Please note, I'm not saying 128Kbps is slow in an absolute sense - only that, in comparison to other broadband services, it cannot be called 'high speed'.
I live in Japan, and currently available broadband services here include:
BTW, the main advantage to having more bandwidth is not that you get higher transfer rates between you and a single server (although you may) - it's that you can increase the number of connections you make without sacrificing transfer rates on each of those connections.
I'd say the problem was that it was marketed as high speed broadband. While 128Kbps may technically be broadband, I don't think many people would consider it to be particularly high speed.
Be aware that it's possible for only one of the three primary colors to be dead, so it's always a good idea to check with a completely red/green/blue display as well as black and white. This makes it a lot easier to notice.
I spent around $US900 equivalent for my monitor in 1997, and I'm still using it. Sure, it's gotten a bit darker, but otherwise it's just as good as the day I hooked it up.
Really, a decent monitor should outlast any other component in your system.
You don't need to be a telco to have a box of that class. I'm at a stockbroker at the moment.
%/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 6800 System clock frequency: 150 MHz Memory size: 49152 Megabytes
You won't need a new power brick - 99% of laptops these days have universal power supplies. In any case, Japan is 100 volts, so most US gear works OK here anyway (although there are exceptions - I have a US-made external modem that refuses to connect without a 100V to 110V transformer attached).
Japanese power points are two vertical bars - IIRC, this matches the US standard, right?
There's little point in reasoning with you - you've already made up your mind, it would seem. I do suggest you go and get a good dictionary and look up the word 'elitist', though.
I might point out that you used expletives yourself, as well...
they kept saying things like "use the CLI" for that. Utterly ridiculous.
Hardly. It's common for a project with both a CLI and a GUI to have more functionality available via the CLI - it's just so much easier to add an extra option to the command line than to screw around with whatever graphical toolkit is being used for the GUI.
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Please note, I'm not saying 128Kbps is slow in an absolute sense - only that, in comparison to other broadband services, it cannot be called 'high speed'.
I live in Japan, and currently available broadband services here include:
ISDN - 64Kbps/128Kbps
Cable - 1Mbps/3Mbps
ADSL - 1.5Mbps/8Mbps/12Mbps
FTTH - 10Mbps/100Mbps
BTW, the main advantage to having more bandwidth is not that you get higher transfer rates between you and a single server (although you may) - it's that you can increase the number of connections you make without sacrificing transfer rates on each of those connections.
I'd say the problem was that it was marketed as high speed broadband. While 128Kbps may technically be broadband, I don't think many people would consider it to be particularly high speed.
In a couple of years, I'll be able to say "I was using Google when there were only 65,400,000 pages for 'b'". I'm sure you'll be jealous of me then.
Be aware that it's possible for only one of the three primary colors to be dead, so it's always a good idea to check with a completely red/green/blue display as well as black and white. This makes it a lot easier to notice.
$250? HAHAHAHA.
I spent around $US900 equivalent for my monitor in 1997, and I'm still using it. Sure, it's gotten a bit darker, but otherwise it's just as good as the day I hooked it up.
Really, a decent monitor should outlast any other component in your system.
You don't need to be a telco to have a box of that class. I'm at a stockbroker at the moment.
/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag
/N0/SB0/P0 0 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB0/P1 1 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB0/P2 2 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB0/P3 3 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB1/P0 4 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.1 /N0/SB1/P1 5 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.1 /N0/SB1/P2 6 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.1 /N0/SB1/P3 7 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.1 /N0/SB2/P0 8 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB2/P1 9 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB2/P2 10 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB2/P3 11 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB3/P0 12 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB3/P1 13 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB3/P2 14 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB3/P3 15 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB4/P0 16 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB4/P1 17 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB4/P2 18 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB4/P3 19 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB5/P0 20 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB5/P1 21 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB5/P2 22 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 /N0/SB5/P3 23 900 8.0 US-III+ 2.3 ...and we've got two of 'em.
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System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 6800
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 49152 Megabytes
= CPUs =
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You won't need a new power brick - 99% of laptops these days have universal power supplies. In any case, Japan is 100 volts, so most US gear works OK here anyway (although there are exceptions - I have a US-made external modem that refuses to connect without a 100V to 110V transformer attached).
Japanese power points are two vertical bars - IIRC, this matches the US standard, right?
I considered that meaning, and then discarded it because I thought no-one could possibly make such a stupid joke. Apparently, I was wrong.
Note that he said machines of that size and type. I've yet to see aversion of Windows that could run on a NUMA machine.
Oh bugger...
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Get a decent MUA, and it'll handle the threading for you.
I recommend Sylpheed.
Obviously, you've never heard of the PAGER environment variable...
/usr/local/bin/less
% setenv PAGER
Happy now?
Mod up. Booting up off the "Install" CD is the first and worst mistake a person who has no experience with Solaris installs can make.
Last time I looked, 'fuck' was an expletive. Perhaps you should read your own post again.
There's little point in reasoning with you - you've already made up your mind, it would seem. I do suggest you go and get a good dictionary and look up the word 'elitist', though.
I might point out that you used expletives yourself, as well...
Just remember to install FAAC/FAAD before the configure step if you actually want sound with your QT movies...
Elitist crap? More like sensible advice...
Honestly, WTF is elitist about reading the docs???
Grrr... that should have been 'mplayer -vo type filename'.
A couple of things to try...
$ mplayer -vo help
If you see any of these lines in the output,
xv X11/Xv
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
try them in this order:
xvidix
xv
dga
sdl
vesa
Command format is 'mplayer -vo filename', where type is from the list above.
Apologies if you've already tried this.
Well, a case could be made that WMP is "stealing" the QT and RP codecs just as much as mplayer is...
You might want to check again - I had a similar problem in rc4 that was fixed in rc5.
they kept saying things like "use the CLI" for that. Utterly ridiculous.
Hardly. It's common for a project with both a CLI and a GUI to have more functionality available via the CLI - it's just so much easier to add an extra option to the command line than to screw around with whatever graphical toolkit is being used for the GUI.
Thank you, that's exactly what I meant.
He specified encryption mechanism, *not* encryption key.
An open source security program would be exceptionally easy to bypass, I'd think, since you'd have direct access to any encryption mechanism used.
Well, I've got this little free software program called ssh - perhaps you'd like to try and crack it.