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Unless you have the AIW, which I have.:) AIW is the best solution, to me, if you want to watch TV on your computer with Windows anyway. I had a Pinnicle card and it gave me nothing but trouble when I tried to get it working on Windows XP. Linux has been the best (strange ain't it?) for TV card support. Even the AIW cards seem to have decent support in Linux. Even the Wonder Remote thingy (very cool by the way). That's why when I get my new machine, my current one will be dedicated to Linux. Sure, you can't get guideplus (another very cool feature of the AIW line), but I really don't care about that too much. Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux?
AMEN! I am wondering when in the heck are they going to DO something about this without having to get drastic with water cooling (although, Koolance cases are being sold at Compusa now....are watercooled units going to be the way to go now??? Is there a builder who puts together Water Cooled units?). I never hear my monitor's CRT anywhere because I either am in a computer room and have lots of AC Units going or have my computer's fans drowning it out.
Yep. I belive our VRU is powered by solaris as is our switch. Maybe Linux isn't being used because of the GPL? Maybe some devlopers want big support contracts for the big UNIXES? I don't know. But what I do know is that the article seems to wrong. I don't see more telephony on Windows unles you count small systems, or user interfaces (operators would be more comfy on a Windows based screen then on a UNIX based screen). Any place that's large enough can get a UNIX based one and be much better off.
Yep! Wish the government would get this way about property records. I get more damn telephone calls from Mortgage companies the I ever want to hear. I also get people calling me about replacing my windows and my house was built in 1998! Lord I won't need windows for another 20 years!
Educational Institutions have had to live with similar things with FERPA, and trying to be honest and get everything hunky dory is a PITA. I imagine that our folks in the Records Area mail stuff back and forth unencrypted as the norm as if you ask any of our Novell Network Admins about encryption and what kind of encryption is used and they are like duh yeah it's encrypted. Funny thing is I think it's real easy to encrypt e-mail in Groupwise, although I never e-mail main critical stuff anyway. My favorite is we are in the middle of implementing a new package system on AIX machines and I have asked time and time again has anyone sniffed the packets that the client sends out to verify it's secure? Anyone checked out how it gets to the server's command line if your an admin on it? Anyone sniffed it's packets? And all I get is blank stares. Really frustrating. All I can do is be sure mystuff is OK (telnet is disabled as well as standard LPD (I run a product called Easyspooler) and quite possibly ftp will be disabled as well soon. The feeling I get from some of the guys in charge of implementing this thing is they feel that since our stuff is in a isolated VLAN, they can be lax with security nevermind that STUDENTS have access to this VLAN at certain points (the desktops that they use are secured, but it would be nothing to plug another device in in place of the normal desktop which then would not be secured). I also recently detected a wireless LAN on campus and noticed it was not running WEP (I know, a basic form of security, but it's at least something...). All I can do is cover my ass and make sure my machines are as secure as I can make them and keep my patches up to date.
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Try a stand alone TV card like the AT Wonder VE I think it's called? Also, I think the Radeon 7500 AIW is an outstanding card, if your not totally into the 3d game thing. I personally have a 7500 AIW and it's nice. It has the analog tuner versus the digital one of the 8500 series. The 8500 AIW is also only like 150 now that the 9700 AIW is out now (I think the 8500 128 MB AIW is 150 after a rebate at Compusa now). Saw that after I came home with my 7500. Oh well. At least the Radeon seems to like framebuffer stuff better then my old card. Could never get a frame buffer console to work on my old Nvidia card. It seems with the Radeon I see it when I wasn't able to before. Hopefully I will get a entirely new system from Gateway (I am getting damn tired of building shit). The one I am looking at is the 500XL with the 18 inch LCD! Yummy! And it also has a DVD burner on it too. All for only 1799! That one would be my primary Windows machine while this one will be my Linux machine. It's not too shabby now itself....Athlon XP 2000+, ASUS A7S333 (I know, 333 DDR ram is not worth the extra bucks, but now I have it when I will need it), ATI Radeon AIW 7500, WD 40 GB 7200 RPM hard disk, Creative Live 5.1, DVD-ROM and my little 8x CD-RW. Oh and the AIW came with the Wonder Remote which is AWESOME! Even has Linux support.
Yeah we upgrade slightly sometimes. It's all dependent on the software that needs run. Sometimes when software requirements go up, instead of a new machine, we get a memory upgrade or something similar. That just recently happened to me when we are about three months from upgrading our primary machine at work. When that happens, the current machine becomes MY personal machine as I am constantly ssh'd into my AIX servers, testing scripts that backup boxes across the network, developing production quality Xerox VIPP applications. The current machine is fine for me, although I requested a new image before that happens, and I get the LCD off of the new one as it's smaller then the 21 inch CRT they currently use (they use it to monitor 4-5 TN3270 sessions all at once).
