Ok, lemmie get this straight: Because the previous poster doesn't have a perfect government, and there are worse governments in existance then the USA is the best and y'all should shut up about it?
I happen to be a US citizen as well, in fact I was just Honorably Discharged from the US Military. I just believe that freedom and privacy have been thrown into the crapper. True to our Constitution this gaping atrocity has been commited by none other than our own people. The average Joe would sell his soul to have his wife, 2 car garage, 2 1/2 children and the closest thing to world politics would be the World Cup Soccer Tourney.
1) The Declaration of Independance is a letter, not a law. 2) Governments can make any laws, grant any "priviledges" they want.
What the Declaration of Independance was saying is that is a "Human" right, not a legal one, to be free. That can never be actually taken away from you. On the other hand things like life, liberty, and any hope of happiness CAN be taken away by the Government.
Freedom tends to be more of a priviledge granted by your Government, rather than an actual right. If some Government decides to come to your house, take you away and throw you in jail forever, are you still free? Where are your "inalienable" rights then?
Speaking of the Sony VAIO, does anyone know how well Linux runs on those tiny ones, with the integrated CCD camera. That computer would be a real treat, small enough to take with you, big enough to run Linux (and have a keyboard.) It's like a really big Palm. Kinda like my old Gateway 2000 Handbook from days of yore.
My understanding is that they are having massive problems rewriting the Novell client to run under 2.2.x kernels. Something about how STREAMS are implemented differently. They also had a full NetWare server running on Linux. This will probably go away as Novell has announced NDS for Linux.
Do you, or anyone else, know if there are any EV6 bus Alphas compatable with K7 mobos. Obviously not binary compatable but since they both use PCI to abstract the bus away shouldn't the motherboards be compatable. If I am smoking too much crack please let me know.
How about a museum. I always assumed that Mir would become and international, protected, monument. Mir was one of the top 3 greatest achievements in space, moon landing and Voyager probe being the others. It should be boosted to a high orbit and should be kept far away from flying trash.
Same with the moon landing sites. When we go back to put colonies there, it would be nice to have a little park around the landing sites. You could probably even have a billet for a trinket salesman "Get your Official LEM toys right here!".
My Caldera 2.2 boot sequence is sorta like that. You don't see the actual kernel messages when you boot but you do see from the point you start initializing the modules. It has a graphical "ne2k . . . OK" type list for the rest of the process including programs started from init until KDM starts. Very slick.
To get the actual kernel messages as they start up would be a bit harder, it would have to be programmed into the bootloader because, obviously, the kernel isn't loaded yet and you can't run any programs.
At least on my distro all kernel, init and syslog messages are automatically output to tty9-12. Unfortunately no backscrolling support.
You, sir, are a clueless numbskull. The Linux community doesn't want you anyway. We need people who actually try to argue and persuade, not insult. Calling someone a "numbskull" because they feel uncomfortable with the amount of chest pounding rhetoric that has infused the Open Source community only shows your lack of tact. As others have pointed out talking to a rabid Linux advocate is much like asking a Marine why they love the Corps, "I love the Corps." "But why?" "I Love the Corps!". This can scare anyone off.
I thought this movement is about choice, apparently you learned your lessons from Ford. "You can use any OS you like, as long as it is in Linux."
I just checked their website and it doesn't mention anything about this. They still have the "TNT2, preorder NOW!" adverts posted.
This sucks, Herc was pretty good. I had a HGC in my old 286 and it was great for games. The Sierra titles looked better than CGA and I had a copy of SpaceWar that looked great. When I put together my first Pentium class computer (circa 1996) the ET6000 based Dynamite/128 was the way to go. That thing is rock solid and still pretty fast, 128bit graphics all the way, baby!
Way back, when Sun-Netscape-AOL was the hot news item, didn't someone here mention that StarOffice or Applixware would be the next logical software that they would aquire.
Just think, with the backing of Sun, more Unix on the desktop! It's a good thing, software choices are better in a Unix shop.
