It really isn't hard to imagine at all. Promise sells controllers for up to 32 hot swapable drives. Keep in mind that not all of this 'software' was M$ windows etc. At least one of the computers contained 5000 movies. which is software or didn't you know that?
Are you serious? Are you brain dead? A good lawyer could mean freedom, or a reduced sentance. A court appointed attorny could mean getting stuck in a cell with murders rapists and terrorists. Remember 'hacking' is now a crime of terror. Equivalent to blowing up a building with 10,000 people in it.
A good legal defense could get that law removed by the supreme court. How can you compare writing software to keygen an application to taking thousands of lives????
If you think this is just about warez it isn't. This is about people who rob convenience stores being thrown back out after three months while some kid who wrote a keygen gets a life sentance WITHOUT the possibility of parole. Even if you think warez is wrong do you really believe that it is a crime on the level of murder?
It is definitely "a good introduction to x86 Unix for someone who's used a Unix mainframe at school/work (where someone else was the sysadmin). And it might be a good introduction to Unix for an advanced Windows user."
It was almost 5 years ago when I as an advanced windows user who had used unix at college (mainly for USENet.) Anyways, at the time I got my second PC and began to network the two, and for a few months it worked fine until an update to dial-up networking changed my network config and broke the network. I wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I looked into linux. Well after about a few days of trying linux I had heard about FreeBSD. I went out and tried it, and it worked a lot better for me. I was able to understand it a lot better, and even got sound working (eventually.) The important thing is that I got it to dialout to my ISP automatically and share the internet connection across to my other computer something I hadn't figured out how to do with windows at the time.
While I have tried other linux distros since then FreeBSD has still been my favorite OS. While I ditched the dialup a long time ago, I still use FreeBSD at the heart of my home LAN.
as of posting this my uptime on my server is
10:01AM up 134 days, 22:50
Linux has it's merits too, but if you're not satisfied with it try BSD.
Considering that I am close to being legally blind (but have a correctable stigmatism) my 2 cents on this is that Xfree has a MUCH more useful option that windows doesn't come with.
The 'virtual' option This would allow a person to take a standard 20" monitor run it in 640x480 (or even a 320x240 resolution) But still have a full 1600x1200 desktop.
I understand that not everyone can stand 'virtual' but considering that I can switch resolutions on the fly it offers me the chance to 'read' the monitor without my glasses.
Not so long ago on either TLC or Discovery or else the history channel... I saw a documentary about search for Atlantis. And they pretty much found an Island, with the needed dormand volcano, the harbor, three rings... archeological evidence of the types of animals that plato described there, and sunken remains of temples and harbors. And the ruins had hot and pipes for hot and cold running water at a time when most civilizations were still hauling water in with vases. It is in the correct location, too, if you consider that plato might have meant 'between' africa and the mid-east (as opposed to 'larger' than. It's pretty easy to mistranslate since the original scroll was copied dozens of times, and the difference between 'between' and 'larger' can be only a letter or two using the right words.
> Hydrogen as safe alternative fuel... Um... Hindenburg, anyone?
Two points: the Hindenburg burned because of the envelope, not the hydrogen (see the many posts explaining this), and the Hindenburg used diesel fuel for power, and hydrogen for lift
Why not take a Relevant Disaster like the Challenger Explosion for an example of how a hydrogen fuel jetliner would explode? At the altitude jetliners fly at there isn't enough oxygen to breath, much less sustain the burn of hydrogen, which requires two oxygen atoms for every hydrogen atoms to 'burn.' This is a Signifigant increase over oxygenated liquid fuels used in jetliners now, so you'd require tanks of liquid oxygen as well as liquid hydrogen. While the challenger had a lot more fuel than a jetliner would have, unless it was a Spaceplane. Any fuel that can fly a jetliner is going to be dangerous, and burn at high temperatures. The only solution is to use high heat resistant substances like carbon naontubes, or else thicker protective coatings on support structures.
