Unfortunately, RMS has once again gone overboard. The comment displays the lack of tact that is his trade mark. He is also incorrect regarding the bill. As usual, his comments are meant to be incendiary, not accurate. Congress expressly stated in the bill referred to above that it does not supercede the 1970's bill requiring Congress to declare war.
As to the privacy stuff, well, he can't be wrong all the time:)
For all that I like GPL, and I like the FSF, RMS has been more of a liability than an asset to his own cause. The man inspires so much hate in some of my employers that even mentioning GNU or GPL ( or even FreeBSD for some reason) makes them froth. It's actually rather amusing.
Now it appears RMS wants to be the next Ralph Nader? Pity.
That is a nice set of links. Here's a few for those looking for information on Pocket PC in general:
http://www.pocketpc.com (for general info)
http://www.cewindows.com (for cool apps and info)
http://www.thumbsupsoft.com/maphtm/themes.html (for cool themes)
http://www.teco.edu/pda/irchat.html (IRChat, a cool multi-platform technology)
http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html (amazing CE software, including a great version of PERL)
http://www.oke-e-doke.com/main.htm (Pocket Doom and Hexen, boo-yah!)
http://www.mobtech.co.uk/ecbmob/itm00436.htm (An adapter to go from CF type 1 to PCMCIA. No need for an IPAQ now:) )
Just thought I'd toss these out there, since I use WinCE as my secondary OS. FreeBSD of course is my fav, but I couldn't live without my handheld. From games, to books to writing code on the train, it rocks and fits into my pockets without making my pants fall down. Don't forget, Stowaway keyboards and CF Memory make the whole thing work!
-WS
Re:Hate to say, sounds like a dot-bomb strategy...
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Hate to point this out, but this comment: Finally, Compaq has PDA offerings that HP lacks shows someone has not been paying attention. HP has the Jornada line, which goes from the Pocket PC (the 54x line) up to the sub-notebook line the (the 78x). I own 2 devices of theirs, and the devices are sweet. They are fairly fast, have decent screens, respectable versatility, and INTEGRATED CF. Not that sleeve crap that Compaq dreamed up.
Furthermore, the tech support has been exceptional. I needed to get my 545 replaced, when it began malfunctioning 6 mos after being run over by a Porsche (The aluminum cases on the HPs are nearly indestructible. Nothing but a bunch of scratches for a metric ton of car sitting on it). HP was glad to pony up a new device, and an HP 548 to boot. I love these guys!
The IPaqs are definately cool, and they have the advantage of being b/w and color. However, they don't have integrated slots, which makes them a loser in my book. The sleeves are cool as an extra, but I live on my 128MB CF card. I store my code, my docs, my e-books, my PGP stuff, my pics, my tunes, and my better downloads on that thing. Without it, I'd be lost. For the privledge of using Compaq's, I'd have to pony up more money past their horribly overpriced system.
Thank you, no. $450 bucks is just right. $599 + ~$150 for a sleeve is too pricey for me. I'd rather own a Tiquit.
I can see it now, the McDonald's Douglas aircraft fleet. The ultimate in corporate power, to have your very own Harrier or what-not. All we need is for people who enjoy meetings too much anyhow to have the ability to fly to meetings in something like that.
And I used to feel cool when I hooked my Jornada up to a Stowaway in meetings. Now I'll need a jet too! Darned Joneses!
I think Berlin is highly cool, and it looks like it will be a worthwhile toy in the next year or two. I know I will certainly try it on my Debian systems.
As a fan of OpenGL since OS/2 days, I must say that I am delighted that they use it so much. If MS is going to tie Direct3D into the OS so heavily, it is only fair to compete with apples/apples.
I have several games and toys that I have written over the years for OpenGL, and I am looking forward to attempting this port. I suspect it will be very straight-forward. Perhaps someone will even port Blue Moon Rendering Toolkit (BMRT) to this? That would be tres cool.
Hey, what about those of us who would like to have lighting and fog effects when writing letters? I think it would be seriously cool if the next "Cease and Desist" letter I got had really cool real-time smoke.
I agree that an interface should be straight-forward, and simple. However, users LOVE eye candy. Just go look at Themes.org. We actually have users at my company who run PowerPoint on their desktops. They like having desktop wallpaper, and our policies prohibit it. They are willing to take the performance hit just for that useless bit of color.
