Install network card. Get prompted for driver disk on powerup. Insert driver disk. Reboot system. System boots, configures itself over DHCP, and you're done. Pretty easy.
Hear hear! I agree. I have spent time explaining to people that the recent virus problem is with MS's OS and tools, and not with the virus programmers that the FBI is enjoying a major publicity-stunt/witch-hunt over.
It's hard to get people to understand that perhaps a word processing macro should not be able to modify your system registry. It seems common sense to me.
The person who sent in this link makes an excellent point... I wouldn't want to be mugged for my eyes. That's why I find it stupid to only have a single form of authentication. A PIN number or some other code should be used as well, to make eyes less attractive to would-be theives.
1. something you HAVE 2. something you ARE 3. something you KNOW
/me shrugs.:)
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options COMPAT_SVR4 # binary compatibility with SVR4 options COMPAT_IBCS2 # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC options COMPAT_LINUX # binary compatibility with Linux options COMPAT_FREEBSD # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
Also, there are various packages in the NetBSD package system to automatically download and install the appropriate libraries for compatibility with these systems, and an ld.so to handle the magic.:)
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slashdot has been posting ads for quite some time.
Ads for headhunter services, ads for books on Amazon.com...
aha, that assumes you SEE the banners. I use squid/squirm to replace them with a 1x1 transparant gif as the page loads... it seriously improves/. performance.:)
I tend to buy CD's. I find mp3's useful for "trying out" music... listening to new bands that I haven't heard before. Mind you--it's mp3 music piracy all the way, but I don't usually archive and replay that music.
I have checked out the free mp3 selection on mp3.com, and like you, found very little high-quality music worth my time. There were both good and bad, but the bad tended to outnumber the good... at least in my humble opinion.
If I find an artist I like, I tend to go out and buy the CD. It's not THAT huge of an investment, really. As a bonus, you get professionally printed cover art, and much improved sound quality.
DVD audio should be cool if it's a solid standard. Plus, the DVD audio machines will no doubt be able to play CD's.. So current music investment is pretty safe.
Considering RealAudio's horrible sound quality (at the best of times it sounds like bad speakers played underwater), I am pleased to see some competition for commercial network audio.
Network audio is a good idea. If we can bring the sound quality up to some reasonable standard, it will be even better.
MiniDisc is an excellent format, and is still growing. It was a commercial failure, sure. But we're still seeing new professional devices that use minidisc, and the portables are still far cooler than any MP3 portable on the market. Look at the stats...
Rio: 32MB storage (1 hour of shitty audio) Very expensive removable media Long battery life Small size Immune to physical shocks Slightly less expensive than MiniDisc player Does not record No standard digital audio I/O
MiniDisc: 150MB storage (74 minutes of very good audio). $10 for 74-minute re-recordable media. Long battery life. Small size. Slightly more expensive than Rio. ALMOST immune to physical shocks. Most units can record directly. Standard S-PDIF audio I/O.
Hardly dead.:) A format to store mp3's on minidisc might be cool.
Better edited? Yes. This article reads like a rough draft. Better written? Perhaps.
Better presented? Hmm. I had no trouble at all with the presentation. If you dislike the default colours and fonts your web browser presents, change them. If you can't change them, it's time to change your web browser.
I found that this article presented many very good points. A bit more focus might have done good, though.:)
These are just typical cases with a fancy new front bezel. whoop. Moulded plastic. Plus, at least from my perspective, they're ugly.
I am a fan of big, heavy, ugly cases that protect your equipment, offer easy access to the bits you need access to, provide reasonble security against accidents (guards on switches and buttons), provide proper status monitoring (alarms, lots of LED's) and can easily be hidden away.
Silent computing is what I like. NC's are the future.:)
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Yeah, yeah. I figured you'd catch the 42 as a reference to Douglas Adams and not an actual number of posts (which I realize has only been two or three), but...
Hmm, that could perhaps be because more time is spent on making FreeBSD actually work properly, instead of making "GNOME GTK++ KDE++ UDE mega-xForms glibc3.1337 RedHat RPM binary ultra-mega-leet" distros.
