I'd rather they send both Howie and Teri to the moon. I dislike those commercials with a passion. Oh, and the guy who thought it was a good idea to sell RadioShack out to Compaq, MSN, and Sprint.
Woz *is* in one of the "Think Different" ads, I believe. The great big one draped down the front of Apple HQ in Cupertino. It's visible from the 280, on the right as you head south. Very impressive, actually.
At least, I *think* that's him... I'm sure SOMEONE'll correct me if I'm wrong.:)
Oh, yeah... VirtSpace was cool, but it kind of bugged me by not allowing n (where n=4,9,etc) discrete virtual desktops (like FVWMPager), instead, it had one monstrous screen that was viewed one screenful at a time.
Anyway, I hope the folks who bring that functionality to Mac OS X do it the former way.
A friend of mine used to have a link entitled: "A picture of some naked chicks" And sure enough, there were some baby chickens. We weren't 31337 enough to do logging at the time, but it was amusing.
I am just as American as the next umm... American, but I always download the kernel source from the Vatican mirror. I'm no Catholic, and maybe I'm nuts, but perhaps there's something... different about a kernel from the Papal State.
I don't know about anyone else, but in the Materials Engineering dept. at Cal Poly San Luis, we used it as a metallographic etch, and as an ingredient in other metallographical etchant solutions, among other things.
We had a glass bottle in the lab with its glass top fused on... completely useless, but illustrated the power of HF.
We had lots of nasty things in there... and somehow, we all made it to graduation (however far off that was or may be, ANDY RIBBLE!!!) okay.:)
No transporters would make a lot of sense... I mean a) there aren't any in ST:FC (before this timeframe) and b) someone gets mistakenly fried in one in ST:TMP (after this timeframe)... so presumably the tech would still be... "beta"??? Or something.
That Mandrake installer is 2.2 kernel-framebuffer based, isn't it?
The Cal Poly LUG was doing an install shindig in January with Mandrake 7.0... and one machine just wouldn't go to the graphical part of the install. I thought it was because he (like me) had an unsupported card and the framebuffer didn't work. And of course there's no way to fallback to the text installer... (BTW... Caldera's X-based installer worked fine for him.)
--Ben (very happy with Mandrake 6.1, thanks) August
A pet peeve: People refer to the new Athlon chipsets as "SMP". They're not. That's Symetrical MultiProcessing. They're Point to Point Multiprocessing, which I guess would be PTPMP or something.
Can we call it PPMP and pronounce it "pimp"?
Seriously, now: Would a Linux kernel know the difference? Do they work equally well with Linux? I mean, there's only one option (wrt multiprocessing), for SMP. Does anyone with a multi-Athlon box care to comment?
200x100 character terminals... oh, yes. *imagining pine, vim, lynx, zicq in 200x100 rxvt's*
And think of the console modes with the 2.2 kernel framebuffer support... *doing math* with an 8x16 console font, 2048x1536 comes out to... 256x96... even 1600x1200 is 200x75. Mmmmm.
Now THAT is where it's at.
--Ben
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One thousand monkeys. One thousand MicroVAXes. One thousand years. X windows.
You know, I may be nuts (that's another thread altogether), or maybe I don't push my machine hard enough, but on my Mandrake 6.1 box (k6-III/400) and the official (ftp.kernel.org) 2.2.14 source compiled with pgcc, I have no stability problems whatsoever. Now, if someone could give me a satisfactory explanation of the seemingly innocuous "neighbor table overflow" errors I get, I'd be a happy man.
While I'm here, I'd like to say that I like Mandrake quite a bit, what with all of the windowmanagers and stuff (IIRC) RH no longer includes, like SVGATextMode. Hi-res 100x37 consoles ALL THE WAY!!!
I don't see why everyone complains about Linux installs...
I mean, Solaris (any arch) takes forever, isn't very talkative (not silly pictures, I mean useful stuff), and you don't get anything. I have repeatedly spent an evening on a Solaris install, then spent half the night installing GNU utils, tcsh, pine, lynx... all of the stuff that any Linux distro gives you in well under an hour. And CDE and Netscape used to be on separate CDs...
And I never did understand why OS/2 Warp 4(Client) installs took 3 floppies, a CD, and a reboot.
I just think that most of the journalistic folk who try a Linux install just plain don't have enough to compare it to.
Use either lynx or Internet Junkbuster and you will never see another evil (patented or otherwise) banner ad again! BTW, I invented AND patented dirt, grass, and cheese. Pay up, folks!:) --Ben
You aren't the only one so predisposed. I refuse to buy any processor that can be confused with a Super NES (a friend of mine says Colecovision) cartridge!
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I'd rather they send both Howie and Teri to the moon. I dislike those commercials with a passion. Oh, and the guy who thought it was a good idea to sell RadioShack out to Compaq, MSN, and Sprint.
I demand that they all be sent up in the mission.
--Ben
Fooled me. But then, I was driving. :)
Thanks.
--Ben
Woz *is* in one of the "Think Different" ads, I believe. The great big one draped down the front of Apple HQ in Cupertino. It's visible from the 280, on the right as you head south. Very impressive, actually.
:)
At least, I *think* that's him... I'm sure SOMEONE'll correct me if I'm wrong.
--Ben
But wait!
I can't run distributed.net if the computer's off!
