In the lest five years I have seen several reports about this incidents on TV and even the german goverment has started to investige this matter very closely.
There are three recorded unexplained and very large explosions on german soil, two in Thueringen one month before surrendering to the russians and one three months later a bit away which then was a russian military compound. All three ran around one kiloton but instead of huge amounts of destruction they seemed to release a huge amount of energy in form of light and radiation.
Around the location there are several strange nuclear testing-reactors spread over 30km.
Several hundred people have seen the mushroom-clouds because it was launched only five kilometers from the next village. The area was closed by russians for the next 40 years, all involved people detained in russia and even the soil of the explosion-area was removed two meters deep. Therefore you find only small but still unusual amounts of radiation. On the other hand the country of Thueringen has by far the highest amount of radiation in whole europe right after Tschernobyl. Something really did happen back then
But in fact noone knows for sure what happened there. 40 years of sowjet intelligence have whipped out absolutly every little detail.
Licensing is good as long as it is 90% or more cheaper than buying! Would you lifetime-licence your favourite CD for 1,5 instead of buying it for 15? Well, I would. Would you pay 0,5 Cent for listening once to your favourite CD instead of buying it for 15? Well, I would.
Until then... well, not for me, kids. I am not stupid enough to licence a CD for 30 when I can get the original for 15. I won't pay per listen a whooping 15 when I can get the Original for 15.
I would be a victim of that decision - I run Debian on my Amiga3000 just for the fun - but I still say "go for it".
That proposal aims for stable releases. I see no problem seeing an unstable m68k debian popping up after some time. Right now even the stable m68k-Debian is a rotting piece of shit not working at all so why bother with stable at all?
This is total bullshit. Usenet never was cheaper to keep free. Universities are not poor, Usenet doesn't cost a fortune and burn traffic and mantime and cash like hell.
Today a 10MBit flat-server at a provider costs between 30-100 Euros a month and a setup-fee of 0-100 Euros, consisting of a 3Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM and 200GB harddisk. Not a giant server but hell good enough for several 10.000 normal users. I ran myself several newsservers on a much much much smaller system for some 3000 users and it mostly idle (I remember a pentium-100, 128MB RAM, 9GB harddisk and an Amiga3000 with 8MB RAM, 1GB harddisk, both did the job, only the amiga had an average load of 0.2)
Managing a Usenet-Server on a technical level means a one-day-setup and one to four hours work every week.
The administration part (accounts, group-handwork) is more costly but I think it can be also automatized much more. If most forums are happy about a simple "answer the email for registraion" then usenet should be happy to.
About Universities: I know Universities burn traffic like hell. At least in munich. The P2P-traffic alone is 100 times larger than all Usenet-Traffic. And noone cares. They set up Top-Of-The-Notch System (I am not talking about x86, but TOP-OF-THE-NOTCH Sun-Systems with more CPUs than my System has wires on the board) for the frighting task of relaying mails. Huh? I know that mail only increased three times over the last decade in universities but they need a 100 times faster system?
About admins: Most cs-students play most of the time. Play as in "creating debian systems" or "running irc-servers" and "playing with unix in general", sometimes they even really play games. I guess by approaching just the right two people you can get rid of the most work within one evening. Don't tell me this is too complicated. I learned this in the early ninetes within one month and since then it got much easier.
Usenet is about to stay. IRC was never (seriously) founded too and is also about to stay. It will just have to take a different approach. I think within the next five years we will see most Usenet-Traffic migrating to private operated servers. I can even imagine a comeback of some dial-up Usenet-Sites, I have a 3MBit DSL-Link and two ISDN-Lines, why not give access to my var/spool/news? Maybe with more servers than ever before. Usenet will be back to where Subnet came from before migrating to Usenet.
It is cheaper to set up than IRC, it is cheaper to run as IRC, is is less prone to attacks than IRC.
No it isn't. You pay per Port or a company-wide fee. That charges where rather high in the beginning but dropped to below $1/port or 15mio/company after Intel made USB free-of-charge.
