Hmmmm... I've been running my Coyote Linux firewall off the same floppy for at least three years. Of course I've probably only rebooted a half dozen times during that period.
I'm not sure about Alleycat but a few years ago I set up an old P133 with FreeDOS, a simple menu system and a bunch of old games including: PacMan, Duke Nukem 2 AND Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Tomb Raider, etc. plus some old astronomy programs. There are zillions of DOS programs out there. My kids, big time gamers, still boot it up every now and then for a little old school action.
I've always wondered if you could do the two-slit experiment in software. Not simulate it, but do it. I know it is unlikely because of decoherence, but still...
What if you took, say two modules, each would produce a number 0 to 99 from a given input number. But one of the modules would subtract 1 from the result and then multiply by -1. The result from each module could then be graphed together.
The input number would have to be a random number from something like http://www.random.org/ (or other TRUE random number - ever see the ones generated from lava lamps?) and if it was odd send it to one module and if even to the other. You might have to grab another random number to actually feed into the module.
I don't know if that would even be a valid experiment but I'm sure someone a lot smarter than me could come up with a better one.
On Debian, I took the game and used alien to create a deb file which I then installed with dpkg -i.
I then downloaded the map file and untared it in a directory under my home directory. I added this directory to the path in the start file. Then I just./start and it worked fine.
The controls are kind of wierd but you can reconfigure them under preferneces.
The game seems to work fine - sound goodnesss and all.
Me too. Oh I guess it's technically not a job because I am the only customer but I figure I save a bit over 50% of what it would cost to buy. Tastes way better too.
That's what I thought until my '86 Toyota got broken into. They stole a $5 pair of sunglasses, a work cell phone that was on it's last legs, and an old, about to be retired, running watch. Luckily they left the $90 running shoes!
1. Bush lied about the danger of Iraq to the U.S. Probably because his family and top administration officials had a falling out with Saddam. Pictures of Rumsfeld and Saddam embracing turn up. Reagan officials allowed chemicals to be sold to Iraq knowing they would be used for weapons of mass destruction.
2. Bush argues in the Supreme Court that he has the right to grab anyone, anywhere in the world (including U.S. citizens on U.S. soil), label them as an enemy of the state and lock them up indefinitely without access to anyone.
For the above Bush should be thrown out.
Just to show I am thoroughly mixed up politically I'll keep going.
3. Globalization (including outsourcing) really does increase the world's prosperity and lessen the chance of conflict.
4. High paying but low work union jobs in the U.S. rob workers worldwide of jobs needed to feed themselves.
There, that ought give everyone plenty to attack me on. Whew! - I feel better.
Yes you have to type, but GNU Parted has always worked nicely for me. They even have floppy images you can boot from.
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I'm normally ssh'ed into a couple remote servers from work from which I run text browsers. (normally links) Why? Well, you don't really need graphics to read slashdot, it's faster than vnc, and despite the overhead of ssh it is faster than my work connection with its proxy server.
But it isn't clear to me what advantages this will have over a pure text based browser.
I took an old PC 133, loaded FreeDos on it, slapped on a simple menu system and now I have a cool retro gaming machine. Games include: Tomb Raider (I&II), Duke Nukem 3D (normal and Atomic along with dozens of user maps), Wolfenstein 3D, Comander Keen, Blake Stone, Shadow Warrior, Raptor, Rise of the Triad, Pac-Man, and lots of others. Some are freeware, others are shareware, and a few I even purchased. DOS games are really cheap. I also have some non-game software on it. Believe it or not, I even connect to the web with the Arachne browser.
I'm not really much of a gamer but it was fun getting it all together and the kids like it.
Well, I work at a large company. There are about 800 people in my building alone and they all have at least one computer. I have two on my desk. The first is a corporately supported Windows one. The second runs linux. I just popped in the Knoppix based Morphix live CD, got it working and then 'click' installed it to my hard drive. Well maybe not quite so easy and btw I am an IT guy.
But the point is that no one knows it is running linux. The funny thing is that when I set it up I named it 'Joe' and then I set up the networking using dhcp. After a bit I wondered about this. Going to a putty terminal on my Windopws box I ssh'd to joe. Yep, corporate dns now has an entry for joe.MyCompany.com!
I'm not sure it represents "the most immediate threat of extinction to the human species" given that there are a whole lot of baddies that seem hell bent on sending humanity to/dev/null. But it IS a certainty in the long run unless we develop the technology to prevent it.
Wouldn't it be nice if more people worried about asteroids slamming into earth than stealing others peoples land (settlers) or killing the totally innocent (Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade) An external threat could do wonders to bring people together.
I have a bit of an infatuation with the low end.
