You are aware that the last 2 cd's are just source, aren't you? I have a RedHat 8.0 install that occupies a mere 1.1 GB of space. I had to trim a bunch of stuff out.. like KDE, but that's okay because Gnome2 is pretty awesome.
Granted, windows 98 only takes up ~250 megs, but the damn thing doesn't even ship with a zip extractor.
I had a lot of small, wierd problems with sawfish. There are a few bugs in the workspace switcher, and the window theme selector kept crashing--and I had to delete the.sawfish directory to get it to let me change back.
With metacity, I haven't run into anything like that. There are a couple of things that annoy me, but they're livable.
Yup. The general GRE is only offered on computer now. It really sucks for people like my wife who developed excellent paper test taking skills. The computer test is completely linear in the sense that you can't skip around in the section. It's adaptive, so when you get one right, it gives you a harder one... It was a real pain in the ass.
Unfortunately, I think that polarised contacts would make you ill... I don't wear contacts, but I imagine that they rotate on your eyes when worn. This would make the angle of polarisation different for each eye--you would see different stuff in your left eye than in your right, and our brains don't like that a whole lot.
The best solution would be to have clear polarisers on normal-looking glasses, but add a mechanism to rotate the filters.
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Hawking isn't retarded. He has a degenerative disease. He is physically _disabled_, which is different. Retardation has the connotation of a slow down during development, as in to retard the development of the system.
It may have a passthrough. Mine does, and it's a cheap piece of crap, but it's relatively new. Try to record the DVD. That's when mine kicks in the macrovision.
I work at the astronomy department at the university of florida. We have about 100 computers, many of which are from the 75gxp era. I'm dealing with a dead one right now, in fact. It worked for 2 years and then took a huge shit.
one of the machines had 3 IBM's in 1.5 years. I gave up and bought a maxtor.
I know that there are a couple more that are dying, too.
Keep good backups. If it dies, it'll go _really_ quickly.
I don't mind showing ID--in fact my cards have my picture on them. The reason that I like the clerks to check is a story involving one of my wife's friends, who is a smallish white girl.
Her wallet was stolen by a largish black man, who proceeded to buy ~$500 of stuff at a drug store. The clerk obviously didn't even look at the name on the card, let alone think about it.
I can flash my driver's license and feel a little more secure that if it gets stolen the theif will be caught.
I read an article about 3 years ago talking about the 'good old days' when Acer made rock-solid and physically tough machines, but at the time that I read the article, they were little better than Packard-Bell, selling crap in best buy.
Yeah, I have one of the Antecs. It's a fucking beast. I love it, though. Tons of fans and really easy to work with. I got mine from newegg with a 330W enermax power supply for $100.
It's actually better for the ShackDrone if you just give them fake info. The are rated by the percent of purchases for which they get a name/address combo, but the names/addresses aren't checked.
One of my friends, as a joke, made the person 'Fag Ass' for one of my other friends. Prints on the recipt. Ha Ha. The next time someone didn't give his name, my friend just hit 'a', and lo and behold 'Ass, Fag' came up. He did this for a while and got a commendation for 100% name/address ratio, then he got fired when a bigwig noticed the name.
Hmm.. I've heard that when somebody loses one sense (sight, hearing, etc) the other senses grow stronger to compensate. So the obvious question is: Would this work the other way around? If you add a 'sixth sense' would the strength of your five basic senses be diminished? Would they become 'lazy'?
That's an interesting point. I've always thought it would be cool if I could see in IR or UV or other ranges out of human perception--but I figured that I could simply use a camera that mapped the invisible energy to visible light and displayed on my retina (or direct brain input, but I'm afraid of a Diamond-Age style hack).
hmm. I'm interested in those memos. I'm currently on the phone with tech support--some mouth-breather who can't fathom that somebody is outside his tree.. It's a dead IBM drive, as fate would have it....
Man, your fox station sucks! Mine (Gainesville, FL) just pushes the programming back by however much the game went over. I've never seen that before and it's great.
The Weekly World News, it appears, is not distributed Up There in Canada. It's a tabloid that really doesn't take itself seriously. They don't even try to make their stories plausible.
I occasionally get a copy for fun. It's pretty funny.
This feeling isn't totally off-base, if you think about it. When driving a manual transmission, you can feel what the car is doing, you have engine braking, you know approximately how fast you're going. In an automatic, you toboggan. You can be going significantly faster than you think you are, and you _must_ press the brake pedal to slow down significantly. For example, in my dad's Toyota Corrola, I was able to not only maintain speed but to actually slow down on a ~35% grade in fifth gear. It's just a comfort thing. I have driven automatics and I don't like it. My wife, however, is terrified to drive one. She doesn't like the fact that the car will go unless she's standing on the brake.
It is all a matter of preference
The Big Point here is that they're getting away from TCP/IP's huge overhead. TCP makes a whole lot of sense if you're DARPA and you want to make a nuke-proof network for keeping the country running, but we don't need all of that bouncing SYN/ACK traffic. This method allows the target PC to say at some point, "okay. I got enough. I can make the file now" instead of replying about every packet.
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You are aware that the last 2 cd's are just source, aren't you? I have a RedHat 8.0 install that occupies a mere 1.1 GB of space.
I had to trim a bunch of stuff out.. like KDE, but that's okay because Gnome2 is pretty awesome.
Granted, windows 98 only takes up ~250 megs, but the damn thing doesn't even ship with a zip extractor.
