I am currently trying to work out PCMCIA support for rh 7.2 on a millenia transport. We have 4 desktops 133=mhz=300 running various daemons, as well as providing heat for our cold feet.
I have many older systems (8088's thru p1's) that absolutely require floppy's for I/O. Even the later ones with CD-ROMs still require drivers to read the CD, and that means a floppy.
CD-Rs and even RWs do not have the functionality that a non-sequentially rewritable floppy holds, so my sneakernet still runs on HD/DD 3.5".
Also, what happened to all those 'floppy killers' from a few years back? I'd pay to have a bootable 100 meg floppy, but can't find them anymore...
Public Schools. Most have a hazardous waste room (filled with other obsolete goodies as well, such as A/V monitors and tape decks) that have loads of outdated equipment. Sadly, they ship it off to omewhere to be hazardous landfill.
Ask the technology dept. head, most are glad to be rid of em', and you could pick up some nice PS/2s in the process (your on your own for microbus 10bT cards, though).
It's now called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act. This bill is being championed as a way to promote digital television. That's where the problems lie...
Under this guise (sp), the bill will be more easily welcomed in congress, so I'd say this is where to start. I'd say point out the fact that this will render useless all EXISTING digital televisions (as the new digital network will of course have to be built with strong, federal copy protection), not only failing to bring digital TV into homes, but killing it all together, or setting it back decades!
I'm not a law expert, but if a senator who is not technologically aware, then they may see this bill as nothing more than a way to protect TV, and think of us techs as nothing more than a small, whiny interest group worried about side effects of an otherwise 'ok' bill.
Good Luck, save us nerds!
Well I'd like to vote for a 3rd party...
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When Jessie Ventura won the election in minnesota, he confessed his key to victory: grab a lil' media attention right when everyone is so sick of the candidates that they'd rather not vote than pick either of the two.
Just a thought for those of you who are looking for a break in your world domination schemes...
The most important point nobody here seems to be mentioning is the fact that a remote shutdown system could be easily cracked and used maliciously. Someone is going to find out how to trigger the kill switch, and then we'd have a streak of DoS attacks that could cripple entire corperations. CEOs don't care about user inconveniences, but they'll think twice before allowing their entire corprate infrastructure to be knocked offline by some 12-year-old script kiddie.
The US Army installs governors in it's tanks to prevent road damage (tanks eat up road like nothing). It's ripped out at the nearest motorpool. I'd imagine (and hope) that if the UK government went so far as to actually do this, a similar situation would happen. SOMEBODY's bound to make a workaround, if nothing else.
Every one of my friends loves linux. It's stable, fast, secure, and looks better than any GUI. Problems is, you still can't play Rogue Spear on it. Or Falcon 4. Or Homeworld. Or almost any current game, save Quake 3 Arena. This is the only thing that makes me keep 500 megs of VFAT on my system.
Oh, and don't make me bring up WINE. It just doesn't cut it, ok?
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I am currently trying to work out PCMCIA support for rh 7.2 on a millenia transport. We have 4 desktops 133=mhz=300 running various daemons, as well as providing heat for our cold feet.
I have many older systems (8088's thru p1's) that absolutely require floppy's for I/O. Even the later ones with CD-ROMs still require drivers to read the CD, and that means a floppy.
CD-Rs and even RWs do not have the functionality that a non-sequentially rewritable floppy holds, so my sneakernet still runs on HD/DD 3.5".
Also, what happened to all those 'floppy killers' from a few years back? I'd pay to have a bootable 100 meg floppy, but can't find them anymore...
Public Schools. Most have a hazardous waste room (filled with other obsolete goodies as well, such as A/V monitors and tape decks) that have loads of outdated equipment. Sadly, they ship it off to omewhere to be hazardous landfill.
Ask the technology dept. head, most are glad to be rid of em', and you could pick up some nice PS/2s in the process (your on your own for microbus 10bT cards, though).
It's now called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act. This bill is being championed as a way to promote digital television. That's where the problems lie...
Under this guise (sp), the bill will be more easily welcomed in congress, so I'd say this is where to start. I'd say point out the fact that this will render useless all EXISTING digital televisions (as the new digital network will of course have to be built with strong, federal copy protection), not only failing to bring digital TV into homes, but killing it all together, or setting it back decades!
I'm not a law expert, but if a senator who is not technologically aware, then they may see this bill as nothing more than a way to protect TV, and think of us techs as nothing more than a small, whiny interest group worried about side effects of an otherwise 'ok' bill.
Good Luck, save us nerds!
When Jessie Ventura won the election in minnesota, he confessed his key to victory: grab a lil' media attention right when everyone is so sick of the candidates that they'd rather not vote than pick either of the two.
Just a thought for those of you who are looking for a break in your world domination schemes...
The most important point nobody here seems to be mentioning is the fact that a remote shutdown system could be easily cracked and used maliciously. Someone is going to find out how to trigger the kill switch, and then we'd have a streak of DoS attacks that could cripple entire corperations. CEOs don't care about user inconveniences, but they'll think twice before allowing their entire corprate infrastructure to be knocked offline by some 12-year-old script kiddie.
The US Army installs governors in it's tanks to prevent road damage (tanks eat up road like nothing). It's ripped out at the nearest motorpool. I'd imagine (and hope) that if the UK government went so far as to actually do this, a similar situation would happen. SOMEBODY's bound to make a workaround, if nothing else.
Every one of my friends loves linux. It's stable, fast, secure, and looks better than any GUI. Problems is, you still can't play Rogue Spear on it. Or Falcon 4. Or Homeworld. Or almost any current game, save Quake 3 Arena. This is the only thing that makes me keep 500 megs of VFAT on my system.
Oh, and don't make me bring up WINE. It just doesn't cut it, ok?