Is there anyway to add a wireless card to a regular PC? I've heard of PCMCIA to PCI cards. Does anyone knw if they actually work? Are they any good? I want to set up my entire house using a wireless network, but I can't justify it w/ having only one laptop! Does any one know of a good brand of PCMCIA/PCI cards?
I've installed UNIX, Linux and *BSD servers with JUST the bare minimum. Sendmail, ftp, apache. The entire install maybe being 200 MB or so (well, maybe not a SOlaris install, but you get the point). No browser. Not even lynx. Everything runs the way it's supposed to.
Why couldn't he say it like YOU did??? I wanted to upgrade a process running on the server. Just a simple question. It didn't have an ftp client, so I asked if there was a way for me to upgrade a package..he didnt even ANSWER the question. He said "*I* made this damn product, and if you don't like how it's made, go fuck yourself", and then kicked me out of the channel and banned me (this was a while ago). I could take a flame if it's deserved, but this just SHOCKED me..it was uncalled for. I still use Smoothwall however.
I understand all that. But sometimes people have an old 486 and don't feel like spending ANY money to upgrade an old cheap box. I am the guy people call to setup home firewalls. I've tried to get them to buy PCI nics and they wont. Oh well.
I used to use ClarkConnect. But I wanted to make an old 486 w/ isa NICs into a gateway/firewall. It only supoorts PCI cards. (true, you can configure it to work with ISA's, bit it's a pain in the ass)
Dick Moran is an asshole. I once asked him on IRC how I can upgrade software on the firewall myself, I got flames to no end, and my IP banned from the IRC server.
Klingon is based on Athapascan and Georgian
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Klingon is based on American Indian Languages. Primarily Athapascan (Cherokee,Choctaw, Iroquois, et al). Not the vocabulary, but the grammar. The sounds are based on Georgian.When I first got the Klingon Dictionary, I noticed how familiar the grammar patterns looked to me. I whipped out my cherokee (tsalagi) grammar (don't ask:)) and did a comparison. It was practically identical! To me, the majority of Native American languages have a more logical structure (yet so difficult, it'll make your hair fall out). On the topic of difficult languages, besides Native American languages (which definitely take the prize in complexity), I'd have to say Georgian is the most difficult language I've ever come across. It literally made my BRAIN hurt contemplating that grammar! What the hell is a screeve???? (Any Georgian natives, please help me out!)
I learned that a native speaker of a language will always perform math in their heads in their native tongue. I read a story in school (correct me if I'm wrong on the details) that the Netherlands was able to find spies during world war 2 by making them either do long division out loud or say the number 888. (I've heard the number spoken..and I apologize on how hard it is:)). Only a TRUE native can say 888 in Dutch flawlessly.
Ya govaryu po-ruski, and I understand "u myenya nyet dyeneg", I don't do a literal translation in my head. I just "know" it means I have no money and not "to myself not of money"
I'm using Mozilla now, but I love the sheer speed of both Opera and Galeon. I'm using Mdk 8.1 on this machine, and upgrading galeon is something I fear. Last time it took me about an hour to fix png.h errors. I had to go BACK certain lib versions and go back a libpng version. I have my system set up PERFECTLY. So I dont want to upgrade Galeon. I'm afraid If I upgrade Mozilla, it'll break galeon too!
Pig Latin technically is not a "language"..it's more like cryptography...a word by word "transliteration". When hearing a person speaking another language, and I can understand them, and then someone asks me to interpret..I can't. I "knew" what they said, but I couldn't relay it back in English. That would be forcing me to think in English. I often read foreign newspapers online. When someone asks me "what it means", I am lost. I understood it completely, because I was "thinking" in the language. I would have to "think" in English and somehow form those thoughts in another tongue. Exceedingly difficult for me. Which is why I think an interpreter is an amazing individual. Even when "kids" interpret for their non-english speaking parents. When you learn a foreign language, you get inside their heads. Which is why Japanese people traditionally didnt like Americans speaking Japanese. If you know their language , you know "them"!
