Well, to be fair, a ton of the kernel will be re-written by 2.5.2. From what I've been reading at LKML, the block IO layer will have been re-done, and then the new kbuild will start to be integrated (Optional on supported platforms at that point). That's actually some pretty big stuff.
I lived in Michigan, and Canada is (almost all) north of Michigan so I'd say that you really don't need to worry in the winter. One day I almost considered writing a program to check a thermal censor and turn up the processor on the computer/turn on the other computer/moniter/etc to increase the heat in the room. If you give it a window the heat will probably escape well enough without being opened plus as has been said 200 times already it'll help heat your home.
The summer is the challange. Since you have a window, a window AC unit may be a good match. You can pick one up for probably something like $250/US at a Zellor's or Walmart or wherever. If it's a speced for a room a bit bigger than the one the computers are in, then it'll take care of the room no problem, especially if you've got central air.
Start with two racks, fill them with servers, Put the towers in the middle. Now, stuff those in to a small closet. You're running these all a bit OC'd, right? Great, now got to the store and pick up a product called "Cake Mix." Follow the directions on the box. It will likley need milk, water, and eggs. Put this solution in a pan and then you've got an oven that can play quake.
>Zap, Crackle, Pop. There went your 3 hard drives, all at once.
I'm pretty sure that if the one drive is in a saftey deposite box, the chances of it being struck by lightning at the same time as your other drives is tiny. If that happens to you, I suggest going and buying a lotto ticket.
The thing has a TINY range. I thought that it'd be able to go really far, it runs at 1100 Watts. I can install cool software like HotDog Pro, Java, and other stuff like that. I have detected problems with it though. It tends to run hot. In fact, I have seen water boil in it before! AOL CDs can be installed and they work perfectly. It even has a unique blue flash. The thing is I tried installing NT4 and it crashed.
(and you get to use geek friendly DDR memory instead of paying through the nose for evil RDRAM).
Well, I don't know about the RDRAM, but my DDR memory is terrable. Maybe it's that I don't practice enough, but I can only keep one or two arrows in my memory at once. I suppose that it is geek friendly though, most geeks that I know are too embarrased to ask a girl to dance...
5. All candidates should mail a summary of their candicacy announcement (see previous rule) to elections@gnome.org. Summaries should be no more than 75 words of continuous text (i.e. no bullet lists or multiple paragraphs) and must be received by the nomination deadline given above. A compilation of the summaries will be mailed to all registered voters several days prior to the election.
I see what they're worried about, but who would vote for the following?
Name: Al Gore
HI
I INVENTED
THE
INTERNET
AND
I AM
GOOD
AT
USING
IT.
SINCE
I
INVENTED THESE THINGS:
1 THE INTERNET
2 COMERSE
3 BILL GATES
4 NON-BUTTERFLY BALLOTS
I SHOULD BE THE PRESI -- ON THE GNOME BOARD.
Ok, you, with you hand up saying "I'll vote!" Sit down and stop trolling.
Personally, I think it'd be neat if it was user programmable. I think that the standard way of programming isn't quite right though. It'd be good to have a simple AI setup. The user would reward by physical contact. The user would then tell the robot when it was bad. Of course you wouldn't include voice recognition, it could just use volume for the most part, and maybe over time it would recognise a few words. Those words could be used as commands. For this we could use specialized hardware:
Fur used to keep the unit withing operational temerature ranges.
Powered by low heat break down of simple sugars
"Wet" technoligy processors. Rather than S02, they are based on Oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen (mainly)
Medium resolution black and white cameras mounted in the front with possible detection of distances
Microphones mounted under sound focusing devices
Self fuling "M.O.U.T.H" technology
These items sound exotic, and well, I don't think any one can make them on their own. You can however get one fully assembled. I'm not in a particularly advanced area of the US, but I saw them at the local Mall! I know that there is a specialized dealership called a "Pound" that will sell them refurbished at a great discount.
Alan Cox could just use the Linux Comment System(TM). You know, how Linus will implement a whole new VM and the changelog states "VM Fixes." Using Linus's model for this, Alan Cox would definatly just state "Fixed security issues" for most any bug. Heck, he could even put it in the "Random Fixes" catchall. Then all Alan has to do is run around saying to people stuff like "I don't really care about Micro*cough* - The DMCA. It bores me."
Maybe we would all do better following Linus's methods. Let's say you need to turn in an Essay on Lord Of The Flys, it's simple:
Essay Pre-1 "Plane crash"
Essay Pre-2 "Establish democrasy"
Essay Pre-2 "formed resitance"
Essay Pre-3 "War - people died"
Essay Pre-4 "Ship arrives restored grownups"
As you can see, this eases your everyday life. It gets rid of the unintended problems that spring from caring about anything but the task at hand.
