very true! my computer and house is running on NUCLEAR power! the only clean and safe power source short of hydro-electric/solar/wind/geothermal. yet we dont have many nukes because the greenpeace idiots spread their lies..
Linux again get's some bad press.. Why? because it's easier to program in, has all the tools to do the job,is 900000% more powerful than any microsloth product and will attract trouble makers like bees to honey. It's a given.. Linux = hackerOS that will never change unless you get a new system that has commands like...
#crash all computers #make new virus -o erase mbr -o destroy bios #hack password @ www.whitehouse.gov
Actually that's probably a script kiddie's dream.. as a hacker I prefer the OS on my altair..... toggle switches!
Run a small wire from each component to that nice little ground lug on the amplifier... It's there for a reason... remove the ground loop by making everything's case to each other (I.E. a screw on the VCR to the amp, to the cd player, to the Mp3 player, to the PIII-9904mhz 689Meg ram and 9000X dvd-rom player, and to the automatic toilet flusher... Voila all grouning problems gone:-)
Gawd, everyone posted something really wrong on this subject -- Learn your electronics people!
have you been to toronto lately?? Gawd.. yes the subway is clean but I havent seen so much poverty in my life! I gave a few toonies to a street bum and a couple looked at me and mumbled "american tourist" so I sat across the street and watched.... NOONE was giving any money to the homless or deprived... Gawd, there's teens that live on the street there, I asked one why arent they in the nice socalist shelter that the wonderful socalist system that Canada is would provide... thay said that what little there was is full, and seeing a doctor is futile unless you are dying.
Yes they act like they are more civilized.... but when you watch the Canadians in Toronto they forsake those that are on hard times....
civilized, and they dont give to the poor... Give me good ol' violent and corrupt USA any day.
Ok as a student I copied Autocad 12... Pireted that sucker right off! then I learned from it... I used the pirated copy until Autodesk came out with an affordable version... (Dad... can I have 2 grand to buy a program?) Now they basically give it to students.. (About time you morons!) how about engineering software? EET students HAVE to pirate the software to learn.. they cant spend from $500.00 to almost $13,000.00 for the design software to learn on.. the software companies are too stupid to make affordable versions for students so we have to copy it. Go to school to learn Oracle... are you going to spend $3000.00 to buy it??? but you cant learn without having it.. and using the schools computers is out of the question... everyone knows that you cant get squat done on the schools pc's.
The real crime is in the workplace... the municipality I work for, bought 1 copy of office97 from staples and now it runs on all the computers in the office.... and why do all of them have the same Serial number??
So yes there are legitimate reasons to pirate... to Learn because the company that writes the software was too stupid or greedy to get the stuff in the students hands. (and stupid is the #1 reason!!!!)
If you cant afford the $35.00USD then please move your Shopping cart full of empty's and your cardboard box away from here.. *reasonable* fee... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! the net is for making MONEY and that tiny fee to keep your domain there is a real pittance compared to what you have in hosting fees/leased lines/etc...
Second.. this "competition" crap is a joke... NSI holds the database, they dont have to share that thing with anyone... and who is feeding the DNS servers???? NSI of course... so NSI sells it's services to the competition which sells them to you and that will never change... if it does the net will blow to bits with domain conflicts, ip addresses exploding or being lost/ etc.... this is the biggest joke I ever seen... competition... HA!
now now... click that happy icon.... there isnt that better? no thought involved... no creativity.... just click the icons.... click the happy icons... you dont have to think or know anything.... click..... nice mousey button... clickey clickey....
How come my toaster dont have a shutdown icon? I cant be expected to unplug the thing! I'm lost without pretty icons!!! Help me!!!!!!
1. education at home by parents that will do what it takes for their kids. "Dad can quit smoking and buy the family a PIII!" or mom can ask the teen to help her learn windows,linux,how to use the toaster... (JOKING) I have found that teens/kids get attitudes when we look at them and say "you're wasting your time" about something they enjoy doing... and we dont come down on them like a bar of lead when they do really stupid things (Drugs) but overreact about silly things (Forgot to mow the lawn).
