All the "paranormal happenings" ARE rubbish. If they weren't, someone could win $1,000,000 from James Randi. No one has, no one ever will. There is nothing at all that is "paranormal" or "supernatural".
Maybe their lawyers used to work for Phillip Morris. We made a lot of fun of their being able to say "I don't think tobacco is addictive, and I don't think it has any adverse health effects" with a straight face. Their lawyers know that their case is full of shit, too. Eerily similar to the big tobacco cases.
No, specifically release a patch for a new version that is incompatible with SCO. M$ did this in win95 to break Lotus Notes. It might be difficult to figure out how to have your package not work on SCO, but there's a lot of developers with whom you could share the workload. If Samba, CUPS, sendmail, et al. all no longer work on SCO, their customers will leave. This could be especially effective if the "break SCO" patch was included with a security fix.
Naw, you've got the scene before that all wrong. What actually happened was Langly was playing a video game and just about won it (finally) when Jimmy accidentally started shredding a piece of paper that Byers got at the FIA office (along with a cinder block, it was supposed to be a box of documents). Byers thought it was worthless and mentioned a name on it, which caused Frohicke to dive across the room trying to unplug the shredder, but unplugged Langly's computer instead. Then they had to reconstruct the shreds. But seeing Langly go from gloating about finally winning the game to wanting to kill Frohicke for shutting it off was _classic_!
We can all avoid the places listed, too. This is really smart, putting the locations in the USA where as long as you aren't caught speeding, you can truck all kinds of explosives around, et al. Maybe they're hoping that the terrorists won't notice...
I'm still using FVWM, too. I spent the time configuring everything to be the way I like it and now I'm done. I've been using FVWM 1.2 for 8 years and I'm not about to switch. All I have to do with a new computer is recompile FVWM and copy my one config file (plus custom icons) over and I'm all set. Not like the new stuff where they assume everything and you have a very hard time taking it to the next computer, it only takes a minute:)
I agree that if someone calls themselves an engineer, they should have some certifications to back them up. Like the Professional Engineering or Engineer in Training tests (which a very hard to pass).
However, anyone can be an artist, so let's call them Software Artists. Sounds so much better than code monkey...
Seems to me you could just put the display/user input hardware near the TV and put the storage in a computer somewhere else. 100Mb/s is _plenty_ for the kind of video streams most people use. That and you could serve multiple displays out of one central server.
You could even network boot the display unit and use a little, quiet computer. Problem solved.
This project was BillGatus's dream of having ubiquitous internet access for _windoze_users_only_ It was going to be a way to push Palladium off onto the rest of the world by being the only way to access the internet globally.
That the project died is a very great thing for Freedom. We should be happy because now Gates can't force people to use _his_ internet.
Do you seriously think that Gates would have allowed open source software to access his internet? Do you think we'd be able to access slashdot? Of course not.
that laptop would have to run at about 30000000000MHz, assuming that (and this is probably low) 1000000 CPU years assuming PIII/500MHz were spent on this project...
The politics are so bitter because the stakes are so low. Seriously...
Consider a protestant church's group of deacons, eders and commitees, it's pretty similar to students, associates and professors. There is usually nothing important to argue about, so people tend to inflate their status by taking a stupid stance and sticking to it.
It's pretty annoying to have a thesis comittee argue about what the name of your new major should be. That doesn't stop them from doing it.
That having been said, I'm jealous. I wish I could go back to college. Just the normal, I-hate-my-job return to the womb that most of us want. Good luck!
The box ran distributed net about 200 days until I had a couple of weeks worth of connectivity problems, so I gave it up.
That and the project isn't really going anywhere. What's the use of using 1000000 CPU years of time to prove that RC5-64 is supposedly weak?? Let's face it, it's not weak. It may not be really good, but it's acceptable.
I had my own distributed number crunching going on on the box for a few months recently and I haven't gotten on to the next phase of the project yet, so it's idle.
We _really_ need to make sure that when this bill passes, the OSS/FS communities make sure that the project gets all the help it needs!! We can't let this project even hit a small snag, let alone fail.
Face it, with the attention that this is getting, if anything goes wrong, M$ is going to jump down our throats about it. This is the poster child project for the whole movement. It's going to be looked at by the whole world as an example of what happens when you go the Free software route, therefore we can't let it fail.
Please help make sure that the project goes as smoothly as is possible. Thanks in advance.
Now that they've reinvented the scientific method, maybe they can reinvent some much needed things like the wheel and fire.
This proposal is just how Baconian scientific research has always existed. So what if this group, among many others, starts working on clean water and other standard-of-living improvements. There's nothing innovative about the proposal at all.
Jeez, IBM missed a golden opportunity...
