The heatsink on that thing looks bleedin humongous. And then what if I wanted to use that pci slot? I could put a card directly in it, eliminating the whole purpose behind the design of the mobo, or I could get a huge riser and place the card parallel to the heatsink, which would still make it pretty high, I would think. And then what about the heat from the sink on the pci card?
The only interesting thing about that mobo is the elimination of the backplane, but what difference does it make if the heatsink takes up that much height anyway?
It's about damn time they got rid of parallel and serial ports, imho. The only systems using those kinds of mobos and ports are POS (point of sale). For the rest of us, the ports aren't really useful.
And when you're using all those apps, don't for get Screen, the terminal multiplexer. It'll let you run all those apps in one virtual terminal (or xterm, Eterm, aterm, whatever). It'll let you disconnect from a session and logout and then reconnect to the session next time you login. You can even share the same screen session in other terminals.
Screen rocks. Everyone using a shell needs to use screen.
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I'm not saying people should enjoy things a certain way. What I'm trying to point out is that these people aren't enjoying anything except for their toys. They don't need to leave home to do that.
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Who cares about wifi spots out on the river? I don't jump in my kayak to go browse the web or check my email. I specifically engage in athletic and recreational activity to get away from all that crap.
Honestly, this kind of thing is getting to be pretty sad. It reminds me of the commercial from Motomaster advertising their portable power supply (like a UPS for the outdoors.) It shows a family somewhere in the middle of a forest with appliances plugged in, and a kid on his friggin laptop playing games. I find myself asking "why did they leave home in the first place?"
"we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots"
Why not!? Leave your damn cell phones, PDAs, laptops and assorted other junk at home. Do you really need all that to enjoy the great outdoors? Does it enhance the experience in some way? I'd have a hard time believing anyone who told me as much. Sure, you can take video and thousands of pictures and show all your friends - maybe even do it live with all the hotspots - but you know what? People get so busy trying to "capture" the moment that they forget to enjoy it while they're there. Aside from which, telling a story and leaving it to your friends' imaginations is far more exciting.
I realize I've deviated slightly from the topic. The point I'm trying to make is that I think a lot of people really need to unplug and discover the world outside of electronics. Leaving all that stuff at home is what really enhances the experience. All you need is yourself and your kayak.
Sysadmins will always be around because someone has to setup that automated software. If it actually got to the point where "automated" software ran smoothly 99% of the time, then the sysadmin might work for (or be) a contractor who comes in when things break. That person is still a sysadmin. If the sysadmin were in-house then his role might diversify and cover more duties - programming, administration (of the non-system type), management. The sysadmin may even be doing stuff not related to computers.
Whatever happens, the sysadmin will still be necessary.
The license is a little off-putting, at least if you want to use the OS at work, but Xandros hopes people will find the OS attractive enough to pay for.
Of course, I do not consider it open until I have access to the source.
I've got one thing to say to both of those comments - fuck that.
What is it with everyone on/.? You think everything should be open source and free? I've got news for you - businesses are in business to make money! Of course the license is restrictive - they're not about to give away their product. They're doing what they're doing so more people can try before they buy. That's a great marketing strategy.
I like open source and free software just as much as the next person, but I don't get annoyed when some business decides they want to make money and don't want to give out their source code. When it comes to software not based on GPL software, why should they release their code?? There's more than one way to do things, and believe it or not, people belive in things other than the GPL.
Honestly, get with reality. There's no bloody such thing as a free lunch.
Since I started using computers, working with them has essentially become a hobby of mine. Linux is a natural extension of this hobby - there is so much "stuff" out there. So much to do.
The freely available software allows me to go in all kinds of directions with my hobby. I can run servers, setup snazzy desktops, mess around with code.
How would I ever do this with proprietary software? The only concept of "free" in the Microsoft Windows world is shitty 15-day trial version shareware. The operating system itself is cost prohibitive for someone in my position, nevermind the software I'd need to setup various servers.
Funny thing - I've said for a couple years that my next system is going to be a Mac running OS X. But it occurred to me that if I were using OS X, I'd have nothing to do! The system would be up and running with no effort on my part!
