The clock speed not nudging past 2 GHz wouldn't stop me from drooling over these new machines. I hope they're real! They sound like little supercomputers.:)
2) They would spend a bit more time designing makeup. Bumpy foreheads don't cut it anymore and make the show look quite cheap
Hey, they've done a great job with the Andorians. I'd actually like to see quite a bit more of the Andorians as Enterprise progresses. They are the great unexplored race in the Star Trek universe.
My two cents: I think Enterprise rocks. I am completely happy with it, and there won't be an episode that I'll miss. It is *SO MUCH BETTER* than Voyager! Frankly, I like it about as much as I like TOS, which ranks *very* slightly higher than even TNG in my book.
So far, the only episode of Enterprise that I consider atrociously bad was the recent one that ripped off the courtroom scene from Undiscovered Country. The most recent episode, Cogenitor, was riveting!
Trying to be Stephenson...
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When I read William Gibson's "Virtual Light", I was very disappointed. Gibson was trying to write Stephenson's "Snow Crash", but was unable to do it justice.
I consider David Brin to be one of my favourite authors, so I was excited to pick up a copy of "Kiln People". Unfortunately, I was drawn to the conclusion the David Brin was also trying to write "Snow Crash", albeit in his own way.
Neither Gibson nor Brin quite did "Snow Crash" justice. However, in Brin's case, he wrote a book worth reading. It's a far shot away from being his best work, but if you're a Brin fan, reading it can't hurt.
That said, I wish Brin would explain the evidently self-uplifted origin of humanity and tell us more about the Progenitors!
The movie was quite good. After reading so many bad reviews, I was quite worried that it would suck. I enjoyed every minute of it.
I'm not sure what people have built up in their heads about Star Trek, and maybe this didn't break huge new ground in some directions, but it was good! The acting was good. They didn't give Gates too many lines, which was good. We examined the Romulans in more detail, which was great!
There were a couple flaws, but this movie was by far better than people are saying. It ranks above The Search for Spock, The Final Frontier, Generations, and Insurrection, in my book. I'd rank it with The Undiscovered Country. It's not as good as The Voyage Home or First Contact, but it's not so very far behind.
I have NO clue why the critics have come down on the movie like they have. It was excellent.
What makes it so hard for RedHat or any other company that produces Linux distros to come up with a super secure system like OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
How about: Red Hat and other places doing GNU/Linux distros rely more on other people's software, whereas the BSDs most often roll their own, making it easier for them to track just what's going on. The difference is "packaging" versus "development".
Very cool. I almost stopped using AltaVista because of the silly banner ads and shopping add-ons and stuff, but this looks like it's just right. Very cool. Google-like interface, but with AltaVista's syntax.
Manuka wrote: If you want to effect change, get out and take your voice to the polling booth. We'll have that opportunity once again here in the US this coming November in many cases, and next November for everyone.
Voting is great, but the problem is apathy. Folks are willing to let other folks decide the course of their lives for them. Getting people into voting booths is a pretty random solution. Educating people - paying attention to schools and dumping way more money into them than we do now - is the correct and only solution. Laws are guidelines, and can change. An educated, informed, and concerned populace will require laws to be changed as needed. Randomly getting folks to support or disparage the faddish law of the moment won't bring about any sort of lasting change.
Maybe I'll tinker with FreeBSD 68k, and maybe try it on one of the x86 boxes here at work.
FreeBSD doesn't do m68k... You want
NetBSD or OpenBSD for that. I'd recommend NetBSD, personally... The NetBSD/mac68k community is extremely active and extremely friendly, and NetBSD/mac68k is remarkably well-documented.
NetBSD/mac68k was the first Un*x I ran at home, since at the time Linux/mac68k just wasn't there yet and mac68k hardware was all I had. I've been happy ever since.
