This thread doubtless is down to only us, but thankx for the link; I didn't know about PTS DOS, even though I use(d) arachne's browser -- an efficient, monstrously-ugly thing (on which DR-DOS under Caldera built its own browser.)
To answer your question, I agree that a full version upgrade for this feature, promised by Caldera back in 1995 or 6, is overkill. But perhaps the leap from RH 8 to 9 or Slack from 4.x to 7 IIRC inspired them.;o}
I've been using DrDOS (Caldera OpenDOS) 7.03 for many years now; it came with Caldera 1.3 Linux' DosEMU package and a free for individual use license, so I have installed it on all my boxes (it uses Lilo to dual/triple boot) as I still use several DOS programs, and it runs under DosEMU in my Knoppix 3.2 hard disk install as well.
And, yeah, I would call version 7.03 stable (although 7.0 and 7.02 definitely were NOT stable when using DPMS.) I have never had an issue with it, uptimes rivaled Linux.
Some DOS programs are irreplaceable (Dragmax and Pipemax for auto racers, several truly great astrology programs, and my favorite scientific encyclopedia -- Compton's original CD. The Windows versions of it do not have as much content unless you count "movie clips" as content.)
So it's time to upgrade so I can read/write FAT32 partitions, as well, I guess. I just hate to see a "free" (as in beer) license go commercial, though.
Small is nice, but I have used various computing devices for the past fifteen years to write/edit with varying degress of success. First, about keyboards: They are personal choices. Some writers have favorite instruments: some use a pen and yellow-lined paper, others like Vonnegut use index cards and a pencil. Me, I touchtype. If you don't, you will not be slowed down by non-standard keyspacing. If you do, however, getting used to a smaller keyboard may get in the way of the "creative process."
I first used an old (even then, in 1990) IBM PC-II 8086 with the usual 9" yellow-on-black display. I discovered that the more of what I have written is displayed on the screen, the better I edit -- and write, too. Scrolling up and down looking for where a long sentence or paragraph started is no fun at all on a small screen.
I then tried a Full Page display, which was tits, but I had a devil of a time getting WordPerfect to display the full screen on it.
Then, about 1992, I bought a new laptop, my first new computer and a huge investment. Big mistake, as it had a cramped 8 1/2 in display on which I could barely make out the text.
Small keyboards and small displays suck for me as a writer; they may for you too. My favorite road instrument now is an old IBM Thinkpad without the floppy or CD-ROM drives installed to save weight. Its 12-inch display is OK for editing and shows enough lines to keep the scrolling to a minimum.
At home, I have replaced the old FP with a 19-inch monitor and I write/edit in 2-column in WP-8 for Linux at the smallest point size I can read easily. For displaying lots of text, choose a serif style as it is quicker to be recognized by the eye.
Think thrice about the PDAs unless you don't touch-type and your stories are very, very short.
That's good to know. I installed v.3.3, but I was considering going back to 3.2 hoping it will be more compatible with Debian testing/unstable.
Perhaps I will do that instead of overwriting Knoppix with RH-9, Mepis or the old, downloadable version of Libra.
Knoppix works fine, and I would definitely recommend a version that was easy to upgrade via apt-get, and which will compile x-window apps if needed.
I don't compile kernels any more, I install the binaries with package managers. I tried building monolithics, modulars, small ones, several optimizations, and the memory requirements were much the same, and no benchmarks showed any measurable difference in speed among them. None of them crashed.
The stock Knoppix kernel (v.3.3) has recorded the fastest hdparm hard disk readings of any distro I have tried. Memory figures are also tops.
upgrades are tough on Knoppix. I installed 9-26-2003 on my hd and nothing from any version of Debian that depended on QT, libgnome, or GTK would install because, apparently, Knoppix uses more up-to-date libraries than even testing. Apt-get was no help there.
So I downloaded sources and tried to compile. Nothing using the x-window system -- not even Blackbox! -- would compile at all. The ONLY program I could successfully compile from source was ytree, which does not use X.
Worse, I could not get python scripts that ran perfectly on my old RH system to run, although some of the simpler binaries I compiled on RH-6.2 (including ytree) worked flawlessly on Knoppix.