Well, I like my browser too look nice (Konqueror) and I find graphical IRC clients better for me when I chat. I use star office to do writing that has to be spelled right. (I've looked at lyx but Haven't tried it yet)
Most everything else I do with xterms or konsoles. That's why it wasn't much of a problem for me to use FVWM2.
If you want to ask me more, you can mailme at spamme@kirkoff.itgo.com but remember that I'm Josh and not spamme.;-)
Do people really do that? Well, I do. I'm running slackware 8 with KDE 2.2. I used FVWM2 after KDE2 came out and was too unstable. I like konqueror, kmail, and other kde aps, so I use them. I like KDE's window management etc. My friend Adam has about the same setup. I don't like GNOME that very much, but that's nothing against the work they've done, I just didn't really get in to that interface. I used GTK aps like xchat.
I guess it really breaks down to this, for my underlying OS, I like it to be pretty simple and easy for me to configure/hack. For the interface, I like a little bit of eye candy, and a nice experiance.
As to package management, I like the tarballs well enough. Usually, the latest tarballs are up on http://www.linuxmafia.org pretty quickly. If I see something that doesn't have a package, I usually compile it and make it in to a package. That way if I need to remove it, it's no real problem.
Just because I like writing a lot of my own startup scripts and the such, doesn't mean I don't like day-to-day tasks to be easy.
Now, you take a wire and stick it in your brain that sends a "signal" of what you're "looking" at...or something.
That's actually the hard part. There are already solutions that involve talking to the implants, the problem is making a working implant. Right now, there is no way to connect something to the optic nerve which is what you need to do to make a blind person see. More specificly, you need to make a ton of very fine connections along that nerve. I know about this becuase I went to a lecture/confrence at the University Of Michigan's Kellog Eye Center for people with retinal degernerative diseases. Unfortunatly, I fall in to that catagory.
You didn't even shut the computer down to install the card? That's some power of linux!
Well... Not that you *should* but yeah, you can. For example, once I removed my CD-ROM Drive with the computer on, no big deal. Pluging it back in was the problem. My PS wasn't powerful enough and the CPU didn't get the needed power. Note that if you try something like that, put the interface cable in second to avoid surging across the IDE/SCSI Bus and locking up the computer. My other experiance was when my SB Live fell out after I moved the computer as part of a house move. (~1200 Miles) A screw had come out, and the sound card worked, but when it finally fell out, sound failed and gave errors. I think that it may have been correctable if the modules weren't loaded though. I did read a tips page on hot swapping non-hotswappable stuff once.
Oh, and no, I don't think any of that was good for my hardware.
You obvously don't understand proper marketing. It will be called e-my-nAwcAt.com inc. The 'e' lets people a know it is a technoligy company, this is re-enforced with the '.com' and the uppercasing of the second letters of what appear to be words lets you know that this is an edgy product. My lets you know that they care about you (which you skillfully did add). The 'inc' shows what type of company you're dealing with, making it apealing to the oldschoolers still working there. Now they just need a swoosh logo!
TiWWW (I'm only guessing someone is sadistic to put a web broser on a graphing calc. I just hope it's a 92, and not the 73+)
Telnet users (Kinda like wget they're a small percentage, but a fun percentage)
Gopher (If they wrote some kinda converter>
xmms/winamp (They pull http, now to write a webpage output plug in and matching display plug in...)
amaya (I think even I used it twice)
KDE1.x's KFM (see above)
As you can see you are not allowing 0.0001%(wget excluded) of the internet view your page. These outraged users won't be using your site when they finally mix them in to a telnet client for the Ti82 connected to a VERY SLOW emulator showing mosaic's connection to a web-based gopher site.
Also why do I get the scary feeling that the US government/media could probably make this look like a crackdown on evil hackers?
Well, either could, but the media isn't in bed with the government. They're in bed with the companies pushing this. Even so, they make more money from higher ratings. All it would take for them to get high ratings on the story is one well-spoken person talking about why this is so wrong in delicous sound-byte sized snippets. Soon they have a nice story about how BAD the government is.
This is and idea I had yesterday reading someone's post about Microsoft's non-breakup. They said that it wasn't the govenment that would succede in breaking them up, it will be a civil suit as with ATT and MCI. It got me thinking that it would be really funny if you got 2000/.ers or whomever to sue a company and essentally DDoS said company. Have 3000 people sue Microsoft for monopolistic pracitces. Even if only a few have the resources to persue it fully, the legal department has to respond to everyone of them. Have 3000 people sue the backing companies of the law for some offence. If it's Disney, perhaps for stealing YOUR copywritten materials. Even if it's not true.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe only the milestone ones...
