If you want a Unix system to fiddle with, install NetBSD on your old Quadra (or your SE/30 for that matter). Or go out and buy a cheap second-hand Pentium box. Then you can keep your regular OS on your 'main' computer.
The 'Free' version of the chair.
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I can't wait for the 'free' version of this chair to be developed by hackers.
I can use the plans to build one of my own. However, once it's set up in my living room, any random homeless person who wanders by is entitled to sit in it. It has bolts and can be permanently installed out on my deck (so it won't blow around in the wind). However, once I do that, I've 'linked' it to my deck and any homeless hippy who wanders by is entitled to sit on it as long as he likes. If I make any changes to the chair, i.e. I install a home-brew MP3 player on the side so I can select and listen to music, my design for the MP3 player becomes community property.
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So I have my friends come over. I tell them 'Yep, that's my Windows 2000 CD over there on the table, and that's the machine with the CDR drive installed in it. I put on my running suit and go off for a quick run around the park. My friend does 'whatever' while I'm gone.
Since he's a good friend he doesn't steal anything from me while I'm gone. A few days later he tells me he likes the way W2K runs on his new system.
The early Macintosh machines (before hard drives) were nearly silent. Except when you accessed a floppy disk, when they would emit that nasal grunting sound everybody came to associate with the Macintosh.
Quantum drives have a far, far lower quality record than Western Digital or Maxtor. It's surprising to find someone actually touting one of those 'FireBomb' drives here in the name of reliability.
I can second that. I have a Maxtor 2.1 gig drive that not long ago just decided to quit working. I pulled it out of the PC case and powered it up to see what might be wrong. One of the largest chips on the control logic board gets too hot to touch after a few seconds.
No amount of mechanical durability is going to bring back a drive with substandard circuitry. And no amount of hype about 'sturdy' drives will bring back Maxtor's reputation.
Yes. And kudos to the scientists who proved that a project that a private business can complete in three years, a publicly funded project can take ten years to complete.
It's important to keep proving this point, so that roadblocks to scientific progress like public funding (by meddlesome bureaucrats and bogged down by 'committees'), tenure, and the unionization of academics can be overcome.
'Moderation points' aren't given to an account. They are given to a comment.
It's to improve the signal/noise ratio.
It's near time for Malda to just plain remove the accrual of 'mod points' in accounts. Let comments be moderated up on their merit alone. Take away the initiative for these children to 'collect points' like this is a meritocracy.
I did too. But lots of people on Slashdot treat moderation points as a 'reward' for some reason. It's really intended as a method of improving the content, not a win/lose situation for the people who make comments.
Rob should change the code so that if you reload the main page from the same URL more than four times in a minute, it automatically starts sending a static front page forever, until a 'quiet period' of, say, ten minutes.
Keeping ahead of site pests is a task that has a long tradition behind it. I remember running a WWIV 3.21 bulletin board. One of the users always posted with his caps-lock on, even though we knew he was on a termina capable of upper/lower case. So I went into the Turbo Pascal source code for WWIV 3 and changed it so that it did an automatic tolowercase conversion on any character typed in that wasn't preceeded by a space. I remember what fun it was watching the next time that user logged in. He dropped carrier out of frustration.
Those were the days. A 1200 baud modem and an 8088 box with 640K and a 5 meg drive were a virtual community.
I used to run it on Linux (SWiM Motif, which Cheapbytes used to sell). It must be something from that IBM UI definition that Win 3 and Motif are based on...
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I can ship you a handful of Z80 chips if you're really interested.
Maybe you could make a massively parallel Z80 box of some sort. If you did a really good job it could be as powerful as a 386 chip.
You said 'CVS' in a discussion of the Linux kernel, on Slashdot.
You lose three turns. Proceed to 'Go' and do not collect $200.
If you want a Unix system to fiddle with, install NetBSD on your old Quadra (or your SE/30 for that matter). Or go out and buy a cheap second-hand Pentium box. Then you can keep your regular OS on your 'main' computer.
I can't wait for the 'free' version of this chair to be developed by hackers.
I can use the plans to build one of my own. However, once it's set up in my living room, any random homeless person who wanders by is entitled to sit in it. It has bolts and can be permanently installed out on my deck (so it won't blow around in the wind). However, once I do that, I've 'linked' it to my deck and any homeless hippy who wanders by is entitled to sit on it as long as he likes. If I make any changes to the chair, i.e. I install a home-brew MP3 player on the side so I can select and listen to music, my design for the MP3 player becomes community property.
