Look, its whack. But that doesn't mean there isn't something useful to come out of it.. I, for one, believe that Protong is a useful construct. It sure makes it fun to read things backwards..
i had two of the 128k modems, got a good 6 months usage out of them, also laptop'ing and working from starbucks' all over Los Angeles.. were seriously glorious times, i could go anywhere in the city i wanted to work, get on the 'net, fire up a few ssh's and earn my retainer for a swath of local ISP's who needed their POPs maintained.. was pretty sad to see the ricochet 'net go down, but we put those 128k modems to good use after their net went off the air as a bridging/repeater setup for the T1 I had in my office.. that was nice too, good ol' cheap One Wilshire bandwidth.. *sigh*..
oh man, i'm looking at my poor forlorn i-opener on the shelf right now, where it has sat for the last 6 months, not working.
prior to that it was pressed into service as a regular, stable, reliable little slackware box, doing everything it could possibly do with the huge nest of USB devices i had plugged into it. usb storage, powermates (two), MIDI, a webcam.. the whole nine yards on that little box, and it was solid until The Day Something Went Wrong.
that little computer was the best $99 i ever spent. it was a more productive, more fun, and far more happy computing experience than anything i've had from Apple, too, and i'm on my 3rd powerbook.. if only another company would come along and offer such a wonderfully hackable device for $99 again..
alas, if anyone in the/. monkey tree knows how to bring back dead i-openers, please let me know privately.. i really want it back. it'll be nice to set it up next to the BeBox.. which is, fortunately, still working..
.. when you have a pharmaceutical-industrial complex running amok, inventing new problems for their pills to fix, left and right, up and down.. over and over..
i have a firepod, hooked up to my rack, and i do just whats wanted: capture audio with it, to my powerbook, where all the mixing/effects happens.
the firepod is rock solid stable, and not so expensive.. though there seems to be a lot of competition in the firewire audio i/o space since i bought it.. i would probably buy it again, however, because i really like the presonus pre-amps..
One of the first easy-to-use and easy-to-demo Linux distro's around, I got a whole data center moved to 486/Pentium hardware on the strength of the "rootfs on CD" bootsys that Yggdrasil was shipping, before RedHat was anything more than an SLS-wannabe, and I have to say that I really can't fathom why it wasn't considered significant enough to include on this map..
The real advantage to Virtualization is that you can store the process as a single disk image that is first easily backed up and secondly more portable.
This advantage is not because of Virtualization.. its just 'nicer' to switch a disk image in when you've got a VM running. No line change (from on-line to off-line) for the disk subsystem in order to do a boot..
Disk image backup/restore (i.e. of the -complete- core image+data) has been a staple for computer ops centers for decades. Virtualization too, incidentally. Great that its 'going consumer' at the Workstation level: maybe Windows administration will disappear into 'go back to last working known stable image' level of competency/lunacy, and we can do away with the whole 'secure' operating system mess completely..
.. yourself, personally, for your own uses. If the TPM 'feature' is only something that a mfr, or software vendor, can exploit to protect data, then its something that you definitely don't want to use.
But if there were uses for TPM which directly translated into a user feature - like being able to save.DOC files to your USB stick, encrypted to your own TPM serial, for example - then I would say yeah, its something that can be used.
But frankly, TPM isn't there for you. Its there for software vendors and 'media suppliers' to use in branding content to your machine. Whether thats good or not, is entirely up to whether or not the end user wants less control over where the data can travel.. so far, the only use for it appears to be in keeping MP3 and other Media files, which you did not author, local to your own machine.
I'd be interested to hear cases where TPM-stamps can be used to actually protect user-author'ed data, though. Would be handy for studio-type people.. like, if I could get my Cubase/Protools session files stamped specifically to my machine, and they can't be used anywhere else, under certain circumstances that could be very handy..
But that sort of protection is just as easily provided by tools like GPG and such, and still would depend on the software vendor exploiting that feature, so.. yeah.. it just goes round and round.
