I have a thinkpad a20m. I've had debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Slack on it. The only one of those that worked just as well as win2k (except sound, which i had to compile myself, but i hear that mandrake 7.2 fixed that) was mandrake. Between school and home i never turn off my computer except to reboot between 2k and linux. With all the other distros i hade to reboot if i moved between my school's network and my home network. In fact, windows 2000 refused to recognize my OpenBSD domain at all(which assigns a network drive and an IP). Mandrake always automatically did everything. The only think i've been having problems is compiling in NTFS support so i don't have to have 2 copies of all my mp3s. it just doesn't want to work.
haha, yea, their words for "UNIX PHENOMENON" really cracked me up. a phenomenon is a rare, unexplained "entity" or "occurance". ask anyone who useses unix why they use it. Tried, tested, and true. With unix, even if you don't have the source to it, you can almost always customize it to your wants/needs. So much soo that the only reason i backup my Unix Boxes is the fear of having to remember all those little changes i've made over the years.
When you're running a server, especially for a business, you want it tailored precicely to your needs, or you flop. In my opinion Windows just doesn't stack up to unix on that front.
As far as probes go, double check some of them to make sure they're not your ISP probing to see if you are still online(you comp turned on). I used to get about 20 Netbios scans that drove my OpenBSD firewall up the wall(pun intended), until I learned that they came in regular intervals from the same IP. This is especially common if you're on @home or roadrunner, as they use dynamic IPs so if you are't online they're wasting an IP on you. I still don't allow that IP to go through, but after realizing that i found that i only get about 4 "interesting" scans a day.
oh, well thats understandable. Mandrake, when i first heard about it, was one of the first companies to "rip off" one of the beg distros. Although it's success is due mostly in the fact that they really only took red hat as a base to start from. Then all of a sudden corel and stormix(stormix was ok, just a late player) come by and try the same thing. Corel was in only because of the hype(when are they not).
WOW, wait a minute here. Why is Mandrake bad? They I'd pick them over Red Hat anyday. And if you say "they're just a ripoff of Red Hat that is optimized for pentiums" then i suggest you download 7.2 and give it a whirl. How bad can it me? Torvalds himself says the three distros HE uses are Caldera, SUSE, and Mandrake.
But apollo 13 was also one of the greatest engineering achievements there was. Watch the movie. If you every wonder why people always ask for good "problem solving skills" it readily apparent when they say "okay, we have to get this round tube, into this square socket,using all this here..." My high school Chemistry teacher loved that line.
Do you know anywhere that i can find some pictures? most of my friend's transformers were pretty boring, that one was really neat and they were all jealous of me for it(an i wasn't a big fan). I want to see if it still looks like what i remember...
I was never really into transformers that much, but i did have one. it was a transport truck and it's trailer turned into a base while the truck part turned a man. Can anybody tell me which this is or point me to any pics on the net? I loved that one toy, but my parents threw it out when i stopped playing with a lot of my toys, even though i still goofed with it once in awhile.
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But from what I've seen of computers in schools, they aren't really learning anything on the computer that couldn't have been learned from a book.
Amen..by far the worst use of computers in schools are people checking and sending hotmail emails to the person sitting right next to them. for fucks sake just go somewhere and talk. Cencorship is one thing, but i think they should block access to these stupid social internet portals, like hotmail, chatrooms, etc.
yahoo used to use altavista much the same way they use google now. In fact, around 4 or 5 years ago the title on their site was "Yahoo!, powered By AltaVista.
bullshit! where are they getting your name, address and phone number? Doubleclick tracks you by a number, and that's it. this is hardly an invasion of privacy, it's market research!
Don't be so sure about that. Have you ever entered you name in a form at all EVER on the internet? or how about your credit card number? All they have to do is have a partnership with Amazon.com or eBay and they can match cookies with information you give out. And they do do it(i'm not sure if they actually do with amazon or ebay...but you get the idea).
