Longtime Mac users might be taken aback by the Mac OS X beta's need for a user name and password when starting up or rebooting the computer -- a remnant of NeXTstep, which was designed for a multi-user, networked environment. Users who forget their user name or password may have to reinstall the OS, sources said.
Heaven forbid they design OS X to be used in a "multi-user, networked environment" - what a terrible thing to do! How will anybody ever figure out how to use the thing?
Urbana-Champaign is right here (well, I'm in Urbana-Champaign anyhow). We don't need no steenking web portal that forces everybody to use IE 4.0 or better to check their email when it's just as easy (easier) and more secure to use pine on a cluster server. Don't like CLI? Ok, use the web frontend. And there are no ads on it, for God's sake. Class discussions online? USENET. Registration? Well, it's annoying, but also automated online.
What's my point? Well, first of all, Universities are some of the last places where the Internet is still more than the web. Another thing too: if there's one big centralized portal, there's one big centralized thing that will break all at once. With one centralized group of people running it. And that's bad. If for some silly reason an email server (for example) goes down, it doesn't take class registration with it, or the newsgroups, or the website, or anything else. In fact, if an email server fails it only takes out _part_ of the mail.
I can see it now... Whoops, campuspipeline.uiuc.edu is broken again, I guess I can't turn in my homework or get my email or get the weather or go to class or...... you get the picture. Not a good thing for 40 thousand some odd students.
Yes, many recent Compaq machines (Presario line) have USB and game ports on the front. The way they do it is with a very proprietary motherboard. In the case of the one I dismantled it looked like a cross between AT and ATX, only stupidly done, and broken. ('broken' meaning 'it corroded because they used shitty components') Ever seen a rusty motherboard? Not a cool thing.
Anyhow. I'm quite sure that a generic ATX case with front ports DOES exist, and I've seen ads for it on the web. I'm searching for it, and if I find it I'll be sure to post the URL.
This is wonderful for some people, particuarly those of us who do not pay for metered electricity (read: anybody who lives in a dormitory or similar living arrangement). Who cares if you rack up your landlord's electric meter if you don't have to pay the difference?
I'll be sticking to distributed.net for now, thank you, but I look foreward to being paid, even a little, for doing nothing!:)
Well, something tells me Apple monitors are pretty much just the same as any other monitor these days... what was it... oh yeah! Perhaps the fact that I'm sitting in front of a Studio Display plugged into my x86 linux box, and it's been working perfectly for several months now. I've also seen many G3/G4's plugged into plain old VGA monitors without a problem.
I have here on my desk a dual PII/350 system on a BX board, and it has uptimes of upwards of a month at a time. No problems. In fact, I even have it _overclocked_ so the chipset is running at 112 MHz, and it _still_ has months of uptime. I can go even further and say that I have at least _three_ other BX SMP systems, including one overclocked to 133 MHz with a pair of PIII/600eb chips on it, and THAT has months at a time of uptime.
In other words, the BX chipset is just peachy. The last chipset to be as relatively "beefy" in my opinion was the 440fx, judging from the dual PPro 200 servers I've got that _never_ get rebooted, they just keep chugging away.
Arg! As I'm sure many many many people will confuse this, what's just been released is NOT a version of Xfree86! It's a sample implementation of X11R6.5.1, not a usable X server for your linux box.
It's unfortunate that so many people are unclear on the difference between X and Xf86, and even what X really does.
Plain and simple, this does not go on top of Xfree86. In fact, this release has nothing to do with Xfree86 at this point, until the Xfree86 people merge the changes into the xf86 4.0 tree and declare a new release.
What we have here is a sample implementation, and not something that you want to use on your workstation. This will become useful once various releases of the X window system incorporate it, and then moreso when applications and toolkits are written to work with it.
Not surprisingly, there's still no builtin alpha channel support. Many Linux desktop users have been beefing about this for a while now, and I'm wondering if it will ever make its way into X.
What about 3 years from now? Will we all be using Berlin? Will there ever be an X12? X11r7? Hell, why not start over and call it Y1?
... you might want to avoid booting right into the GUI. Make sure that you change the line 'id:3:initdefault' to 'id:2:initdefault' in the file '/etc/inittab'.
Now, maybe I'm an idiot, but I could have sworn that runlevel 5 is generally the one that runs XDM/GDM/etc by default. When I 'init 2' I get a system with no NFS, and no eth0!
