Would anyone be able to recommend a good AMD laptop? I don't want anything big, maybe like a 600-700Mhz. I want a good screen, tho. A S3 chipset would work fine, I just wanna run X on it. Also, battery life is very important. Anyone have any good recommendations?
So, what's the problem here? You get a nice system loader like 'System Commander' (or a GNU alternative), and you set your lilo.conf to only allow linux as the only choice, and defult the seconds to wait to 1 (I like to have time to hit TAB and type 'linux single' if I need to). And **POOF**, you're using LILO, but hardly ever see it.
Unfortunately that won't work for me because I'm using stupid PPPoE
I'm not sure I understand your comment. The LinkSys router speaks PPPoE, and it does the login. The Linux box just sits there in the DMZ, and serves webpages, FTP, etc.
The compromise I came up with (temporarily) is to use the LinkSys, and put a Linux box in the DMZ. That way, I have an FTP/Web/Samba/Telnet server that supports Dynamic DNS. I tried building a router/firewall, but couldn't find a good HOWTO for the new kernel, so I decided to wait a while.
As I posted in a similar thread on the earlier story, this is not from Nostradamus, but rather an attempt by the author of the site (who does NOT claim to be psychic) to show how, given a vague "prediction", that something in the future will fit it. Seems to have backfired, tho.
But, I suppose that some people would rather believe it is from Nostadamus, and feel 'eerie' about it, rather than facing the truth, and seeing that it is just a coincidence.
Before you make a comment about how 'eerie' this is, read the page. You'll see that this is NOT a quote from Nostradomus, but rater an attempt by the author of the webpage to show how if you make enough vague statements, evetually, sometime in the future, it will be "fulfilled". Seems like this has backfired on him this time.
Here is the quoted text:
"At this point I would like to introduce to you what I call the "Infinite Monkey's Principle." Let's say that I have aquired an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewritters or word processors (It doesn't matter). Of course, as far as we know that is impossible to do (Unless you buy factory direct from me--send 500 trillion dollars to me (gold bullion only, liquid assets are not negotiable) But I digress... If these Infinite Amount of Monkeys are allowed to bang out whatever they want on the infinite typewriter, one of them will produce the complete works of Shakespear.
How? Simple if the Monkey's write random garbage but in an infinite amount, eventually because of the simple fact that it is inevitable (simple probability thought shows this).
How does this apply to Nostradamus? Well I will show you...
If I make say a thousand prophecies that are fairly abstract for example:
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb
Well let us analyse this. For Example what does City of God mean? It could be Mecca, Medina, Rome, Jeruselum, Salt Lake City, or any holy city depending on your religion. What do I mean by thunder--a storm? War? EarthQuake? lots of stuff can be described by thunder. There are a lot of two brothers on this world (I think the Number runs among the Billions) and fortress edure's what--Besiegement, Famine, etc? What Great Leader? How will he succumb? To what?
Now let the prophecy rest for a few years. Add a couple thousand more. Eventually, one of them will fit close enought with events that have happened in the future that the prophecy will appear to come true. If you make enough prophecies and are intelligent enough to word them in such a way that they are abstract you become instant future see-er person. For example those psychics you see every year that make predictions for the year 199-whatever generally get one or two out of ten predictions right. It is because they are good guessers and that there is enough of them to make it seem like people can really predict the future.
I am not discounting the possibility of a sixth sense nor of the supernatural but I would like to state that there is no scientifically proven Psychic person in the world. Ever psychic that says that she or he is a psychic and has been put to the test has failed quite miserably. It is true. There is no discounting that fact.
Further more, the Scholar's of Nostradomas seem to be taking further and further leaps in logic when they interpret his writings. For example this is a link to a page in which a person claims that Nostredomus prophesised the breakup of Canada. Click here to judge for yourself.
Further more I was watching a 1970's movie on Nostredamus and it predicted that the Third World War began in 1994 and was well on it's way by 1999. (I am holding my breath. Oh no!). The people who "analyse" the Quatrains simply scan through history until they find an event that seems to fit with the quatrain.
