at the risk of sounding like a troll, let me just say this is absolute stupidity for 99% of FreeBSD users.
I can understand this as an OPTION, but as it stands, users now have to recompile their systems simply to remove this 'feature'.
99% of all FreeBSD users DO NOT want this. Well, ok, 50% don't even know what it is. But if they did....
I just can't believe they would do this... its absolutely stupid. I hope someone knocks some brains into the developers so that they realize their specific situation where this is a good idea applies to about.1% of all FreeBSD users.
Basically, buy a variable strobe light that has high speeds (over 40hz). Then wrap it with infared tape or film. Now get into traffic, and vary the speed. Eventually, you'll figure out the right frequency to change the lights.
It is worth noting that this makes all lights turn red.
Oh, the horrible world we live in! These students suffer the slings and arrows of an EDUCATIONAL network. I think they should feel privileged in that they have internet access.
It is 100% up to the university how their network is used. Reguardless of if you view p2p music 'sharing' as theft or not, you can't be so stupid as to be outraged over what this university has done.
I bet they have saved themselves several gigabytes of transfer every day through this.
Oh, the poor suffering college students! What WILL they do, to get their fix? Oh, thats right, beer!
And to that stupid newspaper that says this will make the dorms less attractive - you guys are so naive. I suppose by not allowing posession of marijuana, they make the dorms less attractive. You know, a beer machine in the lobby would help. If it was free beer, of course.
I don't mean to sound like flamebait, but this is just one of those examples of how spoiled our society is, and I'm part of society, so I get to bitch, right?:p
Here is why this is stupid:
You're DDoSing your ISP's dns server. Not the top root-level dns server. Which is kinda dumb, wouldn't you agree?
For this to be effective, you have to change your dns servers (/etc/resolv.conf for you numb nuts out there) to a verisign domain name server. Then, you'll make some noise.
duh
"I guess this is why we haven't released windows 98 yet..."
Thats Bill Gates at the Windows 98 Preview party back in the day, right after it crashed on him, on stage, for plugging in a scanner.
Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005.
Ok, this is what gets me. I hate this. Its already been shown that microsoft is above the government (simply look at the last few microsoft headlines here). But do we have to refer to their CEO board as 'officials'?
I read the article, and I think it could have been a lot better.
For one, they compared Windows in a linux article to beer. And yet, they did not compare Mac OS X, or any of the other BSDs. For that matter, how about comercial unix like solaris? I mean, windows does not belong in this.
But, lets be a little more accurate.
For one, Nady is obviously the 'windows' of beers. Every kid drinks it because he can buy it for nothing (parallels to the piracy used to install windows 98 on your new dell when it comes with xp). Nady is by far the shittiest beer, yet, I guarentee you, its the most popular among the youngsters looking for a quick college drink.
Redhat is Budwiser, hands down. Every linux user has run Red Hat. Some people think linux/is/ Red Hat. RH is american made (ok, compiled.. whatever), as is Budwiser. RH also has a HUGE marketing department, and I'm sure Budwiser has the largest advertising budget of all other beers.
Mac OS X, no contest, is Guiness. Guiness beers aren't for everyone. Its an elite beer, and you either hate it, or you love it. Its a little more expensive, comes in a fancy bottle with a little thing that floats to the top as you drink it. And its almost not beer. Doesn't taste anything like Budwiser, though it will get you drunk
The home-brewed beer is not gentoo. Gentoo is close, and if we were to completely limit our discussion to linux, it would be. But, the article is going to put windows in there, so I'm going to put other unix-like os's in here. Its only fair:p. The home-brewed beer is one of the BSDs. I would say Free BSD as it is frequently thought of as a bit of a challenge, but I think OpenBSD qualifies much more.
To go a little further, Free BSD may be more like a wine celler, and Open BSD a home-brewed beer.
Mandrake, which is basically a copy off Red Hat, can go straight to Coors which is, and this is fact, non-passing Budwieser. When Bud has a bad batch, its turned into Coors, and sold for a bit less. Its not as good, but it ain't so bad either.
