RAM and video cards are pretty easy to replace and much cheaper than buying a whole new machine.
A lot of people who incrementally upgrade are already going to have the most RAM and a fairly good Video card installed in the machine they use. There's no magic way to add more RAM to a machine with, say, all 3 256M SDRAM modules already installed.
I use FVWM and now have a.fvwmrc file that is so complete and nicely customized that I couldn't imagine switching to anything else. There's something really nice about running an environment where the whole GUI is set up in a single well-characterized.dotfile.
Screaming fast, too. The Tab Window Manager is similarly customizable and it's even a built-in component in the core X11 distribution, so there is NOTHING to add except your cherised.dotfile on any freenix with X installed.
Minimalism can be cool. And it's an especially good concept to introduce to subvert online discussions of anything as bloated and baroque as $LATEST_FROM_REDMOND.
I am the guy who back in the day installed Microsoft Excel for Windows 2.0 on an 8088 system. I had to 'image' the 1.2M floppy disks over to fit on multiple 360K floppies. And that was the easy part about getting it installed.
I think I'm ready for Vista. I have several really nice Dell Optiplex GX1 systems with P3-450 processors and 512M of RAM. They run NetBSD really, really nice (typing this comment on one of them).
The sad part about it? A Dell Optiplex GX1 with a P3 and 512M of memory is actually a really nice machine and very useful, at the price I've been paying for them ($3-5 apiece at University surplus auctions.) Just not if you go with Redmondware.
True. A machine with MS-DOS on it, for instance. doesn't even have the 'hooks' to be networked, without extra binaries being added. And since it's very simple, it's easy to know that there aren't any rogue processes running in the background. Just keep a logic analyzer connected to it's buss and keep an eye on what's going on.
My TRS-80 Model 100 is even MORE secure, as the EPROM or non-volatile memory would have to be hacked for rogue software to be running on it. Or something bad with BASIC.
And my SYM-1 is even better. With only a 6502 processor, and 4K of static RAM, an intruder would have to sneak in, enter his trojan on the hex keypad, and be certain you didn't cycle power before next using the system.
You can also be locked in a room with a Windows machine with Hummingbird Exceed installed on it. It is on the same non-world-routed network as a multi-hosted Unix box. Then you run your Web apps on the Unix box. The non-routed network can be very locked down.
There are non-commercial solutions where you don't have to buy Exceed, too. I find them somewhat kludgey. YMMV.
On some Windoze machines, I just install tweakui. Then you can enter the password into a GUI form in the tweakui applet on the control panel, and voila you don't need to enter it again.
Another alternative on some versions of Windows is just to click the 'cancel' dialogue button each time, or better yet, just leave the password blank the first time you log on the newly installed system. This works for Windows 9x and Me, and is a great alternative to password authentication.
These methods are very secure if used on stand alone machines or machines or machines that are not on world-connected networks. You just lock the door on the room or building they're located in.
I'm not so sure the Democrats manipulated the results of electronic voting machines to gain control of both houses, but you have a point and it should be looked into.
Well, computer science isn't an art form. There is a need for 'worker bee' types who don't mind maintaining regression test suites and doing tedious testing. Said worker bee lives a sorry life one could say, but then maybe s/he dresses up in midievial garb on the weekends and gets his/her fullfillment in life with that.
They don't have to love said tedious testing regimes. And somebody has to do it.
Degrees exist, because the earning of a degree in a traditional school proves that the chimp will be a useful employee later on, one who will respect authority and toady to people less intelligent than the chimp him/herself. It shows that the chimp is capable of 'carrying through and completing the project.' It shows the ability to conform. It filters out troublemakers and original thinkers.
All essential things for the HR person to check off in that first interview. And important skills for anybody with a future in a cubicle farm.
However, you're just a crackpot until you publish a peer-reviewed paper.
Now you're just talking about joining the Guild and learning the secret handshake.
Not that we don't need subcultures of specialists, but that's essentially the modern equivalent of being a Monk.
