Here's a little-remembered fact: speed limit (emphasis mine) means the maximum speed at which one can drive. Now you may whine and gripe six ways to Sunday if you get pulled over for doing 32 in a 30, but guess what? You broke the law. It's a black-and-white issue to the courts.
Actually, it's not quite so black and white for 30 in a 32. I was talking to my neighbor one day, and he is an ex-cop. He explaned to me that they can't even pull you over for doing anything less than 5 over. In other words, you have to be doing 35 in a 30 to get in trouble. That is of course under Florida law, but it makes sense. RADAR may not always be the most accurate thing, the speedomiter in your car/the officer's car may be just a bit off.
Here is one piece of advice though: Don't claim "my speedomiter said I was going 40MPH not 55MPH!" It won't help and (s)he could ticket you for defective equiptment in your car.
Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.
Hmm, that reminds me of a plan my brother-in-law and I came up with a few years ago. Since we know that there are infinite amounts of universes, and all of them are just a bit different, we decided that we would make a hard drive that stored one megabyte (This is when 800MB was the consumer high end) and it would extend it's storage to free space in other parallel universes. Even if in most of the universes the drives don't exist, and in most of the ones where they do exist, they're full, there is still an infinite amount left so there is still storage space. Maybe a bigger drive would be more practical, but the idea remains the same.
Sitting here though, I was thinking "Imagine a beowulf cluster of parallel universe linked computers." I guess that's so bad since I didn't post it alone. You could have an infinite amount of processing power, it'd be great. Now all I need to do is get that inter-reality NIC working. It seems like the power smoothing capasiter doesn't work right when it's a flux capasiter and the breaker on my hose keeps going when my NIC demands 1.2MW to shoot electrons and electromagnetic waves back 3 seconds in time... I can't tell you how I recieve it though, just that your setup isn't quite right. The general science comunity doesn't want to believe this is true. (Thinks to Art Bell's Guests)* They're resisting it because it changes their current understanding!
When it's working I'll contact slashdot first of course!
--Josh
*I actually do like Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, just we know that some of the guests aren't all there.
I've got RP too, as does my brother and my mother. I've seen some of the leading researchers in the world (I was lucky to live where I did for a while...). Indeed, High Contrast is important for RP. Being careful in low-light/dark situations is important too. I'm able to just say to someone "I need you to lead me, it's too dark in here." That can be a good thing if you're with a girl... At the moment, my vision is good enough that I have not restrictions on my driver's license. (And just to answer the question, No, there isn't a viable surgery for RP)
I'm also very farsited and slightly astigmatic, unrelated to the RP. The set of things to deal with light-focus problems in the eye are different than the ones for RP. For problems focusing, bigger is most often better. It's also an area where high-contrast is very helpful. Myself, I find serrifed fonts easier to read, but it's something you can check out. Dispite what people say, if there is a physical defect in your cornea, not using your glasses WILL NOT MAKE YOUR EYES STRONGER. I know people who's eyes have gotten somewhat worse from extended comptuer usage. Mine have gotten slightly better over time and I spend an inordinant amount of time at the geekbox. If it's a defect, it's a defect and must be worked with. The Topic poster sounds like he is very interested in doing the right thing this way. I've had pretty darned bad eyes since I was 3, probably earlier. If you tell people your restrictions, and work on finding what helps you see (high contrast? Serifed fonts? closer/farther?) then your life won't be too dificult to deal with.
Just a word of warning, you'll get the occasional jerk who won't believe you have an eye condition that's as bad as it is, or doesn't care. It can be dificult to stay calm with these goons. Just remember, they're an idiot.
I have yet to see one person who can sensibly claim Imperial measurements ('English' measurments to our US bretherin) are useful for technical specs and calculations.
That's just it, most industries do use the metric system. The thing is that in people's day-to-day lives, the customary system is easier. (No, I don't know why base-10 is so hard for measurements) Personally, I find it easier to say I'm 6'1" rather than 185cm. I'm sure it's mostly an issue of culture, but 185cm seems cumbersome to me. As to miles vs. kilometers, well, there is just a lot of inertia here. For some reason though, liters are better accepted, as long as you don't sell it to me in gas.:P
I think that the metric system will take over in the US, just slowly. It'll have to start with things like they did in some county in Kentucky. All the signs there said "Foosville 100km(60mi)." I don't remember which county it was in, but I thought it was a great idea. My cousin told me that they just stopped with that small area unfortunatly. I think Loudoun county, Va was supposed to have switched over the the metric system in like 1996, but they didn't. Aperently, it's not the first missed deadline on it either.
