You misunderstand. I am building the grandest, funkiest computer network ever to grace planet earth. When I "ifconfig" the screens scrolls and scrolls. I usually go make coffee or do my taxes. I mean, yeh I know how to pipe to grep, but I don't want to hide the majesty of it all from myself simply for convenience's sake.
Besides. I need the HIPPI card, for when I get my own Cray. But, if you're going to be an ass about it, I'll be damned if I give you a shell account.
So far, the localtalk and arcnet segments are filling out fine.
Localtalk: (switched, Synoptics 3030 with 2 lattistalk blades 12 phonenet ports each, can chain up to 4 on each, rackmount) Classic macs Apple IIe Apple IIGS Linux x86 NeXT Colorstation SGI Indy (still working on software) Amiga 2000 Apple Newton (partial, some software problems) Sun Sparcstation 2 (planned; does anyone have an sbus ltalk card?) IBM PS/2 (MCA; plan to move it to RS/6000 when I get an MCA one, netatalk port to follow) Atari Falcon (planned)
Arcnet: (PureData rackmount switch, 20 BNC ports) Netware 3 Linux x86 Amiga 2000 Sparcstation Amiga 4000 Tandy TRS-80 6000 (z80/68k machine, not an x86)(planned; anyone know where to get the arcnet card? I even have the tandy passive hub...) Altair (I have the s-100 arcnet card, need the computer)
Also, rackmount token ring MAUs with a few machines (x86, sparc), ATM155 (SGI Indy and linux only), Proxim 900mhz wireless (Newton Messagepad 120 only), corvus omninet (Apple IIe and TRS-80 6000 only), FDDI (linux and DECstation only, really want to switch the turbochannel out to the vax though), and some interesting ethernets (PDP-11/04 and Altos Xenix intel 186).
So it's more than just to say I did it, your tone is somewhat insulting.
From selling it as a telephone substitute. I'd be more than happy to let them out of this, if they were willing to point it out to each customer prioring to signing them up, that courts have ruled that it's not phone service, and that they have no recourse through the utility commission should it have problems.
The Sbus has a channel per slot. The PCI cards I'm thinking of, have a daughtercard that takes up a second slot for another channel on the back. Or, supposing I can only find a serial, there have been crossbar switches on ebay that show both serial and parallel interfaces... too bad they're out of my price range.
Gulf coast wouldn't be affected nearly as bad, Florida would take the brunt of it, reducing wave height down to 5-15ft in many places. New Orleans is still screwed though, they're already threatened by any moderately-sized hurricane. 5ft there would be enough to kill everyone in the city, if there were no warning.
The difference being, if I do that, I don't have to worry about my entire family dying, and half of the nation I live in, for that matter.
Not only that, but there isn't a field of 1 trillion candy wrappers in front of stairs that I have to use on a daily basis, a field of candy-wrappers that no one bothers to clean up or monitor.
Sorry, but chemical explosives wouldn't do it. Would have to use nukes (small, low yield devices set up to minimize any radiological damage, naturally). Might be the only good use the damn things could ever be put to, but don't expect it to happen.
Doubt there would be false alarms. The early warning system would detect a tsunami en route, they take 9 or 10 hours to reach the coast. If it sounds, you'd best get out, and there's little chance of it not happening afterward. The real question, is how you could possibly evacuate 100 million people in that amount of time.
These smart politicians regularly spend on up to 8 figure sums on pork, but a working early warning system could be put in place for half that. It's basically chump change, but just as the rich guy refuses to give a beggar 50 cents, the government wants to ignore this threat.
Actually, I sort of hate OSX. Too eyecandyish, and it tries to dumb things down in a way that windows attempts to, but misses the mark. Give me linux any day.
However, as phone support for a DSL ISP, I wish all the ijits and hillbillies would buy a mac, so that they don't blame me when IE barfs and can no longer pull up a webpage. Ever tried to explain to someone like that, that if you can ping them, then their DSL isn't down? ("Then why can't I bring up yahoo.com? Because you use a defective OS, that is beyond the ability of any expert to fix, retard.")
Nothing is perfect, but only microsoft products are as imperfect as something like windows.
