I bought one of these, and it's not only the most silent I've encountered, but it's nice and solid. When you pick up the thing, it doesn't feel like a run of the mill power supply. You can tell it was crafted quite decently.
Though, I did need some extensions on a couple of the ends.
This is great. Every advancement of Open Source technologies makes me eager for the day that we see Microsoft as just another competitor, rather than a huge beast crushing everything in its path.
I haven't tried it yet, but as far as how things have been going in the Open Source communities, I'm pretty sure I won't be disappointed.
I'm pretty sure this slight hype about lowering the price of the iPod will still do positive things for Apple. Since they kind of have a stigma of high prices, as many articles as they can get about lowering them will pay off.
Did you know that at almost all American movie theatres, they make nearly all their money from the concession stand? The actual profit margin per ticket is literally pocket change; pennies.
Think about that for a second. All of our movies and music are just big flashing screens to entice us to go places and buy shit to make us feel different, and we happen to eat a bunch of junk food in the process.
GNAA claims responsibility for Slashdot Suicide Bombing and Downtime by Burt Bendover, GNN Reporter
An anonymous phone call from someone claiming being a GNAA member assumed responsibility for Slashdot.org's suicide bombing/downtime earlier today. A source close to Rob Malda was quoted as saying that a large bus full of arabs and gay niggers exploded outside Slashdot Headquarters at around 10:45 pm CST. There were reports of grave injury, death, and damage. Slashdot is the world's leading troll spawning source, in business since 1965.
Recently, an editor by the name of CowboyNeal began making racial comments in IRC chat rooms (one such chat room located at irc.caoine.org #caoine), as well as his website. It is believed this latest attack is retribution from the GNAA, but the representative would only allude to what provoked this attack.
About GNAA GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member. GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members
all over United States of America. You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on EFNet, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is EFNet,
and you can connect to irc.secsup.org or irc.isprime.com as one of the EFNet servers.
If you do not have an IRC client handy, you are free to use the GNAA Java IRC client by clicking here.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this post up.
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I can't believe I just took a shit in my bathing suit at the beach. What the fuck? I cant stand up and take it to the ocean, because I am wading in a puddle of feces at this very moment. Any change in my seating position will send my poo spilling down my legs and into view of every sunbather within 30 feet of me. There is no way I can play this off as a fart.
It doesn't help at all that I've been spun out for 3 days. I can hardly see straight! How am I possibly going to explain this to my wife when she comes back from getting chili dogs to ask me what the fuck I just did in the presence of my children? She'll make me drop trau in front of everyone again. There it is. The family on the blanket to the right of me just asked if I could smell "that". I gotta go
Waste definitely is cool. While the public mesh isn't really safe, security-wise, it does allow you the ability to have a mesh of users that is for the most part completely secure. I've used it to get some friends together on our own little mesh, and while we didn't really have anything sensitive to share, it was nice to have that freedom of knowing nobody could packet sniff the traffic and see what we were saying and doing in plaintext.
Frankel just might be one of the more revolutionary people we have nowadays. He seems to give people not only the ability to be productive and listen to music with a decent player, but stick it to the various corporations that'd rather have us all doing the same things and eating the same food.
It's about time we move on from the archaic state of the internet we're at right now. Besides the content, nothing's really changed in 10 years, and it needs to. With the current prolonged influx of security problems caused by an infrastructure that was never meant to handle the things we do to it, I'd say it's about time someone big pushes IPv6.
It is a terrible act to not even make aware to your customers why these products never come. I can understand the sense of the tail-between-the-legs effect, but really, it would make customers more happy to understand the troubles you're having. Unless, of course, your company is lying in the first place.
I feel that we need to save the Hubble, even if it is just for nostalgic reasons. Perhaps it just seems absurd that we dump all of our old equipment into the ocean when we're done with them, but really, I think we need to preserve the things that have given us insight into the universe and remember them. Besides, how might Mr. Hubble (have) like(d) that we just dump this huge telescope named after him once it becomes slightly antiquated?
Search Engines and portals are our internet starting points; we can't just magically pull information out of our asses. When you're fighting to become that starting point, you're fight much the same battle as news stations do. And we know how fiesty journalists are.
I personally would prefer that a government use an open system of well, anything, when it comes to running our vital services, as long as that information doesn't compromise security. The idea of a widespread open source initiative sounds like one of what may only be a small number of ways of getting our cities into the new millenium in these number-crunching times. That's just my take on it, and IANACIS (I am not a city infrastructure specialist).
