If you use Red Hat 4.2 your choice is to pay for a newer version of Red Hat, pay for someone to patch it up for you at substancial cost, or live with the swiss cheese of holes.
Any mention of Apple Computer that's less than glowing gets marked down these days. The crowding onto the 'Anything but Microsoft' wing of the Slashdot complex by Mac heads was about a year or so ago now. It coincided with the new Apple sections on this site.
Apple is no longer to be seen as the litigious closed-source company who championed the look-n-feel lawsuits in the 80's and tried to limit and control whole User Interface concepts, who the whole geek community hated with a passion. No, they're now a fine company, even under the same rather slimy management.
Awhile back it was starting to look like hAndover was going to be purchased by Apple Computer. That doesn't appear to be the case any longer. Thank goodness.
You won't find good support for older video cards in the latest versions of Linux. Don't try running X out-of-the-box on an S3 card that's older than a Virge. XFree86 has 'dropped support' for the older cards. I challange your notion that you can run Red Hat 8.0 in any meaningful task on an old 486 box. Maybe if you throw out a lot of the latest bloated crap, but you're gonna be stuck with non-accelerated X on the Tab Window Manager.
Actually, the Socialist concept of government would read: 'Society owns everything, including your money, your property and ideas. If you are good, we will let you use them and profit from them. For a while, anyway. Then it becomes public domain.'
I guess I don't understand the utility of distributing old Linux CDs. I have more of them than I can count, going back to the first Infomagic 'Unix' CD and the first Yggdrasil (both of which are now collectors items) but I fail to see the utility in distributing Red Hat 4.2 CD sets. I would imagine there are 'interests' out there who would be delighted to know which computers have an old version of Linux installed on them. Heck, there are folks who'd gladly donate their 'phone home Linux' distro complete with trojans and other stuff.
Well, being unemployed at the moment, I'm running a cool stable dual PPro 200 machine that I bought at auction a few months ago really cheap. And while many PPro machines only have passive heatsinks, this one has very high quality fans on both processors.
Lately I've been most interested in getting back in touch with some hardware, and I hand wired up an 8088 based single board computer a short while ago.
My wife's PII machine burned up a few weeks ago when the fan failed (why I didn't replace the fan when it got noisy one of those questions we ask after the smoke... but it was her* machine;-) ) so I know how close to the edge the chips are run these days.
The point in a patent is to exploit a technological advance as you see fit, because you 'own' the idea for awhile.
There are rationales for why the Patent System was established as it is, but since those rationales are not codified into the law, interests can take advantage of the chapter and verse of the law as they see fit.
This can mean patenting something that's innovative and sitting on it for seven years because it would cut into an established business you have going.
If this is viewed as 'wrong' the solution is to change the law. There are well established mechanisms in place to do so.
I know component vendors who will no longer honor any warranty on CPUs. I don't overclock. I know how to read Component Spec sheets and care about the reliability of my equipment enough to run them in spec. But it does irk me that people who aren't as responsible have soured the market so that I can't get a warranty on a CPU at the vendors who offer the best price.
It's just how things go, but I don't have to like it, nor will I ever be impressed that some hot dog thinks it's 'cool.'
I overclocked the ISA bus clock on my 486-33 motherboard from 8 to 12 MHz and everything ran significantly faster. Some ISA cards didn't work at all anymore, though. But it made Wolfenstein 3D run nicer.
When has any commercial concern who produced a 'market leading web browser' paid much attention at all to the W3C? Netscape certainly didn't, back when they produced one. In fact, one of the biggest Netscape innovations was proprietary extensions that only their server technology provided. They had a whole business plan and planned revenue stream built around that notion.
I exclusively use Mozilla these days, so I am quite glad that Netscape failed.
I never buy warranties on anything electronic, because for me, half the fun of owning a piece of gear is opening it up. I'd never trust any consumer electronics with the kind of tards they employ at service centers anyway.
Back when I was at tech school in the early 80's a fan passtime was to buy old TV sets for almost nothing at the thrift stores and troubleshoot and fix them. A broken piece of equipment is like a jigsaw puzzle, fun to figure out what's wrong and fix it. At the time I watched almost no television, so part of the challange was figuring out what to do with the damned things once I had them working. I gave lots of them to friends, sometimes with 'enhancements' like reversed polarity deflection yokes (which means the picture was a mirror image).
