Slackware http://www.slackware.com has a very small distro called zipslack. Should serve your purpose (I've used it myself on a very old 386 based laptop).
From the web site: "ZipSlack is a special edition of Slackware Linux that can be installed onto any FAT (or FAT32) filesystem with about 100 MB of free space. It uses the UMSDOS filesystem and contains most of the programs you will need. This means that you do not need to repartition your hard disk if you already have DOS or Windows installed. ZipSlack installs into a directory on your DOS filesystem. It can also be installed to and booted from a Zip disk.
This distribution is ideal for people who don't have a lot of hard disk space, do not have a fast Internet connection to download the entire distribution, or who want a Linux distribution they can carry around on a Zip disk."
Sorry it (7.32x54) is closer to the Springfield.30-06 then the 8mm Mag. Also the M44 with the side folding bayonet is not a "paratrooper model" but was the standard issue replacement for the M91/30 and was issued to all troops in most of the former Soviet Block countries until replaced by the SKS and AK series of rifles. Good link though!
There are a LOT of M44's around still in the wrapper. Over the last few years, SOG - http://www.southernohiogun.com - and a few other surplus firearms importers have been bringing them in by the cargo container load. Every former Soviet Block country as well as China made and are now dumping them (it was SKS's a few years back). You can also get M91/30's in un-issued condition too. Currently not much collector value due to the numbers being brought in.
My 75 year old father is far from a "Power User". Email, writing few small text documents (notes to self, style) and browsing the Internet are the only uses he has for his computer. He's not even interested in playing any games. When he saw a tabbed browser for the first time (Opera), he was hooked! He loves the way, in his words, "it keep things organized and when I want to compare things on different sites, it lets me switch back and forth easier then having windows all over the place". To say tabbed browsing is just for "Power Users" is to underestimate your audience!
In principle I like your ideas, but I see a very real flaw in the from/to pair whitelist concept. People sometimes want email from people who's from address they do not know. Let's say we meet at a convention, have a discussion about your ideas on spam blocking and I want to hear more. I give you my card which has my email address on it (an address for just that purpose). I write down your email address with the intention of adding it to my whitelist so that you can send to me. Then by the time I get back to the office, I've forgotten about you and fail to add you to my whitelist. Your email is rejected and I fail to get the information that I actually wanted from you! - Now imagine salespeople that hand out cards to potential clients (some international) so the client can at his or her discretion, contact them. The client may not wish to give a from address to the salesperson, but may wish to contact them at some later date. With your process, their email will be blocked and the company could/would loose business. The business community would not hold still for that, for long. Cause a man to loose money and you can be sure he will not be quiet about it. Enough of them yelling and governments notice, next thing you know, no matter how good the technology, how well intentioned the process, it will be forcibly removed.
Years pass and things change in weird ways
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In High School, I was one of those that was pick on and bullied. Mostly it was because I almost fit in, but just not enough. One guy in particular seemed to have it in for me, all the usual mean crap from ridicule to an occasional beating. Years later (recently actually), I ran in to my former tormentor and to my surprise he went out of his way to come over and say hello and wanted to get together for dinner and talk about "back in the day". I was shocked to find out I was someone he had for some perverse reason, had always considered a friend! Maybe it was because I put up with all his shit, or maybe we all remember things differently as years pass, I know I'll never figure that one out.
I did, back at version 2.0, the registration number I recieved is still working today, but I purchased newer releases anyway as time went by. I support the products that work well and give me value for my dollars. WinZip is a great example of that kind of product. It is also the reason why I donate to Open Source projects, now that I have migrated away from the MS world to Linux! I don't have too, but feel it's the right thing to do!
There is a lot of older/discontinued hardware out there still going strong. Take the old Radio Shack Color Computers are an example, there is even a convention held each year in the Chicago area billed this year as the 12th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest. http://members.aol.com/clubbbs/glenside
SJust because a company gives up on a product, does not mean that it is no longer useful!
In Opera, go to File - Quick Preferences (or hit F12) and click Identify as MSIE 5.0 ! Problem solved - at least it works when I access hotmail.com and Outlook Web Access. I find hotmail is a perfect place to have a "dump" account! An address to enter on web sites that "require" an email address as part of getting an account. As to Outlook Web Access - well it shames me to say, I do have to check my work email from the road from time to time, from home or the office I use Evolution with the Exchange connector!!!
Agreed, it's my hope that like IBM's porting of their journaled file system to Linux, that they will someday do a port of SMIT to Linux. Of all the various tools supplied with all the various Unix "flavors", I've used over the years, SMIT is by far IMHO the best!