Perhaps Nostredamus was a futurist. I do not know. Perhaps he suffered some sort of mental illness (hardly unusual in 16th century Europe). Maybe he just had nothing better to do with his time. I do not think though that, faced with the evidence that science has shown, he was a true Psychic who could see the future. Call me a skeptic but I believe the "Phrase Innocent Until Proven otherwise" should be used to regulate any phenomena in Nature. (In this case it would be Scientifically Explainable unless shown otherwise. Or in the Case of Psychics you are not a Psychic unless you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have these "powers")
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The official Star Wars site has news on the upcoming Episode V, tentatively titled "The Empire Strikes Back". There's a still of the new movie, but these things are just so gosh darn hard to make out on these monochrome monitors.
Oh, also, Lucas announced that he WILL make episodes 7, 8, and 9. CNN has the story. Like a friend of mine found out, you should probably read ALL of this article before you start celebrating.
You'd be suprised by what Computing Services say about Linux. When I was in school a couple years ago, I had a CS prof that wanted to set up a Linux computer lab (I was the administrator). He asked for permission to get them connected to the network and thus, the Internet (I always thought this part should be controlled by the CS department, but at our school, it wasn't). He was told by the network admin that he couldn't, because, "We have a rather fragile firewall here, and we don't want anything going through it that may break it."
I still remember our teacher telling us that, and a fellow student in front of me slapping his forehead almost immediately. I don't think our network admins ever figured out what a firewall is for...
As much as I hate to use a management buzzword, it's good to see the W3C being proactive about this situation, and do something to remedy it. I have a feeling Mozilla will follow spec, and MS will not (as usual).
I thought it was interesting that neither the article or the Slashdot post mention that Pat Scroder is a former Democratic Congresswoman. Only the democrats could come up with something this lame. It seems that both/. and the Washington Post (both liberal news sources) were ashamed to admit this.
I cannot believe that this comment was rated "Flamebait". In a discussion about free speech, one does not have the right to state his/her opinions? Oh, I guess they do, as long as they agree with the posters/moderators. Some lively duscussion here.
Slashdot - Supporters of free speech as long as you agree with us.
This whole mod system is a joke. All it does squash the voices of the minorities. Kinda funny how liberals uphold the minorities only when it suits them.
So, if you have mod points left, do yourself and Slashdot a favor, and MOD THE PARET OF THIS POST UP!!!
I'm not trying to tell you how to run your life, just some simple advice. It does neither you nor your friends a favor staying on a sinking ship. If your friends are talented, they should be able to find work also. You may also wish to talk to your friends about finding other jobs also, before you hand in your two-wek notice.
As far as the jobs are concerned, besides being good money, are they in a field that you are interested in? Do you believe in the company direction?
This document is submitted for the approval of the United States Patent Office (USPO), under Article XVII, Section 27 of the US Patent Law.
This is a proposed patent on any of several physical forces used to adhere any quanta of mass (US Patent # 04339432K) to another. This has been created and demonstrated in a laboratory condition, in that any object which is released from the applicant's hands is immediately attracted to the linoleium tile on the floor. The propsed name for this technology is the "Physical Adherent Force" (for the remainder of this document, it shall be referred to as the PAF). The Applicant can readily demontrate this technology, in that He himself can stick to the floor. Even if the applicant propels himself "up" (U.S. Patent #549312D), he will immediately be attracted towards the materials on the floor due to the PAF.
Anyone using PAF (on themselves or items that they have in their posession), will be ordered to cease and decist, until they obtain written consent from the patent holder.
