Like other people have mentioned, a 486 should just be enough for NAT and firewalling.. We have a home network here with 17 machines, most of them linux-based. All of these machines are behind an OpenBSD box (running a Pentium 90) that does NAT translation and firewalling. Works like a charm. There is no slow down from the processor at all.
..and of course, I would have to suggest learning about OpenBSD if you don't have much experience with it. Makes an AWESOME firewall machine.;)
I've got a friend of mine here at the office who gets around that problem by substituting the milk or water for.... =drum roll= non-dairy creamer! =shudder= Yes, he just nukes everything with a mixture of non-dairy creamer (commonly available in almost all offices and community dorms) and water. You know what the weird part is? It actually tastes pretty good. I mean, if you think about it, that's almost identical to those little cheese sauce packets, right?
Lets think about this. Dumb corporation tries to sue students who use everyday language on their website, and yells 'Trademark Infringement'. Judge laughs. Jury laughs. Dumb corporation gets publicly sat down in court. HARD. Boom! Now a precendent as been set. Future targets of idiotic lawsuits can now point to this legal decision as a previous related ruling.
Hmmm... Actually, that's not a bad idea. Perhaps we could persuade some large, high-visibility company to bring an idiotic lawsuit to bear, knowing ahead of time that they'll lose.
Alright, I've heard far too many people on this thread asking why they can't just track the downloads of the Linux binaries. They can. Obviously. But do you really think that marketing staffs at most software companies are going to care about how many people download Linux binaries to overlay a *Windows* product? Of course not. They care about sales figures, pure and simple. It's MUCH more compelling to a marketing exec to hear 'Quake 3 for Linux sold xxx million copies'. It shows that there is a wide consumer base out there that's willing to purchase software for Linux! Having software released specifically for the Linux platform is absolutely necessary for Linux to be recognized and taken seriously as a desktop OS.
hehe Seems to me like the cDc are having fun as Anonymous Cowards...
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...I'd like to add an addendum to my comment, if I may. The quality of the color LCDs doesn't blow per se, just the cost/quality ratio. I have a feeling that if they are of a decent quality, they may be too expensive to be a serious competitor to other hand-held devices...
Dah! Classic case of marketing rushing technology.
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I hate to say it, but the color screens still suck power like a madman, and the quality still blows. It seems that our friends at Palm are feeling the pressure from recent competitors, (i.e. Handspring) and as such are trying to rush the 'next big thing' to market to try to conserve market share. It may even work.
Meanwhile, I'll be reading about all of it on my Visor Deluxe....;)
..gotta go with Mandrake on this one. Sure, it turns most things on by default, but you can't beat it for ease of install. This is definately an area in which Linux should strive to improve itself, if it has any hopes whatsoever of gaining a significant desktop market share.
Alright, everyone... I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm getting UNBELIEVEABLY sick of these 'security tests'. The platforms that they test are almost never equal, and obviously most of the administrators have no idea what security is. I'm fairly certain that if you put an NT box up against a Linux box, found the top administrators for their respective platforms, and let them configure the boxes THEMSELVES (although requiring some services to be turned on (ftp, telnet, etc.) to simulate a 'real' enviornment.) that both systems would be damn nigh impenetrable. Of course, at that point the only real test would be of the adminstrator's skills, as patches are available for both systems for all of their myriad security holes... (Of course, this says nothing about NT going down of its OWN accord... hehe)
To paraphrase, a system is only as secure as its administrator is skilled.
What the hell?!! Would somebody explain to me how the first post could possibly be redundant?! >in my best Inigo Montoya impression I don't think that word means what you think it means...
That's too bad.. This technique only 'revives' brain cells that were never really dead in the first place..and booze just kills 'em outright. C'est la vie.
...as tempting as it is to flame the unholy hell out of this guy, (and believe me, I KNOW!) You've gotta admit that he was a good sport about the whole thing.. I'm not so sure that I would have taken all the flames in stride as well as he did. Besides, he did rip a few zingers of his own.. Slashdot's so-called "decline into media-whoring pablum" seems more a product of its tough crowd quotient rather than any particular interview or story., indeed! He also managed to deflate antizeus' attempt at a mocking question by mocking it himself... You'll feel better if you take the long view. Ouch! Smacked that condescending question volley right back in his face, eh?
...as tempting as it is to flame the unholy hell out of this guy, (and believe me, I KNOW!) You've gotta admit that he was a good sport about the whole thing.. I'm not so sure that I would have taken all the flames in stride as well as he did. Besides, he did rip a few zingers of his own.. Slashdot's so-called "decline into media-whoring pablum" seems more a product of its tough crowd quotient rather than any particular interview or story., indeed! He also managed to deflate antizeus' attempt at a mocking question by mocking it himself... You'll feel better if you take the long view. Ouch! Smacked that condescending question volley right back in his face, eh?
I use AudioCatalyst.. Pretty sweet interface, and you are able to select a wide range of sound qualities.. It's pretty cool.. One step ripping, encoding, and normalization..
Preach on! I actually voted for Turing myself, seeing as the transistor can't necessarily be attributed to ONE inventor...but my line of reasoning was almost EXACTLY yours... Not to mention the effect that the transistor and modern computational theory had on the development of television, which, in my humble opinion, has had the greatest impact on culture than almost anything in history.. I couldn't believe that Turing wasn't even in the Top 20!
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Like other people have mentioned, a 486 should just be enough for NAT and firewalling.. We have a home network here with 17 machines, most of them linux-based. All of these machines are behind an OpenBSD box (running a Pentium 90) that does NAT translation and firewalling. Works like a charm. There is no slow down from the processor at all.
