I wonder if anyone else is like me and thinks that those people who spend more time on computers during their work-day are less interested in sitting at the computer when they come home, or if it is just the opposite?
Oh, you bet. I'm no longer in the computer field but I had quite a number of internships at Silicon Graphics some years ago. When I got home the *last* thing I wanted to do was spend time on a computer. And that wasn't because their computers were so much nicer, either. I really didn't want to.
This has probably been posted before, butI think a fantastic little tool is the Active Spam Killer. I'm using 2.3 beta 3 which is very stable and worthwhile.
Basically it requires a once-off confirmation from any non-whitelisted and non-blacklisted user who sends you something. I haven't gotten one spam since I installed it. It's impossible to loose a real email and it's dead easy to install.
Sorry, I've already solved it. Take two bodies, put them in a vacuum with no other external forces, and have them orbit each other without decay. There. Perpetual motion.
These run too hot too? I would have thought that the best market for these would be small appliance-like devices that would run not-that-fast-but-fast-enough, generate very little heat, and use little power.
Has everyone gone the other way? I'd love to build a little firewall/webserver out of something like this, (especially now that Sun drove cobalt into the ground and charges 2-3x what they charge for their V100s).
Are there any options out there for these small/cool/lower-power computers? Where can I find one?
Really I'm not suprised. Sun seems to be very schizoid about Linux. And that's after they somewhere (obviously) decided to run cobalt into the ground. I was looking for a small, cool-running internet appliance the other day and saw that the cobalt machines are 2-3 times as expensive as their entry level V series, which are in turn more powerful than the cobalts. What's up what that?
Does anyone know where to get a decently-made, small, cool-running server appliance? (I'm not keen on slapping together some power-hungry box).
I remember when I worked as an SE intern at SGI (back in the glory days!) some of the employees brought in their teenage children and they played quake (II?) against us. There was this one level where you could get your group in this one circular room with one automatic door. Things spawned in there and so forth.
We were having a hard time getting them out so I just changed my team color and got in, stood at the back of the pack. Then changed color back and "WHAM! WHAM!" which was followed by "SCREAM SCREAM". It was beautiful.
I have been a long time Mandrake user (for the last 3+ years, I think) but wanted to try the new RedHat 8. So (as I have/home as a separate partition) I wiped the root and reinstalled. I had a comple of immediate gripes with RH8. First of all, both my partitions have always been resier since 2.4.1. The fact that I couldn't (even under the "expert" mode) install a fresh copy to an already-formatted reiser partition I thought was silly. But I was willing to bend a bit and made the root/ext3.
But I came to find later that the ntfs.o module was no where to be found and I couldn't write (ro) my win2k partiiton. Which was a must. I tried compiling the included source but someone got all these errors just for the ntfs module. Very odd - I've been compiling my own kernels since 1.2.13 and never found these errors before (don't remember what they said now).
Finally, though my harddisk had DMA successfully enabled, I just couldn't convince RH8 to use DMA on my DVD drive - the absence of which made everything choppy. hdparm just told me that was not possible.
So I'm back with Mandrake 9.0. Which I'm generally happy with SAVE FOR ONE BIG HEADACHE. I installed the "dev workstation" setup. But I still find I must keep installing -devel.rpm's left and right. O.k., this isn't a real problem, but I've found that these -devel.rpm's and their dependencies are quite equally distributed across ALL 3 DARN CDs!! I normally have to put in 2 of the CDs if not 3 to install any one devel package. This is infuriating!! Why?
It sounds like the surgeon is simply doing a large, complex skin graft... that's something burn surgeons have been doing for years.
Um, no. But thanks for your discussion on skin types. This operation (and I believe the surgeon is Irish actually, just working in London) is much much more complex. It involves a lot more careful work, both with the placement of the folding lines as well as reattachment of the loads of muscles and nerves, including both the facial (CN VII) and trigeminal (CN V) cranial nerves.
Burn surgeons use a device called a dermatome... in essence a large electric shaver that you can set to shave off very precise depths of skin (to thousandths of an inch)
While I don't know the surgeon's exact approach, I am certain they are not using those razors. It's the entire facial skin they're transplanting, not shavings of it.
Nicholas Petreley (should that be KNicholas KPetreley)...&&... Despite the sensationalistic flamage throughout the article,
So can you give examples of this "sensationalistic flamage"? I sure didn't find any. Why is there an immediate knee-jerk reaction when anyone ever criticizes gnome or kde? I personally think he has some very good points. Why can't people try and learn from constructive criticism?
If I could now lapse into a personal opinion: I've tried gnome and I try it regularly. And to be simply honest, I continue to get this "Is this all?" feeling every time I use it.
