"No. We have to stay here [Babylon 5] and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes.. and all of this.. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." (Infection, season 1, ep. 4)
Sappy, yeah. But it makes the point nicely.
(quote copied from http://jdmoncada.tripod.com/babylon5.html)
Hmmm...they mention BSD and the Mach kernel (as they should), but not one word about NeXT. Methinks Steve Jobs is still a bit burned over how that all turned out. Pity, too - they were nice machines.
But the legend lives on in the 'column view' of the new Finder, and the 'dock' with all your useful stuff.
RedHat's graphical install definitely needs some work. When selecting individual packages to install, you can't navigate the tree/package list using the keyboard.
In addition, they actually crippled their text-based install when they added the graphical one. I decided to reinstall RH6.1, to change my paritioning scheme, and figured I'd use the text install and save time. I found that while you can use the keyboard to navigate the RPM tree, you now can't hit F1 and get a package description - you've gotta go graphical for that.
Blech.
Personally, I'd like a text-based install that lets me use 80x50 mode. Much easier to select packages that way.
Pro-Logic surround sound was (and still is) a slick hack. 4 analog channels folded into 2, and non-Pro-Logic equipment treats it as a normal stereo signal.
They've got the One for All remotes, which (at least in the 7-device kind that I bought) control a very wide range of devices. The kicker is that it has 4 "learn" buttons that, for each device can be set to anything that device's remote can send out. That should cover all the main functions of any specialty remote. Hell - it's even got PIP and VCR controls built in. At $29.95, it beats the PalmPilot and HP-48 options in price.
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"No. We have to stay here [Babylon 5] and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." (Infection, season 1, ep. 4)
Sappy, yeah. But it makes the point nicely.
(quote copied from http://jdmoncada.tripod.com/babylon5.html)
Or an outline of Tux, done in the same blue hues?
Don't know if it would look good that small, though...
Hmmm...they mention BSD and the Mach kernel (as
they should), but not one word about NeXT. Methinks Steve Jobs is still a bit burned over how that all turned out. Pity, too - they were nice machines.
But the legend lives on in the 'column view' of the new Finder, and the 'dock' with all your useful stuff.
RedHat's graphical install definitely needs some work. When selecting individual packages to install, you can't navigate the tree/package list using the keyboard.
In addition, they actually crippled their text-based install when they added the graphical one. I decided to reinstall RH6.1, to change my paritioning scheme, and figured I'd use the text install and save time. I found that while you can use the keyboard to navigate the RPM tree, you now can't hit F1 and get a package description - you've gotta go graphical for that.
Blech.
Personally, I'd like a text-based install that lets me use 80x50 mode. Much easier to select packages that way.
Pro-Logic surround sound was (and still is) a slick hack. 4 analog channels folded into 2, and non-Pro-Logic equipment treats it as a normal stereo signal.
They've got the One for All remotes, which (at least in the 7-device kind that I bought) control a very wide range of devices. The kicker is that it has 4 "learn" buttons that, for each device can be set to anything that device's remote can send out. That should cover all the main functions of any specialty remote. Hell - it's even got PIP and VCR controls built in. At $29.95, it beats the PalmPilot and HP-48 options in price.
Sounds like someone's finally found a practical, widespread use for the OSI Presentation layer...
Because then you'd find out that it's just a front for the NSA to crack non-critical PGP encrypted messages.