Actually, I think you need to read that a little more carefully. He is saying that he ran a 2.4 kernel on a 'Slackware 3.2 box largely unchanged from its original November 1997 install.'
Education, or perhaps staggering school loan payments, shouldn't be the primary metric by which compensation is determined. It's a sad state of affairs that educators earn less than lawyers or doctors, yet probably have a greater positive impact on society. For example, my mother is a nurse, and a damn fine one. She's cared for (and likely saved the lives of) more patients than a dozen brain surgeons. Yet she earns far less.
My thoughts exactly. One should be paid for what they accomplish, not which school they managed to get into.
Where I live, which is, according to records, the poorest county in Indiana (Crawford), the High School does have a computer in every classroom. This year, all the teachers got P4s (i believe), that run somewhere around 1.2GHz, (not sure about the exact speed) to replace their PII laptops. The computer labs are in worse shape, with only 300Mhz PCs, but that is quite enough for normal Office XP/2k usage, and sure didn't stop the Computer Electronics class from having Quake2 matches...at least until the teacher decided it was too violent, now they just compete in Starcraft. The internet for the entire school is handled by a Netware router, connected through a T1 line.
Of course, it hasn't always been this way, I remember back in Jr. High (7-8th), Keyboarding class on Tandy 1000s, most of which had no HD. The only 'good' computers were in the Media Center, where you got to start up Win95 with Netscape in all its 256 color glory. You then waited 5-10 minutes for your page to load.
Then, of course, there were the green monochrome Apples we had in Kindergarden, but I don't remember enough about those to say much else.:)
You tell me how to make my ISPs mail server magicly reject all spam without using any resouces to check for spam (while, of course, letting legitimate mail through), and i'll do it.
Lets say, as a potential buyer, you search out product reviews to see what product would be best. You find mixed reviews for other products, but, for some reason, there are only great reviews for Network Associates products. Unaware of the fact that Network Associates doesn't allow bad reviews, you buy their product.
I'm not saying that this is what they had in mind (athough, by another post I read, it would seem likely), but according to their EULA, they can do it. Or perhaps I should say could.
Considering that 'umount' is not a shell command, but instead a program, I fail to see how using bash effects anything.
$ which umount/bin/umount
Re:Triangulation with one receiver?
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WiFi Triangulation
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Actually, from my understanding, you draw a line from each reciver that goes off forever in the direction the signal came from. Where these lines cross, is the location where the signal was sent from.
At least, this is how they use triangulation to find the source of radio transmissions when they want to find lost ships at sea (find where their last radio transmission came from, and start searching from there), or other such uses.
I think he was refering to the fact that a new window would (i havn't tried, but most other programs do it, so....) send SC to the background, and generally annoy the hell out of other players, as well as distracting them while you march in and rush their base(s).
I was wondering, and this is all theoretical, what would happen if someone was lowered into a black hole using an, lets say, infinately strong rope. This rope was secured to something massive around the black hole, lets say a jupiter sized rock planet. (Hey, i said its all theoretical) Now, would it be possible to pull them (ignoring how much force would be needed to do so) back out again? Would their weight increase to the point where they pull the planet into the black hole with them? (Ignoring the fact that the rope would probobly just get pulled through them instead...and spagettification (or however/whatever its spelled/called) and...well, lets just say that physics took a vacation(except for the part i asked about)
While your at it...
Earth not being the center of the universe isn't possible.
Traveling faster than sound isn't possible.
Space travel isn't possible.
Flight isn't possible.
Computers aren't possible.
Other planets aren't possible.
Well, Patrick (the Slackware maintainer) skipped from 4 to 7 because all the people asking him why he wasn't using Linux 7 (From redhat, mandrake, etc.) got annoying.
How many people over 40 can tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, including the operating system? How many adults realize the internet is more than just the web? Kids today are not learning fewer things, they are just learning different things.
