Ive had Debian running as a gateway on a 386 with 4mb of ram.. ( I installed it using another computer though ). It was swapping all the time, added another 4mb of ram and it was fine.
So, in conclusion; Use Debian:)
Ive been linux noob for about a year and a bit now, tried FreeBSD prolly three weeks ago. I was impressed too:)
The only real poblems I had was when I was doing a portupgrade... I had to do a bit of manual stuff, and one package refused to compile ( And I had to replace it with a version below ).
And the cool thing about BSD is the licence:) I think im going to release any open source stuff I do under the BSD licence instead of the GNU one.
How ironic:)
Ive been spending the last day or two working on getting a 486 dialup gateway up and running... its an IBM PS/Valuepoint 25Si thing...it is 12.41 bogomips:) Its running Debian stable, with 2.4.18, has a 210 mb hdd, and 16 mb of ram. Its a tempoary replacement for my 386 ( Im making up a special case for my 386 ).
Had a bunch of troubles with the serial stuff built in... setserial thinks its a 16450 UART, and the onboard serial controler thingys dont want to run my modem at 115200 baud.
After much fruiting around, just 15 minutes ago I started rummaging thru my collection of spare parts, and tried some of the multi-IO cards... and just 5 mins ago I tried a baby serial IO one, it appears to be a 16550A UART, and handles 115200 baud no worries:) And thats what im posting this msg thru:)
So there is some useless information for you:)
IMO it would be far more usefull to reasearch the opposite... controling stuff with our mind.
Id _love_ to be able to type with my mind. Code at the speed of thought... imagine that:)
Of course one might have to be carefull their thoughts dont get distracted *cough* opposite sex *cough*:)
A few years ago I was right into my quakeworld.. And I found that after a long winning streak against what were basicly newbies, I could not bare to loose . On many occasions I could loose the plot, and I have broken many mice and keyboards, and even ripped my top off ( it was a good top too ) in a fit of rage.
I have since given up quake world, To mee it is simply a game that is too fast and agressive without a way to vent such agresssion.
IMO, if there was a way to exerciece while playing such a game, eg, optionally, to move you have to run on a treadmill thing or such like, then it would be a very fun game, because my anger would be let out while I run:)
I think another thing that would be neat is a large keyboard designed to be on a wall. You punch and kick the keys while viewing a projection of a screen.. so you could code or irc and get fit at the same time:)
But yeah.. I recon lots of games are bad.. but I still play them.. my latest addiction is that of CS. I have bought three copies of CS Retail.. I have twice deleted CS and broken the CD's simply because I was too addicted to get any work done./GNU throws a flashbang in front of uncle Bill.../GNU throws a SG in front of Bill's plan/GNU gains some market share while Bill cant see:)
Im wondering if there could be a bright side to spyware done by MS.
If their spyware gets to the stage where the data being send back is hogging up bandwidth, then perhaps it will help push bandwidth standards upward.. sort of like how their bloated OS do for puter speed.
An example of spyware bloat is a MS Word document.. if it gets edited back and forth between people, it starts growing really fat because it contains where it has been and who has been viewing and editing it.
Id employ a bunch of kiwis to go out and irrigate starving countrys, and teach the peoples how to grow tucker. And then you could grow and eat lots of rock melons ( the ultimate post doobie fruit ) and try and compile as much of the world to a relaxo state as possible:)
Be nice to upgrade my 56k modem connection too ( although the 386 gateway would have to stay:) )
"So, if one has any faith in God or His omnipotence, he/she shouldn't be discouraged by new theories of science that seem to contradict His existence."
I think good science often goes a long way to prove Gods existence, or in the very least, the existence of design. It is laughable that there are theorys that people adhere to, where with a mix of immeasurable odds and huge lengths of time, the first form life was created. This concept alone is very unlikely, especially given that humans have still not created a simple life form from non biological materials, as must have been the materials before the first form of life.This alone should be clue enough to the fact that life simply did not happen by its self, by fluke, but that it was designed.
Out of interest, I wrote a simple program which creates a random file. Using a Samba, and windows, I ran the program on a linux box, and tried to run the program on windows.
