i wouldn't be surprised if now the average Joe PC Buyer had absolutely no idea which video card to buy. wow-the Radeon, the voodoo5, and the geforce 2 all in one week. i'm kind of overwhelmed with the power. hopefully someday the video card market slows down...but who am i kidding? i'm not even sure if i want it to slow down. does anyone know if the geforce 2 will have the same linux support the geforce does? if so, i'm a little wary. but you have to give them points for performance...
i actually use mandrake as my primary distro now. Why? well, i need redhat compatibility (ie, rpm) for certain hardware-specific issues on my box, so i used to run redhat. but when i found mandrake 6.1, it converted me. i never liked mandrake's admonishment that they were the "easiest to use" && the "linux for beginners" because they sell themselves short to those who are linux professionals. Mandrake, in my opinion, is Redhat with all newer packages, better adherence to the "release early, release often" addage, and simply more good packages than redhat. want Xemacs rather than emacs? with redhat, it's a download. with mandrake, you choose one or both at install. the new install is pretty dang good-i'm a die-hard text-mode install fan, or at least i was, but the mandrake install in 7.x is wonderful. the only problems i have with it are 1. the pesky tendency of myself to click on one of the heading package categories and selecting the *whole* category (sucks if you accidentally click on "libs"-but i finally learned that the right button is handy during this procedure) and 2. there's a bug in the installer where during package selection, every once in a while you lose visual in the package window. by scrolling up and scrolling down you get it back, but it's annoying. other than those problems, the installer works wonders. one of the things that irked me the most with RedHat 6.2 and its contemporaries are their tendency to include an *old-school* version of Enlightenment-redhat 6.2 comes with E bloody 0.15.5! mandrake 7.0 came with 0.16.3, and i believe 7.1 will have 0.16.4. i usually find every time i am about to do some package maintenance/accounting, Mandrake releases either a new version or a new beta. it's wonderful. i do like debian, don't get me wrong, i'm not a mandrake-only person, but for my desktop box right now, Mandrake is simply the best choice. oh, and by the way, the hardware detection is *exquisite* for a linux installer. got everything first try for me, and for my friend's box, which has the most diverse selection of parts i have seen in some time. Mandrake gets bonus points for this.
i was reading a review of the Radeon located at Thresh's Firing Squad and i can't help but be impressed. maybe ati finally has got it right...their other cards have had some...problems. the 3dfx benchmarks of today were kind of disappointing, but maybe there still is hope. i'm a big 3dfx fan, and i appreciate their linux support-but it's good to see other companies grab ahold of linux. there's nothing like playing Quake3 on a system on which you used du -s * | grep "M" just a minute ago. it's really quite liberating. here's to good graphics cards and linux support! yay technology..
all i meant was- how do people know Transmeta? because they may have an awesome chip? possibly, but more likely, because that's what Linus is doing right now. if people think bad of the crusoe, then they cast a frown on Linus, which is bad for linux. nothing about software platforms was meant in any way.
well, we've heard many arguments, much hype, and several good points about the crusoe. my question is when can we get some reviews of this beast to evaluate whether it's been worth this much of our time? it looks to be cool from the specs and such, but if we believe specs than Windows 2000 is the most stable, fastest operating system on the planet. i honestly hope, for linux's sake, that the crusoe ends up surpassing expectations. can it? it'll be difficult. the most important thing is the price...they have to keep it under $100 for the low end one, while remaing quake3-able. who knows, maybe it will take over the Celery or K6.
you've got to wonder who is using the old server now. maybe they'd give it to me...hmmm...it would be incredible to have the ex-A.root in my dorm room (i know they cost like 500K...used). Random Person-"you mind if i get a coke?" Me-"That's not any ordinary fridge. that's a.root!" Random Person-"huh?"
that would be fun. but seriously, what do they do with the ex-servers? i mean, no matter if it is an E450 or the E10000 the article claimed, that's still some serious power. it's funny when technology you could never afford in a million years gets deemed obsolete. maybe i'll get a big alpha-200 server or something for cheap and pretend it's a.root. or something. isn't it great to be geek?
the problem isn't money, it's people.
