Realistically, what more do you need from what the BIOS already does? Processor available: check RAM available (and optional quick check): check Network boot / disk boot available / USB boot: check minimal power management: check password protection / boot device selection without having to change boot order in BIOS: check
Hand everything else off to the OS boot sector / boot sequence.
Personally I think having the winflash utilities is a very stupid idea too. It's just another way for something to go wrong when writing to chip, it should be done from within BIOS from disk / USB just like it used to be.
The kernel has ( or had, I haven't built one in a while ) experimental write support since at least the 2.6.18 branch or prior... I don't remember exactly when it was introduced. It is completely useless[1], but it is there.
That said NTFS-3G really is the way to go. It also, as an added bonus, fits the UNIX philosophy: "Do one thing and do it right".
[1] The in-kernel write support for NTFS only allows you to write to an existing file, and only allows you to write the same amount of data as the exact files size and name on the disk. Not very useful since you can not even create files.
No, I'm not lying. They are not pumping a million+ gallons of any of the pure chemical listed. They are dilute in a water solution since water is "cheap". Even if some of those chemical manage to migrate to an aquifer the molecule count would most likely be in the parts per trillion, and that is assuming that chemical leeching and natural filtration didn't turn them into something harmless by the time they managed to get to the aquifer.
As I said, you are more likely to find sulfides and arsenides that occur naturally.
If every one of those chemicals is so dilute that it only makes up 1-2 parts per trillion, they would not have the effects that are listed beside them.
That was the whole point... the chemicals MAY cause those effects in pure form, but the forms that you would see _if_ they migrated are going to be extremely diluted.
Even someone with virtually no knowledge of chemistry whatsoever probably has a clue how much propylene glycol it takes to have an anti-freeze effect since they put it in their car.
Most people are lucky to understand the difference in Octane rating of the fuel they put in their cars much less what Antifreeze is made from. The dealership takes care of all that messy stuff when they get their oil changed.
I also didn't say anything about the sky falling or what the actual effects of fracking fluid might be. I simply showed that your claims that all those chemicals are harmless was a lie. Your response to my post demonstrates why you get modded as a troll.
One, I never claimed anything upthread. You replied to my first post on the page. Two, can't be a lie... see point # one. And three, you might want to look again. There are plenty of mods that can understand satire and hyperbole, hence my comment standing at (score:3) as of this writing.
Well there is four, your writing of "all those dangerous chemicals" makes you come off sounding scared and screaming the sky is falling. As I pointed out, there are quite a few worse things in our groundwater that naturally occur. That doesn't mean we should dump anything and everything in our aquifers; but using something that is harmful in highly pure concentrations doesn't automatically equal poisoning our drinking water supplies, especially since this is only a possibility situation.
The water would actually help quench the magma body. We are not going to be pumping 600-800C water back down. You would be lucky to be pumping 100C water back down to be heated to ~350-450C in a closed loop. Anything much hotter than that would create problems for energy productions since both the temps and the pressures would require quite a bit of new engineering.
At the depths we can currently drill to, the water in the felsic magma has already been pressure released, the only "danger" would be fracturing into an active magma chamber. This is extremely unlikely since seismic imaging would reveal the body ( and it would generally be MUCH MUCH hotter than what we want for geothermal energy production ) so we would avoid getting too close to anything explosively dangerous.
It's pretty boring when it gets down to 1-2 parts per trillion^10 or even more dilute.
Hell I would worry more about the natural sulfides and arsenides leeched into groundwater from old Plutons than this shit. It's not like they are pumping millions of gallons of the pure chemicals even, they are treatments at low quantities in the water being pumped into the wells.
Your definition of "OMFG the sky is falling, the fracking chems are gonna make my face melt" are..... funny, to say the least.
Put your money where your mouth is. Find some solar panels that DON'T require tons of rare-earth materials to build and are more than 10% efficient.
