Match that about democracy in Greece, before the Roman Empire, 2500 years ago. More than 10 times the US. And for you it's near the beginnings of the history of the nation.
Take such a petty backwater country of Europe, Poland.
Poland - US. First humans: around 100.000 bc - 10.000 bc. First "foreign presence from advanced countries": About 200 bc (Roman Empire) - about 1000 (vikings) Beginnings of "written history" of the land: 962, Mieszko I - 1492, Columbus. Independent and recognized country: 1025 (kingdom), 1776 (independence) First limited democracy: 1386 (ellection of Wladislaw Jagiello for king of Poland) - 1789 (constitution). Founding of a major university: 1364 (Jagiellonian University) - 1885 (Stanford) Constitution: 1791 - 1789. (not THAT much earlier?)
Beginnings of the US history were happening near the end of kingdom era of Poland, some 3/4 into its history already, after multitude of wars, having 14 kings democratically elected, after defending its independency from Genghis Khan, Teutonic Knights, Turkey, Sweden... When the US was conquering the Wild West, Poland was fighting for independence after being conquered and divided by 3 neighbour empires. When America had its prohibition, Poland was rebuilding its freedom and democracy.
And now take nice old countries like Italy, Greece, Spain, Britain. Yes, 200 and something years of history, a lot to boast about.
Get a real CD drive then:) I don't know what were the last drives that didn't run 700M CDs, but I suspect they were like 4x or 8x. I assure you you'll bite your leg off or fall asleep waiting for Knoppix with newest KDE to boot from such a CD.
I can't really think of any (important) place which you can't reach from the center within 30 minutes. And if it's actually more than 30 minutes away you might not consider going by bike anyway.
Of course. I thought about routes like Tiergarten to Spandau, "across the town". Certainly it would be fun to do on a bicycle, but without consciousness that the counter is ticking... Would turn out to be pretty expensive.
Well, yes. On any Linux. Like, say, on Knoppix, LiveCD (recommended actually). You need quite a bit of free diskspace for that, some 4G as you need the Knoppix ISO (may be created from the boot CD that's already in the drive) in uncompressed version, and 2-3 other CD-size files, plus either a lot of RAM (some 1.2GB?) or pretty big swapfile (the compressing program needs that).
Sure creating the 650M version is not something you do at your grandmother's house when she asked you to fix her PC and her drive supports only 650M ones. You do it on your "primary" PC with fast CPU where you won't moan "SLOOOOOW" at compressing of the 2GB image. But you do it once, burn the CD, backup the 650M iso (maybe by burning a second CD), delete all the rest, work done.
I wonder if the spammers caught it yet. Gmail supposedly supports syntax of youraccountname+arbitrarytext@gmail.com and the email still gets delivered, plus can be filtered. If spammers don't get the idea tp cut the +...@ part off, you may easily post you+webpage001@gmail.com on your webpage and once harvested by spammers, change to you+webpage002, while blocking all emails with 001, etc. Same with "temporary stuff", like, say, logins to "suspect" sites, ebay auctions etc. Whenever it's not needed anymore, filter it off.
Of course sooner or later spammers will learn to remove the + part. Then still putting periods at arbitrary places of your gmail u.s.ern.ame remains
Only if it's destructive and pointless. Nondestructive and pointless is "mucking around" Nondestructive and with purpose is "hacking". Destructive and with purpose is "defending homeland security"
Okay, and can I force it i.e. to use swapfile while swap partition is present? Say, I hibernate my native OS to the swap partition, then want to boot Knoppix. If it tries to use the swap partition it will corrupt the "hibernation" image, but the native memory may be not enough to boot the GUI...?
>My primary computer is a Celeron 500 and I don't expect to upgrade any time soon.
aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
please upgrade, trying to imagine such a slow computer physically hurts my brain!!!!!!!!!
TAKE THIS!
I'm running my firewall, www server, ftp server, mail server, ssh server-shell accounts (for me and several friends, actually quite frequently used) and several more applications on 486DX 80MHz.
