I have a suitable replacement for flash. Take a strobe light, a 555 timer, capacitor, resistor and power transistor. Connect them into a nice circuit, setting the timing freq for about 1 sec. Shove face into strobe light. Turn on power! Instant replacement for flash, and you don't even have to watch any "punch the monkey" ads.
I would rather call it "super crotch-burning sterilizing nightmare." My Asus EEE gets hot enough just running Firefox. I can't imagine what a 40 watt processor would do. Ouch!
I for one would rather research go into how to reduce processor usage for laptops so they don't get so damn hot. Yeah, new tech reduces how hot the CPU gets while doing the same work, but bloat is outpacing it too far.
Well, then you should create separate users for work, internet, and playing games. Also set their permissions so they can't read each other's home directories. I already do this, except more. For example, I also have a separate user for the X server.
However, this won't help if the game requires an admin account to install, the install file is an exe (like they love to do in the Microsoft world), and the game scans your hard drive during install. Maybe.msi files cure this.
GPS? No, they'll use RFID to track you, which is probably already in most of your clothes/shoes already. RFID has unique IDs for each chip. All they have to do is put scanners in doorways, next to cash registers, and they can track where you go, and connect the RFID in your clothes to your credit card and transactions. Not so different from the advertising in Minority Report, except they don't have to scan your eye.
No, more likely, they use spam-bots which look at file names and if it "matches" a game they are "protecting" (such as doom3.zip), then they send a DMCA complaint and call it an "infringement." Much like the other copyright "protection" associations.
"Secure by Default" is OpenBSD's claim, it is not from Linux. The previous poster didn't mention anything about Linux in his post. Nice of you to deliberately confuse the issue. Microsoft shill much?
Ah, the old days of slashdot, where at any mention of Linux, some bastard would morph the conversation to claim someone had said Linux is "bulletproof" "perfect" "impossible to hack", when in fact, no one had made any such claim at all.
You explain why psychopaths from the two companies would lock people in, but you don't explain why it should be tolerated by the people who buy their products. Only an idiot or someone really desperate would willingly submit themselves to such a deal.
Maybe they are incompetent with Linux. Ironically, just killing the "powermonitor" program (showed the current battery status) would nearly double my EEE's battery life. That program sucked down lots of CPU power. It appears to be fixed in a recent update, or maybe I fixed it myself. Can't remember.
There are probably a lot of things they could have done to improve battery life in Linux....and don't get me started on the security problems.
So you are saying Microsoft has done away with the First sale doctrine? Software companies always claim so, but I don't believe they have done so.
Oh, and your petrol tax example was a bad one. The use is not licensed in that case, they just use the dye to detect petrol which has not been taxed. I'm sure if somehow bought offroad fuel, paid the tax, and could show the fuel in your tank was the fuel you paid tax (this is the kicker), then they wouldn't have a problem with it. It has to do with paying road taxes, not licensing.
How do they purposefully break drivers? Which drivers are you talking about? All the hardware drivers which don't work are this way because the manufacturer doesn't supply sufficient specs. At least the ones I know about.
What, you think they are supposed to guess how the black box works by sacrificing a chicken, and BOOM, their drivers work? It does not work that way. If they don't have specifications, then they have to guess and reverse engineer to make a driver. This takes a really long time and is not reliable.
What it costs is a good question. My low rent hosting charges a US penny per 10 Megabytes. How big are the PDFs? Are they incorporating the costs for personnel to submit the papers to their site? Are you sure it is 3 cents? According to this, it is 8 cents per page (but free if you don't use more than $10/year worth, and the cost is capped to $2.40/document.) That seems a bit more steep to me, especialy considering they classify a search which returns no results as a "page."
Also the restore disk was a CD (The EEE doesn't have a CD drive), and it was MS Windows only (so you had to have a windows machine to use it). So if I did need to reinstall the OS my netbook came with for some reason, I would need not only a separate computer, but it has to be one running a MS OS. I do have other computers, but they all run Linux.
