The reason so many x86 based servers run Intel CPU's is that Intel has managed to keep AMD out of the major PC manufacturer's server lines. Take any server oriented AMD based system (w/ a Mobo from, say, Tyan or Serverworks) and compare its stability with the stability of a comparable Intel system. Result: both tend to be rock solid. I worked in a testing lab for a maker of RAID systems and storage contollers. We rarely saw a difference in overall stability between AMD and Intel based server platforms.
I've been unable to determine whether it's my Radeon 8500 QL, or the VIA KT266A chipset on my motherboard, but DRI and OpenGL support are still non-functional for my 8500 using the Gatos drivers. If I don't make sure there's a `Option "nodri"' line in my XF86Config file, my monitor looses sync the moment I run startx.
That said, XV support in the Gatos drivers is fine, and watching a DVD or SVCD full-screen using MPlayer (or Xine) produces a system load of ~30%. Watching a 704x304 DivX;-) using aviplay produces a system load of only 3-4% (windowed or full-screen, the avifile programs are hands down the most efficient).
Huh. They must have changed their detection script. I haven't had an account w/ them for close to a year. Perhaps there were enough people expressing their displeasure (when I canceled my account, I listed my reason for leaving as being due to their lack of interest in support Linux based browsers).
I've used the following companies at various points in the past (and a few I still use):
Fleet Bank/Credit Services: refused to let me log in using a non-Windows browser. I closed my accounts w/ them specifically because they wouldn't even respond to queries regarding compatiblity issues w/ their website.
MBNA: No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. Didn't like the way they have bill payment setup on their website, but no problems accessing.
Citibank/AT&T Universal: They both use the same website (although you have to have separate login names). No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux.
Discover: No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. They were the first credit card company that I ever came across to allow online account access & bill payment (Citibank wasn't far behind them).
redit Union (local, one branch college credit union that I still use): No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. Mozilla occasionally has difficulties displaying the account history table (the first column will take up the entire width of the window, and the rest get crammed into tiny columns), reloading the page a few times will usually fix it.
In case you hadn't figured it out, these are all US based institutions.
Even better, if you're using Mozilla (don't know about other browsers), just right click on the ad image and select "Block images from this server." That's what I've done w/ doubleclick and a few other annoying ad server companies.
I'll occasionally end up w/ an empty block on the page where the ad would be, but usually don't even see that.
by sticking atennas and repeaters on top of granaries, water towers, and high buildings, wireless ISPs in Amarillo and the surrounds are getting *amazing* distances with their wireless shots. You can drive 30-40 miles away and still get a good clean connection via a pingle-can antenna.
That was the first thing I thought: you just need to set up ad hoc networks between people in a community, and do an end run around the cable/telephone companies. However, as soon as this starts happening, and the cable/telephone companies start losing noticable numbers of subscribers, guess what will happen. Reg-u-la-tion. The government agencies that deal with such issues, such as the FCC, are in the pocket of the companies they're supposed to regulate. Neither the agencies nor the elected officials are about to let their pay-masters take a bullet.
Perhaps he wants to keep form tossing a CD-R into the landfill every time he burns a [S]VCD. If he's getting 30-40 burns per CDRW before tossing it, that's 29-39 fewer disks of plastic, aluminum and die that end up on the trash heap.
This way, if his family member (who he's burning the shows for) wants a "permanent" archive, he can still reburn to a CDR and put the CDRW back on the blank stack.
What I want to know is which DVD player he's using to view the [S]VCD's. I recently bought a GoVideo DVD+VCR combo for my folks, and out of curiousity, tried burning some SVCD's & VCD's and playing them. I'll have to take GoVideo/SonicBlue at their word that it will play "commercially produced" [S]VCDs, as it sure couldn't play the ones I burned to CDRs.
Unless you're the battery industry. In which case, it would seem like a good idea to come up w/ fuel cells that fit into standard battery form factors. That way, you don't get completely cut out of the action.
