Check out the -M option for gpm, and set X Windows to use/dev/gpmwheel with the MouseSystems protocol.
I haven't looked into the X source code, but I'd imagine that the only real problem would be with focus. Maybe one pointer keeps the focus, and the other has it only while clicking? Hm.
Maybe I'll look at the source code of gpm and see if it can be done in the console.
What is it with the current trend to romanticising criminals and their lifestyles, no matter what they do?
Nothing new. We've romanticized government and royalty for ages.
Sorry, but criminals should not be lauded for their deeds. It's only a small step from there to a state in which crime becomes accepted as a fundamental part of life, not something which we should be attempting to get rid of.
Ummm, crime committed by whom? Theft (a.k.a. confiscation or taxes) and murder committed by government is certainly accepted as a "fundamental part of life". And nobody is attempting to get rid of it.
The government has no interest in stopping crime, only monopolizing their control of it.
First was Redhat 4.2, then RH 5.2, then Redhat 6.0 (downloaded on a 28.8 modem!), then SuSE 6.3. By RH 6.0, I was downloading lots of packages, compiling and installing them by hand. This behavior is NOT good for a RPM-based distro, especially when you replace things like gtk and glib... I ended up looking through the list of needed dependencies, and using --nodeps if I had everything already.
Then linuxfromscratch made it to Slashdot, and I decided to do what I had been pondering to do for several months. I took notes the whole way, and started 7-8-2000. I had functioning system by the 21st.
This was great fun, and I learned a lot. I finally figured out how the *complete* boot process works in Linux, and I wrote a Perl script to manage the whole runlevel changing mess. I figured out routing for the first time. I figured out how to start networking from scratch for the first time. I figured out IP Masquerading for the first time (Whee!). Everything went mostly flawlessly, and I'm greatly pleased with the result.
I wanted to keep RPM completely off my computer. Unfortunately, I broke down and installed the binary tar.gz rpm package (the first binary package to go on my system, because the source wouldn't compile), just to install the Mozilla M17 devel package so I could run Galeon.
I copied the libc5 libs from another SuSE 6.3 system--and somehow made those work without destroying my computer--just to run Netscape 3.
This brings up another coolness--I finally figured out how to run Quake II on my computer using SVGAlib! Way cool! It runs smoothly at 512x384 on my S3 ViRGE (2d mode) vid card and an AMD K6/2 400 with 64 MB RAM. (Anybody got a Voodoo 3 card they're willing to sell? lf11@andonet.com)
I'm afraid I've wandered, but I love linux, and I really love building things from scratch, tinkering with them, learning how they work...
In short, GO FOR IT! (but it might take more time than one might suppose)
if you hear a gunshot and fire 'in the general direction' you heard it is obviously not a good idea.
Not a good comparison. The person I see (or hear) firing the gun is the person firing the gun.
FYI, if someone is firing a gun at me, I sure as hell will fire back, if I can see the person firing. If not, I'll take cover. If I just *hear* a gunshot, there's no reason at all for me to fire back.
A lawsuit should only be used as a last resort after all other negotiation fails...
Have you ever seen someone making a living from suing people?? Whenever the money runs low, acuse a doctor of injury, or have a car accident, or whatever, and sue for several thousand dollars.
Fortunately, most people aren't like that. I've only heard of one, and I work in a chiropractor's office that has had a couple thousand people go through, and only one (that we know of) that was a lawsuit shark.
...I had a couple of eye-opening experiences that made me realize the critical part they play in our legal system.
FWIW, I have been near the receiving end of person who claimed injury, and seemed to want to sue. She claimed that the chiropractor (call him Bob) injured her neck, and since she had her neck "fixed" by another chiropractor (call him Tom), wants Bob to pay the bill. If the Bob pays the bill, that's tantamount to agreeing to injure her--leaving him wide open for a big lawsuit. She has refused to come back in for an examination, and, when Bob called her to find out what went wrong, she became very abusive and nasty.
Ouch.
You are quite right that lawsuits are extremely important. It is a method for an unfortunate victim to extract restitution from an unwilling injurer. Unfortunately, lawsuits are increasingly abused, and the negativity associated with lawsuits is often well-deserved.
Lawsuits have been abused, but the excuse of lawsuits has been abused even more. "Fear of litigation" is the excuse provided when a corporation takes steps to avoid litigation rather than avoid a very real and often dangerous problem.
Lawsuits are good when a real problem has occured, and the injurer has refused to settle privately. Lawsuits are bad when either the injurer or the "victim" refuses to try settling the issue privately.
"-f Flood ping. Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every ECHO_REQUEST sent a period ``.'' is printed, while for every ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed. This provides a rapid display of how many packets are being dropped. Only the super-user may use this option. This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution."