To get back to your question; installing the binary *.deb kernel package alongside (not replacing) the current kernel should work perfectly. Modify lilo or grub to see the new kernel then run it to install and you are good to go.
As for compiling from source -- I wouldn't count on Knoppix on hard disk to be able to compile a kernel.
So, Knoppix on a hard drive has serious drawbacks with regard to upgrading. If you know something I am missing, let me know.
Wp5.1 for DOS was, like all other WP DOS versions, was written in assembly language for "fast keyboard response" according to WP Corp. way back when.
I still use it on DOSemu (easy, start it with -c -k and all the function keys work as expected.)
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A smoking gun. Or a bullet with marks that match Israel's gunbarrel. In other words, FACTS, rather than some *unprovable* story about Israelis being warned beforehand. That's just unsupportable by the facts.
Didn't you even hear BenLaden's broadcast after the attack? Are you "blind to the stupidities of the world" to quote myself?
You make interesting points, which stretch my abilities to explain my understanding.
Freud and others used the Oedipus story as metaphor, just as Sophocles did. Yes, the myth appeared well before his time, that's why I complained that he changed it to popularize it.
Nevertheless, if you read (or see the play performed) you will understand the situation presented (whether his grandfather was involved or not): the nation, after the death of the previous king, was thrown into a deep depression of spirit and action. Nothing made sense any more, the cops did not flourish because the weather was dull and gray, without enough sunlight. Wars prevailed, where before peace had been common. Etc.
These are the situations of our adult years as opposed to the childhood we cannot remember. And why is it, exactly, that our culture considers it normal to have blacked out this most-significant portion of our histories -- the years before two or three?
A poet wrote: "The child is father to the man." It is in this sense that the Oedipus story makes sense. We have killed the child we used to be, and replaced him with a mask (persona*) of our own design and creation. We marry women whom we expect to take care of us as a mother does, and for whom we (as males) offer security, support and protection, like their father did. And we become blind to the stupidities of the world.
Which brings us back to my lead sentence.
This is the meaning of the Oedipus myth with respect to the forbidden subjects the article discusses.
I brought in Christian theology because Jesus taught methods to break the Oedipus comples. When he said his mother was a virgin, the mother he referred to was his father's wife == not the physical mother who bore him, but the mataphorical mother who rebore him in his rebirth -- an event that accompanies the breaking of the Eodipus complex.
The result of the breaking of the Oedipus Complex many times is complete restoration of the memories and inner life of the child we used to be and forgot. This has happened to me. That is how I remember, on the second or third day of my life, that I was here to have an experience of human life, and to bring that experience with me after death.
Or, as Hadrian wrote in his journal the night before he died of a chronic illness: Let us see whether we can enter Death with our eyes open."
This stuf is not fixed yet in my mind, so any ideas of yours will be welcome. We can disagree and both still be right.
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Perhaps I ought not to respond. But I will point out the link is to an article in which an organization says without proof that such and such thing happened.
Any organization can say anything without proof. May I remind you Saddam Hussein's information minister denied the US troops were at Baghdad's gates.
For more detail, see my other post about the cultural Oedipus complex. You say the Emporer's clothes are made in Israel, when, indeed, he is naked-- metaphorically speaking.
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Just because the Post publishes a story does not make it true, given the Post's previous history of presenting fiction as fact.
Same for the NYT, which not only printed fiction-as-fact but had to fire several layers of editors to save face, who printed the Lewinsky story only to drop the attribution to the National Star to "below the fold" (a *serious* breach of newspaper ethics and standars), and which published as fact an ersatz story by fictionital Ph.D.s about GWB and other presidents' IQs comparedby by examining their writings and speeches.
Even I took the three or four minutes to search Google (in vain) for the doctors mentioned in the latter story (which I first saw a month before in an email from a friend), the journal that published the research, and the medical school they worked for.
The state of the dead tree press in this country is dreadul.
They have to compete with the Hearsts, AOL/TWs, Moonies, etc., I guess.
to the stupididties of the world, unlike the little boy in the "Emporer's New Clothes."
Because we cannot remember our own childhoods, we are divorced from our true selves and put on the mask of personality to get on in the world.
