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1: homebrew 6502 on OSI bare PC boards. I had 4 4k ram cards and a cpu card with the TIM monitor.
2: DEC LSI-11 that I assembled from parts salvaged out of the dumpster when I worked at DEC. I had a 5' high rack with two 4 slot card cages, 64kb or ram, and an RX01 dual floppy drive. Ran RT11.
3: KIM-1. didn't do too much with this.
4: CPM system built from a 'BIG BOARD' kit. 3 8" floppies, 64k (later expanded to 256k) ram, and also later added a 5mb 5.25" hard disk with another kit.
Yes 2.10 comes after 2.8, just as 2.4.10 came after 2.4.9. However the next stable kernel just might be named 3.0.0, (especially if large chunks are replaced to thumb noses at SCO).
what lines in what files of the Linux kernel are being contested. SCO may have won the right to not have in public record the context of the ORIGINAL SCO sources they claim had code taken from, but the portions of the Linux code claimed to have been contaminated may yet be identified. Without seeing the original SCO code you won't be able to prove that the Linux code WAS contaminated, but if you do find out which lines of which files were, you can clean it up.
Florida's sunpass system also issued those mylar bags, which are IDENTICAL to the antistatic bags that hard disks come packed in. They tell you to put your transponder in it if you want to use a regular toll lane to pay your toll and NOT use the transponder. I guess the transponder could be picked up from an adjacient lane?
Florida's Sunpass system also uses cameras to track people that go through the sunpass lanes without a transponder. The transponders aren't perfect, many times I've gone though a lane and got no response, yet it worked fine at the next toll booth. I asked about that, if I go through a toll booth and get no 'beep' the system will grab my license plate number on video, and they will manually debit my account later on. No violations are issued if a plate number matches up with a sun pass account. So you MUST have a license plate number attached to your sunpass account. (Actually you can have SEVERAL plate numbers on one account, if you want to move the transponder from on car to another, if you have several.)
BTW police can also track someones movements via credit card records too.
By the time you buy the PVR350 card, a dvd burner, and of course, the motherboard, cpu, memory, disk, etc, you've already more than shelled out what a TIVO would have cost you in the first place.
And this month TIVO is giving a $50 rebate, so it's even cheaper. (Especially at places like Brands Mart).
Why bother with Myth (unless you REALLY want to hack together your own).
And what is to stop them? If they do NOT distribute any part of the Linux kernel with their hardware, but only provide the binary kernel module (say in the case of a driver provided with a video capture or decoder card) they *MAY* have technically violated the GPL, but this is clearly a case of looking a gift horse in the mouth. If you ban the binary module, they will just stop providing it, and now you can't use their hardware anymore in Linux..... OTOH if they were to provide a complete hw solution based on Linux, running the Linux kernel, using a binary kernel driver module they wrote (such as a router box) they they would have to stop shipping the router unless they provided the source to the derived work.
Debian supports 2.4 right now. You get your choice with 'woody'. True the default install CD DOES install 2.2, but if you boot with the BF24 image, you will install the 2.4 kernel. AND 2.4 kernel images ARE in the 'stable' package tree.
There is enough proof that BPL will cause interference to all HF radio services. The electric power companies are not equipied to manage this service to keep the rf signals in check. Not only are amateur radio interrests fighting this, but the radio broadcast industry is also. The ARRL often asks for donations to fight issues that are a threat to amateur radio, face it lobbying is expensive and that's the way our government works, you have to BUY your way in! (That's why we lost the 136khz allocation, big bucks from the power lobby). We don't need to wait for evaluations later next year, where ever this has been tried before, the results were the same, radio interference. And not just to HF, the AM broadcast band will be rendered useless by this crap, perhaps Loran radio navigation as well. (Marine and avaiation interrests should be up in arms here).
In the 70's an oil cracking plant in NJ caught fire and blew up. I was living in Brooklyn at the time and had a view out my window in the direction of Staten Island. I heard the explosion and saw the sky lit up red from the flames. (My first thought was that the Russians had dropped THE bomb and missed the target!). Later heard that the force of the blast blew out windows in Staten Island.
