This all works fine until you try to play a game or something that doesn't talk to the same keymapping you think it should. I've tried (under old MacOS).. maybe I should again, mebbie not. Ripping the key off works too:)
Installed in mid 2001 in Australia. At that time, the cost of getting 9 x ethernet ports, 10 x telephone outlets between two lines, TV cable to 4 extra locations and changing existing crappy 600-series telephone sockets to RJ-11 was cheaper than buying wireless bridging gear for the three main computers I had at that time.
Plus I got 100mbit ethernet instead of 11mbit wireless, and it meant that in the future I was able to add a networked printer in another room without having to buy yet more wireless gear.
While I'm more than capable of doing the wiring myself (I have done in many north american homes), in Australia many homes, such as mine, are all brick, instead of stud and dry-wall. This makes installing the points a significantly difficult task, so for A$1400 all up (US$700 at the time), I think I got out of it pretty well. This also included a 8 port switch and signal amp for the TV signal.
I don't trust wireless security to the point of wanting my own access point, thanks muchly. I can put it in my insecure DMZ, but someone might use my bandwidth and monthly data allowance, which just costs me more:P And I don't feel like implementing 802.1X/LEAP/VPNs at home either.
Tripwire is ok, providing you don't mind getting a call every month from some dickhead (the local one in my case seems barely able to speak english too.. woohoo) trying to sell you more tripwire products and who is unaware of what "remove me from your list and never call me again" means..
I read the 1000 or so pages of documentation of SLOX.. it's not a replacement for an Exchange server, it's something that provides similar functionality to an exchange server, but mostly by a web interface. It's samba + openldap + whatever mta + a nice GUI. What it doesn't do is provide all the groupware features in outlook - they're in a web browser instead.
I also have a Pentium 133 running NT Server as a Symantec Ghost Image Server with a 40 and a 120GB HDD in it:> I know it's not Linux, and the thruput on the drives ain't great, but it still stands up day after day. Had to get a hacked BIOS from some crazy russian:) It's also in the same little desktop case it was when it was a lab machine back in 1998 with only a 1.2GB HDD.
I used Debian on early pentiums for servers.. on Pentium 133mhz runs Samba/LPRNG for a network file/login/print server for 8 client machines, and another P166mhz runs samba/nfs/lprng as a fileserver for 15 machines. Realistically these machines should be thrown out, but they actually work fine in these roles (Tho the P133 is marginal:)
In theory you'ld make it so the first stroke with it is from the top right/left/whatever corner, then any future strokes need to overlap other strokes.. and then in each stroke there's some sort of "random" scatter which tells the device where it is on the page..
I don't know how this thing works, but this is how I'd do it:)
Bring me back to reality? Yes, I just *LOVE* setting up a Linux box to do everything my mac can do out of the box.
Web browsing.. so I've installed a nice linux system with Debian, and added what I think is enough packages to get X11 and Gnome up and going.. whaaa.. where's the web browser? Oh right, I need to install that too, should I use Phoenix, Galeon, Netscape, Mozilla, or Joe-tcltk-webrowser.. I think I'll go Mozilla. Everyone seems to be using that now. Hang on, why do the fonts look screwed up? Oops, it looks like I needed to install fonts as well.. I'm sure it comes with some good ones.. there we go. Anti-aliasing? Oh, easy.. xft.. wait, it doesn't see the fonts now.. need to rebuild the fonts.dir file. Screw it..
Playing DVDs, yep, Linux can do that.. all I need is mplayer or vlc or xiph.. and then I just need to install the dvd libraries and it plays! VIDEO_01.TS.. where is my damn menu?!@#.. umm, but then I need sound. So then I just need to choose between ALSA and OSS. And then find a sound card which works with those libraries. Oh, and then pass a funky kernel parameter to grub, editing a config file, so it can do duplex sound, and hey presto, I have DVDs playing, with sound... but I'm only getting 10fps on my Athlon2ghz.. oh, oops, I'm not using the nvidia kernel and xfree86 extensions for hardware acceleration! Silly me, how could I forget!
Ahh, I think I'll just listen to my MP3s with xmms.. hang on, why is it dying with signal 11 every few minutes? ooh, oops, I used the version of it that came on my OS install CDs, and that had an off-by-one bug somewhere.. ahh well, just need to download it again and install.
On second thoughts, I think I'll just get around to putting a new larger HDD in my 1999 vintage G3. *screw screw screw fiddle fiddle* ok, done.. power up, put in OSX install CD, click thru right buttons, wait 30 minutes, swap CDs, wait 10 minutes, reboot... ahh the MacOSX background. *press button to open DVD drive*, I think I'll put the DVD in this.. *whirring noise* oh look, the DVD menu *click play* ahh.
Rant mode off.
Yes, you can do many similar things with Linux to OSX, it's just an absolute pain in the ass to get it up and running initially. Your average user doesn't really want to do shit like that just so they can use their computer.
Still called G4s.. the only real difference in Apple's product line there is that Airport is called AirMac, since another company markets wireless gear called Airport.
