Sometimes you Linux people are like the bongheads... just like Dennis Leary was saying... As soon as you make your first bong, the bongheads try to make freakin bongs out of everything..
I have asked my fair share of mundane "Wouldn't think be cool" questions to Ask Slashdot, and I am additionally the cheapest man on the planet, but even I wouldn't try to pass a DC off to someone that actually once had a working PC.. I mean c'mon. I go to compgeeks.com and see awesome PII level machines for like $99.. and wonder what the hell anyone in the world is doing with something less than this (yes, even if you are NOT in the US.. pay the damn shipping).
Going along with my cheap, tight assed nature, I make use of all of my old PC's, and even with all my niche crap that I do, I still have got P200-class machines that I just can no long use... out of space, out of time.. its just not worth the effort...
Umm.. how about all their web apps that may or may not be written in ASP? Thats a pretty good reason to not do it.. and, no, I don't think Chili!ASP counts.. for many a reason..
cbsnews.com was working, but it kept chopping up on me, I would disconnect, and reconnect. Now it's telling me that it has reached Max # of streams. Anyone able to get a live stream? Please post url...
No luck for me on abcnews.com, msnbc.com, cnn.com of course won't even come up.
.. Yeah it's pretty exciting that just becuase you want the ability to look up the syntax of a command you have a web server sitting out there waiting for someone to find an exploit for it... ah I mean waiting to find a way into every SCO Box on the planet. Excellent tip there...
Well.. that would rock! For Christmas I got a $50 Gift Certificate to Suncoast or any of their derivatives, which you can also use online. So I went there and poked around and decided I was in the mood for some anime. I came onto Slashdot and read the 'Akira coming to DVD' story in hopes of finding peoples preferences (I own a VHS copy of Akira and love it.. but thats about it for my anime exposure) so based on everyones recommendations I picked up Ghost in the Shell on DVD. Very cool movie. (It was a tough call, GitS or Vampire Hunter D)
Anyways, I was unaware that this was originally a comic book/magna piece. Weird since I also am a reformed but still interested comic nerd. What am I doing? I must be slipping.
Anyways, I brought in GitS to work since we have a little DVD Exchange (actually I just loan mine out since everyone else has about 4 movies each, and everyone has a copy of Gladiator..[except for me, but thats another post altogether] while I have about 40 DVDs) and brought in Ghost in the Shell and everyones reaction was the same 'I don't think I can watch a cartoon' ARRRRGHH!!! I had one guy broken down.. I said 'for the love of god its only like 70 minutes long and you won't be disappointed'.. so he took it, but then it never left his car... ass....
"While Solaris 8 software is not currently available in a downloadable format, we are working to provide a download option - please check back at this site for updates on the status of a download"
So no, Solaris is not available and while it is "Free" according to Sun, you still somehow have to give them $75 US and dont expect any code or support. Sounds like a great deal to me.
See Shields! I told you there was a huge market, and that alls we had to do was wait for slashdot to do another article on this business, and then we plaster our names all over it, "We will offer the same as them, $2 less!!"
I thought for a minute, 'well how cool is that. this would be a great opportunity for the internet community to band together and buy this great resource for everyone to use' and then i realized, those are my freaking words!! I have posted far more than the average person on the newsgroups, and would end up paying for the rights to my own words back. what the hell is the deal with that? i wonder how much my percentage of the take should be....
Is that a fact? Last time I went in looking to get a new OS for an Ultra 5 it was something more along the lines of $75 for the license and $75 for the Media. This was for Solaris 8, so I figure, fine, Solaris 7 (which Sun was selling for like $20 or so) would work... but no luck. Sun won't sell that anymore. I could check out these figures, but I am lazy.
I can tell you a great real world experience. I have a Wintel Laptop - P133. Trying to get the most minimal Windows onto it, I have a Win95 diskette install (quit complaining, I just X Window into my Linux box). This thing could kick serious ass compared to running Exploder on it. I have to fight with Windows Update to not "upgrade" my IE to 5.5, 4.0 runs slow enough for the little browsing that I do on this baddie. Time to try to rip as much IE out of it as I can manage and install KMeleon
Sherlock and Sherlock 2, the Macs built in Search feature from OS 8.5 and beyond, are capable of indexing the content of many types of files, flat text being one of them, then allow you to search such content on your hard drive. FYI.
