I've tried other distros over the years, and have found the package management systems unwieldy, untrustworthy, and no less time-consuming to get things set up like I want than manually building from source and editing config files. I've learned details about system operation and file system layout through working with Slackware that have helped me debug problems on a variety of systems.
I'm a big fan of what I like to call Fire-and-Forget computing. I like to set up a system right the first time, then never have to touch it again (or as little as possible). Slackware has been very good about letting me do exactly that. My firewall/NAT box has been running happily without any unexpected reboots since sometime in 1998. For the most part it was only getting rebooted every time I moved from one dorm room/apartment to the next.
Slackware's also better at running on older hardware than any other distro I've found. I've just tried to get Ubuntu installed on some bare-minimum-specs HP e-PCs, without success, and there didn't appear to be any sort of lowmem option there.
I do miss the base floppy set for installing a minimal working system, done away with somewhere around slack9. I do miss that awesome little booklet that was tucked inside the 4-cd set (the first Linux book I ever read, and the most useful IMHO). I've always disliked the lack of a ftp/wget-based installation option on the stock install disk. And I've never been able to get the slack-build scripts to build new openssl-libs and openssh for me. Those are pretty much the only complaints I've ever had that were slackware-specific.
If you don't like the minimalist attitude of slack, use something else.
Er, an emulator per se need not have the BASIC ROM functionality he's looking for. He wasn't looking for something on which to run precompiled C64 programs (which would be the purpose of an emulator) but something on which to write programs in C64-basic. There may be an emulator out there that supports it, but it is by no means a required piece for emulation of C64 programs.
Yep, that's the good stuff. Though of late its the other licensed (more or less) services getting to interfere with the local hams, and the FCC not lifting a finger.
You kids multiply? It is nothing but a repetitive add anyway.
Even simpler than that, if all you want to do is multiply by powers of 2:)
that you, brian?
I've checked out the War Room before, wasn't terribly impressed (but that was before SotP vanished). Haven't seen Dr. No's, I'll have to check them out, thanks.
I miss Oxford, Too and Oxford Comics & Games.
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Huh. The B&N by me quite specifically does NOT carry any D&D books.
The games may be going strong, but...
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all of my Friendly Local Gaming Stores seem to keep going out of business:(
Sword of the Phoenix was sort of the Mecca for All Things Gaming here in Atlanta for...as long as I can remember. They just closed up permanently this year. The game shops (I think they were actually called The Game Shoppe) in the local malls closed up two or three years ago. About the only places I can find locally are either used bookstores with varied wares (and rarely anything new), or stores dedicated mainly to comic books or collectible card games. Other than the slim pickings there, the only option is mail-order.
if you're the type of person that gets a new car every 5-7 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, then no, you're not going to save money by purchasing a more expensive car. If, on the other hand, you're the type who takes care of your vehicle, maintains it, maybe even makes a few repairs on your own rather than taking it to the shop (or neglecting problems outright), with the hopes of getting 10-20 years (and 250,000+ miles) out of your vehicle, then you might actually save money in the long run, assuming roughly equal wear-and-tear and part replacement needs for hybrid and conventional vehicles.
My personal take on it is that hybrid and fuel-cell systems are still flawed due to their continued reliance on fossil fuels. An all-electric vehicle would be ideal, and indeed we have our electric motor science down pat. What we lack are effective battery systems -- pound for pound, gasoline contains far more energy than our best batteries. Until we can improve our electrical energy storage, we are limited to either having a very small "gas tank", in which we'd have to stop and recharge every 50 miles or so, or a very large, heavy, slow vehicle carrying a ton or six of battery cells in order to extend the range of the vehicle. Neither is a generally viable solution.
The car manufacturers are reluctant to further research these alternate systems, I think, due to the fact that if you take away or reduce the internal combustion components of an engine, you reduce the stress and heat experienced by the engine, which means the engine parts fail less often, which means they sell fewer new cars. No company is going to deliberately research ways to reduce their profit.
as I read it, this is allowing a receiver to listen to nearby signals and determine its own location, NOT for the transmitters to determine the location of the nearby receiver. In short, if you're not putting out a signal, you can't be tracked by it.
For those who WANT to be tracked, amateur radio has a neat little niche called APRS, but that's probably lost on this crowd:)
Sure, that $250 billion could buy us another year in Iraq!
But seriously, the ISS is not a waste of money. When you think of all the research done there, the international goodwill spread there, it is well worth the cost. I do wish the degree of internationality was a bit larger. Simply having Americans and Russians isn't very diverse -- it would be nice to see China/India/other aspiring space powers to join in the fun (and help with the bills).
holy sweet jesus, huge noticeable performance difference on my athlon 650, going to 2.6.0-test1 with the new scheduling algorithms and the preemptive kernel mod... much, much better performance under heavy loads than it was with 2.4.20
...I can go ahead and start shooting people based on the fact that it would be self defense if they had carried through with their attempted plans of attacking me......just like the voices tell me....
well, that's sorta valid. The work as a whole has a value in and of itself as a form of expression, as many albums have themes running across songs and tell a story or project a message or whatever. Even album cover art (which declined greatly in the switch from LPs to CDs) adds to the overall value of the album as a piece of artwork. To sell just an individual song is sort of analogous to going to an art gallery and buying only a small section of a painting.
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And WoW isn't a game either, it's a platform for global gold farming and life draining.
...the boobies.
EverQuest. WoW. And countless others.
I've tried other distros over the years, and have found the package management systems unwieldy, untrustworthy, and no less time-consuming to get things set up like I want than manually building from source and editing config files. I've learned details about system operation and file system layout through working with Slackware that have helped me debug problems on a variety of systems.
