No, unfortunately, I just finally figured out that it was my Sata controller that was messing with the alternative installer and the grub loader... I slapped an IDE in and got it working again finally. I still have Edgy installed on my server/router/secondary PC. I'm going to have to put aside some time to really play with Feisty soon.
Maybe they just need to keep like they are doing. The whole reason that these guys exist is that 'NASA or Lockeheed or somebody' aren't good enough at it. They are slow, extremely cautious, and amazingly expensive. Outsourcing to them would be the same as doing nothing and is definitely not going to get them where they want to be, business-wise.
You assume ignorance on Youtube's part, but if the NFL loses this case, it means good things for Youtube. Maybe they passed the notice along simply to force this into court, without having to do the court stuff themselves?
Of course, I may be giving them too much credit, too.
I've have been a big fan of nVidia on Windows for quite a while because their drivers are simply better. ATI has made huge improvements on Windows in the last couple years, though. It doesn't surprise me that nVidia also has better Linux drivers, too. I'm hoping that with enough coaxing, ATI will indeed open source their Linux drivers in an attempt to take back (yes back!) more marketshare from nVidia.
nVidia used to be a tech support nightmare back in '97. Gateway 2000 used them on a lot of their system and the drivers were always screwing up. I think I did more nVidia driver reinstalls than any other single thing. They got serious about quality of their drivers and now they are some of the best. ATI could take this a step further by open sourcing their drivers (at least the Linux ones.)
I'd even bet that if ATI open sourced their Linux drivers, they'd be better than the Windows ones within 2 years, and within 4, they would be the basis of the Windows drivers, which would probably then go open source as well. (These are pessimistic numbers, because I'm not much of a betting man.)
So if I'm an nVidia fan, why am I saying that I hope ATI will do this? Simple: ATI has always had better hardware. All it would take for me to change loyalty would be to have ATI open source their drivers. I'd go buy one of their best cards tomorrow if they open sourced today. (I tend to be an early adopter. Go Feisty Fawn!)
Because people fight about them. Others will claim corporate greed nepotism, etc, but it's merely because people are stupid.
My mother, bless her heart, is an example of this. When the useless piece of work she works with gets a raise that puts her salary above my mother's, my mother goes into a fit of depression. The other woman has worked there a LOT longer, but she's absolutely useless. My mother (possibly justifiably, I'm not arguing either way) believes that she is worth more to the company than the other woman.
If my mother did not know the other woman's wages, there would be -no- problem.
I hear very well when there's no background noise, but I have a hard time understanding speech where there's a lot of other noise. Since most games/movies/etc insist on blaring music and other noise louder than speech, there isn't much chance for my ears to do what they do well.
So yes, I can't spot the difference most of the time. The speakers are Logitech Z4. They aren't the most expensive speakers on the market, but they do a damned good job for the price.
I did try quite a bit of manual IRQ configuration and slot switching, as well as some other possible fixes I read online, and a few of them reduced the issue, but it was still just too annoying.
I could understand if there was a hum, or a stutter, or something, from the sharing/etc. But pops? The sound card should know its job better than that.
Luckily I only spent $100 on speakers. I was SO sure it was the little 1" speakers in my monitor that were doing the popping. It was odd because they sounded pretty doggone good otherwise. Ah well, I like my new speakers.
I'd still be their customer if the SB Audigy 2 I purchased didn't pop and click all the time. Apparently it's some kind of issue with nforce chipsets, but nobody can figure out exactly what, and the most common fix is to move it to a different slot. I ended up taking it out and using the on-board sound and it's just as good. It sits on top of my PC as a reminder that more expensive doesn't necessarily mean better.
Interestingly, as long as the alternative is a choice between supporting the company and paying for something legally, ethically, and morally, and downloading it off the internet and screwing the developers of the game you love so much, damning your eternal soul, and taking a chance on going to jail, a big chunk will pick $60.
There, I fixed that a bit for you. It goes far beyond the money aspect. Some people actually appreciate the fact that the developers put a lot of hard work into the game and if sales are bad, the company will quite making them!
This is all about knowing what they need to do/change to swing Linux users back to windows, and more importantly, prevent others from switching TO Linux.
If Microsoft knew that all they had to do was get K3B, Quanta Plus, and Yakuake working on Windows to convert me back, don't you think they'd serious consider it?
Of course, they'd also have to understand that the trainwreck that is Vista is not tolerable at all. Linux users typically like the freedom the OS gives them, instead of the horribly-ineffective-but-oh-so-annoying security 'features'.
Well I stand corrected, then. I had it in my head that KOffice (and Star Office, etc) were all forks of OpenOffice, but I see I had totally gotten that wrong as well.
