You must be unclear on how UIUC classes are. The first programming class CS majors take is tought on UNIX (Intro to CS, Java, on Solaris and Linux). The second class they take is tought on UNIX (Data Structures, C++, on Solaris).
In fact I can't really think of any required CS classes here that teach Windows software.
I don't doubt that some other schools have become hopelessly entrenched in Microsoft crap in their CS curriculum. I'm quite glad that this campus has escaped that for the time being.
I agree, it's feasible to run OS X on a beige g3, with a few upgrades to make it a resonable machine. I did this myself for quite a while. The most important one for that particular box, imho, is the video card. A Rage Pro just doesn't cut it, period. Find yourself at least a Rage 128 or Rage 128 pro; they are cheap on the resale market. You can spend a whole lot on a Radeon or GeForce (remember it has to be a PCI one), but I am not sure that the benefits are worth it on this machine. Then again I didn't try it, so you migh disagree. Next, you want ram. At least ram is cheap; but watch out because Beige G3s need SHORT dimms. I went through a bunch of hand-me-down dimms that were a few millimeters too tall to fit in mine. The tower case may be different, but the desktop certainly needs the short ones.
Next... hard drive! The drive that came with that thing is DOG SLOW by today's standards. I myself was lucky enough to come across an Atto Ultra160 PCI card for my Beige G3. That coupled with a set of three 9gb IBM SCSI drives (7200rpm ultra2 drives) made a *huge* performance difference. Unfortunately a Beige G3 cannot boot to a striped software RAID device (that honor is reserved for G4s and newer, not even the B&W G3s can do it). I made do by putting my OS on one drive and my apps and scratch space on a striped raid. Way fast. Now... that said, I wouldn't be surprised if a brand new 7200rpm IDE drive (like those nifty new 8MB cache ones from Maxtor and WD) wouldn't perform just as well, if not better, than my rig. I wouldn't subject anyone else to trying to run LVD SCSI cabling all over the inside of that box, either.
Other caveats for the Beige G3: The video capture/TV tuner personality card is useless in OS X. At one point an Apple developer released some sample code that made it work, but that was quite a while ago during the time or 10.0.4 or so, and it hasn't been updated since. Oh also, I almost forgot to mention a USB card. Get one if you want a nicer keyboard, but save yourself a headache later and save your ADB keyboard because this machine needs an ADB keyboard in order to do things outside of MacOS (e.g. getting to openfirmware, zapping the PRAM, booting from CD, option-boot, etc).
One last thing is the CPU. Mine got upgraded to a 400mhz G3, which is just what I managed to come up with from spare parts. I overclocked the motherboard to 83mhz*5 and ran the CPU at 415mhz. I wasn't aiming to squeeze more cycles outu of the CPU, but increasing the motherboard's bus speed from 66 to 83 made a noticable difference. Even with a 266mhz CPU, I bet you could run it at 83*3.5 and get 290.5mhz just fine. Every 266mhz G3 I've run into has run stably up to about 300mhz. Go for the bus speed jump, though. If you're thinking of buying a CPU upgrade, don't bother to get one of the 800mhz G4 upgrades for this machine, because I really doubt it could take advantage of it. Lacking a faster motherboard and AGP, an 800mhz or faster CPU would be sitting idle an awful lot waiting on RAM access.
So how much does all this stuff cost?
RAM: 2*256mb modules (careful, get short ones!): $70 or so
80gb 8MB 7200rpm hard drive: $75 or so
Rage 128 Pro PCI card: $35 on eBay
USB Card (probably with firewire, too): $30, and whatever keyboard/mouse you want
CPU upgrade: No idea. Check ebay.
All in all you can get a decent machine for not all that much... for $210 you can get all but the CPU upgrade.
Have fun. Don't spend too much on the thing. If you get past $400, it's probably just time to buy a new machine. Remember how cheap eMacs are - they really are a lot of Mac for the money.
I always hate all these "inaudible" products, because they never seem to be anywhere inaudible. I was at a family member's house a few months ago, and they had one of those pest repelling "inaudible" things in the family room behind the tv. Nobody else seemed bothered by the thing, but it sounded ridiculously loud and annoying to me- in fact all it seemed to accomplish was repelling me from the family room. Maybe I'm just a freak of nature for hearing those frequencies, but sheeesh... Every one of those things I've ever run across has been extremely audible. How about you guys, can you hear them? My family just thinks I'm nuts. (and they are right, but that is another story:)
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/reveng.pdf - Here is the same pdf mentioned above, only on a site that isn't about to get slashdotted (on the same server as the original site, in fact). Have at it!
