The whole point of modern mainframes can be summed up in one word: VOLUME. Regardless of the ground that has been covered by intel and co., the different OS developers, and the various efforts to develop high capacity I/O interfaces, your standard PC platform just doesn't have the ability to handle the sheer volume of data that your average mainframe deals with. PC's have a long way to go before they can even begin to encroach on the mainframe realm of computing.
Hmm silly little ol' me thought that IBM's mainframe division lost millions because of those PCs but I guess I was wrong.
I think that a mainframe is largely a thing of the past due to the fact that most of the investment in the money and other factors will obselete the small parts that make the mainframe.
Running linux on these things I guess would be a waste because I am sure that some crappy mainframe OS would work a little better. I mean at that level when you shell out several million dollars for the computer the OS is trivial.
What I'm looking forward to is seeing how Mozilla will be intergrated into Gnome. I think that eventually the layout engine from Mozilla will be used as a component for Gnome, through Bonobo or some such thing, making possible viewing HTML or XML content in the new file manager, help browser, or any other Gnome application where it would be usefull.
Could someone point me out to a professional web site that uses XML in it's layout or rendering with say IE 5 (browser I just happen to be using)? I would like to see it at it's best.
But there is only one country in the world that matters. Or at least that's the impression I get. They are the only superpower now you know. And their next president could be the guy that invented the internet.
The page is made in english by a webmaster who is most likely in the US. I have dates on pages I create does that make it my priority to use for example UTC or Z on all of my official dates? Maybe because of the metric system's use (or abuse) I should be using the number of seconds from 1970 (ephoc) or perhaps the number of seconds from 0 BCE.
Surly it is about time that developers start using months for release dates. There is approximately 1 country in the world that uses Fall, most other Englsh speaking countries use Autumn.
What's wrong with fall? I use fall and have from the day I was born. I was born in the fall. Also it's very intuitive with things like Autumn is when the leaves "fall" and such.
And also for those people not in the northern hemisphere, they are in autumn now (or very soon), so the release date is a bit meaningless.
If it really matters that much I guess you can just calculate it. I have had to work with various monitary systems for doing conversion to my unit of currency does that make it wrong to have things like this. I think that if you have regional pages (kind of like debian has for languages and the like) that the maintainers of the pages should convert the times to the local time that the viewers of the page will be in: just a thought.
And of course those people in the tropics don't actually have 4 seasons, only 2, wet and dry.
Although you may have a rainy and dry seasons where you live that dosn't invalidate the concept of partitioning the year into 4 equal pieces in some way. I think there is (if you look at it) a slight difference between say spring rain and summer rain. Just a though, why not start using Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4?
Well pardon me but I guess I don't do much in the financial sector or business but when do the various quarters occur?
Gnome is quite nice however seems rather bloated in an almost nightmarishly windowsish way. I wonder if there can be install profiles for the various desktops based on what you want or on more terms of fuzzy logic and such with things like small, modest, large, gargantuine, bloated, and then finally windows? Also seems like the apps are sometimes not playing nicely together still and that kind of scares me.
I've always thought, and I could be wrong, that the laser started reading on the part closest to the center of the disk and read outward. As long as there wasn't enough data to push it off the edge, it wouldn't even go to the part where the top and bottom were cut off.
Thanks for the info I guess common sence would allow for that. Are cd's burned sequentially from the inside to the outside?
If you made a disk with one small file, the laser would never have a reason to go to the edge of the disc. I think it's the same idea here.
With the dimensions there what is the maxium file size that one could hope to attain?
Also aren't these things bigger than business cards? The pictured product seemed perhaps 100%-200% bigger than the total size when I last used business cards.
Dosn't the size and shape determine how well the material can be read from an optical standpoint? I assume that cd readers are using a circular method of retrieving the data so how do they read it when large gaps (as seen from the bottoms being sheared off in the pic)? Just a thought.
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If you want to remotely admin a box using an insecure protocol, you're an idiot. Please come back when you have a clue.
I am just wondering if PCAnywhere (and other related NT admining tools) have encryption features comparable to ssh and friends?
Re:SSH windoze client? Yes! Use TeraTerm. 3.1/9x/N
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Do a search for TeraTerm or TeraTermPro. Then get the add-on for ssh and the crypto (Blowfish, IDEA, RSA). No source for any of this, though. Binary only. But since it's for windows, how secure could it possible be at best? If your machine is on the net, MS can probably read your keystrokes anyway.