Re:site is slashdotted, here's the 1st page
on
BSD For Linux Users
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· Score: 1
Unfortunately, no. I was just reading it as it was fully posted it to the front page, and thus, completely being hit by the rabid eyes of slashdotters.
site is slashdotted, here's the 1st page
on
BSD For Linux Users
·
· Score: 4, Informative
What is this?
I run FreeBSD on my computers. A lot of my friends run Linux, or at least one of the distributions of it. Naturally, then, we agree that a Unix-style operating system is the right choice, but we disagree on which to use.
It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.
While there's overwhelming similarity between the operating systems in most cases, there are also a lot of differences. As you probe more into the differences, you find that they emerge from deep-seated disagreements. Some are disagreements over development methodology, some over deployment and usage, some about what's important, some about who's important, and some about which flavor of ice cream is superior. Just comparing the surface differences doesn't tell you anything; it's the deeper differences that both explain and justify why each group does things the way they do. What isn't this?
This is not:
* A list of command correspondances; "'netstat -rnfinet' on BSD = 'netstat -rnAinet' on Linux" and such things.
* How to do all the things involved in adminning and running a BSD box.
* Why you should use BSD instead of Linux.
* Why you should use Linux instead of BSD.
* Why you should use this BSD instead of that BSD.
* Why you should use this Linux instead of that Linux.
* Why BSD is Right and Linux is Wrong.
* Why Linux is Right and BSD is Wrong.
* Why I am a god and you should worship me.
I, personally, for me, believe (obviously) that my OS choice is right. That's me. I'm not telling you that you should believe it. Learn the facts, and the origins behind the facts, and make up your own damn mind. That's why you have one. Some preliminary thoughts
There're a lot of philosophical disparity between the Linux world and the BSD world. And there are a lot of expressions about it out there. One I particularly like goes something like:
BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
Now, I like that quip, not because it's some sort of absolute revealed truth, but because it gives a very good feel for some of the differences. The BSDs, in general, are very much more like traditional Unices than Linux is. A lot of that is because they're direct-line descendants of the BSD from Berkeley, which was a direct-line descendant of the original AT&T Unix. Unix-the-trademark is a trademark of The Open Group, and Unix-the-code is owned by SCO, so one can't actually say that the BSDs are really Unix (that's the sort of statement that triggered the USL/UCB lawsuit extravaganza, in fact). But, in many ways, the BSDs are direct derivatives of traditional Unix.
That shows through in a lot of ways. It shows up in the design of the base system and the packaging of addons. It shows up in the partitioning of the mass storage. It shows up in a lot of details of the commands. And it shows up in the attitudes and reflexes and prejudices of the developers, which are reflected in the code and in the users.
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that's the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct. Where to begin?
If there's one thing Steve Grand is, it's a digital god.
I'm not just exclaiming that as some sort of personal hero worship or as a glowing reccomendation of this book (since I haven't read it yet) but because he concieves and gives birth to binary creatures, imbuing them with life.
As said before, Steve Grand begat the Norns - the impossibly cute, wide eyed inhabitants of the game Creatures (and all its sequels). The review didn't really touch on them all that much, but to further explain it, Norns were not just some slightly more complicated Pokemon or NeoPets, nor were they a clever hack designed to appear sentient-like while the Wizard behind the screen pulled all the strings - Norns were designed, simply, to be alive.
It's for these reasons that I am eager to read this book. He may stretching a bit of his expertise, but I think it should at least make for a highly interesting read, especially after reading this review. However, Amazon didn't give any results for it, so I'm not sure where to get it, though I'll admit I haven't looked that hard. Anyone know offhand?
Yes, as a player, it's probably ok for a lot of people, but this line:
will start below $200 for a device that can function as a USB hard drive
is totally weak. Imagine a USB HD you had to change media in if you wanted to store more than 1gb. On top of that, you couldn't store anything bigger than 1gb.
So, the "USB HD" functionality of this thing is crap.
Extra functionality probably will not save the MD
on
New Sony Minidisc Players
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Adding the capabilities to store other files on it like a USB hard drive is nice, but for less than 200 bucks, you can get yourself a 200gb USB hard drive/enclosure.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is another good article on Wimax.
I bought one of these, and it's not only the most silent I've encountered, but it's nice and solid. When you pick up the thing, it doesn't feel like a run of the mill power supply. You can tell it was crafted quite decently.
