My parents and grandparents lived long enough for me to be born because of the secrets my government kept. Neither German nor Japanese are the national languages of my country because of those secrets.
Never mind language. To whom is the U.S. National Debt owed?
Rubbish. Government Secrecy is the most unsafe form of governance of all...
Its a fallacy that your country is safe because of its secrets. The fact is, cold and hard, your governments secrets are a liability to its populace...
Oh sure, yeah, right. DNA is the frickin' solution to everything, isn't it?
Next thing you know, all those conspiracy nutters who say we are "Children of the Gods" will be being appointed to national agencies... sheesh.
Look, if someone knows something about space aliens, then OUT WITH IT!! Why the American people have put up with Area 51 for so long without any sort of culpability being required of their government, I do not know. Of the people and for the people, my ass.
Of the Grey Overlords, and For the Grey Overlords. Lets just call it a spade.
or, if your already-running linux machine (i have an sl5500, but i'm talking about the sl6000, which i am currently coveting post-purchase) has WiFi already built-in, with a free CF slot, all I need do is take my old Clie (junk!) WLAN card, stick it in, and away we go... nasty.
linux in your pocket rocks it. sharp are waaaay ahead of the pack.
yes, this is a cool project. its wonderful what can happen when kids get the free time to really create, and stand on the shoulders of generations before them. hats off to the thunderbird team, and those who follow in their footsteps...
but what happens when the plans for this human-powered flight system make their way to the teething masses of starving humanity, who are able, using their ultra-limited resources, to build their own free wings outta nowhere?
if you can pedal yourself over the ocean, the whole 'nation' game is over. the technologists won.
yeah, brilliant. i don't think you understand the words "no device for storing energy", but anyway...
if you're taking away 'stored energy' from the one thing thats giving you lift, in order to use it to gain lift from that same device, whats going to happen?
You know, you'd think that there'd be some money to be made in fixing Windows Broken Security Model.
What is stopping some enterprising hacker - and surely, if you can write a virus, you can do this - from developing a 3rd-party 'add-on' or extension or something which fixes the broken user/security model of Windows(XP,CE,2K,etc)?
Some kind of wrapper.DLL set which encapsulates all the most common API's used by Virus-writers to exploit Windows flaws should be feasible, surely...
Just me, the only guy in a class of 50 girls, typing away in the hot Aussie summer heat, best of class, slowly inching my way through all the typewriter exercises so that I could get my paws on the classes one 'word processor' system, an old CPM machine in the back row running Wordstar, something you weren't allowed to touch unless you could master 60wpm. Easy.
That was one of the most memorable summers of my life so far.
A class full of 15 year old girls, newly pubescent and bearing the discomfort of sweaty bra straps not well (mmm... schoolgirl white cotton shirts), me moving up the ranks doing one thing that I was good at (typing) in school, able at the end to spend the rest of the semester hacking away in CPM after coming SECOND in the 'State Typing Championships', a big surprise and... dubious... honor for my country high school...
Now, as a programmer, 20 years later, I do about 140wpm. I'd say that typing properly is still one of the most valuable skills you can have as a computer geek. Can't say that about CPM, although I never had a problem with bra straps after that summer, heh heh... those girls sure showed me how to 'do the big undo', one-handed, heh heh...
I feel the same way. The two trade shows for my industry (NAMM and Frankfurt Musik Messe) are exhausting...
But SYNTH-DIY is nothing but rest, rejuvenation, and revitalization... much more intimate, much more fun, and not nearly as much stress... this is the future of 'trade events' in my opinion...
Trade-show rules should be relaxed a little... this little fascist state that gets created in "Exhibit Hall X" is tiring, and after a day of it any sane person is -exhausted-... too many companies, all with their little 'individual idea of cool', in too many little boxes, row upon row.
Bring back some of the party factor. There is no identity at trade shows - there needs to be one.
Imagine if someone with a little rock star factor hosted the show, and there was actual stunts and PR capers worth having news written about... everything that does happen at these events is really contrived and culturally uninteresting... a big press-release factory and little else.
yes i am aware that the bebox is ppc. i mean to say, as a bebox-owning beos user, i sniffed at atheOS, and also early beta's of syllable in an attempt to maintain my Bebox fix...
its still there, its still running. its just too slow for the bulk, y'know!
linux is ready for the desktop. it can be used, on the desktop, by users, to productively work.
distributions of linux, may or may not, be appropriate for the desktop.
there is a huge difference. as long as folks ignore the technological facts and continue to base their evaluation of linux as a productive system on substantive 'communal reality', then linux may not be used so much on the desktop...
once you set linux up, and it is running, it works. and works. and works. at that point, linux is ready for the desktop. that you can do that, means that linux is ready for the desktop.
if you want to generalize and say 'its not ready for the seething mass of consumerican robots to use', fair enough. go ahead.
i still have it... sitting silently on the desk behind me, a reminder, sort of a testament, to the ideal of nicely-design hardware not having any commercial future... my shrine to 'hardware that didnt make it'...
i don't really want to get rid of it, unless i'm offered a good price for it. its still 100% operational, running the last BeOS that Be released for it... its occasionally still fun to boot up and play with, but alas, its slow.
