Actually, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA (VC ground-zero) have more lawyers per capita than DC.
(Frightening, huh?)
Re:Been done before, but progress is good
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That version of slackware was called minilinux. It was very old and consisted of *five* not one floppies. The filesystems were compressed w/ Pkzip (not gzip). It used UMSDOS so there was no need to partition. I remember that it had a X implementation. However, it was very limited.
However, Linux and QNX are too different embedded animals. We use both at my site here. QNX is POSIX compliant. However, a lot of the expected UNIX commands are different. The graphics window looks very similar to Mandrake's KDE. (I'm not kidding.)
I'm wondering if one enterprising company will take the best of both (many GNU tools are already available for QNX) and merge the two into one mini Linux/QNX distro. Don't doubt it. It can happen.
Who in their right mind rated this flamebait as insightful? You obviously haven't been paying much attention to Linux development. Nearly every retail (and quite a few direct) machines come w/ HSP/soft-modems. Almost *NONE* of them work with Linux. Moreover, anyone who works tech support at an ISP should know that the phone line, not the modem is likely the culprit when a modem can't connect at v.90.
FYI, I used a 266 (like the other poster) e-machine to connect to Earthlink at 44Kbps. (Gee, I didn't get 56k. I wonder why. Hint: It's not the modem.)
Seriously, I keep hearing all these worthless threads about the quality or lack thereof of e-machines. That's never stopped HP or Compaq from selling quite a few machines. Check the financial fundamentals behind e-machines. That's where their problems lie. It's not in the quality of their product.
Although the consent age in the UK has nothing to do with this case, you should know that the age of consent varies from state to state in the U.S.
Here, in California, the age of consent is 18. In my home state of Louisiana, it's 17. There is a two year age difference allowed if the girl is under the age of 17. That is, if the man is 18, the girl must be 16 or older. If the girl is 15, the boy may be no older than 17. Pennsylvania has the youngest age of consent at 14. (Ouch!) Most states (GA, MN, etc.) have 16 as their age of consent.
Hopefully, this helps for our friends outside of the U.S.
However, the above rules apply for statuatory rape, not child molestation. There's a heckuva difference. Child molesters (generally those who engage in impure acts w/ children under the age of 14) are given harsher sentences and must often be placed into protective custody to serve their sentence. Child molesters are considered violent offenders. Whereas stat. rapists are simply sent to jail. Depending on the state, both must register as sex offenders for pretty much the rest of their lives.
Hint: If you're going to get caught committing a crime, make it possession of illegal narcotics (for personal consumption, *NOT* intent to distribute).
Raising a knife against someone is assault with a deadly weapon in most US states. Plunging it above the waste is likely to be attempted murder if it doesn't strike the arm. Plunging it into the groin (ouch) is either attempted murder or malicious wounding in some states. Otherwise, it's assault and batter with a deadly weapon.
My attitude is "Book 'im, Dano!"
Re:A wake-up call for the phone companies...
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It would seem strange that you would have this attitude. I read in Business Week about six months ago that US West would be the main telco pursuing wireless since it doesn't have too many concentrated populaces.
Is DSL practical *anywhere* in Wyoming or Montana?
Is it practical in Colorado outside or Denver or Washington outside of Seattle?
If USWest wants to service these areas w/ high speed connectivity (Believe me, they do!), they will have to explore wireless or satellite as the only options.
Even cable modems aren't practical for much of the West. The population (read: profit) density just isn't there. However, those folks deserve high bandwidth, too. Hopefully, wireless will be right around the corner for them as well.
If it's the *largest* (not most valuable) company in the world, he's at GE (General Electric). Misguided types may think he's at Exxon, Phillips, Shell, BP, BT, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell, Merck, IBM, Pfizer or Gillette. However, to my recollection, GE is still the largest.
In the *real* Silicon Valley, we have the options of wireless, cable, and/or DSL.
I pay $16/mo. for my phone and $10/mo. for DSL. (Yeah, they forgot to charge me the other $39).
