Is there a doctor out there (or anyone, for that matter) who can describe the symptoms of CTS? My left wrist has been hurting for a while, but my doc says it's just tendonitis...What are the differences?
I just got Mediaone Roadrunner installed in a boston suburb, and the performance/reliability has been spectacular so far. My only complaint is the following conversation I had with a salesperson:
Him: Hello, sir. Will you be connecting mediaone from a windows machine or a mac? Me: Actually, I was planning on setting up a Linux server and using IP masquerading. Him: (pause). Umm, sir...we don't support anything except Windows and Macintosh. Me: I know. I'm going to set it up myself. Him: Would you please hold? Me: sure. Him (4 minutes later): Sir, we only support Macintosh, Windows 95, 98, and NT 4-point-O. Me: I understand that. I won't be needing support. I'll do the software installation myself. I'll just need you to wire it up to the modem. Him: Our technician needs to install the software on a computer while he's there, though. Me: Why? Him: Because that's mediaone policy. Me: Why? Him: Sir, please hold again. Me: ok. Him (3 minutes this time): Sir, we need to send a technician out there to wire the system, and provision your computer. Me: What do you mean "provision the computer"? Him: The technician needs to do that. Me: you just told me that...what does it mean? Him: I don't know. I'm not a technician. Me (with HEAVY sarcasm): Really? You don't say? Ok...answer me this question: Why does a technician need to come out, and do an installation that I'm going to wipe out as soon as he leaves? Him: because he needs to get the emac address. Me: What's that? Him: The address of your computer. Me: Then it's a hardware thing. You can get it in Linux. Him: Our technicians don't support Linux. Me: I know that. I'm going to do the networking. Him:Sir, the installation, with the fiber optics, is alot more involved than you think. Me (giving up): Fine. The machine will be windows 98. Him: How much RAM do you have? Me: 64 megs. Him: Ok, and what's the processor speed? Me (thinking i'll just put windows on the machine that will eventually be the Linux server): 90 Him (another pause): uhhh...excuse me? It needs to be a pentium system. Me: I know that. It's a pentium 90. Him: We need at least 166 Mhz. Me: No you don't. I read the system requirements, and it says it requires a pentium, and a 166 is recommended. Him: Sir, we can't send anyone out if you have less than a 166. Me: Fine. It will be an AMD K6-2 400. Him: It needs to be a pentium, sir. Me: Don't worry about it, it's the same thing. Him: Is it a pentium-class processor, sir? Me: yes Him: and do you have an ethernet card, sir? Me: seeing as i am networking the systems myself once the technician leaves, yes I have the cards. Him: thank you very much sir. We'll have someone there to do the survey on Wednesday.
When the guy came to install it, I started the same conversation with him. His response was basically "Do whatever you want, once I'm gone." I said "ok", and got my linux box going. If there are people out there who need help with Roadrunner for Linux, I'd recommend http://www.vortech.net/rrlinux.
I want to see Linus and Alan get together and write an AI for Linux, which will do battle with a Microsoft-written AI for Windows. Put them on their own private subnet, and see which AI cracks the other one first (and cracking the other's monitor with a robotic hammer doesn't count)
Has anyone noticed that the distro appears to include kernel 2.2.13? I'm downloading it now, and there's a file called "kernel-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm". AFAIK, 2.2.12 is the latest. Is mandrake doing custom kernels, did they screw up their names, or is it something entirely differnet? Note that I haven't installed it yet, so I don't know what the kernel actually is...
I was looking at the ftp mirrors today, because I wanted to download 6.0. I could only find 6.1, and, seeing as I thought it was still in beta, I didn't want to download it. This clears everything up...
What's the deal with Star Office being pre-installed on computers? Can dell build and sell a system with Star Office instead of MS office, and not pay any royalties, or is there a license fee of some sort that goes to Sun? If computer manufacturers could preinstall StarOffice without paying licensing fees, that would be a great boost to the program.
First of all, Hotmail is not run on NT, and does not use ASP. It is run on FreeBSD/apache (see netcraft for details). They tried to migrated it to NT when they bought it, but NT couldn't handle it, so they switched back. Second of all...well, there is no second of all, but I wanted to make sure everyone realized this is NOT an NT problem.
Just for the record, I never said windows was perfect, and i never said they shouldn't advertise. This is the bull-doody that I was referring to when I made my original comment...
thats a really retarded viewpoint, even for a linux bigot.
This is what I was talking about...I said something that wasn't even negative, and I get called retarded....Wasn't there an article on/. a while ago about reading the advocacy how-to?
NOTE: this is NOT flamebait. It's an honest-to-goodness question
First let me say that I think it's great that Linux is getting this good exposure. My question is this: Why does everyone say it's a great article when somebody writes about NT's downtime, and how Linux is better than NT. However, if someone writes something positive about NT (or BSD, or anything that's NOT Linux), it's instantly labelled as "FUD" or "flamebait". I think Linux is great and all, but it's not perfect (yet), we need to be fair in advocating it.
