Man some of the posts on this topic are pretty intense! People citing cases, providing snippets of past judicial rulings (relevant ones too)... its like a mini-courtroom in here.
Maybe we should have a section called "Law & Order: Slashdot Victim's Unit"
Move out of the tropics and you will get the point real quick. When your nose hairs freeze walking between the house and the car, a remote starter makes for a pleasant morning drive.
So if you create a beowulf cluster of these, does it become a Stepenwolf?
My North Dumpling Island story
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When I was in high school, my buddies and I were out fishing in Long Island Sound. A storm freakin' roared up on us, and our motor just would not restart. The flounder we caught (the beer buzz) seemed pretty insignificant. We called the Coast Guard but they refused to get us. Something about only if it was life threatening. I guess our boat needed to be sinking before they would come get us.
The caretaker at North Dumpling came and got us and towed us into the island. He was there with his woman (oops, sorry dude, we messed up some nookie time) but he put us up at the caretaker's cottage.
The storm sunk my friend's boat, and the mega-monster Bertram that the caretaker towed us in was crashed up against the shore. Waves crashed over the stone jetty (it was like 8 feet above the normal water line) while my friend and I were trying to tie down his boat. A wave actually knocked my friend off the boat into the water.
The island was pretty cool though - had a mini-Stonehenge on it. Not sure if Kamen owned it then or not (don't seem to remember a wind turbine on it, but things were a bit hazy). We could have used a water-skimming Ginger to get back to shore after the storm.
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I have heard a number of negative things about JBoss's performance under heavy loads. Anyone with experience using it care to comment? It seems like the clustering would really help such situations, and I am excited to see it advancing as well as it is...
Have you noticed how Florida has been at the center of a number of problem areas lately? First Elian/Alien, then the Chad-wick scandal you so astutely point out, and later the start of the Anthrax hysteria...
Anyone else think the US needs to be emasculated, Gator-football be damned?
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>>The kinds of people who end up dumping broadband fall into two categories.
1) "I cant find anything useful to do with it!"
2) "Oh, help me, my broadband service has been a nightmare!"
I'm a member of both. I can't justify the $ spent ($60 per month plus a mandatory $180 for gear) or the headache getting it installed (they wanted to charge me $150 an hour to figure out why the DSL didn't work. No thanks). What do I need on the internet? Not much - I download patches, apps, etc., but for that I can just use ftp on my 'puter, set it and forget it. Go watch a movie, listen to some music at a bar, socialize with friends, sleep, whatever. When I get back to my machine the download is done so I install and there I go.
>>We just want to plug it in and see it go
WTF? What's the point of paying more money for faster downloads when you can't even CONNECT?
>>Wait until the damn road is paved, then travel on it.
>>So.. Are these 5000 year old documents going to be freely available or will the database of texts be copyrighted/restricted?
If you can read cunieform you have access. If you don't, you better start learning. This is not a project for non-professionals - like Linux people, epigraphers would tell you to RTFM before you complain about not understanding what is written.
A similar change was seen in the auto industry - moving from air-cooled engines like the VW Beetle to the water-cooled VW Rabbit/Golf. I don't know of one air-cooled car left in production, though we still have air-cooled motorcycles (Harley)
*sigh* But those Bugs were so easy to work on, and now I have to bring my GTI in to get hooked up to a diagnostic computer... anyone have a Linux hack for this? Heh heh, talk about voiding warranties..
>>My high ratings were in computers(big surprise), electronics, and archaeology.
I came from archaeology into computers, by way of dealing with fairly large databases, GIS, UNIX scripting/programming, SWARM simulation and agent-based modeling. Interviews were a pain in the arse because all the CS guys were like "Archaeology?".
Even still it is a lot easier to get job doing anything with computers than getting paid to do archaeology. Something on the order of 100-1. Oh and try getting a job in archaeology that pays more than 50K - you have to have a PhD, have published at least 30 articles and have run 3-5 five year projects. And then you are competing with 50 other people with the exact same qualifications (and probably 20 with better and 100 with lesser) for the 1 job that exists within a 1000 mile radius.
My advice? Forget archaeology unless you like moving every 6 months, living like a pariah with more tons more education than your local 7-11 manager but making less money, and being concerned about layoffs twice to three times a year. Still running around in the desert seems appealing after sitting in this office for the last 3 years.
How do you think the people that made your router learned to do it? By going to the nearest McUniversity and trying stuff out on embedded projects in the Engineering Building.
These articles are for people who want to try this stuff out at home. And learn through doing.
Or just to have fun. Yeah, I could run out and buy a Honda Accord like all the other sheeple, but I kinda like working on my old 2002 on the weekends. Its the same idea.
A better question is whether any Linux distro is a profitable business. Reading the first sentence of your post, the answer is probably no. Service/support yes, but distros?
