I've purchased the 4 disc set of Slackware 4.0, 7.0, and 7.1 from the local MicroCenter. They seem to have it for such a good price (~$18.95) that I can't justify ordering it from slackware's site, where it's something like $40.
My question is: does Slackware get the same amount of money when I pay $18 as if I were to order it and pay $40?
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But why is it in our national interest to make sure we switch to digital?
Perhaps to open up some of those radio waves currently used by television signals to other uses. Like perhaps wireless internet access? Or "pirate" radio stations (more along the lines of LPFM, though)?
Or maybe even more television stations. More interesting stuff that's produced locally by people who want to make it rather than stuff from the big networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX) and then pumped out all over the country.
Actually, there are a couple local stations here (Columbus, Ohio) that don't come in too well, but broadcast pretty good content (if you're in the area, try broadcast channel 19, wide range of stuff from Alfred Hitchcock to Fritz the Nightowl to The Cosby Show reruns (not just Cosby). And then there's my favorite, The Living Edge. Really interesting stuff. If you're really bored, try channel 8. Fun to watch:).). I actually watch poor reception stuff over the better ones (NBC, ABC, etc) because the CONTENT is better. Hopefully, forcing the big ones to go digital might open those frequencies up for more local content. Or maybe even to radio stations. Whatever they do with them, I hope it involves allowing then to be used for locally produced content.
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I was under the impression that the only difference between the Celeron and PIII was that the Celeron has 1/2 the cache and ran at 66MHz bus. And then the PIII moved to a 133MHz bus and the Celeron to a 100 with the 800MHz Celeron.
I imagine that all they do is make a bunch of PIIIs and then disable half the cache and mark them as Celerons. So, really, there isn't much difference between the Celeron and PIII if you're looking to build a low-cost system. As has been said before, the CPU is no longer the bottleneck. Hopefully, with today's memory prices (going up, but still pretty darn low) and cheap CPUs, mass storage makers will be prodded to improve the speed of disk drives. Or increase the size and lower the cost of solid state drives.
40GB Non-volitile DDR RAM...mmmmmmm...
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This has been said before, but it needs to be reiterated. Linux does not have 'market share'. Linus & Friends do not make money (directly) by writing the code that goes into the kernel. Thus, Linux does not have to worry about losing 'market share'. What do the kernel hackers care if people aren't using their code. I would assume that most of them are thinking only of themselves when they write the code they do.
OTOH, commercial software vendors aren't necessarily writing applications that they will use. Since everyone here likes to talk about Microsoft, I'll use them as an example. How many people at Microsoft offices do you think are running around using a 30fps digital camera? How many of them do you think use ICS to set up a Win98 machine as a router? I would even doubt that most of them use Win98/ME at work. They'd use some really high-end camera for digital movies. They'd use an expensive (Cisco?) router. They'd be using Win2000 by now. These are programmers and managers who have thousands of dollars at their disposal. These are not home users looking for a $1000 PC to surf the web.
Home users are very different from programmers. Think 80 year old woman who wants to send mail to grandson and 30 year old techie that has to write the software that allows her to do that. These programmers depend on user feedback because they don't know exactly what the users want like the FreeSoftware hackers know exactly what they want when they write their code. If they don't get feedback, they have to guess what the users want. This will not always work, either.
So, Linux will not lose market share. It does not have any to begin with. The code hackers are writing code for themselves and it just so happens that it's what others are looking for, too, so they give it away. These code hackers do not need to worry if others aren't using their software because they did not write it for others in the first place.
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Not just any kittens, though. Bonsai kittens!
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In that case, it should be simple enough to generate a code that would work.
I'm not seeing how this activation thing is so great. Anyone could write a program that generates the codes. I would think that they'd want to send you some special CD or such that you would have to insert that would be able to validate your copy or something.
Offline activation doesn't seem too reliable.
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Um, perhaps I'm being stupid, but aren't you even the least bit concerned that your generosity might cause you problems?
