"Mmmh, you seem quite knowledgeable about USENET clients, so tell me this, what sort of newsreader will automatically track posts you made and report replies made to your very posts?"
For those who wonder what kind of working environment DTIS has:
PeopleSofts HRMS 8.x application software. PeopleTools 8.4x, PeopleCode, SQL, SQR, COBOL, Application Engine, Oracle and HP/UNIX. IBM hosts and DB2 Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Just look for open positions and you know what they are running.
For years I have had a shortwave transceiver in my car and since I don't like voice communication, I had a morse code key between the seats. I am quite proficient at the code, doing something like 40 WPM easily while driving on the Autobahn and I found that concentration was more difficult when I had an actual person to talk to in the car.
I wish there was a mobile phone with twoe keys, one for dots, one for dashes to let me input text messages. Anything less than a full size keyboard is a PITA for text input; morse code would be a fine alternative, but i realize it's not for everyone. I look forward to a new generation of mobile phones that is open enough to make something like this possible.
Please no hint at Darwin: I am an experienced driver and listening to music is just as distracting as watching parts of the landscape and in fact when doing morse code at 120 mpH I never need to take my eyes from the road. I would agree, however, that any input interface that requires a look at the input device is an invitation to cleanse the gene pool.
But I agree, in regular communications, Q-Codes and other abbreviations are nonsense, but unlike you, I actually do morse code and use all those Q-Codes and abbreviations as part of making communications on the band easier.
We are talking about the 10-30 MHz spectrum, i.e. shortwave. Shortwaves have the unique capability of being reflected from the ionosphere, the very effect that made international communication possible on these frequencies. A faulty BPL installation in West Bumfuck, FarmLand can easily be heard all over bands all over the world given the right time.
While we are in the absolute minimum of the sunpot cycle these days, in another 2 or three years it will again be easy to communicate internationally with a couple of Watts and a piece of wire. And BPL in that sense would be an international disaster, at least for those ham radio operators who want to use the shortwave bands.
there comes along a man who fundamentally changes history.
Truly fundamental changes can only come about in two ways: From external forces like war, or from within, either from up the government or from down there, from the people. De Clerk in South Africa and Gorbachev showed the world how easily a corrupt system can be broken up from within. People who went along with the party line, worked their way up and in the moment of holding power, they essentially throw down the whole system of society.
Free for the public to look at the source without restrictions Free for the public to use without restriction Free for the public to redistribute under the term of the licens that says it needs to be kept public Free for the public to modify without restrictions
Put available software under scrutiny for each of these points and prohibit the use of this term for any software that does not meet *all* of these points.
"You've described how Mandriva works. Does anyone other than me actually use that distro?"
Yes. I've been through all of the major distributions over the past 8 or 9 years and I think I finally found the one I will continue to use. Minimal pain in installing the distro, minimal pain in administrating it, minimal pain in switching both my GF's X60 and my own T60 over to Mandriva.
Extremely helpful people in the forum and apart from SUSE's sucky yast the only distribution that has a central administration tool for all services, hardware drivers, user management and virtually everything under/etc. No need to touch an editor, though you are fine if you want to. And if you do it it the right place, changes will be seen in the GUI administration tools.
Ubuntu simply doesn't cut it on my notebook for a variety of reasons and neither does Fedora: Lack of proper suspend/resume, broken framebuffer console plus a bugzilla with people that have a weird attitude towards usabilty.
Thanks Mandriva, you are one hell of e polished and stunning distribution.
I don't get it. What is it that made people accept this abysmal stone age technique? We have two ears, they give sound a spacial dimension and there is nothing better enhancing the video experience than giving it a great sound.
Monaural. How ultra retro - AM broadcast quality of the 60s.
3.) Simple set ups can work miracles. Case in point: Last night I set up a 30 feet fibreglass pole on my balcony and talked to guys in Oregon, British Columbia and Wash. State. From Europe with 100 Watts.
4.) Point to point communications requires no additional infrastructure prone to failure or need for extra power. I don't need a computer or ISP for CW.
5.) It is fun and it feels good to master something that only few others are willing and capable of achieving.
Those deriding morse code as a skill probably prefer clicking setup.exe to/bin/bash
Recently Lenove offers Thinkpads with NVidia cards, but given Lenovo's recent history in fucking up Linux support for their Thinkpads, it doesn't make a difference anymore.
Thinkpads in general used to be the prime recommendation for Linux users.
