I get solicitations from Political groups and charities all the time where they explicitly suggest that I put a stamp on the Postage Paid envelope to give them a little extra contribution.
Why does my NetBSD Macintosh hardware (an SE/30, a Quadra 800, a IIci) not boot directly into NetBSD, even now in the year 2001? It has to boot MacOS and there's a bootloader to get NetBSD running. Because Apple still maintains the booting of Mac hardware as a closely held trade secret.
Anybody who claims that Apple has 'opened' their hardware is a very, very sick comedian.
The history of MkLinux shows that Apple was willing to throw a number of engineers at Linux in order to keep the Linux port to their hardware an 'inside operation.'
Apple has never liked anybody 'reverse engineering' their hardware. The last thing in the world they wanted in 1994 was for Mac hardware to be just another subdirectory in the Linux kernel tarball.
So they released a 'special' version of 'Linux' developed internally. Kept the hackers out of their hardware registers. Where is MkLinux today? A dead-end branch.
That's an old yippie myth. The first reference to it that I know of is out of Abbie Hoffman's book 'Steal This Book' (do you have a copy? I do. They're kinda rare, especially in libraries;)
The truth is that the Post Office will discard anything of the sort. You can put as much heavy material as possible into the envelope, but don't just tape a postcard to a brick and expect it to get delivered.
Of course, in the old days, 'building in Ethernet' meant plugging a fucking (it's on-topic on this story, right??) special dongle into the proprietary connector they put on the box. It's the reason my Quadra 800 isn't (yet) connected to the rest of my home network (it's running NetBSD). At this point in time I'll pay more for the fucking dongle than I did for the Quadra.
That sort of reminds me of the Mad magazine 'advertisement' from the 60s where they were selling surplus metal letters from Ford. The only letters available were 'E' 'D' 'S' 'E' and 'L'
Sure. But spam is usually sent from forged email addresses, and the only 'valid' tracable info in the spam is the place the spam wants you to go.
So, I send out 300,000 pieces of spam with a forged email address telling somebody to go to Red Hat's website and purchase the new Linux.
I can do this and put Red Hat out of business? Excellent!
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Danger Zone?
This is ridiculous. What is the 'danger' from spam? Yes, I know, I know, it annoys me as well.
But there's a mob mentality when it comes to this topic. I personally will, I am certain, be attacked as 'supporting spam' for even adding this comment to the discussion.
The sentiment that people should 'never reveal their identity in a newsgroup' is ridiculous. It harkens back to the BBS times I remembered. I belonged to a bunch of social BBSes. We played softball every weekend in the summer. But people would go into a panic if anybody spoke somebody else's 'real name' at the barbeque afterwards.
There's this shrill drive to remain anonymous online. It's keeping us apart.
Also worth noting, but not on the same issue- it's shocking how eager people are to adopt what seems like a very geographically-bound move by the government of Norway. Any time something viewed as bad comes from a national government, people start their ranting about 'the net respects no borders.' Why is this different?
However, the DOJ is biased. They were one of the sides in the case, for pete's sake! So why does it matter that one of the sides in the case, which clearly is biased, says that the judge was not biased?
It boggles the mind why this completely obvious point warrants a headline on Slashdot.
You're right. A cool hack would be to put a screaming fast new motherboard into an original IBM XT case. It would need a new power supply, but one can easily be rigged, since the newer supplies are always smaller than they were in those old dinosaurs. You'd be limited to a baby-AT form factor motherboard, but again there are options.
Finding a decent SVGA monitor that can be jugged into the case from an original IBM PC monochrome monitor would be the next challange. And of course, the original PC-AT 84 keyboard isn't that big of a challange anymore.
The floppy drive would have to be a compromise of some sort. I doubt if there were every any 'full height' HD 5-1/4" floppy drives, but something could be rigged so that a 3-1/2" drive fits into the center of an original full height 5-1/4" drive.
I thought O'Reilly faced a severe risk of turning into a 'vanity publisher' for the OSS movement, with their publishing of all the Raymondite rants last year, and that no-need-to-name-it crappy cartoon book they published.