Microsoftland: Q. "Which email and productivity packages do we use?" A. "You'll only come close to the capability that you paid for if you also buy this, and This and THIS. And then pay for the upgrade for this, and that. Remember: Everyone is using this stuff--it must be good."
Unixland: Q. "What email and productivity packages do we use?" A. "Use any one you like, but one is already included. If you don't like the way something works than change it. Since most I/O is standardized (everything is a file) you can change the behavior and output to suit your needs. The computer comes with all the tools you need to set up anything you want. Go forth and be happy!"
And once you have a Unix shop it doesn't matter as much which Unix like OS you use.
I have the same problem. X11 is not the fastest graphics pipeline. DGA and GLX are good but DGA requires root access which is just plain wrong. I also have a problem with postage stamp sized windows for games. I have Quake1/QW/2/3test, Descent1X and some other games. Running in a window is crappy. I edited my XF86Config file to add low-res modes (320x200, etc) but even then you can't touch the mouse or you will pan the virtual desktop away from the game. There should be a simpler way to lock in full screen access for games, one that would change the desktop res to accomodate. I believe that the tools are out there to make this happen but they just need to be placed in the proper sequence. Things like GGI, fbcon, SDL and even Scitech Display Doctor (Remember that one?!) exist to provice Linux with good, simple, high-speed graphics rasterization. We just need to pull them together. GGI should probably be rolled into the Kernel as the high level interface to fbcon, SDL is good and will hopefully be the replacement for DirectDraw for X11. SDD has a unique position in that they marked an OpenGL implementation and entire game generation environment. They should make sure that everything is ported to Linux, but transferrable from Windows, and market heavily. Companies would have no problem with Linux support if their graphics toolkit just required a recompile to make it work.
Maybe some company will come out with the DirectOS (Alex St. John) method. Since Linux is free it should be possible to create a bootable CD with just enough software to bootstrap the game and graphics libraries. You aren't going to need a full command line environment, all the X libraries--just the ones the game uses. You could run the game off the CD or boot off the CD and be sure that the libraries have been tested to work optimally with the game. With the ability to create a directory of symlinks from a CD you could even update the game libraries easily.
I'm sorry that this "guilt trip" bothers you. I guess getting up off your butt to vote is too inconvenient for you. God forbid you feel guilty about it.
The statement still stands, "Give me liberty, or give me death." If you are too lazy to vote how does your character compare? If you don't feel guilty about that then you might want to check your pulse. Remember, the world is not set up just for your personal convenience
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"In my opinion, it should be harder to get registered to vote. We need to cut down on fraud and make sure that the people who are voting are informed. I don't want some idiot voting who doesn't have a clue what he's voting for."
So lemmie get this straight, in the first breath you state that we should find some "legal" way to cheat the ignorant out of their voting rights. Kinda like the Jim Crow laws did for the blacks.
"An org that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing & able to act like morons only"
And then in the next breath comment that states that people treated like morons begin to behave like morons.
Do you know the meaning of the word irony. These are two completely opposite statements.
The only solution is to inform people of the real issues, in a grass roots, low budget sort of way. Politicians have spent much time convincing people that their votes don't count--so that only a few people really decide the election, people they can manipulate. Show your real power buy banding together and electing who you really want to be in charge. Try reading Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back your Government is a howto guide on starting a grass roots organization to change the political situation where you are.
This will put enormous pressure on nVidia, as they are the last major independent graphics chip provider left.
Two years ago, who thought that would have happened. After the failed NV1 nVidia was on the ropes and was a small also-ran up until the TNT came out. They missed the Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 era, and now everyone else is gone.
I too was looking at a diamond TNT2 Ultra board but I assume that they won't be carrying anything but S3 video products from now on. That's a shame. I am looking for Creative Labs to buy nVidia as well, unless nVidia pulls some trick out of their butt.