I'm glad there are enough other apps to open that format out there. Maybe if we can just get people to use them, now.
You got modded troll, and I believe that's wrong. You are simply an idealist. I -am- the jealous type, I admit it. But in that, I'm only human. How could you possibly work beside someone, doing just as much work as they do, and get paid nothing while they get paid anything at all? Especially when you remember the team that existed because it believed in the ideals of the system, instead of the goals of the persons/companies paying a portion of the team?
The paid people are essentially lobbyists, whether they know it or not. They may not even consciously make decisions in favor of their sponsors.
As for not being on the team... When it was all un-paid, I like to think I'd have liked it there. Now, I'm -also- glad I'm not on the team because it'd be just heartbreak for me, paid or not. Jealousy is obvious if I was not paid. Guilt and greed if I was.
No, I'm glad I'm not on the team, also. And I wish those who can't handle the situation would quit as well. I -like- Debian. It was my first distro that I managed to actually get up and running and use for a few years. (As opposed to a few days.) I've been through Slackware and I'm on Kubuntu now, which is obvious Debian-based. Kubuntu wouldn't be what it is without Debian. It's just too bad Debian couldn't just be that on its own.
Maybe a major re-org will shake it up and refocus their efforts. Or maybe it'll kill it. At this point, there's no stopping it, though.
In the kid's defense, it depends on what you grew up around. Your kid was probably used to seeing you play it, and playing games other than Reader Rabbit as well.
My niece, 6, plays those search-and-find games on Reflexive.net like Mystery Case Files. Originally, my mother (her grandmother) would sit with her and read her the items, and explain what each was if she didn't know. Now, she not only has every item's location memorized, but she can -glance- at a word in the word list and know what the word means. (The list is random each time you play.)
My sister (her mother) just commented yesterday that she's amazed at her learning speed, and that she was still doing 'letter people' at her age. My sister got 1 B in all the time she was in gradeschool, and that was from a teacher that believed 'nobody should get all As'. I'd love to take a whack at that bastard.
It's also important to note that before Mystery Case Files, my niece had absolutely no interest in learning to read, and even stated so.
It's all about environment.
And hey, who hasn't started up the original Wild Arms just to hear that themesong over and over, eh?
If I was helping create a distro, and nobody was being paid... Then only a few people got money for doing exactly the same thing as before, exactly the same thing as I'm doing... I'd be upset, then disgusted, then I'd probably quit. (I wouldn't be so immature as to remain and hold back the project, though.) Then I'd either find something else to do with my life, find another distro to help, or make my own.
Yes, there's ego involved... Everyone on a 'team' wants to feel like their at least equal to everyone else. With some people being paid and others not, it draws a very clear 'you're not as valuable' line. This is exactly the reason that many businesses make it a fire-able offense to discuss wages with other employees. And I whole-heartedly agree with that policy.
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You got modded troll not because the eSata isn't a ruse, but because all the other things aren't. Maybe we could have jumped from agp 2x to apg 16x in 1 jump, but express is different enough that they couldn't have just been 'able to invent the express part a few years back' any more than they could have just invented P4's instead of 2's and 3's.
That's great until he asks your migration strategy and you reply, "Oh, OpenOffice.org will import them." It blows the whole 'locked up' scenario right out of the water.
It's not even that great a strategy when starting from scratch, as nothing else opens OO.o documents other than OO.o. Sure, you can guarantee that that version of OO.o will always be free and available, but you can't guarantee it'll run on Windows Vista, or BeOS, or whatever OS they company moves to next, just like MS Office.
It's true that your company could always invest in having OO.o upgraded to fit the new OS, but they could also simply buy a native office app and not have the headache.
No, "free and customizable" is the way to go. If your company needs MS Office to have feature X and it doesn't, there's no recourse. If your company needs it and OO.o doesn't, they can simply improve OO.o for their needs. It'll cost money, but that's better than being impossible.
Linux has a limit on the number of characters that can be passed as arguments. In addition, when you type 'ls *', it expands the * to the filenames of all the filenames in the current directory. If there's thousands of files, it's likely to exceed the character limit and just send an error back, instead of a list of files.
The workaround is to use the find command to find each file individually and execute a command on each single file.
Windows is more used. Therefore it has more people working on it. It's also easier to learn about and find a job for. This means that every wannabe IT guy aims at it.
Mac is coming up in popularity, but it still takes someone with a little know-how to fix one. There aren't a bajillion books on it, trying to teach Joe Idiot to fix them. Bad techs don't fix things. They stave them off.
