And of course, it's the installer that matters most.
After having Debian on my PC for more than 2 years, I sure wish the installer was better.
I guess having a nice installer in Red Hat is a good thing, since after all the dependency hell, broken compilers, etc, people often "upgrade" via a reinstall from a RH CD.
I'll take apt for upgrades anyday. Debian installer? I barely remember it.
Tell me how all three would be accomplished at the same time with one computer???
The same amount of bandwidth usage could come from a single computer or divided up amongst many, as I'm sure you're aware. But I think the real issues are:
1. ISP places clause in licence agreement so that they can make the most money possible.
2. Even though you could possibly saturate your bandwidth through them 24/7, most people barely use their fat pipe and 3 average people "surfing the net" via 1 NAT connection really does equate to about 3 times the bandwidth usage of a single average person. Something they would like to be able to charge for, hence #1. Thats why many of these terms are labeled under titles with phrases like "reasonable use".
I'm well aware that bandwidth can be maxed out by one or many, but additional users can certainly help increase bandwidth usage where the licence plainly forbids such usage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking the ISP's side! I just see that they want to provide bandwidth to paid customers only (or at least appear to take this stance). At the end of the day, it is high income/low cost that they are striving for and having extra users on one connection only increases the costs to them and possibly hurts performance noticably for other people on that segment, possibly leading to lost customers or poor reports to potential customers.
Profit, plain and simple. Agree to the licence agreement and you don't have a leg to stand on. I have yet to get any broadband due to the fact that I actually read the licences they impose. Don't like the licence? Don't agree too it and certainly don't winge about it when a clause you agreed to bites you in the arse.
so what if it's a little slower - that's just another donut and cup of nice coffee for me and an excuse to kick back and relax between hectic coding sessions...
So I assume from this comment that you are refering to compile time?
I think it is important to note that this article is not about compile time, but something I think is far more important, it's about the executable speed of your compiled code.
If I had a PIII or 4 and the compiler was reasonably priced, I would probably buy Intels compiler, though the last time I payed for a compiler was for the latest and greatest Borland C++ v3.0. Back then, I was quickly dissapointed to learn that the new Watcom compiler was pretty quick.
I'm moving to PPC anyway, so I'm not overly excited (I must be part of the fabled 5%, I prefer the company of 5% types anyway).
And a surprising number of those 16-bit embedded systems are based on the x86/DOS platform.
The elevator displays (inside showing time, floor, company, etc) in the building at my last contract in Sydney were running on DOS.
A few times I noticed the screen showing the typical BIOS POST info and "Command.com not found, insert disk in drive A:", along with frozen screens etc.
And getting the train to work often includes the delight of seeing Windows NT BSOD on platform timetable screens. About 6 to 8 screens per platform per station adds up to what must be a whole lot of money the tax payer should never have had to pay for. Especially when they often either display a BSOD or a frozen login screen on systems that could have been served by a free OS that rarely freezes outside of hardware problems.
You're just making too much sense for/. Mirus Nex!
Sometimes when I post something here, I fear what arguments I may have to "defend" for which I never put forth. : ) I wonder if these replies are merely troll attempts to get people to engage in some flaming, heightened karma or merely the results of people just not reading what is written!?
Lousy interpretation. It was not even meant to be an analogy, it was meant to point out that criminals commit crimes, therefore will attain/harbor/provide/import/export drugs/guns/strong-crypto whether they're illegal or not.
I could have used anything that showed that rules can and will be broken by people who refuse to play by the rules.
Thats a dreadful analogy. Criminals will get good encryption, not because they will breach US export regulations, but because the rest of the world is not as dumb as you seem to think. We understand crypto just as well as the US, and we can write our own. (CLUE: The recently adopted AES is called Rijndael, because it was invented in Belgium).
I don't think the World is dumb, which is exactly WHY I pretty much said (sarcastically) that anyone can get a hold of high quality crypto, so why not someone with real intent who is able to get "real" weapons.
