I'm pretty certain you can't run plain X11 with the tab window manager on a 386 with only 2 megs of RAM.
If I was going to run Linux on something that limited, I'd probably use the 1.2.13 or 1.2.18 kernel. Compiled (somewhere else!) for just exactly the hardware in the 386 box, it would work fine.
But then I'd probably rather run Minix 2 on something like that.
It's amusing to see somebody like you acknowledge the equivalence of a Chomskyite position with a US Government position. You can turn in your secret Chomskyite decoder ring at the door as you leave.
Them were confusing times. All the 'Support the NLF' loonies splintered into a whole bunch of factions when China invaded Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. Maoists and various weird factions scattered all over the spectrum, trying to figure out what 'the line' was.
Apple ran their 'cloners' out of business not that long ago.
Earlier, they sued anybody with a similar GUI out of business (except Microsoft. They essentially 'created' Microsoft's market for them by running all GUI-on-x86 competitors out of the market for Microsoft)
Earlier yet, they sued anybody with a machine similar to the Apple II.
Apple has a long history of 'Innovation by Litigation.'
When they end-of-life XP they had better issue a patch to remove the activation component from it.
You're kidding, right?
When they end-of-life XP they will at most smile and tell you it's time to upgrade.
People at work act like I'm weird that I stopped buying Microsoft anything (well, I bought a nice Microsoft mouse not that long ago...) at Windows 2000.
My W2K box works fine, and will continue to work fine. There are off-line Update Scripts out there now, so my 'doze boxes will NEVER connect to a Microsoft server again.
Actually, capital-intensive studio-produced movies will be extinct by then. People will still be able to shuffle around copies of 'the classics' (digitally remastered!) but the P2P 'revolution' is already in the process of running the studios out of business. Anything large and capital intensive is destined to be 'mobbed' into ruin.
I'm afraid in the future, we'll just have to settle for watching edited montagues of YouToob snippets. Maybe somebody brilliant will come on the scene who can figure out how to edit all that disjointed footage into feature-length shows. Who knows, anything is possible.
I know!! We can just play back the tapes of music and images that the Seti Project will reveal!
In the end, it all winds up a steaming pile of crap in one way or another.
You are incorrect. The pile of crap quickly drops in temperature to well below the level of wafting off steam. The 'steam' you refer to is likely methane gasses.
You are a hardened cynical person who subscribes to the arguements of one side in a bitter dispute with complex origins and only complex possible solutions.
Further, you sound like a pamphlet reader from a disinterested third party country. That makes you an opportunist troll creature who feeds and thrives on the energy of the conflict.
That makes you a far sicker individual than the zealots on either side in the original conflict.
Seek help.
Oh, shit. Never mind. Just go to Sundays Rally and wave your fucking banner if it helps you feel more in power of your destiny.
Have the Arab people (or at least their leaders) of those lands surrounding Israel been breeding nothing but unbridled hatred and fury over the past nearly sixty years?
Actually, the Arab 'nations' (whose borders, of course, were established by European colonialists) surrounding the territory of Israel have aggressively refused to assimilate the populations of people who were displaced by the Israelis. The 'Palestinians' are fenced into compounds, essentially concentration camps, and not allowed to move on and become citizens of another country. The 'helpful, friend of the Palestianian struggle' countries surrounding Israel keep these people contained as hostages, captive in camps where their hatred can be brewed and cultivated, so they can be released against Israel from time to time.
It's really a sick situation, and one created by all sides in the conflict.
Chomsky backed the Pol Pot regime earlier, and for a longer period of time, than just about any other Western intellectual. That alone makes him a brilliant thinker.
The US is after total world domination and nothing else will do.
If by the term 'the US' you mean certain ideas of democracy and freedom, yes, proponents of those ideas are hoping to spread them far and wide across the whole world.
This disturbs many local and parochial despots in other parts of the world. Some of said despots confuse 'indigenous culture' with their right to stomp on and oppress the other people living near them.
A third group, of course, is corrupt interests within the US who use 'spreading the ideals of the US experiment further in the world' as an explanation for their bald rampant imperialist aims.
Unfortunately, there is a complicated big mix of people out there and it's sometimes difficult to determine which people are which.
Anybody who 'excels' at any sport is by definition a genetic abberation. The people who are 'best' at all the Olympic events start out as being physically ideal in some way and then train further in the given activity. So since they're already genetic freaks, what's the difference if they're chemically augmented genetic freaks?
Big brutish football players, and freakish tall basketball players would deserve our sympathy if there wasn't an entertainment industry eager to draw our attention to them (and to the advertising played in parallel with their performances)
I bought a TrakPhone. It's still my only wireless phone. I need it just as infrequently as I thought I would, and it was only $16 at WalMart and I only have to buy $10 increments of time on it every few months.
