X-10 has a really cool remote that I have found to work quite well. It's called the Learning Super-Remote. There are two versions, make sure you get the learning one. This baby has three communication methods built in, IR send like any remote, IR recieve so you can point the original remote at it and program functions, and a radio transmitter so you can control your X-10 Firecracker modules with it. I have my whole apartment wired, so not only is my whole entertainment system controlled by my remote, my lights and popcorn maker are too. Isn't technology grand?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
No, If I remember right, red hat inlcudes some non-free third party software in their "official" distro. I am not sure if that is all kept on a seperate CD or not, but it would be wise to contact RH directly before burning the official CD, you might end up getting burned yourself when one of those third party vendors finds out you've been pirating their software, intentionally or no
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I also agree with this idea... if you are anywhere near the Philadelphia Area, try to contact a place called Nonprofit Technology Resources. They refurb old computers to give to underpriveledged schools and kids, it's a great cause, and the people are nice. I personally very much enjoyed spending a few days with them last year helping give something back
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While I don't have a ton of bandwidth to throw around, I do have a dedicated DSL connection and would be willing to host a few of the smaller projects that have become homeless after this incident, if two conditions are met. First, I would have to clear this with my DSL provider because I don't want to voilate my contract. Second, I would want to hear from Chris Gann himself confirming the good intentions of whomever I might be hosting. If you are one of those who lost a home, contact me at jamie at jamie.ufies.org and we can discuss the feasability of doing this. A disclaimer: I can make no guarantee of stability or availability... this machine is my personal box that I use for other things like quake and school work. If you can find another place to host your project I strongly suggest doing so. If, however, you are totally without options, I might be able to help out, if only temporarily.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Good idea... I hadn't thought of that. Personally I am using a crappy hundred buck radio shack mixer to accomplish the same goal and it has seemed to be fine for me.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Y's can cause nasty interference when the signal starts travelling thru the y's and back to the other sound cards... the earlier suggestion about patching the sound cards in series using the line in is probably a better idea
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
since you are, as you said, a newbie here, I will tolerate the offtopic post and try to give you a hand. While I don't know the answer to your question, I suggest you check in the help section at Linux.com. Their IRC chat server was especially useful to me, and I have had numerous questions answered quickly and without a ton of flames there, I defenitely recoomend it highly
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Correct me if I am wrong, but from the gist of the other posts it seems to me like part of the memory limitation has something to do with the processor. Does that mean by having an SMP setup with dual processors you would effectively double the amount of RAM your system could use?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Sounds like a great idea to me. I personally have little interest in the stock market, and it would be nice to be able to filter out the continuous stream of IPO articles
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Must have been my imagination, but it sure seemed loaded with something. I can think of a couple possible scnarios, either my pepsi was laced with something (oooh conspiracy theory), The formula has changed somewhat (ala coke II), or I was way too jet lagged and need to lay off the crack
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
If you ask me, this whole RMS sucks/ESR sucks, free software/open software, I dont like your beliefs so I will attack the things you have accopmlished flamewar is a bunch of dick fear. These people are terrified that their dicks are inadequate and so they must try to destroy each other to make themselves feel better. The entire linux/gnu/bsd/anything else that's good and free and open movement is being given a bad name because people want to build up their own self esteem. This is nothing more than people standing in a field waving their pricks at one another. So please people, put away your penis and work together. It's about the software, not the genitals. Stop the big prickwaving dickfight before it's too late.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Anyone here have access to Pepsi MAX? I drank a can or two whil in europe and it was the strongest friggin thing I ever had... I was wired all day. From what I hear, it's illegal in the states because there's so much caffeine in it. It was mighty tasty too boot. Anyone out there care to start a service to allow those of us who can't buy it at the local 7-11 to get some of this stuff? Would be mighty handy for those late night coding sessions...
