HP's cartdridges are a joke. Old DeskJets like the 300 and 500 series took $15 cartdridges (if you bought the generic brand versions) that could print about 300 sheets; the newer printer-scanner-copiers use $30 cartdridges (for which there are no generic brand versions) that seem to only print about 75 sheets. Printing costs eight times as much... I still do most of my printing on a deskjet 320, even though its much slower (3 ppm versus 10 ppm) just because it saves a helluva lot of money.
(Numbers are from personal experience... I print a *lot*.)
The reason I, personally, blame the tools instead of the craftsmen is because for years I've been making coffee just fine with a drip percolator, and now someone has invented an instant coffee machine that's faster and everyone thinks everyone has one. I don't *want* my coffee to be made any faster. I just make it occasionally, and its never time-critical. There's nothing wrong with instant coffee, I just don't want it in my life right now, regardless of how much better instant coffee supposedly is... When I'm thirsty, I drink orange juice 99% of the time anyway. If coffee is the only option, I find a different restaurent. (its an extended metaphor... bonus pts. if you can figure it all out, heh)
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I would say an open relay is a general purpose tool. They make it much easier to have hard-to-trace email (which has its advantages and disadvantages)
However, on the subject of running an open relay... Everybody's suggesting that the guy force authentication of some sort.
Authentication, IMHO, sucks.
However, a friend of mine had an idea: Install spam filters on incoming mail whose origin is unverified... This would make it feasible to run an "open" relay and still give spammers a difficult time.
I'll be happy with flashing the web as long as its: (a) an open standard (b) supported even by 10-year-old versions of Lynx (c) fully interoperable with HTML (d) nice and fast even over a slow modem connection etc etc.
Not that the web even fits those characteristics anymore though, what with netscrape and internet exploder...
I have several PC's in my bedroom.. I've gotten so used to it that when I travel I am often uncomfortable, as hotel rooms and other people's houses don't have whirring CPU and Power Supply fans while I'm drifting off to sleep. =)
Picture an "up" escalator.... now start walking down it... Same principle.
And as for being physically possible (the whole tilted record player idea), there are small amusement park rides that already do the same thing.
I wonder if we'll be able to play B-sides on this thing, though;)
I've been using Slack '96 on a 386/25 with 3 Megs of ram and an 84 MB hard drive for years... no X, but I had gcc and the like. I've been wanting to upgrade to glibc, but it's a shame that glibc's devel.a libs are so huge... (libc5's are like 400k.)
On my glibc 2.2 system:
ls -l/usr/lib/libc.a/usr/lib/libc_p.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24897006 Jan 21 15:16/usr/lib/libc.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25013472 Jan 21 15:16/usr/lib/libc_p.a
As for the extra programming, it has, many times, already been done... see http://ctan.tug.org/ -- they have a huge repository of TeX and LaTeX macro packages; nearly any type of presentation you want has been done.
Actually, the Linux client never crashes assuming that you wait at least three seconds or so switching between the download and search windows. Seems there are some issues in the client with select() and ncurses usage.
But I'd go with LimeWire as far as Gnutella is concerned, even if there are ads. It's a damn good piece of software...
Actually, there's many reasons I still use Linux rather than BSD, but the chief one being:
Linux is a buzzword, and being one, gets the benefits. When people talk about "non-Windows support," what jumps to mind is "Linux" even before "Mac" for many developers. Thus, there are many precompiled binaries, precompiled kernel modules, etc., that run under Linux. (I know BSD can run many Linux binaries, but what about kernel modules?) Additionally, many people are actively developing hardware drivers for Linux, but not so many for BSD.
Plus, it's very easy to find support for various Linux-related problems, because so many people use it.
By the way, since the links/and/ the URL's (as far as I can tell) in the post are broken, this should help:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/O(1)-scheduler/
I've created diffs between 2.5.1 and 2.5.2pre8 with the O(1) scheduler, and between 2.5.2pre8 and 2.5.2pre8 with the O(1) scheduler.
2.5.2pre8 actually patches pretty well with the original scheduler patch (drivers/char/serial.c.rej can be ignored, and you have to make a few changes to kernel/sched.c in order for it to patch correctly), but because it took me at least ten minutes of fiddling with sched.c I've decided to make a diff for 2.5.2pre8.
No guarantee that either of these works, though:) but hey, my kernel compiled just fine.
