I don't mean to bash the project, I love Linux as much as the next guy. But it seems that there's been so many of these "projects" and they never produce anything that even closely compares to MS office. MS Office is a great office suite, but it's bloated. Star Office works well, but it's also bloated, and a complete bitch for a Novice user to install, maybe the latest version is better, I haven't tried it recently.
Hopefully this time, something that's truly a competition for MS Office will be produced. I don't like having to switch back to windows everytime I need to write something up that needs to be sent to a fellow employee.
Wasn't there some sort of project awhile back to produce a standard document format based on XML which would be a kind of Universal document format? Whatever this consortium produces, it must include that document format and hopefully make it the default format if it wants to get ahead of MS Office.
It could be pronounced "C-Hash", which, at a glance looks like C-Rash, which is most likely what it does best. Or maybe C-Hash is how Apu says "crash" as in:
"Oh my golly gosh, the big truck has C-Hashed into the Qwikie Mart!"
Or Hash is probably what the developers were smoking when they came up with this language.
If you knocked out two of them, you'd essentially make it into several islands because of amount of traffic that would have to be piped through the remaining links. Just because those links are there doesn't mean they can handle all of the packets that people are trying to push through it.
Maybe if you compare to x86 hardware (i.e. Emachines). You can pick up a used Imac or a g3 tower for well under $1000, and the G4's are only a couple of grand and outperform x86 hardware in most respects. They're still cheaper than a comparable Sun machine.
Apple has done something really cool... Built a decent server platform that can be administered by total morons. Previously, the only way for idiots to be able to administer a server was to get themselves a copy of NT, and that's not even a decent OS. They're going to make a killing with OSX, and they're going to sell a ton of machines also, especially with the dual G4 machines. How many times have you heard of people going with NT because Unix was hard?
How quickly does the object slow down once the bubble collapses? Say you fire a.270 or a 30-06 rifle into water, it nearly stops after going in 1 meter. Either of these 2 rounds fire between 2200 and 3200 feet/second, depending on how much/type of powder, and the weight of the bullet. So, at a minimum, the bullet goes from 2200 fps to 0 in a split second because there's no bubble around it. When the bubble collapses on your manned vehicle, will it slow down just as fast? If so, the people inside are going to be goopy mess of blood, flesh and bones stuck in the nose of the vehicle. So they're going to have to fire the vehicle from some sort of large gun into the water to get the bubble to form, and then at the end of the trip, the bubble will collapse and the vehicle will go from over the speed of sound to relatively nothing in under a second. The chances of this actually working are nearly zero, why don't they just shoot travelers in the head before they get on the thing. What happens if they hit a whale or a stray mine left over from wwII? The thing will mostly be unsteerable, and any change in direction will take several tens of miles or the bubble will collapse. I admit, it's a cool concept, but I'll let them make a few mistakes before I ever get on one.
This is their test line that you can call to test out sphinx, it's for making travel plans and uses real data, but doesn't actually make the reservations for you.
Try it out, it works unbelievably good, especially with no training. Try mumbling, it will still pick up what you said. I'm impressed. This could be very useful, they've already found one useful application for it. http://www.quack.com use voice recognition also, but I'm not sure what they use for software.
Not so long ago, me and a friend had planned on "experimenting" with our own radio station. I found a place in the UK that sold 1 watt FM transmitters with digital tuning for around $100 USD. For another $100 or so you could get the stereo module for it, and somewhere there was a 10 watt booster for fairly cheap also.
Ahh, just found it at http://www.broadcast-warehouse.com. Buy the kits, they cost much less than the pre-assembled ones. If you can get your antenna high enough, you should be able to get about 7 miles out of 1 watt. 10 times the power would double your range. A 20 watt booster is 149UK.
I'd still like to order one of these and play around with it.
Could this explain why our universe is expanding or moving apart? Say, for example, that we were in one of those small dimensions and the gravity from this dimension was propagating across and acting on our universe, wouldn't that pull it apart?
Also, if we can learn how to manipulate gravity, could this allow cross-dimensional communications? I also read that gravity propagates at c^2, this would be excellent for interstellar communications.
