I had an AMD K6-200, and I could hear the difference between the sound it made when doing actual computations and when it was just idle. It was very nice - since compilation took a LOOONG time, I could watch TV or something and hear when it finished.
All my family thought I was crazy, though - maybe I just have a sixth sense.;)
And how is this really different from AOL right now? On my fiancee's machine (and her roommate's) whenever AOL is started it up, it locks up the machine about half the time, so it needs to be rebooted anyway.
Granted, the machines are running 98 and ME, but when using a real dial-up connection (non-AOL) on the same machines, it doesn't crash half as often...
Last I checked, the US population was between 250 and 300 mil. That's not really so bad, considering we would have home-field advantage and our military would kick their butts technologically.
Do you have any idea how great a feeling it is when I get an e-mail from somebody in Sweden who is using something I wrote (I live in Ohio, so that's a long way away:)? Lemme tell you, that sort of thing makes your day.
It may not be my primary reason for writing free SW, but let me tell you, it certainly can motivate me at times.
They can run each other's apps with no problem - the only thing is the widgets might look a little different, but this is easy solvable, since KDE can use GTK themes.
Of course, the very fact that you're running telnetd at all means you don't give two craps about security.Do you have ANY IDEA how easy it is to sniff passwords from telnet? I tell you, it's scary. When someone rooted a box here a while back, I looked thru the sniffer log and found working root passwords for a number of HP-UX machines here...
Was your comment in reply to my comment about Cookbook? Because users.pl says it was, but it's not displayed that way.... anyway, I'll assume it was.:)
Cookbook is currently in KDE CVS, in the kdenonbeta module. I've got some older versions and screenshots up at http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~dwatson/cookbook.html, but the webserver has been screwy, so it may or may not work.
If you want to latest version, you can get it from CVS. It should be fairly stable, despite the fact that I'm madly adding new features to make it more like what I want:).
You'll need KDE2.2 for it to work properly, though, because I use KDEPrint. Or you could just hack the makefiles and remove the #define QPrinter KPrinter:).
Hey - we don't ALL use the (stupid, IMO) K* naming convention. I'm actually David Watson, the author of Cookbook, which is currently in kdenonbeta, but will be moving to the hopefully soon-to-be-created kde-apps module.
If I had used a K in it, it would have been either KCookbook, or Kookbook - the first is sorta cheesy and the second is just plain stupid.
Of course, my name isn't exactly creative, but neither was Recipes for Windows (tm), the program from which I drew much inspiration.
I don't think this is at all uncommon. Although sometimes I listen to very strange stuff when I'm hard at work - anything from the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever to extreme hardcore music like Zao.
I find sometimes that if I don't have any music or if I can't seem to find the right kind of music, I can get really irritable when I'm working, and lose focus - this usually only happens when I need to get stuff done quickly.:)
I thought I had heard it all - but "time slicing" meaning you must "slice your time" so you keep jumping around? That guy must need a brain transplant.
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BFE generally means "Butt-F***ing Egypt" - i.e., the middle of nowhere.
I had an AMD K6-200, and I could hear the difference between the sound it made when doing actual computations and when it was just idle. It was very nice - since compilation took a LOOONG time, I could watch TV or something and hear when it finished.
;)
All my family thought I was crazy, though - maybe I just have a sixth sense.
How could you possibly forget "First Post!" and "Hot grits down my pants"? Shame, shame.
;)
Not to mention "All Your Base"...
Indeed it was - but this seems a bit easier to pull off than CIH, no? All you need to do is write to the disk, not re-flash a BIOS chip.
Indeed it is - can you say "BIOS virus", anyone?
Can't wait till that starts happening...
And how is this really different from AOL right now? On my fiancee's machine (and her roommate's) whenever AOL is started it up, it locks up the machine about half the time, so it needs to be rebooted anyway.
Granted, the machines are running 98 and ME, but when using a real dial-up connection (non-AOL) on the same machines, it doesn't crash half as often...
I sure remember seeing this just a few weeks ago...
50 million? Are you smoking crack?
Last I checked, the US population was between 250 and 300 mil. That's not really so bad, considering we would have home-field advantage and our military would kick their butts technologically.
very clever! I like!
Hmm... then my site must be negligible, since I don't have anything up in /, but I do in /~myusername/ :).
A parody of a parody!
(argh, stupid lameness filter!)
I think you misunderstand the prestige thing.
:)? Lemme tell you, that sort of thing makes your day.
Do you have any idea how great a feeling it is when I get an e-mail from somebody in Sweden who is using something I wrote (I live in Ohio, so that's a long way away
It may not be my primary reason for writing free SW, but let me tell you, it certainly can motivate me at times.
Man, you're thick...
There's this little thing called SARCASM. Even a smart person like you should have heard of it.
They can run each other's apps with no problem - the only thing is the widgets might look a little different, but this is easy solvable, since KDE can use GTK themes.
The Flash 5 plugin has been available for Linux for quite a while....
a sh /english/linux/5.0r47/flash_linux.tar.gz
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/fl
Of course, the very fact that you're running telnetd at all means you don't give two craps about security.Do you have ANY IDEA how easy it is to sniff passwords from telnet? I tell you, it's scary. When someone rooted a box here a while back, I looked thru the sniffer log and found working root passwords for a number of HP-UX machines here...
Was your comment in reply to my comment about Cookbook? Because users.pl says it was, but it's not displayed that way.... anyway, I'll assume it was. :)
:).
:).
Cookbook is currently in KDE CVS, in the kdenonbeta module. I've got some older versions and screenshots up at http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~dwatson/cookbook.html, but the webserver has been screwy, so it may or may not work.
If you want to latest version, you can get it from CVS. It should be fairly stable, despite the fact that I'm madly adding new features to make it more like what I want
You'll need KDE2.2 for it to work properly, though, because I use KDEPrint. Or you could just hack the makefiles and remove the #define QPrinter KPrinter
You're right, it was Bruce. I knew it was some important Debian guy who was at Pixar. :)
Yup. Before potato there were hamm and slink. I think that Ian Murdock worked for Pixar or something.
Hey - we don't ALL use the (stupid, IMO) K* naming convention. I'm actually David Watson, the author of Cookbook, which is currently in kdenonbeta, but will be moving to the hopefully soon-to-be-created kde-apps module.
If I had used a K in it, it would have been either KCookbook, or Kookbook - the first is sorta cheesy and the second is just plain stupid.
Of course, my name isn't exactly creative, but neither was Recipes for Windows (tm), the program from which I drew much inspiration.
I can think of an easy way to still spread but nuke the machine:
Just set up a timer - have it run scans for a few hours, and then wipe the disk. Sounds pretty trivial, actually.
There's a very easy way to do it with XDM:
Run xdm on both VC's!
That was easy, wasn't it?
I don't think this is at all uncommon. Although sometimes I listen to very strange stuff when I'm hard at work - anything from the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever to extreme hardcore music like Zao.
:)
I find sometimes that if I don't have any music or if I can't seem to find the right kind of music, I can get really irritable when I'm working, and lose focus - this usually only happens when I need to get stuff done quickly.
Wow.
I thought I had heard it all - but "time slicing" meaning you must "slice your time" so you keep jumping around? That guy must need a brain transplant.
It's good to know I'm not the only one who does that - after all, neither one takes much concentration, and you can do each with one hand!