E does what I tell it to do and gets the heck out of the way otherwise. That's something that Gnome and, to a lesser extent, KDE seem to have a real problem with. As far as XFCE, LXDE et al, dunno. I've used Enlightenment off and on for rather a long time, and haven't found it necessary to spend much time with the other lightweight desktop options.
In this argument, the phone system is analogous to the Internet, as a whole. When you're connected to the phone system, you can contact anyone else who's on the phone system, regardless of their local provider. Granted, you may have to may some sort of toll, if they don't use the same provider, or are geographically distant (depending on your provider). However, they're still accessible.
I've found that using pdflatex produces more compact pdf files and gets rid of the jaggies. I don't actually write in latex, just use Lyx and it has three options for creating pdf files. One of them being pdflatex.
On a side note, Lyx has saved me more time than I can count over the last three or four years. I hate having to run a word processor anymore. You end up having to micro-manage all the little details. If want that much fine tuning, I'll use a desktop publishing app. For writing talks and most anything, Lyx's document processing approach seems far superior. I've even got my resume in Lyx. Export it to plain text, pdf or ps and send it on it's way. Only hassel is when a recruiter insists on Word format, then I have to drag out OpenOffice and export it from there.
Lyx took a bit of getting used to, after years of fiddling every detail in various word processors. Once I figured out the HFill feature and the paragraph layout panels, though, I never looked back. I spend a lot of time writing outlines and it works awesome for that.
The vast majority of sperm killed by using a laptop on your lap are because the the heat buildup caused by sitting with your legs pressed together (something like 75% of the increase in temp). The laptop contributes relativley little to the heat buildup.
Any guy who routinely sits with his legs pressed together (as opposed to the common, more relaxed posture) runs a higher risk of infertility/low sperm count.
Researched the name? Hah! Have you ever seen how products get named in big companies?
It generally goes something like this: 1) developers work on product, calling it by one (informal) name 2) product gets close to release 3) marketing department sends out email to developers telling them they've come up with a name for the product, implying they'd like feedback 4) developers scream because the "formal" name is meaningless drivel that tells the user nothing 5) marketing department changes the name in a manner that has nothing to do with developer feedback, as all of that email went to/dev/null 6) repeat 3-4 until marketing department has a name they like 7) release product
The article says she made 10,000 copies and pre-sold 9,000. The album cost her $87,000 to make. She'd need to be selling them for at least $12 a pop to be getting much of anything back. That's assuming the $87k includes her production cost for the 10,000 CDs. In a small run, the packaging costs could easily run $2-3 per CD.
Her site has gone down in flames (no coral cache available), so I can't check how much she was charging. Granted, a jazz artist with her tallent is likely doing a fair amount of live performances, so the album's not her only source of income, but still . . .
What I'm waiting for is arrays of small lenses that are implanted around the eye, say in the skin above the orbital socket. Then have an implanted computer that uses interferometry to combine the images. Want to look at the night sky without heavy binoculars (or maybe even a telescope)? Done. Walking in the dark w/o tripping? Done.
The lense material would have to be really tough, though, so as to prevent scratching or breaking due to accidents and day to day wear. It'd really suck to have to get the lenses replaced because they kept getting scratched by your pillow case at night.
The traditional anise flavor can be a bit much. However, context is always important. That, and make sure you leave it in the freezer overnight.
I was introduced to aquavit by my grandfather (bedstefar), who was from Denmark (well, Bornholm, which ended up as Danish territory). I can't remember a single family gathering at their house that didn't end with at least a few toasts and aquavit. Don't even think about having smorgasboard without beer and aquavit. Man, just thinking about the rye bread, pickled herring, smoked ham, pickled onion, beer, aquavit and conversation has me salivating.
What I'd like is a version of the software that I can actually run on my system. Binaries only, and only Debian and Fedora at that. MY home system is neither of the above (started out as RH 9), and binary won't run on it. Ah, well, I'm too broke to be buying music right now anyway. Would have been nice to listen to a couple of the samples, though.
There's also the Chtorr. Implacable, unstoppable, avarice incarnate. You know, earth's still in the fixer-upper stage and just needs a bit of Chtorr-forming before it turns into a beautiful Craftsman style home on a sleepy, tree lined street with well trimmed lawns and flower beds full of daisies, daffodils, tulips and roses. Or whatever the Chtorr equivalent is.
I just wish Gerrold would finish the series. I can still remember the silent scream of anguish four or five years ago when I was done with "A Season for Slaughter" and realized it had been written three years before and number five was in limbo.
Not kidding. Try explaining that to the recruiters/hr people. Heck, I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere `cause my last vaguely stable job left me here w/o enough money to move on (and have anything for food, much less housing, after moving). Nobody even wants to talk because "you're too far away." So you manage to survive on whatever little bits of work you can find and the generosity of family and friends (who are all dealing with hard times themselves).
