The series is called 'Legacy of the Alldenata", and yeah, Iron Mike & Co. rock.
Get ready for Hell's Fair in the spring, Bun-Bun gets armor & some Screemin' Meemie turrets. If you like them, check out Weber & Ringo's March To series, it's a resetting of Xenophon's Anabasis, and very good.
Lois isn't sold on the E-Book thing, so she isn't likely to do this.
For those who call David Weber a hack and not a big name, might I remind you that he, along with Lois McMaster Bujold, is one of the few SF authors who regularily charts on the NY Times Bestseller List. the last Honor novel hit the top 10. Name another SF (Not fantasy) author who can do that consistency. So what if he writes Hornblower in space, his books are consistently good reads, unlike most of that crap passed off as 'Literary SF' (aka Unreadable shite).
Funny then, that most of the Amiga users went to mac, on the professional side. You know, the system offering 16.7 million colours at 832x764 or higher back in 1991, with hardware 2d and quicktime acceleration (I love my old 4Mb Apple 8.24GC Nubus card, and it's slow by Mac standards of that era.). Amiga was finally killed by the Mac AV boxes, not by the PC.
Because the Mac versions are loads better than the Windows version. I use Office 2000 at work and Office:Mac 2001 at home, even in classic, Office:Mac is faster, more stable and easier to use.
G3/333 256Mb RAM, 9Gb UWSCSI, 40GB IDE. very usable.
It's the drive that slows it down, put a fast SCSI drive in a G3 and it's just fine under 10.1.5. My G3 is about on par with my PC for general performance, despite it's much lower specs (Duron 600, ATi Radeon 7000, Win2K Pro).
It's actually the peering that matters. While WorldCom has much less than 50% of the available bandwidth, they are a primary transit network, so they carry 50% or more of the internet traffic, turning off UUNET will effectively isolate a large number of small ISP's and cause major transit issues for many regional ISP's. Also UUNET owns the MAE peering points, so if UUNET shuts down so do all the major peering points, as they are located in UUNET facilities.
UUNET carries about 50% of all international traffic, and about 70% of US traffic. It's an international backbone provider. So if the lights go out, so does ~50% of the worldwide available bandwidth.
Well, after the upgrade, and some playing around, I noticed that sshd is now defaulting to ssh1 instead of ssh2, nicely breaking my auth keys in the process.
Actually, last time I checked, they were going to Mayo on OS X with Xserve's in the backend. The linux experiment was useful in bridging the gap between the ageing SGI's and the Macs that are now starting to replace SGI (At least in the Sub-$100,000 market)
Well, I've got a G3/333 running OS/X 10.1.5 and a Duron 600 runing Win2K, both with 256Mb RAM and decently fast harddrives. They both suck balls when asked to list a folder with lots of files. Finder just opens the window and then populates, Explorer thinks for a while then opens the window with all the files. Now if you want the Interface to be blazing fast, run BeOS.
TurboLinux is also wildly successful in Asia. I'm starting to wonder if Ransom Love is developing a mild Reality Distortion Field. Caldera has nothing to offer the other 3, and they really don't need to even work together, although having the 3 most common distro's for non-english speakers using a common platform is a good idea. The per-seat costs are the real killer, as Linux's main advantage over the competition is the lack of per-seat costs.
Ny Newton MessagePad is still going strong. Cost me $150CDN 2 years ago. Of course, it's a little big, but it's fast, the handwriting recognition is superb (Unlike the NewtonOS 1-1.3 variants) and the creen is still the best I've ever seen on a handheld, with the exception of the monster screen on a Newton MP2x00.
My original Newton MessagePad is also still in use, despite the flaky HW rec in NewtonOS 1.1, at over 8 years old. It's on it's third owner (My buddy's wife).
Actually, Volvo, Ford and Jaguar standardize on one basic platform for midsize sedans, the Mondeo. This is very common in the Car World. The Saturn L-Series is the same car as the Cadillac Catera (Both are an Opel), And the new Sunfire, Cavalier, Saturn S-Series, Saab and Opel small sedans are all the same basic car too.
Won't use gentoo as long as the default kernel has -shawn patches,as I don't want bug reports blamed on sunspots or tired Hamsters (2 of Shawns fav explanations for T1 trouble)
I'm sorry but the kiddy console LameCube is pretty useless. It doesn't have either the Game library or the power of the X-Box, and while it is a bit more powerfull than a PS2, the PS2 is way ahead of it in terms of games. Not to mention the fact that the Controllers on the LameCube suck hairy mouse balls. Oh, and X-Box has more A list games than LameCube has games in total.