The drivers did not work with people's favorite distro because the hardware Asus chose wasn't compatible with Linux. For example, the Atheros wireless chipset wasn't open sourced until after Asus shipped their EEEs. The drivers were introduced into the 2.6.29 or.30 kernel. Most distros probably don't even have that version on their repositories today.
These are all things which asus did wrong. This isn't a reason not to ever buy from them, but if my choice was between a EEE and a netbook which didn't have these problems, I would choose the other netbook.
I just don't get why they never updated the kernel or samba.
If you are a major computer distributor, you have more than enough clout to demand the company who supplies your sound chips give you Linux drivers. Saying Dell can't do that is bullshit.
This is no error. The politicians design the system to deny as many claims as possible, no matter if it is legitimate or not. They also like to send forms you have to fill out or you will lose benefits if you don't respond in 15 days. The letter will be dated several days before it is postmarked. Note if you are disabled because of a brain injury or impairment, or you are hospitalized that week because of your disablity, you will have trouble filling out the form in the week you have left.
Even though they give you short deadlines, they give themselves long ones, usually multiple months.
They create a bunch of feel good programs, but they don't have enough funds to run them and they divert the little funds which were supposed to go the the feel good programs somewhere else. So they designed them to cut everyone out, even if you worked for many years and paid into the social security system just like everyone else then something made you disabled and you need your legitimate claim.
It is no different than the insurance companies who sell you coverage for X, but when X happens, they say you are not covered because Y technicality. In some ways, you'd be better off if you just saved the money you would've put into the insurance, and when X happens, you use your savings to pay for repair / medical expenses. The only problem with that would be if disaster happened before you saved enough.
I don't have a magical answer for medical and social security reform, but I don't think this type of political dishonesty is it.
Congradulations, you were just outsmarted by a 10 year old. The trolls posting about shit-eating, racism, and such crap are obviously children whose mommy and daddy think the internet should be a baby sitter. Giving these shit headed brats attention just encourages their behavior.
If you want to get rid of them, you should write congress to give prison time to parents who allow their children to use the internet unattended. Would also solve the problem of pedophiles on the internet and the taliban cries to censor "offensive" material.
Interesting post, but instead of advertising for Amazon.com, why not post more relevant links? I'm am fairly sure most people here could find the books if you just listed the titles. Why not his website or his Wikipedia article?
If nobody intends to implement this feature, then why is there a listing in the linux chattr man page?
When a file with the 'u' attribute set is deleted, its contents are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.
I don't know if the current kernel implements this flag or not, since I have not tried it. However, there is this patch from 1996 which appears to implement it...
I suppose someone could play with setting this flag and deleting files on different filesystem types to see.
This sucks to have happened to you, but you seem to be targeting the effect, not the cause. Who made money off of your "diagnosis" for "ADHD"? A search with the term ADHD in it fetches tonnes of advertising.
Schools have an economic incentive to declare people "retarded" and keep them that way. I couldn't find an article about the issue, but this post seems to tell the story I have heard many times.
Then there is the experiment which showed once psychologists declare someone with a mental illness, they stay with that diagnosis. If the patient stopped showing signs of the disorder, the psychologist would claim to have "cured" the illness. I can't remember the name of the guy who did it, but it had to do with mental institutions and schizophrenia.
It just shows once you are diagnosed with a mental disorder, whether it is true or not, you have to prove you don't have it. This is a difficult thing, as it relates to what is going on inside your head, and no one else can directly see it.
However, really I think this whole thing started with the baby boomers. Teachers in the 1980s were too lazy to properly discipline children, so anyone who misbehaved too much was "diagnosed" with "ADHD".
That said, I think ADHD is probably a real disorder, but most people who are diagnosed with it these days probably don't have it. In fact, the drugs they are made to take most likely cause serious psychological problems.