So you send your root password over the internet in cleartext? Now that's living on the edge... of stupidity. Have you ever used a packet sniffer? The output looks like this:
Maybe there's nothing that you care about on the machine. I had a thought I don't know about you but perhaps if you security gets compromised and someone was doing one of these fabled attacks then perhaps you could just shut down the machine or turn it off in the first place?
[anonymous@coward/]$ su - Password: ontheedge
[root@coward/root]#
Who transfers to the root partition as part of their normal access or for su'ing?
Next thing you know, you're taking part in a DDoS attack.
Assuming you edit the file/etc/login.access or something like that you could just remove logins for root or anyone else from certain times. Bango you have removed the problem without expending any problems at all. Or perhaps you just use a complex C++ program that would analyze voice prints (ala Millenium "Forrest Green is People" *snicker*)?
Yeah there are some at tucows
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I would love to use SSH... problem is the machines I have to connect from. Is there any way to use SSH from a windows box. I would install SSH except all of the machines on campus are winblows boxes.
Actually if you look at your local tucows mirror you can get ssh type telnet shells. I know of at least one I saw being used but forgot the name.
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Telnet, unlike its "secure" counterparts, is the only communications program that lets you connect to any port of the destination computer, regardless of application protocol.
I would think that SSH is limiting in that manner if you wish to test some daemon or something in security than it would be good. Also each and every public type machine that I have ever used and all unix machines I have never used have never either made ssh avaible or it was not really practal. SSH is only useful if you regularly connect to remote unix machines that support it or you have multiple machines with shell access.
That is simply not an option for me.
Therefore, the question: Do we want to sacrifice our liberty for the sake of security? Not Thomas Jefferson, nor do I
*partial sarcasm* Well considering how probably most of the people on slashdot are most likely on the FBI's most wanted list or are agents of the Iranian government trying to export 128 bit RSA I would think that they like it. *end partial sarcasm*
Anyone ever play Catz or petz? If so, you know what I'm thinking of: I want to train my legion of robotic pets to fear me. I want psychotic pets. I want my neighbors to wonder why there's 30 glowing eyes on my roof all howling at the moon in a tin-can like voice. I want them to BEG for their batteries. I want them to develop a strong hatred for the Energizer Bunny, Barney, and Teletubbies. They are to be lasered on sight.
No I really haven't heard of these care to elaborate?
In all reality I think you would want the robots to respect you. If you read enough science fiction you will note that irrated robots == robots on revenge. Emerging intelligence would eventually foil your plans.
For their service, I will provide robotic modifications - ultraviolet lasers with a 1.5M volt output (ultraviolet lasers leave the air the laser fired through ionized providing a path for electrons to follow. Think: tesla coil), evil glowing eyes, 180 db pizo-electric buzzers from hell and IR / RF outputs to mess with electronics. These will be the pets from hell
If you can get them to fear you perhaps the best tactic is to not remove anything. Never make concessions not one with slaves.
I like that.. the perfect compliment to a BOFH's LART - 30 evil robotic cats. "Awww, aren't they cute - look at those 6" long metal claws.... oh.. wait..." *electronic growling* RUN FOOL RUN!!!!!
Buwhahahaahahahaha!
Robots have a great deal of power but they are usually not very accurate or swift. Plus one person with a nice solid wrecking bar or an oak baseball bat would reduce your "army" to scrap metal.
You'd want the GACS (Gyroscopic Attitude Control System) option. It's another $500.00, but isn't your robotic kitty worth it?
The people I know that have cats (extended family and friends) are usually people who are a bit lonely and anyone who would buy something like a robotic cat and then pay an additional $500.00 USD for it is an idiot.
Quite frankly for that price you can get one of the better purebreed animals or perhaps get a genetically enhanced version. I currently have a small black and white dog that is a mix of a miniture shetland shepdog and something else. Looks real nice, cost a bit but less than this cat.
I really hope that this works as well as other releases. I have seen less and less of Netscape lately but this could be something of a turning point.
You shouldn't have to get total popular support
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Which is as it should be. The government shouldn't be spending the people's money on anything that doesn't have very strong upside potential. "That government governs best, which governs least" and all that. If only we could get the good people of Holland to export this attitude to the rest of the country...
Oops that shouldn't have been said. Take a look at what people have done throughout history with various shall we say "unpopular" things. I guess freeing of the slaves and helping the poor were bad things too. However the slaves were still freed and the poor were helped all in the century from 1800-1899. Sometimes unpopular things are sometimes necessary because some people can't see past the ends of their noses.