X-Box will be the #2 console for a while, it's the DreamCast 2 really, right down to the game library. Funny that it's getting all the DC sequels, like JSRF, Shenmue 2, DOA 3, Sega GT 2K2. It's never going to catch PS2, but it will do well. It will never do well in Japan though.
The Controller thing is funny, everybody seems to love the LameCube controller, which is a cheapo platic controller whose only redeeming quality is the fact that it doesn't require 3 hands to use like the N64 controller does. It's cheap, a PITA to use and so small it causes hand cramps unless you are under 12. The X-Box controller is great for guys, with it's comfortable grip and nice layout, but it's not so great if you have little hands. The PS2 controller is a nice cross between the teeny controller set (Nintendo) and the giant controller set (Sega/MS), but can be a PITA for long gaming sessions.
So Sony's going to win, X-Box comes in second, and LameCube is dead in North America already. I'll be getting an X-Box when Soul Calibur 2 ships, till then, I'm quite happy with my PS2.
Well, there's a hell of a lot more than a couple dozen. I own about 45 from one publisher alone, and that's less than 1/4 of that publisher's catalogue. Of course, Dmitri's work wouldn't affect this publisher, because they don't use any encryption.
There are two companies making money in the E-Book business, Baen Books, and Fictionwise. Both sell E-Books cheap, and avoid encryption if at all possible (Some Fictionwise stuff is encrypted, no Baen stuff is encrypted.)
So go check out the Free Library at www.baen.com for free E-Books from popular SF and Fantasy Authors.
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The series is called 'Legacy of the Alldenata", and yeah, Iron Mike & Co. rock.
Get ready for Hell's Fair in the spring, Bun-Bun gets armor & some Screemin' Meemie turrets. If you like them, check out Weber & Ringo's March To series, it's a resetting of Xenophon's Anabasis, and very good.
The Crazy Finn
Lois isn't sold on the E-Book thing, so she isn't likely to do this.
For those who call David Weber a hack and not a big name, might I remind you that he, along with Lois McMaster Bujold, is one of the few SF authors who regularily charts on the NY Times Bestseller List. the last Honor novel hit the top 10. Name another SF (Not fantasy) author who can do that consistency. So what if he writes Hornblower in space, his books are consistently good reads, unlike most of that crap passed off as 'Literary SF' (aka Unreadable shite).
A Barfly.
The Crazy Finn
Yeah, it can run linux. No it can't run VMWare.
Run OS X and Connectix VirtualPC instead, more features, more stability.
The Crazy Finn
Funny then, that most of the Amiga users went to mac, on the professional side. You know, the system offering 16.7 million colours at 832x764 or higher back in 1991, with hardware 2d and quicktime acceleration (I love my old 4Mb Apple 8.24GC Nubus card, and it's slow by Mac standards of that era.). Amiga was finally killed by the Mac AV boxes, not by the PC.
the Crazy Finn
Because the Mac versions are loads better than the Windows version. I use Office 2000 at work and Office:Mac 2001 at home, even in classic, Office:Mac is faster, more stable and easier to use.
G3/333 256Mb RAM, 9Gb UWSCSI, 40GB IDE. very usable.
It's the drive that slows it down, put a fast SCSI drive in a G3 and it's just fine under 10.1.5. My G3 is about on par with my PC for general performance, despite it's much lower specs (Duron 600, ATi Radeon 7000, Win2K Pro).
The Crazy Finn
It's actually the peering that matters. While WorldCom has much less than 50% of the available bandwidth, they are a primary transit network, so they carry 50% or more of the internet traffic, turning off UUNET will effectively isolate a large number of small ISP's and cause major transit issues for many regional ISP's. Also UUNET owns the MAE peering points, so if UUNET shuts down so do all the major peering points, as they are located in UUNET facilities.
The Crazy Finn
What outage?
I work for WorldCom Canada, we're on AS701 too, and no backbone level outage. Likely it was a POP or a backhaul outage, affecting them locally.
The Crazy Finn
UUNET carries about 50% of all international traffic, and about 70% of US traffic. It's an international backbone provider. So if the lights go out, so does ~50% of the worldwide available bandwidth.
The Crazy Finn
Rev A's were available with 6Mb VRAM (It was an upgrade from 2)
The Crazy Finn
Well, after the upgrade, and some playing around, I noticed that sshd is now defaulting to ssh1 instead of ssh2, nicely breaking my auth keys in the process.
Bad Apple, Bad Apple.
The Crazy Finn
Actually, last time I checked, they were going to Mayo on OS X with Xserve's in the backend. The linux experiment was useful in bridging the gap between the ageing SGI's and the Macs that are now starting to replace SGI (At least in the Sub-$100,000 market)
the Crazy Finn
Well, I've got a G3/333 running OS/X 10.1.5 and a Duron 600 runing Win2K, both with 256Mb RAM and decently fast harddrives. They both suck balls when asked to list a folder with lots of files. Finder just opens the window and then populates, Explorer thinks for a while then opens the window with all the files. Now if you want the Interface to be blazing fast, run BeOS.
