It'll run Woody just fine and some minimal upgrades would give you a pretty decent box for simple file serving/mp3 storage pretty cheap. Dual NIC interfaces, extra PCI slot for wireless, etc. etc.
And it *is* totally silent. At least mine is.;)
Check out http://www.shon.org/qube/ for more info (although his is running NetBSD).
Lovely. They say that Word97 is affected, but that OfficeUpdate doesn't support Office97.
Head on over to the manual download section for Office97. NOTHING TO BE FOUND RELATED TO THIS in the office section. Under Word alone, the latest update is from 2001.
Gee, go figure. Yet another reason to spend money I don't have for a product I don't want.
Oh, and for all you astroturfers & M$ Fanboys - at least when Linux does have a flaw, it doesn't require me to spend 400 bucks on an upgrade to a later, flawed version.
I know the whole movie is a setup for the payoff moment at the end, where Gibson's character rediscovers his faith. But I can think of ten different substances besides water that could be poisonous to the aliens and give the same payoff. E.g. chocolate, caffiene, alcohol, aspartame, non-dairy creamer, etc. etc. etc.
The number one thing that seems to confuse non-techies is memory versus hard drive space. They are both measured in megabytes/gigabytes, they are both used to store programs and information, and they are both inside the big black/beige box that they seem to think is the "CPU".
I always got around this by telling them that the hard drive is like a big filing cabinet and that RAM is a measurement of how much you can pull out or put into the filing cabinet at once.
Not a perfect analogy, but it worked for me to at least give them some minor clue about the difference.
I've got an older 750N, works like a champ, cost $1400 - the toner cartridges are a bit pricey (250 each) but they last a pretty good while. Has linux support, internet printing etc.
Slackware Linux is a well-respected Linux distribution, and has a dedicated, fierce following. It is possible that Ximian may support Slack in the future but we have no idea when that might happen. Slackware support is likely to come after BSD support, Debian PPC support, and SuSE PPC support. Right now, we have plenty of work supporting the distributions we already support.
The things that prevent Ximian from supporting Slackware are partly technical, and partly market based. Technically, Slack has a package management system which has substantial differences from other distribution's package management systems. Dependency checking, for example, is absolutely necessary for certain Ximian services and features (the installer and the updater, in particular), and is not fully supported by Slackware. Slackware's architects have a well-defended disdain for dependency checking, and we can understand their arguments. But without it, Ximian Desktop can't figure out what to install, what to upgrade, and what to leave alone.
That means, basically, that it's a lot more work for us to add really good support for Slack than it is for us to add good support for, say, Conectiva, which is based closely upon the Red-Hat model. Not only that, but there aren't a lot of distros based upon Slack. From our support for Red Hat, it's a quick jump to other rpm-based distros. If we support Slackware, it's working with an entirely new package system just for one Linux distro.
Another market force is the profile of the typical Slack user. Slackware users often compile stuff themselves. They know how to install software at the command line. They know their dependency trees themselves, and don't trust or need package management systems. They're hackers in the best sense of the word, and we respect them deeply for that. They don't need things like the Ximian Desktop update service, or the graphical installer. Ximian is about making free software easier to use, and Slackware users don't tend to need any help.
So, what can you do, elite Slackware user, ignored by market forces and business types, if you want the prettiest, bestest desktop in the Linux land? You can download pre-rolled tgzs from the variety of Slack software mirrors, or get the binary rpms or source rpms from the Red Hat directory at our ftp site, and install by hand with rpm. Or you can convert them to slack packages with rpm2tgz. And, in a brave trick of hackery, you can fool the graphical installer into thinking you're a Red Hat user. The command:
echo "Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)" >/etc/redhat-release
has been reported to make the installer work, although you're likely to have difficulty with one or another dependency somewhere. Official Ximian support of this method is not available, and we cannot give you any guarantees.
Well, Tucker Max is a lawyer ( I think he got his law degree from Duke) so why don't we wait and see what he has to say about all this? I'm sure that it will be entertaining, to say the least.:)
The drunken hockey game story on http://www.tuckermax.com is one of the funniest things I've read in a long while.
I hope you get modded up, because I think you are right - when Hollywood realizes that they can put more in the bank by not paying the actors - just creating their own via CGI, you will see a paradigm shift. And not a small one - what will People magazine do? Interview the creators?
This is *so* _Little Heroes_, it's not funny, but I look forward to it.
(but will the first open source star be stallman?)
1. The SCO/Novell contract allows SCO to grant license to other parties to distribute the code. If this is true, it could be argued that since SCO is distributing the code in a GPL'ed product, that they are doing so under the terms of the GPL, and thus the code is now covered by the GPL. If the contract says that the sub-license can't be compatible with the GPL, then Novell needs to sue SCO for breach of contract.
