Here in the UK, because of the lameness of the tax laws, you have to pay tax on *ANY* fuel used to power a road-going vehicle.
Cheap diesel, known as 'red' diesel, because of a chemical dye added to it is available, and is used by farmers - however, it is NOT allowed to be used by road-going vehicles (the reasoning being that the money to maintain the road network comes in part from the tax added to fuel).
The thing is, at least as far as I know, Windows doesn't have the equivalent of 'su'. In order to become administrator, you must first log out, then in again.
In Linux/Unix, su, then password, then you can do the stuff you need to do as root. Or even better, of course, there is the beauty that is sudo!
This makes it far less of a pain to run as a normal user, without the temptation of running permanently as root.
We had an article on/. a while back saying that MDKsoft had to change their name due to some French wizard cartoon or similar (I didn't RTFA, of course;)!
The four front ports are USB, so a keyboard (with adaptor is fine). Also, with X2VGA, top quality vga output (1024x768 +) is perfect! Plus, it has built in 10/100 eth, and an 8 or 10GB HDD!
An Xbox modified to run only Linux is $100, and is a Celeron 733. Surely this would be fast enough for your needs. It has 4 USB ports also as well as built in 10/100MB ethernet. I use one here as a NAT router/webserver etc, with a 100MBit USB ethernet card for connection to my DSL modem.
Don't overlook them, they are cheap, small, and make good servers!
The US has all of the above (or rather, US *Corporations* do)... I personally think that for this power to be shared among countries is good - too much one way is bad.
I'm not sure I trust US corporations to 'do the right thing' any more than I trust the Chinese government.
How can you POSSIBLY claim that that the 16 results returned by a search for the word Linux is a byproduct of the search engine design?
That is almost certainly not the case. How can an engine be designed accidentally to overlook the existence of a HUGE number of sites on the web which happen to contain the forbidden L-word?
I have three Debian stable installs here, all using ext3, yes, ext3 filesystems. How did I do it?
Well, I could boast about my l33tness, but I just selected the 2.4kernel install option from the menu, and then when it asked me to choose a filesystem, I had reiserFS and ext3. W00t!
Had you RTFA properly, you'd have seen the next line says
"All code that enters the project is under the standard X11 license, or compatible free license as specified by the Free Software Foundation."
See, that's not so bad, is it? Seriously, I don't particularly like NDAs, but as long as the source code is 'free', then it's really not a problem IMHO.
The above article has been tampered - not just a mirror.
* Require welfare recipients to immediately begin looking for work once they receive their ass cheeks and to learn how to write a resume or prepare for an interview for a minimum number of hours each week or risk losing their benefits.
I detect a small conflict brewing between the last two stories...
Ofice Depot will only sell Designed for Windows XP products, yet the redhat.com page says RedHat Linux 9.0 will be available from.....(you guessed it!) Office Depot!
Well, this IS a turn-up for the books - who thought RH would manage to get a "Designed for Windows XP" certification!
Personally, I am surprised that this debate even arose!
IMHO, the most similar item to a domain name in the physical world would be the humble PostOffice Box - you rent it, and it redirects traffic (or at least lets you pick it up in person) to an address (IP address or physical) of your choice.
Why don't they think of domain names like that? It makes things much simpler IMHO!
Yes, and why does this fact stop another Unix-based OS replacing it?
Not all Unixes are all the same you know! It's like saying "Guess what, there is a POSIX compliant OS in No1 place too - it's called Windows (NT,2K etc;))
Slashdot Mirror
Just something that crossed my mind.
Here in the UK, because of the lameness of the tax laws, you have to pay tax on *ANY* fuel used to power a road-going vehicle.
Cheap diesel, known as 'red' diesel, because of a chemical dye added to it is available, and is used by farmers - however, it is NOT allowed to be used by road-going vehicles (the reasoning being that the money to maintain the road network comes in part from the tax added to fuel).
Have you considered this in your scheme?
David
The thing is, at least as far as I know, Windows doesn't have the equivalent of 'su'. In order to become administrator, you must first log out, then in again.
In Linux/Unix, su, then password, then you can do the stuff you need to do as root. Or even better, of course, there is the beauty that is sudo!
This makes it far less of a pain to run as a normal user, without the temptation of running permanently as root.
David
Until you can spell Python correctly, you'd better stop pretending to know it...
David
somewhere, out there, a Kracker is laughing....
David
Let's not give RMS any ideas, alright?
David
What happened about the namechange?
/. a while back saying that MDKsoft had to change their name due to some French wizard cartoon or similar (I didn't RTFA, of course ;)!