2. start our own private schools! in a nutshell - tell the current system to go suck monkey nuts! after only 1 year a string of technical/private grade-middle-highschools would garner praises never before seen by an education system. Yes it will be pricey as hell, yes it will be difficult, but what will the reward be? no mass murder in the schools for one, smart kids will bet he peers while the dumb jocks will be extracted to the public schools where they belong.. and this system needs to set up scholarships so that poor bright students can get in....
but this would be utopia... rich alumni dont give money for tech centers... they buy new scroeboards for the football field, or a new baseball field. remember this current alumni.. send a message that education is #1 and school subsidised sports should be dead last behind janitorial staff.
my having a geek genetic makeup and also having a technology business helps greatly I agree. but my daughters currently do not have any interest in computing past fashion designer and talk to me barbie (Which by the way is hackable! my 14 year old was grounded for 2 weeks for making the barbie say "shithead" instead of the girl's names.. I laughed so hard I peed my pants, and my wife was not entertained as I was by it.) but whatever they are interested in they get my same amount of effort. my 11 year old son loves rocketry, so we spend 1 weekend a month trying to hack the rockets for more power and altitude. the key is to teach the kids to think outside the box, and to shun structure when you are trying to achieve a solution... only the genius will do it in a wierd way.... the drones follow what they were force fed.
Basically do not trust the public schools to educate you or your children. all of my kids (5 of them!) have a 386,486or pentium in their room to play with (Only linux on them except for the 7 and 8 year old girls.. they need to run barbie software, but it dual boots) and I require Linux/programming work to be done by them. My 17 year old admins my business (ISP) and programs in perl/C/python/bourne-shell and has written a device driver for linux (for a hardware card I designed) my 14 year old is learning C now after PERL and sysadmin stuff. and my 11 year old is learning the sysadmin end and Perl. why?? so they will kick the butts of every other person they come up agains in the world, they will knw what computers are all about (my 17 year old died laughing when he was told by a MS tech that NT is harder to learn than Unix and will take alot of learning to master... he mastered NT server in 2 weeks and then asked me to delete that crap from his hard drive)
There is a lesson here.... School sucks, live with that fact, but you dont have to live with it, you can self educate/ educate your children. I spend $3K per year on my childrens computer education for hardware and some years I double that. software?? we buy nothing except games:-) everything we need is FREE online:-)
BTW: my kids still cant kick my butt in quake, but they do whine because I play on the Qake server....
KUDOS!!!!!!!!! Unfortunatey MOST schools arent as blessed as yours. (I.E. they have you) I am currently fighting with my children's schoold district as the CS teacher in the high school is who I had and I knew then he was a moron (Moron definition: What he says is right, if he is wrong then you are booted from class or you have been "Misinformed" as he put it) and he still act's the same way. my 17 year old was told that he was incorrect when he corrected the teacher on TCP/IP notes.. (I run an ISP with a huge server farm. my son is my head sysadmin and has devoured all networking and tcp/ip books in my office, he does know what he is talking about) and was told that he doesn't know anything. while hardware and networking or even programming is FORBIDDEN in the school. the computer club tried to put together a small lan for learning and the school deemed it a security problem (A closed netowrk wit ha dedicated 8 port hub.) and disallowed it. and my son and I are labelled as trouble makers because I allow the computer club to learn at my offices. (OMG! I tought them C and PERL! I'm making hackers!!!)
99.9999999% of all schools have idiots teaching the computer classes, so you think that they can even think of programming classes???? Why do they have idiots teaching? because they wont pay the CS teacher the $80K or more he deserves. the CS teacher is usually paid less than the brain-dead football coach/phys-ed teacher, more money is spent on the brainless jock programs, and the computer "club" has nothing to do other than play games because the admins are afraid of anyone that can program as they'll instantly propagate a virus that will change grades, open the us up to nuclear attack, and kill all the republicans!
in japan you cant graduate High School until you can program fluently in at least 1 programming language. in the US you cant graduate unless you can tell the difference from red and blue and can identify a ducky.
US schools suck, plain and simple.. get the damn jock crap out of the schools and teach our youth real skills!!!!
Hmm, last I checked if you saturated the schools with free software like outlook,works,or other things that M$ does then the students are stuck into the "upgrade" trap that MS loves... "you use word97?? what are you in the stone ages??? you have to get 98/99/2000/2001/2001.5/etc... for 199.99 a crack" why? well no obvoius reasons, i can use emacs and latex to do the same thing the wordidiots can do and my word processor pre-dates microsoft!!!!
it's all just a bunch of rich people whining.. kinda like bankers, they need to be killed and eaten in order to have any value in the community
I'm one of those dolts that dont upgrade my OS unless I have a need to, so I run the extremely old 5.2 (I know im so 1'st quarter 1999) and I plan on running 5.2 until I either upgrade hardware, blow up something, or have a real need to upgrade it (GASP! a geek not running Kernel 2.3.9.8.555.4.5.alpha9) If star office's install is as crappy as it was 6-7 months ago (download it and it complains about libs that RH5.1 dont have) then they will stay wayyyy behind real software like Corel...
