Wouldn't it take way too long? Reminds me of our family's travel to the seaside every summer when I was a kid. We used to pass pretty interesting places but never stopped. Otherwise the travel would get too long and it wouldn't be possible to get where we wanted to be within a day's travel and my dad always refused to stop at a motel. While I'm on my way to the next star with my nuclear bombs exploding, accelerating me all the time, I won't be thinking of stopping to have a look at a small, very cold snowball. I'm thinking of jumping to the clear, blue and warm sea. Who cares about some stupid town on the way?
Oh well, if I knew this I would have never bought a 1.2 gig disk for my 386... Damn...
It works. Really. As long as you have a boot partition which is smaller than your BIOS limit (504MiB for those goode olde days), you can boot off a decent OS and use the rest of the disk because the system will bypass BIOS and access the disk properly. OS/2 worked fine, even very early distibutions of Linux (Ygdrassil's with.9x Linux kernels) worked fine as well. Been there, done that.
There were no LBA or LARGE options on the BIOS settings and the BIOS would only see 504MiB. So what? Use a propert OS and everything should just work.
sorry, it's my mistake. I was playing with my ham gear and experimenting with DSP pass ratios. It is quite easy to mix them up when you are concentrating on one thing and browsing the other.
Damn I'm glad I'm living in UK. I have a nice stereo DAB receiver and I'm addicted to it. Quality varies between 44kHz mono and 128kHz stereo but it is much better than my FM stereo.
Taking account of the track record of Mars Landings, this is true. NASA lost a couple of probes between Pathfinder and Spirit, of course no one remembers these, only the successful attempts stay fresh in the memories. On the other hand, I just can't believe how much successful these two are. It beats Lunokhod 9 which traversed Luna for years. American presence on moon is just a couple of hundred man-hours.
I agree in many ways but... Is downloading the ISO images faster? If you are installing over a slow link, ftp install actually makes sense because you only download the stuff you need.
I, on the other hand, have to download the lot, burn it on a DVD to transfer it around and install FTP servers to provide install services locally. I would have preferred ISO images instead so that I can keep them on my CD wallet to hand out when necessary. Not all PCs have DVDs or CDs and Suse 7 to 9, floppy installation sucked.
I was a big advocate of Redhat for common usage. Fedora was a good idea but it broke far too many things, I just can't use it on my production systems anymore. Suse is the only "corporate compatible" distro out there.
I'm running Mandrake 10 offcial on my Linux Workstation these days, it is pretty impressive but once the rsync is complete, it's going to be replaced with an Suse 9.1 system.
The boot disk has lots of modules but you might have to load them by hand instead of being auto-detected. What's the problem with that? You should at least have an idea what kind of PC you are using. In any case most of the PCs are using a broadcom/realtek/3com these days. None of these can be auto-detected in the network install CD and should be manually selected (in Suse 9.0).
I found how to make a Molotov Coctail by reading it in an encyclopedia. Does this make me a terrorist? A terrorist is who is planning to use this information, actively. Even contemplating is not good enough.
I read Anarchist's Cookbcook and it is not that useful. Any idiot who knows his high school chemistry knows how to get Nitro. Well, read some Jules Verne books and you'll learn how to make nitro from sea weed!
Actually if you read the whole Wired article you would see that this is actually a political pressure applied by FBI. The guy is working on art which discredits genetic seed companies. It looks like a frame to me. Someone wants this guy discredited, silenced, got rid of. If you can't incite him for killing his wife, you can by saying he's a terrorist. Apparently FBI sent mails around suggesting substly (by asking) if the guy is "un-american". Since even FOSS can be claimed to be un-american"... I rest my case.
This is very disturbing. Western goverments are trying to silence people just because it would hurt them (The Ruling Class) in their wallets.
The subpoenas cited Section 175 of the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which prohibits the use of certain biological materials for anything other than a "prophylactic, protective, bona fide research, or other peaceful purpose."
Looks like a very stupid rule to me. There might be other legitimate use like doing your own research. Not everyone belongs to a research institute. Many researchers don't get their grants and spend their own money to do research on their own time.
You must be kidding. With all those ships moving around, do you think oceans are nice and clean? The bottom is full of muck, dead animals, plants and lots of junk. Check this Guardian article about what's happening to Titanic because of all the rubbish.
You are comparing apples to oranges. Energia can have multiple configurations, just like Arian 5. On the other hand, Saturn V had only different stage combinations and definitely didn't need any boosters.
Unfortunately, that happened in 1986 and it was called Challenger Disaster. SRB malfunctioned (O-ring failure), turned, hit the hydrogen tank and it went pooof.
I switched to being a Fido node (and its Turkish equivalent, Hitnet) very quickly so I never used BlueWave more than a couple of months. GoldEdit was far superior to Bluewave and I had multiple-MB tag files... Squid+GoldEdit rules, Maximus 3 kicks ass.
Apparently there's a sourceforge project to port Maximus/Squid onto Linux, the whole setup more or less works but the project is pretty much dead.