I spend the majority of my time fartin around with all kinds of stuff on my systems. And that's not just limited to software - I tend to accumulate PC components and end up swappin stuff around, building different systems, etc. I don't think I've ever come across Mac hardware that wasn't fully assembled and running. I just wouldn't be able to do what I do with Mac hardware.
Don't get me wrong - if a new laptop manages to get to the top of my priority list within the next couple of years, I'll get a Mac for sure. Any later than that, I couldn't say - who knows where free software will be by then.
The same argument about having nothing to do can be applied to running a system with Windows, too. Aside from this, there are a lot of things that keep me from using Windows. Primarily - I hate the user interface! I find it mind bogglingly unintuitive! I could elaborate on this, but I'd rather not take the time - suffice it to say that the UI just doesn't "feel" as nice as the minimal Blackbox UI that I've been using for a while now. (Windowmaker and Enlightenment are another couple favourites.)
I like to have a bare minimum of stuff on my UI. I find Windows cluttered. I can't stand dealing with all the configuration bullshit -/etc and all the various text based config files in my homedir are generally far more simple and far more elegant. To be honest, and without getting into too much detail, these are some of the reasons I don't use KDE or Gnome either.
Now, I'm aware that Windows can be customized, but guess what? Blackbox just comes this way. All I do is set a background, open some workspaces, and adjust my focus model. And I don't have to pay for some shitty shareware to get it done either. Yeah, I could run Blackbox on Windows - I actually tried at work. But why bother? Linux has so much more to offer.
And that's the bottom line - Linux just has more to offer.
Most blacklist services these days list all dynamic IPs for most Internet Service Providers. I get an occasional bounced email because my server is on one of those IPs. Annoying as hell. But at least I can add those kind of hosts to my transport map and have email destined for them routed through my ISP's mail server.
I don't know about any of you, but the last thing I'd want as a remote for my home theater is a friggin keyboard.
Get him a PDA with bluetooth. There should be some software that'll control all that needs controlling. And if he really needs a keyboard then he can use the on screen keyboard, or just use graffiti or whatever that particular PDA has.
How about more sales, and a greater share of the market?
It seems ATI has only recently begun to release Linux drivers (no they're not open source, but there's no reason everything has to be.) Whereas NVidia has been supporting Linux for much longer. Recently my ATI card toasted, and I can't get it covered under warantee so I'm looking for a fairly decent but inexpensive card - and this time I want it well supported under Linux. NVidia seems like the only choice for me, since only ATI's most recent line of products (ie: expensive products) are supported.
Anyhow, the Linux marketshare is obviously expanding, and if ATI wants a piece of it, they'll have to do as the parent suggested - support it. It would be nice, because I prefer ATI products for their design, innovation, and the fact that they're Canadian.
Do you think these 4 guys have the resources for a webserver and net connection that can handle a slashdotting? Honestly, we've all seen much larger companies get slashdotted.
So instead of being an asshole and not giving these guys a chance just because they couldn't handle a hogillion requests from all the critical pessimists on slashdot, give them some encouragement. What we're seeing here is the result of the freedoms provided by open source, and everyone should be supportive rather than critical.
And, FYI, here is their sourceforge website: http://ignalum.sourceforge.net/ -- it seems the distro was created as a project for all the CS/CE/SE students at the University of Western Ontario to work on. An interesting idea, something I might try when I go back to school this fall.
Like A is in state 1 and since there is now time, when it goes to state 2 the time increases. We cannot talk about for how long long the object has remained in state 1 because there is no time flowing in between.
We can talk about the duration of state 1 so long as we have some other reference. If something else is changing at a rate different than A, then you can say "A was in this state while B went through states 1, 2, and 3."
In the absence of anything else changing, A becomes the reference of time. But in the absence of anything else, A is irrelevant anyway;)
Do you know of anything that 'truly' stays the same? While you're looking at a rock, you might not see it change, but at the molecular level electrons are changing positions, etc.
When I said "nothing has changed" I really meant nothing.
Of course, over time the rock will have a visible difference, so maybe it can be said that time passes slower for the rock.
I never thought time was a terribly complicated topic. It boils down to change. If nothing, and I mean nothing at all, ever changed, then time hasn't passed.
