Say the code had been copied indeed, assuming the worst; it seems it is really the comments that are copied and they have shown no proof of code being copied. Binary kernels do not contain the comments and so are free, still assuming the worst.
Now can anyone go back in the history of the bitkeeper and check who exactly entered that code or comment into the kernel. His interview on slashdot would be precious.
I bought this Ultra 5 from eBay happy that it had a 270MHz CPU and will beat a Pentium2. It was a dog, was competing with my Pentium200MMX. The MMX was winning.
So after some analysis it turns out up to 400MHz cpu can be attached on the thing, and higher cpus have 8x the cache and better FSBuses. I bought a 333MHz cpu on ebay for 24$ and increased the ram from 128 to 512. Still a dog. Turns out the IDE controller does 33MHz at best so I had to go back to slashdot and invest in a SCSI controller and disk. The cheetah disk was 10k rpm and that changed a few things.
Now at a lower cost, this darn thing competes with a Pentium3 at many levels.
So if you realize your OSX adventure is going nowhere, look closer at the hardware. Before even thinking, max out the ram. Then think IDE and CPU. upgrages of these are dirt cheap usually on eBay.
And the folks in Ohio are trying to shift the blame from them, not knowing it wasnt them after all. What Al Qaeda dreamt of doing, some geek jiggling power cables managed to achieve.
I'm getting no AC up here in Toronto and its friggin HOT. I strongly urge you to go back and turn on the break switches immediately. Do it gently or I'll have to drive 3 hours to work again through dysfunctional traffic lights shuttling marooned subway passengers along the way. And I'll tell them ALL ABOUT YOU!
Rule # 1, if you dont need color get a laserjet. Its far more durable and cheap.
The cheapest in HP laserjets is the 1000. The multifunction is Laserjet 3200. We've been using it quite heavily for all its purposes and it has never given way. Ive seen the performance of other inkjet all-in-ones and theyre all crap. This one is really heavy duty and reliable and the cheapest of such machines from HP. The second best is lexmark.
Here in Canada, Bell Sympatico was up from when I lost power to when I got it back, I would just assume they were up all along. All ISPs I believe have failsafe setups that were never tested and maintained and that showed very well during the blackout.
At my company the IBM eSeries servers were backed by a smart UPS that showed 17 hours remaining, 15 seconds before shutting down everything in cold blood. It was all scandisks booting back up there on Windows 2000 machines.
I maintain some small servers with no UPS in a few locations, and while one Solaris server crapped out, you had to manually do the fsck thing, all the FreeBSD servers were back up as the power came without a hitch. I have to learn to setup Solaris on sparc so it fsck itself without asking for an input.
The mammalian line forks into one group that goes on to split into felines and canines, and another that further splits into rodents and primates.
Next this poster will post an article that says Birds are closer to reptiles than to humans. I'm no biologist but I can tell when someone tries to pass an encyclopaedia fact for a breakthrough news.
And that is market momentum. Nintendo is still on the mind of the ones among us who are in their early 20s. We remember lusting after those Donkey Kong handhelds and NEOGEO games that seemed to define video games after Atari. Even after GameCube, I'm still open to give Nintendo a chance but I'll be wary. Younger ones will not remember the glory days of nintendo and have already associated the image of nintendo with crap.
Enter Playstationa and both 1 and 2 were huge successes. They have whipped up a market momentum ( PS2 would not be such a success without the success of the PS1) that will benefit them much. Seriously which console are we all looking forward to most? Playstation3 of course.
And we all know the XBOX is really a celeron computer with a TV output and a different BIOS. That does much harm to its image as a sleek game box, as much as its sales performance so far. Microsoft has also garnered up a bad image just like AOL for internet connection, with its BSOD and Outlook worms conquering the world.
Given all three consoles come out at the same time with the same pricetag, everyone will buy the PS3 first without checking reviews and specs whether or not it is the winner.
He would suggest a new distro LinEx only because it is just a little more 'free' than Debian. He is completely disregarding the maturity stability and many other practical factors that gives Debian an edge over anything else.