I guess for me it would spoil all the fun if I had to let someone else fiddle around with broken gear.
Heck, cutting down on oil consumption would even *gasp* save money, which is always a good thing.
No, actually, cutting down on oil consumption theoretically could save money, but there's already and always has been a natural progression towards economy. What 'cutting down on oil consumption' means to environmentalists is: government mandated expensive and unproven changes to technology, imposed by the people who are not experts in that technology. Anybody so out of it that they think that businesses, private citizens, etc. aren't already cutting down on oil consumption to save money is clearly not worth including in the discussion. Anybody who thinks that government needs to mandate this 'saving money' thing needs to be carefully scrutinzed, and isolated so they can't do damage to the economy.
My copy of the LOTR books, which date from about 1973, have a paragraph on the back cover about 'respecting living authors by buying only the authorized edition.' For years I didn't really know what that was all about.
I look back with nostalgia on that week I spent in the summer of 1975 laying in a hammock reading the trilogy....
It'd be nice if the X Window eight volume set became free (though I have my set on the shelf, a searchable electronic copy for free would be nice), but most anything in the O'Reilly catalog that is relevant stays in print.
I am not breathlessly awaiting the free release of the O'reilly Mosaic for Macintosh books that I suspect are on the way.
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So you're going to claim it's easy to productively administrate a Red Hat box without using the GUI?
Mercy me.
If you use Red Hat 4.2 your choice is to pay for a newer version of Red Hat, pay for someone to patch it up for you at substancial cost, or live with the swiss cheese of holes.
Any mention of Apple Computer that's less than glowing gets marked down these days. The crowding onto the 'Anything but Microsoft' wing of the Slashdot complex by Mac heads was about a year or so ago now. It coincided with the new Apple sections on this site.
Apple is no longer to be seen as the litigious closed-source company who championed the look-n-feel lawsuits in the 80's and tried to limit and control whole User Interface concepts, who the whole geek community hated with a passion. No, they're now a fine company, even under the same rather slimy management.
Awhile back it was starting to look like hAndover was going to be purchased by Apple Computer. That doesn't appear to be the case any longer. Thank goodness.
You won't find good support for older video cards in the latest versions of Linux. Don't try running X out-of-the-box on an S3 card that's older than a Virge. XFree86 has 'dropped support' for the older cards. I challange your notion that you can run Red Hat 8.0 in any meaningful task on an old 486 box. Maybe if you throw out a lot of the latest bloated crap, but you're gonna be stuck with non-accelerated X on the Tab Window Manager.
And here we thought 'Steven Spielbergo' was the 'cheap Mexican equivalent' all these years.
The 'killer App' is called 'unprotected promiscuous anal sex' and it's worked well in certain market segments (at killing, that is...).
In other markets the 'killer App' is called: 'unsanitary social practices in general.'
There are not cures, but there are clearly cultural practices that can be instilled and/or upheld to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Naw. That annoying and untruthful 'hype' boilerplate spammed at the front of every Project Gutenberg textfile would just have to be modified a bit:
"We make over ONE MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR for the government....."
Actually, the Socialist concept of government would read: 'Society owns everything, including your money, your property and ideas. If you are good, we will let you use them and profit from them. For a while, anyway. Then it becomes public domain.'
This is more a State-capitalist concept.
No, in fact they're not.
I guess I don't understand the utility of distributing old Linux CDs. I have more of them than I can count, going back to the first Infomagic 'Unix' CD and the first Yggdrasil (both of which are now collectors items) but I fail to see the utility in distributing Red Hat 4.2 CD sets. I would imagine there are 'interests' out there who would be delighted to know which computers have an old version of Linux installed on them. Heck, there are folks who'd gladly donate their 'phone home Linux' distro complete with trojans and other stuff.
Things aren't quite like they were back in, say, 1998 now, are they?
Well, being unemployed at the moment, I'm running a cool stable dual PPro 200 machine that I bought at auction a few months ago really cheap. And while many PPro machines only have passive heatsinks, this one has very high quality fans on both processors.
;-) ) so I know how close to the edge the chips are run these days.
