Avantgo isn't going to give me a chance to log in as one or the other, so that's a pain (Unless I can feed my nick/pass in the url... Hm, I'll look into that.
A special URL that defaults to the simple page would still be the easiest way to go (for me - dunno about for Rob!)
Nah, it's not crappy - it's a nice new IBM (I swapped it out) - I've seen others on the net who had the exact same problem with an 8 meg install. The floppy just starts churning when you get to the fdisk / disk druid part. I wish there was a way to enable swap early on... I managed to make a swap partition with a minimal boot disk, but I can't make the install program use it. Grr.:-)
I'm just guessing, but I suppose that this is something lke Slashdot's ultramode.txt that lets a front-end get a quick read of the headlines on the site, links to them, etc.
I have no idea how to know if your favorite site supports this.:)
Well, the only thing you should have to --nodep is gtk+... they should have explained that a bit better. They have a gtk+10 RPM to replace your current gtk+ rpm, so that your gtk+ 1.0 apps will still work, and the gtk+-1.2 package will give you the shiny new GTK as well. Any other --nodeps probably mean that you're going to be missing libraries that you actually do need.
Hey, Rob - 'bout a year ago (maybe less) I mailed you asking about a Palm Pilot version of Slashdot, to use with AvantGo or some of the other offline readers for the palm pilot - maybe your lite+noicon version would work well for that, but I don't want my basic profile to be lite+noicon. How 'bout a www.slashdot.org/ultralite URL that defaults to no icons, no boxes, no comments, etc? Something that would format decently on the Pilot? Actually, AvantGo *can* handle images, so the icons might be kinda neat... depending on the formatting. Would probably need smaller icons. Thanks!/. is looking spiffy these days!
...can you back them up? How is it "not installable?" Yes, you do need a lot of supporting libraries, but that does not make it uninstallable. Did you have all the necessary packages installed, and it *still* wouldn't compile?
I'll agree that it wasn't as nice a release as I'd hoped for, but saying that only 5% of people who tried to install it were successful... that's ludicrous.
Do a search on DejaNews for bunn@echonyc.com in the *linux* newsgroups - sounds like he had problems getting it to recognize an external CDRom. So he copied it to his hard drive for a HD install... and it couldn't find it. I seem to remember there were some issues with this - anyone remember?
I tried this on an 8 meg 486 laptop... I inserted the supplemental disk, and it soon freaked out, couldn't get past fdisk. The consensus seems to be that more memory would help, but that's not an option. I tried RH5.1 and RH5.2, both failed. What did you use?
The Linux kernel is under the GPL... that's the GNU General Public License. Same goes for the vast magority of software on my system. Without that, where would we be? We owe a lot to RMS...
I dunno - myself, I have no problem with "GNU/Linux," but I can see where RMS's attitude can put people off.
Keep in mind that it is possible that someone, someday, will put together some new kernel that becomes dominant. (Linus has quipped that it may be called "Daveix") - then what will we be running?
Or, if Gnome or KDE becomes the basic thing that most users interact with - will we then be running Gnome? or KDE? (or GNU/Gnome....)
I like the GNU thing because that's really where a lot of this stuff came from. (with props to BSD and everyone else...) Linux is the kernel, and it is hugely important, but it really doesn't make sense to call the whole system "Linux."
Having said all this, what do I tell people that I run? I say "I run Linux." Go figure.:-) Force of habit I guess.
Ok, it's been a while since I took combinatorics... but I'm pretty sure that it's 127 options for the first character, 127 options for the second character... etc until you get a total of 127^20 = a LOT more than 2540 possibilities.... or am I missing something here? Screw the brute force method - someone should just root the server.:-)
I've been doing this for a while - no problem, but your second processor might get bored. You should swap CPU0 and CPU1 every googleflop or so, to ensure that the second processor doesn't get jealous.:P
How do you know exactly what the Celeron 300A does and doesn't have (coherency support, etc)? Is all this in the data sheets? You sound like you know what you're talking about, but I haven't seen these issues discussed anywhere else...
Oh, and did you mean "random crashes" when you said "random caches?":-)
I got it up and running, but had some serious stability problems - not sure if it's timing problems (due to that big ol' floppy wire looping around the card) or if I have a mechanical connection problem. I'm using a Asus P2L97 motherboard - was getting random lockups. I'm gonna do some careful resoldering one more time, then perhaps I'll give up if I can't get some stability out of it. Anyone have this setup running reliably?
One way around this is to only mine your *local* CDDB database - that way there'd be no nonexistant CD traps, and for all they know, you just re-typed the data for YOUR CDs. Should be safe, even in the unlikely event that they have any sort of hold over the data in their database. A script should be able to do this quickly.
I'm not familiar with the cddb data format... but it does seem that if a new format was developed, the new database could be populated quickly from the data stored on users' hard drives... if there's any cddb/escient specific data, you'd have to ignore that, but it seems to me that disk ID, name, tracks, and track names would be free for use. I mean, how could you tell the difference between a user re-entering the data for the new format, and simply retrieving it from their local database subset?
How long 'til the music label folks sue to get a piece of this action? They probably own the rights to the band and song names, eh? >:(
Check your facts. Escient did NOT invent this protocol. They bought it - it used to be free and open. The guys who invented it sold it, unfortunately, and now Escient wants to exercise some control.
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I stopped reading when he said "Granted, Torvalds hasn't shown any signs of handing over his red hat..."
Ugh. There's so much drivel and fluff out there, I long for something substantial and informative...
Avantgo isn't going to give me a chance to log in as one or the other, so that's a pain (Unless I can feed my nick/pass in the url... Hm, I'll look into that.
