Yeah, but I certainly don't want to be sitting on the throne when that baby overheats. Explain that one to the wife. (Admittedly, not many Slashdotters will have that problem)
Re:What's wrong with the Nintendo?
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Put quite simply... I was wishing that my PC could play the cool games like my buddies NES. But, either spend money for that 64k upgrade or get the NES... Tough choice
Guys... Guys... Take it easy...
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The '1991' on the front page is his BirthDate. The idea was conceived yesterday...
Sorry to post again but...
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The 1991 "X-Box"
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If it really was 1991 and this guy was smart enough to put together a "DOS"-based game box, don't you think he would have known not to use spaces in his filenames? - Strike Three - Yer Out!
Worst episode -er- article ever!
It's been thought I'm sure.
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Even somewhat hinted at in some of the other posts, BUT...
Didn't anyone notice the striking similarity to an SNES controller? Most of the games I remember playing back in pre-VGA standard days didn't require 2 buttons, none-the-less six. Methinks this is a poor hoax.
Correct me if I'm wrong (like there is any doubt about that HERE), but wasn't EGA the cream of the crop (except for a few high-end boards like TARGA and whatnot) in 1991? With most of us still suffering through on Hercules mono, or god-forbid the brave souls who had CGA. (I swear it has more than just brown, blue and white colors. It has 16 man, you're just blind).
And... Were ball-point pens invented yet in 1991? I remember having to write everything down with pencils, only after chewing the end to a point... Case closed:)
Clarkconnect is a robust "turnkey" server package that really kicks ass. I have used e-smith, Mandrake's SNF (Single Network Firewall) and Smoothwall.
I am running this firewall/fileserver on a P100 with 96M of ram, so performance was pretty important to me.
I run the following servers on the box...
Appletalk (netatalk), Samba, FTP (Proftpd), HTTP (Apache), SMTP (exim), DHCP, SSH, CUPS, WEBMIN and SQUID.
The performance of the box is outstanding and very robust. It has a really nice web-based interface for modifying the box's setup.
I'm not knocking any of the others... I still have an e-smith server running at a clients and it's been chuggin' along for a couple of years now.
I run ClarkConnect on my firewall. Redhat, Debian, Gentoo, Lunar and Slackware on my *personal* box. Lycoris on my wife's box (no humorous responses please).
While the individual merits of each distro can be argued to no end, I do have to note that only Lycoris and ClarkConnect (Based om RH 7.2) worked perfectly out of the box. (Inasmuch as Windoze does)
Noting that, I would say that if you want to learn the differences between the distros, you should first learn how to multi-boot your machine. The greatest learning experience for me has been to have a working distro available at all times, while I'm trying to get a new (to me) distro working that I'm not familiar with. (Such as linux-from-scratch)
Anyway, I hope I haven't strayed too far from the subject, but I had to add my $.02.
In short, IMHO, if you are a complete newbie, learn how to multi-boot, install Lycoris, Mandrake and Debian. (or go to DistroWatch and pick a couple.) Graduate from one to the next while keeping your working distro intact. Then, Paraphrasing another post I read "apt-get when you finally get it together" - lol. Happy Thanksgiving!
Divx encoded DVD's? (Not DivX the compression scheme, but the ill-fated Circuit City scheme) You had to pay to view and such. That business model failed miserably, and so will this one.
Let's all not forget about those wonderful Docuprint P8's that so many of us own. What a great printer for a reasonable price... Until you try to use it under Linux of course;) I had to set it up on Winblows XPerience with Redmon and Ghostscript as an SMB share just to print to the damn thing. Quote from LinuxPrinting.org "Paperweight". Xerox has been contacted many times about this deficiency and they have no interest.
I think I will take a walk down to good old WKRC and have a word with the GM. I'm sure he will have the time to talk to me!
Re:Used up in the cost to get the electricity, tho
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Touche... The amount of coal to be burned to produce the electricity required may (notice I did say may) offset the environmental savings. Now, if they can use solar energy to fire that baby... That would be the shiznit!
I never really gave it a second thought... Thanks for pointing that one out, now I have something else on my plate to worry about! But seriously, if you are working on a Winbloze platform, I think that Pegasus stores the mail file in an encryped format - password protected at least - to keep people away. Not for sure on that one, but I will check. May not be heavy enough encryption to keep the Feds off your back, but it should keep the old lady or your less-than-saavy computer friends out. (Or in the case of some, your parents)
Let's just hope that the software to drive 'em becomes open source... It would be a shame to have a pair of legs that crash (pardon the pun-ism) and have to be rebooted (damn... another one) a couple of times a day. Kind of a new definition for "downtime" wouldn't you say?