I have always loved languages and that is my second "passion" besides computers. I am fluent in 17 languages (reading and writing them..NOT speaking them). The first time I realized I could understand a language as well as I could with English is when I rented a foreign film in the mid 80's. It DID'NT have subtitles, but I thought they did. Because I was able to understand it. I THOUGHT it had subtitles...it was a very weird thing, because I lent it to a friend, and he told me there were none.I was shocked! Another thing that amazed me, was something like the Australian Aboriginal language Walpurgi. It has no concept of numbers higher than 22 (men count to 21, women count to 22...figure it out). But, when they learn English, they can comprehend finite mathematics. THAT's amazing. In their language, anything higher than 22 is called "more than 22". So, a million is "more than 22". I'm on a roll now. We're discussing the OTHER love of mine. Linguistically, they say that American Indians migrated from South America..not from the Bering Strait. South AMerican Indian languages disperse linguistically if you move north. While Athapascan languages (Iroquois) have ZERO similarity to Guarani (Bolivia), they have root words that are similar...like ?ge- for tree. In Guarani, ?ge- is the tree root, while in Iroquois it's ^hi (meaning wood). (g and h being related phenomes) How about a relation to Latin and Eskimo(Inuit?). The word for single in Eskimo is tikitoq. tikit- being the root...digitus is "digit" in Latin...digit- being the root.. Coincidence? Maybe... But only when you perform etymological work do you confuse languages. It's also easier to learn them, once you comprehend grammatical patterns. Grammar is the easiest part. Vocab is the hardest. Learn grammar first. Vocab can always be learned. (Just like programming languages). But, Human languages are illogical. For example, Eskimo is an agglutanitive language (like Turkish or Hungarian)...Qingmiqataluktoq.. Qinqmiq-atalu-k-t ok (I hit the dog)...[Dog-hit-past-active mood-present tense modifier]...string particles together to form a complete "thought". Very much like Java. But of course, there are MANY irrregularities. To native speakers, it just sounds wrong if it's spoken any other way...like saying "I eated". You understand it, yet it makes you chuckle. Americans have this bad habit of NOT correcting foreigners when they use the wrong terminology. I love it when I get corrected. I don't want to sound like a moron! OK..my diatribe is over:)
To be honest with you, the company "I" used to work for was doing some scummy stuff..ya know what? Everyone knew, but no one cared? Why? Because they were having massive layoffs, and people were just happy to WORK, People were having kid's birthdays, and marriages, so the "bad" stuff the company was doing was just talk for the smoking lounge. It ultimately didnt matter. Am I responsible for the Board of Director's actions? Am I held accountable? If I WERE held accountable, raise my salary to what THEY got, and I'll accept the accountability. Other than that, people don't give a crap. Tell Walmart employees that they work for a monopoly, and tell me how manyof them care.:)
That's a windows program. Either way, I use Galeon and I can change a site to look how I want with Galeons Style Sheet Customizer. It can change fonts, colors, etc on a per site basis
But I used to own a data center, so I have more real life experience with what it entails. I have 6 machines connecting thru a gateway/firewall (Solaris Box, couple of bsd's, a couple of linux boxen, and a win2k for good measure). I use it for experimenting. I have Mysql, Postgresql, Tomcat, DB2, Jrun. WebSphere, PHP, Python (ZOPE),and Citrix all running. Thats to improve my skills and to just play around. I have port forwarding all over the place, so one page might be on a separate server all together! Half the links aren't publically acessible because I doubt anyone would care that I just set up a new Python Based message board or that I just wrote a DB2 query in JSP using WebSphere on Linux. I do have stuff that no one cares about, but it's htere anyway! It's part of my lab. I get to play and get to show the world if they care! I can set people up with demo citrix accounts if they would like to test it out. (What I think is cool is I have Win2k Advanced server running on a laptop with Citrix Metaframe XP). Even though it took me 3 times as long to set that piece of shit up in comparison to a Linux box (multipe reboots just to install updates), I only have to reboot it 3 times a week:). Oh, another cool thing. It's all on an internal Wireless LAN. I LOVE playing with technology!
