I think Gmail is going to be great. It completely blows any other free email service out of the water. So what if privacy is in question? Nobody is forcing anyone to use it. You can use it, enjoy it, and if you really care you can just not send anything you don't want others seeing and use a different address for recieving sensitive emails. Or you can just NOT use it, and go on your way. This isn't a big deal.
Google is just providing a service. Use it if you want, or don't.
This is all well and good, but I have a bit of an off topic question...
I'm looking for a very, very small case. Something that would fit a regular sized hard drive, a mini-ITX via board, a slim PSU, and that's it. No CD-rom or anything, just enough to fit that stuff. The front should be single, a power light, an HDD light, a reset and power button, and about 4 USB ports in a 2x2 or 1x4 shape. I could cut the USB ports myself if need be.
Why do I want it? Well, basically I want to make my own console. The USB ports are for game controllers, and I can plug an external CDROM in if I need to do stuff that needs a CD. Most of the time it would be running MAME or something similar. Since it's a mini-ITX board, it'll have TV-out and all sorts of nifty features. Minimum wires out the back are a big plus... hopefully all I'll need in the end are a power cord, and the A/V cables (I'll get some wireless ethernet action going on, and if need be I'll cut the metal tab on the card to make it fit.
I apologize for going off topic, but does anyone have any suggestions? I suppose I could build it myself, but I have *no* clue where to start when working with metal.
I imagine you could port Linux over to it, but the ram they used in the brain was pretty spotty. You'd hear a lot of "DANGER, SEGMENTATION FAULT! DANGER!"
My personal favorite is the colossal 50 foot tall mechanical spider built shortly after the civil war. It could shoot fireballs, nets, and even crush wagons! Sadly, it was destroyed in a grain-alcohol disaster shortly after completion.
It was designed by many of the worlds most prominent scientists in a variety of fields, whom all came together to focus on this single effort. It really is a shame we don't have the ability today to team up all of our top scientists to create massive mechanical horrors.
Personally I'm not worried so much about speed as I am about reliability. I've had to RMA a couple maxtor drives recently, and losing 300gb of data would really, REALLY suck.
When someone wants to be really geeky and someone asks them the time, they can say "For where? Here, or on mars? AHAHAH! MARS! HAHAH! BET YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT!"
MS will just buy an airline to keep from paying those high travel costs for Balmer. It's the sensible thing to do!
But I wouldn't wanna fly on it... they'll probably innovate the control systems with.NET and Passport, so if someone were to check their hotmail they might accidentally trigger the CRASH_INTO_MOUNTAIN subroutine.
It is SO fashionable to insult Darl McBride. But the fact is, that man is out there every night giving all he can to make us laugh, and it's always fresh material! And he's positively charming when he tries to sue people!
Remember when you bought the Xbox, how you agreed to that contract? You know, the contract that you couldn't read because by buying it and/or opening the box you agreed to it's terms, but it was in the manual that was inside the box? Well, that gives them the right to screw with your Xbox as much as they want.
So, if the games for the PS2 were absolutely horrible and it had little 3rd party support, while the N64 had insanely fun and unique games with tons of titles to choose from, you'd got for the PS2 just because there's a bit more eyecandy?
And years from now, when Microsoft is crumbling because of their business practices in the past, we see MS sitting in a hospital bed... a doctor enters the room. "I'm afraid it's cancer.".
And then Linux walks past the hospital room door, whistling, playing catch with a big chunk of asbestos... the same asbestos that was in MS' air conditioning! Yay!
Oh please, that 'piracy is bad' excuse is just pissing me off to no end.
Look, if it weren't for filthy pirates like me constantly ripping music and software, the copyprotection industry would STAGNATE. Millions of jobs would be lost, and the economy would start to collapse. The fact is, pirates and mp3 traders are keeping the industry alive. It's anti-economy types like YOU GUYS that are causing the downfall of everything we hold dear!
Wow, I really don't blame EMI. I mean, who could have known beforehand that they wouldn't work in some extremely common devices? Come on, guys. Testing can only go so far before they have to release it into the real world. And I'm sure that for the tuesday afternoon that they DID test compatability, they were very thorough.
I agree that it's easy to do it that way, and YUM is similar to that, it downloads and installs the package and dependancies. Web-based install apps like that usually work great (Debian, Gentoo, and BSD are all examples.). However, you can't rely on the web all the time, which is the main problem. Sure it's easier to use a script which finds, downloads, and installs the app, but what if you don't have net access for some reason?
From extensive personal experience, RPMs are not 'Good enough'. If you don't use official packages or something like YUM to install them, they constantly don't break. I can't remember the number of times I've had to deal with packes that say 'Package A needs Package B to install', only to find out that Package B needs package A to install. Even solutions to these problems don't really work ("Install them both at the same time, they'll recognize each other.").
Then again, this is just my personal experience. The last time I even bothered with RPMs was RH9, and the only way I could get anything to work was by using YUM.
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I think I speak for all non-mathematicians when I say:
what?
I think Gmail is going to be great. It completely blows any other free email service out of the water. So what if privacy is in question? Nobody is forcing anyone to use it. You can use it, enjoy it, and if you really care you can just not send anything you don't want others seeing and use a different address for recieving sensitive emails. Or you can just NOT use it, and go on your way. This isn't a big deal.
Google is just providing a service. Use it if you want, or don't.
Found it.