As technology improves, more people will be accessing the internet through cable modems, ISDN TA's and ADSL boxes that work over ethernet. How long do you think it will be before the major browsers and HactiveX controls can read out and return your card's MAC address?
Heck, you don't even need to be using your ethernet card to connect to the net... if it's just installed in your computer, you have a software-readable serial number in your machine. Or the ethernet chipset could already be on your motherboard, in workstations or high-end motherboards. Not removable.
And even if Intel's serial numbers take off, it will take both OS and browser support to make it a viable solution for web sites to track you... and even then the browsers will probably allow you to turn off the feature that sends your serial number.
So, for me, the serial numbers aren't a huge worry. My computers are already serialized.
Chapters bookstores in Canada are using QNX for salesdroid book lookups and POS. They have terminals around the stores for the droids to key things into, with a nice text-based captive user interface.
Plenty of power, plus you get QNX reliability and support.
For my mission-critical system, I'd probably take QNX over Linux too.:)
And of course, anything is better than NT. Well, maybe not Win95.:)
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Install network card. Get prompted for driver disk on powerup. Insert driver disk. Reboot system. System boots, configures itself over DHCP, and you're done. Pretty easy.
Given the Amiga's history of destroying companies, I'm rather pleased they left QNX before serious damage could occur.
:)
Bye bye, linux.
Hear hear! I agree. I have spent time explaining to people that the recent virus problem is with MS's OS and tools, and not with the virus programmers that the FBI is enjoying a major publicity-stunt/witch-hunt over.
It's hard to get people to understand that perhaps a word processing macro should not be able to modify your system registry. It seems common sense to me.
No, you use the more modern chomp() which removes EOL's from lines as defined by the $/ variable.
:)
I imagine that $/ defaults to CRLF on Windoze.
RTFM.
The person who sent in this link makes an excellent point... I wouldn't want to be mugged for my eyes. That's why I find it stupid to only have a single form of authentication. A PIN number or some other code should be used as well, to make eyes less attractive to would-be theives.
:)
1. something you HAVE
2. something you ARE
3. something you KNOW
/me shrugs.
NetBSD supports a wide range of binaries.
:)
Here's some of the kernel config file:
# Compatibility options
options COMPAT_NOMID # compatibility with 386BSD, BSDI, NetBSD 0.8,
options COMPAT_09 # NetBSD 0.9,
options COMPAT_10 # NetBSD 1.0,
options COMPAT_11 # NetBSD 1.1,
options COMPAT_12 # NetBSD 1.2,
options COMPAT_43 # and 4.3BSD
options COMPAT_SVR4 # binary compatibility with SVR4
options COMPAT_IBCS2 # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC
options COMPAT_LINUX # binary compatibility with Linux
options COMPAT_FREEBSD # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
# Executable format options
options EXEC_ELF32 # 32-bit ELF executables (SVR4, Linux)
Also, there are various packages in the NetBSD package system to automatically download and install the appropriate libraries for compatibility with these systems, and an ld.so to handle the magic.
slashdot has been posting ads for quite some time.
Ads for headhunter services, ads for books on Amazon.com...
I wonder how much it costs to get a
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It's normal. You've just been using your HP calculator for too long.
RPN kicketh ass.
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aha, that assumes you SEE the banners. I use squid/squirm to replace them with a 1x1 transparant gif as the page loads... it seriously improves /. performance. :)
um!?
Is that DOCUMENTED?
What sort of horrible design defect would allow a drive to GRIND OFF part of its media? Regardless of how long its been spinning?
ORB heads contact the platter?
Am I the only one who is astonished by this?
I wonder... if microsoft offered to pay slashdot for hits, if they'd get full story links advertsing for them?
I tend to buy CD's. I find mp3's useful for "trying out" music... listening to new bands that I haven't heard before. Mind you--it's mp3 music piracy all the way, but I don't usually archive and replay that music.
