Try using the type-break commands in Emacs... look at the commands on M-x help a help-break or just do M-x type-break It even shows you lots of exciting 'screensavers' during the break!
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That's what emacs is for... let's start a competition here to see who knows the most keystrokes!!
No mention anywhere in the trailer of the whole point of the journey!!
Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
This is ridiculous!! Why on earth do you need a P3 or Celeron to just do mp3s?? And 64mb of ram? I'm building an mp3 player for my car, and it uses a Pentium 90 . That is more than enough. Granted, it won't rip a CD in anything like 5 minutes, but I personally would be very impressed at a decent rip in 5 minutes... let's just hope it sounds half-way decent!
Does anybody know about the intelligence of Linux disk caching routines? Are there patches out there that will adapt themselves over time to minimise hard disk usage (like noflushd but cleverer) and thus make my system quieter?
You obviously never played Zarch on the Acorn Archimedes. One of the best games I've ever played: great control system (really sorts out the men from the boys) and good gameplay.. easily spiced up with a cheat module!! There is a binary only version for linux in the making, but I haven't seen much change over the last year.
It was quite a feat though to control a spacecraft in three dimensions using the mouse, and not everyone could do it. But great when you could.
I think the point is that turbine engines are quieter than normal motorbikes, and so the military can get a lot closer before they are identified as hostile.
I'm slightly concerned about bandwidth and processing power. I would definitely buy a Hauuppage card (or other?) if I was sure it wa going to work in Linux and well. I know you say your ISA card works fine, but then what is the advantage of PCI over ISA? Can I get better quality with PCI in any way?
If I back up DVDs, FlaskMPEG in WIndows does about 5 fps using the DivX codec for approx 1000kbps (I think). I have a Duron 700 with loads of RAM. What sort of compression rate could I expect to encode in real time?
There was a similar Jedi religion email going around England in the weeks before our census at the end of April. I haven't heard any feedback yet as to whether the Force is now recognised!
Seeing as both New Zealand and Australia are part of the Commonwealth, does anybody know of any similarities between the censuses (censi?)
Surely the aim of this research is to see how small it is possible to go and then make it larger?
Now that it has been shown how to make such a very small robot, the techiniques &. learnt can be used to make more practical robots the next size up, with more power, commmunications and logic systems.
Anti-aliasing has been STANDARD on the Acorn computers since oh, 1987. It makes word-processing or DTP so much easier when you can actually read text at 6pt or whatever, instead of PageMaker's 'greeking'. Acorns didn't need greeking: it was almost always legible.
Where's anti-aliasing as standard for Linux? I won't even mention StarOffice's dismal font display!
The most elegant simple language was BBC BASIC, written by Acorn and used for the official BBC computers. Very simple, yet could do some amazing things, especially given it was written at the end of the 1970s. Here we go:
Audio requires a lot less quality? What rot! Check out any *.rec.audio* newsgroup and the web to find a huge amount of flaming &c. about the quality of CD audio. The reason it appears to allow more space on the disc is because (IIRC!) the error checking capabilities of the CD standards are used in a different way, so freeing up lots of bits.
Well, ReiserFS is included in various distributions right now. I don't use it, because I'm on RedHat, which for me does everything I need. Can anyone actually using ReiserFS give any problems - any data loss?
Anyway, how easy is changing over from ext2- and if I were to run it how transparent is it to the user?
I use LaTeX for my maths notes in lectures, because of the speed at which I can type the equations on my Psion. Then I transfer it to my Linux home machine, and create the postscript files et cetera there. The secret to saving time is to write a very small ten line bash script to recompile the source every time it changes (i.e. is saved) and then make sure that gsview is set up to check for postscript file changes. Jolly simple, and it took me about a minute to write. I may upload it to my website sometime over Christmas.
XML is a real pain to read with Emacs or anything else. I much prefer a choice between the fancy program config routines or to just edit in a text editor.
Anyway, what's wrong with nesting by indentation? C has been doing it for quite a few years and no-one I know has complained... Are there any languages left that don't condone indentation?
On the Acorn machines running RISC OS, the
operating system was in ROM, and it booted up
extremely quickly compared to Win/Mac machines
of the time. The roms were slow however, compared
to RAM, so a neat trick to speed up interpreted
BASIC (BBC BASIC - original and best!) programs
was to copy the BASIC module into RAM - I think
with the "*RMFaster BASIC" command!
I wrote a quick C program (gaps.c) to do all this for me after my uni exams finished this month: it can be downloaded from here, and example pages can be found on my Demon site: http://www.morants.demon.co.uk in the gap year section, labelled as "New Version"s. It is quite simple to use - all documentation in the source file itself!
Given lots of JPEGs in a directory, running gaps -new in the directory will make a thumb/ directory of thumbnails, and a webpage!
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Try using the type-break commands in Emacs... look at the commands on M-x help a help-break or just do M-x type-break It even shows you lots of exciting 'screensavers' during the break!
That's what emacs is for... let's start a competition here to see who knows the most keystrokes!!