In the announcement link the release notes link is broken pointing to a non existant document. So I guess I will ask this. What exactly are the real improvements? Does this affect anyone except people who are running new stuff? Better optimizations for older stuff? Less memory waste?
No actually I was merely stating that I have been typing and that I currently have no problems. That is very different from saying that I don't believe in something (RSI) because it dosn't happen to me. I was just stating a test case for information.
Hey.. Rob, I was thinking of trying that very same keyboard despite the somewhat prohibitive cost. Would you recomend using? I'de wrather keep using my regular mouse if that's possible - maybe mount it seperately on the chair itself... Any thoughts?
I am wondering exactly when in the process of typing with a "normal" keyboard do you develop wrist degradation or damage. I have been typing for a while and still suffer no damage that I can tell.
What level of actual improvement are these keyboards over standard things you would find on a typewriter or a computer.
it's to try and think of things from all angles. Ok I have done my fair share and do the pron thing. Question is does looking at porn actually cause harm to said person? Sexual immagery is not the absolute worst thing that I could possibly acces. Think of it this way. What is worse some guy/girl/animal showing their assets off for all to see or perhaps accurate and lurid descriptions of the rape and torture of others? What if I were to tell you that I can desiminate much, much harmful material thought other channels and under very unassuming means? Still ready to take porn down? I have read material in.txt files that would put porn in the tradicional sense to shame. Movies promote worse things than sharing and giving pleasure. Sex is bad but say Rambo killing all them commie spies is good right? An addictive person has an addictive personality. There are some people who get addicted to drugs from just one use. You have others who are not affected. Based on this kind of disparity from supposedly "addictive" things I say that labelling porn as addictive it a rather harsh thing.
There comes a point when most people really think and bother to notice what most of society "preweb" coniders to be part of an action. The concepts of limiting actions and such never really comes into play until a person wants to limit said person. Most people on this earth would define sending email to say malda@slashdot.org to mean the process of sending an email to said individual and having that person read said message with an optional response which would return to the beginning. With what I have seen it appears that many people think that basically transmitting said data from your SMTP server is the only thing that constitutes "e-mail". I little debate we have had in the bast indicated that this also applies to NNTP as well which means that the delivery system is not guaranteed. I am really quite sorry but any system (look this up in Engineering or science, or CS, or in plumbing) which has critical user steps missing officially stops being the process and starts being a completely separate process. Now this wonderful curtesy has been brought to the web from another courageous Christian AC who says that basically "hey buddy I can just now redefine the concept of web surfing to allow for inaccessibilities in terms of control". Web space is something that looses a great deal of utility if say the machine dosn't have a network card or an IP address. Please if you must call the process by another name if you wish to discuss a bastardized version of the process and not by its' origianl title. Perhaps ParanoiaSurf or FearLook or something similar. What if you want to get a point accross in slashdot and suddently there appeared on freshmeat a little utility that filtered out your opinions or perhaps converted them into rot13 so that anyone who wanted to actually look at them would have to really be forcing themselves to look at them? The process of accessing a web site should be this unless you are talking about a different process: 1. Run browser with machine with IP 2. Select location via search engine or other means or direct entry 3. When process has entered data query the server to an IP address through DNS 4. Get the true result of query to address withoug tampering.
I think that a great deal of the standards that supposedly are in the world are in fact not very useful or needed. I really don't want internet access measured along a base line that people fine "offensive". I imagine that if I took miniture cameras into the homes of say random citizens of Holland I coud probably get enough "offensive" data that would anger many, many, many people. I really don't care what my "community" thinks of various things because I couldn't give a rat's ass about them anyway. People have built a very nice community online with verious forms of entertainment. Many ideas on even our beloved slashdot I tend to disagree with (namely libertarian states rights/hippie protest type of things) however does that mean I should force any and every post that would say offend my little son Timmy Milktoast from reading? No. The problems with religion and particularly some of the more intollerant religions are quite severe and dramatic. The early Puritans shall we say slightly miffed a great deal of people. I am getting to a point where if I could get one shred of evidence in a god or in some form of actual scientific evidence I might actually bother. Mostly I would say that churches are nothing more than glorified country clubs where appearance and status are the only indicators of "fitting in". All of these problems are in fact quite embarassing for humans to have to deal with. I wonder if anyone has created a slasdot cult yet?
The reason is simple. Essentially you create a piece of hardware that runs with a particular OS and then you don't release hardware for anything but that OS. I don't think that hardware like this will be suported anytime soon. I would rather have automatic detection of various hardware and then install the various conf files based upon that information. Having a seperate distro will just end up locking you into that hardware even if it's not the cheapest.
