The Gentoo People and an AC the previous SCO thread beat me to it. There's a very interesting discussion over at LWN, in which Bruce Perens points out that Caldera has put that code under a free licence.
Would it be worth the cost covering subequatorial deserts with solar panels and ship the electricity to the rest of the world? Of course we would lose a lot of electricity because of the transport, we would have to replace the broken panels every once in a while, but wouldn't this still be cheaper than all the petrol, natural gas, uranium we are using for our computers and our cars?
I suppose that we can build solar panels for significantly cheaper if we are going to cover a whole desert with them. Training people to operate the plants in the sahara can't be that expensive. New cars could progressivly be built to use the cheap electric energy. Could this be done or am I talking nonsense?
How many journalists have ever had their cameras confiscated by the cops because the events they had photographed were not supposed to be shown?
Imagine you have this camera, take pictures of JFK playing curling with Henry Kissinger at Princess Diana's garden party, and get caught by the cops before you escape. They can confiscate your camera, which can be insured, but they can't stop the world from discovering the great conpiracy because you already uploaded the pictures to your website and a couple of mirrors.
There's a much easier way to make ice cream in five minutes. My dad invented the method.
Buy some frozen fruits. Here, we find big bags of frozen blueberries and raspberries at the supermarket. Any kind of small fruit will work. For thing like pineapples, see if you can buy small frozen bits. You will also need liquid cream - fresh cream won't do, you'd end up with butter, brown cane sugar and honey.
Put the frozen fruits in a food processer, mix until you get some kind of thick sauce, add just enough cream to keep the ice cream solid enough, add a big spoon or two of honey and enough sugar to remove the bitterness. The temperature of the frozen fruits is usually enough to cool the rest of the ice cream. You can mix some ice cubes if it isn't cold enough. Add a couple of fruits just at the end if you like chunks. Serve in glasses with one frozen fruit on top of each ice cream.
This regulation only applies to electronic goods, e.g. web hosting, music, etc. What stops me from buying this through an US address? Can I just ask someone in the US to buy these and give me full access to them and later send him the money?
The Minitel is an obsolete piece of technology. Yes, it was revolutionary twenty years ago. But it has slowed French innovcation down ever since. The sail has become an anchor.
Why is the Minitel still in use today? France Telecome still makes a significant profit from the overpriced service and has no intention to give it up. The Minitel's prime use is what we use the interenet for, yellow and white pages.
The interface isn't simpler, the boxes are ugly and unpractical, the service costs a fortune. I can't see why the Minitel couldn't be replaced by cheap, mass produced computers connected to the internet.
Apparently, all the hardware supported by MisterHouse runs on 120V.
Having to use 240->120 and 120->240 transformers would be practically impossible. Does anyone know of hardware that would work on this side of the Atlantic?
iCommune's killer feature is its integration with iTunes. Configure your web server running on your NetBSD box to serve your jazz, launch iCommune, add your server to its list, listen to John Coltrane in iTunes.
The songinfo.pls format seems to remain the same, but there is a new file called library.xml which is strikingly similar to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml.
If this file is necessary for interaction with 2.0a, do you reckon there's an easy way to get icommune_indexer to generate it?
This is a small perl script that will generate playlists for servers that do not run Mac OS X.
Yours truly uses it on his Linux box that serves MP3s to the whole house./usr/local/bin/icommune_indexer.pl.mnt/music is triggered by a cron job every night. To install the libraries, you can use debian's apt, CPAN, or whatever floats your boat.
As a matter of fact, the WebCore engine doesn't seem to make it very fast. Is there any way I can make automated, scientific testing? On a dual 1.2 Ghz G4, The Onion takes about 11 seconds to display with Omniweb, which isn't faster than Safari v60. Mozilla 1.4a with http pipelining enabled takes about 8.
On a sidenote, there are some nice new features. Those I've noticed so far are a new download manager and a manual pop-up "Form Editor" that can be used for typing text in a -- you have to try it for yourself. These may already have been implemented in 4.2, which I haven't tried.
I haven't noticed any features missing from the previous versions. In another comment, Gogo Dodo asked whether the Error Log was still here. It is, and it's quite verbose, as can be expected from a beta.
I hope we will see some good features in the next Omniweb release. It's a very nice browser but not having tabs is a pain. Compared to something like Mozilla, it is often quite unpractical.
I'm trying this with a friend and it looks like there might eventually be a possibility of maybe using this over IPv6. When I connect to his address, it says "Searching for Documents" and finds none. Is anyone experiencing this with other protocols?
I think the best way to use this is in a single office, where people can talk to eachother and work on the same code without having to share a keyboard/screen in an akward way. Pair programming is great when you can quickly exchange ideas with your pair.
On a sidenote, I am not happy at all with their hostname, hydra.globalse.com. Am I the only one who thinks this should be globalse.cx?;p
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A new WEP standared is needed (anyone know if one exists/in the works?)
The IEEE 802.11i Task Group is working on "[enhancing] the current 802.11 MAC to provide improvements in security", which includes resolving the WEP problem, among others.
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The Gentoo People and an AC the previous SCO thread beat me to it. There's a very interesting discussion over at LWN, in which Bruce Perens points out that Caldera has put that code under a free licence.
"Improve [...] your intelligence and memory. One of the side effects, however, is an unpleasant body odour."
This is how the slashdot geeks have been for ages!
SCO is trying to do that too.
Would it be worth the cost covering subequatorial deserts with solar panels and ship the electricity to the rest of the world? Of course we would lose a lot of electricity because of the transport, we would have to replace the broken panels every once in a while, but wouldn't this still be cheaper than all the petrol, natural gas, uranium we are using for our computers and our cars?