I really don't see the reason to have USB and firewire. At one connector you can connect everything from a keyboard to a fast harddrive and on the other can connect fast harddrives. But both are useless for very fast harddrives/arrays. Its just like having a RS232 and a RS464 just because to have the choice between two totally redundant connectors. Just like having serial and parallel ports at the early eighties while most equipment came with serial anyway, even printers.
Ok, maybe Direct3D is the main GUI on windows but it is of no relevance anywhere else. Not on Linux. Not on BSD. Not on MacOS. Not on the PS2. Not even Windows-CE and therefore not on PDAs and Mobile Phones. Nowhere except Wintel.
Therefore any sane producer should use OpenGL which makes it very easy to bring a product to any console, any computer and after some years to PDAs and Mobile Phones.
Today a productive sellcycle for a game should be:
1. sell on consoles - they have less problems with piracy and people are more willing to pay (overpriced) prices.
2. after the first hot sellcycle - three to twelve months - port the game to Desktop-Computers. There are million people which do not want a console but still want to play a game. Also those games are a bit cheaper which gets you more customers. Your game gets pirated though but as sales for (1.) already are over you simply live with it.
3. Meanwhile port it to Unix-Desktops or in other words, MacOS and Linux. It is a piece of cake, given you planes porting through all cycles means you gave some thoughts right at the start about portability and this pay off now. 10-20% additional sales for maybe 10 working days.
4. After several years portable gameconsoles, PDAs and Cell-Phones are becoming a target - your game outsold on the desktop and consoles, people knew your game and have good memory. People actually are willing to pay for Mario/PDA after having played Mario/Console. So now you recompile your game to those portable plattforms, sell it for a real low-budget-price and most likely you are outselling all earlier sales.
All portings only take some days of work, yes this can be done with some planing.
This cycle and no other will give maximum earnings. And it simply forbids use of Direct3D.
I use mlnet, a client for Overnet/EDonkey and have switched of browsing of files. So basically there is no way of looking into my system from outside.
This system is inherently much more secure than Bittorrent. You have no central site holding problematic torrents, local browsing is a switchable option, it only takes a small md4-Checksum to locate a file, names actually don't matter. Making Bittorent more secure and distributed would just mean making Bittorrent another edonkey.
MLNet supports several other protocols as well but I usually do not use them / do not give bandwidth to them. Includes Bittorrent, Fasttrack, Gnutella1/2, http/ftp/news/dcc and others.
With Bittorrent you have one easy target, the hub. And you can request nearly every information about its participant, what files and chunks he got, what he gave etcpp.
With mlnet you can actually only verify one thing: Someone gave you a chunk of a file matching a md5-checksum which you requested hours ago. You don't know how much he got, what else and if he even got the full fule. No central responsbility.
Oh, yes, you are still trackable. But only to a little more extent than freenet from a judge-point-of-view.
Also by using Linux I can have thousands of waiting connections which usually gives me very good rates. I only noticed one drawback, it usually tackes 60min to start full-speed-download while Bittorrent usually takes only 10min.
The last time I looked there where more distributions available for 68030 than for 486. Just take a look, most distribution except Linux-from-Scratch and variations like Linux-nearly-from-Scratch are build to run on a minimum of Pentium.
By chance I have used a system which makes me mostly untrackable by their idea. I usually don't go to a webpage to find Stuff I have previously downloaded but instead do a grep -i exodus/var/log/squid/access.log and then get something like
1099791026.435 1899 10.0.3.82 TCP_MISS/200 171397 GET http://eve.skjalfti.is/video/EXODUS_Trailer_v1a.wm v - DIRECT/194.105.226.148 text/plain
And I am not even a hobbyist hacker, just someone too lazy to search through web-pages over and over again and with a little technological background.
Bah, guess who invented all that neat stuff like nuclear power, the plane, the jet-plane, the rocket, the car, the computer, video-games and so on?
Correct, germans:-)
Give us patents and copyrights on that stuff back which you took away after some calamity some time ago and in exchange you may keep the patents on the german inventions "communism", "massmedia-propaganda", "genocide" and "nationalsociasm". George makes better use of them anyway. Oh, and you may keep those hard to empty tubes for toothpaste too.
I used early Mosaic and Netscape and to be honest I didn't see much difference back then. This changed with Netscape 3, but until then it was a long way.
