If you use the arcade monitor, burn-in notwithstanding, you're not going to be able to play your entire library of ROMs. You want to use the SVGA monitor so that you can accomodate a wide range of resolutions.
For Linux to succeed on the desktop, the people who need to like it don't care about open source or packages or GNU. All they want to know is that it works and that it's easy to use.
okay, i have a problem with this. people need to know about GNU. people need to care about open source. people need to know about packages, if only to know how their system works.
i really don't seem linux being appropriate for newbies and people who don't care, at least not any time soon. GNU/linux is for people who care about why their software is made, how it works, and what it stands for. i don't see any need to be defensive about that. people who don't care can use MacOS or Windows, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
People may not click on banner ads, but they still perceive them, and they still get the advertiser's mesage. Viewers don't "click through" on television ads, subway posters, or billboards, and those haven't been deemed as worthless. Just a thought.
Word has it that the CWA and another union are organizing Amazon.com employees, which I think is a step in the right direction. Amazon, for it's part, is doing everything it can to discourage workers from organinzing on their own behalf, according to rumor.
When I worked at Dell, I thought about unions all the time. Unfortunately, in Texas an employer can fire an employee pretty for any reason.
What a troll. I used to work in a tech support call center, and I was good at my job, blah blah blah. It's still a shit job, and it is still stressful and dehumanizing. Just because you mastered the system, it doesn't change the fact that it's a shit job. Nothing to be proud of.
Your boast of 40-50 calls a day leads me to believe that you were able to keep your call times down because you saw the same problems over and over, and thus could answer them quickly and efficiently. Again, nothing to be proud of. Sounds pretty boring to me, in fact. Real problems sometimes take a few more minutes to solve, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Slashdot is an opinion and news site, and it's ridiculous to think that the editors don't have biases and political views. Better to have their views out in the open, and know where they're coming from.
If anything, I wish CmdrTaco would write at more length about his political views. It's refreshing, to say the least, to find a geek site that isn't slanted towards the right.
Blame whoever you want, but here's a scary fact: Since the death penalty was reinstated in the early 1980's, over 200 executions have been performed in Texas. Over half of those have been during Bush's 6-year tenure as governor.
It's a famous article in which Albini basically outlines just how major recording companies fuck bands out of all their money. If you've read the recent Courtney Love speech on the same issues, this is where she got her ideas.
"Why do AMD and Intel continue to pretend that CPUs are upgradeble ? It's been years since I have seen someone upgrade a computer by changing the CPU alone.
slot 1 motherboards with the BX chipset have had long lives. you can run any pentium 2's, most pentium 3's, and all celerons. that's not bad at all.
in my case, i have a socket 370 BX chipset motherboard, and with the help of a Neo S370 adapter, it's on its second CPU. adapters are inelegant, but hey, it works.
i think that it may be a while before the PC world sees a chipset as versatile, powerful, and stable as the BX again, so ultimately i think you're right.
"Am I the only person who thinks the 72 pin SIMM was the pinnacle of module design ?"
ugh, you've got to be kidding! DIMMs are much easier to install. and even easier to take out. you certainly can't say that about SIMMs.
"Can you expand on this a little. I'm having some trouble with a new (to me) S3 Virge that occasionally locks up (and ALWAYS locks up when I use xscreensaver/xlockmore)."
are you overclocking your CPU by increasing the FSB?
the PCI bus is supposed to run at 33mhz and the AGP bus at 66mhz. for reasons unbeknownst to me, if you increase your FSB from 100 to something higher (or 66 to something higher, 133 to something higher, etc.), you end up overclocking the AGP and PCI buses, too, because they always run at some set fraction of the FSB, like 2/3 or 1/3. this is obviously risky because you're now running practically all of your components out of spec, not just the CPU.
as an aside, this is why it's so nice that Celerons use a 66mhz FSB. overclockers can increase the FSB to 100mhz, which is a nice safe speed.
this is probably not the best explanation--i suggest checking the message boards at a hardware enthusiast site like hardocp, arstechnica, anandtech, etc...
I think you misunderstood the article. FTP and telnet are inherently insecure because they send passwords over the network as cleartext. This is a Bad Thing, because it then becomes a trivial matter to grab someone else's login. Alternative exist, such as SSH, that encrypt passwords.