Inexpensive / easy to make video games are very bad for video game companies. This means any independent joker can create a game and publish it. Much like what is happening with the music "industry" since computers have made it cheap and easy to record and mix music, and the internet has made it easy to distribute, so any joker with a guitar can potentially become a hit.
Video game companies are protected by producing one-off games whose material is thrown away and rebuilt constantly. The models and artwork are highly tuned with countless man hours--even though human characters still look like either plastic or clay. Yet the brainwashed masses say "this looks so much better than last year's games." As far as I am concerned, since games have gone 3D in a way everyone can afford it, the look hasn't really improved much, it is just different and higher resolution. The only reason to keep it up is for company profits and luser bragging rights. How many people can really tell the difference between 1024x768 and 3200x2400? Most of the people who say so are either lying or mortgaged their house for a 300 inch monitor and stick their face in it. What a joke.
A much better model would be to create open standards for games which would allow anyone to create their own interactive objects, AI, scenarios, and the end user could select what they want in their game (murder mystery, zombie invasion, ghosts, surprise disasters, hello kitty...), what setting (Circus Maximus around 40 or 50 BC), and play the way they want. The best reference I could come up with which everyone would know is the Holodeck from Star Trek:TNG. Game companies could even make money by selling prefabbed objects and environments, they just wouldn't have total control of the market.
But this doesn't make big money for the large companies. Games which players "finish" after a few hours or have to pay ongoing fees make them money. Games which take millions of work-hours to create keep others out of the market. This is optimal for the big players, and the current generation of gamers are primed to want what these companies produce.
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I have a suitable replacement for flash. Take a strobe light, a 555 timer, capacitor, resistor and power transistor. Connect them into a nice circuit, setting the timing freq for about 1 sec. Shove face into strobe light. Turn on power! Instant replacement for flash, and you don't even have to watch any "punch the monkey" ads.
But it is fun to try.
I don't know. This laptop looks really fast. Look at it fly!
I would rather call it "super crotch-burning sterilizing nightmare." My Asus EEE gets hot enough just running Firefox. I can't imagine what a 40 watt processor would do. Ouch!
I for one would rather research go into how to reduce processor usage for laptops so they don't get so damn hot. Yeah, new tech reduces how hot the CPU gets while doing the same work, but bloat is outpacing it too far.
Well, then you should create separate users for work, internet, and playing games. Also set their permissions so they can't read each other's home directories. I already do this, except more. For example, I also have a separate user for the X server.
However, this won't help if the game requires an admin account to install, the install file is an exe (like they love to do in the Microsoft world), and the game scans your hard drive during install. Maybe .msi files cure this.
GPS? No, they'll use RFID to track you, which is probably already in most of your clothes/shoes already. RFID has unique IDs for each chip. All they have to do is put scanners in doorways, next to cash registers, and they can track where you go, and connect the RFID in your clothes to your credit card and transactions. Not so different from the advertising in Minority Report, except they don't have to scan your eye.
IBM appears to have a patent on "Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items"
This has caused some people to refer to RFID as spychips.
No, more likely, they use spam-bots which look at file names and if it "matches" a game they are "protecting" (such as doom3.zip), then they send a DMCA complaint and call it an "infringement." Much like the other copyright "protection" associations.
Flamebait? After reading about these "copyright" associations for several years, it is obvious they want to define any product competing with their member companies as "pirate." How many times have they sent DMCA complaints about works which they do not own? Is this not a copyright racket?
"Secure by Default" is OpenBSD's claim, it is not from Linux. The previous poster didn't mention anything about Linux in his post. Nice of you to deliberately confuse the issue. Microsoft shill much?
Ah, the old days of slashdot, where at any mention of Linux, some bastard would morph the conversation to claim someone had said Linux is "bulletproof" "perfect" "impossible to hack", when in fact, no one had made any such claim at all.
You explain why psychopaths from the two companies would lock people in, but you don't explain why it should be tolerated by the people who buy their products. Only an idiot or someone really desperate would willingly submit themselves to such a deal.
