Redhat (and Mandrake too, I think) now place the kernel-headers in/usr/include/linux/, which makes sense since these are just headers, not source code.
So, for many people,/usr/src/linux is safe.
Sure, if your emails are only one sentence long this method works great but if your replying to mutliple questions/points/etc, quoting parts and replying to each works much better.
Judging by the use of quotes here, most slashdot readers agree with me.
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion.
Sure, if your only interacting if one other person, but what if two people reply to you at the same time?
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While e-beam technology is, as stated, extremely flexible and useful as a 'one-off' prototyping method, it is also SLOW AS HECK. With millions of transistors, drawing one by one is not a solution for mass-production.
I don't know that I'd want to use e-beam for prototyping. Your electrical performance might be so different that you could get fooled into thinking you have something which works. Prototyping isn't only for functional verification, it's also needed to see if you're meeting setup/hold times, jitter specs, etc, and that stuff is process sensitive.
A better use for e-beaming is fixing/moding of prototype parts when a bug is found. Mask sets are so expensive now a days, if you suspect you've found the cause of a problem (and its small), you're better off trying to fix a few parts first.
With a wafer holding perhaps thousands of dies, I have heard from those in the industry that it can take up to 10 hours (hours!) for one wafer to be 'drawn'.
I think you mean 1 step in the wafer building process. In 0.13um you currenly get anywhere from 1-3 steps per day, and there are roughly 200 steps to making a wafer. That works out to about 3 month to make one batch of wafers.
In Linux, if you were using the OSS-compatible drivers (usually the ones that came with your distro - i.e. not alsa), please drop a bug report at emu10k1-devel@REMOVETHISopensource.creative.com.
The Linux developers have been provided with little documentation from Creative, so user feedback is important.
They have sample rate converters on some SPDIF inputs. If your DAT was set to 41kHz (likely), the soundcard will convert it to 48kHz to apply its audio effects on it. The sample rate conversion are an all digital thing, but you're right, it'll muck up any digital data and render it useless.
Even at 48kHz, the clocks are never perfectly synchronized so you end up with lost samples and/or new ones added.
Its also possible that (under windows) the spdif inputs go through the bass/treble dsp filter, if the sample rate converters didn't mess your data up, this will;-)
Not for those statistics. 3.5M still includes Laval, Longueil, Brossard, etc.(All the cities on the south and north shores around Montreal) Only the cities actually on the island were merged. 15-25 cities is about right for today.
A comparison is kind of useless if you don't actually compare with the US.
And while you're collecting the U.S. data for us, please note that the above 'cities' are actually 'urban centers'. i.e. Montreal on your list actually is 15-25 cities (or really 30-40, back in 1999).
So NYC would be the whole damn area, including parts of N.J., long island, etc.
Southern BC is actually not a dense area at all. Much of the area is undevelopable since it impossible to build houses on the side of a mountain (not our mountains anyway).
Southern Quebec is probably the second most densely populated area in the country (I think Montreal is the most densely populated city in canada, IIRC).
Time canada is just a front company for reselling the Time magazine in Canada with Canadian Advertisement. They add a couple of canadian article (politics, society, etc), but its pretty much the same damn magazine. This article is non-canada based and therefore will also appear in Time (US).
Most Canadians who are interested in this kind of magazine don't read times (this may shock you, but we're not interested in your local US news) but rather subscribe to Macleans.
The point is that in outlook (or windows) you open files (doc, xls, etc) and run executables in exactly the same maner (double click on an icon). This, combined with the fact that windows hides extensions by default, makes it easy to fool people into thinking they're opening a file when infact they're running a script or executable (.shs files are an excellent example, it has a notepad like icon)
By contrast linux mailer make you save the file and chmod +x it, therefore you are fully aware that you are about to execute something rather than open it in a text editor or word processor.
Yes. Agree totally. Like my favourite game, Diablo II. Has to run as an administrator account under win 2000/xp. Don't ask me why. Its not even microsoft's fault for once. Just technical incompetence at blizzard north software, I guess.
See my post a little further up, Microsoft does this very same thing too with at least one of their games (this was on winXP). Its the way things have always been done on windows, old habits die hard.
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only NT and XP had/have an administrator level where regular users aren't allowed to do things.
But it doesn't work very well in partice. Example, Microsoft Filght sim 2002, when run from a normal user account, tells you you need to run it from an admin account. You see, rather then each user having their own config/save files, there's global config/save files which all users must be able to write to. The same applies to lots of other windows programs too.
Many users will just give themselves admin privledges (or login as admin) and be done with it. So the problem will still exist for a while.