This works beautifully! Imagine the following scenario:
After having a simple data T1 installed wrong -again-, I called Ameritech, the people who bill me for the thing. They blamed GTE, who installed it and is the local office. GTE blamed Sprint, who is on the other end of the T1. Sprint blamed Ameritech. So what do I do? I get _all three_ in on a conference call. They all blamed each other for a few moments and eventually figured out that some fool in GTE's office kept placing the line into loopback mode. Genius.
Anyway, the point is that getting multiple companies yelling at each other CAN solve the problem.
The answer is simple: The HARDWARE division. Along with the assorted mice, keyboards, the "easy ball", that annoying soundcard that they sold years ago, and perhaps the still-annoying Windows Printing System. Or was that software? Whatever it was, it annoyed me, and it paved the way for incredible pieces of crap like the Canon LBP-460, which ONLY works in Windows 9x, and has absolutely no hope of use with any other OS or platform.
And I'm SURE that the unveiling of ASCII White, the US Government's newest fastest supercomputer clocked at 12.8 teraflops, has absolutely no effect on this statement. Or even better, what's to stop them from combining that with ASCII Blue and ASCII Red into one giant cluster? Answer: nothing.
The unfortunate reality of this world tends to be that if they want you bad enough, they've GOT you. We must also keep in mind that PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and not Incredible Super Unbreakable-in-this-universe Privacy. PGP can be brute-forced just like any other encryption.
Believe it or not, this is not unheardof! Several years back, Fujitsu sold a Lifebook laptop with a 120mHz Pentium MMX. As any self-respecting geek knows, Intel never sold an MMX processor slower than 166mHz! Upon close inspection, this chip was revealed to be a thin-film-package 166mHz chip underclocked to 120mHz for some bizarre reason. We're currently working on "overclocking" this little wonder of engineering to its rated speed. Or would that be "anticlocking" or just "clocking"? The world may never know.
At my office we are playing with Lucent Orinoco 802.11 stuff, using Wavelan Gold cards and a few base stations, and it works pretty much perfectly for us. As someone mentioned previously, I don't think I would deploy this stuff haphazardly because of security concerns (and big ones too, can you imagine someone spoofing entries to an ISP's billing system? - or even worse, someone busting in on your intra-office Halflife tourny?:)
Seriously though, this wavelan stuff is really NIFTY when you see it working. Just take the time to do it right; use encryption, take the time to set up SSH, filter MAC addresses, hell, install a faraday cage around your building if you want to really feel secure, or if you just want to feel even more like you're on the inside of a microwave oven.
Being only 15, you would fit in _great_ at a LUG. It doesn't matter if you're the youngest guy there, if you have something to contribute or even if you're just there to learn you'd be valued at a meeting!
People underestimate how important it is that people GO to LUG meetings; my local LUG was disbanded due to "lack of interest", and I go to one of the biggest CS schools in the country.
So, everyone, go to the LUG meeting! I didn't start attending mine until it was too late!
I don't know about anyone else, but I have definitely never seen a laptop with 4-speaker sound output. I know there were some Powerbooks with 4-some speakers, but aside from that I've never seen any laptop with built-in sound that would be anywhere near what you'd want to deliver DVD sound to a home theatre.
You also want to keep in mind that the quality of the tiny amplifier and DA converter in most laptops is not up to par with the rest of the audio world.
On the video side, finding a laptop with a DVD drive isn't that hard anymore, but I imaging finding one that can effectively play fullscreen video with motion compensation may be difficult. You may want to consider a PCMCIA hardware decoder card like this one from LSI logic (look at the webpage, it seems like if you buy one, they even give you schematics for the thing! There is also the Margi DVD-to-go card, which I know little about. I also found one by Cadmus that looks promising.
There's also the DVD decoder card buyer's guide for PCMCIA cards, but that page seems to be thoroghally fubar'd from Netscape.
I *FEAR* this... just imagine, an AOL port that runs on Linux! *shudder* Now imagine the influx of clue-impaired persons trying to run linux in its current state.
Most definitely. This is something that has mystefied me for some time now regarding the failed Mars lander: Why in the HELL would they do anything at all using English measurements? Isn't this something you learn in high school chemistry? If it's science related, USE METRIC. That's all there is to it.
