I've purchased a box that cost 130 once, came with a copy of linux on it.
It was crap though, 800mhz but it had a crappy CPU that was super slow for 800mhz. It didn't have a amd/intel cpu and it was only 256megs memory, 30 gig hd.
You can get a computer for such a price but it'll low-end, forget about running games on it.
QUOTE: of _KiTa__ "When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink."
Good then, let it shrink. Think I care? 99.9% of the people on the internet are idiots anyways.
When the internet shrinks, there will be more of a ratio of people like you and me vs the idiots.
The more intelligent people on the internet the better.
If the internet "dies" to the general public, so will spam, etc. Then there will only be real geeks on the internet, which will be like when it started.
This will also insinuate a "cycle" the internet gets unpopular, spamming and advertising dies out. When the spam and such dies out then people start to get in to it again, and then cycle repeats.
This isn't geared toward people who are new to linux unfortunately. The problem is, the people well introduced to linux are likley to be able to pull this off.
Author should go over how to create a new partition using cfdisk (or the equivilent in KDE) before she goes on in how to create a filesystem using mkfs.ext2. Just in case the person has a 'new drive' or if their 'old drive' was NTFS.
Other than that good article. In fact, recently a couple of weeks ago I used knoppix to copy backups because my distro went bad. I had to learn how to by myself and using google, because this article wasn't published yet.
Hopefully this will help guide people who aren't as good at google get their system backed up so they can format and reinstall.
I would definately switch to MAC OS X if it was ported to x86. For sure. Legally even.
I have tried out the darwin core for x86 and it is just the kernel and the utilitys you need to browse the filesystem. About all you can find is
ls dir mkdir rm touch
and a few other basic commands, no lynx, no wget, no ping, no whois, etc. No x86 drivers for your network card, etc.
I really wish apple would actually do something with the darwin core and create MAC OS X for x86.
This would kill apple however because nobody in their right mind would pay $2000+ for a good mac when they could pay for a PC at $1500 and get mac OS on it as well.
The icons look nothing similar. The way the icons looked in BEOS was what made it cool to me. The icons were similar to the way Mac OS icons looked (before that OSX crap)
I liked the old pretty icons, before the whole "24 bit" 3d crap came out. I liked it when icons were hand-drawn 3d icons instead of done in Photoshop.
Having such hand-drawn icons in BEOS was what made BEOS so popular to me.
The only similarity this OS has to BEOS is the style of the windows. The similarities end there.
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"As far as I know, a fresh layer of snow falls each year so that every building eventually gets snowed unde"
How about make something as tall as one of the WTC towers were with like a door on every story... when the thing fills up to the top.... it'd be like an underground apartment complex.
When it gets covered in snow completley.... build a new one on top of the old one
One time I had my computer sitting on he floor sidways with no door on.
I dropped a bottle of water walking by.. just slipped out of my hand and entire motherboard drenched.
I said to myself "this is it" and started moving the mouse on my keyboard... mouse locked up... the song kept looping a certain portion of it. "Oh shit"
It just took 2 weeks of being in front of a fan on HIGH to dry out the motherboard...
That computer was my primary workstation then... now it's my linux server that hosts my website, works great to this day.
----
On my current computer I had the door taken off... and several times shit has fallen off my bed (bed is near the system) and into the system... must of hit a PCI card or something... system bluescreened (windows;-( )
This happened about 3-4 times before I finally put the door back on!
"True. And for the same reason, encryption is useless - a determined enough attacker could still break it (assuming he invests enough time / energy / computing power), right? ^_~"
Unless it's shadow encryption.
In that encryption it's 1 way.
It's how linux passwords work... of course you can't "decrypt" in that form of encryption and thats why breaking a UNIX pass by anything other than brute force is impossible.
This is confusing but it basically works by making a hash..
Taking a password: dividing it by 3... dividing it by 2 dividing it by 7...
then when you type a password it uses the same dividing process and checks the "hash" for if it matches.
This however, also makes it so more than 1 password could work... since there can be multiple results... but it's almost unbreakable
"The only police application is helping in apprehending someone, not proving they did anything. "
Yeah, first its apprehending someone... then once the general population accepts that as part of life... they see if they can get away as using these as evidence...
public doesn't seem to make much of a fit (cept for slashdot)
It becomes a part or life.. then it's normal everyday was of catching criminals...
QUOTE ". Then again, popularity isn't necessarily the measure of a good president; Lincoln only got 40% of the vote."
Yeah right, lincoln sucked... everyone views him as a hero.
Everyone views him as a visionary to end of slavery.
The CSA (Confed. States of America) wanted to start a country called (Confederate Staets of America)
Lincoln didn't want them to break away from the US, and brought up the "stop them, they support slavery" deal.... the CSA just wanted to quit the US cause they didn't agree.
