Someone should make "Linux Sneakers" like the American Eagle that have the website/logo printed on the sole of the shoe. THe linux sneakers could not only have the penguin on the bottom..but maybe a URL or a few lines of code....then all the geeks could walk across the beaches or something...
Oh...that wouldn't work! It would require them to go outside..oh well..
WHAT? They're stamping brand-names on our soles??? Is nothing sacred?
lol..i didn't mean that..i meant my post personally...which is an offtopic rant that should definitely be modded down...urs...yes...i would leave that go...but people who responded....i dunno...
I think that probably the blame would fall on whoever changed the code....I certainly can't see the distributer (ex. RedHat) being charged with the problem, because they supplied a product that works. I think that once changes are made to the software, it is out of the software maker's hands.
I also don't think that opensource programs can really be held responsible for any programs that don't work, after all, you could have checked the code for bugs...so it would not necessarily be their fault.
I remember seeing this sort of thing in Popular Mechanics a while ago (or some mag), but it was using gasoline powered shoes. I found some interesting things on them however, they are gasoline powered shoes that allow you to get about 4 meters to the stride and allow people to run about 40km/hour (or so the article says) It comes from a russian design.
Daily radar has an article about them here and another article about the gaspowered shoes is available here I want a pair of these!
I have used a pen based system at my school to do drafting and some drawing, and I found it quit a pain. I was able to use the pen for normal mouse type movements, but the thing got to really be a pain. It eventually started to hurt my wrist, because it wasn't quite the right size and i had to move my fingers around strangely to grip it. So...i don't really like the pens...
I also use a glidepad occasionally on my father's laptop. I hated it at first, but then I got used to it and I can use that more effectively than a mouse (as long as i avoid finger drag). If you go the glidepad route..make sure you get one that you can click by tapping.:)
I think that idea is really neat. I am not the best gamer around, but I really enjoy watching other people play quake and other games...but..i live in the boonies and i don't have many friends that game....so this would be a neat way for me to watch these games. I think this idea is pretty cool.
I always point my webcam out the window before i head for school, so i can stop by the library and see if anyone is messing around...but ussually i use it for more practical purposes...like checking on the weather at my house from school.:) The webcame is on the page on my sig.
i like the fact that there is no closing bracket to the italix...it makes the page look a little different. but..enuff complaining. oh...and so this is ontopic....BSD is cool except i don't like writing my own drivers.
makes you wonder if BSD competition is going to begin??? Uhhhh....I think it has already started...I know a some hardcore FreeBSD users that would string up the blasphemers who use NetBSD or OpenBSD. I think the competition has already begun...it might get a little more edgy though.:)
the blue on black you mean? or is it the links? i am changing the colors of links soon, because they are unreadable...but i like the blue and black...i think i might have to change the blue to a little lighter blue though....fill out a comments form from on the page.
This also reminds me of a book (and website) a friend of mine made about adventures, romance and higher math. The website is at ovilstar.net and it has some really interesting music and pictures on the site...the book is pretty interesting, and so are the essays...it is a book about an adventurer (professer ovilstar) and of course math and romance...it all mixes together really well....right?
But really...check out ovilstar.net and buy the book (only 4.95 and it promotes the selling of books online)
this all reminds me of my tenth grade geometry teacher when he would take us on visits to flatland and planeland on the chalkboard. He would also often ask us to play touchy-feely with the triangles! Argh! The terrible memories are coming back...lets leave geometry IN THE TEXTBOOKS! Argh..just when i thought i had blocked those memories from my brain!
I don't want to go into the ethnic diversity and the drug problems in our school...but i do know for a fact..that when i am using the computer in the library and in our labs....half of the kids are TRYING TO LOOK UP PORN!!! they ask me how to do it because they know i know ways around the blocking (proxy at house) but these kids are CONSTANTLY trying to look up porn and other things at school! if there was no censorware...i know for a fact that these kids would be looking up porn the whole time. Half of these kids don't care about getting in trouble and just want to get their porn. the bad behavior and such rises exponentially with school population. your school of 500 probably has less than 1/50 of the problems this school has. wahs is a very ethnically diverse school in a high-crime city. We have loads of druggies from philly and lots of people that only go to school because they are forced. Censorware saves a LOT of time and problems in our school. I admit...it is not perfect and sometimes it doesn't work, but it takes care of the majority or problems.
The risk of looking it up in a building crawling with authority figures just isnt worth it no..this is not true...probably only a quarter of the kids in my school even have internet access at home...and they don't care about getting caught by our school's authority figures because they are used to being caught by govt authority figures for drugs and violent crimes.
