This is scary. I have an HP28S, but I am afraid of what to do if it ever dies. Tonight I am going out to buy some N Types for it.
My Mac LC475 uses an N battery as its backup battery, which is a real pain because it's in continuous discharge and the battery isn't recharged at all. Every other year or so, it has to be replaced.
I've also come across some bicycle flashers, the little units that emit red light towards the rear, that use those batteries.
They're obviously not the most common battery you'll ever come across, but you shouldn't have much trouble finding one.
Why not just simply be really different and say " here it is, you can do anything you want with it" ?
That, of course, would simply be putting the software in the public domain. The reason RMS did not do this is because putting code in the public domain would allow non-free software developers to take the code, incorporate it into their software, then sell it under a non-free license.
The GPL was well thought through. It permits free sharing of code as long as the recipient also permits free sharing of code.
It's not just when you renew your domain name with NSI that you agree to their then-current agreement. Every time you send a domain modify form in, you have to send in a copy of the then-current agreement and agree to it.
If you modified your domain after November 1999 (the date the new agreement was put in place, according to news.com) then you may have already accepted the new agreement. If you can, check: if you see Version 5.0 in the email you sent in, you did.
That's completely off-topic. Have you read the provided information about the item in question?
There's no screen. There's no keyboard. There's no mouse. There's not even a battery. It's a portable desktop, not a laptop. You cannot use it in the car, unless you happen to have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power supply hanging around in the car with you.
>AOL has been encoding session info into the DNS names given to its users' ip addresses for years.
There's information in AOL's dialup line IPs' hostnames, but it's just the IP address, not any kind of session information. Take ABD778BD.ipt.aol.com for example; 0xABD778BD is 2883025085 in decimal. That's 171.215.120.189, exactly the same as what reverse-resolving the hostname gives.
Unless something extremely world-shattering has happened and Alex de Joode is now a radically different person from who I remember from years ago during my involvement with the Cypherpunks, I find it extremely difficult to imagine that he would set up a web site to do any of what the OpenSSH developers claim he is doing. De Joode would not collect viewer data. De Joode would not collect addresses for spamming. That's just not what the guy is all about.
The OpenSSH advisory says that they don't know his motives. They're absolutely correct; they don't know his motives at all. They correctly identify de Joode as the one who started xs4all.nl, and they correctly identify him as someone who advocates widespread use of cryptography, but they fail to mention that he is a privacy advocate. They also fail to give any rationale for their accusations other than that de Joode refused to sell them his property, which is meaningless.
Visit http://www.openssh.org/ and judge his motives for yourself. Other posters have already discussed the ludicrousy of boycotting the web site so I won't repeat all of it here, but have a little think: Why would the OpenSSH group want you to think that openssh.org, who points to openssh.com and to one other site, is evil?
So if they can push CD transfers to something like 100 mb/s, I'll believe that this FCD can be pushed to 1 gb/s...
If you read the article, you'll note that the claim is for 1 Gigabit per second. That's 128 Megabytes per second.
Back of the envelope calculation: CDs hold roughly 650MB, and at 1x they take roughly an hour to go through them. This means they read at roughly 10MB/s at current maximum speeds. I can see this new multi-layered disc being read at roughly 10x current CD speeds without all that much difficulty.
How about a FAT TAX. For every gram of fat listed on the box of the food you are going to consume a tax is taken to pay for the "impact on society" of you being a fat ass and the stress or potential stress you will place on our health system.
I sincerely hope that you're joking. Certainly a low-fat diet* works for some people, but eating low-fat makes me and many others gain unwanted weight. Why? Because eating low-fat means eating a high-carbyhydrate diet. Carbohydrates are empty calories, completely devoid of nutrition, and also cause a hunger reaction. This causes us to eat more -- and if we don't know any better, we'll eat more carbohydrates because they're low-fat. And we eat more, and more, and even the most clueless can see why we continue to gain weight. If we eat food that is high in protein, low in carbohydrates, and never mind the fat, we will be full quickly, therefore eat less and lose (or maintain) weight.
* A diet is a way of eating, not a temporary restriction on what one can eat.