Debian is an interesting one. Debian is not your standard linux distro, and its one of the few that really do the trick. Its easy to maintain, and its very compatable, out of the box, with lots of hardware, even old stuff you'd think only netbsd would run on. For this reason, I'm labeling it the 'old favorite' Milwaukie's best. Milwaukie, btw, is a GREAT beer, for the price. Its about $.45 per 14 oz can. Yeah, not 12 oz.
I'd say that Killian's Irish Red is BeOS, simply because its a great beer, yet susprisingly unpopular. Yeah, Be ain't really unix, so shoot me.
Darwin, aka the Mach kernel, should be known as Steel Reserve simply because it gets the job done, and quite quickly. That beer will put you down, reguardless of size. And you'll allways feel like crap in the morning. Which is how I feel when I stay up till 6am working out some strange darwin issue, and wake up at 9am.....
1.The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than
chronological, proper, or historical order.
2.One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that
belongs to an earlier time
I see you are absolutely correct. Ham radio is way ahead of its time, in several ways.
for one, we had wireless networking back in the 70s in the form of RTTY
Not to mention wireless communication, such as the autopatch my dad had in his car in 1965 which he made phone calls off on a regular basis
Lets not forget communication sats which some of you are likely posting via (without knowing) are offten used as amature radio repeators
Obviously the above poster doesn't know or realize the ways amature radio has impacted his life - I hope you can all sence my sarcasm above. But seriously, folks, don't bash it if you don't know it, that just puts you down with the "bsd is dying" crowd.
I have the same computer, and here is what I did while I waited to get my g4:
Overclocked the processor to 300mhz, and overclocked the system bus to 83mhz (up from 66). Added 64 megs of ram (so, thats 128 total), and added a better graphics card.
Remember, you need at least 8 megs video ram to run quartz extreme - and you DEFINATELY want this.
Once you have all that done, it'll run decent. Not nearly as fast as it will run os9, or power pc linux. But, its osx:)
Seriously, why all the AOL bashing today? AOL has done a great service by going where the sun don't shine and manually removing the waste. Thats got to beat the age-old reach-around method...
Not only that, but current PC's and Macs are limited to 24 bit color. Now, take an SGI Challenge RE2 (Reality Engine 2). That has 196 bit color, and thats what they use to render the big movies.
Not 3d Studio Max. heh
I've used Max quite a bit, and I can tell you it is one of the most unprofessional slapped together 3D design programs out there. A TV series from this application is NEVER going to seem real.
Who cares - best picture is best picture. A lot of work goes into designing real and digital sets. Cinamatography (sp?) you say? Analog and digital, I say.
Is a movie any more real if you watch it over a vcr or a dvd?
AMD Hammer users: none, not out yet
Newtek scala users: no idea, never heard of it
nVidia users: probably about 1 million
Toilet paper users: +4 billion
I rest *my* case:)
heh. The antenna output is unbalanced, so attaching the antenna to the case (which is gounded, of course) basically shorts out the wireless card, leading to high SWR and low effective radiated power.
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at the risk of sounding like a troll, let me just say this is absolute stupidity for 99% of FreeBSD users.
.1% of all FreeBSD users.
I can understand this as an OPTION, but as it stands, users now have to recompile their systems simply to remove this 'feature'.
99% of all FreeBSD users DO NOT want this. Well, ok, 50% don't even know what it is. But if they did....
I just can't believe they would do this... its absolutely stupid. I hope someone knocks some brains into the developers so that they realize their specific situation where this is a good idea applies to about
You can easily build this
Old 2600 articles detail it, I believe
Basically, buy a variable strobe light that has high speeds (over 40hz). Then wrap it with infared tape or film. Now get into traffic, and vary the speed. Eventually, you'll figure out the right frequency to change the lights.
It is worth noting that this makes all lights turn red.
