CBC Radio reports that linux is taking centre stage at the Comdex Computer trade show in Toronto. The link will be modified soon (its latest news, radio transcription) CBC Radio News includes an audio report from Comdex: Michael Colton report in Real Audio Here's the article as it appeared: Move over Microsoft and Bill Gates, and make room for Linux. Linux is a computer operating system that's now gaining widespread recognition. And the people behind the company, who were once brushed off as 'geeks', are now standing confidently. They claim Linux systems beat any of the Windows products offered by Microsoft. Typical of the 'overnight success story', Linux seemingly came from nowhere. But in fact, it came from everywhere. Computer programmer volounteers throughout the world over have developed Linux on the Internet. And best of all to its designers, it's open-source software. That means it's free. Linux is one of the hits this week at a giant computer trade show in Toronto, called Comdex. Michael Colton reports.
For $50.00, I picked up a Dtk Technologies 486 Laptop with 8MB or RAM and a 320MB hard drive, 9 or ten inch dual-scan monitor, two PCMCIA network cards and a modem, a 6' ethernet cable and a computer case - which runs debian beautifully. Mostly because I use it as a dumb terminal and make it pretend to be a 233MHz P(2) Desktop with 128 MB of RAM by using my desktop from whereever I am on the network.
Oh yeah, slightly offtopic, I know, but at school I found that I can make the whole Windows network bow down to my linux box by calling my computer an SMB master browser. I did some experiments with it and foud that it **DOUBLED** my transfer rate across the board -- until I got a call from InfoTech complaining about there master browser losing network elections:) Yeah linux!:)
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Or you cna have a whole slew of ANSI commands to do it for you - I can't remember which ANSI code it is, but there's one that allows key reassign.
"A successful test-firing was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time of the millennium. "
So January 1st, y2k, we won't need to worry about computer failures - they're putting this thing in full swing.
Reminds me of a quote from some field commander in the US civil war: "At this range they couldn't hit an elephant!" Those were his last words.:)
That press release is nearly six months old. But the implication from the article is it runs from between 1.5-2.5 GHz. It would take thousands of them to have that kind of rc5 key rate, no matter how you cut it.
Flamebait? I'm making a point, not poking a fight. The point I'm making is you can find excellent living at dirt cheap all over the place with great salaries at techy jobs without living in any kind of city, or technology centre, where everyone is overpaid to the point that they can't afford life any more.
Its funny how this got posted when an article I submitted about how linux had defeated Microsoft at Comdex Toronto was left to rot on the cutting room floor.
My house has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a telescope observatory, a chicken coup with 60 meat birds, and 8 acres of forest for a municipal propriety evaluation of C$100,000. Move to Canada.:)
I live in a town of 700 people over a large land area - some 100 mi^2, with the Doncaster Indian Reserve in the town, population: 1.
My propriety is 8 acres, which is nearly 99% trees, with 300 feet of waterfront on a lake with 12 houses on it.
The reason I say all this is that I'm 17 years old, making 25K/year living in this place and wondering why all you people are spending atrocious amounts of money on tiny proprieties in urban and crime ridden California.
I think its a good excuse - I didn't talk until I was three - I was talking before I was walking. (I was a slow learner.)
My parents tell me I didn't say a word until I was three, and then I started with full sentences. Before that I merely imitated the sounds of road vehicles.:)
But then again, I can't see a digital talking ape either.:)
Don't insult Canada like that. I lived in the US four years and I am not positive I've had enough of US ignorance. The US holds two groups in this world: The US has the world's smartest people, and the world's dumbest people. The former are imported from Canada.
In Canada, there were under 200 gun related deaths in 1997, in that same year, there were nearly 40,000 in the US. that's a factor of 200 times, when the population is only eight times greater.
I can assure you that microwave ovens are very well shielded. My next door neigbour a few years ago wanted to check, so he got a radiation testing thing, which showed hsi house to have 2 milirems (about normal). He turned on his microwave and it stay static at 2 milirems. Unconvinced, he put the tester _in_ the microwave and tried again.
The next day he replaced the tester for the person whom he borrowed it from.
I used fusion power - definately the best power plant available in SC2k without the help of a Hex editor. Though the best thing to do was to use Simcity (the original, like version 1.0000 back in the late eighties that used those squares for passwords), use a program called zap.exe to give yourself 0x7FFFFFFF dollars (a little over $2,130,000,000) and then convert it to an sc2k map. With that you could build 40 fusion power plants to start (naturally starting in 2050) and have all the money you`d ever need. (I once dropped below two billion dollars). You also have excellent ratings because you give no taxes....umm...I`m getting totally off track.:-)
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CBC Radio reports that linux is taking centre stage at the Comdex Computer trade show in Toronto. The link will be modified soon (its latest news, radio transcription) CBC Radio News includes an audio report from Comdex: Michael Colton report in Real Audio
Here's the article as it appeared:
Move over Microsoft and Bill Gates, and make room for Linux. Linux is a computer operating system that's now gaining widespread recognition. And the people behind the company, who were once brushed off as 'geeks', are now standing confidently. They claim Linux systems beat any of the Windows products offered by Microsoft. Typical of the 'overnight success story', Linux seemingly came from nowhere. But in fact, it came from everywhere. Computer programmer volounteers throughout the world over have developed Linux on the Internet. And best of all to its designers, it's open-source software. That means it's free. Linux is one of the hits this week at a giant computer trade show in Toronto, called Comdex. Michael Colton reports.