How can you say it has? If nothing has changed, you have no way of judging, measuring, or scaling 'time'. Time is the difference between one moment and another.
Think about dimensions. I've often heard the '4th' dimension referred to as time. Well take an object in the 3rd dimension and 'graph' its changes. Those changes are the 4th dimension of the object - what happens to it over time.
It's all about change, as far as I'm concerned. How can you say time has passed if nothing has changed.
You've got to teach your filter what new spam looks like. Spamassassin has a program called "sa-learn" which updates the stats databases to identify spam and ham messages.
Each user on my system has an imap folder where filtered spam is saved so it can be reviewed for any false-positives. They can then save that spam to a publicly shared imap folder. I have a daily cron job that runs sa-learn on all the spam collected in that public folder. I think my filter catches about 99% of the spam, and never has any false-positives.
You can also run sa-learn on your "ham" messages (ie: regular, legit mail.) This makes it even easier for Spamassassin to separate the bad from the good. It's a great system.
Get Gamespy. It lists all the servers you could want, and you can generally tell what kind of game it is ahead of time by checking out who's playing and how many frags they've got.
And try not to whine too much. After playing years of quake, I can only recall a few instances where cheaters were a problem. And they got booted in a hurry. And as much as I hate PunkBuster, it seems to do the job. So make sure you've got it installed, and look for PB enabled servers.
And dialup is not too slow. Before I had high-speed cable, I was owning railgun-only Quake 2, because I learned to stay ahead of the lag. I kept up with all the LPBs, which was a lot of fun.
What a surprise to find a/. reader who not only knows about the Sault but knows about the Competition and Brian's Brook at Searchmont!
Afaik, the names of the runs havn't changed (except for the two aformentioned runs, as well as the Moose Trail which is now known as the "User Friendly".) The names of the runs were changed under the previous ownership (J.J. Hilsinger) when the new lift went in, not by the new owner (a guy from Chicago who's name escapes me.)
Anyhow, the Competition was the original mogul run at Searchmont, accessible from the double chairlift, it is now known as the Hard Drive. Brian's Brook was named after my old ski coach Brian Mealy (I used to race for the Sault Ski Runners, now known as the Searchmont Ski Runners due to the new ownership.) Brian's Brook is actually still named Brian's Brook but it's much shorter, as the top portion was changed and turned into the "Megabyte". The Moose Trail was named by Brian - he actually created the run, and is very fond of Moose and hunting Moose.
The other run on that side of the mountain is the Random Access. And of course the chair lift (which holds 4 people per chair) was named the "Quad Processor".
Now, being as into computers as I am, I thought the naming scheme was pretty lame. None of my teammates were happy about them renaming the run which our coach made, either.
Anyhow, it's cool to see some people on/. who know about the Sault (or are even from there!)
And really, do take a trip to the Sault! If you're driving across Canada, you have to pass through, so stay a few days. Absolutely gorgeous in the summer - winter too if you can put up with -35C and heaps of snow;)
Having just done a 3 week trip across New Zealand, I found myself wondering why we don't get that kind of tourism in the Sault. It's just as gorgeous, and our landscape has just as much to offer. We don't have all the extreme tourism stuff (bungy, rafting, etc.) but I suppose that comes with the tourists. I guess it's difficult to find places like the Sault in such a big country. Really, all of Northern and Western Ontario is gorgeous (this does NOT include you, Barrie! You're not Northern by any stretch of the word!) So anywho, check out the Sault if you ever get the chance!
That's my plug! (what can I say, it's my home town, which is rarely mentioned in the news. Or any media for that matter.)
"Ports that are closed but part of the knocking scheme would return a connection refused, while all the other (filtered) ports would simply be dropped."
Why can't ports in the knocking scheme drop the packets? I don't see any reason why the knocking ports should have to return a refused connection. IPtables, for example, could drop the connection on all ports, but it would still be able to record which ports were being requested. So after it detects connection attempts on certain ports (and drops them) it could then open a port for a connection.
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"Most avid Linux users don't want a Linux that's just like windows, they want Linux. The point of this distro is to pull in people who like windows, but wanna try linux."
You're assuming that LUGs only have "avid" Linux users. They might have a lot of newbies who aren't looking for the hardcore Linux experience. These people might just be interested in alternatives, and if something slick is available, they might give it a try.