I am not even Photoshop or Gimp but the whole articles resolves to:
-I was stupid enough to pay bucks for free software and not smart enough to use google.
-I invested 5min to learn the program after using Photoshop for five years every day and didn't totally understood every detail. Basically The Gimp isn't photoshop and therefore sucks
-There are other computers out being used in other ways than my mac using different handling and that is plain evil and oppressing for the community of mac-users
But to be honest ignorance is one of the thing I always expect from "certain" users and I am seldom wrong.
Its a daemon sitting in the background waiting for data, processing it and sending it somewhere else.
There may be a need for putting some links on the CUPS-Homepage "favourite GUIs for CUPS" but there is no need for a standard-GUI.
Setup- and Configuration should be left to the GUI-Developers (cups-gui-kde, cups-gui-lesstif, cups-shell-setup) and the Distribution-Developers (yast2-cups), not to the Daemon-Developer. This way you avoid those stupid glitches, everybody does what he is good at and nothing else.
Think modular and like the proverb says "Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten".
Well, I know Allnet pretty well, their founder and boss went to school with me, their headquarter is only one km away and they sponsored lots of our local (larger) lan-parties.
So I guess Wuffis techies did the usual: bought asian equipment, did some minor rework and labeled the box Allnet. And as usual those asians don't really care bout the gpl at all and don't really inform their european customers about those minor glitches.
And here comes Wuffis powerfull point: He knows good PR when cornered by it:-) So why don't take advantage of this nasty mistake and make big news which are not really easy to make otherwise for a medium-sized network-equpiment-distributor?
Actually I have a old AMD 486dx4-160 with a VLB-S3-864-Board sitting around. You are right, its quite a nice piece of hardware, even my crappy Pentium-100/S3-Trio32-System next to it doesn't keep up with it.
I am trying to imagine Mozilla on my Amiga3000-030/25... NOT.
I've got two browsers running on my Amiga, some graphical semicomercial (Aweb? Ibrowse? Dont really care...) one which licence I got by outbuying some old boxes and lynx.
And only lynx runs at usable speeds. Can you imagine that the graphical amount of slashdot.org overwhelms my not-so-bad-miggy by a long shot? It easily takes five minutes to display a normal list of comments.
Mozilla should easily tenfold the overhead. I wont even think about using it on MY amiga.
The mainproblems will be porting of modern compilers, the libs and a better memorymanagment - or how to you expect mozilla running on a 16MB-System with no swapspace? So its basically about updating the whole operatingsystem, not only porting some software.
I used an 486dx4-160/64MB-RAM/S3-864 without 3D-acceleration running quakeworld at 320x200. The game was very playable at 15-25fps.
Quake2 ran at ~10fps on the same system,
Quake3 ran at 20-40fps on my later system, a System with two PentiumMMX-233/128MB-RAM/Voodoo1.
So I think everything beyond Pentium3-450/256MB-RAM/TNT-2 should kick major butt running Quake-Enginees like Enemy Territory, Return to Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor and so on...
Twenty Years ago the first maglevs were build in Germany. Increadibly fast and very quiet. For Testingpurposes. Since then... nothing happened. Oh, yes, they sold the whole stuff for a piece of bread to china which also build the first "german maglev" for public use. Well, in germany we still have no public maglev.
At least in central europa (germany, france, benelux) we have conventional trains running at speeds of 150-300kph since decades. But then europa has a highly incompatible trainsystem. Western Europa (except once Great Britain) uses one type of track, eastern europa another one and while the british system closely resembles western europas tracks its not safe for high speeds.
Thank goodness china desided to use western-europa tracks which will more or less force eastern europa and russia to adopt or wither away.
> Point 2: USA DOES remove dictators but it also > creates them. > This is clearly the case with Saddam Hussein and > Usama bin Laden, but it also extends to many > others like Manuel Noreiga (CIA asset).
Vision impaired?
