The Ubuntu forums are very helpful. I resent them being referred to as 'kiddie' forums. I do agree that there is a difference between these busy forums and those more edgy, maybe hardcore forums though.
One example from my experience as a new less than 3 years Linux user is that I started on debian and their IRC was fantastic, folks in there would walk me through "read the man page"! but they have no forum that I know of (maybe a mailing list). Ubuntu IRC is clogged up most of the time, but you can get questions answered there too, its just that the help isn't always as fast/good. I now pretend to be using debian and ask them for help and they are very helpful 'till they discover that I use Ubuntu and then they go all dark and silent on me!!!!
Having said that, in Ubuntuforums there are fantastic walkthroughs, howtos and other folks with the same problem who found a solution all over the place and I highly recommend it. Its not just full of kiddies.
you been watching that Enron movie? Geez some of those Americans are nasty bastards... De-regulation killed folks. European Union type regulation seems much more equitable and 'free' than American 'freedoms'.
GPS is very accurate relatively. It gives a much better velocity measurement than your speedometer, and I would guess, better than a radar gun. It is interesting, so I will mention, that GPS errors are equal over an area of a few kilometers for all receivers for a given time, so measuring the difference between two receivers at the same time gives much more accurate results than the absolute position of any one receiver.
I am a surveying student and I am a bit miffed by the new theodolites I saw at a conference recently. These things are pretty complex devices, they have two way radio communication between a staff and the instrument, robotic controls that track the prism on the pole and a bluetooth controller to record data when you're standing next to the pole. But the thing that worries me is that the OS on the theodolite, a precision instrument, is windows CE! Now I have little experience with it, but reading/. comments leads me to believe it has little going for it.
I would agree with one of the comments above, that what we need in the Ubuntu repositories is a easy to install full featured and very glossy/beautiful media centre! The EAR media centre looks very nice but I haven't used it as it runs as a custom Ubuntu derivative. Myth tv is full featured but dated looking. Elisa is pretty but lacking in features... So really there needs to be someone to invest in one of these to modernise it. Perhaps if Myth TV could have a new front end, (with the option of using you mouse!) and an easy to install backend! I am fairly competent with these kind of things but nearly gave up on Myth tv after MySQL problems and such.
Or try a simple script for imagemagick in Ubuntu, and you can fill a folder full of photos to compress, right click, scripts, photos4email.sh. Now we have a folder full of smaller jpegs for email, right click on the new folder, compress to a zip file, then bobs your uncle, attach that to an email! (bloody macs making things GUI simple!)
aerial photography will definitelly use something like this. digital photography is everywhere on the ground, but from my limited understanding, you can get higher resolutions from scanning large format film. Aerial photography is the thing which all our topographical maps were made from, getting medium format digital cameras for relatively cheap ($30000 is relatively cheap) means we can get faster turnaround and all that, this is good news.
I think these are a great place to start, I have read asimov for a long time and I still love his books of short stories most! All are good and some ideas have stuck in my mind long after. So one big vote for books of Asimov short stories. Gee other than that, I didn't read much sci-fi as a kid, I did read Stephen King thought, they are an easy read, no science in there thought!
Enders game by Orson scott Card is about something like this, this kid is trained to play some video games and gets really good, then the games get really complicated and he's the big commander, then after its all over he is told that it is all real (oops I spoiled it). Quick order the book from ebay and forget I said this cause I think it is a good book. Just remember that the writer is a bit of a christian (I guess all Americans are...)
I reckon a big road block to writing completely new kernel + OS for Microsoft is the need to support the huge backlog of hardware, a thing which XP does, and Vista is not perfect at. I would guess that this is something that stops Apple from allowing OSX to be installed on a wide range of hardware. This also is where Linux excels, as anything which is supported by Linux works out of the box. Most other things which aren't supported out of the box can usually be installed with a bit of forum browsing. In fact I find it easier to install Ubuntu on my old desktop than XP, even though I know well what hardware I have in the box and have a copy of all required drivers and softwares for hardware, for both Ubuntu and XP.
apart from bloody printers! I have a Samsung which has official Linux drivers and also free open source drivers. The open source drivers display colours wrong and Samsung proprietary drivers display writing wrong! So I need my mac laptop to print pretty colours. That said, the linux drivers work out of the box and I can plug my printer in to a Ubuntu live CD or fresh install, press print and its all go! I'd like to see Windows with that kind of driver support. What we need is hardware manufacturers to open up their documentation and/or paying developers to write great open drivers.
