Real geeks get rare earth magnets for their Why not just use the hard drive magnets you have lying around in your junk box?:P (After a good laquering, the platters make for great coasters too.:P)
Oops.. I forgot to mention our battery backed UPS. We can run our servers for 2.5 hours, and still have enough electricity left over to make our expresso in the morning!
Living with a couple of friends. Met one in University, the other back in high school. I think school is a really good place to meet people for this kind of thing. (Especially comp-sci dept (my roomate) and Engineering (me).
The House was actually purchased by my roomate who's in comp-sci. He can finance it because, well, he does Oracle development and just finished a contract for the JPL.
Finally, we wired the whole house ourselves. Due to the way our house is constructed, we did not need to go horizontally through studs, though we did make several holes in the drywall. Also, we rebuilt the basement (to bulid the darkroom) and renovated the kitchen and bathrooms ourselves. You save alot of money doing it this way, and it lets you work out your agressions (you don't know how satisfying it is to put your fist through drywall after having banged your head against a bug).
Between the three of us, we bought a 1700 square foot townhouse, wired it up with 1100' of Cat-5 laid through the walls, to spec. and then put 15 computers ranging from an '030 NeXT Cube to a IBM Thinkpad A20P with 750 Mhz PIII.
As for decorating, make it post modern with lots of halogen and exposed wood.:D (and don't forget the 4'x8' white board in the living room, esential for those 3am prototyping urges).
Finally, install a photographic darkroom in the basement, complete with colour enlarger capable of printing 4"x5" negatives.
I know what you mean.:) I own an '030 Cube, an '040 Cube, a Slab, a Turbo Slab, and the 400dpi LaserPrinter (all in working/mint condition). The amazing thing is that while this equipment is ancient, it still feels relatively nimble. I am also amazed at how well NeXTStep and OpenStep integrate with the rest of my home network (Linux based). I have full NIS logins, and all home directories are NFS mounted.. I'm constantly amazed by this OS.
I know that John Roth, CEO of Nortel Networks, has made noise about the problems of being a Canadian buisness. I would like to know how you feel your location affects your buisness, especially considering the global nature of Linux and what, if anything, you do to keep your Ottawa based employees from moving south.
It's really quite simple. All you have to do to make the wiretapping useless is to encrypt everything using strong encryption (ie 128 bit or longer RSA keys). So SSH, PGP, and other tools it is. Now all that needs to be done is make all web servers secure.
It's about time that somone did something about all the DNS squatteres out there. IMNSHO, DNS squatting is the worst thing to ever happen to the net... and now... the IANAN (or whatever they're called) has giving NetNation the ability to register domains directly. (NetNation just so happens to be the largest DNS squatter out there, with over 18 000 domains registered).
Check out www.apexmail.com . they have over 50 000 active clients, running on a totally linux based system. (They use totally custom software). Their setup includes a dual PII 450 file server with a 150 GB RAID (on a Mylex RAID controller). The entire public site runs on 4 or 5 single PII 450s, all on a switched 100BaseT network.
Check out www.apexmail.com . they have over 50 000 active clients, running on a totally linux based system. (They use totally custom software). Their setup includes a dual PII 450 file server with a 150 GB RAID (on a Mylex RAID controller). The entire public site runs on 4 or 5 single PII 450s, all on a switched 100BaseT network.
Joy.. the US trying to impose its will on another country. Ain't life grand.
But in reality, it probably doesn't matter. From what I remember, a group in Iran has produced some of the best Beowulf supercomputing/clustering software. So, obviously, they already have Linux and the US Government can just go cry in the corner.
In conclusion, if worst comes to worst, find out what distro is already comonly available in Iran, and build your software to that distro, then just odn't include the distro and tell 'em what to use.
As somone once said, and I forget who it was, "If Microsoft can get this much milage out of a C2 rating for NT with no network connection, how much milage could Linux get with a A1 rating, with no power cord."
Sure they do. Look at Europe. Look at Austrailia. Look at Canada. Look at just about every western nation other then the USA. Most of these countries have tight gun control legislation, with a very small number of weapons in circulation. Because of this, the proportional rate of people who are killed with the weapons is much, much lower then in the USA. It's time that the gun companies were put out of buisness, and a campaign to destroy the weapons in your country was started. there is no legitimate reason for anyone to own a semi-automatic weapon or anything of that nature. Period.
Man this brings back memories.. back in 1986 when my family spent $2000 for an Amstrad XT clone that had 640KB of Ram, 20MB Hard drive, and a *colour* monitor. (CGA)... It shipped with DR-Dos and GEM... I can remember playing with the draw/paint program and being absolutely enthralled with the idea... Then I tried MacOS and never looked back... except for the three Linux boxen living under my desk.:-)
If this is what I think it is, it's entirely plausible.... it's simply a standard LCD display that uses a holographic lens to alternately focus a vertical line to each eye, and has a point source of light in the back. It is ingeniously simple, and will be very cheap too... now, all we need is to make an X server/Window manager that can allow us to use the third dimention for better organization.:)
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Real geeks get rare earth magnets for their Why not just use the hard drive magnets you have lying around in your junk box? :P (After a good laquering, the platters make for great coasters too. :P)
Gah.. Batter backed Expresso machine.. (Can you tell I havn't had any coffee today?)