2. The SCO/Novell contract doesn't allow SCO to grant distribution sub-rights to others. In which case everybody else sues SCO for violating the GPL.
Then where are the countersuits if #2 is the case? Why haven't RedHat, Mandrake (ok, I know they are broke), Linus, Stallman, ESR, Perens, SuSE, and the rest fired back?
I'm no fan of SCO, and I recall IBM not acting nicely, once upon a time, but the silence on the legal front response-wise is getting deafining.
Most of the people I know who regularly go to the movies treat it as a social event with their friends or families, usually deciding to go out even before picking which movie they are going to see. Another good case is the latest Matrix movie. Most of the people I know who waited in line to see it on opening were also the very same people who regularly download most of the films they watch at home. For them, the DVD and the film were released on the essentially same day but they were the ones that helped make it such a success on opening day.
Um, was that you guys talking through the whole movie and chatting on your cell phone? No? Well, those people are the reason I'd still rather see it at home. Plus the hot dogs don't cost 5 bucks, and an 8 oz.coke isn't 3 dollars. No, no, my 60" plasma screen and 8 speaker surround sound don't compare. Especially when I'm not surrounded by your mob.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree completely - moved my old qube 2 to debian, and it hums along great!
Not according to netcraft:
:)
Linux Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) secured_by_Raven/1.4.2 PHP/4.0b3 16-Jan-2000 216.35.210.246 Cable & Wireless
NT4/Windows 98 Microsoft-IIS/4.0 10-Jul-1999 208.206.40.209
So he did switch, but not until 2000.
Clio.
Can't believe noone mentioned that yet.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/groklaw/40692.htm l
Here.
Seems a little dry, IMO. I'll probably still buy the hardback.
Okay. I bit. I went.
I got tired of waiting for it to load.
When it did, I watched about ten seconds of it, realized I didn't care, and closed the window.
So I agree with the parent that the death of Flash will be the most wonderful day in web browsing history.
NewsFactor already has it showing up as a press release, available here.
Why not just pick up a Qube II off of e-bay?
;)
It'll run Woody just fine and some minimal upgrades would give you a pretty decent box for simple file serving/mp3 storage pretty cheap. Dual NIC interfaces, extra PCI slot for wireless, etc. etc.
And it *is* totally silent. At least mine is.
Check out http://www.shon.org/qube/ for more info (although his is running NetBSD).
in the first place. Seems these folks are on the
:)
right track:
Platinum Research
If they can bond teflon to aircraft wings, the detectors won't
matter, as ice can't form.
Lovely. They say that Word97 is affected,
but that OfficeUpdate doesn't support Office97.
Head on over to the manual download section for
Office97. NOTHING TO BE FOUND RELATED TO
THIS in the office section. Under Word alone, the latest
update is from 2001.
Gee, go figure. Yet another reason to spend money
I don't have for a product I don't want.
Oh, and for all you astroturfers & M$ Fanboys -
at least when Linux does have a flaw, it doesn't
require me to spend 400 bucks on an upgrade to a
later, flawed version.
I know the whole movie is a setup for the payoff moment at the end, where Gibson's character rediscovers his faith. But I can think of ten different substances besides water that could be poisonous to the aliens and give the same payoff. E.g. chocolate, caffiene, alcohol, aspartame, non-dairy creamer, etc. etc. etc.
/Mars Attacks/
/Mars Attacks/
Or Slim Whitman!!
Except that it was from Full Metal Jacket.
I bet he's very "disappointed" that IBM countersued.
Heh.
Next a car. It's not a flying car (which we are all still waiting on) but this has some seriously cool potential.
Let's hope the auto industry takes note.
(and it's good news for those that are wheelchair bound too!)
This is almost the exact same thought I had. Hopefully, just hopefully, they'll get deluged with non-IE hits in their logs, and do something about it.
;)
Heh. Or maybe they knew it would get posted here and they didn't want to get slashdotted...
The number one thing that seems to confuse non-techies is memory versus hard drive space. They are both measured in megabytes/gigabytes, they are both used to store programs and information, and they are both inside the big black/beige box that they seem to think is the "CPU".
I always got around this by telling them that the hard drive is like a big filing cabinet and that RAM is a measurement of how much you can pull out or put into the filing cabinet at once.
Not a perfect analogy, but it worked for me to at least give them some minor clue about the difference.
FreeGames.com
Note: I'm not familiar with the site at all, but a cursory look seems to confirm that you are after something like it.
Check out this article at nwfusion.com:
here.
Seems they cover a lot of what you are asking.