Saddam received MILLIONS of tons of sowjet equipment FOR FREE. Even in thist years war 90% of Saddams Army used rusty SOWJET equipment. Saddam is/was an socialist/stalinist leader, not a capitalist/faschist one. Only five to ten years later western powers tried to buy goodwill by SELLING some 10.000 tons of equipment but as it didn't work out like expected they stopped delivering some years later while the sowjet-union delivered still MILLION TONS FOR FREE./bin/laden is a dictator? Well, he was educated by pakistan and saudi money, he got his first jobs by pakistan, he got his first equipment by pakistan and later he got a good bunch of modern equipment from the US. If you really are looking for a scapegoat, point your finger at pakistan first. Its like a kid who was risen by his father as a criminal, stealing, murdering, gets a knife from uncle sam, kills again and then uncle sam is responsible. Sound stupid? Knifes don't kill, education does.
> Point 3: Helping to resolve conflicts? Do you > even know what happened in Bosnia?
Yepp, yugoslawia was only three hours away and I myself even speak a bit of their language (ok, mostly about alcoholic brewege) and have friends there.
> The actions of NATO actually accelerated the > genocide.
Please explain as I think you are totally wrong.
> The Croats were committing mass atrocities > similar to the Serbs yet how come very few even > say anything?
The war-tribunal told 90% of killings was done by serbs, 5% by croats and 5% by muslims. I never saw a serb refugee, but we had around TWO MILLION refugees alone in germany from croatia and bosnia, most if not all beeing croats or muslims. The serbs had tanks, airplanes, helicopters, artillery and they used it. While some of their points where correct they did numerous times criminal wrong things and instead of accepting international help they acted like a strong man which they obviously were only while shelling bosnian cities with artillery and killing 200.000 civilians in a most disgustingly public way of powerdemonstration. I might add that their enemies also killed 20.000 civilians, but at least those enemies stopped fighting when ordered by the UN and they didn't kill in such a stupid public demonstration of power.
> As far as the Isreali/Palestinian conflict is > concerned, USA really isn't helping it now.
I can't tell a lie, the best way to help in this case would be to nuke both. Problem solved.
> The US govt is so biased towards Isreal that it > will be a miracle if anyone signs any peace > agreement that USA puts forth.
Maybe its the palestinian extremists request to dissolve the nation of israel before stopping fighting. A good healthy carpet-bombing with nukes would obviously shut up both.
Dear Eric, please rethink those added lines. Yes, they are true, but sometimes the true needs to be explained more politly or otherwise lawyers will chew your bones.
As english is only my second language I won't give advice. But like my ol' teacher said "whenever a complete moron of a student produces one heap of shit after another I tell his parents 'it looks like he isn't able to follow expectations'".
EVE may seem like an MORPG at first glance, but it isn't. Its more a revival of those Massive-Online-Tabletop-Spaceoperas some may remember from early 1990 BBS-Games like Tradewars, Outpost-Trader etcpp - I'll call that MOTSO. Sure, you can learn skills, but you just learn them by buying and letting them run while you are playing. And those skills are not uberpowerfull - they mostly add 10% to 50% to some skills - so three wellworking n00bs can easily beat someone playing for months.
This game doesn't involve stupid "macro-woodwork to get a good working-level". It makes no claims that YOU are the hero, because you most likely aren't.
Have you ever tried as a level one character to join a level 65 party? Well, in EVE you may succeed: You keep a bit back, play the mule but still are a vital part of your party.
Actually the GMs do not show up much and still nobody really misses them. Most gameplay is evolving out of the many corporations, megacorporations and superpower-alliances. So the universe is run by the players, not by some mostly ignorant admins.
Even the economy works pretty well. Ok, there is lots of Basic-Items sold by NPCs, also NPCs are buying here and selling there, but everything beyond food and Coke (Quafe in EVE) is available for better conditions from players.
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In the lest five years I have seen several reports about this incidents on TV and even the german goverment has started to investige this matter very closely.
There are three recorded unexplained and very large explosions on german soil, two in Thueringen one month before surrendering to the russians and one three months later a bit away which then was a russian military compound.
All three ran around one kiloton but instead of huge amounts of destruction they seemed to release a huge amount of energy in form of light and radiation.
Around the location there are several strange nuclear testing-reactors spread over 30km.
