> what are the options to set up a Linux system to reduce power usage and fan noise when idle?
Disconnect those pesky cooling fans. They just make a lot noise and suck up power. Truth is, your PC will run fine without them. It's just a scam by equipment manufacturers to make a few extra bucks out of you. I've been running with them removed for years, no problems.
> But I'm totally clueless how a Black hole can spawn anything.
Black holes spawn a lot of interest, debate, Stephen Hawking's Theses, one Disney movie and an endless source of Deus ex machina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina .
> at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be 'positive.'
"Slow News Day in the Bureau today, Dimitri. We've only got one story: Another Russian Dissident mysteriously dying of radiation poisoning. I say let's split it: Dissident Dead, Putin under investigation, Polonium Stocks Up, KGB hiring"
"Ivan, I think you meant FSB. The KGB no longer exists."
AMD was founded by Jerry Sanders, a high-flying salesman originally from Intel who never quite fitted in. In Andy's Grove's Bio of Intel, he describes Sanders as fast and loose and the AMD corporate culture akin to a Las Vegas Casino: Very extravagant and over the top. Nevertheless, AMD did produce some killer products which at the time made life hard for Intel.
AMD successfully played the market well, offering very fast CPUs for cheaper than Intel could muster. But recently they dropped the ball. Not only have they not come up with an answer to Intel's Core Duo, but AMD have been doing some bizarre stuff like taking over ATI, then announcing they would build DRM into ATI graphics cards. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurv e_1.html How is that going to reverse a declining market share? AMD should learn from the disaster Intel faced a few years ago when it wanted to build a CPUID into their chips that would allow tracking of customers. There was a backlash. Now here AMD are doing the same thing, at the same time their market share is declining?
Maybe they (and SONY) should fire their board and create a Slashdot forum to run the company. We could hardly do a worse job!
On the bright side Intel are turning out nice stuff these days and have said they intend to get into the 3D market again. Declining PC sales will hopefully keep their prices down. Even if AMD go down the tubes, we'll be ok... I hope.
WotC's (aka Hasbro) judgement seems flawed. What are they going to gather by axing the magazine? A declining marketshare. Their "Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach" was a lacklustre effort: You wouldn't know that from the corpratized Wikipedia entry, but the reviews are scathing. World of Warcraft and Chri$topher Tolkein are the ones making all the money of the genre these days. Unless WotC can convince us to buy a whole new set of rulebooks, it's hard to see where the new business will come from. It's far easier to get a game together with a MMPOG than it is find six geeks who have time to spare. WotC and D&D may have been big in their time, but they're all but a footnote in history. Axing the magazine will only decrease their mindshare among their remaining geek customers.
Finally, the prospect of a little justice. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel says he believes in improving the customer experience. I'm not sure ratting on your customers to a repressive, totalitarian regime is the experience they were looking for.
BTW Jerry Wang (Director of Yahoo), thanks for those plans you stole from the Chinese Military. My buddy who works for the intelligence community said the spy masters were really impressed by your work. Jerry Wang I heard they are asking you to steal secret plans for the Chinese Jin ballistic missile submarine! You must be a real busy guy being a Yahoo Director *and* a spy. Enjoy your next visit to China, Jerry. Maybe you'll get to meet some of your 'customers' there!
Kudos to you Shielfw0lf. I worked on an enterprise project using MySQL. I'd used it before on hobbyist/home-project/web-sites and thought it was waaaaaaaaay cool. But when we started working on, man, we found it so painful. Often The indexing system is insane (only one index can be used per query), and it was very buggy. MySQL InnoDB was better, but even it suffered from 'epic rollbacks' that would take hours. Things often wouldn't work properly: You'd find simple expressions that wouldn't evaluate properly. When we reported them to MySQL they were very arrogant about it. After that experience, I'd never try and use MySQL in an enterprise application (defined as anything critical that your life or money hangs off). A friend of mine bought out another business. During negotiations the seller said my friend should buy 'so you have a backup when your databases go down'. Huh? said my friend, 'my databases don't go down. ever!' Turned out the seller used MySQL. My friend used Oracle. Of course Oracle has its problems (absurdly expensive and prehistoric tools), IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL are both dogs. Firebird DB is nice, free and open source based on Borland's Interbase DB.
