Aside from that, does swap size have to match physical RAM for hibernation, even if the machine has copious and largely unused amounts of it?
Not any more, nowadays uswsusp2 will compress (lzw?) your RAM image. Personally, i rarely get an image larger than 500MB on my laptop when hibernating.
* Media coverage. Sure, some of that coverage seems clueless, and some of it focuses; foolishly, but not surprisingly; on the seedier side of the Net (such as pornography and electronic stalkers). But 1994 saw the Internet finally hit the mainstr eam. Time and Newsweek now routinely print letters received through e-mail, and more importantly, it's no longer a novelty. The coverage in magazines on the supermarket check-out line has helped make the other "best" things possible.
* On-line shopping. The other best sign that the Net has hit the mainstream. Flowers, pizza, condoms, lobsters, books, music, and more are available, with other products sure to follow. Small companies can now have the same presence as larger ones. Who cares what neighborhood that bookstore is in?
* No more secrets. With more and more people on-line around the world, it's hard for anyone to get away with anything. Sure, a lot of things make their appearance in alt.conspiracies, but the Net has finally come into its own as a news source for the masses. It's no longer strange to hear, "I heard on the Net that Paul's going to have an affair on 'Mad About You.'"
* New providers, more products, and more books. The Internet is proof that capitalism works, and never has that been shown more than in 1994. Big companies like Netcom and AlterNet compete with local providers like Panix, Pipeline, and the Well. Consumers have more choices than ever in access providers, software, and reading material. As usual, the best succeeded and the rest are ending up on the bargain shelf.
Worst:
* Government intervention. They ruined the railroads and the phone companies, and now they're after the Internet. It works like this: Something is good, and private companies are selling it and making it work. The government decides it's a "right," and subsidizes one of those private companies to give it to people who can't afford it. The subsidized company soon runs the competition out of business and becomes a sponsored, sanctioned monopoly. The process has started with the Internet under the guise of "making the Information Superhighway available to everyone." It may sound good at first, but it's a bad idea. We may look back at 1994 as the beginning of the end of the high-quality Net.
* America Online. It let its users onto the Net with only the barest bit of training or preparation. It provided software that made it difficult for even the most savvy user to behave with proper netiquette. But the worst offense is that AOL, like other major on-line services, is taking from the Internet without giving back. Major providers like Alternet, Netcom, and PSI not only put users on the Net, they make available Gopher servers, FTP-able files, and other resources. AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy are only just beginning to do that, and to be proper net.citizens they must make more substance available to the rest of the Net.
* Canter and Siegel. A cheap shot, true, but still one of the worst events of 1994. It's more than simply the fact that they annoyed a few million users in more than 100 countries without showing remorse. The almost-disbarred-from-Tennessee lawyers gave the idea to others, and made people see marketing and sales opportunities that simply don't exist.
* Zealots. They're the people who have decided that they have the right to regulate; with threats or force if necessary; what is available on the Net.
Predictions:
* Cancelbot wars. As spamming and the spam-killing cancelbots become more widespread, people will find their Usenet News messages canceled by someone who simply doesn't like them. Cancelbot software will spread, as people begin editing out opposing view
not only are the articles 'gay', but reading them will *make* you gay.
gay, adj.
cheery: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"
full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
Gee, I haven't been this furious for a long time.
I bet yahoo and aol are really happy about this. Atlast they can pinch a share of that wonderful SPAM business they've been drooling over for so long.
In other news, you can now bypass the obligitary Preemptive Email Advertisment displayed every ten lines for a mere one cent per mail.
next step is to get rid of the microsoft tax, it can't be legal at the very least to bundle a copy of windows with every PC, and especially with every notebook out there. thus forcing the users into purchasing windows, and as we all know, a windows refund is more of a dream/theory than a reality, despite what microsoft promise/say.
Maybe is microsoft is banned to sell their software to OEM vendors at preferential prices, so as not to give big PC vendors a reason to force people to buy windows PCs, we could atlast have a free market?
I still don't understand why NASA will be flying to the space station, but will not service Hubble which has done, and has the potential to do hundreds of times more science than the space station ever will. Besides, the ISS is currently serviceable as it is, with a bit more money even 3 people could be sent up and serviced with more soyuz aircraft.
but instead we have a prematurely scrapped Hubble, a disfunctional ISS that doesn't do anything anyway, and NASA with promises to fly to mars and build a "space plane" that is currently in pre-planning stage.
maybe the elections are just a tad too far away, is suspect that in 6 months or so NASA will have a sudden change of heart, following a generous promise for funding and flying to mars, the moon, and the sun from president bush.
it's a feature, not a bug. besides, mozilla used to delete your bookmarks on some rare occasions when it crashed (dunno if it still does so), so it doesn't make much difference anyway.
if you,re on linux, tip:
delete your ~/.mozilla, make sure you backup your bookmarks and all your other profile stuff, since it's all stored there. that should convince 1.6 to work.
atleast they're consistent. also in firebird they added the show windows-type scrolling arrows when you press the middle mouse button (atleast on linux). At the same time, the middle mouse button opens up the URL you have in the clipboard (sometimes, when you press the mouse fast and OFTEN enough so that the scroll-thingy doesn't intercept the click), a feature i cherish, especially since i was used to the middle mouse button having only ONE purpose. Atleast i have my daily workout now, changing fingers and pumping on the mouse when i want to open a page.
