.. whats the one thing that you notice? the fucking mess they've made of the desktop(windows)... its crazy.
I love the squeamish look of horror on their face as you slide all their "Shortcut to My computer" and New Folder 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into the trash"
I hate desktops with any icons on them. Once you've got a window up, chances are you've covered up the next one you're going to use, even if you do keep them neatly organised. Nope, gimme the default X background patten any day;/
Try this:
http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/
to quote from the site:
If you know smbfs for Linux - Sharity-Light is roughly the same. It is derived from smbfs, but runs as a user level program, not in the kernel. If you know samba: Sharity-Light is roughly the opposite: a client for the Lanmanager protocol. If you know neither of these: Sharity-Light lets you mount drives exported by Windows (f. Workgroups/95/98/2000/ME/NT), OS/2 etc. on Unix machines.
My biggest complaints with Solaris are the lack of an "smbmount" facility. and limited HW support
Can't you just install Samba on your machine? The only it's on Linux is because the distro you use decided to include it. Or are you saying that Samba serving works, but not smbclient/smbmount to mount 'doze filesystems on your Solaris boxen? I'll have to try this soon, because I'll be using a Solaris machine to back up two windows machines soon.
I agree with you about the lack of decent hardware support on x86. Solaris was born on SPARC machines and has its best hardware support there obviously. I have had some success in getting 3rd party drivers, for example my Initio 9100 SCSI card.
I think his point is:
It is expensive, for what it is, never mind what you're comparing it to. Me, I don't buy expensive, new or complete computer systems. Dunno why, that's just how it's happened. I've never needed to updrade all {comp |monitor |keyb+mouse |printer |scanner |etc} all at once.
Can't suggest this highly enough myself. enscript can do heaps of things, n-up printing, columns, any font. After that you can use gv to view it, or use less paper printing it becuase you've got 2 or 4 pages on one piece of paper.
Not got *nix? The Apple laserwriter driver has some of this built in. I've used it to print a 400 page book 4-up on A4. (2Pp 2 sided).
I was aiming my thoughts towards the fact that if hes unemployed then why waste time building a weather baloon? surely theres more contructive things to be doing like finding a fucking job? instead of bitching about it and thinking... I read his site a month or so ago when it was first posted. At no stage do I remember him "bitching" about unemployment, merely explaining that because of it, he didn't have enless reserves of cash to throw at his project. Read the article? I guess not, otherwise you'd know it ain't a fscking weather baloon. Waste of time? He's carried out this experiment so throuroughly and ingenously, and at the end of the day, successfully. On the merits of this project he might well get a job. ...I actualy to find it very interesting/cool.
Not only do you think it's a waste of time, it's also "interesting/cool". Uh huh. anyway, in the words of many before me, STFU if you have nothing more constructive to do than deconstruct my posts.
You can say that (and maybe one day even use your own words) when you actually do construct you posts from something vaguely factual/insightful. I deconstruct your post because it i) is hogwash ii) arises out of envy (I think it's cool but since some jobless bum possibly with rich parents did it and he's got a chick it's a waste of time), not true criticism iii) is there for me to see, and comment on.
u fucking moron, read what I said.
Okay, for your own benefit I'll copy-and-paste what you typed.
What the fuck do they pay the unemployed in America? in the UK you get £40 a week... no where near enough to pay for the amount of gear he got.. especially as allot of it he never used.. crazy.
And then go on to suggest he's probably got a rich mommy and daddy...?
Why make such a stupit statement if you're going to contradict it next sentence? That, "u fucking moron" is what you "said". Doesn't your paragraph show you've inferred he's collecting welfare and sending it to 80,000ft in a baloon?
You have to read/. at -1. I reckon probably half the -1 to 0 posts are unique and insightful, if not at least funny. And then there's the poor bastards who in their early days of/. posting made just one beowulf cluster joke, which was even funny, and now show up at 0 by default.
Don't post saying "Mod Parent Up", do your own moderation, read at -1.
