No where in the original article or any of the links is the number 12kW mentioned. At Slashdot, don't assume the article synopsis has anything to do with the actual content.
I would assume most modern houses could handle an additional dedicated 220V/20A circuit for the slow charge, but don't underestimate the hassle of plugging in the car every night. Ooops, forgot to plug-in last night, now I can't make it to work this morning.
Bad hardware that can be destroyed by software is apparently the "in" thing now, because the Epson 1260 scanner can be ruined by using Sane drivers below version 1.0.10.
Amazingly, I used my Epson 1260 without popping the fuse by being lucky and only scanning a few times at low-resolution. RH finally released patched drivers in the last few weeks, after I had already upgraded Sane manually a few months or so ago.
I'm using a Zyxel 645r router supplied by my local mom & pop DSL provider. Sprint provides the DSL connection but they are my internet provider. Yes they did change the default password and they even support Linux, but I'm digressing.
As the router ships from Zyxel, it has a filter disabling Telnet access from the WAN (internet). So even if you did have my router's password, you couldn't just telnet into it and get all the PPPoE data.
So did Sprint disable the filter and not change the password? That would be rather strange...
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Ok, you have a choice: a dead stick landing with a Cessna 172 or a helicopter at equal altitude. Which would you choose?
I would choose the Cessna 100% of the time. Sure, you can autorotate a heli down, but if you don't have _plenty_ of airspeed/altitude when you do it, good luck and things happen fast. At least with a regular plane, you actually have a few minutes to ponder where to land.
Not to mention if the rotor "departs the aircraft." A prop you can live without, but not a rotor.
A pilot told me once, "Practicing a autorotation is alot like practicing dying."
Look, I learned long ago that Michael was an idiot from his famous "slash the SUV tires" story. I don't need to see even more examples of his stupidity via articles like this.
Please guys, fix the article exclusion feature. What next, a Katz article? Aaaaahhh!!
Somebody mod this guy up, because he hit the nail on the head on one reason why Quake was _really_ important. Sure the 3-D engine was impressive, but the multiplayer improvements brought-on via Quakeworld were a huge revolution.
Before Quakeworld the big games at the time, like Duke Nukem, required you to join gaming services (TEN) and pay monthly fees just to play a laggy game on the internet. Then came Quakeworld: you could play a superior game with some of the best networking code around for real internet conditions (latency & dropouts) for FREE!- No monthly charges. That's right, no monthly fees because freely available Quake servers seemed to pop-up everywhere.
After Quakeworld, all the other 3D shooter companies followed suit with their own internet network server for their games, and the pay-for-play gaming services died away quickly.
For the last time, Netpliance is a internet provider, not a hardware company!
I've seen many people expressing an opinion that Netpliance should manufacture "special" I-Openers for thin X-Window clients, etc. and tap into an emerging market. The problem is that Netpliance doesn't manufactuer the Iopener, and is losing money from every hardware sale.
What they really want to sell is the internet service; the hardware is purely secondary. I believe Quanta is the sub-contractor for the Iopener, these are the people you should approach for hardware.
The reason I would never advocate Linux for commericial games is that it makes a horrible platform for such software. It has nothing to do with elitism, it's just that Linux isn't the right tool for the job, at least not now. Let's look at the problems:
Poor binary life time: Commercial games are always distributed as binaries and binaries seem to find a Linux system a hostile enviroment. If you don't have the source of the game to recompile, you usually have to pull some tricks to make the binary use old and outdated libraries. The best example is Quake: I had a devil of a time getting it working in RH6.0 and people with newer 3-D accelerators couldn't use the binary at all. When the source was released, UQuake compiled easily and works well. You really need the source for the game or the game's producer has to regularly release updated binaries.
Basic graphic and sound subsystems not available: Linux is a multi-user system with security. Many games need unusual access to the computer resources, which is against-the-grain of the security system. While various libaries and sub-systems are being devised to give the games the access they need without jeopardizing the rest of the system (like the naughty svga.lib does), they are still in their infancy.
No market: The Windows game market itself is a small subsection of the console market. A bad selling Playstation game would be a block-buster hit in the computer market. Game producers now release Linux clients because it's either the right thing to do or they get valuable insight on how to make cross-platform games so they are able to bust into the lucrative console market.