I'd like to add my voice to the tiny minority chorus of people admonishing Americans for creating a catch phrase that says the exact opposite of what it's intended to mean.
Cripes. Like the Brits don't do this. As if.
Ones lugubrious application of double-entendre is considered culturally savvy in the local tav, far as I can tell..
its a money-maker, dude. they don't have these so-called clinically-proven problems in other societies and cultures.. nor is someone going to profit from it, if they do.
Give a socially inept person this sort of crutch, and their condition is only going to get worse:
"Sorry, left my U-Bore device at home, you guys are all going to have to put up with me today..."
"But, but.. my U-R-Dick-Alarm 5000 batteries have been dead for the last half hour, of course I would still respect you in the morning.. anyway.. about that time I configured a Unix box from across town.. you see.. blah blah blah.."
"Wait, wait, I can't tell if you're bored or not. Stare into the duct-tape on the side of my goggles, if you please, for 5 minutes while I get a reading.."
Sorry, but this is pitiful Borg'ism taking over society, under the guise of "phony mental health problem #12402 help".. what a load of crap.
Did it ever occur to you that the ones who overcharge for things are the ones who destroy themselves through their own policies? It is certainly not Wal-Mart's fault when another business kills itself due to decisions to overcharge and also to provide poor service.
ermm.. did it ever occur to you that Wal-Marts' massive borg-style purchasing power is responsible for those low, low prices, and that it just simply isn't possible to compete on the lower economies of scales of most Mom&Pop shops?
how many wal-marts have you seen? i've seen plenty, and they're not all my own local small-town outlet. and not one of them has let their competition for discount crap go un-attended to..
To the rest of the Western world, and then some, the U.S. is a country of lazy, fat, stupid, nut jobs Keep thinking that, if it makes you feel better.
Thing is, its not a thought, its a fact. I've been around the world 3 times, and categorically, this sums up what people all over the world think of americans: lazy, fat, stupid, nut jobs.
America has a huge PR problem in the eyes of the rest of the world. You can blame Hollywood for that, since it seems to delight in exporting the worst of American virtue and calling it entertainment. Either Americans get out of their little boxes and do something about their country and the crimes it is committing, or this image will persist to the very end.
What would make me feel better is if I knew a few more Americans (I've lived there for many years) who didn't fit this stereotype...
Do you honestly have something to be paranoid about in your phone conversations, or are they as ridiculous as 95% of the blogs out there. I don't think Homeland Security is really interested in the calls about your overdue credit cards.
The frog is, slowly, being boiled. So I don't have anything to be paranoid about now.. but what if I start talking about how much I think this government sucks, and that something should be done about it.. will those happy little eyes in the sky rat me out to their masters?
These spyplanes are a control factor. The government is exerting more and more control over the lifestyles of its citizens. Conform, or go to jail, Citizen.
Why should the employer pay for health insurance? Where is this written? Should he pay your car insurance too?
since you're spending a great deal of time using your health to bring profit to your employer, why shouldn't the employer have at least *some* responsibility for ensuring that you stay healthy?
your health is something that is vital to your employer. without it, they don't have an employee. this is why there should be some involvement in health insurance.. especially since an employer with multiple employee's is going to be responsible for a *lot* of cumulative health, and can thus use this to its advantage in getting its employees superlative insurance.
Not true. Wal-Mart forces you to buy at Wal-Mart. When they've destroyed all local business through their intentionally destructive pricing policies, and there are no stores left around but that big monolith+parking-lot blight on the landscape, then.. damnit.. you go to Wal-Mart for your pickles whether you like it or not.
well.. its at least interesting that there are now 'generation gaps', or rather 'distro gaps' between the old-school and the new-school distro builders.. its like, things change the more they stay the same..
... far as i can remember, Yggdrasil were the first to do the 'heres a free bootable Linux CD so you can try it out' promotional trick, as early as 1994.
sure, Ubuntu is a wonderful project, and the purpose of making Linux easier for humans is an admirable and honorable effort. But, these 'new-generation Linux distros' getting all the credit for what has been a 'traditional activity' among the Linux crowd rankles a little ire..