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..and of course, I would have to suggest learning about OpenBSD if you don't have much experience with it. Makes an AWESOME firewall machine.
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I've got a friend of mine here at the office who gets around that problem by substituting the milk or water for.... =drum roll= non-dairy creamer! =shudder= Yes, he just nukes everything with a mixture of non-dairy creamer (commonly available in almost all offices and community dorms) and water. You know what the weird part is? It actually tastes pretty good. I mean, if you think about it, that's almost identical to those little cheese sauce packets, right?
Now THAT'S geek ingenuity!
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Lets think about this. Dumb corporation tries to sue students who use everyday language on their website, and yells 'Trademark Infringement'. Judge laughs. Jury laughs. Dumb corporation gets publicly sat down in court. HARD. Boom! Now a precendent as been set. Future targets of idiotic lawsuits can now point to this legal decision as a previous related ruling.
Hmmm... Actually, that's not a bad idea. Perhaps we could persuade some large, high-visibility company to bring an idiotic lawsuit to bear, knowing ahead of time that they'll lose.
Da! How?!?!? I can't get Q3 to run under my TNT2 chipset... I keep on bombing out with Segmentation Faults...
Alright, I've heard far too many people on this thread asking why they can't just track the downloads of the Linux binaries. They can. Obviously. But do you really think that marketing staffs at most software companies are going to care about how many people download Linux binaries to overlay a *Windows* product? Of course not. They care about sales figures, pure and simple. It's MUCH more compelling to a marketing exec to hear 'Quake 3 for Linux sold xxx million copies'. It shows that there is a wide consumer base out there that's willing to purchase software for Linux! Having software released specifically for the Linux platform is absolutely necessary for Linux to be recognized and taken seriously as a desktop OS.
hehe Seems to me that the cDc are having fun on this thread as Anonymous Cowards... Maybe trying to break the moderation system? ;)
hehe Seems to me like the cDc are having fun as Anonymous Cowards...
...I'd like to add an addendum to my comment, if I may. The quality of the color LCDs doesn't blow per se, just the cost/quality ratio. I have a feeling that if they are of a decent quality, they may be too expensive to be a serious competitor to other hand-held devices...
I hate to say it, but the color screens still suck power like a madman, and the quality still blows. It seems that our friends at Palm are feeling the pressure from recent competitors, (i.e. Handspring) and as such are trying to rush the 'next big thing' to market to try to conserve market share. It may even work.
;)
Meanwhile, I'll be reading about all of it on my Visor Deluxe....
..gotta go with Mandrake on this one. Sure, it turns most things on by default, but you can't beat it for ease of install. This is definately an area in which Linux should strive to improve itself, if it has any hopes whatsoever of gaining a significant desktop market share.
Alright, everyone... I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm getting UNBELIEVEABLY sick of these 'security tests'. The platforms that they test are almost never equal, and obviously most of the administrators have no idea what security is. I'm fairly certain that if you put an NT box up against a Linux box, found the top administrators for their respective platforms, and let them configure the boxes THEMSELVES (although requiring some services to be turned on (ftp, telnet, etc.) to simulate a 'real' enviornment.) that both systems would be damn nigh impenetrable. Of course, at that point the only real test would be of the adminstrator's skills, as patches are available for both systems for all of their myriad security holes... (Of course, this says nothing about NT going down of its OWN accord... hehe)
To paraphrase, a system is only as secure as its administrator is skilled.
What the hell?!! Would somebody explain to me how the first post could possibly be redundant?! >in my best Inigo Montoya impression I don't think that word means what you think it means...
That's too bad.. This technique only 'revives' brain cells that were never really dead in the first place..and booze just kills 'em outright. C'est la vie.
Woo-hoo! You know what this means! PASS THE BREW!!! Hmmm.. Now if we could only revive liver cells...
...as tempting as it is to flame the unholy hell out of this guy, (and believe me, I KNOW!) You've gotta admit that he was a good sport about the whole thing.. I'm not so sure that I would have taken all the flames in stride as well as he did. Besides, he did rip a few zingers of his own.. Slashdot's so-called "decline into media-whoring pablum" seems more a product of its tough crowd quotient rather than any particular interview or story., indeed! He also managed to deflate antizeus' attempt at a mocking question by mocking it himself... You'll feel better if you take the long view. Ouch! Smacked that condescending question volley right back in his face, eh?
...as tempting as it is to flame the unholy hell out of this guy, (and believe me, I KNOW!) You've gotta admit that he was a good sport about the whole thing.. I'm not so sure that I would have taken all the flames in stride as well as he did. Besides, he did rip a few zingers of his own..
Slashdot's so-called "decline into media-whoring pablum" seems more a product of its tough crowd quotient rather than any particular interview or story., indeed! He also managed to deflate antizeus' attempt at a mocking question by mocking it himself... You'll feel better if you take the long view. Ouch! Smacked that condescending question volley right back in his face, eh?
I use AudioCatalyst.. Pretty sweet interface, and you are able to select a wide range of sound qualities.. It's pretty cool.. One step ripping, encoding, and normalization..
Preach on! I actually voted for Turing myself, seeing as the transistor can't necessarily be attributed to ONE inventor...but my line of reasoning was almost EXACTLY yours... Not to mention the effect that the transistor and modern computational theory had on the development of television, which, in my humble opinion, has had the greatest impact on culture than almost anything in history.. I couldn't believe that Turing wasn't even in the Top 20!