If I could find a bit of remote/telecommute contract work I could probably dig myself out, but no such luck yet.
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Yeah, I wouldn't actually consider it to be "piracy" if I downloaded an episode of a show that aired on a channel I get on my TV. I've already got legal access to it, it's not stealing for me to watch a copy that someone else was kind enough to record for me.
The only difference is that I could probably get a high quality, widescreen, version of it. This as opposed to the fuzzy crap that I get from my cable provider. I can actually get a clearer picture on several broadcast stations by plugging a pair of rabbit ears into my VCR/TV (despite the fact that I live over 40 miles from the nearest broadcast tower).
There's a heck of a lot more to "partying" than getting drunk and having sex with whomever is at hand. That tends to get old real fast (and so does anyone who lives that way for an extended period of time).
Mojolin initially looked to be pretty useful for people with Linux and other "Open Source" skills. I haven't visited there in some time, as it became apparent the companies posting jobs there weren't very interested in actually hiring people.
Perhaps that's changed, but I hardly have time for job searches anymore. Working as a temp at the USPS and sleep consume every bit of time I have (have to pay the bills somehow, and looking for Linux kernel or Perl work doesn't do it). Today, Veteran's Day, is the first non-Sunday day off I've had in ages.
In most cases, the "whump" is caused by turbines where the blades are downwind of the tower (as was often the case in older turbines). The "whump" get produced when a blade passes into/out of the wind shadow of the tower. Modern wind turbines are almost exclusively "up-wind" designs, which eliminates this source of noise.
Everything else aside, nuclear power is ludicrously expensive. In Kansas, part of our power comes from the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant. First, the power company had to raise rates to build the bloody thing. Now, they've raised rates several more times to try and pay off the rest of the construction expense and they're still losing money operating it. Anytime you let an "energy" company near a large, expensive, project like nuclear power, it seems to turn into a money pit.
What I'd really like to see is a functional fusion reactor. Until fusion reactors are a reality, nuclear power will never get past the combined burden of phenominal expense + the "now we've got to find someplace to safely store the waste, who wants to volunteer" factor.
Notice the height of the tower it's mounted on. The greater the height difference between the turbine and everything nearby (in this case, the ground) the greater the wind speed will be. Wind speeds at 50m above ground (the standard measure used for sighting commercial wind turbines) are significantly higher than at ground level.
Oddly enough, I use a very similar approach to diagramming the steps when I copy a recipe down. Ingedients grouped by when they are combined with each other, with the groupings indicated by brackets that are labeled with how they're combined. I usually write down notes at the bottom expounding any necessary details.
Started doing it that way when I was working on a recipe for vindaloo. The combination of spices is quite extensive, and not all of them are combined at the same time, so I ended up going with the above approach so I could easily figure things out the next time I made it.
Maybe it's just me, but I hate having a desktop covered with icons and all the other junk in other environments.
Hear hear! The whole taskbar and icons on the desktop issue is one of the reasons I don't run Gnome or KDE. Both projects have some great apps, but their desktop environments drive me crazy.
E gives me all the eye-candy I want w/o forcing the above on me. Though, I must say, there for a while it was a pain finding new themes that didn't go for the whole "must have task-bar" schtick. That was until I found the "Fossils of the Machine" theme. I was going to post a link to the author's website, but it seems to have gone away. Bummer.
I've been using Enlightenment as my WM for about 5 years now (after I got sick of AfterStep just not working often enough).
It got used on a PIII with 256MB RAM at work and an AMD K6-3 with 128 MB of RAM at home when I first started using it. These days, home and work have merged and E's running on an AthlonXP 1800 w/ 512MB of RAM. Definately faster response from E. The limiting factor these days isn't E, but not enough memory for some of the apps I run.
As best as I can tell, DR16.7.1 doesn't break support for other DR16.x theme releases. If you've got BlueSteel installed, and you configure Enlightenment to use the same themes directory as before, BlueSteel should still be usable. If the latter condition's not true, grab the BlueSteel theme from that section of the E file list on SF and there you go.
Yep. Never underestimate the ability of limited harddrive speeds to throw a wrench in file transfer speeds. I first ran across this while developing the Linux network driver for LSI's 1Gb & 2Gb Fibre Channel adapters. Spent a little while pulling hair before the whole "IDE drives on either end of a 2 Gigabit link might be an issue" point hit me. I found this to be an issue even while reading from and writing to 10K RPM FC drives. Had to use an FC RAID on both ends before I could saturate the network capacity with file transfers between only two systems.
If you really want to see what your network is capable of handling in raw bandwidth, try running large packet flood pings between each host. As a side note, this will also hammer the heck out of the corresponding network stacks.
