If the RAM is near the limit for 2000 the XP will run like a dog. Personally I wouldn't have an XP box with less than 512MB and better with a gig (hence it's better to run 64bit so your apps can actually use some of that memory). My development/heavy use machines have 2gig... and the combination of XP + VS2003 can fill that.
Add to that WoW is a bit of a memory hog as well.. and you've got yourself a recipe for a huge slowdown.
And I guess your server wasn't setup with resource limits... teacher should have kept their mouth shut if so.
Doing the equivalent on Windows (using CreateProcess normally) brings the system down nice and quick though (Windows doesn't even support resource limits so there's no way the admins can stop you).
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720p is 720p
Nope. 720p 60hz is different from 720p 50hz.
There are already issues with people trying to import HDTVs from the US to Europe and finding they don't work with european broadcasts.
Just look at the domain and don't click, as always.
Anyone who is serious about their website does *not* use geocities (and definately not angelfire - I've not seen anything on there recently but warez and hacking sites). If you want to know what some 14 year old thinks then look at them, otherwise steer clear.
It's a pity google will probably get added to that list - it can only hurt their advertisers once that reflex is ingrained.
It has no video in. No optical audio out. A small hard drive. Pathetic CPU power that's struggle to expand HD.
It's OK as an introduction to the mac (or in my case a build platform for the osx ports of software - I just ssh in, cvs update, make then leave it.. don't care that it's the slowest machine I own as I'm on the beer before it finishes).
I've heard it all before. Managers scream 'skills shortage' whilst lots of good IT workers sit on unemployment queues.
There is no shortage. Never has been. It's because managers want to define the exact skillset... '20 years Java version 1.4.1.13 service pack 2, and preferably 17 years Visual Studio 2005' they refuse to believe that people can actually learn new stuff (and their requirements are sometimes completely ludicrous - I actually left an interview when someone said I didn't have enough java experience.. they wanted 8 years - in 2000. That manager is proabably still screaming 'skills shortage' today).
Now I'm involved in hiring I've found completely the opposite... the market is *full* of good people... if you factor in a few weeks for them to get up to speed they're fine (that's just training budget - remember when companies had those?).
It's for the person who makes the call to pay for that. I'm sure as hell not paying so $MARKETER can sell their cheesy wares to me.
We now have providers that *pay you* for receiving calls. It remains to be seen how well that takes off - I reckon I could easily come out with a negative bill since I receive about 10* more calls than I make.
The V3 is the first phone I've really *liked* rather than just tolerated.
Nice screen, functional, and it fits nicely in your pocket (everything else is a brick by comparison). USB connection too rather than mucking around with proprietary 'data cables'.
My one niggle is their durablility - I'm on my second.. the keypad died on my first and that's apparently a common fault.
OTOH Opera won't render some perfectly valid (pass validation) pages due to missing CSS elements (my wife tells me it's something to do with layer support that it doesn't implement, but I'm no HTML expert and was lost on the explanation).
I'd go with the browser that worked rather than the one that passed an artificial test any day.
Tabs aren't MDI - MDI sucked, which is why you don't see it much any more (MDI allowed you to open windows within other windows - the last app I saw that did that was VC6 IIRC before all the MS stuff moved to tabbed windows instead).
In Wikipedia the most active editor wins. Whether they're right or wrong.
I've heard a couple of horror stories of the admins at wikipedia forcing agendas too (things like refusing very minor edits because they mention things they disagree with, and even blocking page names for things that they disagree with)*
It's an interesting variation on the blog, but I wouldn't call it 'successful' in any way. Slashdot fanboys like it, that's all.
* And the person who told me this is trustworthy, and definately an expert in their field having 20+ years experience. The eventually managed to get some edits in but only after appealing to other admins who removed the page blocks - 6 months later.
Artists are quite happy with mp3 - most independent music is mp3 encoded not wmv/drm.
The people who are pushing this are the large record producers - because their precious business model (buy cheap, sell expensive via a limited number of record stores) is going down the toilet fast. The want to control distribution just like they used to... I say fuck 'em - I buy direct from the artists or from distributors with clue. Haven't darkened the door of a record store in over a year now.
I gave up on gentoo fundamentally because of its *lack* of control.
