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Yes, I love my ABIT IC7-MAX3. Still my main desktop computer at home, although I primarily use my laptop for most things these days, it still makes a great file and print server. Plus, it's got a lot of funky lights: http://bis.midco.net/black/

I've been able to get armedslack up and running on an arm board with 32 meg of ram. It worked quite well. Eventually ended up with debian-arm for production because of specific glibc and kernel versions which were available. I was able to use NFS and ssh on the ARM system and didn't notice any oddities with the networking stack (2.4 kernel). Some sites below where you can get a few of the arm distros I used.

Snapgear
          http://ftp.snapgear.org/pub/

armedslack
          http://www.armedslack.org/

debian
          http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
          http://mirrors.midco.net/debian/pool/main/
          http://mirrors.midco.net/debian/pool/main/
          http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/ins taller-arm/current/images/netwinder/

I've been able to get armedslack up and running on an arm board with 32 meg of ram. It worked quite well. Eventually ended up with debian-arm for production because of specific glibc and kernel versions which were available. I was able to use NFS and ssh on the ARM system and didn't notice any oddities with the networking stack (2.4 kernel). Some sites below where you can get a few of the arm distros I used.

Snapgear
          http://ftp.snapgear.org/pub/

armedslack
          http://www.armedslack.org/

debian
          http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
          http://mirrors.midco.net/debian/pool/main/
          http://mirrors.midco.net/debian/pool/main/
          http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/ins taller-arm/current/images/netwinder/

The best place to listen to this without incurring "any long distance or airtime charges" is http://sio.midco.net/dfranklin/phonedial/index.htm l

You can just paste the string of numbers in and it will speed dial the song for you!

Heee! GF's cat^H^H^H Master, Kirby is the same way - he knows exactly what's going on no matter how subtle you are playing with him. He's always known, too - I've known her (GF) for a couple decades and have known Kirby since he was just a few months old. Like I mentioned in the other post, he's a real ham who knows how to make people laugh. She'll be coming back from her job in MN this summer, and once again we'll have a herd of cats. Of course we're the ones being herded ;-)! [ We've often fantasized about a place big enough and remote enough to have as many cats as we can support; and dogs, and other critters, and, well, I don't have to explain that to you, do I :)

Heh heh! at Dust sitting on your shoes. Bandit attacks my bootlaces when I'm tying them - he doesn't do it when I'm just going outside or down to the local store for a few minutes, but he does when I'm going to work or leaving for a few hours. He just *knows*. He'll literally swarm my feet and wrap himself around my ankles. Stinker. ;-) People who don't regard them as conscious, sensitive just aren't paying attention.

While Pook and I have some games we share, Bandit and I don't, not yet (hmmm...mayhaps the bootlace game). That may be because he's only been here a few months and I have been absolutely swamped at work - not an excuse, tho, not to play with him. He does seem to be settling in very well, tho - he was a badly neglected cat in his previous home (not intentionally, I don't think - got him from a neighbor who just didn't have time to take care of him, being a trucker - poor Bandit was alone for days at a time, and while he was fed well, he was attention starved - I'd often hear him crying next door. I finally asked them if I could take him and they agreed.) He's filled out considerably since then and is on his way to becoming a Cat among cats. Love *does* make a difference; when they came to see him recently, they were amazed at the changes.

Perhaps I've seen more of the comics in the cats because I've spent much more time with my cats? Just a thought; See below...

Pook (the female) likes to play hockey on linoleum floors - bats an object all the way down one way, then all the way another, then back again. I think she also plays defense and goalie at the same time. She hasn't gotten Bandit involved in her antics yet, I think because he tends to get bored and jumps *her* ;-)

Both of them *definitely* know when my days off are; and Pook, at least, knows better than to wake me up early; Bandit seems to think that it's a day for celebration - hey, he'll be home most of the day! Yeehaa!