Comparing the big distros, RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake and SuSE, Debian is the most free and has the cleanest package fetch and install of all. I suspect debian also has the greatest number of packages available for it. Have you ever tried to install the leanest and most customized Linux installation on a system? Debian has the most finely grained installation. But all these benefits are flushed down against the sole property of LinEx where the 'freedom' to choose non-free software is taken away. That makes him a zealot and a little away from reality.
I personally like slackware best but use RedHat on all my servers. Many proprietay software vendors use RPM based distribution only and test their products against RedHat. This is also a company that can provide the 'support' so many companies are paranoid about. Where these requirements are not present, I use FreeBSD. Where some driver is needed thats only present in Linux, I use slackware or debian. For a new user, I'll suggest knoppix or BeOS. Thats pragmatism.
Apple as the sole platform in a school will require a superintendent who uses a carrot or stick or both to push Apple there. I know at our college there were too many who were used to their Outlook and MS Office and the general GUI too much to accept learning a new platform. Many software that were bought.. accounting, payroll etc all ran on win32 only.
Switching to entirely an Apple solution quickly would be too expensive. That would mean liquidating a great number of new x86 hardware and software. To be efficient, they need to balance the use of Apple and wintel machines, while planning for a singular platform by buying as many new Apple machines as possible, and the same for software. I've seen a great number of office and institutional software available for Sun workstations, surely running more reliably and at a less cost.
The administration of a school generally listens to their tech departments, and it is always up to the tech department to suggest whatever is in the best interest of the school. They are not doing their job when they push for an all-win32 solution in an attempt to avoid maintenance of platforms they dont understand, and in the long run they get stung.
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Im thinking it might be nice to build a much higher res version of the wooden mirror with each woodchip being say 5mm^ so it really looks like a monochrome mirror. Instead of attaching 8 motors to each MCU, you can use a 32-bit MCU and address ALL the motors using the big addressing range and a fast multiplexer. That will allow minimization of the whole structure.
For the motors, the 'electronic muscle' available from jameco.com can be used for cheapicity and simplicity, again to increase the resolution rather than expensive motors.
Four of them can be lined against an elevator wall to seriously impress or scare patrons. Better still make one of them a mirror and display Evil Dead on the other three starting at 2 am. Make sure a hidden camera records the reactions.
Exactly. There are plenty of Linux-knowledgeable people around, many unemployed. Rather than buying RedHat, get gentoo and hire an army of geeks. Youll have better uptime, efficiency and problem resolution. Dont even need the overhead of calling and explaining the configuration.
However, theres one big reason why RedHat can charge so much. Most of commercial software packaged for Linux is packaged for redhat in RPM. Yes I know very well you can install RPMs in other systems but SuSE and RedHat are the only ones really tested on and supported. One of the weaknesses of Linux is fragmented packaging system, which has allowed the evolution of advanced systems like apt-get but created too many options for binary distributors who just release an RPM that is tested with RedHat.. think websphere, db2, oracle, ERP systems etc.
To counter this as well, the company has to understand the geek army will have to pry open the RPMs and install the binaries in the right places (if the default is not sufficient) and document it all for future troubleshooting. So it has to be a GOOD army, not just one that can compile kernels.
This business model has not been tested, nor have Linux geeks on the basic merit on being Linux geeks. The proper channel remains to complete college, get Solaris experience, test for RHCE and then get the job. Why else do you think HR managers are the most hated personnel in the IT industry?
I dont think the vast majority of tech support places do this. Ive been working in various industries as tech support and have always recommended what I thought was best for the customer, whatever I would recommend for my mother or would buy myself. To some, especially in the graphics industry I always recommend the macs, even if theyre using linux. For many others who wouldnt take the headache of linux configuration and smaller software base, I recommend windows 2000.
Some people in college where I worked as tech support did ask about buying a mac. I told them its very robust and they'll love its working, but they'll have issues with software and had better go with IBM or Dell. They took my advice. I similarly have a few Dells at home and no Mac yet.
