I like the implications of this: trinitron monitors should come down in price as other monitor manufacturers can now make them if they so chose (and I hope they do: even though this trinitron monitor I'm using right now is being driven by a lowsy card (i810), it's a nice monitor: 16 or 17" flatscreen. I wouldn't mind one at home:)
4h? What kernel version? Which gcc? I'm certain building 2.2.14 (with 2.95.2 iirc) took a stupidly long time on my system (at least 10h, though it seemd to still be building after 20h). That was the last time I built a kernel on anything other than my desktop box: I set up multiple kernel trees for each destination box and I now have <3m builds for all my machines:)
ahem, a 486-33? That's a fast box. I'm using a 386-33/16M. However, As performance is an issue, X isn't even installed, let alone configured for anti-aliased fonts. (it's a firewall, what does it need X for anyway?:)
compared to todays stuff, those things almost are discrete components. A 4004(wild guess) would have transistors the size of your fist. Not very vulnerable to sunspots*:) (or, more accuratly, cosmic rays).
* an ex-boss used to jokingly blame all software troubles (esp heisenbugs) on sunspots.
actually, I got the impression RMS wasn't so much `pleased' as `grudgingly accepting the compromise'. I seem to remeber reading (don't remember where, but I think it was on the net, though maybe Linux Journal) that RMS did not like the way ghostscript was being released, but had to accept the compromise for practical reasons.
Oh, probably:) My spelling sucks and I'm not ashamed to admit it:) (mind you, it doesn't help when I can never remember how to say it either: I rarely hear it and I'm slightly dyslexic so I sometimes mess up my reading of new words which messes up my perception of the english language). Thanks for the correction; I though I probably had it wrong, but putting (sp?) in there would have killed the joke even worse than the miss-spelling:).
No bloody wonder I could never find a public toilet while living in Australia! 13000 toilets for 17M people spread over that much area? I bet 12994 of those toilets are in Sydney while each of the other capitol cities have 1 each. And I lived in Hervey Bay, Toowoomba and The Gold Coast, non of which are a capitol.
Oh, wait, make that 12993 in Sydney. I do remember finding a public toilet out in Long Reach.
While I very much agree with your sentiment, I dicided a 21 ping salute was more appropriate (though I should have used a delay of 3 seconds, that way I could get the minute:/
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So, what you're implying is that the best way to really hinder spammers is to severly tighten up security on all computers? (makes sense to me) I get very little spam myself (maybe 5 a week), but a world without spam would be very nice.
pretty much as it's spelt, I imagine. Zvezda is already transcribed from cyrillic to how it would be pronounced using the roman alphabet. Just sound it out (yes, it's a little awkward, but then you didn't grow up putting v's right after your z's:) I guess zz-vezda would be close enough (somebody that actually speaks russian please correct me if I'm wrong)
Considering Sydny is possibly bigger than Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin combined and Melbourne isn't too far behind (I don't know the exact pops, but I would guess at ~6-7M for Sydney and Melbourne, ~2M for Brisbane and less than 1M each for the rest), I would say that Perth would have the higher tech density. Even if Perth is 1.5M, it would then have similar tech density to Sydney.
Disclaimer: sure, I lived in Australia for 7 years (in Queensland:/, bloody banana benders (my mom's a cockroach (dad and I are Canadian));), but that was 6 years ago (in NZ during that time) and now I'm in Canada, so my grasp of.au stats is way rusty.
Hell, it's a freaking 13/14h flight from Sydney to LA or ~12 from Aukland to LA (which is odd as it's ~3h from Sydney to Aukland and they're on a similar latitude).
no, not would not work better. <em>not</em> would, though. You don't necesarily want italics (they don't work well in speach synthesis), but you do want emphasis.
Which 4th dimention? The 4th dimention isn't necessarily time, we just tend to say time is the 4th dimention (for all we know, it could be the 100th). The map uses a 4th dimention which very well could be stationary relative to the other 3 (and we don't know that those other three are the first 3:)
Hmm, this worries me. We just recently moved to Alberta from New Zealand (major upgrade in standard of living (IMHO):) and my daughter is rather obsessed by moose (I got her a Gund moose when I came up for my job interview).
I totally agree, I'm one of those people. I knew about linux, new approximatly where to get it, but never did anything about it until I had the CDs placed in my hand. This was almost 3 years ago. I've now got a 3 machine network, all running linux, use linux at work, and advocate linux where appropriate (eg, work:). In fact, my linux/unix skills (I was a Solaris sysadmin for a while last year) helped get me from New Zealand to Canada. All thanks to a workmate handing me the Dec 96 Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6 cd set).
Just think: handing a kid a linux cd could change his life forever (of course, most of them will probably play frisbee).
The nice thing about linux is no-one is actuallyed tied to it. Instead they are clipped on with a nice big (safety interlocked, don't want anybody falling off:) emergency release. Trouble is, the release mechanism tends to get rusty from disuse.
(sure, some try linux and decide that they don't like it, but that's the point: they're not trapped. Nor have they invested huge sums of money into the attempt (time, yes, but no more than any other solution))
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6.54 bogomips, whee, 1 day kernel compiles :)
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* an ex-boss used to jokingly blame all software troubles (esp heisenbugs) on sunspots.
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Oh, wait, make that 12993 in Sydney. I do remember finding a public toilet out in Long Reach.
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Rest in peace.
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Disclaimer: sure, I lived in Australia for 7 years (in Queensland :/, bloody banana benders (my mom's a cockroach (dad and I are Canadian));), but that was 6 years ago (in NZ during that time) and now I'm in Canada, so my grasp of .au stats is way rusty.
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Hell, it's a freaking 13/14h flight from Sydney to LA or ~12 from Aukland to LA (which is odd as it's ~3h from Sydney to Aukland and they're on a similar latitude).
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Just think: handing a kid a linux cd could change his life forever (of course, most of them will probably play frisbee).
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(sure, some try linux and decide that they don't like it, but that's the point: they're not trapped. Nor have they invested huge sums of money into the attempt (time, yes, but no more than any other solution))
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