So that means, Mr. Genius, that there is no chance the Moz folks would grab data they shouldn't? Becasue Mozilla has nothing to do with Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner, and even if it did, those guys are completly trustworthy. Right?
So compile it yourself if you're paranoid, Mr. Savant.
How about a Ningi dropped on the planet from space?
"Money
Monetary units - none.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flanian Pobble bead is only exchangeable for other Flanian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination."
Just think of the havoc THAT hyperaccelerated piece of small change would cause.
Quite good actually. Many of the teachers I work have have Macs of various description at home and they usually are four years old or more. The build quality of a typical piece of Mac hardware is comparable to the better PC components. Think Asus mobo versus the ones that come from fly-by-night Korean companies.
If you really want your Mac to last five more years then it probably can be done. My best advice for you is to keep the inside of the machine clean. It has internal fans and ghost turds will accumulate in there. Also, like most modern PC hardware, it isn't terribly tolerant of low quality noisy power. Get a good UPS for it.
I must point out that you can probably expect the hard drive and maybe the floppy drive to succumb to some mechanical failure. There are a lot of crap Seagate drives in Apples of that era. The rest of the machine will probably keep on truckin' if you're nice to it.
WinSCP allows one to use SCP in a two pane filebrowser with the local hard drive on the left and the remote machine on the right. That can be had from:
http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
Mindterm also has a two pane SCP utility built into it. Being a java app, it looks the same on either Mac, Windows, or Unix. It didn't work too well for me with Kaffe but it works great with the Blackdown JVM. You can try it as a browser applet at:
I recommend these to my Mac and Windows using friends to pull files from my cable modem connected server. Time/Warner has never hassled me about ssh like they do www and ftp and these clients make it dead easy for my buddies.
With MindTerm, remember to open a ssh command shell first then open the File menu to get the SCP browser. WinSCP is a SCP browser only.
Once an ad passes my Annoyance Threshold, the offending company finds itself on my personal shitlist. I went three years without buying Energizer batteries once the bunny irritated me sufficiently. By the same token, I'll be avoiding Mitsubishi products for some too. eg. "Duh Duh Duh na da duh duh duh , put your body in motion and let's make a comotion......"
Those companies wanting to get their names into our brains at all costs should think about this a little. They just might get what they are asking for.
The Southern economy was doomed regardless. The South did not employ a standard gauge on it's railroad system which makes the transportation infrastructure damn near useless. The North was also busy industrializing most sectors of it's economy....including farming.
Plantation owners would have none of it. We wouldn't want to encourage idleness among the slaves now would we? Incidentally, the slavery would have been a millstone around the South's neck in other ways too. Most people these days will go out of their way to avoid a product that they know is produced by slavery. Even with no moral imperative, the South's products would be tariffed or boycotted. Nations without slavery wouldn't want its' citizens to compete against slave labor.
The rape, murder, looting, and pillaging might have been avoidable. The destruction of the South's economy was not....with no "help" from the North whatsoever.
31337songtitle.gz.mp3
After download, it will be necessary to transpose the.gz and.mp3 extenders then gunzip the resulting 31337songtitle.mp3.gz. Let's see how the acoustic fingerprint thingy likes that.
Current releases of MAME have led me to believe that being good at Mah Jong is a good way to get kinky sex in Japan. I was also under the impression that Japanese arcades would be similarly homongenous as American arcades. I thought that Strip Mah Jong would perhaps replace the gun games.
Now everyone knows that the NSA is after my barbecue sauce recipe stored in a pgp encrypted file. Of COURSE they'll create a black hole computer just to get it. After all, that barbecue sauce IS kinda red!
There isn't special Linux only stuff in VAs servers. They have a reputation for building servers like tanks and some of their customers view them strictly as a hardware vender. FuckedCompany probably just wiped the drives and installed NT/IIS when the boxes arrived.
Microsoft won't be trashing the BSDs explicitly any time soon. They are probably going to wait for their anti Linux/GPL FUD to bear fruit first. I don't think they'll target the BSDs and projects like Apache and XFree86 until they have significantly impeded Linux development. That said, I can see Mundie or Ballmer using choice quotes from the Gnome flamefest to make some suit-impressing zingers.