1. If you tested for stability, you would choose stable graphic cards with stable drivers. The only exception I've seen is in the old version of GTK which had a bad menuing bug that hard locked X. (opening the menu while the application was generating a window, a very common behaviour of a user who isn't expecting the lag, or if the program auto generates windows ala FreeCiv)
2. unwire the reset and power buttons so that end users can't reset the linux boxes. You can alter the hardware so only the tech guys can reset, make them call you, and telnet into thier linux box to restart X for them, you don't even have to leave your desk to fix most X lockups.
3. Then use a windows9x Clone Window manager like FVWM2 -- there are PLENTY of apps that you can use to make linux look and feel more like windows, you can even fix ctrl+c ctrl+v ctrl+x to copy paste and cut..
4. Linux has the advantage that you can make it work the way you need it to, so if you're in the IT department and need to roll out for windows users, you make it act like windows. for the It guys themselves they can alter things to work the way they want them to best -- they aren't Stuck in old ruts.
5. If the assets are large enough to make them a burden to switch banks, you should make a call to your banker, and explain to them that you're making a move to linux, and if they want to Keep your $100 million in Their bank they'll get thier website compatable with your browser, pick a netscape product if you don't want to bring up the 'Linux' word. Netscape is still around 10% of the 'mainstream' browsing market, Despite windows attempts to kill it, so demanding netscape support shouldn't be _that_ hard, and among alternative OSes netscape is still the browser of choice.
Many of the older AT cases were actually built modularly to fit AT or ATX motherboards. If the case is modular then all you need is a power supply a new power button and a backplate.
However, the AT power button can be hacked to control an ATX motherboard. ATX power button close the circuit only when depressed, while the AT button actually carries the current that the entire system is using.
Peltier coolers are still available, the problem with a peltier cooler is that using electric current to move heat, generates heat. There is also a problem with the number of operating hours before failure on a peltier cooler. In my experience with peltier coolers they last as a cooling device for about 3-6 months before they become an 80 watt heater. The last thing a CPU with 50-70 watts of heat dissipation at spec needs is an 80 watt heater.
I haven't used many peltier coolers, so I could just have bad luck with them, but the combination of high power requirements and limited ability to move heat, which then has to be dissipated from the other end through a conventional heatsink, lest the peltier fail prematurely...
Peltier coolers are great for a cooler that you plug into your car so that your drinks stay cold on road trip, but they're not a good solution for making processors run cooler.
IMO the 'best' solution is adapting an actual compressed gas solution. Your Fridge runs 24/7 for 30+ years and the higher end models are whisper quiet. Proven to be a stable technology, that can be designed to run quiet, and that can not only cool a processor, but that could easily dissipate the type of heat that Intel is claiming 'future' processors will be cranking out heat dissipation in the hundreds of watts...
While I'm not sure that existing compressed gas coolers are 'quiet.' there are only two on the market I've seen, one sold for complete systems, the other adaptable to fit most motherboards. How long before someone trys to engineer one that Does run as quiet as possible through noise dampeners on the compressor and low noise fans?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/babylonchat/
is a java based program written under the GPL,
and then http://freshmeat.net/projects/webwebx/
is a CGI script written under an artistic license.
the rest of the matches didn't seem relevant to your question.
At least one of the companies that caved into the Rambus 'greed' machine by agreeing to pay royalties on SDRAM technologies had a _contract_ to produce the RDRAM that the Sony PS2 ships with. No matter how corrupt Rambus is that company had to come to table or else there would have been no RDRAM for the PS2 since the Rambus patents _will_ cover RDRAM nomatter what happens with the SDR/DDR cases.
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Unfortunately, the desktop is not the only thing that needs to be lightweight. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to run the GIMP over a 28.8 connection.
The only problem with running Gimp over a 28.8 connection is the latency of a ssh session at that speed. The gimp has full command-line and perl script support. It is very very easy to grab some perl scripts that execute common gimp filters on pictures, then transfer the picture to look at it. you can even generate an entire picture from scratch without ever looking at it with the gimp. Really the gimp is very low bandwith friendly, it's just point and click that doesn't work so well. But really if you were serious about point and click you'd be using a mac G4 running adobe. On a side note you do need an xserver running, but it doesn't have to use a graphic card, any xserver will work.
Which would have our founding fathers rolling over in thier graves. Microsoft is as anti-american as the brits were in the revolution.
Consider some common rally cries.