I used to work at Dell; in fact, I was in the Linux support queue--anything I say though is my own opinion, and besides I don't work for them anymore.
I've never heard about the amount of RAM being restricted--that sounds like a dubious claim to me (unless it's a limitation of whatever crappy new Intel chipsets Dell is using now). As far as other options being config locked, it's mainly a support issue, but also a matter of resources, and also a matter of compatibility. Support--the more configs you support, the more hassle it is for the people on the telephone queue, and the people that train them. Resources--Dell's product group has a limited amount of time & resources to commit to validating particular hardware configs; why offer as many varied configs for Linux users when Linux boxes aren't going to come close to selling as well as Windows boxes? Compatibility--not much point of installing a DVD-ROM drive on a Linux box, is there?
As an aside, this press release struck me as odd. Dell has been preinstalling Red Hat Linux for quite some time. Also, Dell doesn't support Linux the way they support Windows. OS-specific (i.e., not hardware related) questions were handled by Linuxcare. Now it looks like Red Hat is handling support.
Ask the Pinkertons about their company's past. The Pinkerton Detectives, as they were known, were frequently hired by corporate bosses during the turn of the century to intimidate, harrass, beat, and kill union organizers. If I can find some information online, I'll post it here, because it's a shameful history. -jacob
2. ORBS perform SMTP relay checks on mail-servers which users nominate after suspect behaviour. 3. ORBS only block proven Open Relay servers, and server which ORBS can't check.
My SMTP server is not an open relay and has never exhibited suspect behavior, but it is blocked because Roadrunner did not approve of uninvited probes, and blocked ORBS. It is flatly wrong for ORBS to block servers that it cannot probe. When ORBS does this, they are listing servers as open relays without any proof whatsoever.
I couldn't agree more. I have a system running qmail which I'm pretty sure is not an open relay, but I can't post to mailing lists that use ORBS because ORBS blocks every single address associated with my ISP, Roadrunner. Why? Because Roadrunner objected to being scanned. Perhaps a little pigheaded on their part, but it's Roadrunner's perogative. It was even more pigheaded of ORBS to retaliate by listing every single *.rr.com host as an open relay.
I simply don't see how ORBS helps the internet community. They block hosts indiscriminately, sometimes vindictively.
Here's Roadrunner's commentary on the whole mess, taken from one of their newsgroups:
; "Jr." wrote in message news:MPG.12ffb6474d5873d1989688@newsr2.texas.rr. com...
HISTORY:
Road Runner customers and Affiliates initially contacted us with a security issue. They were concerned with their privacy and security when an unknown entity (to them) began scanning them without permission. We initially tried to address this case by case and later contacted the ORBS administrators and requested this unwelcome scanning terminated. This is analogous to someone requesting they be removed from a list that they did not subscribe to. With this request, all Road Runner IP space was unexpectedly added to the ORBS list with a public statement on the ORBS WWW site, as well as the bounce message which our subscriber has received. As scanning continued against our repeated requests, the individual ORBS scanning hosts were filtered out of our network.
Although we strongly believe in stopping SPAM on the Internet, as well as respect the initial work and charter ORBS has been under in the past, we have serious concerns at the current methods and actions that are taking place:
e.g. - Scanning of private networks without permission from targets - No REMOVE capability from the ORBS scanner - When someone tries to stop or block the ORBS scans, they are blocked by ORBS. - No warning, as well as false public statements about the individuals scanned or their provider. THAT IS: If you have a relay (known, or unknown to you) you are called a SPAM supporter publicly without any warning to correct it before ORBS adds you. - Misinformation on ORBS' own web site (http://www.orbs.org/whatisthis.html) "What is ORBS? The short answer: ORBS is a validated database of open mail relays and open mail relay output points, accessable via DNS lookup." - The addition of Road Runner hosts to a "secret" database. Road Runner hosts are not listed via their normal web lookup at http://www.orbs.org/verify_1.html
Road Runner believes strongly in the fight against SPAM. We have address it with strong policies, enforcement and our own relay detection methods. We will continue this effort, work together with other providers and the Internet community (including ORBS) to make a difference. However, we reserve the right to assess the methods used, by whom and determine the best way to accomplish the desired results for our business.