I mean, it's very cool of you to leave a system up and open like that. But there are lots of people out there (curious or malicious) that would cause trouble that I know I wouldn't want to have to deal with.
Has leaving your system open like that ever caused you trouble with anyone else? Say, another admin who was attacked via your server which is open due to your, hm, kindness:) ?
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Well, the machine seems to be down now. Was this by chance a system running some sort of UPS software?
My dad's got a Belkin UPS that comes with some software for Win2K that opens port 80 for remote useage. I found this one day when nmapping his machine. The software doesn't seem to open the port in Win98, though. It does listen to port 80 on any network interface, though, which I tested. I got online on one machine, got online on his (dialups), got his IP, and browsed to http://AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD on the other machine. Over the net, I was able to shut down his Win2k machine. As in, it went through the shutdown procedure and turned itself off (APM support).
Granted, he himself admits that he isn't concerned about security and would just start with a completely open system and then close it over time. Though, he never did:(. I fear the day when he gets DSL and uses Win98 ICS to share it.
So, anyone that's using a Belkin UPS with their Bulldog (or Watchdog, I forget which) software on Win2k (and a USB interface, maybe. I'm not sure if the serial version would work the same way.) please please close that port. I believe it may simply be the loading of a certain DLL. If nothing else, run a firewall on that machine and block untrusted IPs on port 80. What a stupid reason to be taken down! "Hackers turned off my server! HEEEELLLLP!"
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One thing I saw in the sunday ads yesterday was Redhat being pictured next to Windows ME Update (they're in the same category, it wasn't a comparison). Redhat (Professional Server Edition) was $99.99 *AFTER* a $70 instant rebate. And windows ME Update was $79.99. Now, granted, this is the "Professional Server Edition" so it probably comes with an archive of kernel.org and ibiblio.org and manuals and support and a video about how to install it on VHS, Betamax, DVD, and VCD (exaggerating a bit, maybe not Betamax) and Windows ME Update is the cheap way to update a simplistic home user operating system. But how many people are going to look at the ad and say "Oh, I see, that's the Professional Server Edition! That's not for me. I'd be better off getting the $29.99 version with the basics and 30 days of free phone support." My guess is that they won't know what we're clamoring about. Linux is $10 more than Windows AFTER the rebate. And they already 'know' Windows. Redhat shouldn't market their Professional Server Edition in the CompUSA/BestBuy/Fry/etc ads (if they have any control over it). Those versions should be marketed to the in the PHB magazines.
Of course, next to both of them was FreeBSD (listed as "UNIX", whereas RH was "Linux") and it was only $49.99:).
Anyway, the point I'm attempting to make is that people already pay a lot for the RedHat Linux package. I can see why RH needs to charge so much, though. They don't have quite as big of a market share as MS. It's not like they have more programmers to pay. They don't pay for all of the software. And they likely don't need to license too many drivers from other companies (though, any that they do are likely much more expensive than what MS would pay).
But I don't really know what I'm talking about. I use Slackware. Which, I must say, despite not having any pretty windows and autodetection(okay okay, it does try to autodetect your network card), makes installation quite simple, once you get used to it ("I need a whole partition devoted to swap!?" "What are all these programs?").
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I believe the trick is to make a story out of the problem. Say you wanted to remember:
3.14159
You then make a story out of that...for example:
The three of us went to pick up one of our other friends. Then there were four. We went to see that one movie. The theater's open from five to nine.
Just grab the Project Gutenberg text of Pi to some rediculous number of places and write a quick script to convert the numbers to words (1 -> one) and then include the words in a story. Then just memorize the story. [Later thought...] Actually, that might not be such a quick script.[/Later thought...]
On the other hand, you may find it easier to remember if you make up the story yourself.
Oh, another thing, picture the stuff you're memorizing as you make it up.
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Until it's archived. Then all 0 and -1 posts go to/dev/null unless there's some secret way to get at them that I don't know about. In which case, pray tell.