Me, I prefer to design the circuit, develop the user interface (buttons and a display, maybe a custom LCD), wire up the prototype and code some firmware to put in it.
Oh, and use the Model shop to knock together some sort of enclosure, using plexiglass, wood, metal, etc.
Stuck up specialists don't belong in the skunkworks. Stick to your little niche in the hierarchy.
I am a bit old school. Where I come from, there are Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Chemical Engineers. You can get your degree in one of the three, from an accredited School.
Any other degree program with Engineer in the title (and most ESPECIALLY any degree with 'Engineering' in the title is a hoax. Yes, those 'xxx Engineering' programs are for technicians.
I'm not an EE, ME, or CE. One doesn't have to be one to know what one is.
Look again. Java hasn't been touted as an 'embedded' architecture for years now. Point me at an embedded processor that runs native Java 'byte code.' And, no, the one in your 1997-era 'Java Ring' doesn't cut it.
IOW- your shower head has an 'open' application layer.
Putting Flash on the frontpage of your site iss a nice way to tell the users go to to hell:
Quite bluntly, those bloated Flash intro screens are developed by Web designers for one purpose. To impress 'the suits upstairs' who only access the site over the Corporate Intranet with a 100baseT (or better) connection.
That kind of web developer is worse than a metaphorical brownnose. You can close your eyes and visualze the bosses' brown matter dribbling down their chin...
Remember the annoying fuck in High School. *That* guy develops the Flash intro page.
Come on, just because you need a free plugin doesn't make it inaccessible.
Maybe we need to mandate that 'free plugins' are available for any platform that a user who navigates to the site might happen to use. It's not acceptable to say 'Mac n Windoze n Linux-on-a-few-platforms.'
I have all kinds of interesting hardware here that runs NetBSD pretty nicely. And something like that might prompt me to browse the Web from IRIX on my SGI O2, from my ancient Power 1 RS/6000 workstation running AIX (I _can_ install a framebuffer in it if I want and if I chase down a microchannel card it supports...), from my Mac SE/30, for that matter.
Seriously, though, flash plugins for every machine that has X ported to it on NetBSD 2.0 and above would suffice. Or, uh, just provide the source code, and let the hackers do the work for you, fuggers.
But if site developers did that, they wouldn't be "taking advantage of all the great features that using Flash can provide." Or some equally tedious marketing bullshit masquerading as a developer's tutorial.
I mainly browse the web using NetBSD/i386 and I have not downloaded anything to enable Flash. It would involve loading binary Linux packages, which I'm not particularly interested in. So I get pages with blank graphical holes in them. Which really doesn't matter to me. I started BBSing in the mid 80's and 'online' has always mainly meant text to me.
They do. I know of specific instances in the past where comments I made were 'silently moderated' (no reason for the mark-down given, the comment just shifted to zero somehow.)
They don't make a widespread practice of it, though.
I'm sure some fat-cat t-shirt mogul will be pissed. He probably started out of a van touring with the Dead, and has 12 houses, four of them in parts of Europe.
Jewel Case makers are ALREADY screwed. What a racket that was, before the stores dared stock paper sleeves with glassine windows. I mean, I buy a Cakebox of 50 CD's for $12, and they want $9 for ten empty jewel boxes?!?
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I ran windows 2000 on a 133 MHz pentium 3 with 64 MB RAM
The slowest Pentium 3 system made is (was) 450 MHz.
RAM and video cards are pretty easy to replace and much cheaper than buying a whole new machine.
A lot of people who incrementally upgrade are already going to have the most RAM and a fairly good Video card installed in the machine they use. There's no magic way to add more RAM to a machine with, say, all 3 256M SDRAM modules already installed.
I use FVWM and now have a .fvwmrc file that is so complete and nicely customized that I couldn't imagine switching to anything else. There's something really nice about running an environment where the whole GUI is set up in a single well-characterized .dotfile.
