/bin - For binaries you absolutely need. Things you can't live without when booting into single-user for example. (Seeing as how traditionally,/usr would be mounted from another partition and you wouldn't be mounting it in singleuser.) /sbin - Same as above, but mostly binaries for your superuser (hence the S). /usr/bin - All the other binaries that are part of the default system. /usr/sbin - Same as above, but again, for your superuser.
And of course we have the/usr/local tree for all the things we wind up installing afterwards that aren't part of the default system. This isn't exactly a UNIX-wide standard, however (Solaris comes to mind.)
As always, IANAE, and I may be wrong. But that's pretty much the gist of things.
I want E-Paper. E-Paper that's almost indistinguishable from actual paper. I want to be able to fold it, write on it, store what I write, dynamically display near anything on it. Something straight out of Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although something tells me I won't actually have anything like this until nanotechnology actually gets somewhere useful.
56k straight out deserves to be hated. I'd expand this whole idea to modems in general. Ideally I'd have the whole technology burn in the festering pits of hell if there was a decent replacement solution for everybody.
In hindsight however, it's not that bad. My last 56k modem blew up and I've been dialing up to my ISP via a 14.4 modem I dug out of my closet. Half of the time I don't even connect above 9600. It hurts.
I remember seeing something like this a year ago or so, while browsing through something in.jp (Sorry, I have no URL nor the effort to go searching for it again). It would generate beeps based on the different kind of packets going over the network. WWW traffic would emit a certain beep, while FTP would emit a different kind of beep, AFAIK. It's been a while since I've seen it, although it was neat. They even had a realaudio stream so you could listen to traffic.
How about shoving a giant spoiler on it, some bad boy stickers, chroming the floppy drive, replacing the case LEDs with blue LEDs, and writing something in kanji across the case?
Oh my god, dude, look at how many fans I stuffed into my system so I can make my 900mhz machine run at 901mhz!@#@$#
If this post were about how buggy the latest release of Windows x.0 was, everyone would be screaming for blood. But since it's Linux, I suppose we can tolerate buggy software. Right.
He wasn't ejected from defcon. Hell, he wasn't even *at* defcon this year. However, Carolyn did end up getting booted out of defcon, and there are certainly pictures. Maybe even some involving the back of my head, considering I was sitting right up at the closest table when it happened.
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Perhaps they could establish a democracy while they're at it?
Split? They were never even the same project to begin with, IIRC.
Well, here we go.
/bin - For binaries you absolutely need. Things you can't live without when booting into single-user for example. (Seeing as how traditionally, /usr would be mounted from another partition and you wouldn't be mounting it in singleuser.)
/sbin - Same as above, but mostly binaries for your superuser (hence the S).
/usr/bin - All the other binaries that are part of the default system.
/usr/sbin - Same as above, but again, for your superuser.
/usr/local tree for all the things we wind up installing afterwards that aren't part of the default system. This isn't exactly a UNIX-wide standard, however (Solaris comes to mind.)
And of course we have the
As always, IANAE, and I may be wrong. But that's pretty much the gist of things.
Ugh. Ugh Ugh Ugh Ugh NO.
I want E-Paper. E-Paper that's almost indistinguishable from actual paper. I want to be able to fold it, write on it, store what I write, dynamically display near anything on it. Something straight out of Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although something tells me I won't actually have anything like this until nanotechnology actually gets somewhere useful.
I just woke up five minutes ago, and I parsed this as "High Speed Pornography", and noticed the "nice pictures" comment. ugh.
Perhaps they can invest some into R&D to figure out how to keep my pants from catching on fire?
All the speed in the world does me no good when my lap spontanously combusts from my laptop.
56k straight out deserves to be hated. I'd expand this whole idea to modems in general. Ideally I'd have the whole technology burn in the festering pits of hell if there was a decent replacement solution for everybody.
In hindsight however, it's not that bad. My last 56k modem blew up and I've been dialing up to my ISP via a 14.4 modem I dug out of my closet. Half of the time I don't even connect above 9600. It hurts.
So why are you special and why should we care?
Following up, here's some more related info.
Although not what I was originally talking about, the "Net Sound" paragraph described in it is much like it. http://www.aec.at/prix/1997/E97gnW-sensorium.html
I remember seeing something like this a year ago or so, while browsing through something in .jp (Sorry, I have no URL nor the effort to go searching for it again). It would generate beeps based on the different kind of packets going over the network. WWW traffic would emit a certain beep, while FTP would emit a different kind of beep, AFAIK. It's been a while since I've seen it, although it was neat. They even had a realaudio stream so you could listen to traffic.
Troll of the year.
ITYM "Not if you were the last junkie on earth" HTH HAND
Duh. You're right. I stand corrected.
Now we have ricegeeks.
YELLOW MAKE COMPUTER FASTER!
How about shoving a giant spoiler on it, some bad boy stickers, chroming the floppy drive, replacing the case LEDs with blue LEDs, and writing something in kanji across the case?
Oh my god, dude, look at how many fans I stuffed into my system so I can make my 900mhz machine run at 901mhz!@#@$#
The two programs I use are SQUID for HTTP Caching and I use Linux's internal ability to do DNS query/caching.
No way, Linux does that all by itself? Why the fuck do I even have BIND installed then?
You will also need a copy of UDPRED. This is a UDP Port redirector.
Has anyone told this guy about ipportfw, perhaps?
Does the newer Kernels even use IPFWADM???
Genius.
I also fail to see why he manually completes the connection on his linux machine's modem. Couldn't he just set it to auto-answer? (ATS0=1, isn't it?)
This starts becoming just plain silly. I mean, why can't we just buy a (cheaper) real dog?
If this post were about how buggy the latest release of Windows x.0 was, everyone would be screaming for blood. But since it's Linux, I suppose we can tolerate buggy software. Right.
I really doubt Hemos would be making such a fuss over "stupid lists" if Linus was in a higher position than Gates in this list.
He wasn't ejected from defcon. Hell, he wasn't even *at* defcon this year. However, Carolyn did end up getting booted out of defcon, and there are certainly pictures. Maybe even some involving the back of my head, considering I was sitting right up at the closest table when it happened.
I mean, we already have a patron saint of the internet, his name is kibo.
agreed.
UF suddenly became alot less funny to me when I realized Illiads only source of inspiration was worn-out "geek" stereotypes.
I dunno about anyone else, but I'm getting really fucking sick of this whole "geek culture" thing.
Wow, people use computers. Big fucking deal. Why do I have to be labeled into a some new social clique/scene because of that?
EFNet kills BRAIN CELLS!