Comment Re:WHY would you do this? (Score 1) 507
I barely got passed "486MHz CPU, 28 MB of RAM"
Who passed it to you?
Comment Re:When you have a machine from that era... (Score 2, Interesting) 507
Older than it needs to be. I ran Slackware 4 (just about contemporary with Redhat 6.0) on a laptop with lower specs than that, no problem.
Comment There are more than enough small distros around (Score 1) 507
Damn Small Linux and Tiny Core Linux being some of the obvious choices. Your real problem is getting things booted in the first place. I wonder whether gPXE is able to see your PCMCIA network card. If it did, you could just boot that off of a floppy and from there it would be a pretty simple task to netinstatll something; if not, well I'm pretty sure DSL has a set of floppies still. You could also try installing Slackware 9, which I think was the last version to ship a floppy set -- just install the very base system from there and then once you're booted you can try an in-place upgrade over the network.
Comment What, no Churchill? (Score 1) 186
I was hoping for a review of Churchill's memoirs.
Comment Re:10+ is winning... (Score 1) 958
Of course, we are willing to defend your right to have that opinion
You may be, but your coworkers took the job mostly because they figured getting paid to drive around in a jeep with a bunch of buddies and shoot shit sounded like a good time.
Comment Re:Texas as a country (Score 1) 958
Baja Oklahoma
I prefer Chihuahua Del Este.
Comment Re:What's the target audience think? (Score 4, Funny) 830
Microsoft is the new Tupperware?
Happy Birthday, Internet! 213
NobodyExpects writes "I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the Internet! Today marks its 40th birthday!
In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledgling ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by years end, and the internet was born."
Submission + - netboot.me: Turning 'netboot' into 'internetboot' (netboot.me)
Nick Johnson writes: "Netboot.me takes regular netbooting and makes it a whole lot more versatile — now, you can netboot directly into the installers for many popular linux distros, as well as system tools and even live linux distributions, all directly over the Internet, and without any local configuration required!
All that's required to set up netboot.me is a spare writable CD, USB key, or floppy disk to write a small (less than 1MB) disk image to. Alternately, determined geeks can change their DHCP server to allow computers to netboot directly. Once you've done that, booting off the device on any computer with wired ethernet (wifi is a work in progress) will automatically cause the bootloader to download the current version of the menu from netboot.me, which you can then find the boot image you want to boot from. Selecting it causes the boot image to be downloaded and booted immediately.
Best of all, netboot.me lets you add your own boot configurations; once you've tested them, and if they're of general interest, you can file a bug to have them included in the menu system. netboot.me is capable of booting any linux kernel and any other standard boot image, as well as disk images and CD images, thanks to syslinux's memdisk.
The getting started and help pages have many more details on how to use netboot.me, and how to contribute to it. The more boot images in the system the better, so contributions are much appreciated."
All that's required to set up netboot.me is a spare writable CD, USB key, or floppy disk to write a small (less than 1MB) disk image to. Alternately, determined geeks can change their DHCP server to allow computers to netboot directly. Once you've done that, booting off the device on any computer with wired ethernet (wifi is a work in progress) will automatically cause the bootloader to download the current version of the menu from netboot.me, which you can then find the boot image you want to boot from. Selecting it causes the boot image to be downloaded and booted immediately.
Best of all, netboot.me lets you add your own boot configurations; once you've tested them, and if they're of general interest, you can file a bug to have them included in the menu system. netboot.me is capable of booting any linux kernel and any other standard boot image, as well as disk images and CD images, thanks to syslinux's memdisk.
The getting started and help pages have many more details on how to use netboot.me, and how to contribute to it. The more boot images in the system the better, so contributions are much appreciated."
Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882
The one very, very far away from me, ideally. But making a turn is an obvious exception.
Comment Re:NEMA L5-30 or L6-30 (Score 1) 711
Came here to say L5-30.
Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882
When I lived in Northeast PA it was always the New York drivers that couldn't manage to take a curve at speed. I figure they're from the city and they don't comprehend any kind of curve except a 90-degree turn
Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882
120 is perhaps a bit crazy too. I've done 100 on I-80 in the past... let me tell you that a road gator or anything else in your lane and not moving comes up really fast at 100mph and your ability to maneuver is not at its maximum either. I think 90 is a practical max.
Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882
Because it's illegal. If you're in the left lane, and there's anyone behind you, and you could be in the right lane, then you're obligated to get the fuck over there whether you're doing the speed limit or not.
Comment Re:free software and open source (Score 1) 634
Ahem. "You can do it your own way -- if it's done just how I say."