"no taxation without representation"
in the terms of software that would translate to:
"No compilation without open source"
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It really isn't hard to imagine at all. Promise sells controllers for up to 32 hot swapable drives. Keep in mind that not all of this 'software' was M$ windows etc. At least one of the computers contained 5000 movies. which is software or didn't you know that?
Are you serious? Are you brain dead? A good lawyer could mean freedom, or a reduced sentance. A court appointed attorny could mean getting stuck in a cell with murders rapists and terrorists. Remember 'hacking' is now a crime of terror. Equivalent to blowing up a building with 10,000 people in it.
A good legal defense could get that law removed by the supreme court. How can you compare writing software to keygen an application to taking thousands of lives????
If you think this is just about warez it isn't. This is about people who rob convenience stores being thrown back out after three months while some kid who wrote a keygen gets a life sentance WITHOUT the possibility of parole. Even if you think warez is wrong do you really believe that it is a crime on the level of murder?
It is definitely "a good introduction to x86 Unix for someone who's used a Unix mainframe at school/work (where someone else was the sysadmin). And it might be a good introduction to Unix for an advanced Windows user."
It was almost 5 years ago when I as an advanced windows user who had used unix at college (mainly for USENet.) Anyways, at the time I got my second PC and began to network the two, and for a few months it worked fine until an update to dial-up networking changed my network config and broke the network. I wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I looked into linux. Well after about a few days of trying linux I had heard about FreeBSD. I went out and tried it, and it worked a lot better for me. I was able to understand it a lot better, and even got sound working (eventually.) The important thing is that I got it to dialout to my ISP automatically and share the internet connection across to my other computer something I hadn't figured out how to do with windows at the time.
While I have tried other linux distros since then FreeBSD has still been my favorite OS. While I ditched the dialup a long time ago, I still use FreeBSD at the heart of my home LAN.
as of posting this my uptime on my server is
10:01AM up 134 days, 22:50
Linux has it's merits too, but if you're not satisfied with it try BSD.
Considering that I am close to being legally blind (but have a correctable stigmatism) my 2 cents on this is that Xfree has a MUCH more useful option that windows doesn't come with.
The 'virtual' option This would allow a person to take a standard 20" monitor run it in 640x480 (or even a 320x240 resolution) But still have a full 1600x1200 desktop.
I understand that not everyone can stand 'virtual' but considering that I can switch resolutions on the fly it offers me the chance to 'read' the monitor without my glasses.
Not so long ago on either TLC or Discovery or else the history channel... I saw a documentary about search for Atlantis. And they pretty much found an Island, with the needed dormand volcano, the harbor, three rings... archeological evidence of the types of animals that plato described there, and sunken remains of temples and harbors. And the ruins had hot and pipes for hot and cold running water at a time when most civilizations were still hauling water in with vases. It is in the correct location, too, if you consider that plato might have meant 'between' africa and the mid-east (as opposed to 'larger' than. It's pretty easy to mistranslate since the original scroll was copied dozens of times, and the difference between 'between' and 'larger' can be only a letter or two using the right words.
Two points: the Hindenburg burned because of the envelope, not the hydrogen (see the many posts explaining this), and the Hindenburg used diesel fuel for power, and hydrogen for lift
Why not take a Relevant Disaster like the Challenger Explosion for an example of how a hydrogen fuel jetliner would explode? At the altitude jetliners fly at there isn't enough oxygen to breath, much less sustain the burn of hydrogen, which requires two oxygen atoms for every hydrogen atoms to 'burn.' This is a Signifigant increase over oxygenated liquid fuels used in jetliners now, so you'd require tanks of liquid oxygen as well as liquid hydrogen. While the challenger had a lot more fuel than a jetliner would have, unless it was a Spaceplane. Any fuel that can fly a jetliner is going to be dangerous, and burn at high temperatures. The only solution is to use high heat resistant substances like carbon naontubes, or else thicker protective coatings on support structures.