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They could have grafitti'd "Peace, Love, Linux, this way to Oakland" on the sidewalks in San Francisco. Then they might have gotten some GOOD press...
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read on slashdot. Period. There's not even a crazy way to interpret that statement so it makes sense in bizarro world
Absolutely! I can't even believe that anyone could be so stupid as to post that remark. Who could it possibly persuade?
They probably thought that it was "insightful". Do the people who run slashdot karma whore? Or is there a contest to post something stupider than JonKatz?
When you can pay for software after you've evaluated that you like it and that it's worth paying for. The only other way is to 'borrow' the warez and then decide whether to pay for it.
I like this system better. C'mon everyone, give them some money. They really have earned it!
We should use actual Python code as the configuration file format. It's callable directly from C, and by extension, all other languages. It's nice and clean. It supports heirarchial inclusion of other configuration files. It has easily readable comments. In short, it's the perfect configuration file specification language.
The binary representation of pi contains all sequences, so it is claimed.
If only we could predict what the Nth bit of pi was going to be, then we could just specify an offset into the bit sequence and a length and we could have any file compressed as two numbers.
One of the numbers would be pretty large, though... It could easily be as big as the bit representation of the file, but hey, who cares??
It's still a possible algorithm. These ZeoSunc people don't seem to care about practical algorithms either...
Propane, butane or any other hydrocarbon would require ventilation for the generated CO2, which this aviods by just running on hydrogen. Its only waste products are heat and water. It's still insanely, ludicrously expensive.
I'd recommend that you put your data in a ReiserFS logical volume which is part of a volume group spanning two disks, mirrored. And turn off updating the access times for files with '-o noatime' and use SCSI.
Going mirrored will give the OS the opportunity to get the data from either spindle on reads.
Unless you're designing small computers that are supposed to run some variant of windoze.
Real OS's are more flexible when it comes to changing chip architectures. Frankly, a StrongARM is a hell of a lot more powerful than a 486.
This shouldn't really affect any real small systems' design options. It will certainly inconvenience a few firms, but not for long. They should have expected this to happen. Only fools rely on single sources for parts.
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But how will they protect it from, well, planes at altitudes below 100,000 feet?
Rockets!! Big, impressive, reusable, airplane-shaped rockets with MetalStorm cannons!
All the "paranormal happenings" ARE rubbish. If they weren't, someone could win $1,000,000 from James Randi. No one has, no one ever will. There is nothing at all that is "paranormal" or "supernatural".
Get Real.
Simple, we'll just have to put sensors on the dogs, too :)
Maybe their lawyers used to work for Phillip Morris. We made a lot of fun of their being able to say "I don't think tobacco is addictive, and I don't think it has any adverse health effects" with a straight face. Their lawyers know that their case is full of shit, too. Eerily similar to the big tobacco cases.
No, specifically release a patch for a new version that is incompatible with SCO. M$ did this in win95 to break Lotus Notes. It might be difficult to figure out how to have your package not work on SCO, but there's a lot of developers with whom you could share the workload. If Samba, CUPS, sendmail, et al. all no longer work on SCO, their customers will leave. This could be especially effective if the "break SCO" patch was included with a security fix.
Naw, you've got the scene before that all wrong. What actually happened was Langly was playing a video game and just about won it (finally) when Jimmy accidentally started shredding a piece of paper that Byers got at the FIA office (along with a cinder block, it was supposed to be a box of documents). Byers thought it was worthless and mentioned a name on it, which caused Frohicke to dive across the room trying to unplug the shredder, but unplugged Langly's computer instead. Then they had to reconstruct the shreds. But seeing Langly go from gloating about finally winning the game to wanting to kill Frohicke for shutting it off was _classic_!
We can all avoid the places listed, too. This is really smart, putting the locations in the USA where as long as you aren't caught speeding, you can truck all kinds of explosives around, et al. Maybe they're hoping that the terrorists won't notice...
Hear, Hear!
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I'm still using FVWM, too. I spent the time configuring everything to be the way I like it and now I'm done. I've been using FVWM 1.2 for 8 years and I'm not about to switch. All I have to do with a new computer is recompile FVWM and copy my one config file (plus custom icons) over and I'm all set. Not like the new stuff where they assume everything and you have a very hard time taking it to the next computer, it only takes a minute
I agree that if someone calls themselves an engineer, they should have some certifications to back them up. Like the Professional Engineering or Engineer in Training tests (which a very hard to pass).
However, anyone can be an artist, so let's call them Software Artists. Sounds so much better than code monkey...
Seems to me you could just put the display/user input hardware near the TV and put the storage in a computer somewhere else. 100Mb/s is _plenty_ for the kind of video streams most people use. That and you could serve multiple displays out of one central server.
