I bought a Sony 34" widescreen CRT TV. In the documentation was a copy of the GPL. Seems the menu runs Linux. They list the kernel, busybox and about 6 libs. I submitted it as a story but was rejected.
I thought it was interesting as it takes awhile for it to display anything when you first turn it on. I thought the CRT needed to warm up. Maybe it is just Linux booting.
Everytime I go to this web site, http://www.welcometothescene.com/sponsors, random *.exe files show up on my OSX desktop. Files like c4chzgbd.exe or pny4xfm.exe. They disapear if I click on them or the desktop.
I have seen these files on a friends Windows machine and have tried in vain to remove them all but they always pop backup, while I am trying to remove them, named something else. Used all the Spyware removal programs too.
Using Firefox under OSX I am surprised to see these popping up on my desktop. I have seen these before from other web sites. I have closed the browser and returned to The Sceen web site three times. All three times a *.exe shows up on the desktop.
It's a dangerous world out there. Lions and tigers and bears! Spyware, trojans and viri! Oh MY!
You Windows and Explorer users out there may want to scan your hard drives and wash your hands after visiting this web site.
Personality wise I love the Woz. A great and generous guy. Jobs is well known as being a bully and self-centered. As competitive and unforgiving as the business world is it takes a Jobs to run a company. The Woz is too nice. Woz still represents to me the Apple I love. Jobs makes the company successfull. It will aways make money with Jobs at the helm.
Yes I know Woz is not and has not been at Apple for a long time. He is still the or one of the fathers of Apple though.
The person that thinks companies and institutions are being paranoid and unrealistict not allowing iPods and USB watches would never think about using these devices to take something not his or that he was not entitled to take/copy.
The person who is responsible for the security of the data is not taking his repsonsibilites seriously if he makes it easy for the person who would copy the important data to copy and leave with it.
People always seem paranoid and even unreasonable when they are trying to protect something you would never even think of hurting, stealing or destroying. But that does not mean there are not people who would do those things.
I've heard several times that Slackware is not a good beginners distro. For the non-tech I would agree. But for the tech inclined I think it is great. My first distro was Slackware 2.3. Lots of work but I sure learned alot. Ran great too on a 66mz 486 with 16 megs and 400 meg hard drive.
Those were good days. I remeber how excited I was when it first booted and then again when X was running and then again when PPP was connected.
Don't seem to get that excited anymore. The thrill is gone.
Doom, Doom2, Slackware. My weekends were full and the neighbors terrified at the screams of cacodemons and blasts of chaingun and shotgun fire.
And the sreams of frustration over X STILL not set right and another "vi XF86config". Then the YAHOO! IT WERKS! I GOT IT UP! Uh X I mean......
I had more real fun and learned more on that 66mz 486. Slackware was my first Linux and Doom my first real gaming. I was also 45.
I get free hosting from a friend in exchange for some admin and security work now and then. I am getting the better deal as he does not ask for much very often.
While I have used RedHat from 4.2 and ran Fedora Core 1 and liked it I ended up with a Debian install. After playing with a Morphix Live CD and really liking it I decided to double click on the "Install to Hard Drive" icon on the desktop.
No looking back. I love it. Easiest Debian install I've ever done. I really like the Synaptic package manager too. I've used Slackware and various releases of Mandrake but from now on it's Debian and FreeBSD for me. FreeBSD for servers and Debian/Morphix on my Thinkpad.
After some outfit called HiMandrake, who claims to represent Mandrake, made me take down my eBay auctions for Mandrake CDs for trademark violations and supposedly violating the GPL (??????) I find this rather sweet.
I sell CDs of Linux and FreeBSD and NetBSD on Ebay. So far I have done ok on FreeBSD. Not getting rich but I have sales and interest enough to keep listing them. Am getting interest in NetBSD and expanding the sellection there too.
The FreeBSD and NetBSD listings get alot of views. Never know why poeple look and not buy, price? Just curious? I dunno but so far I have sold as many FreeBSD CDs as any Linux Distro. Just listed NetBSD this week and have one sale already.
Linux wise Fredora and Rehat are my top sellers. I do not sell Mandrake anymore. They do not seem to have the same open mindframe of the other distros to sharing. It was demanded I remove the downloadable version from my listings. Ebay was even contacted and told to remove the listings.
