That's the new hollywood-flick right? The one about a rebellious force of sysadmins who have to fight against a machine intelligence that has taken over the world and is hell-bent on killing off all the humans?
The upper surfaces also have round nubs which can double as fins to dissipate heat. Each Lego piece is a heat sink in and of itself.
If they were made out of something like copper or aluminum I'd agree with you, but since plastic has rather worthless thermal transfer I don't think this is gonna happen.
Or how about that fabled DOS-version where SysRq had some function?
I remember (well, not literally) how Microsoft put the pressure on IBM to add the SysRq-button on the keyboard. IBM sez "why?" and Microsoft says because they're gonna release some Voodoo-magic DOS that uses it.
I still don't understand why keyboard-makers actually put the SysRq-label on that button.
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Amen to this.
I miss those days when you had 25 Mhz, and some wacky demo-coders were doing crazy stuff with it!
I just installed it since it seemed to be the best of the lot and it's rather glaring that it does FireFox yet doesn't do Thunderbird. I think I'd have more use out of being able to search Thunderbird than FireFox.
After all, I have a fairly routine use of FireFox, but my Thunderbird has all kinds of stuff that really need to be easier to search.
I got into computers because my grandfather got into computers.
This was the mid-80's and he had just retired. He'd always been a funny man, so he invested in a 8086 with monochrome screen (or something along those lines). He learned BASIC and started creating all kinds of programs - printerprograms, wordprocessors, genealogy programs, etiquette printers, even some really funky games. All of it was text-only and it was gorgeously fun. Almost everything on that machine (except the DOS operating system) was handcrafted by him.
So every now and then I'd venture across the river from my parents to visit my grandparents and get a chance to play with the computer. I was somewhere around 8 or 9 years old.
After a while he upgraded his machine to a better one (80286 powah!) and he let me use the old machine to learn how stuff worked. I learned som BASIC, how to handle DOS, I read all his litterature on computers and finally I was hooked. Line, sinker and rod.
So here I am some twenty years later. What do I do for a living? Computers! What's my biggest interest and biggest hobby? Computers!
(albeit though, I don't do programming. But everything else I've done. Networking, servers, assembling computers, graphic design, webdesign. You name it, I've done it.)
This is a common misconception. True, BSD-systems can be made very secure. Also true is that Debian can be made very secure.
Security is a chain, i.e. nothing is stronger than the weakest link. If the person setting the system up is a complete bonehead then the system will have bonehead security. This is regardless of operating system (Winblows, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, etc etc etc)
Of course the bajillions of hotmail-users never noticed that it said "Microsoft.net Passport" about a thousand times when they logged into their mail to get some spam.
Or that it said the same thing on just about any website that was even remotely owned/operated by Microsoft.
Bull fucking shit, is my opinion. People didn't buy into it because they never trusted it.
another good read on the history of the Mac is "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy. Maybe not the most accurate piece of litterature on the planet, but a very entertaining read nonetheless.
He also wrote "Hackers" (don't confuse it with the lame movie of the same name) which deals with the origins och hackers and really cool old-school stuff.
And I'll keep doing it, because I like to be on the Bleeding Edge
I personally feel that it's more a matter of "I like being Intel/AMD's bitch"
Note though that I say this in the most humorous sense I can muster. I'm a sucker for faster/cooler/flashier computer stuff, and I suppose most of/. is the same way.
(although I've tired long since of Intels bullshit, these days I'm an AMD-only bitch.)
I spent hours fixing my little brother's (14 yrs old) computer. Firstly they are on dial up so that was why it took so long.. just downloading Spybot etc.
As a fellow roaming techsupporter (parents, witless friends) let me give you a little advice:
Invest in one of them small USB-memory drives. 128 megs is fine, go for more if you feel like splurging.
I've quickly discovered that these things are solid gold when dealing with different computers in different locations. Just slap Ad-Aware, Spybot and whatever else pieces of software you need onto that thing, and take it with you. Works like a charm. Then all you need the Internet for is for definition-updates and even those don't take years to download over Dial-Up.
Trillian sucks big bad donkey-balls compared to Miranda which is superior in every department except useless eyecandy.