Let me get this straight---you have a page with only ONE graphic, so the rest of it is just text, and you had to "compress" it because otherwise it loaded too slowly??
It sounds like your pages were just too LONG. Chunk them into smaller pieces. It's absurd to require someone to use Javascript just to display text.
It's generally a good idea to strive to make your content as accessible to as many people/platforms/browsers as possible. People using the latest browsers w/ the latest features can get all the bells and whistles, but you shouldn't lock out everyone else.
"Over 300 Million Indigenous Peoples were brutally tortured and murdered by an invasion of foreign forces in an act to Exterminate an Indigenous Peoples so as to Steal their Land and Resources. Those who were not exterminated were Forcefully Removed from their lands (either at gunpoint or the point of a bayonet or by Forged Treaties) and driven off to Federal PRISON Camps called RESERVATIONS. "
that's a pretty accurate, if strongly worded, claim. but then again, one can't be too subtle when discussing genocide.
regarding the main topic at hand, there is ample precedent showing that the first amendment does not protect all forms of speech. hate speech is not protected as free speech because combating racism is considered at this time in this society (i'm writing from the u.s.) to be a greater priority than absolute free speech.
i happen to agree that hate speech should not be protected. i don't think free speech is the only right worth fighting for. having said all that, i don't think fighting hate speech through legislative means is really going to work on the internet. it is a different culture(s) here, with a different set of customs and mores. we'll see.
Calling the classical toy a "steam engine" is comparable to calling your walkman -- no, your cd-player -- a Cray supercomputer because both contain silicon-based circuitry.
how about calling your Powermac G4 a supercomputer? sorry, couldn't resist...
For some "alternative" accounts of the happenings in Seattle, check out http://www.indymedia.org Apologies if someone has already posted this... I think somebody already mentioned http://www.zmag.org but I'll reiterate that it is a great source of left political commentary.. It's a shame to see the mainstream press paint the protest as violent because of the actions of a very small group of people. Funny too that the police's teargassing, clubbing, and usage of rubber bullets isn't labelled as violent.
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If you use the arcade monitor, burn-in notwithstanding, you're not going to be able to play your entire library of ROMs. You want to use the SVGA monitor so that you can accomodate a wide range of resolutions.
okay, i have a problem with this. people need to know about GNU. people need to care about open source. people need to know about packages, if only to know how their system works.
i really don't seem linux being appropriate for newbies and people who don't care, at least not any time soon. GNU/linux is for people who care about why their software is made, how it works, and what it stands for. i don't see any need to be defensive about that. people who don't care can use MacOS or Windows, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
People may not click on banner ads, but they still perceive them, and they still get the advertiser's mesage. Viewers don't "click through" on television ads, subway posters, or billboards, and those haven't been deemed as worthless. Just a thought.
Word has it that the CWA and another union are organizing Amazon.com employees, which I think is a step in the right direction. Amazon, for it's part, is doing everything it can to discourage workers from organinzing on their own behalf, according to rumor.
When I worked at Dell, I thought about unions all the time. Unfortunately, in Texas an employer can fire an employee pretty for any reason.
What a troll. I used to work in a tech support call center, and I was good at my job, blah blah blah. It's still a shit job, and it is still stressful and dehumanizing. Just because you mastered the system, it doesn't change the fact that it's a shit job. Nothing to be proud of.
Your boast of 40-50 calls a day leads me to believe that you were able to keep your call times down because you saw the same problems over and over, and thus could answer them quickly and efficiently. Again, nothing to be proud of. Sounds pretty boring to me, in fact. Real problems sometimes take a few more minutes to solve, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Slashdot is an opinion and news site, and it's ridiculous to think that the editors don't have biases and political views. Better to have their views out in the open, and know where they're coming from.
If anything, I wish CmdrTaco would write at more length about his political views. It's refreshing, to say the least, to find a geek site that isn't slanted towards the right.
Blame whoever you want, but here's a scary fact: Since the death penalty was reinstated in the early 1980's, over 200 executions have been performed in Texas. Over half of those have been during Bush's 6-year tenure as governor.
