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Any transmission with a roundtrip distance of over 140,000 km is gonna suck - you guarantee yourself almost 500ms of lag before you even deal with the Internet infrastructure.
Maybe Iridium is ok for phones (since we do so much of that already), but I doubt it will ever be practical to repurpose it for anything other than basic communications, unless everyone can have megabytes of bandwidth per second, or are willing to accept really crappy Internet performance.
Corel's 1.0 download edition was not particularly stable with 64MB RAM (just running X and Netscape), the final release of Storm did not want to install (may have been my fault), and Mandrake versions prior to 7.0 would not even install (sig11).
Red Hat 6.x always worked fine, Mandrake 7.x will also work, as does Slackware 7.0 -- I guess the main point is that as long as you're using something recent, everything should be fine.
I want to apologize to the entire/. community for spending an extra five minutes to explain the whole story with some fragments of free time at work -- that'll teach me to think before I post.
They haven't been cool since they sold out metal for rock n' roll riches with the self titled Metallica nine years ago. It didn't help that they went on tour for the next five years without write any new material...
There are a number of things that don't work, like my comment preferences defaulting to Threaded instead of Nested, and when you click a CID link, the Moderation Totals can't be seen because it's in white text...
Maybe this is a screwup, maybe it's because I prefer browsing with Windows IE -- so sue me.
How many people have PPro machines? Not many. The world wasn't quite ready for a CPU primarly for 32 bit applications to hit the mainstream. Merced is going to be an even greater leap!
The only thing that counts is what OSes and software are available when Merced/Itanium and the followup Foster chip are even worth buying.
Actually, hasn't EFF done something of this nature? The ACLU also comes to mind, but they are not an international organization... then again, way too many of these things originate here/there/wherever.
Like I said once before, there is no more freedom when everyone can sue for anything as it is when nobody can sue at all. We have the right to be free from legal (per|pro)secution to at least some degree...
I saw this a couple of days ago, and this is just plain stupid. The U.S. seems to be filled with ridiculous legal threats simply to crush the little guy who is not doing anything wrong, but can't afford to be legally in the wrong, and/or defend themself when they are in the right.
Can Signal 11 post at least one comment in peace? Sheesh -- the guy can't say a word without either being labelled a troll or a karma whore.
Take this as a note: build karma, get moderator points, then b1tch s14p him every chance you get.
If all you care about is his karma points (rumoured to be over 1.000.000.000), go to his user info page and mod down his oldest comments.
If you want to keep him out of discussions (at least for a while), spend the points right away.
Sig11 is living proof that moderation only works so well, and is quite aware of it. I am sure he would agree with the late Trollmastah, who said: "Take all good things in moderation, including moderation."...
I wouldn't want one of those Alphas running a measly 700MHz, but you could probably get them to work OK. I certainly don't want one of those "lousy" 450MHz UltraSparc-II's, even if might be able to run basic applications like ls and mkdir...
AMD 750 "Irongate" chipset The original chipset will work with the original K7 core, the current.18 micron K75's, and the core for future Slot A Duron/Thunderbird processors.
VIA KX-133 chipset Works with Slot A K7 and K75 cores, is currently incompatible with the new core because of trace length issues. Abit has a beta BIOS for the KA7 that claims to work with the new cores, but who's got a Thunderbird to try this out???
VIA KZ-133 chipset WORKS with all Athlon cores, no different than the KX-133, with the exception that it supports Socket A.
AMD-760 chipset Unreleased, haven't heard anything about it, other than its existence. Support for SMP? DDR? DMA/(66|100)? Anybody know?
The new Athlons will come in both Slot A and Socket A, but AMD is supposedly supplying slotted processors to the OEM market. If you're a DIYer, Socket A is the route to go.
There are sections where "good, but less important" stories on actual _news_ pertaining to Apache, BSD, Science, Ask Slashdot, and Your Rights Online. Maybe Katz(related|type) "news" should get buried in one of those, perhaps calling it the "shameless plug" section.
/. knows nothing of the word slience, and majority opinions are few. Hence, there is no "silent majority".
If Katz wants to rant about the psychosocial effects of an open source food canning application or about the discovery of a black hole in the M-80 galaxy, that is perfectly fine. He can be b1tch s14pp3d as Offtopic, boring, or even modded up -- whatever. When he gets on the front page, then it becomes a different story.
/. posts what they want, when they want, and they miss a lot of good stories on things that people are actually interested in. Katz posts what he wants, when he wants, and just in case you cannot tell, it annoys and/or bores the living hell out of many readers -- there is no "silent majority" backing him up. What kind of sense does that make?
A good portion of the cable industry has dedicated itself to MPEG-4, as stated in an article yesterday. They could sell the services for this kind of technology to cable companies, which could then offer their users on-demand programming through their set top box...
