I don't know about you... but installing linux has been a great learning experience... from my failed Debian attempt... to my succesfull RH 5.2 install... to the tweaking and optimizing that I've done with RH 6.0....
Hell, I bet that Red Hat isn't fully optimized for my system... so I can go two ways... slowly go through all the RPM packages... removing them and recompiling them with egcs or maybe making a few hacks here and there... OR I could forget about RPM's and maybe install slackware...
I respect the DIY (do it yourself) attitude...
I made my own sterio system... put together the hardware on every machine I've had since the 386 and even mucked with the win95 ini files (to remove IE4) before I discovered linux...
don't you find the idea of religious zealotry just a bit frightening? someone who could irrationally pour all of their faith into an unverifyable belief and then twist its definition over and over again to make _you_ the good guy and someone else the bad guy....
I think it's frightening that a human being can stoop so low..
what about TAB rather than AUTO?Re:url completion
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This gets me... I mean bash is great... i love command line completion... so why not use some key (like TAB or that useless windows key!) to complete the url... it could look through the global history and complete the next common match... or perhaps you could cycle through all the autocompleted choices by pressing that "tab-like" key...
what about the KDE "exporer"?Re:Alternatives to NS
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I haven't used it yet... but from screenshots etc etc it looks pretty good...
or if you do really like NS maybe when Mozilla comes out with a stable enough product KDE might integrate it?
yeah, i can dream...
Here's How! Re:128 bit encryption version?
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ok, first go to this link then select the options as if you were downloading netscape 4.51
BUT as soon as you click on the "US and Canada Customers: Download for Free" button
change the url to read "...pdms_dnstest.cgi?PRODUCT=communicator4.6-lin ux2.0-en-..."
instead of "...communicator4.51..."
It seemed to work for me... I got a file called "communicator-v46-us.x86-linux-unknown-linux2.0.ta r.gz", but haven't installed it yet (UGH! only 6 megs free on/usr !!!)
One evil company *can* make a better BSD... BUT!
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But one evil company could take BSD... make an incredible amount of changes and then the resulting software could be proprietary...
if that new proprietary software was exceedingly superior there would be a lot of pressure on the *BSD community to get back up to the new standard... and if they didn't do that they would lose out in the end...
BUT I sincerely doubt that AOL will put any effort at all into developing BSD into a _generally_ superior product... rather they will take it and twist it to do exactly what they need and make that proprietary
An Object Oriented system could never beat pure C (C could never beat native assembly). Why do I get the feeling that this criticism has been voiced before?
Java is special not because of its speed, but because of its incredibly dynamic functionallity. Why not use Java as an integral part of the logic? Quite a few great systems with lots of OO code and a little bit of assembly to drive graphics and such.
Don't call for Java's demise. With the content/service driven paradigm that AOL seems to be focusing on the added functionallity that Java can bring to their system will serve them well.
...after all who says that these AOL boxes will have to be full fleged *nix machines? Why not just kill remote access totally (or *only* through a special service port, perhaps using a big 4096b RSA key)?
AOL users are notoriously vulnerable to social hacking (remember how "Melissa virus" was distributed?) so why not use smart/id cards or perhaps a pin & card combination? (but this increases the production cost)... so perhaps an "at home only" lock, fingerprint, voiceprint or more limited acces abroad (ie no online transactions)? Any number of beefed up security features can easily be built into the new boxes...
As I see it, if you're going to use Linux why waste time and $$ on another x86? Heck, with a little investment into a custom kernel Compaq/AOL could investigate the bleedging edge of the price/performance curve.
As for storage/memory concerns make sure you pick a high performance model. Lots of cache on the drive (512k+) and with a more efficient swap drive you'll be hard pressed to notice the difference between 32 and 64 megs.
Using 4.5 freshmeat.net causes the browser to hang for a few seconds as it renders all the tables and other stuff. By-the-seat-of-my-pants benchmark: 23 seconds.