I have sad stories on my side. The 6+ routers, 7 Sun workstations serving oracle and websphere distributed had good uptimes. My firewall uses dynamic IP, but since it was up for months, all the domains I am serving were pointed to that IP. I'll now have to reset the domains to a new IP and wait an additional 24 hours.
Considering the size of the motor+battery on that thing, I doubt the battery on that thing lasts more than a toshiba Athlon laptop. After all beside moving the person around, it can lift him/her up a flight of stairs, heavy on the battery.
With a different view, if that battery lasts more than 10 hours with that kind of work, why arent laptop manufacturers using it?
Countries in the South East Asia really arent trying to push their tech sector much. There are new 'heavy' duties on software about to be imposed and gamers are taxed to death. Most of such electronic equipment pass through in the grey market anyway and the government knows it.
In Pakistan the PTCL communications carrier controls the whole countrys phone and Internet communications. For years the minimum latency from anywhere in Pakistan to anywhere outside was 700ms. Universities were constantly begging the government for a fatter bandwidth pipe while international carriers circled like buzzards around the borders hoping for a slice of business inside.
The same is true for software development. While India has grabbed the edge, in Pakistan the beuraucracy simply does not provide any support to the outsourcing companies there while the fresh blood out of colleges emigrate in batches.
I dont quite understand how a java applet configures the network interfaces on every OS to allow for VPN. Ive used various VPN solutions, from the ipsec in cisco routers to the pptp in linux and freebsd and l2tp between solaris and windows2000 clients. Also tried CIPE and didnt like the limitation to Windows2000 only.
pptp/l2tp work with microsoft clients quite well and I dont see any problems there. L2TP being more scalable is preferable but:
Ipsec is my favorite. It was designed from ground up as a VPN protocol rather than one protocol piggybacking on another. The list of ipsec support on freeswans page is huge for all OSes. It requires some downloads for windows machines, but face it, for any solution at all you will have to patch Windows.
Oh yeah, just make sure your home network's upload speed is good, and the VPN server is not Windows 2000 (just use linux on a Pentium1) and all is well.
I have an 80GB file server and have 4 partitions on it. Hey partitions get fragmented, become bad, get crashed etc. You dont want all your data to be at risk there. Say somehow a large block gets deleted or bad sectors, the worst that can happen is the partition falls with it. And I'm sure your data is classified like emails, mp3s, games so you could divide them among the partitions easy.
Still need a more elegent solution than FAT32, put zipslack in a smallish FAT32 and boot into Linux there (or knoppix linux) and you have access to the remaining big partition formatted as XFS.
Yes I too wish someone gracious would make win32 drivers for ext2. That will help the Linux community far more than Bill Goates.
The mouse I have is a fluffy hamster type I got from the pet store. Its cage does tend to stink once in a while but a monthly cleaning fixes it. I also let it exercise in the plastic ball all over the house once a day at least.
Make sure you feed it diversely and allow it a good level of exercise and it will retain a good coat and healthy other-body-parts. I'm really not sure of other suggestions here of popping the ball out and scrubbing with knives. I could never suggest that.
I had hoped for better video and Internet bandwidth. Those dreams have been realized. I also remember wishing for UNIX on my computer. I did not discover Linux until 1995 and was constantly looking for a cheap version of SCO's UNIXWARE or something similar that ran on x86.
Running any game at 640x480 was a pain. I was still satisfied with 320x200 but I started out with a monochrome monitor. I was hoping for better joystick control and support but the FPS games now work fine with a good trackball and keyboard. I can play games at 1600x1200 on the RADEON 9600 pro, thats a relief.
I wondered if I would even get speed fast enough for a T1 connection. Remember the days of downloading all night? Remember using the earlier versions of getright to download slackware files? The DSL connections of today are faster than a T1, at least on the download and getting and burning ISOs do not take all night. Thats a relief too.
