1. I hate KDE. I don't use Desktop Environments. I use WindowMaker exclusively. 2. I hate Qt. I don't use Qt. I use tk, WINGs, xul, and curses. 3. I only use Linux kernel, but I wouldn't tell anyone to stop using HURD if they like it. 4. that's your keymap.. 5. write one yourself.
I knew my number was close to that. yep. 110 off. wow. never saw someone with a 93xxx number. When did you join? I joined somewhere around fall or winter 1998 i think.
being as Bond doesn't drink gin martinis, that's all well and good. I think instead of Finlandia he should drink Stolichnaya, as that seems more Bond-y to me.
I was one of the slashdot users who did use windows even thoough I knew linux and have been running it off and on for five years. I know, I know. But in May I discovered Gentoo, and I haven't booted to my windows partition since then. Not even for games.
That's enough reason for me to stay in Linux. I don't think I'll go back. However, when Mandrake first came out, I thought the same way. Mandrake was fast current RedHat, and I liked that. But I got tired of it. Gentoo opened my eyes to what a Linux-From-Scratch type distribution could be like intended for those who don't have time for LFS. My recommendation for those who want Linux but keep hanging on to Windows is find a distro you like. I did, and I'm very happy about it. Please try, because you will be happy too.
I worked as an intern this summer at a small company in Grand Rapids, MI. We were complete XP to the core. I was very nervous coming in because I have heard about how difficult XP is to do right. However, with our company, everything worked. Here are what I think a company needs for XP:
FOOD in the programming area. So what if it'll mess the keyboards up. A hungry programmer is a bad programmer. Always have snacks. If your coders are getting fat, give them something healthy. Always have food.
People who get along and have similar levels of experience. Pairing with a person who knows much more or less than you do is counterproductive. However, pairing with someone who knows their stuff like you to is great.
Smart boss/project manager. This person won't do much of the coding, except pair when needed, but the team really needs someone who knows their stuff to be the leader.
Clients who understand what XP is. If they do, they will be incredibly happy with your work. If they don't, they will be very confused.
We used these four concepts and since the code we put out was so much better than anything our clients had ever paid for, we had more work than we knew what to do with. It was incredible.
Oh-and Boss, take the guys out for a beer at lunchtime every once in a while, and encourage a 5 minute break every hour or so. A happy coder is a good coder.
you're kidding, right? Slashdot readers don't have girlfriends or "the guys". Otherwise they wouldn't be posting. Oh wait. what does that say about me? I better tell the gf I need to go out with the guys...
Actually, the company I am currently employed by is in the process of writing a system/gui test environment for this very purpose. One caveat-it's only for Java, but when we complete it (very soon), we will release it to the public. our address is www.atomicobject.com. The name of the project will be HASTE, look for it in a month or two.
but who's promoting what? if you're talking Mandrake being promoted (let's get that straight, Linux is not in charge of anything. Linux is a kernel. Kernels are not cognizant. They cannot decide anything), well, Mandrake is mostly Free software. The key to this Open Source/Free Software movement is not freedom as in beer, as I'm sure you've heard, but freedom as in speech. As in-anyone is allowed to use this software for whatever they want. Read the Debian Social Contract if you don't understand that. Don't be so anti-establishment that you take away freedom.
what the heck? like linux is an organization! oh boy, now we're deciding who is good enough to use linux? get off your high horse. who would even be able to do such a thing as stop Walmart from linux-ing, and why would ANYONE want them to? what the heck? go back to your cave and keep your tyrannical ways to yourself. We don't want to hear them.
is it just me, or is Ogg Vorbis kind of a dumb name for a multimedia format? I'm sorry, I don't mean to troll, I just want to find people who agree. Think of this-"I have 5600 MP3s". Now replace it- "I have 5600 [Ogg Vorbis's|Ogg Vorbis Multimedia Files|Ogg Vorbis Audios]". It doesn't work. It's like legos. You don't say I have 2030 Lego brand entertainment bricks, or 2030 Lego bricks. You say I have 2030 Legos. This, imho, is Ogg's greatest downfall. The project works great, the compression is good, the audio sounds pretty dang good, but it will never catch on, first because of the large installed base of mp3s and players, and second, because it just sounds dumb.
