I was very impressed with this thing called a CLIPPER CS-1. The quick description (schwicked off of the page) is this:
"The Clipper is a "virtual office", a completely self-contained and enclosed 'capsule', 4' wide, 7' long, and 4.5' high, designed specially for concentrated (and ergonomically correct) computer use."
A little bit later it says
Being inside is much like sitting in the cockpit of a small plane...with everything you need within easy reach.
So, as I said, completely gratuitous, but, damn. I bet it's really comfortable for those Quake II marathons.
---------------------- It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
No, the/second/ digit designates stability versus development.
So, 1.0.x, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.2.x are all stable. 1.1.x, 1.3.x, 2.1.x, and 2.3.x [the last doesn't exist, yet] are all development.
It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
Abandon Individuality, All Ye Who Enter Here
on
Why Kids Kill
·
· Score: 1
Hello. I am a member of an "out group". I'm an outcast, a freak, a weirdo, and a myriad of other insulting monikers. I don't dress like most people, and I have tattoos, as well as piercings in and on my face. I listen to Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Tool and a variety of other "angry" music. When I go to Marilyn Manson concerts (for example), I'm as close to the stage as I can get, chanting with the rest of the crowd "We Hate Love! We Love Hate!" Starting when I was in high school, I had, at one time or another, blue, red, orange, green, turquoise, and platinum colored hair. I wore Doc Martens and combat boots to school, and occasionally had to talk with the principal about my interpretations of the dress code - fortunately for my friends and me, the administration was very democratic, and we were permitted to justify some of our 'questionable choices'. This is a refreshing practice, particularly when considering that this was Saint Xavier High School, a Jesuit-run facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. When I went to college at the University of Cincinnati, I joined the International Socialist Organization. I changed majors four times before dropping out after approximately two and a half years. I'm a pagan, and occasionally practice ritual magic. I play fantasy role-playing games (though I don't play Dungeons & Dragons, it's a good example of the sort of game I play), many of which involve shooting and killing imaginary enemies, with my crew, TeamAD (named after the anime series A.D. Police). I also play paintball, a type of war simulation using paint pellets instead of bullets to "kill" the other team. I also am an avid computer user. I play Quake, Doom, Carmageddon, Diablo, and a host of other violent games. I have a web site that could easily offend a lot of people (A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://ww4.choice.net/~boinger/">here).
Some things about me may surprise you, though. I began working professionally in the information technology industry as a web site programmer when I was 18 and I bought my first house the following year. I dropped out of college when working full time, going to school full time and remodeling my house (I did the work myself) became too much. Almost all of my computer knowledge is self-taught - I've taken only one computer course titled "3-D Animation"; a topic entirely unrelated to the field in which I work. I am now employed by Bank of America [formerly NationsBank] as a Web Server Administrator (i.e. Webmaster) in Chicago. I have never taken an illicit drug of any sort, including marijuana. I don't, nor have I ever, smoked and I've never been drunk. I own two cats. I get along with my parents now, though there were some tough times during my teenage years.
What's more, I still have piercings, still have tattoos, and still dress weirdly. Often, people don't want to sit next to me on the elevated train. However, I am fortunate to have found an employer who doesn't care about any of that. I do my job very well, and that's what matters. It doesn't bother me that security sometimes follows me in stores, nor does it bother me that I'm usually accosted by the on-site security people who don't know me if I come in to work on the weekend. Of course it would be nice to not be bothered sometimes, but I don't expect that to happen. If it really bothered me, I'd buy clothes at Abercrombie and become another drone. That's not very likely to happen, because I'm quite definitely not a drone.
By the way, I've also never killed anyone. I don't plan on killing anyone. In fact, I've never been in a fight, unless you count that time in grade school when a kid named Eric hit me in the face (That's all that happened - I lost).
Why should you care about any of this? Because I can feel a backlash coming against kids who are different. Of course, some people are disturbed, but the exceptions to the rule are the disturbed people you can pick out of the crowd. Jeffrey Dahmer looked normal, and so did Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Just because a person finds comfort in the stylings of a group that is not in the majority does not mean they should be persecuted. All great things happen from exceptional people - we, as a society, need to recognize that 'exceptional' doesn't necessarily, or even usually, match the status quo called "normal". I need not expound on the overwhelming examples of people and their followers who strayed from the majority - Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Jr., Galileo, and hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of others.
