An eWMD shuts down water supply: people have to resort to bottled water and, in a worst case scenario, boil rain water; for a few weeks
First, boiling rain water for a few weeks is a laughable concept when discussing survival solutions. To prove my point just go ahead and turn off your water right now put your plan into action.
Second, I'm sure many water supply systems are connected to the internet, but only for remote monitoring purposes. They're probably at greater risk of dying from BSOD than a botnet. Besides, even if the computers were do go down, industrial motors are quite easy to wire up directly to a power source and the required components are most likely already on site from before the facility was computerized.
A cop showed up seeing him trying to break into his own car, hollered at some kids sitting in the grass by an overpass, and told them they wouldn't get in trouble if they unlocked the door. It was open in about 30 seconds.
I bounced around for a while and settled on Fluxbuntu but switched to fvwm-crystal with wbar. I like the Ubuntu repositories since they, for instance, include the patched Dillo. It's also given me the fewest problems when compiling (I'm not much of a coder so troubleshooting bad compiles isn't really my thing). It has taken a bit of tweaking to get the boot time down, and it still isn't fast by any means, but it's better than the four minutes it was taking with a fresh install.
As for Flash 9, youtube works with Flash 7, but most other video sites don't. I don't view videos online much, but when I do I want them to work.
Puppy's not based on DSL now and I don't think it ever was.
You're right, I was thinking, I guess, of Feather Linux. It's been a year since I last used DSL full time, but for the 4 years before that it was my OS of choice. Really a great little distro, especially since my newest computer is over 6 years old. I finally switched away from DSL so I could use Flash Player 9, which requires a newer kernel.
The problem there is that you don't recompile DSL (and I'm sure Puppy either since, iirc, it was initially based on DSL). To achieve such a small size the DSL team compiles all of the source, including the many patches that are probably required, and release each version as-is in binary format. Though it may be possible to speed up the boot process by tweaking the init scripts it probably wouldn't be worth it since all of the software involved has been compiled for size, not speed, and the DSL team has added lots of their own init scripts to handle the various boot methods it supports.
Along the lines of using a DSL like system though would be perhaps to use an older version of Debian, say Sarge or something.
I'm running on a similar machine and I've been using the tabs enabled version of Dillo because I can't stand waiting for a browser to launch just to read slashdot or xkcd. I just downloaded Opera 9.5 and I'm absolutely amazed at it's speed. It takes maybe a second longer to load than Dillo (which itself launches inside a second). I'm impressed.
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Shit, I just lost the game.
And in speech!
All this high technology, what ever happened to doing things by hand?
An eWMD shuts down water supply: people have to resort to bottled water and, in a worst case scenario, boil rain water; for a few weeks
First, boiling rain water for a few weeks is a laughable concept when discussing survival solutions. To prove my point just go ahead and turn off your water right now put your plan into action.
Second, I'm sure many water supply systems are connected to the internet, but only for remote monitoring purposes. They're probably at greater risk of dying from BSOD than a botnet. Besides, even if the computers were do go down, industrial motors are quite easy to wire up directly to a power source and the required components are most likely already on site from before the facility was computerized.
I care so little that I'm not even reading the posts, hell I'm not even reading any /. right now, this is just my automated I don't care script.
BTW, LONG LIVE VI!!!!
What's the capital of the middle-east again?
Iraq, that's where the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center are from.
Apparently some people can rub one off only so many times a day. Installing linux on everything around them is what they do between pr0n sessions.
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And yes I run linux, and so does my wife's computer. and my neighbor's. and my
...had to call up a car thief to open it for you.
That happened to my uncle.
A cop showed up seeing him trying to break into his own car, hollered at some kids sitting in the grass by an overpass, and told them they wouldn't get in trouble if they unlocked the door. It was open in about 30 seconds.
I bounced around for a while and settled on Fluxbuntu but switched to fvwm-crystal with wbar. I like the Ubuntu repositories since they, for instance, include the patched Dillo. It's also given me the fewest problems when compiling (I'm not much of a coder so troubleshooting bad compiles isn't really my thing). It has taken a bit of tweaking to get the boot time down, and it still isn't fast by any means, but it's better than the four minutes it was taking with a fresh install.
As for Flash 9, youtube works with Flash 7, but most other video sites don't. I don't view videos online much, but when I do I want them to work.
Puppy's not based on DSL now and I don't think it ever was.
You're right, I was thinking, I guess, of Feather Linux. It's been a year since I last used DSL full time, but for the 4 years before that it was my OS of choice. Really a great little distro, especially since my newest computer is over 6 years old. I finally switched away from DSL so I could use Flash Player 9, which requires a newer kernel.
And a newish VIA mini-ITX board costs how much?
Look, it seems most people here would just like to see the guy get a new computer, so why not chip in and send him a crisp twenty.
The problem there is that you don't recompile DSL (and I'm sure Puppy either since, iirc, it was initially based on DSL). To achieve such a small size the DSL team compiles all of the source, including the many patches that are probably required, and release each version as-is in binary format. Though it may be possible to speed up the boot process by tweaking the init scripts it probably wouldn't be worth it since all of the software involved has been compiled for size, not speed, and the DSL team has added lots of their own init scripts to handle the various boot methods it supports.
Along the lines of using a DSL like system though would be perhaps to use an older version of Debian, say Sarge or something.
But what will they consider non-commercial?
I'm running on a similar machine and I've been using the tabs enabled version of Dillo because I can't stand waiting for a browser to launch just to read slashdot or xkcd. I just downloaded Opera 9.5 and I'm absolutely amazed at it's speed. It takes maybe a second longer to load than Dillo (which itself launches inside a second). I'm impressed.
So does this mean when my neighbor has their radio up too loud I can alert the authorities and have their equipment removed?
1. Give away software 2. ??? 3. Profit!
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