==Home==
You're standing in your home.
It's a nice, clean place where you can store your files nstuff.
You can see two drawers, labeled "Maildir" and "public_html".
There is a virus here, trying to infect random files.
[-Home- HP:10, MP:5]: Wield "Antivirus Sword" :You wield 'Antivirus Sword'
[-Home- HP:10, MP:5]: Kill Virus :You fail to hit Virus. :Virus hits you, deleting one file.
[-Home- HP:9, MP:5]: :You hit virus, causing fatal damage. :Virus is dead. :You have gained [1] level!
[-Home- HP:20, MP:10]:
Hmm... I wonder. In wich countries except USA are there laws like that?
I remember that there were a lot of discussions about something simmilar when the DeCSS was up.
She suing companies were american and what they were suing for wasn't illegal in Norway...
Could something like this happen again?
Or you could simply buy a harddrive equiped player.
Take a look at www.dmusik.com
Look for hardware / portable / hdd.
There's a couple of them with reviews and all.
Well... Maybe now we won't have to pay for software we won't use.
If you have to pay for at subscription of windows *after* you've purchased the computer, just don't pay if you're using a free os.
Regarding "The human eye can see aliasing artifacts at resolution up to and even beyond 4000x4000"
Of course it can! It just depends on the size of the screen!:-9
It would be interesting to know how many dpi the average eye can discern at about 0.5 meters distance. (That's about the usual distance to the screen while gameing, right?)
Any eye-experts out there who can come up with some kind of fakts/guesses
Never mind that!
Just don't *use* your glasses (or lenses). =-)
Or, your could simply get a card with tv-out and play on your tv.
Lower the resolution to 1024x768 or maybe even 800x600, won't make a difference, and you'll get that antialiasing at a performance *increase*!;-)
Building on top of a sql-database seems like the logical solution.
Once they have decided on what data is needed and how to structure it, it's "just" a matter of designing a userinterface (read: Client) that will communicate in a proper way.
Doing that part through apache would circumvent the need to make lots of ports too.
At work we use Outlook Webaccess, and I think that's the best way of doing it.
You loose a little speed, but you gain a lot of flexability.
It's great to be able to use your calendar, mail, etc, from anywhere in the world with only a netconnection.
If it would be possible to make a WAP interface too, that would *really* rock!
Groupware via mobilephone. =-)
Well... If developers *coughMicrosoftcough* would make their deviations from the standards open, free, well documented and "backported" into the standard,
other browserdevelopers could implement the deviation in a manner that represented similar code the same way to the user.
As it stands now everyone has to "hack" support for MS and NS deviations.
And microsoft are known never to follow standards correctly, so why presume that they *ever* would implement support for a nonmicrosoft deviation from a standard?
Well... Im ranting...
Ill stop now.
But the idiocy of the people developing browsers at MS and NS is something that gets me a bit aggressive.;-)
Try Opera.
Its small.
Its fast.
Its pretty close to rendering *correct* html, as well as doing a deacent job at rendering Microsofts and/or Netscapes lousy implemetations of HTML.
The downside is that they want money for their browser.
But IMHO its actually worth paying to get a good browser.
Expensive quality or free shit... Its your choice.:-)
Yeah. Patenting designs and implementations are ok.
But patenting a *concept*?!
That's plain idiocy!
In the case of Amazon, that would be to patent the way they solved the problem of "one click shopping".
If someone else do the same general thing but implements it in another way, it shouldn't infringe on their patent.
Otherwise I could, for instance, patent the concept of "Building a structure on other planets than earth" or "One click entering of a letter into a computer."
But on the other hand, one can hardly expect people to behave rationally since mankind seem to be plauged with a collective insanity.
Well, one of the things *should* (but probably wont) be better performance since they're only targeting one platform.
One of the downsides of Java is it's relativetly low performance.
On the other hand, that doesn't really mattar anymore since cpu's are so ridicoulusly fast these days.:-)
(Well... It matters in most 3d games, but we're talking office applications here, right?)
Or you could do a 3d-animated movie.
(Read: Cartoon)
Then you could digitize the moves of adults and use them to move the digital actors.
That way a lot of the "stiffness" that usually comes with 3d-animation can be sidestepped and you wouldnt have to train 6 year olds into martial arts experts.;-)
But on the other hand, some people really hate 3d animated movies.:-/
So a competent person who get an MCSE exam become useless?;-)
I can agree though that there are way too many "paper" MCSE's out there.