I admit...censorware is NOT for all schools...and should not be enforced for all schools, but it is not a bad thing in and of itself....it does its job at my school....and i think if it was taken off, the school board would soon axe any internet access.
I think that federally mandated censor ware is innappropriate, however, I think that censorware in schools in not necessarily a bad thing altogether. I go to a school with about 2500 students, and i guaruntee, if we didn't have censorware, a large portion of the students would be spending the majority of their "research" time on playboy.com and porn and all sorts of things that are not at all related to what they are supposed to be doing.
Not having censorware would be nice, for those of us who follow the rules. However, I am betting that nearly half of the people in my school would NOT follow the rules if there was not "bess" in place. It would be incredibly difficult to control, any schoolteacher knows that if the ENTIRE class is disruptive, it is nearly impossible to keep control of it. There are enough people that cause trouble in my school to make the internet connection at school more of a burden than a resource...and our school board would gladly drop the axe on something that allows students access to porn and such. The censroware isn't perfect, and often annoying, but it is effective and saves a lot of time for teachers.
there is a certain amount of irony that got added when it got modded down to -1 redundant though...i have enough karma...it won't hurt...it will just give those that browse at -1 a good laugh.:) However...i thought it was worth a 3 or 4...but then again..i am biased.:)
that is pretty interesting...i didn't realize bigmailbox did that...I always thought it was a pretty neat service, to set up your own free webmail at your domain with bigmailbox...but I think i will postpone my use of bigmailbox until they change their rules...i don't like the idea of collecting info from kids...especially info that shows who these kids are. However, I wonder how many kids actually state that they are under thirteen and don't have their parents consent? I know when I was under thirteen...i would always check the box 16 or older or something that didn't signify my age...of course...i also ussually put down my address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington D.C......
At one time, there was this really neat concept built into the internet that said there's all this redundancy like a spider web. If one segment or router would go down the internet would re-route traffic around the faulty segment and keep on chuggin'. So, as I sit here today and can't get to a whole bunch of places on the net, I'm wondering what gives? Where's all the redundancy? I'm not referring to mirrors or co-location. It almost seems like a script-kiddie with some real ambition could bring the world to it's knees. What really happens when routers go down, and what goes on when something like a Cable and Wireless pipe or someone else's OC-something backbone goes down?" Redundancies are nice, but not infinite. Planned DoS attacks can take out dozens or hundreds of routers at once, and as the number of downed nodes increases, the process of rerouting becomes increasingly difficult. What are some of the largest problems with the current systems in use today, and are there ways to improve them?
yeah..i guess you are right...however, it isn't a heating duct...it is actually just a ventilation shaft between the basement and upstairs (to my computer) So, there wouldn't be a problem. I do know that it is fairly cheap and easy to get fire retardent coatings for wires that need to run through heat ducts and such...they are not all that expensive..you can get them at hardware stores, and most building codes accept them (i think) I have seen aerosols and other stuff to coat wires with.
another thing...rather than spending all sorts of money on special wiring or even the wireless stuff, x10.com has some great cheap ways to make all sorts of household appliances and lights wireless..it even has an interface for your computer, so you can turn the toast on and off from europe if you needed to.:)
it also works as a great annoyance to someone who is upstairs reading and didn't realize you installed a bunch of x10 modules.
to add to my previous post....my friend matt has pictures of our in-house network on his webpage (with the picture of our jury-rigged computer rack) at matthoppes.org
We have a small in house network in my house, which all goes through a small hub. It is all using cat 5..and it works really well. A tip to anyone interested...a set of metal shelves makes a GREAT cheap computer rack.:) Also...sending cable through ductwork saves a lot of time and drilling.
wouldn't it make more sense to make a program that automatically does a low-level format through a phonecall or something? It could be made into the firmware...so it couldn't be deleted by whoever stole/borrowed/found the computer...i think that would be a little better and safer than an explosive computer....
I think the techies just want an excuse to play with fire though...
I really hope they slash the price by 50%, however, I don't think this will increase the likelihood of me buying a P4...I do hope that this sets a precedent for the other brands to lower their prices to stay competititive with intel...if this happens, and a P4 system costs less than 1k...I can certainly see an AMD or celeron and other lesser intel processor systems being sold for under 500$. That would be nice.
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Someone should make "Linux Sneakers" like the American Eagle that have the website/logo printed on the sole of the shoe. THe linux sneakers could not only have the penguin on the bottom..but maybe a URL or a few lines of code....then all the geeks could walk across the beaches or something...
