Come to think of it, my scope of late is farily narrow...mostly KNOPPIX 3.7 (yeah, need to update) on work PCs not recognizing the Broadcom Xtreme gigabit adapter.
On the other hand, part of my poorly-made point is that new hardware keeps coming out and needing new drivers, so a disaster LiveCD is going to have to keep being updated to avoid going stale. Usually you want your disaster stuff to be unperishable.
However, something to boot with, something to get networking with, something to type something with, and something to save information to would make up my computing needs when some disaster hits.
I'm thinking network and printer drivers are going to be the gotchas here. And maybe video drivers, although it's been a while since I haven't been able to get at least a 640x480 KNOPPIX X.
Actually this highlights the need for open hardware standards.
Given PgSQL is free and not all that hard to manage, I can't think of a single reason for switching to MySQL.
Because a project you download is hard-coded to it. (Mambo, some BBSes, eCommerce sites, etc.) I like PgSQL better than MySQL, but I keep having to use MySQL for the PHP projects I play with.
No combination of any two English words is unregistered.
Surprisingly there are still some "my.....com" domains out there. I got one a couple of months ago but had to use a thesaurus and some associative brainstorming to find one related to my desired topic.
Also I found some surprising.info and.us domains available. I actually got my name's.us domain in May and my first and last names are quite common.
Also a lot of the squatters' registrations expire and registrars are auctioning them off as they expire before the return to nothingness. I haven't tried that so I don't know if you can get a good name or good deal.
Heh, I forgot I put one of my sites as my Slashdot home page. That link is Mambo-powered...I'll probably go with Joomla but I hate the name. My "my..." domain is linked from my home page, but the site isn't complete.
Not only that, but the ads are very religious in nature. Perhaps Google took the "customer service" text to mean "religious service", and thus stuck religious ads all along the right side.
I never got it, either. Not that I tried much. It just didn't interest me at all, and I like games like TIM (The Incredible Machine), Lemmings and such as well as Zork-alikes and the King's Quest series which is kind of a puzzle genre. I got into 7th Guest for a bit but got tired of it. I think what got me with both of them is you kept going back to the same places over and over again. Moreso with Myst, though. I felt like I wasn't getting anywere. (Hmmm, think I might drag out my 7th Guest CD and see how it runs in DosBox on my Athlon64.)
But imagine if we grounded every airplane for years any time there was an accident.
Actually, the FAA will and has grounded planes after crashes. For example after the Queens crash they stopped just short of grounding similar Airbus models but required swift inspections of all tailfin mount points. I work at an aircraft hangar and we had the things lined up for days.
Or cars. Oops, Bobby Joe in Memphis just had a blowout, everyone off the roads until we can redesign the tires.
as people realize they can get better quality with no monthly fee.
Insert "picture" between "better" and "quality".
Granted, you won't get as many channels, but there are a lot of people who only really watch the network channels anyway, and switched to cable/satellite because they think the fuzzy analog TV only belongs in trailer parks.
DTV signals can carry multiple subchannels. Most of the networks locally are broadcasting an all-news subchannel and/or a 24-hour weather radar. PBS in my area has PBSHD programming plus the normal PBS feed as a subchannel. PAX is stuffing 6 or so SD (standard definition; digital but generally of analog resolution) channels into their feed.
Personally I think a digital Tivo plus broadcast HDTV would fulfill all my viewing wants. Actually at the moment I have a DVD recorder which isn't HD quality but decent enough to watch and better looking than cable even fed with a composite cable from my HD tuner. But I'm watching so little TV (except for DVD movies) that I'm not caring to record anything for future viewing.
As far as fuzzy signals in trailer parks, digital still needs a decent signal but will block-distort like a skipping MPEG (because that's precicely what it is) and/or drop out video and audio instead of going fuzzy or losing color. Ghosting isn't a visible problem but if the analog ghost is strong then there may be decoding problems for the tuner. (In my area there is an antenna farm where all the TV stations' analog and digital transmitters are; not all areas are like this so using analog reception as a clue for digital reception may be useless in some areas.) As an extremely rough guide if you can get a watchable analog channel then you will probably get a near-perfect digital viewing experience.
The Web worked perfectly well, with lots of free content available, for the several years before advertising appeared. What would be wrong with going back to that?
What? You mean go back to when there were no AOL'ers, no "me too"s and no spam? That would be terrible.
Given that OS X has shown us the power of this method, why haven't any distros latched onto it?
Klik is a one-folder package system, but it is styled as a "run without installing" system for KNOPPIX and Debian. I like the idea but haven't used it extensively:
Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?