Oh yeah, If one hasn't gotten that impression yet, Microsoft is no friend of the BSDs either. They will come and destroy them once they finish off Linux. The anti-GPL arguments are the low hanging fruit. They won't trash the open source licenses but they WILL trash the process. So Codefreez is likely correct. Expect Microsoft propaganda flacks to be devel-list lurkers.
A casual reading of the parent post might lead one to think that Free Software is a cause of "the considerably lower standard of living" in some countries. Nothing could be further from the truth. The low standards of living were pre-existing. Free software is a minor benison to such countries. If the per capita income is $500 a year (or less) then no one is going to be spending much money on commercial software licenses. Free (or Open Source..whatever) software makes helps make it legally possible for second and third companies to engage in computing.
I also have to point out the Microsoft's treatment of it's workers and charitible donations do not excuse it's unethical behaivor in other areas. It most certainly does not excuse the out and out lies coming out the mouths of Ballmer and Mundie. "Cancer", anyone? "Open source software will force you to give up your IP.", ad nauseating. Microsoft is well deserving of "accusing fingers" in the PR as well as other respects.
I also fail to see how frequent software releases take advantage of users. Does the release in use fulfill your needs? If yes, then don't upgrade. Does the new release provide a desired feature? Yes? Then by all means upgrade and report back the ways it could be better. If that is being taken advantage of then PLEASE! take advantage of me some more!
There are other points that could be made like the many positive reasons for developers to contribute APART FROM EGO. Then there are also the economic points in OSS' favor but I need to get back to work;-). In short, I don't feel taken advantage of in way by using my software of choice.
HW accellerated 3D in Linux and the BSDs is handled by ether the Direct Rendering Infrastructure or Nvidia's proprietary equivilant if using their drivers. The textures, polygon info, etc. are NOT handled by the X protocol. If you're going to slam Linux then at least do it CLUEFULLY. There are bad things that can be credibly said about DRM but then you would have to actually KNOW something now wouldn't you?
Golden ear audiophiles are notorious for claiming to hear subtle things that no one else can hear. What's more they will attribute these differences to things like skin effect in the patch cables. Skin effect on signal that goes to 30kHz max? Gee, a whole micron's worth of the center of a 12 gauge cable might be getting dodged by the signal. This is the least picadillo one will read in publications like The Absolute Sound. They will use the language of art critics to make technical criticisms. One reads things like "The J13 speakers have a wonderful phase shifted aural spaciality but slightly overmunge the dibalanced low-band spectrum." Truly awful. They mangle fantasy and science together the same way flying saucer and new age enthusiasts do.
It's very easy to suspect that they are in fact full of....stuff. If you're in the business of selling high end audio then it becomes very important to discover to what extent the golden ears are or are not full of it. Bob Carver did a little hands on research at a mid '70s trade show to shed some light on these suspicions. He displayed an impressive system openly. I don't recall the model number but it had the separate tube amps for the right and left channel. It had the oxygen free gold wire to interconnect the type of components that ultra audiophiles have wet dreams about: hand crafted capacitors and resistors and transistors matched to six 9s precision in gain and so on and so forth. In any case the system displayed was in the $30k range at the time. The speakers were no less expensive and no doubt exquisitely hand matched to the amps. But here is where the joke comes in. The speakers were connected to a $200 dollar range bookshelf stereo hidden behind a curtain. Carver injected pink noise into the ultra stereo and displayed the result on a spectrum analyzer. He then set the bookshelf system to a moderate volume and EQed it with the same pink noise as input until it matched the spectrum of the ultra stereo. As long as the controls on the bookshelf were not tampered with, it's sound was good approximation of the ultra stereo at the same moderate volume. He told the audience that he had a top secret experimental system behind the curtain and wanted to field test it to ensure he was on the right track. With some audiophile grade vinyl classical as the input he switched between the ultra stereo (which they COULD see and were familiar with) and the "top secret" bookshelf system behind the curtain.
Lo and behold! The bookshelf system had far better "aural spaciality.........." I've known salesmen who have done this same thing several times with the same result. I suppose this goes a long way toward explaining the audiophile aversion to double blinded A/B listening tests. Those A/B switches must introduce some truly horrible "multiphasic inhibited frequency shifts" into the signal.
