Creepy Crawler's absolutely correct there. In fact, I think it can be done even more simply, where as I suggested earlier, rather than locking anything to UIDs, you just run your Xservers with different Xconfigs that have different InputDevice sections, and you're up.
Doesn't allow virtual consoles to be re-routed, but I don't know if this other patch that we're discussing in the Article does or not.. which does seem pretty pointless, anyway.
Actually, it's really not much different at all. You run different XServers with different InputDevice sections in their configurations, and you're on.
For that matter, you can grab whole computers from the 386/486 era off Ebay for probably $10 or less, plug them into a reasonably decent monitor and network board ($5 for good network cards these days, $100 for tolerable monitors), and your off, total cost per unit, probably less than buying a monitor/keyboard/mouse all new.
And the hardware required to make it work in the server is, I would guess, likely much more expensive than it would be if you did it a different way, such as what we've already been doing for years.
Before TCP/IP was installed in everything in the world, this is how Unix/X worked, anyway.
It's really not, all that new. Perhaps anyone USING it for anything is new, but the capability for multiple input devices going to different Xservers, all setup from the same machine, is not all that new. I can't imagine actually connecting 4 video cards to one box.. a box capable of that, and you probably might as well just get a basic computer with motherboard/video/serial/32MB RAM, and a bootable-network-interface.. boot over the network, load X from the network, and use all your software via the server.
I can't IMAGINE the cost differential being worth the hassle of trying to make one box work with 4 video cards.
I make a lot of political commentary on my site, but I certainly have no intent to attempt to steer that towards being a political entry. I found it on another site, where it had been reposted from another site (ad inifinitum i suppose). I don't know if you had checked the "Comments" link on there, but the author's mother had actually found it from a websearch, and had left additional commentary as well (though I wish she would have left contact information).. If you don't mind, I'd like to add what you say here, to that thread. My site doesn't have a lot of visitors, and most are probably my friends.. but that's what makes the Web go round.. If you don't mind, I'd like to tack your reply here into that.. if you do mind, let me know, and i'll remove it asap..
well, no, i never paid attention to emacs. have never even run it. my brother used to use amiga version of it though, although every time he did, he'd spend the whole session bitching about how horrible it was. heh.
i haven't been able to get KDE to run in almost 2 years.:)
I normally use fvwm-themes, but have moved towards using gnome more now that my 128M machine can use it without it killing me
Yeah, it could.. but the Average Joe Computer non-Nerd is not going to understand it, not going to have any idea what else they would use, or anything like that.
Although the latest updates to GNOME that have landed in Debian-unstable and Debian-experimental have GREATLY improved the resource bloat, and I can now actually USE more than one application at a time within GNOME on a 128MB system without going into swapper hell.
..And I was thinking "GOOD LORD, I can use OS/2 to run Descent on a 386sx/33 with 4MB RAM, and it's MORE playable than on a 486/33 with 8MB RAM [which was the minimum system requirement] in real DOS.. AND I can use Telemate for DOS simultaneously to download stuff from the local BBS's while I'm playing Descent!!!"..
yeah, and I had this posted on my personal blog all the way back on the 30th, and if i'm not mistaken the first place i saw it was a few days before that..
so.. not news. not really for nerds, either. Nerds already use Opera/Mozilla/something else. It's "good advice for the non-nerds".
btw, any people you know that use windows.. please download mozilla/opera/something for them, when you are fixing their computers.
My spam load has decreased DRASTICALLY in the last two to three weeks. I thought it was because my ISP had me offline for almost 2 weeks, and therefore 2 weeks of over 1000 SPAMs per day bouncing might have gotten me taken off of some lists.. that might have something to do with it.. but.. now i'm under 200 SPAMs a day.. I'll take an 80% reduction in SPAM anytime! (and i'd like another please!)
After 9/11, Bush told his cabinet to MAKE a connection between the attacks and Iraq.
Of course he fucking lied. Seeking money, oil, and revenge.