Actually, Clinton's policy was to see if it was worth anything, and to sell it to China. Mod parent as troll, please
YOU are the one who purchased a G5 to get your work done. So, I suspect you could answer your own question.
Oh, the horrible world we live in! These students suffer the slings and arrows of an EDUCATIONAL network. I think they should feel privileged in that they have internet access.
It is 100% up to the university how their network is used. Reguardless of if you view p2p music 'sharing' as theft or not, you can't be so stupid as to be outraged over what this university has done.
I bet they have saved themselves several gigabytes of transfer every day through this.
Oh, the poor suffering college students! What WILL they do, to get their fix? Oh, thats right, beer!
And to that stupid newspaper that says this will make the dorms less attractive - you guys are so naive. I suppose by not allowing posession of marijuana, they make the dorms less attractive. You know, a beer machine in the lobby would help. If it was free beer, of course.
I don't mean to sound like flamebait, but this is just one of those examples of how spoiled our society is, and I'm part of society, so I get to bitch, right? :p
Here is why this is stupid: You're DDoSing your ISP's dns server. Not the top root-level dns server. Which is kinda dumb, wouldn't you agree? For this to be effective, you have to change your dns servers (/etc/resolv.conf for you numb nuts out there) to a verisign domain name server. Then, you'll make some noise. duh
If gentoo keeps this up, we'll have to start posting "Gentoo is dying" :D
And its called pbrush, lives in c:\windows\ if you use windows pre-nt
Mac users will recall MacPaint
Both these programs, magically, record vertical and horizontal mouse movements on a two-dimentional area known as a 'mouse pad'.
This program is able to record signatures, incredably, into a file on a 'computer'.
Using 'diff' (requires unix or cygwin), the two files can be compared and a difference reflected in a numerical value.
WHAT will they think up next!?!
They decided to perfect their work
Well, of course thats why.
From back in the day:
"I guess this is why we haven't released windows 98 yet..." Thats Bill Gates at the Windows 98 Preview party back in the day, right after it crashed on him, on stage, for plugging in a scanner.Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005.
Ok, this is what gets me. I hate this. Its already been shown that microsoft is above the government (simply look at the last few microsoft headlines here). But do we have to refer to their CEO board as 'officials'?
Or, was it really officials?
If you ask me, microsoft has gone too far
I read the article, and I think it could have been a lot better.
For one, they compared Windows in a linux article to beer. And yet, they did not compare Mac OS X, or any of the other BSDs. For that matter, how about comercial unix like solaris? I mean, windows does not belong in this.
But, lets be a little more accurate.
For one, Nady is obviously the 'windows' of beers. Every kid drinks it because he can buy it for nothing (parallels to the piracy used to install windows 98 on your new dell when it comes with xp). Nady is by far the shittiest beer, yet, I guarentee you, its the most popular among the youngsters looking for a quick college drink.
Redhat is Budwiser, hands down. Every linux user has run Red Hat. Some people think linux /is/ Red Hat. RH is american made (ok, compiled.. whatever), as is Budwiser. RH also has a HUGE marketing department, and I'm sure Budwiser has the largest advertising budget of all other beers.
Mac OS X, no contest, is Guiness. Guiness beers aren't for everyone. Its an elite beer, and you either hate it, or you love it. Its a little more expensive, comes in a fancy bottle with a little thing that floats to the top as you drink it. And its almost not beer. Doesn't taste anything like Budwiser, though it will get you drunk
The home-brewed beer is not gentoo. Gentoo is close, and if we were to completely limit our discussion to linux, it would be. But, the article is going to put windows in there, so I'm going to put other unix-like os's in here. Its only fair :p. The home-brewed beer is one of the BSDs. I would say Free BSD as it is frequently thought of as a bit of a challenge, but I think OpenBSD qualifies much more.
To go a little further, Free BSD may be more like a wine celler, and Open BSD a home-brewed beer.
Mandrake, which is basically a copy off Red Hat, can go straight to Coors which is, and this is fact, non-passing Budwieser. When Bud has a bad batch, its turned into Coors, and sold for a bit less. Its not as good, but it ain't so bad either.
