XFree86 says it should work. Though probably w/out support for more special features. My experience with that card though tells me it didn't have very many special features anyway. BeOS is where I really need extra video drivers. Why can't XFree drivers be modified for Be? I use both.
I hope to soon have a feature added to the Tiger web site to denote what operating systems parts work with. At first Windows 95/98, NT, Linux, and BeOS are likely to be icon'd. Hope this helps once it is added.
My company is selling K6-2 300Mhz eTowers for $399.99. They are selling faster than we can get them. Great little machines. No tech support problems, all quality Samsung parts. I bought a couple for myself. Runs Linux wonderfully.
In my experience the #1 opening for ISP's now is in rural areas where they don't have local calling to a nearby city with an ISP. Another area I've been looking at is for areas without telephone access. Not very good with radio setups yet but I think this could be a pretty big niche in many areas. I can't be the only person that wants to live out in the boonies and still access the Net. In fact people that live in the boonies have a greater need for access, it just makes shopping and related things far easier. I'd have to agree with some others though, web service providing usually is more profitable. Especially if you need to pay the bucks for your T3 line anyway (for your company/organization/pornsite/whatever) you might as well double as a web provider and get someone else to pay your bills. Get a few people to pay you $100/month to host their site and suddenly that T3 line gets cheaper. Just be careful who you pick, I don't suggest porn sites or anything else that will leach your nice new line of speed. To start off I used a two-way cable modem ($30/month) and a Cyrix MII 266 box (under $1000 when purchased) so the costs aren't to unreasonable to start. Just please, don't use NT and FrontPage! We don't need any more bad vibes towards web services!
If a retailer sales the OEM version of the software for $100 per copy does that mean they would legally have to give back $100 if you refused the copy they included on the machine?
I tell you the truth, my biggest obstacle to learning math was my professors and my math text books.
#1 Boring, they don't ever apply it to kewl stuff.
#2 Ask the prof a question that is kewl and their eyes glaze over.
#3 The jargon. It isn't like puter jargon that is kinda hip and easy to learn, it gives you a headache remembering words you can't say. Why don't they label things w/ words we can enjoy, 'scuzzy', 'pizza boxes', 'male-female coupler'.. know what I'm saying?
Y'know I was always great at visualizing logic and inventing my own formulas for solving problems but math teaches flunk you for this even if you can prove it works. Blah math.
A bunch of us have been toying w/ under-water high-speed wireless networking for some time. We have various types of things we've played with and some actually work okay. Anybody know of someone insane enough to sponser this kind of research? Atlantis must be wired! Can't give up looking at porn sites just because we are in Davy Jones locker!;> I hate wires. Being wired in place is evil!
SCHEME (and even LISP) is one of my favorite programming languages. I've recently been growing angry w/ C/C++. They are flexible and powerful but lack an elegance I'm looking for. A good majority of my programming is w/ complex data types that C++ can handle but not in a way that looks nice or is intuitive. I've tried coding my own languages but none of them quite fit what I want either. Anybody know any other good languages? So far I know 30 or so not counting the ones I invented and none of them make me happy. Just to be fair though, VB makes me sick as do most the imitators. Coding through menus annoys me to no end. Code I could write in C++ in half an hour takes a week and still works badly. I don't know about others but I keep a base library of stuff I use often and just hook the parts needed into my new code. Sure the first time you code a function it can take a little longer but you can more easily reuse parts and build complex programs quickly!
This is why we're looking into what is required to become an official country. I always liked the idea of distributed countries because I like to travel a lot. It seems to me that the church of Scientology (among others, no flames please!) almost fits this bill in it's own sort of way. I think about the only thing required is some people that claim to be citizens and the ability to use force to uphold your claim. In this age when we geeks know everything we can use Internet warfare (or whatever they call it) and also of course it is extremely easy to build nukes and bio weapons. Not that we should, but we know how. That alone should make us a world power if we choose to claim the right. Why should our countries or the UN tell us our rights? We can offer as big a punch back as they can give us, especially if we're distributed all over the world. Yes, it means we have no huge army but it also means we have no centralized place to target. I say 10,000 geeks or so should be enough to make our claim. Anyone interested? We already have a quite a few people. A country where freedom extends to information and communication, and privacy is cherished! Long live the United Distributed Republic! *an MP3 file plays in the background, our national athem*
I bought one of the 'cheesy' units to read brain waves from Circuit Cellar INK mag a few years ago and hacked it up to work as a joystick and though it took some practice it was usable (and fairly cheap) so I don't think this is so krad. I love the idea but I'd be more impressed w/ something that could be worn in a hat band or something and use what I call 'mind macros' to do things. I always wanted to hook mine up to my tv/vcr remote and never did, maybe I should.
