Depends on how many you put together. I work at a small computer shop and we build maybe 2 systems a day. Our fastest guy can go from boxes to powering the system on in 15 minutes. I can do it in 20-25 if I don't get distracted. Those are all retail parts, so there's plenty to be unpacked, but do it every day and you'll get very fast.
We had to solder wires to the contacts on our vacuum tubes, half a bit at a time. And if we made a mistake, we had to rebuild the entire computer. And we liked it.
Not a movie, but a BBC miniseries on TV. It consisted of six 30-minute episodes, and ended somewhere around when Ford and Arthur are stranded on the earth. (Was that Life, the Universe, and Everything?)
A friend of mine has the DVD. I remember first watching it -- it was done pretty well for a low-budget TV show, but I had a totally different mental image of the story, from reading the books. I have a feeling that the movie will again be different than I expect, but I look forward to seeing it.
Actually 62 miles is just a shade under 100 km. 100 km would be about 62.14 miles.
62 miles is under 100km, yes. But the atricle said 62 nautical miles, which are longer than the ordinary mile. A nautical mile is about 1.15 miles, so 114 km sounds about right here.
Alternately, we could modify our mailers to include "encrypt" and "sign" buttons right next to the "send" button.
I recently switched to KMail for exactly this reason. It has buttons for 'encrypt' and 'sign' right on the toolbar. Give it a try. AFAIK, it doesnt run on Windows, though.
It works reasonably well; the only prblem I have is that it runs slow on my pentium/200. From what I understand, GCC generates slow C++ code, compared to other compilers. Anyone want to verify this?
You need to be root to do anything moderately useful, and if you're root, then you're able to fuck the system.
Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.
This gives us the current unix security fiasco - sendmail ahs never been a secure product, apache cgi, no one seems to make a secure ftpd, no one makes a secure bind, etc etc..
Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.
For instance, rewrite the kernel and libc so that bind on a privledged port (80) succeeds for a non-root user, so long as the process is "apache", has a trusted md5 sum, was started by a user in group wheel, lives in directory/usr/local/bin/httpd, etc etc.
I agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.
disclaimer: I'm no unix guru, but this stuff works for me.
There are about hundred million dead people from Stalin, Mao, and other various Communist goons' experiments in non-capitalism.
You confuse communism here with totalitarianism, the real reason these people can do what they do. It's like saying that because of capitalism, I have the right to free speech. One is an economic system; the other is a governmental system. It's entirely possible to have a socialist democracy (such as many European countries).
The whole thing feels like it's still in early beta testing.
Worse yet, notice how when they come out with a new version the default is to d/l the beta? I remember going to their site a while ago and seeing, "Download RealPlayer Plus 8 Beta!" It's just a word they equate with new and improved.
Isn't this what the new Xrender extension in XF86 4.0.2 does? After the distros start including 4.0.2 along with Xrender-enabled toolkits, we'll all have translucency. -----
You might need to update your modutils to deal with the restructuring in/lib/modules/2.4.0. Latest release is 2.3.21. Otherwise, I've had no problems upgrading. -----
For example, Cyrixs PR266/PR300/etc - they didn't actually run at 300mhz but they said that they performed equal to around a 300mhz processor, so they sold them as "300"'s, figuring consumers would assume that means 300mhz. That was all bs - Cyrix just couldn't keep their clockspeeds rising at the same rate as Intel, and realized that they could take advantage of the average consumers ignorance.
Amen. I was screwed by Cyrix back with my P150. It was *much* slower than a Pentium 150. When I finally upgraded, I got an Athlon, and I couldn't be happier.
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Depends on how many you put together. I work at a small computer shop and we build maybe 2 systems a day. Our fastest guy can go from boxes to powering the system on in 15 minutes. I can do it in 20-25 if I don't get distracted. Those are all retail parts, so there's plenty to be unpacked, but do it every day and you'll get very fast.