Not bad. It's an ultra5/360 running Debian with 256mb of ram, btw. I think this pretty much demonstrates that the slashdot effect is all about bandwidth, not the speed of the server.
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I honestly think that it's hyped to be a larger problem than it really is.
Quite frankly, you're right. BUT I think that the real issue you're talking about isn't the overdiagnosis of ADD, but actually the overprescription of Ritalin. I mean really... like half of the kids in my 4th grade class were on Ritalin. Even back then I knew it was ridiculous. For some people, it really is a problem, and it really sucks. I've known many people growing up who supposedly had adhd, and I think that many of them were just morons. However, SOME of them really do have ADD, myself included.
In my case, I wasn't really diagnosed until I was about 20, and at that point I realised how obvious it was all along, and I just hadn't realised what was going on. Anyway, my point is that for the folks who really do have ADD, it can be extremely frustrating to get along as a normal human being - simply because you seem for all the world like a normal human being, except that you can't get a damn thing done when you're supposed to, and at other times you're so productive it's like you are a different person. I've spent 10 years of my life trying to become that "different person" more often, because when I actually start cranking work out, I can work *FAST*. What totally sucks is that I have never figured out how to do it. I've tried ritalin on and off, and it sorta does help, but I can never remember to take the damn thing, and I dislike the side effects - particularly that it affects my creativity. Taking a pill which squashes your creativity _sucks_. I really should try something else I guess, since I've got to make some changes to myself before I go back to school (got kicked out after seven semesters of bouncing between majors and programs looking for something I could do productively).
*sigh* I guess my point is to cut people some slack when they talk about ADD/ADHD being a real thing.
Homework is not supposed to be easy, you are correct. However, I understand where the original poster is coming from, as I myself have the same sort of problem with doing homework (and I've got ADD etc etc). The problem isn't the work, it's the "home" for me, I think. As long as I'm in a classroom I can do alright, kinda- but put my on my own without someone to frown at me if I'm not working and there's no chance of me getting a damn thing done. This might have something to do with why I got kicked out of university after seven semesters - I couldn't pick anything I wanted to study, and I couldn't do well at anything I tried to do. It sucked. I finally got booted out because I was enrolled in the college of Fine Arts, yet I ended up just taking math and CS courses (and doing a halfass job at them, too). I guess art colleges like it when you actually make progress toward an art degree.
Also, part of the original statement was "read the book, you'll understand." Indeed, if you want to get an idea what these "lazy" people are talking about when they say they can't do homework, you should really read Driven to Distraction. I'm about halfway through it right now (it was recommended to me by a psychologist friend of mine) and it is VERY good reading. I'd recommend it for anyone who has to deal with someone who might have ADD, and certainly for anyone who has ADD/ADHD themselves.
Every machine Apple sells as part of their education program comes with AppleCare for the life of the machine.
What? This is bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I really do like Macs, but the above statement is not true. If it was, I'd certainly know about it, as all of the macs I buy (15 or 20 a year) are through the Apple store for education.
That's a really cool idea - and I think it's something that will be possible with the hiptop in the very near future. Danger is currently testing some XMLsync code that will let developers get at their data pretty easily, so custom syncing software ought to be quite possible. A friend of mine has the stuff right now, he says he's working on getting it to work with apple's iSync (not that easy, since Apple hasn't documented how iSync works yet). Anyway, 802.11x or Bluetooth are irrelevant in this device's case since it already has a full-time Internet connection via GPRS.
Oh also, if tmobile decided to sell the sort of data that their users trust them with, they would be in deep shit, since it would not just be demogrpahic information - they've got everything. Email, full address book, aim buddy list, your todo list, calendar, etc. Everything. So... let's hope they are trustworthy.
Well, I suppose it is a very bad thing for anyone who worries about tmobile snooping on them. However, the reason I personally like it (I keep my ultra s33kr3t stuff elsewhere) is because if I accidently drop my hiptop in a toilet, or run it over with a lawnmower, or otherwise destroy it, my data doesn't disappear with it. It's truly great, particularly for someone as scatterbrained as I am - I have lost data many times to PDAs as I never remember to sync them with anything.
