I worked down in Hawaii for a few months, and all the computers down there had Hawaiian names. A few notable ones:
malama - Hawaiian for "slave, servant" - this was for the main server pa - "pearly shell" - my supervisor, a huge Perl fan, had this one
I had 'kahuna' for a couple of months. A friend of mine had 'hihi', which lead to much amusement whenever I tried to log on to his machine. "Just telnet to hihi, Brad."
Compaq volume control buttons under Linux?
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I've been thinking of throwing Linux on my laptop (Compaq 1220 - Celeron 200MHz, 32MB of RAM, 2 gig HD) for some time now, but held back because I wasn't sure about the video display. Now that I've found that other page about installing special drivers, I'm leaning heavily. There are just a couple of questions I've got, though:
1. Are the volume control buttons supported under Linux? I'd hate to not be able to listen to anything (primarily because I use the laptop for a lot of MP3ing).
You're a looking a 75 pounds of radiactive dust spreading all over the atmosphere. Not a pretty picture. Actually, you're not. The plutonium is in the form of a ceramic, very similar to your coffee mug. Now, when you drop your coffee mug on the floor, it doesn't shatter into a fine dust, does it? No, it shatters into 2 or 3 chunks. The same for that chunk of ceramic plutonium; if you were to damage it somehow, it wouldn't pulverize into dust, it'd break into a few large chunks. Besides which, the only way something might damage the plutonium ceramic is if Cassini actually plunged into the Earth and you were to mack it with a bulldozer. Then you might get through the casing. There was such a small chance of anything remotely dangerous happening that anybody who actually knew anything just ignored Cassini and let it go on its way. The only people up in arms are the uninformed.
I'm in no way defending Microsoft, but if companies have similar goals (actually, I didn't know Sun was going for global domination too, but that's besides the point), then they'll probably have similar 'mission' or 'vision' statements. There aren't many ways someone can say that they want their software to run anywhere, anytime, and on any computer.
Errata - Re:Maybe IPv6 is still not enough
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The volume of the universe was incorrectly stated above to be 1.419e23 cubic meters. This value is actually the radius of the universe, in meters.
The actual volume of the universe should be 1.197e70 cubic meters.
If you assume that the radius of the universe is 15 billion light-years, the volume of the universe (assuming it's spherical) would then be 1.419e23 cubic meters. Given IPv6 has 2^128 addresses, this corresponds to one IPv6 address for every 3.5178e31 cubic meters.
This might not sound like a lot of addresses for the corresponding space. However:
Take the volume of the Solar System to be a sphere centred on the Sun with a radius equal to Pluto's orbit (5,913,520,000,000 meters). The volume of the Solar System is thus 1.08277e38 cubic meters. Using the above figure, we find that for every Solar System-sized chunk of the universe would get just over three million IPv6 addresses. Since the universe is not jam-packed with solar systems, the number of IPv6 addresses per solar system would correspondingly increase. This increase depends on how many solar systems there are, of course, and how densely packed they are. One could easily assume that each solar system would get on the order of 10^18 IPv6 addresses (i.e. there's one solar system for every 3e11 solar system-sized chunk of the universe), which is about 200 million times more IP addresses than the Earth currently has with IPv4.
Conclusion:
IPv6 should provide enough addresses for the known universe. However, because it's always better to be safe than sorry, it is the recommendation of this researcher that IPv8 (2^256 addresses) be implemented before any serious space travel is to be undertaken.
A good idea, I think. It'll do spectacularly well in the first few months until the novelty of paying 16 cents a minute for email wears off. I don't see it catching on in any big way until they drop the price dramatically.
Personally, I wouldn't use it. The only time I'd actually use it would be when I didn't have access to a computer, and that only happens when I'm travelling (and I don't want access to a computer!). Any other time I could just pop into an Internet cafe and check email there -- much cheaper, and a better environment than a street corner.
The point people are trying to make is that the term "digital audio player" is much too vague, as it would definitely cover home computers (I was downloading and listening to MODs back in the early 90s -- well before the 1995 patent application date). In all likelyhood the article was too vague, and the actual patent deals with something similar to the Rio or other portable MP3 players (or covers those explicitly). What would really help is the text of the actual patent.
You mean there -were- other stacks? Trumpet WinSock was the one that virtually everybody had, and for all the right reasons. A shame, really, because with the bloatware that seems to be standard amongst Winxx software, nobody seems to remember what made these programs good. It's not a bundle of features, it's that they worked, they worked right, and they worked well.