For $50.00, I picked up a Dtk Technologies 486 Laptop with 8MB or RAM and a 320MB hard drive, 9 or ten inch dual-scan monitor, two PCMCIA network cards and a modem, a 6' ethernet cable and a computer case - which runs debian beautifully. Mostly because I use it as a dumb terminal and make it pretend to be a 233MHz P(2) Desktop with 128 MB of RAM by using my desktop from whereever I am on the network.
:) Yeah linux! :)
Oh yeah, slightly offtopic, I know, but at school I found that I can make the whole Windows network bow down to my linux box by calling my computer an SMB master browser. I did some experiments with it and foud that it **DOUBLED** my transfer rate across the board -- until I got a call from InfoTech complaining about there master browser losing network elections
Or you cna have a whole slew of ANSI commands to do it for you - I can't remember which ANSI code it is, but there's one that allows key reassign.
Yay! I can make a whole bunch of these things for myself! :) I have four old XTs, 2 CP/M Osbornes and 2 PS/2s to work with...:-)
Ethernets only good over about 300 feet...
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You'll have to use wireless
Pickets can be dangerous - those pointy tips can penetrate the lab walls and set off a chain reaction well before it was intended. :)
"A successful test-firing was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time of the millennium. "
:)
So January 1st, y2k, we won't need to worry about computer failures - they're putting this thing in full swing.
Reminds me of a quote from some field commander in the US civil war:
"At this range they couldn't hit an elephant!" Those were his last words.
Not necessarily, but you can safely say that a computer running at 2,500,000,000 Hz is not going to be generating 6,700,000,000 keys per second.
I'm picturing this little four inch ball zipping around my chicken coup shooting down scores of flies...
//\\\
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\ __ __
\ \ \/_/ (bzzzzt!)
NASA | O O O O O O O O \/\/__/
/
___/
:-)
Anyone else think the six air holes should be filled with solid rocket fuel? :)
That press release is nearly six months old. But the implication from the article is it runs from between 1.5-2.5 GHz. It would take thousands of them to have that kind of rc5 key rate, no matter how you cut it.
Not until tonight (02:30 UTC, Monday) or so. Its at home, and I'm not. :)
My appologies then, that certainly wasn`t the intention.
No I should run aroud hiding my identity because I'm afraid that my nick name will be associated with me and everyone will be out to get me.
ACs.
Flamebait?
I'm making a point, not poking a fight. The point I'm making is you can find excellent living at dirt cheap all over the place with great salaries at techy jobs without living in any kind of city, or technology centre, where everyone is overpaid to the point that they can't afford life any more.
"made america what it is today"???
Its JFK jr, not JFK....
And JFK sr. died 36 years ago anyways.
More importantly its the 30th anniversary of the moon walk - but only mildly.
Its funny how this got posted when an article I submitted about how linux had defeated Microsoft at Comdex Toronto was left to rot on the cutting room floor.
My house has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a telescope observatory, a chicken coup with 60 meat birds, and 8 acres of forest for a municipal propriety evaluation of C$100,000. Move to Canada. :)
I feel sorry for all you people.
I live in a town of 700 people over a large land area - some 100 mi^2, with the Doncaster Indian Reserve in the town, population: 1.
My propriety is 8 acres, which is nearly 99% trees, with 300 feet of waterfront on a lake with 12 houses on it.
The reason I say all this is that I'm 17 years old, making 25K/year living in this place and wondering why all you people are spending atrocious amounts of money on tiny proprieties in urban and crime ridden California.
I think its a good excuse - I didn't talk until I was three - I was talking before I was walking. (I was a slow learner.)
:)
:)
My parents tell me I didn't say a word until I was three, and then I started with full sentences. Before that I merely imitated the sounds of road vehicles.
But then again, I can't see a digital talking ape either.
> How's that for robotic news?
Pretty poor.
But JFKj is merely missing, not confirmed dead yet.
Don't insult Canada like that. I lived in the US four years and I am not positive I've had enough of US ignorance. The US holds two groups in this world:
The US has the world's smartest people, and the world's dumbest people. The former are imported from Canada.
In Canada, there were under 200 gun related deaths in 1997, in that same year, there were nearly 40,000 in the US. that's a factor of 200 times, when the population is only eight times greater.
Keep your puritan murderers to yourselves.
I can assure you that microwave ovens are very well shielded. My next door neigbour a few years ago wanted to check, so he got a radiation testing thing, which showed hsi house to have 2 milirems (about normal). He turned on his microwave and it stay static at 2 milirems. Unconvinced, he put the tester _in_ the microwave and tried again.
The next day he replaced the tester for the person whom he borrowed it from.
Nuclear? (Or as some say: "Nuculer"...yuck)
:-)
I used fusion power - definately the best power plant available in SC2k without the help of a Hex editor. Though the best thing to do was to use Simcity (the original, like version 1.0000 back in the late eighties that used those squares for passwords), use a program called zap.exe to give yourself 0x7FFFFFFF dollars (a little over $2,130,000,000) and then convert it to an sc2k map. With that you could build 40 fusion power plants to start (naturally starting in 2050) and have all the money you`d ever need. (I once dropped below two billion dollars). You also have excellent ratings because you give no taxes....umm...I`m getting totally off track.
err...hole, not whole.