You're very close to the problem, but not quite right on. The best explanation for the reason normal non-developers can't have SSH right now (aside from needing an OS update, which is indeed true), is that T-Mobile has to approve everything that goes out to their customers. This is exactly the reason why app distribution will never be as straightforward as it is with PalmOS or PocketPC phones: T-Mobile is scared to death of this thing (well, sorta.) - in particular, the concern is of 3rd party developers writing apps that access the data that hiptops store on t-mobile's servers (every bit of info you put in the hiptop is stored on t-mobile's servers as well as the hiptop. Yes, this is a Good Thing, trust me) - anyway they don't want 3rd party developers screwing things up and creating tech support nightmares for them.
That is indeed a hand scanner. We've got those at the entries to my apartment building, actually. They seem to work pretty well - though I really have no idea what it looks at. It's not palmprint, because it does the scanning on the top of your hand. Something to do with finger lengths or something.
They suck in certain ways though: For one, if you don't have a right hand you're screwed. This has actually been an issue here, there's some guy with his right forearm amputated. I duno what they came up with as a solution for him... maybe the guy at the front desk just recognizes him (not likely, there's a new guy there every other day it seems). Also.... what if I have a bandaid on my finger? Sometimes it still works, sometimes not. Kinda annoying. I guess that would be the same problem with a thumb scanner, but still... annoying. Just gimme a key or a proxcard or something. On the upside, there's no keys for the average idiot college student to lose, and this avoids the issue of having your apartment key also be the building key. In that situation when some dork loses their key they (ostensibly) have to rekey the entire building to ensure security. I duno if anyone ever actually does that, however. So uhh.... yeah, mod me up and stuff.
I've got other options, but I use NIS. The catch (there is always a catch) is that my NIS does not contain ANY password hashes, because I use Kerberos to contain those. It works well, and it's nice and simple. The future plan is to migrate to LDAP of course, and get rid of all my NFS mounts all over everywhere and implement AFS, but for now, NIS + Krb5 works great.
Sorry to interrupt you tirade, but has it occurred to you that overclocking probably also voids the warranty regardless of what heatsink you're using? Just a thought, you know...
There's a reason not to do this on OSX "workstation" edition - there's a bit of a performance hit. A definitely noticable one. The feature is enabled and visable in OS X Server because server users are much more willing to take that performance hit to gain reliability. Furthermore, OS X Server's kernel has been tuned in such a way as to minimize the performance hit from Journaling, and (as I'm told) they just haven't done that to the normal version of OS X yet.
That said, I have journaling enabled on my ibook. There's definitely something to be said for rebooting *that* much faster after a crash while you're in the field.
Globecom Jukebox is definitely cool, I ran it for a while a few years ago. Another neat project is Tunez, developed mostly by some friends of mine at school. It's not quite as mature as GCjukebox, but it's getting there, and it's very featureful. Multi-user support with several different voting systems, database-driven backend, all done in PHP with a little perl. Very flexible, and it should run just fine on Freebsd, as there is nothing platform specific at all. We develop on Debian, and in the office of my local ACM chapter we've got a big fat 80gb tunez box that many people use on a daily basis. (legal? I doubt it. It's also not publically available, so we're relatively safe)
Same here. I have 2.4.20 running on a SparcStation 20 (SMP even, dual sm71), and it makes an excellent firewall all decked out with its 6 ethernets (onboard, a 10mbit+scsi card, and a QFE). I've got an Ultra1 waiting to take over in case this falls over dead, but that's another story.
Anyway, for whatever reason Debian doesn't provide a prebuilt kernel for sun4m, but it was easy enough to build myself.
You fools never think about the reversed situations.
AOL isn't a monopoly. GM isn't a monopoly. Sony isn't a monopoly. Apple isn't a monopoly. Linux isn't a monopoly.
If Linux WAS a monopoly (which, btw, makes no sense at all, given that Linux doesn't represent a single entity as does MS), we would probably all hate it too, and rally behind one of the underdogs. Perhaps at that point we wouldn't mind the.NET framework so much. Did you ever consider that?
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You must be unclear on how UIUC classes are. The first programming class CS majors take is tought on UNIX (Intro to CS, Java, on Solaris and Linux). The second class they take is tought on UNIX (Data Structures, C++, on Solaris).
In fact I can't really think of any required CS classes here that teach Windows software.
