That's the hard way of solving the RB
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When Lego Meet Rubik
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· Score: 4, Funny
This Lego machine is great, but it's an overkill : anybody who has played with a Rubik's Cube knows the best way to solve it is to peel off all the colored stickers and glue them back on in the right order.
Well, first of all I'm not certain you can sell SIMMs anymore. I mean, there is probably still a teeny little market for it, but it's nothing like before. The idea is to be there and be known for having RAMs that are being phased out. When I started to see an increase in the price of SIMMs is when Pentiums where just introduced and 386/486 owners who wanted to upgrade their still-not-completely-deprecated-boxes started to have trouble finding the SIMMs. Of course, the SIMMs became harder and harder to find (and easier and easier to sell) until people just gave up on them, because Pentiums had become the new deprecated stuffs and 386/486s just weren't worth messing with altogether anymore.
If I still had SIMMs to sell like you do, I'd set up a little website to sell them online. Or maybe on Ebay, by the unit, if you have time.
I've made good money selling 32 pin SIMMs I had from the days I was working at a computer assembler : I had a bagfull of 256K and 4M SIMMs and up until about 2 years ago, they sold at crazy prices. Same for EDO DIMM modules. So if you do nothing else, put those 224M RAM of yours in an antistatic bag and enjoy the return on investment in 2 or 3 years. It's not that RAM gets more expensive, it's just that standards get deprecated, therefore more rare, therefore more expensive.
Over 10 years, I've saved 2 Hercules video cards and 3 MDA monitors (amber and white) for my various desktop boxes, first to have a console to use the SoftICE debugger and be able to debug graphical VGA programs, and then to have a second console thanks to the mdacon driver in Linux (I use it mainly to tail/var/log/message on the second screen). It even has a virtual framebuffer that works great provided my ATI is never in text mode (i.e. in framebuffer mode too). Additionally, Hercules cards provide an additional parallel port. How cool is that ?:-)
I dread the day motherboard manufacturers will finally kill ISA slots though...
I've worked for Caldera years ago : these guys are going to be trading pink slips very soon, and Ransome deserves most the blame for it (the rest of the blame go to dipsticks Benoit and Pomeroy and some others): they were the biggest Linux vendor when RH was only a small software shop, and they could own the Linux desktop and server space instead of them by now : instead they let RH shaft them over RPM. Of there is also meltdown of Caldera's QA/test department, the SCO buyout and of course, Ransome's approving of Microsoft FUD and Ransome's latest blooper on per-seat Linux licenses.
Love never understood the OpenSource movement or the GPL, and probably never understood how to run a company either. It's amazing Caldera has been around for so long with the CEO consistently doing the Wrong Thing [tm].
"Looks like Cray engineers think about clustering even when they're not at Cray."
Well, duh, Cray machines are massively parallel processing machines, so they're not clusters in the sense that they don't use network cards and separate computers as basic computing units, <OVERSIMPLIFICATION>the processors talk to each other on the same bus and share the same memory</OVERSIMPLIFICATION>, but basically in either case it's about parallel processing. I *hope* Cray engineers think about clusters. I'd hate to see them think about single Athlon supercomputers...
Microsoft should be sued
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Code Red III
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· Score: 4, Flamebait
Why do poor bastards get sued for using a little bandwidth to participate in an interesting project while Microsoft gets away with releasing shoddy products that slow down the entire Internet ?
I know gun manufacturers shouldn't be sued when someone commits a crime with a firearm, and in that case the people who created the lame Code Red virii should be sued primarily, but I still think Microsoft is guilty here because their customers weren't aware their Windows-running boxes could start chewing up bandwidth like crazy simply because the OS vendor doesn't give a damn about these things.
To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't even try to mass-mail the patch to their registered customers who might be affected. Therefore, at the very least, I reckon they should be ordered to pay damages to telcos and ISPs for lack of due diligence.
(of course, in Georgia, I'd also be happy to see the state sue them for 59c per second of wasted bandwidth as well:-)
With.NET , Microsoft successfully managed in a very short period of time to :
Make the community disperse its efforts on copying what is little more than vaporware
Make the community look like a bunch of childish "I can do that too" people.
The only thing that comes to my mind when I look at the mono and dotGNU projects is "monkey see, monkey do". One of the projects can't even come up with an innovative name for itself. Well, I'm sorry but copying.NET is just dumb and it plays in favor of Microsoft, who looks like the real innovators that legions of unimaginative free-software geeks always try to copy.
In short, the community has to stop copying and being toyed with by Microsoft, and begin innovating and proving that there are much better things than what Microsoft comes up with.
