The Linux Blog Comments https://linux-blogger.com This is my blog, mostly Linux-related, but expect to see other things pop up frequently. en Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.1 by: Billy Petrovski https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/22/rid-the-world-of-petitions/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:03:58 -0500 142:120@https://linux-blogger.com I have a petition. Why don’t you put up a poll on your website? I live in Alaska and I like voting. I can’t get to the polls during elections because I live miles away from civilization and if I leave for a long time, the grizzlies will tear up my house! Pesky little things, you turn your back and the next thing you know they be stealing leftovers from places you don’t even know you had leftovers at! Last time I figured out I left a turkey in my plane, and what do you know, there musta been twelve bears fighting over one turkey leg!. They tore up my plane two. The thing just wasn’t built to handle 800 pound bears. In case you are wondering why I had a plane, there is an easy explanation. Here in Alaska, we don’t drive to the grocery store, we fly. I live 600 miles away from anchorage, and there are no roads for the majority of that distance. I just get in my plane, not anything fancy, just an ancient little thing, sometimes I’m even scared the engine might give way! You don’t want to parachute out of a plane and land in the middle of nowhere. Then you’d have a lot more to deal with than bears. Them mosquitoes will eat you alive!!! Anyway that’s how I get my food. Fly to Anchorage every month and back. Not too much hassle. I even have a phone for emergencies. Like if my plane breaks I can call in and as for help. Anyway, my wife is calling me so I will get to the point: it doesn’t matter if people vote in it, just put the poll up!!! I will be there to vote whenever I can!!! I have a petition. Why don’t you put up a poll on your website? I live in Alaska and I like voting. I can’t get to the polls during elections because I live miles away from civilization and if I leave for a long time, the grizzlies will tear up my house! Pesky little things, you turn your back and the next thing you know they be stealing leftovers from places you don’t even know you had leftovers at! Last time I figured out I left a turkey in my plane, and what do you know, there musta been twelve bears fighting over one turkey leg!. They tore up my plane two. The thing just wasn’t built to handle 800 pound bears. In case you are wondering why I had a plane, there is an easy explanation. Here in Alaska, we don’t drive to the grocery store, we fly. I live 600 miles away from anchorage, and there are no roads for the majority of that distance. I just get in my plane, not anything fancy, just an ancient little thing, sometimes I’m even scared the engine might give way! You don’t want to parachute out of a plane and land in the middle of nowhere. Then you’d have a lot more to deal with than bears. Them mosquitoes will eat you alive!!! Anyway that’s how I get my food. Fly to Anchorage every month and back. Not too much hassle. I even have a phone for emergencies. Like if my plane breaks I can call in and as for help. Anyway, my wife is calling me so I will get to the point: it doesn’t matter if people vote in it, just put the poll up!!! I will be there to vote whenever I can!!!

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]]> by: gato https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/11/earthquake-effects-on-earth/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:20:21 -0500 123:113@https://linux-blogger.com So the earth will be flat in the end.. that’s what our ancestors thought from the begining So the earth will be flat in the end.. that’s what our ancestors thought from the begining :)

]]> by: Things that … make you go hmm https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/19/google-adds-relnofollow/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:58:13 -0500 109:116@https://linux-blogger.com Treating all commenters like spammers is a slippery slope The more I think about the enforced action by MSN Spaces against the 1.5 million blogs they have the more disappopinted I become. I realize they did this to fight the comment spam which all bloggers who have been affected by this are grateful for but a… Treating all commenters like spammers is a slippery slope
The more I think about the enforced action by MSN Spaces against the 1.5 million blogs they have the more disappopinted I become. I realize they did this to fight the comment spam which all bloggers who have been affected by this are grateful for but a…

]]> by: Clete R. Blackwell 2 https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/19/google-adds-relnofollow/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0500 108:116@https://linux-blogger.com Fine, won’t be used by me. For the meantime, at least. Fine, won’t be used by me. For the meantime, at least.

]]> by: Nathan Wong https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/19/google-adds-relnofollow/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:13:21 -0500 107:116@https://linux-blogger.com What…? Lots of people will use it. Just because you don’t care about SEO, doesn’t mean nobody does. This is a HUGE thing, it’s really great to see them take actions. Just try and post opinions that you actually have a solid and relavent stance on, eh? If you aren’t in the SEO field, you really aren’t one to say it won’t be used… What…? Lots of people will use it. Just because you don’t care about SEO, doesn’t mean nobody does. This is a HUGE thing, it’s really great to see them take actions. Just try and post opinions that you actually have a solid and relavent stance on, eh? If you aren’t in the SEO field, you really aren’t one to say it won’t be used…

]]> by: The Linux Blog https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/03/x800-xt-pe-ordered-sapphire/#comments Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:02:39 -0500 80:106@https://linux-blogger.com Radeon X800 Arrives! Today, I eagerly awaited the arrival from FedEx of my new Sapphire X800 XT PE! Upon opening the box, I saw a packing slip and a little box with the card in it (hey, it’s OEM. Check out my comment on the other post for reasons of what I do if it bre… Radeon X800 Arrives!
Today, I eagerly awaited the arrival from FedEx of my new Sapphire X800 XT PE!

Upon opening the box, I saw a packing slip and a little box with the card in it (hey, it’s OEM. Check out my comment on the other post for reasons of what I do if it bre…

]]> by: dan https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:40:55 -0500 79:90@https://linux-blogger.com simply mepis 04:04 have run mepis for a year or more I run this because it’s easy,quick, does what I need it to do & I am no GURU, just a normal user, not into games. I run no M$ @ all simply mepis 04:04
have run mepis for a year or more
I run this because it’s easy,quick, does what I need it to do & I am no GURU, just a normal user, not into games. I run no M$ @ all

]]> by: Nathan Wong https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/05/the-great-big-blog-effort/#comments Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:30:40 -0500 78:107@https://linux-blogger.com Oh, and we’re up to 360 articles, 85 comments, and we’re currently aggregating 10 other blogs! Oh, and we’re up to 360 articles, 85 comments, and we’re currently aggregating 10 other blogs!