Power supplies usually don't become an issue at work as we have IBM's and I am starting to fall in love with their hardware. I have yet to see a IBM thinkpad, desktop or server blow anything up, although it's possible. Our AIX boxes are rock solid and if setup correctly, we can lose a drive, a power supply or in the multi processor boxes a CPU and not go down, just operate at a lower capacity. My 3-4 year old thinkpad has been rock solid and the only thing I have had to do with it is add a new CMOS battery. After tinkering with hardware for about a year, I am tired of trying a new MB and only go a year until something freaky happens (CPU Fan Circuit....not the fan itself went out). My most recent upgrade has caused me all sorts of issues and I am not quite sure if I got the all resolved. The thing that's looking real attractive to me are lapotps, or pre-built desktops. I want to buy a system with a 3-4 year warantee. I need to have at least one of my boxen to be ROCK solid with no problems and I see this and the warantee as a way to make that happen or if it does not happen, I get the thing fixed. I work on computers enough at work...my home machines I want to just work.
Now if I can find a way for my wife to run her stuff for work on Linux (VPN and some weired terminal emulator...I believe for a Tandem??), then I can expunge Windows errors myself and life will be nice!
This is the problem. A 486 DX4100 is not THAT much slower then a pentium 100. Sure, it's floating point sucks much worse then a Pentium, but there's the rub. In any case, Debian is the only one I know of that will install on lower then pentium hardware. Sure, your not going to be playing games on these things. A faster 486 machine could easily perform as a firewall. There maybe some firewall only stuff that works just fine, but I am not aware of those.
You know the latest bout of problems I have been having may very well have been with a power supply. I has a Antec SL-350. I kept getting random freezes and spontaneous reboots. I have now switched to a Antec 430P. We shall see if that was the problem. My REAL problem is if they can make laptops that sip power, how come they can't do the same with desktops? Laptops do the same and sometimes more then a desktop yet desktops take big honking power supplies. Can we take some tech from the laptop to a desktop??
No, it does not make any sense at all. You say you just want to ban guns that kill people. Got news for you.....a hunting rifle CAN KILL YOU. Don't believe me? Go stand out there while I shoot at ya pard! SHEESH!
Also, I know of alot of folks who DO use handguns to hunt with. You must not know many hunters.
Also, even the FOP is AGAINST gun control. The police have enough to do. A law abiding citizen can have a handgun for protection. If you step in my house and are robbing me at gun point and at some point I get your gun or my gun and shoot you and kill you....you know what? That's a LEGAL use of a hand gun and there's nothing they can do about it unless you don't have a license for it (you should not even have to do THAT to own a gun, but I supposed it's warranted).
Never said gun training should be required for everyone, although that's not a bad idea. In some countrys it's virtually a requirement to own a gun. Why not here??? Because we are a land of the free and home of the brave.....because we are a somewhat free country, we have the right to say no I don't want to own a gun.
Also concealed guns of most types be they handguns or rifles are by and large illegal, but of the states that have a conceal carry law, Texas in particular, violent crimes have, gasp....actually continued to decrease! But wait that's not supposed to happen in your perfect little world is it?? When all of us have our little concealed weapons in our hip pocket crime is supposed to go up by your assumption. Yes I am well aware of that the rate was already on a downward trend in Texas before conceal carry laws went into effect, but by what your saying, the rate should have gone up but the rate of decrease continued downward. Folks who are saying they are for gun safety (meaning let's just restrict assault rifles or let's restrict handguns those are the guns that kill people)have no idea what guns can do for you in a legal sense. I mean what kind of hippocritical mumbo jumbo has a spokesperson, Rosie O'donnell, that is against guns and can't do Kmart commercials because they sell hunting rifles and handguns but then has bodyguards packing????? HMM!
Heck if it isn't secessionist. What do you think the feds would do? I see another Waco happening. Look, if you want to do this, then try a place with no claims on it. Pretty hard to do in this world. As bad as I think it is here sometimes, I then step back and try and think what is it like for those who don't have the freedom's we do. Even though some of our freedoms are being compromised, we are MUCH better off then Christians in China (and a whole lot of other religions and political aspirations as well). Good luck to them. I hope our boys kick there asses. (no, I don't want them to die, but to try and succeed from the union is a difficult, if not impossible task....ask Jefferson Davis..whups, too late.).
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Absolutly. If what you have now works, then by all means, don't upgrade......with a caveat. As with any OS, after 3.0 or 2.6 whatever it's going to be called comes out, then bug fixes may not be done for that much longer to the 2.4 series. After a while, you will probably want to upgrade anyway especially if your company pays for support from Red Hat or whoever.
The upside with Linux is that with every new version, you usually don't have to upgrade hardware all that much or at least as much as say Windows.