I can surf/call locally all I want, etc.
I routinely get speeds approaching T1. Do you folks in England still get charged for a dial tone?
Come on, lack of competition is allowing BT to royally (no pun intended) screw you guys.
I hope you own stock in the company. Otherwise, you're extremely delusional.
As for DTV (Blech!), we've got it here, too. It's broadcasted, no satellite necessary. However, paying $7000 for a widescreen TV that can't do anything until you spend $$$'s more on a decoder just doesn't appeal to me.
The BBC has bad shows just like any other network. However, some of your shows are wonderful. (I miss "Chef!" Why did you wankers cancel it?)
Regardless of both our previous statements, I'm glad that you folks are getting high speed access. Now, you can fill your hard drives with porn and MP3's, too!:^P
Handspring is a new, *more* simplified handheld coming from a company created by the original founders of Palm Computing before it was bought by USR which was later bought by 3Com.
Considering that chips are released at least quarterly, it would be quite a pain to tell the difference between the various Celeron98's and Celeron 99's. We won't even talk of the Pentium 98 and 99's. Jeez, are you talking about a PII-450 or a PIII-450. No, I'm talking about the Pentium '99.
Ouch.
(On a side note, Athlon is a questionable name. This is especially due to the fact that someone else already owns the trademark.)
We won't even talk about how liquid cooling is much better. However, I will indulge you by stating that an environment of pure Helium, or some other noble gas would work well. (I don't consider Nitrogen *that* inert.) I'm curious what Neon would do in the presence of all those miniscule electric currents on a motherboard.:^)
Back to the liquid cooling...
If the unit is later sealed, he'd better be careful not to generate too much pressure. Styrofoam is strong as hell when compressed a certain way. However, I doubt that consumer grade foam will hold up under pressure.
Perhaps someone should make a fiberglass or acrylic case?
Linux doesn't run any worse overclocked than Win95/98 (the crash standard). Linux will do an abrupt reboot if the processor is incorrectly overclocked. Win95/98 will hang or crash during boot. WinNT will give a BSOD before it gets to the log-in prompt. I know this because I had my Celeron333 improperly o'c to 500 before I saw the SharkyExtreme way of properly overclocking a Celeron. Now, I can watch full screen Quicktime 4.0 trailers without skipping. (Oh yeah, those new Linux kernels compile rather rapidly, too...)
Hmmm.... at the MicroCenter in Santa Clara, CA, Linux is displayed quite prominently. Slackware and FreeBSD may be near the porn. However, they're not in boxes, anyway. RedHat and SuSE have been sold in MC for a long time....
I still can't get the taste of $78 for RedHat out of my mouth.
Who do they think they are--Caldera? (another longtime MicroCenter resident...)
Samarai have the same attack strength (3) and can move a lot quicker.
Now, you can't take any wheeled or horse units into mountains without roads.
(I never played CivII. But, I damned near flunked out of college on quarter playing the original.. Ah...)
Lawyers are nasty but corporate branches......
Personally, I like the religious and economic warfare. Slavery (although being African-American I built abolitionists very quickly) is an essential element in the history of most great civilizations from the Romans and Vikings to the Americans, Chinese and Japanese.
However, WTF is this about the Jamaican and Cuban civilizations? Haiti (the 2nd independent black nation after Ethiopia) is more of a civilization than those two.
Oh, to the nut who surrounded his cities with warriors. No, that's what diplomats are for. They can see slavers and clerics!!!
I've been playing the Windows version for a month now. I had to retire my P133 to server status and bring in a o'c Celeron (~500Mhz now) to handle that greedy little program.
Methinks I'm gonna go to Fry's, CompUSA, or MicroCenter on Friday and give my money for a Linux version.
To those AlphaCentauri loving geeks, "Hey, at least CTP *is* available for Linux."
What happened to the Mac version? Hehe, a fully threaded BeOS/Linux/Solaris server version would be nice, too.
Oh man... It's way too early for me to think this hard.