Oh wait, those don't exist outside of research labs that spend something like 100x the god awful cost prohibitive amount solar already costs.
Better yet, you don't want this kind of geothermal? Get your smartypants ass going on designing better bore drills that can reach 10km+ depths so we can get down to the hot Granites that could literally power the entire U.S. with the use of zero fossil fuels.
Until you can do this stop playing arm chair Geologist, it's even worse than arm chair Lawyer.
When I see a distance of a multiple of 60 one can quickly determine how many hours it will take to get there when driving.:-)
Until time is also switched over to base 10 using miles/hr has a very nice 1:1 mapping with time! (assuming one drives 60 mi/hr.) The metric is a nice scientific system; the imperial system is a "nice" organic system. There is no reason BOTH systems couldn't be kept on the signage.
Ummm, yeah. I'm assuming you either just forgot your sarcasm tag or had a massive brain fart....
Last I checked km / hour was 1:1 as well. 1 hour @ 65 km/hour = 65km traveled.
Don't forget all the sulfides from granitic plutons as well. Thats why untreated well water tastes like.... well water. Sulfides, irons, and arsenic's all (mostly) from the Pyrites from Felsic rocks being leeched by groundwater.
Yeah, brilliant plan, take away the thing that most of them used to kill time to "protect children." Leaving them more time in the real world to become bored / jaded and for the actual pedos out there plan how to get get their hands on more kids since they have time and nothing to do with it. Meanwhile the non-violent offenders get ostracized even further.
Not to mention they will just "forget" to report that throwaway email they registered with, and get pissed even more at society at large / the state than they already are.
But hey, the lawmakers can stroke themselves harder for a while because they "protected the children."
It's not the over-all temperatures that are what is the concern, although that does have an effect. The main concern is the melting of the polar ice caps and other glaciated regions. Adding a lot of fresh water to the worlds oceans is affecting the oceanic Gyres, the most critical currently being affected is the north Atlantic Gyre. Since the arctic ice caps started melting at a previously unprecedented rate the current has measurably slowed down. We currently cannot prove 100% that this isn't a natural cycle, but there are strong indications that this is caused by climate change.
You might wonder why the Gyre is so important ( other than ocean health and bio-balance )... without that Gyre England and other European countries would not have the nice climates they have now. England would have roughly the same climate as Nova Scotia / northern Canada / Greenland. This would affect ( shorten ) the growing season of the Russian steppes as well - one of the worlds bread baskets for grain production.
The fact is a warmer climate such as that found during the Cretaceous(~ +4C) is beneficial to life.
The reason the Cretaceous period was so populous was because where the life was most abundant the continental masses had all been situated in the tropical and subtropical zone. That is the sweet spot for life, seasons don't change a whole lot, there is no real "winter" with snow and freezing weather. Life can flourish when hunting / gathering / grazing can be done year round with no compelling reason storage or the requirement for adaptations to colder climates for at the very least part of the year. Today there is not very much landmass ( comparatively ) situated in those zones, and even less that is situated near those zones that isn't dependent on current weather patterns that would be changed if the climate was significantly warmer or cooler. Much of the world would either die off or use all and in most cases orders of magnitude more of the current energy usage just for heating and growing what food would be possible, the weather patterns would be drastically different as well as being much more violent ( the Cretaceous period has records of huge wildfire cycles as well as floods that make anything in recorded history look like trickles ) and basically the world would be a drastically different place.
I don't get how so many otherwise smart people think we're living on a world that has the absolutely perfect climate, and that any change warmer or cooler results in disaster for mankind.
The climate warming / cooling is not the concern. The Earths climate naturally does that in long, slow cycles that generally allow ecological adaptation. What is concerning is how fast it is happening, several orders of magnitude faster than ever seen before - even from environmental dating done to hundreds of millions of years ago, fast enough that the ecological strata cannot adapt fast enough.