Very cool idea. Like others say, I doubt XServe/OSX will run on a standard PC platform, but maybe there could be an openfirmware startup PCI board or other hardware key that could be put into a Dell (or HP, IBM, whitebox...well maybe not whitebox) and cause the machine to be approved for XServe. Of course the card would be manufactured by Apple and only work on preapproved hardware.
Usually inventions only come about when the underlying technology is improved to the point where the new invention is feasible (i.e. made possible by faster processors, stronger steel, etc).
A look at the article reveals that the main components in this invention are a centrifuge to adjust pressure, and a battery to power said centrifuge. Both of these components have been around in usable form for decades at least.
Well, sometimes if there is a good enough alternative nobody bothers to try other things. Corrective eye surgery is relatively new even though the tech has been around for ages. Glasses and contact lenses had everyone's attention, then some kid gets his cornea cut up from a baseball hitting his glasses, and after healing he can see better. 20 years later (I think) we have production lines of computer-controlled corrective laser surgery. I had the by-hand RK about 10 years ago...certainly that would've been doable decades ago if somebody had thought of it.
I've noticed Firefox (Windows) helping to peg the CPU when I'm doing something else on the PC when Firefox should be sitting idle in the background. It seems to compound any virus scanning activities or other file-access intensive apps like grep or gzip (Cygwin or native Windows compiled). My impression is that it's hooked into filesystem calls somehow, because if I close Firefox the other app goes much faster. I always close Firefox now before running disk-intensive tasks.
I don't run it on Linux enough to tell if it does the same thing there.
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The penis mightier than the sword?
I mean, I can get online at my college campus everywhere except my bathroom.
Dude, you need a Blackberry. No more boring dead tree reading on the pot for me. Just gotta be careful 'cause those Blackberries are slippery!
I thought most distros these days could resize NTFS partitions during install. Does SUSE not?
. . .freely licenced DRM . . .
I think we found a new definition for irony.
Come to think of it, my scope of late is farily narrow...mostly KNOPPIX 3.7 (yeah, need to update) on work PCs not recognizing the Broadcom Xtreme gigabit adapter.
On the other hand, part of my poorly-made point is that new hardware keeps coming out and needing new drivers, so a disaster LiveCD is going to have to keep being updated to avoid going stale. Usually you want your disaster stuff to be unperishable.
However, something to boot with, something to get networking with, something to type something with, and something to save information to would make up my computing needs when some disaster hits.
I'm thinking network and printer drivers are going to be the gotchas here. And maybe video drivers, although it's been a while since I haven't been able to get at least a 640x480 KNOPPIX X.
Actually this highlights the need for open hardware standards.
er??? wot? Is it just me, or can't these people make up their minds?
You might check out OpenAFS. I'm not sure it meets all your requirements, though.
Novell dropped off. See if you can reconnect them.
I have a wildcarded 4th-level domain from my 3rd level domain provided by 2nd-level domain gotdns.com from dyndns.org.
Given PgSQL is free and not all that hard to manage, I can't think of a single reason for switching to MySQL.
Because a project you download is hard-coded to it. (Mambo, some BBSes, eCommerce sites, etc.) I like PgSQL better than MySQL, but I keep having to use MySQL for the PHP projects I play with.
There are (I expect) a large number of people reaing this who believe that SCO is not a company you should do business with.
SCO sues their customers, not their vendors. MySQL is safe. Maybe even safer now.
No combination of any two English words is unregistered.
.info and .us domains available. I actually got my name's .us domain in May and my first and last names are quite common.
Surprisingly there are still some "my.....com" domains out there. I got one a couple of months ago but had to use a thesaurus and some associative brainstorming to find one related to my desired topic.
Also I found some surprising
Also a lot of the squatters' registrations expire and registrars are auctioning them off as they expire before the return to nothingness. I haven't tried that so I don't know if you can get a good name or good deal.
Heh, I forgot I put one of my sites as my Slashdot home page. That link is Mambo-powered...I'll probably go with Joomla but I hate the name. My "my..." domain is linked from my home page, but the site isn't complete.
Not only that, but the ads are very religious in nature. Perhaps Google took the "customer service" text to mean "religious service", and thus stuck religious ads all along the right side.
Joomla is a brother god to Jobu, apparently.
I never got it, either. Not that I tried much. It just didn't interest me at all, and I like games like TIM (The Incredible Machine), Lemmings and such as well as Zork-alikes and the King's Quest series which is kind of a puzzle genre. I got into 7th Guest for a bit but got tired of it. I think what got me with both of them is you kept going back to the same places over and over again. Moreso with Myst, though. I felt like I wasn't getting anywere. (Hmmm, think I might drag out my 7th Guest CD and see how it runs in DosBox on my Athlon64.)