Though, I did need some extensions on a couple of the ends.
This is great. Every advancement of Open Source technologies makes me eager for the day that we see Microsoft as just another competitor, rather than a huge beast crushing everything in its path.
I haven't tried it yet, but as far as how things have been going in the Open Source communities, I'm pretty sure I won't be disappointed.
I'm pretty sure this slight hype about lowering the price of the iPod will still do positive things for Apple. Since they kind of have a stigma of high prices, as many articles as they can get about lowering them will pay off.
Did you know that at almost all American movie theatres, they make nearly all their money from the concession stand? The actual profit margin per ticket is literally pocket change; pennies.
Think about that for a second. All of our movies and music are just big flashing screens to entice us to go places and buy shit to make us feel different, and we happen to eat a bunch of junk food in the process.
by Burt Bendover, GNN Reporter
An anonymous phone call from someone claiming being a GNAA member assumed responsibility for Slashdot.org's suicide bombing/downtime earlier today. A source close to Rob Malda was quoted as saying that a large bus full of arabs and gay niggers exploded outside Slashdot Headquarters at around 10:45 pm CST. There were reports of grave injury, death, and damage. Slashdot is the world's leading troll spawning source, in business since 1965.
Recently, an editor by the name of CowboyNeal began making racial comments in IRC chat rooms (one such chat room located at irc.caoine.org #caoine), as well as his website. It is believed this latest attack is retribution from the GNAA, but the representative would only allude to what provoked this attack.
Source: WilWheaton.org
About GNAA
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America. You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
First, you have to obtain a copy of GAY NIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it.
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA "first post" on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on EFNet, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today!
If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is EFNet, and you can connect to irc.secsup.org or irc.isprime.com as one of the EFNet servers.
If you do not have an IRC client handy, you are free to use the GNAA Java IRC client by clicking here.
If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this post up.
By moderating this post as "Underrated", you cannot be Meta-Moderated! Please consider this.
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I can't believe I just took a shit in my bathing suit at the beach. What the fuck? I cant stand up and take it to the ocean, because I am wading in a puddle of feces at this very moment. Any change in my seating position will send my poo spilling down my legs and into view of every sunbather within 30 feet of me. There is no way I can play this off as a fart.
It doesn't help at all that I've been spun out for 3 days. I can hardly see straight! How am I possibly going to explain this to my wife when she comes back from getting chili dogs to ask me what the fuck I just did in the presence of my children? She'll make me drop trau in front of everyone again. There it is. The family on the blanket to the right of me just asked if I could smell "that". I gotta go
Waste definitely is cool. While the public mesh isn't really safe, security-wise, it does allow you the ability to have a mesh of users that is for the most part completely secure. I've used it to get some friends together on our own little mesh, and while we didn't really have anything sensitive to share, it was nice to have that freedom of knowing nobody could packet sniff the traffic and see what we were saying and doing in plaintext.
Frankel just might be one of the more revolutionary people we have nowadays. He seems to give people not only the ability to be productive and listen to music with a decent player, but stick it to the various corporations that'd rather have us all doing the same things and eating the same food.
Here's to Frankel!
In fact, one time I think I downloaded some kiddie porn from Frankel's node!
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 66:66:66:66:66:66
It's about time we move on from the archaic state of the internet we're at right now. Besides the content, nothing's really changed in 10 years, and it needs to. With the current prolonged influx of security problems caused by an infrastructure that was never meant to handle the things we do to it, I'd say it's about time someone big pushes IPv6.
Excuse me, but you reposted one of my comments from a couple of weeks ago. I can't find it, but jesus christ, can't you think of anything on your own?
It is a terrible act to not even make aware to your customers why these products never come. I can understand the sense of the tail-between-the-legs effect, but really, it would make customers more happy to understand the troubles you're having. Unless, of course, your company is lying in the first place.
Just my two cents.
I feel that we need to save the Hubble, even if it is just for nostalgic reasons. Perhaps it just seems absurd that we dump all of our old equipment into the ocean when we're done with them, but really, I think we need to preserve the things that have given us insight into the universe and remember them. Besides, how might Mr. Hubble (have) like(d) that we just dump this huge telescope named after him once it becomes slightly antiquated?
Search Engines and portals are our internet starting points; we can't just magically pull information out of our asses. When you're fighting to become that starting point, you're fight much the same battle as news stations do. And we know how fiesty journalists are.
In that case, how long until shitstorm.pl gets launched from a cellphone?