I tend to do one of two things:
1. Debian or FreeBSD
- Links for browsing
- Pine for mail (to my IMAP server)
- Nano for text editing. It even has a spell checker
- The normal utilities and applications for everything else.
What is great is that I can ssh to the box from anywhere, including work. Often browsing with links on it is faster than on my companies DS3.
2. FreeDos
There is an amazing amount of DOS software out there that is free. Games for the kids, astronomy stuff, educational stuff, etc. I use a menu program called pcmenu to organize it all. For the kids I set up a P133 with a bunch of games on it. I was just playing Duke Nukem 3D on it a few minutes ago.
Even without any technological assistance we will evolve into another species. Species just don't stay static. But I get your point. However, my view is a bit different. I think we will either:
1. Become self-evolving using computer and genetic mods. This is the "cool" future.
2. Die out due to weapons of mass destruction or an asteroid or other cosmic event such as a supernova blowing too close before we can spread out in the galaxy far enough not to get wiped out as a species. This is the "bad" future.
I'm not sure agree with the idea that genetic engineering would make us all too similar. If (when) we get to that point I think there will always be people who want to innovate. I say this writing in Mozilla on Debian unstable.
I love Pacific Northwest microbrews. I love the microbrews made in my home town of of St. Paul, Minnesota. Especailly those made by Summit Brewing which is located about a block from my house. But never, never, say anything bad about Guiness. It is the holy of holies. Mana from the mother country. The comfort brew when times are bad. Long before microbrews, it stood alone against the onslaught of tasteless wussy beer. It is sacred stuff my boy. Don't mess with it.
Actually I like the "Retreat to Probability" argument. Hume, for all his merits (even though he is hard to read) didn't understand that the very nature of reality is probabilistic. Quantum Mechanics came well after him. We now know, for example, that you can't even have nothing. Virtual particles, quantum flux if you will, won't allow it. The same for absolute zero. It can't be reached. Having laws that are "merely" probabilistic isn't much of a stretch from that.
I agree. Best case I figure humans have maybe 100-300 years before we have to start emigrating off the planet if we are to survive as a species long term. It will only become increasingly easier for an individual or small group to cause mass destruction through nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. We can't (nor should) stop the technology. It is inevitable. And I'm not even mentioning asteroids, solar instability, black holes passing to close, etc. The point is that we need to get off the planet.
I tend to agree we put too much emphasis on putting people in space for political reasons but I do think we need to be there.
We used tennis balls but the cannon was made out of 4 soda cans. The bottom one had the lid removed, the next two had both the lid and bottom removed. For the top, we removed the lid and heavily perforated the bottom. Taped the cans together and then punched a hole near the bottom. At first, we used lighter fluid as well but as we got more daring (stupid) we would use gasoline and then spread a trail fuse along the ground. As the whole thing sometimes exploded, we would toss a match at it and run when lighting it.
One of my more memorable events as a child was asking Joe the mailman if he wanted to see our Polish cannon. He thought it would be some dumb kid contraption that would go poof but everything went perfect that day. The tennis ball went as high as we could see. Joe yelled, "Holy shit!" Kids remember those kind of things.
Later we got experimental. Tomatoes, grape shot. Flaming tennis balls at night...
The day after Thanksgiving I went to Best Buy at 5:45 am to pick up a $40 DVD player as a Christmas present for my mother. (as an aside, when she opened it I discovered it was also a Karoke machine!) While I was there I noticed they had a 75G 7200 hard drive for $50. And it included a 256 PC133 stick fo memory. I grabbed it. MS Keyboard $5. MS optical mouse $5. Read/Write CD drive $9.99. 150 CDRs - free. All after rebate of course but jeeze. I wasn't even looking to build a computer. I had 8 already! So I got home went to pricewatch and found a barebones with case, floppy , a 256M PC133 stick, Athlon 1.33 and integrated 32M video for $145. Do you know what the kicker is? This new box was now the fastest one in the house. So who gets it? The kids (6 & 7 yrs) of course!
We have nuclear fusion. It's that bright ball in the sky during the day. Or the H-Bombs that hopefully will never be used against people. The physics of fusion are well understood. It is only the application that is proving difficult.
I ran accross http://www.scitoys.com in an earlier/. article. Not only do they have some pretty cool items but they even tell you how to build a lot of them them yourself if you don't have the cash. I bought a Gauss rifle (http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/ga uss.html) for my boys. I can't wait for Xmas.
