And this seems to be a preety elegant solution (I still want to know how much they are going to cost.) Another important point is that the only amazing feature doesn't seem to be the size, but also they seem to eliminate other problems of standard AC/DC adapters, for example, magnetic interference with other devices.
Save your data, when YOU and YOUR FAMILIY are dead? Human Life is more important that Fortune 1000 Company's data, we just have to make them understand we think so. And, besides this, those supposed safe places, are not safe from viruses, HD crashes, stupid clueless assholes that doesn't know how SQL, etc,etc,etc. I think tape or net Backup is still the cheaper and better way.
You can still use all this PCs!! (Or at leaste you can give someone a big present!!) For example: get a good server (for 10 machines, 1000 mhz and 512 Ram and good swap will be more than enough). Then install a little OS on each machine (it's ok if they differ); you will have to choose the more convenient for each machine, for example: for a 386 4 mb no HD you can install Small Linux (it's GNU/Linux for low-end pcs) and TinyX, which will run fine on that machine. If you find a bigger machine, say 486 16 MB 200MB HD, you can install Slackware 9.1 on it, downgrade the kernel to somethin lighter, say 2.2.19, which is rock solid; and install TinyX too. Well, you will have to find out for each machine, some will be better with NetBSD (for example, i have an _old_ Powerbook, which doing very well with NetBSD, and GNU/Linux won't run on it since it doesn't have an FPU and it has a buggy motorola 68K which brakes the Linux's emulated FPU(AKA FPE)). Some of them will boot from Floppy, some from HD, others from the Ethernet (DHCP + TFTP). When you have all the machines ready, you can create an LTSP server [http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/] and using X11 port fordwarding for some machines, and just CLI through ssh for others, they will use the power on the server, and will run every app as a new powerfull machine!!!...
First of all, i am not talking about the Open Source Movement, they are just a bunch of people who cares about tech stuff, by aplying the Free Software development model to comercial or pseudo-comercial (like linux) software. What i am talking about is about Freedom. It's something completely different. You obviosly didn't read my fucking post. May be you shoudl check out this [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic] and this [http://www.gnu.org/].
Windoze is Propietary Software. It can't be improved What you don't understand, is the fact that real GNU users use Free Software not because of the technicall improvement, but because of the Ethical Improve. If you want to has a Tech discuse with Free Software comunity, say so, but even if you can turn windoze into a Real OS, into the Best OS in history, i would continue using Free Software. But, of course, you don't understand what i am talking about. May be if you take a look at this [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic] you will know what i am talking about. There is the answer to "make windoze better"
I mean, it's a propietary product from a company that in a daily basis attacks our comunity. Should we help Micro$oft?; and, in fact, it's impossible to make windoze better, because what really makes it a bad product, is the ethical issue of using propietary software, all the other wars about GNU/Linux Being "Technically superior", are just miscellaneous. We shoudln't use windoze because it's wrong to restrict people's Freedom and Minds to achieve a comercial goal. The other "My OS is better than yours" thing is just a childish flame (Doesn't matter if Unix is actually superior or not, or if it turns out that Dr. DOS is the best OS out there, it's not about that). If we are going to have a technicall discusion on OSs , let's have it forgetting what licenses they are released under, and if we are going to discuss how software should be released and distributed, forgot first about the technicall stuff.
jajaja, yes, my english sucks!!... And many times i feel limited in the way i express myself, that's really funny 'cause i like to write [code & literature, short storys], and i am actually very good at both : ); and so many friends laught at me when they see the way i talk in english, the ideas are the same, but it feels like a completely different person writed it. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hide, the first one is a terrific spanish writer, and the second one talks C and C++ very well, and just adapt it to sound like english : ).
Hacking is about amusing people, i have 4 machines: 2 PCs, 1 running HURD 1 running Linux, and 2 Laptops: An old Mac running NetBSD and an old Texas running OpenBSD. I could be running GNU/Linux on all those machines, but i don't. If all were about productivity, we would be still running BSD 4.2, rms wouls be right now an SCO employe, Unix wouldn be ported to Desktops, and me we would be coding propietary shit. Slashdot Would't exist in that world. Fortunately, not everything is about money and productivity, some of us still remember that we are human beens, and that our purpose in life is not to just eat, work, fuck and die, like dogs.
