Honest to god, I've seen a physics textbook in the Clemson University library that wanted the answer to an acceleration problem given in Angstroms per (Carbon-13 Halflife)^2. I can't recall the author, but it was in the "Physics is Fun!" series.
Nice work alluding to comments from an earlier story, BTW. I wonder who else noticed?
What if XBOX2 is just practice for porting windows to the Power architecture in an effort to undercut Apple, break into the RISC server market, and maybe, just maybe finally put register-starved x86 out to pasture on the desktop?
This is somewhat offtopic, but whenever I read about one of these DMCA stories like lexmark or the xbox modding, I'm remided of a passage from The Dilbert Principle about market segmentation.
The most important market segment is known as the "Stupid Rich", so named because of their tendency to buy anything that's new regardless of the cost or usefulness. If you can sell enough units to the Stupid Rich, your production costs per unit will decrease. Then you can lower your prices and sell to the Stupid Poor--that's where the real volume is. As a rule, smart people are an undesirable market segment. The Smart Poor will figure out a way to steal your product, and the Smart Rich will buy your whole company and fire you.
Take a look at SuSE sometime, it's now available as a live-cd,.iso for the personal edition, and FTP install for professional. I haven't upgraded to 9.1 yet but I've been using 9.0 pro since around march and it's just incredible. Even auto configured my tv tuner card properly. YaST ties all the myriad plaintext system configuration files into one place with a nice gui. Only problems I've see is that there are still a few issues to be worked out with clearly explaining what all the options do, and when you first install it, the default filesystem is Reiser, which I've heard some people are still a bit leery of.
I spent most of today trying to resucitate my friendly neighborhood insurance salesman's ME box (virus nuked IE) before finally managing to convince him to upgrade to XP. So now that I've gotten my reputation as a miracle worker, he wants to me to set up a wireless network between it (on the third floor of his home) and a Pentium-120 in his reinforced-concrete basement. Some people cause all the profitable support hassles.
...drive from Cape Town (southernmost city in Africa) to Cairo (capital of Egypt for in case you don't know)... Can you do that in the US?
Maybe if Shrub can hold on to his job for a few more years...
(Yes, I know it's a troll but this was such an easy shot... I had to. I just had to, OK?)
setting jumpers to get a sound card to run (am I dreaming - it seems like I do remember this)
Yeah, I've actually been staring at my ISA Sound Blaster most of the day trying to figure out if there's anyway to make a keyboard synthesizer or guitar FX pedal with it. At a minimum there are jumpers to set the IRQ line, as well as several more that aren't documented directly on the card.
The usernames are capped at 20 characters... it let me put in "PedanticSpellingTroll" when I registered and then rudely truncated the last 'l'. I can log in with either spelling though... *sigh*
So, who's going to win this steel cage match, the vast majority of slashdotters who'd gladly pay to see spammers drawn and quartered in the public square, or the smaller but feistier tinfoil hat crowd?
Beowulf Clusters dying! With the passing of escape key inventor and father of ASCII Bob Bemer, the character strings that power the terrible jokes are just too despondent to get up and go to work. Textual prozac sales have skyrocketed.
Oh yeah, I remember that one...
Kirk: Mister Scott, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Aye captain, how else could I keep my reputation, as a miracle worker?
Whenever I have one that I feel has dropped below the lower limit of useful size, I like to crack it open and recover the sweet juicy rare earth magnets inside. The one I got from my old 513MB seagate was able to hold a sunday New York Times to my fridge. ohh yeah.
...Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
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BUUUUURNED! You're the insult Master! (please ignore the high-wattage pun(s))
Dude, I still play NARC all the time... You mean that's not what life on the street was like back in '88?
Nice work alluding to comments from an earlier story, BTW. I wonder who else noticed?
What if XBOX2 is just practice for porting windows to the Power architecture in an effort to undercut Apple, break into the RISC server market, and maybe, just maybe finally put register-starved x86 out to pasture on the desktop?
Oh man, I finally stopped browsing at -1 a few months ago and forgot all about that one. Thanks for the memories.
Take a look at SuSE sometime, it's now available as a live-cd, .iso for the personal edition, and FTP install for professional. I haven't upgraded to 9.1 yet but I've been using 9.0 pro since around march and it's just incredible. Even auto configured my tv tuner card properly. YaST ties all the myriad plaintext system configuration files into one place with a nice gui. Only problems I've see is that there are still a few issues to be worked out with clearly explaining what all the options do, and when you first install it, the default filesystem is Reiser, which I've heard some people are still a bit leery of.
My god this man can Spin! Sirrah, have you ever considered a career in political campaign management?
I spent most of today trying to resucitate my friendly neighborhood insurance salesman's ME box (virus nuked IE) before finally managing to convince him to upgrade to XP. So now that I've gotten my reputation as a miracle worker, he wants to me to set up a wireless network between it (on the third floor of his home) and a Pentium-120 in his reinforced-concrete basement. Some people cause all the profitable support hassles.
(I'm new at this)
Seriously though, your descriptions of the raw power of Minux makes me want to go see what #cat /dev/urand /dev/mem does.
mods, do your worst.
(Yes, I know it's a troll but this was such an easy shot... I had to. I just had to, OK?)
Yeah, I've actually been staring at my ISA Sound Blaster most of the day trying to figure out if there's anyway to make a keyboard synthesizer or guitar FX pedal with it. At a minimum there are jumpers to set the IRQ line, as well as several more that aren't documented directly on the card.
The usernames are capped at 20 characters... it let me put in "PedanticSpellingTroll" when I registered and then rudely truncated the last 'l'. I can log in with either spelling though... *sigh*
What about Fox News, where it's all high alert, but don't worry because Glorious Leader will protect you.
Sir, I humbly submit to your genius.
So, who's going to win this steel cage match, the vast majority of slashdotters who'd gladly pay to see spammers drawn and quartered in the public square, or the smaller but feistier tinfoil hat crowd?
"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-- George Orwell, 1945
"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, 1964
"Go fuck yourself."
-- Dick Cheney, 2004
Beowulf Clusters dying! With the passing of escape key inventor and father of ASCII Bob Bemer, the character strings that power the terrible jokes are just too despondent to get up and go to work. Textual prozac sales have skyrocketed.
If that was actually meant as a subtle reference to Hertzfeldt's "Rejected", I salute you.
Oh yeah, I remember that one... Kirk: Mister Scott, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four? Scotty: Aye captain, how else could I keep my reputation, as a miracle worker?
Whenever I have one that I feel has dropped below the lower limit of useful size, I like to crack it open and recover the sweet juicy rare earth magnets inside. The one I got from my old 513MB seagate was able to hold a sunday New York Times to my fridge. ohh yeah.
I'm running XP Home on a K6-300 with - are you ready for this? 96 MB of ram. Yeah. I hate my life.
...Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!