Hard disks that are faster, not bigger. If I need more space, I'll add more spindles. How about giving me a disk that can push 50 or 100 MB/sec from the platters?
Bring back those monitors-with-built-in-USB-hubs.
Cheap SMP. I'll take my dual 550 over a single 1 GHz any day of the week. How about 8x500 MHz on the desktop, instead of 1x4GHz which is still crippled by 1 CPU hogging app?
Less patronizing Windows UI ("My Documents", "My Computer")
A decent NFS client for Win32.
That's all I can think of for now. I'm not terribly interested about vapor markup languages or 1 GHz palmtops. Give me something I can use.
In my view there are two groups of people: those who feel insignificant when confronted by the vastness of nature, and those who don't. Yes, the Universe is enormous, and yes, a 2000m high mountain takes hours to climb, and is huge, and has lasted for millenia. But who or what is more significant, the mountain or quasar that passively sits there, or the human being, aided by his mind and the products of other rational minds (technology) who can perceive or overcome nature? Thunderstorms are significant, but the ability to watch them from space and predict their path is more so. Mountains are impressive, but the ability to climb them aided by a few pounds of equipment is more so. Stars are huge and far away, but human technology and science can reduce them to pictures for your PC desktop. Who is more powerful than who in this case?
Cons:
limited printer support
tarball install
missing dependencies
Pros (or why should I use this over standard KDE print config/RedHat printer filters/anything else):
Perhaps your obscure WinPrinter is supported
Egress filtering at the firewall will block the spread of this. Simply don't allow anything but the mail server to make SMTP connections out. Done. Same thing with all of those "home firewall" products.
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I'm sure all readers here have at one point experienced video games on the neogeo console.
I had an Odyssey video console for my old B&W TV back in the day. It had a membrane style keyboard, which you could program assembly code in, and it ran on the 4004.
Easy reason why not: a car is real-time, a PC OS is not. Use an appliance - a tiny ASIC with some RAM, for critical never-can-break sort of things, and a PC for PC things. Imagine what would happen if your DIMM popped out due to road vibrations.
why shouldn't municipalities take it upon themselves to deliver service for their constituents?
Because the government (in America) is not in the utility or telecom business. Show me where, in the Constitution, it says that local tax dollars should be spent on any of this?
I think third party support services for Linux will be hampered by the variation of the various distros out there. Even strong distribution providers like RedHat will have trouble supporting non-pure RH installs. For instance, I always recompile a kernel from source at kernel.org, so that way I have a clean source tree to patch against if I want to apply patches. At that point, I no longer have a pure RedHat system, and RH might balk at supporting a system that I didn't use their kernels, their XFree86 RPMS, their package manager for everything, etc.
Otherwise, it will turn into a mess of finger pointing and unanswerable questions.
User: So I downloaded the latest ISC DHCP tarball and compiled it, and when I try and start DHCP, it fails with something about Netlink.
Tech: Netlink is compiled into our install and update kernels, what is the exact error message?
User: Um, yeah, well, I wanted to try the new USB2.0 stuff, so I downloaded kernel 2.4.17-ac23 and compiled it from source.
Tech: Ah, please hold.(Goes away, gets a coffee, reads Slashdot)
10 minutes later Tech: Sir, still there? The first thing to do is reinstall our kernel RPM package, rerun LILO, and reboot, and then call us back.
I use a Netscreen-5 device for my cable connection. It DOES do stateful packet inspection, NAT, inward port and IP address forwarding, is SNMP manageable, has an SSH server built in, has a Web UI, and can create LAN-LAN and LAN-client VPNs. It gives wirespeed 10 MBit throughput, and can do 3DES at about 5 MBit. Not cheap, but about $300 or less on eBay. Oh yeah, and it can log via syslog.
This echoes the letters that I just sent to the 4 Congressmen for my state. Basically, besides the "Free Skylarov" message, I told them that you should have a right to the content of something you buy, and that converting its form for viewing on other platforms or making backups should not be illegal. Hence, if I own a DVD, I should be able to watch it on Linux. If I buy an eBook, I should be able to convert it, print it, or do whatever I want with it, provided, of course, that I don't redistribute or sell it. This isn't about piracy, its about having access to something you already paid for.
