sparc64 and local sun console install
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FreeBSD 5.2 Released
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I actually just recently tried out FreeBSD (5.1-RELEASE, to be exact), because I wanted to do something with my Sun ultrasparc 5 besides having it sit there and look sexy. OpenBSD was not an option, as I cannot boot the ultra5 from floppy (even says so in the README somewhere), and I was way too lazy to build a boot CD ala NetBSD's instructions, so FreeBSD it was - I wanted to use the box and see something new besides Linux and Win2k (and OS X in my dreams on the 12" PB).
In hindsight, I have to say it's great, it simply *works*. I am running apache2 on it and soon will switch my internal IMAP server (just for home, two users, collecting from various accounts via fetchmail and providing the results to internal IMAP clients) to that box. Maybe nfs/samba file server will be next so I can retire the Mandrake 7.2 installation on my current file server.:/ Of course, the machine is slow, a cd/usr/ports ; make distro clean takes about three days, but who is counting.:)
However, to finally get to the point (yes, I am bored today), installation was a bitch, to say the least, none of the terminal emulations the installer suggests is usable on the sun console. Usenet searches suggested a serial terminal (yeah, didn't have that under the kitchen sink), or a nullmodem to another box. I decided to do a "blind" install, took a couple of attemots, but somehow it worked and the rest is history - did everything through ssh from my desktop linux box.
I skimmed the release notes on 5.2, but could not find any mentioning of the sun console finally being a usuable install option, even though in my (previously mentioned) usenet archive search I came across mentionings of someone wanting to fix this. Does anyone know where it stands?
Voicestream and cingular (sbc, pb) already offer GSM, but on the wrong frequencies (900, instead of 1900Mhz.)
Wrong for what? Most European countries started out with GSM 900, later on other carriers went to GSM 1800. Voicestream (and some Sprint affiliates until about a year ago) offer GSM 1900 - which means you could carry a European SIM here and plug it into a phone (hoping the phone's "Super PIN" is not held secret by the provider) and use it; vice versa, take an American SIM and plug it into a European phone (the Super PIN must be provided to the customer by law, at least in Germany), and it also works. The frequency difference however prevents from just using phones - as in, any phone from outside the US does not work inside and vice versa. Exception: Tri-Band phones (IIRC, Siemens offers one, and so does Motorola) which operate on 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz.
The Phone company has nothing Opt about this...it is a private company and they do what they want.
Granted, I don't know how binding these requests are in the U.S. I know that European countries take such privacy issues more serious.
Votes should not be private. If you want to participate in the gov't there are certain freedoms you must give up. I mean would we vote for candidates that want to conduct congress in secrecy?
Did you have any history classes whatsoever? The most recent example of such a system I can think of is the former German Democratic Republic (aka. Eastern Germany before the Reunification). Sure, they called themselves democratic and yes, they even had elections, they even had booths were you could vote secretly. Fact was, if you *used* one of those booths instead of openly and proudly making your "X" for the SED (the socialist party in power since Walter Ulbricht), you were marked as possible threat and enemy of the state and you could count on being taken in for questioning by the StaSi (similar to the Gestapo in this part of Germany then). Now tell me, once you start banning private (aka. secret) voting here, how long will it take to arrive at that point? Or do you even want to go one more step backward from what democracy is all about and have only worthy people vote? After all, they have more land/money/cattle/beer/hoes, so their vote should count more? All that mankind has been thorugh already.
No one held a gun to my head and forced me to vote either.
this comparison lacks quite a bit; I can decline being listed in the phone book but *still* get phone service. With the American voter registration system (I am an F1 student, I can't vote here anyways), if you *want* the "service" (aka the right to vote), you *have* to give up this privacy. Major difference.
Deutsche Telekom in Germany is pushing DSL like mad right now (I am German, but I live in the U.S. since 1998, so I only get the info second-hand). One problem in Germany is that even after de-monopolizing the telephone market, the "last mile" is still owned by DT, so there are no real competitors to them in most areas, but still, they are offering DSL now for roughly US$35 now.
