This looks very similar to ideas found in Rudy Rucker's fiction. Those interested in some good, entertaining science fiction type stuff might want to check out his books, especially Software and Wetware. I'd almost call his books "cyberpunk", but they aren't dark and gloomy.
I just recently got my paws on a second-hand Digital Alpha, and in the process of (re)installing Linux on this beast, I found that the only distribution that would work correctly was SuSE.
This isn't exactly true. Let me expound: RedHat 6.1 wouldn't let me partition my hard drive the way I wanted it to be. At least, not by default (I'm sure the 'expert text' mode would have allowed it, but after booting an Alpha 50 times, you don't want to do it again). Debian wouldn't even boot. I tried every tangled conglomeration of kernel boot parameters I could find, and nothing worked. The debian-axp mailing list was of no use.
Out of frustration, I finally turned to SuSE, which I had never used before. It installed like a charm! And every time I had a problem, the suse-axp mailing list was there to help me. Now I have a running SuSE-AXP system that's blindingly fast. It's so fast that I have trouble tearing myself away from it to sleep at night.
There are some things that I feel SuSE is missing. Most importantly, RedHat's very nifty printtool. I miss that bugger. I'm going to see if I can get it working on SuSE tonight.
I nominated Sawmill, and then stopped to think a little longer and realized how much GnuPG has improved lately. Especially for those interested in using open-source cryptography that's easy to set up and use.
I haven't followed the development very closely, but I think it's tough for even the mildest crypto-geeks to avoid noticing how so many folks have given up their old PGP keys and switched to GPG in the last year. This is a Good Thing, in my opinion. PGP was confusing. There seemed to be several concurrent versions being released at the same time, and you couldn't use some of them if you were outside the USA, couldn't use some of them if you were inside the USA, and some of them just didn't work. Finally, GnuPG stepped forward and started clearing the path, and now I'm using Mailcrypt with VM again! GnuPG kicks some serious ass!
Sawmill is a great piece of work. I've been astounded by John's dedication and skill. He pumped out his own Lisp interpreter that handles a dialect so close to Emacs Lisp that those crossing over have no problems picking it up. In addition, he promptly releases a new version every week, and has stayed one of the most active posters on Sawmill's mailing list since the project started!
I think it's a shame that he hasn't received more recognition for his efforts and contributions to the open source community.
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This looks very similar to ideas found in Rudy Rucker's fiction. Those interested in some good, entertaining science fiction type stuff might want to check out his books, especially Software and Wetware. I'd almost call his books "cyberpunk", but they aren't dark and gloomy.
Fool@WorkI just recently got my paws on a second-hand Digital Alpha, and in the process of (re)installing Linux on this beast, I found that the only distribution that would work correctly was SuSE.
This isn't exactly true. Let me expound: RedHat 6.1 wouldn't let me partition my hard drive the way I wanted it to be. At least, not by default (I'm sure the 'expert text' mode would have allowed it, but after booting an Alpha 50 times, you don't want to do it again). Debian wouldn't even boot. I tried every tangled conglomeration of kernel boot parameters I could find, and nothing worked. The debian-axp mailing list was of no use.
Out of frustration, I finally turned to SuSE, which I had never used before. It installed like a charm! And every time I had a problem, the suse-axp mailing list was there to help me. Now I have a running SuSE-AXP system that's blindingly fast. It's so fast that I have trouble tearing myself away from it to sleep at night.
There are some things that I feel SuSE is missing. Most importantly, RedHat's very nifty printtool. I miss that bugger. I'm going to see if I can get it working on SuSE tonight.
Fool@WorkI nominated Sawmill, and then stopped to think a little longer and realized how much GnuPG has improved lately. Especially for those interested in using open-source cryptography that's easy to set up and use.
I haven't followed the development very closely, but I think it's tough for even the mildest crypto-geeks to avoid noticing how so many folks have given up their old PGP keys and switched to GPG in the last year. This is a Good Thing, in my opinion. PGP was confusing. There seemed to be several concurrent versions being released at the same time, and you couldn't use some of them if you were outside the USA, couldn't use some of them if you were inside the USA, and some of them just didn't work. Finally, GnuPG stepped forward and started clearing the path, and now I'm using Mailcrypt with VM again! GnuPG kicks some serious ass!
Fool@WorkSawmill is a great piece of work. I've been astounded by John's dedication and skill. He pumped out his own Lisp interpreter that handles a dialect so close to Emacs Lisp that those crossing over have no problems picking it up. In addition, he promptly releases a new version every week, and has stayed one of the most active posters on Sawmill's mailing list since the project started!
I think it's a shame that he hasn't received more recognition for his efforts and contributions to the open source community.
Fool@WorkYou know, my mom (a big Kevin Costner fan) always told me that the naked butt in Costner's "Robin Hood" movie was a stunt butt.
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