(only perps sneak around in the dark, eh? :) - Now, cats know this by instinct *grin* so perhaps that's why dogs also understand it - after all, those dastardly felines sneak around in the dark...

My huskie-collie cross I had when I was a kid (Flicka - swedish for 'little girl' - she was the litter runt) didn't have human humor down much - although she was *extremely* protective of me (bit my dad once when he was giving me a well-deserved licking); but as I've mentioned, nearly ever tomcat I've ever known does. Bandit playing to the camera - he didn't start his antics on his back until I opened the camera case.

Agreed about poodles - my grandparents had two until they ended up in the NHome. Both were great at making people laugh. Now I well understand the reasons for not allowing pets in most nursing homes; but I also think it's one of the most dehumanizing things one can do to our elderly...but that's a rant I'll save for elsewhere/when.

Hopefully next year I'll be buying a house on the outskirts in my new town, then I (well, we) will probably visit the local shelter and get a dog or two again. Hard for us, tho, we both have very demanding jobs and simply

Heee! GF's cat^H^H^H Master, Kirby is the same way - he knows exactly what's going on no matter how subtle you are playing with him. He's always known, too - I've known her (GF) for a couple decades and have known Kirby since he was just a few months old. Like I mentioned in the other post, he's a real ham who knows how to make people laugh. She'll be coming back from her job in MN this summer, and once again we'll have a herd of cats. Of course we're the ones being herded ;-)! [ We've often fantasized about a place big enough and remote enough to have as many cats as we can support; and dogs, and other critters, and, well, I don't have to explain that to you, do I :)

Heh heh! at Dust sitting on your shoes. Bandit attacks my bootlaces when I'm tying them - he doesn't do it when I'm just going outside or down to the local store for a few minutes, but he does when I'm going to work or leaving for a few hours. He just *knows*. He'll literally swarm my feet and wrap himself around my ankles. Stinker. ;-) People who don't regard them as conscious, sensitive just aren't paying attention.

While Pook and I have some games we share, Bandit and I don't, not yet (hmmm...mayhaps the bootlace game). That may be because he's only been here a few months and I have been absolutely swamped at work - not an excuse, tho, not to play with him. He does seem to be settling in very well, tho - he was a badly neglected cat in his previous home (not intentionally, I don't think - got him from a neighbor who just didn't have time to take care of him, being a trucker - poor Bandit was alone for days at a time, and while he was fed well, he was attention starved - I'd often hear him crying next door. I finally asked them if I could take him and they agreed.) He's filled out considerably since then and is on his way to becoming a Cat among cats. Love *does* make a difference; when they came to see him recently, they were amazed at the changes.

Perhaps I've seen more of the comics in the cats because I've spent much more time with my cats? Just a thought; See below...

Pook (the female) likes to play hockey on linoleum floors - bats an object all the way down one way, then all the way another, then back again. I think she also plays defense and goalie at the same time. She hasn't gotten Bandit involved in her antics yet, I think because he tends to get bored and jumps *her* ;-)

Both of them *definitely* know when my days off are; and Pook, at least, knows better than to wake me up early; Bandit seems to think that it's a day for celebration - hey, he'll be home most of the day! Yeehaa!

(only perps sneak around in the dark, eh? :) - Now, cats know this by instinct *grin* so perhaps that's why dogs also understand it - after all, those dastardly felines sneak around in the dark...

My huskie-collie cross I had when I was a kid (Flicka - swedish for 'little girl' - she was the litter runt) didn't have human humor down much - although she was *extremely* protective of me (bit my dad once when he was giving me a well-deserved licking); but as I've mentioned, nearly ever tomcat I've ever known does. Bandit playing to the camera - he didn't start his antics on his back until I opened the camera case.

Agreed about poodles - my grandparents had two until they ended up in the NHome. Both were great at making people laugh. Now I well understand the reasons for not allowing pets in most nursing homes; but I also think it's one of the most dehumanizing things one can do to our elderly...but that's a rant I'll save for elsewhere/when.