People who has gone to courses to be able to get the MCSE title, not gained the knowledge by hands on experiance.
But that would go for people with Linux certifications too.
If they only got theoretical knowledge, they are pretty much useless until they've been working with Linux for a couple of years...
What has Hurd's possible scaling problems got to do with Linux?
They're both kernels but otherwise they haven't got much to to with each other.
Of course, problems with Hurd leads to lesser comptetition for Linux, which could be seen as good or bad depending on you viewpoint.:-)
Well...You wouldn't have to worry about the methane igniting until you are going inside.
There has to be free oxygen and a lot hotter for it to ignite.
There are cases where you want an extreamly fast drive and *don't* want to keep the content the next time you boot.
Back in the days when I used the Amiga I had a drive that read 1.5 MB/sec and wrote 0.5 MB/sec. Way to slow for my taste. (Of course, I also feel that my current 24 MB/sec drive is too slow)
I always used to unpack stuff into ram to gain speed and save space.
No deleting of temp-directories at bootup, no fragmentation, no unpacked archives cluttering the drive and excellent unpacking performance.
A co-worker spilled coffe into his keyboard, which happily started to delete his work-log at a frightening speed.
Before he yanked the keyboard out, it had deleted over a month of his time from our database.:-)
You rent it!
(At least I pay for my domain every third year.)
I'm sure that there are some nic's who have rules about "selling" your rented subdomain (under the root domain that is) to someone else.
If you read his question you will see that it is not on *his* table.
Someone above him has decided that w2k is the way to go and he wants to be able to keep his unices while connecting to the active directory.
So if it's NFS or something else that isn't AD compatible, it's not usable.
But if all the ice at the north pole melts, the golfstream will probably stop and children all over scandinavia will stop complaining about the snow shortage...:-)
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==Home==
:You wield 'Antivirus Sword'
:You fail to hit Virus.
:Virus hits you, deleting one file.
:You hit virus, causing fatal damage.
:Virus is dead.
:You have gained [1] level!
You're standing in your home.
It's a nice, clean place where you can store your files nstuff.
You can see two drawers, labeled "Maildir" and "public_html".
There is a virus here, trying to infect random files.
[-Home- HP:10, MP:5]: Wield "Antivirus Sword"
[-Home- HP:10, MP:5]: Kill Virus
[-Home- HP:9, MP:5]:
[-Home- HP:20, MP:10]:
Hmm... I wonder. In wich countries except USA are there laws like that?
I remember that there were a lot of discussions about something simmilar when the DeCSS was up.
She suing companies were american and what they were suing for wasn't illegal in Norway...
Could something like this happen again?
That's of course www.dmusic.com
Sorry...
Or you could simply buy a harddrive equiped player.
Take a look at www.dmusik.com
Look for hardware / portable / hdd.
There's a couple of them with reviews and all.
Well... Maybe now we won't have to pay for software we won't use.
If you have to pay for at subscription of windows *after* you've purchased the computer, just don't pay if you're using a free os.
Regarding "The human eye can see aliasing artifacts at resolution up to and even beyond 4000x4000"
:-9
Of course it can! It just depends on the size of the screen!
It would be interesting to know how many dpi the average eye can discern at about 0.5 meters distance. (That's about the usual distance to the screen while gameing, right?)
Any eye-experts out there who can come up with some kind of fakts/guesses
Never mind that!
;-)
Just don't *use* your glasses (or lenses). =-)
Or, your could simply get a card with tv-out and play on your tv.
Lower the resolution to 1024x768 or maybe even 800x600, won't make a difference, and you'll get that antialiasing at a performance *increase*!
Very insightful thoughts there.
Building on top of a sql-database seems like the logical solution.
Once they have decided on what data is needed and how to structure it, it's "just" a matter of designing a userinterface (read: Client) that will communicate in a proper way.
Doing that part through apache would circumvent the need to make lots of ports too.
At work we use Outlook Webaccess, and I think that's the best way of doing it.
You loose a little speed, but you gain a lot of flexability.
It's great to be able to use your calendar, mail, etc, from anywhere in the world with only a netconnection.
If it would be possible to make a WAP interface too, that would *really* rock!
Groupware via mobilephone. =-)
Well... If developers *coughMicrosoftcough* would make their deviations from the standards open, free, well documented and "backported" into the standard,
;-)
other browserdevelopers could implement the deviation in a manner that represented similar code the same way to the user.