Now, it is true that a $5000 system will most likely sound far better than a Soundesign bookshelf from Wal-Mart. But there is a point of imperceptible diminishing returns. I have no trouble believing that point comes long before one has spent $140,000.
p.s. I'll tweak the tweaks a little more by mentioning that Don Lancaster has described similiar experiments in tweak psychology. Every so often in Electronics Now he would describe such shenanigans. Many of his writings can be found at www.tinaja.com. He also critiques would be perpetual motion machine inventers and "free" energy sources that are even BETTER than cold fusion.
Packet sniffers would probably work great for spot checking if you have a kid developing early signs of 7337n335. The appropriatly filtered log of a packet sniff of junior's workstation might make him rethink his so-called leetness. Kiddies do get caught now and again and I would rather it be me than a pissed off sysadmin or FBI agent who teaches that lesson.
Of course, the technically apt kids of technically apt parents should be taught better in the first place. Right?
OS X is being touted as a OpenGL friendly desktop OS. While Mac game selections aren't as bountiful as Windows, the situation is better than in Linux. When games start appearing that are OS X native, the resulting sourcecode should be much easier to port the rest of the Unices. Granted the UI layer is completely different but the hardcore game engine components won't be so bad. Hell, it might even give GNUstep a large amount of interest. The GNUStep libraries would probably ease much of the pain of porting the UI stuff as well even if they aren't employed to backend 'nix desktops.
Games that are intended to sell well on the Mac and Windows have to be somewhat portable. The OS X environment resembles it's fellow Unices more than it does Windows. Of course, Microsoft can release DirectX libraries for OS X and not Linux..........
I've seen a lot of posts to effect that MacOS X is bad for Linux and will kill it's mindshare. OS X is no more bad for Linux than Linux is bad for the BSDs. Sure more people may use it as a desktop but it could mean that more commercial software comes to Linux (and the BSDs). A rising tide floats everyones boat.
ssh has the -C flag that uses the same compression algorithm as gzip. That might make the above scheme barely practical. I know, I know, it was a joke..
I will point out that ssh compression works wonders on a vnc session if the server is running sshd. There is a nice howto on the vnc page for tunneling the connection over ssh. Secure and faster....bonus!
For the +2 bonus. I never had it before and don't intend to start using it. Not that I'll have it long with my new angel trailing me;-) That minor rant was intended for a certain moderator who I assume is following my posts. I'll also point out in fairness that my posts rarely get modded above +2. The bonus was an anomaly I'm not accustomed to having.
...not that I care. If you are that pathetic, you can bookmark my userpage so you can be sure and downgrade as many of my posts as possible. I'll live. It was a JOKE you fricking idiot.
Either mod or post. I'm fairly certain that you are the one who uses his mod points to lower ratings on disliked posts then posts anonymously to explain why.
It looks like the troll kiddies have found themselves another way to abuse the discussions. SIGH.
"swift, strong, hard rods"
George Carlin has proposed that all foreign policies can be summarized by what he calls the Bigger Dick theory. It goes something like this: "What?!?! They have bigger dicks?!?! BOMB THEM! And have you ever noticed that all of the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are shaped like dicks. It's an attempt to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called FUCKING WITH PEOPLE!." He goes on to make several more points that are equally hilarious. I wonder what Mr. Carlin would make the parent's 'penetration by swift strong rods"?
A small drive could hold LILO and/boot. Once a Linux or BSD kernel is running, the other drive should become accessible. Linux and the BSDs don't rely on the BIOS to access drives. So boot from either a floppy or a small hdd then load the rest of the system from the "big" drive.
Many DVD players can be arbitrarily set to play any region with firmware. The newer Apex600As don't have the loophole menu but play disks with seamless branching like the Abyss that the old ones would choke on.
One of the solutions for this player is to stack two 4Mb roms on top of each other and select the one you want with a switch on the high address line. One of the roms is set for Region 0 and the other is usually Region 1. This combination will play any non RCE disk regardless of region and any region 1 regardless of RCE. I suggest the following improvement: SIX roms stacked on top of each other and a rotary switch instead of an A/B switch. Variations of this could be used for the other hackable players as well. This produces a single player that can play any region regardless of RCE.
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So that means, Mr. Genius, that there is no chance the Moz folks would grab data they shouldn't? Becasue Mozilla has nothing to do with Netscape/AOL/Time-Warner, and even if it did, those guys are completly trustworthy. Right?
So compile it yourself if you're paranoid, Mr. Savant.
How about a Ningi dropped on the planet from space?