I had a lot of small, wierd problems with sawfish. There are a few bugs in the workspace switcher, and the window theme selector kept crashing--and I had to delete the .sawfish directory to get it to let me change back.
With metacity, I haven't run into anything like that. There are a couple of things that annoy me, but they're livable.
You take it on computers now?
Yup. The general GRE is only offered on computer now. It really sucks for people like my wife who developed excellent paper test taking skills. The computer test is completely linear in the sense that you can't skip around in the section. It's adaptive, so when you get one right, it gives you a harder one... It was a real pain in the ass.
Unfortunately, I think that polarised contacts would make you ill... I don't wear contacts, but I imagine that they rotate on your eyes when worn. This would make the angle of polarisation different for each eye--you would see different stuff in your left eye than in your right, and our brains don't like that a whole lot.
The best solution would be to have clear polarisers on normal-looking glasses, but add a mechanism to rotate the filters.
Hawking isn't retarded. He has a degenerative disease. He is physically _disabled_, which is different. Retardation has the connotation of a slow down during development, as in to retard the development of the system.
Men in Black. The scene in which Will Smith lets the ultra-bouncy ball go.
It may have a passthrough. Mine does, and it's a cheap piece of crap, but it's relatively new. Try to record the DVD. That's when mine kicks in the macrovision.
I work at the astronomy department at the university of florida. We have about 100 computers, many of which are from the 75gxp era. I'm dealing with a dead one right now, in fact. It worked for 2 years and then took a huge shit.
one of the machines had 3 IBM's in 1.5 years. I gave up and bought a maxtor.
I know that there are a couple more that are dying, too.
Keep good backups. If it dies, it'll go _really_ quickly.
I don't mind showing ID--in fact my cards have my picture on them. The reason that I like the clerks to check is a story involving one of my wife's friends, who is a smallish white girl.
Her wallet was stolen by a largish black man, who proceeded to buy ~$500 of stuff at a drug store. The clerk obviously didn't even look at the name on the card, let alone think about it.
I can flash my driver's license and feel a little more secure that if it gets stolen the theif will be caught.
At least they apologised for it.
Did you listen to the whole credit-song? At the very end they sang, "sorry for the clip show..."
I have been very dissapointed with the simpsons this season. Fox needs to fix it quick.
I read an article about 3 years ago talking about the 'good old days' when Acer made rock-solid and physically tough machines, but at the time that I read the article, they were little better than Packard-Bell, selling crap in best buy.
Yeah, I have one of the Antecs. It's a fucking beast. I love it, though. Tons of fans and really easy to work with. I got mine from newegg with a 330W enermax power supply for $100.
It's actually better for the ShackDrone if you just give them fake info. The are rated by the percent of purchases for which they get a name/address combo, but the names/addresses aren't checked.
One of my friends, as a joke, made the person 'Fag Ass' for one of my other friends. Prints on the recipt. Ha Ha. The next time someone didn't give his name, my friend just hit 'a', and lo and behold 'Ass, Fag' came up. He did this for a while and got a commendation for 100% name/address ratio, then he got fired when a bigwig noticed the name.
Google for "copper block". It will give you all kinds of links.
4 bangers just NEVER sound cool.
I beg to differ. The Subaru WRX is equipped with a 4-cylinder boxer, and it sounds pretty damn cool.
mmmm... turbo.
Hmm.. I've heard that when somebody loses one sense (sight, hearing, etc) the other senses grow stronger to compensate. So the obvious question is: Would this work the other way around? If you add a 'sixth sense' would the strength of your five basic senses be diminished? Would they become 'lazy'?
That's an interesting point. I've always thought it would be cool if I could see in IR or UV or other ranges out of human perception--but I figured that I could simply use a camera that mapped the invisible energy to visible light and displayed on my retina (or direct brain input, but I'm afraid of a Diamond-Age style hack).
hmm. I'm interested in those memos. I'm currently on the phone with tech support--some mouth-breather who can't fathom that somebody is outside his tree..
It's a dead IBM drive, as fate would have it....
I wish you the best of luck.
Man, your fox station sucks! Mine (Gainesville, FL) just pushes the programming back by however much the game went over. I've never seen that before and it's great.
Something tells me that the "odds of winning" text has to be included by law.
I think, due to the extreme similarity of the fine print in contests like this, that it's just boilerplate.
The Weekly World News, it appears, is not distributed Up There in Canada. It's a tabloid that really doesn't take itself seriously. They don't even try to make their stories plausible.
I occasionally get a copy for fun. It's pretty funny.
This feeling isn't totally off-base, if you think about it. When driving a manual transmission, you can feel what the car is doing, you have engine braking, you know approximately how fast you're going. In an automatic, you toboggan. You can be going significantly faster than you think you are, and you _must_ press the brake pedal to slow down significantly.
For example, in my dad's Toyota Corrola, I was able to not only maintain speed but to actually slow down on a ~35% grade in fifth gear. It's just a comfort thing. I have driven automatics and I don't like it. My wife, however, is terrified to drive one. She doesn't like the fact that the car will go unless she's standing on the brake. It is all a matter of preference
The Big Point here is that they're getting away from TCP/IP's huge overhead. TCP makes a whole lot of sense if you're DARPA and you want to make a nuke-proof network for keeping the country running, but we don't need all of that bouncing SYN/ACK traffic. This method allows the target PC to say at some point, "okay. I got enough. I can make the file now" instead of replying about every packet.
nitpick--plants are approximately 1% efficient.
Hm. Thanks for the info. It appears, however, that this is only for the recorder...