This is cool to run on a local LAN. It's interesting to see how many packets can be dropped! Just kindly refrain from running it outside your local net!
I have a similar system-- AMD K6/2 400, 64 MB RAM, and an S3 ViRGE (GX?). Well, X 3.3.5 started up quickly, but 4.0 sits there for 20-30 seconds before showing anything. Blank screen, keyboard doesn't work. I would GREATLY appreciate any thoughts or comments as to the cause of this peculiar problem.
Also, the S3 ViRGE card is *supposed* to have a some 3D-acceleration. Is there any hope for that, or am I condemned to having to shell out $50-$150 for a real 3D card?
The U.S. government taxes the living shit out of rich people. And, if you're lucky enough to have fingers in high government such that you aren't fully taxed, the wealth will NOT continue after your death...every heard of inheritance tax? The first $500,000 or so (last I checked) go untaxed, while the rest has a tax of well of 50 percent.
You don't think the inheritance tax is specifically designed for ripping the guts out of rich people??
So enormous, in fact, that even though the US and Britain are wealthier than ever before, somehow they've allegedly lost the ability to afford an adequate safety net.
Define "wealth". If you mean the amount of money floating around, well, inflation has skyrocketed so there *is* a lot more money in circulation. If you mean real "wealth", i.e. precious metals, cars, houses, factories, etcetera, then the U.S. has been declining greatly. Virtually every car or house in my area has a mortgage one it--the bank owns it, not the guy who says he 'owns' it.
<TROLL> I don't usually reply like this to posts, but this was an exceptional piece of crap. </TROLL>
If the people I teach stopped me and said they wanted to figure it out themselves, I'd have the same reaction. Let's say the eight-year-old next to me on his computer, trying to learn how to edit XPilot maps.
I don't say things like that, just so that I can glean any extra hints and tips from my teacher. However, I'd greatly enjoy a learner who wanted to learn, not just watch someone else. (Ever seen a child yaaawn while you're solving the problem he just gave to help him with? Argh.)
-lf
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If the Internet backbones and their 1.6 Terabit routers go out of business, Linux ain't gonna advance very far for quite a while. (hmm, maybe I should check out the latest version of gnome-core).
Me? I think it's the cosmic neener. Muhahaha! The market was overbloated anyway. Still is.
But since unstable and unloving parents have now been identified as a child safety issue, perhaps we need a new anonymous hotline so that kids can turn in their unstable or unloving moms and dads -- or their neighbor's mom and dad
You've never heard of social services? They take anonymous tips.
If you hear your neighbor spanking their brat child, or if your neighbor is home schooling their child, if your family eats vegan food, or if you ARE the child, SS will take anonymous tips. (What an appropriate acronym!) A lot of homeschoolers don't like to register with the state, and go through all the red tape. Unfortunately, *it's*the*law*, and the social services goons will be more than happy to take your child away...in his (or her) best interest, no less!
Ack. Whenever I talk to a woman who knows about the subject at hand, she almost always runs circles around me. Makes me feel like an utter dumb twit. I guess they think different.
Of course, I do enjoy talking with someone who's smarter than me, because I learn a lot!:-)
(guy here)
-lf
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I thought I was the only one who loved computers just for the sake of playing with them.
Mac OS 6 was ok, 7 was good, 7.5 was better, 8 was even better. OS X looks great.
Windows 95 had great ideas. But poor execution.
Windows 98 was a step backwards.
Windows 2000 is excellent. Crashes less, easier to use, better security.
Let's see, I ran DOS, Mac OS 6, 7, 8, Windows 95, Windows 98 since 1989...uh...those all give computer-wide permissions to the user == root. I ran as root in Linux for a year (I don't now), and only managed to do accidental damage *once*. If I had been running as a user, it wouldn't have helped that time, since the files would have had full permissions to me anyway.
I'm actually quite comfortable running as root, since all those other OS's give root-like permissions.
BeOS is not an attempt at security. It's not even an attempt to gain a large following (as they said when Microsoft named them as an example of an existing competitor). It is a specialized OS, designed for working with multimedia. Its being very pretty is cute bonus.
As I understand it, the government created Arpanet (I don't remember what it stands for) as a method to communicate reliably over large areas in the event of a major nuclear war. The government funded the beginnings of the Internet, but the Internet and Milnet broke apart. The Internet is completely a civilian construction. The government *SHOULD* keep its hot hands out of the Internet, but Arpanent and Milnet are their toys.
Thus, the Internet had roots that were funded by the government, but the Internet itself was built by universities and other civilian organizations.
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Check out the -M option for gpm, and set X Windows to use /dev/gpmwheel with the MouseSystems protocol.