He's right about the dialogs. When I tried changing my background with one of the latest gnomes, I get this measly little window with three different picture boxes that don't help at all. I remember thinking how Spartan (?) this was back then.
Gnome just seems to be going in so many directions that it's turning into a mess. And no one wants that.
It's a lengthy but engaging writeup of that chamber of horrors we call high school and why being smarter than the average bear is more of a liability than an asset during that stage in life.
No, this is why nerds aren't liked. For Christ's sake get over yourselves a bit, eh? Try and just get along with other people and understand them and work with them. Don't smugly assume just because you're a social recluse that you're "smarter than the average bear". Please. This is what puts those people there in the first place.
This is the same insanity that pervades the entire genetic engineering field, i.e., the belief that certain traits can be traced back to a single gene.
If I remember correctly, genes were first discovered (?) by Mendel when he was changing the colors of his peapods or something similar. And the color of a flower can be represented by one gene. It isn't *that* much of a stretch here. Though I agree that the interplay of these things isincredibly compliated.
This morning I spent some time on this "Liferower" at the local gym (dive) I go to. I rowed an awful lot in college to am used to real rowing machines (not this one). But this one, while it has no resistance, has a little (circa 1982) EGA-esk computer screen where I row against this "olympic" opponent. And every time you pull on the handle, the red of the monitor aligns and then disaligns. Crazy little thing. But I don't think these things are that new, in the end.
A crew member with proper training can now take basic heart, blood, temperature and sugar level readings.
Not much info to provide a complete examination, isn't it?
1. Heart Info: Any kind of dysrhythmia as well as immediate signs of heart failure and circulatory collapse (such as any of the kinds of shock). 2. Blood: A vast number of things. 3. Temperature: Fevers? (see 1) 4. Blood sugars: Hyper/Hypoglycaemia. Which sometimes can look quite similar and therefore can be difficult to treat (the treatments are opposite in nature).
I'd say this covers a lot. There's not a lot else you'd do in a general first work-up. Obviously any patient notes could also be sent to the doctor, adding to the clinical picture.
The only way to get people like Boiware to support Linux is to buy their products when they do release them so that they see it [in linux] as worthwhile.
Or, alternatively. They could count the number of linux client downloads.
I just found these leaked from a "reliable" source!!:)
Official MacOSX 10.2.7 Patch schedule
Because many new GPUs are reaching a stage where they are faster than our G4s, code has been added to swap the GPU into a CPU and the CPU(G4) into a GPU. We anticipate a 15-30% boost in Photoshop.
Do you know what I find a little hypocritical or funny depending on the way you look at it?
Didn't everyone get mad at Microsoft when they had their "grassroots" movement and planted ads? Or how about that woman in some marketing department who "switched"?
These "not-ads" are just as phoney. If you're going to put up an advertisement, just come out and say it. We can all see it anyhow.
Actually, what'd I'd love is for someone to make something like glhack (thus with a zoom) and antialiased fonts. I'm not one for the graphics but zoomable would be nice.
Ya know, as much as I love to see Hillary Rosen gagging on her own foot, this isn't really news. She went up against an audience of students--people who typically have very little money and are hostile toward big, greedy corporations
You know, I was thinking something similar. I go to Trinity College Dublin (a sister school of Trinity Cambridge and Oxford) and we have some pretty ancient debating societies.
I've been to some of these and know that the debates are a breed unto their own. If you didn't know what you were up for, you'd be eaten alive. You really need some quick wit to do this and the heckling can get serious.
O.k., call me crazy. But the thing I've missed the most with the move towards "desktop environments" like this is the loss of the ability to write to the root window.
"Why?" you ask? Call me silly. But I've loved that little xsnow program for ages. Every winter I put it on and it relaxes me so much.
It's a pity that it doesn't work (or works poorly) with all these new fangled things. I know that you can get it to work somewhat in KDE, but the icons get scratched off with each snowflake.
Can it be that hard to layer the drawing sequences in the root manager?
>Apparently they're waiting for gcc 3.2 to be the default compiler before they upload kde 3 to unstable.
Well, I have 3.2 on a stock Mandrake 9.0 setup on an Athlon-XP 1600+ and the compiler craps out say once in every 15 compiles (of average-sized files). Last night I was compiling the multimedia package of kde3.1 beta2 and had to start a while loop of makes because one big file (artsmodules.cc I think - some 13,000 line computer generated file) kept choking it to death. It's such the annoyance.
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I wonder if anyone else is like me and thinks that those people who spend more time on computers during their work-day are less interested in sitting at the computer when they come home, or if it is just the opposite?
Oh, you bet. I'm no longer in the computer field but I had quite a number of internships at Silicon Graphics some years ago. When I got home the *last* thing I wanted to do was spend time on a computer. And that wasn't because their computers were so much nicer, either. I really didn't want to.