I guess if you mated this product with the Segway you could call it the Legway. Must be the late nite at the office causing all the witless humor!
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Worst episode -er- article ever!
Didn't anyone notice the striking similarity to an SNES controller? Most of the games I remember playing back in pre-VGA standard days didn't require 2 buttons, none-the-less six. Methinks this is a poor hoax.
Correct me if I'm wrong (like there is any doubt about that HERE), but wasn't EGA the cream of the crop (except for a few high-end boards like TARGA and whatnot) in 1991? With most of us still suffering through on Hercules mono, or god-forbid the brave souls who had CGA. (I swear it has more than just brown, blue and white colors. It has 16 man, you're just blind).
And... Were ball-point pens invented yet in 1991? I remember having to write everything down with pencils, only after chewing the end to a point... Case closed :)
Clarkconnect is a robust "turnkey" server package that really kicks ass. I have used e-smith, Mandrake's SNF (Single Network Firewall) and Smoothwall.
I am running this firewall/fileserver on a P100 with 96M of ram, so performance was pretty important to me.
I run the following servers on the box...
Appletalk (netatalk), Samba, FTP (Proftpd), HTTP (Apache), SMTP (exim), DHCP, SSH, CUPS, WEBMIN and SQUID.
The performance of the box is outstanding and very robust. It has a really nice web-based interface for modifying the box's setup.
I'm not knocking any of the others... I still have an e-smith server running at a clients and it's been chuggin' along for a couple of years now.
Just my $.02
-Fordboy0
CP/M today is the DOS of the future? Wow, you've just blown my mind.
I run ClarkConnect on my firewall. Redhat, Debian, Gentoo, Lunar and Slackware on my *personal* box. Lycoris on my wife's box (no humorous responses please).
While the individual merits of each distro can be argued to no end, I do have to note that only Lycoris and ClarkConnect (Based om RH 7.2) worked perfectly out of the box. (Inasmuch as Windoze does)
Noting that, I would say that if you want to learn the differences between the distros, you should first learn how to multi-boot your machine. The greatest learning experience for me has been to have a working distro available at all times, while I'm trying to get a new (to me) distro working that I'm not familiar with. (Such as linux-from-scratch)
Anyway, I hope I haven't strayed too far from the subject, but I had to add my $.02.
In short, IMHO, if you are a complete newbie, learn how to multi-boot, install Lycoris, Mandrake and Debian. (or go to DistroWatch and pick a couple.) Graduate from one to the next while keeping your working distro intact. Then, Paraphrasing another post I read "apt-get when you finally get it together" - lol.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Divx encoded DVD's? (Not DivX the compression scheme, but the ill-fated Circuit City scheme) You had to pay to view and such. That business model failed miserably, and so will this one.
CRC error - Press any key to continue. Partition table damaged.
Let's all not forget about those wonderful Docuprint P8's that so many of us own. What a great printer for a reasonable price... Until you try to use it under Linux of course ;)
I had to set it up on Winblows XPerience with Redmon and Ghostscript as an SMB share just to print to the damn thing.
Quote from LinuxPrinting.org "Paperweight".
Xerox has been contacted many times about this deficiency and they have no interest.
I think I will take a walk down to good old WKRC and have a word with the GM. I'm sure he will have the time to talk to me!
Now, if they can use solar energy to fire that baby... That would be the shiznit!
I never really gave it a second thought... Thanks for pointing that one out, now I have something else on my plate to worry about!
But seriously, if you are working on a Winbloze platform, I think that Pegasus stores the mail file in an encryped format - password protected at least - to keep people away. Not for sure on that one, but I will check. May not be heavy enough encryption to keep the Feds off your back, but it should keep the old lady or your less-than-saavy computer friends out. (Or in the case of some, your parents)
Let's just hope that the software to drive 'em becomes open source... It would be a shame to have a pair of legs that crash (pardon the pun-ism) and have to be rebooted (damn... another one) a couple of times a day. Kind of a new definition for "downtime" wouldn't you say? I guess if you mated this product with the Segway you could call it the Legway. Must be the late nite at the office causing all the witless humor!