In theory, at least. Just about any Open Source OS user has a compiler somewhere to patch up software, but most of us don't have bunny suits or a fab in their backyard...
I have no problem with the full recognition of the letters of all character-based languages. You should be able to pick and choose whatever filename you want, and considering the fact that my Linux machine has a file named "*.*" at the root (full filename: "/*.*"), I think that's already covered. The "accent" problem you describe only goes as far as your keyboard, and is pitiful in comparison to Asian computer users that use symbol based print.
As far as reorganizing the filesystem goes, NO!. Use symlinks if you don't like the way things are named. Personally, I think/etc/rc.d is a stupid place to put startup scripts, but I deal with it, so that other people can use my system.
I also disagree that this is an "American"-only issue. The basis for most UN*X directory names is Latin anyway...
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Any transmission with a roundtrip distance of over 140,000 km is gonna suck - you guarantee yourself almost 500ms of lag before you even deal with the Internet infrastructure.
Maybe Iridium is ok for phones (since we do so much of that already), but I doubt it will ever be practical to repurpose it for anything other than basic communications, unless everyone can have megabytes of bandwidth per second, or are willing to accept really crappy Internet performance.
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Maybe running through tunnels on search and destroy missions is your bag, but it certainly is not mine. When will id come up with (ahem) A NEW IDEA?
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Red Hat 6.x always worked fine, Mandrake 7.x will also work, as does Slackware 7.0 -- I guess the main point is that as long as you're using something recent, everything should be fine.
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SHEESH.
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Maybe this is a screwup, maybe it's because I prefer browsing with Windows IE -- so sue me.
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The only thing that counts is what OSes and software are available when Merced/Itanium and the followup Foster chip are even worth buying.
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Like I said once before, there is no more freedom when everyone can sue for anything as it is when nobody can sue at all. We have the right to be free from legal (per|pro)secution to at least some degree...
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What does this mean for:
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Take this as a note: build karma, get moderator points, then b1tch s14p him every chance you get.
Sig11 is living proof that moderation only works so well, and is quite aware of it. I am sure he would agree with the late Trollmastah, who said: "Take all good things in moderation, including moderation."...
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I wouldn't want one of those Alphas running a measly 700MHz, but you could probably get them to work OK. I certainly don't want one of those "lousy" 450MHz UltraSparc-II's, even if might be able to run basic applications like ls and mkdir...
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The original chipset will work with the original K7 core, the current
VIA KX-133 chipset
Works with Slot A K7 and K75 cores, is currently incompatible with the new core because of trace length issues. Abit has a beta BIOS for the KA7 that claims to work with the new cores, but who's got a Thunderbird to try this out???
VIA KZ-133 chipset
WORKS with all Athlon cores, no different than the KX-133, with the exception that it supports Socket A.
AMD-760 chipset
Unreleased, haven't heard anything about it, other than its existence. Support for SMP? DDR? DMA/(66|100)? Anybody know?
The new Athlons will come in both Slot A and Socket A, but AMD is supposedly supplying slotted processors to the OEM market. If you're a DIYer, Socket A is the route to go.
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/. knows nothing of the word slience, and majority opinions are few. Hence, there is no "silent majority".
The flame wars shall rage on...
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/. posts what they want, when they want, and they miss a lot of good stories on things that people are actually interested in. Katz posts what he wants, when he wants, and just in case you cannot tell, it annoys and/or bores the living hell out of many readers -- there is no "silent majority" backing him up. What kind of sense does that make?
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http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980826b
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Why are we Americans so goddamn litigous?
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Listed as a contributor: Richard Stallman
Hrmph.
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What is all the big fuss about U.S. encryption export laws anyway? ROT-13 and XOR should be perfectly good for anyone... =)
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In theory, at least. Just about any Open Source OS user has a compiler somewhere to patch up software, but most of us don't have bunny suits or a fab in their backyard...
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Speaking of spell checkers in your previous post, you apparently need one for English and German =).
No hard feelings, just a good ribbing...
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I have no problem with the full recognition of the letters of all character-based languages. You should be able to pick and choose whatever filename you want, and considering the fact that my Linux machine has a file named "*.*" at the root (full filename: "/*.*"), I think that's already covered. The "accent" problem you describe only goes as far as your keyboard, and is pitiful in comparison to Asian computer users that use symbol based print.
As far as reorganizing the filesystem goes, NO!. Use symlinks if you don't like the way things are named. Personally, I think /etc/rc.d is a stupid place to put startup scripts, but I deal with it, so that other people can use my system.
I also disagree that this is an "American"-only issue. The basis for most UN*X directory names is Latin anyway...
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