I've used a Wang before to keep pizza warm in
the machine room (it was just the right size on top for a large pizza, and
conveniently table height).
Speaking for Leon Phelps, the Ladies' Man (warning - tripod popups), I have to say you're right about the height, but you should see a doctor about that shape problem.
Now that you've read my provocative title, I'll tone it down a bit:
There have been some great comments to this article (which I haven't read) but I got to wondering: if you're going to run in a sort of comatose state where your only ability to change the system is to reboot it, why bother booting in the first place?
My idea was to use the Linix BIOS or something similar, and run your packet filtering from there. Then you can forget the hard drive and floppy (though you'd probably want that floppy to be able to flash your BIOS with updates and the like.)
Does this make sense to anyone? Or is there something I'm overlooking like maybe that while running as a BIOS, Linux wouldn't be able to talk to the network interfaces, say?
I guess if you're going to go to that kind of trouble, you might as well have an embedded system, or run from flash RAM, as others have mentioned. Still, it's always fun to get hardware and software to do things beyond what they were designed to do.
some sites like ole slashdot set their pages to no-cache, most likely to force a page refresh
Yeah, this bugs me, so generally I open a new window for a link. This is why I actually prefer browsing on Linux over Windows, since with most Linux browsers that I use, the middle-button opens a new window, while in Windows, it seems to be a right-click, then select from pop-up.
It's funny how these trivial things make a difference.
If things get truly desperate, they can always go to Rupert Murdoch, who will no doubt suggest the following:
Figure out which two species are the least likely to go extinct, put one of each in a cage, and see which one lives. Murdoch will broadcast the results on Fox as "When Endangered Species Attack."
I don't know much about the details of any of these (other than how easy it was to kill a Pentium with the f00f bug), but when I do cat/proc/cpuinfo, it mentions all of them. Presumably the Linux kernel has workarounds for them all.
As a youngun', I was told by an adult friend that if you closed a pair of scisors fast enough, the point where the two blades crossed would move faster than the speed of light. It was presented as a sort of paradox about how something could go faster than light. (Note to Marilyn Vos Savant: it's 'cause the thing moving faster than light has no mass, not 'cause Einstein was wrong.)
Actually, I may be the dope - I never verified if this was true. Anyone know?
I was taking a drive with my girlfriend's father, talking about computers, and I mentioned that I dont run windows... He sat there with a blank look on his face.
I, personally, push mine hard enough to crash freebsd from time to time.
From your description, it sounds like you pushed your girlfriend's father hard enough to crash his O/S too.
This will be the closest you ever get in school to what it's like to be a real world programmer.
Your suggestions are good, but I would say our questioner's experience dealing with differing compiler abilities is just like that of a real world programmer. What I work on requires a bit of fighting with the MS compiler, gcc, Sun Forte and Workshop to get them to agree on code.
Also, just because STL implements string classes doesn't mean a student shouldn't try to do the same thing. But I'll skip the tedious teacher talk.
When I first saw this post, I thought - what a jackass moderator, marking this post as redundant. I mean, he's just trying to help. Then I realized that that's exactly what posting a mirror is: redundant and informative.
Chris Carter was kidnapped by aliens who implanted a remote mind-control device and sent him back, erasing his memory of the kidnapping. Now they're having him cancel the show.
I think CNN and Daily Variety are in on it too - I heard a tape of Daily Variety's interview and Carter said "It's the tenth inning. We want to go out with a touchdown." Only aliens would make a mistake like that, and Daily Variety edited it to cover for him.
"Unfortunately, I seriously doubt there would be any real military uses for quite a while"
how is that unfortunate?
Nice to see someone raise that question. Anyway, to address the issue of whether this is going to be available to GI Joe anytime soon - I don't think that's the expectation of this project. It's funded by DARPA, after all, so think of this as military brain-storming. A military use may come out of it some day, but the project won't be considered a failure if it doesn't. As many have pointed out, the civilian uses may be more important than the military ones, anyway.
It seems like law enforcemnet has a bad habit of picking fights that they can never win.
Good point - that's a great way to stay well funded. You just have to maintain the belief that you're getting somewhere, so you periodically display large amounts of intercepted drugs/money/weapons, and keep convincing people that you're fighting against something that's bad, so you pressure Hollywood and TV producers to de-glamorize drug use.