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RMS On eBooks
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many authors have written on this type of problem in the past, but usually not about ebooks. my complaint is-it's hard enough to get people to read books right now as it is. why scare them off more? over spring break, i read nine books-including The Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and other classics such as this. When i went to the library to check these out, i saw a total of maybe five people there who were non-librarians. These people were using the Internet there. I walked through aisle after aisle of fiction, non-fiction, everything, without seeing a soul. this site is all too familiar. when i am at school, of course people are using the library. they study there. but why don't people read books anymore? The publishers need to realize that with all the other digital media present right now, restricting books in any way, shape, or form will not help them to make money. it will convince people that since they can waste their mind watching tv for free, but have to pay for books, that tv is the logical solution. trying to make books electronic is something i'm very interested in, and could help revive the classics. but charging people to read them and lend them out, and whatever else RMS is writing about is simply bad form. why must people try and take advantage of the internet in every way they can? i'm beginning to believe that commercialism could be bad for the internet. oh well, who am i.
this is a relief to a certain extent. he who controls genomes, in the future, possibly controls everything. giving the control of the genomes to everyone was a good move. it's too bad the average person will have no idea what to do with a genome. on the other hand, maybe it's not too bad...i rather enjoy seeing people the way they are now, and who wants to look at someone who engineered themselves to look like the Slashdot crew? although we might see an increase in genetically-altered geeks who actually attract girls and still can submit kernel patches...
big brother is watching you-but you can't watch him back. what's the deal? do they have any idea how hypocritical this makes them look? i am all for internet anonimity, and it appears they are not-unless it deals with themselves. go figure.
i ahd the same problem when i tried to compile it. took out all the unnecessary block drivers, and it still wouldn't compile. i pseudo-traced it down to the generic pci-ide controller driver, but hey, i could be way off. i can't use this kernel without pci-ide, so i guess i'm stuck at 2.3.42, a GREAT 2.3-series kernel as it were. 2.3.42-45 had trouble with my sound/ethernet, and 2.3.46 won't compile. oh well. i love the new Voodoo3-frame buffer driver in these kernels. it's so cool. there is firewire/usb as well, and the usb works pretty well, although since i planned ahead i have no USB devices to use regularly(if that can be called planning ahead...) oh well. if you're looking for a good 2.3 series kernel, definitely get 2.3.42, probably the best one i've found out of the lot. 2.3.39 was also decent.
this is like the textmode Doom! and for Linux! oh joy! this shows that all those 1337 h4x0r d00dz are doing something constructive with their time (or something...). Now to get textmode Q3...
Does this take into account free downloads? probably not. Linux has an even higher share than this indicates, being as most people i know downloaded and burned their copy of linux+distribution. Too bad there wouldn't be a good statistical method to check this out.
it's not too difficult to network a home CAT5. it takes a little elbow grease, a hub(cheap now, maybe $20-30) and 100-200 feet of cat 5. I did our house over christmas break. hints-to make the drill holes smaller, crimp the rj-45 end on after stringing the cable. Use existing wires as guides. check the cable before stringing(it sucks to repull any length of wire), and learn to work that crimper! for a few extra bucks, you can cut patch panels and do a really good job. And, if your house is already wired cat5, as most are these days, you can often use the extra pairs off the phone jacks. Right now, desktop wireless is not worth it. why? because you already have 8 cables coming off the back of your box. one more doesn't hurt. now for laptops, it makes much more sense.
i think the only problem with wireless networking right now is price. i can get a 10/100 ethernet card for $10 now. I can't get a wireless card for under $100. the wireless market needs to know that in order to hit mainstream, the peripherals have to be lower priced.
i've never thought of that before. computers definitely do cater toward a western audience, that much is obvious, but that is a great reason for linux to be used in the east. i've always liked how it was customizable, and i think that the author has great points here. We have china, we could be getting india, now let's go for russia!
i bet linuxone will buy it, because they already have taken the LINX ticker symbol. Fight linuxone! don't let them trash your favorite OS! LinuxOne is a secret plot by microsoft to ruin linux's name forever! sooner or later, they will find a loophole to change their name to linux and ruin us permanently! Please, don't sell it to LinuxOne, Fred! no matter how much they offer!
"look at that, breach hull, all die, even had it underlined..." -crow
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Linux Kernel 2.3.41
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well, maybe as 2.3 wanes to a close, they're hyping up 2.4. that's perfectly okay with me. they didn't post for the 2.3.2x or 2.3.3x series except for maybe 39, so maybe it's because this is as close as we can get to 2.4 right now, and that's big news in the linux arena to me.
