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  1. Small Linuxes on Compaq Itsy Usability movies · · Score: 1

    On my way to looking up other things, I noticed LEM, an 8MB Linux with X Windows. Of course, the Linux Router Project seems to be the most active single-floppy Linux project -- and a new release is scheduled for today. Once you reach one of those sites you'll find links to other sites, although most do not include X Windows.

  2. Rememberance Agent on Tiny PC: The Matchbox Web Server's Revenge · · Score: 1

    This Augmented Memory page is sitting right there on the MIT Wearables page.

  3. Re:Authentication... on Solutions for Linux Desktops using NT Proxy? · · Score: 1
    (Gee, if you click on Support on the MS home page you get a warning that the content has moved. I guess they need more Web developers...)

    It sounds as if you're referring to "NT Challenge/Response authentication", which is the default. Apparently there's some proprietary messaging with IE. There are MS KB articles about it: Q245237 - "Configuration to Enable the Netscape Browser to Function Properly in a Proxy 2.0-Based Environment", although the proper choices in the IIS configuration menus is not obvious. There are other KB articles, but this seems the most helpful.

  4. Re:Good comparison on Google's 4000 Node Linux Cluster · · Score: 1

    If you read the instructions, Google tells you that you put phrases in quotation marks. Or maybe you should use Metacrawler, as it has a "phrase" button.

  5. Re:Good comparison on Google's 4000 Node Linux Cluster · · Score: 1
    You're requesting bloated replies?

    Any OS can get bloated, it's just a matter of what you consider excessive software. There's no question that the 300 little tools that come with Unix systems are useful for scripting, but to someone that only wants to run a web browser they're bloat. However, Unix is modular enough that you can run without many pieces -- it's the monolithic systems where bloat becomes really painful.

  6. Re:Wow on Google's 4000 Node Linux Cluster · · Score: 1

    There's no indication in those that Google is using Beowulf technology. Beowulf is only one way to cluster, although the others don't generally have such an enchanting name.

  7. Unix Family Tree on Books on Operating Systems History? · · Score: 3

    Here's the Unix Family Tree. Predates Linux...although I've seen versions with Linux included, I seem to have neglected to bookmark one.

  8. Re:A command line interface would be almost necess on Compaq Itsy Usability movies · · Score: 1

    Well, go and try it. I had a 20 MB disk in a handheld several years ago and had to leave MS-Win3.1 in it. I think Linux and Tiny X was 12MB when I got done...too bad the vendor kept the network interface proprietary.

  9. Re: Then vs Than on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, the AC had Than/Then right. But in the same sentence he omitted an apostrophe and added a comma -- the comma is wrong unless "then" is used. And I'll let you find the other errors. [And if you could see the Subject of my comment you'd know that I knew what I was doing...]

  10. Re:Huh? on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1

    "The main part of the pulse exits the far side of the chamber even before the main part of the pulse enters the near side.."
    Obviously, the next experiment is to send only the leading edge of the pulse and not the main part, and see if the main part of the pulse still exits the far side of the chamber...

  11. Re:Faster than light rod on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1
    Well, won't the space which the rod occupies drag backwards, so even if you move your end of the rod enough to move the other end at near c the rod will be curved relative to flat space? Assuming you have that much energy available, of course...you'll still only cause a wriggle on the rod, albeit a frame dragged ripple.

    Besides, you'll just tear anything physical apart. Grab a neutron star and spin it out to a 186,000 mile rod/disk and it should just tear apart in a rather impressive display. Good thing neutron stars don't get that large...

  12. Re:But... on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1
    Or perhaps "...tachyons are travelling through time at an imaginary rate... when that might mean no one has figured out yet."

    Maybe tachyons cause anyone who did figure it out to forget that they figured it out, or to never have figured it out. The Shrodinger's Cat of temporal anticausation..."This factor is not solved until someone solves it, which causes it to not be solved."

  13. on Pushing Microwaves Faster Than Light · · Score: 1
    P.P.S It's better to let people think that you are stupid, THEN to open your mouth and prove them correct.

    Well, I'll let you do that, then. :-)

  14. Old Hat on Tiny PC: The Matchbox Web Server's Revenge · · Score: 1

    Gee, someone needs to actually click on the links and go read some Wearable Computing history links. He's nattering about the Rememberance Agent and other old hat wearable ideas.