I use both NetBSD and GNU/Linux regularly, and I like them both, but I choose NetBSD for my personal systems because it simply feels more streamlined to me. I like the package system a lot. I like being able to easily rebuild userland. I like the way you configure NetBSD. I like the fact that it's the same on every platform. It just has a lot of good things that make it unlikely that I'll supplant it with GNU/Linux any time soon. Give it a try.
maynard wrote: this iMac probably outperformed that VAX 20:1
Heh. Cool.
Speaking of older hardware... I just got a Sun SPARCstation 10 the other day, and I'm having a blast with it. It's only running NetBSD 1.3.3 now, but I'll probably upgrade it over the weekend. Anyway, one of the things I love about NetBSD is how I can be on a completely different platform and have exactly the same operating environment that I know and love. I mean, I'm reading SlashDot with Netscape Navigator. Cool.
My first Unix that I ran at home was NetBSD 1.2-current on a Mac SE/30... When I got some Intel hardware, the transition was utterly painless. X was tougher to set up, but it wasn't impossible. (X on the Sun was a matter of telling it startx. That's it. Heh.)
Nothing against Linux, but I'm just really happy that NetBSD exists.
Bah... What's up with their not including
NetBSD? I know NetBSD has never focussed on marketing, but it seems a rather obvious hole in the article to just flat-out ignore it. In my estimation, right now the NetBSD project is healthier than it's been for a while.
Oh well. The author made himself look foolish to "those who know" more than anything else, I suppose.
watanabe wrote: MediaOne's cable modem service is excellent, IMHO. I run a 14 computer LAN off one of their basic rate cable modems. Not only is there plenty of speed, but they don't even mind. They actually support (sort of) Linux firewalls, and LANs behind them. My dream is that other cable modem ISPs take lessons in service and flexibility from MediaOne.
Yeah, and watch THAT continue if Micro$loth steps in. It's quite nearly enough to make me gag. I can't imagine AOL being loads better.
Stu Charlton wrote: I think there are some scalability limitations with linux right now.
Out of curiosity... What do you see as being current scalability limitations? I'm quite curious.
fuck softpro, what about the taco bell?! :)
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
man, the only reason i ever go to that horrible mall road thing is the taco bell. the tower there sucks (all towers suck, come to think of it:) and i hate those strip mall things.
Bah. Taco Bell. Feh. Bad. The Chihuahua is cool, though. And there's always Newbury Comics.
and WTF is up with the paving on middlesex turnpike?!?! horrible, horrible, horrible.
You must never drive Route 93 south of Boston. Burlington is dreamlike by comparison.
Anyway, I like SoftPro. They give me book marks, and they have all of the O'Reilly books, I think.
ObReviewThing: I'm finding the "content" in the book to be far better (gramatically and factually) than the introductory material. I particularly liked Kirk's bit, although I'm looking forward reading the the RMS and Wall pieces.
I don't know if the iMac itself should feature mouse ears, but certainly it ought to be considered for Mickey's Mouse. Think of all the marketing tie-ins with Disney owning Apple... You can finally have that Lion King iMac, straight from the source.
We look like dorks, but when they took that picture it was like 5 degrees out and had something like a 25 degree wind chill.
So, did they use warm water or a sharp scraping tool to remove you from the large metal thing to which you froze during the shoot? It's not a bad picture, anyway.
From what you say about NetBSD, this is not quite as slick, since you do have to track down the SRPM files first. But for the most part you can get them from RedHat's ftp servers, so it is not that big of a deal unless they haven't packaged the version you need yet (like the libc5 needed for Kernel 2.2.1).
Okay, so, if I have a source RPM, it's essentially platform-independant, as long as I have the right libc (and/or other requisites), which is also available on all the alternative platforms?
If this is the case, then I guess it's not all that bad. I'd still miss the automatic FTPing, and the automated package system updates I get by supping the package source daily.
Don't worry about it. It's obviously not for you! That's why we have free will and free choice.
For me, NetBSD rocks. I love being able to build my entire userland by typing "cd/usr/src && make build". I love have a cool package system that automatically FTPs and builds requisite packages for me, from source. (I particularly love how every single binary on my box, with the exceptions of Quake II and Netscape, were built right here on my box!)
