I have submitted the original story yesterday, with links to theregister. Result?
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-04-02 19:54:35 All your data are belong to Microsoft (articles,news) (rejected)
Then the next day the story appears without mentioning the source. Sheesh.
I did once something very close. I opened a dummy hotmail account, never used it to send email or posted the address anywhere, plus I turned off all the "optional" services from hotmail, etc. 3 months later there were 214 messages in it, 99% spam (the rest were test messages sent by me).
Actually it's much more complicated. A gps device needs to receive at each moment at least 3 different signals from several satellites, and by comparing the phase differences between the signals, given the predetermined schedules of satellites' flyby, it computes the position. That is, to make it think it's elsewhere, you'd need to supply several continuously changing signals. Not trivial.
There's a port of LinuxPPC to the NuBus macs at http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/. Runs pretty well on my 8100/100. Much faster than MkLinux. It does have some issues regarding the detection of the available memory, but with the help of the memory reporting utility and passing the appropriate settings to the kernel in BootX, it works.
Mwave is a completely different kind of beast, in fact it was developed way before Intel released their standard (my thinkpad has a mwave, and it was built in 1994). The mwave has a dsp running its own firmware, and emulates both a modem and a sound card (but not the two at the same time). Not a bad idea, but, as it has been said before, the implementation was terrible. Won't help you a bit for other modems.
Actually, the hardware MAC address, as it exists on the card, never changes - what changes is the way the OS (Linux in this case) reports it to the outside. For details "man ifconfig", option "hw". Most drivers I know support it, and it's trivial to do.
Xf86-4.0.2 is in the/contrib directory. Just don't install X upon setup, then go and installpkg the 2 packages there, and you've got the latest and greatest.
That's trivial: go to "KDE user manual", and take a look at the contents. It's right there, section 4.1, title: "starting KDE". Took me about 3.75 seconds.
In case you still don't find it, here's a quote:
"When you boot a UNIX system, one of two things should happen (that is, if the system works correctly; everything else is an undocumented third case). Either you stay in text mode and get a login prompt or you are presented with a graphical login window. In the former case, you must log into your system and type:
startx
If the installation was successful, the KDE desktop should appear after a few seconds of initialization.
If a graphical login window is presented, then all that should be required is your login name and password. Assuming the KDE installation was successful, KDE should start without further intervention.
If you have not done so already, we recommend changing your X display manager from xdm to kdm, which includes the same functionality, but with the advanced features of the K Desktop Environment. "
KDE v2 has a great help system. Allow me to quote from the menu: "introduction to kde", including: overview, launching apps, working with windows, managing files, configuring the desktop, etc; "KDE user's manual" which goes more in depth about pretty much everything; "application manuals"; "UNIX man pages"; "tutorials"; "KDE FAQ"; etc, etc. You get all this just by installing it (and pretty soon distributions should ship with it default).
This has really been a nice day. I've been called a retard, a bigot, crude and obtuse. One really has to like it when the winvocates are unleashed upon oneself. Oh, please, don't hold anything back, let me have it all. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a plug that needs to get pulled.
Retard? Just because he didn't know about some crappy Windoze app? I also have no idea what Putty is, does this make me a retard? Even if I haven't touched a MS-based computer in 2 years now, because I do all my work on unix?
I seriously doubt you've seen this, unless it was one of the earliest betas (before build 134, when I got into it). VMWare specifically checks this at boot, and won't run if it finds it's started within another virtual machine - so no recursion is possible.
If you only look at the upfront price, yes, they are quite expensive. However, at least TiVo has been pushing their product (and still are) with all sorts of deals and rebates. I got mine from Circuit City in August: a 14h unit (upgraded since to 52h) for $299, which came with 2 rebates: a $100 rebate from CC, plus a $100 rebate from TiVo. So my final price was $99 - now, that's in VCR range. Of course, there was also the $100 I paid later for the HD I used to upgrade, but that's a different story.
My only problem with Gimp is that it doesn't support 16-bit images (yet). Apart from that, it has all the features I need. AFAIK, it will in version 2, but this one's not coming anytime soon.
If the 100 MHz ppc mac is a 8100, you won't be able to run LinuxPPC on it, these first-generation NuBus PPC macs aren't supported. It's due to the lack of a PCI bus and of OpenFirmware. The only version of Linux that runs on them is MkLinux, which is dog slow.
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I have submitted the original story yesterday, with links to theregister. Result?
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-04-02 19:54:35 All your data are belong to Microsoft (articles,news) (rejected)
Then the next day the story appears without mentioning the source. Sheesh.
I did once something very close. I opened a dummy hotmail account, never used it to send email or posted the address anywhere, plus I turned off all the "optional" services from hotmail, etc. 3 months later there were 214 messages in it, 99% spam (the rest were test messages sent by me).
file a.out
'nuff said.