What happens when Free software conquers all and all the software companies are put out of business, letting their programmers go?
Open source software doesn't feed the family so what do all those out of work developers do? It seems to me that OSS is like a virus that eventually consumes its host, thus ending its own life.
If all software was being written to be an end product then this might be a real problem. However very few programmers actually write software that is sold as a product. Most software is written as part of a larger product, the embedded software 'market' is bigger that Microsoft! Also custom software for one off jobs employs a huge number of programmers. The markets that open source replaces is just the tip of the iceburg in the programming profession!
Well if Debian DOES remove non-free I hope someone will set up a rouge server someplace to hold all non-free debian packages that developers choose to package. There are SOME non free packages that I will run (such as SETI@HOME) because they are usefull, or interresting and I can agree with the providers reasons for not releasing source. And SOME packages are only considered non free because of political bullshit anyway.
I wish that Debian would have some packages of NEWER versions of outdated packages for the current STABLE that I could chose to use WITHOUT having to upgrade the entire distro to TESTING or UNSTABLE. Sometimes I end up downloading the source and building such a version myself.
Well I think I might as well upgrade to Sarge right now, he's close enough to being released anyway so as not to break anything. This worked for me before, I upgraded to Potato and Woody about 6 months or so before they were released, just had to apt-get update / upgrade about once a week to keep up.
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1: homebrew 6502 on OSI bare PC boards. I had 4 4k ram cards and a cpu card with the TIM monitor.
2: DEC LSI-11 that I assembled from parts salvaged out of the dumpster when I worked at DEC. I had a 5' high rack with two 4 slot card cages, 64kb or ram, and an RX01 dual floppy drive. Ran RT11.
3: KIM-1. didn't do too much with this.
4: CPM system built from a 'BIG BOARD' kit. 3 8" floppies, 64k (later expanded to 256k) ram, and also later added a 5mb 5.25" hard disk with another kit.
All of these were sold off quite some time ago.
It's been a chain of pc's since then.
Yes 2.10 comes after 2.8, just as 2.4.10 came after 2.4.9. However the next stable kernel just might be named 3.0.0, (especially if large chunks are replaced to thumb noses at SCO).
what lines in what files of the Linux kernel are being contested. SCO may have won the right to not have in public record the context of the ORIGINAL SCO sources they claim had code taken from, but the portions of the Linux code claimed to have been contaminated may yet be identified. Without seeing the original SCO code you won't be able to prove that the Linux code WAS contaminated, but if you do find out which lines of which files were, you can clean it up.
Florida's sunpass system also issued those mylar bags, which are IDENTICAL to the antistatic bags that hard disks come packed in. They tell you to put your transponder in it if you want to use a regular toll lane to pay your toll and NOT use the transponder. I guess the transponder could be picked up from an adjacient lane?
Florida's Sunpass system also uses cameras to track people that go through the sunpass lanes without a transponder. The transponders aren't perfect, many times I've gone though a lane and got no response, yet it worked fine at the next toll booth. I asked about that, if I go through a toll booth and get no 'beep' the system will grab my license plate number on video, and they will manually debit my account later on. No violations are issued if a plate number matches up with a sun pass account. So you MUST have a license plate number attached to your sunpass account. (Actually you can have SEVERAL plate numbers on one account, if you want to move the transponder from on car to another, if you have several.)
BTW police can also track someones movements via credit card records too.
Speaking of the botanical ship, that was a reprise from the original series, and before that silent running.
I can show prior art by dragging in PeeWee Herman.
By the time you buy the PVR350 card, a dvd burner, and of course, the motherboard, cpu, memory, disk, etc, you've already more than shelled out what a TIVO would have cost you in the first place.
And this month TIVO is giving a $50 rebate, so it's even cheaper. (Especially at places like Brands Mart).
Why bother with Myth (unless you REALLY want to hack together your own).