Oh...that wouldn't work! It would require them to go outside..oh well..
WHAT? They're stamping brand-names on our soles??? Is nothing sacred?
I thought that Moore's law meant that anything that could go wrong would go wrong...
Oh wait...that's Murphy's Law My bad...
lol..i didn't mean that..i meant my post personally...which is an offtopic rant that should definitely be modded down...urs...yes...i would leave that go...but people who responded....i dunno...
I think that probably the blame would fall on whoever changed the code....I certainly can't see the distributer (ex. RedHat) being charged with the problem, because they supplied a product that works. I think that once changes are made to the software, it is out of the software maker's hands.
I also don't think that opensource programs can really be held responsible for any programs that don't work, after all, you could have checked the code for bugs...so it would not necessarily be their fault.
I remember seeing this sort of thing in Popular Mechanics a while ago (or some mag), but it was using gasoline powered shoes. I found some interesting things on them however, they are gasoline powered shoes that allow you to get about 4 meters to the stride and allow people to run about 40km/hour (or so the article says) It comes from a russian design.
Daily radar has an article about them here and another article about the gaspowered shoes is available here I want a pair of these!
I have used a pen based system at my school to do drafting and some drawing, and I found it quit a pain. I was able to use the pen for normal mouse type movements, but the thing got to really be a pain. It eventually started to hurt my wrist, because it wasn't quite the right size and i had to move my fingers around strangely to grip it. So...i don't really like the pens...
:)
I also use a glidepad occasionally on my father's laptop. I hated it at first, but then I got used to it and I can use that more effectively than a mouse (as long as i avoid finger drag). If you go the glidepad route..make sure you get one that you can click by tapping.
I think that idea is really neat. I am not the best gamer around, but I really enjoy watching other people play quake and other games...but..i live in the boonies and i don't have many friends that game....so this would be a neat way for me to watch these games. I think this idea is pretty cool.
I always point my webcam out the window before i head for school, so i can stop by the library and see if anyone is messing around...but ussually i use it for more practical purposes...like checking on the weather at my house from school. :) The webcame is on the page on my sig.
i like the fact that there is no closing bracket to the italix...it makes the page look a little different. but..enuff complaining. oh...and so this is ontopic....BSD is cool except i don't like writing my own drivers.
makes you wonder if BSD competition is going to begin??? Uhhhh....I think it has already started...I know a some hardcore FreeBSD users that would string up the blasphemers who use NetBSD or OpenBSD. I think the competition has already begun...it might get a little more edgy though. :)
Would you really want the award for "geekiest demo?" I dunno if I would....
the blue on black you mean? or is it the links? i am changing the colors of links soon, because they are unreadable...but i like the blue and black...i think i might have to change the blue to a little lighter blue though....fill out a comments form from on the page.
do the shirts or the poetry have to incorporate the letters P and H in any way?
This also reminds me of a book (and website) a friend of mine made about adventures, romance and higher math. The website is at ovilstar.net and it has some really interesting music and pictures on the site...the book is pretty interesting, and so are the essays...it is a book about an adventurer (professer ovilstar) and of course math and romance...it all mixes together really well....right?
But really...check out ovilstar.net and buy the book (only 4.95 and it promotes the selling of books online)
this all reminds me of my tenth grade geometry teacher when he would take us on visits to flatland and planeland on the chalkboard. He would also often ask us to play touchy-feely with the triangles! Argh! The terrible memories are coming back...lets leave geometry IN THE TEXTBOOKS! Argh..just when i thought i had blocked those memories from my brain!
I don't want to go into the ethnic diversity and the drug problems in our school...but i do know for a fact..that when i am using the computer in the library and in our labs....half of the kids are TRYING TO LOOK UP PORN!!! they ask me how to do it because they know i know ways around the blocking (proxy at house) but these kids are CONSTANTLY trying to look up porn and other things at school! if there was no censorware...i know for a fact that these kids would be looking up porn the whole time. Half of these kids don't care about getting in trouble and just want to get their porn. the bad behavior and such rises exponentially with school population. your school of 500 probably has less than 1/50 of the problems this school has. wahs is a very ethnically diverse school in a high-crime city. We have loads of druggies from philly and lots of people that only go to school because they are forced. Censorware saves a LOT of time and problems in our school. I admit...it is not perfect and sometimes it doesn't work, but it takes care of the majority or problems.
