I used to use an old Mac (System 7 something) at work with "Earth" as it's machine name. It had a pretty small hard drive and one day we recieved the error "There is no more room on Earth. Please delete some files." We deleted some files, took a screenshot and made a poster out of it. It might still be hanging up there.
You know, I've always thought this was the perfect solution for MY security. I haven't done it yet but I plan on picking up the 8 or 16 meg one and storing my GPG secret key on it. Then its not on an internet connected machine where it can get swiped if the machine is rooted. I just have to make sure I have a GOOD passphrase in case I lose my keys. Actually if I was going to be REALLY paranoid about it I'd put an encrypted loopback filesystem on it and THEN put my key on it. That way I don't have to worry about someone getting my secret key if I lose my keys.
Uh, just order them from Dell without an OS. They'll do it. I know, I ordered about 50 Optiplexs last year with no OS. Our company has a "covers just about everything" license from M$ and I don't need the OS. So they come in with just a formatted drive and I Ghost them. No problems.
Above an average of about 40FPS, nobody notices anymore - they can't!
You obviously don't play FPS games or you've never had a high enough frames per sec to notice the difference. The difference in your ability to play well between 40 frames per second and 60 is amazing. You are correct, however, on that there is an upper limit on percievable effect of adding more frames per second but it is closer to 80. I saw a nice scientific explaination of it all, but I'm too lazy to look up the reference.
while CorelDraw is definitely the king of vector drawing programs and one of the missing key apps still holding back Linux
Sorry, gotta disagree. The king of the vector drawing programs is Illustrator. I'm a Freehand man myself and its better than Coreldraw too. Of course the likelihood of either of these programs ever being ported is about nil.
then I'd suggest a nice printed manual with a CD on the inside cover. You can have the best of both worlds.
Do a printed manual. They are invaluable. As has been mentioned they are easier to read, more portable, and work even when your computer isn't. They are what I want to work with when I am just learning a program. On the other hand,
Do a soft-copy manual and put it on a CD attached to the inside cover of the printed manual (ala those stupid books with "examples" CDs). I often find that AFTER I am familiar with a product, usually from reading the hardcopy docs, that when I want a quick answer I prefer soft-copy, searchable docs.
I've just had a thought and since it's such a rare occasion, I thought I'd share it. I'd like to compare DeCSS to another illegal productpot.
Point #1 It is illegal for me to own pot just as it is illegal for me to have a copy of DeCSS. AFIAK there is nothing illegal about me NOT having pot and yet telling my friend that I know someone else who has pot and may be willing to part with it.
Point #2 The pot (hemp) people have their own magazine (High Times). They lobby Congress to legalize pot, talk about pot, how to use it, and sometimes where to get it and all that is covered by their first amendment rights. But somehow it is illegal for me to say, "I think CSS sucks and the MPAA are money grubbing bastards. We are trying to get this software made legal and in the meantime, as an expression of my first amendment rights to free speech, I'm thumbing my nose at the MPAA and here is where you can get this software" That's bullshit.
I guess its a good thing that no big companies make pot substitutes. Or pot access control software.
Darn, don't real spies ever watch the movies? Everyone knows you carry your (documents/laptop/bomb) in one of those cool aluminum cases with the custom cut foam and you ALWAYS handcuff it to yourself. Stupid spies.:-)
(Dons flame retardant undies) Ok. I know this isn't the place to propose an alternative, but IMHO either Debian packages or the FreeBSD ports system is better than RPMs.
(This is the part where I start talking out my ass cause I don't know anything). What I'd love to see is some sort of cross between the FreeBSD ports and Debian packages. You download a source package guaranteed to compile on your system so you get an optimized system (ala FreeBSD) and then a script runs that installs it and maybe does a little basic configuration for you (ala Debian packages). Of course the dependency checks of either blow the pants off RPMS.
If the ports collection does some script configuration please forgive me. I'm not a FreeBSD user. I tried it once (3.2) but the learning curve was a bit much for me at the time. I'm planning on trying again now that 4.0 is out.
I asked someone this the other day and couldn't get an answer. Its obviously not the song, the Greeks used essentially the same order (hence the work alphabet), but I am curious how and why the order was established. Some Slashdotter must know
As a former poor college student myself, I highly recommend used record shops. Most CD's there are in the $3-$5 dollar range (although newer ones may run you more like $8-$9). And the newer CD's are there. Lots of kids with bigger bank accounts than I buy that brand new CD for one song then decide they don't want it and sell it. I pick it up a week after it's out for $9 and save myself nearly that much. Most larger college towns have at least one or two. Happy cheap CD buying.
You can use a SCSI Orb drive just fine under Linux. It works just like any other SCSI removable drive (think Iomega Zip). I love mine.
As for mounting server volumes, I'm not sure. Check to see if the Appletalk networking is compiled into your kernel and then check out the netatalk package. I *THINK* using those two items that you can achieve what you want.
Boy, does this ever validate your post:-)
Skippy
Nano Lego! Whoa! - oh, wait
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Damn, misread the headline. And here I was thinking, "Great, now I too can get in on this nano-technology and build cool stuff!" Oh, well.