Massive speed up on Beige G3's and Wallstreet and Lombard Powerbooks too.
Since the Rage II and Rage Pro have the same 2D core, it speeds up Rage II based systems too (But apple won't guarantee it will work).
My G3 333 feels damned fast now, finally faster than a Duron 600 running Win2K
The Crazy Finn
TurboLinux is also wildly successful in Asia. I'm starting to wonder if Ransom Love is developing a mild Reality Distortion Field. Caldera has nothing to offer the other 3, and they really don't need to even work together, although having the 3 most common distro's for non-english speakers using a common platform is a good idea. The per-seat costs are the real killer, as Linux's main advantage over the competition is the lack of per-seat costs.
The Crazy Finn
It's not a file, it's the bit bucket /dev are real files.
nothing in
The Crazy Finn
Ny Newton MessagePad is still going strong. Cost me $150CDN 2 years ago. Of course, it's a little big, but it's fast, the handwriting recognition is superb (Unlike the NewtonOS 1-1.3 variants) and the creen is still the best I've ever seen on a handheld, with the exception of the monster screen on a Newton MP2x00.
My original Newton MessagePad is also still in use, despite the flaky HW rec in NewtonOS 1.1, at over 8 years old. It's on it's third owner (My buddy's wife).
The Crazy Finn
Dave is a CIFS (SMB) uberpackage for Mac OS and Mac OS X, by far the best CIFS implementation I have seen for Workgroups.
Dave+Samba+CIFS for filesharing.
ssh with RSA keys for terminal type stuff.
VNC or X for Desktop Sharing.
That's the way mine is set up.
The Crazy Finn
Actually, Volvo, Ford and Jaguar standardize on one basic platform for midsize sedans, the Mondeo. This is very common in the Car World. The Saturn L-Series is the same car as the Cadillac Catera (Both are an Opel), And the new Sunfire, Cavalier, Saturn S-Series, Saab and Opel small sedans are all the same basic car too.
The Crazy Finn
Won't use gentoo as long as the default kernel has -shawn patches,as I don't want bug reports blamed on sunspots or tired Hamsters (2 of Shawns fav explanations for T1 trouble)
The Crazy Finn
More like my immediate reaction after trying one out.
The Crazy Finn
I'm sorry but the kiddy console LameCube is pretty useless. It doesn't have either the Game library or the power of the X-Box, and while it is a bit more powerfull than a PS2, the PS2 is way ahead of it in terms of games. Not to mention the fact that the Controllers on the LameCube suck hairy mouse balls. Oh, and X-Box has more A list games than LameCube has games in total.
X-Box will be the #2 console for a while, it's the DreamCast 2 really, right down to the game library. Funny that it's getting all the DC sequels, like JSRF, Shenmue 2, DOA 3, Sega GT 2K2. It's never going to catch PS2, but it will do well. It will never do well in Japan though.
The Controller thing is funny, everybody seems to love the LameCube controller, which is a cheapo platic controller whose only redeeming quality is the fact that it doesn't require 3 hands to use like the N64 controller does. It's cheap, a PITA to use and so small it causes hand cramps unless you are under 12. The X-Box controller is great for guys, with it's comfortable grip and nice layout, but it's not so great if you have little hands. The PS2 controller is a nice cross between the teeny controller set (Nintendo) and the giant controller set (Sega/MS), but can be a PITA for long gaming sessions.
So Sony's going to win, X-Box comes in second, and LameCube is dead in North America already. I'll be getting an X-Box when Soul Calibur 2 ships, till then, I'm quite happy with my PS2.
The Crazy Finn
Well, there's a hell of a lot more than a couple dozen. I own about 45 from one publisher alone, and that's less than 1/4 of that publisher's catalogue. Of course, Dmitri's work wouldn't affect this publisher, because they don't use any encryption.
There are two companies making money in the E-Book business, Baen Books, and Fictionwise. Both sell E-Books cheap, and avoid encryption if at all possible (Some Fictionwise stuff is encrypted, no Baen stuff is encrypted.)
So go check out the Free Library at www.baen.com
for free E-Books from popular SF and Fantasy Authors.
The Crazy Finn
My bad, I got an alternate translation of 'Know Thyself' mixed up with the actual other inscription, which is 'Nothing to Excess'.
The Crazy Finn
And here's a question, Citizen Kane's plot is based on two ideas:
1. he died alone.
2. His last word was Rosebud
So if he died alone, how does anyone know his last word(s)???
Riddle me that!
The Crazy Finn