My only complaint.....some installers now (Red Hat's and Mandrake's in particular) won't let you install on a low end machine ( I know there may be other versions, but I am talking about the default installer.....). By low end, I mean 486 and Pentium (No Bloody II, !!! or 4). Granted, this don't hurt many, because those in the know can just get Debian and install it.....but what makes Red Hat and Mandrake so certain that you can't get something to run on those machines? It seems, to me, that maybe if they had one low end image that let you just install it anyway and just deal with the circumstances afterwards would be a better thing to do. Like I said, for most, it doesn't matter. You can pick up Pentium II's (old machines) for peanuts now, so that guy can go and upgrade that decrepit Pentium 100. But my point is, why be like Microsoft and force ANY upgrade? At some point, you could drop that support, but there are alot of those machines laying around yet and they can serve a purpose before going to the landfill.
Um, you can hunt with a handgun. I have a friend who used a handgun to hunt deer. She liked it because she can pull off shots quickly when the deer sprinted from the first shot (if she missed, and that was not often). Regardless of what anyone thinks, handguns are not just used to kill people. Varmint hunters use them everyday (work wonderfully if you have a raccon that keeps getting in your trash).
Not all people with guns kill people. That's what your little blurb said to me (looked like you said all people with guns kill people). Let me remind you of other things that kill people:
Knives Doctors (Malpractice insurance costs alot) A 55 gallon drum of Gasoline and fertilizer(Kansas City.....) Cars Motorcycles Airplanes Cigarett es Cigars Smoking a Pipe Chewing Tobacco McDonalds Taco Bell KFC Pizza Sugar Electricity Falling off of a bicycle
etc etc
By your assumption, we should ban all things that can kill people regardless of if they have a lawful use. You know what? That's just stupid. I am going to go see Bowling for Columbine but because I want to see if he can find out why we have more murders per capita. Michael Moore even stated in a interview with Tim Russert that Canada has 7 million guns for 10 million households yet the murder rate remains low. In Switzerland who has no organized military, almost every person there has a assualt rifle yet the murder rate remains low. Why can we not do this here??? Personally, I think, and this may sound off base, we have a limited education on firearms. Teenagers like to play games that use firearms in them but really don't have any idea of the kind o freal damage that one is capable of. It's my belief that firearm education whould be mandatory. Have an lesson early say at about the age of ten where they go to a range and fire a rifle. Let them see the kind of damage that can occur. If not actually doing the firing, they could watch a firearms expert do a demo. Some folks my not lik eit, but I feel that once a healthy respect for guns is developed, then the desire to shoot someone or even the desire to think about it will go down.
OK it's Walmarts fault this guy killed himself how? Excuse me if I don't feel bad about this. The judge who would Walmart negligent shoul dhave lost his job in the next election. Also, just becaus eyou had these two "incidents" happen does not mean it's a common everyday thing and does not mean Walmart is bad for selling firearms or ammunition. No matter how you restrict guns, those who want to obtain them for illegal purposes WILL obtain them. When guns are made illegal, then only criminals will have them. The guy who shot his instructor had something WRONG with him. I am sick and tired of the government trying to protect me from myself. The only thing the government needs to protect me from is enemys of the state like Iraq, Osama bin Laden and possibly North Korea. TH\he reason this "gun" thing is being percieved as a problem because every liberal news organization latches on to every little thing and blows it WAYYYY out of proportion. What's really amazing is that when Columbine happened, school violence and incidents of the Columbine nature was going DOWN! What's even more amazing is that Klebold and the other kid's parents never spotted the guns, and other items in their son's room. Everyone is into giving their kids "privacy". Well, unless your 18 and out of your parents house you have NO privcay and your parents are responsible for not only your behavior, but all of their guests. They should have seen their rooms. PLain and simple. Then they would have gotten the help they should have and Columbine may never had happened. Bowling for Columbine is an intersting movie and I may check it out.
Fine that's your choice. Depending on where you live, that challenege would be a difficult thing. Prime example is that everywhere in Ohio except metro areas, not only does Walmart sell guns, but so does Meijer. Just because they sell them, doesn't make that store a "bad" store. For every legal use of a gun, a bag of apples, a bottle of liquer, a porn magazine or you name it, there are just as many illegal uses for them. It's people like you that raise kids who don't have RESPECT for a firearm and treat it like a toy or that big bad thing in that store. Guns are not bad....people are. So lets concentrate on the people and show them how to respect firearms.
Not disagreeing with the book...just saying as you have said...FCC has final say. I also agree with the change to that book too, although I achieved my license with good old hard work and did not need such a book!:) Anyway, no I was not at the COARES meeting. I have no such time for those meetings unfortunately. I have enough things going on with my son, my job, and my church. Maybe when I retire I will be able to do all of the things I have wanted to do with ham radio. Yeah yeah I know it may only be once a month, but ask my fellow CCRA hams how many times I make it to a pizza party (maybe 1 to 2 a year!) let alone getting on the air!