Lately I've been most interested in getting back in touch with some hardware, and I hand wired up an 8088 based single board computer a short while ago.
My wife's PII machine burned up a few weeks ago when the fan failed (why I didn't replace the fan when it got noisy one of those questions we ask after the smoke... but it was her* machine
from real goodies like Flash export for the slide shows..... to pretty boring ones like better footnotes (whatever that means).
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Uh, yeah. Like what do footnotes mean, when we can have pretty Flash Animation
Sometimes it's embarassing to admit associating with some of the people who frequent this site.
The point in a patent is to exploit a technological advance as you see fit, because you 'own' the idea for awhile.
There are rationales for why the Patent System was established as it is, but since those rationales are not codified into the law, interests can take advantage of the chapter and verse of the law as they see fit.
This can mean patenting something that's innovative and sitting on it for seven years because it would cut into an established business you have going.
If this is viewed as 'wrong' the solution is to change the law. There are well established mechanisms in place to do so.
I know component vendors who will no longer honor any warranty on CPUs. I don't overclock. I know how to read Component Spec sheets and care about the reliability of my equipment enough to run them in spec. But it does irk me that people who aren't as responsible have soured the market so that I can't get a warranty on a CPU at the vendors who offer the best price.
It's just how things go, but I don't have to like it, nor will I ever be impressed that some hot dog thinks it's 'cool.'
It stops middlemen from defauding their customers by misrepresenting Intel's slower part as a faster part. It's really not more complicated than that.
I overclocked the ISA bus clock on my 486-33 motherboard from 8 to 12 MHz and everything ran significantly faster. Some ISA cards didn't work at all anymore, though. But it made Wolfenstein 3D run nicer.
When has any commercial concern who produced a 'market leading web browser' paid much attention at all to the W3C? Netscape certainly didn't, back when they produced one. In fact, one of the biggest Netscape innovations was proprietary extensions that only their server technology provided. They had a whole business plan and planned revenue stream built around that notion.
I exclusively use Mozilla these days, so I am quite glad that Netscape failed.
I know this is being pedantic, but 'truth' can't be outlawed any more than 'cold' can be outlawed.
I never buy warranties on anything electronic, because for me, half the fun of owning a piece of gear is opening it up. I'd never trust any consumer electronics with the kind of tards they employ at service centers anyway.
Back when I was at tech school in the early 80's a fan passtime was to buy old TV sets for almost nothing at the thrift stores and troubleshoot and fix them. A broken piece of equipment is like a jigsaw puzzle, fun to figure out what's wrong and fix it. At the time I watched almost no television, so part of the challange was figuring out what to do with the damned things once I had them working. I gave lots of them to friends, sometimes with 'enhancements' like reversed polarity deflection yokes (which means the picture was a mirror image).
I guess for me it would spoil all the fun if I had to let someone else fiddle around with broken gear.
I'll set up the holodeck to simulate 3-Demon on a PC Junior.
Or 'Star Trek' on an IBM 5100.
Heck, cutting down on oil consumption would even *gasp* save money, which is always a good thing.
No, actually, cutting down on oil consumption theoretically could save money, but there's already and always has been a natural progression towards economy. What 'cutting down on oil consumption' means to environmentalists is: government mandated expensive and unproven changes to technology, imposed by the people who are not experts in that technology. Anybody so out of it that they think that businesses, private citizens, etc. aren't already cutting down on oil consumption to save money is clearly not worth including in the discussion. Anybody who thinks that government needs to mandate this 'saving money' thing needs to be carefully scrutinzed, and isolated so they can't do damage to the economy.
My copy of the LOTR books, which date from about 1973, have a paragraph on the back cover about 'respecting living authors by buying only the authorized edition.' For years I didn't really know what that was all about.
I look back with nostalgia on that week I spent in the summer of 1975 laying in a hammock reading the trilogy....
Which old O'reilly books?
It'd be nice if the X Window eight volume set became free (though I have my set on the shelf, a searchable electronic copy for free would be nice), but most anything in the O'Reilly catalog that is relevant stays in print.
I am not breathlessly awaiting the free release of the O'reilly Mosaic for Macintosh books that I suspect are on the way.
There was a time when most of us envied the rich dudes who had the 2400 baud modems.