I've been looking at Via Epia-based systems, but they seem to be short of impossible to get your hand on here in Belgium.:/ And then, the formfactor is still huge compared to this beauty...
It sounds like this box could be ideal for a low-power low-noise low-size gateway system. I'm actually considering that for this, but my main problem is that it only has 1 ethernet port... guess I could use an usb-ethernet plug..
Anyone any idea? Or any idea where I could get a really small low-power low-noise system (preferably in Belgium)?
dpkg: xorg is an alternative X implementation (fork of XFree86 4.4RC2) from X.Org, current release is X11R6.8. It won't be packaged for Debian until after Sarge release. See http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/de bian/local/FAQ.xhtml#debianplans for more information. Ask me about 'get xorg' for unofficial xorg debs.
dpkg: [get xorg] Xorg is NOT SUPPORTED HERE. http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/roller/page/St eve/20040909 - but remember: YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. Xorg is unusably slow with transparency enabled. Don't bother.
To be honest, I wasn't really surprised. If you've read/. in the past, you've seen how many idiotic and stupendous patents are issued by the american patent office. I really wonder if noone bothers to check these things, like (not relevant to this case) prior art, validity of a patent,...
OK, they have a lot of work. True. But still, if the USA values its patent office so much as they say they do, maybe they should invest a bit more in more personnell that actually knows what they're doing and less in pulling muscle all around the globe.
I wouldn't be amazed if they actually manage to patent air, or water, someday to someone.
Well, I must say, of the two iomega products I've bought over the years I'm pretty happy with them.
I still have a fully functional original parallel ZIP-100 drive (of which Iomega was so kind as to ship me a new power adapter for free since the old one died), and an USB Floppy drive (my laptop doesn't have one and I still need it from time to time).
So I might be interested in this. I might. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the item itself on the Iomega pages. Blerg.
There's a huge difference between this and what MS is doing.
MS AV: Integrated in the CORE OS. you have it wether you want it or not. Any bug in it will make the entire OS unstable.
Gnu C: A seperate program which is put by distribution vendors on the CD.
If you don't want the C compiler on a gnu/linux distribution, then don't install it. That way you don't have it.
And what if you run your website on those servers for commercial use? Will the FBI refund the finanial damage you suffered (e.g. when you run a webshop or smthing)?
Your pc will seem faster, more responsive. Newer hardware will be supported. You don't need to do magic tricks with scsi-ide conversion layers anymore if you want to burn a cd.
You can have more users on your linux. You can get rid of swap completely if you want to. ACPI will work decently.
If you receive something that 1. comes from someone you don't know, or 2. you know you didn't send to someone, then just don't open it.
It's as simple as that. You don't really _need_ a really high-tech super email scanner, just use your brain...
They'll probably want to cut it off and start making XBox only games, so their console would be nr1 around the world, so that they can raise the price on the xbox so they start making money on it again (instead of losing money on every one they sell).
I can only say this is very true. I've seen it happen with friends around me: they go on playing D2 for ever. They get home from work, they play it. The stand up earlier to get to play some D2 before work.
They are so addicted, it takes some serious shouting from time to time to get them to talk about something else.
I've played some D2 too. From time to time, I play a little, one evening, or maybe an hour or so...
Some people spend way to much time on these games!
Whoa. Never thought they'd actually start using that. Doesn't the 'filth' of badly-regulated appliances disturb the signal?
I really really wonder how this will turn out, and... if it would be used worldwide?
Well, the school i used to attend had a hack-in problem (IIS). We offered to set them up a linux-firewall using iptables with stateful inspecting and everything on it.
They declined the offer saying 'that they only trust something that costs money'.
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Yeah, i know.
:/
I've been looking at Via Epia-based systems, but they seem to be short of impossible to get your hand on here in Belgium.
And then, the formfactor is still huge compared to this beauty...
It sounds like this box could be ideal for a low-power low-noise low-size gateway system. I'm actually considering that for this, but my main problem is that it only has 1 ethernet port... guess I could use an usb-ethernet plug.. Anyone any idea? Or any idea where I could get a really small low-power low-noise system (preferably in Belgium)?