Well, to be fair, a ton of the kernel will be re-written by 2.5.2. From what I've been reading at LKML, the block IO layer will have been re-done, and then the new kbuild will start to be integrated (Optional on supported platforms at that point). That's actually some pretty big stuff.
--Josh
I lived in Michigan, and Canada is (almost all) north of Michigan so I'd say that you really don't need to worry in the winter. One day I almost considered writing a program to check a thermal censor and turn up the processor on the computer/turn on the other computer/moniter/etc to increase the heat in the room. If you give it a window the heat will probably escape well enough without being opened plus as has been said 200 times already it'll help heat your home.
The summer is the challange. Since you have a window, a window AC unit may be a good match. You can pick one up for probably something like $250/US at a Zellor's or Walmart or wherever. If it's a speced for a room a bit bigger than the one the computers are in, then it'll take care of the room no problem, especially if you've got central air.
--Josh
Start with two racks, fill them with servers, Put the towers in the middle. Now, stuff those in to a small closet. You're running these all a bit OC'd, right? Great, now got to the store and pick up a product called "Cake Mix." Follow the directions on the box. It will likley need milk, water, and eggs. Put this solution in a pan and then you've got an oven that can play quake.
True. If it gets struck then definatly buy a lotto ticket.
So let's sing it again and spread some Christmas cheer!
/etc/passwd > list
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Think this code is on the tree?
--Josh
>Zap, Crackle, Pop. There went your 3 hard drives, all at once.
I'm pretty sure that if the one drive is in a saftey deposite box, the chances of it being struck by lightning at the same time as your other drives is tiny. If that happens to you, I suggest going and buying a lotto ticket.
--Josh
I think, therefore I am. (For this one picosecond anyway--all my memories might be just a static ROM image.)
That makes your sig pretty ironic...
The thing has a TINY range. I thought that it'd be able to go really far, it runs at 1100 Watts. I can install cool software like HotDog Pro, Java, and other stuff like that. I have detected problems with it though. It tends to run hot. In fact, I have seen water boil in it before! AOL CDs can be installed and they work perfectly. It even has a unique blue flash. The thing is I tried installing NT4 and it crashed.
Weird.
--Josh
(and you get to use geek friendly DDR memory instead of paying through the nose for evil RDRAM).
Well, I don't know about the RDRAM, but my DDR memory is terrable. Maybe it's that I don't practice enough, but I can only keep one or two arrows in my memory at once. I suppose that it is geek friendly though, most geeks that I know are too embarrased to ask a girl to dance...
5. All candidates should mail a summary of their candicacy announcement (see previous rule) to elections@gnome.org. Summaries should be no more than 75 words of continuous text (i.e. no bullet lists or multiple paragraphs) and must be received by the nomination deadline given above. A compilation of the summaries will be mailed to all registered voters several days prior to the election.
I see what they're worried about, but who would vote for the following?
Name: Al Gore
HI
I INVENTED
THE
INTERNET
AND
I AM
GOOD
AT
USING
IT.
SINCE
I
INVENTED THESE THINGS:
1 THE INTERNET
2 COMERSE
3 BILL GATES
4 NON-BUTTERFLY BALLOTS
I SHOULD BE THE PRESI -- ON THE GNOME BOARD.
Ok, you, with you hand up saying "I'll vote!" Sit down and stop trolling.
Does linus have perfect spelling? Heck, even if he does, I'm no linus :P
These items sound exotic, and well, I don't think any one can make them on their own. You can however get one fully assembled. I'm not in a particularly advanced area of the US, but I saw them at the local Mall! I know that there is a specialized dealership called a "Pound" that will sell them refurbished at a great discount.
--Josh
Maybe we would all do better following Linus's methods. Let's say you need to turn in an Essay on Lord Of The Flys, it's simple:
As you can see, this eases your everyday life. It gets rid of the unintended problems that spring from caring about anything but the task at hand.
--Josh
The can't call it the "Power Glove" because of nintendo. We all know that, but let's put our marketing minds to work.
Well, we like the name "Power." We'll keep that. Now, extream is a popular word and we should keep it related to the old NES.
Power Extreamly (like) Nintento's Interface System Glove. I like it.
P. E. N. I. S. Glove.
Maybe I should stay out of marketing.
Did I wait long enough to see this? Thought so.
;-)
Well, I like my browser too look nice (Konqueror) and I find graphical IRC clients better for me when I chat. I use star office to do writing that has to be spelled right. (I've looked at lyx but Haven't tried it yet)
Most everything else I do with xterms or konsoles. That's why it wasn't much of a problem for me to use FVWM2.