I don't think animals have souls in Christian belief. They don't go to heaven, contrary to hollywood productions.
I think the lion lying beside the lamb was metaphorical.
Or at least these are tidbits I remember. I didn't pay much attention the few times I went to church.
But imagine if we grounded every airplane for years any time there was an accident.
Actually, the FAA will and has grounded planes after crashes. For example after the Queens crash they stopped just short of grounding similar Airbus models but required swift inspections of all tailfin mount points. I work at an aircraft hangar and we had the things lined up for days.
Or cars. Oops, Bobby Joe in Memphis just had a blowout, everyone off the roads until we can redesign the tires.
<cough> Firestone Wilderness AT <cough>
(although, of course, you may believe that the evidence for Christianity is fraudulent)
I think John Calvin was only kidding.
as people realize they can get better quality with no monthly fee.
Insert "picture" between "better" and "quality".
Granted, you won't get as many channels, but there are a lot of people who only really watch the network channels anyway, and switched to cable/satellite because they think the fuzzy analog TV only belongs in trailer parks.
DTV signals can carry multiple subchannels. Most of the networks locally are broadcasting an all-news subchannel and/or a 24-hour weather radar. PBS in my area has PBSHD programming plus the normal PBS feed as a subchannel. PAX is stuffing 6 or so SD (standard definition; digital but generally of analog resolution) channels into their feed.
Personally I think a digital Tivo plus broadcast HDTV would fulfill all my viewing wants. Actually at the moment I have a DVD recorder which isn't HD quality but decent enough to watch and better looking than cable even fed with a composite cable from my HD tuner. But I'm watching so little TV (except for DVD movies) that I'm not caring to record anything for future viewing.
As far as fuzzy signals in trailer parks, digital still needs a decent signal but will block-distort like a skipping MPEG (because that's precicely what it is) and/or drop out video and audio instead of going fuzzy or losing color. Ghosting isn't a visible problem but if the analog ghost is strong then there may be decoding problems for the tuner. (In my area there is an antenna farm where all the TV stations' analog and digital transmitters are; not all areas are like this so using analog reception as a clue for digital reception may be useless in some areas.) As an extremely rough guide if you can get a watchable analog channel then you will probably get a near-perfect digital viewing experience.
The Web worked perfectly well, with lots of free content available, for the several years before advertising appeared. What would be wrong with going back to that?
What? You mean go back to when there were no AOL'ers, no "me too"s and no spam? That would be terrible.
Total Coelo.
(Music sample, track 1 here)
Given that OS X has shown us the power of this method, why haven't any distros latched onto it?
Klik is a one-folder package system, but it is styled as a "run without installing" system for KNOPPIX and Debian. I like the idea but haven't used it extensively:
http://klik.atekon.de/
I don't think you can freely (freely as in it would work) copy the directories around the fs or to another machine, though.
Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?
Very cool idea. Like others say, I doubt XServe/OSX will run on a standard PC platform, but maybe there could be an openfirmware startup PCI board or other hardware key that could be put into a Dell (or HP, IBM, whitebox...well maybe not whitebox) and cause the machine to be approved for XServe. Of course the card would be manufactured by Apple and only work on preapproved hardware.
Usually inventions only come about when the underlying technology is improved to the point where the new invention is feasible (i.e. made possible by faster processors, stronger steel, etc).
A look at the article reveals that the main components in this invention are a centrifuge to adjust pressure, and a battery to power said centrifuge. Both of these components have been around in usable form for decades at least.
Well, sometimes if there is a good enough alternative nobody bothers to try other things. Corrective eye surgery is relatively new even though the tech has been around for ages. Glasses and contact lenses had everyone's attention, then some kid gets his cornea cut up from a baseball hitting his glasses, and after healing he can see better. 20 years later (I think) we have production lines of computer-controlled corrective laser surgery. I had the by-hand RK about 10 years ago...certainly that would've been doable decades ago if somebody had thought of it.
I've noticed Firefox (Windows) helping to peg the CPU when I'm doing something else on the PC when Firefox should be sitting idle in the background. It seems to compound any virus scanning activities or other file-access intensive apps like grep or gzip (Cygwin or native Windows compiled). My impression is that it's hooked into filesystem calls somehow, because if I close Firefox the other app goes much faster. I always close Firefox now before running disk-intensive tasks.
I don't run it on Linux enough to tell if it does the same thing there.