I was lucky enough to work in Building 2 for a couple of years and am happy to have been in Murray Hill at all. It was as magical a place as everyone says. Just being around so many great thinkers made me feel smarter too. I'll certainly miss it. (I wonder if the pjw's xface made of magnets still appears at the top of Stair 8)
I bought a cool book that shows how to build robots out of parts from old floppy, CDROM and hard drives plus some other stuff. Check it out at http://junkbots.solarbotics.com/
Never seen the Marklin stuff. I grew up playing with a different German erector set, called TRIX Baukasten. It was passed down by my dad, who played with it when he was a boy. I still have all the pieces and manuals in a large wooden box that he built. I've always felt that the TRIX system was superior to any of the other erector sets I'd seen. My dad is a master machinist, so perhaps it was a contributing factor.:)
I found a page of example models at http://www.metallbaukasten.de/trix/modelle.html (in German)
Are you sure floppyfw doesn't have NAT or port forwarding? Maybe you should check again, because it works fine for me. I got it working with the help of this SysAdmin article. It talks about an older version of floppyfw, but it should still get you setup faster than mucking with LRP. Of course, YMMV.
Okay, this guy is clearly a middleman; buying the assets in bulk and reselling them. I'd be interested who he's selling to. For example, I'd love a deal on a great office chair, but I'm only going to buy one of them. Who sells this lightly-used stuff? Thanks.
The affordable solution is to take the minitower boxes and put them on a wire rack (aka baker's rack). I got mine from one of those large CostCo places; it's chrome, has 5 shelves and only cost about $60. Just be sure to get the one that's got the deep (18 inch) shelves. You'll find you can get machines packed in pretty tight if you do some planning. For instance, I have one shelf of just pizza boxes, another for minitowers, etc.
Of course, these are the machines I *run*. If I need to mess around with one, I still need to pull it out of the rack and bring it to the bench. But you'll end up doing that with a real rackmount too.
If you like SpaceWar, then you'll probably love xpilot. Not only is it a multi-player network game, but it comes with most Linux distros. I'm almost always up for a game.:)
Anybody been able to build an RH6.1 system as dual boot? I've build a couple hundred so far on previous RedHat versions. Now, in 6.1, it appears to be impossible to select a different active partition.
Sure, let them choose. But how do you propose to have them decide? Many of them haven't *seen* a computer before, much less owned one. So how will they know which one is "better".
Also, remember that the majority of these systems were abandoned because they were just too weak to run the current M$ offerings. Even I'm not sadistic enough to give the underprivileged a box full of bloatware.
(I'm typing this on a rescued 486/66 running Li.. uh, a "freenix")
So, what am I supposed to do with all these old XT-class boxen?:(
Anyway, this seems to be getting more press recently. There's a group in northern NJ called R.O.C.K. (Rescue Old Computers for Kids) doing this too.
I'm all for this movement, especially if we can deliver machines loaded with Linux. (But you might want to ask first)
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You read my mind. I imagined a free site of some kind, where folks could trade used, working parts. I thought it should be called something like "PC Hardware Trader" or "Used PC Hardware Trader". I don't have the time to code up such a thing, so if someone reading this wants to run with it, feel free. Any takers?
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I was lucky enough to work in Building 2 for a couple of years and am happy to have been in Murray Hill at all. It was as magical a place as everyone says. Just being around so many great thinkers made me feel smarter too. I'll certainly miss it. (I wonder if the pjw's xface made of magnets still appears at the top of Stair 8)
I bought a cool book that shows how to build robots out of parts from old floppy, CDROM and hard drives plus some other stuff.
Check it out at http://junkbots.solarbotics.com/
To get an idea of what SCO is playing at, be sure to read the OSI Position Paper on the SCO vs. IBM Complaint by Eric Raymond. It's truly enlightening.
