I have a machine at work running 2.4.5 that has been running rock solid for 157 days. Granted, it's just a workstation that runs GIMP and other handy programs. However, it does run xaos while I'm not using it (so it has been at 100% CPU for most of that time)! It is still very responsive after all this time. PPro 200s are great machines...
Even funnier is how they mention "war walking", and then they mention that Strand was their target road. I think anybody crazy enough to walk down Strand with a laptop open and operating in front of them could easily have any of the following problems:
a) trip and fall
b) be trampled on
c) have their laptop destroyed by (a) and/or (b)
Just walking down Strand is an adrenaline rush, weaving in and out of the other pedestrians.. I don't possibly see how anybody could walk with a laptop in front of them there!
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Ack, I wouldn't try running the latest Linux distros on older hardware, as the latest distros are obviously "optimized" for newer hardware. Red Hat 6 should run fine, although there are a number of different paths you could take. I've been using Debian, and it installs on everything from a 386 to an Itanium, and runs smoothly. It's a bit harder to install, but then installing and upgrading software on it is a piece of cake later on, using apt-get.
Another route you could take would be to try FreeBSD, as even the newest versions still run very nicely on old hardware. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.4 on a P75 with 16 MB of RAM, and it has been chugging along, happily playing MP3s via NFS in our living room. I can even be compiling software while playing MP3s, and it plays flawlessly.
The issue you mentioned about Tuxracer going so slow is because the S3 Trio64+ doesn't have OpenGL hardware acceleration (to my knowledge, at least), which means that Tuxracer is going to do all of the OpenGL via software. This equates to incredibly low frame rates, until a better video card is used. Your best bet, if you're really looking into running OpenGL applications, would be 1) buy a better video card, 2) install XFree86 4.1.0 (see xfree86.org), and 3) enjoy.
I'm not sure about the SoundIII drivers you are asking about -- search google for "SoundIII and Linux" and see what comes up.
Weitzner: The switch to commercial use did happen and it's clear that we are all the better for it. Without that, most of us would not be online and there would be no Web, no Freenet, no Napster, and only closed, proprietary email systems like the old Prodigy.
I remember the web before commercial interests muddied it. Granted, there weren't web sites like weather.com, but look at what those sites have become nowadays. They are nothing more than breeding grounds for eyecandy junk and annoying pop-under advertisements. I have to wade through lots of clutter just to find out the weather forecast. There are a few good reasons for commercial interests to take part in the web, but by and large they've made my browsing experience much less rewarding and far more annoying.
Also, speaking as somebody who has been reading slashdot before user IDs existed, the biggest differences I've seen in slashdot after OSDN financial backing are more advertisements, and now a cheesy OSDN bar at the top. I'm sure slashdot's machinery has gotten bigger and badder as a result, but isn't that just to support more readers, which leads to more advertising?
The problem I see with any commercial interests is that they don't know when to stop marketing. Try not watching TV for a month, and then watch a sports game of your choice. It's so littered with advertisements that it's hard to even focus on what the show is showing! I feel that the web is quickly becoming just that -- a trashed hodge-podge of mostly advertisements for things you Just Don't Want To Buy(tm).
With that being said, is anybody actively developing a gopher server?:^)
Yesterday (apparently right before Gates had has interview), I set up Pac-Man full-screen via MAME on my Linux box at work! No joke! I had no idea that Gates would say what he said. Funny thing is, the two sysadmins (currently at M$ TechEd) will probably come back, see Pac-Man running on my box, and be very frightened.:^)
First, they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win. - Gandhi
I wonder if this will run binaries of Mac-on-Linux... Oddly enough, it may now be easier to run the binary of MOL than to port it to NetBSD! If anyone tries this, let us know!
I've posted comments a couple times on Slashdot about resurrecting gopher. Maybe now, people will stop thinking that I'm the sole raving lunatic around here.:^)
A friend and I have been proposing that gopher be resurrected for this purpose -- an "underground" internet-based source for truly free information.