I haven't looked into the X source code, but I'd imagine that the only real problem would be with focus. Maybe one pointer keeps the focus, and the other has it only while clicking? Hm.
Maybe I'll look at the source code of gpm and see if it can be done in the console.
-lf
What is it with the current trend to romanticising criminals and their lifestyles, no matter what they do?
Nothing new. We've romanticized government and royalty for ages.
Sorry, but criminals should not be lauded for their deeds. It's only a small step from there to a state in which crime becomes accepted as a fundamental part of life, not something which we should be attempting to get rid of.
Ummm, crime committed by whom? Theft (a.k.a. confiscation or taxes) and murder committed by government is certainly accepted as a "fundamental part of life". And nobody is attempting to get rid of it.
The government has no interest in stopping crime, only monopolizing their control of it.
-lf
First was Redhat 4.2, then RH 5.2, then Redhat 6.0 (downloaded on a 28.8 modem!), then SuSE 6.3. By RH 6.0, I was downloading lots of packages, compiling and installing them by hand. This behavior is NOT good for a RPM-based distro, especially when you replace things like gtk and glib... I ended up looking through the list of needed dependencies, and using --nodeps if I had everything already.
Then linuxfromscratch made it to Slashdot, and I decided to do what I had been pondering to do for several months. I took notes the whole way, and started 7-8-2000. I had functioning system by the 21st.
This was great fun, and I learned a lot. I finally figured out how the *complete* boot process works in Linux, and I wrote a Perl script to manage the whole runlevel changing mess. I figured out routing for the first time. I figured out how to start networking from scratch for the first time. I figured out IP Masquerading for the first time (Whee!). Everything went mostly flawlessly, and I'm greatly pleased with the result.
I wanted to keep RPM completely off my computer. Unfortunately, I broke down and installed the binary tar.gz rpm package (the first binary package to go on my system, because the source wouldn't compile), just to install the Mozilla M17 devel package so I could run Galeon.
I copied the libc5 libs from another SuSE 6.3 system--and somehow made those work without destroying my computer--just to run Netscape 3.
This brings up another coolness--I finally figured out how to run Quake II on my computer using SVGAlib! Way cool! It runs smoothly at 512x384 on my S3 ViRGE (2d mode) vid card and an AMD K6/2 400 with 64 MB RAM. (Anybody got a Voodoo 3 card they're willing to sell? lf11@andonet.com)
I'm afraid I've wandered, but I love linux, and I really love building things from scratch, tinkering with them, learning how they work...
In short, GO FOR IT! (but it might take more time than one might suppose)
-lf
if you hear a gunshot and fire 'in the general direction' you heard it is obviously not a good idea.
Not a good comparison. The person I see (or hear) firing the gun is the person firing the gun.
FYI, if someone is firing a gun at me, I sure as hell will fire back, if I can see the person firing. If not, I'll take cover. If I just *hear* a gunshot, there's no reason at all for me to fire back.
Have you ever seen someone making a living from suing people?? Whenever the money runs low, acuse a doctor of injury, or have a car accident, or whatever, and sue for several thousand dollars.
Fortunately, most people aren't like that. I've only heard of one, and I work in a chiropractor's office that has had a couple thousand people go through, and only one (that we know of) that was a lawsuit shark.
FWIW, I have been near the receiving end of person who claimed injury, and seemed to want to sue. She claimed that the chiropractor (call him Bob) injured her neck, and since she had her neck "fixed" by another chiropractor (call him Tom), wants Bob to pay the bill. If the Bob pays the bill, that's tantamount to agreeing to injure her--leaving him wide open for a big lawsuit. She has refused to come back in for an examination, and, when Bob called her to find out what went wrong, she became very abusive and nasty.
Ouch.
You are quite right that lawsuits are extremely important. It is a method for an unfortunate victim to extract restitution from an unwilling injurer. Unfortunately, lawsuits are increasingly abused, and the negativity associated with lawsuits is often well-deserved.
Lawsuits have been abused, but the excuse of lawsuits has been abused even more. "Fear of litigation" is the excuse provided when a corporation takes steps to avoid litigation rather than avoid a very real and often dangerous problem.
Lawsuits are good when a real problem has occured, and the injurer has refused to settle privately. Lawsuits are bad when either the injurer or the "victim" refuses to try settling the issue privately.
-lf
"-f Flood ping. Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every ECHO_REQUEST sent a period ``.'' is printed, while for every ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed. This provides a rapid display of how many packets are being dropped. Only the super-user may use this option. This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution."
This is cool to run on a local LAN. It's interesting to see how many packets can be dropped! Just kindly refrain from running it outside your local net!