You run a WiFi network and you still use a modem?
You have a 386? In my day, we didn't have no fancy-schmancy 386s. We had an abacus, and we liked it!
I overclocked my abacus, and that thing was fast. It runs linux as fast as you can move the beads.
Kids these days...
You had dip switches? Kids these days...
We had to solder wires to the contacts on our vacuum tubes, half a bit at a time. And if we made a mistake, we had to rebuild the entire computer. And we liked it.
Wasn't there already a movie made of this?
Not a movie, but a BBC miniseries on TV. It consisted of six 30-minute episodes, and ended somewhere around when Ford and Arthur are stranded on the earth. (Was that Life, the Universe, and Everything?)
A friend of mine has the DVD. I remember first watching it -- it was done pretty well for a low-budget TV show, but I had a totally different mental image of the story, from reading the books. I have a feeling that the movie will again be different than I expect, but I look forward to seeing it.
...how many Libraries of Congress is it?
Actually 62 miles is just a shade under 100 km. 100 km would be about 62.14 miles.
62 miles is under 100km, yes. But the atricle said 62 nautical miles, which are longer than the ordinary mile. A nautical mile is about 1.15 miles, so 114 km sounds about right here.
...but the REAL question is, can it do so in 30 minutes or less?
/me waits for his fr--
Never mind.
Alternately, we could modify our mailers to include "encrypt" and "sign" buttons right next to the "send" button.
I recently switched to KMail for exactly this reason. It has buttons for 'encrypt' and 'sign' right on the toolbar. Give it a try. AFAIK, it doesnt run on Windows, though.
It works reasonably well; the only prblem I have is that it runs slow on my pentium/200. From what I understand, GCC generates slow C++ code, compared to other compilers. Anyone want to verify this?
512k? My old 386 could beat that...
Mr. Mundie, do you require oxygen?
Several of my friends _are_ running cracked copies of Windows XP and Office XP already ;)
Not necessarily so -- sudo allows you to define groups and users that are allowed to execute certain commands.
This gives us the current unix security fiasco - sendmail ahs never been a secure product, apache cgi, no one seems to make a secure ftpd, no one makes a secure bind, etc etc..Look at exim, qmail (both MTAs with an eye toward security), and djbdns.
For instance, rewrite the kernel and libc so that bind on a privledged port (80) succeeds for a non-root user, so long as the process is "apache", has a trusted md5 sum, was started by a user in group wheel, lives in directoryI agree -- it'd be nice to have non-root users bind low ports. Sudo can fix half of this (allowing users to run apache, ftpd, etc) but the daemon would still have too much power.
disclaimer: I'm no unix guru, but this stuff works for me.Uh, doesn't the GPL have a no-revoke clause? I thought that once a piece of software is GPL'd, it must remain so. Did CDDB do a complete rewrite?
You confuse communism here with totalitarianism, the real reason these people can do what they do. It's like saying that because of capitalism, I have the right to free speech. One is an economic system; the other is a governmental system. It's entirely possible to have a socialist democracy (such as many European countries).
ouch.
Also look at grc.com. They have a spyware-detection program.
The whole thing feels like it's still in early beta testing.
Worse yet, notice how when they come out with a new version the default is to d/l the beta? I remember going to their site a while ago and seeing, "Download RealPlayer Plus 8 Beta!" It's just a word they equate with new and improved.Maybe when X can do translucancy[1] properly.
Isn't this what the new Xrender extension in XF86 4.0.2 does? After the distros start including 4.0.2 along with Xrender-enabled toolkits, we'll all have translucency.-----
You might need to update your modutils to deal with the restructuring in /lib/modules/2.4.0. Latest release is 2.3.21. Otherwise, I've had no problems upgrading.
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Amen. I was screwed by Cyrix back with my P150. It was *much* slower than a Pentium 150. When I finally upgraded, I got an Athlon, and I couldn't be happier.
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Yes, I did.
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