This has probably been posted before, butI think a fantastic little tool is the Active Spam Killer. I'm using 2.3 beta 3 which is very stable and worthwhile.
Basically it requires a once-off confirmation from any non-whitelisted and non-blacklisted user who sends you something. I haven't gotten one spam since I installed it. It's impossible to loose a real email and it's dead easy to install.
Sorry, I've already solved it. Take two bodies, put them in a vacuum with no other external forces, and have them orbit each other without decay. There. Perpetual motion.
These run too hot too? I would have thought that the best market for these would be small appliance-like devices that would run not-that-fast-but-fast-enough, generate very little heat, and use little power.
Has everyone gone the other way? I'd love to build a little firewall/webserver out of something like this, (especially now that Sun drove cobalt into the ground and charges 2-3x what they charge for their V100s).
Are there any options out there for these small/cool/lower-power computers? Where can I find one?
Really I'm not suprised. Sun seems to be very schizoid about Linux. And that's after they somewhere (obviously) decided to run cobalt into the ground. I was looking for a small, cool-running internet appliance the other day and saw that the cobalt machines are 2-3 times as expensive as their entry level V series, which are in turn more powerful than the cobalts. What's up what that?
Does anyone know where to get a decently-made, small, cool-running server appliance? (I'm not keen on slapping together some power-hungry box).
I remember when I worked as an SE intern at SGI (back in the glory days!) some of the employees brought in their teenage children and they played quake (II?) against us. There was this one level where you could get your group in this one circular room with one automatic door. Things spawned in there and so forth.
We were having a hard time getting them out so I just changed my team color and got in, stood at the back of the pack. Then changed color back and "WHAM! WHAM!" which was followed by "SCREAM SCREAM". It was beautiful.
I'm sure you can also find help on Reiser support for Red Hat if you took a minute to look
So you're saying you can install redhat 8.0 to a reiserfs root without the biggest mid-install hacks??
I have been a long time Mandrake user (for the last 3+ years, I think) but wanted to try the new RedHat 8. So (as I have /home as a separate partition) I wiped the root and reinstalled. I had a comple of immediate gripes with RH8. First of all, both my partitions have always been resier since 2.4.1. The fact that I couldn't (even under the "expert" mode) install a fresh copy to an already-formatted reiser partition I thought was silly. But I was willing to bend a bit and made the root /ext3.
But I came to find later that the ntfs.o module was no where to be found and I couldn't write (ro) my win2k partiiton. Which was a must. I tried compiling the included source but someone got all these errors just for the ntfs module. Very odd - I've been compiling my own kernels since 1.2.13 and never found these errors before (don't remember what they said now).
Finally, though my harddisk had DMA successfully enabled, I just couldn't convince RH8 to use DMA on my DVD drive - the absence of which made everything choppy. hdparm just told me that was not possible.
So I'm back with Mandrake 9.0. Which I'm generally happy with SAVE FOR ONE BIG HEADACHE. I installed the "dev workstation" setup. But I still find I must keep installing -devel.rpm's left and right. O.k., this isn't a real problem, but I've found that these -devel.rpm's and their dependencies are quite equally distributed across ALL 3 DARN CDs!! I normally have to put in 2 of the CDs if not 3 to install any one devel package. This is infuriating!! Why?
A 3D navigatable desktop? I thought VRML died for a reason?
It sounds like the surgeon is simply doing a large, complex skin graft... that's something burn surgeons have been doing for years.
Um, no. But thanks for your discussion on skin types. This operation (and I believe the surgeon is Irish actually, just working in London) is much much more complex. It involves a lot more careful work, both with the placement of the folding lines as well as reattachment of the loads of muscles and nerves, including both the facial (CN VII) and trigeminal (CN V) cranial nerves.
Burn surgeons use a device called a dermatome... in essence a large electric shaver that you can set to shave off very precise depths of skin (to thousandths of an inch)
While I don't know the surgeon's exact approach, I am certain they are not using those razors. It's the entire facial skin they're transplanting, not shavings of it.
Hellooooo Lightning Storms!
Seriously, what kind of home-owner's insurance do you have to pay living up in a big tree? Rotting? Fires? Freak elephant attacks?
Nicholas Petreley (should that be KNicholas KPetreley) ...&&... Despite the sensationalistic flamage throughout the article,
So can you give examples of this "sensationalistic flamage"? I sure didn't find any. Why is there an immediate knee-jerk reaction when anyone ever criticizes gnome or kde? I personally think he has some very good points. Why can't people try and learn from constructive criticism?
If I could now lapse into a personal opinion: I've tried gnome and I try it regularly. And to be simply honest, I continue to get this "Is this all?" feeling every time I use it.
