If you're using Linux, just use your motherboard IDE ports and do software RAID-5. I haven't actually used it myself since I don't have the other hardware, but from most things I've read software raid is faster than hardware. If it's just for a home machine, save the money and get 3 drives in a raid5, or buy all 4 drives and put them in software raid5. From everything I've read, for n drives, you get n-1 drives worth of usable space, with the rest being used for parity. So if you had (4) 200GB drives, you would have 600GB of usable space. Sounds good to me.
I read several months ago that the escalade controllers were supporting the 48bit addressing for the >137GB drives. Check out www.3ware.com for more about the escalade controllers. I'd really like to get one. Too bad I don't have the $$ for the controller + drive.
Did they also have lights-out in the dorms at 11pm, after the "Dorm Mother" made sure that all members of the opposite sex had signed out and left?
no
Did they hold seminars explaining that "self-abuse" could lead to blindness and hairy palms?
no
Did they ban Elvis for swiveling his hips, and look askance at all the "groovy" kids who went to the campus rally for Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign?
no
Policies like your uni's scare me a lot more than the thought that some geek might be pullin' his pud to pictures of Paulina Porizkova.
Interesting that you say that without knowing which university I attended (note the past tense) or what their policies were. Instead you are making wild assumptions. There are many, many universities which do heavy internet filtering of many different types of materials. That in itself bothers me a lot. However, people such as yourself who make such wild unfounded assumptions also bother me quite a lot. You may wish to work on that.
Filters are in danger... Oh no.
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I personally have been in a University which performed heavy filtering, and even worked in the IT department of the school. I do not have a problem with blocking or lowering priority for certain p2p apps such as Napster (back in the day), kazaa, etc. I do however have a major problem with filtering web access. While p2p is a major problem in terms of bandwidth and is clearly not for academic purposes (the vast majority of the time), many blocked websites are quite useful for academic purposes. As an example, my school blocked the Google cache and pretty much all translation sites, because they could be "used to access pornographic content" (not neccessarily images). It seems that the possible benefits of said cache (which include pdf -> html and.doc -> html converters) and benefits of all the translation software massively outweigh the possible use for reading pornographic content. I must say, I welcome all such apps as triangle boy and hope to see them spread more widely, as it appears that is the only way we will keep the internet a place where information flows freely, without restrictions from those who would love to brainwash the masses. May Triangle Boy, Peekabooty, and any other similar projects flourish.
might want to notice the first line saying the Bush Administration had asked congress to pass it. and you might want to notice which party is in the house. thats why it passed.
It only had 3 votes against it. It had 385 for it. This has nothing to do with party lines or majorities or who's in the House. It has everything to do with the self-serving paranoia being served out by the government and swallowed blindly by the we the sheeple. Eventually, everyone will probably realize the folley of what they've allowed to happen, but by then it will be very difficult indeed to fix. Eventually, it may come to another revolution, which one of our founding fathers was wise enough to forsee over 200 years ago (sorry but I don't remember who). Honestly, my main hope is that I don't have to choose a side.
At risk of sounding undeducated... ummm... NO. You're wrong. Sorry. bzzzt. try again.
If you read the memo you'd have seen that the point of these seminars is to produce material that, for lack of a better word, can be used to train people to execute social engineering attacks.
According to the memo, yes these are "HOWTOs" for social engineering. Much more likely though, it's simply a video of what happened at the last conference. There's quite a bit of difference between the two if you think about it. One it "Here's what happened." The other is "Here is how to h4x0r ATT and get away with it." The first one is much more likely. Also, script kiddies generally aren't designing rootkits by following a HOWTO. No... they're downloading and running a script. No reading involved, NO comprehension, just download and run. Instant gratification.
One other problem I have with this whole thing.... I somewhat doubt any social engineering contest will go on this year. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that con would probably be crawling with feds. There was a soc. eng. contest scheduled for Defcon last year, and it got cancelled cause the feds threatened to arrest anyone who participated. I would think this year there'd be even more chance of getting arrested for it. After everything that's happened this year there will probably be more feds and more of the feds who are there will be in anal-retentive fed-bot mode.