But does that matter? Not to me... I support the open source community by testing out alpha software, finding bugs, whacking on a program till it croaks, that kind of thing. Still thinking of getting my development feet wet sometime and contributing that way.
Profits are great for a company. Linux is a hobby for me, not a way to make $$$. If you want to make big $$$, serve up some pr0n.
Have you checked out the linmodem site? There is some info there on a possible Connexant driver for some of their modems - HSF type. I was thinking of using this, but decided my WinModem was running like crap anyway so I got a regular modem. Plus it was an HCF type so the drivers on linmodem.org probably would not work.
Still, that doesn't help much with a laptop does it? I wish I could use my 3COM X-jack modem with my linux laptops, but sadly I have found no info on drivers for it. Doubtful they are in the works either.
I just installed Debian last night on a crap, throw-away laptop -P120 that my company was literally sending to the scrap heap. The CD-ROM is not bootable so I had to use some floppies to get it going, then attached it to a hardware modem. I ran pppconfig to set-up my provider, but there was some problem, so I just edited the config files by hand. The Install Procedures on the Debian site are VERY VERY helpful in this regard. They will also walk you step-by-step through the install process with detailed info.
Once I got ppp configured, I dialed into my ISP, ran dselect and installed the rest of my packages. dselect is a bit intimidating at first, but after a few moments you get the hang of it (don't go whipping by the Help menu it has lots of information. More than the pathetic "dselect HOW-TO" on the Debian site). As far as going back to DOS for a command-line... no way!
I avoided X11 just to be safe with my low memory system, but now have a portable development machine that runs damn fast (for old hw)! My other old laptop (P75!) also runs Debian (w/o X11)and my main workstation runs Red Hat 7.1. Red Hat install was pretty painless - it runs X11 with Ximian Gnome and KDE. Most of the/. people seem to hate Red Hat, but migrating from the MicroSlug world, it makes the installation pretty easy. After you get used to Linux, then you can go play around with other distros that may be more difficult to install. Right now I am looking to roll my own distro using info on linuxfromscratch
Yeah this one caught my eye too... he slagged a whole bunch of OSes after saying he didn't follow them. Its pretty tough to know if something is techinically interesting if you don't follow any of the developments on it. If you don't know anything about the OS, just say that.
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Man some of the posts on this topic are pretty intense! People citing cases, providing snippets of past judicial rulings (relevant ones too) ... its like a mini-courtroom in here.
Maybe we should have a section called "Law & Order: Slashdot Victim's Unit"
It's called VC money.
Yeah, one that steams up the windows too!
learn to read. He never said Hondas were not reliable.
Move out of the tropics and you will get the point real quick. When your nose hairs freeze walking between the house and the car, a remote starter makes for a pleasant morning drive.
So if you create a beowulf cluster of these, does it become a Stepenwolf?
When I was in high school, my buddies and I were out fishing in Long Island Sound. A storm freakin' roared up on us, and our motor just would not restart. The flounder we caught (the beer buzz) seemed pretty insignificant. We called the Coast Guard but they refused to get us. Something about only if it was life threatening. I guess our boat needed to be sinking before they would come get us.
The caretaker at North Dumpling came and got us and towed us into the island. He was there with his woman (oops, sorry dude, we messed up some nookie time) but he put us up at the caretaker's cottage.
The storm sunk my friend's boat, and the mega-monster Bertram that the caretaker towed us in was crashed up against the shore. Waves crashed over the stone jetty (it was like 8 feet above the normal water line) while my friend and I were trying to tie down his boat. A wave actually knocked my friend off the boat into the water.
The island was pretty cool though - had a mini-Stonehenge on it. Not sure if Kamen owned it then or not (don't seem to remember a wind turbine on it, but things were a bit hazy). We could have used a water-skimming Ginger to get back to shore after the storm.
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I salivate every time I pass by the offices on 101 ...
I have heard a number of negative things about JBoss's performance under heavy loads. Anyone with experience using it care to comment? It seems like the clustering would really help such situations, and I am excited to see it advancing as well as it is. ..
>>only the US wastes its money on spy satellites, the rest of the world has better things to do
Yeah whine to the US when they need help pulling their butts out of the fire and then whine ABOUT the US pulling their butts out of the fire.
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Have you noticed how Florida has been at the center of a number of problem areas lately? First Elian/Alien, then the Chad-wick scandal you so astutely point out, and later the start of the Anthrax hysteria ...
Anyone else think the US needs to be emasculated, Gator-football be damned?
..
>>The kinds of people who end up dumping broadband fall into two categories.
1) "I cant find anything useful to do with it!"
2) "Oh, help me, my broadband service has been a nightmare!"
