John Andrews, the guy responsible for Damn Small Linux, also has a store where he sells Mini-ITX systems suited to running DSL. He recently announced his Damn Small Machine, which may not be enough to do the job, but a noiseless, no-moving-parts machine is still interesting.
This way, you don't have to install BitTorrent. I use btdownloadheadless under Cygwin, so I wouldn't have much use for an integrated BT client, either.
I'm a 4chan consumer (?), but I don't see how BitTorrent could make it work better. As a database-driven site, it updates constantly. How could a 'torrented version keep up?
Oooh, very nice! But I'm very fond of my Breitling Aerospace--made of titanium, it's incredibly light when compared with steel watches. And it has all the usual features: chronograph, countdown timer, alarm, multiple time zones, etc. And it looks trick as hell.
I think I still have my copy of Word Processing on the UNIX System, which served as a pretty good troff reference. The author seriously advocated using ed for editing, which makes some sense: it's universally available on Unix systems, it's very fast, and typesetting with troff doesn't require special formatting, so a line-oriented editor is no handicap.
As far as I can tell, the press release you referenced wasn't mentioned in the original Slashdot postings. It's not fair to criticize someone for not reading something they didn't know existed, is it? In any case, while I'm sure the Deja Vu software is useful, it doesn't help those of us who aren't setting up clusters--there's still a need for reliable hardware. Check out http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html for reasons why.
Whoops--that should be: "The simplest online database that could possibly work."
How about a wiki instead?
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Are you sure MT is what you really want? I'll bet a wiki would be a better choice; we just installed one here at work and we're going crazy-go-nuts with it. We've installed PhpWiki, but Twiki looks useful, too.
The "home" of wiki is at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki, and the main book on the subject of wikis, The Wiki Way, has a companion website with downloadable code at http://wiki.org/.
Briefly, a wiki is a website that allows one to create and edit web pages without having to mess with accounts and permissions--just type in one's text into an edit box, click "submit", and it's up and running. We use it as a knowledge base, and I'm going to use it to record billable events and
notes.
"The simplest possible database that could possibly work"--Ward Cunningham
The Getty-Dubay method of handwriting has gotten a lot of good press lately, because it's easy to learn, looks similar to printed text while being faster to write, and looks good.
Sure, the SMAW is fun, but the Russians have got that beat--they've developed the Shmel (Bumblebee), a man-portable rocket with a thermobaric (fuel-air explosive) warhead. A brief article is
here.
I understand they've also developed thermobaric
rounds for RPG-7 rocket launchers, too. And a laser-guided round for the RPG-7 may be available from Israel, as well.
Look at
clockspeed as an alternative to other NTP
clients. It's a package of programs that allow
a computer to calculate any skew in its own
clock, so it doesn't have to constantly query
an NTP server for the accurate time.
You may find that you won't need an
in-house NTP server after all.
I'm a believer in HP laser printers, but I have to say--Samsung has come out with what look like reasonable, dirt-cheap printers for less than $200. I got one for my sister, and it runs great. I see now at CompUSA that there's a Samsung laser printer going for $129....
D.J. Bernstein makes a case here on the merits of ECC. And his description
of a "standard workstation" shows that ECC memory
isn't that much more expensive.
It did work--I had to write the boot image
(on the recovery CD-ROM) to a floppy, add the Archos
device drive myself, then tweak the autoexec.bat
and config.sys, and that did it. Works great!
I don't see why not. All you'd have to do is get
the port replicator and floppy drive to boot off
a floppy, and download files off one's network.
I was considering doing it with my MPC-102, but
as I've mentioned elsewhere, if you ever want to
restore the system to its default condition, you'll need the Casio CD-ROM drive--it won't boot
off any other device, apparently.
I'm going to try installing OpenBSD on my Toshiba
Portege 3010CT, as soon as I can figure out why
it doesn't seem to see any PCMCIA devices....
At this point, I'd recommend getting a laptop
with a built-in CD-ROM drive. It's a less portable
package, but it's much less of a hassle when
experimenting with OSs.
It is nice to have a small, highly portable
machine, but I think I tend to agree--keyboards
that small are uncomfortable to type on. I got an
MPC-102, an earlier Casio subnotebook (still
available from Mobile Planet). I think I'm going to give it to my
sister, as she's in college, and presumably has
smaller fingers. I think a Toshiba Portege
and other machines in the three-pound class are
are better compromises between size, weight and
keyboard size. The Sony subnotebook, with the
Crusoe processor, might work, too.
One thing that really bothers me about the -102
is that it cannot boot off of any but the
associated Casio CD-ROM drive, which are rather
expensive and hard to come by. I'm experimenting
with an Archos PCMCIA drive, but I'm not sure if
it'll work.
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John Andrews, the guy responsible for Damn Small Linux, also has a store where he sells Mini-ITX systems suited to running DSL. He recently announced his Damn Small Machine, which may not be enough to do the job, but a noiseless, no-moving-parts machine is still interesting.
