Yeah, it's right there at digit 2440. It reads 666.
And yes, an infinite stream of random numbers is probably an excellent place to look for a message from God. No matter what message you are looking for.
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I notice it has a built in modem, rather than the ability to dial itself.
Why would you want it to dial itself? Try it on your own phone, it won't work. All you'll get is a busy signal. You might think to yourself "gee, why do I get a busy signal - I'm not talking to anyone on the phone", but think about it for a minute and you'll understand why it doesn't work.
Oh, you meant that it should have a built-in cellphone modem or some fancy crap. Well, for that you have the USB sockets I guess...
Doesn't really matter, these things are still too ugly and expensive to be of any use for any person with half a brain. Come to think of it, that goes for any PDA.
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USA have a good deal more free space than most countries on this planet anyway. Open the borders. You live in a country where you can hardly speak about anyone being 'native' anyway, why try to block more people from coming in?
Actually, this goes for _all_ the countries in the world. Open the borders!
Bah, who am I kidding... It's not like a stupid/. post is going to change anything anyway. --
The only way CDDB can know that the client is lying is to 1) reverse engineer (ie. use an http spy) the software in question, or 2) force everyone to use CDDB2.
Or 3) only accept connections from registered clients. Which would be way worse than the blocking of a single bloated windows-only toaster/coffee-machine.
Not that I care much since I've been using FreeDB for all this stuff as long as I've been able to anyway. --
"Using Nanotechnology scientists ar Rice University have been able to store Ten Billion Gigabytes of data on physical storage small enough to fit into a small vial."
Actually, the article doesn't say that they've been able to store anything like that. The article says:
Ten billion gigabytes of data can be stored in this vial, according to Molecular Electronics Corp.'s cofounder, Jim Tour.
And they say that they've demonstrated the use of a molecular form of DRAM. Now these are pretty good advances already, and I believe nanotechnology will definitely change the way we look at computing, but please, Timothy: These guys don't have a secret RAM plant set up ready to conquer the world overnight.
I dont know what version of RedHat you used but 6.2. has the option to just install, Kde OR Gnome or try a server install, you are not forced to install both.
You're right. RedHat has an option to install KDE OR Gnome. And so does Mandrake. Only problem is, regardless of which one you select, and regardless of whether you have any programs selected that depend on one of them or not, it installs both.
I've managed to install _none_ of them, but it seems completely impossible to install just _one_ of them. Don't ask me why. Maybe this has been fixed in 6.2, but it was definitely the case the last time I used Red Hat (which is admittedly a long time ago), and the last time I used Mandrake (v7.1).
You seem to misunderstand me a bit - I'm not looking for the security of OpenBSD in a Linux system, although that would be nice as well, of course. What I want is the speedy installation, no widgets, no menus, and a small, selectable, standard set of packages, with _no modifications_ made to them, just compiled from the package's source.
Sort of like:
Welcome to Bare-Linux 0.0 alpha You will now be presented with an FDISK screen. <snip FDISK> Select the partition to install to:/dev/hda1 Format the partion (y/n)?y Formatting.... Partition formatted.
Select an installation: 1. X, headers, libraries 2. X workstation 3. Headers, libraries 4. Plain workstation
Enter your selection: 4 Installing...
I'd love to see this happen. If I had any spare time I might have a look at making one, but I don't see that coming in another year or so. --
I've used Slackware and it's still one of my favorite distros, but there's still too many menus and things to click before the bare system is on your disk. My barebones OpenBSD install over FTP was up and running in 30 minutes - and the time it took to fetch all the files from the servers makes up for around 25 of those... This is what I'd like to see a Linux distro do. --
Maybe some of the packages just have grown bigger, or maybe I had some other source files lying around - I can't remember. At this point there's a lot of extras on it, so I'm not sure exactly what it was when I started...
At least kernel 2.2.16, XFree86 4.0.1, Perl, gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, all the basic stuff like make/man/groff/m4/flex/libtool/ncurses/whatever, bash, c++, vim... I suspect Xfree of having grown quite a bit since release 3, but that probably doesn't cover all of the 70 megs I had extra compared to what you have:) Maybe the X headers/libraries? You said your X was minimal:)
Anyway, 250MB is still small enough for me.. And I don't mind having a lot of stuff installed - what I do mind is having no control over what's on my disk:) --
As a happy OpenBSD user, I must say that I'd love to see a Linux distro that looked like this.