Lenovo's quality of Linux support has gone downhill drastically ever since IBM seems to be out of the loop in terms of software development. While all parts of the hardware are officially and unsurprisingly supported, the firmware of recent models has shown to ignore Linux as an alternative OS.
I have been superhappy with my 2 year old R51 until the backlight went dead, which I took as a sign to get a slimmer, less weighty and faster machine and having been so happy with the unquirky Linux support of the R51, I went for a T60 (and bought my GF an X60 two months before that).
Both the T60 and the X60 have problems with S2RAM, unreliable wireless support, short battery lifetime. Add to that a non functioning WiFi-LED, no switchable external monitor support, no backlight adjustment with the Fn-keys, those sucky extra Windows keys and other minor stuff that I can't or don't want to think of right now.
IBM-Thinkpads have been the best and safest recommendation for any Linux user for years. Go to any hacker conference and you'll see around 70% of all notebooks being Thinkpads with Linux and everyone was happy to recommend TPs as the ultimate Linux notebook. Not anymore. Within two years Lenovo has managed to piss Linux users off massively and very few people these days would actually recommend recent TPs as the optimal Linux laptop solution.
Sad, very sad.
The T60 is a beautiful machine, but running Linux on it as I have been used to in the last couple of years is a big pain in the ass. Both my old Inspiron 8200 and the R51 were better Linux machines in every respect, since all the hardware was supported out of the box and ran as expected. I have had the T60 for three weeks now and I have invested an unproportionally large amount of time to get it working to such an extent that it is not completely unusable anymore. It took me reading all available material on fellow T60 users, subscribing to the Linux Thinkpad mailing list and endless hours of fiddling with a development version of Ubuntu.
The difference between IBM and Linux is simple: IBM cared for Linux and be it only in the way of making sure that its employers wouldn't encounter any unforeseen problem during the transition of IBM's corporate migration to Linux.
I hereby solemnly swear to never buy a Thunkpad again and certainly not recommend any Thinkpad to potential users, unless Lenovo decides to migrate its corporate infrastructure to Linux and is thus forced to make these bricks at least work with the basic requirements of WiFi-support, battery life identical to Windows, S2RAM and a graphics adaptor that comes out of Suspend (that is, IF it does) without any artifacts left on the screen for the rest of the session.
And, yes, I have made sure to get an Intel graphics chip this time, but to be honest: It was not worth it. I can't see an improvement in battery life, but I am rewarded with worse performance than any ATI or NVIDIA card, artifacts on the display, a crazy hack to make 1440x1050 work (915resolution) at all.
Goodbye Thinkpads, it's been nice to have known you, but it's time to move on, at least if you are a Linux user.
> Can't I just keep the ipod and give them a brick painted as an iPod like the P-P-P-Powerbook instead?
Very funny indeed. You did follow that link, didn't you?
Quote:
*** 3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found. ***
> ATI has completely dropped support for the Radeon Mobility in my T40 Thinkpad.
So what? The Radeon Mobility with an R250 core is perfectly supported by the original xorg-driver "Radeon", including 3D accelaration. My old R51 with an Radeon 9200 could do GoogleEarth and Quake3 without problems.
However, my new laptop took me weeks to find, because I have sworn to NEVER again use any notebook with an ATI-card - and Thinkpads use these in most of their models. Finally found an SXGA+ T60 with Intel Chip.
> Headaches can be triggered by things, like sounds, but they are not caused by sounds.
Nonsense. Noise can trigger tinnitus and it does so on a regular basis. Just killed a mosquito by clapping my hands close to my ears and was rewarded with a nice, new ringtone in my ear and, yes, I call that a headache.
On the other hand, in 27 years as a ham radio operator I have been exposed to RF many times with field strengths close to 1000 times of the power of a WiFi or telephone tower and and I have yet to find one single instance where radio exposure could do anything physical, unless you plug your finger into the transmitter and get your blood boiling.
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"Mmmh, you seem quite knowledgeable about USENET clients, so tell me this, what sort of newsreader will automatically track posts you made and report replies made to your very posts?"
tin
"Is there a way to make Usenet P2P?"
Yes, it's called NNTP.
'Nuff said, for those who know.
Bingo!
Where's my price?
For those who wonder what kind of working environment DTIS has:
PeopleSofts HRMS 8.x application software.
PeopleTools 8.4x, PeopleCode, SQL, SQR, COBOL, Application Engine, Oracle and HP/UNIX.
IBM hosts and DB2
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Just look for open positions and you know what they are running.
Seriously.
