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I'm almost wondering if in the Mysterious Future he just pulled the plug on the server just to piss us off... People were saying he was/.ed in the MF... and he did just astroturf his own site...
That's why when my site was up I had a notice saying that if you were going to/. me, you had better tell me about it. I wasn't going to Goatse or Tubgirl them, but I WOULD put a notice up, and send you to a mirror.
Imagine the bitching if it were a simple text-only "how-to" article.
Hard Drive Assault Cannon HOWTO
1 Introduction
This HOWTO aims to show how to manufacture a hard drive assault cannon.
2 Materials
You will need:
* One (1) or more hard drives, preferrably 3.5", and of unusably small capacity * One (1) 4.50" ID PVC pipe, length must be at least one foot * One (1) explosive device, any form * Materials for explosive device to PVC pipe interface
3 Assembly
Somehow attach the PVC pipe to the explosive device in such a manner that most of the force enters the PVC pipe. Insert the hard drive into the PVC pipe.
4 Usage
Detonate the explosive device. The hard drive should exit the pipe, and move through the air. To use again, the cannon must be reassembled (as per step 3).
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Unfortunately, no. We had broken down once, and almost had to walk five miles to the nearest place that we could contact someone, until we found an old AT&T prepaid phone (stuffed in a glovebox) with free roaming and a car charger, but a flat battery and no minutes (the engine still ran, so we charged it, and bought minutes over the phone, but a 911 would have worked).
BTW, I think Virgin Mobile doesn't support roaming, even though their phones technically support at least what Verizon calls "Roaming Option B" (and what Sprint calls "Extended PCS Coverage Area"), as they run on the Sprint network...
BTW, on drivers, here's what I know works, and what handles it:
Everything on the chipset, various drivers The video card, latest ForceWare drivers for Linux Sound card, standard SB support Network card, 8139too USB card, usb-ohci
BTW, my computer would not do any of the three, being this:
Pentium MMX 233MHz Biostar MB8500TTD (i430TX chipset) PNY nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 32MB PCI ESS AudioDrive ES1868 ISA Belkin RTL8139-based 10/100 card (PCI) Some 56K ISA WinModem (didn't know they made ISA WinModems) Some no-name USB 1.1 PCI card, uses OHCI drivers
And they still do. It costs (AFAIK) (for cable) about $5 more than RoadRunner. It's the same basic service, but without the RoadRunner brand and with a cheaper version of AOL's BYOI (Bring Your Own ISP) service (which costs about $7/mo, IIRC).
Ahem... RedHat has a good bit of money, enough for maybe one big ad campaign, and SUSE is owned by Novell, who has some serious change, and has IBM support. IBM can pull off huge campaigns like this financially, they just need to make it better for the Average Joe (which IBM's not willing to do - they've said many times that Linux isn't ready for the desktop).
Hmm... you forgot some here. Here's a revised list:
Graphics: nVidia, ATI, Intel, S3, Matrox, 3dlabs (I know, the last two aren't exactly common on the target audience's computers, but you want it to work on those) The "nvidia" driver supports ALL nVidia cards from the driver's introduction back, the ATI driver supports all ATI cards from the Radeon 8500 and FireGL 8700 on (earlier cards are supposedly supported by DRI or Utah-GLX drivers), the Intel cards are supported by (AFAIK) a DRI driver, the S3 cards are supported by (it appears) DRI, most newer Matrox cards have beta Linux drivers, and 3dlabs cards have drivers for some Wildcats (list here), and other organizations have "varying support for Linux and X Windows on Oxygen, GLINT and PERMEDIA based graphics boards."
Sound: I think you're about right here, but I barely even use sound... Don't know much on drivers, either, except Creative and Intel are VERY well supported.
IDE: VIA, nVidia, Intel, AMD, Promise, Highpoint, and there may be others They're all fairly well supported under Linux, but (IIRC) Promise chips in RAID configs and Linux do not mix well at all.
Run out and buy Sim City Classic - under $10, and it's a Win16 app that works fine on the Win32 environments I've tested it on (95 and 98, though, but I will admit that it wasn't a purchased version that I used *ducks*).
It appears to have originally been released on floppies in 1993.
Cool! Now, I just need a text-based X system and WM, as the only X apps Twin can run are XMMS (via a plugin) and a port of KCalc to Twin (the result is a Twin app, not an X app).
The i50sx does it to cheap-ass Benwin speakers, too. The i60c doesn't seem to do that, though. (BTW, the i50sx made the windshield wipers run when hooked into the cigarette lighter - thank Dodge for that)
Also, on Sprint, you can sign up for a plan where you can roam for up to half of your used minutes (including n&w and m2m) for the month for $5 without any other charge. Cingular (AFAIK) has no roaming charges. However, Verizon has roaming charges, AT&T will SLAM you if you get their national plan (DON'T TRUST THE MAPS...), T-Mobile I'm not sure on, and Nextel has no roaming - period.
