before they start reacting to JV's blatherskyte? This press release is a good first step, but clearly JV has crossed the line again and again. It angers me when decent groups get attacked baselessly like this, and have to clean up as well as they can (but of course the damage is done)- is there nothing we can do about it?
If you buy just a cheap radio shack shortwave radio (mine was like $100 and covers two bands pretty broadly) and scan in the big empty areas, you'll usually find two or three of these stations. Being in the pacific northwest doesn't help, though, since we have the worst shortwave radio reception in the world.
They're ueber-creepy late at night, though... and when you're listening to Agent Orange (depeche mode) on the stereo.. *shudder*;)
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Cookies, my man! It's all cookies. Whenever I end up re-installing netscape, I copy and paste the username out of the email slashdot sent me long ago, and use my default low-security password. Then, i never log out!
Doing the full distro of anything is going to be big. Go through the components and only install what you need. I use slackware, and when I installed 4.0 I skipped a lot of X development stuff, all the stuff for tex and emacs, and my install had a useful and nearly full set of programs and development (including KDE) in just a couple hundred megs. It was far more functional than the equivalent windows-install of the same size (NT 4.0's minimal install is equally big, but includes next to none of the programming tools.)
As for the memory usage, yeah. You're right. KDE is awfully big. I have a weird problem with X, though, and my running X always takes up around 24-25 megs. Maybe it's something I've set up wrong (1024x768, 32bpp, using windowmaker?), but it doesn't seem to give any performance problems regardless. Swapping in Linux makes the system a little chunky sometimes, but never stalls it like under NT. With 64mb of ram, the computer is still far more responsive with linux/KDE than NT.
is another fine example of a comic strip no one loves. COME ON YOU JERKS PLEASE READ POKEY!!! So what do you think of POKEY THE PENGUIN? Isn't it great? Hoo-yah! Zoom! Yoinks! These action-words inspire you to visit this nice url and send money and love to the man!
My gut reaction, since I have a love for old hardware and software, was this must be preserved! but as I thought about it a little more, I don't know if there really is any reason for this anymore. Dialup internet access is extraordinarily cheap, and I don't think any ISPs in town distinguish between shell access and SLIP/PPP access anymore. Then I thought about whether or not this would be a good thing for someone like me - has a DSL line but would like to dial in through the modem sometimes.. and, frankly, there isn't much use there either. I could always set up real PPP, or plain old shell access, or set up a menu to switch between them upon connection.
With the advent of bigger bandwidth for single users or small parties, people will only start making more web sites. When DSL became cheap enough, I got it.. and I've already gotten a couple of domain names. Web sites are kinda a fun way to blow an hour or two, and as long as you don't just flesh them out with dumb stuff, they're not bad as a calling card.
Last night I watched some anime on a big-screen tv set at a friend's house. During a boring part I wanted to check my mail.. but I wouldn't do it on the same tv set. A much more useful device for quick checks of email or stock quotes or whatever would be a flat-panel touch-screen terminal that could sit on the coffee table or rest next to the couch.. untouched and forgotten-about until it's needed. There were a couple of these flat-panel websurfing tablets mentioned on slashdot several months ago.. seeing those take off would be far more useful than something like this. Televisions are good for one thing.. monitors are good for another.
I've never understood why someone would watch a DVD on their computer.. or try to surf the web on a tv set.
say a comment started with one point, and got moderated up to 5. When you apply your meta-moderated points to it, whose moderation points do they apply to? If the comment has four additional points and you tag it as "unfair," are the unfair-moderation points applied to each moderator by 1/4th?
TIMOTHY O'REILLY, SURELY YOU HAVE HEARD OF POKEY THE PENGUIN! HE IS YOUR FAVOURITE COMIC STRIP CHARACTER! HIS ACTION-PACKED KNOWLEDGE FUN-TIME GUSTATORIUM ACTION TAKES PLACE DAILY!
SO WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE BOUGHTEN A BOOK FOR HIM YET OF THE ARCHIVES!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOTHY ONLY YOU CAN RELIEVE THIS BURDEN. THANK YOU!
Doesn't the P2 have a pretty high power requirement? I got into an argument with a big angry German about how much power our lab computers were drawing when SETI@home was still cool, and his EE knowledge told us that those suckers are black holes for electricity.
So it seems like the next step to make wearables truly useful is some kind of new power mechanism, so we don't have to swap out batteries every night. My digital camera gets a lot more life out of NiMH than alkaline batteries, so they're a good first step... but having to recharge after a couple of 8mb cards' worth of pictures is still a hassle.
Any ideas on what will power the wearables of the next century?
As long as humanly possible, I plan on supporting as many browsers as possible.. hell, I've even got some lynx readers! Does the command-line graphics viewer of their choice support PNG? who knows! Maybe what I should do is convert the US-based mirrors to PNG and leave the offshore ones as GIF.. and direct the PNG-inhibited users to the GIF-enabled sites.
I can think of at least one site that relies heavily on GIFs, despite their lackluster palette performance.. in fact, I can't think of another format that would serve this site any better. It's listed in your sig file. Mine too. Three hundred and two comic strips, comprised of over 1700 individual frames, take up less space than a single mp3 (of average length)
JPGs are total overkill for this comic (>10 colours/frame, no antialiasing, etc.) PNGs would work, except they're not supported nearly as far-spread as gifs.
the browsers I use most don't exactly deal with png in a friendly way. With just one of my sites regularly passing out over 1700 gifs, what kind of solution is there besides telling hundreds of people every day, "hey, go upgrade to something even I don't have!" blah, if netscape 4 for linux supports PNG, i haven't seen it.
