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There is a Wine daemon that can run and intercept a call from the shell or filemanager and make the appropriate wine calls invisible to the user. RedHat 8 has it on by default when you choose to install Wine. It is quite useful, because a binary is now a binary, no matter what is required to run it, the appropriate libraries and environment are automatically loaded.
The last time I touched Winsock, I was writing a TOC client for AIM. (My buddy wrote one for linux, using synchronous threads, which made it pretty useless cause he had to tell it to go read so much data, so I had to one-up him) I got everything to work, except I could not figure out how to get asynchronous reads. The sample code I pulled from MSDN caused a message to be sent to the main window of the app when data was waiting to be read, on which I attached a handler. No matter what I tried to do, that handler never got called. Any ideas? Sample code?
It's not an IDE to relearn, it's an api. A good example is BSD sockets vs. Winsock. Yeah they do the same thing, and once you learn one, the other is trivial, but it eats up a lot of development time having to always learn the particulars of an api. I have the same problem, I'm a CompE that bit my teeth on old releases of redhat, which is roughly sysV UNIX, I picked up the VxWorks api no problem, cause it is pretty much the same. Windows programming for me is very hard because I spend 80% of my time buried in MSDN instead of coding.
GTA3 or Vice City with the birds eye view is kindof close to gta1 and gta2. Of course the games were designed to have a bird's eye view, so they are a little clearer. Its kindof wierd switching between the first person and third person views, however.
Yes you can still play games. If a second harddrive was ever released, you might have to switch, but not neccessarily. Once installed, you can use a TV as the display. The memory card is needed to bootstrap the machine. They arent trying to screw you here, what you see is what you get. I bought it about a year ago, and am pretty happy. However, the first distro was Redhat 5.2 based, which sucked. This should give a big boost to the community, as a modern set of libraries makes it sooooo much easier to port applications.
I use sametime it at work, where I am now, so that when I'm not reading slashdot, I still have something other than work to take up my time:) I like it, and I'm told it can be tied to the AIM network, but at my company it is internal only. Sametime just seems a little more professional than AIM, no big banner ads, a company wide address book that works, no stupid colors, fonts, buddy icons. I like having the seperation between work and home, as I don't want to talk to friends during the day, and I don't want to talk to coworkers at night.
There isnt much source code per say. Most games were 4 KByte, the biggest were 32 or maybe 64. They were done completely in 6507 assembly, and can be disassembled into essentially what the programmers wrote. The hard part is making sense of it. With effort, and some experience, one can label the disassembly enough to understand whats going on. There are several games where this has been done, and are publicly available. Remember that the atari was very simple, it barely had enough power to draw the screen line by line. Their was a CPU (6507 which was a 6502 with only 13 address lines) and the TIA chip, which was what generated the scan lines for television. Their was iirc 128 bytes of memory, and if one was really sneaky, some ram could be put on the cartridge. The most complex part of atari code is bank switching, where differant segments of a rom are mapped onto the same set of addresses. Having the source would not give any benefit, as it is one step above machine code. The best way to preserve atari title is to have emulators that are as close to a 2600 as possible, thus allowing the titles to still be played.
Someone finally proved mathmatically why clear channel is wrong! Quick, send this to the FCC, oh wait, they wont be able to understand it.
I think, however, that a correction factor is missing, you should have a phi(c - (p*h(t0)) where p is a correction factor for how open a person is to new music. I know for me that it doesnt take much for me to try something new, but for many people over the age of about 18, they know what they like, and arent going to progress with the change in popular music. This is why old people like oldies.
I think he is referring to the velocity of the disk under the laser. On the outside, a cd-rom laser has a lot more disk go by it in the same amount of time, while on the inside the same amount of time results in less data being read. Angular velocity is equivalent to RPMs, the specification under discussion is the linear velocity of the disk under the laser.
I have the DVDs for the first two seasons and have looked. I couldn't make out anything, and neither could my friend who is a Simpson's fanatic as well. I think that it might be possible that it only said NRA 4 EVER in one episode. Im waiting for the DVD's of the rest of the seasons to come out, before I give up on the search.
