Back in 1991 I think, a screamer, 486dx66, 2 gig HD, SCO UNIX, I forget the RAM, but I had to pick a name, and Neuromancer was one of my favorite books at the time.
My brother-in-law is about as square as you get, and he has a Marley sticker on his wagon. (I think it makes him feel less square to like Marley).
I've always had at least one Dead sticker on my car, to ward off evil spirits.
Anyhow, Rochester police don't have the manpower to pull over every car with a Dead sticker, and I think I read in rec.music.gdead that 30% of cars with bumperstickers on them in Massachusetts have Dead stickers on them.
I've heard that too, about the Dead sticker, on the Grateful Dead newsgroup, though it usually seems to be a southern or midwestern state. Deadheads that use stickers that aren't blatantly "Dead" like are said to be driving stealth.
From my own experience, I've driven with Dead stickers on my cars for 12 years, I was pulled over once in Atlantic City for inadvertantly running a red light, and was let go, and once in Rochester for forgetting to turn my headlights on, and was let go.
I think the police in Rochester have better things to do than pull over Dead or Phish stickered cars (about 10% of the cars on the road it seems).
You can buy parts packs from Lego Shop @ home, 1-800-453-4653, including packs of bricks, plates, slopes, baseplates, windows, doors, hinges, connecters, wheels. They should be able to send you a catalog.
Failing that, the freestyle sets have lots of basic sets.
I just sent a check out for two for $13, from an auction at Ebay, which is a darn good price.
I think it depends on how you define single piece, the motors go for $20 and up, the baseplates with ramps and pits (from the Castle sets and Adventurer sets) are pricey, and IIRC the oldstyle people had a grandmother who was only in two sets, if you had one to sell you could probably name your price.
Golly, don't tell anyone but I still play with Lego, and I'm 33. Sometimes I play with it with my 3 year old daughter, and sometimes I just play with it for the fun of it.
I was joking about not telling anyone, my co-workers always got a kick out of the Lego X-wing, airplanes, catamarans, motorcycles and dune buggies I had in my cube.
I read somewhere (dang if i could remember, maybe air & space?) that one of the taller Gemini astronauts (6'4") had a lot of trouble getting back into the Gemini after an EVA, due to his height and the suit becoming rigid in the vacuum.
I didn't mean to imply that Linux is suitable for training wheels only, but rather for a novice, RedHat and Caldera provide much more hand holding and are less intimidating than the BSDs. The two Unix like systems I play with most are both RedHat 6.0, while my FreeBSD lurks in the basement waiting for the occasional print job, and my NetBSD system still doesn't like my nic.
Once you're comfortable installing RedHat,maybe you want to try installing something more challenging, like Debian (apparently, I haven't done this yet), or a BSD. Then go back and play with the one you like the best.
I'm not sure combining Linux and BSD would be good, aside from the human factors, it's good to have different groups working on similar operating systems, it makes for more rapid software evolution. Plus some people prefer BSD thingies while other prefer system 5 thingies. Some people prefer genetically pure Unix while others like a hybrid.
Ob MS bashing: Plus, with BSD and Linux there's twice as many coders for Bill to stomp out.
Get a common, easy to install distribution ( I prefer RedHat over Caldera), when you can install it on a different systems while reading email on another computer and listening to music in under an hour, move on to a BSD.
I'm finding FreeBSD easier than NetBSD, but I'm sticking with Intel boxes, and I like the FreeBSd book I got at Borders.
I started with Linux, and then moved to FreeBSD and NetBSD. The installs aren't as seamless (you have to manually install the network in NetBSD), and the configuration tools aren't as common, but I'm real happy with my FreeBSD box (486/33 16 meg ram), which acts as a nice Print server, and stays up for weeks until my wife shuts it off accidentally.
I've only found one book about FreeBSD (which was bloated by the inclusion of 100s of manpages), and none about NetBSD, so you're in for lots of surfing and cd browsing when you need to do something.
On very marginal hardware (cyrix 386/486 thingy, 8 megs RAM with a failing simm) NetBSD stayed up longer than RedHat 6.0.
Slashdot Mirror
Yikes!
Hordes of netless proles rioting in the streets, breaking into your house
"He's got a modem, and look, network cabling, he's one of those netsetters
to the Guillotine!"
I'd better build a priesthole in my house and hide all my computer stuff there.
George
Back in 1991 I think, a screamer, 486dx66, 2 gig HD, SCO UNIX, I forget the RAM, but I had to pick a name, and Neuromancer was one of my favorite books at the time.
George
Ya gotta admit it, heavey paranoia, drugs, sex, technology perverted for evil uses, and a general dystopic air.
Oops, it has too much humor though, except Snow Crash was kind of funny.
George
by John Brunner
Of course, Nickie doesn't need any terminal or 'trodes to use cyberspace, he can do it with a touch tone phone.
It's a classic, written in the '70's, and very little of the book takes place in cyberspace, but it's a heck of a ride.
George
My brother-in-law is about as square as you get, and he has a Marley sticker on his wagon. (I think it makes him feel less square to like Marley).
I've always had at least one Dead sticker on my car, to ward off evil spirits.
Anyhow, Rochester police don't have the manpower to pull over every car with a Dead sticker, and I think I read in rec.music.gdead that 30% of cars with bumperstickers on them in Massachusetts have Dead stickers on them.
