Laptops would be the way to go. unless of course you need quality sound.
wich then of course you can consiser lunchbox type computers. I belive that a powersupply in exsiting pc can be modifyed to take 12vDC by bypassing the 1st stage of the powersupply you may want to check up on that.
Attach a solar pannel to what ever solution you use and gain a couple hours on your batteries. and a way to charge them once dead as well.
Now we can legaly make a dos bootdisk that is on a cd and load the CD up with our favorite games. doom, wolf3d, dukenukem, maybe even win 3.11, quake 1, etc.... oh the possibilitys.
I used to do this about 8 years a go with old 5 1/4 floppy drives that i scraped. or just use a steper motor from anything.
I was bored in the 6th grade and took to hooking stuff up to my stereo. onetime i hooked up a laser diode it was cool for a couple min before i turned the volume up to loud and fried it.
I used to hook leds, motors, laser diodes and nearly anything i could find to my stereo. The stereo died a year or so later turned it on one day and smoke was comin out of it. Not something i would recomend todo with anything that wasnt bought at a gragesale for 20$ but interesting none the less....
What will minimum install size be? i know redhat has swelled to something like 250meg with NO packages selected. Which seems slightly boated to me.
The larger size makes it harder to scale down to something to be embeded.
I rember installing redhat 5.2 on a old486 HP with 16meg o ram and a 100ish meg hd. Now its well nearly impossible. that 486 wouldnt take 6.x.
I think this could be a step in the right direction, if they play their cards right, for making linux available (again) to legacy machines/hardware and could help many schools and other places who have need for computers but not bleeding edge tech.
Im sure schools get 486 and low end pentiums all the time and are forced to trash them or scrap them because nothing will run on them or cant deploy them becuase of licencing or lack of hardware limmitations. this could be what they need.
After you sign the petition go back to the 1st page and hit refresh a few time over a couple min and watch the counter go up. i watched it go from 3092 to 3192+ in just a couple minuets. can almost watch the slashdotting.
Are they or are they not concerned with piracy?
buy the dvd cheap cause it will only play for a few hours. Then proceed to watch it then rip it or rip then watch as many times as you want. If they are tying to slow the pay-per-view industry its gonna have to cost something like 4 bucks a disk. This to a pirate is most likely going to be well worth it. Once our pirate friend makes his rip he can then distrubute it via p2p and friends for free.
I personaly would love to have one or six of those nifty pvr things and never miss a show. And perform one of those nifty tivo hacks and watch em on my computer or anywhere in my house.
But i think the main reasons there arnt more of these great devices out there.
1)cost, which for many households is unessary hen there is already a VCR or 2 in the home. Not to mention the 10? a month subsciption costs that add up, just to record tv.
2)my dad just got a dvd player this year. how many years have they been available? 4+? in genral people are slow to adopt new technology unles you are the geek/nerd breed. Look how long did it take for VHS to really catch on, Not to mention computers (yes many of us have 2 or more in our homes but there are many homes i know of with out one).
3)function, many people dont mind wating for a commercial break to get snacks esp when its gonna cost em 200-400 bones to be able do pause tv to use the restroom when you could wait 2 min. It doesnt play dvds it doesnt play Tapes it does play games. so its for more for couch potato than a movie buff or gamer.
they may not comedown with the clap
but i can tell you if i was in to corprate esbeniaugh i would be hanging out at the air port lookin for secrets or anything i could get my hands on.
wha? you must be confused. it is a 64bit archetexture. Or does that not matter to you cause you dont know what that is?
Double the bits in and out perclock. So i can promise it will beat the hell out of a pentium 3/4 around the 1-1.4 gig speeds. and comperable to the 2.2 gigs.
and the i/o system of the machine and the subsystems will once again help it beat out comodity machices of higher spec that come with none of the graphics subsystems. This make it a dream for anyone doing rendering serilously. it will do it better than many many other machines out there.
its 3rd generation for one. and been done in other countrys. it wont go the way of sprint ion because verison is already steadfast in the wireless market and this is just more for the wireless market. whereas sprint took a gamble at fixed wireless internet something very diffrent than mobile highspeed internet and cool phones.
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you also have people playing everquest leave their spouse to be with their virtual spouse. and people play for days at a time. everquest isnt as much a game rather than enhanced irc that does what irc has done from time to time just on a broader scale and thats get people hooked on some total fantacy. most games when its over its over but not for these people.