This is the true meaning of the Oedipus myth: that we abandon the knowledge that we are (pieces of) God to take on the cultural biases and perceptions forced on us by family and culture.
Of course this "confortable disease" (to quote e.e.cummings) is widespread and throughout history -- because we are not humans in search of the spiritual, we are spirits in search of the human experience.
We just forgot.
And you might want to reread the Emporer's New Clothes to remind us what happens to children who expose reality. Or read about the life of Jesus for the same lesson. (Virgin birth == Metaphor)
Obviously, like most people, you don't understand statistics.
If you have a list with four variables, say, sex, age, zipcode and viewing habits, and add to it a list with some other variables, say, sex, name, age and zipcode, you can very easily determine six or seven variables for any individual on both lists,
That's the danger. You give your name and SSN to one vendor and he sells the list you're on to someone else, you has your address and sex, etc,. until DoubleClick or whoever has full info on you.
They might have lots of cash. You may remember that Caldera acquired SCO after settling a suit with MS over DR-DOS for a reported 250-million dollars in the first year, and undisclosed further payments over two more years, IIRC.
So, unless SCO has an incredible burn rate reminiscent of the nineties, they might have enough stashed to pay Boies up front, as if he needs the money.
But perhaps that suit and its windfall -- the first profit Caldera probably ever made -- gave them a new business plan: buy and sue.
________________________ I have seen war. You will not like it.
When the 'check engine' light comes on, open the hood, find the cable that comes up from the trans area and leads to a box usually near the driver's side fender well. Take out a ballpoint pen, and, with a flashlight and small mirror, stick the pen (either end) in the smaller hole with the (usually) blue button until you feel it trip and hear a loud (for a bimmer) click. You're done, light's off. If it's not, do the other button.
The facts of your post do not move me; what convinces me is the feeling of your memory. It fits with my own memories, and those of Noam Chomsky, Einstein and Freud, all of whom admitted to early childhood memories.
Me, too.
Although I do not remember my birth, I do remember a very few days later, as I posted elsewhere. And the meaning of these memories has become very clear: We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience -- we are spirits in search of the human.
As Hadrian wrote in his last entry to his journal (he knew he was dying) "Let us see whether we can enter death with our eyes open." Perhaps that's the same thought you expressed to close with.
The big question (for me) goes unanswered: Why do we consider it normal to have blacked out (a sign of trauma or psychosis) not a weekend but our entire childhood before about three years?
Having had a near-death experience and being reborn afterward, I found my entire childhood laid out before me once again. I can even remember my grandmother teaching my mother how to change my diaper. I felt very secure with her holding me upside down by the ankles while she shook baby powder on my rear. I wanted to be able to see her to recognize her next time....(Infants cannot see for the first few days/weeks.)
I remember seeing red as a color first, and wondered why hot things were not uniformly colored this shade to warn us.
I remember sore knees and hands from crawling on the rough rugs of our home.
And I can remember remembering what it was like before I was born -- a little like remembering you dreamt this morning, but not being able to remember the CONTENTS of the dream....
"I am constantly awaiting a renaissance of wonder." -- Ferlinghetti
I guess psychology and war are not the editor's strong points.
Fearlessness is NOT related to military morale. Morale seems to depend more on confidence of victory or of trust of immediate leadership. Fear is what a soldier focuses on FOR THE MOMENT. Many soldiers have had good morale and froze in actual battle.
Second, there is NO MENTION of military uses or effects of this discovery in the article, so where does the editor of a tech column get off going in that direction?
I would suggest you know about a thing before you use the power of editorship to make your own paranoid and knee-jerk reactions seem appropriate.
And speaking of paranoia -- embedded fear quickly becomes that in any person, warping his/her view of the world into seeming to be the dangerous place his/her body/emotions feel it is.
In effect, you make the world that fits your expectations.
Perhaps that's why there are no cynical scientists -- they are creating something. Can we say there are no paranoid/. editors?
Perhaps our editor could use some of the results of the experimental cure mentioned in the article.
Is it that 2.5 is getting so much better than 2.4 that its developers' enthusiasm is overcoming their natural reticence, or is it that there are OpenSource flacks working the free publicity mill for the impending release of 2.6?
