Transmeta never made much sense to me. People buy laptops for portability. They buy new laptops for speed. Most could give a rip about battery life or heat. Transmeta did not offer enough speed, and their ability to run in a sealed case (heat) would have only been nice for medical or industrial niches; but only if every other component on the system could be made water-tight and shock-proof as well. Their morph-code technology wasn't as desired; look at how many people don't even flash their BIOS.
I have wondered when the day will come that your television will just be another Internet appliance. Same with your radio -- crystal clear over tcp/ip instead of all the interference of FM or AM. The ability then to record, redistribute, share, etc., would be great. I think they have seen the pilot with products like Tivo. People that understand it love it. Those that don't, when shown the power, love it too.
If you run sendmail with -X you can dump to a file all the information. Black To: lines can be seen as an RCPT TO: command to the mail server. Try it, it is pretty cool.
Moving parts are a Bad Thing(tm). They're always the first thing to go wrong, and the most expensive to replace.
You are right. While speaking about bad design, the worst is the CD jewel case. I mean, they come out with compact discs -- awesome, but make the hinges on the jewel cases the weakest two pieces of cheap plastic known to man!
Not really a Seti@home easter egg, but funny story none-the-less:
A good friend of mine was sshing to another computer to run seti and it finally got noticed (why is this computer running sluggish?). So, this other guy went to my friend to ask a question and saw that he was watching the seti processes going on about 20 computers. So, he went back to his machine and wrote a program outputting stuff just like seti@home and at the end came up with a message saying something was found and he should call this 800 number immediately. Once it was ready, he rebooted (killing my friend's ssh session) and now the replacement seti was ready to go. So, my friend logs in and runs seti. All is well, and then everyone hears, "Oh my God". He is calling everyone around his computer so that he can speakerphone the historic phone call giving fame and fortune for finding E.T. Click, dial tone, beep, beep....beep, ring, ring -- It was so funny to see his face when it was a sex line number, and not SETI.
I have zero problems using Linux for everything. In an attempt to convert others to Linux, the major problem I run into is printing. Now, I use nothing but postscript printers and recommend everyone else do the same. I also use network printers, but I guess people can use a parallel port. Everyone I try to convert to Linux has the worst time getting things to print. Filters blow, and there aren't "drivers" per se for printers (I say that is a good thing).
Other issues:
win-hardware (modems)
Windows-only software (mostly games -- I don't play games)
browser plug-ins (but, hey, that isn't what the web is for)
Once installed and configured, who cares what OS is running? To say Windows is easier than Mac OS or Linux is bunk. I tried to explain to my mother yesterday how to make a backup copy of her Quickbooks data to another drive -- it took me about 15 minutes. Lord help her if she wants to do it again! With Linux, I could have remotely configured an icon or root menu option that would forever accomplish the task. Or, I could send her a command via email, she could have copy/paste to xterm window. I have a customer using xvscan for document imaging on a Linux box that runs its own Apache for retrieval. She finds the system easier to use than the Windows scanning system with a much more expensive, less-featured retrieval system. She can look up information from any Windows workstation on the network and I can perform remote maintainence.
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Remember the Pac-Man move where you could hide indefinately and the ghosts couldn't get you. Was this "figured out", or is this leaked from the manufacturer? I mean, like the moves for Pac-Man where you could play and never die and barely even look at the screen -- who figured that out, and wrote down, video-taped or remembered the moves.
And, Pac-Man isn't the only game like this. Look at all the "secret moves" in games. Does someone figure out you can do up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-select-start on Contra, or is that reverse engineered or leaked? Or, how you can flip-out Galaga to have FF ships. Or, how you can make a ghost Guile on Street Fighter.
This is interesting. Where I work they gave me a $7,500 security training budget for myself. I was faced with just the opposite problem -- where to go for decent training, and not just a "hang out" conference. I feel that I stay up to date via newsgroups, websites and tech journals.
To answer your question, how about asking a nearby college or computer company? I hit up SCO once about security (many, many years ago), and was invited to one of their "internal" security classes for under $500.
