I believe NYC has the largest number of working bicycle riders in the country, messengers, delivery guys , etc. It's all just a matter of being aware and taking the lane (and blocking traffic) when you need to. Same rights and obligations as any cager on the road, apart from the obvious benefits of riding a bike as opposed to driving around.
Considering Zeus has been relegated to "Mythology", I'd like to state that I think it would be good for all students to be exposed to "Contemporary Mythology". That class would teach the fundamentals of religions in existence worldwide in much the same way the old Greek and Roman religions are taught in "Mythology" classes today. I don't see much difference between the topics of "contemporary" mythology and the so-called "classic" mythology...
My idea was to convert my standard cases into rackmounts. Not too expensive it seems. That's the cheapest 4U rack enclosure I've ever seen. Dunno if it's still a good price though.
If anyone else has any other hints, lemme know. I'm still thinking about rack mounting to save space in my apartment.
Alright. We all know that the patent office in the U.S. is downright stupid. We've seen the silly patents they give out. Apparently, other nations laugh at the patents our patent office gives out. So, I'd be happy to volunteer in any organization that wants to change the way the patent office works.
I'm tired of these stupid patents. If there's an organization that anyone knows of that wants to change the patent office's ways, I'd like to hear about it. I'd like to support in any way I can. If not, then perhaps it's time such an organization was created. These patents are absurd. The government is already shameful enough, but it's up to us to change it.
Sorry for the rant, but I'd really like to see the patent office face up to the dismal work they do. This is just plain silly that time and time again these patents are given. If the patent office doesn't understand this sort of stuff, they shouldn't be dealing with it. I'm writing my congressman now. Then, it's on to fight the way the legal systems works as well... but that's a battle for another day I guess.
While I can't quite justify spending $15k on that system (although I think it's very neat) I'm wondering where they got the rack they mount the computers in. I'm looking to reduce the clutter of computer equipment I have and I'm looking into racking most of it. I've found a source of very inexpensive rack cases for ATX motherboards (Interlogic Industries, the RKT series economy 4U chassis) but I can't find an inexpensive rack to mount it in... Smart Home looks like it has an option, but I really do dig that yellow rack and its simplicity... anyone have any ideas?
I agree. I don't seem to be firewalled at all. I've got DSL and a static IP. I enjoy the fact that I can ssh home and check my mail via my nice console.
But that's not all. I get to use my home machine to test out the work I do at work. I can check firewall rules, 'n stuff like that. It's a remote location where I can do work. That's what I need. I don't need a super pipe necessarily, but broadband is nice. I want to be able to test things from various locations.
Yet I fear the fact that ISPs may soon take it upon themselves to firewall their clients. I have my own firewall set up. I like it that way. But I know what I'm doing (I hope...) The average user doesn't have a clue. I wouldn't be surprised if ISPs were convinced to firewall their clients in the future as broadband access increases. There are some things that I just want to be able to configure myself. If I want a VPN, I want it. So long as I always have the option to control my own set up, I'm golden.
Yes, security it definitely an issue. If my parents were to get broadband, I'd set up a firewall for them. Add a proxy server maybe. They don't know enough to worry about security problems. Then again, they don't use the computer for much apart from word processing, quicken, and stuff like that. I really do wonder if ISPs will start firewalling more often. Will that become the norm? If so, what about folks like me who use their computers for more than surfing and mail?
I don't really refer to it as email (and I never wrote it "e-mail"), I just call it mail. It may not be right, but that's just how I refer to it.
For instance:
"I'll mail it over to you."
"Don't bug me, I've got to finish going through my mail."
"Look, if you didn't mail it to me, I have no record of it, so it won't get done."
The frame of reference usually gives away what kind of mail I'm reading.
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OK, now that you can get Be for free, and now QNX, has anyone seen any results from this? These aren't the only free but commercial packages out there, but what's noteworthy is they come from commercial roots. Anyone have anything quantitative on these "free" releases in regards to their market expanding? Any rush of developers or users?
You're right in that for most of us, tech support is unnecessary. I mention that the community is a far greater source of help than tech support.
IBM sells DB2 for linux, and supports it. Sybase does the same for their products. Q3 will have linux support, as well as a physical product for us. Sure, we get UT up and running on linux. We're all used to helping ourselves rather than relying on others. I've learned far more just by setting up my machine than I ever could if I relied on some company's tech support. It's also a lot of fun to tweak the system to no end.