No mention anywhere in the trailer of the whole point of the journey!!
Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
This is ridiculous!! Why on earth do you need a P3 or Celeron to just do mp3s?? And 64mb of ram? I'm building an mp3 player for my car, and it uses a Pentium 90 . That is more than enough. Granted, it won't rip a CD in anything like 5 minutes, but I personally would be very impressed at a decent rip in 5 minutes... let's just hope it sounds half-way decent!
And how about the serious grammatical error concerning the last two sentences: they should be joined as one.
Get two.
Does anybody know about the intelligence of Linux disk caching routines? Are there patches out there that will adapt themselves over time to minimise hard disk usage (like noflushd but cleverer) and thus make my system quieter?
You obviously never played Zarch on the Acorn Archimedes. One of the best games I've ever played: great control system (really sorts out the men from the boys) and good gameplay.. easily spiced up with a cheat module!! There is a binary only version for linux in the making, but I haven't seen much change over the last year.
It was quite a feat though to control a spacecraft in three dimensions using the mouse, and not everyone could do it. But great when you could.
I think the point is that turbine engines are quieter than normal motorbikes, and so the military can get a lot closer before they are identified as hostile.
I'm slightly concerned about bandwidth and processing power. I would definitely buy a Hauuppage card (or other?) if I was sure it wa going to work in Linux and well. I know you say your ISA card works fine, but then what is the advantage of PCI over ISA? Can I get better quality with PCI in any way?
If I back up DVDs, FlaskMPEG in WIndows does about 5 fps using the DivX codec for approx 1000kbps (I think). I have a Duron 700 with loads of RAM. What sort of compression rate could I expect to encode in real time?
There was a similar Jedi religion email going around England in the weeks before our census at the end of April. I haven't heard any feedback yet as to whether the Force is now recognised!
Seeing as both New Zealand and Australia are part of the Commonwealth, does anybody know of any similarities between the censuses (censi?)
You mean cat surely?!
Honoured to be a "crypto-head"!
Err... do-able? 2 inches?
Surely the aim of this research is to see how small it is possible to go and then make it larger?
Now that it has been shown how to make such a very small robot, the techiniques &. learnt can be used to make more practical robots the next size up, with more power, commmunications and logic systems.
Anti-aliasing has been STANDARD on the Acorn computers since oh, 1987. It makes word-processing or DTP so much easier when you can actually read text at 6pt or whatever, instead of PageMaker's 'greeking'. Acorns didn't need greeking: it was almost always legible.
Where's anti-aliasing as standard for Linux? I won't even mention StarOffice's dismal font display!
The most elegant simple language was BBC BASIC, written by Acorn and used for the official BBC computers. Very simple, yet could do some amazing things, especially given it was written at the end of the 1970s. Here we go:
PRINT"Hello World."That's it!
Surely this is similar to the case of XEmacs/Lucid splitting up from GNU Emacs? Can anyone better qualified to explain do so?
Audio requires a lot less quality? What rot! Check out any *.rec.audio* newsgroup and the web to find a huge amount of flaming &c. about the quality of CD audio. The reason it appears to allow more space on the disc is because (IIRC!) the error checking capabilities of the CD standards are used in a different way, so freeing up lots of bits.
Anyway, how easy is changing over from ext2- and if I were to run it how transparent is it to the user?
I use LaTeX for my maths notes in lectures, because of the speed at which I can type the equations on my Psion. Then I transfer it to my Linux home machine, and create the postscript files et cetera there. The secret to saving time is to write a very small ten line bash script to recompile the source every time it changes (i.e. is saved) and then make sure that gsview is set up to check for postscript file changes. Jolly simple, and it took me about a minute to write. I may upload it to my website sometime over Christmas.
XML is a real pain to read with Emacs or anything else. I much prefer a choice between the fancy program config routines or to just edit in a text editor.
Anyway, what's wrong with nesting by indentation? C has been doing it for quite a few years and no-one I know has complained... Are there any languages left that don't condone indentation?
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Surely if everybody used a proper web proxy
with a decent cache like an ISP's or JANET's,
then this would be much less of a problem?
On the Acorn machines running RISC OS, the
operating system was in ROM, and it booted up
extremely quickly compared to Win/Mac machines
of the time. The roms were slow however, compared
to RAM, so a neat trick to speed up interpreted
BASIC (BBC BASIC - original and best!) programs
was to copy the BASIC module into RAM - I think
with the "*RMFaster BASIC" command!
GRCM.
Perhaps he meant super sonic in the Latin sense id est beyond the realm of sound... This could mean he already has a clairvoyant's gene.
(But does he have Levi's too?)
I wrote a quick C program (gaps.c) to do all this for me after my uni exams finished this month: it can be downloaded from here, and example pages can be found on my Demon site: http://www.morants.demon.co.uk in the gap year section, labelled as "New Version"s. It is quite simple to use - all documentation in the source file itself!
Given lots of JPEGs in a directory, running gaps -new in the directory will make a thumb/ directory of thumbnails, and a webpage!