I've been using WindowMaker with ROX-filer for a couple of years now -- it's pretty nice. Certainly faster than GNOME or KDE on my shitty old hardware.
When I was working on my BA in English, my preferred writing implement was a Pilot Precise pen, Very Fine tip, and a stack of legal pads.
When I started working on my thesis, I bought a Powerbook Duo because it weighed less than most of the books I was toting around already.
Since your laptop seems to be unsatisfactory for some reason (too heavy, maybe?) you might want to look at either an older subnotebook (a Duo, or perhaps a Toshiba Libretto or a Sony Picturebook) or something smaller. Apple made a Newton with a built-in keyboard called the eMate that was pretty nice. Fantastic battery life, decent screen, and designed for elementary school kids so its damned near indestructible.
Payload introduces random spelling and grammar mistakes into outgoing emails, subtly making the victim look ignorant.
One of the legendary stories at the college I work at was that of a cocky professor who talked down to the wrong admin. His outgoing email (this was in the early-to-mid 90s, so everyone did their mail on the same box using shell clients) was hooked into a custom filter that translated everything he send out with the Jive filter. If he CCed himself on it, the mail process sent a copy back to him before the filter had been run.
So does anyone know offhand if there are drivers for Apple's iSight camera that will work with Linux and Gnomemeeting? I've got one gathering dust (it was the freebie at WWDC last year) and a Powerbook running Debian that might be able to use it.
What factors would make you seriously consider leaving your current career for another?
If I didn't like it, of course.
Right now, I work for a private college in the IT department. It's pleasant work, for the most part. Taking a job like this definitely caps your potential income, but frankly, there's a lot more important factors than money.
If I'm spending a third of my weekday hours somewhere, or more, why the hell would I do it somewhere I hate? That's like just _asking_ to be miserable the rest of the time.
--saint
Re:Mac68K build-from-scratch in emulation?
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Alright, I've got a hankering to build 1.6.2 from scratch for my Mac Quadra (25MHz 68040), but I KNOW building the whole thing would take weeks.
It's really not all that bad. The first Unix box I ever had was a Quadra 700 running NetBSD -- the code base is _really_ tight. You could probably build the whole thing from scratch in a couple of days.
I know, that might sound like a lot, but it's a hell of a lot faster than a Sparc IPC can compile gcc from source. Don't ask me why I know that.
So, is there going to be a linux distro with something similar to ports (as I said, I only have experience with FreeBSD ports, and only assume here that pkgsrc is something similar).
Yes, there is. Pkgsrc is remarkably similar to what Free and OpenBSD call Ports. It also works on a lot of OSes, including Linux, Irix, and (I think) Solaris.
Check out the NetBSD page for info. It's pretty cool stuff.
--saint
Urban Legend Time.
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See Spot Surf
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Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.
I think Karnov was one of the most underrated games on the NES
I was always fond of MC Kids -- probably the best platform game by anyone other than Nintendo themselves. Too bad it's chock-full of advertising for McDonalds. Oh, well -- if you can choke down your irritation at collecting Golden Arches rather than coins or rings, it's a fun game.
Also, if you can get a laptop with a media bay that will take a second battery it's worth it for the extra flexibility that offers.
Amen to that. I use an old "Pismo" G3/400 Powerbook. It's not the fastest computer on the network, but it's got two media bays that can each accept a battery. Last year I was able to use the computer all the way from Newark to Frisco and still had 20 percent of the second battery left when the plane touched down.
If the computer can't be used away from a power outlet for more than a couple of hours, why bother spending the premium on a laptop?
The last three times I tried to install unstable on a workstation, I couldn't use tasksel to install the Desktop Environments package
Oh, yeah, about that. That's because tasksel is a poorly conceived pile of shite. It looks good next to dselect, true, but then again, so does an icepick to the temple.
I gotta go with the GP on this one. Apt-get it all.
Sounds a lot like the keyboard my brother use to swear by . . . an old 124-key Gateway Anykey. An image of it is in this article [pcguide.com]. Another rave about it is here [st-hypertext.com].
I've got a bunch of those at work. The users kept getting confused when they put their keyboards into macro programming mode, so we had to go around and replace them all with "normal" keyboards.
Good for me, though. I've got a drawer full of them. Strictly second string to the Model M and Apple Extended Keyboard ][s, though. Heh.
(Am I the only one on here still using an old clicky Apple keyboard? ADB represent, yo.)
can't find a keyboard that duplicates the tactile feel I've grown used to.
Get one of the older Apple USB keyboards -- the half sized ones with the small arrow keys. The key action is very, very similar to a laptop. And most people don't like them, so they're really cheap on eBay.
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If you want to cut down on firefoo memory usage don't use themes, i was able to take quite a few megs off it's footprint by using the default theme
Fortunately, Firefunk crashes every time I try to install a new theme under the PPC port of Debian. Whee! That sure freed up some memory!
--saint
I've been using WindowMaker with ROX-filer for a couple of years now -- it's pretty nice. Certainly faster than GNOME or KDE on my shitty old hardware.
--saint
When I was working on my BA in English, my preferred writing implement was a Pilot Precise pen, Very Fine tip, and a stack of legal pads.
When I started working on my thesis, I bought a Powerbook Duo because it weighed less than most of the books I was toting around already.
Since your laptop seems to be unsatisfactory for some reason (too heavy, maybe?) you might want to look at either an older subnotebook (a Duo, or perhaps a Toshiba Libretto or a Sony Picturebook) or something smaller. Apple made a Newton with a built-in keyboard called the eMate that was pretty nice. Fantastic battery life, decent screen, and designed for elementary school kids so its damned near indestructible.