An external tuner *might* work, but it misses the point that once HDTV becomes the norm, the content won't be shot for a 3x4 ratio, but a 16x9. Much of the essential action in a scene may be out of the 3x4 ratio viewing area. So you may be able to use your old set, but what good will it do you?
Letterboxing. Have the converter do the same thing you see w/ "widescreen" and letterboxed 16:9 broadcasts on non-widescreen TVs.
"John Doe" isn't a Bourne Identity rip off, it's a rip off of "Pretender," "Now & Again," "Bourne Identity" and twenty zillion other "I don't really know who the heck I am, but I'm a genius at everything" stories.
That said, having watched both Firefly and John Doe, I prefered John Doe. Better lighting, less ER camera work, less soap opera style makeup, etc.
Firefly will probably turn out to be ok, but I'd still rather have Dark Angel. Fox sucks.
Well, 8 Mb (megabits) doesn't necessarilly = 1 MB (megabyte). When measured in bits, kilo usually means 1000 and mega = 1000^2. When measured in bytes, kilo = 1024 and mega = 1024^2. So, 8 Mb = (8*1000^2)/(8*1024^2) =.9536 MB (or 976.56 KB).
I've got a Cable Modem hookup from Cox Cable in Wichita, KS. They previously used Roadrunner and now they do their own internet access. In both instances, I got 3 Mbs. Just before I signed up, they had dropped their download caps from 10 Mbs to 3 Mbs. I run Linux, and, with sites that have the bandwidth, I can sustain 350 KB/s, with peaks of 450 KB/s (any time of the day, I've never noticed a difference in what my connection can sustain based on time of day). I wasn't aware that it was common to have caps set lower. I'm looking to move back to Washington state, and now I hope I can find a provider that's got 3 Mbs caps.
Try actually reading the article. One: they've already done it. Two: it's not the entire inside area of the microwave that's reaching those tempuratures, just the area inside several layers of material that convert microwaves to heat, plus the interior surfaces of the microwave have been layered with insulation to protect them.
Yes, but all of these "failures" (if they actually have failed), are in areas where Microsoft was taking on existing markets with entrenched players, who, for the most part had/have deep pockets. In the DRM/Palladium/etc. market, there's almost no existing players in the PC arena and those that are already there (such as the big "content" providers) will mostly be supportive of such efforts.
Having a super wicked immune system would no doubt be great, but since neiter VX gas or knife/gunshot wounds are diseases, it wouldn't do you much good. Now, on the Anthrax/Ebola/E. Cholae front, it would certainly be a good thing.
So, corporations settle on standards based, not on what would provide the consumer with the best product or service, but what will provide the corporate officers and shareholders with the most loot. This is what makes America great? Now, I'll grant you, such attitudes and patterns of action have shaped American society greatly, but I would hardly consider that part of American/Western culture to be "great" in the sense of being excellent.
True, "-q7" with Ogg will give excellent quality. I was going to run a quick test, but it looks like Red-Carpet toasted my userland OggVorbis tools package when I ran it a couple of days back.
The only other thing in the way is the lack of Ogg capable portable players. I've looked all over the place, but couldn't find one. I'll probably be buying an Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 in a few weeks.
I'll freely admit that I've downloaded "a few" mp3s. I listen to them and, if I don't like them, I delete them (no supprise there). If I do like them, I buy the CD. When I was in college, I bought something like $100-$250 dollars of CDs a year, usually during the summer, when I had more money. These days, it's closer to $300-$400 in music.
I buy almost exclusively from cdconnection.com; excellent selection and prices. I can occasionally find a lower price elsewhere, but the total price per order has always been lower.
I'm not interested in ripping off the musicians I like enough to listen to. Don't much care about what happens to the music execs. They can all live in their cars and beg for food, the leeches.