The problem is the USE flags are global.. you can override them for an individual package but that doesn't get recorded anywhere - on the next emerge world it'll happily forget all your carefully crafted options and reinstall with its global defaults.
The killer for me with lynx. Most distros have a minimal lynx that works in text mode. By default the gentoo one is dependent on X, about a million fonts, etc. You can override that on the command line using a local USE flagbut what happens at the next update? Your nice small lynx that you need for diagnostics, single user boots etc. is replaced with a graphical behemoth that's almost useless for that task.
I found that happening so much in gentoo I just gave up on it (the small fact that some of the stuff I needed had compile errors didn't help either).
Actually just checked around a bit and it looks like the linked site is a malware site. Don't click it in IE otherwise you'll be infected (in firefox you get the 'do you want to install winfixer' but closing the window is enough to stop it... in IE it installs anyway).
(btw. Dude.. thanks a bunch for the popup spam (brought up the winfixer spam that somehow bypasses the firefox popup blocker, than failed to load the page so I can't even see if it's a legit site). Pick your sites more carefully in future.)
IT != Data entry clerks. If you really want them to do that then pay the for it and bill the customer. That's the way it works.. customer wants something special they get a bill. Sales of course keep wanting to give stuff away for free (I've been in companies where sales would day *anything* to get the sale, whether it was physically possible or not - and they'd always charge to undercut the competitors even if we made a loss on the deal).
That's find for homepages, but once you get serious you cannot rely on javascript.
In many companies I've dealt with internally javascript is disabled as a part of the corporate security policy. A site that will not work without it (possibly slightly degrared) is just broken. You don't *need* flashy animations and drop down menus. Really.
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If the RAM is near the limit for 2000 the XP will run like a dog. Personally I wouldn't have an XP box with less than 512MB and better with a gig (hence it's better to run 64bit so your apps can actually use some of that memory). My development/heavy use machines have 2gig... and the combination of XP + VS2003 can fill that.
Add to that WoW is a bit of a memory hog as well.. and you've got yourself a recipe for a huge slowdown.
And I guess your server wasn't setup with resource limits... teacher should have kept their mouth shut if so.
Doing the equivalent on Windows (using CreateProcess normally) brings the system down nice and quick though (Windows doesn't even support resource limits so there's no way the admins can stop you).
720p is 720p
Nope. 720p 60hz is different from 720p 50hz.
There are already issues with people trying to import HDTVs from the US to Europe and finding they don't work with european broadcasts.
Just look at the domain and don't click, as always.
Anyone who is serious about their website does *not* use geocities (and definately not angelfire - I've not seen anything on there recently but warez and hacking sites). If you want to know what some 14 year old thinks then look at them, otherwise steer clear.
It's a pity google will probably get added to that list - it can only hurt their advertisers once that reflex is ingrained.
Where can I get my "Windows Problem Provider" logo :P
Why would you put a mac mini under the telly?
It has no video in. No optical audio out. A small hard drive. Pathetic CPU power that's struggle to expand HD.
It's OK as an introduction to the mac (or in my case a build platform for the osx ports of software - I just ssh in, cvs update, make then leave it.. don't care that it's the slowest machine I own as I'm on the beer before it finishes).
I've heard it all before. Managers scream 'skills shortage' whilst lots of good IT workers sit on unemployment queues.
There is no shortage. Never has been. It's because managers want to define the exact skillset... '20 years Java version 1.4.1.13 service pack 2, and preferably 17 years Visual Studio 2005' they refuse to believe that people can actually learn new stuff (and their requirements are sometimes completely ludicrous - I actually left an interview when someone said I didn't have enough java experience.. they wanted 8 years - in 2000. That manager is proabably still screaming 'skills shortage' today).
Now I'm involved in hiring I've found completely the opposite... the market is *full* of good people... if you factor in a few weeks for them to get up to speed they're fine (that's just training budget - remember when companies had those?).
Unexpected *how* exactly? If you don't want to pay don't call mobile numbers.
Strangely enough, in a lot of countries most people have never tried any illegal drugs.
That's real easy to do if they make everything legal...
It's for the person who makes the call to pay for that. I'm sure as hell not paying so $MARKETER can sell their cheesy wares to me.
We now have providers that *pay you* for receiving calls. It remains to be seen how well that takes off - I reckon I could easily come out with a negative bill since I receive about 10* more calls than I make.