Cost of 15" LCD Monitor: $250 Cost of 40x12x48 speed CD-RW drive (which is, incidentally, extraordinarily faster than the drive on the imac): $80
So that's $330. You mean I have $1069 left to build the computer in order to defeat an imac with a 40GB hard drive (80gb hard drive, $80), 128MB of SDRAM (512MB of PC2100 DDR, $100), and a 700MHz processor (given Apple's faulty performance claims, I'll even spot you 2-for-1 on the megahertz, getting an Athlon XP 1800+ 1533MHz processor for $99). Now we're down to $790. Uh-oh, I have to beat a geforce2 mx with a Geforce4 TI 4600 VIVO ($309) just to blow you out of the water, oh, and because I can. Down to $481, oh no, I'm shivering. A nice case with a 420W quality AMD-approved PSU ($100), an MSI KT3-Ultra motherboard ($90), a quality keyboard/mouse/floppy drive/network card ($100 total), a Hercules Game Theater XP ($100)-incidentally, much better than the imac's crappy audio-and we still have $91 left for a Pioneer Slot-load DVD drive ($60).
There we go. $1368. No crappy components, even allowed $100 for the case. And this computer will play any video game at exponentially better speeds than that mac (if you don't play games, save $250 and get a geforce2 gts-v or something). The sound system is exponentially better. It has video capture, 4x the memory (twice as fast) and double the hard disk space. I personally would rather have a nice 19" trinitron than a 15" flat panel, but I catered to what you wanted. Granted, this configuration does not have an OS, but if you're a Windows guy and want an OS, go one step down on the video card (we did buy top-of-the-line) and you'll have more than enough.
NEVER say macs are a cheaper alternative-they are only cheaper compared to PC prices of two years ago. I'm sick of macintosh users being spoonfed doctrine about how their computers are cheaper and faster. It's only to make them feel better for spending so much. Use a mac-that's fine with me. Just don't lie about it.
Have you ever been to a college dorm? I know at least fifteen people with an N64 and Super Smash Bros at school, and there are lines outside their rooms to play. Oh, and you may not know this, but the GameCube and N64 (and Dreamcast) support up to 4 controllers, and Smash Bros is playable by 4 at once. It's a crazy good time with four 18-21 year olds fighting with little cartoon characters. I suggest you try it, as these are who own America right now, and these are who Nintendo aims at.
When Universal releases an enhanced cd with the latest music video and artist-wallpaper on it and yet the cd is copy-protected so it only plays on audio cd players.
the MSFT case is not a big deal. whatever happens will happen. However, the Via/Intel case is a HUGE deal. If there is validity to Via's claims, Intel is in serious trouble. HardOCP has a thread going down in their forums commenting on what the ramifications of this are. This could be huge-keep an eye on it. Via has the potential to really smack Intel where it will hurt the most-in the courts.
shouldn't they be more concerned about getting playstation 2's out, inexpensive, and available? it's still hard to find them. that's a major problem with game consoles, and how the PC has them beat-manufacturers are always too many generations ahead in thought. screw the PS3 for now. Sony should worry about making the PS2 the console they promised it to be.
i haven't heard one industry expert (expert mind you, not pcmagazine/ziff davis moron) who thinks the p4 will even sell more than the pentium pro did. the p4 is the worst-designed intel chip ever, purely designed by marketers. reward innovation. don't buy intel right now.
they'll be available in quantity this month sometime. by far the highest-quality socket-a heatsink you can get. I use the Slot-A Alpha, and I love it. what other heatsink comes unassembled so you can put it together? hey-you build your computer, you should build your heatsink
my athlon 1000MHz is at 39 degrees celsius right now. lovely for a GHz processor...
get an Alpha. it's worth the $20 you'll pay extra for the slot, and the $10 you'll pay extra for the socket. trust me.
nothing's more fun than bolting a heatsink on a $500 processor:)
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1. I hate KDE. I don't use Desktop Environments. I use WindowMaker exclusively. .