Slashdot posters seem to automatically discount everything Jon Katz writes these days, so I wanted to post a link on his behalf:
The problem with music, by Steve Albini.
It's a famous article in which Albini basically outlines just how major recording companies fuck bands out of all their money. If you've read the recent Courtney Love speech on the same issues, this is where she got her ideas.
-jacob
You think this is bad, think about how much free stuff pharmaceutical companies give to doctors...
i agree that it does suck, though, especially with the high cost of Athlon motherboards.
slot 1 motherboards with the BX chipset have had long lives. you can run any pentium 2's, most pentium 3's, and all celerons. that's not bad at all.
in my case, i have a socket 370 BX chipset motherboard, and with the help of a Neo S370 adapter, it's on its second CPU. adapters are inelegant, but hey, it works.
i think that it may be a while before the PC world sees a chipset as versatile, powerful, and stable as the BX again, so ultimately i think you're right.
"Am I the only person who thinks the 72 pin SIMM was the pinnacle of module design ?"
ugh, you've got to be kidding! DIMMs are much easier to install. and even easier to take out. you certainly can't say that about SIMMs.
"Can you expand on this a little. I'm having some trouble with a new (to me) S3 Virge that occasionally locks up (and ALWAYS locks up when I use xscreensaver/xlockmore)."
are you overclocking your CPU by increasing the FSB?
the PCI bus is supposed to run at 33mhz and the AGP bus at 66mhz. for reasons unbeknownst to me, if you increase your FSB from 100 to something higher (or 66 to something higher, 133 to something higher, etc.), you end up overclocking the AGP and PCI buses, too, because they always run at some set fraction of the FSB, like 2/3 or 1/3. this is obviously risky because you're now running practically all of your components out of spec, not just the CPU.
as an aside, this is why it's so nice that Celerons use a 66mhz FSB. overclockers can increase the FSB to 100mhz, which is a nice safe speed.
this is probably not the best explanation--i suggest checking the message boards at a hardware enthusiast site like hardocp, arstechnica, anandtech, etc...
I think you misunderstood the article. FTP and telnet are inherently insecure because they send passwords over the network as cleartext. This is a Bad Thing, because it then becomes a trivial matter to grab someone else's login. Alternative exist, such as SSH, that encrypt passwords.
-jacobI used to work at Dell; in fact, I was in the Linux support queue--anything I say though is my own opinion, and besides I don't work for them anymore.
I've never heard about the amount of RAM being restricted--that sounds like a dubious claim to me (unless it's a limitation of whatever crappy new Intel chipsets Dell is using now). As far as other options being config locked, it's mainly a support issue, but also a matter of resources, and also a matter of compatibility.
Support--the more configs you support, the more hassle it is for the people on the telephone queue, and the people that train them.
Resources--Dell's product group has a limited amount of time & resources to commit to validating particular hardware configs; why offer as many varied configs for Linux users when Linux boxes aren't going to come close to selling as well as Windows boxes?
Compatibility--not much point of installing a DVD-ROM drive on a Linux box, is there?
As an aside, this press release struck me as odd. Dell has been preinstalling Red Hat Linux for quite some time. Also, Dell doesn't support Linux the way they support Windows. OS-specific (i.e., not hardware related) questions were handled by Linuxcare. Now it looks like Red Hat is handling support.
Ask the Pinkertons about their company's past. The Pinkerton Detectives, as they were known, were frequently hired by corporate bosses during the turn of the century to intimidate, harrass, beat, and kill union organizers. If I can find some information online, I'll post it here, because it's a shameful history. -jacob
My SMTP server is not an open relay and has never exhibited suspect behavior, but it is blocked because Roadrunner did not approve of uninvited probes, and blocked ORBS. It is flatly wrong for ORBS to block servers that it cannot probe. When ORBS does this, they are listing servers as open relays without any proof whatsoever.
I couldn't agree more. I have a system running qmail which I'm pretty sure is not an open relay, but I can't post to mailing lists that use ORBS because ORBS blocks every single address associated with my ISP, Roadrunner. Why? Because Roadrunner objected to being scanned. Perhaps a little pigheaded on their part, but it's Roadrunner's perogative. It was even more pigheaded of ORBS to retaliate by listing every single *.rr.com host as an open relay.