Using M4 freshmeat.net pops up much sooner after the data comes in. By-the-seat-of-my-pants benchmark: 14 seconds.
M4 kicks ass, nuff said... can't wait till NeoPlanet puts out their version.
Not that I expect to become fabulously rich, but the *PROSPECT* of being so is intreguing and very motivational.
Without even a gimmer of hope of achieving such a fantasy or some fraction thereof I doubt that there would be as many people in the business as there are today.
I thought about the mp3 case soon after I posted. Copyright is about more than making money!
I think the author should have said "everything should be GPL" and might have used the music industry as an example. But think for a minute: once portable mp3 players become commonplace where will be the incentive for buying an abundance of CD's?
Case in point: the Matrix soundtrack. It would be nice to have a few songs, but maybe you allready have some of them or don't like one or two. Wouldn't you rather mp3 the tracks you don't have and sell back the CD or perhaps never purchase it? There are a lot of CD's that I would like to have a single track and besides the fact that I can play that one track in my walkman there is no redeeming value to owning that CD.
Without copyright I could legally accumulate hundreds of mp3's and screw all those one hit wonders (who probably deserve some compensation for their limited talent) whose CD's I'd never buy.
I plan to graduate fairly soon and start a small software engineering company. I will neither have the time, nor the resources to compete with the millions of "L337 WaReZ d00dz" who may try to distribute my work, be it good enough to sell.
If it's not good enough to sell, or I don't feel like supporting it is worth my time I'll probably GPL or NCL it.
Sure I could use some elaborate copy protection scheme, but I personally find those extremely anoying.
Without copyright the small businessman/entrepreneur of the software industry is screwed (or humbled if you're that altruistic). He has no chance to be the next Bill Gates, not that being a Business Borg is a good thing. Young greedy bright kids just have to have a goal in mind, right?!
Without this greed motivating him the only ones doing anything will be those who either have the intellectual curiosity to code or actually give a damn about your software woes. Due to the scarcity of those characters I'd rather risk dealing with someone like Bill Gates.
Remember that "I would code if paid..." survey? Imagine that number being 1/8 or less.
Bootable CF's... and the site linked to has CF interface that's not extremely expensive.
So when will compact flash or the memory stick replace the floppy?
The whole point of floppy is a disposable, ultra portable, ultra cheap way to transmit data from one box to another.
For me it looks like a tossup. CF is cheap and doesn't have the proprietary rash, but the memory stick is pretty cute and that smaller footprint would make it ideal for Palm-sized computers.
Sony is allready deploying the memory stick in desktop machines, but CF supporters can possibly catch up quickly and create a CF or CF2 interface and not lose the market completely.
I think whoever puts out the first mini-media for less than $5 will win, and for free market's sake I hope it's CF or some non-proprietary variation.
IMHO, your review is also a spoiler... one of the biggest freak-outs in the film occurs when you find out that the whole reason Keannu was in that tank was just to be harvested by the AIs.
That combined with the image of a giant robot arm plucking a human infant in an egg off of a tree like thing is almost disturbing enough to make me rethink what a horror movie is.
you mean 1) the apocolyptic future (maya say world to end Dec 25, 2012) 2) the art (those robots remind me of sculptures of mayan gods) 3) the dual dependance that man and AI (gods) have on each other... man gives up his blood (in the form of heat) to feed the gods, while they are fed and thus provide man with a world to live in...
Well you'll love the Matrix then. 2 classes into a phil minor and they cover the mind-body problem pretty well as well as make a few comments (see Omega Point post above) about AI, almost anti-technology in a way...
Loved the film! Yes, I say film! For once in quite a while hollywood has come up with a "movie" that not only cost millions of dollars to make, but had a superb plot that was artistically integrated into it's superficial visual portrayal.
It is somewhat simmilar to Pi, not only in theme but in cinematography. In Pi (www.pithemovie.com) mundane tasks such as taking medication and walking down the street are sped up and heavily exaggerated. In the Matrix heavy action scenes (even when not in "bullet time") are slowed down to a crawl, incorporating computer art to enhance the scene. Both effects paint a physically surreal image by distorting time that matches their surreal themes and beautifully compliments the pace of the film in both cases.