Example: The company I work for now, always had fires. The first 6 months I worked there, it seemed I was always finding and fixing problems, often pro-actively. By finding them and fixing them properly, and not just making it go away for now, I solved future problems as well. After about 6 months, things got a little quiet. At a year and a half, it's amazingly quiet... If I have 1 emergency a month, I'm amazed now. They used to happen several times a week.
In most physical repair industries, they have part-replacers. IT has a bit of that too, but the software version is a little different. It's someone that writes code that fixes the immediate problem and gives no thought (or inadequate thought) to future problems. Example: One of our file-transfer bash scripts used ls to gather the file list. This has the obvious file count issue. They rewrote the script using find to get around it and fix the problem pro-actively, but then messed up the find command so it had the same issue. -sigh- They tried, though. I'll give them that.
Purely as a note, the CSR department is all on Mac computers now, because upper management was converted. The servers are exactly the same Redhat systems they always were, and that's what I do all my work on. I've used Linux for my desktop since I got the job. (Slackware because it was what was used, then Kubuntu as I got comfortable in my job.) It's just interesting that your statement reflects my anecdotal evidence, even though it is completely unrelated to why the change happened.
So, let me get this straight: It's better to focus on chest compressions, but only if you're doing the breath part wrong.
Duh!
Likewise, it's better to focus on standing in the shallow part of the pool if you are doing the swimming wrong, assuming you don't want to drown.
The real focus of the article is actually that the breath part is hard to do correctly, and apparently a lot of people get it wrong. Instead of a single person trying to do it all, someone should help by doing the breath (if they know how!) while the other works on compressions.
I've never been able to figure out why if there's a crowd of people there, 1 person ends up doing all of it while the others get in the way. One of those idiots standing their with their mouths open should bend down and help.
Did she post the notice properly, though? There are laws about how you must post a 'no trespassing' sign on physical properties.
Similarly, there are ways to post that notice on your website as well. robots.txt comes to mind. If she didn't bother to post the notice correctly, the case should be just thrown out.
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No, unfortunately, I just finally figured out that it was my Sata controller that was messing with the alternative installer and the grub loader... I slapped an IDE in and got it working again finally. I still have Edgy installed on my server/router/secondary PC. I'm going to have to put aside some time to really play with Feisty soon.
If nobody tries, we'll never know. Personally, I don't believe it IS the formula.
It may just be that we don't have the technology needed to do it cheap, yet, though. We also won't know that unless they try.
Telling them 'go ask the old guys how they used to do it' is NOT the answer.
Maybe they just need to keep like they are doing. The whole reason that these guys exist is that 'NASA or Lockeheed or somebody' aren't good enough at it. They are slow, extremely cautious, and amazingly expensive. Outsourcing to them would be the same as doing nothing and is definitely not going to get them where they want to be, business-wise.
You assume ignorance on Youtube's part, but if the NFL loses this case, it means good things for Youtube. Maybe they passed the notice along simply to force this into court, without having to do the court stuff themselves?
Of course, I may be giving them too much credit, too.
I've have been a big fan of nVidia on Windows for quite a while because their drivers are simply better. ATI has made huge improvements on Windows in the last couple years, though. It doesn't surprise me that nVidia also has better Linux drivers, too. I'm hoping that with enough coaxing, ATI will indeed open source their Linux drivers in an attempt to take back (yes back!) more marketshare from nVidia.
nVidia used to be a tech support nightmare back in '97. Gateway 2000 used them on a lot of their system and the drivers were always screwing up. I think I did more nVidia driver reinstalls than any other single thing. They got serious about quality of their drivers and now they are some of the best. ATI could take this a step further by open sourcing their drivers (at least the Linux ones.)
I'd even bet that if ATI open sourced their Linux drivers, they'd be better than the Windows ones within 2 years, and within 4, they would be the basis of the Windows drivers, which would probably then go open source as well. (These are pessimistic numbers, because I'm not much of a betting man.)
So if I'm an nVidia fan, why am I saying that I hope ATI will do this? Simple: ATI has always had better hardware. All it would take for me to change loyalty would be to have ATI open source their drivers. I'd go buy one of their best cards tomorrow if they open sourced today. (I tend to be an early adopter. Go Feisty Fawn!)
Because people fight about them. Others will claim corporate greed nepotism, etc, but it's merely because people are stupid.
My mother, bless her heart, is an example of this. When the useless piece of work she works with gets a raise that puts her salary above my mother's, my mother goes into a fit of depression. The other woman has worked there a LOT longer, but she's absolutely useless. My mother (possibly justifiably, I'm not arguing either way) believes that she is worth more to the company than the other woman.
