(I feel dumb. I posted this under someone else's comment when I meant to post it at the first level. No, Preview doesn't prevent this. How about a "Delete Post" button, Rob?) The Ark of the Covenant... hmmm... Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
I'm in a school here in Metropolitan Washington that is home to two special programs, a math/science/computer magnet and a communication arts program. This school (Montgomery Blair High) had six Intel (formerly Westinghouse) Science Talent Search semifinalists. One of our students came in second place in this competition, losing to a 14 year old SENIOR from some other school. (This person will likely have serious social problems later in their life.) Frankly, this school is FULL of nerds, geeks, etc. I often feel right at home among these folks and don't get teased for being a geek.
Now, ELEMENTARY school, on the other hand, was pure hell. As a geeky short-tempered kid with ADD and a mild learning disability, I was in trouble at the principal's office for various reasons about once a week. Yuck. But something happened between sixth and seventh grades and the weekly trips down to the office stopped. This is interesting because many psychologists believe that social pressures worsen in middle school.
My school found themselves on a blacklist (although not this particular one) after being simply used as a spam relay (true, we shouldn't have had our servers configured to allow relaying.) This list, incidentally, happened to be maintained by my ISP and was used by hundreds of others. Since I was a customer, I was able to quickly get us off the blacklist but not quick enough to totally prevent headaches.
Uptown Theatre, Washington DC. 50 years old. They tried to turn it into a multiplex a few years back but the people protested and they didn't. Go to your local newsstand and pick up a Washington Post for showtimes, or call 202.555.1212 and get the phone number. I don't know the address of the theater but if you take the Metro to the Cleveland Park station you will see the theatre. They have equipped this theater with a DolbyDigital sound system. There's probably something closer to you, but downtown DC is a nice place to visit as well.
Probably the reason all the Windows browsers are doing anti aliased fonts is because Windows itself does anti-aliased fonts. It's a registry setting that can be toggled manually, using the Plus Pack, or with shareware such as WinHacker.
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We have a first-generation 6x86 machine here at Blair High. It runs Linux and likes to crash on the weekend when no one is around to reboot it, eliciting many complaints from students. (Under Windows, this probably isn't a problem because Windows crashes so much anyway.) It could be a heat problem or it could be the motherboard is cheap. However, this machine has never been what you would call stable.
I believe the liquor stores are there because NH has no sales tax and attracts customers from the neighboring states. Putting the liquor store on the highway makes it more convienient for the out-of-staters, and also would attract through travelers.
Also, I believe NH was the first state to have a state lottery.
I played Magic for approx. 6 months (along with my sister) before I realized it was a big money sink. I still have a drawer filled with Revised (Third) Edition cards - last I heard they were on the fifth edition. Anybody know if these are worth anything, or did the game finally die and they are worth more as fire fuel?
I also have some of Decipher's Star Trek Customizable Card Game cards. It wouldn't suprise me if these aren't worth the paper they are printed on, considering how badly designed that game was. (Certain missions were hard to complete unless you had some specific card, say, Geordi LaForge, and many of the rare cards such as Jean-Luc Picard were WAAY too good and really threw off the game balance. Picards were going for $80 at one point.)
If you don't want to, the premise of the movie was that some aliens picked up the voyager probe, read the programming that said that it needed to return the information it collected to Earth, and sent it back towards earth with a bunch of new machinery inside a gas cloud sever solar diameters big. It destroyed everything in its path trying to get back to Earth, and although it was sending out some data, no one on Earth remembered how to activate Voyager's transmit sequence.
This struck me as paranoid conspiracy theory at first, but it looks like it's true. Seems though that it's just being proposed in California however. I have a feeling that if something like this actually gets implemented someone is going to make a lot of money selling devices that transmit static at whatever frequency these things use.
On another note, the error messages on Macs are among the least helpful I have ever seen. "Application Unknown has quit because an error of type 3 has occurred")
This may be bad, but at least you can go look up the error number somewhere. On Windows, I have seen such gems as "Internet Explorer was unable to open this site. An unexpected error has occurred" and "Internet Explorer was unable to open this site. The operation completed successfully."
However, if you do get a blue screen of death, it gives you a register dump and a process list. You can also set the OS to write a dump of all system memory to a file for debugging purposes.
