I've also found devshed.com has some userful tutorials for php and mysql, quite well done ones in fact. I have used examples from there in my production code.(Esp. the template info, saved me a lot of time and beautified my code a lot too)...
SPOILERS..... I know most don't really get it... The conclusion of this movie was that they failed to protect Zion. There is a "we are fucked" ending going on there, and then... something happens(I had to explain what that meant to way to many people) and that readies us for the next movie.
I feel that this movie was totally complete, and I loved the Rave scene, It let you know that these were HUMANS they were fighting for. We want those people to live. And in the end, it doesn't really matter...
they offer redhat virtual servers, I get root on my own system to do with as I wish. They don't have much in the way of restrictions and cost me about US$29.95/month. I run a number of sites on mine, and get about 2Gig storage and 15Gig transfer. As for support, they have been excellent(even sent me a penguin calender for christmas), with quick response to all issues, they even called me directly when I left a trouble ticket at 10pm to get more details. I've enjoyed their service and suggest it for anyone
but, think about a beowulf cluster built on these....
ok, seriuosly, you could create an interesting parallel processing computer in a very small stack from these things, and I've seen some with quite reasonable performance...
something for me to mess with when I win the lottery... until then, I'll stick with the cluster of amazing junk I currently use...
A similar approach is what I use, I run a vnc x server on one system with just enough space to fit xmms, then run that in there and allow anyone on the network to access it, it is web enabled because of the java applet built in and even works with my ipaq. I've been using it lately to control music from whereever I am, including out at the pool. The interface is familiar, the software works anywhere and the work is centralised... best solution I've seen. I intend to work on something using this setup and a web interface in the future, but for now this is great.
Now all the trolls will have incentive to subscribe, so they can do all the variations of 'First Post' before anyone else has a chance... Maybe the idea of keeping posts out until release would be a good idea... Ah well, I'm still broke, so i'm not participating.
I'm typing this on an old klunker, all the labels are gone, so I don't know who made it, but I know that I've had this thing for years.
Someone mentioned an IBM keyboard... I have once in a while burned computer equiptment around the camp fire(colors are cool, fumes are deadly) and the IBM keyboard was the most interesting in a while, It had a solid metal back plate that would not even get soft when red hot! We liquified glass and assorted other metals in this fire, but the metal plate is still in the fire pit and we have had many more fires there since... That is solid hardware, if only the whole thing were that durable...
Back to my amd k6-2 500 running in the case of an 8086 with the same power supply(180W) Nothing is more satisfying than turing on your computer with a solid flick of a big red switch! (It takes about 2 or 3 tries before the thing actually boots thou... ah well, I rarely shut down, this damnded Debian GNU/Linux Stable is not kidding!)
There is a McGyber episode where they have something some guy wants in the car, they put it in a cargo plane with the back door open to basically kill him, he then proceded to use his swis army knife a blanket and a rope to build a parachute for the whole car... And jumps... It is a great series.
I scraped the article of newsforge earlier today, and out of sheer curiosity I tried to get it working. I'm running debian, had OO installed already and am using mysql for some other work here already...
I just read his article for some hints, and installed the unixODBC and the mysql driver using the package manager(could have used the command line, I just like the interface) and modified one file to point it at a table...(there is a gui for this too) and it worked in OO.
Debian straight up is not always for beginers, I know what I am doing(at least on mondays) and even then I didn't have to think about it much(other than messing with my passwords elsewhere). I've used some deb derivatives, they could make something like this setup a joke to do.
This is a good tool to have, I won't use it because I like to command line, but it will make things easier soon. OO is well writen enough that it just deals with ODBC, and ODBC is very close to the simplicity of setup. So we soon will not have the problem that the article described.
I get some of my address scraped off my sites. I posted on a site that was not really off the starting block yet an address and now get spam at it.
One solution I like: Go to OSnews.com and scroll to the very bottom. Click the last link on the page, the "notice to buld e-mailers" and there is a nice part about the billing the mailers. I'm implementing that soon. I also have a system in the works that gives a different e-mail address to each harverster and logs the address, but that is more for kicks than useful.
Best solution on the inbox - bayesian spam filter - dropped one onto my inbox and immediatly started losing spam, no false positive, few false negative(1-5%) and I can check if I missed something by looking in my "spam" folder.
My suggestion for a total solution: Rebuild the infrastructure for e-mail from scratch, recode it and re-design it. Create a trail that can be tracked, if the headers are forged, then it is detected and refused, make it so that the spammers have a hard time, but the user does not... Can it be done? I don't know, I'm not that good... Could it be tried, I'd suggest it, Having 2 locations to contact someone is not new, we just need to start somewhere.
