Actually the PS2 uses a mips processor as its central cpu which I believe is sgi's. However they also have about 4 other processors which are theirs, so you're pretty much right. Oh and you're also right about the consoles leveling the urge to upgrade do to games. Ever since I got my hands on a ps2 I haven't played many computer games and (this is the biggest part) haven't felt any need to upgrade what-so-ever. My machines do everything I need now... why would I need a 128 meg graphics card with a 650Mhz processor?
Actually you might have a problem though if you want to run Windows on those machines. *Of course no slashdotter would ever conceive of running windows;)*. The hardware may not be palladium enabled, but the software from the US (especially Microsoft) sure as hell will be. The reason I like turning palladium off is just so I can still run non-trusted stuff like oh say... linux.
Actually David Hannum said that about PT Barnum. It all had to do with the "stone giant" that was found. The best part is when they wouldn't sell it to Barnum (or lease it), Barnum made a copy of it and said that his was the original. The link is found here, its actually a pretty humorous read.
First of all your anonymous so you're probably a troll and not worth my time. However bombing afganistan back to the stone age is absolutely nothing like hunting down Osama bin Laden. There is no amount of technology short of a satallite that can trace dna patterns from space through layers of rock that is going to find that bastard. Most likely he is going to be found through old fashion intelligence agency/detective work or by being sold out by one of his cronies. Then again if they passed up the $5 million (can't remember the exact figure)or so award they have on him then most likely that isn't going to work.You also refered to the poster as "you" so I'm assuming you're probably not american and were taking a generally condescending attitude to american war technology. #1) Screw you. #2) You're probably right though. Its kind of like that saying about not all the money in the world can being able to buy love. Not all the military spending in the world will find him. But hey, spending $40 billion on wing warping for an f-18 verse on education is the republican way.
First of all this is kind of a repeat but anyway... NOTE: These instructions are for all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.
1. Update the virus definitions. 2. Run a full system scan, and delete all files that are detected as Linux.Slapper.Worm.
I wasn't aware there was a norton anti-virus program for linux. I could be wrong but I checked around their site and google and found nothing. Thats really not great removal tips. However I very much agree with their little 8 step or whatever program. About making people aware of attachments, running extra services, etc.
Actually all you might have to do is boot up the default kernel which in most systems is full of just about every single modules and run a script that takes an lsmod and generates a config file out of it. I really can't see why this is so damn difficult, you'd think someone would of done this by now. I'm sure this isn't the right way to go about it but... hey... what do you want from a slashdot comment;).
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I was going to get into when companies go under, which entails the whole issue with abandon-ware. However when P retires, if they last that long, most likely there will be non-disclosure agreements. I know from working at IBM that everything i do is theirs. I would imagine any separation of P from M would require some hefty paperwork, if W was that important. However you are right, I'm sure in most cases W will be picked up by someone else. My concern was more about what happens when someone doesn't. That M decides that it'll cost too much to train someone else to hack around on W. Or you have an anti-stallman. Someone that creates their own tools and system, and instead of giving it to everyone generously, they keep it to themselves. Thats their right and I respect it, but it still kinda sucks.
Power of Open Source (not flamebait or troll)
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First of all my condolances to the loved ones of David and Leonard. I never knew either, but from the glowing comments I've read... I wish I had. Unfortunately shit happens. Its part of life. However even though Leonard has passed on, his legacy will be the code he has contributed to linux. From what I've understand that seems to be some extensive work on the scsi system which is no small task in its self. All of this makes me wonder, because of the freedom of his code... his work will live on through others, would this be the case in "non-OS" software? Say Company M has a programmer P who is chiefly responsible for widget W. Now say programmer P passes on and besides maybe a few people who understand the code, who works on W? But if P's work was done to be scrutinized by the masses, that work would continue on. I believe this is one important reason why information should be free. If something happens to the creator, their work can continue on if it has value to someone. It makes me wonder how many people had brilliant ideas, but closely guarded them to the point that they died with them.
I know you're probably kidding but anyway... It only takes 8, i had to do this before. Along with that the reripped oggs will probably be shittier quality because you're gonna lose quality going from wav to mp3 to wav to ogg.
