I was also trying to find a shell account a while back. Then I plugged an old computer into my broadband router, forwarded the SSH port to that box, and voila, a shell account! It may be easier than you think, and you can do whatever you want on it. Having root access and no "terms of service" are worth the extra effort of hosting it myself (which is minimal anyway). If you are worried about your ISPs hosting rules (ie no servers), don't worry about it. It's not like SSH consumes bandwidth, at least if only one person is using it. Good luck!
Really? It takes two seconds to compile Hello World.... Just forget about trying to run OpenOffice, or even the simplest of games. And diskspace (1.7G with 128MB swap) is a bit of a negative. And there's not much RAM. See what I'm saying?
I've used Debian and YellowDog on my G3 laptop. I've avoided gentoo because I don't like the thought of compiling everything on a 231MHz processor. I have used Gentoo on x86, and it is my distro of choice. The support is excellent, so I would give it a try.
I'm not a professional programmer, but EVERY book I've bought mentions the coders that stay up all night with coffee/jolt just so they can continue to code. Are you telling me that none of it is real???
I guess it's a job like any other, but it would be better working overtime coding a cool game than, say, the next version of MS Word.
I wasn't aware that Linspire does that... I would just assume that anyone who distributes a disto wouldn't be quite that retarded. I was wrong. Any distro that recommends you run as root (bad enough) and suggests passwords are optional (egad!) is not doing the F/OSS movement a favor. If you're gonna tell them to run as root, make it quite clear that they need to set a password.
I've been waiting for this a long time. I would like if it came out for the XBOX so I wouldn't have to relearn the controls on the PS2 (relax, I already have one. I'm not a fanatic). I wonder if there will be another "public radio" station...
That's really what Linux needs to break through in the desktop market. I would have to disagree, though, that Debian is a "power-user" distro. I think it hovers in the middle between beginner and advanced. It still has nice auto-configure tools (if you like ncurses), but it's less of a pure desktop distro (like Red Hat/Fedora. Sorry, but Minimal should mean minimal). I know I may seem like a zealot here, but Gentoo is the REAL power-users distro, IMO.
That's a good point. I didn't think about that. Still, I have linux installed on two dell machines (soon to be a third) and I find they don't use Windows-only hardware. I also ran Knoppix on some *really* old dells at school (before the BIOS were password-protected), and they worked fine. Remember that Dell has been offering linux for servers for a while now.
Dell (IMO) is a good manufacturer for the "average" computer, and the brand recognition is quite high. I think Linspire is a good choice for a pre-installed distro. Most Linux geeks (who would prefer, say, Gentoo or Debian or whatever) would want to install it themselves anyway. Linspire is a good "first-time" distro, or so I've heard. The people who need the OS to be installed when they buy the computer will like what Linspire has to offer.
In Soviet Russia, life is paranoid of you!
Seriously, do you wear a tinfoil hat and kevlar vest? Did you ever think that someone might just mug you in the street?
Thank you. That saved me a lot of time:)
Just remember, if you take out the first three, it can apply to any piece of hardware ever mentioned on/.
You should have also included "BSD is dead". That seems to be somewhat of a commmon comment around here.
Most citizens who have used IE will concede that spending tax money (a questionable connection by the parent poster) to get a better browser is money well spent!
I would like to see a Beowulf cluster of DSs. Imagine what you could do with x*2 screens (where x is the number of DSs in the cluster)...
I'm sorry, it had to be said.
Why is it that, for any BSD article, half of the responses are standard, boring, retarded "BSD is dying" posts. I think it is just a bunch of linux evangelists with massive insecurities, just wanting to ensure that linux stays at the top of the heap when it comes to open-source operating systems.
Who says that all competition has to come from Microsoft? It's not like they're amazing to begin with.
(For the record: I am a happy Linux user. I tried OpenBSD, and found that I didn't like it. This does not stop me from realizing that some people like it more, and that it may be better for some purposes. At the moment, I am considering giving FreeBSD a try. Generally I'm open-minded towards all operating systems. Yes. Even Windows, to a lesser degree)
IMO, GPL is important because it protects code from companies such as Microsoft who would use it in their own product and make lots of money. That being said, if you don't MIND that kind of use for your code, then there is no problem with releasing your code in the public domain. If you want the glory of being incorporated in such a project, or you just want to help others out without bothering with their end intentions, then public domain is the way to go. That being said, I wouldn't put my code under any license more restrictive than the BSD license.
The poster is somewhat serious: look at his webpage here.
Now to the point of my post:
The internet has done one very important thing (well, more, but not relevent ATM) and that is to create a network that can distribute anything that can be turned into digital data. This, in turn, means that the publishers (or record label, or movie distributor) can be eliminated from the equation, along with the sellers of the product (book store, movie store, theatre, music store). The authors, artists, and producers should realize this, and just let the others adapt in a massive fit of Darwinism.
