Yeah my PII450 SMP machine blows fire out the back
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I imagine these beasties must be pretty awesome heating units. Well, at least you are giving a good hard fscking to the Third Law of Thermodynamics. For an electric heater, you get one hell of a lot of free processor cycles:-)
I'm sorry, but a kernel is not an OS. The Linux kernel, while it is an awesome piece of work, it still is nowhere even close to being an operating system. Debian is an OS. Whether it boots via the Linux kernel, FreeBSD, or Hurd, it is still Debian and it is the OS.
Yes, the kernel is very important, but it is not the OS. GNU is the OS that makes it all happen. Give RMS his credit, because he convinced a lot of people to work on the everyday utilities which are the backbone of an operating system. Not everybody can be a Linus, but anyone can help port a simple little utility program. Thats what RMS did and thats why GNU is an OS but Linux is not.
Yeah, my old 32Mb GeForce2MX is still going strong. No need to upgrade it anytime soon. Any GeForce2 or better is plenty of graphics card for most games.
I really wouldn't consider Debian to be "untimely" because it doesn't rely on constant updates to fix pesky bugs that trouble you. A Debian stable release is a rock-solid foundation for a computer system. Take my old Compaq Contura 425/c laptop which runs Debian 2.0, everything on it works very nicely, and though it is a somewhat old system, it doesn't crash and it "just works."
I rather doubt that I will ever upgrade it. When it was new, Debian 2.0 was the current stable system and it supported the hardware and video nicely. Since then the bar has been raised and I doubt that it would perform well running Woody, and I know that Compaq AVGA video support has been dropped from XFree86-4. So what I have is an old laptop running an old stable Debian which is frankly just fine!
Of course I'm one of those "Experts" so I really don't care when this thing ever comes to fruition. Yes it would be nice to welcome a gaggle of newbies to Debian, but then again, having them cut their Linux teeth on something like Mandrake or SuSE isn't necessarily such a bad thing. I personally do take some time to answer the occasional newbie question on selected Debian mailing lists, but I really have a lot of better things to do. I adamantly refuse to ever help anybody with Windows if I can possibly avoid it, but I genuinely enjoy helping Debian gnubies.
Actually, if you want a painless Debian install, get Libranet Linux, install that, then apt-get Debianize it. It will be very close to a pure Debian system.
Yeah. You do have a good question. For me, I have just always used it. It has existed since around 1993 when I first installed it, it was always a free download of some boot disk images or nowadays some cdrom iso's, and it just works well.
Debian is a coherently put-together system that tries its best to conform with the IEEE POSIX specification for a well-engineered operating system. You won't find a bunch of weird directories with distro specific things scattered willy-nilly all over your file system. If you attempt to compile a tarball, chances are that everything will be exactly where it is expected to be.
Debian is kind of like the NetBSD of the Linux world. It's code is extremely well audited which allows it to compile on a very large number of architectures. I run it on my HP9000, my Netwinder, and my Tyan Thunder, and aside from performance differences and a slightly lesser number of working packages on the non-X86 machines, it is for all intents and purposes the exact same system and is transparent to the user. When you boot it up it looks and behaves like Debian and everything is just where you would expect it to be. I like not having to run HP-UX on the C200, RedHat on the Winder, and Mandrake on the X86. Its all Debian and it all works together great on my LAN.
I suppose a lot of people don't care about POSIX compliance, or a very tight adherence to the GNU defaults, or how well the C-Compiler works, or the elegant filesystem structure, or the System-V style init system, or anything other than how easy it is to install. For me I love it, its more like Unix than Unix ever was, which is all I ever really wanted anyways. I expect to unpack a tarball, run./configure and make and it better dang either build cleanly or at most require a minimal amount of editing. Debian is primo for building GNU sources.
Ease of installation, what FUD. Its a hobbyist's system. You should expect to spend a bit of time messing with it. You might even learn something for your troubles. I hate to say it, but if you are afraid to take the time for a few install iterations to build the ultimate system then you really have no business running any version of Linux. Stick with whatever version of Windows came on your Dell, "Dude" and come back to Slashdot when you have a few more years of computer experience under your belt.
