Oh, I know it's not actively enforced.. I used to work at TELUS.
The rates I quoted were for the original TELUS DSL package, realized afterwards that they had probably changed (this was 4 or so years ago that I first received it).
I've definately hit 20 gig or so on a "good" month.
Well, just seeing TELUS in there so figured I'd reply.
If you check your TELUS contract a little closer, you'll see that there are bandwidth limits in place (and indeed always have been). I believe it's 8gig down & 500meg up, but I could be wrong there.
I really really miss laser tripbombs.. there was nothing quite like using the jetpack & setting up 50 tripbombs through the only spot on a map that you could get through with a jetpack.
Forget twitch reflexes.. this was decidely a point where you did *not* want to twitch.
old Osbourne 1 in the closet and Commodore 128D stored at your mother's house she's telling you to take home lest she chuck it, you might find the list archives none the less."
Well.. that'd be as long as we were subscribed to those list's back in the day;)
On a serious note - I've got a Dec Workstation 2000 sitting alongside my old commodore (still with in the box!) on a shelf in my storage room.
And speaking of "classics" - have to play the fix the parents old p100 tonight:(
It already kind of does this. At least it has a nag screen on startup (or in the log files). Mine reads like this: XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
It at least tells you the *date* that it was written and warns you about when it will probably be outdated. That's about the extent of warnings that I like in most software.
Space-time isn't just an abstraction: It's as real as, say, toffee, and, like toffee, can be twisted to form the gravitational "wells" into which masses fall
I've installed slack on a 486sx 33 laptop with 8 meg of RAM and a 400ish meg harddrive. Same scenario as you, no cd-rom. I however, had a pcmcia nic, which enabled me to do an nfs install. Worked great.
It runs X in a 640x480 (virtual 800x600) display, and I run the window manager session from my "main" machine (1 Ghz athlon) on the laptop's X server, which allows me to do everything I normally would, at the speed that I normally can, from the couch in the living room.
Remember that one of the points of Ximian Gnome is to make Linux less frightening to our mothers. I don't know about you, but telling my mother that she just needs to "uncompress the tarball, configure, make, and make install" won't really get us very far. OTOH, if I can e-mail her a single command (ie, rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.ximian.com/directory/to/rpm/distro.rpm), then we're doing pretty well.
Especially if you consider how much must be installed / updated to upgade / install Gnome 1.4 along with Ximian/Nautilis. Frankly, it was almost too much work for me, and at the end, simply more bloat then I wanted to deal with.
Price change probably came effective at around the same time that TELUS and BCTEL merged:-)
I think the TELUS(AB) prices took effect in BC instead of the other way around... which is a good thing for both of us. I was in really early in Alberta too, but I am pretty much next door to the switch. I have an old, big, NetSpeed modem.. I've seen the 3Coms, and there is NO comparison.. mine actually throws off a lot of heat;-).
I live in Calgary, and I have no problem with my DSL at ALL. 2.5mbps down, and 500kbps up, $39.95CAD a month (that's like $4 USD), no contract at all, and to top it all off, a static IP. Most people that I know get cable because they cannot get DSL.
I use TELUS for my service. The only complaint I had about it was the time to get it installed. 4ish weeks from the time I called. However, should be a little better now. They offer a package that lets you "roll your own". Basically provide you with splitters etc that you add to your jacks, your own modem (you end up buying it), and all they have to do is setup the port at the switch. This is pretty much nothing for a wait, though a little more expensive to get going.
Sorry, just to clarify, do you disagree with the fact that the kit was shipped with binary versions of the drivers, but did not include the source? That I understand, only makes sense. Or do you not like the fact that the kit gives people an easy way to create binary versions of GPL'd drivers?
Good chance you've answered this somewhere else, but I don't have the time right now to read the rest of this thread:-)
I gathered that the kit shipped with a couple of drivers in binary form, that had been converted, using the kit, from some GPL'd drivers.