"Money
Monetary units - none.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flanian Pobble bead is only exchangeable for other Flanian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination."
Just think of the havoc THAT hyperaccelerated piece of small change would cause.
Quite good actually. Many of the teachers I work have have Macs of various description at home and they usually are four years old or more. The build quality of a typical piece of Mac hardware is comparable to the better PC components. Think Asus mobo versus the ones that come from fly-by-night Korean companies.
If you really want your Mac to last five more years then it probably can be done. My best advice for you is to keep the inside of the machine clean. It has internal fans and ghost turds will accumulate in there. Also, like most modern PC hardware, it isn't terribly tolerant of low quality noisy power. Get a good UPS for it.
I must point out that you can probably expect the hard drive and maybe the floppy drive to succumb to some mechanical failure. There are a lot of crap Seagate drives in Apples of that era. The rest of the machine will probably keep on truckin' if you're nice to it.
WinSCP allows one to use SCP in a two pane filebrowser with the local hard drive on the left and the remote machine on the right. That can be had from:
p pl et.html
a l/ mindterm_downloads.html
http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
Mindterm also has a two pane SCP utility built into it. Being a java app, it looks the same on either Mac, Windows, or Unix. It didn't work too well for me with Kaffe but it works great with the Blackdown JVM. You can try it as a browser applet at:
http://www.appgate.org/products/mindterm/demo/a
You can download precompiled jar files and source from:
http://www.appgate.org/products/mindterm/person
I recommend these to my Mac and Windows using friends to pull files from my cable modem connected server. Time/Warner has never hassled me about ssh like they do www and ftp and these clients make it dead easy for my buddies.
With MindTerm, remember to open a ssh command shell first then open the File menu to get the SCP browser. WinSCP is a SCP browser only.
Laws GOOOOOOOD!
Common Sense BAAAAAAAAAD!
Once an ad passes my Annoyance Threshold, the offending company finds itself on my personal shitlist. I went three years without buying Energizer batteries once the bunny irritated me sufficiently. By the same token, I'll be avoiding Mitsubishi products for some too. eg. "Duh Duh Duh na da duh duh duh , put your body in motion and let's make a comotion......"
Those companies wanting to get their names into our brains at all costs should think about this a little. They just might get what they are asking for.
The Southern economy was doomed regardless. The South did not employ a standard gauge on it's railroad system which makes the transportation infrastructure damn near useless. The North was also busy industrializing most sectors of it's economy....including farming.
Plantation owners would have none of it. We wouldn't want to encourage idleness among the slaves now would we? Incidentally, the slavery would have been a millstone around the South's neck in other ways too. Most people these days will go out of their way to avoid a product that they know is produced by slavery. Even with no moral imperative, the South's products would be tariffed or boycotted. Nations without slavery wouldn't want its' citizens to compete against slave labor.
The rape, murder, looting, and pillaging might have been avoidable. The destruction of the South's economy was not....with no "help" from the North whatsoever.
31337songtitle.gz.mp3 After download, it will be necessary to transpose the .gz and .mp3 extenders then gunzip the resulting 31337songtitle.mp3.gz. Let's see how the acoustic fingerprint thingy likes that.
Current releases of MAME have led me to believe that being good at Mah Jong is a good way to get kinky sex in Japan. I was also under the impression that Japanese arcades would be similarly homongenous as American arcades. I thought that Strip Mah Jong would perhaps replace the gun games.
Now everyone knows that the NSA is after my barbecue sauce recipe stored in a pgp encrypted file. Of COURSE they'll create a black hole computer just to get it. After all, that barbecue sauce IS kinda red!
There isn't special Linux only stuff in VAs servers. They have a reputation for building servers like tanks and some of their customers view them strictly as a hardware vender. FuckedCompany probably just wiped the drives and installed NT/IIS when the boxes arrived.
Microsoft won't be trashing the BSDs explicitly any time soon. They are probably going to wait for their anti Linux/GPL FUD to bear fruit first. I don't think they'll target the BSDs and projects like Apache and XFree86 until they have significantly impeded Linux development. That said, I can see Mundie or Ballmer using choice quotes from the Gnome flamefest to make some suit-impressing zingers.
