The only trick is that Time makes these books and magazines and movies and tv shows. GM makes these metal boxes with wheels, called cars. Between the two, how much goes into computer services? I don't know. But looked at that way, they are on a more level playing field with M$.
Get IBM into the mix, and you are again, undoubtedly on top of the world.
Now, if GM/AOL wanted to somehow integrate liberty-alliance-passport into their AOL or GMC Yukon... Then they'd have an edge. A big one. But I'm not sure how GM can leverage this in the automotive marketplace (sure, some of their subsidiaries can easily take advantage, but their big bucks are cars and trucks)
I've found the price differences often are only the result of who the target buyer is. (This is largely related to non-computer assistive tech that I've seen.) For example, if the state is going to buy some adaptive tech, they get charged... $1000. A private employer pays $500. A private citizen pays $200.
All the same tech. It just depends on the purchaser. My brother-in-law got a night-vision scope (for night-blindness). Cost government ~$1000. Same product retails for $250. Why the difference? I don't know. Probably the company got a long term contract a long time ago, and just never changed their prices. They might have also gone through some BS certification process or something.
Anyway, my wife likes the command line. Nothing like an 80x24 screen on a 17" monitor. And if that's not enough, I can find one of the terminal font packages and change it to around 40x20 or so.
Sorry, but I can't see where this will be a whole lot better.
Okay, yeah, we definately know that AOL will provide the IM:) But what are the odds of a patent-free, royalty free standard? Zero. Check out the faq.
To be verified to use their tech, you'll likely have to either pay an exorbitant fee to join, pay an exorbitant 'license fee', or both.
Of course, there is no problem with charging to validate against, say, an AOL server, or store information there. But can even DEVELOPMENT occur without significant costs? No.
The only selling point to this seems to be "we're not Microsoft".
(And again, could somebody please explain the advantages? Most people on the street I've spoken with don't seem interested in having anybody store their CC and other personal information. And before you mention banks and credit card companies, most people would be quite pleased if they didn't have the info either.)
Frankly, I could care less about M$, and REALLY don't care about what other people use. I need end-user apps. Cheap ones. I pay for games (because nethack doesn't cut it for me.) so that means I have Win98 at home. But why should I pay for a $1500 computer to browse the web? (My brother. Idiot.) Why pay $200-$300 for the operating system, when it doesn't do anything? Okay, maybe the web browser. But why don't Amazon, GM, IBM, etc pay for my browser/OS?
I want to program a bit. But I'm not so into it to purchase Visual C++ for $???. I occasionally type a letter or resume, but $200 for Word/WordPerfect? I don't do that much letter writing.
So I use Linux. Most of the stuff I need is out there. For games I have M$. But when games require XP? I think I'll just go buy a PS2. Or go outside and look at that bright yellow thing.
I run a Celeron 433 with 320 of RAM. Can't remember swap size. I run sshd, samba, apache, and a few other things (all with only one client). I had been using Progeny and now use Debian Potato. I run KDE 2.x Things seem fine. The only time things really bogged down was when working with a 10 MB image in gimp. (That was when I had 192 megs of ram. Things are better, but not perfect with 320). My root partition and/home are reiser./boot is ext2.
So, maybe you are having problems. Or, maybe you are more picky than I am. I DO admit that on my wife's K6/2-233 with 32MB, things are a bit slow. Slow enough that I'm thinking T-Bird, and she gets the handme down Celeron.
I used to have a BT848 tv tuner card of some sort. Worked okay, but I uninstalled it, figuring that TV is better watched on the 36" screen in the living room.
PPPOE? Simple. Roaring Penguin. I believe it is mentioned frequently in the HOW-TO's. I dl'ed it before needing it. Installed per directions. Been working for months with Verizon. (That's at work. I have Comcast at home. Had to recompile the kernel. I originally had the ethernet compiled in, which was fine with one card, but it didn't like to do two cards. Had to load as modules, it seems. Of course, if I hadn't put in a custom kernel in the first place, I wouldn't have had that problem.)