A local museum has one by S&W
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Down in Dunedin FL, there is a local museum dedicated to Police and the Military. http://www.naslemm.com On display is a spud gun manufactured by the engineering department of Smith & Wesson over 20 years ago. Big, Blue and with the S&W Logo, a bit more impressive then the tennis ball cannons, I used to build back in the 70's.
Already being done! Most of the bars at Casinos use automated bar tenders. The guy in the "monkey suite" just presses a button and out comes your drink. No chance of "over pouring" and giving out too strong a drink. Don't want too loose money by not maximising the number of drinks per liter of booze!!!
If the excess heat is all from your monitors, then invest in a KVM switch, so you only have one Keyboard, Video (Monitor) and Mouse. While KVM's were once very expensive and seldom seen out side of computer rooms or NOC's, the prices have dropped. Also you can take the money saved on multiple monitors and invest in that nice flat screen you've been drooling over, but could not cost justify! Currently I have one very good 19" monitor, rather then 4 cheaper ones and much more "room" in the room!
Next time don't go the rpm route, use Apache Toolbox from http://www.apachetoolbox.com any job is easer when you use the right tools, for compiling Apache "the way you want it (tm)" Apache Toolbox is the perfect tool. A fine example of some one in the OSS community taking a difficult job and making it simpler. Yes some projects are there to make things easer for the less experenced.
Even with the very large amount of money that USPS has spent developing it's OCR system, just to read a single string of numbers, they still employ thousands of workers to hand enter the zip codes that the system can not read. Those it can, are bar coded and sent on, but a very non-trivial amount of letters are "kicked" to the long rows of human operators.
Then so is mine! It's a generation thing. My Father's generation (he's in his 70's) is just now getting "in to" computers. I remember the day he called me at work, to tell me he figured out how to save a text file on his own. Then called back to ask how to find it again. Email and cell phones are wonders to them. When things do not work as expected, or differently then before, they begin to panic - not an un-natural reaction to (for them) the unknown.
"Fortunately, we can use the information gathered from the 'hacking' intelligence to track down potential violators - because of their use of the Linux operating system." Did anyone else spot that part of the quote? Sounds like they will want to outlaw Linux next, as a deterrent to crime!
NO, this shows, as we already know, that Linux can be adapted to many uses. "Suits" that learn this, will be impressed by the fact, that the price of an OS, can now be deducted from the production cost of this type machine, increasing the bottom line of the manufacturer! In cases like this, Linux == Profits !! More money for the manufacturer and general happiness for all "Suits" envolved.
Great informational site, I'm sure it will be invaluable to Webmasters and other web content providers. But does anyone know of a site like this, dealing with Non-Disclosure Agreements that may contain Non-compete clauses or force employees to give up various rights to work etc.? A friend was recently asked to sign such a NDA that would have precluded her from taking any web based work of any sort (the wording was intentionally vague) for 5 years after leaving the company, even if laid off or terminated, with or without cause. The employee would also have to agree that the employeer could terminate employment at any time without reason. As a web designer, this was un-acceptable and she's looking else where for employment. A site like the above dealing with NDA's would be invaluable to her and the rest of us working geeks.
Boiled down, your saying that because WIN 2000 Pro and Server is bloated beyond even Microsoft's best eerily expectations, that it is expectable to have a large number of bugs in the OS??? Tell that to a tech who has to try to bring back a server at 3 A.M. due to one of these expectable "undocumented features". I have been using/testing Win 2000 (in it's MANY beta releases) and it is more stable then Win 95/Win 98. Only fair when compared to NT 4.0 (due to "undocumented features" that cause incompatibility in products that MS support told me were compatible) and dismal compared to my various UNIX (SCO BSDi AIX and Linux) servers. This includes the last release before going gold. I judge stability as mean time between forced reboots and out right crashes and discount reboots due to software installs (yes I know Win 2000 is not supposed to require reboots after installs but that is not true in many cases)! In as server farm that is 7 x 24, anything that forces a reboot of a server is A BAD THING!!!!
"No sir that's not a bug that caused your system to crash, here at Microsoft Support, that's know as an undocumented feature."
Some cable modem systems use DHCP with a short lease life, or other methods to force an IP change and do not issue static IPs. Roadrunner in my area does this for example. This is not for security, but to give headaches to people trying to run an unauthorized (read warez) sites.
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Slackware http://www.slackware.com has a very small distro called zipslack. Should serve your purpose (I've used it myself on a very old 386 based laptop).
