I have fond memories of OS/9 running on my Tandy CoCo3 with 128mb of RAM. I did some of my first explorations into the world of a pre-emptive multitasking kernel on that critter. It was a damned elegant operating system
Yes, that's right, those of you scratching your heads wondering what he's on about. To put things in perspective, an operating system developed for an 2 Mhz 8-Bit Microprocessor in the 1980s had Windows 95's most touted advancement more than a decade sooner: a pre-emptive multitasking kernel. Not only that, it had support for POSIX threads, which was supposed to be Windows NT's most touted advancement.
Now you kids and your modern operating systems can get off of my lawn.
Ever see a MOD file? Any idea where they came from? SoundTracker was the first tracker, or in modern parlance, music sequencer program available for any platform. All current sequencers, including stuff like Rosegarden, pay homage to SoundTracker.
Yeah, really. All of the information you could ever possibly want or need to make both low-order and high-order explosives can be found in any one of thousands of chemistry textbooks available at just about any collegiate or public library.
Some of it is available online, but I definitely wouldn't follow any directions found on some random Website without fully grokking the reactions involved, solid laboratory experience. proper equipment and taking proper precautions. Bleeping chemical names from the show really isn't that helpful: if someone is stupid enough to attempt this crap at home, they can get the information very easily. And should they decide to do that, they deserve to get their hands or face blown off. Darwin, baby. Survival of the fittest.
In addition, I'd also say that if you're the type to write impulsive hatemail flames (like I did last night in my journal;), you could try something I used to do: the 1 hour rule.
Go ahead, type your message, but do not click send, instead save it as a draft. After 1 hour (hopefully you've calmed down by then;), you decide if you still want to send it as is or not. If you do, go into the drafts folder and send it, otherwise delete or tweak the message.
Unfortunately, Slashdot does not have a drafts folder.:(
Except that 90% of the movies I want to see on demand are available only in DVD.
That's probably because most movies are not available on demand. According to this blog bost about VOD servers, about Blockbuster has about 2,000 titles available for VOD and Netflix has about 3,500. The biggest thing missing from both VOD and DVDs are classic movies: some have never been digitally remastered, while others have.
Get me a guest that adapt to those changes live and you'll have what you want...
Generally speaking, Linux distros will move between different processors as long as they are the same generation...x86-64 will move to other x86-64s, for instance.
without having to utilize cobbed-together solutions like EVC
I was just about to say 'EVC' when I got that part of your post. The thing is if you are already running EVC, then it doesn't matter much. The hard part of EVC is getting the first couple of hosts running. Once that's going, EVC is cake.
No, no, Open ActiveX won't work. Open is out and Microsoft already has the DirectX brand for 3D stuff...Let's see....
iDirectX? No, don't wanna ge sued by Apple ActiveDirectX? Too confusing... Web DirectX? Nahhhh...it ain't 1997 anymore. DirectX Live? Probably would get confused with Xbox360 Live...
A secret ballot means that you cannot show your vote to anyone, even if you wanted to. It's surprising that governments are so quick to give up this basic guarantee of a fair election.
Well, yes, it's still possible to do electronic voting with a paper trail that keeps your ballot secret. You get in the booth, you press the touch screen, you get a reciept that says who you voted for along with an algorithmically-created 'key' code that proves that the paper is real (but cannot be reversed easily enough to determine who you were), and then the paper goes into a locked ballot box.
Verify: count the paper votes at the end. If you paper count differs significantly from your electronic vote count, you had tampering.
That's a hard one. Did you look on the Linux Laptop Wiki? Apparently the Elitebook 8730W does work with Intrepid Ibex (8.10), but getting it running is decidedly not straightfoward. The Elitebook has some fairly exotic hardware, especially the graphics adapter (either an nVidia Quadro FX 2700/3700M or an ATI Mobility FireGL V5725). Despite being nVidia and ATI cards, these are not gamers toy cards, these for serious 3D workstation-level graphics.
Anyway there are step-by-step instructions for installing 8.10 on your Elitebook if you follow my link.
Stigall said that most Web-based ballot systems had proved to be insecure.
Really? No kidding? You don't say?
These people should read Slashdot. Seriously. We've all been saying this since 1997 or 1998 when the first stories about "Internet voting" began to appear. Nothing has improved from a security standpoint since then and we all keep saying electronic voting of any kind is too easy to tamper with unless there is a verified paper record trail.
And since most of us agree on this when most of us can't even agree on which operating system is the best for general use, which programming language is best for rapid application development, or which text editor is the best, well, that kind of says something now doesn't it?
So what are you trying to say? I'm actually attempting to make a point, but you are not. The difference between what I said and what you said is that the what I said is intended to provoke the reader to come up with my point independently.
Well, that's where the whole concept of 'honor among thieves' comes from. Cat burglaring and pick-pocketing are truly artforms. Knocking over old ladies is just plain thuggery.
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IMHO, it was DOS 3.3. DOS 3.3 was certainly the most stable version of DOS ever made. Even after the DOS 4.0 debacle, DOS 5 still had obscure bugs.
All current OSes seem to momentarily halt to do one task or another even today.
Funny, but that doesn't seem to be the case on any of my Linux machines, including on my lowly ancient 1.5 Ghz laptop.
I have fond memories of OS/9 running on my Tandy CoCo3 with 128mb of RAM. I did some of my first explorations into the world of a pre-emptive multitasking kernel on that critter. It was a damned elegant operating system
Yes, that's right, those of you scratching your heads wondering what he's on about. To put things in perspective, an operating system developed for an 2 Mhz 8-Bit Microprocessor in the 1980s had Windows 95's most touted advancement more than a decade sooner: a pre-emptive multitasking kernel. Not only that, it had support for POSIX threads, which was supposed to be Windows NT's most touted advancement.