.dotfile on any freenix with X installed.
Screaming fast, too. The Tab Window Manager is similarly customizable and it's even a built-in component in the core X11 distribution, so there is NOTHING to add except your cherised
Minimalism can be cool. And it's an especially good concept to introduce to subvert online discussions of anything as bloated and baroque as $LATEST_FROM_REDMOND.
I am the guy who back in the day installed Microsoft Excel for Windows 2.0 on an 8088 system. I had to 'image' the 1.2M floppy disks over to fit on multiple 360K floppies. And that was the easy part about getting it installed.
I think I'm ready for Vista. I have several really nice Dell Optiplex GX1 systems with P3-450 processors and 512M of RAM. They run NetBSD really, really nice (typing this comment on one of them).
The sad part about it? A Dell Optiplex GX1 with a P3 and 512M of memory is actually a really nice machine and very useful, at the price I've been paying for them ($3-5 apiece at University surplus auctions.) Just not if you go with Redmondware.
True. A machine with MS-DOS on it, for instance. doesn't even have the 'hooks' to be networked, without extra binaries being added. And since it's very simple, it's easy to know that there aren't any rogue processes running in the background. Just keep a logic analyzer connected to it's buss and keep an eye on what's going on.
My TRS-80 Model 100 is even MORE secure, as the EPROM or non-volatile memory would have to be hacked for rogue software to be running on it. Or something bad with BASIC.
And my SYM-1 is even better. With only a 6502 processor, and 4K of static RAM, an intruder would have to sneak in, enter his trojan on the hex keypad, and be certain you didn't cycle power before next using the system.
You can also be locked in a room with a Windows machine with Hummingbird Exceed installed on it. It is on the same non-world-routed network as a multi-hosted Unix box. Then you run your Web apps on the Unix box. The non-routed network can be very locked down.
There are non-commercial solutions where you don't have to buy Exceed, too. I find them somewhat kludgey. YMMV.
On some Windoze machines, I just install tweakui. Then you can enter the password into a GUI form in the tweakui applet on the control panel, and voila you don't need to enter it again.
Another alternative on some versions of Windows is just to click the 'cancel' dialogue button each time, or better yet, just leave the password blank the first time you log on the newly installed system. This works for Windows 9x and Me, and is a great alternative to password authentication.
These methods are very secure if used on stand alone machines or machines or machines that are not on world-connected networks. You just lock the door on the room or building they're located in.
....when they announced that Windows 2000 would never have a Service Pack release. One would never be needed.
(still have no use for XP, btw.)
I'm not so sure the Democrats manipulated the results of electronic voting machines to gain control of both houses, but you have a point and it should be looked into.
I used to love fooling around with silicon chips and a wirewrap gun, until one day I tasted a little of the arsenic dopant down in the fab...
Well, computer science isn't an art form. There is a need for 'worker bee' types who don't mind maintaining regression test suites and doing tedious testing. Said worker bee lives a sorry life one could say, but then maybe s/he dresses up in midievial garb on the weekends and gets his/her fullfillment in life with that.
They don't have to love said tedious testing regimes. And somebody has to do it.
Degrees exist, because the earning of a degree in a traditional school proves that the chimp will be a useful employee later on, one who will respect authority and toady to people less intelligent than the chimp him/herself. It shows that the chimp is capable of 'carrying through and completing the project.' It shows the ability to conform. It filters out troublemakers and original thinkers.
All essential things for the HR person to check off in that first interview. And important skills for anybody with a future in a cubicle farm.
However, you're just a crackpot until you publish a peer-reviewed paper.
Now you're just talking about joining the Guild and learning the secret handshake.
Not that we don't need subcultures of specialists, but that's essentially the modern equivalent of being a Monk.
Me, I prefer to design the circuit, develop the user interface (buttons and a display, maybe a custom LCD), wire up the prototype and code some firmware to put in it.
Oh, and use the Model shop to knock together some sort of enclosure, using plexiglass, wood, metal, etc.
