As mentioned, GRUB does work w/Linux + FreeBSD; I do it at home.
Reasons to try: ports system, easy way to upgrade every part of the core system (make world), everything being in the One True Location (/usr/local, of course...let the flames begin!:-). For some reason I find getting the login prompt back when I've typed in the wrong password *much* faster in FreeBSD compared to Linux. Weird.
Just about all your fave. programs should be around in ports, so I don't think you'll miss too much. Oh, one weird thing I found: can't do...oh crap...what's the term for s00per-high resolution in text...framebuffer...arghh! Stupid head...anyway, can't do in in FreeBSD w/my graphic (don't ask me which one; as you can see, I'm no graphics geek), but it works just fine in Linux. I checked around at the time, and there was talk of source code hacks you could do to enable it, but I couldn't get it to work.
Give it a try; one more OS shouldn't scare you at this point...:-) Oh, and check out www.freebsddiary.org for tips.
Captain's Weblog, Stardate 3.141592654.
Mood: pissy
Well, Spock and Bones are at it again. I don't even know what the argument is about this time. Geez, can't they just follow the Prime Directive for once? Every time this happens I just want to curl up into a little ball and hide in my quarters. I hate conflict.
Music: Torn, Natalie Imbruglia.
Jesus, it's like the Smurfs(tm)...
on
The Weblog Handbook
·
· Score: 5, Funny
Papa Blog: We've got to blog the magic blog, or else Blogamel will blog the blog away!
Brainy Blog: That's obvious, Papa Blog. If you blog the blog equations, you'll blog to the obvious blogclusion that --
Blogette: Lookout! It's Blogamel! With his evil Blog!
All the Blogs: Oh no! Blog for your lives! We're blogged! Blog me! Run for the blog! Save the blogs!(etc)
Actually, I keep wondering why McDonald's doesn't send colonists to Mars. God knows they must have the money, and think of the advertising potential: just offer free Big Macs to any Martians you meet.
And if you think we got a lot of good technology from NASA's efforts to reach the moon, just wait and see what McD's comes up with:
low gravity friers
radiation-proof Kiddy PlayLands
Ronald McDonald wigs that stay put during Martian sandstorms
potatoes genetically engineered to grow on Mars
cows genetically engineered to grow on Mars (added bonus: terraforming gas)
Hell, we're backing the wrong horse here, people: it's time to send McDonald's to space!
New York (AP) -- KaZaa executives, insisting on anonymity, admitted today to sneaking into pediatric wings of at least three hospitals to steal lollipops, Tootsie Rolls, and Mars Bars in an effort to keep programmers on staff and happy.
"We knew it was wrong," said one vice-president, "but we had to keep the free snacks flowing for the programmers, or else we were screwed. We couldn't stop -- they'd all jump ship."
The executives insisted they had done nothing wrong. "Those kids are sick! What the hell are they getting candy for, anyway?" he asked rhetorically. "We left them instant cous-cous and bean soup. They've got it pretty good, if you ask me."
FSF founder and computer guru Richard Stallman was unavailable for comment. "He's out redirecting CDNow affiliate refferals to pay for his movie rental late charges," said an anonymous source close to the programmer.
I'm just finishing up Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear, which starts from a pretty similar proposition: that evolution happens (or at least can happen) in big leaps, regulated by the genes themselves and triggered by stress.
The story deals with what happens to the human race when those genes come out for the first time since we took over from the Neandertals. (Probably not the best summary, but God it's early.)
Not a bad book -- I wasn't too compelled by the first half, but now that I'm on the downhill stretch I'm more and more engrossed. A neat idea, and one that looks like it may have some basis in fact. (Scary thought, given the human race's reaction in the book to what happens...)
I had the same idea, only I started out smaller: I sent a copy of Mozilla 1.0, Win98 version, to my father to keep him from having to spend $ on a pop-up blocker. Worked fine until he tried to print: crashed horribly, had to reboot five or six times and reinstall his printer drivers.
Don't get me wrong: I loooooooooooooooooooooove Mozilla (use it on FreeBSD, got 2002090017 build -- latest I could find) and was really hoping to convert him to Mozilla (and then to LInux....mwuahahahahah!) I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar problems.
