... and as a close relative, Technical English or Scientific English. Whether it's engineering documents, computer software, or publications in scientific journals, these closely-related dialects are what people turn to when trying to share their work with the world.
I think the only way we can combat such foolishness is to write open source freeware that employs as many patented concepts as possible, thereby removing the profit in intellectual patents since the techniques will be common in freeware. Luckily, you are not in violation of patent law unless you're selling something. I think. But even if i'm wrong, the code will still be out there, right?:)
Does anybody know if mirrors can be used to reflect the bi-directional infra-red signal? One of the biggest design problems i've had with the lego mindstorms is building things that don't obscure the IR port... maybe if mattell made some reflective lego pieces to make this easier?:)
It's nice to see that IBM cares whether or not us linux geeks buy their equipment, but this reminds me of when the Corel NetWinders were coming out. They were advertised as coming with a modified red hat linux, when I enquired about debian etc, they said they had "redhat-specific drivers that unfortunately prevent installing a different distribution or recompiling a non-corel kernel".
Revelations also says that no man will be able to buy their daily bread without the mark of the beast.... Nanotechnology + the mondex electronic money system + a tatoo?
... Taco, I'm sure you or I or any number of people who read this webpage could throw together a beowulf cluster, or other multi-computer system to tackle problems in a country that, according to the USA government, isn't supposed to have good technology.
These laws (good or not) keep the people who are inclined, but not determined, from doing something. They make the stupid, determined people get caught and put away, and the smart people jump through the appropriate hoops to not get caught. I think building a beowulf cluster to simulate the processing power of a computer that cannot legally be exported to a high-risk country would be like the latter - jumping through hoops to accomplish something that braindead beaurocracy doesn't want you to. Just putting a photo-radar detector or your car, sticking drugs up your butt to get them over the border, working from home for five minutes a week so you can claim your rent on your taxes as a buisness expense, or anything else people do to sidestep authority.
For over a year up here in British Columbia, Canada, there's been a company called "IPC" marketing such scaled down PC's - $329 CDN (roughly $225 US, i think) gets you a nice and fast processor, integrated network card, sound card, video card, etc.
Well, we ordered one of these things to use as a quake server, flipped the top open and had a look. On the motherboard was a whole lot of empty space, all the integrated peripherials, and no room for expansion. Not a single bloody PCI slot to plug something into. If you want a non-upgradable machine, by all means, I'd suggest going for it... All in all for the price you pay, I don't think it's that bad of a deal, but I like to be able to rip my computer apart and put it together again.:-)
After upgrading to Linux 2.2 on a Debian-2.0 system, I have lost the ability to use smbmount. I tried recompiling it from the smbfs-2.0.2 distribution and the smbmount-1.3 distributions, no luck, still getting the "mount error: Invalid argument" each time where before I had no problems.
Anyone else experienced this / found out any way around it? I'm currently investigating Sharity, but I would prefer to use a GNUer solution.
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... and as a close relative, Technical English or Scientific English. Whether it's engineering documents, computer software, or publications in scientific journals, these closely-related dialects are what people turn to when trying to share their work with the world.
I'm slashdot user #15,884 and my make-based autoconfiguration system is at least 3x as long. I could really learn from this guy.
CNET should have waited awhile, there's still a few surprises left!
I think the only way we can combat such foolishness is to write open source freeware that employs as many patented concepts as possible, thereby removing the profit in intellectual patents since the techniques will be common in freeware. Luckily, you are not in violation of patent law unless you're selling something. I think. But even if i'm wrong, the code will still be out there, right? :)
Does anybody know if mirrors can be used to reflect the bi-directional infra-red signal? One of the biggest design problems i've had with the lego mindstorms is building things that don't obscure the IR port... maybe if mattell made some reflective lego pieces to make this easier? :)
And how about getting that modem to work too? :)
It's nice to see that IBM cares whether or not us linux geeks buy their equipment, but this reminds me of when the Corel NetWinders were coming out. They were advertised as coming with a modified red hat linux, when I enquired about debian etc, they said they had "redhat-specific drivers that unfortunately prevent installing a different distribution or recompiling a non-corel kernel".
Revelations also says that no man will be able to buy their daily bread without the mark of the beast.... Nanotechnology + the mondex electronic money system + a tatoo?
Flash for Linux has been out at least since May... Why are they only announcing it now?
... Taco, I'm sure you or I or any number of people who read this webpage could throw together a beowulf cluster, or other multi-computer system to tackle problems in a country that, according to the USA government, isn't supposed to have good technology.
These laws (good or not) keep the people who are inclined, but not determined, from doing something. They make the stupid, determined people get caught and put away, and the smart people jump through the appropriate hoops to not get caught. I think building a beowulf cluster to simulate the processing power of a computer that cannot legally be exported to a high-risk country would be like the latter - jumping through hoops to accomplish something that braindead beaurocracy doesn't want you to. Just putting a photo-radar detector or your car, sticking drugs up your butt to get them over the border, working from home for five minutes a week so you can claim your rent on your taxes as a buisness expense, or anything else people do to sidestep authority.
All of the sites mentioned above translate to
either www2.EUnet.yu or www3.EUnet.yu - is big
brother changing our DNS tables??
For over a year up here in British Columbia, Canada, there's been a company called "IPC" marketing such scaled down PC's - $329 CDN (roughly $225 US, i think) gets you a nice and fast processor, integrated network card, sound card, video card, etc.
:-)
Well, we ordered one of these things to use as a quake server, flipped the top open and had a look. On the motherboard was a whole lot of empty space, all the integrated peripherials, and no room for expansion. Not a single bloody PCI slot to plug something into. If you want a non-upgradable machine, by all means, I'd suggest going for it... All in all for the price you pay, I don't think it's that bad of a deal, but I like to be able to rip my computer apart and put it together again.
Well, I *did* use samba at home and at work, but since upgrading to Linux 2.0, it broke. Mabye the new version will work better...
After upgrading to Linux 2.2 on a Debian-2.0 system, I have lost the ability to use smbmount. I tried recompiling it from the smbfs-2.0.2 distribution and the smbmount-1.3 distributions, no luck, still getting the "mount error: Invalid argument" each time where before I had no problems.
Anyone else experienced this / found out any way around it? I'm currently investigating Sharity, but I would prefer to use a GNUer solution.