What's my point? Not everyone has the same metabolism and body type. What helps you keep in shape does not necessarily make me keep in shape. (ObConspiracy: Remember that the cereal companies are powerful. Remember, too, that eggs were found to be dangerously high in cholesterol, when they aren't, in studies sponsered by the cereal companies.) If you tax fat consumption, I will either go broke or gain unhealthy, unwanted weight. Unless even the most paranoid conspiracy theorist of us is mistaken, that is not the intent of those who cry "tax fat consumption" and "make the fat pay for their own health care".
Sorry for the off-topic rant. I'm tired of being told what to eat to lose weight and gain health, because I'm overweight and unhealthy precisely because I listened to that advice in the past. If any of this strikes a chord with you, check your library for books by Dr. Robert Atkins and the Drs. Heller, among others. Remember, though, my point: not everyone has the same body, so make sure you eat a diet that works for you.
> Anonymizer is crap. They ask you to pay a good sum of money to use their service, AND they ask for your email address and other coordinates. They're riding the anonymity bandwagon and understand it's hot, but have no clue what the hell it is.
I remember when Cottrell set up the Anonymizer years ago. It started off free, with no registration. Then it was disabled for half an hour each hour for non-registered users. I haven't seen what it's become in the past few years, but I presume all of the new restrictions and whatnot are due to the reality that bandwidth costs a lot of money.
(Recall that Cottrell is the one who wrote the Mixmaster "Type II" [post-cypherpunk] anonymous email remailer software, and as far as I know is still running at least one anonymous remailer. He is well known to cypherpunks and others concerned with privacy and freedom. He is definitely not clueless.)
C|Net really blew it this time -- again. They really need to get their act together and do a little bit of research before reporting things as fact.
How many errors can we find in these reviews? Debian is not $15, it's free; and Debian does not provide toll-free tech support for $34.95 per incident. It sounds like the reviewer bought a box that said "Debian" on it (probably next to the word "unofficial") and decided that that was the true product. Debian does not push GNOME with E, as was suggested in the screenshot (which could have been made with *any* Linux system).
Debian also did not release slink (2.1) for PowerPC, though the review lists PowerPC as a supported architecture.
C|Net is not supposed to be traditional media. C|Net is supposed to be enlightened. C|Net needs to remember this.
> The Potato install scripts crashed on me 3 times in a row
Indeed, the potato bootdisks are at best barely functional at the moment. This is one of the big reasons the potato freeze was delayed.
> It possible to just install Slink and "apt-get dist update" and point to Potato after a successful Slink install?
Yes.
What you want to do is to edit/etc/apt/sources.lists, changing stable (or slink?) to either potato or unstable. The first will stick with potato when it freezes and gets released, the second will keep tracking the latest unstable tree.
This is one of the many strengths of Debian: you install once, you keep up to date as often as you like. You don't even need to reboot, even if you change your whole system, unless you want to run a different kernel.
> Also, Debian is not supposed to be a corporation or is it now?
No, obviously Debian is not a corporation. The Linux kernel isn't developed by a corporate entity, either, but a certain company is upset by its existence. If that certain company were to offer cheap stocks (an investment in its future) to Linux visionaries, you would have agreed with and cried along with those who would have cried foul. That offer would have been very inappropriate. The parallel here is obvious.
> I do not nor plan to work for RedHat, but I use their software and it is good.
Well, I don't work for Debian, either. I use Debian, I like Debian, so I help make Debian better. I'm not obligated to like Debian, and Debian is certainly not cutting me a paycheque. That's just a FYI, because your mention of that seems to indicate that you think my relationship with Debian is somewhat different from what it is.
> However I must say, I definitly disliked Debian and all Debian hate propaganda doctors we had here during the RedHat IPO spam or not spam.
If I were to "definitely dislike" something because of comments made by unauthoritative persons, I would quickly find that there is nothing that I do not "definitely dislike". I don't believe Wichert (the Debian Project Leader this year) nor any other Debian official ever stated that Debian hates RedHat. Until that happens -- and you can rest assured that it won't -- Debian does not hate RedHat. RedHat users hating Debian users and vice versa is entirely a separate issue, both from official statements and representation.