My advice to the Linux gamer is to purchase a nice console for the newest games and for their computer gaming enjoy the current selection of native open-source software like FreeCiv, QuakeForge, MAME and many other smaller projects.
Hey, luckily for you, there already exists an OS that is exactly what you want: Win 98 by Microsoft. Why reinvent the wheel?
Heresy you say? Well, lets look at your points.
Installation: Win98 is pre-installed on >90% of all new computers so that's no problem. If the user is brave enough, I've found it will install with little user interaction in about 1.5 hrs or so.
Hardware Support: Companies must provide drivers for Win98 or their products (consumer stuff) won't be used.
Unix Model problems: Don't worry, be happy. No UN*X model here.
GNU: No GNU stuff (on OS CD) either.
GUI intergration: GUI! Hell, even the web browser is tightly intergrated with the OS. Perfect!:)
GUI slickness: Well, as customizable and slick a GUI may start, I've found that most users will make a good mess out of it in short order. For instance, many people love dragging tons of shortcuts onto the desktop, making it a imperceptible tangle of icons. Most users consider customizing the OS changing the screen saver or desktop image. Anything beyond that is voodoo magic and scary.
It must work: Everything is installed and working from the retailer.
Now, answer a question for me, WHY must Linux run on a every single desktop on the earth? Is this important? Some people seem to think that for Linux to survive an idiot-proof, warm and cozy version of the system must be assembled for "the masses." This way, Linux can achieve total world domination.
Now, I'm not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV. But after using Linux on my 2nd computer for year, I've come to some conclusions. The thing that makes Linux great (for me) is the open source ideals and the community the springs from around that. This is why I hang around, but the people you want to target with your magic-OS couldn't give a rats-ass about these ideals or the community. They just want appliance that works, and a close-source binary system would work well here.
In closing, there is no one-size-fits-all computer, for all users are different. And Linux isn't the be-all end-all of OSes and doesn't seem to try to be, but maybe the community behind is something neat.
>It's trivial to block the ports by default with >tcp_wrappers in the install script, so only
Gee, name a distro that does this NOW. All of them leave everything wide open. Even with this lousy security setup, you still see users requesting to disable what little security is available: ie. telnet into box root, etc.
Again, what happens if the box breaks? Reinstall? How is this better than Windows? If Helga only surfs on the web for 1/2 hr, I'm sure the stability differences between Win95/98 and Linux is moot, as well. Why bother with Linux?
I still state that only a computer-savy operator can keep a Linux box up and running and make the experience worth while.
Yeah, but what will Aunt Helga do when she realizes that after a few weeks of usage her cracked Linux box is also a p0rn and warez server? Do you think she could setup a decent firewall script? What happens when she needs to update packages for security/stability reasons?
Everyone harps over installation issues, but the real bugger for the non-techy is ADMIN issues. If you can't properly admin your Linux box, you are asking for BIG trouble.
I was talking to a non-techy guy at work who just bought his first computer (Win) a few months ago. I asked him how much hard drive space he had left. Not only didn't he know, he didn't know what a hard drive was! Most Slashdotters, who have been using computers for most of their lives, forget what it was like at the beginning.
Win95/98 is a much better system for a person like this. If Linux was made usuable for such a person, the system would have many of the same flaws that the Winboxes now suffer with.
Re:Problems I've had with RH 6 (mostly gnome relat
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Problem #1 with the window manager was fudged through by playing with the selection input. Apparently, the display bar gets stuck on the wrong item.
I don't know about Problem #2. The/dev/dsp locks of your problem #3 are probably from the esd demon. It's a feature. Look in/usr/doc/esound-0.2.12 for more information. Also look in/etc/security/console.apps becuase most people haven't bothered to figure-out how console access works.
Problem #4. Sometimes I get a few core files from Gnome. Running "file core" says it's from the Gnome Pager. Probably the new rpms for Gnome will fix this problem.
I don't have problem #5, but I don't usually use init 5. Problem #6, jeesh, bitch and moan. Yes, ispell is rather standard. Wow, the dict uses a whopping 404k. Well, I installed everything and just used rpm -e to remove packages I don't want. Very simple. That rpm program sure is slick, and those evil businessman at RH even GPL'ed it.
