maybe try XPde, a linux desktop interface that is made to look and feel more like windows XP. You can download an iso for Clusterix, which has this environment included if you want to try it out.
I have to agree. Every time I go to someone's house and give the computer a checkup, it is inundated with spyware, sluggish, and unresponsive at times. I guess that is how they plan to get people on the Vista wagon, by the time it is released the XP users will be so fed up with their slow computer, they will be ready to pay a premium for a new computer with the latest offering from MS because the old one "ain't fast enough". If they patch the systems, make them work right, it could kill that future sale... where is that tinfoil hat....
for your converts, you might want to check out XPde, it is a desktop environment that was created to make it easier for windows users to acclimate to using linux. They try to make it similar enough to XP for people to know where to look if they know how to configure anything in windows.
Red Hat Linux ES 4 with 1 year subscription $350 Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 with 1 year subscription $269 Community ENTerprise linux Operating System 4.2 $0.00, basically RHEL4 without the need for a paid subscription for updated packages.
I have a treo 650, with mRing, which allows me to take any mp3 I have and use it for a ring tone. Free (after the cost of the software, which was ~$20). I can have a different ringer for each and every caller (maybe make an mp3 of a voice recording with the person's name?) in my address book, unknowns, and contact lists, one for SMS messages, one for text, etc etc. Using Vegas Video 4 or some similar mp* editing software (audacity, LAME, etc), I can take just the snippet of a song I want for the 15 second ringer (some songs intros suck as ringers). I mean, who here on/. would not want their phone to sound like an old school Star Trek communicator when you get a page from your servers?
from the statement: After OSWD started to gain some steam Frank decided to add our first commercial venture. He added the template monster affiliate program to the website. It has been criticized in the past by our members because it's not open source and people confused them with our free designs. I think it's worth noting that he never told anyone how much money he made and he didn't share the money. He was paying for the hosting, so I was fine with that (although our hosting cost was $10/month, I can assure you he was making more than that).
So, back to the present: all these things were making me upset. When the site went down I thought it would be a nice time to ask Frank to pass the website to me for the benefit of the project. He hasn't talked to me since. Also, I don't have access to OSWD or access to my email account. OSWD DOES have new hosting, the transfer was done 2 weeks ago. The problem is that Frank won't do the work to bring it back up. There are no technical problems anymore, he's just sitting on it. Also, he won't give the project to anyone else to do it for him, I think because he wants to keep as much control on the website as possible.
So that's what's happening guys. I really appreciate all the offers of hosting, but that's not the issue here. And really, unless Frank gives up the website, there's not a whole lot I can do help. Hope that clears things up!
sounds like the one guy Frank is being greedy and lazy, doesn't want to lose his affiliate cash, or do the work to get the site back up.
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If the gods don't like it, they can smite me where I sit. It is this kind of thinking that got people burned at the stake for "being witches" and other such nonsense. We are nowhere near creating an complex enough organism (from scratch anyway, genetic modification of existing organisms aside) that could break out and wreak havoc on the earth. Not learning the intricacies of how life is assembled is basically leaving it up to a roll of the dice, or for example, bird flu. Kind of like leaving one leg on a table shorter than the rest and leaving it up to divine intent to keep it everything we pile on top from tumbling down.
I push openoffice on anyone who asks me if I have a "copy" of office they can "install" on their new computer. Now with the more advanced Access style database stuff and general improvements, I couldn't imagine the "need" for MS Office anywhere. Except maybe in schools where the classes they teach on basic computer skills require that students have a copy of the latest version of Office. That is one thing that needs to be changed. Users are getting their basic education in productivity applications without any alternatives. Amazon is preselling the openoffice 2.x resource kit for $32.99, which comes with the cd with several versions (MS, Linux, Solaris, Apple) of OOo, plus macros and such. Might make a good gift for someone with the in-depth manual that explains how to do everything.
I am on a team that manages about 400 nodes in a few high performance linux clusters. They all run RH 7.3 and the linux terminal services project. Cost? Price of the hardware, and compiler licenses. Microsoft clusters more than likely will never cut into existing linux cluster market. Maybe some new company with a green MCSE who "heard about them clusters". I actually know someone who is a microsoft admin type, upon hearing about what I do at my new job said "They have clustering in linux? I thought that was a windows only thing." Scary eh? He works for a prominent antivirus company...
Unfortunately I could not find info on the wear. The article mentions the avoidance of gems, precious materials etc (to avoid looting). Usually these are also the _hard_ materials that give ordinary clocks a good restatance to wear. How will they avoid that it comes to a grinding stop in 2000 years?
what I read in the discovery article is that the final clock will be huge, and that the mechanical binary adders pins will be large enough that they should last for 10,000 years. It doesn't use gears that can shrink in size, gradually speeding up the clock. I hope it is built before I die. I would love to see it completed.