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i rember back in the day before they had dsl and cable. when it was games like dukenukem 3d and a few others, quake was in its infacncy and still on if even out at the begining of that.
they had multiplayer onlinegaming avaliable for dukenukem3d and its counterpart games. but you had to pay. i thought the reson you didnt have to pay was cause it didnt take off.
vavle has a pretty good system for keeping people who didnt pay for their copys of halflife from playing online.
if im to pay to play its gonna be a lan party to coverfood and possiblehardware. none of this pay to play on line crap.
no more hosting games prolly just a huge megaserver with megalag someplace far far way.
whats the fun in that..
i said bulb or 2 not linux boxen.
besides the hamsters would prolly get distracted by the cluster and try to use it to figure their reprodutive rates vs that of the bunnys.
i wouldnt mind setting or building something similar myself. boot from a cd and store canges on a floppy or hd. or boot from a small hd (i got a 40meg around here someplace).
so where can i get the software config they used? if they made changes dont they have to make them available because the software they are usising is under the GNU GPL?
Someone said that aol has bought all the cool companys and i am inclined to agree. But The potential purchase or redhat bothers me for some stragne reson.
I am fully for the disitergration or failure of M$. even though i use their os, along with linux.
but aol seems to be getting just as big bad and ugly as ms. making the fight nolonger the little guy vs big guy. Its now the AOL gang VS the M$Monster. Which is all fine and well but whos is to say AOL wont go over board with it? Or to say they wont change how they are currently running things to something else less desirable.
Not tomention i would like to see redhat stay its own comany. Rather than being under a corprate umpbrella, such as AOL, and make it on its own as i belive it can.
Anways i wish best of luck and success to redhat eather way. and hopefuly another chink in the M$ arrmor. Progress is Progress.
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Laptops would be the way to go. unless of course you need quality sound.
wich then of course you can consiser lunchbox type computers. I belive that a powersupply in exsiting pc can be modifyed to take 12vDC by bypassing the 1st stage of the powersupply you may want to check up on that.
Attach a solar pannel to what ever solution you use and gain a couple hours on your batteries. and a way to charge them once dead as well.
Some stuff mayberight on. but some stuff is already way off.
he says 3d screens with out glasses in 2012. its been done. The slashdot article is here
im sure there are plenty of others but i will let all of you point those out.
ive herd of att, roadrunner, comcast, time warner... but not this one.
could be a good thing that i havent heard of them.
Now i know to use a chunky beef stu can to set up a wireless network to my friends house.
alls thats left is to level all obstructions inbetween the mile strech. That will be the fun part.
Now we can legaly make a dos bootdisk that is on a cd and load the CD up with our favorite games. doom, wolf3d, dukenukem, maybe even win 3.11, quake 1, etc.... oh the possibilitys.
nostalgia CD ver 0.1
I used to do this about 8 years a go with old 5 1/4 floppy drives that i scraped. or just use a steper motor from anything.
I was bored in the 6th grade and took to hooking stuff up to my stereo. onetime i hooked up a laser diode it was cool for a couple min before i turned the volume up to loud and fried it.
I used to hook leds, motors, laser diodes and nearly anything i could find to my stereo. The stereo died a year or so later turned it on one day and smoke was comin out of it. Not something i would recomend todo with anything that wasnt bought at a gragesale for 20$ but interesting none the less....
What will minimum install size be? i know redhat has swelled to something like 250meg with NO packages selected. Which seems slightly boated to me.
The larger size makes it harder to scale down to something to be embeded.
I rember installing redhat 5.2 on a old486 HP with 16meg o ram and a 100ish meg hd. Now its well nearly impossible. that 486 wouldnt take 6.x.
I think this could be a step in the right direction, if they play their cards right, for making linux available (again) to legacy machines/hardware and could help many schools and other places who have need for computers but not bleeding edge tech.
Im sure schools get 486 and low end pentiums all the time and are forced to trash them or scrap them because nothing will run on them or cant deploy them becuase of licencing or lack of hardware limmitations. this could be what they need.
I belive you can get a PCI card that tunes to the attomic clock.
seems like it would be cheaper not to mention easyer. no cables to run or hook up and less software to configure.
doing it via gps would be a cool hack though.
i do rember that. but i dont have that copy i just saw it on the stands.
if one wanted the info with out looking for a back issue of 2600 where could it be found?
After you sign the petition go back to the 1st page and hit refresh a few time over a couple min and watch the counter go up. i watched it go from 3092 to 3192+ in just a couple minuets. can almost watch the slashdotting.
internet is down again. I think a bird hit our IR transcever again.
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internet is down again. I think there is bird crap on the lenses or the transcever...
ok now seriously what about fog or low clouds on tall buildings? wouldnt that also create noise/bouncback?