"how bout i shove my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest-but i'm not an alien."
that's one step closer to 2.4. I'm using 2.3.39 right now, and i'm very impressed by some of the new stuff they are doing. In light of Windows 2000 already needing service packs, it's good to know that the kernel is advancing so rapidly. When i hear about 2.4, i like to evaluate someone's conversion to linux from *other* os's as a gradual process--finding that there are alternatives or equals for every task you can do in windows or whatever. When i turned to linux, there were a few things i didn't think i could do without windows, namely, quake3, terminal server client, use my palmpilot, use icq, write cds, use my parallel port ls-120 drive, and so on. i didn't even know that you could access dos hard drives at that time. but through gradual steps including a voodoo3, reading man pages, getting great new software (jpilot comes to mind), i have eliminated every one of these. this was a 2 year project or so. what is my point? well, i know many people who refuse to use linux because of its poor USB support. i had a friend who bought a computer and wanted to install linux on it, and to his dismay found out his keyboard and his mouse were USB, and his motherboard didn't have ps/2 ports. linux was important enough to him, however, that he bought a new motherboard. we need to be able to help even these people without money-spending on hardware. although linux is free, that is often some area that it is not-almost everyone i know has spent a little extra money to get a new one of whatever peripheral was windows-only, or just didn't work as well in linux. the more the kernel advances, the closer we get to ubiquity;-).
"look at that. breach hull, all die. even had it underlined."-crow
if we could pay for the DVD consortium to do something for linux-related dvd-playing, i'm sure we would. but, the simple fact is, they're not willing to, from what i've heard. a "stupid closed standard" is defined in the MSD (matt's standard dictionary) as one that would benefit the computing world if opened (incidentally, a lot are) but remains closed so those in charge can make more short-term money. The DVD consortium needs to realize that no matter what, people are going to figure out how to crack their encryption. no matter what. Would everyone benefit if it was kept closed? in this case, i believe no. adding one more os(and the potential for more) to those who are able to play DVDs makes so much sense, especially since many geeks, who are most likely to run other os's, are on top of technology and have DVD players and can appreciate the quality improvement over video tape. i think if the DVD consortium opens standards, or gets them opened in this example, it can only help DVD in general. now more people can watch and therefore buy dvds.
"now i'll ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest. but i'm not an alien!"-mst3ktm
i think we should all tell everyone we can what's up with this story, as if Jon does get screwed, which would be totally uncalled for and dare i say communist;-) his legacy needs to be continued. "we will not go silently into the night, we will reverse engineer all your stupid closed standards!"
i support the development of mozilla fully and all, i just can't help thinking how mozilla/netscape is going to recover the millions of users that MS stole. I still remember when netscape was king of the hill, and i still use netscape, because like it or not, messenger is a great email client. but how is this going to affect the millions of users that use IE because "it was already installed on their computer?" the hardest browser battle yet may be trying to get former netscape users back to mozilla rather than just giving up. but for that we need a stable browser whose bandwagon we can jump on.
Ban anyone who can't learn Linux on their own from using a computer;-)
Stop being lazy and document everything we can(don't assume that someone else will, ie, if you got QuakeIII running in Linux under Graphics Card X that is not formally supported, post it somewhere on the web. don't keep quiet).
Split linux into two types of linux-that for people who can't program their vcr, and that for those who can(or some other attempt at a divider).
most of all, HELP YOUR FRIENDS LEARN IT. If you keep telling them to check it out but don't give them a hand...they won't get very far if they have been brought up on dir, ctrl+alt+delete, and internet explorer, not to mention they won't ever figure out that you have to unmount a floppy to remove it(get involved!).
Of course, these options are pretty blatant, but if we get our wish and microsoft dies horribly or something, then we might have to decide. If Linux is to become as popular and widespread as we want it to, we need to spread the word ourselves. If my friends had not taught me about/etc/fstab or tab autocomplete in Bash, much less getting X up, i would not be still using Linux today. But i started out as a newbie with Slackware 3.0, so that could be why i was frustrated;-).
Libranet.com: "www.libranet.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on BSD/OS" straight from NetCraft. And their Linux distro is not downloadable and the source is not available. hmmm...
