My guess would be that in most cases, it's not feasible to just slap in a CD-ROM, power up the system, and install Red hat onto a "big iron" machine. Building a new kernel is probably not a big deal, especially considering how fast it would compile, and would definitely be the least of inconveniences. --
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Most of the commodity hardware with this functionality doesn't cut it with Linux, maybe because it shouldn't.
The enabling hardware I have in mind is the Highpoint 370 IDE RAID controller, which has a kernel patch to support it, but the ATI-TV Wonder has none. Figuring that you're probably using X, I know of no X server with TV-Out support, except possibly 3dfx or a real hack job. 3dfx isn't exactly tops in X performance, either. I think BeOS would be the more likely alternative, if one existed. --
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The things you see on store shelves are ancient technology -- set-top consumer electronics moe at the pace of Debian.
If you want cutting edge technology, you need a PC that will fit in with the home entertainment center. Give it a Duron/Celeron, 64MB RAM, and a motherboard with IDE RAID -- stripe up four IDE drives for up to 300GB of MP3 and video storage, and run it through a video card with TV out to run it on your TV. A remote control interface would be nice, too, and once you lap on a modem/NIC to let that puppy download software updates, programming info, and new files from the LAN/Internet, it is then that you would have the ultimate console/TiVo/MP3 jukebox.
All the hardware _and_ software to do that is available NOW, but only for Windows. Why? --
What a bunch of shite. Some of us prefer the electronic format because it isn't paper, therefore more economical, likely more environmentally sane. Let's not forget that the O'Reilly library would fit rather nicely on DVD-ROM instead of in thousands of pages in dozens of bindings and occupy multiple shelves (and I think you know that, too).
As far as eDocuments being a pain to read goes, you're right, particularly if you're talking about PDF, which usually isn't very pleasant to read until printed.
OTOH, if a format existed that allowed custom public/private/protected bookmarks and annotations with embedded multimedia, you've really got something. I'd like to see dead trees pull that one off... --
without the express written consent of XYZ group is prohibited".
It sounds to me as though nobody is allowed to say what went on during the competition without permission from the IOC/NFL/whomever, but what I really think it means is that their players can't relay any information about the competition outside of certain parameters, e.g. players can only talk to the TV crew for 20 minutes after the game (since the group is getting mucho $$$ from them), before the rest of the (pretty much nonpaying) press can. It's kind of weird, but it seems fair. --
99% of the planet wants and/or needs to use this program outside their office. The people that DO use it at work are guaranteed to be using an Exchange server, and those that run Outlook for personal use get what they deserve. --
No fuckin' kidding. I'd really like to see some benchmarks of "that new Athlon" from AMD, and see how it compares with a Celeron 300A overclocked to 1.4GHz, being cooled with liquid hydrogen. --
... and have those bots duke it out on different terrain -- anything from 56k of bandwidth over a modem to modem connection to an T3 link, with each "bot" behind a firewall. Just imagine the carnage over a Gigabit switched LAN!
Well, an OpenBSD powered robot would r00t a Linux box any time.
You're talking about software anyway. It might be a fun challenge to write a bot that uses AI to interpret nmap results, find vulnerable daemons, then have it try to "h4x0r" other systems and learn how to break them -- it would autmatically write scripts for the kiddi3z, too! --
Some slashbot probably took exception to explaining that the Russians use duct tape because they are stupid, rather than making some lame, dated joke about the long lines expreienced during the communist era and saying that they didn't pack any because the wait was four weeks. --
There may be a million different ways to spell it, but "Menonmonie" is not one of them. Menomonie (two n's) IS correct, however. Though it usually has the pronounciation indicated above, it is sometimes called "Me No Money", as Menomonie, Wis. is home to UW Stout, which is something of a party school, considering the student population is 3-4x larger than the town itself. --
No, Intel is based in Santa Clara, CA. They do a fair amount of production in Oregon, however.
Yes, they do codename all their their chips after n'western cities (I'd be insulted if I lived in Mendocino or Timna BTW). Maybe it is a typo but how far back does it go? Did it happen when they founded the town, when Intel chose it as a codename, or when the Sharkster published the roadmap? Many names of Native American origin have multiple spellings -- in Wisconsin, there are at least three ways to spell "men-om-muh-nee", e.g. Menonmonie, Menominee. --
Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane. --
What if you need to tweak/customize Windows with additional drivers, etc? You can't do that without setting a CD/Product key. If M$ just included a facility to delete the license, you could install, license, configure, delicense, then create an image -- they next time Windows booted up, it would ask for your CD Key.
This is Microsoft's fault, not ours. I mostly like using their stuff, but if they're going to continue being license Nazis, I guess I have to find something else. --
Wow, that article was kind of cute in the way it hid deCSS... Forget about what I said about tunnelling through DNS -- that was pretty flippin' cool. Here's the script:
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c....*A' | sort |
cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d > outfile
chmod +x outfile ./outfile > css_unscramble.h
Then here's the cute comment at the bottom: /************************************************* ****************************
* This little piece of software was brought to you by a DNS server.
************************************************** ***************************/
only the people that make money off the musicians do. Ask the Smashing Pumpkins why they had the final album on their contract with Virgin ripped into MP3 and distributed on Napster! --
Yeah, that's great, but the moving parts mean that it needs more batteries more frequently, and it skips when you're doing something active, e.g. jogging, mountain biking, surfing(?), etc. --
Um, WHAT??? How the fuck am I supposed to make the determination that copyrighted code is in my system once it's been ported and compiled? It's not recognizable anymore!
