I bought one of these kind of meeces 3 or 4 years ago but I can't seem to find the info or URL where I got them. It was some company that's been selling these for a while. They actually work very well once you get used to using your arm instead of your wrist. And they are far less fatiguing than a "normal" mouse. I didn't use it much because it only had the two button mouse capability with no ability to "cord" so it was useless under X. They came out with a three button version but, as I said, I can't find the company inof or a URL to go buy one. If I could I would.
I heard the news on the radio as I was driving to work (I work on an Army base in the DC Metro area). At first it was very surreal. But when they said that the first WTC building collapced I was in shock. Then when the second one fell I got quite angry. I know many people who work in the Pentagon and I don't know if they are ok or not.
I've been around during a number of terrorist attacks (Ramstein AFB bombing in '81, Octoberfest bomb in '80, the Beirut Embesy bombing in '82) and this is the worst one I've seen. Not just because it's on US soil. But because of the way it was done: Using civilian aircraft as weapons.
I will not start pointing fingers at anyone until there's proof that they were responsible. However, I will strongly advocate a strong and very hard retaliation. When the Embesy was bombed we (the soldiers and civilians) all knew who did it and where they were but TPTB would not let us do anything about it. Maybe if we had done something back then this wouldn't have happened today.
I have a video from TLC on this showing the guys with the rockets that I got 5 or 6 years ago. I also got one on Tornados and one on Huricanes. Very cool stuff. You should be able to buy them from their web site.
proof that even the underdog can pull dirty marketing tricks =("
I'm not so sure that you could call this a "dirty trick". The MHz myth was expounded on here in/. recently. It'll be a nice change of pace to see chips benchmarked by true performance rather than artificial measurments.
I grew up and lived in Europe and it was very interesting to see the social standing of teachers. They were at a higher level than doctors or lawyers or pretty much anything. My father was a teacher and I saw many times when we'd go places, like a resteraunt, and it would be crowed with a waiting line, once they found out he was a teacher he was given priority over everyone else (sometimes to the point of the staff asking people to give up thear tables). Granted this was in the 70's and 80's.
If the US were to give teachers that kind of social status and pay the problem in the schools would be half solved.
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If actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
It's nice to see E still moving along. The more Desktop/WM's we have the better off we'll be. One of the things that seems to be lost in the ranting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H discussions about "The Linux Desktop" is that with all the different GUI options available we can make Linux look like anything we want and thus it will fit into any environment. If you need it to look like WinXX, CDE, Mac or Bob The Builder's desktop it can.
I can see Java overtaking C/C++, especially garnering the VB people. But it's likely that it'll still be in second place to...
Wait for it...
COBOL!
Yes, that old, supposedly dead language is still the #1 for new development projects in the world.
If you think COBOL is a dinosaur and should be put to sleep you might want to do a google for COBOL. It's got things that you wouldn't believe (OO, x-platform, the best data manipulation, etc.).
For those who will probably rate this as flamebait all I can say is that it's a shame these non-developers with no knowledge of the development world can have such a say.
There was an organization called CASA (Capitol Area SysOps Association) back in the day and we used to have swap meets every couple of months or so. In the Good Ol' Days® when the BBS was king the organization had 200+ members from all around the DC Metro area. But it started to decline in the late 90's.
OC, all us BBS SysOps of the 80's and 90's are now running 'Net things of some kind. While the 'Net is definitely a Good Thing®, I do miss the comradery and community of the BBS days. Nothing in the 'Net world comes close.
I just got one of the laptops from QLITech and it's a really great system. The support they provide is top quality; call and talk directly to a tech person or email and get a reply right away. As an added plus, they support (and will preload) any of the major distributions.
God give me the strength to survive the rantings of distro wars!
I have been running Linux since November or December of 1991. I've seen just about every distro that's ever been out starting with HJ Lu's boot/root floppies. Why myst people waste so much time an effors on distro bashing? It's Linux! That's all that matters. I have tried all of the "big 7" (see LWN's Distro page) from their early releases to date. When it comes down to what counts there is no significent difference between them! They all work and work well. They will do the job that needs to be done if you have a resonably compitent SysAdmin to run them. Just like any other *NIX. I've also used Free/Net/OpenBSD and Solaris any they also work. If all the energy that is currentlly used to rant about Distros/OS/Licenses was put towards constructive things the world would be saying "Micro-WHO?" right now.