As for me, I'll just sit back and enjoy my heavily tuned Enlightenment desktop that uses more RAM and CPU than my first 6 computers had, combined.
If Linus Torvalds, whom some of you consider some kind of god, and, BTW, owns the COPYRIGHT to the Linux kernel decided to make Linux a licensed product, you would have a fit. Why? No good reason at all. If you were to invent something, such as AC3, or DVD, or HTML, or the cure for cancer; you would have a right to make money from it.
Removing the opportunity to be FIRST TO MARKET would be a serious blow to creativity. Remember: patents and copyrights are temporary, and only give an inventor a chance to make some coin. They expire, and well before that, are imitated. If you don't like a product, make a new one just like it. Not exactly, of course. Just different enough.
Has MS sued over KOffice? No. Why?
They can't
They see no reason to, it only makes the MS way of doing things more popular
It's not used by a signifigant number of people
It's not patented, just coprighted
Dolby Labs spent serious money on their product, and it kicks butt. I love it. You think you can do better, let's see you try.
I'd never use one of those. I even switched to an HMD to avoid my screen be visible from the next room. I also put my computer into a room 6 meters underground, then sealed the entrance. I bought temperature/moisture/pressure sensors for the floor tiles, removed the air ducts (so there, Mission Impossible!), re-install NetBSD nightly to avoid any files being saved, and put EMF filters on my mouse and keyboard cables. I have my own air generator, and a lifetime supply of Spaghetti-O's.
Of course, in the real world, most of us understand that little things like 'keyboard snooping' and 'phone tapping' are seriously un-important. I'm much more concerned about the real threats like Unlawful Search and Seizure than I am about someone knowing my password for/. or MP3.Com. Who the h377 cares?
Do you actually think it matters if someone uses your credit card fraudulently? Nope. Happened to me already, before everything was 'e' something. I had someone run my card to the limit, and the company just charged me my insurance co-pay. Bango, no problem.
Life is just one big exercise in risk-management. Learn what things matter, and what things don't. Protect yourself where it matters. Don't bother to wear a flak jacket to the can.
Here's another example for your case against OO:
We implemented Poet, (at no small cost, I might add) only to find that within 6 months of beginning to use Poet as our major DB, a major 'Organizational Re-Adjustment' and a 'Data Center Consolidation' project wiped the whole dang thing in favor of DB2/OS390.
Now, our DB2 performance is actually much better than Poet ever was. Perhaps this is due to having highly skilled DB2 DBAs, or something. All the same, it is not worth going to a very expensive, single application db. Always use something standard, flexible, and easy to find admins for. It's worth it in the long run.
-WS
Re:Hrm, but is it really useful?
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Surround Lights
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This sounds like great fun! I would love to have a dull, red, pulsing light when crusing through a DOOM or Quake level that had lava in it, and I think that if the entire room turned a light blue color when you were underwater in Ultima it would be Really Cool.
Sounds to me more like a cheap CAVE than a problem. It would be the worst when watching a movie, I think. The lack of interaction with the screen, plus being surrounded with mood lighting? How would you stay awake?
Now, if they could have a cave version of 'The Matrix' movie...
That I use is to keep my PGP keys on my SanDisk CF+ card. I keep a backup of the key on a cd-rom, and the active version is actually plugged into my handheld most of the time. I actually keep most of my documents on it, (with backups on a real system, of course) so that I always have my keyring available to me.
Besides, most people have bigger problems, like running Outlook with everyone they have ever met in the address book. I'd be willing to bet that most of the private email data is sent in unecrypted form, stored unencrypted, and contains no information of use.
It would be quite frustrating, however, for some would-be l337 hax0r type to decrypt all of a user's email, and get 6 pics of his wedding, two recipies for egg nog, and about three hundred lame jokes for every 'useful' piece of info.
There are some very interesting designs in there. I wonder if anything could be done with a Tiquit? I'm currently building a Tiquit into a Motorola pager enclosure. These little computers are very cool.
Obviously a little light on the horsepower, but you could build a Beowolf cluster that could fit in a briefcase...;)
A handheld, with a large, 32-bit color screen, a cell-modem/bluetooth/whatever, an mp3 player, tons of memory, video player, really good image software, and designed for one-handed operation.
Call it the Vice-Boy. You could sell tons of them!
I tried to stay out of this, but oh, well...
