Ever since he broke 200K I've been saying, "I saw Quiz Show already, I know what's going on here..." I could see Disney doing something like that, for some reason (ABC is Disney right?). It's also not too hard to imagine any regulating agency to have their hand in it. Either way it will still be watchable until he breaks a million. After that it's gonna get boring, IMHO.
I use evolution with my sony clie, im using LFS, and I connect with USB. Check out http://www.pilot-link.org. It syncs my contacts, task list, appointments, notes, and sends mail for me. The only catch is I have to press the hotsync button on the cradle BEFORE I start gpilotd (which is backwards accoring to the gpilotd docs). I'm also using udev+hotplug so the ttyUSB devices that are needed arent created until I press the hotsync button, and are removed when the sync is over. I haven't quite figured out how to start gpilotd automatically yet;)
My friend, I'm no guru, but don't install OpenBSD on your laptop... im pretty sure it will not give you the experience you are looking for... As for linux, I liked mandrake for my first linux distro.
I'm actually not surprised at the results, because the results, as usual, come down to: "the best filesystem is the one that is best for your needs". *sigh* I know that benchmarks can't determine things like that, but still a part of me just wants there to be a winner! I mean what good is a race where everyone wins?
I tried to go to the homepage to look for screenshots and thought it was broken. Then I realized that it was a running version of Robin. It has a "start button" menu thing with some programs. Crazy stuff!
Also, Gtk2 can be themed by itself. I use fvwm, but use a lot of gtk2 apps. You can find a lot of gtk2 themes on freshmeat.net. It makes a world of difference! =)
Gnumeric is so great, and it opens Excel files too? Plus is has so many functions (including every singel excel function). I'm not sure I'd use a different spreadsheet.
I see what you guys mean about the BIOS, I just mentioned the bootloader 'cause it's the sub-title of the article, i.e. "Eliminate the bootloader for greater uptime"
It should probably say "Eliminate the BIOS for greater uptime" ?
Well my point wasn't that it takes long for my laptop, my point was that starting and stopping services when I reboot takes longer than grub, where the total reboot time = (time it takes for the bios and grub) + (time it takes to stop services) + (time it takes to start them again)
Ok so basically since it's running a custom version of linux, it can support anything that the linux kernel has support for (which is a lot, last I checked during make menuconfig;)). Pretty neat!
A NAS device like this is made to work with any type of network protocols... but how could it work with a network that has a windows, mac, netware, and linux stuff all happening at once? I mean is this even possible? Aside from acting as a web/ftp server? I don't know why anyone would ever want to have all those things mixed into one network anyway, but what if?
I mean damn that interview was long! I was expecting the usual few questions and answers. Personally, I wouldn't have the mind to ask that many questions to my favorite writer (Mr. Stephenson of course)... I mean if I could get him to talk to me for that long I'd just invite him out for a beer and end up talkin about nothing much lol.
You can see it at theTDFS B Homepage. It's my fav. 3d file browser because you can see pictures, read text files and even play music files. It's just not a file "manager" because you can't actually manipulate files, but it's still the ultimate pr0n viewer!
Microsoft, a company notorious around the globe for producing horribly insecure software, is asking the government to regulate software security? I'm having trouble saying M$ and Security in the same sentence without laughing! How could inherently secure open source projects like OpenBSD be compared with with the hole filled, virus ridden windows programs? I just don't get it.
I'd rather use source all the time, but when you are using a really slow machine that could take forever... thats where packages make things a bit easier...
However, the problem I've run into very recently, with mandrake 10, are that even though certain programs like apache, and php, can support a lot of things (i.e. can be compiled to support things), the binaries distributed with mdk 10 dont include all of things I needed...
Specifically, when installing Mambo on a webserver here I found that zlib support and xml support were both missing, even though apache and php were both installed. The only solution I could find is to install zlib (from source), and then recompile php and apache. I still havent quite figured out why xml support is missing, but I digress;)
Using packages and source together can also be extra work because a lot of the stuff you need to compile programs are in "devel" packages that arent installed by default (That doesn't happen at all with LFS.)