Now you kids and your modern operating systems can get off of my lawn.
Only if it involves slinging vats of maple syrup long distances really, really fast.
Ever see a MOD file? Any idea where they came from? SoundTracker was the first tracker, or in modern parlance, music sequencer program available for any platform. All current sequencers, including stuff like Rosegarden, pay homage to SoundTracker.
Yeah, really. All of the information you could ever possibly want or need to make both low-order and high-order explosives can be found in any one of thousands of chemistry textbooks available at just about any collegiate or public library.
Some of it is available online, but I definitely wouldn't follow any directions found on some random Website without fully grokking the reactions involved, solid laboratory experience. proper equipment and taking proper precautions. Bleeping chemical names from the show really isn't that helpful: if someone is stupid enough to attempt this crap at home, they can get the information very easily. And should they decide to do that, they deserve to get their hands or face blown off. Darwin, baby. Survival of the fittest.
In addition, I'd also say that if you're the type to write impulsive hatemail flames (like I did last night in my journal ;), you could try something I used to do: the 1 hour rule.
Go ahead, type your message, but do not click send, instead save it as a draft. After 1 hour (hopefully you've calmed down by then ;), you decide if you still want to send it as is or not. If you do, go into the drafts folder and send it, otherwise delete or tweak the message.
Unfortunately, Slashdot does not have a drafts folder. :(
What if you're not bright enough to do the simple math problem?
Except that 90% of the movies I want to see on demand are available only in DVD.
That's probably because most movies are not available on demand. According to this blog bost about VOD servers, about Blockbuster has about 2,000 titles available for VOD and Netflix has about 3,500. The biggest thing missing from both VOD and DVDs are classic movies: some have never been digitally remastered, while others have.
Get me a guest that adapt to those changes live and you'll have what you want...
Generally speaking, Linux distros will move between different processors as long as they are the same generation...x86-64 will move to other x86-64s, for instance.
without having to utilize cobbed-together solutions like EVC
I was just about to say 'EVC' when I got that part of your post. The thing is if you are already running EVC, then it doesn't matter much. The hard part of EVC is getting the first couple of hosts running. Once that's going, EVC is cake.
Umm, do you have any idea who the Khronos group is?
Yes! We are Klingons!
No, no, Open ActiveX won't work. Open is out and Microsoft already has the DirectX brand for 3D stuff...Let's see....
iDirectX? No, don't wanna ge sued by Apple
ActiveDirectX? Too confusing...
Web DirectX? Nahhhh...it ain't 1997 anymore.
DirectX Live? Probably would get confused with Xbox360 Live...
Oh, I know!
DirectX Cloud Edition!
VMWare ESX has been able to do live migrations for a while now. I'm not sure what makes the Opteron special in this regard.
RMS? Is that you?
The simple reason I won't move to the cloud (yet or anytime soon):
Cloud computing doesn't have involve Google or Amazon. There's nothing stopping you from building your own private cloud. Nothing at all.
Mod parent "-1: Does not conform to Slashdot groupthink"! ;)
A secret ballot means that you cannot show your vote to anyone, even if you wanted to. It's surprising that governments are so quick to give up this basic guarantee of a fair election.
Well, yes, it's still possible to do electronic voting with a paper trail that keeps your ballot secret. You get in the booth, you press the touch screen, you get a reciept that says who you voted for along with an algorithmically-created 'key' code that proves that the paper is real (but cannot be reversed easily enough to determine who you were), and then the paper goes into a locked ballot box.
Verify: count the paper votes at the end. If you paper count differs significantly from your electronic vote count, you had tampering.
Oh yeah, pay special attention to the part that says:
That's a hard one. Did you look on the Linux Laptop Wiki? Apparently the Elitebook 8730W does work with Intrepid Ibex (8.10), but getting it running is decidedly not straightfoward. The Elitebook has some fairly exotic hardware, especially the graphics adapter (either an nVidia Quadro FX 2700/3700M or an ATI Mobility FireGL V5725). Despite being nVidia and ATI cards, these are not gamers toy cards, these for serious 3D workstation-level graphics.
Anyway there are step-by-step instructions for installing 8.10 on your Elitebook if you follow my link.
I've been running Intrepid Ibex and Hardy Heron on my wife's Dell Vostro and my Dell Latitude for several months now (with the hdparm fix).
Linux having problems with laptop hardware is old hat. Linux runs great on a wide range of equipment.
Stigall said that most Web-based ballot systems had proved to be insecure.
Really? No kidding? You don't say?
These people should read Slashdot. Seriously. We've all been saying this since 1997 or 1998 when the first stories about "Internet voting" began to appear. Nothing has improved from a security standpoint since then and we all keep saying electronic voting of any kind is too easy to tamper with unless there is a verified paper record trail.
And since most of us agree on this when most of us can't even agree on which operating system is the best for general use, which programming language is best for rapid application development, or which text editor is the best, well, that kind of says something now doesn't it?
So what are you trying to say? I'm actually attempting to make a point, but you are not. The difference between what I said and what you said is that the what I said is intended to provoke the reader to come up with my point independently.
Well, that's where the whole concept of 'honor among thieves' comes from. Cat burglaring and pick-pocketing are truly artforms. Knocking over old ladies is just plain thuggery.
All I have to say about that is this:
Let's say I am connected to the backbone, then you and Alice are connected me, and Bob, Charlene, and David are connected Alice.
We're all connected to the backbone in some fashion, right? More, importantly, we're all connected to each other.
That's how the Internet works. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to extrapolate further meaning from there.