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Now in 2003 it makes no sense to re-start this effort I guess. Although there are probably hundreds and thousands of "full metal" 7133s around which are replaced by SAN technology their storage capacity isn't what people want today. As for manageability, it makes more sense to put them behind a SAN-SSA gateway (which the ESS basically is).

Jeepers will you all cut it out already. Let the man try Redhat, and let him hear about the alternatives: here here here here and here.

Ten'll get you one he'll eventually be installing this distro with a 2.6 kernel and either Redhat or Debian based, and he won't give a rat's ass about all this trash you're talking.

We now return you to your regularily schedualled flamewar...

Yeah, but they're working on this technology using the work done at Lake Vostok as an example.

...in order to develop an entire fucking gaming environment - put the CD in the damn PC and boot directly to your game.

The thing exists and it's called the Gentoo Linux UT2003 LiveCD.

I've read about nuclear-explosion-powered space ships before. Project Orion, in the '60s, was a serious attempt at this. google for more links.

God, it's so true. It's just so true

slashdot.org
newsforge.com
theregister.co.uk
my university's daily newspaper (no link!)
fark.com
the smirking chimp
dr. fun
the daily vault (although i review there once in a while)
google news
daily rotten
lwn.net
crackmonkey archives
the dot
kde-look.org
corona's coming attractions
snopes' update page
doc's weblog

And I think that's about it for a daily basis.

Project Gutenberg has a utility for exactly this purpose called QREAD. It's available here.

There's a kinky story accessible through this site about two underage kids who fall in love, have sex, and later die. I've read it myself. It's called, "Romeo and Juliet."

VRML has a standard texture set (the idea is that it is stored locally, so they don't need to be downloaded from the network). It's not that large, but there are a couple things in there and maybe you could add some. http://www.web3d.org/WorkingGroups/media/

There is also a listing here of image libraries: http://web3d.org/vrml/txlib.htm if you find some good ones you should submit them to this listing.

Some guy also has made a ton of really strange tilable images, in a collection called Propaganda:
http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/

reed

Yeah right I'm as likely to die by an asteroid as in a plane crash.
How many people were killed by asteroids in the last 20 years?
How many people were killed in pane crashes?
Oh what's that you say this isn't a fair assessment? Okay, let's do a real one:

My odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 500,000. But this isn't quite right because it's assuming I fly 100,000 miles a year, which I don't neither does most of the world. So this number should be lower. So assume this killer asteriod kills everyone: 6313622537 people. Since only 20 people died in the year 2000, we would need one asteriod to kill everyone on the planet every 315 million years. Maybe that's a reasonable time frame but, it's still a bullshit comparison because it assumes I'm going to live forever, unless killed by an asteroid. One must factor in the odds of me being alive when this asteriod actually hits, otherwise I'm not being killed by it am I? Say I live for 150 years (much longer than the average lifespan). If one factors in my limited lifespan, I am suddenly 4.8 x 10^-7 less likely to be killed by an asteriod, than to die in a plane crash.

The odds are so low that I may as well start getting worried about being run over by a Porsche driven by a zebra. Since:
My odds of being run over are 1 in 588.
Let's say one in every 5,000 cars is a porsche.
There are around 132,000,000 cars on the road.
Let's say there are 300,000 zebra on the face of the earth.
Finally, lets say only ten of them (circus zebra) know how to drive (10 in 300,000 odds).
Making a totally bullshit analysis, I find out that my odds are 2.58e-14 while my odds of being killed by an asteriod are 9.52e-13. Okay, so I'm a hundred or so times more likely to be killed by the asteriod, but what if I included all those bears that drive cars too? Surely the results would be terrifying.


This public service announcement has been brought to you by my unwillingness to write my DSP paper. Good night.

The Quarter Eater!

Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!

My favorite video game has always been The Quarter Eater!.