It's a tough call but the way I see it, try packages and if you don't run into problems, then fine... otherwise just don't forget that open souce is... well open source? =)
Sorry if all this was said already but I had to give my.02
You might want to be sure that you have the right power mangament features enabled in your kernel. I had to enable all of the the APCI features myself. You can use dmesg|less to see if your kernel is actually finding the power management feautures that you enabled. But maybe you knew that;) In any event you would see stuff like this: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent) ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
Alas, my laptop is plugged in 90% of the time and I havent used windows on it for more than the time it took to make a debian cd (which I used to build LFS) so I never had time to notice the difference;)
I haven't seen the 3rd matrix, and dont plan on wasting even my free movie passes on it. I mean I can go see kill bill or something.
But anyway, at the end of the first matrix, there was this credit that said "Based on Neuromancer by William Gibson". Ok I had never heard of Gibson until then. So I read the book. This made me realize how much the Matrix sucked. Well that and the fact that Keanu as Jesus is too much of a stretch for me to handle.
There are 3 books to that series, the other two being Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. All 3 of those books are great if you ask me... Now yes, I know that technically speaking only the first Matrix was based on Neuromancer (or at least I didn't see any mention of the books in the reloaded), but still, I mean... zion is supposed to be in space! lol and like... full of rastas who listen to dub.
Why take names and ideas from a book and make a trilogy starring keanu reeves at Jesus?! wtf?! Maybe they liked how he played in Johnny Mnemonic (which was a Gibson story to begin with as well, and also had a character from Neuromancer in it, but whatever).
No there wasn't really a point to this except that I liked the books and I think it's a shame that someone borrowed pieces of them to make sucky films. Oh well.
Well I guess I was misleading there, but I hope no one one would really go looking on a linux security website for openbsd information anyway;) It seemed obvious to me, so I guess my brain assumed that I also mentioned the openbsd page.
I broke my rule of "dont do anything before you have some coffee". Apparently I have to apply that to my days off too=)
As much as I love linux I would have to say if security is concern #1, then use openBSD. It's pretty scary looking at all the stuff at linuxsecurity.org that is listed for all the distros. In fact if you go to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ you can see they keep track of free/net/open BSD vulnerabilities too. The most recent openBSD advisory is dated 8/12/2002, where mandrakes most recent is well... today.
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So how far away are we from those cool suits from Dune that recycle every last drop of water?
Ever since he broke 200K I've been saying, "I saw Quiz Show already, I know what's going on here..." I could see Disney doing something like that, for some reason (ABC is Disney right?). It's also not too hard to imagine any regulating agency to have their hand in it. Either way it will still be watchable until he breaks a million. After that it's gonna get boring, IMHO.
I use evolution with my sony clie, im using LFS, and I connect with USB. Check out http://www.pilot-link.org. It syncs my contacts, task list, appointments, notes, and sends mail for me. The only catch is I have to press the hotsync button on the cradle BEFORE I start gpilotd (which is backwards accoring to the gpilotd docs). I'm also using udev+hotplug so the ttyUSB devices that are needed arent created until I press the hotsync button, and are removed when the sync is over. I haven't quite figured out how to start gpilotd automatically yet ;)
What ever happened to Leisure Suit Larry?
My friend, I'm no guru, but don't install OpenBSD on your laptop... im pretty sure it will not give you the experience you are looking for... As for linux, I liked mandrake for my first linux distro.
I'm actually not surprised at the results, because the results, as usual, come down to: "the best filesystem is the one that is best for your needs". *sigh* I know that benchmarks can't determine things like that, but still a part of me just wants there to be a winner! I mean what good is a race where everyone wins?
I tried to go to the homepage to look for screenshots and thought it was broken. Then I realized that it was a running version of Robin. It has a "start button" menu thing with some programs. Crazy stuff!
Also, Gtk2 can be themed by itself. I use fvwm, but use a lot of gtk2 apps. You can find a lot of gtk2 themes on freshmeat.net. It makes a world of difference! =)
Gnumeric is so great, and it opens Excel files too? Plus is has so many functions (including every singel excel function). I'm not sure I'd use a different spreadsheet.
Haha you beat me to it man! Newsgroups should be whispered, not spoken aloud lol. Let's keep it our little secret shall we?
I see what you guys mean about the BIOS, I just mentioned the bootloader 'cause it's the sub-title of the article, i.e. "Eliminate the bootloader for greater uptime"
It should probably say "Eliminate the BIOS for greater uptime" ?
Well my point wasn't that it takes long for my laptop, my point was that starting and stopping services when I reboot takes longer than grub, where the total reboot time = (time it takes for the bios and grub) + (time it takes to stop services) + (time it takes to start them again)
For me what takes the longest isn't the bootloader, it's the starting and stopping of services. This is still cool though.
