Uh, no, congressmen are not people "You could always go see."
It should work that way, but many congressmen like to spend most of their time with lobbyists who take them out to expensive lunches and slip gifts under the table. It depends on who "your congress representative" is.
Waah waah, ya big baby. Reverse engineer sounds better than "hack," ok? Do you get all hot under the collar when they call them sanitation engineers instead of janitors too? I'm surprised actually at how little the word "engineer" has been bastardized. It could be a lot worse.
Excuse me while I go engineer myself a can of Coke from the fridge.
Well of course, without the right cable, I would have said screw it and done it the same way as you. I'm a cheapass.
As far as not having windows systems around, well, I don't think you should need it. All you would need to do would be:
1.Put dos with interlnk on the laptop if it isn't there already
2.Boot your linux system with the cdrom drive to a DOS floppy with cdrom drivers and interserv.
3.Transfer your files across a nice parallel cable.
Parallel cable transfer should be 300kb per second I think.
Of course, if you don't have DOS stuff hanging around either, that's another reason to just say "screw it." I am assuming you did though, because what else would be on the laptop to start with?
I didn't crack down and buy one of those laptop HDD converters until two weeks ago when someone wanted me to recover gigs of data off of a toasted laptop that wouldn't boot for more than a few minutes at a time, so backup over network or cable was impossible. I had a quite old laptop, but due to it's age it couldn't understand the very large, very expensive, out-of-1-year-warranty laptop's HDD. The adaptor was my only choice really.
A word to the wise about those, they don't connect like you would normally think!!! The laptop HDD converter I got, the pins that were for power, were FARTHEST from the red-striped pin 1 on the desktop ide cable. The connector was NOT keyed in any way and it was possible to connect the adaptor to the laptop hard drive off by a whole column of pins so that you would be applying power to data pins!!!!!
I didn't want to let the magic smoke out of the disk, so I tested it first with the 600 meg hard drive from my old laptop. Still, I was very very nervous. I've caused people to lose data before, and it's not a good feeling at all. Thankfully, it all went just fine.
Searched for those on froogle.google.com and there are some cheap ones. Maybe I will get one.
I don't like touchpads because I end up clicking things I don't want, and if multiple fingers are too close, the curser jitters a little and if other fingers happen to touch the pad, the cursor jumps across the screen.
I would be willing to bet that a mouse will be made with a touch pad in it sometime. It could have some interesting uses I think.
I tried searching for IBM Trackpoint and I think that that is the pencil-eraser type deal in the middle of laptop keyboards. I prefer those over touchpads. I would love to have a mouse with one of those in place of a scroll wheel, wow! It really is too bad they're not common. I certainly would buy one!
Notice how the window's contents are arranged HORIZONTALLY?
Umm, no? If you're talking about a certain operating system that rhymes with "Lindows", and you're talking about a shell called explorer.exe, try pressing ALT-v and then D. See, isn't that nice? I have to do that whenever I use a windows machine to stay sane.
Nice name by the way, I've got an insanse part-Norwegian friend that has ranted all about their mythology to me, I have to say that if my list of the coolest people of all time could include legendary and mythical people, Loki beats everyone ever by a thousand miles.
To keep this message on-topic, I'll say that Loki would probably approve of slashdotting a VNC server. Read here about how Loki tricked a blind guy into killing another god with some Mistletoe.
Loki could also change genders, and I believe he may have been the mother of the eight-legged Sleipnir.
I had a system with that same processor and 8 megs of ram and Windows 3.11 ran great on it. I would think X would be decent also if used intelligently.
Also I bet they don't really expect that many people to buy them from them straight out. They will try to sell them as part of a package with a new computer system, etc. You know, "Act now and get a FREE mp3 player! $130 value!"
I think it's because it's the first from Gateway. They are kind of expanding their product line I guess. Or could just be a slow news day or Michael is being especially Michael-esque. Who knows.
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You dont have to read the book, or even know what it's about. Look for a post I made in this thread that got +5 Insightful. I've never read this book and I dont use Perl. Just string together a bunch of "kudos" or "boos" and toss in a couple buzzwords (K&R works fine), and there you go.
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Yep high school. The class was quite insulting. That was sophomore year. I had chemistry for the next two years, and that teacher was the best teacher I've ever had and the class was challenging. I scored a 4 on the AP chem exam after that, which was high enough that I didn't have to take a year of chem in college that I otherwise would have. And I was not a good student in that class. I rarely read the material. His excellent lectures and labs and problems were enough. His tests were far harder than the AP exam.
My biology teacher did not respect us. She put up overheads of notes and insisted we copy them all down. I tried telling her that I don't need to because I've never looked at them and never had below a 95% in her class, but she wouldn't hear any of that.
My chem teacher was the opposite of patronizing. He really respected us, and he pushed us a lot. He managed to use excellent analogies that let us understand without simplifying or glossing things over. He didn't sugarcoat anything. Far from it. In fact, he frequently would yell things like "The bomb hits friday, and you're all gonna be shrapnel" in reference to an upcoming test, and that that light we think we see at the end of the tunnel is a train. Not that he was cruel or would leave anyone behind, he would ALWAYS help you if you came in and had read the material but didn't understand, and if the whole class was unprepared, he would delay tests. He made chemistry hard, fun and extremely interesting. The public school system needs more teachers like him.
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And don't forget that strong encryption is listed in the United States Munitions List under auxilary military equipment and restricted for export.
Speech isn't just books and forums. Software is speech damnit, and it's time that this fact be established in the eyes of US law.
Uh, no, congressmen are not people "You could always go see." It should work that way, but many congressmen like to spend most of their time with lobbyists who take them out to expensive lunches and slip gifts under the table. It depends on who "your congress representative" is.