I like how unified NetBSD is. I started off using NetBSD because it was the only Unix that would run on my old mac68k hardware. I stuck with it when I got new hardware because I just like the feeling of wholeness and quality that NetBSD exudes. (I prefer it to FreeBSD, which is very nearly as good IMHO, and I definitely prefer it to Red Hat, which I tried once and rapidly removed.)
One thing that I'm curious about, that may be a mis-understanding on my part, is the package systems on non-i386 GNU/Linux platforms. How integrated are alternative architectures? On NetBSD, I can cd into/usr/pkgsrc and make pretty much any package on any platform, without having to ftp anything manually. Are things this slick on, say, Linux/Alpha or Linux/StrongARM, or does someone have to port each package and make it available for FTP somewhere, and hope that people can find it? That's my current impression.
The last point is that NetBSD (and FreeBSD, and I assume OpenBSD) does Linux emulation. With this, I can keep my comfortable, nice environment, and still use stuff like Quake that has only been released for GNU/Linux. (Or Solaris, in that case, but that doesn't apply.) That why, for instance, I wrote to Blizzard and said I wanted Diablo II to run under Linux. I told them that I was running NetBSD, but that NetBSD could run Linux binaries, and that a Linux-native Diablo II would be something I'd buy.
So, the upshot: It's cool that we're running on UltraSPARCS now. It's not half-bad hardware, in my experience, although IMHO you're trading quality for performance as compared to fast Intel hardware, which tends to be faster but which isn't half as meaty in terms of... quality.
PS: If you've never run NetBSD, give it a try. It's free, and it's neat.
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The clock speed not nudging past 2 GHz wouldn't stop me from drooling over these new machines. I hope they're real! They sound like little supercomputers. :)
I used to dislike Java, but now I'm a convert. Virtual machines are so obviously cool... I need to download this and give it a spin.
Hey, they've done a great job with the Andorians. I'd actually like to see quite a bit more of the Andorians as Enterprise progresses. They are the great unexplored race in the Star Trek universe.
My two cents: I think Enterprise rocks. I am completely happy with it, and there won't be an episode that I'll miss. It is *SO MUCH BETTER* than Voyager! Frankly, I like it about as much as I like TOS, which ranks *very* slightly higher than even TNG in my book.
So far, the only episode of Enterprise that I consider atrociously bad was the recent one that ripped off the courtroom scene from Undiscovered Country. The most recent episode, Cogenitor, was riveting!
When I read William Gibson's "Virtual Light", I was very disappointed. Gibson was trying to write Stephenson's "Snow Crash", but was unable to do it justice.
I consider David Brin to be one of my favourite authors, so I was excited to pick up a copy of "Kiln People". Unfortunately, I was drawn to the conclusion the David Brin was also trying to write "Snow Crash", albeit in his own way.
Neither Gibson nor Brin quite did "Snow Crash" justice. However, in Brin's case, he wrote a book worth reading. It's a far shot away from being his best work, but if you're a Brin fan, reading it can't hurt.
That said, I wish Brin would explain the evidently self-uplifted origin of humanity and tell us more about the Progenitors!
The movie was quite good. After reading so many bad reviews, I was quite worried that it would suck. I enjoyed every minute of it.
I'm not sure what people have built up in their heads about Star Trek, and maybe this didn't break huge new ground in some directions, but it was good! The acting was good. They didn't give Gates too many lines, which was good. We examined the Romulans in more detail, which was great!
There were a couple flaws, but this movie was by far better than people are saying. It ranks above The Search for Spock, The Final Frontier, Generations, and Insurrection, in my book. I'd rank it with The Undiscovered Country. It's not as good as The Voyage Home or First Contact, but it's not so very far behind.
I have NO clue why the critics have come down on the movie like they have. It was excellent.
Genie1 wrote:
What makes it so hard for RedHat or any other company that produces Linux distros to come up with a super secure system like OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
IntelliTubbie wrote:
Now I can block Jon Katz articles even faster!