The only way I could see the analogy of "Window without Microsoft" being reasonable is if it's only taken as far as the fact that they both have a graphical user interface. Because it's not really Windows without Microsoft - although for some people, that actually makes a big difference.
"I always hated how mostly stable XFree86 is, and how I don't have to upgrade every week to the lastest version."
On the same token, some people hate how bloody long it takes to add new features and drivers to X.
And if Xouvert's development model was anything like the Linux Kernel's dev model, then we'd see fairly rapid development, with a very stable tree which has a good release frequency (not too slow, not too fast), and then a dev tree if someone wants to do a daily CVS build. That'd be pretty good.
How about the need for computers in the classroom? That's total BS as far as I'm concerned.
I've been into computers for quite some time, and am enrolled in Computer Science at university. It's been obvious to me for years that computers in the classroom are a waste of time, energy, and resources for everyone involved.
I try to tell people this, and they wonder why I say that, given my experience with computers. No doubt it's because the people making the decisions have no clue.
Most adults on/. likely went through school without computers in the classroom. Did our educations suffer as a result? No. As far as I'm concerned, I was better off in school without a computer.
Of course, we did have computers at school. Good ol' ICONs, and IBM 8086s. We had typing class a couple times a week, and learned to use a word processor, which is about as far as it needs to go. Leave computers for their own courses in high school (Computer Science and maybe some kind of class for basics.)
Is it not obvious that more harm is being done than good, when it comes to computers in class? There are just so many things wrong with the whole idea. Perhaps one day when computers become more appliance-like, they'll be more beneficial in class, and will be put to use in such a fashion as to not create dependancies.
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The heatsink on that thing looks bleedin humongous. And then what if I wanted to use that pci slot? I could put a card directly in it, eliminating the whole purpose behind the design of the mobo, or I could get a huge riser and place the card parallel to the heatsink, which would still make it pretty high, I would think. And then what about the heat from the sink on the pci card?
The only interesting thing about that mobo is the elimination of the backplane, but what difference does it make if the heatsink takes up that much height anyway?
It's about damn time they got rid of parallel and serial ports, imho. The only systems using those kinds of mobos and ports are POS (point of sale). For the rest of us, the ports aren't really useful.
And when you're using all those apps, don't for get Screen, the terminal multiplexer. It'll let you run all those apps in one virtual terminal (or xterm, Eterm, aterm, whatever). It'll let you disconnect from a session and logout and then reconnect to the session next time you login. You can even share the same screen session in other terminals.
Screen rocks. Everyone using a shell needs to use screen.
I'm not saying people should enjoy things a certain way. What I'm trying to point out is that these people aren't enjoying anything except for their toys. They don't need to leave home to do that.
Who cares about wifi spots out on the river? I don't jump in my kayak to go browse the web or check my email. I specifically engage in athletic and recreational activity to get away from all that crap.
Honestly, this kind of thing is getting to be pretty sad. It reminds me of the commercial from Motomaster advertising their portable power supply (like a UPS for the outdoors.) It shows a family somewhere in the middle of a forest with appliances plugged in, and a kid on his friggin laptop playing games. I find myself asking "why did they leave home in the first place?"
"we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots"
Why not!? Leave your damn cell phones, PDAs, laptops and assorted other junk at home. Do you really need all that to enjoy the great outdoors? Does it enhance the experience in some way? I'd have a hard time believing anyone who told me as much. Sure, you can take video and thousands of pictures and show all your friends - maybe even do it live with all the hotspots - but you know what? People get so busy trying to "capture" the moment that they forget to enjoy it while they're there. Aside from which, telling a story and leaving it to your friends' imaginations is far more exciting.
I realize I've deviated slightly from the topic. The point I'm trying to make is that I think a lot of people really need to unplug and discover the world outside of electronics. Leaving all that stuff at home is what really enhances the experience. All you need is yourself and your kayak.
Like a lot of things, it's a hobby.
;)
What does everyone else do with their spare time and what makes it so much more valid?