It's been a long time since I have worked packet. So my info is definitely dated. I have not had a system I could use it with (no free IRQ's). Now that I do, it's too much work to get it going because I have a family. OH well. I guess thats why grey hair runs in the Ham clubs!:)
The ARRL is not the FCC. Only the FCC could make that decision and, to me, the music content of a MP3 or MIDI file could be considered music by the FCC. Although I would tend to side on the ARRL. For a lobbying group (that's what they really are, whether they admit it or not), they ain't so bad. Keep in mind that the ARRL can set operating guidlines for their members but those don't necessarily condone an activity or not. Just because they may say it's ok does not mean that it is, although with the ARRL it generally is ok to follow their guidlines as they tend to the side of the law most of the time. The ARRL changing their mind on whether you can call mayday for a broken down car is just an operating guidline and there's no law regulating it. The ARRL made the suggestion and then changed it due to the fact that words such as BREAK and MAYDAY are code words for when someone is truely in trouble like in danger of loosing their life. Only then should those words be used.
Pretty funny since there are gateways all over the net for this! You just have to be verfied by the operator of the gateway as a ham. Simple phone call, or e-mail would get initial verification. The next would be monitoring your use and making sure you don't use it for what it's not intended for (ie sending porn to other ham friends). This is the act of being a conrtol point operator. You are responsible for everything your station sends as the control point operator. When using a HT you are both the radio operator and control point operator, but sometimes you are not the one talking. Hence repeaters using volunteer control ops that listen to the local repeater via base station or handheld radio. There IS NO FCC Law or restrictiong regarding the use of packet radio except Part 97. Basically you can do whatever you want with it so long as you don't make money(have a pecuniary interest), and you don't send questionable content such as porn, music or other stuff otherwise against Part 97. Transfering MP3's over packet radio would be illegal as MP3 is music. Only way you could do that was if your the space shuttle (only exception to music in part 97 and this is because of the rebroadcasts of shuttle missions. Part 97 does not have the word internet in it and the word network only comes up once and that's in the line stating that a frequency band in the 220 MHz range is to be used for digital packet backbones. Other then that, this is NOT news. I transmitted a packet e-mail cross country before I ever sent a e-mail across country. HF so far has been limited to about 300 baud. I think the most you can do wirelessly using amateur radio is 14.4k(on 2m and maybe 440). The reason for this is because the faster you want to go, the wider your signal gets(hence the term bandwidth..). That's why there's a restriction for 300 baud on HF Frequencies. This may have changed as I don't really have all that much time to keep up on the digital modes. I don't think much has changed though with the excpetion of a couple guys were expermenting with using lasers for voice and possibly data (Would be THz range for RF I think).
When you don't make anything on the hardware....you got to make it somewhere. I agree with the folks about having chipped Xboxs. Most who do chip them ain't chipping them to run Linux on it. They are chipping them to run copied games.
OK you got some things wrong here. The Guns they sell at Walmart are not AK-47's! Sure you can kill people with it, but most of the folks that would buy a gun there are not going to do that. They are going to shoot a 8 point buck for FOOD! Venison is quite good. Paying 20 bucks or so for a deer tag and when you shoot one you get like 100-200 pounds of good meat is a great deal! Sure it's violent. Some folks hunt because they have to not because they want to. I don't think that hunting for food is bad. I do think hunting just to hunt is a bad thing though. I have a friend who loves to hunt, but more because of what he can do with it then the sheer thrill of it. Sure hunting thrills him, but mostly its because he's going to have a full freezer and not have to buy meat for a winter.
Yeah but look on Walmart's shelves and see if you see any movies that have GRATUITOUS sex in them. Look for movies like Tom Hank's Bachelor Party, Hamburger the Movie, Hot Dog (skiing movie with mucho tits in it I think) and you just plain won't see it there. Anything with GRATUITOUS sex you won't find it there but if someone flashes a tit (Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places) you will find it there. Yeah that could be considered a little gratuitous, but there's maybe one or two seens where she bares breast. Not 30 or more! SO I don't see it as being much different.
Yes but how about when everything is gratuitous? You just plain don't have to add this kind of trash to a BMX video game to make a good game. It's stupid. If the stuff actually added to the game, I may see it (say murder mystery game where a guy walked in on his Wife having sex and he killed the guy and you got shown this as your character figured everything out and was describing it in the end). Or something other then a BMX game. This is Walmarts point. It's stupid to sell a censored version, so the chose not to sell it. I think it's their choice. I will still buy my snack foods and caffiene there. I agree Parents should be in their kids lives, but just having this thing on display is problem enough.
Yeah and then when you see Walmart has these for 50 cents cheaper you will be back. Trust me. Not shopping at Walmart because of this is stupid. I frankly am glad the took this stance. They website sez the best line....THIS IS BMX??? I think not! It's trash. Simple as that. That's just my opinion.
