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...in case any other n00bs like myself were wondering.

This post from their interview a while back points to their Clan's site.

I should have asked Tycho and Gabe about Clan Walrus. It was their Quake clan back in the day, of which I was thankful to be a member. If Clan Walrus still exists, Tycho and Gabe are probably the only two left playing.

I ain't afraid to fly, and I ain't afraid of no monkeys either.

um, quite a lot of the really good resources on the net are at people's personal homepages.

for example, this site, which provides all sorts of info to USQwest DSL users.

is it really a good idea to silence the voice of the masses like this?
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Well let me first off state that I am remolding my house to be a total geek house.
I have a my Web site Tetalon that has a link to my Geek House Project page.
The Page will be viewable in any browsers, including Lynx

Basically I have what I am doing to my house, with Tips & Tricks on how to High Tech your house cheap.
I will be adding Mpeg's and Jpeg's soon, as well as all the tech specs you could ever ask for.
Now as far as funding, so far it has been out of my own pocket.
But I am always looking for sponsorship from any company wishing to give me their product in exchange for a link to their web site, and endorsements.
(As long as the product is a good one)

I just started this a few weeks ago, it is going slow for three reasons.

1. I got laid off from MicroAge due to Clueless downsizing.
2. I have been very busy look for a good employer in Arizona, around the Mesa area.
3. Lack of sponsorship.

Check out the page, it will be changing a lot in the next few months, and when the weather cools here, you will see a lot of changes.
Also if you have Ideas; check out the page and then email me, I would love to add a submission page as well..
Maybe even links to other people trying to High Tech their House.

Thanks for reading my post

TeTalon
You are either a part of the problem, or a part of the solution, which are you.

Well let me first off state that I am remolding my house to be a total geek house.
I have a my Web site Tetalon that has a link to my Geek House Project page.
The Page will be viewable in any browsers, including Lynx

Basically I have what I am doing to my house, with Tips & Tricks on how to High Tech your house cheap.
I will be adding Mpeg's and Jpeg's soon, as well as all the tech specs you could ever ask for.
Now as far as funding, so far it has been out of my own pocket.
But I am always looking for sponsorship from any company wishing to give me their product in exchange for a link to their web site, and endorsements.
(As long as the product is a good one)

I just started this a few weeks ago, it is going slow for three reasons.

1. I got laid off from MicroAge due to Clueless downsizing.
2. I have been very busy look for a good employer in Arizona, around the Mesa area.
3. Lack of sponsorship.

Check out the page, it will be changing a lot in the next few months, and when the weather cools here, you will see a lot of changes.
Also if you have Ideas; check out the page and then email me, I would love to add a submission page as well..
Maybe even links to other people trying to High Tech their House.

Thanks for reading my post

TeTalon
You are either a part of the problem, or a part of the solution, which are you.

And This PocketLinux project has been around since 1998! I went so far as to send an email to Transvirtual letting them know that there was a project using PocketLinux long before they were. I also sent an Email to Pawel Wiecek (aka Coven) concerning this. I do host a mirror of this Linux Distro. So I Felt compelled to send some emails on this.

And more than likely this company (Transvirtual) will claim they had it first. And go after the previously mentioned projects that were already using the name and sue them to change the name.

This would be a typical corporate move. - Maybe Ralph Naders Ideas aren't so crazy????

Anarchy RULES!

wish the AS/400 wasn't so hard to learn.

The AS/400 isn't that hard to learn. heck I have tought myself SO much of it it isn't funny. It's like ANY OS you have to 1) RTFM(s) 2) Play with it.

There are a lot of really cool things about it, but I have never seen such a vertical learning curve in my life. You have to understand the whole gestalt behind the system before you can write 'hello, world'.