# diff -ru linux-2.5.1 linux-2.5.2pre8schedO1|grep -v '^Only in '|gzip -f >/home/web/patch-2.5.1-2.5.2pre8schedO1.patch.g z
And no, I didn't patch in the kdev_t stuff from people/aeb on kernel.org because there's lots of kdev_t stuff in the Changelog for pre7 and pre8, so I decided to assume (yes, I know, assuming makes an ass out of u and me) I didn't need it... of course, when the system crashes after five seconds, maybe I'll change my mind;)
And if, for some odd reason, you can't connect on port 8080, just connect on port 80 and let's hope you're not blocked by @home's or my firewall.:)
I have found two Flash content generation products -- SWIFT and Ming.
From swift-tools.com :
Swift-Generator is a Dynamic Flash? Content generator. It aims at dynamically replacing texts, fonts, sounds, images and movie clips in either a Template file or a standard Flash? file. It can also dynamically change action parameters in either frames or buttons.
This allows Webmasters to create dynamic content such as stock-exchange values, sport scoring, weather values, news tickers and the like. Swift-Generator only requires an authoring tool like Macromedia® Flash? 4 or 5. Once a Flash? file is created, Swift-Generator is able to handle it.
This will only work for filling in templates, but its definitely a start... perhaps SWIFT-tools will release a full editor in the future?
From opaque.net:
Ming is a c library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a set of wrappers for using the library from c++ and popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby.
Ming is just a library, but perhaps somebody will develop a graphical front-end for it in the future.
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"You have quite a good memory. Do you take MemAid, Keeper, or ReCall?"
"No... I'm a clean."
"A real clean? You don't take any mindpills? What an odd way to live!"
HP's cartdridges are a joke. Old DeskJets like the 300 and 500 series took $15 cartdridges (if you bought the generic brand versions) that could print about 300 sheets; the newer printer-scanner-copiers use $30 cartdridges (for which there are no generic brand versions) that seem to only print about 75 sheets. Printing costs eight times as much... I still do most of my printing on a deskjet 320, even though its much slower (3 ppm versus 10 ppm) just because it saves a helluva lot of money.
(Numbers are from personal experience... I print a *lot*.)
And the kernel option of the future is...
Processor type and features
...
Floating point emulation? [y/N]
Floating point acceleration via 3dLabs VPU? [Y/n]
The reason I, personally, blame the tools instead of the craftsmen is because for years I've been making coffee just fine with a drip percolator, and now someone has invented an instant coffee machine that's faster and everyone thinks everyone has one. I don't *want* my coffee to be made any faster. I just make it occasionally, and its never time-critical.
There's nothing wrong with instant coffee, I just don't want it in my life right now, regardless of how much better instant coffee supposedly is...
When I'm thirsty, I drink orange juice 99% of the time anyway. If coffee is the only option, I find a different restaurent.
(its an extended metaphor... bonus pts. if you can figure it all out, heh)
Java and SVG should cover about everything Flash does, anyway...
I'd say its a fairly accurate representation of real life.. I get up two hours before school so I can read slashdot and freshmeat in the mornings!
Does this remind anyone of the old cartoon `Pirates of Dark Water'? Or is it just me..
(C)2002 Google - Searching 2,073,418,204 web pages and skipping 4,475,243,576 pages under the DMCA
Lingua::EN::Summarize tested on the GPL v2:
USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document. Changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. The GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software. To make sure the software is free for all its users. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.). We are referring to freedom. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish).
It seems comparable to MS Word..
I would say an open relay is a general purpose tool. They make it much easier to have hard-to-trace email (which has its advantages and disadvantages)
However, on the subject of running an open relay...
Everybody's suggesting that the guy force authentication of some sort.
Authentication, IMHO, sucks.
However, a friend of mine had an idea: Install spam filters on incoming mail whose origin is unverified... This would make it feasible to run an "open" relay and still give spammers a difficult time.
I used to think computers in movies were so cool.. until I got to be about 11 or 12 and realized they were just useless boards of blinking lights.
Damn. Oh well.
If I ever get a Cray (hahahahahaha), I'm gonna put an LED on every RD/WR and EN(able) pin of every RAM chip...
I'll be happy with flashing the web as long as its:
(a) an open standard
(b) supported even by 10-year-old versions of Lynx
(c) fully interoperable with HTML
(d) nice and fast even over a slow modem connection
etc etc.
Not that the web even fits those characteristics anymore though, what with netscrape and internet exploder...
I have several PC's in my bedroom.. I've gotten so used to it that when I travel I am often uncomfortable, as hotel rooms and other people's houses don't have whirring CPU and Power Supply fans while I'm drifting off to sleep. =)
"something tells me this just would not work"
;)
Picture an "up" escalator.... now start walking down it... Same principle.
And as for being physically possible (the whole tilted record player idea), there are small amusement park rides that already do the same thing.
I wonder if we'll be able to play B-sides on this thing, though
Linux having problems with (C) is definitely right.
Look at QT... I keep about five different versions of QT on my system, and sometimes I *still* can't get a QT app to compile against one of them.
