I've been doing martial arts for ages and get kicked in the head quite a lot (not 100 times a week, but still a lot). Soft contacts don't fall off when you're kicked in the head, unless you're in a room with extreme air flow and the contacts dry off on their own. I dunno about hard contacts, but soft contacts are fine for sparring and the like.
There is no single "DC Network", like there isn't a single "Bittorrent Network". One of the biggest DC hubs, though, i2hub (slashdot story), had about 64 terrabytes at its peak, at the end of the last school year. That's 64,000 gigs, and while that's a lot and the hub is generally very fast and responsive, its still much much smaller than Kazaa.
Communism collapsed of its own accord, helped by the struggles of people behind the iron curtain, which the US never helped despite their desperate pleads (We also screwed over the Czechs and Hungarians by not lifting a finger when they rebelled in the 50's and '60s) Read up on East Germany's "Swords to Ploughshares" movement, for example. Without those protests, the Berlin Wall wouldn't have fell.
Uh, no. The struggles of the starving, unarmed, mostly apathetic people behind the iron curtain wasn't what brought around the end of Communism. Unarmed, starving people can't really do much in the face of a government that has money.
If it wasn't for Reagan's oil policies that completely collapsed the Russian economy, the Soviet government would have easily survived whatever local insurrections people might have started, just like they did in the 50's and 60's. The only difference between the 50's and the late 80s/early 90s was that due to national profits on oil hitting rock bottom (which was thanks to Raegan), Russia could no longer finance an effective army or police force, and the peoples' (or rather, the small portion of the Russian population that even cared) efforts finally had some hope.
Yes, I don't think too much of Russia's general population, but that's ok cause I'm from there.
I love DOS and all, but there's no reason to bash other OSes. Movix does what you describe (plus video), and does it with a much better looking interface.
This new method will decrease processing time for people who fly frequently, and will allow the airlines to save money by either processing more people or by firing more clerks.
Dunno about 10 Final. Haven't installed it yet. On this computer with MDK10 Community, though, Jumpdrives mount fine (2.6 kernel). Haven't tested CDs yet as I've had no need.
Mandrake 10 is a darn good distro. I use it on my workstation at work. IIRC, I ran Opera 5.something on the laptop. This was a long time ago.
As for ZipSlack, I really couldn't say. If it is just small and doesn't use any binary compression, it'll run just as fast as a stripped down version of Debian, probably even better due to stripping out more stuff (on my debian install, I still had atd and stuff cause of dependencies). If it uses compression, programs will just take a little longer to start up.
Opera was barely usable (speed-wise) compared to Dillo and the like. It took to long to come up and was rather slow overall, and the ads took up way too much screen realestate on an 800x600 display. It wasn't super slow or anything, just slow enough to be rather annoying.
As for Debian, I don't know your exact configuration, but I've had Debian installed on various crazy partition schemes with multiple hard drives and it's been fine. Dunno what its problem was with your laptop.
I ran Debian on an equivilent laptop to that. It didn't run amazingly fast, and I used Links (in the console) and Dillo (when in X) for web browsing. Mozilla was absolutely hopeless, although Opera was almost usable.
For IM, there was naim, and when I felt fancy, Gaim ran pretty well too, but then I couldn't really do too many things due to X taking up resources.
Among the teenager crowd, and I'd imagine even more so outside of the US, old laptops are pretty common (think Pentium 100 w/ 16 megs of ram). X does not run extremely quickly on them (although its not too bad), so console apps are convenient.
Combined with screen, Naim is really nice for idling on AIM (to avoid missing IMs from people who are only awake when you sleep and such), and for switching computers without having to disconnect. The same convenience can be achieved using screen with an IRC client for IRC (I use Irssi).
Its much more convenient than GUI stuff when you switch computers a lot during the day. I can leave naim and irssi running in screen while I drive home from work and people can still IM me if they need to for those 30 minutes.
Offtopic relating to the story itself, but about your comment: isn't the 9in1 card a standard USB Mass Storage device? A quick google reveals that people have it working in Linux.
Transgaming doesn't use the current tree, though. They started out way before Wine was changed to LGPL and when the change happened, forked Wine to Rewind to avoid the LGPL. Since then they've been using the Rewind sources.
I'm against what Transgaming is doing, but they are on sound legal footing open-source-wise, I think.
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And what'll be the weight of the whole cluster in elephants?
You only replied to show off your UID, didn't you? :-)
I'm quite amused at the number of sub-6-digit Slashdotters being reeled in on this hook...
Its old age rearing its ugly head. We're gonna have to start putting sub-6-digit slashdotters in geek nursing homes soon. Poor bastards.
Wait... The military uses SCO technology?