My roommate and I were among the first to get DSL installed in our area (Tulsa, OK), and all worked well. This was in October '99. Everything worked fine, up until the time that we changed apartments. This was July 15, 2000. here it is Mid-September, and there is still no DSL. When we originally moved, there was a 4-week waiting period for the ADSL line to be disconnected in one location and reconnected in another. I work in the telecom industry, so I'm pretty sure that this is a 5 minute process of telneting into a device somewhere and issuing 3 or 4 commands. After 1 month, we still had no DSL (they were waiting for the Disconnect status to clear). I called back twice a week. Eventually, I was connected to a knowledgeable, helpful representative. She told me that she has learned that their system has a glitch on it that will not clear a disconect status on a number that previously had DSL and is moving it to a location but keeping the same number. She offered to change my number free of charge, so I did that. That added another two weeks. I called back in two weeks, and learned that my due date was not for another two weeks. I called back two weeks later, and was told that there is a wiring problem in the CO, and that my due date will now be three days later. Three days passed, I called back. I was told that they are trying to clear connections out of the DSLAM, but they are backed up. My turn-on date will be two weeks later. Now, the date is set to Oct 11.
I don't tell you this to slam DSL, just to say that if you want it, order now. If you would have asked 2.5 months ago, I wouldn't have had any complaints. It is a really good service once it is up and running. I think it would be better than Cable, because you're not affected by your neighbor's downloading. We were garunteed 384K/s, but usually got arond 720K-1Mb/s. It was great when it worked. That seems to be the problem with broadband right now. You have to go through either your Cable company or Phone company. You have no choice. Even if you do go through a 3rd party DSL provider, then you still have to wait for the local phone company to do the actual connection.<BR><BR>
I like Corel, and used to be a whiz at Corel Draw 3.0 (tells you how long ago that was). However, I don't think Corel "gets" the open source movement. To them, it is just creating a MS-Free platform for them to sell their products on. I really don't think they're going to be a contributer to the open source movement, even with their own distro.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're releasing canned apps for the platform, I just don't think they'll have enough clout to stay around for long. We need more companies like Helix. Sofware needs to be a service-based industry, instead of a product-based one.
We get to see what the future of the Breathe Right(TM) strip is. From the previews, it appears that all the aliens are wearing them. For some reason, they now come on chains. I guess they're kinda like your Grandma's glasses. That way, they won't lose them in the grocery store. The reason they're all wearing them could be any of the below:
1) Earth's atmosphere is so bad, they need the extra micrometer of breathing passage to get sufficient oxygen. In that case, I imagine the humans won by removing the Breathe Right strips, and letting the aliens suffocate. 2) They spend their life sleeping (explains the bad hair), and they are chronic snorers. 3) "Ahh, filthy humans!! Breathe the aroma!" 4) The Halls(TM) factory was taken out in Earth's final battle.
Looks to me like it's mostly about getting a good quality MB for your system. I know a lot of people and small shops want to build a value system, and want to skimp on the motherboard with an AMD processor. Motherboard is one thing you never want to skimp on. I have the Epox 7KXA, and it works great. I have heard of people having problems with the lower quality motherboards, though. So, if you're going to build an Athlon system, do yourself a favor and go with a good board (personally, I'd recommend either the Epox 7KXA or the Asus K7M, but that's just me).
I heard one of the best quotes on MP3 this weekend from U2's Bono on VH1's "Behind the Music:1999". He said that in the '70's, the Recording industry was saying that home tape recording was killing the record industry. When, actually, crappy music was killing the industry.
He went on to say something to the effect of "And who cares if I lose money? I'm overpaid as it is."
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Would anyone be able to recommend a good AMD laptop? I don't want anything big, maybe like a 600-700Mhz. I want a good screen, tho. A S3 chipset would work fine, I just wanna run X on it. Also, battery life is very important. Anyone have any good recommendations?
So, what's the problem here? You get a nice system loader like 'System Commander' (or a GNU alternative), and you set your lilo.conf to only allow linux as the only choice, and defult the seconds to wait to 1 (I like to have time to hit TAB and type 'linux single' if I need to). And **POOF**, you're using LILO, but hardly ever see it.
I made an adjustment to mine while it was running to eliminate the noise. Here's how I did it:
1.) Take a size 11 Timberland hiking boot.