I have a similar system-- AMD K6/2 400, 64 MB RAM, and an S3 ViRGE (GX?). Well, X 3.3.5 started up quickly, but 4.0 sits there for 20-30 seconds before showing anything. Blank screen, keyboard doesn't work. I would GREATLY appreciate any thoughts or comments as to the cause of this peculiar problem.
Also, the S3 ViRGE card is *supposed* to have a some 3D-acceleration. Is there any hope for that, or am I condemned to having to shell out $50-$150 for a real 3D card?
Thanks,
-lf
You have absolutely GOT to be JOKING!
The U.S. government taxes the living shit out of rich people. And, if you're lucky enough to have fingers in high government such that you aren't fully taxed, the wealth will NOT continue after your death...every heard of inheritance tax? The first $500,000 or so (last I checked) go untaxed, while the rest has a tax of well of 50 percent.
You don't think the inheritance tax is specifically designed for ripping the guts out of rich people??
So enormous, in fact, that even though the US and Britain are wealthier than ever before, somehow they've allegedly lost the ability to afford an adequate safety net.
Define "wealth". If you mean the amount of money floating around, well, inflation has skyrocketed so there *is* a lot more money in circulation. If you mean real "wealth", i.e. precious metals, cars, houses, factories, etcetera, then the U.S. has been declining greatly. Virtually every car or house in my area has a mortgage one it--the bank owns it, not the guy who says he 'owns' it.
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I don't usually reply like this to posts, but this was an exceptional piece of crap.
</TROLL>
-lf
Oh please!
If the people I teach stopped me and said they wanted to figure it out themselves, I'd have the same reaction. Let's say the eight-year-old next to me on his computer, trying to learn how to edit XPilot maps.
I don't say things like that, just so that I can glean any extra hints and tips from my teacher. However, I'd greatly enjoy a learner who wanted to learn, not just watch someone else. (Ever seen a child yaaawn while you're solving the problem he just gave to help him with? Argh.)
-lf
If the Internet backbones and their 1.6 Terabit routers go out of business, Linux ain't gonna advance very far for quite a while. (hmm, maybe I should check out the latest version of gnome-core).
Me? I think it's the cosmic neener. Muhahaha! The market was overbloated anyway. Still is.
Splat!
-lf
Not only will they take your child, they'll also cart you off to jail. How nice.
-lf
(forgot to put this in my first post)
But since unstable and unloving parents have now been identified as a child safety issue, perhaps we need a new anonymous hotline so that kids can turn in their unstable or unloving moms and dads -- or their neighbor's mom and dad
You've never heard of social services? They take anonymous tips.
If you hear your neighbor spanking their brat child, or if your neighbor is home schooling their child, if your family eats vegan food, or if you ARE the child, SS will take anonymous tips. (What an appropriate acronym!) A lot of homeschoolers don't like to register with the state, and go through all the red tape. Unfortunately, *it's*the*law*, and the social services goons will be more than happy to take your child away...in his (or her) best interest, no less!
-lf
Ack. Whenever I talk to a woman who knows about the subject at hand, she almost always runs circles around me. Makes me feel like an utter dumb twit. I guess they think different.
:-)
Of course, I do enjoy talking with someone who's smarter than me, because I learn a lot!
(guy here)
-lf
I thought I was the only one who loved computers
just for the sake of playing with them.
Mac OS 6 was ok, 7 was good, 7.5 was better,
8 was even better. OS X looks great.
Windows 95 had great ideas.
But poor execution.
Windows 98 was a step backwards.
Windows 2000 is excellent.
Crashes less, easier to use, better security.
Linux rules for the tinkerer.
So which do I use?
Linux.
-lf
Let's see, I ran DOS, Mac OS 6, 7, 8, Windows 95, Windows 98 since 1989...uh...those all give computer-wide permissions to the user == root. I ran as root in Linux for a year (I don't now), and only managed to do accidental damage *once*. If I had been running as a user, it wouldn't have helped that time, since the files would have had full permissions to me anyway.
I'm actually quite comfortable running as root, since all those other OS's give root-like permissions.
BeOS is not an attempt at security. It's not even an attempt to gain a large following (as they said when Microsoft named them as an example of an existing competitor). It is a specialized OS, designed for working with multimedia. Its being very pretty is cute bonus.
-lf
As I understand it, the government created Arpanet (I don't remember what it stands for) as a method to communicate reliably over large areas in the event of a major nuclear war. The government funded the beginnings of the Internet, but the Internet and Milnet broke apart. The Internet is completely a civilian construction. The government *SHOULD* keep its hot hands out of the Internet, but Arpanent and Milnet are their toys.
Thus, the Internet had roots that were funded by the government, but the Internet itself was built by universities and other civilian organizations.
Yeesh. Trollers come up with the dumbest stories!
-lf