I get 2 days off, but the workday plus travel is 11-odd hours. I try to goto the gym daily, but the first day off is my 24-hour sleep which really repairs me for the next day.. so I can say I get one day off.
Mentally, read everything thats non-tech if youre in the tech business. Since youre working mentally, at the end of the day youre only tired mentally and can still run on a treadmill or swim... make that a priority. At the minimum goto the gym one day a week, and spend 2-hours exercising... even that makes a big difference.
I can understand idealism, I would hate a job of reinstalling windows all day and figuring out reasons for BSOD on cheap machines too.
But to leave the comforts of the cathederal, you must know the perils of the bazaar (think Aladdin's Agrabah), and must know how to survive. Its the price of freedom. Next time your company goes redmond, please start working harder at finding another work, rather than dropping everything. In this economy, chances are you'll regret that.
Even better, stick around and sabotage all C# projects, then present mono on Linux or the likes.
Captive ntfs has been a pain, and 90% of my knoppix's usage comes from trying to fix some file on some NTFS partition. Even upto 3.7, it was crashing for me.
Good NTFS writes would be the biggest news for me in 3.8. Not much else room for improvement elsewhere
Linux has become much bigger than Linus now. The kernel alone has its parts maintained by other people, many of whose patches are applied without much checking to the main tree because they're 'responsible' for it, like certain architectures, driver trees etc.
Apart from the name, Linus currently has the final say of what goes in. Thats just officially. In real life it seems far more is delegated to others for different parts of the kernel, and Linus is one of the developers, far from the most active, and not really exercising his right to block patches against the majority's will.
Unixware on an old old 486 machine. It has a very proprietary software, that takes in autodesk DWG files, and through the serial port controls a large plotter with plasma, cutting inches of steel. The manufacturers, and resellers who provided support are both out of business. We do not have the root password.
Before embarking on a cracking project, I tried installing the unixware on a different machine, it failed because the machine was too advanced I suppose. Gotta find a 486. Its also risky since the machine should not go down for a day... but looking away is risky too, we should take a partition image while the system is running good... its binaries could prob run on linux or bsd's sco unix binary compatibility... and we could provide a nice KDE interface remotely via terminal services, and have the files loaded via network shares... while removing SCO.
Do remember they were once admirable. Imagine this happening to Linux in 2020.
ICs like this should step down 110V to 12V, and a bridge of diodes and eeny weeny capacitor should make it DC. I just dont see why would anyone need big coils.
I've increasingly been seeing 3-pin ICs that are power regulators, some that can handle plenty of wattage with a heatsink, and are TINY.
I fail to understand why manufacturers are still packaging the ugly adapter. My new voip device from linksys, a PAP2, is small sleek, and comes with a giant unslightly adapter. Its the stereotypical engineer thinking... input=12V and design the rest of the PCB from there. Marketing just looks away.
Custom-built knoppix with unreal tournament are all the rage now. I've been trying to remote-boot the thing, so it just sits somewhere and bios settings are used to switch.
In school, it was doom, heretic, duke nukem, descent.... 486 machines, and keyloggers on the novell netware 4.x server. The AMD K5 were unreliable and not exactly opertons, but did the job along with the cyrixes. For those lan games, you had to be there (couldnt play remotely more than 2 players), had to be on similar machines, and it was a big deal. No such pleasure today, working on cs2 on a dsl connection, just not the same level of excitement.
The machines would be cleaned-up, keyloggers removed and security tightened, and then we had to work at the machines for the next fix. We had to earn it.
I use suse on another partition, started with slackware in 1996. I've managed redhat, freebsd and openbsd servers for years. XP at times becomes boring, and I switch back to suse, and fool around with cross-compiling toolchains for embedded arm projects.