Seriously... you guys don't care anymore (the "editors"). We're getting repeats almost every day or at least every other day. If you guys aren't going to read slashdot anymore, then hell hire someone who can. Or maybe they'll do it volunteerly like you used to do in the old days. I don't want to bitch about slashdot. I like slashdot, always have in the roughly 2 years i've been on here. It just sucks to see the creators of something so damn cool stop caring. *sigh*
This also appears to have an interesting affect on animals which I'm noticing at the moment. I downloaded the mp3 and played it. Can definitly see why it'd put you to sleep. However the better affect is in watching my kitten. This is the first time I've ever really seen her respond to noise from a speaker. While playing cds or whatnot shes usually just ignore it as background noise. This however has her sitting there confused looking for the source. She actually walked up to the speaker on the wall and was sniffing it, trying to figure out where the hell its coming from. Now shes lying there with her ears moving in rhythm with the sounds. Very strange... maybe the next time she decides to be a little bastard I'll put this on.
They discuss the last part of your comment in the article. What drives the "evolution" is the complexity of the task at hand. Whether its pushing a box or something else, they say that it is very very important to keep coming up with new tasks to push the limits of the little cyber-critters. I would think that without an enviroment that demands adaptation, evolution would occur either very slowly or not at all. I mean how far do you think we would of evolved if say everyone had food and didn't have to worry about predators? We'd probably evolve to the point where we die off at an acceptable rate in order not to cause overcrowding and hurt the species in the long term. Of course some rouge critter would probably develop a gene to live longer, so maybe you can't stop evolution anyway.
Just in case someone says that evolution is "just gene mutation", I would disagree. I would say that evolution is "gene mutation" that benefits the entity that has mutated and made it better adapted to it's enviroment than say average-joe-critter.
Here I'll sum up what you'll have to do, based on other posters: 1)Install RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and slackware. Yeah all 4. And then put a difficulty ranking for each one on the computers, like from 1-4 (1 being easiest) assign them all a 1 because everyone is going to tell you that slackware is just as easy as mandrake. 2)Install kde, gnome, windowmaker, blackbox, enlightenment, every other windowmanager that at least 1 person uses. Then install every single theme for them. We all know users want choice, so give them plenty of it. *already laughing* 3)You'll need the Gnome office stuff (gnumeric, abiword,etc), Kdeoffice, openoffice and off course emacs (but if you install emacs, you'll also need vi). 3)Put up posters in the room with penguins biting bill gates, or put "bill doesn't live here anymore" stickers on the machines. This will add to the feel of the room. 4) Make sure there are no windows in the room. 5) Don't forget to have one *BSD machine in the corner that nobody touches, just so the bsd people start complaining that "bsd is so much more 1337 then linux". Don't worry about keeping it up to date, noone will use it.
That should be pretty much the answers you get out of the slashdot community. Personally I'd get Mandrake 8.2 with Kde 3 and Open Office. Entirely free and hell you could probably just boot them all off the same network image if the hardware is the same.
haha... thats pretty funny. I actually work in building 640 and trust me, it was building 323 before the new fab. I actually like walking around those buildings, they remind me of 60's spy/cold war movies cuz they're design is definitly dated.
I saw that picture on a search for Namalycastis abiuma which is the genus the worm falls under. However, theres at least 3 types and the vietnamese "nuclear worm" isn't one of the classified ones. With this in mind, I figured that the pic wasn't of the right worm. However from what I've read, if you've seen one namalycastis abiuma then you've seen them all, although a 7 foot, diameter of a finger, hot pink worm would be kinda cool looking.