The web (in its current state) has become a playground for everybody, and it's gotten quite messy. Banner advertisements are constantly being shoved down one's throat; the same goes with ALT tag ads if you've turned image loading off. Everybody's "corporate interest" is leading to this or that company or government or organization trying to stop the freedom of speech that we enjoyed on the Web only a small time ago. Escaping corporate interests will be harder and harder as time goes on, because it looks like it's going to become illegal to do so.
So, the solution that a friend and I thought of would be to make a second internet -- one without the "crap".:^) I think this would most easily accomplished with a reformed gopher architecture. That way, there can be no images can be loaded into the information, and there are no layout tags. Just free information. Plain Old Text.
If anybody else wants to investigate this as a team project, send me an email -- I'd love to talk.
Ha! This brings up an interesting point. The lawyer's email itself contains links to the posts which link to the material that they want removed. Therefore, the lawyer's email is also suspect and must be removed!:^)
While all of my tests have been with higher bitrates (192 kbps and up), I haven't noticed any difference in the quality of the files produced by the newest CVS LAME. Somebody else will have to try some lower quality tests and post them; I've already spent too much time on this stuff already.:^)
I think LILO uses large numbers for version numbers, like 21-4 and such. Apparently the guy submitting LILO updates to freshmeat is saying that 21 is the minor version number, not the major version number.
This is great news! No more separate/boot partitions, etc..
I've had to explain the 1024 cylinder limitation to numerous newbies before, and it does nothing but puzzle them. Once distributions get the new LILO, that's a thing of the past. Maybe it's not too late for Debian to fold this into potato. Fingers crossed...
Here's a question for boot loader gurus: Do GRUB and other boot loaders have the 1024 cylinder limit problem as well?
I find this list degrading at best. I'm 20 years old and apparently I'm different than the stereotype that you've casted with this list.
First, I've grown up with reel-to-reel and 8-tracks, cassettes, vinyl, etc. etc.. In fact, I own a record player here in my apartment.
I definitely have a recollection of who Reagan was, the Iran-Contra affair, Gulf War, etc. etc. Contrary to popular belief, we do learn about a lot of that stuff in school, as it's going on. I would bet that we were probably more informed about these things than many adults. To prove my point, my 5th grade teacher's son was in the gulf war, so we heard a little about it every day -- from her son's letters.
I clearly remember the Berlin Wall falling.
And don't think that I didn't see the Challenger explode. I was standing outside (in Orlando, FL) that January 28th, 1986 (YES, I remember the date) and saw the damn thing blow up to pieces.
Bottles have not always been plastic to me -- I learned at a very young age what the little "bottle opener" thing was on the machine for glass bottles.
I also own an Atari 2600 and grew up with it. I have many games for it and still play it to this date. People think I'm a loon for it, but I'm quite proud that it still works. Same goes for the NES I have. I also own some other Radio Shack garbage, but we won't mention that.:^)
Pacman is my god (next to Linus Torvalds).
I have feared Nuclear War -- did you read "Alas, Babylon" in high school?
I have not always had an answering machine and a computer. I have never had a beeper, and I am more interested in their technical characteristics than their actual use.
I've seen TVs with 13 channels -- I used to have one. VHF and UHF are acronyms that are still embedded in my head.:^)
I do know what Beta is. In fact, I just made a joke about it the other day in German class.
Roller skating has not always meant inline. Inline didn't seem to be a trend until the early 90s.
I have seen Larry Bird play. The aforementioned teams are still considered "expansion teams" by me.
I've seen Jaws. All of the shows you mentioned I've seen (many when they were really on the air).
Of course I remember "Where's the Beef?".. I parody her and the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady occasionally.
..Mork is none other than Robin Williams!
I've eaten a lot of McDonalds that came in styrofoam containers, and I'm quite familiar with bands that are named after cities.:^)
Well, anyway, point proved. Maybe I'm just different than everybody else my age, but I clearly remember a lot of the stuff that this list said that I didn't.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I've never understood the "Motif is ugly" argument. What exactly is it that is unappealing?
