"a crappy attempt at a band"? That's pretty damned biased; are you trying to start a flamewar or what? Music is your personal taste, it's subjective whether the band is good or not. And who are you to make judgements on programmers, and even more so, Humanity? Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else.
I agree with what you're saying...Most adults use technology obliviously, they think that Windows and Mac are the only things, they've never even heard of "MP3"...So I think that for the most part, the techno-lusers, aren't going to even hear of Linux until much later, much less jump into the revolution.
Personally I don't think *BSD can be compared to a distrubution of Linux. I think of Linux as a police force and *BSD as the FBI. *BSD is more stable, more professional, more rock hard kick ass. I picture Linux to be more slick, stable, personal and cool.
There are three main BSDs, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
As far as I know, FreeBSD seems to be focused on stability, and being robust. OpenBSD is focused on security. NetBSD seems to be focused on being a server and running on many platforms.
That would, I agree be a very novel idea to implement. To have the convenience of remote security. I think that would mostly solve the "physical location" issue. You would be able to manipulate your network from miles away.
Update your site from school. Fantastic idea. Maybe in the future we would be able to remotely boot up our computers.
I'd be interested in the technology neccessary to inserting this indespensible feature. Except that it must be despensible considering we've gone without it this long.
Kids should be aware that there is more than Windows to computers. I think that the unices should be just as important if not more to children's computer education.
It's pretty sad really, that real programming and Unix doesn't reach kids through the media very well (if it all).
If they were given the oppertunity to learn this stuff at their age, they could have a bright and prosperous future. Not to say that would garantee it, but if they love it as much as I do...
Why name a book about a new revolutionary movement "Embracing Insanity"? I personally wouldn't shun the idea so quickly.
Personally, a title like that would be a turn off. Why not call it "Embracing Sanity"? Is there anything I've missed?
Other ideas rather than paying someone else to take the machine off your hands would be to (if you haven't already done this) run a firewall on it. You could use the box as a router, or use it to secure your network. Evaluating Linux distros on it is also another option to consider. This seems like a good end option for your computer, but if your computer still works, why not be resourceful?
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The page for Home Full states that WindowsXP won't be ready until "Thursday, November 01, 2401".
Oh well, at least M$ isn't pushing the envelope...
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8. 0/ANNOUNCE.txt
Those are the release notes, easier to read then the ChangeLog."a crappy attempt at a band"? That's pretty damned biased; are you trying to start a flamewar or what? Music is your personal taste, it's subjective whether the band is good or not. And who are you to make judgements on programmers, and even more so, Humanity? Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else.
I'm so glad that the next Slackware version is finally out...And kids, it may not be what's in the distro that makes people love it.
I agree with what you're saying...Most adults use technology obliviously, they think that Windows and Mac are the only things, they've never even heard of "MP3"...So I think that for the most part, the techno-lusers, aren't going to even hear of Linux until much later, much less jump into the revolution.
Personally I don't think *BSD can be compared to a distrubution of Linux. I think of Linux as a police force and *BSD as the FBI. *BSD is more stable, more professional, more rock hard kick ass. I picture Linux to be more slick, stable, personal and cool. There are three main BSDs, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. As far as I know, FreeBSD seems to be focused on stability, and being robust. OpenBSD is focused on security. NetBSD seems to be focused on being a server and running on many platforms.
That would, I agree be a very novel idea to implement. To have the convenience of remote security. I think that would mostly solve the "physical location" issue. You would be able to manipulate your network from miles away. Update your site from school. Fantastic idea. Maybe in the future we would be able to remotely boot up our computers. I'd be interested in the technology neccessary to inserting this indespensible feature. Except that it must be despensible considering we've gone without it this long.
Kids should be aware that there is more than Windows to computers. I think that the unices should be just as important if not more to children's computer education. It's pretty sad really, that real programming and Unix doesn't reach kids through the media very well (if it all). If they were given the oppertunity to learn this stuff at their age, they could have a bright and prosperous future. Not to say that would garantee it, but if they love it as much as I do...
Why name a book about a new revolutionary movement "Embracing Insanity"? I personally wouldn't shun the idea so quickly. Personally, a title like that would be a turn off. Why not call it "Embracing Sanity"? Is there anything I've missed?
Other ideas rather than paying someone else to take the machine off your hands would be to (if you haven't already done this) run a firewall on it. You could use the box as a router, or use it to secure your network. Evaluating Linux distros on it is also another option to consider. This seems like a good end option for your computer, but if your computer still works, why not be resourceful?