If you want to ask me more, you can mailme at spamme@kirkoff.itgo.com but remember that I'm Josh and not spamme.
--Josh
Do people really do that?
Well, I do. I'm running slackware 8 with KDE 2.2. I used FVWM2 after KDE2 came out and was too unstable. I like konqueror, kmail, and other kde aps, so I use them. I like KDE's window management etc. My friend Adam has about the same setup. I don't like GNOME that very much, but that's nothing against the work they've done, I just didn't really get in to that interface. I used GTK aps like xchat.
I guess it really breaks down to this, for my underlying OS, I like it to be pretty simple and easy for me to configure/hack. For the interface, I like a little bit of eye candy, and a nice experiance.
As to package management, I like the tarballs well enough. Usually, the latest tarballs are up on http://www.linuxmafia.org pretty quickly. If I see something that doesn't have a package, I usually compile it and make it in to a package. That way if I need to remove it, it's no real problem.
Just because I like writing a lot of my own startup scripts and the such, doesn't mean I don't like day-to-day tasks to be easy.
--Josh
Now, you take a wire and stick it in your brain that sends a "signal" of what you're "looking" at...or something.
That's actually the hard part. There are already solutions that involve talking to the implants, the problem is making a working implant. Right now, there is no way to connect something to the optic nerve which is what you need to do to make a blind person see. More specificly, you need to make a ton of very fine connections along that nerve. I know about this becuase I went to a lecture/confrence at the University Of Michigan's Kellog Eye Center for people with retinal degernerative diseases. Unfortunatly, I fall in to that catagory.
--Josh
You didn't even shut the computer down to install the card? That's some power of linux!
Well... Not that you *should* but yeah, you can. For example, once I removed my CD-ROM Drive with the computer on, no big deal. Pluging it back in was the problem. My PS wasn't powerful enough and the CPU didn't get the needed power. Note that if you try something like that, put the interface cable in second to avoid surging across the IDE/SCSI Bus and locking up the computer. My other experiance was when my SB Live fell out after I moved the computer as part of a house move. (~1200 Miles) A screw had come out, and the sound card worked, but when it finally fell out, sound failed and gave errors. I think that it may have been correctable if the modules weren't loaded though. I did read a tips page on hot swapping non-hotswappable stuff once.
Oh, and no, I don't think any of that was good for my hardware.
--Josh
Besides, if you're going to be surfing the web anyway, why do it in class? Why not skip and do it from your dorm room or wherever?
Well, to speak from my prevous experiances (in High School computer science) it's much more enjoyable surfing the web WHILE ignoring the teacher.
Plus, sshing in to your box and using talk with friends in class is much more fun that passing notes!
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1P | gzip > file.gz ; gz2exe file.gz
Ok, so I don't have gz2exe, but if I did, I think a 1 Pentabyte (sp?) file might be a nice addition to their hard drive.
I mirrored at
http://kirkoff.shya.net/~josh/mirror/terrorist
The webcam is not morrored.
--Josh
What will their new name be? MYNAWCAT
You obvously don't understand proper marketing. It will be called e-my-nAwcAt.com inc. The 'e' lets people a know it is a technoligy company, this is re-enforced with the '.com' and the uppercasing of the second letters of what appear to be words lets you know that this is an edgy product. My lets you know that they care about you (which you skillfully did add). The 'inc' shows what type of company you're dealing with, making it apealing to the oldschoolers still working there. Now they just need a swoosh logo!
But you'll leave out these browsers:
As you can see you are not allowing 0.0001%(wget excluded) of the internet view your page. These outraged users won't be using your site when they finally mix them in to a telnet client for the Ti82 connected to a VERY SLOW emulator showing mosaic's connection to a web-based gopher site.
Also why do I get the scary feeling that the US government/media could probably make this look like a crackdown on evil hackers?
Well, either could, but the media isn't in bed with the government. They're in bed with the companies pushing this. Even so, they make more money from higher ratings. All it would take for them to get high ratings on the story is one well-spoken person talking about why this is so wrong in delicous sound-byte sized snippets. Soon they have a nice story about how BAD the government is.
This is and idea I had yesterday reading someone's post about Microsoft's non-breakup. They said that it wasn't the govenment that would succede in breaking them up, it will be a civil suit as with ATT and MCI. It got me thinking that it would be really funny if you got 2000 /.ers or whomever to sue a company and essentally DDoS said company. Have 3000 people sue Microsoft for monopolistic pracitces. Even if only a few have the resources to persue it fully, the legal department has to respond to everyone of them. Have 3000 people sue the backing companies of the law for some offence. If it's Disney, perhaps for stealing YOUR copywritten materials. Even if it's not true.
--Josh