Gimmie Kernel.93 and glibc.99 and I'm a happy guy!
Just what we need! can we hav a cert program for garbage truck workers? "Hi I'm a certified post-consumer material hoister!" what's next? a cert program for shoveling dung? Oops I forgot, we already have a Microsoft Cert program...
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I use it as a web cam. as for video conferencing there is some software out there for linux, but alas, most "popular" windows video conferencing software is crapware and use a bizzare/wierd compression setup. Net video conferencing is still in it's alpha phase and shouldnt be looked at as a serious thing for at least another 3-4 years when the linux groups get together and make a standard that the big companies obviously cant get together.. Other than that the 3com bigpicture makes a killer video capture device.at an affordable price! not like that video capture card project for linux that wants to charge users $500.00 for a crappy card and even crappier drivers.
Ummm all us wearable users are cyborgs and we stand in public compiling kernels, writing code or just taking photos of everyone and putting them on the net for all to see in order to invade your privacy! we exist and we stand for " We have something you dont have so NYAHHHH!"
Actually a wearable isnt for everyone.. It's a specific use item. If you dont carry your laptop everywhere and have 3 batterys and drain them dead every day then you'd never use a wearable. I need to be connected/computing every second of the day. But then that is me:-) Richard Head.
Simple... dont use an out-dated flat keyboard... everyone that is anyone uses a Twiddler keyboard! Sheesh... use 2 hands for typing and mousing? what are we in the dark ages?
another big company trying to make it look like they invented wearable computing.. I wish that Steve Mann woud have patented the idea so that all manufacturers would have had to call it a Wearable computer invented by a bunch of geeks instead of some overpaid R&D team that steal's ideas anyways...
Look at IBM's wearable... and they act like they came up with the idea!
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very true! my computer and house is running on NUCLEAR power! the only clean and safe power source short of hydro-electric/solar/wind/geothermal. yet we dont have many nukes because the greenpeace idiots spread their lies..
Save the nukes! Bash the seals!
Simple... distribute pgp signed sources.
if a byte of code is modified then it will ignore all packets from that host.
the nettrek guys have it down to a science!
(Although I am sure someone can get around it.. some of them are tooooo dang good!
Linux again get's some bad press.. Why? because it's easier to program in, has all the tools to do the job,is 900000% more powerful than any microsloth product and will attract trouble makers like bees to honey. It's a given.. Linux = hackerOS that will never change unless you get a new system that has commands like ...
#crash all computers
#make new virus -o erase mbr -o destroy bios
#hack password @ www.whitehouse.gov
Actually that's probably a script kiddie's dream.. as a hacker I prefer the OS on my altair..... toggle switches!
100101101 10001011101 1000101011 1110110101
Run a small wire from each component to that nice little ground lug on the amplifier... It's there for a reason... remove the ground loop by making everything's case to each other (I.E. a screw on the VCR to the amp, to the cd player, to the Mp3 player, to the PIII-9904mhz 689Meg ram and 9000X dvd-rom player, and to the automatic toilet flusher... Voila all grouning problems gone :-)
Gawd, everyone posted something really wrong on this subject -- Learn your electronics people!
have you been to toronto lately??
Gawd.. yes the subway is clean but I havent seen so much poverty in my life! I gave a few toonies to a street bum and a couple looked at me and mumbled "american tourist" so I sat across the street and watched.... NOONE was giving any money to the homless or deprived... Gawd, there's teens that live on the street there, I asked one why arent they in the nice socalist shelter that the wonderful socalist system that Canada is would provide... thay said that what little there was is full, and seeing a doctor is futile unless you are dying.
Yes they act like they are more civilized.... but when you watch the Canadians in Toronto they forsake those that are on hard times....
civilized, and they dont give to the poor... Give me good ol' violent and corrupt USA any day.
Ok as a student I copied Autocad 12... Pireted that sucker right off! then I learned from it... I used the pirated copy until Autodesk came out with an affordable version... (Dad... can I have 2 grand to buy a program?) Now they basically give it to students.. (About time you morons!) how about engineering software? EET students HAVE to pirate the software to learn.. they cant spend from $500.00 to almost $13,000.00 for the design software to learn on.. the software companies are too stupid to make affordable versions for students so we have to copy it. Go to school to learn Oracle... are you going to spend $3000.00 to buy it??? but you cant learn without having it.. and using the schools computers is out of the question... everyone knows that you cant get squat done on the schools pc's.