I am doing ok enough with the others that I do not need Mandrake. In reading the info on the *BSD and other Linux Distros web sites they have very open and sharing minded policies except for Mandrake, OpenBSD and SUSE. No matter, it's their work they can demand what they want I guess.
But the openess of Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenOffice.org is so inspiring I have decided to doante a portion of every sell to their respective organizations to help and to share back.
These guys are really cool and what they are doing is really cool. I know you already know that but after the Mandrake acted the point has been further driven home to me.
Oh, well I guess I'll take this stuff back to Radio Shack. I was gonna build a Rover and try and sell it to NASA for $4,000,000. Nice little profit for me and big savings for them........;-)
I am not trying to be negative, I think what they are doing is great and long overdue. Can't wait till we have Rovers on other planets. But why did it cost $400 million? I've read about what Rover is and how it was built and what it does. I am sure it was expensive to build but $400 million? Does that include the cost of getting it there?
Being 52 and growing up during the cold war it is still amazing and very nice to see these three countries getting along and working together.
I hope it continues and more of this cooperation amoung countries continues to expand. MAYBE someday we will work as one planet instead of individual countries. Maybe......
I've email CNN and TechTV asking them to try and get word to the family of Brianna LaHara that if they will set up a Paypal account that there are many of us who will help pay the $2000.
1000 of us at $2 each would be one song each she was fined for.
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There is porn on the internet? :-O
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I bought a Sony 34" widescreen CRT TV. In the documentation was a copy of the GPL. Seems the menu runs Linux. They list the kernel, busybox and about 6 libs. I submitted it as a story but was rejected.
I thought it was interesting as it takes awhile for it to display anything when you first turn it on. I thought the CRT needed to warm up. Maybe it is just Linux booting.
Now that I have a Mac Mini my AMD 2800 at 2gz and a gig of ram just sits, turned off except for an occasional game.
My Mini is 1.25 gz and 512 megs ram, Superdrive and external USB 160 gig hard drive.
I'm happy. iBook is next. Gave my Thinkpad to my daughter.
Well I was not afraid as I am running OSX but I do feel dirty.... ;-)
Everytime I go to this web site, http://www.welcometothescene.com/sponsors, random *.exe files show up on my OSX desktop. Files like c4chzgbd.exe or pny4xfm.exe. They disapear if I click on them or the desktop.
I have seen these files on a friends Windows machine and have tried in vain to remove them all but they always pop backup, while I am trying to remove them, named something else. Used all the Spyware removal programs too.
Using Firefox under OSX I am surprised to see these popping up on my desktop. I have seen these before from other web sites. I have closed the browser and returned to The Sceen web site three times. All three times a *.exe shows up on the desktop.
It's a dangerous world out there. Lions and tigers and bears! Spyware, trojans and viri! Oh MY!
You Windows and Explorer users out there may want to scan your hard drives and wash your hands after visiting this web site.
Personality wise I love the Woz. A great and generous guy. Jobs is well known as being a bully and self-centered. As competitive and unforgiving as the business world is it takes a Jobs to run a company. The Woz is too nice. Woz still represents to me the Apple I love. Jobs makes the company successfull. It will aways make money with Jobs at the helm.
Yes I know Woz is not and has not been at Apple for a long time. He is still the or one of the fathers of Apple though.
Do not forget the dock battle. APUs were neat and the battle intense.
Trinity getting to see the sun and cloud tops drove home the idea of having always lived underground and never seeing daylight.
The person that thinks companies and institutions are being paranoid and unrealistict not allowing iPods and USB watches would never think about using these devices to take something not his or that he was not entitled to take/copy.
The person who is responsible for the security of the data is not taking his repsonsibilites seriously if he makes it easy for the person who would copy the important data to copy and leave with it.
People always seem paranoid and even unreasonable when they are trying to protect something you would never even think of hurting, stealing or destroying. But that does not mean there are not people who would do those things.
I've heard several times that Slackware is not a good beginners distro. For the non-tech I would agree. But for the tech inclined I think it is great. My first distro was Slackware 2.3. Lots of work but I sure learned alot. Ran great too on a 66mz 486 with 16 megs and 400 meg hard drive.
Those were good days. I remeber how excited I was when it first booted and then again when X was running and then again when PPP was connected.
Don't seem to get that excited anymore. The thrill is gone.