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Urbana-Champaign is right here (well, I'm in Urbana-Champaign anyhow). We don't need no steenking web portal that forces everybody to use IE 4.0 or better to check their email when it's just as easy (easier) and more secure to use pine on a cluster server. Don't like CLI? Ok, use the web frontend. And there are no ads on it, for God's sake. Class discussions online? USENET. Registration? Well, it's annoying, but also automated online.
What's my point? Well, first of all, Universities are some of the last places where the Internet is still more than the web. Another thing too: if there's one big centralized portal, there's one big centralized thing that will break all at once. With one centralized group of people running it. And that's bad. If for some silly reason an email server (for example) goes down, it doesn't take class registration with it, or the newsgroups, or the website, or anything else. In fact, if an email server fails it only takes out _part_ of the mail.
I can see it now... Whoops, campuspipeline.uiuc.edu is broken again, I guess I can't turn in my homework or get my email or get the weather or go to class or...... you get the picture. Not a good thing for 40 thousand some odd students.
Yes, many recent Compaq machines (Presario line) have USB and game ports on the front. The way they do it is with a very proprietary motherboard. In the case of the one I dismantled it looked like a cross between AT and ATX, only stupidly done, and broken. ('broken' meaning 'it corroded because they used shitty components') Ever seen a rusty motherboard? Not a cool thing.
Anyhow. I'm quite sure that a generic ATX case with front ports DOES exist, and I've seen ads for it on the web. I'm searching for it, and if I find it I'll be sure to post the URL.
Ahhh, what the hell good is it if it's only available in ASF format? I'm getting more and more sick of that, and it's only getting worse.
This is wonderful for some people, particuarly those of us who do not pay for metered electricity (read: anybody who lives in a dormitory or similar living arrangement). Who cares if you rack up your landlord's electric meter if you don't have to pay the difference?
:)
I'll be sticking to distributed.net for now, thank you, but I look foreward to being paid, even a little, for doing nothing!
Well, something tells me Apple monitors are pretty much just the same as any other monitor these days... what was it... oh yeah! Perhaps the fact that I'm sitting in front of a Studio Display plugged into my x86 linux box, and it's been working perfectly for several months now. I've also seen many G3/G4's plugged into plain old VGA monitors without a problem.
I have here on my desk a dual PII/350 system on a BX board, and it has uptimes of upwards of a month at a time. No problems. In fact, I even have it _overclocked_ so the chipset is running at 112 MHz, and it _still_ has months of uptime. I can go even further and say that I have at least _three_ other BX SMP systems, including one overclocked to 133 MHz with a pair of PIII/600eb chips on it, and THAT has months at a time of uptime.
In other words, the BX chipset is just peachy. The last chipset to be as relatively "beefy" in my opinion was the 440fx, judging from the dual PPro 200 servers I've got that _never_ get rebooted, they just keep chugging away.
:-)
Arg! As I'm sure many many many people will confuse this, what's just been released is NOT a version of Xfree86! It's a sample implementation of X11R6.5.1, not a usable X server for your linux box.
It's unfortunate that so many people are unclear on the difference between X and Xf86, and even what X really does.
Plain and simple, this does not go on top of Xfree86. In fact, this release has nothing to do with Xfree86 at this point, until the Xfree86 people merge the changes into the xf86 4.0 tree and declare a new release.
What we have here is a sample implementation, and not something that you want to use on your workstation. This will become useful once various releases of the X window system incorporate it, and then moreso when applications and toolkits are written to work with it.
Not surprisingly, there's still no builtin alpha channel support. Many Linux desktop users have been beefing about this for a while now, and I'm wondering if it will ever make its way into X.
What about 3 years from now? Will we all be using Berlin? Will there ever be an X12? X11r7? Hell, why not start over and call it Y1?
Just some thoughts.
Why do I get a page that only asks me to sign up for a bunch of windows 2000 mailing lists when I click on that link?
Nobody called you a moron :-)
I should have done my homework and learned that SuSE uses 2 and 3 instead of 3 and 5 as I have become accustomed to.
Now, maybe I'm an idiot, but I could have sworn that runlevel 5 is generally the one that runs XDM/GDM/etc by default. When I 'init 2' I get a system with no NFS, and no eth0!
Just a thought.
This works beautifully! Imagine the following scenario:
After having a simple data T1 installed wrong -again-, I called Ameritech, the people who bill me for the thing. They blamed GTE, who installed it and is the local office. GTE blamed Sprint, who is on the other end of the T1. Sprint blamed Ameritech. So what do I do? I get _all three_ in on a conference call. They all blamed each other for a few moments and eventually figured out that some fool in GTE's office kept placing the line into loopback mode. Genius.
