Or he could buy a good motherboard with decent onboard IDE, NIC, Sound, even Modem (or get an external modem), and Firewire. Then all he has to do is put in a SCSI board. Even that can be integrated on an expensive board...
Sorry but your example only holds water for people stuck in the stone age of motherboards. Some motherboards have good integrated peripherals. People who want everything on a card can buy two or three systems as far as I'm concerned. Who cares about the few nimrods who want to do this?
Patches are simple! If you are using the linus tree see the other reply. If you are using the -ac (alan cox) tree than grab the incremental patches from bzimage.org. To apply the patch go to/usr/src/linux (instead of/usr/src like with the linux patches) and patch away...
If you had provided an example of your pains with patching you would have got a much more detailed reply from somebody. Thoughts to ponder...
Linus is planning on handing 2.4 over to Alan Cox and starting on the 2.5 branch pretty soon... Maybe 2.4.14? Who knows though...
Re:Release Often?
on
Linux 2.4.13
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· Score: 5, Funny
Doesn't everyone know? Linus is recovering from alcholism. He just started the 12 step program. This week has been really hard for Linus because Alan Cox keeps talking about "putting away a few pints at the pub" (he is English) on the linux kernal mailing list. There have been a few flame wars too between the people working on the vm subsystem. Apparently one is a tea-totler and the other a hard core drinker so Linus is leaning towards using the tea-totler's code but Alan says the hard core drinkers code is better...
I think we all need to try to support Linus and Alan without choosing sides. Just grab the latest kernel of your choice and compile away... Try not to mention free beer on the linux kernel mailing list in the next couple weeks. Think free tea or something similar.
Re:Tiny operating systems
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Tiny Apps
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· Score: 2
For those of you thinking this is worthless due to the use of a floppy consider using CDRs instead... I'm going to help a small school with a wide area network (between several buildings). 802.11b links using old computers and IPSec should be ideal. Of course they have to be new enough to support bootable CD-ROMs. I don't trust a floppy in this situation.
Not really. Why even accept public mail to the Whitehouse? What is the value? Little Timothy got to write to old Georgie? I say burn it all and start refusing delivery!
I found Copernic to be interesting but in the end not worth it at all. Google comes through for me everytime. I barely ever hit dead links and then there is the Google cache of course so?
Re:The usability of Linux (is pretty good by now)
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· Score: 1
Just try to use copy and paste in KDE 2.2.1. There are a number of usability issues that still need to be fixed...
(The problem with copy and paste is this: copy something, go to a document where you want to replace a section with the copy so highlight the section, hit paste, and tada! Nothing happens. Yeah, everything you highlight is copied. That is silly.)
Because this would void the 99.999% uptime deal and all the "sounds good on paper" but is really worthless crap when you do these deals. Is getting a refund on your fees worth more than your servers going down? So I agree with you to a degree but the pointy haired bosses would never agree with this... Least not until you gave them the "get hax0red right now or load an unapproved patch" rush case.
How is the mail client? Can it do IMAP or only POP3? Does it store the messages on the local flash (?) card? I'm thinking about getting one of these for my mother as she is not technical at all and doesn't want a PC in the living room. If this thing has a good email client she would be set!
I don't get the arguement. I agree that linux isn't ready for the desktop but we all already knew that... But why has Linux lost? This seems to be short term thinking aimed at discouraging the development of linux and nothing more. Why do we care if we haven't one right now? We always have the future. Don't let these cynics affect your will to develop for linux (and unix in general).
There never was a desktop war - only pundits trying to find the "one true microsoft way" once again...
You could pop the system into this nice cheap baby black cube... Just be sure to investigate a heftier power supply for long term usage. Of course this "baby" case is probably a bit bigger than the one this system comes in but at least it looks cool!
Once you get past ignoring their little disclaimer go get JunkFilter - addon scripts for procmail that that help eat spam... Personally I send it to a Spam-JF IMAP folder just in case it gets something important. In the last 2+ years of using it only a couple emails have been misclassified (plus I'm even running an old version!). Time to go upgrade...