What to do if Google can't make it work? Should the government step in? Should academia step in, by way of government funds? It would be a shame
for it to all disappear.
Perhaps this would be a good, and obviously legit use, for P2P tech. Of course, you'd want to have a lot more disk space (for redundancy) than it takes now, but a little bz2/gz magic might be able to lend a hand there.
Of course, trying to get such a large archive organized across many many servers that are run by different people in different areas would surely introduce other problems(latency, bandwidth, downtime for certain info), but perhaps these would be "better" than trying to find a single company or group who can handle such a beast.
However, Google does seem to be able to handle things enough to basically cache the web, so I don't think they should have any trouble with this.
Then again, maybe something like multiple companies working together in a P2P environment would work.
Does anyone have any numbers describing how much disk space we're talking about here? Surely we haven't broken free of terrabyte-suffixed amounts of info...right?
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I'd like to see things like this combined with electricity-generating shoes. Yes, that's right. They're shoes that, when you walk, they convert some of the energy from the pressure of your feet into electricity. I'm not sure how well it would work for general walking, though. You still may need an external battery, or maybe a helmet covered with solar cells. Or perhaps you'd need to run in order to keep the thing going.
Either way, portable computers + shoes that produce electricity when you walk == exercise and hacking all in one. The geeks dream come true (well, at least the hacking part. the exercise shouldn't hurt.).
And what if you could add in sensors to sense your body movement. What if the machine was powerful enough to run Quake. Yes, you could have a virtual game of Quake for a seemingly infinite length of time (until you died or were too tired to go on) since you should be producing enough electricity by running and jumping to keep your machine going. That would add another element of skill to the game: physical endurance!
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I do hate banner ads stuck in the middle of articles. At the top and the bottom is acceptable, on the side is marginal. In the middle of the article, though, is unacceptable.
Yeah! And why do they keep putting on commercials when I want to watch a show! I mean, I don't mind a couple so I can go to the bathroom every once in a while or get a drink or something, but there's just so many. I don't mind if they're on late at night or early in the morning, but it's really annoying when they're on during prime time television.
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic. There's a reason why they put ads in the middle of the page.;) )
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RIAA: "Oh no! They're systematically changing all the letters to numbers! Whatever will we do!?"
s/1/l
s/4/a
s/5/s
RIAA: "There, problem solved!"
No, you need more entropy for that to work. However, the more randomness you introduce into the system, the more difficult it will be to find anything(using plain text searches). Perhaps this will be good, though, since it will reintroduce some of the eliteness that existed around the internet "underground" prior to the existance of the new-and-improved-easy-to-use-internet-TEN-point-OH.
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The OSS club where I go to school tried that. We got a handful of machines donated from here and there and some other equipment. However, the project fizzled out and died. Not due to a lack of interest, but rather a lack of ability. None of us knew what we were doing and we are also in school, so there's not much time outside of class for non-class-related stuff. And this would take a lot of time outside of class to learn about (unless we were being given class credit, which we weren't).
So, no, don't build a cluster. It's much more fun to sit around and mix and match hardware until you get a working computer and then get the satisfaction of giving it away to someone who needs it rather than keeping them all for yourself.
(However, I know you were likely joking, but I thought I'd take you seriously, anyhow:).)
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What's gravi? Perhaps you meant something like "aviation" ? Or "Feliz Navidad" ? But who wants to watch movies of planes with guys singing "Merry Christmas" in Spanish?
Not I.
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How dare you compare CEOs and investors to a lifeform as high-up as a bird!
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Maybe they could set something up to try to pull a downed page from Google's cache?
Failing that, if you paste the URL into the search bar at Google and it can't find the page, it may give you a link to their cache.
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I've purchased the 4 disc set of Slackware 4.0, 7.0, and 7.1 from the local MicroCenter. They seem to have it for such a good price (~$18.95) that I can't justify ordering it from slackware's site, where it's something like $40. My question is: does Slackware get the same amount of money when I pay $18 as if I were to order it and pay $40?
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But why is it in our national interest to make sure we switch to digital?
