Might shell out $10 a month (I pay that much for an EasyNews account) for a no-ads Google account, and GMail is handy for offsite backups and as a general spam box.
Truthfully though, I am on the verge of building another box out of the upgrade pile and putting something like ADP on it to have a personal spidering-type search engine on my home LAN just for the hell of it. Who knows, Google might fall victim to the same sort of legislation that alt.* has and I want my own damned list just because I can.
I already use ADP on a client site and it does alright for indexing manual submissions, but I would like to put it on a machine and just let it run wild.
In Fallout 2 the drug "Jet" is methamphetamine, in fact during a conversation with some NPC (Myron?) it is referred to as either amphetamine or methamphetamine.
Don't tell that to the asshat though, o.k.? It can be our dirty little videogame secret.
BTW can anybody get Fallout Tactics to run with WINE?
Back in 1997 I was using a 386-25 with 8 megs of RAM, a 20 gig hard drive and a 14.4 modem. Got started into *NIX with OpenBSD (for the small footprint) but the dialer support was a mess so I went to Debian Linux (for the small footprint). I did not have an optical drive, so had to download floppy images and install it all via floppy, 1.44 megs at a time. It was... educational.
The parent poster is right, sometimes getting a whole dist downloaded meant waiting a week or more, starting the FTP client (CuteFTP on Windows 3.11) before going to work, then getting booted off the ISP after 6 hours, restarting the download after work, restarting again before going to sleep. Then, when the distro was done downloading, writing the floppy images and then wiping the Windows install and trying to get Linux up. And if for some reason a disk image did not download properly, reinstalling Windows 3.11 again just to download that single image and write it to a new floppy, then starting the install process over.
Still remember the feeling the first time I got a *NIX to install properly and could log in to my own machine as root. It was like a drug. A really, really good drug.
And I haven't looked back.
I keep Damn Small Linux on a 128 meg USB stick in my pocket at all times, and not only does the full version fit into 128 megs, it leaves enough room for some good mp3s.
You can literally stick DSL on the USB stick that you use for your mp3 player and always have it on hand in case you have to do a little free tech support for someone while you are running around, or if you want to check your online accounts from someone else's machine by booting from the USB stick so as not to leave any of your login info in their RAM/swap/cache. And you can listen to the mp3s.
7 to 11 year old children are not physically or mentally capable of the things Card has them doing, no matter what training regimen you put them through.
Kids keep getting smarter. When I was 4 years old, preschool consisted of fingerpainting and coloring, maybe a little bit of ABC and number recognition.
My recently-5-year-old finished preschool in May, during which she learned to recognize and write over 2 dozen words (colors, numbers, shapes) as well as basic addition and subtraction.
In the near-distant future (200 years? 300 years?) how much further along will kids be? Algebra in primary school?
Don't sell kids short. Unless you have kids of your own, you really don't have enough material with which to reference an evaluation.
What are these "new keyboards" of which you speak?
I have been using the same IBM KB-7953 since the late 90's and it works great. Nice feel, easy typing, and the keys are seated inside 1/4" ridges to keep minor spills out of the way. The keycaps come off easily for cleaning out beard hair and crumbs.
Used to have 2 of them, but one of them succumbed to a severe Jack-n-Coke incident a few years back.
I can sum Slashdot's situation up in one sentence:
Supported by advertising dollars.
Once an entity sells itself to the highest bidder it becomes tainted, no matter how small the movement. In for a dime, in for a dollar.
Slashdot is marginally good for FOSS news, but the book reviews and political news are mostly crap.
The only saving grace is that there are still a number of intelligent people who post here.
Disclaimer: I am not one of those intelligent people.
True dat.
Even worse is working from home, and your wife works from home, and you share an office.
And you have a 5 year old who is home all day.
Welcome to my world.
