At least you've got one! I'm constantly perplexed as to why most IBM ThinkPads that are supposedly "designed for [insert Windows version here]" don't have a Windows key. Either remapping the left alt key or installing Linux for complete redundancy (heh) have been pretty good solutions in the past, but still doesn't justify that they're building machines that, to this day, don't have one.
they must choose a name that is both pleasing to them and is unlikely to be used in the home for any other reason than addressing the automation system
Both the big two broadbandproviders in Australia flatly refuse to deal with anything other than Windows or Mac. Ex-housemate and I had heard stories to this effect when we ordered Optus cable to our house, so we decided to let them think we were going to use Windows internet connection sharing to pass the cable between two different machines. Within 30 minutes of the cable guys leaving we had an old Pentium running Mandrake routing the cable through every PC in the house (about 6 if memory serves me right).
When our cable modem cooked itself about 9 months later, we called them to let them know - when the tech turned up to "fit" the replacement, first of all he asked to see the settings we had on the machine we connected the modem to, then he wondered why the modem wasn't connected to a PC with a monitor, keyboard and mouse...
When we told him we were running through a Linux box, he played the old "I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear you say that" game, swapped the modems over, and departed.
I think (and anyone correct me if I'm wrong) that the basic policy of most, if not all, broadband providers in Australia is that you can plug your broadband into whatever you like at your end, just don't expect us to help you sort it out when something goes wrong.
From zero to a superheated lump of useless plastic in only 3.25 seconds!!!!
Intel are apparently in negotiations with the Malaysian civil construction firm that built the Petronas Towers to develop the heat sinks for these little cookies...
Tried using it with Bochs? I can't say I've tested it with something like Halflife, however it's got to be a better option for gaming than Wine(X) (hey, if someone can get Doom to run on it, who knows what's possible;)
I always find it amusing that "our" government calls itself "Liberal", but is practically conservative enough to closely resemble a U.S. administration (except, perhaps, without all the sex scandals). Alston really needs to buy himself a clue - how he can justify his station really is beyond me (perhaps they should start calling him "The Australian Information Minister"...)
I can't see that this is going to have a great deal of immediate impact; based on my own experiences receiving spam, and that of friends, scarce little comes from within Australia, most of it seems to source from the States or Asia (well... now that the New Zealand guy is out of the way, anyway). I did receive spam from Russia today - completely in cyrillic. Sure, I'd love to buy what you're selling, if only I could read it...
As much as I'd like to credit Mr Howard's 'initiative' and 'forward planning' in this instance as an attempt to cut the spam problem off at the pass, as it were, I can't help but feel that this is just a poorly thought out knee-jerk reaction to something that needs considerably more thought than this technologically ill-informed administration is willing to put into it.
Still, proof's in the pudding, as they say. If they can stem the source of spamming in this country before it grows out of control, as it has done elsewhere, good on 'em. I just can't see it happening.
There was also the episode of The Awful Truth with Michael Moore, in which he went to a county in California (forget which...) that had a particularly bad reputation for cutting out the courts as middleman between arrest and jail. The results of which leading to almost one thousand arrests in a year, of which only one person actually stood trial due to the completely lax attitude of the public defenders (ie, you're going to go to jail anyway, you might as well plead guilty).
So what did Mike do? Went around town getting people to pre-sign their own plea bargains, and took them all to the D.A's office, dumped them on his desk so that if any of the local citizens were ever arrested, it'd be even easier than before to get them straight into jail...
So does this give us new insight as to how comets die?
Forgot to d/l the latest Windows XP patch. Got blaster worm. Rebooted every 60 seconds and suffered from periodic DoS attacks as a result of RPC vulnerability.
At least, that's probably what they mean by 'internal processes'.
That really depends on what you're using it for - I don't depend heavily on the X-Windows side of Linux. Most of what I use it for is done in ssh/lynx/etc, or its capacities as an excellent server that I can access remotely, and as such I don't mind whether my desktop environment is KDE, Gnome, IceWM, or whatever, just so long as it's there if I ever need it. I would hardly say that it's fundamental to my use of Linux. If KDE doesn't work, I'll switch to Gnome. Doesn't bother me a mite at all, so as far as my needs are concerned, it's an excellent release (in retrospect, I should have made that a little clearer in my original comments).
It's worth me mentioning that after a bit more messing around with Mandrake, the Gnome environment seems to be suffering from the same problems as KDE, so perhaps there's an underlying XFree issue (although Windowmaker worked without any problems...); either with my setup or the distro I'm yet to work out. But out of the box, to suit my needs, the whole thing comes up pretty nicely.
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At least you've got one! I'm constantly perplexed as to why most IBM ThinkPads that are supposedly "designed for [insert Windows version here]" don't have a Windows key. Either remapping the left alt key or installing Linux for complete redundancy (heh) have been pretty good solutions in the past, but still doesn't justify that they're building machines that, to this day, don't have one.
they must choose a name that is both pleasing to them and is unlikely to be used in the home for any other reason than addressing the automation system
Hal, kill the bastard.
Both the big two broadband providers in Australia flatly refuse to deal with anything other than Windows or Mac. Ex-housemate and I had heard stories to this effect when we ordered Optus cable to our house, so we decided to let them think we were going to use Windows internet connection sharing to pass the cable between two different machines. Within 30 minutes of the cable guys leaving we had an old Pentium running Mandrake routing the cable through every PC in the house (about 6 if memory serves me right).
