I think by now we know there's bacteria in the sample. We don't need magnetic crystals to prove that again unless you're trying to get a research grant. For last couple years the problem has been whether the sample was contaminated by earth organisms but I don't think their funding grants to study that one.
When you were in school you had no free time to work on slashdot and graduation was supposed to fix that. Now you graduated and have as much free time as you had in school. Well we do know this: new stories were getting posted at 8am before graduation and now aren't getting posted until after 12:00. Like I always said, school is a vacation. Enjoy the free time you have in school because after graduation it just goes downhill.
Whatever you do, never ever exhaust your virtual memory with xanim. This crashes the VM subsystem permanently on all kernels after 2.2.2. I work with movies larger than 700 megs and my system goes down constantly. Since this isn't a normal activity on Linux computers there is no bug fix in progress.
All private universities should get an award. You give up all your rights when you go to one of those. Compared to the KGB, CIA, FBI, and IRS of the average private school, Intel looks like Mickey mouse.
Corba is a development framework. Dragging barcharts is an application feature. If there was an app using Corba to drap and drop, then you could make a connection between the two but not now.
> I find it hard to believe that some of the best > computer scientists in the world will want to do > their work for free
People who code for money know how to get jobs. People who code for free know how to code.
The cheapest domain name today is over $1000. The standard routine is to buy domain names off their owners. What was 1994 like? Did domain names really only cost $100?
The reaction by employers to open source coding projects has been consistantly, blatantly negative in my experience. Self-funded coding projects are viewed as amateurism and completely irrelevant compared to the "proper degree" or a "professionally developed" product. I should know since I never got the "proper degree" and hit employers purely with open source credentials. As for open source projects I've had floating around for over 4 years, the downloaders aren't downloading the source code to modify, enhance, and praise. They just want something for free. Obviously it makes you feel good, it makes Slashdotters happy, but you have to make sure you're already employed before you link the bombshell to a web site.
The PCI code in XFree86 version 3.3 breaks my soundcard real good. XFree86 3.2 doesn't have any problems so I keep a copy of XFree86 3.2 around permanently.
Also the free open sound system driver can rarely allocate more than 4096 bytes for a DMA buffer because it's memory management sucks. You should either try the commercial sound driver or figure out how to permanently allocate 128k DMA buffers at startup.
For rock solid buffering, get rt.c which allows one process to lock the CPU until it's finished buffering. I use rt.c with mpg123 and it's rock solid with no crashes.
They'll win sooner or later. They want to tax those ISP calls just like they want to tax all internet commerce. Also, Sengan posted it so don't set your heart on voice modems.
What is the tax on long distance calls that they're now applying to ISP calls? It comes out to a few dollars on an itemized long distance bill. Most phone companies build the tax into their long distance charges.
It's easy to acheive mega bandwidth. Achieving it is a bit more difficult.
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Why would you want to upgrade from a 333 Mhz to a 500 Mhz computer today? The only improvement we're seeing today is entirely in the video acceleration and that's entirely rendered in hardware no matter what CPU speed you have. More and more audio is rendered strictly in hardware, too. The memory requirements of today's software far outstrip caches so you're still going to be at the 100Mhz limit for software. I've compiled video rendering software with maximum optimization on several UNIX boxes and the difference in software-only rendering between 150Mhz and 500Mhz is noticable but barely worth it. The flight gear page has some good benchmarks on the situation.
Ever notice how Dennis Ritche likes to write a lot in parenthesis? He also indents paragraphs below the first line and encases them in brackets I hear.
I know a lot of musicians who support everything the NARAS and the RIAA does to channel business to their own. They flat out don't have any concept of economics at all and don't realize that only 0.1% of musicians ever benefit from RIAA, NARAS, and XYZ.
Musicians need to start taking a business class and figure out that banning advertizements for musicians who aren't signed with one of the 5 distributors isn't going to help them.
Haven't pedals been around ever since MIDI was invented? They were just used to turn your computer into an instrument. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to reuse the same technology from MIDI to control the keyboard? It looks like another company just figured out how to make money off of old technology by creating a proprietary interface and driver.
I thought the Mars project was always being considered. The space station was eventually supposed to turn into an assembly point for building interplanetary spacecraft in space.
Funny this happened on the same day some guy released a low level Quicktime library for Linux:) Combined with Microsoft's monopoly, that must have been the straw the broke Apple's sanity.
Funny this happened on the same day some guy released a low level Quicktime library for Linux. Combined with Microsoft's monopoly, that must have been the straw the broke Apple's sanity.
If you professional video editors know about Linux, there's no doubt that Quicktime for Linux would move a large number of MacOS users to Linux for the PowerPC platform. Imagining rendering while editing in Gimp with complete smoothness. Imagining rescheduling jobs on the fly. I believe professional video and audio are the only two things sustaining MacOS right now and Apple would definitely lose that if MacOS wasn't the only OS supporting Quicktime on the PowerPC.
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I think by now we know there's bacteria in the sample. We don't need magnetic crystals to prove that again unless you're trying to get a research grant. For last couple years the problem has been whether the sample was contaminated by earth organisms but I don't think their funding grants to study that one.