I suppose that we can build solar panels for significantly cheaper if we are going to cover a whole desert with them. Training people to operate the plants in the sahara can't be that expensive. New cars could progressivly be built to use the cheap electric energy. Could this be done or am I talking nonsense?
They are distributing the linux source code. I downloaded it and therefore have a licence from them :).
e rv er/CSSA-2003-020.0/SRPMS/linux-2.4.13-21S.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/S
How many journalists have ever had their cameras confiscated by the cops because the events they had photographed were not supposed to be shown?
Imagine you have this camera, take pictures of JFK playing curling with Henry Kissinger at Princess Diana's garden party, and get caught by the cops before you escape. They can confiscate your camera, which can be insured, but they can't stop the world from discovering the great conpiracy because you already uploaded the pictures to your website and a couple of mirrors.
The mp3 files are just in an invisible folder. Open a terminal and type "ls -a" in your iPod's root directory (/Volumes/Youripod) to see them.
An embedded linux system could in theory mount the iPod automatically when it is connected and play the files.
They had a radio, and you can listen to French radio from the UK.
I'll try it with yoghurt and blueberries, thanks for the idea :D
There's a much easier way to make ice cream in five minutes. My dad invented the method.
Buy some frozen fruits. Here, we find big bags of frozen blueberries and raspberries at the supermarket. Any kind of small fruit will work. For thing like pineapples, see if you can buy small frozen bits. You will also need liquid cream - fresh cream won't do, you'd end up with butter, brown cane sugar and honey.
Put the frozen fruits in a food processer, mix until you get some kind of thick sauce, add just enough cream to keep the ice cream solid enough, add a big spoon or two of honey and enough sugar to remove the bitterness. The temperature of the frozen fruits is usually enough to cool the rest of the ice cream. You can mix some ice cubes if it isn't cold enough. Add a couple of fruits just at the end if you like chunks. Serve in glasses with one frozen fruit on top of each ice cream.
This regulation only applies to electronic goods, e.g. web hosting, music, etc. What stops me from buying this through an US address? Can I just ask someone in the US to buy these and give me full access to them and later send him the money?
anubi is absolutely right. Open a window and don't leave the CDs in your microwave for too long. I wouldn't breathe the fumes either.
I would mod him/her up but I can't because I posted this comment's grandparent. Can somebody else please do it?
... or put 'em in the microwave for a couple of seconds, shiny side up. Put a sheet of paper below if you don't want to stain the glass plate.
Using a Minitel as an UNIX text console (in French)
...now will you please die?
The Minitel is an obsolete piece of technology. Yes, it was revolutionary twenty years ago. But it has slowed French innovcation down ever since. The sail has become an anchor.
Why is the Minitel still in use today? France Telecome still makes a significant profit from the overpriced service and has no intention to give it up. The Minitel's prime use is what we use the interenet for, yellow and white pages.
The interface isn't simpler, the boxes are ugly and unpractical, the service costs a fortune. I can't see why the Minitel couldn't be replaced by cheap, mass produced computers connected to the internet.
I plan on doing the same thing for my home country of Luxembourg . We plan on crossing the country using six or seven relays. :)
Having to use 240->120 and 120->240 transformers would be practically impossible. Does anyone know of hardware that would work on this side of the Atlantic?
iCommune's killer feature is its integration with iTunes. Configure your web server running on your NetBSD box to serve your jazz, launch iCommune, add your server to its list, listen to John Coltrane in iTunes.
The songinfo.pls format seems to remain the same, but there is a new file called library.xml which is strikingly similar to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml.
If this file is necessary for interaction with 2.0a, do you reckon there's an easy way to get icommune_indexer to generate it?
This is a small perl script that will generate playlists for servers that do not run Mac OS X.
Yours truly uses it on his Linux box that serves MP3s to the whole house. /usr/local/bin/icommune_indexer.pl .mnt/music is triggered by a cron job every night. To install the libraries, you can use debian's apt, CPAN, or whatever floats your boat.
I am posting this with OmniWeb 4.5sp1.
As a matter of fact, the WebCore engine doesn't seem to make it very fast. Is there any way I can make automated, scientific testing? On a dual 1.2 Ghz G4, The Onion takes about 11 seconds to display with Omniweb, which isn't faster than Safari v60. Mozilla 1.4a with http pipelining enabled takes about 8.
On a sidenote, there are some nice new features. Those I've noticed so far are a new download manager and a manual pop-up "Form Editor" that can be used for typing text in a -- you have to try it for yourself. These may already have been implemented in 4.2, which I haven't tried.
I haven't noticed any features missing from the previous versions. In another comment, Gogo Dodo asked whether the Error Log was still here. It is, and it's quite verbose, as can be expected from a beta.
I hope we will see some good features in the next Omniweb release. It's a very nice browser but not having tabs is a pain. Compared to something like Mozilla, it is often quite unpractical.
The .dmg is here. This is their disclaimer/readme.
I'm trying this with a friend and it looks like there might eventually be a possibility of maybe using this over IPv6. When I connect to his address, it says "Searching for Documents" and finds none. Is anyone experiencing this with other protocols?
I think the best way to use this is in a single office, where people can talk to eachother and work on the same code without having to share a keyboard/screen in an akward way. Pair programming is great when you can quickly exchange ideas with your pair.
On a sidenote, I am not happy at all with their hostname, hydra.globalse.com. Am I the only one who thinks this should be globalse.cx? ;p
Encode your files using OGG-S. I am sure your college's IT community would be a great testing and developing environment.
If they crack the encryption, unleash the DMCA on them. Settle only if they let CowboyNeal screw lightbulbs into Hilary Rosen's ears.
The IEEE 802.11i Task Group is working on "[enhancing] the current 802.11 MAC to provide improvements in security", which includes resolving the WEP problem, among others.