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Unless you have the AIW, which I have. :) AIW is the best solution, to me, if you want to watch TV on your computer with Windows anyway. I had a Pinnicle card and it gave me nothing but trouble when I tried to get it working on Windows XP. Linux has been the best (strange ain't it?) for TV card support. Even the AIW cards seem to have decent support in Linux. Even the Wonder Remote thingy (very cool by the way). That's why when I get my new machine, my current one will be dedicated to Linux. Sure, you can't get guideplus (another very cool feature of the AIW line), but I really don't care about that too much. Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux?
AMEN! I am wondering when in the heck are they going to DO something about this without having to get drastic with water cooling (although, Koolance cases are being sold at Compusa now....are watercooled units going to be the way to go now??? Is there a builder who puts together Water Cooled units?). I never hear my monitor's CRT anywhere because I either am in a computer room and have lots of AC Units going or have my computer's fans drowning it out.
Yep. I belive our VRU is powered by solaris as is our switch. Maybe Linux isn't being used because of the GPL? Maybe some devlopers want big support contracts for the big UNIXES? I don't know. But what I do know is that the article seems to wrong. I don't see more telephony on Windows unles you count small systems, or user interfaces (operators would be more comfy on a Windows based screen then on a UNIX based screen). Any place that's large enough can get a UNIX based one and be much better off.
Yep! Wish the government would get this way about property records. I get more damn telephone calls from Mortgage companies the I ever want to hear. I also get people calling me about replacing my windows and my house was built in 1998! Lord I won't need windows for another 20 years!
Educational Institutions have had to live with similar things with FERPA, and trying to be honest and get everything hunky dory is a PITA. I imagine that our folks in the Records Area mail stuff back and forth unencrypted as the norm as if you ask any of our Novell Network Admins about encryption and what kind of encryption is used and they are like duh yeah it's encrypted. Funny thing is I think it's real easy to encrypt e-mail in Groupwise, although I never e-mail main critical stuff anyway. My favorite is we are in the middle of implementing a new package system on AIX machines and I have asked time and time again has anyone sniffed the packets that the client sends out to verify it's secure? Anyone checked out how it gets to the server's command line if your an admin on it? Anyone sniffed it's packets? And all I get is blank stares. Really frustrating. All I can do is be sure mystuff is OK (telnet is disabled as well as standard LPD (I run a product called Easyspooler) and quite possibly ftp will be disabled as well soon. The feeling I get from some of the guys in charge of implementing this thing is they feel that since our stuff is in a isolated VLAN, they can be lax with security nevermind that STUDENTS have access to this VLAN at certain points (the desktops that they use are secured, but it would be nothing to plug another device in in place of the normal desktop which then would not be secured). I also recently detected a wireless LAN on campus and noticed it was not running WEP (I know, a basic form of security, but it's at least something...). All I can do is cover my ass and make sure my machines are as secure as I can make them and keep my patches up to date.
Try a stand alone TV card like the AT Wonder VE I think it's called? Also, I think the Radeon 7500 AIW is an outstanding card, if your not totally into the 3d game thing. I personally have a 7500 AIW and it's nice. It has the analog tuner versus the digital one of the 8500 series. The 8500 AIW is also only like 150 now that the 9700 AIW is out now (I think the 8500 128 MB AIW is 150 after a rebate at Compusa now). Saw that after I came home with my 7500. Oh well. At least the Radeon seems to like framebuffer stuff better then my old card. Could never get a frame buffer console to work on my old Nvidia card. It seems with the Radeon I see it when I wasn't able to before. Hopefully I will get a entirely new system from Gateway (I am getting damn tired of building shit). The one I am looking at is the 500XL with the 18 inch LCD! Yummy! And it also has a DVD burner on it too. All for only 1799! That one would be my primary Windows machine while this one will be my Linux machine. It's not too shabby now itself....Athlon XP 2000+, ASUS A7S333 (I know, 333 DDR ram is not worth the extra bucks, but now I have it when I will need it), ATI Radeon AIW 7500, WD 40 GB 7200 RPM hard disk, Creative Live 5.1, DVD-ROM and my little 8x CD-RW. Oh and the AIW came with the Wonder Remote which is AWESOME! Even has Linux support.
Yeah we upgrade slightly sometimes. It's all dependent on the software that needs run. Sometimes when software requirements go up, instead of a new machine, we get a memory upgrade or something similar. That just recently happened to me when we are about three months from upgrading our primary machine at work. When that happens, the current machine becomes MY personal machine as I am constantly ssh'd into my AIX servers, testing scripts that backup boxes across the network, developing production quality Xerox VIPP applications. The current machine is fine for me, although I requested a new image before that happens, and I get the LCD off of the new one as it's smaller then the 21 inch CRT they currently use (they use it to monitor 4-5 TN3270 sessions all at once).