I've been doing martial arts for ages and get kicked in the head quite a lot (not 100 times a week, but still a lot). Soft contacts don't fall off when you're kicked in the head, unless you're in a room with extreme air flow and the contacts dry off on their own. I dunno about hard contacts, but soft contacts are fine for sparring and the like.
Hmm.. I'd still say that DC is much smaller than Kazaa in that case, but maybe not.
There is no single "DC Network", like there isn't a single "Bittorrent Network". One of the biggest DC hubs, though, i2hub (slashdot story), had about 64 terrabytes at its peak, at the end of the last school year. That's 64,000 gigs, and while that's a lot and the hub is generally very fast and responsive, its still much much smaller than Kazaa.
Did one. For everyone who hasn't googled, its here. Second to last question on that page.
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Communism collapsed of its own accord, helped by the struggles of people behind the iron curtain, which the US never helped despite their desperate pleads (We also screwed over the Czechs and Hungarians by not lifting a finger when they rebelled in the 50's and '60s) Read up on East Germany's "Swords to Ploughshares" movement, for example. Without those protests, the Berlin Wall wouldn't have fell.
Uh, no. The struggles of the starving, unarmed, mostly apathetic people behind the iron curtain wasn't what brought around the end of Communism. Unarmed, starving people can't really do much in the face of a government that has money.
If it wasn't for Reagan's oil policies that completely collapsed the Russian economy, the Soviet government would have easily survived whatever local insurrections people might have started, just like they did in the 50's and 60's. The only difference between the 50's and the late 80s/early 90s was that due to national profits on oil hitting rock bottom (which was thanks to Raegan), Russia could no longer finance an effective army or police force, and the peoples' (or rather, the small portion of the Russian population that even cared) efforts finally had some hope.
Yes, I don't think too much of Russia's general population, but that's ok cause I'm from there.
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I love DOS and all, but there's no reason to bash other OSes. Movix does what you describe (plus video), and does it with a much better looking interface.
This new method will decrease processing time for people who fly frequently, and will allow the airlines to save money by either processing more people or by firing more clerks.
Article? This is Slashdot; we don't need no skinkin' article!
If they carried their information with them on a smartcard, couldn't someone edit the smartcard and fake their info?
Dunno about 10 Final. Haven't installed it yet. On this computer with MDK10 Community, though, Jumpdrives mount fine (2.6 kernel). Haven't tested CDs yet as I've had no need.
Mandrake 10 is a darn good distro. I use it on my workstation at work. IIRC, I ran Opera 5.something on the laptop. This was a long time ago.
As for ZipSlack, I really couldn't say. If it is just small and doesn't use any binary compression, it'll run just as fast as a stripped down version of Debian, probably even better due to stripping out more stuff (on my debian install, I still had atd and stuff cause of dependencies). If it uses compression, programs will just take a little longer to start up.
Opera was barely usable (speed-wise) compared to Dillo and the like. It took to long to come up and was rather slow overall, and the ads took up way too much screen realestate on an 800x600 display. It wasn't super slow or anything, just slow enough to be rather annoying.
As for Debian, I don't know your exact configuration, but I've had Debian installed on various crazy partition schemes with multiple hard drives and it's been fine. Dunno what its problem was with your laptop.
I ran Debian on an equivilent laptop to that. It didn't run amazingly fast, and I used Links (in the console) and Dillo (when in X) for web browsing. Mozilla was absolutely hopeless, although Opera was almost usable.
For IM, there was naim, and when I felt fancy, Gaim ran pretty well too, but then I couldn't really do too many things due to X taking up resources.
Among the teenager crowd, and I'd imagine even more so outside of the US, old laptops are pretty common (think Pentium 100 w/ 16 megs of ram). X does not run extremely quickly on them (although its not too bad), so console apps are convenient.
Combined with screen, Naim is really nice for idling on AIM (to avoid missing IMs from people who are only awake when you sleep and such), and for switching computers without having to disconnect. The same convenience can be achieved using screen with an IRC client for IRC (I use Irssi).
Its much more convenient than GUI stuff when you switch computers a lot during the day. I can leave naim and irssi running in screen while I drive home from work and people can still IM me if they need to for those 30 minutes.
The guidelines are for ISPs to follow, not grandparents.
Offtopic relating to the story itself, but about your comment: isn't the 9in1 card a standard USB Mass Storage device? A quick google reveals that people have it working in Linux.
Transgaming doesn't use the current tree, though. They started out way before Wine was changed to LGPL and when the change happened, forked Wine to Rewind to avoid the LGPL. Since then they've been using the Rewind sources.
I'm against what Transgaming is doing, but they are on sound legal footing open-source-wise, I think.
Well, obviously, you must have posted it humously!
*bada-bing!*