Next, Google will put this on their front page, quoting/. as their source and linking to it.
Haven't you heard it's rude to ask a woman her age? Seriously, I am lost before 1982 or so on CP/M. Was there a relationship between CP/M and DR? I know about the aquisistion of the rights to CP/M by BG, but nothing before.
BTW, I used Arpanet or something very much like it and Unix back in the 70s at the U of Conn, Well, I didn't exactly use it, a friend did, but I was there.... He'd telnet from university to university trying to get some free CPU time or to find game partners. Dungeons and Dragons was big then.
But enough reminiscing...or I'll wax sentimental about my first bike, a new Honda Dream. No, not the Super Hawk. The Dream. The Linux of motorcycles!
I thought their layoff plans and red ink were common knowledge; if you enter "AMD plans layoff" in Google (www.google.com -- save me from writing in HTML, please) and you'll get six or seven pages of *relevant* hits. Try any and/or all of them.
Well, let's see. Microsoft first drove Digital Research's superior DOS to near-oblivion by allowing IBM XT buyers to choose MS-DOS for free or to pay for DR DOS via a very low priced bundle deal (read nearly free) with IBM.
When GeoWorks had a workable competitor to 16-bit Windows, MS had nearly-free DOS/Windows bundle deals with almost every OEM.
When MS charged for IE, before Windows 95, and Netscape troubled them, they incorporated it into the OS, so it was free as in without extra cost.
Intel is doing the same thing. When the heat was still on them just after their favorable anti-trust judgment, they allowed AMD to gain almost 5-per cent market share. Now that the heat from the Feds is off, and the heat from the investors is up, they are disallowing AMD market share by dropping prices so low AMD has to sell at a loss.
Every monopolist does this. __ I have seen war. You will not like it.
I grew up with DOS, too. If you installed Borland's Sidekick (many did) successfully, you can compile. That's the stuff that went on in Sidekick's install process: it used Borland's compiler -- and that's why it ran so well.
I just finished *this morning* compiling a 2.2.22 (yes, RH-6.2) for my box. Use the.config file from the stock kernel sources for your distro, usually in/usr/src/linux* (you may have to install them) open a root terminal window in/usr/src, issue `make xconfig' choose the.config from the load configuration file box and start disabling everything you KNOW you do not need. The help buttons are mostly very helpful. If your box is used for web surfing, compile in ppp, same with lpd if you need to print. Unless you have a SCSI drive, disable all SCSI boxes. Load as much of your equipment into the kernel as you can, and disable the modules that enable hardware and features you don't have or use, like firewire or USB. Make sure equipment you DO HAVE are supported either in the kernel or as a module. Keep doing `next' until the end, when there is no `next.' Choose Main Menu,
Then save the new configuration. Do a 'make dep bzImage modules modules_install' and copy the ~/System.map file as System.map-new.kernel.number and drill down to/usr/linux/arch/i86/boot and copy bzImage as vmlinuz-number.of.kernel to/boot.
from/usr/src/linux , do make modules_install. Modify/etc.lilo.conf to include the new kernel and System.map. Activate lilo (/sbin/lilo -v -v).
Reboot into new kernel. If you get lots of error messages about modules not loading, reboot at the command prompt, and everything will have been rewritten magically. Use your new kernel for testing. You may find you want to try another configuration. Do it all again, changing the Makefile each time under line 3 EXTRAVERSION with another digit or letter to keep it from overwriting a working kernel when you copy in to/boot and to keep the modules straight (though they appear not to care....)
Frankly, I've tried nine builds and although my kernels are smaller than stock, use about 5Kb less RAM and benchmarks seem to indicate about 5-6 per cent increase in speed, I feel no difference in use.
I do feel better knowing I am using the latest (and perhaps the last) kernel in the 2.2.x series, though. FWIW.
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This thread doubtless is down to only us, but thankx for the link; I didn't know about PTS DOS, even though I use(d) arachne's browser -- an efficient, monstrously-ugly thing (on which DR-DOS under Caldera built its own browser.)
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To answer your question, I agree that a full version upgrade for this feature, promised by Caldera back in 1995 or 6, is overkill. But perhaps the leap from RH 8 to 9 or Slack from 4.x to 7 IIRC inspired them.