Because they are Russian. Just like Lada Niva's are russian and not reliable(!!). Shoddy and noisy, yes; not reliable? No. Zenit/Soyuz are quite reliable as well. They never lost any astronauts during launch.
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Wouldn't it take way too long? Reminds me of our family's travel to the seaside every summer when I was a kid. We used to pass pretty interesting places but never stopped. Otherwise the travel would get too long and it wouldn't be possible to get where we wanted to be within a day's travel and my dad always refused to stop at a motel. While I'm on my way to the next star with my nuclear bombs exploding, accelerating me all the time, I won't be thinking of stopping to have a look at a small, very cold snowball. I'm thinking of jumping to the clear, blue and warm sea. Who cares about some stupid town on the way?
not if, when! :-)
It works. Really. As long as you have a boot partition which is smaller than your BIOS limit (504MiB for those goode olde days), you can boot off a decent OS and use the rest of the disk because the system will bypass BIOS and access the disk properly. OS/2 worked fine, even very early distibutions of Linux (Ygdrassil's with .9x Linux kernels) worked fine as well. Been there, done that.
There were no LBA or LARGE options on the BIOS settings and the BIOS would only see 504MiB. So what? Use a propert OS and everything should just work.
There's no reason to get rude, is there?
'cause we're talking about satellite and terrestial digital broadcasting, mate.
Damn I'm glad I'm living in UK. I have a nice stereo DAB receiver and I'm addicted to it. Quality varies between 44kHz mono and 128kHz stereo but it is much better than my FM stereo.
You should have used a proper OS then. OS/2 never had any problems like this (nor did Linux).
Winter, not-so-winter, spring, not-so-spring, summer, not-so-summer, autumn, damn-cold-here-time.
Taking account of the track record of Mars Landings, this is true. NASA lost a couple of probes between Pathfinder and Spirit, of course no one remembers these, only the successful attempts stay fresh in the memories. On the other hand, I just can't believe how much successful these two are. It beats Lunokhod 9 which traversed Luna for years. American presence on moon is just a couple of hundred man-hours.
What are these ISOs? Copies of Pro/home versions? ISOs of the FTP version? I can't find anything in the link you've provided.
Rolling out your own Knoppix is quite fun. I advise everyone to try it at least once.
I, on the other hand, have to download the lot, burn it on a DVD to transfer it around and install FTP servers to provide install services locally. I would have preferred ISO images instead so that I can keep them on my CD wallet to hand out when necessary. Not all PCs have DVDs or CDs and Suse 7 to 9, floppy installation sucked.
I was a big advocate of Redhat for common usage. Fedora was a good idea but it broke far too many things, I just can't use it on my production systems anymore. Suse is the only "corporate compatible" distro out there.
I'm running Mandrake 10 offcial on my Linux Workstation these days, it is pretty impressive but once the rsync is complete, it's going to be replaced with an Suse 9.1 system.
The boot disk has lots of modules but you might have to load them by hand instead of being auto-detected. What's the problem with that? You should at least have an idea what kind of PC you are using. In any case most of the PCs are using a broadcom/realtek/3com these days. None of these can be auto-detected in the network install CD and should be manually selected (in Suse 9.0).
I read Anarchist's Cookbcook and it is not that useful. Any idiot who knows his high school chemistry knows how to get Nitro. Well, read some Jules Verne books and you'll learn how to make nitro from sea weed!
This is very disturbing. Western goverments are trying to silence people just because it would hurt them (The Ruling Class) in their wallets.
He is free to talk about it but he can't do it. That's free speech.
From the article
The subpoenas cited Section 175 of the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which prohibits the use of certain biological materials for anything other than a "prophylactic, protective, bona fide research, or other peaceful purpose."
Looks like a very stupid rule to me. There might be other legitimate use like doing your own research. Not everyone belongs to a research institute. Many researchers don't get their grants and spend their own money to do research on their own time.
You must be kidding. With all those ships moving around, do you think oceans are nice and clean? The bottom is full of muck, dead animals, plants and lots of junk. Check this Guardian article about what's happening to Titanic because of all the rubbish.
Don't drive a Volvo then... (I have one, 1992 model 940, nice car).
You are comparing apples to oranges. Energia can have multiple configurations, just like Arian 5. On the other hand, Saturn V had only different stage combinations and definitely didn't need any boosters.
(as a hobbyist) because it was fun to build them? :)
Unfortunately, that happened in 1986 and it was called Challenger Disaster. SRB malfunctioned (O-ring failure), turned, hit the hydrogen tank and it went pooof.
Apparently there's a sourceforge project to port Maximus/Squid onto Linux, the whole setup more or less works but the project is pretty much dead.
Because they are Russian. Just like Lada Niva's are russian and not reliable(!!). Shoddy and noisy, yes; not reliable? No. Zenit/Soyuz are quite reliable as well. They never lost any astronauts during launch.
Sample size increased from zero to one?