Zoinks, what a bland set of answers. The hacker kid could've put an interesting spin on something, couldn't he? I read it, and felt like I was reading the slashdot-political version of novell's product documentation. Bring on Alan Cox!
Lots of cultures around the world eat insects. There's nothing demeaning in it. Sure, it's not something us westerners typically do, but- 1) he's not eating something that's actually bad for him; 2) he chose to be a part of this.. maybe even thought it up! 3) it's software. don't take it so seriously:)
This company, regardless of whether their software is as flawless as they're going for, has a lot of character!
If I bought software, I'd buy theirs, just to support people with such an unusual - in a good way - corporate frame of mind! (no, I don't pirate it.. i only use opensource stuff)
they don't say anything about who owns the data.. and the limitation they put on it is one that i can't really see a legitimate user complaining about. the shrink-wrap-ish clause seems harmless; i'd figure it falls under the same not-really-enforceable limitation that ordinary EULAs, do.. but i'm not a lawyer. can a lawyer comment on that? they didn't give me an option to refuse to continue..
maybe release a patch to/usr/bin/whois so that we can stop before receiving the data itself, in case we don't agree?
For some geeks (grr, don't like throwing that word around.. makes me feel all jonkatz-ish), it could be just that dressing that way is sort of a convenient way to.. not fit in? Or not lay a claim to another clique that has more involved social obligations?
I don't really think any clique, goth or preppy or whatever, is any more accepting of all walks of life (right, you goths, you'd take calvin klein:P ), but the preppy or sporty cliques do seem more socially involved.
I wasn't included on the list! Please, let's all send mail to time and crash their servers or something.. and get Mr Havelka back on that list where he belongs!
My contributions are many, of course- http://steve.fojar.com/
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before they start reacting to JV's blatherskyte? This press release is a good first step, but clearly JV has crossed the line again and again. It angers me when decent groups get attacked baselessly like this, and have to clean up as well as they can (but of course the damage is done)- is there nothing we can do about it?
They're ueber-creepy late at night, though... and when you're listening to Agent Orange (depeche mode) on the stereo.. *shudder* ;)
Cookies, my man! It's all cookies. Whenever I end up re-installing netscape, I copy and paste the username out of the email slashdot sent me long ago, and use my default low-security password. Then, i never log out!
As for the memory usage, yeah. You're right. KDE is awfully big. I have a weird problem with X, though, and my running X always takes up around 24-25 megs. Maybe it's something I've set up wrong (1024x768, 32bpp, using windowmaker?), but it doesn't seem to give any performance problems regardless. Swapping in Linux makes the system a little chunky sometimes, but never stalls it like under NT. With 64mb of ram, the computer is still far more responsive with linux/KDE than NT.
Everyone remember, if you all hit KDE's ftp servers, no one will get anything! Use the mirrors! Use the mirrors! Thank you! OK!
is another fine example of a comic strip no one loves. COME ON YOU JERKS PLEASE READ POKEY!!! So what do you think of POKEY THE PENGUIN? Isn't it great? Hoo-yah! Zoom! Yoinks! These action-words inspire you to visit this nice url and send money and love to the man!
So, who does have a use for this?
So, yeah, I agree with Zantispam. :)
I've never understood why someone would watch a DVD on their computer.. or try to surf the web on a tv set.
say a comment started with one point, and got moderated up to 5. When you apply your meta-moderated points to it, whose moderation points do they apply to? If the comment has four additional points and you tag it as "unfair," are the unfair-moderation points applied to each moderator by 1/4th?
SOME PEOPLE WANT A PORSCHE; ALL HE WANTS IS THREE SQUARE MEALS A DAY!
LET'S ALL PETITION OREILLY TO PRINT POKEY ARCHIVES IN COMIC-BOOK FORM. HEY!
SO WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE BOUGHTEN A BOOK FOR HIM YET OF THE ARCHIVES!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOTHY ONLY YOU CAN RELIEVE THIS BURDEN. THANK YOU!
So it seems like the next step to make wearables truly useful is some kind of new power mechanism, so we don't have to swap out batteries every night. My digital camera gets a lot more life out of NiMH than alkaline batteries, so they're a good first step... but having to recharge after a couple of 8mb cards' worth of pictures is still a hassle.
Any ideas on what will power the wearables of the next century?
As long as humanly possible, I plan on supporting as many browsers as possible.. hell, I've even got some lynx readers! Does the command-line graphics viewer of their choice support PNG? who knows! Maybe what I should do is convert the US-based mirrors to PNG and leave the offshore ones as GIF.. and direct the PNG-inhibited users to the GIF-enabled sites.
It wouldn't be too hard to script.. :)
JPGs are total overkill for this comic (>10 colours/frame, no antialiasing, etc.) PNGs would work, except they're not supported nearly as far-spread as gifs.
If I bought software, I'd buy theirs, just to support people with such an unusual - in a good way - corporate frame of mind! (no, I don't pirate it.. i only use opensource stuff)
maybe release a patch to /usr/bin/whois so that we can stop before receiving the data itself, in case we don't agree?
I don't really think any clique, goth or preppy or whatever, is any more accepting of all walks of life (right, you goths, you'd take calvin klein :P ), but the preppy or sporty cliques do seem more socially involved.
My contributions are many, of course-
http://steve.fojar.com/