I have an IBM NetVista (cool flat screen thin client machine from IBM). I tried every distro from Slack ware to Mandrake, and Redmond was the ONLY distro that had the vid card and Flat Screen drivers in X11.(Mandrake 8.1 had it too, but the mouse pointer "disappeared" when you moved it to the left edge). I think it's a GREAT distro for my wife, she loves it. One problem I'm trying to sort out. It looks to me like it's based on Caldera. So if I want RPMS, I have to get them from Caldera (RPMfind doesnt seem to care about Caldera). Redmond does have a "RedmondUpdate" utility that s damn nifty, but I'm not to sure if they have a prebuilt binary archive. Oh, and another thing, to compile ANYTHING, you need CD number 2, which has devel tools. I think thats how they wanted it. My mom shouldnt be compiling software OR the kernel, so they leave gcc and header files out of the vanilla distro.
Are there any other ISP's that offer REAL wireless access? Not the pseudo-wireless for PDA's and cellphones. I mean like what ricochet offers. (I had ricochet in NYC when my job gave it to me. I loved it!)
These people have a port of Linux for the Zilog CPU (Timex Sinclair), and I'm pretty sure NetBSD has a port (The GameBoy uses that chip, and I know they have a GameBoy port of NetBSD!)
I run x86 Solaris at my house on the box I use for my website. I love it (even have Gnome installed!) Slower than a SPARC (it's the I/O for not being SCSI), but UNIX is UNIX, man. WHat's wrong with Solaris.(The minute I can win a damn auction for an AIX workstation, that bitch is MINE!)
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Is there anyway to add a wireless card to a regular PC? I've heard of PCMCIA to PCI cards. Does anyone knw if they actually work? Are they any good? I want to set up my entire house using a wireless network, but I can't justify it w/ having only one laptop! Does any one know of a good brand of PCMCIA/PCI cards?
I've installed UNIX, Linux and *BSD servers with JUST the bare minimum. Sendmail, ftp, apache. The entire install maybe being 200 MB or so (well, maybe not a SOlaris install, but you get the point). No browser. Not even lynx. Everything runs the way it's supposed to.
I clicked the link (I use Linux) and got a completely black JPG. What do Windows users see?
It's FIRST John....The First Epistle to John, not the Gospel of John
Why couldn't he say it like YOU did??? I wanted to upgrade a process running on the server. Just a simple question. It didn't have an ftp client, so I asked if there was a way for me to upgrade a package..he didnt even ANSWER the question. He said "*I* made this damn product, and if you don't like how it's made, go fuck yourself", and then kicked me out of the channel and banned me (this was a while ago). I could take a flame if it's deserved, but this just SHOCKED me..it was uncalled for. I still use Smoothwall however.
I understand all that. But sometimes people have an old 486 and don't feel like spending ANY money to upgrade an old cheap box. I am the guy people call to setup home firewalls. I've tried to get them to buy PCI nics and they wont. Oh well.
I used to use ClarkConnect. But I wanted to make an old 486 w/ isa NICs into a gateway/firewall. It only supoorts PCI cards. (true, you can configure it to work with ISA's, bit it's a pain in the ass)
Dick Moran is an asshole. I once asked him on IRC how I can upgrade software on the firewall myself, I got flames to no end, and my IP banned from the IRC server.
Klingon is based on American Indian Languages. Primarily Athapascan (Cherokee,Choctaw, Iroquois, et al). :)) and did a comparison. It was practically identical! To me, the majority of Native American languages have a more logical structure (yet so difficult, it'll make your hair fall out). On the topic of difficult languages, besides Native American languages (which definitely take the prize in complexity), I'd have to say Georgian is the most difficult language I've ever come across.