Maybe they are incompetent with Linux. Ironically, just killing the "powermonitor" program (showed the current battery status) would nearly double my EEE's battery life. That program sucked down lots of CPU power. It appears to be fixed in a recent update, or maybe I fixed it myself. Can't remember.
There are probably a lot of things they could have done to improve battery life in Linux. ...and don't get me started on the security problems.
So ET was the perfect game! You may be right, even after 25 or so years, I still wake up in fear and sweat after having a nightmare about that game.
So you are saying Microsoft has done away with the First sale doctrine? Software companies always claim so, but I don't believe they have done so.
Oh, and your petrol tax example was a bad one. The use is not licensed in that case, they just use the dye to detect petrol which has not been taxed. I'm sure if somehow bought offroad fuel, paid the tax, and could show the fuel in your tank was the fuel you paid tax (this is the kicker), then they wouldn't have a problem with it. It has to do with paying road taxes, not licensing.
How do they purposefully break drivers? Which drivers are you talking about? All the hardware drivers which don't work are this way because the manufacturer doesn't supply sufficient specs. At least the ones I know about.
What, you think they are supposed to guess how the black box works by sacrificing a chicken, and BOOM, their drivers work? It does not work that way. If they don't have specifications, then they have to guess and reverse engineer to make a driver. This takes a really long time and is not reliable.
What it costs is a good question. My low rent hosting charges a US penny per 10 Megabytes. How big are the PDFs? Are they incorporating the costs for personnel to submit the papers to their site? Are you sure it is 3 cents? According to this, it is 8 cents per page (but free if you don't use more than $10/year worth, and the cost is capped to $2.40/document.) That seems a bit more steep to me, especialy considering they classify a search which returns no results as a "page."
Everything worked okay, except the OS it shipped with had serious security holes. Especially with the ancient version of Samba. Last time I checked, they were never fixed. perimetergrid.com - asus eee pc and linux vmsplice vulnerabilities.
Also the restore disk was a CD (The EEE doesn't have a CD drive), and it was MS Windows only (so you had to have a windows machine to use it). So if I did need to reinstall the OS my netbook came with for some reason, I would need not only a separate computer, but it has to be one running a MS OS. I do have other computers, but they all run Linux.
The drivers did not work with people's favorite distro because the hardware Asus chose wasn't compatible with Linux. For example, the Atheros wireless chipset wasn't open sourced until after Asus shipped their EEEs. The drivers were introduced into the 2.6.29 or .30 kernel. Most distros probably don't even have that version on their repositories today.
These are all things which asus did wrong. This isn't a reason not to ever buy from them, but if my choice was between a EEE and a netbook which didn't have these problems, I would choose the other netbook.
I just don't get why they never updated the kernel or samba.
If you are a major computer distributor, you have more than enough clout to demand the company who supplies your sound chips give you Linux drivers. Saying Dell can't do that is bullshit.
dosemu also needs it to be set 0.
This is no error. The politicians design the system to deny as many claims as possible, no matter if it is legitimate or not. They also like to send forms you have to fill out or you will lose benefits if you don't respond in 15 days. The letter will be dated several days before it is postmarked. Note if you are disabled because of a brain injury or impairment, or you are hospitalized that week because of your disablity, you will have trouble filling out the form in the week you have left.
Even though they give you short deadlines, they give themselves long ones, usually multiple months.
They create a bunch of feel good programs, but they don't have enough funds to run them and they divert the little funds which were supposed to go the the feel good programs somewhere else. So they designed them to cut everyone out, even if you worked for many years and paid into the social security system just like everyone else then something made you disabled and you need your legitimate claim.
It is no different than the insurance companies who sell you coverage for X, but when X happens, they say you are not covered because Y technicality. In some ways, you'd be better off if you just saved the money you would've put into the insurance, and when X happens, you use your savings to pay for repair / medical expenses. The only problem with that would be if disaster happened before you saved enough.