This is cool, if only I had a pair of green and red (anaglyphic) glasses I could have my 3d desktop cube and wobbly windows and AWN pop out of the screen at me! Now that is cool!
I would just like to say that, although video games are addictive and can lead to the loss of some other aspects of enjoyment in life, video games are very mild compared to other forms of addiction.
I worked at a casino in Tasmania where i live, and they have a monopoly on 'gaming' machines in the state. Gaming is their word for poker machines which are the ultimate form of money making addiction machines. They have all the best psychologists working on these machines so they tweak peoples rewards centers just right and the money of the poorest portion of our community is focused into the pockets of one very wealthy family.
So if there is someone playing games too much, who cares at least they aren't stealing money to fund it like all those gambling addicts and to some extent hard drug addicts.
I want to build a simple media centre and always on server for my house, I think a via board running at 1.5Ghz should do the job, viewing and recording SD tv, playing movies, serving files maybe mpd and stuff.
Does anyone have a reason why this is a bad idea?
just looking at his site he's got things like this for sale, which I think is a great deal and very beautiful! If you do buy one, send one to me to for my computer science department too please!
This guy is very cool and very futuristic! He uses flash and a bunch of algorithms, along with sketches to generate art on the fly and runs his algorithms for a bit, then pauses and saves images. Here is his site and do go for a look! He is quite expensive now! But maybe you could order a couple of prints rather than commissioning new art.
nice. The interesting thing is that over an area of a few kilometers, the error from ionosphere is the same, so if we get a station with known coordinates and calculate the difference between these and the GPS coordinates with the ionosphere error, we can send this error to a 'rover' and correct it to get much better accuracy!
Actually this is not true. The digital code modulated onto the radio waves is affected by the ionosphere too. The military gets 2 'code' signals on 2 frequencies, but geodetic or surveying GPS gear observes the 'phase' of the frequencies, there are L1 and L2 frequencies which are observable and you can combine them to cancel out the ionospheric effects. Observing everything, civilian code, carrier frequencies, military P codes, can give you a single point precision of a couple of cm in horizontal (an inch for you yanks) and something like 3 times that in vertical.
Just receiving a digital signal doesn't mean its right!
They said in TFA that the shell is NOT part of the crash design, that the space frame takes all this into account, so there is not much purpose left for the shell... Small rocks though... stone chips would be game over! I guess the aerodynamics would be interesting too. Maybe at high speeds you could tighten the fabric up, stretch it so it doesn't deform?
It is said that they previously would not let EMI sell their albums song by song, but that they must be sold as an album. They changed their minds with In Rainbows and now with their entire back catalog.
Yeah, I guess its good, they don't have a record label now right? If I hadn't already bought all their cds I might give them some money, but not through itunes, I would get mp3 from tpb, and order some cds from their website. Its the future.
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One example from my experience as a new less than 3 years Linux user is that I started on debian and their IRC was fantastic, folks in there would walk me through "read the man page"! but they have no forum that I know of (maybe a mailing list). Ubuntu IRC is clogged up most of the time, but you can get questions answered there too, its just that the help isn't always as fast/good. I now pretend to be using debian and ask them for help and they are very helpful 'till they discover that I use Ubuntu and then they go all dark and silent on me!!!!
Having said that, in Ubuntuforums there are fantastic walkthroughs, howtos and other folks with the same problem who found a solution all over the place and I highly recommend it. Its not just full of kiddies.
you been watching that Enron movie? Geez some of those Americans are nasty bastards... De-regulation killed folks. European Union type regulation seems much more equitable and 'free' than American 'freedoms'.
GPS is very accurate relatively. It gives a much better velocity measurement than your speedometer, and I would guess, better than a radar gun. It is interesting, so I will mention, that GPS errors are equal over an area of a few kilometers for all receivers for a given time, so measuring the difference between two receivers at the same time gives much more accurate results than the absolute position of any one receiver.
I am a surveying student and I am a bit miffed by the new theodolites I saw at a conference recently. These things are pretty complex devices, they have two way radio communication between a staff and the instrument, robotic controls that track the prism on the pole and a bluetooth controller to record data when you're standing next to the pole. But the thing that worries me is that the OS on the theodolite, a precision instrument, is windows CE! Now I have little experience with it, but reading /. comments leads me to believe it has little going for it.
So please Ubuntu give us a media centre!