I've noticed alot of fear on this discussion about whether or not having your own domain will put you into your own "i'm a demographic" listing. It won't. Trust me. The way they determine who's coming from where is by the REMOTE_HOST environmental variable. If it's something like dkafdaf.foo.bar.intel.com, then the person came from intel. Likewise for microsoft, amd, and everything else. If you have www.mydomain.com, odds are that it's either a virtual host, or a colocated server somewhere. Unless you're connecting through your colocated server, then you won't have a problem.
Note that I'm not trying to say that amazon isn't wrong for doing this. I'm simply saying don't worry about your wife finding out that you bought that kama sutra book 2 years ago, and never used it with *her*.
#9 for the army - Mastering Microsoft Outlook 98 #2 for the navy - PC's for dummies #3 for air force - Microsoft Windows Nt Workstation Resource Kit #1 for the marines - CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide
Note that the Outlook book was in all four lists...
Is it just me, or does it seem like this doesn't quite qualify as "news for nerds"? I think Katz is a good writer, but it seems like his submissions belong at Salon, or somewhere else. Look at it this way: If this article were posted on Salon, and I submitted it, would it get posted on/.? I tend to think not... I realize I could filter out all the John Katz articles, but then I'd miss the occasional one that he writes that actually is news for nerds. Just my.5/25 of $1.00...
Apple keeps touting the G3 as a "Pentium Toaster", saying it beats the pants off of the PIII at the same clock speed. Now AMD seems to be saying that they can do the same. Are there any benchmarks out there doing G3 vs. K7^H^HAthlon? Methinks that could get interesting....
Did anyone who was lucky enough to get in before 'the unfortunate incident' (slashdotted) took place mirror this thing? Side note: We gotta write to NATO and tell them how to take down the computer infastructure over in Yugoslavia...just have 'em linked on/.....
Slashdot Mirror
Is there a doctor out there (or anyone, for that matter) who can describe the symptoms of CTS? My left wrist has been hurting for a while, but my doc says it's just tendonitis...What are the differences?
I'll give 50 to 1 odds that someone makes a submission to slashdot on Jan. 1, 2000, with the title "First Article! I'm l33t!!" :)
I just got Mediaone Roadrunner installed in a boston suburb, and the performance/reliability has been spectacular so far. My only complaint is the following conversation I had with a salesperson:
Him: Hello, sir. Will you be connecting mediaone from a windows machine
or a mac?
Me: Actually, I was planning on setting up a Linux server and using IP
masquerading.
Him: (pause). Umm, sir...we don't support anything except Windows and
Macintosh.
Me: I know. I'm going to set it up myself.
Him: Would you please hold?
Me: sure.
Him (4 minutes later): Sir, we only support Macintosh, Windows 95, 98, and
NT 4-point-O.
Me: I understand that. I won't be needing support. I'll do the software
installation myself. I'll just need you to wire it up to the modem.
Him: Our technician needs to install the software on a computer while he's
there, though.
Me: Why?
Him: Because that's mediaone policy.
Me: Why?
Him: Sir, please hold again.
Me: ok.
Him (3 minutes this time): Sir, we need to send a technician out there to
wire the system, and provision your computer.
Me: What do you mean "provision the computer"?
Him: The technician needs to do that.
Me: you just told me that...what does it mean?
Him: I don't know. I'm not a technician.
Me (with HEAVY sarcasm): Really? You don't say? Ok...answer me this
question: Why does a technician need to come out, and do an installation
that I'm going to wipe out as soon as he leaves?
Him: because he needs to get the emac address.
Me: What's that?
Him: The address of your computer.
Me: Then it's a hardware thing. You can get it in Linux.
Him: Our technicians don't support Linux.
Me: I know that. I'm going to do the networking.
Him:Sir, the installation, with the fiber optics, is alot more involved
than you think.
Me (giving up): Fine. The machine will be windows 98.
Him: How much RAM do you have?
Me: 64 megs.
Him: Ok, and what's the processor speed?
Me (thinking i'll just put windows on the machine that will eventually be
the Linux server): 90
Him (another pause): uhhh...excuse me? It needs to be a pentium system.
Me: I know that. It's a pentium 90.
Him: We need at least 166 Mhz.
Me: No you don't. I read the system requirements, and it says it
requires a pentium, and a 166 is recommended.
Him: Sir, we can't send anyone out if you have less than a 166.
Me: Fine. It will be an AMD K6-2 400.
Him: It needs to be a pentium, sir.
Me: Don't worry about it, it's the same thing.
Him: Is it a pentium-class processor, sir?
Me: yes
Him: and do you have an ethernet card, sir?
Me: seeing as i am networking the systems myself once the technician
leaves, yes I have the cards.
Him: thank you very much sir. We'll have someone there to do the survey
on Wednesday.