Ahh, but with the RMS version, every time you type "GNU/Linux", a daemon corrects it to "GNU/Linux". A similar patch modifies incoming email.
Manuka wrote:
If you want to effect change, get out and take your voice to the polling booth. We'll have that opportunity once again here in the US this coming November in many cases, and next November for everyone.
Maybe I'll tinker with FreeBSD 68k, and maybe try it on one of the x86 boxes here at work.
It's actually kinda fun to give my box a little action. And what action... I haven't seen this many hits on my own website... um... ever!
The picture on the web page was pretty evil. You don't have to look like an iMac to do a pretty design.
I think the Creative box should look like a NeXT cube or something - neon or black. Beige with lots of flat surfaces has been done already.
Oh well.
this iMac probably outperformed that VAX 20:1
MediaOne's cable modem service is excellent, IMHO. I run a 14 computer LAN off one of their basic rate cable modems. Not only is there plenty of speed, but they don't even mind. They actually support (sort of) Linux firewalls, and LANs behind them. My dream is that other cable modem ISPs take lessons in service and flexibility from MediaOne.
I think there are some scalability limitations with linux right now.
man, the only reason i ever go to that horrible mall road thing is the taco bell. the tower there sucks (all towers suck, come to think of it :) and i hate those strip mall things.
and WTF is up with the paving on middlesex turnpike?!?! horrible, horrible, horrible.
I don't know if the iMac itself should feature mouse ears, but certainly it ought to be considered for Mickey's Mouse. Think of all the marketing tie-ins with Disney owning Apple... You can finally have that Lion King iMac, straight from the source.
2.7.2 I belive. 2.8 doesn't work for sure, and egcs doesn't normally work. In anycase something in the 2.7.x range.
We look like dorks, but when they took that picture it was like 5 degrees out and had something like a 25 degree wind chill.
Okay, so, if I have a source RPM, it's essentially platform-independant, as long as I have the right libc (and/or other requisites), which is also available on all the alternative platforms?
If this is the case, then I guess it's not all that bad. I'd still miss the automatic FTPing, and the automated package system updates I get by supping the package source daily.
Hm. Thanks for the answer.
Don't worry about it. It's obviously not for you! That's why we have free will and free choice.
For me, NetBSD rocks. I love being able to build my entire userland by typing "cd /usr/src && make build". I love have a cool package system that automatically FTPs and builds requisite packages for me, from source. (I particularly love how every single binary on my box, with the exceptions of Quake II and Netscape, were built right here on my box!)
I like how unified NetBSD is. I started off using NetBSD because it was the only Unix that would run on my old mac68k hardware. I stuck with it when I got new hardware because I just like the feeling of wholeness and quality that NetBSD exudes. (I prefer it to FreeBSD, which is very nearly as good IMHO, and I definitely prefer it to Red Hat, which I tried once and rapidly removed.)
One thing that I'm curious about, that may be a mis-understanding on my part, is the package systems on non-i386 GNU/Linux platforms. How integrated are alternative architectures? On NetBSD, I can cd into /usr/pkgsrc and make pretty much any package on any platform, without having to ftp anything manually. Are things this slick on, say, Linux/Alpha or Linux/StrongARM, or does someone have to port each package and make it available for FTP somewhere, and hope that people can find it? That's my current impression.
The last point is that NetBSD (and FreeBSD, and I assume OpenBSD) does Linux emulation. With this, I can keep my comfortable, nice environment, and still use stuff like Quake that has only been released for GNU/Linux. (Or Solaris, in that case, but that doesn't apply.) That why, for instance, I wrote to Blizzard and said I wanted Diablo II to run under Linux. I told them that I was running NetBSD, but that NetBSD could run Linux binaries, and that a Linux-native Diablo II would be something I'd buy.
So, the upshot: It's cool that we're running on UltraSPARCS now. It's not half-bad hardware, in my experience, although IMHO you're trading quality for performance as compared to fast Intel hardware, which tends to be faster but which isn't half as meaty in terms of... quality.
PS: If you've never run NetBSD, give it a try. It's free, and it's neat.