In a similar vain what is the best way to learn older networking stuff like token ring? I recently had a friend ask me if I could help her public school with their ailing token ring network. But because I have no experience with tokent ring I couldn't help her.
Obviously I'm going to buy a couple of old token ring cards to play with but are there any good sites for background information, etc? I don't expect to become a networking guru but learning more about not so common network equipment would be interesting...
Now there's an idea...fixing worm systems through their own security holes. I even wrote a little script to automatically attempt to 'fix' an attacking system. Don't just bitch when the same IP keeps pounding you...do something about it!! There's plenty of info out there, and you can get most of the info from the attacking HTTP GET strings.
Perhaps you could share this script? If you want to do it but you are bashful about the quality of your code please share it anyway! We all write quick fixes sometimes.
(note the last two sentences were included because some people are way too silly and always feel the need to clean things up before they could possible share code, you might not be like that but just in case...)
PayPal only refunds the money if they can get it out of the the account of the abuser. If that person has emptied his/her account PayPal will do nothing. I believe the original poster was pointing out that when you buy something with a credit card you have protection. With PayPal you have none.
"The Dumbest Invention in the History of Computers"
The CueCat was Dallas born and Dallas bred, and it was Dallas' biggest
contribution to the Internet Bubble.
By Glenna Whitley
On Sept. 6, Belo finally ran up the white flag. In a small story on the front
page of the business section, the Morning News announced it was giving up on a
promotion it had hyped more than the paper's recent redesign: a device dubbed
"CueCat" that read bar codes implanted in stories in the News and on sister TV
station WFAA. Invented and distributed by Dallas-based Digital Convergence,
CueCat was supposed to help consumers jump from print to Web without the pesky
trouble of typing. About as useful as an automatic page turner, CueCat's
pointlessness was obvious to everyone, it seems, but the investors who backed
it and the editors and producers who promoted it relentlessly. The game was up
in May when Digital Convergence fired most of its 225-person workforce. Belo
soldiered on for three months-apparently too embarrassed to back down-before
announcing that, in the words of one spokesman, "not every project has a 100
percent success rate."
The Huckster
By Glenna Whitley
Salesman: Jovan Philyaw
Title: Chairman and CEO, Digital Convergence
Bio: Philyaw is a self-proclaimed "luminary figure in the world of direct
marketing." The Digital Convergence web site boasts his past successes,
generating more than $4 billion in business-to-consumer sales for companies
such as QVC, Fingerhut, Home Shopping Network, and National Media. In addition
to Tripledge wiper blades, which supposedly sold $50 million in less than 36
months, Philyaw was the driving force behind Susan Powter ("Stop the
Insanity!") and 1-800-Be-A-Geek, the alias of Internet America, the Internet
service provider whose billboards once blanketed Dallas. He's also the host and
executive producer of Net Talk Live!, which started as a local radio and
television show and is now broadcast on the Web. Digital Convergence invented,
owned, and promoted the CueCat.
Stake: 49.77 percent of Digital Convergence stock
Raised: $185 million
Commitment: To raise and spend more than $300 million to distribute some 50
million CueCat scanners free by the end of 2001, giving consumers a way to get
to web pages without typing in URLs.
Observations: An executive of Coca-Cola said listening to Philyaw made him feel
like his hair was on fire. -June 27, 2001, Wall Street Journal
Huckster Quote: "God loves me twice. Once to give me talent, and twice to grant
me the wisdom to apply it."
The Suckers
By Glenna Whitley
Jovan Philyaw found easy marks among a few Old Media types desperate to play the
New Media game and a certain local retailer desperate to cash in on the
high-tech boom.
The Mark: Robert W. Decherd
Title: Chairman, president, and CEO, Belo
Invested: $37.5 million for 7 percent ownership
Commitment: Mailed more than 360,000 free CueCats to households in North Texas
counties. Began using the technology at the Morning News, several other
newspapers, TV stations, and its many Internet sites.