While both movies are surreal, Pi is more believably surreal than the Matrix. Pi maintains a duallistically real and surreal atmosphere simultaneously throughout much of the movie. While the Matrix accomplishes this in the first half hour (through use of the "wake up! it's a dream" scene), it quickly explodes into a purely surreal and kind of cheezy universe where the majority of hollywood flicks reside. Of course, this doesn't make the Matrix bad, it just makes it a different sort of film.
One thing that thrilled me about the Matrix is the way that it portrayed computer technology. No, hold back the flames. I am of the firm belief that there is merrit to the idea of "computer mystacism".
How many of us completely understand our computer? Think twice, could you built one from the ground up? What if some cheezy sci-fi apocalypse came true and all technology was destroyed. Could you, even given unlimited resources, by yourself construct a computer? Could 3 or 4 of us do it? Could 50 or 100?
As much as we understand computer technology I don't think our dependence on current technologies and our innate awe at what that technology can do without us having to touch it has been a neglected realm of our attitudes towards computers.
Yeah, call me a crackpot, but there's something spiritual about it. Shameless plug, visit my site...
1) Neo did indeed download the ability to accomplish common human tasks (use guns, kung-fu, or for Trinity fly a helecopter) all using the same neural interface. Katz isn't that full of BS.
2) Neo did have to learn on his own how to "exploit the bugs" of the Matrix as only he (as the Kwizats Haterach(sp)) could do. Katz might be off base, but I don't think he claimed Neo downloaded this ability.
3) It is possible, just like Morphius or someone else had to write the program to teach Neo to fight, they might have written a program that gave neo just a little spark of how to "exploit the bugs" in the Matrix, but he had to learn most of it himself. So Katz might not be completely off base if that's what he said.
Well then, just what IS a practical joke???
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Is a practical joke a tearse gag? Is it a lame cut-down or silly "Funniest Video's" kick in the crotch? Or is it something that is so terrifyingly real you're glad it's over?
Practical jokes (no really they are "practical" aren't they?) have to be believable don't they? What is more real than getting your pants sued off for trademark infingement? (or whatever else this cockamame society has cooked up and called a crime)
Sometimes the funniest jokes are those that hurt like hell, but then in retrospect make you chuckle allong even if you are the victim!
Case in point, this morning I recieved from a friend an e-mail message "here's the document you asked for... don't show it to anyone" sent to myself and 49 others. I instantly freaked and replied to all warning about the "melissa virus" (this was on my work machine, which runs winblows;- ). So I thought, "hey wait a minute" checked the properties and found out that the author was my friend and the title was "April FOOL".
I chuckled allong and explained to him the available resources for smurfing someone's computer off the net (including his IP ripped from the header), just to give him something to chuckle about;->.
Needless to say I got over it... and well that's the point of April Fools Day: some harmless practical joke, that you should be expecting anyways!
hmm, if you want a virtual network to usurp the DNS scheme you've got a lot of work...
not only will you building this "meta-net" you'd have to get "meta-nameservers" to distribute your "meta-dns tables" too...
how hard was it to get the 6bone set up? it'll be that hard or worse...;->
then when IPv6 takes over you'd run into something new... an IPv6 packet in another IPv6 packet... might get screwed up... and the "meta-net" yahoo will start pointing to the InterNet yahoo
sill the free meta-net idea might have some merrit... but rather than IPv6 you might want to use a different protocol
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Unlike the MSCE courses, this one sounds like it's worth what you pay for it! ;->
another consideration... the Joliet fs doesn't mesh well with linux AFAIK...
I don't know about you... but installing linux has been a great learning experience... from my failed Debian attempt... to my succesfull RH 5.2 install... to the tweaking and optimizing that I've done with RH 6.0....