This is not the wild west. This is a modern world where I have been shot once and mugged twice. I don't live in a very dangerous place. I live in the captial city of Ca! However, I dared to ride my bike through the city, headed for home. I was mugged (unsucessfully), and only got away because some fat dude with a baseball bat is not as fast as a road bike. If he had a gun, I'd have been shot again.
Of course, it would be illegal to discharge a firearm in the city, right?
I was shot once as a child for being in the wrong area of San Diego, during a drive-by shooting. When the cops and the ambulance arrived 45 minutes after the shooting, my parents had to file a report, and I was accused of being involved. I was 7 years old, yet I might have had something to do with it?
Despite all of this, I do not have a concealed weapons permit. I have not intention of getting one, no desire to be armed, and no faith in the police departments that have failed to help me. I think that America has plenty of problems with gangs, and that people wearing guns publicly would have little affect on this. Banning guns would have no effect, because the criminals who own the guns didn't get them legally in the first place!
If the rest of the world is safer, and cleaner, and neater, and what-have-you, that's great. I however, have to live in a world where everytime I go through town near dusk, after dark, or (like with my near bike mugging) in broad daylight, there is a chance I will be assaulted.
If your police force works, goody for you. Ours stinks.
I must say, the best stuff on that site was the electro-gravitic research. The plasma stuff was also really cool. This gave me so many ideas for fun backyard projects...
First, is Philips (or whoever makes that 'create your own cd dub device') on board with this? If they can't copy it, there will be a lawsuit over lost revenue.
Second, I have a great device, 100% guaranteed to copy any form of digital or analog music. It's called a decent stereo. Mine just happens to have digital, analog, DTS, Surround, and DVD jacks. Oddly enough, these encrypted CDs and DVDs come out in dolby, DTS, RCA, what-have-you. No problems. The DVDs come out in crystal clear S-Video, no country code problems.
Third, I wonder how this will work into their price scheme? Will we, the consumers, have to shoulder the burdens of their R&D with price hikes? Will they increase the cost of legal music, thereby making the illegal music the only avenue for most low paid people? I know that when I was making minimum wage I could only afford tapes. I had to tape the artists who only released on CD from my friends. Will this sort of thing cause the RIAA to have a backlash, where people are more willing to 'pirate' than to purchase?
I think this is the worst idea they have had yet. Perhaps in the future, they will realize that if they want people to purchase their audio legally, they need to make the price/quality ratio so good that the value will be much higher than the pirated stuff. I'd certainly pay $5 for a CD, no problem. $15 is a stretch, and I will bet that if this encryption raises the prices into the $20 range, many people will just 'pirate' from the radio, from friends, from whatever.
Well, one thing to point out... Most web sites do not need to show up in searches. I for one could do with fewer sites with misleading meta tags, and a better way to find the sites I'm ACTUALLY searching for. Many of the web sites out there are very cool, and are buried beneath other sites that have better 'listing' services.
Maybe the answer is not to have a bot find all sites, but to allow webmasters to register with the Library of Congress or something similar. The Dewey Decimal System idea is pretty cool. I would like to see something where I could free-form SQL search an index, then get the (reasonably) small number of sites that matched re-checked for searching against.
That way, you could continue to scan a tightening set of web sites, all of which actually still exist. The search within search feature on some engines is nice, but it tends to be out of date. I'd be happy to let my computer (or a fee-based agent) scour the web for my personal searches on a daily basis.
Sure beats looking up latex paint and getting all porno sites. It would be nice to have a NOT or ! feature.
Is there a good website which lists an ideal, locked state for a newbie user? I'd love to link to something like that from my website. Currently, I only have a rather generic list.
Basically, I'm putting together a 'welcome to *nix' site, with links to distro comparisons, my own personal FAQs on getting MESA and OSS to work, plus a section detailing installs for Quake III, Ultima, and such.
I'd love to have a section on newbie security that doesn't go above their heads.
This sure sounded like a cool way of moving forward with bio-computing. From the people who brought you the world's best 24 hour porn delivery system. (Just kidding)
I wonder if we will get plastic computers, biological computers, and organic displays that run Winblows? Will Windows 2098 (released, of course, in 2100) require a 3 liter PC to run? Will the install be done with a hypo? Coooool...
Newer systems are mainly superior only in their graphics/mathematics performance. Interestingly enough, I find that Excel is no where near as compelling an upgrade excuse as Quake, Rogue Spear, or Unreal. Of course, I also purchased my second computer so that Ultima II and Hardball would run better...
BTW, Great Sig!! Is that a Rush reference I see there?