When our cable modem cooked itself about 9 months later, we called them to let them know - when the tech turned up to "fit" the replacement, first of all he asked to see the settings we had on the machine we connected the modem to, then he wondered why the modem wasn't connected to a PC with a monitor, keyboard and mouse...
When we told him we were running through a Linux box, he played the old "I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear you say that" game, swapped the modems over, and departed.
I think (and anyone correct me if I'm wrong) that the basic policy of most, if not all, broadband providers in Australia is that you can plug your broadband into whatever you like at your end, just don't expect us to help you sort it out when something goes wrong.
From zero to a superheated lump of useless plastic in only 3.25 seconds!!!!
Intel are apparently in negotiations with the Malaysian civil construction firm that built the Petronas Towers to develop the heat sinks for these little cookies...
According to his home page, he enjoys pumping iron. Does that change your mind?
So essentially he's gone from a Complete And Utter Luddite to a Moderate But Still Dangerous Luddite.
Let's face it - the man's a Collingwood supporter. You can't get much closer to the bottom of the evolutionary ladder than that.
But more appropriately...
This man.
Ok, fair call. I will admit to not having used WineX much at all, or for that matter having tried any form of gaming on Bochs.
But having said that, I'm sure it's not slow at all if you're... EXXXXTREME!!
Tried using it with Bochs? I can't say I've tested it with something like Halflife, however it's got to be a better option for gaming than Wine(X) (hey, if someone can get Doom to run on it, who knows what's possible
Dude, as long as it's got legs, it'll keep on running...
If he pulled the fing-longer-er out, he'd probably begin to wish he hadn't invented the smelloscope...
The only IP that SCO has is 216.250.128.12.
Informative, yet not particularly helpful.
The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative
And what exactly does that stand for again, Darl?
That's right: Severely Closed Open Source.
Theft? Where?!
Oh, you mean all those zeroes and ones on my computer that coalesce to form John Farnham mp3s??
Slashdot t-shirt wears....
meh... I really can't be bothered.
The Unix family is insecure by design
Only the bits that Darl McBride is laying claim to. Now he is one insecure operating system.
Actually, you're absolutely right. Still, give me sex scandals any day over financial mismanagement and blatant warmongering.
I always find it amusing that "our" government calls itself "Liberal", but is practically conservative enough to closely resemble a U.S. administration (except, perhaps, without all the sex scandals). Alston really needs to buy himself a clue - how he can justify his station really is beyond me (perhaps they should start calling him "The Australian Information Minister"...)
I can't see that this is going to have a great deal of immediate impact; based on my own experiences receiving spam, and that of friends, scarce little comes from within Australia, most of it seems to source from the States or Asia (well... now that the New Zealand guy is out of the way, anyway). I did receive spam from Russia today - completely in cyrillic. Sure, I'd love to buy what you're selling, if only I could read it...
As much as I'd like to credit Mr Howard's 'initiative' and 'forward planning' in this instance as an attempt to cut the spam problem off at the pass, as it were, I can't help but feel that this is just a poorly thought out knee-jerk reaction to something that needs considerably more thought than this technologically ill-informed administration is willing to put into it.
Still, proof's in the pudding, as they say. If they can stem the source of spamming in this country before it grows out of control, as it has done elsewhere, good on 'em. I just can't see it happening.
There was also the episode of The Awful Truth with Michael Moore, in which he went to a county in California (forget which...) that had a particularly bad reputation for cutting out the courts as middleman between arrest and jail. The results of which leading to almost one thousand arrests in a year, of which only one person actually stood trial due to the completely lax attitude of the public defenders (ie, you're going to go to jail anyway, you might as well plead guilty).
So what did Mike do? Went around town getting people to pre-sign their own plea bargains, and took them all to the D.A's office, dumped them on his desk so that if any of the local citizens were ever arrested, it'd be even easier than before to get them straight into jail...
So does this give us new insight as to how comets die?
Forgot to d/l the latest Windows XP patch. Got blaster worm. Rebooted every 60 seconds and suffered from periodic DoS attacks as a result of RPC vulnerability.
At least, that's probably what they mean by 'internal processes'.
That really depends on what you're using it for - I don't depend heavily on the X-Windows side of Linux. Most of what I use it for is done in ssh/lynx/etc, or its capacities as an excellent server that I can access remotely, and as such I don't mind whether my desktop environment is KDE, Gnome, IceWM, or whatever, just so long as it's there if I ever need it. I would hardly say that it's fundamental to my use of Linux. If KDE doesn't work, I'll switch to Gnome. Doesn't bother me a mite at all, so as far as my needs are concerned, it's an excellent release (in retrospect, I should have made that a little clearer in my original comments).
It's worth me mentioning that after a bit more messing around with Mandrake, the Gnome environment seems to be suffering from the same problems as KDE, so perhaps there's an underlying XFree issue (although Windowmaker worked without any problems...); either with my setup or the distro I'm yet to work out. But out of the box, to suit my needs, the whole thing comes up pretty nicely.
Even if you're behind a firewall, you can still use PuTTY.
Damn straight.
But it's also a good indication of:
a) how slow the early morning traffic moves in my neck of the woods (ie, not at all)
and b) how easy it is to install Linux (and in particular, Mandrake) these days
Actually, the only OS that I've found that was easier and faster to install was AIX. Oh, and maybe MS DOS...