Quote: "This is not the time for retrenchment. This is a time for well-managed
entrepreneurism, for calculated risk-taking.... It's clearly the time to stay
the course, and soon we will find the path to profitability that consumers are
telling us is there."
The Mark: Steve Forbes
Title: Publisher, Forbes
Invested: At least $2 million
Commitment: Sent more than 800,000 subscribers CueCat and software.
Quote: "[The CueCat] will change the way you use the Internet forever."
The Mark: David Edmondson
Title: President and COO, RadioShack Corp.
Invested: $30 million
Commitment: Manufactured CueCats and distributed them free at all RadioShack
outlets.
Quote: "I went, 'Holy Toledo! This is big.'"
AND MORE WERE BORN EVERY MINUTE...
Mark A. Dacey, president of Adweek magazines, was so "impressed by the
limitless marketing opportunities of the technology" (his words) that he sent
CueCats to all Adweek subscribers... Michael Dolan, chairman of WPP Group,
Young & Rubicam said, "If you haven't seen [Philyaw], it's worth the price of
admission." For Dolan, admission cost $28 million... Bob Guccione Jr. intended
to make his Gear Magazine "the first 100 percent wired magazine by way of the
CueCat"... Meanwhile, David G. Whalen, president and CEO of A.T. Cross,
invested $6 million on a Cross Convergence pen ($90) that not only wrote, but
also conveniently swiped bar codes for the pen owner who happened to be near a
computer and connected to the Internet-and who couldn't type.
Slashdot Mirror
What exactly would AOL do to support a 64 bit processor?
Or he could buy a good motherboard with decent onboard IDE, NIC, Sound, even Modem (or get an external modem), and Firewire. Then all he has to do is put in a SCSI board. Even that can be integrated on an expensive board...
Sorry but your example only holds water for people stuck in the stone age of motherboards. Some motherboards have good integrated peripherals. People who want everything on a card can buy two or three systems as far as I'm concerned. Who cares about the few nimrods who want to do this?
Well, I guess that proves Alan doesn't read slashdot. He is Welsh. BIG difference. Especially when it comes to things like Rugby.
Actually I think Alan does stop by every now and then. I didn't know he was Welsh though. I'll be sure to make a note of it.
Patches are simple! If you are using the linus tree see the other reply. If you are using the -ac (alan cox) tree than grab the incremental patches from bzimage.org. To apply the patch go to /usr/src/linux (instead of /usr/src like with the linux patches) and patch away...
If you had provided an example of your pains with patching you would have got a much more detailed reply from somebody. Thoughts to ponder...
Linus is planning on handing 2.4 over to Alan Cox and starting on the 2.5 branch pretty soon... Maybe 2.4.14? Who knows though...
Doesn't everyone know? Linus is recovering from alcholism. He just started the 12 step program. This week has been really hard for Linus because Alan Cox keeps talking about "putting away a few pints at the pub" (he is English) on the linux kernal mailing list. There have been a few flame wars too between the people working on the vm subsystem. Apparently one is a tea-totler and the other a hard core drinker so Linus is leaning towards using the tea-totler's code but Alan says the hard core drinkers code is better...
I think we all need to try to support Linus and Alan without choosing sides. Just grab the latest kernel of your choice and compile away... Try not to mention free beer on the linux kernel mailing list in the next couple weeks. Think free tea or something similar.
For those of you thinking this is worthless due to the use of a floppy consider using CDRs instead... I'm going to help a small school with a wide area network (between several buildings). 802.11b links using old computers and IPSec should be ideal. Of course they have to be new enough to support bootable CD-ROMs. I don't trust a floppy in this situation.
I'd definately be interested too. I have a hard time falling asleep so that would be an awesome bonus as well, hehe..