I play games like Giants, monkey island, and counterstrike. Two of those cant be run reasonably on linux even with winex. I'm also a sucker for predictable UI... like windows has since win95, despite their poor performance/price/feature/flexibility/security records. I can tab between windows faster, copy/paste faster, use alt-tab alt-space, alt-f4, F5, etc heavily and I have yet to find a good responsive WM that does all that, I dont care about KDE/GNOME. By default theyre too heavy, and I'm lazy to remap keys and the likes. Yes I do use nvidia drivers for my geforce4ti 4400, still not QUITE as responsive as XP in the GUI, sorry to say. Also visit flash websites, read PDF and msword and excel files, listen to real and quicktime. I try out/install apps frequently, and making manual links, and command line configuration slows things down for trivial stuff that you'd just want up and running. I also share files between other machines via CIFS, manual mounts are a pain.
I used to be all for slackware, until configuring a responsive and predictable GUI overwhelmed me, nothing works well in default (not talking about slackware, but the packages in general, installed manually). So I'm busy looking at Xandros, Lycoris, Linspire etc, while OSX has impressed me. I've come to the conclusion that X in itself, while being extremely flexible, is inefficient and suffers from being entirely in the userspace and treated as such. Also come to the conclusion that the window manager scene is still not settled.. the war between kde and gnome is simply a pissing contest and going the way of mozilla.. and not yet firefox, where people have realized the public's needs, and made a product for usability.
I'm not a linux basher. At work I've been trying hard to pile reasons to move everyone and everything to linux, thats 70+ machines. The biggest reason why we cant is binary compatibility of critical apps, a much smaller reason is the GUI should act exactly like win95-XP, retraining everyone is much more painful for us than deploying mini macs and osx even.
I'm not complaining. I'm explaining why XP still manages to keep people productive until the BSOD, yeah every 6 months to a year you have to reinstall windows, much more frequently if you have spyware. But the reinstall takes less time than configuring x and the wm, mapping keys, setting screen sizes, linking all apps to the wm, and retraining the user. Quite unfortunately, in real life, samba fvwm95 and openoffice's success are absolutely critical for Linux's eventual success on the desktop.
Some earlier stories were mentioning stacking layers of memory to increase it. So considering structural, voltage, data and addressing layers as well, how much data can we store in a 1 inch cube?
Whatever that number, we'll still be running out of space since Windows 2050 will take 1/3rd of that space and games+movies the remaining 2/3rd.
With n00b surgeons standing around supporting one or two CS or doom or quake champs of the city, busy stitching arteries together, with red bulls in their bloodstreams.
Dell sells a great number of computers, but really, AMD needed OEMs during the days of the K5, and early days of the Athlon. since the Athlon grabbed the lead, and now since the Athlon64 is leading all CPUs, AMD really doesnt need Dell. Anyone looking for performance gets an Athlon64 server. Anyone looking for big-company machines gets IBM or Sun. Anyone looking for cheap servers would get Dell, unless they want to go real cheap in which case they'd choose a custom-built server using AMD (Dells cheapest server is $480, IBM's 206 is $500 CDN).
So really Dell is counting on Intel's special price-cuts for Dell for profits. As soon as that dries up, or if Intel provides such pricecuts to HP or the likes, Dell will simply have to get back to AMD.
Customers with brand-name loyalty will always go to IBM or sun, have never seen brand-name loyalty to HP or Dell. Either way AMD's lack of reliabiity is the last of reasons to not sell AMD
Wikipedia allows people to 'debate' or 'argue' facts, until a settled version of the fact is written. Thereby allowing for more reliable information.
I dont know if sending letters with references to Britannica would have worked, it did have misinformation about people from central Afghanistan for example. There was no practical way to debate those facts.
That said, I'm not sure how a disagreement of facts in wikipedia really work, and what if reliable authors cannot find common ground. Ideally, within the text, it should present the two 'schools of thought' and the facts from both sides. That too will be difficult in subjects like abortion and the holocaust denial, in which one side will work hard not to have the facts from the other side presented.
I've seen plenty of sites running on Lotus Domino, for example symantec. Domino can run java programs, not particularly applets and beans... but is a snappier version of websphere focused on mail and calendars. Since it has strong support for sessions, using PHP with it makes lots of sense.
Otherwise we'd have to resort to installing websphere over domino (connector) and then using php in websphere. To run the whole thing we'd probably need one of the Sun dual-Athlon64 servers...