Don't try to twist my words. I'm sure OSX would have a few vulnerabilities exposed, should it become more popular. However, insinuating that it would be just as bad as windows is not only unfounded and unfair, but somewhat insulting.
Well, I wouldn't expect most people to use them, but I always find myself starved for slots. Let's see, I'll list all of those PCI cards I want to test out, but don't have the room for yet.
X.25 card I picked up for $1 at a thrift store. DirecPC PCI card. PCI Arcnet. PCI Token ring (the isa one tends to lock up linux, hoping this will fix it) PCI HIPPI (Don't have one yet, anyone know where I can find one?) PCI Fibrechannel. 2nd Quad port 10/100 (Anyone know if they make a card with more than 4 10/100's, or a quad gigabit?) PCI localtalk, if I can ever find one (it is a mac, after all!) PCI starlan (supposedly they exist, but were for NCR internal sales only) PCI DVB satellite card. PCI NTSC tuner card. PCI DOCSIS card (I'm torn... I worked hard making my own rackmount cable modem case, but internal is cool too) 8 port rs232 card
And that's off the top of my head, there's no telling what I'd find, or what still lies buried in my bucket'o'junk.
No, we've debunked that fallacy before. That's the argument that windows apologists use, when they want an excuse for their non-existent security model.
Apache has a marketshare comparable to IIS (even higher, is it not?) and yet has almost no problems, compared to the IIS hole of the week.
In truth, if people switched over en masse to Apple, I'd expect alot less spyware, viruses, spam, and all the other assorted nastiness that, in general, only windows makes possible.
Anyone that already uses linux probably doesn't need this. But for the fools that call me every night wanting help "gettin thar DLS setted up so they can see the intarweb" and then bitching to me because they have no clue what an ethernet driver is and that they don't have one installed, this machine might be made for them. (Generally the win95/98/ME crowd.)
And if not for them, then the 2k/xp users who seem to have a clue, but still windows torments them.
Of course, if they all buy macs, I'm out of a job.
Evolution doesn't suggest that every living thing shares an ancestor, not even necessarily when you limit it to the one planet we reside on (though the vast majority of life does share a common ancestor). Whatever mechanism allows for life to spontaneously develop likely was activated more than once. It's even possible (though not likely) that we'll discover some unicellular organism somewhere in an ocean vent that doesn't share an ancestor with us.
Science has always assumed that A) somewhere in the universe there is alien life B) that life arose in a process vaguely similar to however it arose on earth and C) that God has nothing to do with it. And before you go after me with a vengeance about what science does and doesn't assume, those assumptions are made just waiting to be disproven, should it ever be possible to do so.
Actually, the double blind study would be easy. You're just a pussy because you know that completing the experiment has a 50% of killing you and one of your parents. Do it for science!
Quantum darwinism is false! The tree is that way because God made it that way, not because 4 billion years of quantum evolution positioned its particles that way!
We need to stop teaching quantum darwinism in our schools, and teach quantum creatinism! Darwin himself denounced quantum evolution on his deathbed, it's true!
As some have pointed out to me, several people are already doing what I've considered, though not on the scale that I would like.
So, it's only a matter of time. If we really can annoy them, well, that means they'll have to do something about it. Of course the legal argument will be absurd, and if things were fair, could never win, and be ignored at the appeals level. Of course, things aren't fair, it isn't "sacred" enough for a judge to care about protecting even if they have a non-stupid opinion, and even in the best of circumstances it would cost thousands of $$$ to get that far. Anyone want to make odds on how long those sites last, the ones people posted in response to my original comment?
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You misunderstand. I am building the grandest, funkiest computer network ever to grace planet earth. When I "ifconfig" the screens scrolls and scrolls. I usually go make coffee or do my taxes. I mean, yeh I know how to pipe to grep, but I don't want to hide the majesty of it all from myself simply for convenience's sake.
Besides. I need the HIPPI card, for when I get my own Cray. But, if you're going to be an ass about it, I'll be damned if I give you a shell account.
So far, the localtalk and arcnet segments are filling out fine.