Never seen the Marklin stuff. I grew up playing with a different German erector set, called TRIX Baukasten. It was passed down by my dad, who played with it when he was a boy. I still have all the pieces and manuals in a large wooden box that he built. I've always felt that the TRIX system was superior to any of the other erector sets I'd seen. My dad is a master machinist, so perhaps it was a contributing factor. :)
I found a page of example models at
http://www.metallbaukasten.de/trix/modelle.html (in German)
Are you sure floppyfw doesn't have NAT or port forwarding? Maybe you should check again, because it works fine for me. I got it working with the help of this SysAdmin article. It talks about an older version of floppyfw, but it should still get you setup faster than mucking with LRP. Of course, YMMV.
Okay, this guy is clearly a middleman; buying the assets in bulk and reselling them. I'd be interested who he's selling to. For example, I'd love a deal on a great office chair, but I'm only going to buy one of them. Who sells this lightly-used stuff? Thanks.
I understand there are plenty of people already giving Katz the finger. Or did I miss something?
http://www.bell-labs.com/
Click on "employment" and look near the bottom of the page, for Intern Program.
Yup. I immediately thought of that scene in Blade Runner where Roy puts his hand into the jar of eyes. :)
Or you could just go straight to http://www.bell-labs.com
Darnit. That link should have been
http://www.teamsinister.com/robotsnav.html
Think these are cool? Nah. The best I ever saw was the one built by Mark Setrakian for the 1997 Robot Wars. Check out his Snake.
Geez, I didn't think that guy was still alive?!
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http://members.xoom.com/linuxdaddies/nyc/nyc-03
http://members.xoom.com/linuxdaddies/nyc/nyc-03
http://members.xoom.com/linuxdaddies/nyc/nyc-08
Anybody know if his "show" is still on the air?
/me shudders.
The affordable solution is to take the minitower boxes and put them on a wire rack (aka baker's rack). I got mine from one of those large CostCo places; it's chrome, has 5 shelves and only cost about $60. Just be sure to get the one that's got the deep (18 inch) shelves. You'll find you can get machines packed in pretty tight if you do some planning. For instance, I have one shelf of just pizza boxes, another for minitowers, etc.
Of course, these are the machines I *run*. If I need to mess around with one, I still need to pull it out of the rack and bring it to the bench. But you'll end up doing that with a real rackmount too.
More info at xpilot.org.
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If you like SpaceWar, then you'll probably love xpilot. Not only is it a multi-player network game, but it comes with most Linux distros. I'm almost always up for a game. :)
But that's essentially the problem - fdisk isn't available in 6.1 - you're forced to use what looks like a crippled version of Disk Druid.
Anybody been able to build an RH6.1 system as dual boot? I've build a couple hundred so far on previous RedHat versions. Now, in 6.1, it appears to be impossible to select a different active partition.
You laptop jockeys may want to look at one of these; it's called the Laptop Laidback.
Geez, it's like they were some kind of PENAL COLONY or something...
Huh? Oh.
> --- Unrecoverable error 666 - computer possesed
Hey, I represent that remark.
Sure, let them choose. But how do you propose to have them decide? Many of them haven't *seen* a computer before, much less owned one. So how will they know which one is "better".
Also, remember that the majority of these systems were abandoned because they were just too weak to run the current M$ offerings. Even I'm not sadistic enough to give the underprivileged a box full of bloatware.
(I'm typing this on a rescued 486/66 running Li.. uh, a "freenix")
--trip
So, what am I supposed to do with all these old XT-class boxen? :(
Anyway, this seems to be getting more press recently. There's a group in northern NJ called R.O.C.K. (Rescue Old Computers for Kids) doing this too.
I'm all for this movement, especially if we can deliver machines loaded with Linux. (But you might want to ask first)
--trip
You read my mind. I imagined a free site of some kind, where folks could trade used, working parts.
I thought it should be called something like "PC Hardware Trader" or "Used PC Hardware Trader".
I don't have the time to code up such a thing, so if someone reading this wants to run with it, feel free. Any takers?
A 486 makes a perfectly good firewall/ip-masq box for a cable modem.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990810/37.html