Our current president has already done this before 2002 election with a pre-recorded message and dialer calling to all private phones in the country and the message even got a house remix KlausHaus. His party has subsequently lost the election, wonder why...
Oh, the innocent times, within several years, the boom of telemarketing has immunized the populace to the extent this wouldn't raise too many eyebrows today.
perl -pe '$IFS="EOF",s/^.*$//' file_with_lots_of_rubbish
Works like a charm!
Especially useful for dealing with marketing papers, Czech journalism and Slashdot discussions.
Even then, the first man with transplanted heart also died several days after the operation (pneumonia, if I recall correctly), yet it didn't stop heart transplantation from becoming kind of "routine".
That was analogy about the ratio of one's personal share and the vastness of task. It's from Trainspotting, where a guy brings his "getting straight from heroin" friend a bit of hash.
As for Folding, it would be enough to get some better meds, even the current-like without side effects would be great result.
Ah, thanks for clearing this, but it's still just "Yet another convenient and good thing to do". Without getting involved as an active contributor it's still the same to me, especially having just one desktop, which usually shuts down for a night (read morning to afternoon) since I have the box just behind the head. Oh, sweet dorm time, with uptime counting in months instead of days, the monster silently humming hidden behind the desk. Of course, "cool factor" is higher, especially considering the licensing conditions of using Folding's client (and.exe under wine, my ass), but I'll stick with Folding - the goals are similar, just more focused on single task. And if I should join some super-duper grid, I'd like to bring more than desktop with 2000+ Athlon-XP and Radeon 9200 SE. It's not like I have enough cycles to spare for both, there are DVD's to shred through x264/Vorbis, too.
Anyway, good luck, I might check again when I get myself something more powerful.
"Hello, may I interest you in the gospel and source code of our Lord, the Penguin Almighty and Linus Torvalds his only son?"
Linking Linux with Jehova's Witnesses in the minds of non-geek crowd doesn't seem as a way to go. After all, this has been already tested on the geek crowd.
Also this has been here before, the guy called it Linux social experiment (I'd link his article but the domain has expired, so here's a "mirror"), read it, it's really enlightening.
If you want to get all "must get Linux to the masses", try maybe along these lines, even if you don't like it. I know, I know, you'll probably scream and cry that your little world won't...no wait, that's different delusion, this is about "Linux is great and able to win by it's own virtues". I'm not denying it but that works for serious gentlemen in suits who count TCO and pragmatically decide to use Linux or something else but if you're swinging banana for Bloody Fuckin' User, you'll need different approach. Maybe it's not this but it surely ain't standing in front of subway with Watchpenguin. Any small retailer, offering polished preinstalled Linux desktop significantly cheaper than Windows, without making it big thing, just "yeah, 'tis cheaper, sure there's manual inside, for $$$ you can have our tech set up network for you but it's quite automatic, yeah, support's free first month", makes more evangelical work than hundred annoying people in the streets.
Bottom line: Wanna really spread free soft, open source, open formats, whatever? Whenever you buy CD or DVD, or dump TV stream, encode it to.ogg,.mkv,.flac and share it on the net/upload to RapidShare, download some user friendly Linux distros and seed them on torrents under names ending with Enterprise, commercial or some price tag ($300 and more, after all, you do value Linux more than Vista, don't you?). And when you find someone selling preinstalled Linux, buy it, or divert someone that direction.
What's the difference for me as a "cycles donator"? I've looked at the Condor's site and yes, it's computing grid, just like stated in an announcement (which is pretty much everything stated anywhere on linked sites, no actual plans or more concrete purpose), but to me as a guy, who'll just give machine's free time and some affordable money for slightly increased power bill, it's more or less the same unless I get involved in the project itself. Hmmm, am I enough social case to be given shell account just to look at the intestines? After all, I'm part of society, so my benefit might be socially beneficial too (until my medication steps in, this reasoning will look flawless to me).
Anyway, good luck with that, I'm not switching to.rpm based distro (no flame, just sayin'), though I'm still curious about getting million Fedoras put together (Mad Hatter's from the whole world have some serious thread'n'needle work ahead) and hope they'll come with something real. Even if it'd end as mostly bunch of college kids getting some bogomips for their term projects, I believe that there's time or amounts of resources wasted and "wasted".
Just hope they won't spend it on counting numbers of cattle in European Union, that would be true waste.
As for Fedora being "desktop and hobbyist", as stated somewhere above, when I worked as a server room tech, I've seen Fedora servers aplenty, (though Debian dominated, followed by Gentoo, Win 2k3, and then Fedora/Suse/Redhat/otherRPMs or *BSD/Slackware) also as far as I know, it's used in academic environment. Both counts for local conditions (Czech Republic), though.