Exchange Replacement Server HOWTO:

http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_U S.ISO_8859-1/articles/exchange-replacement-howto/e xchange-replacement-howto.html

I think that the CC project is a great idea and some kind of P2P distribution is great too. I do have some some minor concerns though, one is over their share alike license.

On the FSF web site there is a short list of Licenses For Works Besides Software and Documentation and the Creative Commons Share Alike license is not mentioned, so I sent the FSF an email about this and the opinion seems to be that the Share Alike license would not be considered GPL-compatible, which I think is a shame. The email about this can be found on the cc-licenses list archive

Lest anyone be accusing Red Hat of animosity towards KDE, note that RH's kernels are also behind the latest releases from Linus, and yet nobody ... well, nobody worth listening to -- claims that RH has it in for Mr. Torvalds' little project. I think it's far more likely that RH just has a rigorous QA process with the aim of releasing no package before its time than that they hate KDE. By the way, when the update for security problems in a recent version of KDE came out, RH came out with them in a timely fashion. This (3.1) release has lots of new neat features, but it's not a security update. Perhaps they believe (rightly, IMO) that users can wait for shiny new objects.

Besides, have you looked at how many packages it takes to install KDE? Eeep! I suppose up2date can handle that. Of course, the upgradability issue is there with GNOME; and I can't recall off the top of my head when RH has offered a point-release update for GNOME that wasn't security-related [ that's a hedge -- I can't recall when they have release a point-release update for GNOME period ].

For those of you who absolutely must have the latest, then take a look in the "rawhide" directory of any RH mirror, e.g. this one.

Ehm, could you explain to us what kind of leverage IBM has over open source projects? If I were the administrator of an open source project and IBM would come by and tell me to switch databases I'd tell them to go mind their own business, thank you. And according to the Bugzilla installation manual it uses MySQL, not Postgres or DB/2. Also, Red Hat still maintains Red Hat Database as evidenced by the README on their ftp and you can still download it from the same place. And if you look at the SRPMs of Advanced Server 2.1 you'll note that Red Hat ships Postgres with AS2.1.

So, care to give us some supporting evidence?

...Instead, he got kindof serious, and said, "Well, no, he (Al Gore) didn't create the internet, and I think he's been quoted out of context, but he was absolutely responsible for creating the legislative environment that allowed that type of research to be done, and lead to the creation of the internet."

Yes, I would agree that Gore's supposed statement that he "Invented the Internet" was taken out of context. Despite being so seemingly uncomfortable in his own skin in public speaches, I would tend to credit the man with enough intelligence to *NOT* have made that claim.

What I supposed that Gore could have been referring to was his support of the Boucher Bill which was solely (AFAIK) responsible for opening up the internet to general use by the public. Up until the point of this bill being signed, the internet was supposed to be used solely for "official" government use. Of course, by this time many private citizens were already using it to buy and sell things to one another, proposition one another, display ASCII Art and whatnot. But this bill was the official nod that the internet wasn't just for breakfast anymore and was ripe for the picking to anyone interested. Of course, this was roughly contemperaneous with Tim Berners Lee's development of the WWW so both factors probably worked together towards making the 'net what it is in this day and age.

So, while Gore of course was not "responsible for the invention of the internet", he can with a straight face lay claim to being a key supporter of the bill that brought it to the masses.

Hey, pssst... it's free, pass it on.

--paul

Apt and Synaptic have been ported to Mandrake, and work really well. As a little debian user (through Libranet and Knoppix), I love apt-get and also love Mandrake for its great community support.

You can find apt and synaptic for Mandrake 9.0 here thanks to Texstar.

I'd hate to see Mandrake die, I believe it's the best all-round distro around, easy to install yet powerful, a great learning tool.

Cheer,
max

• Same old song, different meaning for P2P
• Norway piracy case brings activists hope
• $1 films spook Hollywood
• Copyright laws around the world

JohnA, An American Citizen

Here is a list of radio tuner apps for linux and here's another. Also try googling for "linux FM radio tuner card". These apps, along with a sound card (depending on what kind of FM tuner you get) and oggenc/lame and a little scripting (hint: cron job), and you should be in business.

