anyone who designes a gaming console that cant withstand "a couple of hours" turned on is an idiot. as for ps and ps2, they can go weeks turned on just fine (ours is often playing the SSX opening demo for days before someone realizes they left it on).
not sure who you use for cable, but our cable guy when had come out when we moved into this apt (time warner) gave us a 1:4 splitter and enough connecters to recrimp our apt as we saw fit. he also didnt seem to care that we had 14 computers networked through the cable modem (behind a machine doing NAT)
That product led to some rather interesting side issues having to do with intellectual property. In the case of the
4004, we felt that was an Intel proprietary design and therefore we thought it would reasonable to try to protect it.
We spoke to our patent attorney, a fellow whose name was Stuart Lubitz, but Lubitz said he did not want to write a
patent on a computer. He said they werenít worth it and essentially he refused at that time to write a patent.
And I can see why. Subsequently I came across the patent that was written on the IBM 360 computer and it runs
something like, I think itís around 900 pages of drawings and another 900 columns of text, or something in that
order... itís an enormous document. We said that itís too easy to design around a patent of that type. And I think he
felt the idea of putting the computer on a chip was a fairly obvious thing to do. People had been talking about it in
the literature for some time, itís just... I donít think at that point anybody realized that the technology had advanced
to the point where if you made a simple enough processor, it was now feasible.
now, if only patent lawyers these days still thought like that.
I've been running debian with reiserfs, lvm and devfsd for a while now. works well. running 2.4.1 at the moment, no more patching reiserfs into the kernel:)
heh, if you think Austin drivers are bad (I live in the riverside area), i invite you to take an hour drive soouth on 35 and visit the city of san antonio. I lived there from when i was 5 till i moved up to austin for UT, and they make austin drivers look real good.
If you want an especially good time, visit san antonio in rain or the once a year "Big Freeze 'XX" (as the local media is so fond of making everything into a really big deal). Its a good show when you either have a 110 car pilup on I-10, or the entire highway system closed.
/me dislikes san antonio drivers
/me dislikes san antonio media even more
yes it does. I installed it on my RS/6k workstation at ibm as soon as i got an email announcing ibm's precompiled binaries for power just to see it for myself. Still use CDE for the most part, but do use Konsole anytime i telnet to a linux system as it just works better than aixterm term eml.
>The OS bigotry exhibited by Slashdot indicates a lack of ethics and education on the edtior's part.
or maybe its just an opinion
just because someone doesnt hold the same views as yourself doesnt make someone unethical or uneducated, maybe if he was forcing them on you, but a statement of ones views is nothing more than opinion.
look at your error message and notice just how many times it complains about pthreads. Now, go intall posix thread support (found in the same place glibc is), and stop complaining because you cant interpret an error message.
debian 2.2r2 comes with 2.2.18pre21 and debian woody (what i run) had its modutils.deb updated the day after 2.4 was released. I'm running 2.4.0 on my box with my usb mouse and joystick, and devfsd (also apt-getable) and riva fb support, its nice having a 1600x1200 console:)
almost every time i've ordered online, the merchant has had places to fill out a billing and shipping address seperatly. Fill in your credit card's address in shipping and they could care less what goes in billing. I frequently order stuff to be delivered in Ausin, and my card has a San Antonio address, 2 seperate cities, but i've never run into this problem.
I participated in BEST through our school's local chapter of JETS (junior engineering and tech society) out of Taft High School during 98-99. The competiton is basically "here is a box of parts and here is your goal, see you in 6 weeks". At my school the teachers that sponsered us basically were just there so we could use the schools facilites (labs and shops) and to provide us with idea's and help if we needed it, and it provided a situation that is completely student driven. it was a fun experience and i wish i had gotten involved before my senior year.
i'm running an Athlon 700 w/ and AMD Irongate 750 chipset (MSI K7 Pro) w/512 Megs ram. Built it in march, and i run linux on it, and it performs wonderfully, i have not had a single issue with hardware compatability. I'm running a celeron based system right next to it, and neither have given me problems.
>>The solution, as far as I'm concerned, is in
>>nuclear fusion
>Perhaps you meant nuclear fission? Since no
>fusion power plant has ever been designed, much
>less built, I don't see how it can
>be a solution.