The possibility that climate change will be beneficial ( even in the long run ) is not zero, however from our best projections from extrapolating data from slower changes into a model with faster changes it will most likely be detrimental short term ( "short" being relative, meaning years to millenia ) and either detrimental or non affective long term.
Don't forget, NVidia are great for supporting older hardware... at least a LOT better than ATI/AMD. ATI/AMD has dropped the HD4200 series cards as of something like 6+ months ago from the newer drivers. NVidia on the other hand still supports a huge range of older cards, and supports VDPAU on pretty much anything from the last few years at the very least.
For non-gaming needs the radeon driver works out well for most cards though, so it's a trade off. And the X.org boys are ( or at least have been, I haven't been following too close lately ) working on getting VDPAU working on the HD4XXX+ hardware with the radeon driver.
Well I think that video streaming sites would be VERY interested in this data. Probably interested enough to at the very least partially fund the research.
Hmmm, Thinking about it, probably any type of retailer would be interested in data like this. It's a quantifiable amount of time before loss of interest, not just "customers hate waiting".
Another interesting tidbit from this study, it's probably a bad idea to put an ad at the very beginning of the video ( for ad supported sites ) since most ads are more than two seconds long. This may seem counter intuitive since if you show the ad BEFORE the video you shouldn't have to interrupt the actual video - like hulu does it - and you would think users would prefer getting it out of the way first so as not to be interrupted. Then again that breaks the traditional commercial model that people are used to from television and may take them out of their comfort zones.
Yeah, because Office can't save files to the.odt / POT /.rtf / PDF or many other formats...... oh wait, yeah it can. You can even set the default save format as.odt.
But there isn't anything out there that can read / edit my.doc /.docx files.... oh wait, libre / open office can.
But but but there isn't anything out there that can WRITE.doc /.docx files.... oh wait, damn it, open / libre office does that too.
Open / Libre office does 98-100% of what MS Office can do, is cross platform, and is free.
Hey fuckstick I go there, you obviously don't. And you are so god-awful stupid you can twist anything to say anything.
Here is a nice splintery bat, go shove it up your fucking ass and enjoy it.
TL;DR version, I go there, you don't - I see what really goes on there, you... don't. Get the picture yet? There is NO problem with freedom of speech unless you are repeatedly verbally assaulting someone.
Yeah, well, the site is retarded. They rated my University "red" because we have policies in place to prevent discrimination and hate speech. Heaven forbid the poor racist bastards would get punished if they make some other student who just wants their own educations life a living hell. Same with the sexual harassment codes. Nope, we have to get up in arms just cause you can't derogatorily call that black dude a nigger or the Chinese chick a chink, and damn it all who gives a shit what that chick thinks... we all know they just want the cock, am I right? Seriously, ro read what they have "issues" with the "openness" of the speech with the University of Wisconsin, it's a damn joke.
As long as you are not intentionally being offensive you can chalk messages on the sidewalk... just provide the chalk, no need for permission - this includes political views, religious views, and pretty much anything else you want. Same with dorm rooms, you want to post intentionally offensive stuff on your dorm room? Post it on the inside of the door, the harassment codes specifically state that as a matter of fact.
Shit, we just had an annual remembrance get-together remembering when a bunch of student had a huge protest in the 60's that had hundreds of arrests and over a hundred expulsions. The school provided funds to something that basically was just rubbing the schools face in the dog shit.
TL;DR: site was shit, just a bunch of whiny idiots complaining because they can't be racist / sexist / harassing anyone anywhere.
the only problem with XFCE4 / LXDE is that they are not designed with touch input in mind. KDE4's Plasma Active is designed for smaller screens and touch input, and generally the smaller screen devices it is designed to run on don't have quite as much RAM so a lot of the more memory intensive eye candy and other goofy crap is turned off by default while retaining the KDE power utilities - Konq / Dolphin spank the pants off Thunar / LxFM in terms of features. Thunar still hasn't gotten the "Open Terminal here" working to actually open the terminal in the directory it was selected from as of the last time I tried it ( ~2-3 months ago) it opens the terminal in your home dir.