CLUE: Last time I checked, OpenBSD was distributed from Canada. I never mentioned US export laws (I am.au), my point is merely that any form of restriction is pointless.
The information you gleaned from my post, information that was not there, is astonishing.
I thought the addition of SB might get me modded down, but flamebait? Does this mean that there are actually people here who like this SB? Or did the SB herself mod me down under a few accounts she keeps here for times like this when her good name is being tarnished? I rather thought she was doing a fine job all by herself.
Exactly, heaven forbid that guys who can get military weapons and nuclear materials, might actually be able to get a warez copy of a high-crypto W2K, OpenBSD or put effective use to a book like Applied Cryptography.
It's like making gun ownership a crime to avoid criminals getting guns. Criminals will get them because they commit crimes. The only people without crypto/guns will be the people you don't have anything to worry about in the first place.
The RAID-0 in 2.4 has so far been between -18% and 0% faster over the raw hdd speeds for those same md partitions on my system. The 2.2 kernels were giving me about 30% speed increase.
PS, notice thats negative 18%, I say negative 18% faster, since RAID-0 is supposed to give a speed increase above all else.
The CFM rating on a fan assumes no significant load on the fan.
What you're saying is very interesting, I am far from a fluid dynamics expert, so I'm interested to know...
In a one fan solution, is it better to have the fan sucking air into a case or sucking air out?
I was thinking that if air is being sucked out, then the presure inside the case is being slightly reduced and thus less air is moving across parts, causing less effective heat dispersal, whereas a fan sucking air into a case would be causing slightly increased pressure inside the case and thus more air moving across parts, giving better cooling?
Is one better than the other or is there nothing in it?
PS, are these fans bad with high loads because they use brushless engines, giving poor torque?
I'm glad you are impressed, but it's not exactly hard to think of
This is not a new idea. Z shaped copper has been used for years between IC's and metal cases, to draw heat from the IC into the much larger cases or common heatsinks.
I actually have an old Apple Powerbook 100 opened in front of me, which has a C shaped copper heat transfer strip which bridges heat from two FET's into the aluminium base of the keyboard.
The cute little 1cm x 1cm 16MHz 68000 needs no heatsink though. : )
Of course a major problem with mini-computers is that there's just nowhere for the heat to go.
As far as my thinking goes, the smaller the case, the better, provided that there is a strong enough air flow. Reason being, that with a small enclosure, there is less air to displace. A fan that can extract at 10 cubic feet per minute is going to fully displace the air in a 10 cubic feet case once per minute, yet this same fan will displace the air in a 1 cubic feet case 10 times per minute, giving better cooling. The air flow around components tends to be faster, but this depends on the physical layout just as much as a larger computer.
The problem with small cases are the small fans, not the small cases. Small fans don't tend to scale down well. I like to put a large fan into a small case, at an angle, with the output side ported out of the case unrestricted, with the efficiency of the fan lost at the sucking side, inside the case. This might be inefficient compared with the abilities of the fan, but tends to be much better than a small fan working at it's best.
Yeah, I thought this was going to be an article about making a cluster of 386's or something, since a cluster of pentiums apparently constitutes a super-computer.
Years ago, I thought how great it would be to combine GPS with an organiser, so that you could be reminded of something you wanted to do at a particular location(s). For example, "get toner cartridge" linked to computer shops in your organiser To-Do list, would cause an alarm when you are close to a computer store according to the GPS+map.
How about online petrol prices? When you drive up to a cheap petrol station, you could enter the petrol prices for that station, which would then be entered into an online price database. Meaning that when vehicles are approaching a cheap petrol station, the driver could be alerted to the price and location if the car is low (defined by user) on fuel.
How about this computer hooked up to not only the GPS but also your GSM mobile phone with caller ID? Someone calls you, and depending on what disturb/do-not-disturb setting you have for them, they may or may not be able to disturb the mp3/ogg you have playing. If disturb is OK, your music should pause, and the car PC announce who is calling, allowing voice prompting for "pick up" or "ignore", leading to either a phone call or hang-up with the music resuming.