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Besides the Zermatism, I mean ..
.. I, for one, believe that Protong is a useful construct. It sure makes it fun to read things backwards ..
Look, its whack. But that doesn't mean there isn't something useful to come out of it
no, creepy would be the way the smell changes when you apply the finglonger ..
i had two of the 128k modems, got a good 6 months usage out of them, also laptop'ing and working from starbucks' all over Los Angeles
oh man, i'm looking at my poor forlorn i-opener on the shelf right now, where it has sat for the last 6 months, not working.
prior to that it was pressed into service as a regular, stable, reliable little slackware box, doing everything it could possibly do with the huge nest of USB devices i had plugged into it. usb storage, powermates (two), MIDI, a webcam
that little computer was the best $99 i ever spent. it was a more productive, more fun, and far more happy computing experience than anything i've had from Apple, too, and i'm on my 3rd powerbook
alas, if anyone in the
.. when you have a pharmaceutical-industrial complex running amok, inventing new problems for their pills to fix, left and right, up and down .. over and over ..
i didn't wait.
i have a firepod, hooked up to my rack, and i do just whats wanted: capture audio with it, to my powerbook, where all the mixing/effects happens.
.. though there seems to be a lot of competition in the firewire audio i/o space since i bought it .. i would probably buy it again, however, because i really like the presonus pre-amps ..
the firepod is rock solid stable, and not so expensive
One of the first easy-to-use and easy-to-demo Linux distro's around, I got a whole data center moved to 486/Pentium hardware on the strength of the "rootfs on CD" bootsys that Yggdrasil was shipping, before RedHat was anything more than an SLS-wannabe, and I have to say that I really can't fathom why it wasn't considered significant enough to include on this map
.. of those who refuse to allow the government to cover up its own evil Child Pornography ring ... ?
The real advantage to Virtualization is that you can store the process as a single disk image that is first easily backed up and secondly more portable.
This advantage is not because of Virtualization
Disk image backup/restore (i.e. of the -complete- core image+data) has been a staple for computer ops centers for decades. Virtualization too, incidentally. Great that its 'going consumer' at the Workstation level: maybe Windows administration will disappear into 'go back to last working known stable image' level of competency/lunacy, and we can do away with the whole 'secure' operating system mess completely
Australia's equivelant of Guantanamo is Guantanamo.
No it isn't. Australia has multiple hidden detention centers in the desert. There's one near Karratha.
Parts of the interior are nothing but detention..
yeah, coz being a fat, lazy, ass-kicking bully is exactly how to get yourself lynched. it'll happen.
.. yourself, personally, for your own uses. If the TPM 'feature' is only something that a mfr, or software vendor, can exploit to protect data, then its something that you definitely don't want to use.
.DOC files to your USB stick, encrypted to your own TPM serial, for example - then I would say yeah, its something that can be used.
.. so far, the only use for it appears to be in keeping MP3 and other Media files, which you did not author, local to your own machine.
.. like, if I could get my Cubase/Protools session files stamped specifically to my machine, and they can't be used anywhere else, under certain circumstances that could be very handy ..
.. yeah .. it just goes round and round.
But if there were uses for TPM which directly translated into a user feature - like being able to save
But frankly, TPM isn't there for you. Its there for software vendors and 'media suppliers' to use in branding content to your machine. Whether thats good or not, is entirely up to whether or not the end user wants less control over where the data can travel
I'd be interested to hear cases where TPM-stamps can be used to actually protect user-author'ed data, though. Would be handy for studio-type people
But that sort of protection is just as easily provided by tools like GPG and such, and still would depend on the software vendor exploiting that feature, so
I'd like to add my voice to the tiny minority chorus of people admonishing Americans for creating a catch phrase that says the exact opposite of what it's intended to mean.
..
Cripes. Like the Brits don't do this. As if.