Actually it's much more complicated. A gps device needs to receive at each moment at least 3 different signals from several satellites, and by comparing the phase differences between the signals, given the predetermined schedules of satellites' flyby, it computes the position. That is, to make it think it's elsewhere, you'd need to supply several continuously changing signals. Not trivial.
There's a port of LinuxPPC to the NuBus macs at http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/. Runs pretty well on my 8100/100. Much faster than MkLinux. It does have some issues regarding the detection of the available memory, but with the help of the memory reporting utility and passing the appropriate settings to the kernel in BootX, it works.
Mwave is a completely different kind of beast, in fact it was developed way before Intel released their standard (my thinkpad has a mwave, and it was built in 1994). The mwave has a dsp running its own firmware, and emulates both a modem and a sound card (but not the two at the same time). Not a bad idea, but, as it has been said before, the implementation was terrible. Won't help you a bit for other modems.
Actually, the hardware MAC address, as it exists on the card, never changes - what changes is the way the OS (Linux in this case) reports it to the outside. For details "man ifconfig", option "hw". Most drivers I know support it, and it's trivial to do.
Gets rejected when using Netscape 4.76/Linux, however works perfectly fine with Konqueror :)).
Xf86-4.0.2 is in the /contrib directory. Just don't install X upon setup, then go and installpkg the 2 packages there, and you've got the latest and greatest.
It will be a 1-900 number where you'll get put on hold for 3h. Especially if you call from overseas.
Won't work. Most respectable mailing lists, unlike ebay, use double opt-in. Ebay is one of those that seem to use double opt-out :)
That's trivial: go to "KDE user manual", and take a look at the contents. It's right there, section 4.1, title: "starting KDE". Took me about 3.75 seconds.
In case you still don't find it, here's a quote:
"When you boot a UNIX system, one of two things should happen (that is, if the system works correctly; everything else is an undocumented third case). Either you stay in text mode and get a login prompt or you are presented with a graphical login window. In the former case, you must log into your system and type:
startx
If the installation was successful, the KDE desktop should appear after a few seconds of initialization.
If a graphical login window is presented, then all that should be required is your login name and password. Assuming the KDE installation was successful, KDE should start without further intervention.
If you have not done so already, we recommend changing your X display manager from xdm to kdm, which includes the same functionality, but with the advanced features of the K Desktop Environment. "
Yeah, that page's been in place, announcement and all, for little over a year now. That's vaporware by my book.
1. pico; mc (esp. if you're accustomed to Norton Commander).
2. This has nothing to do with Linux: complain to Adobe. I for one use Slackware, and am very glad there's no rpm shoved down my throat.
KDE v2 has a great help system. Allow me to quote from the menu: "introduction to kde", including: overview, launching apps, working with windows, managing files, configuring the desktop, etc; "KDE user's manual" which goes more in depth about pretty much everything; "application manuals"; "UNIX man pages"; "tutorials"; "KDE FAQ"; etc, etc. You get all this just by installing it (and pretty soon distributions should ship with it default).
This has really been a nice day. I've been called a retard, a bigot, crude and obtuse. One really has to like it when the winvocates are unleashed upon oneself. Oh, please, don't hold anything back, let me have it all. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a plug that needs to get pulled.
Retard? Just because he didn't know about some crappy Windoze app? I also have no idea what Putty is, does this make me a retard? Even if I haven't touched a MS-based computer in 2 years now, because I do all my work on unix?
...I'd better remove all the hyperlinks from my page, or I'll get sued too....Not!
I seriously doubt you've seen this, unless it was one of the earliest betas (before build 134, when I got into it). VMWare specifically checks this at boot, and won't run if it finds it's started within another virtual machine - so no recursion is possible.
If you only look at the upfront price, yes, they are quite expensive. However, at least TiVo has been pushing their product (and still are) with all sorts of deals and rebates. I got mine from Circuit City in August: a 14h unit (upgraded since to 52h) for $299, which came with 2 rebates: a $100 rebate from CC, plus a $100 rebate from TiVo. So my final price was $99 - now, that's in VCR range. Of course, there was also the $100 I paid later for the HD I used to upgrade, but that's a different story.
My only problem with Gimp is that it doesn't support 16-bit images (yet). Apart from that, it has all the features I need. AFAIK, it will in version 2, but this one's not coming anytime soon.
...on everything down to 7400 chips. I mean, they can be used to interface with memory, right?
I know, but it doesn't seem to be quite there yet. In fact, it's rated pre-alpha.
If the 100 MHz ppc mac is a 8100, you won't be able to run LinuxPPC on it, these first-generation NuBus PPC macs aren't supported. It's due to the lack of a PCI bus and of OpenFirmware. The only version of Linux that runs on them is MkLinux, which is dog slow.
No, the IR port is uni-directional (just an output).