'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel will push to move the Linux operating system out of the back office from next year.'
So when Redhat moves linux out of the back office do they recommend we move Window in?
God, this takes me back.. I remember the parrot and the clown pics like it was yesterday.. the other two engraved in my head are the eagle and the red rose.
I swear I spent hours looking at those pictures and grinning from ear to ear at the magic of it all.. not to mention dragging every family and friend possible in to show them off.
I know - and everyone always said "So? TVs can do that?" And you just knew that these people didn't get it.:)
Of course, then 9600 baud BBSes, "free" PCPursuit accounts, VGA pr0n became commonplace, and it all went downhill from there:)
9600? Man I remember 1200. When you'd turn off color so it would go faster. Those BBSs were great. The idea seems so simple now you'd wonder what ever made it so addicting...:)
We had a lot of wildcat boards near us but some PCBoard ones as well, which was like the Cadillac of BBSs. I so much wanted to run one but it got axed by the parents. "You want a second line to do what??":)
EGA with 16 colours better than a Commodore Amiga? HAHAHAHA. In Ham mode, the Amiga was kicking out 4096! 16 colours are just garish.
Ah yes. The Amiga Bigots. I'd forgotten about these guys too. Ahhh. The warm memories...:)
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I had a Sony VGA monitor, and my friends and I were blown away by some 320x200 x 256 color graphic of a parrot.
Man - that brought a smile to my face. I remember that picture. And the clown? Remember the clown at 320x240? It could really show you what a good picture could look like even at that low resolution.
I remember the first game I had to make use of that more (on a PS/2 Model 70): Mean Streets. Anyone remember that? Had a blast playing that Christmas morning.
And then there was fractint, which could use "other" modes and draw fractals at beyond the 640x480 modes to things like 732x5??. Of course it took hours on the 16Mhz 386DX in that box.
I'd kind of like to hear what they did about security during the setup. Think about it - 1100 very hot items with tons of nerds around. All it takes is one guy to move a computer left instead of right and into his pickup...
AAC is the default music encoding format (codec) for the iTunes player. Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great. The AAC files I downloaded at 128kbps sound great. I rarely encode MP3s at that low a bit rate, so I really can't do a comparison.
I'm sure that there are instances of where AAC is a super format, but the first things I downloaded were some of Evgeny Kissin's performances on solo piano and it sounds as if you're standing outside the concert hall and the sound is filtering through.
That said, I've encoded solo piano from CD at 192 and it sounds much better. But I suppose...
I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this because I'm not really a mac person, but there was a lengthy debate about this over at macnet2.com - I think the general consensus was that applecare wasn't worth it, but the compusa one was as well as something like www.safeware.com or safe something. Go over to macnet2.com and find it - there were two articles and discussions. K
The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to change all the LABEL=??? specifications to actual device files, boot from a recovery disk, move everything around while reformatting the partitions as another filesystem, then finally rebooting.
Really? The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to use Suse.
They can film white walls. Your TV is incapable of displaying them. The dot crawl almost never originates from the DVD player, but instead from the incredibly poorly setup TV - odds are the sharpness, contrast, and brightness are completely fucked up and the DVD player is showing you just how poorly the setup is.
Sorry bud.I can confirm that for the guy. I get that effect sometimes on my 19" Hitachi CM771. It certainly is the mpeg2 encoding. K
You know, I don't believe in Creation or really disbelieve in it. The way I see it is this. If some all-powerful diety created the heavens, would he have told us all the nitty gritty physics and math or whatever it is even today let alone ages ago? No, of course not. We would have gotten some children's tale. The Creation thing, if it has a place, is in allergory.
David Ihnat, consultant, Chicago, IL:... I will never buy an SCO product again; I will never recommend an SCO product to my clients; and I will actively promote replacement of any SCO products I encounter at client sites. And I'm not the only person I've spoken with who feels this way.
So this guy's talking to himself now? These days are dark.
No no - don't use Mandrake Linux. Use "Freedom Linux".:)
Seriously. Was a mandrake user for years but things kept happening with the dist I didn't like. Weird things that didn't make sense. I just moved to SuSE. Certainly also worth a look. (Of note - I find it easier to setup than Mandrake - which was supposed to be their forte).
I think that this obsession with violent videogames is just a part of the larger psyche in humanity; there is that dark side that just keeps on butting it's head in.