Hell, I bet that Red Hat isn't fully optimized for my system... so I can go two ways... slowly go through all the RPM packages... removing them and recompiling them with egcs or maybe making a few hacks here and there... OR I could forget about RPM's and maybe install slackware...
I respect the DIY (do it yourself) attitude...
I made my own sterio system... put together the hardware on every machine I've had since the 386 and even mucked with the win95 ini files (to remove IE4) before I discovered linux...
IF ALL THIS WAS EASY I WOULD KNOW NOTHING!!!
don't you find the idea of religious zealotry just a bit frightening? someone who could irrationally pour all of their faith into an unverifyable belief and then twist its definition over and over again to make _you_ the good guy and someone else the bad guy....
I think it's frightening that a human being can stoop so low..
This gets me... I mean bash is great... i love command line completion... so why not use some key (like TAB or that useless windows key!) to complete the url... it could look through the global history and complete the next common match... or perhaps you could cycle through all the autocompleted choices by pressing that "tab-like" key...
I haven't used it yet... but from screenshots etc etc it looks pretty good...
or if you do really like NS maybe when Mozilla comes out with a stable enough product KDE might integrate it?
yeah, i can dream...
ok, first go to this link then select the options as if you were downloading netscape 4.51
n ux2.0-en-..."
a r.gz", but haven't installed it yet (UGH! only 6 megs free on /usr !!!)
BUT as soon as you click on the "US and Canada Customers: Download for Free" button
change the url to read
"...pdms_dnstest.cgi?PRODUCT=communicator4.6-li
instead of "...communicator4.51..."
It seemed to work for me...
I got a file called "communicator-v46-us.x86-linux-unknown-linux2.0.t
But one evil company could take BSD... make an incredible amount of changes and then the resulting software could be proprietary...
if that new proprietary software was exceedingly superior there would be a lot of pressure on the *BSD community to get back up to the new standard... and if they didn't do that they would lose out in the end...
BUT I sincerely doubt that AOL will put any effort at all into developing BSD into a _generally_ superior product... rather they will take it and twist it to do exactly what they need and make that proprietary
no loss to the community, no loss to AOL...
Yes, it is a spoof...
from the root page (http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/):
"Jesus came ##### times and stained the sheets."
the scarier thing is that people like this really exist in the world...
example:
http://www.delphi.com/PerilousTimes/
even scarier is their polar opposites (just as conservative, just as scary, but a-religious/"a-theist")
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...a java system could never beat native code.
An Object Oriented system could never beat pure C (C could never beat native assembly). Why do I get the feeling that this criticism has been voiced before?
Java is special not because of its speed, but because of its incredibly dynamic functionallity. Why not use Java as an integral part of the logic? Quite a few great systems with lots of OO code and a little bit of assembly to drive graphics and such.
Don't call for Java's demise. With the content/service driven paradigm that AOL seems to be focusing on the added functionallity that Java can bring to their system will serve them well.
...after all who says that these AOL boxes will have to be full fleged *nix machines? Why not just kill remote access totally (or *only* through a special service port, perhaps using a big 4096b RSA key)?
AOL users are notoriously vulnerable to social hacking (remember how "Melissa virus" was distributed?) so why not use smart/id cards or perhaps a pin & card combination? (but this increases the production cost)... so perhaps an "at home only" lock, fingerprint, voiceprint or more limited acces abroad (ie no online transactions)? Any number of beefed up security features can easily be built into the new boxes...
As I see it, if you're going to use Linux why waste time and $$ on another x86? Heck, with a little investment into a custom kernel Compaq/AOL could investigate the bleedging edge of the price/performance curve.
As for storage/memory concerns make sure you pick a high performance model. Lots of cache on the drive (512k+) and with a more efficient swap drive you'll be hard pressed to notice the difference between 32 and 64 megs.
Deffinately faster.
Using 4.5 freshmeat.net causes the browser to hang for a few seconds as it renders all the tables and other stuff. By-the-seat-of-my-pants benchmark: 23 seconds.