Lincoln used propaganda "slavery is wrong, they support it, they are waging war cause they want slavery we dont -- fight and join I want YOU!"
Of course.. the victor of a war always gets to write the history books so of course it's skewed as to mark him as the end of slavery (and not the person to end the right of states to start their own country)
I think it was wrong and we (texas) and the other confederate states should have had the right to make their own country.
I don't agree with slavery, but that wasn't the reason of the War. Do you honestly think lincoln cared about the black guy?
Usually they say "Would you like to install XXX toolbar"
Signed by: Microsoft Corporation
I was thinking I'd get an XXX toolbar, not an XXX toolbar+keylogger+history logger. -- Also a lot of them exploit ACTIVEX/VBSCRIPT flaws that allow them to install WITHOUT a dialog ever showing.
Where's my "consent" in that case bud? Installing ie and using it?
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No matter who wins -- we lose!
I voted for kerry on friday.
Okay.. if this is fiber, why is it limited to $199.95 for 30MB/5MB?
Isn't fiber capable of much faster speeds?
If you have a fiber coming in to your house, why wouldn't you be capable of quicker?
Also, I live 3 miles from Keller texas and yet I don't qualify... wtf?
I've purchased a box that cost 130 once, came with a copy of linux on it.
It was crap though, 800mhz but it had a crappy CPU that was super slow for 800mhz. It didn't have a amd/intel cpu and it was only 256megs memory, 30 gig hd.
You can get a computer for such a price but it'll low-end, forget about running games on it.
QUOTE: of _KiTa__ "When the general public decides that it's too big of a pain in the ass to do anything on the Internet, the Internet will start to shrink."
Good then, let it shrink. Think I care? 99.9% of the people on the internet are idiots anyways.
When the internet shrinks, there will be more of a ratio of people like you and me vs the idiots.
The more intelligent people on the internet the better.
If the internet "dies" to the general public, so will spam, etc. Then there will only be real geeks on the internet, which will be like when it started.
This will also insinuate a "cycle" the internet gets unpopular, spamming and advertising dies out. When the spam and such dies out then people start to get in to it again, and then cycle repeats.
Everything that goes up must come down.
This is like the people who claim the end of the world is coming this year.
Idiots, he should have his PHD revoked.
I betcha cant put linux on it!
This isn't geared toward people who are new to linux unfortunately. The problem is, the people well introduced to linux are likley to be able to pull this off.
Author should go over how to create a new partition using cfdisk (or the equivilent in KDE) before she goes on in how to create a filesystem using mkfs.ext2. Just in case the person has a 'new drive' or if their 'old drive' was NTFS.
Other than that good article. In fact, recently a couple of weeks ago I used knoppix to copy backups because my distro went bad. I had to learn how to by myself and using google, because this article wasn't published yet.
Hopefully this will help guide people who aren't as good at google get their system backed up so they can format and reinstall.
The way that type of equipment works, it only works ONE way, the output would be messed up if it worked either way, you'd get conflicting input.
The real lesson learned is maybe it'd be smart to put a "THIS SIDE UP" with a large arrow pointing up.
Hey, kinda like those billion-dollar cardboard boxes!
And what about the radiation belt problem?
30 minutes exposure to this radiation would be enough to kill you.
All fine and dandy except for the fact that once they got to mars they'd already be in advanced stages of radiation poisoning.
I would definately switch to MAC OS X if it was ported to x86. For sure. Legally even.
I have tried out the darwin core for x86 and it is just the kernel and the utilitys you need to browse the filesystem. About all you can find is
ls
dir
mkdir
rm
touch
and a few other basic commands, no lynx, no wget, no ping, no whois, etc. No x86 drivers for your network card, etc.
I really wish apple would actually do something with the darwin core and create MAC OS X for x86.
This would kill apple however because nobody in their right mind would pay $2000+ for a good mac when they could pay for a PC at $1500 and get mac OS on it as well.
QUOTE " That ALSO is a conspiracy."
No, it isn't a conspiracy as you claim. What the parent stated was a conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy: A secret agreement between a group of people to perform an unlawful act.
Conspiracy Theory: A theory of a group of people who have or are currently committing a conspiracy.
How could a terrist terrorize us by knowing that SWBELL lost its backbone connection on Nov, 3, 2003?
I was going to download and try this out until I saw the screenshots at their website http://syllable.org/screenshots.php
I figured, since the article stated it was a BE-OS look-a-like, that it would look like BE-OS.
Upon looking at the screenshots, however, you can clearly see it looks like a standard Linux distro.
Compare the difference between BEOS and this.
