The nerds who will be looked down on are the ones who consider anything but the original series 'Star Trek.'
The HELL with all the 'TOS' crap. From the point of view of the television industry Star Trek was a mistake that Television can never repeat. They can only imitate it badly.
Besides which, who would turn on the TV set for anything but The Prisioner?
I second that. If you worry more about your haircut, what clothes you wear, or what 'cool' items you have on the shelf of your cubicle than you worry if you'll make it to the surplus store on your lunch break early enough to be the one first, who gets first shot at pile the surplus VAX hardware you saw coming in on the loading dock during your lunch hour yesterday....
If you don't stress out at the auction because the ugly dude who everbody knows works for a foundry just wants that rack of gear for the scrap gold... uuhh, you're not a nerd.
What's with all the name dropping in the first place. Any respectable nerd knows less than 10% of the names that scroll at the end of a film. It's the movie itself, not the 'stars,' get it?
Sheesh. You guys probably don't even own a single wire wrap tool, let alone enough of them to fill a pocket protector.
I'm sure a lot of safety design goes into the HUD a fighter pilot uses. Here, there will be commercial interest in providing 'features' to sell a particular HUD product, which have nothing to do with navigation or safety.
What is 'Intellipoint'? I've never installed one of those CD's that came with a MS wheel mouse into Windows. And I've never seen an 'intellipoint' app on my X based machine (NetBSD with fvwm2).
The middle button simply acts as the third button on my machine.
and riding around in little remote-controlled cars?
Damn! Is that the new trend? I got my first 'little remote-controlled cars' spam today, and now you make it sound like I'm gonna get pounded by more of that now.
Incidentally, I have gotten a hell of a lot more spam now that I've posted a real email address here on Slashdot. Whoever you are that is watching and harvesting: thanks a lot. I hope you're not using Dmitri Skykarlov's Elcomsoft email address harvesting program, cuz the irony of that would bum me out.
That wouldn't work for me, because some of my best customers for collectable old computer chips on eBay are the collectors in Asia. I'd hate to not be able to communicate with them when they've bought one of my old chips for big bucks (which they do).
The secret to installing Solaris is to use the 'Install' CD as a coaster for your cup of coffee. 'Software CD 1' is a quickly bootable disk and has the fast install script on it. The Install CD is a bootable system image that pokes around unbelievably, then does a pokey eye-candy install. It's almost like they put out the 'Install' CD as bait to drive away anybody but the most determined Solaris enthusiasts.
It really isn't even worth downloading the Install CD, as you won't ever need it.
I use NetBSD/csh because it's remained stable and essentially the same for the entire time I've used it (four years). Also it's truly cross-platform, whereas with Linux it's only 'cross platform' in the sense that there are fourty or fifty different forks that work on a handful of different architectures. All that holds 'Linux' together is a kernel, and there are dozens and dozens of distros all wandering this way and that. There's no consistent userland, there's no consistent source tree beyond the kernel. It's essentially a mess unless you narrowly focus on one distro. And the 'dominant' distros are either commercial or political beyond imagination.
NetBSD is great on Sparc hardware. You just download the source for any packages you want once, and then you build it on any architecture where the package is supported. And that means a hell of a lot of different architectures. I tried Debian on Sparc, it just couldn't compare to NetBSD. I believe there's a strong pro-Sparc bias at OpenBSD, too. That's Theo's favored architecture.
Has the framebuffer support gotten any better in the last year? I have a SS10GX (one of the nicest 'classic Sparc' boxes ever, mine has dual 24 bit framebuffers) and I gave up on finding a 'freenix' that supported greater than 8-bit color on it's xserver. I run Solaris on the box for that reason. The Sun X server is just better than any free X server on Sun hardware.
There was a window in time when Solaris 8 was first distributed freely when they didn't have the Uniprocessor restriction. I acquired my license and downloaded it during that period. The license I am bound to allows me to run it on my SS10 with dual processors. Which I do.
Just don't tell them you're going to be running it on an Ultra 2. I suggest telling them you'll run it 'on an Ultra 1' instead. The Ultra 2 is capable of having two processors installed on it. The 'free' versions of Solaris are only licensed for Uniprocessor machines. They interpret it more strictly than they should. It means that any machine capable of multiprocessing cannot run Solaris under that license. I have it running on a SS10, though (ducks grenade lobbed from Sun attorney).
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'get laid' in and of itself is the kind of phrase that just isn't in the nerd vocabulary. That sounds more like frat-boy speak.
No, that would have been if I'd copped an attitude because my wire-wrap tool is made by OK Instruments, whereas yours is a Radio Shack jobbie.
The nerds who will be looked down on are the ones who consider anything but the original series 'Star Trek.'
The HELL with all the 'TOS' crap. From the point of view of the television industry Star Trek was a mistake that Television can never repeat. They can only imitate it badly.
Besides which, who would turn on the TV set for anything but The Prisioner?
I second that. If you worry more about your haircut, what clothes you wear, or what 'cool' items you have on the shelf of your cubicle than you worry if you'll make it to the surplus store on your lunch break early enough to be the one first, who gets first shot at pile the surplus VAX hardware you saw coming in on the loading dock during your lunch hour yesterday....
