50 years from now who the hell wants to look at an email. How are you going to find an old forgotton email tucked away in the attic? Is an email going to show the wrinkles of deleting it to the deleted items folder. Email has no personality!
Putting propaganda on the Internet is par for the course for rebel groups in Africa, where access to technology -- though limited -- is making it easier for those who want to start civil wars.
I think that this is fantastic and has lots and lots of world applications. But why do I get the sense that what these people really need isnt wireless email to their laptops.
Decent infrastructure has more benefits than you can imagine. My dad works for the World Food Program and that org has used many different technologies for communication throughout the world.
At his last post (Nicaragua) they used Toyota Land Cruisers to get around. Those vehicles were equipped with a multitude of antennas, including some to communicate in the UHF range. For more remote locations they used motorcycles to transport satellite phones where needed. Now he's heading up operations in Angola and i'm not sure what sorts of techs they use there, but i've heard talk of satellite phones and in the capital, Luanda, he uses a cel phone (talking to him from MI, USA is a pain, phone cuts out and is quite laggy).
While starving sucks, it sucks even more when you can't communicate with anyone that you are hungry. In the past it was necessary to physically visit every single location to see how situations were there. Now, with better communication devices, when something serious happens (hurricane, landslide, refugee influx, etc) it can be communicated much quicker, response times are faster, and more lives can be saved.
you dont really use openbsd, do you? if did, you'd know how to work within the release cycle. i really dont see what's wrong with a consistent release cycle. you always know when the release is coming, no one is springing it on you, it is never late. sure it forces you to know your machines - as in whether they even need upgraded or whether you can still be running 2.7 w/o problem - but that sounds like a good thing, and w/ organization (and less/. reading) it is possible to handle even for large installations.
definitely. half the fun of a movie is the experience of the peeps around you too. if i wanna see a movie by myself in quiet and all, then i'll rent it and watch it at home.
for those of you who read/. instead of the mailing lists for your OpenBSD news, OpenBSD is not affected
From: Todd C. Miller
To: mr grip
Cc: misc@
Subject: Re: sendmail trojan - were stable or current affected?
In message so spake "mr grip" (jhonold):
> does anybody know if either tree in the last couple months had trojaned code
> in it, exploiting make builders?
Not affected. When I committed sendmail 8.12.6 the tarball I fetched
was not the trojaned one. Even if it had been we probably would
not have been affected since we don't use sendmail's build system
(which is where the trojan was apparently inserted).
you save over $1000 for the comparable Dell, which comes with more options than the Sun (excluding the 6 gb total RAM).
If you max both out, you get the Dell (with raid and redundant power supply) for $7000 and the Sun (with 6 gb RAM) for $11,600.
You can find greater savings in disk arrays from both vendors.
somehow i forgot one tiny pc that has even been reviewed on/. before: the Coffee line of computers
Mocha PC: P4, up to 1 GB RAM, 2 NICs (1 gigabit!), modem, video, sound, firewire, USB 2.0, pcmcia slot, cd drive, hard drive, all in 198x161x62 mm for $1159 on up.
they have others, but right now the Mocha is their most feature-packed.
i have one of the espresso's - it heats up like crazy and requires cool-down period or it won't reboot. Maybe they should have named their computers after ice cream instead of coffee.
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I run mine with a P166, and I don't see any issues. I doubt the CPU gets utilized much at all. It is quiet, doesn't take much power, and isn't too large. And it cost a lot less than $300
166?? 166?????
i run my home firewall on a 486/66 12mb RAM which i got for free.
I wouldn't consider this a good firewall, it seems like more power than is necessary
more power than necessary?? more power than necessary??????
at work we have a P1.2 1gb RAM working as a dedicated firewall.
it all depends on what the firewall is firewalling.
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in case you haven't seen these before-
www.soekris.com/
486/133, 3 NICs, 4.85" x 5.7" mobos, 64 mb RAM, plus dedicated encryption boards for $332
Sometimes i wonder how so many people can ignore the RP part of MMORPG, and i'm always glad to see there are some players who know what RP means.