(Before flaming, please note that I seriously don't know the answer to this question)
Isn't Ximian done by Miguel de Icaza?
(Below this is trolling/flamebait/whatever)
Isn't he the guy who started Gnome because he was pissed off at the proprietary nature of KDE/QT? How do we reconcile the two? Oh, because Miguel sees proprietary as okay if Miguel gets the money?
Indoor/outdoor carpeting. It's that industrial crap that you hate so much. (The upside is that in a home environment, it will last forever). Black painted walls (matte finish. Glossy will defeat the purpose).
Try making some signs:
No children allowed without adult supervision.
No refunds.
Not responsible for lost quarters. (Hide the quarter button. Watch neighbors visit and keep dumping quarters into your fake quarter slot:)
And then print some fliers. Lots of them in the newsgroup archives and the MAME sites.
I wouldn't bother with the MAME cabs if you are REALLY going for authenticity. But if you do MAME it, I'd suggest diskless boxes with a central server (the same one that houses the MP3 jukebox).
Really, there were so damned many arcades and so many styles that you really just ought to build what YOU remember from your misspent childhood. (Except that one of my big memories is that DK had the joystick on the left. Game woulda been a helluva lot easier if it had been on the right.)
And yes, it will probably decrease the value of the house unless you can change it to a general purpose living room or to a plain garage. So if you want to change it back to a plain living room, do a nice job on the finish work. Put in lots of outlets (mandatory anyway to avoid extension cords) and put in some nice RJ jacks for your network. And if you setup a jukebox, do a nice install job on the wiring/hidden speakers. If you do that, and repaint the walls a nice offwhite (hard to do if you start with black) then you can sell it as a rec room. Include pictures of what you did with it. Maybe you'll get lucky and find a buyer who likes that or is motivated by it.
Oh, two more things: first, make sure you don't have to go through the laundry room to get to it. That's what I have, and it sucks:) Second, don't try to run 15 games on one circuit. Try to spread the load around. If your house is like most, you've got tons of slots in your breaker box. So put the games on dedicated breakers (not 1:1, but, say, 5:1 or so). And, try to split it up. You probably have 30 amp service (in the States) which gives you two hot wires and one ground. Put half of your new lines on one pole, the other half on the other pole. If you can't do this, figure out where the server will go. Then, if there is one pole with only one slot on your box, wire that to the outlet for the computer/hubs/etc. Put the games on the other unit. (I'm not sure there is a reason to do this, but unneccessary complexity is a part of any proper home improvement project)
And a final word of advice: you are the one who has to live there. Who gives a crap about resale value? As long as you don't expect to get out what you put into it, you are okay. A corollary: don't put more into it than the enjoyment you will get out of it.
Now that Northpoint et al. are gone, it seems that the expansion of the Baby Bell DSL networks is again at a snail's pace. Some people (myself) who were successfully using Northpoint for months still aren't allowed to have BellAtlantic (err, Verizon) DSL.
A radio transmitter in the range allowed with LPFM is much, much cheaper in the longrun (12 months+) than high speed connection. It also allows service to people who have dialup, or, gasp, NO internet access.
Sounds neat, but... I have no basement (nor crawlspace). So how do I get from the attic down to the first floor?
(I know, you probably aren't an expert, but I've found a dearth of information on the internet. Seriously. Everyone either has exposed walls, or a convenient basement/crawlspace or some trivial sort of need.)
I used to dl iso's over a 56k modem. Then I figured that while CheapBytes might cost a little more, I would get the CheapBytes CD at about the same time that the dl finished:)
I understand your question a little better now (just needed to be pounded in with a sledgehammer). And I'd have to say no. Absolutely not. As for CD-Rom, I don't know why they don't press them each month. Look at AOL, bulk CD's can't cost too much:) But seriously, LJ just announced a CD-ROM with every issue ever. While I'm sure much of the early stuff might be worthless, I'll probably buy it, and toss most of my dead tree versions.