I don't have a magical answer for medical and social security reform, but I don't think this type of political dishonesty is it.
Congradulations, you were just outsmarted by a 10 year old. The trolls posting about shit-eating, racism, and such crap are obviously children whose mommy and daddy think the internet should be a baby sitter. Giving these shit headed brats attention just encourages their behavior.
If you want to get rid of them, you should write congress to give prison time to parents who allow their children to use the internet unattended. Would also solve the problem of pedophiles on the internet and the taliban cries to censor "offensive" material.
Runs okay on my Asus EEE netbook (900 MHz) running Xandros Linux and Firefox 3.5.1. It is not perfectly smooth, but it is nowhere near a slideshow.
Interesting post, but instead of advertising for Amazon.com, why not post more relevant links? I'm am fairly sure most people here could find the books if you just listed the titles. Why not his website or his Wikipedia article?
If nobody intends to implement this feature, then why is there a listing in the linux chattr man page?
I don't know if the current kernel implements this flag or not, since I have not tried it. However, there is this patch from 1996 which appears to implement it...
I suppose someone could play with setting this flag and deleting files on different filesystem types to see.
This sucks to have happened to you, but you seem to be targeting the effect, not the cause. Who made money off of your "diagnosis" for "ADHD"? A search with the term ADHD in it fetches tonnes of advertising.
Schools have an economic incentive to declare people "retarded" and keep them that way. I couldn't find an article about the issue, but this post seems to tell the story I have heard many times.
Then there is the experiment which showed once psychologists declare someone with a mental illness, they stay with that diagnosis. If the patient stopped showing signs of the disorder, the psychologist would claim to have "cured" the illness. I can't remember the name of the guy who did it, but it had to do with mental institutions and schizophrenia.
It just shows once you are diagnosed with a mental disorder, whether it is true or not, you have to prove you don't have it. This is a difficult thing, as it relates to what is going on inside your head, and no one else can directly see it.
However, really I think this whole thing started with the baby boomers. Teachers in the 1980s were too lazy to properly discipline children, so anyone who misbehaved too much was "diagnosed" with "ADHD".
That said, I think ADHD is probably a real disorder, but most people who are diagnosed with it these days probably don't have it. In fact, the drugs they are made to take most likely cause serious psychological problems.
Inexpensive / easy to make video games are very bad for video game companies. This means any independent joker can create a game and publish it. Much like what is happening with the music "industry" since computers have made it cheap and easy to record and mix music, and the internet has made it easy to distribute, so any joker with a guitar can potentially become a hit.
Video game companies are protected by producing one-off games whose material is thrown away and rebuilt constantly. The models and artwork are highly tuned with countless man hours--even though human characters still look like either plastic or clay. Yet the brainwashed masses say "this looks so much better than last year's games." As far as I am concerned, since games have gone 3D in a way everyone can afford it, the look hasn't really improved much, it is just different and higher resolution. The only reason to keep it up is for company profits and luser bragging rights. How many people can really tell the difference between 1024x768 and 3200x2400? Most of the people who say so are either lying or mortgaged their house for a 300 inch monitor and stick their face in it. What a joke.
A much better model would be to create open standards for games which would allow anyone to create their own interactive objects, AI, scenarios, and the end user could select what they want in their game (murder mystery, zombie invasion, ghosts, surprise disasters, hello kitty...), what setting (Circus Maximus around 40 or 50 BC), and play the way they want. The best reference I could come up with which everyone would know is the Holodeck from Star Trek:TNG. Game companies could even make money by selling prefabbed objects and environments, they just wouldn't have total control of the market.
But this doesn't make big money for the large companies. Games which players "finish" after a few hours or have to pay ongoing fees make them money. Games which take millions of work-hours to create keep others out of the market. This is optimal for the big players, and the current generation of gamers are primed to want what these companies produce.