And they're awesome. There are several different models on the original strandbeest website. However, the "animaris rhinoceros parvus" is quite fragile and quickly lost its "wings".
... but people keeps mentioning the dying earth series, Cugel and friends; and these are precisely the only four books from Vance that I didn't like much if at all. I found all of his marvellous inventions of many strange civilisations and customs so much more interesting; the space operas, the exotic adventures on strange worlds...
Back in 2008 the Aspire One was really excellent, contrary to the EeePC of the time it has a keyboard large enough for my big hands; the main culprit with it nowadays is the 512MB of RAM, which are not enough even for Firefox, and upgrading, though possible, is a terrible PITA. The 1225C comes with 2GB and a dual core, HT processor which gives it enough oomph to play back comfortably hi quality video from the HDMI to my TV (tried this last night).
I just bought a Ubuntu-preloaded Asus 1225C. It's really quite nice, cheap, but powerful enough, very light, and a good 6 to 7 hours of battery. I like it, it actually feels like good value for the (little) money, with a decent screen quality and size (1366x768); I was tired of my Acer Aspire One 1024x600 screen, really too cramped even for basic web browsing.
The Odyssey. Indisputably one of the best books ever. Quite geeky and excellent, Umberto Eco's "Foucault's pendulum" is one of these books I've reread regularly for 25 years.
For this purpose I'm using a wonderful perl script, fdupes.pl. I've tested it on many millions files, many terabytes filesystems and it works fine. I've found the original on perlmonks.org, but modified it to 1 skip symbolic links (a symlink is obviously identical to its target) 2 auto-delete dupes (after confirmation). For anyone interested, find the script here: http://pastebin.com/cMFbBjt9
They can be forgiven. Just about every movie computer since the 1950s has had to make some sort of buzzing, whirring or clacking noises.
Some electronics can be relatively noisy. Back in 1996, I remember clearly the SGI Indigo2 Extreme for that; whenever you moved a big 3D model on screen, you could clearly hear the graphic board hissing and buzzing.
> Lightman's computer has the same speech synthesizer as NORAD's.
Back then everyone used the same TI chip for speech synthesizers, so that's not much of a stretch. Anyway the speech synthesizer is just a useful gadget to avoid getting the actors to read the screen aloud constantly.
Nano is a monstrosity, none of its keyboard commands obey to any standard, be it apple style, windows style, emacs style. I hate nano with passion. You can learn to do everything that nano can ever be used for in emacs or vi in about 10 minutes.
Imagine that, your passengers may talk to you while you're driving, so they should make the conversation jammer mandatory too. For instance, you couldn't start the engine unless every people in the car is gagged with a special device.
In fact I now have a better idea. They should put an IQ tester inside the dashboard, and you couldn't start the engine if you're a moron. This was is a sure win!
I'm a European. From there, you have the choice between a center-right to right party (democrats), or a right to extreme-far-right party (the republicans). If I was a US citizen, I probably would need to be on drugs all day long to bear that but... whatever.
Please do the right thing. Go f***ing vote. And please vote well (i. e. not for the religious wingnuts, right-wing war mongerers, and Fox-News watchers).
Actually I found there are quite a lot of books I haven't enough time to write, that were quite nicely approximated by other people, saving me a lot of my precious hours. Isn't it wonderful?
I personally follow the habit to drive fast when it's harmless (on empty highways, for instance), without any consideration for the official limits, and I usually drive slowly, respecting the speed limit (or lower) where it makes sense. I drive more slowly near a school at hours where children may be around; I know there aren't any children leaving school at 22:00.
Why should something that's easy to do for about everyone be absolutely forbidden? In the 1900s, when the first motorcars began to appear, there were laws to forbid driving at more than 5 mph because it was so *friggin dangerously fast*. Someday, people won't even have the slightest grasp of understanding of why we couldn't replicate at will what can be replicated at no cost.
Software has been massively pirated for the last 40 years (remember the 1976 Bill Gates open letter to the "pirates"). No law changed it. Piracy isn't piracy, it's sharing and it's too fucking natural to ever change. And prohibition never worked. Share information!