I've been using DrDOS (Caldera OpenDOS) 7.03 for many years now; it came with Caldera 1.3 Linux' DosEMU package and a free for individual use license, so I have installed it on all my boxes (it uses Lilo to dual/triple boot) as I still use several DOS programs, and it runs under DosEMU in my Knoppix 3.2 hard disk install as well.
And, yeah, I would call version 7.03 stable (although 7.0 and 7.02 definitely were NOT stable when using DPMS.) I have never had an issue with it, uptimes rivaled Linux.
Some DOS programs are irreplaceable (Dragmax and Pipemax for auto racers, several truly great astrology programs, and my favorite scientific encyclopedia -- Compton's original CD. The Windows versions of it do not have as much content unless you count "movie clips" as content.)
So it's time to upgrade so I can read/write FAT32 partitions, as well, I guess. I just hate to see a "free" (as in beer) license go commercial, though.
Small is nice, but I have used various computing devices for the past fifteen years to write/edit with varying degress of success. First, about keyboards: They are personal choices. Some writers have favorite instruments: some use a pen and yellow-lined paper, others like Vonnegut use index cards and a pencil. Me, I touchtype. If you don't, you will not be slowed down by non-standard keyspacing. If you do, however, getting used to a smaller keyboard may get in the way of the "creative process."
I first used an old (even then, in 1990) IBM PC-II 8086 with the usual 9" yellow-on-black display. I discovered that the more of what I have written is displayed on the screen, the better I edit -- and write, too. Scrolling up and down looking for where a long sentence or paragraph started is no fun at all on a small screen.
I then tried a Full Page display, which was tits, but I had a devil of a time getting WordPerfect to display the full screen on it.
Then, about 1992, I bought a new laptop, my first new computer and a huge investment. Big mistake, as it had a cramped 8 1/2 in display on which I could barely make out the text.
Small keyboards and small displays suck for me as a writer; they may for you too. My favorite road instrument now is an old IBM Thinkpad without the floppy or CD-ROM drives installed to save weight. Its 12-inch display is OK for editing and shows enough lines to keep the scrolling to a minimum.
At home, I have replaced the old FP with a 19-inch monitor and I write/edit in 2-column in WP-8 for Linux at the smallest point size I can read easily. For displaying lots of text, choose a serif style as it is quicker to be recognized by the eye.
Think thrice about the PDAs unless you don't touch-type and your stories are very, very short.
That's good to know. I installed v.3.3, but I was considering going back to 3.2 hoping it will be more compatible with Debian testing/unstable.
Perhaps I will do that instead of overwriting Knoppix with RH-9, Mepis or the old, downloadable version of Libra.
Knoppix works fine, and I would definitely recommend a version that was easy to upgrade via apt-get, and which will compile x-window apps if needed.
I don't compile kernels any more, I install the binaries with package managers. I tried building monolithics, modulars, small ones, several optimizations, and the memory requirements were much the same, and no benchmarks showed any measurable difference in speed among them. None of them crashed.
The stock Knoppix kernel (v.3.3) has recorded the fastest hdparm hard disk readings of any distro I have tried. Memory figures are also tops.
Good distro. Thanks for the help.
upgrades are tough on Knoppix. I installed 9-26-2003 on my hd and nothing from any version of Debian that depended on QT, libgnome, or GTK would install because, apparently, Knoppix uses more up-to-date libraries than even testing. Apt-get was no help there.
So I downloaded sources and tried to compile. Nothing using the x-window system -- not even Blackbox! -- would compile at all. The ONLY program I could successfully compile from source was ytree, which does not use X.
Worse, I could not get python scripts that ran perfectly on my old RH system to run, although some of the simpler binaries I compiled on RH-6.2 (including ytree) worked flawlessly on Knoppix.
To get back to your question; installing the binary *.deb kernel package alongside (not replacing) the current kernel should work perfectly. Modify lilo or grub to see the new kernel then run it to install and you are good to go.
As for compiling from source -- I wouldn't count on Knoppix on hard disk to be able to compile a kernel.