Well, i think it's because we just don't care about business, as long as we can eat and buy the important stuff [mostly technology], we are just fine. Of curse everyone wants money, and it's not a bad thing, money can translate into lots of good things, as long as money doesn't cost more than what it gives to you. If money will cost you your personality, and has to be dressed up like someone you aren't, then i don't want money. I work for a Hosting Company here in Argentina, i just get to work late [beetween 9:30 - 10:00], with old shoes, an Iron Maiden t-shirt, i haven't cut my hair or bear for about 6 months, and many times i come to work knowing that i haven't even had a bath in a 7 days because i am spending day and night in front of emacs and gdb. But my boss know that i fix what needs to be fixed on time, and develop what needs to be developed, well, the last one never on time : ). There are different Roles in life. There are people that was born to rule and have money, and there are others, like we are, that just were born to be happy.
I Agree with you, in part. In One hand, it's true that when you are a teenager, you feel inmortal, and so, you can die easily. But it's also true, that it's crashing your car, that you lern that you can actually die. It's best that you lern that when you are 16, that when you are 30. Teenagers are not actually ready for many things, but if you don't let 'em do those things, they won't never be ready. But, one other thing we should keep in mind, is that todays teenagers, are not the same way they where 10 years ago [Actually, i am just 20, and i really feel old when i see my sister's friends, they are only 14, and then i remember that when i was 14, i was lerning that you should think before you type, when you are root, i lerned how to get dronk when i was 15, and lost my virginity when i was 16 and a half; Now i see those kids, when you are 14 you *are* a kid, talking about where they are going tonight. The same way, their mind's are broken. When i was 14, i wanted to change the world, i got my first Iron Maiden's CD, and was installing trying [with no luck at all] to get Linux to work on my machine; now, they want a new TV, girls buy britneyspears shit, boys their newmetal shit, they only use their PCs to msn their friends and download pr0n...] May be i am wrong [i hope so], but i see a dark future.
Perl is a Programming Language. java is a product. That's the difference: Perl has a soul. The First one is dedicated to amuse the coder, the second one, to amuse some manager's pocket.
>>I wrote my first hello world program usinb IBM >>BasicA then
O man, that thing destroyed my brain and delayed my C lerning for years, fortunately, i got over it and actually lerned a real language, but when i see my [original] IBM Dos 4.0 Boot Disks, i drop a tier : )
This is not Propietary Software, this is GNU. And here we do things really different. If m$ says "We will remove this feature" lusers using m$s abominations has only two options: Keep the old version and keep the feature, or upgrade and loose the feature. But here, if you don't like the GUI that cames with that distro, just download and compile!, i don't see the trouble. As is said in the article: "Applications from KDE and GNOME run reasonably well together today", so you will be able to run the soft and specific config tools and stuff that comes with the distro from your hand-added KDE. Even, if you don't know how to compile KDE or just feel lazy, i am sure that someone will make a binary KDE pack for that distro, or even that an rpm, deb, tgz or whatever package made for other distro that uses the same glibc should work just fine. Besides, even if they don't include KDE; they should include QT Librarys, since there are lots of apps, many of them not KDE specific, that relys on them.
i Think you made a point with your.sig Actually, that's what we should do about all this desperate IP defending zealots: Ignore them. We talk about Freedom, We DO practice Freedom. Th FSF exists, and do it's work everyday, and what does those guys about it??, well, they ignore us, as long as we don't have a direct case against 'em. So, Ignore them, stop giving them auddience, No more SCO, no more RIAA, no more DMCS, no more m$, they don't exist. That will tell 'em to come back when they actually has something solid against us.
jajajaja, back when i was a child, i used to hide pr0n on a hiden file kernel32.vxd, on win95, after that me and a friend started calling pr0n "kernel", even in public places as a kind of argot. "Hey, did you copied the kernel CD i give to you last weak" = )
Yep, it's more than obvious that it's not going to be used to animate kid's birthday parties. When you see big ammounts of money invested in technological projects that are not massive (like computers), are used for Military activities...