Your Napster analogy falls flat anyway. The Napster distribution contains no illegal content -- Solaris does, and they simply say that it's your problem to deal with. Chalk up another reason why Sun sucks. --
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My guess would be that in most cases, it's not feasible to just slap in a CD-ROM, power up the system, and install Red hat onto a "big iron" machine. Building a new kernel is probably not a big deal, especially considering how fast it would compile, and would definitely be the least of inconveniences.
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Most of the commodity hardware with this functionality doesn't cut it with Linux, maybe because it shouldn't.
The enabling hardware I have in mind is the Highpoint 370 IDE RAID controller, which has a kernel patch to support it, but the ATI-TV Wonder has none. Figuring that you're probably using X, I know of no X server with TV-Out support, except possibly 3dfx or a real hack job. 3dfx isn't exactly tops in X performance, either. I think BeOS would be the more likely alternative, if one existed.
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The things you see on store shelves are ancient technology -- set-top consumer electronics moe at the pace of Debian.
If you want cutting edge technology, you need a PC that will fit in with the home entertainment center. Give it a Duron/Celeron, 64MB RAM, and a motherboard with IDE RAID -- stripe up four IDE drives for up to 300GB of MP3 and video storage, and run it through a video card with TV out to run it on your TV. A remote control interface would be nice, too, and once you lap on a modem/NIC to let that puppy download software updates, programming info, and new files from the LAN/Internet, it is then that you would have the ultimate console/TiVo/MP3 jukebox.
All the hardware _and_ software to do that is available NOW, but only for Windows. Why?
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Well, when can you expect anything from Debian? When everyone else is measuring in months, they're measuring in years...
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What a bunch of shite. Some of us prefer the electronic format because it isn't paper, therefore more economical, likely more environmentally sane. Let's not forget that the O'Reilly library would fit rather nicely on DVD-ROM instead of in thousands of pages in dozens of bindings and occupy multiple shelves (and I think you know that, too).
As far as eDocuments being a pain to read goes, you're right, particularly if you're talking about PDF, which usually isn't very pleasant to read until printed.
OTOH, if a format existed that allowed custom public/private/protected bookmarks and annotations with embedded multimedia, you've really got something. I'd like to see dead trees pull that one off...
--
without the express written consent of XYZ group is prohibited".
It sounds to me as though nobody is allowed to say what went on during the competition without permission from the IOC/NFL/whomever, but what I really think it means is that their players can't relay any information about the competition outside of certain parameters, e.g. players can only talk to the TV crew for 20 minutes after the game (since the group is getting mucho $$$ from them), before the rest of the (pretty much nonpaying) press can. It's kind of weird, but it seems fair.
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Slackware has been at 7.x longer than anyone else -- why are the other distributions so far behind? ;)
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99% of the planet wants and/or needs to use this program outside their office. The people that DO use it at work are guaranteed to be using an Exchange server, and those that run Outlook for personal use get what they deserve.
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It's called Scoop, and it runs over at Kuro5hin...
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No fuckin' kidding. I'd really like to see some benchmarks of "that new Athlon" from AMD, and see how it compares with a Celeron 300A overclocked to 1.4GHz, being cooled with liquid hydrogen.
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You want a PCI version? 3dfx has got one. AGP still isn't a big deal -- sure it's faster, but not by a whole lot.
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Man, I can't remember to finish a thought at
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You're talking about software anyway. It might be a fun challenge to write a bot that uses AI to interpret nmap results, find vulnerable daemons, then have it try to "h4x0r" other systems and learn how to break them -- it would autmatically write scripts for the kiddi3z, too!
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Some slashbot probably took exception to explaining that the Russians use duct tape because they are stupid, rather than making some lame, dated joke about the long lines expreienced during the communist era and saying that they didn't pack any because the wait was four weeks.
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There may be a million different ways to spell it, but "Menonmonie" is not one of them. Menomonie (two n's) IS correct, however. Though it usually has the pronounciation indicated above, it is sometimes called "Me No Money", as Menomonie, Wis. is home to UW Stout, which is something of a party school, considering the student population is 3-4x larger than the town itself.
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No, Intel is based in Santa Clara, CA. They do a fair amount of production in Oregon, however.
Yes, they do codename all their their chips after n'western cities (I'd be insulted if I lived in Mendocino or Timna BTW). Maybe it is a typo but how far back does it go? Did it happen when they founded the town, when Intel chose it as a codename, or when the Sharkster published the roadmap? Many names of Native American origin have multiple spellings -- in Wisconsin, there are at least three ways to spell "men-om-muh-nee", e.g. Menonmonie, Menominee.
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I think the MS stands for "Madman Stallman". ;)
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Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
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NT means No Text
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What if you need to tweak/customize Windows with additional drivers, etc? You can't do that without setting a CD/Product key. If M$ just included a facility to delete the license, you could install, license, configure, delicense, then create an image -- they next time Windows booted up, it would ask for your CD Key.
This is Microsoft's fault, not ours. I mostly like using their stuff, but if they're going to continue being license Nazis, I guess I have to find something else.
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Damn slashcode ate it :/
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chmod +x outfile
Then here's the cute comment at the bottom:
/************************************************* ***************************** ***************************/
* This little piece of software was brought to you by a DNS server.
*************************************************
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only the people that make money off the musicians do. Ask the Smashing Pumpkins why they had the final album on their contract with Virgin ripped into MP3 and distributed on Napster!
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Yeah, that's great, but the moving parts mean that it needs more batteries more frequently, and it skips when you're doing something active, e.g. jogging, mountain biking, surfing(?), etc.
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Um, WHAT??? How the fuck am I supposed to make the determination that copyrighted code is in my system once it's been ported and compiled? It's not recognizable anymore!
Your Napster analogy falls flat anyway. The Napster distribution contains no illegal content -- Solaris does, and they simply say that it's your problem to deal with. Chalk up another reason why Sun sucks.
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