2. I hate Qt. I don't use Qt. I use tk, WINGs, xul, and curses.
3. I only use Linux kernel, but I wouldn't tell anyone to stop using HURD if they like it.
4. that's your keymap.
5. write one yourself.
Well, I guess it was just a pipedream.
Next on the list-George Lucas!
I knew my number was close to that. yep. 110 off.
wow. never saw someone with a 93xxx number. When did you join? I joined somewhere around fall or winter 1998 i think.
being as Bond doesn't drink gin martinis, that's all well and good.
I think instead of Finlandia he should drink Stolichnaya, as that seems more Bond-y to me.
I was one of the slashdot users who did use windows even thoough I knew linux and have been running it off and on for five years. I know, I know.
But in May I discovered Gentoo, and I haven't booted to my windows partition since then. Not even for games.
16:27:40 up 71 days, 51 min, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.38, 0.27
That's enough reason for me to stay in Linux. I don't think I'll go back. However, when Mandrake first came out, I thought the same way. Mandrake was fast current RedHat, and I liked that. But I got tired of it. Gentoo opened my eyes to what a Linux-From-Scratch type distribution could be like intended for those who don't have time for LFS.
My recommendation for those who want Linux but keep hanging on to Windows is find a distro you like. I did, and I'm very happy about it. Please try, because you will be happy too.
We used these four concepts and since the code we put out was so much better than anything our clients had ever paid for, we had more work than we knew what to do with. It was incredible.
Oh-and Boss, take the guys out for a beer at lunchtime every once in a while, and encourage a 5 minute break every hour or so. A happy coder is a good coder.
you're kidding, right? Slashdot readers don't have girlfriends or "the guys". Otherwise they wouldn't be posting.
Oh wait. what does that say about me?
I better tell the gf I need to go out with the guys...
Murphy's law of floppy drives-
Once you get rid of your floppy drive, within three days you will have dire need of it.
Actually, the company I am currently employed by is in the process of writing a system/gui test environment for this very purpose. One caveat-it's only for Java, but when we complete it (very soon), we will release it to the public. our address is www.atomicobject.com.
The name of the project will be HASTE, look for it in a month or two.
Nokia has a bluetooth cell-the 6310 i think
but who's promoting what? if you're talking Mandrake being promoted (let's get that straight, Linux is not in charge of anything. Linux is a kernel. Kernels are not cognizant. They cannot decide anything), well, Mandrake is mostly Free software. The key to this Open Source/Free Software movement is not freedom as in beer, as I'm sure you've heard, but freedom as in speech. As in-anyone is allowed to use this software for whatever they want. Read the Debian Social Contract if you don't understand that.
Don't be so anti-establishment that you take away freedom.
what the heck? like linux is an organization!
oh boy, now we're deciding who is good enough to use linux? get off your high horse. who would even be able to do such a thing as stop Walmart from linux-ing, and why would ANYONE want them to?
what the heck? go back to your cave and keep your tyrannical ways to yourself. We don't want to hear them.
is it just me, or is Ogg Vorbis kind of a dumb name for a multimedia format?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to troll, I just want to find people who agree. Think of this-"I have 5600 MP3s".
Now replace it- "I have 5600 [Ogg Vorbis's|Ogg Vorbis Multimedia Files|Ogg Vorbis Audios]".
It doesn't work. It's like legos. You don't say I have 2030 Lego brand entertainment bricks, or 2030 Lego bricks. You say I have 2030 Legos. This, imho, is Ogg's greatest downfall. The project works great, the compression is good, the audio sounds pretty dang good, but it will never catch on, first because of the large installed base of mp3s and players, and second, because it just sounds dumb.
