That Dell will drop their non-standard case and motherboard layouts? For anyone that has worked on a Dell you know what I an talking about. They have a PCI riser card and crap that turns the PCI cards parallel to the motherboard. Making the case so that you can't put a standard ATX Motherboard in there. If you wanna upgrade the mobo in it you have to trash it and buy a new case and motherboard from an independent reseller.
I think Microsoft Passport is a great idea, just implemented badly. Think about it...I'm a member of a couple of webboards, some sites that use phpnuke, gallery.sourceforge.org, slashdot, kuro5hin, etc...On all of these sites I had to register individually for each one. Wouldn't it make more sense if everyone got together and created a centralized authentication database so that I only have to create one account and I can use it across multiple sites? That would make life easier and save me some time.
I think this is what passport is trying to accomplish, but unforunately, AFAIK, it currently only works on Microsoft sites using Microsoft operating systems.:(
Don't slashdot users/story posters read fark.com?
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This is old news, it was posted on fark.com yesterday.
get in on the comments before the million office space movie quotes:)
I use Linux at work but Windows XP at home because
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Linux is great for work because I can get my job done. Sometimes I need to edit 4 or 5 files at once and refresh a web page to see changes, etc...
but at home I don't do that. I come home, play and mp3, watch a divx movie, etc...and I do that on XP. Why? Because there isn't any filesharing app that runs on Linux that has as much content as Kazaa. Where else can I find every MP3 I am loking for as well as hundred of movies. Then if I want to listen to an mp3 or watch a divx, its much easier for me to install winamp or the latest divx codec. I just double click and go. With linux I'd have to download it, install the rpm or compile the source, setup the kde file manager to open that filetype with that application, download and compile xine, get the divx codec for linux (which usually lags behind), etc...
And another big point, alot of the movies are slightly over 700M so I have to recompress them to a hair under 700M so I can burn them to cd. I haven't found a linux divx reconder that is as good as virtualdub.
To put it simply, Windows has better media apps, filesharing utils, video encoders, and codec releases then Linux.
Get a Nvidia Gefore2 MX400 based video card. I got one at Fry's a month ago for $55. Its not top of the line anymore, but its cheap and plays counter-strike and Return to castle wolfenstien great at 1024x768. I have an athlon 1.3ghz proc and 384M of RAM. So if you have a few bucks laying around pick one up and enjoy.
[adam@missioncontrol adam]$ nslookup warez.slashdot.org Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 10.1.3.1 Address: 10.1.3.1#53
It will take whatever the default is that is programmed into the code, which is prolly yes. So in other words if its commented out its more then likely enabled. So uncomment it and change it to no.
I think I should start an OpenSSH remote root exploit of the month club.
Why not go to http://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp and go to the repair infomation section and purchase the factory service manual and electronic troubleshooting manual and do it yourself? you should also become a member of http://www.rsxworld.com if you are not already, so that you can learn more about your vehicle.
I don't know how you came to the conclusion that honda won't release the TSBs. You can call any Honda or Acura dealer and tell them what car you have or the VIN # and they will tell you what TSBs are available for your car. You should know that not all TSB are due to problems with cars. Honda releases TSBs on things such as proper car cleaning, scan tool usage, etc...
I am a Honda S2000 owner and I can go to http://www.s2ki.com/article/archive/1/ and look at all the othe TSBs for the Honda S2000. All of these TSBs were gotten by Honda S2000 owners from their dealers.
I think your problem was that you are shy and don't like to talk on the phone so you would rather search around the internet to find a solution to your problem then rather taking 5 minutes to call the service department at your local dealer and ask the service writer what TSBs are available for your car.
If IBM can fit Linux and X Windowing System into a 8meg watch, then You can fit linux onto almost anything. I don't see the point of having several thousand man hours used to develop an embeded OS that uses >100K of memory when you can use linux and just buy a slightly bigger memory chip. Its cheaper to use linux and buy a bigger memory chip (memory, even flash rom and CF) is cheap these days. It is especially cheaper to do that then hire a team of programmers to write an OS and applications from scratch just so you can use 100K of memory instead of a couple of meg of memory. And a couple of megabyte sized flash chip won't be *that* much larger then a comparable chip that holds 100K of memory.