I don't doubt that some other schools have become hopelessly entrenched in Microsoft crap in their CS curriculum. I'm quite glad that this campus has escaped that for the time being.
I agree, it's feasible to run OS X on a beige g3, with a few upgrades to make it a resonable machine. I did this myself for quite a while. The most important one for that particular box, imho, is the video card. A Rage Pro just doesn't cut it, period. Find yourself at least a Rage 128 or Rage 128 pro; they are cheap on the resale market. You can spend a whole lot on a Radeon or GeForce (remember it has to be a PCI one), but I am not sure that the benefits are worth it on this machine. Then again I didn't try it, so you migh disagree. Next, you want ram. At least ram is cheap; but watch out because Beige G3s need SHORT dimms. I went through a bunch of hand-me-down dimms that were a few millimeters too tall to fit in mine. The tower case may be different, but the desktop certainly needs the short ones.
Next... hard drive! The drive that came with that thing is DOG SLOW by today's standards. I myself was lucky enough to come across an Atto Ultra160 PCI card for my Beige G3. That coupled with a set of three 9gb IBM SCSI drives (7200rpm ultra2 drives) made a *huge* performance difference. Unfortunately a Beige G3 cannot boot to a striped software RAID device (that honor is reserved for G4s and newer, not even the B&W G3s can do it). I made do by putting my OS on one drive and my apps and scratch space on a striped raid. Way fast. Now... that said, I wouldn't be surprised if a brand new 7200rpm IDE drive (like those nifty new 8MB cache ones from Maxtor and WD) wouldn't perform just as well, if not better, than my rig. I wouldn't subject anyone else to trying to run LVD SCSI cabling all over the inside of that box, either.
Other caveats for the Beige G3: The video capture/TV tuner personality card is useless in OS X. At one point an Apple developer released some sample code that made it work, but that was quite a while ago during the time or 10.0.4 or so, and it hasn't been updated since. Oh also, I almost forgot to mention a USB card. Get one if you want a nicer keyboard, but save yourself a headache later and save your ADB keyboard because this machine needs an ADB keyboard in order to do things outside of MacOS (e.g. getting to openfirmware, zapping the PRAM, booting from CD, option-boot, etc).
One last thing is the CPU. Mine got upgraded to a 400mhz G3, which is just what I managed to come up with from spare parts. I overclocked the motherboard to 83mhz*5 and ran the CPU at 415mhz. I wasn't aiming to squeeze more cycles outu of the CPU, but increasing the motherboard's bus speed from 66 to 83 made a noticable difference. Even with a 266mhz CPU, I bet you could run it at 83*3.5 and get 290.5mhz just fine. Every 266mhz G3 I've run into has run stably up to about 300mhz. Go for the bus speed jump, though. If you're thinking of buying a CPU upgrade, don't bother to get one of the 800mhz G4 upgrades for this machine, because I really doubt it could take advantage of it. Lacking a faster motherboard and AGP, an 800mhz or faster CPU would be sitting idle an awful lot waiting on RAM access.
So how much does all this stuff cost?
- RAM: 2*256mb modules (careful, get short ones!): $70 or so
- 80gb 8MB 7200rpm hard drive: $75 or so
- Rage 128 Pro PCI card: $35 on eBay
- USB Card (probably with firewire, too): $30, and whatever keyboard/mouse you want
- CPU upgrade: No idea. Check ebay.
All in all you can get a decent machine for not all that much... for $210 you can get all but the CPU upgrade.Oh, here's some links, too:
Instructions for overclocking a Beige G3
Sonnet's upgrades chips for Beige G3's
Make fuck, not kill!
:)
(an old George Carlin joke if you haven't heard this before
They do that in 5.0 also. I think it's pretty funny.
I always hate all these "inaudible" products, because they never seem to be anywhere inaudible. I was at a family member's house a few months ago, and they had one of those pest repelling "inaudible" things in the family room behind the tv. Nobody else seemed bothered by the thing, but it sounded ridiculously loud and annoying to me- in fact all it seemed to accomplish was repelling me from the family room. Maybe I'm just a freak of nature for hearing those frequencies, but sheeesh... Every one of those things I've ever run across has been extremely audible. How about you guys, can you hear them? My family just thinks I'm nuts. (and they are right, but that is another story :)
Yes: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/reveng.pdf
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/reveng.pdf - Here is the same pdf mentioned above, only on a site that isn't about to get slashdotted (on the same server as the original site, in fact). Have at it!
