I got a 700Mhz Celeron system with 128M of RAM. Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, etc all ran like dogs on it and had issues. Lindows/Linspire ran better, but it is a stripped down version of Linux without all the geegaws and extra stuff I may not be using yet.
People claimed I must not have known what I was doing because of the Linux issues I had. Apparently it was not me, but the bloated Linux distros causing the problems. Apparently one needs better hardware requirements to run the major Linux Distros. Ah for the days when all you needed was a 486 with 8M of RAM to run Linux.
I just found a way to fix the apt-get and rpm functions that Linspire disabled, so I can get the things I want or need without paying for a CNR subscription.
Maybe someone in the law firm is following the case on closed circuit TV and giving Kobe's attornies clues as to what to call the prosecutor on?
Hey wasn't there a movie like that, where the lawyer got sick and his friend posed as him, and he tried to listen in on a walkie talkie and honked the car horn to tell him what objection to use?
Or then again, maybe Kobe's lawyer is just a stand in, and is getting text messages from India where the real lawyer is? Gotta love outsourcing!
the original person who used Orion Blastar had a hard drive that he left the passwords on and sold to me on eBay. Now I have the passwords to all his accounts. Running data recovery programs and probing the virtual memory file can be very useful.
Of course, nobody noticed the difference when I took over all his accounts in 1999 and kept on posting in the same style that he did.
Well not really, I am the original Orion Blastar, and this post was yet another one of my jokes, ala Andy Kaufman. At least that is what I want you to believe, muahahah!;)
Already I have those women with their webcams going after me in email, IM, etc. I do not need another way to get spammed. I do not want to meet those kind of people. Not to mention another method for viruses to use to try and infect my machine.
I get like 100 worms sending me email a week, from random IP addresses, all unpatched Windows systems. I assume that the massive piracy that MS talks about and blocks service packs for, have been infected by worms and are sending out virus emails to infect other systems.
Basically screw Microsoft, ditch the pirated copy of XP, and go to Linux or OpenBSD or some other OS which is virtually free. You will avoid legal trouble, and won't be spreading around any more worms. Linspire (nee Lindows) costs $50USD to download, but it is the best consumer version of Linux I have yet to see. I have a machine running it, and I love it. One less Microsoft license I have to buy when it is time to upgrade the OS on that machine. Learn to use F/OSS Goodies on Windows and they will be there for you on Linux and OpenBSD as well.
Soon after you made the switch to Linux or OpenBSD, you will forget your old worm and SP problems that XP suffered from.
make their own virtual machine and bytecode, and then make mods to existing language compilers to complie to bytecode the OSS virtual machine can run.
Then make a plug-in for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, and others and leave the IE plug-in up to Microsoft to adopt and create.
Imagine a virtual machine that can run code made from C, C++, Python, Smalltalk, Perl, XBasic, Real BASIC, Delphi/Kylix, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, and other languages in a bytecode format.
to host files and images to replace the pop-ups with my own images and files. Much useful than the file not found errors. I replace the 404 error HTML file with one I want to see on a local 127.0.0.1 web server.
Nice but no native binary Win32 port to download, plus the GUI is an extra download and not as easy to use as Shareaza.
It needs two external libraries to download and compile as well.
I doubt the average Windows User wants to compile a file sharing application and run it as a TSR Daemon and use a web Interface or external GUI interface to it.
Compile it all into one binary package, thow in a setup wizard to update system files, and you might have a deal there.
the RIAA should just invent a new music technology where the license can be verified. Then make that technology so cheap that it is cheaper than CD technology. Then get everyone to use it by stop producing CDs and start producing the music on the new technology. They could take a share of the cuts from the technology companies selling the new media players.
Call it CD2 or something, make the disks smaller, like 3.5 inch size, but can store more on them. The music won't play without a valid license that uses encryption. Each CD2 comes with a cd2-key that unlocks the CD2 for copying and is encoded on the CD2 disk. Also if a music file is made from the CD2, the key is encrypted on it as well so it can be tracked. The license is for 6 backup copies, CD2 or MP3 copies, whatever. Software to rip the music off the CD2 won't work as the key is encrypted in with the music and without it, you get garbage.
Online music stores can sell MP3s with the encrypted key inside of it, so CD2's can be burned from the audio file. The buyer gets the audio file and the encryption key.
To make a legacy CD into a CD2, the buyer has to prove proof of ownership to get an encryption key to make the CD2 disk. A receipt, email, or whatever that shows they bought a copy. This would foil the CD and MP3 Pirates.
Online Bounty Hunters, got a SO playing too many online games? Hire a hitman to take them out of the game. Expert players in various games that can attack and take out anyone the SO has in a relationship that spends too much time on games.
The story was, of course, voted down, when I posted it here.