Obvious computer Geek walks into local mall wearing a t-shirt, and after getting lost and fighting a bit with himself decides to actually talk to the shop assistant: Hi, where's the computer dept
Assistant: Third floor, on your right
Geek: Oh, do you know if they sell Netgear LN-234STs over there?
Assistant: Sorry, you should ask the computer dept. people about that
Geek looks at assistant's t-shirt: Do you know that thinkgeek sell a t-shirt just like this one, with "all your base are belong to us" written on it
Assistant looks at Geek and walks away as fast as possible.
Geek goes to the computer dept. and immediately finds other geeks talking about the new iPod, joins in in their conversation, and together they flood the assistant with questions about the technical specs of all the mp3 players around, and keep trying to persuade him that the iRivers are better because they are firmware upgradeable to support OGG/Vorbis.
A few days later, assistant fill in poll about computer users, and in the Comments section fills in:
They ask a lot of questions, talk way too much, and never buy anything. and what's with this
"Does it run on linux" question, what is Linux in the first place?
A few days later slashdot story appears, claiming that geeks are more communicative than other people.
location will be retrieved from a file with over 22,000 places listed.
i only counted a bit over 50.
oh, yeaaah, there's like N.Mariana Islands, but i'm missing the "REST OF THE WORLD" option. besides, what's up with the names of country songs in the dropdown menu?
i think i am not the only person who does this:
my boss tells me: We need a program that does foo
So i write the program that does foo, and if i decide that it could potentially be useful to someone else except me, i release it as open-source. I get enough money from my job, and have to write the program anyway. It's not like i'm obsessed with the thought of one day writing the killer program that everyone simply has to have and that i'm gonna become a millionaire from selling it.
Why open-source? Because my software will be customized for our machines, our OS and it may not work anywhere else. So instead of someone else reinventing the wheel, he could just as well check freshmeat, get my program and it would hopefully work with some minor modifications.
Slashdot Mirror
Sales Tax. Woudn't want to be on the wrong side of law now, would you?
They trendsourced it.
As MrEricSir once wrote: (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1174265&cid=27321897)
Def. trendsource
-verb: to solve problems using popular buzzwords
("The water utility trendsourced the cyberhack by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")
...
Aside from that, does swap size have to match physical RAM for hibernation, even if the machine has copious and largely unused amounts of it?
Not any more, nowadays uswsusp2 will compress (lzw?) your RAM image. Personally, i rarely get an image larger than 500MB on my laptop when hibernating.
Andrew, let me have your time traveling machine.
Andrew Kantor
(ak@mecklermedia.com)
Best:
* Media coverage. Sure, some of that coverage seems clueless, and some of it focuses; foolishly, but not surprisingly; on the seedier side of the Net (such as pornography and electronic stalkers). But 1994 saw the Internet finally hit the mainstr eam. Time and Newsweek now routinely print letters received through e-mail, and more importantly, it's no longer a novelty. The coverage in magazines on the supermarket check-out line has helped make the other "best" things possible.
* On-line shopping. The other best sign that the Net has hit the mainstream. Flowers, pizza, condoms, lobsters, books, music, and more are available, with other products sure to follow. Small companies can now have the same presence as larger ones. Who cares what neighborhood that bookstore is in?
* No more secrets. With more and more people on-line around the world, it's hard for anyone to get away with anything. Sure, a lot of things make their appearance in alt.conspiracies, but the Net has finally come into its own as a news source for the masses. It's no longer strange to hear, "I heard on the Net that Paul's going to have an affair on 'Mad About You.'"
* New providers, more products, and more books. The Internet is proof that capitalism works, and never has that been shown more than in 1994. Big companies like Netcom and AlterNet compete with local providers like Panix, Pipeline, and the Well. Consumers have more choices than ever in access providers, software, and reading material. As usual, the best succeeded and the rest are ending up on the bargain shelf.
Worst:
* Government intervention. They ruined the railroads and the phone companies, and now they're after the Internet. It works like this: Something is good, and private companies are selling it and making it work. The government decides it's a "right," and subsidizes one of those private companies to give it to people who can't afford it. The subsidized company soon runs the competition out of business and becomes a sponsored, sanctioned monopoly. The process has started with the Internet under the guise of "making the Information Superhighway available to everyone." It may sound good at first, but it's a bad idea. We may look back at 1994 as the beginning of the end of the high-quality Net.