The only problem I see here is that SUN has not provided the original source for the drivers.
That amazes me, I noticed this feature the second time I typed in "slashdot.org" in the address field. Look at that! User persistence!! Same thing when I noticed all of my previous searches on google. Or for that matter the second time I type in my username to login to slashdot. It was a pretty easy thing to see that "something" was different. And I was amazed when I realized that it kept happening after I closed IE and brought it back up. I love this feature.. I'm not turning it off.
From what I read, it's not that they are including the 2.4 kernel in their distro. It's that they are making some changes to the current 2.4 kernel, which will result in a faster kernel. They are saying that it will be better for desktop environments, and are hoping that the majority of the stuff they do are merged into the 2.5 kernel. Lastly, the article states that it will not be ready until January 2001, at which point the 2.4 kernel could well be ready.
And if you are looking at the letter of the law that is correct. However, the MPAA's letter states that if you are linking to it via a chain of links or directly you are in violation of the law. They don't say ANYTHING about it being for the express purpose of distributing the DeCSS in their letter.
Slashdot Mirror
Close to a fantasy show, but not quite.
It's pretty frickin tough really, need to look at your priorities.
No scrims before kids bedtimes. Matches maybe, but it's pretty tough if your wife is working evenings.. forget about strat sessions, practices etc.
(csab.xlycer - leader of cal-i BF1942 finalist team - father of 2)
Oh, I know it's not actively enforced.. I used to work at TELUS.
The rates I quoted were for the original TELUS DSL package, realized afterwards that they had probably changed (this was 4 or so years ago that I first received it).
I've definately hit 20 gig or so on a "good" month.
Well, just seeing TELUS in there so figured I'd reply.
If you check your TELUS contract a little closer, you'll see that there are bandwidth limits in place (and indeed always have been). I believe it's 8gig down & 500meg up, but I could be wrong there.
I really really miss laser tripbombs.. there was nothing quite like using the jetpack & setting up 50 tripbombs through the only spot on a map that you could get through with a jetpack.
Forget twitch reflexes.. this was decidely a point where you did *not* want to twitch.
old Osbourne 1 in the closet and Commodore 128D stored at your mother's house she's telling you to take home lest she chuck it, you might find the list archives none the less."
Well.. that'd be as long as we were subscribed to those list's back in the day
On a serious note - I've got a Dec Workstation 2000 sitting alongside my old commodore (still with in the box!) on a shelf in my storage room.
And speaking of "classics" - have to play the fix the parents old p100 tonight
such as:
C/C++ == classical sounding music
perl == heavy metal
php == rap
vb == boy band
and so on..
I tried this app. it didn't work very well at all, I still had mosquitos and pets crowding my workstation.
The worst part about it is the cord for my headphones that I wear when I'm sitting at my desk keeps getting in my way when I'm trying to swat them.
It already kind of does this. At least it has a nag screen on startup (or in the log files). Mine reads like this:
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
It at least tells you the *date* that it was written and warns you about when it will probably be outdated.
That's about the extent of warnings that I like in most software.
Space-time isn't just an abstraction: It's as real as, say, toffee, and, like toffee, can be twisted to form the gravitational "wells" into which masses fall
I gotta get me some of that toffee....
Yes,
Or, they appear to be.
I had this problem consistently when I was running an original Athlon 700.
It has been rock solid since I upgraded to my 1ghz TBird
Well,
I know that I shouldn't feed the trolls.
I've got an Athlon 1ghz, 256 meg RAM, GeForce 2mx, so modest by current standards, and I'm pulling ~90 FPS from RTCW @ 1024x768 fullscreen, in Linux.
In addition, I run HL through wine (DoD mod) - and get ~78 FPS @1024x768 fullscreen, in Linux.
Wolfenstein numbers are the same, if not higher than in Windows, and HL is actually faster
What's the problem here again?