For years I have had a shortwave transceiver in my car and since I don't like voice communication, I had a morse code key between the seats. I am quite proficient at the code, doing something like 40 WPM easily while driving on the Autobahn and I found that concentration was more difficult when I had an actual person to talk to in the car.
I wish there was a mobile phone with twoe keys, one for dots, one for dashes to let me input text messages. Anything less than a full size keyboard is a PITA for text input; morse code would be a fine alternative, but i realize it's not for everyone. I look forward to a new generation of mobile phones that is open enough to make something like this possible.
Please no hint at Darwin: I am an experienced driver and listening to music is just as distracting as watching parts of the landscape and in fact when doing morse code at 120 mpH I never need to take my eyes from the road. I would agree, however, that any input interface that requires a look at the input device is an invitation to cleanse the gene pool.
> Is there a shortcut to start typing in the google searchbar immediately much like f6 does for the 'awesomebar'?
Ctrl-K
Uh, all of what you say may well be true for the USA, but please take a look at my nick.
Aaaah, the No-Coder speaks -)
But I agree, in regular communications, Q-Codes and other abbreviations are nonsense, but unlike you, I actually do morse code and use all those Q-Codes and abbreviations as part of making communications on the band easier.
73/161 de DF5JT
There is no distance limitations on CB.
CB is 27 MHz and the closest ham band is 28 MHz, i.e. technically speaking there is no difference between these two.
I have made many, many international contacts on 28 MHz, worked all 5 continents with 10 Watts and a simple vertical antenna.
We are talking about the 10-30 MHz spectrum, i.e. shortwave. Shortwaves have the unique capability of being reflected from the ionosphere, the very effect that made international communication possible on these frequencies. A faulty BPL installation in West Bumfuck, FarmLand can easily be heard all over bands all over the world given the right time.
While we are in the absolute minimum of the sunpot cycle these days, in another 2 or three years it will again be easy to communicate internationally with a couple of Watts and a piece of wire. And BPL in that sense would be an international disaster, at least for those ham radio operators who want to use the shortwave bands.
there comes along a man who fundamentally changes history.
Truly fundamental changes can only come about in two ways: From external forces like war, or from within, either from up the government or from down there, from the people. De Clerk in South Africa and Gorbachev showed the world how easily a corrupt system can be broken up from within. People who went along with the party line, worked their way up and in the moment of holding power, they essentially throw down the whole system of society.
Maybe Obama is one of these people.
"Unfortunately I dont think England is a signatory to the European Union treaties. "
Rubbish.
If you are indeed unable to find the code then it's you who is the goofball.
Free for the public to look at the source without restrictions
Free for the public to use without restriction
Free for the public to redistribute under the term of the licens that says it needs to be kept public
Free for the public to modify without restrictions
Put available software under scrutiny for each of these points and prohibit the use of this term for any software that does not meet *all* of these points.
Problem solved for the benefit of the public.
[Uninstall X for a console login]
> Even if you do have porn on the system, it doesn't have the same effect when viewed in ASCII.
man fbi
"You've described how Mandriva works. Does anyone other than me actually use that distro?"
/etc. No need to touch an editor, though you are fine if you want to. And if you do it it the right place, changes will be seen in the GUI administration tools.
Yes. I've been through all of the major distributions over the past 8 or 9 years and I think I finally found the one I will continue to use. Minimal pain in installing the distro, minimal pain in administrating it, minimal pain in switching both my GF's X60 and my own T60 over to Mandriva.
Extremely helpful people in the forum and apart from SUSE's sucky yast the only distribution that has a central administration tool for all services, hardware drivers, user management and virtually everything under
Ubuntu simply doesn't cut it on my notebook for a variety of reasons and neither does Fedora: Lack of proper suspend/resume, broken framebuffer console plus a bugzilla with people that have a weird attitude towards usabilty.
Thanks Mandriva, you are one hell of e polished and stunning distribution.
taken to the next level.
[Examples of HQ youtube video]
And still monaural sound.
I don't get it. What is it that made people accept this abysmal stone age technique? We have two ears, they give sound a spacial dimension and there is nothing better enhancing the video experience than giving it a great sound.
Monaural. How ultra retro - AM broadcast quality of the 60s.
Painful for those with ears, alas.
For a number of reasons:
/bin/bash
1.) It takes skill and dedication to master the code. You can't buy that, you need to invest into it. Take a look at this guy:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=dj1yfk&search=Search
2.) You are missing out most of the real DX
3.) Simple set ups can work miracles. Case in point: Last night I set up a 30 feet fibreglass pole on my balcony and talked to guys in Oregon, British Columbia and Wash. State. From Europe with 100 Watts.