-----BEGIN OFFTOPIC----- That said, any "Big Brother" organization that wanted to tap into many homes and businesses would logically turn to power lines as a data transmission medium. The trick is to have consumer devices that transmit data without the designers knowing about it (forgetting about the problem with Transformers for the moment). I can think of very few ways that "Big Brother" could surveil so many people in their homes. Other possibilities inlcude the phone network and of course Echelon.
Each of these would require the complicity of many organizations, hardware and software techs/vendors, repair techs, and others. While an automated system, that is not actually connected to the rest of the world, such as Echelon can hear much--complete and total omniscientness(sp? I made this up) is still too manpower intensive and requires too many people who know about it. Remember: The ability to keep a secret is inversly proportional to the number of people who know about it.
The intelligence industry is composed of individuals, just like you and me, they are not perfect and not all-knowing. Infact many are incompetant, good, moral, evil, power-hungry, insecure, long-hair, crew-cut, and have wife, family, sister, father, new Camaro, and are just like you. -----END OFFTOPIC-----
However, you've got to admit that UKUSA is doing a pretty damn poor job of spying as it is; you'd think that if they were doing anything halfway decent then all terrorists and such would mysteriously "disappear" before the crime was actually comitted.
I hate to break it to you but this is exactally what happens. Do you really think that there are only one or two terrorists that try something in a year's time. The vast majority you never hear about because they mysteriously "disappear" before anything happens.
Do you remember the outrage following the Oklahoma and Trade Center bombings. To the effect that the US Gov't should have "known" and "done something". Well Echelon is the system.
The scary part is their Security through Obscurity. They could start, if they haven't already, going around and doing terrible things and no one would know about it.
This is totally off topic but does anyone know if the UNIX NDS servers allow editing of local config files? For example could I make editable file objects for *.conf, etc. without sharing/etc? And how well does NDS auth integrate with local UNIX permissions? Does/bin/login reference NDS through PAM maybe? Sendmail? FTP?
Sorry to be full of off topic questions but I thought I would ask.
I wish that they would have continued the load until the graphs started to fall off. Riding it out to peak performance and then stopping doesn't tell the whole story. Most people that use NT say that NT craps out under high loads. That wasn't tested here.
All in all though I think that this is a good test and points out some flaws in Linux and the software that people use on it. Yes folks, Samba doesn't always work right, Apache isn't the best web server for every job and Linux doesn't scale up on multi-processor systems the way the big boys do. Hint: Run these tests on a monster 32+ processor, multi GB RAM computer and see the results--compare with a single CPU 1GB RAM with the same NOS.
The winner in this test, IMHO, is Solaris. All the free publicity for Linux is publicity for UNIX in general. While you might put Linux on a small local server you aren't going to use it on an E10K sized computer.
I was diagnosed as "Hyperactive" when I was younger and took Ritalin. I don't know if this is the same as ADD but it seems pretty close. The Ritalin helped but from what my mother tells me it left me in a wierd state. She says that one time I was sitting on the bed, staring into space, and just fell over onto my face--I apparently didn't notice.
I am a habitually multitasking person, more efficient that way I think, and get into deep hack mode when I am interested in something. If I am not interested I tend not to deal with it--I barely did any homework in High School.
I did do alot of reading though, even during class. The most that I have done is when I was deployed with the military in Bosnia. I was at a base camp where there was nothing to do and was able to finish a paperback novel every day for about 2 weeks.
Rambling right along, when I focus I tend not to pay attention to anything else. I forget to eat, sleep and don't hear when people are shouting my name. I have had to have people shake me to get my attention before. Time passes randomly.
Not to go all "Neal Stephenson" on ya but couldn't ideas be called a "brain virus"? Any powerful idea, say religion for example 8^) can be called a self replicating organism.
I wonder if this is related to ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). People who can't keep focused on one task and multitask habitually might be having seziures in this area. Just a shot in the dark.
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Ok, lemmie get this straight: Because the previous poster doesn't have a perfect government, and there are worse governments in existance then the USA is the best and y'all should shut up about it?