Not really. Why even accept public mail to the Whitehouse? What is the value? Little Timothy got to write to old Georgie? I say burn it all and start refusing delivery!
I found Copernic to be interesting but in the end not worth it at all. Google comes through for me everytime. I barely ever hit dead links and then there is the Google cache of course so?
Just try to use copy and paste in KDE 2.2.1. There are a number of usability issues that still need to be fixed...
(The problem with copy and paste is this: copy something, go to a document where you want to replace a section with the copy so highlight the section, hit paste, and tada! Nothing happens. Yeah, everything you highlight is copied. That is silly.)
Use Debian, stable releases seep out every two years or so.
Remember, may the Source be with you...
Of course two years for a stable release might just push people to another release/os... FreeBSD is the least annoying choice for me.
I don't even use Emacs but comparing Komodo to it is hilarious! I use vim but one day I'll check out Emacs...
Because this would void the 99.999% uptime deal and all the "sounds good on paper" but is really worthless crap when you do these deals. Is getting a refund on your fees worth more than your servers going down? So I agree with you to a degree but the pointy haired bosses would never agree with this... Least not until you gave them the "get hax0red right now or load an unapproved patch" rush case.
How is the mail client? Can it do IMAP or only POP3? Does it store the messages on the local flash (?) card? I'm thinking about getting one of these for my mother as she is not technical at all and doesn't want a PC in the living room. If this thing has a good email client she would be set!
FreeDOS isn't an MS product and neither is Dr DOS.
I don't get the arguement. I agree that linux isn't ready for the desktop but we all already knew that... But why has Linux lost? This seems to be short term thinking aimed at discouraging the development of linux and nothing more. Why do we care if we haven't one right now? We always have the future. Don't let these cynics affect your will to develop for linux (and unix in general).
There never was a desktop war - only pundits trying to find the "one true microsoft way" once again...
You could pop the system into this nice cheap baby black cube... Just be sure to investigate a heftier power supply for long term usage. Of course this "baby" case is probably a bit bigger than the one this system comes in but at least it looks cool!
Once you get past ignoring their little disclaimer go get JunkFilter - addon scripts for procmail that that help eat spam... Personally I send it to a Spam-JF IMAP folder just in case it gets something important. In the last 2+ years of using it only a couple emails have been misclassified (plus I'm even running an old version!). Time to go upgrade...
Do we really need such disclaimers? If you read /. and have some nads you should be able to get procmail working. Jeeze...
MozillaZine.org has a pointer to a news.com piece too plus additional comments.
In a similar vain what is the best way to learn older networking stuff like token ring? I recently had a friend ask me if I could help her public school with their ailing token ring network. But because I have no experience with tokent ring I couldn't help her.
Obviously I'm going to buy a couple of old token ring cards to play with but are there any good sites for background information, etc? I don't expect to become a networking guru but learning more about not so common network equipment would be interesting...
Now there's an idea...fixing worm systems through their own security holes. I even wrote a little script to automatically attempt to 'fix' an attacking system. Don't just bitch when the same IP keeps pounding you...do something about it!! There's plenty of info out there, and you can get most of the info from the attacking HTTP GET strings.
Perhaps you could share this script? If you want to do it but you are bashful about the quality of your code please share it anyway! We all write quick fixes sometimes.
(note the last two sentences were included because some people are way too silly and always feel the need to clean things up before they could possible share code, you might not be like that but just in case...)
PayPal only refunds the money if they can get it out of the the account of the abuser. If that person has emptied his/her account PayPal will do nothing. I believe the original poster was pointing out that when you buy something with a credit card you have protection. With PayPal you have none.
"The Dumbest Invention in the History of Computers"
.... It's clearly the time to stay
The CueCat was Dallas born and Dallas bred, and it was Dallas' biggest
contribution to the Internet Bubble.