You're right. It's why sports are so popular too. Sports are only a form of controlled non-lethal warfare. Interesting thing to think about sometimes.
I have to add something to that which is posted above. I feel for that guys infrastructural problems. I really do. When we were in Kenya for that month, checking email was a revelation. It would literally take anywhere from 5 - 10 minutes to even load up my webmail app (neomail - hardly bandwidth heavy).
I can feel what he's going through. I only wish whatever ponces could get off their hands and open up that pipe running down the West coast.
[I posted this over there at newsforge. Hopefully it will reach the author.]
Greetings to Ghana! It was only 2 years ago that I spent a super month working in a hospital in Kenya. Great people, and I salute you!
The author here mentions an interesting point about paying to train/teach students. This gave me a thought. The first being that every job is, naturally, always training its employees in it's methods and ways from when they start work.
Now that wasn't wat the author meant, I know. But how about this: I'm just about (hopefully!) to finish medical school. I'll then enter a period called a residency where I'm being paid, but the learning experience is far from over. Most people believe that residents are still students, and I'd have to agree. It's the first time we actually get to treat people largely ourselves, with the watchful eye of our superiors, naturally.
Medicine dictates that. It needs to start paying these "students" because few if any could hold out any more without a paycheque. Perhaps that's the mentality the author needs in Ghana?
Find some people who really *want* to learn and have that drive. Maybe they never had the opportunities at this college. They will be the ones who stand to you.
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'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel will push to move the Linux operating system out of the back office from next year.'
So when Redhat moves linux out of the back office do they recommend we move Window in?
God, this takes me back.. I remember the parrot and the clown pics like it was yesterday.. the other two engraved in my head are the eagle and the red rose.
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I swear I spent hours looking at those pictures and grinning from ear to ear at the magic of it all.. not to mention dragging every family and friend possible in to show them off.
I know - and everyone always said "So? TVs can do that?" And you just knew that these people didn't get it.
Of course, then 9600 baud BBSes, "free" PCPursuit accounts, VGA pr0n became commonplace, and it all went downhill from there
9600? Man I remember 1200. When you'd turn off color so it would go faster. Those BBSs were great. The idea seems so simple now you'd wonder what ever made it so addicting...
We had a lot of wildcat boards near us but some PCBoard ones as well, which was like the Cadillac of BBSs. I so much wanted to run one but it got axed by the parents. "You want a second line to do what??"
EGA with 16 colours better than a Commodore Amiga? HAHAHAHA. In Ham mode, the Amiga was kicking out 4096! 16 colours are just garish.
:)
Ah yes. The Amiga Bigots. I'd forgotten about these guys too. Ahhh. The warm memories...
I had a Sony VGA monitor, and my friends and I were blown away by some 320x200 x 256 color graphic of a parrot.
:)
Man - that brought a smile to my face. I remember that picture. And the clown? Remember the clown at 320x240? It could really show you what a good picture could look like even at that low resolution.
I remember the first game I had to make use of that more (on a PS/2 Model 70): Mean Streets. Anyone remember that? Had a blast playing that Christmas morning.
And then there was fractint, which could use "other" modes and draw fractals at beyond the 640x480 modes to things like 732x5??. Of course it took hours on the 16Mhz 386DX in that box.
Ah, times were simpler back then...
Damn, if i'd had 2 billion dollar I wouldn't need Google. I'd had some naked petrified girls doing all the searching for me...
Wow. Are you really that frightening?
I'd kind of like to hear what they did about security during the setup. Think about it - 1100 very hot items with tons of nerds around. All it takes is one guy to move a computer left instead of right and into his pickup...
Anyone know about this??
AAC is the default music encoding format (codec) for the iTunes player. Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great. The AAC files I downloaded at 128kbps sound great. I rarely encode MP3s at that low a bit rate, so I really can't do a comparison.
I'm sure that there are instances of where AAC is a super format, but the first things I downloaded were some of Evgeny Kissin's performances on solo piano and it sounds as if you're standing outside the concert hall and the sound is filtering through.
That said, I've encoded solo piano from CD at 192 and it sounds much better. But I suppose...
Um, yeah, this coming from the company that's offering exactly *how* many music downloads?
Really? Perhaps you haven't seen their hit single "Developers! Developers! Developers!" You're missing out. Search for it with iTunes.