I was about to ask you not to throw that 486 out, but Ive recently thrown a 486 and some Pentium1s. I used them in a small cluster here, but bought a bunch of sparcstations to learn about them. Older computers can be put to good use but there are too many of them now. Keep the oldest one you have.. maybe an XT and throw the rest out. I expect the antique value to rise the way Atari and Commodore computers are rising in price nowadays. Thats not a bad investment.
Ive been researching on these for a while, to build small embedded-sized PC systems for schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. My aim was actually lower, to use 320x200 2-bit LCD screens ($20 or $10), cheap keyboards from chinese companies and one ethernet, while booting and running off compactflash with 32 MB ram using either Windows CE or qtopia on Linux.
Check out the SOC that is SiS 550. Its one chip that has the whole mobo on it and you only need to add IDE, TFT and RAM. In alrge quantities it was around $50, so you can do that under $100 but not in ~90 quantities.
Dont even consider PC104. Gathering used PCs is a lot cheaper, even basic taiwanese ECS-type mobos are cheaper there. Dont worry too much about fan and size for schools, else the price shoots up.
If youre into building embedded systems that can run Linux and uses tiny-X, you're in my league. I'm aiming for ~$50 for large quantities in low res LCDs using ARM MCUs. The cheapest Ive come across are ARM7TDMI MCUs designed for printers by samsung (~$7 each) but the ideal was cirrus logic (~$20) and includes ethernet and is quite fast.
For flash use Intel boot block. Others are expensive and low performance. Should really use compactflash since that will help change programs/OSes in the final product. Currently I'm seeking lowcost keyboard and mouse manufacturers in eastern countries and their quotes in ~1000 quantities. It should be possible they could use my autocad designs in which case I could really build a customized system.
Its not the size alone, but the muscular shape, how well its kept and its relative size to the rest of the body. This is of course within limits.. beyond a certain big (or small) size it gets unattractive, but that range covers most women.
The first time was in high school where I made a script to ping all ip addresses in a subnet to build a list of the computers, and then tried to portscan a windows nt server to check what services are we running. I was in no mood of cracking anything, only using legal standards-allowable things like ping to gather data and understand. I was not snooping spoofing either.
I was called up and warned about it. I was never again to use ping, telnet, nbtstat, arping or use linux on ANY of the workstations. Yes thats true, these were the rules.
Next was in Plattsburgh State University, where I was studying undergrad. I was naturally curious about routers (never seen one) and wanted to know the types running the campus, and the technologies behind its uplink to the Internet, and why the netbios updates seemed so slow. I started pinging around again. I portmapped a router to check its services and was promptly called up again by the technical staff, also my employer since I was working at a helpdesk. Felt like the suspicious detective extracting information. I never again used ANY standard TCPIP tool on that network. Ive now a home LAN with 6+ cisco routers, 7 sun workstations, 20+ overall computers running on 3 switches using atm, fr, tr, hssi, ethernet, arcnet, adsl and 802.11b, and I can PING IT ALL I WANT!!!!!!!!!!
We have been evaluating GUI APIs for two projects we will be starting, and it came to QT, GTK+ and FLTK. It seems like we will go with QT despite the cost because theyre really a professional company with a complete API thats well documented and well used by large apps, uses win32 API very efficiently (see how fast opera the browser is) and comes in embedded versions too, which was one of our requirements. GTK+ for win32 is not mature enough although it competes with QT on unix quite well. It also has shortfalls with embedded systems whereas QT's qtopia has been used on many PDAs and theres a software base there.
I'm not worried about the UIC and tmake from QT, I just throw them into a makefile and it all works from a single 'make'. The plan is to distribute binaries alone.
The author in the summary tries to hide his beef with QT for a good reason. QT is the only one in the list thats not truly opensource compared to the rest, yet KDE has been competing with GNOME for a while. I think GNOME was started to counter KDE because it was based on a non-GPL API.
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Say the code had been copied indeed, assuming the worst; it seems it is really the comments that are copied and they have shown no proof of code being copied. Binary kernels do not contain the comments and so are free, still assuming the worst.