Since our car PC has GPS and GSM, what say we turn this bad boy into a car alarm also, complete with a few CCD cameras? If the car alarm is triggered, the PC could take a shot of the offender, dither it to 1-bit fax resolution, then fax it and the car location to the local police station! To boot, display the offenders full colour image on the internal display with a voice warning of what is occuring, regarding thier soon to be imprisioned (sore) arse. Hopefully this will cause the offender to flee on foot. Of course, this car has multiple points of immobilization right?
Now back to all those CCD cameras... pop your car in reverse, and the display switches to the rear CCD (mounted on the top rear spoiler, pointed downwards) to assist reverse parking. Indicate right below a certain speed (say 5 kph) and the front right CCD is displayed (mounted near front right bumper, pointing to the right) giving greater visibility to the right, past parked cars etc without having to put your nose out too far, when turning at an intersection. Indicate right at a speed higher than 5kph and the top right mounted CCD is displayed (pointing backwards), for lane changes etc. Vice-versa these for left, etc.
With a larger display, or two displays, both indicate cameras could be shown for more flexibility, etc etc.
With voice prompting, usage of sampled phonetic voice "synthesis" could be employed, for natural sounding prompting. Warning of fuel, temp, etc, illegal speed in zones that according to the GPS+map indicate legal speed, school zones, etc, etc.
Speaking of speech synthesis, I want that british womans voice from Forsaken, "So-lar-is!". She sounds like a babe. And when the alarm is armed, it should be complete with her voice (with echo added), counting down from 10 to "Warning: system alarm activation complete, all systems halted, core de-activated." "Core" of course being the engine, at which time a "turbine powering down" sound effect could be nice. ; ) And of course, turning the key in the ignition to "ignition" could activate the "turbine powering up" sound, REALLY LOUD, with "Core status: OPERATIONAL!"
A common mantra heard from Slashdot is "obscurity is not security", and this is a lesson that teridon wants his company to learn
If anyone thinks it is, then consider what happens when an employee has access to what the company wants to be obscure, then later he becomes a disgruntled ex-employee.
Now, your inside friend, is your outside foe, and he knows all of your weaknesses. Here's hoping the security being used was not just obscurity.
I prefer to use the soft version of the Handbook (primarily the HTML version).
Wow, I have it as PDF already, though I like to sit somewhere are read through a dead tree. As much as I hate to say that, I find reading off the screen distracting and difficult, compared with a book. Which is a pitty.
I wonder why that is? I find printed man pages make a lot more sense to me. : }
Would you say that the 2nd ed of the Handbook (online), covers just as much as Unleashed?
I have this big list of things I want to get done in Linux and FreeBSD, (like setting up a seperate print queue that filters to PDF files, desktop faxing, design of a FreeBSD based CD server, etc) but never get around to them, getting it all done by hand. Do you know from memory if any of the books cover those topics?
Am I the only person who wants to download slashdot in.qwk format?
No. Those were the days. Logging in to your local BBS, downloading the newest messages since your last visit and uploading your replies to the last batch, downloading some file called babe267.gif hoping it's a good one this time, playing some silly ANSI game to win a better download/upload ratio (to hopefully download more gif pr0n since babe267.gif was crap), looking at how many people have downloaded the C utils you uploaded, wondering what all these files were starting with "linux" that nobody was downloading and then logging off. ; )
Man I loved.qwk! No worries with having to keep your connection alive with something like ping -i 900 www.google.com while you type long flames and hate mail, just take your time and login to upload whenever.
Remember when some smart guy wrote a program that let you view a gif as it downloaded? Great for canceling the download half way when you realise it was either crap or you already had it under a different name, but to boot, you did'nt hurt your U/D ratio.