We had an article on
Is this now resolved?
David
Well, because most things users have dealings with operate by hostnames, rather than IP addresses?
Even more so when IPv6 comes in. Besides, unless you're a masochist, I bet your mail client has SMTP: mail..com, rather than it's IP?
Did you come to slashdot.org, or 66.35.250.150?
Thought so.
David
Why not look at the xboxlinux project again then?
The four front ports are USB, so a keyboard (with adaptor is fine). Also, with X2VGA, top quality vga output (1024x768 +) is perfect! Plus, it has built in 10/100 eth, and an 8 or 10GB HDD!
David
FAT, eh?
Wonder if they have to pay Microsoft for a licence.....
Why pay $500 for a PC?
An Xbox modified to run only Linux is $100, and is a Celeron 733. Surely this would be fast enough for your needs. It has 4 USB ports also as well as built in 10/100MB ethernet. I use one here as a NAT router/webserver etc, with a 100MBit USB ethernet card for connection to my DSL modem.
Don't overlook them, they are cheap, small, and make good servers!
See http://xbox-linux.sf.net for more info.
David
No, not at all.
The US has all of the above (or rather, US *Corporations* do)... I personally think that for this power to be shared among countries is good - too much one way is bad.
I'm not sure I trust US corporations to 'do the right thing' any more than I trust the Chinese government.
David
What a pile of crap.
Honestly.
How can you POSSIBLY claim that that the 16 results returned by a search for the word Linux is a byproduct of the search engine design?
That is almost certainly not the case. How can an engine be designed accidentally to overlook the existence of a HUGE number of sites on the web which happen to contain the forbidden L-word?
David
Why, because you're not trolling or flamebaiting?
I have three Debian stable installs here, all using ext3, yes, ext3 filesystems. How did I do it?
Well, I could boast about my l33tness, but I just selected the 2.4kernel install option from the menu, and then when it asked me to choose a filesystem, I had reiserFS and ext3. W00t!
So, it's not really that hard now, is it?
David
Erm...
I'm afraid that in the software companies I've worked at that shit does fly
Worse, people take to editing the compiler flags to suppress the warnings so nobody notices the code sucks!
David
NO NO NO NO
Not even RTFA but RTFH (Read the Fucking Headline)
Sun Mad Hatter LINUXDesktop Revealed
It doesn't run on Solaris - that's the whole bloody point!!!!
David
Perhaps it's *YOU* who should 'get it'.
Had you RTFA properly, you'd have seen the next line says
"All code that enters the project is under the standard X11 license, or compatible free license as specified by the Free Software Foundation."
See, that's not so bad, is it?
Seriously, I don't particularly like NDAs, but as long as the source code is 'free', then it's really not a problem IMHO.
David
The above article has been tampered - not just a mirror.
* Require welfare recipients to immediately begin looking for work once they receive their ass cheeks and to learn how to write a resume or prepare for an interview for a minimum number of hours each week or risk losing their benefits.
Power *usage* perhaps......
Don't go OT here - Radio scanners are again not illegal to use provided you don't use them to listen to things you aren't licenced to use them for!
For example, with a radio scanner, I can:
Listen to CB/Ham radio
Listen to commercial broadcast stations
Listen to TV audio channels
See - there are non-infringing uses for RECEIVERS, which both radio scanners and traffic speed detectors are, not TRANSMITTERS.
As a radio amateur, I can own transmitters for the ham bands - but if you don't hold a licence for them, these are illegal to own.
David
I detect a small conflict brewing between the last two stories...
Ofice Depot will only sell Designed for Windows XP products, yet the redhat.com page says RedHat Linux 9.0 will be available from.....(you guessed it!) Office Depot!
Well, this IS a turn-up for the books - who thought RH would manage to get a "Designed for Windows XP" certification!
David
All you'll need is a small room with a hole in the floor, and the three seashells :)
David
Personally, I am surprised that this debate even arose!
IMHO, the most similar item to a domain name in the physical world would be the humble PostOffice Box - you rent it, and it redirects traffic (or at least lets you pick it up in person) to an address (IP address or physical) of your choice.
Why don't they think of domain names like that? It makes things much simpler IMHO!
David
Yes, and why does this fact stop another Unix-based OS replacing it?
;))
Not all Unixes are all the same you know!
It's like saying "Guess what, there is a POSIX compliant OS in No1 place too - it's called Windows (NT,2K etc
David
Just posted, and it's already died!
FFS Give us a chance!
Any mirrors anyone?
David
Wehrmacht, but near enough for me to guess ;)
German WWII army, for the non-german speakers