I have Gentoo running on my SunBlade 100, it runs rather fast, compiled mozilla in a couple hours. KDE failed last night, going to see what happended today.
So far, no problems. I tried linux on my sparc 5 with SuSE, and it was slower than Solaris 2.6. But that was a few years ago.
I'm still running Mandrake on my home boxes, I can't have it down for a day while its compiling. Now if Gentoo just offered a full binary build also.
Like I said elsewhere, outsourcing is bad for companies in the long run, because they give away important knowledge:
Will the next round of startups come from India? The people with the skills and experience are the ones who work daily in the newest technology. R&D will have to follow the job pool of skilled workers.
The article is really a fluff piece, those offices are not buying American made products, or paying Taxes. In fact, we will loose billions in tax money, investment capital, with out sources. States will be crippled when the largest employers move overseas.
I'll be laughing my ass off, when all these companies have Indian employees spinning off and going to start ups. Maybe they will even get contracts from China and out bid US companies, its going to be an interesting future for America.
I copied all my cd's to mp3s on my harddrive, one thing, no ID3 tags. Lucky, what I did do, is named them all with tracknumber-band-song.mp3 in each subdirectory.
Now that I have like 200 some directories, I don't want to go in with id3master on windows and make a id3 version1/2 tags on every file.
This is exactly what I need! I use cygwin to write small perl scripts to generate reports, so this should be a snap. He even has examples on how to use his perl modules.
Wow, nice for IBM to have a linux developers forum.
I've heard both good and bad stories about Godaddy, so I've stayed away, they seem to be cheapest price, but I didnt want to take a chance.
Personally, I'd send a certified letter from a lawyer, and work with them. But you did allow one of your sites to be used for spam relay, even if by mistake. Work it out, if not, get fuckoffgodaddy.com, and tell the world. Bad reputation can cause lots of damages.
I really thought the phone was cool, untill you I saw someone use one, they hold it like a taco. WTF was Nokia thinking!? Same with the Nokia 3300, nice display and full keypad, but its a Taco phone.
Really, great features, but you fell like a dork using one. I think the best phone from Nokia right now is the 3620, normal dialpad, cameraphone, and tons of features.
Myself, I want a sony P900, no thumb board (for ssh).:(
In a big crackdown at the end of last year, hundreds of internet cafes were shut down and new rules introduced for new proprietors, requiring them to restrict customer's access to a long list of "immoral and anti-Islamic sites".
It's interesting how every country is trying to control the Internet and the flow of Information. Just isn't working, is it. (grin)
- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. - Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
I was really into the Battletech muse years ago, it had decent ANSI gfx, and was rather fun over a modem. I tried to find one in service for old times sake, all the links where dead.
But now, with all CPU/GPU power, there are good graphical type MOO's. Half the fun of MOO's where creating objects and chatting at the same time. There are a dozen opensource VR worlds on sourceforge, and some monthly subscription VR worlds that are rather fun.
Currently I'm playing Secondlife. It's quite a improvement. Of course, I still know people who play nethack and tradewars. So the classics do stay around.
DSL doesnt have to cap like cable modems, Its not as much of a shared resource. My friend in Japan is already getting 40Mbps DSL. After market saturation, ISP's will offer more speeds and services. Also with 10Mbps you can offer video on demand, another way for small towns to make a profit.
Bandwidth is the greatest overpriced product besides soda pop and breakfast cereal.
BTW, I won't use a cable modem for an un-aceptable usage policy. Don't see why people would save 5 bux for a high ping, limited service that cable service offers. If its your only choice then yes. Of course, I'm a sys-admin, and expect a little more out of my IP service provider, upload speed, real unlimited service, non-blocked ports, allowed to run servers. Speakeasy offers a sys-admin package just for that reason.
I know this is a trivial thing, but it's a real pain in the butt to have to use ksh all the time because most Solaris boxen I've worked on don't have Bash installed by default.
We keep a local sunfreeware mirror for new sunos installs. Bash, updated Perl with modules, wget, lynx, openssl, bzip, sudo, lsof, openssh, and ncftp. (no gcc) If it wasn't for sunfreeware, I'd go nuts using Solaris. Anyone that has to move/push/alter data, needs common tools on all platforms, thank god for Sunfreeware.
I've been wondering about this, searching for Trance/Psy-Goa/Techno, I have to search online to listen. Only some online radio, and no local stations play this type of music.
I'd love to be able to search Itunes or Napster2 and find the music I like, but other than using itunes to look popular songs, and using napster to download music videos, the online selection is rather limited.
I find more music just searching with the terms on a p2p network, all kinds of music I never heard. In fact, I found some 1200 mics that just rocks. Never heard of it, did a google, found a website with tracks in.ra format, sold me. Bought 2 cd's.