A great alternative of this done right, IMHO is the Keychain feature as implimented by Apple Computer in Mac OS 9.0. Here are some links to info on its features.
Wow, I try not to overstate my feelings, but this really is devistating. Why wasn't I told earlier about this? I have loved and supported Bungie from the Pathways Into Darkness days on the pre-PowerPC Macintoshes (trying to run it on my 68020 Mac II - worked pretty well but you had to run in a 1/4 sized window on my 13" 640 X 480 screen). I was skeptical when they entered into the PC Market but I figured - hey, whatever you have to do to stay afloat.... and now look what happened...
News HeadlineJapan - Sales of Sony Corporations new tray loading CD-ROM have skyrocketed. Says Vice Prez Yamishi Hatsimora "We love all those suckas with slot loading CD-ROM's. Told you - I'm gonna git you sucka."
What is $88 mil? Like 1/7 of Intel's advertising campagin per year? And this is the company that is going to bring down the giant? Inverstors that really believe in technologies invest Billions, not millions into companies like these. 36 months from now, Linux will be working at the Burger Fling in hopes of keeping the green card.
Uhh.. did anyone that voted actually see Girl, Interrupted? I didn't think so. Man, the movie itself was a turdball, and Jolie's performance was certainly nothing special. That is quite the ridiculous pick.. I see how the thought process goes like I am looking at a thought bubble Uhh.. don't know her.. don't know her.. oh.. she.. she is that one guys daughter. Just another reason to hate the Oscars I guess.
Well I know that Yellow Dog Linux runs on most PowerPC machines. Actually, there is a writeup in this months Linux Journal about running YDL on some IBM RISC Machines. Maybe it applies?
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We had a similar policy going on. We were all free to bring in our personal laptops. There were quite a few ethernet drops in the room, so I always got there early on test days and gobbled up a e-net port. Only about 15% of the students actually had a laptop, and most didn't have ethernet. Most brought there laptops loaded with their summaries that we had to type on Telecomm Acts and pdf's downloaded from the Library of Congress with the actual laws themselves. Very helpful to have 500 pages of law and executive orders and do a search on them via Acrobat instead of leafing through 500 printed pages of material. Pretty neat. Truth is - I am looked at like I am a freak when I use my laptop in pretty much every other class I've ever had. Large, public university, and most of the non-CSE people are quite computer-phobic. I should know, I am not a CSE major and deal with em.
Free - largest install base. Oldest, most proven version of the BSD's. Open - most secure Net - runs on just about ever piece of silicon ever made. Old Sun 3/80's, old Amigas, serious old machines. They used to have more ports than Linux, and I think they still do have more, but the Linux crze is definetly helping Linux catch up to the work that the NetBSDers have been doing.
I work at a mostly Linux shop, but I admit I am interested. I inherited a Win98 machine as my desktop and pretty much have hated every minute of it. I am looking to partition up the drive this week and load some exotic OS on it.. a few questions, if you will my religious BSD-ers. I am sure these are covered in various FAQs and the like, but I can take advantage of this great resource called Slashdot and have you do some work for me.
1 - There does not appear to be an ISO image available. Is this true? A URL for a 4.0 iso image would be heavenly 2 - Either way on number 1, I would also be interested in booting from a diskette, and doing an FTP install (a' la RedHat, and maybe other distributions too). Possible? 3 - I like KDE. Well, I like it more than any other Windowing System. Is this part of the standard 4.0 install? 4 - Sadly, I will still likely have to leave a Win partition. Does FreeBSD use LILO? I have a little experience with it, and would prefer it over another boot manager. 5 - The warnings about the lack of stability in a.0 release are kinda scary. This will not be a production class machine or anything. My main duties call for me to ssh around to our various boxen and perform various admin-like duties on them. I assume it would be stable enough to handle these kind of conditions. What should I be worried about? 6 - Heck, what's the word on 3.3? If I am installing it on a machine as I described above, should I just forget 4.0 and do the 3.3 thing? What about hardware support. The machine is a pretty much stock Dell workstation. It would be nice to run at a decent resolution and be able to play some MP3's through the sound card (I haven't checked, but I am sure it is a built in). I know the details are too sketchy for you to say for sure, but in general, do these things work out of the box for a 3.3 install? Is there better/more support in 4.0?
well, considering they send you your password via an e-mail, it's no big deal anyways, is it? not your personal machine they are breaking into.. (just don't change the password to say.. the same as the root password of your server at work or something...)