Power supplies usually don't become an issue at work as we have IBM's and I am starting to fall in love with their hardware. I have yet to see a IBM thinkpad, desktop or server blow anything up, although it's possible. Our AIX boxes are rock solid and if setup correctly, we can lose a drive, a power supply or in the multi processor boxes a CPU and not go down, just operate at a lower capacity. My 3-4 year old thinkpad has been rock solid and the only thing I have had to do with it is add a new CMOS battery. After tinkering with hardware for about a year, I am tired of trying a new MB and only go a year until something freaky happens (CPU Fan Circuit....not the fan itself went out). My most recent upgrade has caused me all sorts of issues and I am not quite sure if I got the all resolved. The thing that's looking real attractive to me are lapotps, or pre-built desktops. I want to buy a system with a 3-4 year warantee. I need to have at least one of my boxen to be ROCK solid with no problems and I see this and the warantee as a way to make that happen or if it does not happen, I get the thing fixed. I work on computers enough at work...my home machines I want to just work.
Now if I can find a way for my wife to run her stuff for work on Linux (VPN and some weired terminal emulator...I believe for a Tandem??), then I can expunge Windows errors myself and life will be nice!
This is the problem. A 486 DX4100 is not THAT much slower then a pentium 100. Sure, it's floating point sucks much worse then a Pentium, but there's the rub. In any case, Debian is the only one I know of that will install on lower then pentium hardware. Sure, your not going to be playing games on these things. A faster 486 machine could easily perform as a firewall. There maybe some firewall only stuff that works just fine, but I am not aware of those.
You know the latest bout of problems I have been having may very well have been with a power supply. I has a Antec SL-350. I kept getting random freezes and spontaneous reboots. I have now switched to a Antec 430P. We shall see if that was the problem. My REAL problem is if they can make laptops that sip power, how come they can't do the same with desktops? Laptops do the same and sometimes more then a desktop yet desktops take big honking power supplies. Can we take some tech from the laptop to a desktop??
No, it does not make any sense at all. You say you just want to ban guns that kill people. Got news for you.....a hunting rifle CAN KILL YOU. Don't believe me? Go stand out there while I shoot at ya pard! SHEESH!
Also, I know of alot of folks who DO use handguns to hunt with. You must not know many hunters.
Also, even the FOP is AGAINST gun control. The police have enough to do. A law abiding citizen can have a handgun for protection. If you step in my house and are robbing me at gun point and at some point I get your gun or my gun and shoot you and kill you....you know what? That's a LEGAL use of a hand gun and there's nothing they can do about it unless you don't have a license for it (you should not even have to do THAT to own a gun, but I supposed it's warranted).
Never said gun training should be required for everyone, although that's not a bad idea. In some countrys it's virtually a requirement to own a gun. Why not here??? Because we are a land of the free and home of the brave.....because we are a somewhat free country, we have the right to say no I don't want to own a gun.
Also concealed guns of most types be they handguns or rifles are by and large illegal, but of the states that have a conceal carry law, Texas in particular, violent crimes have, gasp....actually continued to decrease! But wait that's not supposed to happen in your perfect little world is it?? When all of us have our little concealed weapons in our hip pocket crime is supposed to go up by your assumption. Yes I am well aware of that the rate was already on a downward trend in Texas before conceal carry laws went into effect, but by what your saying, the rate should have gone up but the rate of decrease continued downward. Folks who are saying they are for gun safety (meaning let's just restrict assault rifles or let's restrict handguns those are the guns that kill people)have no idea what guns can do for you in a legal sense. I mean what kind of hippocritical mumbo jumbo has a spokesperson, Rosie O'donnell, that is against guns and can't do Kmart commercials because they sell hunting rifles and handguns but then has bodyguards packing????? HMM!
Heck if it isn't secessionist. What do you think the feds would do? I see another Waco happening. Look, if you want to do this, then try a place with no claims on it. Pretty hard to do in this world. As bad as I think it is here sometimes, I then step back and try and think what is it like for those who don't have the freedom's we do. Even though some of our freedoms are being compromised, we are MUCH better off then Christians in China (and a whole lot of other religions and political aspirations as well). Good luck to them. I hope our boys kick there asses. (no, I don't want them to die, but to try and succeed from the union is a difficult, if not impossible task....ask Jefferson Davis..whups, too late.).
Absolutly. If what you have now works, then by all means, don't upgrade......with a caveat. As with any OS, after 3.0 or 2.6 whatever it's going to be called comes out, then bug fixes may not be done for that much longer to the 2.4 series. After a while, you will probably want to upgrade anyway especially if your company pays for support from Red Hat or whoever.
The upside with Linux is that with every new version, you usually don't have to upgrade hardware all that much or at least as much as say Windows.