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I worked down in Hawaii for a few months, and all the computers down there had Hawaiian names. A few notable ones:
malama - Hawaiian for "slave, servant" - this was for the main server
pa - "pearly shell" - my supervisor, a huge Perl fan, had this one
I had 'kahuna' for a couple of months. A friend of mine had 'hihi', which lead to much amusement whenever I tried to log on to his machine. "Just telnet to hihi, Brad."
I've been thinking of throwing Linux on my laptop (Compaq 1220 - Celeron 200MHz, 32MB of RAM, 2 gig HD) for some time now, but held back because I wasn't sure about the video display. Now that I've found that other page about installing special drivers, I'm leaning heavily. There are just a couple of questions I've got, though:
1. Are the volume control buttons supported under Linux? I'd hate to not be able to listen to anything (primarily because I use the laptop for a lot of MP3ing).
2. There is no two.
Alright, only one question. Sue me.
You're a looking a 75 pounds of radiactive dust spreading all over the atmosphere. Not a pretty picture. Actually, you're not. The plutonium is in the form of a ceramic, very similar to your coffee mug. Now, when you drop your coffee mug on the floor, it doesn't shatter into a fine dust, does it? No, it shatters into 2 or 3 chunks. The same for that chunk of ceramic plutonium; if you were to damage it somehow, it wouldn't pulverize into dust, it'd break into a few large chunks. Besides which, the only way something might damage the plutonium ceramic is if Cassini actually plunged into the Earth and you were to mack it with a bulldozer. Then you might get through the casing. There was such a small chance of anything remotely dangerous happening that anybody who actually knew anything just ignored Cassini and let it go on its way. The only people up in arms are the uninformed.
I'm in no way defending Microsoft, but if companies have similar goals (actually, I didn't know Sun was going for global domination too, but that's besides the point), then they'll probably have similar 'mission' or 'vision' statements. There aren't many ways someone can say that they want their software to run anywhere, anytime, and on any computer.
The volume of the universe was incorrectly stated above to be 1.419e23 cubic meters. This value is actually the radius of the universe, in meters.
The actual volume of the universe should be 1.197e70 cubic meters.
Acknowledgments go to a vigilant referee.
A scientific breakdown:
If you assume that the radius of the universe is 15 billion light-years, the volume of the universe (assuming it's spherical) would then be 1.419e23 cubic meters. Given IPv6 has 2^128 addresses, this corresponds to one IPv6 address for every 3.5178e31 cubic meters.
This might not sound like a lot of addresses for the corresponding space. However:
Take the volume of the Solar System to be a sphere centred on the Sun with a radius equal to Pluto's orbit (5,913,520,000,000 meters). The volume of the Solar System is thus 1.08277e38 cubic meters. Using the above figure, we find that for every Solar System-sized chunk of the universe would get just over three million IPv6 addresses. Since the universe is not jam-packed with solar systems, the number of IPv6 addresses per solar system would correspondingly increase. This increase depends on how many solar systems there are, of course, and how densely packed they are. One could easily assume that each solar system would get on the order of 10^18 IPv6 addresses (i.e. there's one solar system for every 3e11 solar system-sized chunk of the universe), which is about 200 million times more IP addresses than the Earth currently has with IPv4.
Conclusion:
IPv6 should provide enough addresses for the known universe. However, because it's always better to be safe than sorry, it is the recommendation of this researcher that IPv8 (2^256 addresses) be implemented before any serious space travel is to be undertaken.
A good idea, I think. It'll do spectacularly well in the first few months until the novelty of paying 16 cents a minute for email wears off. I don't see it catching on in any big way until they drop the price dramatically.
Personally, I wouldn't use it. The only time I'd actually use it would be when I didn't have access to a computer, and that only happens when I'm travelling (and I don't want access to a computer!). Any other time I could just pop into an Internet cafe and check email there -- much cheaper, and a better environment than a street corner.
The point people are trying to make is that the term "digital audio player" is much too vague, as it would definitely cover home computers (I was downloading and listening to MODs back in the early 90s -- well before the 1995 patent application date). In all likelyhood the article was too vague, and the actual patent deals with something similar to the Rio or other portable MP3 players (or covers those explicitly). What would really help is the text of the actual patent.
I personally don't think we have the whole story.
You mean there -were- other stacks? Trumpet WinSock was the one that virtually everybody had, and for all the right reasons. A shame, really, because with the bloatware that seems to be standard amongst Winxx software, nobody seems to remember what made these programs good. It's not a bundle of features, it's that they worked, they worked right, and they worked well.