Anyway, the point is that getting multiple companies yelling at each other CAN solve the problem.
Hell, doesn't anybody remember King's Quest III (and its brethren)? The Black Cauldron?
Eat shit!
You should watch your language!
Flog the dolphin.
I don't know how to "flog".
Put the cauldron over the wizard's head
You sneak up on Mordack and quickly thrust the black cauldron onto his head!
That's more like it!
The answer is simple: The HARDWARE division. Along with the assorted mice, keyboards, the "easy ball", that annoying soundcard that they sold years ago, and perhaps the still-annoying Windows Printing System. Or was that software? Whatever it was, it annoyed me, and it paved the way for incredible pieces of crap like the Canon LBP-460, which ONLY works in Windows 9x, and has absolutely no hope of use with any other OS or platform.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
>As long as PGP can't be decrypted
And I'm SURE that the unveiling of ASCII White, the US Government's newest fastest supercomputer clocked at 12.8 teraflops, has absolutely no effect on this statement. Or even better, what's to stop them from combining that with ASCII Blue and ASCII Red into one giant cluster? Answer: nothing.
The unfortunate reality of this world tends to be that if they want you bad enough, they've GOT you. We must also keep in mind that PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and not Incredible Super Unbreakable-in-this-universe Privacy. PGP can be brute-forced just like any other encryption.
Deal with it.
Believe it or not, this is not unheardof! Several years back, Fujitsu sold a Lifebook laptop with a 120mHz Pentium MMX. As any self-respecting geek knows, Intel never sold an MMX processor slower than 166mHz! Upon close inspection, this chip was revealed to be a thin-film-package 166mHz chip underclocked to 120mHz for some bizarre reason. We're currently working on "overclocking" this little wonder of engineering to its rated speed. Or would that be "anticlocking" or just "clocking"? The world may never know.
At my office we are playing with Lucent Orinoco 802.11 stuff, using Wavelan Gold cards and a few base stations, and it works pretty much perfectly for us. As someone mentioned previously, I don't think I would deploy this stuff haphazardly because of security concerns (and big ones too, can you imagine someone spoofing entries to an ISP's billing system? - or even worse, someone busting in on your intra-office Halflife tourny? :)
Seriously though, this wavelan stuff is really NIFTY when you see it working. Just take the time to do it right; use encryption, take the time to set up SSH, filter MAC addresses, hell, install a faraday cage around your building if you want to really feel secure, or if you just want to feel even more like you're on the inside of a microwave oven.
Being only 15, you would fit in _great_ at a LUG. It doesn't matter if you're the youngest guy there, if you have something to contribute or even if you're just there to learn you'd be valued at a meeting!
People underestimate how important it is that people GO to LUG meetings; my local LUG was disbanded due to "lack of interest", and I go to one of the biggest CS schools in the country.
So, everyone, go to the LUG meeting! I didn't start attending mine until it was too late!
Hey hey... nice tieing in the fart jokes from they survey there!
greets from #linux, greyfox!
I don't know about anyone else, but I have definitely never seen a laptop with 4-speaker sound output. I know there were some Powerbooks with 4-some speakers, but aside from that I've never seen any laptop with built-in sound that would be anywhere near what you'd want to deliver DVD sound to a home theatre.
You also want to keep in mind that the quality of the tiny amplifier and DA converter in most laptops is not up to par with the rest of the audio world.
On the video side, finding a laptop with a DVD drive isn't that hard anymore, but I imaging finding one that can effectively play fullscreen video with motion compensation may be difficult. You may want to consider a PCMCIA hardware decoder card like this one from LSI logic (look at the webpage, it seems like if you buy one, they even give you schematics for the thing! There is also the Margi DVD-to-go card, which I know little about. I also found one by Cadmus that looks promising.
There's also the DVD decoder card buyer's guide for PCMCIA cards, but that page seems to be thoroghally fubar'd from Netscape.
I wish I could afford some of this stuff myself!
I *FEAR* this... just imagine, an AOL port that runs on Linux! *shudder* Now imagine the influx of clue-impaired persons trying to run linux in its current state.
A scary thought.
Most definitely. This is something that has mystefied me for some time now regarding the failed Mars lander: Why in the HELL would they do anything at all using English measurements? Isn't this something you learn in high school chemistry? If it's science related, USE METRIC. That's all there is to it.