Seems to me, a common characteristic of Windows weenies is to miss the point completely.
This is not a football game.
Windows vs. Linux is a straw man... Linux exists for its own sake, not to defeat Windows, not to compete with Windows, not to have, really, anything to do with Windows at all.
That commercial technology press and other enterprises choose to pitch things in this dialectic light doesn't detract from the fact, at all, that Linux exists entirely for its own sake.
Yes! All that is needed is a linux distro vendor to set that up for you. That would work.
Thats how Linux distro's have been, from the start. Linux is not its distro.
... sorta sniffed at it when my aging BeBox arrived at its final unsupported destination, but... I don't remember if this project had architecture-neutrality as a spec... and i retired the BeBox and bought a powerbook instead, abandoning x86 forever (or at least as much as possible)...
still, a powerpc port of another new and interesting OS would be an interesting endeavour. anyone care to answer the question as to how portable syllable is?
i use vpc on an aging rev-a tibook, and find it usable. i'm not just being counter, i do find it completely usable.
i have gotten into the habit of just 'switching to a windows desktop' though... perhaps you're not running in full-screen mode? i know its an obvious question, but when you use vpc's video driver in full-screen, things do get a lot smoother. i have noticed a lot of -skool osx/tibook hackers use windowed mode sorta sub-consciously, so i just thought i'd check...
at least, its been my experience that VPC does at least as well as running windows apps, at 400mhz on a PPC, as my last Windows laptop, which was a 333mhz IBM pentium-2. then again, i don't play games; mostly compilers/IDE usage, and i don't find editing screen refreshes too slow at all for coding use.
(vim user... and actually, i don't ever seem to be playing games with computers either these days, so.. grain of salt, yo..)
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My parents and grandparents lived long enough for me to be born because of the secrets my government kept. Neither German nor Japanese are the national languages of my country because of those secrets.
Never mind language. To whom is the U.S. National Debt owed?
Rubbish. Government Secrecy is the most unsafe form of governance of all...
...
Its a fallacy that your country is safe because of its secrets. The fact is, cold and hard, your governments secrets are a liability to its populace
No, that'll stop when laser-based detection systems, capable of tracking gnats across your grandma's ass, are fielded, globally.
In other words, around 2015.
Oh sure, yeah, right. DNA is the frickin' solution to everything, isn't it?
... sheesh.
Next thing you know, all those conspiracy nutters who say we are "Children of the Gods" will be being appointed to national agencies
Look, if someone knows something about space aliens, then OUT WITH IT!! Why the American people have put up with Area 51 for so long without any sort of culpability being required of their government, I do not know. Of the people and for the people, my ass.
Of the Grey Overlords, and For the Grey Overlords. Lets just call it a spade.
how do you know she's a patent lawyer?
Anyone know if this installer supports the ARM architecture?
I want to use Debian, but not on x86.
... Headline I've read today.
.. then this one ...
...
First was this one on CNN.
And now another here on slashdot.
Someone would say there must be some sort of psy-ops going on, to soften us up for the headlines
Its security model is one of the best in the business.
if it were so good, it would be easy to implement, not hard.
The configurations were:
FTP banners (while this worked, nobody pays attention to FTP banners so we abandoned this quickly)
don't agree! you leave those there for the real 'leet'rs, the ones who do read ftp banners. bum score!
or, if your already-running linux machine (i have an sl5500, but i'm talking about the sl6000, which i am currently coveting post-purchase) has WiFi already built-in, with a free CF slot, all I need do is take my old Clie (junk!) WLAN card, stick it in, and away we go
linux in your pocket rocks it. sharp are waaaay ahead of the pack.
yes, this is a cool project. its wonderful what can happen when kids get the free time to really create, and stand on the shoulders of generations before them. hats off to the thunderbird team, and those who follow in their footsteps ...
but what happens when the plans for this human-powered flight system make their way to the teething masses of starving humanity, who are able, using their ultra-limited resources, to build their own free wings outta nowhere?
if you can pedal yourself over the ocean, the whole 'nation' game is over. the technologists won.
yeah, brilliant. i don't think you understand the words "no device for storing energy", but anyway
if you're taking away 'stored energy' from the one thing thats giving you lift, in order to use it to gain lift from that same device, whats going to happen?
You know, you'd think that there'd be some money to be made in fixing Windows Broken Security Model.
.DLL set which encapsulates all the most common API's used by Virus-writers to exploit Windows flaws should be feasible, surely ...