:).). I actually watch poor reception stuff over the better ones (NBC, ABC, etc) because the CONTENT is better. Hopefully, forcing the big ones to go digital might open those frequencies up for more local content. Or maybe even to radio stations. Whatever they do with them, I hope it involves allowing then to be used for locally produced content.
Perhaps to open up some of those radio waves currently used by television signals to other uses. Like perhaps wireless internet access? Or "pirate" radio stations (more along the lines of LPFM, though)?
Or maybe even more television stations. More interesting stuff that's produced locally by people who want to make it rather than stuff from the big networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX) and then pumped out all over the country.
Actually, there are a couple local stations here (Columbus, Ohio) that don't come in too well, but broadcast pretty good content (if you're in the area, try broadcast channel 19, wide range of stuff from Alfred Hitchcock to Fritz the Nightowl to The Cosby Show reruns (not just Cosby). And then there's my favorite, The Living Edge. Really interesting stuff. If you're really bored, try channel 8. Fun to watch
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I was under the impression that the only difference between the Celeron and PIII was that the Celeron has 1/2 the cache and ran at 66MHz bus. And then the PIII moved to a 133MHz bus and the Celeron to a 100 with the 800MHz Celeron.
I imagine that all they do is make a bunch of PIIIs and then disable half the cache and mark them as Celerons. So, really, there isn't much difference between the Celeron and PIII if you're looking to build a low-cost system. As has been said before, the CPU is no longer the bottleneck. Hopefully, with today's memory prices (going up, but still pretty darn low) and cheap CPUs, mass storage makers will be prodded to improve the speed of disk drives. Or increase the size and lower the cost of solid state drives.
40GB Non-volitile DDR RAM...mmmmmmm...
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*cough* Quickies *cough*
http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/
or, for those adventurous enough to click a link:
http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/
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Perhaps it was a typo on your part (he and she are so close in spelling) but I think Jamie is actually a she.
Even I was surprised.
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Linux will start losing market share.
This has been said before, but it needs to be reiterated. Linux does not have 'market share'. Linus & Friends do not make money (directly) by writing the code that goes into the kernel. Thus, Linux does not have to worry about losing 'market share'. What do the kernel hackers care if people aren't using their code. I would assume that most of them are thinking only of themselves when they write the code they do.
OTOH, commercial software vendors aren't necessarily writing applications that they will use. Since everyone here likes to talk about Microsoft, I'll use them as an example. How many people at Microsoft offices do you think are running around using a 30fps digital camera? How many of them do you think use ICS to set up a Win98 machine as a router? I would even doubt that most of them use Win98/ME at work. They'd use some really high-end camera for digital movies. They'd use an expensive (Cisco?) router. They'd be using Win2000 by now. These are programmers and managers who have thousands of dollars at their disposal. These are not home users looking for a $1000 PC to surf the web.
Home users are very different from programmers. Think 80 year old woman who wants to send mail to grandson and 30 year old techie that has to write the software that allows her to do that. These programmers depend on user feedback because they don't know exactly what the users want like the FreeSoftware hackers know exactly what they want when they write their code. If they don't get feedback, they have to guess what the users want. This will not always work, either.
So, Linux will not lose market share. It does not have any to begin with. The code hackers are writing code for themselves and it just so happens that it's what others are looking for, too, so they give it away. These code hackers do not need to worry if others aren't using their software because they did not write it for others in the first place.
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Not just any kittens, though. Bonsai kittens!
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In that case, it should be simple enough to generate a code that would work.
I'm not seeing how this activation thing is so great. Anyone could write a program that generates the codes. I would think that they'd want to send you some special CD or such that you would have to insert that would be able to validate your copy or something.
Offline activation doesn't seem too reliable.
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If you don't have an Internet connection you have to call.
How do they activate your system if they can't have their servers talk to your machine?
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Wow! I never knew Linux could be so insecure ;-).
:) ?
Um, perhaps I'm being stupid, but aren't you even the least bit concerned that your generosity might cause you problems?
