I thought it meant one of the processor fans in a Sun had packed up -- but then I realised it'd have to be an AMD chip to *really* overheat and produce the strongest flare.
I ran glxgears four times, and the first two instances were just as your described. Processor time seemed to switch randomly between the two while the other was starved completely. Instance three only got processor time rarely, and four none at all. Odd.
Pfff. A Star Trek "first?" What's betting it turns out to be a rubbishy time travel episode. They'll probably find a way to shoehorn the Borg in there too.
Hehe... I've been to enough computer shows to know that a box (be it Mac/PC/X-Box) sat next to a TV/monitor showing an interesting demo is just not something you can believe!
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My second pet peeve with RPM is that you need to be root to build an RPM from source.
No you don't! I regularly build packages from source in my home directory. I've occasionally had silly failures because the person who built the srpm hard-wired/usr/src/redhat into it... but that's (as the start of this thread tried to make people understand) the fault of the maintainer. Not the package format.
My digibox regularly locks up and refuses input until it is unplugged. It also occasionally loses the sound on a channel - but if you switch channels, and then back again... sound is back. You'd think with all the time they've had, they'd have sort this kind of crap out long ago.
Quite apart from the all the bugs in the digibox itself; Sky Active is obnoxious and slow (unusable in fact), and there are increasing number of logos and nags (press the red button - piss off!).
And all that for the ever-increasing price and ever decreasing quality.
What the hell, this is worth a shot. I have a dim memory of my brother and I playing an arcade game: Two player game; dog-fighting biplanes viewed from the side; ace physics with gravity and stalling.
90% of the problem is that managers and users don't see software as hard.
Does someone who's paid for a bridge to be built wait until all the design has been done, the foundations laid, rock blasted; and then say...
"well actually, I know we said we wanted here, but really we wanted over there. So rebuild it all, at no extra cost... oh and we might change our stupid witless mind again later. Oh yeah, and make it twice as wide. No, scrub that... we'd like a tunnel instead."
What we got from Linux users were not sales, but tons of email demanding that we
put up the binary executeables on an ftp site for free so they could download them and
use them with their Windows version of the game. For some reason they just couldn't
grasp that it cost us money to both license and port the software, and that we didn't
see a red cent for the Windows version they bought. It didn't matter, all they wanted
was free beer.
I think you are being a bit harsh here. Disclaimer: I hardly ever buy games. I'm just
not that interested in them - the last one I bought was Quake 3 (the Linux version). I've
no Free/Non-Free objections or anything against people making money from games etc..
etc..
I run Linux almost exclusively - I do have Win98 on my system, but it's rarely been
booted. If, when I was getting started with Linux, I wanted to buy a game I would
get the Windows version... no question. Why? It's because I know it would likely work
(no jokes about BSODs or patches), and I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of
getting a refund. Linux - love it though I do - was just too flakely for graphics and
sound. Getting a Linux version along with it (or available for download) is a huge
bonus since I could try it... and if it didn't work, well, I could always fall back on
the Windows version. However it turned out, I'd at least get to play it.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that those people emailing, cluess though they
may be, are probably in that situation. They want to run it under Linux, but don't want
to take the risk of paying for it and not working. Not much comfort for Loki or
you, I suppose, but at least it shows there is an interest.
For, whilst using AOL or FreeServe, you try and telnet to _any_ outside mailserver on port 25, you get
their mailserver. It's actually _impossible_ to get to any other SMTP service whilst dialled-up with one of
these ISP's.
This has always been true with Freeserve, ever since it started up a few years ago. It's got nothing to do with RIP, it's an anti-spam measure. Freeserve introduced it because they were the first large scale "free" ISP in the UK, and didn't want to become a magnet for spammers.
a concept car to be unveiled at the
Tokyo Motor Show, next week, will attempt to read the driver's
emotions, stress level and respond. [snip] the car will frown and even
cry... the car will also take
pictures when it determines the atmosphere inside is a happy one,
memorize musical taste and TV preferences and offer shopping
information.
If I wanted that sort of thing, I'd get married, not buy a car.
Maybe you should try to think differently. I mean, make an effort. Sure,. Try to understand foreign
cultures. It opens your mind.
To be fair, there is a lot of stuff in the Brass Eyes that really requires you to be British, or live there, to get. Trust me, many of the jokes are even funnier when you recognise the strange intonation on the voices during the narration. A simple "Yes", delivered by Morris shoots right over the head of non-Brits... whereas most Brits hear it as a near-perfect piss-take of Jeremy Paxman and his interviewing style.
What foxed me, was that in one scene for example, Miles O' Brien takes a half dozen or so of these readers,
That's nothing. Try the (semi-regular) scene where someone in on the bridge tells an ensign/flunky to "take these readings to engineering," and hands them a bunch of electronic pads.
Did you save it and zoom in to get a better look at his face? Or wonder what the blurred guy on the opposite river bank was thinking?
Those pictures had quite an effect on me... I wonder what Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii would think if he knew we were pondering them a century later, using a computer across a global network (I'm in the U.K ).
2. Show up at their front door with torches and shotguns
Well personally, and it is just personally, I vote for this. I've always wanted to be part of an angry mob, but I'm normally too lazy to get up from my computer.
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I thought it meant one of the processor fans in a Sun had packed up -- but then I realised it'd have to be an AMD chip to *really* overheat and produce the strongest flare.
This story's posts -- a summary/prediction:
Hmmm... I'm seeing the same thing.
I ran glxgears four times, and the first two instances were just as your described. Processor time seemed to switch randomly between the two while the other was starved completely. Instance three only got processor time rarely, and four none at all. Odd.
You didn't see the trailer after last night's episode?
No... I'm in the UK.
