Actually, that's not the main idea. The ethernet need arose from the people that want to control the TiVo over a shell prompt/ppp/whatever, but at the same time need to free the serial port that controlls their satellite boxes. Obviously you cannot have both on the same physical link, so why not put the shell over ethernet.
A chunk of that 78k complaints about uu.net is due to me - I get anywhere between 10 and 20 pieces of spam each day, 99% of which originate from them. And the autoreply they send to each incident I report via spamcop is so predictable and uninformative that I'll soon block it off.
Thanks for the pointer. I didn't even know an Elite club existed - heck, I didn't even know anyone else but me remembered Elite at all. I still miss the long lost hours I used to play it on my Spectrum. And the thrill I had when I discovered (on my own, but later I found out it was well-known) the mild cheat of avoiding the pirates by reentering the base you just left, and starting the hyperdrive at the same time...
If you want to trust installwatch, that's your business. Just don't bring those packages around my system.
Don't worry, I wasn't planning to. They're strictly for my personal use.
protopkg implements that sort of functionality much more cleanly, consistently, and reliably.
Protopkg wasn't around 18 months ago, when I started using installwatch (with excellent results, no matter what you insinuate). It was only released 3 days ago, according to the changelog. I'll try it.
I assume you know about installwatch. Linuxmafia has a "unofficial" version with an added script for the Slackware packaging system; makes installation from source a breeze, along with updating the package database and easy uninstall via the standard Slack pkgtool/removepkg. It's as simple as:
./configure
make
su
installwatch -o logfile make install
inst2slack logfile
Slackware is an amazingly good distribution, especially considering the small number of people that put it together and maintain it. It's also one of the first distributions that appeared, and, AFAIK, the oldest still around.
Having installed Corel doesn't remotely qualify you as a guru.
As for the marketing stuff, why don't you suggest Microsoft they change their name, since it has such trivial co-notations.
Out of 2 machines we have here with internal ATAPI zip drives, both must have the zips replaced twice a year, for the last 2 years. The drives are pretty heavily used, to be fair, but not even one has lasted more than 6 months before getting the "click of death". The last incident was a month ago - fortunately they're still under warranty, so Micron replaces them for free.
OTOH, I have a parallel drive at home, and it hasn't failed in 18 months, but it doesn't get the same usage as the ones at work. Before that I had a internal scsi zip, and it died within 8 months of light use. YMMV.
I have no experience with the AOL browser, but if it allows, like Netscape does, to set a local proxy up, you could get Junkbuster and get on with your life.
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Sure you can secure a NT box. Just shutdown every damn process that has anything to do, even remotely, with networking; then, to be absolutely sure, pull the ethernet cable too.
If Linux crashes "just as often", does this mean that the other OS you're comparing it to, because it also crashes "just as often" is not ready for enterprise and may never be?
Does anyone actually read these things, it says PCS without an OS it doesn't say PCs without windows
And exactly what other intel-compatible OS might one "pirate" (to follow the argument), apart from windoze? Linux? BeOS? QNX? FreeBSD? Solaris? The last time I checked, these were all free, either as in speech, or as in beer.
My first-hand experience (with Micron only, I've never touched a Dell so I can't speak), is that the company "reputation" basically translates to "support". I can't vouch for the machines quality, since about half the hardware in this Micron Millenia XRU had to be replaced within one year due to failures. But their support was good.
MS has spammed me cold in 1997 and 1998, and they blatantly ignored all of my remove requests. The only solution I found, eventually, was give up that address altogether. My experience is, if you make it on one of their mailing lists, you're as good as dead. Maybe they've changed in the last 2 years, but I really don't want to know.
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...except my understanding is the DSS control program will refuse to send any commands if the port is used by anything else, such as pppd.
In the US, the same space is used to transmit closed captioning info.
Actually, that's not the main idea. The ethernet need arose from the people that want to control the TiVo over a shell prompt/ppp/whatever, but at the same time need to free the serial port that controlls their satellite boxes. Obviously you cannot have both on the same physical link, so why not put the shell over ethernet.