No, i'm pretty sure he meant what he said, his statement that fusion is the solution most likely comes from the current theories on nuclear fusion. Whether a powerplant has been designed has little to no relevence to that statement. The facts you mentioned are also likely to be the reason he did _not_ say fission, and decided to say fusion.
I dont know if its just where you live, but in the Austin / San Antonio TX area, ATT service is great. I always have a strong signal, and the quality is great. At school (UT) i've been in rooms that are a story underground in the middle of the building (and these buildings have bomb shelter signs on the outside, so they should be made of good thick signal blocking concrete), and have my phone ring, and the other people in the room immediatly know i have ATT. Why? because no one slses phone can get a signal. Thats just one specialized case, but overall, the service is great. I had sprint at one point, but thier service was terrible in comparison. The only place i can really say the quality of my reception was less than average, was during spring break when i was in Pagosa Springs colorado skiing, in town i had to roam on AMPS though , so i really cant blame ATT for the quality (but up until the mountains, i kept an ATT signal all the way from austin)
SWBell's wireless that they market under thier own name is a TDMA based service, so it will be interesting to see where the service of SWB its subsidiaries head if they partner with bellsouth.
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sure enough, guess i havent been paying much attention to it lately...
anyone who designes a gaming console that cant withstand "a couple of hours" turned on is an idiot. as for ps and ps2, they can go weeks turned on just fine (ours is often playing the SSX opening demo for days before someone realizes they left it on).
ever play ff7 in one sitting? (beginning to end).
- Glad I bought a PS2 with mostly standard USB (but I'll still buy an XBox anyway {Go Apache!})
PS2 has an ilink port on it which is _firewire_ not usb
well, lets see
from dpkg -l
ii devfsd 1.3.11-0.1 Daemon for the device filesystem
pn iptables (no description available)
hmm, those would be packages that help support 2.4
ii kernel-image-2 Custom.1.00 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.3.
that would be a 2.4 kernel
ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ooh, glibc 2.2.2
ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.2-13 the XFree86 X server
and lets not forger xfree 4.0.2
and just for fun, i'll throw in
ii gcc-3.0 3.0-0pre010403 The GNU C compiler.
!!
submitter is a no debian fuk !
not sure who you use for cable, but our cable guy when had come out when we moved into this apt (time warner) gave us a 1:4 splitter and enough connecters to recrimp our apt as we saw fit. he also didnt seem to care that we had 14 computers networked through the cable modem (behind a machine doing NAT)
Cable-\
DVD----->Stereo Reciever -> TV
VCR-/ /
PSX--/
now, if only patent lawyers these days still thought like that.
I've been running debian with reiserfs, lvm and devfsd for a while now. works well. running 2.4.1 at the moment, no more patching reiserfs into the kernel :)
heh, if you think Austin drivers are bad (I live in the riverside area), i invite you to take an hour drive soouth on 35 and visit the city of san antonio. I lived there from when i was 5 till i moved up to austin for UT, and they make austin drivers look real good.
If you want an especially good time, visit san antonio in rain or the once a year "Big Freeze 'XX" (as the local media is so fond of making everything into a really big deal). Its a good show when you either have a 110 car pilup on I-10, or the entire highway system closed.
/me dislikes san antonio drivers
/me dislikes san antonio media even more
What a Chodesmoker.
you mean choadsmoker?
i think someone learned a new word reading the bonsaikitten article.
suse 6.4 also came with lvm and reiserfs
they are ok with showeq only running on linux
though. They threw a fit when that came to win32.
John Smedly even came and chatted with us in
#showeq for a couple weeks
showeq
yes it does. I installed it on my RS/6k workstation at ibm as soon as i got an email announcing ibm's precompiled binaries for power just to see it for myself. Still use CDE for the most part, but do use Konsole anytime i telnet to a linux system as it just works better than aixterm term eml.