Again though, I'd much rather see software that's developed for linux supported as well, not just unleashed. If there's a linux newbie out there who wants to get this game up and running, and they've paid for the product, they deserve the same support (as awful as it may be) a windoze user would get. They may just be learning linux, that's good for us all because that's one more linux user out there. But they may have no clue how to get the game running, and no clue where to turn.
Open source software excels in community help. That's one of the main attractions to me because there's a wealth of info out there. I also get to play with the code if I want, which satisfies my urges to play with things.:) But while we may be more typical of the average linux users, we're not the only kind.
If I were to purchase UT at full retail price, I don't get the same package as a user who's running it on windoze. Yes, I can download the linux binary. I can run it on my machine. I purchase the license to run the game. I do not, however, get the same package as someone who's running it under windoze because I don't get tech support.
Granted, the online community is a much better source for help for just about anything, and I greatly appreciate that. However, I'm not going to spend the same amount of money on UT and not get what everyone else is getting. I'd like to thank Epic for making it available for linux, that's an excellent thing. I'd like to support you in that regard, but I'd rather not allow this trend of putting out a windoze version and allowing linux users to get the short end of the stick by purchasing the retail copy but not getting the whole package (meaning tech support, even if it's much less likely to occur with linux users for the most part) continue. I believe that, while at least we get the game, we don't get the same value out of the product that others get.
Thank you Epic, for trying your best and sticking up for us. I'm just disappointed that this precedent of the "unsupported" platform continues.
Well... I haven't tried it. I'm not going to download it and replace my current ad-hoc set up of RH 6.0 + kernel 2.2.13 & all updated libraries and what-not @ home here.
Yet, I think that LinuxOne may just very well prove that if you're aiming on making a quick buck (LinuxOne wants to file for an IPO based on this, with no underwriters according to sources) on an open source product without actually committing to the open source community, you'll fail. Well, I hope that happens. From what the posts on linuxtoday state as well as from the Register's article, LinuxOne has done little or nothing apart from scratch out Red Hat's name and put in their own.
I don't dig that. I don't think the open source community digs that either. I don't think anyone will invest, and I hope that LinuxOne realizes that and either does something to benefit the community, or back out. I feel they're trying to make a marketing move, not a move to benefit the community. I'll admit, I haven't really benefitted the open source community myself all that much, I'm no hacker. Sysadmin, yes, hacker, no. Open source OSes, all the way. But at least I promote open source solutions at work to no end. While Red Hat's stuff is all open source, I don't believe it benefits the community if some company just takes those apps and re-packages them without doing anything for the community.
So, all I can hope for is that LinuxOne sets a precedent here. I hope they fail in their endeavor to make a quick buck simply because they haven't done anything for the community. I'm all for these IPOs. I'd like to see Red Hat do well. Same with the other companies like Caldera. Unfortunately, we can't survive without money, and the more people who make money doing what they love to do, the better. It doesn't have to be millions or billions, I sure as hell don't make that kind of cash, but at least I get to work in an environment I enjoy. I don't see anyting on LinuxOne's site that directly benefits the community, and I hope Wall Street and those other financial bally-wigs notice it too. If LinuxOne doesn't do something for Linux, why should they benefit from it?
sorry for the rant... too much whisky this evening...
Off topic, but good question. Until 5 months ago I was running a 75Mhz pentium with 48MB of RAM. Alright, that still may be more powerful than the machines you've got, but that machine was by no means a speedy beast... I've got a much faster comptuter now...:)
Try mixing and matching GUI components and build your own interface. If you've got the time, of course. Run a lightweight window manager, Sawmill (I forget the URL), WindowMaker, or a few others. WindowMaker has KDE hooks, I don't know about SawMill, never used it, but I hear it's excellent. Pick a good file manager, there are several lightweight ones out there. A search of "file managers" at google.com/linux presents a good start. Pick a "launcher" of sorts, like the Gnome Panel or KDE's thingy... I forget what they call it. Netscape's a hog regardless, but it will run, try getting navigator only and have a seperate email app.
It can be done. On a 75MHz pentium I had a quick desktop, but the standard Gnome and KDE just about choked on it, so I made my own. Here's a list of what I consider important in a GUI for users that pretty much just use what you throw at them:
in no particular order
File Manager (with click on file and start app)
Point and Click to apps (an obvious menu)
Web Browser (opera soon?:)
Email Client
A Desktop (like desktop icons... some people tend to have all their files on their screen... not good practice and very ugly, but they do...)