Localtalk: (switched, Synoptics 3030 with 2 lattistalk blades 12 phonenet ports each, can chain up to 4 on each, rackmount)
Classic macs
Apple IIe
Apple IIGS
Linux x86
NeXT Colorstation
SGI Indy (still working on software)
Amiga 2000
Apple Newton (partial, some software problems)
Sun Sparcstation 2 (planned; does anyone have an sbus ltalk card?)
IBM PS/2 (MCA; plan to move it to RS/6000 when I get an MCA one, netatalk port to follow)
Atari Falcon (planned)
Arcnet: (PureData rackmount switch, 20 BNC ports)
Netware 3
Linux x86
Amiga 2000
Sparcstation
Amiga 4000
Tandy TRS-80 6000 (z80/68k machine, not an x86)(planned; anyone know where to get the arcnet card? I even have the tandy passive hub...)
Altair (I have the s-100 arcnet card, need the computer)
Also, rackmount token ring MAUs with a few machines (x86, sparc), ATM155 (SGI Indy and linux only), Proxim 900mhz wireless (Newton Messagepad 120 only), corvus omninet (Apple IIe and TRS-80 6000 only), FDDI (linux and DECstation only, really want to switch the turbochannel out to the vax though), and some interesting ethernets (PDP-11/04 and Altos Xenix intel 186).
So it's more than just to say I did it, your tone is somewhat insulting.
From selling it as a telephone substitute. I'd be more than happy to let them out of this, if they were willing to point it out to each customer prioring to signing them up, that courts have ruled that it's not phone service, and that they have no recourse through the utility commission should it have problems.
The Sbus has a channel per slot. The PCI cards I'm thinking of, have a daughtercard that takes up a second slot for another channel on the back. Or, supposing I can only find a serial, there have been crossbar switches on ebay that show both serial and parallel interfaces... too bad they're out of my price range.
Gulf coast wouldn't be affected nearly as bad, Florida would take the brunt of it, reducing wave height down to 5-15ft in many places. New Orleans is still screwed though, they're already threatened by any moderately-sized hurricane. 5ft there would be enough to kill everyone in the city, if there were no warning.
The difference being, if I do that, I don't have to worry about my entire family dying, and half of the nation I live in, for that matter.
Not only that, but there isn't a field of 1 trillion candy wrappers in front of stairs that I have to use on a daily basis, a field of candy-wrappers that no one bothers to clean up or monitor.
Sorry, but chemical explosives wouldn't do it. Would have to use nukes (small, low yield devices set up to minimize any radiological damage, naturally). Might be the only good use the damn things could ever be put to, but don't expect it to happen.
Doubt there would be false alarms. The early warning system would detect a tsunami en route, they take 9 or 10 hours to reach the coast. If it sounds, you'd best get out, and there's little chance of it not happening afterward. The real question, is how you could possibly evacuate 100 million people in that amount of time.
These smart politicians regularly spend on up to 8 figure sums on pork, but a working early warning system could be put in place for half that. It's basically chump change, but just as the rich guy refuses to give a beggar 50 cents, the government wants to ignore this threat.
He should plant it on this island, and not in DC?
Dual slot Sbus for $8. Sits in my sparcstation.
Even after I get the PCI one, I'll still need cabling and some sort of switch though. But in the meantime, I can start tinkering with linux drivers...
Actually, I sort of hate OSX. Too eyecandyish, and it tries to dumb things down in a way that windows attempts to, but misses the mark. Give me linux any day.
However, as phone support for a DSL ISP, I wish all the ijits and hillbillies would buy a mac, so that they don't blame me when IE barfs and can no longer pull up a webpage. Ever tried to explain to someone like that, that if you can ping them, then their DSL isn't down? ("Then why can't I bring up yahoo.com? Because you use a defective OS, that is beyond the ability of any expert to fix, retard.")
Nothing is perfect, but only microsoft products are as imperfect as something like windows.
Don't try to twist my words. I'm sure OSX would have a few vulnerabilities exposed, should it become more popular. However, insinuating that it would be just as bad as windows is not only unfounded and unfair, but somewhat insulting.