FreeDOS is actually a lot of fun. A person at work gave me an old but perfect P60. All SCSI, 24M RAM, 15" monitor, mouse, the works. It cost over $4K new. I wiped the hard drive and loaded FreeDOS on it along with a simple menu program. Did that bring back memories. Next I searched the web and stared downloading old games like mad. Wold3D, Falcon, Raptor, Doom, Quake. I even purchased Duke Nukem 3D for all of $9.00. There is an amazing amout of stuff out there. The quality of the graphics is really incredible. So now it is a dedicated game machine for my 6 & 7 year old boys. Major Dad karma.
I loaded it on another old box as well, got it hooked up to the Internet and loaded the Arachne browser on it. It works a lot better than you would think. Given the amount of free software out there, it makes a great computer for someone who may not have a lot of cash. Especially in poorer countries. And keep in mind that FreeDOS will run on harware that Linux and the BSDs just don't run well on such as older 386s and earlier.
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You mean the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. You must be from Minneapolis....
Hmmmm... I've been running my Coyote Linux firewall off the same floppy for at least three years. Of course I've probably only rebooted a half dozen times during that period.
FreeDOS was a solid program even then.
What if you took, say two modules, each would produce a number 0 to 99 from a given input number. But one of the modules would subtract 1 from the result and then multiply by -1. The result from each module could then be graphed together.
The input number would have to be a random number from something like http://www.random.org/ (or other TRUE random number - ever see the ones generated from lava lamps?) and if it was odd send it to one module and if even to the other. You might have to grab another random number to actually feed into the module.
I don't know if that would even be a valid experiment but I'm sure someone a lot smarter than me could come up with a better one.
I then downloaded the map file and untared it in a directory under my home directory. I added this directory to the path in the start file. Then I just ./start and it worked fine.
The controls are kind of wierd but you can reconfigure them under preferneces.
The game seems to work fine - sound goodnesss and all.
Me too. Oh I guess it's technically not a job because I am the only customer but I figure I save a bit over 50% of what it would cost to buy. Tastes way better too.
That's what I thought until my '86 Toyota got broken into. They stole a $5 pair of sunglasses, a work cell phone that was on it's last legs, and an old, about to be retired, running watch. Luckily they left the $90 running shoes!
1. Bush lied about the danger of Iraq to the U.S. Probably because his family and top administration officials had a falling out with Saddam. Pictures of Rumsfeld and Saddam embracing turn up. Reagan officials allowed chemicals to be sold to Iraq knowing they would be used for weapons of mass destruction.
2. Bush argues in the Supreme Court that he has the right to grab anyone, anywhere in the world (including U.S. citizens on U.S. soil), label them as an enemy of the state and lock them up indefinitely without access to anyone.
For the above Bush should be thrown out.
Just to show I am thoroughly mixed up politically I'll keep going.
3. Globalization (including outsourcing) really does increase the world's prosperity and lessen the chance of conflict.
4. High paying but low work union jobs in the U.S. rob workers worldwide of jobs needed to feed themselves.
There, that ought give everyone plenty to attack me on. Whew! - I feel better.
Sudo is great. Especially when it isn't set up correctly.
:sh
sudo vi junk
then do whatever you need to.
I use Coyote Linux too. But on a Digital DECpc Lv+ 486-33. That fast 133 is overkill! My three P-133s are running: Debian, FreeBSD, and FreeDOS.
Yes you have to type, but GNU Parted has always worked nicely for me. They even have floppy images you can boot from.
But it isn't clear to me what advantages this will have over a pure text based browser.
I'm not really much of a gamer but it was fun getting it all together and the kids like it.
BTW - Thanks Jim!
But the point is that no one knows it is running linux. The funny thing is that when I set it up I named it 'Joe' and then I set up the networking using dhcp. After a bit I wondered about this. Going to a putty terminal on my Windopws box I ssh'd to joe. Yep, corporate dns now has an entry for joe.MyCompany.com!
Wouldn't it be nice if more people worried about asteroids slamming into earth than stealing others peoples land (settlers) or killing the totally innocent (Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade) An external threat could do wonders to bring people together.
I have a bit of an infatuation with the low end. I tend to do one of two things:
1. Debian or FreeBSD
- Links for browsing
- Pine for mail (to my IMAP server)
- Nano for text editing. It even has a spell checker
- The normal utilities and applications for everything else.
What is great is that I can ssh to the box from anywhere, including work. Often browsing with links on it is faster than on my companies DS3.
2. FreeDos
There is an amazing amount of DOS software out there that is free. Games for the kids, astronomy stuff, educational stuff, etc. I use a menu program called pcmenu to organize it all. For the kids I set up a P133 with a bunch of games on it. I was just playing Duke Nukem 3D on it a few minutes ago.