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E does what I tell it to do and gets the heck out of the way otherwise. That's something that Gnome and, to a lesser extent, KDE seem to have a real problem with. As far as XFCE, LXDE et al, dunno. I've used Enlightenment off and on for rather a long time, and haven't found it necessary to spend much time with the other lightweight desktop options.
In this argument, the phone system is analogous to the Internet, as a whole. When you're connected to the phone system, you can contact anyone else who's on the phone system, regardless of their local provider. Granted, you may have to may some sort of toll, if they don't use the same provider, or are geographically distant (depending on your provider). However, they're still accessible.
Hmm. I have a Kickstarter account, but I haven't gotten a notification email, so far.
I've found that using pdflatex produces more compact pdf files and gets rid of the jaggies. I don't actually write in latex, just use Lyx and it has three options for creating pdf files. One of them being pdflatex.
On a side note, Lyx has saved me more time than I can count over the last three or four years. I hate having to run a word processor anymore. You end up having to micro-manage all the little details. If want that much fine tuning, I'll use a desktop publishing app. For writing talks and most anything, Lyx's document processing approach seems far superior. I've even got my resume in Lyx. Export it to plain text, pdf or ps and send it on it's way. Only hassel is when a recruiter insists on Word format, then I have to drag out OpenOffice and export it from there.
Lyx took a bit of getting used to, after years of fiddling every detail in various word processors. Once I figured out the HFill feature and the paragraph layout panels, though, I never looked back. I spend a lot of time writing outlines and it works awesome for that.
The vast majority of sperm killed by using a laptop on your lap are because the the heat buildup caused by sitting with your legs pressed together (something like 75% of the increase in temp). The laptop contributes relativley little to the heat buildup.
Any guy who routinely sits with his legs pressed together (as opposed to the common, more relaxed posture) runs a higher risk of infertility/low sperm count.
Researched the name? Hah! Have you ever seen how products get named in big companies?
/dev/null
It generally goes something like this:
1) developers work on product, calling it by one (informal) name
2) product gets close to release
3) marketing department sends out email to developers telling them they've come up with a name for the product, implying they'd like feedback
4) developers scream because the "formal" name is meaningless drivel that tells the user nothing
5) marketing department changes the name in a manner that has nothing to do with developer feedback, as all of that email went to
6) repeat 3-4 until marketing department has a name they like
7) release product
coral cache here
It's slowly filling, but looks like I got to it before the quintessenz server imploded.
The article says she made 10,000 copies and pre-sold 9,000. The album cost her $87,000 to make. She'd need to be selling them for at least $12 a pop to be getting much of anything back. That's assuming the $87k includes her production cost for the 10,000 CDs. In a small run, the packaging costs could easily run $2-3 per CD.
Her site has gone down in flames (no coral cache available), so I can't check how much she was charging. Granted, a jazz artist with her tallent is likely doing a fair amount of live performances, so the album's not her only source of income, but still . . .
What I'm waiting for is arrays of small lenses that are implanted around the eye, say in the skin above the orbital socket. Then have an implanted computer that uses interferometry to combine the images. Want to look at the night sky without heavy binoculars (or maybe even a telescope)? Done. Walking in the dark w/o tripping? Done.
The lense material would have to be really tough, though, so as to prevent scratching or breaking due to accidents and day to day wear. It'd really suck to have to get the lenses replaced because they kept getting scratched by your pillow case at night.
The traditional anise flavor can be a bit much. However, context is always important. That, and make sure you leave it in the freezer overnight.
I was introduced to aquavit by my grandfather (bedstefar), who was from Denmark (well, Bornholm, which ended up as Danish territory). I can't remember a single family gathering at their house that didn't end with at least a few toasts and aquavit. Don't even think about having smorgasboard without beer and aquavit. Man, just thinking about the rye bread, pickled herring, smoked ham, pickled onion, beer, aquavit and conversation has me salivating.
What I'd like is a version of the software that I can actually run on my system. Binaries only, and only Debian and Fedora at that. MY home system is neither of the above (started out as RH 9), and binary won't run on it. Ah, well, I'm too broke to be buying music right now anyway. Would have been nice to listen to a couple of the samples, though.
There's also the Chtorr. Implacable, unstoppable, avarice incarnate. You know, earth's still in the fixer-upper stage and just needs a bit of Chtorr-forming before it turns into a beautiful Craftsman style home on a sleepy, tree lined street with well trimmed lawns and flower beds full of daisies, daffodils, tulips and roses. Or whatever the Chtorr equivalent is.
I just wish Gerrold would finish the series. I can still remember the silent scream of anguish four or five years ago when I was done with "A Season for Slaughter" and realized it had been written three years before and number five was in limbo.