> Also, RedHat's list of developers included anyone they could get an address for who wrote one line of code or submitted a bug.
Considering many active and important developers did not receive the RedHat letter -- and I don't believe that all of their email addresses were difficult to find -- I consider your comment offensive.
> Some people claims thay stopped sending the prospect and forms attached to the mails
The mail I received was 7193 bytes in length. The email indicated that I should reply were I interested in receiving the prospectus and the paperwork required. Their spam did not fill up my mailbox. Perhaps I would have been much less pleased had the mail I received been as large as yours.
Oh, in case this hasn't been noted yet: Canada is definitely on the not allowed countries list.
You're right, t's not flame; it's flamebait. And I'll bite.
RedHat did spam me; it spammed many (but not all!) Debian developers. It spammed email addresses clearly outside of the USA as well. What's this about supposed spamming, hmm?
There are many reasons I was more upset by the RedHat spam than I was by the VA spam. One is that RedHat sold (or gave) our email addresses to an organisation that promptly re-sold said addresses. After the RedHat spam, I received and am still receiving spam after spam after spam at an email address that was up to that point almost spam-free. Another is that RedHat didn't bother to filter non-US addresses before spamming with information that was clearly US-only, something that you'll recall caused a great uproar. Yet another is that RedHat spammed what is, to RedHat the corporate entity, their competition; that's very dirty in my book. Comments about RedHat's community involvement and the Open Source Community are unimportant here; the corporate entity doesn't sell RedHat boxes to Debian users, remember, and that's what shows up on their bottom line. There are more points, but I'll leave it here for the moment. I'm replying to flamebait, after all.
How do I feel about VA Linux's spam? Well, that Canada wasn't on either "allowed" list irked me. Then again, they -- and I mean both VA itself and the underwriters here -- didn't spam me at a nationally-affiliated domain, so it's not their fault that they didn't know that I'm not elgible. And they are not in competition with any organisation I'm affiliated with. Even that alone puts VA in my good books.
Spam is spam, but this one's not quite as bad.
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The headline's right: It's just another cut of Blade Runner. This must be a serious cash cow for them!
My Mac LC475 uses an N battery as its backup battery, which is a real pain because it's in continuous discharge and the battery isn't recharged at all. Every other year or so, it has to be replaced.
I've also come across some bicycle flashers, the little units that emit red light towards the rear, that use those batteries.
They're obviously not the most common battery you'll ever come across, but you shouldn't have much trouble finding one.
That, of course, would simply be putting the software in the public domain. The reason RMS did not do this is because putting code in the public domain would allow non-free software developers to take the code, incorporate it into their software, then sell it under a non-free license.
The GPL was well thought through. It permits free sharing of code as long as the recipient also permits free sharing of code.
That's a very interesting opinion. Do you per chance have evidence that this is the case?
It's not just when you renew your domain name with NSI that you agree to their then-current agreement. Every time you send a domain modify form in, you have to send in a copy of the then-current agreement and agree to it.
If you modified your domain after November 1999 (the date the new agreement was put in place, according to news.com) then you may have already accepted the new agreement. If you can, check: if you see Version 5.0 in the email you sent in, you did.
That's completely off-topic. Have you read the provided information about the item in question?
There's no screen. There's no keyboard. There's no mouse. There's not even a battery. It's a portable desktop, not a laptop. You cannot use it in the car, unless you happen to have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power supply hanging around in the car with you.
There's information in AOL's dialup line IPs' hostnames, but it's just the IP address, not any kind of session information. Take ABD778BD.ipt.aol.com for example; 0xABD778BD is 2883025085 in decimal. That's 171.215.120.189, exactly the same as what reverse-resolving the hostname gives.
Unless something extremely world-shattering has happened and Alex de Joode is now a radically different person from who I remember from years ago during my involvement with the Cypherpunks, I find it extremely difficult to imagine that he would set up a web site to do any of what the OpenSSH developers claim he is doing. De Joode would not collect viewer data. De Joode would not collect addresses for spamming. That's just not what the guy is all about.