I love that series of books. I always thought that they would make one great (2.5 hour) movie. Now that special effects are both a reality and inexpensive (thanks largely to Linux and computer pricing drops), do you see a movie of this series in the near future?
Until you got to the Pascal rocks part, I was right with you.
At work, we still have to use RPG. So, RPG rocks for its purposes on that platform.
In some situations, I have many Pascal tools that I must use, so Pascal rocks. The equivalent c code is extremely hard to implement.
I still use Pick in some situations. I still use Assembly in others. To say one language is better than another in all instances cannot be justified. That is all I was saying.
Perl is not just for web programming! I doubt that web programming is mostly what people use perl for. Even the name perl suggests its strength is a report-generator or text parser (practical extraction and reporting language).
I use perl for web and for just general-purpose Unix programming. I still use c for some larger coding projects, but am more and more finding myself coding with perl. And, I never use shell scripts anymore -- well, unless I am on an older Unix box.
Perl rocks. PHP rocks. C rocks. Pascal rocks. Bash rocks. One just isn't any better than any other, if the one you are using gets you the desired results (speed, speed of coding, ease of use, correct answers to problems, etc.).
I have often wondered why Linux has been ported to just about even processor under the sun. I have thought it was such a waste because that intelligence could be making Linux better for platform processors more supported. However, I have seen this as a great way to draw interest to Linux. It has become an attention getter -- I mean, who has a Microsoft Windows watch? Plus, most of the people working on these side projects are strongly focused on other Linux ventures, and these make nice breaks in their daily grind of coding. Most of all, though, it revives that hacker spirit some have lost -- make something work against all odds; learn the system in and out; and, do the impossible!
I think it is funny that fan fiction can become more exciting than the canon storyline (from the author). Look at the craze over Fett with Star Wars. Can you imagine the popularity of a story about Yoda or the birth of the Jedi?
All I am saying is that the agents are all letters. Maybe it would sound crummy for him to be Z as "Zee". I imagine that after a while, they would need other letters like Alpha, Kappa, Theta and Rho.
I enjoyed Men in Black II, thinking that I hadn't wasted my money. I expected more from it though than I got. However, I really enjoyed the cartoon featurette before the movie with the universal joint, the Ale-E-Inn. Extremely creative with the incorporation of characters from sci-fi films.
I also enjoyed the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer as well. However, I thought it would have been cooler to leave Gandalf out so those that don't know the story would still think he was dead. Can you imagine the sound of suprize in the theater when he popped up again?
HBO could have been very creative in their marketing after that incident. Someone going to those great lengths in an attempt to watch HBO without paying for it....
I am an avid punk rock collector. Now with more than 400 compact discs in my collection, I have never bought into the idea that the Internet causes music piracy. I have more than enough bandwidth and burners to download what I want, but purchase the CD to get the liner notes and silk screened art on the compact disc itsself. Did I go buy a CD with the two "Major Tom" songs when I just wanted to hear them once? No, I downloaded them and have since deleted them, but I think the majority of rabid downloaders wouldn't buy compact discs regardless. They are the type that bug people that have purchased the CD in order for them to make a copy.
Now, I also like movies. My DVD collection is not impressive by any means, but I think piracy will be COMPLETELY different in the movie market, so long as the industry keeps in mind value-add. DVD movies can come with so many extras that you wouldn't get if you ripped just the movie. Even with an exact duplicate of the DVD, some movies contain information booklets in the DVD jacket. If you marry the purchase of the content with the need for the packaging, you will end up with less piracy (IMHO).
As a kid, I couldn't even build the damn lego item on the box the legos came in! Most of the Lego creations I made were used to test fireworks' strengths.
But, for those interested, here are some other cool Lego sites:
Unfortunately, if you receive a message from a free mailing list service such as Topica or Server.com [server.com], then the in-line text ad will trigger Spam Assassin.
You can do several things to fix this. One is to up the threshhold in Spam Assassin from 5 to a higher number. Another is to change the scoring system for your triggers. But, the best is to have procmail deal with those messages before passing the message to spamc/spamd.