My only complaint.....some installers now (Red Hat's and Mandrake's in particular) won't let you install on a low end machine ( I know there may be other versions, but I am talking about the default installer.....). By low end, I mean 486 and Pentium (No Bloody II, !!! or 4). Granted, this don't hurt many, because those in the know can just get Debian and install it.....but what makes Red Hat and Mandrake so certain that you can't get something to run on those machines? It seems, to me, that maybe if they had one low end image that let you just install it anyway and just deal with the circumstances afterwards would be a better thing to do. Like I said, for most, it doesn't matter. You can pick up Pentium II's (old machines) for peanuts now, so that guy can go and upgrade that decrepit Pentium 100. But my point is, why be like Microsoft and force ANY upgrade? At some point, you could drop that support, but there are alot of those machines laying around yet and they can serve a purpose before going to the landfill.
Um, you can hunt with a handgun. I have a friend who used a handgun to hunt deer. She liked it because she can pull off shots quickly when the deer sprinted from the first shot (if she missed, and that was not often). Regardless of what anyone thinks, handguns are not just used to kill people. Varmint hunters use them everyday (work wonderfully if you have a raccon that keeps getting in your trash).
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Not all people with guns kill people. That's what your little blurb said to me (looked like you said all people with guns kill people). Let me remind you of other things that kill people:
Knives
Doctors (Malpractice insurance costs alot)
A 55 gallon drum of Gasoline and fertilizer(Kansas City.....)
Cars
Motorcycles
Airplanes
Cigaret
Cigars
Smoking a Pipe
Chewing Tobacco
McDonalds
Taco Bell
KFC
Pizza
Sugar
Electricity
Falling off of a bicycle
etc etc
By your assumption, we should ban all things that can kill people regardless of if they have a lawful use. You know what? That's just stupid. I am going to go see Bowling for Columbine but because I want to see if he can find out why we have more murders per capita. Michael Moore even stated in a interview with Tim Russert that Canada has 7 million guns for 10 million households yet the murder rate remains low. In Switzerland who has no organized military, almost every person there has a assualt rifle yet the murder rate remains low. Why can we not do this here??? Personally, I think, and this may sound off base, we have a limited education on firearms. Teenagers like to play games that use firearms in them but really don't have any idea of the kind o freal damage that one is capable of. It's my belief that firearm education whould be mandatory. Have an lesson early say at about the age of ten where they go to a range and fire a rifle. Let them see the kind of damage that can occur. If not actually doing the firing, they could watch a firearms expert do a demo. Some folks my not lik eit, but I feel that once a healthy respect for guns is developed, then the desire to shoot someone or even the desire to think about it will go down.
OK it's Walmarts fault this guy killed himself how? Excuse me if I don't feel bad about this. The judge who would Walmart negligent shoul dhave lost his job in the next election. Also, just becaus eyou had these two "incidents" happen does not mean it's a common everyday thing and does not mean Walmart is bad for selling firearms or ammunition. No matter how you restrict guns, those who want to obtain them for illegal purposes WILL obtain them. When guns are made illegal, then only criminals will have them. The guy who shot his instructor had something WRONG with him. I am sick and tired of the government trying to protect me from myself. The only thing the government needs to protect me from is enemys of the state like Iraq, Osama bin Laden and possibly North Korea. TH\he reason this "gun" thing is being percieved as a problem because every liberal news organization latches on to every little thing and blows it WAYYYY out of proportion. What's really amazing is that when Columbine happened, school violence and incidents of the Columbine nature was going DOWN! What's even more amazing is that Klebold and the other kid's parents never spotted the guns, and other items in their son's room. Everyone is into giving their kids "privacy". Well, unless your 18 and out of your parents house you have NO privcay and your parents are responsible for not only your behavior, but all of their guests. They should have seen their rooms. PLain and simple. Then they would have gotten the help they should have and Columbine may never had happened. Bowling for Columbine is an intersting movie and I may check it out.
Fine that's your choice. Depending on where you live, that challenege would be a difficult thing. Prime example is that everywhere in Ohio except metro areas, not only does Walmart sell guns, but so does Meijer. Just because they sell them, doesn't make that store a "bad" store. For every legal use of a gun, a bag of apples, a bottle of liquer, a porn magazine or you name it, there are just as many illegal uses for them. It's people like you that raise kids who don't have RESPECT for a firearm and treat it like a toy or that big bad thing in that store. Guns are not bad....people are. So lets concentrate on the people and show them how to respect firearms.
Not disagreeing with the book...just saying as you have said...FCC has final say. I also agree with the change to that book too, although I achieved my license with good old hard work and did not need such a book!:) Anyway, no I was not at the COARES meeting. I have no such time for those meetings unfortunately. I have enough things going on with my son, my job, and my church. Maybe when I retire I will be able to do all of the things I have wanted to do with ham radio. Yeah yeah I know it may only be once a month, but ask my fellow CCRA hams how many times I make it to a pizza party (maybe 1 to 2 a year!) let alone getting on the air!
