I found some of the other photos that were near the lego desk to be quite amusing... I mean, I've heard of flat girls, but this just gives the concept a whole new meaning. And pale! Did the "naked and petrefied" guy get to her or something?:-)
I highly recommend the Kensington TurboRing trackball. I got one for my father when his ancient Mouse Systems trackball finally bit the dust, and it has been nothing but pleasure for him to use. It fits nicely in your (right) hand, and the scroll ring is a stroke of genious, in my humble opinion.
I have no idea what to say if you're left handed. I have yet to see any left-handed trackballs, only a few that are handednedd-agnostic - that is, they are equally uncomfortable in either hand.
I'm sorry for saying it, and I should know better than to feed an obvious troll, but you're an idiot. This is how Linux kernel development works. We have finished creating 2.4.0, it works, it rocks, and now we start working on the next version. Sure, it will include bug fixing on things that we probably managed to miss in 2.4.0 (for instance, fat32 doesn't work on 64bit systems in 2.4.0, as if that matters), but now we can start adding new features. This isn't the same idea as MS and their infinite servicepacks to NT 4, this is actual, honest to goodness progress, and it is good that way.
In a word, yes. I am running Resierfs on some Squid boxes, each with between 17gb and 200gb of disk spread across a raid 0 striped LVM volume, and Reiserfs has been nothing short of a miracle if one of the boxes goes down for any reason other than a planned reboot. An hour long fsck on a web cache that (unfortunately) doesn't always leave an alternate method of retreiving pages to users on the inside just is NOT acceptable, so Reiserfs has really saved the day for me.
YMMV, of course. I'm using LVM with striping, so this isn't technically RAID - what you refer to is most likely the linux md device with the raid personalities. However, I'm betting the same idea applies, as you should be able to put whatever filesystem you want on a logical volume.
I never would have expected this, but I actually feel somewhat depressed over the release of 2.4! That's right, depressed! (of course, it might also have something to do with the fact that I'm on some pretty wicked pain killers due to my recent oral surgery:)
Anyway, like I was saying... there's just something not right. After waiting all this time, climbing over and through dozens and dozens of 'unstable' releases, dealing with uncounted issues to fix- and now *poof* it's done. There are no unstable releases left. It's just *there*. Sure, there are the -ac builds already, but those are even stable. None of the changes seem to affect me. I'm almost to the point now where I want to break something just so I have something to do!
Am I nuts? Someone just tell me I'm nuts, and I'll go away.
Yeah, I remember fandom.com... they are the people that bought out spcentral.com and then removed all of the South Park episodes from the web, which removed _all_ of my interest in both websites. Really pissed me off, and it does not surprise me one bit that they are starting with these corporate-nasty techniques now.
Look, I even found more stuff for you! Check out mdmpoold. From the website:
mdmpoold simulates the serial port of your linux box as serial port of your windows box over a network. Therefore your windows programs can use all types of serial devices connected to or simulated by your linux-box.
While this may not be exactly what you're looking for, you might try DS3 for modem sharing. Or, something that I suspect is more what you're after is MSREDIR, a serial port redirector that is designed to let multiple people share multiple modems (an implementation of RFC 2217).
As for sound card sharing, while I haven't looked into this very much, it is probably not difficult to do it using the EsounD daemon. I think I may have tried this before using xmms to play across the network to a remote host. Quite cool if you ask me.
Have you ever tried to disable all the pretty greased-window hallucinogenic effects in OS X? Well, let me tell you it's not possible to do, at least without tweaking things that Apple doesn't normally want you to tweak. You have two choices for the window decorations in OS X: Rainbow Jelly Beans, and Grey Jelly Beans, both of which drive me up the wall after a while of using them. Now KDE, on the other hand (along with Gnome, and just about anything else to do with Linux) can be customized to your heart's content, modified in any reasonable way, and most of all, not used at all if you don't feel like using it!
Speaking of Terra Server, has anyone else noticed and/or been extremely annoyed with the "Clever Content" thing that they require you to use to view the images now? The only point of it seems to be preventing you from saving the image, and they go to some very stupid extremes to do so. For example, if you have vncviewer.exe running on your system ANYWHERE, it refuses to display the images. Nevermind the fact that vncviewer.exe is NOT vncserver, which could potentially be used to take "illicit" screenshots through another computer. I just thought that was excessively stupid, and a bit repulsive. I have not tried using it in Linux, and I have my doubts that they have even provided a viewer.
Pardon me, but it is travelling at the speed of light. The time it takes for light to travel from LA to Sydney is roughly 40 milliseconds, and I'd allow for another 30 milliseconds or so of latency for switching. Thus, the 70msec time makes a lot of good sense.