Thank you, sir, for the short flashback to MATE 226 and 246, Physical Metallurgy, with the
mighty Dr. W. D. Forgeng.
*sniff*
--Ben "Where on EARTH will we see THIS again, Dr. F??" August
With a hammer. A VERY large one. Perhaps some old B-52's would do the trick...
--Ben
Oh, yeah... VirtSpace was cool, but it kind of bugged me by not allowing n (where n=4,9,etc) discrete virtual desktops (like FVWMPager), instead, it had one monstrous screen that was viewed one screenful at a time.
Anyway, I hope the folks who bring that functionality to Mac OS X do it the former way.
--Ben
A friend of mine used to have a link entitled:
"A picture of some naked chicks"
And sure enough, there were some baby chickens.
We weren't 31337 enough to do logging at the time, but it was amusing.
--Ben
I am just as American as the next umm... American, but I always download the kernel source from the Vatican mirror. I'm no Catholic, and maybe I'm nuts, but perhaps there's something... different about a kernel from the Papal State.
--Ben
I don't know about anyone else, but in the Materials Engineering dept. at Cal Poly San Luis,
:)
we used it as a metallographic etch, and as an ingredient in other metallographical etchant
solutions, among other things.
We had a glass bottle in the lab with its glass top fused on... completely useless, but
illustrated the power of HF.
We had lots of nasty things in there... and somehow, we all made it to graduation (however far
off that was or may be, ANDY RIBBLE!!!) okay.
--Ben "Oooohhh.... shiny things" August
No transporters would make a lot of sense... I mean a) there aren't any in ST:FC (before this
timeframe) and b) someone gets mistakenly fried in one in ST:TMP (after this timeframe)... so
presumably the tech would still be... "beta"??? Or something.
--Ben
No, we can't have submitter karma, because we wouldn't hear from JonKatz ever :)
again... whether or not we had the box checked to do so.
--Ben
The Cal Poly LUG was doing an install shindig in January with Mandrake 7.0... and one machine just wouldn't go to the graphical part of the install. I thought it was because he (like me) had an unsupported card and the framebuffer didn't work. And of course there's no way to fallback to the text installer...
(BTW... Caldera's X-based installer worked fine for him.)
--Ben (very happy with Mandrake 6.1, thanks) August
launch scheduled for 11 July 00 here at Vandenberg.
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Guess it isn't happening now...
--Ben
Ever since I bought Railroad Tycoon 2, man, I haven't caught up on Freshmeat or Slashdot, my housework is suffering, trash is piling up...
Seriously, though, it's a great game.
It's just so addictive.
*contemplates leaving work early for more RT2*
--Ben "Start another company!" August
Can we call it PPMP and pronounce it "pimp"?
Seriously, now: Would a Linux kernel know the difference? Do they work equally well with Linux? I mean, there's only one option (wrt multiprocessing), for SMP. Does anyone with a multi-Athlon box care to comment?
--Ben "needs a job that involves work" August
I can see the FOX ads now...
"Logging in to surf the Web...
... or logging in to YOUR ETERNAL DEMISE!!!
When Computers Attack!
Next on FOX!"
--Ben
200x100 character terminals... oh, yes.
*imagining pine, vim, lynx, zicq in 200x100 rxvt's*
And think of the console modes with the 2.2 kernel framebuffer support... *doing math*
with an 8x16 console font, 2048x1536 comes out to... 256x96... even 1600x1200 is 200x75. Mmmmm.
Now THAT is where it's at.
--Ben
X windows.
So what if they're real or AI?
--Ben
We aren't that lucky... Besides, how much spam do you get with this subject:
"**FREE** Get CHINESE State Secrets NOW!!! **FREE**"
--Ben "reply to [insert fake remove address here]" August
You know, I may be nuts (that's another thread altogether), or maybe I don't push my machine hard enough, but on my Mandrake 6.1 box (k6-III/400) and the official (ftp.kernel.org) 2.2.14 source compiled with pgcc, I have no stability problems whatsoever. Now, if someone could give me a satisfactory explanation of the seemingly innocuous "neighbor table overflow" errors I get, I'd be a happy man.
While I'm here, I'd like to say that I like Mandrake quite a bit, what with all of the windowmanagers and stuff (IIRC) RH no longer includes, like SVGATextMode. Hi-res 100x37 consoles ALL THE WAY!!!
--Ben
"Yes, wood is good food." -SpaceGhost
I don't see why everyone complains about Linux installs...
I mean, Solaris (any arch) takes forever, isn't very talkative (not silly pictures, I mean useful stuff), and you don't get anything. I have repeatedly spent an evening on a Solaris install, then spent half the night installing GNU utils, tcsh, pine, lynx... all of the stuff that any Linux distro gives you in well under an hour. And CDE and Netscape used to be on separate CDs...
And I never did understand why OS/2 Warp 4(Client) installs took 3 floppies, a CD, and a reboot.
I just think that most of the journalistic folk who try a Linux install just plain don't have enough to compare it to.
--Ben "I've never tried QNX..." August
Use either lynx or Internet Junkbuster and you will never see another evil (patented or otherwise) banner ad again! BTW, I invented AND patented dirt, grass, and cheese. Pay up, folks! :) --Ben
You aren't the only one so predisposed.
I refuse to buy any processor that can be confused with a Super NES (a friend of mine says Colecovision) cartridge!
--Ben (real happy k6-3 owner) August