http://www.nycwireless.net/ - lots of info on how to set up a secure, shared public access point http://www.bawug.org/ - the most technically adept wireless user group. Their mailing list is worth its weight in gold.
fam is File Alteration Monitor. It allows a process to find out when a file or directory changes, *without* polling it. That way, you file manager will properly update the view, with no appreciable overhead. Nautilus uses it too.
The scaling is 2x in each dimension, so it makes it 4x bigger. Oh, and 2xsai works best on images with clearly defined edges, like arcade games and anime. PLain old movies wont get as much benefit, and some will get worsened artifacting.
Stupid fucker! Why the hell did you introduce me to cdbaby??!!?! Now I'm going to have to blow my discretionary spending money. The damn site even uses proper m3u-s and mp3-s for sampling in xmms, or your open source player of choice. The music I've sampled so far is *good*, dammit. The prices are only ok, though. But since none of it goes to the RIAA, I don't have to hold off.
Bastard. When my wife bithes about the the CC bill, I'm giving her your email address.
You've obviously never built a real computational cluster. Real cluster nodes are better off not having any drives at *all*, as they are the only moving part in the mix. It boots PXE, loads a kernel, and nfs mounts root.
The MITRE Corporation
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.,
W534 McLean, VA, 22102, USA
terry@mitre.org
Terry Bollinger currently works at The MITRE Corporation, where he focuses on distributed software and hardware architectures issues for U.S. Department of Defense information infrastructures. He is an editor for IEEE Software, and was one of two Special Editors for the Jan/Feb 1999 issue of IEEE Software on Linux and open source software methods.
Terry has had extensive experience at all levels of software development in the telecommunications industry, at NASA, and for the U.S. Department of Defense. Especially while working in the telecommunications industry, he has had extensive hands-on experience with both a wide range of software construction methods and approaches, and with the consequenses of trying to apply some of these methods in "realistic" environments in which there is a typical spectrum of developer experience (e.g., what happens when C++ is applied in and environment consisting almost entirely of long-term funcional C programmers). Terry also has a strong background in software reusability and software process, including an IEEE Software Best Paper on why software process improvement doesn't always give the kinds of results advertised, and is intrigued by the issue of why some programmers seem to be so much better at producing high-quality, stable code that endures over time. In terms of software construction issues, he is both highly familiar with the overall set of techniques involved (including newer methods such a graphical component based programming), and is strongly supportive of the need for good methods while also being heathily skeptical about a lot of the claims made for various software construction methods and tools.
Terry has M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and has been a member of IEEE for 23 years.
I, too, have the Archos Jukebox Studio 20. I use it exclusively with Linux. The usb-storage driver + hotplug + usb.agent + scsi automatically mount it as a VFAT scsi device when it gets jacked into a USB port.
Some issues: 1) Playlists suck. 2) The screen is kinda small 3) It crashes on VBR MP3s sometime. Not too often but enough to notice 4) Turning it on is irritatingly long. You'd think it's just a few seconds, but... 5) It's not a small or light as an iPod.
Overall, having 253 CDs in my pocket has completely changed my music habits.
Oh, BTW, the reason that picture doesnt match it because that's the *recorder*, not the studio.
The people at www.handhelds.rg have really advanced the state of the art in linux's suitability for tablets. I run Linux + X11 on my Fujistsu pen tablets with great successs. As for handwriting recognition, there is xstroke and xmerlin, among others. xstroke now uses the RENDER extension to get fulllscreen translucent "ink" as youw write over any window.
IMAP would allow to get all the email, minus the atachments. You can pick which attachments you want. People, read the IMAP spec. It offers so much that ppl dont take advantage of.
You'll notice that I didn't mention looks. Both KDE and GNOME are so visually configurable, that anyone can make either look the way they like it. Seriously, neither has a looks advantage, although KDE's "styles" model is more powerful and faster.
I'll leave taste out of it. KDE is just technically waaaay ahead of GNOME.
Even if (when) GNOME finishes 2.0, they're still way behind KDE. KDE 2.X has been out since October 23 2000 (!).
It has internationalization, antialiased text, and a very configurable interface. A polished Control Center, first class file manager and browser Konqueror. It has a unified Help tool, with damn near every language in it. It's (L)GPLed and BSDed, has consistent UI between diverse apps, like the amazing KMail and KNode. It has an IDE to rival even MS, KDevelop. Even Konsole is impressive. I have no reason to use GNOME at all. GTK+ 2 isn't even really up to where Qt 1.4 was.