If my mother did not know the other woman's wages, there would be -no- problem.
I hear very well when there's no background noise, but I have a hard time understanding speech where there's a lot of other noise. Since most games/movies/etc insist on blaring music and other noise louder than speech, there isn't much chance for my ears to do what they do well.
So yes, I can't spot the difference most of the time. The speakers are Logitech Z4. They aren't the most expensive speakers on the market, but they do a damned good job for the price.
I did try quite a bit of manual IRQ configuration and slot switching, as well as some other possible fixes I read online, and a few of them reduced the issue, but it was still just too annoying.
I could understand if there was a hum, or a stutter, or something, from the sharing/etc. But pops? The sound card should know its job better than that.
Luckily I only spent $100 on speakers. I was SO sure it was the little 1" speakers in my monitor that were doing the popping. It was odd because they sounded pretty doggone good otherwise. Ah well, I like my new speakers.
I'd still be their customer if the SB Audigy 2 I purchased didn't pop and click all the time. Apparently it's some kind of issue with nforce chipsets, but nobody can figure out exactly what, and the most common fix is to move it to a different slot. I ended up taking it out and using the on-board sound and it's just as good. It sits on top of my PC as a reminder that more expensive doesn't necessarily mean better.
Interestingly, as long as the alternative is a choice between supporting the company and paying for something legally, ethically, and morally, and downloading it off the internet and screwing the developers of the game you love so much, damning your eternal soul, and taking a chance on going to jail, a big chunk will pick $60.
There, I fixed that a bit for you. It goes far beyond the money aspect. Some people actually appreciate the fact that the developers put a lot of hard work into the game and if sales are bad, the company will quite making them!
This is all about knowing what they need to do/change to swing Linux users back to windows, and more importantly, prevent others from switching TO Linux.
If Microsoft knew that all they had to do was get K3B, Quanta Plus, and Yakuake working on Windows to convert me back, don't you think they'd serious consider it?
Of course, they'd also have to understand that the trainwreck that is Vista is not tolerable at all. Linux users typically like the freedom the OS gives them, instead of the horribly-ineffective-but-oh-so-annoying security 'features'.
Well I stand corrected, then. I had it in my head that KOffice (and Star Office, etc) were all forks of OpenOffice, but I see I had totally gotten that wrong as well.
I'm glad there are enough other apps to open that format out there. Maybe if we can just get people to use them, now.
You got modded troll, and I believe that's wrong. You are simply an idealist. I -am- the jealous type, I admit it. But in that, I'm only human. How could you possibly work beside someone, doing just as much work as they do, and get paid nothing while they get paid anything at all? Especially when you remember the team that existed because it believed in the ideals of the system, instead of the goals of the persons/companies paying a portion of the team?
The paid people are essentially lobbyists, whether they know it or not. They may not even consciously make decisions in favor of their sponsors.
As for not being on the team... When it was all un-paid, I like to think I'd have liked it there. Now, I'm -also- glad I'm not on the team because it'd be just heartbreak for me, paid or not. Jealousy is obvious if I was not paid. Guilt and greed if I was.
No, I'm glad I'm not on the team, also. And I wish those who can't handle the situation would quit as well. I -like- Debian. It was my first distro that I managed to actually get up and running and use for a few years. (As opposed to a few days.) I've been through Slackware and I'm on Kubuntu now, which is obvious Debian-based. Kubuntu wouldn't be what it is without Debian. It's just too bad Debian couldn't just be that on its own.
Maybe a major re-org will shake it up and refocus their efforts. Or maybe it'll kill it. At this point, there's no stopping it, though.
"On a point of pedantry, also you cannot have a meteoric rise. Meteors fall!"
I believe that's a reference to a 'rising star', not a real meteor. It's supposed to be clever. I always liked these from school:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/wxk116/vocab.html
In the kid's defense, it depends on what you grew up around. Your kid was probably used to seeing you play it, and playing games other than Reader Rabbit as well.
My niece, 6, plays those search-and-find games on Reflexive.net like Mystery Case Files. Originally, my mother (her grandmother) would sit with her and read her the items, and explain what each was if she didn't know. Now, she not only has every item's location memorized, but she can -glance- at a word in the word list and know what the word means. (The list is random each time you play.)
My sister (her mother) just commented yesterday that she's amazed at her learning speed, and that she was still doing 'letter people' at her age. My sister got 1 B in all the time she was in gradeschool, and that was from a teacher that believed 'nobody should get all As'. I'd love to take a whack at that bastard.
It's also important to note that before Mystery Case Files, my niece had absolutely no interest in learning to read, and even stated so.
It's all about environment.