Ahh, the memories! It's funny how technology seems to develop slow enough to take it for granted, until you think back 10 years to what you were putting up with, for me a 12k Rockwell MODEM (yes 12k, before 14.4 was done) a Trident 8900 with a whopping 1Mb frame buffer, i486DX33 with a whole 4Mb of 80nS RAM and a "Brand Technologies" 200MB IDE drive. At college, people thought I was exagerating about my 200MB drive and an Amiga owner was shocked at my 4MB RAM! I was using old IBM PS/2's with DOS and some Unix served off an RS/6000 for our Cobol studies.
Having email at home was kinda cool in 1992 also, even though you pretty much did'nt know anyone with any email address, much less a FidoNet address, besides the guys in Zone3 Computing who want your blood.
10 years before that it was C64's and Microbee's for me. Ahh man, remember the Vic20? Did'nt it have less than 100x100 resolution or something?
I wonder what 2012 is going to be like? Will we all be using Microsoft Wireless Broadband (tm) @ $25/hour, with 3D cards that do real time ray tracing and radiosity rendering at 4096x3072 through our VR goggles with 256bit computing with TB's of RAM and PB's of secure ("you don't need to do that") online disk storage thanks to Microsoft (the World government), running on Microsoft BSD (after the Apple "buy out")?
Slashdot Mirror
And of course, it's the installer that matters most.
After having Debian on my PC for more than 2 years, I sure wish the installer was better.
I guess having a nice installer in Red Hat is a good thing, since after all the dependency hell, broken compilers, etc, people often "upgrade" via a reinstall from a RH CD.
I'll take apt for upgrades anyday. Debian installer? I barely remember it.
Almost like speaking the language of Mordor. A language I will not utter here. :)
Was'nt it Elvish on the ring that should not be uttered?
Tell me how all three would be accomplished at the same time with one computer???
The same amount of bandwidth usage could come from a single computer or divided up amongst many, as I'm sure you're aware. But I think the real issues are:
1. ISP places clause in licence agreement so that they can make the most money possible.
2. Even though you could possibly saturate your bandwidth through them 24/7, most people barely use their fat pipe and 3 average people "surfing the net" via 1 NAT connection really does equate to about 3 times the bandwidth usage of a single average person. Something they would like to be able to charge for, hence #1. Thats why many of these terms are labeled under titles with phrases like "reasonable use".
I'm well aware that bandwidth can be maxed out by one or many, but additional users can certainly help increase bandwidth usage where the licence plainly forbids such usage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking the ISP's side! I just see that they want to provide bandwidth to paid customers only (or at least appear to take this stance). At the end of the day, it is high income/low cost that they are striving for and having extra users on one connection only increases the costs to them and possibly hurts performance noticably for other people on that segment, possibly leading to lost customers or poor reports to potential customers.
Profit, plain and simple. Agree to the licence agreement and you don't have a leg to stand on. I have yet to get any broadband due to the fact that I actually read the licences they impose. Don't like the licence? Don't agree too it and certainly don't winge about it when a clause you agreed to bites you in the arse.
so what if it's a little slower - that's just another donut and cup of nice coffee for me and an excuse to kick back and relax between hectic coding sessions...
So I assume from this comment that you are refering to compile time?
I think it is important to note that this article is not about compile time, but something I think is far more important, it's about the executable speed of your compiled code.
If I had a PIII or 4 and the compiler was reasonably priced, I would probably buy Intels compiler, though the last time I payed for a compiler was for the latest and greatest Borland C++ v3.0. Back then, I was quickly dissapointed to learn that the new Watcom compiler was pretty quick.
I'm moving to PPC anyway, so I'm not overly excited (I must be part of the fabled 5%, I prefer the company of 5% types anyway).
And a surprising number of those 16-bit embedded systems are based on the x86/DOS platform.
The elevator displays (inside showing time, floor, company, etc) in the building at my last contract in Sydney were running on DOS.
A few times I noticed the screen showing the typical BIOS POST info and "Command.com not found, insert disk in drive A:", along with frozen screens etc.