This way, you don't have to install BitTorrent. I use btdownloadheadless under Cygwin, so I wouldn't have much use for an integrated BT client, either.
I'm a 4chan consumer (?), but I don't see how BitTorrent could make it work better. As a database-driven site, it updates constantly. How could a 'torrented version keep up?
Oooh, very nice! But I'm very fond of my Breitling Aerospace--made of titanium, it's incredibly light when compared with steel watches. And it has all the usual features: chronograph, countdown timer, alarm, multiple time zones, etc. And it looks trick as hell.
I bounce back and forth between lwm for its ease of use and aewm for its appearance.
I think I still have my copy of Word Processing on the UNIX System, which served as a pretty good troff reference. The author seriously advocated using ed for editing, which makes some sense: it's universally available on Unix systems, it's very fast, and typesetting with troff doesn't require special formatting, so a line-oriented editor is no handicap.
As far as I can tell, the press release you referenced wasn't mentioned in the original Slashdot postings. It's not fair to criticize someone for not reading something they didn't know existed, is it? In any case, while I'm sure the Deja Vu software is useful, it doesn't help those of us who aren't setting up clusters--there's still a need for reliable hardware. Check out http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html for reasons why.
Don't know about that, but would the use of holographic displays and controls in movies like Final Fantasy count as prior art?
Whoops--that should be: "The simplest online database that could possibly work."
Are you sure MT is what you really want? I'll bet a wiki would be a better choice; we just installed one here at work and we're going crazy-go-nuts with it. We've installed PhpWiki, but Twiki looks useful, too.
The "home" of wiki is at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki, and the main book on the subject of wikis, The Wiki Way, has a companion website with downloadable code at http://wiki.org/.
Briefly, a wiki is a website that allows one to create and edit web pages without having to mess with accounts and permissions--just type in one's text into an edit box, click "submit", and it's up and running. We use it as a knowledge base, and I'm going to use it to record billable events and notes.
"The simplest possible database that could possibly work"--Ward Cunningham
The Getty-Dubay method of handwriting has gotten a lot of good press lately, because it's easy to learn, looks similar to printed text while being faster to write, and looks good.
Sure, the SMAW is fun, but the Russians have got that beat--they've developed the Shmel (Bumblebee), a man-portable rocket with a thermobaric (fuel-air explosive) warhead. A brief article is here.
I understand they've also developed thermobaric rounds for RPG-7 rocket launchers, too. And a laser-guided round for the RPG-7 may be available from Israel, as well.
OpenBSD has been running on Sparcstations for years...works fine, installs easily enough. Try it!
Look at clockspeed as an alternative to other NTP clients. It's a package of programs that allow a computer to calculate any skew in its own clock, so it doesn't have to constantly query an NTP server for the accurate time.
You may find that you won't need an in-house NTP server after all.
I'm a believer in HP laser printers, but I have to say--Samsung has come out with what look like reasonable, dirt-cheap printers for less than $200. I got one for my sister, and it runs great. I see now at CompUSA that there's a Samsung laser printer going for $129....
D.J. Bernstein makes a case here on the merits of ECC. And his description of a "standard workstation" shows that ECC memory isn't that much more expensive.
There are no .9mm-caliber firearms. There are, however, lots of 9mm guns. (How do people come up with this stuff?)
It did work--I had to write the boot image (on the recovery CD-ROM) to a floppy, add the Archos device drive myself, then tweak the autoexec.bat and config.sys, and that did it. Works great!
Actually, I take back what I said--one can restore a Casio MPC-102 using the Product Recovery CD-ROM and a non-Casio drive by:
I don't see why not. All you'd have to do is get the port replicator and floppy drive to boot off a floppy, and download files off one's network. I was considering doing it with my MPC-102, but as I've mentioned elsewhere, if you ever want to restore the system to its default condition, you'll need the Casio CD-ROM drive--it won't boot off any other device, apparently.
I'm going to try installing OpenBSD on my Toshiba Portege 3010CT, as soon as I can figure out why it doesn't seem to see any PCMCIA devices....
At this point, I'd recommend getting a laptop with a built-in CD-ROM drive. It's a less portable package, but it's much less of a hassle when experimenting with OSs.
It is nice to have a small, highly portable machine, but I think I tend to agree--keyboards that small are uncomfortable to type on. I got an MPC-102, an earlier Casio subnotebook (still available from Mobile Planet). I think I'm going to give it to my sister, as she's in college, and presumably has smaller fingers. I think a Toshiba Portege and other machines in the three-pound class are are better compromises between size, weight and keyboard size. The Sony subnotebook, with the Crusoe processor, might work, too.
One thing that really bothers me about the -102 is that it cannot boot off of any but the associated Casio CD-ROM drive, which are rather expensive and hard to come by. I'm experimenting with an Archos PCMCIA drive, but I'm not sure if it'll work.