Or try a simple script for imagemagick in Ubuntu, and you can fill a folder full of photos to compress, right click, scripts, photos4email.sh. Now we have a folder full of smaller jpegs for email, right click on the new folder, compress to a zip file, then bobs your uncle, attach that to an email! (bloody macs making things GUI simple!)
aerial photography will definitelly use something like this. digital photography is everywhere on the ground, but from my limited understanding, you can get higher resolutions from scanning large format film. Aerial photography is the thing which all our topographical maps were made from, getting medium format digital cameras for relatively cheap ($30000 is relatively cheap) means we can get faster turnaround and all that, this is good news.
I think these are a great place to start, I have read asimov for a long time and I still love his books of short stories most! All are good and some ideas have stuck in my mind long after. So one big vote for books of Asimov short stories. Gee other than that, I didn't read much sci-fi as a kid, I did read Stephen King thought, they are an easy read, no science in there thought!
Enders game by Orson scott Card is about something like this, this kid is trained to play some video games and gets really good, then the games get really complicated and he's the big commander, then after its all over he is told that it is all real (oops I spoiled it). Quick order the book from ebay and forget I said this cause I think it is a good book. Just remember that the writer is a bit of a christian (I guess all Americans are...)
I reckon a big road block to writing completely new kernel + OS for Microsoft is the need to support the huge backlog of hardware, a thing which XP does, and Vista is not perfect at. I would guess that this is something that stops Apple from allowing OSX to be installed on a wide range of hardware. This also is where Linux excels, as anything which is supported by Linux works out of the box. Most other things which aren't supported out of the box can usually be installed with a bit of forum browsing. In fact I find it easier to install Ubuntu on my old desktop than XP, even though I know well what hardware I have in the box and have a copy of all required drivers and softwares for hardware, for both Ubuntu and XP.
Can we install android on this open moko? if not, why not? is so then thats great right?
apart from bloody printers! I have a Samsung which has official Linux drivers and also free open source drivers. The open source drivers display colours wrong and Samsung proprietary drivers display writing wrong! So I need my mac laptop to print pretty colours. That said, the linux drivers work out of the box and I can plug my printer in to a Ubuntu live CD or fresh install, press print and its all go! I'd like to see Windows with that kind of driver support. What we need is hardware manufacturers to open up their documentation and/or paying developers to write great open drivers.
This is cool, if only I had a pair of green and red (anaglyphic) glasses I could have my 3d desktop cube and wobbly windows and AWN pop out of the screen at me! Now that is cool!
I worked at a casino in Tasmania where i live, and they have a monopoly on 'gaming' machines in the state. Gaming is their word for poker machines which are the ultimate form of money making addiction machines. They have all the best psychologists working on these machines so they tweak peoples rewards centers just right and the money of the poorest portion of our community is focused into the pockets of one very wealthy family.
So if there is someone playing games too much, who cares at least they aren't stealing money to fund it like all those gambling addicts and to some extent hard drug addicts.
must be a New Zealander "and a but of underhanded backroom deals"
I want to build a simple media centre and always on server for my house, I think a via board running at 1.5Ghz should do the job, viewing and recording SD tv, playing movies, serving files maybe mpd and stuff. Does anyone have a reason why this is a bad idea?
don't forget that you can sell it!
just looking at his site he's got things like this for sale, which I think is a great deal and very beautiful! If you do buy one, send one to me to for my computer science department too please!
This guy is very cool and very futuristic! He uses flash and a bunch of algorithms, along with sketches to generate art on the fly and runs his algorithms for a bit, then pauses and saves images. Here is his site and do go for a look! He is quite expensive now! But maybe you could order a couple of prints rather than commissioning new art.
nice. The interesting thing is that over an area of a few kilometers, the error from ionosphere is the same, so if we get a station with known coordinates and calculate the difference between these and the GPS coordinates with the ionosphere error, we can send this error to a 'rover' and correct it to get much better accuracy!
Just receiving a digital signal doesn't mean its right!
They said in TFA that the shell is NOT part of the crash design, that the space frame takes all this into account, so there is not much purpose left for the shell... Small rocks though... stone chips would be game over! I guess the aerodynamics would be interesting too. Maybe at high speeds you could tighten the fabric up, stretch it so it doesn't deform?
It is said that they previously would not let EMI sell their albums song by song, but that they must be sold as an album. They changed their minds with In Rainbows and now with their entire back catalog.
Yeah, I guess its good, they don't have a record label now right? If I hadn't already bought all their cds I might give them some money, but not through itunes, I would get mp3 from tpb, and order some cds from their website. Its the future.
It'd be a bloody long power cable mate!