The only new computer I ever bought was a Tandy 1500 HD laptop back in 1991. Paid around $1500 for it, as I recall it had a whopping 640k of RAM, 4 color grayscale passive-matrix LCD, 10 Meg hard drive, and ran at 4.77 Mhz. Oh, it was a powerhouse. QuickBasic and TurboPascal and Jetboot Jack, those were the days.
Since then I have only run used boxes, from friends who needed upgrade help and paid me with their old equipment, thrift stores, and occasionally eBay.
Right now I am posting this from a Gateway laptop, 2.4 ghz Celeron with 512 max RAM, a 40 gig hard drive and a wireless card. It is the communications machine (IRC, IM, etc). Got it used, stuck the wireless card, 256 more megs of ram, and a new battery in it. Total investment roughly $180. Ubuntu Gutsy screams on it.
My development box is a Dell 2.4 ghz Celeron box with a gig of RAM, 160 gig hard drive and not much else. Paid ~$160 for it on eBay, another $30 for half a gig of RAM and $5 at the thrift store for a like-new 17-inch monitor. It also runs Gutsy. I use it for file storage and virtual machines, mostly VMware Debian Lamps and an OpenSolaris VM for the Solaris courses, and a Virtualbox container with XP Pro because NetObjects doesn't run under Wine. Total investment less than $200.
Old hardware is as good as the use you can get out of it.
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Back when I was your age, ALL posts were stupid. And we LIKED it! 'Cause that's what there WAS!
I notice on my RAZR that using Bluetooth drains it very quickly.
Might shell out $10 a month (I pay that much for an EasyNews account) for a no-ads Google account, and GMail is handy for offsite backups and as a general spam box.
Truthfully though, I am on the verge of building another box out of the upgrade pile and putting something like ADP on it to have a personal spidering-type search engine on my home LAN just for the hell of it. Who knows, Google might fall victim to the same sort of legislation that alt.* has and I want my own damned list just because I can.
I already use ADP on a client site and it does alright for indexing manual submissions, but I would like to put it on a machine and just let it run wild.
If you can't tell which word is being used improperly in the above sentence, then having it explained to you won't help.
You sound just like my wife.
Couldn't these alleged "others" just sort of "assume" that the OP "tried?"
That's all we do here, we TRY and TRY and TRY and...
I know a mime who will kick your meme ass if you don't pipe down.
And yet here I am, posting this from my screaming-fast 90ghz powerhouse. Upgrading is for sissies.
mod parent up
In Fallout 2 the drug "Jet" is methamphetamine, in fact during a conversation with some NPC (Myron?) it is referred to as either amphetamine or methamphetamine.
Don't tell that to the asshat though, o.k.? It can be our dirty little videogame secret.
BTW can anybody get Fallout Tactics to run with WINE?
Or even better, install Linux on it, then run Solaris in a VM. When you geeky friends come around, you can fullscreen Solaris and out-geek them.
Muahahahahahaha
Back in 1997 I was using a 386-25 with 8 megs of RAM, a 20 gig hard drive and a 14.4 modem. Got started into *NIX with OpenBSD (for the small footprint) but the dialer support was a mess so I went to Debian Linux (for the small footprint). I did not have an optical drive, so had to download floppy images and install it all via floppy, 1.44 megs at a time. It was... educational.
The parent poster is right, sometimes getting a whole dist downloaded meant waiting a week or more, starting the FTP client (CuteFTP on Windows 3.11) before going to work, then getting booted off the ISP after 6 hours, restarting the download after work, restarting again before going to sleep. Then, when the distro was done downloading, writing the floppy images and then wiping the Windows install and trying to get Linux up. And if for some reason a disk image did not download properly, reinstalling Windows 3.11 again just to download that single image and write it to a new floppy, then starting the install process over.
Still remember the feeling the first time I got a *NIX to install properly and could log in to my own machine as root. It was like a drug. A really, really good drug.
And I haven't looked back.
I keep Damn Small Linux on a 128 meg USB stick in my pocket at all times, and not only does the full version fit into 128 megs, it leaves enough room for some good mp3s.