Good god no man, step 4 is profit! Silly AC you can't have step 4 ( profit ) without step 3's "???????"
Seriously? This is the quality of ACs on slashdot these days.... Next he's going to say he doesn't know the 4 letter acronym that the slashtrolls love so much...
Actually technically Red Hat _DOES_ sell software. They just provide the source for free, you have to have a support contract to get the pre-compiled binaries from them ( last I checked anyways - I'm a Debian user myself ). Other distros then take the source / patches and compile and distribute for free.
Again that is last I checked. They may have changed since then, and fedora does not count... that is just BETA testing for stuff they may put in RHES ETC.
Whats so weird about using a HDTV as a monitor? I've been using my 40" 1080P Bravia for a few yeas now after I got it on sale. Almost all GFX cards and newer notebooks ( including many netbooks ) output directly to HDMI so it makes it stupid easy to connect to pretty much any random TV made in the last what, something like 5-6 years?
Do you really think "the best of the pool" means accepting smelly, unwashed, anti-social jerks?
The pool you're looking in must have awfully low standards.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact I do. If I have to hire smelly unwashed anti-social jerks and that guarantees I have a much greater chance of defending my stuff from the other roving bands of smelly unwashed anti-social jerks I would hire my own smelly unwashed jerks in a heartbeat. You don't hire a plumber to fix your car, so don't hire a squeaky clean butt-kisser that knows nothing about the gritty dirty underhanded bits of network security to secure your network.
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PERL has lines? I always just sat on my keyboard.... it looks the same.
Realistically, what more do you need from what the BIOS already does?
Processor available: check
RAM available (and optional quick check): check
Network boot / disk boot available / USB boot: check
minimal power management: check
password protection / boot device selection without having to change boot order in BIOS: check
Hand everything else off to the OS boot sector / boot sequence.
Personally I think having the winflash utilities is a very stupid idea too. It's just another way for something to go wrong when writing to chip, it should be done from within BIOS from disk / USB just like it used to be.
The kernel has ( or had, I haven't built one in a while ) experimental write support since at least the 2.6.18 branch or prior... I don't remember exactly when it was introduced. It is completely useless[1], but it is there.
That said NTFS-3G really is the way to go. It also, as an added bonus, fits the UNIX philosophy: "Do one thing and do it right".
[1] The in-kernel write support for NTFS only allows you to write to an existing file, and only allows you to write the same amount of data as the exact files size and name on the disk. Not very useful since you can not even create files.
No, I'm not lying. They are not pumping a million+ gallons of any of the pure chemical listed. They are dilute in a water solution since water is "cheap". Even if some of those chemical manage to migrate to an aquifer the molecule count would most likely be in the parts per trillion, and that is assuming that chemical leeching and natural filtration didn't turn them into something harmless by the time they managed to get to the aquifer.
As I said, you are more likely to find sulfides and arsenides that occur naturally.
If every one of those chemicals is so dilute that it only makes up 1-2 parts per trillion, they would not have the effects that are listed beside them.
That was the whole point... the chemicals MAY cause those effects in pure form, but the forms that you would see _if_ they migrated are going to be extremely diluted.
Even someone with virtually no knowledge of chemistry whatsoever probably has a clue how much propylene glycol it takes to have an anti-freeze effect since they put it in their car.
Most people are lucky to understand the difference in Octane rating of the fuel they put in their cars much less what Antifreeze is made from. The dealership takes care of all that messy stuff when they get their oil changed.
I also didn't say anything about the sky falling or what the actual effects of fracking fluid might be. I simply showed that your claims that all those chemicals are harmless was a lie. Your response to my post demonstrates why you get modded as a troll.