. com...
I simply don't see how ORBS helps the internet community. They block hosts indiscriminately, sometimes vindictively.
Here's Roadrunner's commentary on the whole mess, taken from one of their newsgroups:
; "Jr." wrote in message
news:MPG.12ffb6474d5873d1989688@newsr2.texas.rr
HISTORY:
Road Runner customers and Affiliates initially contacted us with a
security issue. They were concerned with their privacy and security when
an unknown entity (to them) began scanning them without permission. We
initially tried to address this case by case and later contacted the ORBS
administrators and requested this unwelcome scanning terminated. This is
analogous to someone requesting they be removed from a list that they did
not subscribe to. With this request, all Road Runner IP space was
unexpectedly added to the ORBS list with a public statement on the ORBS
WWW site, as well as the bounce message which our subscriber has
received. As scanning continued against our repeated requests, the
individual ORBS scanning hosts were filtered out of our network.
Although we strongly believe in stopping SPAM on the Internet, as well as
respect the initial work and charter ORBS has been under in the past, we
have serious concerns at the current methods and actions that are taking
place:
e.g.
- Scanning of private networks without permission from targets
- No REMOVE capability from the ORBS scanner
- When someone tries to stop or block the ORBS scans, they are blocked by
ORBS.
- No warning, as well as false public statements about the individuals
scanned or their provider. THAT IS: If you have a relay (known, or
unknown to you) you are called a SPAM supporter publicly without any
warning to correct it before ORBS adds you.
- Misinformation on ORBS' own web site
(http://www.orbs.org/whatisthis.html) "What is ORBS? The short answer:
ORBS is a validated database of open mail relays and open mail relay
output points, accessable via DNS lookup."
- The addition of Road Runner hosts to a "secret" database. Road Runner
hosts are not listed via their normal web lookup at
http://www.orbs.org/verify_1.html
Road Runner believes strongly in the fight against SPAM. We have address
it with strong policies, enforcement and our own relay detection methods.
We will continue this effort, work together with other providers and the
Internet community (including ORBS) to make a difference. However, we
reserve the right to assess the methods used, by whom and determine the
best way to accomplish the desired results for our business.
It sounds like your pages were just too LONG. Chunk them into smaller pieces. It's absurd to require someone to use Javascript just to display text.
It's generally a good idea to strive to make your content as accessible to as many people/platforms/browsers as possible. People using the latest browsers w/ the latest features can get all the bells and whistles, but you shouldn't lock out everyone else.
Just my $0.02...
i,too, am immortal, and i owe it all to alex chiu.
"Over 300 Million Indigenous Peoples were brutally tortured and murdered by an invasion of foreign forces in an act to Exterminate an Indigenous Peoples so as to Steal their Land and Resources. Those who were not exterminated were Forcefully Removed from their lands (either at gunpoint or the point of a bayonet or by Forged Treaties) and driven off to Federal PRISON Camps called RESERVATIONS. "
that's a pretty accurate, if strongly worded, claim. but then again, one can't be too subtle when discussing genocide.
regarding the main topic at hand, there is ample precedent showing that the first amendment does not protect all forms of speech. hate speech is not protected as free speech because combating racism is considered at this time in this society (i'm writing from the u.s.) to be a greater priority than absolute free speech.
i happen to agree that hate speech should not be protected. i don't think free speech is the only right worth fighting for. having said all that, i don't think fighting hate speech through legislative means is really going to work on the internet. it is a different culture(s) here, with a different set of customs and mores. we'll see.
jacobhow about calling your Powermac G4 a supercomputer? sorry, couldn't resist...
For some "alternative" accounts of the happenings in Seattle, check out http://www.indymedia.org Apologies if someone has already posted this... I think somebody already mentioned http://www.zmag.org but I'll reiterate that it is a great source of left political commentary.. It's a shame to see the mainstream press paint the protest as violent because of the actions of a very small group of people. Funny too that the police's teargassing, clubbing, and usage of rubber bullets isn't labelled as violent.