I don't know about the prices of AT&Ts Services. Here in Switzerland receiving SMS is free. My Provider (Diax) offers me an E-Mail to SMS gateway. I can have it set to @mobile.diax.ch (or so) or I can configure it to.mobile@mobile.diax.ch. The receiving of E-mail via SMS costs 20 Rp. (15 cents) per SMS. By the use of individual usernames you can protect yourself from spam just as good as with any other e-mail-adress. I think, that's one way to go.
Luckily, the Linux-Version does not have this hardcoded slashdot-effect. You can download the whole thing in one big chunk.
But then, the whole Windows-version with it's 16 MByte file and the whole dir-structure is on the mirrors as well. Has anybody downloaded it and run seperately? Maybe you can get it to work without the (not so) smart-downloader?
I'll try this at home, after I installed the linux-version.
Reverse engineering might be tolerable to have a dvd-player run on some more platforms (as well as on other *nix-OSes).
However, porting a dvd-player to the S/390 sounds rather absurd and funny to me: "Honestly, your honour, I just wanted to watch 'The Matrix' on my S/390!"
I have a RealMagic Hollywood+ DVD-Encoder. I asked Sigmadesign if there will be drivers for this (IMHO excellent card) for Linux.
I guess you know the answer already... (No, there won't be any in the near future!)
So then, I still have to use Windows to watch the DVDs. Especially when I want to make VHS-copies of borrowed DVDs.
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Ahh... come on! Have mercy with this poor old grandpa of computer-technology.
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Yes, poor poor 8-Bitty.
But I just love the idea of using that old gear to serve webpages. Had to printout this article to show it to my fellow hackers at tonights LUG-Meeting.
Now if I only'd remember where I put my old C64... I could let it serve the webpages right off the 1541. 170 KByte should be enough for some text. (And if not, I'll pack the rest on a C-90-Tape, using the Datassette =:-) )
Now THIS would be interesting then. The Swiss Post has their website on http://www.post.ch
But I don't think they'd sue anyone for using the word "post" in a domain name. What for anyway? They have better things to do. And besides, everyone in CH knows that "Die Post" is the guys with the yellow cars delivering you paperspam, bills and parcels with hardware you ordered via the web.
I look forward to seeing "best supported card under Linux" on their website one of these days :-)
Actually, 3dfx could make this claim. I had some discussions within the local LUG (LUG Switzerland). Some brought in, that the Voodoo3 lost it's throne when it comes to speed. Sure, technology advances and faster and faster gfx-chips will show up.
But hell, what's the benefit of all the power, when you can't use it?
To the people of nVidia: I think, there are plenty of examples that good hardware sells, even if the drivers are made open source.
Hehe. Yeah, that's a feature, the PCs are lacking today. Besides, I still consider the "Guru" more stylish than the BSOD. =:-)
About the flashing LED: When I got my first PC in 1996 (IBM Aptiva) it came with APM and all that stuff. Gee, I remember looking all puzzled as the screen went black and the Power-LED started to blink (showing the Compu was in power-safe-mode).
Amiga was a great machine. I guess I need to replace that broken power-supply on my A3000-T someday.
Now i can see that IBM sells its NetFinity servers but it is still pushing the AS/400 and RS/6000 series as the REAL servers! And I just dont see Intel based machines being able to take on the BIG tasks that a lot of heavy iron from IBM does. And I just dont see an Intel box working in the place of an Sun EU10K system (*droll*). Not just cause of the hardware, but also cause Linux is still not as developed as the other Unix's.......
A lot (if not the most) of the code in the Linux-Kernel was written by hobby-coders. Just how many of them can afford one of those big machines you mentioned? Second hand intel-gear sometimes costs next to nothing, depending of how old it is. And we all know that Linux runs happy on a 486.
That's what BigBusiness don't get. There are quite numerous distributions around and they differ quite notably in flavour. Take (for example) Corel, SuSE and Slackware. They're probably as different as it can get. Corel targets the Newbie. SuSE can be for Newbies also but can also be used for server and requires to read some manuals (at least when you use YaST-1). Slackware on the other hand comes with a rudimentary setup-program, uses a totally different boot-concept (BSD) and is rather for the experienced user.
But guess what? You take the source of a particular program, compile and run it.
It's kind of using either chili or pepper. It varies in flavour but it's hot all the same. =:-)
How intuitive is it, when you need to press the RESET-Key-combination to start using the computer, and how intuitive is it, when you need to press "START" to end your session?
On my Linuxbox, I type "startx" to start the GUI, and I click on "exit" to exit the GUI. That's what I call intuitive. And M$ is not gonna change that any time soon.
