I took a drive to Aroostook on Memorial Day. I only saw three of the planets, even though I drove the entire length of the model. I saw Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. I thought they should have made Mars be in Mars Hill.
I'm still using 2.0.34. At first, I didn't want to upgrade because I had a firewall script (using ipfwadm) that worked, and I didn't want to have to make a new one. The real problem with the computer isn't the kernel, it is the C library. I am quite afraid of upgrading it. I didn't want to risk not being able to use the computer, so I basically left it as it is. I once tried upgrading Perl from 5.004 to 5.005, and it was a disaster; it couldn't find any modules. I have Glibc-2.0.7. I basically can't find precompiled software for that library. Very rarely I can find libc5 packages, which work.
I do have a new computer which I will be switching to eventually. I installed RH 8 on it, but there are a lot of things I am not yet happy about. first of all is the fact that I get no sound from the SB PCI 128. I haven't tried alsa on it yet, hopefully that will work. I have installed Linux on three different computers, and I have not yet once had sound work right away. Why is it so hard? The other problem is the horrible slow desktop. And why the hell do the virtual desktops only have one pane each? What is this, Windows? Ugh. So I need to install fvwm2 on it, and see if I can dump the postprocessed configuration for it that I am using on this computer and modify it for use on the new computer. Also, I need to put on essential programs like elm and tin.
Once I do switch over to the new computer, I will probably try out a few different distros on this old one and see if there is one I like more, since Red Hat probably doesn't plan to get any better.
No kidding. My first thought was music notation. Then I thought that it probably wasn't that. Maybe it was about how using spaces is preferable if you want things to look right for everyone, since tab stops can be set differently. Was there really enough to say on the topic? I checked the article to find out. There wasn't, so the guy wrote about web browsers instead.
My sister won one of the Wal-Mart PCs in a raffle. I was not at all impressed by it. First of all, everything is run as root; there are no other users. There are no text virtual terminals. And there is almost no software installed by default. You have to download everything. For example, there is no gcc.
Supposedly, the click-and-run system lets users download whatever software they want easily. My sister didn't have much luck with it, however. She was able to download a calculator and KNotes. Everything else she tried to use failed to install. She tried to show me how it worked, but it couldn't even connect to the click-and-run server (I think that was what it was trying to do; I never saw it work).
I understand that you can use apt-get to install software on them, but I don't use debian, so I tried to look at the man page. But man wasn't installed.
And if you could get the click-and-run to work, you could only download 10 programs without paying $99 to subscribe.
Perhaps as the ice caps on the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaros melt, some traces of last years' expeditions to build a bridge between the two peaks will be found.
I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet. At the end, he gives a table of the bitrates for each song for each codec. The one with the greatest variation appears to be oggq0. I noticed that for the songs where that codec did well, the bitrate was much higher, and where it did poorly, it was much lower. I don't realy understand how the bitrate is chosen, but as I understand it, the encoder chooses it automatically somehow, right? I wonder how effective that really is.
Are you sure it is "Vijay kumar", not "Vinay Kumar"? There is someone by the latter name who posts regularly to a usenet group I read, rec.sport.baseball. or is Kumar a pretty common name?
It looks like they just listed any song with "Heaven" in the title. They also have "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven" (although they did misspell the latter).
It is kind of strange. I would think songs like "Say Hello 2 Heaven" would be a comfort to people. It was written as a way to work through the grief of the loss of a friend.
By the way, I am surprised that Soundgarden's "Limo Wreck" isn't on the list. Check out the
lyrics.
The baseball analogy weakens his case. You may hear it said that "The great teams win the close games", but this isn't true. Sabermetricians have found that close games are largely a toss-up. The baseball postseason system is actually a poor system of finding the best team. The greatest team will still lose to the worst team about once in every four games. Obviously, it is harder for an underdog to win a five or seven game series, but it is still very easy.
I'm just curious if anyone has been successful programming one of these or other BASIC Stamp II based robots by running the DOS software under DOSEMU? I tried running the program, and that works, but I don't have a robot yet, so I don't know if the downloading works.