I know no one is going to actually listen to me. But I'll keep tilting at windmills till I can't ride any more.
Red Hat Linux version 19.3 plays all of your games, runs all of your apps, is.NET compatible and FREE (as in beer).
It's very likely that it will also be FREE (as in speech). And that will make it an even more powerful choice. The average user may not understand the difference between the two but the industry is catching on and it's definitely making a difference.
I don't know, I like the noise. I have 7 systems running all the time and the noise helps me get to sleep at night. And I've been saving lots of money in heating bills in the winter.:-)
Ok, this is completely insane. I post a message with good, strong, valid technical information and it gets moded down as flame bait?!? No wonder/. is such a joke WRT having worthwhile information content. I would challange anyone to do research into system performance and find anything that would prove that my original post was in any way flame bait.
Ok, so it's now very obvious that MS has Software Libre in it's crosshairs. What can we do about it? Here is just one schlubs opinilns:
Do NOT flame back!
Let the issue sit for a couple of days; no one respond to it at all in public
Once some time to cool off has passed the "names" of the Software Libre community should get together and form a unified reply in a very calm and reasoned manor.
Do NOT flame back!
I hate to say it but ESR, and especially RMS, should not respond to this in any way whatsoever. While they may be right in what they say the way they say it doesn't help the movement at all.
Go on about the business of making Software Libre the best it can be
MS is now going to turn it's marketing weight on us. That much is clear. How we, as a community, respond to it will make all the difference in the world. The key is to keep a cool head.
A good analogy of this would be if someone were to call your mother many bad names. If you get all blown out by it it just makes you liik bad, like you're an unreasoning baffoon. However, when you realize that the person doing the name calling doesn't even know your mother or anything about her you see that they are just making noise. If you react as if it were all just noise and continue to proove your point with intellegance and reason, the name caller is them made to look the fool that he is.
I wouldn't doubt that it could take 20 years for a manned Mars flight. If you knoe the history of the moon shots you know that it's a damn miracle that they ever worked at all. Just shove some guys into a tin can and blast them off into space! Yes, it was super cool and it did turn out great. But they technology that was used really wasn't up to the task. It was they men and women who were behind the metal and machines that made it possible. And I honestly don't know if we have any people like that around anymore. A good reason for this can be seen in this article published in the May issue of ComputerUser.
For those out there who would like to know the answer to this and also help an organization that is doing more for "our" rights than the ACLU and EFF combined go to the US Internet Industry Association web site and get more information. Not that those organizations aren't doing great things; just that the USIIA is doing much more. This is an organization that everyone in the tech community really needs to get behind. I personally know for a fact that they have a much better rapore with those who make the laws than anyone. (Living here in the Washington DC Metro area has some benifits, though now many).
From what I gather from reading the info it's not a matter of RTLinux switching to NetBSD but one of them adding NetBSD as another option. Now they have Linux based AND NetBSD based solutions. This is definitely a Good Thing<tm>.
The whole GPL vs BSD licesening comment is rubbish, though. There's no problem making money on GPL software. At least I haven't had any.
and, there are some people in the chain of command, under the auspices that the Department of Defense owns the software and that THEY didn't agree to the licensing
As someone who work for the Army for his entire working life as a computer operator then a programmer I can say that the Army owns any code developed on army time. Even if some of the work was done off duty, if it was done by an employee it still is owned by the Army. FWIW, though, all code developed by DOD that isn't classified as Top Secret is, by definition, "open source". DoD owns the implimentation of it but the code is public property. There's laws and regulations that govern this. You should be able to find the Army related ones at the US Army Publishing Agency's web site.
I remember playing "Pool of Radience" when it first came out. I thought it was very enjoyable. The FPS games tend to get quite boring, really.
The one thing I remember about gaming is the old board turn based games. Simple ones like "D-Day" were even more stimulating than the current crop of FPS'. I think one of the issues is attention span (or the lack thereof). The people who game these days lose interest in what they are doing if they haven't killed something in the last 10 seconds. The old board games required some thought and planing and stradagy. That is, in my opinion, wht turn pased games aren't as popular.
Man, most these posts that are getting moderated up as funny are really lame. At least mine was from a movie reference that anyone over the age of 10 should get.
Oh well, moderate this down as off-topic. Who needs karma anyway...