I know this is pretty damned useless as a diagnosis: I work on helpdesk for an ISP, and I always hate it when someone calls and says "My thing doesn't work with my other thing. Why?" I'm just wondering if Mozilla + Printers + Win98 == Kaboom! is a common thing, or just One Of Those Things.
Anyhow, maybe throw in a copy of K-Meleon,
or Ethereal if they want to see what browser everyone else is using:-).
"Power over water" is now in the public domain. It's mine! Fools! Ph35r my 3133t 4rmy of fish! You will never mod my down again! You will be destroyed! Hahahahahaha!
I'm curious: how the heck do you spend $250k on a robot to crawl 200 feet and show you video footage? I'm not at all knowledgeable about this -- someone here must know why I'm wrong to think that's a lot of money.
(I'll stop myself from explaining my plan to use a webcam, my Pentium running Linux, 20 10-foot USB extension cords, and a wind-up NunZilla to explore the corridor...)
Something else: I always promised myself I'd buy a 1 TB drive when it became available -- just seemed like a good magic number. Can anyone venture a guess about how soon that might be? (I mean relatively inexpensive consumer-grade IDE/SCSI single drives, not arrays or $10k server stuff.)
Thanks, everyone, for telling me that EDLs really do exist...I didn't realize that, and thought it was just a cool idea. Teach me to Google before I post...
Hm...what I'm thinking about is selling more a recipe ("Take 1 DVD Phantom Menace, 1 DVD Debbie Does Coruscant...") rather than selling a copy of the result. Ie, pass around the recipe rather than the cake.
Since the equipment to make your own versions of movies is so ubiquitous, it would be interesting to see edit decision lists circulate for particular films.
Imagine passing around the equivalent of a shell script...or wait, no, a *patch*...to edit movies to your taste. This one takes out the filth, that one makes The Phantom Edit, t'other one puts in that steamy sex scene from The Golden Girls Cut Loose (gah!).
It'd require the equivalent of patch for video, of course, but I bet with Unix at least you'd be able to put something very much like that together right now. And then, imagine if Clean Flicks just sold those li'l scripts. What would the directors do then?
"The result was the ideal fascist solution." No, actually, it wasn't. "A money machine for insiders" is many things, but that's not fascism.
Fascism is a particular political philosophy, not an organization whose politics you don't like. It places the rights and interests of the state above the rights and interests of the individual, because of a belief that the importance of the state to its citizens supercedes the importance of individual members.
I'm sure there are many, many problems with ICANN that deserve the attention that Mr. Auerbach has given them, and this is not at all meant to detract from that. Using words to insult, rather than carry meaning, bothers me no matter who the hell it comes from.
Slashdot Mirror
Reasons to try: ports system, easy way to upgrade every part of the core system (make world), everything being in the One True Location (/usr/local, of course...let the flames begin! :-). For some reason I find getting the login prompt back when I've typed in the wrong password *much* faster in FreeBSD compared to Linux. Weird.
Just about all your fave. programs should be around in ports, so I don't think you'll miss too much. Oh, one weird thing I found: can't do...oh crap...what's the term for s00per-high resolution in text...framebuffer...arghh! Stupid head...anyway, can't do in in FreeBSD w/my graphic (don't ask me which one; as you can see, I'm no graphics geek), but it works just fine in Linux. I checked around at the time, and there was talk of source code hacks you could do to enable it, but I couldn't get it to work.
Give it a try; one more OS shouldn't scare you at this point...:-) Oh, and check out www.freebsddiary.org for tips.
Check out florists tape, the velcro-like kind. Not quite as sturdy as real Velcro, but ch33p and just as handy around the house.
http://www.hopf.demon.co.uk/demon/turing.txt
Captain's Weblog, Stardate 3.141592654.
Mood: pissy
Well, Spock and Bones are at it again. I don't even know what the argument is about this time. Geez, can't they just follow the Prime Directive for once? Every time this happens I just want to curl up into a little ball and hide in my quarters. I hate conflict.
Music: Torn, Natalie Imbruglia.
Brainy Blog: That's obvious, Papa Blog. If you blog the blog equations, you'll blog to the obvious blogclusion that --
Blogette: Lookout! It's Blogamel! With his evil Blog!
All the Blogs: Oh no! Blog for your lives! We're blogged! Blog me! Run for the blog! Save the blogs!(etc)
I'm blogging for the cure. Are you?