Word Processing
Spreadsheet
Other apps based on what you've got going in the cluster...
Consistency
That's a short list... by no means definitive. But if you can find a combo of these things and put them together, you can create a pretty good GUI out of these bits and pieces that may run. That's the best thing about Gnome and KDE, they let you pick and choose between the two, for the most part. No, you won't get a full-fledged GUI, but you can come pretty close.
Alright, this is kind of redundant, but I might as well say what I see. I guess that's what you get from being an anthro major turned computer fan... First thing I did after going to armed.net was go on over to What is Armed Linux". Cute girl, designer pose. Wow! If I wasn't already already a junkie I might give it a whirl.
Look at the site design. That's pretty hip, yet concise. Perhaps a bit too sparse on detail, agreed. Then again, their site is crawling right now... I haven't checked it all out yet. What I noticed was that it's very unlike most open source sites (well, apart from Raster,/. and a few others). First of all, the site looks designed for the Gap generation. A picture out of Friends almost. Or, to put it bluntly, clearly aimed at pop culture./., the lpd project, hell, RH, gnome, kde, etc. are all much more designed to keep us more typical linux/open source users happy with news, software, toys...
I find this stuff interesting, the sort of cultural differences online and to sort of see an example of the meshing of the two is an example of what might come in the next few years. People are hearing about Linux in the news. Some are curious. But most already tackled the basic learning curve of Windoze and that's all they know. Now they're promised a safe route through installation that promises not to touch windoze, and then they have a dual boot with little hassle, or so they're promised. That's what a lot of people want, something that doesn't threaten them.
So, as I see it, it's just another marketing approach to distribute a product. I don't know anything about the people behind the distro. I plan on finding some out if possible. But if they're aiming to be a consumer distro, I feel you can see where they're aiming. Not the distro for me or the servers I play with, but some people targetting a new market. RH might be doing quite well in the news and market, but they're still aiming for the more tech oriented than most users out there.
I can't wait until the next round in the drive for the consumer market. We've got Corel coming in as well now. Each with a different marketing approach. Armed seems to really be aiming for the home user, and that alone.
If you ever get over to Scotland, get yourself some cask-strength single-malt! I got 2 bottles while I was there last year and I'm down to a quarter of a bottle right now...:( Bought them over at Cadenhead's in Edinburgh, finishing up some Convalmore-Glenlivet 20 year old right now... gotta make a trip back. Anyone have any idea of how to get some of this rarer stuff online? Although the bastards in congress have some idea of limiting alcohol sales online...:( Cask-strength w/out coloring is what I'm looking for. I save mine for "special" occasions, but I'd rather not since it's so good... mmmm.... time for a drink. Booker's does me in most of the time.
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I believe NYC has the largest number of working bicycle riders in the country, messengers, delivery guys , etc. It's all just a matter of being aware and taking the lane (and blocking traffic) when you need to. Same rights and obligations as any cager on the road, apart from the obvious benefits of riding a bike as opposed to driving around.
I live 5 miles from work, and while I could take the subway (NYC), I ride instead. No hassle of going to the gym and it works right into my day.
Plenty of resources out there for commuting by bike...
A good place to start: http://www.bikewhenever.com.nyud.net:8090/
all that room dedicated to one cager, you could fit at least 7 bikes in that parking space...
Considering Zeus has been relegated to "Mythology", I'd like to state that I think it would be good for all students to be exposed to "Contemporary Mythology". That class would teach the fundamentals of religions in existence worldwide in much the same way the old Greek and Roman religions are taught in "Mythology" classes today. I don't see much difference between the topics of "contemporary" mythology and the so-called "classic" mythology...
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Cheap 4U EMPTY rack case!
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My idea was to convert my standard cases into rackmounts. Not too expensive it seems. That's the cheapest 4U rack enclosure I've ever seen. Dunno if it's still a good price though.
If anyone else has any other hints, lemme know. I'm still thinking about rack mounting to save space in my apartment.
I'm tired of these stupid patents. If there's an organization that anyone knows of that wants to change the patent office's ways, I'd like to hear about it. I'd like to support in any way I can. If not, then perhaps it's time such an organization was created. These patents are absurd. The government is already shameful enough, but it's up to us to change it.