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The whole point of modern mainframes can be summed up in one word: VOLUME. Regardless of the ground that has been covered by intel and co., the different OS developers, and the various efforts to develop high capacity I/O
interfaces, your standard PC platform just doesn't have the ability to handle the sheer volume of data that your average mainframe deals with. PC's have a long way to go before they can even begin to encroach on the mainframe realm
of computing.
Hmm silly little ol' me thought that IBM's mainframe division lost millions because of those PCs but I guess I was wrong.
I think that a mainframe is largely a thing of the past due to the fact that most of the investment in the money and other factors will obselete the small parts that make the mainframe.
Running linux on these things I guess would be a waste because I am sure that some crappy mainframe OS would work a little better. I mean at that level when you shell out several million dollars for the computer the OS is trivial.
What I'm looking forward to is seeing how Mozilla will be intergrated into Gnome. I think that eventually the layout engine from Mozilla will be used as a component for Gnome, through Bonobo or some such thing, making possible viewing HTML or XML content in the new file manager, help browser, or any other Gnome application where it would be usefull.
Could someone point me out to a professional web site that uses XML in it's layout or rendering with say IE 5 (browser I just happen to be using)? I would like to see it at it's best.
But there is only one country in the world that matters. Or at least that's the impression I get. They are the only superpower now you know. And their next president could be the guy that invented the internet.
The page is made in english by a webmaster who is most likely in the US. I have dates on pages I create does that make it my priority to use for example UTC or Z on all of my official dates? Maybe because of the metric system's use (or abuse) I should be using the number of seconds from 1970 (ephoc) or perhaps the number of seconds from 0 BCE.
Surly it is about time that developers start using months for release dates. There is approximately 1 country in the world that uses Fall, most other Englsh speaking countries use Autumn.
What's wrong with fall? I use fall and have from the day I was born. I was born in the fall. Also it's very intuitive with things like Autumn is when the leaves "fall" and such.
And also for those people not in the northern hemisphere, they are in autumn now (or very soon), so the release date is a bit meaningless.
If it really matters that much I guess you can just calculate it. I have had to work with various monitary systems for doing conversion to my unit of currency does that make it wrong to have things like this. I think that if you have regional pages (kind of like debian has for languages and the like) that the maintainers of the pages should convert the times to the local time that the viewers of the page will be in: just a thought.
And of course those people in the tropics don't actually have 4 seasons, only 2, wet and dry.
Although you may have a rainy and dry seasons where you live that dosn't invalidate the concept of partitioning the year into 4 equal pieces in some way. I think there is (if you look at it) a slight difference between say spring rain and summer rain.
Just a though, why not start using Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4?
Well pardon me but I guess I don't do much in the financial sector or business but when do the various quarters occur?
Gnome is quite nice however seems rather bloated in an almost nightmarishly windowsish way. I wonder if there can be install profiles for the various desktops based on what you want or on more terms of fuzzy logic and such with things like small, modest, large, gargantuine, bloated, and then finally windows? Also seems like the apps are sometimes not playing nicely together still and that kind of scares me.
I've always thought, and I could be wrong, that the laser started reading on the part closest to the center of the disk and read outward. As long as there wasn't enough data to push it off the edge, it wouldn't even go to the part where the top and bottom were cut off.
Thanks for the info I guess common sence would allow for that. Are cd's burned sequentially from the inside to the outside?
If you made a disk with one small file, the laser would never have a reason to go to the edge of the disc. I think it's the same idea here.
With the dimensions there what is the maxium file size that one could hope to attain?
Also aren't these things bigger than business cards? The pictured product seemed perhaps 100%-200% bigger than the total size when I last used business cards.
Dosn't the size and shape determine how well the material can be read from an optical standpoint? I assume that cd readers are using a circular method of retrieving the data so how do they read it when large gaps (as seen from the bottoms being sheared off in the pic)? Just a thought.
If you want to remotely admin a box using an insecure protocol, you're an idiot. Please come back when you have a clue.
I am just wondering if PCAnywhere (and other related NT admining tools) have encryption features comparable to ssh and friends?
your machine is on the net, MS can probably read your keystrokes anyway.
secureCRT form for download
zow Which also provides for ssh
So you send your root password over the internet in cleartext? Now that's living on the edge... of stupidity. Have you ever used a packet sniffer? The output looks like this:
/]$ su -
/root]#
/etc/login.access or something like that you could just remove logins for root or anyone else from certain times. Bango you have removed the problem without expending any problems at all. Or perhaps you just use a complex C++ program that would analyze voice prints (ala Millenium "Forrest Green is People" *snicker*)?