And getting the train to work often includes the delight of seeing Windows NT BSOD on platform timetable screens. About 6 to 8 screens per platform per station adds up to what must be a whole lot of money the tax payer should never have had to pay for. Especially when they often either display a BSOD or a frozen login screen on systems that could have been served by a free OS that rarely freezes outside of hardware problems.
The US should have delivered the plane as parts for them to assemble.
You're just making too much sense for /. Mirus Nex!
Sometimes when I post something here, I fear what arguments I may have to "defend" for which I never put forth. : ) I wonder if these replies are merely troll attempts to get people to engage in some flaming, heightened karma or merely the results of people just not reading what is written!?
It sure can get noisy around here at times.
Lousy analogy.
Lousy interpretation. It was not even meant to be an analogy, it was meant to point out that criminals commit crimes, therefore will attain/harbor/provide/import/export drugs/guns/strong-crypto whether they're illegal or not.
I could have used anything that showed that rules can and will be broken by people who refuse to play by the rules.
I was not trying to compare crypto to guns.
Thats a dreadful analogy. Criminals will get good encryption, not because they will breach US export regulations, but because the rest of the world is not as dumb as you seem to think. We understand crypto just as well as the US, and we can write our own. (CLUE: The recently adopted AES is called Rijndael, because it was invented in Belgium).
.au), my point is merely that any form of restriction is pointless.
I don't think the World is dumb, which is exactly WHY I pretty much said (sarcastically) that anyone can get a hold of high quality crypto, so why not someone with real intent who is able to get "real" weapons.
CLUE: Last time I checked, OpenBSD was distributed from Canada. I never mentioned US export laws (I am
The information you gleaned from my post, information that was not there, is astonishing.
Thus "No wait hang on, that's gone too is'nt it?"
I thought the addition of SB might get me modded down, but flamebait? Does this mean that there are actually people here who like this SB? Or did the SB herself mod me down under a few accounts she keeps here for times like this when her good name is being tarnished? I rather thought she was doing a fine job all by herself.
Exactly, heaven forbid that guys who can get military weapons and nuclear materials, might actually be able to get a warez copy of a high-crypto W2K, OpenBSD or put effective use to a book like Applied Cryptography.
It's like making gun ownership a crime to avoid criminals getting guns. Criminals will get them because they commit crimes. The only people without crypto/guns will be the people you don't have anything to worry about in the first place.
windowmaker is nice, but i still dont like those dock/icons/clips on the side of the monitor.
Get into the config files for WM and get rid of the dock/icons/clip if you don't want to use them.
It's been a while since I configured a machine with WM like this, but it can be done.
Was it all her doing when the Unix guys got the boot and HP calcs had no more future? Now HP PC's?
So they'll just be relying on the good old quality test and measurement dept then? No wait hang on, that's gone too is'nt it?
Stupid bitch, when is SHE going to get deprecated?
The RAID-0 in 2.4 has so far been between -18% and 0% faster over the raw hdd speeds for those same md partitions on my system. The 2.2 kernels were giving me about 30% speed increase.
PS, notice thats negative 18%, I say negative 18% faster, since RAID-0 is supposed to give a speed increase above all else.
The CFM rating on a fan assumes no significant load on the fan.
What you're saying is very interesting, I am far from a fluid dynamics expert, so I'm interested to know...
In a one fan solution, is it better to have the fan sucking air into a case or sucking air out?
I was thinking that if air is being sucked out, then the presure inside the case is being slightly reduced and thus less air is moving across parts, causing less effective heat dispersal, whereas a fan sucking air into a case would be causing slightly increased pressure inside the case and thus more air moving across parts, giving better cooling?
Is one better than the other or is there nothing in it?
PS, are these fans bad with high loads because they use brushless engines, giving poor torque?
I'm glad you are impressed, but it's not exactly hard to think of
This is not a new idea. Z shaped copper has been used for years between IC's and metal cases, to draw heat from the IC into the much larger cases or common heatsinks.