I mean, it's very cool of you to leave a system up and open like that. But there are lots of people out there (curious or malicious) that would cause trouble that I know I wouldn't want to have to deal with.
Has leaving your system open like that ever caused you trouble with anyone else? Say, another admin who was attacked via your server which is open due to your, hm, kindness
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Well, the machine seems to be down now. Was this by chance a system running some sort of UPS software?
:(. I fear the day when he gets DSL and uses Win98 ICS to share it.
My dad's got a Belkin UPS that comes with some software for Win2K that opens port 80 for remote useage. I found this one day when nmapping his machine. The software doesn't seem to open the port in Win98, though. It does listen to port 80 on any network interface, though, which I tested. I got online on one machine, got online on his (dialups), got his IP, and browsed to http://AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD on the other machine. Over the net, I was able to shut down his Win2k machine. As in, it went through the shutdown procedure and turned itself off (APM support).
Granted, he himself admits that he isn't concerned about security and would just start with a completely open system and then close it over time. Though, he never did
So, anyone that's using a Belkin UPS with their Bulldog (or Watchdog, I forget which) software on Win2k (and a USB interface, maybe. I'm not sure if the serial version would work the same way.) please please close that port. I believe it may simply be the loading of a certain DLL. If nothing else, run a firewall on that machine and block untrusted IPs on port 80. What a stupid reason to be taken down! "Hackers turned off my server! HEEEELLLLP!"
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RH gives you the stuff for free to begin with...
:).
One thing I saw in the sunday ads yesterday was Redhat being pictured next to Windows ME Update (they're in the same category, it wasn't a comparison). Redhat (Professional Server Edition) was $99.99 *AFTER* a $70 instant rebate. And windows ME Update was $79.99. Now, granted, this is the "Professional Server Edition" so it probably comes with an archive of kernel.org and ibiblio.org and manuals and support and a video about how to install it on VHS, Betamax, DVD, and VCD (exaggerating a bit, maybe not Betamax) and Windows ME Update is the cheap way to update a simplistic home user operating system. But how many people are going to look at the ad and say "Oh, I see, that's the Professional Server Edition! That's not for me. I'd be better off getting the $29.99 version with the basics and 30 days of free phone support." My guess is that they won't know what we're clamoring about. Linux is $10 more than Windows AFTER the rebate. And they already 'know' Windows. Redhat shouldn't market their Professional Server Edition in the CompUSA/BestBuy/Fry/etc ads (if they have any control over it). Those versions should be marketed to the in the PHB magazines.
Of course, next to both of them was FreeBSD (listed as "UNIX", whereas RH was "Linux") and it was only $49.99
Anyway, the point I'm attempting to make is that people already pay a lot for the RedHat Linux package. I can see why RH needs to charge so much, though. They don't have quite as big of a market share as MS. It's not like they have more programmers to pay. They don't pay for all of the software. And they likely don't need to license too many drivers from other companies (though, any that they do are likely much more expensive than what MS would pay).
But I don't really know what I'm talking about. I use Slackware. Which, I must say, despite not having any pretty windows and autodetection(okay okay, it does try to autodetect your network card), makes installation quite simple, once you get used to it ("I need a whole partition devoted to swap!?" "What are all these programs?").
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I thought they were trying to be funny. Like: "You'd have to have a pretty big *rod* to do that!" Har har.
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I believe the trick is to make a story out of the problem. Say you wanted to remember:
3.14159
You then make a story out of that...for example:
The three of us went to pick up one of our other friends. Then there were four. We went to see that one movie. The theater's open from five to nine.
Just grab the Project Gutenberg text of Pi to some rediculous number of places and write a quick script to convert the numbers to words (1 -> one) and then include the words in a story. Then just memorize the story. [Later thought...] Actually, that might not be such a quick script.[/Later thought...]
On the other hand, you may find it easier to remember if you make up the story yourself.
Oh, another thing, picture the stuff you're memorizing as you make it up.
