The sooner the whole DNS system is taken out of the control of a bunch of government sponsored & crooked spivs the better.
I suggest the ITU who have looked after International Telecoms since 17 May 1865, take over the whole of the DNS as soon as possible.
Um, well we did have a 14 y.o. girl and her XX y.o grandmother in the channel, they _did_ get Gentoo up and running. Took a while, but they made it go. How? They were literate and read the manual very carefully.
Go to Squeakland
There are executables for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
It's exactly what a child needs as an introduction to Comp. Sci.
There is even a button to expose the Smalltalk text of the code.
After getting proficient with the E-Toys, they might like to progress to
Blender, which has the Python programming language built-in.
who actually has a distcc farm, I'm sorry to have to tell you that when I compiled OOo-2.3 yesterday it didn't use the other machine _at all_, and took many hours to do the build.
I was both very troubled and disappointed.
Thanks, the Wikipedia entry is obviously the entry to a veritable Aladdin's cave of information.
I suppose my real reason behind asking the questions is to encourage the FSF to put more effort into producing a more politically acceptable kernel.
Venus darling, Please don't get alarmed, but those wretched Earthlings have made a super-dooper hot-stuff control whatsit. You'd better watch out because from what I hear that super-hot atmospheric condom of your's isn't going to protect you from frequent and repeated penetration much longer. Sorry to be such a harbinger, but I just thought you ought to know. Haved a chat to Mars, he knows all about what they get up to.
Because it's quite possibly the exercise of some Government sponsored TLA somewhere in the world which wants to see how long it takes to do brute-force decrypt of a message when one has 50 million 'puters under their command. Apparently they are pretty competent and are patching up the victims and thus ensuring that those sorts of tricks by their 'other-side' are well neigh impossible.
Create a file set of what the users actually want and need. Give them enough apps to interest and entertain. Genealogy is interesting for older folk. Remember that while their intellect and co-ordination might have slowed somewhat, they are still adults. IoW, you don't need to dumb-down the exercise to the level schools deem appropriate for children, because that's just an insult. While it takes a while to set up a Gentoo machine file image, it will save you heaps of time in the long run. Now create a compressed bit image of the partition(s) and save it. Set up an ftp server so you can quickly replace the file set on the client machines using Ghost for Unix if somebody has a most unfortunate event.
Make sure you have a decent Firewall / Gateway. There are lots of good ones on the 'Net. I use IPCop, which has a Squid proxy as well as lots of addon programs. URLfilter is useful to remove the totally obnoxious.
That's it, except that imho you should not tie the machines down to the point at which they become useless and painful to use.
If/. really was "News for Nerds", it would tell us exactly what 35 year old equipment is still working.
It doesn't. Therefore/. must have made it into the "Mainstream Media" cabal.:-)
I don't know whether I should celebrate or commiserate. I fear the latter.
Anyway, anybody know what comps. etc are being used at the Tidbinbilla space tracking station?br
I'm old enough to be genuinely interested.
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The sooner the whole DNS system is taken out of the control of a bunch of government sponsored & crooked spivs the better. I suggest the ITU who have looked after International Telecoms since 17 May 1865, take over the whole of the DNS as soon as possible.
... do we see one powering an OLPC?
It'd have to be a bigger with more, and better, magnets & coils, but that idea would be ideal for the purpose. The man's a genius.
Um, well we did have a 14 y.o. girl and her XX y.o grandmother in the channel, they _did_ get Gentoo up and running. Took a while, but they made it go. How? They were literate and read the manual very carefully.
After getting proficient with the E-Toys, they might like to progress to Blender, which has the Python programming language built-in.
No, no, not 'Funny' at all. 'Score:5, Tragically Insightful' would be more to the point.
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/
To get more info including a peep into the book do a Google search on "Managing Gigabytes"
otoh for something cheap and cheerful there is htdig.
http://htdig.org/
It's remarkably good for indexing an intranet.
A full account of what happened.
Unfortunately they withdrew the Tazers last month leaving the police with no alternative to using a pistol.
huffing and puffing trying to persuade the USAF to throw a chair war-head from Redmond all the way to to Brussels for him.
who actually has a distcc farm, I'm sorry to have to tell you that when I compiled OOo-2.3 yesterday it didn't use the other machine _at all_, and took many hours to do the build. I was both very troubled and disappointed.
Google, the WayBack Machine, to say nothing of the 1.5 million machine bot-net we've been hearing about recently.
In the past I have often wondered why the EU thought they needed a GPS system of their own. Now I know why they made Galileo. Thanks.
I think most shipping companies will think politically stable Canada a preferable route to Panama.
Thanks, the Wikipedia entry is obviously the entry to a veritable Aladdin's cave of information. I suppose my real reason behind asking the questions is to encourage the FSF to put more effort into producing a more politically acceptable kernel.
Moderators: These are pertinent questions which need answers.
Venus darling, Please don't get alarmed, but those wretched Earthlings have made a super-dooper hot-stuff control whatsit. You'd better watch out because from what I hear that super-hot atmospheric condom of your's isn't going to protect you from frequent and repeated penetration much longer. Sorry to be such a harbinger, but I just thought you ought to know. Haved a chat to Mars, he knows all about what they get up to.
How this managed to get onto slashdot is beyond me.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Million-Master-M agic-Numbers/dp/039331071X
God Created the Integers - Stephen Hawking
http://www.amazon.com/God-Created-Integers-Mathema tical-Breakthroughs/dp/0762419229/ref=pd_bbs_2/102 -3884603-8680934?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189325102&sr =1-2
All able to be stack pointers or be the program counter, as well as containing arithmetic and logical operands.
Just learn Latin.
Because it's quite possibly the exercise of some Government sponsored TLA somewhere in the world which wants to see how long it takes to do brute-force decrypt of a message when one has 50 million 'puters under their command. Apparently they are pretty competent and are patching up the victims and thus ensuring that those sorts of tricks by their 'other-side' are well neigh impossible.
People born then do "Just Croak".
I recon he's jolly lucky passing away while doing something he loved.
Make sure you have a decent Firewall / Gateway. There are lots of good ones on the 'Net. I use IPCop, which has a Squid proxy as well as lots of addon programs. URLfilter is useful to remove the totally obnoxious.
That's it, except that imho you should not tie the machines down to the point at which they become useless and painful to use.
You'd better be careful now. Carrying on like this will qualify you for Instant Sainthood in the eyes of many /.ers.
It doesn't. Therefore /. must have made it into the "Mainstream Media" cabal.:-)
I don't know whether I should celebrate or commiserate. I fear the latter.
Anyway, anybody know what comps. etc are being used at the Tidbinbilla space tracking station?br I'm old enough to be genuinely interested.