Waah waah, ya big baby. Reverse engineer sounds better than "hack," ok? Do you get all hot under the collar when they call them sanitation engineers instead of janitors too? I'm surprised actually at how little the word "engineer" has been bastardized. It could be a lot worse.
Excuse me while I go engineer myself a can of Coke from the fridge.
Keys, cellphone, pda, pen, wallet, checkbook fill up my pockets just fine already.
City baths? What the fuck, why don't people just bathe in their homes?
Well of course, without the right cable, I would have said screw it and done it the same way as you. I'm a cheapass.
As far as not having windows systems around, well, I don't think you should need it. All you would need to do would be:
1.Put dos with interlnk on the laptop if it isn't there already
2.Boot your linux system with the cdrom drive to a DOS floppy with cdrom drivers and interserv.
3.Transfer your files across a nice parallel cable.
Parallel cable transfer should be 300kb per second I think.
Of course, if you don't have DOS stuff hanging around either, that's another reason to just say "screw it." I am assuming you did though, because what else would be on the laptop to start with?
I didn't crack down and buy one of those laptop HDD converters until two weeks ago when someone wanted me to recover gigs of data off of a toasted laptop that wouldn't boot for more than a few minutes at a time, so backup over network or cable was impossible. I had a quite old laptop, but due to it's age it couldn't understand the very large, very expensive, out-of-1-year-warranty laptop's HDD. The adaptor was my only choice really.
A word to the wise about those, they don't connect like you would normally think!!! The laptop HDD converter I got, the pins that were for power, were FARTHEST from the red-striped pin 1 on the desktop ide cable. The connector was NOT keyed in any way and it was possible to connect the adaptor to the laptop hard drive off by a whole column of pins so that you would be applying power to data pins!!!!!
I didn't want to let the magic smoke out of the disk, so I tested it first with the 600 meg hard drive from my old laptop. Still, I was very very nervous. I've caused people to lose data before, and it's not a good feeling at all. Thankfully, it all went just fine.
Well, you kind of did it a silly way.
You should have used MS-DOS's interlnk and interserv
I think they call those "tills" in the UK, in the US they're cash registers or POS devices.
Better yet, just rap the phone in foil and then ground it. I'd like to see what kind of tracking signal it gives out then.
Searched for those on froogle.google.com and there are some cheap ones. Maybe I will get one.
I don't like touchpads because I end up clicking things I don't want, and if multiple fingers are too close, the curser jitters a little and if other fingers happen to touch the pad, the cursor jumps across the screen.
I would be willing to bet that a mouse will be made with a touch pad in it sometime. It could have some interesting uses I think.
I tried searching for IBM Trackpoint and I think that that is the pencil-eraser type deal in the middle of laptop keyboards. I prefer those over touchpads. I would love to have a mouse with one of those in place of a scroll wheel, wow! It really is too bad they're not common. I certainly would buy one!
Notice how the window's contents are arranged HORIZONTALLY?
Umm, no? If you're talking about a certain operating system that rhymes with "Lindows", and you're talking about a shell called explorer.exe, try pressing ALT-v and then D. See, isn't that nice? I have to do that whenever I use a windows machine to stay sane.
Yeah I was wondering about ethernut too, so I looked it up. It's quite cool:
Check it out!
probably not
Nice name by the way, I've got an insanse part-Norwegian friend that has ranted all about their mythology to me, I have to say that if my list of the coolest people of all time could include legendary and mythical people, Loki beats everyone ever by a thousand miles.
To keep this message on-topic, I'll say that Loki would probably approve of slashdotting a VNC server. Read here about how Loki tricked a blind guy into killing another god with some Mistletoe.
Loki could also change genders, and I believe he may have been the mother of the eight-legged Sleipnir.
Heyerdahl would be on my list of the coolest people ever. Also on that list would be Gandhi, Ambrose Bierce, Feynman, Paganini and Tesla.
I had a system with that same processor and 8 megs of ram and Windows 3.11 ran great on it. I would think X would be decent also if used intelligently.
Also I bet they don't really expect that many people to buy them from them straight out. They will try to sell them as part of a package with a new computer system, etc. You know, "Act now and get a FREE mp3 player! $130 value!"
I think it's because it's the first from Gateway. They are kind of expanding their product line I guess. Or could just be a slow news day or Michael is being especially Michael-esque. Who knows.
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It doesn't matter. How many do you really think they're going to sell, after all?
Because it has lots of k3wl functions. Wow, system, passthru, shell_exec and bactics? So many choices of how I can execute my perl scripts!!
NASA?
Yep high school. The class was quite insulting. That was sophomore year. I had chemistry for the next two years, and that teacher was the best teacher I've ever had and the class was challenging. I scored a 4 on the AP chem exam after that, which was high enough that I didn't have to take a year of chem in college that I otherwise would have. And I was not a good student in that class. I rarely read the material. His excellent lectures and labs and problems were enough. His tests were far harder than the AP exam.
My biology teacher did not respect us. She put up overheads of notes and insisted we copy them all down. I tried telling her that I don't need to because I've never looked at them and never had below a 95% in her class, but she wouldn't hear any of that.
My chem teacher was the opposite of patronizing. He really respected us, and he pushed us a lot. He managed to use excellent analogies that let us understand without simplifying or glossing things over. He didn't sugarcoat anything. Far from it. In fact, he frequently would yell things like "The bomb hits friday, and you're all gonna be shrapnel" in reference to an upcoming test, and that that light we think we see at the end of the tunnel is a train. Not that he was cruel or would leave anyone behind, he would ALWAYS help you if you came in and had read the material but didn't understand, and if the whole class was unprepared, he would delay tests. He made chemistry hard, fun and extremely interesting. The public school system needs more teachers like him.