Another reason why Europe is slower is the fact that they care for quality, meaning you don't see phone, cable or other lines just running on little poles through your street, everything runs underground. Cost and installation time for this is much higher, but on the other side, a little storm does not knock out power, phone, TV etc. all over the neighborhood like in the US, where a new strand of fibre is pulled in a couple of days on existing poles.
Re:Am I the only one that finds this pathetic?
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The PS2 Experience
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don't ask me how it happened, i am usually capable of submitting a simple link.... here is how it *should* look:
you are not alone. after i saw this ebay auction closing for $15k (!) I not only thought about world issues, I made a quick calculation in my head: for $15,000 I can build a nice system that would probably outperform this gaming console by far, *plus* have enough money to hire a poor little programmer who works three days and three nights straight to get a decent emulator for those games...
Re:Am I the only one that finds this pathetic?
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The PS2 Experience
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Read posting #15. It creates a virtual disk on an ext2 partition, bootable via a floppy, so it IS an OS, it just accesses one of the linux partitions to get to its "hard drive", your whole linux installation, as I understand it, untouched when you boot from that floppy. I understand that the boot floppy just mounts this one ext2 partition, that's it.
I decided it after my my post. but actually it is becoming fun. I actually wanted to do something else now, but I couldn't resist when I saw an answer to my topic. I think I will look for the actual message in the Beowulf posting now.
Isn't it refreshing to see the American ethnocentrism expressed so drastically? I don't speak Italian, but at least I could identify the language. Run it through babelfish, it makes a little sense. Other than that, I have decided to avoid/. on April 1st....nothing good can come out of this. Außerdem darfst Du Dich jetzt über Deutsch beschweren, Du Kaschpernas. Versuch das mal zu babelfishen...:)
> That's the whole point. It's not the ISP that's > doing the broadcasting. They're just the medium > being used by the broadcaster (the poster).
good point. To draw the analogy to TV, one would have to sue the sattelite company for establishing the up/downlink of the "offensive" or "defamatory" material. But also in this case the _author_ is sued, not the distributing medium.
-- All typos are purposely placed to demonstrate my foreign origin - way cool.
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I actually just recently tried out FreeBSD (5.1-RELEASE, to be exact), because I wanted to do something with my Sun ultrasparc 5 besides having it sit there and look sexy. OpenBSD was not an option, as I cannot boot the ultra5 from floppy (even says so in the README somewhere), and I was way too lazy to build a boot CD ala NetBSD's instructions, so FreeBSD it was - I wanted to use the box and see something new besides Linux and Win2k (and OS X in my dreams on the 12" PB).
:/ /usr/ports ; make distro clean takes about three days, but who is counting. :)
In hindsight, I have to say it's great, it simply *works*. I am running apache2 on it and soon will switch my internal IMAP server (just for home, two users, collecting from various accounts via fetchmail and providing the results to internal IMAP clients) to that box. Maybe nfs/samba file server will be next so I can retire the Mandrake 7.2 installation on my current file server.
Of course, the machine is slow, a cd
However, to finally get to the point (yes, I am bored today), installation was a bitch, to say the least, none of the terminal emulations the installer suggests is usable on the sun console. Usenet searches suggested a serial terminal (yeah, didn't have that under the kitchen sink), or a nullmodem to another box. I decided to do a "blind" install, took a couple of attemots, but somehow it worked and the rest is history - did everything through ssh from my desktop linux box.
I skimmed the release notes on 5.2, but could not find any mentioning of the sun console finally being a usuable install option, even though in my (previously mentioned) usenet archive search I came across mentionings of someone wanting to fix this. Does anyone know where it stands?
tinyurl.com comes to mind when trying to post these URLs...
Voicestream and cingular (sbc, pb) already offer GSM, but on the wrong frequencies (900, instead of 1900Mhz.)
Wrong for what? Most European countries started out with GSM 900, later on other carriers went to GSM 1800. Voicestream (and some Sprint affiliates until about a year ago) offer GSM 1900 - which means you could carry a European SIM here and plug it into a phone (hoping the phone's "Super PIN" is not held secret by the provider) and use it; vice versa, take an American SIM and plug it into a European phone (the Super PIN must be provided to the customer by law, at least in Germany), and it also works. The frequency difference however prevents from just using phones - as in, any phone from outside the US does not work inside and vice versa. Exception: Tri-Band phones (IIRC, Siemens offers one, and so does Motorola) which operate on 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz.