When you were in school you had no free time to work on slashdot and graduation was supposed to fix that. Now you graduated and have as much free time as you had in school. Well we do know this: new stories were getting posted at 8am before graduation and now aren't getting posted until after 12:00. Like I always said, school is a vacation. Enjoy the free time you have in school because after graduation it just goes downhill.
Don't worry because after it loads, the free sound driver doesn't work with my SB16 anyway. Load the modules like so:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod uart401
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=10 dma=1 dma16=5
Specify proper io, irq, dma, and dma16 values for your card. Double buffering has been broken ever since 2.1.
Whatever you do, never ever exhaust your virtual memory with xanim. This crashes the VM subsystem permanently on all kernels after 2.2.2. I work with movies larger than 700 megs and my system goes down constantly. Since this isn't a normal activity on Linux computers there is no bug fix in progress.
The number of tide*.microsoft.com hits to my Linux server is so high I have to restrict traffic to keep the Microsoft load from saturating the T1.
All private universities should get an award. You give up all your rights when you go to one of those. Compared to the KGB, CIA, FBI, and IRS of the average private school, Intel looks like Mickey mouse.
Anyone who puts a web page that bad on a second level domain is a complete wierdo.
Dear Sengan,
Corba is a development framework. Dragging barcharts is an application feature. If there was an app using Corba to drap and drop, then you could make a connection between the two but not now.
> I find it hard to believe that some of the best
> computer scientists in the world will want to do
> their work for free
People who code for money know how to get jobs. People who code for free know how to code.
The cheapest domain name today is over $1000. The standard routine is to buy domain names off their owners. What was 1994 like? Did domain names really only cost $100?
The reaction by employers to open source coding projects has been consistantly, blatantly negative in my experience. Self-funded coding projects are viewed as amateurism and completely irrelevant compared to the "proper degree" or a "professionally developed" product. I should know since I never got the "proper degree" and hit employers purely with open source credentials.
As for open source projects I've had floating around for over 4 years, the downloaders aren't downloading the source code to modify, enhance, and praise. They just want something for free. Obviously it makes you feel good, it makes Slashdotters happy, but you have to make sure you're already employed before you link the bombshell to a web site.
My aunt died in a plane crash last year. They're not as hypothetical as you might think.
The PCI code in XFree86 version 3.3 breaks my soundcard real good. XFree86 3.2 doesn't have any problems so I keep a copy of XFree86 3.2 around permanently.
Also the free open sound system driver can rarely allocate more than 4096 bytes for a DMA buffer because it's memory management sucks. You should either try the commercial sound driver or figure out how to permanently allocate 128k DMA buffers at startup.
For rock solid buffering, get rt.c which allows one process to lock the CPU until it's finished buffering. I use rt.c with mpg123 and it's rock solid with no crashes.
They'll win sooner or later. They want to tax those ISP calls just like they want to tax all internet commerce. Also, Sengan posted it so don't set your heart on voice modems.
What is the tax on long distance calls that they're now applying to ISP calls? It comes out to a few dollars on an itemized long distance bill. Most phone companies build the tax into their long distance charges.
It's easy to acheive mega bandwidth. Achieving it is a bit more difficult.
Why would you want to upgrade from a 333 Mhz to a 500 Mhz computer today? The only improvement we're seeing today is entirely in the video acceleration and that's entirely rendered in hardware no matter what CPU speed you have. More and more audio is rendered strictly in hardware, too. The memory requirements of today's software far outstrip caches so you're still going to be at the 100Mhz limit for software. I've compiled video rendering software with maximum optimization on several UNIX boxes and the difference in software-only rendering between 150Mhz and 500Mhz is noticable but barely worth it. The flight gear page has some good benchmarks on the situation.
Ever notice how Dennis Ritche likes to write a lot in parenthesis? He also indents paragraphs below the first line and encases them in brackets I hear.
I know a lot of musicians who support everything the NARAS and the RIAA does to channel business to their own. They flat out don't have any concept of economics at all and don't realize that only 0.1% of musicians ever benefit from RIAA, NARAS, and XYZ.
Musicians need to start taking a business class and figure out that banning advertizements for musicians who aren't signed with one of the 5 distributors isn't going to help them.
Haven't pedals been around ever since MIDI was invented? They were just used to turn your computer into an instrument. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to reuse the same technology from MIDI to control the keyboard? It looks like another company just figured out how to make money off of old technology by creating a proprietary interface and driver.
If the big 5 only sign one new band per year per label, you'd better start using mp3 if you ever want to get discovered.
I thought the Mars project was always being considered. The space station was eventually supposed to turn into an assembly point for building interplanetary spacecraft in space.
Funny this happened on the same day some guy released a low level Quicktime library for Linux:) Combined with Microsoft's monopoly, that must have been the straw the broke Apple's sanity.
Funny this happened on the same day some guy released a low level Quicktime library for Linux. Combined with Microsoft's monopoly, that must have been the straw the broke Apple's sanity.
It's time some EE firm hired a molecular biologist to incorporate macromolecules into chips.
If you professional video editors know about Linux, there's no doubt that Quicktime for Linux would move a large number of MacOS users to Linux for the PowerPC platform. Imagining rendering while editing in Gimp with complete smoothness. Imagining rescheduling jobs on the fly. I believe professional video and audio are the only two things sustaining MacOS right now and Apple would definitely lose that if MacOS wasn't the only OS supporting Quicktime on the PowerPC.