--Al
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Oh puh-lease...
You're talking about MPP (Massively Parellel Processing Beowulf clusters) versus SMP(Symmetrically Multi-Processing that the world uses). MPP has no place outside of scientific computing (for now). SMP (until we run out of bus bandwidth) is where it's at in business computing.
I'm not knocking Beowulf. However, let's use the right tool for the right job.
Basically, the article said that Linux needs to improve (1) its SMP, (2) its RAID support and (3) its disk/file subsystem.
All of these are well known. Work is being being done in all three of these areas. Many are working on the SMP kernel improvements. RAID vendors are beginning to see the light and are beginning to write drivers for their RAID devices. Work is being done on a journaled filesystem for Linux. (Don't knock NTFS, it is robust even if it's associated OS is not.)
The ZDReseller article has a major error.
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Linux will keep growing. However, it's *not* going to beat NT this year in shipments. (Installed base is another matter.)
Next year, who knows...
It was really interesting that I could get my new homebuilt machine to work w/ Linux before NT and Win95. Something about having to download drivers anyway since the one's shipped w/ Creative's TNT are broken. Man, if vendors keep this up, Linux will have world domination in six months.
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Actually, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA (VC ground-zero) have more lawyers per capita than DC.
(Frightening, huh?)
That version of slackware was called minilinux. It was very old and consisted of *five* not one floppies. The filesystems were compressed w/ Pkzip (not gzip). It used UMSDOS so there was no need to partition. I remember that it had a X implementation. However, it was very limited.
However, Linux and QNX are too different embedded animals. We use both at my site here. QNX is POSIX compliant. However, a lot of the expected UNIX commands are different. The graphics window looks very similar to Mandrake's KDE. (I'm not kidding.)
I'm wondering if one enterprising company will take the best of both (many GNU tools are already available for QNX) and merge the two into one mini Linux/QNX distro. Don't doubt it. It can happen.
Who in their right mind rated this flamebait as insightful? You obviously haven't been paying much attention to Linux development. Nearly every retail (and quite a few direct) machines come w/ HSP/soft-modems. Almost *NONE* of them work with Linux. Moreover, anyone who works tech support at an ISP should know that the phone line, not the modem is likely the culprit when a modem can't connect at v.90.
FYI, I used a 266 (like the other poster) e-machine to connect to Earthlink at 44Kbps. (Gee, I didn't get 56k. I wonder why. Hint: It's not the modem.)
Seriously, I keep hearing all these worthless threads about the quality or lack thereof of e-machines. That's never stopped HP or Compaq from selling quite a few machines. Check the financial fundamentals behind e-machines. That's where their problems lie. It's not in the quality of their product.
Although the consent age in the UK has nothing to do with this case, you should know that the age of consent varies from state to state in the U.S.
Here, in California, the age of consent is 18. In my home state of Louisiana, it's 17. There is a two year age difference allowed if the girl is under the age of 17. That is, if the man is 18, the girl must be 16 or older. If the girl is 15, the boy may be no older than 17. Pennsylvania has the youngest age of consent at 14. (Ouch!) Most states (GA, MN, etc.) have 16 as their age of consent.
Hopefully, this helps for our friends outside of the U.S.
However, the above rules apply for statuatory rape, not child molestation. There's a heckuva difference. Child molesters (generally those who engage in impure acts w/ children under the age of 14) are given harsher sentences and must often be placed into protective custody to serve their sentence. Child molesters are considered violent offenders. Whereas stat. rapists are simply sent to jail. Depending on the state, both must register as sex offenders for pretty much the rest of their lives.
Hint: If you're going to get caught committing a crime, make it possession of illegal narcotics (for personal consumption, *NOT* intent to distribute).
Raising a knife against someone is assault with a deadly weapon in most US states. Plunging it above the waste is likely to be attempted murder if it doesn't strike the arm. Plunging it into the groin (ouch) is either attempted murder or malicious wounding in some states. Otherwise, it's assault and batter with a deadly weapon.