And what is to stop them? If they do NOT distribute any part of the Linux kernel with their hardware, but only provide the binary kernel module (say in the case of a driver provided with a video capture or decoder card) they *MAY* have technically violated the GPL, but this is clearly a case of looking a gift horse in the mouth. If you ban the binary module, they will just stop providing it, and now you can't use their hardware anymore in Linux.....
OTOH if they were to provide a complete hw solution based on Linux, running the Linux kernel, using a binary kernel driver module they wrote (such as a router box) they they would have to stop shipping the router unless they provided the source to the derived work.
Sounds like Daryl and Co. are marching head on into a buzzsaw.
I've suspected for quite some time that Bill Gates is the anti-christ.
Let's submit a patch that will reformat and zero out the root file system whenever it detects a login from a D. McBride.
Debian supports 2.4 right now. You get your choice with 'woody'. True the default install CD DOES install 2.2, but if you boot with the BF24 image, you will install the 2.4 kernel. AND 2.4 kernel images ARE in the 'stable' package tree.
I would expect that in SF radio shacks would sell 'gay' connectors! (er AC/DC connectors?)
The word 'mother' has another meaning as well (though it seems to be usually only spoken by people of color, at least in urban areas.)
The term 'slave flash' is used to describe a secondary flash unit that fires when it sees the flash from the primary flash connected to the camera.
There is enough proof that BPL will cause interference to all HF radio services. The electric power companies are not equipied to manage this service to keep the rf signals in check. Not only are amateur radio interrests fighting this, but the radio broadcast industry is also. The ARRL often asks for donations to fight issues that are a threat to amateur radio, face it lobbying is expensive and that's the way our government works, you have to BUY your way in! (That's why we lost the 136khz allocation, big bucks from the power lobby). We don't need to wait for evaluations later next year, where ever this has been tried before, the results were the same, radio interference. And not just to HF, the AM broadcast band will be rendered useless by this crap, perhaps Loran radio navigation as well. (Marine and avaiation interrests should be up in arms here).
Lets see, could be the RIAA, or the MPAA,
or SCO! Maybe even M$!
In the 70's an oil cracking plant in NJ caught fire and blew up. I was living in Brooklyn at the time and had a view out my window in the direction of Staten Island. I heard the explosion and saw the sky lit up red from the flames. (My first thought was that the Russians had dropped THE bomb and missed the target!).
Later heard that the force of the blast blew out windows in Staten Island.
A QRM bomb!
What happens when Free software conquers all and all the software companies are put out of business, letting their programmers go?
Open source software doesn't feed the family so what do all those out of work developers do? It seems to me that OSS is like a virus that eventually consumes its host, thus ending its own life.
If all software was being written to be an end product then this might be a real problem. However very few programmers actually write software that is sold as a product. Most software is written as part of a larger product, the embedded software 'market' is bigger that Microsoft! Also custom software for one off jobs employs a huge number of programmers. The markets that open source replaces is just the tip of the iceburg in the programming profession!
Well if Debian DOES remove non-free I hope someone will set up a rouge server someplace to hold all non-free debian packages that developers choose to package. There are SOME non free packages that I will run (such as SETI@HOME) because they are usefull, or interresting and I can agree with the providers reasons for not releasing source. And SOME packages are only considered non free because of political bullshit anyway.
I wish that Debian would have some packages of NEWER versions of outdated packages for the current STABLE that I could chose to use WITHOUT having to upgrade the entire distro to TESTING or UNSTABLE. Sometimes I end up downloading the source and building such a version myself.
Well I think I might as well upgrade to Sarge right now, he's close enough to being released anyway so as not to break anything. This worked for me before, I upgraded to Potato and Woody about 6 months or so before they were released, just had to apt-get update / upgrade about once a week to keep up.
What did the big bang smell like?
"4 parsics, close enough to smell them!" - Checkov
"Ensign, smells do not propagate through the vacuum of space" - Spock
No that was Yordon.