You're forgetting about one thing. This is Free Software. There's no motivation behind releasing crippled versions. You just try to make it best possible within specified limits.
And people will complain, yes. No matter what to do.
I think that this could be a move that will start some off-shoots of Knoppix. It should be very good for Knoppix users.
MORE KNOPPIX OFF-SHOOTS??? NOOOOOOO! (do you have a clue how many different Knoppix off-shoots are out there? HUNDREDS!)
Been there, tried that, abandonned in favour of standard Knoppix. The problem with Morphix is the "modules" are pretty rigid structures, not quite easy to customize. Yes, you can "roll your own", like with everything open source. But plain "remastering" of vanilla Knoppix is much easier than building Morphix modules.
Of course you may sign your product to guarantee it is exactly the product you claim it is. In this respect signing Firefox could be desired in order to provide an easy way to identify a spoof. In case of Microsoft you know you're downloading a spyware-friendly, virus-friendly software. Where's the difference whether it contains a virus already or not? It will anyway, within next 4 minutes. So what good is signing MSIE for? You sign a TRUSTED content.
Of course there's the ultimate security/legitimacy proof possible with Firefox. You can just download the source, audit it and then compile. Doesn't guarantee the code is from "original firefox" but guarantees it's clean....heard about the extra NSA key found in Windows betas that would allow NSA to access any encrypted content? WHAT ARE YOU SIGNING, MICROSOFT?
Remember, there was some rule, stating that your data will always take 100.1% of your available storage space. Now you can encode the remainder using Paperdisk and write it on the surface, then read it back with a common flatbed scanner!
...or more. But only on the "writable" side, using the remaining space, so i.e. you burn 200M of data which forms a uniform circle in the middle of the disc, then use remaining 500M to "draw" the picture using the property of CD that it slightly changes color after it's written. I think some Yamaha writers had this feature.
What about getting a radiator with thick, long ribs and draw copper pipe between them? Not a single leakable point from the beginning to the end of the setup (you never cut the pipe, just bend) except of attaching the pipes... (but if you want, you can pull the copper pipe outside the case, so it runs without a single joint through the whole inside)
Sorry, OpenOffice's PDF implementation is still buggy. It may work well for pure english texts but all the native characters of other languages turn out as garbage.
Step 3: device expects some dialtone code to activate. Telemarketer just gets a standard voicemail. This way you don't even need the line to be dedicated. "I just wanted to call my mom!"
985 bugs is enough to give you a new bug every day for the next 3 years.
If you looked through the code, what you actually use is maybe 10% of it. The rest is architecture-specific code for other platforms, drivers for devices you don't have, features you never intend to use (WAN router anyone? Gigabit ethernet? >16GB RAM?), drivers for long obsolete ancient devices, filesystems for exotic operating systems, obscure network protocols... and the bugs appear mostly in that hardly used code - few people are interested in it, few people maintain it, few people find bugs. There's probably 10 times less bugs in malloc.c or kernel.c than in, say, framebuffer_amiga.c. So come, get 10 bugs that will happen in 3 years. 4 of them will get handled by the system not decreasing the functionality in any way. 3 will happen at a far abstraction layer you won't ever notice and i.e. will decrease random number generator entropy by 1% or cause extra 0.1% packet loss. 2 of them will affect negligible features, say, extra power saving scheduler or PC Speaker driver. And one will affect you directly and noticably, you will report it to LKML and Linus will send you a hotfix ready overnight, and be very grateful that you found that bug.
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That's what I meant.
Match that about democracy in Greece, before the Roman Empire, 2500 years ago. More than 10 times the US. And for you it's near the beginnings of the history of the nation.
Take such a petty backwater country of Europe, Poland.
Poland - US.
First humans:
around 100.000 bc - 10.000 bc.
First "foreign presence from advanced countries":
About 200 bc (Roman Empire) - about 1000 (vikings)
Beginnings of "written history" of the land:
962, Mieszko I - 1492, Columbus.
