Can somebody please tell me how to TURN OFF all the buttons except the left one, and make it so you have to hold down modifier keys to do stuff, a-la-Mac? Please?
Run X on the Mac. With the standard mouse.
I use Debian, and there's some sort of entry to make under/proc to tell it what keyboard codes to use for the middle and right click on my iBook.
yeah, i KNOW i _COULD_ run all that stuff on my box now. however, i'd rather dedicate a machine to it
Do what I did. Use a Pentium 75 with a nice, quiet power supply and passive cooling. The thing is silent as can be and runs NetBSD like a champ. And it was free from the scrap heap at work.
I've got an old Beige G3 Macintosh tower machine hooked into my television setup right now. It's got component video and audio inputs and outputs -- apparently there was a build-to-order option for these when they were intended to be used in video production and the like.
Currently, it's running a whole pile of emulators and I'm using it to play old NES games and such on my TV.
This winter, though, I'm hoping to tie together the inputs and recording software with some Applescript and make a Po' Man's Tivo out of it. Hey, why not. It's sitting there already.
Just thought I'd throw in another hardware platform.
The world would be a perfect place if Debian released packages on Gentoo's schedule.
Speaking as someone who has only ever run Debian on non-x86 machines (m68k and ppc), I'm pretty happy that they spend the time to make sure it works on other architectures.
I doubt it. Schools are known for overpaying their administrators while underpaying the teachers and giving their students a shoddy education.
You're probably a troll. If not, you don't work for a school, I can tell you that.
After I got laid off when Verizon moved their DSL support call center to Canada, I interviewed for a job with a public school district here in Buffalo. Being one of the chief technicians and administrators for a full district of eight or nine schools paid right around $30k per year with shitty benefits.
Administrators, like school superintendents and such, make decent money. Support staff are the only people in education who get fucked over worse than faculty.
while yellowdog does include apt-for-rpm, they do not fully support it. That is, they prefer you to use their own, similar solution. It's called yum, and while I (like you) would still prefer apt, yum is still capable, and get's the job done right out of the box.
I was under the impression that Yum stopped being the official update mechanism after 2.3, and was replaced by apt for the 3.0 series. I guess I was mistaken.
It is sort of surprising that their "bare bones" install option would include an unsupported package management system, though.
I tried to do a minimal install of Yellow Dog 3.0 a while ago. On the very first apt-get dist-upgrade, there were unresolved dependencies. I hadn't installed anything except the bare minimum off of the install CDs, and the tree was already FUBAR. Anyone else seen this happen?
Anyway, I ended up using Debian/PPC on the iBook instead. So it doesn't really matter. But YDL seems to be pretty easily broken if you choose anything but the "all that and the kitchen sink" option from the installer.
Because all I need a PDA for is to keep track of phone numbers and appointments. Doing these simple tasks _faster_ is just not worth the added expense and shorter battery life over my three year old m100.
That was one of the first "serious" computer books I ever got -- I won a copy as a door prize at an Atari user's group meeting when I was about 12 years old. By the time I was done figuring out what all that crap in the back of Compute's Gazette was doing, my copy of DRA was so dog eared and broken spined that it couldn't sit flat on my desk.
Good memories. Glad to see it's still around somewhere.
I've found that IRC makes it worse, not better - it just allows you to have even less real contact with people.
I've found that some of my friends who have been IRC junkies for years and years assume that anything that's proper to say in an IRC channel is proper to say in public.
This leads to unfortunate situations, since IRC channels (at least on EFnet, the only network I go on at all) tend to be exceptionally crass.
It really is a recent port. Give it a little time and the pace of the project should pick up.
I asked Jordan Hubbard about this in a feedback session at WWDC earlier this year. He said that if the project isn't dead yet, it's certainly coughing up blood and clutching its chest.
Not too promising. The trolls might finally have a dead BSD to point at.
Think before getting new junk. Yeah, that old Mac SE might look tempting for $10 at a garage sale, but really, after you boot it up once or twice, what are you going to use it for? This applies to new things, too...
Amen. My wife and I live in a largish apartment, but the rule of thumb is not to buy anything that we won't want to move when we get a house.
Would we like a bigger TV? Sure, but not enough to lug it down the stairs next spring.
I just have to think of a mantra to maintain this low acquisition level once we _do_ have a house.
--saint
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I haven't had any problems with Flash [macromedia.com], it's just as annoying as the Windows version when displaying ads, lets me play the little flash games, navigate all the flash sites, and see all the flashtastic content on the web.
The thing that bugs me about Flash on Linux is that there is no non-x86 plugin for it. That means that people like me, who run Linux on a PowerBook, or a friend of mine who runs it on his Alpha, can't access some web content.