Lots of people slagging your original comment (somewhat warranted. But also somewhat pointless, as almost every Ask Slashdot has a post to the same effect as yours. Ironically, I had an Ask Slashdot rejected, even though it was more involved than this.) but nobody giving you a thumbs up for apologizing (okay, some modders).
I second this. Try getting a DC or PS1. I see tons of PS1 games at $19.99 in the *Mart stores.
Only problem is that if you have kids, you'll hear "But everybody has an XBox. the PS1 is sooooo 1998."
When my kid is old enough, I'm gonna try the "Here's the source code, make your own damned game." Heck, I've still got an Apple//e. (And still have a copy of Apple Logo if the disks aren't toast. Hmm. Time to hit Google and look for Linux Logo (specifically Turtle graphics). Ooh, ooh, then hack together a physical turtle!)
Geez, what the hell XFree86 are you getting? Last I did it, I could easily fit it on a ~650 MB CD. Must be that strange character set you Brits use;) Or else the extra space to add the 'u' to words like 'color'. (And let's not mention the British travesty that is the word 'aluminium').
(All in jest. I'm hoping to make a London Brown Ale this weekend. Couldn't find a kit that wasn't an overly hopped 'Merican Brown Ale, so I had to roll my own.)
Sysadmin seems to run a Linux themed issue about once per year (other themes have been AIX, Solaris, Oracle, etc) much to the consternation of the 'true Unix' type people. To which I say: get over it.
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The only trick is that Time makes these books and magazines and movies and tv shows. GM makes these metal boxes with wheels, called cars. Between the two, how much goes into computer services? I don't know. But looked at that way, they are on a more level playing field with M$.
Get IBM into the mix, and you are again, undoubtedly on top of the world.
Now, if GM/AOL wanted to somehow integrate liberty-alliance-passport into their AOL or GMC Yukon... Then they'd have an edge. A big one. But I'm not sure how GM can leverage this in the automotive marketplace (sure, some of their subsidiaries can easily take advantage, but their big bucks are cars and trucks)
I've found the price differences often are only the result of who the target buyer is. (This is largely related to non-computer assistive tech that I've seen.) For example, if the state is going to buy some adaptive tech, they get charged... $1000. A private employer pays $500. A private citizen pays $200.
All the same tech. It just depends on the purchaser. My brother-in-law got a night-vision scope (for night-blindness). Cost government ~$1000. Same product retails for $250. Why the difference? I don't know. Probably the company got a long term contract a long time ago, and just never changed their prices. They might have also gone through some BS certification process or something.
Anyway, my wife likes the command line. Nothing like an 80x24 screen on a 17" monitor. And if that's not enough, I can find one of the terminal font packages and change it to around 40x20 or so.
Check this faq.
Sorry, but I can't see where this will be a whole lot better.
Okay, yeah, we definately know that AOL will provide the IM:) But what are the odds of a patent-free, royalty free standard? Zero. Check out the faq.
To be verified to use their tech, you'll likely have to either pay an exorbitant fee to join, pay an exorbitant 'license fee', or both.
Of course, there is no problem with charging to validate against, say, an AOL server, or store information there. But can even DEVELOPMENT occur without significant costs? No.
The only selling point to this seems to be "we're not Microsoft".
(And again, could somebody please explain the advantages? Most people on the street I've spoken with don't seem interested in having anybody store their CC and other personal information. And before you mention banks and credit card companies, most people would be quite pleased if they didn't have the info either.)
Thanks for the reply.
I would hope that at some point in time, (say when Evo 3.0 is released) that the full source of Evo 1.0 could be released, GPL.
I stand corrected. I did hear about this, and did weep.
Because GWTW didn't make any money...
Hollywood had stones, maybe, from about 1967 until 1975. The age of the director. Read a nifty book about it.
But Hollywood has rarely been about risk taking.
Haven't read any LOTR spoilers, so, what are they screwing up?