Well... who said that using a computer requires no skills? When you want to drive a car, you need a license too.
I remember when I got my Amiga, two weeks later, the machine started to behave really weird. The computer would suddenly freeze with a black screen and I had no clue what was wrong. I phoned up some friends and asked them, what this could be since it only happened when I booted the Workbench. One mentioned a virus called "Byte Bandit" and told me, how to remove it. So I cleared it off the disks and three days later I read in a Mag that there are virus-checkers that help you removing those viruses.
Note that I had to know what write-protection-tabs are for, I needed to know how to install new bootblocks and how a virus on an Amiga actually works.
Todays Newbies often show a great amount of arrogance to computers. "WTF do I need a manual? I want the computer to do what I tell it and I want it to understand what I tell it! I don't read any manuals, reading sucks! I want videoclips!" I often tell them, that it'd be good invested time to just try out things, read a manual or a book. All I get to hear is: "I have no time for this learning stuff!" And then, they burn up hours and hours just to figure out, how to print the groceries-list with Excel...
Therefore, when there ever will be a linux-virus, I think it'll mostly harm those arrogant dumbsters running any program as root since they don't know better. And IMHO, they deserve it!
"Wer nicht hören will muss fühlen!" (Who don't want's to listen must suffer)
I came across this URL http://freenet.sourceforge.net
They want to build a web, where you cannot say, where a particular file is stored and therefore making it hard to take any content off of it. Have a look, seems quite interesting to me.
Slashdot Mirror
What can we do?
File a lawsuit?
Nah... there has to be a better way.
No, it just'll work well for them. Why not let the batteries fill up while your not using the laptop?
Way cool idea!
Next time I drive my car, I'm gonna hit some trees on purpose so that I won't hurt anybody else by accident.
YOu can bet on it, that if you want to download that one rare dancemix of your favourite band you'll get the parts 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8 out of 10.
At least that was my experience with it. If it works for you, be happy. I prefer using gnutell, napster or imesh. Or IRC.
I don't know about the prices of AT&Ts Services. Here in Switzerland receiving SMS is free. My Provider (Diax) offers me an E-Mail to SMS gateway. I can have it set to @mobile.diax.ch (or so) or I can configure it to .mobile@mobile.diax.ch. The receiving of E-mail via SMS costs 20 Rp. (15 cents) per SMS. By the use of individual usernames you can protect yourself from spam just as good as with any other e-mail-adress. I think, that's one way to go.
My H+ works fine. (With Windows, that is)
So be it off-topic, but...
My co-worker's surname is "Ogg".
Although I don't think he'll understand a word (he's no geek, no techie and he doesn't speak english) I'll tell him the URL about all this. Hehehe.
Luckily, the Linux-Version does not have this hardcoded slashdot-effect. You can download the whole thing in one big chunk.
But then, the whole Windows-version with it's 16 MByte file and the whole dir-structure is on the mirrors as well. Has anybody downloaded it and run seperately? Maybe you can get it to work without the (not so) smart-downloader?
I'll try this at home, after I installed the linux-version.
I can't see the point.
There are lots of IRC-Servers out there in the net. Why cry when one tries to fuck with it's users?
Reverse engineering might be tolerable to have a dvd-player run on some more platforms (as well as on other *nix-OSes).
However, porting a dvd-player to the S/390 sounds rather absurd and funny to me:
"Honestly, your honour, I just wanted to watch 'The Matrix' on my S/390!"
I have a RealMagic Hollywood+ DVD-Encoder. I asked Sigmadesign if there will be drivers for this (IMHO excellent card) for Linux.
I guess you know the answer already...
(No, there won't be any in the near future!)
So then, I still have to use Windows to watch the DVDs. Especially when I want to make VHS-copies of borrowed DVDs.
Ahh... come on! Have mercy with this poor old grandpa of computer-technology.
=:-)
Yes, poor poor 8-Bitty.
But I just love the idea of using that old gear to serve webpages. Had to printout this article to show it to my fellow hackers at tonights LUG-Meeting.
Now if I only'd remember where I put my old C64... I could let it serve the webpages right off the 1541. 170 KByte should be enough for some text. (And if not, I'll pack the rest on a C-90-Tape, using the Datassette =:-) )
Some tidbit about the 5110:
When you send it a SMS containing 160 dots (.), it crashes when you want to read the SMS.
Though, this is somewhat old and should have been fixed in newer versions.
IBM AT Keyboard rox!
The best keyboard any heavy-typster can get!
I love it.
What do we need shortcut-keys, when we have shells with command-completion?