Very interesting! Thanks!
Ok so basically since it's running a custom version of linux, it can support anything that the linux kernel has support for (which is a lot, last I checked during make menuconfig ;)). Pretty neat!
A NAS device like this is made to work with any type of network protocols... but how could it work with a network that has a windows, mac, netware, and linux stuff all happening at once? I mean is this even possible? Aside from acting as a web/ftp server? I don't know why anyone would ever want to have all those things mixed into one network anyway, but what if?
I mean damn that interview was long! I was expecting the usual few questions and answers. Personally, I wouldn't have the mind to ask that many questions to my favorite writer (Mr. Stephenson of course)... I mean if I could get him to talk to me for that long I'd just invite him out for a beer and end up talkin about nothing much lol.
You can see it at theTDFS B Homepage. It's my fav. 3d file browser because you can see pictures, read text files and even play music files. It's just not a file "manager" because you can't actually manipulate files, but it's still the ultimate pr0n viewer!
Microsoft, a company notorious around the globe for producing horribly insecure software, is asking the government to regulate software security? I'm having trouble saying M$ and Security in the same sentence without laughing! How could inherently secure open source projects like OpenBSD be compared with with the hole filled, virus ridden windows programs? I just don't get it.
I'd rather use source all the time, but when you are using a really slow machine that could take forever... thats where packages make things a bit easier...
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However, the problem I've run into very recently, with mandrake 10, are that even though certain programs like apache, and php, can support a lot of things (i.e. can be compiled to support things), the binaries distributed with mdk 10 dont include all of things I needed...
Specifically, when installing Mambo on a webserver here I found that zlib support and xml support were both missing, even though apache and php were both installed. The only solution I could find is to install zlib (from source), and then recompile php and apache. I still havent quite figured out why xml support is missing, but I digress;)
Using packages and source together can also be extra work because a lot of the stuff you need to compile programs are in "devel" packages that arent installed by default (That doesn't happen at all with LFS.)
It's a tough call but the way I see it, try packages and if you don't run into problems, then fine... otherwise just don't forget that open souce is... well open source? =)
Sorry if all this was said already but I had to give my
You might want to be sure that you have the right power mangament features enabled in your kernel. I had to enable all of the the APCI features myself. You can use dmesg|less to see if your kernel is actually finding the power management feautures that you enabled. But maybe you knew that;) In any event you would see stuff like this:
;)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
Alas, my laptop is plugged in 90% of the time and I havent used windows on it for more than the time it took to make a debian cd (which I used to build LFS) so I never had time to notice the difference
Good luck!
"...bash, perl, and tcl/tk..." Hey don't forget ruby! =)
I haven't seen the 3rd matrix, and dont plan on wasting even my free movie passes on it. I mean I can go see kill bill or something.
But anyway, at the end of the first matrix, there was this credit that said "Based on Neuromancer by William Gibson". Ok I had never heard of Gibson until then. So I read the book. This made me realize how much the Matrix sucked. Well that and the fact that Keanu as Jesus is too much of a stretch for me to handle.
There are 3 books to that series, the other two being Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. All 3 of those books are great if you ask me... Now yes, I know that technically speaking only the first Matrix was based on Neuromancer (or at least I didn't see any mention of the books in the reloaded), but still, I mean... zion is supposed to be in space! lol and like... full of rastas who listen to dub.
Why take names and ideas from a book and make a trilogy starring keanu reeves at Jesus?! wtf?! Maybe they liked how he played in Johnny Mnemonic (which was a Gibson story to begin with as well, and also had a character from Neuromancer in it, but whatever).
No there wasn't really a point to this except that I liked the books and I think it's a shame that someone borrowed pieces of them to make sucky films. Oh well.
Well I guess I was misleading there, but I hope no one one would really go looking on a linux security website for openbsd information anyway ;) It seemed obvious to me, so I guess my brain assumed that I also mentioned the openbsd page.
I broke my rule of "dont do anything before you have some coffee". Apparently I have to apply that to my days off too=)
As much as I love linux I would have to say if security is concern #1, then use openBSD. It's pretty scary looking at all the stuff at linuxsecurity.org that is listed for all the distros. In fact if you go to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ you can see they keep track of free/net/open BSD vulnerabilities too. The most recent openBSD advisory is dated 8/12/2002, where mandrakes most recent is well... today.