Debian is an interesting one. Debian is not your standard linux distro, and its one of the few that really do the trick. Its easy to maintain, and its very compatable, out of the box, with lots of hardware, even old stuff you'd think only netbsd would run on. For this reason, I'm labeling it the 'old favorite' Milwaukie's best. Milwaukie, btw, is a GREAT beer, for the price. Its about $.45 per 14 oz can. Yeah, not 12 oz.
I'd say that Killian's Irish Red is BeOS, simply because its a great beer, yet susprisingly unpopular. Yeah, Be ain't really unix, so shoot me.
Darwin, aka the Mach kernel, should be known as Steel Reserve simply because it gets the job done, and quite quickly. That beer will put you down, reguardless of size. And you'll allways feel like crap in the morning. Which is how I feel when I stay up till 6am working out some strange darwin issue, and wake up at 9am.....
No, but it does run NetBSD
according to dictionary.com, anachronistic means:
1.The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2.One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier timeI see you are absolutely correct. Ham radio is way ahead of its time, in several ways.
for one, we had wireless networking back in the 70s in the form of RTTY
Not to mention wireless communication, such as the autopatch my dad had in his car in 1965 which he made phone calls off on a regular basis
Lets not forget communication sats which some of you are likely posting via (without knowing) are offten used as amature radio repeators
Obviously the above poster doesn't know or realize the ways amature radio has impacted his life - I hope you can all sence my sarcasm above. But seriously, folks, don't bash it if you don't know it, that just puts you down with the "bsd is dying" crowd.
I have the same computer, and here is what I did while I waited to get my g4:
:)
Overclocked the processor to 300mhz, and overclocked the system bus to 83mhz (up from 66). Added 64 megs of ram (so, thats 128 total), and added a better graphics card.
Remember, you need at least 8 megs video ram to run quartz extreme - and you DEFINATELY want this.
Once you have all that done, it'll run decent. Not nearly as fast as it will run os9, or power pc linux. But, its osx
Enjoy
well yes, it does, as it completely lacks an interface. This is the sort of rig you would install under the dash, or in the trunk.
Wouldn't it have been neat if it actually looked like a high-end receiver?
None of us want auto PC users to end up in the same category as annoying cell phone users.
Or the same OS they will likely run
Naw dude, they'll just obtain slashdot log files, which are publically avaliable anyway, and get your ip address, contact your isp, etc..
Unless you posted from a Kinkos..... ohh... now there's a twist
Seriously, why all the AOL bashing today? AOL has done a great service by going where the sun don't shine and manually removing the waste. Thats got to beat the age-old reach-around method...
I think your sig says it all.
So, I suppose the kernel will be kept in the non-free optional install section with mpg123 and other non-gnu programs?
(note to mods: debian users will get this joke)
What is interesting to note, is that this, or these, as it may be hackers are /releasing/ the truth.
Not defacing web sites, hacking student DB's, etc.
Is truth the new hack of the future?
Not only that, but current PC's and Macs are limited to 24 bit color. Now, take an SGI Challenge RE2 (Reality Engine 2). That has 196 bit color, and thats what they use to render the big movies. Not 3d Studio Max. heh I've used Max quite a bit, and I can tell you it is one of the most unprofessional slapped together 3D design programs out there. A TV series from this application is NEVER going to seem real.
Who cares - best picture is best picture. A lot of work goes into designing real and digital sets. Cinamatography (sp?) you say? Analog and digital, I say.
Is a movie any more real if you watch it over a vcr or a dvd?
AMD Hammer users: none, not out yet Newtek scala users: no idea, never heard of it nVidia users: probably about 1 million Toilet paper users: +4 billion I rest *my* case :)
heh. The antenna output is unbalanced, so attaching the antenna to the case (which is gounded, of course) basically shorts out the wireless card, leading to high SWR and low effective radiated power.