"sensitive ears" = "ears that think there'll be a difference, therefore hear a difference", apperently. They can "hear" the difference between 10 and 12 gauge wires, too.
Dump doesn't work with reiserFS, sync or no sync. AFAIK, it only works with the ext* systems, and it depends on the filesystem's internal structure being known. Low-level backups are bad.
Tar or other systems that get the files through the regular file reading interface are better because they take advantage of the filesystem interface abstraction layer instead of going around it. That works well, and there's no reason to do backups otherwise. None. Not a single one. IMHO.:)
Are you sure that you're not referring to the "extreme homes" special discussing a crazy man who lived in a wharehouse and had a few big boxes on wheels that they called "rooms"? That sounds like what you're referring to.
Oh, here -I found that you can get the 850 sereis remanufactured through xerox at http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/produ ct.pl?mode=remanufactured. It says right there "Truly brilliant, high performance color, plus free black ink". I'd advise you to go with the DP and just buy the extra memory elsewhere. The $700 difference between the DP and DX is about what you'd pay to get a new extra paper tray and hard drive - and the hard drive's not terribly useful. The price isn't too bad for what's a *really* nice printer, either...:)
Yeah, that'll go over *real* well. "Sorry, Mr. computer lab, you have to physically have this CD in the drive to run a program, and to run a different program, you need a different CD in the drive, etc."
Funny, I still don't use "info" pages and the emacs help system because there's no obvious way to navigate the system. I'm not sure why they both don't just use "less" and be done with it.:)
You're right - the brother's long-life cart does about 6,000 pages and costs about 70-80 bucks. That still gets you 12,000 pages for your $150 figure - but this printer's a "desktop" class machine. I do have a hard time believing "tens of thousands" from a single toner cart, but whatever.
If you wanna spend some money to get a good laser-class printer with low consumables cost, get a used Tektronix (now Xerox) Phaser 850. It uses wax blocks instead of toner, and they last a long time. It's got your networking built in. The best part about it is that black ink (wax, whatever) is free for the life of the printer. The output is really quite amazing, and you get that cool raised texture at the higher quality settings because of the wax. I maintain one at work (and some laser printers) - it rocks. Unfortunately, they're not sold as new now. Oh, when looking at their "page rating" - note that we average 3% coverage with black, and 1% coverage with the colors. YMMV.
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There's that whole "saves me from spawning another process every time I wanna grab the HTML from a new page" thing, too. I like the LWP modules largely because they take care of grabbing the content for me without having to go outside of Perl. Reducing the dependency on outside programs is good.:)
I use a 33 MHz Color Turbo Next station running Omniweb to browse the web sometimes. Flash doesn't work at all (for some reason, they haven't ported the plugin to NextStep), and pages still take some time to render. The machine's on a 10Mb pipe to an 11Mb internet connect, and somehow I doubt that more bandwidth would make it faster...:)
Can't you get three regular serial cables and three of those serial conenctors with the screw terminals on the ends (for experimentation purposes or whatever where you change wires around a lot)? That'd avoid the hassle of waiting a few minutes to warm up the soldering iron... I know that setup time is the reason *I* rarely get around to soldering things together properly.:)
I was looking at laser printers recently, and only the extremely hi-priced ones have NICs.
Get a Brother HL-1270N. They ran about $300 a year ago when I bought one, have on-board ethernet, and specifically mention linux in the setup guide. The print speed's good, the web interface is good, and the price is pretty darned good (IMHO).
The BMW 5-series is a truly high-performance driving machine. For the money, there's not much else that's similarly comfortable and powerful. Personally, I'd love to have an M5 - and I've *never* seen an ad for one. I've just seen the specs and the driving reviews.:)
Not that we're talking about performance luxury cars, though...
Yeah, it'd be as interesting as last time MS went to court...
MS: "We're not guilty of evil things." Court: "Yes, you are. Change stuff." MS: "OK, we'll change stuff in such a way that nothing changes." Court: "OK, you have until the end of time to make said changes. We'll keep pretending to argue so lawyers can make more money." Lawyers: "Yay!"