1. If you tested for stability, you would choose stable graphic cards with stable drivers. The only exception I've seen is in the old version of GTK which had a bad menuing bug that hard locked X. (opening the menu while the application was generating a window, a very common behaviour of a user who isn't expecting the lag, or if the program auto generates windows ala FreeCiv)
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2. unwire the reset and power buttons so that end users can't reset the linux boxes. You can alter the hardware so only the tech guys can reset, make them call you, and telnet into thier linux box to restart X for them, you don't even have to leave your desk to fix most X lockups.
3. Then use a windows9x Clone Window manager like FVWM2 -- there are PLENTY of apps that you can use to make linux look and feel more like windows, you can even fix ctrl+c ctrl+v ctrl+x to copy paste and cut..
4. Linux has the advantage that you can make it work the way you need it to, so if you're in the IT department and need to roll out for windows users, you make it act like windows. for the It guys themselves they can alter things to work the way they want them to best -- they aren't Stuck in old ruts.
5. If the assets are large enough to make them a burden to switch banks, you should make a call to your banker, and explain to them that you're making a move to linux, and if they want to Keep your $100 million in Their bank they'll get thier website compatable with your browser, pick a netscape product if you don't want to bring up the 'Linux' word. Netscape is still around 10% of the 'mainstream' browsing market, Despite windows attempts to kill it, so demanding netscape support shouldn't be _that_ hard, and among alternative OSes netscape is still the browser of choice.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/September/
http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/freefall.html#
Many of the older AT cases were actually built modularly to fit AT or ATX motherboards. If the case is modular then all you need is a power supply a new power button and a backplate. However, the AT power button can be hacked to control an ATX motherboard. ATX power button close the circuit only when depressed, while the AT button actually carries the current that the entire system is using.
Peltier coolers are still available, the problem with a peltier cooler is that using electric current to move heat, generates heat. There is also a problem with the number of operating hours before failure on a peltier cooler. In my experience with peltier coolers they last as a cooling device for about 3-6 months before they become an 80 watt heater. The last thing a CPU with 50-70 watts of heat dissipation at spec needs is an 80 watt heater. I haven't used many peltier coolers, so I could just have bad luck with them, but the combination of high power requirements and limited ability to move heat, which then has to be dissipated from the other end through a conventional heatsink, lest the peltier fail prematurely... Peltier coolers are great for a cooler that you plug into your car so that your drinks stay cold on road trip, but they're not a good solution for making processors run cooler. IMO the 'best' solution is adapting an actual compressed gas solution. Your Fridge runs 24/7 for 30+ years and the higher end models are whisper quiet. Proven to be a stable technology, that can be designed to run quiet, and that can not only cool a processor, but that could easily dissipate the type of heat that Intel is claiming 'future' processors will be cranking out heat dissipation in the hundreds of watts... While I'm not sure that existing compressed gas coolers are 'quiet.' there are only two on the market I've seen, one sold for complete systems, the other adaptable to fit most motherboards. How long before someone trys to engineer one that Does run as quiet as possible through noise dampeners on the compressor and low noise fans?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/babylonchat/ is a java based program written under the GPL, and then http://freshmeat.net/projects/webwebx/ is a CGI script written under an artistic license. the rest of the matches didn't seem relevant to your question.
At least one of the companies that caved into the Rambus 'greed' machine by agreeing to pay royalties on SDRAM technologies had a _contract_ to produce the RDRAM that the Sony PS2 ships with. No matter how corrupt Rambus is that company had to come to table or else there would have been no RDRAM for the PS2 since the Rambus patents _will_ cover RDRAM nomatter what happens with the SDR/DDR cases.
The only problem with running Gimp over a 28.8 connection is the latency of a ssh session at that speed. The gimp has full command-line and perl script support. It is very very easy to grab some perl scripts that execute common gimp filters on pictures, then transfer the picture to look at it. you can even generate an entire picture from scratch without ever looking at it with the gimp. Really the gimp is very low bandwith friendly, it's just point and click that doesn't work so well. But really if you were serious about point and click you'd be using a mac G4 running adobe. On a side note you do need an xserver running, but it doesn't have to use a graphic card, any xserver will work.
Which would have our founding fathers rolling over in thier graves. Microsoft is as anti-american as the brits were in the revolution.
Consider some common rally cries.
"no taxation without representation"
in the terms of software that would translate to:
"No compilation without open source"