I'd personally still prefer Folding@Home - climatology is way too complex, with lots of unexplained and speculative stuff. I'm not a scientist, but I'd guess this needs more basic research of underlying principles before brute force number crunching starts yielding useful results (any climatologist here?), not mentioning this project screams "junk science" out loud. And if they want internet community to get interested maybe someone should enlighten them about possibilities of different picture formats than 22 MB.bmp for high resolution histogram of global temperature change.
Folding@Home is useful and brings actual results - you'll get a chance to throw your own pack of frozen pea against Africa's hunger, instead throwing it into wastebasket of "well, it seemed as a way to go then".
As for SETI, well, yes there's a lot of space research fans here and way more Star Trek and Star Wars fans, who just secretly wish aliens to exist because it would be so cool if they existed even if without a chance to get into a hot threesome with Spock and E.T, but let's face it - aliens don't exist. And if they do, hoping to get some proof from SETI is like going to the sea coast once in your life, step on the shore with closed eyes and reach into the water in hope you'll get a grasp of bottle with a message from boat wreck survivor.
If you gonna donate spare cycles, donate them on something useful instead of something cool or guilt relieving.
There are several places I know they still use CRTs
Like my room until this February, when it suddenly died, being replaced by even more shitty (but also more expensive, hence the progress) LCD, which happily showed first dead pixel just on Tuesday. Actually, here in Czech Republic, there's still significant number of people still using CRTs (or Pentium 166/233 notebooks, USB pensticks with 128 MB, comps with read-only CD drive etc., hell my machine still has just CD-RW, but it has floppy drive)
So would somebody be so kind to tag it as "yawn" instead of me? Thanks in advance. Maybe it would be useful to make a section "Holes and malware", put Microsoft in a front of it, create columns for each of its products and just adding crosses (dots, lines, whatever) for every new one. Dangerous ones could be red and clickthrough to Secunia or MS security page.
Most probably it's just checking if address exists, watch the source code, there might be 1 pixel picture, when your browser downloads it, sender is aware he has hit the real mailbox. One sick freemail (well, it's biggest here in Czech lands) even uses something like this for confirmation of delivery, doesn't work with Gmail, hehe. You'd better just send all unsolicited literature to the same place you send their V1agr4 and P3n1s En|4rg3ment friends.
Slashdot Mirror
Our current president has already done this before 2002 election with a pre-recorded message and dialer calling to all private phones in the country and the message even got a house remix KlausHaus. His party has subsequently lost the election, wonder why...
Oh, the innocent times, within several years, the boom of telemarketing has immunized the populace to the extent this wouldn't raise too many eyebrows today.
Well, instead of computer app he should be more concerned with an interesting Zoetrope album by Lustmord, which is much closer to his area of work.
perl -pe '$IFS="EOF",s/^.*$//' file_with_lots_of_rubbish Works like a charm! Especially useful for dealing with marketing papers, Czech journalism and Slashdot discussions.
Wake me up for ODF rootkit.
Even then, the first man with transplanted heart also died several days after the operation (pneumonia, if I recall correctly), yet it didn't stop heart transplantation from becoming kind of "routine".
Nifty, cool and geeky. True, true, but when will finally vigoogle come?
That was analogy about the ratio of one's personal share and the vastness of task. It's from Trainspotting, where a guy brings his "getting straight from heroin" friend a bit of hash.
As for Folding, it would be enough to get some better meds, even the current-like without side effects would be great result.
Ah, thanks for clearing this, but it's still just "Yet another convenient and good thing to do". Without getting involved as an active contributor it's still the same to me, especially having just one desktop, which usually shuts down for a night (read morning to afternoon) since I have the box just behind the head. Oh, sweet dorm time, with uptime counting in months instead of days, the monster silently humming hidden behind the desk. Of course, "cool factor" is higher, especially considering the licensing conditions of using Folding's client (and .exe under wine, my ass), but I'll stick with Folding - the goals are similar, just more focused on single task. And if I should join some super-duper grid, I'd like to bring more than desktop with 2000+ Athlon-XP and Radeon 9200 SE. It's not like I have enough cycles to spare for both, there are DVD's to shred through x264/Vorbis, too.
Anyway, good luck, I might check again when I get myself something more powerful.
"Hello, may I interest you in the gospel and source code of our Lord, the Penguin Almighty and Linus Torvalds his only son?"
.ogg, .mkv, .flac and share it on the net/upload to RapidShare, download some user friendly Linux distros and seed them on torrents under names ending with Enterprise, commercial or some price tag ($300 and more, after all, you do value Linux more than Vista, don't you?). And when you find someone selling preinstalled Linux, buy it, or divert someone that direction.
Linking Linux with Jehova's Witnesses in the minds of non-geek crowd doesn't seem as a way to go. After all, this has been already tested on the geek crowd.