The TIVO website mentions that HDTV may be supported in the future. Is there any word out there (unofficially) for when?
I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this because I'm not really a mac person, but there was a lengthy debate about this over at macnet2.com - I think the general consensus was that applecare wasn't worth it, but the compusa one was as well as something like www.safeware.com or safe something. Go over to macnet2.com and find it - there were two articles and discussions.
K
The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to change all the LABEL=??? specifications to actual device files, boot from a recovery disk, move everything around while reformatting the partitions as another filesystem, then finally rebooting.
Really? The simplest way I found to move to reiserfs was to use Suse.
They can film white walls. Your TV is incapable of displaying them. The dot crawl almost never originates from the DVD player, but instead from the incredibly poorly setup TV - odds are the sharpness, contrast, and brightness are completely fucked up and the DVD player is showing you just how poorly the setup is.
Sorry bud.I can confirm that for the guy. I get that effect sometimes on my 19" Hitachi CM771. It certainly is the mpeg2 encoding.
K
You know, I don't believe in Creation or really disbelieve in it. The way I see it is this. If some all-powerful diety created the heavens, would he have told us all the nitty gritty physics and math or whatever it is even today let alone ages ago? No, of course not. We would have gotten some children's tale. The Creation thing, if it has a place, is in allergory.
David Ihnat, consultant, Chicago, IL:... I will never buy an SCO product again; I will never recommend an SCO product to my clients; and I will actively promote replacement of any SCO products I encounter at client sites. And I'm not the only person I've spoken with who feels this way.
So this guy's talking to himself now? These days are dark.
This whole lawsuit is just a waste of time anyways. Any day now we'll all be using HURD, right?
The funny thing is if you take a look at the directories above this, the guy looks like he needs to get out a little bit more...
No no - don't use Mandrake Linux. Use "Freedom Linux".
Seriously. Was a mandrake user for years but things kept happening with the dist I didn't like. Weird things that didn't make sense. I just moved to SuSE. Certainly also worth a look. (Of note - I find it easier to setup than Mandrake - which was supposed to be their forte).
I think that this obsession with violent videogames is just a part of the larger psyche in humanity; there is that dark side that just keeps on butting it's head in.
You're right. It's why sports are so popular too. Sports are only a form of controlled non-lethal warfare. Interesting thing to think about sometimes.
Hey, maybe a company named "Cobalt" can buy them and then run them into the ground!!
Good God! this color scheme is worse than the YRO site!
What kind of disposessed weirdo did this one? You may as well put the whole thing in blink tags.
Can someone explain to me how Arnold is back in this one? I thought he melted himself in the last movie.
Remember? "Nowh Ie nouw wiey you kry..."
I have to add something to that which is posted above. I feel for that guys infrastructural problems. I really do. When we were in Kenya for that month, checking email was a revelation. It would literally take anywhere from 5 - 10 minutes to even load up my webmail app (neomail - hardly bandwidth heavy).
I can feel what he's going through. I only wish whatever ponces could get off their hands and open up that pipe running down the West coast.
[I posted this over there at newsforge. Hopefully it will reach the author.]
Greetings to Ghana! It was only 2 years ago that I spent a super month working in a hospital in Kenya. Great people, and I salute you!
The author here mentions an interesting point about paying to train/teach students. This gave me a thought. The first being that every job is, naturally, always training its employees in it's methods and ways from when they start work.
Now that wasn't wat the author meant, I know. But how about this: I'm just about (hopefully!) to finish medical school. I'll then enter a period called a residency where I'm being paid, but the learning experience is far from over. Most people believe that residents are still students, and I'd have to agree. It's the first time we actually get to treat people largely ourselves, with the watchful eye of our superiors, naturally.
Medicine dictates that. It needs to start paying these "students" because few if any could hold out any more without a paycheque. Perhaps that's the mentality the author needs in Ghana?
Find some people who really *want* to learn and have that drive. Maybe they never had the opportunities at this college. They will be the ones who stand to you.
Best wishes & greetings!
If You Love Your Wireless Customers, Set Them Free
ByRoss Rubin
That reminds me of a great saying:
"If you truly love something, set it free. And if it doesn't come back: hunt it down and kill it."
how bout Daawtrtdfw? Google turns up nothing, so I'm sure its not taken.
:)
Hey, that's Welsh, isn't it?