2.) Put it on your foot
3.) Slam it into the side of the case.
4.) Repeat #3 as necessary.
HTH.
Unfortunately that won't work for me because I'm using stupid PPPoE
I'm not sure I understand your comment. The LinkSys router speaks PPPoE, and it does the login. The Linux box just sits there in the DMZ, and serves webpages, FTP, etc.
The compromise I came up with (temporarily) is to use the LinkSys, and put a Linux box in the DMZ. That way, I have an FTP/Web/Samba/Telnet server that supports Dynamic DNS. I tried building a router/firewall, but couldn't find a good HOWTO for the new kernel, so I decided to wait a while.
Ok, allow me to stamp this out before it goes much furter. This quote is from this page: http://www.ed.brocku.ca/~nmarshal/nostradamus.htm
As I posted in a similar thread on the earlier story, this is not from Nostradamus, but rather an attempt by the author of the site (who does NOT claim to be psychic) to show how, given a vague "prediction", that something in the future will fit it. Seems to have backfired, tho.
But, I suppose that some people would rather believe it is from Nostadamus, and feel 'eerie' about it, rather than facing the truth, and seeing that it is just a coincidence.
Before you make a comment about how 'eerie' this is, read the page. You'll see that this is NOT a quote from Nostradomus, but rater an attempt by the author of the webpage to show how if you make enough vague statements, evetually, sometime in the future, it will be "fulfilled". Seems like this has backfired on him this time.
Here is the quoted text:
"At this point I would like to introduce to you what I call the "Infinite Monkey's Principle." Let's say that I have aquired an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewritters or word processors (It doesn't matter). Of course, as far as we know that is impossible to do (Unless you buy factory direct from me--send 500 trillion dollars to me (gold bullion only, liquid assets are not negotiable) But I digress... If these Infinite Amount of Monkeys are allowed to bang out whatever they want on the infinite typewriter, one of them will produce the complete works of Shakespear.
How? Simple if the Monkey's write random garbage but in an infinite amount, eventually because of the simple fact that it is inevitable (simple probability thought shows this).
How does this apply to Nostradamus? Well I will show you...
If I make say a thousand prophecies that are fairly abstract for example:
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb
Well let us analyse this. For Example what does City of God mean? It could be Mecca, Medina, Rome, Jeruselum, Salt Lake City, or any holy city depending on your religion. What do I mean by thunder--a storm? War? EarthQuake? lots of stuff can be described by thunder. There are a lot of two brothers on this world (I think the Number runs among the Billions) and fortress edure's what--Besiegement, Famine, etc? What Great Leader? How will he succumb? To what?
Now let the prophecy rest for a few years. Add a couple thousand more. Eventually, one of them will fit close enought with events that have happened in the future that the prophecy will appear to come true. If you make enough prophecies and are intelligent enough to word them in such a way that they are abstract you become instant future see-er person. For example those psychics you see every year that make predictions for the year 199-whatever generally get one or two out of ten predictions right. It is because they are good guessers and that there is enough of them to make it seem like people can really predict the future.
I am not discounting the possibility of a sixth sense nor of the supernatural but I would like to state that there is no scientifically proven Psychic person in the world. Ever psychic that says that she or he is a psychic and has been put to the test has failed quite miserably. It is true. There is no discounting that fact.
Further more, the Scholar's of Nostradomas seem to be taking further and further leaps in logic when they interpret his writings. For example this is a link to a page in which a person claims that Nostredomus prophesised the breakup of Canada. Click here to judge for yourself.
Further more I was watching a 1970's movie on Nostredamus and it predicted that the Third World War began in 1994 and was well on it's way by 1999. (I am holding my breath. Oh no!). The people who "analyse" the Quatrains simply scan through history until they find an event that seems to fit with the quatrain.