Somehow this robots will take over the earth, and create a Virtual Reality where humans will live, because they need as as batteries, and then, one human will take one of that robots and send him to the past, to take care of the starter of the revolution against robots while hhe was a kid, and they (the robot and the kid) will become friends, until the robot decides to kill himself, to probe in front of a court that he is human too, WAIT WAIT WAIT, i am mixing movies again... so much SCI-Fi for me...
To help me track down this local radio (R&P)... There is that ilegal assholes broadcasting Folklore and news for yeasterday stealing their signal : ).. May be SETI can find 'em, my hand and the radio just can't = )
>>they couldn't even really use the internet due to >>censorship.
Censorship exists everywhere, in the USA there is no evident censorhip in the canonical use of the word. but there is another kind of censorship, which is Mind Censorship, if you buy the hole press and put it to work for you and tell the people the shit they should buy (like the CNN does) it's a kind of censorship. And, once again, if you attack some country and take it's government down, it doesn't matter the kind of government it had, you are being the censor. There were people in Iraq that agreed with Saddam's regim (whether you like it or not), and that people has been censored and prosecuted by the USA Army... I think that ANY national government is better than a government imposed by some foreign country.
Slashdot Mirror
Every little anti-american thing i post, even if it's on-topic gets moded down, but this shit doesn't??
USA SUCKS!
Fuck all of you bunch of Criminals!.
You and your CNN are the real terrorists!.
And this seems to be a preety elegant solution (I still want to know how much they are going to cost.)
Another important point is that the only amazing feature doesn't seem to be the size, but also they seem to eliminate other problems of standard AC/DC adapters, for example, magnetic interference with other devices.
Save your data, when YOU and YOUR FAMILIY are dead?
Human Life is more important that Fortune 1000 Company's data, we just have to make them understand we think so. And, besides this, those supposed safe places, are not safe from viruses, HD crashes, stupid clueless assholes that doesn't know how SQL, etc,etc,etc. I think tape or net Backup is still the cheaper and better way.
You can still use all this PCs!! (Or at leaste you can give someone a big present!!) ...
For example: get a good server (for 10 machines, 1000 mhz and 512 Ram and good swap will be more than enough). Then install a little OS on each machine (it's ok if they differ); you will have to choose the more convenient for each machine, for example: for a 386 4 mb no HD you can install Small Linux (it's GNU/Linux for low-end pcs) and TinyX, which will run fine on that machine. If you find a bigger machine, say 486 16 MB 200MB HD, you can install Slackware 9.1 on it, downgrade the kernel to somethin lighter, say 2.2.19, which is rock solid; and install TinyX too. Well, you will have to find out for each machine, some will be better with NetBSD (for example, i have an _old_ Powerbook, which doing very well with NetBSD, and GNU/Linux won't run on it since it doesn't have an FPU and it has a buggy motorola 68K which brakes the Linux's emulated FPU(AKA FPE)). Some of them will boot from Floppy, some from HD, others from the Ethernet (DHCP + TFTP). When you have all the machines ready, you can create an LTSP server [http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/] and using X11 port fordwarding for some machines, and just CLI through ssh for others, they will use the power on the server, and will run every app as a new powerfull machine!!!
First of all, i am not talking about the Open Source Movement, they are just a bunch of people who cares about tech stuff, by aplying the Free Software development model to comercial or pseudo-comercial (like linux) software. What i am talking about is about Freedom. It's something completely different. You obviosly didn't read my fucking post. May be you shoudl check out this [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic] and this [http://www.gnu.org/].
Windoze is Propietary Software. It can't be improved
What you don't understand, is the fact that real GNU users use Free Software not because of the technicall improvement, but because of the Ethical Improve. If you want to has a Tech discuse with Free Software comunity, say so, but even if you can turn windoze into a Real OS, into the Best OS in history, i would continue using Free Software.