My wife's half-sister has a husband in Thailand who plays online games all day and neglects her. This is a very common problem world-wide apparently.
When the game is over, who cares anyone? When the relationship is over, you'll care a lot!
Choose the SO everytime, unless you are having serious problems with the SO and want to dump him/her.
Biggest flops since the PS/2 motherboard form factors and Microchannel.;)
Serial ATA? One channel? Please! People will want to run dual IDE controllers with IDE legacy drives.
We need more than one expansion port, how else are we going to replace that built in Winmodem with something decent or stick a better network card in there than the crud that is bundled with the BTX board? Also where does the video capture card go?
PCI-X biggest flop since Microchannel or EISA.
Now I know what companies not to invest my money into, thanks!;)
Pascal is one of the easiest languages to learn, they used to teach it in high school. Lazarus has a good IDE to help with development. Also Delphi has a free demo to download and try out.
If she still cannot program in those, give up. They are about the easiest there is to learn. Not everyone can learn how to program. Instead teach her how to draw pictures in TuxPaint and if she fails to learn that one, take away her Internet privliges.
Magic Lantern is the government virus that AV makers are told not to detect and remove. It logs keystrokes, steals passwords, monitors internet activity, etc.
Carnivore, or whatever it is called now, is that box the Feds put on almost every major ISP out there to monitor network traffic and forward the info to the Fed database. It uses packet sniffers, and checks for certain key words.
These technologies are still being used to Spy on US citizens, Green Card Holders, Visa holders, etc.
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Zope was not mentioned, WTF?
anyone remember that? Whatever happened to the Java Ring and why haven't firms adopted it yet?
It could open security doors, etc.
I got a 700Mhz Celeron system with 128M of RAM. Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, etc all ran like dogs on it and had issues. Lindows/Linspire ran better, but it is a stripped down version of Linux without all the geegaws and extra stuff I may not be using yet.
People claimed I must not have known what I was doing because of the Linux issues I had. Apparently it was not me, but the bloated Linux distros causing the problems. Apparently one needs better hardware requirements to run the major Linux Distros. Ah for the days when all you needed was a 486 with 8M of RAM to run Linux.
I just found a way to fix the apt-get and rpm functions that Linspire disabled, so I can get the things I want or need without paying for a CNR subscription.
is the fact that someone at the phone company or a cracker can create their own bogus messages and then claim you sent them.
How woud you be able to tell the difference in court anyway?
Kobe's accuser all of a sudden gets:
"I DUPED KOBE"
"KOBE IS MINE"
"KOBES MONEY IS MINE"
"KOBE FELL 4 R TRAP"
"WE SCAMMED THEM"
etc on her text messaging files stored on the server.
Maybe someone in the law firm is following the case on closed circuit TV and giving Kobe's attornies clues as to what to call the prosecutor on?
Hey wasn't there a movie like that, where the lawyer got sick and his friend posed as him, and he tried to listen in on a walkie talkie and honked the car horn to tell him what objection to use?
Or then again, maybe Kobe's lawyer is just a stand in, and is getting text messages from India where the real lawyer is? Gotta love outsourcing!
that is when having a laptop with a Pentium 4 processor comes in very handy on an extremly cold day.
I can even warm my hands near the heat vents that the laptop case fan blows out hot air with.
the original person who used Orion Blastar had a hard drive that he left the passwords on and sold to me on eBay. Now I have the passwords to all his accounts. Running data recovery programs and probing the virtual memory file can be very useful.
;)
Of course, nobody noticed the difference when I took over all his accounts in 1999 and kept on posting in the same style that he did.
Well not really, I am the original Orion Blastar, and this post was yet another one of my jokes, ala Andy Kaufman. At least that is what I want you to believe, muahahah!
I use other things, like drawings my 5 year-old son drew with Tuxpaint. Easier on the eyes than most pop-up art. :)
Already I have those women with their webcams going after me in email, IM, etc. I do not need another way to get spammed. I do not want to meet those kind of people. Not to mention another method for viruses to use to try and infect my machine.
I am an out of work Space Pirate, working for a corp that shanghais web pages would be a dream job for me. ;)
I get like 100 worms sending me email a week, from random IP addresses, all unpatched Windows systems. I assume that the massive piracy that MS talks about and blocks service packs for, have been infected by worms and are sending out virus emails to infect other systems.
Basically screw Microsoft, ditch the pirated copy of XP, and go to Linux or OpenBSD or some other OS which is virtually free. You will avoid legal trouble, and won't be spreading around any more worms. Linspire (nee Lindows) costs $50USD to download, but it is the best consumer version of Linux I have yet to see. I have a machine running it, and I love it. One less Microsoft license I have to buy when it is time to upgrade the OS on that machine. Learn to use F/OSS Goodies on Windows and they will be there for you on Linux and OpenBSD as well.