From #debian on freenode:
e bian/local/FAQ.xhtml#debianplans for more information. Ask me about 'get xorg' for unofficial xorg debs.
t eve/20040909 - but remember: YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. Xorg is unusably slow with transparency enabled. Don't bother.
dpkg: xorg is an alternative X implementation (fork of XFree86 4.4RC2) from X.Org, current release is X11R6.8. It won't be packaged for Debian until after Sarge release. See http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/d
dpkg: [get xorg] Xorg is NOT SUPPORTED HERE. http://incubator.vislab.usyd.edu.au/roller/page/S
To be honest, I wasn't really surprised. If you've read /. in the past, you've seen how many idiotic and stupendous patents are issued by the american patent office. I really wonder if noone bothers to check these things, like (not relevant to this case) prior art, validity of a patent, ...
OK, they have a lot of work. True. But still, if the USA values its patent office so much as they say they do, maybe they should invest a bit more in more personnell that actually knows what they're doing and less in pulling muscle all around the globe.
I wouldn't be amazed if they actually manage to patent air, or water, someday to someone.
Well, I must say, of the two iomega products I've bought over the years I'm pretty happy with them.
I still have a fully functional original parallel ZIP-100 drive (of which Iomega was so kind as to ship me a new power adapter for free since the old one died), and an USB Floppy drive (my laptop doesn't have one and I still need it from time to time).
So I might be interested in this. I might. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the item itself on the Iomega pages. Blerg.
It's wednesday, but it feels like monday.
There's a huge difference between this and what MS is doing. MS AV: Integrated in the CORE OS. you have it wether you want it or not. Any bug in it will make the entire OS unstable. Gnu C: A seperate program which is put by distribution vendors on the CD. If you don't want the C compiler on a gnu/linux distribution, then don't install it. That way you don't have it.
And what if you run your website on those servers for commercial use? Will the FBI refund the finanial damage you suffered (e.g. when you run a webshop or smthing)?
Your pc will seem faster, more responsive. Newer hardware will be supported. You don't need to do magic tricks with scsi-ide conversion layers anymore if you want to burn a cd.
You can have more users on your linux. You can get rid of swap completely if you want to. ACPI will work decently.
The list goes on and on and.....
Anyone know of a mirror that has these in .deb package format?
Jan
The patent on LZW expired recently or is due to expire soon - thereby freeing a lot of things, including GIF
Actually, Sun stock is recovering a bit these days. Some months ago it hung around $2/share, now they're up to $5.35 again.
True, but thanks to the not-so-many critical bugs in for example Mozilla, it won't spread quite as quickly.
If you receive something that 1. comes from someone you don't know, or 2. you know you didn't send to someone, then just don't open it. It's as simple as that. You don't really _need_ a really high-tech super email scanner, just use your brain...
Damn people! I'm trying to read the forums there :P
DK
... odd. I have glibc 2.3 installed, and well, the updater runs just fine. Must be something on your system, then. DK
They'll probably want to cut it off and start making XBox only games, so their console would be nr1 around the world, so that they can raise the price on the xbox so they start making money on it again (instead of losing money on every one they sell).
I can only say this is very true. I've seen it happen with friends around me: they go on playing D2 for ever. They get home from work, they play it. The stand up earlier to get to play some D2 before work. They are so addicted, it takes some serious shouting from time to time to get them to talk about something else. I've played some D2 too. From time to time, I play a little, one evening, or maybe an hour or so... Some people spend way to much time on these games!
As you write it - Twente. Take 'Twenty' and replace the 'y' with the sound of the 'e' in the same word. DK
Well, let's also hope the backups are stored OFF-SITE! Otherwise they'd also be burned to crisps... DK
I really hope everyone got out ok... Its always a shame to see a NOC go down, especially one of a university where communication is quite vital... DK
Whoa. Never thought they'd actually start using that. Doesn't the 'filth' of badly-regulated appliances disturb the signal? I really really wonder how this will turn out, and... if it would be used worldwide?
Well, the school i used to attend had a hack-in problem (IIS). We offered to set them up a linux-firewall using iptables with stateful inspecting and everything on it.
They declined the offer saying 'that they only trust something that costs money'.
Who will ever understand...