My attitude is "Book 'im, Dano!"
It would seem strange that you would have this attitude. I read in Business Week about six months ago that US West would be the main telco pursuing wireless since it doesn't have too many concentrated populaces.
Is DSL practical *anywhere* in Wyoming or Montana?
Is it practical in Colorado outside or Denver or Washington outside of Seattle?
If USWest wants to service these areas w/ high speed connectivity (Believe me, they do!), they will have to explore wireless or satellite as the only options.
Even cable modems aren't practical for much of the West. The population (read: profit) density just isn't there. However, those folks deserve high bandwidth, too. Hopefully, wireless will be right around the corner for them as well.
-Alf
If it's the *largest* (not most valuable) company in the world, he's at GE (General Electric). Misguided types may think he's at Exxon, Phillips, Shell, BP, BT, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell, Merck, IBM, Pfizer or Gillette. However, to my recollection, GE is still the largest.
You've totally got to be kidding.
:^P
In the *real* Silicon Valley, we have the options of wireless, cable, and/or DSL.
I pay $16/mo. for my phone and $10/mo. for DSL. (Yeah, they forgot to charge me the other $39).
I can surf/call locally all I want, etc.
I routinely get speeds approaching T1. Do you folks in England still get charged for a dial tone?
Come on, lack of competition is allowing BT to royally (no pun intended) screw you guys.
I hope you own stock in the company. Otherwise, you're extremely delusional.
As for DTV (Blech!), we've got it here, too. It's broadcasted, no satellite necessary. However, paying $7000 for a widescreen TV that can't do anything until you spend $$$'s more on a decoder just doesn't appeal to me.
The BBC has bad shows just like any other network. However, some of your shows are wonderful. (I miss "Chef!" Why did you wankers cancel it?)
Regardless of both our previous statements, I'm glad that you folks are getting high speed access. Now, you can fill your hard drives with porn and MP3's, too!
Handspring is a new, *more* simplified handheld coming from a company created by the original founders of Palm Computing before it was bought by USR which was later bought by 3Com.
For more fluff, check here.
What?????
Dallas,TX is in SBC territory. SBC made PacBell lower their rates.
It's $39/mo for DSL where you are.
Check your facts.
Oooooooooh, you're getting ripped off.
PacBell charges $50/mo. (Some of us even less) for guaranteed 384down and 128up. (On Sat morning, I usually get 1.84Mbps. No sh*t!)
The SDL is slightly more. However, it's not $200/mo.
They charge $140/mo for 1.54down/384 up guaranteed.
Considering that chips are released at least quarterly, it would be quite a pain to tell the difference between the various Celeron98's and Celeron 99's.
We won't even talk of the Pentium 98 and 99's. Jeez, are you talking about a PII-450 or a PIII-450. No, I'm talking about the Pentium '99.
Ouch.
(On a side note, Athlon is a questionable name. This is especially due to the fact that someone else already owns the trademark.)
How about using a dessicant of some kind to absorb the moisture?
(not baking soda, that has other issues)
Hell, even those little inedible packs that come w/ some electric components may just be enough.
Just a thought...
Air has one strong limitation. Moisture.
:^)
We won't even talk about how liquid cooling is much better. However, I will indulge you by stating that an environment of pure Helium, or some other noble gas would work well. (I don't consider Nitrogen *that* inert.) I'm curious what Neon would do in the presence of all those miniscule electric currents on a motherboard.
Back to the liquid cooling...
If the unit is later sealed, he'd better be careful not to generate too much pressure. Styrofoam is strong as hell when compressed a certain way. However, I doubt that consumer grade foam will hold up under pressure.
Perhaps someone should make a fiberglass or acrylic case?
Nope.
They don't exist. However, the K7 should make a limited appearance in June.