Well, for my school, at least, i find that the majority of students can't tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, and they dont realize that the internet is more than just the web. I can't speak for other places, but here, at least, the majority of computer skills are still restricted to the 'Geeks', which i am proud to be one of:)
Luckly though, geeks dont get shoved into lockers, or beat up in the hallways, like they do on TV, they are instead sought out as savors when something goes wrong with one of the school computers. (Ever tried to type a english report, with students yelling, 'Can you come here and fix my computer?' every 5 minutes?)
I find that kids today seem to be more interested in how they can make their car go faster, and how cheap they can get drugs. Most of them have to be forced to read anything over a page in length, and stand around with blank stares when i end up having to fix something that they have screwed up on a computer.
That said, it think there are more 'Geeks' than before in school, and being a geek is not a bad thing, these too factors make it seem like they are everwhere.
The spaceship 'Heart of Gold' was sighted somewhere near The Moon earlier today.
(You need to have read Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, and remember the Infinate Improbability Drive to get it, and if you do, its not funny anyway, so your not missing anything by not getting it.)
Re:What's the difference between it and Mozilla?
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Netscape 7.0 is Out
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It looks at all the images on a page, and checks them against a list of normal banner sizes (which you can modify, add, delete, etc.), and hides the images that match those sizes, thus hiding most banner ads:)
While its off topic for this article, it also annoys me when they assume all animation is for kids.
And its not just annoying having someone say 'why are you still watching those kid shows?
If some 4 year old wants a copy of Ghost in the Shell, and the parent buys it, thinking its a kid show, just because its animated, they are going to be in for a big supprise.
That's strange, I have a friend who has Trillian in Windows, I use Gaim in Linux, he almost always uses the ICQ protocol when talking, and I send him URLs all the time. I have never had one drop.
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Actually, I think you need to read that a little more carefully. He is saying that he ran a 2.4 kernel on a 'Slackware 3.2 box largely unchanged from its original November 1997 install.'
Education, or perhaps staggering school loan payments, shouldn't be the primary metric by which compensation is determined. It's a sad state of affairs that educators earn less than lawyers or doctors, yet probably have a greater positive impact on society. For example, my mother is a nurse, and a damn fine one. She's cared for (and likely saved the lives of) more patients than a dozen brain surgeons. Yet she earns far less.
My thoughts exactly. One should be paid for what they accomplish, not which school they managed to get into.
Where I live, which is, according to records, the poorest county in Indiana (Crawford), the High School does have a computer in every classroom. This year, all the teachers got P4s (i believe), that run somewhere around 1.2GHz, (not sure about the exact speed) to replace their PII laptops. The computer labs are in worse shape, with only 300Mhz PCs, but that is quite enough for normal Office XP/2k usage, and sure didn't stop the Computer Electronics class from having Quake2 matches...at least until the teacher decided it was too violent, now they just compete in Starcraft. The internet for the entire school is handled by a Netware router, connected through a T1 line.
:)
Of course, it hasn't always been this way, I remember back in Jr. High (7-8th), Keyboarding class on Tandy 1000s, most of which had no HD. The only 'good' computers were in the Media Center, where you got to start up Win95 with Netscape in all its 256 color glory. You then waited 5-10 minutes for your page to load.
Then, of course, there were the green monochrome Apples we had in Kindergarden, but I don't remember enough about those to say much else.
Well, until I use Google Groups that is. I get hideous volumes of spam after I post to netnews using that. I think I'm onto something...
Its well known that spambots scan usenet groups for email addresses, so thats not suprising...
You tell me how to make my ISPs mail server magicly reject all spam without using any resouces to check for spam (while, of course, letting legitimate mail through), and i'll do it.
Lets say, as a potential buyer, you search out product reviews to see what product would be best. You find mixed reviews for other products, but, for some reason, there are only great reviews for Network Associates products. Unaware of the fact that Network Associates doesn't allow bad reviews, you buy their product.
I'm not saying that this is what they had in mind (athough, by another post I read, it would seem likely), but according to their EULA, they can do it. Or perhaps I should say could.
Actually, if its the same petition i looked through before, most (almost all, in fact) of those signatures are actually flames, and not endorsements.
