Hoser, the first Athlon was a 500 Mhz version of the Slot A. I know because mine is still running sweetly after all this time. I do have a new Athlon 1400 though and it is mighty nice too.
Heh, I see no reason to pay any premium to Intel for a processor with no immediate benefits.
> Give them a question they don't know the answer to > (this may take a few tries). If they try to feed > you some BS they're probably not a good candidate. > Its always good to know you've got people willing > to give the honest answer, "I don't know".
Heh. I went to an interview once for an administrative/support position. From the questions the interviewer asked, I got the opinion that he had an overestimation of his own abilities.
Anyway, he asked me a question but first gave some background. He said that he had a SCSI problem with a server that had taken himself and 5 other engineers over 6 hours to diagnose. He then asked me the question. I asked him a question about the system and instantly knew I was on the right track by his reaction. He said to me that it was ok if I didn't answer it correctly in the the next few minutes. I then asked him the second question about the system (zeroing in on the solution) whereupon he began looking uncomfortable. I asked the third question and hit the nail on the head. He said he'd get back to me and that I had figured it out.
I never heard from him again. To this day, I guess I intimidated him or he thought I was a smart@ss.
I'm not trying to brag or anything... it's just that I like to know my stuff. I like solving problems and fixing things.
I guess the moral to this story is that sometimes you have to feign stupidity? Don't look better than the boss... I dunno. I just get the feeling that they are looking for YES men who make them look good rather than people who know what the fsck they are doing. Heh whatever.
>Personally, I think they should leave the OS I agree.
>and application businesses to people who know what they're doing, and just make and sell their browser. I disagree.
Microsoft, in my opinion, should get out of the OS/Platform business and concentrate on end user software such as applications. Letem make applications all they want as long as they don't try to take control of the/a platform.
>is the ability to Cancel a download, click the link >again, and have the browser (usually) pick up where >the previous download attempt left off.
I can understand this need. Why not go a step further and request that it also utilize multiple sources so it can improve throughput and download reliability?
> a system, may it be whatever, needs > certifications only when it becomes bloated and > looses focus. Linux' distributions are getting bigger all the time and have many vendor specific tools - as such it has lost some of the tight focus it had in the early days when there were few distributions.
Certification is neccessary to satisfy the requirements of some software producers and users. A software producer needs to know what clib to compile to, what package system to deliver, what is neccessary to read the help files of the app etc... The LSB addresses such issues and more.
RPM may not be perfect in some folks' eyes but it is used by many distributions.
The LSB provides minimum functionality standards! There is nothing to stop others from building on them. Who knows, maybe deb will get even more popular and the standard will then adopt it instead of rpm?
Heck, I like jar files with Installshield for Java in them. I also like tar.gz/Z/bz2 files and shell scripts with embedded install files in em. I personally don't care as long as they work.
> I believe that the user's free choice is the > best standard-making-body it does not matter if > you got a certificate or not if your > distribution is crap. What is wrong with having your cake and eating it too? Why not have these minimum standards to satisfy the commercial software producers AND still keep the ability to innovate with new technologies?
Example: In the USA, most electrical sockets have the same format. Two vertical slots sometimes with a ground and maybe a different size for one of the slots. You can go out and buy a commercial appliance and almost always be able to plug it in. The voltage present on the socket is approx 110-120VAC which is also good.
Now, imagine that you couldn't depend on the voltage or the configuration of the socket? Life would be needlessly more difficult. Get it?
Remember, you are free to fsck with your power socket as much as you want but you will have to live with your modifications. Don't expect everyone else to feel the same way you do.
Welcome to Nirvana! RTCW on Linux is pretty damn good. I've played it in Linux since what... October last year 2001 and both the Multiplayer and the SinglePlayer version rock.
I started out on a AMD 500 with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card and 64MB o' RAM and got pretty good... then went to the AMD 1200 with a GeForce 4 and 512MB o' RAM and the angels began singing.
I'd place bets that the Enemy Territory expansion will be available for Linux.
"You Fool! You know as well as I that I cannot be defeated!" - Heinrich I
> Basically it's trading freedom and clever lighting > effects for polygons and performance. Eventually > this will pay off, but don't expect the average > screenshot to necessarily look better than > anything else.
I agree. Just like some actesses and supermodels... they look better in motion than in stills. It's a perception thing.
I'm studying OpenGL myself at the moment and I can understand the phenomenal work that went into just the multi-eyed biped monster model. And, I can't wait to see it in action - in motion.
