mostly using SSH and X, linux is an easy switch. The biggest problem is Remedy client, Access DB, Excel Reports and IE Only sites. I can use the web or imap for exchange.
What I'm currious, is how come Firefox with M$ or clone fonts, still dont look like the same as in windows. Exact same settings, and it looks different, even different sizes.
I like linux, but you have to put up with some annoying things. Sometimes I find it easier to just stick with Windows and use cygwin for using gnu tools.
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I run vnc with icewm, so I Can keep xchat, rtin, gaim, ssh terminals that never close. Very nice.
Then you can play with KDE or Gnome, and never have to worry about losing your active sessions.
IceWM also can snap window edges, support gnome and kde. So its my favorite for vnc.
Added benefit, you can vnc from another computer on the net and have your desktop, like using your laptop on wifi from the living room.
And you even run multiple VNC servers on the same machine, have one with kde, or gnome, etc, but you loose accelerated gfx.
Good now that libranet is dead...maybe they'll open source their adminmenu tool so other distros can use it.
If it was in so much demand someone would of created an opensource version. Yast will be open source, Debian and Ubuntu both have projects. Most people seem to be fine with synaptic, apt-get and aptitude.
As for "Good" that libranet is dead is rather harsh, libranet showed how someone could take opensource software and create a business out of it.
They forget about people who dont have a computer or inet access to download an mp3. And when your out and about, 1.99 or so for a ringtone is a nice impluse buy.
And for ringtone sites, they have to pay kick backs to the telco they work with, unless you are a 3rd party site not linked on your "walled garden" homepage on your phone's ringtone site.
Also size, ringtones are small files compared to a 192k full length mp3, and most phones have limited memory.
I guess in a couple years when everyone has umts and a gig of memory in the phones the WSJ article might make some sense about price fixing.
For kicks i booted my c64 and tested out my 20+ year old floppies (damn), they still worked, not bad for sitting in a garage..
I have 9 year old CD's that still work without issues, my old win95 email archives test ok.
Copy them every few years to new media, save originals, problem solved.
Spoken like someone who never had to reboot or re-login during an outage. Boot time for old windows laptop's of 2 minutes and 3-4 minutes for IT scripts was horrible. I would always put "IT Network Scripts" down as extenders to outages.
Nortel just wont let you download the linux client, and IT wont give it to me. So here I am, cant use linux to VPN into work.
For business use, we need a Nortel Extranet client that supports SecureID.
BTW, Switched to Ubuntu on my work laptop, love it. Infact its made me install debian testing and dapper on a few boxes, I've dumped Mandrake er, Mandriva now.
Microsoft is generally easier and quicker to deploy, but then
To be fair, you normally choose the OS and Hardware for the job. Microsoft likes to point out OEM boxes that are hard to install linux on, but then, thats like trying to put XP on all those old beige boxes and saying Microsoft sux0rs because of bad driver support.
SSDD.
When I got my first linux 1.x distro on floppy, thats what I did, I man'ed every command to understand what they did. After awhile you figure out what each is for, and read a few scripts, things just click. Looking around, poking your nose around the system, reading the man pages is the most important thing someone knew to unix can do.
/etc/man.conf for directories)
Couple things I hated about man pages.
groff -Tascii -man
Then you can read all those man files directly! (check
Also, use man -a when you read, or you only get the first page of the man file.. Always hated that, if you want to search an entire manual gotta use -a.
RTFM while 90% of the time helps, the man pages dont always give good details on the syntax or command switchs and how they interact.
I personally think SuSE is the most polished, eye-candy distro for KDE, some knoppix livecd's also have a fair amount of candy.
Thats what amazing, Novell would drop it, but then again, they have a group of gnome developers in house...
I would still be using win2000 if it had cleartype and remote desktop. As for search features, I dont think it will help Thunderbird, so no reason to upgrade. And firefox instead of IE and tabs.
Firewall, I have a nat router for that reason and turned off upnp, and avg freeware.
Quicker tcp/ip stack, now if it improves my downloads or ping, maybe we have a winner.
Cows standing asleep (they sleep both standing and on the ground.) can be tipped, I've seen it done on my grandmothers farm, but the cow was on a mound.
Its tipping, not pushing. They article shows what it would take to *push* a cow over..
But whats really funny is when dogs bite the tail of a cow and the cow spins lifting the dog up in the air, thats funny.
Its only funny because its true.
Isn't Debian 3 already certified? So ubuntu which is based on Debian shouldnt be hard.
I recently started playing with Ubuntu after seeing it climb to #1 on distrowatch.com, and I must say, very nice. Made me switch from Mandriva, and I wont touch Gentoo again after this. SuSE seems a little more polished, but debian has more packages.
Also think I'll dump gentoo, really liking having all the packages I need and not compiling. Going to try sparc debian tomorrow at work, kinda interested to see how the install goes.
You can cancel your cable and save that cost of a tivo every month.
Or Live in a cardboard box under a bridge!
There are always ways to cut money from your budget, but do we need to hear about it for every article? Just because you dont watch TV, doesnt mean our wanting to watch TV is less important.