Doom, Doom2, Slackware. My weekends were full and the neighbors terrified at the screams of cacodemons and blasts of chaingun and shotgun fire. And the sreams of frustration over X STILL not set right and another "vi XF86config". Then the YAHOO! IT WERKS! I GOT IT UP! Uh X I mean...... I had more real fun and learned more on that 66mz 486. Slackware was my first Linux and Doom my first real gaming. I was also 45.
I get free hosting from a friend in exchange for some admin and security work now and then. I am getting the better deal as he does not ask for much very often.
While I have used RedHat from 4.2 and ran Fedora Core 1 and liked it I ended up with a Debian install. After playing with a Morphix Live CD and really liking it I decided to double click on the "Install to Hard Drive" icon on the desktop.
No looking back. I love it. Easiest Debian install I've ever done. I really like the Synaptic package manager too. I've used Slackware and various releases of Mandrake but from now on it's Debian and FreeBSD for me. FreeBSD for servers and Debian/Morphix on my Thinkpad.
Getting old, like things that are easier now.
I use Paypal for the CDs I sell on eBay but I never let the balance get over $100 before I take it out. Well ok, I spend it.
After some outfit called HiMandrake, who claims to represent Mandrake, made me take down my eBay auctions for Mandrake CDs for trademark violations and supposedly violating the GPL (??????) I find this rather sweet.
The comment I get is they have a dialup connection.
I sell CDs of Linux and FreeBSD and NetBSD on Ebay. So far I have done ok on FreeBSD. Not getting rich but I have sales and interest enough to keep listing them. Am getting interest in NetBSD and expanding the sellection there too.
The FreeBSD and NetBSD listings get alot of views. Never know why poeple look and not buy, price? Just curious? I dunno but so far I have sold as many FreeBSD CDs as any Linux Distro. Just listed NetBSD this week and have one sale already.
Linux wise Fredora and Rehat are my top sellers. I do not sell Mandrake anymore. They do not seem to have the same open mindframe of the other distros to sharing. It was demanded I remove the downloadable version from my listings. Ebay was even contacted and told to remove the listings.
I am doing ok enough with the others that I do not need Mandrake. In reading the info on the *BSD and other Linux Distros web sites they have very open and sharing minded policies except for Mandrake, OpenBSD and SUSE. No matter, it's their work they can demand what they want I guess.
But the openess of Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenOffice.org is so inspiring I have decided to doante a portion of every sell to their respective organizations to help and to share back.
These guys are really cool and what they are doing is really cool. I know you already know that but after the Mandrake acted the point has been further driven home to me.
Blantant self promotion:
http://stores.ebay.com/poppageeks
Oh, well I guess I'll take this stuff back to Radio Shack. I was gonna build a Rover and try and sell it to NASA for $4,000,000. Nice little profit for me and big savings for them........ ;-)
I am not trying to be negative, I think what they are doing is great and long overdue. Can't wait till we have Rovers on other planets. But why did it cost $400 million? I've read about what Rover is and how it was built and what it does. I am sure it was expensive to build but $400 million? Does that include the cost of getting it there?
I agree with you completely. I said cooperate not "all-be-one".
We do not have to agree on everything, we won't, just not fight, war, when we do not.
Being 52 and growing up during the cold war it is still amazing and very nice to see these three countries getting along and working together.
I hope it continues and more of this cooperation amoung countries continues to expand. MAYBE someday we will work as one planet instead of individual countries. Maybe......
Seems Slashdot has a new form of advertising. Disguising ads as stories.
I have three SS10, 1 SS5, 1 SS20, a SGI Indy 100mz, a dual P166 and a Dual P233. Bunches of old 2 and 4 gig SCSI hard drives as well as a 400 meg.
One of the Sparc 10s has 4 cpus. 50mz I think. One has 3 50s and one 2 90s.
I also have newer hardware and laptops, a 233 p2 and a 700 celeron. A dual 550 celeron and a 1.2ghz Duron.
I run Solaris, FreeBSD, Redhat and WinXP.
Can't forget my Zaurus.....
Love 'em all. Love my dualies the mostest.
I've email CNN and TechTV asking them to try and get word to the family of Brianna LaHara that if they will set up a Paypal account that there are many of us who will help pay the $2000.
1000 of us at $2 each would be one song each she was fined for.