BJH wrote: >When was your friend in Japan? Banks generally give >an average rate for the day, unless you happen to >be a corporate investor.
Did you say generally?
>No, it's because in Japan the manufacturers have >made it so expensive to have an item out of >warranty repaired that you might as well buy a new >one.
Either way, there is a gomi pile ain't there? I'm sure if the items had some percieved value someone would want it right? At any rate, even partly working items wouldn't last 10 minutes in a public place in the US.
>Yeah, right. And in the US, if a penny hits the >ground, everyone within a hundred-metre radius >comes running. Next unsubstantiated 'fact', >please..
I don't know about you but... I don't see many pennies laying on the ground in the US.
>How is this any different to a McDonalds, except >that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and >you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi >regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese >version of fast food.
So, essentially, what is wrong with what I said?
>They're called capsule hotels, and in twelve >years in Japan I have yet to meet anyone who's >actually stayed in one. They're generally for >older male businessmen that didn't make the last >train home (as the trains usually finish between >midnight and 1am in Tokyo).
I guess the people who are in business to provide these accomodations have made a poor investment in both space and capitol.
Oh well, my point was that Japan is facinating and different. At least we both like sushi.
You would get your check in USD and stand in front of the bank line waiting for a favorable exchange rate between USD and YEN. Then when the numbers were right, the tellers would be mobbed.
There was this huge gomi pile of abandoned electronics that were almost brand new but no longer wanted; because there was a new model that just came out that had more gee wiz features.
If money falls on the street in Japan, it will usually lie there till it rots or is cleaned up and thrown away; he said it was beneath Japanese to pick up money or objects that have fallen on the ground.
People walk into a sushi/food bar and pick from freshly prepared items on a conveyor that moves past the patron. You pay on the way out.
People regularly sleep in what seems like morgue cabinets. Complete with miniature amenities.
E. Smart gets nationwide coverage while A. Patterson is unheard of outside Milwaukee. So, as long as she's still *in* Milwaukee, she has a chance of being found I guess.
Well, as a wise man once said, "We have stone-age minds and space-age business suits." Or something like that...
Wasn't this supposed backdoor in the./configure script and not the finished executable proper? Or was linked into the executable but not part of the original code of BitchX?
If so that would make it a viral type infection rather than an error or backdoor in the original BitchX code.
BoVLB wrote: >Since moving to the US, I've learnt to be very >careful where I order Guinness, as it is usually >mistreated in some way. For example, if they can >pour it in under a minute, it will definitely >taste like crap. Of course, nothing tastes as >good as Guinness in Dublin; good stout doesn't >seem to travel well.
Well, you're probably right about the way that Guiness is served. I may take a trip to Ireland some day soon and I'll be sure to try it served Irish style. I just keep getting these retching retrospects from trying Guiness the last time - it frothing up in my mouth and exuding thru my nose despite my best attempts.
>By the way, when you tried Haggis (as I assume >you did in order to form your opinion), what did >you find objectionable about the taste? How would >you describe it?
I have to fess up, I've never tried Haggis. I've been affected by everyone else's opinion I guess. Anyway, I will try it. (After all, my grandmother was Irish.)
Ren and Stimpy broke new ground. Where do you think all those new cartoons got their inspiration? Before R&S, most cartoons were either Hannah Barbera, Warner Bros, Smurfish or Early Anime styles.
New Raw Cartoon Humor == Ren and Stimpy - oft imitated yet never surpassed.
I like the episode where there is this red button and Stimpy ain't supposed to push it. You can guess what happened.
Or the one where Ren is so hungry that Stimpy gives him his very last precious piece. Ren eats it. Then Stimpy says, "Yep that was my very last piece of kitty litter."
Yeah, come to think of it... it is toilet humor.
Imitators (*) Two stupid dogs. Cat Dog. Cow and Chicken. (*) Copywrited stuff... blah blah etc... etc.. ad infinitum.
Guiness tastes like burnt mud. I tried it; it's the most godawful tasting crap ever foisted on the world by Gaels (except maybe Haggis).
MNSHO Codifex
P.S. Just so my post doesn't sound too overly negative, I found some downright funny video on www.ifilm.com Look at The Flying Boy (XP Commercial Spoof), Harmonic Voltage (Wicked cool video/audio) and the Triumph stuff (So funny you'll need paramedics).
Yeah, I have RH7.2 on my machine. Got the GTK2 version of Eclipse... tried to run eclipse thru X and just got an eclipse splash screen which just sat there. Hadda kill it.
Tried running the jar directly - no dice either.