I guess I wasn't the only one who thought of that.
OBPython: I saw Eric Idle's show last Thursday (As featured in a recent quickie). There was a parrot in it. (but not the dead parrot sketch). There was also the Penis Song.
What is the current status of the new movie? Is it still being worked on? Is there a script? I know Arthur was cast, has anybody else been? Has filming started? If not, when? And most importantly, when will it be in theaters?
Besides, it's just a company doing to Micro$oft what MS did to Corel with Word 6.0, right? Didn't it go from Word 2 to 6???
Not quite. Word for Windows 2.0 was out at the same time as Word 5.0 (which was available for DOS). When Word 6.0 came out, they gave the Windows version the same number as the DOS version. So while the Windows version went from 2.0 to 6.0, Word for Windows 2.0 was not Word 2.0.
Anyone know the rates for an Impression 3? It doesn't say on their web site. I tried mailing and they said "This monitor is more than 5 years old, I can find the spec. you are looking for. But I know monitor is equivalent to an IBM 8514 model under the Win95/98 monitor list. You can try using that driver or a standard vga driver." Doesn't exactly help, does it?
Untwisting a twist tie twisted by a right handed person might be the problem. The lefty may may end up twisting it more when he is trying to untwist it.
Also, on the subject of scissors, if I'm not mistaken, the issue isn't so much whether you are right handed or left handed, it is which way you want to make turns in the cut to go. Of course, Righties want to have the cut curve to the left, and lefties want it to curve to the right. I remember when I worked as an insulator for a summer and had to do some cutting of sheet metal. You need two cutters, one righty and one lefty, to make cuts that curve one way or the other.
I called customer service, and was told that the simms only work right on motherboards with tx chipsets. Mine apparently has an hx chipset. They are letting me return them. I think I need to get a new computer, since this one is getting old, and I have had a number of problems with it.
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I took a drive to Aroostook on Memorial Day. I only saw three of the planets, even though I drove the entire length of the model. I saw Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. I thought they should have made Mars be in Mars Hill.
I'm still using 2.0.34. At first, I didn't want to upgrade because I had a firewall script (using ipfwadm) that worked, and I didn't want to have to make a new one. The real problem with the computer isn't the kernel, it is the C library. I am quite afraid of upgrading it. I didn't want to risk not being able to use the computer, so I basically left it as it is. I once tried upgrading Perl from 5.004 to 5.005, and it was a disaster; it couldn't find any modules. I have Glibc-2.0.7. I basically can't find precompiled software for that library. Very rarely I can find libc5 packages, which work.
I do have a new computer which I will be switching to eventually. I installed RH 8 on it, but there are a lot of things I am not yet happy about. first of all is the fact that I get no sound from the SB PCI 128. I haven't tried alsa on it yet, hopefully that will work. I have installed Linux on three different computers, and I have not yet once had sound work right away. Why is it so hard? The other problem is the horrible slow desktop. And why the hell do the virtual desktops only have one pane each? What is this, Windows? Ugh. So I need to install fvwm2 on it, and see if I can dump the postprocessed configuration for it that I am using on this computer and modify it for use on the new computer. Also, I need to put on essential programs like elm and tin.
Once I do switch over to the new computer, I will probably try out a few different distros on this old one and see if there is one I like more, since Red Hat probably doesn't plan to get any better.
No kidding. My first thought was music notation. Then I thought that it probably wasn't that. Maybe it was about how using spaces is preferable if you want things to look right for everyone, since tab stops can be set differently. Was there really enough to say on the topic? I checked the article to find out. There wasn't, so the guy wrote about web browsers instead.
It's a piece of crap.
My sister won one of the Wal-Mart PCs in a raffle. I was not at all impressed by it. First of all, everything is run as root; there are no other users. There are no text virtual terminals. And there is almost no software installed by default. You have to download everything. For example, there is no gcc.
Supposedly, the click-and-run system lets users download whatever software they want easily. My sister didn't have much luck with it, however. She was able to download a calculator and KNotes. Everything else she tried to use failed to install. She tried to show me how it worked, but it couldn't even connect to the click-and-run server (I think that was what it was trying to do; I never saw it work).