Lastly, KDE3 with Qt3 is in beta.
Use GNOME is you feel like it, but realize that you are way behind the state-of-the-art Linux desktop.
Those images are so small they can barely be icons on today's desktops! MMmmm, SVG icons...whoops, got distracted. Seriously, desktop wallpaper should be at least 1024x168, with 1600x1200 preferred. It's easy to scale down, but scaling up only happens in movies. (yeah, it pisses me off too)
It's a KIO plugin. If you use it to look at an audio CD, it presents it as a bunch of wavs, openable by any KDE program that cares too. It also creates virtual directories of oggs and mp3s. If you cd to it, and copy a file from it, it rips and encodes the track on the fly. Naming comes via CDDB. Cool eh? Way easier to sue than any other "ripper" I've ever seen.
The whole premise of this story is wrong. 802.11b is NOT a toy; it a very useful technology. 11Mb/s is not to be sneezed at. Who are you kidding? 99% of network apps are thrilled to run at that speed.
Second, 802.11a has issues of its own. Most importantly, it is WAY shorter range, and can be blocked by a wet piece of paper. 802.11b is so robust, people have run over several miles (with special antennas).
More importantly, networking is *infrastucture* and displacing infrastructure is hard. All those laptops with builtin 802.11b arent going away. Neither are all those deployed Access points.
I forsee 802.11b having continued success, at even cheaper prices.
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http://www.nycwireless.net/ - lots of info on how to set up a secure, shared public access point
http://www.bawug.org/ - the most technically adept wireless user group. Their mailing list is worth its weight in gold.
Good luck.
He didn't seem to have a problem using chemimal weapons against the Jews. Gas chambers don't run on air, you know.
Jay Sulzberger is the one on the right with the beanie:k =327588
No, really.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin
Prove it. Show me *any* evidence that either:
a) The Driver ID# is based on SS#
b) This transform is reversible.
Quite frankly, I don't believe you.
fam is File Alteration Monitor. It allows a process to find out when a file or directory changes, *without* polling it. That way, you file manager will properly update the view, with no appreciable overhead. Nautilus uses it too.
> Funny thing about Free software. You *can't* kill it.
Wrong. That's what software patents are for.
The scaling is 2x in each dimension, so it makes it 4x bigger. Oh, and 2xsai works best on images with clearly defined edges, like arcade games and anime. PLain old movies wont get as much benefit, and some will get worsened artifacting.
Stupid fucker! Why the hell did you introduce me to cdbaby??!!?!
Now I'm going to have to blow my discretionary spending money. The damn site even uses proper m3u-s and mp3-s for sampling in xmms, or your open source player of choice. The music I've sampled so far is *good*, dammit. The prices are only ok, though. But since none of it goes to the RIAA, I don't have to hold off.
Bastard. When my wife bithes about the the CC bill, I'm giving her your email address.
You've obviously never built a real computational cluster. Real cluster nodes are better off not having any drives at *all*, as they are the only moving part in the mix. It boots PXE, loads a kernel, and nfs mounts root.
It was written by:
Terry Bollinger
The MITRE Corporation
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.,
W534 McLean, VA, 22102, USA
terry@mitre.org
Terry Bollinger currently works at The MITRE Corporation, where he focuses on distributed software and hardware architectures issues for U.S. Department of Defense information infrastructures. He is an editor for IEEE Software, and was one of two Special Editors for the Jan/Feb 1999 issue of IEEE Software on Linux and open source software methods.
Terry has had extensive experience at all levels of software development in the telecommunications industry, at NASA, and for the U.S. Department of Defense. Especially while working in the telecommunications industry, he has had extensive hands-on experience with both a wide range of software construction methods and approaches, and with the consequenses of trying to apply some of these methods in "realistic" environments in which there is a typical spectrum of developer experience (e.g., what happens when C++ is applied in and environment consisting almost entirely of long-term funcional C programmers). Terry also has a strong background in software reusability and software process, including an IEEE Software Best Paper on why software process improvement doesn't always give the kinds of results advertised, and is intrigued by the issue of why some programmers seem to be so much better at producing high-quality, stable code that endures over time. In terms of software construction issues, he is both highly familiar with the overall set of techniques involved (including newer methods such a graphical component based programming), and is strongly supportive of the need for good methods while also being heathily skeptical about a lot of the claims made for various software construction methods and tools.