Problem is that they are all $100 refurbs. I want one out of the guys basement so that I can mess with it(mount it on the door of my apartment or something stupid). Imagine the fun of installing pay phones all over the place that are just out of reach? Or having the handset glued to the box. Or the wire's intentionally cut. Even setup some that are the grimiest things you can create and encourage them to get worse - but make sure it works and see how many come and use it... These would be just so much fun!
This plus Cygwin could be interesting. I've been using the rootless version of the Cygwin X-server and a single copy of wine on a Debian box to try this out, and basically there is little difference between running native and running remote. To get it any better, I used the Novell X-server(comes with lan workplace pro) and the apps start to look totally native even when run remotely. With a few more advancements in cygwin, this could lead to a totally free windows app server...
I have a bunch of older laptops and some have screens as small as the one on my ipaq, and they run 640*480 fine(16 colors probably won't bother you much) you just need the knowhow to setup the controllers or better yet(my solution for in house monitoring terms...) just network the damned thing and use it as is(with some internal re-working/re-arranging) good luck! don't forget to take pictures so we can have a server to slashdot.
Yes, they work great. Being a Canadian, we live throu all extreems of weather, it gets above 40 C and below -40 C where i live, so a little colder just means we have to cuddle up with the women some more.
Nah, PoPToP, it allows a windows vpn client to access a linux system using this broken protocol... but if the client is broken too, that sorta sucks. I have a group of VPN connections setup with my friends, we just use PPP over a SSH connection, secure, free and easy to use, lookup the howto on that one...
Actually I have one of those AT cases, desktop case with a flip top. Originally it was a 286 I think, then the university upped it to a 486, I got my hands on it from there and it runs great as a k6-2 500. It still has the original power supply in it.
Solution, slashdot cache's the site, but does not publicly allow it unless the slashdot effect appears to be taking hold. Then the cache is opened up to relieve pressure on the users server. If the server can take the load, then no cache, it the server dies, like this time, the cache is made public, the story edited to link to the cache and everyone is happy, after 12 to 24 hours the cache is again closed for that site. Not hard to implement, makes everyone happy, and only is dealt with on the slashdot side of the equation.
I've got a PB140 sitting on the desk right next to me. It doesn't even turn on. I need to rip it apart, but I have not torx screwdrivers available. Dang nabit.
Some people here have good ideas, some are just giving the party line.
I use and setup equiptment like this all the time, I collect older hardware, and also you find this level of equiptment when dumpster diving, found 5 or 6 386 throu 586 mobo's the other night.
There are really two options, the Microsoft solution or the unix solution.
MS Win 3.1(1) will work fine on that hardware, it is generally above spec for the software. I run it on some slower 386 level stuff fine. For a P100 like you have, I'd suggest win95 or win98 with IE stripped out(win98Lite - look it up). I've been able to shoehorn 95 onto a 386 and 98 onto a lowend 486 and they ran ok(little programs that run in the config.sys that lie to programs and say your on a pentium!)
As for WYSIWYG word processing - use a copy of Wordperfect, it was the standard at that time, the MS products were not that great. Wordperfect does not even require win3.1, it can run WYSIWYG in dos. Use DOS 6.2 not 6.22 that was one after they lost a fight and had to remove some stuff.
The unix solutions are also not too bad. BSD or linux will run fine, just get rid of the useless extras, and use a simple window manager, nothing complex. That said, I use enlightenment on a P150 system with a ati mach32 2meg and it runs reasonably well.
QNX is one I have been playing with for a little bit now, like the interface it has, really slick. But it can sometimes be a pain to configure if it did not detect things right. Once you find and understand the manual, things are OK. I don't know of any word processor for it, but I do know there is a wordpad equivalent.
My suggestion after all that: Try the unicies first, they are cheaper and you will know if you like it. If you find usability is low, just dig up a couple of old MS and Novel(wordperfect) disks at a garage sale or something and install. That is what those programs were made for.
I've seen some solutions for this. Anything but windows is easy to do. When I was at UofWaterloo I think they had hard drives in the windows systems that just rewrote themselves each boot, so that does not work for you. I know that you can remote boot DOS, novell did that I think. I have some boot rom's here that will load a floppy image and boot it, so put dos there.
Someone mentioned, boot dos and then load windows, could work for the 9X/ME line of windows.
I was reading Kuro5hin the other day and someone was describing his inside view of some microsoft work, and he did mention remote boot of win2k. But that might have been just remote install...