Hopefully next year I'll be buying a house on the outskirts in my new town, then I (well, we) will probably visit the local shelter and get a dog or two again. Hard for us, tho, we both have very demanding jobs and simply

How many people out there are going to be able to meet the bandwidth requirements? I am on cable through Midco.net,and always thought my internet was pretty fast. However, I'm only getting a 398 kbps rating through real. It seems they need to lower there requirements. Maybe it would be better if they made you wait a period of time before you started viewing it (e.g. 1/2 hour to an hour while it gets first part of movie, then while you're watching gets the rest). Maybe it's just me but it seems like with 600 kbps requirements, that's an insanely small market they're going after.

People have been making maps for hundreds of years, maybe thousands of years.

Hell a Japanese guy with no formal mathematical training was able to figure out how to make very accurate maps (especially considering the poor accuracy of the maps of Europe) using no more than 300 men, several teams of horses, and large sextants and compasses.

Why don't you start up a mapping project on your own and put a subproject idea under the main banner encouraging people to implement whatever harebrained scheme you are talking about. The community will enjoy your work and you will gain notoriety as the guy who opened maps to the world.

Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is /.) -- here it is:

Hmm .. I wonder if the /. lameness filter was designed so that people couldn't post whole mirror lists themselves. Telling me that I don't have enough characters per line. I think I'll just ask the KDE people to create a static fast-serving no-css page full of mirrors for KDE whenever a release happens. That way, at least some amount of trouble would be saved. Goes off to mail KDE team ...

(pulled from KDE Mirror List)

WARNING: VERY BAD FORMATTING to get around the lame lameness filter.

mirrors.isc.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .
mirrors.midco.net. . .mirrors.midco.net. . .ftp.oregonstate.edu. . .kde.oregonstate.edu. . .download.uk.kde.org. . .
download.at.kde.org. . .download.at.kde.org. . .ftp.eu.uu.net. . .ftp.tiscali.nl. . .ftp.du.se. . .
ftp.solnet.ch. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .kde.uk.themoes.org. . .kde.us.themoes.org. . .
ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.gwdg.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .
ftp.uni-kl.de. . .download.au.kde.org. . .ftp.roedu.net. . .ftp.fi.muni.cz. . .ftp.fu-berlin.de. . .
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de. . .sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de. . .filepile.tiscali.de. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .
sunsite.icm.edu.pl. . .sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch. . .ftp.se.kde.org. .

Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is /.) -- here it is:

Hmm .. I wonder if the /. lameness filter was designed so that people couldn't post whole mirror lists themselves. Telling me that I don't have enough characters per line. I think I'll just ask the KDE people to create a static fast-serving no-css page full of mirrors for KDE whenever a release happens. That way, at least some amount of trouble would be saved. Goes off to mail KDE team ...

(pulled from KDE Mirror List)

WARNING: VERY BAD FORMATTING to get around the lame lameness filter.

mirrors.isc.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ibiblio.org. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu. . .
mirrors.midco.net. . .mirrors.midco.net. . .ftp.oregonstate.edu. . .kde.oregonstate.edu. . .download.uk.kde.org. . .
download.at.kde.org. . .download.at.kde.org. . .ftp.eu.uu.net. . .ftp.tiscali.nl. . .ftp.du.se. . .
ftp.solnet.ch. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .ftp.rutgers.edu. . .kde.uk.themoes.org. . .kde.us.themoes.org. . .
ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.de.kde.org. . .ftp.gwdg.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de. . .
ftp.uni-kl.de. . .download.au.kde.org. . .ftp.roedu.net. . .ftp.fi.muni.cz. . .ftp.fu-berlin.de. . .
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de. . .sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de. . .filepile.tiscali.de. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl. . .
sunsite.icm.edu.pl. . .sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch. . .ftp.se.kde.org. .

grep -r " SCO " *

Since the lameness filter won't allow the post...

(See it here)

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