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As to the privacy stuff, well, he can't be wrong all the time
For all that I like GPL, and I like the FSF, RMS has been more of a liability than an asset to his own cause. The man inspires so much hate in some of my employers that even mentioning GNU or GPL ( or even FreeBSD for some reason) makes them froth. It's actually rather amusing.
Now it appears RMS wants to be the next Ralph Nader? Pity.
-WS
http://www.pocketpc.com (for general info)
http://www.cewindows.com (for cool apps and info)
http://www.thumbsupsoft.com/maphtm/themes.html (for cool themes)
http://www.teco.edu/pda/irchat.html (IRChat, a cool multi-platform technology)
http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html (amazing CE software, including a great version of PERL)
http://www.oke-e-doke.com/main.htm (Pocket Doom and Hexen, boo-yah!)
http://www.mobtech.co.uk/ecbmob/itm00436.htm (An adapter to go from CF type 1 to PCMCIA. No need for an IPAQ now
Just thought I'd toss these out there, since I use WinCE as my secondary OS. FreeBSD of course is my fav, but I couldn't live without my handheld. From games, to books to writing code on the train, it rocks and fits into my pockets without making my pants fall down. Don't forget, Stowaway keyboards and CF Memory make the whole thing work!
-WS
Furthermore, the tech support has been exceptional. I needed to get my 545 replaced, when it began malfunctioning 6 mos after being run over by a Porsche (The aluminum cases on the HPs are nearly indestructible. Nothing but a bunch of scratches for a metric ton of car sitting on it). HP was glad to pony up a new device, and an HP 548 to boot. I love these guys!
The IPaqs are definately cool, and they have the advantage of being b/w and color. However, they don't have integrated slots, which makes them a loser in my book. The sleeves are cool as an extra, but I live on my 128MB CF card. I store my code, my docs, my e-books, my PGP stuff, my pics, my tunes, and my better downloads on that thing. Without it, I'd be lost. For the privledge of using Compaq's, I'd have to pony up more money past their horribly overpriced system.
Thank you, no. $450 bucks is just right. $599 + ~$150 for a sleeve is too pricey for me. I'd rather own a Tiquit.
-WS
And I used to feel cool when I hooked my Jornada up to a Stowaway in meetings. Now I'll need a jet too! Darned Joneses!
-WS
As a fan of OpenGL since OS/2 days, I must say that I am delighted that they use it so much. If MS is going to tie Direct3D into the OS so heavily, it is only fair to compete with apples/apples.
I have several games and toys that I have written over the years for OpenGL, and I am looking forward to attempting this port. I suspect it will be very straight-forward. Perhaps someone will even port Blue Moon Rendering Toolkit (BMRT) to this? That would be tres cool.
-WS
I agree that an interface should be straight-forward, and simple. However, users LOVE eye candy. Just go look at Themes.org. We actually have users at my company who run PowerPoint on their desktops. They like having desktop wallpaper, and our policies prohibit it. They are willing to take the performance hit just for that useless bit of color.
As for me, I'll just sit back and enjoy my heavily tuned Enlightenment desktop that uses more RAM and CPU than my first 6 computers had, combined.
-WS
There, that should get this post a troll rating :)
Now, I'll make my argument:
If Linus Torvalds, whom some of you consider some kind of god, and, BTW, owns the COPYRIGHT to the Linux kernel decided to make Linux a licensed product, you would have a fit. Why? No good reason at all. If you were to invent something, such as AC3, or DVD, or HTML, or the cure for cancer; you would have a right to make money from it.
Removing the opportunity to be FIRST TO MARKET would be a serious blow to creativity. Remember: patents and copyrights are temporary, and only give an inventor a chance to make some coin. They expire, and well before that, are imitated. If you don't like a product, make a new one just like it. Not exactly, of course. Just different enough.
Has MS sued over KOffice? No. Why?
They can't
They see no reason to, it only makes the MS way of doing things more popular
It's not used by a signifigant number of people
It's not patented, just coprighted
Dolby Labs spent serious money on their product, and it kicks butt. I love it. You think you can do better, let's see you try.
'Nuff said.
I wish people would listen before they typed.
I typically spend about 1 hr a week watching tv/movies, and a lot of hours riding my bike. I couldn't agree more with that statement.
Besides, should the /. crowd be programming decent Linux apps rather than watching 'Survivor'?