It's been a long time since I have worked packet. So my info is definitely dated. I have not had a system I could use it with (no free IRQ's). Now that I do, it's too much work to get it going because I have a family. OH well. I guess thats why grey hair runs in the Ham clubs! :)
The ARRL is not the FCC. Only the FCC could make that decision and, to me, the music content of a MP3 or MIDI file could be considered music by the FCC. Although I would tend to side on the ARRL. For a lobbying group (that's what they really are, whether they admit it or not), they ain't so bad. Keep in mind that the ARRL can set operating guidlines for their members but those don't necessarily condone an activity or not. Just because they may say it's ok does not mean that it is, although with the ARRL it generally is ok to follow their guidlines as they tend to the side of the law most of the time. The ARRL changing their mind on whether you can call mayday for a broken down car is just an operating guidline and there's no law regulating it. The ARRL made the suggestion and then changed it due to the fact that words such as BREAK and MAYDAY are code words for when someone is truely in trouble like in danger of loosing their life. Only then should those words be used.
Pretty funny since there are gateways all over the net for this! You just have to be verfied by the operator of the gateway as a ham. Simple phone call, or e-mail would get initial verification. The next would be monitoring your use and making sure you don't use it for what it's not intended for (ie sending porn to other ham friends). This is the act of being a conrtol point operator. You are responsible for everything your station sends as the control point operator. When using a HT you are both the radio operator and control point operator, but sometimes you are not the one talking. Hence repeaters using volunteer control ops that listen to the local repeater via base station or handheld radio. There IS NO FCC Law or restrictiong regarding the use of packet radio except Part 97. Basically you can do whatever you want with it so long as you don't make money(have a pecuniary interest), and you don't send questionable content such as porn, music or other stuff otherwise against Part 97. Transfering MP3's over packet radio would be illegal as MP3 is music. Only way you could do that was if your the space shuttle (only exception to music in part 97 and this is because of the rebroadcasts of shuttle missions. Part 97 does not have the word internet in it and the word network only comes up once and that's in the line stating that a frequency band in the 220 MHz range is to be used for digital packet backbones. Other then that, this is NOT news. I transmitted a packet e-mail cross country before I ever sent a e-mail across country. HF so far has been limited to about 300 baud. I think the most you can do wirelessly using amateur radio is 14.4k(on 2m and maybe 440). The reason for this is because the faster you want to go, the wider your signal gets(hence the term bandwidth..). That's why there's a restriction for 300 baud on HF Frequencies. This may have changed as I don't really have all that much time to keep up on the digital modes. I don't think much has changed though with the excpetion of a couple guys were expermenting with using lasers for voice and possibly data (Would be THz range for RF I think).
When you don't make anything on the hardware....you got to make it somewhere. I agree with the folks about having chipped Xboxs. Most who do chip them ain't chipping them to run Linux on it. They are chipping them to run copied games.
OK you got some things wrong here. The Guns they sell at Walmart are not AK-47's! Sure you can kill people with it, but most of the folks that would buy a gun there are not going to do that. They are going to shoot a 8 point buck for FOOD! Venison is quite good. Paying 20 bucks or so for a deer tag and when you shoot one you get like 100-200 pounds of good meat is a great deal! Sure it's violent. Some folks hunt because they have to not because they want to. I don't think that hunting for food is bad. I do think hunting just to hunt is a bad thing though. I have a friend who loves to hunt, but more because of what he can do with it then the sheer thrill of it. Sure hunting thrills him, but mostly its because he's going to have a full freezer and not have to buy meat for a winter.
Yeah but look on Walmart's shelves and see if you see any movies that have GRATUITOUS sex in them. Look for movies like Tom Hank's Bachelor Party, Hamburger the Movie, Hot Dog (skiing movie with mucho tits in it I think) and you just plain won't see it there. Anything with GRATUITOUS sex you won't find it there but if someone flashes a tit (Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places) you will find it there. Yeah that could be considered a little gratuitous, but there's maybe one or two seens where she bares breast. Not 30 or more! SO I don't see it as being much different.
Yes but how about when everything is gratuitous? You just plain don't have to add this kind of trash to a BMX video game to make a good game. It's stupid. If the stuff actually added to the game, I may see it (say murder mystery game where a guy walked in on his Wife having sex and he killed the guy and you got shown this as your character figured everything out and was describing it in the end). Or something other then a BMX game. This is Walmarts point. It's stupid to sell a censored version, so the chose not to sell it. I think it's their choice. I will still buy my snack foods and caffiene there. I agree Parents should be in their kids lives, but just having this thing on display is problem enough.
Yeah and then when you see Walmart has these for 50 cents cheaper you will be back. Trust me. Not shopping at Walmart because of this is stupid. I frankly am glad the took this stance. They website sez the best line....THIS IS BMX??? I think not! It's trash. Simple as that. That's just my opinion.
Nevermind. Found it under the right click menu in File Explorer. Thanks for making me look.
Where is this option?