I happen to be a US citizen as well, in fact I was just Honorably Discharged from the US Military. I just believe that freedom and privacy have been thrown into the crapper. True to our Constitution this gaping atrocity has been commited by none other than our own people. The average Joe would sell his soul to have his wife, 2 car garage, 2 1/2 children and the closest thing to world politics would be the World Cup Soccer Tourney.
My $0.02 US
1) The Declaration of Independance is a letter, not a law.
2) Governments can make any laws, grant any "priviledges" they want.
What the Declaration of Independance was saying is that is a "Human" right, not a legal one, to be free. That can never be actually taken away from you. On the other hand things like life, liberty, and any hope of happiness CAN be taken away by the Government.
Freedom tends to be more of a priviledge granted by your Government, rather than an actual right. If some Government decides to come to your house, take you away and throw you in jail forever, are you still free? Where are your "inalienable" rights then?
Speaking of the Sony VAIO, does anyone know how well Linux runs on those tiny ones, with the integrated CCD camera. That computer would be a real treat, small enough to take with you, big enough to run Linux (and have a keyboard.) It's like a really big Palm. Kinda like my old Gateway 2000 Handbook from days of yore.
My understanding is that they are having massive problems rewriting the Novell client to run under 2.2.x kernels. Something about how STREAMS are implemented differently. They also had a full NetWare server running on Linux. This will probably go away as Novell has announced NDS for Linux.
Do you, or anyone else, know if there are any EV6 bus Alphas compatable with K7 mobos. Obviously not binary compatable but since they both use PCI to abstract the bus away shouldn't the motherboards be compatable. If I am smoking too much crack please let me know.
Mmmmm, K7 650 -> Alpha 1600 upgrade, *drool* *drool* *drool*!!!
To be perfectly pedantic I think you mean 'xenophobic' not 'xenomorphic'. One is being afraid of others, and the other one was in the Alien(s) movies.
> I just wish I had a little arrow that said "You Are Here". :-)
You mean, like the Total Perspective Vortex?
Yeah, I could use one of those sometimes. It would have the effect of making the local environment that much more pleasant.
How about a museum. I always assumed that Mir would become and international, protected, monument. Mir was one of the top 3 greatest achievements in space, moon landing and Voyager probe being the others. It should be boosted to a high orbit and should be kept far away from flying trash.
Same with the moon landing sites. When we go back to put colonies there, it would be nice to have a little park around the landing sites. You could probably even have a billet for a trinket salesman "Get your Official LEM toys right here!".
My Caldera 2.2 boot sequence is sorta like that. You don't see the actual kernel messages when you boot but you do see from the point you start initializing the modules. It has a graphical "ne2k . . . OK" type list for the rest of the process including programs started from init until KDM starts. Very slick.
To get the actual kernel messages as they start up would be a bit harder, it would have to be programmed into the bootloader because, obviously, the kernel isn't loaded yet and you can't run any programs.
At least on my distro all kernel, init and syslog messages are automatically output to tty9-12. Unfortunately no backscrolling support.
You, sir, are a clueless numbskull. The Linux community doesn't want you anyway. We need people who actually try to argue and persuade, not insult. Calling someone a "numbskull" because they feel uncomfortable with the amount of chest pounding rhetoric that has infused the Open Source community only shows your lack of tact. As others have pointed out talking to a rabid Linux advocate is much like asking a Marine why they love the Corps, "I love the Corps." "But why?" "I Love the Corps!". This can scare anyone off.
I thought this movement is about choice, apparently you learned your lessons from Ford. "You can use any OS you like, as long as it is in Linux."
Whaaaaattt!!?!??! You lost me after "So what . . ."
I just checked their website and it doesn't mention anything about this. They still have the "TNT2, preorder NOW!" adverts posted.
This sucks, Herc was pretty good. I had a HGC in my old 286 and it was great for games. The Sierra titles looked better than CGA and I had a copy of SpaceWar that looked great. When I put together my first Pentium class computer (circa 1996) the ET6000 based Dynamite/128 was the way to go. That thing is rock solid and still pretty fast, 128bit graphics all the way, baby!