Apparently they ARE going to involve the Borg.
Oh dear. They really do need new writers, don't they.
Pfff. A Star Trek "first?" What's betting it turns out to be a rubbishy time travel episode. They'll probably find a way to shoehorn the Borg in there too.
That sounds familiar.
1. Solve Poincaré Conjecture
2. ???
3. Profit!
Definitely my favourite .
Hehe... I've been to enough computer shows to know that a box (be it Mac/PC/X-Box) sat next to a TV/monitor showing an interesting demo is just not something you can believe!
My second pet peeve with RPM is that you need to be root to build an RPM from source.
No you don't! I regularly build packages from source in my home directory. I've occasionally had silly failures because the person who built the srpm hard-wired /usr/src/redhat into it... but that's (as the start of this thread tried to make people understand) the fault of the maintainer. Not the package format.
Yeah, me for instance.
My digibox regularly locks up and refuses input until it is unplugged. It also occasionally loses the sound on a channel - but if you switch channels, and then back again... sound is back. You'd think with all the time they've had, they'd have sort this kind of crap out long ago.
Quite apart from the all the bugs in the digibox itself; Sky Active is obnoxious and slow (unusable in fact), and there are increasing number of logos and nags (press the red button - piss off!).
And all that for the ever-increasing price and ever decreasing quality.
What the hell, this is worth a shot. I have a dim memory of my brother and I playing an arcade game: Two player game; dog-fighting biplanes viewed from the side; ace physics with gravity and stalling.
Is there a version of this for linux... anyone?
90% of the problem is that managers and users don't see software as hard.
Does someone who's paid for a bridge to be built wait until all the design has been done, the foundations laid, rock blasted; and then say...
"well actually, I know we said we wanted here, but really we wanted over there. So rebuild it all, at no extra cost... oh and we might change our stupid witless mind again later. Oh yeah, and make it twice as wide. No, scrub that... we'd like a tunnel instead."
That happens to me nearly every day.
post my own 'me too' message. Congratulations.
What we got from Linux users were not sales, but tons of email demanding that we put up the binary executeables on an ftp site for free so they could download them and use them with their Windows version of the game. For some reason they just couldn't grasp that it cost us money to both license and port the software, and that we didn't see a red cent for the Windows version they bought. It didn't matter, all they wanted was free beer.
I think you are being a bit harsh here. Disclaimer: I hardly ever buy games. I'm just not that interested in them - the last one I bought was Quake 3 (the Linux version). I've no Free/Non-Free objections or anything against people making money from games etc.. etc..
I run Linux almost exclusively - I do have Win98 on my system, but it's rarely been booted. If, when I was getting started with Linux, I wanted to buy a game I would get the Windows version... no question. Why? It's because I know it would likely work (no jokes about BSODs or patches), and I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of getting a refund. Linux - love it though I do - was just too flakely for graphics and sound. Getting a Linux version along with it (or available for download) is a huge bonus since I could try it... and if it didn't work, well, I could always fall back on the Windows version. However it turned out, I'd at least get to play it.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that those people emailing, cluess though they may be, are probably in that situation. They want to run it under Linux, but don't want to take the risk of paying for it and not working. Not much comfort for Loki or you, I suppose, but at least it shows there is an interest.
For, whilst using AOL or FreeServe, you try and telnet to _any_ outside mailserver on port 25, you get their mailserver. It's actually _impossible_ to get to any other SMTP service whilst dialled-up with one of these ISP's.
This has always been true with Freeserve, ever since it started up a few years ago. It's got nothing to do with RIP, it's an anti-spam measure. Freeserve introduced it because they were the first large scale "free" ISP in the UK, and didn't want to become a magnet for spammers.
I expect much the same is true of AOL UK.
When you are heading towards a nasty accident, it starts singing "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high..."
a concept car to be unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, next week, will attempt to read the driver's emotions, stress level and respond. [snip] the car will frown and even cry ... the car will also take
pictures when it determines the atmosphere inside is a happy one,
memorize musical taste and TV preferences and offer shopping
information.
If I wanted that sort of thing, I'd get married, not buy a car.The amazing vanishing karma?
Pre-changeover: 30
Post-changeover: 14
Mailed malda to ask what gives, and karma now: 11
Maybe you should try to think differently. I mean, make an effort. Sure,. Try to understand foreign cultures. It opens your mind.
To be fair, there is a lot of stuff in the Brass Eyes that really requires you to be British, or live there, to get. Trust me, many of the jokes are even funnier when you recognise the strange intonation on the voices during the narration. A simple "Yes", delivered by Morris shoots right over the head of non-Brits... whereas most Brits hear it as a near-perfect piss-take of Jeremy Paxman and his interviewing style.
What foxed me, was that in one scene for example, Miles O' Brien takes a half dozen or so of these readers,
That's nothing. Try the (semi-regular) scene where someone in on the bridge tells an ensign/flunky to "take these readings to engineering," and hands them a bunch of electronic pads.
The filthy critic is just foul-mouthed rather than witty. If you want funny, check out Mr. Cranky. His Pearl Harbor review is here.
Drill? Where I work, every week is a crisis week.
I want aliens - not people in rubber suits.
People not wearing rubber foreheads and noses would be a breakthrough for Star Trek.
Did you save it and zoom in to get a better look at his face? Or wonder what the blurred guy on the opposite river bank was thinking?
Those pictures had quite an effect on me... I wonder what Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii would think if he knew we were pondering them a century later, using a computer across a global network (I'm in the U.K ).
2. Show up at their front door with torches and shotguns
Well personally, and it is just personally, I vote for this. I've always wanted to be part of an angry mob, but I'm normally too lazy to get up from my computer.