And anyways, how else was I supposed to bother my physics teacher? Giving velocity in furlongs per fortnight is fun!
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Ok, yeah, I remember that epesode. I just never got the impression that he was ever in love with her, just that he wanted to do her a favor... Well, it still sounds like it's out of TV Guide's write up...
For all the trouble we made in my computer science class in High School, that had to be the best thing to come out of it. The teacher decided that Off-by-one Errors were to be called OBOBs (think Oh Bob!) for Off By One Bug. I dunno, it just feels more personal... Maybe I should find something productive to do.
--Josh
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I hate to say this with all the people trashing the quality of the Science of the show, but I love it. Usually the errors aren't so blatant that they distract me too much. I really enjoy it though. Katz OTOH, I doubt has really watched it. His write-up sounds an awful lot like the one I read in TV Guide at the Convienant store. I think that he then added in his "notes" from the last show that was on. Yes, Warric is a recovering gambling addict, and in that epasode, he did take a fancy to a dancer in a casino. That was it, the plot ended there. She is no longer in the show. It's a lot like watching the show from last season where the man died in Grissom's hands, and the blood was litterly on his hands. A priest had talked to him ealier in the show. As he now looking at returning to Catholicism? No, he isn't.
Oh well, another Katz flame. At least it's my first!
I told everyone we should have a witch-hunt, but they wanted to have a good old-fashioned book burning instead. HOORAY!! I AMBLED WITH GLOOMY GLORIA OLD CHUM!!
Actually, personal censorship is definatly part of the Open Source Movement. They choose not to sell items X, Y, and Z. That's a lot like my having a system and telling my users that I don't want them putting pr0n on it. I'm censoring them while they're in use of my computer. If they want pr0n, they can feel free to go get all they want on their own computer. Contrary to some people's beleif, the consept of personal freedom includes one choosing to abstain oneself or one's company from using/selling things they don't like.
Sell-through rate is how much of your product sells between stocking cycles. The optimal situation is that you're getting new stock as you run out of the last shipment. Anything that is extra above that is inefficiency.
Also, I'd have to say that Target is a pretty rough company. They require not only a large amount of stock, but a gaurentee that you'll have a HUGE amount ready to sell to them. If your product doesn't sell well, they don't reorder and you're stuck with thousands of units that you don't have orders for.
It's tempting, but I won't go for it. I'm too much of a They Might Be Giants fan. I can see it now, sitting there in a public area with some weird looking device in my hand:
"PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE PUPPET HEAD!"
"...NO!" Someone speaks to me "Are you OK?"
"Yeah Yeah," Yeh Yeh starts playing. "Ahh!"
"DIG MY GRAVE"
"Sir, are you sure you're alright?" [stopping]
"Yeah, fine." suddenly person A asks person B for a light. "I've got a match."
The thing starts playing agian. Just then a Dirt Bike wizzes by and someone says "Man, that's a fast Dirt Bike." Guess what song starts playing. Then I stop it so I can play "I AM A HUMAN HEAD!" again getting more stares.
Then what if I want to hear Chuck Berry? "MY DINGALING" *SMACK*
When I got Windows 95 on my 486/4MB RAM, and I installed Sim City 2000, it became a realtime stratagy game. As a matter of fact, if I maximized it, it would take a full month for a month of game time to elapse! Ahh, but I have to thank M$ and Maxis for that experiance. Being discusted with the performance, I went back to Dos/Win3.1. All the stuff I learned about partitioning helped me immensly when I got in to linux. (No that wasn't a powerful enough Machine, and yes I learned linux on a different Machine)
So that company wants this on 70cm? I'm prettys sure the FCC won't remove that band, it's about second in usage to 2m. Now, when one gets an amateur radio license, he signs a document saying that the FCC can revoke any frequency privleges he previously had. That doesn't mean that if I've got some old radios hanging around I'm going to ditch 'em. Now, let's just say that they make the 70cm band shared. Let's say that I'm also having a nice conversation and sign off as I walk in to a store. I clip my HT on my belt and walk around picking up all the stuff I want to get. When I walk up to the counter, what if I, not thihnking of course, decide to key up on 440. I doubt that the readers are more powerful than a few hundred mW. If I've got an HT that can do 6W, every passive device for a couple of isles next to me will be transmitting their ID code.