What is stopping some enterprising hacker - and surely, if you can write a virus, you can do this - from developing a 3rd-party 'add-on' or extension or something which fixes the broken user/security model of Windows(XP,CE,2K,etc)?
Some kind of wrapper
Just me, the only guy in a class of 50 girls, typing away in the hot Aussie summer heat, best of class, slowly inching my way through all the typewriter exercises so that I could get my paws on the classes one 'word processor' system, an old CPM machine in the back row running Wordstar, something you weren't allowed to touch unless you could master 60wpm. Easy.
That was one of the most memorable summers of my life so far.
A class full of 15 year old girls, newly pubescent and bearing the discomfort of sweaty bra straps not well (mmm... schoolgirl white cotton shirts), me moving up the ranks doing one thing that I was good at (typing) in school, able at the end to spend the rest of the semester hacking away in CPM after coming SECOND in the 'State Typing Championships', a big surprise and
Now, as a programmer, 20 years later, I do about 140wpm. I'd say that typing properly is still one of the most valuable skills you can have as a computer geek. Can't say that about CPM, although I never had a problem with bra straps after that summer, heh heh
I feel the same way. The two trade shows for my industry (NAMM and Frankfurt Musik Messe) are exhausting...
... this is the future of 'trade events' in my opinion ...
But SYNTH-DIY is nothing but rest, rejuvenation, and revitalization... much more intimate, much more fun, and not nearly as much stress
This is why I'm saying these exhibits suck.
...
Move the whole show to someone's party-friendly warehouse or something
Get the 'rock star' factor back.
Trade-show rules should be relaxed a little... this little fascist state that gets created in "Exhibit Hall X" is tiring, and after a day of it any sane person is -exhausted-
Bring back some of the party factor. There is no identity at trade shows - there needs to be one.
Imagine if someone with a little rock star factor hosted the show, and there was actual stunts and PR capers worth having news written about
Wouldn't it be great to find life in the solar system that is so resilient, it can withstand nuclear attack?
All weapons are self-fulfilling. Its the worst con of all.
Any weapon maker, no matter his ideology, is a creator of war.
yes i am aware that the bebox is ppc. i mean to say, as a bebox-owning beos user, i sniffed at atheOS, and also early beta's of syllable in an attempt to maintain my Bebox fix ...
its still there, its still running. its just too slow for the bulk, y'know!
is linux ready for the desktop?
...
linux is ready for the desktop. it can be used, on the desktop, by users, to productively work.
distributions of linux, may or may not, be appropriate for the desktop.
there is a huge difference. as long as folks ignore the technological facts and continue to base their evaluation of linux as a productive system on substantive 'communal reality', then linux may not be used so much on the desktop
once you set linux up, and it is running, it works. and works. and works. at that point, linux is ready for the desktop. that you can do that, means that linux is ready for the desktop.
if you want to generalize and say 'its not ready for the seething mass of consumerican robots to use', fair enough. go ahead.
but i know for a fact that linux is ready.
i still have it ... sitting silently on the desk behind me, a reminder, sort of a testament, to the ideal of nicely-design hardware not having any commercial future ... my shrine to 'hardware that didnt make it' ...
i don't really want to get rid of it, unless i'm offered a good price for it. its still 100% operational, running the last BeOS that Be released for it... its occasionally still fun to boot up and play with, but alas, its slow.
Microsoft is "winning"?
... Linux exists for its own sake, not to defeat Windows, not to compete with Windows, not to have, really, anything to do with Windows at all.
Seems to me, a common characteristic of Windows weenies is to miss the point completely.
This is not a football game.
Windows vs. Linux is a straw man
That commercial technology press and other enterprises choose to pitch things in this dialectic light doesn't detract from the fact, at all, that Linux exists entirely for its own sake.
Yes! All that is needed is a linux distro vendor to set that up for you. That would work.
Thats how Linux distro's have been, from the start. Linux is not its distro.
... sorta sniffed at it when my aging BeBox arrived at its final unsupported destination, but ... I don't remember if this project had architecture-neutrality as a spec ... and i retired the BeBox and bought a powerbook instead, abandoning x86 forever (or at least as much as possible)...
still, a powerpc port of another new and interesting OS would be an interesting endeavour. anyone care to answer the question as to how portable syllable is?
i use vpc on an aging rev-a tibook, and find it usable. i'm not just being counter, i do find it completely usable.
i have gotten into the habit of just 'switching to a windows desktop' though
at least, its been my experience that VPC does at least as well as running windows apps, at 400mhz on a PPC, as my last Windows laptop, which was a 333mhz IBM pentium-2. then again, i don't play games; mostly compilers/IDE usage, and i don't find editing screen refreshes too slow at all for coding use.
(vim user... and actually, i don't ever seem to be playing games with computers either these days, so