There will be some other costs, like there will need to be a hard disk somewhere for these things to boot from, but no other major costs.
Look into the Scyld Beowulf. All slave nodes can run diskless, booting from a floppy or CD. They pull the base system from the master. So you can walk around with the install CD (which contains the node booter) and bring up your slaves one by one. Nice setup and easy to run.
That is unless you're doing distributed storage... Then you'll need the hard disks, unless you have a lot of RAM, heh.
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Vandana Shiva has been protesting the interference of Monsanto with local communities for years. Biodevastation, Water Rights.
Also watch out for Bechtel, using the same tactics in South America Water War Victory.
These corporations are changing the face of the planet for a quick one-time profit. They lack any ties to the local communities they despoil. Take the money and run... Yet the after affects will be long lasting and world wide. And people wonder why we have a cultural image of mad scientists. Once again, proprietary science has allowed itself to create a monster it thought it could control. We'll see...
You should probably look into NoHTML by Russ Cooper of NTBugTraq.
"NoHTML.dll is an Outlook Add-in designed to convert HTML-based emails into harmless messages. It works slightly differently for Outlook 2000 than it does for Outlook 2002. Does not work with Outlook 98, or any version of Outlook Express."
Check out this PPC rack mount hack. http://imac.pointinspace.com/. By taking a used/older iMac MB and fitting it into a 1U rackmount, you can end up in the sub $1000 range. And since the iMac MBs are pretty small you might be able to double them up. Maybe update the processor http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ if needed.
What to do with the monitor and case is up to you...
Yeah, A. Whitney Brown is outrageously funny. I especially like this quip from his site.
The net needs better transcripts of these shows. Of course there would be a lot of stuff to choose from, but I would enjoy digging thru volumes of text for some of my favorite writers.
These days Comedy Central and Public Access are the only channels that have anything really going for them. Good writing, few restraints.
Anyway, Deface the Nation, a public access news show which lampoons the media has been promoting this since the anniversary of WTO/N30. Great show if you're in the area. The soundman for their DTN was driving around with a mock monolith on his car until the police stopped him and then tried to confiscate his hammer.
We need a bit more humor in this city again. It's getting a little too serious. So cheers to all involved.
Well, we liked public art until recently. Now we're a "world class" city and find it more suitable to fund privately held ventures like the sports stadiums and department store facelifts. Seattle has fallen behind what once was the leading edge of community supported arts. Other cities (San Francisco, San Jose, Federal Way WA) now have 2% or more for the arts programs modeled after ours.
Not that we aren't trying. I think the money just went to everyones head.
There is more discussion over at www.kenseglerdesigns.com. Down near the bottom is a Virgin Webplayer discussion I can't link to because of/. inserting spaces in long links. And of course lots more info on hacking other Net Appliances www.linux-hacker.net.
I don't see how these loss leaders are going to make it until they begin to at least clear the manufacturing cost of the machine. Netpliance learned the hard way but at least they're still in business, sort of. And since their unit is now sold close to cost the restrictive TOS is a thing of the past. But the WebSurfer people bit the dust, now Virgin is pulling their project...
I think people really do want cheap internet terminals. But these companies are selling to the wrong crowd. Net Terminals should be going up at local businesses in little kiosks. Our public librarys running wasteful NT machines should go back to diskless stations. Our cities could be full of access that offered the same promotional capabilities. From there, you could sell home users a system that was at least used in their community rather than a dead product that's useless without the service.
"Other possible motives include economic espionage, though experts said only a rogue company might knowingly buy stolen software, using it either to improve its own products or make those products more compatible with Microsoft's best-selling operating systems."
Only rogue companies would use stolen software?
While it's likely that companies with integrity would turn in any offers of the stolen software, I wouldn't limit the possibility that many not-as-financially-successful businesses would seriously consider it. Now that Communist Red China is no longer a rogue state, is the media trying to insinuate that the real threat here is third world capitalism?
*the Communist Red China crack came from a Republican ad run this weekend stating that Gore sold out American security for campaign contributions.
For everyone's sake, Vote Nader. While I agree anything would be better than another Bush in office, it is inevitable. Casting your vote for a viable candidate rather than a talking monkey speaks for itself. Voting for the lesser of two evils (Gore) is throwing away your conscience instead of trying to make a change. Why blindly fall for second best? We must begin taking the steps to change our leadership to represent us again, and we can do it without bloodshed if you would just vote your conscience.