Not kidding. Try explaining that to the recruiters/hr people. Heck, I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere `cause my last vaguely stable job left me here w/o enough money to move on (and have anything for food, much less housing, after moving). Nobody even wants to talk because "you're too far away." So you manage to survive on whatever little bits of work you can find and the generosity of family and friends (who are all dealing with hard times themselves).
If I could find a bit of remote/telecommute contract work I could probably dig myself out, but no such luck yet.
Yeah, I wouldn't actually consider it to be "piracy" if I downloaded an episode of a show that aired on a channel I get on my TV. I've already got legal access to it, it's not stealing for me to watch a copy that someone else was kind enough to record for me.
The only difference is that I could probably get a high quality, widescreen, version of it. This as opposed to the fuzzy crap that I get from my cable provider. I can actually get a clearer picture on several broadcast stations by plugging a pair of rabbit ears into my VCR/TV (despite the fact that I live over 40 miles from the nearest broadcast tower).
There's a heck of a lot more to "partying" than getting drunk and having sex with whomever is at hand. That tends to get old real fast (and so does anyone who lives that way for an extended period of time).
Perhaps that's changed, but I hardly have time for job searches anymore. Working as a temp at the USPS and sleep consume every bit of time I have (have to pay the bills somehow, and looking for Linux kernel or Perl work doesn't do it). Today, Veteran's Day, is the first non-Sunday day off I've had in ages.
In most cases, the "whump" is caused by turbines where the blades are downwind of the tower (as was often the case in older turbines). The "whump" get produced when a blade passes into/out of the wind shadow of the tower. Modern wind turbines are almost exclusively "up-wind" designs, which eliminates this source of noise.
Everything else aside, nuclear power is ludicrously expensive. In Kansas, part of our power comes from the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant. First, the power company had to raise rates to build the bloody thing. Now, they've raised rates several more times to try and pay off the rest of the construction expense and they're still losing money operating it. Anytime you let an "energy" company near a large, expensive, project like nuclear power, it seems to turn into a money pit.
What I'd really like to see is a functional fusion reactor. Until fusion reactors are a reality, nuclear power will never get past the combined burden of phenominal expense + the "now we've got to find someplace to safely store the waste, who wants to volunteer" factor.
Notice the height of the tower it's mounted on. The greater the height difference between the turbine and everything nearby (in this case, the ground) the greater the wind speed will be. Wind speeds at 50m above ground (the standard measure used for sighting commercial wind turbines) are significantly higher than at ground level.
What's the price range on these puppies?
Oddly enough, I use a very similar approach to diagramming the steps when I copy a recipe down. Ingedients grouped by when they are combined with each other, with the groupings indicated by brackets that are labeled with how they're combined. I usually write down notes at the bottom expounding any necessary details.
Started doing it that way when I was working on a recipe for vindaloo. The combination of spices is quite extensive, and not all of them are combined at the same time, so I ended up going with the above approach so I could easily figure things out the next time I made it.
Hear hear! The whole taskbar and icons on the desktop issue is one of the reasons I don't run Gnome or KDE. Both projects have some great apps, but their desktop environments drive me crazy.
E gives me all the eye-candy I want w/o forcing the above on me. Though, I must say, there for a while it was a pain finding new themes that didn't go for the whole "must have task-bar" schtick. That was until I found the "Fossils of the Machine" theme. I was going to post a link to the author's website, but it seems to have gone away. Bummer.
I've been using Enlightenment as my WM for about 5 years now (after I got sick of AfterStep just not working often enough).
It got used on a PIII with 256MB RAM at work and an AMD K6-3 with 128 MB of RAM at home when I first started using it. These days, home and work have merged and E's running on an AthlonXP 1800 w/ 512MB of RAM. Definately faster response from E. The limiting factor these days isn't E, but not enough memory for some of the apps I run.
As best as I can tell, DR16.7.1 doesn't break support for other DR16.x theme releases. If you've got BlueSteel installed, and you configure Enlightenment to use the same themes directory as before, BlueSteel should still be usable. If the latter condition's not true, grab the BlueSteel theme from that section of the E file list on SF and there you go.
Yep. Never underestimate the ability of limited harddrive speeds to throw a wrench in file transfer speeds. I first ran across this while developing the Linux network driver for LSI's 1Gb & 2Gb Fibre Channel adapters. Spent a little while pulling hair before the whole "IDE drives on either end of a 2 Gigabit link might be an issue" point hit me. I found this to be an issue even while reading from and writing to 10K RPM FC drives. Had to use an FC RAID on both ends before I could saturate the network capacity with file transfers between only two systems.
If you really want to see what your network is capable of handling in raw bandwidth, try running large packet flood pings between each host. As a side note, this will also hammer the heck out of the corresponding network stacks.