Considering that 'umount' is not a shell command, but instead a program, I fail to see how using bash effects anything. $ which umount /bin/umount
Actually, from my understanding, you draw a line from each reciver that goes off forever in the direction the signal came from. Where these lines cross, is the location where the signal was sent from. At least, this is how they use triangulation to find the source of radio transmissions when they want to find lost ships at sea (find where their last radio transmission came from, and start searching from there), or other such uses.
I think he was refering to the fact that a new window would (i havn't tried, but most other programs do it, so....) send SC to the background, and generally annoy the hell out of other players, as well as distracting them while you march in and rush their base(s).
I was wondering, and this is all theoretical, what would happen if someone was lowered into a black hole using an, lets say, infinately strong rope. This rope was secured to something massive around the black hole, lets say a jupiter sized rock planet. (Hey, i said its all theoretical) Now, would it be possible to pull them (ignoring how much force would be needed to do so) back out again? Would their weight increase to the point where they pull the planet into the black hole with them? (Ignoring the fact that the rope would probobly just get pulled through them instead...and spagettification (or however/whatever its spelled/called) and...well, lets just say that physics took a vacation(except for the part i asked about)
When you install Office, you tell it your name, etc. Word puts that inside all .doc files.
While your at it... Earth not being the center of the universe isn't possible. Traveling faster than sound isn't possible. Space travel isn't possible. Flight isn't possible. Computers aren't possible. Other planets aren't possible.
Even if the binary matches the binary your distro gives you, nothing proves the distro got clean sources.
So your saying that distro supplied MD5 sums can't be trusted, correct?
Gentoo goes for the sources directly, and verifies they are correct before doing anything with them.
How does it check them? With distro supplied MD5 sums...
Well, Patrick (the Slackware maintainer) skipped from 4 to 7 because all the people asking him why he wasn't using Linux 7 (From redhat, mandrake, etc.) got annoying.
The INTERVIEW gets offtopic????
Redundent I could see, but offtopic? It IS the topic!
How many people over 40 can tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, including the operating system? How many adults realize the internet is more than just the web? Kids today are not learning fewer things, they are just learning different things.
:)
Well, for my school, at least, i find that the majority of students can't tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, and they dont realize that the internet is more than just the web. I can't speak for other places, but here, at least, the majority of computer skills are still restricted to the 'Geeks', which i am proud to be one of
Luckly though, geeks dont get shoved into lockers, or beat up in the hallways, like they do on TV, they are instead sought out as savors when something goes wrong with one of the school computers. (Ever tried to type a english report, with students yelling, 'Can you come here and fix my computer?' every 5 minutes?)
I find that kids today seem to be more interested in how they can make their car go faster, and how cheap they can get drugs. Most of them have to be forced to read anything over a page in length, and stand around with blank stares when i end up having to fix something that they have screwed up on a computer.
That said, it think there are more 'Geeks' than before in school, and being a geek is not a bad thing, these too factors make it seem like they are everwhere.
(here goes what little Karma i have...)
The spaceship 'Heart of Gold' was sighted somewhere near The Moon earlier today.
(You need to have read Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, and remember the Infinate Improbability Drive to get it, and if you do, its not funny anyway, so your not missing anything by not getting it.)
It is a Mozilla addon, you can get it from http://bannerblind.mozdev.org/
:)
It looks at all the images on a page, and checks them against a list of normal banner sizes (which you can modify, add, delete, etc.), and hides the images that match those sizes, thus hiding most banner ads
While its off topic for this article, it also annoys me when they assume all animation is for kids. And its not just annoying having someone say 'why are you still watching those kid shows? If some 4 year old wants a copy of Ghost in the Shell, and the parent buys it, thinking its a kid show, just because its animated, they are going to be in for a big supprise.
I think most first graders i know could have figured that one out...
As further payment, they force you to wear a 2 pound mini-billboard hung from your ear any time you go in public.
That's strange, I have a friend who has Trillian in Windows, I use Gaim in Linux, he almost always uses the ICQ protocol when talking, and I send him URLs all the time. I have never had one drop.
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Ahh, the memories...
*twitch*
*twitch*
*falls onto the floor and begins convulsing*