From the web site: "ZipSlack is a special edition of Slackware Linux that can be installed onto any FAT (or FAT32) filesystem with about 100 MB of free space. It uses the UMSDOS filesystem and contains most of the programs you will need. This means that you do not need to repartition your hard disk if you already have DOS or Windows installed. ZipSlack installs into a directory on your DOS filesystem. It can also be installed to and booted from a Zip disk.
This distribution is ideal for people who don't have a lot of hard disk space, do not have a fast Internet connection to download the entire distribution, or who want a Linux distribution they can carry around on a Zip disk."
Sorry it (7.32x54) is closer to the Springfield .30-06 then the 8mm Mag. Also the M44 with the side folding bayonet is not a "paratrooper model" but was the standard issue replacement for the M91/30 and was issued to all troops in most of the former Soviet Block countries until replaced by the SKS and AK series of rifles. Good link though!
There are a LOT of M44's around still in the wrapper. Over the last few years, SOG - http://www.southernohiogun.com - and a few other surplus firearms importers have been bringing them in by the cargo container load. Every former Soviet Block country as well as China made and are now dumping them (it was SKS's a few years back). You can also get M91/30's in un-issued condition too. Currently not much collector value due to the numbers being brought in.
Right cast but the wrong book, they would be perfect for a move based on "Bored of the Rings" by The National Lampoon!
My 75 year old father is far from a "Power User". Email, writing few small text documents (notes to self, style) and browsing the Internet are the only uses he has for his computer. He's not even interested in playing any games. When he saw a tabbed browser for the first time (Opera), he was hooked! He loves the way, in his words, "it keep things organized and when I want to compare things on different sites, it lets me switch back and forth easier then having windows all over the place". To say tabbed browsing is just for "Power Users" is to underestimate your audience!
In principle I like your ideas, but I see a very real flaw in the from/to pair whitelist concept. People sometimes want email from people who's from address they do not know. Let's say we meet at a convention, have a discussion about your ideas on spam blocking and I want to hear more. I give you my card which has my email address on it (an address for just that purpose). I write down your email address with the intention of adding it to my whitelist so that you can send to me. Then by the time I get back to the office, I've forgotten about you and fail to add you to my whitelist. Your email is rejected and I fail to get the information that I actually wanted from you! - Now imagine salespeople that hand out cards to potential clients (some international) so the client can at his or her discretion, contact them. The client may not wish to give a from address to the salesperson, but may wish to contact them at some later date. With your process, their email will be blocked and the company could/would loose business. The business community would not hold still for that, for long. Cause a man to loose money and you can be sure he will not be quiet about it. Enough of them yelling and governments notice, next thing you know, no matter how good the technology, how well intentioned the process, it will be forcibly removed.
In High School, I was one of those that was pick on and bullied. Mostly it was because I almost fit in, but just not enough. One guy in particular seemed to have it in for me, all the usual mean crap from ridicule to an occasional beating. Years later (recently actually), I ran in to my former tormentor and to my surprise he went out of his way to come over and say hello and wanted to get together for dinner and talk about "back in the day". I was shocked to find out I was someone he had for some perverse reason, had always considered a friend! Maybe it was because I put up with all his shit, or maybe we all remember things differently as years pass, I know I'll never figure that one out.
I did, back at version 2.0, the registration number I recieved is still working today, but I purchased newer releases anyway as time went by. I support the products that work well and give me value for my dollars. WinZip is a great example of that kind of product. It is also the reason why I donate to Open Source projects, now that I have migrated away from the MS world to Linux! I don't have too, but feel it's the right thing to do!
There is a lot of older/discontinued hardware out there still going strong. Take the old Radio Shack Color Computers are an example, there is even a convention held each year in the Chicago area billed this year as the 12th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest.
http://members.aol.com/clubbbs/glenside
SJust because a company gives up on a product, does not mean that it is no longer useful!
If it is VMWare running on X on Linux, then 50 Windows Lic and 1 VMWare Lic. If on Windows the 51 Windows Lic and 1 VMWare Lic.
In Opera, go to File - Quick Preferences (or hit F12) and click Identify as MSIE 5.0 ! Problem solved - at least it works when I access hotmail.com and Outlook Web Access. I find hotmail is a perfect place to have a "dump" account! An address to enter on web sites that "require" an email address as part of getting an account. As to Outlook Web Access - well it shames me to say, I do have to check my work email from the road from time to time, from home or the office I use Evolution with the Exchange connector!!!
Agreed, it's my hope that like IBM's porting of their journaled file system to Linux, that they will someday do a port of SMIT to Linux. Of all the various tools supplied with all the various Unix "flavors", I've used over the years, SMIT is by far IMHO the best!
