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I don't know why they don't have the demo available on their web site, but there definitely is a demo version of gobeProductive.

You can find it over on Tucows

K12linux.org is a great site for info and their Red Hat Distro. I have meet Eric and Paul a few times, really great people. They have developed quite a following because they are making implimenting a thin client setup really easy.

K12ltsp is based on www.ltsp.org which is in version 3.0 right now. I use this software to set up computer labs in non-profits in and around Portland. We are a NP ourselves) It is gaining maturity, system administration is barely more work than working on a box running programs locally. You need to have DHCP running on the server, TFTP setup, and allow it to serve applications to remote X-Clients, and that is about it.

Here are some links for further reading on what others have done.
umn
olinux
solucorp
askslashdot
gbdirect
tucows
XDM

Comic book readers are a completely different demographic than music listeners. They A) aren't already spoiled by free comics, and B) they already pay big bucks to collect them. Buying a download and then printing it out on your own color printer is a small price to pay compared to what you *would* have paid. And besides...many of us would pay a buck to read the first Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc.

Pop up ads *are* the way to go (until the subscription models work out). The real question is whether or not these places will get smart and not allow those using ad killers (such as Guard-IE.

If everyone used these types of programs, then no one would buy ad space.

If there is one lesson that IT history has taught us again & again, its that security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK. Somewhere along the line, this will be cracked by someone, and then these antivirus companies will be in some hot water.

However, this will be good for companies besides NAI/Symantec, since it might give them an opportunity to appeal to the smaller, security-concerned windows users. Could be a veritable shot in the arm for them. If you are using Windows, might I recommend some Other virus scanners?

Also, not to turn this into an Anti-MS, Pro-Linux rant, but this is a perfect time to make the switch if you haven't already. None of this argument even applies to those running Linux. (except for those who have stock in those companies ;)

I agree. We run a OpenSRS registrar (T3Link) and believe me it is great to have the ability to work with a small enough company that you actually get someone on the phone to help you and still be backed up by the strength of a large company like tucows.

Merry Xmas! The source never dies...

I like opera
But no matter what you say, this [www.tucows.com] is scary

You want an SSL cert on the cheap? Go see the folks over at TuCows.

That's about as cheap as it gets for an SSL cert from a CA with it's root cert in most browsers.

Disclaimer: I work for Entrust.

You want an SSL cert on the cheap? Go see the folks over at TuCows.

That's about as cheap as it gets for an SSL cert from a CA with it's root cert in most browsers.

Disclaimer: I work for Entrust.

Not that I am a huge fan of meetings or anything, but the last thing I want is more annoying handheld technology showing up in meetings.

*pager*
*cellfone*
*palm*


And now a frigging TALKING PALM? Then again...

Eliza + Talking Palm + Male Real Doll = no more meetings ever. Hmm....

Tucows has a new "exciting offer", for software authors. They can now get "new customers", watch "competition's software" and "purchase keywords". Submiting software now means buying one of their "bronze, silver or gold accounts". The more you pay, the more visibility you get.
This totally breaks free software rules.
Have a look at this post .
What authors are now seeing when they want to submit something to Tucows is this page .

According to http://www.heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3, Broadcast 2000 is no longer available from the publishers. But you can still get it at Tucows.

A few people have complained that the process outlined is going to give horrible results. They'd probably be good enough for me, as I have a tin ear. Then again, it is the Backstreet Boys, so the resulting MP3s would still be painful.

I thought everyone was using their handspring as their keys.

IIRC, all CD burners emulate SCSI in the Linux environment. Try the CD Writing HOWTO for more information. It sounds like your burner is behaving normally.


Enigma

I've recently been going thru a cleanup of my >20GB collection, it's been tough. But MP3 Internet Renamer has helped. Try the Tucows page for it if the above link doesn't work. I looked thru several of these apps, this one is the most flexible, bar none.

Come on folks there a plenty of products that can tell you when a file changes... and ALL of them work with Apache. For some of them check our here . Geez, anything to make a buck.

>I remember the first browser I ran (remember when there were dozens to choose from?)

A quick check at: Tucows shows that their are still "dozens" of browsers to choose from. At least on my OS, you are running windows aren't you?

"Pong on my Palm would be great because it's simple, easy and people love to play with these games: Atari is a sort of a fast food in the game genre," says Hurlbut.