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Get over it, the Net is nothing new. It's been around since people learned to communicate. All the computers did was make it more powerful. I fully expect to eventually see most people wired to the Net w/ some sort of wireless technology inside their head. People are creatures of information and communication, when we communicate information we are using the Net. All the so called Internet Addiction is in realistic terms is when people adapt to the Net faster than the Net can adapt to them. I used to be a serious addict, online about 22 hours a day but I grew out of that need. Now I'm almost always online but I don't start to panic when offline any more because it's always there. At home I have it, at work I have it, when I go to the store I find it there. My Net friends have became my real life friends and I travel a lot and see people. It's totally healthy. The unhealthy thing is making people feel they are doing something wrong. Myself I can't wait to get a copy of ICQ on my PDA so I can converse whenever needed. It's just extremely handy! No longer do I have to not know things, anytime I have a question I can find the answer either from the static web or live from the source via ICQ/E-mail. Half my thinking process is Net-oriented. I don't remember things in detail anymore, I remember overviews and where to find the details. It is like having a HUGE brain.:) On the other hand people that sit online all day looking at porn and stuff are just lame (why? get on there and find a rl date!) but as someone said, that's porn addiction not IA.
I wish the Distributed.Net software was more powerful. If it could be set to auto-upgrade itself (possibly even be remote admin'able) and run any math-related applet (not Java, ewww) sent at it that'd be cool. I'd love to see an open source system similar to this be added into distributions of Netscape and ICQ. All they'd need to include would be a tiny program to check for the software the first time XYZ software ran the installation ware could ask the user if they wanted to join the collective and if so d/l and install the dist ware too. No big deal. Someone beg this into Mozilla's installation!;)
I run the program on half a dozen K5 machines, 2 Cyrix machines, a couple K6-2's, and a couple Pentium machines and have never seen any performance hit from any of them running at the least nice level. All these machines are used for intensive real world use too. If you're getting locked you must be doing something wrong.
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I'm skipping out 4 hours early today so I can go watch the Matrix. Hope it lives up to it's commercials.
XFree86 says it should work. Though probably w/out support for more special features. My experience with that card though tells me it didn't have very many special features anyway. BeOS is where I really need extra video drivers. Why can't XFree drivers be modified for Be? I use both.
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I hope to soon have a feature added to the Tiger web site to denote what operating systems parts work with. At first Windows 95/98, NT, Linux, and BeOS are likely to be icon'd. Hope this helps once it is added.
My company is selling K6-2 300Mhz eTowers for $399.99. They are selling faster than we can get them. Great little machines. No tech support problems, all quality Samsung parts. I bought a couple for myself. Runs Linux wonderfully.
In my experience the #1 opening for ISP's now is in rural areas where they don't have local calling to a nearby city with an ISP. Another area I've been looking at is for areas without telephone access. Not very good with radio setups yet but I think this could be a pretty big niche in many areas. I can't be the only person that wants to live out in the boonies and still access the Net. In fact people that live in the boonies have a greater need for access, it just makes shopping and related things far easier. I'd have to agree with some others though, web service providing usually is more profitable. Especially if you need to pay the bucks for your T3 line anyway (for your company/organization/pornsite/whatever) you might as well double as a web provider and get someone else to pay your bills. Get a few people to pay you $100/month to host their site and suddenly that T3 line gets cheaper. Just be careful who you pick, I don't suggest porn sites or anything else that will leach your nice new line of speed. To start off I used a two-way cable modem ($30/month) and a Cyrix MII 266 box (under $1000 when purchased) so the costs aren't to unreasonable to start. Just please, don't use NT and FrontPage! We don't need any more bad vibes towards web services!
If a retailer sales the OEM version of the software for $100 per copy does that mean they would legally have to give back $100 if you refused the copy they included on the machine?
I tell you the truth, my biggest obstacle to learning math was my professors and my math text books.
#1 Boring, they don't ever apply it to kewl stuff.
#2 Ask the prof a question that is kewl and their eyes glaze over.
#3 The jargon. It isn't like puter jargon that is kinda hip and easy to learn, it gives you a headache remembering words you can't say. Why don't they label things w/ words we can enjoy, 'scuzzy', 'pizza boxes', 'male-female coupler'.. know what I'm saying?