DefCon is run every year at the same time as Black Hat, by the same people, with half of the same speakers. It costs about $40 (or did in 1998).
A few things about Defcon... it's not at the same time as BlackHat, it's just following (which may be what you meant... just hard to tell). This year it's August 2-4. As someone else already mentioned, it's $75. It was going to be $100 but too many people complained or something (conjecture). The price increase was for two reasons: One, so speakers could be paid *iff* they have a good speach. Therefore, speakers who suck won't get paid. So, if they know they suck and won't get paid, they're not as likely to try speaking. Second, the price increase is an attempt to discourage script kiddies and other imbeciles (such as many on/. who are probably reading this now, though not all) from coming to the con and pissing people off.
Further, I doubt very much your mother could actually use the phone to its full capabilities. Granted, she might not need to, but without help coming from somewhere (you, the manual, etc.), she probably never would learn all of the phone's functions...
This may be true, but the fact is that the main point of the device is to talk to people. If that's all someone wants to do with it, and they can figure it out without a manual, then why bother with other stuff? The person doesn't care! If they do care, I am quite confident they could figure it out with absolute minimal effort. If they don't care, then fine. A user interface may be so good that it requires no manual, but that doesn't mean a user will take advantage of every function there. If they don't care, they won't use it. If they do care, they can figure it out easily.
So while I understand your point, I think a truly good interface needs no manual. At the same time, I also believe that the possibility exists that such a thing isn't possible.
I believe it is very possible to create a UI which doesn't need a manual, at least for all the basic functionality. A good example of such an interface would be the UI on Nokia cell phones. If you've ever played with the 51xx or 61xx series phones, they take incredibly to figure out how to use. Pretty much everything in the UI is very intuitive, or at least it was for me. I did look at the manual, and learned some nice little shortcuts for things, but all the same functionality could be achieved without those shortcuts. My mother once borrowed the phone (and paid the bill) while I was out of the country for a few months. I showed her how to change ringers, etc. but I'm confident even that wouldn't have been neccessary. It is easy enough to do that an average middle-aged person who has never touched a cell phone but has been somewhat exposed to technology (ie no 3rd world cannibals) would be able to figure out within a few minutes how to change the ringer, make a call, go through the phone book, save a number, etc.
I'm lucky to be getting 20k from a mirror off my T1 line. The download I started this AM won't finish until around 11pm tonight.
Sorry, but I gotta say... HA HA. I started the download last night around midnight. This morning I discovered that it had died around 200MB. So, I went to the mirror page, found a mirror, and started it again. About 2 hours later, I had the entire ISO. Here's a hint.... look for servers with high bandwidth and low limits (like 155Mb server w/ 100 user FTP limit) and then rsync to it. I found mine in Sweden, though I don't want to name it here for fear of slashdotting the poor people. It's on the mirror page. Just start a script to try logging on every 10 seconds or whatever. Good luck.
BTW, I use RedHat because I prefer a sysV style run control and find package management systems very useful
So again... WHY do you use RedHat? Slackware has both sysV inits if you really feel like giving yourself unneeded headaches, and it has and has (as far back as I remember) always had a good package manager. No dependency hell to worry about, it just does what you tell it to. No more, no less. Not only that, it uses nice standard.tgz packages... If you really want to you can just use tar and gzip to unpack them and do whatever you want with them. No steeeenking RPM databloat to get out of sync with your actual system, nothing. If you really want to, you can use RPMs on slack, but they are NOT supported, as stated in the install. My personal belief is that anyone who would use them on slack is rather silly, but to each his own. Ahh well... trying to convert a RedHat user to slack is like trying to convert a MS whore to Linux. A few may see the light, but most will turn and run at the first sign of the true OS.