So, Knoppix on a hard drive has serious drawbacks with regard to upgrading. If you know something I am missing, let me know.
Wp5.1 for DOS was, like all other WP DOS versions, was written in assembly language for "fast keyboard response" according to WP Corp. way back when.
I still use it on DOSemu (easy, start it with -c -k and all the function keys work as expected.)
A smoking gun. Or a bullet with marks that match Israel's gunbarrel. In other words, FACTS, rather than some *unprovable* story about Israelis being warned beforehand. That's just unsupportable by the facts. Didn't you even hear BenLaden's broadcast after the attack? Are you "blind to the stupidities of the world" to quote myself?
You make interesting points, which stretch my abilities to explain my understanding.
Freud and others used the Oedipus story as metaphor, just as Sophocles did. Yes, the myth appeared well before his time, that's why I complained that he changed it to popularize it.
Nevertheless, if you read (or see the play performed) you will understand the situation presented (whether his grandfather was involved or not): the nation, after the death of the previous king, was thrown into a deep depression of spirit and action. Nothing made sense any more, the cops did not flourish because the weather was dull and gray, without enough sunlight. Wars prevailed, where before peace had been common. Etc.
These are the situations of our adult years as opposed to the childhood we cannot remember. And why is it, exactly, that our culture considers it normal to have blacked out this most-significant portion of our histories -- the years before two or three?
A poet wrote: "The child is father to the man." It is in this sense that the Oedipus story makes sense. We have killed the child we used to be, and replaced him with a mask (persona*) of our own design and creation. We marry women whom we expect to take care of us as a mother does, and for whom we (as males) offer security, support and protection, like their father did. And we become blind to the stupidities of the world.
Which brings us back to my lead sentence.
This is the meaning of the Oedipus myth with respect to the forbidden subjects the article discusses.
I brought in Christian theology because Jesus taught methods to break the Oedipus comples. When he said his mother was a virgin, the mother he referred to was his father's wife == not the physical mother who bore him, but the mataphorical mother who rebore him in his rebirth -- an event that accompanies the breaking of the Eodipus complex.
The result of the breaking of the Oedipus Complex many times is complete restoration of the memories and inner life of the child we used to be and forgot. This has happened to me. That is how I remember, on the second or third day of my life, that I was here to have an experience of human life, and to bring that experience with me after death.
Or, as Hadrian wrote in his journal the night before he died of a chronic illness: Let us see whether we can enter Death with our eyes open."
This stuf is not fixed yet in my mind, so any ideas of yours will be welcome. We can disagree and both still be right.
Perhaps I ought not to respond. But I will point out the link is to an article in which an organization says without proof that such and such thing happened.
Any organization can say anything without proof. May I remind you Saddam Hussein's information minister denied the US troops were at Baghdad's gates.
For more detail, see my other post about the cultural Oedipus complex. You say the Emporer's clothes are made in Israel, when, indeed, he is naked-- metaphorically speaking.
Just because the Post publishes a story does not make it true, given the Post's previous history of presenting fiction as fact.
Same for the NYT, which not only printed fiction-as-fact but had to fire several layers of editors to save face, who printed the Lewinsky story only to drop the attribution to the National Star to "below the fold" (a *serious* breach of newspaper ethics and standars), and which published as fact an ersatz story by fictionital Ph.D.s about GWB and other presidents' IQs comparedby by examining their writings and speeches.
Even I took the three or four minutes to search Google (in vain) for the doctors mentioned in the latter story (which I first saw a month before in an email from a friend), the journal that published the research, and the medical school they worked for.
The state of the dead tree press in this country is dreadul.
They have to compete with the Hearsts, AOL/TWs, Moonies, etc., I guess.
to the stupididties of the world, unlike the little boy in the "Emporer's New Clothes."
Because we cannot remember our own childhoods, we are divorced from our true selves and put on the mask of personality to get on in the world.
This is the true meaning of the Oedipus myth: that we abandon the knowledge that we are (pieces of) God to take on the cultural biases and perceptions forced on us by family and culture.
Of course this "confortable disease" (to quote e.e.cummings) is widespread and throughout history -- because we are not humans in search of the spiritual, we are spirits in search of the human experience.
We just forgot.