Ones lugubrious application of double-entendre is considered culturally savvy in the local tav, far as I can tell
Fuck you. Its called an opinion. What are you, a fascist?
its a money-maker, dude. they don't have these so-called clinically-proven problems in other societies and cultures.. nor is someone going to profit from it, if they do.
its a sick world. poor us.
Give a socially inept person this sort of crutch, and their condition is only going to get worse:
.. my U-R-Dick-Alarm 5000 batteries have been dead for the last half hour, of course I would still respect you in the morning .. anyway .. about that time I configured a Unix box from across town .. you see .. blah blah blah .."
.."
.. what a load of crap.
"Sorry, left my U-Bore device at home, you guys are all going to have to put up with me today..."
"But, but
"Wait, wait, I can't tell if you're bored or not. Stare into the duct-tape on the side of my goggles, if you please, for 5 minutes while I get a reading
Sorry, but this is pitiful Borg'ism taking over society, under the guise of "phony mental health problem #12402 help"
Did it ever occur to you that the ones who overcharge for things are the ones who destroy themselves through their own policies? It is certainly not Wal-Mart's fault when another business kills itself due to decisions to overcharge and also to provide poor service.
.. did it ever occur to you that Wal-Marts' massive borg-style purchasing power is responsible for those low, low prices, and that it just simply isn't possible to compete on the lower economies of scales of most Mom&Pop shops?
ermm
Imperialism. It'll boil your frog.
how many wal-marts have you seen? i've seen plenty, and they're not all my own local small-town outlet. and not one of them has let their competition for discount crap go un-attended to ..
To the rest of the Western world, and then some, the U.S. is a country of lazy, fat, stupid, nut jobs
...
Keep thinking that, if it makes you feel better.
Thing is, its not a thought, its a fact. I've been around the world 3 times, and categorically, this sums up what people all over the world think of americans: lazy, fat, stupid, nut jobs.
America has a huge PR problem in the eyes of the rest of the world. You can blame Hollywood for that, since it seems to delight in exporting the worst of American virtue and calling it entertainment. Either Americans get out of their little boxes and do something about their country and the crimes it is committing, or this image will persist to the very end.
What would make me feel better is if I knew a few more Americans (I've lived there for many years) who didn't fit this stereotype
Do you honestly have something to be paranoid about in your phone conversations, or are they as ridiculous as 95% of the blogs out there. I don't think Homeland Security is really interested in the calls about your overdue credit cards.
.. but what if I start talking about how much I think this government sucks, and that something should be done about it .. will those happy little eyes in the sky rat me out to their masters?
The frog is, slowly, being boiled. So I don't have anything to be paranoid about now
These spyplanes are a control factor. The government is exerting more and more control over the lifestyles of its citizens. Conform, or go to jail, Citizen.
Why should the employer pay for health insurance? Where is this written? Should he pay your car insurance too?
.. especially since an employer with multiple employee's is going to be responsible for a *lot* of cumulative health, and can thus use this to its advantage in getting its employees superlative insurance.
since you're spending a great deal of time using your health to bring profit to your employer, why shouldn't the employer have at least *some* responsibility for ensuring that you stay healthy?
your health is something that is vital to your employer. without it, they don't have an employee. this is why there should be some involvement in health insurance
No one forces you to buy at Wal-Mart. No one.
.. damnit .. you go to Wal-Mart for your pickles whether you like it or not.
Not true. Wal-Mart forces you to buy at Wal-Mart. When they've destroyed all local business through their intentionally destructive pricing policies, and there are no stores left around but that big monolith+parking-lot blight on the landscape, then
well .. its at least interesting that there are now 'generation gaps', or rather 'distro gaps' between the old-school and the new-school distro builders .. its like, things change the more they stay the same ..
sure, Ubuntu is a wonderful project, and the purpose of making Linux easier for humans is an admirable and honorable effort. But, these 'new-generation Linux distros' getting all the credit for what has been a 'traditional activity' among the Linux crowd rankles a little ire