If you put it this way, I guess the best thing to do is adapt a floppy drive to TiVo's bus, not a NIC, isn't it?
A chunk of that 78k complaints about uu.net is due to me - I get anywhere between 10 and 20 pieces of spam each day, 99% of which originate from them. And the autoreply they send to each incident I report via spamcop is so predictable and uninformative that I'll soon block it off.
Thank you! Awesome. Time to renew some old ties, I guess.
Thanks for the pointer. I didn't even know an Elite club existed - heck, I didn't even know anyone else but me remembered Elite at all. I still miss the long lost hours I used to play it on my Spectrum. And the thrill I had when I discovered (on my own, but later I found out it was well-known) the mild cheat of avoiding the pirates by reentering the base you just left, and starting the hyperdrive at the same time...
Yes. A defrag program has access to ALL the files, and must be run with superuser privileges - sounds like a very good place to put backdoors.
If you want to trust installwatch, that's your business. Just don't bring those packages around my system.
Don't worry, I wasn't planning to. They're strictly for my personal use.
protopkg implements that sort of functionality much more cleanly, consistently, and reliably.
Protopkg wasn't around 18 months ago, when I started using installwatch (with excellent results, no matter what you insinuate). It was only released 3 days ago, according to the changelog. I'll try it.
I assume you know about installwatch. Linuxmafia has a "unofficial" version with an added script for the Slackware packaging system; makes installation from source a breeze, along with updating the package database and easy uninstall via the standard Slack pkgtool/removepkg. It's as simple as:
./configure
make
su
installwatch -o logfile make install
inst2slack logfile
Slackware is an amazingly good distribution, especially considering the small number of people that put it together and maintain it. It's also one of the first distributions that appeared, and, AFAIK, the oldest still around.
Having installed Corel doesn't remotely qualify you as a guru.
As for the marketing stuff, why don't you suggest Microsoft they change their name, since it has such trivial co-notations.
Now, if only Slackware ran on Alpha...
Uhh, maybe I'll start porting it.
Out of 2 machines we have here with internal ATAPI zip drives, both must have the zips replaced twice a year, for the last 2 years. The drives are pretty heavily used, to be fair, but not even one has lasted more than 6 months before getting the "click of death". The last incident was a month ago - fortunately they're still under warranty, so Micron replaces them for free.
OTOH, I have a parallel drive at home, and it hasn't failed in 18 months, but it doesn't get the same usage as the ones at work. Before that I had a internal scsi zip, and it died within 8 months of light use. YMMV.
I have no experience with the AOL browser, but if it allows, like Netscape does, to set a local proxy up, you could get Junkbuster and get on with your life.
Sure you can secure a NT box. Just shutdown every damn process that has anything to do, even remotely, with networking; then, to be absolutely sure, pull the ethernet cable too.
Now, if only Boeing was giving away free 747s to its employees...
That's what Spamcop does.
If Linux crashes "just as often", does this mean that the other OS you're comparing it to, because it also crashes "just as often" is not ready for enterprise and may never be?
Does anyone actually read these things, it says PCS without an OS it doesn't say PCs without windows
And exactly what other intel-compatible OS might one "pirate" (to follow the argument), apart from windoze? Linux? BeOS? QNX? FreeBSD? Solaris? The last time I checked, these were all free, either as in speech, or as in beer.
That's why I've been building my own machines for the past 2 years.
PS just so that you know what I mean by "half the hardware", it includes the motherboard, zip drive, cdrom and one of the sdram sticks.
My first-hand experience (with Micron only, I've never touched a Dell so I can't speak), is that the company "reputation" basically translates to "support". I can't vouch for the machines quality, since about half the hardware in this Micron Millenia XRU had to be replaced within one year due to failures. But their support was good.
Use Spamcop.
MS has spammed me cold in 1997 and 1998, and they blatantly ignored all of my remove requests. The only solution I found, eventually, was give up that address altogether. My experience is, if you make it on one of their mailing lists, you're as good as dead. Maybe they've changed in the last 2 years, but I really don't want to know.
Oh, but AOL CDs have many more interesting alternative uses. For example, have you ever thought of making windchimes out of them?