Society is nowhere near ready to deal with human cloning. By this I mean the actual development and groth of a full human clone. I think that the medical potential of cloning parts might be worth the work (didn't someone clone/grow an ear in the lab recently?) but making a full person isn't something we can handle.
I would be worried aout the status of clones and how they would fit into our current society. I can see something like the telepath story line in B5 happening very easily. After all, we already spend an exorbitent amount of time trying to place different races, nationalities, cultures & religions into various places of superiority or inferiority.
I know of a number of small ISP's still going strong. Most of them were old BBS Sysops way back in the day who migrated to the 'Net in the early to mid-90's. About half of my contemporaries have ended up being bought out (and making a very nice profit from it, too) and the others are still plugging away. There's nothing wrong with building up a business that becomes a profitable commodity in and of itself. Hell, if the price was right I'd sell my company, too. (Though I doubt anyone would want to buy my little bitty business for a couple'a mill).
It is nature that the big eat the small. The one thing that seperates the online/tech world from nature is that those of us who are the equivelent of Mountain Men, cutting a path through the online wilderness, will still be blazing trails even if the little camp that we founded turns into a big city. There's pleanty of unexplored territory out there.
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I bought one of these kind of meeces 3 or 4 years ago but I can't seem to find the info or URL where I got them. It was some company that's been selling these for a while. They actually work very well once you get used to using your arm instead of your wrist. And they are far less fatiguing than a "normal" mouse. I didn't use it much because it only had the two button mouse capability with no ability to "cord" so it was useless under X. They came out with a three button version but, as I said, I can't find the company inof or a URL to go buy one. If I could I would.
I've been around during a number of terrorist attacks (Ramstein AFB bombing in '81, Octoberfest bomb in '80, the Beirut Embesy bombing in '82) and this is the worst one I've seen. Not just because it's on US soil. But because of the way it was done: Using civilian aircraft as weapons.
I will not start pointing fingers at anyone until there's proof that they were responsible. However, I will strongly advocate a strong and very hard retaliation. When the Embesy was bombed we (the soldiers and civilians) all knew who did it and where they were but TPTB would not let us do anything about it. Maybe if we had done something back then this wouldn't have happened today.
I have a video from TLC on this showing the guys with the rockets that I got 5 or 6 years ago. I also got one on Tornados and one on Huricanes. Very cool stuff. You should be able to buy them from their web site.
I'm not so sure that you could call this a "dirty trick". The MHz myth was expounded on here in /. recently. It'll be a nice change of pace to see chips benchmarked by true performance rather than artificial measurments.
But that's just my opinion.
If the US were to give teachers that kind of social status and pay the problem in the schools would be half solved.
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If actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
It's nice to see E still moving along. The more Desktop/WM's we have the better off we'll be. One of the things that seems to be lost in the ranting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H discussions about "The Linux Desktop" is that with all the different GUI options available we can make Linux look like anything we want and thus it will fit into any environment. If you need it to look like WinXX, CDE, Mac or Bob The Builder's desktop it can.
Wait for it...
COBOL!
Yes, that old, supposedly dead language is still the #1 for new development projects in the world.
If you think COBOL is a dinosaur and should be put to sleep you might want to do a google for COBOL. It's got things that you wouldn't believe (OO, x-platform, the best data manipulation, etc.).
For those who will probably rate this as flamebait all I can say is that it's a shame these non-developers with no knowledge of the development world can have such a say.
OC, all us BBS SysOps of the 80's and 90's are now running 'Net things of some kind. While the 'Net is definitely a Good Thing®, I do miss the comradery and community of the BBS days. Nothing in the 'Net world comes close.
Anyone planning a celibration in the DC Metro area? Being disabled, I will not be able to make anything that more than an hour away from me.
I just got one of the laptops from QLITech and it's a really great system. The support they provide is top quality; call and talk directly to a tech person or email and get a reply right away. As an added plus, they support (and will preload) any of the major distributions.
I have been running Linux since November or December of 1991. I've seen just about every distro that's ever been out starting with HJ Lu's boot/root floppies. Why myst people waste so much time an effors on distro bashing? It's Linux! That's all that matters. I have tried all of the "big 7" (see LWN's Distro page) from their early releases to date. When it comes down to what counts there is no significent difference between them! They all work and work well. They will do the job that needs to be done if you have a resonably compitent SysAdmin to run them. Just like any other *NIX. I've also used Free/Net/OpenBSD and Solaris any they also work. If all the energy that is currentlly used to rant about Distros/OS/Licenses was put towards constructive things the world would be saying "Micro-WHO?" right now.