The OpenSSH advisory says that they don't know his motives. They're absolutely correct; they don't know his motives at all. They correctly identify de Joode as the one who started xs4all.nl, and they correctly identify him as someone who advocates widespread use of cryptography, but they fail to mention that he is a privacy advocate. They also fail to give any rationale for their accusations other than that de Joode refused to sell them his property, which is meaningless.
Visit http://www.openssh.org/ and judge his motives for yourself. Other posters have already discussed the ludicrousy of boycotting the web site so I won't repeat all of it here, but have a little think: Why would the OpenSSH group want you to think that openssh.org, who points to openssh.com and to one other site, is evil?
If you read the article, you'll note that the claim is for 1 Gigabit per second. That's 128 Megabytes per second.
Back of the envelope calculation: CDs hold roughly 650MB, and at 1x they take roughly an hour to go through them. This means they read at roughly 10MB/s at current maximum speeds. I can see this new multi-layered disc being read at roughly 10x current CD speeds without all that much difficulty.
I sincerely hope that you're joking. Certainly a low-fat diet* works for some people, but eating low-fat makes me and many others gain unwanted weight. Why? Because eating low-fat means eating a high-carbyhydrate diet. Carbohydrates are empty calories, completely devoid of nutrition, and also cause a hunger reaction. This causes us to eat more -- and if we don't know any better, we'll eat more carbohydrates because they're low-fat. And we eat more, and more, and even the most clueless can see why we continue to gain weight. If we eat food that is high in protein, low in carbohydrates, and never mind the fat, we will be full quickly, therefore eat less and lose (or maintain) weight.
* A diet is a way of eating, not a temporary restriction on what one can eat.
What's my point? Not everyone has the same metabolism and body type. What helps you keep in shape does not necessarily make me keep in shape. (ObConspiracy: Remember that the cereal companies are powerful. Remember, too, that eggs were found to be dangerously high in cholesterol, when they aren't, in studies sponsered by the cereal companies.) If you tax fat consumption, I will either go broke or gain unhealthy, unwanted weight. Unless even the most paranoid conspiracy theorist of us is mistaken, that is not the intent of those who cry "tax fat consumption" and "make the fat pay for their own health care".
Sorry for the off-topic rant. I'm tired of being told what to eat to lose weight and gain health, because I'm overweight and unhealthy precisely because I listened to that advice in the past. If any of this strikes a chord with you, check your library for books by Dr. Robert Atkins and the Drs. Heller, among others. Remember, though, my point: not everyone has the same body, so make sure you eat a diet that works for you.
My guess is, it's parity RAM. Eight bits of storage space getting one parity bit makes 256MB + 32MB = 288MB.
> Anonymizer is crap. They ask you to pay a good sum of money to use their service, AND they ask for your email address and other coordinates. They're riding the anonymity bandwagon and understand it's hot, but have no clue what the hell it is.
I remember when Cottrell set up the Anonymizer years ago. It started off free, with no registration. Then it was disabled for half an hour each hour for non-registered users. I haven't seen what it's become in the past few years, but I presume all of the new restrictions and whatnot are due to the reality that bandwidth costs a lot of money.
(Recall that Cottrell is the one who wrote the Mixmaster "Type II" [post-cypherpunk] anonymous email remailer software, and as far as I know is still running at least one anonymous remailer. He is well known to cypherpunks and others concerned with privacy and freedom. He is definitely not clueless.)
C|Net really blew it this time -- again. They really need to get their act together and do a little bit of research before reporting things as fact.
How many errors can we find in these reviews? Debian is not $15, it's free; and Debian does not provide toll-free tech support for $34.95 per incident. It sounds like the reviewer bought a box that said "Debian" on it (probably next to the word "unofficial") and decided that that was the true product. Debian does not push GNOME with E, as was suggested in the screenshot (which could have been made with *any* Linux system).
Debian also did not release slink (2.1) for PowerPC, though the review lists PowerPC as a supported architecture.
C|Net is not supposed to be traditional media. C|Net is supposed to be enlightened. C|Net needs to remember this.