So I have my friends come over. I tell them 'Yep, that's my Windows 2000 CD over there on the table, and that's the machine with the CDR drive installed in it. I put on my running suit and go off for a quick run around the park. My friend does 'whatever' while I'm gone.
Since he's a good friend he doesn't steal anything from me while I'm gone. A few days later he tells me he likes the way W2K runs on his new system.
The early Macintosh machines (before hard drives) were nearly silent. Except when you accessed a floppy disk, when they would emit that nasal grunting sound everybody came to associate with the Macintosh.
Quantum drives have a far, far lower quality record than Western Digital or Maxtor. It's surprising to find someone actually touting one of those 'FireBomb' drives here in the name of reliability.
I can second that. I have a Maxtor 2.1 gig drive that not long ago just decided to quit working. I pulled it out of the PC case and powered it up to see what might be wrong. One of the largest chips on the control logic board gets too hot to touch after a few seconds.
No amount of mechanical durability is going to bring back a drive with substandard circuitry. And no amount of hype about 'sturdy' drives will bring back Maxtor's reputation.
Yes. And kudos to the scientists who proved that a project that a private business can complete in three years, a publicly funded project can take ten years to complete.
It's important to keep proving this point, so that roadblocks to scientific progress like public funding (by meddlesome bureaucrats and bogged down by 'committees'), tenure, and the unionization of academics can be overcome.
Wow! You really went out of your way not to read what I typed, huh?
Not a chance of that.
Most New Age flakes haven't ever been out of the city.
I have a 12" diamond saw in my garage for cutting open geodes.
'Moderation points' aren't given to an account. They are given to a comment.
It's to improve the signal/noise ratio.
It's near time for Malda to just plain remove the accrual of 'mod points' in accounts. Let comments be moderated up on their merit alone. Take away the initiative for these children to 'collect points' like this is a meritocracy.
You're pretty self-righteous, eh?
Why should this 'natural wonder' be forced to live up to your values?
Don't be so fucking 'cosmic', mon. It makes you look pretty pathetic.
I did too. But lots of people on Slashdot treat moderation points as a 'reward' for some reason. It's really intended as a method of improving the content, not a win/lose situation for the people who make comments.
It's almost never unreasonable to attack Apple.
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Rob should change the code so that if you reload the main page from the same URL more than four times in a minute, it automatically starts sending a static front page forever, until a 'quiet period' of, say, ten minutes.
Keeping ahead of site pests is a task that has a long tradition behind it. I remember running a WWIV 3.21 bulletin board. One of the users always posted with his caps-lock on, even though we knew he was on a termina capable of upper/lower case. So I went into the Turbo Pascal source code for WWIV 3 and changed it so that it did an automatic tolowercase conversion on any character typed in that wasn't preceeded by a space. I remember what fun it was watching the next time that user logged in. He dropped carrier out of frustration.
Those were the days. A 1200 baud modem and an 8088 box with 640K and a 5 meg drive were a virtual community.
There is already a mechanism for registered readers to choose what they want on the front page.
I have blocked off all articles authored by Jon Katz, for instance. And all 'Your Rights Online' articles.
It's simple, it's a part of the system here, and it works fine.
Many companies' only goal is to patent "technologies" and ideas.
Okay. You say 'many'. Name ten companies for which this is the case.
Put up or shut up.
I don't want an overclocked CPU, thankyouverymuch.
I use my PC as a 'TV' all the time. I slip in a VCD of 'The Simpsons,' switch it to play fullscreen, and pretend it's a Tee Vee.
Alt-F4 also works in Motif, if you run mwm.
I used to run it on Linux (SWiM Motif, which Cheapbytes used to sell). It must be something from that IBM UI definition that Win 3 and Motif are based on...
Wow! A Linux distro whose homepage requires Shockwave. Cool. (not!)
Companies make more money the longer they can hold onto your money. It's a trend from olden times. It's how banks work. It's how credit cards work.
It's how paying bills works.
Does anybody pay their bills by the 'due date' unless there's a 'service fee' for being late?? Nobody who I know!
Don't ascribe it as a 'corporate' thing. We 'consumers' do it too, whenever possible.