Other people's bitchins:
The Redhat FTP servers have been funky/crashing all week. They are working on it.
The kernel shipped with 6.0 has a setting that makes the SMB protocol work correctly with Win95 clients, but screws-up Win98 & NT clients. Either recompile or grab the new rpm which I THINK has the kernel setting set for Win98/NT.
I'm not even going to go into the price thing, if you are stingy but too stupid to realize how to get RH 6.0 for a couple bucks, then so be it.
Wow, I've been using RH6.0 for two weeks and I'm having a great time. It's my first real Linux install as well. Maybe because I bothered to RTFM things are going easy?
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And the crowd rightfully booed. News for Nerds? Not... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/robot-throw-first-pitch-phillies_n_851732.html
No where in the original article or any of the links is the number 12kW mentioned. At Slashdot, don't assume the article synopsis has anything to do with the actual content. I would assume most modern houses could handle an additional dedicated 220V/20A circuit for the slow charge, but don't underestimate the hassle of plugging in the car every night. Ooops, forgot to plug-in last night, now I can't make it to work this morning.
I remember having a genuine Commodore mouse for my old C64. Used it for GEOS.
How 'bout this:
1. LOAD "EVIDENCE"
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
wtf?
Bad hardware that can be destroyed by software is apparently the "in" thing now, because the Epson 1260 scanner can be ruined by using Sane drivers below version 1.0.10.
Linky: Sane Epson 1260 sectionAmazingly, I used my Epson 1260 without popping the fuse by being lucky and only scanning a few times at low-resolution. RH finally released patched drivers in the last few weeks, after I had already upgraded Sane manually a few months or so ago.
This is something Linux has always needed: A theme song!
Thank god for Lindows. SCO will crap their pants now, where's their theme song?
Hey, it's even catchier than the Hampster dance. Rock-on, dude!
I'm using a Zyxel 645r router supplied by my local mom & pop DSL provider. Sprint provides the DSL connection but they are my internet provider. Yes they did change the default password and they even support Linux, but I'm digressing.
As the router ships from Zyxel, it has a filter disabling Telnet access from the WAN (internet). So even if you did have my router's password, you couldn't just telnet into it and get all the PPPoE data.
So did Sprint disable the filter and not change the password? That would be rather strange...
Ok, you have a choice: a dead stick landing with a Cessna 172 or a helicopter at equal altitude. Which would you choose?
I would choose the Cessna 100% of the time. Sure, you can autorotate a heli down, but if you don't have _plenty_ of airspeed/altitude when you do it, good luck and things happen fast. At least with a regular plane, you actually have a few minutes to ponder where to land.
Not to mention if the rotor "departs the aircraft." A prop you can live without, but not a rotor.
A pilot told me once, "Practicing a autorotation is alot like practicing dying."
Look, I learned long ago that Michael was an idiot from his famous "slash the SUV tires" story. I don't need to see even more examples of his stupidity via articles like this.
Please guys, fix the article exclusion feature. What next, a Katz article? Aaaaahhh!!
Somebody mod this guy up, because he hit the nail on the head on one reason why Quake was _really_ important. Sure the 3-D engine was impressive, but the multiplayer improvements brought-on via Quakeworld were a huge revolution.
Before Quakeworld the big games at the time, like Duke Nukem, required you to join gaming services (TEN) and pay monthly fees just to play a laggy game on the internet. Then came Quakeworld: you could play a superior game with some of the best networking code around for real internet conditions (latency & dropouts) for FREE!- No monthly charges. That's right, no monthly fees because freely available Quake servers seemed to pop-up everywhere.
After Quakeworld, all the other 3D shooter companies followed suit with their own internet network server for their games, and the pay-for-play gaming services died away quickly.
Hmmm, and think how many Voodoo cards Quake sold!
For the last time, Netpliance is a internet provider, not a hardware company!
I've seen many people expressing an opinion that Netpliance should manufacture "special" I-Openers for thin X-Window clients, etc. and tap into an emerging market. The problem is that Netpliance doesn't manufactuer the Iopener, and is losing money from every hardware sale.