]]> by: Nathan Wong https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/05/the-great-big-blog-effort/#comments Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:29:42 -0500 77:107@https://linux-blogger.com Rockin’. Rockin’.

]]> by: Paul https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:23:23 -0500 74:90@https://linux-blogger.com Greetings, I headed up development for College Linux for a bit, but as of a month ago have since left to pursue other projects. The development of the distro has changed greatly allowing for the community to be in control of distro based decisions. Development version 2.6 is nearing an end and you should see a public 2.7 release in about a month or so. My personal project is a cross between slackware and gentoo. If you took the stability of slackware, slack package management, added some more BSD-like configs and also made it source based by option, you have Marcus Linux. Couple this new system with an easy and intuitive graphical installer, and I think it’d be a winning combination. Greetings,
I headed up development for College Linux for a bit, but as of a month ago have since left to pursue other projects. The development of the distro has changed greatly allowing for the community to be in control of distro based decisions. Development version 2.6 is nearing an end and you should see a public 2.7 release in about a month or so.

My personal project is a cross between slackware and gentoo. If you took the stability of slackware, slack package management, added some more BSD-like configs and also made it source based by option, you have Marcus Linux. Couple this new system with an easy and intuitive graphical installer, and I think it’d be a winning combination.

]]> by: jon https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:38:52 -0500 73:90@https://linux-blogger.com I downloaded and installed Simply-MEPIS the last night and so far I am very happy with it. I replaced a Fedora Core 3 install on my main home PC. FC3 was ok but I was having ongoing problems with nvidia driver, xorg, and my video card. I also am getting tired of upgrading FC every few months. I tend to customize it to the point that I have to wipe and reinstall instead of upgrading in place. The MEPIS install was very smooth. They include qparted so I was able to easily adjust partitions on my two hard disks without loosing my save partition or my Win2000 partition. The 2004.06 rev of Simply-MEPIS is also synced with debian unstable except for the kernel. This means that after the install all you have to do is apt-get synaptic and then go to town installing from the deb repositories. There are thousands of software packages available. The first things I installed were FireFox and Thunderbird. They installed without a hitch. It is essentially an extremely easy way to install Debian. (Much, much easier then Debian itself.) The MEPIS folks also do a very good job of configuring your hardware and your multimedia programs. They also seem to have spent some of time polishing things up as the desktop, fonts, etc all look pretty good and sound and accelerated graphics worked with no fooling around. I downloaded and installed Simply-MEPIS the last night and so far I am very happy with it. I replaced a Fedora Core 3 install on my main home PC.

FC3 was ok but I was having ongoing problems with nvidia driver, xorg, and my video card. I also am getting tired of upgrading FC every few months. I tend to customize it to the point that I have to wipe and reinstall instead of upgrading in place.

The MEPIS install was very smooth. They include qparted so I was able to easily adjust partitions on my two hard disks without loosing my save partition or my Win2000 partition. The 2004.06 rev of Simply-MEPIS is also synced with debian unstable except for the kernel. This means that after the install all you have to do is apt-get synaptic and then go to town installing from the deb repositories. There are thousands of software packages available. The first things I installed were FireFox and Thunderbird. They installed without a hitch. It is essentially an extremely easy way to install Debian. (Much, much easier then Debian itself.) The MEPIS folks also do a very good job of configuring your hardware and your multimedia programs. They also seem to have spent some of time polishing things up as the desktop, fonts, etc all look pretty good and sound and accelerated graphics worked with no fooling around.

]]> by: Gino https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:59:00 -0500 72:90@https://linux-blogger.com For the desktop Mandrake, Mandrake, Mandrake. I have tried so many distros DESPERATELY trying to get away from Windows and I could never do it… But for almost half a year I have been using an OS that makes windows look difficult. Mandrakes urpmi (autoupdate) along with its commitment to open source make it a clear winner for me. If you use it you HAVE to configure your urpmi through http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. Again I tried so hard to switch to linux with other distros and could never do it…. Suse was slooow, Red Hat had no default package manager that was usefull, Slack, Debian great for servers but come on… Mandrake won me over I am so gratefull that I get to go home and no longer boot into windows. Also cedega for gaming is amazing For the desktop Mandrake, Mandrake, Mandrake. I have tried so many distros DESPERATELY trying to get away from Windows and I could never do it… But for almost half a year I have been using an OS that makes windows look difficult. Mandrakes urpmi (autoupdate) along with its commitment to open source make it a clear winner for me. If you use it you HAVE to configure your urpmi through http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.

Again I tried so hard to switch to linux with other distros and could never do it…. Suse was slooow, Red Hat had no default package manager that was usefull, Slack, Debian great for servers but come on… Mandrake won me over I am so gratefull that I get to go home and no longer boot into windows.

Also cedega for gaming is amazing

]]> by: James Dixon https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:05:15 -0500 71:90@https://linux-blogger.com College Linux is a derivative of Slackware, as is VectorLinux. Mepis is a Debian derivative, and is great for those that would like to try Debian but can’t handle their installer. Personally, I use Slackware. College Linux is a derivative of Slackware, as is VectorLinux. Mepis is a Debian derivative, and is great for those that would like to try Debian but can’t handle their installer. Personally, I use Slackware.

]]> by: desipenguin https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/04/what-distribution-is-best-for-you/#comments Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:10:56 -0500 70:90@https://linux-blogger.com SimplyMepis 2004.4 SimplyMepis 2004.4

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