Actually, that sounds like fun, 440 has a tendency to mess with stuff anyways. I wonder what product it would report if I decided to say "kc8qrm* monitering" on the right frequency with a good amount of power? I'm thinking it might just report back by giving some nice Magic Smoke.
Ok, granted that's all a bit tongue-in-cheak, but the truth is that just because some company can't figure out how to get this to work on another band (2.4Ghz? 900MHz?) correctly, we shouldn't be allocating them new frequencies. Radio Amateurs perform public service and are there in case of emergencies. Take a look at amateur radio everyone, it's really pretty easy to get involved these days. There is no morse code requirement now for a Tech. license, and the highest requirement is only 5wpm. It's a fun hobby, and it'll help you get a higher geek rating on your score card;-)
--Josh
*kc8qrm isn't my callsign. It's in a different regon than I live, and they'll never give those 3 letters in a call, QRM is a Q-code that means interferiance.
I'd have to agree about a KDE front-end. Maybe I should learn enough QT to do just that...;-)
The best Codec for dialup is GSM. It's compressed 5:1 so that you can send it over 19.2kbps. I use IRC or Everybuddy to see if my friends are online. You just put in their hostname/IP address to connect (or they put in yours) so you can give that info over any IM protocall you want. Perhaps a Jabber extention would be in order...
Hi David,
There is actually an older program named Speak Freely. I've used it for a number of years and still love it. It runs on *BSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows and probably others. The windows version has a pretty well designed GUI, but the Unix version is CLI based. It comes with two GUI interfaces in the source's CONTRIB dir which are written in TCL. It has a number of encryption modes (4 I think) including using PGP to do the encryption. It also has many audio compression modes making it suitable for anything from High Bandwidth applications all the way down to a 2400bps modem (Really!). The codecs are GSM, ADPCM, LPC, LPC-10, and Simple. Simple just drops certian bits and can be mixed with any other codec. You can run it with out audio compression as well. If you're a fan of amateur radio, this program runs the links of the IRLP project. Very cool stuff.
My personal favorite way to run it is to have my linux box run a reflector and then have people connect to that and that way I can have multiple people in my conversation. The program is due for a bit of an update, anyone want to volenteer? (I looked at the TODO list and it's all beyond what I can do...)
Good Luck on getting your linux stuff fixed; I dunno what the problem is, but I'd give upgrading pppd a shot. Personally, I'm a slacker, so ease of use mainly means that it doesn't fight me compiling an app that I want.;-)
what was that my mother said? "AL AL AL ALWAYS PUT SALT IN YOUR EYES
It seemed more stable, but not a lot more so. I was actually running 2.4.15-greased-turkey with Al Viro's first (well second since the VERY first didn't work) FS patch. I think it was almost exactly like 2.4.16 otherwise though. Truthfully my "instability" problems seem to be not software related. My last two bits of downtime came from a power-outage, and a breaker going and me shutting down becuase I thought the UPS was plugged in to another plug. The one before that a PCI Card (My ancient video card) fell out of it's PCI slot. My hot swapping of non-hotswappable stuff NEVER seems to work...
2.4.x has been OK, albeit not totally stable. I've got 2.4.17 running and I like it quite a bit. As for me, it has probably been benifical since it got me reading a bit of the LKML, and learning more of how to do stuff with my kernel.
bahh! We don't need no fancy "peanut traps." All you have to do is put it in a vacuum tube and then put a fan below it blowing up to keep it from falling!
Peanut traps... next they'll be telling me that 1000:1 compression is impossilbe!
My program is unbreakable. I wrote it in QBasic 4.5 and it beeps a number of times based on which menu item you chose. ph33r mY m4d b4s1c S|y11z!!!
(Just a note, I'll bet there is probably a nice flaw in every C/C++ program I've ever written. I've got the only Hello World that can get you rooted, sheesh.)
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Here's a little-remembered fact: speed limit (emphasis mine) means the maximum speed at which one can drive. Now you may whine and gripe six ways to Sunday if you get pulled over for doing 32 in a 30, but guess what? You broke the law. It's a black-and-white issue to the courts.
Actually, it's not quite so black and white for 30 in a 32. I was talking to my neighbor one day, and he is an ex-cop. He explaned to me that they can't even pull you over for doing anything less than 5 over. In other words, you have to be doing 35 in a 30 to get in trouble. That is of course under Florida law, but it makes sense. RADAR may not always be the most accurate thing, the speedomiter in your car/the officer's car may be just a bit off.