And you might want to reread the Emporer's New Clothes to remind us what happens to children who expose reality. Or read about the life of Jesus for the same lesson. (Virgin birth == Metaphor)
Obviously, like most people, you don't understand statistics. If you have a list with four variables, say, sex, age, zipcode and viewing habits, and add to it a list with some other variables, say, sex, name, age and zipcode, you can very easily determine six or seven variables for any individual on both lists, That's the danger. You give your name and SSN to one vendor and he sells the list you're on to someone else, you has your address and sex, etc,. until DoubleClick or whoever has full info on you.
after he resigned the Office of The Vice President (of the US) in 1972 rather than stand trial for accepting bribes while in office.
Business has no ethics at all.
Lineo is the embedded division of Caldera/SCO Open.
They might have lots of cash. You may remember that Caldera acquired SCO after settling a suit with MS over DR-DOS for a reported 250-million dollars in the first year, and undisclosed further payments over two more years, IIRC.
So, unless SCO has an incredible burn rate reminiscent of the nineties, they might have enough stashed to pay Boies up front, as if he needs the money.
But perhaps that suit and its windfall -- the first profit Caldera probably ever made -- gave them a new business plan: buy and sue.
________________________
I have seen war. You will not like it.
When the 'check engine' light comes on, open the hood, find the cable that comes up from the trans area and leads to a box usually near the driver's side fender well. Take out a ballpoint pen, and, with a flashlight and small mirror, stick the pen (either end) in the smaller hole with the (usually) blue button until you feel it trip and hear a loud (for a bimmer) click. You're done, light's off. If it's not, do the other button.
The facts of your post do not move me; what convinces me is the feeling of your memory. It fits with my own memories, and those of Noam Chomsky, Einstein and Freud, all of whom admitted to early childhood memories.
Me, too.
Although I do not remember my birth, I do remember a very few days later, as I posted elsewhere. And the meaning of these memories has become very clear: We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience -- we are spirits in search of the human.
As Hadrian wrote in his last entry to his journal (he knew he was dying) "Let us see whether we can enter death with our eyes open." Perhaps that's the same thought you expressed to close with.
We are very, very lucky to have this wisdom.
Anna
Oh, great, 657 posts ahead of me!
The big question (for me) goes unanswered: Why do we consider it normal to have blacked out (a sign of trauma or psychosis) not a weekend but our entire childhood before about three years?
Having had a near-death experience and being reborn afterward, I found my entire childhood laid out before me once again. I can even remember my grandmother teaching my mother how to change my diaper. I felt very secure with her holding me upside down by the ankles while she shook baby powder on my rear. I wanted to be able to see her to recognize her next time....(Infants cannot see for the first few days/weeks.)
I remember seeing red as a color first, and wondered why hot things were not uniformly colored this shade to warn us.
I remember sore knees and hands from crawling on the rough rugs of our home.
And I can remember remembering what it was like before I was born -- a little like remembering you dreamt this morning, but not being able to remember the CONTENTS of the dream....
"I am constantly awaiting a renaissance of wonder." -- Ferlinghetti
I guess psychology and war are not the editor's strong points.
/. editors?
Fearlessness is NOT related to military morale. Morale seems to depend more on confidence of victory or of trust of immediate leadership. Fear is what a soldier focuses on FOR THE MOMENT. Many soldiers have had good morale and froze in actual battle.
Second, there is NO MENTION of military uses or effects of this discovery in the article, so where does the editor of a tech column get off going in that direction?
I would suggest you know about a thing before you use the power of editorship to make your own paranoid and knee-jerk reactions seem appropriate.
And speaking of paranoia -- embedded fear quickly becomes that in any person, warping his/her view of the world into seeming to be the dangerous place his/her body/emotions feel it is.
In effect, you make the world that fits your expectations.
Perhaps that's why there are no cynical scientists -- they are creating something. Can we say there are no paranoid
Perhaps our editor could use some of the results of the experimental cure mentioned in the article.
Gone to graveyards, every one. When will they ever learn?
Since it apparently costs no more to make a 17-inch CRT monitor than a 15, that would make Apple's 15s the same price as a mid-line LCD 15.
Umh, which do you think would sell better?