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When I first saw this I thought "yeah, ok", but after some googling it appears that they are actually real and not some washington post made up crap. This link Maryland Marine Notes which discusses concerns for Chesapeake bay mentions how the Department of Natural Resources classifies the "nuclear worm" on their list of no known problems but potentially dangerous creatures.This one is by the US Wildlife field service: more info I've been trying to find a photo but everyone has the same info... basically wildlife angencies are trying to figure out what the hell it is and how dangerous it is... fisherman use it as bait, and the press hypes up the "nuclear" part of it by saying it was created by agent orange and napalm. The actual name nuclear worm was made up by a bait salesman on chesapeake bay because it sounded good. *rolls eyes*
I'm not picking on you but its a stupid argument. MacOS X isn't unix, I wish people would stop calling it that. Its unix "compatible", as under the hood its the mach kernel with a bsd (closely resembling freebsd hence all the core/apple jumping going on) compatibility layer. Yeah I suppose it could be called unix or bsd, but from what I've heard its not just as easy as to compile other unix software, or even freebsd software. There seems to be some stuff missing on the implementation side. Anyway in lab I used to work, we ran Mandrake 8.x on an imac and it ran great. Same machine with Mac OSX felt klunky. Yeah OSX has more eye candy and i'll admit that its absolutely beautiful but its not as aerodynamic (i know bad use) as kde or even gnome. Just my 2 cents...
For those not in the know, CDex is a very nice, very easy-to-use GPL (as in Open Source) Audio CD Ripper
Ooooooohhhhhh... thaaaaat GPL. And here I am confusing an open source licence with damnit... can't come up with anything witty that GPL could be an acronym for. Damn you job, damn you.
Or it could be that we already have plenty of talented employees here at the east fishkill plant who know 200mm fine so converting to 300 won't be that bad.
Disclaimer: I work at the east fishkill plant as a programmer for the 300mm testing systems.
"Look ma, I'm on slashdot"... well not exactly but I actually work there. I program the testing systems so that the engineers can run test on the wafers. The ribbon cutting was pretty cool, CEO Sam was here and so was George Pataki. Nothing like sitting in the conourse for lunch and seeing a massive black helicopter fly overhead. Got a free hat out of it... to be entirely honest this is a big deal but business here really isn't going to change. We've been porting our testing system from the old design to the 300mm for awhile now and theres been alot of restructuring of the departments such as moving people to the new 300mm ones etc.
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Actually 27... SyllableOS 0.4.0 is a port of AtheOS 3.7 and really isn't all that different.26 if you count the two similiar BeOSs as one.
Actually the PS2 uses a mips processor as its central cpu which I believe is sgi's. However they also have about 4 other processors which are theirs, so you're pretty much right. Oh and you're also right about the consoles leveling the urge to upgrade do to games. Ever since I got my hands on a ps2 I haven't played many computer games and (this is the biggest part) haven't felt any need to upgrade what-so-ever. My machines do everything I need now... why would I need a 128 meg graphics card with a 650Mhz processor?
Actually you might have a problem though if you want to run Windows on those machines. *Of course no slashdotter would ever conceive of running windows ;)*. The hardware may not be palladium enabled, but the software from the US (especially Microsoft) sure as hell will be. The reason I like turning palladium off is just so I can still run non-trusted stuff like oh say... linux.
Actually David Hannum said that about PT Barnum. It all had to do with the "stone giant" that was found. The best part is when they wouldn't sell it to Barnum (or lease it), Barnum made a copy of it and said that his was the original. The link is found here, its actually a pretty humorous read.
First of all your anonymous so you're probably a troll and not worth my time. However bombing afganistan back to the stone age is absolutely nothing like hunting down Osama bin Laden. There is no amount of technology short of a satallite that can trace dna patterns from space through layers of rock that is going to find that bastard. Most likely he is going to be found through old fashion intelligence agency/detective work or by being sold out by one of his cronies. Then again if they passed up the $5 million (can't remember the exact figure)or so award they have on him then most likely that isn't going to work.You also refered to the poster as "you" so I'm assuming you're probably not american and were taking a generally condescending attitude to american war technology. #1) Screw you. #2) You're probably right though. Its kind of like that saying about not all the money in the world can being able to buy love. Not all the military spending in the world will find him. But hey, spending $40 billion on wing warping for an f-18 verse on education is the republican way.
First of all this is kind of a repeat but anyway...
NOTE: These instructions are for all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.
1. Update the virus definitions.
2. Run a full system scan, and delete all files that are detected as Linux.Slapper.Worm.
I wasn't aware there was a norton anti-virus program for linux. I could be wrong but I checked around their site and google and found nothing. Thats really not great removal tips. However I very much agree with their little 8 step or whatever program. About making people aware of attachments, running extra services, etc.