GTK+, on the other hand, seems to do much better in terms of keeping a stable API from version-to-version.
I've been using Slack '96 on a 386/25 with 3 Megs of ram and an 84 MB hard drive for years... no X, but I had gcc and the like. I've been wanting to upgrade to glibc, but it's a shame that glibc's devel .a libs are so huge... (libc5's are like 400k.)
/usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc_p.a
/usr/lib/libc.a
/usr/lib/libc_p.a
On my glibc 2.2 system:
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24897006 Jan 21 15:16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25013472 Jan 21 15:16
See what I mean?
Yeah! Or, they might just have the photograph upside-down.... ;)
As for the extra programming, it has, many times, already been done... see http://ctan.tug.org/ -- they have a huge repository of TeX and LaTeX macro packages; nearly any type of presentation you want has been done.
Well, yeah, but any system that has bash or X has already sold out anyway, so it's not cool anymore.
<wink>
Actually, the Linux client never crashes assuming that you wait at least three seconds or so switching between the download and search windows. Seems there are some issues in the client with select() and ncurses usage.
But I'd go with LimeWire as far as Gnutella is concerned, even if there are ads. It's a damn good piece of software...
Actually, there's many reasons I still use Linux rather than BSD, but the chief one being:
Linux is a buzzword, and being one, gets the benefits. When people talk about "non-Windows support," what jumps to mind is "Linux" even before "Mac" for many developers. Thus, there are many precompiled binaries, precompiled kernel modules, etc., that run under Linux. (I know BSD can run many Linux binaries, but what about kernel modules?) Additionally, many people are actively developing hardware drivers for Linux, but not so many for BSD.
Plus, it's very easy to find support for various Linux-related problems, because so many people use it.
By the way, since the links /and/ the URL's (as far as I can tell) in the post are broken, this should help:
:) but hey, my kernel compiled just fine.
e 8s chedO1.patch.gz
2 pr e8schedO1.patch.gz
:)
;)
:)
:-\
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/O(1)-scheduler/
I've created diffs between 2.5.1 and 2.5.2pre8 with the O(1) scheduler, and between 2.5.2pre8 and 2.5.2pre8 with the O(1) scheduler.
2.5.2pre8 actually patches pretty well with the original scheduler patch (drivers/char/serial.c.rej can be ignored, and you have to make a few changes to kernel/sched.c in order for it to patch correctly), but because it took me at least ten minutes of fiddling with sched.c I've decided to make a diff for 2.5.2pre8.
No guarantee that either of these works, though
# diff -ru linux-2.5.1 linux-2.5.2pre8schedO1|grep -v '^Only in '|gzip -f >/home/web/patch-2.5.1-2.5.2pre8schedO1.patch.g z
http://os.markbach.com:8080/patch-2.5.1-2.5.2pr
(396,961 bytes)
# diff -ru linux-orig linux |grep -v '^Only in ' |gzip -f >/home/web/patch-2.5.2pre8-2.5.2pre8schedO1.pat ch.gz
http://os.markbach.com:8080/patch-2.5.pre8-2.5.
(31,124 bytes)
Good luck to anyone who tries to use these
And no, I didn't patch in the kdev_t stuff from people/aeb on kernel.org because there's lots of kdev_t stuff in the Changelog for pre7 and pre8, so I decided to assume (yes, I know, assuming makes an ass out of u and me) I didn't need it... of course, when the system crashes after five seconds, maybe I'll change my mind
And if, for some odd reason, you can't connect on port 8080, just connect on port 80 and let's hope you're not blocked by @home's or my firewall.
Damn, I'm using too many smileys
Or, people could use the fancy little "Preview" button to fix all their seplling mistakes and typos! What a novel idea... ;)
Well, so have I! SGI Indy, 1994. 64-bit MIPS CPU.
I have found two Flash content generation products -- SWIFT and Ming.
From swift-tools.com :
Swift-Generator is a Dynamic Flash? Content generator. It aims at dynamically replacing texts, fonts, sounds, images and movie clips in either a Template file or a standard Flash? file. It can also dynamically change action parameters in either frames or buttons.
This allows Webmasters to create dynamic content such as stock-exchange values, sport scoring, weather values, news tickers and the like. Swift-Generator only requires an authoring tool like Macromedia® Flash? 4 or 5. Once a Flash? file is created, Swift-Generator is able to handle it.
This will only work for filling in templates, but its definitely a start... perhaps SWIFT-tools will release a full editor in the future?
From opaque.net:
Ming is a c library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies, plus a set of wrappers for using the library from c++ and popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby.
Ming is just a library, but perhaps somebody will develop a graphical front-end for it in the future.