Is it that 2.5 is getting so much better than 2.4 that its developers' enthusiasm is overcoming their natural reticence, or is it that there are OpenSource flacks working the free publicity mill for the impending release of 2.6?
/. as their source and linking to it.
/. noticed a "Google effect?"
Next, Google will put this on their front page, quoting
BTW, has anyone at
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I have seen war. You will not like it.
> What year were you born, kid?
Haven't you heard it's rude to ask a woman her age? Seriously, I am lost before 1982 or so on CP/M. Was there a relationship between CP/M and DR? I know about the aquisistion of the rights to CP/M by BG, but nothing before.
BTW, I used Arpanet or something very much like it and Unix back in the 70s at the U of Conn, Well, I didn't exactly use it, a friend did, but I was there.... He'd telnet from university to university trying to get some free CPU time or to find game partners. Dungeons and Dragons was big then.
But enough reminiscing...or I'll wax sentimental about my first bike, a new Honda Dream. No, not the Super Hawk. The Dream. The Linux of motorcycles!
> Got a link?
I thought their layoff plans and red ink were common knowledge; if you enter "AMD plans layoff" in Google (www.google.com -- save me from writing in HTML, please) and you'll get six or seven pages of *relevant* hits. Try any and/or all of them.
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Stop following me -- I'm not fit to lead!
Well, let's see. Microsoft first drove Digital Research's superior DOS to near-oblivion by allowing IBM XT buyers to choose MS-DOS for free or to pay for DR DOS via a very low priced bundle deal (read nearly free) with IBM.
When GeoWorks had a workable competitor to 16-bit Windows, MS had nearly-free DOS/Windows bundle deals with almost every OEM.
When MS charged for IE, before Windows 95, and Netscape troubled them, they incorporated it into the OS, so it was free as in without extra cost.
Intel is doing the same thing. When the heat was still on them just after their favorable anti-trust judgment, they allowed AMD to gain almost 5-per cent market share. Now that the heat from the Feds is off, and the heat from the investors is up, they are disallowing AMD market share by dropping prices so low AMD has to sell at a loss.
Every monopolist does this.
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I grew up with DOS, too. If you installed Borland's Sidekick (many did) successfully, you can compile. That's the stuff that went on in Sidekick's install process: it used Borland's compiler -- and that's why it ran so well.
.config file from the stock kernel sources for your distro, usually in /usr/src/linux* (you may have to install them) open a root terminal window in /usr/src, issue `make xconfig' choose the .config from the load configuration file box and start disabling everything you KNOW you do not need. The help buttons are mostly very helpful. If your box is used for web surfing, compile in ppp, same with lpd if you need to print. Unless you have a SCSI drive, disable all SCSI boxes. Load as much of your equipment into the kernel as you can, and disable the modules that enable hardware and features you don't have or use, like firewire or USB. Make sure equipment you DO HAVE are supported either in the kernel or as a module. Keep doing `next' until the end, when there is no `next.' Choose Main Menu,
/usr/linux/arch/i86/boot and copy bzImage as vmlinuz-number.of.kernel to /boot.
/usr/src/linux , do make modules_install. /etc.lilo.conf to include the new kernel and System.map. Activate lilo (/sbin/lilo -v -v).
/boot and to keep the modules straight (though they appear not to care....)
I just finished *this morning* compiling a 2.2.22 (yes, RH-6.2) for my box. Use the
Then save the new configuration. Do a 'make dep bzImage modules modules_install' and copy the ~/System.map file as System.map-new.kernel.number and drill down to
from
Modify
Reboot into new kernel. If you get lots of error messages about modules not loading, reboot at the command prompt, and everything will have been rewritten magically. Use your new kernel for testing. You may find you want to try another configuration. Do it all again, changing the Makefile each time under line 3 EXTRAVERSION with another digit or letter to keep it from overwriting a working kernel when you copy in to
Frankly, I've tried nine builds and although my kernels are smaller than stock, use about 5Kb less RAM and benchmarks seem to indicate about 5-6 per cent increase in speed, I feel no difference in use.
I do feel better knowing I am using the latest (and perhaps the last) kernel in the 2.2.x series, though. FWIW.