It seems that the biggest effect of UO's decision to sell high level players is that they are negating the RP aspect of the game (and yes it is possible to RP with 0 skills).
The problem with this is that you found that the value of your time to put in gaining the character's levels and skills is priceless.
maybe you and me enjoyed walking up at 5am to squeeze in a couple hours of gaming before work and before the girlfriend would notice every day, and maybe we enjoyed the comraderie of those awaiting the spawns in the dungeons, assaulting the orc town, or later on adventuring into the dragon caves, maybe we enjoyed the gaming and the level advancing, but plenty other folks just joined a clan and automated the task of advancing their character.
i earned every point of my character's 100 magery; each could be traced back to a key comination i pressed and time during which i actually had fun role playing, even when i was a weak character. But there were plenty of times where i met up with someone who one day had no skills and the next had double 100's simply by automating it. A world that allows that might as well sell high level characters too.
Many players seemed to have this idea that the only way they could enjoy the game was to have 100 skills in everything. Why? The game was plenty fun when i died every night and when i was able to teleport out in the nick of time and when i could actually handle tough situations. If you met up with some good people (as opposed to the virtual zombies who couldnt think past waiting, killing, advancing), your skillset didnt really matter, instead you just had Fun.
Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school?
no one can take away what you learned in school, and no other person's paper can either. in terms of the game, i still had fun playing UO and there is nothing that can ever change that.
on *BSD there are login classes, kind of like groups but define access according to how much mem available, how many processes to run, and more. setting total processes (and other things, like open files) for the system is a sysctl variable as well
on Solaris there is "set maxuprc=50" in/etc/system.
there's more but i'm hungry. someone please fill in the rest.
Such as tiny details like that in BSD, "man" knows enough to auto-exit when it runs out of text, whereas in linux you have to know to press Q for Quit.
While i agree that BSD's feel more mature, i dont feel this point is relevant. The default pager for man in linux (at least the distros i've used) is less, while in BSD it is more. The auto-exit you mention is one difference between more and less.
Personally, i prefer less to read man pages since i often want to page back up when i reach the end. Luckily setting PAGER=less works fine in both OS's.
Freesco does most of that and fits on a 1.44mb floppy. Linux based. Web server, bridging, routing, dial in, web management interface, plenty for a basic server. Takes about 4 megs of RAM. What were you saying again?
i was saying...
[Linux] file/sbin
file: no such file or directory
[Linux] which file
which: No such file or directory
[Linux] uname -a
uname: No such file or directory
find worked *very* different too, and even ls was different (not alpha order, try `ls/bin`)
I'm sure Freesco has a very definite, good place.
What i was saying is that a base OpenBSD install, with full range of commands that you will already be used to, takes less than 100mb.
160M default install is a lot better than a 400-600M install with other *Nix and BSD flavors.
install OpenBSD using only base31.tgz etc31.tgz and bsd, you'll have an install that takes about 96mb and has more than enough tools to run pf, bridging and altq (all for setting up a very useful firewall), and even has pop server, sshd, apache, perl - plenty for a basic server.
Can you show that the total free time lost to excercise makes up for the extra life span?
bike to work. you already have to get there somehow, so bike there instead of driving and count it as exercise. it takes me as long to bike to work as it does to drive (thanks to wonderful park/path system where i live as well as lots of stop lights and city traffic), so it is a zero cost in time for exercise. others may not be so fortunate as far as biking goes, but there are other ways - i put in sets of pullups/pushups when i'm really busy on a project and know that the 5 minute break will help me every hour - it is a small amount of exercise but benefits my work.
lots of exercise activities can have other purposes as well; canoeing/biking/climbing/playing sports/hiking with friends/loved ones can make for really good relationships and good memories. you don't have to approach it as "All I Am Doing Is Exercising".