But secondly, I'm interested in knowing WHY would you want to have a raised floor. How big is your datacenter seriously?
I'm studying for my CCIE and have 26 machines in the house to build multiple networks. Theres even an arcnet network, ethernet, atm (copper,fiber) and now soon, FDDI. I've piled them as towers and lined the towers on a bench. All machines are facing the wall, so like a 50s telephone operator, I just plug in the cables at the back. I have a long spool of ethernet that I cut and crimp when I need a connection.
since all machines are next to one wall, the remaining room is clean, albeit warm. Everything is accessible and cleanable. Replacing machines is a pain since if its at the bottom of a pile, lots of movement and rewiring....
I dont know how many machines you might have, but lining them by a wall, and working on cleaning up the cables should pay. If you want to see no wires, ceiling tiles might be better to avoid floods, and to an extent, dust. Even better have a cabinet on casters with cables in PVC pipes if you do not have 26 computers.
I have been reading alot on the neolithic age between the end of the last ice age ~10000BC and birth of christ. The Vikings' travels upto greenland are interesting, as is the spread of the Inuit from the west, but have you read about the Tunit/Dorset people? They were an arctic people before the Inuits. Had strange hairdos, and their boat consisted of three blown up bladders of large mammals. There is one account of a european meeting a Dorset man in the hudson bay , around when they were becoming extinct... I have found VERY little about the Dorset men, almost no studies have been done, and even fewer websites on them.
Details of these things are there on the wiki, best thing being they are very approachable instead of exhaustive, and provide links for further info instead of getting so deep into the subject as to lose the reader. Wiki brings details in a very expectable way. I've been chasing my own history and who the heck are we (Hazaras), turns out a persian king, shah abbas kicked us out into afghanistan while also making us shia from buddhist 400 years ago. Thats still debatable. Another interesting detail you'll notice of the mesolithic and neolithic time ages, is how various civilizations developed the same technology about at the same time distinctly away from each other, like pottery and farming, only a few thousand years after the end of the ice age. It shows the potential of those technologies had been very strong, or perhaps people travelled much further on foot than we think, and so are interconnected much more deeply.
if you had as much as two click-ability, and other inputs for up-down-left-right movement, you could lose yourslef into FPS games and MMORPGs for a while. Apart from the obvious jaw-click, both ways, becoming two clicks, you might have a hard time unless they invented an eyebrow click or tongue device.
That said plenty of (mostly non-FPS) games can be played entirely by mouse. Think: Wolfenstein the original, and possibly DOOM/HERETIC/QUAKE without strafing.
I've spend months of my life wasted for Monkey Island series. I dont remember having to touch the keyboard. Also played lots of commander keen. You certainly can play ALL commodore64, atari 2600, SNES, and some sega genesis games. Get xmame installed and start piling up the roms from some p2p place. You will not regret that.
That aint much. My older harddisk is 200. I'm planning to get a 400 gig one.
I wonder if wikimedia will ship the whole wikipedia on a few bzipped DVD isos to people who want a not-so-up-to-date encyclopaedia. I was researching a period of 1200AD, not much chance that data will change in the next few months.
And I DO wonder why doesnt another database company take up a mirror of wikipedia, just to show the reliability, speed, scalability etc of their database.... great marketing tool especially if you own all the ad bars. Sybase? Ingres? MSSQL? sleepycat even?
Why do I have a feeling someone kicked a Pentium1 server running freebsd with a 200GB harddisk somewhere out there...
We just need need a Fedora Advanced Server 3.0, or 4.0. We need something that exactly mirrors a complete Advanced Server installation like whitebox linux. Even better the kernel ideally should be the same compilation that will be used in the next AS.
We dont need a stripped down, rebranded disro "here this is for you" linux. Just something that will play with all the redhat-certified software and apps out there.
I didnt spend 3 years, but more like 3 months, trying to (1) use linux as a regular AD client, (2) let apache users login into AD for authentication and (3) setup linux as a win2k AD server.
I failed in all 3, while I learned alot about PAM openldap, activedirectory and the likes.