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Sometimes you Linux people are like the bongheads... just like Dennis Leary was saying... As soon as you make your first bong, the bongheads try to make freakin bongs out of everything..
I have asked my fair share of mundane "Wouldn't think be cool" questions to Ask Slashdot, and I am additionally the cheapest man on the planet, but even I wouldn't try to pass a DC off to someone that actually once had a working PC.. I mean c'mon. I go to compgeeks.com and see awesome PII level machines for like $99.. and wonder what the hell anyone in the world is doing with something less than this (yes, even if you are NOT in the US.. pay the damn shipping).
Going along with my cheap, tight assed nature, I make use of all of my old PC's, and even with all my niche crap that I do, I still have got P200-class machines that I just can no long use... out of space, out of time.. its just not worth the effort...
Maybe your CD-ROM is trying to save you from listening to crap muzak like Ani DeFranco?
Umm.. how about all their web apps that may or may not be written in ASP? Thats a pretty good reason to not do it.. and, no, I don't think Chili!ASP counts.. for many a reason..
cbsnews.com was working, but it kept chopping up on me, I would disconnect, and reconnect. Now it's telling me that it has reached Max # of streams. Anyone able to get a live stream? Please post url...
No luck for me on abcnews.com, msnbc.com, cnn.com of course won't even come up.
.. Yeah it's pretty exciting that just becuase you want the ability to look up the syntax of a command you have a web server sitting out there waiting for someone to find an exploit for it... ah I mean waiting to find a way into every SCO Box on the planet. Excellent tip there...
Anyways, I was unaware that this was originally a comic book/magna piece. Weird since I also am a reformed but still interested comic nerd. What am I doing? I must be slipping.
Anyways, I brought in GitS to work since we have a little DVD Exchange (actually I just loan mine out since everyone else has about 4 movies each, and everyone has a copy of Gladiator..[except for me, but thats another post altogether] while I have about 40 DVDs) and brought in Ghost in the Shell and everyones reaction was the same 'I don't think I can watch a cartoon' ARRRRGHH!!! I had one guy broken down.. I said 'for the love of god its only like 70 minutes long and you won't be disappointed'.. so he took it, but then it never left his car... ass....
From that very site that you quoted..
"While Solaris 8 software is not currently available in a downloadable format, we are working to provide a download option - please check back at this site for updates on the status of a download"
So no, Solaris is not available and while it is "Free" according to Sun, you still somehow have to give them $75 US and dont expect any code or support. Sounds like a great deal to me.
See Shields! I told you there was a huge market, and that alls we had to do was wait for slashdot to do another article on this business, and then we plaster our names all over it, "We will offer the same as them, $2 less!!"
Damn I am a genius
I thought for a minute, 'well how cool is that. this would be a great opportunity for the internet community to band together and buy this great resource for everyone to use' and then i realized, those are my freaking words!! I have posted far more than the average person on the newsgroups, and would end up paying for the rights to my own words back. what the hell is the deal with that? i wonder how much my percentage of the take should be....
Is that a fact? Last time I went in looking to get a new OS for an Ultra 5 it was something more along the lines of $75 for the license and $75 for the Media. This was for Solaris 8, so I figure, fine, Solaris 7 (which Sun was selling for like $20 or so) would work... but no luck. Sun won't sell that anymore. I could check out these figures, but I am lazy.
I can tell you a great real world experience. I have a Wintel Laptop - P133. Trying to get the most minimal Windows onto it, I have a Win95 diskette install (quit complaining, I just X Window into my Linux box). This thing could kick serious ass compared to running Exploder on it. I have to fight with Windows Update to not "upgrade" my IE to 5.5, 4.0 runs slow enough for the little browsing that I do on this baddie. Time to try to rip as much IE out of it as I can manage and install KMeleon
Sherlock and Sherlock 2, the Macs built in Search feature from OS 8.5 and beyond, are capable of indexing the content of many types of files, flat text being one of them, then allow you to search such content on your hard drive. FYI.
A great alternative of this done right, IMHO is the Keychain feature as implimented by Apple Computer in Mac OS 9.0. Here are some links to info on its features.