Soon after you made the switch to Linux or OpenBSD, you will forget your old worm and SP problems that XP suffered from.
make their own virtual machine and bytecode, and then make mods to existing language compilers to complie to bytecode the OSS virtual machine can run.
Then make a plug-in for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, and others and leave the IE plug-in up to Microsoft to adopt and create.
Imagine a virtual machine that can run code made from C, C++, Python, Smalltalk, Perl, XBasic, Real BASIC, Delphi/Kylix, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, and other languages in a bytecode format.
If Sun won't do it, screw Sun and shut them out!
Ah yes, Firefox 1.0 will be sweet when it comes out. Much better than IE, even on its best day!
to host files and images to replace the pop-ups with my own images and files. Much useful than the file not found errors. I replace the 404 error HTML file with one I want to see on a local 127.0.0.1 web server.
Nice but no native binary Win32 port to download, plus the GUI is an extra download and not as easy to use as Shareaza.
It needs two external libraries to download and compile as well.
I doubt the average Windows User wants to compile a file sharing application and run it as a TSR Daemon and use a web Interface or external GUI interface to it.
Compile it all into one binary package, thow in a setup wizard to update system files, and you might have a deal there.
There may be a way to port it using Mono?
the RIAA should just invent a new music technology where the license can be verified. Then make that technology so cheap that it is cheaper than CD technology. Then get everyone to use it by stop producing CDs and start producing the music on the new technology. They could take a share of the cuts from the technology companies selling the new media players.
Call it CD2 or something, make the disks smaller, like 3.5 inch size, but can store more on them. The music won't play without a valid license that uses encryption. Each CD2 comes with a cd2-key that unlocks the CD2 for copying and is encoded on the CD2 disk. Also if a music file is made from the CD2, the key is encrypted on it as well so it can be tracked. The license is for 6 backup copies, CD2 or MP3 copies, whatever. Software to rip the music off the CD2 won't work as the key is encrypted in with the music and without it, you get garbage.
Online music stores can sell MP3s with the encrypted key inside of it, so CD2's can be burned from the audio file. The buyer gets the audio file and the encryption key.
To make a legacy CD into a CD2, the buyer has to prove proof of ownership to get an encryption key to make the CD2 disk. A receipt, email, or whatever that shows they bought a copy. This would foil the CD and MP3 Pirates.
Online Bounty Hunters, got a SO playing too many online games? Hire a hitman to take them out of the game. Expert players in various games that can attack and take out anyone the SO has in a relationship that spends too much time on games.
The story was, of course, voted down, when I posted it here.
My wife's half-sister has a husband in Thailand who plays online games all day and neglects her. This is a very common problem world-wide apparently.
When the game is over, who cares anyone? When the relationship is over, you'll care a lot!
Choose the SO everytime, unless you are having serious problems with the SO and want to dump him/her.
those web sites didn't work. The urls have been Slashdotted already.
:)
Want to destroy a site's bandwidth, post a URL to it on Slashdot.
I did not say that PCI-X is PCI Express.
When talking about one slot, it was the BTX motherboards that only had a picture showing one slot. I admit they are PicoBTX boards.
Please don't put words in my mouth, I was talking about two different things.
The flamebait mod was uncalled for!
Biggest flops since the PS/2 motherboard form factors and Microchannel. ;)
;)
Serial ATA? One channel? Please! People will want to run dual IDE controllers with IDE legacy drives.
We need more than one expansion port, how else are we going to replace that built in Winmodem with something decent or stick a better network card in there than the crud that is bundled with the BTX board? Also where does the video capture card go?
PCI-X biggest flop since Microchannel or EISA.
Now I know what companies not to invest my money into, thanks!
that is something I forgot to mention. People can get you when you fall asleep.
;)
Also don't do drugs, drugs are bad, m'kay?
COBOL is so easy, business types can learn it. Check out these freebie COBOL languages.
Pascal is one of the easiest languages to learn, they used to teach it in high school. Lazarus has a good IDE to help with development. Also Delphi has a free demo to download and try out.
Also consider Lingo.
If she still cannot program in those, give up. They are about the easiest there is to learn. Not everyone can learn how to program. Instead teach her how to draw pictures in TuxPaint and if she fails to learn that one, take away her Internet privliges.
How soon we forget these two technologies?
Magic Lantern is the government virus that AV makers are told not to detect and remove. It logs keystrokes, steals passwords, monitors internet activity, etc.
Carnivore, or whatever it is called now, is that box the Feds put on almost every major ISP out there to monitor network traffic and forward the info to the Fed database. It uses packet sniffers, and checks for certain key words.
These technologies are still being used to Spy on US citizens, Green Card Holders, Visa holders, etc.
Just look at my profile to see how serious I am. :)