Samba is huge simply because it bridges the gap between windows and linux in the enterprise. All the purists and kids who put down any interoperation between linux and win32, were themselves weaned off win32, by the use of X, KDE/GNOME, opengl video drivers, mozilla/netscape, mount.msdos and games like doom, quake2 etc.
We are waiting for the day we can replace all desktop OSes at work, so we wouldnt have to browse Ms technet sites, and browse the knowledgebase for known bugs all day.
There should be a little hut on every island etc, where players can go in, and purchase pizza by typing their CC numbers to the lady there. Working at pizzahut would be easier that way.
Not to mention the pizza can get cheaper on advanced stages, with the game company's help, giving much more incentive to kids to play
We're about 80 machines including 10-ish servers, almost all MS except the firewall thats OpenBSD, and a specialized Unixware box that cant be touched. Two apps are really keeping us from a 100% Linux rollout, Lotus Notes and the ERP software. The ERP company has promised linux binaries, and we've seen some test cases, but thats about it. Please dont ask us about iNotes, we use Notes far too heavily to attempt that (and we have).
So we're just keeping a hopeful eye out, especially on Lotus Notes, and the desktop distros. The server bases are covered, between SuSE, samba and sybase, a majority of our operations can be moved. What we want from the desktop distros is that it should look and feel a LOT like the windows NT/2000/XP interface. Notes shouldnt be hard to port at all, its all java based anyway, IBM is dragging its feet for linux there, despite some customers asking for it.
We'll probably not be the first to go all Linux (or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or SkyOS, or ReactOS etc), but its interesting to know how far in the future we can expect it.
Complaints: (1) Theres no single Linux distro that really looks and feels like win32. Training dozens of people to use a different interface from what theyve been using for 10 years, is something we cant stomach. Tried Fedora3 and Xandros, will try Linspire soon.
(2) Application seriousness. Everything is made for win32 first, betas appear for linux and stay beta. That doesnt fly with corporate networks. We need a FEW critical app vendors to really support Linux, once the market floats, the rest will follow suit.
(3) $$$ and energy. It takes a LOT to switch ERP systems. Takes a LOT to replace network system. Takes far more to replace everything. Sure we can do it in steps, but collectively the steps are all manhours to attain OSS nirvana, but not profit in the short term. We cant just aim for everything free, somehow, in some ways, theres still a difference between debian and readhat. things get patched in redhat and developers have to listen and work. With debian, the design and philosophy is awesome, but you cant really ASK a developer to fix that bug that is stopping your company. He'll just say fix it yourself.
(4) Assurance. Not an issue since our mgmnt hates MS, have hated it since the DEC days (which is why we ended up with lotus instead of exchange).
So we're all getting closer to the 'threshold', still not there yet.
Explains why it will be available only a few months from now.
IE's two problems (security speed) stem from the fact that its 'more' than what users want. Take out the bloat, part of which is ActiveX and it'll actually help in security.
The third problem is of course compatibility which will take more work.
But Heisenberg still wouldnt know where he is, simply since he was 'pulled over' he can be sure hes now driving at 0mph! Which means he can be anywhere.
The only way Officer Newton can catch him is to ticket him while driving real fast along his side... thereby knowing exactly where he is.
But then if Einsteins a passenger, Heisenberg would be doing 0mph if Newton is driving along his side, thereby again not knowing where the heck Heisenburg is. Either way, given Einstein is in the car, Heisenberg can never break the real speed limit from ANYONE's vantage point.
The significance of the death of Princess Diana, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, and the Asian tsunami is not to be found in the number of people who died. In this application, it is significant in the emotional attention or disturbance it caused in the world</quote>
You dont happen to mean the disturbance caused to the US do you?
Do you think Sri Lanka was more disturbed by the tsunami or 9/11? Heck I'd be surprised if the British royal family was more disturbed by 9/11 than Diana's death.
Heck in Pakistan, the economic embargo imposed 5 years ago by the US had more 'effect' on the people than the tsunami OR 9/11. So I suppose neither of those events compared with the embargo by a long shot.
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I get 2 days off, but the workday plus travel is 11-odd hours. I try to goto the gym daily, but the first day off is my 24-hour sleep which really repairs me for the next day.. so I can say I get one day off.