* America Online. It let its users onto the Net with only the barest bit of training or preparation. It provided software that made it difficult for even the most savvy user to behave with proper netiquette. But the worst offense is that AOL, like other major on-line services, is taking from the Internet without giving back. Major providers like Alternet, Netcom, and PSI not only put users on the Net, they make available Gopher servers, FTP-able files, and other resources. AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy are only just beginning to do that, and to be proper net.citizens they must make more substance available to the rest of the Net.
* Canter and Siegel. A cheap shot, true, but still one of the worst events of 1994. It's more than simply the fact that they annoyed a few million users in more than 100 countries without showing remorse. The almost-disbarred-from-Tennessee lawyers gave the idea to others, and made people see marketing and sales opportunities that simply don't exist.
* Zealots. They're the people who have decided that they have the right to regulate; with threats or force if necessary; what is available on the Net.
Predictions:
* Cancelbot wars. As spamming and the spam-killing cancelbots become more widespread, people will find their Usenet News messages canceled by someone who simply doesn't like them. Cancelbot software will spread, as people begin editing out opposing view
this only applies to printed discs where noone really cares what the exact format of the underlying media is as long as it works.
or not ...
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/26/ 1732257
gay, adj.
I bet yahoo and aol are really happy about this. Atlast they can pinch a share of that wonderful SPAM business they've been drooling over for so long.
In other news, you can now bypass the obligitary Preemptive Email Advertisment displayed every ten lines for a mere one cent per mail.
I, for one, welcome our new computer-collar wearing, cyborg-dog overlords!
http://petition.eurolinux.org/
on my webpage. also it looks like they'll be
organizing a demonstration on 14th of april
in brussels.
Crouching Robot - Hidden Dragon, anyone?
Maybe is microsoft is banned to sell their software to OEM vendors at preferential prices, so as not to give big PC vendors a reason to force people to buy windows PCs, we could atlast have a free market?
but instead we have a prematurely scrapped Hubble, a disfunctional ISS that doesn't do anything anyway, and NASA with promises to fly to mars and build a "space plane" that is currently in pre-planning stage.
maybe the elections are just a tad too far away, is suspect that in 6 months or so NASA will have a sudden change of heart, following a generous promise for funding and flying to mars, the moon, and the sun from president bush.
small enough to fit into my collar, but way too big for my wallet
it's a feature, not a bug. besides, mozilla used to delete your bookmarks on some rare occasions when it crashed (dunno if it still does so), so it doesn't make much difference anyway.
if you,re on linux, tip: delete your ~/.mozilla, make sure you backup your bookmarks and all your other profile stuff, since it's all stored there. that should convince 1.6 to work.
atleast they're consistent. also in firebird they added the show windows-type scrolling arrows when you press the middle mouse button (atleast on linux). At the same time, the middle mouse button opens up the URL you have in the clipboard (sometimes, when you press the mouse fast and OFTEN enough so that the scroll-thingy doesn't intercept the click), a feature i cherish, especially since i was used to the middle mouse button having only ONE purpose. Atleast i have my daily workout now, changing fingers and pumping on the mouse when i want to open a page.
first mozilla 1.6 crash reported.
Hi, where's the computer dept
Assistant:
Third floor, on your right
Geek:
Oh, do you know if they sell Netgear LN-234STs over there?
Assistant:
Sorry, you should ask the computer dept. people about that
Geek looks at assistant's t-shirt:
Do you know that thinkgeek sell a t-shirt just like this one, with "all your base are belong to us" written on it
Assistant looks at Geek and walks away as fast as possible.
Geek goes to the computer dept. and immediately finds other geeks talking about the new iPod, joins in in their conversation, and together they flood the assistant with questions about the technical specs of all the mp3 players around, and keep trying to persuade him that the iRivers are better because they are firmware upgradeable to support OGG/Vorbis.
A few days later, assistant fill in poll about computer users, and in the Comments section fills in:
A few days later slashdot story appears, claiming that geeks are more communicative than other people.
location will be retrieved from a file with over 22,000 places listed.
i only counted a bit over 50.
oh, yeaaah, there's like N.Mariana Islands, but i'm missing the "REST OF THE WORLD" option. besides, what's up with the names of country songs in the dropdown menu?
when they include xbill as a discipline i will take part, provided, ofcourse, that the first prize is a mouse.
hm... and i thought that 'vaporware' would be a link to duke nukem forever...
my boss tells me: We need a program that does foo
So i write the program that does foo, and if i decide that it could potentially be useful to someone else except me, i release it as open-source. I get enough money from my job, and have to write the program anyway. It's not like i'm obsessed with the thought of one day writing the killer program that everyone simply has to have and that i'm gonna become a millionaire from selling it.
Why open-source? Because my software will be customized for our machines, our OS and it may not work anywhere else. So instead of someone else reinventing the wheel, he could just as well check freshmeat, get my program and it would hopefully work with some minor modifications.