That's why i've banned doubleclick and many other IP blocks of advertisers(and gotase.cx) at the firewall level. If my name could actually never be matched up, i would have no problem with them knowing that much about me. But i don't feel comfortable letting some company get that much information about me without my permission. And considering how much time i spend online, that is A LOT of info.
Be carefull when blocking whole domains. While burning goatse.cx's IP through your firewall would probably cause you little in the way of pain, you may want to check out what other services run on certain IPs. I've accidently banned everything from Yahoo! to red hat's site because one of the smaller sites under their wings were cracked and i was recieving junk mail through the roof.
If it's under the BSD license you are under no obligation to share any of the code. You only have to let them know that thier code IN THERE and credit them.
well it depends, if he was born in 1865 and you got this in say 1985, the year at that time for his birth probably would have been just 65. SO they though he was a young 20 year old. and it's possible since the house kept in the family that the official ownership never changed and that the property was in his name.
only to educational institutions, IIRC. Essentially sun found a cheap way to get young developers, by having students code as projects for them. If you looked hard enough i'm sure you could find it on the internet, but it'd probably be hard as hell.
I wouldn't be surprised if they truely open sourced solaris, though(what the hell, they've been really good to the open source community compared to a lot of other companies thier size). It is free so long as you don't use it on more than 8 proccesor boxen so sun wouldn't lose too much revenue from it.
But most of us don't care for huge datbabases. Sure, solaris may be great for ISPs (BSD is better)or whatnot, but we've gotten used to linux and most of us know how to harden(secure) and put to good use a linux box than a solaris one. One reason why linux on sparcs has been negligable is the fact that most of us can't affort sun hardwara...this may change just that.
The problem is not all software patents are bad. There are some very good software patents that were very diserving (the recently expired RSA patent comes to mind). Although that patent was annoying to the open source security movement, that is not reason enough to make it a stupid patent.
THe problem isn't allowing the patent office to grant these kinds of patents, the problem is the people passing these are the same people passing drug and industrial ones.
What are you talking about? How can there be a different tax on "audio", but not "data" cdroms? there is no difference, all blank CDRs are the same until they get burned.
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I've noticed lots of sites doing that lately. I think they just use some really quick redirect.
I have a thinkpad a20m. I've had debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Slack on it. The only one of those that worked just as well as win2k (except sound, which i had to compile myself, but i hear that mandrake 7.2 fixed that) was mandrake. Between school and home i never turn off my computer except to reboot between 2k and linux. With all the other distros i hade to reboot if i moved between my school's network and my home network. In fact, windows 2000 refused to recognize my OpenBSD domain at all(which assigns a network drive and an IP). Mandrake always automatically did everything. The only think i've been having problems is compiling in NTFS support so i don't have to have 2 copies of all my mp3s. it just doesn't want to work.
When you're running a server, especially for a business, you want it tailored precicely to your needs, or you flop. In my opinion Windows just doesn't stack up to unix on that front.
As far as probes go, double check some of them to make sure they're not your ISP probing to see if you are still online(you comp turned on). I used to get about 20 Netbios scans that drove my OpenBSD firewall up the wall(pun intended), until I learned that they came in regular intervals from the same IP. This is especially common if you're on @home or roadrunner, as they use dynamic IPs so if you are't online they're wasting an IP on you. I still don't allow that IP to go through, but after realizing that i found that i only get about 4 "interesting" scans a day.
oh, well thats understandable. Mandrake, when i first heard about it, was one of the first companies to "rip off" one of the beg distros. Although it's success is due mostly in the fact that they really only took red hat as a base to start from. Then all of a sudden corel and stormix(stormix was ok, just a late player) come by and try the same thing. Corel was in only because of the hype(when are they not).
WOW, wait a minute here. Why is Mandrake bad? They I'd pick them over Red Hat anyday. And if you say "they're just a ripoff of Red Hat that is optimized for pentiums" then i suggest you download 7.2 and give it a whirl. How bad can it me? Torvalds himself says the three distros HE uses are Caldera, SUSE, and Mandrake.