Okay, you get to see all the frist ps0t shite, but even some of those are vaguely funny, but modded down by default.
There's much worse than just hitting PgDn a couple of times to get past that anyay. I reckon they should remove the "Troll" tag. Moderation is
trolling if you ask me.
Unemployed != collecting an unemployment benefit (or whatever your ringleader calls it)
Look at his CV, he's had jobs before and it looks like they might have paid him a few quid. Either that, or he's collecting more than one unemployment benefit, which would also make it possible.
Crazy? Looked like fun to me. Lots of it. In fact if it came down to either watching a game of American Football, or spending $2000 or so putting a thing like that together and spending the day with a bunch of geeks chasing it in a car all night...
Sure it's a dupe, but that's not what I'm trolling about.
IT'S NOT A FSCKING WEATHER BALOON!!! RTFA anyone?
For what it's worth I thought he put a lot of work into it, and anybody interested in digital photography, embedded linux systems, or physics in general might find it quite interesting.
Anybody wanting to know anything about the weather, however, would be bitterly disappointed. You can tell it was a little cloudy on the day he launched (read: two months ago).
I agree dupe posts are only human, but in this case the blurb has nothing to do with the article.
Anyone realise that electronics also have a minimum operating temp as well?
For a SunSparc 20 this is 0degC. Probably not a lot different for any other type of equip. I know what we're talking about is implausible anyway, but it's not even recommended to store equip below -40degC.
Sorry for the lack of degC to degF conversions.
And say you've got a sound card problem instead (IMHO more prevalent than video problems). I don't want a graphics mode, I don't want a text mode.
The more it is like Sun's Openfirmware the better. It is text mode (with the exception of the logo which you can replace with a 64x64 mono pic of some titties) but looks, well, nice.
It doesn't flicker with dozens of screens you get to see for half a second, fscking you monitor. If nothings wrong about all you see is: Initializing Memory/-\|/-\|
Booting from device (...)
You can even replace the "Sun Microsystems Sparcstation...." with your choice of words. Mine's my name and address. If it's ever stolen, it'd be pretty hard (for your average thief or his contacts) to change it. No, you don't just remove a battery, change a jumper etc.
Sun haven't changed (in general operation) their firmware in years, and they'd better not either.
Yes, I understand the Openfirmware in a new Apple is very similar to that of a Sun, and yes, Openfirmward does kick ass. I'm hoping to use OpenBIOS on my x86 machine if and when they finish it.
Tip: Sometimes you need help from the openfirmware in an apple if the CDROM won't open. While booting I think you hold Command-option-O-P, or was it O-B...?
Sun's Openfirmware makes heaps of things possible and much easier. It can boot standalong programs without an OS running, you can basically do anything with the machine limited only by your ability. And even set a password that's almost reasonably secure, unlike any PC BIOS.
And I'm sure PC BIOS's kill monitors by changing video modes about six times before you OS is even loaded. Once for the video card, one for the motherboard BIOS, now once for the SCSI card and its scan, now the information screen and "LILO" for a quarter of a second, then change modes for lilo, only to change to the Linux Frambuffer, and finally X loads. My poor monitor's been going clicky clicky clicky and I'd swear this is what kill one of mine.
...as soon as I started caring less about how other people saw me, and more about how I saw myself. Though I know I probably had less friends at school, I certainly wasn't without them.
I met my best friend when I was 14. He was so wacky and wierd people didn't even call him a faggot, that's how lost for words they were. He, and I most certainly weren't popular at school at least.
But I learned from him one of the most important things, if someone doesn't matter to you, why should what they think of you matter to you?
Call me crazy, but I think popularity comes from not giving a crap about what others think.
Umm... Anyone remember those sliding machines that copied your card number onto a carbon paper slip and you wrote the amount on it and signed. You got the top copy the merchant got the other copy. Anyone?
Carbon is not ferrous, so it records no magnetic information. It is simply carbon paper, which stamps the name and number of the card onto the paper slip as the slider goes across. All there was left after you ripped the carbon paper off was a light piece of paper with CC's of the number, signature date and transaction amount. All except for the first are handwritten.