Are they or are they not concerned with piracy?
buy the dvd cheap cause it will only play for a few hours. Then proceed to watch it then rip it or rip then watch as many times as you want. If they are tying to slow the pay-per-view industry its gonna have to cost something like 4 bucks a disk. This to a pirate is most likely going to be well worth it. Once our pirate friend makes his rip he can then distrubute it via p2p and friends for free.
I personaly would love to have one or six of those nifty pvr things and never miss a show. And perform one of those nifty tivo hacks and watch em on my computer or anywhere in my house.
But i think the main reasons there arnt more of these great devices out there.
1)cost, which for many households is unessary hen there is already a VCR or 2 in the home. Not to mention the 10? a month subsciption costs that add up, just to record tv.
2)my dad just got a dvd player this year. how many years have they been available? 4+? in genral people are slow to adopt new technology unles you are the geek/nerd breed. Look how long did it take for VHS to really catch on, Not to mention computers (yes many of us have 2 or more in our homes but there are many homes i know of with out one).
3)function, many people dont mind wating for a commercial break to get snacks esp when its gonna cost em 200-400 bones to be able do pause tv to use the restroom when you could wait 2 min. It doesnt play dvds it doesnt play Tapes it does play games. so its for more for couch potato than a movie buff or gamer.
just some of my thoughts on its slow adoption.
we killed it... it worked fine this morning but now its dead.
they may not comedown with the clap
but i can tell you if i was in to corprate esbeniaugh i would be hanging out at the air port lookin for secrets or anything i could get my hands on.
wha? you must be confused. it is a 64bit archetexture. Or does that not matter to you cause you dont know what that is?
Double the bits in and out perclock. So i can promise it will beat the hell out of a pentium 3/4 around the 1-1.4 gig speeds. and comperable to the 2.2 gigs.
and the i/o system of the machine and the subsystems will once again help it beat out comodity machices of higher spec that come with none of the graphics subsystems. This make it a dream for anyone doing rendering serilously. it will do it better than many many other machines out there.
its 3rd generation for one. and been done in other countrys. it wont go the way of sprint ion because verison is already steadfast in the wireless market and this is just more for the wireless market. whereas sprint took a gamble at fixed wireless internet something very diffrent than mobile highspeed internet and cool phones.
you also have people playing everquest leave their spouse to be with their virtual spouse. and people play for days at a time. everquest isnt as much a game rather than enhanced irc that does what irc has done from time to time just on a broader scale and thats get people hooked on some total fantacy. most games when its over its over but not for these people.
i rember back in the day before they had dsl and cable. when it was games like dukenukem 3d and a few others, quake was in its infacncy and still on if even out at the begining of that.
they had multiplayer onlinegaming avaliable for dukenukem3d and its counterpart games. but you had to pay. i thought the reson you didnt have to pay was cause it didnt take off.
vavle has a pretty good system for keeping people who didnt pay for their copys of halflife from playing online.
if im to pay to play its gonna be a lan party to coverfood and possiblehardware. none of this pay to play on line crap.
no more hosting games prolly just a huge megaserver with megalag someplace far far way.
whats the fun in that..
battle realms keeps crashing on my machine?
i said bulb or 2 not linux boxen.
besides the hamsters would prolly get distracted by the cluster and try to use it to figure their reprodutive rates vs that of the bunnys.
reuters said 10min not 3 hours...
i could make a hurd of hamsters power a bulb or 2 for 10 min
i wouldnt mind setting or building something similar myself. boot from a cd and store canges on a floppy or hd. or boot from a small hd (i got a 40meg around here someplace).
so where can i get the software config they used? if they made changes dont they have to make them available because the software they are usising is under the GNU GPL?
all and all a neat trick.
Someone said that aol has bought all the cool companys and i am inclined to agree. But The potential purchase or redhat bothers me for some stragne reson.
I am fully for the disitergration or failure of M$. even though i use their os, along with linux.
but aol seems to be getting just as big bad and ugly as ms. making the fight nolonger the little guy vs big guy. Its now the AOL gang VS the M$Monster. Which is all fine and well but whos is to say AOL wont go over board with it? Or to say they wont change how they are currently running things to something else less desirable.
Not tomention i would like to see redhat stay its own comany. Rather than being under a corprate umpbrella, such as AOL, and make it on its own as i belive it can.
Anways i wish best of luck and success to redhat eather way. and hopefuly another chink in the M$ arrmor. Progress is Progress.
Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.
it may not be a security problem but a privacy problem...
MS foot in mouth again? didnt they try security already... this could be interesting.