You could probably group Linux people into "Those who use Debian" and "Everybody Else". I really doubt any Debian user would seriously consider switching to another distro, except maybe try Gentoo, Sorcerer, or Linux from Scratch for some kicks. It is actually quite fun and rewarding to compile your own kernels and programs. Debian gives you a huge bulk of precompiled mundane stuff, and a world-class development system to compile whatever other things you want to install into/usr/local, like maybe QuakeForge, or BRL-CAD, or who knows what.
And lastly, don't forget Hurd. If you want to try the pure GNU os, Debian is your only real choice right now. Its weird, its buggy, and definately doesn't have a Linux kernel. It's also a lot of fun for such an exotic os that it is.
Hrmm. I've noticed a steady decrease in development tools for Windows over the years. IMHO the operating system should include a compiler of some type, for Windows, a Visual Basic compiler would be appropriate.
A computer is supposed to be a moldable tool which you can suit to your purposes without a lot of effort. I'm sorry but I too often run into the scenario of "can't you do that in Excel?"
Yes I can do that in frigging Excel and I can do it a hundred other ways too. Maybe I don't wan't to do it in Excel.
Know what I mean??
Linux and GNU software is surely the coolest, but I'm not going to get my company to switch to Linux ever. I simply don't have the pull as an engineer, and all I can do is click away in Windows 2000 and wish for better days. My IT department is a bunch of AS/400 programmers who barely understand Windows at all, yet they have all the power and authority on the subject. I can talk about how great Linux is and I get this blank look like some internal neurons have snapped shut and they are in total overload mode.
They are screwed. I don't see why Balmer is so vehemently against Linux, they have the businesses sewn up so tight. The average schmuck isn't going to make them rich its the corporations and I wish they would quit intruding on my private life with FUD campaigns and such.
It would easily cost me over a quarter of a million dollars to duplicate the functionality of my home Debian system using Microsoft and other proprietary software. Who in the fsck do they think they are fooling by claiming that they are the better solution? I feel much enriched by using Linux and it has made a big improvement on my quality and standard of life.
Why would you want to move to the US when you already live in Canada?
And I have no clue as to how your country's college education financial aid system works, but in the US, I now pay in excess of $500 a month against my student loans which I took out to get myself a mechanical engineering degree.
Griping about wasted tax dollars... wow what a novel idea. Here in the US its more like extortion. If you don't pay you go to jail, and the only recipients of tax dollars are inept government employees who run stupid government programs so restrictive that nobody qualifies, leaving them with nothing to do except sit in their office, collect a fat salary, and tell you that you don't qualify. (Like you would be applying for whatever it is if you didn't need it.)
At least the Armed Forces suck up a lot of cash and actually do something. Knowing I'm helping staff the baddest army in the world helps make paying my taxes more bearable.
Yeah, there was a lot of ethnic variety the last time I went to Toronto, but I had a great time (at the Debian Conference). Canada is just a pretty neat country. Kind of cold, but hey I live in Pennsylvania and and anyplace thats an hour drive away isn't that much colder.
I've considered moving to Canada myself, on those rare occasions when I get fed up with current events in the US. Overall its quite a nice country. The traffic is totally insane though. I think you guys need to add a few more QEW's and 401's around Toronto. That stop-and-go traffic on an eight lane 100kph highway is ridiculous.
Tell you what though, those immigrants have made a big improvement in their lives by moving to Canada. It is more "international" in flavor than the US and they can fit in better, and Canada has all the commercial infrastructure just like the US does and plenty of frontier land, depending on your cold tolerance:-)
Heat isn't exactly a force...
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But there really is no negative heat. You can have less heat or less gravity, but once you are at zero thats about it as far as anybody knows.
Mass, at least is equivalent to inductance, so gravity can cause an object to oscillate. Heat doesn't even have that. Heat will flow from warmer to cooler places, but thats about it.
Yeah, don't forget the oil change on a helicopter
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If you run your car out of oil you just cruise to a stop and call a towtruck with your cell phone. Its a little more extreme when your helicopter engine seizes up.
1. Get a welding torch and fill up a baggie with oxygen and acetylene. Tie it shut.
2. Make a trail of gasoline out to the middle of the parking lot with nothing around.
3. Set the baggie there. Go to the other end and light the gas trail.
Great for lots of laughs, but this is a pretty serious prank and is very likely to bring police, fire trucks, and lots of unwanted attention. It creates a humongous explosion which is ridiculously loud. I've only heard about this one, never seen it in real life.
Yes, I was a menace to society with my reprehensible spray painting of a federal building. Oh the stupid things we do when we are young...