I've got an older 750N, works like a champ, cost $1400 - the toner cartridges are a bit pricey (250 each) but they last a pretty good while. Has linux support, internet printing etc.
Here is what they currently have on sale.
From their desktop support general info:
/etc/redhat-release
Slackware Linux is a well-respected Linux distribution, and has a dedicated, fierce following. It is possible that Ximian may support Slack in the future but we have no idea when that might happen. Slackware support is likely to come after BSD support, Debian PPC support, and SuSE PPC support. Right now, we have plenty of work supporting the distributions we already support.
The things that prevent Ximian from supporting Slackware are partly technical, and partly market based. Technically, Slack has a package management system which has substantial differences from other distribution's package management systems. Dependency checking, for example, is absolutely necessary for certain Ximian services and features (the installer and the updater, in particular), and is not fully supported by Slackware. Slackware's architects have a well-defended disdain for dependency checking, and we can understand their arguments. But without it, Ximian Desktop can't figure out what to install, what to upgrade, and what to leave alone.
That means, basically, that it's a lot more work for us to add really good support for Slack than it is for us to add good support for, say, Conectiva, which is based closely upon the Red-Hat model. Not only that, but there aren't a lot of distros based upon Slack. From our support for Red Hat, it's a quick jump to other rpm-based distros. If we support Slackware, it's working with an entirely new package system just for one Linux distro.
Another market force is the profile of the typical Slack user. Slackware users often compile stuff themselves. They know how to install software at the command line. They know their dependency trees themselves, and don't trust or need package management systems. They're hackers in the best sense of the word, and we respect them deeply for that. They don't need things like the Ximian Desktop update service, or the graphical installer. Ximian is about making free software easier to use, and Slackware users don't tend to need any help.
So, what can you do, elite Slackware user, ignored by market forces and business types, if you want the prettiest, bestest desktop in the Linux land? You can download pre-rolled tgzs from the variety of Slack software mirrors, or get the binary rpms or source rpms from the Red Hat directory at our ftp site, and install by hand with rpm. Or you can convert them to slack packages with rpm2tgz. And, in a brave trick of hackery, you can fool the graphical installer into thinking you're a Red Hat user. The command:
echo "Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)" >
has been reported to make the installer work, although you're likely to have difficulty with one or another dependency somewhere. Official Ximian support of this method is not available, and we cannot give you any guarantees.
rgmoore said:
:)
Now IANAL
and then Gerad said:
IANAL, but AFAIK
Well, Tucker Max is a lawyer ( I think he got his law degree from Duke) so why don't we wait and see what he has to say about all this? I'm sure that it will be entertaining, to say the least.
The drunken hockey game story on http://www.tuckermax.com is one of the funniest things I've read in a long while.
I hope you get modded up, because I think you are right - when Hollywood realizes that they can put more in the bank by not paying the actors - just creating their own via CGI, you will see a paradigm shift. And not a small one - what will People magazine do? Interview the creators?
This is *so* _Little Heroes_, it's not funny, but I look forward to it.
(but will the first open source star be stallman?)
1. The SCO/Novell contract allows SCO to grant license to other parties to distribute the code. If this is true, it could be argued that since SCO is distributing the code in a GPL'ed product, that they are doing so under the terms of the GPL, and thus the code is now covered by the GPL. If the contract says that the sub-license can't be compatible with the GPL, then Novell needs to sue SCO for breach of contract.
2. The SCO/Novell contract doesn't allow SCO to grant distribution sub-rights to others. In which case everybody else sues SCO for violating the GPL.
Then where are the countersuits if #2 is the case? Why haven't RedHat, Mandrake (ok, I know they are broke), Linus, Stallman, ESR, Perens, SuSE, and the rest fired back?
I'm no fan of SCO, and I recall IBM not acting nicely, once upon a time, but the silence on the legal front response-wise is getting deafining.
Can anyone point me to *any* response by IBM?
All I see is them talking about a game that involves biofeedback - is it your character's biofeedback you are manipulating?
If this is the case, this game is completely inane.
Most of the people I know who regularly go to the movies treat it as a social event with their friends or families, usually deciding to go out even before picking which movie they are going to see. Another good case is the latest Matrix movie. Most of the people I know who waited in line to see it on opening were also the very same people who regularly download most of the films they watch at home. For them, the DVD and the film were released on the essentially same day but they were the ones that helped make it such a success on opening day.
Um, was that you guys talking through the whole movie and chatting on your cell phone? No? Well, those people are the reason I'd still rather see it at home. Plus the hot dogs don't cost 5 bucks, and an 8 oz.coke isn't 3 dollars. No, no, my 60" plasma screen and 8 speaker surround sound don't compare. Especially when I'm not surrounded by your mob.