Y'know I was always great at visualizing logic and inventing my own formulas for solving problems but math teaches flunk you for this even if you can prove it works. Blah math.
A bunch of us have been toying w/ under-water high-speed wireless networking for some time. We have various types of things we've played with and some actually work okay. Anybody know of someone insane enough to sponser this kind of research? Atlantis must be wired! Can't give up looking at porn sites just because we are in Davy Jones locker! ;> I hate wires. Being wired in place is evil!
SCHEME (and even LISP) is one of my favorite programming languages. I've recently been growing angry w/ C/C++. They are flexible and powerful but lack an elegance I'm looking for. A good majority of my programming is w/ complex data types that C++ can handle but not in a way that looks nice or is intuitive. I've tried coding my own languages but none of them quite fit what I want either. Anybody know any other good languages? So far I know 30 or so not counting the ones I invented and none of them make me happy. Just to be fair though, VB makes me sick as do most the imitators. Coding through menus annoys me to no end. Code I could write in C++ in half an hour takes a week and still works badly. I don't know about others but I keep a base library of stuff I use often and just hook the parts needed into my new code. Sure the first time you code a function it can take a little longer but you can more easily reuse parts and build complex programs quickly!
This is why we're looking into what is required to become an official country. I always liked the idea of distributed countries because I like to travel a lot. It seems to me that the church of Scientology (among others, no flames please!) almost fits this bill in it's own sort of way. I think about the only thing required is some people that claim to be citizens and the ability to use force to uphold your claim. In this age when we geeks know everything we can use Internet warfare (or whatever they call it) and also of course it is extremely easy to build nukes and bio weapons. Not that we should, but we know how. That alone should make us a world power if we choose to claim the right. Why should our countries or the UN tell us our rights? We can offer as big a punch back as they can give us, especially if we're distributed all over the world. Yes, it means we have no huge army but it also means we have no centralized place to target. I say 10,000 geeks or so should be enough to make our claim. Anyone interested? We already have a quite a few people. A country where freedom extends to information and communication, and privacy is cherished! Long live the United Distributed Republic! *an MP3 file plays in the background, our national athem*
I bought one of the 'cheesy' units to read brain waves from Circuit Cellar INK mag a few years ago and hacked it up to work as a joystick and though it took some practice it was usable (and fairly cheap) so I don't think this is so krad. I love the idea but I'd be more impressed w/ something that could be worn in a hat band or something and use what I call 'mind macros' to do things. I always wanted to hook mine up to my tv/vcr remote and never did, maybe I should.
Get over it, the Net is nothing new. It's been around since people learned to communicate. All the computers did was make it more powerful. I fully expect to eventually see most people wired to the Net w/ some sort of wireless technology inside their head. People are creatures of information and communication, when we communicate information we are using the Net. All the so called Internet Addiction is in realistic terms is when people adapt to the Net faster than the Net can adapt to them. I used to be a serious addict, online about 22 hours a day but I grew out of that need. Now I'm almost always online but I don't start to panic when offline any more because it's always there. At home I have it, at work I have it, when I go to the store I find it there. My Net friends have became my real life friends and I travel a lot and see people. It's totally healthy. The unhealthy thing is making people feel they are doing something wrong. Myself I can't wait to get a copy of ICQ on my PDA so I can converse whenever needed. It's just extremely handy! No longer do I have to not know things, anytime I have a question I can find the answer either from the static web or live from the source via ICQ/E-mail. Half my thinking process is Net-oriented. I don't remember things in detail anymore, I remember overviews and where to find the details. It is like having a HUGE brain. :) On the other hand people that sit online all day looking at porn and stuff are just lame (why? get on there and find a rl date!) but as someone said, that's porn addiction not IA.
I wish the Distributed.Net software was more powerful. If it could be set to auto-upgrade itself (possibly even be remote admin'able) and run any math-related applet (not Java, ewww) sent at it that'd be cool. I'd love to see an open source system similar to this be added into distributions of Netscape and ICQ. All they'd need to include would be a tiny program to check for the software the first time XYZ software ran the installation ware could ask the user if they wanted to join the collective and if so d/l and install the dist ware too. No big deal. Someone beg this into Mozilla's installation! ;)
I run the program on half a dozen K5 machines, 2 Cyrix machines, a couple K6-2's, and a couple Pentium machines and have never seen any performance hit from any of them running at the least nice level. All these machines are used for intensive real world use too. If you're getting locked you must be doing something wrong.