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Afraid not - 56k modem to modem would mean there's more than one analog to digital conversion, which wasn't possible with v.90.

Can't find a recent article on this but here's a start: http://www.wt.net/56k.shtml

You could get 56k, (FCC limit of 53k in the US) one direction only. Here's a better article on how skipping 1 analog/digital gets you a speed boost. (ie: ISP data to you at 56k, but data to ISP at 33.6k) http://www.99main.com/support/how56kworks.shtml

A slick tool is Gkrellm, which has real-time graphical status for memory/temperatures/net/disk. Can be run in "server mode" (so no need for X on the monitored server). Lots of plugins are also available, from SNMP to ping tools. The project is well alive. Don't know if it floats your boat, though, as you're mentioning huge networks.

Feel ready to own one or many Tux stickers?

I'm using gkrellm to monitor the health of remote servers. It provides a visual indication of all of their vital statistics (disk and netowrk I/O, temperature, memory, swap.

Sometimes, a visual indicator will give you hints about problems or activity patterns that are hard to see in a log file....

such as Gkrellm, which is available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Net BSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows... if you install gtk, gdk, glib, etc.

But a cheap hardware solution *is* pretty cool.

Now, if you could hook one of those Duracell indicators up to your date for the evening...

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Timex Sinclair 1000

Here is a link to one man's page about the computer

My brother and I wrote a book store program on it that would keep track of inventory and allow you to ring up "sales". I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time.

Found one for ya. Here you go.

gkrellm (see bottom of that page), for example, has (at least for the name) been inspired by the movie Forbidden Planet.

Do you know any other SF-inspired software that /.ers use a lot?

It's skinnable, configurable and supports plugins. I've seen it working on Solaris and Linux, YMMV. It's here (with screenshots).

feh
gtk-gnutella
lopster
dc_gui w/ dctc
mtr
gkrellm (Not sure how well this would work...do OS X systems have a compatible /proc?)
xmms

> the new ASUS motherboads have COP : CPU Overheating Protection, which switches off the machine when temp goes baloony.

I have an ASUS board a bit over a year old. I do intensive number crunching on my home machines, with some jobs running over a week of continual 100% CPU time. Being AMDs, they tend to run kind of hot, too, so sometimes I put a room fan blowing along the wall behind the boxes' exhausts.

At any rate, one warm day I had the A/C set kind of high and the room fan aimed elsewhere, and one of the boxes overheated while I was out to lunch. But the board halted it for me. When I came home it was making a horrible alarm sound, and unfortunately I had to reboot because I couldn't figure out how to make it restart after the alarm, but at least I didn't get a fire, nor even any overheat damage to the CPU.

BTW, Linuxers/BSDers who have temperature sensors on their motherboards may want to run lm_sensors and a display such as gkrellm in order to keep an eye on your system temperatures when you are around.

The Toshiba 5105 uses the Synaptics cPad, a touch sensitive LCD screen as a touchpad mouse. I haven't been able to find any information needed to create an open source device driver, though Synaptics web site does document the Windows API. I've wanted to use this device for various information displays in Linux (like Gkrellm, but so far requests to Toshiba and Syntaptics have been fruitless. :-(

Copy OSX's theme. That is by far the nicest desktop I've ever seen. Of course, doing that isn't exactly putting a "Linux" stamp on a desktop. There are things that can be changed on the OSX desktop (the transparent dock, for example) and added (GKrellM).

I have no doubt the artists at themes.org could come up with a similarly elegant theme.

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> I think you should ammend your "many people have burnt or cracked their chips" with "people who do not follow AMD's cooling recommendations or improperly try to force a non-socket A cooler on to their chips".

Do you know where I can find AMD's temperature recommendations? I just built my first system with sensors on the motherboard, and I got the lm_sensors stuff working with the 2.4.3 kernel Saturday, so now I can watch the temperature on my desktop with gkrellm. But I don't know what I'm looking at. It usually hovers around 50C, but sometimes climbs as high as 57C when I've run an all-night number crunching job.

At what point do I start worrying?

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You're using MH folders and you say can't read it from a shell? I thought this was the point of using MH :-). Get NMH and read stuff from the command line to your heart's content. That's the only way I read mail now.

For more information, man nmh and look at the manpages for each program, or better yet, read the ORA book on the subject. It's very helpful.

Quick starter guide though:

• folders - list your mail folders. Use -r to show subfolders. Folders are referred to with the syntax +foldername. The folder can be specified with most (if not all) commands at any time to explicitly say which folder you want to look at.
• scan - scan the current folder for a list of messages. If you set up procmail to store messages in a sequence (such as unseen), you can say scan unseen to see new messages. See the ORA book for more info on this.
• show - show a given message.
• refile - move a message to another folder.
• rmm - delete a message.

Messages are referred to by number. There are plenty of other commands that do other interesting things (such as pick which lets you query the current mailbox with regexps on a per-component behavior), and every aspect can be customized (see again the ORA book).

The coolest thing is that because these are all shell commands, they can be scripted to do complex things your "conventional" mail client never could. As an added benefit, since they're not a monolithic program, there's no resident size.

Finally, if you want a nice monitor, I hacked MH-style mailbox support into Sjoerd Simon's Mailwatch plugin which you can use with gkrellm. (If you're in the console, use flists to show new mail.)

Have fun. :-)

unless of course they faked the whole thing (not unlikely, where can I get those interesting dockapps? I don't think they exist)

It looks like gkrellm, not any dockapps.

Well, you can look at Dave Cutler's fan club - it's not quite the same, though. A bit scary, in fact.

This comment contains exactly one lame Beowulf joke.