Linux doesn't run any worse overclocked than Win95/98 (the crash standard). Linux will do an abrupt reboot if the processor is incorrectly overclocked. Win95/98 will hang or crash during boot. WinNT will give a BSOD before it gets to the log-in prompt. I know this because I had my Celeron333 improperly o'c to 500 before I saw the SharkyExtreme way of properly overclocking a Celeron. Now, I can watch full screen Quicktime 4.0 trailers without skipping. (Oh yeah, those new Linux kernels compile rather rapidly, too...)
MIPS will survive as an embedded processor.
.13micron fab. Now those would be some sweet watch-sized supercomputers...
SGI is the last of the big MIPS users. Look for them to switch to McKinley (Merced is just for show...).
Too bad HP's getting rid of the PA-RISC. Oh-well...
What I'd like to see are some copper based StrongARMs from a
Hmmm.... at the MicroCenter in Santa Clara, CA, Linux is displayed quite prominently. Slackware and FreeBSD may be near the porn. However, they're not in boxes, anyway. RedHat and SuSE have been sold in MC for a long time....
I still can't get the taste of $78 for RedHat out of my mouth.
Who do they think they are--Caldera? (another longtime MicroCenter resident...)
I voted. However, I prefer SDRC's I-DEAS.
Pro-E is better for administrator's but I-DEAS is easier for users.
However, Pro-E is *the* standard in MCAD.
Samarai have the same attack strength (3) and can move a lot quicker.
Now, you can't take any wheeled or horse units into mountains without roads.
(I never played CivII. But, I damned near flunked out of college on quarter playing the original.. Ah...)
Lawyers are nasty but corporate branches......
Personally, I like the religious and economic warfare. Slavery (although being African-American I built abolitionists very quickly) is an essential element in the history of most great civilizations from the Romans and Vikings to the Americans, Chinese and Japanese.
However, WTF is this about the Jamaican and Cuban civilizations? Haiti (the 2nd independent black nation after Ethiopia) is more of a civilization than those two.
Oh, to the nut who surrounded his cities with warriors. No, that's what diplomats are for. They can see slavers and clerics!!!
Man, I love the theocracy!
Just as addicting as the first Civ.
I've been playing the Windows version for a month now. I had to retire my P133 to server status and bring in a o'c Celeron (~500Mhz now) to handle that greedy little program.
Methinks I'm gonna go to Fry's, CompUSA, or MicroCenter on Friday and give my money for a Linux version.
To those AlphaCentauri loving geeks, "Hey, at least CTP *is* available for Linux."
What happened to the Mac version? Hehe, a fully threaded BeOS/Linux/Solaris server version would be nice, too.
Oh man... It's way too early for me to think this hard.
--Al
Oh puh-lease...
You're talking about MPP (Massively Parellel Processing Beowulf clusters) versus SMP(Symmetrically Multi-Processing that the world uses). MPP has no place outside of scientific computing (for now). SMP (until we run out of bus bandwidth) is where it's at in business computing.
I'm not knocking Beowulf. However, let's use the right tool for the right job.
Basically, the article said that Linux needs to improve (1) its SMP, (2) its RAID support and (3) its disk/file subsystem.
All of these are well known. Work is being being done in all three of these areas. Many are working on the SMP kernel improvements. RAID vendors are beginning to see the light and are beginning to write drivers for their RAID devices. Work is being done on a journaled filesystem for Linux. (Don't knock NTFS, it is robust even if it's associated OS is not.)
There's no such thing as a Pentium II 200.
You gotta wonder...
Linux will keep growing. However, it's *not* going to beat NT this year in shipments. (Installed base is another matter.)
Next year, who knows...
It was really interesting that I could get my new homebuilt machine to work w/ Linux before NT and Win95. Something about having to download drivers anyway since the one's shipped w/ Creative's TNT are broken. Man, if vendors keep this up, Linux will have world domination in six months.
Take care.
Fry's has the Windows version of Civ.:CTP on sale for $29.99 (versus the $50 I almost paid yesterday).
I can't wait for the Linux version.
I know I'm weak.
When it comes out I'll buy it, too.
However, for now, I like Annakin, must give in to the dark side....