I am sorry, but the AS/400 is the EASIEST OS I have ever learned. Linux has more of a "vertical learning curve" than the AS/400. The AS/400 has VERY nice Context sensitve help on EVERY screen. If you know a couple programming languages, picking up RPG III, RPG IV and CL aren't to difficult. It is actually harder to learn C/C++ under Linux than it is to learn RPG or CL on the AS/400. I have been programming and doing System administration on AS/400's for a few years now, and have released many "helpful" items for people.

Open source has even spilled over into AS/400 projects. Check out WyattERp it is an Open Source ERP project for the AS/400. There was a nice article about it in the July 2000 issue of Midrange computting. And Linux WILL be comming to the AS/400, IBM has made several mentions to this. Which is a turnaround from their previous position with said "Absolutly NO!" Those of us that have been pushing for Linux on the AS/400 were told this repeatedly by IBM. Seems they have had a change of heart! :^).

Almost everyone I have talked to about their DSL service agrees: use the phone company for the line and a high-end, local ISP for service. I chose to use USWest (the local provider in Minneapolis) to give me the line, and visi as my ISP. They have a great reputation for technical excellence and quality customer service. I have had only one outage, and the ISP called me before I even knew about the outage, just to let me know. I have had several friends who have had severe problems when their ISP is also the phone company. Mostly it amounted to overbilling, but I've also heard about major, long-term outages, outages of some services (POP and SMTP), and a lack of cool services (like the static IP my ISP throws in for free). It may just amount to my experiences, the experiences of those around me, and a general disorganization at USWest, but it seems like the formula works pretty well. I've been told by a couple of people that the nationals (concentric, flashcom) are kind of hard to deal with because they're very large and have to deal with multiple companies to complete service, but I've also heard that Covad rocks.

Try scanning some 35mm prints sometime. You run out of resolution at about 300 dpi

Part of that is that the paper you are scanning does not hold as much information as the film does - here's an interesting comparison page that shows film scans ranging from 2400dpi to 6000dpi (drum scans). They also comapre the same images from digital cameras, 35mm, and 4x5 (large format) cameras.

I think even counting for the enlarged size of the photo, film still has a lot more resolution than you think!

"As for the comment about arcane language, Mathematica's language is about the cleanest that i've seen. It uses a simple underlying list form (Head, Element,... where Head is a function, data type, etc.) and builds on that to support virtually every known mathematical function, notation, programming style, etc. Lest I seem to exuberant keep in mind it's really optimized towards symbolic and numerical computations, so it really doesn't work as well with things that traditional command line tools such as perl can do much better."

Hmmm, seems to me that an open-sourced Mathematica clone could use an open standard for representing this kind of hierarchical data. Though I hesitate to suggest this because I don't want to sound like a lemming, couldn't this stuff be XML-ized?

Maybe the control structures would be too cumbersome to represent in XML, but there's nothing stopping you from embedding some kind of XML-safe language inside a tag that denotes, say, flow-control / decision-tree stuff. I've done stuff like this in the commercial world -- wrote a Scheme variant that was embeddable in XML documents; the XML parser and the language interpreter were both written in Java, and had surprisingly good performance.

This makes a compelling case for using Java, as well... :-)
The LionLad

What The Heck!?!

Here are lots of things that show up... my buddies and I once posted one of our girlfrineds as "One Captive Girl"... things like that don't get pulled until they are pointed out, ours was "offensive" (our sale)

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(The few) people who hadn't heard this before would do well to read the whole thing.

I remember I received this list by email and along with it, a list of excuses parents wrote for their kids after they missed school. I almost died laughing.
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I've posted this before in a previous slashdot article -- but in case anyone missed it. This site has some slides on Barry Caplins FreeBSD@USWest talk at FreeBSDCon.

FreeBSD has been in use in the USWest.net core infrastructure for years. The stability, reliability, performance, and security of the Operating System are major factors for its use. There are additional regulatory requirements that make our ISP environment unique and FreeBSD fits these needs. This presentation will cover the regulatory and technical environment at U S WEST Internet Services. We will discuss how we got to where we are now, where we're going to go tomorrow, and how FreeBSD fits into our big picture.
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this site has the slides accompanying Barry Caplin's FreeBSD@USWest talk to be presented at FreeBSDCon. I found them rather interesting.
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....sick of these stories yet, here's mine.