It really did seem to knock some sense into my damn fool head though. I emerged a hard-working responsible person that thinks about what he does before he does something now. Yes it sucks to lose a chunk of your life, but when you are done you will have a new respect for your freedom for sure.
It won't kill you. Read a lot of books. You will probably eventually be given some kind of job at an army base or something after they see that you are not a total shithead.
Sucks to be you right now, but theres a lot of other people in a lot worse shit than you, so just do the time, and by gosh stick with Linux next time:-)
Who cares. I bought mine new to help drive the effort, but I have two Netwinders which didn't make the cut, it doesn't mean that they aren't great. Netwinder#1 is my router/firewall/webserver for my home LAN on the cable modem. If you click my gyrodynamic link you get the Netwinder which runs 24/7 using Debian Woody and Apache using a meager 18W of power! It failed in the mass-market but I love it! Netwinder#2 is fully upgraded to Debian Woody, boxed, and ready for Ebay!
Yeah I'd like to see Zaurus become a commercial success, but after dealing with my superiors at work, and showing it to them, I actually tell them to get an iPaq. If you dont already want a Zaurus then you really aren't its intended audience. For me it was a no-brainer:
Linux based SA1110 PDA gizmo
Some other "easy to use" thing
Since I've been running Debian for about 10 years, the Zaurus held no fears for me, but there are a whole lot of extremely stupid business people out there who would have no idea what to do with it.
Wow is that awesome looking. My wife would love that thing. For me the tiny kb on the SL-5500 is actually quite effective but the new one looks to be more of a HandHeld PC than a Pocket PC. Nice link to the photo, cool!
Only on the docking station. It has a USB and a serial port. Still considerably smaller than a laptop, but I'd think something like an IBM Z50 running NetBSD might be cooler for your app. The Zaurus is kind of shackled to its docking station if you want to do much I/O with it. It works well with Windoze->Zaurus via ftp or telnet, and Linux kernel support is in the works but is still buggy: it will auto-ifconfig the Zaurus using hotplug, but seems to lose its connection after a bit. I run 2.4.17 so maybe a more recent kernel would work smoother. I'm trying to update my kernel but I have a lot of exotic hardware like pure aha3940 UW scsi system, dual processors, sblive! audio, bt848 video card, GeForce2MX OpenGL, and the awesome Tyan Thunder motherboard, so I have to wait a bit sometimes and can't aways run a bleeding-edge kernel. Yes, it plays all those Loki games like a mofo! I get way over 100fps with QuakeForge, can play Unreal1 easy with the new patch at iccuclus, all this with only dual PII-450's. Heh heh, and I got a beta BIOS which I can easily run dual 1G PIII's! Thats my upcoming winter upgrade!
Oh, er, uh, yeah.. (drinks beer)... no it doesn't have a serial port except if you plug it into the docking station or get some kind of CompactFlash->Serial Port gizmo.
The Zaurus has some kind of line-in using the speaker jack. Not sure how it works, but you can supposedly plug a headset into the audo jack. If you have one of those cd-to-cassette adapters you can just stick it in the audio-out plug and use the Zaurus as an auto mp3 or ogg player!
Maybe it switches modes from input to output? Experts are welcome to comment. I've not screwed with Zaurus audio much yet.
This is The Ultimate Geek's PDA! Its so cool that you can just open a teminal and access the raw linux underbelly. Pop in a 256Mb SecureDigital card as your hard drive, and get a Compact Flash card as your "floppy" these things rule. I've had mine for about a month and they rock! Don't believe all the FUD from the "experts" they are wusses and should stick to PalmOS or WinCE because they don't have a clue about Linux or "command line" stuff. The little keyboard is pretty damn handy for typing in terminal commands, and you can pull tricks on a Zaurus that you could never do with a CE or Palm device.
These things really are spiffy power-toys. Sharp has hit a home run with the Zaurus! Finally a PDA for the Engineer! Yes it has all that email/to-do/calendar crap to sync with your work, but you have a kickass little StrongArm Linux machine as well! Not recommended for dweebs, lusers, or people who "need" Windows CE. If you don't know jack about Linux or Unix then do yourself a favor and buy a Palm; otherwise you want this toy!