By Glenna Whitley
On Sept. 6, Belo finally ran up the white flag. In a small story on the front
page of the business section, the Morning News announced it was giving up on a
promotion it had hyped more than the paper's recent redesign: a device dubbed
"CueCat" that read bar codes implanted in stories in the News and on sister TV
station WFAA. Invented and distributed by Dallas-based Digital Convergence,
CueCat was supposed to help consumers jump from print to Web without the pesky
trouble of typing. About as useful as an automatic page turner, CueCat's
pointlessness was obvious to everyone, it seems, but the investors who backed
it and the editors and producers who promoted it relentlessly. The game was up
in May when Digital Convergence fired most of its 225-person workforce. Belo
soldiered on for three months-apparently too embarrassed to back down-before
announcing that, in the words of one spokesman, "not every project has a 100
percent success rate."
The Huckster
By Glenna Whitley
Salesman: Jovan Philyaw
Title: Chairman and CEO, Digital Convergence
Bio: Philyaw is a self-proclaimed "luminary figure in the world of direct
marketing." The Digital Convergence web site boasts his past successes,
generating more than $4 billion in business-to-consumer sales for companies
such as QVC, Fingerhut, Home Shopping Network, and National Media. In addition
to Tripledge wiper blades, which supposedly sold $50 million in less than 36
months, Philyaw was the driving force behind Susan Powter ("Stop the
Insanity!") and 1-800-Be-A-Geek, the alias of Internet America, the Internet
service provider whose billboards once blanketed Dallas. He's also the host and
executive producer of Net Talk Live!, which started as a local radio and
television show and is now broadcast on the Web. Digital Convergence invented,
owned, and promoted the CueCat.
Stake: 49.77 percent of Digital Convergence stock
Raised: $185 million
Commitment: To raise and spend more than $300 million to distribute some 50
million CueCat scanners free by the end of 2001, giving consumers a way to get
to web pages without typing in URLs.
Observations: An executive of Coca-Cola said listening to Philyaw made him feel
like his hair was on fire. -June 27, 2001, Wall Street Journal
Huckster Quote: "God loves me twice. Once to give me talent, and twice to grant
me the wisdom to apply it."
The Suckers
By Glenna Whitley
Jovan Philyaw found easy marks among a few Old Media types desperate to play the
New Media game and a certain local retailer desperate to cash in on the
high-tech boom.
The Mark: Robert W. Decherd
Title: Chairman, president, and CEO, Belo
Invested: $37.5 million for 7 percent ownership
Commitment: Mailed more than 360,000 free CueCats to households in North Texas
counties. Began using the technology at the Morning News, several other
newspapers, TV stations, and its many Internet sites.
Quote: "This is not the time for retrenchment. This is a time for well-managed
entrepreneurism, for calculated risk-taking
the course, and soon we will find the path to profitability that consumers are
telling us is there."
The Mark: Steve Forbes
Title: Publisher, Forbes
Invested: At least $2 million
Commitment: Sent more than 800,000 subscribers CueCat and software.
Quote: "[The CueCat] will change the way you use the Internet forever."
The Mark: David Edmondson
Title: President and COO, RadioShack Corp.
Invested: $30 million
Commitment: Manufactured CueCats and distributed them free at all RadioShack
outlets.
Quote: "I went, 'Holy Toledo! This is big.'"
AND MORE WERE BORN EVERY MINUTE...
Mark A. Dacey, president of Adweek magazines, was so "impressed by the
limitless marketing opportunities of the technology" (his words) that he sent
CueCats to all Adweek subscribers... Michael Dolan, chairman of WPP Group,
Young & Rubicam said, "If you haven't seen [Philyaw], it's worth the price of
admission." For Dolan, admission cost $28 million... Bob Guccione Jr. intended
to make his Gear Magazine "the first 100 percent wired magazine by way of the
CueCat"... Meanwhile, David G. Whalen, president and CEO of A.T. Cross,
invested $6 million on a Cross Convergence pen ($90) that not only wrote, but
also conveniently swiped bar codes for the pen owner who happened to be near a
computer and connected to the Internet-and who couldn't type.