not enough to miss it now that I went back to 2000.
At my office the usual response from our 'Wintel' group is, "We'll deploy it once they release Service Pack 2."
I also found out that, althgough there are XP 'drivers' available for many wireless cards, because of the wireless integration in XP, they don't work so good. It seems that companies have just updated their drivers, but with all the built-in configuration abilities of XP, they'll need to write _new_ drivers, not just update old ones.
But I guess XP is the windows future. Now, if Microsoft would just release a Remote Desktop Client with 128-bit encryption for linux, I'll be all set! Yeah, and we'll all be living on Mars by then!
Thank you for your message about the monolith sculpture in Magnuson Park.
I wanted to let you know that the monolith has disappeared from the park as mysteriously as it
appeared. When Parks workers went out to the site early this morning, they discovered that the
monolith was gone, and in its place was a broken red rose. So the mystery deepens!
As you may know, we were considering what to do with the sculpture, and hadn't made a final
decision on whether to keep it or remove it.
Thanks again for letting me know your views.
David Takami
Superintendent's Office
Seattle Parks and Recreation
100 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle 98109
(206) 684-8020; fax: (206) 233-7023
Debian can do this, as others have said, and I have actually DONE this with Debian (slink to potato) over ssh. You must remember to have _at least_ two ssh sessions open as root, I kept three just in case. The sshd upgrade was what scared me, but it handed off just fine. Of course, I had other problems...
I guess you could also create a Kickstart disk for Redhat and have it automatically install the newer Redhat.
I also have to ask: Why do you want to upgrade your headless box? It works, right?
It matters that Alec Guniess is dead. Sir Guniess was among the most prolific and talented (quantity AND quality) actors of the twentieth century. Not to mention that he was Obi Wan, something that/.ers seem to find very important.
I have a different idea - I want to build a wooden computer case - something out of a nice darkwood that I could stain.
Would it be sufficient to line the inside of the case with properly grounded aluminium foil? Is RF sielding pretty much the same things as the 'ground' shielding I see people doing to their electric guitars?
I have the same question. I would like to be able to run one of my monitors on it's side, but I could not locate any information.
What I did locate, was the information that MAME does this. It is a video machine emulator (actually it emulates several video machines). Because some video games used their monitors sideways, MAME does this as well. But I don't know how.
Well, for my money (luckily none is required), I would go with Debian. It isn't the most 'up-to-date' distribution of Linux, but I have found it to be among the most stable (probably _because_ it isn't as up-to-date).
It sounds like parker9 is running a 'no frills' setup - probably the best thing in his/her position. NFS has been around for ages, and Debian will handle it well.
The other solution mentioned is the one I would go with: RAID. The redundancy is the key here - speed really shouldn't be an issue - any hard drive is going to be faster than the data stream, unless parker9 is using some networking hardware he/she didn't mention.
Well, BeOS is fast, that's for sure. You might also want to look at the Linux BIOS page - it promises VERY fast linux loading... when the work is done.
If all you want is a GUI of some type, DOS + Win 3.1 will load very fast, if you arrange it nicely. There's a DOS version of the GNU compiler environment here, so you can do C/C++ development under DOS, but I don't know about a GUI IDE. I recall there are several text IDEs.
DOS won't take up too much space, either, so you might be able to keep Win98 on there for other boot times.
I know this is somewhat off topic, but then, most of the posts here are.
I am interested in using a portable MD for field recording, but I have never seen one with digital audio out (only digital audio in). Why is this? It does me no good if I need to re-sample in order to get my audio onto hard disk. Is there a reason for this lacking that I don't understand?
I love the transparent/translucent dialog and menus - this is a feature that I would really like in a window-manager/theme (i.e.: it doesn't just look cool, it is useful). It would be helpful to be able to see behind a contect menu or dialog - even behind some program toolbars and such.
My question is this: can this be done in X? Would enlightenment be able to do this through a theme? I would think, to get menu and specific programs to display transparently, you would need to use something like a GTK theme, yes? So maybe the Gnome themes this could be done?
I don't know very much about X and Gnome, but I would be interested if this can be done in X. If anyone has and ideas, please let me know.