In addition to eliminating middlemen, the Internet also gives you access to people who haven't been published, or don't want to be. Just like GPL coders, some authors write just for fun, as well as the good of the community.
For those of you who still want a paper copy (an absolute necessity, IMO, when dealing with reference books or computer manuals), order online, or, if not available in paper, download and use the nifty new invention: the printer!
Just because you run an unpopular bookstore doesn't mean we should have to subsidize you for it.
Perhaps programming should be turned into a game! Give the programmers a specific task, and then give ranks based on least code, fastest running, most clear, etc etc...
I have tried programming games. I can vouch that playing the end result (which, oddly, I've never produced) is much more entertaining than programming it for most people. People who program games don't usually say "well, I've programmed it. That's enough for me, I'm not going to play it." I think part of the attraction is playing the game that you coded/helped code and seeing what you actually did.
One of the posts on the linked forum was someone called "MasterJedi" or some such. It's cool, but... kinda boring and uncreative. No one will steal a creative nickname, in my experience. For example, in City of Heroes, I have seen:
Sp1d3rM@n, Hulk/, hulk2, Tick, Tick returns
Get my point? On the other end of the spectrum, my friend called his hero Taraxippos. No one's gonna steal that!
I think QT is doing its part to break our dependence on Windows. As long as there is good Free software for Windows, many people won't convert entirely to Linux (I'm guilty; Firefox on Windows ATM). Mind you, not even M$ has made it easy to develop on Windows (this includes the development of Qt). I'm not surprised that Trolltech wants to punish M$ and its users for making it work so hard:)
Then why should the company feel any loyalty to you? Is the bottom line suffering? Fire a whole bunch of workers! You wouldn't like that from "the company" would you? It's not just a one way street.
I don't update my virus definitions on Windows often because I'm behind a hardware router, and no ports are redirected to my computer.
It's not JUST because I'm lazy.
.... And failing badly. Nothing will ever beat GTA at what it does best, except perhaps the next version of GTA. I might have bought Driv3r, if not for this article. Now I will wait 'till October. I'm sure GTA:San Andreas will EARN it's spot on my games shelf.
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I was also trying to find a shell account a while back. Then I plugged an old computer into my broadband router, forwarded the SSH port to that box, and voila, a shell account! It may be easier than you think, and you can do whatever you want on it. Having root access and no "terms of service" are worth the extra effort of hosting it myself (which is minimal anyway). If you are worried about your ISPs hosting rules (ie no servers), don't worry about it. It's not like SSH consumes bandwidth, at least if only one person is using it. Good luck!
Really? It takes two seconds to compile Hello World.... Just forget about trying to run OpenOffice, or even the simplest of games. And diskspace (1.7G with 128MB swap) is a bit of a negative. And there's not much RAM. See what I'm saying?
I've used Debian and YellowDog on my G3 laptop. I've avoided gentoo because I don't like the thought of compiling everything on a 231MHz processor. I have used Gentoo on x86, and it is my distro of choice. The support is excellent, so I would give it a try.
I'm not a professional programmer, but EVERY book I've bought mentions the coders that stay up all night with coffee/jolt just so they can continue to code. Are you telling me that none of it is real???
I guess it's a job like any other, but it would be better working overtime coding a cool game than, say, the next version of MS Word.
I wasn't aware that Linspire does that... I would just assume that anyone who distributes a disto wouldn't be quite that retarded. I was wrong. Any distro that recommends you run as root (bad enough) and suggests passwords are optional (egad!) is not doing the F/OSS movement a favor. If you're gonna tell them to run as root, make it quite clear that they need to set a password.
I've been waiting for this a long time. I would like if it came out for the XBOX so I wouldn't have to relearn the controls on the PS2 (relax, I already have one. I'm not a fanatic). I wonder if there will be another "public radio" station...
That's really what Linux needs to break through in the desktop market. I would have to disagree, though, that Debian is a "power-user" distro. I think it hovers in the middle between beginner and advanced. It still has nice auto-configure tools (if you like ncurses), but it's less of a pure desktop distro (like Red Hat/Fedora. Sorry, but Minimal should mean minimal). I know I may seem like a zealot here, but Gentoo is the REAL power-users distro, IMO.
That's a good point. I didn't think about that. Still, I have linux installed on two dell machines (soon to be a third) and I find they don't use Windows-only hardware. I also ran Knoppix on some *really* old dells at school (before the BIOS were password-protected), and they worked fine. Remember that Dell has been offering linux for servers for a while now.