I actually have an old Apple Powerbook 100 opened in front of me, which has a C shaped copper heat transfer strip which bridges heat from two FET's into the aluminium base of the keyboard.
The cute little 1cm x 1cm 16MHz 68000 needs no heatsink though. : )
Of course a major problem with mini-computers is that there's just nowhere for the heat to go.
As far as my thinking goes, the smaller the case, the better, provided that there is a strong enough air flow. Reason being, that with a small enclosure, there is less air to displace. A fan that can extract at 10 cubic feet per minute is going to fully displace the air in a 10 cubic feet case once per minute, yet this same fan will displace the air in a 1 cubic feet case 10 times per minute, giving better cooling. The air flow around components tends to be faster, but this depends on the physical layout just as much as a larger computer.
The problem with small cases are the small fans, not the small cases. Small fans don't tend to scale down well. I like to put a large fan into a small case, at an angle, with the output side ported out of the case unrestricted, with the efficiency of the fan lost at the sucking side, inside the case. This might be inefficient compared with the abilities of the fan, but tends to be much better than a small fan working at it's best.
Yeah, I thought this was going to be an article about making a cluster of 386's or something, since a cluster of pentiums apparently constitutes a super-computer.
Anyway, nothing sucks like a Vax...
Years ago, I thought how great it would be to combine GPS with an organiser, so that you could be reminded of something you wanted to do at a particular location(s). For example, "get toner cartridge" linked to computer shops in your organiser To-Do list, would cause an alarm when you are close to a computer store according to the GPS+map.
How about online petrol prices? When you drive up to a cheap petrol station, you could enter the petrol prices for that station, which would then be entered into an online price database. Meaning that when vehicles are approaching a cheap petrol station, the driver could be alerted to the price and location if the car is low (defined by user) on fuel.
How about this computer hooked up to not only the GPS but also your GSM mobile phone with caller ID? Someone calls you, and depending on what disturb/do-not-disturb setting you have for them, they may or may not be able to disturb the mp3/ogg you have playing. If disturb is OK, your music should pause, and the car PC announce who is calling, allowing voice prompting for "pick up" or "ignore", leading to either a phone call or hang-up with the music resuming.
Since our car PC has GPS and GSM, what say we turn this bad boy into a car alarm also, complete with a few CCD cameras? If the car alarm is triggered, the PC could take a shot of the offender, dither it to 1-bit fax resolution, then fax it and the car location to the local police station! To boot, display the offenders full colour image on the internal display with a voice warning of what is occuring, regarding thier soon to be imprisioned (sore) arse. Hopefully this will cause the offender to flee on foot. Of course, this car has multiple points of immobilization right?
Now back to all those CCD cameras... pop your car in reverse, and the display switches to the rear CCD (mounted on the top rear spoiler, pointed downwards) to assist reverse parking. Indicate right below a certain speed (say 5 kph) and the front right CCD is displayed (mounted near front right bumper, pointing to the right) giving greater visibility to the right, past parked cars etc without having to put your nose out too far, when turning at an intersection. Indicate right at a speed higher than 5kph and the top right mounted CCD is displayed (pointing backwards), for lane changes etc. Vice-versa these for left, etc.
With a larger display, or two displays, both indicate cameras could be shown for more flexibility, etc etc.
With voice prompting, usage of sampled phonetic voice "synthesis" could be employed, for natural sounding prompting. Warning of fuel, temp, etc, illegal speed in zones that according to the GPS+map indicate legal speed, school zones, etc, etc.
Speaking of speech synthesis, I want that british womans voice from Forsaken, "So-lar-is!". She sounds like a babe. And when the alarm is armed, it should be complete with her voice (with echo added), counting down from 10 to "Warning: system alarm activation complete, all systems halted, core de-activated." "Core" of course being the engine, at which time a "turbine powering down" sound effect could be nice. ; ) And of course, turning the key in the ignition to "ignition" could activate the "turbine powering up" sound, REALLY LOUD, with "Core status: OPERATIONAL!"