Now can anyone go back in the history of the bitkeeper and check who exactly entered that code or comment into the kernel. His interview on slashdot would be precious.
I bought this Ultra 5 from eBay happy that it had a 270MHz CPU and will beat a Pentium2. It was a dog, was competing with my Pentium200MMX. The MMX was winning.
So after some analysis it turns out up to 400MHz cpu can be attached on the thing, and higher cpus have 8x the cache and better FSBuses. I bought a 333MHz cpu on ebay for 24$ and increased the ram from 128 to 512. Still a dog. Turns out the IDE controller does 33MHz at best so I had to go back to slashdot and invest in a SCSI controller and disk. The cheetah disk was 10k rpm and that changed a few things.
Now at a lower cost, this darn thing competes with a Pentium3 at many levels.
So if you realize your OSX adventure is going nowhere, look closer at the hardware. Before even thinking, max out the ram. Then think IDE and CPU. upgrages of these are dirt cheap usually on eBay.
Good luck.
And the folks in Ohio are trying to shift the blame from them, not knowing it wasnt them after all. What Al Qaeda dreamt of doing, some geek jiggling power cables managed to achieve.
I'm getting no AC up here in Toronto and its friggin HOT. I strongly urge you to go back and turn on the break switches immediately. Do it gently or I'll have to drive 3 hours to work again through dysfunctional traffic lights shuttling marooned subway passengers along the way. And I'll tell them ALL ABOUT YOU!
Rule # 1, if you dont need color get a laserjet. Its far more durable and cheap.
The cheapest in HP laserjets is the 1000. The multifunction is Laserjet 3200. We've been using it quite heavily for all its purposes and it has never given way. Ive seen the performance of other inkjet all-in-ones and theyre all crap. This one is really heavy duty and reliable and the cheapest of such machines from HP. The second best is lexmark.
Here in Canada, Bell Sympatico was up from when I lost power to when I got it back, I would just assume they were up all along. All ISPs I believe have failsafe setups that were never tested and maintained and that showed very well during the blackout.
At my company the IBM eSeries servers were backed by a smart UPS that showed 17 hours remaining, 15 seconds before shutting down everything in cold blood. It was all scandisks booting back up there on Windows 2000 machines.
I maintain some small servers with no UPS in a few locations, and while one Solaris server crapped out, you had to manually do the fsck thing, all the FreeBSD servers were back up as the power came without a hitch. I have to learn to setup Solaris on sparc so it fsck itself without asking for an input.
The mammalian line forks into one group that goes on to split into felines and canines, and another that further splits into rodents and primates.
Next this poster will post an article that says Birds are closer to reptiles than to humans. I'm no biologist but I can tell when someone tries to pass an encyclopaedia fact for a breakthrough news.
And that is market momentum. Nintendo is still on the mind of the ones among us who are in their early 20s. We remember lusting after those Donkey Kong handhelds and NEOGEO games that seemed to define video games after Atari. Even after GameCube, I'm still open to give Nintendo a chance but I'll be wary. Younger ones will not remember the glory days of nintendo and have already associated the image of nintendo with crap.
Enter Playstationa and both 1 and 2 were huge successes. They have whipped up a market momentum ( PS2 would not be such a success without the success of the PS1) that will benefit them much. Seriously which console are we all looking forward to most? Playstation3 of course.
And we all know the XBOX is really a celeron computer with a TV output and a different BIOS. That does much harm to its image as a sleek game box, as much as its sales performance so far. Microsoft has also garnered up a bad image just like AOL for internet connection, with its BSOD and Outlook worms conquering the world.
Given all three consoles come out at the same time with the same pricetag, everyone will buy the PS3 first without checking reviews and specs whether or not it is the winner.
He would suggest a new distro LinEx only because it is just a little more 'free' than Debian. He is completely disregarding the maturity stability and many other practical factors that gives Debian an edge over anything else.