  15. Re:Just need a second Ethernet port ... on Tiny PC: The Matchbox Web Server's Revenge · · Score: 1
    No problem. A web search for JUMPtec finds several dealers, and lists of assorted cards. There are various adapters, so you can add Ethernet to the basic cards...unless this particular configuration doesn't have the expansion points which JUMPtec's cards have.

    But if you just want a small machine, you can use the existing hardware -- it merely won't be quite as tiny as this one.

  16. Pill-sized camera on Tiny PC: The Matchbox Web Server's Revenge · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want to serve from your colon, start with the pill-sized camera with a transmitter.

  17. Awww... on Tiny PC: The Matchbox Web Server's Revenge · · Score: 2

    And it's small enough that you can Tiqit with you.

  18. ITAR? on Development of OS Satellite Image Processing/Mapping · · Score: 1

    But is this "satellite-related data" which requires an ITAR license for export?

  19. Re:There's a simpler solution with less fuss on Portable Desktop Computer Case HOWTO · · Score: 1
    Many desktop cases have thin metal and the few screws are not enough to deal with the distortion and bouncing of being carried with a handle.

    If you do a Metacrawler search for portable computer cases (or lunchbox computer) you'll find an assortment of industrial portable computer cases. And there are at least two ads in recent Computer Shopper also.

  20. Re:A new precedent for Jury Selection? on Melbourne Trial Aborted Due To Crime Web Site · · Score: 1
    The pool of prospective jurors is every adult living in the court's jurisdiction (often a county), with a few exceptions. It's generally not practical to send court officials to random homes, so sources such as voter registration or driver license information tend to be used.

    Yes, some potential jurors can be dismissed. As you said, lawyers often get a certain number of dismissals without reason. They also can request dismissal of anyone for whom they have a reason (such as a friend of the accused, or being David "Everyone Accused Is Guilty" Letterman).

  21. Re:Can the URLs themselves be prohibited? on Interview with DeCSS Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Oops, you're right. I lost track because on that mouse it's CTRL-FRONT button.

  22. Re:Piracy... here we go again on Interview with DeCSS Lawyer · · Score: 1
    Excuse me, but I was around when software theft began. It seemed to me that it was the thieves themselves who adopted the term "pirate".

    But they adopted it from the image of the dashing, daring, and good-hearted pirates being portrayed on TV at the time in pirate and swashbuckling movies.

    Basically, it's a reference to Hollywood pirates, not real pirates.

  23. Re:Code Is Free Speech Aregument Will Not Work... on Interview with DeCSS Lawyer · · Score: 1
    It may not be illegal to speak in a theatre, but that depends upon the laws in your area. Your welfare also may depend upon what the star of the opera is holding while you speak.

    (As we have worldwide readership, I'll clarify that I am referring to a telephone commercial which features an operatic diva hurling her spear at, and impaling, the cell phone which some dolt is using during the opera.)

  24. Bomb laws on Interview with DeCSS Lawyer · · Score: 1
    Well, that's because an unexploded bomb is sliding around on the well-accepted "public nuisance" slippery slope. If you build a hole in a sidewalk or street and don't keep people away well enough then you also end up in court.

    On the other hand, if you haul a bomb to the middle of a stadium, wrap it around a cardboard box, crawl into the box, detonate it, and stand up and wave to the crowd then you're not likely to have any trouble in court -- if you followed appropriate procedures for that jurisdiction.

    There are bombs, and then there are bombs...

  25. Re:Can the URLs themselves be prohibited? on Interview with DeCSS Lawyer · · Score: 1
    How about a text terminal screen which detects links?

    Today, if you have a Gnome Terminal screen you can "cat" a file with a link in it. The text then is just being displayed on the screen, so no program other than Gnome Terminal is involved.

    Move your pointer over a URL (http://wilcoxon.org/) and notice the pointer changes from an arrow to a pointing hand, and the URL is underlined. Hold down the CTRL key and push the right mouse button -- and you'll see that menu has an option to open the URL in a browser.

    So already you can chase a URL which is not in HTML, merely in a text file.