Motif apps just seem to have the same drab, "don't look at me too long or your eyes will cross" appearance. I think more than anything it's the lack of themeability for checkboxes, drop-down boxes, scroll bars, and the like. Please correct if I'm wrong and there is a way to make these appear differently.
Remember, Motif is *highly* customizable (even themeable to an extent with X resources files, although you don't get background pixmaps). Calling Motif ugly is just saying "I don't like the defaults, and I don't know how to change them."
Here's a hint for your.Xdefaults file: *background: grey80
The only changable thing I've seen is colors. I'm highly interested in knowing other ones, but I've never seen them in anything I've read or come across.
"And they're not archaic." Um...like unix? or X?
When I say that they are archaic, I'm not necessarily referring just to the age of the toolkits themselves. More specifically, I'm referring to the concepts they embrace, and how they will address user and developer needs in the future. A few years ago, Motif had lots of commercial momentum driving it. Yet, a year and a half ago, The Open Group has discontinued its development. Lesstif (AFAIK) is the only actively developed form of Motif now. Are new features planning on being added in Lesstif, or will it just be a game of catch-up until it is completely feature complete?
Unix, while being archaic in the age sense, is in many ways less archaic than Windows -- the most interesting ideas and projects (at least, in my opinion) are being implemented on Unix based systems. This makes it more "lively" than other systems, namely Windows and the like. See spinkham's comment above for more insight as to what I mean.
About X being archaic -- all I have to say is bring on Berlin!:^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
What do you think that QT & GTK are missing to be a true replacement of Motif?
Well, for one, both QT and GTK lack the butt-ugliness of Motif. Secondly, they lack the quality that they're not as akin to bashing your head against the wall when programming with them. Thirdly, they're not archaic. That's about all I can think of..:^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Does anyone know if IP masquerading (or a workalike) is offered in FreeBSD? I'm going to need a IP masquerading box for next semester, and if FreeBSD does this I might try it just for fun. Linux is just getting too easy these days..:^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
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I have a machine at work running 2.4.5 that has been running rock solid for 157 days. Granted, it's just a workstation that runs GIMP and other handy programs. However, it does run xaos while I'm not using it (so it has been at 100% CPU for most of that time)! It is still very responsive after all this time. PPro 200s are great machines...
Even funnier is how they mention "war walking", and then they mention that Strand was their target road. I think anybody crazy enough to walk down Strand with a laptop open and operating in front of them could easily have any of the following problems:
a) trip and fall
b) be trampled on
c) have their laptop destroyed by (a) and/or (b)
Just walking down Strand is an adrenaline rush, weaving in and out of the other pedestrians.. I don't possibly see how anybody could walk with a laptop in front of them there!
Ack, I wouldn't try running the latest Linux distros on older hardware, as the latest distros are obviously "optimized" for newer hardware. Red Hat 6 should run fine, although there are a number of different paths you could take. I've been using Debian, and it installs on everything from a 386 to an Itanium, and runs smoothly. It's a bit harder to install, but then installing and upgrading software on it is a piece of cake later on, using apt-get.
Another route you could take would be to try FreeBSD, as even the newest versions still run very nicely on old hardware. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.4 on a P75 with 16 MB of RAM, and it has been chugging along, happily playing MP3s via NFS in our living room. I can even be compiling software while playing MP3s, and it plays flawlessly.
The issue you mentioned about Tuxracer going so slow is because the S3 Trio64+ doesn't have OpenGL hardware acceleration (to my knowledge, at least), which means that Tuxracer is going to do all of the OpenGL via software. This equates to incredibly low frame rates, until a better video card is used. Your best bet, if you're really looking into running OpenGL applications, would be 1) buy a better video card, 2) install XFree86 4.1.0 (see xfree86.org), and 3) enjoy.
I'm not sure about the SoundIII drivers you are asking about -- search google for "SoundIII and Linux" and see what comes up.