You can make someone a friend or foe, this allows you to for example give by default -6 to a foe and +6 to a friend (see your preferences under comments. Obviously, it affects moderation totals for your comment viewing only).
You can also change moderation point, so example "troll" is +2 and "funny" is -4:-)
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Redhat (and Mandrake too, I think) now place the kernel-headers in /usr/include/linux/, which makes sense since these are just headers, not source code.
So, for many people, /usr/src/linux is safe.
Because you're supposed go to rpmfind and install the rpm instead?
FYI, the MS eula is in the rpm.
Sure, if your emails are only one sentence long this method works great but if your replying to mutliple questions/points/etc, quoting parts and replying to each works much better.
Judging by the use of quotes here, most slashdot readers agree with me.
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion.
Sure, if your only interacting if one other person, but what if two people reply to you at the same time?
last year? That was in 1999. Time flies.
That would probably annoy me too, especially if text was scrolling, like stock tickers on CNN and other news channels. I hope this doesn't catch on.
Can you explain this "image squashing technology" for us non-Americans? Do they change the aspect ratio? Why would they need to do that? thanks.
And the mips processors too, this one from PMC-Sierra is a 1GHz, 64bit, dual core processor.
I don't know that I'd want to use e-beam for prototyping. Your electrical performance might be so different that you could get fooled into thinking you have something which works. Prototyping isn't only for functional verification, it's also needed to see if you're meeting setup/hold times, jitter specs, etc, and that stuff is process sensitive.
A better use for e-beaming is fixing/moding of prototype parts when a bug is found. Mask sets are so expensive now a days, if you suspect you've found the cause of a problem (and its small), you're better off trying to fix a few parts first.
With a wafer holding perhaps thousands of dies, I have heard from those in the industry that it can take up to 10 hours (hours!) for one wafer to be 'drawn'.
I think you mean 1 step in the wafer building process. In 0.13um you currenly get anywhere from 1-3 steps per day, and there are roughly 200 steps to making a wafer. That works out to about 3 month to make one batch of wafers.
It's in the preferences now "Advanced"->"Scripts & Windows"
The Linux developers have been provided with little documentation from Creative, so user feedback is important.
Even at 48kHz, the clocks are never perfectly synchronized so you end up with lost samples and/or new ones added.
Its also possible that (under windows) the spdif inputs go through the bass/treble dsp filter, if the sample rate converters didn't mess your data up, this will ;-)
Not for those statistics. 3.5M still includes Laval, Longueil, Brossard, etc.(All the cities on the south and north shores around Montreal) Only the cities actually on the island were merged. 15-25 cities is about right for today.
And while you're collecting the U.S. data for us, please note that the above 'cities' are actually 'urban centers'. i.e. Montreal on your list actually is 15-25 cities (or really 30-40, back in 1999).
So NYC would be the whole damn area, including parts of N.J., long island, etc.
Southern BC is actually not a dense area at all. Much of the area is undevelopable since it impossible to build houses on the side of a mountain (not our mountains anyway).
Southern Quebec is probably the second most densely populated area in the country (I think Montreal is the most densely populated city in canada, IIRC).
And how many people had computers with 1200 baud (or whatever) modems back then? And what would they have done with it? There was no www.
Us Linux users can enjoy a flashy virus for once. We need more cross platform stuff like this.
Most Canadians who are interested in this kind of magazine don't read times (this may shock you, but we're not interested in your local US news) but rather subscribe to Macleans.
Well, they mention other $ amounts in other parts of the article, on the last page:
2000 The PowerMac G4 Cube sets a new high-water mark for cool. But at $1,799, not including the monitor, Cube sales sink
Any body remember if this was the US price at the time?
By contrast linux mailer make you save the file and chmod +x it, therefore you are fully aware that you are about to execute something rather than open it in a text editor or word processor.
See my post a little further up, Microsoft does this very same thing too with at least one of their games (this was on winXP). Its the way things have always been done on windows, old habits die hard.
But it doesn't work very well in partice. Example, Microsoft Filght sim 2002, when run from a normal user account, tells you you need to run it from an admin account. You see, rather then each user having their own config/save files, there's global config/save files which all users must be able to write to. The same applies to lots of other windows programs too.
Many users will just give themselves admin privledges (or login as admin) and be done with it. So the problem will still exist for a while.
And I didn't realize that 100k-200k uids were considered old-timers now, I think "almost from the start" would be at least early 1999(less than 100k).
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If you remember, the "Spy who Shaged me" trailer went: "If you see one movie this summer, see Star Wars; if you see two, see Austin powers".
Now they say: "If you see one movie this summer, see Austin Powers; if you see two, see Austin Powers a second time.
I think that says it all :-)