I know no one is going to actually listen to me. But I'll keep tilting at windmills till I can't ride any more.
It's very likely that it will also be FREE (as in speech). And that will make it an even more powerful choice. The average user may not understand the difference between the two but the industry is catching on and it's definitely making a difference.
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I don't know, I like the noise. I have 7 systems running all the time and the noise helps me get to sleep at night. And I've been saving lots of money in heating bills in the winter. :-)
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Ok, this is completely insane. I post a message with good, strong, valid technical information and it gets moded down as flame bait?!? No wonder /. is such a joke WRT having worthwhile information content. I would challange anyone to do research into system performance and find anything that would prove that my original post was in any way flame bait.
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- Do NOT flame back!
- Let the issue sit for a couple of days; no one respond to it at all in public
- Once some time to cool off has passed the "names" of the Software Libre community should get together and form a unified reply in a very calm and reasoned manor.
- Do NOT flame back!
- I hate to say it but ESR, and especially RMS, should not respond to this in any way whatsoever. While they may be right in what they say the way they say it doesn't help the movement at all.
- Go on about the business of making Software Libre the best it can be
MS is now going to turn it's marketing weight on us. That much is clear. How we, as a community, respond to it will make all the difference in the world. The key is to keep a cool head.A good analogy of this would be if someone were to call your mother many bad names. If you get all blown out by it it just makes you liik bad, like you're an unreasoning baffoon. However, when you realize that the person doing the name calling doesn't even know your mother or anything about her you see that they are just making noise. If you react as if it were all just noise and continue to proove your point with intellegance and reason, the name caller is them made to look the fool that he is.
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I wouldn't doubt that it could take 20 years for a manned Mars flight. If you knoe the history of the moon shots you know that it's a damn miracle that they ever worked at all. Just shove some guys into a tin can and blast them off into space! Yes, it was super cool and it did turn out great. But they technology that was used really wasn't up to the task. It was they men and women who were behind the metal and machines that made it possible. And I honestly don't know if we have any people like that around anymore. A good reason for this can be seen in this article published in the May issue of ComputerUser.
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For those out there who would like to know the answer to this and also help an organization that is doing more for "our" rights than the ACLU and EFF combined go to the US Internet Industry Association web site and get more information. Not that those organizations aren't doing great things; just that the USIIA is doing much more. This is an organization that everyone in the tech community really needs to get behind. I personally know for a fact that they have a much better rapore with those who make the laws than anyone. (Living here in the Washington DC Metro area has some benifits, though now many).
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The whole GPL vs BSD licesening comment is rubbish, though. There's no problem making money on GPL software. At least I haven't had any.
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RedHat 7.1 is open and available at ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat! Go slashdot the T1 it's on. :-)
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As someone who work for the Army for his entire working life as a computer operator then a programmer I can say that the Army owns any code developed on army time. Even if some of the work was done off duty, if it was done by an employee it still is owned by the Army. FWIW, though, all code developed by DOD that isn't classified as Top Secret is, by definition, "open source". DoD owns the implimentation of it but the code is public property. There's laws and regulations that govern this. You should be able to find the Army related ones at the US Army Publishing Agency's web site.
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And she still is, even with the 70's hair and funky costumes.
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The one thing I remember about gaming is the old board turn based games. Simple ones like "D-Day" were even more stimulating than the current crop of FPS'. I think one of the issues is attention span (or the lack thereof). The people who game these days lose interest in what they are doing if they haven't killed something in the last 10 seconds. The old board games required some thought and planing and stradagy. That is, in my opinion, wht turn pased games aren't as popular.
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Oh well, moderate this down as off-topic. Who needs karma anyway...
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I would be worried aout the status of clones and how they would fit into our current society. I can see something like the telepath story line in B5 happening very easily. After all, we already spend an exorbitent amount of time trying to place different races, nationalities, cultures & religions into various places of superiority or inferiority.
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It is nature that the big eat the small. The one thing that seperates the online/tech world from nature is that those of us who are the equivelent of Mountain Men, cutting a path through the online wilderness, will still be blazing trails even if the little camp that we founded turns into a big city. There's pleanty of unexplored territory out there.
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