Thank goodness they still publish a lot of solid tech books, though. It's a tendency to be avoided. If you know Tim O'Reilly remind him that his books are best when they're not about politics.
This product, and Sun's whole acqusition of Cobalt is their attempt to capture the bottom-end server market. It represents their effort to compete with VA Linux and Penguin Computing.
They won't run Linux on the boxes; they'll adapt Solarix x86 (fine-tuned so that it runs flawlessly, Solaris x86 in general suffers from being a product from a company that codes to their own hardware adapted to run on generic hardware). By doing so they will be able to market seamless Solaris solutions from top to bottom-end.
It doesn't bode well for Linux in the enterprise at all that Sun is doing this. In particular the 'Enhanced Screwdriver Shops' like VA are gonna be hurt.
The DVD player that I purchased specifically had a sticker on the front of it that said that it played CD-R and CD-RW media. It's a Phillips dual-laser machine.
I went out looking for exactly that, as I burn Video CDs.
Your hearing deteriorates the most if you listen to a lot of shit pop music.
I like total silence at home unless I specifically want to listen to something in particular. That means no ticking clocks allowed, either. I want to be able to hear my purring siamese from across the room.
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Nope. You're wrong.
I get solicitations from Political groups and charities all the time where they explicitly suggest that I put a stamp on the Postage Paid envelope to give them a little extra contribution.
How come nobody here will say the obvious?
You don't meet people of the female persuasion on IRC. They're all on the IM systems.
When the elephants fight, they stomp on all the other animals in the field.
Why does my NetBSD Macintosh hardware (an SE/30, a Quadra 800, a IIci) not boot directly into NetBSD, even now in the year 2001? It has to boot MacOS and there's a bootloader to get NetBSD running. Because Apple still maintains the booting of Mac hardware as a closely held trade secret.
Anybody who claims that Apple has 'opened' their hardware is a very, very sick comedian.
The history of MkLinux shows that Apple was willing to throw a number of engineers at Linux in order to keep the Linux port to their hardware an 'inside operation.'
Apple has never liked anybody 'reverse engineering' their hardware. The last thing in the world they wanted in 1994 was for Mac hardware to be just another subdirectory in the Linux kernel tarball.
So they released a 'special' version of 'Linux' developed internally. Kept the hackers out of their hardware registers. Where is MkLinux today? A dead-end branch.
That's an old yippie myth. The first reference to it that I know of is out of Abbie Hoffman's book 'Steal This Book' (do you have a copy? I do. They're kinda rare, especially in libraries ;)
The truth is that the Post Office will discard anything of the sort. You can put as much heavy material as possible into the envelope, but don't just tape a postcard to a brick and expect it to get delivered.
I think he meant typical for Southern California.
.Microsoft could automatically shut off monitors on the NT login screen and set the machine to "sleep" but they don't.
We all knew somebody would be along to blame the problem on Microsoft. It's shocking that it took this long.
Of course, in the old days, 'building in Ethernet' meant plugging a fucking (it's on-topic on this story, right??) special dongle into the proprietary connector they put on the box. It's the reason my Quadra 800 isn't (yet) connected to the rest of my home network (it's running NetBSD). At this point in time I'll pay more for the fucking dongle than I did for the Quadra.
'Only available in Strawberry and Tangerine'.
That sort of reminds me of the Mad magazine 'advertisement' from the 60s where they were selling surplus metal letters from Ford. The only letters available were 'E' 'D' 'S' 'E' and 'L'
Sure. But spam is usually sent from forged email addresses, and the only 'valid' tracable info in the spam is the place the spam wants you to go.
So, I send out 300,000 pieces of spam with a forged email address telling somebody to go to Red Hat's website and purchase the new Linux.
I can do this and put Red Hat out of business? Excellent!
Danger Zone?
This is ridiculous. What is the 'danger' from spam? Yes, I know, I know, it annoys me as well.
But there's a mob mentality when it comes to this topic. I personally will, I am certain, be attacked as 'supporting spam' for even adding this comment to the discussion.