I certainly hope they don't try and go the route SCO went. Wouldn't exactly be learning from the fatal mistakes of your enemies, eh? As long as they use open source code in their OS, they will have to release their source. Which gives life to projects like CentOS.
actually, (in the northern hemisphere) the winter solstice is Dec. 22, first day of winter (shortest day of the year), and the summer solstice is Jun 21, the first day of summer (longest day of the year). link The equinoxes are the times of the year where the day and night are closest to equal. The Mayans built and aligned the pyramid at Chichen Itza based on the equinoxes to create a tribute to the god Quetzalcoatl, represented by a serpent. On the equinoxes, the sun casts shadows and triangles of light which are supposed to look like a diamondback rattlesnake. 'nother link
It rewrites the PREROUTING nat table, for instance redirecting 80 to 7070, 25 to 7075, and such. I haven't applied any patches, the installation package is a tarball full of rpms. (which of course, require root to install (to answer the other reply to my post)).
Like who? Apple? Sun? Microsoft's "leaked" release got covered right before this article... Seems slashdot is quite fair about distro announcements, linux is just the flavor that has the most often releases, between all distros.
I would recommend that you use a system that has some horsepower. I installed Zimbra on a p4 3.0 Ghz HT 1GB ram box (my workstation), and experienced some heavy load. Not only that but it takes the liberty of rewriting your firewall ruleset, so I wouldn't use an existing system without being prepared for service / connectivity interruptions (linux gateway/firewalls). Sure, it is still in beta, so I will give it that excuse, I couldn't imagine releasing the horde on it for production use yet. If this one doesn't require all sorts of backends, I might give it a try.
good point, but we don't have a tivo. And the millions of TV watchers out there who don't have one won't care enough because it doesn't effect them. But yeah, i do have tv tuner cards in my windows and linux boxes, would be a shame if they weren't able to record something. I myself am all about fighting the RIAA and such entities, regardless of whether or not it directly effects me now, because what's the next step? Thought police?
If it weren't for my girlfriend (who regularly watches more tv than me), I could see getting my cable tv disconnected in protest. But in order for that to work, the masses of reality tv watching zombies have to be convinced that there is stuff to do outside of the box. Some people are content to live in teh matrix though.
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Oh yeah? Well, without the Big Bang, none of this would have been possible. :P
maybe try XPde, a linux desktop interface that is made to look and feel more like windows XP. You can download an iso for Clusterix, which has this environment included if you want to try it out.
I have to agree. Every time I go to someone's house and give the computer a checkup, it is inundated with spyware, sluggish, and unresponsive at times. I guess that is how they plan to get people on the Vista wagon, by the time it is released the XP users will be so fed up with their slow computer, they will be ready to pay a premium for a new computer with the latest offering from MS because the old one "ain't fast enough". If they patch the systems, make them work right, it could kill that future sale... where is that tinfoil hat....
for your converts, you might want to check out XPde, it is a desktop environment that was created to make it easier for windows users to acclimate to using linux. They try to make it similar enough to XP for people to know where to look if they know how to configure anything in windows.
maybe that is when Quetzalcoatl returns to collect his gold...
I for one welcome our ancestral overlords!
Red Hat Linux ES 4 with 1 year subscription $350
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 with 1 year subscription $269
Community ENTerprise linux Operating System 4.2 $0.00, basically RHEL4 without the need for a paid subscription for updated packages.
I have a treo 650, with mRing, which allows me to take any mp3 I have and use it for a ring tone. Free (after the cost of the software, which was ~$20). I can have a different ringer for each and every caller (maybe make an mp3 of a voice recording with the person's name?) in my address book, unknowns, and contact lists, one for SMS messages, one for text, etc etc. Using Vegas Video 4 or some similar mp* editing software (audacity, LAME, etc), I can take just the snippet of a song I want for the 15 second ringer (some songs intros suck as ringers). I mean, who here on /. would not want their phone to sound like an old school Star Trek communicator when you get a page from your servers?
The little asterisk by their username denotes that they are a subscriber, and get a good head start on the rest of us.
from the statement:
After OSWD started to gain some steam Frank decided to add our first commercial venture. He added the template monster affiliate program to the website. It has been criticized in the past by our members because it's not open source and people confused them with our free designs. I think it's worth noting that he never told anyone how much money he made and he didn't share the money. He was paying for the hosting, so I was fine with that (although our hosting cost was $10/month, I can assure you he was making more than that). So, back to the present: all these things were making me upset. When the site went down I thought it would be a nice time to ask Frank to pass the website to me for the benefit of the project. He hasn't talked to me since. Also, I don't have access to OSWD or access to my email account. OSWD DOES have new hosting, the transfer was done 2 weeks ago. The problem is that Frank won't do the work to bring it back up. There are no technical problems anymore, he's just sitting on it. Also, he won't give the project to anyone else to do it for him, I think because he wants to keep as much control on the website as possible. So that's what's happening guys. I really appreciate all the offers of hosting, but that's not the issue here. And really, unless Frank gives up the website, there's not a whole lot I can do help. Hope that clears things up!
sounds like the one guy Frank is being greedy and lazy, doesn't want to lose his affiliate cash, or do the work to get the site back up.