As I recall, apple destroyed all the Cube marketing material with mention of ATI cards, and all the Cubes with ATI cards in them were opened up and swapped out with nvidia cards, and didn't make them available for another 3 months.
Steve took it pretty badly, to say the least. Apple does not tolerate leaks. If this was promotional, there would have been more than just one graphic.
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I thought it was a great book for the time, see this message I just posted for how well I've done because of that book.
You're right that tackling both mSQL and MySQL was a bad idea in retrospect, but again, like you said, at the time it reflected market conditions.
You know, I've always thought that book got a bad rap.. it was one of the first O'Reilly books I bought (after sed and awk).
Using it as a reference, and my knowledge of SQL, I did my first paid perl/php/mysql work while still in earnt University, and earnt close to $10,000 working from home, while studying. Having this work on my resume helped get me a $53,000/year job at age 21.
Ok, maybe other books could have helped too, but this was 1999, and like I said, the book did me well. I keep it at work for quick SQL reference.
I dunno, perpetual cookies which can tie your browser to a record of everything you search for is a worrying thing. Say the law changes a little bit.. DHS just needs to threaten Google legally, make them turn over the IPs of everyone who searched for the Anarchists Cookbook, for example, and then make some raids and your computer will agree with them that you searched for it, and hey presto, 25-to-life.
Apple isn't the only customer of G3s.. I think that the recent price drops for the 12 inch G4 powerbooks to almost what ibook prices were 12 months ago is a sign of something happening soon.
1) I know:) and I don't fault Japanese people as a whole for not speaking english all that well, it's not like it's an official language of their country. They do a good job of speaking/dealing with english speaking people, even if they themselves don't understand it all that well:)
2) Yes, foreign barbarians and stupid gaijin is more common in Japan, but I revell in being a foreign devil, so I'll just call myself that;)
3) Heh! They weren't nearly as bad as I expected;)
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Or Ford suing Century batteries for making batteries that could be used in Ford's cars instead of proprietary Ford batteries...
Oh wait, that one never happened. The difference is important however. Games are not consumables, ink is.
This all works fine until you try to play a game or something that doesn't talk to the same keymapping you think it should. I've tried (under old MacOS).. maybe I should again, mebbie not. Ripping the key off works too :)
I rip the caps-lock key off my keyboards as soon as I get them out of the box.. it annoys me greatly and I never use it.
I had(have) several spare identical motherboards, so no worries about fried green bios :)
Installed in mid 2001 in Australia. At that time, the cost of getting 9 x ethernet ports, 10 x telephone outlets between two lines, TV cable to 4 extra locations and changing existing crappy 600-series telephone sockets to RJ-11 was cheaper than buying wireless bridging gear for the three main computers I had at that time.
:P And I don't feel like implementing 802.1X/LEAP/VPNs at home either.
Plus I got 100mbit ethernet instead of 11mbit wireless, and it meant that in the future I was able to add a networked printer in another room without having to buy yet more wireless gear.
While I'm more than capable of doing the wiring myself (I have done in many north american homes), in Australia many homes, such as mine, are all brick, instead of stud and dry-wall. This makes installing the points a significantly difficult task, so for A$1400 all up (US$700 at the time), I think I got out of it pretty well. This also included a 8 port switch and signal amp for the TV signal.
I don't trust wireless security to the point of wanting my own access point, thanks muchly. I can put it in my insecure DMZ, but someone might use my bandwidth and monthly data allowance, which just costs me more
Tripwire is ok, providing you don't mind getting a call every month from some dickhead (the local one in my case seems barely able to speak english too.. woohoo) trying to sell you more tripwire products and who is unaware of what "remove me from your list and never call me again" means..
I read the 1000 or so pages of documentation of SLOX.. it's not a replacement for an Exchange server, it's something that provides similar functionality to an exchange server, but mostly by a web interface. It's samba + openldap + whatever mta + a nice GUI. What it doesn't do is provide all the groupware features in outlook - they're in a web browser instead.
:)
Can't fault them for trying tho
I also have a Pentium 133 running NT Server as a Symantec Ghost Image Server with a 40 and a 120GB HDD in it :> I know it's not Linux, and the thruput on the drives ain't great, but it still stands up day after day. Had to get a hacked BIOS from some crazy russian :) It's also in the same little desktop case it was when it was a lab machine back in 1998 with only a 1.2GB HDD.
I used Debian on early pentiums for servers.. on Pentium 133mhz runs Samba/LPRNG for a network file/login/print server for 8 client machines, and another P166mhz runs samba/nfs/lprng as a fileserver for 15 machines. Realistically these machines should be thrown out, but they actually work fine in these roles (Tho the P133 is marginal :)
In theory you'ld make it so the first stroke with it is from the top right/left/whatever corner, then any future strokes need to overlap other strokes.. and then in each stroke there's some sort of "random" scatter which tells the device where it is on the page..
:)
I don't know how this thing works, but this is how I'd do it
Man, I used to watch that when I was a kid.. used to spook me out a lot :)
:)
Thanks for the flashback
For a firewire VGA standard camera, it's only about 10% more expensive above what I've seen..
