A previous slashdot story spoke of a Linux distribution that ran from a CDRW. At boot up it would load everything from the CDRW to ramdisk, run and at shutdown save the changes back to the CDRW as a new session...
Combine this with your silent computer, you only have to put up with the CD sound when booting (and with a linux desktop how often does that happen? leave it on all the time. Even more so with a linux server)
so soup up your silent machine with all the memory it can hold, and only use the Compact Flash to hold stuff at shutdown.
Go read the license agreement, It's entirely possible for you to think you are buying "Microsoft Windows XP" when really you are buying a license to run a copy of "Microsoft Windows XP" on one machine, with no promise if fitness for any particular purpose, or responsibility for any loss that may occur.
After all If you actually "Owned" your copy of XP, why couldn't you pick it apart with a debugger and publish whatever you find?
Too bad that does not mean that if I throw away enough "Get 'Drogs' from us" or "Mr Umbootoo Rabboonni want to share billions of $$$ with you" or "You w.ant our 2.nd mort.gage" ads that I stop getting them.
I think many of us "open source" people care about having the source. Many things I download from the Internet I download in source form and compile myself.
By the way if your point is having the source, why don't you use gentoo? Otherwise you are dependent on the binaries you say others are fixated on?
Nothing compels them to keep the data they collect on you to themselves. The Government is just one group that would pay for any scrap of data that is available.
And who knows what can be cooked up about you when the put 2 and 2 together and get 22!
One of the "carrots" of trusted computing is, To get access to this site (or perhaps even to get past this router) you have to turn on your trusted computing.
The thing I came away from the article with was: Apple is going to Intel, so they can have Trusted Computing, so Apple users can surf the Internet without getting "Error 666 Your trusted computing is not turned on, Turn on Trusted Computing and re-load"
Once upon a time I had to use OS/2 to perform weekly maintenance on the cc:mail post offices the company used.
The maintenance program ran on both DOS and OS/2 but once the post office reached a size limit, OS/2 had to be used becuase the DOS version of the maintenance program would hose things. ( a pointer would roll over to 0 in the middle of the pack operation, truncating the post office at that point..)
Then it's just a simple matter of prying them off carefully and pressing them back in their new places? Is the mechanism easy to break?
Prying off your keys and puting them back dvorak style: 3 hours Watching your friends try to type: priceless (just setting the dvorak keyboard and trying to type yourself...)
One where the "Astronauts" have to perform "Missions" and not everyone "comes home".
Instead of the current reality shows where everyone is in it for themselves and only one can win.
In this show the prize at the end is larger for each person depending on how many make it.
Space is unforgivving, one little mistake and your dead...
(Legal disclaimer - If you use this pitch I will watch the show, This pitch is in the public domain for anyone to use as a basis for a show. Please just make it a good show.)
Yhey send out letters that look like "You Owe Us Money" and that lead you to belive that you had already re-subscribed and now you needed to pay. Bogus.
And when you rip off the record company, don't you think the artist also suffers? (regardless of how bad the deal is between the artist and the company)
At least when a record company sells a record, the artist gets a few cents. Tell me, show of hands, who of you who download music from "free" sites send a money to the artist.
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I wish I could remeber.. It was a cool idea.
If you are a subscribed user, I commented on the story about how it was sort of like the NeXT computer all over again.
I tried googleing for "Linux+pentalive+NeXT+slashdot" but did not find the article.
No, not jumpers...
Each Buss plug has an address. Each card has flash memory to keep it's settings and a ROM with a program to set them onscreen.
At boot time there is a short pause (like for current BIOSes) to allow the user to select and run the ROM setup program.
Then all the flash memory is read and the cards are setup.
Once the computer is running there is also a utility to run the ROM setup programs. The settings take effect at the next reboot.
No jumpers to loose, No manuals to have to look up (the ROM setup program prompts in "Human"
You forgot "Mineral" , but I think you clipped "vegetable"
A previous slashdot story spoke of a Linux distribution that ran from a CDRW. At boot up it would load everything from the CDRW to ramdisk, run and at shutdown save the changes back to the CDRW as a new session...