Did you SUBMIT a story about the work you are doing to Slashdot? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Slashdot editors (or story posters, they could use an editor) pick and choose from stories which are SUBMITTED. If you think that Slashdot readers need to know about your project (or any other project for that matter) write or submit an article! I'd like to know about your project, but the way it works is that if you don't tell anyone (Rob, Hemos, et. al.) about it, then no one hears about it.
Ironically, the surrounding townships help pay for the same library, but because the petition-to-ballot law applies only in the city, they won't be voting on how their money will be spent.
Ok. Standard disclaimers apply (IANAL). I would imagine that if it comes down to it and the filtering software measure passes, that you could get someone in the neighboring communities who help pay for the library to file a suit that they were not able to vote on the measure. IMO, its wrong to censor and its just as bad to make someone pay for something and then give them no say in how its run. I apologize for the lack of cohesiveness of this post, but I've had a crappy day and shouldn't be taking the time to post this.
Alpha Centauri is MILES better than Civ:CTP. I have both. I feel the money I spent on CTP to be wasted. On the other hand, Alpha Centauri is a GREAT game. I think the difference is that CTP is very similar to Civ2, but the games are longer and there aren't enough changes in the game to make the longer play time interesting. Alpha Centauri feels like Civ2 paced better AND with new stuff.
Like the title says. CNN seems to pick up a lot of/. stories. So CNN reader(s), PLEASE pick this one up and write a concise, clear article about our views and why we are doing this. The more people who know what is going on and why, the better our chances are. I guess this would apply to everyone else as well (C|Net, ZDNet, Wired, etc.)
Uh, I do. Don't want to spend the money on a DVD player. My roommate has a TV (that I never watch) Heck, neither does he, we go to a friends weekly to watch X-Files, our entire TV viewing for the week. Should I ever move out, I won't have a TV. So then I'd have to buy a TV AND a DVD player. Much easier to watch it on my monitor. Yeah, it's a little small (esp. the widescreen stuff) but it doesn't cost me anything. And I can see the monitor from the couch:-).
I also like Albert Einstein's take. He wasn't just a scientist, but also a hedge philosopher.
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true scienc. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something which we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primotive forms are accessible to our minds-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
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I used to use an old Mac (System 7 something) at work with "Earth" as it's machine name. It had a pretty small hard drive and one day we recieved the error "There is no more room on Earth. Please delete some files." We deleted some files, took a screenshot and made a poster out of it. It might still be hanging up there.
You know, I've always thought this was the perfect solution for MY security. I haven't done it yet but I plan on picking up the 8 or 16 meg one and storing my GPG secret key on it. Then its not on an internet connected machine where it can get swiped if the machine is rooted. I just have to make sure I have a GOOD passphrase in case I lose my keys. Actually if I was going to be REALLY paranoid about it I'd put an encrypted loopback filesystem on it and THEN put my key on it. That way I don't have to worry about someone getting my secret key if I lose my keys.
Uh, just order them from Dell without an OS. They'll do it. I know, I ordered about 50 Optiplexs last year with no OS. Our company has a "covers just about everything" license from M$ and I don't need the OS. So they come in with just a formatted drive and I Ghost them. No problems.
Above an average of about 40FPS, nobody notices anymore - they can't!
You obviously don't play FPS games or you've never had a high enough frames per sec to notice the difference. The difference in your ability to play well between 40 frames per second and 60 is amazing. You are correct, however, on that there is an upper limit on percievable effect of adding more frames per second but it is closer to 80. I saw a nice scientific explaination of it all, but I'm too lazy to look up the reference.
Summary of article is as follows:
I'm not gloating but na-na-na-na-na-na! (While sticking out tongue)
Skippy
then I'd suggest a nice printed manual with a CD on the inside cover. You can have the best of both worlds.
Do a printed manual. They are invaluable. As has been mentioned they are easier to read, more portable, and work even when your computer isn't. They are what I want to work with when I am just learning a program. On the other hand,
Do a soft-copy manual and put it on a CD attached to the inside cover of the printed manual (ala those stupid books with "examples" CDs). I often find that AFTER I am familiar with a product, usually from reading the hardcopy docs, that when I want a quick answer I prefer soft-copy, searchable docs.
Skippy
Graphic designer for logos/appearance/layout
HTML monkey for layout production
User interface designer (NOT the same as graphic design)
Backend programmer (CGI/PERL)
Database designer (MIGHT be same person as above)
Evil overlord/overseer/webmaster (to keep the VISION of the sight clear and crack the whip on the rest)
Skippy
And here I thought a LART was a Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. Doh!
Skippy
I've just had a thought and since it's such a rare occasion, I thought I'd share it. I'd like to compare DeCSS to another illegal productpot.
Point #1
It is illegal for me to own pot just as it is illegal for me to have a copy of DeCSS. AFIAK there is nothing illegal about me NOT having pot and yet telling my friend that I know someone else who has pot and may be willing to part with it.