Cost of 15" LCD Monitor:
$250
Cost of 40x12x48 speed CD-RW drive (which is, incidentally, extraordinarily faster than the drive on the imac):
$80
So that's $330. You mean I have $1069 left to build the computer in order to defeat an imac with a 40GB hard drive (80gb hard drive, $80), 128MB of SDRAM (512MB of PC2100 DDR, $100), and a 700MHz processor (given Apple's faulty performance claims, I'll even spot you 2-for-1 on the megahertz, getting an Athlon XP 1800+ 1533MHz processor for $99). Now we're down to $790. Uh-oh, I have to beat a geforce2 mx with a Geforce4 TI 4600 VIVO ($309) just to blow you out of the water, oh, and because I can. Down to $481, oh no, I'm shivering. A nice case with a 420W quality AMD-approved PSU ($100), an MSI KT3-Ultra motherboard ($90), a quality keyboard/mouse/floppy drive/network card ($100 total), a Hercules Game Theater XP ($100)-incidentally, much better than the imac's crappy audio-and we still have $91 left for a Pioneer Slot-load DVD drive ($60).
There we go. $1368. No crappy components, even allowed $100 for the case. And this computer will play any video game at exponentially better speeds than that mac (if you don't play games, save $250 and get a geforce2 gts-v or something). The sound system is exponentially better. It has video capture, 4x the memory (twice as fast) and double the hard disk space. I personally would rather have a nice 19" trinitron than a 15" flat panel, but I catered to what you wanted.
Granted, this configuration does not have an OS, but if you're a Windows guy and want an OS, go one step down on the video card (we did buy top-of-the-line) and you'll have more than enough.
NEVER say macs are a cheaper alternative-they are only cheaper compared to PC prices of two years ago. I'm sick of macintosh users being spoonfed doctrine about how their computers are cheaper and faster. It's only to make them feel better for spending so much. Use a mac-that's fine with me. Just don't lie about it.
ukyoCE wrote:
You get a lot of crazy shit coming out of the basic rules of "eat shit eat sleep eat shit eat sleep".
since when is "eat shit" a basic rule?
As i viewed this post, this is what I saw:
How much more freaky can it get?
Have you ever been to a college dorm? I know at least fifteen people with an N64 and Super Smash Bros at school, and there are lines outside their rooms to play. Oh, and you may not know this, but the GameCube and N64 (and Dreamcast) support up to 4 controllers, and Smash Bros is playable by 4 at once. It's a crazy good time with four 18-21 year olds fighting with little cartoon characters. I suggest you try it, as these are who own America right now, and these are who Nintendo aims at.
What will be really funny and ironic-
When Universal releases an enhanced cd with the latest music video and artist-wallpaper on it and yet the cd is copy-protected so it only plays on audio cd players.
It will happen.
the MSFT case is not a big deal. whatever happens will happen. However, the Via/Intel case is a HUGE deal. If there is validity to Via's claims, Intel is in serious trouble. HardOCP
has a thread going down in their forums commenting on what the ramifications of this are. This could be huge-keep an eye on it. Via has the potential to really smack Intel where it will hurt the most-in the courts.
shouldn't they be more concerned about getting playstation 2's out, inexpensive, and available? it's still hard to find them. that's a major problem with game consoles, and how the PC has them beat-manufacturers are always too many generations ahead in thought. screw the PS3 for now. Sony should worry about making the PS2 the console they promised it to be.
in the specials section.
i ordered one a couple days ago
for those who are wondering, the keychains are in the "Specials" section of the OCZ store. here's hoping that cuts down on the emails :)
i haven't heard one industry expert (expert mind you, not pcmagazine/ziff davis moron) who thinks the p4 will even sell more than the pentium pro did. the p4 is the worst-designed intel chip ever, purely designed by marketers. reward innovation. don't buy intel right now.
they'll be available in quantity this month sometime. by far the highest-quality socket-a heatsink you can get. I use the Slot-A Alpha, and I love it. what other heatsink comes unassembled so you can put it together? hey-you build your computer, you should build your heatsink my athlon 1000MHz is at 39 degrees celsius right now. lovely for a GHz processor... get an Alpha. it's worth the $20 you'll pay extra for the slot, and the $10 you'll pay extra for the socket. trust me. nothing's more fun than bolting a heatsink on a $500 processor :)