>The OS bigotry exhibited by Slashdot indicates a lack of ethics and education on the edtior's part.
or maybe its just an opinion
just because someone doesnt hold the same views as yourself doesnt make someone unethical or uneducated, maybe if he was forcing them on you, but a statement of ones views is nothing more than opinion.
if you like rpm, get debian and see the wonders of apt-get, you will never look back.
look at your error message and notice just how many times it complains about pthreads. Now, go intall posix thread support (found in the same place glibc is), and stop complaining because you cant interpret an error message.
debian 2.2r2 comes with 2.2.18pre21 and debian woody (what i run) had its modutils .deb updated the day after 2.4 was released. I'm running 2.4.0 on my box with my usb mouse and joystick, and devfsd (also apt-getable) and riva fb support, its nice having a 1600x1200 console :)
almost every time i've ordered online, the merchant has had places to fill out a billing and shipping address seperatly. Fill in your credit card's address in shipping and they could care less what goes in billing. I frequently order stuff to be delivered in Ausin, and my card has a San Antonio address, 2 seperate cities, but i've never run into this problem.
I participated in BEST through our school's local chapter of JETS (junior engineering and tech society) out of Taft High School during 98-99. The competiton is basically "here is a box of parts and here is your goal, see you in 6 weeks". At my school the teachers that sponsered us basically were just there so we could use the schools facilites (labs and shops) and to provide us with idea's and help if we needed it, and it provided a situation that is completely student driven. it was a fun experience and i wish i had gotten involved before my senior year.
i'm running an Athlon 700 w/ and AMD Irongate 750 chipset (MSI K7 Pro) w/512 Megs ram. Built it in march, and i run linux on it, and it performs wonderfully, i have not had a single issue with hardware compatability. I'm running a celeron based system right next to it, and neither have given me problems.
>>The solution, as far as I'm concerned, is in
>>nuclear fusion
>Perhaps you meant nuclear fission? Since no
>fusion power plant has ever been designed, much
>less built, I don't see how it can
>be a solution.
No, i'm pretty sure he meant what he said, his statement that fusion is the solution most likely comes from the current theories on nuclear fusion. Whether a powerplant has been designed has little to no relevence to that statement. The facts you mentioned are also likely to be the reason he did _not_ say fission, and decided to say fusion.
>Well, if you wana get tricky, you could always
>just use tcp packets that arent a part of an
>actual connection.
you should check out T/TCP, which does basically that. It combines the lower overhead of UDP with the reliablility of TCP.
I dont know if its just where you live, but in the Austin / San Antonio TX area, ATT service is great. I always have a strong signal, and the quality is great. At school (UT) i've been in rooms that are a story underground in the middle of the building (and these buildings have bomb shelter signs on the outside, so they should be made of good thick signal blocking concrete), and have my phone ring, and the other people in the room immediatly know i have ATT. Why? because no one slses phone can get a signal. Thats just one specialized case, but overall, the service is great. I had sprint at one point, but thier service was terrible in comparison. The only place i can really say the quality of my reception was less than average, was during spring break when i was in Pagosa Springs colorado skiing, in town i had to roam on AMPS though , so i really cant blame ATT for the quality (but up until the mountains, i kept an ATT signal all the way from austin)
SWBell's wireless that they market under thier own name is a TDMA based service, so it will be interesting to see where the service of SWB its subsidiaries head if they partner with bellsouth.
a site i run has similar stats,
Browser stats:
reqs: browser
------: -------
666211: MSIE
196441: Netscape
60624: Netscape (compatible)
13054: Java 1.1
6960: Slurp
4315: FAST-WebCrawler
2668: Slurp.so
2431: Hotline
1583: Scooter
1496: Gulliver
1493: Googlebot
1037: WebTV
868: Mercator-1.0
776: Lynx
452: geckobot
441: Wget
384: Opera
OS stats:
no.: reqs: OS
---: ------: --
1: 825829: Windows
: 525096: Windows 98
: 183468: Windows 95
: 104987: Windows NT
: 9409: Windows 32-bit
: 1491: Windows 3.1
: 735: Unknown Windows
: 643: Windows 16-bit
2: 107022: OS unknown
3: 19105: Unix
: 17198: Linux
: 768: SunOS
: 674: Other Unix
: 349: AIX
: 51: BSD
: 49: IRIX
: 16: HP-UX
4: 17220: Macintosh
: 16489: Macintosh PowerPC
: 729: Macintosh 68k
: 2: Unknown Macintosh
5: 1045: WebTV
6: 471: OS/2