Judging by the page linked to in the article, it looks like the Sims is already working using WineX.
"MandrakeSoft and TransGaming Bring Gaming to the Linux Desktop"
I've installed slack on a 486sx 33 laptop with 8 meg of RAM and a 400ish meg harddrive. Same scenario as you, no cd-rom. I however, had a pcmcia nic, which enabled me to do an nfs install. Worked great.
It runs X in a 640x480 (virtual 800x600) display, and I run the window manager session from my "main" machine (1 Ghz athlon) on the laptop's X server, which allows me to do everything I normally would, at the speed that I normally can, from the couch in the living room.
Remember that one of the points of Ximian Gnome is to make Linux less frightening to our mothers. I don't know about you, but telling my mother that she just needs to "uncompress the tarball, configure, make, and make install" won't really get us very far. OTOH, if I can e-mail her a single command (ie, rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.ximian.com/directory/to/rpm/distro.rpm), then we're doing pretty well.
Especially if you consider how much must be installed / updated to upgade / install Gnome 1.4 along with Ximian/Nautilis. Frankly, it was almost too much work for me, and at the end, simply more bloat then I wanted to deal with.
Price change probably came effective at around the same time that TELUS and BCTEL merged :-)
;-).
I think the TELUS(AB) prices took effect in BC instead of the other way around... which is a good thing for both of us. I was in really early in Alberta too, but I am pretty much next door to the switch. I have an old, big, NetSpeed modem.. I've seen the 3Coms, and there is NO comparison.. mine actually throws off a lot of heat
I live in Calgary, and I have no problem with my DSL at ALL. 2.5mbps down, and 500kbps up, $39.95CAD a month (that's like $4 USD), no contract at all, and to top it all off, a static IP. Most people that I know get cable because they cannot get DSL.
I use TELUS for my service. The only complaint I had about it was the time to get it installed. 4ish weeks from the time I called. However, should be a little better now. They offer a package that lets you "roll your own". Basically provide you with splitters etc that you add to your jacks, your own modem (you end up buying it), and all they have to do is setup the port at the switch. This is pretty much nothing for a wait, though a little more expensive to get going.
It is available up here in Calgary.. ;-)
So I'm thinking must be available in a lot of places
Sorry, just to clarify, do you disagree with the fact that the kit was shipped with binary versions of the drivers, but did not include the source? That I understand, only makes sense. Or do you not like the fact that the kit gives people an easy way to create binary versions of GPL'd drivers?
:-)
Good chance you've answered this somewhere else, but I don't have the time right now to read the rest of this thread
I gathered that the kit shipped with a couple of drivers in binary form, that had been converted, using the kit, from some GPL'd drivers.
The only problem I see here is that SUN has not provided the original source for the drivers.
Really? You didn't know?
That amazes me, I noticed this feature the second time I typed in "slashdot.org" in the address field. Look at that! User persistence!! Same thing when I noticed all of my previous searches on google. Or for that matter the second time I type in my username to login to slashdot. It was a pretty easy thing to see that "something" was different. And I was amazed when I realized that it kept happening after I closed IE and brought it back up. I love this feature.. I'm not turning it off.
Most cracks in a corporation come from inside. To be secure, you must not EVER trust your users..
From what I read, it's not that they are including the 2.4 kernel in their distro. It's that they are making some changes to the current 2.4 kernel, which will result in a faster kernel. They are saying that it will be better for desktop environments, and are hoping that the majority of the stuff they do are merged into the 2.5 kernel. Lastly, the article states that it will not be ready until January 2001, at which point the 2.4 kernel could well be ready.
Noooo..
I had just finished downloading perl 5.6!!!!
:-)
And if you are looking at the letter of the law that is correct. However, the MPAA's letter states that if you are linking to it via a chain of links or directly you are in violation of the law. They don't say ANYTHING about it being for the express purpose of distributing the DeCSS in their letter.
maybe Metallica could do it ;-)