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I have felt the effects of this first hand many times. For instance, the University I attend uses word doc's for presentation of some projects. I also have a roommate who wanted to install linux, but didn't because the office support wasn't there. While there were perfectly good alternative office programs for Gnome, they weren't able to read M$ files, and that's important. Luckily, things are improving in this area somewhat. For instance, Gnumeric can now import Excel files, although I don't know how much support is available. I for one think it would be excellent if M$ had to open up the office file formats... it would be a huge win for the OSS community. For the time being, though, I will still keep windoze on my laptop, just for those times when I am required to read Office docs.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I want to know when Logitech is going to release this technology in a quick cam (hopefully not USB so it's easier for the guru's to try to hack a linux driver for it)
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Since everyone in here is focusing on AI for computer games, I figured I would throw in my.02 on console games. It very well may be a lot of hype, but from what I hear the AI in the new N64 game Perfect Dark will be fantastic. Do a search on it and check out some of the info... seems pretty promising to me. Then again I think Goldeneye 007 was the best game any console has ever seen. Multiplayer rocked!
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I am just waiting for the inevitable "I use astalavista.box.sk, man, I am 133t, yeah d00dz!" post. It will probably be written by some drunken perturbed short person, too:)
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I live in the philadelphia area, and signed up for an SDSL setup from Flashcom about two months ago. Well yesterday I finally got all wired, but now my DSL modem is apparantly timed out, but it got as far as to connect to the central office and download software (sort of like flashing your BIOS). They claim to be able to have the problem fixed by tonite, but then again two months ago they claimed they could have it installed in 10 working days.
ARRRGGGGGG.... Need.... Bandwidth
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I believe you are taking the argument a bit too far here. If I were to follow your logic, I could easily say that it is unacceptable to distribute source as printed out text files, because the coders surely do not work on the code in hard copy. There is a difference between code obfuscation and just changing formats to transfer a document. If I convert from digital to analog format to send a document over my modem, is that obfuscating the code or merely transporting it?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Before bashing this guy think twice, peeps. While I am certainly a microsoft hater, and would rather slam my balls in a 1977 monte carlo's trunk lid, that is just my opinion and I don't try to push it on anyone else. I seem to remember some famous OSS guy who's referred to by initials a lot saying something about free software being more like free speech than free beer. Instead of the flamage we tend to drop to so quick, we should remember the reason we love linux so much, because it allows FREEDOM. In our case, we want the freedom to have the source to our OS and muck around with it all we want. In some other users' cases, it's the freedom to talk openly about their honest opinion about something that might not be all that popular without fearing ridicule and flamage. Free source, Free speech, Free beer, Free sex... it's all about the freedoms people, lets be as unlike the tyrants and "the man" as we can. If someone wants to use crappy software, lets give him that option, after all, he's free to make that choice.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While surfing around Rob's page (I have a boring job), I found a nifty little cgi thingy that he wrote that generates poetry based on a URL u give it... so naturally my first instinct was to put in www.slashdot.org and see what rob's program creates from rob's news page thingy, and I actually found it pretty dang funny
The URL is here: http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi
Sorry for the offtopic, I'll probably get moderated down to -1:)
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While drooling over the possibility of getting a new computer over at penguin computing, I noticed that one of their configuration options is a DVD-ROM drive. I was under the impression that DVD wasnt yet supported in linux, and as I understand it penguin does solely linux. Does linux partially support DVD, perhaps only supporting reading the disks and not the video decoding stuff? Anyone care to enlighten me here?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I agreee wholeheartedly... I am also a philadelphian who craves bandwidth (recently moved out of a dorm room and miss the fast ethernet LAN connected to a T-3:drool:) I made the:cough: choice of attempting to go with flashcom, and, after being assured about a month ago that I would be contacted in 10 days to setup a time to make the connection, I recently (yesterday, read: much beyond the supposed 10 day waiting period) anyway, I recently found out that the hardware that allows this sort of stuff do happen hadn't even been installed at my local loop yet, so naturally it will be some time. If everything, and I quote, goes "according to plan" the hardware will be installed by the 10th, and I will have my line installed in a minumum of 4-6 weeks after that... which will work out to be close to 3 months after my handy-dandy flashcom salesman told me that he could give me T-1 speed to my doorstep with no problems whatsoever... now where did I put that shotgun again???