Actually all you might have to do is boot up the default kernel which in most systems is full of just about every single modules and run a script that takes an lsmod and generates a config file out of it. I really can't see why this is so damn difficult, you'd think someone would of done this by now. I'm sure this isn't the right way to go about it but... hey... what do you want from a slashdot comment ;).
Mandrake does the same. Redhat probably does too.
I was going to get into when companies go under, which entails the whole issue with abandon-ware. However when P retires, if they last that long, most likely there will be non-disclosure agreements. I know from working at IBM that everything i do is theirs. I would imagine any separation of P from M would require some hefty paperwork, if W was that important. However you are right, I'm sure in most cases W will be picked up by someone else. My concern was more about what happens when someone doesn't. That M decides that it'll cost too much to train someone else to hack around on W. Or you have an anti-stallman. Someone that creates their own tools and system, and instead of giving it to everyone generously, they keep it to themselves. Thats their right and I respect it, but it still kinda sucks.
First of all my condolances to the loved ones of David and Leonard. I never knew either, but from the glowing comments I've read... I wish I had. Unfortunately shit happens. Its part of life. However even though Leonard has passed on, his legacy will be the code he has contributed to linux. From what I've understand that seems to be some extensive work on the scsi system which is no small task in its self. All of this makes me wonder, because of the freedom of his code... his work will live on through others, would this be the case in "non-OS" software? Say Company M has a programmer P who is chiefly responsible for widget W. Now say programmer P passes on and besides maybe a few people who understand the code, who works on W? But if P's work was done to be scrutinized by the masses, that work would continue on. I believe this is one important reason why information should be free. If something happens to the creator, their work can continue on if it has value to someone. It makes me wonder how many people had brilliant ideas, but closely guarded them to the point that they died with them.
have one asshole.
I know you're probably kidding but anyway... It only takes 8, i had to do this before. Along with that the reripped oggs will probably be shittier quality because you're gonna lose quality going from wav to mp3 to wav to ogg.
Seriously... you guys don't care anymore (the "editors"). We're getting repeats almost every day or at least every other day. If you guys aren't going to read slashdot anymore, then hell hire someone who can. Or maybe they'll do it volunteerly like you used to do in the old days. I don't want to bitch about slashdot. I like slashdot, always have in the roughly 2 years i've been on here. It just sucks to see the creators of something so damn cool stop caring. *sigh*
This also appears to have an interesting affect on animals which I'm noticing at the moment. I downloaded the mp3 and played it. Can definitly see why it'd put you to sleep. However the better affect is in watching my kitten. This is the first time I've ever really seen her respond to noise from a speaker. While playing cds or whatnot shes usually just ignore it as background noise. This however has her sitting there confused looking for the source. She actually walked up to the speaker on the wall and was sniffing it, trying to figure out where the hell its coming from. Now shes lying there with her ears moving in rhythm with the sounds. Very strange... maybe the next time she decides to be a little bastard I'll put this on.
It has been reported that there is a backlash against Slashdot as many believe it is becoming the Microsoft of Geek websites.
They discuss the last part of your comment in the article. What drives the "evolution" is the complexity of the task at hand. Whether its pushing a box or something else, they say that it is very very important to keep coming up with new tasks to push the limits of the little cyber-critters. I would think that without an enviroment that demands adaptation, evolution would occur either very slowly or not at all. I mean how far do you think we would of evolved if say everyone had food and didn't have to worry about predators? We'd probably evolve to the point where we die off at an acceptable rate in order not to cause overcrowding and hurt the species in the long term. Of course some rouge critter would probably develop a gene to live longer, so maybe you can't stop evolution anyway.
Just in case someone says that evolution is "just gene mutation", I would disagree. I would say that evolution is "gene mutation" that benefits the entity that has mutated and made it better adapted to it's enviroment than say average-joe-critter.
The funny thing is I actually learned joe before anything else.