The risk of looking it up in a building crawling with authority figures just isnt worth it no..this is not true...probably only a quarter of the kids in my school even have internet access at home...and they don't care about getting caught by our school's authority figures because they are used to being caught by govt authority figures for drugs and violent crimes.
I admit...censorware is NOT for all schools...and should not be enforced for all schools, but it is not a bad thing in and of itself....it does its job at my school....and i think if it was taken off, the school board would soon axe any internet access.
I think that federally mandated censor ware is innappropriate, however, I think that censorware in schools in not necessarily a bad thing altogether. I go to a school with about 2500 students, and i guaruntee, if we didn't have censorware, a large portion of the students would be spending the majority of their "research" time on playboy.com and porn and all sorts of things that are not at all related to what they are supposed to be doing.
Not having censorware would be nice, for those of us who follow the rules. However, I am betting that nearly half of the people in my school would NOT follow the rules if there was not "bess" in place. It would be incredibly difficult to control, any schoolteacher knows that if the ENTIRE class is disruptive, it is nearly impossible to keep control of it. There are enough people that cause trouble in my school to make the internet connection at school more of a burden than a resource...and our school board would gladly drop the axe on something that allows students access to porn and such. The censroware isn't perfect, and often annoying, but it is effective and saves a lot of time for teachers.
there is a certain amount of irony that got added when it got modded down to -1 redundant though...i have enough karma...it won't hurt...it will just give those that browse at -1 a good laugh. :) However...i thought it was worth a 3 or 4...but then again..i am biased. :)
that is pretty interesting...i didn't realize bigmailbox did that...I always thought it was a pretty neat service, to set up your own free webmail at your domain with bigmailbox...but I think i will postpone my use of bigmailbox until they change their rules...i don't like the idea of collecting info from kids...especially info that shows who these kids are. However, I wonder how many kids actually state that they are under thirteen and don't have their parents consent? I know when I was under thirteen...i would always check the box 16 or older or something that didn't signify my age...of course...i also ussually put down my address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington D.C. .....
Whatever happened to internet redundancy?
:)
At one time, there was this really neat concept built into the internet that said there's all this redundancy like a spider web. If one segment or router would go down the internet would re-route traffic around the faulty segment and keep on chuggin'. So, as I sit here today and can't get to a whole bunch of places on the net, I'm wondering what gives? Where's all the redundancy? I'm not referring to mirrors or co-location. It almost seems like a script-kiddie with some real ambition could bring the world to it's knees. What really happens when routers go down, and what goes on when something like a Cable and Wireless pipe or someone else's OC-something backbone goes down?" Redundancies are nice, but not infinite. Planned DoS attacks can take out dozens or hundreds of routers at once, and as the number of downed nodes increases, the process of rerouting becomes increasingly difficult. What are some of the largest problems with the current systems in use today, and are there ways to improve them?
sorry...it had to be done.
yeah..i guess you are right...however, it isn't a heating duct...it is actually just a ventilation shaft between the basement and upstairs (to my computer) So, there wouldn't be a problem. I do know that it is fairly cheap and easy to get fire retardent coatings for wires that need to run through heat ducts and such...they are not all that expensive..you can get them at hardware stores, and most building codes accept them (i think) I have seen aerosols and other stuff to coat wires with.
another thing...rather than spending all sorts of money on special wiring or even the wireless stuff, x10.com has some great cheap ways to make all sorts of household appliances and lights wireless..it even has an interface for your computer, so you can turn the toast on and off from europe if you needed to. :)
it also works as a great annoyance to someone who is upstairs reading and didn't realize you installed a bunch of x10 modules.
to add to my previous post....my friend matt has pictures of our in-house network on his webpage (with the picture of our jury-rigged computer rack) at matthoppes.org
We have a small in house network in my house, which all goes through a small hub. It is all using cat 5..and it works really well. A tip to anyone interested...a set of metal shelves makes a GREAT cheap computer rack. :) Also...sending cable through ductwork saves a lot of time and drilling.
wouldn't it make more sense to make a program that automatically does a low-level format through a phonecall or something? It could be made into the firmware...so it couldn't be deleted by whoever stole/borrowed/found the computer...i think that would be a little better and safer than an explosive computer....
I think the techies just want an excuse to play with fire though...
I really hope they slash the price by 50%, however, I don't think this will increase the likelihood of me buying a P4...I do hope that this sets a precedent for the other brands to lower their prices to stay competititive with intel...if this happens, and a P4 system costs less than 1k...I can certainly see an AMD or celeron and other lesser intel processor systems being sold for under 500$. That would be nice.