But, of course, you don't understand what i am talking about.
May be if you take a look at this [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic] you will know what i am talking about. There is the answer to "make windoze better"
I mean, it's a propietary product from a company that in a daily basis attacks our comunity.
Should we help Micro$oft?; and, in fact, it's impossible to make windoze better, because what really makes it a bad product, is the ethical issue of using propietary software, all the other wars about GNU/Linux Being "Technically superior", are just miscellaneous. We shoudln't use windoze because it's wrong to restrict people's Freedom and Minds to achieve a comercial goal. The other "My OS is better than yours" thing is just a childish flame (Doesn't matter if Unix is actually superior or not, or if it turns out that Dr. DOS is the best OS out there, it's not about that). If we are going to have a technicall discusion on OSs , let's have it forgetting what licenses they are released under, and if we are going to discuss how software should be released and distributed, forgot first about the technicall stuff.
May this will sound crazy and off-topic ... but:
What would you do if bill knocks your dor??
I Have dogs, do you?
jajaja, yes, my english sucks!!...
And many times i feel limited in the way i express myself, that's really funny 'cause i like to write [code & literature, short storys], and i am actually very good at both : ); and so many friends laught at me when they see the way i talk in english, the ideas are the same, but it feels like a completely different person writed it. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hide, the first one is a terrific spanish writer, and the second one talks C and C++ very well, and just adapt it to sound like english : ).
Hacking is about amusing people, i have 4 machines: 2 PCs, 1 running HURD 1 running Linux, and 2 Laptops: An old Mac running NetBSD and an old Texas running OpenBSD. I could be running GNU/Linux on all those machines, but i don't. If all were about productivity, we would be still running BSD 4.2, rms wouls be right now an SCO employe, Unix wouldn be ported to Desktops, and me we would be coding propietary shit. Slashdot Would't exist in that world. Fortunately, not everything is about money and productivity, some of us still remember that we are human beens, and that our purpose in life is not to just eat, work, fuck and die, like dogs.
Well, i think it's because we just don't care about business, as long as we can eat and buy the important stuff [mostly technology], we are just fine. Of curse everyone wants money, and it's not a bad thing, money can translate into lots of good things, as long as money doesn't cost more than what it gives to you. If money will cost you your personality, and has to be dressed up like someone you aren't, then i don't want money. I work for a Hosting Company here in Argentina, i just get to work late [beetween 9:30 - 10:00], with old shoes, an Iron Maiden t-shirt, i haven't cut my hair or bear for about 6 months, and many times i come to work knowing that i haven't even had a bath in a 7 days because i am spending day and night in front of emacs and gdb. But my boss know that i fix what needs to be fixed on time, and develop what needs to be developed, well, the last one never on time : ). There are different Roles in life. There are people that was born to rule and have money, and there are others, like we are, that just were born to be happy.
I Agree with you, in part. ...] May be i am wrong [i hope so], but i see a dark future.
In One hand, it's true that when you are a teenager, you feel inmortal, and so, you can die easily.
But it's also true, that it's crashing your car, that you lern that you can actually die. It's best that you lern that when you are 16, that when you are 30.
Teenagers are not actually ready for many things, but if you don't let 'em do those things, they won't never be ready.
But, one other thing we should keep in mind, is that todays teenagers, are not the same way they where 10 years ago [Actually, i am just 20, and i really feel old when i see my sister's friends, they are only 14, and then i remember that when i was 14, i was lerning that you should think before you type, when you are root, i lerned how to get dronk when i was 15, and lost my virginity when i was 16 and a half; Now i see those kids, when you are 14 you *are* a kid, talking about where they are going tonight. The same way, their mind's are broken. When i was 14, i wanted to change the world, i got my first Iron Maiden's CD, and was installing trying [with no luck at all] to get Linux to work on my machine; now, they want a new TV, girls buy britneyspears shit, boys their newmetal shit, they only use their PCs to msn their friends and download pr0n
Perl is a Programming Language. java is a product. That's the difference: Perl has a soul. The First one is dedicated to amuse the coder, the second one, to amuse some manager's pocket.