Comparing the big distros, RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake and SuSE, Debian is the most free and has the cleanest package fetch and install of all. I suspect debian also has the greatest number of packages available for it. Have you ever tried to install the leanest and most customized Linux installation on a system? Debian has the most finely grained installation. But all these benefits are flushed down against the sole property of LinEx where the 'freedom' to choose non-free software is taken away. That makes him a zealot and a little away from reality.
I personally like slackware best but use RedHat on all my servers. Many proprietay software vendors use RPM based distribution only and test their products against RedHat. This is also a company that can provide the 'support' so many companies are paranoid about. Where these requirements are not present, I use FreeBSD. Where some driver is needed thats only present in Linux, I use slackware or debian. For a new user, I'll suggest knoppix or BeOS. Thats pragmatism.
Apple as the sole platform in a school will require a superintendent who uses a carrot or stick or both to push Apple there. I know at our college there were too many who were used to their Outlook and MS Office and the general GUI too much to accept learning a new platform. Many software that were bought.. accounting, payroll etc all ran on win32 only.
Switching to entirely an Apple solution quickly would be too expensive. That would mean liquidating a great number of new x86 hardware and software. To be efficient, they need to balance the use of Apple and wintel machines, while planning for a singular platform by buying as many new Apple machines as possible, and the same for software. I've seen a great number of office and institutional software available for Sun workstations, surely running more reliably and at a less cost.
The administration of a school generally listens to their tech departments, and it is always up to the tech department to suggest whatever is in the best interest of the school. They are not doing their job when they push for an all-win32 solution in an attempt to avoid maintenance of platforms they dont understand, and in the long run they get stung.
Im thinking it might be nice to build a much higher res version of the wooden mirror with each woodchip being say 5mm^ so it really looks like a monochrome mirror. Instead of attaching 8 motors to each MCU, you can use a 32-bit MCU and address ALL the motors using the big addressing range and a fast multiplexer. That will allow minimization of the whole structure.
For the motors, the 'electronic muscle' available from jameco.com can be used for cheapicity and simplicity, again to increase the resolution rather than expensive motors.
Four of them can be lined against an elevator wall to seriously impress or scare patrons. Better still make one of them a mirror and display Evil Dead on the other three starting at 2 am. Make sure a hidden camera records the reactions.
Now I wanna make one.
Exactly.
There are plenty of Linux-knowledgeable people around, many unemployed. Rather than buying RedHat, get gentoo and hire an army of geeks.
Youll have better uptime, efficiency and problem resolution. Dont even need the overhead of calling and explaining the configuration.
However, theres one big reason why RedHat can charge so much. Most of commercial software packaged for Linux is packaged for redhat in RPM. Yes I know very well you can install RPMs in other systems but SuSE and RedHat are the only ones really tested on and supported. One of the weaknesses of Linux is fragmented packaging system, which has allowed the evolution of advanced systems like apt-get but created too many options for binary distributors who just release an RPM that is tested with RedHat.. think websphere, db2, oracle, ERP systems etc.
To counter this as well, the company has to understand the geek army will have to pry open the RPMs and install the binaries in the right places (if the default is not sufficient) and document it all for future troubleshooting. So it has to be a GOOD army, not just one that can compile kernels.
This business model has not been tested, nor have Linux geeks on the basic merit on being Linux geeks. The proper channel remains to complete college, get Solaris experience, test for RHCE and then get the job. Why else do you think HR managers are the most hated personnel in the IT industry?
I dont think the vast majority of tech support places do this. Ive been working in various industries as tech support and have always recommended what I thought was best for the customer, whatever I would recommend for my mother or would buy myself. To some, especially in the graphics industry I always recommend the macs, even if theyre using linux. For many others who wouldnt take the headache of linux configuration and smaller software base, I recommend windows 2000.
Some people in college where I worked as tech support did ask about buying a mac. I told them its very robust and they'll love its working, but they'll have issues with software and had better go with IBM or Dell. They took my advice. I similarly have a few Dells at home and no Mac yet.