And hey, who hasn't started up the original Wild Arms just to hear that themesong over and over, eh?
I'm afraid I'm 'immature' then.
If I was helping create a distro, and nobody was being paid... Then only a few people got money for doing exactly the same thing as before, exactly the same thing as I'm doing... I'd be upset, then disgusted, then I'd probably quit. (I wouldn't be so immature as to remain and hold back the project, though.) Then I'd either find something else to do with my life, find another distro to help, or make my own.
Yes, there's ego involved... Everyone on a 'team' wants to feel like their at least equal to everyone else. With some people being paid and others not, it draws a very clear 'you're not as valuable' line. This is exactly the reason that many businesses make it a fire-able offense to discuss wages with other employees. And I whole-heartedly agree with that policy.
You got modded troll not because the eSata isn't a ruse, but because all the other things aren't. Maybe we could have jumped from agp 2x to apg 16x in 1 jump, but express is different enough that they couldn't have just been 'able to invent the express part a few years back' any more than they could have just invented P4's instead of 2's and 3's.
That's great until he asks your migration strategy and you reply, "Oh, OpenOffice.org will import them." It blows the whole 'locked up' scenario right out of the water.
It's not even that great a strategy when starting from scratch, as nothing else opens OO.o documents other than OO.o. Sure, you can guarantee that that version of OO.o will always be free and available, but you can't guarantee it'll run on Windows Vista, or BeOS, or whatever OS they company moves to next, just like MS Office.
It's true that your company could always invest in having OO.o upgraded to fit the new OS, but they could also simply buy a native office app and not have the headache.
No, "free and customizable" is the way to go. If your company needs MS Office to have feature X and it doesn't, there's no recourse. If your company needs it and OO.o doesn't, they can simply improve OO.o for their needs. It'll cost money, but that's better than being impossible.
First of all, 'thy' is improperly used.
Second, you've got the word 'but' and 'pirates' MUCH too close to each other for my liking.
Or a beowulf cluster of them, of course.
Linux has a limit on the number of characters that can be passed as arguments. In addition, when you type 'ls *', it expands the * to the filenames of all the filenames in the current directory. If there's thousands of files, it's likely to exceed the character limit and just send an error back, instead of a list of files.
The workaround is to use the find command to find each file individually and execute a command on each single file.
That's a symptom, not a cause.
Windows is more used. Therefore it has more people working on it. It's also easier to learn about and find a job for. This means that every wannabe IT guy aims at it.
Mac is coming up in popularity, but it still takes someone with a little know-how to fix one. There aren't a bajillion books on it, trying to teach Joe Idiot to fix them. Bad techs don't fix things. They stave them off.
Example: The company I work for now, always had fires. The first 6 months I worked there, it seemed I was always finding and fixing problems, often pro-actively. By finding them and fixing them properly, and not just making it go away for now, I solved future problems as well. After about 6 months, things got a little quiet. At a year and a half, it's amazingly quiet... If I have 1 emergency a month, I'm amazed now. They used to happen several times a week.
In most physical repair industries, they have part-replacers. IT has a bit of that too, but the software version is a little different. It's someone that writes code that fixes the immediate problem and gives no thought (or inadequate thought) to future problems. Example: One of our file-transfer bash scripts used ls to gather the file list. This has the obvious file count issue. They rewrote the script using find to get around it and fix the problem pro-actively, but then messed up the find command so it had the same issue. -sigh- They tried, though. I'll give them that.
Purely as a note, the CSR department is all on Mac computers now, because upper management was converted. The servers are exactly the same Redhat systems they always were, and that's what I do all my work on. I've used Linux for my desktop since I got the job. (Slackware because it was what was used, then Kubuntu as I got comfortable in my job.) It's just interesting that your statement reflects my anecdotal evidence, even though it is completely unrelated to why the change happened.
So, let me get this straight: It's better to focus on chest compressions, but only if you're doing the breath part wrong.
Duh!
Likewise, it's better to focus on standing in the shallow part of the pool if you are doing the swimming wrong, assuming you don't want to drown.
The real focus of the article is actually that the breath part is hard to do correctly, and apparently a lot of people get it wrong. Instead of a single person trying to do it all, someone should help by doing the breath (if they know how!) while the other works on compressions.
I've never been able to figure out why if there's a crowd of people there, 1 person ends up doing all of it while the others get in the way. One of those idiots standing their with their mouths open should bend down and help.
Did she post the notice properly, though? There are laws about how you must post a 'no trespassing' sign on physical properties.
Similarly, there are ways to post that notice on your website as well. robots.txt comes to mind. If she didn't bother to post the notice correctly, the case should be just thrown out.