The real crime is in the workplace... the municipality I work for, bought 1 copy of office97 from staples and now it runs on all the computers in the office.... and why do all of them have the same Serial number??
So yes there are legitimate reasons to pirate... to Learn because the company that writes the software was too stupid or greedy to get the stuff in the students hands. (and stupid is the #1 reason!!!!)
Hold it!!!!!
If you cant afford the $35.00USD then please move your Shopping cart full of empty's and your cardboard box away from here..
*reasonable* fee... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! the net is for making MONEY and that tiny fee to keep your domain there is a real pittance compared to what you have in hosting fees/leased lines/etc...
Second.. this "competition" crap is a joke... NSI holds the database, they dont have to share that thing with anyone... and who is feeding the DNS servers???? NSI of course... so NSI sells it's services to the competition which sells them to you and that will never change... if it does the net will blow to bits with domain conflicts, ip addresses exploding or being lost/ etc.... this is the biggest joke I ever seen... competition... HA!
now now... click that happy icon.... there isnt that better? no thought involved... no creativity.... just click the icons.... click the happy icons... you dont have to think or know anything.... click..... nice mousey button... clickey clickey....
How come my toaster dont have a shutdown icon?
I cant be expected to unplug the thing! I'm lost without pretty icons!!! Help me!!!!!!
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Easy to do and simple as pie....
1. education at home by parents that will do what it takes for their kids. "Dad can quit smoking and buy the family a PIII!" or mom can ask the teen to help her learn windows,linux,how to use the toaster... (JOKING) I have found that teens/kids get attitudes when we look at them and say "you're wasting your time" about something they enjoy doing... and we dont come down on them like a bar of lead when they do really stupid things (Drugs) but overreact about silly things (Forgot to mow the lawn).
2. start our own private schools! in a nutshell - tell the current system to go suck monkey nuts! after only 1 year a string of technical/private grade-middle-highschools would garner praises never before seen by an education system. Yes it will be pricey as hell, yes it will be difficult, but what will the reward be? no mass murder in the schools for one, smart kids will bet he peers while the dumb jocks will be extracted to the public schools where they belong..
and this system needs to set up scholarships so that poor bright students can get in....
but this would be utopia... rich alumni dont give money for tech centers... they buy new scroeboards for the football field, or a new baseball field. remember this current alumni.. send a message that education is #1 and school subsidised sports should be dead last behind janitorial staff.
my having a geek genetic makeup and also having a technology business helps greatly I agree. but my daughters currently do not have any interest in computing past fashion designer and talk to me barbie (Which by the way is hackable! my 14 year old was grounded for 2 weeks for making the barbie say "shithead" instead of the girl's names.. I laughed so hard I peed my pants, and my wife was not entertained as I was by it.) but whatever they are interested in they get my same amount of effort. my 11 year old son loves rocketry, so we spend 1 weekend a month trying to hack the rockets for more power and altitude. the key is to teach the kids to think outside the box, and to shun structure when you are trying to achieve a solution... only the genius will do it in a wierd way.... the drones follow what they were force fed.
Basically do not trust the public schools to educate you or your children. all of my kids (5 of them!) have a 386,486or pentium in their room to play with (Only linux on them except for the 7 and 8 year old girls.. they need to run barbie software, but it dual boots) and I require Linux/programming work to be done by them. My 17 year old admins my business (ISP) and programs in perl/C/python/bourne-shell and has written a device driver for linux (for a hardware card I designed) my 14 year old is learning C now after PERL and sysadmin stuff. and my 11 year old is learning the sysadmin end and Perl. why?? so they will kick the butts of every other person they come up agains in the world, they will knw what computers are all about (my 17 year old died laughing when he was told by a MS tech that NT is harder to learn than Unix and will take alot of learning to master... he mastered NT server in 2 weeks and then asked me to delete that crap from his hard drive)
:-) everything we need is FREE online :-)
There is a lesson here.... School sucks, live with that fact, but you dont have to live with it, you can self educate/ educate your children. I spend $3K per year on my childrens computer education for hardware and some years I double that. software?? we buy nothing except games
BTW: my kids still cant kick my butt in quake, but they do whine because I play on the Qake server....
