Ok, so I didn't read the whole article, but I had to post (I made it to the installing Gnome part).
This guy is complaining that KDE 2.2.2 with *transparency* and *antialiasing* is too slow. what???? I mean, come on dude, how hard is it to figure out?
I run kde2.2.2 on my 1.4ghz athlon, with transparency and antialiasing and whatnot, it runs great! I started compiling kde3 last night, and I'm about to finish, I'm excited about that.
but I tell you, I have 120mhz pentium laptop with 40 megs of ram and a 2 gig harddrive....I would be STUPID to put kde on there. I don't even have qt on there, and I am a QT freak. I stick with BlackBox, Gaim, Opera, xterm, and Emacs. That laptop performs much better with linux and blackbox than it would with windows, and I'm totally happy. but I would NEVER put kde2 on there and then complain that linux is too resource hungry! that's just idiocy.
ok, I think I'm done with my rant. I seriously don't put 1 ounce of faith in this article. next the guy's gonna try to put windows xp on there and turn on all the visualizations....
I had gotten into my head a couple of minutes ago (as I was updating tons of packages) that "hey! 8.2 should be out....I'll just upgrade." little did I know that the/. effect would spoil my plans....
gatech's mirror isn't updated yet, either....so things are gonna suck.
oh well:(
(if I weren't broke I'd be the first in line to actually buy the distribution)
Heck, I think buying corporate development licenses from qt (kde) and donating GTK (Gnome!) would be a better alternative.
trolltech != kde
I just don't see anything that mandrake has done for the community, people should donate money for kernel.org's bandwidth, osdn, but Mandrake?
mandrake has made a fantastic distribution, one that my sister prefers to windows. The install is incredibly easy, and pretty much everything comes set up for you. I started out on slakware with a 2.0 kernel, I had no cdrom, my harddrive was a bit too big for lilo, I didn't have an internet connection...anyway what I'm saying is I have the skills to install everything myself. But I use mandrake on my client computer, because I simply don't have the time. and when I want a new release of a piece of software, I just cd into my local Mandrake Cooker mirror, and 9 times out of 10 it's there. mandrake's cooker is about the best, most up to date package repository of any distribution. it saves me from having to compile everything, because usually the rpm will just work.
anyway, mandrake is a great distribution for anybody running linux on a desktop, not just newbies. if I find a way out of my currently frighteningly appalling financial situation, I'm definately gonna pitch in:)
You are assuming he is evil. Did you consider that he may have been running the company off his own credit card since it wasn't paying the bills? How is that wrong?
1. from january to july he and his wife got about $60,000, while the employees weren't getting anything. $60,000 is enough for a middle class family of 5 to live in my part of the country very comfortably for a year.
2. why did he need such a huge salary? why couldn't he make the same as the programmers? he's claiming about $350,000 from the credit card bills and lost salary. let's say he got 5 different credit cards all up to $10,000. that still leaves $300,000 lost salary he's claiming. for how long? 6 months? a year? 2 years? at 2 years, that's still $150,000 a year, while his programmers are making $40-50K.
3. he was running the company off his own credit card...giving employees "advances" an their paychecks....and now they're getting stung A LOT for taxes, besides the fact that them to get stung for said taxes is illegal on loki's part (they got 1099s even though they were employees).
Not to mention that 1099 recipients usually have to file quarterly taxes, and the employees may well be in for some nasty penalties for missing filing for almost a year.
This is only after previous filing of a 1099. The first year you don't have to do quarterly taxes. I worked as a "contractor" once (actually as an employee working for tax-evading employers) and I consulted with h&r block before starting. I didn't file quarterly taxes, and when april came around I filed my 1099 penalty-free. yeah, I quit that job soon thereafter...
Among the liabilities listed in the bankruptcy filing was a total of $560,412.65 in unpaid salary, of which it was claimed that $302,009.70 was owed to the Draekers in unpaid salary and unreimbursed expenses.