How many software packages have we bought in the past that have tried dumb things like that...?
Obviously not many. If every developer just chose at random a non-filesystem block to write their stuff to, all those appz would pretty soon start standing on each others toes.
Silly bastards, only a 14" monitor sized dongle would be stupider than this.
You have to be on some sort of crack to write to a person's boot sector. Period. That's just off limits.
But then, what's your OS doing _letting_ the odd program write to the boot sector? Yes folks, the OS actually does have a job to do, not only to launch your apps, but prevent the ten or so that you're running at a time from stepping on things they shouldn't.
I'm only aware of one modern OS that doesn't do these things.
The only way to break out of a chroot() is to do something like chroot("/../../../"); the chroot system call is only available to root for security reasons.
Ugh, can it? I would think after you chroot somewhere, that you can't get back because where you chrooted to is now your root directory.
Surely there's no use in being able to chroot back (if you need, you'd have forked off the process you want to chroot, not the one that's going to need the whole filesystem).
I recall some systems where you can't come back from a setuid(), and I think chroot should behave similarly. If 'root' asks for chroot("../../../") something must be going amiss.
I recently (well, 2 months ago) upgraded my workstation to a P4, and had the pleasure of trying to set up a dual head system under RedHat 8.0
Same here! After spending a few minutes `man XF86Config` it actually worked first time. It was easy to set up and arrange your monitors, and XFree handled everything fine.
Where it went wrong was letting any Gnome application run. You see, by "improved xinerama support" for Gnome, they really mean "now every window pops up
across the border between the two displays.
The only configuration that actually satisfactorily worked perfectly in terms of not
throwing every window in the center of the virtual display was, of all thing, CDE running on Solarisx86 with XFree86 installed.
Even though I like Linux a lot and for some time, Linux was what made me remove monitor number 2 and go back to a single head.
I'm not sure that xinerama was tested with anything more that watching the mouse pointer disappear of that monitor, onto that one, off again, on again whee!
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I love the squeamish look of horror on their face as you slide all their "Shortcut to My computer" and New Folder 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into the trash"
I hate desktops with any icons on them. Once you've got a window up, chances are you've covered up the next one you're going to use, even if you do keep them neatly organised. Nope, gimme the default X background patten any day ;/
Um, yeah. Checked the links in the blurb? The article?
Can't you just install Samba on your machine? The only it's on Linux is because the distro you use decided to include it. Or are you saying that Samba serving works, but not smbclient/smbmount to mount 'doze filesystems on your Solaris boxen? I'll have to try this soon, because I'll be using a Solaris machine to back up two windows machines soon.
I agree with you about the lack of decent hardware support on x86. Solaris was born on SPARC machines and has its best hardware support there obviously. I have had some success in getting 3rd party drivers, for example my Initio 9100 SCSI card.
I think his point is: It is expensive, for what it is, never mind what you're comparing it to. Me, I don't buy expensive, new or complete computer systems. Dunno why, that's just how it's happened. I've never needed to updrade all {comp |monitor |keyb+mouse |printer |scanner |etc} all at once.
As I'm sure you know, a digital recording has a quatisation error unlike an analogue which is more susceptible to noise etc.
Can't suggest this highly enough myself. enscript can do heaps of things, n-up printing, columns, any font. After that you can use gv to view it, or use less paper printing it becuase you've got 2 or 4 pages on one piece of paper.
Not got *nix? The Apple laserwriter driver has some of this built in. I've used it to print a 400 page book 4-up on A4. (2Pp 2 sided).
I was aiming my thoughts towards the fact that if hes unemployed then why waste time building a weather baloon? surely theres more contructive things to be doing like finding a fucking job? instead of bitching about it and thinking...
...I actualy to find it very interesting/cool.