Several hundred people have seen the mushroom-clouds because it was launched only five kilometers from the next village. The area was closed by russians for the next 40 years, all involved people detained in russia and even the soil of the explosion-area was removed two meters deep. Therefore you find only small but still unusual amounts of radiation. On the other hand the country of Thueringen has by far the highest amount of radiation in whole europe right after Tschernobyl. Something really did happen back then
But in fact noone knows for sure what happened there. 40 years of sowjet intelligence have whipped out absolutly every little detail.
Licensing is good as long as it is 90% or more cheaper than buying! Would you lifetime-licence your favourite CD for 1,5 instead of buying it for 15? Well, I would. Would you pay 0,5 Cent for listening once to your favourite CD instead of buying it for 15? Well, I would.
Until then... well, not for me, kids. I am not stupid enough to licence a CD for 30 when I can get the original for 15. I won't pay per listen a whooping 15 when I can get the Original for 15.
I would be a victim of that decision - I run Debian on my Amiga3000 just for the fun - but I still say "go for it".
That proposal aims for stable releases. I see no problem seeing an unstable m68k debian popping up after some time. Right now even the stable m68k-Debian is a rotting piece of shit not working at all so why bother with stable at all?
This is total bullshit. Usenet never was cheaper to keep free. Universities are not poor, Usenet doesn't cost a fortune and burn traffic and mantime and cash like hell.
Today a 10MBit flat-server at a provider costs between 30-100 Euros a month and a setup-fee of 0-100 Euros, consisting of a 3Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM and 200GB harddisk. Not a giant server but hell good enough for several 10.000 normal users. I ran myself several newsservers on a much much much smaller system for some 3000 users and it mostly idle (I remember a pentium-100, 128MB RAM, 9GB harddisk and an Amiga3000 with 8MB RAM, 1GB harddisk, both did the job, only the amiga had an average load of 0.2)
Managing a Usenet-Server on a technical level means a one-day-setup and one to four hours work every week.
The administration part (accounts, group-handwork) is more costly but I think it can be also automatized much more. If most forums are happy about a simple "answer the email for registraion" then usenet should be happy to.
About Universities: I know Universities burn traffic like hell. At least in munich. The P2P-traffic alone is 100 times larger than all Usenet-Traffic. And noone cares. They set up Top-Of-The-Notch System (I am not talking about x86, but TOP-OF-THE-NOTCH Sun-Systems with more CPUs than my System has wires on the board) for the frighting task of relaying mails. Huh? I know that mail only increased three times over the last decade in universities but they need a 100 times faster system?
About admins: Most cs-students play most of the time. Play as in "creating debian systems" or "running irc-servers" and "playing with unix in general", sometimes they even really play games. I guess by approaching just the right two people you can get rid of the most work within one evening. Don't tell me this is too complicated. I learned this in the early ninetes within one month and since then it got much easier.
Usenet is about to stay. IRC was never (seriously) founded too and is also about to stay. It will just have to take a different approach. I think within the next five years we will see most Usenet-Traffic migrating to private operated servers. I can even imagine a comeback of some dial-up Usenet-Sites, I have a 3MBit DSL-Link and two ISDN-Lines, why not give access to my var/spool/news? Maybe with more servers than ever before. Usenet will be back to where Subnet came from before migrating to Usenet.
It is cheaper to set up than IRC, it is cheaper to run as IRC, is is less prone to attacks than IRC.
The puppeteer-stories where also part of some collections and mags of Isaac Asimov who was always eager releasing good scifi-collections.
> -Firewire is freely licensed by Apple.
No it isn't. You pay per Port or a company-wide fee. That charges where rather high in the beginning but dropped to below $1/port or 15mio/company after Intel made USB free-of-charge.
I really don't see the reason to have USB and firewire. At one connector you can connect everything from a keyboard to a fast harddrive and on the other can connect fast harddrives. But both are useless for very fast harddrives/arrays. Its just like having a RS232 and a RS464 just because to have the choice between two totally redundant connectors. Just like having serial and parallel ports at the early eighties while most equipment came with serial anyway, even printers.
Ok, maybe Direct3D is the main GUI on windows but it is of no relevance anywhere else. Not on Linux. Not on BSD. Not on MacOS. Not on the PS2. Not even Windows-CE and therefore not on PDAs and Mobile Phones. Nowhere except Wintel.
