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You don't take photovoltaic cells to the moon, you build a factory on the moon and make the cells there. Just about everything you need is there: water, minerals and even some things that you don't find that often on Earth.

This is probably as far beyond our immediate capability as getting to the moon was to people of the 1940's - just a matter of time, money and will. The latter seems to be the most lacking.

In 1992, people had a tendancy to largely ignore speed limits. It was found that neither raising nor lowering posted speed limits had any significant effect on actual vehicle speed or accident rate.

In 1994, in New York, only 4% of motorists were found to be traveling within posted 55mph speed limits.

If most people speed, but it is only a factor in 30 percent of fatal crashes, then it is statistically obvious that driving faster is safer.

In 1992, people had a tendancy to largely ignore speed limits. It was found that neither raising nor lowering posted speed limits had any significant effect on actual vehicle speed or accident rate.

In 1994, in New York, only 4% of motorists were found to be traveling within posted 55mph speed limits.

If most people speed, but it is only a factor in 30 percent of fatal crashes, then it is statistically obvious that driving faster is safer.

...from the Beowulf Howto,

" Beowulf is a multi computer architecture which can be used for parallel computations. It is a system which usually consists of one server node, and one or more client nodes connected together via Ethernet or some other network."

That pretty much explains it. read the howto for lots of fun information.

Dr. Fun about the colors of personal computers.

Evidently, the something-for-everyone model epitomized by Heathkit and the Amateur Scientist column can't compete anymore. Specialized sources and Internet newsgroups cater to each skill level. But much of the mentoring and serendipity that the diverse community of amateurs offered has been lost. It is hard not to regret its passing.

What an idiot. We have just largely stopped using magazines in light of the Internet.

I've learned almost everything I know about electronics from the Internet.

Look at these books! Look at them! All Free, as in Liberty AND No-Cost. These are some of the very best books I have found on electronics, on-line or off. Forest Mims the Third, eat your heart out.

Do we want to talk about mentoring and serendipity?

It was out of frustration that I compiled Lessons in Electric Circuits from notes and ideas I had been collecting for years. My primary goal was to put readable, high-quality information into the hands of my students, but a secondary goal was to make the book as affordable as possible. Over the years, I had experienced the benefit of receiving free instruction and encouragement in my pursuit of learning electronics from many people, including several teachers of mine in elementary and high school. Their selfless assistance played a key role in my own studies, paving the way for a rewarding career and fascinating hobby. If only I could extend the gift of their help by giving to other people what they gave to me . . .

There you go.

If anything, I'd say that amateur science and learning and construction is more popular now, because it is more accessible.

It just doesn't take the form of magazine articles.

Evidently, the something-for-everyone model epitomized by Heathkit and the Amateur Scientist column can't compete anymore. Specialized sources and Internet newsgroups cater to each skill level. But much of the mentoring and serendipity that the diverse community of amateurs offered has been lost. It is hard not to regret its passing.

What an idiot. We have just largely stopped using magazines in light of the Internet.

I've learned almost everything I know about electronics from the Internet.

Look at these books! Look at them! All Free, as in Liberty AND No-Cost. These are some of the very best books I have found on electronics, on-line or off. Forest Mims the Third, eat your heart out.

Do we want to talk about mentoring and serendipity?

It was out of frustration that I compiled Lessons in Electric Circuits from notes and ideas I had been collecting for years. My primary goal was to put readable, high-quality information into the hands of my students, but a secondary goal was to make the book as affordable as possible. Over the years, I had experienced the benefit of receiving free instruction and encouragement in my pursuit of learning electronics from many people, including several teachers of mine in elementary and high school. Their selfless assistance played a key role in my own studies, paving the way for a rewarding career and fascinating hobby. If only I could extend the gift of their help by giving to other people what they gave to me . . .

There you go.

If anything, I'd say that amateur science and learning and construction is more popular now, because it is more accessible.

It just doesn't take the form of magazine articles.

That's an interesting thought - where do they send the royalty cheques for the Bible?

Here's a working link, http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/greek-2/msg 00137.html.

You can download everything you need to build a gentoo without net access from their download tree. I could be wrong with portage, but you could just rsync than and then tar cjvf /root/portage.tar.bz2 -C / usr/portage and you have a ready-to-build tree.

Yes Johnny, it really is that simple.

Peanut linux is a small distro. It's pretty cool, you download a think a 150MB .bz2 file which contains the basics. It doesn't have the features of Gentoo it's just linux.

If play around with these small linuxes on old machines like 386 laptops, you will quickly find that squeezing everything on to the disk space is not the problem, the problem is having enough ram. Most of those distros won't run on two megs of ram because they try to make an initial ram disk bigger than that and thus fail right off the bat. However, small-linux will boot a 386 with 2 megs of ram, so if you want something tiny, it might be a good place to start.

