What the fsck do they mean "more than anticipated"? From what I've been hearing on NPR, watching on TV, and Reading online there has been quite a bit of anticipation about how these machines would fail in, various ways, to perform the task of executing a fair and free election.
The proccess by which you can mod an xbox with only two jumpers allows you to flash the "mod" bios directly onto the Xbox's native flash it will allow all the same features as most mdo-chips, but you are limited to bios's under 256k with most newer xbox units.
I bought a pair of 30 gig desktars when they first came out and they are still humming away in a nice stripped array a few years later. Still work just like the day I bought them. While the failure rate on these drives was exceptionally high I think that the problem was probably poor QA and not poor design. A peek around the internet shows there are others with similar experiences to mine. Just my.02
Dynebolic will boot on an Xbox.... I might be mistaken, but I believe that all the kernel hacking bits to make linux work on Xbox have been accepted into the main 2.6 tree so the next generation of live CDs should theoretically all be Xbox compatible.
I really think that Live CD distros might end up being Linux's killer app. I mean with the current state of the OS and it's compatibility with existing office applications and whatnot the "last mile" is all we really need and that is actually getting people to try it. Now I don't know about you, but most people that I know that aren't technically minded are not going to be willing to mess around with repartitioning their only hard drive to try linux. However everyone that I've shown knoppix to has been very impressed with the ease of use and compatibility with exisisting hardware and files produced with non-linux applications. If you can get 5 people to try linux with a live CD then 1 of them might convert to linux full time and it's likely that the ones who aren't interested will pass the knoppix CDs off to someone else...
once the last mile is crossed we will have arrived.
P.S. knoppix boots faster than alot of XP installs that alone might be enough.
I may be incorrect, but a friend of mine in Germany told me that this is not as unusual as it sounds, it seems that German copyright law defines fair use in such a way that it is perfectly legal to make "personal" copies of recordings for friends and family members as long as you don't charge a fee.
Radio transmitters are a waste of time. The sound quality even with a higher end transmitter is terribly, when driving any distance in a metropolitan area you can't rely on any station being clear, and they all cost MONEY. Why buy extra stuff, most modrn car stereo recievers have connections on the back for a CD disc changer and it's usually a trivial matter to add a 1/8" headphone jack to the changer input to connect your mp3 player to. It took me all of 10 minutes to do this to my Sony head unit and if you aren't up to making a cable you can even buy one premeade for less than a radio transmitter if you look around.
This is a insightful observation. Instead of developing disc that degrade by themselves, how about they spend some cash developing discs that resist corruption!
Even that is slightly misleading, software exploits which make use of the buffer overflow in games such as Agent Under Fire, Mech Assault, or Splinter Cell still work fully and are not fixable with a simple Live update. Live is run as software from the HD *ONLY* when the xbox is booted w/o a bootable disc in the drive. Now the bios in an un modified xbox is unflashable unless you make a few jumper connections on the motherboard at which point it's quite easy to use one of the aforementioned game exploits to load a bios reflashing program which can flash the hacked "mod bios" of your choice directly over the original xbox bios/firmware. The result is an xbox that can run unsigned code and load DVDs without a mediacheck and that didn't require the addition of any "chip" or other addon hardware except two 1/8" 30ga wire jumpers.
Well if you are only using computers for accessing the internet I guess any old solution will do, but I'd hardly call this a "networking solution" for a real lan nor a reasonable alternative to CAT5, next generation wireless technology, or sneaker net for that matter.
here here! It'd be nice if instead of using new technology to implement outdated solutions there was more of a push to use technology to create innovation.
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Perhaps, but i don't think any of the projects in this book would be reasonable to work on with someone who has little/no computer experience. I think that probably the majority of people in my generation have parents who have no idea how to use a computer beyond reading e-mail at work and writing TPS reports... Maybe I'm being narrow minded or ignorant, but the older books of this type only required a very general knowledge that could be easily learned by anyone (I.E. wielding a hammer, gluing wood, or attaching a lamp cord) which is quite different than the sort of specific an technical knowledge required to do even the simplest linux tasks (I.E. downloading and installing an RPM, Configuring a network interface) let alone the more complex tasks such as getting Vgetty to work in a practical application.
I'm not saying that any of this would not be suitable for someone who has the time/interest/knowledge to work on, but it may actually end up being a dividing wedge between children and parents and not necessarily the family building book it is billed as being. As a 12/13 year old I can remeber distinctly not speaking with my mom for days on end because because I was trying to setup a BBS or coding an adventure game.
Perhaps this book would be more relavent for families created by my generation, where computer knowledge is a fundamentaly more basic knowledge.
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Maybe after building the family a no-cost-to-them Freevo they might loosen the purse strings and fork over a couple hundred on an eBay machine in hopes of another family enchancer.
I'd hardly call a machine that allows one to watch more TV a "family enhancer". Unless it was built as a family project, however growing up a computer addicted child I find that most computer projects are not something you want your mom working on:)
An Olympus OM1 or OM2 can be had for a hundred bucks w/ a lense or two on Ebay. They are simple to use have auto exposure and full manual modes and because they didn't go to autofocus when the big boys did there are a ton of them available that were built in the early eighties and don't have more than a 100 rolls shot through them.
MY athlon once caught fire after a catastrophic water cooling failure. The temperature inside the case were hot enough to melt the solder off of my video card and there was electrical arcingfrom an unfused power supply to my peltier junction. Also I'm typing this post on it right now (w/ a different video card):)
This was later tested and disproved, it seems that THC is only produced in the buds and leaves of marijuana and as such grafting hops onto a marijuana root stock produces no measurable THC.