Here is one piece of advice though: Don't claim "my speedomiter said I was going 40MPH not 55MPH!" It won't help and (s)he could ticket you for defective equiptment in your car.
--Josh
Well, how about Pokey The Penguin Then? They're after my Arctic Circle Candy!!
--Josh
Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.
Hmm, that reminds me of a plan my brother-in-law and I came up with a few years ago. Since we know that there are infinite amounts of universes, and all of them are just a bit different, we decided that we would make a hard drive that stored one megabyte (This is when 800MB was the consumer high end) and it would extend it's storage to free space in other parallel universes. Even if in most of the universes the drives don't exist, and in most of the ones where they do exist, they're full, there is still an infinite amount left so there is still storage space. Maybe a bigger drive would be more practical, but the idea remains the same.
Sitting here though, I was thinking "Imagine a beowulf cluster of parallel universe linked computers." I guess that's so bad since I didn't post it alone. You could have an infinite amount of processing power, it'd be great. Now all I need to do is get that inter-reality NIC working. It seems like the power smoothing capasiter doesn't work right when it's a flux capasiter and the breaker on my hose keeps going when my NIC demands 1.2MW to shoot electrons and electromagnetic waves back 3 seconds in time... I can't tell you how I recieve it though, just that your setup isn't quite right. The general science comunity doesn't want to believe this is true. (Thinks to Art Bell's Guests)* They're resisting it because it changes their current understanding!
When it's working I'll contact slashdot first of course!
--Josh
*I actually do like Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, just we know that some of the guests aren't all there.
I've got RP too, as does my brother and my mother. I've seen some of the leading researchers in the world (I was lucky to live where I did for a while...). Indeed, High Contrast is important for RP. Being careful in low-light/dark situations is important too. I'm able to just say to someone "I need you to lead me, it's too dark in here." That can be a good thing if you're with a girl... At the moment, my vision is good enough that I have not restrictions on my driver's license. (And just to answer the question, No, there isn't a viable surgery for RP)
I'm also very farsited and slightly astigmatic, unrelated to the RP. The set of things to deal with light-focus problems in the eye are different than the ones for RP. For problems focusing, bigger is most often better. It's also an area where high-contrast is very helpful. Myself, I find serrifed fonts easier to read, but it's something you can check out. Dispite what people say, if there is a physical defect in your cornea, not using your glasses WILL NOT MAKE YOUR EYES STRONGER. I know people who's eyes have gotten somewhat worse from extended comptuer usage. Mine have gotten slightly better over time and I spend an inordinant amount of time at the geekbox. If it's a defect, it's a defect and must be worked with. The Topic poster sounds like he is very interested in doing the right thing this way. I've had pretty darned bad eyes since I was 3, probably earlier. If you tell people your restrictions, and work on finding what helps you see (high contrast? Serifed fonts? closer/farther?) then your life won't be too dificult to deal with.
Just a word of warning, you'll get the occasional jerk who won't believe you have an eye condition that's as bad as it is, or doesn't care. It can be dificult to stay calm with these goons. Just remember, they're an idiot.
Good Luck
--Josh
I have yet to see one person who can sensibly claim Imperial measurements ('English' measurments to our US bretherin) are useful for technical specs and calculations.
That's just it, most industries do use the metric system. The thing is that in people's day-to-day lives, the customary system is easier. (No, I don't know why base-10 is so hard for measurements) Personally, I find it easier to say I'm 6'1" rather than 185cm. I'm sure it's mostly an issue of culture, but 185cm seems cumbersome to me. As to miles vs. kilometers, well, there is just a lot of inertia here. For some reason though, liters are better accepted, as long as you don't sell it to me in gas.
I think that the metric system will take over in the US, just slowly. It'll have to start with things like they did in some county in Kentucky. All the signs there said "Foosville 100km(60mi)." I don't remember which county it was in, but I thought it was a great idea. My cousin told me that they just stopped with that small area unfortunatly. I think Loudoun county, Va was supposed to have switched over the the metric system in like 1996, but they didn't. Aperently, it's not the first missed deadline on it either.
And anyways, how else was I supposed to bother my physics teacher? Giving velocity in furlongs per fortnight is fun!