Independent and recognized country:
1025 (kingdom), 1776 (independence)
First limited democracy:
1386 (ellection of Wladislaw Jagiello for king of Poland) - 1789 (constitution).
Founding of a major university:
1364 (Jagiellonian University) - 1885 (Stanford)
Constitution:
1791 - 1789. (not THAT much earlier?)
Beginnings of the US history were happening near the end of kingdom era of Poland, some 3/4 into its history already, after multitude of wars, having 14 kings democratically elected, after defending its independency from Genghis Khan, Teutonic Knights, Turkey, Sweden... When the US was conquering the Wild West, Poland was fighting for independence after being conquered and divided by 3 neighbour empires. When America had its prohibition, Poland was rebuilding its freedom and democracy.
And now take nice old countries like Italy, Greece, Spain, Britain. Yes, 200 and something years of history, a lot to boast about.
Get 1 or 2 newer CDRWs or burn Knoppix on CDR.
Get a real CD drive then :) I don't know what were the last drives that didn't run 700M CDs, but I suspect they were like 4x or 8x. I assure you you'll bite your leg off or fall asleep waiting for Knoppix with newest KDE to boot from such a CD.
I can't really think of any (important) place which you can't reach from the center within 30 minutes. And if it's actually more than 30 minutes away you might not consider going by bike anyway.
Of course. I thought about routes like Tiergarten to Spandau, "across the town". Certainly it would be fun to do on a bicycle, but without consciousness that the counter is ticking... Would turn out to be pretty expensive.
Well, yes. On any Linux. Like, say, on Knoppix, LiveCD (recommended actually). You need quite a bit of free diskspace for that, some 4G as you need the Knoppix ISO (may be created from the boot CD that's already in the drive) in uncompressed version, and 2-3 other CD-size files, plus either a lot of RAM (some 1.2GB?) or pretty big swapfile (the compressing program needs that).
Sure creating the 650M version is not something you do at your grandmother's house when she asked you to fix her PC and her drive supports only 650M ones. You do it on your "primary" PC with fast CPU where you won't moan "SLOOOOOW" at compressing of the 2GB image. But you do it once, burn the CD, backup the 650M iso (maybe by burning a second CD), delete all the rest, work done.
I wonder if the spammers caught it yet. Gmail supposedly supports syntax of youraccountname+arbitrarytext@gmail.com and the email still gets delivered, plus can be filtered. If spammers don't get the idea tp cut the +...@ part off, you may easily post you+webpage001@gmail.com on your webpage and once harvested by spammers, change to you+webpage002, while blocking all emails with 001, etc. Same with "temporary stuff", like, say, logins to "suspect" sites, ebay auctions etc. Whenever it's not needed anymore, filter it off.
Of course sooner or later spammers will learn to remove the + part. Then still putting periods at arbitrary places of your gmail u.s.ern.ame remains
Only if it's destructive and pointless.
Nondestructive and pointless is "mucking around"
Nondestructive and with purpose is "hacking".
Destructive and with purpose is "defending homeland security"
you can also get a bike to just get across town for 60 cents...
Uh, I've been to Berlin. Getting across that "town" at 6c/minute on a bike would cost you good 20-30 euro if you can ride really fast.
Okay, and can I force it i.e. to use swapfile while swap partition is present?
Say, I hibernate my native OS to the swap partition, then want to boot Knoppix. If it tries to use the swap partition it will corrupt the "hibernation" image, but the native memory may be not enough to boot the GUI...?
>My primary computer is a Celeron 500 and I don't expect to upgrade any time soon.
aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
please upgrade, trying to imagine such a slow computer physically hurts my brain!!!!!!!!!
TAKE THIS!
I'm running my firewall, www server, ftp server, mail server, ssh server-shell accounts (for me and several friends, actually quite frequently used) and several more applications on 486DX 80MHz.
Now that should kill you.