You could even network boot the display unit and use a little, quiet computer. Problem solved.
This project was BillGatus's dream of having ubiquitous internet access for _windoze_users_only_ It was going to be a way to push Palladium off onto the rest of the world by being the only way to access the internet globally.
That the project died is a very great thing for Freedom. We should be happy because now Gates can't force people to use _his_ internet.
Do you seriously think that Gates would have allowed open source software to access his internet? Do you think we'd be able to access slashdot? Of course not.
You're very bad at math.
that laptop would have to run at about 30000000000MHz, assuming that (and this is probably low) 1000000 CPU years assuming PIII/500MHz were spent on this project...
Good luck finding one of those
The politics are so bitter because the stakes are so low. Seriously...
Consider a protestant church's group of deacons, eders and commitees, it's pretty similar to students, associates and professors. There is usually nothing important to argue about, so people tend to inflate their status by taking a stupid stance and sticking to it.
It's pretty annoying to have a thesis comittee argue about what the name of your new major should be. That doesn't stop them from doing it.
That having been said, I'm jealous. I wish I could go back to college. Just the normal, I-hate-my-job return to the womb that most of us want. Good luck!
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The box ran distributed net about 200 days until I had a couple of weeks worth of connectivity problems, so I gave it up.
That and the project isn't really going anywhere. What's the use of using 1000000 CPU years of time to prove that RC5-64 is supposedly weak?? Let's face it, it's not weak. It may not be really good, but it's acceptable.
I had my own distributed number crunching going on on the box for a few months recently and I haven't gotten on to the next phase of the project yet, so it's idle.
I'd worry about that if I ever booted:
$ uptime
9:52pm up 511 days, 18 min, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Oh yea, I don't have windoze installed on that box. It's an Alpha and windoze won't run...
We _really_ need to make sure that when this bill passes, the OSS/FS communities make sure that the project gets all the help it needs!! We can't let this project even hit a small snag, let alone fail.
Face it, with the attention that this is getting, if anything goes wrong, M$ is going to jump down our throats about it. This is the poster child project for the whole movement. It's going to be looked at by the whole world as an example of what happens when you go the Free software route, therefore we can't let it fail.
Please help make sure that the project goes as smoothly as is possible. Thanks in advance.
Now that they've reinvented the scientific method, maybe they can reinvent some much needed things like the wheel and fire.
This proposal is just how Baconian scientific research has always existed. So what if this group, among many others, starts working on clean water and other standard-of-living improvements. There's nothing innovative about the proposal at all.
They could have grafitti'd "Peace, Love, Linux, this way to Oakland" on the sidewalks in San Francisco. Then they might have gotten some GOOD press...
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read on slashdot. Period. There's not even a crazy way to interpret that statement so it makes sense in bizarro world
Absolutely! I can't even believe that anyone could be so stupid as to post that remark. Who could it possibly persuade?
They probably thought that it was "insightful". Do the people who run slashdot karma whore? Or is there a contest to post something stupider than JonKatz?
When you can pay for software after you've evaluated that you like it and that it's worth paying for. The only other way is to 'borrow' the warez and then decide whether to pay for it.
I like this system better. C'mon everyone, give them some money. They really have earned it!
We should use actual Python code as the configuration file format. It's callable directly from C, and by extension, all other languages. It's nice and clean. It supports heirarchial inclusion of other configuration files. It has easily readable comments. In short, it's the perfect configuration file specification language.
The binary representation of pi contains all sequences, so it is claimed.
If only we could predict what the Nth bit of pi was going to be, then we could just specify an offset into the bit sequence and a length and we could have any file compressed as two numbers.
One of the numbers would be pretty large, though... It could easily be as big as the bit representation of the file, but hey, who cares??
It's still a possible algorithm. These ZeoSunc people don't seem to care about practical algorithms either...
Gimme some VC money!!!
Propane, butane or any other hydrocarbon would require ventilation for the generated CO2, which this aviods by just running on hydrogen. Its only waste products are heat and water. It's still insanely, ludicrously expensive.
I'd recommend that you put your data in a ReiserFS logical volume which is part of a volume group spanning two disks, mirrored. And turn off updating the access times for files with '-o noatime' and use SCSI.
Going mirrored will give the OS the opportunity to get the data from either spindle on reads.
just my $0.02
Unless you're designing small computers that are supposed to run some variant of windoze.
Real OS's are more flexible when it comes to changing chip architectures. Frankly, a StrongARM is a hell of a lot more powerful than a 486.
This shouldn't really affect any real small systems' design options. It will certainly inconvenience a few firms, but not for long. They should have expected this to happen. Only fools rely on single sources for parts.