Almost all of their tests involve working sets smaller than RAM (the installed RAM size is 4GB, but the working sets are 2GB). Are they testing the filesystems or the buffer cache? I don't see any indication that any of these filesystems are mounted with the "sync" flag.
Yup, obviously they're mounting all filesystems with default settings, which can clearly be misleading. Furthermore, testing on a single 250 GB SATA drive maybe isn't that meaningful. What they're benchmarking is desktop performance, for obviously server oriented FS like XFS, BTRFS and NILFS that simply doesn't make sense.
1) a configuration system like CFengine or Puppet. It will take care of configuring and updating the machines.
2) a web based monitoring interface. It will show you the system status. Something like Munin, Cacti, etc.
I first tried to install on my Pentium 133 PC, however I never managed to make room for Linux without breaking the existing windows 95 installation, then I had trouble getting the CD drive and hard drive working...
I forgot Linux for some time, because I didn't feel the need; in 1996 I had a nice SGI Indy, in 1997 I had a beefy Octane on my desktop and in 1998 I had an Octane, then an O2. However I finally installed successfully that good ol' slackware on a spare 486 machine (DX2 66Mhz 64MB RAM) I had lying around and it worked fantastically, so I set it as a small test server.
Shortly after that I finally managed to install RedHat 5 Linux alongside windows on my main PC. I kept using RedHat until RH 9, then switched to Slackware (for my personal desktop) and Debian (for server use).
Well, actually we're in a service oriented economy and right now, even selling hardware really boils down to actually provide service. Nobody can compete with Dell on the computer hardware side, anyway. Just on service.
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And they're awesome. There are several different models on the original strandbeest website. However, the "animaris rhinoceros parvus" is quite fragile and quickly lost its "wings".
... but people keeps mentioning the dying earth series, Cugel and friends; and these are precisely the only four books from Vance that I didn't like much if at all. I found all of his marvellous inventions of many strange civilisations and customs so much more interesting; the space operas, the exotic adventures on strange worlds...
Back in 2008 the Aspire One was really excellent, contrary to the EeePC of the time it has a keyboard large enough for my big hands; the main culprit with it nowadays is the 512MB of RAM, which are not enough even for Firefox, and upgrading, though possible, is a terrible PITA. The 1225C comes with 2GB and a dual core, HT processor which gives it enough oomph to play back comfortably hi quality video from the HDMI to my TV (tried this last night).
I just bought a Ubuntu-preloaded Asus 1225C. It's really quite nice, cheap, but powerful enough, very light, and a good 6 to 7 hours of battery. I like it, it actually feels like good value for the (little) money, with a decent screen quality and size (1366x768); I was tired of my Acer Aspire One 1024x600 screen, really too cramped even for basic web browsing.
The Odyssey. Indisputably one of the best books ever. Quite geeky and excellent, Umberto Eco's "Foucault's pendulum" is one of these books I've reread regularly for 25 years.
For this purpose I'm using a wonderful perl script, fdupes.pl. I've tested it on many millions files, many terabytes filesystems and it works fine. I've found the original on perlmonks.org, but modified it to 1 skip symbolic links (a symlink is obviously identical to its target) 2 auto-delete dupes (after confirmation). For anyone interested, find the script here: http://pastebin.com/cMFbBjt9
As far as I'm concerned, it's an urban legend.
Maybe an urban legend coming from Nintendo, to discourage hacking :)
I never heard a Speak and Spell with a female voice :)
They can be forgiven. Just about every movie computer since the 1950s has had to make some sort of buzzing, whirring or clacking noises.
Some electronics can be relatively noisy. Back in 1996, I remember clearly the SGI Indigo2 Extreme for that; whenever you moved a big 3D model on screen, you could clearly hear the graphic board hissing and buzzing.
> Lightman's computer has the same speech synthesizer as NORAD's.