..here's a link to paper I wrote about a day I decided to install a couple of OSes. Please excuse the rest of the site, revolution in progress.

I wrote a story like the one mentioned here. check it out, but excuse the rest of the the place, its' und^H^H^Hnot done.

Go here

*) In programs more complex than "Hello World" in a window.

*) In my experience. I admit I try to limit my Windows programming experience lest someone recruit me to program in it full time (Shudder.) I am responsible for the maintenance of a Win16 program that downloads fonts to a printer. Some customers want an NT port, so we'll end up rewriting it from scratch and drop Win3.1 support so that we can use a compiler written in this decade. A half-decade ago on OS/2 support, we saw the Win32* API's changing every other week, probably to break WinOS2. My Y2K people tell me Windows 3.1 isn't Y2K compliant anyway.

*) Not AIX, which tends to differ significantly from other UNIX flavors.

And for you naysayers,

*) If it's so compatable why are we going through another iteration of the 95/98 kernel with W2K desktop edition instead of going to the NT kernel? If they're binary compatable or all it takes is a recompile, I wouldn't think that going straight to the NT kernel would be any big deal.

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Greyfox

Greyfox has been a professional programmer since 1989 and has been programming since he got his first computer in 1983.

I agree, US West did not mind Linux for me either. I also opted for self-install, but when it did not work I got to wade through various support groups. One phone menu gave me three MS-Windows choices, so I chose NT so that I'd get a person who at least had an inkling of the capabilities of an OS. [Yes, it was a comm config problem in the CO and not an OS issue]

This was an issue when Digital Research owned DR-DOS. Digital Research "went away" and Novell bought much of their technology, including DR-DOS. As you know, there's no love lost between the boys in Orem and the gang in Redmond.

Novell started the legal rumblings some time ago (circa Win 3.1) when they claimed that Microsoft implemented changes to the code that specifically targeted DR-DOS and would not allow Windows to operate on top of that OS. Legal wheels grind and legal wheels churn. In the meantime, Caldera was created by Big Cheeses at Novell, ostensibly to focus on things like open software, however they also bought DR-DOS...and the pending legal action.

In fact, for quite a while, Caldera was really talking up the legal action...just short of the point of claiming the damages that they sought as an asset.

DR-DOS isn't what it used to be since the market has changed (in fact, the source code is freely available), but Caldera still perceives that Microsoft has damaged them. Maybe they have and maybe they haven't, but this is one of those cases that just cries, "Publicity!" It did when DR had it, it did when Novell had it, and it still does for Caldera. Unfortunately, as time has gone by, the stakes have gone down. The relevance of the case is still timely due to the "issues" that MS has with the DOJ, but not because of any particular demand for the software. While there are still a few people who use it, I think that it's safe to say that it's a dead horse. (apologies to the die hard DR-DOS users.)

HardCase

Sander...you didn't really think that NARAS was more concerned about music than money, did you? Considering the cash cow that is the Grammies, I don't find it at all unusual that they pulled the ad.

That being said, I think it's too bad that the folks who are attempting to keep their stranglehold on the music industry are continuing this futile fight against alternative music formats. I'm reminded of the battles that the movie industry fought against television. Or that radio fought against television. Or that the record companies fought against cassette tapes.

Perhaps a better analogy might be that of trade unions. At one time there was a pressing need for them because workers were being ridden roughshod by their employers. Unions helped them by...well, you know the story. But today, the need isn't really there and unions are a vestige of a time gone by.

The same thing is true of the recording industry. It's about time that this stranglehold on recording media loosened and these vestiges of a time gone by were dumped.

But I think that as long as control and power can be centralized in the hands of one administrative body, you'll see actions like those of Grammy Magazine. They know who butters their bread.

HardCase