I've lost 20 kg (I think that's 40 pounds?) since October. Though, it wasn't because of the hack-diet but my doctor said I should do something about my way too high blood-pressure. Either lose some weigh or eat chemicals. So I tried the first.
After I've lost about 5 kg, one day I was a bit late and I had to run to catch the train. I almost lost my pants. =:-) Since then, I lost another 15 kg and I know I'll get to ideal weight someday around summer or so.
I often use to walk home (about 5 km) from work. Ok, you need to take the time to do this. I look at this as somekind of meditation. Often I have the best ideas about solving the problems with the linux-boxes at home when I take a walk. I do not really excercise. Bicycling from time to time maybe, okee.
Since I started, I noticed some positive side-effects. A friend of mine quit smoking. Apparently, his girlfriend told him something like: "If Ventilator can loose 10 kg of his weight in a few weeks, you can quit smoking as well!" =:-) And the best thing that happened to me was, when a girl I know for some years told me: "Hey, what've you done? You look remarkably thinner and better." That alone was worth it for sure.
Still, I have about 30 kg to go. I know, I'll make it.
Same in switzerland. All in all, it was a lame event, after the press has told us, what _might_ happen.
At least, I got a Y2K-Bug here! It's on my old 80286 DOS-Machine. The programs name is GraphicPacket V1.61 (HAM-Radio-Terminal) and it shows the date 01.01.100. (99 + 1, eh?) To make it sound even more apocalyptic, the TNC (modem that connects to the transceiver) get the date set by GraphicPacket and therefore has the same date.
(But don't tell anyone, that the program is still usable... (-:= )
I think, it's much more impressive for people if they can turn over three or four digits on the year-count, since that doesn't happen very often.
In Zurich (Switzerland) where I live, they decided to celebrate the beginning of the 20th century at it's correct beginning: 01.01.1901. The rest of the world however celebrated it at 01.01.1900 and when they did in Zurich, nobody noticed about it. They didn't want to be that embarassed again.
There won't be an end to the world! Why? Well, moneytalks of course.
End-of-the-world won't make anyone rich. There needs to be a huge advertising-campaign going on, but after the world ended, there won't be anyone left to watch the movie. Let alone there won't be cinemas to show it as well...
This guy clearly is a geek in some way. Now, a lot of you read the "Hellmouth" articles by Jon Katz and agreed, that many of us computergeeks were discriminated just for being other than "normal". But now, you discriminate someone, just for being other than you are. In german, we call that "Doppelmoral". I don't know if you can say that in english, double-moral.
Everyone's free to modificate his body the way one likes. Plastic surgery is just the same.
On the other hand, I'm already frightened, when I need to get a haircut. =:-)
MAybe if we annoy them with E-Mails asking how to watch the contents available only in WMA they will do something about it. When you do, remember to stay polite as in the Linux-Advocacy-HOWTO described.
After all, they won't just sit and watch them loose all the users of different platforms than windows. Remember: It worked with fox.com, it'll work again. At least it's worth a try.
You're right about the fee. At least in germany and in switzerland.
But then, tapes are analog, MiniDisc is digital. MiniDisc even has better soundquality than the average 128 kbps MP3 and Sony still sells them!
The SUISA (kind of swiss RIAA) tried to let the customer pay a fee for every writeable CD-ROM, because you can copy Audio-CDs on it. Now there are two sorts of writeable CDs available. The normal for Data and the expensive ones "specially designed" for music. Guess what? Digital Music is just data to me. =:-)
HURD is not "much like the Linux kernel." It is a microkernel; Linux is a monolithic kernel. How much more different could you get? You could make it closed source, put it in a big box and let people pay to use it. I'd rather prefer it being at least a bit like Linux in that way... =:-) CU, Ventilator
Just in case, there is another mirror here: http://killer.discordia.ch/Politics/Copyprotection .phtml
It's a friends website. I bet he will get a letter from those boneheads in the movie-industries. But hey, mirror that tool at all costs! When they want to send out dead trees to anyone, they have to write not 100 but 100'000 letters!
The strange thing is, being introverted myself, I am able to lay my soul bare in text, but completely shut myself in if it comes to a face-to-face encounter.