Napster will take the fall for MP3 redistribution and so we must take the next step in improving Gnutella and Freenet. By legitimizing our own distribution systems instead of corporate bound Napster, we strenghten our own voice. And we should speak out for what we want, even if it is "lawless" at this time. In the current culture of lawyers and copyrights I can't see any way for Napster to survive. But vote for Gore and the government dogs won't get the message will soon come for the rest of our freedoms rather than working to protect them.
I've always wondered if mousepads would become a collectors stylepoint of the 90's. Like Pokemon, Magic or Garbage Pail Kids each have their timelines, we will be charting the progress of computer science by what mousepads we can pick up in the thrift store.
In fact, they also make great wall art. Accumulate a couple hundred and you have a mosaic of computer culture tiled on your wall or ceiling. I suppose the similarity of having soft padded walls might make you look a bit crazy though, eh?
Nice collection, though it might be easier to browse if their were thumbnails for each section.
Apparently this would work like the police programs where they publicly list people convicted of crimes in order to deter them in the future.
What everyone needs to do to avoid having their private interests compromised by corporate lawmakers is to continue the democratizing work of freenet and gnutella. Along with spreading the knowledge of what these services do and how the distribution and copying of information is not inherently illegal.
I only had a vague awareness of this case until I recently went to see Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., which started out as an interesting movie about a man who designed electric chairs and other devices for state prisons. But the second half of the film took a sudden turn when Zundel called Leuchter as an expert witness in denouncing the holocaust. Bizarre.
Start with your friends and family. Turn people on to free and open formats. Use it yourself and spread the word.
One of the catches of proprietary technology is that a lot of people don't know any better. It works: they use it. If we can offer them an alternative that has close to the same capabilities and explain the reasoning behind switching, that's a good thing.
Yeah, did Hotline drop off the face of the earth? Did everyone stop trading warez and resign their harddrives to mp3s? I don't think so... Napster is just the flavor of the month. Wait until the media figure out what anonymous FTP really means.
I've often wondered why the music industry, in their quest for total control of the distribution channel, didn't fight very hard against the used cd shops around the country... I remember a slight murmor when one of the big chains began carrying used items, but it dissipated quickly. Hopefully this will be the case with Napster, and definately Gnutella. I've heard the quote on several news stories, "the genie is out of the bottle" and that seems to be the general opinion (except in the heads of record execs).
I also buy most of my music used, but offset that by purchasing as often as I can from local artists who sell their own works. I don't think I'll miss having the hand-picked stars of the year on the top 10 lists when I can be turned on to the vast amount of beginning artists I have found online or thru college/pirate radio.
In Washington and Oregon you can connect free and anonymously thru nocharge.com which is an up and coming free dial up service. No need to use a propriatory dialer so you don't waste time and screen space with ads. They even have linux specific instructions. Now there's a first!
On that note, what are they tracking? The nice feature of nocharge is that there is no account to setup (username: guest, password:password). But do they really intend to make money by selling a list of anonymously hit websites/downloads? I don't think many people are going to be calling the 1-900 number for tech support at $x.x per minute. Doubt it offsets the cost of running modem banks in every major city... But maybe so.
Will public libraries be ordered to stop lending music? Before Napster/Gnutella, borrowing a cd or tape from the library was an easy way to sample the artist.
It is important to allow the sharing of music, art and books. Imagine the lack of influence and inspiration in our lives if we were limited to only our own collection of music or books. We all need to respect the copyrights as they stand, but corporate giants also need to respect our simple desire to share.
There is no need to crack down on used book or cd shops. It is good sense to recycle these works. Why the need to fight an arms race with the digital medium rather than embracing it as an opportunity?
Should be able to purchase something that would give you a pressure sensitive screen. I don't think the voltage based ones will work. Heck I'm not sure pushing your fingers into a flat screen is such a good idea...
Or how about even pointing to their own previous (mach) linux project mklinux.apple.com. Or the active and more up to date mklinux.org.
I'm sure there are several other links they could add as well. But for now I'm pleased that they seem to be starting an informative page about PPC Linux. I'll keep checking back for updates.
Nice to see Ben getting some credit too. BootX is a terrific utility for switching over to LinuxPPC. No dinking around in Open Firmware, even my Dad can figure it out how to boot Linux now.
I've been running MkLinux for almost two years and the project is moving quite well if I do say so myself. Like you said the first release is around the corner.
So much has been worked into the system in the last year it's amazing! MkLinux supports far more PPC machines than any other PPC distro.
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Look into the Scyld Beowulf. All slave nodes can run diskless, booting from a floppy or CD. They pull the base system from the master. So you can walk around with the install CD (which contains the node booter) and bring up your slaves one by one. Nice setup and easy to run.