Mentally, read everything thats non-tech if youre in the tech business. Since youre working mentally, at the end of the day youre only tired mentally and can still run on a treadmill or swim... make that a priority. At the minimum goto the gym one day a week, and spend 2-hours exercising... even that makes a big difference.
You FOOL! (Shao Khan style in mortal kombat)
I can understand idealism, I would hate a job of reinstalling windows all day and figuring out reasons for BSOD on cheap machines too.
But to leave the comforts of the cathederal, you must know the perils of the bazaar (think Aladdin's Agrabah), and must know how to survive. Its the price of freedom. Next time your company goes redmond, please start working harder at finding another work, rather than dropping everything. In this economy, chances are you'll regret that.
Even better, stick around and sabotage all C# projects, then present mono on Linux or the likes.
Captive ntfs has been a pain, and 90% of my knoppix's usage comes from trying to fix some file on some NTFS partition. Even upto 3.7, it was crashing for me.
Good NTFS writes would be the biggest news for me in 3.8. Not much else room for improvement elsewhere
Linux has become much bigger than Linus now. The kernel alone has its parts maintained by other people, many of whose patches are applied without much checking to the main tree because they're 'responsible' for it, like certain architectures, driver trees etc.
Apart from the name, Linus currently has the final say of what goes in. Thats just officially. In real life it seems far more is delegated to others for different parts of the kernel, and Linus is one of the developers, far from the most active, and not really exercising his right to block patches against the majority's will.
Unixware on an old old 486 machine. It has a very proprietary software, that takes in autodesk DWG files, and through the serial port controls a large plotter with plasma, cutting inches of steel. The manufacturers, and resellers who provided support are both out of business. We do not have the root password.
Before embarking on a cracking project, I tried installing the unixware on a different machine, it failed because the machine was too advanced I suppose. Gotta find a 486. Its also risky since the machine should not go down for a day... but looking away is risky too, we should take a partition image while the system is running good... its binaries could prob run on linux or bsd's sco unix binary compatibility... and we could provide a nice KDE interface remotely via terminal services, and have the files loaded via network shares... while removing SCO.
Do remember they were once admirable. Imagine this happening to Linux in 2020.
ICs like this should step down 110V to 12V, and a bridge of diodes and eeny weeny capacitor should make it DC. I just dont see why would anyone need big coils. I've increasingly been seeing 3-pin ICs that are power regulators, some that can handle plenty of wattage with a heatsink, and are TINY. I fail to understand why manufacturers are still packaging the ugly adapter. My new voip device from linksys, a PAP2, is small sleek, and comes with a giant unslightly adapter. Its the stereotypical engineer thinking... input=12V and design the rest of the PCB from there. Marketing just looks away.
Custom-built knoppix with unreal tournament are all the rage now. I've been trying to remote-boot the thing, so it just sits somewhere and bios settings are used to switch.
.... 486 machines, and keyloggers on the novell netware 4.x server. The AMD K5 were unreliable and not exactly opertons, but did the job along with the cyrixes. For those lan games, you had to be there (couldnt play remotely more than 2 players), had to be on similar machines, and it was a big deal. No such pleasure today, working on cs2 on a dsl connection, just not the same level of excitement.
In school, it was doom, heretic, duke nukem, descent
The machines would be cleaned-up, keyloggers removed and security tightened, and then we had to work at the machines for the next fix. We had to earn it.
I vote too... for XP
I use suse on another partition, started with slackware in 1996. I've managed redhat, freebsd and openbsd servers for years. XP at times becomes boring, and I switch back to suse, and fool around with cross-compiling toolchains for embedded arm projects.
I play games like Giants, monkey island, and counterstrike. Two of those cant be run reasonably on linux even with winex. I'm also a sucker for predictable UI... like windows has since win95, despite their poor performance/price/feature/flexibility/security records. I can tab between windows faster, copy/paste faster, use alt-tab alt-space, alt-f4, F5, etc heavily and I have yet to find a good responsive WM that does all that, I dont care about KDE/GNOME. By default theyre too heavy, and I'm lazy to remap keys and the likes. Yes I do use nvidia drivers for my geforce4ti 4400, still not QUITE as responsive as XP in the GUI, sorry to say. Also visit flash websites, read PDF and msword and excel files, listen to real and quicktime. I try out/install apps frequently, and making manual links, and command line configuration slows things down for trivial stuff that you'd just want up and running. I also share files between other machines via CIFS, manual mounts are a pain.