I know what you mean, though I don't know, why this is so. Maybe it's because when you do not talk directly to someone else, there is "no immediate danger". Don't know how to describe it otherwise.
I too had this problem, but then I just keep in mind that I can't get killed by telling a girl that I find her attractive or by admitting my sympathy. Worst thing that can happen is that you get a rejection. But hey, you wouldn't expect your code to run without errors after the first compiling either.
And then, you could always write a letter (by hand of course!) stating that you did not know how she would react if you told her live about your feelings and therefore decided to send her this letter.
It's not exactly the length of the key that matters. Well, actually it does matter. But it's more the number of bits and the resulting number of possibilities from this.
If you have one bit, you have two possibilities: 0 and 1. Now if you add a second bit to it, you double the possibilities: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Now take a third bit to it. That leaves you with eight possibilities (the four from the two bits with a 0 in front and another four from the two bit with a 1 in front) That is: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110 and 111. This continues over and over. Everytime you ad another bit, you double the number of possibilities, thus doubling the time needed to check them. Add two bits and you have four times the number of possibilities.
What is a handicap? Do you think it's legitimate (sp?) to kill a baby just because it's blind or deaf. Or even just because it can only see with one eye? I guess there are a lot of people out there that are deaf, visually impaired or otherwise handicapped. Most of them master life quite ok if not even better than "health" people.
Just think: This is the first step. Next comes you are allowed to kill people that get handicapped during an accident or some sort of sickness. Then come the color-blind, the obese... anything beyond "normality". Do we really want that?
Maybe I'm exagerating. Just my opinion.
Hitler tried the same and thank god, he was stopped!
If you want to kill anything that is handicapped and doesn't work as it was meant to be, then get rid off that buggy piece of software now!
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RPM is a very good installer. I've heard the Debian installer is good too. RPM are actually better than Installshield because they you always have to explicitly tell it to overwrite existing files. RPM keeps a database of what package each file belongs to.
RPM is good if you only use RPM (or DEB for Debian) and never compile anything yourself. I messed my SuSE (which I think is as userfriendly as RH) with a self-compiled version of Imlib. I had Imlib installed correctly, but since it was not out of an RPM, it was not in the RPM-Database and therefore other RPMs depending on it would not install! Of course I could have forced them to install, but then I'd be forcing every package soon.
You could go along with RPM pretty well. But think: not every program is available as an RPM. Far worse is that RPM for RH often don't quite work with SuSE (and vice-versa). And then is the fact, that I want to have X-applications installed to/usr/bin/X11R6 not to/usr/local/bin !
Now I changed to Slackware and have WindowMaker, ETerm and all that stuff self-compiled. GTK takes forever to compile, but it works. =:-)
What I also like about Slackware is that the scripts are not that cluttered (as are in SuSE). From that point of view, Slackware is far more userfriendly.
>If you read the.c file it says they have used >Becker's skeleton for ethernet drivers, but >everything else seems to be theirs (correct me if >I'm wrong)
Isn't that, what the GPL was ment for? To take an existing program (driver, script...), add your own extensions and changes and then give the results back to the community? I think so.
Nevertheless I think it's great 3Com cares about Linux and OpenSource like they do. I always used 3Com-Cards since they are reliable.
I remember I already had an A-1010 back in 1988. The A-1010 was the official external floppy-drive for the A1000. (You know, the one that looked like some sort of toaster.)
Oh yes, there are quite a number of songs you'll never hear on radio but that are still much better than mainstream.
Or there are tracks, you can't even buy anymore. Just try to get your hands on a legal copy of "What evil lurks" by The Prodigy. Since I had no other choice but use MP3 I think it's kind of legitimate.
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MPEG! Make DVD -> MPEG if you do.
After all, it's open standards we all want.
With innovations like preemptive multitasking,
The AmigaOS has run with pre-emptive multitasking since 1985.
In that case, the crusoe is definitely no option for me. You can't boil coffee at 48C... =:-)
I've lost 20 kg (I think that's 40 pounds?) since October. Though, it wasn't because of the hack-diet but my doctor said I should do something about my way too high blood-pressure. Either lose some weigh or eat chemicals. So I tried the first.