I'd pay for an mp3 that'd been encoded with lame using the "--r3mix" switch. An extra insentive would be using "-b112," but it's not necessary (I highly doubt I have the sort of "golden ears" that would pick up the difference). I'd also go for ogg encoded songs, the quality can be quite good, but it's not as easy to get right as with the "--r3mix" switch.
From the perspective of someone who's had to spend months in the past figuring out how each distro's "install new/updated driver during installation" procedure is supposed to work, how and why it's broken and how to work around the bugs in it, this is a good thing. I formerly worked for a company that needed to be able to use our driver to install to non-SCSI, non-IDE disks (although they show up as SCSI once our driver is loaded). It took ages to get our driver included in the kernel, and then there was still the problem that it wasn't included in the installers boot disk, or we needed to supply updated versions, etc. I spent far too much time trying to decypher/document the procedure for the various distros. Hopefully, the new, unified, distro will use the SuSE facility to update drivers during install. It proved, by far, the most powerful and flexible of any that I came across.
The Salon piece focused mainly on how much female fans liked the Daniel Jackson character, but I've got to say he's one of my favorites as well. It's a tie between him and "Sam"; must be my identifying w/ geeks. I'm watching the syndicated broadcasts and am just now getting the switch to consiracy-theory type stories. They're ok every now and then, but definately not why I watch the show. This sucks.
During 7-12 grades (U.S. school system), I read ~1.28 books per day (calculated by taking the maximum books out at one time for the county library system, 18, and divided by the number of days between visits to the library, 14). Most of those books were between 200 and 800 pages. So, during those 6 years, I read something like 2815 books of various types (sf, mystery, spy, western, poetry, physics, astronomy, photography theory, music theory, biography, psychology, theology, etc). I doubt I'm alone in that respect. Junior high and high school presented little challenge (something that I later paid for, as I never really learned how to study until I got to college), and I spent most of my time in class and out of class reading. It's amazing how quickly books go by when you spend hours every day reading.
I've since slowed down somewhat, as college and, now, work don't allow nearly as much time to read, a fact that I often regret.
"Ahhhhh! No, not that! Why would we want to find out what the users want and use? We might have to think then!"
I'm sure there are IT/IS departments out there that are intelligent and responsive. I just haven't found one. My latest example: the IS department where I work just rolled out a web page that allows someone who is using a machine that's not logged into the Windows Domain (i.e. someone running a Linux system) to change their domain password. The domain password for the main WIndows Domain is used for all IS run file servers and also for email accounts (we have the privilege of using Exchange server for email). So, this a good thing, right? Wrong. Why is that, you ask? Because this webpage only works if you're running IE on Windows. Turns out that the only reason for this page is for people who are remotely logged into the network (and thus are in a different domain). So, I email IS to ask them about this, and their response was that IE was the "Corprate Standard", now go away. Never mind that they could just ask for the username and current domain password before allowing changes, rather than using some funky "WWW-Authenticate" method, that might make things easier.
Are you a parent? It's easy to criticise others, without understanding their particular situations.
Yes it is easy to critisize other w/o understanding their particular situations. I realise that many people feel an overwhelming need to have children that are direct biological decendants, yet are unable to w/o assitence. I am sorrowed by their pain. Have you examined your own reaction?
Am I a parent? No. That said, I have known several people who were raised by adoptive parents. One of them would very much like to know who their biological parents were/are for a sense of closure and knowing where they come from, but still feel that their adoptive parents are their "true" parents, as they are the ones who cared for them, laghed with them, cried with them, reasoned with them, and took the time and energy to care about the need of someone they had never met. The other person expresses a compelte lack of desire to find his biological parents.
Finally, who the hell are you to tell me, whether I should or should not use a particular medical procedure?
Excuse me? At what point did I say that you should or should not use IVF? Or cloning for that matter? Might I point out, that, w/o extraordinary effort and expense, those cells will never become a person, whereas the cells making up an embryo "merely" require that they be placed in a receptive uterous (admittedly not a cheap thing either) in order to have a chance at growing into a complete human.