That is unless you're doing distributed storage... Then you'll need the hard disks, unless you have a lot of RAM, heh.
...Be quiet!
Vandana Shiva has been protesting the interference of Monsanto with local communities for years. Biodevastation, Water Rights.
Also watch out for Bechtel, using the same tactics in South America Water War Victory.
These corporations are changing the face of the planet for a quick one-time profit. They lack any ties to the local communities they despoil. Take the money and run... Yet the after affects will be long lasting and world wide. And people wonder why we have a cultural image of mad scientists. Once again, proprietary science has allowed itself to create a monster it thought it could control. We'll see...
Also a story about it here, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23223.html
I've had it installed at work for a week now and do just fine without all the images and special formatting of spam.
Check out this PPC rack mount hack. http://imac.pointinspace.com/. By taking a used/older iMac MB and fitting it into a 1U rackmount, you can end up in the sub $1000 range. And since the iMac MBs are pretty small you might be able to double them up. Maybe update the processor http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ if needed.
What to do with the monitor and case is up to you...
Yeah, A. Whitney Brown is outrageously funny. I especially like this quip from his site.
The net needs better transcripts of these shows. Of course there would be a lot of stuff to choose from, but I would enjoy digging thru volumes of text for some of my favorite writers.
These days Comedy Central and Public Access are the only channels that have anything really going for them. Good writing, few restraints.
Anyway, Deface the Nation, a public access news show which lampoons the media has been promoting this since the anniversary of WTO/N30. Great show if you're in the area. The soundman for their DTN was driving around with a mock monolith on his car until the police stopped him and then tried to confiscate his hammer.
We need a bit more humor in this city again. It's getting a little too serious. So cheers to all involved.
Well, we liked public art until recently. Now we're a "world class" city and find it more suitable to fund privately held ventures like the sports stadiums and department store facelifts. Seattle has fallen behind what once was the leading edge of community supported arts. Other cities (San Francisco, San Jose, Federal Way WA) now have 2% or more for the arts programs modeled after ours.
Not that we aren't trying. I think the money just went to everyones head.
More info can be found in the March 2000 issue of Metropolitan Living.
Auckerman mentioned this below... webfree
but you might also check out http://www.flourish.org/adremove/.
You can also use a proxy.pac file to selectively block ads if you have a javascript capable browser like Netscape/Mozilla/IE etc.
There is more discussion over at www.kenseglerdesigns.com. Down near the bottom is a Virgin Webplayer discussion I can't link to because of /. inserting spaces in long links. And of course lots more info on hacking other Net Appliances www.linux-hacker.net.
I don't see how these loss leaders are going to make it until they begin to at least clear the manufacturing cost of the machine. Netpliance learned the hard way but at least they're still in business, sort of. And since their unit is now sold close to cost the restrictive TOS is a thing of the past. But the WebSurfer people bit the dust, now Virgin is pulling their project...
I think people really do want cheap internet terminals. But these companies are selling to the wrong crowd. Net Terminals should be going up at local businesses in little kiosks. Our public librarys running wasteful NT machines should go back to diskless stations. Our cities could be full of access that offered the same promotional capabilities. From there, you could sell home users a system that was at least used in their community rather than a dead product that's useless without the service.
Only rogue companies would use stolen software?
While it's likely that companies with integrity would turn in any offers of the stolen software, I wouldn't limit the possibility that many not-as-financially-successful businesses would seriously consider it. Now that Communist Red China is no longer a rogue state, is the media trying to insinuate that the real threat here is third world capitalism?
*the Communist Red China crack came from a Republican ad run this weekend stating that Gore sold out American security for campaign contributions.
For everyone's sake, Vote Nader. While I agree anything would be better than another Bush in office, it is inevitable. Casting your vote for a viable candidate rather than a talking monkey speaks for itself. Voting for the lesser of two evils (Gore) is throwing away your conscience instead of trying to make a change. Why blindly fall for second best? We must begin taking the steps to change our leadership to represent us again, and we can do it without bloodshed if you would just vote your conscience.
Napster will take the fall for MP3 redistribution and so we must take the next step in improving Gnutella and Freenet. By legitimizing our own distribution systems instead of corporate bound Napster, we strenghten our own voice. And we should speak out for what we want, even if it is "lawless" at this time. In the current culture of lawyers and copyrights I can't see any way for Napster to survive. But vote for Gore and the government dogs won't get the message will soon come for the rest of our freedoms rather than working to protect them.
