Do you realize how _easy_ it is too mobilize troops? The right amount of money into the right pockets in mexico would allow for amassing of troops. It is really not that far away, just an ocean, in the era of ICBM's. You export say 100,000 troops a day, again, not that many on something the size of a B-52, only made to house men for a 12hr flight. (assuming they take the long way) So in a few days, they have 500,000 troops ready to be an invasion force. Now add the other implements of war that dont need to be transported. ICBM's, fighters, etc. If they were able to build an army (read: hitler did it) w/o anyone noticing, mobilize troops, and do prelim air raids, we would be caught relativly off guard. We have an awsome war machine, which is known for turn around time, but they have sheer numbers to work with. You send 300 peons vs 5 warriors and the peons will win, hands down. We might be able to maintain a 25:1 kill ratio (dont underestimate military training in the US, namly special forces, seals, marines, etc), but eventually the ratio will come back to haunt us. They have alot of able bodied bullet stoppers.
What a shallow response, heh. I'm an american, and true, we made be a super-power, but when it all comes down to it, we probably could not take a full scale invasion by China if they were to train the working class able bodied men for combat. If they were to ally with other communist countries they would have an awsome force to be reckoned with. Remember, if we pull out our nukes, we piss off most of the world, including Russia (unless they decide to back us). You would suddenly get draft cards in the mail, and MP beating down the door if you didnt register. Sounds more like us being like communist (for the good of the party) countries, not the other way around. We already have espionage carried out in top-level US military operations by China, seems like a logical next step.
I'll give you that yes, some countries like our style of clothing, etc. But overall, i've been seeing more and more kids around here (US) with anime shirts on and paraphenalia on their backpacks. And the trend is growing. Doesnt seem like them mimicing us, does it.
acually, i have grep for win32, and not a slow cygnus thing. I also have a ton of other little utils from the unix world, ported over to win32 (wget,bzip2,tar,gzip,cat,grep,ls all ring bells). I dont have the link on-hand (i'm at school), but if you email me ill get it from home and send back the link.
This is prolly cause for flame, but Visual Studio 6's "find in files" feature is cool if you want to know where something is, right then. It even accepts regexp's and gives back the entire line it found a match on (weee, context:). I know not everyone has it, or uses windows, but its a handy feature if you happen to have VS6 open.
I would just like to say that i agree with pretty much everything the above author has said. Reference manuals should be online (thus: searchable) as you normally only use those once you have a fair grasp of a programs handling. But instructions for basic use of a program should be in both book form (dont forget small pictures, B&W fine) and online form. I would just like to give a personal preference to HTML, as PDF has never really appealed to me. Just the way it "feels". I do like books though. There is nothing easier then sitting down with the book next to you and learning the basics to a foreighn program. (Like spellchcek.exe:)
except the whole idea is that you do not need to lug batteries around, and that it is renewable w/o having hardline power. If someone was forced to go camping, and _needed_ a laptop, i would much rather lug a battery and a solar cell then 400$ in batteries:)
I dunno how well this would work, but if your friend is your direct neighbor, then maybe call up your telco and ask them to confirm there are no lines running in a section of the lot where you connect to your neighbor, because you and him are going to plant a garden and need to till up the soil to put down topsoil.;-) Then dig a ditch ~1-2ft underground, and drop a PVC pipe and STP Cat5 into it. Watch your grounding though. Run it across into a box on either end with a small active hub in it (2 port, just to boost the signal). I doubt you would get over the 100meter length restriction anyways. 10(0)mbps is better then i've seen over dsl anyways:)
Well, Linux 2.4 has (when its released) a HTTP Daemon in the kernel. How different is that? Its to speed up webserving. Wasn't one of the ideas of putting IE into the kernel (or the shell) making it faster to the user? I know IE4 loads lightning fast, especially if you have the HTML panes in the "my computer" type windows.
Note to CmdrTaco, change title of site from "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." to "News for closed-minded open-source zealots who will attack anything that isnt open source as if Lucifer himself made it".
If you dont find something interesting, then dont read it. If you dont like something, go someplace else. You didnt like windows, so you went to linux (or something open-source like it). You went somewhere else. There are other news sites which have news for geeks. Although most of them dont havbe the nice comment systems for people to abuse and flame though. (yes i know this is a flame) And dont get me on the "lucifer himself" thing. I'm atheist, i dont believe in God, or Satan, or anything.
I would be exactly the kid who would be reported as "different" or "potentially violent". Friends have told me how people i dont know have mentioned that i creep them out or scare them.