George
I've heard that too, about the Dead sticker, on the Grateful Dead newsgroup, though it usually seems to be a southern or midwestern state. Deadheads that use stickers that aren't blatantly "Dead" like are said to be driving stealth.
From my own experience, I've driven with Dead stickers on my cars for 12 years, I was pulled over once in Atlantic City for inadvertantly running a red light, and was let go, and once in Rochester for forgetting to turn my headlights on, and was let go.
I think the police in Rochester have better things to do than pull over Dead or Phish stickered cars (about 10% of the cars on the road it seems).
George
You can buy parts packs from Lego Shop @ home, 1-800-453-4653, including packs of bricks, plates, slopes, baseplates, windows, doors, hinges, connecters, wheels. They should be able to send you a catalog.
Failing that, the freestyle sets have lots of basic sets.
George
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
But he's right, gotta go with the Open Standards
George
Heh-heh-heh, you figured that one out too.
I'm glad my daughter is old enough to play with real Lego, the Duplo just doesn't cut it.
George
I just sent a check out for two for $13, from an auction at Ebay, which is a darn good price.
I think it depends on how you define single piece, the motors go for $20 and up, the baseplates with ramps and pits (from the Castle sets and Adventurer sets) are pricey, and IIRC the oldstyle people had a grandmother who was only in two sets, if you had one to sell you could probably name your price.
George
Golly, don't tell anyone but I still play with Lego, and I'm 33. Sometimes I play with it with my 3 year old daughter, and sometimes I just play with it for the fun of it.
I was joking about not telling anyone, my co-workers always got a kick out of the Lego X-wing, airplanes, catamarans, motorcycles and dune buggies I had in my cube.
George
"Why doesn't anyone make a case for PC's out of LegoS? I've seen the MAc ones before..."
Okey-doke, number 2367 on my list of things to do when my life slows down a little.
George
Gee, I'm still learning everyday, though my employer has lots of older people, so I'm not too worried.
Of course, there's no way in heck I'd take a job involving more than 45+ hours a week either, something that younger folks seem to enjoy.
George
Hmm, so we have Pope Bill the 1st, and Linus nailing a Linux CD to MS's front door?
./'ers Linuxerans?
Would that make
George
If you're comfortable on Linux, you should be fine on BSD.
George
With duct tape?
And do you have to carry around a 12v power supply?
Oh well, at least the video output's female.
George
I read somewhere (dang if i could remember, maybe air & space?) that one of the taller Gemini astronauts (6'4") had a lot of trouble getting back into the Gemini after an EVA, due to his height and the suit becoming rigid in the vacuum.
George
He mentions a royalty free OS named Spring, wonder what ever happened to it?
George
Have you checked out the internet archive? http://www.archive.org?
Ironically enough, it appears to be only searchable in meatspace.
George
it's under could it be
I didn't mean to imply that Linux is suitable for training wheels only, but rather for a novice, RedHat and Caldera provide much more hand holding and are less intimidating than the BSDs. The two Unix like systems I play with most are both RedHat 6.0, while my FreeBSD lurks in the basement waiting for the occasional print job, and my NetBSD system still doesn't like my nic.
Once you're comfortable installing RedHat,maybe you want to try installing something more challenging, like Debian (apparently, I haven't done this yet), or a BSD. Then go back and play with the one you like the best.
I'm not sure combining Linux and BSD would be good, aside from the human factors, it's good to have different groups working on similar operating systems, it makes for more rapid software evolution. Plus some people prefer BSD thingies while other prefer system 5 thingies. Some people prefer genetically pure Unix while others like a hybrid.
Ob MS bashing: Plus, with BSD and Linux there's twice as many coders for Bill to stomp out.
George
Let's see:
Caldera 1.1 on a 486 laptop w 8 meg ram, runs slow but a makes a good terminal.
WinNT4 server, doesn't install, needs 16 megs.
Caldera wins!
More seriously, I don't have the money to buy NT, and my flagship PC is a 32 meg P90 that probably won't run w2k.
On the other hand, I haven't tried to make my parents switch from Win 98 to Linux, but then I don't know if AOL comes on Linux yet.
George
seconded.
Get a common, easy to install distribution ( I prefer RedHat over Caldera), when you can install it on a different systems while reading email on another computer and listening to music in under an hour, move on to a BSD.
I'm finding FreeBSD easier than NetBSD, but I'm sticking with Intel boxes, and I like the FreeBSd book I got at Borders.
George
I started with Linux, and then moved to FreeBSD and NetBSD. The installs aren't as seamless (you have to manually install the network in NetBSD), and the configuration tools aren't as common, but I'm real happy with my FreeBSD box (486/33 16 meg ram), which acts as a nice Print server, and stays up for weeks until my wife shuts it off accidentally.
I've only found one book about FreeBSD (which was bloated by the inclusion of 100s of manpages), and none about NetBSD, so you're in for lots of surfing and cd browsing when you need to do something.
On very marginal hardware (cyrix 386/486 thingy, 8 megs RAM with a failing simm) NetBSD stayed up longer than RedHat 6.0.
George
Friday's salon dug it, maybe I'll go see it instead of sleeping.
George