Unfortunately, there's a big difference between what a bank/real estate person/house buy will assess a house at and what the government assesses it at. For the first couple years I owned my home, the value the government placed on it was significantly lower than what I paid for it or what similar houses in the same neighborhood were going for; this did not bother me since basically the government was about a year behind what the market would bear. The flip side sucks; it's entirely possible for the housing market to crash and have the government take a couple years to lower the appraised value to match the market (and at that point, my taxes probably wouldn't change too much as I expect they'd have to raise the rates to compensate for the lost in tax revenue). From what I've heard, it's even worse in the case of whatever it's called when the government forcibly buys your land (in normal cases, to built highways etc.; in abnormal cases like in the Supreme Court Case, to then resell to a commercial developer).
Actually, there's a bootable floppy (running Linux) that will let you edit the registry. The dox for it recommend doing so (specifically, running cmd.exe as the logonscr(eensaver) and then bringing up the password gui tools) to reset the password on a box running Win 2000 with Active Directory. (the tool can just blank out the password for non AD-based systems, but AD is trickier)
Having done essentially that (actually, I think it was Transactions of ACM from the 70's more than the 60's, but in a nutshell, had to convert fortran code for doing singular value decomposition of complex matrices since the C code I could find to do it was only for purely real (i.e. no imaginary component) matrices and just blindly doing the equivalent of s/double/Complex/ didn't cut it, for reasons I don't begin to recall.), I'd point out that your best bet is to try a university library.
I was thinking the same thing, though in fairness, you can get a 1.4.x version of Linux PPC from IBM. Getting some of the neat aux. libraries is left as an exercise for the reader.
Actually for me, I get high speed internet with basic cable for something like 10 dollars less. (I.e. the price for basic cable + internet price for just internet)
Other than openmosix webpages, I see no mention of MOSIX going closed source. Could someone explain how that would work, given that MOSIX is right now a patch to the kernel? Are the maintainers planning on porting it to patch against a BSD kernel or go fully userland?
Maybe... check out http://linux-workshop.com/bybell/vnc/vncaudio.html . I haven't tried it; it's on my long list of things that peripherally relate to work but which probably can't be billed as such. Also, from what I've seen, tightvnc and remote desktop perform roughly equivalent over LAN; haven't tried remote desktop over modem, but vnc was usable if not great.
Wrong... in 1999, a group in Australia factored the RSA-140 challenge (140 decimal digits). This effort took roughly 3 months of calendar time using roughtly 300 computers (300MHz PC's and slower megahertz wise suns/sgi) for the seiving portion (parallizable) and then 1 cray (don't know specs) for the final step (which took less that 1 month). The RSA-155 challenge (512 bits) is estimated to only be 7.2 times harder CPU wise (versus the 1024 bit one, which is estimated at 40 million times harder). If I understand how this enhancement works, the algorithm is still not polynomial, but it should cut down the growth from 140 digits to 155 digits.
All right... someone else noticed that great ad campaign. Second on the list of my all time favorites to the line they used when they ported Internet Explorer to Solaris: Microsoft brings the Web to UNIX.
Heh... maybe it's because the Amiga page is the only one of the three (MAc, Linux, and Amiga) pages on your website. I know I for one only knew about your Shogo port, which frankly I couldn't care less about. Any pointers to reviews of the Worms port, as well as where I can buy it?
Pleah. I have a Omnibook 4150 at work. Many's the time I've been tempted to use my ancient Dell instead. (And many's the time I've just walked out of office and used a lab machine instead of waiting around for it to do something. In fairness, some of this can be plained on various Windows, but the hardware itself has enough stupidness to tick me off)
1) Are you sure your PC can read the old formats? I know nothing of kaypro, but based on personal experience and Apple II emulator FAQ's, PC's can't read Apple II floppies. (Apple tweaked the reading such that a 720k Dos 3.5 floppy held 800k of Apple formatted stuffage)
2) Do you have the OG computers? Again, based on the Apple II emulator FAQ's, it may be easier just to read the floppies on the original computer and send it out over the serial/parallel ports?