I use OpenBSD for my firewall/NAT box at home, and installation is dead-simple, quite painless, and only installs the bare basics - no need to sit through half an hour of clicking widgets to select packages.
I like Linux - None of the BSDs have the software base that Linux has, and it's a lot speedier. I don't need the security for my X box - after all, it's behind the OBSD firewall, and SSH tunneling is my friend when I need to access it from the outside.
What I'd like to see is a Linux distro which installed the bare basics - glibc, gcc, net-utils, bin-utils, file-utils, kernel, etc, X optional. Not something like Mandrake or Red Hat which has evil tendencies to put both GNOME and KDE on your box whether you want to or not.
The closest thing I've come to this is following Linux From Scratch's excellent instructions and compile the entire system from source - this is admittedly a lot of work, but at least you _know_ what's on your box when you install it, and you don't have to worry about vendor-specific kernel modifications and all that crap... And I ended up with a distro of <250MB after installing the most important things, including the full kernel source unpacked. This as opposed to the 800+ I had cluttering my disk after I put Mandrake 7 on it.
So, distributors, are you listening? I think there would be quite a high demand for something like this, especially from power users... BareBones Linux, anyone? --
"If we lose our precious revenue, we will take out the Internet with small tactical nukes placed on all the major carriers."
I'm currently reading Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites", and to quote a paragraph:
"One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry."
56,320 kgs of Uranium - $1,298,176.
1 Nuclear Reactor (for breeding) $3,000,000,000.
The looks on the faces of the screaming American heathen pigdogs - priceless.
It's amazing how quickly technology is eradicating whatever notions of privacy that people still had. We already have our appearance, blood type, and actions recorded and disseminated all around the world; now we're going to have our smells tracked too? What's next, our skin texture?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually it's shitfucksatandeathsexdrugsrape, if I'm not mistaken - definitely seven words, at least.
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Pokéthulhu
And yes, an infinite stream of random numbers is probably an excellent place to look for a message from God. No matter what message you are looking for.
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Haven't you heard?
God already disappeared in a puff of logic.
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Actually, Suicidal Tendencies and NOFX have the same connection to punk rock that non-alcoholic beer and de-caf coffee have to hard drugs.
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It's always stricken me as amusing that all the pinball machines in coffee shops here in Amsterdam display the "Winners don't use drugs" message :)
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That is possibly the funnies .signature I've ever seen on SlashDot.
Hm... NecroPuppy.. You a Skinny Puppy fan by any chance? :)
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Why would you want it to dial itself? Try it on your own phone, it won't work. All you'll get is a busy signal. You might think to yourself "gee, why do I get a busy signal - I'm not talking to anyone on the phone", but think about it for a minute and you'll understand why it doesn't work.
Oh, you meant that it should have a built-in cellphone modem or some fancy crap. Well, for that you have the USB sockets I guess...
Doesn't really matter, these things are still too ugly and expensive to be of any use for any person with half a brain. Come to think of it, that goes for any PDA.
As for your .signature, may I please have a Spectrum Java runtime platform instead?
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It might sound a bit silly, but this isn't actually such a bad idea. At least it would make for some killer marketing:
FreeBSD.
Encouraging owls to explode since the year 2000.
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Same thing, though.
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Actually, this goes for _all_ the countries in the world. Open the borders!
Bah, who am I kidding... It's not like a stupid /. post is going to change anything anyway.
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Or 3) only accept connections from registered clients. Which would be way worse than the blocking of a single bloated windows-only toaster/coffee-machine.
Not that I care much since I've been using FreeDB for all this stuff as long as I've been able to anyway.
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This sounds like a nice effort for distributed.net :) The disc-id is an 8-digit hex number, making for ca 2.6 billion combinations.
Although not every judge has a functional logic module in his/her brain.
Implying that they have a brain in the first place...
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What, you mean the second law of thermodynamics?
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Mr. Nixon, you of all people should know that's not true. :)
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Go distributed.net! :D
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Actually, the article doesn't say that they've been able to store anything like that. The article says:
Ten billion gigabytes of data can be stored in this vial, according to Molecular Electronics Corp.'s cofounder, Jim Tour.