That said, my friends and i would also be the ones who would take the school directory, 5$, and a landline telephone and/or school inet connection, 15$, and systematically report everyone in there for something slightly different. I wonder if we could shirts printed up...i would really like a Spy uniform... (too bad this isnt 1984).
Not sure where to stick this, but this is as good a place as any.
The general sentiment seems to be that everyone wants this new exo-skeleton/remote whatever etc. to be the be-all-end-all of robotics. I think the people designing this have one specific goal in mind, and are trying to meet that goal, and have an exoskeleton capable of meeting that goal as best it can. Where a remote solution might lag behind, be too much for that goal, or what not. Would you really want a remote mech to re-arrange your furniture, where it might bump, and break, that vase, or grab it too hard. This is where a exo-skeleton would come in handy. But another, completely different, situation, and thus a completely different solution, would be mine sweeping, radio active cleanup, etc. This would be where the remote mechs would come in handy, it wouldnt matter if they were "slightly clumsy", defined as they dont have the "unlimited" senses and inputs that a human has, plus the ever increasinlgy complex human brain as a driver for these inputs.
Theres one problem with this, security. As soon as you start letting "anyone" dial-in to the TiVo then you have the age old problem of authentication. User names and Passwords work, so long as they are set properly, and the system has a "lock-out" mechanism. But then you would have the problem of people calling up who "are away for a week and forgot there password, could you unlock my system". Sure the company would say "no" but its the fact that the feature would generate tons of extra traffic on there phone system with people trying to figure out how to login to their systems, configure the settings, complaining that they cant download the entire programming schuedual in 2 second when it takes the tivo a few minutes a night phone call.
Now console/terminal style output to a computer would be very cool, i could sit in the other room on the computer computer and program the tivo (we dont own one, yet) to record some wierd special someone on IRC is talking abou
I'm an part-time/full-time (depending on the computer) user of slackware, and i must say this is something i would like to see. When i went from Slack4->7 on this machine it would have been nice to have upgrade-ability. I've only been with slack since midway through 4.0 (i finished downloading it only to have 7.0 released about 2 months later:)
Slackware is the first (and only) distro i have ever used, i love it, keep up the good work (or else:)!
Eraser_ ps: nice handle EraserMe... One of his best songs in my opinion (right after Wish and Happyness in slavery of course)
I've seen this term alot on this page+links on here, what is it? I have never seen it before, but all the dvd-hacks seem to include wether or not it can be deactivated.
Sounds just 1984... (sorry i just read the book for my first time) So first we have australia filtering inet access (including porn), now China filters it for political ideaologys, i wonder what the next country to jump on the filtering bandwagon will be.
The only thing is, how will Patrick and the gang eat? I use Slack daily (that 486 is like a rock, no monitor, no cdrom, no floppy drive (well once i got A and N installed...), just a single NIC and 12 megs of ram) and would like to see it stay on the same track as much as the next guy, but as a seperate company just how will they get revenue? I just bought a Slackware t-shirt (last week, from walnut creek), so who got a share of that money? They Will prolly have to rely on boxed sets of their distribution, which x-cdrom.com will prolly still sell (money is money, even if its a "competing" product...)
I've had the exact same problem. After i made some rc.1-6 directories etc, and got the kernel right (i think), and VMWare acually loaded, when i configured it and pushed power it tryed my fd0, complained about a drive door not being closed (with an OK button, not OK/Cancel), then procedes to lock my system, solid. Have to hit the reset button, and needless to say fsck takes forever on that drive (its a tad large:)
Anyone using slackware7 who has gotten VMWare working who wouldnt mind emailing me some info on how you got it working? (from tar zxf-ing the package, to pushing the power button and it booting:) Or better yet, their Promise ATA66 card working in windows or linux...
I love slackware, its the only distro i've tryed, mainly because i didnt have a supported cd-rom for my 486 (weee, funky sound card cdrom...) so i made a Slackware Stack-O-Floppies (See Also: my sig), and it installed the first time. I though the install was the best thing i'd seen, text based, and doesnt try to config _everything_ at once. That was in the 4.0 days...now i have 4.0 on that machine (no monitor, it runs like a rock) and can SSH to do all the configuration i need to. Then i ordered the Slack7 cd from cheapbytes and got it installed in minutes (using the full no prompting install:) I assumed itwould take half an hour or so (woops, win98) so i called my girlfriend...it was finished before i could even get her on the line:) Slackware all the way baby:)
"Houston we're, uh, having a little trouble breathing up here...getting a little.... light... headed...." "Ahhh jeez" "What?" "KNEW we forgot something... Sorry guys, theres no oxygen tanks on the station, pretty soon you guys are gonna be breathing pure CO2." "..." "Guys?"