They were talking about this on Geeks in Space. You'd probably only pay for access, and you'd get to be part of the community.
But apollo 13 was also one of the greatest engineering achievements there was. Watch the movie. If you every wonder why people always ask for good "problem solving skills" it readily apparent when they say "okay, we have to get this round tube, into this square socket,using all this here..." My high school Chemistry teacher loved that line.
Do you know anywhere that i can find some pictures? most of my friend's transformers were pretty boring, that one was really neat and they were all jealous of me for it(an i wasn't a big fan). I want to see if it still looks like what i remember...
I was never really into transformers that much, but i did have one. it was a transport truck and it's trailer turned into a base while the truck part turned a man. Can anybody tell me which this is or point me to any pics on the net? I loved that one toy, but my parents threw it out when i stopped playing with a lot of my toys, even though i still goofed with it once in awhile.
Amen..by far the worst use of computers in schools are people checking and sending hotmail emails to the person sitting right next to them. for fucks sake just go somewhere and talk. Cencorship is one thing, but i think they should block access to these stupid social internet portals, like hotmail, chatrooms, etc.
yahoo used to use altavista much the same way they use google now. In fact, around 4 or 5 years ago the title on their site was "Yahoo!, powered By AltaVista.
ya, but now since you posted, you can't use them ;-)
Don't be so sure about that. Have you ever entered you name in a form at all EVER on the internet? or how about your credit card number? All they have to do is have a partnership with Amazon.com or eBay and they can match cookies with information you give out. And they do do it(i'm not sure if they actually do with amazon or ebay...but you get the idea).
That's why i've banned doubleclick and many other IP blocks of advertisers(and gotase.cx) at the firewall level. If my name could actually never be matched up, i would have no problem with them knowing that much about me. But i don't feel comfortable letting some company get that much information about me without my permission. And considering how much time i spend online, that is A LOT of info.
Be carefull when blocking whole domains. While burning goatse.cx's IP through your firewall would probably cause you little in the way of pain, you may want to check out what other services run on certain IPs. I've accidently banned everything from Yahoo! to red hat's site because one of the smaller sites under their wings were cracked and i was recieving junk mail through the roof.
Connect on a default install you ask? sure,I'll just grab my good ol'trusty OpenBSD CD...
how wrong YOU are. freeBSD has SMP, although it is primitive compared to linux.
If it's under the BSD license you are under no obligation to share any of the code. You only have to let them know that thier code IN THERE and credit them.
It's the same thing with rollerblades. Nobody calles them "inline skates"
well it depends, if he was born in 1865 and you got this in say 1985, the year at that time for his birth probably would have been just 65. SO they though he was a young 20 year old. and it's possible since the house kept in the family that the official ownership never changed and that the property was in his name.
It's not 100% the same but there are very similar laws in canada
only to educational institutions, IIRC. Essentially sun found a cheap way to get young developers, by having students code as projects for them. If you looked hard enough i'm sure you could find it on the internet, but it'd probably be hard as hell.
I wouldn't be surprised if they truely open sourced solaris, though(what the hell, they've been really good to the open source community compared to a lot of other companies thier size). It is free so long as you don't use it on more than 8 proccesor boxen so sun wouldn't lose too much revenue from it.
But most of us don't care for huge datbabases. Sure, solaris may be great for ISPs (BSD is better)or whatnot, but we've gotten used to linux and most of us know how to harden(secure) and put to good use a linux box than a solaris one. One reason why linux on sparcs has been negligable is the fact that most of us can't affort sun hardwara...this may change just that.
The problem is not all software patents are bad. There are some very good software patents that were very diserving (the recently expired RSA patent comes to mind). Although that patent was annoying to the open source security movement, that is not reason enough to make it a stupid patent. THe problem isn't allowing the patent office to grant these kinds of patents, the problem is the people passing these are the same people passing drug and industrial ones.
What are you talking about? How can there be a different tax on "audio", but not "data" cdroms? there is no difference, all blank CDRs are the same until they get burned.