> The Potato install scripts crashed on me 3 times in a row
Indeed, the potato bootdisks are at best barely functional at the moment. This is one of the big reasons the potato freeze was delayed.
> It possible to just install Slink and "apt-get dist update" and point to Potato after a successful Slink install?
Yes.
What you want to do is to edit /etc/apt/sources.lists, changing stable (or slink?) to either potato or unstable. The first will stick with potato when it freezes and gets released, the second will keep tracking the latest unstable tree.
This is one of the many strengths of Debian: you install once, you keep up to date as often as you like. You don't even need to reboot, even if you change your whole system, unless you want to run a different kernel.
Hope this helps.
> Also, Debian is not supposed to be a corporation or is it now?
No, obviously Debian is not a corporation. The Linux kernel isn't developed by a corporate entity, either, but a certain company is upset by its existence. If that certain company were to offer cheap stocks (an investment in its future) to Linux visionaries, you would have agreed with and cried along with those who would have cried foul. That offer would have been very inappropriate. The parallel here is obvious.> I do not nor plan to work for RedHat, but I use their software and it is good.
Well, I don't work for Debian, either. I use Debian, I like Debian, so I help make Debian better. I'm not obligated to like Debian, and Debian is certainly not cutting me a paycheque. That's just a FYI, because your mention of that seems to indicate that you think my relationship with Debian is somewhat different from what it is.
> However I must say, I definitly disliked Debian and all Debian hate propaganda doctors we had here during the RedHat IPO spam or not spam.
If I were to "definitely dislike" something because of comments made by unauthoritative persons, I would quickly find that there is nothing that I do not "definitely dislike". I don't believe Wichert (the Debian Project Leader this year) nor any other Debian official ever stated that Debian hates RedHat. Until that happens -- and you can rest assured that it won't -- Debian does not hate RedHat. RedHat users hating Debian users and vice versa is entirely a separate issue, both from official statements and representation.
> Also, RedHat's list of developers included anyone they could get an address for who wrote one line of code or submitted a bug.
Considering many active and important developers did not receive the RedHat letter -- and I don't believe that all of their email addresses were difficult to find -- I consider your comment offensive.
> Some people claims thay stopped sending the prospect and forms attached to the mails
The mail I received was 7193 bytes in length. The email indicated that I should reply were I interested in receiving the prospectus and the paperwork required. Their spam did not fill up my mailbox. Perhaps I would have been much less pleased had the mail I received been as large as yours.
Oh, in case this hasn't been noted yet: Canada is definitely on the not allowed countries list.
You're right, t's not flame; it's flamebait. And I'll bite.
RedHat did spam me; it spammed many (but not all!) Debian developers. It spammed email addresses clearly outside of the USA as well. What's this about supposed spamming, hmm?
There are many reasons I was more upset by the RedHat spam than I was by the VA spam. One is that RedHat sold (or gave) our email addresses to an organisation that promptly re-sold said addresses. After the RedHat spam, I received and am still receiving spam after spam after spam at an email address that was up to that point almost spam-free. Another is that RedHat didn't bother to filter non-US addresses before spamming with information that was clearly US-only, something that you'll recall caused a great uproar. Yet another is that RedHat spammed what is, to RedHat the corporate entity, their competition; that's very dirty in my book. Comments about RedHat's community involvement and the Open Source Community are unimportant here; the corporate entity doesn't sell RedHat boxes to Debian users, remember, and that's what shows up on their bottom line. There are more points, but I'll leave it here for the moment. I'm replying to flamebait, after all.
How do I feel about VA Linux's spam? Well, that Canada wasn't on either "allowed" list irked me. Then again, they -- and I mean both VA itself and the underwriters here -- didn't spam me at a nationally-affiliated domain, so it's not their fault that they didn't know that I'm not elgible. And they are not in competition with any organisation I'm affiliated with. Even that alone puts VA in my good books.
Spam is spam, but this one's not quite as bad.
Hmm, this must be a popular topic. This has come up before, but not quite in the same format. In these quickies there's a point-form chart discussing the differences between nerds, geeks, and twits.