Finally, I dropped to the command line and found I was missing the libgtk-X11-2.0.so.o. A locate couldn't find hide nor hair of it. Got on google and tried to find it - found out it's in GTK2-1.3 or some such RPM. rpmfind and just about every other source for this RPM leads to nowhere.
Ok. Shall I try the motif version now as ABGT did? Or can someone refer me to a site that has a copy of this gtk2-1.3*.rpm?
What I want to know is... why the heck have they got to use GTK for anyway? Just write the whole dang thing in Java and be done with it.
> * This movie is going to rock. I can't wait! Of this I have no doubt. The Two Towers should have alot of action! The Riders of Rohan, the Treants, Gollum yes we thinks so yess we do.
> * Stupid apple doesn't port Quicktime to linux. Crossover! I now have Quicktime 5 and Trillian running in Linux just fine. (Gotta get rid of the nag screen though...)
> * So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them? Uh...
> * The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one. I doubt it. LOTR is timeless; Matrix while cool is trendy (I like the Rage soundtrack though... COME ON!).
> * How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11. Bleah...
I can see it now... Programs that act like web browsers hitting pages at random generating way too much traffic to record. Increases in junk mail to overload the databases with uh... junk From, To, CC addresses.
I'm sure the Security and Storage industry sectors will be happy.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, they sure were polite on the page informing of the temporary download stoppage.
Made me wanna go out and buy their stuff. If this is an indicator of things to come... I can't wait!
Patient:
Hey doc...
Surgeon:
What seems to be the problem?
Patient:
Well, I got this gecko... (pointing to bum)
Hoser, the first Athlon was a 500 Mhz version of the Slot A. I know because mine is still running sweetly after all this time. I do have a new Athlon 1400 though and it is mighty nice too.
Heh, I see no reason to pay any premium to Intel for a processor with no immediate benefits.
Anyway, nice post.
If you use Linux then you should not be worried about the Linux developers using your IP or a derivative of it.
We're all sharing here remember? Stone soup ya know?
Referbishing is also an option. Replace the damaged part and sell it again at a discount compared to new monitors.
It's nice but it's also proprietary as far as the interface goes. Linux is wide open.
:P
I can't get used to the one button mouse. Bleah
Other than that... I got no problem with Mac OS X.
> Give them a question they don't know the answer to
> (this may take a few tries). If they try to feed
> you some BS they're probably not a good candidate.
> Its always good to know you've got people willing
> to give the honest answer, "I don't know".
Heh. I went to an interview once for an administrative/support position. From the questions the interviewer asked, I got the opinion that he had an overestimation of his own abilities.
Anyway, he asked me a question but first gave some background. He said that he had a SCSI problem with a server that had taken himself and 5 other engineers over 6 hours to diagnose. He then asked me the question. I asked him a question about the system and instantly knew I was on the right track by his reaction. He said to me that it was ok if I didn't answer it correctly in the the next few minutes. I then asked him the second question about the system (zeroing in on the solution) whereupon he began looking uncomfortable. I asked the third question and hit the nail on the head. He said he'd get back to me and that I had figured it out.
I never heard from him again. To this day, I guess I intimidated him or he thought I was a smart@ss.
I'm not trying to brag or anything... it's just that I like to know my stuff. I like solving problems and fixing things.
I guess the moral to this story is that sometimes you have to feign stupidity? Don't look better than the boss... I dunno. I just get the feeling that they are looking for YES men who make them look good rather than people who know what the fsck they are doing. Heh whatever.
What's wrong with using the new Quantum Tranceiver Gigabit Ethernet NICs?
Instant signal transfer with no loss over infinite distances. Sounds like a plan to me.
Oh wait... they wont be available till what? 2040 or something?
Maybe in the meantime we could use long lines of penguins to shuttle the packets.
I can dream can't I?
>Personally, I think they should leave the OS
I agree.
>and application businesses to people who know what they're doing, and just make and sell their browser.
I disagree.
Microsoft, in my opinion, should get out of the OS/Platform business and concentrate on end user software such as applications. Letem make applications all they want as long as they don't try to take control of the/a platform.
>is the ability to Cancel a download, click the link
:)
>again, and have the browser (usually) pick up where
>the previous download attempt left off.
I can understand this need. Why not go a step further and request that it also utilize multiple sources so it can improve throughput and download reliability?
By the way, isn't lynx faster than Opera?
> a system, may it be whatever, needs
> certifications only when it becomes bloated and
> looses focus.
Linux' distributions are getting bigger all the time and have many vendor specific tools - as such it has lost some of the tight focus it had in the early days when there were few distributions.