I've always wondered if mousepads would become a collectors stylepoint of the 90's. Like Pokemon, Magic or Garbage Pail Kids each have their timelines, we will be charting the progress of computer science by what mousepads we can pick up in the thrift store.
In fact, they also make great wall art. Accumulate a couple hundred and you have a mosaic of computer culture tiled on your wall or ceiling. I suppose the similarity of having soft padded walls might make you look a bit crazy though, eh?
Nice collection, though it might be easier to browse if their were thumbnails for each section.
...Ratings, tracking...
Or public humiliation according to this article at gnutellanet.net.
Apparently this would work like the police programs where they publicly list people convicted of crimes in order to deter them in the future.
What everyone needs to do to avoid having their private interests compromised by corporate lawmakers is to continue the democratizing work of freenet and gnutella. Along with spreading the knowledge of what these services do and how the distribution and copying of information is not inherently illegal.
I only had a vague awareness of this case until I recently went to see Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., which started out as an interesting movie about a man who designed electric chairs and other devices for state prisons. But the second half of the film took a sudden turn when Zundel called Leuchter as an expert witness in denouncing the holocaust. Bizarre.
Start with your friends and family. Turn people on to free and open formats. Use it yourself and spread the word.
One of the catches of proprietary technology is that a lot of people don't know any better. It works: they use it. If we can offer them an alternative that has close to the same capabilities and explain the reasoning behind switching, that's a good thing.
Yeah, did Hotline drop off the face of the earth? Did everyone stop trading warez and resign their harddrives to mp3s? I don't think so... Napster is just the flavor of the month. Wait until the media figure out what anonymous FTP really means.
I've often wondered why the music industry, in their quest for total control of the distribution channel, didn't fight very hard against the used cd shops around the country... I remember a slight murmor when one of the big chains began carrying used items, but it dissipated quickly. Hopefully this will be the case with Napster, and definately Gnutella. I've heard the quote on several news stories, "the genie is out of the bottle" and that seems to be the general opinion (except in the heads of record execs).
I also buy most of my music used, but offset that by purchasing as often as I can from local artists who sell their own works. I don't think I'll miss having the hand-picked stars of the year on the top 10 lists when I can be turned on to the vast amount of beginning artists I have found online or thru college/pirate radio.
In Washington and Oregon you can connect free and anonymously thru nocharge.com which is an up and coming free dial up service. No need to use a propriatory dialer so you don't waste time and screen space with ads. They even have linux specific instructions. Now there's a first!
On that note, what are they tracking? The nice feature of nocharge is that there is no account to setup (username: guest, password:password). But do they really intend to make money by selling a list of anonymously hit websites/downloads? I don't think many people are going to be calling the 1-900 number for tech support at $x.x per minute. Doubt it offsets the cost of running modem banks in every major city... But maybe so.
Will public libraries be ordered to stop lending music? Before Napster/Gnutella, borrowing a cd or tape from the library was an easy way to sample the artist.
It is important to allow the sharing of music, art and books. Imagine the lack of influence and inspiration in our lives if we were limited to only our own collection of music or books. We all need to respect the copyrights as they stand, but corporate giants also need to respect our simple desire to share.
There is no need to crack down on used book or cd shops. It is good sense to recycle these works. Why the need to fight an arms race with the digital medium rather than embracing it as an opportunity?
Well you should check out this story about turning iMacs into kiosks with USB touchscreens.
Touchscreen iMacs
Should be able to purchase something that would give you a pressure sensitive screen. I don't think the voltage based ones will work. Heck I'm not sure pushing your fingers into a flat screen is such a good idea...
And what would BSD happen to be based on?
Or how about even pointing to their own previous (mach) linux project mklinux.apple.com. Or the active and more up to date mklinux.org.
I'm sure there are several other links they could add as well. But for now I'm pleased that they seem to be starting an informative page about PPC Linux. I'll keep checking back for updates.
Nice to see Ben getting some credit too. BootX is a terrific utility for switching over to LinuxPPC. No dinking around in Open Firmware, even my Dad can figure it out how to boot Linux now.
I've been running MkLinux for almost two years and the project is moving quite well if I do say so myself. Like you said the first release is around the corner.
So much has been worked into the system in the last year it's amazing! MkLinux supports far more PPC machines than any other PPC distro.
For an estimate on the amount of MkLinux users check out the MkLinux Counter Project.
I couldn't believe the snippits of dialogue that I heard from the trailer for Mission to Mars...
Guy looking at a screen with a computer generated graphic,
"That looks like human DNA!"
Cause at a glance, I wasn't sure... The effects did look pretty spiffy, but that doesn't cut it for me.