If you have problem with your phone carrier (such as a baby bell) giving you poor service, taking a month to install a phone line, etc...There are laws you prolly don't know about that are set by your state's government about how soon the phone company must give you service after you make the request for the service (such as adding a new phone line).
When you have problems with the phone company, look up in your phone book under the state government listings for the Public Service Commission or the Public Utilities Commission. Call them and then ask for the phone number to their complaints line. Then call the complaints line. You will speak to someone that has and will contact people higher up in the phone company's service and management departments that will get your service requests done PROMPTLY. If you make a request for service and the phone company doesn't provide it within a reasonable amount of time, the PSC or PUC WILL fine the phone company for violating state laws by not providing you service within a reasonable amount of time according to the laws in your state.
For example, my mom bought a new house. She called the phone company routinely for a month straight. Bellsouth kept saying there were no more available lines in her area and they would have to engineer a solution and get back with her. After putting up with this for a month she finally called the PSC and told them what was going on. The next day she had a working phone line.
Micron consistantly lobbies Congress to increase the tarriffs on foreign RAM memories makers. Do you know why?
Because Micron can't produce their ram as cheaply as their foreign competitors. So they get Congress to increase the tarriffs to a point where foreign produced ram costs about the same or slightly higher to purchase then Micron ram.
I say boo fucking hoo to Micron. If they can't produce it as cheap as everyone else then they should get out of the business.
How is this not a monopoly?
Re:Luke, use the source...
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RedHat needs a compile from source package format that most people can figure out. srpms may do it, but I have no clue how to use them.
You do know that car batteries give off hydrogen gas when they sit idle and when they are being used. If you let them sit around too long the hydrogen gas builds up in the room. If you were to have a spark in that room, it would cause to the Hydrogen to combine with Oxygen to produce water and make a very large explosion. The Hindenburg blimp comes to mind.
The next problem is that having an inverter plugged to a car battery to power a notebook will work...but for a few hours until the car battery is drained anyway. Ever leave your headlights on overnight and forgot to turn them off in the morning...result?...a car that won't start because the battery is dead. Your lowbeams use ~55 watts each...110 watts total...your notebooks prolly use around 80 watts or so...so after several hours it will drain the car battery.
If you decide to use car batteries...I don't think that is safe. What happens if it falls off the car t and cracks open and leaks? The Acid in the battery will eat through just about anything.
Car batteries weigh alot. Like 50 pounds...Yeah they will be on carts, but 50 lbs on a cart is still heavy to push when you have a 25 year old 100 lb nurse or a 65 year old grandma nurse pushing it.
Car battiers are expensive...$60 a pop to replace them every several hours.
We have samba running on Solaris 7. All of the users run various flavors of Windows. They all authenticate against the Samba server. Every friday we have them backup their files to the samba server. Its not the best in the world, but we have them use MS Backup (it comes with win 95, 98, etc...) and backup their stuff to a backup directory under their home directory. Then we have DAT DD4 tape backup drive backup the entire server every friday using tar. So far its saved us quite a few times.
I remember this happening on napster. They also had songs that at the end or beginning said "If you enjoy this song please buy our cd from our website, etc..." I remember a specific Econoline Crush song that was like this and widely distributed on Napster.
Has anyone gotten Mozilla 1.0 to work with VNC? Mozilla 1.0RC3 and earlier worked fine with VNC, but now for me, when I connect to VNC, Mozilla freezes. I'm running it on Linux and I rebuild it from the sources. Any suggestions?
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is now a reference for tutorials? Ever try www.tldp.org or www.linuxtoday.com (they post links to tutorials).
we've been doing this for a while on www.mp3car.com
Statistics show that lower income minority population usually cause more crime then high income majority population.
Why does the author act suprized with his last sentence?
That Dell will drop their non-standard case and motherboard layouts? For anyone that has worked on a Dell you know what I an talking about. They have a PCI riser card and crap that turns the PCI cards parallel to the motherboard. Making the case so that you can't put a standard ATX Motherboard in there. If you wanna upgrade the mobo in it you have to trash it and buy a new case and motherboard from an independent reseller.