Apparently none are. If money is no object, I think I can find some (otherwise crappy) motherboards with what, 6 slots? Kinda sucks.
Besides which, why would I run OSX on these things, or supposing I did, what would stop me from tinkering around and writing my own drivers?
Exactly, just wanting it to work. They should go out and buy this mac. Didn't I make my point obvious enough?
Well, I wouldn't expect most people to use them, but I always find myself starved for slots. Let's see, I'll list all of those PCI cards I want to test out, but don't have the room for yet.
X.25 card I picked up for $1 at a thrift store.
DirecPC PCI card.
PCI Arcnet.
PCI Token ring (the isa one tends to lock up linux, hoping this will fix it)
PCI HIPPI (Don't have one yet, anyone know where I can find one?)
PCI Fibrechannel.
2nd Quad port 10/100 (Anyone know if they make a card with more than 4 10/100's, or a quad gigabit?)
PCI localtalk, if I can ever find one (it is a mac, after all!)
PCI starlan (supposedly they exist, but were for NCR internal sales only)
PCI DVB satellite card.
PCI NTSC tuner card.
PCI DOCSIS card (I'm torn... I worked hard making my own rackmount cable modem case, but internal is cool too)
8 port rs232 card
And that's off the top of my head, there's no telling what I'd find, or what still lies buried in my bucket'o'junk.
No, we've debunked that fallacy before. That's the argument that windows apologists use, when they want an excuse for their non-existent security model.
Apache has a marketshare comparable to IIS (even higher, is it not?) and yet has almost no problems, compared to the IIS hole of the week.
In truth, if people switched over en masse to Apple, I'd expect alot less spyware, viruses, spam, and all the other assorted nastiness that, in general, only windows makes possible.
Anyone that already uses linux probably doesn't need this. But for the fools that call me every night wanting help "gettin thar DLS setted up so they can see the intarweb" and then bitching to me because they have no clue what an ethernet driver is and that they don't have one installed, this machine might be made for them. (Generally the win95/98/ME crowd.)
And if not for them, then the 2k/xp users who seem to have a clue, but still windows torments them.
Of course, if they all buy macs, I'm out of a job.
Evolution doesn't suggest that every living thing shares an ancestor, not even necessarily when you limit it to the one planet we reside on (though the vast majority of life does share a common ancestor). Whatever mechanism allows for life to spontaneously develop likely was activated more than once. It's even possible (though not likely) that we'll discover some unicellular organism somewhere in an ocean vent that doesn't share an ancestor with us.
Science has always assumed that A) somewhere in the universe there is alien life B) that life arose in a process vaguely similar to however it arose on earth and C) that God has nothing to do with it. And before you go after me with a vengeance about what science does and doesn't assume, those assumptions are made just waiting to be disproven, should it ever be possible to do so.
Actually, the double blind study would be easy. You're just a pussy because you know that completing the experiment has a 50% of killing you and one of your parents. Do it for science!
Quantum darwinism is false! The tree is that way because God made it that way, not because 4 billion years of quantum evolution positioned its particles that way!
We need to stop teaching quantum darwinism in our schools, and teach quantum creatinism! Darwin himself denounced quantum evolution on his deathbed, it's true!
That was meant to be a joke. Sheesh...
What would you know about mayans, you're from mexico after all.
No, just the end of humanity.
Double duh.
PS. In the fifth cycle, the world will be dominated by lawyers...
Everyone had to know this wasn't going to happen. I don't know which asteroid it *will* be, when it does hit, but the day will be Dec. 21, 2012. Duh.
I do phone support for an ISP. This just demonstrates that you jump to conclusions.
As some have pointed out to me, several people are already doing what I've considered, though not on the scale that I would like.
So, it's only a matter of time. If we really can annoy them, well, that means they'll have to do something about it. Of course the legal argument will be absurd, and if things were fair, could never win, and be ignored at the appeals level. Of course, things aren't fair, it isn't "sacred" enough for a judge to care about protecting even if they have a non-stupid opinion, and even in the best of circumstances it would cost thousands of $$$ to get that far. Anyone want to make odds on how long those sites last, the ones people posted in response to my original comment?