The V3 is the first phone I've really *liked* rather than just tolerated.
Nice screen, functional, and it fits nicely in your pocket (everything else is a brick by comparison). USB connection too rather than mucking around with proprietary 'data cables'.
My one niggle is their durablility - I'm on my second.. the keypad died on my first and that's apparently a common fault.
Won't happen - everything must be encrypted and lock down right through to the display, which precludes any possibility of opensource versions.
OTOH Opera won't render some perfectly valid (pass validation) pages due to missing CSS elements (my wife tells me it's something to do with layer support that it doesn't implement, but I'm no HTML expert and was lost on the explanation).
I'd go with the browser that worked rather than the one that passed an artificial test any day.
Tabs aren't MDI - MDI sucked, which is why you don't see it much any more (MDI allowed you to open windows within other windows - the last app I saw that did that was VC6 IIRC before all the MS stuff moved to tabbed windows instead).
Define vandalism.
In Wikipedia the most active editor wins. Whether they're right or wrong.
I've heard a couple of horror stories of the admins at wikipedia forcing agendas too (things like refusing very minor edits because they mention things they disagree with, and even blocking page names for things that they disagree with)*
It's an interesting variation on the blog, but I wouldn't call it 'successful' in any way. Slashdot fanboys like it, that's all.
* And the person who told me this is trustworthy, and definately an expert in their field having 20+ years experience. The eventually managed to get some edits in but only after appealing to other admins who removed the page blocks - 6 months later.
Artists are quite happy with mp3 - most independent music is mp3 encoded not wmv/drm.
The people who are pushing this are the large record producers - because their precious business model (buy cheap, sell expensive via a limited number of record stores) is going down the toilet fast. The want to control distribution just like they used to... I say fuck 'em - I buy direct from the artists or from distributors with clue. Haven't darkened the door of a record store in over a year now.
"The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen"
lol. Did old billy gates just slander one of his own products unintentionally?
They just announced something just like that last week... of course they don't want $100 for it.. more like $1000
I call bullshit.
tmh@sisko:~$ apt-cache depends nano
nano
Depends: libc6
Depends: libncurses5
Suggests: spell
Conflicts: nano-tiny
Conflicts:
Replaces:
I gave up on gentoo fundamentally because of its *lack* of control.
The problem is the USE flags are global.. you can override them for an individual package but that doesn't get recorded anywhere - on the next emerge world it'll happily forget all your carefully crafted options and reinstall with its global defaults.
The killer for me with lynx. Most distros have a minimal lynx that works in text mode. By default the gentoo one is dependent on X, about a million fonts, etc. You can override that on the command line using a local USE flagbut what happens at the next update? Your nice small lynx that you need for diagnostics, single user boots etc. is replaced with a graphical behemoth that's almost useless for that task.
I found that happening so much in gentoo I just gave up on it (the small fact that some of the stuff I needed had compile errors didn't help either).
Actually just checked around a bit and it looks like the linked site is a malware site. Don't click it in IE otherwise you'll be infected (in firefox you get the 'do you want to install winfixer' but closing the window is enough to stop it... in IE it installs anyway).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFixer
So do *not* click the above link.
Woot. Industrial strength vibrator!!
(btw. Dude.. thanks a bunch for the popup spam (brought up the winfixer spam that somehow bypasses the firefox popup blocker, than failed to load the page so I can't even see if it's a legit site). Pick your sites more carefully in future.)
Yes it's work, but it's out of the ordinary work.
IT != Data entry clerks. If you really want them to do that then pay the for it and bill the customer. That's the way it works.. customer wants something special they get a bill. Sales of course keep wanting to give stuff away for free (I've been in companies where sales would day *anything* to get the sale, whether it was physically possible or not - and they'd always charge to undercut the competitors even if we made a loss on the deal).
Nope. SIP is a session protocol, that's all.. there's nothing voice specific about it. It can be used for lots of stuff including whiteboarding.
http://www.sipquest.com/about/faqs.php
That's find for homepages, but once you get serious you cannot rely on javascript.
In many companies I've dealt with internally javascript is disabled as a part of the corporate security policy. A site that will not work without it (possibly slightly degrared) is just broken. You don't *need* flashy animations and drop down menus. Really.
What's the URL? Ironically, she doesn't come up on google...