Even without any technological assistance we will evolve into another species. Species just don't stay static. But I get your point. However, my view is a bit different. I think we will either:
1. Become self-evolving using computer and genetic mods. This is the "cool" future.
2. Die out due to weapons of mass destruction or an asteroid or other cosmic event such as a supernova blowing too close before we can spread out in the galaxy far enough not to get wiped out as a species. This is the "bad" future.
I'm not sure agree with the idea that genetic engineering would make us all too similar. If (when) we get to that point I think there will always be people who want to innovate. I say this writing in Mozilla on Debian unstable.
I love Pacific Northwest microbrews. I love the microbrews made in my home town of of St. Paul, Minnesota. Especailly those made by Summit Brewing which is located about a block from my house. But never, never, say anything bad about Guiness. It is the holy of holies. Mana from the mother country. The comfort brew when times are bad. Long before microbrews, it stood alone against the onslaught of tasteless wussy beer. It is sacred stuff my boy. Don't mess with it.
Actually I like the "Retreat to Probability" argument. Hume, for all his merits (even though he is hard to read) didn't understand that the very nature of reality is probabilistic. Quantum Mechanics came well after him. We now know, for example, that you can't even have nothing. Virtual particles, quantum flux if you will, won't allow it. The same for absolute zero. It can't be reached. Having laws that are "merely" probabilistic isn't much of a stretch from that.
I agree. Best case I figure humans have maybe 100-300 years before we have to start emigrating off the planet if we are to survive as a species long term. It will only become increasingly easier for an individual or small group to cause mass destruction through nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. We can't (nor should) stop the technology. It is inevitable. And I'm not even mentioning asteroids, solar instability, black holes passing to close, etc. The point is that we need to get off the planet.
I tend to agree we put too much emphasis on putting people in space for political reasons but I do think we need to be there.
We used tennis balls but the cannon was made out of 4 soda cans. The bottom one had the lid removed, the next two had both the lid and bottom removed. For the top, we removed the lid and heavily perforated the bottom. Taped the cans together and then punched a hole near the bottom. At first, we used lighter fluid as well but as we got more daring (stupid) we would use gasoline and then spread a trail fuse along the ground. As the whole thing sometimes exploded, we would toss a match at it and run when lighting it. One of my more memorable events as a child was asking Joe the mailman if he wanted to see our Polish cannon. He thought it would be some dumb kid contraption that would go poof but everything went perfect that day. The tennis ball went as high as we could see. Joe yelled, "Holy shit!" Kids remember those kind of things. Later we got experimental. Tomatoes, grape shot. Flaming tennis balls at night...
The day after Thanksgiving I went to Best Buy at 5:45 am to pick up a $40 DVD player as a Christmas present for my mother. (as an aside, when she opened it I discovered it was also a Karoke machine!) While I was there I noticed they had a 75G 7200 hard drive for $50. And it included a 256 PC133 stick fo memory. I grabbed it. MS Keyboard $5. MS optical mouse $5. Read/Write CD drive $9.99. 150 CDRs - free. All after rebate of course but jeeze. I wasn't even looking to build a computer. I had 8 already! So I got home went to pricewatch and found a barebones with case, floppy , a 256M PC133 stick, Athlon 1.33 and integrated 32M video for $145. Do you know what the kicker is? This new box was now the fastest one in the house. So who gets it? The kids (6 & 7 yrs) of course!
We have nuclear fusion. It's that bright ball in the sky during the day. Or the H-Bombs that hopefully will never be used against people. The physics of fusion are well understood. It is only the application that is proving difficult.
I ran accross http://www.scitoys.com in an earlier /. article. Not only do they have some pretty cool items but they even tell you how to build a lot of them them yourself if you don't have the cash. I bought a Gauss rifle (http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/ga uss.html) for my boys. I can't wait for Xmas.
FreeDOS is actually a lot of fun. A person at work gave me an old but perfect P60. All SCSI, 24M RAM, 15" monitor, mouse, the works. It cost over $4K new. I wiped the hard drive and loaded FreeDOS on it along with a simple menu program. Did that bring back memories. Next I searched the web and stared downloading old games like mad. Wold3D, Falcon, Raptor, Doom, Quake. I even purchased Duke Nukem 3D for all of $9.00. There is an amazing amout of stuff out there. The quality of the graphics is really incredible. So now it is a dedicated game machine for my 6 & 7 year old boys. Major Dad karma. I loaded it on another old box as well, got it hooked up to the Internet and loaded the Arachne browser on it. It works a lot better than you would think. Given the amount of free software out there, it makes a great computer for someone who may not have a lot of cash. Especially in poorer countries. And keep in mind that FreeDOS will run on harware that Linux and the BSDs just don't run well on such as older 386s and earlier.