I'd like to see something where any given object in the world has both text and graphical representation, and you can interact either via a traditional text-based client or via a ultima-style graphical client.
MRTG can get its data from a script. So, set up ip accounting using ipchains, and then make a script to get the necessary info out of/proc. Configure mrtg to read from this script every five minutes.
I see there's no changes to diplomacy. Too bad, because that's this game's greatest weakness. If you're doing well, everyone else will hate you -- there's no way to have allies.
That's how it was with AT style systems. Not so with ATX -- it's a software thing. Now, that doesn't mean it's necessarily something the OS can do anything about: it might be at a lower level than that. I dunno.
Problems I've had with RH 6 (mostly gnome related)
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1. If you tell Gnome to switch to WindowMaker instead of Enlightenment, it often decides to ignore you and bring up E anyway. (Even though if you go and check the setting in the config panel, it's still properly set to WM.) So much for making things simple.
2. I've had the problem on several boxes where gdm/xdm/kdm won't take keyboard input if you boot into runlevel 5. Works fine if you start with 3, and then go to 5 later. Really weird.
3./dev/dsp seems to randomly get its ownership and permissions changed, and not changed back.
4. Something in gnome litters core dumps everywhere.
5. I've seen several cases of "slow login syndrome". When you log into X w/gnome, it inexplicably takes forever to load the window manager and gnome stuff. Once things get started, speed is ok. The syndrome persists even across sessions, which makes sense, but weirder still, you can cure it: switch to a console and kill gnome-session manually. Next time you log in, no problem.
6. A bunch of stuff that isn't necessary for most people isn't optional -- it's installed without either asking or even telling you. Why install getty when there's mingetty? Does everybody need pcmcia on their desktop? Is the spell-check dictionary really that vital? Things like this make it more work than it should be to make a minimal install.
These things are all fixable, or at least work-around-able. But not very slick for a commercial distribution.
Several of us started working on the Open Palm project about a year ago, but it kinda got stalled in technicallities. The project could stand to be revived...
I'm personally working on a game which when it reaches a decent state I plan to GPL.
Kim Stanley Robinson. Capsule review: first book great, second book mediocre, third book entirely forgets to have a plot.
The answer to the question is probably: yes. There's a lot of stuff in the universe, and only a little bit of life. Life is a good thing; spreading it to another planet is too.
My understanding is that one of the other problems with conditions on Mars is that with a weak magnetic field and a thin atmosphere, the surface gets bathed in much more harmful-to-life radation than we see here. This experiment doesn't seem to mention that. Am I wrong, or is the experiment missing a major factor?
If DOS had been completely under IBM's control, there never would have been a clone market. (see: Apple.) Which would mean cheap PCs would be hard to come by.
I'm not sure what the availability of more than one channel has to do with it. The equipment still needs to support bidirectional communications, you still need routers and switches and servers.
First, the cable infrastructure isn't there yet. It's possible that your local cable company isn't offering internet access because they're an evil monopoly. But it's more likely because they have a old one-way network which would require significant upgrades. Significant COSTLY upgrades. Before there's any incentive to actually do so, there has to be some guarantee that it's going to be worthwhile. Now, it looks like as soon as they've got it built, AOL will zip in and steal customers. Great. So your local cable company is now much less likely to bother with the necessary upgrades.
Second, this is going to add a lot of costs. Right now, the cable 'net companies basically have private networks, and all the existing infrastructure was designed with that in mind. How is this change going to be implemented? Multiple different DHCP servers? Complicated routers and filters to determine whose traffic goes where? Will the alternate providers share the same upstream bandwidth? The other possiblity is that there will be no actual changes to the network -- you'll just get a different home page and your bill will come from a different company.
Which brings me to my final point: this doesn't benefit high-end users in any way. If it's just a matter of changed home page, that might be exciting for AOL people with no clue, but otherwise isn't even interesting.
And if it is a matter of actually providing seperate IP services, what would you gain? I have MediaOne RR, and they have plenty of upstream bandwidth and good outside-world connectivity. I've never had problems, but people who have complaints usually are complaining about their connection the M1's network -- not the internet at large. So with an alternate provider, you still might have these problems, but probably you wouldn't be able to contact tech support directly -- you'd have to go through your provider, who would talk to the actual cable people. The other potential problem with cable internet is overloaded shared nodes -- again, not something that's helped by alternate providers.
And of course, this is very unlikely to actually cause cable internet to become available where it isn't already.