I'm a big fan of what I like to call Fire-and-Forget computing. I like to set up a system right the first time, then never have to touch it again (or as little as possible). Slackware has been very good about letting me do exactly that. My firewall/NAT box has been running happily without any unexpected reboots since sometime in 1998. For the most part it was only getting rebooted every time I moved from one dorm room/apartment to the next.
Slackware's also better at running on older hardware than any other distro I've found. I've just tried to get Ubuntu installed on some bare-minimum-specs HP e-PCs, without success, and there didn't appear to be any sort of lowmem option there.
I do miss the base floppy set for installing a minimal working system, done away with somewhere around slack9. I do miss that awesome little booklet that was tucked inside the 4-cd set (the first Linux book I ever read, and the most useful IMHO). I've always disliked the lack of a ftp/wget-based installation option on the stock install disk. And I've never been able to get the slack-build scripts to build new openssl-libs and openssh for me. Those are pretty much the only complaints I've ever had that were slackware-specific.
If you don't like the minimalist attitude of slack, use something else.
Er, an emulator per se need not have the BASIC ROM functionality he's looking for. He wasn't looking for something on which to run precompiled C64 programs (which would be the purpose of an emulator) but something on which to write programs in C64-basic. There may be an emulator out there that supports it, but it is by no means a required piece for emulation of C64 programs.
Gah.
Yep, that's the good stuff. Though of late its the other licensed (more or less) services getting to interfere with the local hams, and the FCC not lifting a finger.
IRS and FAA.
Can someone get a FOIA suit going fast enough to beat the shredders to those docs?
The FCC is kinda frightening. It does a lot of good, but it does a lot of harm as well. It's on my top 3 list of government agencies to not piss off.
You kids multiply? It is nothing but a repetitive add anyway. Even simpler than that, if all you want to do is multiply by powers of 2 :)
that you, brian?
My apologies. The jury will disregard my previous comment. Proceed with flames...
Some applications will make use of it, some won't. More cores is pretty much the same as more CPUs.
Does the shell prompt ask you if you want armor piercing, high-explosive, or incendiary?
gracias. this is gtg503e, btw. for a few more months at least :)
I've checked out the War Room before, wasn't terribly impressed (but that was before SotP vanished). Haven't seen Dr. No's, I'll have to check them out, thanks.
I miss Oxford, Too and Oxford Comics & Games.
Huh. The B&N by me quite specifically does NOT carry any D&D books.
all of my Friendly Local Gaming Stores seem to keep going out of business :(
Sword of the Phoenix was sort of the Mecca for All Things Gaming here in Atlanta for...as long as I can remember. They just closed up permanently this year. The game shops (I think they were actually called The Game Shoppe) in the local malls closed up two or three years ago. About the only places I can find locally are either used bookstores with varied wares (and rarely anything new), or stores dedicated mainly to comic books or collectible card games. Other than the slim pickings there, the only option is mail-order.
I think...didn't I just say...why yes I did: What we lack are effective battery systems.
if you're the type of person that gets a new car every 5-7 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, then no, you're not going to save money by purchasing a more expensive car. If, on the other hand, you're the type who takes care of your vehicle, maintains it, maybe even makes a few repairs on your own rather than taking it to the shop (or neglecting problems outright), with the hopes of getting 10-20 years (and 250,000+ miles) out of your vehicle, then you might actually save money in the long run, assuming roughly equal wear-and-tear and part replacement needs for hybrid and conventional vehicles.
My personal take on it is that hybrid and fuel-cell systems are still flawed due to their continued reliance on fossil fuels. An all-electric vehicle would be ideal, and indeed we have our electric motor science down pat. What we lack are effective battery systems -- pound for pound, gasoline contains far more energy than our best batteries. Until we can improve our electrical energy storage, we are limited to either having a very small "gas tank", in which we'd have to stop and recharge every 50 miles or so, or a very large, heavy, slow vehicle carrying a ton or six of battery cells in order to extend the range of the vehicle. Neither is a generally viable solution.
The car manufacturers are reluctant to further research these alternate systems, I think, due to the fact that if you take away or reduce the internal combustion components of an engine, you reduce the stress and heat experienced by the engine, which means the engine parts fail less often, which means they sell fewer new cars. No company is going to deliberately research ways to reduce their profit.
My character, "Peonit", was forced to change her name. My girlfriend's character, "Smakkit", was not.
Apparently, word humor is lost on WoW GMs.
as I read it, this is allowing a receiver to listen to nearby signals and determine its own location, NOT for the transmitters to determine the location of the nearby receiver. In short, if you're not putting out a signal, you can't be tracked by it.
:)
For those who WANT to be tracked, amateur radio has a neat little niche called APRS, but that's probably lost on this crowd
Sure, that $250 billion could buy us another year in Iraq!
But seriously, the ISS is not a waste of money. When you think of all the research done there, the international goodwill spread there, it is well worth the cost. I do wish the degree of internationality was a bit larger. Simply having Americans and Russians isn't very diverse -- it would be nice to see China/India/other aspiring space powers to join in the fun (and help with the bills).
holy sweet jesus, huge noticeable performance difference on my athlon 650, going to 2.6.0-test1 with the new scheduling algorithms and the preemptive kernel mod... much, much better performance under heavy loads than it was with 2.4.20
...I can go ahead and start shooting people based on the fact that it would be self defense if they had carried through with their attempted plans of attacking me... ...just like the voices tell me....
well, that's sorta valid. The work as a whole has a value in and of itself as a form of expression, as many albums have themes running across songs and tell a story or project a message or whatever. Even album cover art (which declined greatly in the switch from LPs to CDs) adds to the overall value of the album as a piece of artwork. To sell just an individual song is sort of analogous to going to an art gallery and buying only a small section of a painting.
...of the remotes described in Stanislaw Lem's Peace on Earth.
The beginnings thereof, at least.