I would post what i scored on the test, add it to my user info, sig, and biz card, but "Bess Can't Go There". I can take the quiz, but not view the results. I love filtering software/school. Fortuantly they left port 23 (not 22 though) wide open, so i'm gonna telnet straight outta here and take the test via Lynx. Gotta love campus security.
Well i just took it, 90/200...average geek. I feel special, time to add it to my sig...
I imagine its the whole programming behind it, and the reliability that the RAID needs, that drives up the price. Intel sells the same chip, with the Mhz rating jacked up to a nice round number, for twice the price all the time, so does AMD, motorola, etc. Its all about the reliability and R&D time put into it.
Before I will try messing with the card, I would first like to see it work correctly in my system.
How have people gotten their ATA66 cards working? I plugged mine in, and when i have a drive hooked up to it, and the BIOS installs properly, i get conflicts up the wazoo. Windows refuses to boot, and linux gives up eventually. All my hard drives read and my cd-roms hold solid for a few minutes, then go back to normal, etc. I have all the drivers installed, and the kernel module loaded (the one with stock 2.2.x, 2.3.latest decided it didnt like my HD's superblock, while latest - 2 did, heh).
So anyone have some tricks up their sleave to getting this to work? I emailed tech support 2 weeks before x-mas, and again the beginging of february, have yet to see a reply from them.
That is funny for so many reasons, but im not going to go into it because i am having to copy/paste the space's into this sentance. I love school computers.:) Eraser_
Think of this in a windows sense. There are not many free-as-in-beer C++ compilers out there that are worth anything for windows. VC++6 is nice, but it also costs a pretty penny if you cant buy academic. DJGPP is ok, but it never really appealed to me. Now Borland, a trusted name in compilers, lets us use their latest and greatest c++ compiler for free. So what if they dont give us the code, its now a viable alternative to VC++. If you need a way to "make" your program, write a batch file which will act as a compile and install script for you. Remember, this board is about stuff geeks might find interesting, not all of us use linux as our development environment, or primary OS for that matter.
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Do you realize how _easy_ it is too mobilize troops? The right amount of money into the right pockets in mexico would allow for amassing of troops. It is really not that far away, just an ocean, in the era of ICBM's. You export say 100,000 troops a day, again, not that many on something the size of a B-52, only made to house men for a 12hr flight. (assuming they take the long way) So in a few days, they have 500,000 troops ready to be an invasion force. Now add the other implements of war that dont need to be transported. ICBM's, fighters, etc. If they were able to build an army (read: hitler did it) w/o anyone noticing, mobilize troops, and do prelim air raids, we would be caught relativly off guard. We have an awsome war machine, which is known for turn around time, but they have sheer numbers to work with. You send 300 peons vs 5 warriors and the peons will win, hands down. We might be able to maintain a 25:1 kill ratio (dont underestimate military training in the US, namly special forces, seals, marines, etc), but eventually the ratio will come back to haunt us. They have alot of able bodied bullet stoppers.
What a shallow response, heh. I'm an american, and true, we made be a super-power, but when it all comes down to it, we probably could not take a full scale invasion by China if they were to train the working class able bodied men for combat. If they were to ally with other communist countries they would have an awsome force to be reckoned with. Remember, if we pull out our nukes, we piss off most of the world, including Russia (unless they decide to back us). You would suddenly get draft cards in the mail, and MP beating down the door if you didnt register. Sounds more like us being like communist (for the good of the party) countries, not the other way around. We already have espionage carried out in top-level US military operations by China, seems like a logical next step.
I'll give you that yes, some countries like our style of clothing, etc. But overall, i've been seeing more and more kids around here (US) with anime shirts on and paraphenalia on their backpacks. And the trend is growing. Doesnt seem like them mimicing us, does it.
Eraser_
acually, i have grep for win32, and not a slow cygnus thing. I also have a ton of other little utils from the unix world, ported over to win32 (wget,bzip2,tar,gzip,cat,grep,ls all ring bells). I dont have the link on-hand (i'm at school), but if you email me ill get it from home and send back the link.
This is prolly cause for flame, but Visual Studio 6's "find in files" feature is cool if you want to know where something is, right then. It even accepts regexp's and gives back the entire line it found a match on (weee, context :). I know not everyone has it, or uses windows, but its a handy feature if you happen to have VS6 open.