At least, not all the time. There's nothing inherently evil about a monopoly, and its not even a crime to be one. Remember, the MS case is about abusing monopoly power in 1 market to rig the deck in another.
Taco, that box came out in 1981. Some of us here remember that year, with genuine nostalgia (Odessey, Coleco Adam, Apple// anyone?) You graduated High School (age 18, I'm guessing) in 1994. Which means you were born in 1976. Can a 5 year old honestly express nostalgia for a PC? You may have experienced the rise of the Internet and the Dot-Bomb Implosion with the rest of us, but call a spade a spade, and a kid a kid.
This is old news, I set up a 768kbps DSL link between my two company buildings in 1997. The cost? 2 DSL bridges and a $30/month "alarm circuit" from Verizon. As long as you're 18,000 feet, you win. The heavy lifting involves getting real Internet connectivity, where the article is short on details.
I am a Linux user, both at home and work, where my advocacy sometimes gets me in hot water. I think it's great that these schools are going Linux, but having "parental volunteers" maintain the network is, or can be, a recipe for disaster. Unless you get some slick Linux people in there, the AOLers and the A:\SETUPers will not be able to support it properly. Thus, it will be a classic straw-man case for Windows. Any budding MCSE geek can keep a Windows LAN limping along, and there are a lot of them.
That all being said, I think this is a great way to teach people, kids especially, how computers and networks actually WORK, instead of creating another generation of double-clickers.
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Hard disks that are faster, not bigger. If I need more space, I'll add more spindles. How about giving me a disk that can push 50 or 100 MB/sec from the platters?
Bring back those monitors-with-built-in-USB-hubs.
Cheap SMP. I'll take my dual 550 over a single 1 GHz any day of the week. How about 8x500 MHz on the desktop, instead of 1x4GHz which is still crippled by 1 CPU hogging app?
Less patronizing Windows UI ("My Documents", "My Computer")
A decent NFS client for Win32.
That's all I can think of for now. I'm not terribly interested about vapor markup languages or 1 GHz palmtops. Give me something I can use.
dd if=/dev/coffee of=/dev/geek
In my view there are two groups of people: those who feel insignificant when confronted by the vastness of nature, and those who don't. Yes, the Universe is enormous, and yes, a 2000m high mountain takes hours to climb, and is huge, and has lasted for millenia. But who or what is more significant, the mountain or quasar that passively sits there, or the human being, aided by his mind and the products of other rational minds (technology) who can perceive or overcome nature? Thunderstorms are significant, but the ability to watch them from space and predict their path is more so. Mountains are impressive, but the ability to climb them aided by a few pounds of equipment is more so. Stars are huge and far away, but human technology and science can reduce them to pictures for your PC desktop. Who is more powerful than who in this case?
Cons:
limited printer support
tarball install
missing dependencies
Pros (or why should I use this over standard KDE print config/RedHat printer filters/anything else):
Perhaps your obscure WinPrinter is supported
Nice effort guys, but there's no real value here.
KB = KiloBYTES. Read what I posted.
Happily sucking down some Linux ISOs at 273 KB/sec, as reported by both my download manager and interface stats of my Netscreen firewall.
W00t!
3mpbs is not a "gift" if its in the contract, butthead.
You know Cygwin isn't written by MS, right?
Egress filtering at the firewall will block the spread of this. Simply don't allow anything but the mail server to make SMTP connections out. Done. Same thing with all of those "home firewall" products.
I'm sure all readers here have at one point experienced video games on the neogeo console.
WTF is this?
I had an Odyssey video console for my old B&W TV back in the day. It had a membrane style keyboard, which you could program assembly code in, and it ran on the 4004.
And who the fsck are you to make predictions? My prediction is that you're a bozo.
What?! No mention of Linus?
Easy reason why not: a car is real-time, a PC OS is not. Use an appliance - a tiny ASIC with some RAM, for critical never-can-break sort of things, and a PC for PC things. Imagine what would happen if your DIMM popped out due to road vibrations.