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Slashdot Mirror
X-10 has a really cool remote that I have found to work quite well. It's called the Learning Super-Remote. There are two versions, make sure you get the learning one. This baby has three communication methods built in, IR send like any remote, IR recieve so you can point the original remote at it and program functions, and a radio transmitter so you can control your X-10 Firecracker modules with it. I have my whole apartment wired, so not only is my whole entertainment system controlled by my remote, my lights and popcorn maker are too. Isn't technology grand?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
No, If I remember right, red hat inlcudes some non-free third party software in their "official" distro. I am not sure if that is all kept on a seperate CD or not, but it would be wise to contact RH directly before burning the official CD, you might end up getting burned yourself when one of those third party vendors finds out you've been pirating their software, intentionally or no
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/08/27/16412 23&threshold=0&commentsort=0 &mode=thread&pid=8#72
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I also agree with this idea... if you are anywhere near the Philadelphia Area, try to contact a place called Nonprofit Technology Resources. They refurb old computers to give to underpriveledged schools and kids, it's a great cause, and the people are nice. I personally very much enjoyed spending a few days with them last year helping give something back
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While I don't have a ton of bandwidth to throw around, I do have a dedicated DSL connection and would be willing to host a few of the smaller projects that have become homeless after this incident, if two conditions are met. First, I would have to clear this with my DSL provider because I don't want to voilate my contract. Second, I would want to hear from Chris Gann himself confirming the good intentions of whomever I might be hosting. If you are one of those who lost a home, contact me at jamie at jamie.ufies.org and we can discuss the feasability of doing this. A disclaimer: I can make no guarantee of stability or availability... this machine is my personal box that I use for other things like quake and school work. If you can find another place to host your project I strongly suggest doing so. If, however, you are totally without options, I might be able to help out, if only temporarily.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Good idea... I hadn't thought of that. Personally I am using a crappy hundred buck radio shack mixer to accomplish the same goal and it has seemed to be fine for me.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Y's can cause nasty interference when the signal starts travelling thru the y's and back to the other sound cards... the earlier suggestion about patching the sound cards in series using the line in is probably a better idea
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
since you are, as you said, a newbie here, I will tolerate the offtopic post and try to give you a hand. While I don't know the answer to your question, I suggest you check in the help section at Linux.com. Their IRC chat server was especially useful to me, and I have had numerous questions answered quickly and without a ton of flames there, I defenitely recoomend it highly
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Correct me if I am wrong, but from the gist of the other posts it seems to me like part of the memory limitation has something to do with the processor. Does that mean by having an SMP setup with dual processors you would effectively double the amount of RAM your system could use?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Sounds like a great idea to me. I personally have little interest in the stock market, and it would be nice to be able to filter out the continuous stream of IPO articles
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Must have been my imagination, but it sure seemed loaded with something. I can think of a couple possible scnarios, either my pepsi was laced with something (oooh conspiracy theory), The formula has changed somewhat (ala coke II), or I was way too jet lagged and need to lay off the crack
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
If you ask me, this whole RMS sucks/ESR sucks, free software/open software, I dont like your beliefs so I will attack the things you have accopmlished flamewar is a bunch of dick fear. These people are terrified that their dicks are inadequate and so they must try to destroy each other to make themselves feel better. The entire linux/gnu/bsd/anything else that's good and free and open movement is being given a bad name because people want to build up their own self esteem. This is nothing more than people standing in a field waving their pricks at one another. So please people, put away your penis and work together. It's about the software, not the genitals. Stop the big prickwaving dickfight before it's too late.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Anyone here have access to Pepsi MAX? I drank a can or two whil in europe and it was the strongest friggin thing I ever had... I was wired all day. From what I hear, it's illegal in the states because there's so much caffeine in it. It was mighty tasty too boot. Anyone out there care to start a service to allow those of us who can't buy it at the local 7-11 to get some of this stuff? Would be mighty handy for those late night coding sessions...
