I, personally, am waiting for the hackers to produce step by step instructions to install some flavour of GNU/Linux on it. Gentoo would be my personal choice, but really anything would be good. Since they have already made it possible to install Gentoo on 'full' Mac's, so I think it would be the best choice, since it is a lot easier to install. After one person installs it, then they could just push a disk image out on a torrent for everyone to enjoy.
Anyway, my reasoning for wanting to install Linux on it: Mostly it's small footprint. There is very limited amount of RAM in it.. and Linux, i think, would utilize the least. Thus leaving more RAM and processing power for running video's, etc.
Also, since it is so low powered, it would be great as a system to run all night to download torrents, etc. It has a decent sized drive, enough to download a DVD or two.;-)
I don't even have a dual core chip. I guess that makes my computer non-existent......
Egads. I've been looking forward to getting a single-core 3800 -- that would be an upgrade for me.
I hear, ya. I'm still running an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton Core). No overclocking, 1GB of cheap generic DDR Memory.
I can't play any games [ASUS TNT Geforce 128MB video card (I think?)], but I can still run WinXP with Photoshop CS2 (that's all I use it for) in Vmware on top of my Gentoo install like a dream.
To anyone looking to upgrade, wait until AMD launches its next line of chips! I am waiting for that day... *dreamy eyes*
Are open source desktop developers so focused on trying to make it "easy" for Windows user to convert they get Microsoft tunnel vision and can't innovate?
Whaa... Geesh. How many trolls are there like you out in the world? If you want all your pretty fancy (probably less user intuitive programs) then build them yourself! Or at least sponsor a developer and ask them to include it. Be sure you can afford to squeeze a lot of cash out of your ass 'cause that's a hefty load of programming.
I hate to be a prude or anything, but I really actually quite like the current state of the F/OSS desktops. Personally, I prefer XFCE but that's mostly because I like things to be nice & easy, instead of bulky and annoying **cough**GNOME**cough**KDE**cough**. (as an aside, as of right now I am using about 180MB of system memory and no swap -- this is with Firefox, Thunderbird, aMSN, Audacious[w/~1200 songs], and a handful of daemons running)
When I was using KDE I don't think the memory usage was ever under 300MB... but that was KDE 3.2 I believe.
#./configure
# make
# make rpm
# rpm --install $PROGRAM.rpm
When I could:
#./configure
# make
# make install
Or even:
# emerge -av $PROGRAM
The point I am trying to make is that you shouldn't have to bend over for a half-baked package management system. Sure, I know sometimes it's handy, which is why I used SuSE for over 3 years. But I just got tired of having to build my own packages, then install them over the old RPMs... It's a pain in the ass, I'd rather just install it from source in the first place and be done with it. But then again I also like to build installs from LFS. As I am a compile nerd.:-P
Simply download the source and compile it. Sure Gentoo does this for everything, but we don't really need this for everything. For the packages that do require it, go ahead and compile, you can do this on any Linux system.
Although I understand what you are thinking here, a lot of the time it's not practical... Mostly because of the way that the package manager handles dependencies. For example, do not install X.org from your repository. Install it from source, then try to install a program [say, via RPM] that depends on it's libraries.
The program will hiccup and complain that X is not installed... but really it is. If there was an option to 'emulate' a package, I think that would be a terrific system. However, some distro's like to put things in different places, and you would have to explicitly compile a package to conform to where your distro likes to put things. EG: In Gentoo the portmap config is in/etc/conf.d/portmap, in Ubuntu it is/etc/default/portmap [I think?]
Depending on what you're doing the exec functions might be useful.
I agree. But on shared hosting [even if it is just for friends] it is very dangerous. Not necessarily that they will try to wreck anything, but if someone were to comprise their account, things can go bad very quickly.
I've been running PHP for some time now, I try to use the latest and greatest, but sometimes I am a little behind.
Here are a few simple precautions for PHP configuration:
Do not(!) install cURL. I know it is useful, but has a lot of security problems!
Disable register globals [default as of 4.2.0]
Safemode is worthless and a little too restricting, use OpenBaseDir.
disable_functions = exec,system,passthru,shell_exec,proc_open,proc_clo se,proc_terminate,proc_nice,proc_get_status (may be more, off the top of my head:-)
These are what I can think of off the top of my head. This allows full compatability with all major scripts [mostly due to not using SafeMode] but still holds a fair bit of protection from people executing scripts and pushing them to run in the background. Had this happen to me a few years ago. I was hosting someone as a favour, and I'm not sure if they did it, or they were running some crappy code and it was exploited. Either way, their account was suspended.
