No reason it couldn't host CVS. It's just a Linux box.
It's a fairly old version of Linux but then, if you wanted the latest kernel, fastest CPU, highest performance get in and hack it system then you don't want a Cobalt. They are designed to be easy for inexperienced people to configure and run.
However, some cheapskates bought the cheapest RAQs and Qubes and tried to run the world on 16Mb of RAM.
When given enough RAM and having 32bit DMA turned on for the IDE disks, the Qube 2 (for instance) can easily saturate a 100baseT line. If anything, they could do with faster disk.
They ran exactly as I would expect a 250MHz CPU on a PCI bus and IDE drive to run.
There are loads of uses for them. Coffee mug coasters is number 1 and I've tiled my cubicle with them but I have a pal with a sideline in cheap wallclocks. I don't know where he'd be without a steady supply of CDs from AOL.
And there isn't a massive amount the spammers can do about it. I don't see a lot of spam these days, the occasional one gets through though.
Basically, every time someone spams you, they give you information about themselves. You can use this information against the spammers.
Give the spammers a bunch of nice juicy spam trap aliases to fill their mailing lists then just/dev/null anything which is addressed to the spamtrap account.
What's the fascination you Americans have with control and censorship? you just don't seem happy unless you're attempting to exert control over others.
Digital TV is here, now, in Europe. No built in copy control. Satellite, cable and broadcast digital television.
But, I guess you'll have to go invent your own standards and multiple versions of them if your mobile phone industry is anything to go by.
At the moment I can just point my Psion or laptop at my mobile phone anywhere that has a modern GSM network (Which means pretty much everywhere but America) and connect to the Internet to pick up mail/news etc.
We (Brittish subjects) have the right (for a small fee) to inspect any information about us stored on computer for veracity.
To fuck up a system like this completely all we'd have to do is demand that they show us all the information that they store about us. If a couple of hundred thousand people did this as a hobby every week, the system would collapse.
Simple.
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Sugarplum is an interesting idea but a better one is to use the spammers techniques against them. Turn their strengths into weaknesses.
A spammer looks for email addresses, and sugarplum goes some way to taking advantage of that fact by giving them crap addresses. Unfortunately it's fairly simple to check the validity of the domains and accounts.
A better solution is to give spammers valid email addresses which are aliased to a spamtrap account; This is a system account who's sole job is to receive spam. You then know that anyone who sends mail to this account is a spammer.
You now have information about who the spammers are and can use this information to block spam from real accounts.
This is all described on the
Spamido web page along with some procmail recipes which can be used to implement it.
Have a look at http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/ to see what I mean.
I mean FFS,.aero just for the travel industry? How trivially moronic. These TLD are little more than ego masturbation. They are not going to do anything to sort out the utter fucking chaos which has ensued in.com,.net and.org.
You're way, way out of date on envelope materials. Weeks to months of flight time are possible. The limiting factor airships have at the moment is carrying the fuel to stay up for long periods, which these NASA blokes seem to have solved.
Airships are also quite capable of holding station against significant winds. Even the ships of the 1930s were capable of a sustained 80mph.
You may be thinking of the goodyear blimp and other similar advertising blimps.
Anchor ropes are just a bloody stupid idea, I don't know where you got that from but modern airships are quite capable of holding station against 70mph winds. The goodyear blimp might not be able to but it's hardly state of the art in airship design.
Tiny little postage stamp sized flash cards that are used in some MP3 players and digital cameras. They can be from 8 - 64Mb. The interface to the card is a serial interface and readers are dirt cheap. Even so, they are way faster than floppy.
Sandisk (http://www.sandisk.com/) do em.
Given that this kind of technology exists and is *cheap*, why are we still using floppies?
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No reason it couldn't host CVS. It's just a Linux box.
It's a fairly old version of Linux but then, if you wanted the latest kernel, fastest CPU, highest performance get in and hack it system then you don't want a Cobalt. They are designed to be easy for inexperienced people to configure and run.
I thought SUN was based on "Stanfford University Network"?
Myth?
However, some cheapskates bought the cheapest RAQs and Qubes and tried to run the world on 16Mb of RAM.
When given enough RAM and having 32bit DMA turned on for the IDE disks, the Qube 2 (for instance) can easily saturate a 100baseT line. If anything, they could do with faster disk.