Patrick Volderking does Slackware, and the official distributor is Walnut Creek CDROM. InfoMagic probably makes a Slackware CD, but they probably also make RedHat and Debian and etc. cd's.
Newer VCRs get a time signal broadcasted by some networks, and Brookstone (most likely Sharper Image also) sells desk clocks that set themselves off of the GPS satellite signal. No network required.
No question about it. There will be fans (and lots of them) lining up to see it.
I have a couple of anecdotes to support this:
1. Here in Washington, D.C. we have a theater called the Uptown. It was constructed in the late 1940s and has not been substantially changed since. It is an old-fashioned movie theater with a single, huge screen. It is THE place to see the "summer blockbuster" type of movie. When Jurassic Park came out, the lines stretched halfway around the block. I think I saw somewhere that people come in from out of town just to see a movie at this theater.
Anyways, when the Star Wars Special Edition rereleases came out, people camped out in front of the theater to secure opening day tickets. The entire first day of shows sold out (with the possible exception of the 12:30 A.M. show, although I guess that technically is the next day.) I went down the next day with a couple of friends to try and get tickets, and there were two lines. One was for the 10 a.m. show only and had about 5 people in it. The other was for all later shows for the day and went halfway around the block. Seems that a lot of people were dropped off to get tickets for later shows. If the turnout for the RERELEASES of the older movies was this big, the new movies should be even bigger. (By the way, it was definitely worth the trouble to see the movies at the Uptown. If you live in the D.C. area, plan to see the new SW movies at this theatre - there is no other place to see them.)
2. When the trailer came out, the local Fox station ran it on their evening news. (This is probably the only quality content, less weather, ever shown by this newscast.) Someone taped it and brought it into school the next day, where a crowd of ten gathered within 5 minutes of the tape's arrival at school in the TV studio to watch the trailer. I think more people saw it after school. If people are like this to see a 60-second preview for a movie (and if the stories of people paying for a movie ticket with the intention of leaving the movie theater after the previews are true) then there is going to be no shortage of audience for the new Star Wars movie, no matter what the reviews say.
It should be a matter of doing what you said - downloading the sources, exploding the.tar.gz/.tar.bz2, and running the various make commands. In addition to make dep; make clean; make zImage you will want to run one of make config/make menuconfig/make xconfig so that you can choose what nifty new stuff you want to go into the kernel. Just be sure you download the complete sources and not the patch. When you patch, you need to have the patch for each version increment from the one you have now. Moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0pre6 would require a lot of patches (I am assuming that one would have to work their way through the entire 2.1.x series first, but I may be wrong.). However, patches are nice for single-increment upgrades. There is a script that installs the patches for you, it's in/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel or something like that.
One other thing you may want to do is to take your old/usr/src/linux and make sure it is a symlink to/usr/src/linux-2.x.xx, and if not make it like this. Then be sure the new version expands into/usr/src/linux-2.2.blah, and then change the/usr/src/linux symlink. This way you can go back to the old kernel if things go wrong.
Also, once you type make zImage, the finished file is in usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot. (Unless someone changed it - it's been a while.) This goes into your RedHat/boot directory. Keep the old kernel image file and name the new one something different. Then edit/etc/lilo.conf, add an entry for the new kernel, and run/sbin/lilo. If you are using an initial ramdisk because your root filesystem is on a device that runs off a kernel module, things may be hairy. Compiling whatever device you need into the kernel should allow you to avoid having to deal with this.
We had a Cyrix 6x86-PR200 at our school that was doing exactly this. The machine was running one of the 2.0 kernels (probably 2.0.27 or so.) We never fixed the problem, as our plans for the machine changed and it became a web server as opposed to a shell-account machine. We just assumed that it was a problem with the Cyrix CPU as the computer was being weird and crashing in a lot of other ways too. Guess we were wrong.
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(I feel dumb. I posted this under someone else's comment when I meant to post it at the first level. No, Preview doesn't prevent this. How about a "Delete Post" button, Rob?) The Ark of the Covenant... hmmm... Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
The Ark of the Covenant... hmmm...
Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
I'm in a school here in Metropolitan Washington that is home to two special programs, a math/science/computer magnet and a communication arts program. This school (Montgomery Blair High) had six Intel (formerly Westinghouse) Science Talent Search semifinalists. One of our students came in second place in this competition, losing to a 14 year old SENIOR from some other school. (This person will likely have serious social problems later in their life.) Frankly, this school is FULL of nerds, geeks, etc. I often feel right at home among these folks and don't get teased for being a geek.
Now, ELEMENTARY school, on the other hand, was pure hell. As a geeky short-tempered kid with ADD and a mild learning disability, I was in trouble at the principal's office for various reasons about once a week. Yuck. But something happened between sixth and seventh grades and the weekly trips down to the office stopped. This is interesting because many psychologists believe that social pressures worsen in middle school.
My school found themselves on a blacklist (although not this particular one) after being simply used as a spam relay (true, we shouldn't have had our servers configured to allow relaying.) This list, incidentally, happened to be maintained by my ISP and was used by hundreds of others. Since I was a customer, I was able to quickly get us off the blacklist but not quick enough to totally prevent headaches.
Uptown Theatre, Washington DC. 50 years old. They tried to turn it into a multiplex a few years back but the people protested and they didn't. Go to your local newsstand and pick up a Washington Post for showtimes, or call 202.555.1212 and get the phone number. I don't know the address of the theater but if you take the Metro to the Cleveland Park station you will see the theatre. They have equipped this theater with a DolbyDigital sound system. There's probably something closer to you, but downtown DC is a nice place to visit as well.
is Channel 7/ABC in Detroit, Michigan. I wonder how TV signals sound on a radio reciever?
My Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold has a copper-wire SPDIF out connector. High end pro soundcards probably have optical outs.
Probably the reason all the Windows browsers are doing anti aliased fonts is because Windows itself does anti-aliased fonts. It's a registry setting that can be toggled manually, using the Plus Pack, or with shareware such as WinHacker.
We have a first-generation 6x86 machine here at Blair High. It runs Linux and likes to crash on the weekend when no one is around to reboot it, eliciting many complaints from students. (Under Windows, this probably isn't a problem because Windows crashes so much anyway.) It could be a heat problem or it could be the motherboard is cheap. However, this machine has never been what you would call stable.
I believe the liquor stores are there because NH has no sales tax and attracts customers from the neighboring states. Putting the liquor store on the highway makes it more convienient for the out-of-staters, and also would attract through travelers.
Also, I believe NH was the first state to have a state lottery.
I played Magic for approx. 6 months (along with my sister) before I realized it was a big money sink. I still have a drawer filled with Revised (Third) Edition cards - last I heard they were on the fifth edition. Anybody know if these are worth anything, or did the game finally die and they are worth more as fire fuel?
I also have some of Decipher's Star Trek Customizable Card Game cards. It wouldn't suprise me if these aren't worth the paper they are printed on, considering how badly designed that game was. (Certain missions were hard to complete unless you had some specific card, say, Geordi LaForge, and many of the rare cards such as Jean-Luc Picard were WAAY too good and really threw off the game balance. Picards were going for $80 at one point.)
Oh No! Help Help! He's shooting me with the BFG 9000!
**HONK HONK HOOOONNNNK** SCREEEECH
CRASH!!!!!
Kinda gives a new meaning to "deathmatch."
This is the third time the butt hinge has been mentioned on slashdot. It has already been mentioned in a comment and a previous story.
go watch the first Star Trek movie.
If you don't want to, the premise of the movie was that some aliens picked up the voyager probe, read the programming that said that it needed to return the information it collected to Earth, and sent it back towards earth with a bunch of new machinery inside a gas cloud sever solar diameters big. It destroyed everything in its path trying to get back to Earth, and although it was sending out some data, no one on Earth remembered how to activate Voyager's transmit sequence.
This struck me as paranoid conspiracy theory at first, but it looks like it's true. Seems though that it's just being proposed in California however. I have a feeling that if something like this actually gets implemented someone is going to make a lot of money selling devices that transmit static at whatever frequency these things use.
Yes! Let's just provide everybody with video games so they can rot their brains even further than they would if they just sat around for 10,000 years!
Besides, even Zelda 64 doesn't take THAT long to beat.