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i wouldn't be surprised if now the average Joe PC Buyer had absolutely no idea which video card to buy. wow-the Radeon, the voodoo5, and the geforce 2 all in one week. i'm kind of overwhelmed with the power. hopefully someday the video card market slows down...but who am i kidding? i'm not even sure if i want it to slow down.
does anyone know if the geforce 2 will have the same linux support the geforce does? if so, i'm a little wary. but you have to give them points for performance...
i actually use mandrake as my primary distro now. Why? well, i need redhat compatibility (ie, rpm) for certain hardware-specific issues on my box, so i used to run redhat. but when i found mandrake 6.1, it converted me. i never liked mandrake's admonishment that they were the "easiest to use" && the "linux for beginners" because they sell themselves short to those who are linux professionals. Mandrake, in my opinion, is Redhat with all newer packages, better adherence to the "release early, release often" addage, and simply more good packages than redhat. want Xemacs rather than emacs? with redhat, it's a download. with mandrake, you choose one or both at install. the new install is pretty dang good-i'm a die-hard text-mode install fan, or at least i was, but the mandrake install in 7.x is wonderful. the only problems i have with it are 1. the pesky tendency of myself to click on one of the heading package categories and selecting the *whole* category (sucks if you accidentally click on "libs"-but i finally learned that the right button is handy during this procedure) and 2. there's a bug in the installer where during package selection, every once in a while you lose visual in the package window. by scrolling up and scrolling down you get it back, but it's annoying. other than those problems, the installer works wonders.
one of the things that irked me the most with RedHat 6.2 and its contemporaries are their tendency to include an *old-school* version of Enlightenment-redhat 6.2 comes with E bloody 0.15.5! mandrake 7.0 came with 0.16.3, and i believe 7.1 will have 0.16.4. i usually find every time i am about to do some package maintenance/accounting, Mandrake releases either a new version or a new beta. it's wonderful.
i do like debian, don't get me wrong, i'm not a mandrake-only person, but for my desktop box right now, Mandrake is simply the best choice.
oh, and by the way, the hardware detection is *exquisite* for a linux installer. got everything first try for me, and for my friend's box, which has the most diverse selection of parts i have seen in some time. Mandrake gets bonus points for this.
i was reading a review of the Radeon located at Thresh's Firing Squad and i can't help but be impressed. maybe ati finally has got it right...their other cards have had some...problems. the 3dfx benchmarks of today were kind of disappointing, but maybe there still is hope. i'm a big 3dfx fan, and i appreciate their linux support-but it's good to see other companies grab ahold of linux. there's nothing like playing Quake3 on a system on which you used du -s * | grep "M" just a minute ago. it's really quite liberating. here's to good graphics cards and linux support! yay technology..
all i meant was- how do people know Transmeta? because they may have an awesome chip? possibly, but more likely, because that's what Linus is doing right now. if people think bad of the crusoe, then they cast a frown on Linus, which is bad for linux. nothing about software platforms was meant in any way.
well, we've heard many arguments, much hype, and several good points about the crusoe. my question is when can we get some reviews of this beast to evaluate whether it's been worth this much of our time? it looks to be cool from the specs and such, but if we believe specs than Windows 2000 is the most stable, fastest operating system on the planet. i honestly hope, for linux's sake, that the crusoe ends up surpassing expectations. can it? it'll be difficult. the most important thing is the price...they have to keep it under $100 for the low end one, while remaing quake3-able. who knows, maybe it will take over the Celery or K6.
Random Person-"you mind if i get a coke?"
Me-"That's not any ordinary fridge. that's a.root!"
Random Person-"huh?"
that would be fun. but seriously, what do they do with the ex-servers? i mean, no matter if it is an E450 or the E10000 the article claimed, that's still some serious power. it's funny when technology you could never afford in a million years gets deemed obsolete. maybe i'll get a big alpha-200 server or something for cheap and pretend it's a.root. or something. isn't it great to be geek?
many authors have written on this type of problem in the past, but usually not about ebooks.
my complaint is-it's hard enough to get people to read books right now as it is. why scare them off more?
over spring break, i read nine books-including The Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and other classics such as this. When i went to the library to check these out, i saw a total of maybe five people there who were non-librarians. These people were using the Internet there. I walked through aisle after aisle of fiction, non-fiction, everything, without seeing a soul. this site is all too familiar. when i am at school, of course people are using the library. they study there. but why don't people read books anymore? The publishers need to realize that with all the other digital media present right now, restricting books in any way, shape, or form will not help them to make money. it will convince people that since they can waste their mind watching tv for free, but have to pay for books, that tv is the logical solution. trying to make books electronic is something i'm very interested in, and could help revive the classics. but charging people to read them and lend them out, and whatever else RMS is writing about is simply bad form. why must people try and take advantage of the internet in every way they can? i'm beginning to believe that commercialism could be bad for the internet. oh well, who am i.
