if I still had mod points, this'd be up...pity they expired yesterday. Really, the MS bootloader thing is one of the most insidious parts of their monopolistic tactics...but I digress. I'd love to run OS X on Intel, but that's what I'm getting an old salvaged mac for.:)
One of my friends installed OS X on his iPod and carries his personal system around with him - he can just boot off it on any of the macs in any of the labs and have his environment almost anywhere on campus - from a pocket sized device. Kind of nice.
But what happens when people shut their computers off, as users are wont to do, and user B wants to access his backups on user A's hard drive? Are you using some kind of equivalent to WoL for 802.11? (Does such a thing even exist?)
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cat5e is definitely gigabit, according to my handy Black Box catalog.
cat6 hasn't been ratified yet, but will allow gigabit and beyond.
Coax (10Base2) Ethernet is bus topology, not ring topology.
Modern Ethernet is actually 'star bus' topology - logical bus, physical star.
Token Ring is logical ring, physical star topology.
Shadowrun lifted more than that from Neuromancer, heh...
to me, it feels like Gibson's Sprawl world with magic thrown in. everything just feels like it came out of his books...except for the dragon that just went flying overhead.:)
...that make me glad I switched to FreeBSD a while ago.
Linux does have a lot of things I miss - DRI/DRM still isn't working right, X and GTK in particular seem a bit slower - but it's absolutely rock solid. I've only managed to crash it once, and that was my own fault - loaded a KLD from 4.4-RELEASE into a 4.4-STABLE kernel. Nice panic there.
The ports system also is really nice; it could do dependencies a bit better, but it's generally fairly smart about it. And having the entire system source on dosk and available is nice.
I like how the system is in CVS - bugs get patched and fixes checked in fast, and all one has to do is a 'make update' in/usr/src and do some rebuilding to update. No waiting for a release.
I couldn't take more than the first few chapters.
Ugh. So much worse than his other books...
Pity, it might have been interesting if implemented properly...
My laptop with a GF2Go is actually a *better* gaming rig than my desktop - the HD is actually faster, because DMA is broken on the desktop due to a defective mobo.
Mind you, it's only temporary, but said laptop is a pretty damn good gaming rig.
Oh, absolutely...but I love it. Huge screen, nice gfx card, and so on.
The battery is significantly smaller than the battery from my old Quantex N30W (Dell sold it as the Inspiron 5000), and seems to last longer, just making that point.
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It was Slapstick, I think.
if I still had mod points, this'd be up...pity they expired yesterday. :)
Really, the MS bootloader thing is one of the most insidious parts of their monopolistic tactics...but I digress.
I'd love to run OS X on Intel, but that's what I'm getting an old salvaged mac for.
Except their axlotl tanks weren't exactly artificial...
Carlin.
It's even funnier in Spanish.
Every article I've seen on upgrading a Cube to dual G4s recommends installing a fan in the mount that's already there for one.
One of my friends installed OS X on his iPod and carries his personal system around with him - he can just boot off it on any of the macs in any of the labs and have his environment almost anywhere on campus - from a pocket sized device. Kind of nice.
Absolutely...it read like the writer was getting blown by an Apple intern or something. ;)
But what happens when people shut their computers off, as users are wont to do, and user B wants to access his backups on user A's hard drive? Are you using some kind of equivalent to WoL for 802.11? (Does such a thing even exist?)
cat5e is definitely gigabit, according to my handy Black Box catalog.
cat6 hasn't been ratified yet, but will allow gigabit and beyond.
The collection was called Vacuum Diagrams, the author was Stephen Baxter, and I believe the story was entitled 'The Goedel Sunflower'.
There is a model of Sun Ethernet card called the BigMac.
There's also a better version called the HappyMeal.
Coax (10Base2) Ethernet is bus topology, not ring topology.
Modern Ethernet is actually 'star bus' topology - logical bus, physical star.
Token Ring is logical ring, physical star topology.
Shadowrun lifted more than that from Neuromancer, heh... :)
to me, it feels like Gibson's Sprawl world with magic thrown in. everything just feels like it came out of his books...except for the dragon that just went flying overhead.
In the short story, it was just some implanted chips in his amygdalae. He couldn't access 'em at all directly.
...that make me glad I switched to FreeBSD a while ago. /usr/src and do some rebuilding to update. No waiting for a release.
Linux does have a lot of things I miss - DRI/DRM still isn't working right, X and GTK in particular seem a bit slower - but it's absolutely rock solid. I've only managed to crash it once, and that was my own fault - loaded a KLD from 4.4-RELEASE into a 4.4-STABLE kernel. Nice panic there.
The ports system also is really nice; it could do dependencies a bit better, but it's generally fairly smart about it. And having the entire system source on dosk and available is nice.
I like how the system is in CVS - bugs get patched and fixes checked in fast, and all one has to do is a 'make update' in
Eh, a JDK exists for FreeBSD, and if that isn't good enough, the Linux one'll run just fine. There's even a port for it.
I couldn't take more than the first few chapters.
Ugh. So much worse than his other books...
Pity, it might have been interesting if implemented properly...
My laptop with a GF2Go is actually a *better* gaming rig than my desktop - the HD is actually faster, because DMA is broken on the desktop due to a defective mobo.
Mind you, it's only temporary, but said laptop is a pretty damn good gaming rig.
Yeah, meeting Shodan for the first time is creepy...
Alien Doom gave me nightmares when I was younger.
Yep, that's where my .sig came from...
Even better, start->run->cmd.
Better shell with tabcomp and the like.
I can't connect, and I'm using Galeon.
Oh, absolutely...but I love it. Huge screen, nice gfx card, and so on.
The battery is significantly smaller than the battery from my old Quantex N30W (Dell sold it as the Inspiron 5000), and seems to last longer, just making that point.