When I first read this one - I immediately thought, "Great! Now maybe we can convince the higher-ups to stop buying PoS* machines".
Now I'm thinking, "Oh sh*t! They're going to buy more PoS's and sue for free hardware support!"
I'll have a talk with my state rep next Sunday at church. I suggest all other geeks living in PA to do the same (not necessarily in church, of course.:)
I was speaking of Win3.0, not 3.1. The 3.0 screen was a dark-blue/black mesh with the M$ logo at top and just the words "Windows version 3.0" in white letters in the middle. No flying windows logo, no fancy sh*t at all.
Wow - looking at those old Winblows snapshots was like walking down Repressed Memory Lane.:)
IIRC, Win 3.0 allowed users to mess with the original opening screen... C:\windows\system\winlogo.rle
A run-length encoded bitmap file, 640x480x16.
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Ohh, something that doesn't agree with the writings of our glorious leader RMS, I don't want to see it because I can't think for myself, someone else has to do it for me.
Actually, my glorious leader is JKH.:) But I agree - too many people on/. are constipated in their own beliefs.
Which gets me thinking (look out!)....does anyone have a canonical list of CS/IS Saints/Blessed who are referred to by their initials (RMS, ESR, JKH, BWK, et. al.) ?
Anyhoo - all this boycott talk got me thinking...does anyone have a complete (or even somewhat complete) list of companies/group the geek community is boycotting/protesting? It just seems like it grows on and on and on....
That's one of the oldest jokes in the programming world -- it started with the legend of the foreign student in the US whose visa had expired...and his friends tattooed DES on his ankle to make him "export-restricted."
Anyhoo, getting back on topic...
I hope this case goes to the Supreme Court for the DMCA to get struck down in all the land (of course, I make the assumption that the MPAA doesn't have its hands in any 5 justices' robes)...then maybe to the World Court so the CCA can be found in violation of WTO treaties (see also regional encoding, Berne Convention.)
This also would include such OS's as Dynix (Sequent?) & Pyramid, neither of which I believe made it on this family tree. Of course, I don't really know much about them, except that Dynix supposedly did multi-processing pretty well.
For those of you on FreeBSD (and maybe NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDI as well), a condensed ASCII version which is quite BSD-centric is on your system at/usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
PS - The chart says nothing of Unix' evil stepfather, Multics.
Let's see...Philips/Magnavox TV/VCR, Aiwa stereo, RCA portable CD player.
All I need to be S*ny free is to have my brother-in-law quit his job at the S*ny TV plant in Mt. Pleasant, PA.
But seriously, how do they think they'll firewall everything everywhere? Buy all the ISPs/NSPs that allow Napster traffic or even *MIGHT* allow Napster traffic?
Note that it wouldn't be considered a monopoly if they did -- AOhelL/Time Warner would still have their chunk.
<sarcasm>
I know -- they'll use the AltaVista UK method of firewalling. Say that they're going to firewall everywhere but do absolutely nothing!
</sarcasm>
This might be off-topic, but there is a company (whose URL I can't remember) that manufactures foot pedals as replacements for the shift, ctrl, and alt (or meta, if you grok EMACS) keys. It might take a little getting used-to, but it would make those games of Quake a lot more interesting (select weapon with left foot pedal 1, fire with right foot pedal 2, or something like that.)
Would a computer historian study all aspects of computing history, or would it be subdivided into the several aspects of computing; e.g. hardware, software, os's, theory, etc.?
I'm sure the legal profession wouldn't mind having a few such historians around... research IS case law, computing-related patents and rulings (there's a few suits right now that will be worth researching many years from now.)
There's always the computing groups (ACM, IEEE, maybe even Usenix) that would have some use for historians of IS/CS...it'd make for good articles in the tech magazines.:)
Well, look at it this way. Think about how long it takes to run a 30 mile fiber line.
True, that does suck, and it's still pretty expensive.
Now, think about how long it would take to run it wireless. Just point and shoot.
Easier said than done. You'd need to calibrate the transmitting device to probably the nearest thousandth of a degree in each direction to be able to hit your receiver about, say, 1 mile away. (very crude, out-of-my-arse calculations.)