Of course... last time I checked, snes9x used the MIT Shared Memory Extension, which does allow it to greatly cut down the X overhead. Of course, it's still playable without it... I remember playing Final Fight Guy on cheesy b/w X terminals as the display and my "blazingly fast" pentium 133 as the server. No sound, no joystick, default sizing (no scaling to simulate full screen)... was playable if not perfect. This is, of course, one of X-Windows strengths in my opinion. There will always be some overhead, be it network, cpu, memory, or some other factor, to be backwardly compatible with existing X aps, but newer programs can, by picking and choosing the appropiate extensions, work fairly well in a lot of situations, as opposed to slightly better in one, and not at all in others. And while there are a lot of reasons why the local case predominates, there are some good reasons why the nonlocal case will still be necessary forever.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(with apologies to Princess Bride).
Actually, the last time I heard the words "Microsoft products" and "Turing-complete", it was in the context of how too many Microsoft features are essentially Turing-complete, specifically things like Word Macros.
I'd find it rather likely (and amusing to boot) that someone will extend WINE (or more specifically, the DirectX implementation) to support the X-box API, and then we may see X-box games on Linux before Windows. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this just entail handling the copyright protection API and finishing DirectX support?)
Alas, this probably won't get seen (not karma whoring, would just like replies...)
I think (and not being a mindreader yet, this is just my guess) the point was possibly allowing people readonly access to his CVS (Q#4), but not allowing any yahoo (tm?) to write to the kernel.
If Microsoft learns from their mistakes... why in the name of all that is holy is there still a clippy-like thing (an animated dog is the default, and maybe it's just me, but each time you tell it to stop with the animations, the dog sadly walks off into the distance) in Windows eXtraProcessing-power-required-for-our-
happy-fun-eyecandy? Didn't they do a big thing on how Clippy was dead? I really don't think replacing Clippy with a dog counts.
I think you meant:
He's basically our generation's version of J. Edgar Hoover, except he hasn't been accused of cross-dressing yet.
I could be wrong though... I for one think this can be a good thing... if we do catch bin Laden, we should let him rot in prison like Manuel Noriega (anyone remember him anymore), and I sure as heck would want to make sure he can't call for any more jihads through his lawyer. I also sure as heck would want to ensure there are strong rules to limit this, just as there are (despite what reading some articles on/. may make you think) strong rule to limit things like wiretaps and other related techniques that are mostly gray area as far as being constitutionally acceptable.
I dunno... I'm kinda partial to the one where Bruce Perens (the real one) talked about the wonders of apt-get and how he can update his system in one command. Or more specifically, when an anonymous coward then pointed out that he could have put that in his crontab, and wondered if Bruce really knew Linux. (Or something like that).
At first, I thought this was a joke. But, a quick search to google later, I'm now even more confused.
According to this article, Windows for Pens came out some time in 1992. To use the theories of the great Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, since I have no recollection of this whatsoever, it must have flopped pretty hard. Did anyone actually buy something that can run windows for pens? Can you run Linux on it?
I haven't been tracking them for a quite a while, but they seem to have a start towards what you're looking for. One big problem they were having (which may or may not still be true) was that some of the other protocols being used by netmeeting and other videoconferencing over networks were patented.
Besides, who really wants to see their boss/coworkers? Wouldn't it be better to get cracking on some manner of better looking avatars?
and of course:
Windows 2000, powered by NT technology, where NT was supposedly originally New Technology. (It's also MS shifted once, a la HAL is IBM shifted once. My cracking of Microsoft's clever ROT-1 encryption is probably violating the DMCA)
Unless I'm blind, he never spelled out what type of NIC card. While PCI 10/100 NIC cards are essentially even more of a commodity item than CD-ROM drives, why no Gig-E? I want to be able to copy the entire drive off to a NAS drive faster than I can compile my kernle, dag-nab-it!