-- Bob

Since I'm not too familiar with OS-X I don't know if this will work, but this is probably close enough to what you are looking for. LINUX Advanced Routing HOW-TO It would be interesting (to me at least) to know if the same tools apply on OS-X.

Democracy and communism have no reason why they cannot [co-]exist.

Interesting question--I can think of an argument and a counter-argument, both pretty weak. Do you have stronger arguments?

Argument: Sweden (strong because democracy, weak because socialism, not communism.)

Counter-argument: deToqueville's analysis of the economy of a democracy in Democracy in America (see Chapter XIII). Basically, he argues that a principal cause of instability in a democracy is that the citizens find they can vote themselves money. In effect, the majority can ride herd, economically, on the minority (ie. in the US, 50% of the population pays 98% of the taxes.) The incentive to do this is so great that it may prevent a communistic society from forming, unless the society were much more uniformly moral (the morality here being a communist one--everyone works, everyone gains) than a society could be.

My thought experiment goes like this: (1) a democratic communism exists; (2) a small minority learns how to become more comfortable than the rest, somehow; (3) the majority finds that they can do less work and live just as well if they allow the minority to make more and take some of it for themselves; (4) the majority votes to do so, explicitly allowing stratification of earnings pre-tax and some incentive to the higher-earning minority to incent them to continue to do so; (5) stratification and taxation continues until just less than half the voters pay all the taxes.

Note that this is a problem of democracy, not communism or capitalism. I would conclude that pure communism or pure capitalism requires some sort of minority rule.

These thoughts are very similar to the book Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. Another great story that I recommend is the Stone Cutter, an ancient Chinese parable about being happy with who you are.

Looks like this beast doesn't fit on all credit-card sized CDs. Now I'm just downloading Sysadm

Perhaps you are thinking of the Canterbury Tales? Not the best translation, but it's there. Be gentle - don't slashdot Project Gutenberg...

Why don't they just read some of the e-books freely available on ibiblio instead? IMHO, very few people are going to tune into this reading of the kernel source after it ceases to be a gimmick.

For your micro distro- Vector Linux

I say support Mandrake because you want them to succeed. Support them because you Like the distro. Your comments point out that you have not checked out what the situation is, not a big surprise coming from a slashdotter.

Not just their heart: Other parts too.

You can check it out by going to the home page http://www.ibiblio.org

You might find it interesting to see the licenses in action.

And you'll probably even win, after you spend a few thousand dollars to defend yourself.

Anybody can sue over anything, and force you to spend a few thousand dollars to defend yourself. Because,

That's the way it works in practice.

The intentional mistakes are put there as fingerprints to show it was *their* page you imaged.

The problem is, the intentional mistakes are there as fingerprints, like fingerprints on a Van Gogh. They may not be easy to notice, but if they are, they will look bad, and people will get annoyed.

What they're concerned about is that someone might print copies of Walden by simply photocopying the pages of "their" book.

Why would they be concerned about that? It would look like crap; if you had a brain, you'd take the text and dump it into a word processor, and get a half decent copy.

Ever actually read a Project Gutenberg title?

Yes - I've actually created a few, like The Lamp and the Bell.

so long as you remove all of their original content and make no claims that it's a Project Gutenberg(tm) text

It's basically a trademake license, with a copyright on the license text. So? No need to fingerprint for that.