Way back, when Sun-Netscape-AOL was the hot news item, didn't someone here mention that StarOffice or Applixware would be the next logical software that they would aquire.
Just think, with the backing of Sun, more Unix on the desktop! It's a good thing, software choices are better in a Unix shop.
Microsoftland: Q. "Which email and productivity packages do we use?" A. "You'll only come close to the capability that you paid for if you also buy this, and This and THIS. And then pay for the upgrade for this, and that. Remember: Everyone is using this stuff--it must be good."
Unixland: Q. "What email and productivity packages do we use?" A. "Use any one you like, but one is already included. If you don't like the way something works than change it. Since most I/O is standardized (everything is a file) you can change the behavior and output to suit your needs. The computer comes with all the tools you need to set up anything you want. Go forth and be happy!"
And once you have a Unix shop it doesn't matter as much which Unix like OS you use.
I have the same problem. X11 is not the fastest graphics pipeline. DGA and GLX are good but DGA requires root access which is just plain wrong. I also have a problem with postage stamp sized windows for games. I have Quake1/QW/2/3test, Descent1X and some other games. Running in a window is crappy. I edited my XF86Config file to add low-res modes (320x200, etc) but even then you can't touch the mouse or you will pan the virtual desktop away from the game. There should be a simpler way to lock in full screen access for games, one that would change the desktop res to accomodate. I believe that the tools are out there to make this happen but they just need to be placed in the proper sequence. Things like GGI, fbcon, SDL and even Scitech Display Doctor (Remember that one?!) exist to provice Linux with good, simple, high-speed graphics rasterization. We just need to pull them together. GGI should probably be rolled into the Kernel as the high level interface to fbcon, SDL is good and will hopefully be the replacement for DirectDraw for X11. SDD has a unique position in that they marked an OpenGL implementation and entire game generation environment. They should make sure that everything is ported to Linux, but transferrable from Windows, and market heavily. Companies would have no problem with Linux support if their graphics toolkit just required a recompile to make it work.
Maybe some company will come out with the DirectOS (Alex St. John) method. Since Linux is free it should be possible to create a bootable CD with just enough software to bootstrap the game and graphics libraries. You aren't going to need a full command line environment, all the X libraries--just the ones the game uses. You could run the game off the CD or boot off the CD and be sure that the libraries have been tested to work optimally with the game. With the ability to create a directory of symlinks from a CD you could even update the game libraries easily.
Just my $0.02 US
I'm sorry that this "guilt trip" bothers you. I guess getting up off your butt to vote is too inconvenient for you. God forbid you feel guilty about it.
The statement still stands, "Give me liberty, or give me death." If you are too lazy to vote how does your character compare? If you don't feel guilty about that then you might want to check your pulse. Remember, the world is not set up just for your personal convenience
So lemmie get this straight, in the first breath you state that we should find some "legal" way to cheat the ignorant out of their voting rights. Kinda like the Jim Crow laws did for the blacks.
And then in the next breath comment that states that people treated like morons begin to behave like morons.
Do you know the meaning of the word irony. These are two completely opposite statements.
The only solution is to inform people of the real issues, in a grass roots, low budget sort of way. Politicians have spent much time convincing people that their votes don't count--so that only a few people really decide the election, people they can manipulate. Show your real power buy banding together and electing who you really want to be in charge. Try reading Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back your Government is a howto guide on starting a grass roots organization to change the political situation where you are.
This will put enormous pressure on nVidia, as they are the last major independent graphics chip provider left.
Two years ago, who thought that would have happened. After the failed NV1 nVidia was on the ropes and was a small also-ran up until the TNT came out. They missed the Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 era, and now everyone else is gone.
I too was looking at a diamond TNT2 Ultra board but I assume that they won't be carrying anything but S3 video products from now on. That's a shame. I am looking for Creative Labs to buy nVidia as well, unless nVidia pulls some trick out of their butt.
Yes you are certifiably paranoid.