Slashdot Mirror
email can look good.
you just gotta look at it in the right way!
detail, project page
Ivory Coast's warriors take war to Web
Choice quote:
Decent infrastructure has more benefits than you can imagine. My dad works for the World Food Program and that org has used many different technologies for communication throughout the world.
At his last post (Nicaragua) they used Toyota Land Cruisers to get around. Those vehicles were equipped with a multitude of antennas, including some to communicate in the UHF range. For more remote locations they used motorcycles to transport satellite phones where needed. Now he's heading up operations in Angola and i'm not sure what sorts of techs they use there, but i've heard talk of satellite phones and in the capital, Luanda, he uses a cel phone (talking to him from MI, USA is a pain, phone cuts out and is quite laggy).
While starving sucks, it sucks even more when you can't communicate with anyone that you are hungry. In the past it was necessary to physically visit every single location to see how situations were there. Now, with better communication devices, when something serious happens (hurricane, landslide, refugee influx, etc) it can be communicated much quicker, response times are faster, and more lives can be saved.
OpenBSD has systrace to restrict system calls, as does NetBSD and it is being ported to linux as well. there exists a systrace implementation on NetBSD which eliminates all setuid/setgid binaries - http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2002/1 0/12/0006.html
it almosts seems that secure unix systems want to be capability systems.
Michael Lucas (author of Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD) is due out with a book on OpenBSD in a few months (Q1 03?)
so, can you wait? ;-)
you dont really use openbsd, do you? if did, you'd know how to work within the release cycle. i really dont see what's wrong with a consistent release cycle. you always know when the release is coming, no one is springing it on you, it is never late. sure it forces you to know your machines - as in whether they even need upgraded or whether you can still be running 2.7 w/o problem - but that sounds like a good thing, and w/ organization (and less /. reading) it is possible to handle even for large installations.
is the shuttle+radiator really smaller than Hitachi's water cooled laptop?
definitely. half the fun of a movie is the experience of the peeps around you too. if i wanna see a movie by myself in quiet and all, then i'll rent it and watch it at home.
oh, if only the world were fair!
sorry to steal your fire; i checked before i posted and hadnt seen anyone else mention it.
it all depends on what you are spec'ing out.
Dell 1650 - $4,163.65
2 P1.4 ghz processors
2 GB RAM
1 36GB 10k drive
2 gige NICs
add 2 GB RAM for $1131
add 1 36 GB 10k drive for $217
optional: redundant power supply, hardware raid, 4 GB RAM max, 3 drives max
Sun LX50 - $5,295.00
2 P1.4 ghz processors
2 GB RAM
1 36 GB 10k drice
2 10/100 NICs
add 2 GB RAM for $2250
add 1 36 GB 10k drive for $480
optional: 6 GB RAM max, 3 drives max
you save over $1000 for the comparable Dell, which comes with more options than the Sun (excluding the 6 gb total RAM).
If you max both out, you get the Dell (with raid and redundant power supply) for $7000 and the Sun (with 6 gb RAM) for $11,600.
You can find greater savings in disk arrays from both vendors.
somehow i forgot one tiny pc that has even been reviewed on /. before: the Coffee line of computers
Mocha PC: P4, up to 1 GB RAM, 2 NICs (1 gigabit!), modem, video, sound, firewire, USB 2.0, pcmcia slot, cd drive, hard drive, all in 198x161x62 mm for $1159 on up.
they have others, but right now the Mocha is their most feature-packed.
i have one of the espresso's - it heats up like crazy and requires cool-down period or it won't reboot. Maybe they should have named their computers after ice cream instead of coffee.
166?? 166?????
i run my home firewall on a 486/66 12mb RAM which i got for free.
I wouldn't consider this a good firewall, it seems like more power than is necessary
more power than necessary?? more power than necessary??????
at work we have a P1.2 1gb RAM working as a dedicated firewall.
it all depends on what the firewall is firewalling.