So, yes, p2p makes me buy music. (Wish I could find DJ Mixes for sale)
BTW, I still use kazaa sometimes, but I dont share on kazaa, I have other p2p clients, I'll use those for sharing until something more secure comes out. (Yes, I use ip blacklists too, and no usernames) Even thinking of getting Vanautu VPN service. - The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it. - John Gilmore
You can really see the ragdoll physics with the havok engine, the game is pure fun. Its evil and dark like Quake2, and the levels are big and detailed. I am really impressed, the end guy and whole demo is extremely fun. Plus lots of "hidden holy" items, and lots of hidden gold.
Really is fun just trying to shoot the guys to watch them fly back with the impact of the weapons, havok really is impressive. After seeing and playing this demo, you can really see how havok is having an impact (pun) in games. HL2 is also using havok, very sweet.
Demo is really worth grabbing for the few hours of gameplay,
Big difference. 1. MS wasn't on the ropes. 2. IE doesn't generate revenue for MS directly.
I would disagree, they have moved over half the company towards Internet based products. They understood they had to catch up to Netscape, back in the day you ran Netscape webservers. They used IE as a learning and development tool to get a good foothold into the server market.
Anyone remember windows311 and the Internet? How soon they forget about multiple browsers and tcpip stacks.
In the administration area, Solaris with java use to be the most popular administration applications for Telcos. In the last view years I'm so glad to see things move to straight HTML and Windows clients.
We had to have a Sun box on our desk just client programs, I finally installed linux on my sun box.:)
BTW, java on sparc linux is a pain to get working.
That'd be a great place to set up a base, wouldnt it?
I'm just wondering how much the insurance will be. Who wants lava spouting all over the place, sink holes because of caverns. Just as bad as people building in flood zones. (-;
Interesting topic, Shuttle XPC Linux Network Appliance.
A PC+Linux isn't a network appliance, its still a PC. A true network appliance, is a raid array with an ethernet adapter, its a piece of hardware performing a function.
Before you say, well yes the computer can do it also.. You have install and set it up. Appliances in general are stupid things that are cheap and easy to replace, you just plug in and turn on. PC's are not appliances.
Little pet peeve, but really if you don't care for HD's and the whole 1000k vs 1024K, this is along those lines. Use the correct terms you hackers.
I'm willing to bet there are a good number of/. readers that are younger than GEOS (I'm not one of 'em). It's an interesting reminder of just how far computers have come.
Back when I was using GEOS and Quantum Service. The joys of going from 40 column to 80 column terminals, punter to xmodem, to ymodem to zmodem. Real Ansi (with reverse and blink!) 300 baud baby. First long distance phone bill and parents whipping my ass.
Then
Powerpacking workbench floppies and using the ram disk, when you had more memory (2 meg chip) than you floppy could use. Slurp connections with tcp config files that looked like the same as unix clones using a version.99 kernel.
then
First HD's, Rusty and Eddies, WWIV. Clone wars. 33.6 modems.
then
Winsock, browser, irc client, gopher, and installer on 1 floppy disk from your isp (I made one for my first company). Still using commandline gfx viewers because it had more file formats. Joys of a lan party over IPX.
then
Going from 16bit to 32bit tcp stack, and all the applications breaking, and the most unstable years of computing. Still booting to command line for some video games. Welcome to driver issues.
then, little later, 8K speeds, 16 if you bond those channels.
then (many many years, and many patches)
OS finally is stable, Great applications and games, awesome freeware. 150K net access. Lots of information at a couple clicks away. Many stable and application rich OS's to choose from.
I just skimmed through their website, but it looks to me like their user's speeds would be limited by their bandwidth, just like any other proxy. So what happens when 20% of those thousands of users get on Kazaa at once?
Maybe faster downloads, more sharing, and vanuatu buys lots of high speed bandwidth from ISPs.:)
I couldnt find the native openoffice build for OSX, anyone have the url? The only openoffice build I have is under fink. I did a google, is it a closed beta maybe?
[snip]The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Linux system.[/snip]
This is really a good idea, a centralized ports collection for multiple os's. Really, with automatic build checking, you can stay up2date on all your OS's.
Slashdot Mirror
I have Gentoo running on my SunBlade 100, it runs rather fast, compiled mozilla in a couple hours. KDE failed last night, going to see what happended today.
So far, no problems. I tried linux on my sparc 5 with SuSE, and it was slower than Solaris 2.6. But that was a few years ago.
I'm still running Mandrake on my home boxes, I can't have it down for a day while its compiling. Now if Gentoo just offered a full binary build also.
Like I said elsewhere, outsourcing is bad for companies in the long run, because they give away important knowledge:
Will the next round of startups come from India? The people with the skills and experience are the ones who work daily in the newest technology. R&D will have to follow the job pool of skilled workers.