(A single employee is listed in creditor filings as being owed almost $350,000 in unpaid salary and in expenses the company incurred using the employee's credit card.)
hmmm, looking at the math, it appears that Scott Draeker is the "mystery employee". I kinda figured this would be the case when I was reading the threads. The founder of the company gives himself (and his wife) an exorbitant salary, and then claims that it is owed to him/them. All the posts are bemoaning the poor programmer out of $350,000; the article seems to say that some shady stuff was going on, and maybe we shouldn't be moaning for the programmers, but pointing questioning fingers towards draeker.
it's not boba fett. I didn't catch exactly what he said in the trailer, but I was at a store a few days ago and saw episode 2 "preview" figures. I didn't pay too much attention to them, except for the Fett, his name was something like "Jetta" Fett....I don't remember exactly. He wasn't as beat up as Boba, and he was bluish instead of green.
aqua teen hunger force is, in my opinion, the funniest thing on tv. if you've never seen this show I highly recommend you find an episode and check it out. I about die from laughing every time I watch this show. There's only 5 episodes at the moment, my personal favorite is Balloonenstein.
Frylock (giving Meatwad a cylindrical balloon): Here, rub this all over your body to get rid of the static electricity.
Meatwad: Um, could you guys give me some privacy?
LOL. Anyone using any sort of "optical" mouse for gaming, isn't really gaming.
Speak for yourself. I have the logitech cordless optical that taco was talking about, and it's fantastic. I had to turn the sensitivity way down because it is so fine-grained, whereas with my ms mouse I had to turn it way up. it never jumps on me, and the resolution is fantastic. I bought some rechargable NiMH batteries, and I have to say that with those it's almost the perfect mouse. The only problem I have with it is that the buttons are too close together, so I can't have 3 fingers on top. but since I usually only use the wheel for reload/zoom/changing weapons, and that in linux the thumb button also maps to B3, it's great.
Finally, I'll have a good controller to play Final Fantasy VI! (Instead of this cheapo MS USB gamepad I bought for snes9x.)
I bought a PS1 dual shock controller and one of those little $12 usb adaptors. works great under linux and windows, works really well for snes9x/psx emulators. With a little imagination it makes an OK controller for N64 games.
If I had the funds I'd like to get a usb adaptor that supported force feedback.
I'm guessing they used 2.95.3 because that's what comes with SuSE 7.3. 3.x still has some major issues and isn't suitable for most systems, but it uses garbage collection so it's _much_ faster. I'd like to see the results then.
ok I'm confused....why would a c/c++ compiler have garbage collection? and, um, doesn't garbage collection make a language slower??
I was about to say this guy knows exactly zero on this topic...but I clicked his page link....and apparently he knows C. so now I'm doubly confused...
I could be mixed up, but isn't linuxhardware run by a georgia tech student with a cable modem in his apartment? and doesn't it get trashed every time it's linked on./?
Actually, CS 1311 (the intro class at GT) is taught in Scheme.
I took this class in fall of '99, so they might have changed it, but it was all in pseudocode, with a special section or two that used scheme.
Just for the record, everybody at tech has to take the first class, and all CS majors (which is the only major the CoC has) have to take the 2nd. And the first class is/was far too hard for non-cs people (average grade when I took it was a 60, no curve). That doesn't excuse cheating, though, I was easily able to make an A, I'm sure others could pass the class OK without cheating...
Yeah I think so. My point was that I got a ton of sircams from total strangers which at first I thought was spammers, but then my conjecture after reading their personal documents (hehe) and even talking to a couple was that sircam got my address through IE.
I might be wrong, but I thought SirCam looked through IE's cache for addresses. I heard that, and it makes sense, because when sircam struck I was getting tons of emails to the only address on my website, which I didn't use anywhere else (at a time that my website was getting tons of hits because of somebody I hosted).
The only reason I know of anyone using it is because it's bundled with nearly every CD-R drive sold. End-of-story. There are several other better applications...including my favorite, NERO burning ROM.