Man, I want one! All I need now is a car!
JAR, from the maker of ARJ, is substantially better than ZIP and RAR as far as compression goes and substantially slower also.
Interesting thing I remember with JAR in DOS, is that the more memory you have to assign to the compression, the better the compression.
http://www.arjsoft.com/jar.htm
A common mantra heard from Slashdot is "obscurity is not security", and this is a lesson that teridon wants his company to learn
If anyone thinks it is, then consider what happens when an employee has access to what the company wants to be obscure, then later he becomes a disgruntled ex-employee.
Now, your inside friend, is your outside foe, and he knows all of your weaknesses. Here's hoping the security being used was not just obscurity.
Have you used Star Office 6 beta?
Awesome, aa fonts and all. It may as well be Word, Excel and Powerpoint for Unix.
I'm glad I read here about killall and Solaris a while back, before I would have done the same, having the bad habit of using killall too much.
I prefer to use the soft version of the Handbook (primarily the HTML version).
Wow, I have it as PDF already, though I like to sit somewhere are read through a dead tree. As much as I hate to say that, I find reading off the screen distracting and difficult, compared with a book. Which is a pitty.
I wonder why that is? I find printed man pages make a lot more sense to me. : }
Would you say that the 2nd ed of the Handbook (online), covers just as much as Unleashed?
I have this big list of things I want to get done in Linux and FreeBSD, (like setting up a seperate print queue that filters to PDF files, desktop faxing, design of a FreeBSD based CD server, etc) but never get around to them, getting it all done by hand. Do you know from memory if any of the books cover those topics?
Thanks for the reply BTW.
Am I the only person who wants to download slashdot in .qwk format?
.qwk! No worries with having to keep your connection alive with something like ping -i 900 www.google.com while you type long flames and hate mail, just take your time and login to upload whenever.
No. Those were the days. Logging in to your local BBS, downloading the newest messages since your last visit and uploading your replies to the last batch, downloading some file called babe267.gif hoping it's a good one this time, playing some silly ANSI game to win a better download/upload ratio (to hopefully download more gif pr0n since babe267.gif was crap), looking at how many people have downloaded the C utils you uploaded, wondering what all these files were starting with "linux" that nobody was downloading and then logging off. ; )
Man I loved
Remember when some smart guy wrote a program that let you view a gif as it downloaded? Great for canceling the download half way when you realise it was either crap or you already had it under a different name, but to boot, you did'nt hurt your U/D ratio.
Ahh, the memories! It's funny how technology seems to develop slow enough to take it for granted, until you think back 10 years to what you were putting up with, for me a 12k Rockwell MODEM (yes 12k, before 14.4 was done) a Trident 8900 with a whopping 1Mb frame buffer, i486DX33 with a whole 4Mb of 80nS RAM and a "Brand Technologies" 200MB IDE drive. At college, people thought I was exagerating about my 200MB drive and an Amiga owner was shocked at my 4MB RAM! I was using old IBM PS/2's with DOS and some Unix served off an RS/6000 for our Cobol studies.
Having email at home was kinda cool in 1992 also, even though you pretty much did'nt know anyone with any email address, much less a FidoNet address, besides the guys in Zone3 Computing who want your blood.
10 years before that it was C64's and Microbee's for me. Ahh man, remember the Vic20? Did'nt it have less than 100x100 resolution or something?
I wonder what 2012 is going to be like? Will we all be using Microsoft Wireless Broadband (tm) @ $25/hour, with 3D cards that do real time ray tracing and radiosity rendering at 4096x3072 through our VR goggles with 256bit computing with TB's of RAM and PB's of secure ("you don't need to do that") online disk storage thanks to Microsoft (the World government), running on Microsoft BSD (after the Apple "buy out")?
Oh God, does anyone know how to tie a noose?