If only we (Canadians) actually lived in igloo's, eh? The part about the weather is true though. Just sometime last week it was -45 in my area. Today it's -10 or so... Shorts and T-shirt weather for Canadians.:-)
Judging from your post, I don't think you are Canadian. We use the metric system for large distances. But props on your post anyway! Was a good laugh when I needed it.
My girlfriends cellular device has an exterior OLED display.
It's an LG phone... not sure which one, though. I'm at work. All I know is it comes in red and black. It looks pretty sleek, though.
Doesn't VMware Workstation install binary modules into the kernel? For a lot of people VMware Workstation is very necessary from day-to-day use. I know that VMPLayer and GSX server is now free, but Workstation has oh so much power and configurability. Also, locking people out from using an upwards of $500 program is going to piss a lot of people off, such as myself. I'm sure VMware could work their way around it, but right now it does Just Work(tm) and I am very greatful for it.
I may be going out on a limb here and may not understand completely how Vmware works, but from what I can see from installing it just last night [recently wiped and installed Gentoo over SUSE 9.1] it searches for a module and if it cannot find one that works, it compiles one?
Please correct me if I am wrong. Half of this comment is a statement and half is a question.:-)
I am with you on this one.
I live in Canada and am on Rogers Wireless. Personally I never cared for them as their coverage isn't the greatest in my area, but it still works for what I need. I switched because I could buy any random unlocked GSM phone on the net and use it with them. Whereas the only competitor to where I am is CDMA [actually, Rogers is now the only GSM carrier in Canada now that they bought Fido]. All of the CDMA carriers require you purchase your phone through them. I told them to shove it, went on the net and bought a Motorola A630 for $160 on TigerDirect.ca. I love this phone.:-)
I've been in the market for upgrading my system. Currently, I've been running an AMD XP 2500+ [Barton Core], 1GB generic DDR Memory, Seagate 120GB hard drive and a random AGP 8X video card I found laying around [literally].
This is great news for me. I knew that if I had waited long enough that something nice would come from AMD. I've been waiting for something I can keep turned on all day without draining my pocket too much. I will definitely purchase an X2 65mn processor. I'm not one for paying enormous amounts of cash for a "high end" machine. I just want something newer than what I have. I'll probably give this machine to my youngest brother for something to learn on. He has a system, but is a really old Celeron. Older than this machine.
Also, hopefully this will launch off some nice new Laptops and HTPC machines. I'm currently looking at a Westinghouse LVM-37w3 and a nice cool HTPC to drive it would be a dream.:-)
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I suggest you do the same.
Whoops. Sorry. Slipped up there. :-D
It's been a long day, and perhaps this Rum & Coke have something to do with it.
I, personally, prefer the inverse of this hack.
Go 6 second battery life!
Isn't the XBOX drive a re-branded Toshiba drive? If so, that would indeed make a whole lot of sense.
:-)
Just a thought I felt I should throw in.
I, personally, am waiting for the hackers to produce step by step instructions to install some flavour of GNU/Linux on it. Gentoo would be my personal choice, but really anything would be good. Since they have already made it possible to install Gentoo on 'full' Mac's, so I think it would be the best choice, since it is a lot easier to install. After one person installs it, then they could just push a disk image out on a torrent for everyone to enjoy.
;-)
Anyway, my reasoning for wanting to install Linux on it: Mostly it's small footprint. There is very limited amount of RAM in it.. and Linux, i think, would utilize the least. Thus leaving more RAM and processing power for running video's, etc.
Also, since it is so low powered, it would be great as a system to run all night to download torrents, etc. It has a decent sized drive, enough to download a DVD or two.
If you can do it with sugar, what about Caffeine?
;-)
I don't know about you, but I get a lot more out of Caffeine than sugar.
This is great info. Please mod the parent AC post up. :-)
I can't play any games [ASUS TNT Geforce 128MB video card (I think?)], but I can still run WinXP with Photoshop CS2 (that's all I use it for) in Vmware on top of my Gentoo install like a dream.