I have sad stories on my side. The 6+ routers, 7 Sun workstations serving oracle and websphere distributed had good uptimes. My firewall uses dynamic IP, but since it was up for months, all the domains I am serving were pointed to that IP. I'll now have to reset the domains to a new IP and wait an additional 24 hours.
Considering the size of the motor+battery on that thing, I doubt the battery on that thing lasts more than a toshiba Athlon laptop. After all beside moving the person around, it can lift him/her up a flight of stairs, heavy on the battery.
With a different view, if that battery lasts more than 10 hours with that kind of work, why arent laptop manufacturers using it?
Countries in the South East Asia really arent trying to push their tech sector much. There are new 'heavy' duties on software about to be imposed and gamers are taxed to death. Most of such electronic equipment pass through in the grey market anyway and the government knows it.
In Pakistan the PTCL communications carrier controls the whole countrys phone and Internet communications. For years the minimum latency from anywhere in Pakistan to anywhere outside was 700ms. Universities were constantly begging the government for a fatter bandwidth pipe while international carriers circled like buzzards around the borders hoping for a slice of business inside.
The same is true for software development. While India has grabbed the edge, in Pakistan the beuraucracy simply does not provide any support to the outsourcing companies there while the fresh blood out of colleges emigrate in batches.
I dont quite understand how a java applet configures the network interfaces on every OS to allow for VPN. Ive used various VPN solutions, from the ipsec in cisco routers to the pptp in linux and freebsd and l2tp between solaris and windows2000 clients. Also tried CIPE and didnt like the limitation to Windows2000 only.
pptp/l2tp work with microsoft clients quite well and I dont see any problems there. L2TP being more scalable is preferable but:
Ipsec is my favorite. It was designed from ground up as a VPN protocol rather than one protocol piggybacking on another. The list of ipsec support on freeswans page is huge for all OSes. It requires some downloads for windows machines, but face it, for any solution at all you will have to patch Windows.
Oh yeah, just make sure your home network's upload speed is good, and the VPN server is not Windows 2000 (just use linux on a Pentium1) and all is well.
I have an 80GB file server and have 4 partitions on it. Hey partitions get fragmented, become bad, get crashed etc. You dont want all your data to be at risk there. Say somehow a large block gets deleted or bad sectors, the worst that can happen is the partition falls with it. And I'm sure your data is classified like emails, mp3s, games so you could divide them among the partitions easy.
Still need a more elegent solution than FAT32, put zipslack in a smallish FAT32 and boot into Linux there (or knoppix linux) and you have access to the remaining big partition formatted as XFS.
Yes I too wish someone gracious would make win32 drivers for ext2. That will help the Linux community far more than Bill Goates.
The mouse I have is a fluffy hamster type I got from the pet store. Its cage does tend to stink once in a while but a monthly cleaning fixes it. I also let it exercise in the plastic ball all over the house once a day at least.
Make sure you feed it diversely and allow it a good level of exercise and it will retain a good coat and healthy other-body-parts. I'm really not sure of other suggestions here of popping the ball out and scrubbing with knives. I could never suggest that.
I had hoped for better video and Internet bandwidth. Those dreams have been realized. I also remember wishing for UNIX on my computer. I did not discover Linux until 1995 and was constantly looking for a cheap version of SCO's UNIXWARE or something similar that ran on x86.
Running any game at 640x480 was a pain. I was still satisfied with 320x200 but I started out with a monochrome monitor. I was hoping for better joystick control and support but the FPS games now work fine with a good trackball and keyboard. I can play games at 1600x1200 on the RADEON 9600 pro, thats a relief.
I wondered if I would even get speed fast enough for a T1 connection. Remember the days of downloading all night? Remember using the earlier versions of getright to download slackware files? The DSL connections of today are faster than a T1, at least on the download and getting and burning ISOs do not take all night. Thats a relief too.
I was about to ask you not to throw that 486 out, but Ive recently thrown a 486 and some Pentium1s. I used them in a small cluster here, but bought a bunch of sparcstations to learn about them. Older computers can be put to good use but there are too many of them now. Keep the oldest one you have.. maybe an XT and throw the rest out. I expect the antique value to rise the way Atari and Commodore computers are rising in price nowadays. Thats not a bad investment.