Therefore any sane producer should use OpenGL which makes it very easy to bring a product to any console, any computer and after some years to PDAs and Mobile Phones.
Today a productive sellcycle for a game should be:
1. sell on consoles - they have less problems with piracy and people are more willing to pay (overpriced) prices.
2. after the first hot sellcycle - three to twelve months - port the game to Desktop-Computers. There are million people which do not want a console but still want to play a game. Also those games are a bit cheaper which gets you more customers. Your game gets pirated though but as sales for (1.) already are over you simply live with it.
3. Meanwhile port it to Unix-Desktops or in other words, MacOS and Linux. It is a piece of cake, given you planes porting through all cycles means you gave some thoughts right at the start about portability and this pay off now. 10-20% additional sales for maybe 10 working days.
4. After several years portable gameconsoles, PDAs and Cell-Phones are becoming a target - your game outsold on the desktop and consoles, people knew your game and have good memory. People actually are willing to pay for Mario/PDA after having played Mario/Console. So now you recompile your game to those portable plattforms, sell it for a real low-budget-price and most likely you are outselling all earlier sales.
All portings only take some days of work, yes this can be done with some planing.
This cycle and no other will give maximum earnings. And it simply forbids use of Direct3D.
I use mlnet, a client for Overnet/EDonkey and have switched of browsing of files. So basically there is no way of looking into my system from outside.
This system is inherently much more secure than Bittorrent. You have no central site holding problematic torrents, local browsing is a switchable option, it only takes a small md4-Checksum to locate a file, names actually don't matter. Making Bittorent more secure and distributed would just mean making Bittorrent another edonkey.
MLNet supports several other protocols as well but I usually do not use them / do not give bandwidth to them. Includes Bittorrent, Fasttrack, Gnutella1/2, http/ftp/news/dcc and others.
With Bittorrent you have one easy target, the hub. And you can request nearly every information about its participant, what files and chunks he got, what he gave etcpp.
With mlnet you can actually only verify one thing: Someone gave you a chunk of a file matching a md5-checksum which you requested hours ago. You don't know how much he got, what else and if he even got the full fule. No central responsbility.
Oh, yes, you are still trackable. But only to a little more extent than freenet from a judge-point-of-view.
Also by using Linux I can have thousands of waiting connections which usually gives me very good rates. I only noticed one drawback, it usually tackes 60min to start full-speed-download while Bittorrent usually takes only 10min.
The last time I looked there where more distributions available for 68030 than for 486. Just take a look, most distribution except Linux-from-Scratch and variations like Linux-nearly-from-Scratch are build to run on a minimum of Pentium.
By chance I have used a system which makes me mostly untrackable by their idea. I usually don't go to a webpage to find Stuff I have previously downloaded but instead do a grep -i exodus /var/log/squid/access.log and then get something like
m v - DIRECT/194.105.226.148 text/plain
1099791026.435 1899 10.0.3.82 TCP_MISS/200 171397 GET http://eve.skjalfti.is/video/EXODUS_Trailer_v1a.w
And I am not even a hobbyist hacker, just someone too lazy to search through web-pages over and over again and with a little technological background.
I have been using Debian for years on my Amiga3000, 030/25, 16MB Fast-RAM, CL5424-Gfx-Board, 1GB-SCSI-HD.
:-)
It runs acceptable and you can actually use some modern software instead of waiting a week to boot.
I should finally try Firefox and Thunderbird on that old rusty ship
Copyright?
:-)
Bah, guess who invented all that neat stuff like nuclear power, the plane, the jet-plane, the rocket, the car, the computer, video-games and so on?
Correct, germans
Give us patents and copyrights on that stuff back which you took away after some calamity some time ago and in exchange you may keep the patents on the german inventions "communism", "massmedia-propaganda", "genocide" and "nationalsociasm". George makes better use of them anyway. Oh, and you may keep those hard to empty tubes for toothpaste too.
I used early Mosaic and Netscape and to be honest I didn't see much difference back then. This changed with Netscape 3, but until then it was a long way.
