I find CheetaWeb is a great place. They have PHP4 beta, mySQL, Perl, SSI, shell, you name it.
Great place, the admin is friendly, always willing to help (then again, I volunteered my account as the default testbed for anything new that might go horribly wrong, so I probably get some slack there =] )
Oh yeah, it's Mandrake running on a P450, couple hundred meg of RAM, blah blah. Unless you're serving an ebay or CDROM.com mirror, it's great.
I have to agree with you on this one. I'm in High School right now, and everyone I know is taking the easy street. They have spare classes instead of taking something where they could learn, and they use their spares to go downtown and not to study. When people ask me why I take Physics, or Chem, or Spanish, or Japanese, I tell them it's because I want to. This boggles the mind for most people I know. Why would I take a class I don't have to take? Because I want to. Beacuse I like learning. I took chem because I'm interested in Chem, not because I'll need it in University or need the credits to graduate. Ugh, it really gets my goat sometimes. No one wants to work for anything anymore, not if they don't have to. Urgh.
~Sentry21~
They Were Already Screwed Up
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The fact that these kids were psychologically disturbed is unquestionable, obviously. The problem here is WHY the kids are screwed up.
The media is saying that the kids watched violent movies, read nasty web pages, and played mean games. That's why they got screwed up and went postal.
No. I'm sorry, that's just wrong. Has anyone given a thought to the fact that you'd have to be pretty friggin messed up in the first place to think that pixelised enemies in a sci-fi setting where you come back to life if you die is the same as life.
If Doom was what pushed them over the edge, then they were already on the edge to begin with.
I listen to Rammstein. I play, not Doom, but Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, far more bloody and violent games than Doom. Doom is boring, tame, compared to these. I also know how to make pipe bombs, and if I had any trouble, I could look up the info in a minute off the net. I'm also a middle-class white teenage male living in a small town who gets hassled by his peers at school.
But am I going to go loco? No. Why? Because I'm not a friggin weak-willed mindless psychotic idiot like those two were. I'm sorry, but it's the truth (IMHO).
You can't say that everyone who plays Doom or listens to Rammstein or knows how to make explosives is going to flip out. Kids who excel in chemistry would know how to make some explosives (and worse), people who like hard rock will have heard Rammstein and similar, and every avid computer gamer has played Doom. Does that mean that all these people are at risk of losing their marbles? Some perhaps, but in all likelihood, no.
Let's also question where they got the weapons. Where did they get the weapons? Who knows? Here in Canada, I couldn't get ahold of those kinds of weapons no matter how hard I tried. They just aren't available to minors. I couldn't even get a handgun. Perhaps if weapons weren't available on every street corner, it wouldn't have happened. Perhaps it would have. But it couldn't have hurt.
Anyway, it's a horrible tragedy, don't get me wrong, but let's not blame the video game creators, or the musicians, or the people who disseminate information on the internet. I live in Canada, these kids were in the States. Both are free countries, and no one forced these kids to play games or visit web sites. They used their constitutional rights, freedom of information, and common internet access to do this. No one is to blame but themselves.
Some friends of mine and I found an old computer magazine from the '70s or '80s, offering 'high speed' connections to some network or other (it was last year, so sue me!). We looked at the price, did a few calculations, decided how fast our school's T1 was (burst up to 127 kilobytes), and came up with an answer.
In the late '70s and early '80s, our school's internet connection would have cost around $1.7 billion* per month. Nowadays, you can get a faster connection (cable's faster, right? thought so) for about $40/month**.
I think it's changed a little, yeah.
~Sentry21~
_______________________________ * - Canadian dollars at the time ** - Canadian dollars today
How about something like DirectX?
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Now what to do about sound...
I propose hardware MP3 decompression. Okay, this isn't really Linux-only, but I want it anyway. And support for it incorporated into Winamp/X11Amp/mpg123 too.
~Sentry21~
How about something like DirectX?
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From my understanding, the DirectX components are as such:
All it would cost is the price to put servers in those three places - if you find an ISP that is willing to hook you up over a T1 for cheap, then there's your server (well, the server's your problem, but you know what I mean).
We could just use the same DNS, could we not? Like
Canada - candot.slashdot.org Europe - swissdot.slashdot.org Far East - japdot.slashdot.org
I think those three would spread the load fairly evenly, more or less. It gives us Canucks our own server so we don't have to bang on slashdot/cachedot, Europe has one, and the Far east has one. Those are pretty much the major population centres, we'd have two/three in NA (is cachedot it's own server?), one in Europe, and one in Japan.
Try and get the servers all on networks connected to somewhere like Teleglobe - it has a huge backbone system across the world, supports a hundred ISPs around the world, and seems pretty decent. Satelites and the whole bit. Hmmm... Fast to update. I propose Vancouver (my nearest NAP =]) or Toronto, London, and Miyazaki (did I spell that right?)..
Yes, breeder reactors have been around for some time, and we've been using them a lot here in Canada, and selling them to other countries (such as India) for a while too. Modern-day CANDU reactors can handle:
slightly enriched uranium (SEU)
recovered uranium (RU), a by-product of conventional reprocessing of spent Light Water Reactor (LWR) fuel
mixed oxide (MOX) fuels, which dispose of plutonium from nuclear weapons
thorium
This is what I learned from the Internet, more info at the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) website for any interested. It's interesting actually.
Slashdot Mirror
Cost is $4.95/mo for 6 month prepay. Save some people some time going there.