And thanks for all your hard work on this.
Well done, everyone -- well done.
And if you think we got a lot of good technology from NASA's efforts to reach the moon, just wait and see what McD's comes up with:
Hell, we're backing the wrong horse here, people: it's time to send McDonald's to space!
Oh well, more c0ff33.
"We knew it was wrong," said one vice-president, "but we had to keep the free snacks flowing for the programmers, or else we were screwed. We couldn't stop -- they'd all jump ship."
The executives insisted they had done nothing wrong. "Those kids are sick! What the hell are they getting candy for, anyway?" he asked rhetorically. "We left them instant cous-cous and bean soup. They've got it pretty good, if you ask me."
FSF founder and computer guru Richard Stallman was unavailable for comment. "He's out redirecting CDNow affiliate refferals to pay for his movie rental late charges," said an anonymous source close to the programmer.
The story deals with what happens to the human race when those genes come out for the first time since we took over from the Neandertals. (Probably not the best summary, but God it's early.)
Not a bad book -- I wasn't too compelled by the first half, but now that I'm on the downhill stretch I'm more and more engrossed. A neat idea, and one that looks like it may have some basis in fact. (Scary thought, given the human race's reaction in the book to what happens...)
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I don't know what printer/drivers he's using -- he's 3000km away . Anyhow, at least I've got a bit to go on now.
Don't get me wrong: I loooooooooooooooooooooove Mozilla (use it on FreeBSD, got 2002090017 build -- latest I could find) and was really hoping to convert him to Mozilla (and then to LInux....mwuahahahahah!) I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar problems.
I know this is pretty damned useless as a diagnosis: I work on helpdesk for an ISP, and I always hate it when someone calls and says "My thing doesn't work with my other thing. Why?" I'm just wondering if Mozilla + Printers + Win98 == Kaboom! is a common thing, or just One Of Those Things.
Anyhow, maybe throw in a copy of K-Meleon, or Ethereal if they want to see what browser everyone else is using :-).
"Power over water" is now in the public domain. It's mine! Fools! Ph35r my 3133t 4rmy of fish! You will never mod my down again! You will be destroyed! Hahahahahaha!
Aha...thanks.
(I'll stop myself from explaining my plan to use a webcam, my Pentium running Linux, 20 10-foot USB extension cords, and a wind-up NunZilla to explore the corridor...)
Something else: I always promised myself I'd buy a 1 TB drive when it became available -- just seemed like a good magic number. Can anyone venture a guess about how soon that might be? (I mean relatively inexpensive consumer-grade IDE/SCSI single drives, not arrays or $10k server stuff.)
Thanks, everyone, for telling me that EDLs really do exist...I didn't realize that, and thought it was just a cool idea. Teach me to Google before I post...
Hm...what I'm thinking about is selling more a recipe ("Take 1 DVD Phantom Menace, 1 DVD Debbie Does Coruscant...") rather than selling a copy of the result. Ie, pass around the recipe rather than the cake.
Since the equipment to make your own versions of movies is so ubiquitous, it would be interesting to see edit decision lists circulate for particular films.
Imagine passing around the equivalent of a shell script...or wait, no, a *patch*...to edit movies to your taste. This one takes out the filth, that one makes The Phantom Edit, t'other one puts in that steamy sex scene from The Golden Girls Cut Loose (gah!).
It'd require the equivalent of patch for video, of course, but I bet with Unix at least you'd be able to put something very much like that together right now. And then, imagine if Clean Flicks just sold those li'l scripts. What would the directors do then?
(Another lawsuit, duh. Silly question.)
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/mirror/shatter .html
2d_flow.mpg
form_rotate_3.mpg
Touche. :-)
"The result was the ideal fascist solution." No, actually, it wasn't. "A money machine for insiders" is many things, but that's not fascism.
Fascism is a particular political philosophy, not an organization whose politics you don't like. It places the rights and interests of the state above the rights and interests of the individual, because of a belief that the importance of the state to its citizens supercedes the importance of individual members.
I'm sure there are many, many problems with ICANN that deserve the attention that Mr. Auerbach has given them, and this is not at all meant to detract from that. Using words to insult, rather than carry meaning, bothers me no matter who the hell it comes from.
Don't toss around words without knowing what they refer to.