Certification is neccessary to satisfy the requirements of some software producers and users. A software producer needs to know what clib to compile to, what package system to deliver, what is neccessary to read the help files of the app etc... The LSB addresses such issues and more.
RPM may not be perfect in some folks' eyes but it is used by many distributions.
The LSB provides minimum functionality standards! There is nothing to stop others from building on them. Who knows, maybe deb will get even more popular and the standard will then adopt it instead of rpm?
Heck, I like jar files with Installshield for Java in them. I also like tar.gz/Z/bz2 files and shell scripts with embedded install files in em. I personally don't care as long as they work.
> I believe that the user's free choice is the
> best standard-making-body it does not matter if
> you got a certificate or not if your
> distribution is crap.
What is wrong with having your cake and eating it too? Why not have these minimum standards to satisfy the commercial software producers AND still keep the ability to innovate with new technologies?
Example:
In the USA, most electrical sockets have the same format. Two vertical slots sometimes with a ground and maybe a different size for one of the slots. You can go out and buy a commercial appliance and almost always be able to plug it in. The voltage present on the socket is approx 110-120VAC which is also good.
Now, imagine that you couldn't depend on the voltage or the configuration of the socket? Life would be needlessly more difficult. Get it?
Remember, you are free to fsck with your power socket as much as you want but you will have to live with your modifications. Don't expect everyone else to feel the same way you do.
Anyway, peace.
Welcome to Nirvana! RTCW on Linux is pretty damn good. I've played it in Linux since what... October last year 2001 and both the Multiplayer and the SinglePlayer version rock.
I started out on a AMD 500 with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card and 64MB o' RAM and got pretty good... then went to the AMD 1200 with a GeForce 4 and 512MB o' RAM and the angels began singing.
I'd place bets that the Enemy Territory expansion will be available for Linux.
"You Fool! You know as well as I that I cannot be defeated!" - Heinrich I
> I can't wait. Will this run on my Pentium 60?
Maybe... if you put in a newer generation 3DLabs Permedia card.. maybe.
And hey, why don't the just have the monsters turn on their dead buddies for food.
> Basically it's trading freedom and clever lighting
> effects for polygons and performance. Eventually
> this will pay off, but don't expect the average
> screenshot to necessarily look better than
> anything else.
I agree. Just like some actesses and supermodels... they look better in motion than in stills. It's a perception thing.
I'm studying OpenGL myself at the moment and I can understand the phenomenal work that went into just the multi-eyed biped monster model. And, I can't wait to see it in action - in motion.
BJH wrote:
>When was your friend in Japan? Banks generally give
>an average rate for the day, unless you happen to
>be a corporate investor.
Did you say generally?
>No, it's because in Japan the manufacturers have
>made it so expensive to have an item out of
>warranty repaired that you might as well buy a new
>one.
Either way, there is a gomi pile ain't there? I'm sure if the items had some percieved value someone would want it right? At any rate, even partly working items wouldn't last 10 minutes in a public place in the US.
>Yeah, right. And in the US, if a penny hits the
>ground, everyone within a hundred-metre radius
>comes running. Next unsubstantiated 'fact',
>please..
I don't know about you but... I don't see many pennies laying on the ground in the US.
>How is this any different to a McDonalds, except
>that in McDonalds the conveyer belt is hidden and
>you pay in advance? I go to kaiten-zushi
>regularly, and it's just basically the Japanese
>version of fast food.
So, essentially, what is wrong with what I said?
>They're called capsule hotels, and in twelve
>years in Japan I have yet to meet anyone who's
>actually stayed in one. They're generally for
>older male businessmen that didn't make the last
>train home (as the trains usually finish between
>midnight and 1am in Tokyo).
I guess the people who are in business to provide these accomodations have made a poor investment in both space and capitol.
Oh well, my point was that Japan is facinating and different. At least we both like sushi.
his being stationed in Japan.
He had some interesting stories:
You would get your check in USD and stand in front of the bank line waiting for a favorable exchange rate between USD and YEN. Then when the numbers were right, the tellers would be mobbed.
There was this huge gomi pile of abandoned electronics that were almost brand new but no longer wanted; because there was a new model that just came out that had more gee wiz features.
If money falls on the street in Japan, it will usually lie there till it rots or is cleaned up and thrown away; he said it was beneath Japanese to pick up money or objects that have fallen on the ground.
People walk into a sushi/food bar and pick from freshly prepared items on a conveyor that moves past the patron. You pay on the way out.