Noam chomsky has since said that the introduction was used without his permission and further more that he disagrees with the "findings" of the book. His introduction is about supporting research of all kinds and not discrediting research just because the findings may be contrary to the popular belief.
Railroads would probably be a more accurate comparison. Where the infrastructure is paid for and maintained by a company that originally intended it for only their trains. You would hardly expect amtrak to let "Joe Trillian's Free* Train Service" run on their tracks free of charge, especially if the free* train service was turning a profit.
Also, you wouldn't expect a bakery to let the "across town bakery" use some of their display case space to sell their cookies, without being compensated.
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yes, I agree, but I read somewhere that this story was plagarised from yahoo :)
I hope they aren't, I'd rather see SCO get sued up the wazoo by the people they duped...
What the fsck do they mean "more than anticipated"? From what I've been hearing on NPR, watching on TV, and Reading online there has been quite a bit of anticipation about how these machines would fail in, various ways, to perform the task of executing a fair and free election.
The proccess by which you can mod an xbox with only two jumpers allows you to flash the "mod" bios directly onto the Xbox's native flash it will allow all the same features as most mdo-chips, but you are limited to bios's under 256k with most newer xbox units.
I live in Berkeley as well, but was under the impression that this was a state law and not a local one.
I bought a pair of 30 gig desktars when they first came out and they are still humming away in a nice stripped array a few years later. Still work just like the day I bought them. While the failure rate on these drives was exceptionally high I think that the problem was probably poor QA and not poor design. A peek around the internet shows there are others with similar experiences to mine. Just my .02
Dynebolic will boot on an Xbox.... I might be mistaken, but I believe that all the kernel hacking bits to make linux work on Xbox have been accepted into the main 2.6 tree so the next generation of live CDs should theoretically all be Xbox compatible.
once the last mile is crossed we will have arrived.
P.S. knoppix boots faster than alot of XP installs that alone might be enough.
I may be incorrect, but a friend of mine in Germany told me that this is not as unusual as it sounds, it seems that German copyright law defines fair use in such a way that it is perfectly legal to make "personal" copies of recordings for friends and family members as long as you don't charge a fee.
Radio transmitters are a waste of time. The sound quality even with a higher end transmitter is terribly, when driving any distance in a metropolitan area you can't rely on any station being clear, and they all cost MONEY. Why buy extra stuff, most modrn car stereo recievers have connections on the back for a CD disc changer and it's usually a trivial matter to add a 1/8" headphone jack to the changer input to connect your mp3 player to. It took me all of 10 minutes to do this to my Sony head unit and if you aren't up to making a cable you can even buy one premeade for less than a radio transmitter if you look around.
Yeah like a DVD of Gigli that over times becomes a Godfather box set!
This is a insightful observation. Instead of developing disc that degrade by themselves, how about they spend some cash developing discs that resist corruption!
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Hey, if you're gonna be such an ass, why don't you come down from your high horse and post with your login instead of anonymous... Jerk
I'm not sure if i'm ignorant or what, but I don't understand the connection between the iwojima picture and the devil logo. Care to fill me in?
Well if you are only using computers for accessing the internet I guess any old solution will do, but I'd hardly call this a "networking solution" for a real lan nor a reasonable alternative to CAT5, next generation wireless technology, or sneaker net for that matter.
here here! It'd be nice if instead of using new technology to implement outdated solutions there was more of a push to use technology to create innovation.
Perhaps, but i don't think any of the projects in this book would be reasonable to work on with someone who has little/no computer experience. I think that probably the majority of people in my generation have parents who have no idea how to use a computer beyond reading e-mail at work and writing TPS reports... Maybe I'm being narrow minded or ignorant, but the older books of this type only required a very general knowledge that could be easily learned by anyone (I.E. wielding a hammer, gluing wood, or attaching a lamp cord) which is quite different than the sort of specific an technical knowledge required to do even the simplest linux tasks (I.E. downloading and installing an RPM, Configuring a network interface) let alone the more complex tasks such as getting Vgetty to work in a practical application.
I'm not saying that any of this would not be suitable for someone who has the time/interest/knowledge to work on, but it may actually end up being a dividing wedge between children and parents and not necessarily the family building book it is billed as being. As a 12/13 year old I can remeber distinctly not speaking with my mom for days on end because because I was trying to setup a BBS or coding an adventure game.
Perhaps this book would be more relavent for families created by my generation, where computer knowledge is a fundamentaly more basic knowledge.
An Olympus OM1 or OM2 can be had for a hundred bucks w/ a lense or two on Ebay. They are simple to use have auto exposure and full manual modes and because they didn't go to autofocus when the big boys did there are a ton of them available that were built in the early eighties and don't have more than a 100 rolls shot through them.
MY athlon once caught fire after a catastrophic water cooling failure. The temperature inside the case were hot enough to melt the solder off of my video card and there was electrical arcingfrom an unfused power supply to my peltier junction. Also I'm typing this post on it right now (w/ a different video card) :)
This was later tested and disproved, it seems that THC is only produced in the buds and leaves of marijuana and as such grafting hops onto a marijuana root stock produces no measurable THC.
Noam chomsky has since said that the introduction was used without his permission and further more that he disagrees with the "findings" of the book. His introduction is about supporting research of all kinds and not discrediting research just because the findings may be contrary to the popular belief.
FYI ide HD's and standard floppy drives always (at least in my experience) have the #1 pin on the same side as the power connector YMMV
Railroads would probably be a more accurate comparison. Where the infrastructure is paid for and maintained by a company that originally intended it for only their trains. You would hardly expect amtrak to let "Joe Trillian's Free* Train Service" run on their tracks free of charge, especially if the free* train service was turning a profit. Also, you wouldn't expect a bakery to let the "across town bakery" use some of their display case space to sell their cookies, without being compensated.