--saint
Payload introduces random spelling and grammar mistakes into outgoing emails, subtly making the victim look ignorant.
One of the legendary stories at the college I work at was that of a cocky professor who talked down to the wrong admin. His outgoing email (this was in the early-to-mid 90s, so everyone did their mail on the same box using shell clients) was hooked into a custom filter that translated everything he send out with the Jive filter. If he CCed himself on it, the mail process sent a copy back to him before the filter had been run.
From: Asshole Professor
Title: Research Grant.
How 'bout that money, foo'? Slap mah 'fro!
--saint
The sad thing is that there will probably be better voter turnout than for the US Presidential election in a few months.
Sigh.
--saint
So does anyone know offhand if there are drivers for Apple's iSight camera that will work with Linux and Gnomemeeting? I've got one gathering dust (it was the freebie at WWDC last year) and a Powerbook running Debian that might be able to use it.
--saint
Uh, just so you know, I think having a mobile phone with an email client is enough to take away your Luddite Membership Card.
Heh.
--saint
So now we have a shortage of dentists in rural communities.
In Britain, you say?
--saint
What factors would make you seriously consider leaving your current career for another?
If I didn't like it, of course.
Right now, I work for a private college in the IT department. It's pleasant work, for the most part. Taking a job like this definitely caps your potential income, but frankly, there's a lot more important factors than money.
If I'm spending a third of my weekday hours somewhere, or more, why the hell would I do it somewhere I hate? That's like just _asking_ to be miserable the rest of the time.
--saint
Alright, I've got a hankering to build 1.6.2 from scratch for my Mac Quadra (25MHz 68040), but I KNOW building the whole thing would take weeks.
It's really not all that bad. The first Unix box I ever had was a Quadra 700 running NetBSD -- the code base is _really_ tight. You could probably build the whole thing from scratch in a couple of days.
I know, that might sound like a lot, but it's a hell of a lot faster than a Sparc IPC can compile gcc from source. Don't ask me why I know that.
--saint
So, is there going to be a linux distro with something similar to ports (as I said, I only have experience with FreeBSD ports, and only assume here that pkgsrc is something similar).
Yes, there is. Pkgsrc is remarkably similar to what Free and OpenBSD call Ports. It also works on a lot of OSes, including Linux, Irix, and (I think) Solaris.
Check out the NetBSD page for info. It's pretty cool stuff.
--saint
Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.
[cue porno bassline]
--saint
Dan East
Speaking of old NES games, you wouldn't happen to be related to Data East, would you? What a Bad Dude. A Radical Ninja, in fact.
[/dork]
--saint
There were several articles written by Wired Magazine [wired.com] about MS's real motivation for making the Xbox.
There were several articles in Wired about how push technology was going to make the web browser obsolete, too.
Anything Wired gets right is plain luck, it seems to me. It's like letting a retard run a wildcat oil drilling operation.
--saint
I think Karnov was one of the most underrated games on the NES
I was always fond of MC Kids -- probably the best platform game by anyone other than Nintendo themselves. Too bad it's chock-full of advertising for McDonalds. Oh, well -- if you can choke down your irritation at collecting Golden Arches rather than coins or rings, it's a fun game.
--saint
Even Mac doesn't do that.
Yeah, actually, they do.
--saint
Blah... Everyone says that EK is dying, but I'm working overtime this weekend... HAH!
How many layoffs announced this year? 5,000 at Kodak Park in Rochester, 15,000 more around the world?
I like my Kodak Digital. My father and two of my uncles retired from Kodak. But those numbers don't look good.
--saint
the WB Network announced today that they are cancelling Angel as of the end of this season.
"They will be using the timeslot for another unfunny pile of shit from the Wayans brothers."
--saint
Also, if you can get a laptop with a media bay that will take a second battery it's worth it for the extra flexibility that offers.
Amen to that. I use an old "Pismo" G3/400 Powerbook. It's not the fastest computer on the network, but it's got two media bays that can each accept a battery. Last year I was able to use the computer all the way from Newark to Frisco and still had 20 percent of the second battery left when the plane touched down.
If the computer can't be used away from a power outlet for more than a couple of hours, why bother spending the premium on a laptop?
--saint
I dual boot bother
That should be "both," of course. Teach me to post before the first cup of coffee.
--saint
I dual boot bother my Powerbook and my iMac between Mac OS and Debian.
I wonder which one I count for.
--saint
(And no, I'm not that much of an anomoly.)
The last three times I tried to install unstable on a workstation, I couldn't use tasksel to install the Desktop Environments package
Oh, yeah, about that. That's because tasksel is a poorly conceived pile of shite. It looks good next to dselect, true, but then again, so does an icepick to the temple.
I gotta go with the GP on this one. Apt-get it all.
--saint
They found the OS very solid as a server but pretty lacking as a desktop.
They must not have liked the default sysinstall color scheme.
OSNews -- because we CAN evaluate an OS in thirty minutes or less!
--saint
Sounds a lot like the keyboard my brother use to swear by . . . an old 124-key Gateway Anykey. An image of it is in this article [pcguide.com]. Another rave about it is here [st-hypertext.com].
I've got a bunch of those at work. The users kept getting confused when they put their keyboards into macro programming mode, so we had to go around and replace them all with "normal" keyboards.
Good for me, though. I've got a drawer full of them. Strictly second string to the Model M and Apple Extended Keyboard ][s, though. Heh.
(Am I the only one on here still using an old clicky Apple keyboard? ADB represent, yo.)
--saint
can't find a keyboard that duplicates the tactile feel I've grown used to.
Get one of the older Apple USB keyboards -- the half sized ones with the small arrow keys. The key action is very, very similar to a laptop. And most people don't like them, so they're really cheap on eBay.
--saint