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200006/df2000 0602.jpg

Over at IBiblio, they've launched a plan for free community recording studios, under the condition that the recordings be public domain. I'm not convinced that this is the way to do it; I think maybe some sort of GPL for music might be better.

Over at IBiblio, they've launched a plan for free community recording studios, under the condition that the recordings be public domain. I'm not convinced that this is the way to do it; I think maybe some sort of GPL for music might be better.

This cartoon is about Knuth

If the injustice is part of the neccessary friction of the machine of government let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth; certainly it will wear out. If the injustice has a string, or a pulley, or a spring, or a crank exclusively for its own use, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will be worse than the evil. But if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.

Personally, I'd go with Peanut.

Czech Republic

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/ Mandrake/iso/
France

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/ linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Lyon)

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ (Nancy)
Germany

ftp:// ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandrake/iso / (Esslingen)
Iceland

ftp://ftp.mbl.is/pub/mandrake/ iso/ (Reykjavik)
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror. garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/iso/ (Bologna)

http://bo.mirror. garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/iso/ (Bologna)
Slovakia

ftp://hq. alert.sk/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/iso/

ftp://spirit. profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/iso/ (Bratislava)
Taiwan

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/ pub/mandrake/iso/
United States

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/m andrake/Mandrake/iso/ (North Carolina)

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/iso/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.math. utah.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/iso/ (Utah)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl. gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/ (Illinois)

Details
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Self extracting archive - run unzip on it to extract it linux.

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Self extracting archive - run unzip on it to extract it linux.

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Self extracting archive - run unzip on it to extract it linux.

• http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/
  
• http://ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/
  
• http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
  
• http://www.xandros.net/
  
• http://www.gentoo.org/
  
• Smoothwall ...
  
• http://www.ipcop.org/
  
• http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/snf
  
• http://www.freesco.org/
  
• http://www.coyotelinux.com/
  
• http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
  
• http://www.gnatbox.com/Pages/gblight.html
  (this ones based on BSD IIRC)
  
• http://www.bbiagent.com/
  
• http://www.clarkconnect.org/"
  
• http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/
  

So, of course, can X11 users thanks to xodo (link to archive on ibiblio, couldn't find an official home page. There are RPM and DEB varities, too, plus a special version for KDE. So, if you're into this sort of thing, there's no need to switch to The Other OS just to get your dose. ;^)

So, of course, can X11 users thanks to xodo (link to archive on ibiblio, couldn't find an official home page. There are RPM and DEB varities, too, plus a special version for KDE. So, if you're into this sort of thing, there's no need to switch to The Other OS just to get your dose. ;^)

BTW, the Holmes quote is from Common Law. Thank God for Project Gutenberg.

For those interested in reading the original, the text is available online here (ASCII text) or here (same, zip'ed), courtesy of project Gutenberg.

Consider this the ultimate spoiler.

For those interested in reading the original, the text is available online here (ASCII text) or here (same, zip'ed), courtesy of project Gutenberg.

Consider this the ultimate spoiler.

My tree parser took six lines in C. Doncha just luve recursion! Some guys took over a day to write their parser in fortran.

If you want to learn more about recursive Fortran programming, check here or here.

If your classmates were using a strictly conforming Fortran 77 compiler (like GNU), that might explain why their parsers were more difficult to write (ie, without recursion). Most 77 compilers (and anything recent) will let you write recursion just fine.

Doctor Fun has been published on the Internet since 19930924. For that matter Where The Buffalo Roam has been on the 'net via USENET since 1991, but Dr. Fun was Internet-only. ;)

I'd advise reading the USAF bombing survey for a more educated idea of what large-scale city devastation entails. Your post, above, came off as rather ignorant.

Yeah, you should be able to find everything at the FreeDOS archive at ibiblio. Also, you can download the latest distribution, and there is a Source disk set right there with the source code.

Hope that helps! -jh

First of all, there is already a "modified" RedHat out there, Peanut linux, which can be installed on more minimal systems. Second, Slackware and Debian, which use simple text based installers, can already be installed on machines with as little as 8 megabytes of RAM, and they aren't cut-down mini-distros, but real distributions which include lots of packages and can scale to almost any task. RedHat, with its resource-guzzling graphical installer and auto-configuration systems (which are absolutely useless and border on counter-productive on old machines with lots of non-PnP ISA hardware), is, with the possible exception of Mandrake, the worst possible basis I can think of for a minimalist linux distribution.

When I saw this, what came to mind was my memory of having installed Slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.30 IIRC) on a 386SX with 4 megabytes of RAM about 4 years ago. And I ran X on it (sort of)! To think that their target is "32mb or less", when the system requirements of quite a bit of the base software have not changed a lot, is ridiculous. There is a need for something that can install on machines with really low memory...I don't think the trick i used to get slackware 3 on my 386 (not mounting the initial root FS on a ramdisk, creating a swap partition and adding it immediately, using two floppy drives) would work with current versions of slackware. But this isn't it, not even close.