I would imagine (though I have no evidence) that if it is faster yet people use it the same, there would be room for more data to be transferred without collisions. Each packet will take up a smaller timeslice, so more packets can be transferred without interference. Also, the article says the 802.11a devices automatically adjust their transmit power, which should lower the amount of interference quite significantly.
I don't really think you have any problems with pulse dialing and such in downtown manhatten. I also don't think this company is trying to cater to gamers with up to gigabit connections. Sure what gamer wouldn't like to have a gigabit connection, but it's a pretty good guess that anyone who could afford that connection didn't get their money playing games.
No... At least how I interpreted it (though they didn't say it straight out in the article), they're just going to run fiber through the same conduits they use for power. They're simply using the fact that they own conduit to try and compete with Verizon in a way which means they don't have to lease anything, anywhere, from Verizon.
All I can say is, I'm sure glad those things are on our side. Imagine that we'll be able to mass produce these things and launch whole fleets of them with no risk of losing a single human life from the attack (on our side). Hopefully our leaders will respect the power that gives them.
I saw it (in full digital glory, no less) and I would say it's definately worth seeing, if you have ANY interest in star wars stuff. In my mind at least it totally makes up for the phantom movie (er, menace). See it in digital too, if possible. I must say it was awesome in digital. Yes, the acting could have been better, and some of the dialogue could've used a bit more life, but it had plenty of good stuff to make up for it.
I haven't had much of a chance to look at this technology, but can you do PPP over VOIP?
You can actually use the Cisco ATA for modems, fax machines, etc. In fact, this was one of the primary things it was designed for. Cisco has a line of IP phones (look up Cisco 7940 and 7960 for 2 examples) which are meant to be the primary means of doing VoIP, while the ATAs are there for connecting equipment which demands an analog line (faxes, modems, cordless phones, whatever). They generally have pretty decent data throughput too... I believe we've gotten 33.6 modem connections out of them here at my uni. While not stellar, this is still a plenty fast connection for most purposes.
Re:Ummm....What?
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As people have now already said ( yah yah, I know... redundant. Shut up already...) sed is the Stream EDitor. Windows people probably would have no clue what sed is. People new to *nix systems probably would have no clue what sed is. It is often assumed though (possibly incorrectly, but I digress) that the main audience of/. is made up of people not in those 2 categories. (note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with people not knowing what sed is, just that most people on/. would probably have enough exposure to *nix to know.)
Also, for anyone who doesn't know/can't figure it out, man page is short for MANual page. If you have any access to a *nix system, I hope you know about man. For those that may not, the man pages are a wonderful help utility provided with linux systems to give information about various programs, commands, etc. A user simply types `man [commandname]` and up pops a helpful page telling all about the command or program. In our case, it would be `man sed`.
Slightly on a tangent, does anyone know of a help system for *nix similar to the old DOS help system (which MS has so helpfully removed and replaced with that stupid paperclip/dog/whatever)? It was nice to be able to simply browse the available commands, jump from help page to help page, etc. A similar thing for *nix could be nice at times.
For something more on topic... nice hack. From what little I've played with sed, I can't imagine having the patience to write a game with it. The only question I have is, why?
As someone who has worked for BellSouth the past 16 years, the above statement is almost 100% false.
I hope this doesn't sound too much like flamebait, cause it's really not meant that way, but there's one key word in that statement... south. From what I've seen of this country (which is quite a bit), the south is much more likely to have crappy wiring (electrical, phone, cable, doesn't matter...) than many other parts of the country. In the seattle area, the majority of phone wiring that I've seen is now done with cat3 at the very minimum, and quite often with cat5. So, I'd say making the assumption that people have nice twisted pair wiring in their houses may be valid, depending on the part of the country.
Just compile and install the new kernel, and keep your old one around. Put entries in LILO for both. For example I, running slack, might have an entry for "slack" being the default 2.4.16 which I most frequently use. I might then make and entry for "slacktest," being the most current 2.5.x kernel of the week. I simply direct one entry to vmlinuz (vmlinuz being my 2.4.16 kernel) and one to vmlinuz-2.5.1 (this being my newly compiled test binary).