Not the vocabulary, but the grammar. The sounds are based on Georgian.When I first got the Klingon Dictionary, I noticed how familiar the grammar patterns looked to me. I whipped out my cherokee (tsalagi) grammar (don't ask
It literally made my BRAIN hurt contemplating that grammar! What the hell is a screeve???? (Any Georgian natives, please help me out!)
I learned that a native speaker of a language will always perform math in their heads in their native tongue. I read a story in school (correct me if I'm wrong on the details) that the Netherlands was able to find spies during world war 2 by making them either do long division out loud or say the number 888. (I've heard the number spoken..and I apologize on how hard it is :)). Only a TRUE native can say 888 in Dutch flawlessly.
Ya govaryu po-ruski, and I understand "u myenya nyet dyeneg", I don't do a literal translation in my head. I just "know" it means I have no money and not "to myself not of money"
Alas, I know the joys of Debian...I have a debian box, but my Mandrake box is the more powerful box and is the box I use on a daily basis :(
I'm using Mozilla now, but I love the sheer speed of both Opera and Galeon. I'm using Mdk 8.1 on this machine, and upgrading galeon is something I fear. Last time it took me about an hour to fix png.h errors. I had to go BACK certain lib versions and go back a libpng version. I have my system set up PERFECTLY. So I dont want to upgrade Galeon. I'm afraid If I upgrade Mozilla, it'll break galeon too!
Pig Latin technically is not a "language"..it's more like cryptography...a word by word "transliteration". When hearing a person speaking another language, and I can understand them, and then someone asks me to interpret..I can't. I "knew" what they said, but I couldn't relay it back in English. That would be forcing me to think in English. I often read foreign newspapers online. When someone asks me "what it means", I am lost. I understood it completely, because I was "thinking" in the language. I would have to "think" in English and somehow form those thoughts in another tongue. Exceedingly difficult for me. Which is why I think an interpreter is an amazing individual. Even when "kids" interpret for their non-english speaking parents. When you learn a foreign language, you get inside their heads. Which is why Japanese people traditionally didnt like Americans speaking Japanese. If you know their language , you know "them"!
German? I do know that "not" is a verb in Finnish (a linguistic anomoly) ..I do not like you....I am "notting" to like you..hehe
I have always loved languages and that is my second "passion" besides computers. I am fluent in 17 languages (reading and writing them..NOT speaking them). The first time I realized I could understand a language as well as I could with English is when I rented a foreign film in the mid 80's. It DID'NT have subtitles, but I thought they did. Because I was able to understand it. I THOUGHT it had subtitles...it was a very weird thing, because I lent it to a friend, and he told me there were none.I was shocked! Another thing that amazed me, was something like the Australian Aboriginal language Walpurgi. It has no concept of numbers higher than 22 (men count to 21, women count to 22...figure it out).t ok (I hit the dog)...[Dog-hit-past-active mood-present tense modifier]...string particles together to form a complete "thought". Very much like Java. But of course, there are MANY irrregularities. To native speakers, it just sounds wrong if it's spoken any other way...like saying "I eated". You understand it, yet it makes you chuckle. Americans have this bad habit of NOT correcting foreigners when they use the wrong terminology. I love it when I get corrected. I don't want to sound like a moron! :)
But, when they learn English, they can comprehend finite mathematics. THAT's amazing. In their language, anything higher than 22 is called "more than 22". So, a million is "more than 22". I'm on a roll now. We're discussing the OTHER love of mine. Linguistically, they say that American Indians migrated from South America..not from the Bering Strait. South AMerican Indian languages disperse linguistically if you move north. While Athapascan languages (Iroquois) have ZERO similarity to Guarani (Bolivia), they have root words that are similar...like ?ge- for tree. In Guarani, ?ge- is the tree root, while in Iroquois it's ^hi (meaning wood). (g and h being related phenomes)
How about a relation to Latin and Eskimo(Inuit?). The word for single in Eskimo is tikitoq. tikit- being the root...digitus is "digit" in Latin...digit- being the root.. Coincidence? Maybe...
