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  1. Re:Now for some "Why Bother" posts on Solaris 8 & 9 Free for x86 Once Again · · Score: 1

    there's also the real kornshell for linux. Not too many people seem to know it, though.

  2. Re:Now for some "Why Bother" posts on Solaris 8 & 9 Free for x86 Once Again · · Score: 1

    i would count csh/tcsh as the same, possibly unfairly. Irix lists csh, ksh, sh, and tcsh, in that order, when adding a new account. I'm curious why tcsh is your first choice on Irix.

  3. Re:DNS on Trouble Getting to SpamCop? · · Score: 1
    What's preventing the restored DNS records from propagating from the root server down to all of the requesters?

    your isp cached the fatal response. you have to wait for the fatal response to expire from their cache before they query the root servers again. Or run your own dns server.

  4. Re:It's about enforcement... on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 1

    sounds like a familiar story. what kind of beer would you need to write a wyse60 emulator by next tuesday?

  5. Re:why i need this on Automated Wireless File Transfers? · · Score: 1
    The alternative seems to be playing with war-driving tools to initiate an action when it sees the right WiFi network...

    why? rsync over ssh (or scp) verifies that you're talking to the right server. who cares about determining if you're on the right wifi network? find out if your server is there, start syncing. If the ssh keys don't match, it just won't go.

  6. like this? on Automated Wireless File Transfers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    #!/usr/local/bin/ksh
    while true
    do
    if [[ -x /CFmountpoint/imagedir ]];then
    server=$(nslookup <serverName>)
    if [[ $server = *<serverIP>* ]];then
    rsync -e ssh -az /CFmountpoint/imagedir/ <server>:imagedir/
    fi
    fi
    sleep 60
    done

    anything else?

  7. Re:Whiner on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 2, Informative
    . Microsoft Outlook 2002 has an inferior interface to Mozilla Messenger.

    No, it doesn't. Also, Messenger doesn't have a calendar.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

    Looks like a calendar to me.

  8. Re:64-bit OS's can run on 32-bit processors on Panther Will Not be a 64-bit OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    solaris. runs in 32bit or 64bit mode on my ultra1.

  9. NetBSD pkgsrc on Automated Package Management for IRIX? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Supports

    Darwin 6.6/powerpc
    Debian Linux/i386
    FreeBSD 3.5/i386
    FreeBSD 5.1/i386
    IRIX 6.5/mips
    IRIX64 6.5/mips
    OpenBSD 3.2/i386
    Slackware 8.1/i386
    Solaris 8/sparc
    Solaris 9/sparc
    Solaris 9/i386

    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/pac ka ges.html.

    Of course, you have to compile the packages using the framework they provide, but where will you find 3000 precompiled Irix binaries anyway?

  10. ffmpeg on Open Source Solutions for Live Video Distribution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple's QT streaming server only streams the video. It creating the stream can be quite expensive. try ffmpeg

  11. 4 Channel brooktree based grabber on Multi-Source Video Capture Cards for Unix? · · Score: 1
    4 Channel brooktree based grabber

    Should work under linux. FPS will be low since it's one chip for 4 inputs. $179 AU.

  12. Re:So... on Traffic Shaping on DSL? · · Score: 1

    He probably meant that the stability argument went out the window when WinME went out the Window (i.e. they stopped selling it)

  13. Re:I used to be a Mac lover.... on Macintosh... The Naked Truth · · Score: 1
    1s/clone\(\.\)\(.*\)(\?\)/clone\3\2\1/

    i.e. meant to say: Which clone? Just FYI.

  14. Re: Credentials - Becoming a Teacher (with links) on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1
    If what you say about getting a credential is true, that is very good news indeed. I looked into it a little bit for Ohio because my girlfriend wants to become a teacher. From what I can see, to get a teaching certification requires a degree from a qualified teacher education program, i.e. a bachelor's degree from one of the certified colleges. Some colleges have a teacher certification program that qualifies you with a bachelor's, but some of the rules were changed recently, so most schools now require a master's before they grant the state certification. True, you can teach for up to 5 years before getting certified, but I don't think it resets when you change school districts (unless you chagne states).

  15. Re:I used to be a Mac lover.... on Macintosh... The Naked Truth · · Score: 2, Informative
    Which clone. Just FYI? OS X does run on some clones, and on those it will work with G3 upgrades. It's just not supported. But then neither is your linux box, I'm assuming.