Sorry for the rant, but I'd really like to see the patent office face up to the dismal work they do. This is just plain silly that time and time again these patents are given. If the patent office doesn't understand this sort of stuff, they shouldn't be dealing with it. I'm writing my congressman now. Then, it's on to fight the way the legal systems works as well... but that's a battle for another day I guess.
While I can't quite justify spending $15k on that system (although I think it's very neat) I'm wondering where they got the rack they mount the computers in. I'm looking to reduce the clutter of computer equipment I have and I'm looking into racking most of it. I've found a source of very inexpensive rack cases for ATX motherboards (Interlogic Industries, the RKT series economy 4U chassis) but I can't find an inexpensive rack to mount it in... Smart Home looks like it has an option, but I really do dig that yellow rack and its simplicity... anyone have any ideas?
But that's not all. I get to use my home machine to test out the work I do at work. I can check firewall rules, 'n stuff like that. It's a remote location where I can do work. That's what I need. I don't need a super pipe necessarily, but broadband is nice. I want to be able to test things from various locations.
Yet I fear the fact that ISPs may soon take it upon themselves to firewall their clients. I have my own firewall set up. I like it that way. But I know what I'm doing (I hope...) The average user doesn't have a clue. I wouldn't be surprised if ISPs were convinced to firewall their clients in the future as broadband access increases. There are some things that I just want to be able to configure myself. If I want a VPN, I want it. So long as I always have the option to control my own set up, I'm golden.
Yes, security it definitely an issue. If my parents were to get broadband, I'd set up a firewall for them. Add a proxy server maybe. They don't know enough to worry about security problems. Then again, they don't use the computer for much apart from word processing, quicken, and stuff like that. I really do wonder if ISPs will start firewalling more often. Will that become the norm? If so, what about folks like me who use their computers for more than surfing and mail?
For instance:
"I'll mail it over to you."
"Don't bug me, I've got to finish going through my mail."
"Look, if you didn't mail it to me, I have no record of it, so it won't get done."
The frame of reference usually gives away what kind of mail I'm reading.
OK, now that you can get Be for free, and now QNX, has anyone seen any results from this? These aren't the only free but commercial packages out there, but what's noteworthy is they come from commercial roots. Anyone have anything quantitative on these "free" releases in regards to their market expanding? Any rush of developers or users?
IBM sells DB2 for linux, and supports it. Sybase does the same for their products. Q3 will have linux support, as well as a physical product for us. Sure, we get UT up and running on linux. We're all used to helping ourselves rather than relying on others. I've learned far more just by setting up my machine than I ever could if I relied on some company's tech support. It's also a lot of fun to tweak the system to no end.
Again though, I'd much rather see software that's developed for linux supported as well, not just unleashed. If there's a linux newbie out there who wants to get this game up and running, and they've paid for the product, they deserve the same support (as awful as it may be) a windoze user would get. They may just be learning linux, that's good for us all because that's one more linux user out there. But they may have no clue how to get the game running, and no clue where to turn.
Open source software excels in community help. That's one of the main attractions to me because there's a wealth of info out there. I also get to play with the code if I want, which satisfies my urges to play with things. :) But while we may be more typical of the average linux users, we're not the only kind.
Granted, the online community is a much better source for help for just about anything, and I greatly appreciate that. However, I'm not going to spend the same amount of money on UT and not get what everyone else is getting. I'd like to thank Epic for making it available for linux, that's an excellent thing. I'd like to support you in that regard, but I'd rather not allow this trend of putting out a windoze version and allowing linux users to get the short end of the stick by purchasing the retail copy but not getting the whole package (meaning tech support, even if it's much less likely to occur with linux users for the most part) continue. I believe that, while at least we get the game, we don't get the same value out of the product that others get.
Thank you Epic, for trying your best and sticking up for us. I'm just disappointed that this precedent of the "unsupported" platform continues.
Yet, I think that LinuxOne may just very well prove that if you're aiming on making a quick buck (LinuxOne wants to file for an IPO based on this, with no underwriters according to sources) on an open source product without actually committing to the open source community, you'll fail. Well, I hope that happens. From what the posts on linuxtoday state as well as from the Register's article, LinuxOne has done little or nothing apart from scratch out Red Hat's name and put in their own.