I used to be all for slackware, until configuring a responsive and predictable GUI overwhelmed me, nothing works well in default (not talking about slackware, but the packages in general, installed manually). So I'm busy looking at Xandros, Lycoris, Linspire etc, while OSX has impressed me. I've come to the conclusion that X in itself, while being extremely flexible, is inefficient and suffers from being entirely in the userspace and treated as such. Also come to the conclusion that the window manager scene is still not settled.. the war between kde and gnome is simply a pissing contest and going the way of mozilla.. and not yet firefox, where people have realized the public's needs, and made a product for usability.
I'm not a linux basher. At work I've been trying hard to pile reasons to move everyone and everything to linux, thats 70+ machines. The biggest reason why we cant is binary compatibility of critical apps, a much smaller reason is the GUI should act exactly like win95-XP, retraining everyone is much more painful for us than deploying mini macs and osx even.
I'm not complaining. I'm explaining why XP still manages to keep people productive until the BSOD, yeah every 6 months to a year you have to reinstall windows, much more frequently if you have spyware. But the reinstall takes less time than configuring x and the wm, mapping keys, setting screen sizes, linking all apps to the wm, and retraining the user. Quite unfortunately, in real life, samba fvwm95 and openoffice's success are absolutely critical for Linux's eventual success on the desktop.
And ported games help too
Some earlier stories were mentioning stacking layers of memory to increase it. So considering structural, voltage, data and addressing layers as well, how much data can we store in a 1 inch cube?
Whatever that number, we'll still be running out of space since Windows 2050 will take 1/3rd of that space and games+movies the remaining 2/3rd.
With n00b surgeons standing around supporting one or two CS or doom or quake champs of the city, busy stitching arteries together, with red bulls in their bloodstreams.
Getting to a tumor can be called CTF.
I'm at pains to wonder who will buy it.
Dell sells a great number of computers, but really, AMD needed OEMs during the days of the K5, and early days of the Athlon. since the Athlon grabbed the lead, and now since the Athlon64 is leading all CPUs, AMD really doesnt need Dell. Anyone looking for performance gets an Athlon64 server. Anyone looking for big-company machines gets IBM or Sun. Anyone looking for cheap servers would get Dell, unless they want to go real cheap in which case they'd choose a custom-built server using AMD (Dells cheapest server is $480, IBM's 206 is $500 CDN).
So really Dell is counting on Intel's special price-cuts for Dell for profits. As soon as that dries up, or if Intel provides such pricecuts to HP or the likes, Dell will simply have to get back to AMD.
Customers with brand-name loyalty will always go to IBM or sun, have never seen brand-name loyalty to HP or Dell. Either way AMD's lack of reliabiity is the last of reasons to not sell AMD
Wikipedia allows people to 'debate' or 'argue' facts, until a settled version of the fact is written. Thereby allowing for more reliable information.
I dont know if sending letters with references to Britannica would have worked, it did have misinformation about people from central Afghanistan for example. There was no practical way to debate those facts.
That said, I'm not sure how a disagreement of facts in wikipedia really work, and what if reliable authors cannot find common ground. Ideally, within the text, it should present the two 'schools of thought' and the facts from both sides. That too will be difficult in subjects like abortion and the holocaust denial, in which one side will work hard not to have the facts from the other side presented.
I've seen plenty of sites running on Lotus Domino, for example symantec. Domino can run java programs, not particularly applets and beans... but is a snappier version of websphere focused on mail and calendars. Since it has strong support for sessions, using PHP with it makes lots of sense.
Otherwise we'd have to resort to installing websphere over domino (connector) and then using php in websphere. To run the whole thing we'd probably need one of the Sun dual-Athlon64 servers...
First off, I do not know HOW to do that.