Currently they're trying to push stable 0.4 out the door, but the stable 0.3.4 can easily be upgraded to the same functionality: tabbed chat-dialogs, discrete popups that notify you of whatever you like, integration with almost everything, excellent configuration and about a gazillion plugins for anything that might suit your fancy.
I setup a wireless 802.11g network at my parents place, and man oh man did I lock that thing tight. MAC filtering, WPA encryption - the works. I also added a P233MMX running m0n0wall that handles some extra features as far as walling fire is concerned. It's tighter than a hermetically sealed virgins asshole, and mom'n'pop can run around the house/yard/garage with their laptops and surf 'til their heads explode.
Yet I still fear that my mom's gonna call me in the middle of the night asking why her computer is 0wned (maybe not that exact wording) and is sending out spam and storing kiddie-porn because some evil person broke the wireless connection.
So, when push comes to shove I sure as hell prefer good old CAT-5. I would never put anything else in my apartment. Just my US$0.02.
As far as I can see, if MS et al manages to push TCPA out the door we're all screwed. As far as privacy goes we're headed for a Orwellian society if TCPA gets accepted by manufacturers - MS will decide what software we run, what ISP we use and what we type in our email. We'll be using Freedom Operating System graciously provided by MS and munching Freedom Chocolate all the while constantly having MS monitor our email to make sure that we don't write any nasty stuff about our Gracious Liberator Bill Gates.
Admittedly though I am quite the cynic about these things.
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CVS was publically released in 1896
Holy hell, was it designed for Babbages Difference Engine or what?
Actually, it was released in 1986.
Devastator
That's the new hollywood-flick right? The one about a rebellious force of sysadmins who have to fight against a machine intelligence that has taken over the world and is hell-bent on killing off all the humans?
open source triangle boy
Oooh, sounds kinky.
The upper surfaces also have round nubs which can double as fins to dissipate heat. Each Lego piece is a heat sink in and of itself.
If they were made out of something like copper or aluminum I'd agree with you, but since plastic has rather worthless thermal transfer I don't think this is gonna happen.
Windows-Pause brings up System Properties.
WOW! Now that's a keyboard shortcut that I have use for every day!
My apologies, I never got into demos until I got my 386.
Yes, I am a pagan, I know.
Or how about that fabled DOS-version where SysRq had some function?
I remember (well, not literally) how Microsoft put the pressure on IBM to add the SysRq-button on the keyboard. IBM sez "why?" and Microsoft says because they're gonna release some Voodoo-magic DOS that uses it.
I still don't understand why keyboard-makers actually put the SysRq-label on that button.
Amen to this.
I miss those days when you had 25 Mhz, and some wacky demo-coders were doing crazy stuff with it!
Future Crew, where have you gone?
Actually, at my lost job
Yeah, I have a hard time finding my jobs too. Keep misplacing the damn things all the time. Maybe I'll find my car-keys next to them?
Indeed.
I just installed it since it seemed to be the best of the lot and it's rather glaring that it does FireFox yet doesn't do Thunderbird. I think I'd have more use out of being able to search Thunderbird than FireFox.
After all, I have a fairly routine use of FireFox, but my Thunderbird has all kinds of stuff that really need to be easier to search.
Other than that, thumbs up so far.
I got into computers because my grandfather got into computers.
This was the mid-80's and he had just retired. He'd always been a funny man, so he invested in a 8086 with monochrome screen (or something along those lines). He learned BASIC and started creating all kinds of programs - printerprograms, wordprocessors, genealogy programs, etiquette printers, even some really funky games. All of it was text-only and it was gorgeously fun. Almost everything on that machine (except the DOS operating system) was handcrafted by him.
So every now and then I'd venture across the river from my parents to visit my grandparents and get a chance to play with the computer. I was somewhere around 8 or 9 years old.
After a while he upgraded his machine to a better one (80286 powah!) and he let me use the old machine to learn how stuff worked. I learned som BASIC, how to handle DOS, I read all his litterature on computers and finally I was hooked. Line, sinker and rod.
So here I am some twenty years later. What do I do for a living? Computers! What's my biggest interest and biggest hobby? Computers!
(albeit though, I don't do programming. But everything else I've done. Networking, servers, assembling computers, graphic design, webdesign. You name it, I've done it.)
Big Bazookas beat out personality any time. Just look at Baywatch and the maniacal following it has.