Of course I'm most likely talking out my ass. Damn, I wish I had taken particle physics courses in college. Time to buy some books I guess.
Whatever happened to that spinoff they were thinking about that had the computer guys in it? Of course, they'll fill it with all sorts of nonsense crap and us true nerds will be laughing our asses off all the way through the show... It'll be like "Hackers" with lots of "graphical hacking in 3D worlds".
If you have a Cisco PIX or a 7100 or 7200 router you can set up a PPTP server which does MPPE on that which will authenticate against a RADIUS server. Set up the RADIUS server on your windows domain controllers so the users can just use their domain login. If you have Win2k domain controllers, you can control who has access to the vpn with the allow dialin flag.
Since you're running a proxy, I doubt you have a PIX, but if you do happen to have a 7100 or a 7200 this would work great, you can also use L2TP on the router, not sure about the firewall though. You can run PPTP on other cisco products, but you won't get the MPPE encryption with most of them. I use a couple of them set up on routers right now and they work excellent. I have tried using the PPTP server built into the PIX and it sucks, I think they basically put it in as a marketing gimmick.
As far as proxy servers go, I set up a Linux box with Squid and Dante. It has an uptime of over 200 days right now and I haven't had any trouble with it... except for this custom app that does http posts and the proxy likes to munge up the content-length header which screws up the app.
Mandrake 7.1 has an option at the end that asks "Make a boot floppy for Linux replication?" which allows you to just pop the disk in to clone the install on another machine, getting rid of all of the interactive stuff. I haven't tried it yet, but I have used redhat's version, mkkickstart, and it required alot of messing around with the options in the config file before it would work. This was in Redhat 6.1 that I had problems.
Mandrake 7.1 seems to be a bit more user friendly than redhat, and comes with more tools. It will download and install crypto packages like ssh, pgp, gpg, openssl, and mod_ssl during the install if you have it plugged into a network with internet access too. On login, the user can select what windowmanager he wants to use, they have a choice of about 8 or 10 of them, KDE and Windowmaker included. I use windowmaker and the only thing I don't like about it is it's lack of a decent pager/virtual desktop system. I want to be able to scroll between my desktops with the mouse instead of having to click on something.:)
Probably the easiest way to do this is buy the Mandrake box set so you get all of the goodies CD's, copy them to an NFS or FTP server on you network, do a network install with all of the programs options that you want, make sure you set it up to get an address via dhcp, answer yes to the "make boot floppy for linux replication" question at the end, and start replicating. With the Redhat version, all of your machine have to be EXACTLY alike, including the exact same hard disk because the floppy stores how big each partition is and the start and ending block, so if you install on a machine with a different size disk, you're out of luck.
It would be nice if someone would run some benchmarks with the same two machines, only have the W2k box serving up dynamically generated ASP and PHP pages, and the Linux box serving up a comparable PHP page. Whack up some identical code to perform Fast fourier transforms in the page and make it spit out the result. Once you get a database into the mix, you're also measuring the performance of it, and this is just a webserver test. Unless of course you have both boxes hit the exact same database, maybe a nice big Oracle database running on Linux.:)
Everyone here knows that MS zealots will say "Yeah, but W2k can spit out dynamic content faster...". It would be nice to have proof either way. I know I'm very interested in seeing how PHP on Linux compares to ASP on W2K.
Give it away for free and charge for support. Sell support contracts, charge a set amount for an "incident", just charge for support of any kind. Decent documentation for it should still be available for free though, or no one will use it.
70% of Oracle's profits come from support contracts.
Why didn't he just try to pour the liquid N2 over the motherboard? It would have been alot cheaper, and more efficient. N2 can be purchased for around $2 a gallon at some welding/gas supply stores. They'll even rent you a special container for transporting it.
The only reason I can see for using flourinert is if he was cooling it with a vapor phase system (classic compressor/refridgerant setup), or with something like a peltier. Since the Liquid Nitrogen is already liquid, why not just submerse the components in that? The lower limit on vapor phase is around -45C with R-22 or R-12, but by using other refridgerants, you can get even colder (-85C or below). You can also whack a peltier cooler on the surface of the cpu to get another -20C or so below what the vapor phase will cool it to. If designed right, you'll be able to get below -100C. The performace limit of CMOS chips doubles at -100C. So if you're getting 550Mhz outta that 366 celeron at room temp, theoretically, you should be able to get over 1Ghz at -100C, given that the rest of your components will work when you have some crazy bus speed.