Yes, used Hewlet-Packard Laser printers are the answer for people who want to print text. They may not be fast, but you can always buy supplies, and they are rock solid.
They can be had on the internt for a fraction of the cast of a new, cheap laser (alright, a large fraction). Yes, they are slow, but with these new GDI printers, either you cannot print, you cannot print fast, or you cannot process while you print.
Even though many are ten years old or more, finding a good, technician checked one should only set you back about $100 for a p series, $150 for the full deal (Series II and III). Memory expansion is nice, and can also be gotten fairly cheap. Check large business surplus houses.
Also, look around at Goodwills and such, I found a HP LJ IIp with no toner cartridge for $.99, yes, less than a dollar.
And with an HP, you print to it from ANY OS. Now I can triple boot Win/Linux/BeOS and it prints the same... . The series II and III are great - the full printers are HUGE, but the p versions are nice. They are small, and if you search around, you can get a PostScript Cartridge for them Note: Only use the HP PostScript cartridge (other brands relied on software...).
This may be a very uninformed question, but what about LCDs? Instead of projection, is it at all possible to simply replace theater screens with giant LCDs?
Now, don't laugh - I'm sure that fifteen years ago the idea of a 17" full color LCD screen was laughable as well.
It seems as though you should be able to make one that is a very high resolution (3000x2000 or whatever) and you would save space dramatically (no projection, just a large box next to the screen).
We'd be seeing thirty and forty plexes. Wait a minute, maybe this isn't such a good idea... .
I have owned several older cars, but it all grew out of a Volkswagen addiction I have overcome.
I drove a 1958 VW Bus (Type II) for a long time).
I loved that I could get into my bus, with my standard-sized toolbox, a five-foot breaker bar, and drive anywhere I wanted and fix anything that went wrong with it. And I could sleep there too!
Now I drive a Honda Accord. It starts everyday, under every condition. And I don't need that toolbox.
Wow. What a great response. I think that my idea for this system is do-able. I appreciate the links to other systems, and I would definitely look at something like the Netwinder if I was into buying something new. I have two 386s and four 486s in various states of disassembly. I want to use them all. I also have a Pentium system to play with.
After reading responses and webpages (and thinking), I have come to these conclusions:
1) CD-ROM, why did I not think of this earlier? You can boot off it on most pentium motherboards and on almost anything if it is SCSI. Then, it'll power itself down, so if you load a ramdisk as root, you can pull as much info off the CD as you have RAM, and then forget about the CD until you have to re-boot.
2) I was thinking about solid state. That would be the best of all worlds. Does anyone know about the existence of products (or the feasability of building such) to use large amounts of 30-pin SIMMs? I have MEGABYTES upon MEGABYTES of 30-pin SIMMs. If I could stuff more than eight onto a 486 motherboard, it might even serve a web-page or two (over a modem maybe). I would be worried about reliability.
3) After looking to single and dual-disk linux distributions (there are about a dozen that I found), I have come to the conclusion that there is a HOWTO missing: "HOWTO Roll your own distribution." Maybe not a full-blown distro., but some information about creating a linux system from scratch, and adding things on a 'need-to-add' basis. The point would be to learn to create these single-disk, RAM-disk, CD-bootable, etc. mini-systems. With the surgence (is that a word?) of DSL, cable, and other broadband technologies in the home, there are many people out there who are running Win95 on a DSL with file and print sharing turned on. The ones I know end up pulling their plug (ethernet) when not online because there are no easy solutions. It seems to me that if people could learn how to create simple, small linux systems, it would be easier for everyone to put that old 486 in the front lines as 12-year-old hacker fodder. The mind wanders into web-based configuration and mainstream uses.
4) The most difficult part - the power supply. This has given me the most to think about, and has presented the greatest difficulty to me, as I know next to nothing about electronics. I guess the only thing I can think of is: Do wires carrying electrical power (DC) suffer from length? Let me explain. If I wanted to do some recording - digital audio - and I wanted a silent room, I would not want to put my entire system out of the room, and run keyboard/mouse/video cables for 25 feet. How about running the powersupply outside of the room and running 25foot ground/DC wires? And SCSI can go for several feet, so you could get the drives a little farther away. Actually, I have not thought about trying to record directly to CD-R. Probably not so easy.