For those of you interested in visualizing 4 dimensional shapes, take a look at THIS page. It's Ken Perlin's website at NYU's media lab, and he has some really fascinating things in there, the 4D visualization tool among them. I've sat in front of that little java applet of his for a _long_ time trying to think about it, and I just about turned my brain inside-out.
Personally, I kinda like the Automated Windows Technical Support script from the maker of the 4D maze that can solve any problem with any version of windows! Try it, it's magical!
I can't speak for WordPerfect, but Netscape is specifically listed in the release notes as causing severe problems with beta 1 of Whistler. I also seem to remember a mention of problems with Notes.
Somehow I doubt MS sees WordPerfect as a threat anymore.
Sure, the department here at UIUC. There are hordes and hordes of Sparcstations running Solaris, but the only Linux I have seen on campus has been in dorm rooms, in the ACM office and ACM lab, and one stray server in the optical physics lab. There has been talk of starting to replace the zillions of engineering workstations (Sparc 20's, Ultra 1's, Ultra 10's, a few HP9000 and SGI) with Linux machines, but so far it's been little more than idle speculation.
On the other hand, having all these Unix workstations around is kinda fun too, especially when some of them get donated to ACM and we get to play with them for a while:) (glancing at the Indy on my desk)
That sounds _great_ to me. Has anybody at Apple said anything to that extent? Even off-handedly? I don't mean to tear down your statement, but I would like to hear someone at Apple say something about porting Quicktime to Linux, even if it's not going to be here for another year.
"None of the latest formats are not compatible with UNIX so..."
Sorry, I didn't catch that, is it "None of the latest formats are compatible," or "The latest formats are not compatible," or is it REALLY supposed to be "None of the latest formats are not compatible with UNIX?"
See, that would come as a surprise to me since MS's format sure as hell isn't UNIX friendly, Real's new format sure as hell isn't UNIX friendly (unless I missed something), and the only one that is (somewhat) is DivX:-).
Just a couple weeks ago I listened to a speech by a Cobalt rep (one of their engineers actually) and he showed me a raQ with a K6-2 board in it. He said he made the boot rom himself. This would make it quite easy to put Solaris on their stuff.
Sun: Please, oh please, leave the Cobalt stuff alone. They are doing great just the way they are.
That WARN feature has got to be the stupidest, most irritating feature EVER CONCEIVED. Have you _EVER_ seen it used appropriately? NO. Neither has anybody else. All it seems to be good for is having several evil people gang up on somebody and prevent them from communicating with anybody for several hours.
Well actually it is quite "bold" and "new" - since when is something like this not free? Please avoid the "oh give them a break, it's a commercial service" comments, Debian's been doing it for years.
Oh great, release it during the week when I'll end up missing class rearranging my box to upgrade. Of course, I'm not sure if this is any worse than a major release on a weekend, in which case I'd spend a good deal of my weekend sitting in a dimly-lit room tinkering with my computer... oh wait, I do that anyway.
On the other hand, judging roughly on the beta that they put out a month or two ago ("Redhat 6.9"), I'm not so sure I'll be bothering with Redhat 7. There comes a time in every Linux-user's life when they must remove Redhat from every box they own and replace it with Debian, and this may very well be my time.
Even better: crack SDMI, and DON'T tell them! Don't even tell the people you were able to do it. Let them think it's perfect and unbreakable. Wait for it to catch on, due to its backing by every big evil corporate giant.
Wait a month or so...
*poof* Hey look eveybody, here's a crack for SDMI, music is free again! By this time, SDMI has become so pervasively embedded in everything that the music industry is kinda stuck with it, and by golly, it's cracked too!
It's not that tough. Click on the link, EPIC stands for Electronic Privacy Information Centre. Amazon has done something ridiculously stupid regarding the privacy of their customers. WHY would a website devoted to privacy want anything to do with Amazon?
My VAIO (pcg-sr7k, sexy) has a 10.4" 1024x768 lcd, and it's perfectly readable. On the other hand, my desktop (at the moment, until Apple fixes my studio display) has a 14" 800x600 crt, and it's nearly unusable. My point? LCD displays are _so_ much sharper than CRTs that the resolution scale is a bit different. Besides, with a small LCD you hold it closer to your eyes, which is possible because it's sharp and doesn't strain your vision. It's all good.