One of these days, I'll get off my ass and have my http://www.peltiercoolers.com site up, and we'll have a ton of information available, plus peltiers, refridgerants, heatsinks, compounds, coldplates, and other fun stuff to fry your CPU with.
The things people can accomplish with a little boredom, a backyard, and some money (or lots of junk).
I once worked at a gas station where sunday mornings were completely dead. My boss seemed to only hire chain smokers or pyros, smart if you want to get insurance money for a large "accidental" fire. Unfortunately for him, he never did get that fire, but almost on several occasions. We invented all sorts of cool stuff, including, but not limited to:
1. 20 oz pop bottle rockets made from a pop bottle, valve stem w/o the core, water, and 180 psi. It's really amazing how much pressure a pop bottle can take without bursting.
2. The menacing screwdriver gun. This was made from a hose connected to the blast nozzles on the tire machine used for seating tires on the rim. The hose was connected with lots of duct tape to a large steel pipe. Drop the screwdriver in, aim, press the pedal. It would stick a screwdriver into a cement block. Later, it also proved that it could put a screwdriver through a garage door window and still make it across the street.
3. Oil burner pizza oven. Cooked a nice tasty *looking* pizza. Unfortunately, it added a little natural carcinogen flavor to it. We only tested this invention once...
4. Tire bombs. Ever see what happens to a car tire when you try to put 180 psi into it? Just put the locking air hose on it, and run away. Let's just say that if you do this 3 times in 10 minutes, the police come by to see what's going on.
I miss that job. If only it paid as well as the computer industry... Ahh, memories...
Imagine if some wacko could put up a web page and petition for some whack ass law that's right in line with his screwy religious beliefs. We already have laws which are linked to church, like buying cars on sunday is illegal in Minnesota, and booze. What else might happen? Maybe PETA would make it illegal to eat meat, or wear leather or fur. The Christian Coalition could pass a whole world of stupid laws, don't even get me started on that. "Hate groups" could pass laws.
I'm sure there's something in place where stupid frivolous laws couldn't be passed like this, but look at all the dumb laws we have now.
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Wouldn't this be a great use for Xfree 4.0? The windowed 3d is supposed to work sweet. Plus it takes all of the CPU on my Win2k box. Someone should modify Aterm to do this, the transparency and other features of aterm combined with the starwars-like text would make it the best terminal by far.
First of all, I'd like to say that proxies are a poor excuse for any sort of network security. I assume that's what your company uses it for. A much better solution would be a simple Linux Masquerading box, or if they're afraid of Linux, a Cisco PIX firewall and a PAT address for everyone on the inside of it. You can also do PAT on a Cisco router, using ACL's on a large scale for network security is also bad practice. I really suggest either a real firewall solution, or just a simple linux box with ip masquerading. Read the IP-masq howto.
MS Proxy is pure crap. One of the companies we work fairly closely with has one set up. FTP never worked properly and we would constantly get calls from people complaining to us to fix it, when we didn't even have any control over it. I finally got sick of getting called at 4AM for something I couldn't do anything about and set up a Linux box with Dante and Squid on it, and had someone out there who works for us put it in. It's been up for 223 days so far and I haven't had a single phone call since. Plus, most of the other companies users have switched over to it as well. Last week around noon, there were around 173 simultaneous users using it.
I think he was actually bitching about my comment. Not yours. I've been looking at using packet radio equipment in my car for simple messaging and email and the last I checked, everything I said in my comment was true.
Who cares anyway? It's not the real Bruce Perens, just some loser troll. Plus, he's moderated to -1 anyway.
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I don't mean to bash the project, I love Linux as much as the next guy. But it seems that there's been so many of these "projects" and they never produce anything that even closely compares to MS office. MS Office is a great office suite, but it's bloated. Star Office works well, but it's also bloated, and a complete bitch for a Novice user to install, maybe the latest version is better, I haven't tried it recently.