Again, thank you all for the responses. I guess I have my work cut out for me here. I would love to begin writing a HOWTO on creating your own system/distro., but I do not have the expertise right now. Maybe I will when I have finished this quest.
Off I go, like an ass in the desert to do my work (putting a resistor into my power supply and trying to create a CD-boot simple router system with, maybe a web-server on it - it'll be quieter than my hard drive, and it might work with 80MB of RAM).
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At my office the usual response from our 'Wintel' group is, "We'll deploy it once they release Service Pack 2."
I also found out that, althgough there are XP 'drivers' available for many wireless cards, because of the wireless integration in XP, they don't work so good. It seems that companies have just updated their drivers, but with all the built-in configuration abilities of XP, they'll need to write _new_ drivers, not just update old ones.
But I guess XP is the windows future. Now, if Microsoft would just release a Remote Desktop Client with 128-bit encryption for linux, I'll be all set! Yeah, and we'll all be living on Mars by then!
From an e-mail I just received:
Don't know what to make of this...Debian can do this, as others have said, and I have actually DONE this with Debian (slink to potato) over ssh. You must remember to have _at least_ two ssh sessions open as root, I kept three just in case. The sshd upgrade was what scared me, but it handed off just fine. Of course, I had other problems...
I guess you could also create a Kickstart disk for Redhat and have it automatically install the newer Redhat.
I also have to ask: Why do you want to upgrade your headless box? It works, right?
-Percival
I believe that /. is, uh...
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
It matters that Alec Guniess is dead. Sir Guniess was among the most prolific and talented (quantity AND quality) actors of the twentieth century. Not to mention that he was Obi Wan, something that /.ers seem to find very important.
I have a different idea - I want to build a wooden computer case - something out of a nice darkwood that I could stain.
Would it be sufficient to line the inside of the case with properly grounded aluminium foil? Is RF sielding pretty much the same things as the 'ground' shielding I see people doing to their electric guitars?
-B>
I have the same question. I would like to be able to run one of my monitors on it's side, but I could not locate any information.
What I did locate, was the information that MAME does this. It is a video machine emulator (actually it emulates several video machines). Because some video games used their monitors sideways, MAME does this as well. But I don't know how.
-P
Well, for my money (luckily none is required), I would go with Debian. It isn't the most 'up-to-date' distribution of Linux, but I have found it to be among the most stable (probably _because_ it isn't as up-to-date).
It sounds like parker9 is running a 'no frills' setup - probably the best thing in his/her position. NFS has been around for ages, and Debian will handle it well.
The other solution mentioned is the one I would go with: RAID. The redundancy is the key here - speed really shouldn't be an issue - any hard drive is going to be faster than the data stream, unless parker9 is using some networking hardware he/she didn't mention.
-Percival
Well, BeOS is fast, that's for sure. You might also want to look at the Linux BIOS page - it promises VERY fast linux loading... when the work is done.
If all you want is a GUI of some type, DOS + Win 3.1 will load very fast, if you arrange it nicely. There's a DOS version of the GNU compiler environment here, so you can do C/C++ development under DOS, but I don't know about a GUI IDE. I recall there are several text IDEs.
DOS won't take up too much space, either, so you might be able to keep Win98 on there for other boot times.
I am interested in using a portable MD for field recording, but I have never seen one with digital audio out (only digital audio in). Why is this? It does me no good if I need to re-sample in order to get my audio onto hard disk. Is there a reason for this lacking that I don't understand?
Percival.
My question is this: can this be done in X? Would enlightenment be able to do this through a theme? I would think, to get menu and specific programs to display transparently, you would need to use something like a GTK theme, yes? So maybe the Gnome themes this could be done?
I don't know very much about X and Gnome, but I would be interested if this can be done in X. If anyone has and ideas, please let me know.
They can be had on the internt for a fraction of the cast of a new, cheap laser (alright, a large fraction). Yes, they are slow, but with these new GDI printers, either you cannot print, you cannot print fast, or you cannot process while you print.