-WSI'd never use one of those. I even switched to an HMD to avoid my screen be visible from the next room. I also put my computer into a room 6 meters underground, then sealed the entrance. I bought temperature/moisture/pressure sensors for the floor tiles, removed the air ducts (so there, Mission Impossible!), re-install NetBSD nightly to avoid any files being saved, and put EMF filters on my mouse and keyboard cables. I have my own air generator, and a lifetime supply of Spaghetti-O's.
Of course, in the real world, most of us understand that little things like 'keyboard snooping' and 'phone tapping' are seriously un-important. I'm much more concerned about the real threats like Unlawful Search and Seizure than I am about someone knowing my password for /. or MP3.Com. Who the h377 cares?
Do you actually think it matters if someone uses your credit card fraudulently? Nope. Happened to me already, before everything was 'e' something. I had someone run my card to the limit, and the company just charged me my insurance co-pay. Bango, no problem.
Life is just one big exercise in risk-management. Learn what things matter, and what things don't. Protect yourself where it matters. Don't bother to wear a flak jacket to the can.
-WS
Here's another example for your case against OO: We implemented Poet, (at no small cost, I might add) only to find that within 6 months of beginning to use Poet as our major DB, a major 'Organizational Re-Adjustment' and a 'Data Center Consolidation' project wiped the whole dang thing in favor of DB2/OS390.
Now, our DB2 performance is actually much better than Poet ever was. Perhaps this is due to having highly skilled DB2 DBAs, or something. All the same, it is not worth going to a very expensive, single application db. Always use something standard, flexible, and easy to find admins for. It's worth it in the long run.
-WS
This sounds like great fun! I would love to have a dull, red, pulsing light when crusing through a DOOM or Quake level that had lava in it, and I think that if the entire room turned a light blue color when you were underwater in Ultima it would be Really Cool.
Sounds to me more like a cheap CAVE than a problem. It would be the worst when watching a movie, I think. The lack of interaction with the screen, plus being surrounded with mood lighting? How would you stay awake?
Now, if they could have a cave version of 'The Matrix' movie...
-WSYou are correct, Gnome has been ported to Windows. The link is here , and here is the URL for those afraid of goats :) http://www.gtlinc.com/gnome.html
I've tried it, and it's not so bad. Better on BSD, obviously.
-WSHere's a couple more for you:
MacOS running this would:
Create programs that pushed their own buttons
Evolve beyond the need for users to crash them
MSDOS running this would:
Cause circuits to die of boredom by the billions
Solaris running this would:
Create it's own security patches (I hope!)
AIX running this would:
Develop self-awarness, take control of the entire universe, then die a horrible flaming death when an alpha particle hit it.
Not that I've ever had to use a RS/6000 with memory problems, of course...
-WSThat I use is to keep my PGP keys on my SanDisk CF+ card. I keep a backup of the key on a cd-rom, and the active version is actually plugged into my handheld most of the time. I actually keep most of my documents on it, (with backups on a real system, of course) so that I always have my keyring available to me.
Besides, most people have bigger problems, like running Outlook with everyone they have ever met in the address book. I'd be willing to bet that most of the private email data is sent in unecrypted form, stored unencrypted, and contains no information of use.
It would be quite frustrating, however, for some would-be l337 hax0r type to decrypt all of a user's email, and get 6 pics of his wedding, two recipies for egg nog, and about three hundred lame jokes for every 'useful' piece of info.
-WSThere are some very interesting designs in there. I wonder if anything could be done with a Tiquit? I'm currently building a Tiquit into a Motorola pager enclosure. These little computers are very cool.
Obviously a little light on the horsepower, but you could build a Beowolf cluster that could fit in a briefcase... ;)
-WSCool! I can see a perfect device already...
A handheld, with a large, 32-bit color screen, a cell-modem/bluetooth/whatever, an mp3 player, tons of memory, video player, really good image software, and designed for one-handed operation.
Call it the Vice-Boy. You could sell tons of them!
-WSI tried to stay out of this, but oh, well... This is not the wild west. This is a modern world where I have been shot once and mugged twice. I don't live in a very dangerous place. I live in the captial city of Ca! However, I dared to ride my bike through the city, headed for home. I was mugged (unsucessfully), and only got away because some fat dude with a baseball bat is not as fast as a road bike. If he had a gun, I'd have been shot again.
Of course, it would be illegal to discharge a firearm in the city, right?