Perhaps you assume that, because I feel the destruction of "leftover" embryos for the purpose of getting stem cells is wrong, I also am a reactionary, anti-science, get rid of all reproductive research kind of person? If so, you couldn't be farther from the truth.
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The reason so many x86 based servers run Intel CPU's is that Intel has managed to keep AMD out of the major PC manufacturer's server lines. Take any server oriented AMD based system (w/ a Mobo from, say, Tyan or Serverworks) and compare its stability with the stability of a comparable Intel system. Result: both tend to be rock solid. I worked in a testing lab for a maker of RAID systems and storage contollers. We rarely saw a difference in overall stability between AMD and Intel based server platforms.
I've been unable to determine whether it's my Radeon 8500 QL, or the VIA KT266A chipset on my motherboard, but DRI and OpenGL support are still non-functional for my 8500 using the Gatos drivers. If I don't make sure there's a `Option "nodri"' line in my XF86Config file, my monitor looses sync the moment I run startx.
That said, XV support in the Gatos drivers is fine, and watching a DVD or SVCD full-screen using MPlayer (or Xine) produces a system load of ~30%. Watching a 704x304 DivX;-) using aviplay produces a system load of only 3-4% (windowed or full-screen, the avifile programs are hands down the most efficient).
Huh. They must have changed their detection script. I haven't had an account w/ them for close to a year. Perhaps there were enough people expressing their displeasure (when I canceled my account, I listed my reason for leaving as being due to their lack of interest in support Linux based browsers).
I've used the following companies at various points in the past (and a few I still use):
Fleet Bank/Credit Services: refused to let me log in using a non-Windows browser. I closed my accounts w/ them specifically because they wouldn't even respond to queries regarding compatiblity issues w/ their website.
MBNA: No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. Didn't like the way they have bill payment setup on their website, but no problems accessing.
Citibank/AT&T Universal: They both use the same website (although you have to have separate login names). No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux.
Discover: No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. They were the first credit card company that I ever came across to allow online account access & bill payment (Citibank wasn't far behind them).
redit Union (local, one branch college credit union that I still use): No problems using either Netscape 4.x or Mozilla for Linux. Mozilla occasionally has difficulties displaying the account history table (the first column will take up the entire width of the window, and the rest get crammed into tiny columns), reloading the page a few times will usually fix it.
In case you hadn't figured it out, these are all US based institutions.
Even better, if you're using Mozilla (don't know about other browsers), just right click on the ad image and select "Block images from this server." That's what I've done w/ doubleclick and a few other annoying ad server companies.
I'll occasionally end up w/ an empty block on the page where the ad would be, but usually don't even see that.
That was the first thing I thought: you just need to set up ad hoc networks between people in a community, and do an end run around the cable/telephone companies. However, as soon as this starts happening, and the cable/telephone companies start losing noticable numbers of subscribers, guess what will happen. Reg-u-la-tion. The government agencies that deal with such issues, such as the FCC, are in the pocket of the companies they're supposed to regulate. Neither the agencies nor the elected officials are about to let their pay-masters take a bullet.
Perhaps he wants to keep form tossing a CD-R into the landfill every time he burns a [S]VCD. If he's getting 30-40 burns per CDRW before tossing it, that's 29-39 fewer disks of plastic, aluminum and die that end up on the trash heap.
This way, if his family member (who he's burning the shows for) wants a "permanent" archive, he can still reburn to a CDR and put the CDRW back on the blank stack.
What I want to know is which DVD player he's using to view the [S]VCD's. I recently bought a GoVideo DVD+VCR combo for my folks, and out of curiousity, tried burning some SVCD's & VCD's and playing them. I'll have to take GoVideo/SonicBlue at their word that it will play "commercially produced" [S]VCDs, as it sure couldn't play the ones I burned to CDRs.
The SVCD spec does include subtitles. However, the existing linux software to create bin & cue files (vcdimager) doesn't yet deal w/ subtitles.
