FreeBSD has a Linux emulation layer that can run most, if not all, Linux programs.
On top of that, Loki announced last summer that it would partner with BSDI to support FreeBSD by making sure their games work under the emulation, and releasing patches as required.
I don't know which FreeBSD users you have been talking to, but all the ones I know, including my self, love using it as both a desktop and server operating system.
The laptop support is also great -- I have it working perfectly (including audio) on a Toshiba Libretto, Portege and Sony Vaio.
You seem to be correct about the WebTV with Tivo functionality.
Yahoo! has a news story about the new WebTV chip which "ability to handle several streams of digital video at once, allowing users to watch or recordseveral programmes at the same time".
Too bad it will probably run Windows CE and not Linux...
Assuming you both have some sort of FreeBSD or Linux box, you could set up a poor man's wireless network by routing directly between two Lucent WaveLAN or Aironet cards. They should both be able to handle the distance of around four houses, and if they don't, you can always get two high gain atennas.:-)
If you just want to bridge one network to the other, perhaps a card and a ethernet bridge is your solution.
The PlayaNet project has some good pointers on 802.11 hardware, including antennas, even though their focus is Burning Man and not your residential neighborhood...
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Yes, you can play any portion of an MP3 just fine.
I beleive the idea is to insert a short ad in the middle of the music...
I registered unsubscribe.com several years ago, on which I had an random message generated by jwz's DadaDodo program, with the data generated from all the spam I received.
It as fun for about a day, at which point my mail server started getting flooded with mail for every username across the board. Most popular was unsubscribe@unsubscribe.com, but fuckyou@unsubscribe.com was pretty high on the list as well.
One spammer even decided to set his Reply-to: address to one that had the @unsubscribe.com domain.
Eventually, I decided that the best thing I could do was to remove the MX and A records, thus saving me the trouble of having to deal with bogus email, and saving everyone who has decent mail filters set up (ie, reject from unknown hosts) some extra spam.
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A more in-depth blog post from one of the authors can be found here: http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-up-with-centos-project.html
Things sound pretty shady...
Fry's is the one everyone should be complaining about, not EggHead.
See this web page for more information.
"Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed to produce an S1G bug" [from his announcement].
On top of that, Loki announced last summer that it would partner with BSDI to support FreeBSD by making sure their games work under the emulation, and releasing patches as required.
I don't know which FreeBSD users you have been talking to, but all the ones I know, including my self, love using it as both a desktop and server operating system.
The laptop support is also great -- I have it working perfectly (including audio) on a Toshiba Libretto, Portege and Sony Vaio.
Yahoo! has a news story about the new WebTV chip which "ability to handle several streams of digital video at once, allowing users to watch or recordseveral programmes at the same time".
Too bad it will probably run Windows CE and not Linux...
Everyone should join the ACLU to help them support more activities like this...
If you just want to bridge one network to the other, perhaps a card and a ethernet bridge is your solution.
The PlayaNet project has some good pointers on 802.11 hardware, including antennas, even though their focus is Burning Man and not your residential neighborhood...
Yes, you can play any portion of an MP3 just fine.
I beleive the idea is to insert a short ad in the middle of the music...
If it were students pushing out 5TB worth of 700meg files they would be accused of pirating VCDs...
Can we now claim that we are just trading our genome with our friends?
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It as fun for about a day, at which point my mail server started getting flooded with mail for every username across the board. Most popular was unsubscribe@unsubscribe.com, but fuckyou@unsubscribe.com was pretty high on the list as well.
One spammer even decided to set his Reply-to: address to one that had the @unsubscribe.com domain.
Eventually, I decided that the best thing I could do was to remove the MX and A records, thus saving me the trouble of having to deal with bogus email, and saving everyone who has decent mail filters set up (ie, reject from unknown hosts) some extra spam.
I am surprised I don't see this mentioned anywhere, but the cluster of machines at UCSC that helped crunch the genome were all running Linux.
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It was quite an impressive site when they were all sitting in a lab room with huge window.