4.) Point to point communications requires no additional infrastructure prone to failure or need for extra power. I don't need a computer or ISP for CW.
5.) It is fun and it feels good to master something that only few others are willing and capable of achieving.
Those deriding morse code as a skill probably prefer clicking setup.exe to
Recently Lenove offers Thinkpads with NVidia cards, but given Lenovo's recent history in fucking up Linux support for their Thinkpads, it doesn't make a difference anymore.
Thinkpads in general used to be the prime recommendation for Linux users.
That's a thing of the past.
Lenovo's quality of Linux support has gone downhill drastically ever since IBM seems to be out of the loop in terms of software development. While all parts of the hardware are officially and unsurprisingly supported, the firmware of recent models has shown to ignore Linux as an alternative OS.
I have been superhappy with my 2 year old R51 until the backlight went dead, which I took as a sign to get a slimmer, less weighty and faster machine and having been so happy with the unquirky Linux support of the R51, I went for a T60 (and bought my GF an X60 two months before that).
Both the T60 and the X60 have problems with S2RAM, unreliable wireless support, short battery lifetime. Add to that a non functioning WiFi-LED, no switchable external monitor support, no backlight adjustment with the Fn-keys, those sucky extra Windows keys and other minor stuff that I can't or don't want to think of right now.
IBM-Thinkpads have been the best and safest recommendation for any Linux user for years. Go to any hacker conference and you'll see around 70% of all notebooks being Thinkpads with Linux and everyone was happy to recommend TPs as the ultimate Linux notebook. Not anymore. Within two years Lenovo has managed to piss Linux users off massively and very few people these days would actually recommend recent TPs as the optimal Linux laptop solution.
Sad, very sad.
The T60 is a beautiful machine, but running Linux on it as I have been used to in the last couple of years is a big pain in the ass. Both my old Inspiron 8200 and the R51 were better Linux machines in every respect, since all the hardware was supported out of the box and ran as expected. I have had the T60 for three weeks now and I have invested an unproportionally large amount of time to get it working to such an extent that it is not completely unusable anymore. It took me reading all available material on fellow T60 users, subscribing to the Linux Thinkpad mailing list and endless hours of fiddling with a development version of Ubuntu.
The difference between IBM and Linux is simple: IBM cared for Linux and be it only in the way of making sure that its employers wouldn't encounter any unforeseen problem during the transition of IBM's corporate migration to Linux.
I hereby solemnly swear to never buy a Thunkpad again and certainly not recommend any Thinkpad to potential users, unless Lenovo decides to migrate its corporate infrastructure to Linux and is thus forced to make these bricks at least work with the basic requirements of WiFi-support, battery life identical to Windows, S2RAM and a graphics adaptor that comes out of Suspend (that is, IF it does) without any artifacts left on the screen for the rest of the session.
And, yes, I have made sure to get an Intel graphics chip this time, but to be honest: It was not worth it. I can't see an improvement in battery life, but I am rewarded with worse performance than any ATI or NVIDIA card, artifacts on the display, a crazy hack to make 1440x1050 work (915resolution) at all.
Goodbye Thinkpads, it's been nice to have known you, but it's time to move on, at least if you are a Linux user.
> Can't I just keep the ipod and give them a brick painted as an iPod like the P-P-P-Powerbook instead?
Very funny indeed. You did follow that link, didn't you?
Quote:
***
3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found.
***
> ATI has completely dropped support for the Radeon Mobility in my T40 Thinkpad.
So what? The Radeon Mobility with an R250 core is perfectly supported by the original xorg-driver "Radeon", including 3D accelaration. My old R51 with an Radeon 9200 could do GoogleEarth and Quake3 without problems.
However, my new laptop took me weeks to find, because I have sworn to NEVER again use any notebook with an ATI-card - and Thinkpads use these in most of their models. Finally found an SXGA+ T60 with Intel Chip.
No more hassle with either NVIDIA or ATI.
Thank god.
> Headaches can be triggered by things, like sounds, but they are not caused by sounds.
Nonsense. Noise can trigger tinnitus and it does so on a regular basis. Just killed a mosquito by clapping my hands close to my ears and was rewarded with a nice, new ringtone in my ear and, yes, I call that a headache.
On the other hand, in 27 years as a ham radio operator I have been exposed to RF many times with field strengths close to 1000 times of the power of a WiFi or telephone tower and and I have yet to find one single instance where radio exposure could do anything physical, unless you plug your finger into the transmitter and get your blood boiling.