For small projects and personal web sites, MySQL is fine. You don't get cheaper than free and because it's so widely used never a problem finding people that know how to use it. If I had to do it all again: Firebird or Oracle.
" Sony Fixes Problems With New DVDs" Customers ordered to only watch movies in cinemas.
"Recently, an update that was installed on approximately 20 titles was found to cause an incompatibility issue with a very small number of DVD players".. Thus the global announcement.
"(Sony has received complaints on less than one thousandth of one percent of affected discs shipped)..." We've put this sentence to you in brackets as subtle acknowledgment that this a lie. Our public relations disaster recovery team wanted to use a;-), but our lawyers disagreed and we thought the brackets were a good compromise.
"Since then, the ARccOS system has once again been updated, and there are no longer any playability problems.' 'Or else!' sneered the SONY spokesliar, shaking his fist and the audience,
" Customers can call 800-860-2878 to inquire about replacement discs." Customers can also call the same number for replacement rootkits.
War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. SONY are a respectable and much-loved corporate citizen. Could SONY be any more unpopular? Why don't they branch out into genocide and sell ballistic missiles to North Korea? I can honestly say it wouldn't hurt their stock price.
They should dig up Morita-san and prop him up at the boardroom table. He couldn't do a worse job that Howard "Eat your damn Rootkit and love it" Stringer
Ripped Off! That war cost Aussies $3 Billion and now they won't let us watch the movie?
Here's an Idea: Why don't don't they get SONY to distribute the Terror videos?
Most 'customers' would find it doesn't work on their video player. When they try to watch it on their PC, they get a SONY RootKit. Now imagine the look on Osamas face when he sees a 'Spyware Detected' Popup. I can't think of a faster way to flush a band of Mujahadeen out of their cave.
Reviewers did say this one was bigger on crotch sizes than it was historical accuracy. But after wetting myself laughing at Brad Pitt posing and somersaulting on the beaches of Troy, I decided not to take this genre seriously. Seeing this tomorrow, so think I'll pretend it's Faramir fighting Orcs in the deserts south of Mordor.:-)
> If they simply make the content unplayable, nobody can pirate the movie!
As opposed to their current practice of making movies unwatchable? What good movies have we seen so far this year? 300 is all I can think of and that's a maybe (it's like playing _Total War_ but not having to press any buttons).
According to Bram Cohen beta-tested the system by loading masses of pr0nography and inviting people to download it. The system was of course Bittorrent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
Disclaimer: Of course, Wikipedia has been known to make mistakes. From time to time.
> The PDF FAQ they put there confirms the terms: $3.1 billion
But are they real dollars or Internet dollars?
First YouTube and now this? Someone should tell Google the Bubble is over. Meanwhile ask them if they want to buy your MySpace page: You'd probably get upwards of half-a-mil.
What a huge waste of money. Sure they could build DRM and WGA and SonOfClipper in at the lowest level, but really, what's in it for the rest of us?
You never know. The guys raising money for this will beat the pr0nography and DRM drum enough that some politicians will be impressed and throw some of (your) money at it. But are they going to convince business and the public for massive retooling costs, when in the end, we'll have something very similar to what we have at the moment.
There are better uses for money. Try Cancer research or something else instead please.
Imagine the targeted tracking they can do by correlating your Google Searches with Doubleclick targeted advertising!
I know we regularly threaten to do this and never mean it, but how are the other search engines these days? (Don't say Clusty.com: I tried them and linking to the 'wayback machine' doesn't qualify as [Cache])
Oh delicious irony. It only seems like yesterday when someone said:
"AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes,
such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks.
They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."
Slashdot Mirror
Google sees you searching for websites. Doubleclick sees you visiting them. It's a Total Information Project.
> what are the options to set up a Linux system to reduce power usage and fan noise when idle?
Disconnect those pesky cooling fans. They just make a lot noise and suck up power. Truth is, your PC will run fine without them. It's just a scam by equipment manufacturers to make a few extra bucks out of you. I've been running with them removed for years, no problems.
regards
Scott E. Brown
NOAA Antarctic Station
> But I'm totally clueless how a Black hole can spawn anything.
Black holes spawn a lot of interest, debate, Stephen Hawking's Theses, one Disney movie and an endless source of Deus ex machina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina .
> at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be 'positive.'
"Slow News Day in the Bureau today, Dimitri. We've only got one story: Another Russian Dissident mysteriously dying of radiation poisoning. I say let's split it: Dissident Dead, Putin under investigation, Polonium Stocks Up, KGB hiring"
"Ivan, I think you meant FSB. The KGB no longer exists."
(Hearty Laughing)
> I'm not sure about that, I'd have to see the specs on the Cowboyneal 64 4800+ first.
Software specs could be sorted out quickly. The "What Operating System shall we use?" thread will have one post in it: "I say Linux, anyone disagree?"
AMD was founded by Jerry Sanders, a high-flying salesman originally from Intel who never quite fitted in. In Andy's Grove's Bio of Intel, he describes Sanders as fast and loose and the AMD corporate culture akin to a Las Vegas Casino: Very extravagant and over the top. Nevertheless, AMD did produce some killer products which at the time made life hard for Intel.
v e_1.html How is that going to reverse a declining market share? AMD should learn from the disaster Intel faced a few years ago when it wanted to build a CPUID into their chips that would allow tracking of customers. There was a backlash. Now here AMD are doing the same thing, at the same time their market share is declining?
AMD successfully played the market well, offering very fast CPUs for cheaper than Intel could muster. But recently they dropped the ball. Not only have they not come up with an answer to Intel's Core Duo, but AMD have been doing some bizarre stuff like taking over ATI, then announcing they would build DRM into ATI graphics cards. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcur
Maybe they (and SONY) should fire their board and create a Slashdot forum to run the company. We could hardly do a worse job!
On the bright side Intel are turning out nice stuff these days and have said they intend to get into the 3D market again. Declining PC sales will hopefully keep their prices down. Even if AMD go down the tubes, we'll be ok... I hope.
I'll qualify this for the mod lords:
I heard this first discussed in the 1980s in computer engineering classes being used on computers to authenticate logins.
I heard this first discussed in the 1980s.
WotC's (aka Hasbro) judgement seems flawed. What are they going to gather by axing the magazine? A declining marketshare. Their "Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach" was a lacklustre effort: You wouldn't know that from the corpratized Wikipedia entry, but the reviews are scathing. World of Warcraft and Chri$topher Tolkein are the ones making all the money of the genre these days. Unless WotC can convince us to buy a whole new set of rulebooks, it's hard to see where the new business will come from. It's far easier to get a game together with a MMPOG than it is find six geeks who have time to spare. WotC and D&D may have been big in their time, but they're all but a footnote in history. Axing the magazine will only decrease their mindshare among their remaining geek customers.
Well yes, it is a troll. But only a troll for the Chinese Intelligence Services! ;-)
Yahoo sued, and now XP available again! For want of a better word, Yahoo! God must know it's my birthday! :-)
Finally, the prospect of a little justice. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel says he believes in improving the customer experience. I'm not sure ratting on your customers to a repressive, totalitarian regime is the experience they were looking for.
BTW Jerry Wang (Director of Yahoo), thanks for those plans you stole from the Chinese Military. My buddy who works for the intelligence community said the spy masters were really impressed by your work. Jerry Wang I heard they are asking you to steal secret plans for the Chinese Jin ballistic missile submarine! You must be a real busy guy being a Yahoo Director *and* a spy. Enjoy your next visit to China, Jerry. Maybe you'll get to meet some of your 'customers' there!
Kudos to you Shielfw0lf. I worked on an enterprise project using MySQL. I'd used it before on hobbyist/home-project/web-sites and thought it was waaaaaaaaay cool. But when we started working on, man, we found it so painful. Often The indexing system is insane (only one index can be used per query), and it was very buggy. MySQL InnoDB was better, but even it suffered from 'epic rollbacks' that would take hours. Things often wouldn't work properly: You'd find simple expressions that wouldn't evaluate properly. When we reported them to MySQL they were very arrogant about it. After that experience, I'd never try and use MySQL in an enterprise application (defined as anything critical that your life or money hangs off). A friend of mine bought out another business. During negotiations the seller said my friend should buy 'so you have a backup when your databases go down'. Huh? said my friend, 'my databases don't go down. ever!' Turned out the seller used MySQL. My friend used Oracle. Of course Oracle has its problems (absurdly expensive and prehistoric tools), IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL are both dogs. Firebird DB is nice, free and open source based on Borland's Interbase DB.