Actually, I had pthreads working back in May using the Pth library. It had pretty sucky performance though. Neil's implementation is supposed to be the ultimate pthreads in the universe, but I haven't tested it yet so I can't say how well he hit the mark. There is no question that he is an awesome programmer, so I wouldn't put it past him.
It uses GnuMach which has evolved quite a lot from the other two. GnuMach 2.x has some serious bit-rot, but the new GnuMach 3.x (formerly OSKit-Mach) is kind of exciting in that it uses the OSKit for all its drivers and much more.
Shit I have cpu cycles to burn. I have used TwoFish ever since I studied the AES challenge. It it obviously superior, and under much less scrutiny as well.
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Yeah the G4's really smoke on DNet. What I always thought would be cool would be to figure out how to run it on my GeForce2 card using the triangle processors when I'm not playing Quake.
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I imagine these beasties must be pretty awesome heating units. Well, at least you are giving a good hard fscking to the Third Law of Thermodynamics. For an electric heater, you get one hell of a lot of free processor cycles :-)
Yes, the kernel is very important, but it is not the OS. GNU is the OS that makes it all happen. Give RMS his credit, because he convinced a lot of people to work on the everyday utilities which are the backbone of an operating system. Not everybody can be a Linus, but anyone can help port a simple little utility program. Thats what RMS did and thats why GNU is an OS but Linux is not.
Yeah, my old 32Mb GeForce2MX is still going strong. No need to upgrade it anytime soon. Any GeForce2 or better is plenty of graphics card for most games.
As long as you have 128-bit encryption and some basic JavaScript capability then you are in good shape.
I rather doubt that I will ever upgrade it. When it was new, Debian 2.0 was the current stable system and it supported the hardware and video nicely. Since then the bar has been raised and I doubt that it would perform well running Woody, and I know that Compaq AVGA video support has been dropped from XFree86-4. So what I have is an old laptop running an old stable Debian which is frankly just fine!
Of course I'm one of those "Experts" so I really don't care when this thing ever comes to fruition. Yes it would be nice to welcome a gaggle of newbies to Debian, but then again, having them cut their Linux teeth on something like Mandrake or SuSE isn't necessarily such a bad thing. I personally do take some time to answer the occasional newbie question on selected Debian mailing lists, but I really have a lot of better things to do. I adamantly refuse to ever help anybody with Windows if I can possibly avoid it, but I genuinely enjoy helping Debian gnubies.
Actually, if you want a painless Debian install, get Libranet Linux, install that, then apt-get Debianize it. It will be very close to a pure Debian system.
Yeah. You do have a good question. For me, I have just always used it. It has existed since around 1993 when I first installed it, it was always a free download of some boot disk images or nowadays some cdrom iso's, and it just works well.
Debian is a coherently put-together system that tries its best to conform with the IEEE POSIX specification for a well-engineered operating system. You won't find a bunch of weird directories with distro specific things scattered willy-nilly all over your file system. If you attempt to compile a tarball, chances are that everything will be exactly where it is expected to be.
Debian is kind of like the NetBSD of the Linux world. It's code is extremely well audited which allows it to compile on a very large number of architectures. I run it on my HP9000, my Netwinder, and my Tyan Thunder, and aside from performance differences and a slightly lesser number of working packages on the non-X86 machines, it is for all intents and purposes the exact same system and is transparent to the user. When you boot it up it looks and behaves like Debian and everything is just where you would expect it to be. I like not having to run HP-UX on the C200, RedHat on the Winder, and Mandrake on the X86. Its all Debian and it all works together great on my LAN.
I suppose a lot of people don't care about POSIX compliance, or a very tight adherence to the GNU defaults, or how well the C-Compiler works, or the elegant filesystem structure, or the System-V style init system, or anything other than how easy it is to install. For me I love it, its more like Unix than Unix ever was, which is all I ever really wanted anyways. I expect to unpack a tarball, run ./configure and make and it better dang either build cleanly or at most require a minimal amount of editing. Debian is primo for building GNU sources.
Ease of installation, what FUD. Its a hobbyist's system. You should expect to spend a bit of time messing with it. You might even learn something for your troubles. I hate to say it, but if you are afraid to take the time for a few install iterations to build the ultimate system then you really have no business running any version of Linux. Stick with whatever version of Windows came on your Dell, "Dude" and come back to Slashdot when you have a few more years of computer experience under your belt.