Yes, of course parents and teachers should be aware of any pendulous behavioral swings or signs of acting out violence, but they should also take care not to attack kids simply because they don't look like they looked when they were that age. Some kids like to and will look different or weird. I like to look weird, too, and so do many of my friends and associates.
Hello. A lot of people, friends and co-workers, call me Boinger - My family calls me Jeff.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I know they had people in their main booth, but their Linux Pavillion spot was empty except for some 17" (or so) monitor sitting there (apparently not connected to anything). That's all. It would have been nice for a 'big name' outside the traditional Linux community to have hung out there.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I have to disagree with some of the postings here - I didn't come away with the impression that I had witnessed an hour-long M$ bashing speech. Yes, he had some excellent quips here and there that were anti-M$, but for the most part is was very Linux-centric.
Though, notably, I guess one could construe a lot of the speech to be anti-M$, simply because Linux is intrinsically anti-M$ (in that, Linux is all the Windoze is not).
Overall, my main impression is that Linus is an excellent speaker. I would not have needed to whisper much to my mom, were she to have attended, but I wasn't bored on the geek end of things, either. He did a great job of speaking to both the Linux-curious, as well as those of use infiltrating corporate america with our renegade Linux boxes that secretly hold the company together. It was a fine speech.
As for the rest of COMDEX - I was relatively un-entertained by the majority of the booths. I think that the auto-login (via a card-swipe) terminals provided by Novell were very nice. And there were enough that there weren't lines longer than one person behind another person. (and even that was rare). The Linux Pavillion was good-looking and conspicuously placed (near-ish the entrance, right past the APC area). Everyone was polite and helpful, there. They had a little projection-screen area where they were demo-ing various Linux distros and products. I got distro CDs from RedHat, SuSE, and Caldera for free, and I even got a Beta of SuSE's Alpha-AXP distro (I had to ask, and they produced it from a secret cache) for my Alphastation.
Sadly, Compaq didn't show for their Linux Pavillion booth, at least not by midday Monday.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I talked to Mike - one of the students who did this project - and he wanted to be sure that I knew (and I'm passing it on to everyone else) that they were forced to use Win98 because of lack of drivers in Linux. He said that he plans on phasing out the need for M$ altogether as drivers become available.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I mean, if the small amount of bug fixing that went into the 95.1 patch made it worth the Windows 98 moniker, why not make this 95.2 patch called Windows 99? If I was a brain-dead M$ user, I'd fall for it. I'd have to try really hard to believe it, sure, but I could manage to tie-off my logic for long enough to sign the credit card slip. *sigh*
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I was discussing this with my grandfather...IANAL, but, what that guy did is not a crime, SFAIK. Yes, it was irritating, yes it was malicious, but so is country music. This guy getting railroaded is just another step in the wrong direction for the internet as a community.
Well, at least I was unaffected. What kind of moron runs a macro-laced Micro$oft file from someone they don't know? Anyone who does that deserves what they get.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
...there are no more of those. I mean, yeah, neutron bombs are heinous and awful and whatever, but considering the role of wars (well, non-US wars - We (the US) like to go to war just to spend our surplus ammo, apparently, with no expectation of spoils of war), it seems like a neutron bomb would be the best sort of bomb.
I suppose it would be kind of gross having a million or two rotted corpses to deal with when you could move into the area after the radiation cleared up.
Note for the sick-humour-impaired: I'm not for neutron bombs.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I'd definitely agree here. I have several friends with the same problem. And, if "manly sounding" doesn't suit you (I know I would feel kind of weird picking a "womanly sounding" nick for some reason), at least use something ambiguous. Initials always work, and noone thinks it as odd as say DaveHardAss asking about a line of pantyhose or a Lemaze technique;-)
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
My Swiss Tool is much sturdier than Gerbers or Leathermans (or would it be Leathermen?). Somewhat heavier, but nothing unreasonable, and it just has more stuff on it. I guess that's why it costs twice as much...
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
Does anyone know where I can find a small intel chipset motherboard? It doesn't need to be/that/ small, but something a lot smaller than the average AT board? BTW, 486/586 is plenty fast - no PII stuff, of course.
Slashdot Mirror
----------------------
It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
----------------------
It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
So, 1.0.x, 1.2.x, 2.0.x, and 2.2.x are all stable.
1.1.x, 1.3.x, 2.1.x, and 2.3.x [the last doesn't exist, yet] are all development.