this is a relief to a certain extent. he who controls genomes, in the future, possibly controls everything. giving the control of the genomes to everyone was a good move. it's too bad the average person will have no idea what to do with a genome. on the other hand, maybe it's not too bad...i rather enjoy seeing people the way they are now, and who wants to look at someone who engineered themselves to look like the Slashdot crew?
although we might see an increase in genetically-altered geeks who actually attract girls and still can submit kernel patches...
big brother is watching you-but you can't watch him back. what's the deal? do they have any idea how hypocritical this makes them look? i am all for internet anonimity, and it appears they are not-unless it deals with themselves. go figure.
i ahd the same problem when i tried to compile it. took out all the unnecessary block drivers, and it still wouldn't compile. i pseudo-traced it down to the generic pci-ide controller driver, but hey, i could be way off. i can't use this kernel without pci-ide, so i guess i'm stuck at 2.3.42, a GREAT 2.3-series kernel as it were. 2.3.42-45 had trouble with my sound/ethernet, and 2.3.46 won't compile. oh well. i love the new Voodoo3-frame buffer driver in these kernels. it's so cool. there is firewire/usb as well, and the usb works pretty well, although since i planned ahead i have no USB devices to use regularly(if that can be called planning ahead...) oh well. if you're looking for a good 2.3 series kernel, definitely get 2.3.42, probably the best one i've found out of the lot. 2.3.39 was also decent.
this is like the textmode Doom! and for Linux! oh joy! this shows that all those 1337 h4x0r d00dz are doing something constructive with their time (or something...). Now to get textmode Q3...
Does this take into account free downloads? probably not. Linux has an even higher share than this indicates, being as most people i know downloaded and burned their copy of linux+distribution. Too bad there wouldn't be a good statistical method to check this out.
it's not too difficult to network a home CAT5. it takes a little elbow grease, a hub(cheap now, maybe $20-30) and 100-200 feet of cat 5. I did our house over christmas break. hints-to make the drill holes smaller, crimp the rj-45 end on after stringing the cable. Use existing wires as guides. check the cable before stringing(it sucks to repull any length of wire), and learn to work that crimper! for a few extra bucks, you can cut patch panels and do a really good job. And, if your house is already wired cat5, as most are these days, you can often use the extra pairs off the phone jacks.
Right now, desktop wireless is not worth it. why? because you already have 8 cables coming off the back of your box. one more doesn't hurt. now for laptops, it makes much more sense.
i think the only problem with wireless networking right now is price. i can get a 10/100 ethernet card for $10 now. I can't get a wireless card for under $100. the wireless market needs to know that in order to hit mainstream, the peripherals have to be lower priced.
"look at that, breach hull, all die, even had it underlined..." -crow
"how bout i shove my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest-but i'm not an alien."
"look at that. breach hull, all die. even had it underlined."-crow
"now i'll ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest. but i'm not an alien!"-mst3ktm
i think we should all tell everyone we can what's up with this story, as if Jon does get screwed, which would be totally uncalled for and dare i say communist ;-) his legacy needs to be continued. "we will not go silently into the night, we will reverse engineer all your stupid closed standards!"
i support the development of mozilla fully and all, i just can't help thinking how mozilla/netscape is going to recover the millions of users that MS stole. I still remember when netscape was king of the hill, and i still use netscape, because like it or not, messenger is a great email client. but how is this going to affect the millions of users that use IE because "it was already installed on their computer?" the hardest browser battle yet may be trying to get former netscape users back to mozilla rather than just giving up. but for that we need a stable browser whose bandwagon we can jump on.
- Ban anyone who can't learn Linux on their own from using a computer
;-) - Stop being lazy and document everything we can(don't assume that someone else will, ie, if you got QuakeIII running in Linux under Graphics Card X that is not formally supported, post it somewhere on the web. don't keep quiet).
- Split linux into two types of linux-that for people who can't program their vcr, and that for those who can(or some other attempt at a divider).
- most of all, HELP YOUR FRIENDS LEARN IT. If you keep telling them to check it out but don't give them a hand...they won't get very far if they have been brought up on dir, ctrl+alt+delete, and internet explorer, not to mention they won't ever figure out that you have to unmount a floppy to remove it(get involved!).
Of course, these options are pretty blatant, but if we get our wish and microsoft dies horribly or something, then we might have to decide.If Linux is to become as popular and widespread as we want it to, we need to spread the word ourselves. If my friends had not taught me about
Libranet.com:
"www.libranet.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on BSD/OS" straight from NetCraft. And their Linux distro is not downloadable and the source is not available. hmmm...