I picked up an Asus EEEBox 202, burned the Fedora-10 dvd to a USB key, and made a home server for DNS, DHCP, wireless, etc. Needed to get updated drivers for the wireless but that was trivial...
That's It! It's time for Open Source p0rn. We'll never take over the Desktop of the typical computer user without it.
Who's up to starting a project for GPL'd thumbnail gallery of Fake Transvestite BSD'ers, or maybe a BSD Licensed repository of retouched Commie FSF folks on Centerfold bodies?
Maybe A Kp0rn vs GTKsmut package battle is just what we need to heat up the old interface wars.
Maybe a category of our own on FreshMeat...
If this guy can make money off of it anyone can. This is just what we need to prove to the American Business community that Free Open Source smut can mix with the Commercial version without conflict.
I realize that I am breaking some rule or other by posting actual information, but here are two good book for the non-PhD Cosmologist to get an introduction to the current topic.
The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg, Basic Books, 1977
ISBN : 0-465-02435-1
This is one of the first books to explore the physics behind the 2.73 degree Background Radiation in a way that mere mortals could understand. The Physics at the time couldn't explain before a few milliseconds into the big bang, but Weinberg did a good job of explaining what we knew and how we knew it from the first few milliseconds up to the first three (and a half...) minutes. Steven Weinberg went on to win a Nobel Prize and also explain how Electromagnitism and the Weak force are actually the same early on in the game.
At the other end of the spectrum is a brand new book that takes the unique approach of focusing on the concepts of Zero and Nothing and showing just how much follows. It ends up giving a good up-to-date view of the same physics as The First Three Minutes, but from a current viewpoint. I think that just a wee bit more Math describing the inflationary phases of the early universe and the idea of quantum pair production would have been appropriate, but for the most part the book is a good non-astrophysicist intro to the background radiation and the start of the universe as we know it twenty-some years after Weinberg's book.
The Book Of Nothing, John D. Barrow, Pantheon, 2000
ISBN : 0-375-42099-I
Note, this would be a good book for a/. book reviews.
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I picked up an Asus EEEBox 202, burned the Fedora-10 dvd to a USB key, and made a home server for DNS, DHCP, wireless, etc. Needed to get updated drivers for the wireless but that was trivial...
Love the box. Low power. Runs everything.
Asimov: "Not as we know it". Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept 1961.
Reprinted in View from a Height, Doubleday, 1963.
Asimov did his usual concise job of working through alternative chemistries. Better than this article in my opinion.
That's It! It's time for Open Source p0rn. We'll never take over the Desktop of the typical computer user without it.
Who's up to starting a project for GPL'd thumbnail gallery of Fake Transvestite BSD'ers, or maybe a BSD Licensed repository of retouched Commie FSF folks on Centerfold bodies?
Maybe A Kp0rn vs GTKsmut package battle is just what we need to heat up the old interface wars.
Maybe a category of our own on FreshMeat...
If this guy can make money off of it anyone can. This is just what we need to prove to the American Business community that Free Open Source smut can mix with the Commercial version without conflict.
It's a call to arms! Who's with me?
I realize that I am breaking some rule or other by posting actual information, but here are two good book for the non-PhD Cosmologist to get an introduction to the current topic.
The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg, Basic Books, 1977
ISBN : 0-465-02435-1
This is one of the first books to explore the physics behind the 2.73 degree Background Radiation in a way that mere mortals could understand. The Physics at the time couldn't explain before a few milliseconds into the big bang, but Weinberg did a good job of explaining what we knew and how we knew it from the first few milliseconds up to the first three (and a half...) minutes. Steven Weinberg went on to win a Nobel Prize and also explain how Electromagnitism and the Weak force are actually the same early on in the game.
At the other end of the spectrum is a brand new book that takes the unique approach of focusing on the concepts of Zero and Nothing and showing just how much follows. It ends up giving a good up-to-date view of the same physics as The First Three Minutes, but from a current viewpoint. I think that just a wee bit more Math describing the inflationary phases of the early universe and the idea of quantum pair production would have been appropriate, but for the most part the book is a good non-astrophysicist intro to the background radiation and the start of the universe as we know it twenty-some years after Weinberg's book.
The Book Of Nothing, John D. Barrow, Pantheon, 2000
ISBN : 0-375-42099-I
Note, this would be a good book for a /. book reviews.