When the guy came to install it, I started the same conversation with him. His response was basically "Do whatever you want, once I'm gone." I said "ok", and got my linux box going. If there are people out there who need help with Roadrunner for Linux, I'd recommend http://www.vortech.net/rrlinux.
I want to see Linus and Alan get together and write an AI for Linux, which will do battle with a Microsoft-written AI for Windows. Put them on their own private subnet, and see which AI cracks the other one first (and cracking the other's monitor with a robotic hammer doesn't count)
Has anyone noticed that the distro appears to include kernel 2.2.13? I'm downloading it now, and there's a file called "kernel-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm". AFAIK, 2.2.12 is the latest. Is mandrake doing custom kernels, did they screw up their names, or is it something entirely differnet? Note that I haven't installed it yet, so I don't know what the kernel actually is...
I was looking at the ftp mirrors today, because I wanted to download 6.0. I could only find 6.1, and, seeing as I thought it was still in beta, I didn't want to download it. This clears everything up...
Anybody got a list of new features?
What's the deal with Star Office being pre-installed on computers? Can dell build and sell a system with Star Office instead of MS office, and not pay any royalties, or is there a license fee of some sort that goes to Sun? If computer manufacturers could preinstall StarOffice without paying licensing fees, that would be a great boost to the program.
damnit...i did it too...
is it just me, or did someone forget to close his tag when he posted that story?
sheesh...first bad grammar, now bad html!!
Note: (comment==joke && comment !=flamebait)
First of all, Hotmail is not run on NT, and does not use ASP. It is run on FreeBSD/apache (see netcraft for details). They tried to migrated it to NT when they bought it, but NT couldn't handle it, so they switched back.
Second of all...well, there is no second of all, but I wanted to make sure everyone realized this is NOT an NT problem.
Just for the record, I never said windows was perfect, and i never said they shouldn't advertise. This is the bull-doody that I was referring to when I made my original comment...
thats a really retarded viewpoint, even for a linux bigot.
/. a while ago about reading the advocacy how-to?
This is what I was talking about...I said something that wasn't even negative, and I get called retarded....Wasn't there an article on
NOTE: this is NOT flamebait. It's an honest-to-goodness question
First let me say that I think it's great that Linux is getting this good exposure. My question is this: Why does everyone say it's a great article when somebody writes about NT's downtime, and how Linux is better than NT. However, if someone writes something positive about NT (or BSD, or anything that's NOT Linux), it's instantly labelled as "FUD" or "flamebait".
I think Linux is great and all, but it's not perfect (yet), we need to be fair in advocating it.
I've noticed alot of fear on this discussion about whether or not having your own domain will put you into your own "i'm a demographic" listing. It won't. Trust me. The way they determine who's coming from where is by the REMOTE_HOST environmental variable. If it's something like dkafdaf.foo.bar.intel.com, then the person came from intel. Likewise for microsoft, amd, and everything else. If you have www.mydomain.com, odds are that it's either a virtual host, or a colocated server somewhere. Unless you're connecting through your colocated server, then you won't have a problem.
Note that I'm not trying to say that amazon isn't wrong for doing this. I'm simply saying don't worry about your wife finding out that you bought that kama sutra book 2 years ago, and never used it with *her*.
#9 for the army - Mastering Microsoft Outlook 98
#2 for the navy - PC's for dummies
#3 for air force - Microsoft Windows Nt Workstation Resource Kit
#1 for the marines - CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide
Note that the Outlook book was in all four lists...
Is it just me, or does it seem like this doesn't quite qualify as "news for nerds"? I think Katz is a good writer, but it seems like his submissions belong at Salon, or somewhere else. Look at it this way: If this article were posted on Salon, and I submitted it, would it get posted on /.? I tend to think not... I realize I could filter out all the John Katz articles, but then I'd miss the occasional one that he writes that actually is news for nerds. Just my .5/25 of $1.00 ...
here i was thinking that slashdot got slashdotted...silly me
Apple keeps touting the G3 as a "Pentium Toaster", saying it beats the pants off of the PIII at the same clock speed. Now AMD seems to be saying that they can do the same. Are there any benchmarks out there doing G3 vs. K7^H^HAthlon? Methinks that could get interesting....
here's a description about echelon: http://capo.org/opeds/pp0615.htm
I tried anonymizer, but that's blocked too....looks like I'm gonna have to wait until I get home to find out what all the fuss is about :)
anybody got a mirror for this? I hate being behind proxies...
hmmm....the article says $299 a "seat"...If I stand while I code, will they GPL it? :)
hmm...does this mean that some of those poor, defenseless servers are finally going to have a /. defense mechanism?
Did anyone who was lucky enough to get in before 'the unfortunate incident' (slashdotted) took place mirror this thing? Side note: We gotta write to NATO and tell them how to take down the computer infastructure over in Yugoslavia...just have 'em linked on /. ....
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