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Unfortunately, there's a big difference between what a bank/real estate person/house buy will assess a house at and what the government assesses it at. For the first couple years I owned my home, the value the government placed on it was significantly lower than what I paid for it or what similar houses in the same neighborhood were going for; this did not bother me since basically the government was about a year behind what the market would bear. The flip side sucks; it's entirely possible for the housing market to crash and have the government take a couple years to lower the appraised value to match the market (and at that point, my taxes probably wouldn't change too much as I expect they'd have to raise the rates to compensate for the lost in tax revenue). From what I've heard, it's even worse in the case of whatever it's called when the government forcibly buys your land (in normal cases, to built highways etc.; in abnormal cases like in the Supreme Court Case, to then resell to a commercial developer).
Actually, there's a bootable floppy (running Linux) that will let you edit the registry. The dox for it recommend doing so (specifically, running cmd.exe as the logonscr(eensaver) and then bringing up the password gui tools) to reset the password on a box running Win 2000 with Active Directory. (the tool can just blank out the password for non AD-based systems, but AD is trickier)
Having done essentially that (actually, I think it was Transactions of ACM from the 70's more than the 60's, but in a nutshell, had to convert fortran code for doing singular value decomposition of complex matrices since the C code I could find to do it was only for purely real (i.e. no imaginary component) matrices and just blindly doing the equivalent of s/double/Complex/ didn't cut it, for reasons I don't begin to recall.), I'd point out that your best bet is to try a university library.
I was thinking the same thing, though in fairness, you can get a 1.4.x version of Linux PPC from IBM. Getting some of the neat aux. libraries is left as an exercise for the reader.
Please explain how good hygeine will keep you from getting whacked in the face, which was the cause for all of the root canals of people I know?
Actually for me, I get high speed internet with basic cable for something like 10 dollars less. (I.e. the price for basic cable + internet price for just internet)
Other than openmosix webpages, I see no mention of MOSIX going closed source. Could someone explain how that would work, given that MOSIX is right now a patch to the kernel? Are the maintainers planning on porting it to patch against a BSD kernel or go fully userland?
Maybe... check out http://linux-workshop.com/bybell/vnc/vncaudio.html . I haven't tried it; it's on my long list of things that peripherally relate to work but which probably can't be billed as such. Also, from what I've seen, tightvnc and remote desktop perform roughly equivalent over LAN; haven't tried remote desktop over modem, but vnc was usable if not great.
Wrong... in 1999, a group in Australia factored the RSA-140 challenge (140 decimal digits). This effort took roughly 3 months of calendar time using roughtly 300 computers (300MHz PC's and slower megahertz wise suns/sgi) for the seiving portion (parallizable) and then 1 cray (don't know specs) for the final step (which took less that 1 month). The RSA-155 challenge (512 bits) is estimated to only be 7.2 times harder CPU wise (versus the 1024 bit one, which is estimated at 40 million times harder). If I understand how this enhancement works, the algorithm is still not polynomial, but it should cut down the growth from 140 digits to 155 digits.
All right... someone else noticed that great ad campaign. Second on the list of my all time favorites to the line they used when they ported Internet Explorer to Solaris: Microsoft brings the Web to UNIX.
Heh... maybe it's because the Amiga page is the only one of the three (MAc, Linux, and Amiga) pages on your website. I know I for one only knew about your Shogo port, which frankly I couldn't care less about. Any pointers to reviews of the Worms port, as well as where I can buy it?
Pleah. I have a Omnibook 4150 at work. Many's the time I've been tempted to use my ancient Dell instead. (And many's the time I've just walked out of office and used a lab machine instead of waiting around for it to do something. In fairness, some of this can be plained on various Windows, but the hardware itself has enough stupidness to tick me off)
1) Are you sure your PC can read the old formats? I know nothing of kaypro, but based on personal experience and Apple II emulator FAQ's, PC's can't read Apple II floppies. (Apple tweaked the reading such that a 720k Dos 3.5 floppy held 800k of Apple formatted stuffage)
2) Do you have the OG computers? Again, based on the Apple II emulator FAQ's, it may be easier just to read the floppies on the original computer and send it out over the serial/parallel ports?