Here is the location at RedHat where you can get the code and patch. Link found on The Linux IDE Project Site
why shouldn't municipalities take it upon themselves to deliver service for their constituents?
Because the government (in America) is not in the utility or telecom business. Show me where, in the Constitution, it says that local tax dollars should be spent on any of this?
I think third party support services for Linux will be hampered by the variation of the various distros out there. Even strong distribution providers like RedHat will have trouble supporting non-pure RH installs. For instance, I always recompile a kernel from source at kernel.org, so that way I have a clean source tree to patch against if I want to apply patches. At that point, I no longer have a pure RedHat system, and RH might balk at supporting a system that I didn't use their kernels, their XFree86 RPMS, their package manager for everything, etc.
Otherwise, it will turn into a mess of finger pointing and unanswerable questions.
User: So I downloaded the latest ISC DHCP tarball and compiled it, and when I try and start DHCP, it fails with something about Netlink.
Tech: Netlink is compiled into our install and update kernels, what is the exact error message?
User: Um, yeah, well, I wanted to try the new USB2.0 stuff, so I downloaded kernel 2.4.17-ac23 and compiled it from source.
Tech: Ah, please hold.(Goes away, gets a coffee, reads Slashdot)
10 minutes later
Tech: Sir, still there? The first thing to do is reinstall our kernel RPM package, rerun LILO, and reboot, and then call us back.
User: %^$#@#*!!!
I use a Netscreen-5 device for my cable connection. It DOES do stateful packet inspection, NAT, inward port and IP address forwarding, is SNMP manageable, has an SSH server built in, has a Web UI, and can create LAN-LAN and LAN-client VPNs. It gives wirespeed 10 MBit throughput, and can do 3DES at about 5 MBit. Not cheap, but about $300 or less on eBay. Oh yeah, and it can log via syslog.
This echoes the letters that I just sent to the 4 Congressmen for my state. Basically, besides the "Free Skylarov" message, I told them that you should have a right to the content of something you buy, and that converting its form for viewing on other platforms or making backups should not be illegal. Hence, if I own a DVD, I should be able to watch it on Linux. If I buy an eBook, I should be able to convert it, print it, or do whatever I want with it, provided, of course, that I don't redistribute or sell it. This isn't about piracy, its about having access to something you already paid for.
At least, not all the time. There's nothing inherently evil about a monopoly, and its not even a crime to be one. Remember, the MS case is about abusing monopoly power in 1 market to rig the deck in another.
Taco, that box came out in 1981. Some of us here remember that year, with genuine nostalgia (Odessey, Coleco Adam, Apple // anyone?) You graduated High School (age 18, I'm guessing) in 1994. Which means you were born in 1976. Can a 5 year old honestly express nostalgia for a PC? You may have experienced the rise of the Internet and the Dot-Bomb Implosion with the rest of us, but call a spade a spade, and a kid a kid.
This is old news, I set up a 768kbps DSL link between my two company buildings in 1997. The cost? 2 DSL bridges and a $30/month "alarm circuit" from Verizon. As long as you're 18,000 feet, you win. The heavy lifting involves getting real Internet connectivity, where the article is short on details.
Your time has no value.
I am a Linux user, both at home and work, where my advocacy sometimes gets me in hot water. I think it's great that these schools are going Linux, but having "parental volunteers" maintain the network is, or can be, a recipe for disaster. Unless you get some slick Linux people in there, the AOLers and the A:\SETUPers will not be able to support it properly. Thus, it will be a classic straw-man case for Windows. Any budding MCSE geek can keep a Windows LAN limping along, and there are a lot of them.
That all being said, I think this is a great way to teach people, kids especially, how computers and networks actually WORK, instead of creating another generation of double-clickers.
If it's so boring, why did you click on the link to the ChangeLog ?
My cable modem is getting flooded by ARP requests from the @Home routers.
How does this "technology" affect BeOS users? BeOS has the ability to mount CDs and read the WAV files right off them.