What are you talking about? My phone provides internet connectivity (albeit at a fairly slow rate - like all cell phones in this country that I know of) that just uses the normal minutes. I've got nation-wide use and free long-distance, too. All you'd have to do is get a plan with a lot of minutes, and you're set for not *that* much money. One machine, NAT, and a Nextel phone (or Sprint, IIRC) would be fine for traveling use. Maybe with some diald magic thrown into the mix, as the connect doesn't take terribly long to come up.
Yeah, it'd suck if things in the ER went really well more than a couple of times a year. Who wants a smooth-running healthcare operation, anyway? I'd much rather have people working in the ER who feel high than have efficient, accurate procedures occuring quickly.:)
My spouse really doesn't like the neighbor's dog, and she knows how I drive because she's *married to me*. I don't see the problem. I think it'd be a good thing to tell kids that they really need to accelerate at a more normal speed and take care of where they exceed the speed limit at. This way maybe the parents can calm their kids down before a cop or a steep embankment does.
There'd be less latency between transmitting completed work units and getting new ones with a fast network. Unless the transfers happen while calculations are begin performed, of course, which would take a little bit of processor time away to handle the network communications, in which case less time spent transferring data would probably still be a minute benefit.:)
So "absolutely nothing to do with" is just barely an overstatement.
Your pages are designed incorrectly. Most "compatibility" problems are caused by laziness and/or an inability to come up with more than one way to present information. Yes, I've done a lot of web development. No, I've never come across a problem that can't be solved with standards-compliant code and made to work on multiple browser acceptably.
If people would stop designing for print and start deigning for the web - where no one knows what renderer will be rendering the pages - these issues would go away. If a design relies entirely on minute text/image alignment to communicate information, the design is flawed.
1 - use KDE and their windows keymap (lycoris does this by default).
2 - lycoris's update program would take care of this, as would Debian's apt system (which is available for redhat now, too, though it's not completely trivial to set up)
3 - no OS will install flawlessly onto all hardware - if this were windows you'd probably have a harder time finding a workaround. I've had a hell of a time getting windows version X installed onto various pieces of hardware over the years. A couple of those times the problem has been unresolvable.
4 - that's valid. lycoris, however, does work with those things out of the box.
5 - the windows help files are absolutely useless, that's why you've never used them. If you had some hardware that didn't work for windows, would you be able to modify some other TWAIN driver to make it work? The latest version of windows doesn't support every piece of hardware out there either.
Anyway, you should really look into trying lycoris out. It's not right for my uses, but I consider myself pretty knowledgable about linux. It sounds like you just want a desktop that works and has convenient shortcuts for maintenence (which is fine) - lycoris is designed for exactly that need. I tried it a while back and have planned to set up some of my family with it. That should be an adequate endorsement, because anyone who's set up a non-computer-savvy family member with a computer knows how much that family member will call them when things don't work the way things are expected to...:)
Yes, it does. That's why IP laws are stupid - because they're laws controlling when and where you can let others know that you're presently or had previously thought about certain things.
That reminds me - what happened to the "merced" name? That was a much cooler name than itanium. I went to a presentation on merced in '96 (maybe '97) and it was only a couple of years away then... I guess that after 5 years they need to change the name so it sounds new 'n stuff.
I'm using a pioneer A0-6 DVD-RW (not DVD+R/RW) under a linux system, and have experienced no such problems. I've not tried rewritable media yet, but my system is "store backups on hard drive, transfer to dvd-r, leave backups on hard drive until they're replaced by the next backup job", so it's not such a big deal if the burn process is interrupted. cd-rw doesn't handle being interrupted mid-write very well either, and most hard drive filesystems also don't like it. If your archival system is crashing, you have the wrong archival system anyway.:)
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"sensitive ears" = "ears that think there'll be a difference, therefore hear a difference", apperently. They can "hear" the difference between 10 and 12 gauge wires, too.
Dump doesn't work with reiserFS, sync or no sync. AFAIK, it only works with the ext* systems, and it depends on the filesystem's internal structure being known. Low-level backups are bad.
