***NEWS FLASH***
An unidentified terrorist group has taken control of the system console of the NSA and CIA.
Secret keyloggers that don't really exist indicate that the terrorists have been holding down control, and pressing the C key repeatedly.
Sources inside the White House say this may cause problems with something called SIGINT (rumored to be code-named "signal 2"), but have declined to release further information.
Nothing wrong with stimulating vision and motion centers of the brain. As a matter of fact, that was the excuse that got me my Nintendo system. (still in the garage somewhere. When we got a new TV very recently, my parents wouldn't let my little brother hook it up. I, of course, use other stuff.)
Anyway, heres the story: When I took my kindergarten screening test, the only thing I was found deficient in was motor skills. (They had me cut along a spiral on a piece of paper, I remember, and a method for cutting curves with straight scissors had not yet occurred to me.) Anyway, my parents didn't want me behind in/anything/, so for Christmas I got a Nintendo system to stimulate those motion centers.
I tried to hack my laptop once. Didn't work out too well. It sorta ended up hacked anyway. I've got this ooolllddd 386 laptop, see? 2MB(?) RAM, 40MB HD, crappy screen. By somebody called leading edge (Greg says that's an old xerox alias). Opened it up wondering if I could find anywhere to add or swap ram, maybe mess with the drives. Didn't do much more than accidentally detach the keyboard bus. Boy, was THAT a pain to get back on. Anyway, now I've got an old laptop that I can tell my friends is literally kept functioning with duct tape and popsicle sticks.:-)
My current bash prompt looks like: ~$ or occasionally: /usr/local/src$ or something. My.profile says: PS1=\\w\\$ Boring, eh? Well, I first set it that way when I switched over from DOS. Was used to having directory information there, and that was all I wanted, you know? Anyway, prompt horror story:
When I was tinkering (this was seventh grade) with the DOS box in the school library, I set the autoexec.bat to set the prompt to 'Enter Password:' The teacher was absolutely furious. Made me change it back, didn't ever catch on.
I checked the other week, and I have slightly less than 2 MB of GNU General Public Licenses on my hard drive. I have RH 6.0, and a 1.? GB disk. I think I found them with find / -name COPYING | du or something. that and LICENSE.
The last example I can think of is flatland. I first heard about it on slashdot. Then, I checked it out of the library. Before I had returned it, it was made recommended reading by my physics teacher. I heard about Atlas Shrugged second on slashdot. First from a girl in my class. We've decided that each other is (are?) cool, and now she's reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainace on my recommedation.
"Ender's Game", and all the sequels, by Orson Scott Card.
"Dune", by Frank Herbert. Don't bother with the sequels, they only get worse.
"Foundation", like you said. The sequels on this one are actually pretty good.
"Citizen of the Galaxy", by Robert A. Heinlein. My friend's dad read this one 27 times as a kid.
"Tunnel in the Sky", by R. Heinlein. This one is one of the coolest things that guy ever wrote, IMHO.
The Lord of the Rings ("The Hobbit", "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", "The Return of the King") by J. R. R. Tolkien. Yes, I know it's not really science fiction. Sue me.
"Watership Down", by... um... Moving right along, this one's not really SF either. Read it anyway.
"Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes. Last I checked, it's a short story, but I heard it got made into a novel and a movie, too. I've never seen those, but the short story is great, even if it's really sad.
**An Author Review: (just 'cause I feel like it)
Asimov: This guy's great. Read everything he ever wrote.
Tolkien: Ditto. What can I say?
Niven: Comes up with fascinating and bizarre premises for his stories, but they all end up kind of boring. That's not the right word. You can easily read them all the way through, they're just never that exciting.
Arthur C. Clarke: This guy's pretty good, but the beginnings of his books tend to be incredibly boring. If he wrote it himself, it's safe. But if he coauthored it with Gentry Lee, it's not necessarily appropriate for children.
Robert Heinlein: There's some ok stuff in there. His earlier stuff is better than his later stuff. Also, he has a tendency to make the beginnings of his books way more exciting than the endings.