It's just a phone, though it doesn't have text messages. Because I deal in teenagers as little as possible (get out of my f'ing orchard, you little creeps!)
Eventually, the Jaguar brand went in the tank because they just weren't giving customers what they want and their attitude led to horrible quality control.
Also, Jaguar now has come out with that ghastly model type that has the toilet seat oval on the grille.
Maybe Apple could consider issuing iPhone 2.0 to T-Mobile in two years.
Or maybe T-Mobile could consider offering the hack to any Iphone owner who wants it? I could see the competing cellular carriers latching onto this and offering "no-cost hack of your Iphone if you switch" deals.
Apple's legal muscle can probably reach right out and get the FCC to do their bidding. The notably corrupt FCC operation does pretty much whatever rich corporations want it to, ya know.
The mistake this person made, if it is true that he unlocked the Iphone, is that he should have dissimenated the information as broadly as possible, as rapidly as possible. Now, he's tried to 'profit' from it personally, and there's probably a fat Apple lawyer sitting on his stomach while another fat Apple lawyer ties on the gag.
He could have gained tremendous geek cred and become another DVD Jon. Instead, now he's just another victim of the Apple legal department. (there are many, stretching back years, to when Apple was running Apple II clones out of business, and wiping out any GUI competitors to Windows on the PeeCee)
I subscribed to Linux Journal for a year or so in the mid 90's. Still have the back issues somewhere. The problem was, it was and still is mostly a 'Linux advocacy' organ, and the articles and themes got repetetive after awhile.
It's not a 'hobby' any more than huffing glue out of plastic bags is a hobby.
Which, incidentally, could be classified as being a 'hobby' I suppose, if one is struggling to justify making and distributing unauthorized copies of someone else's creative output and needs some cases to cite.
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I'm pretty certain you can't run plain X11 with the tab window manager on a 386 with only 2 megs of RAM.
If I was going to run Linux on something that limited, I'd probably use the 1.2.13 or 1.2.18 kernel. Compiled (somewhere else!) for just exactly the hardware in the 386 box, it would work fine.
But then I'd probably rather run Minix 2 on something like that.
And the Union Bosses are famous for trumping up 'charges' against companies that aren't under their thumb.
Belive me, the Internationals have whole teams of people whose job is to conduct 'studies' and stir up hysteria about companies they want a piece of.
It's amusing to see somebody like you acknowledge the equivalence of a Chomskyite position with a US Government position. You can turn in your secret Chomskyite decoder ring at the door as you leave.
Them were confusing times. All the 'Support the NLF' loonies splintered into a whole bunch of factions when China invaded Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. Maoists and various weird factions scattered all over the spectrum, trying to figure out what 'the line' was.
Apple ran their 'cloners' out of business not that long ago.
Earlier, they sued anybody with a similar GUI out of business (except Microsoft. They essentially 'created' Microsoft's market for them by running all GUI-on-x86 competitors out of the market for Microsoft)
Earlier yet, they sued anybody with a machine similar to the Apple II.
Apple has a long history of 'Innovation by Litigation.'
When they end-of-life XP they had better issue a patch to remove the activation component from it.
You're kidding, right?
When they end-of-life XP they will at most smile and tell you it's time to upgrade.
People at work act like I'm weird that I stopped buying Microsoft anything (well, I bought a nice Microsoft mouse not that long ago...) at Windows 2000.
My W2K box works fine, and will continue to work fine. There are off-line Update Scripts out there now, so my 'doze boxes will NEVER connect to a Microsoft server again.
Actually, capital-intensive studio-produced movies will be extinct by then. People will still be able to shuffle around copies of 'the classics' (digitally remastered!) but the P2P 'revolution' is already in the process of running the studios out of business. Anything large and capital intensive is destined to be 'mobbed' into ruin.
I'm afraid in the future, we'll just have to settle for watching edited montagues of YouToob snippets. Maybe somebody brilliant will come on the scene who can figure out how to edit all that disjointed footage into feature-length shows. Who knows, anything is possible.
I know!! We can just play back the tapes of music and images that the Seti Project will reveal!
Who/what the hell is ESR???
Don't worry about it.
It's easily wiped off with a dilute solution of bleach in water, and a garage rag.
Also, people who ask how all the prop sand from the beaches of the Indian Ocean was transported onto the large sheet of glass are asked to leave.
You misspelled '....who remembers Tip O'neil. The ol' gravy-stained necktie bureaucratic bloat, and a time when the Union Bosses had Real Clout(tm)'
In the end, it all winds up a steaming pile of crap in one way or another.
You are incorrect. The pile of crap quickly drops in temperature to well below the level of wafting off steam. The 'steam' you refer to is likely methane gasses.