Maybe there's nothing that you care about on the machine. I had a thought I don't know about you but perhaps if you security gets compromised and someone was doing one of these fabled attacks then perhaps you could just shut down the machine or turn it off in the first place?
[anonymous@coward
Password: ontheedge
[root@coward
Who transfers to the root partition as part of their normal access or for su'ing?
Next thing you know, you're taking part in a DDoS attack.
Assuming you edit the file
I would love to use SSH... problem is the machines I have to connect from. Is there any way to use SSH from a windows box. I would install SSH except all of the machines on campus are winblows boxes.
Actually if you look at your local tucows mirror you can get ssh type telnet shells. I know of at least one I saw being used but forgot the name.
Telnet, unlike its "secure" counterparts, is the only communications program that lets you connect to any port of the destination computer, regardless of application protocol.
I would think that SSH is limiting in that manner if you wish to test some daemon or something in security than it would be good. Also each and every public type machine that I have ever used and all unix machines I have never used have never either made ssh avaible or it was not really practal. SSH is only useful if you regularly connect to remote unix machines that support it or you have multiple machines with shell access.
That is simply not an option for me.
Therefore, the question:
Do we want to sacrifice our liberty for the sake of security? Not Thomas Jefferson, nor do I
*partial sarcasm*
Well considering how probably most of the people on slashdot are most likely on the FBI's most wanted list or are agents of the Iranian government trying to export 128 bit RSA I would think that they like it.
*end partial sarcasm*
Anyone ever play Catz or petz? If so, you know what I'm thinking of: I want to train my legion of robotic pets to fear me. I want psychotic pets. I want my neighbors to wonder why there's 30 glowing eyes on my roof all howling at
the moon in a tin-can like voice. I want them to BEG for their batteries. I want them to develop a strong hatred for the Energizer Bunny, Barney, and Teletubbies. They are to be lasered on sight.
No I really haven't heard of these care to elaborate?
In all reality I think you would want the robots to respect you. If you read enough science fiction you will note that irrated robots == robots on revenge. Emerging intelligence would eventually foil your plans.
For their service, I will provide robotic modifications - ultraviolet lasers with a 1.5M volt output (ultraviolet lasers leave the air the laser fired through ionized providing a path for electrons to follow. Think: tesla coil), evil glowing
eyes, 180 db pizo-electric buzzers from hell and IR / RF outputs to mess with electronics. These will be the pets from hell
If you can get them to fear you perhaps the best tactic is to not remove anything. Never make concessions not one with slaves.
I like that.. the perfect compliment to a BOFH's LART - 30 evil robotic cats. "Awww, aren't they cute - look at those 6" long metal claws.... oh.. wait..." *electronic growling* RUN FOOL RUN!!!!!
Buwhahahaahahahaha!
Robots have a great deal of power but they are usually not very accurate or swift. Plus one person with a nice solid wrecking bar or an oak baseball bat would reduce your "army" to scrap metal.
They should've called it Five :-)
Maybe I'm humor impared this morning but I really don't get this one. Could someone please explain this.
You'd want the GACS (Gyroscopic Attitude Control System) option. It's another $500.00, but isn't your robotic kitty worth it?
The people I know that have cats (extended family and friends) are usually people who are a bit lonely and anyone who would buy something like a robotic cat and then pay an additional $500.00 USD for it is an idiot.
Quite frankly for that price you can get one of the better purebreed animals or perhaps get a genetically enhanced version. I currently have a small black and white dog that is a mix of a miniture shetland shepdog and something else. Looks real nice, cost a bit but less than this cat.
I really hope that this works as well as other releases. I have seen less and less of Netscape lately but this could be something of a turning point.
Which is as it should be. The government shouldn't be spending the people's money on anything that doesn't have very strong upside potential. "That government governs best, which governs least" and all that. If only we could get
the good people of Holland to export this attitude to the rest of the country...
Oops that shouldn't have been said. Take a look at what people have done throughout history with various shall we say "unpopular" things. I guess freeing of the slaves and helping the poor were bad things too. However the slaves were still freed and the poor were helped all in the century from 1800-1899. Sometimes unpopular things are sometimes necessary because some people can't see past the ends of their noses.
In the announcement link the release notes link is broken pointing to a non existant document. So I guess I will ask this. What exactly are the real improvements? Does this affect anyone except people who are running new stuff? Better optimizations for older stuff? Less memory waste?