Stuck up specialists don't belong in the skunkworks. Stick to your little niche in the hierarchy.
What is a 'Computer Engineer'?
I am a bit old school. Where I come from, there are Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Chemical Engineers. You can get your degree in one of the three, from an accredited School.
Any other degree program with Engineer in the title (and most ESPECIALLY any degree with 'Engineering' in the title is a hoax. Yes, those 'xxx Engineering' programs are for technicians.
I'm not an EE, ME, or CE. One doesn't have to be one to know what one is.
And here's a link to the book minus the above spammer's referral string. They have it at WalMart, too, if you don't like firms with one-click-patents.
The fact he'll soon be answering prickly questions in front of a House oversight committee,
Give us an example question he will be asked.
Eight. Unless Hillary was keeping him in a CBT2000 for two of those years.
Look again. Java hasn't been touted as an 'embedded' architecture for years now. Point me at an embedded processor that runs native Java 'byte code.' And, no, the one in your 1997-era 'Java Ring' doesn't cut it.
IOW- your shower head has an 'open' application layer.
If nobody can hold onto the seat for more than one term, perhaps they'll eventually realise they need to change their approach...
No, at that point the bueraucracy and lobbyists that grow and fester around the elected government will gain the upper hand.
There needs to be some sort of mechanism where: "If only 1/3 of the populace votes, the power of the government is reduced by 2/3."
Shut 'em down. It's really that simple.
Putting Flash on the frontpage of your site iss a nice way to tell the users go to to hell:
Quite bluntly, those bloated Flash intro screens are developed by Web designers for one purpose. To impress 'the suits upstairs' who only access the site over the Corporate Intranet with a 100baseT (or better) connection.
That kind of web developer is worse than a metaphorical brownnose. You can close your eyes and visualze the bosses' brown matter dribbling down their chin...
Remember the annoying fuck in High School. *That* guy develops the Flash intro page.
Come on, just because you need a free plugin doesn't make it inaccessible.
Maybe we need to mandate that 'free plugins' are available for any platform that a user who navigates to the site might happen to use. It's not acceptable to say 'Mac n Windoze n Linux-on-a-few-platforms.'
I have all kinds of interesting hardware here that runs NetBSD pretty nicely. And something like that might prompt me to browse the Web from IRIX on my SGI O2, from my ancient Power 1 RS/6000 workstation running AIX (I _can_ install a framebuffer in it if I want and if I chase down a microchannel card it supports...), from my Mac SE/30, for that matter.
Seriously, though, flash plugins for every machine that has X ported to it on NetBSD 2.0 and above would suffice. Or, uh, just provide the source code, and let the hackers do the work for you, fuggers.
But if site developers did that, they wouldn't be "taking advantage of all the great features that using Flash can provide." Or some equally tedious marketing bullshit masquerading as a developer's tutorial.
I mainly browse the web using NetBSD/i386 and I have not downloaded anything to enable Flash. It would involve loading binary Linux packages, which I'm not particularly interested in. So I get pages with blank graphical holes in them. Which really doesn't matter to me. I started BBSing in the mid 80's and 'online' has always mainly meant text to me.
And AFAIK ripping people off is not illegal, it's called "business."
I doubt if 'ripping people off' has any legal defintion at all.
Nice ad homeim about 'business' there, btw. I take it you sell the Militant on your days off.
They do. I know of specific instances in the past where comments I made were 'silently moderated' (no reason for the mark-down given, the comment just shifted to zero somehow.)
They don't make a widespread practice of it, though.
I'm sure some fat-cat t-shirt mogul will be pissed. He probably started out of a van touring with the Dead, and has 12 houses, four of them in parts of Europe.
Jewel Case makers are ALREADY screwed. What a racket that was, before the stores dared stock paper sleeves with glassine windows. I mean, I buy a Cakebox of 50 CD's for $12, and they want $9 for ten empty jewel boxes?!?