How would the guncrazy oil-revenue-addicted religious whack-jobs in Iran declare war on themselves?
You are a hardened cynical person who subscribes to the arguements of one side in a bitter dispute with complex origins and only complex possible solutions.
Further, you sound like a pamphlet reader from a disinterested third party country. That makes you an opportunist troll creature who feeds and thrives on the energy of the conflict.
That makes you a far sicker individual than the zealots on either side in the original conflict.
Seek help.
Oh, shit. Never mind. Just go to Sundays Rally and wave your fucking banner if it helps you feel more in power of your destiny.
Have the Arab people (or at least their leaders) of those lands surrounding Israel been breeding nothing but unbridled hatred and fury over the past nearly sixty years?
Actually, the Arab 'nations' (whose borders, of course, were established by European colonialists) surrounding the territory of Israel have aggressively refused to assimilate the populations of people who were displaced by the Israelis. The 'Palestinians' are fenced into compounds, essentially concentration camps, and not allowed to move on and become citizens of another country. The 'helpful, friend of the Palestianian struggle' countries surrounding Israel keep these people contained as hostages, captive in camps where their hatred can be brewed and cultivated, so they can be released against Israel from time to time.
It's really a sick situation, and one created by all sides in the conflict.
Chomsky backed the Pol Pot regime earlier, and for a longer period of time, than just about any other Western intellectual. That alone makes him a brilliant thinker.
The US is after total world domination and nothing else will do.
If by the term 'the US' you mean certain ideas of democracy and freedom, yes, proponents of those ideas are hoping to spread them far and wide across the whole world.
This disturbs many local and parochial despots in other parts of the world. Some of said despots confuse 'indigenous culture' with their right to stomp on and oppress the other people living near them.
A third group, of course, is corrupt interests within the US who use 'spreading the ideals of the US experiment further in the world' as an explanation for their bald rampant imperialist aims.
Unfortunately, there is a complicated big mix of people out there and it's sometimes difficult to determine which people are which.
Anybody who 'excels' at any sport is by definition a genetic abberation. The people who are 'best' at all the Olympic events start out as being physically ideal in some way and then train further in the given activity. So since they're already genetic freaks, what's the difference if they're chemically augmented genetic freaks?
Big brutish football players, and freakish tall basketball players would deserve our sympathy if there wasn't an entertainment industry eager to draw our attention to them (and to the advertising played in parallel with their performances)
There. The nerd interpretation of sports.
I caught a homerun ball once, too. Then, before the pro player could sign it, some kid who thought he was cool signed it instead.
I bought a TrakPhone. It's still my only wireless phone. I need it just as infrequently as I thought I would, and it was only $16 at WalMart and I only have to buy $10 increments of time on it every few months.
It's just a phone, though it doesn't have text messages. Because I deal in teenagers as little as possible (get out of my f'ing orchard, you little creeps!)
This here is Slashdot. Not anti-Microsoft. Not pro-Apple. It's a site and a community who are into hacking and OSS and other cool stuff.
We really, really need to say goodbye to some of the 'shiny consumer stuff' nuts who've wandered in here.
Eventually, the Jaguar brand went in the tank because they just weren't giving customers what they want and their attitude led to horrible quality control.
Also, Jaguar now has come out with that ghastly model type that has the toilet seat oval on the grille.
Maybe Apple could consider issuing iPhone 2.0 to T-Mobile in two years.
Or maybe T-Mobile could consider offering the hack to any Iphone owner who wants it? I could see the competing cellular carriers latching onto this and offering "no-cost hack of your Iphone if you switch" deals.
Apple's legal muscle can probably reach right out and get the FCC to do their bidding. The notably corrupt FCC operation does pretty much whatever rich corporations want it to, ya know.
The mistake this person made, if it is true that he unlocked the Iphone, is that he should have dissimenated the information as broadly as possible, as rapidly as possible. Now, he's tried to 'profit' from it personally, and there's probably a fat Apple lawyer sitting on his stomach while another fat Apple lawyer ties on the gag.
He could have gained tremendous geek cred and become another DVD Jon. Instead, now he's just another victim of the Apple legal department. (there are many, stretching back years, to when Apple was running Apple II clones out of business, and wiping out any GUI competitors to Windows on the PeeCee)
I subscribed to Linux Journal for a year or so in the mid 90's. Still have the back issues somewhere. The problem was, it was and still is mostly a 'Linux advocacy' organ, and the articles and themes got repetetive after awhile.
It's not a 'hobby' any more than huffing glue out of plastic bags is a hobby.
Which, incidentally, could be classified as being a 'hobby' I suppose, if one is struggling to justify making and distributing unauthorized copies of someone else's creative output and needs some cases to cite.