The article is really a fluff piece, those offices are not buying American made products, or paying Taxes. In fact, we will loose billions in tax money, investment capital, with out sources. States will be crippled when the largest employers move overseas.
I'll be laughing my ass off, when all these companies have Indian employees spinning off and going to start ups. Maybe they will even get contracts from China and out bid US companies, its going to be an interesting future for America.
I'm blaming Janet's Boob.
Down in South Africa, They have car alarms that shoot flames and kill the thief.
Now my invention, car batteries attached to the laptop, of course it might be to heavy to steal, will have to work on that aspect...
I copied all my cd's to mp3s on my harddrive, one thing, no ID3 tags.
Lucky, what I did do, is named them all with tracknumber-band-song.mp3 in each subdirectory.
Now that I have like 200 some directories, I don't want to go in with id3master on windows and make a id3 version1/2 tags on every file.
This is exactly what I need! I use cygwin to write small perl scripts to generate reports, so this should be a snap. He even has examples on how to use his perl modules.
Wow, nice for IBM to have a linux developers forum.
I've heard both good and bad stories about Godaddy, so I've stayed away, they seem to be cheapest price, but I didnt want to take a chance.
Personally, I'd send a certified letter from a lawyer, and work with them. But you did allow one of your sites to be used for spam relay, even if by mistake. Work it out, if not, get fuckoffgodaddy.com, and tell the world. Bad reputation can cause lots of damages.
IRC and other stuff. And that was on my CDPD phone, now its in GPRS/EDGE.
Thank god for T9. After using a keypad, you crave a thumbboard.
At least Apple and MTV didnt sample any copy righted Silence. Slashdot even ran Story about it.
Really, how long before everything is copyrighted, every riff and sample. This is crazy.
Ok, Time to redo the benchmarks, Kernel 2.6.3 is out.
[joking]
Be nice when we see some nice Opteron benchmarks vs the new Xeons.
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"But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the _old_ gods! He demands sacrifice!"
I really thought the phone was cool, untill you I saw someone use one, they hold it like a taco. WTF was Nokia thinking!? Same with the Nokia 3300, nice display and full keypad, but its a Taco phone.
:(
Really, great features, but you fell like a dork using one. I think the best phone from Nokia right now is the 3620, normal dialpad, cameraphone, and tons of features.
Myself, I want a sony P900, no thumb board (for ssh).
In a big crackdown at the end of last year, hundreds of internet cafes were shut down and new rules introduced for new proprietors, requiring them to restrict customer's access to a long list of "immoral and anti-Islamic sites".
It's interesting how every country is trying to control the Internet and the flow of Information. Just isn't working, is it. (grin)
-
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. - Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
I was really into the Battletech muse years ago, it had decent ANSI gfx, and was rather fun over a modem. I tried to find one in service for old times sake, all the links where dead.
But now, with all CPU/GPU power, there are good graphical type MOO's. Half the fun of MOO's where creating objects and chatting at the same time. There are a dozen opensource VR worlds on sourceforge, and some monthly subscription VR worlds that are rather fun.
Currently I'm playing Secondlife. It's quite a improvement. Of course, I still know people who play nethack and tradewars. So the classics do stay around.
DSL doesnt have to cap like cable modems, Its not as much of a shared resource. My friend in Japan is already getting 40Mbps DSL. After market saturation, ISP's will offer more speeds and services. Also with 10Mbps you can offer video on demand, another way for small towns to make a profit.
Bandwidth is the greatest overpriced product besides soda pop and breakfast cereal.
BTW, I won't use a cable modem for an un-aceptable usage policy. Don't see why people would save 5 bux for a high ping, limited service that cable service offers. If its your only choice then yes. Of course, I'm a sys-admin, and expect a little more out of my IP service provider, upload speed, real unlimited service, non-blocked ports, allowed to run servers. Speakeasy offers a sys-admin package just for that reason.
I know this is a trivial thing, but it's a real pain in the butt to have to use ksh all the time because most Solaris boxen I've worked on don't have Bash installed by default.
We keep a local sunfreeware mirror for new sunos installs. Bash, updated Perl with modules, wget, lynx, openssl, bzip, sudo, lsof, openssh, and ncftp. (no gcc) If it wasn't for sunfreeware, I'd go nuts using Solaris. Anyone that has to move/push/alter data, needs common tools on all platforms, thank god for Sunfreeware.
I've been wondering about this, searching for Trance/Psy-Goa/Techno, I have to search online to listen. Only some online radio, and no local stations play this type of music.
.ra format, sold me. Bought 2 cd's.
I'd love to be able to search Itunes or Napster2 and find the music I like, but other than using itunes to look popular songs, and using napster to download music videos, the online selection is rather limited.