:)
Tar or other systems that get the files through the regular file reading interface are better because they take advantage of the filesystem interface abstraction layer instead of going around it. That works well, and there's no reason to do backups otherwise. None. Not a single one. IMHO.
Are you sure that you're not referring to the "extreme homes" special discussing a crazy man who lived in a wharehouse and had a few big boxes on wheels that they called "rooms"? That sounds like what you're referring to.
What the hell is a "square" and how confusing could it be when it's obvious from the context that the units being expressed are for area?
Seriously, what does the unit "square" measure? I've never heard of it.
The supplies page is at http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/produ ct.pl?product=Z850 , the printer order page is at http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/produ ct.pl?product=Z850&page=pric. It looks like the deal is just for the 850 series, though, and that one's not listed as available new any more. The 8200 series is what they're selling, and they're charging for black ink sticks.
u ct.pl?mode=remanufactured. It says right there "Truly brilliant, high performance color, plus free black ink". I'd advise you to go with the DP and just buy the extra memory elsewhere. The $700 difference between the DP and DX is about what you'd pay to get a new extra paper tray and hard drive - and the hard drive's not terribly useful. The price isn't too bad for what's a *really* nice printer, either... :)
The tech is still pretty darned nice, though.
Oh, here -I found that you can get the 850 sereis remanufactured through xerox at http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/prod
Yeah, that'll go over *real* well. "Sorry, Mr. computer lab, you have to physically have this CD in the drive to run a program, and to run a different program, you need a different CD in the drive, etc."
Funny, I still don't use "info" pages and the emacs help system because there's no obvious way to navigate the system. I'm not sure why they both don't just use "less" and be done with it. :)
You're right - the brother's long-life cart does about 6,000 pages and costs about 70-80 bucks. That still gets you 12,000 pages for your $150 figure - but this printer's a "desktop" class machine. I do have a hard time believing "tens of thousands" from a single toner cart, but whatever.
If you wanna spend some money to get a good laser-class printer with low consumables cost, get a used Tektronix (now Xerox) Phaser 850. It uses wax blocks instead of toner, and they last a long time. It's got your networking built in. The best part about it is that black ink (wax, whatever) is free for the life of the printer. The output is really quite amazing, and you get that cool raised texture at the higher quality settings because of the wax. I maintain one at work (and some laser printers) - it rocks. Unfortunately, they're not sold as new now. Oh, when looking at their "page rating" - note that we average 3% coverage with black, and 1% coverage with the colors. YMMV.
There's that whole "saves me from spawning another process every time I wanna grab the HTML from a new page" thing, too. I like the LWP modules largely because they take care of grabbing the content for me without having to go outside of Perl. Reducing the dependency on outside programs is good. :)
Mine's stuck on this plain grey screen. Where'd you get a blue one?
I use a 33 MHz Color Turbo Next station running Omniweb to browse the web sometimes. Flash doesn't work at all (for some reason, they haven't ported the plugin to NextStep), and pages still take some time to render. The machine's on a 10Mb pipe to an 11Mb internet connect, and somehow I doubt that more bandwidth would make it faster... :)
Can't you get three regular serial cables and three of those serial conenctors with the screw terminals on the ends (for experimentation purposes or whatever where you change wires around a lot)? That'd avoid the hassle of waiting a few minutes to warm up the soldering iron... I know that setup time is the reason *I* rarely get around to soldering things together properly. :)
I was looking at laser printers recently, and only the extremely hi-priced ones have NICs.
Get a Brother HL-1270N. They ran about $300 a year ago when I bought one, have on-board ethernet, and specifically mention linux in the setup guide. The print speed's good, the web interface is good, and the price is pretty darned good (IMHO).
The BMW 5-series is a truly high-performance driving machine. For the money, there's not much else that's similarly comfortable and powerful. Personally, I'd love to have an M5 - and I've *never* seen an ad for one. I've just seen the specs and the driving reviews. :)
Not that we're talking about performance luxury cars, though...
Yeah, it'd be as interesting as last time MS went to court...
MS: "We're not guilty of evil things."