Back then everyone used the same TI chip for speech synthesizers, so that's not much of a stretch. Anyway the speech synthesizer is just a useful gadget to avoid getting the actors to read the screen aloud constantly.
Nano is a monstrosity, none of its keyboard commands obey to any standard, be it apple style, windows style, emacs style. I hate nano with passion. You can learn to do everything that nano can ever be used for in emacs or vi in about 10 minutes.
Imagine that, your passengers may talk to you while you're driving, so they should make the conversation jammer mandatory too. For instance, you couldn't start the engine unless every people in the car is gagged with a special device.
In fact I now have a better idea. They should put an IQ tester inside the dashboard, and you couldn't start the engine if you're a moron. This was is a sure win!
or the progressive's , or far lefties who destroy America. You need to add.
Never saw any of them. Apparently either they don't actually exist, or they're helpless.
I tell whatever I fancy to whoever I want. Because I know better :)
I'm a European. From there, you have the choice between a center-right to right party (democrats), or a right to extreme-far-right party (the republicans). If I was a US citizen, I probably would need to be on drugs all day long to bear that but ... whatever.
Please do the right thing. Go f***ing vote. And please vote well (i. e. not for the religious wingnuts, right-wing war mongerers, and Fox-News watchers).
Thank you.
Actually I found there are quite a lot of books I haven't enough time to write, that were quite nicely approximated by other people, saving me a lot of my precious hours. Isn't it wonderful?
I personally follow the habit to drive fast when it's harmless (on empty highways, for instance), without any consideration for the official limits, and I usually drive slowly, respecting the speed limit (or lower) where it makes sense. I drive more slowly near a school at hours where children may be around; I know there aren't any children leaving school at 22:00.
Why should something that's easy to do for about everyone be absolutely forbidden? In the 1900s, when the first motorcars began to appear, there were laws to forbid driving at more than 5 mph because it was so *friggin dangerously fast*. Someday, people won't even have the slightest grasp of understanding of why we couldn't replicate at will what can be replicated at no cost.
Software has been massively pirated for the last 40 years (remember the 1976 Bill Gates open letter to the "pirates"). No law changed it. Piracy isn't piracy, it's sharing and it's too fucking natural to ever change. And prohibition never worked. Share information!
As said in the freely available e-book "against intellectual monopoly". I didn't write it, but it's well worth a read.
Almost all of their tests involve working sets smaller than RAM (the installed RAM size is 4GB, but the working sets are 2GB). Are they testing the filesystems or the buffer cache? I don't see any indication that any of these filesystems are mounted with the "sync" flag.
Yup, obviously they're mounting all filesystems with default settings, which can clearly be misleading. Furthermore, testing on a single 250 GB SATA drive maybe isn't that meaningful. What they're benchmarking is desktop performance, for obviously server oriented FS like XFS, BTRFS and NILFS that simply doesn't make sense.
1) a configuration system like CFengine or Puppet. It will take care of configuring and updating the machines.
2) a web based monitoring interface. It will show you the system status. Something like Munin, Cacti, etc.
I first tried to install on my Pentium 133 PC, however I never managed to make room for Linux without breaking the existing windows 95 installation, then I had trouble getting the CD drive and hard drive working...
I forgot Linux for some time, because I didn't feel the need; in 1996 I had a nice SGI Indy, in 1997 I had a beefy Octane on my desktop and in 1998 I had an Octane, then an O2. However I finally installed successfully that good ol' slackware on a spare 486 machine (DX2 66Mhz 64MB RAM) I had lying around and it worked fantastically, so I set it as a small test server.
Shortly after that I finally managed to install RedHat 5 Linux alongside windows on my main PC. I kept using RedHat until RH 9, then switched to Slackware (for my personal desktop) and Debian (for server use).
Yuck. A pure proprietary development toolchain on a pure proprietary platform, looks like a bad remake of IBM in the sixties.
Well, actually we're in a service oriented economy and right now, even selling hardware really boils down to actually provide service. Nobody can compete with Dell on the computer hardware side, anyway. Just on service.