Of course... last time I checked, snes9x used the MIT Shared Memory Extension, which does allow it to greatly cut down the X overhead. Of course, it's still playable without it... I remember playing Final Fight Guy on cheesy b/w X terminals as the display and my "blazingly fast" pentium 133 as the server. No sound, no joystick, default sizing (no scaling to simulate full screen)... was playable if not perfect. This is, of course, one of X-Windows strengths in my opinion. There will always be some overhead, be it network, cpu, memory, or some other factor, to be backwardly compatible with existing X aps, but newer programs can, by picking and choosing the appropiate extensions, work fairly well in a lot of situations, as opposed to slightly better in one, and not at all in others. And while there are a lot of reasons why the local case predominates, there are some good reasons why the nonlocal case will still be necessary forever.
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Have fun...
Turing-complete!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(with apologies to Princess Bride).
Actually, the last time I heard the words "Microsoft products" and "Turing-complete", it was in the context of how too many Microsoft features are essentially Turing-complete, specifically things like Word Macros.
I'd find it rather likely (and amusing to boot) that someone will extend WINE (or more specifically, the DirectX implementation) to support the X-box API, and then we may see X-box games on Linux before Windows. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this just entail handling the copyright protection API and finishing DirectX support?)
Alas, this probably won't get seen (not karma whoring, would just like replies...)
I think (and not being a mindreader yet, this is just my guess) the point was possibly allowing people readonly access to his CVS (Q#4), but not allowing any yahoo (tm?) to write to the kernel.
If Microsoft learns from their mistakes... why in the name of all that is holy is there still a clippy-like thing (an animated dog is the default, and maybe it's just me, but each time you tell it to stop with the animations, the dog sadly walks off into the distance) in Windows eXtraProcessing-power-required-for-our-
happy-fun-eyecandy? Didn't they do a big thing on how Clippy was dead? I really don't think replacing Clippy with a dog counts.
I think you meant:
/. may make you think) strong rule to limit things like wiretaps and other related techniques that are mostly gray area as far as being constitutionally acceptable.
He's basically our generation's version of J. Edgar Hoover, except he hasn't been accused of cross-dressing yet.
I could be wrong though... I for one think this can be a good thing... if we do catch bin Laden, we should let him rot in prison like Manuel Noriega (anyone remember him anymore), and I sure as heck would want to make sure he can't call for any more jihads through his lawyer. I also sure as heck would want to ensure there are strong rules to limit this, just as there are (despite what reading some articles on
I dunno... I'm kinda partial to the one where Bruce Perens (the real one) talked about the wonders of apt-get and how he can update his system in one command. Or more specifically, when an anonymous coward then pointed out that he could have put that in his crontab, and wondered if Bruce really knew Linux. (Or something like that).
At first, I thought this was a joke. But, a quick search to google later, I'm now even more confused. According to this article, Windows for Pens came out some time in 1992. To use the theories of the great Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, since I have no recollection of this whatsoever, it must have flopped pretty hard. Did anyone actually buy something that can run windows for pens? Can you run Linux on it?
I haven't been tracking them for a quite a while, but they seem to have a start towards what you're looking for. One big problem they were having (which may or may not still be true) was that some of the other protocols being used by netmeeting and other videoconferencing over networks were patented.
Besides, who really wants to see their boss/coworkers? Wouldn't it be better to get cracking on some manner of better looking avatars?
Pleah... and I get all worked out about
ATM machines = Automated Teller Machines machines
IC Circuits = Integrated Circuits Circuits
and of course:
Windows 2000, powered by NT technology, where NT was supposedly originally New Technology. (It's also MS shifted once, a la HAL is IBM shifted once. My cracking of Microsoft's clever ROT-1 encryption is probably violating the DMCA)
Unless I'm blind, he never spelled out what type of NIC card. While PCI 10/100 NIC cards are essentially even more of a commodity item than CD-ROM drives, why no Gig-E? I want to be able to copy the entire drive off to a NAS drive faster than I can compile my kernle, dag-nab-it!