Frankly, I could care less about M$, and REALLY don't care about what other people use. I need end-user apps. Cheap ones. I pay for games (because nethack doesn't cut it for me.) so that means I have Win98 at home. But why should I pay for a $1500 computer to browse the web? (My brother. Idiot.) Why pay $200-$300 for the operating system, when it doesn't do anything? Okay, maybe the web browser. But why don't Amazon, GM, IBM, etc pay for my browser/OS?
I want to program a bit. But I'm not so into it to purchase Visual C++ for $???. I occasionally type a letter or resume, but $200 for Word/WordPerfect? I don't do that much letter writing.
So I use Linux. Most of the stuff I need is out there. For games I have M$. But when games require XP? I think I'll just go buy a PS2. Or go outside and look at that bright yellow thing.
Others have said it, but I'll add:
/home are reiser. /boot is ext2.
I run a Celeron 433 with 320 of RAM. Can't remember swap size. I run sshd, samba, apache, and a few other things (all with only one client). I had been using Progeny and now use Debian Potato. I run KDE 2.x Things seem fine. The only time things really bogged down was when working with a 10 MB image in gimp. (That was when I had 192 megs of ram. Things are better, but not perfect with 320). My root partition and
So, maybe you are having problems. Or, maybe you are more picky than I am. I DO admit that on my wife's K6/2-233 with 32MB, things are a bit slow. Slow enough that I'm thinking T-Bird, and she gets the handme down Celeron.
I used to have a BT848 tv tuner card of some sort. Worked okay, but I uninstalled it, figuring that TV is better watched on the 36" screen in the living room.
PPPOE? Simple. Roaring Penguin. I believe it is mentioned frequently in the HOW-TO's. I dl'ed it before needing it. Installed per directions. Been working for months with Verizon. (That's at work. I have Comcast at home. Had to recompile the kernel. I originally had the ethernet compiled in, which was fine with one card, but it didn't like to do two cards. Had to load as modules, it seems. Of course, if I hadn't put in a custom kernel in the first place, I wouldn't have had that problem.)
(Before flaming, please note that I seriously don't know the answer to this question)
Isn't Ximian done by Miguel de Icaza?
(Below this is trolling/flamebait/whatever)
Isn't he the guy who started Gnome because he was pissed off at the proprietary nature of KDE/QT? How do we reconcile the two? Oh, because Miguel sees proprietary as okay if Miguel gets the money?
Indoor/outdoor carpeting. It's that industrial crap that you hate so much. (The upside is that in a home environment, it will last forever). Black painted walls (matte finish. Glossy will defeat the purpose).
Try making some signs:
No children allowed without adult supervision.
No refunds.
Not responsible for lost quarters. (Hide the quarter button. Watch neighbors visit and keep dumping quarters into your fake quarter slot:)
And then print some fliers. Lots of them in the newsgroup archives and the MAME sites.
I wouldn't bother with the MAME cabs if you are REALLY going for authenticity. But if you do MAME it, I'd suggest diskless boxes with a central server (the same one that houses the MP3 jukebox).
Really, there were so damned many arcades and so many styles that you really just ought to build what YOU remember from your misspent childhood. (Except that one of my big memories is that DK had the joystick on the left. Game woulda been a helluva lot easier if it had been on the right.)
And yes, it will probably decrease the value of the house unless you can change it to a general purpose living room or to a plain garage. So if you want to change it back to a plain living room, do a nice job on the finish work. Put in lots of outlets (mandatory anyway to avoid extension cords) and put in some nice RJ jacks for your network. And if you setup a jukebox, do a nice install job on the wiring/hidden speakers. If you do that, and repaint the walls a nice offwhite (hard to do if you start with black) then you can sell it as a rec room. Include pictures of what you did with it. Maybe you'll get lucky and find a buyer who likes that or is motivated by it.