KUDOS!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunatey MOST schools arent as blessed as yours. (I.E. they have you) I am currently fighting with my children's schoold district as the CS teacher in the high school is who I had and I knew then he was a moron (Moron definition: What he says is right, if he is wrong then you are booted from class or you have been "Misinformed" as he put it) and he still act's the same way. my 17 year old was told that he was incorrect when he corrected the teacher on TCP/IP notes.. (I run an ISP with a huge server farm. my son is my head sysadmin and has devoured all networking and tcp/ip books in my office, he does know what he is talking about) and was told that he doesn't know anything. while hardware and networking or even programming is FORBIDDEN in the school. the computer club tried to put together a small lan for learning and the school deemed it a security problem (A closed netowrk wit ha dedicated 8 port hub.) and disallowed it. and my son and I are labelled as trouble makers because I allow the computer club to learn at my offices. (OMG! I tought them C and PERL! I'm making hackers!!!)
99.9999999% of all schools have idiots teaching the computer classes, so you think that they can even think of programming classes???? Why do they have idiots teaching? because they wont pay the CS teacher the $80K or more he deserves. the CS teacher is usually paid less than the brain-dead football coach/phys-ed teacher, more money is spent on the brainless jock programs, and the computer "club" has nothing to do other than play games because the admins are afraid of anyone that can program as they'll instantly propagate a virus that will change grades, open the us up to nuclear attack, and kill all the republicans!
in japan you cant graduate High School until you can program fluently in at least 1 programming language. in the US you cant graduate unless you can tell the difference from red and blue and can identify a ducky.
US schools suck, plain and simple.. get the damn jock crap out of the schools and teach our youth real skills!!!!
Hmm, last I checked if you saturated the schools with free software like outlook,works,or other things that M$ does then the students are stuck into the "upgrade" trap that MS loves... "you use word97?? what are you in the stone ages??? you have to get 98/99/2000/2001/2001.5/etc... for 199.99 a crack" why? well no obvoius reasons, i can use emacs and latex to do the same thing the wordidiots can do and my word processor pre-dates microsoft!!!!
it's all just a bunch of rich people whining.. kinda like bankers, they need to be killed and eaten in order to have any value in the community
I'm one of those dolts that dont upgrade my OS unless I have a need to, so I run the extremely old 5.2 (I know im so 1'st quarter 1999) and I plan on running 5.2 until I either upgrade hardware, blow up something, or have a real need to upgrade it (GASP! a geek not running Kernel 2.3.9.8.555.4.5.alpha9) If star office's install is as crappy as it was 6-7 months ago (download it and it complains about libs that RH5.1 dont have) then they will stay wayyyy behind real software like Corel...
.93 and glibc.99 and I'm a happy guy!
Gimmie Kernel
Just what we need!
can we hav a cert program for garbage truck workers? "Hi I'm a certified post-consumer material hoister!" what's next? a cert program for shoveling dung? Oops I forgot, we already have a Microsoft Cert program...
Save the world! Shoot a MCSE today!
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
I use it as a web cam. as for video conferencing there is some software out there for linux, but alas, most "popular" windows video conferencing software is crapware and use a bizzare/wierd compression setup. Net video conferencing is still in it's alpha phase and shouldnt be looked at as a serious thing for at least another 3-4 years when the linux groups get together and make a standard that the big companies obviously cant get together..
Other than that the 3com bigpicture makes a killer video capture device.at an affordable price! not like that video capture card project for linux that wants to charge users $500.00 for a crappy card and even crappier drivers.
Ummm all us wearable users are cyborgs and we stand in public compiling kernels, writing code or just taking photos of everyone and putting them on the net for all to see in order to invade your privacy! we exist and we stand for " We have something you dont have so NYAHHHH!"
:-) Richard Head.
Actually a wearable isnt for everyone.. It's a specific use item. If you dont carry your laptop everywhere and have 3 batterys and drain them dead every day then you'd never use a wearable.
I need to be connected/computing every second of the day.
But then that is me
Simple... dont use an out-dated flat keyboard... everyone that is anyone uses a Twiddler keyboard!
Sheesh... use 2 hands for typing and mousing? what are we in the dark ages?
another big company trying to make it look like they invented wearable computing.. I wish that Steve Mann woud have patented the idea so that all manufacturers would have had to call it a Wearable computer invented by a bunch of geeks instead of some overpaid R&D team that steal's ideas anyways...
Look at IBM's wearable... and they act like they came up with the idea!