I'm not exactly heartbroken, since as you pointed out Flash is often more of a curse than anything. But it is a consideration that a lot of people don't think about.
--saint
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That is, till you log in to GNOME or KDE. It's slowdown city. We are talking I-can-sometimes-watch-windows-paint-across-the-scr een slow.
Amen. The P4s in the CS lab at my college are running Red Hat 9, and the default setup runs like absolute shit. I had to set up my.xinitrc to run twm instead to get any sort of speed out of the machine.
It's pretty sad when my four year old Powerbook with Yellow Dog Linux and WindowMaker is subjectively faster than a brand new workstation.
There is a lot of overlap, near as I can see. The demeanor of people who work on cars is very similar to the demeanor of people who do serious work with computers; patient, thorough, thoughtful, and often soft-spoken.
The demeanor of the idjits who rice up their Hondas, on the other hand, is very much like that of script kiddies. No interest in how the car actually functions; just slap on whatever fits from the impulse aisle at Pep Boys and call it good.
--saint (Owner of a mostly-restored AMC Matador Coupe)
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Can somebody please tell me how to TURN OFF all the buttons except the left one, and make it so you have to hold down modifier keys to do stuff, a-la-Mac? Please?
/proc to tell it what keyboard codes to use for the middle and right click on my iBook.
Run X on the Mac. With the standard mouse.
I use Debian, and there's some sort of entry to make under
--saint
yeah, i KNOW i _COULD_ run all that stuff on my box now. however, i'd rather dedicate a machine to it
Do what I did. Use a Pentium 75 with a nice, quiet power supply and passive cooling. The thing is silent as can be and runs NetBSD like a champ. And it was free from the scrap heap at work.
--saint
I've got an old Beige G3 Macintosh tower machine hooked into my television setup right now. It's got component video and audio inputs and outputs -- apparently there was a build-to-order option for these when they were intended to be used in video production and the like.
Currently, it's running a whole pile of emulators and I'm using it to play old NES games and such on my TV.
This winter, though, I'm hoping to tie together the inputs and recording software with some Applescript and make a Po' Man's Tivo out of it. Hey, why not. It's sitting there already.
Just thought I'd throw in another hardware platform.
--saint
The world would be a perfect place if Debian released packages on Gentoo's schedule.
Speaking as someone who has only ever run Debian on non-x86 machines (m68k and ppc), I'm pretty happy that they spend the time to make sure it works on other architectures.
But that's just me.
--saint
I doubt it. Schools are known for overpaying their administrators while underpaying the teachers and giving their students a shoddy education.
You're probably a troll. If not, you don't work for a school, I can tell you that.
After I got laid off when Verizon moved their DSL support call center to Canada, I interviewed for a job with a public school district here in Buffalo. Being one of the chief technicians and administrators for a full district of eight or nine schools paid right around $30k per year with shitty benefits.
Administrators, like school superintendents and such, make decent money. Support staff are the only people in education who get fucked over worse than faculty.
--saint
I've been looking for a *nix to run on an old 7200 that I got for free, and was about to settle on Debian.
YDL runs pretty well on one of those. I have a 7200/120 sitting under a desk in here somewhere that I was running YDL 3.0 on for a while.
BootX is an undocumented pain in the ass, as I recall, but aside from that it works fine.
--saint
while yellowdog does include apt-for-rpm, they do not fully support it. That is, they prefer you to use their own, similar solution. It's called yum, and while I (like you) would still prefer apt, yum is still capable, and get's the job done right out of the box.
I was under the impression that Yum stopped being the official update mechanism after 2.3, and was replaced by apt for the 3.0 series. I guess I was mistaken.
It is sort of surprising that their "bare bones" install option would include an unsupported package management system, though.
--saint
I tried to do a minimal install of Yellow Dog 3.0 a while ago. On the very first apt-get dist-upgrade, there were unresolved dependencies. I hadn't installed anything except the bare minimum off of the install CDs, and the tree was already FUBAR. Anyone else seen this happen?
Anyway, I ended up using Debian/PPC on the iBook instead. So it doesn't really matter. But YDL seems to be pretty easily broken if you choose anything but the "all that and the kitchen sink" option from the installer.
--saint
That works great on a desktop. Not so well on a laptop.
Well, I have Fn-Ctrl mapped to middle click, and Fn-Command mapped to right click. So it's not all that bad, really.
--saint
Why do people use Palms anyhow
Because all I need a PDA for is to keep track of phone numbers and appointments. Doing these simple tasks _faster_ is just not worth the added expense and shorter battery life over my three year old m100.