I don't do mods, but I like your dishwasher idea. Soon companies will be selling UV sensitive soap
Sysadmins will always be around because someone has to setup that automated software. If it actually got to the point where "automated" software ran smoothly 99% of the time, then the sysadmin might work for (or be) a contractor who comes in when things break. That person is still a sysadmin. If the sysadmin were in-house then his role might diversify and cover more duties - programming, administration (of the non-system type), management. The sysadmin may even be doing stuff not related to computers.
Whatever happens, the sysadmin will still be necessary.
The license is a little off-putting, at least if you want to use the OS at work, but Xandros hopes people will find the OS attractive enough to pay for.
/.? You think everything should be open source and free? I've got news for you - businesses are in business to make money! Of course the license is restrictive - they're not about to give away their product. They're doing what they're doing so more people can try before they buy. That's a great marketing strategy.
Of course, I do not consider it open until I have access to the source.
I've got one thing to say to both of those comments - fuck that.
What is it with everyone on
I like open source and free software just as much as the next person, but I don't get annoyed when some business decides they want to make money and don't want to give out their source code. When it comes to software not based on GPL software, why should they release their code?? There's more than one way to do things, and believe it or not, people belive in things other than the GPL.
Honestly, get with reality. There's no bloody such thing as a free lunch.
Since I started using computers, working with them has essentially become a hobby of mine. Linux is a natural extension of this hobby - there is so much "stuff" out there. So much to do.
/etc and all the various text based config files in my homedir are generally far more simple and far more elegant. To be honest, and without getting into too much detail, these are some of the reasons I don't use KDE or Gnome either.
The freely available software allows me to go in all kinds of directions with my hobby. I can run servers, setup snazzy desktops, mess around with code.
How would I ever do this with proprietary software? The only concept of "free" in the Microsoft Windows world is shitty 15-day trial version shareware. The operating system itself is cost prohibitive for someone in my position, nevermind the software I'd need to setup various servers.
Funny thing - I've said for a couple years that my next system is going to be a Mac running OS X. But it occurred to me that if I were using OS X, I'd have nothing to do! The system would be up and running with no effort on my part!
I spend the majority of my time fartin around with all kinds of stuff on my systems. And that's not just limited to software - I tend to accumulate PC components and end up swappin stuff around, building different systems, etc. I don't think I've ever come across Mac hardware that wasn't fully assembled and running. I just wouldn't be able to do what I do with Mac hardware.
Don't get me wrong - if a new laptop manages to get to the top of my priority list within the next couple of years, I'll get a Mac for sure. Any later than that, I couldn't say - who knows where free software will be by then.
The same argument about having nothing to do can be applied to running a system with Windows, too. Aside from this, there are a lot of things that keep me from using Windows. Primarily - I hate the user interface! I find it mind bogglingly unintuitive! I could elaborate on this, but I'd rather not take the time - suffice it to say that the UI just doesn't "feel" as nice as the minimal Blackbox UI that I've been using for a while now. (Windowmaker and Enlightenment are another couple favourites.)
I like to have a bare minimum of stuff on my UI. I find Windows cluttered. I can't stand dealing with all the configuration bullshit -
Now, I'm aware that Windows can be customized, but guess what? Blackbox just comes this way. All I do is set a background, open some workspaces, and adjust my focus model. And I don't have to pay for some shitty shareware to get it done either. Yeah, I could run Blackbox on Windows - I actually tried at work. But why bother? Linux has so much more to offer.
And that's the bottom line - Linux just has more to offer.
Most blacklist services these days list all dynamic IPs for most Internet Service Providers. I get an occasional bounced email because my server is on one of those IPs. Annoying as hell. But at least I can add those kind of hosts to my transport map and have email destined for them routed through my ISP's mail server.
I don't know about any of you, but the last thing I'd want as a remote for my home theater is a friggin keyboard.
Get him a PDA with bluetooth. There should be some software that'll control all that needs controlling. And if he really needs a keyboard then he can use the on screen keyboard, or just use graffiti or whatever that particular PDA has.
Ok. Cell phones are jammed. What about the hogillion other frequencies that could be used to trigger the detonator? What about a timed detonator.
And don't forget the terrorists favourite method - suicide bombing.
I think cell phones are just the most convenient method. They'll find another way in a hurry, you can be sure about that.
How about more sales, and a greater share of the market?