Think about it : with years of brain-washing from well thinking press people and government, most computer illiterate people form the following associations in their heads nowadays :
computer savvy person == suspicious
encryption expert == suspicious
person who wrote a decryption program without governmental or corporate blessing == hacker
hacker == evil
hacker arrested by FBI == no smoke without fire, therefore the hacker must be guilty
and for many in the US:
russian == communist
communist == evil
russian hacker == evil evil
russian hacker arrested by FBI == hooray FBI for saving the free world !!!
Most likely, if Dmitri's case receives press coverage, it'll probably be something like "Evil russian hacker arrested for attacking good US corporation Adobe's interests", not "Poor bastard in jail for 2 weeks without bail hearing". So maybe it's just as well if the press doesn't talk about it (the word you're looking for by the way is "biased").
Welcome to the politically corrected corporate America...
"Amiga`s CEO Bill McEwen announced in a keynote speech held prior to the AmiWest 2001 show that new consumer PPC motherboards, AmigaOS 4.0 PPC and also AmigaOS for x86 will ship by November 1."
For us Amiga fans, I believe this is called a "guru meditation".
It's the first time I've heard "onion" and "apocalypse" in documentents pertaining to the development of a computer programming language. I wonder what the next funny word will be : maybe Larry could use dictionary.com's word of the day for help:-)
Now that Microsoft is careful about not being (too) obvious with their monopolistic methods, maybe they'd allow RedHat to put a "Install Linux" icon on the Windows desktop:-)
It has already happened in Japan : the sarin gas attack in spring 1995 in the metro in Tokyo. If it can happen in Japan, it certainly can happen anywhere in the US and other countries.
Although this event was very high profile because of the way the perpetrators operated (suicide-style operation in a dense metro line), actions like putting micro-organisms or poisons in the water reserves of a city, for example, are much more likely to happen and would create massive losses of lives. The frightening thing is, it takes guts to go in a metro station and release gas, but it doesn't take any to pollute water, any crackpot could do that and pretty surely get away with it.
... can you do an apt-get to upgrade the results ?
Re:Is better TV definition needed ?
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The Joys of HDTV
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· Score: 2
Hmm, good point:-)
Is better TV definition needed ?
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The Joys of HDTV
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· Score: 4
In Europe, several years back if I remember correctly, the buzz word was H2MAC and D2MAC. Of course, just like HDTV today, you could get "H2MAC-ready" TVs, but of course there was few (in any) programming in that format. Net result : people who paid top dollar (err... pound, franc, deutsch marks...) to get the latest equipment got sh*fted, because to my knowledge, none of these format still exist anymore, or are in widespread use.
When you think about it, why does one need a better TV definition ? really, it's only to get a better picture on large TV sets. How many people in the US and in the world have TV sets with a size that justifies a better definition ? many many less than the masses who have sub-30' TVs. Therefore, given the kind of massive investment networks would have to get themselves into to upgrade to HDTV, none of them are really ready to adopt the standard and convert all their equipment. Most people don't complain about the quality of their TV image, so the market is just too small for that. It's easier to just let TV manufacturers come up with clever ways to display 625 lines better (and really, if you think about it, on giant retroprojection TV sets for example, it's a miracle that the image is so good considering the low resolution).
Slashdot Mirror
heh, yes that works too :-)
This Lego machine is great, but it's an overkill : anybody who has played with a Rubik's Cube knows the best way to solve it is to peel off all the colored stickers and glue them back on in the right order.
If I still had SIMMs to sell like you do, I'd set up a little website to sell them online. Or maybe on Ebay, by the unit, if you have time.
I've made good money selling 32 pin SIMMs I had from the days I was working at a computer assembler : I had a bagfull of 256K and 4M SIMMs and up until about 2 years ago, they sold at crazy prices. Same for EDO DIMM modules. So if you do nothing else, put those 224M RAM of yours in an antistatic bag and enjoy the return on investment in 2 or 3 years. It's not that RAM gets more expensive, it's just that standards get deprecated, therefore more rare, therefore more expensive.
I dread the day motherboard manufacturers will finally kill ISA slots though ...
Pigdog journal coined this term during their interview with Stallman that I think describe him very accurately.
Love never understood the OpenSource movement or the GPL, and probably never understood how to run a company either. It's amazing Caldera has been around for so long with the CEO consistently doing the Wrong Thing [tm].
The federal court can't wait to bend over backward and give Microsoft more latitude to continue to abuse their monopoly ...
Well, duh, Cray machines are massively parallel processing machines, so they're not clusters in the sense that they don't use network cards and separate computers as basic computing units, <OVERSIMPLIFICATION>the processors talk to each other on the same bus and share the same memory</OVERSIMPLIFICATION>, but basically in either case it's about parallel processing. I *hope* Cray engineers think about clusters. I'd hate to see them think about single Athlon supercomputers ...
I know gun manufacturers shouldn't be sued when someone commits a crime with a firearm, and in that case the people who created the lame Code Red virii should be sued primarily, but I still think Microsoft is guilty here because their customers weren't aware their Windows-running boxes could start chewing up bandwidth like crazy simply because the OS vendor doesn't give a damn about these things.