But only when you perform etymological work do you confuse languages. It's also easier to learn them, once you comprehend grammatical patterns. Grammar is the easiest part. Vocab is the hardest. Learn grammar first. Vocab can always be learned. (Just like programming languages).
But, Human languages are illogical. For example, Eskimo is an agglutanitive language (like Turkish or Hungarian)...Qingmiqataluktoq..
Qinqmiq-atalu-k-
OK..my diatribe is over
To be honest with you, the company "I" used to work for was doing some scummy stuff..ya know what? Everyone knew, but no one cared? Why? Because they were having massive layoffs, and people were just happy to WORK, People were having kid's birthdays, and marriages, so the "bad" stuff the company was doing was just talk for the smoking lounge. It ultimately didnt matter. Am I responsible for the Board of Director's actions? Am I held accountable? If I WERE held accountable, raise my salary to what THEY got, and I'll accept the accountability. Other than that, people don't give a crap. Tell Walmart employees that they work for a monopoly, and tell me how manyof them care. :)
That's a windows program. Either way, I use Galeon and I can change a site to look how I want with Galeons Style Sheet Customizer. It can change fonts, colors, etc on a per site basis
Sure I do....all the software was my property when clients didnt pay.
And it's sic, not sick.
But I used to own a data center, so I have more real life experience with what it entails. I have 6 machines connecting thru a gateway/firewall (Solaris Box, couple of bsd's, a couple of linux boxen, and a win2k for good measure). :). Oh, another cool thing. It's all on an internal Wireless LAN. I LOVE playing with technology!
I use it for experimenting. I have Mysql, Postgresql, Tomcat, DB2, Jrun. WebSphere, PHP, Python (ZOPE),and Citrix all running. Thats to improve my skills and to just play around. I have port forwarding all over the place, so one page might be on a separate server all together! Half the links aren't publically acessible because I doubt anyone would care that I just set up a new Python Based message board or that I just wrote a DB2 query in JSP using WebSphere on Linux. I do have stuff that no one cares about, but it's htere anyway! It's part of my lab. I get to play and get to show the world if they care! I can set people up with demo citrix accounts if they would like to test it out. (What I think is cool is I have Win2k Advanced server running on a laptop with Citrix Metaframe XP). Even though it took me 3 times as long to set that piece of shit up in comparison to a Linux box (multipe reboots just to install updates), I only have to reboot it 3 times a week
I have an IBM NetVista (cool flat screen thin client machine from IBM). I tried every distro from Slack ware to Mandrake, and Redmond was the ONLY distro that had the vid card and Flat Screen drivers in X11.(Mandrake 8.1 had it too, but the mouse pointer "disappeared" when you moved it to the left edge).
I think it's a GREAT distro for my wife, she loves it. One problem I'm trying to sort out. It looks to me like it's based on Caldera. So if I want RPMS, I have to get them from Caldera (RPMfind doesnt seem to care about Caldera). Redmond does have a "RedmondUpdate" utility that s damn nifty, but I'm not to sure if they have a prebuilt binary archive. Oh, and another thing, to compile ANYTHING, you need CD number 2, which has devel tools. I think thats how they wanted it. My mom shouldnt be compiling software OR the kernel, so they leave gcc and header files out of the vanilla distro.
Are there any other ISP's that offer REAL wireless access? Not the pseudo-wireless for PDA's and cellphones. I mean like what ricochet offers. (I had ricochet in NYC when my job gave it to me. I loved it!)
These people have a port of Linux for the Zilog CPU (Timex Sinclair), and I'm pretty sure NetBSD has a port (The GameBoy uses that chip, and I know they have a GameBoy port of NetBSD!)
http://www.q40.de/
I run x86 Solaris at my house on the box I use for my website. I love it (even have Gnome installed!) Slower than a SPARC (it's the I/O for not being SCSI), but UNIX is UNIX, man. WHat's wrong with Solaris .(The minute I can win a damn auction for an AIX workstation, that bitch is MINE!)
I never really had to LEARN Kword or StarOffice. A WP is a WP. Click on all the menus and see what's there. Nothing to learn really.