If you have a package in mind, there are few better places to look than RPMfind, use your "local" mirror: East Coast (MIT) West Coast (Speakeasy) France #1 (INRIA) France #2 (INSA)
I'm just waiting for the security level to get bumped a color because the Whitehouse[.gov] is under a coordinated attack by people from around the world!
If you're using Mozilla, or a mozilla derived browser, you can add Ted Mielczarek great Flash, Click to Play extension: extension installer. You can find info on it here and here.
Get your self a nice Space Cadet Keyboard. Nice action, plus you never know when you will need triangle, meta, super, or hyper! Actually this is something I have been trying to hunt down for a couple years, quite a nice piece of equipment.
The Nature (or was it Science) Article that this is based off was unable to determine whether this was a truly learned behavior, a physiological differance, or both.
Science is all about failure, hell even the way we look at experimentation is ALL about failure. You never prove that something worked, you only prove that it didn't catachimically explode in your face, forcing your funding agency to bludgen you to death.
Admittedly that is no the kind of thing you are talking about, but when you are doing somethign "experimental," you know going to space, trying to keep somethign at 1 bar pressure over a trench that extends 7 miles down; in an oncoming typhoon no less, failure is going to happen. It just adds to the list of thigns that you have to address when you rethink and revisit the problem.
The article states that the beacon (only emitted at the surface) was briefly heard, this means that it at least *hit* the surface after the tether broke, thougth I agree, it most likely sank, and implosion of the sort you predict is unlikely.
If you were a new user and were able to get say RedHat 7.2 up on your computer, and had been using it to do thigns like mail, browsing, etc; and then went to upgrade your version of Mozilla, the program you use to check your email and browse the web (oh there are others for redhat, I didn't know that, you have to think like the people we are trying to get to use our applications), yuo aren't going to knwo how to recompile, nor are you goign to know what glibc or gcc are. All you know is that you can't read you favorite webpage, cause for some reason it used lots of java, and your kids can't get to Disney/WhateverTheCurrentCartoonIs.com. What are you going to do? well, you're going to try to do the same thing that you did in Windows, reboot, and when that doesn't work try to uninstall and reinstall the program. When that fails to fix the problem, how many of this type of user and going to go search for an old version to install, and how many are going to give up and reinstall win98?
Yes, I knwo what i sound like. And this is nothing like win95/win3.11 incompatibility. People using the systems that are effected are trying to LEARN something new, they are taking a chance on Linux and Open Source Software. And we already know what A solution is, a precompiled binary against gcc 2.9x, with a link saying if you are using a version of linux with gcc 2.9x (list the relevant RH/Mandrake/SuSE numbers) you need this version. Yes, it is one more step for the developers, but think it is better than saying if you want to browse the web, learn to compile everything from source.
Re:The problem is with PRECOMPILED only.
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You have got to be kidding me! If we want widespread adoption of mozilla, it just "has to work". Admittedly, many of the people who are using systems that would be effected would know enough about linux to be able to recompile, but they may not know that a recompile will fix this bug, and shouldn't be expected to. I agree with many people who have said that for linux adoption both at home and in the workplace, it needs to STOP requiring you to know everyuting that's going on. If widespread adoption is a goal we want to pursue, and I think it should be, then this is a problem that we need to address. To have incompatiblities in a program as central to a users experience as the web browser, is a problem that is especially dire. Things that should *Just Work* when installed are: some WM, email, browser, text editor. If we can't do that, then we have serious problems with the way we are addressing our users.
A few other people are throwing their two cents in, but those were the most interesting, code be an interesting test of corporate policey, and the ability of the GPL to withstand a court battle.
I for one think this is a really neat idea. I think this is the use for powerline ethernet I have seen yet. Buy one Etheret adapter to hook your NAT box into the powerline, and a couple of the access points, keep one in the middle of the house, and plug the other one in outside when you want to work in the yard? Great Idea.
While not the most attractive things in the world, a big (eg: they come anywhere from 6-12' long, I like the 8 footers) works well. Make sure you don't get a cheap one though, as they don't handle weight all that well. You can probably get an older one (read: sturdier/metal, no plastic crap) one from a garage, rumage, bizzarre sale.
You can easily do Dual-head, multiple machines, multiple people, plus it is fairly portable! -OctaneZ
The Text from: http://www3.hmc.edu/~bgreer/barmonkey/ is it appears to be ebing served by a 486 as well. ------- The Bar Monkey Designed and Implemented by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer of Harvey Mudd College
The Bar Monkey, simply put, is a vending machine that serves mixed drinks. It houses 16 reservoirs which currently contain the following ingredients:
*Ingredients currently under consideration for replacement
Using these 16 ingredients, a total of 188 different drinks can be made, with the included ability to add ounce increments of each ingredient to customize (or create) a drink. The drink database is easy to update and nearly infinitely expandable.