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I found some of the other photos that were near the lego desk to be quite amusing... I mean, I've heard of flat girls, but this just gives the concept a whole new meaning. And pale! Did the "naked and petrefied" guy get to her or something? :-)
I highly recommend the Kensington TurboRing trackball. I got one for my father when his ancient Mouse Systems trackball finally bit the dust, and it has been nothing but pleasure for him to use. It fits nicely in your (right) hand, and the scroll ring is a stroke of genious, in my humble opinion.
I have no idea what to say if you're left handed. I have yet to see any left-handed trackballs, only a few that are handednedd-agnostic - that is, they are equally uncomfortable in either hand.
I'm sorry for saying it, and I should know better than to feed an obvious troll, but you're an idiot. This is how Linux kernel development works. We have finished creating 2.4.0, it works, it rocks, and now we start working on the next version. Sure, it will include bug fixing on things that we probably managed to miss in 2.4.0 (for instance, fat32 doesn't work on 64bit systems in 2.4.0, as if that matters), but now we can start adding new features. This isn't the same idea as MS and their infinite servicepacks to NT 4, this is actual, honest to goodness progress, and it is good that way.
In a word, yes. I am running Resierfs on some Squid boxes, each with between 17gb and 200gb of disk spread across a raid 0 striped LVM volume, and Reiserfs has been nothing short of a miracle if one of the boxes goes down for any reason other than a planned reboot. An hour long fsck on a web cache that (unfortunately) doesn't always leave an alternate method of retreiving pages to users on the inside just is NOT acceptable, so Reiserfs has really saved the day for me.
YMMV, of course. I'm using LVM with striping, so this isn't technically RAID - what you refer to is most likely the linux md device with the raid personalities. However, I'm betting the same idea applies, as you should be able to put whatever filesystem you want on a logical volume.
I never would have expected this, but I actually feel somewhat depressed over the release of 2.4! That's right, depressed! (of course, it might also have something to do with the fact that I'm on some pretty wicked pain killers due to my recent oral surgery :)
Anyway, like I was saying... there's just something not right. After waiting all this time, climbing over and through dozens and dozens of 'unstable' releases, dealing with uncounted issues to fix- and now *poof* it's done. There are no unstable releases left. It's just *there*. Sure, there are the -ac builds already, but those are even stable. None of the changes seem to affect me. I'm almost to the point now where I want to break something just so I have something to do!
Am I nuts? Someone just tell me I'm nuts, and I'll go away.
Yeah, I remember fandom.com... they are the people that bought out spcentral.com and then removed all of the South Park episodes from the web, which removed _all_ of my interest in both websites. Really pissed me off, and it does not surprise me one bit that they are starting with these corporate-nasty techniques now.
Look, I even found more stuff for you! Check out mdmpoold. From the website:
mdmpoold simulates the serial port of your linux box as serial port of your windows box over a network. Therefore your windows programs can use all types of serial devices connected to or simulated by your linux-box.
Nifty!
While this may not be exactly what you're looking for, you might try DS3 for modem sharing. Or, something that I suspect is more what you're after is MSREDIR, a serial port redirector that is designed to let multiple people share multiple modems (an implementation of RFC 2217).
As for sound card sharing, while I haven't looked into this very much, it is probably not difficult to do it using the EsounD daemon. I think I may have tried this before using xmms to play across the network to a remote host. Quite cool if you ask me.
The answer is extremely simple:
You can turn it OFF on KDE.
Have you ever tried to disable all the pretty greased-window hallucinogenic effects in OS X? Well, let me tell you it's not possible to do, at least without tweaking things that Apple doesn't normally want you to tweak. You have two choices for the window decorations in OS X: Rainbow Jelly Beans, and Grey Jelly Beans, both of which drive me up the wall after a while of using them. Now KDE, on the other hand (along with Gnome, and just about anything else to do with Linux) can be customized to your heart's content, modified in any reasonable way, and most of all, not used at all if you don't feel like using it!
Just my two cents.
Speaking of Terra Server, has anyone else noticed and/or been extremely annoyed with the "Clever Content" thing that they require you to use to view the images now? The only point of it seems to be preventing you from saving the image, and they go to some very stupid extremes to do so. For example, if you have vncviewer.exe running on your system ANYWHERE, it refuses to display the images. Nevermind the fact that vncviewer.exe is NOT vncserver, which could potentially be used to take "illicit" screenshots through another computer. I just thought that was excessively stupid, and a bit repulsive. I have not tried using it in Linux, and I have my doubts that they have even provided a viewer.
bastards.
Hey, my GUI doesn't look all that much like a GUI... works great for me, and it even includes some eye candy. :)
Or did you intend for it to be usable by non-CLI people too? Oh well.