Oh, two more things: first, make sure you don't have to go through the laundry room to get to it. That's what I have, and it sucks:) Second, don't try to run 15 games on one circuit. Try to spread the load around. If your house is like most, you've got tons of slots in your breaker box. So put the games on dedicated breakers (not 1:1, but, say, 5:1 or so). And, try to split it up. You probably have 30 amp service (in the States) which gives you two hot wires and one ground. Put half of your new lines on one pole, the other half on the other pole. If you can't do this, figure out where the server will go. Then, if there is one pole with only one slot on your box, wire that to the outlet for the computer/hubs/etc. Put the games on the other unit. (I'm not sure there is a reason to do this, but unneccessary complexity is a part of any proper home improvement project)
And a final word of advice: you are the one who has to live there. Who gives a crap about resale value? As long as you don't expect to get out what you put into it, you are okay. A corollary: don't put more into it than the enjoyment you will get out of it.
Now that Northpoint et al. are gone, it seems that the expansion of the Baby Bell DSL networks is again at a snail's pace. Some people (myself) who were successfully using Northpoint for months still aren't allowed to have BellAtlantic (err, Verizon) DSL.
Thank you iComcast.
A radio transmitter in the range allowed with LPFM is much, much cheaper in the longrun (12 months+) than high speed connection. It also allows service to people who have dialup, or, gasp, NO internet access.
'It' also reared it's ugly arse in South Park this past week.
(Not only that, but the airline industry got skewered as well. Although not as much as John Travolta;)
>>Incidentally, I was a couple of minutes short of FP. :)
Yeah, and I'm only a few inches short of an 18 inch long unit. Doesn't help me score.
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear devices.
Sounds neat, but... I have no basement (nor crawlspace). So how do I get from the attic down to the first floor?
(I know, you probably aren't an expert, but I've found a dearth of information on the internet. Seriously. Everyone either has exposed walls, or a convenient basement/crawlspace or some trivial sort of need.)
Does anyone have a mirror of the GET-A-CLUE-SLASHDOT.TXT?
And I see that yet again, criticism of slashdot is modded into oblivion.
I used to dl iso's over a 56k modem. Then I figured that while CheapBytes might cost a little more, I would get the CheapBytes CD at about the same time that the dl finished:)
I understand your question a little better now (just needed to be pounded in with a sledgehammer). And I'd have to say no. Absolutely not. As for CD-Rom, I don't know why they don't press them each month. Look at AOL, bulk CD's can't cost too much:) But seriously, LJ just announced a CD-ROM with every issue ever. While I'm sure much of the early stuff might be worthless, I'll probably buy it, and toss most of my dead tree versions.
Lots of people slagging your original comment (somewhat warranted. But also somewhat pointless, as almost every Ask Slashdot has a post to the same effect as yours. Ironically, I had an Ask Slashdot rejected, even though it was more involved than this.) but nobody giving you a thumbs up for apologizing (okay, some modders).
So... Thumbs up. Takes class to apologize.
I stand corrected. (And I stand modded down. Seems not only are we not allowed to criticize Bush/Ashcroft, we are not allowed to criticize CT)
I second this. Try getting a DC or PS1. I see tons of PS1 games at $19.99 in the *Mart stores.
//e. (And still have a copy of Apple Logo if the disks aren't toast. Hmm. Time to hit Google and look for Linux Logo (specifically Turtle graphics). Ooh, ooh, then hack together a physical turtle!)
Only problem is that if you have kids, you'll hear "But everybody has an XBox. the PS1 is sooooo 1998."
When my kid is old enough, I'm gonna try the "Here's the source code, make your own damned game." Heck, I've still got an Apple
Geez, what the hell XFree86 are you getting? Last I did it, I could easily fit it on a ~650 MB CD. Must be that strange character set you Brits use;) Or else the extra space to add the 'u' to words like 'color'. (And let's not mention the British travesty that is the word 'aluminium').
(All in jest. I'm hoping to make a London Brown Ale this weekend. Couldn't find a kit that wasn't an overly hopped 'Merican Brown Ale, so I had to roll my own.)
Sysadmin seems to run a Linux themed issue about once per year (other themes have been AIX, Solaris, Oracle, etc) much to the consternation of the 'true Unix' type people. To which I say: get over it.