It seems ATI has only recently begun to release Linux drivers (no they're not open source, but there's no reason everything has to be.) Whereas NVidia has been supporting Linux for much longer. Recently my ATI card toasted, and I can't get it covered under warantee so I'm looking for a fairly decent but inexpensive card - and this time I want it well supported under Linux. NVidia seems like the only choice for me, since only ATI's most recent line of products (ie: expensive products) are supported.
Anyhow, the Linux marketshare is obviously expanding, and if ATI wants a piece of it, they'll have to do as the parent suggested - support it. It would be nice, because I prefer ATI products for their design, innovation, and the fact that they're Canadian.
Do you think these 4 guys have the resources for a webserver and net connection that can handle a slashdotting? Honestly, we've all seen much larger companies get slashdotted.
So instead of being an asshole and not giving these guys a chance just because they couldn't handle a hogillion requests from all the critical pessimists on slashdot, give them some encouragement. What we're seeing here is the result of the freedoms provided by open source, and everyone should be supportive rather than critical.
And, FYI, here is their sourceforge website: http://ignalum.sourceforge.net/ -- it seems the distro was created as a project for all the CS/CE/SE students at the University of Western Ontario to work on. An interesting idea, something I might try when I go back to school this fall.
Nevermind having 15 computers in a small space. I have 3 and I'd use colour coded cables and lables.
Big messes of cables and wires are a real pain in the ass.
Like A is in state 1 and since there is now time, when it goes to state 2 the time increases. We cannot talk about for how long long the object has remained in state 1 because there is no time flowing in between.
;)
We can talk about the duration of state 1 so long as we have some other reference. If something else is changing at a rate different than A, then you can say "A was in this state while B went through states 1, 2, and 3."
In the absence of anything else changing, A becomes the reference of time. But in the absence of anything else, A is irrelevant anyway
Do you know of anything that 'truly' stays the same? While you're looking at a rock, you might not see it change, but at the molecular level electrons are changing positions, etc.
When I said "nothing has changed" I really meant nothing.
Of course, over time the rock will have a visible difference, so maybe it can be said that time passes slower for the rock.
to tackle the very question of 'why is time?'
I never thought time was a terribly complicated topic. It boils down to change. If nothing, and I mean nothing at all, ever changed, then time hasn't passed.
How can you say it has? If nothing has changed, you have no way of judging, measuring, or scaling 'time'. Time is the difference between one moment and another.
Think about dimensions. I've often heard the '4th' dimension referred to as time. Well take an object in the 3rd dimension and 'graph' its changes. Those changes are the 4th dimension of the object - what happens to it over time.
It's all about change, as far as I'm concerned. How can you say time has passed if nothing has changed.
You've got to teach your filter what new spam looks like. Spamassassin has a program called "sa-learn" which updates the stats databases to identify spam and ham messages.
Each user on my system has an imap folder where filtered spam is saved so it can be reviewed for any false-positives. They can then save that spam to a publicly shared imap folder. I have a daily cron job that runs sa-learn on all the spam collected in that public folder. I think my filter catches about 99% of the spam, and never has any false-positives.
You can also run sa-learn on your "ham" messages (ie: regular, legit mail.) This makes it even easier for Spamassassin to separate the bad from the good. It's a great system.
Get Gamespy. It lists all the servers you could want, and you can generally tell what kind of game it is ahead of time by checking out who's playing and how many frags they've got.
And try not to whine too much. After playing years of quake, I can only recall a few instances where cheaters were a problem. And they got booted in a hurry. And as much as I hate PunkBuster, it seems to do the job. So make sure you've got it installed, and look for PB enabled servers.
And dialup is not too slow. Before I had high-speed cable, I was owning railgun-only Quake 2, because I learned to stay ahead of the lag. I kept up with all the LPBs, which was a lot of fun.
I initially read that headline as
;) That woulda been pretty sweet though.
"SCO Complaint Failed -- Including Code Samples"
I guess I'm looking just a little further ahead
What a surprise to find a /. reader who not only knows about the Sault but knows about the Competition and Brian's Brook at Searchmont!
/. who know about the Sault (or are even from there!)