The sentiment that people should 'never reveal their identity in a newsgroup' is ridiculous. It harkens back to the BBS times I remembered. I belonged to a bunch of social BBSes. We played softball every weekend in the summer. But people would go into a panic if anybody spoke somebody else's 'real name' at the barbeque afterwards.
There's this shrill drive to remain anonymous online. It's keeping us apart.
Also worth noting, but not on the same issue- it's shocking how eager people are to adopt what seems like a very geographically-bound move by the government of Norway. Any time something viewed as bad comes from a national government, people start their ranting about 'the net respects no borders.' Why is this different?
However, the DOJ is biased. They were one of the sides in the case, for pete's sake! So why does it matter that one of the sides in the case, which clearly is biased, says that the judge was not biased?
It boggles the mind why this completely obvious point warrants a headline on Slashdot.
Overclocking and 1GHz and state of the art cooling is about dicking around with a phillips screwdriver.
Technical superiority is (still) about wire-wrap guns, logic analyzers, benchtop flash burners, and embedded OSes running on StrongARM processors.
You're right. A cool hack would be to put a screaming fast new motherboard into an original IBM XT case. It would need a new power supply, but one can easily be rigged, since the newer supplies are always smaller than they were in those old dinosaurs. You'd be limited to a baby-AT form factor motherboard, but again there are options.
Finding a decent SVGA monitor that can be jugged into the case from an original IBM PC monochrome monitor would be the next challange. And of course, the original PC-AT 84 keyboard isn't that big of a challange anymore.
The floppy drive would have to be a compromise of some sort. I doubt if there were every any 'full height' HD 5-1/4" floppy drives, but something could be rigged so that a 3-1/2" drive fits into the center of an original full height 5-1/4" drive.
Holy fucks, what's with people around here and Athlons? They're just CPUs, it's no big deal. Get a life.
Well, Rob Malda started it out as a 'hobby site.'
Like any successful venture, all sorts of other people have climbed on aboard.
Ever been in a startup where that happens? It's cool at first, then it gets the attention of the suits and all sorts of creeps join up and run it.
You know who I mean.
I thought O'Reilly faced a severe risk of turning into a 'vanity publisher' for the OSS movement, with their publishing of all the Raymondite rants last year, and that no-need-to-name-it crappy cartoon book they published.
Thank goodness they still publish a lot of solid tech books, though. It's a tendency to be avoided. If you know Tim O'Reilly remind him that his books are best when they're not about politics.
Does AMD make a cache-rich processor equivalent to, oh, a Xeon with a 2MB cache?
Do they make anything that competes in the Xeon market? ? ?
It would have to be reliable.
In Taiwan good QA people are fired for insubordination if they raise a peep about quality issues.
'Nuff said.
And it's almost certainly a Xeon Pentium III with the extra cache. Does AMD make anything at all equivalent??
This product, and Sun's whole acqusition of Cobalt is their attempt to capture the bottom-end server market. It represents their effort to compete with VA Linux and Penguin Computing.
They won't run Linux on the boxes; they'll adapt Solarix x86 (fine-tuned so that it runs flawlessly, Solaris x86 in general suffers from being a product from a company that codes to their own hardware adapted to run on generic hardware). By doing so they will be able to market seamless Solaris solutions from top to bottom-end.
It doesn't bode well for Linux in the enterprise at all that Sun is doing this. In particular the 'Enhanced Screwdriver Shops' like VA are gonna be hurt.
Video CD only fits an hour on each disk. So you put part 1, part 2, and part 3 of your 2-1/2 hour movie in the player...
The DVD player that I purchased specifically had a sticker on the front of it that said that it played CD-R and CD-RW media. It's a Phillips dual-laser machine.
I went out looking for exactly that, as I burn Video CDs.
Your hearing deteriorates the most if you listen to a lot of shit pop music.
I like total silence at home unless I specifically want to listen to something in particular. That means no ticking clocks allowed, either. I want to be able to hear my purring siamese from across the room.