If you wanna know where to find the FMs, www.linuxdoc.org is a good place to start.
Maybe if there wasn't so much piracy, software prices would actually go down.
Or, maybe if software prices weren't so high, there wouldn't be so much piracy.
I mean, really... who's going to pay $900 for visual studio (is that how much it costs? I got it through some volume licensing thing my school has for CS students). People can download it from some warez site and burn it onto CDs for about $10 (assuming they're using expensive media, instead of the $0.10/ea weekly best buy special media). Maybe if it cost, say, $50, or even $100, more people would buy it. Case in point: I own an SGI Indigo 2. I would like to have an Irix 6.5 media set. SGI wants I think around $600 for a 6.5 media set. There's no way in heck I'm paying that. I'd pay for it no problem if it was $50, and maybe even $75-$100. But not $600.
Actually, quite a few of the games for the TI-86 have music. Mario does, and I believe Tetris does also. (at least the versions I had). I've since gone to the TI-92+, and haven't tried it with that. On the 86, I heard rumors that you could tune it with an AM radio, but you could also plug headphones straight into the data port (with an adapter to go from the 2mm to the 3mm plug) and hear the sound great. Someone actually wrote a program to play music that way, though you can't fit much music into the memory on the 86. Pretty crappy quality too. You can probably still find the programs and info on ticalc.org or somewhere. It's been a couple years, so I don't remember where I first found out about it.
When I was in the Marine Corps, MRE stood for Meal Ready to Eat.
Funny... I always thought MRE stood for Meals Rarely Edible. Of course, I understand you can do some cool things with the chemical-based food warmers that come in the new ones...
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If you're using Linux, just use your motherboard IDE ports and do software RAID-5. I haven't actually used it myself since I don't have the other hardware, but from most things I've read software raid is faster than hardware. If it's just for a home machine, save the money and get 3 drives in a raid5, or buy all 4 drives and put them in software raid5. From everything I've read, for n drives, you get n-1 drives worth of usable space, with the rest being used for parity. So if you had (4) 200GB drives, you would have 600GB of usable space. Sounds good to me.
I read several months ago that the escalade controllers were supporting the 48bit addressing for the >137GB drives. Check out www.3ware.com for more about the escalade controllers. I'd really like to get one. Too bad I don't have the $$ for the controller + drive.
Very well:
Eat.
Sleep.
Breed.
Sounds good to me. Anyone else have a problem with the above?
Did everybody on campus go to chapel together?
yes
Did they also have lights-out in the dorms at 11pm, after the "Dorm Mother" made sure that all members of the opposite sex had signed out and left?
no
Did they hold seminars explaining that "self-abuse" could lead to blindness and hairy palms?
no
Did they ban Elvis for swiveling his hips, and look askance at all the "groovy" kids who went to the campus rally for Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign?
no
Policies like your uni's scare me a lot more than the thought that some geek might be pullin' his pud to pictures of Paulina Porizkova.
Interesting that you say that without knowing which university I attended (note the past tense) or what their policies were. Instead you are making wild assumptions. There are many, many universities which do heavy internet filtering of many different types of materials. That in itself bothers me a lot. However, people such as yourself who make such wild unfounded assumptions also bother me quite a lot. You may wish to work on that.
I personally have been in a University which performed heavy filtering, and even worked in the IT department of the school. I do not have a problem with blocking or lowering priority for certain p2p apps such as Napster (back in the day), kazaa, etc. I do however have a major problem with filtering web access. While p2p is a major problem in terms of bandwidth and is clearly not for academic purposes (the vast majority of the time), many blocked websites are quite useful for academic purposes. As an example, my school blocked the Google cache and pretty much all translation sites, because they could be "used to access pornographic content" (not neccessarily images). It seems that the possible benefits of said cache (which include pdf -> html and .doc -> html converters) and benefits of all the translation software massively outweigh the possible use for reading pornographic content. I must say, I welcome all such apps as triangle boy and hope to see them spread more widely, as it appears that is the only way we will keep the internet a place where information flows freely, without restrictions from those who would love to brainwash the masses. May Triangle Boy, Peekabooty, and any other similar projects flourish.
might want to notice the first line saying the Bush Administration had asked congress to pass it. and you might want to notice which party is in the house. thats why it passed.