Using M4 freshmeat.net pops up much sooner after the data comes in. By-the-seat-of-my-pants benchmark: 14 seconds.
M4 kicks ass, nuff said... can't wait till NeoPlanet puts out their version.
Sweeeeeheeeeheeeeeeet!
You didn't seem to get my point.
Not that I expect to become fabulously rich, but the *PROSPECT* of being so is intreguing and very motivational.
Without even a gimmer of hope of achieving such a fantasy or some fraction thereof I doubt that there would be as many people in the business as there are today.
I thought about the mp3 case soon after I posted. Copyright is about more than making money!
I think the author should have said "everything should be GPL" and might have used the music industry as an example. But think for a minute: once portable mp3 players become commonplace where will be the incentive for buying an abundance of CD's?
Case in point: the Matrix soundtrack. It would be nice to have a few songs, but maybe you allready have some of them or don't like one or two. Wouldn't you rather mp3 the tracks you don't have and sell back the CD or perhaps never purchase it? There are a lot of CD's that I would like to have a single track and besides the fact that I can play that one track in my walkman there is no redeeming value to owning that CD.
Without copyright I could legally accumulate hundreds of mp3's and screw all those one hit wonders (who probably deserve some compensation for their limited talent) whose CD's I'd never buy.
No thank you.
I plan to graduate fairly soon and start a small software engineering company. I will neither have the time, nor the resources to compete with the millions of "L337 WaReZ d00dz" who may try to distribute my work, be it good enough to sell.
If it's not good enough to sell, or I don't feel like supporting it is worth my time I'll probably GPL or NCL it.
Sure I could use some elaborate copy protection scheme, but I personally find those extremely anoying.
Without copyright the small businessman/entrepreneur of the software industry is screwed (or humbled if you're that altruistic). He has no chance to be the next Bill Gates, not that being a Business Borg is a good thing. Young greedy bright kids just have to have a goal in mind, right?!
Without this greed motivating him the only ones doing anything will be those who either have the intellectual curiosity to code or actually give a damn about your software woes. Due to the scarcity of those characters I'd rather risk dealing with someone like Bill Gates.
Remember that "I would code if paid..." survey? Imagine that number being 1/8 or less.
Remember this slashdot article?
Bootable CF's... and the site linked to has CF interface that's not extremely expensive.
So when will compact flash or the memory stick replace the floppy?
The whole point of floppy is a disposable, ultra portable, ultra cheap way to transmit data from one box to another.
For me it looks like a tossup. CF is cheap and doesn't have the proprietary rash, but the memory stick is pretty cute and that smaller footprint would make it ideal for Palm-sized computers.
Sony is allready deploying the memory stick in desktop machines, but CF supporters can possibly catch up quickly and create a CF or CF2 interface and not lose the market completely.
I think whoever puts out the first mini-media for less than $5 will win, and for free market's sake I hope it's CF or some non-proprietary variation.
-tekDrg
video is a pale shadow... that's why this film makes me want to get DVD
IMHO, your review is also a spoiler...
one of the biggest freak-outs in the film occurs when you find out that the whole reason Keannu was in that tank was just to be harvested by the AIs.
That combined with the image of a giant robot arm plucking a human infant in an egg off of a tree like thing is almost disturbing enough to make me rethink what a horror movie is.
you mean
1) the apocolyptic future (maya say world to end Dec 25, 2012)
2) the art (those robots remind me of sculptures of mayan gods)
3) the dual dependance that man and AI (gods) have on each other... man gives up his blood (in the form of heat) to feed the gods, while they are fed and thus provide man with a world to live in...
yes, allegorical, both literally and symbolically
Well you'll love the Matrix then. 2 classes into a phil minor and they cover the mind-body problem pretty well as well as make a few comments (see Omega Point post above) about AI, almost anti-technology in a way...
Loved the film! Yes, I say film!
For once in quite a while hollywood has come up with a "movie" that not only cost millions of dollars to make, but had a superb plot that was artistically integrated into it's superficial visual portrayal.