I understand that you can use apt-get to install software on them, but I don't use debian, so I tried to look at the man page. But man wasn't installed.
And if you could get the click-and-run to work, you could only download 10 programs without paying $99 to subscribe.
As I said, I was not impressed.
Perhaps as the ice caps on the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaros melt, some traces of last years' expeditions to build a bridge between the two peaks will be found.
(There isn't a BoMP on Slashdots, is there?)
I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet. At the end, he gives a table of the bitrates for each song for each codec. The one with the greatest variation appears to be oggq0. I noticed that for the songs where that codec did well, the bitrate was much higher, and where it did poorly, it was much lower. I don't realy understand how the bitrate is chosen, but as I understand it, the encoder chooses it automatically somehow, right? I wonder how effective that really is.
What do you mean "by hand"? Surely whatever they use for source control allows changes to simply be migrated from one branch to another.
Are you sure it is "Vijay kumar", not "Vinay Kumar"? There is someone by the latter name who posts regularly to a usenet group I read, rec.sport.baseball. or is Kumar a pretty common name?
I suspect it would be much more fun for the lions.
It is kind of strange. I would think songs like "Say Hello 2 Heaven" would be a comfort to people. It was written as a way to work through the grief of the loss of a friend.
By the way, I am surprised that Soundgarden's "Limo Wreck" isn't on the list. Check out the lyrics.
That sounds like something that Joel and the Bots would watch.
I could consistently get about .203-.205.
Has anyone been able to get less than their blood alcohol level?
The baseball analogy weakens his case. You may hear it said that "The great teams win the close games", but this isn't true. Sabermetricians have found that close games are largely a toss-up. The baseball postseason system is actually a poor system of finding the best team. The greatest team will still lose to the worst team about once in every four games. Obviously, it is harder for an underdog to win a five or seven game series, but it is still very easy.
I'm just curious if anyone has been successful programming one of these or other BASIC Stamp II based robots by running the DOS software under DOSEMU? I tried running the program, and that works, but I don't have a robot yet, so I don't know if the downloading works.
I'm getting no response from the server.
That was fast.
I guess I wasn't the only one who thought of that.
OBPython: I saw Eric Idle's show last Thursday (As featured in a recent quickie). There was a parrot in it. (but not the dead parrot sketch). There was also the Penis Song.
What is the current status of the new movie? Is it still being worked on? Is there a script? I know Arthur was cast, has anybody else been? Has filming started? If not, when? And most importantly, when will it be in theaters?
Not quite. Word for Windows 2.0 was out at the same time as Word 5.0 (which was available for DOS). When Word 6.0 came out, they gave the Windows version the same number as the DOS version. So while the Windows version went from 2.0 to 6.0, Word for Windows 2.0 was not Word 2.0.
And y2k is about what? Knitting? No, it's about computers.
> "y2k" is happening this year. Duh.
Actually, it happens in 48 years. 1k is 1024. Duh.
Anyone know the rates for an Impression 3? It doesn't say on their web site. I tried mailing and they said "This monitor is more than 5 years old, I can find the spec. you are looking for. But I know monitor is equivalent to an IBM 8514 model under the Win95/98 monitor list. You can try using that driver or a standard vga driver."
Doesn't exactly help, does it?
Well, maybe not.
Untwisting a twist tie twisted by a right handed person might be the problem. The lefty may may end up twisting it more when he is trying to untwist it.
Also, on the subject of scissors, if I'm not mistaken, the issue isn't so much whether you are right handed or left handed, it is which way you want to make turns in the cut to go. Of course, Righties want to have the cut curve to the left, and lefties want it to curve to the right. I remember when I worked as an insulator for a summer and had to do some cutting of sheet metal. You need two cutters, one righty and one lefty, to make cuts that curve one way or the other.
It turned his brain into guacamole.
I called customer service, and was told that the simms only work right on motherboards with tx chipsets. Mine apparently has an hx chipset. They are letting me return them. I think I need to get a new computer, since this one is getting old, and I have had a number of problems with it.