It only had 3 votes against it. It had 385 for it. This has nothing to do with party lines or majorities or who's in the House. It has everything to do with the self-serving paranoia being served out by the government and swallowed blindly by the we the sheeple. Eventually, everyone will probably realize the folley of what they've allowed to happen, but by then it will be very difficult indeed to fix. Eventually, it may come to another revolution, which one of our founding fathers was wise enough to forsee over 200 years ago (sorry but I don't remember who). Honestly, my main hope is that I don't have to choose a side.
At risk of sounding undeducated... ummm... NO. You're wrong. Sorry. bzzzt. try again.
If you read the memo you'd have seen that the point of these seminars is to produce material that, for lack of a better word, can be used to train people to execute social engineering attacks.
According to the memo, yes these are "HOWTOs" for social engineering. Much more likely though, it's simply a video of what happened at the last conference. There's quite a bit of difference between the two if you think about it. One it "Here's what happened." The other is "Here is how to h4x0r ATT and get away with it." The first one is much more likely. Also, script kiddies generally aren't designing rootkits by following a HOWTO. No... they're downloading and running a script. No reading involved, NO comprehension, just download and run. Instant gratification.
One other problem I have with this whole thing.... I somewhat doubt any social engineering contest will go on this year. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that con would probably be crawling with feds. There was a soc. eng. contest scheduled for Defcon last year, and it got cancelled cause the feds threatened to arrest anyone who participated. I would think this year there'd be even more chance of getting arrested for it. After everything that's happened this year there will probably be more feds and more of the feds who are there will be in anal-retentive fed-bot mode.
DefCon is run every year at the same time as Black Hat, by the same people, with half of the same speakers. It costs about $40 (or did in 1998).
/. who are probably reading this now, though not all) from coming to the con and pissing people off.
A few things about Defcon... it's not at the same time as BlackHat, it's just following (which may be what you meant... just hard to tell). This year it's August 2-4. As someone else already mentioned, it's $75. It was going to be $100 but too many people complained or something (conjecture). The price increase was for two reasons: One, so speakers could be paid *iff* they have a good speach. Therefore, speakers who suck won't get paid. So, if they know they suck and won't get paid, they're not as likely to try speaking. Second, the price increase is an attempt to discourage script kiddies and other imbeciles (such as many on
More Information: The Defcon Page
Also, check out this year's speakers and this year's slogans.
Oh.... one other thing... DC, if you didn't already know, is held at the Alexis Park in Vegas.
Further, I doubt very much your mother could actually use the phone to its full capabilities. Granted, she might not need to, but without help coming from somewhere (you, the manual, etc.), she probably never would learn all of the phone's functions...
This may be true, but the fact is that the main point of the device is to talk to people. If that's all someone wants to do with it, and they can figure it out without a manual, then why bother with other stuff? The person doesn't care! If they do care, I am quite confident they could figure it out with absolute minimal effort. If they don't care, then fine. A user interface may be so good that it requires no manual, but that doesn't mean a user will take advantage of every function there. If they don't care, they won't use it. If they do care, they can figure it out easily.
So while I understand your point, I think a truly good interface needs no manual. At the same time, I also believe that the possibility exists that such a thing isn't possible.
