1. Give away computers!
2. Your unused cycles are sold to whoever we want
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Sound like a plan?
Basically it's a GOOD setup
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They use the strengths of *nix, and this is just a good example of how good it can work.
I'm sure they have quality people behind this project, and not some pimple-faced 19 year old MCSE who plays Unreal 2003 when he's not making fun of his 'luser' co-workers.
If I had to, I'd point my fingers at DIRT CHEAP recordable CD's, the lack of copy protection on music CD's, and DIRT CHEAP CD recorders.
I went to Circuit City for a plain-jane 40X CDROM, and I ended up buying a 32X CD-RW, not because it was $24.99, but because the plain CD-ROM was $49.99.
While I was there I bought a spindle of 100 generic recordable CDs, $7.99 with a $5 instant rebate. $2.99!
When you drive across a bridge, its design is open for inspection. You can see the overall structure, the method used to anchor the cables, the thickness of the roadbed, and so forth. If you want a closer look, you can walk the bridge and see more detail.
Isn't it usually illegal to walk or ride a bike across most big bridges?
Nowadays we've got great tools like Flash, scripting languages like VB Script, and markup languages like HTML.
Not every programmer these days is a old COBOL nerd, ASM coder, or C junkie.
I yearn for the days when Borland was great. The Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal products probably got half of the programmers in the 80's, late 90's started.
I found that, where you are not primarily handling ASCII, 12 bits was a very good size.
Maybe someone would enlighten the rest of us on why a certain bit size is better than another, and why we currently use 8/16/32/64, instead of 12/24/48/96 ?
Get a Linux box. Buy a Dell/IBM/? P166 on eBay or from some local goon for $20. Put a spare NIC in it so you've got two in the machine, total.
Go to Amazon.com or your local bookstore and buy a book on linux firewalls. If you're lucky you'll get a book that includes a linux CD, otherwise spend $5 and order one from CheapBytes, or download an ISO.
Install Linux, configure the firewall, install on your network. If in more than an hour or two you are still stumped, pay a local Linux geek $100 to do it, or maybe let him co-lo a server at your 'ISP'
Give them a Apple II, Atari ST, Amiga, or a IBM PS/2 286. Let them do whatever they want with it. Don't help them with anything. Let them buy all the books, periphials, etc they want. eBay will help.
I'd be that's how 75% of Slashdotter's got their start
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Intel stock goes down like 50%
I've got the next FreeComputers.com idea!
1. Give away computers!
2. Your unused cycles are sold to whoever we want
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Sound like a plan?
They use the strengths of *nix, and this is just a good example of how good it can work.
I'm sure they have quality people behind this project, and not some pimple-faced 19 year old MCSE who plays Unreal 2003 when he's not making fun of his 'luser' co-workers.
Who buys 15" displays anymore?!
I remember way back when, you could get 9" and 13" displays...
Technology PROGRESSES!
17" is about the smallest screen you'd want to use anyway, especially for web browsing and word processing.
If I had to, I'd point my fingers at DIRT CHEAP recordable CD's, the lack of copy protection on music CD's, and DIRT CHEAP CD recorders.
I went to Circuit City for a plain-jane 40X CDROM, and I ended up buying a 32X CD-RW, not because it was $24.99, but because the plain CD-ROM was $49.99.
While I was there I bought a spindle of 100 generic recordable CDs, $7.99 with a $5 instant rebate. $2.99!
"...but can I mount it on my model train?"
that going to be our new catchphrase?
IN SOVIET RUSSIA...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
Does it run Linux...
Remote access can be a pain, especially if you don't have a huge amount of $$$ to throw at the problem.
Now you know.
Not everyone can always have a broadband connection.
Web interface email is your best bet.
1 - Tabbed browsing is cool, but you should get a confirmation that you'd like to close the main browser window when you have 23 tabs open
2 - CTRL-SHIFT-L to open a web address. Make it CTRL-O.
Either that, or tunnel everything with SSH2
When you drive across a bridge, its design is open for inspection. You can see the overall structure, the method used to anchor the cables, the thickness of the roadbed, and so forth. If you want a closer look, you can walk the bridge and see more detail.
Isn't it usually illegal to walk or ride a bike across most big bridges?
There's plenty of good reading though
By that, I meant that the concepts, etc are still relevant. *shrugs* mods....
Are always horribly obsolete.
Due to the delay between when you write a book, and it's on the shelf at the store...
There's plenty of good reading though.
I was writing on my arm with a pointy stick long before they invented paper. Paper is overated.
On a more serious note, 'digital' ink, at least in any form I've used, doesn't compare to paper and pen 1 bit.
Computers don't boot into a ROM BASIC anymore.
I can say I honestly don't like Java.
Nowadays we've got great tools like Flash, scripting languages like VB Script, and markup languages like HTML.
Not every programmer these days is a old COBOL nerd, ASM coder, or C junkie.
I yearn for the days when Borland was great. The Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal products probably got half of the programmers in the 80's, late 90's started.
I found that, where you are not primarily handling ASCII, 12 bits was a very good size.
Maybe someone would enlighten the rest of us on why a certain bit size is better than another, and why we currently use 8/16/32/64, instead of 12/24/48/96 ?
How well does it fork?
Not every business can make payroll.
Oh my...now I'm starting to feel sorry for you!
You want a cheap firewall?
Get a Linux box. Buy a Dell/IBM/? P166 on eBay or from some local goon for $20. Put a spare NIC in it so you've got two in the machine, total.
Go to Amazon.com or your local bookstore and buy a book on linux firewalls. If you're lucky you'll get a book that includes a linux CD, otherwise spend $5 and order one from CheapBytes, or download an ISO.
Install Linux, configure the firewall, install on your network. If in more than an hour or two you are still stumped, pay a local Linux geek $100 to do it, or maybe let him co-lo a server at your 'ISP'
Total cost? Not much.
Rumor was, the developers had to test every build on the original PowerMac 6100's.....60mhz, 16mb ram, etc etc
Office 98 was it?
I remember I was doing some work on a website for my boss, on my new Dell laptop.
Everything was done, looked good, so I burned it to a CD and let him take a look.
Apparently, colors are VERY different on a CRT than on a LCD display. Depending at what angle you look at it, there can be some big variances.
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I've heard that Tripwire and our software licensing department is negotiating for a site-license.
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'is negotating?'
Try 'are negotiating'
"Computers? I don't work with computers anymore. I got moved into accounting."
I'm going to use that excuse this Christmas.
Anyone know how it works with Doom III?
Not like Tom's would post benchmarks, but maybe "someone" has tried it
If he starts his kids using linux, this is what his family portraits will look like!
The Linux Bunch
Give them a Apple II, Atari ST, Amiga, or a IBM PS/2 286. Let them do whatever they want with it. Don't help them with anything. Let them buy all the books, periphials, etc they want. eBay will help.
I'd be that's how 75% of Slashdotter's got their start