After I've lost about 5 kg, one day I was a bit late and I had to run to catch the train. I almost lost my pants. =:-) Since then, I lost another 15 kg and I know I'll get to ideal weight someday around summer or so.
I often use to walk home (about 5 km) from work. Ok, you need to take the time to do this. I look at this as somekind of meditation. Often I have the best ideas about solving the problems with the linux-boxes at home when I take a walk. I do not really excercise. Bicycling from time to time maybe, okee.
Since I started, I noticed some positive side-effects. A friend of mine quit smoking. Apparently, his girlfriend told him something like: "If Ventilator can loose 10 kg of his weight in a few weeks, you can quit smoking as well!" =:-)
And the best thing that happened to me was, when a girl I know for some years told me: "Hey, what've you done? You look remarkably thinner and better."
That alone was worth it for sure.
Still, I have about 30 kg to go. I know, I'll make it.
Same in switzerland. All in all, it was a lame event, after the press has told us, what _might_ happen.
At least, I got a Y2K-Bug here! It's on my old 80286 DOS-Machine. The programs name is GraphicPacket V1.61 (HAM-Radio-Terminal) and it shows the date 01.01.100. (99 + 1, eh?) To make it sound even more apocalyptic, the TNC (modem that connects to the transceiver) get the date set by GraphicPacket and therefore has the same date.
(But don't tell anyone, that the program is still usable... (-:= )
I think, it's much more impressive for people if they can turn over three or four digits on the year-count, since that doesn't happen very often.
In Zurich (Switzerland) where I live, they decided to celebrate the beginning of the 20th century at it's correct beginning: 01.01.1901. The rest of the world however celebrated it at 01.01.1900 and when they did in Zurich, nobody noticed about it. They didn't want to be that embarassed again.
There won't be an end to the world!
Why?
Well, moneytalks of course.
End-of-the-world won't make anyone rich. There needs to be a huge advertising-campaign going on, but after the world ended, there won't be anyone left to watch the movie. Let alone there won't be cinemas to show it as well...
CU, Ventilator
This guy clearly is a geek in some way. Now, a lot of you read the "Hellmouth" articles by Jon Katz and agreed, that many of us computergeeks were discriminated just for being other than "normal".
But now, you discriminate someone, just for being other than you are. In german, we call that "Doppelmoral". I don't know if you can say that in english, double-moral.
Everyone's free to modificate his body the way one likes. Plastic surgery is just the same.
On the other hand, I'm already frightened, when I need to get a haircut. =:-)
CU, Ventilator
MAybe if we annoy them with E-Mails asking how to watch the contents available only in WMA they will do something about it.
When you do, remember to stay polite as in the Linux-Advocacy-HOWTO described.
After all, they won't just sit and watch them loose all the users of different platforms than windows. Remember: It worked with fox.com, it'll work again. At least it's worth a try.
At least, they noticed us Linux-Users. So my E-Mail wasn't wasted at all.
You're right about the fee. At least in germany and in switzerland.
But then, tapes are analog, MiniDisc is digital. MiniDisc even has better soundquality than the average 128 kbps MP3 and Sony still sells them!
The SUISA (kind of swiss RIAA) tried to let the customer pay a fee for every writeable CD-ROM, because you can copy Audio-CDs on it. Now there are two sorts of writeable CDs available. The normal for Data and the expensive ones "specially designed" for music.
Guess what? Digital Music is just data to me. =:-)
I'd be happy with a version for my old (but gold) 80286 which is used as a packet-radio terminal and bedroom-light.
/.-effect is over I'll download it and try it on the 286 and on the 486 as well.
As soon the
Why not use LOGO? That'd be a challenge!
HURD is not "much like the Linux kernel." It is a microkernel; Linux is a monolithic kernel. How much more different could you get? You could make it closed source, put it in a big box and let people pay to use it. I'd rather prefer it being at least a bit like Linux in that way... =:-) CU, Ventilator
Just in case, there is another mirror here: http://killer.discordia.ch/Politics/Copyprotection .phtml
It's a friends website. I bet he will get a letter from those boneheads in the movie-industries. But hey, mirror that tool at all costs! When they want to send out dead trees to anyone, they have to write not 100 but 100'000 letters!