It's too bad stupidity isn't painful"
Some things about me may surprise you, though. I began working professionally in the information technology industry as a web site programmer when I was 18 and I bought my first house the following year. I dropped out of college when working full time, going to school full time and remodeling my house (I did the work myself) became too much. Almost all of my computer knowledge is self-taught - I've taken only one computer course titled "3-D Animation"; a topic entirely unrelated to the field in which I work. I am now employed by Bank of America [formerly NationsBank] as a Web Server Administrator (i.e. Webmaster) in Chicago. I have never taken an illicit drug of any sort, including marijuana. I don't, nor have I ever, smoked and I've never been drunk. I own two cats. I get along with my parents now, though there were some tough times during my teenage years.
What's more, I still have piercings, still have tattoos, and still dress weirdly. Often, people don't want to sit next to me on the elevated train. However, I am fortunate to have found an employer who doesn't care about any of that. I do my job very well, and that's what matters. It doesn't bother me that security sometimes follows me in stores, nor does it bother me that I'm usually accosted by the on-site security people who don't know me if I come in to work on the weekend. Of course it would be nice to not be bothered sometimes, but I don't expect that to happen. If it really bothered me, I'd buy clothes at Abercrombie and become another drone. That's not very likely to happen, because I'm quite definitely not a drone.
By the way, I've also never killed anyone. I don't plan on killing anyone. In fact, I've never been in a fight, unless you count that time in grade school when a kid named Eric hit me in the face (That's all that happened - I lost).
Why should you care about any of this? Because I can feel a backlash coming against kids who are different. Of course, some people are disturbed, but the exceptions to the rule are the disturbed people you can pick out of the crowd. Jeffrey Dahmer looked normal, and so did Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Just because a person finds comfort in the stylings of a group that is not in the majority does not mean they should be persecuted. All great things happen from exceptional people - we, as a society, need to recognize that 'exceptional' doesn't necessarily, or even usually, match the status quo called "normal". I need not expound on the overwhelming examples of people and their followers who strayed from the majority - Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Jr., Galileo, and hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of others.
Yes, of course parents and teachers should be aware of any pendulous behavioral swings or signs of acting out violence, but they should also take care not to attack kids simply because they don't look like they looked when they were that age. Some kids like to and will look different or weird. I like to look weird, too, and so do many of my friends and associates.
Hello. A lot of people, friends and co-workers, call me Boinger - My family calls me Jeff.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
Though, notably, I guess one could construe a lot of the speech to be anti-M$, simply because Linux is intrinsically anti-M$ (in that, Linux is all the Windoze is not).
Overall, my main impression is that Linus is an excellent speaker. I would not have needed to whisper much to my mom, were she to have attended, but I wasn't bored on the geek end of things, either. He did a great job of speaking to both the Linux-curious, as well as those of use infiltrating corporate america with our renegade Linux boxes that secretly hold the company together. It was a fine speech.
As for the rest of COMDEX - I was relatively un-entertained by the majority of the booths. I think that the auto-login (via a card-swipe) terminals provided by Novell were very nice. And there were enough that there weren't lines longer than one person behind another person. (and even that was rare). The Linux Pavillion was good-looking and conspicuously placed (near-ish the entrance, right past the APC area). Everyone was polite and helpful, there. They had a little projection-screen area where they were demo-ing various Linux distros and products. I got distro CDs from RedHat, SuSE, and Caldera for free, and I even got a Beta of SuSE's Alpha-AXP distro (I had to ask, and they produced it from a secret cache) for my Alphastation.
Sadly, Compaq didn't show for their Linux Pavillion booth, at least not by midday Monday.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
Well, at least I was unaffected. What kind of moron runs a macro-laced Micro$oft file from someone they don't know? Anyone who does that deserves what they get.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
I suppose it would be kind of gross having a million or two rotted corpses to deal with when you could move into the area after the radiation cleared up.
Note for the sick-humour-impaired: I'm not for neutron bombs.
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
"The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now."
...Rob was being tongue-in-cheek. Welcome to the world of being wit aware.
Every page is marked copyright 1998 - could they have already missed their deadline?
Is it just me, or does it look like you could pronounce it Intel Pill?!?
My mind wanders at work sometimes, I guess.
Does anyone know where I can find a small intel chipset motherboard? It doesn't need to be /that/ small, but something a lot smaller than the average AT board? BTW, 486/586 is plenty fast - no PII stuff, of course.