If you don't stress out at the auction because the ugly dude who everbody knows works for a foundry just wants that rack of gear for the scrap gold... uuhh, you're not a nerd.
Nope.
Not OS X, and not Linux either.
Don't you have a bound set of UNIX manuals in your bookshelf? And the O'Reilly 8-volume X Windows System Reference set?
What's with all the name dropping in the first place. Any respectable nerd knows less than 10% of the names that scroll at the end of a film. It's the movie itself, not the 'stars,' get it?
Sheesh. You guys probably don't even own a single wire wrap tool, let alone enough of them to fill a pocket protector.
Since he was using a handset to talk on a cell phone, I have to assume he wasn't wearing a helmet.
I hope the organ donor van got to his body in time.
Worse: it's Janet Reno and you didn't put quarters in the coin box of the Magic Fingers hotel bed.
Had the same sort of event happened in a car, a tow truck would likely have had to have been called.
How would a car 'drop' in wet sand just in front of a stop sign?
I'm sure a lot of safety design goes into the HUD a fighter pilot uses. Here, there will be commercial interest in providing 'features' to sell a particular HUD product, which have nothing to do with navigation or safety.
There is also a Harley-Davidson branded beer.
What is 'Intellipoint'? I've never installed one of those CD's that came with a MS wheel mouse into Windows. And I've never seen an 'intellipoint' app on my X based machine (NetBSD with fvwm2).
The middle button simply acts as the third button on my machine.
and riding around in little remote-controlled cars?
Damn! Is that the new trend? I got my first 'little remote-controlled cars' spam today, and now you make it sound like I'm gonna get pounded by more of that now.
Incidentally, I have gotten a hell of a lot more spam now that I've posted a real email address here on Slashdot. Whoever you are that is watching and harvesting: thanks a lot. I hope you're not using Dmitri Skykarlov's Elcomsoft email address harvesting program, cuz the irony of that would bum me out.
That wouldn't work for me, because some of my best customers for collectable old computer chips on eBay are the collectors in Asia. I'd hate to not be able to communicate with them when they've bought one of my old chips for big bucks (which they do).
I have a slabbing saw with a 12" diamond blade on it out in the garage, and a jeweler's lap, and various other lapidary gear.
The secret to installing Solaris is to use the 'Install' CD as a coaster for your cup of coffee. 'Software CD 1' is a quickly bootable disk and has the fast install script on it. The Install CD is a bootable system image that pokes around unbelievably, then does a pokey eye-candy install. It's almost like they put out the 'Install' CD as bait to drive away anybody but the most determined Solaris enthusiasts.
It really isn't even worth downloading the Install CD, as you won't ever need it.
I use NetBSD/csh because it's remained stable and essentially the same for the entire time I've used it (four years). Also it's truly cross-platform, whereas with Linux it's only 'cross platform' in the sense that there are fourty or fifty different forks that work on a handful of different architectures. All that holds 'Linux' together is a kernel, and there are dozens and dozens of distros all wandering this way and that. There's no consistent userland, there's no consistent source tree beyond the kernel. It's essentially a mess unless you narrowly focus on one distro. And the 'dominant' distros are either commercial or political beyond imagination.
There is tons and tons of documentation available online through Sun's website(s).
There are expensive books, too.
If you download the Solaris ISOs that this whole topic is all about, you get two CDs full of documentation.
You don't have to graduate to have 'flashbacks.'
Heck, the people with the best 'college flashbacks' (the ones in living color) probably dropped out as Freshmen.
NetBSD is great on Sparc hardware. You just download the source for any packages you want once, and then you build it on any architecture where the package is supported. And that means a hell of a lot of different architectures. I tried Debian on Sparc, it just couldn't compare to NetBSD. I believe there's a strong pro-Sparc bias at OpenBSD, too. That's Theo's favored architecture.
Has the framebuffer support gotten any better in the last year? I have a SS10GX (one of the nicest 'classic Sparc' boxes ever, mine has dual 24 bit framebuffers) and I gave up on finding a 'freenix' that supported greater than 8-bit color on it's xserver. I run Solaris on the box for that reason. The Sun X server is just better than any free X server on Sun hardware.
There was a window in time when Solaris 8 was first distributed freely when they didn't have the Uniprocessor restriction. I acquired my license and downloaded it during that period. The license I am bound to allows me to run it on my SS10 with dual processors. Which I do.
Train Joe Sixpack on how to use 'em.
Just don't tell them you're going to be running it on an Ultra 2. I suggest telling them you'll run it 'on an Ultra 1' instead. The Ultra 2 is capable of having two processors installed on it. The 'free' versions of Solaris are only licensed for Uniprocessor machines. They interpret it more strictly than they should. It means that any machine capable of multiprocessing cannot run Solaris under that license. I have it running on a SS10, though (ducks grenade lobbed from Sun attorney).
keeping up with the fast moving ecosystem of x86 hardware is a real pain
True, but I doubt if Sun is worried about capturing the games-playing hotdog market with their 6 month graphic controller buying cycle.