They ran exactly as I would expect a 250MHz CPU on a PCI bus and IDE drive to run.
Just because you didn't know about the backdoor doesn't mean that some cracker didn't know about it.
It's a shame really. I'd love an ATX form factor non MAC PPC motherboard.
The mailing list archives:
http://raj.phys.sfu.ca/mailarchive/ppc-mobo/
There are loads of uses for them. Coffee mug coasters is number 1 and I've tiled my cubicle with them but I have a pal with a sideline in cheap wallclocks. I don't know where he'd be without a steady supply of CDs from AOL.
Others think so too:
http://www.wanderlist.com/aolsux
http://www.networkboy.com/humor/aolcd.htm
http://www.aolwatch.org/disks.htm
And there isn't a massive amount the spammers can do about it. I don't see a lot of spam these days, the occasional one gets through though.
/dev/null anything which is addressed to the spamtrap account.
Basically, every time someone spams you, they give you information about themselves. You can use this information against the spammers.
Give the spammers a bunch of nice juicy spam trap aliases to fill their mailing lists then just
It's documented here:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
Excuse the spelling.
The difference engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
I assume at the factory but it might be the sellers that do it.
What's the fascination you Americans have with control and censorship? you just don't seem happy unless you're attempting to exert control over others.
Digital TV is here, now, in Europe. No built in copy control. Satellite, cable and broadcast digital television.
But, I guess you'll have to go invent your own standards and multiple versions of them if your mobile phone industry is anything to go by.
At the moment I can just point my Psion or laptop at my mobile phone anywhere that has a modern GSM network (Which means pretty much everywhere but America) and connect to the Internet to pick up mail/news etc.
We (Brittish subjects) have the right (for a small fee) to inspect any information about us stored on computer for veracity.
To fuck up a system like this completely all we'd have to do is demand that they show us all the information that they store about us. If a couple of hundred thousand people did this as a hobby every week, the system would collapse.
Simple.
Sugarplum is an interesting idea but a better one is to use the spammers techniques against them. Turn their strengths into weaknesses.
A spammer looks for email addresses, and sugarplum goes some way to taking advantage of that fact by giving them crap addresses. Unfortunately it's fairly simple to check the validity of the domains and accounts.
A better solution is to give spammers valid email addresses which are aliased to a spamtrap account; This is a system account who's sole job is to receive spam. You then know that anyone who sends mail to this account is a spammer.
You now have information about who the spammers are and can use this information to block spam from real accounts.
This is all described on the Spamido web page along with some procmail recipes which can be used to implement it.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/ to see what I mean.
I mean FFS, .aero just for the travel industry? How trivially moronic. These TLD are little more than ego masturbation. They are not going to do anything to sort out the utter fucking chaos which has ensued in .com, .net and .org.
The art of using a spammers strength against them:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
No need to get spam.
With a cruising speed of only 19-25mph.
So... What's the wind speed at the altitude that these things fly?
You're way, way out of date on envelope materials. Weeks to months of flight time are possible. The limiting factor airships have at the moment is carrying the fuel to stay up for long periods, which these NASA blokes seem to have solved.
Airships are also quite capable of holding station against significant winds. Even the ships of the 1930s were capable of a sustained 80mph.
You may be thinking of the goodyear blimp and other similar advertising blimps.
Anchor ropes are just a bloody stupid idea, I don't know where you got that from but modern airships are quite capable of holding station against 70mph winds. The goodyear blimp might not be able to but it's hardly state of the art in airship design.
http://www.cargolifter.com/
so weight doesn't come into it.
They've raised $5million so far.
http://www.xprize.org/
http://www.postgresql.org/
And, yes, this is flaimbait.
Tiny little postage stamp sized flash cards that are used in some MP3 players and digital cameras. They can be from 8 - 64Mb. The interface to the card is a serial interface and readers are dirt cheap. Even so, they are way faster than floppy.
Sandisk (http://www.sandisk.com/) do em.
Given that this kind of technology exists and is *cheap*, why are we still using floppies?
They're certainly better than most cars but you're only talking 50-60mpg on a 500-600cc bike.
Course 0-60 in 4 seconds doesn't give you 50mpg.