Ok, yeah, I remember that epesode. I just never got the impression that he was ever in love with her, just that he wanted to do her a favor... Well, it still sounds like it's out of TV Guide's write up...
--Josh
For all the trouble we made in my computer science class in High School, that had to be the best thing to come out of it. The teacher decided that Off-by-one Errors were to be called OBOBs (think Oh Bob!) for Off By One Bug. I dunno, it just feels more personal... Maybe I should find something productive to do.
--Josh
I hate to say this with all the people trashing the quality of the Science of the show, but I love it. Usually the errors aren't so blatant that they distract me too much. I really enjoy it though. Katz OTOH, I doubt has really watched it. His write-up sounds an awful lot like the one I read in TV Guide at the Convienant store. I think that he then added in his "notes" from the last show that was on. Yes, Warric is a recovering gambling addict, and in that epasode, he did take a fancy to a dancer in a casino. That was it, the plot ended there. She is no longer in the show. It's a lot like watching the show from last season where the man died in Grissom's hands, and the blood was litterly on his hands. A priest had talked to him ealier in the show. As he now looking at returning to Catholicism? No, he isn't.
Oh well, another Katz flame. At least it's my first!
--Josh
I told everyone we should have a witch-hunt, but they wanted to have a good old-fashioned book burning instead.
HOORAY!! I AMBLED WITH GLOOMY GLORIA OLD CHUM!!
As bad as it is to reply to something so far off topic (well the thread thereof) that is one of my favorite KITH sketches.
--Josh
Actually, personal censorship is definatly part of the Open Source Movement. They choose not to sell items X, Y, and Z. That's a lot like my having a system and telling my users that I don't want them putting pr0n on it. I'm censoring them while they're in use of my computer. If they want pr0n, they can feel free to go get all they want on their own computer. Contrary to some people's beleif, the consept of personal freedom includes one choosing to abstain oneself or one's company from using/selling things they don't like.
Sell-through rate is how much of your product sells between stocking cycles. The optimal situation is that you're getting new stock as you run out of the last shipment. Anything that is extra above that is inefficiency.
Also, I'd have to say that Target is a pretty rough company. They require not only a large amount of stock, but a gaurentee that you'll have a HUGE amount ready to sell to them. If your product doesn't sell well, they don't reorder and you're stuck with thousands of units that you don't have orders for.
Remember, 100db gain means 10 million watts of effective radiated power for every milliwatt of input power.
You mean I could actually get out there with my Radio Shack HT? I don't suppose that I can get that 200" dish on the back of a car...
--Josh
It's tempting, but I won't go for it. I'm too much of a They Might Be Giants fan. I can see it now, sitting there in a public area with some weird looking device in my hand:
"PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE PUPPET HEAD!"
"...NO!" Someone speaks to me "Are you OK?"
"Yeah Yeah," Yeh Yeh starts playing. "Ahh!"
"DIG MY GRAVE"
"Sir, are you sure you're alright?" [stopping]
"Yeah, fine." suddenly person A asks person B for a light. "I've got a match."
The thing starts playing agian. Just then a Dirt Bike wizzes by and someone says "Man, that's a fast Dirt Bike." Guess what song starts playing. Then I stop it so I can play "I AM A HUMAN HEAD!" again getting more stares.
Then what if I want to hear Chuck Berry? "MY DINGALING" *SMACK*
No, for me this is nothing but trouble...
--Josh
When I got Windows 95 on my 486/4MB RAM, and I installed Sim City 2000, it became a realtime stratagy game. As a matter of fact, if I maximized it, it would take a full month for a month of game time to elapse! Ahh, but I have to thank M$ and Maxis for that experiance. Being discusted with the performance, I went back to Dos/Win3.1. All the stuff I learned about partitioning helped me immensly when I got in to linux. (No that wasn't a powerful enough Machine, and yes I learned linux on a different Machine)
Sweet, I'm off topic AND lame in this post.
--Josh
So that company wants this on 70cm? I'm prettys sure the FCC won't remove that band, it's about second in usage to 2m. Now, when one gets an amateur radio license, he signs a document saying that the FCC can revoke any frequency privleges he previously had. That doesn't mean that if I've got some old radios hanging around I'm going to ditch 'em. Now, let's just say that they make the 70cm band shared. Let's say that I'm also having a nice conversation and sign off as I walk in to a store. I clip my HT on my belt and walk around picking up all the stuff I want to get. When I walk up to the counter, what if I, not thihnking of course, decide to key up on 440. I doubt that the readers are more powerful than a few hundred mW. If I've got an HT that can do 6W, every passive device for a couple of isles next to me will be transmitting their ID code.