You can literally stick DSL on the USB stick that you use for your mp3 player and always have it on hand in case you have to do a little free tech support for someone while you are running around, or if you want to check your online accounts from someone else's machine by booting from the USB stick so as not to leave any of your login info in their RAM/swap/cache. And you can listen to the mp3s.
DSL rocks.
No, she turned 5 in late May, shortly before the end of school.
7 to 11 year old children are not physically or mentally capable of the things Card has them doing, no matter what training regimen you put them through.
Kids keep getting smarter. When I was 4 years old, preschool consisted of fingerpainting and coloring, maybe a little bit of ABC and number recognition.
My recently-5-year-old finished preschool in May, during which she learned to recognize and write over 2 dozen words (colors, numbers, shapes) as well as basic addition and subtraction.
In the near-distant future (200 years? 300 years?) how much further along will kids be? Algebra in primary school?
Don't sell kids short. Unless you have kids of your own, you really don't have enough material with which to reference an evaluation.
Can't we just use Babelfish?
For example, a German news story
See? Totally easy to understand...
holodeck opera
"Once trust has been questioned, it can no longer exist."
It becomes an exercise in conscious risk assessment.
There is a Pidgin patch available HERE
So... he thinks he has a beef, eh?
What are these "new keyboards" of which you speak?
I have been using the same IBM KB-7953 since the late 90's and it works great. Nice feel, easy typing, and the keys are seated inside 1/4" ridges to keep minor spills out of the way. The keycaps come off easily for cleaning out beard hair and crumbs.
Used to have 2 of them, but one of them succumbed to a severe Jack-n-Coke incident a few years back.
And that surprises you because...?
I can sum Slashdot's situation up in one sentence:
Supported by advertising dollars.
Once an entity sells itself to the highest bidder it becomes tainted, no matter how small the movement.
In for a dime, in for a dollar.
Slashdot is marginally good for FOSS news, but the book reviews and political news are mostly crap.
The only saving grace is that there are still a number of intelligent people who post here.
Disclaimer: I am not one of those intelligent people.
Nah, we have our outlets.
For example, I like to vent my frustrations on Slashdot YOU FUCKING PRICK!!!1
Hold on, did you just compare George Carlin to Bob Saget?
You, sir, are one of those little piles of shit in the street.
True dat. Even worse is working from home, and your wife works from home, and you share an office. And you have a 5 year old who is home all day. Welcome to my world.
Oh, o.k.
Guess i'm just your typical ugly American.
The only new computer I ever bought was a Tandy 1500 HD laptop back in 1991. Paid around $1500 for it, as I recall it had a whopping 640k of RAM, 4 color grayscale passive-matrix LCD, 10 Meg hard drive, and ran at 4.77 Mhz. Oh, it was a powerhouse. QuickBasic and TurboPascal and Jetboot Jack, those were the days.
Since then I have only run used boxes, from friends who needed upgrade help and paid me with their old equipment, thrift stores, and occasionally eBay.
Right now I am posting this from a Gateway laptop, 2.4 ghz Celeron with 512 max RAM, a 40 gig hard drive and a wireless card. It is the communications machine (IRC, IM, etc). Got it used, stuck the wireless card, 256 more megs of ram, and a new battery in it. Total investment roughly $180. Ubuntu Gutsy screams on it.
My development box is a Dell 2.4 ghz Celeron box with a gig of RAM, 160 gig hard drive and not much else. Paid ~$160 for it on eBay, another $30 for half a gig of RAM and $5 at the thrift store for a like-new 17-inch monitor. It also runs Gutsy. I use it for file storage and virtual machines, mostly VMware Debian Lamps and an OpenSolaris VM for the Solaris courses, and a Virtualbox container with XP Pro because NetObjects doesn't run under Wine. Total investment less than $200.
Old hardware is as good as the use you can get out of it.