I used to be on Sprint DSL ($50/mo, 1yr contract, 512/128 connection), which allowed servers, and was through Earthlink. I'm now on Earthlink Cable ($45/mo, no contract, 2500/500 connection), and it still allows servers. Which do you think is better?
Cheaper way: go all cellphone plus cable. We used to have a landline plus Sprint DSL, but when we moved, we switched to cell phones, and got Earthlink cable, which was four times faster both directions, and $5/month cheaper (not to mention, no phone line made it a LOT cheaper).
If I read the article right, he installed Windows XP, and had it work with the Intel chip (AFAIK, everything Intel has out NOW works quite well with Linux using the i810 audio driver), but Linux didn't work. So, he installed (a virtual machine app that he didn't mention the name of, but most certainly was VPC, as it's the only one that works well with Windows 3.1 with sound, because it's got SB emulation), and threw Windows 3.1 through XP on it, and got it to work on 95 and up. He also threw (IIRC) 9 distros on, and NONE recognized the SB. Something's fscked up - maybe he used versions that didn't support sound - he only said a version on Xandros (and it was the current version)? After all, Mandrake 9.2 didn't have much trouble detecting my SB-compatible ESS AudioDrive ISA (forget the model number) in this old P233MMX I'm typing this on.
VIA or Intel chipset, nVidia graphics (if you go with an addon - Intel Extreme Graphics 2 is very well supported under LInux, too), Creative sound (preferrably older, as in SB16 era), 3com 3c905 network card, and I really don't have any more ideas...
He said Intel chip, so SuSE and the Knoppix variants should have picked it up with the i810 audio driver (they did on all Intel audio-based systems I tried), and I'm suprised that Slack and the other Debian-based distros didn't work. Mandrake is a BITCH to get sound working (on 9.2 - it's called sitting a few minutes while sndconfig works its magic), but RH (8) (wa|i)s pretty good about sound.
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I'm almost wondering if in the Mysterious Future he just pulled the plug on the server just to piss us off... People were saying he was /.ed in the MF... and he did just astroturf his own site...
The guy appears to have submitted himself, meaning that no warning was necessary.
/.ed, and yanked the Cat5e. Almost like Goatse-ing /., but without the gaping holes.
BTW, I'm wondering if he realized how STUPID it was to get yourself
That's why when my site was up I had a notice saying that if you were going to /. me, you had better tell me about it. I wasn't going to Goatse or Tubgirl them, but I WOULD put a notice up, and send you to a mirror.
Imagine the bitching if it were a simple text-only "how-to" article.
Hard Drive Assault Cannon HOWTO
1 Introduction
This HOWTO aims to show how to manufacture a hard drive assault cannon.
2 Materials
You will need:
* One (1) or more hard drives, preferrably 3.5", and of unusably small capacity
* One (1) 4.50" ID PVC pipe, length must be at least one foot
* One (1) explosive device, any form
* Materials for explosive device to PVC pipe interface
3 Assembly
Somehow attach the PVC pipe to the explosive device in such a manner that most of the force enters the PVC pipe. Insert the hard drive into the PVC pipe.
4 Usage
Detonate the explosive device. The hard drive should exit the pipe, and move through the air. To use again, the cannon must be reassembled (as per step 3).
*Note: This isn't a real mirror, do not assume this is actually the mirror.
Unfortunately, no. We had broken down once, and almost had to walk five miles to the nearest place that we could contact someone, until we found an old AT&T prepaid phone (stuffed in a glovebox) with free roaming and a car charger, but a flat battery and no minutes (the engine still ran, so we charged it, and bought minutes over the phone, but a 911 would have worked).
BTW, I think Virgin Mobile doesn't support roaming, even though their phones technically support at least what Verizon calls "Roaming Option B" (and what Sprint calls "Extended PCS Coverage Area"), as they run on the Sprint network...
BTW, on drivers, here's what I know works, and what handles it:
Everything on the chipset, various drivers
The video card, latest ForceWare drivers for Linux
Sound card, standard SB support
Network card, 8139too
USB card, usb-ohci
Hmm... Accurate and fast, maybe?
BTW, my computer would not do any of the three, being this:
Pentium MMX 233MHz
Biostar MB8500TTD (i430TX chipset)
PNY nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 32MB PCI
ESS AudioDrive ES1868 ISA
Belkin RTL8139-based 10/100 card (PCI)
Some 56K ISA WinModem (didn't know they made ISA WinModems)
Some no-name USB 1.1 PCI card, uses OHCI drivers
And they still do. It costs (AFAIK) (for cable) about $5 more than RoadRunner. It's the same basic service, but without the RoadRunner brand and with a cheaper version of AOL's BYOI (Bring Your Own ISP) service (which costs about $7/mo, IIRC).