;-)
Actually, that sounds like fun, 440 has a tendency to mess with stuff anyways. I wonder what product it would report if I decided to say "kc8qrm* monitering" on the right frequency with a good amount of power? I'm thinking it might just report back by giving some nice Magic Smoke.
Ok, granted that's all a bit tongue-in-cheak, but the truth is that just because some company can't figure out how to get this to work on another band (2.4Ghz? 900MHz?) correctly, we shouldn't be allocating them new frequencies. Radio Amateurs perform public service and are there in case of emergencies. Take a look at amateur radio everyone, it's really pretty easy to get involved these days. There is no morse code requirement now for a Tech. license, and the highest requirement is only 5wpm. It's a fun hobby, and it'll help you get a higher geek rating on your score card
--Josh
*kc8qrm isn't my callsign. It's in a different regon than I live, and they'll never give those 3 letters in a call, QRM is a Q-code that means interferiance.
I'd have to agree about a KDE front-end. Maybe I should learn enough QT to do just that... ;-)
The best Codec for dialup is GSM. It's compressed 5:1 so that you can send it over 19.2kbps. I use IRC or Everybuddy to see if my friends are online. You just put in their hostname/IP address to connect (or they put in yours) so you can give that info over any IM protocall you want. Perhaps a Jabber extention would be in order...
--Josh
Hi David,
There is actually an older program named Speak Freely. I've used it for a number of years and still love it. It runs on *BSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows and probably others. The windows version has a pretty well designed GUI, but the Unix version is CLI based. It comes with two GUI interfaces in the source's CONTRIB dir which are written in TCL. It has a number of encryption modes (4 I think) including using PGP to do the encryption. It also has many audio compression modes making it suitable for anything from High Bandwidth applications all the way down to a 2400bps modem (Really!). The codecs are GSM, ADPCM, LPC, LPC-10, and Simple. Simple just drops certian bits and can be mixed with any other codec. You can run it with out audio compression as well. If you're a fan of amateur radio, this program runs the links of the IRLP project. Very cool stuff.
My personal favorite way to run it is to have my linux box run a reflector and then have people connect to that and that way I can have multiple people in my conversation. The program is due for a bit of an update, anyone want to volenteer? (I looked at the TODO list and it's all beyond what I can do...)
--Josh
Why, if the two were to combine they would form the (very deadly) dihydrogen monoxide!
Worse yet, if the reaction happens properly, it'll form hydronium hydroxide!
Good Luck on getting your linux stuff fixed; I dunno what the problem is, but I'd give upgrading pppd a shot. Personally, I'm a slacker, so ease of use mainly means that it doesn't fight me compiling an app that I want. ;-)
what was that my mother said? "AL AL AL ALWAYS PUT SALT IN YOUR EYES
Too bad I can't mod ya +5 Getting my sig...
--Josh
It seemed more stable, but not a lot more so. I was actually running 2.4.15-greased-turkey with Al Viro's first (well second since the VERY first didn't work) FS patch. I think it was almost exactly like 2.4.16 otherwise though. Truthfully my "instability" problems seem to be not software related. My last two bits of downtime came from a power-outage, and a breaker going and me shutting down becuase I thought the UPS was plugged in to another plug. The one before that a PCI Card (My ancient video card) fell out of it's PCI slot. My hot swapping of non-hotswappable stuff NEVER seems to work...
--Josh
2.4.x has been OK, albeit not totally stable. I've got 2.4.17 running and I like it quite a bit. As for me, it has probably been benifical since it got me reading a bit of the LKML, and learning more of how to do stuff with my kernel.
--Josh
bahh! We don't need no fancy "peanut traps." All you have to do is put it in a vacuum tube and then put a fan below it blowing up to keep it from falling!
Peanut traps... next they'll be telling me that 1000:1 compression is impossilbe!
We all know that the *real* power programmers use BF anyways and the BF compilers/interpreters are cross platform!
--Josh
My program is unbreakable. I wrote it in QBasic 4.5 and it beeps a number of times based on which menu item you chose. ph33r mY m4d b4s1c S|y11z!!!
(Just a note, I'll bet there is probably a nice flaw in every C/C++ program I've ever written. I've got the only Hello World that can get you rooted, sheesh.)
--Josh