You could probably group Linux people into "Those who use Debian" and "Everybody Else". I really doubt any Debian user would seriously consider switching to another distro, except maybe try Gentoo, Sorcerer, or Linux from Scratch for some kicks. It is actually quite fun and rewarding to compile your own kernels and programs. Debian gives you a huge bulk of precompiled mundane stuff, and a world-class development system to compile whatever other things you want to install into /usr/local, like maybe QuakeForge, or BRL-CAD, or who knows what.
And lastly, don't forget Hurd. If you want to try the pure GNU os, Debian is your only real choice right now. Its weird, its buggy, and definately doesn't have a Linux kernel. It's also a lot of fun for such an exotic os that it is.
Thats why, dang it!
Hrmm. I've noticed a steady decrease in development tools for Windows over the years. IMHO the operating system should include a compiler of some type, for Windows, a Visual Basic compiler would be appropriate.
A computer is supposed to be a moldable tool which you can suit to your purposes without a lot of effort. I'm sorry but I too often run into the scenario of "can't you do that in Excel?"
Yes I can do that in frigging Excel and I can do it a hundred other ways too. Maybe I don't wan't to do it in Excel.
Know what I mean??
Linux and GNU software is surely the coolest, but I'm not going to get my company to switch to Linux ever. I simply don't have the pull as an engineer, and all I can do is click away in Windows 2000 and wish for better days. My IT department is a bunch of AS/400 programmers who barely understand Windows at all, yet they have all the power and authority on the subject. I can talk about how great Linux is and I get this blank look like some internal neurons have snapped shut and they are in total overload mode.
They are screwed. I don't see why Balmer is so vehemently against Linux, they have the businesses sewn up so tight. The average schmuck isn't going to make them rich its the corporations and I wish they would quit intruding on my private life with FUD campaigns and such.
It would easily cost me over a quarter of a million dollars to duplicate the functionality of my home Debian system using Microsoft and other proprietary software. Who in the fsck do they think they are fooling by claiming that they are the better solution? I feel much enriched by using Linux and it has made a big improvement on my quality and standard of life.
And I have no clue as to how your country's college education financial aid system works, but in the US, I now pay in excess of $500 a month against my student loans which I took out to get myself a mechanical engineering degree.
Griping about wasted tax dollars... wow what a novel idea. Here in the US its more like extortion. If you don't pay you go to jail, and the only recipients of tax dollars are inept government employees who run stupid government programs so restrictive that nobody qualifies, leaving them with nothing to do except sit in their office, collect a fat salary, and tell you that you don't qualify. (Like you would be applying for whatever it is if you didn't need it.)
At least the Armed Forces suck up a lot of cash and actually do something. Knowing I'm helping staff the baddest army in the world helps make paying my taxes more bearable.
I've considered moving to Canada myself, on those rare occasions when I get fed up with current events in the US. Overall its quite a nice country. The traffic is totally insane though. I think you guys need to add a few more QEW's and 401's around Toronto. That stop-and-go traffic on an eight lane 100kph highway is ridiculous.
Tell you what though, those immigrants have made a big improvement in their lives by moving to Canada. It is more "international" in flavor than the US and they can fit in better, and Canada has all the commercial infrastructure just like the US does and plenty of frontier land, depending on your cold tolerance :-)
But there really is no negative heat. You can have less heat or less gravity, but once you are at zero thats about it as far as anybody knows.
Mass, at least is equivalent to inductance, so gravity can cause an object to oscillate. Heat doesn't even have that. Heat will flow from warmer to cooler places, but thats about it.
If you run your car out of oil you just cruise to a stop and call a towtruck with your cell phone. Its a little more extreme when your helicopter engine seizes up.
1. Get a welding torch and fill up a baggie with oxygen and acetylene. Tie it shut.
2. Make a trail of gasoline out to the middle of the parking lot with nothing around.
3. Set the baggie there. Go to the other end and light the gas trail.
Great for lots of laughs, but this is a pretty serious prank and is very likely to bring police, fire trucks, and lots of unwanted attention. It creates a humongous explosion which is ridiculously loud. I've only heard about this one, never seen it in real life.
Yes, I was a menace to society with my reprehensible spray painting of a federal building. Oh the stupid things we do when we are young...
:-)
It really did seem to knock some sense into my damn fool head though. I emerged a hard-working responsible person that thinks about what he does before he does something now. Yes it sucks to lose a chunk of your life, but when you are done you will have a new respect for your freedom for sure.