My two 386's were hit by Y2K, but the P300 (Win95) with the internet here is still fine.
One of the miscreants seems to think it's 1980. Which is fine with me.
The other one, unfortunately, does not. It has a thing that it did periodically before y2k, which is that the clock chip would lose power, and the date and BIOS settings would reset. (I have accidentally set the year for 2000 before, but I could change it back, so it was 1999.) It did so again upon booting up this morning. (It ran fine through midnight, and I played on it this morning, but now here's the problem.) When I was reminding it of the time and date, as soon as the date hit 2000, the keyboard ceased to respond. I could not tell it what type of hard drive it had, or specify the floppy disk type. Now, the boot sequence ("No boot device available." Some boot sequence.) forces me into the setup, and then will not accept input from the keyboard. Nor does it tick the seconds like it used to, although while the computer is off, the seconds and minutes advance as usual.
Thus, I am stuck with no boot.
Oh, and here's the scary part: I tried to cut clock power, and reset the clock to 1980 (like it does upon losing clock power.) Perhaps I don't know what I'm doing, but I took out the CMOS batteries, turned off the computer, and unplugged it. Then, I let it sit. When I reinserted the batteries and plugged it back in, it still knew that the year was 2000, and it was about 3:00am here. (Didn't manage to check exactly).
Um. Not a good Idea. Unless I'm wrong, (stop me if I am) 'Darth' Is the title given to a Dark Lord of the Sith. I don't think we want to call these people Lords of anything.
Slashdot Mirror
***NEWS FLASH***
An unidentified terrorist group has taken control of the system console of the NSA and CIA.
Secret keyloggers that don't really exist indicate that the terrorists have been holding down control, and pressing the C key repeatedly.
Sources inside the White House say this may cause problems with something called SIGINT (rumored to be code-named "signal 2"), but have declined to release further information.
Updates pending as I think of them.
It's "a cancer," Microsoft officials said.It's "a cancer," Microsoft officials said.
Heh. Shows how much they know.
Linux was released on (stop me if I'm wrong) August 25, 1991.
That makes it a Virgo.
:-)
Nothing wrong with stimulating vision and motion centers of the brain. As a matter of fact, that was the excuse that got me my Nintendo system. (still in the garage somewhere. When we got a new TV very recently, my parents wouldn't let my little brother hook it up. I, of course, use other stuff.)
/anything/, so for Christmas I got a Nintendo system to stimulate those motion centers.
Anyway, heres the story: When I took my kindergarten screening test, the only thing I was found deficient in was motor skills. (They had me cut along a spiral on a piece of paper, I remember, and a method for cutting curves with straight scissors had not yet occurred to me.) Anyway, my parents didn't want me behind in
Good Stuff!
I tried to hack my laptop once. Didn't work out too well. It sorta ended up hacked anyway. :-)
I've got this ooolllddd 386 laptop, see? 2MB(?) RAM, 40MB HD, crappy screen. By somebody called leading edge (Greg says that's an old xerox alias).
Opened it up wondering if I could find anywhere to add or swap ram, maybe mess with the drives. Didn't do much more than accidentally detach the keyboard bus.
Boy, was THAT a pain to get back on. Anyway, now I've got an old laptop that I can tell my friends is literally kept functioning with duct tape and popsicle sticks.
My current bash prompt looks like: .profile says:
~$
or occasionally:
/usr/local/src$
or something. My
PS1=\\w\\$
Boring, eh? Well, I first set it that way when I switched over from DOS. Was used to having directory information there, and that was all I wanted, you know? Anyway, prompt horror story:
When I was tinkering (this was seventh grade) with the DOS box in the school library, I set the autoexec.bat to set the prompt to 'Enter Password:'
The teacher was absolutely furious. Made me change it back, didn't ever catch on.
Interesting Idea.
Any way to make them do Fast Fourier Transforms instead?
You know what I'm thinking...
SETI@Home units from your spam!