I have checked out the free mp3 selection on mp3.com, and like you, found very little high-quality music worth my time. There were both good and bad, but the bad tended to outnumber the good... at least in my humble opinion.
If I find an artist I like, I tend to go out and buy the CD. It's not THAT huge of an investment, really. As a bonus, you get professionally printed cover art, and much improved sound quality.
DVD audio should be cool if it's a solid standard. Plus, the DVD audio machines will no doubt be able to play CD's.. So current music investment is pretty safe.
Considering RealAudio's horrible sound quality (at the best of times it sounds like bad speakers played underwater), I am pleased to see some competition for commercial network audio.
Network audio is a good idea. If we can bring the sound quality up to some reasonable standard, it will be even better.
Hopefully Microsoft won't sit on their standards.
Well, I like ORA's "classic" books, and I'm also a big fan of PTH as well. I've seen very little crap come off of their presses in my time.
If it says PTH on the spine, you can pretty much assume it's going to be a good book.
MiniDisc is an excellent format, and is still growing. It was a commercial failure, sure. But we're still seeing new professional devices that use minidisc, and the portables are still far cooler than any MP3 portable on the market. Look at the stats...
:)
Rio:
32MB storage (1 hour of shitty audio)
Very expensive removable media
Long battery life
Small size
Immune to physical shocks
Slightly less expensive than MiniDisc player
Does not record
No standard digital audio I/O
MiniDisc:
150MB storage (74 minutes of very good audio).
$10 for 74-minute re-recordable media.
Long battery life.
Small size.
Slightly more expensive than Rio.
ALMOST immune to physical shocks.
Most units can record directly.
Standard S-PDIF audio I/O.
Hardly dead.
A format to store mp3's on minidisc might be cool.
Better edited? Yes. This article reads like a rough draft. Better written? Perhaps.
:)
Better presented? Hmm. I had no trouble at all with the presentation. If you dislike the default colours and fonts your web browser presents, change them. If you can't change them, it's time to change your web browser.
I found that this article presented many very good points. A bit more focus might have done good, though.
This thing has been on Xerox's site for years now. :) Certainly not new.
These are just typical cases with a fancy new front bezel. whoop. Moulded plastic. Plus, at least from my perspective, they're ugly.
:)
I am a fan of big, heavy, ugly cases that protect your equipment, offer easy access to the bits you need access to, provide reasonble security against accidents (guards on switches and buttons), provide proper status monitoring (alarms, lots of LED's) and can easily be hidden away.
Silent computing is what I like. NC's are the future.
Yeah, yeah. I figured you'd catch the 42 as a reference to Douglas Adams and not an actual number of posts (which I realize has only been two or three), but...
Hmm, what's this? The fourty-second time empeg has been promoted on /. this month? What's up here?
Hmm, that could perhaps be because more time is spent on making FreeBSD actually work properly, instead of making "GNOME GTK++ KDE++ UDE mega-xForms glibc3.1337 RedHat RPM binary ultra-mega-leet" distros.
As technology improves, more people will be accessing the internet through cable modems, ISDN TA's and ADSL boxes that work over ethernet. How long do you think it will be before the major browsers and HactiveX controls can read out and return your card's MAC address?
Heck, you don't even need to be using your ethernet card to connect to the net... if it's just installed in your computer, you have a software-readable serial number in your machine. Or the ethernet chipset could already be on your motherboard, in workstations or high-end motherboards. Not removable.
And even if Intel's serial numbers take off, it will take both OS and browser support to make it a viable solution for web sites to track you... and even then the browsers will probably allow you to turn off the feature that sends your serial number.
So, for me, the serial numbers aren't a huge worry. My computers are already serialized.
Chapters bookstores in Canada are using QNX for salesdroid book lookups and POS. They have terminals around the stores for the droids to key things into, with a nice text-based captive user interface.
:)
:)
Plenty of power, plus you get QNX reliability and support.
For my mission-critical system, I'd probably take QNX over Linux too.
And of course, anything is better than NT. Well, maybe not Win95.