It won't kill you. Read a lot of books. You will probably eventually be given some kind of job at an army base or something after they see that you are not a total shithead.
Sucks to be you right now, but theres a lot of other people in a lot worse shit than you, so just do the time, and by gosh stick with Linux next time
Hehe... I'm a mechanical engineer, but I can spin a pretty slick slogan, if I do say so myself. Yeah, I was plugging it... busted!
Yeah I'd like to see Zaurus become a commercial success, but after dealing with my superiors at work, and showing it to them, I actually tell them to get an iPaq. If you dont already want a Zaurus then you really aren't its intended audience. For me it was a no-brainer:
Since I've been running Debian for about 10 years, the Zaurus held no fears for me, but there are a whole lot of extremely stupid business people out there who would have no idea what to do with it.
Wow is that awesome looking. My wife would love that thing. For me the tiny kb on the SL-5500 is actually quite effective but the new one looks to be more of a HandHeld PC than a Pocket PC. Nice link to the photo, cool!
Only on the docking station. It has a USB and a serial port. Still considerably smaller than a laptop, but I'd think something like an IBM Z50 running NetBSD might be cooler for your app. The Zaurus is kind of shackled to its docking station if you want to do much I/O with it. It works well with Windoze->Zaurus via ftp or telnet, and Linux kernel support is in the works but is still buggy: it will auto-ifconfig the Zaurus using hotplug, but seems to lose its connection after a bit. I run 2.4.17 so maybe a more recent kernel would work smoother. I'm trying to update my kernel but I have a lot of exotic hardware like pure aha3940 UW scsi system, dual processors, sblive! audio, bt848 video card, GeForce2MX OpenGL, and the awesome Tyan Thunder motherboard, so I have to wait a bit sometimes and can't aways run a bleeding-edge kernel. Yes, it plays all those Loki games like a mofo! I get way over 100fps with QuakeForge, can play Unreal1 easy with the new patch at iccuclus, all this with only dual PII-450's. Heh heh, and I got a beta BIOS which I can easily run dual 1G PIII's! Thats my upcoming winter upgrade!
Oh, er, uh, yeah.. (drinks beer)... no it doesn't have a serial port except if you plug it into the docking station or get some kind of CompactFlash->Serial Port gizmo.
The Zaurus has some kind of line-in using the speaker jack. Not sure how it works, but you can supposedly plug a headset into the audo jack. If you have one of those cd-to-cassette adapters you can just stick it in the audio-out plug and use the Zaurus as an auto mp3 or ogg player!
Maybe it switches modes from input to output? Experts are welcome to comment. I've not screwed with Zaurus audio much yet.
yes no no no no no no no no.
Although since 1 is "yes" then you could
make the others "yes" too if you got up
of your lazy ass and wrote some code.
These things really are spiffy power-toys. Sharp has hit a home run with the Zaurus! Finally a PDA for the Engineer! Yes it has all that email/to-do/calendar crap to sync with your work, but you have a kickass little StrongArm Linux machine as well! Not recommended for dweebs, lusers, or people who "need" Windows CE. If you don't know jack about Linux or Unix then do yourself a favor and buy a Palm; otherwise you want this toy!
Actually, I had pthreads working back in May using the Pth library. It had pretty sucky performance though. Neil's implementation is supposed to be the ultimate pthreads in the universe, but I haven't tested it yet so I can't say how well he hit the mark. There is no question that he is an awesome programmer, so I wouldn't put it past him.
It uses GnuMach which has evolved quite a lot from the other two. GnuMach 2.x has some serious bit-rot, but the new GnuMach 3.x (formerly OSKit-Mach) is kind of exciting in that it uses the OSKit for all its drivers and much more.
Shit I have cpu cycles to burn. I have used TwoFish ever since I studied the AES challenge. It it obviously superior, and under much less scrutiny as well.
Yeah the G4's really smoke on DNet. What I always thought would be cool would be to figure out how to run it on my GeForce2 card using the triangle processors when I'm not playing Quake.
Mine is like that except I have a full
6-bay SCSI tower next to it and a 20"
monitor.
And I also have a Netwinder 2100 with
a mini-keyboard and a 15" monitor. Guess
which one takes up about half the room?
The ultimate tiny computer is of course
the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. Just got one
and I think it is totally awesome.