Hopefully this time, something that's truly a competition for MS Office will be produced. I don't like having to switch back to windows everytime I need to write something up that needs to be sent to a fellow employee.
Wasn't there some sort of project awhile back to produce a standard document format based on XML which would be a kind of Universal document format? Whatever this consortium produces, it must include that document format and hopefully make it the default format if it wants to get ahead of MS Office.
It could be pronounced "C-Hash", which, at a glance looks like C-Rash, which is most likely what it does best. Or maybe C-Hash is how Apu says "crash" as in:
"Oh my golly gosh, the big truck has C-Hashed into the Qwikie Mart!"
Or Hash is probably what the developers were smoking when they came up with this language.
Anyone got a mirror of the site?
Sorry, I meant 2%. Even so, you'd still wouldn't have to knock out very many to have a dramatic effect on the internet.
If you knocked out two of them, you'd essentially make it into several islands because of amount of traffic that would have to be piped through the remaining links. Just because those links are there doesn't mean they can handle all of the packets that people are trying to push through it.
Maybe if you compare to x86 hardware (i.e. Emachines). You can pick up a used Imac or a g3 tower for well under $1000, and the G4's are only a couple of grand and outperform x86 hardware in most respects. They're still cheaper than a comparable Sun machine.
Apple has done something really cool... Built a decent server platform that can be administered by total morons. Previously, the only way for idiots to be able to administer a server was to get themselves a copy of NT, and that's not even a decent OS. They're going to make a killing with OSX, and they're going to sell a ton of machines also, especially with the dual G4 machines. How many times have you heard of people going with NT because Unix was hard?
How quickly does the object slow down once the bubble collapses? Say you fire a .270 or a 30-06 rifle into water, it nearly stops after going in 1 meter. Either of these 2 rounds fire between 2200 and 3200 feet/second, depending on how much/type of powder, and the weight of the bullet. So, at a minimum, the bullet goes from 2200 fps to 0 in a split second because there's no bubble around it. When the bubble collapses on your manned vehicle, will it slow down just as fast? If so, the people inside are going to be goopy mess of blood, flesh and bones stuck in the nose of the vehicle. So they're going to have to fire the vehicle from some sort of large gun into the water to get the bubble to form, and then at the end of the trip, the bubble will collapse and the vehicle will go from over the speed of sound to relatively nothing in under a second. The chances of this actually working are nearly zero, why don't they just shoot travelers in the head before they get on the thing. What happens if they hit a whale or a stray mine left over from wwII? The thing will mostly be unsteerable, and any change in direction will take several tens of miles or the bubble will collapse. I admit, it's a cool concept, but I'll let them make a few mistakes before I ever get on one.
Call this number: 1-877-CMU-PLAN
This is their test line that you can call to test out sphinx, it's for making travel plans and uses real data, but doesn't actually make the reservations for you.
Try it out, it works unbelievably good, especially with no training. Try mumbling, it will still pick up what you said. I'm impressed. This could be very useful, they've already found one useful application for it. http://www.quack.com use voice recognition also, but I'm not sure what they use for software.
Not so long ago, me and a friend had planned on "experimenting" with our own radio station. I found a place in the UK that sold 1 watt FM transmitters with digital tuning for around $100 USD. For another $100 or so you could get the stereo module for it, and somewhere there was a 10 watt booster for fairly cheap also.
Ahh, just found it at http://www.broadcast-warehouse.com. Buy the kits, they cost much less than the pre-assembled ones. If you can get your antenna high enough, you should be able to get about 7 miles out of 1 watt. 10 times the power would double your range. A 20 watt booster is 149UK.
I'd still like to order one of these and play around with it.
Could this explain why our universe is expanding or moving apart? Say, for example, that we were in one of those small dimensions and the gravity from this dimension was propagating across and acting on our universe, wouldn't that pull it apart?
Also, if we can learn how to manipulate gravity, could this allow cross-dimensional communications? I also read that gravity propagates at c^2, this would be excellent for interstellar communications.
Of course I'm most likely talking out my ass. Damn, I wish I had taken particle physics courses in college. Time to buy some books I guess.