  16. Re:Science Knowledge, Math Literacy (Numeracy) on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1
    without much knowledge on the subject, I'm going to disagree with you on the thing about letting teachers teach without certification. In most states, or at least in mine and the surrounding 4, to become a teacher you need a degree in *education.* to get certified. It's not something sensical, like you take a proficiency test to show you know the subject. No, you must have a bachelor's degree in Education + be working towards your masters in education.

    One consequence of this is that if I'm, say, Stephen Hawking, and I decide I want to teach high school physics, it's very very difficult to do that without either: 1) goign back to school to get that degree in education, or b) who knows, because the only clear way to become a teacher is to be enrolled in a program of teacher certification.

    Actually, I believe there are some ways around this, but they really don't make it easy.

    Maybe you are correct, and the bill in your state is more about getting cheap teachers than about getting qualified people. But that stupid education degree really bothers me.

    Of course, it's the same sort of thing for doctors. But somehow I think a doctor requires more specialized medical knowledge than a teacher requires knowledge about how to educate. Or more specifically, I would hate to see a doctor without med school, but I've had some of those teachers from education school, and their knowledge of the subject matter was... underwhelming.

  17. Re:Why? on Non x-86/Mac-PPC Workstations? · · Score: 1
    silly me. your initials are A.D., not A.C. Took me about a day to realize i never mentioned the SS5 in my original post.

    Hi.

  18. Re:Why? on Non x-86/Mac-PPC Workstations? · · Score: 1
    I have a SS5 and a SS20. The 20 has dual supersparc II 75's. It's very useable. The SS5 is an 83Mhz, and it's not so useable... but gcc does work on it fairly well, which is more than I can say for HP-UX.


    The sparc 5 and the HP are probably about the same speed. I can't benchmark it now because I took the SS5 down until I can think of something to use it for that I wouldn't rather put on the 20.

  19. Why? on Non x-86/Mac-PPC Workstations? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I have already owned several PPC Macs running MacOS X and many PCs but they still leave me wanting more.

    What leaves you wanting? The OS choices? The processor architectures? Gui's available? Ability to talk to the BIOS via serial console? The coolness factor (hey, look at me, I run an AS/400 in my basement!)...

    Do you just want to be different?

    It's impossible to even begin answering your question without knowing why you're dissatisfied with x86/PPC...

    I'm writing this from a Mac running OS X, which is sitting next to my OS 9 box for photoshop, which is next to my 2 x86 linux boxes for playing quake. My home directory is shared to all via NFS from my x86 freebsd box, which sits on the rack next to an *old* HP-PA box running HP-UX since that's what we run at work, and 2 sparcs running Solaris serving up web pages for no reason other than that Solaris is kewl. Any one of these can do pretty much everything any of the others can do (except for the HP. 80Mhz PA-Risc just don't cut it...)

    Now what, exactly, did you want your workstation to do that it doesn't do now?

  20. Re:No troll, but the WHOLE UI is slow on Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing? · · Score: 1
    Solaris is heavily multi-threaded. Ultra Sparc's are fast. Most of all, CDE and XSun are fast. Really fast. If your OS X machine approaches the speed of your Ultra5, I for one, would be satisfied.

    Solaris may be have a lot of overhead that makes it slow(er) on single processor machines for many things, but the UI is very snappy. Did I mention CDE and XSun are fast?

  21. Re:wouldn't this on ACPI Forced On & Option Disabled in WinXP-Certified Motherboards · · Score: 1
    Not that it matters when you're trying to recover Windows, but you can get a decent CLI for Windows with UWin. Puts korn shell on there. Free license for educational use.


    http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

  22. Re:home networking through power lines... on Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband? · · Score: 1
    The souls of countless American dead cry out for rational vengeance - we're shooting, but are we thinking?


    Very nice sig.

  23. Re:Documented MCSE Stupidity on Don't Forget That Worms Happen Everywhere · · Score: 1
    an MCSE: singular. MCSEs: plural.

    He said forgive him for feeling superior to an MCSE.

    Or perhaps this would make it clearer.

    #include stdio.h
    main(){
    printf("superior to an MCSE");
    }

    Did my butchered C make it any clearer? Or do you need it in VBScript?

  24. Re:Go Dell on Which Laptop To Buy? · · Score: 2

    Yes. It's not. nice try though.

  25. Re:Yes you are right but Cops are people too on Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal · · Score: 2
    Driving on the roads IS NOT RIGHT, it is a PRIVELIGE you pay for...through the nose.

    If you meant this as sarcasm, you aimed it at the wrong state. Massachusetts is land of the toll roads. Yes, it is a privilege you pay for... and pay for... and keep paying. Then they raise the tolls because some morons couldn't figure out to the nearest billion dollars how much it would cost to run a freeway underneath downtown boston.