The is the cheap one that mp3car.com people are having good success with:
e /a ccessories/sleekline_12Vps.htm
s =& threadid=9059
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/sleeklin
it is $129. refer to this thread if you need help:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?
I think Microsoft Passport is a great idea, just implemented badly. Think about it...I'm a member of a couple of webboards, some sites that use phpnuke, gallery.sourceforge.org, slashdot, kuro5hin, etc...On all of these sites I had to register individually for each one. Wouldn't it make more sense if everyone got together and created a centralized authentication database so that I only have to create one account and I can use it across multiple sites? That would make life easier and save me some time.
:(
I think this is what passport is trying to accomplish, but unforunately, AFAIK, it currently only works on Microsoft sites using Microsoft operating systems.
This is old news, it was posted on fark.com yesterday.
get in on the comments before the million office space movie quotes :)
Linux is great for work because I can get my job done. Sometimes I need to edit 4 or 5 files at once and refresh a web page to see changes, etc...
but at home I don't do that. I come home, play and mp3, watch a divx movie, etc...and I do that on XP. Why? Because there isn't any filesharing app that runs on Linux that has as much content as Kazaa. Where else can I find every MP3 I am loking for as well as hundred of movies. Then if I want to listen to an mp3 or watch a divx, its much easier for me to install winamp or the latest divx codec. I just double click and go. With linux I'd have to download it, install the rpm or compile the source, setup the kde file manager to open that filetype with that application, download and compile xine, get the divx codec for linux (which usually lags behind), etc...
And another big point, alot of the movies are slightly over 700M so I have to recompress them to a hair under 700M so I can burn them to cd. I haven't found a linux divx reconder that is as good as virtualdub.
To put it simply, Windows has better media apps, filesharing utils, video encoders, and codec releases then Linux.
Get a Nvidia Gefore2 MX400 based video card. I got one at Fry's a month ago for $55. Its not top of the line anymore, but its cheap and plays counter-strike and Return to castle wolfenstien great at 1024x768. I have an athlon 1.3ghz proc and 384M of RAM. So if you have a few bucks laying around pick one up and enjoy.
[adam@missioncontrol adam]$ nslookup warez.slashdot.org
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
Server: 10.1.3.1
Address: 10.1.3.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: warez.slashdot.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
(but we all know 127.0.0.1 is localhost, so its a DNS admin joke)
more from a comment by the same author :)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35116&cid=3
"it is untracable/closable by the RIAA"
So did the programmers figure out how to make packets be invisible? If so, can they teach me that trick!?
It will take whatever the default is that is programmed into the code, which is prolly yes. So in other words if its commented out its more then likely enabled. So uncomment it and change it to no.
I think I should start an OpenSSH remote root exploit of the month club.
Why not go to http://www.helminc.com/helm/homepage.asp and go to the repair infomation section and purchase the factory service manual and electronic troubleshooting manual and do it yourself? you should also become a member of http://www.rsxworld.com if you are not already, so that you can learn more about your vehicle.
I don't know how you came to the conclusion that honda won't release the TSBs. You can call any Honda or Acura dealer and tell them what car you have or the VIN # and they will tell you what TSBs are available for your car. You should know that not all TSB are due to problems with cars. Honda releases TSBs on things such as proper car cleaning, scan tool usage, etc... I am a Honda S2000 owner and I can go to http://www.s2ki.com/article/archive/1/ and look at all the othe TSBs for the Honda S2000. All of these TSBs were gotten by Honda S2000 owners from their dealers. I think your problem was that you are shy and don't like to talk on the phone so you would rather search around the internet to find a solution to your problem then rather taking 5 minutes to call the service department at your local dealer and ask the service writer what TSBs are available for your car.
If IBM can fit Linux and X Windowing System into a 8meg watch, then You can fit linux onto almost anything. I don't see the point of having several thousand man hours used to develop an embeded OS that uses >100K of memory when you can use linux and just buy a slightly bigger memory chip. Its cheaper to use linux and buy a bigger memory chip (memory, even flash rom and CF) is cheap these days. It is especially cheaper to do that then hire a team of programmers to write an OS and applications from scratch just so you can use 100K of memory instead of a couple of meg of memory. And a couple of megabyte sized flash chip won't be *that* much larger then a comparable chip that holds 100K of memory.