I remember the web before commercial interests muddied it. Granted, there weren't web sites like weather.com, but look at what those sites have become nowadays. They are nothing more than breeding grounds for eyecandy junk and annoying pop-under advertisements. I have to wade through lots of clutter just to find out the weather forecast. There are a few good reasons for commercial interests to take part in the web, but by and large they've made my browsing experience much less rewarding and far more annoying.
Also, speaking as somebody who has been reading slashdot before user IDs existed, the biggest differences I've seen in slashdot after OSDN financial backing are more advertisements, and now a cheesy OSDN bar at the top. I'm sure slashdot's machinery has gotten bigger and badder as a result, but isn't that just to support more readers, which leads to more advertising?
The problem I see with any commercial interests is that they don't know when to stop marketing. Try not watching TV for a month, and then watch a sports game of your choice. It's so littered with advertisements that it's hard to even focus on what the show is showing! I feel that the web is quickly becoming just that -- a trashed hodge-podge of mostly advertisements for things you Just Don't Want To Buy(tm).
With that being said, is anybody actively developing a gopher server?
...and have the BSA audit Microsoft! I bet they haven't paid for any copy of Windows that they have!
:^)
We're in step 3, folks.
Looks like RMS isn't too far away from this! :^)
My question is, "Why?"
I wonder if this will run binaries of Mac-on-Linux... Oddly enough, it may now be easier to run the binary of MOL than to port it to NetBSD! If anyone tries this, let us know!
I've posted comments a couple times on Slashdot about resurrecting gopher. Maybe now, people will stop thinking that I'm the sole raving lunatic around here. :^)
Now come on, we all know that the moon has a mass of 81.02 billion billion tons. For the magnitudinally challenged, that's 81.02 quintillion tons.
Well, since nobody else has replied to this one yet, I'll jump in and say that the best thing to do would be to try it and see. :^)
Don't you mean heterogenous? If it were homogeneous, you'd be running only one type of client.
A friend and I have been proposing that gopher be resurrected for this purpose -- an "underground" internet-based source for truly free information.
:^) I think this would most easily accomplished with a reformed gopher architecture. That way, there can be no images can be loaded into the information, and there are no layout tags. Just free information. Plain Old Text.
The web (in its current state) has become a playground for everybody, and it's gotten quite messy. Banner advertisements are constantly being shoved down one's throat; the same goes with ALT tag ads if you've turned image loading off. Everybody's "corporate interest" is leading to this or that company or government or organization trying to stop the freedom of speech that we enjoyed on the Web only a small time ago. Escaping corporate interests will be harder and harder as time goes on, because it looks like it's going to become illegal to do so.
So, the solution that a friend and I thought of would be to make a second internet -- one without the "crap".
If anybody else wants to investigate this as a team project, send me an email -- I'd love to talk.
Jon Abbott
Ha! This brings up an interesting point. The lawyer's email itself contains links to the posts which link to the material that they want removed. Therefore, the lawyer's email is also suspect and must be removed! :^)
... Yes, but can it play Pac-Man?
While all of my tests have been with higher bitrates (192 kbps and up), I haven't noticed any difference in the quality of the files produced by the newest CVS LAME. Somebody else will have to try some lower quality tests and post them; I've already spent too much time on this stuff already. :^)
I checked the Debian changelog for LILO, and it looks like they are going to go ahead and put it in potato. Yay! :^)
I think LILO uses large numbers for version numbers, like 21-4 and such. Apparently the guy submitting LILO updates to freshmeat is saying that 21 is the minor version number, not the major version number.
This is great news! No more separate /boot partitions, etc..
I've had to explain the 1024 cylinder limitation to numerous newbies before, and it does nothing but puzzle them. Once distributions get the new LILO, that's a thing of the past. Maybe it's not too late for Debian to fold this into potato. Fingers crossed...
Here's a question for boot loader gurus: Do GRUB and other boot loaders have the 1024 cylinder limit problem as well?