Also this has been here before, the guy called it Linux social experiment (I'd link his article but the domain has expired, so here's a "mirror"), read it, it's really enlightening.
If you want to get all "must get Linux to the masses", try maybe along these lines, even if you don't like it. I know, I know, you'll probably scream and cry that your little world won't...no wait, that's different delusion, this is about "Linux is great and able to win by it's own virtues". I'm not denying it but that works for serious gentlemen in suits who count TCO and pragmatically decide to use Linux or something else but if you're swinging banana for Bloody Fuckin' User, you'll need different approach. Maybe it's not this but it surely ain't standing in front of subway with Watchpenguin. Any small retailer, offering polished preinstalled Linux desktop significantly cheaper than Windows, without making it big thing, just "yeah, 'tis cheaper, sure there's manual inside, for $$$ you can have our tech set up network for you but it's quite automatic, yeah, support's free first month", makes more evangelical work than hundred annoying people in the streets.
Bottom line: Wanna really spread free soft, open source, open formats, whatever? Whenever you buy CD or DVD, or dump TV stream, encode it to
What's the difference for me as a "cycles donator"? I've looked at the Condor's site and yes, it's computing grid, just like stated in an announcement (which is pretty much everything stated anywhere on linked sites, no actual plans or more concrete purpose), but to me as a guy, who'll just give machine's free time and some affordable money for slightly increased power bill, it's more or less the same unless I get involved in the project itself. Hmmm, am I enough social case to be given shell account just to look at the intestines? After all, I'm part of society, so my benefit might be socially beneficial too (until my medication steps in, this reasoning will look flawless to me).
.rpm based distro (no flame, just sayin'), though I'm still curious about getting million Fedoras put together (Mad Hatter's from the whole world have some serious thread'n'needle work ahead) and hope they'll come with something real. Even if it'd end as mostly bunch of college kids getting some bogomips for their term projects, I believe that there's time or amounts of resources wasted and "wasted".
Anyway, good luck with that, I'm not switching to
Just hope they won't spend it on counting numbers of cattle in European Union, that would be true waste.
As for Fedora being "desktop and hobbyist", as stated somewhere above, when I worked as a server room tech, I've seen Fedora servers aplenty, (though Debian dominated, followed by Gentoo, Win 2k3, and then Fedora/Suse/Redhat/otherRPMs or *BSD/Slackware) also as far as I know, it's used in academic environment. Both counts for local conditions (Czech Republic), though.
I'd personally still prefer Folding@Home - climatology is way too complex, with lots of unexplained and speculative stuff. I'm not a scientist, but I'd guess this needs more basic research of underlying principles before brute force number crunching starts yielding useful results (any climatologist here?), not mentioning this project screams "junk science" out loud. And if they want internet community to get interested maybe someone should enlighten them about possibilities of different picture formats than 22 MB .bmp for high resolution histogram of global temperature change.
Folding@Home is useful and brings actual results - you'll get a chance to throw your own pack of frozen pea against Africa's hunger, instead throwing it into wastebasket of "well, it seemed as a way to go then".
As for SETI, well, yes there's a lot of space research fans here and way more Star Trek and Star Wars fans, who just secretly wish aliens to exist because it would be so cool if they existed even if without a chance to get into a hot threesome with Spock and E.T, but let's face it - aliens don't exist. And if they do, hoping to get some proof from SETI is like going to the sea coast once in your life, step on the shore with closed eyes and reach into the water in hope you'll get a grasp of bottle with a message from boat wreck survivor.
If you gonna donate spare cycles, donate them on something useful instead of something cool or guilt relieving.
There are several places I know they still use CRTs
Like my room until this February, when it suddenly died, being replaced by even more shitty (but also more expensive, hence the progress) LCD, which happily showed first dead pixel just on Tuesday.
Actually, here in Czech Republic, there's still significant number of people still using CRTs (or Pentium 166/233 notebooks, USB pensticks with 128 MB, comps with read-only CD drive etc., hell my machine still has just CD-RW, but it has floppy drive)
Sorry, but you gotta choose something different, KFK already stands for Kentucky Fried Kitten: "Everytime you visit us, cook kills a kitten."
So would somebody be so kind to tag it as "yawn" instead of me? Thanks in advance. Maybe it would be useful to make a section "Holes and malware", put Microsoft in a front of it, create columns for each of its products and just adding crosses (dots, lines, whatever) for every new one. Dangerous ones could be red and clickthrough to Secunia or MS security page.
Most probably it's just checking if address exists, watch the source code, there might be 1 pixel picture, when your browser downloads it, sender is aware he has hit the real mailbox. One sick freemail (well, it's biggest here in Czech lands) even uses something like this for confirmation of delivery, doesn't work with Gmail, hehe. You'd better just send all unsolicited literature to the same place you send their V1agr4 and P3n1s En|4rg3ment friends.