I read his site a month or so ago when it was first posted. At no stage do I remember him "bitching" about unemployment, merely explaining that because of it, he didn't have enless reserves of cash to throw at his project. Read the article? I guess not, otherwise you'd know it ain't a fscking weather baloon. Waste of time? He's carried out this experiment so throuroughly and ingenously, and at the end of the day, successfully. On the merits of this project he might well get a job.
Not only do you think it's a waste of time, it's also "interesting/cool". Uh huh.
anyway, in the words of many before me, STFU if you have nothing more constructive to do than deconstruct my posts.
You can say that (and maybe one day even use your own words) when you actually do construct you posts from something vaguely factual/insightful. I deconstruct your post because it i) is hogwash ii) arises out of envy (I think it's cool but since some jobless bum possibly with rich parents did it and he's got a chick it's a waste of time), not true criticism iii) is there for me to see, and comment on.
u fucking moron, read what I said.
Okay, for your own benefit I'll copy-and-paste what you typed.
What the fuck do they pay the unemployed in America? in the UK you get £40 a week... no where near enough to pay for the amount of gear he got.. especially as allot of it he never used.. crazy. And then go on to suggest he's probably got a rich mommy and daddy...? Why make such a stupit statement if you're going to contradict it next sentence? That, "u fucking moron" is what you "said". Doesn't your paragraph show you've inferred he's collecting welfare and sending it to 80,000ft in a baloon?
You have to read /. at -1. I reckon probably half the -1 to 0 posts are unique and insightful, if not at least funny. And then there's the poor bastards who in their early days of /. posting made just one beowulf cluster joke, which was even funny, and now show up at 0 by default.
Don't post saying "Mod Parent Up", do your own moderation, read at -1.
Okay, you get to see all the frist ps0t shite, but even some of those are vaguely funny, but modded down by default.
There's much worse than just hitting PgDn a couple of times to get past that anyay. I reckon they should remove the "Troll" tag. Moderation is trolling if you ask me.
Unemployed != collecting an unemployment benefit (or whatever your ringleader calls it)
Look at his CV, he's had jobs before and it looks like they might have paid him a few quid. Either that, or he's collecting more than one unemployment benefit, which would also make it possible.
Crazy? Looked like fun to me. Lots of it. In fact if it came down to either watching a game of American Football, or spending $2000 or so putting a thing like that together and spending the day with a bunch of geeks chasing it in a car all night...
Sure it's a dupe, but that's not what I'm trolling about.
IT'S NOT A FSCKING WEATHER BALOON!!! RTFA anyone? For what it's worth I thought he put a lot of work into it, and anybody interested in digital photography, embedded linux systems, or physics in general might find it quite interesting.
Anybody wanting to know anything about the weather, however, would be bitterly disappointed. You can tell it was a little cloudy on the day he launched (read: two months ago).
I agree dupe posts are only human, but in this case the blurb has nothing to do with the article.
Anyone realise that electronics also have a minimum operating temp as well?
For a SunSparc 20 this is 0degC. Probably not a lot different for any other type of equip.
I know what we're talking about is implausible anyway, but it's not even recommended to store equip below -40degC.
Sorry for the lack of degC to degF conversions.
It's the BSOD preview/simulator.
It's what you can expect if you put Moz on your PC and run it.
And say you've got a sound card problem instead (IMHO more prevalent than video problems). I don't want a graphics mode, I don't want a text mode. /-\|/-\|
The more it is like Sun's Openfirmware the better. It is text mode (with the exception of the logo which you can replace with a 64x64 mono pic of some titties) but looks, well, nice. It doesn't flicker with dozens of screens you get to see for half a second, fscking you monitor. If nothings wrong about all you see is: Initializing Memory
Booting from device (...)
You can even replace the "Sun Microsystems Sparcstation...." with your choice of words. Mine's my name and address. If it's ever stolen, it'd be pretty hard (for your average thief or his contacts) to change it. No, you don't just remove a battery, change a jumper etc.
Sun haven't changed (in general operation) their firmware in years, and they'd better not either.
I can see it now...
