In my city, the school boards have purchased a large amount of SunRay thin-clients that run off of E250 and E450 servers. They all run CDE, and we have Grade 1 students that can operate it just fine. For about the first week, they said "this doesn't look like the computer at home", but then they got used to it and it works great!
SunRay's do have USB support, for the keyboard and mouse at least. If there isn't already drivers, it probably wouldn't be too challenging for either the usbkey manufacturer or sun to make up a simple driver for it. USB support is already there.
Do you mean the Gameboy version? That game rules! I played it for about 6 months non-stop when I was 8. That game was one of the most addicting games I've ever played!
Actually, from reading what he has to say, I do tend to believe some of it. I was being somewhat sarcastic when I said they do no product testing. I'm sure they do, since as a general statement, Windows does do what it's meant to do (at least the Consumer OS). it definately does have issues, and isn't the most stable OS ever, but it's easy enough for my grandmother to use, and that definately gets points for it in my books.
Windows isn't 100% bad. It does have it's place, just not on my hard drive.
Ok, so it was the hub. It wasn't windows fault. But, it WAS microsoft's fault. Ever heard of product testing? Did they even test the machine with the scanner before shipping it to the show? Seems windows was shipped in the same way.
Ahh yes, Yggdrasil. Somewhere around here I have the Fall 94 release, and the install scripts dont even work:D. I eventually got it working, but it was very... cruel to me. Mind you, I was 11 years old when I first started trying to get it working, and my how things have changed. I'm a slackware addict, and it's not going to be changing!
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two entire school districts in my area converted to sunrays. one (the catholic school board) is administered by a friend of mine, and has been extremely functional and accepted by the schools. the other (the public board) doesn't seem to be well-liked by the teachers, but I personally love them.
Good good, I was hoping someone was going to point this out. It's very nice for Cisco to take the credit for making the "first project of this kind in North America". The CommunityNet project is not only in full swing, but already functional in many places.
I've even been privilaged to using one of these connections, and holy crap are they fast! The one I was using was 10mbit/10mbit, which results in download speeds around 1Meg/sec:D. Many small communities already have this, and more are in the works.
Plus, these are being used in diverse environments. The Saskatchewan board of education and Sun are working together putting computers in the classrooms. Sun provides hardware, usually an E250 or E450, and a shitload of SunRays for the classes. The school must provide a technician, that Sun trains to work on them. It's a great deal for everyone. The schools get computers for cheap, the tech's get free training, and Sun gets a generation of children trained to work on Solaris.
I'm going to stick to the moral high ground, and never play another Blizzard game again unless it's a pirated version.
Morals seem to be strong in this one... If Ford makes a dangerous car, do you only drive stolen ones? I know the analogy is flawed, but it's still the same concept.
Yes, this sounds like a good plan, except this: what if it's a little guy who is saying that a big guy stole their technology? Say, Microsoft takes my GPL'd software, and integrates it into the next version of Windows. There is no way that I have the money to try to fight this in court, but even if I do win, I still lose because of the debt I get myself in.
RedHat stores your machine's configuration on their end so that they can e-mail you when there are warnings or critical updates that affect your specific configuration. Also, they allow you to compare the configurations of different machines you have on RHN.
This reminds me of 2 different pieces of remote control software..
BackOrifice2K and Norton PC Anywhere. Neither of them install stealthily, they both provide the same functionality, if BO2K doesn't even provide more. Both are remote access software, one is on most AV vendor's lists of viruses, the other one is heralded as the best product evar. what's up with that?
Strangely, I just downloaded the 2.4.15 kernel from ftp://ftp.ca.kernel.org, and it already appears to have the Linus-blessed patch applied to it... Very very strange
(Net?)BSD was ported to the dreamcast, which used a RISC processor, not x86. Porting linux to the Xbox shouldnt be that hard. Just a bit of hacking to see how all the hardware interacts.
I dont recall which one it was, but a few years ago, I was glancing at the CD, and I noticed the following comment on the package: "By inserting this disc into your CD-Rom drive, you agree to the terms of the license agreement. To view this agreement, please see the file LICENSE.TXT on the CD-Rom"
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In my city, the school boards have purchased a large amount of SunRay thin-clients that run off of E250 and E450 servers. They all run CDE, and we have Grade 1 students that can operate it just fine. For about the first week, they said "this doesn't look like the computer at home", but then they got used to it and it works great!
Is Visual Studio .NET not the version of Visual Studio that allows you to make .NET applications? That seems to be very logically named to me.
SunRay's do have USB support, for the keyboard and mouse at least. If there isn't already drivers, it probably wouldn't be too challenging for either the usbkey manufacturer or sun to make up a simple driver for it. USB support is already there.
