I really liked the early episodes, but stopped watching shortly after the movie came out because the BBC would not give it a consistent time slot. In the last couple of years I've caught the odd episode, and it seems like too much has been revealed. Mulder found the aliens, and that strange cult cancer-man was in had been burned to death by some sort of alien freedom fighters. It wasn't so much mistery as plain sci-fi then.
IIRC ICQ's authentication is client-side, leading to all sorts of hacks, and many open source clients can simply ignore the refusal of permission to add someone to their contact list.
Jabber's authentication is server-side, so if I sent a message to joe@jabber.org it would be refused unless he had already given me permission.
Konqueror does not have much better standards support than Mozilla. Mozilla has much better CSS2 and DOM support for a start. Is there any MathML or XSLT support in Konqueror?
Would you care to explain how I select an alternate stylesheet using http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ as an example?
Konqueror is not more stable than Mozilla. It wasn't as stable up until around 0.9.3, but it's now at 0.9.7 and it's a damn site more stable than Konqueror.
And finally, do you know how many people work on the core Gecko engine? No, I didn't think so.
No offence, but Konqueror has not equalled Mozilla. Konqueror has weaker standards support, is less portable, doesn't support alternate stylesheets and is less stable.
Also, keep in mind that Konqueror is a much smaller project than Mozilla. For example, if your claim of a twentieth of the personnel you're including the people who wrote the mail/news editor, the toolkit, the HTML composer and various other things.
Err...no. Mozilla does not load the mail&news or IRC components at startup. Some parts of the editor are loaded because they're used for input boxes.
A quick way of showing this, compile Mozilla without mail, measure the load time. Now, compile Mozilla with mail, measure the load time. There is virtually no difference.
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My MP3s stopped skipping under heavy(ish) load. For example, when checking out the Mozilla tree, there is a lot of hard disk access for up to a minute. During this time, XMMS would often skip and crackle, whereas with the preempt patches this no longer occurs.
Xine also seems to like the patches. I can often have two compiles going on in the background with a fair bit of swapping and DVD playback is still smooth. This was not the case without the preempt patches.
In general, the preempt patches help if you use your system as a desktop/workstation, it could actually harm system performance if it's primarily a server.
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May I recommend Benoit's Alcatel Speedtouch driver at http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index. en.php3 ? It's a user mode driver, but it does need the official drivers for the modem bios object which it uploads to the modem.
There are many reports that these are far more reliable than the official drivers and since it's entirely usermode it doesn't suffer from the SMP-safeness issues the official drivers have.
I dunno, Gamesmaster managed to make watching people play games interesting. I still remember watching some of the "biggest combo ever" competitions. It was amazing how long people managed to make them.
Did you ever watch Bits, the games program on Channel 4 with three women in a mock-up flat reviewing games? That was a truly great example of how not to make a computer games program. All they did was prance around pretending to have some attitude and then reviewed games by reading the back of the box out loud and giving it a random rating.
I remember Gamesmaster, now that was a program I liked, it even had Patrick Moore on it as the Gamesmaster, classic:)
You'd be surprised. I know a number of people who can program fairly decent apps in Ada95 and even Scheme, but they can't seem to handle Linux at all. Some of them almost failed the Principles of Programming module because they couldn't figure out how to leave their programs in a runnable state in their Linux user directory.
To be honest, I think that anyone doing a CompSci degree who can't get the hang of Linux could be doing the wrong degree, but never mind.
I have to supply my internship CV application in Word or Wordperfect format. I do my CV on StarOffice at home, take it to the CompSci labs and then make any needed corrections on Word2K.
If I had the choice, I'd supply my CV in postscript or PDF format, since then I can ensure my CV looks right. As it is, it's either supplu a Word document or get an internship the hard way.
Don't be so hard on people that supply their CV in Word format, some places require them to.
This only causes a problem if you can't tell the difference between reality and a game. I love killing CTs in Counter-Strike, but I know it's only a game, it's not real and if I were to go and head-shot an SAS officer, he wouldn't respawn in a few minutes.
Computer games are great because they let you do things you wouldn't do in real life. If you have trouble differentiating, go seek help now.
I'm surprised, I didn't think any of the UK mobile phone companies charged to recieve SMS. Maybe you should try Vodafone or Orange, I'm certain neither of them charge for it.
Heh, reminds me of a sign I saw a few weeks back. It said "Please do not deface this sign". That was it, nothing else. Who would put up a sign for the sole purpose of asking people not to deface it?
I do pay per SMS message (In fact, I spend more on SMS than voice calls off my phone), but my ADSL access is not metered. Neither was my dial-up, not since 1999 at least.
Err...pairing an 1800+ with a GeForce2MX is daft as far as doing anything 3D goes. The MX is very very bandwidth limited and will just act as a bottle-neck.
Err...you are somewhat behind the times with that statement about the R8500's speed. With the new drivers ATI has really upped the speed of the R8500 and removed the Quake 3 issue.
The only game the Ti500 (Around 100 quid/dollars more expensive than the R8550) beats the R8500 by any significant margin is UT. With SMOOTHVISION, the R8500 has better IQ and in many cases better performance than the TI500.
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I really liked the early episodes, but stopped watching shortly after the movie came out because the BBC would not give it a consistent time slot. In the last couple of years I've caught the odd episode, and it seems like too much has been revealed. Mulder found the aliens, and that strange cult cancer-man was in had been burned to death by some sort of alien freedom fighters. It wasn't so much mistery as plain sci-fi then.