If you have problem with your phone carrier (such as a baby bell) giving you poor service, taking a month to install a phone line, etc...There are laws you prolly don't know about that are set by your state's government about how soon the phone company must give you service after you make the request for the service (such as adding a new phone line).
When you have problems with the phone company, look up in your phone book under the state government listings for the Public Service Commission or the Public Utilities Commission. Call them and then ask for the phone number to their complaints line. Then call the complaints line. You will speak to someone that has and will contact people higher up in the phone company's service and management departments that will get your service requests done PROMPTLY. If you make a request for service and the phone company doesn't provide it within a reasonable amount of time, the PSC or PUC WILL fine the phone company for violating state laws by not providing you service within a reasonable amount of time according to the laws in your state.
For example, my mom bought a new house. She called the phone company routinely for a month straight. Bellsouth kept saying there were no more available lines in her area and they would have to engineer a solution and get back with her. After putting up with this for a month she finally called the PSC and told them what was going on. The next day she had a working phone line.
Micron consistantly lobbies Congress to increase the tarriffs on foreign RAM memories makers. Do you know why?
Because Micron can't produce their ram as cheaply as their foreign competitors. So they get Congress to increase the tarriffs to a point where foreign produced ram costs about the same or slightly higher to purchase then Micron ram.
I say boo fucking hoo to Micron. If they can't produce it as cheap as everyone else then they should get out of the business.
How is this not a monopoly?
RedHat needs a compile from source package format that most people can figure out. srpms may do it, but I have no clue how to use them.
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/package-version.arc h.rpm
.tar.gz you extracted has a spec file:
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/package-version.arc h.rpm
rpm --rebuild package-version.srpm
rpm -Uvh
Or if the
rpm -bb package.spec
rpm -Uvh
You do know that car batteries give off hydrogen gas when they sit idle and when they are being used. If you let them sit around too long the hydrogen gas builds up in the room. If you were to have a spark in that room, it would cause to the Hydrogen to combine with Oxygen to produce water and make a very large explosion. The Hindenburg blimp comes to mind.
The next problem is that having an inverter plugged to a car battery to power a notebook will work...but for a few hours until the car battery is drained anyway. Ever leave your headlights on overnight and forgot to turn them off in the morning...result?...a car that won't start because the battery is dead. Your lowbeams use ~55 watts each...110 watts total...your notebooks prolly use around 80 watts or so...so after several hours it will drain the car battery.
If you decide to use car batteries...I don't think that is safe. What happens if it falls off the car t and cracks open and leaks? The Acid in the battery will eat through just about anything.
Car batteries weigh alot. Like 50 pounds...Yeah they will be on carts, but 50 lbs on a cart is still heavy to push when you have a 25 year old 100 lb nurse or a 65 year old grandma nurse pushing it.
Car battiers are expensive...$60 a pop to replace them every several hours.
Good luck with your project!
We have samba running on Solaris 7. All of the users run various flavors of Windows. They all authenticate against the Samba server. Every friday we have them backup their files to the samba server. Its not the best in the world, but we have them use MS Backup (it comes with win 95, 98, etc...) and backup their stuff to a backup directory under their home directory. Then we have DAT DD4 tape backup drive backup the entire server every friday using tar. So far its saved us quite a few times.
If you need any help/advice then contact me.
HW pulled the Broadcast 2000 video editing software over liability issues. Then HW releases another video editor called Cinelerra and its ok to use?
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, that does not make sense. You must acquit.
I remember this happening on napster. They also had songs that at the end or beginning said "If you enjoy this song please buy our cd from our website, etc..." I remember a specific Econoline Crush song that was like this and widely distributed on Napster.
Has anyone gotten Mozilla 1.0 to work with VNC? Mozilla 1.0RC3 and earlier worked fine with VNC, but now for me, when I connect to VNC, Mozilla freezes. I'm running it on Linux and I rebuild it from the sources. Any suggestions?