This guy is living in a bubble. He should out Tucows for all the PDA pong he can handle. Slapping an official Atari logo on it and charging a few bucks for it (or paying ludicrous airtime charges) doesn't sound like much fun to me. Especially for Pong, which may have been a cutting edge tennis simulation in the 70s but offers a very limited nostalgic appeal these days.

The big issue is the interface, if you've ever played Nokia's Snake games you'll have quickly realised how badly suited current mobile phones are to arcade gaming, this is compounded further by the current WAP standard's lack of support for realtime interactive keypad input - it'd be like playing pong by selecting from an HTML drop-down menu for "move up" "move down" and then clicking a submit button.

For decent arcade gaming on mobile phones, you'd be better advised to look at Sun's J2ME platform, a partnership between Sun, Sega and Motorola has resulted in the iDen phone (release here) which addresses gaming from a lower-level approach than can be acheived with the likes of WML/HDML.

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Let's be fair about it. All you have to do to understand Tucow's position is to read this second proposal/A to the BSD community. It seems reasonable to me, but then again, I'm using Windex Me right now, the mention of which should prevent OpenSource integrists from clicking on that link.

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

• "Yes, BSD has been around a lot longer, but to be honest, it hasn't really come anywhere in the last few years, whereas Linux distributions have gone from being as frightening to install and maintain as FreeBSD (think Slackware 3.0 here) to something as elegant as Conectiva or Mandrake." (I'm better than you are)
• "After reading the FreeBSD Handbook, you attempt the install. Everything seems to go smoothly, but when you boot the system, it hangs. You go in search of help, reading the FAQ How-To sections, but can't figure out where to begin, or what the problem is. So you go on IRC and get flamed for asking for some help. I guess Microsoft just got another Windows 2000 user." (Not everyone is an expert)
• "If FreeBSD wants to believe that they are so good, and so elite, then eventually the system will only be used (and usable) by so few people that it won't really matter. Instead of admitting their faults, they could continue to point the finger at everyone else?s, while ignoring the majority of users. So go ahead, pretend that what you've got is perfect and that nothing needs to change. Watch what happens." (New FreeBSD Core Team)
• "In this [Jordan K. Hubbard's] article, he openly admits to some of the shortcomings of FreeBSD -- particularly its installation process -- and discusses some possible solutions. In my opinion, the future looks bleak." (The future of FreeBSD?)
• "I wouldn't recommend it [OpenBSD] for a desktop machine, though. You have to give up some of the "fluff" to get the security." (The uncrackable OpenBSD)
• "New users should steer clear of OpenBSD." (Open BSD 2.6)
• "At best, NetBSD is a minimal operating system. It seems stable, but configuring it is an adventure every time. That, combined with a lack of applications support, make this an easy candidate to pass over in lieu of more user-friendly Operating Systems." (A review of NetBSD 1.4.2)

see their crap??

In addition to be able to program macros, it can also act as a timer, sending the remote control commands at a preset time (handy for regestering shows off your satellite receiver at preset times, even if your receiver has no builtin timer).

In addition to be able to program macros, it can also act as a timer, sending the remote control commands at a preset time (handy for regestering shows off your satellite receiver at preset times, even if your receiver has no builtin timer).

Not that much more expensive, and you can download a universal remote utility for it. At the same time it also doubles as a game boy, a handheld terminal, and *gasp* an electronic agenda...

Not that much more expensive, and you can download a universal remote utility for it. At the same time it also doubles as a game boy, a handheld terminal, and *gasp* an electronic agenda...

I've only just seen this article, and I have to run, so I'm sure many people have made the point, just don't use NSI, IMO they are money-grabbing tossers, there's plenty of alternatives, go to Tucows and you'll find many resellers of their OpenSRS system, like this crowd. The only domain that is not allowed, is 'example' for use in textbooks, plus the tlds themselves., (not the cctlds mind) Blah, I'm rushing. There is no banning of vulgar words in tlds, just some regitrars who are afraid of getting hassle

"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"

Tuvalu got a TLD, despite the fact that almost no one in the country had internet access. So, they sold the rights to .TV (a company) and used the money to get into the UN... what I'd be interested in knowing is whether other countries might do this? Could this become another way around the domain name crunch- registering in another country's tld (a la what Tucows is advertising with .uk)?

The linux cuecat driver is still listed on tucows.

You may want to go to tucows directly and search for cuecat (that way you'll get a local/faster tucows mirror).

In any case, it is definitely available here: http://fundy.linu x.t ucows.com/conhtml/adnload/78480_19532.html


- jonathan.

The Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989

The linux cuecat driver is still listed on tucows.

You may want to go to tucows directly and search for cuecat (that way you'll get a local/faster tucows mirror).

In any case, it is definitely available here: http://fundy.linu x.t ucows.com/conhtml/adnload/78480_19532.html


- jonathan.

The Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989

There is a driver for USB synching under Linux. Instructions can be found here.

I have to say that I was totally confused for a moment as to why diallowing VPNs would affect your ability to setup more than one computer on the Net. If anyone is interested, Wingate is pretty good proxy software for MS Windows, and Tucows has a nuber of other. *nix of course has internal support for this knid of stuff.

* Linux still has only a tiny number of users compared to Windows/NT, and even fewer of them use it as a Desktop platform

* Linux software has a tradition of being free (beer, speech or otherwise) and some are just plain unwilling to pay for something they consider should be free

* Setting up 3D-Acceleration on XFree86 is still *HARD*, you have to follow long HOWTOs such as the 3DFX-HOWTO and just the sight of it scares off newbies and intermediate users.

--
Kiro

what's wrong with Linux's lvm? From I can tell, It is just as good the HPUX one. I don't know if SCO's implentation has more features/easier UI, but I found that LVM add's just a complexity layer. Unless you need a crazy amounts of space in a single directory, It
is easier to split data at application level to different directories.

You knew it was only a matter of time....

This is a summary of recommendations from this thread and my own, away we go:

Q. Where do I get free naked pictures without exposing my credit cards to those nasty websites?
A. USENET is considered to be among the best source of free pictures. The alt.binaries.* groups are your friend. You'll want to get a binary scanner, for unix/perl try aub for Windows, try looking on Tucows for a "usenet binary scanner". In addition to USENET, www.thehun.net is always an excellent source of free pictures if you do not have access to a usenet server.

Q. Where can I find erotic text files?
A. Again, you can turn to usenet. www.deja.com/usenet is useful for searching for stories. be sure to select "complete" when searching. In addition to usenet itself, a good number of usenet published stories exist on www.asstr.org .

Q. Where can I get free video feeds and the cool stuff?
A. The best way I've seen is through Ded Mazai's page at http://www.99livecam.net/main.htm you're not actually using anyone's password, just hijacked java applets. www.passwordparadise.com was also suggested as a way to get to the premium stuff for free.

Back in April, MandrakeSoft issued a press release saying that they had the most downloaded ISO distribution from TUCOWS. They referenced what was aparently a regular download stats page on TUCOWS http://linux.tucows.com/hotlist.html that the reader would assume is updated on a monthly basis. However, TUCOWS has never updated this page. To me that indicates they created the page at Mandrake's request, or perhaps to court ad revenue from Mandrake.

If TUCOWS is truly unbiased, then they should either archive this page, and/or update it with the most current download statistics.

Also (and I apoligize if this was already addressed in one of the other SlashDot threads on this topic, this is the first I've read) Mandrake is distributed by MacMillan, and this may be a much more common practice in the book publishing industry. There are so many books published each year, that it is unusual to find reviews indicating a particular book is flawed. Except for works by authors who have previously had top ten bestsellers, it seems flawed books typically don't get reviewed. MacMillan may have assumed that if a review was going to be published it would be primarily complementary.

Slightly offtopic, but Tucows opened a BSD section now. Find it here.

Just in case...

You might try the XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO for some help with the Netscape fonts. Although not perfect, it made quite a difference for me.

I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?

Yes, you can do this with a crossover cable and no you don't really need any special software to do this. I use one when I bring my laptop into work and want to hook it to my workstation. You can either make one yourself or buy one at any decent site like hardwarestreet.com.

Sorry I am so clueless.

:-) Try 'Networking for Dummies'. It is a pretty good reference for setting up a Q&D network. The examples are for windows, but the basic principles are the same. I started out with the intent to hook up my PC with my Wife's to share a printer, knew nothing at all about setting up a LAN. That book and those howto's and a lot of tinkering were pretty much all that were required. Now I have my whole house wired, I have a Linux box hooked up to my cable modem doing masquerading for the machines in my house. I set up a server to do SMB file and print sharing and stuff.

Anyway, good luck.

I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?

Yes, you can do this with a crossover cable and no you don't really need any special software to do this. I use one when I bring my laptop into work and want to hook it to my workstation. You can either make one yourself or buy one at any decent site like hardwarestreet.com.

Sorry I am so clueless.