I would just like to say that i agree with pretty much everything the above author has said. Reference manuals should be online (thus: searchable) as you normally only use those once you have a fair grasp of a programs handling. But instructions for basic use of a program should be in both book form (dont forget small pictures, B&W fine) and online form. I would just like to give a personal preference to HTML, as PDF has never really appealed to me. Just the way it "feels". I do like books though. There is nothing easier then sitting down with the book next to you and learning the basics to a foreighn program. (Like spellchcek.exe :)
except the whole idea is that you do not need to lug batteries around, and that it is renewable w/o having hardline power. If someone was forced to go camping, and _needed_ a laptop, i would much rather lug a battery and a solar cell then 400$ in batteries :)
or grab TweakUI and check the "Disable IE4" box. :)
I dunno how well this would work, but if your friend is your direct neighbor, then maybe call up your telco and ask them to confirm there are no lines running in a section of the lot where you connect to your neighbor, because you and him are going to plant a garden and need to till up the soil to put down topsoil. ;-) Then dig a ditch ~1-2ft underground, and drop a PVC pipe and STP Cat5 into it. Watch your grounding though. Run it across into a box on either end with a small active hub in it (2 port, just to boost the signal). I doubt you would get over the 100meter length restriction anyways. 10(0)mbps is better then i've seen over dsl anyways :)
Well, Linux 2.4 has (when its released) a HTTP Daemon in the kernel. How different is that? Its to speed up webserving. Wasn't one of the ideas of putting IE into the kernel (or the shell) making it faster to the user? I know IE4 loads lightning fast, especially if you have the HTML panes in the "my computer" type windows.
Note to CmdrTaco, change title of site from "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." to "News for closed-minded open-source zealots who will attack anything that isnt open source as if Lucifer himself made it".
If you dont find something interesting, then dont read it. If you dont like something, go someplace else. You didnt like windows, so you went to linux (or something open-source like it). You went somewhere else. There are other news sites which have news for geeks. Although most of them dont havbe the nice comment systems for people to abuse and flame though. (yes i know this is a flame) And dont get me on the "lucifer himself" thing. I'm atheist, i dont believe in God, or Satan, or anything.
Eraser
I would be exactly the kid who would be reported as "different" or "potentially violent". Friends have told me how people i dont know have mentioned that i creep them out or scare them.
That said, my friends and i would also be the ones who would take the school directory, 5$, and a landline telephone and/or school inet connection, 15$, and systematically report everyone in there for something slightly different. I wonder if we could shirts printed up...i would really like a Spy uniform... (too bad this isnt 1984).
Eraser
oh wow, didnt see that...i guess our school filtering software crops the POST at X bytes...there was another paragraph on that...woops...
Not sure where to stick this, but this is as good a place as any.
The general sentiment seems to be that everyone wants this new exo-skeleton/remote whatever etc. to be the be-all-end-all of robotics. I think the people designing this have one specific goal in mind, and are trying to meet that goal, and have an exoskeleton capable of meeting that goal as best it can. Where a remote solution might lag behind, be too much for that goal, or what not. Would you really want a remote mech to re-arrange your furniture, where it might bump, and break, that vase, or grab it too hard. This is where a exo-skeleton would come in handy. But another, completely different, situation, and thus a completely different solution, would be mine sweeping, radio active cleanup, etc. This would be where the remote mechs would come in handy, it wouldnt matter if they were "slightly clumsy", defined as they dont have the "unlimited" senses and inputs that a human has, plus the ever increasinlgy complex human brain as a driver for these inputs.
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Theres one problem with this, security. As soon as you start letting "anyone" dial-in to the TiVo then you have the age old problem of authentication. User names and Passwords work, so long as they are set properly, and the system has a "lock-out" mechanism. But then you would have the problem of people calling up who "are away for a week and forgot there password, could you unlock my system". Sure the company would say "no" but its the fact that the feature would generate tons of extra traffic on there phone system with people trying to figure out how to login to their systems, configure the settings, complaining that they cant download the entire programming schuedual in 2 second when it takes the tivo a few minutes a night phone call.
Now console/terminal style output to a computer would be very cool, i could sit in the other room on the computer computer and program the tivo (we dont own one, yet) to record some wierd special someone on IRC is talking abou
I'm an part-time/full-time (depending on the computer) user of slackware, and i must say this is something i would like to see. When i went from Slack4->7 on this machine it would have been nice to have upgrade-ability. I've only been with slack since midway through 4.0 (i finished downloading it only to have 7.0 released about 2 months later :)
:)!
Slackware is the first (and only) distro i have ever used, i love it, keep up the good work (or else
Eraser_
ps: nice handle EraserMe... One of his best songs in my opinion (right after Wish and Happyness in slavery of course)
and shut down Macrovision
I've seen this term alot on this page+links on here, what is it? I have never seen it before, but all the dvd-hacks seem to include wether or not it can be deactivated.