Slashdot Mirror
It would have to be the Ruputer. If only I could read Japanese and could operate one...
So might a visit to a Scottish pub on bubble-and-squeak night in winter.
The hard part was convincing my landlord to release my apartment under the GPL.
Speaking for Leon Phelps, the Ladies' Man (warning - tripod popups), I have to say you're right about the height, but you should see a doctor about that shape problem.
There have been some great comments to this article (which I haven't read) but I got to wondering: if you're going to run in a sort of comatose state where your only ability to change the system is to reboot it, why bother booting in the first place?
My idea was to use the Linix BIOS or something similar, and run your packet filtering from there. Then you can forget the hard drive and floppy (though you'd probably want that floppy to be able to flash your BIOS with updates and the like.)
Does this make sense to anyone? Or is there something I'm overlooking like maybe that while running as a BIOS, Linux wouldn't be able to talk to the network interfaces, say?
I guess if you're going to go to that kind of trouble, you might as well have an embedded system, or run from flash RAM, as others have mentioned. Still, it's always fun to get hardware and software to do things beyond what they were designed to do.
Humorless Coward.
Or Slashdot, for that matter...
I've had friends like that too.
I'm waiting for a clear monitor grille. I want to be able to see into my monitor's electron gun.
Yeah, this bugs me, so generally I open a new window for a link. This is why I actually prefer browsing on Linux over Windows, since with most Linux browsers that I use, the middle-button opens a new window, while in Windows, it seems to be a right-click, then select from pop-up.
It's funny how these trivial things make a difference.
Figure out which two species are the least likely to go extinct, put one of each in a cage, and see which one lives. Murdoch will broadcast the results on Fox as "When Endangered Species Attack."
I don't know much about the details of any of these (other than how easy it was to kill a Pentium with the f00f bug), but when I do cat /proc/cpuinfo, it mentions all of them. Presumably the Linux kernel has workarounds for them all.
With one of those big green backplanes, Olaf could probably put together quite a cluster.
Actually, I may be the dope - I never verified if this was true. Anyone know?
Maybe this is a reason to pursue development of an all-optical solar-powered computer.
Just killing time while my program compiles and the site becomes available again.
They would have done even more damage if it had been a Python book.
I, personally, push mine hard enough to crash freebsd from time to time.
From your description, it sounds like you pushed your girlfriend's father hard enough to crash his O/S too.
Your suggestions are good, but I would say our questioner's experience dealing with differing compiler abilities is just like that of a real world programmer. What I work on requires a bit of fighting with the MS compiler, gcc, Sun Forte and Workshop to get them to agree on code.
Also, just because STL implements string classes doesn't mean a student shouldn't try to do the same thing. But I'll skip the tedious teacher talk.
When I first saw this post, I thought - what a jackass moderator, marking this post as redundant. I mean, he's just trying to help. Then I realized that that's exactly what posting a mirror is: redundant and informative.
I think CNN and Daily Variety are in on it too - I heard a tape of Daily Variety's interview and Carter said "It's the tenth inning. We want to go out with a touchdown." Only aliens would make a mistake like that, and Daily Variety edited it to cover for him.
how is that unfortunate?
Nice to see someone raise that question. Anyway, to address the issue of whether this is going to be available to GI Joe anytime soon - I don't think that's the expectation of this project. It's funded by DARPA, after all, so think of this as military brain-storming. A military use may come out of it some day, but the project won't be considered a failure if it doesn't. As many have pointed out, the civilian uses may be more important than the military ones, anyway.
- Get an old POS computer and monitor.
- Install Linux, including X.
- On a buddy's Windows machine, make a bitmap of the whole screen, with several MS applications prominently featured.
- On the POS Linux box, run X with no window manager and don't run any applications.
- Set that bitmap as the background on your POS Linux box.
Let the marshals confiscate that box, while they pass by your own, super-leet computer that doesn't even look like a computer.You get what you pay for.
Good point - that's a great way to stay well funded. You just have to maintain the belief that you're getting somewhere, so you periodically display large amounts of intercepted drugs/money/weapons, and keep convincing people that you're fighting against something that's bad, so you pressure Hollywood and TV producers to de-glamorize drug use.