So having an uptime of 99.999% would mean that your average downtime per year is 0.86 seconds? All I can say is, "not bad"! :^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I find this list degrading at best. I'm 20 years old and apparently I'm different than the stereotype that you've casted with this list.
:^)
:^)
:^)
First, I've grown up with reel-to-reel and 8-tracks, cassettes, vinyl, etc. etc.. In fact, I own a record player here in my apartment.
I definitely have a recollection of who Reagan was, the Iran-Contra affair, Gulf War, etc. etc. Contrary to popular belief, we do learn about a lot of that stuff in school, as it's going on. I would bet that we were probably more informed about these things than many adults. To prove my point, my 5th grade teacher's son was in the gulf war, so we heard a little about it every day -- from her son's letters.
I clearly remember the Berlin Wall falling.
And don't think that I didn't see the Challenger explode. I was standing outside (in Orlando, FL) that January 28th, 1986 (YES, I remember the date) and saw the damn thing blow up to pieces.
Bottles have not always been plastic to me -- I learned at a very young age what the little "bottle opener" thing was on the machine for glass bottles.
I also own an Atari 2600 and grew up with it. I have many games for it and still play it to this date. People think I'm a loon for it, but I'm quite proud that it still works. Same goes for the NES I have. I also own some other Radio Shack garbage, but we won't mention that.
Pacman is my god (next to Linus Torvalds).
I have feared Nuclear War -- did you read "Alas, Babylon" in high school?
I have not always had an answering machine and a computer. I have never had a beeper, and I am more interested in their technical characteristics than their actual use.
I've seen TVs with 13 channels -- I used to have one. VHF and UHF are acronyms that are still embedded in my head.
I do know what Beta is. In fact, I just made a joke about it the other day in German class.
Roller skating has not always meant inline. Inline didn't seem to be a trend until the early 90s.
I have seen Larry Bird play. The aforementioned teams are still considered "expansion teams" by me.
I've seen Jaws. All of the shows you mentioned I've seen (many when they were really on the air).
Of course I remember "Where's the Beef?".. I parody her and the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady occasionally.
..Mork is none other than Robin Williams!
I've eaten a lot of McDonalds that came in styrofoam containers, and I'm quite familiar with bands that are named after cities.
Well, anyway, point proved. Maybe I'm just different than everybody else my age, but I clearly remember a lot of the stuff that this list said that I didn't.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Motif apps just seem to have the same drab, "don't look at me too long or your eyes will cross" appearance. I think more than anything it's the lack of themeability for checkboxes, drop-down boxes, scroll bars, and the like. Please correct if I'm wrong and there is a way to make these appear differently.
The only changable thing I've seen is colors. I'm highly interested in knowing other ones, but I've never seen them in anything I've read or come across.
When I say that they are archaic, I'm not necessarily referring just to the age of the toolkits themselves. More specifically, I'm referring to the concepts they embrace, and how they will address user and developer needs in the future. A few years ago, Motif had lots of commercial momentum driving it. Yet, a year and a half ago, The Open Group has discontinued its development. Lesstif (AFAIK) is the only actively developed form of Motif now. Are new features planning on being added in Lesstif, or will it just be a game of catch-up until it is completely feature complete?
Unix, while being archaic in the age sense, is in many ways less archaic than Windows -- the most interesting ideas and projects (at least, in my opinion) are being implemented on Unix based systems. This makes it more "lively" than other systems, namely Windows and the like. See spinkham's comment above for more insight as to what I mean.
About X being archaic -- all I have to say is bring on Berlin!
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Well, for one, both QT and GTK lack the butt-ugliness of Motif. Secondly, they lack the quality that they're not as akin to bashing your head against the wall when programming with them. Thirdly, they're not archaic. That's about all I can think of..
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Does anyone know if IP masquerading (or a workalike) is offered in FreeBSD? I'm going to need a IP masquerading box for next semester, and if FreeBSD does this I might try it just for fun. Linux is just getting too easy these days.. :^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?