I am not even Photoshop or Gimp but the whole articles resolves to:
-I was stupid enough to pay bucks for free software and not smart enough to use google.
-I invested 5min to learn the program after using Photoshop for five years every day and didn't totally understood every detail. Basically The Gimp isn't photoshop and therefore sucks
-There are other computers out being used in other ways than my mac using different handling and that is plain evil and oppressing for the community of mac-users
But to be honest ignorance is one of the thing I always expect from "certain" users and I am seldom wrong.
On my attic I have a drive MUCH smaller.
Its the CBM9060 with a TM601S Drive offering 2,5MB of space. Beat that!
Its a rare version which was build from Spare-Parts, basically a TM602S-drive with a defunct plate.
What, you have been talkin about physical size?
How boring...
Why does CUPS contain a graphical setup?
Beats me.
Its a daemon sitting in the background waiting for data, processing it and sending it somewhere else.
There may be a need for putting some links on the CUPS-Homepage "favourite GUIs for CUPS" but there is no need for a standard-GUI.
Setup- and Configuration should be left to the GUI-Developers (cups-gui-kde, cups-gui-lesstif, cups-shell-setup) and the Distribution-Developers (yast2-cups), not to the Daemon-Developer. This way you avoid those stupid glitches, everybody does what he is good at and nothing else.
Think modular and like the proverb says "Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten".
Well, I know Allnet pretty well, their founder and boss went to school with me, their headquarter is only one km away and they sponsored lots of our local (larger) lan-parties.
:-) So why don't take advantage of this nasty mistake and make big news which are not really easy to make otherwise for a medium-sized network-equpiment-distributor?
So I guess Wuffis techies did the usual: bought asian equipment, did some minor rework and labeled the box Allnet. And as usual those asians don't really care bout the gpl at all and don't really inform their european customers about those minor glitches.
And here comes Wuffis powerfull point: He knows good PR when cornered by it
Actually I have a old AMD 486dx4-160 with a VLB-S3-864-Board sitting around. You are right, its quite a nice piece of hardware, even my crappy Pentium-100/S3-Trio32-System next to it doesn't keep up with it.
I am trying to imagine Mozilla on my Amiga3000-030/25... NOT.
I've got two browsers running on my Amiga, some graphical semicomercial (Aweb? Ibrowse? Dont really care...) one which licence I got by outbuying some old boxes and lynx.
And only lynx runs at usable speeds. Can you imagine that the graphical amount of slashdot.org overwhelms my not-so-bad-miggy by a long shot? It easily takes five minutes to display a normal list of comments.
Mozilla should easily tenfold the overhead. I wont even think about using it on MY amiga.
The mainproblems will be porting of modern compilers, the libs and a better memorymanagment - or how to you expect mozilla running on a 16MB-System with no swapspace? So its basically about updating the whole operatingsystem, not only porting some software.
I guess the best way would be using m68k-linux...
You need true power for Quake!
I used an 486dx4-160/64MB-RAM/S3-864 without 3D-acceleration running quakeworld at 320x200. The game was very playable at 15-25fps.
Quake2 ran at ~10fps on the same system,
Quake3 ran at 20-40fps on my later system, a System with two PentiumMMX-233/128MB-RAM/Voodoo1.
So I think everything beyond Pentium3-450/256MB-RAM/TNT-2 should kick major butt running Quake-Enginees like Enemy Territory, Return to Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor and so on...
Twenty Years ago the first maglevs were build in Germany. Increadibly fast and very quiet. For Testingpurposes. Since then ... nothing happened. Oh, yes, they sold the whole stuff for a piece of bread to china which also build the first "german maglev" for public use. Well, in germany we still have no public maglev.
At least in central europa (germany, france, benelux) we have conventional trains running at speeds of 150-300kph since decades. But then europa has a highly incompatible trainsystem. Western Europa (except once Great Britain) uses one type of track, eastern europa another one and while the british system closely resembles western europas tracks its not safe for high speeds.
Thank goodness china desided to use western-europa tracks which will more or less force eastern europa and russia to adopt or wither away.