--saint
By the time I was done figuring out what all that crap in the back of Compute's Gazette was doing
I meant Analog and Antic of course, not Compute's Gazette. Sorry, I had a C64 before I got my Atari 400 at a garage sale.
Not that it matters, but I figured I'd try to head off the hordes of whiny nitpickers pointing out that Gazette was all Commodore code.
--saint
De Re Atari.
Holy shit.
That was one of the first "serious" computer books I ever got -- I won a copy as a door prize at an Atari user's group meeting when I was about 12 years old. By the time I was done figuring out what all that crap in the back of Compute's Gazette was doing, my copy of DRA was so dog eared and broken spined that it couldn't sit flat on my desk.
Good memories. Glad to see it's still around somewhere.
--saint
Slashdotters are hypocrites and hold double-standards.
Hey, slashdotters are a community, not a single voice. Personally, I think all software sucks, no matter who makes it. No double standard there.
--saint
I've found that IRC makes it worse, not better - it just allows you to have even less real contact with people.
I've found that some of my friends who have been IRC junkies for years and years assume that anything that's proper to say in an IRC channel is proper to say in public.
This leads to unfortunate situations, since IRC channels (at least on EFnet, the only network I go on at all) tend to be exceptionally crass.
--saint
It really is a recent port. Give it a little time and the pace of the project should pick up.
I asked Jordan Hubbard about this in a feedback session at WWDC earlier this year. He said that if the project isn't dead yet, it's certainly coughing up blood and clutching its chest.
Not too promising. The trolls might finally have a dead BSD to point at.
--saint
Think before getting new junk. Yeah, that old Mac SE might look tempting for $10 at a garage sale, but really, after you boot it up once or twice, what are you going to use it for? This applies to new things, too...
Amen. My wife and I live in a largish apartment, but the rule of thumb is not to buy anything that we won't want to move when we get a house.
Would we like a bigger TV? Sure, but not enough to lug it down the stairs next spring.
I just have to think of a mantra to maintain this low acquisition level once we _do_ have a house.
--saint
I haven't had any problems with Flash [macromedia.com], it's just as annoying as the Windows version when displaying ads, lets me play the little flash games, navigate all the flash sites, and see all the flashtastic content on the web.
The thing that bugs me about Flash on Linux is that there is no non-x86 plugin for it. That means that people like me, who run Linux on a PowerBook, or a friend of mine who runs it on his Alpha, can't access some web content.
I'm not exactly heartbroken, since as you pointed out Flash is often more of a curse than anything. But it is a consideration that a lot of people don't think about.
--saint
That is, till you log in to GNOME or KDE. It's slowdown city. We are talking I-can-sometimes-watch-windows-paint-across-the-scr een slow.
.xinitrc to run twm instead to get any sort of speed out of the machine.
Amen. The P4s in the CS lab at my college are running Red Hat 9, and the default setup runs like absolute shit. I had to set up my
It's pretty sad when my four year old Powerbook with Yellow Dog Linux and WindowMaker is subjectively faster than a brand new workstation.
--saint
They claim to have predicted the commercial success of Norah Jones through this method.
Am I the only one wondering who the hell Norah Jones is?
You damn kids and your pop music. I think I'm going to have to dodder out on the porch and yell at the neighbors' kids for playing on my lawn.
--saint
"Search for w4r3z complete. Results 1-10 of eleventy billion:"
--saint
Nice. A "video card history" lesson that doesn't include any of the cards that I have in my machines.
S3? Matrox? Ringing any bells? Dull, shitty bells perhaps, but they ought to be ringing.
--saint
And the myraid of others?
Myriad isn't a noun. Cock.
--saint
...Apple needs to make a gaming console now.
Am I the only person who remembers the Pippin?
"Hey, the processing power of a Mac LC and the star power of a game publisher like Bandai! That's money in the bank, right there."
*cough*
--saint
Common conversation where I work.
I hold up the battered, scratched, often bent laptop with a broken screen.
"So what happened here?"
"Well, I put the laptop on top of my car, and it slid off."
"Slid off."
"Right. Slid right off the roof."
"You didn't happen to, I don't know, drive away, causing this mysterious slippage, did you?"
[ashamed silence]
"I thought so."
--saint
There is a lot of overlap, near as I can see. The demeanor of people who work on cars is very similar to the demeanor of people who do serious work with computers; patient, thorough, thoughtful, and often soft-spoken.
The demeanor of the idjits who rice up their Hondas, on the other hand, is very much like that of script kiddies. No interest in how the car actually functions; just slap on whatever fits from the impulse aisle at Pep Boys and call it good.
--saint
(Owner of a mostly-restored AMC Matador Coupe)