486/133, 3 NICs, 4.85" x 5.7" mobos, 64 mb RAM, plus dedicated encryption boards for $332
There's also http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/BOX-3410/BOX-3410.htm
Geode 300mhz, 2 NICs in 106mm (W) x 178mm (L) x 65mm (H)
and http://www.nexcom.com/product/ebc/ebs1563p/
VIA C3 processor, 3 NICs, 177 (W) x 51 (H) x 228.6 (D) mm
Depending on what you need, you could buy an old laptop off of ebay and get 2 nics for it.
Sometimes i wonder how so many people can ignore the RP part of MMORPG, and i'm always glad to see there are some players who know what RP means.
It seems that the biggest effect of UO's decision to sell high level players is that they are negating the RP aspect of the game (and yes it is possible to RP with 0 skills).
maybe you and me enjoyed walking up at 5am to squeeze in a couple hours of gaming before work and before the girlfriend would notice every day, and maybe we enjoyed the comraderie of those awaiting the spawns in the dungeons, assaulting the orc town, or later on adventuring into the dragon caves, maybe we enjoyed the gaming and the level advancing, but plenty other folks just joined a clan and automated the task of advancing their character.
i earned every point of my character's 100 magery; each could be traced back to a key comination i pressed and time during which i actually had fun role playing, even when i was a weak character. But there were plenty of times where i met up with someone who one day had no skills and the next had double 100's simply by automating it. A world that allows that might as well sell high level characters too.
Many players seemed to have this idea that the only way they could enjoy the game was to have 100 skills in everything. Why? The game was plenty fun when i died every night and when i was able to teleport out in the nick of time and when i could actually handle tough situations. If you met up with some good people (as opposed to the virtual zombies who couldnt think past waiting, killing, advancing), your skillset didnt really matter, instead you just had Fun.
Its like if they would be selling Masters Diplomas for few bucks and they would be as good as these you earned. Wouldn't you think it devaluates your efforts throughout the school?
no one can take away what you learned in school, and no other person's paper can either. in terms of the game, i still had fun playing UO and there is nothing that can ever change that.
*yawn*
Godwin's Law, Brin loses.
on *BSD there are login classes, kind of like groups but define access according to how much mem available, how many processes to run, and more. setting total processes (and other things, like open files) for the system is a sysctl variable as well
on Solaris there is "set maxuprc=50" in /etc/system.
there's more but i'm hungry. someone please fill in the rest.
While i agree that BSD's feel more mature, i dont feel this point is relevant. The default pager for man in linux (at least the distros i've used) is less, while in BSD it is more. The auto-exit you mention is one difference between more and less.
Personally, i prefer less to read man pages since i often want to page back up when i reach the end. Luckily setting PAGER=less works fine in both OS's.
hehe - yeah, maybe KindofBSD, WannaBSD
i was saying...
[Linux] file /sbin
/bin`)
file: no such file or directory
[Linux] which file
which: No such file or directory
[Linux] uname -a
uname: No such file or directory
find worked *very* different too, and even ls was different (not alpha order, try `ls
I'm sure Freesco has a very definite, good place.
What i was saying is that a base OpenBSD install, with full range of commands that you will already be used to, takes less than 100mb.
install OpenBSD using only base31.tgz etc31.tgz and bsd, you'll have an install that takes about 96mb and has more than enough tools to run pf, bridging and altq (all for setting up a very useful firewall), and even has pop server, sshd, apache, perl - plenty for a basic server.
bike to work. you already have to get there somehow, so bike there instead of driving and count it as exercise. it takes me as long to bike to work as it does to drive (thanks to wonderful park/path system where i live as well as lots of stop lights and city traffic), so it is a zero cost in time for exercise. others may not be so fortunate as far as biking goes, but there are other ways - i put in sets of pullups/pushups when i'm really busy on a project and know that the 5 minute break will help me every hour - it is a small amount of exercise but benefits my work.
lots of exercise activities can have other purposes as well; canoeing/biking/climbing/playing sports/hiking with friends/loved ones can make for really good relationships and good memories. you don't have to approach it as "All I Am Doing Is Exercising".
yup, something that has valid applications also has illegal applications. wow.