Wow, this just in, a 700 dollar card dual SLI card can play games at resolutions larger than my monitor can handle, at colour depths the human eye can't discern, at a framerate so fast the human eye doesnt pick it up, on a game that probably wasn't made to take advantage of the card, and with an actual visual performance increase I can barely notice. But the good news is I smoke em when I run a benchmark utility.
You can notice 4xAA and 8xAF turned on both visually and framerate. When everyone is running 1920x1200+ with 8xAA/16xAF with max shaders, etc and getting no dips below 60FPS, then you have a valid argument, but we are not even close to that, even using SLI isnt.
Even my single 7800 can dip below 20fps in DOD:Source when too much AA/AF turned on, but it sure looks nice..
Thats why the benchmarks have both 1600x1200/1280x1024 with AA/AF turned on and off...
I'm not undertstanding the whole Kubuntu vs Ubuntu concerns about Gnome and KDE, Ubuntu just uses gnome as its basic install, but you can select KDE installed and use it over Gnome and it works perfectly. Kubuntu is just making the integration smoother between config files, theme and toolkits. I havnt had any issue with KDE on ubuntu.
As far as polish goes, I'd say KDE looks smoother, SuSE shows KDE's strengths. Though I'd like more GTK1/2 theme tweak's native other than a checkmark box under KDE"s preferences. (I said native not 3rd party application.)
Hell, mostly I perfer icewm, give me anti-aliased fonts, theme compatability and a taskbar+quicklaunch and thats desktop for me. I find KDE/Gnome areas of Icon and file management the biggest improvements, which for file browser and dialog boxes really need to become a standard. But is that really a WM issue?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264.
I think people are right when they say H.264, HDDVD and Blue ray will both use it, use quicktime pro, and your good to go for all platforms, even video ipod and psp.
Dell was offering the Demension 9100 system dual core 2.8ghz 820 and 24 inch 2405 widescreen for 1199 (after 100 dollar rebate). They offer the deal every few months, so basically, its buy a 24inch LCD and get a free dual core PC. Awesome deal...
Dell is the company that now sells these uninspiring products.
Those 24 and 20 inch LCD's are freaking awesome for the price. Dell just had a sale on a dual core 2.8ghz demension 9100 and 24inch lcd for 1199. (after 100 dollar rebate).
States make money off gambling, sin taxes, property and sales. That should be plenty to run the state. If the state isn't making enough, it needs to cut projects. States shouldn't be allowed to buy new football stadiums, or put off railways for 20 years until the cost is in the billions.
Go over a state budget and look at the pork projects. There is a couple dozen ways to lower taxes, even legalize marijuana and prostitution for taxation.
Bad enough my state (washington) is paying almost 1/2 billion dollars on new buildings when we have empty buildings already owned by the state or empty buildings they can buy..
Oh well, ssdd.
Everyone I know switched to SSH and dumped RSH. Keyfiles are your friend.
ssh/scp
snoop
cat (Sometimes easier to paste a file than scp one)
tail (-100f, I dont care if you are changing the command!)
ksh (solaris standard)
du (I always catalog an entire system, quicker than find, and im impatient)
But grep, perl and less, vi are always on the list.
and bzip/gzip for log files.
telnet for testing ports.
Cron is more server process, I wouldnt coun't it as a command.
But for home use, wget, screen, links, du. Wget under screen for files.
Or a 499 system with 19 LCD and it comes with XP Home, both left out on their build.
Check out Dell coupons, do a google search, dell has some good deals as long as you dont buy upgrades from them. Monarch or Newegg are my favorite low cost, and top pricewatch listings for lowest price.
I wanted a Dell 24inch LCD, Dell had a dual core 2.8ghz system with 24 LCD for 1199. So, basically I got the computer for a 2-3 hundred above a 24 inch on sale. Or free on normal prices. (160 HD, Dual DVD/DVR, ATI 300, system)
I picked up a 7800 GT/OC for 350, almost 7000 3dmark, every game can run 1900x1200 or 1600x1200 with AA/AF on. And it included Call of Duty 2.
Figured I can always build an AMD X2 system later and put the GFX card in it, and bump upto 8500-9000 3dmark, next year when the prices drop.
I missed running dual core, since my dual P3-800, so nice.
I dual boot at work, since I'm mostly using SSH and X, linux is an easy switch. The biggest problem is Remedy client, Access DB, Excel Reports and IE Only sites. I can use the web or imap for exchange.
What I'm currious, is how come Firefox with M$ or clone fonts, still dont look like the same as in windows. Exact same settings, and it looks different, even different sizes.
I like linux, but you have to put up with some annoying things. Sometimes I find it easier to just stick with Windows and use cygwin for using gnu tools.
6%, AMD 3400 & ATI 9700 PRO.
Want to convince a kid that religion is bullshit, and make an atheist of him? Send him to Catholic school.
That reminds me of a gal on Bill Maher said. "All those people you interrogated in Iraq, if any of them are innocent, they ARE terrorists now"
Nothing makes you hate more than being persecuted..