I know I'm probably nitpicking, but I honestly don't know. Is a "Final Release Candidate" still considered beta? Or is it typically considered stable enough to use in most distros?
I think Freeboxen is one of the coolest sites around; it just needs some publicity, so thanks,/.
I, for one, have got plenty of hardware that I need to list on their site... I'd much rather see people use old hardware than have it sit around gathering dust. J. Lincoln over at Freeboxen is also a really cool person, in my opinion.
Does anyone know if it's ok to donate old software, or does this violate alla them EULA's?
Would sound waves work better? They can travel very quickly under water, and although it'd be an analog signal, I'm pretty sure you could get more than 56k...
Hence the "in the default install" portion of the phrase...
That said, I've been working with OpenBSD quite a bit, and kind of wondered about FTP myself, until some of the older members of the userbase pointed out that FTP should probably be abandoned in favor of SCP or SFTP. So, there certainly are alternatives...
As for DHCP, I personally hate DHCP; I've never met a DHCP server that played well with others. Plus, as a control freak, it's far easier for me to go in and specify exactly what IP addresses I'd like a particular adapter to be using at any given time...
There is no way of securing a system, if the administrator doesn't know not to install insecure packages, or at least lock them down. You got me there...but for what it is, OpenBSD is pretty tight.
Looks like it's time to update my OpenBSD boxes... well, I still think they do a damn fine job over at OpenBSD.org. And, I'd like to emphasize, I'm a bit more concerned about a remote intrusion than, say, one of my cats 'sploiting chpass to get to my root account. heh.
How can you say that software should be licensed to users, but not content? They are both creations of people or corporations, transmitted in digital format, illegal to distribute, and easy to reproduce digitally. It amounts to proclaiming that the works of programmers are somehow inherently more valuable than the works of musicians, movie directors, composers, and artists.
If you think that circumventing copy protection on movie files is justified, then why does it matter whether or not your copy of Windows 2000 is licensed or not?
It's amusing to me that one of Microsoft's biggest (or possibly just the most vocal) fans on Slashdot, AFCArchvile, is also one of the biggest proponents of pirating their content. Hypocritical? Naaaaahhhh......
Oh, thanks for making me feel great about the $5.00 donation I just sent him, you uncompassionate sop. I was at SA not two days ago and he kept me laughing for about a half an hour.
If Rich (which he obviously is not) wants to set up a *voluntary* donations box where you can donate money to him quickly and easily, because you enjoyed the writing and want to keep the site from going under, that is his imperative.
Who the hell are you to judge him on this? Where is your web site? As if he hasn't already contributed enough of his time and effort into creating a freaking awesome site, now, when he needs your help, he has to contend with jerks who wouldn't bend over to move their own crippled mother off a traintrack without complaining about it.
I recently saw an Apple flat panel display hooked up to one o' them cubist computers at CompUSA (although CompUSA sucks ass I sometimes go there to make fun of the worker bees), and although it was only a 15" screen, it was waaaaaay better than the comparable PC displays for some reason. Higher quality, sharper, and a cooler form factor.
The PC flat panels, and there were 6-7 of them, all looked like shit next to it. I guess the PCC manufacturers think specs are more impressive than a good-looking product... I'm going to hold off on flat panels for now is all I'm saying.
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"I cannot fathom why anyone would want to risk nearly everything they own just to try and make a business that will almost certainly fail soon." - Sips
I was just discussing with my wife the other day how most of the successful robot forms I've seen and tinkered with happened to be based on insect forms. It really sort of gives me the heebie-jeebies, to think that the first cyborg creations are going to be based on spindly, creepy-crawlies... must be getting closer to Halloween.
Except, even keystroke logging can't read an email sent to you... although they could have screen capture software, but come on, you know they don't. The last five jobs I've been at, the management wouldn't have known how to install a keystroke logger if you had whapped them on the ass with a genius stick.
I didn't want to have to do it, but I have waited since Fall 1999 for a frickin' SMP-capable Athlon chipset, and you know what? I'm sick of waiting. I'm ordering a damned Tyan Tiger dual P-III this week or the Microstar 694, and a couple o' brand spanking new (and freaking expensive dammit) P-III 800's, because I am sick of this vaporware crap. Both those boards have SMP, ATA-100, 133 MHz FSB(!), and rock da house, and even if they do use a slightly less stable (VIA) chipset, I just don't give a shit anymore because I've waited, checkbook in hand, for long enough. Dammit.
Also, please note that it is before 10:00 AM on a Sunday and they called me at 11:00 PM last night and asked if I could come in to work today, so I am swearing a whole fuckload more than I normally would. goddamn bitches and ho's
Erm, is it feasible yet to re-assemble pieces from one of the superslim notebooks (i.e. the Sony VAIO 505's or somesuch) and ditch the LCD and extraneous parts, giving one of these little guys a full-on x86 architecture? If not, what about one of the matchbox 486's Slashdot is so keen on running duplicate articles about?