-----BEGIN OFFTOPIC-----
That said, any "Big Brother" organization that wanted to tap into many homes and businesses would logically turn to power lines as a data transmission medium. The trick is to have consumer devices that transmit data without the designers knowing about it (forgetting about the problem with Transformers for the moment). I can think of very few ways that "Big Brother" could surveil so many people in their homes. Other possibilities inlcude the phone network and of course Echelon.
Each of these would require the complicity of many organizations, hardware and software techs/vendors, repair techs, and others. While an automated system, that is not actually connected to the rest of the world, such as Echelon can hear much--complete and total omniscientness(sp? I made this up) is still too manpower intensive and requires too many people who know about it. Remember: The ability to keep a secret is inversly proportional to the number of people who know about it.
The intelligence industry is composed of individuals, just like you and me, they are not perfect and not all-knowing. Infact many are incompetant, good, moral, evil, power-hungry, insecure, long-hair, crew-cut, and have wife, family, sister, father, new Camaro, and are just like you.
-----END OFFTOPIC-----
However, you've got to admit that UKUSA is doing a pretty damn poor job of spying as it is; you'd think that if they were doing anything halfway decent then all terrorists and such would mysteriously "disappear" before the crime was actually comitted.
I hate to break it to you but this is exactally what happens. Do you really think that there are only one or two terrorists that try something in a year's time. The vast majority you never hear about because they mysteriously "disappear" before anything happens.
Do you remember the outrage following the Oklahoma and Trade Center bombings. To the effect that the US Gov't should have "known" and "done something". Well Echelon is the system.
The scary part is their Security through Obscurity. They could start, if they haven't already, going around and doing terrible things and no one would know about it.
This is totally off topic but does anyone know if the UNIX NDS servers allow editing of local config files? For example could I make editable file objects for *.conf, etc. without sharing /etc? And how well does NDS auth integrate with local UNIX permissions? Does /bin/login reference NDS through PAM maybe? Sendmail? FTP?
Sorry to be full of off topic questions but I thought I would ask.
I wish that they would have continued the load until the graphs started to fall off. Riding it out to peak performance and then stopping doesn't tell the whole story. Most people that use NT say that NT craps out under high loads. That wasn't tested here.
All in all though I think that this is a good test and points out some flaws in Linux and the software that people use on it. Yes folks, Samba doesn't always work right, Apache isn't the best web server for every job and Linux doesn't scale up on multi-processor systems the way the big boys do. Hint: Run these tests on a monster 32+ processor, multi GB RAM computer and see the results--compare with a single CPU 1GB RAM with the same NOS.
The winner in this test, IMHO, is Solaris. All the free publicity for Linux is publicity for UNIX in general. While you might put Linux on a small local server you aren't going to use it on an E10K sized computer.
I was thinking of something a little more exact and fine grained.
What is the answer to 143*4535/192+44=x
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I was diagnosed as "Hyperactive" when I was younger and took Ritalin. I don't know if this is the same as ADD but it seems pretty close. The Ritalin helped but from what my mother tells me it left me in a wierd state. She says that one time I was sitting on the bed, staring into space, and just fell over onto my face--I apparently didn't notice.
I am a habitually multitasking person, more efficient that way I think, and get into deep hack mode when I am interested in something. If I am not interested I tend not to deal with it--I barely did any homework in High School.
I did do alot of reading though, even during class. The most that I have done is when I was deployed with the military in Bosnia. I was at a base camp where there was nothing to do and was able to finish a paperback novel every day for about 2 weeks.
Rambling right along, when I focus I tend not to pay attention to anything else. I forget to eat, sleep and don't hear when people are shouting my name. I have had to have people shake me to get my attention before. Time passes randomly.
Did I mention that I have trouble finishing proje
Not to go all "Neal Stephenson" on ya but couldn't ideas be called a "brain virus"? Any powerful idea, say religion for example 8^) can be called a self replicating organism.
I wonder if this is related to ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). People who can't keep focused on one task and multitask habitually might be having seziures in this area. Just a shot in the dark.