;)
Afaik, the names of the runs havn't changed (except for the two aformentioned runs, as well as the Moose Trail which is now known as the "User Friendly".) The names of the runs were changed under the previous ownership (J.J. Hilsinger) when the new lift went in, not by the new owner (a guy from Chicago who's name escapes me.)
Anyhow, the Competition was the original mogul run at Searchmont, accessible from the double chairlift, it is now known as the Hard Drive. Brian's Brook was named after my old ski coach Brian Mealy (I used to race for the Sault Ski Runners, now known as the Searchmont Ski Runners due to the new ownership.) Brian's Brook is actually still named Brian's Brook but it's much shorter, as the top portion was changed and turned into the "Megabyte". The Moose Trail was named by Brian - he actually created the run, and is very fond of Moose and hunting Moose.
The other run on that side of the mountain is the Random Access. And of course the chair lift (which holds 4 people per chair) was named the "Quad Processor".
Now, being as into computers as I am, I thought the naming scheme was pretty lame. None of my teammates were happy about them renaming the run which our coach made, either.
Anyhow, it's cool to see some people on
And really, do take a trip to the Sault! If you're driving across Canada, you have to pass through, so stay a few days. Absolutely gorgeous in the summer - winter too if you can put up with -35C and heaps of snow
Having just done a 3 week trip across New Zealand, I found myself wondering why we don't get that kind of tourism in the Sault. It's just as gorgeous, and our landscape has just as much to offer. We don't have all the extreme tourism stuff (bungy, rafting, etc.) but I suppose that comes with the tourists. I guess it's difficult to find places like the Sault in such a big country. Really, all of Northern and Western Ontario is gorgeous (this does NOT include you, Barrie! You're not Northern by any stretch of the word!) So anywho, check out the Sault if you ever get the chance!
That's my plug! (what can I say, it's my home town, which is rarely mentioned in the news. Or any media for that matter.)
"Ports that are closed but part of the knocking scheme would return a connection refused, while all the other (filtered) ports would simply be dropped."
Why can't ports in the knocking scheme drop the packets? I don't see any reason why the knocking ports should have to return a refused connection. IPtables, for example, could drop the connection on all ports, but it would still be able to record which ports were being requested. So after it detects connection attempts on certain ports (and drops them) it could then open a port for a connection.
"Most avid Linux users don't want a Linux that's just like windows, they want Linux. The point of this distro is to pull in people who like windows, but wanna try linux."
You're assuming that LUGs only have "avid" Linux users. They might have a lot of newbies who aren't looking for the hardcore Linux experience. These people might just be interested in alternatives, and if something slick is available, they might give it a try.
The only way I could see the analogy of "Window without Microsoft" being reasonable is if it's only taken as far as the fact that they both have a graphical user interface. Because it's not really Windows without Microsoft - although for some people, that actually makes a big difference.
"I always hated how mostly stable XFree86 is, and how I don't have to upgrade every week to the lastest version."
On the same token, some people hate how bloody long it takes to add new features and drivers to X.
And if Xouvert's development model was anything like the Linux Kernel's dev model, then we'd see fairly rapid development, with a very stable tree which has a good release frequency (not too slow, not too fast), and then a dev tree if someone wants to do a daily CVS build. That'd be pretty good.
How about the need for computers in the classroom? That's total BS as far as I'm concerned.
/. likely went through school without computers in the classroom. Did our educations suffer as a result? No. As far as I'm concerned, I was better off in school without a computer.
I've been into computers for quite some time, and am enrolled in Computer Science at university. It's been obvious to me for years that computers in the classroom are a waste of time, energy, and resources for everyone involved.
I try to tell people this, and they wonder why I say that, given my experience with computers. No doubt it's because the people making the decisions have no clue.
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Of course, we did have computers at school. Good ol' ICONs, and IBM 8086s. We had typing class a couple times a week, and learned to use a word processor, which is about as far as it needs to go. Leave computers for their own courses in high school (Computer Science and maybe some kind of class for basics.)
Is it not obvious that more harm is being done than good, when it comes to computers in class? There are just so many things wrong with the whole idea. Perhaps one day when computers become more appliance-like, they'll be more beneficial in class, and will be put to use in such a fashion as to not create dependancies.
What do you think?