Oops.. I forgot to mention our battery backed UPS. We can run our servers for 2.5 hours, and still have enough electricity left over to make our expresso in the morning!
Living with a couple of friends. Met one in University, the other back in high school. I think school is a really good place to meet people for this kind of thing. (Especially comp-sci dept (my roomate) and Engineering (me).
The House was actually purchased by my roomate who's in comp-sci. He can finance it because, well, he does Oracle development and just finished a contract for the JPL.
Finally, we wired the whole house ourselves. Due to the way our house is constructed, we did not need to go horizontally through studs, though we did make several holes in the drywall. Also, we rebuilt the basement (to bulid the darkroom) and renovated the kitchen and bathrooms ourselves. You save alot of money doing it this way, and it lets you work out your agressions (you don't know how satisfying it is to put your fist through drywall after having banged your head against a bug).
Here's what we did:
:D (and don't forget the 4'x8' white board in the living room, esential for those 3am prototyping urges).
Between the three of us, we bought a 1700 square foot townhouse, wired it up with 1100' of Cat-5 laid through the walls, to spec. and then put 15 computers ranging from an '030 NeXT Cube to a IBM Thinkpad A20P with 750 Mhz PIII.
As for decorating, make it post modern with lots of halogen and exposed wood.
Finally, install a photographic darkroom in the basement, complete with colour enlarger capable of printing 4"x5" negatives.
I know what you mean. :) I own an '030 Cube, an '040 Cube, a Slab, a Turbo Slab, and the 400dpi LaserPrinter (all in working/mint condition). The amazing thing is that while this equipment is ancient, it still feels relatively nimble. I am also amazed at how well NeXTStep and OpenStep integrate with the rest of my home network (Linux based). I have full NIS logins, and all home directories are NFS mounted.. I'm constantly amazed by this OS.
I know that John Roth, CEO of Nortel Networks, has made noise about the problems of being a Canadian buisness. I would like to know how you feel your location affects your buisness, especially considering the global nature of Linux and what, if anything, you do to keep your Ottawa based employees from moving south.
Hello. I have a rather simple question. Do you believe that there is still room for two guys in a garage to revolutionize the world?
It's really quite simple. All you have to do to make the wiretapping useless is to encrypt everything using strong encryption (ie 128 bit or longer RSA keys). So SSH, PGP, and other tools it is. Now all that needs to be done is make all web servers secure.
The hardware on my home network is named: Calvin, Hobbes, Moe, Dilbert, Dogbert, Catbert, Odie, Garfield, John, and Jason.
Some of the names of machines at my university are fraser, beufort, tucana, alrishia, and wheatston.
It's about time that somone did something about all the DNS squatteres out there. IMNSHO, DNS squatting is the worst thing to ever happen to the net... and now... the IANAN (or whatever they're called) has giving NetNation the ability to register domains directly. (NetNation just so happens to be the largest DNS squatter out there, with over 18 000 domains registered).
Check out www.apexmail.com . they have over 50 000 active clients, running on a totally linux based system. (They use totally custom software). Their setup includes a dual PII 450 file server with a 150 GB RAID (on a Mylex RAID controller). The entire public site runs on 4 or 5 single PII 450s, all on a switched 100BaseT network.
Check out www.apexmail.com . they have over 50 000 active clients, running on a totally linux based system. (They use totally custom software). Their setup includes a dual PII 450 file server with a 150 GB RAID (on a Mylex RAID controller). The entire public site runs on 4 or 5 single PII 450s, all on a switched 100BaseT network.
But since the US crypto laws were declared unconstitional, doesn't that make the wessimar agreement a moot point?
Joy.. the US trying to impose its will on another country. Ain't life grand.
But in reality, it probably doesn't matter. From what I remember, a group in Iran has produced some of the best Beowulf supercomputing/clustering software. So, obviously, they already have Linux and the US Government can just go cry in the corner.
In conclusion, if worst comes to worst, find out what distro is already comonly available in Iran, and build your software to that distro, then just odn't include the distro and tell 'em what to use.
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Strider
As somone once said, and I forget who it was, "If Microsoft can get this much milage out of a C2 rating for NT with no network connection, how much milage could Linux get with a A1 rating, with no power cord."
Sure they do. Look at Europe. Look at Austrailia. Look at Canada. Look at just about every western nation other then the USA. Most of these countries have tight gun control legislation, with a very small number of weapons in circulation. Because of this, the proportional rate of people who are killed with the weapons is much, much lower then in the USA. It's time that the gun companies were put out of buisness, and a campaign to destroy the weapons in your country was started. there is no legitimate reason for anyone to own a semi-automatic weapon or anything of that nature. Period.
Man this brings back memories.. back in 1986 when my family spent $2000 for an Amstrad XT clone that had 640KB of Ram, 20MB Hard drive, and a *colour* monitor. (CGA)... It shipped with DR-Dos and GEM... I can remember playing with the draw/paint program and being absolutely enthralled with the idea... Then I tried MacOS and never looked back... except for the three Linux boxen living under my desk. :-)
If this is what I think it is, it's entirely plausible.... it's simply a standard LCD display that uses a holographic lens to alternately focus a vertical line to each eye, and has a point source of light in the back. It is ingeniously simple, and will be very cheap too... now, all we need is to make an X server/Window manager that can allow us to use the third dimention for better organization. :)