Down in Dunedin FL, there is a local museum dedicated to Police and the Military. http://www.naslemm.com On display is a spud gun manufactured by the engineering department of Smith & Wesson over 20 years ago. Big, Blue and with the S&W Logo, a bit more impressive then the tennis ball cannons, I used to build back in the 70's.
Already being done! Most of the bars at Casinos use automated bar tenders. The guy in the "monkey suite" just presses a button and out comes your drink. No chance of "over pouring" and giving out too strong a drink. Don't want too loose money by not maximising the number of drinks per liter of booze!!!
If the excess heat is all from your monitors, then invest in a KVM switch, so you only have one Keyboard, Video (Monitor) and Mouse. While KVM's were once very expensive and seldom seen out side of computer rooms or NOC's, the prices have dropped. Also you can take the money saved on multiple monitors and invest in that nice flat screen you've been drooling over, but could not cost justify! Currently I have one very good 19" monitor, rather then 4 cheaper ones and much more "room" in the room!
Next time don't go the rpm route, use Apache Toolbox from http://www.apachetoolbox.com any job is easer when you use the right tools, for compiling Apache "the way you want it (tm)" Apache Toolbox is the perfect tool. A fine example of some one in the OSS community taking a difficult job and making it simpler. Yes some projects are there to make things easer for the less experenced.
Speed poke under Extend Color Basic on a Tandy Color Computer - Yes I am that old!
Even with the very large amount of money that USPS has spent developing it's OCR system, just to read a single string of numbers, they still employ thousands of workers to hand enter the zip codes that the system can not read. Those it can, are bar coded and sent on, but a very non-trivial amount of letters are "kicked" to the long rows of human operators.
Then so is mine! It's a generation thing. My Father's generation (he's in his 70's) is just now getting "in to" computers. I remember the day he called me at work, to tell me he figured out how to save a text file on his own. Then called back to ask how to find it again. Email and cell phones are wonders to them. When things do not work as expected, or differently then before, they begin to panic - not an un-natural reaction to (for them) the unknown.
"Fortunately, we can use the information gathered from the 'hacking' intelligence to track down potential violators - because of their use of the Linux operating system." Did anyone else spot that part of the quote? Sounds like they will want to outlaw Linux next, as a deterrent to crime!
NO, this shows, as we already know, that Linux can be adapted to many uses. "Suits" that learn this, will be impressed by the fact, that the price of an OS, can now be deducted from the production cost of this type machine, increasing the bottom line of the manufacturer! In cases like this, Linux == Profits !! More money for the manufacturer and general happiness for all "Suits" envolved.
Why bother when there are other blackhole services to use like MAPS http://www.mail-abuse.org or ORDB.org http://www.ordb.org ?
Great informational site, I'm sure it will be invaluable to Webmasters and other web content providers. But does anyone know of a site like this, dealing with Non-Disclosure Agreements that may contain Non-compete clauses or force employees to give up various rights to work etc.? A friend was recently asked to sign such a NDA that would have precluded her from taking any web based work of any sort (the wording was intentionally vague) for 5 years after leaving the company, even if laid off or terminated, with or without cause. The employee would also have to agree that the employeer could terminate employment at any time without reason. As a web designer, this was un-acceptable and she's looking else where for employment. A site like the above dealing with NDA's would be invaluable to her and the rest of us working geeks.
Boiled down, your saying that because WIN 2000 Pro and Server is bloated beyond even Microsoft's best eerily expectations, that it is expectable to have a large number of bugs in the OS??? Tell that to a tech who has to try to bring back a server at 3 A.M. due to one of these expectable "undocumented features". I have been using/testing Win 2000 (in it's MANY beta releases) and it is more stable then Win 95/Win 98. Only fair when compared to NT 4.0 (due to "undocumented features" that cause incompatibility in products that MS support told me were compatible) and dismal compared to my various UNIX (SCO BSDi AIX and Linux) servers. This includes the last release before going gold. I judge stability as mean time between forced reboots and out right crashes and discount reboots due to software installs (yes I know Win 2000 is not supposed to require reboots after installs but that is not true in many cases)! In as server farm that is 7 x 24, anything that forces a reboot of a server is A BAD THING!!!!
"No sir that's not a bug that caused your system to crash, here at Microsoft Support, that's know as an undocumented feature."
Some cable modem systems use DHCP with a short lease life, or other methods to force an IP change and do not issue static IPs. Roadrunner in my area does this for example. This is not for security, but to give headaches to people trying to run an unauthorized (read warez) sites.