It's also the only practical way to learn what the hardware is actually doing. In Assembler, you put data into registers and manipulate it as needed. Higher level languages never let you see that. My first assembler was for 6502 processors - remember those? And I still use it for coding routines that need to run as fast as possible.
The Fischer-Tropsch process has been known since Germany used it to provide most of their fuel in WWII. It makes excellent diesel fuel, and can make usable gasoline with some post-synthesis processing. It also gives a host of by-products that find uses in plastics, chemicals, and even cosmetics.
There are some problems with F-T, and those problems (mostly having to do with environmentally hazardous emissions) are difficult to solve. But that's an engineering problem, and it is within our techno-savvy to come up with the solutions. We need to be doing so! If we keep putting it off, we're going to find ourselves in a helluva fix. It's about time the government funded some serious research instead of handing out "don't worry" panaceas.
This stuff scares me a bit. I have a nasty feeling that, if "they" saw my multi-computer setup and looked at some of the software I have on those machines, I'd probably have some difficult explaining to do. Yet I'm just a nerd, not some dangerous criminal. Hell, I have a ham radio license too. What of it??
Yes. Slackware works with any oddball hardware I care to throw together. I tried Mandrake (pretty but draggy), Debian (couldn't get it to run right), etc. Slackware is my home.
As for the GUI, I'm quite democratic. Right now, I'm on Win/IE. Earlier, I was here in Slack/KDE/Konqueror. Yesterday, I checked in with Slack-console/Lynx. I do what I want to do, and if a feature is there, I'll probably use it. But I'm not likely to change from XFree86 just to be "on the edge". Unless there's a real advantage, I don't see the point.
Mandrake is a beautiful distro, and I'd be using it except that I could never get my NIC to work! So I went with Slackware 9.0, which picked up the network just fine. Don't phear the penguin!
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It's also the only practical way to learn what the hardware is actually doing. In Assembler, you put data into registers and manipulate it as needed. Higher level languages never let you see that. My first assembler was for 6502 processors - remember those? And I still use it for coding routines that need to run as fast as possible.
There are some problems with F-T, and those problems (mostly having to do with environmentally hazardous emissions) are difficult to solve. But that's an engineering problem, and it is within our techno-savvy to come up with the solutions. We need to be doing so! If we keep putting it off, we're going to find ourselves in a helluva fix. It's about time the government funded some serious research instead of handing out "don't worry" panaceas.
This stuff scares me a bit. I have a nasty feeling that, if "they" saw my multi-computer setup and looked at some of the software I have on those machines, I'd probably have some difficult explaining to do. Yet I'm just a nerd, not some dangerous criminal. Hell, I have a ham radio license too. What of it??
Yes. Slackware works with any oddball hardware I care to throw together. I tried Mandrake (pretty but draggy), Debian (couldn't get it to run right), etc. Slackware is my home. As for the GUI, I'm quite democratic. Right now, I'm on Win/IE. Earlier, I was here in Slack/KDE/Konqueror. Yesterday, I checked in with Slack-console/Lynx. I do what I want to do, and if a feature is there, I'll probably use it. But I'm not likely to change from XFree86 just to be "on the edge". Unless there's a real advantage, I don't see the point.
Yes... and I refuse to change all the X-Krap just because someone says so. XF86 will do just fine, thank you.
Yes, and I know just the clown who would do it, too. Heh.
Ooooohhh, yeah! I wanna put this on my website and make my viewers smell poop! Nyaaa-ha-ha-haaaa!
Mandrake is a beautiful distro, and I'd be using it except that I could never get my NIC to work! So I went with Slackware 9.0, which picked up the network just fine. Don't phear the penguin!