Combine this with your silent computer, you only have to put up with the CD sound when booting (and with a linux desktop how often does that happen? leave it on all the time. Even more so with a linux server)
so soup up your silent machine with all the memory it can hold, and only use the Compact Flash to hold stuff at shutdown.
Silent and blazeing fast too!
Go read the license agreement, It's entirely possible for you to think you are buying "Microsoft Windows XP" when really you are buying a license to run a copy of "Microsoft Windows XP" on one machine, with no promise if fitness for any particular purpose, or responsibility for any loss that may occur.
After all If you actually "Owned" your copy of XP, why couldn't you pick it apart with a debugger and publish whatever you find?
Mod Parent Up Insightful
Personalized Advertising...
Too bad that does not mean that if I throw away enough "Get 'Drogs' from us" or "Mr Umbootoo Rabboonni want to share billions of $$$ with you" or "You w.ant our 2.nd mort.gage" ads that I stop getting them.
Mooo hooo Haa Haaa haaa (eeevile laugh)
It's the mind controll ray! It worked.
Perhaps if the kids had a nap earlier in the day??
The word is given, Mr Scott, Warp Speed.
I think many of us "open source" people care about having the source. Many things I download from the Internet I download in source form and compile myself.
By the way if your point is having the source, why don't you use gentoo? Otherwise you are dependent on the binaries you say others are fixated on?
exactly my point.
Nothing compels them to keep the data they collect on you to themselves. The Government is just one group that would pay for any scrap of data that is available.
And who knows what can be cooked up about you when the put 2 and 2 together and get 22!
One of the "carrots" of trusted computing is, To get access to this site (or perhaps even to get past this router) you have to turn on your trusted computing.
The thing I came away from the article with was: Apple is going to Intel, so they can have Trusted Computing, so Apple users can surf the Internet without getting "Error 666 Your trusted computing is not turned on, Turn on Trusted Computing and re-load"
Our diversity is one of our strengths..
For those who need security, there is a distribution(debian?).
For those who want to compile everything (for speed?) there is a distribution(gentoo),
For those who like it complicated, there is a distribution(redhat?)
For those who like it simple there is a distribution (slackware?)
For each of us there is a distribution with the strengths we care about.
While Disney (or other companies) may have more rights to collect information, what compels them to keep that information to themselves?
Once upon a time I had to use OS/2 to perform weekly maintenance on the cc:mail post offices the company used.
The maintenance program ran on both DOS and OS/2 but once the post office reached a size limit, OS/2 had to be used becuase the DOS version of the maintenance program would hose things. ( a pointer would roll over to 0 in the middle of the pack operation, truncating the post office at that point..)
Then it's just a simple matter of prying them off carefully and pressing them back in their new places? Is the mechanism easy
to break?
Prying off your keys and puting them back dvorak style: 3 hours
Watching your friends try to type: priceless
(just setting the dvorak keyboard and trying to type yourself...)
Any "Reality Show Producers" out there?
One where the "Astronauts" have to perform "Missions" and not everyone "comes home".
Instead of the current reality shows where everyone is in it for themselves and only one can win.
In this show the prize at the end is larger for each person depending on how many make it.
Space is unforgivving, one little mistake and your dead...
(Legal disclaimer - If you use this pitch I will watch the show, This pitch is in the public domain for anyone to use as a basis for a show. Please just make it a good show.)
Anyone know if the iBook's keys can be moved around?
Ghaa! Who stole the 4th wall ! ! ? ?
Yhey send out letters that look like "You Owe Us Money" and that lead you to belive that you had already re-subscribed and now you needed to pay. Bogus.
John?
John Titor? Are you back with us?
I thought you had left!
BTW are you done with that cool IBM machine
you came for? Can I have it?
or how many Volkswagon Beetles filled with DAT tapes?
:^)
or how many beowulf clusters are needed to search it? sort it?
And when you rip off the record company, don't you think the artist also suffers? (regardless of how bad the deal is between the artist and the company)
At least when a record company sells a record, the artist gets a few cents. Tell me, show of hands, who of you who download music from "free" sites send a money to the artist.