Let me say that I have never been happier since installing Spam Assassin. I reset the threshhold to 8, and get maybe five spam messages a week, as opposed to the more than 100 per day!
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I have wondered when the day will come that your television will just be another Internet appliance. Same with your radio -- crystal clear over tcp/ip instead of all the interference of FM or AM. The ability then to record, redistribute, share, etc., would be great. I think they have seen the pilot with products like Tivo. People that understand it love it. Those that don't, when shown the power, love it too.
You are right. While speaking about bad design, the worst is the CD jewel case. I mean, they come out with compact discs -- awesome, but make the hinges on the jewel cases the weakest two pieces of cheap plastic known to man!
Moral: don't jack with others' resources.
Other issues:
Once installed and configured, who cares what OS is running? To say Windows is easier than Mac OS or Linux is bunk. I tried to explain to my mother yesterday how to make a backup copy of her Quickbooks data to another drive -- it took me about 15 minutes. Lord help her if she wants to do it again! With Linux, I could have remotely configured an icon or root menu option that would forever accomplish the task. Or, I could send her a command via email, she could have copy/paste to xterm window. I have a customer using xvscan for document imaging on a Linux box that runs its own Apache for retrieval. She finds the system easier to use than the Windows scanning system with a much more expensive, less-featured retrieval system. She can look up information from any Windows workstation on the network and I can perform remote maintainence.
And, Pac-Man isn't the only game like this. Look at all the "secret moves" in games. Does someone figure out you can do up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-select-start on Contra, or is that reverse engineered or leaked? Or, how you can flip-out Galaga to have FF ships. Or, how you can make a ghost Guile on Street Fighter.
Anyone?
To answer your question, how about asking a nearby college or computer company? I hit up SCO once about security (many, many years ago), and was invited to one of their "internal" security classes for under $500.
I love that series of books. I always thought that they would make one great (2.5 hour) movie. Now that special effects are both a reality and inexpensive (thanks largely to Linux and computer pricing drops), do you see a movie of this series in the near future?
I have often wondered why Linux has been ported to just about even processor under the sun. I have thought it was such a waste because that intelligence could be making Linux better for platform processors more supported. However, I have seen this as a great way to draw interest to Linux. It has become an attention getter -- I mean, who has a Microsoft Windows watch? Plus, most of the people working on these side projects are strongly focused on other Linux ventures, and these make nice breaks in their daily grind of coding. Most of all, though, it revives that hacker spirit some have lost -- make something work against all odds; learn the system in and out; and, do the impossible!
I also enjoyed the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer as well. However, I thought it would have been cooler to leave Gandalf out so those that don't know the story would still think he was dead. Can you imagine the sound of suprize in the theater when he popped up again?
I am an avid punk rock collector. Now with more than 400 compact discs in my collection, I have never bought into the idea that the Internet causes music piracy. I have more than enough bandwidth and burners to download what I want, but purchase the CD to get the liner notes and silk screened art on the compact disc itsself. Did I go buy a CD with the two "Major Tom" songs when I just wanted to hear them once? No, I downloaded them and have since deleted them, but I think the majority of rabid downloaders wouldn't buy compact discs regardless. They are the type that bug people that have purchased the CD in order for them to make a copy.
Now, I also like movies. My DVD collection is not impressive by any means, but I think piracy will be COMPLETELY different in the movie market, so long as the industry keeps in mind value-add. DVD movies can come with so many extras that you wouldn't get if you ripped just the movie. Even with an exact duplicate of the DVD, some movies contain information booklets in the DVD jacket. If you marry the purchase of the content with the need for the packaging, you will end up with less piracy (IMHO).
But, for those interested, here are some other cool Lego sites:
Stegosaurus
Lego Town
Lego City
Beethoven
Queen Amidala
Audrey Hepburn Wall
Big Clock
Alice in Wonderland
You can do several things to fix this. One is to up the threshhold in Spam Assassin from 5 to a higher number. Another is to change the scoring system for your triggers. But, the best is to have procmail deal with those messages before passing the message to spamc/spamd.
Nah, they are still waiting on Blow.