I believe it is very possible to create a UI which doesn't need a manual, at least for all the basic functionality. A good example of such an interface would be the UI on Nokia cell phones. If you've ever played with the 51xx or 61xx series phones, they take incredibly to figure out how to use. Pretty much everything in the UI is very intuitive, or at least it was for me. I did look at the manual, and learned some nice little shortcuts for things, but all the same functionality could be achieved without those shortcuts. My mother once borrowed the phone (and paid the bill) while I was out of the country for a few months. I showed her how to change ringers, etc. but I'm confident even that wouldn't have been neccessary. It is easy enough to do that an average middle-aged person who has never touched a cell phone but has been somewhat exposed to technology (ie no 3rd world cannibals) would be able to figure out within a few minutes how to change the ringer, make a call, go through the phone book, save a number, etc.
I'm lucky to be getting 20k from a mirror off my T1 line. The download I started this AM won't finish until around 11pm tonight.
Sorry, but I gotta say... HA HA. I started the download last night around midnight. This morning I discovered that it had died around 200MB. So, I went to the mirror page, found a mirror, and started it again. About 2 hours later, I had the entire ISO. Here's a hint.... look for servers with high bandwidth and low limits (like 155Mb server w/ 100 user FTP limit) and then rsync to it. I found mine in Sweden, though I don't want to name it here for fear of slashdotting the poor people. It's on the mirror page. Just start a script to try logging on every 10 seconds or whatever. Good luck.
BTW, I use RedHat because I prefer a sysV style run control and find package management systems very useful
.tgz packages... If you really want to you can just use tar and gzip to unpack them and do whatever you want with them. No steeeenking RPM databloat to get out of sync with your actual system, nothing. If you really want to, you can use RPMs on slack, but they are NOT supported, as stated in the install. My personal belief is that anyone who would use them on slack is rather silly, but to each his own. Ahh well... trying to convert a RedHat user to slack is like trying to convert a MS whore to Linux. A few may see the light, but most will turn and run at the first sign of the true OS.
So again... WHY do you use RedHat? Slackware has both sysV inits if you really feel like giving yourself unneeded headaches, and it has and has (as far back as I remember) always had a good package manager. No dependency hell to worry about, it just does what you tell it to. No more, no less. Not only that, it uses nice standard
I would imagine (though I have no evidence) that if it is faster yet people use it the same, there would be room for more data to be transferred without collisions. Each packet will take up a smaller timeslice, so more packets can be transferred without interference. Also, the article says the 802.11a devices automatically adjust their transmit power, which should lower the amount of interference quite significantly.
Wow... The Mods really are smoking something. How is an explanation of what this company is doing flamebait? Whatever.
I don't really think you have any problems with pulse dialing and such in downtown manhatten. I also don't think this company is trying to cater to gamers with up to gigabit connections. Sure what gamer wouldn't like to have a gigabit connection, but it's a pretty good guess that anyone who could afford that connection didn't get their money playing games.
No... At least how I interpreted it (though they didn't say it straight out in the article), they're just going to run fiber through the same conduits they use for power. They're simply using the fact that they own conduit to try and compete with Verizon in a way which means they don't have to lease anything, anywhere, from Verizon.
All I can say is, I'm sure glad those things are on our side. Imagine that we'll be able to mass produce these things and launch whole fleets of them with no risk of losing a single human life from the attack (on our side). Hopefully our leaders will respect the power that gives them.
I saw it (in full digital glory, no less) and I would say it's definately worth seeing, if you have ANY interest in star wars stuff. In my mind at least it totally makes up for the phantom movie (er, menace). See it in digital too, if possible. I must say it was awesome in digital. Yes, the acting could have been better, and some of the dialogue could've used a bit more life, but it had plenty of good stuff to make up for it.
I haven't had much of a chance to look at this technology, but can you do PPP over VOIP?
You can actually use the Cisco ATA for modems, fax machines, etc. In fact, this was one of the primary things it was designed for. Cisco has a line of IP phones (look up Cisco 7940 and 7960 for 2 examples) which are meant to be the primary means of doing VoIP, while the ATAs are there for connecting equipment which demands an analog line (faxes, modems, cordless phones, whatever). They generally have pretty decent data throughput too... I believe we've gotten 33.6 modem connections out of them here at my uni. While not stellar, this is still a plenty fast connection for most purposes.