Virus Warning (Y/N)
Memory Hole at 15MB? (Y/N)
pr0n on boot? (Y/N)
Yes, I understand the Openfirmware in a new Apple is very similar to that of a Sun, and yes, Openfirmward does kick ass. I'm hoping to use OpenBIOS on my x86 machine if and when they finish it.
Tip: Sometimes you need help from the openfirmware in an apple if the CDROM won't open. While booting I think you hold Command-option-O-P, or was it O-B...?
Sun's Openfirmware makes heaps of things possible and much easier. It can boot standalong programs without an OS running, you can basically do anything with the machine limited only by your ability. And even set a password that's almost reasonably secure, unlike any PC BIOS.
And I'm sure PC BIOS's kill monitors by changing video modes about six times before you OS is even loaded. Once for the video card, one for the motherboard BIOS, now once for the SCSI card and its scan, now the information screen and "LILO" for a quarter of a second, then change modes for lilo, only to change to the Linux Frambuffer, and finally X loads. My poor monitor's been going clicky clicky clicky and I'd swear this is what kill one of mine.
...as soon as I started caring less about how other people saw me, and more about how I saw myself. Though I know I probably had less friends at school, I certainly wasn't without them.
I met my best friend when I was 14. He was so wacky and wierd people didn't even call him a faggot, that's how lost for words they were. He, and I most certainly weren't popular at school at least.
But I learned from him one of the most important things, if someone doesn't matter to you, why should what they think of you matter to you?
Call me crazy, but I think popularity comes from not giving a crap about what others think.
Umm... Anyone remember those sliding machines that copied your card number onto a carbon paper slip and you wrote the amount on it and signed. You got the top copy the merchant got the other copy. Anyone?
Carbon is not ferrous, so it records no magnetic information. It is simply carbon paper, which stamps the name and number of the card onto the paper slip as the slider goes across. All there was left after you ripped the carbon paper off was a light piece of paper with CC's of the number, signature date and transaction amount. All except for the first are handwritten.
How many software packages have we bought in the past that have tried dumb things like that...?
Obviously not many. If every developer just chose at random a non-filesystem block to write their stuff to, all those appz would pretty soon start standing on each others toes.
Silly bastards, only a 14" monitor sized dongle would be stupider than this.
You have to be on some sort of crack to write to a person's boot sector. Period. That's just off limits.
But then, what's your OS doing _letting_ the odd program write to the boot sector? Yes folks, the OS actually does have a job to do, not only to launch your apps, but prevent the ten or so that you're running at a time from stepping on things they shouldn't.
I'm only aware of one modern OS that doesn't do these things.
The only way to break out of a chroot() is to do something like chroot("/../../../"); the chroot system call is only available to root for security reasons.
Ugh, can it? I would think after you chroot somewhere, that you can't get back because where you chrooted to is now your root directory.
Surely there's no use in being able to chroot back (if you need, you'd have forked off the process you want to chroot, not the one that's going to need the whole filesystem).
I recall some systems where you can't come back from a setuid(), and I think chroot should behave similarly. If 'root' asks for chroot("../../../") something must be going amiss.
I recently (well, 2 months ago) upgraded my workstation to a P4, and had the pleasure of trying to set up a dual head system under RedHat 8.0
Same here! After spending a few minutes `man XF86Config` it actually worked first time. It was easy to set up and arrange your monitors, and XFree handled everything fine.
Where it went wrong was letting any Gnome application run. You see, by "improved xinerama support" for Gnome, they really mean "now
every window pops up across the border between the two displays.
The only configuration that actually satisfactorily worked perfectly in terms of not throwing every window in the center of the virtual display was, of all thing, CDE running on Solarisx86 with XFree86 installed.
Even though I like Linux a lot and for some time, Linux was what made me remove monitor number 2 and go back to a single head.
I'm not sure that xinerama was tested with anything more that watching the mouse pointer disappear of that monitor, onto that one, off again, on again whee!
No, Illeagle is missing a whitespace. Here, see: Ill eagle It is avian, not American.
Only _just_ got it! LMAO