Terry has M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and has been a member of IEEE for 23 years.
> and some scientists are skeptical.
ALL scientists are skeptical. It's a basic requirement of the scientific method, and a reason it works wso damn well.
> The problem Cliff is experiencing appears to be unintentional jostling of the stop (off)
> button, so careful how you position it when you run.
I don't think so. Mine powers off too, and I think it's a crash.
I, too, have the Archos Jukebox Studio 20. I use it exclusively with Linux. The usb-storage driver + hotplug + usb.agent + scsi automatically mount it as a VFAT scsi device when it gets jacked into a USB port.
Some issues:
1) Playlists suck.
2) The screen is kinda small
3) It crashes on VBR MP3s sometime. Not too often but enough to notice
4) Turning it on is irritatingly long. You'd think it's just a few seconds, but...
5) It's not a small or light as an iPod.
Overall, having 253 CDs in my pocket has completely changed my music habits.
Oh, BTW, the reason that picture doesnt match it because that's the *recorder*, not the studio.
A Mandrake preload on a cheap (damn near disposable) pc? I'm in heaven!
This is VERY good news.
The people at www.handhelds.rg have really advanced the state of the art in linux's suitability for tablets. I run Linux + X11 on my Fujistsu pen tablets with great successs. As for handwriting recognition, there is xstroke and xmerlin, among others. xstroke now uses the RENDER extension to get fulllscreen translucent "ink" as youw write over any window.
It's really slick.
a fucking scud did. The patriot bug prevented it from helping, but it didnt kill anyone. Sheesh.
IMAP would allow to get all the email, minus the atachments. You can pick which attachments you want. People, read the IMAP spec. It offers so much that ppl dont take advantage of.
apt has nothing against rpm. I use it quite happilly on my RH 7.2 box. Seriously, APT rocks, especially when mixed with RPM support :-)
No, you're thinking of Slate.
You'll notice that I didn't mention looks. Both KDE and GNOME are so visually configurable, that anyone can make either look the way they like it. Seriously, neither has a looks advantage, although KDE's "styles" model is more powerful and faster.
I'll leave taste out of it. KDE is just technically waaaay ahead of GNOME.
Even if (when) GNOME finishes 2.0, they're still way behind KDE. KDE 2.X has been out since October 23 2000 (!).
It has internationalization, antialiased text, and a very configurable interface. A polished Control Center, first class file manager and browser Konqueror. It has a unified Help tool, with damn near every language in it. It's (L)GPLed and BSDed, has consistent UI between diverse apps, like the amazing KMail and KNode. It has an IDE to rival even MS, KDevelop. Even Konsole is impressive. I have no reason to use GNOME at all. GTK+ 2 isn't even really up to where Qt 1.4 was.
Lastly, KDE3 with Qt3 is in beta.
Use GNOME is you feel like it, but realize that you are way behind the state-of-the-art Linux desktop.
Those images are so small they can barely be icons on today's desktops! MMmmm, SVG icons...whoops, got distracted. Seriously, desktop wallpaper should be at least 1024x168, with 1600x1200 preferred. It's easy to scale down, but scaling up only happens in movies. (yeah, it pisses me off too)
eh, "sue" shoulda been "use". What's funny is that it works either way!
It's a KIO plugin. If you use it to look at an audio CD, it presents it as a bunch of wavs, openable by any KDE program that cares too. It also creates virtual directories of oggs and mp3s. If you cd to it, and copy a file from it, it rips and encodes the track on the fly. Naming comes via CDDB. Cool eh? Way easier to sue than any other "ripper" I've ever seen.
The whole premise of this story is wrong. 802.11b is NOT a toy; it a very useful technology. 11Mb/s is not to be sneezed at. Who are you kidding? 99% of network apps are thrilled to run at that speed.
Second, 802.11a has issues of its own. Most importantly, it is WAY shorter range, and can be blocked by a wet piece of paper. 802.11b is so robust, people have run over several miles (with special antennas).
More importantly, networking is *infrastucture* and displacing infrastructure is hard. All those laptops with builtin 802.11b arent going away. Neither are all those deployed Access points.
I forsee 802.11b having continued success, at even cheaper prices.