Now THIS would be interesting then. The Swiss Post has their website on http://www.post.ch
But I don't think they'd sue anyone for using the word "post" in a domain name. What for anyway? They have better things to do. And besides, everyone in CH knows that "Die Post" is the guys with the yellow cars delivering you paperspam, bills and parcels with hardware you ordered via the web.
I guess they even had it trademarked long long before the internet, maybe even before the first computer was switched on.
Coca-Cola is about 110 years old or so. Though, I prefer Migros Eistee (VERY popular in Switzerland), that was invented 1981.
I look forward to seeing "best supported card under Linux" on their website one of these days
:-)
Actually, 3dfx could make this claim. I had some discussions within the local LUG (LUG Switzerland). Some brought in, that the Voodoo3 lost it's throne when it comes to speed. Sure, technology advances and faster and faster gfx-chips will show up.
But hell, what's the benefit of all the power, when you can't use it?
To the people of nVidia: I think, there are plenty of examples that good hardware sells, even if the drivers are made open source.
Hehe. Yeah, that's a feature, the PCs are lacking today. Besides, I still consider the "Guru" more stylish than the BSOD. =:-)
About the flashing LED: When I got my first PC in 1996 (IBM Aptiva) it came with APM and all that stuff. Gee, I remember looking all puzzled as the screen went black and the Power-LED started to blink (showing the Compu was in power-safe-mode).
Amiga was a great machine. I guess I need to replace that broken power-supply on my A3000-T someday.
Celebrate it!
Open your Window (nah, those in the house, man!) and shout "Guru Meditation" to the world!
Now i can see that IBM sells its NetFinity servers but it is still pushing the AS/400 and RS/6000 series as the REAL servers! And I just dont see Intel based machines being able to take on the BIG tasks that a lot of heavy iron from IBM does. And I just dont see an Intel box working in the place of an Sun EU10K system (*droll*). Not just cause of the hardware, but also cause Linux is still not as developed as the other Unix's.......
A lot (if not the most) of the code in the Linux-Kernel was written by hobby-coders. Just how many of them can afford one of those big machines you mentioned? Second hand intel-gear sometimes costs next to nothing, depending of how old it is. And we all know that Linux runs happy on a 486.
Linux is forking, but then it is not.
That's what BigBusiness don't get. There are quite numerous distributions around and they differ quite notably in flavour. Take (for example) Corel, SuSE and Slackware. They're probably as different as it can get. Corel targets the Newbie. SuSE can be for Newbies also but can also be used for server and requires to read some manuals (at least when you use YaST-1). Slackware on the other hand comes with a rudimentary setup-program, uses a totally different boot-concept (BSD) and is rather for the experienced user.
But guess what? You take the source of a particular program, compile and run it.
It's kind of using either chili or pepper. It varies in flavour but it's hot all the same. =:-)
How intuitive is it, when you need to press the RESET-Key-combination to start using the computer, and how intuitive is it, when you need to press "START" to end your session?
On my Linuxbox, I type "startx" to start the GUI, and I click on "exit" to exit the GUI.
That's what I call intuitive. And M$ is not gonna change that any time soon.
Well... who said that using a computer requires no skills? When you want to drive a car, you need a license too.
I remember when I got my Amiga, two weeks later, the machine started to behave really weird. The computer would suddenly freeze with a black screen and I had no clue what was wrong. I phoned up some friends and asked them, what this could be since it only happened when I booted the Workbench. One mentioned a virus called "Byte Bandit" and told me, how to remove it.
So I cleared it off the disks and three days later I read in a Mag that there are virus-checkers that help you removing those viruses.
Note that I had to know what write-protection-tabs are for, I needed to know how to install new bootblocks and how a virus on an Amiga actually works.
Todays Newbies often show a great amount of arrogance to computers. "WTF do I need a manual? I want the computer to do what I tell it and I want it to understand what I tell it! I don't read any manuals, reading sucks! I want videoclips!"
I often tell them, that it'd be good invested time to just try out things, read a manual or a book. All I get to hear is: "I have no time for this learning stuff!" And then, they burn up hours and hours just to figure out, how to print the groceries-list with Excel...
Therefore, when there ever will be a linux-virus, I think it'll mostly harm those arrogant dumbsters running any program as root since they don't know better.
And IMHO, they deserve it!
"Wer nicht hören will muss fühlen!"
(Who don't want's to listen must suffer)
Anyone have a better translation for this?
I came across this URL http://freenet.sourceforge.net
They want to build a web, where you cannot say, where a particular file is stored and therefore making it hard to take any content off of it. Have a look, seems quite interesting to me.