Perhaps Nostredamus was a futurist. I do not know. Perhaps he suffered some sort of mental illness (hardly unusual in 16th century Europe). Maybe he just had nothing better to do with his time. I do not think though that, faced with the evidence that science has shown, he was a true Psychic who could see the future. Call me a skeptic but I believe the "Phrase Innocent Until Proven otherwise" should be used to regulate any phenomena in Nature. (In this case it would be Scientifically Explainable unless shown otherwise. Or in the Case of Psychics you are not a Psychic unless you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have these "powers")
That is all."
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Hey, could we get an interview with Neal Stephenson?
The official Star Wars site has news on the upcoming Episode V, tentatively titled "The Empire Strikes Back". There's a still of the new movie, but these things are just so gosh darn hard to make out on these monochrome monitors.
Oh, also, Lucas announced that he WILL make episodes 7, 8, and 9. CNN has the story. Like a friend of mine found out, you should probably read ALL of this article before you start celebrating.
As with most American language, these terms are less defined:
High School- Teaches 9th through 12 grades, ages approximately 14-18.
University- usually a 4 (or more) year institution offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees (bachelors, masters, and doctorate).
College- usually the same as a University, but there can be Junior Colleges, which offer 2 year associate's degrees.
School- A general term meaning any of the above.
State School- a state-funded university or college, as opposed to a privately-funded one.
Hope this helps.
You'd be suprised by what Computing Services say about Linux. When I was in school a couple years ago, I had a CS prof that wanted to set up a Linux computer lab (I was the administrator). He asked for permission to get them connected to the network and thus, the Internet (I always thought this part should be controlled by the CS department, but at our school, it wasn't). He was told by the network admin that he couldn't, because, "We have a rather fragile firewall here, and we don't want anything going through it that may break it."
I still remember our teacher telling us that, and a fellow student in front of me slapping his forehead almost immediately. I don't think our network admins ever figured out what a firewall is for...
As much as I hate to use a management buzzword, it's good to see the W3C being proactive about this situation, and do something to remedy it. I have a feeling Mozilla will follow spec, and MS will not (as usual).
I thought it was interesting that neither the article or the Slashdot post mention that Pat Scroder is a former Democratic Congresswoman. Only the democrats could come up with something this lame. It seems that both /. and the Washington Post (both liberal news sources) were ashamed to admit this.
I cannot believe that this comment was rated "Flamebait". In a discussion about free speech, one does not have the right to state his/her opinions? Oh, I guess they do, as long as they agree with the posters/moderators. Some lively duscussion here.
Slashdot - Supporters of free speech as long as you agree with us.
This whole mod system is a joke. All it does squash the voices of the minorities. Kinda funny how liberals uphold the minorities only when it suits them.
So, if you have mod points left, do yourself and Slashdot a favor, and MOD THE PARET OF THIS POST UP!!!
I'm not trying to tell you how to run your life, just some simple advice. It does neither you nor your friends a favor staying on a sinking ship. If your friends are talented, they should be able to find work also. You may also wish to talk to your friends about finding other jobs also, before you hand in your two-wek notice.
As far as the jobs are concerned, besides being good money, are they in a field that you are interested in? Do you believe in the company direction?
... Is a pretty client. Get a nice screensaver-client that shows you what you're working on, and distributed.net will get more users.
(There may already be a client like this that I have missed.)
How many of you that voted:
A) Pulled a lever
B) Pressed a key or button
c) Filled in a little arrow
This document is submitted for the approval of the United States Patent Office (USPO), under Article XVII, Section 27 of the US Patent Law.
This is a proposed patent on any of several physical forces used to adhere any quanta of mass (US Patent # 04339432K) to another. This has been created and demonstrated in a laboratory condition, in that any object which is released from the applicant's hands is immediately attracted to the linoleium tile on the floor. The propsed name for this technology is the "Physical Adherent Force" (for the remainder of this document, it shall be referred to as the PAF). The Applicant can readily demontrate this technology, in that He himself can stick to the floor. Even if the applicant propels himself "up" (U.S. Patent #549312D), he will immediately be attracted towards the materials on the floor due to the PAF.