I wanted to see if I could randomly make a.exe file that actually done something useful.. my thoughts being that a computer program is like an __extermely__ simple form of life.
It turns out on my systems, and with code ( please don't mock my newbie code:), improve it if you will ), never ever produced any file that could executed properly, let alone do something useful.
My code is prolly complete arse, but I just wanted to try and put it in perspective, how unlikely it is that life was created randomly. Because it is unlikely. People can write programs with effort and thought and work... they dont just happen by themselves. So it is STUPID to think that life, which is far more complex than a computer program, happened only by chance.
According to the Bible, God created the earth and life on it in 6 days, not 7. God rested on the 7th day.
There are also things written in the Bible about time in relation to God: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" 2 John 3:8. This suggests that god is external to and not affected by the 'dimension' called time.
"A new theory of the universe suggests that space and time may not have begun in a big bang, but may have always existed"
To my line of thinking, it is totally illogical for this massive place this earth is floating around in, to have exploded out of nothing... and then _somehow_ created the amazing order we are able to observe thruout our window and in our linux boxes.
I know that I hit the top of my normal default generic watch lots of times. Wouldnt having a touch screen thing result in lots of 'button' pushage, eg, when sleeping, when reaching into pockets for wallet, you know, general stuff that happens.
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I always wondered what that System Volume Information folder is with windows 2000...
By default you cannot access it, but if you take ownership of it, you will see inside it, a file called tracking.txt or similar. It has werido data in it, but some of the data is clear text, like your computer's name, for example.
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Ive had Debian running as a gateway on a 386 with 4mb of ram.. ( I installed it using another computer though ). It was swapping all the time, added another 4mb of ram and it was fine. So, in conclusion; Use Debian :)
Ive been linux noob for about a year and a bit now, tried FreeBSD prolly three weeks ago. I was impressed too :)
:) I think im going to release any open source stuff I do under the BSD licence instead of the GNU one.
The only real poblems I had was when I was doing a portupgrade... I had to do a bit of manual stuff, and one package refused to compile ( And I had to replace it with a version below ).
And the cool thing about BSD is the licence
it was a kiwi who flew first :)
How ironic :)
Ive been spending the last day or two working on getting a 486 dialup gateway up and running... its an IBM PS/Valuepoint 25Si thing...it is 12.41 bogomips :) Its running Debian stable, with 2.4.18, has a 210 mb hdd, and 16 mb of ram. Its a tempoary replacement for my 386 ( Im making up a special case for my 386 ).
Had a bunch of troubles with the serial stuff built in... setserial thinks its a 16450 UART, and the onboard serial controler thingys dont want to run my modem at 115200 baud.
After much fruiting around, just 15 minutes ago I started rummaging thru my collection of spare parts, and tried some of the multi-IO cards... and just 5 mins ago I tried a baby serial IO one, it appears to be a 16550A UART, and handles 115200 baud no worries :) And thats what im posting this msg thru :)
So there is some useless information for you :)
Nah... X11 is very slow. VGA wont fix that.
Windows is by far easier to install than Linux.
One of the prime examples is X11... which is almost always a total bastard to configure for newbies.
Sorry, but Linux is far more complicated and tricky to install than Windows.
PS: IMO Linux will never be a decent desktop untill X11 is replaced with something far better.
IMO it would be far more usefull to reasearch the opposite... controling stuff with our mind. Id _love_ to be able to type with my mind. Code at the speed of thought... imagine that :)
Of course one might have to be carefull their thoughts dont get distracted *cough* opposite sex *cough* :)
Perhaps you should just code hard, add contribs you like, politely decline others, and drink lots of beer and/or bourbon when done :)
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/GNU throws a flashbang in front of uncle Bill... /GNU throws a SG in front of Bill's plan /GNU gains some market share while Bill cant see :)
A few years ago I was right into my quakeworld.. And I found that after a long winning streak against what were basicly newbies, I could not bare to loose . On many occasions I could loose the plot, and I have broken many mice and keyboards, and even ripped my top off ( it was a good top too ) in a fit of rage.