Ive had a dual cpu for 4 years, and I definitly would not replace it with a single cpu. My dual 700's feel much faster than my 2.2 GHz laptop (actually has a desktop chip in). Any type of file i/o or running more than about 4 apps just slows down the single processor too much. I love being able to run vmware and giving it a whole processor, or when I compile large projects, I can compile two files at once. Grip takes advantage of a second cpu when ripping music. The normal linux system alone, without adding a bunch of user apps has enough threads to see the differance. I agree with earlier posts that there will at one point be a practical wall of performance, Im not sure how far off that is, but parallel processors is great method to work around it.
I agree, I think that support should continue to be available for 6.2, 7.3, and whatever the final 8 is, cause even though the interim release are good enough for the desktop, Im sticking to these for my servers. I think this goes with RedHats new vision of providing enterprise versions with much longer release cycles. I view this as important, and hope that it helps to promote version stability in the other distros. People bitch at debian for doing this, but debian stable is stable because of it.
The intent of a union is to protect workers rights. In no industry are workers careers valued less than in engineering fields. Engineers / programmers design products that make companies money, but yet as soon as an economic downturn comes around they are let go. "We can always hire some recent grads later." As soon as engineers start getting paid well, they have to worry about being replaced by H1-b workers, or their job being exported to India. Furthermore, employers should be training their employees with new technologies, a union would help to define and dictate what proper training and qualifications are. Everyone complains about PHB managers, and the one way to combat these is to use a unions to your advantage. In some places, seniority can be a good thing. Not always, but sometimes. Unions get a bad rap due to frivolous strikes, and are considered blue coller, but I for one would be proud to join a programmers union that stood up for my rights, and gave me some job security.
Ive bought 27" wega. Two of them, one for myself about 3 years ago, which my parents borrowed, and when they gave it back, they had me get them another one. I still feel that the sony's picture is better, especially for movies and video games. I did buy the service plan "How can you go wrong?":), but I love sony stuff, and I am willing to pay the premium for what I see as sony quality.
Just wanted to say that Model M keyboards are one of the few pieces of computer hardware that have truly lasted. I have 3 of them, made around 1991, here I am 11 years later still using them. There is no more comfortable keyboard, I hope someone makes a ps2 keyboard to usb adapter, so they dont become obsolete.
The last time I did a full backup, ~5 months ago, I used over 70 cdr's. Sure it sucked, but they are cheap, the format is standard, not going anywhere soon, and I didnt have to buy any new hardware. It looks like DVD formats have stabilized a fair amount, and most data doesn't change often. If I had 220 GB, I would probably write a script that would compare time stamps on files, against a prior backup, and then you are only doing incremental backups. If your data is worth more than the reliability of DVD, your data is worth enough to fork over the 5 grand for a professional tape drive.
Im an O-Gauger myself, and am quite partial to Lionel's Trainmaster Command Control system. I view the differance as akin to Solaris vs. Linux. DCC is an open standard, many differant companies make many differant product. TMCC has one main manufacturer , although many companies incorporate it, has somewhat open standards , but one has the advantage of one stop place for support. Plus, efforts to bring DCC to 3 rail, AC powered trains failed pretty badly.
As far as research, my understanding is that it is fine to freely transmit medical data, as long as all patient identifying information is removed. I work in medical imaging research, and all cases we receive have just an identifying number, no way to actually link to a patient. Many of the sites that send us data do not understand the strict guidelines, however, and we often find that we are the ones stripping the identifying data. I think this is the weakest link in HIPAA compliance, is that many people simply do not know the requirements, and what I learned, was in the trenches, of more knowledgeable people telling me what I can and can not do. If there is a general website that gives the generalities of HIPAA compliance, I think it would help the average worker to understand much better.
How is this insightful? Linux is mearly a kernel, which has no interaction with the user. Linux userland apps are made by hundreds of developers, using many differant toolkits. I would say that you might put a dialect into KDE, or gnome, but not into the kernel code.
I use linux and have had an AOL account since 1994. AOL had some troubles when they launched unlimited service, but they are now quite reliable, and nationwide. With linux, they will support the 3 major platforms. I dont like time warner, but they give us Netscape / Mozilla, Winamp and ICQ for free. For the average American to use Linux, we need an isp like AOL that is nationwide, and supports linux.
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There is a Wine daemon that can run and intercept a call from the shell or filemanager and make the appropriate wine calls invisible to the user. RedHat 8 has it on by default when you choose to install Wine. It is quite useful, because a binary is now a binary, no matter what is required to run it, the appropriate libraries and environment are automatically loaded.