The other issue is what might be in the way of the signal -- around Pittsburgh, for example, the terrain is rather hilly. It'd be hard to set up a link between downtown (even on top of the USX tower, ~850 feet high) and Greentree, only a mile or so away, as Mount Washington tends to get in the way. Not to mention what random building might pop up in between your two stations.
Bringing something like cable or DSL into new areas would be quicker and cheaper. The labor costs for laying the line is much higher then a more expensive wireless system.
True, in maybe the Midwest where there are no tall hills. Around here, we're stuck with the classic guided media, expensive as it might be.
Then that makes the very notion of numbers different - instead of having hexadecimal: "0123456789ABCDEF", would it be, say in Greek, "0123456789[Alpha][Beta][Gamma][Delta][Epsilon][Ze ta]?"
(Any hackers from Greece or who know Greek, please confirm or deny this.)
The same would apply to any non-Roman alphabet (e.g. Cyrillic, Arabian, Hebrew, Mandarin, et. al.)
Or do non-Roman-alphabet-language-speaking (whoo!) hackers reluctantly accept the Roman letters ABCDEF as 10-15Hex?
...how clusterable is it? 2000 of them working in parallel...can you say "Exaflop", boys and girls? RC5 might just get cracked pretty damn quick with that thing.
So when's the PSC getting one?
Look like Linux will get that 'killer app' that will bring the unwashed masses to it's doorstep.
Yup. If it's anything like the Win32 client, it'll be a real killer...of productivity, resources, and the system in general.
You'll now see the following showing up all over the place:
d00d - | jus+ 1n5+@113d @ 1|nu>< p@r+|+|0n 0n my 1337 C313r0n m@ch|n3! #0w d0 | 63+ +h3 A0L +h|n6 n0w?
God help us all.
Uhhh. That is retarded. I have a DSL and my friend has @Home. We have setup a VPN using SSH and PPP. If @Home looked at his traffic, all they would see is a SSH connection. So what? They could never prove what he was doing with that connection. Lamers....
If they see encrypted data, they might get paranoid and assume you are transferring illegal or dangerous shit, therefore shutting off the line.
Given the amount of stupid ISP's out there, I wouldn't put it past any of them.
i think it might hurt a LITTLE more to remove an implant
Bruce Willis did it in 12 Monkeys (a very good Terry Gilliam film) by pulling out his wisdom teeth where it was located.
The only time I'd see it used is on paroled criminals. Or, as a better way to enforce Megan's Law*, have alarms and sirens go off if a pædophile made his way into a community.
*-for our Non-US readers, Megan's Law requires paroled sex offenders to announce to their new neighbors of their past crimes. Or something like that.
Rubbing alcohol and paper towels. It's kept 10 year old IBM keyboards in the public computer labs pretty clean up at my old school -- and we have some pretty dirty characters up there...
I doubt that Nader and Reform have the slightest notion of the differences in systems. They just sent out word that they wanted secure webservers and then hired the geeks who said that they could do it....
Even so, it'd be a feather in their caps if they like what they've got and publicly say so.
Nader's given me a reason to vote for him.:) (as opposed to the 3.73 10^7 reasons not to vote for Bush & Gore.)
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So, what if a manufacturer decided, "screw this," and not to sell to residents of Pennsylvania,
AFAIK, that might be a violation of Interstate Commerce laws.
but some resident of another state sold a used one to a Pennsylvanian?
Or would the reseller be the one who would have to provide the support?
Pennsylvania - Home of Questionable Legislation
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When I first read this one - I immediately thought, "Great! Now maybe we can convince the higher-ups to stop buying PoS* machines".
Now I'm thinking, "Oh sh*t! They're going to buy more PoS's and sue for free hardware support!"
I'll have a talk with my state rep next Sunday at church. I suggest all other geeks living in PA to do the same (not necessarily in church, of course.
PS - Doesn't ESR live in PA?