My best suggestion: get the code for the etherboot project(or whatever it is called, it open source...) and modify it with some hard drive emulation code. Those things load into memory just like a dos.sys file - ie they act like bios, just override the bios HD routines and run them throu the card... I don't know enough to do it, but would use the results if they exsisted.
"If Gateway truly believed that illegal copying hurts all artists and labels who make the music we enjoy, they'd be working with us to find a solution to the piracy problem," Rosen added"
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I've also found devshed.com has some userful tutorials for php and mysql, quite well done ones in fact. I have used examples from there in my production code.(Esp. the template info, saved me a lot of time and beautified my code a lot too)...
SPOILERS.....
I know most don't really get it... The conclusion of this movie was that they failed to protect Zion. There is a "we are fucked" ending going on there, and then... something happens(I had to explain what that meant to way to many people) and that readies us for the next movie.
I feel that this movie was totally complete, and I loved the Rave scene, It let you know that these were HUMANS they were fighting for. We want those people to live. And in the end, it doesn't really matter...
they offer redhat virtual servers, I get root on my own system to do with as I wish. They don't have much in the way of restrictions and cost me about US$29.95/month. I run a number of sites on mine, and get about 2Gig storage and 15Gig transfer. As for support, they have been excellent(even sent me a penguin calender for christmas), with quick response to all issues, they even called me directly when I left a trouble ticket at 10pm to get more details. I've enjoyed their service and suggest it for anyone
www.rosehosting.com
enjoy.
ok, seriuosly, you could create an interesting parallel processing computer in a very small stack from these things, and I've seen some with quite reasonable performance...
something for me to mess with when I win the lottery... until then, I'll stick with the cluster of amazing junk I currently use...
Enjoy
A similar approach is what I use, I run a vnc x server on one system with just enough space to fit xmms, then run that in there and allow anyone on the network to access it, it is web enabled because of the java applet built in and even works with my ipaq. I've been using it lately to control music from whereever I am, including out at the pool. The interface is familiar, the software works anywhere and the work is centralised... best solution I've seen. I intend to work on something using this setup and a web interface in the future, but for now this is great.
Now all the trolls will have incentive to subscribe, so they can do all the variations of 'First Post' before anyone else has a chance... Maybe the idea of keeping posts out until release would be a good idea... Ah well, I'm still broke, so i'm not participating.
Someone mentioned an IBM keyboard... I have once in a while burned computer equiptment around the camp fire(colors are cool, fumes are deadly) and the IBM keyboard was the most interesting in a while, It had a solid metal back plate that would not even get soft when red hot! We liquified glass and assorted other metals in this fire, but the metal plate is still in the fire pit and we have had many more fires there since... That is solid hardware, if only the whole thing were that durable...
Back to my amd k6-2 500 running in the case of an 8086 with the same power supply(180W) Nothing is more satisfying than turing on your computer with a solid flick of a big red switch! (It takes about 2 or 3 tries before the thing actually boots thou... ah well, I rarely shut down, this damnded Debian GNU/Linux Stable is not kidding!)
There is a McGyber episode where they have something some guy wants in the car, they put it in a cargo plane with the back door open to basically kill him, he then proceded to use his swis army knife a blanket and a rope to build a parachute for the whole car... And jumps... It is a great series.
I just read his article for some hints, and installed the unixODBC and the mysql driver using the package manager(could have used the command line, I just like the interface) and modified one file to point it at a table...(there is a gui for this too) and it worked in OO.
Debian straight up is not always for beginers, I know what I am doing(at least on mondays) and even then I didn't have to think about it much(other than messing with my passwords elsewhere). I've used some deb derivatives, they could make something like this setup a joke to do.
This is a good tool to have, I won't use it because I like to command line, but it will make things easier soon. OO is well writen enough that it just deals with ODBC, and ODBC is very close to the simplicity of setup. So we soon will not have the problem that the article described.
Enjoy.
One solution I like: Go to OSnews.com and scroll to the very bottom. Click the last link on the page, the "notice to buld e-mailers" and there is a nice part about the billing the mailers. I'm implementing that soon. I also have a system in the works that gives a different e-mail address to each harverster and logs the address, but that is more for kicks than useful.
Best solution on the inbox - bayesian spam filter - dropped one onto my inbox and immediatly started losing spam, no false positive, few false negative(1-5%) and I can check if I missed something by looking in my "spam" folder.
My suggestion for a total solution: Rebuild the infrastructure for e-mail from scratch, recode it and re-design it. Create a trail that can be tracked, if the headers are forged, then it is detected and refused, make it so that the spammers have a hard time, but the user does not... Can it be done? I don't know, I'm not that good... Could it be tried, I'd suggest it, Having 2 locations to contact someone is not new, we just need to start somewhere.