Bush and his cabinet wouldn't give two shits about liberating the Iraqi citizens, all they want is the Iraqi oil, and eventually the entire middle fucking east.
With 4 more years in office, mark these words, you will see war in Iran. You will probably see war in Syria. You might see war in N. Korea, just to show someone they aren't to talk shit about us, you'll probably see war in Cuba, and Hell! Maybe we'll go after Norway! They've got a shitfuckload of things we'd like to have too!
Anyone who THINKS that the answer to a different viewpoint is a bullet in the head... DESERVES a bullet in the head.
(there's likely some kind of paradoxical contradiction here.. but.. maybe ya'all'll get my point)
The enemies of individual freedoms seek to create a world where the only people who have freedom is themselves. They deserve what they will get, if they try to abolish our personal freedoms.
The Republicans are only PROPOSING SOCIAL PROGRAMS. They'll never actually enact anything even remotely resembling what they propose.
Well, as a whole. I'm not saying there aren't good Republicans out there (besides the dead ones), but as a group.. they want it to be their country. The United Republic of America.
Gift CERTIFICATES and gift CARDS are actually two seperate products, covered under different laws.
A gift CERTIFICATE will have an expiration date normally of 3-6 months from date of issuance. When a company sells a CERTIFICATE, they book the sale immediatly, and then book a loss when the certificate is redeemed.
A gift CARD, however, is a pre-paid credit card. Like a normal credit card, it has an expiration date that is usually astronomically longer than a CERTIFICATE.. if -ever-. And a company does not book a SALE on the card until the card is actually USED. A company that I used to work for issues gift cards with NO expiration date - however, on the back of the gift card, it does state that if the card is not used at any point during a consecutive three-year period, $1.00 will be taken from the card (and they get to write that up as a sale, in the company) for every successive year after that three year period, until the card is used by a customer (then it starts it's three years over again), or the value of the card is depleted (by either use, or charging $1.00 to it every year for virtually damn forever).
In this company's case, it's about booking it. If the card is ever lost, and never recovered, it will eventually expire, and generate future sales at the rate of $1 per year. Yes, in the case of a $400 gift card, that could take a bare minimum of 403 years from date of issuance.
For AA and AAA batteries, use IC3. The IC3 chargers will charge standard batteries in about 4 hours, and IC3 batteries in 15 minutes. The cost differential is virtually negligible.. really. A 4-bay IC3 charger, and a couple sets of IC3 batteries will run you about $60-80 depending on what you get.
If you need something that does other sizes, that's different.
Straight from ATTWS employees: the towers now transmit "Cingular" as the name of the service provider virtually nationwide. If you are seeing AT&T on your display, then your phone ignores the service provided carrier display.
Well, I have a lot of friends that work for AT&T (one of them in "network buildout" dept), and they all show Cingular on the display of their ATT phones... Detroit, Philly, DC, and Seattle...
Open relays really are not a problem, anymore. Not that I've seen.
Virtually no mail server will accept an email that is sent from an unknown system, anymore. I had to reconfigure all of my computers on my network to use my ISP's SMTP server, instead of using the one built into my email server, because virtually every site i sent legitimate email to bounced it back saying "we don't accept email from this host" or some such. When I changed to using Comcasts SMTP server, even though i was still using the same address (@blackmagik.dynup.net) for the email, they would all accept.
It's using the computer to get the SMTP server settings, attack the hell out of the ISP's SMTP server. Of course they'll relay your email, you're their customer!
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Creepy Crawler's absolutely correct there. In fact, I think it can be done even more simply, where as I suggested earlier, rather than locking anything to UIDs, you just run your Xservers with different Xconfigs that have different InputDevice sections, and you're up.
Doesn't allow virtual consoles to be re-routed, but I don't know if this other patch that we're discussing in the Article does or not.. which does seem pretty pointless, anyway.
Actually, it's really not much different at all. You run different XServers with different InputDevice sections in their configurations, and you're on.