Unless you're the battery industry. In which case, it would seem like a good idea to come up w/ fuel cells that fit into standard battery form factors. That way, you don't get completely cut out of the action.
Letterboxing. Have the converter do the same thing you see w/ "widescreen" and letterboxed 16:9 broadcasts on non-widescreen TVs.
"John Doe" isn't a Bourne Identity rip off, it's a rip off of "Pretender," "Now & Again," "Bourne Identity" and twenty zillion other "I don't really know who the heck I am, but I'm a genius at everything" stories.
That said, having watched both Firefly and John Doe, I prefered John Doe. Better lighting, less ER camera work, less soap opera style makeup, etc.
Firefly will probably turn out to be ok, but I'd still rather have Dark Angel. Fox sucks.
Well, 8 Mb (megabits) doesn't necessarilly = 1 MB (megabyte). When measured in bits, kilo usually means 1000 and mega = 1000^2. When measured in bytes, kilo = 1024 and mega = 1024^2. So, 8 Mb = (8*1000^2)/(8*1024^2) = .9536 MB (or 976.56 KB).
Pedantic, yes, but a helpful thing to remember.
I've got a Cable Modem hookup from Cox Cable in Wichita, KS. They previously used Roadrunner and now they do their own internet access. In both instances, I got 3 Mbs. Just before I signed up, they had dropped their download caps from 10 Mbs to 3 Mbs. I run Linux, and, with sites that have the bandwidth, I can sustain 350 KB/s, with peaks of 450 KB/s (any time of the day, I've never noticed a difference in what my connection can sustain based on time of day). I wasn't aware that it was common to have caps set lower. I'm looking to move back to Washington state, and now I hope I can find a provider that's got 3 Mbs caps.
Try actually reading the article. One: they've already done it. Two: it's not the entire inside area of the microwave that's reaching those tempuratures, just the area inside several layers of material that convert microwaves to heat, plus the interior surfaces of the microwave have been layered with insulation to protect them.
Yes, but all of these "failures" (if they actually have failed), are in areas where Microsoft was taking on existing markets with entrenched players, who, for the most part had/have deep pockets. In the DRM/Palladium/etc. market, there's almost no existing players in the PC arena and those that are already there (such as the big "content" providers) will mostly be supportive of such efforts.
Having a super wicked immune system would no doubt be great, but since neiter VX gas or knife/gunshot wounds are diseases, it wouldn't do you much good. Now, on the Anthrax/Ebola/E. Cholae front, it would certainly be a good thing.
So, corporations settle on standards based, not on what would provide the consumer with the best product or service, but what will provide the corporate officers and shareholders with the most loot. This is what makes America great? Now, I'll grant you, such attitudes and patterns of action have shaped American society greatly, but I would hardly consider that part of American/Western culture to be "great" in the sense of being excellent.
True, "-q7" with Ogg will give excellent quality. I was going to run a quick test, but it looks like Red-Carpet toasted my userland OggVorbis tools package when I ran it a couple of days back.
The only other thing in the way is the lack of Ogg capable portable players. I've looked all over the place, but couldn't find one. I'll probably be buying an Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 in a few weeks.
Hear, hear!
I'll freely admit that I've downloaded "a few" mp3s. I listen to them and, if I don't like them, I delete them (no supprise there). If I do like them, I buy the CD. When I was in college, I bought something like $100-$250 dollars of CDs a year, usually during the summer, when I had more money. These days, it's closer to $300-$400 in music.
I buy almost exclusively from cdconnection.com; excellent selection and prices. I can occasionally find a lower price elsewhere, but the total price per order has always been lower.
I'm not interested in ripping off the musicians I like enough to listen to. Don't much care about what happens to the music execs. They can all live in their cars and beg for food, the leeches.
I'd pay for an mp3 that'd been encoded with lame using the "--r3mix" switch. An extra insentive would be using "-b112," but it's not necessary (I highly doubt I have the sort of "golden ears" that would pick up the difference). I'd also go for ogg encoded songs, the quality can be quite good, but it's not as easy to get right as with the "--r3mix" switch.