Even though many are ten years old or more, finding a good, technician checked one should only set you back about $100 for a p series, $150 for the full deal (Series II and III). Memory expansion is nice, and can also be gotten fairly cheap. Check large business surplus houses.
Also, look around at Goodwills and such, I found a HP LJ IIp with no toner cartridge for $.99, yes, less than a dollar.
And with an HP, you print to it from ANY OS. Now I can triple boot Win/Linux/BeOS and it prints the same... . The series II and III are great - the full printers are HUGE, but the p versions are nice. They are small, and if you search around, you can get a PostScript Cartridge for them Note: Only use the HP PostScript cartridge (other brands relied on software...).
This may be a very uninformed question, but what about LCDs? Instead of projection, is it at all possible to simply replace theater screens with giant LCDs?
Now, don't laugh - I'm sure that fifteen years ago the idea of a 17" full color LCD screen was laughable as well.
It seems as though you should be able to make one that is a very high resolution (3000x2000 or whatever) and you would save space dramatically (no projection, just a large box next to the screen).
We'd be seeing thirty and forty plexes. Wait a minute, maybe this isn't such a good idea... .
I drove a 1958 VW Bus (Type II) for a long time).
I loved that I could get into my bus, with my standard-sized toolbox, a five-foot breaker bar, and drive anywhere I wanted and fix anything that went wrong with it. And I could sleep there too!
Now I drive a Honda Accord. It starts everyday, under every condition. And I don't need that toolbox.
After reading responses and webpages (and thinking), I have come to these conclusions:
1) CD-ROM, why did I not think of this earlier? You can boot off it on most pentium motherboards and on almost anything if it is SCSI. Then, it'll power itself down, so if you load a ramdisk as root, you can pull as much info off the CD as you have RAM, and then forget about the CD until you have to re-boot.
2) I was thinking about solid state. That would be the best of all worlds. Does anyone know about the existence of products (or the feasability of building such) to use large amounts of 30-pin SIMMs? I have MEGABYTES upon MEGABYTES of 30-pin SIMMs. If I could stuff more than eight onto a 486 motherboard, it might even serve a web-page or two (over a modem maybe). I would be worried about reliability.
3) After looking to single and dual-disk linux distributions (there are about a dozen that I found), I have come to the conclusion that there is a HOWTO missing: "HOWTO Roll your own distribution." Maybe not a full-blown distro., but some information about creating a linux system from scratch, and adding things on a 'need-to-add' basis. The point would be to learn to create these single-disk, RAM-disk, CD-bootable, etc. mini-systems. With the surgence (is that a word?) of DSL, cable, and other broadband technologies in the home, there are many people out there who are running Win95 on a DSL with file and print sharing turned on. The ones I know end up pulling their plug (ethernet) when not online because there are no easy solutions. It seems to me that if people could learn how to create simple, small linux systems, it would be easier for everyone to put that old 486 in the front lines as 12-year-old hacker fodder. The mind wanders into web-based configuration and mainstream uses.
4) The most difficult part - the power supply. This has given me the most to think about, and has presented the greatest difficulty to me, as I know next to nothing about electronics. I guess the only thing I can think of is: Do wires carrying electrical power (DC) suffer from length? Let me explain. If I wanted to do some recording - digital audio - and I wanted a silent room, I would not want to put my entire system out of the room, and run keyboard/mouse/video cables for 25 feet. How about running the powersupply outside of the room and running 25foot ground/DC wires? And SCSI can go for several feet, so you could get the drives a little farther away. Actually, I have not thought about trying to record directly to CD-R. Probably not so easy.
Again, thank you all for the responses. I guess I have my work cut out for me here. I would love to begin writing a HOWTO on creating your own system/distro., but I do not have the expertise right now. Maybe I will when I have finished this quest.
Off I go, like an ass in the desert to do my work (putting a resistor into my power supply and trying to create a CD-boot simple router system with, maybe a web-server on it - it'll be quieter than my hard drive, and it might work with 80MB of RAM).
Benjamin McGough