For that matter, you can grab whole computers from the 386/486 era off Ebay for probably $10 or less, plug them into a reasonably decent monitor and network board ($5 for good network cards these days, $100 for tolerable monitors), and your off, total cost per unit, probably less than buying a monitor/keyboard/mouse all new.
And the hardware required to make it work in the server is, I would guess, likely much more expensive than it would be if you did it a different way, such as what we've already been doing for years.
Before TCP/IP was installed in everything in the world, this is how Unix/X worked, anyway.
It's really not, all that new. Perhaps anyone USING it for anything is new, but the capability for multiple input devices going to different Xservers, all setup from the same machine, is not all that new. I can't imagine actually connecting 4 video cards to one box.. a box capable of that, and you probably might as well just get a basic computer with motherboard/video/serial/32MB RAM, and a bootable-network-interface.. boot over the network, load X from the network, and use all your software via the server.
I can't IMAGINE the cost differential being worth the hassle of trying to make one box work with 4 video cards.
I make a lot of political commentary on my site, but I certainly have no intent to attempt to steer that towards being a political entry. I found it on another site, where it had been reposted from another site (ad inifinitum i suppose). I don't know if you had checked the "Comments" link on there, but the author's mother had actually found it from a websearch, and had left additional commentary as well (though I wish she would have left contact information).. If you don't mind, I'd like to add what you say here, to that thread. My site doesn't have a lot of visitors, and most are probably my friends.. but that's what makes the Web go round.. If you don't mind, I'd like to tack your reply here into that.. if you do mind, let me know, and i'll remove it asap..
well, no, i never paid attention to emacs. have never even run it. my brother used to use amiga version of it though, although every time he did, he'd spend the whole session bitching about how horrible it was. heh.
:)
i haven't been able to get KDE to run in almost 2 years.
I normally use fvwm-themes, but have moved towards using gnome more now that my 128M machine can use it without it killing me
well, that was using.. i wanna say... "FILEBAR" as a PMSHELL as opposed to using the Workplace Shell.
Replacing the Workplace Shell, OS/2 really didn't consume very much resource wise at ALL
Yeah, it could.. but the Average Joe Computer non-Nerd is not going to understand it, not going to have any idea what else they would use, or anything like that.
Bloated and hacked desktops on Linux, how about..
KDE.
Gnome.
Although the latest updates to GNOME that have landed in Debian-unstable and Debian-experimental have GREATLY improved the resource bloat, and I can now actually USE more than one application at a time within GNOME on a 128MB system without going into swapper hell.
..And I was thinking "GOOD LORD, I can use OS/2 to run Descent on a 386sx/33 with 4MB RAM, and it's MORE playable than on a 486/33 with 8MB RAM [which was the minimum system requirement] in real DOS.. AND I can use Telemate for DOS simultaneously to download stuff from the local BBS's while I'm playing Descent!!!"..
That was incredible.
"from the warning-is-years-late-in-coming" dept..
yeah, and I had this posted on my personal blog all the way back on the 30th, and if i'm not mistaken the first place i saw it was a few days before that..
so.. not news. not really for nerds, either. Nerds already use Opera/Mozilla/something else. It's "good advice for the non-nerds".
btw, any people you know that use windows.. please download mozilla/opera/something for them, when you are fixing their computers.
My spam load has decreased DRASTICALLY in the last two to three weeks. I thought it was because my ISP had me offline for almost 2 weeks, and therefore 2 weeks of over 1000 SPAMs per day bouncing might have gotten me taken off of some lists.. that might have something to do with it.. but.. now i'm under 200 SPAMs a day.. I'll take an 80% reduction in SPAM anytime! (and i'd like another please!)
After 9/11, Bush told his cabinet to MAKE a connection between the attacks and Iraq.
Of course he fucking lied. Seeking money, oil, and revenge.
Bush and his cabinet wouldn't give two shits about liberating the Iraqi citizens, all they want is the Iraqi oil, and eventually the entire middle fucking east.
With 4 more years in office, mark these words, you will see war in Iran. You will probably see war in Syria. You might see war in N. Korea, just to show someone they aren't to talk shit about us, you'll probably see war in Cuba, and Hell! Maybe we'll go after Norway! They've got a shitfuckload of things we'd like to have too!