I guess what I'd like to see is a robot that runs a fairly powerful chipset with the possibilities of using a laptop hard drive or flash memory card, that would allow more powerful logic to be used, and had low power consumption. Dream on, right?;-)
Oh, fer chrissakes, I was making a damned joke, referring to Intel's Itanium chip, and I get moderated down as "Offtopic"?!?
From the Slashdot FAQ:."If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny: If you don't have something truly developing to the topic, some humor is welcome. Humor is lacking in our lives and will continue to be promoted. Remember though, what rips your sides out may be completely inane to somebody else."
Moderators 'round these parts have totally lost their sense of humour... *grumble grumble*
Sounds like what you really want is one of these. Now if only we can convince Transmeta to Open Source their hardware designs, just think... we could literally print out the new chips.
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I, for one, have got plenty of hardware that I need to list on their site... I'd much rather see people use old hardware than have it sit around gathering dust. J. Lincoln over at Freeboxen is also a really cool person, in my opinion.
Does anyone know if it's ok to donate old software, or does this violate alla them EULA's?
lol, some would actually say it's probably CPAN that he meant... not that it doesn't get updated frequently or anything. ;-)
Would sound waves work better? They can travel very quickly under water, and although it'd be an analog signal, I'm pretty sure you could get more than 56k...
I wonder what would happen if you flushed an overclocked Celeron down each one all at once?
heehee, I'm going to go with the former, Chuck.
That said, I've been working with OpenBSD quite a bit, and kind of wondered about FTP myself, until some of the older members of the userbase pointed out that FTP should probably be abandoned in favor of SCP or SFTP. So, there certainly are alternatives...
As for DHCP, I personally hate DHCP; I've never met a DHCP server that played well with others. Plus, as a control freak, it's far easier for me to go in and specify exactly what IP addresses I'd like a particular adapter to be using at any given time...
There is no way of securing a system, if the administrator doesn't know not to install insecure packages, or at least lock them down. You got me there...but for what it is, OpenBSD is pretty tight.
Looks like it's time to update my OpenBSD boxes... well, I still think they do a damn fine job over at OpenBSD.org. And, I'd like to emphasize, I'm a bit more concerned about a remote intrusion than, say, one of my cats 'sploiting chpass to get to my root account. heh.
How can you say that software should be licensed to users, but not content? They are both creations of people or corporations, transmitted in digital format, illegal to distribute, and easy to reproduce digitally. It amounts to proclaiming that the works of programmers are somehow inherently more valuable than the works of musicians, movie directors, composers, and artists.
If you think that circumventing copy protection on movie files is justified, then why does it matter whether or not your copy of Windows 2000 is licensed or not?
It's amusing to me that one of Microsoft's biggest (or possibly just the most vocal) fans on Slashdot, AFCArchvile, is also one of the biggest proponents of pirating their content. Hypocritical? Naaaaahhhh......
If Rich (which he obviously is not) wants to set up a *voluntary* donations box where you can donate money to him quickly and easily, because you enjoyed the writing and want to keep the site from going under, that is his imperative.
Who the hell are you to judge him on this? Where is your web site? As if he hasn't already contributed enough of his time and effort into creating a freaking awesome site, now, when he needs your help, he has to contend with jerks who wouldn't bend over to move their own crippled mother off a traintrack without complaining about it.
The PC flat panels, and there were 6-7 of them, all looked like shit next to it. I guess the PCC manufacturers think specs are more impressive than a good-looking product... I'm going to hold off on flat panels for now is all I'm saying.
"Can't win, don't try. Got it!" - Bart Simpson.
I was just discussing with my wife the other day how most of the successful robot forms I've seen and tinkered with happened to be based on insect forms. It really sort of gives me the heebie-jeebies, to think that the first cyborg creations are going to be based on spindly, creepy-crawlies... must be getting closer to Halloween.
Shouldn't that be, "there's a kilosucker born every millesecond"? this is /. after all...
Except, even keystroke logging can't read an email sent to you... although they could have screen capture software, but come on, you know they don't. The last five jobs I've been at, the management wouldn't have known how to install a keystroke logger if you had whapped them on the ass with a genius stick.
Er, I blame the media and violent video games. And Marilyn Manson.
Also, please note that it is before 10:00 AM on a Sunday and they called me at 11:00 PM last night and asked if I could come in to work today, so I am swearing a whole fuckload more than I normally would. goddamn bitches and ho's
I guess what I'd like to see is a robot that runs a fairly powerful chipset with the possibilities of using a laptop hard drive or flash memory card, that would allow more powerful logic to be used, and had low power consumption. Dream on, right? ;-)
From the Slashdot FAQ:."If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny: If you don't have something truly developing to the topic, some humor is welcome. Humor is lacking in our lives and will continue to be promoted. Remember though, what rips your sides out may be completely inane to somebody else."
Moderators 'round these parts have totally lost their sense of humour... *grumble grumble*
Woohoo! Cheap 64-bit computing for everyone! And here I thought I'd have to take out a second mortgage!
Heh, that's highway robbery. I hope your point wasn't how easy/cheap it is to find MCSE's...
heehee just kidding... although you have to admit that for a while "Free Kevin" was pretty much a rallying cry around these parts...
What I'd really like is for Tribes 2 to make it's release date... :-(