Pardon me, but it is travelling at the speed of light. The time it takes for light to travel from LA to Sydney is roughly 40 milliseconds, and I'd allow for another 30 milliseconds or so of latency for switching. Thus, the 70msec time makes a lot of good sense.
For those of you interested in visualizing 4 dimensional shapes, take a look at THIS page. It's Ken Perlin's website at NYU's media lab, and he has some really fascinating things in there, the 4D visualization tool among them. I've sat in front of that little java applet of his for a _long_ time trying to think about it, and I just about turned my brain inside-out.
Personally, I kinda like the Automated Windows Technical Support script from the maker of the 4D maze that can solve any problem with any version of windows! Try it, it's magical!
I can't speak for WordPerfect, but Netscape is specifically listed in the release notes as causing severe problems with beta 1 of Whistler. I also seem to remember a mention of problems with Notes.
Somehow I doubt MS sees WordPerfect as a threat anymore.
Sure, the department here at UIUC. There are hordes and hordes of Sparcstations running Solaris, but the only Linux I have seen on campus has been in dorm rooms, in the ACM office and ACM lab, and one stray server in the optical physics lab. There has been talk of starting to replace the zillions of engineering workstations (Sparc 20's, Ultra 1's, Ultra 10's, a few HP9000 and SGI) with Linux machines, but so far it's been little more than idle speculation.
:) (glancing at the Indy on my desk)
On the other hand, having all these Unix workstations around is kinda fun too, especially when some of them get donated to ACM and we get to play with them for a while
That sounds _great_ to me. Has anybody at Apple said anything to that extent? Even off-handedly? I don't mean to tear down your statement, but I would like to hear someone at Apple say something about porting Quicktime to Linux, even if it's not going to be here for another year.
"None of the latest formats are not compatible with UNIX so..."
:-).
Sorry, I didn't catch that, is it "None of the latest formats are compatible," or "The latest formats are not compatible," or is it REALLY supposed to be "None of the latest formats are not compatible with UNIX?"
See, that would come as a surprise to me since MS's format sure as hell isn't UNIX friendly, Real's new format sure as hell isn't UNIX friendly (unless I missed something), and the only one that is (somewhat) is DivX
Just a couple weeks ago I listened to a speech by a Cobalt rep (one of their engineers actually) and he showed me a raQ with a K6-2 board in it. He said he made the boot rom himself. This would make it quite easy to put Solaris on their stuff.
Sun: Please, oh please, leave the Cobalt stuff alone. They are doing great just the way they are.
That WARN feature has got to be the stupidest, most irritating feature EVER CONCEIVED. Have you _EVER_ seen it used appropriately? NO. Neither has anybody else. All it seems to be good for is having several evil people gang up on somebody and prevent them from communicating with anybody for several hours.
Well actually it is quite "bold" and "new" - since when is something like this not free? Please avoid the "oh give them a break, it's a commercial service" comments, Debian's been doing it for years.
*reaching out and hugging apt-get*
Oh great, release it during the week when I'll end up missing class rearranging my box to upgrade. Of course, I'm not sure if this is any worse than a major release on a weekend, in which case I'd spend a good deal of my weekend sitting in a dimly-lit room tinkering with my computer... oh wait, I do that anyway.
On the other hand, judging roughly on the beta that they put out a month or two ago ("Redhat 6.9"), I'm not so sure I'll be bothering with Redhat 7. There comes a time in every Linux-user's life when they must remove Redhat from every box they own and replace it with Debian, and this may very well be my time.
Even better: crack SDMI, and DON'T tell them! Don't even tell the people you were able to do it. Let them think it's perfect and unbreakable. Wait for it to catch on, due to its backing by every big evil corporate giant.
Wait a month or so...
*poof* Hey look eveybody, here's a crack for SDMI, music is free again! By this time, SDMI has become so pervasively embedded in everything that the music industry is kinda stuck with it, and by golly, it's cracked too!
It's not that tough. Click on the link, EPIC stands for Electronic Privacy Information Centre. Amazon has done something ridiculously stupid regarding the privacy of their customers. WHY would a website devoted to privacy want anything to do with Amazon?
My VAIO (pcg-sr7k, sexy) has a 10.4" 1024x768 lcd, and it's perfectly readable. On the other hand, my desktop (at the moment, until Apple fixes my studio display) has a 14" 800x600 crt, and it's nearly unusable. My point? LCD displays are _so_ much sharper than CRTs that the resolution scale is a bit different. Besides, with a small LCD you hold it closer to your eyes, which is possible because it's sharp and doesn't strain your vision. It's all good.