What they really want to sell is the internet service; the hardware is purely secondary. I believe Quanta is the sub-contractor for the Iopener, these are the people you should approach for hardware.
The reason I would never advocate Linux for commericial games is that it makes a horrible platform for such software. It has nothing to do with elitism, it's just that Linux isn't the right tool for the job, at least not now. Let's look at the problems:
My advice to the Linux gamer is to purchase a nice console for the newest games and for their computer gaming enjoy the current selection of native open-source software like FreeCiv, QuakeForge, MAME and many other smaller projects.
Hey, luckily for you, there already exists an OS that is exactly what you want: Win 98 by Microsoft. Why reinvent the wheel?
Heresy you say? Well, lets look at your points.
Now, answer a question for me, WHY must Linux run on a every single desktop on the earth? Is this important? Some people seem to think that for Linux to survive an idiot-proof, warm and cozy version of the system must be assembled for "the masses." This way, Linux can achieve total world domination.
Now, I'm not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV. But after using Linux on my 2nd computer for year, I've come to some conclusions. The thing that makes Linux great (for me) is the open source ideals and the community the springs from around that. This is why I hang around, but the people you want to target with your magic-OS couldn't give a rats-ass about these ideals or the community. They just want appliance that works, and a close-source binary system would work well here.
In closing, there is no one-size-fits-all computer, for all users are different. And Linux isn't the be-all end-all of OSes and doesn't seem to try to be, but maybe the community behind is something neat.
>It's trivial to block the ports by default with >tcp_wrappers in the install script, so only
Gee, name a distro that does this NOW. All of them leave everything wide open. Even with this lousy security setup, you still see users requesting to disable what little security is available: ie. telnet into box root, etc.
Again, what happens if the box breaks? Reinstall? How is this better than Windows? If Helga only surfs on the web for 1/2 hr, I'm sure the stability differences between Win95/98 and Linux is moot, as well. Why bother with Linux?
I still state that only a computer-savy operator can keep a Linux box up and running and make the experience worth while.
Yeah, but what will Aunt Helga do when she realizes that after a few weeks of usage her cracked Linux box is also a p0rn and warez server? Do you think she could setup a decent firewall script? What happens when she needs to update packages for security/stability reasons?
Everyone harps over installation issues, but the real bugger for the non-techy is ADMIN issues. If you can't properly admin your Linux box, you are asking for BIG trouble.
I was talking to a non-techy guy at work who just bought his first computer (Win) a few months ago. I asked him how much hard drive space he had left. Not only didn't he know, he didn't know what a hard drive was! Most Slashdotters, who have been using computers for most of their lives, forget what it was like at the beginning.
Win95/98 is a much better system for a person like this. If Linux was made usuable for such a person, the system would have many of the same flaws that the Winboxes now suffer with.
Problem #1 with the window manager was fudged through by playing with the selection input. Apparently, the display bar gets stuck on the wrong item.
/dev/dsp locks of your problem #3 are probably from the esd demon. It's a feature. Look in /usr/doc/esound-0.2.12 for more information. Also look in /etc/security/console.apps becuase most people haven't bothered to figure-out how console access works.
I don't know about Problem #2. The
Problem #4. Sometimes I get a few core files from Gnome. Running "file core" says it's from the Gnome Pager. Probably the new rpms for Gnome will fix this problem.
I don't have problem #5, but I don't usually use init 5. Problem #6, jeesh, bitch and moan. Yes, ispell is rather standard. Wow, the dict uses a whopping 404k. Well, I installed everything and just used rpm -e to remove packages I don't want. Very simple. That rpm program sure is slick, and those evil businessman at RH even GPL'ed it.
Other people's bitchins:
The Redhat FTP servers have been funky/crashing all week. They are working on it.
The kernel shipped with 6.0 has a setting that makes the SMB protocol work correctly with Win95 clients, but screws-up Win98 & NT clients. Either recompile or grab the new rpm which I THINK has the kernel setting set for Win98/NT.
I'm not even going to go into the price thing, if you are stingy but too stupid to realize how to get RH 6.0 for a couple bucks, then so be it.
Wow, I've been using RH6.0 for two weeks and I'm having a great time. It's my first real Linux install as well. Maybe because I bothered to RTFM things are going easy?