People regularly sleep in what seems like morgue cabinets. Complete with miniature amenities.
What an interesting place!
Your missing the point.
E. Smart gets nationwide coverage while A. Patterson is unheard of outside Milwaukee. So, as long as she's still *in* Milwaukee, she has a chance of being found I guess.
Well, as a wise man once said, "We have stone-age minds and space-age business suits." Or something like that...
Wasn't this supposed backdoor in the ./configure script and not the finished executable proper? Or was linked into the executable but not part of the original code of BitchX?
If so that would make it a viral type infection rather than an error or backdoor in the original BitchX code.
BoVLB wrote:
>Since moving to the US, I've learnt to be very
>careful where I order Guinness, as it is usually
>mistreated in some way. For example, if they can
>pour it in under a minute, it will definitely
>taste like crap. Of course, nothing tastes as
>good as Guinness in Dublin; good stout doesn't
>seem to travel well.
Well, you're probably right about the way that Guiness is served. I may take a trip to Ireland some day soon and I'll be sure to try it served Irish style. I just keep getting these retching retrospects from trying Guiness the last time - it frothing up in my mouth and exuding thru my nose despite my best attempts.
>By the way, when you tried Haggis (as I assume
>you did in order to form your opinion), what did
>you find objectionable about the taste? How would
>you describe it?
I have to fess up, I've never tried Haggis. I've been affected by everyone else's opinion I guess. Anyway, I will try it. (After all, my grandmother was Irish.)
Ren and Stimpy broke new ground. Where do you think all those new cartoons got their inspiration? Before R&S, most cartoons were either Hannah Barbera, Warner Bros, Smurfish or Early Anime styles.
New Raw Cartoon Humor == Ren and Stimpy - oft imitated yet never surpassed.
I like the episode where there is this red button and Stimpy ain't supposed to push it. You can guess what happened.
Or the one where Ren is so hungry that Stimpy gives him his very last precious piece. Ren eats it. Then Stimpy says, "Yep that was my very last piece of kitty litter."
Yeah, come to think of it... it is toilet humor.
Imitators (*)
Two stupid dogs.
Cat Dog.
Cow and Chicken.
(*) Copywrited stuff... blah blah etc... etc.. ad infinitum.
Sorry to say but...
Guiness tastes like burnt mud. I tried it; it's the most godawful tasting crap ever foisted on the world by Gaels (except maybe Haggis).
MNSHO
Codifex
P.S. Just so my post doesn't sound too overly negative, I found some downright funny video on www.ifilm.com
Look at The Flying Boy (XP Commercial Spoof), Harmonic Voltage (Wicked cool video/audio) and the Triumph stuff (So funny you'll need paramedics).
Yeah, I have RH7.2 on my machine. Got the GTK2 version of Eclipse... tried to run eclipse thru X and just got an eclipse splash screen which just sat there. Hadda kill it.
Tried running the jar directly - no dice either.
Finally, I dropped to the command line and found I was missing the libgtk-X11-2.0.so.o. A locate couldn't find hide nor hair of it. Got on google and tried to find it - found out it's in GTK2-1.3 or some such RPM. rpmfind and just about every other source for this RPM leads to nowhere.
Ok. Shall I try the motif version now as ABGT did? Or can someone refer me to a site that has a copy of this gtk2-1.3*.rpm?
What I want to know is... why the heck have they got to use GTK for anyway? Just write the whole dang thing in Java and be done with it.
> * This movie is going to rock. I can't wait!
Of this I have no doubt. The Two Towers should have alot of action! The Riders of Rohan, the Treants, Gollum yes we thinks so yess we do.
> * Stupid apple doesn't port Quicktime to linux.
Crossover! I now have Quicktime 5 and Trillian running in Linux just fine. (Gotta get rid of the nag screen though...)
> * So do we support the MPAA today, or are we against them?
Uh...
> * The Matrix Reloaded is going to be much cooler than this one.
I doubt it. LOTR is timeless; Matrix while cool is trendy (I like the Rage soundtrack though... COME ON!).
> * How dare they call it The Two Towers after 9-11.
Bleah...
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Keyboard Error - Press any key to continue...
Error 0 - There is no message for this error.
Current Disk is no longer valid!
Anyway, I'll bet the ES runs Plan9 or Hurd.
I can see it now...
Programs that act like web browsers hitting pages at random generating way too much traffic to record.
Increases in junk mail to overload the databases with uh... junk From, To, CC addresses.
I'm sure the Security and Storage industry sectors will be happy.