:)
Although, since I actually have a girlfriend, I can get Big Bazookas anytime I want
It's more secure than Debian
Nope.
This is a common misconception. True, BSD-systems can be made very secure. Also true is that Debian can be made very secure.
Security is a chain, i.e. nothing is stronger than the weakest link. If the person setting the system up is a complete bonehead then the system will have bonehead security. This is regardless of operating system (Winblows, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, etc etc etc)
Right.
.net Passport" about a thousand times when they logged into their mail to get some spam.
Of course the bajillions of hotmail-users never noticed that it said "Microsoft
Or that it said the same thing on just about any website that was even remotely owned/operated by Microsoft.
Bull fucking shit, is my opinion. People didn't buy into it because they never trusted it.
---NERD ALERT BEGINS HERE---
Yep, that was the EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram) that everyone just called the Doctor.
The show that he first appeared on was Star Trek: Voyager, but he featured in the movie First Contact as well.
Actor that played him was Robert Picardo
---NERD ALERT ENDS HERE---
*imitates Ash from EvilDead/Army of Darkness*
So, they had only two things. Jack and shit, and Jack left town.
another good read on the history of the Mac is "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy. Maybe not the most accurate piece of litterature on the planet, but a very entertaining read nonetheless.
He also wrote "Hackers" (don't confuse it with the lame movie of the same name) which deals with the origins och hackers and really cool old-school stuff.
And I'll keep doing it, because I like to be on the Bleeding Edge
/. is the same way.
I personally feel that it's more a matter of "I like being Intel/AMD's bitch"
Note though that I say this in the most humorous sense I can muster. I'm a sucker for faster/cooler/flashier computer stuff, and I suppose most of
(although I've tired long since of Intels bullshit, these days I'm an AMD-only bitch.)
I spent hours fixing my little brother's (14 yrs old) computer. Firstly they are on dial up so that was why it took so long.. just downloading Spybot etc.
As a fellow roaming techsupporter (parents, witless friends) let me give you a little advice:
Invest in one of them small USB-memory drives. 128 megs is fine, go for more if you feel like splurging.
I've quickly discovered that these things are solid gold when dealing with different computers in different locations. Just slap Ad-Aware, Spybot and whatever else pieces of software you need onto that thing, and take it with you. Works like a charm. Then all you need the Internet for is for definition-updates and even those don't take years to download over Dial-Up.
.../2/d/4/2d4d387b-97af-4923-897d-320fe070e864/...
Aggh! It's scrambling my brain!!
Does your iWife have WiFi?
Trillian sucks big bad donkey-balls compared to Miranda which is superior in every department except useless eyecandy.
Currently they're trying to push stable 0.4 out the door, but the stable 0.3.4 can easily be upgraded to the same functionality: tabbed chat-dialogs, discrete popups that notify you of whatever you like, integration with almost everything, excellent configuration and about a gazillion plugins for anything that might suit your fancy.
go old-school and run actual Ethernet
for what it's worth: I second that motion.
I setup a wireless 802.11g network at my parents place, and man oh man did I lock that thing tight. MAC filtering, WPA encryption - the works. I also added a P233MMX running m0n0wall that handles some extra features as far as walling fire is concerned. It's tighter than a hermetically sealed virgins asshole, and mom'n'pop can run around the house/yard/garage with their laptops and surf 'til their heads explode.
Yet I still fear that my mom's gonna call me in the middle of the night asking why her computer is 0wned (maybe not that exact wording) and is sending out spam and storing kiddie-porn because some evil person broke the wireless connection.
So, when push comes to shove I sure as hell prefer good old CAT-5. I would never put anything else in my apartment. Just my US$0.02.
*adjusts tinfoil-hat*
or TCPA as it's called these days.
As far as I can see, if MS et al manages to push TCPA out the door we're all screwed. As far as privacy goes we're headed for a Orwellian society if TCPA gets accepted by manufacturers - MS will decide what software we run, what ISP we use and what we type in our email. We'll be using Freedom Operating System graciously provided by MS and munching Freedom Chocolate all the while constantly having MS monitor our email to make sure that we don't write any nasty stuff about our Gracious Liberator Bill Gates.
Admittedly though I am quite the cynic about these things.
case-mod?
I'm waiting for one of the top casemodders out there to do a christmas mod!