* - It's not "Point of Sale", either
I was speaking of Win3.0, not 3.1. The 3.0 screen was a dark-blue/black mesh with the M$ logo at top and just the words "Windows version 3.0" in white letters in the middle. No flying windows logo, no fancy sh*t at all.
Wow - looking at those old Winblows snapshots was like walking down Repressed Memory Lane. :)
IIRC, Win 3.0 allowed users to mess with the original opening screen...
C:\windows\system\winlogo.rle
A run-length encoded bitmap file, 640x480x16.
Ohh, something that doesn't agree with the writings of our glorious leader RMS, I don't want to see it because I can't think for myself, someone else has to do it for me.
:) But I agree - too many people on /. are constipated in their own beliefs.
Actually, my glorious leader is JKH.
Which gets me thinking (look out!)....does anyone have a canonical list of CS/IS Saints/Blessed who are referred to by their initials (RMS, ESR, JKH, BWK, et. al.) ?
Aw, sh*t! No wonder it self-destructed!
Anyhoo - all this boycott talk got me thinking...does anyone have a complete (or even somewhat complete) list of companies/group the geek community is boycotting/protesting? It just seems like it grows on and on and on....
That's one of the oldest jokes in the programming world -- it started with the legend of the foreign student in the US whose visa had expired...and his friends tattooed DES on his ankle to make him "export-restricted."
t tle.beer.good);
Anyhoo, getting back on topic...
I hope this case goes to the Supreme Court for the DMCA to get struck down in all the land (of course, I make the assumption that the MPAA doesn't have its hands in any 5 justices' robes)...then maybe to the World Court so the CCA can be found in violation of WTO treaties (see also regional encoding, Berne Convention.)
open((2600.appeal==lose)?floodgates.litigation:bo
This also would include such OS's as Dynix (Sequent?) & Pyramid, neither of which I believe made it on this family tree. Of course, I don't really know much about them, except that Dynix supposedly did multi-processing pretty well.
/usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
For those of you on FreeBSD (and maybe NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDI as well), a condensed ASCII version which is quite BSD-centric is on your system at
PS - The chart says nothing of Unix' evil stepfather, Multics.
Let's see...Philips/Magnavox TV/VCR, Aiwa stereo, RCA portable CD player.
All I need to be S*ny free is to have my brother-in-law quit his job at the S*ny TV plant in Mt. Pleasant, PA.
But seriously, how do they think they'll firewall everything everywhere? Buy all the ISPs/NSPs that allow Napster traffic or even *MIGHT* allow Napster traffic?
Note that it wouldn't be considered a monopoly if they did -- AOhelL/Time Warner would still have their chunk.
<sarcasm>
I know -- they'll use the AltaVista UK method of firewalling. Say that they're going to firewall everywhere but do absolutely nothing!
</sarcasm>
This might be off-topic, but there is a company (whose URL I can't remember) that manufactures foot pedals as replacements for the shift, ctrl, and alt (or meta, if you grok EMACS) keys. It might take a little getting used-to, but it would make those games of Quake a lot more interesting (select weapon with left foot pedal 1, fire with right foot pedal 2, or something like that.)
Well, look at it this way. Think about how long it takes to run a 30 mile fiber line.
True, that does suck, and it's still pretty expensive.
Now, think about how long it would take to run it wireless. Just point and shoot.
Easier said than done. You'd need to calibrate the transmitting device to probably the nearest thousandth of a degree in each direction to be able to hit your receiver about, say, 1 mile away. (very crude, out-of-my-arse calculations.)
The other issue is what might be in the way of the signal -- around Pittsburgh, for example, the terrain is rather hilly. It'd be hard to set up a link between downtown (even on top of the USX tower, ~850 feet high) and Greentree, only a mile or so away, as Mount Washington tends to get in the way. Not to mention what random building might pop up in between your two stations.
Bringing something like cable or DSL into new areas would be quicker and cheaper. The labor costs for laying the line is much higher then a more expensive wireless system.
True, in maybe the Midwest where there are no tall hills. Around here, we're stuck with the classic guided media, expensive as it might be.
VAX was preceded in death by its parent, PDP-11. (1966?-1990)
:)
VAX is survived by its bastard son, Alpha.