I'm a member of both. I can't justify the $ spent ($60 per month plus a mandatory $180 for gear) or the headache getting it installed (they wanted to charge me $150 an hour to figure out why the DSL didn't work. No thanks). What do I need on the internet? Not much - I download patches, apps, etc., but for that I can just use ftp on my 'puter, set it and forget it. Go watch a movie, listen to some music at a bar, socialize with friends, sleep, whatever. When I get back to my machine the download is done so I install and there I go.
>>We just want to plug it in and see it go
WTF? What's the point of paying more money for faster downloads when you can't even CONNECT?
>>Wait until the damn road is paved, then travel on it.
Don't open the road till it is finished!
>>So.. Are these 5000 year old documents going to be freely available or will the database of texts be copyrighted/restricted?
If you can read cunieform you have access. If you don't, you better start learning. This is not a project for non-professionals - like Linux people, epigraphers would tell you to RTFM before you complain about not understanding what is written.
A similar change was seen in the auto industry - moving from air-cooled engines like the VW Beetle to the water-cooled VW Rabbit/Golf. I don't know of one air-cooled car left in production, though we still have air-cooled motorcycles (Harley) *sigh* But those Bugs were so easy to work on, and now I have to bring my GTI in to get hooked up to a diagnostic computer ... anyone have a Linux hack for this? Heh heh, talk about voiding warranties ..
>>My high ratings were in computers(big surprise), electronics, and archaeology.
I came from archaeology into computers, by way of dealing with fairly large databases, GIS, UNIX scripting/programming, SWARM simulation and agent-based modeling. Interviews were a pain in the arse because all the CS guys were like "Archaeology?".
Even still it is a lot easier to get job doing anything with computers than getting paid to do archaeology. Something on the order of 100-1. Oh and try getting a job in archaeology that pays more than 50K - you have to have a PhD, have published at least 30 articles and have run 3-5 five year projects. And then you are competing with 50 other people with the exact same qualifications (and probably 20 with better and 100 with lesser) for the 1 job that exists within a 1000 mile radius.
My advice? Forget archaeology unless you like moving every 6 months, living like a pariah with more tons more education than your local 7-11 manager but making less money, and being concerned about layoffs twice to three times a year. Still running around in the desert seems appealing after sitting in this office for the last 3 years.
So are you saying Asheron's Call is like smoking? Its easy to quit, I've done it a dozen times ...
Mod this one up ... the original post sent by Ian Bailey mischaracterizes the entire point of the article.
>>my experience that a switch from M$ to GNU/Linux requires an internal evangelist
Insightful? The person didn't read the article - the switch at Amazon was from commercial Unix to Linux.
How do you think the people that made your router learned to do it? By going to the nearest McUniversity and trying stuff out on embedded projects in the Engineering Building.
These articles are for people who want to try this stuff out at home. And learn through doing.
Or just to have fun. Yeah, I could run out and buy a Honda Accord like all the other sheeple, but I kinda like working on my old 2002 on the weekends. Its the same idea.
You are part of the great braying herd.
A better question is whether any Linux distro is a profitable business. Reading the first sentence of your post, the answer is probably no. Service/support yes, but distros?
... I support the open source community by testing out alpha software, finding bugs, whacking on a program till it croaks, that kind of thing. Still thinking of getting my development feet wet sometime and contributing that way.
But does that matter? Not to me
Profits are great for a company. Linux is a hobby for me, not a way to make $$$. If you want to make big $$$, serve up some pr0n.
Still, that doesn't help much with a laptop does it? I wish I could use my 3COM X-jack modem with my linux laptops, but sadly I have found no info on drivers for it. Doubtful they are in the works either.
Once I got ppp configured, I dialed into my ISP, ran dselect and installed the rest of my packages. dselect is a bit intimidating at first, but after a few moments you get the hang of it (don't go whipping by the Help menu it has lots of information. More than the pathetic "dselect HOW-TO" on the Debian site). As far as going back to DOS for a command-line ... no way!
I avoided X11 just to be safe with my low memory system, but now have a portable development machine that runs damn fast (for old hw)! My other old laptop (P75!) also runs Debian (w/o X11)and my main workstation runs Red Hat 7.1. Red Hat install was pretty painless - it runs X11 with Ximian Gnome and KDE. Most of the /. people seem to hate Red Hat, but migrating from the MicroSlug world, it makes the installation pretty easy. After you get used to Linux, then you can go play around with other distros that may be more difficult to install. Right now I am looking to roll my own distro using info on linuxfromscratch
Yeah this one caught my eye too ... he slagged a whole bunch of OSes after saying he didn't follow them. Its pretty tough to know if something is techinically interesting if you don't follow any of the developments on it. If you don't know anything about the OS, just say that.
>>My problem is staying out of women's pants, not getting in. Don't forget your raingear! AIDS is high in Brasil.