Using the Keychain
Mac OS 9 Features
Creating a KeyChain
Changing your Keychain
Using your Keychain on another computer
Wow, I try not to overstate my feelings, but this really is devistating. Why wasn't I told earlier about this? I have loved and supported Bungie from the Pathways Into Darkness days on the pre-PowerPC Macintoshes (trying to run it on my 68020 Mac II - worked pretty well but you had to run in a 1/4 sized window on my 13" 640 X 480 screen). I was skeptical when they entered into the PC Market but I figured - hey, whatever you have to do to stay afloat.... and now look what happened...
News Headline Japan - Sales of Sony Corporations new tray loading CD-ROM have skyrocketed. Says Vice Prez Yamishi Hatsimora "We love all those suckas with slot loading CD-ROM's. Told you - I'm gonna git you sucka."
What is $88 mil? Like 1/7 of Intel's advertising campagin per year? And this is the company that is going to bring down the giant? Inverstors that really believe in technologies invest Billions, not millions into companies like these. 36 months from now, Linux will be working at the Burger Fling in hopes of keeping the green card.
But I wonder what this means if they pull an Atari and are no longer in existance in 13 months or so... Free Dreamcast!
Uhh.. did anyone that voted actually see Girl, Interrupted? I didn't think so. Man, the movie itself was a turdball, and Jolie's performance was certainly nothing special. That is quite the ridiculous pick.. I see how the thought process goes like I am looking at a thought bubble Uhh.. don't know her.. don't know her.. oh.. she.. she is that one guys daughter. Just another reason to hate the Oscars I guess.
Well I know that Yellow Dog Linux runs on most PowerPC machines. Actually, there is a writeup in this months Linux Journal about running YDL on some IBM RISC Machines. Maybe it applies?
We had a similar policy going on. We were all free to bring in our personal laptops. There were quite a few ethernet drops in the room, so I always got there early on test days and gobbled up a e-net port. Only about 15% of the students actually had a laptop, and most didn't have ethernet. Most brought there laptops loaded with their summaries that we had to type on Telecomm Acts and pdf's downloaded from the Library of Congress with the actual laws themselves. Very helpful to have 500 pages of law and executive orders and do a search on them via Acrobat instead of leafing through 500 printed pages of material. Pretty neat. Truth is - I am looked at like I am a freak when I use my laptop in pretty much every other class I've ever had. Large, public university, and most of the non-CSE people are quite computer-phobic. I should know, I am not a CSE major and deal with em.
NT Workstation only can utilize up to two processors. Server can do up to 16 (4.0 NT land).
The big draws of each, as I understand:
Free - largest install base. Oldest, most proven version of the BSD's.
Open - most secure
Net - runs on just about ever piece of silicon ever made. Old Sun 3/80's, old Amigas, serious old machines. They used to have more ports than Linux, and I think they still do have more, but the Linux crze is definetly helping Linux catch up to the work that the NetBSDers have been doing.
I work at a mostly Linux shop, but I admit I am interested. I inherited a Win98 machine as my desktop and pretty much have hated every minute of it. I am looking to partition up the drive this week and load some exotic OS on it.. a few questions, if you will my religious BSD-ers. I am sure these are covered in various FAQs and the like, but I can take advantage of this great resource called Slashdot and have you do some work for me.
.0 release are kinda scary. This will not be a production class machine or anything. My main duties call for me to ssh around to our various boxen and perform various admin-like duties on them. I assume it would be stable enough to handle these kind of conditions. What should I be worried about?
1 - There does not appear to be an ISO image available. Is this true? A URL for a 4.0 iso image would be heavenly
2 - Either way on number 1, I would also be interested in booting from a diskette, and doing an FTP install (a' la RedHat, and maybe other distributions too). Possible?
3 - I like KDE. Well, I like it more than any other Windowing System. Is this part of the standard 4.0 install?
4 - Sadly, I will still likely have to leave a Win partition. Does FreeBSD use LILO? I have a little experience with it, and would prefer it over another boot manager.
5 - The warnings about the lack of stability in a
6 - Heck, what's the word on 3.3? If I am installing it on a machine as I described above, should I just forget 4.0 and do the 3.3 thing? What about hardware support. The machine is a pretty much stock Dell workstation. It would be nice to run at a decent resolution and be able to play some MP3's through the sound card (I haven't checked, but I am sure it is a built in). I know the details are too sketchy for you to say for sure, but in general, do these things work out of the box for a 3.3 install? Is there better/more support in 4.0?
well, considering they send you your password via an e-mail, it's no big deal anyways, is it? not your personal machine they are breaking into.. (just don't change the password to say.. the same as the root password of your server at work or something...)
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