Customers sign up for a user account, for which they are assigned a unique, 5-digit, hexadecimal PIN. The account is debit-based, with each drink charging the customer at cost for the drink they are purchasing, automatically deducting from their account balance.
All told, the project took about 3 months and $235 to complete. It is worth mentioning, however, that the LCD (the most expensive single component) was donated (approx. value: $100+), and various other components were otherwise acquired for free. The Bar Monkey was graciously funded by West Dorm HMC, even though we were overbudget by $85. Continual maintenance and occasional improvements are still always a concern. Some Pictures:
Beta Testing
Here's the cabinet when it was just a few shelves holding empty 2-liter bottles. One pump is hooked up to the computer for the purpose of taking time-constant data.
Soldering I
Having collected the time-constant data, Steve and Brad dutifully solder half-inch jumpers to each of the 4 leads on each of the 16 relays. Neither of us knows, to this day, why we did this outside.
Soldering II
Closeup of the meticulous but tedious jumper-soldering process.
Bartop Under Construction
The unfinished bartop, with various tools, containers, and other helpful things strewn across it in the midst of hard work.
The Monkey's Central Nervous System
The finished relay board, connected to the computer via parallel ports. The computer is running the Bar Monkey program, which displays the drink code prompt on the LCD.
LCD and Keypad Closeup
The above-mentioned drink prompt, but closer.
Behind the Scenes of the Relay Board
It looks really nice and neat on top, but the relay board was quite possibly the most difficult part of the entire project. What you see here are 16 relays, 16 diodes, 16 resistors, 16 transistors, and approximately 70 small segments of wire (not counting the 64 jumpers).
Inside the Finished Product I (shown above)
Pretty self-explanatory. The pumps and their respective reservoirs in place, the computer and relay board safely tucked on a shelf, the LCD behind a half-inch of acrylic, and all the tubes pulled through the PVC dispenser neck.
Inside the Finished Product II
Same as above, but from a different angle.
Electronics Closeup
The LCD, with extension cable to the keypad and serial cable to the computer, is at the top right. The bottom of the computer is unimpressive, though dominant in the frame, and the relay board is seen off to the side.
Outside the Finished Product
Here we see the Bar Monkey as customers see it, complete with Dustin's excellent stencil design and the nozzle, which is removable for cleaning.
The Finished Bartop
The top of the Bar Monkey, covered in rugged black plastic with a viewing window for the LCD.
Finished LCD and Keypad Closeup
It still looks pretty much the way it did when it was unfinished, only now it isn't just laying on the floor.
Drink Confirmation
The true beginning of the customer's experience with the Bar Monkey.
Technical Specs:
* Runs a program written in C by Dustin Cooper, in Linux.
* Bartop is approximately four feet above the ground.
* Holds approximately 1.75 liters of each ingredient.
* Uses 16 windshield washer pumps run by a 12V adaptor. Pumps are connected in parallel and run sequentially by the program.
* Dispenses an 8 oz. mixed drink in less than 10 seconds.
* Currently has 30 registered user accounts, with expected rapid growth as people cease being broke.
Well, I would just like to point out that Talk has been around effectively forever, with a more standardized version appearing with 4.2 BSD (although it broke compatibility with Sun's implementation at the time)
This may be true, but keep in mind many of their donations are of their own software, which the "donate" at full suggested retail value? These prices are throught the roof, no consumer pays (or should pay) what they claim the value of the software is that they are donating.
Slashdot Mirror
Well seeing as Mandrake is in freeze for 9.2 gold (rc1 is out), isn't this a bit late?
If you have a package in mind, there are few better places to look than RPMfind, use your "local" mirror:
East Coast (MIT)
West Coast (Speakeasy)
France #1 (INRIA)
France #2 (INSA)
I'm just waiting for the security level to get bumped a color because the Whitehouse[.gov] is under a coordinated attack by people from around the world!
Click the link! Change the Color!
The web-form system appears to be a bit overloaded at the moment.
*spooky music*
And then slashdot linked to it....
If you're using Mozilla, or a mozilla derived browser, you can add Ted Mielczarek great Flash, Click to Play extension: extension installer. You can find info on it here and here.
Amusing but absent! They haven't done a show in 2 years and 3 days!
see:
Radio
Get your self a nice Space Cadet Keyboard. Nice action, plus you never know when you will need triangle, meta, super, or hyper!
Actually this is something I have been trying to hunt down for a couple years, quite a nice piece of equipment.