In a few years, the situation will be different, with more infrastructure in place and wider competition from DSL. At that point, this should be re-evaluated. For now, it's not any good for anyone except AOL.
If you're a citizen of the state, money raised is in a sense your money. I realize that that's an idealized view, but even in a pragmatic sense: the government is going to get money somewhere, and if not from this, it's going to be from raising taxes.
Why download the files? Instead, do a net-based install. Redhat has a neat install-via-ftp option -- you just download one floppy-disk image, boot from that, and go. Since you have a fast connection, this is the BEST way to install linux.
(Several other distributions can do NFS installs; can any others install via FTP?)
Been reading the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy, have you?
Deserts on earth are very different from the moon, in that even the deadest ones have ecosystems. Life on earth is very pervasive. So the comparison isn't really a good one.
There's a lot of space. There's a lot of planets. Probably there's very little life, in comparision. Our priorities should reflect that.
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2. I've had the problem on several boxes where gdm/xdm/kdm won't take keyboard input if you boot into runlevel 5. Works fine if you start with 3, and then go to 5 later. Really weird.
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4. Something in gnome litters core dumps everywhere.
5. I've seen several cases of "slow login syndrome". When you log into X w/gnome, it inexplicably takes forever to load the window manager and gnome stuff. Once things get started, speed is ok. The syndrome persists even across sessions, which makes sense, but weirder still, you can cure it: switch to a console and kill gnome-session manually. Next time you log in, no problem.
6. A bunch of stuff that isn't necessary for most people isn't optional -- it's installed without either asking or even telling you. Why install getty when there's mingetty? Does everybody need pcmcia on their desktop? Is the spell-check dictionary really that vital? Things like this make it more work than it should be to make a minimal install.
These things are all fixable, or at least work-around-able. But not very slick for a commercial distribution.
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But more importantly, clocking up isn't necessarily the way you want to go. Reducing the speed is more useful -- saves battery life.
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I'm personally working on a game which when it reaches a decent state I plan to GPL.
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The answer to the question is probably: yes. There's a lot of stuff in the universe, and only a little bit of life. Life is a good thing; spreading it to another planet is too.
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First, the cable infrastructure isn't there yet. It's possible that your local cable company isn't offering internet access because they're an evil monopoly. But it's more likely because they have a old one-way network which would require significant upgrades. Significant COSTLY upgrades. Before there's any incentive to actually do so, there has to be some guarantee that it's going to be worthwhile. Now, it looks like as soon as they've got it built, AOL will zip in and steal customers. Great. So your local cable company is now much less likely to bother with the necessary upgrades.
Second, this is going to add a lot of costs. Right now, the cable 'net companies basically have private networks, and all the existing infrastructure was designed with that in mind. How is this change going to be implemented? Multiple different DHCP servers? Complicated routers and filters to determine whose traffic goes where? Will the alternate providers share the same upstream bandwidth?
The other possiblity is that there will be no actual changes to the network -- you'll just get a different home page and your bill will come from a different company.
Which brings me to my final point: this doesn't benefit high-end users in any way. If it's just a matter of changed home page, that might be exciting for AOL people with no clue, but otherwise isn't even interesting.
And if it is a matter of actually providing seperate IP services, what would you gain? I have MediaOne RR, and they have plenty of upstream bandwidth and good outside-world connectivity. I've never had problems, but people who have complaints usually are complaining about their connection the M1's network -- not the internet at large. So with an alternate provider, you still might have these problems, but probably you wouldn't be able to contact tech support directly -- you'd have to go through your provider, who would talk to the actual cable people. The other potential problem with cable internet is overloaded shared nodes -- again, not something that's helped by alternate providers.
And of course, this is very unlikely to actually cause cable internet to become available where it isn't already.
In a few years, the situation will be different,
with more infrastructure in place and wider competition from DSL. At that point, this should be re-evaluated. For now, it's not any good for anyone except AOL.
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And if you read the article, btw, it says data won't be sold without your permission.
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And I'm not sure what your situation is exactly, but you're probably benefiting somehow from PA services.
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(Several other distributions can do NFS installs; can any others install via FTP?)
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Deserts on earth are very different from the moon, in that even the deadest ones have ecosystems. Life on earth is very pervasive. So the comparison isn't really a good one.
There's a lot of space. There's a lot of planets. Probably there's very little life, in comparision. Our priorities should reflect that.
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