I don't dig that. I don't think the open source community digs that either. I don't think anyone will invest, and I hope that LinuxOne realizes that and either does something to benefit the community, or back out. I feel they're trying to make a marketing move, not a move to benefit the community. I'll admit, I haven't really benefitted the open source community myself all that much, I'm no hacker. Sysadmin, yes, hacker, no. Open source OSes, all the way. But at least I promote open source solutions at work to no end. While Red Hat's stuff is all open source, I don't believe it benefits the community if some company just takes those apps and re-packages them without doing anything for the community.
So, all I can hope for is that LinuxOne sets a precedent here. I hope they fail in their endeavor to make a quick buck simply because they haven't done anything for the community. I'm all for these IPOs. I'd like to see Red Hat do well. Same with the other companies like Caldera. Unfortunately, we can't survive without money, and the more people who make money doing what they love to do, the better. It doesn't have to be millions or billions, I sure as hell don't make that kind of cash, but at least I get to work in an environment I enjoy. I don't see anyting on LinuxOne's site that directly benefits the community, and I hope Wall Street and those other financial bally-wigs notice it too. If LinuxOne doesn't do something for Linux, why should they benefit from it?
sorry for the rant... too much whisky this evening...
Try mixing and matching GUI components and build your own interface. If you've got the time, of course. Run a lightweight window manager, Sawmill (I forget the URL), WindowMaker, or a few others. WindowMaker has KDE hooks, I don't know about SawMill, never used it, but I hear it's excellent. Pick a good file manager, there are several lightweight ones out there. A search of "file managers" at google.com/linux presents a good start. Pick a "launcher" of sorts, like the Gnome Panel or KDE's thingy... I forget what they call it. Netscape's a hog regardless, but it will run, try getting navigator only and have a seperate email app.
It can be done. On a 75MHz pentium I had a quick desktop, but the standard Gnome and KDE just about choked on it, so I made my own. Here's a list of what I consider important in a GUI for users that pretty much just use what you throw at them:
That's a short list... by no means definitive. But if you can find a combo of these things and put them together, you can create a pretty good GUI out of these bits and pieces that may run. That's the best thing about Gnome and KDE, they let you pick and choose between the two, for the most part. No, you won't get a full-fledged GUI, but you can come pretty close.
Hope this helps a little...
Look at the site design. That's pretty hip, yet concise. Perhaps a bit too sparse on detail, agreed. Then again, their site is crawling right now... I haven't checked it all out yet. What I noticed was that it's very unlike most open source sites (well, apart from Raster, /. and a few others). First of all, the site looks designed for the Gap generation. A picture out of Friends almost. Or, to put it bluntly, clearly aimed at pop culture. /., the lpd project, hell, RH, gnome, kde, etc. are all much more designed to keep us more typical linux/open source users happy with news, software, toys...
I find this stuff interesting, the sort of cultural differences online and to sort of see an example of the meshing of the two is an example of what might come in the next few years. People are hearing about Linux in the news. Some are curious. But most already tackled the basic learning curve of Windoze and that's all they know. Now they're promised a safe route through installation that promises not to touch windoze, and then they have a dual boot with little hassle, or so they're promised. That's what a lot of people want, something that doesn't threaten them.
So, as I see it, it's just another marketing approach to distribute a product. I don't know anything about the people behind the distro. I plan on finding some out if possible. But if they're aiming to be a consumer distro, I feel you can see where they're aiming. Not the distro for me or the servers I play with, but some people targetting a new market. RH might be doing quite well in the news and market, but they're still aiming for the more tech oriented than most users out there.
I can't wait until the next round in the drive for the consumer market. We've got Corel coming in as well now. Each with a different marketing approach. Armed seems to really be aiming for the home user, and that alone.
Just a few of my ramblings...
If you ever get over to Scotland, get yourself some cask-strength single-malt! I got 2 bottles while I was there last year and I'm down to a quarter of a bottle right now... :( Bought them over at Cadenhead's in Edinburgh, finishing up some Convalmore-Glenlivet 20 year old right now... gotta make a trip back. Anyone have any idea of how to get some of this rarer stuff online? Although the bastards in congress have some idea of limiting alcohol sales online... :( Cask-strength w/out coloring is what I'm looking for. I save mine for "special" occasions, but I'd rather not since it's so good... mmmm.... time for a drink. Booker's does me in most of the time.