:-) Try 'Networking for Dummies'. It is a pretty good reference for setting up a Q&D network. The examples are for windows, but the basic principles are the same. I started out with the intent to hook up my PC with my Wife's to share a printer, knew nothing at all about setting up a LAN. That book and those howto's and a lot of tinkering were pretty much all that were required. Now I have my whole house wired, I have a Linux box hooked up to my cable modem doing masquerading for the machines in my house. I set up a server to do SMB file and print sharing and stuff.

Anyway, good luck.

I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?

Yes, you can do this with a crossover cable and no you don't really need any special software to do this. I use one when I bring my laptop into work and want to hook it to my workstation. You can either make one yourself or buy one at any decent site like hardwarestreet.com.

Sorry I am so clueless.

:-) Try 'Networking for Dummies'. It is a pretty good reference for setting up a Q&D network. The examples are for windows, but the basic principles are the same. I started out with the intent to hook up my PC with my Wife's to share a printer, knew nothing at all about setting up a LAN. That book and those howto's and a lot of tinkering were pretty much all that were required. Now I have my whole house wired, I have a Linux box hooked up to my cable modem doing masquerading for the machines in my house. I set up a server to do SMB file and print sharing and stuff.

Anyway, good luck.

Actually some freeware products do exist for enabling multiple desktops on Windos. (Tucows lists quite a number of them, including one freeware program: JS Pager Virtual Desktop 2.3).

Actually some freeware products do exist for enabling multiple desktops on Windos. (Tucows lists quite a number of them, including one freeware program: JS Pager Virtual Desktop 2.3).

First, you don't need to worry about compatibility. Gentus is a bit by bit copy of RedHat 6.1, except for some new programs, a modified kernel, and all mentions of "RedHat Linux" changed to "Abit Gentus Linux", and "6.2" changed to "2.0". I have RH 6.1 installed on my system, but only have a Gentus CD, and I use the rpm's without problem.

Second, you do have to worry about compatibility if you have a Quantum ATA66 drive on the ATA66 controller. The system just locks up when the kernel boots, if the kernel has built-in support for ATA66. So, you won't be able to install Gentus. I've heard people with Maxtor drives with this problem also. Maybe it's the firmware on the drives or something... anyway, using a kernel without ATA66 support will work, although you won't have DMA (so performance will be poor).

To install a distro into the drive, you may use the method of changing the controller where the drive is sitting temporarily as suggested, but it is not needed. If the distro you're installing can copy files to /dev/hde or up (where the drives in the ATA66 controller are), you can install directly to it. I've done that with RedHat 6.1, and it worked like a charm. Debian 2.1 (which I prefer) only sees up to /dev/hdd when installing, so, I was out of luck. Potato probably has fixed this, but, it's not out yet.

To make the kernel find the controller, take a look at this part of the Ultra-DMA Mini-HOWTO. It works the same way for the HPT366 controller on the BP6 (or BE6 in my case). However, you may need to specify the IRQ to kernel also (I had), or lockups may occur. Just add the IRQ to the end of the line (in the example, it would read "ide2=a,b+2,IRQ"). Actually, it may not work for IDE3, but it works for IDE2. There's a specific Mini-HOWTO for this controller, but I do not have the URL right here with me.

If someone has some fix for this Quantum drive problem, let me know. Performance is really bad without DMA.

• Palm web browsing is not limited to "text-based web browsing only". Using AvantGo or other browsing software, you can view web pages including graphics, including color images on the Palm IIIc.
• It's true that Palm users "must load" AvantGo "from CD or Internet". But since the whole point of AvantGo is to get content from the internet, why is it so horrible to have to download the program itself? And wouldn't you want to load an upgrade anyway when new versions were released?
• It's simply a ridiculous lie to claim the Palm doesn't have "animated games". Any Palm site like Tucows has a ton of them. And Sim City in color for the Palm IIIc was recently released, for heaven's sake!

The GNU Project was launched in 1984, and although it was intended to create an operating system, I think you would agree that its main contribution to the world was the concept of free (as in speech) software, and the license that goes with it.
However, during the 80's and 90's, thousands of programmers began writing "freeware" code. It seems fair to say that most wrote their programs for no personal gain, and for the good of the end-users. Yet it was never suggested that, since no material gain was involved, they might release their source code and their control over the software. Sites like Tucows continue to this day to distribute free (as in beer) programs like this.
How did FSF's message fail to reach these programmers? Do you feel that it is the fault of the programmers themselves, or do you see it as a failing on your part?