Madde
The Phone company has nothing Opt about this...it is a private company and they do what they want.
Granted, I don't know how binding these requests are in the U.S. I know that European countries take such privacy issues more serious.
Votes should not be private. If you want to participate in the gov't there are certain freedoms you must give up. I mean would we vote for candidates that want to conduct congress in secrecy?
Did you have any history classes whatsoever? The most recent example of such a system I can think of is the former German Democratic Republic (aka. Eastern Germany before the Reunification). Sure, they called themselves democratic and yes, they even had elections, they even had booths were you could vote secretly. Fact was, if you *used* one of those booths instead of openly and proudly making your "X" for the SED (the socialist party in power since Walter Ulbricht), you were marked as possible threat and enemy of the state and you could count on being taken in for questioning by the StaSi (similar to the Gestapo in this part of Germany then). Now tell me, once you start banning private (aka. secret) voting here, how long will it take to arrive at that point? Or do you even want to go one more step backward from what democracy is all about and have only worthy people vote? After all, they have more land/money/cattle/beer/hoes, so their vote should count more? All that mankind has been thorugh already.
No one held a gun to my head and forced me to vote either.
this comparison lacks quite a bit; I can decline being listed in the phone book but *still* get phone service. With the American voter registration system (I am an F1 student, I can't vote here anyways), if you *want* the "service" (aka the right to vote), you *have* to give up this privacy. Major difference.
Difference is, you can opt out of being listed in the phone book.
Deutsche Telekom in Germany is pushing DSL like mad right now (I am German, but I live in the U.S. since 1998, so I only get the info second-hand). One problem in Germany is that even after de-monopolizing the telephone market, the "last mile" is still owned by DT, so there are no real competitors to them in most areas, but still, they are offering DSL now for roughly US$35 now.
Another reason why Europe is slower is the fact that they care for quality, meaning you don't see phone, cable or other lines just running on little poles through your street, everything runs underground. Cost and installation time for this is much higher, but on the other side, a little storm does not knock out power, phone, TV etc. all over the neighborhood like in the US, where a new strand of fibre is pulled in a couple of days on existing poles.
don't ask me how it happened, i am usually capable of submitting a simple link.... here is how it *should* look:
you are not alone. after i saw this ebay auction closing for $15k (!) I not only thought about world issues, I made a quick calculation in my head: for $15,000 I can build a nice system that would probably outperform this gaming console by far, *plus* have enough money to hire a poor little programmer who works three days and three nights straight to get a decent emulator for those games...
you are not alone. after i saw this/a& gt; ebay auction closing for $15k (!) I not only thought about world issues, I made a quick calculation in my head: for $15,000 I can build a nice system that would probably outperform this gaming console by far, *plus* have enough money to hire a poor little programmer who works three days and three nights straight to get a decent emulator for those games...
Read posting #15. It creates a virtual disk on an ext2 partition, bootable via a floppy, so it IS an OS, it just accesses one of the linux partitions to get to its "hard drive", your whole linux installation, as I understand it, untouched when you boot from that floppy. I understand that the boot floppy just mounts this one ext2 partition, that's it.
Madde
I decided it after my my post. but actually it is becoming fun. I actually wanted to do something else now, but I couldn't resist when I saw an answer to my topic. I think I will look for the actual message in the Beowulf posting now.
Ate mais.
Madde
Isn't it refreshing to see the American ethnocentrism expressed so drastically? I don't speak Italian, but at least I could identify the language. Run it through babelfish, it makes a little sense. /. on April 1st....nothing good can come out of this.
Other than that, I have decided to avoid
Außerdem darfst Du Dich jetzt über Deutsch beschweren, Du Kaschpernas. Versuch das mal zu babelfishen...:)
Madde
> That's the whole point. It's not the ISP that's
> doing the broadcasting. They're just the medium
> being used by the broadcaster (the poster).
good point. To draw the analogy to TV, one would have to sue the sattelite company for establishing the up/downlink of the "offensive" or "defamatory" material. But also in this case the _author_ is sued, not the distributing medium.
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All typos are purposely placed to demonstrate my foreign origin - way cool.