For Europeans, 100 miles is a long way to go.
For Americans, 100 years is a long time ago.
4.7GB seems like Medium.
Get a dual-layer double-sided 16GB DVD of Knoppix and that will be Maximum.
If you really wanted, you could have remastered Knoppix CD removing some stuff and shrinking it.
Yes, it takes some work, say, half a hour of real work plus two hours of compressing the image.
Need - not really. But it could make life easier now and then.
You're forgetting about one thing. This is Free Software. There's no motivation behind releasing crippled versions. You just try to make it best possible within specified limits.
And people will complain, yes. No matter what to do.
I think that this could be a move that will start some off-shoots of Knoppix. It should be very good for Knoppix users.
MORE KNOPPIX OFF-SHOOTS??? NOOOOOOO!
(do you have a clue how many different Knoppix off-shoots are out there? HUNDREDS!)
Been there, tried that, abandonned in favour of standard Knoppix. The problem with Morphix is the "modules" are pretty rigid structures, not quite easy to customize. Yes, you can "roll your own", like with everything open source. But plain "remastering" of vanilla Knoppix is much easier than building Morphix modules.
Of course you may sign your product to guarantee it is exactly the product you claim it is. In this respect signing Firefox could be desired in order to provide an easy way to identify a spoof.
...heard about the extra NSA key found in Windows betas that would allow NSA to access any encrypted content?
In case of Microsoft you know you're downloading a spyware-friendly, virus-friendly software. Where's the difference whether it contains a virus already or not? It will anyway, within next 4 minutes. So what good is signing MSIE for? You sign a TRUSTED content.
Of course there's the ultimate security/legitimacy proof possible with Firefox. You can just download the source, audit it and then compile. Doesn't guarantee the code is from "original firefox" but guarantees it's clean.
WHAT ARE YOU SIGNING, MICROSOFT?
Remember, there was some rule, stating that your data will always take 100.1% of your available storage space. Now you can encode the remainder using Paperdisk and write it on the surface, then read it back with a common flatbed scanner!
...or more.
But only on the "writable" side, using the remaining space, so i.e. you burn 200M of data which forms a uniform circle in the middle of the disc, then use remaining 500M to "draw" the picture using the property of CD that it slightly changes color after it's written. I think some Yamaha writers had this feature.
What about getting a radiator with thick, long ribs and draw copper pipe between them? Not a single leakable point from the beginning to the end of the setup (you never cut the pipe, just bend) except of attaching the pipes... (but if you want, you can pull the copper pipe outside the case, so it runs without a single joint through the whole inside)
Sorry, OpenOffice's PDF implementation is still buggy. It may work well for pure english texts but all the native characters of other languages turn out as garbage.
The original, compressed?
Step 3: device expects some dialtone code to activate. Telemarketer just gets a standard voicemail. This way you don't even need the line to be dedicated. "I just wanted to call my mom!"
985 bugs is enough to give you a new bug every day for the next 3 years.
If you looked through the code, what you actually use is maybe 10% of it. The rest is architecture-specific code for other platforms, drivers for devices you don't have, features you never intend to use (WAN router anyone? Gigabit ethernet? >16GB RAM?), drivers for long obsolete ancient devices, filesystems for exotic operating systems, obscure network protocols...
and the bugs appear mostly in that hardly used code - few people are interested in it, few people maintain it, few people find bugs. There's probably 10 times less bugs in malloc.c or kernel.c than in, say, framebuffer_amiga.c.
So come, get 10 bugs that will happen in 3 years. 4 of them will get handled by the system not decreasing the functionality in any way. 3 will happen at a far abstraction layer you won't ever notice and i.e. will decrease random number generator entropy by 1% or cause extra 0.1% packet loss. 2 of them will affect negligible features, say, extra power saving scheduler or PC Speaker driver. And one will affect you directly and noticably, you will report it to LKML and Linus will send you a hotfix ready overnight, and be very grateful that you found that bug.
pretty rare part