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All the speach is still there.
/dev/null unless there's some secret way to get at them that I don't know about. In which case, pray tell.
m l
Until it's archived. Then all 0 and -1 posts go to
Example: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/09/1715248.sht
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What to do if Google can't make it work? Should the government step in? Should academia step in, by way of government funds? It would be a shame
for it to all disappear.
Perhaps this would be a good, and obviously legit use, for P2P tech. Of course, you'd want to have a lot more disk space (for redundancy) than it takes now, but a little bz2/gz magic might be able to lend a hand there.
Of course, trying to get such a large archive organized across many many servers that are run by different people in different areas would surely introduce other problems(latency, bandwidth, downtime for certain info), but perhaps these would be "better" than trying to find a single company or group who can handle such a beast.
However, Google does seem to be able to handle things enough to basically cache the web, so I don't think they should have any trouble with this.
Then again, maybe something like multiple companies working together in a P2P environment would work.
Does anyone have any numbers describing how much disk space we're talking about here? Surely we haven't broken free of terrabyte-suffixed amounts of info...right?
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Signal 11 and Anne Marie
(Score:-1, Redundant)
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I'd like to see things like this combined with electricity-generating shoes. Yes, that's right. They're shoes that, when you walk, they convert some of the energy from the pressure of your feet into electricity. I'm not sure how well it would work for general walking, though. You still may need an external battery, or maybe a helmet covered with solar cells. Or perhaps you'd need to run in order to keep the thing going.
Either way, portable computers + shoes that produce electricity when you walk == exercise and hacking all in one. The geeks dream come true (well, at least the hacking part. the exercise shouldn't hurt.).
And what if you could add in sensors to sense your body movement. What if the machine was powerful enough to run Quake. Yes, you could have a virtual game of Quake for a seemingly infinite length of time (until you died or were too tired to go on) since you should be producing enough electricity by running and jumping to keep your machine going. That would add another element of skill to the game: physical endurance!
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I do hate banner ads stuck in the middle of articles. At the top and the bottom is acceptable, on the side is marginal. In the middle of the article, though, is unacceptable.
;) )
Yeah! And why do they keep putting on commercials when I want to watch a show! I mean, I don't mind a couple so I can go to the bathroom every once in a while or get a drink or something, but there's just so many. I don't mind if they're on late at night or early in the morning, but it's really annoying when they're on during prime time television.
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic. There's a reason why they put ads in the middle of the page.
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Oh, like: "The Girl who Loved Gravi"? and "I Make Mpghed Potatoes With my Hands in Your Butt"?
#1 and #2 in the "Culinary Porn" sections of the charts?
That kind of gravi?
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RIAA: "Oh no! They're systematically changing all the letters to numbers! Whatever will we do!?"
H .
s/1/l
s/4/a
s/5/s
RIAA: "There, problem solved!"
No, you need more entropy for that to work. However, the more randomness you introduce into the system, the more difficult it will be to find anything(using plain text searches). Perhaps this will be good, though, since it will reintroduce some of the eliteness that existed around the internet "underground" prior to the existance of the new-and-improved-easy-to-use-internet-TEN-point-O
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The OSS club where I go to school tried that. We got a handful of machines donated from here and there and some other equipment. However, the project fizzled out and died. Not due to a lack of interest, but rather a lack of ability. None of us knew what we were doing and we are also in school, so there's not much time outside of class for non-class-related stuff. And this would take a lot of time outside of class to learn about (unless we were being given class credit, which we weren't).
:).)
So, no, don't build a cluster. It's much more fun to sit around and mix and match hardware until you get a working computer and then get the satisfaction of giving it away to someone who needs it rather than keeping them all for yourself.
(However, I know you were likely joking, but I thought I'd take you seriously, anyhow
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What's gravi? Perhaps you meant something like "aviation" ? Or "Feliz Navidad" ? But who wants to watch movies of planes with guys singing "Merry Christmas" in Spanish?
Not I.
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.