...considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ?:-)...
Geez, I compiled the kernel on a 40 MHz 386 in the old days.
X should be a piece of cake for an iPAQ.
You took the word right out of my mouth. I was in Sweden recently (the densely populated south of Sweden to be precise) and was amazed at how sparsely populated it is. And I do come from a rural area.
No need to give away an address. My mother-in-law's visa card was charged for a lot of CDs she allegedly bought in a shop (of the physical kind) in New York. She could prove that she was on the other side of the Atlantic at the time.
Don't know how they did it.
Did you ever see a computer in a Hollywood movie that was not a mac? (Except WOPR, of course. Given its skills at tic tac toe it must have been a VIC-20.)
It happened to me a lakh times...
It took us some time to persuade them not to use the term lakh in design specs ("the alarm database must be able to keep at least 2 lakh alarm instances").
I wonder when they'll adopt the 'time slip' as suggested by Kim Stanley Robinson in 'Red Mars':
The day has 24 'official' hours; the 39+ extra minutes are, well, extra: party time!
That's right. I was in India recently and overloaded my suitcase with lots of fine books @ 1/10 the US price (let alone the German price for imported books; add another 20%).
But it's funny to see how some books were copied in a hurry: with nicely reproduced kinks in the original pages, half empty pages, wrong sequence of pages, wrong orientation etc.
But then, $1000 saved is $1000 earned!
Still, I wonder if the Indian subsidiaries of O'Reilly et al. are for real...
I seem to be the only one, but I don't want an overclocked high-end machine buzzing along under my desk. I'd prefer a decent quiet and environmentally friendly little file server, which doesn't get on my ears or my electricity bill.
Alas, like with motorcycles, there doesn't seem to be any demand in this direction.
Prove me wrong! Do you have or know of such a thing?
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Oh, you were talking about degrees Fahrenheit...
And I had to compile it quite often. No off-the shelf kernels, precompiled modules and the like.
...considering it's Gentoo, how long would X take to compile on an iPAQ? :-) ...
Geez, I compiled the kernel on a 40 MHz 386 in the old days.
X should be a piece of cake for an iPAQ.
No way this is funny...
You took the word right out of my mouth. I was in Sweden recently (the densely populated south of Sweden to be precise) and was amazed at how sparsely populated it is. And I do come from a rural area.
No need to give away an address. My mother-in-law's visa card was charged for a lot of CDs she allegedly bought in a shop (of the physical kind) in New York. She could prove that she was on the other side of the Atlantic at the time.
Don't know how they did it.
If you are worried about privacy, give me your visa number and I google for you. This will hide the connection between your name and the number.
Did you ever see a computer in a Hollywood movie that was not a mac?
(Except WOPR, of course. Given its skills at tic tac toe it must have been a VIC-20.)
Maybe they found out that it wouldn't be good for national security if the US were in control?
Bei ze vay: Ze airplane was neither invented by American nor Russians, but also by us. To be precise, by Otto Lilienthal
In fact, nano is Italian and means dwarf.
And if you go a bit further:
femto and atto are Danish (I guess) and mean fifteen and eighteen (digits). Easy, isn't it?
It happened to me a lakh times... It took us some time to persuade them not to use the term lakh in design specs ("the alarm database must be able to keep at least 2 lakh alarm instances").
You (if you are the same AC as before) are of course right that the socialist part of Stanley's fiction is inane.
The capitalist part (the optimistic assumption that a whole planetary biosphere can be built almost without effort) is even worse.
But still it is fun reading. And as a physicist, I can assure you that I've seen much worse SciFi in my life.
Funny, I didn't know I am not a scientist!
I wonder when they'll adopt the 'time slip' as suggested by Kim Stanley Robinson in 'Red Mars':
The day has 24 'official' hours; the 39+ extra minutes are, well, extra: party time!
But it's funny to see how some books were copied in a hurry: with nicely reproduced kinks in the original pages, half empty pages, wrong sequence of pages, wrong orientation etc.
But then, $1000 saved is $1000 earned!
Still, I wonder if the Indian subsidiaries of O'Reilly et al. are for real...
I seem to be the only one, but I don't want an overclocked high-end machine buzzing along under my desk. I'd prefer a decent quiet and environmentally friendly little file server, which doesn't get on my ears or my electricity bill.
Alas, like with motorcycles, there doesn't seem to be any demand in this direction.
Prove me wrong! Do you have or know of such a thing?