/me takes a bow
That's my 404 page :)
Thanks, but no need - we've got boatloads of bandwidth at uiuc, and the web server is hardly noticing:
[staffin@winston staffin]$ uptime
21:20:19 up 79 days, 18:17, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.27, 0.32
Not bad. It's an ultra5/360 running Debian with 256mb of ram, btw. I think this pretty much demonstrates that the slashdot effect is all about bandwidth, not the speed of the server.
Quite frankly, you're right.
BUT
I think that the real issue you're talking about isn't the overdiagnosis of ADD, but actually the overprescription of Ritalin. I mean really... like half of the kids in my 4th grade class were on Ritalin. Even back then I knew it was ridiculous. For some people, it really is a problem, and it really sucks. I've known many people growing up who supposedly had adhd, and I think that many of them were just morons. However, SOME of them really do have ADD, myself included.
In my case, I wasn't really diagnosed until I was about 20, and at that point I realised how obvious it was all along, and I just hadn't realised what was going on. Anyway, my point is that for the folks who really do have ADD, it can be extremely frustrating to get along as a normal human being - simply because you seem for all the world like a normal human being, except that you can't get a damn thing done when you're supposed to, and at other times you're so productive it's like you are a different person. I've spent 10 years of my life trying to become that "different person" more often, because when I actually start cranking work out, I can work *FAST*. What totally sucks is that I have never figured out how to do it. I've tried ritalin on and off, and it sorta does help, but I can never remember to take the damn thing, and I dislike the side effects - particularly that it affects my creativity. Taking a pill which squashes your creativity _sucks_. I really should try something else I guess, since I've got to make some changes to myself before I go back to school (got kicked out after seven semesters of bouncing between majors and programs looking for something I could do productively).
*sigh* I guess my point is to cut people some slack when they talk about ADD/ADHD being a real thing.
Homework is not supposed to be easy, you are correct. However, I understand where the original poster is coming from, as I myself have the same sort of problem with doing homework (and I've got ADD etc etc). The problem isn't the work, it's the "home" for me, I think. As long as I'm in a classroom I can do alright, kinda- but put my on my own without someone to frown at me if I'm not working and there's no chance of me getting a damn thing done. This might have something to do with why I got kicked out of university after seven semesters - I couldn't pick anything I wanted to study, and I couldn't do well at anything I tried to do. It sucked. I finally got booted out because I was enrolled in the college of Fine Arts, yet I ended up just taking math and CS courses (and doing a halfass job at them, too). I guess art colleges like it when you actually make progress toward an art degree.
Also, part of the original statement was "read the book, you'll understand." Indeed, if you want to get an idea what these "lazy" people are talking about when they say they can't do homework, you should really read Driven to Distraction. I'm about halfway through it right now (it was recommended to me by a psychologist friend of mine) and it is VERY good reading. I'd recommend it for anyone who has to deal with someone who might have ADD, and certainly for anyone who has ADD/ADHD themselves.
Every machine Apple sells as part of their education program comes with AppleCare for the life of the machine.
What? This is bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I really do like Macs, but the above statement is not true. If it was, I'd certainly know about it, as all of the macs I buy (15 or 20 a year) are through the Apple store for education.
I've got a copy of OSF/1 somewhere, I think. (hope it's not gone.) If you're interested, you can have it, as I no longer have an Alpha.
That's a really cool idea - and I think it's something that will be possible with the hiptop in the very near future. Danger is currently testing some XMLsync code that will let developers get at their data pretty easily, so custom syncing software ought to be quite possible. A friend of mine has the stuff right now, he says he's working on getting it to work with apple's iSync (not that easy, since Apple hasn't documented how iSync works yet). Anyway, 802.11x or Bluetooth are irrelevant in this device's case since it already has a full-time Internet connection via GPRS.
Oh also, if tmobile decided to sell the sort of data that their users trust them with, they would be in deep shit, since it would not just be demogrpahic information - they've got everything. Email, full address book, aim buddy list, your todo list, calendar, etc. Everything. So... let's hope they are trustworthy.
Well, I suppose it is a very bad thing for anyone who worries about tmobile snooping on them. However, the reason I personally like it (I keep my ultra s33kr3t stuff elsewhere) is because if I accidently drop my hiptop in a toilet, or run it over with a lawnmower, or otherwise destroy it, my data doesn't disappear with it. It's truly great, particularly for someone as scatterbrained as I am - I have lost data many times to PDAs as I never remember to sync them with anything.