I've got an F5 BigIP that runs a BSD variant... check this'n out:
uname -a && uptime
BIG-IP bigip0 BIG-IP 3.3 BIG-IP Kernel 3.3 i386
2:21PM up 1300 days, 12:18, 1 user, load averages: 3.09, 3.16, 3.15
If the gods don't like it, they can smite me where I sit. It is this kind of thinking that got people burned at the stake for "being witches" and other such nonsense. We are nowhere near creating an complex enough organism (from scratch anyway, genetic modification of existing organisms aside) that could break out and wreak havoc on the earth. Not learning the intricacies of how life is assembled is basically leaving it up to a roll of the dice, or for example, bird flu. Kind of like leaving one leg on a table shorter than the rest and leaving it up to divine intent to keep it everything we pile on top from tumbling down.
OO.o gives you the option to save in all of the above formats.(except maybe Project, but that isn't a core part of Office?) Give it a whirl.
I push openoffice on anyone who asks me if I have a "copy" of office they can "install" on their new computer. Now with the more advanced Access style database stuff and general improvements, I couldn't imagine the "need" for MS Office anywhere. Except maybe in schools where the classes they teach on basic computer skills require that students have a copy of the latest version of Office. That is one thing that needs to be changed. Users are getting their basic education in productivity applications without any alternatives. Amazon is preselling the openoffice 2.x resource kit for $32.99, which comes with the cd with several versions (MS, Linux, Solaris, Apple) of OOo, plus macros and such. Might make a good gift for someone with the in-depth manual that explains how to do everything.
I am on a team that manages about 400 nodes in a few high performance linux clusters. They all run RH 7.3 and the linux terminal services project. Cost? Price of the hardware, and compiler licenses. Microsoft clusters more than likely will never cut into existing linux cluster market. Maybe some new company with a green MCSE who "heard about them clusters". I actually know someone who is a microsoft admin type, upon hearing about what I do at my new job said "They have clustering in linux? I thought that was a windows only thing." Scary eh? He works for a prominent antivirus company...
Unfortunately I could not find info on the wear. The article mentions the avoidance of gems, precious materials etc (to avoid looting). Usually these are also the _hard_ materials that give ordinary clocks a good restatance to wear. How will they avoid that it comes to a grinding stop in 2000 years?
what I read in the discovery article is that the final clock will be huge, and that the mechanical binary adders pins will be large enough that they should last for 10,000 years. It doesn't use gears that can shrink in size, gradually speeding up the clock. I hope it is built before I die. I would love to see it completed.
I certainly hope they don't try and go the route SCO went. Wouldn't exactly be learning from the fatal mistakes of your enemies, eh? As long as they use open source code in their OS, they will have to release their source. Which gives life to projects like CentOS.
I had the same thing happen on cox cable. I called them up and they had someone come out to put a signal amplifier on my line. Been fine ever since.
actually, (in the northern hemisphere) the winter solstice is Dec. 22, first day of winter (shortest day of the year), and the summer solstice is Jun 21, the first day of summer (longest day of the year). link The equinoxes are the times of the year where the day and night are closest to equal. The Mayans built and aligned the pyramid at Chichen Itza based on the equinoxes to create a tribute to the god Quetzalcoatl, represented by a serpent. On the equinoxes, the sun casts shadows and triangles of light which are supposed to look like a diamondback rattlesnake. 'nother link
the curve is a lot steeper at the extremes when it comes to IQ
It rewrites the PREROUTING nat table, for instance redirecting 80 to 7070, 25 to 7075, and such. I haven't applied any patches, the installation package is a tarball full of rpms. (which of course, require root to install (to answer the other reply to my post)).
Like who? Apple? Sun? Microsoft's "leaked" release got covered right before this article... Seems slashdot is quite fair about distro announcements, linux is just the flavor that has the most often releases, between all distros.
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I would recommend that you use a system that has some horsepower. I installed Zimbra on a p4 3.0 Ghz HT 1GB ram box (my workstation), and experienced some heavy load. Not only that but it takes the liberty of rewriting your firewall ruleset, so I wouldn't use an existing system without being prepared for service / connectivity interruptions (linux gateway/firewalls). Sure, it is still in beta, so I will give it that excuse, I couldn't imagine releasing the horde on it for production use yet. If this one doesn't require all sorts of backends, I might give it a try.
good point, but we don't have a tivo. And the millions of TV watchers out there who don't have one won't care enough because it doesn't effect them. But yeah, i do have tv tuner cards in my windows and linux boxes, would be a shame if they weren't able to record something. I myself am all about fighting the RIAA and such entities, regardless of whether or not it directly effects me now, because what's the next step? Thought police?
If it weren't for my girlfriend (who regularly watches more tv than me), I could see getting my cable tv disconnected in protest. But in order for that to work, the masses of reality tv watching zombies have to be convinced that there is stuff to do outside of the box. Some people are content to live in teh matrix though.