Oh yeah, If one hasn't gotten that impression yet, Microsoft is no friend of the BSDs either. They will come and destroy them once they finish off Linux. The anti-GPL arguments are the low hanging fruit. They won't trash the open source licenses but they WILL trash the process. So Codefreez is likely correct. Expect Microsoft propaganda flacks to be devel-list lurkers.
Now where can I go buy it for my hand-assembled K6 box?
A casual reading of the parent post might lead one to think that Free Software is a cause of "the considerably lower standard of living" in some countries. Nothing could be further from the truth. The low standards of living were pre-existing. Free software is a minor benison to such countries. If the per capita income is $500 a year (or less) then no one is going to be spending much money on commercial software licenses. Free (or Open Source..whatever) software makes helps make it legally possible for second and third companies to engage in computing.
;-). In short, I don't feel taken advantage of in way by using my software of choice.
I also have to point out the Microsoft's treatment of it's workers and charitible donations do not excuse it's unethical behaivor in other areas. It most certainly does not excuse the out and out lies coming out the mouths of Ballmer and Mundie. "Cancer", anyone? "Open source software will force you to give up your IP.", ad nauseating. Microsoft is well deserving of "accusing fingers" in the PR as well as other respects.
I also fail to see how frequent software releases take advantage of users. Does the release in use fulfill your needs? If yes, then don't upgrade. Does the new release provide a desired feature? Yes? Then by all means upgrade and report back the ways it could be better. If that is being taken advantage of then PLEASE! take advantage of me some more!
There are other points that could be made like the many positive reasons for developers to contribute APART FROM EGO. Then there are also the economic points in OSS' favor but I need to get back to work
HW accellerated 3D in Linux and the BSDs is handled by ether the Direct Rendering Infrastructure or Nvidia's proprietary equivilant if using their drivers. The textures, polygon info, etc. are NOT handled by the X protocol. If you're going to slam Linux then at least do it CLUEFULLY. There are bad things that can be credibly said about DRM but then you would have to actually KNOW something now wouldn't you?
Golden ear audiophiles are notorious for claiming to hear subtle things that no one else can hear. What's more they will attribute these differences to things like skin effect in the patch cables. Skin effect on signal that goes to 30kHz max? Gee, a whole micron's worth of the center of a 12 gauge cable might be getting dodged by the signal. This is the least picadillo one will read in publications like The Absolute Sound. They will use the language of art critics to make technical criticisms. One reads things like "The J13 speakers have a wonderful phase shifted aural spaciality but slightly overmunge the dibalanced low-band spectrum." Truly awful. They mangle fantasy and science together the same way flying saucer and new age enthusiasts do.
It's very easy to suspect that they are in fact full of....stuff. If you're in the business of selling high end audio then it becomes very important to discover to what extent the golden ears are or are not full of it. Bob Carver did a little hands on research at a mid '70s trade show to shed some light on these suspicions. He displayed an impressive system openly. I don't recall the model number but it had the separate tube amps for the right and left channel. It had the oxygen free gold wire to interconnect the type of components that ultra audiophiles have wet dreams about: hand crafted capacitors and resistors and transistors matched to six 9s precision in gain and so on and so forth. In any case the system displayed was in the $30k range at the time. The speakers were no less expensive and no doubt exquisitely hand matched to the amps. But here is where the joke comes in. The speakers were connected to a $200 dollar range bookshelf stereo hidden behind a curtain. Carver injected pink noise into the ultra stereo and displayed the result on a spectrum analyzer. He then set the bookshelf system to a moderate volume and EQed it with the same pink noise as input until it matched the spectrum of the ultra stereo. As long as the controls on the bookshelf were not tampered with, it's sound was good approximation of the ultra stereo at the same moderate volume. He told the audience that he had a top secret experimental system behind the curtain and wanted to field test it to ensure he was on the right track. With some audiophile grade vinyl classical as the input he switched between the ultra stereo (which they COULD see and were familiar with) and the "top secret" bookshelf system behind the curtain.
Lo and behold! The bookshelf system had far better "aural spaciality.........." I've known salesmen who have done this same thing several times with the same result. I suppose this goes a long way toward explaining the audiophile aversion to double blinded A/B listening tests. Those A/B switches must introduce some truly horrible "multiphasic inhibited frequency shifts" into the signal.