A special URL that defaults to the simple page would still be the easiest way to go (for me - dunno about for Rob!)
Nah, it's not crappy - it's a nice new IBM (I swapped it out) - I've seen others on the net who had the exact same problem with an 8 meg install. The floppy just starts churning when you get to the fdisk / disk druid part. I wish there was a way to enable swap early on... I managed to make a swap partition with a minimal boot disk, but I can't make the install program use it. Grr. :-)
I have no idea how to know if your favorite site supports this. :)
Well, the only thing you should have to --nodep is gtk+... they should have explained that a bit better. They have a gtk+10 RPM to replace your current gtk+ rpm, so that your gtk+ 1.0 apps will still work, and the gtk+-1.2 package will give you the shiny new GTK as well. Any other --nodeps probably mean that you're going to be missing libraries that you actually do need.
Hey, Rob - 'bout a year ago (maybe less) I mailed you asking about a Palm Pilot version of Slashdot, to use with AvantGo or some of the other offline readers for the palm pilot - maybe your lite+noicon version would work well for that, but I don't want my basic profile to be lite+noicon. How 'bout a www.slashdot.org/ultralite URL that defaults to no icons, no boxes, no comments, etc? Something that would format decently on the Pilot? Actually, AvantGo *can* handle images, so the icons might be kinda neat... depending on the formatting. Would probably need smaller icons. Thanks! /. is looking spiffy these days!
...can you back them up? How is it "not installable?" Yes, you do need a lot of supporting libraries, but that does not make it uninstallable. Did you have all the necessary packages installed, and it *still* wouldn't compile?
I'll agree that it wasn't as nice a release as I'd hoped for, but saying that only 5% of people who tried to install it were successful... that's ludicrous.
Do a search on DejaNews for bunn@echonyc.com in the *linux* newsgroups - sounds like he had problems getting it to recognize an external CDRom. So he copied it to his hard drive for a HD install... and it couldn't find it. I seem to remember there were some issues with this - anyone remember?
I tried this on an 8 meg 486 laptop... I inserted the supplemental disk, and it soon freaked out, couldn't get past fdisk. The consensus seems to be that more memory would help, but that's not an option. I tried RH5.1 and RH5.2, both failed. What did you use?
Thanks!
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The Linux kernel is under the GPL... that's the GNU General Public License. Same goes for the vast magority of software on my system. Without that, where would we be? We owe a lot to RMS...
:-) Force of habit I guess.
I dunno - myself, I have no problem with "GNU/Linux," but I can see where RMS's attitude can put people off.
Keep in mind that it is possible that someone, someday, will put together some new kernel that becomes dominant. (Linus has quipped that it may be called "Daveix") - then what will we be running?
Or, if Gnome or KDE becomes the basic thing that most users interact with - will we then be running Gnome? or KDE? (or GNU/Gnome....)
I like the GNU thing because that's really where a lot of this stuff came from. (with props to BSD and everyone else...) Linux is the kernel, and it is hugely important, but it really doesn't make sense to call the whole system "Linux."
Having said all this, what do I tell people that I run? I say "I run Linux." Go figure.
/ramble off
As someone else posted, the URL is http://www.kipling.com/hacker/game/login.html - does that help?
Ok, it's been a while since I took combinatorics... but I'm pretty sure that it's 127 options for the first character, 127 options for the second character... etc until you get a total of 127^20 = a LOT more than 2540 possibilities.... or am I missing something here? Screw the brute force method - someone should just root the server. :-)
it's a subdirectory of any standard gnome mirror.... in /redhat/SRPMS or something like that.
I rebuilt all of the RPMS from the SRPMs that were available last week... including some 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 stuff... seems a bit better already.
(rpm --rebuild whatever.src.rpm)
That's all I want. :-)
I've been doing this for a while - no problem, but your second processor might get bored. You should swap CPU0 and CPU1 every googleflop or so, to ensure that the second processor doesn't get jealous. :P
How do you know exactly what the Celeron 300A does and doesn't have (coherency support, etc)? Is all this in the data sheets? You sound like you know what you're talking about, but I haven't seen these issues discussed anywhere else...
:-)
Oh, and did you mean "random crashes" when you said "random caches?"
Thanks.
I got it up and running, but had some serious stability problems - not sure if it's timing problems (due to that big ol' floppy wire looping around the card) or if I have a mechanical connection problem. I'm using a Asus P2L97 motherboard - was getting random lockups. I'm gonna do some careful resoldering one more time, then perhaps I'll give up if I can't get some stability out of it. Anyone have this setup running reliably?
One way around this is to only mine your *local* CDDB database - that way there'd be no nonexistant CD traps, and for all they know, you just re-typed the data for YOUR CDs. Should be safe, even in the unlikely event that they have any sort of hold over the data in their database. A script should be able to do this quickly.
Perhaps in your constant-reloading-to-get-first-post fervor, you forgot to actually READ Slashdot yesterday?
Tis question, and the "official" answer is in the FAQ on tux.org.
From the web site: "DISCO is technology for sale." That might get us right back into the situation we're in.
I'm not familiar with the cddb data format... but it does seem that if a new format was developed, the new database could be populated quickly from the data stored on users' hard drives... if there's any cddb/escient specific data, you'd have to ignore that, but it seems to me that disk ID, name, tracks, and track names would be free for use. I mean, how could you tell the difference between a user re-entering the data for the new format, and simply retrieving it from their local database subset?
How long 'til the music label folks sue to get a piece of this action? They probably own the rights to the band and song names, eh? >:(
Check your facts. Escient did NOT invent this protocol. They bought it - it used to be free and open. The guys who invented it sold it, unfortunately, and now Escient wants to exercise some control.
"less than 1" - damn HTML. :-)