And they say that they've demonstrated the use of a molecular form of DRAM. Now these are pretty good advances already, and I believe nanotechnology will definitely change the way we look at computing, but please, Timothy: These guys don't have a secret RAM plant set up ready to conquer the world overnight.
Not just yet, anyway.
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You're right. RedHat has an option to install KDE OR Gnome. And so does Mandrake. Only problem is, regardless of which one you select, and regardless of whether you have any programs selected that depend on one of them or not, it installs both.
I've managed to install _none_ of them, but it seems completely impossible to install just _one_ of them. Don't ask me why. Maybe this has been fixed in 6.2, but it was definitely the case the last time I used Red Hat (which is admittedly a long time ago), and the last time I used Mandrake (v7.1).
You seem to misunderstand me a bit - I'm not looking for the security of OpenBSD in a Linux system, although that would be nice as well, of course. What I want is the speedy installation, no widgets, no menus, and a small, selectable, standard set of packages, with _no modifications_ made to them, just compiled from the package's source.
Sort of like:
Welcome to Bare-Linux 0.0 alpha /dev/hda1
You will now be presented with an FDISK screen.
<snip FDISK>
Select the partition to install to:
Format the partion (y/n)?y
Formatting....
Partition formatted.
Select an installation:
1. X, headers, libraries
2. X workstation
3. Headers, libraries
4. Plain workstation
Enter your selection: 4
Installing...
I'd love to see this happen. If I had any spare time I might have a look at making one, but I don't see that coming in another year or so.
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And I thought VIM was getting bloated :D
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I've used Slackware and it's still one of my favorite distros, but there's still too many menus and things to click before the bare system is on your disk. My barebones OpenBSD install over FTP was up and running in 30 minutes - and the time it took to fetch all the files from the servers makes up for around 25 of those... This is what I'd like to see a Linux distro do.
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Maybe some of the packages just have grown bigger, or maybe I had some other source files lying around - I can't remember. At this point there's a lot of extras on it, so I'm not sure exactly what it was when I started...
At least kernel 2.2.16, XFree86 4.0.1, Perl, gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.2, all the basic stuff like make/man/groff/m4/flex/libtool/ncurses/whatever, bash, c++, vim... I suspect Xfree of having grown quite a bit since release 3, but that probably doesn't cover all of the 70 megs I had extra compared to what you have :) Maybe the X headers/libraries? You said your X was minimal :)
Anyway, 250MB is still small enough for me.. And I don't mind having a lot of stuff installed - what I do mind is having no control over what's on my disk :)
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I use OpenBSD for my firewall/NAT box at home, and installation is dead-simple, quite painless, and only installs the bare basics - no need to sit through half an hour of clicking widgets to select packages.
I like Linux - None of the BSDs have the software base that Linux has, and it's a lot speedier. I don't need the security for my X box - after all, it's behind the OBSD firewall, and SSH tunneling is my friend when I need to access it from the outside.
What I'd like to see is a Linux distro which installed the bare basics - glibc, gcc, net-utils, bin-utils, file-utils, kernel, etc, X optional. Not something like Mandrake or Red Hat which has evil tendencies to put both GNOME and KDE on your box whether you want to or not.
The closest thing I've come to this is following Linux From Scratch's excellent instructions and compile the entire system from source - this is admittedly a lot of work, but at least you _know_ what's on your box when you install it, and you don't have to worry about vendor-specific kernel modifications and all that crap... And I ended up with a distro of <250MB after installing the most important things, including the full kernel source unpacked. This as opposed to the 800+ I had cluttering my disk after I put Mandrake 7 on it.
So, distributors, are you listening? I think there would be quite a high demand for something like this, especially from power users... BareBones Linux, anyone?
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"If we lose our precious revenue, we will take out the Internet with small tactical nukes placed on all the major carriers."
I'm currently reading Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites", and to quote a paragraph:
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This brings up a good point. Why doesn't anyone build an open-source senator, congressman or even a free (as in beer) president?
The ones we have now are old, severely limiting and _way_ too expensive for the home user.
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56,320 kgs of Uranium - $1,298,176.
1 Nuclear Reactor (for breeding) $3,000,000,000.
The looks on the faces of the screaming American heathen pigdogs - priceless.
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Retina and iris scans, voice print identification, DNA patterns, credit card numbers, social security numbers.. It can't get much worse than it already is. Just sit back and enjoy the ride, or do your duty as a responsible citizen.
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