One, I never claimed anything upthread. You replied to my first post on the page. Two, can't be a lie... see point # one. And three, you might want to look again. There are plenty of mods that can understand satire and hyperbole, hence my comment standing at (score:3) as of this writing.
Well there is four, your writing of "all those dangerous chemicals" makes you come off sounding scared and screaming the sky is falling. As I pointed out, there are quite a few worse things in our groundwater that naturally occur. That doesn't mean we should dump anything and everything in our aquifers; but using something that is harmful in highly pure concentrations doesn't automatically equal poisoning our drinking water supplies, especially since this is only a possibility situation.
A non-Geologist speaking.
What could you possibly get right?
You might want to read up on the EGS system currently in use in Aussie-land then. Maybe, just maybe, you would not sound like such a retard.
The water would actually help quench the magma body. We are not going to be pumping 600-800C water back down. You would be lucky to be pumping 100C water back down to be heated to ~350-450C in a closed loop. Anything much hotter than that would create problems for energy productions since both the temps and the pressures would require quite a bit of new engineering.
At the depths we can currently drill to, the water in the felsic magma has already been pressure released, the only "danger" would be fracturing into an active magma chamber. This is extremely unlikely since seismic imaging would reveal the body ( and it would generally be MUCH MUCH hotter than what we want for geothermal energy production ) so we would avoid getting too close to anything explosively dangerous.
It's pretty boring when it gets down to 1-2 parts per trillion^10 or even more dilute.
Hell I would worry more about the natural sulfides and arsenides leeched into groundwater from old Plutons than this shit. It's not like they are pumping millions of gallons of the pure chemicals even, they are treatments at low quantities in the water being pumped into the wells.
Your definition of "OMFG the sky is falling, the fracking chems are gonna make my face melt" are ..... funny, to say the least.
Put your money where your mouth is. Find some solar panels that DON'T require tons of rare-earth materials to build and are more than 10% efficient.
Oh wait, those don't exist outside of research labs that spend something like 100x the god awful cost prohibitive amount solar already costs.
Better yet, you don't want this kind of geothermal? Get your smartypants ass going on designing better bore drills that can reach 10km+ depths so we can get down to the hot Granites that could literally power the entire U.S. with the use of zero fossil fuels.
Until you can do this stop playing arm chair Geologist, it's even worse than arm chair Lawyer.
When I see a distance of a multiple of 60 one can quickly determine how many hours it will take to get there when driving. :-)
Until time is also switched over to base 10 using miles/hr has a very nice 1:1 mapping with time! (assuming one drives 60 mi/hr.) The metric is a nice scientific system; the imperial system is a "nice" organic system. There is no reason BOTH systems couldn't be kept on the signage.
Ummm, yeah. I'm assuming you either just forgot your sarcasm tag or had a massive brain fart....
Last I checked km / hour was 1:1 as well. 1 hour @ 65 km/hour = 65km traveled.
Yeah, Japan has less gun deaths that the U.S.
But tell me, when in U.S. history has there been Sarin gas attacks in a subway system? Who has more knife violence?
Where is the proof? Just because they claimed something does not make it true.
"MightyMartian upset me with typical offensive slashtroll spam messages. I had to hire digital security guards to spam filter."
See how easy it is to twitch the truth into ways that makes it seem a whole lot more sensationalized while still being true?
Don't forget all the sulfides from granitic plutons as well. Thats why untreated well water tastes like.... well water. Sulfides, irons, and arsenic's all (mostly) from the Pyrites from Felsic rocks being leeched by groundwater.
Yeah, brilliant plan, take away the thing that most of them used to kill time to "protect children." Leaving them more time in the real world to become bored / jaded and for the actual pedos out there plan how to get get their hands on more kids since they have time and nothing to do with it. Meanwhile the non-violent offenders get ostracized even further.
Not to mention they will just "forget" to report that throwaway email they registered with, and get pissed even more at society at large / the state than they already are.
But hey, the lawmakers can stroke themselves harder for a while because they "protected the children."