> Point 2: USA DOES remove dictators but it also
/bin/laden is a dictator? Well, he was educated by pakistan and saudi money, he got his first jobs by pakistan, he got his first equipment by pakistan and later he got a good bunch of modern equipment from the US. If you really are looking for a scapegoat, point your finger at pakistan first. Its like a kid who was risen by his father as a criminal, stealing, murdering, gets a knife from uncle sam, kills again and then uncle sam is responsible. Sound stupid? Knifes don't kill, education does.
> creates them.
> This is clearly the case with Saddam Hussein and
> Usama bin Laden, but it also extends to many
> others like Manuel Noreiga (CIA asset).
Vision impaired?
Saddam received MILLIONS of tons of sowjet equipment FOR FREE. Even in thist years war 90% of Saddams Army used rusty SOWJET equipment. Saddam is/was an socialist/stalinist leader, not a capitalist/faschist one. Only five to ten years later western powers tried to buy goodwill by SELLING some 10.000 tons of equipment but as it didn't work out like expected they stopped delivering some years later while the sowjet-union delivered still MILLION TONS FOR FREE.
> Point 3: Helping to resolve conflicts? Do you
> even know what happened in Bosnia?
Yepp, yugoslawia was only three hours away and I myself even speak a bit of their language (ok, mostly about alcoholic brewege) and have friends there.
> The actions of NATO actually accelerated the
> genocide.
Please explain as I think you are totally wrong.
> The Croats were committing mass atrocities
> similar to the Serbs yet how come very few even
> say anything?
The war-tribunal told 90% of killings was done by serbs, 5% by croats and 5% by muslims. I never saw a serb refugee, but we had around TWO MILLION refugees alone in germany from croatia and bosnia, most if not all beeing croats or muslims. The serbs had tanks, airplanes, helicopters, artillery and they used it. While some of their points where correct they did numerous times criminal wrong things and instead of accepting international help they acted like a strong man which they obviously were only while shelling bosnian cities with artillery and killing 200.000 civilians in a most disgustingly public way of powerdemonstration. I might add that their enemies also killed 20.000 civilians, but at least those enemies stopped fighting when ordered by the UN and they didn't kill in such a stupid public demonstration of power.
> As far as the Isreali/Palestinian conflict is
> concerned, USA really isn't helping it now.
I can't tell a lie, the best way to help in this case would be to nuke both. Problem solved.
> The US govt is so biased towards Isreal that it
> will be a miracle if anyone signs any peace
> agreement that USA puts forth.
Maybe its the palestinian extremists request to dissolve the nation of israel before stopping fighting. A good healthy carpet-bombing with nukes would obviously shut up both.
The xbox looked like a Hongkong-Dildo-Maker hired a russian tankdesigner for the case.
I am surprised someone was able to get even lower...
Dear Eric, please rethink those added lines. Yes, they are true, but sometimes the true needs to be explained more politly or otherwise lawyers will chew your bones.
As english is only my second language I won't give advice. But like my ol' teacher said "whenever a complete moron of a student produces one heap of shit after another I tell his parents 'it looks like he isn't able to follow expectations'".
EVE may seem like an MORPG at first glance, but it isn't. Its more a revival of those Massive-Online-Tabletop-Spaceoperas some may remember from early 1990 BBS-Games like Tradewars, Outpost-Trader etcpp - I'll call that MOTSO. Sure, you can learn skills, but you just learn them by buying and letting them run while you are playing. And those skills are not uberpowerfull - they mostly add 10% to 50% to some skills - so three wellworking n00bs can easily beat someone playing for months.
This game doesn't involve stupid "macro-woodwork to get a good working-level". It makes no claims that YOU are the hero, because you most likely aren't.
Have you ever tried as a level one character to join a level 65 party? Well, in EVE you may succeed: You keep a bit back, play the mule but still are a vital part of your party.
Actually the GMs do not show up much and still nobody really misses them. Most gameplay is evolving out of the many corporations, megacorporations and superpower-alliances. So the universe is run by the players, not by some mostly ignorant admins.
Even the economy works pretty well. Ok, there is lots of Basic-Items sold by NPCs, also NPCs are buying here and selling there, but everything beyond food and Coke (Quafe in EVE) is available for better conditions from players.