I find more music just searching with the terms on a p2p network, all kinds of music I never heard. In fact, I found some 1200 mics that just rocks. Never heard of it, did a google, found a website with tracks in
So, yes, p2p makes me buy music. (Wish I could find DJ Mixes for sale)
BTW, I still use kazaa sometimes, but I dont share on kazaa, I have other p2p clients, I'll use those for sharing until something more secure comes out. (Yes, I use ip blacklists too, and no usernames) Even thinking of getting Vanautu VPN service.
-
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it. - John Gilmore
You can really see the ragdoll physics with the havok engine, the game is pure fun. Its evil and dark like Quake2, and the levels are big and detailed. I am really impressed, the end guy and whole demo is extremely fun. Plus lots of "hidden holy" items, and lots of hidden gold.
Really is fun just trying to shoot the guys to watch them fly back with the impact of the weapons, havok really is impressive. After seeing and playing this demo, you can really see how havok is having an impact (pun) in games. HL2 is also using havok, very sweet.
Demo is really worth grabbing for the few hours of gameplay,
Note that the sparc64 XFree86-4-Server package in this set does not have the latest updates, Scott says that this will be fixed in the final release.
Anyone try the release on a sunblade? Been using Gentoo, its sparc64 support has pretty solid. Just wondering...
Big difference.
1. MS wasn't on the ropes.
2. IE doesn't generate revenue for MS directly.
I would disagree, they have moved over half the company towards Internet based products. They understood they had to catch up to Netscape, back in the day you ran Netscape webservers. They used IE as a learning and development tool to get a good foothold into the server market.
Anyone remember windows311 and the Internet? How soon they forget about multiple browsers and tcpip stacks.
In the administration area, Solaris with java use to be the most popular administration applications for Telcos. In the last view years I'm so glad to see things move to straight HTML and Windows clients.
:)
We had to have a Sun box on our desk just client programs, I finally installed linux on my sun box.
BTW, java on sparc linux is a pain to get working.
But what if giving that away (at least partially) would actually be just the way to save the company from bankruptcy...?
Hey, it worked for Netscape right?
Worked for Microsoft for Internet Explorer.
That'd be a great place to set up a base, wouldnt it?
I'm just wondering how much the insurance will be. Who wants lava spouting all over the place, sink holes because of caverns. Just as bad as people building in flood zones. (-;
Interesting topic, Shuttle XPC Linux Network Appliance.
A PC+Linux isn't a network appliance, its still a PC. A true network appliance, is a raid array with an ethernet adapter, its a piece of hardware performing a function.
Before you say, well yes the computer can do it also.. You have install and set it up. Appliances in general are stupid things that are cheap and easy to replace, you just plug in and turn on. PC's are not appliances.
Little pet peeve, but really if you don't care for HD's and the whole 1000k vs 1024K, this is along those lines. Use the correct terms you hackers.
I'm willing to bet there are a good number of /. readers that are younger than GEOS (I'm not one of 'em). It's an interesting reminder of just how far computers have come.
.99 kernel.
Back when I was using GEOS and Quantum Service.
The joys of going from 40 column to 80 column terminals, punter to xmodem, to ymodem to zmodem. Real Ansi (with reverse and blink!) 300 baud baby. First long distance phone bill and parents whipping my ass.
Then
Powerpacking workbench floppies and using the ram disk, when you had more memory (2 meg chip) than you floppy could use. Slurp connections with tcp config files that looked like the same as unix clones using a version
then
First HD's, Rusty and Eddies, WWIV. Clone wars. 33.6 modems.
then
Winsock, browser, irc client, gopher, and installer on 1 floppy disk from your isp (I made one for my first company). Still using commandline gfx viewers because it had more file formats. Joys of a lan party over IPX.
then
Going from 16bit to 32bit tcp stack, and all the applications breaking, and the most unstable years of computing. Still booting to command line for some video games. Welcome to driver issues.
then, little later, 8K speeds, 16 if you bond those channels.
then (many many years, and many patches)
OS finally is stable, Great applications and games, awesome freeware. 150K net access. Lots of information at a couple clicks away. Many stable and application rich OS's to choose from.
It's been a long ride from GEOS to Openoffice.
I just skimmed through their website, but it looks to me like their user's speeds would be limited by their bandwidth, just like any other proxy. So what happens when 20% of those thousands of users get on Kazaa at once?
:)
Maybe faster downloads, more sharing, and vanuatu buys lots of high speed bandwidth from ISPs.
I couldnt find the native openoffice build for OSX, anyone have the url? The only openoffice build I have is under fink. I did a google, is it a closed beta maybe?
[snip]The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Linux system.[/snip]
This is really a good idea, a centralized ports collection for multiple os's. Really, with automatic build checking, you can stay up2date on all your OS's.