23 years isn't a bad run for a system.
I always liked its instruction set - especially the complex number instructions.
Soon, the next generation of hackers won't get the "Nothing Sucks Like A VAX" joke. Thus is progress.
Then that makes the very notion of numbers different - instead of having hexadecimal:e ta]?"
"0123456789ABCDEF", would it be, say in Greek,
"0123456789[Alpha][Beta][Gamma][Delta][Epsilon][Z
(Any hackers from Greece or who know Greek, please confirm or deny this.)
The same would apply to any non-Roman alphabet (e.g. Cyrillic, Arabian, Hebrew, Mandarin, et. al.)
Or do non-Roman-alphabet-language-speaking (whoo!) hackers reluctantly accept the Roman letters ABCDEF as 10-15Hex?
...how clusterable is it? 2000 of them working in parallel...can you say "Exaflop", boys and girls? RC5 might just get cracked pretty damn quick with that thing.
So when's the PSC getting one?
Look like Linux will get that 'killer app' that will bring the unwashed masses to it's doorstep.
Yup. If it's anything like the Win32 client, it'll be a real killer...of productivity, resources, and the system in general.
You'll now see the following showing up all over the place:
d00d - | jus+ 1n5+@113d @ 1|nu>< p@r+|+|0n 0n my 1337 C313r0n m@ch|n3! #0w d0 | 63+ +h3 A0L +h|n6 n0w?
God help us all.
Uhhh. That is retarded. I have a DSL and my friend has @Home. We have setup a VPN using SSH and PPP. If @Home looked at his traffic, all they would see is a SSH connection. So what? They could never prove what he was doing with that connection. Lamers....
If they see encrypted data, they might get paranoid and assume you are transferring illegal or dangerous shit, therefore shutting off the line.
Given the amount of stupid ISP's out there, I wouldn't put it past any of them.
i think it might hurt a LITTLE more to remove an implant
Bruce Willis did it in 12 Monkeys (a very good Terry Gilliam film) by pulling out his wisdom teeth where it was located.
The only time I'd see it used is on paroled criminals. Or, as a better way to enforce Megan's Law*, have alarms and sirens go off if a pædophile made his way into a community.
*-for our Non-US readers, Megan's Law requires paroled sex offenders to announce to their new neighbors of their past crimes. Or something like that.
Rubbing alcohol and paper towels. It's kept 10 year old IBM keyboards in the public computer labs pretty clean up at my old school -- and we have some pretty dirty characters up there...
...features the song White Room by Cream, (c) 1967 (+/- 1 year) being played while the camera runs itself all around the new white iMac.
I'm pretty sure Eric Clapton is thinking..."two more years, and I won't have to hear my song being associated with a fishtank..."
How much memory? Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes a zealot to port Linux to it? Come on, you know someone will try it...
:)
What good is it if it doesn't run Linux or NetBSD?
If it has >=4MB, it has a good chance to get NetBSD/ARM32 ported to it...then I'd *REALLY* shell out the bucks for that...
Someone designs an embedded NetBSD or Linux kernel in a GBA cart, with 16MB RAM and a USB port sticking out of it, and I'm there.
Any chance of porting any of the Sid Meyer games to it? (e.g. Civ, Civ II, Colonization, Alpha Centauri, et. al.) Or better yet -- FreeCiv!
Give it an external PC/MAC-linkable port (USB, 1394, or Ethernet...hell, even RS-232) and I'd shell out some buckage for it.
Neither of them is likely to know the difference between Linux and Charlie Brown's piano playing friend with a similar name.
Linux & Schroeder don't sound at all alike.
To make the above post correct, sed 's/piano\ playing/blanket-carrying/'
I doubt that Nader and Reform have the slightest notion of the differences in systems. They just sent out word that they wanted secure webservers and then hired the geeks who said that they could do it....
:) (as opposed to the 3.73 10^7 reasons not to vote for Bush & Gore.)
Even so, it'd be a feather in their caps if they like what they've got and publicly say so.
Nader's given me a reason to vote for him.