There are a couple ways to get a modern Linux on your old 386 right now, although getting Red Hat to de-bloat would be very cool. I still use 6.2 on some old laptops because it was a nice, stable release, sorta modern apps, and works fine with 16 megs of RAM. But also look at Vector Linux, which has a 386 & 486 optimized distro with a 2.4 kernel & lots of small recent apps. You can get it on CD too. And also Small Linux, which will run in console mode in as little as 2 megs of RAM, and will do X-Windows with just 4 megs of RAM. The Small Linux kernel is only 2.0, though. But it's very cool to give someone an old 386 laptop with a Web browser, basically restored to some minimal usefulness.

By the way, if you check out Small Linux, you may notice that the home page talks about a .75 release. But you'll find a .81 release available for download. It's definitely improving (my first try with this distro & it just wouldn't even work, but now it actually runs if you're able to follow the instructions carefully).

Yes the most complex infrastructure in a MMORPG, since....

Habitat although I would agree this is an evolution of the model, with what looks to be much improved graphics ;)

Here is a link to a copy of the 1946 report. You can just search for the string there. It is the very last line before the "conclusion" section.

Who here remembers Sun's YP - excuse, me NIS?

"NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP) but the name Yellow Pages(tm) is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecom plc and may not be used without permission."

Why bother. A vertical split-screen image for left and right eye is all you need. Theres nothing stopping conventional television from broadcasting stereoscopic images. Get two camcorders, tape em together at the sides and videotape stuff in your house. Edit the video so that the left camera's image displays on the right-hand side of the screen, and vice versa. Bingo, 3D video.

See what I mean?

Cheers,

What are you talking about. X is the 22nd letter of the alphabet. Just take a look Here

While I've never been addicted to it, I've seen several people here at the helpdesk get addicted to the little arcade space shooter known as xkobo. The addiction only ends when they pass level 50.

tarball here

For general programmer-level stuff, a good place to start would be Eric Raymond's Software Release Practice HOWTO. The GNU coding standards and maintainer information provide guidance for practices on the GNU project; although other open source projects will not follow all of these practices, they give you a good idea of how things are generally organized. Sourceforge itself has pretty good documentation. There are various guides to sending patches (the diff manual is also good reading for this). There is a book on autoconf. There are several documents on CVS; an interesting one is the CVS best practices HOWTO. It's fairly new (November 20, 2001) and still pretty sketchy, but perhaps it will evolve into a more complete best practices guide (the author is soliciting input, so this is a chance to contribute).

And, of course, nearly every Open Source software package comes with some sort of manual. (This contrasts with proprietary Windows applications, which seem to expect you to buy some sort of proprietary book on the side, in addition to the proprietary application you have already bought.) E.g., the the GCC manual, the GNU Make manual, the Perl manual, the Python tutorial, and so on. Although these are not always ideal for the beginner they will certainly be a useful reference to keep handy.

Another excellent web comic that uses a university to avoid bandwidth expenses is Jorge Cham's PhD.

Of course you can always use notlame, mpg123, sox and other tools to do a variety of other things with mp3s and wavs. For an example of how to do this, take a look at preparing the tracks.

IBM Voice Systems: ViaVoice Software
IBM Voice Systems: IBM ViaVoice speech recognition software lets you use the power of your voice surf the Web, execute online transactions, dictate text and ...
Description: Big Blue's ViaVoice offerings in the desktop continuous speech dictation arena. Competes with Dragon,...
Category: Computers>SpeechTechnology
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IBM Software: IBM ViaVoice for Linux
... natural voice; Correct, edit, and format documents using your voice; ViaVoice Dictation
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... TTS SDK for Linux -- Allows developers to add voice output based on IBM ViaVoice
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Streaming Media World: Rapidtext: Live Voice to Text Services
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I believe this is what you're looking for, and many will probably find something they want here. Since the sunsite.unc.edu days downloading Slack with a 0.99 kernel, these guys have always given me great thruput even on crappy 2400 baud connections.

I believe this is what you're looking for, and many will probably find something they want here. Since the sunsite.unc.edu days downloading Slack with a 0.99 kernel, these guys have always given me great thruput even on crappy 2400 baud connections.

If iBiblio is willing to host Propaganda, i'm sure they're more than willing to host a kernel.org mirror. In my experience, they've been wonderfully good hosts and run a very professional operation. Better still, they aren't hiding alterior motives by hosting free software projects, unlike the two-letter chameleon we've all grown to hate over the past year or two.

As for SourceForge, I wouldnt bother..The company that runs it turned its back on the community that made it's existance even possible. That alone should dissuade anyone. More tangible perhaps would be that the company has only one product (which they cant sell), and only enough cash on hand to last another year at most.

Cheers,

This goes right to the iso but the site is http://distro.ibiblio.org.

Please kindly wait 22 minutes so you do not kill my transfer. Thank you.

Like this.

Norton has nothing to do with Midnight Commander.