Anyone who THINKS that the answer to a different viewpoint is a bullet in the head... DESERVES a bullet in the head.
(there's likely some kind of paradoxical contradiction here.. but.. maybe ya'all'll get my point)
The enemies of individual freedoms seek to create a world where the only people who have freedom is themselves. They deserve what they will get, if they try to abolish our personal freedoms.
The Republicans are only PROPOSING SOCIAL PROGRAMS. They'll never actually enact anything even remotely resembling what they propose.
Well, as a whole. I'm not saying there aren't good Republicans out there (besides the dead ones), but as a group.. they want it to be their country. The United Republic of America.
Yeah, the documented link between Osama and Hussein:
Osama: Can we use your country to build some terrorist training camps?
Hussein: Go bugger off, you fool!
end of link.
Do your homework.
Here's the deal:
Gift CERTIFICATES and gift CARDS are actually two seperate products, covered under different laws.
A gift CERTIFICATE will have an expiration date normally of 3-6 months from date of issuance. When a company sells a CERTIFICATE, they book the sale immediatly, and then book a loss when the certificate is redeemed.
A gift CARD, however, is a pre-paid credit card. Like a normal credit card, it has an expiration date that is usually astronomically longer than a CERTIFICATE.. if -ever-. And a company does not book a SALE on the card until the card is actually USED. A company that I used to work for issues gift cards with NO expiration date - however, on the back of the gift card, it does state that if the card is not used at any point during a consecutive three-year period, $1.00 will be taken from the card (and they get to write that up as a sale, in the company) for every successive year after that three year period, until the card is used by a customer (then it starts it's three years over again), or the value of the card is depleted (by either use, or charging $1.00 to it every year for virtually damn forever).
In this company's case, it's about booking it. If the card is ever lost, and never recovered, it will eventually expire, and generate future sales at the rate of $1 per year. Yes, in the case of a $400 gift card, that could take a bare minimum of 403 years from date of issuance.
You use slashdot. This means you are a geek and/or nerd. This means you have a "high-speed" internet connection. Go get some Vonage love.
For AA and AAA batteries, use IC3. The IC3 chargers will charge standard batteries in about 4 hours, and IC3 batteries in 15 minutes. The cost differential is virtually negligible.. really. A 4-bay IC3 charger, and a couple sets of IC3 batteries will run you about $60-80 depending on what you get.
If you need something that does other sizes, that's different.
Straight from ATTWS employees: the towers now transmit "Cingular" as the name of the service provider virtually nationwide. If you are seeing AT&T on your display, then your phone ignores the service provided carrier display.
Well, if all you've used is AT&T and T-Mobile, then I'm afraid you just aren't aware that T-Mobile's service always blows donkey dick ;)
Well, I have a lot of friends that work for AT&T (one of them in "network buildout" dept), and they all show Cingular on the display of their ATT phones... Detroit, Philly, DC, and Seattle...
well, the RIAA might have something bad to say. .but... try... Godsmack.. "Whatever".
I'm doin the best I ever did
I'm doin the best that I can
I'm doin the best I ever did
Now fuckin' go away!
Open relays really are not a problem, anymore. Not that I've seen.
Virtually no mail server will accept an email that is sent from an unknown system, anymore. I had to reconfigure all of my computers on my network to use my ISP's SMTP server, instead of using the one built into my email server, because virtually every site i sent legitimate email to bounced it back saying "we don't accept email from this host" or some such. When I changed to using Comcasts SMTP server, even though i was still using the same address (@blackmagik.dynup.net) for the email, they would all accept.
It's using the computer to get the SMTP server settings, attack the hell out of the ISP's SMTP server. Of course they'll relay your email, you're their customer!
Legitimate business do not have CONSUMER accounts with Comcast, AOL, etc. They have BUSINESS accounts with Comcast, AOL, etc.
Let's apply a little noodle use here.