The Nature (or was it Science) Article that this is based off was unable to determine whether this was a truly learned behavior, a physiological differance, or both.
Science is all about failure, hell even the way we look at experimentation is ALL about failure. You never prove that something worked, you only prove that it didn't catachimically explode in your face, forcing your funding agency to bludgen you to death.
Admittedly that is no the kind of thing you are talking about, but when you are doing somethign "experimental," you know going to space, trying to keep somethign at 1 bar pressure over a trench that extends 7 miles down; in an oncoming typhoon no less, failure is going to happen. It just adds to the list of thigns that you have to address when you rethink and revisit the problem.
"Map" of location of Marianas Trench
Wikipedia entry for Challenger Deep
The Trench is located east of the Matianas Islands
Hope this helps you find it.
The article states that the beacon (only emitted at the surface) was briefly heard, this means that it at least *hit* the surface after the tether broke, thougth I agree, it most likely sank, and implosion of the sort you predict is unlikely.
If you were a new user and were able to get say RedHat 7.2 up on your computer, and had been using it to do thigns like mail, browsing, etc; and then went to upgrade your version of Mozilla, the program you use to check your email and browse the web (oh there are others for redhat, I didn't know that, you have to think like the people we are trying to get to use our applications), yuo aren't going to knwo how to recompile, nor are you goign to know what glibc or gcc are. All you know is that you can't read you favorite webpage, cause for some reason it used lots of java, and your kids can't get to Disney/WhateverTheCurrentCartoonIs.com. What are you going to do? well, you're going to try to do the same thing that you did in Windows, reboot, and when that doesn't work try to uninstall and reinstall the program. When that fails to fix the problem, how many of this type of user and going to go search for an old version to install, and how many are going to give up and reinstall win98?
Yes, I knwo what i sound like. And this is nothing like win95/win3.11 incompatibility. People using the systems that are effected are trying to LEARN something new, they are taking a chance on Linux and Open Source Software. And we already know what A solution is, a precompiled binary against gcc 2.9x, with a link saying if you are using a version of linux with gcc 2.9x (list the relevant RH/Mandrake/SuSE numbers) you need this version. Yes, it is one more step for the developers, but think it is better than saying if you want to browse the web, learn to compile everything from source.
You have got to be kidding me! If we want widespread adoption of mozilla, it just "has to work". Admittedly, many of the people who are using systems that would be effected would know enough about linux to be able to recompile, but they may not know that a recompile will fix this bug, and shouldn't be expected to.
I agree with many people who have said that for linux adoption both at home and in the workplace, it needs to STOP requiring you to know everyuting that's going on. If widespread adoption is a goal we want to pursue, and I think it should be, then this is a problem that we need to address.
To have incompatiblities in a program as central to a users experience as the web browser, is a problem that is especially dire. Things that should *Just Work* when installed are: some WM, email, browser, text editor. If we can't do that, then we have serious problems with the way we are addressing our users.
A couple follow ups on the kernel mailing list:
A very interesting bit from the busybox maintainer, who has evidently already sent linksys two letters
A post outlinging the possibility that Belkin is also shipping GPL'd code
A few other people are throwing their two cents in, but those were the most interesting, code be an interesting test of corporate policey, and the ability of the GPL to withstand a court battle.
Here is the Powerline 802.11b adapter.
Here is the powerline ethernet adapter.
I for one think this is a really neat idea. I think this is the use for powerline ethernet I have seen yet. Buy one Etheret adapter to hook your NAT box into the powerline, and a couple of the access points, keep one in the middle of the house, and plug the other one in outside when you want to work in the yard? Great Idea.
Boss: "waht are you doing there?"
Worker: "I'm coding boss! I swear!"
Boss walks away...
Worker (hushed tones): Damnit the wizard got me again
You can read more info about the plea bargain and case at: http://www.cybercrime.gov/rocciPlea.htm
-OctaneZ
While not the most attractive things in the world, a big (eg: they come anywhere from 6-12' long, I like the 8 footers) works well. Make sure you don't get a cheap one though, as they don't handle weight all that well. You can probably get an older one (read: sturdier/metal, no plastic crap) one from a garage, rumage, bizzarre sale.
You can easily do Dual-head, multiple machines, multiple people, plus it is fairly portable!
-OctaneZ
The judicious use of a sledgehammer!
The removal of a few walls (I recomend avoiding weight-bearing walls)
Really improved my signal reception!
WARNING: you MAY not get your security deposit back
-OZ
The link should point to http://www.gaspig.com
Or Check the Google Cache
The Text from: http://www3.hmc.edu/~bgreer/barmonkey/ is it appears to be ebing served by a 486 as well.