On another note, the error messages on Macs are among the least helpful I have ever seen. "Application Unknown has quit because an error of type 3 has occurred")
This may be bad, but at least you can go look up the error number somewhere. On Windows, I have seen such gems as "Internet Explorer was unable to open this site. An unexpected error has occurred" and "Internet Explorer was unable to open this site. The operation completed successfully."
Go to for more examples of bad Windows error messages.
However, if you do get a blue screen of death, it gives you a register dump and a process list. You can also set the OS to write a dump of all system memory to a file for debugging purposes.
Patrick Volderking does Slackware, and the official distributor is Walnut Creek CDROM. InfoMagic probably makes a Slackware CD, but they probably also make RedHat and Debian and etc. cd's.
Newer VCRs get a time signal broadcasted by some networks, and Brookstone (most likely Sharper Image also) sells desk clocks that set themselves off of the GPS satellite signal. No network required.
No question about it. There will be fans (and lots of them) lining up to see it.
I have a couple of anecdotes to support this:
1. Here in Washington, D.C. we have a theater called the Uptown. It was constructed in the late 1940s and has not been substantially changed since. It is an old-fashioned movie theater with a single, huge screen. It is THE place to see the "summer blockbuster" type of movie. When Jurassic Park came out, the lines stretched halfway around the block. I think I saw somewhere that people come in from out of town just to see a movie at this theater.
Anyways, when the Star Wars Special Edition rereleases came out, people camped out in front of the theater to secure opening day tickets. The entire first day of shows sold out (with the possible exception of the 12:30 A.M. show, although I guess that technically is the next day.) I went down the next day with a couple of friends to try and get tickets, and there were two lines. One was for the 10 a.m. show only and had about 5 people in it. The other was for all later shows for the day and went halfway around the block. Seems that a lot of people were dropped off to get tickets for later shows. If the turnout for the RERELEASES of the older movies was this big, the new movies should be even bigger. (By the way, it was definitely worth the trouble to see the movies at the Uptown. If you live in the D.C. area, plan to see the new SW movies at this theatre - there is no other place to see them.)
2. When the trailer came out, the local Fox station ran it on their evening news. (This is probably the only quality content, less weather, ever shown by this newscast.) Someone taped it and brought it into school the next day, where a crowd of ten gathered within 5 minutes of the tape's arrival at school in the TV studio to watch the trailer. I think more people saw it after school. If people are like this to see a 60-second preview for a movie (and if the stories of people paying for a movie ticket with the intention of leaving the movie theater after the previews are true) then there is going to be no shortage of audience for the new Star Wars movie, no matter what the reviews say.
It should be a matter of doing what you said - downloading the sources, exploding the .tar.gz/.tar.bz2, and running the various make commands. In addition to make dep; make clean; make zImage you will want to run one of make config/make menuconfig/make xconfig so that you can choose what nifty new stuff you want to go into the kernel. Just be sure you download the complete sources and not the patch. When you patch, you need to have the patch for each version increment from the one you have now. Moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0pre6 would require a lot of patches (I am assuming that one would have to work their way through the entire 2.1.x series first, but I may be wrong.). However, patches are nice for single-increment upgrades. There is a script that installs the patches for you, it's in /usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel or something like that.
/usr/src/linux and make sure it is a symlink to /usr/src/linux-2.x.xx, and if not make it like this. Then be sure the new version expands into /usr/src/linux-2.2.blah, and then change the /usr/src/linux symlink. This way you can go back to the old kernel if things go wrong.
/boot directory. Keep the old kernel image file and name the new one something different. Then edit /etc/lilo.conf, add an entry for the new kernel, and run /sbin/lilo. If you are using an initial ramdisk because your root filesystem is on a device that runs off a kernel module, things may be hairy. Compiling whatever device you need into the kernel should allow you to avoid having to deal with this.
One other thing you may want to do is to take your old
Also, once you type make zImage, the finished file is in usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot. (Unless someone changed it - it's been a while.) This goes into your RedHat
Hope this all helps.
We had a Cyrix 6x86-PR200 at our school that was doing exactly this. The machine was running one of the 2.0 kernels (probably 2.0.27 or so.) We never fixed the problem, as our plans for the machine changed and it became a web server as opposed to a shell-account machine. We just assumed that it was a problem with the Cyrix CPU as the computer was being weird and crashing in a lot of other ways too. Guess we were wrong.