You're very close to the problem, but not quite right on. The best explanation for the reason normal non-developers can't have SSH right now (aside from needing an OS update, which is indeed true), is that T-Mobile has to approve everything that goes out to their customers. This is exactly the reason why app distribution will never be as straightforward as it is with PalmOS or PocketPC phones: T-Mobile is scared to death of this thing (well, sorta.) - in particular, the concern is of 3rd party developers writing apps that access the data that hiptops store on t-mobile's servers (every bit of info you put in the hiptop is stored on t-mobile's servers as well as the hiptop. Yes, this is a Good Thing, trust me) - anyway they don't want 3rd party developers screwing things up and creating tech support nightmares for them.
That is indeed a hand scanner. We've got those at the entries to my apartment building, actually. They seem to work pretty well - though I really have no idea what it looks at. It's not palmprint, because it does the scanning on the top of your hand. Something to do with finger lengths or something.
They suck in certain ways though: For one, if you don't have a right hand you're screwed. This has actually been an issue here, there's some guy with his right forearm amputated. I duno what they came up with as a solution for him... maybe the guy at the front desk just recognizes him (not likely, there's a new guy there every other day it seems). Also.... what if I have a bandaid on my finger? Sometimes it still works, sometimes not. Kinda annoying. I guess that would be the same problem with a thumb scanner, but still... annoying. Just gimme a key or a proxcard or something. On the upside, there's no keys for the average idiot college student to lose, and this avoids the issue of having your apartment key also be the building key. In that situation when some dork loses their key they (ostensibly) have to rekey the entire building to ensure security. I duno if anyone ever actually does that, however. So uhh.... yeah, mod me up and stuff.
I've got other options, but I use NIS. The catch (there is always a catch) is that my NIS does not contain ANY password hashes, because I use Kerberos to contain those. It works well, and it's nice and simple. The future plan is to migrate to LDAP of course, and get rid of all my NFS mounts all over everywhere and implement AFS, but for now, NIS + Krb5 works great.
Option-o BØRK!
I'm sure you'll wonder how you lived without that one.
Sorry to interrupt you tirade, but has it occurred to you that overclocking probably also voids the warranty regardless of what heatsink you're using? Just a thought, you know...
There's a reason not to do this on OSX "workstation" edition - there's a bit of a performance hit. A definitely noticable one. The feature is enabled and visable in OS X Server because server users are much more willing to take that performance hit to gain reliability. Furthermore, OS X Server's kernel has been tuned in such a way as to minimize the performance hit from Journaling, and (as I'm told) they just haven't done that to the normal version of OS X yet.
That said, I have journaling enabled on my ibook. There's definitely something to be said for rebooting *that* much faster after a crash while you're in the field.
Globecom Jukebox is definitely cool, I ran it for a while a few years ago. Another neat project is Tunez, developed mostly by some friends of mine at school. It's not quite as mature as GCjukebox, but it's getting there, and it's very featureful. Multi-user support with several different voting systems, database-driven backend, all done in PHP with a little perl. Very flexible, and it should run just fine on Freebsd, as there is nothing platform specific at all. We develop on Debian, and in the office of my local ACM chapter we've got a big fat 80gb tunez box that many people use on a daily basis. (legal? I doubt it. It's also not publically available, so we're relatively safe)
Same here. I have 2.4.20 running on a SparcStation 20 (SMP even, dual sm71), and it makes an excellent firewall all decked out with its 6 ethernets (onboard, a 10mbit+scsi card, and a QFE). I've got an Ultra1 waiting to take over in case this falls over dead, but that's another story.
Anyway, for whatever reason Debian doesn't provide a prebuilt kernel for sun4m, but it was easy enough to build myself.
I've got a full mirror of all the videos here: WHEEEEE
You fools never think about the reversed situations.
AOL isn't a monopoly. GM isn't a monopoly. Sony isn't a monopoly. Apple isn't a monopoly. Linux isn't a monopoly.
If Linux WAS a monopoly (which, btw, makes no sense at all, given that Linux doesn't represent a single entity as does MS), we would probably all hate it too, and rally behind one of the underdogs. Perhaps at that point we wouldn't mind the .NET framework so much. Did you ever consider that?