The last time I touched Winsock, I was writing a TOC client for AIM. (My buddy wrote one for linux, using synchronous threads, which made it pretty useless cause he had to tell it to go read so much data, so I had to one-up him) I got everything to work, except I could not figure out how to get asynchronous reads. The sample code I pulled from MSDN caused a message to be sent to the main window of the app when data was waiting to be read, on which I attached a handler. No matter what I tried to do, that handler never got called. Any ideas? Sample code?
It's not an IDE to relearn, it's an api. A good example is BSD sockets vs. Winsock. Yeah they do the same thing, and once you learn one, the other is trivial, but it eats up a lot of development time having to always learn the particulars of an api. I have the same problem, I'm a CompE that bit my teeth on old releases of redhat, which is roughly sysV UNIX, I picked up the VxWorks api no problem, cause it is pretty much the same. Windows programming for me is very hard because I spend 80% of my time buried in MSDN instead of coding.
GTA3 or Vice City with the birds eye view is kindof close to gta1 and gta2. Of course the games were designed to have a bird's eye view, so they are a little clearer. Its kindof wierd switching between the first person and third person views, however.
http://www.us.playstation.com/purchase/hardware/
This is where you buy it, I havent heard of anyone else selling it.
Yes you can still play games. If a second harddrive was ever released, you might have to switch, but not neccessarily. Once installed, you can use a TV as the display. The memory card is needed to bootstrap the machine. They arent trying to screw you here, what you see is what you get. I bought it about a year ago, and am pretty happy. However, the first distro was Redhat 5.2 based, which sucked. This should give a big boost to the community, as a modern set of libraries makes it sooooo much easier to port applications.
I use sametime it at work, where I am now, so that when I'm not reading slashdot, I still have something other than work to take up my time :) I like it, and I'm told it can be tied to the AIM network, but at my company it is internal only. Sametime just seems a little more professional than AIM, no big banner ads, a company wide address book that works, no stupid colors, fonts, buddy icons. I like having the seperation between work and home, as I don't want to talk to friends during the day, and I don't want to talk to coworkers at night.
There isnt much source code per say. Most games were 4 KByte, the biggest were 32 or maybe 64. They were done completely in 6507 assembly, and can be disassembled into essentially what the programmers wrote. The hard part is making sense of it. With effort, and some experience, one can label the disassembly enough to understand whats going on. There are several games where this has been done, and are publicly available. Remember that the atari was very simple, it barely had enough power to draw the screen line by line. Their was a CPU (6507 which was a 6502 with only 13 address lines) and the TIA chip, which was what generated the scan lines for television. Their was iirc 128 bytes of memory, and if one was really sneaky, some ram could be put on the cartridge. The most complex part of atari code is bank switching, where differant segments of a rom are mapped onto the same set of addresses. Having the source would not give any benefit, as it is one step above machine code. The best way to preserve atari title is to have emulators that are as close to a 2600 as possible, thus allowing the titles to still be played.
Someone finally proved mathmatically why clear channel is wrong! Quick, send this to the FCC, oh wait, they wont be able to understand it.
I think, however, that a correction factor is missing, you should have a phi(c - (p*h(t0)) where p is a correction factor for how open a person is to new music. I know for me that it doesnt take much for me to try something new, but for many people over the age of about 18, they know what they like, and arent going to progress with the change in popular music. This is why old people like oldies.
I think he is referring to the velocity of the disk under the laser. On the outside, a cd-rom laser has a lot more disk go by it in the same amount of time, while on the inside the same amount of time results in less data being read. Angular velocity is equivalent to RPMs, the specification under discussion is the linear velocity of the disk under the laser.
I have the DVDs for the first two seasons and have looked. I couldn't make out anything, and neither could my friend who is a Simpson's fanatic as well. I think that it might be possible that it only said NRA 4 EVER in one episode. Im waiting for the DVD's of the rest of the seasons to come out, before I give up on the search.
I agree with this, and I think that these are areas that will take Open Source software to the next level.