As people have now already said ( yah yah, I know... redundant. Shut up already...) sed is the Stream EDitor. Windows people probably would have no clue what sed is. People new to *nix systems probably would have no clue what sed is. It is often assumed though (possibly incorrectly, but I digress) that the main audience of /. is made up of people not in those 2 categories. (note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with people not knowing what sed is, just that most people on /. would probably have enough exposure to *nix to know.)
If you want to know more about sed, look at the man page, available http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man2377.htm
Also, for anyone who doesn't know/can't figure it out, man page is short for MANual page. If you have any access to a *nix system, I hope you know about man. For those that may not, the man pages are a wonderful help utility provided with linux systems to give information about various programs, commands, etc. A user simply types `man [commandname]` and up pops a helpful page telling all about the command or program. In our case, it would be `man sed`.
Slightly on a tangent, does anyone know of a help system for *nix similar to the old DOS help system (which MS has so helpfully removed and replaced with that stupid paperclip/dog/whatever)? It was nice to be able to simply browse the available commands, jump from help page to help page, etc. A similar thing for *nix could be nice at times.
For something more on topic... nice hack. From what little I've played with sed, I can't imagine having the patience to write a game with it. The only question I have is, why?
As someone who has worked for BellSouth the past 16 years, the above statement is almost 100% false.
I hope this doesn't sound too much like flamebait, cause it's really not meant that way, but there's one key word in that statement... south . From what I've seen of this country (which is quite a bit), the south is much more likely to have crappy wiring (electrical, phone, cable, doesn't matter...) than many other parts of the country. In the seattle area, the majority of phone wiring that I've seen is now done with cat3 at the very minimum, and quite often with cat5. So, I'd say making the assumption that people have nice twisted pair wiring in their houses may be valid, depending on the part of the country.
Just compile and install the new kernel, and keep your old one around. Put entries in LILO for both. For example I, running slack, might have an entry for "slack" being the default 2.4.16 which I most frequently use. I might then make and entry for "slacktest," being the most current 2.5.x kernel of the week. I simply direct one entry to vmlinuz (vmlinuz being my 2.4.16 kernel) and one to vmlinuz-2.5.1 (this being my newly compiled test binary).
If you wanna know where to find the FMs, www.linuxdoc.org is a good place to start.
Maybe if there wasn't so much piracy, software prices would actually go down.
Or, maybe if software prices weren't so high, there wouldn't be so much piracy.
I mean, really... who's going to pay $900 for visual studio (is that how much it costs? I got it through some volume licensing thing my school has for CS students). People can download it from some warez site and burn it onto CDs for about $10 (assuming they're using expensive media, instead of the $0.10/ea weekly best buy special media). Maybe if it cost, say, $50, or even $100, more people would buy it. Case in point: I own an SGI Indigo 2. I would like to have an Irix 6.5 media set. SGI wants I think around $600 for a 6.5 media set. There's no way in heck I'm paying that. I'd pay for it no problem if it was $50, and maybe even $75-$100. But not $600.
Actually, quite a few of the games for the TI-86 have music. Mario does, and I believe Tetris does also. (at least the versions I had). I've since gone to the TI-92+, and haven't tried it with that. On the 86, I heard rumors that you could tune it with an AM radio, but you could also plug headphones straight into the data port (with an adapter to go from the 2mm to the 3mm plug) and hear the sound great. Someone actually wrote a program to play music that way, though you can't fit much music into the memory on the 86. Pretty crappy quality too. You can probably still find the programs and info on ticalc.org or somewhere. It's been a couple years, so I don't remember where I first found out about it.
When I was in the Marine Corps, MRE stood for Meal Ready to Eat.
Funny... I always thought MRE stood for Meals Rarely Edible. Of course, I understand you can do some cool things with the chemical-based food warmers that come in the new ones...