Thanx,
Eraser_
Sounds just 1984... (sorry i just read the book for my first time) So first we have australia filtering inet access (including porn), now China filters it for political ideaologys, i wonder what the next country to jump on the filtering bandwagon will be.
The only thing is, how will Patrick and the gang eat? I use Slack daily (that 486 is like a rock, no monitor, no cdrom, no floppy drive (well once i got A and N installed...), just a single NIC and 12 megs of ram) and would like to see it stay on the same track as much as the next guy, but as a seperate company just how will they get revenue? I just bought a Slackware t-shirt (last week, from walnut creek), so who got a share of that money? They Will prolly have to rely on boxed sets of their distribution, which x-cdrom.com will prolly still sell (money is money, even if its a "competing" product...)
Eraser_
I've had the exact same problem. After i made some rc.1-6 directories etc, and got the kernel right (i think), and VMWare acually loaded, when i configured it and pushed power it tryed my fd0, complained about a drive door not being closed (with an OK button, not OK/Cancel), then procedes to lock my system, solid. Have to hit the reset button, and needless to say fsck takes forever on that drive (its a tad large :)
:) Or better yet, their Promise ATA66 card working in windows or linux...
:) I assumed itwould take half an hour or so (woops, win98) so i called my girlfriend...it was finished before i could even get her on the line :) Slackware all the way baby :)
Anyone using slackware7 who has gotten VMWare working who wouldnt mind emailing me some info on how you got it working? (from tar zxf-ing the package, to pushing the power button and it booting
I love slackware, its the only distro i've tryed, mainly because i didnt have a supported cd-rom for my 486 (weee, funky sound card cdrom...) so i made a Slackware Stack-O-Floppies (See Also: my sig), and it installed the first time. I though the install was the best thing i'd seen, text based, and doesnt try to config _everything_ at once. That was in the 4.0 days...now i have 4.0 on that machine (no monitor, it runs like a rock) and can SSH to do all the configuration i need to. Then i ordered the Slack7 cd from cheapbytes and got it installed in minutes (using the full no prompting install
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"Houston we're, uh, having a little trouble breathing up here...getting a little.... light... headed...."
"Ahhh jeez"
"What?"
"KNEW we forgot something... Sorry guys, theres no oxygen tanks on the station, pretty soon you guys are gonna be breathing pure CO2."
"..."
"Guys?"
I would post what i scored on the test, add it to my user info, sig, and biz card, but "Bess Can't Go There". I can take the quiz, but not view the results. I love filtering software/school. Fortuantly they left port 23 (not 22 though) wide open, so i'm gonna telnet straight outta here and take the test via Lynx. Gotta love campus security.
Well i just took it, 90/200...average geek. I feel special, time to add it to my sig...
I imagine its the whole programming behind it, and the reliability that the RAID needs, that drives up the price. Intel sells the same chip, with the Mhz rating jacked up to a nice round number, for twice the price all the time, so does AMD, motorola, etc. Its all about the reliability and R&D time put into it.
Before I will try messing with the card, I would first like to see it work correctly in my system.
How have people gotten their ATA66 cards working? I plugged mine in, and when i have a drive hooked up to it, and the BIOS installs properly, i get conflicts up the wazoo. Windows refuses to boot, and linux gives up eventually. All my hard drives read and my cd-roms hold solid for a few minutes, then go back to normal, etc. I have all the drivers installed, and the kernel module loaded (the one with stock 2.2.x, 2.3.latest decided it didnt like my HD's superblock, while latest - 2 did, heh).
So anyone have some tricks up their sleave to getting this to work? I emailed tech support 2 weeks before x-mas, and again the beginging of february, have yet to see a reply from them.
Eraser_
That is funny for so many reasons, but im not going to go into it because i am having to copy/paste the space's into this sentance. I love school computers. :) Eraser_
Think of this in a windows sense. There are not many free-as-in-beer C++ compilers out there that are worth anything for windows. VC++6 is nice, but it also costs a pretty penny if you cant buy academic. DJGPP is ok, but it never really appealed to me. Now Borland, a trusted name in compilers, lets us use their latest and greatest c++ compiler for free. So what if they dont give us the code, its now a viable alternative to VC++. If you need a way to "make" your program, write a batch file which will act as a compile and install script for you. Remember, this board is about stuff geeks might find interesting, not all of us use linux as our development environment, or primary OS for that matter.
Eraser_