Information should be free!
Why someone would want to pay 23K$ for things he'd get for free in other places is far beyond me.
The strange thing is, being introverted myself, I am able to lay my soul bare in text, but completely shut myself in if it comes to a face-to-face encounter.
I know what you mean, though I don't know, why this is so. Maybe it's because when you do not talk directly to someone else, there is "no immediate danger". Don't know how to describe it otherwise.
I too had this problem, but then I just keep in mind that I can't get killed by telling a girl that I find her attractive or by admitting my sympathy.
Worst thing that can happen is that you get a rejection. But hey, you wouldn't expect your code to run without errors after the first compiling either.
And then, you could always write a letter (by hand of course!) stating that you did not know how she would react if you told her live about your feelings and therefore decided to send her this letter.
It's not exactly the length of the key that matters. Well, actually it does matter. But it's more the number of bits and the resulting number of possibilities from this.
If you have one bit, you have two possibilities: 0 and 1. Now if you add a second bit to it, you double the possibilities: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Now take a third bit to it. That leaves you with eight possibilities (the four from the two bits with a 0 in front and another four from the two bit with a 1 in front)
That is: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110 and 111.
This continues over and over. Everytime you ad another bit, you double the number of possibilities, thus doubling the time needed to check them. Add two bits and you have four times the number of possibilities.
What is a handicap?
Do you think it's legitimate (sp?) to kill a baby just because it's blind or deaf. Or even just because it can only see with one eye? I guess there are a lot of people out there that are deaf, visually impaired or otherwise handicapped. Most of them master life quite ok if not even better than "health" people.
Just think: This is the first step. Next comes you are allowed to kill people that get handicapped during an accident or some sort of sickness.
Then come the color-blind, the obese... anything beyond "normality". Do we really want that?
Maybe I'm exagerating. Just my opinion.
Hitler tried the same and thank god, he was stopped!
If you want to kill anything that is handicapped and doesn't work as it was meant to be, then get rid off that buggy piece of software now!
RPM is a very good installer. I've heard the Debian installer is good too. RPM are actually better than Installshield because they you always have to explicitly tell it to overwrite existing files. RPM keeps a database of what package each file belongs to.
/usr/bin/X11R6 not to /usr/local/bin !
RPM is good if you only use RPM (or DEB for Debian) and never compile anything yourself. I messed my SuSE (which I think is as userfriendly as RH) with a self-compiled version of Imlib. I had Imlib installed correctly, but since it was not out of an RPM, it was not in the RPM-Database and therefore other RPMs depending on it would not install! Of course I could have forced them to install, but then I'd be forcing every package soon.
You could go along with RPM pretty well. But think: not every program is available as an RPM. Far worse is that RPM for RH often don't quite work with SuSE (and vice-versa).
And then is the fact, that I want to have X-applications installed to
Now I changed to Slackware and have WindowMaker, ETerm and all that stuff self-compiled. GTK takes forever to compile, but it works. =:-)
What I also like about Slackware is that the scripts are not that cluttered (as are in SuSE). From that point of view, Slackware is far more userfriendly.
>If you read the .c file it says they have used >Becker's skeleton for ethernet drivers, but >everything else seems to be theirs (correct me if >I'm wrong)
Isn't that, what the GPL was ment for? To take an existing program (driver, script...), add your own extensions and changes and then give the results back to the community? I think so.
Nevertheless I think it's great 3Com cares about Linux and OpenSource like they do. I always used 3Com-Cards since they are reliable.
What does the "CE" in Windows CE mean anyway?
What do you do, when the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) appears? After all, it's Micro$oft...
I remember I already had an A-1010 back in 1988. The A-1010 was the official external floppy-drive for the A1000. (You know, the one that looked like some sort of toaster.)
Oh yes, there are quite a number of songs you'll never hear on radio but that are still much better than mainstream.
Or there are tracks, you can't even buy anymore. Just try to get your hands on a legal copy of "What evil lurks" by The Prodigy. Since I had no other choice but use MP3 I think it's kind of legitimate.