Syllable -- http://syllable.org/screenshots.php
BeOS -- http://www.verpixelt.de/blogpics/beos.png
The icons look nothing similar. The way the icons looked in BEOS was what made it cool to me. The icons were similar to the way Mac OS icons looked (before that OSX crap)
I liked the old pretty icons, before the whole "24 bit" 3d crap came out. I liked it when icons were hand-drawn 3d icons instead of done in Photoshop.
Having such hand-drawn icons in BEOS was what made BEOS so popular to me.
The only similarity this OS has to BEOS is the style of the windows. The similarities end there.
Someone deleted the index file!
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QUOTE " What benefit, exactly, do Linux users get from the proliferation of distros?"
One large benefit is the fact that every distro is different, has different goals and aspirations.
Some people want a server, some people want a desktop, some want to run an FTP server.
If your looking to say, run an ftp server, wouldn't it be nice to get a distro that has an ftp server built in to the kernel?
You're more likley to find the distro that does exactly what you want with so many distro's around.
That's the purpose, and advantage to the proliferation of distros.
Yet they neglect to mention where to buy one..?
I'm getting
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
"As far as I know, a fresh layer of snow falls each year so that every building eventually gets snowed unde"
How about make something as tall as one of the WTC towers were with like a door on every story... when the thing fills up to the top.... it'd be like an underground apartment complex.
When it gets covered in snow completley.... build a new one on top of the old one
quote " Did he commit suicide, or was this an accident. Wow, that's weird!!! poor guy"
Must have been suicide... it happened at 23:00 hours...
That's 11:00PM IIRC.
Nobody would be around traintracks at that time of night.
QUOTE " of course they don't mention linux, and they won't even if they buy Novell.
it's the JavaOS! *puke*"
Saying Java is good because it's compatible with all OS's is like saying anal sex is good because it's compatible with all genders.
One time I had my computer sitting on he floor sidways with no door on.
.. just slipped out of my hand and entire motherboard drenched.
;-( )
I dropped a bottle of water walking by
I said to myself "this is it" and started moving the mouse on my keyboard... mouse locked up... the song kept looping a certain portion of it. "Oh shit"
It just took 2 weeks of being in front of a fan on HIGH to dry out the motherboard...
That computer was my primary workstation then... now it's my linux server that hosts my website, works great to this day.
----
On my current computer I had the door taken off... and several times shit has fallen off my bed (bed is near the system) and into the system... must of hit a PCI card or something... system bluescreened (windows
This happened about 3-4 times before I finally put the door back on!
----
"True. And for the same reason, encryption is useless - a determined enough attacker could still break it (assuming he invests enough time / energy / computing power), right? ^_~"
Unless it's shadow encryption.
In that encryption it's 1 way.
It's how linux passwords work... of course you can't "decrypt" in that form of encryption and thats why breaking a UNIX pass by anything other than brute force is impossible.
This is confusing but it basically works by making a hash..
Taking a password: dividing it by 3... dividing it by 2 dividing it by 7...
then when you type a password it uses the same dividing process and checks the "hash" for if it matches.
This however, also makes it so more than 1 password could work... since there can be multiple results... but it's almost unbreakable
"The only police application is helping in apprehending someone, not proving they did anything. "
;-)
Yeah, first its apprehending someone... then once the general population accepts that as part of life... they see if they can get away as using these as evidence...
public doesn't seem to make much of a fit (cept for slashdot)
It becomes a part or life.. then it's normal everyday was of catching criminals...
Don't you know this by now?
QUOTE ". Then again, popularity isn't necessarily the measure of a good president; Lincoln only got 40% of the vote."
Yeah right, lincoln sucked... everyone views him as a hero.
Everyone views him as a visionary to end of slavery.
The CSA (Confed. States of America) wanted to start a country called (Confederate Staets of America)
Lincoln didn't want them to break away from the US, and brought up the "stop them, they support slavery" deal.... the CSA just wanted to quit the US cause they didn't agree.
Lincoln used propaganda "slavery is wrong, they support it, they are waging war cause they want slavery we dont -- fight and join I want YOU!"
Of course.. the victor of a war always gets to write the history books so of course it's skewed as to mark him as the end of slavery (and not the person to end the right of states to start their own country)
I think it was wrong and we (texas) and the other confederate states should have had the right to make their own country.
I don't agree with slavery, but that wasn't the reason of the War. Do you honestly think lincoln cared about the black guy?
regards
" You were forced to click "I Agree"? "
Usually they say "Would you like to install XXX toolbar"
Signed by: Microsoft Corporation
I was thinking I'd get an XXX toolbar, not an XXX toolbar+keylogger+history logger.
--
Also a lot of them exploit ACTIVEX/VBSCRIPT flaws that allow them to install WITHOUT a dialog ever showing.
Where's my "consent" in that case bud? Installing ie and using it?
Get real.