>>I wrote my first hello world program usinb IBM >>BasicA then
O man, that thing destroyed my brain and delayed my C lerning for years, fortunately, i got over it and actually lerned a real language, but when i see my [original] IBM Dos 4.0 Boot Disks, i drop a tier : )
This is not Propietary Software, this is GNU.
And here we do things really different. If m$ says "We will remove this feature" lusers using m$s abominations has only two options: Keep the old version and keep the feature, or upgrade and loose the feature. But here, if you don't like the GUI that cames with that distro, just download and compile!, i don't see the trouble. As is said in the article: "Applications from KDE and GNOME run reasonably well together today", so you will be able to run the soft and specific config tools and stuff that comes with the distro from your hand-added KDE. Even, if you don't know how to compile KDE or just feel lazy, i am sure that someone will make a binary KDE pack for that distro, or even that an rpm, deb, tgz or whatever package made for other distro that uses the same glibc should work just fine. Besides, even if they don't include KDE; they should include QT Librarys, since there are lots of apps, many of them not KDE specific, that relys on them.
i Think you made a point with your .sig
Actually, that's what we should do about all this desperate IP defending zealots: Ignore them.
We talk about Freedom, We DO practice Freedom. Th FSF exists, and do it's work everyday, and what does those guys about it??, well, they ignore us, as long as we don't have a direct case against 'em. So, Ignore them, stop giving them auddience, No more SCO, no more RIAA, no more DMCS, no more m$, they don't exist. That will tell 'em to come back when they actually has something solid against us.
ooo, it's about trusting??
...
ooo, well we trust you a _lot_ Anonymous Coward marketroid
And, in fact, if he dedicates all day to watch TV is his problem, as long as he takes care of his job and finish what needs to be done.
jajajaja, back when i was a child, i used to hide pr0n on a hiden file kernel32.vxd, on win95, after that me and a friend started calling pr0n "kernel", even in public places as a kind of argot. "Hey, did you copied the kernel CD i give to you last weak" = )
You are abslutely wright, they knew SCO was allready dead, so they used it as a gun in the m$ propietary software Vs. Free Software war.
Yep, it's more than obvious that it's not going to be used to animate kid's birthday parties. When you see big ammounts of money invested in technological projects that are not massive (like computers), are used for Military activities ...
jajajajaj, well, that's just your opinion, and i respect it.
I Actually like real literature, you can like Asimov, but you have to admit that Sthendal is Sthendal and Asimov, just a jewish book-seller : )
Somehow this robots will take over the earth, and create a Virtual Reality where humans will live, because they need as as batteries, and then, one human will take one of that robots and send him to the past, to take care of the starter of the revolution against robots while hhe was a kid, and they (the robot and the kid) will become friends, until the robot decides to kill himself, to probe in front of a court that he is human too, WAIT WAIT WAIT, i am mixing movies again ... so much SCI-Fi for me ...
May i correct you, it was not a "Robin Williams Movie", it was an Isaac Asimov book.
And, yes, The book was as bad as the movie . )
To help me track down this local radio (R&P) ... There is that ilegal assholes broadcasting Folklore and news for yeasterday stealing their signal : ).. May be SETI can find 'em, my hand and the radio just can't = )
>>they couldn't even really use the internet due to >>censorship.
... I think that ANY national government is better than a government imposed by some foreign country.
Censorship exists everywhere, in the USA there is no evident censorhip in the canonical use of the word. but there is another kind of censorship, which is Mind Censorship, if you buy the hole press and put it to work for you and tell the people the shit they should buy (like the CNN does) it's a kind of censorship. And, once again, if you attack some country and take it's government down, it doesn't matter the kind of government it had, you are being the censor. There were people in Iraq that agreed with Saddam's regim (whether you like it or not), and that people has been censored and prosecuted by the USA Army