To anyone looking to upgrade, wait until AMD launches its next line of chips! I am waiting for that day... *dreamy eyes*
I hate to be a prude or anything, but I really actually quite like the current state of the F/OSS desktops. Personally, I prefer XFCE but that's mostly because I like things to be nice & easy, instead of bulky and annoying **cough**GNOME**cough**KDE**cough**. (as an aside, as of right now I am using about 180MB of system memory and no swap -- this is with Firefox, Thunderbird, aMSN, Audacious[w/~1200 songs], and a handful of daemons running)
When I was using KDE I don't think the memory usage was ever under 300MB... but that was KDE 3.2 I believe.
The program will hiccup and complain that X is not installed... but really it is. If there was an option to 'emulate' a package, I think that would be a terrific system. However, some distro's like to put things in different places, and you would have to explicitly compile a package to conform to where your distro likes to put things. EG: In Gentoo the portmap config is in
I think you missed something:
:-P
# emerge --sync --quiet
# emerge -u world
# etc-update
Now you relax.
96 bits should be enough for anybody!
Plan9?
Here are a few simple precautions for PHP configuration:
- Do not(!) install cURL. I know it is useful, but has a lot of security problems!
- Disable register globals [default as of 4.2.0]
- Safemode is worthless and a little too restricting, use OpenBaseDir.
- disable_functions = exec,system,passthru,shell_exec,proc_open,proc_cl
o se,proc_terminate,proc_nice,proc_get_status (may be more, off the top of my head :-)
These are what I can think of off the top of my head. This allows full compatability with all major scripts [mostly due to not using SafeMode] but still holds a fair bit of protection from people executing scripts and pushing them to run in the background. Had this happen to me a few years ago. I was hosting someone as a favour, and I'm not sure if they did it, or they were running some crappy code and it was exploited. Either way, their account was suspended.If only we (Canadians) actually lived in igloo's, eh? The part about the weather is true though. Just sometime last week it was -45 in my area. Today it's -10 or so... Shorts and T-shirt weather for Canadians. :-)
Judging from your post, I don't think you are Canadian. We use the metric system for large distances. But props on your post anyway! Was a good laugh when I needed it.
My girlfriends cellular device has an exterior OLED display.
It's an LG phone... not sure which one, though. I'm at work. All I know is it comes in red and black. It looks pretty sleek, though.
*begins mashing keyboard sporadically* I guess I am a programmer now.
Doesn't VMware Workstation install binary modules into the kernel? For a lot of people VMware Workstation is very necessary from day-to-day use. I know that VMPLayer and GSX server is now free, but Workstation has oh so much power and configurability. Also, locking people out from using an upwards of $500 program is going to piss a lot of people off, such as myself. I'm sure VMware could work their way around it, but right now it does Just Work(tm) and I am very greatful for it.
:-)
I may be going out on a limb here and may not understand completely how Vmware works, but from what I can see from installing it just last night [recently wiped and installed Gentoo over SUSE 9.1] it searches for a module and if it cannot find one that works, it compiles one?
Please correct me if I am wrong. Half of this comment is a statement and half is a question.
I am with you on this one. :-)
I live in Canada and am on Rogers Wireless. Personally I never cared for them as their coverage isn't the greatest in my area, but it still works for what I need. I switched because I could buy any random unlocked GSM phone on the net and use it with them. Whereas the only competitor to where I am is CDMA [actually, Rogers is now the only GSM carrier in Canada now that they bought Fido]. All of the CDMA carriers require you purchase your phone through them. I told them to shove it, went on the net and bought a Motorola A630 for $160 on TigerDirect.ca. I love this phone.
I've been in the market for upgrading my system. Currently, I've been running an AMD XP 2500+ [Barton Core], 1GB generic DDR Memory, Seagate 120GB hard drive and a random AGP 8X video card I found laying around [literally].
:-)
This is great news for me. I knew that if I had waited long enough that something nice would come from AMD. I've been waiting for something I can keep turned on all day without draining my pocket too much. I will definitely purchase an X2 65mn processor. I'm not one for paying enormous amounts of cash for a "high end" machine. I just want something newer than what I have. I'll probably give this machine to my youngest brother for something to learn on. He has a system, but is a really old Celeron. Older than this machine.
Also, hopefully this will launch off some nice new Laptops and HTPC machines. I'm currently looking at a Westinghouse LVM-37w3 and a nice cool HTPC to drive it would be a dream.