I have since given up quake world, To mee it is simply a game that is too fast and agressive without a way to vent such agresssion.
IMO, if there was a way to exerciece while playing such a game, eg, optionally, to move you have to run on a treadmill thing or such like, then it would be a very fun game, because my anger would be let out while I run
I think another thing that would be neat is a large keyboard designed to be on a wall. You punch and kick the keys while viewing a projection of a screen.. so you could code or irc and get fit at the same time
But yeah.. I recon lots of games are bad.. but I still play them.. my latest addiction is that of CS. I have bought three copies of CS Retail.. I have twice deleted CS and broken the CD's simply because I was too addicted to get any work done.
Im wondering if there could be a bright side to spyware done by MS.
If their spyware gets to the stage where the data being send back is hogging up bandwidth, then perhaps it will help push bandwidth standards upward.. sort of like how their bloated OS do for puter speed.
An example of spyware bloat is a MS Word document.. if it gets edited back and forth between people, it starts growing really fat because it contains where it has been and who has been viewing and editing it.
Well.. showing your work to someone important always brings up bugs, every time :)
I suppose its just a case of using the product like an actual user who knows nothing about it would, right from the first step.
Take your pills, man.
Any idea when the fix will be in the woody packages?
Thats what I say, anyway :)
Id employ a bunch of kiwis to go out and irrigate starving countrys, and teach the peoples how to grow tucker. And then you could grow and eat lots of rock melons ( the ultimate post doobie fruit ) and try and compile as much of the world to a relaxo state as possible :)
:) )
Be nice to upgrade my 56k modem connection too ( although the 386 gateway would have to stay
What about the second law of thermodynamics?
"So, if one has any faith in God or His omnipotence, he/she shouldn't be discouraged by new theories of science that seem to contradict His existence."
I think good science often goes a long way to prove Gods existence, or in the very least, the existence of design. It is laughable that there are theorys that people adhere to, where with a mix of immeasurable odds and huge lengths of time, the first form life was created. This concept alone is very unlikely, especially given that humans have still not created a simple life form from non biological materials, as must have been the materials before the first form of life.This alone should be clue enough to the fact that life simply did not happen by its self, by fluke, but that it was designed.
Out of interest, I wrote a simple program which creates a random file. Using a Samba, and windows, I ran the program on a linux box, and tried to run the program on windows.
I wanted to see if I could randomly make a .exe file that actually done something useful.. my thoughts being that a computer program is like an __extermely__ simple form of life.
It turns out on my systems, and with code ( please don't mock my newbie code :), improve it if you will ), never ever produced any file that could executed properly, let alone do something useful.
My code is prolly complete arse, but I just wanted to try and put it in perspective, how unlikely it is that life was created randomly. Because it is unlikely. People can write programs with effort and thought and work... they dont just happen by themselves. So it is STUPID to think that life, which is far more complex than a computer program, happened only by chance.
Off topic a fair amount.. whoops :)
According to the Bible, God created the earth and life on it in 6 days, not 7. God rested on the 7th day. There are also things written in the Bible about time in relation to God: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" 2 John 3:8. This suggests that god is external to and not affected by the 'dimension' called time.
"A new theory of the universe suggests that space and time may not have begun in a big bang, but may have always existed"
To my line of thinking, it is totally illogical for this massive place this earth is floating around in, to have exploded out of nothing... and then _somehow_ created the amazing order we are able to observe thruout our window and in our linux boxes.
So Woody is going to become the new Stable, is that correct?
I know that I hit the top of my normal default generic watch lots of times. Wouldnt having a touch screen thing result in lots of 'button' pushage, eg, when sleeping, when reaching into pockets for wallet, you know, general stuff that happens.
Ahhhhh copy that over *bsshhhhp*
I always wondered what that System Volume Information folder is with windows 2000...
By default you cannot access it, but if you take ownership of it, you will see inside it, a file called tracking.txt or similar. It has werido data in it, but some of the data is clear text, like your computer's name, for example.
Man... can anyone say "buzzwords" and "milking the market" ?
/me pats his trusty 386 running potato :)
:)
Its not emulated either, its a natural