I personally would prefer that a government use an open system of well, anything, when it comes to running our vital services, as long as that information doesn't compromise security. The idea of a widespread open source initiative sounds like one of what may only be a small number of ways of getting our cities into the new millenium in these number-crunching times. That's just my take on it, and IANACIS (I am not a city infrastructure specialist).
This comment is a direct repost of this one.
Unfortunately, no. I was just reading it as it was fully posted it to the front page, and thus, completely being hit by the rabid eyes of slashdotters.
What is this?
I run FreeBSD on my computers. A lot of my friends run Linux, or at least one of the distributions of it. Naturally, then, we agree that a Unix-style operating system is the right choice, but we disagree on which to use.
It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.
While there's overwhelming similarity between the operating systems in most cases, there are also a lot of differences. As you probe more into the differences, you find that they emerge from deep-seated disagreements. Some are disagreements over development methodology, some over deployment and usage, some about what's important, some about who's important, and some about which flavor of ice cream is superior. Just comparing the surface differences doesn't tell you anything; it's the deeper differences that both explain and justify why each group does things the way they do.
What isn't this?
This is not:
* A list of command correspondances; "'netstat -rnfinet' on BSD = 'netstat -rnAinet' on Linux" and such things.
* How to do all the things involved in adminning and running a BSD box.
* Why you should use BSD instead of Linux.
* Why you should use Linux instead of BSD.
* Why you should use this BSD instead of that BSD.
* Why you should use this Linux instead of that Linux.
* Why BSD is Right and Linux is Wrong.
* Why Linux is Right and BSD is Wrong.
* Why I am a god and you should worship me.
I, personally, for me, believe (obviously) that my OS choice is right. That's me. I'm not telling you that you should believe it. Learn the facts, and the origins behind the facts, and make up your own damn mind. That's why you have one.
Some preliminary thoughts
There're a lot of philosophical disparity between the Linux world and the BSD world. And there are a lot of expressions about it out there. One I particularly like goes something like:
BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
Now, I like that quip, not because it's some sort of absolute revealed truth, but because it gives a very good feel for some of the differences. The BSDs, in general, are very much more like traditional Unices than Linux is. A lot of that is because they're direct-line descendants of the BSD from Berkeley, which was a direct-line descendant of the original AT&T Unix. Unix-the-trademark is a trademark of The Open Group, and Unix-the-code is owned by SCO, so one can't actually say that the BSDs are really Unix (that's the sort of statement that triggered the USL/UCB lawsuit extravaganza, in fact). But, in many ways, the BSDs are direct derivatives of traditional Unix.
That shows through in a lot of ways. It shows up in the design of the base system and the packaging of addons. It shows up in the partitioning of the mass storage. It shows up in a lot of details of the commands. And it shows up in the attitudes and reflexes and prejudices of the developers, which are reflected in the code and in the users.
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that's the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct.
Where to begin?
If there's one thing Steve Grand is, it's a digital god.
I'm not just exclaiming that as some sort of personal hero worship or as a glowing
reccomendation of this book (since I haven't read it yet) but because he concieves and gives birth to binary creatures, imbuing them with life.
As said before, Steve Grand begat the Norns - the impossibly cute, wide eyed inhabitants
of the game Creatures (and all its sequels). The review didn't really touch on them all that much, but to further explain it, Norns were not just some
slightly more complicated Pokemon or NeoPets, nor were they a clever hack designed to appear
sentient-like while the Wizard behind the screen pulled all the
strings - Norns were designed, simply, to be alive.
It's for these reasons that I am eager to read this book. He may stretching a bit of his expertise, but I think it should at least make for a highly interesting read, especially after reading this review. However, Amazon didn't give any results for it, so I'm not sure where to get it, though I'll admit I haven't looked that hard. Anyone know offhand?
The full review on one page is available here.
:-)
Also, I must say, that is quite the small laptop. And you can see the fingerprints all over it in one of the photos on the main article.
There are other images available here as well.
Yes, as a player, it's probably ok for a lot of people, but this line:
will start below $200 for a device that can function as a USB hard drive
is totally weak. Imagine a USB HD you had to change media in if you wanted to store more than 1gb. On top of that, you couldn't store anything bigger than 1gb.
So, the "USB HD" functionality of this thing is crap.
Adding the capabilities to store other files on it like a USB hard drive is nice, but for less than 200 bucks, you can get yourself a 200gb USB hard drive/enclosure.