Court: "Yes, you are. Change stuff."
MS: "OK, we'll change stuff in such a way that nothing changes."
Court: "OK, you have until the end of time to make said changes. We'll keep pretending to argue so lawyers can make more money."
Lawyers: "Yay!"
What are you talking about? My phone provides internet connectivity (albeit at a fairly slow rate - like all cell phones in this country that I know of) that just uses the normal minutes. I've got nation-wide use and free long-distance, too. All you'd have to do is get a plan with a lot of minutes, and you're set for not *that* much money. One machine, NAT, and a Nextel phone (or Sprint, IIRC) would be fine for traveling use. Maybe with some diald magic thrown into the mix, as the connect doesn't take terribly long to come up.
Yeah, it'd suck if things in the ER went really well more than a couple of times a year. Who wants a smooth-running healthcare operation, anyway? I'd much rather have people working in the ER who feel high than have efficient, accurate procedures occuring quickly. :)
My spouse really doesn't like the neighbor's dog, and she knows how I drive because she's *married to me*. I don't see the problem. I think it'd be a good thing to tell kids that they really need to accelerate at a more normal speed and take care of where they exceed the speed limit at. This way maybe the parents can calm their kids down before a cop or a steep embankment does.
There'd be less latency between transmitting completed work units and getting new ones with a fast network. Unless the transfers happen while calculations are begin performed, of course, which would take a little bit of processor time away to handle the network communications, in which case less time spent transferring data would probably still be a minute benefit. :)
So "absolutely nothing to do with" is just barely an overstatement.
He's right - I'm way too lazy to spend more than a few minutes on things like that.
Your pages are designed incorrectly. Most "compatibility" problems are caused by laziness and/or an inability to come up with more than one way to present information. Yes, I've done a lot of web development. No, I've never come across a problem that can't be solved with standards-compliant code and made to work on multiple browser acceptably.
If people would stop designing for print and start deigning for the web - where no one knows what renderer will be rendering the pages - these issues would go away. If a design relies entirely on minute text/image alignment to communicate information, the design is flawed.
1 - use KDE and their windows keymap (lycoris does this by default).
:)
2 - lycoris's update program would take care of this, as would Debian's apt system (which is available for redhat now, too, though it's not completely trivial to set up)
3 - no OS will install flawlessly onto all hardware - if this were windows you'd probably have a harder time finding a workaround. I've had a hell of a time getting windows version X installed onto various pieces of hardware over the years. A couple of those times the problem has been unresolvable.
4 - that's valid. lycoris, however, does work with those things out of the box.
5 - the windows help files are absolutely useless, that's why you've never used them. If you had some hardware that didn't work for windows, would you be able to modify some other TWAIN driver to make it work? The latest version of windows doesn't support every piece of hardware out there either.
Anyway, you should really look into trying lycoris out. It's not right for my uses, but I consider myself pretty knowledgable about linux. It sounds like you just want a desktop that works and has convenient shortcuts for maintenence (which is fine) - lycoris is designed for exactly that need. I tried it a while back and have planned to set up some of my family with it. That should be an adequate endorsement, because anyone who's set up a non-computer-savvy family member with a computer knows how much that family member will call them when things don't work the way things are expected to...
Yes, it does. That's why IP laws are stupid - because they're laws controlling when and where you can let others know that you're presently or had previously thought about certain things.
That reminds me - what happened to the "merced" name? That was a much cooler name than itanium. I went to a presentation on merced in '96 (maybe '97) and it was only a couple of years away then... I guess that after 5 years they need to change the name so it sounds new 'n stuff.
I'm using a pioneer A0-6 DVD-RW (not DVD+R/RW) under a linux system, and have experienced no such problems. I've not tried rewritable media yet, but my system is "store backups on hard drive, transfer to dvd-r, leave backups on hard drive until they're replaced by the next backup job", so it's not such a big deal if the burn process is interrupted. cd-rw doesn't handle being interrupted mid-write very well either, and most hard drive filesystems also don't like it. If your archival system is crashing, you have the wrong archival system anyway. :)