Oh, right, you wanted that stuff back. Sorry, I made way more than 500 euros just by parting it out.
Sadly, the cost of a single KVM switch is around 1/8th of the rainforest.
You monster!
The size of an xbox system?
No no, I want it SMALL - As in, if you doubled the size of a CDROM drive or something.
Wonderful, I forgot slashdot doesn't automatically add BR tags. ah well.
This is all well and good, but I have a bit of an off topic question... I'm looking for a very, very small case. Something that would fit a regular sized hard drive, a mini-ITX via board, a slim PSU, and that's it. No CD-rom or anything, just enough to fit that stuff. The front should be single, a power light, an HDD light, a reset and power button, and about 4 USB ports in a 2x2 or 1x4 shape. I could cut the USB ports myself if need be. Why do I want it? Well, basically I want to make my own console. The USB ports are for game controllers, and I can plug an external CDROM in if I need to do stuff that needs a CD. Most of the time it would be running MAME or something similar. Since it's a mini-ITX board, it'll have TV-out and all sorts of nifty features. Minimum wires out the back are a big plus... hopefully all I'll need in the end are a power cord, and the A/V cables (I'll get some wireless ethernet action going on, and if need be I'll cut the metal tab on the card to make it fit. I apologize for going off topic, but does anyone have any suggestions? I suppose I could build it myself, but I have *no* clue where to start when working with metal.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
I imagine you could port Linux over to it, but the ram they used in the brain was pretty spotty. You'd hear a lot of "DANGER, SEGMENTATION FAULT! DANGER!"
My personal favorite is the colossal 50 foot tall mechanical spider built shortly after the civil war. It could shoot fireballs, nets, and even crush wagons! Sadly, it was destroyed in a grain-alcohol disaster shortly after completion.
It was designed by many of the worlds most prominent scientists in a variety of fields, whom all came together to focus on this single effort. It really is a shame we don't have the ability today to team up all of our top scientists to create massive mechanical horrors.
All those docs are a great help when troubleshooting! That is, if people read them.
Now I can put out my plasma nets and catch some of it. I was beginning to worry that I'd never be able to restock my dwindling supply!
I've seen this sort of thing before, you'd be amazed what you can find. I even once saw a drawing of Dilbert on one. It was quite good, actually.
Personally I'm not worried so much about speed as I am about reliability. I've had to RMA a couple maxtor drives recently, and losing 300gb of data would really, REALLY suck.
When someone wants to be really geeky and someone asks them the time, they can say "For where? Here, or on mars? AHAHAH! MARS! HAHAH! BET YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT!"
MS will just buy an airline to keep from paying those high travel costs for Balmer. It's the sensible thing to do!
.NET and Passport, so if someone were to check their hotmail they might accidentally trigger the CRASH_INTO_MOUNTAIN subroutine.
But I wouldn't wanna fly on it... they'll probably innovate the control systems with
Open Office starts of SO SLOWLY...
How slow is it?
I started loading it when 1.0 came out, and it finished today!
Oh god.
It is SO fashionable to insult Darl McBride. But the fact is, that man is out there every night giving all he can to make us laugh, and it's always fresh material! And he's positively charming when he tries to sue people!
Remember when you bought the Xbox, how you agreed to that contract? You know, the contract that you couldn't read because by buying it and/or opening the box you agreed to it's terms, but it was in the manual that was inside the box? Well, that gives them the right to screw with your Xbox as much as they want.
I hope someone under 18 who bought an Xbox sues.
So, if the games for the PS2 were absolutely horrible and it had little 3rd party support, while the N64 had insanely fun and unique games with tons of titles to choose from, you'd got for the PS2 just because there's a bit more eyecandy?
Just checking.
And years from now, when Microsoft is crumbling because of their business practices in the past, we see MS sitting in a hospital bed... a doctor enters the room. "I'm afraid it's cancer.".
And then Linux walks past the hospital room door, whistling, playing catch with a big chunk of asbestos... the same asbestos that was in MS' air conditioning! Yay!
Oh please, that 'piracy is bad' excuse is just pissing me off to no end.
Look, if it weren't for filthy pirates like me constantly ripping music and software, the copyprotection industry would STAGNATE. Millions of jobs would be lost, and the economy would start to collapse. The fact is, pirates and mp3 traders are keeping the industry alive. It's anti-economy types like YOU GUYS that are causing the downfall of everything we hold dear!
Wow, I really don't blame EMI. I mean, who could have known beforehand that they wouldn't work in some extremely common devices? Come on, guys. Testing can only go so far before they have to release it into the real world. And I'm sure that for the tuesday afternoon that they DID test compatability, they were very thorough.
I agree that it's easy to do it that way, and YUM is similar to that, it downloads and installs the package and dependancies. Web-based install apps like that usually work great (Debian, Gentoo, and BSD are all examples.). However, you can't rely on the web all the time, which is the main problem. Sure it's easier to use a script which finds, downloads, and installs the app, but what if you don't have net access for some reason?
From extensive personal experience, RPMs are not 'Good enough'. If you don't use official packages or something like YUM to install them, they constantly don't break. I can't remember the number of times I've had to deal with packes that say 'Package A needs Package B to install', only to find out that Package B needs package A to install. Even solutions to these problems don't really work ("Install them both at the same time, they'll recognize each other.").
Then again, this is just my personal experience. The last time I even bothered with RPMs was RH9, and the only way I could get anything to work was by using YUM.