Actually I always felt that the big iron had the coolest look. The IBM
System/370 was big, jet black, and had a front panel covered with lights
that flashed as it worked. Only a few of them were *really* useful if you
were a sysadmin as opposed to a CSE (hardware tech). But it looked
Ahh, the days of the CoCo... My first computers were a TRS-80 Model I
and a CoCo II. Those were the days... 'saving' your data to an
audiocassette, only to have it be corrupted on the back back in or run
out of tape or... Many many many hours spent poring over basic manuals.
Ah, the days of
I hope that folks enjoyed the talk at SMC.
If you did then you may consider thanking the organizer, John Trono of
the SMC CS Dept. His email is jtrono at the domain smcvt.edu .
Jim
I just got back from the RMS talk at Champlain (and was also at the one last
night). Although we're probably all familiar with a lot of RMS' ideas, it
was interesting to hear them from his own mouth. I especially enjoyed the
Saint IGNUcius diversion this morning :-)
Listening to RMS reminds me of
Thanks to any and all who made RMS able to talk for free (free as in
testimony) to those of us who care, especially John Trono.
It was convenient that, while I had fallen from the cause by not
renewing my FSF annual membership four(?) years ago, due to financial
issues, I had just been notified
Are the programmers of the world so uneducated that freedom as a
philosophical concept has been beyond them? I don't think so. RMS is abrasive
to the point of being annoying, and his personal presentation skills leave
something to be desired. So why should he matter? Primarily because he
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:08 -0400, Nick Floersch wrote:
I think that Flint and I, if not others, need to educate RMS about the
Fab revolution that is occurring. I'm sure a well thought out e-mail
with links would suffice. RMS talked of his coffee mug as something that
could not simply be
Funny! Well... it seemed that between what Flint and I had tried to ask
him, that while he understood they existed, he wasn't aware that they
were available at prices regular folks could afford. But maybe he just
didn't understand what we were asking/saying... he can be challenging to
communicate
It is interesting how his style of speaking/presenting makes it very
easy to follow him without the use of any diagrams, lists, black/white
boards, etc. etc. Well, at least I never found it hard to follow him...
I couldn't tell if he was stopping for a second to really pick his
nails/drink
Dear Folks,
I have been visited by a magic elf from Barre and through his
generous and magnificent effort am currently running the latest
beta of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on one partition of my laptop. I
have been urged to give my impressions.
Firstly, WOW! I'm not given to gibbering froth-mouth
Have you run into any bugs or instability? I know that 8.04 is set to
release next week sometime, but I'm looking to burn a disk now to
start testing a new mini-itx machine I'm putting together. Also, do
you happen to know what the requirements are for enabling the extra
graphical candy? I
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