Ive been researching on these for a while, to build small embedded-sized PC systems for schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. My aim was actually lower, to use 320x200 2-bit LCD screens ($20 or $10), cheap keyboards from chinese companies and one ethernet, while booting and running off compactflash with 32 MB ram using either Windows CE or qtopia on Linux.
Check out the SOC that is SiS 550. Its one chip that has the whole mobo on it and you only need to add IDE, TFT and RAM. In alrge quantities it was around $50, so you can do that under $100 but not in ~90 quantities.
Dont even consider PC104. Gathering used PCs is a lot cheaper, even basic taiwanese ECS-type mobos are cheaper there. Dont worry too much about fan and size for schools, else the price shoots up.
If youre into building embedded systems that can run Linux and uses tiny-X, you're in my league. I'm aiming for ~$50 for large quantities in low res LCDs using ARM MCUs. The cheapest Ive come across are ARM7TDMI MCUs designed for printers by samsung (~$7 each) but the ideal was cirrus logic (~$20) and includes ethernet and is quite fast.
For flash use Intel boot block. Others are expensive and low performance. Should really use compactflash since that will help change programs/OSes in the final product. Currently I'm seeking lowcost keyboard and mouse manufacturers in eastern countries and their quotes in ~1000 quantities. It should be possible they could use my autocad designs in which case I could really build a customized system.
Its not the size alone, but the muscular shape, how well its kept and its relative size to the rest of the body. This is of course within limits.. beyond a certain big (or small) size it gets unattractive, but that range covers most women.
Internal size is an entirely different story.
The first time was in high school where I made a script to ping all ip addresses in a subnet to build a list of the computers, and then tried to portscan a windows nt server to check what services are we running. I was in no mood of cracking anything, only using legal standards-allowable things like ping to gather data and understand. I was not snooping spoofing either.
I was called up and warned about it. I was never again to use ping, telnet, nbtstat, arping or use linux on ANY of the workstations. Yes thats true, these were the rules.
Next was in Plattsburgh State University, where I was studying undergrad. I was naturally curious about routers (never seen one) and wanted to know the types running the campus, and the technologies behind its uplink to the Internet, and why the netbios updates seemed so slow. I started pinging around again. I portmapped a router to check its services and was promptly called up again by the technical staff, also my employer since I was working at a helpdesk. Felt like the suspicious detective extracting information. I never again used ANY standard TCPIP tool on that network. Ive now a home LAN with 6+ cisco routers, 7 sun workstations, 20+ overall computers running on 3 switches using atm, fr, tr, hssi, ethernet, arcnet, adsl and 802.11b, and I can PING IT ALL I WANT!!!!!!!!!!
We have been evaluating GUI APIs for two projects we will be starting, and it came to QT, GTK+ and FLTK. It seems like we will go with QT despite the cost because theyre really a professional company with a complete API thats well documented and well used by large apps, uses win32 API very efficiently (see how fast opera the browser is) and comes in embedded versions too, which was one of our requirements. GTK+ for win32 is not mature enough although it competes with QT on unix quite well. It also has shortfalls with embedded systems whereas QT's qtopia has been used on many PDAs and theres a software base there.
I'm not worried about the UIC and tmake from QT, I just throw them into a makefile and it all works from a single 'make'. The plan is to distribute binaries alone.
The author in the summary tries to hide his beef with QT for a good reason. QT is the only one in the list thats not truly opensource compared to the rest, yet KDE has been competing with GNOME for a while. I think GNOME was started to counter KDE because it was based on a non-GPL API.
IBM could do us all a favor and name that company.
We will blockade their products like Unixware till they understand the damage from their side for buying SCO's thing.
The simpsons will feature that company with ALL the kids riding bikes around going 'ha-ha'.
Well the penguins have been unleashed now. The competition goes global. Lets send in some suicide bombers.