I was shot once as a child for being in the wrong area of San Diego, during a drive-by shooting. When the cops and the ambulance arrived 45 minutes after the shooting, my parents had to file a report, and I was accused of being involved. I was 7 years old, yet I might have had something to do with it?
Despite all of this, I do not have a concealed weapons permit. I have not intention of getting one, no desire to be armed, and no faith in the police departments that have failed to help me. I think that America has plenty of problems with gangs, and that people wearing guns publicly would have little affect on this. Banning guns would have no effect, because the criminals who own the guns didn't get them legally in the first place!
If the rest of the world is safer, and cleaner, and neater, and what-have-you, that's great. I however, have to live in a world where everytime I go through town near dusk, after dark, or (like with my near bike mugging) in broad daylight, there is a chance I will be assaulted.
If your police force works, goody for you. Ours stinks.
-WSI must say, the best stuff on that site was the electro-gravitic research. The plasma stuff was also really cool. This gave me so many ideas for fun backyard projects...
I wonder if there are CCNRs against UFOs?
I wonder if there will be in a few weeks?
-WSI have three comments on this latest RIAA gem.
First, is Philips (or whoever makes that 'create your own cd dub device') on board with this? If they can't copy it, there will be a lawsuit over lost revenue.
Second, I have a great device, 100% guaranteed to copy any form of digital or analog music. It's called a decent stereo. Mine just happens to have digital, analog, DTS, Surround, and DVD jacks. Oddly enough, these encrypted CDs and DVDs come out in dolby, DTS, RCA, what-have-you. No problems. The DVDs come out in crystal clear S-Video, no country code problems.
Third, I wonder how this will work into their price scheme? Will we, the consumers, have to shoulder the burdens of their R&D with price hikes? Will they increase the cost of legal music, thereby making the illegal music the only avenue for most low paid people? I know that when I was making minimum wage I could only afford tapes. I had to tape the artists who only released on CD from my friends. Will this sort of thing cause the RIAA to have a backlash, where people are more willing to 'pirate' than to purchase?
I think this is the worst idea they have had yet. Perhaps in the future, they will realize that if they want people to purchase their audio legally, they need to make the price/quality ratio so good that the value will be much higher than the pirated stuff. I'd certainly pay $5 for a CD, no problem. $15 is a stretch, and I will bet that if this encryption raises the prices into the $20 range, many people will just 'pirate' from the radio, from friends, from whatever.
-WSWell, one thing to point out... Most web sites do not need to show up in searches. I for one could do with fewer sites with misleading meta tags, and a better way to find the sites I'm ACTUALLY searching for. Many of the web sites out there are very cool, and are buried beneath other sites that have better 'listing' services.
Maybe the answer is not to have a bot find all sites, but to allow webmasters to register with the Library of Congress or something similar. The Dewey Decimal System idea is pretty cool. I would like to see something where I could free-form SQL search an index, then get the (reasonably) small number of sites that matched re-checked for searching against.
That way, you could continue to scan a tightening set of web sites, all of which actually still exist. The search within search feature on some engines is nice, but it tends to be out of date. I'd be happy to let my computer (or a fee-based agent) scour the web for my personal searches on a daily basis.
Sure beats looking up latex paint and getting all porno sites. It would be nice to have a NOT or ! feature.
-WSBest yet, when you get a virus, it actually requires Penicillin...
-WSIs there a good website which lists an ideal, locked state for a newbie user? I'd love to link to something like that from my website. Currently, I only have a rather generic list.
Basically, I'm putting together a 'welcome to *nix' site, with links to distro comparisons, my own personal FAQs on getting MESA and OSS to work, plus a section detailing installs for Quake III, Ultima, and such.
I'd love to have a section on newbie security that doesn't go above their heads.
-WSThis sure sounded like a cool way of moving forward with bio-computing. From the people who brought you the world's best 24 hour porn delivery system. (Just kidding)
I wonder if we will get plastic computers, biological computers, and organic displays that run Winblows? Will Windows 2098 (released, of course, in 2100) require a 3 liter PC to run? Will the install be done with a hypo? Coooool...
-WSNewer systems are mainly superior only in their graphics/mathematics performance. Interestingly enough, I find that Excel is no where near as compelling an upgrade excuse as Quake, Rogue Spear, or Unreal. Of course, I also purchased my second computer so that Ultima II and Hardball would run better...
BTW, Great Sig!! Is that a Rush reference I see there?
-WS