-------
The Bar Monkey
Designed and Implemented by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer
of Harvey Mudd College
The Bar Monkey, simply put, is a vending machine that serves mixed drinks. It houses 16 reservoirs which currently contain the following ingredients:
* Vodka
* Rum
* Tequila
* Whiskey
* Gin
* Amaretto
* Triple Sec
* Kahlua (or coffee liqueur)
* Midori (or melon liqueur)
* Orange Juice
* Pineapple Juice
* Cranberry Juice
* Sour Mix
* Cola*
* Tonic*
* Grenadine*
*Ingredients currently under consideration for replacement
Using these 16 ingredients, a total of 188 different drinks can be made, with the included ability to add ounce increments of each ingredient to customize (or create) a drink. The drink database is easy to update and nearly infinitely expandable.
Customers sign up for a user account, for which they are assigned a unique, 5-digit, hexadecimal PIN. The account is debit-based, with each drink charging the customer at cost for the drink they are purchasing, automatically deducting from their account balance.
All told, the project took about 3 months and $235 to complete. It is worth mentioning, however, that the LCD (the most expensive single component) was donated (approx. value: $100+), and various other components were otherwise acquired for free. The Bar Monkey was graciously funded by West Dorm HMC, even though we were overbudget by $85. Continual maintenance and occasional improvements are still always a concern.
Some Pictures:
Beta Testing
Here's the cabinet when it was just a few shelves holding empty 2-liter bottles. One pump is hooked up to the computer for the purpose of taking time-constant data.
Soldering I
Having collected the time-constant data, Steve and Brad dutifully solder half-inch jumpers to each of the 4 leads on each of the 16 relays. Neither of us knows, to this day, why we did this outside.
Soldering II
Closeup of the meticulous but tedious jumper-soldering process.
Bartop Under Construction
The unfinished bartop, with various tools, containers, and other helpful things strewn across it in the midst of hard work.
The Monkey's Central Nervous System
The finished relay board, connected to the computer via parallel ports. The computer is running the Bar Monkey program, which displays the drink code prompt on the LCD.
LCD and Keypad Closeup
The above-mentioned drink prompt, but closer.
Behind the Scenes of the Relay Board
It looks really nice and neat on top, but the relay board was quite possibly the most difficult part of the entire project. What you see here are 16 relays, 16 diodes, 16 resistors, 16 transistors, and approximately 70 small segments of wire (not counting the 64 jumpers).
Inside the Finished Product I (shown above)
Pretty self-explanatory. The pumps and their respective reservoirs in place, the computer and relay board safely tucked on a shelf, the LCD behind a half-inch of acrylic, and all the tubes pulled through the PVC dispenser neck.
Inside the Finished Product II
Same as above, but from a different angle.
Electronics Closeup
The LCD, with extension cable to the keypad and serial cable to the computer, is at the top right. The bottom of the computer is unimpressive, though dominant in the frame, and the relay board is seen off to the side.
Outside the Finished Product
Here we see the Bar Monkey as customers see it, complete with Dustin's excellent stencil design and the nozzle, which is removable for cleaning.
The Finished Bartop
The top of the Bar Monkey, covered in rugged black plastic with a viewing window for the LCD.
Finished LCD and Keypad Closeup
It still looks pretty much the way it did when it was unfinished, only now it isn't just laying on the floor.
Drink Confirmation
The true beginning of the customer's experience with the Bar Monkey.
Technical Specs:
* Runs a program written in C by Dustin Cooper, in Linux.
* Bartop is approximately four feet above the ground.
* Holds approximately 1.75 liters of each ingredient.
* Uses 16 windshield washer pumps run by a 12V adaptor. Pumps are connected in parallel and run sequentially by the program.
* Dispenses an 8 oz. mixed drink in less than 10 seconds.
* Currently has 30 registered user accounts, with expected rapid growth as people cease being broke.
I've had success with MBNA using Mozilla, Phoenix, and Opera! It's nice to see a company design a mainstream system for interoperability!
-OctaneZ
Well, I would just like to point out that Talk has been around effectively forever, with a more standardized version appearing with 4.2 BSD (although it broke compatibility with Sun's implementation at the time)
So, NO, talk was not an icq knock-off.
-OctaneZ
This may be true, but keep in mind many of their donations are of their own software, which the "donate" at full suggested retail value? These prices are throught the roof, no consumer pays (or should pay) what they claim the value of the software is that they are donating.
I love the names of Stephenson's characters. In Snow Crash the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist", I mean really! :-)
More on topic: I have a feeling it was, it's another one of Stephenson's tongue-in-cheeck *wink*wink* nerd jokes that he seems to love!
-OZ