Now, it is true that a $5000 system will most likely sound far better than a Soundesign bookshelf from Wal-Mart. But there is a point of imperceptible diminishing returns. I have no trouble believing that point comes long before one has spent $140,000.
p.s. I'll tweak the tweaks a little more by mentioning that Don Lancaster has described similiar experiments in tweak psychology. Every so often in Electronics Now he would describe such shenanigans. Many of his writings can be found at www.tinaja.com. He also critiques would be perpetual motion machine inventers and "free" energy sources that are even BETTER than cold fusion.
Packet sniffers would probably work great for spot checking if you have a kid developing early signs of 7337n335. The appropriatly filtered log of a packet sniff of junior's workstation might make him rethink his so-called leetness. Kiddies do get caught now and again and I would rather it be me than a pissed off sysadmin or FBI agent who teaches that lesson.
Of course, the technically apt kids of technically apt parents should be taught better in the first place. Right?
$file /home/mykid/* | grep jpeg
/home/mykid/dadwillneverfigurethisout.imsoleet:
JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, aspect ratio, 1 x 1, "Check out the tits on her!!!!"
muhahahaha!
Like another poster said, when my kid can circumvent my surveilence then he is probably ready to handle what he finds.
OS X is being touted as a OpenGL friendly desktop OS. While Mac game selections aren't as bountiful as Windows, the situation is better than in Linux. When games start appearing that are OS X native, the resulting sourcecode should be much easier to port the rest of the Unices. Granted the UI layer is completely different but the hardcore game engine components won't be so bad. Hell, it might even give GNUstep a large amount of interest. The GNUStep libraries would probably ease much of the pain of porting the UI stuff as well even if they aren't employed to backend 'nix desktops.
Games that are intended to sell well on the Mac and Windows have to be somewhat portable. The OS X environment resembles it's fellow Unices more than it does Windows. Of course, Microsoft can release DirectX libraries for OS X and not Linux..........
I've seen a lot of posts to effect that MacOS X is bad for Linux and will kill it's mindshare. OS X is no more bad for Linux than Linux is bad for the BSDs. Sure more people may use it as a desktop but it could mean that more commercial software comes to Linux (and the BSDs). A rising tide floats everyones boat.
ssh has the -C flag that uses the same compression algorithm as gzip. That might make the above scheme barely practical. I know, I know, it was a joke..
I will point out that ssh compression works wonders on a vnc session if the server is running sshd. There is a nice howto on the vnc page for tunneling the connection over ssh. Secure and faster....bonus!
For the +2 bonus. I never had it before and don't intend to start using it. Not that I'll have it long with my new angel trailing me ;-) That minor rant was intended for a certain moderator who I assume is following my posts. I'll also point out in fairness that my posts rarely get modded above +2. The bonus was an anomaly I'm not accustomed to having.
...not that I care. If you are that pathetic, you can bookmark my userpage so you can be sure and downgrade as many of my posts as possible. I'll live. It was a JOKE you fricking idiot.
Either mod or post. I'm fairly certain that you are the one who uses his mod points to lower ratings on disliked posts then posts anonymously to explain why.
It looks like the troll kiddies have found themselves another way to abuse the discussions. SIGH.
"swift, strong, hard rods" George Carlin has proposed that all foreign policies can be summarized by what he calls the Bigger Dick theory. It goes something like this: "What?!?! They have bigger dicks?!?! BOMB THEM! And have you ever noticed that all of the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are shaped like dicks. It's an attempt to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called FUCKING WITH PEOPLE!." He goes on to make several more points that are equally hilarious. I wonder what Mr. Carlin would make the parent's 'penetration by swift strong rods"?
A small drive could hold LILO and /boot. Once a Linux or BSD kernel is running, the other drive should become accessible. Linux and the BSDs don't rely on the BIOS to access drives. So boot from either a floppy or a small hdd then load the rest of the system from the "big" drive.
Many DVD players can be arbitrarily set to play any region with firmware. The newer Apex600As don't have the loophole menu but play disks with seamless branching like the Abyss that the old ones would choke on.
One of the solutions for this player is to stack two 4Mb roms on top of each other and select the one you want with a switch on the high address line. One of the roms is set for Region 0 and the other is usually Region 1. This combination will play any non RCE disk regardless of region and any region 1 regardless of RCE. I suggest the following improvement: SIX roms stacked on top of each other and a rotary switch instead of an A/B switch. Variations of this could be used for the other hackable players as well. This produces a single player that can play any region regardless of RCE.