Ive had a dual cpu for 4 years, and I definitly would not replace it with a single cpu. My dual 700's feel much faster than my 2.2 GHz laptop (actually has a desktop chip in). Any type of file i/o or running more than about 4 apps just slows down the single processor too much. I love being able to run vmware and giving it a whole processor, or when I compile large projects, I can compile two files at once. Grip takes advantage of a second cpu when ripping music. The normal linux system alone, without adding a bunch of user apps has enough threads to see the differance. I agree with earlier posts that there will at one point be a practical wall of performance, Im not sure how far off that is, but parallel processors is great method to work around it.
I agree, I think that support should continue to be available for 6.2, 7.3, and whatever the final 8 is, cause even though the interim release are good enough for the desktop, Im sticking to these for my servers. I think this goes with RedHats new vision of providing enterprise versions with much longer release cycles. I view this as important, and hope that it helps to promote version stability in the other distros. People bitch at debian for doing this, but debian stable is stable because of it.
I get the same errors in visual c.
The intent of a union is to protect workers rights. In no industry are workers careers valued less than in engineering fields. Engineers / programmers design products that make companies money, but yet as soon as an economic downturn comes around they are let go. "We can always hire some recent grads later." As soon as engineers start getting paid well, they have to worry about being replaced by H1-b workers, or their job being exported to India. Furthermore, employers should be training their employees with new technologies, a union would help to define and dictate what proper training and qualifications are. Everyone complains about PHB managers, and the one way to combat these is to use a unions to your advantage. In some places, seniority can be a good thing. Not always, but sometimes. Unions get a bad rap due to frivolous strikes, and are considered blue coller, but I for one would be proud to join a programmers union that stood up for my rights, and gave me some job security.
Ive bought 27" wega. Two of them, one for myself about 3 years ago, which my parents borrowed, and when they gave it back, they had me get them another one. I still feel that the sony's picture is better, especially for movies and video games. I did buy the service plan "How can you go wrong?" :), but I love sony stuff, and I am willing to pay the premium for what I see as sony quality.
Just wanted to say that Model M keyboards are one of the few pieces of computer hardware that have truly lasted. I have 3 of them, made around 1991, here I am 11 years later still using them. There is no more comfortable keyboard, I hope someone makes a ps2 keyboard to usb adapter, so they dont become obsolete.
The last time I did a full backup, ~5 months ago, I used over 70 cdr's. Sure it sucked, but they are cheap, the format is standard, not going anywhere soon, and I didnt have to buy any new hardware. It looks like DVD formats have stabilized a fair amount, and most data doesn't change often. If I had 220 GB, I would probably write a script that would compare time stamps on files, against a prior backup, and then you are only doing incremental backups. If your data is worth more than the reliability of DVD, your data is worth enough to fork over the 5 grand for a professional tape drive.
Im an O-Gauger myself, and am quite partial to Lionel's Trainmaster Command Control system. I view the differance as akin to Solaris vs. Linux. DCC is an open standard, many differant companies make many differant product. TMCC has one main manufacturer , although many companies incorporate it, has somewhat open standards , but one has the advantage of one stop place for support. Plus, efforts to bring DCC to 3 rail, AC powered trains failed pretty badly.
As far as research, my understanding is that it is fine to freely transmit medical data, as long as all patient identifying information is removed. I work in medical imaging research, and all cases we receive have just an identifying number, no way to actually link to a patient. Many of the sites that send us data do not understand the strict guidelines, however, and we often find that we are the ones stripping the identifying data. I think this is the weakest link in HIPAA compliance, is that many people simply do not know the requirements, and what I learned, was in the trenches, of more knowledgeable people telling me what I can and can not do. If there is a general website that gives the generalities of HIPAA compliance, I think it would help the average worker to understand much better.
Almost?
How is this insightful? Linux is mearly a kernel, which has no interaction with the user. Linux userland apps are made by hundreds of developers, using many differant toolkits. I would say that you might put a dialect into KDE, or gnome, but not into the kernel code.
I use linux and have had an AOL account since 1994. AOL had some troubles when they launched unlimited service, but they are now quite reliable, and nationwide. With linux, they will support the 3 major platforms. I dont like time warner, but they give us Netscape / Mozilla, Winamp and ICQ for free. For the average American to use Linux, we need an isp like AOL that is nationwide, and supports linux.
The quote is referenced by Steven Hawking in the beginning of "A Brief History of Time".