Bring me back to reality? Yes, I just *LOVE* setting up a Linux box to do everything my mac can do out of the box.
.. where is my damn menu?!@#.. umm, but then I need sound. So then I just need to choose between ALSA and OSS. And then find a sound card which works with those libraries. Oh, and then pass a funky kernel parameter to grub, editing a config file, so it can do duplex sound, and hey presto, I have DVDs playing, with sound... but I'm only getting 10fps on my Athlon2ghz.. oh, oops, I'm not using the nvidia kernel and xfree86 extensions for hardware acceleration! Silly me, how could I forget!
Web browsing.. so I've installed a nice linux system with Debian, and added what I think is enough packages to get X11 and Gnome up and going.. whaaa.. where's the web browser? Oh right, I need to install that too, should I use Phoenix, Galeon, Netscape, Mozilla, or Joe-tcltk-webrowser.. I think I'll go Mozilla. Everyone seems to be using that now. Hang on, why do the fonts look screwed up? Oops, it looks like I needed to install fonts as well.. I'm sure it comes with some good ones.. there we go. Anti-aliasing? Oh, easy.. xft.. wait, it doesn't see the fonts now.. need to rebuild the fonts.dir file. Screw it..
Playing DVDs, yep, Linux can do that.. all I need is mplayer or vlc or xiph.. and then I just need to install the dvd libraries and it plays! VIDEO_01.TS
Ahh, I think I'll just listen to my MP3s with xmms.. hang on, why is it dying with signal 11 every few minutes? ooh, oops, I used the version of it that came on my OS install CDs, and that had an off-by-one bug somewhere.. ahh well, just need to download it again and install.
On second thoughts, I think I'll just get around to putting a new larger HDD in my 1999 vintage G3. *screw screw screw fiddle fiddle* ok, done.. power up, put in OSX install CD, click thru right buttons, wait 30 minutes, swap CDs, wait 10 minutes, reboot... ahh the MacOSX background. *press button to open DVD drive*, I think I'll put the DVD in this.. *whirring noise* oh look, the DVD menu *click play* ahh.
Rant mode off.
Yes, you can do many similar things with Linux to OSX, it's just an absolute pain in the ass to get it up and running initially. Your average user doesn't really want to do shit like that just so they can use their computer.
This guy is a very good writer.. I love some of his lines, like "For SCO to attack IBM using IP is somewhat like trying to eat a live tiger."
Heh!
You don't think Canon called it the G5 because it was 5MP and calling it a G4 when it was 5MP and the previous G2/G3 were 4MP would be silly? :)
Still called G4s.. the only real difference in Apple's product line there is that Airport is called AirMac, since another company markets wireless gear called Airport.
As I recall, apple destroyed all the Cube marketing material with mention of ATI cards, and all the Cubes with ATI cards in them were opened up and swapped out with nvidia cards, and didn't make them available for another 3 months.
Steve took it pretty badly, to say the least. Apple does not tolerate leaks. If this was promotional, there would have been more than just one graphic.
I thought it was a great book for the time, see this message I just posted for how well I've done because of that book.
You're right that tackling both mSQL and MySQL was a bad idea in retrospect, but again, like you said, at the time it reflected market conditions.
Thanks!
You know, I've always thought that book got a bad rap.. it was one of the first O'Reilly books I bought (after sed and awk).
Using it as a reference, and my knowledge of SQL, I did my first paid perl/php/mysql work while still in earnt University, and earnt close to $10,000 working from home, while studying. Having this work on my resume helped get me a $53,000/year job at age 21.
Ok, maybe other books could have helped too, but this was 1999, and like I said, the book did me well. I keep it at work for quick SQL reference.
I spent like a day in Tokyo looking for panty vending machines on behalf of many many people back home..
Do you know how many I found? None.. zero, zip, zilch.
Help a brother out, do you know where these panty vending machines are?
some already regard Google as the evil empire.
I dunno, perpetual cookies which can tie your browser to a record of everything you search for is a worrying thing. Say the law changes a little bit.. DHS just needs to threaten Google legally, make them turn over the IPs of everyone who searched for the Anarchists Cookbook, for example, and then make some raids and your computer will agree with them that you searched for it, and hey presto, 25-to-life.
After you piss off IBM and force them to court, there generally is no "next"... Starting with SGI would have been a better idea. Oh well.
* waits for IBM to backrupt SCO with legal fees and slip the security guard $20 to rough up McBride as they're throwing him out of the building *
Who's buying it tho? I would be looking very carefully at the man in the blue suit after those shares.. :)
Apple isn't the only customer of G3s.. I think that the recent price drops for the 12 inch G4 powerbooks to almost what ibook prices were 12 months ago is a sign of something happening soon.
1) I know :) and I don't fault Japanese people as a whole for not speaking english all that well, it's not like it's an official language of their country. They do a good job of speaking/dealing with english speaking people, even if they themselves don't understand it all that well :)
;)
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2) Yes, foreign barbarians and stupid gaijin is more common in Japan, but I revell in being a foreign devil, so I'll just call myself that
3) Heh! They weren't nearly as bad as I expected