Enjoy
Problem is that they are all $100 refurbs. I want one out of the guys basement so that I can mess with it(mount it on the door of my apartment or something stupid). Imagine the fun of installing pay phones all over the place that are just out of reach? Or having the handset glued to the box. Or the wire's intentionally cut. Even setup some that are the grimiest things you can create and encourage them to get worse - but make sure it works and see how many come and use it... These would be just so much fun!
This plus Cygwin could be interesting. I've been using the rootless version of the Cygwin X-server and a single copy of wine on a Debian box to try this out, and basically there is little difference between running native and running remote. To get it any better, I used the Novell X-server(comes with lan workplace pro) and the apps start to look totally native even when run remotely. With a few more advancements in cygwin, this could lead to a totally free windows app server...
I have a bunch of older laptops and some have screens as small as the one on my ipaq, and they run 640*480 fine(16 colors probably won't bother you much) you just need the knowhow to setup the controllers or better yet(my solution for in house monitoring terms...) just network the damned thing and use it as is(with some internal re-working/re-arranging) good luck! don't forget to take pictures so we can have a server to slashdot.
Yes, they work great. Being a Canadian, we live throu all extreems of weather, it gets above 40 C and below -40 C where i live, so a little colder just means we have to cuddle up with the women some more.
Nah, PoPToP, it allows a windows vpn client to access a linux system using this broken protocol... but if the client is broken too, that sorta sucks. I have a group of VPN connections setup with my friends, we just use PPP over a SSH connection, secure, free and easy to use, lookup the howto on that one...
Actually I have one of those AT cases, desktop case with a flip top. Originally it was a 286 I think, then the university upped it to a 486, I got my hands on it from there and it runs great as a k6-2 500. It still has the original power supply in it.
Solution, slashdot cache's the site, but does not publicly allow it unless the slashdot effect appears to be taking hold. Then the cache is opened up to relieve pressure on the users server. If the server can take the load, then no cache, it the server dies, like this time, the cache is made public, the story edited to link to the cache and everyone is happy, after 12 to 24 hours the cache is again closed for that site. Not hard to implement, makes everyone happy, and only is dealt with on the slashdot side of the equation.
I've got a PB140 sitting on the desk right next to me. It doesn't even turn on. I need to rip it apart, but I have not torx screwdrivers available. Dang nabit.
Some people here have good ideas, some are just giving the party line.
I use and setup equiptment like this all the time, I collect older hardware, and also you find this level of equiptment when dumpster diving, found 5 or 6 386 throu 586 mobo's the other night.
There are really two options, the Microsoft solution or the unix solution.
MS Win 3.1(1) will work fine on that hardware, it is generally above spec for the software. I run it on some slower 386 level stuff fine. For a P100 like you have, I'd suggest win95 or win98 with IE stripped out(win98Lite - look it up). I've been able to shoehorn 95 onto a 386 and 98 onto a lowend 486 and they ran ok(little programs that run in the config.sys that lie to programs and say your on a pentium!)
As for WYSIWYG word processing - use a copy of Wordperfect, it was the standard at that time, the MS products were not that great. Wordperfect does not even require win3.1, it can run WYSIWYG in dos. Use DOS 6.2 not 6.22 that was one after they lost a fight and had to remove some stuff.
The unix solutions are also not too bad. BSD or linux will run fine, just get rid of the useless extras, and use a simple window manager, nothing complex. That said, I use enlightenment on a P150 system with a ati mach32 2meg and it runs reasonably well.
QNX is one I have been playing with for a little bit now, like the interface it has, really slick. But it can sometimes be a pain to configure if it did not detect things right. Once you find and understand the manual, things are OK. I don't know of any word processor for it, but I do know there is a wordpad equivalent.
My suggestion after all that: Try the unicies first, they are cheaper and you will know if you like it. If you find usability is low, just dig up a couple of old MS and Novel(wordperfect) disks at a garage sale or something and install. That is what those programs were made for.
Someone mentioned, boot dos and then load windows, could work for the 9X/ME line of windows.
I was reading Kuro5hin the other day and someone was describing his inside view of some microsoft work, and he did mention remote boot of win2k. But that might have been just remote install...
My best suggestion: get the code for the etherboot project(or whatever it is called, it open source...) and modify it with some hard drive emulation code. Those things load into memory just like a dos .sys file - ie they act like bios, just override the bios HD routines and run them throu the card... I don't know enough to do it, but would use the results if they exsisted.
Good Luck.
Relativly simple, just upload the data to a friends system over your always on high speed internet connection... or equivalent.
This pretty well states it all.