From the perspective of someone who's had to spend months in the past figuring out how each distro's "install new/updated driver during installation" procedure is supposed to work, how and why it's broken and how to work around the bugs in it, this is a good thing. I formerly worked for a company that needed to be able to use our driver to install to non-SCSI, non-IDE disks (although they show up as SCSI once our driver is loaded). It took ages to get our driver included in the kernel, and then there was still the problem that it wasn't included in the installers boot disk, or we needed to supply updated versions, etc. I spent far too much time trying to decypher/document the procedure for the various distros. Hopefully, the new, unified, distro will use the SuSE facility to update drivers during install. It proved, by far, the most powerful and flexible of any that I came across.
The Salon piece focused mainly on how much female fans liked the Daniel Jackson character, but I've got to say he's one of my favorites as well. It's a tie between him and "Sam"; must be my identifying w/ geeks. I'm watching the syndicated broadcasts and am just now getting the switch to consiracy-theory type stories. They're ok every now and then, but definately not why I watch the show. This sucks.
Perhaps he is/was.
During 7-12 grades (U.S. school system), I read ~1.28 books per day (calculated by taking the maximum books out at one time for the county library system, 18, and divided by the number of days between visits to the library, 14). Most of those books were between 200 and 800 pages. So, during those 6 years, I read something like 2815 books of various types (sf, mystery, spy, western, poetry, physics, astronomy, photography theory, music theory, biography, psychology, theology, etc). I doubt I'm alone in that respect. Junior high and high school presented little challenge (something that I later paid for, as I never really learned how to study until I got to college), and I spent most of my time in class and out of class reading. It's amazing how quickly books go by when you spend hours every day reading.
I've since slowed down somewhat, as college and, now, work don't allow nearly as much time to read, a fact that I often regret.
"Ahhhhh! No, not that! Why would we want to find out what the users want and use? We might have to think then!"
I'm sure there are IT/IS departments out there that are intelligent and responsive. I just haven't found one. My latest example: the IS department where I work just rolled out a web page that allows someone who is using a machine that's not logged into the Windows Domain (i.e. someone running a Linux system) to change their domain password. The domain password for the main WIndows Domain is used for all IS run file servers and also for email accounts (we have the privilege of using Exchange server for email). So, this a good thing, right? Wrong. Why is that, you ask? Because this webpage only works if you're running IE on Windows. Turns out that the only reason for this page is for people who are remotely logged into the network (and thus are in a different domain). So, I email IS to ask them about this, and their response was that IE was the "Corprate Standard", now go away. Never mind that they could just ask for the username and current domain password before allowing changes, rather than using some funky "WWW-Authenticate" method, that might make things easier.
Yes it is easy to critisize other w/o understanding their particular situations. I realise that many people feel an overwhelming need to have children that are direct biological decendants, yet are unable to w/o assitence. I am sorrowed by their pain. Have you examined your own reaction?
Am I a parent? No. That said, I have known several people who were raised by adoptive parents. One of them would very much like to know who their biological parents were/are for a sense of closure and knowing where they come from, but still feel that their adoptive parents are their "true" parents, as they are the ones who cared for them, laghed with them, cried with them, reasoned with them, and took the time and energy to care about the need of someone they had never met. The other person expresses a compelte lack of desire to find his biological parents.
Excuse me? At what point did I say that you should or should not use IVF? Or cloning for that matter? Might I point out, that, w/o extraordinary effort and expense, those cells will never become a person, whereas the cells making up an embryo "merely" require that they be placed in a receptive uterous (admittedly not a cheap thing either) in order to have a chance at growing into a complete human.
Perhaps you assume that, because I feel the destruction of "leftover" embryos for the purpose of getting stem cells is wrong, I also am a reactionary, anti-science, get rid of all reproductive research kind of person? If so, you couldn't be farther from the truth.