It is somewhat simmilar to Pi, not only in theme but in cinematography. In Pi (www.pithemovie.com) mundane tasks such as taking medication and walking down the street are sped up and heavily exaggerated. In the Matrix heavy action scenes (even when not in "bullet time") are slowed down to a crawl, incorporating computer art to enhance the scene. Both effects paint a physically surreal image by distorting time that matches their surreal themes and beautifully compliments the pace of the film in both cases.
While both movies are surreal, Pi is more believably surreal than the Matrix. Pi maintains a duallistically real and surreal atmosphere simultaneously throughout much of the movie. While the Matrix accomplishes this in the first half hour (through use of the "wake up! it's a dream" scene), it quickly explodes into a purely surreal and kind of cheezy universe where the majority of hollywood flicks reside. Of course, this doesn't make the Matrix bad, it just makes it a different sort of film.
One thing that thrilled me about the Matrix is the way that it portrayed computer technology. No, hold back the flames. I am of the firm belief that there is merrit to the idea of "computer mystacism".
How many of us completely understand our computer? Think twice, could you built one from the ground up? What if some cheezy sci-fi apocalypse came true and all technology was destroyed. Could you, even given unlimited resources, by yourself construct a computer? Could 3 or 4 of us do it? Could 50 or 100?
As much as we understand computer technology I don't think our dependence on current technologies and our innate awe at what that technology can do without us having to touch it has been a neglected realm of our attitudes towards computers.
Yeah, call me a crackpot, but there's something spiritual about it. Shameless plug, visit my site...
teknoDragon
technoPagan
http://technopagan.dhs.org/
p.s. I like the new Katz vs. Taco thing... it works very well!
1) Neo did indeed download the ability to accomplish common human tasks (use guns, kung-fu, or for Trinity fly a helecopter) all using the same neural interface. Katz isn't that full of BS.
2) Neo did have to learn on his own how to "exploit the bugs" of the Matrix as only he (as the Kwizats Haterach(sp)) could do. Katz might be off base, but I don't think he claimed Neo downloaded this ability.
3) It is possible, just like Morphius or someone else had to write the program to teach Neo to fight, they might have written a program that gave neo just a little spark of how to "exploit the bugs" in the Matrix, but he had to learn most of it himself. So Katz might not be completely off base if that's what he said.
Is a practical joke a tearse gag? Is it a lame cut-down or silly "Funniest Video's" kick in the crotch? Or is it something that is so terrifyingly real you're glad it's over?
;- ). So I thought, "hey wait a minute" checked the properties and found out that the author was my friend and the title was "April FOOL".
;->.
Practical jokes (no really they are "practical" aren't they?) have to be believable don't they? What is more real than getting your pants sued off for trademark infingement? (or whatever else this cockamame society has cooked up and called a crime)
Sometimes the funniest jokes are those that hurt like hell, but then in retrospect make you chuckle allong even if you are the victim!
Case in point, this morning I recieved from a friend an e-mail message "here's the document you asked for... don't show it to anyone" sent to myself and 49 others. I instantly freaked and replied to all warning about the "melissa virus" (this was on my work machine, which runs winblows
I chuckled allong and explained to him the available resources for smurfing someone's computer off the net (including his IP ripped from the header), just to give him something to chuckle about
Needless to say I got over it... and well that's the point of April Fools Day: some harmless practical joke, that you should be expecting anyways!
hmm, if you want a virtual network to usurp the DNS scheme you've got a lot of work...
;->
not only will you building this "meta-net" you'd have to get "meta-nameservers" to distribute your "meta-dns tables" too...
how hard was it to get the 6bone set up? it'll be that hard or worse...
then when IPv6 takes over you'd run into something new... an IPv6 packet in another IPv6 packet... might get screwed up... and the "meta-net" yahoo will start pointing to the InterNet yahoo
sill the free meta-net idea might have some merrit... but rather than IPv6 you might want to use a different protocol
-TekDrg
technopagan.dhs.org