Whatever happened to that spinoff they were thinking about that had the computer guys in it? Of course, they'll fill it with all sorts of nonsense crap and us true nerds will be laughing our asses off all the way through the show... It'll be like "Hackers" with lots of "graphical hacking in 3D worlds".
They should just come out with "Tron" the series.
If you have a Cisco PIX or a 7100 or 7200 router you can set up a PPTP server which does MPPE on that which will authenticate against a RADIUS server. Set up the RADIUS server on your windows domain controllers so the users can just use their domain login. If you have Win2k domain controllers, you can control who has access to the vpn with the allow dialin flag.
Since you're running a proxy, I doubt you have a PIX, but if you do happen to have a 7100 or a 7200 this would work great, you can also use L2TP on the router, not sure about the firewall though. You can run PPTP on other cisco products, but you won't get the MPPE encryption with most of them. I use a couple of them set up on routers right now and they work excellent. I have tried using the PPTP server built into the PIX and it sucks, I think they basically put it in as a marketing gimmick.
As far as proxy servers go, I set up a Linux box with Squid and Dante. It has an uptime of over 200 days right now and I haven't had any trouble with it... except for this custom app that does http posts and the proxy likes to munge up the content-length header which screws up the app.
Mandrake 7.1 has an option at the end that asks "Make a boot floppy for Linux replication?" which allows you to just pop the disk in to clone the install on another machine, getting rid of all of the interactive stuff. I haven't tried it yet, but I have used redhat's version, mkkickstart, and it required alot of messing around with the options in the config file before it would work. This was in Redhat 6.1 that I had problems.
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Mandrake 7.1 seems to be a bit more user friendly than redhat, and comes with more tools. It will download and install crypto packages like ssh, pgp, gpg, openssl, and mod_ssl during the install if you have it plugged into a network with internet access too. On login, the user can select what windowmanager he wants to use, they have a choice of about 8 or 10 of them, KDE and Windowmaker included. I use windowmaker and the only thing I don't like about it is it's lack of a decent pager/virtual desktop system. I want to be able to scroll between my desktops with the mouse instead of having to click on something.
Probably the easiest way to do this is buy the Mandrake box set so you get all of the goodies CD's, copy them to an NFS or FTP server on you network, do a network install with all of the programs options that you want, make sure you set it up to get an address via dhcp, answer yes to the "make boot floppy for linux replication" question at the end, and start replicating. With the Redhat version, all of your machine have to be EXACTLY alike, including the exact same hard disk because the floppy stores how big each partition is and the start and ending block, so if you install on a machine with a different size disk, you're out of luck.
How about "The Limits of the Unlimited Information Store"....
http://www.microsoft.c om/TechNet/exchange/technote/store55.asp
It would be nice if someone would run some benchmarks with the same two machines, only have the W2k box serving up dynamically generated ASP and PHP pages, and the Linux box serving up a comparable PHP page. Whack up some identical code to perform Fast fourier transforms in the page and make it spit out the result. Once you get a database into the mix, you're also measuring the performance of it, and this is just a webserver test. Unless of course you have both boxes hit the exact same database, maybe a nice big Oracle database running on Linux. :)
Everyone here knows that MS zealots will say "Yeah, but W2k can spit out dynamic content faster...". It would be nice to have proof either way. I know I'm very interested in seeing how PHP on Linux compares to ASP on W2K.
Give it away for free and charge for support. Sell support contracts, charge a set amount for an "incident", just charge for support of any kind. Decent documentation for it should still be available for free though, or no one will use it.
70% of Oracle's profits come from support contracts.
>P3's carbon rucksack also holds the battery.
I coulda swore the first time I glanced at it, it said "carbon nutsack"
Why didn't he just try to pour the liquid N2 over the motherboard? It would have been alot cheaper, and more efficient. N2 can be purchased for around $2 a gallon at some welding/gas supply stores. They'll even rent you a special container for transporting it.