Another reason why the TDK VeloCDs are awesome.....bundled Nero. To anybody who never wants to make coasters again, and especially if you rip audio cds (can you say 32x rip?), buy a VeloCD.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so I didn't read the whole article, but I had to post (I made it to the installing Gnome part).
This guy is complaining that KDE 2.2.2 with *transparency* and *antialiasing* is too slow. what???? I mean, come on dude, how hard is it to figure out?
I run kde2.2.2 on my 1.4ghz athlon, with transparency and antialiasing and whatnot, it runs great! I started compiling kde3 last night, and I'm about to finish, I'm excited about that.
but I tell you, I have 120mhz pentium laptop with 40 megs of ram and a 2 gig harddrive....I would be STUPID to put kde on there. I don't even have qt on there, and I am a QT freak. I stick with BlackBox, Gaim, Opera, xterm, and Emacs. That laptop performs much better with linux and blackbox than it would with windows, and I'm totally happy. but I would NEVER put kde2 on there and then complain that linux is too resource hungry! that's just idiocy.
ok, I think I'm done with my rant. I seriously don't put 1 ounce of faith in this article. next the guy's gonna try to put windows xp on there and turn on all the visualizations....
Crap!
/. effect would spoil my plans....
I had gotten into my head a couple of minutes ago (as I was updating tons of packages) that "hey! 8.2 should be out....I'll just upgrade." little did I know that the
gatech's mirror isn't updated yet, either....so things are gonna suck.
oh well:(
(if I weren't broke I'd be the first in line to actually buy the distribution)
TightVNC can use jpeg encoding. good stuff. check it out.
on another note....wasn't this in the win2k license also?
man urpmi
Just look at all the flak libranet caught for this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/26/133222 0&mode=nested
trolltech != kde
I just don't see anything that mandrake has done for the community, people should donate money for kernel.org's bandwidth, osdn, but Mandrake?
mandrake has made a fantastic distribution, one that my sister prefers to windows. The install is incredibly easy, and pretty much everything comes set up for you. I started out on slakware with a 2.0 kernel, I had no cdrom, my harddrive was a bit too big for lilo, I didn't have an internet connection...anyway what I'm saying is I have the skills to install everything myself. But I use mandrake on my client computer, because I simply don't have the time. and when I want a new release of a piece of software, I just cd into my local Mandrake Cooker mirror, and 9 times out of 10 it's there. mandrake's cooker is about the best, most up to date package repository of any distribution. it saves me from having to compile everything, because usually the rpm will just work.
anyway, mandrake is a great distribution for anybody running linux on a desktop, not just newbies. if I find a way out of my currently frighteningly appalling financial situation, I'm definately gonna pitch in:)
1. from january to july he and his wife got about $60,000, while the employees weren't getting anything. $60,000 is enough for a middle class family of 5 to live in my part of the country very comfortably for a year.
2. why did he need such a huge salary? why couldn't he make the same as the programmers? he's claiming about $350,000 from the credit card bills and lost salary. let's say he got 5 different credit cards all up to $10,000. that still leaves $300,000 lost salary he's claiming. for how long? 6 months? a year? 2 years? at 2 years, that's still $150,000 a year, while his programmers are making $40-50K.
3. he was running the company off his own credit card...giving employees "advances" an their paychecks....and now they're getting stung A LOT for taxes, besides the fact that them to get stung for said taxes is illegal on loki's part (they got 1099s even though they were employees).
This is only after previous filing of a 1099. The first year you don't have to do quarterly taxes. I worked as a "contractor" once (actually as an employee working for tax-evading employers) and I consulted with h&r block before starting. I didn't file quarterly taxes, and when april came around I filed my 1099 penalty-free. yeah, I quit that job soon thereafter...
Among the liabilities listed in the bankruptcy filing was a total of $560,412.65 in unpaid salary, of which it was claimed that $302,009.70 was owed to the Draekers in unpaid salary and unreimbursed expenses.