:-)
I checked the other week, and I have slightly
less than 2 MB of GNU General Public Licenses
on my hard drive. I have RH 6.0, and a 1.? GB disk.
I think I found them with
find / -name COPYING | du
or something. that and LICENSE.
The last example I can think of is flatland.
I first heard about it on slashdot. Then, I checked it out of the library.
Before I had returned it, it was made recommended reading by my physics teacher.
I heard about Atlas Shrugged second on slashdot.
First from a girl in my class. We've decided that each other is (are?) cool, and now she's reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainace on my recommedation.
Knock out the top 4% of net nodes, and people will route through different ones, which will quickly fall into place.
Here we go:
"Ender's Game", and all the sequels, by Orson Scott Card.
"Dune", by Frank Herbert. Don't bother with the sequels, they only get worse.
"Foundation", like you said. The sequels on this one are actually pretty good.
"Citizen of the Galaxy", by Robert A. Heinlein. My friend's dad read this one 27 times as a kid.
"Tunnel in the Sky", by R. Heinlein. This one is one of the coolest things that guy ever wrote, IMHO.
The Lord of the Rings ("The Hobbit", "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", "The Return of the King") by J. R. R. Tolkien. Yes, I know it's not really science fiction. Sue me.
"Watership Down", by... um... Moving right along, this one's not really SF either. Read it anyway.
"Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes. Last I checked, it's a short story, but I heard it got made into a novel and a movie, too. I've never seen those, but the short story is great, even if it's really sad.
**An Author Review:
(just 'cause I feel like it)
Asimov: This guy's great. Read everything he ever wrote.
Tolkien: Ditto. What can I say?
Niven: Comes up with fascinating and bizarre premises for his stories, but they all end up kind of boring. That's not the right word. You can easily read them all the way through, they're just never that exciting.
Arthur C. Clarke: This guy's pretty good, but the beginnings of his books tend to be incredibly boring. If he wrote it himself, it's safe. But if he coauthored it with Gentry Lee, it's not necessarily appropriate for children.
Robert Heinlein: There's some ok stuff in there. His earlier stuff is better than his later stuff. Also, he has a tendency to make the beginnings of his books way more exciting than the endings.
That's all...
...for now!
(cue ominous music.)
My two 386's were hit by Y2K, but the P300 (Win95) with the internet here is still fine.
One of the miscreants seems to think it's 1980. Which is fine with me.
The other one, unfortunately, does not. It has a thing that it did periodically before y2k, which is that the clock chip would lose power, and the date and BIOS settings would reset. (I have accidentally set the year for 2000 before, but I could change it back, so it was 1999.) It did so again upon booting up this morning. (It ran fine through midnight, and I played on it this morning, but now here's the problem.) When I was reminding it of the time and date, as soon as the date hit 2000, the keyboard ceased to respond. I could not tell it what type of hard drive it had, or specify the floppy disk type. Now, the boot sequence ("No boot device available." Some boot sequence.) forces me into the setup, and then will not accept input from the keyboard. Nor does it tick the seconds like it used to, although while the computer is off, the seconds and minutes advance as usual.
Thus, I am stuck with no boot.
Oh, and here's the scary part: I tried to cut clock power, and reset the clock to 1980 (like it does upon losing clock power.) Perhaps I don't know what I'm doing, but I took out the CMOS batteries, turned off the computer, and unplugged it. Then, I let it sit. When I reinserted the batteries and plugged it back in, it still knew that the year was 2000, and it was about 3:00am here. (Didn't manage to check exactly).
Can anyone help out?
quoth the article. As my own little french-bash:
When did the French stop being revolting?
NO FRENCHMEN WERE HARMED IN THE CREATION OF THIS MESSAGE.
Probably either Digirat (not very complimentary) or Digiratus.
Um. Not a good Idea. Unless I'm wrong, (stop me if I am) 'Darth' Is the title given to a Dark Lord of the Sith. I don't think we want to call these people Lords of anything.