Dell (IMO) is a good manufacturer for the "average" computer, and the brand recognition is quite high. I think Linspire is a good choice for a pre-installed distro. Most Linux geeks (who would prefer, say, Gentoo or Debian or whatever) would want to install it themselves anyway. Linspire is a good "first-time" distro, or so I've heard. The people who need the OS to be installed when they buy the computer will like what Linspire has to offer.
In Soviet Russia, life is paranoid of you! Seriously, do you wear a tinfoil hat and kevlar vest? Did you ever think that someone might just mug you in the street?
At school, I used the "web" toolbar to launch the command prompt (verboten). Security holes are just flying out of MS products, eh?
Thank you. That saved me a lot of time :)
Just remember, if you take out the first three, it can apply to any piece of hardware ever mentioned on /.
You should have also included "BSD is dead". That seems to be somewhat of a commmon comment around here.
Most citizens who have used IE will concede that spending tax money (a questionable connection by the parent poster) to get a better browser is money well spent!
I would like to see a Beowulf cluster of DSs. Imagine what you could do with x*2 screens (where x is the number of DSs in the cluster)... I'm sorry, it had to be said.
Why is it that, for any BSD article, half of the responses are standard, boring, retarded "BSD is dying" posts. I think it is just a bunch of linux evangelists with massive insecurities, just wanting to ensure that linux stays at the top of the heap when it comes to open-source operating systems. Who says that all competition has to come from Microsoft? It's not like they're amazing to begin with. (For the record: I am a happy Linux user. I tried OpenBSD, and found that I didn't like it. This does not stop me from realizing that some people like it more, and that it may be better for some purposes. At the moment, I am considering giving FreeBSD a try. Generally I'm open-minded towards all operating systems. Yes. Even Windows, to a lesser degree)
IMO, GPL is important because it protects code from companies such as Microsoft who would use it in their own product and make lots of money. That being said, if you don't MIND that kind of use for your code, then there is no problem with releasing your code in the public domain. If you want the glory of being incorporated in such a project, or you just want to help others out without bothering with their end intentions, then public domain is the way to go. That being said, I wouldn't put my code under any license more restrictive than the BSD license.
The poster is somewhat serious: look at his webpage here. Now to the point of my post: The internet has done one very important thing (well, more, but not relevent ATM) and that is to create a network that can distribute anything that can be turned into digital data. This, in turn, means that the publishers (or record label, or movie distributor) can be eliminated from the equation, along with the sellers of the product (book store, movie store, theatre, music store). The authors, artists, and producers should realize this, and just let the others adapt in a massive fit of Darwinism. In addition to eliminating middlemen, the Internet also gives you access to people who haven't been published, or don't want to be. Just like GPL coders, some authors write just for fun, as well as the good of the community. For those of you who still want a paper copy (an absolute necessity, IMO, when dealing with reference books or computer manuals), order online, or, if not available in paper, download and use the nifty new invention: the printer! Just because you run an unpopular bookstore doesn't mean we should have to subsidize you for it.
Perhaps programming should be turned into a game! Give the programmers a specific task, and then give ranks based on least code, fastest running, most clear, etc etc... I have tried programming games. I can vouch that playing the end result (which, oddly, I've never produced) is much more entertaining than programming it for most people. People who program games don't usually say "well, I've programmed it. That's enough for me, I'm not going to play it." I think part of the attraction is playing the game that you coded/helped code and seeing what you actually did.
One of the posts on the linked forum was someone called "MasterJedi" or some such. It's cool, but... kinda boring and uncreative. No one will steal a creative nickname, in my experience. For example, in City of Heroes, I have seen: Sp1d3rM@n, Hulk/, hulk2, Tick, Tick returns Get my point? On the other end of the spectrum, my friend called his hero Taraxippos. No one's gonna steal that!
I think QT is doing its part to break our dependence on Windows. As long as there is good Free software for Windows, many people won't convert entirely to Linux (I'm guilty; Firefox on Windows ATM). Mind you, not even M$ has made it easy to develop on Windows (this includes the development of Qt). I'm not surprised that Trolltech wants to punish M$ and its users for making it work so hard :)
Then why should the company feel any loyalty to you? Is the bottom line suffering? Fire a whole bunch of workers! You wouldn't like that from "the company" would you? It's not just a one way street.
I don't update my virus definitions on Windows often because I'm behind a hardware router, and no ports are redirected to my computer. It's not JUST because I'm lazy.
You're most absolutely welcome... you guys seem to need it a lot.
.... And failing badly. Nothing will ever beat GTA at what it does best, except perhaps the next version of GTA. I might have bought Driv3r, if not for this article. Now I will wait 'till October. I'm sure GTA:San Andreas will EARN it's spot on my games shelf.
Linux binaries don't age well because the programs are meant to be compiled from source, as far as I can tell. That's why I use gentoo :)