It's not the over-all temperatures that are what is the concern, although that does have an effect. The main concern is the melting of the polar ice caps and other glaciated regions. Adding a lot of fresh water to the worlds oceans is affecting the oceanic Gyres, the most critical currently being affected is the north Atlantic Gyre. Since the arctic ice caps started melting at a previously unprecedented rate the current has measurably slowed down. We currently cannot prove 100% that this isn't a natural cycle, but there are strong indications that this is caused by climate change.
You might wonder why the Gyre is so important ( other than ocean health and bio-balance )... without that Gyre England and other European countries would not have the nice climates they have now. England would have roughly the same climate as Nova Scotia / northern Canada / Greenland. This would affect ( shorten ) the growing season of the Russian steppes as well - one of the worlds bread baskets for grain production.
The fact is a warmer climate such as that found during the Cretaceous(~ +4C) is beneficial to life.
The reason the Cretaceous period was so populous was because where the life was most abundant the continental masses had all been situated in the tropical and subtropical zone. That is the sweet spot for life, seasons don't change a whole lot, there is no real "winter" with snow and freezing weather. Life can flourish when hunting / gathering / grazing can be done year round with no compelling reason storage or the requirement for adaptations to colder climates for at the very least part of the year. Today there is not very much landmass ( comparatively ) situated in those zones, and even less that is situated near those zones that isn't dependent on current weather patterns that would be changed if the climate was significantly warmer or cooler.
Much of the world would either die off or use all and in most cases orders of magnitude more of the current energy usage just for heating and growing what food would be possible, the weather patterns would be drastically different as well as being much more violent ( the Cretaceous period has records of huge wildfire cycles as well as floods that make anything in recorded history look like trickles ) and basically the world would be a drastically different place.
I don't get how so many otherwise smart people think we're living on a world that has the absolutely perfect climate, and that any change warmer or cooler results in disaster for mankind.
The climate warming / cooling is not the concern. The Earths climate naturally does that in long, slow cycles that generally allow ecological adaptation. What is concerning is how fast it is happening, several orders of magnitude faster than ever seen before - even from environmental dating done to hundreds of millions of years ago, fast enough that the ecological strata cannot adapt fast enough.
The possibility that climate change will be beneficial ( even in the long run ) is not zero, however from our best projections from extrapolating data from slower changes into a model with faster changes it will most likely be detrimental short term ( "short" being relative, meaning years to millenia ) and either detrimental or non affective long term.
Don't forget, NVidia are great for supporting older hardware... at least a LOT better than ATI/AMD.
ATI/AMD has dropped the HD4200 series cards as of something like 6+ months ago from the newer drivers. NVidia on the other hand still supports a huge range of older cards, and supports VDPAU on pretty much anything from the last few years at the very least.
For non-gaming needs the radeon driver works out well for most cards though, so it's a trade off. And the X.org boys are ( or at least have been, I haven't been following too close lately ) working on getting VDPAU working on the HD4XXX+ hardware with the radeon driver.
Well I think that video streaming sites would be VERY interested in this data. Probably interested enough to at the very least partially fund the research.
Hmmm, Thinking about it, probably any type of retailer would be interested in data like this. It's a quantifiable amount of time before loss of interest, not just "customers hate waiting".
Another interesting tidbit from this study, it's probably a bad idea to put an ad at the very beginning of the video ( for ad supported sites ) since most ads are more than two seconds long. This may seem counter intuitive since if you show the ad BEFORE the video you shouldn't have to interrupt the actual video - like hulu does it - and you would think users would prefer getting it out of the way first so as not to be interrupted. Then again that breaks the traditional commercial model that people are used to from television and may take them out of their comfort zones.
Yeah, because Office can't save files to the .odt / POT / .rtf / PDF or many other formats...... oh wait, yeah it can. You can even set the default save format as .odt.