Ohhhh that one. I concur, the 2nd NES one did suck hardcore.
:).
Phew, he wasnt degrading one of the most significant games of my childhood life
Do you mean the Gameboy version? That game rules! I played it for about 6 months non-stop when I was 8. That game was one of the most addicting games I've ever played!
Actually, from reading what he has to say, I do tend to believe some of it. I was being somewhat sarcastic when I said they do no product testing. I'm sure they do, since as a general statement, Windows does do what it's meant to do (at least the Consumer OS). it definately does have issues, and isn't the most stable OS ever, but it's easy enough for my grandmother to use, and that definately gets points for it in my books.
Windows isn't 100% bad. It does have it's place, just not on my hard drive.
Ok, so it was the hub. It wasn't windows fault. But, it WAS microsoft's fault. Ever heard of product testing? Did they even test the machine with the scanner before shipping it to the show? Seems windows was shipped in the same way.
You can factor a grocery clerk?
Ahh yes, Yggdrasil. Somewhere around here I have the Fall 94 release, and the install scripts dont even work :D. I eventually got it working, but it was very... cruel to me. Mind you, I was 11 years old when I first started trying to get it working, and my how things have changed. I'm a slackware addict, and it's not going to be changing!
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I think we borked his site.
*chomp* i'll bite.
Have you ever seen a Visual Basic program crash? Or run slowly?
two entire school districts in my area converted to sunrays. one (the catholic school board) is administered by a friend of mine, and has been extremely functional and accepted by the schools. the other (the public board) doesn't seem to be well-liked by the teachers, but I personally love them.
Good good, I was hoping someone was going to point this out. It's very nice for Cisco to take the credit for making the "first project of this kind in North America". The CommunityNet project is not only in full swing, but already functional in many places.
:D. Many small communities already have this, and more are in the works.
www.communitynet.cahas mmany of the details.
I've even been privilaged to using one of these connections, and holy crap are they fast! The one I was using was 10mbit/10mbit, which results in download speeds around 1Meg/sec
Plus, these are being used in diverse environments. The Saskatchewan board of education and Sun are working together putting computers in the classrooms. Sun provides hardware, usually an E250 or E450, and a shitload of SunRays for the classes. The school must provide a technician, that Sun trains to work on them. It's a great deal for everyone. The schools get computers for cheap, the tech's get free training, and Sun gets a generation of children trained to work on Solaris.
I'm going to stick to the moral high ground, and never play another Blizzard game again unless it's a pirated version.
Morals seem to be strong in this one... If Ford makes a dangerous car, do you only drive stolen ones? I know the analogy is flawed, but it's still the same concept.
Yes, this sounds like a good plan, except this: what if it's a little guy who is saying that a big guy stole their technology? Say, Microsoft takes my GPL'd software, and integrates it into the next version of Windows. There is no way that I have the money to try to fight this in court, but even if I do win, I still lose because of the debt I get myself in.
No no no, you see, it's an Open-Source magazine, meaning you have get it as-is, and then it's up to you to fix bugs you run into ;).
RedHat stores your machine's configuration on their end so that they can e-mail you when there are warnings or critical updates that affect your specific configuration. Also, they allow you to compare the configurations of different machines you have on RHN.
Ahem...
This reminds me of 2 different pieces of remote control software..
BackOrifice2K and Norton PC Anywhere. Neither of them install stealthily, they both provide the same functionality, if BO2K doesn't even provide more. Both are remote access software, one is on most AV vendor's lists of viruses, the other one is heralded as the best product evar. what's up with that?
160Mbs? That sounds pretty fast.. probably faster than your NIC can handle, unless you have one of those uber-31337 gigabit cable modems.
thats not the case at all, i'm just saying that for the gods-who-be, it shouldn't be nearly as difficult as writing for an entirely new architecture.
Strangely, I just downloaded the 2.4.15 kernel from ftp://ftp.ca.kernel.org, and it already appears to have the Linus-blessed patch applied to it... Very very strange
(Net?)BSD was ported to the dreamcast, which used a RISC processor, not x86. Porting linux to the Xbox shouldnt be that hard. Just a bit of hacking to see how all the hardware interacts.
Probably not 6V, but 7V, by connecting the positive to the 12V rail, and the negative to the 5V rail. It's a pretty common feature on Baybuses.
Just use encryption to build a virtual network on top of the existing one
Yeah, except that could be considered a circumvention device...
I dont recall which one it was, but a few years ago, I was glancing at the CD, and I noticed the following comment on the package: "By inserting this disc into your CD-Rom drive, you agree to the terms of the license agreement. To view this agreement, please see the file LICENSE.TXT on the CD-Rom"
Heh, catch 22.