He's right about the dialogs. When I tried changing my background with one of the latest gnomes, I get this measly little window with three different picture boxes that don't help at all. I remember thinking how Spartan (?) this was back then.
Gnome just seems to be going in so many directions that it's turning into a mess. And no one wants that.
It's a lengthy but engaging writeup of that chamber of horrors we call high school and why being smarter than the average bear is more of a liability than an asset during that stage in life.
No, this is why nerds aren't liked. For Christ's sake get over yourselves a bit, eh? Try and just get along with other people and understand them and work with them. Don't smugly assume just because you're a social recluse that you're "smarter than the average bear". Please. This is what puts those people there in the first place.
This is the same insanity that pervades the entire genetic engineering field, i.e., the belief that certain traits can be traced back to a single gene.
If I remember correctly, genes were first discovered (?) by Mendel when he was changing the colors of his peapods or something similar. And the color of a flower can be represented by one gene. It isn't *that* much of a stretch here. Though I agree that the interplay of these things isincredibly compliated.
This morning I spent some time on this "Liferower" at the local gym (dive) I go to. I rowed an awful lot in college to am used to real rowing machines (not this one). But this one, while it has no resistance, has a little (circa 1982) EGA-esk computer screen where I row against this "olympic" opponent. And every time you pull on the handle, the red of the monitor aligns and then disaligns. Crazy little thing. But I don't think these things are that new, in the end.
Still, I'd trade it for a Concept 2 any day.
A crew member with proper training can now take basic heart, blood, temperature and sugar level readings.
Not much info to provide a complete examination, isn't it?
1. Heart Info: Any kind of dysrhythmia as well as immediate signs of heart failure and circulatory collapse (such as any of the kinds of shock).
2. Blood: A vast number of things.
3. Temperature: Fevers? (see 1)
4. Blood sugars: Hyper/Hypoglycaemia. Which sometimes can look quite similar and therefore can be difficult to treat (the treatments are opposite in nature).
I'd say this covers a lot. There's not a lot else you'd do in a general first work-up. Obviously any patient notes could also be sent to the doctor, adding to the clinical picture.
The only way to get people like Boiware to support Linux is to buy their products when they do release them so that they see it [in linux] as worthwhile.
Or, alternatively. They could count the number of linux client downloads.
Just a thought.
Why buy new games when you can play old ones (Neverwinter Nights) in a new way.??
Official MacOSX 10.2.7 Patch schedule
Because many new GPUs are reaching a stage where they are faster than our G4s, code has been added to swap the GPU into a CPU and the CPU(G4) into a GPU. We anticipate a 15-30% boost in Photoshop.
Do you know what I find a little hypocritical or funny depending on the way you look at it?
Didn't everyone get mad at Microsoft when they had their "grassroots" movement and planted ads? Or how about that woman in some marketing department who "switched"?
These "not-ads" are just as phoney. If you're going to put up an advertisement, just come out and say it. We can all see it anyhow.
Actually, what'd I'd love is for someone to make something like glhack (thus with a zoom) and antialiased fonts. I'm not one for the graphics but zoomable would be nice.
Ya know, as much as I love to see Hillary Rosen gagging on her own foot, this isn't really news. She went up against an audience of students--people who typically have very little money and are hostile toward big, greedy corporations
You know, I was thinking something similar. I go to Trinity College Dublin (a sister school of Trinity Cambridge and Oxford) and we have some pretty ancient debating societies.
I've been to some of these and know that the debates are a breed unto their own. If you didn't know what you were up for, you'd be eaten alive. You really need some quick wit to do this and the heckling can get serious.
O.k., call me crazy. But the thing I've missed the most with the move towards "desktop environments" like this is the loss of the ability to write to the root window.
"Why?" you ask? Call me silly. But I've loved that little xsnow program for ages. Every winter I put it on and it relaxes me so much.
It's a pity that it doesn't work (or works poorly) with all these new fangled things. I know that you can get it to work somewhat in KDE, but the icons get scratched off with each snowflake.
Can it be that hard to layer the drawing sequences in the root manager?
Sorry - small hang-up here.
Hi, I'm the administrator for the big ASCI Purple cluster and, do to a lot of budget cutbacks, we have a lot of spare CPUs (like 30,000).
Would anyone mind if I joined their team?
>Apparently they're waiting for gcc 3.2 to be the default compiler before they upload kde 3 to unstable.
Well, I have 3.2 on a stock Mandrake 9.0 setup on an Athlon-XP 1600+ and the compiler craps out say once in every 15 compiles (of average-sized files). Last night I was compiling the multimedia package of kde3.1 beta2 and had to start a while loop of makes because one big file (artsmodules.cc I think - some 13,000 line computer generated file) kept choking it to death. It's such the annoyance.