But there isn't anything out there that can read / edit my .doc / .docx files.... oh wait, libre / open office can.
But but but there isn't anything out there that can WRITE .doc / .docx files.... oh wait, damn it, open / libre office does that too.
Open / Libre office does 98-100% of what MS Office can do, is cross platform, and is free.
Hey fuckstick I go there, you obviously don't. And you are so god-awful stupid you can twist anything to say anything.
Here is a nice splintery bat, go shove it up your fucking ass and enjoy it.
TL;DR version, I go there, you don't - I see what really goes on there, you... don't. Get the picture yet? There is NO problem with freedom of speech unless you are repeatedly verbally assaulting someone.
Yeah, well, the site is retarded. They rated my University "red" because we have policies in place to prevent discrimination and hate speech. Heaven forbid the poor racist bastards would get punished if they make some other student who just wants their own educations life a living hell. Same with the sexual harassment codes. Nope, we have to get up in arms just cause you can't derogatorily call that black dude a nigger or the Chinese chick a chink, and damn it all who gives a shit what that chick thinks... we all know they just want the cock, am I right? Seriously, ro read what they have "issues" with the "openness" of the speech with the University of Wisconsin, it's a damn joke.
As long as you are not intentionally being offensive you can chalk messages on the sidewalk... just provide the chalk, no need for permission - this includes political views, religious views, and pretty much anything else you want. Same with dorm rooms, you want to post intentionally offensive stuff on your dorm room? Post it on the inside of the door, the harassment codes specifically state that as a matter of fact.
Shit, we just had an annual remembrance get-together remembering when a bunch of student had a huge protest in the 60's that had hundreds of arrests and over a hundred expulsions. The school provided funds to something that basically was just rubbing the schools face in the dog shit.
TL;DR: site was shit, just a bunch of whiny idiots complaining because they can't be racist / sexist / harassing anyone anywhere.
the only problem with XFCE4 / LXDE is that they are not designed with touch input in mind. KDE4's Plasma Active is designed for smaller screens and touch input, and generally the smaller screen devices it is designed to run on don't have quite as much RAM so a lot of the more memory intensive eye candy and other goofy crap is turned off by default while retaining the KDE power utilities - Konq / Dolphin spank the pants off Thunar / LxFM in terms of features. Thunar still hasn't gotten the "Open Terminal here" working to actually open the terminal in the directory it was selected from as of the last time I tried it ( ~2-3 months ago) it opens the terminal in your home dir.
Good god no man, step 4 is profit! Silly AC you can't have step 4 ( profit ) without step 3's "???????"
Seriously? This is the quality of ACs on slashdot these days.... Next he's going to say he doesn't know the 4 letter acronym that the slashtrolls love so much...
Actually technically Red Hat _DOES_ sell software. They just provide the source for free, you have to have a support contract to get the pre-compiled binaries from them ( last I checked anyways - I'm a Debian user myself ). Other distros then take the source / patches and compile and distribute for free.
Again that is last I checked. They may have changed since then, and fedora does not count... that is just BETA testing for stuff they may put in RHES ETC.
Whats so weird about using a HDTV as a monitor? I've been using my 40" 1080P Bravia for a few yeas now after I got it on sale. Almost all GFX cards and newer notebooks ( including many netbooks ) output directly to HDMI so it makes it stupid easy to connect to pretty much any random TV made in the last what, something like 5-6 years?
Do you really think "the best of the pool" means accepting smelly, unwashed, anti-social jerks?
The pool you're looking in must have awfully low standards.
Well, yes, as a matter of fact I do. If I have to hire smelly unwashed anti-social jerks and that guarantees I have a much greater chance of defending my stuff from the other roving bands of smelly unwashed anti-social jerks I would hire my own smelly unwashed jerks in a heartbeat. You don't hire a plumber to fix your car, so don't hire a squeaky clean butt-kisser that knows nothing about the gritty dirty underhanded bits of network security to secure your network.