Ahem... RedHat has a good bit of money, enough for maybe one big ad campaign, and SUSE is owned by Novell, who has some serious change, and has IBM support. IBM can pull off huge campaigns like this financially, they just need to make it better for the Average Joe (which IBM's not willing to do - they've said many times that Linux isn't ready for the desktop).
Hmm... you forgot some here. Here's a revised list:
Graphics:
nVidia, ATI, Intel, S3, Matrox, 3dlabs (I know, the last two aren't exactly common on the target audience's computers, but you want it to work on those)
The "nvidia" driver supports ALL nVidia cards from the driver's introduction back, the ATI driver supports all ATI cards from the Radeon 8500 and FireGL 8700 on (earlier cards are supposedly supported by DRI or Utah-GLX drivers), the Intel cards are supported by (AFAIK) a DRI driver, the S3 cards are supported by (it appears) DRI, most newer Matrox cards have beta Linux drivers, and 3dlabs cards have drivers for some Wildcats (list here), and other organizations have "varying support for Linux and X Windows on Oxygen, GLINT and PERMEDIA based graphics boards."
Sound:
I think you're about right here, but I barely even use sound... Don't know much on drivers, either, except Creative and Intel are VERY well supported.
IDE:
VIA, nVidia, Intel, AMD, Promise, Highpoint, and there may be others
They're all fairly well supported under Linux, but (IIRC) Promise chips in RAID configs and Linux do not mix well at all.
Run out and buy Sim City Classic - under $10, and it's a Win16 app that works fine on the Win32 environments I've tested it on (95 and 98, though, but I will admit that it wasn't a purchased version that I used *ducks*).
It appears to have originally been released on floppies in 1993.
Cool! Now, I just need a text-based X system and WM, as the only X apps Twin can run are XMMS (via a plugin) and a port of KCalc to Twin (the result is a Twin app, not an X app).
Copernic still exists... They offer a meta-searching APP called Copernic Agent, available in free and pay-for versions.
The i50sx does it to cheap-ass Benwin speakers, too. The i60c doesn't seem to do that, though. (BTW, the i50sx made the windshield wipers run when hooked into the cigarette lighter - thank Dodge for that)
Also, on Sprint, you can sign up for a plan where you can roam for up to half of your used minutes (including n&w and m2m) for the month for $5 without any other charge. Cingular (AFAIK) has no roaming charges. However, Verizon has roaming charges, AT&T will SLAM you if you get their national plan (DON'T TRUST THE MAPS...), T-Mobile I'm not sure on, and Nextel has no roaming - period.
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DSL vs. Cable...
I used to be on Sprint DSL ($50/mo, 1yr contract, 512/128 connection), which allowed servers, and was through Earthlink. I'm now on Earthlink Cable ($45/mo, no contract, 2500/500 connection), and it still allows servers. Which do you think is better?
Cheaper way: go all cellphone plus cable. We used to have a landline plus Sprint DSL, but when we moved, we switched to cell phones, and got Earthlink cable, which was four times faster both directions, and $5/month cheaper (not to mention, no phone line made it a LOT cheaper).
If I read the article right, he installed Windows XP, and had it work with the Intel chip (AFAIK, everything Intel has out NOW works quite well with Linux using the i810 audio driver), but Linux didn't work. So, he installed (a virtual machine app that he didn't mention the name of, but most certainly was VPC, as it's the only one that works well with Windows 3.1 with sound, because it's got SB emulation), and threw Windows 3.1 through XP on it, and got it to work on 95 and up. He also threw (IIRC) 9 distros on, and NONE recognized the SB. Something's fscked up - maybe he used versions that didn't support sound - he only said a version on Xandros (and it was the current version)? After all, Mandrake 9.2 didn't have much trouble detecting my SB-compatible ESS AudioDrive ISA (forget the model number) in this old P233MMX I'm typing this on.
VIA or Intel chipset, nVidia graphics (if you go with an addon - Intel Extreme Graphics 2 is very well supported under LInux, too), Creative sound (preferrably older, as in SB16 era), 3com 3c905 network card, and I really don't have any more ideas...
Thing is, if he's not bullshitting about the brand of the card, the standard i810 audio module SHOULD handle it!
BTW, I thought Gentoo, while known for compiling instead of just installing, was available as precompiled.
RTFA:
"Distro "XYZ" even costs roughly as much as a Windows XP upgrade"
"I'll tell you that the "XYZ" software in the above was Xandros 2.0 Deluxe"
He said Intel chip, so SuSE and the Knoppix variants should have picked it up with the i810 audio driver (they did on all Intel audio-based systems I tried), and I'm suprised that Slack and the other Debian-based distros didn't work. Mandrake is a BITCH to get sound working (on 9.2 - it's called sitting a few minutes while sndconfig works its magic), but RH (8) (wa|i)s pretty good about sound.
However, if you had RTWFA, you would have seen that SOUNDBLASTER support was fscked up. SoundBlaster being the lowest common denominator, of course...
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