But secondly, I'm interested in knowing WHY would you want to have a raised floor. How big is your datacenter seriously?
I'm studying for my CCIE and have 26 machines in the house to build multiple networks. Theres even an arcnet network, ethernet, atm (copper,fiber) and now soon, FDDI. I've piled them as towers and lined the towers on a bench. All machines are facing the wall, so like a 50s telephone operator, I just plug in the cables at the back. I have a long spool of ethernet that I cut and crimp when I need a connection.
since all machines are next to one wall, the remaining room is clean, albeit warm. Everything is accessible and cleanable. Replacing machines is a pain since if its at the bottom of a pile, lots of movement and rewiring....
I dont know how many machines you might have, but lining them by a wall, and working on cleaning up the cables should pay. If you want to see no wires, ceiling tiles might be better to avoid floods, and to an extent, dust. Even better have a cabinet on casters with cables in PVC pipes if you do not have 26 computers.
I have been reading alot on the neolithic age between the end of the last ice age ~10000BC and birth of christ. The Vikings' travels upto greenland are interesting, as is the spread of the Inuit from the west, but have you read about the Tunit/Dorset people? They were an arctic people before the Inuits. Had strange hairdos, and their boat consisted of three blown up bladders of large mammals. There is one account of a european meeting a Dorset man in the hudson bay , around when they were becoming extinct... I have found VERY little about the Dorset men, almost no studies have been done, and even fewer websites on them.
Details of these things are there on the wiki, best thing being they are very approachable instead of exhaustive, and provide links for further info instead of getting so deep into the subject as to lose the reader. Wiki brings details in a very expectable way. I've been chasing my own history and who the heck are we (Hazaras), turns out a persian king, shah abbas kicked us out into afghanistan while also making us shia from buddhist 400 years ago. Thats still debatable. Another interesting detail you'll notice of the mesolithic and neolithic time ages, is how various civilizations developed the same technology about at the same time distinctly away from each other, like pottery and farming, only a few thousand years after the end of the ice age. It shows the potential of those technologies had been very strong, or perhaps people travelled much further on foot than we think, and so are interconnected much more deeply.
Just some observations; I should start a blog.
if you had as much as two click-ability, and other inputs for up-down-left-right movement, you could lose yourslef into FPS games and MMORPGs for a while. Apart from the obvious jaw-click, both ways, becoming two clicks, you might have a hard time unless they invented an eyebrow click or tongue device.
That said plenty of (mostly non-FPS) games can be played entirely by mouse. Think: Wolfenstein the original, and possibly DOOM/HERETIC/QUAKE without strafing.
I've spend months of my life wasted for Monkey Island series. I dont remember having to touch the keyboard. Also played lots of commander keen. You certainly can play ALL commodore64, atari 2600, SNES, and some sega genesis games. Get xmame installed and start piling up the roms from some p2p place. You will not regret that.
And do finish the myst series.
That aint much. My older harddisk is 200. I'm planning to get a 400 gig one.
I wonder if wikimedia will ship the whole wikipedia on a few bzipped DVD isos to people who want a not-so-up-to-date encyclopaedia. I was researching a period of 1200AD, not much chance that data will change in the next few months.
And I DO wonder why doesnt another database company take up a mirror of wikipedia, just to show the reliability, speed, scalability etc of their database.... great marketing tool especially if you own all the ad bars. Sybase? Ingres? MSSQL? sleepycat even?
Why do I have a feeling someone kicked a Pentium1 server running freebsd with a 200GB harddisk somewhere out there...
We just need need a Fedora Advanced Server 3.0, or 4.0. We need something that exactly mirrors a complete Advanced Server installation like whitebox linux. Even better the kernel ideally should be the same compilation that will be used in the next AS.
We dont need a stripped down, rebranded disro "here this is for you" linux. Just something that will play with all the redhat-certified software and apps out there.
I didnt spend 3 years, but more like 3 months, trying to (1) use linux as a regular AD client, (2) let apache users login into AD for authentication and (3) setup linux as a win2k AD server.
I failed in all 3, while I learned alot about PAM openldap, activedirectory and the likes.