As it stands now everyone has to "hack" support for MS and NS deviations.
And microsoft are known never to follow standards correctly, so why presume that they *ever* would implement support for a nonmicrosoft deviation from a standard?
Well... Im ranting...
Ill stop now.
But the idiocy of the people developing browsers at MS and NS is something that gets me a bit aggressive.
Try Opera.
:-)
Its small.
Its fast.
Its pretty close to rendering *correct* html, as well as doing a deacent job at rendering Microsofts and/or Netscapes lousy implemetations of HTML.
The downside is that they want money for their browser.
But IMHO its actually worth paying to get a good browser.
Expensive quality or free shit... Its your choice.
Yeah. Patenting designs and implementations are ok.
But patenting a *concept*?!
That's plain idiocy!
In the case of Amazon, that would be to patent the way they solved the problem of "one click shopping".
If someone else do the same general thing but implements it in another way, it shouldn't infringe on their patent.
Otherwise I could, for instance, patent the concept of "Building a structure on other planets than earth" or "One click entering of a letter into a computer."
But on the other hand, one can hardly expect people to behave rationally since mankind seem to be plauged with a collective insanity.
Well, one of the things *should* (but probably wont) be better performance since they're only targeting one platform. :-)
One of the downsides of Java is it's relativetly low performance.
On the other hand, that doesn't really mattar anymore since cpu's are so ridicoulusly fast these days.
(Well... It matters in most 3d games, but we're talking office applications here, right?)
Or you could do a 3d-animated movie.
;-)
:-/
(Read: Cartoon)
Then you could digitize the moves of adults and use them to move the digital actors.
That way a lot of the "stiffness" that usually comes with 3d-animation can be sidestepped and you wouldnt have to train 6 year olds into martial arts experts.
But on the other hand, some people really hate 3d animated movies.
Maybe a Anime version of Ender would do it? =-)
So a competent person who get an MCSE exam become useless? ;-)
I can agree though that there are way too many "paper" MCSE's out there.
People who has gone to courses to be able to get the MCSE title, not gained the knowledge by hands on experiance.
But that would go for people with Linux certifications too.
If they only got theoretical knowledge, they are pretty much useless until they've been working with Linux for a couple of years...
(Another 2C)
What has Hurd's possible scaling problems got to do with Linux? :-)
They're both kernels but otherwise they haven't got much to to with each other.
Of course, problems with Hurd leads to lesser comptetition for Linux, which could be seen as good or bad depending on you viewpoint.
Kind of like the Linux-kernel was in the beginning then? :-)
Well...You wouldn't have to worry about the methane igniting until you are going inside.
There has to be free oxygen and a lot hotter for it to ignite.
OAM - (Ordered Access Memory)
IAM - (Inline Access Memory)
RAM - (Restricted Access Memory)
NAM - (No Access Memory)
RJPRAM - (Ram-Jet Powered RAM)
SSRAM - (Slow Speed RAM)
RDRAM - (Really Devious RAM)
RDRAM - (Random Defects RAM)
RDRAM - (Riktigt Dåligt RAM)
Solarwind? =-)
A *giant* solarwindplant in orbit!!! (We're talking *really* huge stuff here.)
There are cases where you want an extreamly fast drive and *don't* want to keep the content the next time you boot.
Back in the days when I used the Amiga I had a drive that read 1.5 MB/sec and wrote 0.5 MB/sec. Way to slow for my taste. (Of course, I also feel that my current 24 MB/sec drive is too slow)
I always used to unpack stuff into ram to gain speed and save space.
No deleting of temp-directories at bootup, no fragmentation, no unpacked archives cluttering the drive and excellent unpacking performance.
A co-worker spilled coffe into his keyboard, which happily started to delete his work-log at a frightening speed. :-)
Before he yanked the keyboard out, it had deleted over a month of his time from our database.
You rent it!
(At least I pay for my domain every third year.)
I'm sure that there are some nic's who have rules about "selling" your rented subdomain (under the root domain that is) to someone else.
If you read his question you will see that it is not on *his* table.
Someone above him has decided that w2k is the way to go and he wants to be able to keep his unices while connecting to the active directory.
So if it's NFS or something else that isn't AD compatible, it's not usable.
But if all the ice at the north pole melts, the golfstream will probably stop and children all over scandinavia will stop complaining about the snow shortage... :-)
Hmm... What about a voice-recognition/natural text recognintion pci-card? :-)