Here I'll sum up what you'll have to do, based on other posters:
1)Install RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and slackware. Yeah all 4. And then put a difficulty ranking for each one on the computers, like from 1-4 (1 being easiest) assign them all a 1 because everyone is going to tell you that slackware is just as easy as mandrake.
2)Install kde, gnome, windowmaker, blackbox, enlightenment, every other windowmanager that at least 1 person uses. Then install every single theme for them. We all know users want choice, so give them plenty of it. *already laughing*
3)You'll need the Gnome office stuff (gnumeric, abiword,etc), Kdeoffice, openoffice and off course emacs (but if you install emacs, you'll also need vi).
3)Put up posters in the room with penguins biting bill gates, or put "bill doesn't live here anymore" stickers on the machines. This will add to the feel of the room.
4) Make sure there are no windows in the room.
5) Don't forget to have one *BSD machine in the corner that nobody touches, just so the bsd people start complaining that "bsd is so much more 1337 then linux". Don't worry about keeping it up to date, noone will use it.
That should be pretty much the answers you get out of the slashdot community. Personally I'd get Mandrake 8.2 with Kde 3 and Open Office. Entirely free and hell you could probably just boot them all off the same network image if the hardware is the same.
haha... thats pretty funny. I actually work in building 640 and trust me, it was building 323 before the new fab. I actually like walking around those buildings, they remind me of 60's spy/cold war movies cuz they're design is definitly dated.
I saw that picture on a search for Namalycastis abiuma which is the genus the worm falls under. However, theres at least 3 types and the vietnamese "nuclear worm" isn't one of the classified ones. With this in mind, I figured that the pic wasn't of the right worm. However from what I've read, if you've seen one namalycastis abiuma then you've seen them all, although a 7 foot, diameter of a finger, hot pink worm would be kinda cool looking.
When I first saw this I thought "yeah, ok", but after some googling it appears that they are actually real and not some washington post made up crap. This link
Maryland Marine Notes which discusses concerns for Chesapeake bay mentions how the Department of Natural Resources classifies the "nuclear worm" on their list of no known problems but potentially dangerous creatures.This one is by the US Wildlife field service:
more info I've been trying to find a photo but everyone has the same info... basically wildlife angencies are trying to figure out what the hell it is and how dangerous it is... fisherman use it as bait, and the press hypes up the "nuclear" part of it by saying it was created by agent orange and napalm. The actual name nuclear worm was made up by a bait salesman on chesapeake bay because it sounded good. *rolls eyes*
I'm not picking on you but its a stupid argument. MacOS X isn't unix, I wish people would stop calling it that. Its unix "compatible", as under the hood its the mach kernel with a bsd (closely resembling freebsd hence all the core/apple jumping going on) compatibility layer. Yeah I suppose it could be called unix or bsd, but from what I've heard its not just as easy as to compile other unix software, or even freebsd software. There seems to be some stuff missing on the implementation side. Anyway in lab I used to work, we ran Mandrake 8.x on an imac and it ran great. Same machine with Mac OSX felt klunky. Yeah OSX has more eye candy and i'll admit that its absolutely beautiful but its not as aerodynamic (i know bad use) as kde or even gnome. Just my 2 cents...
For those not in the know, CDex is a very nice, very easy-to-use GPL (as in Open Source) Audio CD Ripper
Ooooooohhhhhh... thaaaaat GPL. And here I am confusing an open source licence with damnit... can't come up with anything witty that GPL could be an acronym for. Damn you job, damn you.
Or it could be that we already have plenty of talented employees here at the east fishkill plant who know 200mm fine so converting to 300 won't be that bad.
Disclaimer: I work at the east fishkill plant as a programmer for the 300mm testing systems.
"Look ma, I'm on slashdot"... well not exactly but I actually work there. I program the testing systems so that the engineers can run test on the wafers. The ribbon cutting was pretty cool, CEO Sam was here and so was George Pataki. Nothing like sitting in the conourse for lunch and seeing a massive black helicopter fly overhead. Got a free hat out of it... to be entirely honest this is a big deal but business here really isn't going to change. We've been porting our testing system from the old design to the 300mm for awhile now and theres been alot of restructuring of the departments such as moving people to the new 300mm ones etc.