Samba is huge simply because it bridges the gap between windows and linux in the enterprise. All the purists and kids who put down any interoperation between linux and win32, were themselves weaned off win32, by the use of X, KDE/GNOME, opengl video drivers, mozilla/netscape, mount.msdos and games like doom, quake2 etc.
We are waiting for the day we can replace all desktop OSes at work, so we wouldnt have to browse Ms technet sites, and browse the knowledgebase for known bugs all day.
There should be a little hut on every island etc, where players can go in, and purchase pizza by typing their CC numbers to the lady there. Working at pizzahut would be easier that way.
Not to mention the pizza can get cheaper on advanced stages, with the game company's help, giving much more incentive to kids to play
We're about 80 machines including 10-ish servers, almost all MS except the firewall thats OpenBSD, and a specialized Unixware box that cant be touched. Two apps are really keeping us from a 100% Linux rollout, Lotus Notes and the ERP software. The ERP company has promised linux binaries, and we've seen some test cases, but thats about it. Please dont ask us about iNotes, we use Notes far too heavily to attempt that (and we have).
So we're just keeping a hopeful eye out, especially on Lotus Notes, and the desktop distros. The server bases are covered, between SuSE, samba and sybase, a majority of our operations can be moved. What we want from the desktop distros is that it should look and feel a LOT like the windows NT/2000/XP interface. Notes shouldnt be hard to port at all, its all java based anyway, IBM is dragging its feet for linux there, despite some customers asking for it.
We'll probably not be the first to go all Linux (or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or SkyOS, or ReactOS etc), but its interesting to know how far in the future we can expect it.
Complaints:
(1) Theres no single Linux distro that really looks and feels like win32. Training dozens of people to use a different interface from what theyve been using for 10 years, is something we cant stomach. Tried Fedora3 and Xandros, will try Linspire soon.
(2) Application seriousness. Everything is made for win32 first, betas appear for linux and stay beta. That doesnt fly with corporate networks. We need a FEW critical app vendors to really support Linux, once the market floats, the rest will follow suit.
(3) $$$ and energy. It takes a LOT to switch ERP systems. Takes a LOT to replace network system. Takes far more to replace everything. Sure we can do it in steps, but collectively the steps are all manhours to attain OSS nirvana, but not profit in the short term. We cant just aim for everything free, somehow, in some ways, theres still a difference between debian and readhat. things get patched in redhat and developers have to listen and work. With debian, the design and philosophy is awesome, but you cant really ASK a developer to fix that bug that is stopping your company. He'll just say fix it yourself.
(4) Assurance. Not an issue since our mgmnt hates MS, have hated it since the DEC days (which is why we ended up with lotus instead of exchange).
So we're all getting closer to the 'threshold', still not there yet.
Explains why it will be available only a few months from now.
IE's two problems (security speed) stem from the fact that its 'more' than what users want. Take out the bloat, part of which is ActiveX and it'll actually help in security.
The third problem is of course compatibility which will take more work.
The cop must be Officer Newton.
But Heisenberg still wouldnt know where he is, simply since he was 'pulled over' he can be sure hes now driving at 0mph! Which means he can be anywhere.
The only way Officer Newton can catch him is to ticket him while driving real fast along his side... thereby knowing exactly where he is.
But then if Einsteins a passenger, Heisenberg would be doing 0mph if Newton is driving along his side, thereby again not knowing where the heck Heisenburg is. Either way, given Einstein is in the car, Heisenberg can never break the real speed limit from ANYONE's vantage point.
The significance of the death of Princess Diana, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, and the Asian tsunami is not to be found in the number of people who died. In this application, it is significant in the emotional attention or disturbance it caused in the world</quote>
You dont happen to mean the disturbance caused to the US do you?
Do you think Sri Lanka was more disturbed by the tsunami or 9/11? Heck I'd be surprised if the British royal family was more disturbed by 9/11 than Diana's death.
Heck in Pakistan, the economic embargo imposed 5 years ago by the US had more 'effect' on the people than the tsunami OR 9/11. So I suppose neither of those events compared with the embargo by a long shot.