Anyone using PAF (on themselves or items that they have in their posession), will be ordered to cease and decist, until they obtain written consent from the patent holder.
My roommate and I were among the first to get DSL installed in our area (Tulsa, OK), and all worked well. This was in October '99. Everything worked fine, up until the time that we changed apartments. This was July 15, 2000. here it is Mid-September, and there is still no DSL. When we originally moved, there was a 4-week waiting period for the ADSL line to be disconnected in one location and reconnected in another. I work in the telecom industry, so I'm pretty sure that this is a 5 minute process of telneting into a device somewhere and issuing 3 or 4 commands. After 1 month, we still had no DSL (they were waiting for the Disconnect status to clear). I called back twice a week. Eventually, I was connected to a knowledgeable, helpful representative. She told me that she has learned that their system has a glitch on it that will not clear a disconect status on a number that previously had DSL and is moving it to a location but keeping the same number. She offered to change my number free of charge, so I did that. That added another two weeks. I called back in two weeks, and learned that my due date was not for another two weeks. I called back two weeks later, and was told that there is a wiring problem in the CO, and that my due date will now be three days later. Three days passed, I called back. I was told that they are trying to clear connections out of the DSLAM, but they are backed up. My turn-on date will be two weeks later. Now, the date is set to Oct 11.
I don't tell you this to slam DSL, just to say that if you want it, order now. If you would have asked 2.5 months ago, I wouldn't have had any complaints. It is a really good service once it is up and running. I think it would be better than Cable, because you're not affected by your neighbor's downloading. We were garunteed 384K/s, but usually got arond 720K-1Mb/s. It was great when it worked. That seems to be the problem with broadband right now. You have to go through either your Cable company or Phone company. You have no choice. Even if you do go through a 3rd party DSL provider, then you still have to wait for the local phone company to do the actual connection.<BR><BR>
Hope this helps.
I like Corel, and used to be a whiz at Corel Draw 3.0 (tells you how long ago that was). However, I don't think Corel "gets" the open source movement. To them, it is just creating a MS-Free platform for them to sell their products on. I really don't think they're going to be a contributer to the open source movement, even with their own distro.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're releasing canned apps for the platform, I just don't think they'll have enough clout to stay around for long. We need more companies like Helix. Sofware needs to be a service-based industry, instead of a product-based one.
Just my $2E-2.
We get to see what the future of the Breathe Right(TM) strip is. From the previews, it appears that all the aliens are wearing them. For some reason, they now come on chains. I guess they're kinda like your Grandma's glasses. That way, they won't lose them in the grocery store. The reason they're all wearing them could be any of the below:
1) Earth's atmosphere is so bad, they need the extra micrometer of breathing passage to get sufficient oxygen. In that case, I imagine the humans won by removing the Breathe Right strips, and letting the aliens suffocate.
2) They spend their life sleeping (explains the bad hair), and they are chronic snorers.
3) "Ahh, filthy humans!! Breathe the aroma!"
4) The Halls(TM) factory was taken out in Earth's final battle.
That's about all I have. Did I win?
Looks to me like it's mostly about getting a good quality MB for your system. I know a lot of people and small shops want to build a value system, and want to skimp on the motherboard with an AMD processor. Motherboard is one thing you never want to skimp on. I have the Epox 7KXA, and it works great. I have heard of people having problems with the lower quality motherboards, though. So, if you're going to build an Athlon system, do yourself a favor and go with a good board (personally, I'd recommend either the Epox 7KXA or the Asus K7M, but that's just me).
I heard one of the best quotes on MP3 this weekend from U2's Bono on VH1's "Behind the Music:1999". He said that in the '70's, the Recording industry was saying that home tape recording was killing the record industry. When, actually, crappy music was killing the industry.
He went on to say something to the effect of "And who cares if I lose money? I'm overpaid as it is."
Perl's good, shell's good, PHP's good, but it's hard to beat...
MS-DOS Batch Files!!! Yah, baby!
Also, look into writing your CGI in COBOL.