To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't even try to mass-mail the patch to their registered customers who might be affected. Therefore, at the very least, I reckon they should be ordered to pay damages to telcos and ISPs for lack of due diligence.
(of course, in Georgia, I'd also be happy to see the state sue them for 59c per second of wasted bandwidth as well :-)
Am I the only one to think a Slashdot post titled "Book Reviews: From Bricks to Clicks" should have a Lego brick logo instead of a dollar bill ?
Make the community disperse its efforts on copying what is little more than vaporware
Make the community look like a bunch of childish "I can do that too" people.
The only thing that comes to my mind when I look at the mono and dotGNU projects is "monkey see, monkey do". One of the projects can't even come up with an innovative name for itself. Well, I'm sorry but copying .NET is just dumb and it plays in favor of Microsoft, who looks like the real innovators that legions of unimaginative free-software geeks always try to copy.
In short, the community has to stop copying and being toyed with by Microsoft, and begin innovating and proving that there are much better things than what Microsoft comes up with.
... when I hear a TTS say "we are the knights who say ... NI !" with the proper intonation :-)
computer savvy person == suspicious
encryption expert == suspicious
person who wrote a decryption program without governmental or corporate blessing == hacker
hacker == evil
hacker arrested by FBI == no smoke without fire, therefore the hacker must be guilty
and for many in the US :
russian == communist
communist == evil
russian hacker == evil evil
russian hacker arrested by FBI == hooray FBI for saving the free world !!!
Most likely, if Dmitri's case receives press coverage, it'll probably be something like "Evil russian hacker arrested for attacking good US corporation Adobe's interests", not "Poor bastard in jail for 2 weeks without bail hearing". So maybe it's just as well if the press doesn't talk about it (the word you're looking for by the way is "biased").
Welcome to the politically corrected corporate America ...
# vi ./my_superduper_driver.c ./my_superduper_driver.o ./my_superduper_driver.c ./my_superduper_driver.o
# cc -O2 -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -DEXPORT_DYMTAB -o
# insmod
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01d3b95>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: dffedf5c ebx: c190ef40 ecx: 0000000f edx: 8005003b
esi: c190c000 edi: 00000001 ebp: 00000000 esp: dffedf54
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper ( pid:1, stackpage=dffed000)
Stack: 00000000 000004a3 00000001 c027b244 c02cd383 c0116fe7 00000493 000004a2
00000005 00000c42 00000282 00000001 c02cd383 00000020 c01d4d82 c0266ece
c0266ec7 00000493 c01d4d12 00000f40 c190e000 c190ef40 c190c000 c190ef40
Call Trace: [<c0116fe7>] [<c01d4d82>] [<c01d4d12>] [<c01d4e0b7>] [<c01070e9>] [<c01074bc>]
Code: 0f 11 00 0f 11 48 10 0f 11 50 20 0f 11 58 30 0f 18 4e 00 0f
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Ah DAMN !!! [reboot]
done
For us Amiga fans, I believe this is called a "guru meditation".
That's great ! I was wondering when the new models would finally become affordable.
Too bad it's not a secure PDF file, I was looking forward to trying Elcomsoft's software that Dmitri wrote.
It's the first time I've heard "onion" and "apocalypse" in documentents pertaining to the development of a computer programming language. I wonder what the next funny word will be : maybe Larry could use dictionary.com's word of the day for help :-)
Now that Microsoft is careful about not being (too) obvious with their monopolistic methods, maybe they'd allow RedHat to put a "Install Linux" icon on the Windows desktop :-)
Just make sure you don't rig up all the computers at your workplace to win the prize.
Although this event was very high profile because of the way the perpetrators operated (suicide-style operation in a dense metro line), actions like putting micro-organisms or poisons in the water reserves of a city, for example, are much more likely to happen and would create massive losses of lives. The frightening thing is, it takes guts to go in a metro station and release gas, but it doesn't take any to pollute water, any crackpot could do that and pretty surely get away with it.
... can you do an apt-get to upgrade the results ?
Hmm, good point :-)
When you think about it, why does one need a better TV definition ? really, it's only to get a better picture on large TV sets. How many people in the US and in the world have TV sets with a size that justifies a better definition ? many many less than the masses who have sub-30' TVs. Therefore, given the kind of massive investment networks would have to get themselves into to upgrade to HDTV, none of them are really ready to adopt the standard and convert all their equipment. Most people don't complain about the quality of their TV image, so the market is just too small for that. It's easier to just let TV manufacturers come up with clever ways to display 625 lines better (and really, if you think about it, on giant retroprojection TV sets for example, it's a miracle that the image is so good considering the low resolution).
In short : widespread HDTV ain't gonna happen.