PART ONE: Working With Linux
# Introduction
# What Every Linux User Knows
# The Shell
# The X Window System

PART TWO: Files
# Files and Directories
# Sharing Files
# Finding Files
# Managing Files

PART THREE: Text
# Viewing Text
# Text Editing
# Grammar and Reference
# Analyzing Text
# Formatting Text
# Searching Text
# Typesetting and Word Processing
# Fonts

PART FOUR: Images
# Viewing Images
# Editing Images
# Importing Images
# PostScript

PART FIVE: Sound
# Sound Files
# Audio Compact Discs
# Editing Sound

PART SIX: Productivity
# Disk Storage
# Printing
# Cross-Platform Conversions
# Reminders
# Mathematics

PART SEVEN: Networking
# Communications
# Email
# The World Wide Web
# Other Internet Services

I like this book alot: The Linux Cookbook

It's fully available online. Not a step by step guide for newbies, but it's a good read, if you search for help on everyday-issues.

Two spring immediately to mind:

http://www.mutopiaproject.org and http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/music.

A number of early distros can be found on Ibiblio's ftp site.

Or you could get this just for fun.

Instead go for Openbsd, which is dead easy to install, secure and perfect for low-end machines.

If you're dead keen to run Linux, why not go for Basic Linux which I used successfully on a 386 with 8MB.

Cheers,

Dirk

Actually, to show a friend the power of linux, the gentoo live cd with UT2003
leaves more people impressed.

Yes, this is a live CD and yes, you put it in and it boots into UT2003, and yes, you can play over the internet with this. No. no installation required.

Surprise. No one as yet seems to have mentioned ibiblio?

Most of the "Commanders" do this, internally, as well as faking lots of other stuff as local filesystems, making everything work seemlessly between archives, ftp, local files etc. Insanely good for productivity, and the learning curve involves one program instead of five.

Try:

Midnight commander on Linux (often, typing "mc" is enough), windows commander on Windows.

I'm constantly disappointed by peoples utter lack of knowledge about exactly how far back the tradition goes. I'm not a fan of anime, and I've never been one, but even I can see that the roots of anime go back several centuries. To say that they come from manga is only one step in the right direction. Japanese printmakers such as Hokusai and others in the Edo period are the ones that really started the ball rolling.

For the moment I ditched Peanut Linux, and went on with Vector Linux, but so far I didn't get X running (not that I tried very long).

It looks like the texts01.archive.org/dp site is holding up fairly well! If you cannot get through today, though, please check back later. Slashdot effect aside, it's usually quite speedy and has a decent 'net connection. If you want to keep informed of current events, get on one of our mailing lists via (when it's not slashdotted) our subscriptions page.

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Because you asked for it....

Linux Coffee HOWTO

Cost of sixteen multisync monitors of the same size, four PCs, cables, video cards, rack and other miscellaneous equiptment in Pakistan: US$10,000


Cost of mailordering a fucking LCD projector and pointing it at a wall: US$1,300


Cost of pointing out how incredibly fucking stupid this guy is: PRICELESS


Cheers,
President A. Lincoln

I don't want to troll but the Debian community asked the Linux Documentation Project to move the HOWTO's over to the GNU Free Documentation License, ./ article, yet from looking at the Linux Orbit article it appears that the MIDI-HOWTO cannot include any of it's work as there are no indications that this text is opensource.

ALSA, and Linux audio development in general, is making HUGE progress.

Yes, things are still in development, ALSA 0.9 in 2.5 kernel is not meant for wide-scale use, but there are a significant number of very happy Debian users out there and once everything goes stable Linux will be the same ass kicking platform for audio as it is for servers.

The MIDI-HOWTO covers ALSA installation and whilst earlier version were more difficult to install, support for soundcards improves every day making it easier every release.

Phil

Oh, by the way it was the New Kind of Science book, not the Mathematica book that I read ;)

At any rate, I found some cool analysis tools that people should check out as alternatives to Mathematica for analysis and visualization of everything from battlebots to cellular automata. Without further ado:

1. PDL
2. R
3. PGPlot
4. GRASS

PDL is the most directly analagous to Mathematica or Matlab. R is, of course, like S/S+. PGPlot is for visualization. Grass is mostly for geostatistics/GIS. But it's cool enough to throw in the mix.

Anyhow, hope this helps someone out. Go forth and make a battlebot.

Dr Fun