Point #2
The pot (hemp) people have their own magazine (High Times). They lobby Congress to legalize pot, talk about pot, how to use it, and sometimes where to get it and all that is covered by their first amendment rights. But somehow it is illegal for me to say, "I think CSS sucks and the MPAA are money grubbing bastards. We are trying to get this software made legal and in the meantime, as an expression of my first amendment rights to free speech, I'm thumbing my nose at the MPAA and here is where you can get this software" That's bullshit.
I guess its a good thing that no big companies make pot substitutes. Or pot access control software.
Skippy
Darn, don't real spies ever watch the movies? Everyone knows you carry your (documents/laptop/bomb) in one of those cool aluminum cases with the custom cut foam and you ALWAYS handcuff it to yourself. Stupid spies. :-)
Skippy
(Dons flame retardant undies)
Ok. I know this isn't the place to propose an alternative, but IMHO either Debian packages or the FreeBSD ports system is better than RPMs.
(This is the part where I start talking out my ass cause I don't know anything).
What I'd love to see is some sort of cross between the FreeBSD ports and Debian packages. You download a source package guaranteed to compile on your system so you get an optimized system (ala FreeBSD) and then a script runs that installs it and maybe does a little basic configuration for you (ala Debian packages). Of course the dependency checks of either blow the pants off RPMS.
If the ports collection does some script configuration please forgive me. I'm not a FreeBSD user. I tried it once (3.2) but the learning curve was a bit much for me at the time. I'm planning on trying again now that 4.0 is out.
Skippy
Oh, come on. It could be worse. You could be waiting for Daikatana :-) Which has been in development for longer and doesn't look to be nearly as good.
Skippy
I asked someone this the other day and couldn't get an answer. Its obviously not the song, the Greeks used essentially the same order (hence the work alphabet), but I am curious how and why the order was established. Some Slashdotter must know
Skippy
I want Kung-fu Scully from the last William Gibson episode to come back. *pant, pant*
Lighten up people. It was silly and for the most part fun.
Skippy
As a former poor college student myself, I highly recommend used record shops. Most CD's there are in the $3-$5 dollar range (although newer ones may run you more like $8-$9). And the newer CD's are there. Lots of kids with bigger bank accounts than I buy that brand new CD for one song then decide they don't want it and sell it. I pick it up a week after it's out for $9 and save myself nearly that much. Most larger college towns have at least one or two. Happy cheap CD buying.
Skippy
You can use a SCSI Orb drive just fine under Linux. It works just like any other SCSI removable drive (think Iomega Zip). I love mine.
:-)
As for mounting server volumes, I'm not sure. Check to see if the Appletalk networking is compiled into your kernel and then check out the netatalk package. I *THINK* using those two items that you can achieve what you want.
Boy, does this ever validate your post
Skippy
Damn, misread the headline. And here I was thinking, "Great, now I too can get in on this nano-technology and build cool stuff!" Oh, well.
Skippy
Does this sound familiar to anyone (*cough* Slash source *cough*). Maybe Lucas should open source the work on the Star Wars DVD's.
Skippy
Did you SUBMIT a story about the work you are doing to Slashdot? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Slashdot editors (or story posters, they could use an editor) pick and choose from stories which are SUBMITTED. If you think that Slashdot readers need to know about your project (or any other project for that matter) write or submit an article! I'd like to know about your project, but the way it works is that if you don't tell anyone (Rob, Hemos, et. al.) about it, then no one hears about it.
Skippy
Ok. Standard disclaimers apply (IANAL). I would imagine that if it comes down to it and the filtering software measure passes, that you could get someone in the neighboring communities who help pay for the library to file a suit that they were not able to vote on the measure. IMO, its wrong to censor and its just as bad to make someone pay for something and then give them no say in how its run. I apologize for the lack of cohesiveness of this post, but I've had a crappy day and shouldn't be taking the time to post this.
Skippy
Alpha Centauri is MILES better than Civ:CTP. I have both. I feel the money I spent on CTP to be wasted. On the other hand, Alpha Centauri is a GREAT game. I think the difference is that CTP is very similar to Civ2, but the games are longer and there aren't enough changes in the game to make the longer play time interesting. Alpha Centauri feels like Civ2 paced better AND with new stuff.
Skippy
Like the title says. CNN seems to pick up a lot of /. stories. So CNN reader(s), PLEASE pick this one up and write a concise, clear article about our views and why we are doing this. The more people who know what is going on and why, the better our chances are. I guess this would apply to everyone else as well (C|Net, ZDNet, Wired, etc.)
Skippy
Uh, I do. Don't want to spend the money on a DVD player. My roommate has a TV (that I never watch) Heck, neither does he, we go to a friends weekly to watch X-Files, our entire TV viewing for the week. Should I ever move out, I won't have a TV. So then I'd have to buy a TV AND a DVD player. Much easier to watch it on my monitor. Yeah, it's a little small (esp. the widescreen stuff) but it doesn't cost me anything. And I can see the monitor from the couch :-).
Skippy
I also like Albert Einstein's take. He wasn't just a scientist, but also a hedge philosopher.
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true scienc. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something which we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primotive forms are accessible to our minds-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
Skippy