(A single employee is listed in creditor filings as being owed almost $350,000 in unpaid salary and in expenses the company incurred using the employee's credit card.)
hmmm, looking at the math, it appears that Scott Draeker is the "mystery employee". I kinda figured this would be the case when I was reading the threads. The founder of the company gives himself (and his wife) an exorbitant salary, and then claims that it is owed to him/them. All the posts are bemoaning the poor programmer out of $350,000; the article seems to say that some shady stuff was going on, and maybe we shouldn't be moaning for the programmers, but pointing questioning fingers towards draeker.it's not boba fett. I didn't catch exactly what he said in the trailer, but I was at a store a few days ago and saw episode 2 "preview" figures. I didn't pay too much attention to them, except for the Fett, his name was something like "Jetta" Fett....I don't remember exactly. He wasn't as beat up as Boba, and he was bluish instead of green.
Frylock (giving Meatwad a cylindrical balloon): Here, rub this all over your body to get rid of the static electricity.
Meatwad: Um, could you guys give me some privacy?
Actually 2,984,574 is a patent for encasing sausage.
Speak for yourself. I have the logitech cordless optical that taco was talking about, and it's fantastic. I had to turn the sensitivity way down because it is so fine-grained, whereas with my ms mouse I had to turn it way up. it never jumps on me, and the resolution is fantastic. I bought some rechargable NiMH batteries, and I have to say that with those it's almost the perfect mouse. The only problem I have with it is that the buttons are too close together, so I can't have 3 fingers on top. but since I usually only use the wheel for reload/zoom/changing weapons, and that in linux the thumb button also maps to B3, it's great.
I can't believe nobody's posted this yet. The line about common code multi-platform etc etc was explaining why ID uses OpenGL instead of DirectX.
well, LICQ has supported encrypted ICQ conversations for some time...
AOL bought ICQ (Mirabilis) years ago. In fact ICQ 2000 uses Oscar, the AIM protocol...
I bought a PS1 dual shock controller and one of those little $12 usb adaptors. works great under linux and windows, works really well for snes9x/psx emulators. With a little imagination it makes an OK controller for N64 games.
If I had the funds I'd like to get a usb adaptor that supported force feedback.
ok I'm confused....why would a c/c++ compiler have garbage collection? and, um, doesn't garbage collection make a language slower??
I was about to say this guy knows exactly zero on this topic...but I clicked his page link....and apparently he knows C. so now I'm doubly confused...
I could be mixed up, but isn't linuxhardware run by a georgia tech student with a cable modem in his apartment? and doesn't it get trashed every time it's linked on ./?
I took this class in fall of '99, so they might have changed it, but it was all in pseudocode, with a special section or two that used scheme.
Just for the record, everybody at tech has to take the first class, and all CS majors (which is the only major the CoC has) have to take the 2nd. And the first class is/was far too hard for non-cs people (average grade when I took it was a 60, no curve). That doesn't excuse cheating, though, I was easily able to make an A, I'm sure others could pass the class OK without cheating...
Yeah I think so. My point was that I got a ton of sircams from total strangers which at first I thought was spammers, but then my conjecture after reading their personal documents (hehe) and even talking to a couple was that sircam got my address through IE.
or the fact that his "baby girl has to go without some clothes she wants"
Spammers tend to get infected with SirCam.
I might be wrong, but I thought SirCam looked through IE's cache for addresses. I heard that, and it makes sense, because when sircam struck I was getting tons of emails to the only address on my website, which I didn't use anywhere else (at a time that my website was getting tons of hits because of somebody I hosted).
Another reason why the TDK VeloCDs are awesome.....bundled Nero. To anybody who never wants to make coasters again, and especially if you rip audio cds (can you say 32x rip?), buy a VeloCD.
Every 4th of july the Sci-Fi channel runs the delectable twilight zone marathon. Unfortunately my cable company is dropping the channel:(