Stick a lightweight Linux install on it, probably Slackware, and Plan 9, and I'm good to go. This box is a 10 year old beige box, and it's running Ubuntu fine.
Incidentally, I'm looking at switching to a Thinkpad T30 sometime. Cheapish, a slight step up on the processor and disk space, and portable.
Archive.org might manage to get away with it as they're providing a public service or something, but probably it's mostly the fact that people don't mind that keeps them alive.
This could prove interesting, if only for a bit of clarification on that.
The license agreement she has is of dubious validity, therefore it has no bearing. As others have said, if you try to read the terms, you get taken to a page which asks you if you agree. If you click yes, you get taken to see what you just agreed to, if you click no, you get taken to a page which tells you that you have agreed by being on the site.
IANAL, but I'm not sure she is able to enforce that on a human, much less on a robot, especially without putting any of the conventional warnings to robots up.
Actually, could somebody take the step of writing robots.txt and such into proper rules, not just reccomendations, so this would have absolutely no excuses?
I'm definitely a fan of paper books for general reading, and I'll even extend that to reference books. I just find it easier to skim through a paper book to find something, although I think having an electronic copy of a book on hand when I don't have time for that could be useful.
That's because both of you typoed. Assuming gp's figures are correct, it would add up to 3,772 billion in total, 1.6 billion of which is from the iPod. That make more sense?
The second excerpt he quoted was from the end of the tale of Turambar and Niniel, therefore you've already followed their valour, while the first excerpt adds some background to the weapon used, and you don't already know the backstory there.
Personally, I loved the Silmarillion, and in my opinion it's actually better than LOTR. I will probably buy this new book when it is released, as I hope that it will come out fairly well, without ruining JRR Tolkien's original intent.
That part of it is commenting on the next iteration of the Apple Cinema Display. Approximate quote would be
It's (That is, the pictured display's) successor was a triumph of industrial design. The anodized aluminum material from which it's (That is, the successor's) made has the added advantage of light weight, so it can be tilted with little more than a nudge.
I was under the impression that the point with Portable Firefox was that it could be installed onto a USB drive and run from that, without needing very many rights on the host machine.
But the question is,would you want to use such a machine.
As a matter of fact, yes. I am at the moment.
This Ubuntu box is doing fine with 256mb of PC133 SDRAM.
So sorry Microsoft, but I'm going to be sticking with Linux here. And there's not a chance of me moving to Vista. Why should I, 'nix looks good enough, and does everything I need at least as well, and for free. [/rant]
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Actually, professional publishing will almost always be within about 10 characters of 66, because that's where the eye finds it easiest to read.
There's a reason TeX prefers that output width.
Who said I'm going to be running Windows on it?
Stick a lightweight Linux install on it, probably Slackware, and Plan 9, and I'm good to go. This box is a 10 year old beige box, and it's running Ubuntu fine.
Incidentally, I'm looking at switching to a Thinkpad T30 sometime. Cheapish, a slight step up on the processor and disk space, and portable.
Solid point.
Archive.org might manage to get away with it as they're providing a public service or something, but probably it's mostly the fact that people don't mind that keeps them alive.
This could prove interesting, if only for a bit of clarification on that.
Key point you missed:
The license agreement she has is of dubious validity, therefore it has no bearing. As others have said, if you try to read the terms, you get taken to a page which asks you if you agree. If you click yes, you get taken to see what you just agreed to, if you click no, you get taken to a page which tells you that you have agreed by being on the site.
IANAL, but I'm not sure she is able to enforce that on a human, much less on a robot, especially without putting any of the conventional warnings to robots up.
Actually, could somebody take the step of writing robots.txt and such into proper rules, not just reccomendations, so this would have absolutely no excuses?
I've always said it et-set. Guess I was wrong
Of course I found it easy to read, I program in Lisp.
I'm definitely a fan of paper books for general reading, and I'll even extend that to reference books. I just find it easier to skim through a paper book to find something, although I think having an electronic copy of a book on hand when I don't have time for that could be useful.
Nope, it isn't.
I have a copycat Scrabble set.
That's because both of you typoed. Assuming gp's figures are correct, it would add up to 3,772 billion in total, 1.6 billion of which is from the iPod. That make more sense?
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
k .html. It's used in various universities, including MIT, as the textbook in CS courses.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
According to it's Jargon File entry it's one of the bibles of the Lisp/Scheme world http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/Wizard-Boo
Or in this case, lose $50 on software and hardware sales. Maybe they should have stuck with their previous business model.
Shouldn't that be:
(= (+ Slashdot Python) zealotry)
If we're talking about Lisp?
The second excerpt he quoted was from the end of the tale of Turambar and Niniel, therefore you've already followed their valour, while the first excerpt adds some background to the weapon used, and you don't already know the backstory there. Personally, I loved the Silmarillion, and in my opinion it's actually better than LOTR. I will probably buy this new book when it is released, as I hope that it will come out fairly well, without ruining JRR Tolkien's original intent.
That part of it is commenting on the next iteration of the Apple Cinema Display. Approximate quote would be
(clarification in parentheses is my addition)
I was under the impression that the point with Portable Firefox was that it could be installed onto a USB drive and run from that, without needing very many rights on the host machine.
But, this is only what's happened for me. YMMV.
As a matter of fact, yes. I am at the moment.
This Ubuntu box is doing fine with 256mb of PC133 SDRAM.
So sorry Microsoft, but I'm going to be sticking with Linux here. And there's not a chance of me moving to Vista. Why should I, 'nix looks good enough, and does everything I need at least as well, and for free. [/rant]
For the rest of the computer. At least that's what I determined from taking the back off of my 17" iMac G5. YMMV