I find CheetaWeb is a great place. They have PHP4 beta, mySQL, Perl, SSI, shell, you name it.
Great place, the admin is friendly, always willing to help (then again, I volunteered my account as the default testbed for anything new that might go horribly wrong, so I probably get some slack there =] )
Oh yeah, it's Mandrake running on a P450, couple hundred meg of RAM, blah blah. Unless you're serving an ebay or CDROM.com mirror, it's great.
~Sentry21~
I have to agree with you on this one. I'm in High School right now, and everyone I know is taking the easy street. They have spare classes instead of taking something where they could learn, and they use their spares to go downtown and not to study. When people ask me why I take Physics, or Chem, or Spanish, or Japanese, I tell them it's because I want to. This boggles the mind for most people I know. Why would I take a class I don't have to take? Because I want to. Beacuse I like learning. I took chem because I'm interested in Chem, not because I'll need it in University or need the credits to graduate. Ugh, it really gets my goat sometimes. No one wants to work for anything anymore, not if they don't have to. Urgh.
~Sentry21~
The fact that these kids were psychologically disturbed is unquestionable, obviously. The problem here is WHY the kids are screwed up.
The media is saying that the kids watched violent movies, read nasty web pages, and played mean games. That's why they got screwed up and went postal.
No. I'm sorry, that's just wrong. Has anyone given a thought to the fact that you'd have to be pretty friggin messed up in the first place to think that pixelised enemies in a sci-fi setting where you come back to life if you die is the same as life.
If Doom was what pushed them over the edge, then they were already on the edge to begin with.
I listen to Rammstein. I play, not Doom, but Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, far more bloody and violent games than Doom. Doom is boring, tame, compared to these. I also know how to make pipe bombs, and if I had any trouble, I could look up the info in a minute off the net. I'm also a middle-class white teenage male living in a small town who gets hassled by his peers at school.
But am I going to go loco? No. Why? Because I'm not a friggin weak-willed mindless psychotic idiot like those two were. I'm sorry, but it's the truth (IMHO).
You can't say that everyone who plays Doom or listens to Rammstein or knows how to make explosives is going to flip out. Kids who excel in chemistry would know how to make some explosives (and worse), people who like hard rock will have heard Rammstein and similar, and every avid computer gamer has played Doom. Does that mean that all these people are at risk of losing their marbles? Some perhaps, but in all likelihood, no.
Let's also question where they got the weapons. Where did they get the weapons? Who knows? Here in Canada, I couldn't get ahold of those kinds of weapons no matter how hard I tried. They just aren't available to minors. I couldn't even get a handgun. Perhaps if weapons weren't available on every street corner, it wouldn't have happened. Perhaps it would have. But it couldn't have hurt.
Anyway, it's a horrible tragedy, don't get me wrong, but let's not blame the video game creators, or the musicians, or the people who disseminate information on the internet. I live in Canada, these kids were in the States. Both are free countries, and no one forced these kids to play games or visit web sites. They used their constitutional rights, freedom of information, and common internet access to do this. No one is to blame but themselves.
~Sentry21~
Some friends of mine and I found an old computer magazine from the '70s or '80s, offering 'high speed' connections to some network or other (it was last year, so sue me!). We looked at the price, did a few calculations, decided how fast our school's T1 was (burst up to 127 kilobytes), and came up with an answer.
In the late '70s and early '80s, our school's internet connection would have cost around $1.7 billion* per month. Nowadays, you can get a faster connection (cable's faster, right? thought so) for about $40/month**.
I think it's changed a little, yeah.
~Sentry21~
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* - Canadian dollars at the time
** - Canadian dollars today
Now what to do about sound...
I propose hardware MP3 decompression. Okay, this isn't really Linux-only, but I want it anyway. And support for it incorporated into Winamp/X11Amp/mpg123 too.
~Sentry21~
From my understanding, the DirectX components are as such:
~Sentry21~
All it would cost is the price to put servers in those three places - if you find an ISP that is willing to hook you up over a T1 for cheap, then there's your server (well, the server's your problem, but you know what I mean).
Anyway, it would be the ideal setup...
~Sentry21~
We could just use the same DNS, could we not? Like
Canada - candot.slashdot.org
Europe - swissdot.slashdot.org
Far East - japdot.slashdot.org
I think those three would spread the load fairly evenly, more or less. It gives us Canucks our own server so we don't have to bang on slashdot/cachedot, Europe has one, and the Far east has one. Those are pretty much the major population centres, we'd have two/three in NA (is cachedot it's own server?), one in Europe, and one in Japan.
Try and get the servers all on networks connected to somewhere like Teleglobe - it has a huge backbone system across the world, supports a hundred ISPs around the world, and seems pretty decent. Satelites and the whole bit. Hmmm... Fast to update. I propose Vancouver (my nearest NAP =]) or Toronto, London, and Miyazaki (did I spell that right?)..
However once you get that stuff out of the way it does just as well as any of the other Linux's (How does one make Linux plural?).
The same way one makes 'box' plural, with an -en ending... Boxen, linuxen...
It's time to end this thread before someone strings us up, and I'm knot feedin ya lines here...
I think that sentence above is worthy of accord, but save it for later, I'm kinda tied up.
~Sentry21~
~Sentry21~
Yes, breeder reactors have been around for some time, and we've been using them a lot here in Canada, and selling them to other countries (such as India) for a while too. Modern-day CANDU reactors can handle:
This is what I learned from the Internet, more info at the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) website for any interested. It's interesting actually.
~Sentry21~