For small projects and personal web sites, MySQL is fine. You don't get cheaper than free and because it's so widely used never a problem finding people that know how to use it. If I had to do it all again: Firebird or Oracle.
" Sony Fixes Problems With New DVDs"
.. Thus the global announcement.
;-), but our lawyers disagreed and we thought the brackets were a good compromise.
Customers ordered to only watch movies in cinemas.
"Recently, an update that was installed on approximately 20 titles was found to cause an incompatibility issue with a very small number of DVD players"
"(Sony has received complaints on less than one thousandth of one percent of affected discs shipped)..."
We've put this sentence to you in brackets as subtle acknowledgment that this a lie. Our public relations disaster recovery team wanted to use a
"Since then, the ARccOS system has once again been updated, and there are no longer any playability problems.'
'Or else!' sneered the SONY spokesliar, shaking his fist and the audience,
" Customers can call 800-860-2878 to inquire about replacement discs."
Customers can also call the same number for replacement rootkits.
War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. SONY are a respectable and much-loved corporate citizen.
Could SONY be any more unpopular? Why don't they branch out into genocide and sell ballistic missiles to North Korea?
I can honestly say it wouldn't hurt their stock price.
They should dig up Morita-san and prop him up at the boardroom table. He couldn't do a worse job that Howard "Eat your damn Rootkit and love it" Stringer
Ripped Off! That war cost Aussies $3 Billion and now they won't let us watch the movie?
Here's an Idea: Why don't don't they get SONY to distribute the Terror videos?
Most 'customers' would find it doesn't work on their video player. When they try to watch it on their PC, they get a SONY RootKit.
Now imagine the look on Osamas face when he sees a 'Spyware Detected' Popup. I can't think of a faster way to flush a band of Mujahadeen out of their cave.
Reviewers did say this one was bigger on crotch sizes than it was historical accuracy. But after wetting myself laughing at Brad Pitt posing and somersaulting on the beaches of Troy, I decided not to take this genre seriously. Seeing this tomorrow, so think I'll pretend it's Faramir fighting Orcs in the deserts south of Mordor. :-)
> If they simply make the content unplayable, nobody can pirate the movie!
As opposed to their current practice of making movies unwatchable? What good movies have we seen so far this year? 300 is all I can think of and that's a maybe (it's like playing _Total War_ but not having to press any buttons).
As for SONY: Corporate Death by Bluray.
Mod parent goblin
Lucky for me I look at URLs before I click on them. Fellow readers: If you must, click this instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www.Goatse.cx
An interesting theory. But "Maybe next time you would like to include an URL with your submission" :-)
According to Bram Cohen beta-tested the system by loading masses of pr0nography and inviting people to download it. The system was of course Bittorrent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
Disclaimer: Of course, Wikipedia has been known to make mistakes. From time to time.
> The PDF FAQ they put there confirms the terms: $3.1 billion
But are they real dollars or Internet dollars?
First YouTube and now this? Someone should tell Google the Bubble is over. Meanwhile ask them if they want to buy your MySpace page: You'd probably get upwards of half-a-mil.
Mental image of Steve Balmer communing with the ghost of Bruce Lee:
"You must become one with the chair"
What a huge waste of money. Sure they could build DRM and WGA and SonOfClipper in at the lowest level, but really, what's in it for the rest of us?
You never know. The guys raising money for this will beat the pr0nography and DRM drum enough that some politicians will be impressed and throw some of (your) money at it. But are they going to convince business and the public for massive retooling costs, when in the end, we'll have something very similar to what we have at the moment.
There are better uses for money. Try Cancer research or something else instead please.
Imagine the targeted tracking they can do by correlating your Google Searches with Doubleclick targeted advertising! I know we regularly threaten to do this and never mean it, but how are the other search engines these days? (Don't say Clusty.com: I tried them and linking to the 'wayback machine' doesn't qualify as [Cache])
Oh delicious irony. It only seems like yesterday when someone said:
v e_1.html
;-)
"AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes,
such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks.
They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcur
Groklaw; Better head down to Staples for some legal pads and boxes of biros. You're gunna need them!