No actually I was merely stating that I have been typing and that I currently have no problems. That is very different from saying that I don't believe in something (RSI) because it dosn't happen to me. I was just stating a test case for information.
Hey.. Rob, I was thinking of trying that very same keyboard despite the somewhat prohibitive cost. Would you recomend using? I'de wrather keep using my regular mouse if that's possible - maybe mount it seperately on the chair
itself... Any thoughts?
I am wondering exactly when in the process of typing with a "normal" keyboard do you develop wrist degradation or damage. I have been typing for a while and still suffer no damage that I can tell.
What level of actual improvement are these keyboards over standard things you would find on a typewriter or a computer.
it's to try and think of things from all angles. .txt files that would put porn in the tradicional sense to shame. Movies promote worse things than sharing and giving pleasure. Sex is bad but say Rambo killing all them commie spies is good right?
Ok I have done my fair share and do the pron thing. Question is does looking at porn actually cause harm to said person? Sexual immagery is not the absolute worst thing that I could possibly acces. Think of it this way. What is worse some guy/girl/animal showing their assets off for all to see or perhaps accurate and lurid descriptions of the rape and torture of others? What if I were to tell you that I can desiminate much, much harmful material thought other channels and under very unassuming means? Still ready to take porn down? I have read material in
An addictive person has an addictive personality. There are some people who get addicted to drugs from just one use. You have others who are not affected. Based on this kind of disparity from supposedly "addictive" things I say that labelling porn as addictive it a rather harsh thing.
There comes a point when most people really think and bother to notice what most of society "preweb" coniders to be part of an action. The concepts of limiting actions and such never really comes into play until a person wants to limit said person. Most people on this earth would define sending email to say malda@slashdot.org to mean the process of sending an email to said individual and having that person read said message with an optional response which would return to the beginning. With what I have seen it appears that many people think that basically transmitting said data from your SMTP server is the only thing that constitutes "e-mail". I little debate we have had in the bast indicated that this also applies to NNTP as well which means that the delivery system is not guaranteed. I am really quite sorry but any system (look this up in Engineering or science, or CS, or in plumbing) which has critical user steps missing officially stops being the process and starts being a completely separate process.
Now this wonderful curtesy has been brought to the web from another courageous Christian AC who says that basically "hey buddy I can just now redefine the concept of web surfing to allow for inaccessibilities in terms of control". Web space is something that looses a great deal of utility if say the machine dosn't have a network card or an IP address. Please if you must call the process by another name if you wish to discuss a bastardized version of the process and not by its' origianl title.
Perhaps ParanoiaSurf or FearLook or something similar. What if you want to get a point accross in slashdot and suddently there appeared on freshmeat a little utility that filtered out your opinions or perhaps converted them into rot13 so that anyone who wanted to actually look at them would have to really be forcing themselves to look at them? The process of accessing a web site should be this unless you are talking about a different process:
1. Run browser with machine with IP
2. Select location via search engine or other means or direct entry
3. When process has entered data query the server to an IP address through DNS
4. Get the true result of query to address withoug tampering.
I think that a great deal of the standards that supposedly are in the world are in fact not very useful or needed. I really don't want internet access measured along a base line that people fine "offensive". I imagine that if I took miniture cameras into the homes of say random citizens of Holland I coud probably get enough "offensive" data that would anger many, many, many people.
I really don't care what my "community" thinks of various things because I couldn't give a rat's ass about them anyway. People have built a very nice community online with verious forms of entertainment. Many ideas on even our beloved slashdot I tend to disagree with (namely libertarian states rights/hippie protest type of things) however does that mean I should force any and every post that would say offend my little son Timmy Milktoast from reading? No.
The problems with religion and particularly some of the more intollerant religions are quite severe and dramatic. The early Puritans shall we say slightly miffed a great deal of people. I am getting to a point where if I could get one shred of evidence in a god or in some form of actual scientific evidence I might actually bother. Mostly I would say that churches are nothing more than glorified country clubs where appearance and status are the only indicators of "fitting in".
All of these problems are in fact quite embarassing for humans to have to deal with. I wonder if anyone has created a slasdot cult yet?
The reason is simple. Essentially you create a piece of hardware that runs with a particular OS and then you don't release hardware for anything but that OS.
I don't think that hardware like this will be suported anytime soon.
I would rather have automatic detection of various hardware and then install the various conf files based upon that information. Having a seperate distro will just end up locking you into that hardware even if it's not the cheapest.