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Am I the only one for whom the bawls page refuses to load? Looks like the /. effect claimed another victim
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I have felt the effects of this first hand many times. For instance, the University I attend uses word doc's for presentation of some projects. I also have a roommate who wanted to install linux, but didn't because the office support wasn't there. While there were perfectly good alternative office programs for Gnome, they weren't able to read M$ files, and that's important. Luckily, things are improving in this area somewhat. For instance, Gnumeric can now import Excel files, although I don't know how much support is available. I for one think it would be excellent if M$ had to open up the office file formats... it would be a huge win for the OSS community. For the time being, though, I will still keep windoze on my laptop, just for those times when I am required to read Office docs.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I want to know when Logitech is going to release this technology in a quick cam (hopefully not USB so it's easier for the guru's to try to hack a linux driver for it)
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Since everyone in here is focusing on AI for computer games, I figured I would throw in my .02 on console games. It very well may be a lot of hype, but from what I hear the AI in the new N64 game Perfect Dark will be fantastic. Do a search on it and check out some of the info... seems pretty promising to me. Then again I think Goldeneye 007 was the best game any console has ever seen. Multiplayer rocked!
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I am just waiting for the inevitable "I use astalavista.box.sk, man, I am 133t, yeah d00dz!" post. It will probably be written by some drunken perturbed short person, too :)
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I live in the philadelphia area, and signed up for an SDSL setup from Flashcom about two months ago. Well yesterday I finally got all wired, but now my DSL modem is apparantly timed out, but it got as far as to connect to the central office and download software (sort of like flashing your BIOS). They claim to be able to have the problem fixed by tonite, but then again two months ago they claimed they could have it installed in 10 working days.
ARRRGGGGGG.... Need.... Bandwidth
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I believe you are taking the argument a bit too far here. If I were to follow your logic, I could easily say that it is unacceptable to distribute source as printed out text files, because the coders surely do not work on the code in hard copy. There is a difference between code obfuscation and just changing formats to transfer a document. If I convert from digital to analog format to send a document over my modem, is that obfuscating the code or merely transporting it?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Screw that! PBS shows Monty Python... No other station has quality humor like that.
I will give up my Python when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
Before bashing this guy think twice, peeps. While I am certainly a microsoft hater, and would rather slam my balls in a 1977 monte carlo's trunk lid, that is just my opinion and I don't try to push it on anyone else. I seem to remember some famous OSS guy who's referred to by initials a lot saying something about free software being more like free speech than free beer. Instead of the flamage we tend to drop to so quick, we should remember the reason we love linux so much, because it allows FREEDOM. In our case, we want the freedom to have the source to our OS and muck around with it all we want. In some other users' cases, it's the freedom to talk openly about their honest opinion about something that might not be all that popular without fearing ridicule and flamage. Free source, Free speech, Free beer, Free sex... it's all about the freedoms people, lets be as unlike the tyrants and "the man" as we can. If someone wants to use crappy software, lets give him that option, after all, he's free to make that choice.
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While surfing around Rob's page (I have a boring job), I found a nifty little cgi thingy that he wrote that generates poetry based on a URL u give it... so naturally my first instinct was to put in www.slashdot.org and see what rob's program creates from rob's news page thingy, and I actually found it pretty dang funny
:)
The URL is here:
http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi
Sorry for the offtopic, I'll probably get moderated down to -1
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
While drooling over the possibility of getting a new computer over at penguin computing, I noticed that one of their configuration options is a DVD-ROM drive. I was under the impression that DVD wasnt yet supported in linux, and as I understand it penguin does solely linux. Does linux partially support DVD, perhaps only supporting reading the disks and not the video decoding stuff? Anyone care to enlighten me here?
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you
I agreee wholeheartedly... I am also a philadelphian who craves bandwidth (recently moved out of a dorm room and miss the fast ethernet LAN connected to a T-3 :drool:) I made the :cough: choice of attempting to go with flashcom, and, after being assured about a month ago that I would be contacted in 10 days to setup a time to make the connection, I recently (yesterday, read: much beyond the supposed 10 day waiting period) anyway, I recently found out that the hardware that allows this sort of stuff do happen hadn't even been installed at my local loop yet, so naturally it will be some time. If everything, and I quote, goes "according to plan" the hardware will be installed by the 10th, and I will have my line installed in a minumum of 4-6 weeks after that... which will work out to be close to 3 months after my handy-dandy flashcom salesman told me that he could give me T-1 speed to my doorstep with no problems whatsoever... now where did I put that shotgun again???
Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you