The only reason I can see for using flourinert is if he was cooling it with a vapor phase system (classic compressor/refridgerant setup), or with something like a peltier. Since the Liquid Nitrogen is already liquid, why not just submerse the components in that? The lower limit on vapor phase is around -45C with R-22 or R-12, but by using other refridgerants, you can get even colder (-85C or below). You can also whack a peltier cooler on the surface of the cpu to get another -20C or so below what the vapor phase will cool it to. If designed right, you'll be able to get below -100C. The performace limit of CMOS chips doubles at -100C. So if you're getting 550Mhz outta that 366 celeron at room temp, theoretically, you should be able to get over 1Ghz at -100C, given that the rest of your components will work when you have some crazy bus speed.
One of these days, I'll get off my ass and have my http://www.peltiercoolers.com site up, and we'll have a ton of information available, plus peltiers, refridgerants, heatsinks, compounds, coldplates, and other fun stuff to fry your CPU with.
The things people can accomplish with a little boredom, a backyard, and some money (or lots of junk).
I once worked at a gas station where sunday mornings were completely dead. My boss seemed to only hire chain smokers or pyros, smart if you want to get insurance money for a large "accidental" fire. Unfortunately for him, he never did get that fire, but almost on several occasions. We invented all sorts of cool stuff, including, but not limited to:
1. 20 oz pop bottle rockets made from a pop bottle, valve stem w/o the core, water, and 180 psi. It's really amazing how much pressure a pop bottle can take without bursting.
2. The menacing screwdriver gun. This was made from a hose connected to the blast nozzles on the tire machine used for seating tires on the rim. The hose was connected with lots of duct tape to a large steel pipe. Drop the screwdriver in, aim, press the pedal. It would stick a screwdriver into a cement block. Later, it also proved that it could put a screwdriver through a garage door window and still make it across the street.
3. Oil burner pizza oven. Cooked a nice tasty *looking* pizza. Unfortunately, it added a little natural carcinogen flavor to it. We only tested this invention once...
4. Tire bombs. Ever see what happens to a car tire when you try to put 180 psi into it? Just put the locking air hose on it, and run away. Let's just say that if you do this 3 times in 10 minutes, the police come by to see what's going on.
I miss that job. If only it paid as well as the computer industry... Ahh, memories...
Imagine if some wacko could put up a web page and petition for some whack ass law that's right in line with his screwy religious beliefs. We already have laws which are linked to church, like buying cars on sunday is illegal in Minnesota, and booze. What else might happen? Maybe PETA would make it illegal to eat meat, or wear leather or fur. The Christian Coalition could pass a whole world of stupid laws, don't even get me started on that. "Hate groups" could pass laws.
I'm sure there's something in place where stupid frivolous laws couldn't be passed like this, but look at all the dumb laws we have now.
Wouldn't this be a great use for Xfree 4.0? The windowed 3d is supposed to work sweet. Plus it takes all of the CPU on my Win2k box. Someone should modify Aterm to do this, the transparency and other features of aterm combined with the starwars-like text would make it the best terminal by far.
Does this mean we'll finally be able to watch quicktime 4 clips under Linux?
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First of all, I'd like to say that proxies are a poor excuse for any sort of network security. I assume that's what your company uses it for. A much better solution would be a simple Linux Masquerading box, or if they're afraid of Linux, a Cisco PIX firewall and a PAT address for everyone on the inside of it. You can also do PAT on a Cisco router, using ACL's on a large scale for network security is also bad practice. I really suggest either a real firewall solution, or just a simple linux box with ip masquerading. Read the IP-masq howto.
MS Proxy is pure crap. One of the companies we work fairly closely with has one set up. FTP never worked properly and we would constantly get calls from people complaining to us to fix it, when we didn't even have any control over it. I finally got sick of getting called at 4AM for something I couldn't do anything about and set up a Linux box with Dante and Squid on it, and had someone out there who works for us put it in. It's been up for 223 days so far and I haven't had a single phone call since. Plus, most of the other companies users have switched over to it as well. Last week around noon, there were around 173 simultaneous users using it.
I think he was actually bitching about my comment. Not yours. I've been looking at using packet radio equipment in my car for simple messaging and email and the last I checked, everything I said in my comment was true.
Who cares anyway? It's not the real Bruce Perens, just some loser troll. Plus, he's moderated to -1 anyway.