I have been playing around with the TINI recently, and it's pretty cool as a kind of Internet appliance. It has an onboard ethernet controller, and all you need to do is plug it into a ethernet jack. Okay, so it's not for browsing, but it does provide a cheap way of controlling stuff around your house,
unlimited sex and alcohol paid for by your parents
You bastard! My loan is now $25K+, and I'm still looking for all that unlimited sex I've heard about - and I'm talking about the kind involving other people
I don't fully understand american universities' problems with napster et al. Here at Auckland University, we have to pay for our net connection, which essentially regulates the whole thing. We pay $0.15NZ per MByte during peak hours, $0.05NZ per MByte offpeak, as well as for all nz traffic.
Do american university students get free web access? It seems that if you had to pay, it would wipe the problem out overnight - by stopping excess use, as well as providing funding for purchasing extra bandwidth, etc.
I have used Redhat 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, Mandrake 6.1, 6.1, and I am currently getting Mandrake 7.0. I have found Mandrake to be a bit nicer mainly in it's default user settings (e.g. desktop stuff, etc.) They also have some handy programs installed , e.g kdevelop, kpackage. The pentium optimisations are nice too.
It seems that they started with redhat, but they are trying hard to develop their own identity
It is a bit of a pain not being able to develop any proprietary stuff without paying heaps. You have to think seriously about learning Qt, if you can only use it for open stuff, when at work, you are told to develop closed source. It makes you think - is this the best thing for me to spend time on learning? Do I really want to learn another way of doing things?
And you are right that there would probably be more cool apps come across. We cannot expect everything to be open source, if we want to achieve "World domination - and fast"
I think the problem here in New Zealand stems from the fact that there are so few technical people in Parliament - something like 3 or 4 out of 120. Most of our MPs are lawyers, and things like that, and just don't feel comfortable with technical subjects.
Geeks are never going to get decent representation as long as there aren't any people in power who can communicate with geeks on their (technical) level.
Yes but when you live in New Zealand like me, it doesnt really matter which bit of USA they are in. Although it was good to see something happening in Australia recently, we get nothing in NZ.
Although RMS did talk at my uni last year, I had to miss it because of lectures. (Yes, some papers in Stage 3 Engineering are more important than GNU/Linux GNU/Linux GNU/Linux...)
Hopefully we will start to see things more spread out though, as people realise that USA is not the only place Linux zealots live. After all, Redhat 6.1 is pretty much all I, and most of my fellow EEE engineers use at my uni
I don't get it. Every self respecting GeekBore (TM) that you ever meet at a party goes on about how we put men on the moon with less technology than what's in a pocket calculator these days, and here we are, saying we can't get rocks back from Mars because we don't have the technology?
For crying out loud, there are people that admit to using their Palm pilot while they're on the toilet.
And as an aside - if we did send people to Mars, it could get pretty boring on the trip - better get a couple of those IBM drives stacked up with MP3s
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
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is anyone else feeling slightly patronised by thes e comments being posted in way offtopic places? this is the third time now after all. If VA wants to advertise on Slashdot, why don't they do what other people do and buy some banner ad space? Or do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
Maybe with all these manufacturers releasing drivers, the Winmodem makers will follow suit and release their drivers, and we can finally get Winmodems working under Linux
I've got a copy of their beta, and it is based on a Mandrake distro (in turn based on Redhat 6.0). Having not tried Mandrake personally, I can't say what the difference is. The install is just the same as installing Redhat 6.0/5.2. BTW, anyone been able to get that new installer working for Redhat 6.1. I downloaded the entire CD, and then the installler wouldn't work. I ended up using the old installer, but with the new packages
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The bastard
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
You bastard! My loan is now $25K+, and I'm still looking for all that unlimited sex I've heard about - and I'm talking about the kind involving other people
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
I don't fully understand american universities' problems with napster et al. Here at Auckland University, we have to pay for our net connection, which essentially regulates the whole thing. We pay $0.15NZ per MByte during peak hours, $0.05NZ per MByte offpeak, as well as for all nz traffic.
Do american university students get free web access? It seems that if you had to pay, it would wipe the problem out overnight - by stopping excess use, as well as providing funding for purchasing extra bandwidth, etc.
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
I have used Redhat 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, Mandrake 6.1, 6.1, and I am currently getting Mandrake 7.0. I have found Mandrake to be a bit nicer mainly in it's default user settings (e.g. desktop stuff, etc.) They also have some handy programs installed , e.g kdevelop, kpackage. The pentium optimisations are nice too.
It seems that they started with redhat, but they are trying hard to develop their own identity
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
It is a bit of a pain not being able to develop any proprietary stuff without paying heaps. You have to think seriously about learning Qt, if you can only use it for open stuff, when at work, you are told to develop closed source. It makes you think - is this the best thing for me to spend time on learning? Do I really want to learn another way of doing things?
And you are right that there would probably be more cool apps come across. We cannot expect everything to be open source, if we want to achieve "World domination - and fast"
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
I think the problem here in New Zealand stems from the fact that there are so few technical people in Parliament - something like 3 or 4 out of 120. Most of our MPs are lawyers, and things like that, and just don't feel comfortable with technical subjects.
Geeks are never going to get decent representation as long as there aren't any people in power who can communicate with geeks on their (technical) level.
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
Interesting thoughts though. Sounds like a bit of the old "It's not what you know..."
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
Damn - maybe that's why I keep getting rejected
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
Perhaps they found that the tape was kinda like those Postit notes, and they couldn't get data to stick permanently
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
I can understand the uses for signatures, etc, but how many people, after some practice typing, would go back to handwriting?
Most people I know can, after a little practice, type much faster than they can write.
Maybe someone can point out why you would really want this
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
Yes but when you live in New Zealand like me, it doesnt really matter which bit of USA they are in. Although it was good to see something happening in Australia recently, we get nothing in NZ.
Although RMS did talk at my uni last year, I had to miss it because of lectures. (Yes, some papers in Stage 3 Engineering are more important than GNU/Linux GNU/Linux GNU/Linux ...)
Hopefully we will start to see things more spread out though, as people realise that USA is not the only place Linux zealots live. After all, Redhat 6.1 is pretty much all I, and most of my fellow EEE engineers use at my uni
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
For crying out loud, there are people that admit to using their Palm pilot while they're on the toilet.
And as an aside - if we did send people to Mars, it could get pretty boring on the trip - better get a couple of those IBM drives stacked up with MP3s
"Oh, I got me a helmet - I got a beauty!"
is anyone else feeling slightly patronised by thes e comments being posted in way offtopic places?
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this is the third time now after all. If VA wants to advertise on Slashdot, why don't they do what other people do and buy some banner ad space? Or do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/09/04
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/10/14
Maybe with all these manufacturers releasing drivers, the Winmodem makers will follow suit and release their drivers, and we can finally get Winmodems working under Linux
I've got a copy of their beta, and it is based on a Mandrake distro (in turn based on Redhat 6.0). Having not tried Mandrake personally, I can't say what the difference is. The install is just the same as installing Redhat 6.0/5.2. BTW, anyone been able to get that new installer working for Redhat 6.1. I downloaded the entire CD, and then the installler wouldn't work. I ended up using the old installer, but with the new packages