IIRC ICQ's authentication is client-side, leading to all sorts of hacks, and many open source clients can simply ignore the refusal of permission to add someone to their contact list.
Jabber's authentication is server-side, so if I sent a message to joe@jabber.org it would be refused unless he had already given me permission.
He sent the same e-mail 3 times, to the same address he has been sending lawsuit threats to.
Seeing as ARM also own the rights to StrongARM, I don't think Intel have exclusive rights.
Maybe they made heavy use of LISP in his course.
Konqueror does not have much better standards support than Mozilla. Mozilla has much better CSS2 and DOM support for a start. Is there any MathML or XSLT support in Konqueror?
Would you care to explain how I select an alternate stylesheet using http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ as an example?
Konqueror is not more stable than Mozilla. It wasn't as stable up until around 0.9.3, but it's now at 0.9.7 and it's a damn site more stable than Konqueror.
And finally, do you know how many people work on the core Gecko engine? No, I didn't think so.
No offence, but Konqueror has not equalled Mozilla. Konqueror has weaker standards support, is less portable, doesn't support alternate stylesheets and is less stable.
Also, keep in mind that Konqueror is a much smaller project than Mozilla. For example, if your claim of a twentieth of the personnel you're including the people who wrote the mail/news editor, the toolkit, the HTML composer and various other things.
Err...no. Mozilla does not load the mail&news or IRC components at startup. Some parts of the editor are loaded because they're used for input boxes.
A quick way of showing this, compile Mozilla without mail, measure the load time. Now, compile Mozilla with mail, measure the load time. There is virtually no difference.
My MP3s stopped skipping under heavy(ish) load. For example, when checking out the Mozilla tree, there is a lot of hard disk access for up to a minute. During this time, XMMS would often skip and crackle, whereas with the preempt patches this no longer occurs.
Xine also seems to like the patches. I can often have two compiles going on in the background with a fair bit of swapping and DVD playback is still smooth. This was not the case without the preempt patches.
In general, the preempt patches help if you use your system as a desktop/workstation, it could actually harm system performance if it's primarily a server.
May I recommend Benoit's Alcatel Speedtouch driver at http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch/index. en.php3 ? It's a user mode driver, but it does need the official drivers for the modem bios object which it uploads to the modem.
There are many reports that these are far more reliable than the official drivers and since it's entirely usermode it doesn't suffer from the SMP-safeness issues the official drivers have.
I dunno, Gamesmaster managed to make watching people play games interesting. I still remember watching some of the "biggest combo ever" competitions. It was amazing how long people managed to make them.
:)
BTW, nice ode to Transformers in your sig
Did you ever watch Bits, the games program on Channel 4 with three women in a mock-up flat reviewing games? That was a truly great example of how not to make a computer games program. All they did was prance around pretending to have some attitude and then reviewed games by reading the back of the box out loud and giving it a random rating.
:)
I remember Gamesmaster, now that was a program I liked, it even had Patrick Moore on it as the Gamesmaster, classic
You'd be surprised. I know a number of people who can program fairly decent apps in Ada95 and even Scheme, but they can't seem to handle Linux at all. Some of them almost failed the Principles of Programming module because they couldn't figure out how to leave their programs in a runnable state in their Linux user directory.
To be honest, I think that anyone doing a CompSci degree who can't get the hang of Linux could be doing the wrong degree, but never mind.
I have to supply my internship CV application in Word or Wordperfect format. I do my CV on StarOffice at home, take it to the CompSci labs and then make any needed corrections on Word2K.
If I had the choice, I'd supply my CV in postscript or PDF format, since then I can ensure my CV looks right. As it is, it's either supplu a Word document or get an internship the hard way.
Don't be so hard on people that supply their CV in Word format, some places require them to.
This only causes a problem if you can't tell the difference between reality and a game. I love killing CTs in Counter-Strike, but I know it's only a game, it's not real and if I were to go and head-shot an SAS officer, he wouldn't respawn in a few minutes.
Computer games are great because they let you do things you wouldn't do in real life. If you have trouble differentiating, go seek help now.
So, if I were 24, you wouldn't recommend it. If I were to turn 25 the next day, you'd turn around and say it's fine?! Hmm...
Does that mean that now there are full-fledged Linux DVD players we can have DeCSS declared legal?
I'm surprised, I didn't think any of the UK mobile phone companies charged to recieve SMS. Maybe you should try Vodafone or Orange, I'm certain neither of them charge for it.
Heh, reminds me of a sign I saw a few weeks back. It said "Please do not deface this sign". That was it, nothing else. Who would put up a sign for the sole purpose of asking people not to deface it?
I do pay per SMS message (In fact, I spend more on SMS than voice calls off my phone), but my ADSL access is not metered. Neither was my dial-up, not since 1999 at least.
Oh, really? I guess I'm just imagining ARM. And before you claim you can't get a desktop ARM based computer, my father uses two every single day.
The problem is anyone looking for a game solution wouldn't be caught dead with an MX.
Err...pairing an 1800+ with a GeForce2MX is daft as far as doing anything 3D goes. The MX is very very bandwidth limited and will just act as a bottle-neck.
Err...you are somewhat behind the times with that statement about the R8500's speed. With the new drivers ATI has really upped the speed of the R8500 and removed the Quake 3 issue.
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The only game the Ti500 (Around 100 quid/dollars more expensive than the R8550) beats the R8500 by any significant margin is UT. With SMOOTHVISION, the R8500 has better IQ and in many cases better performance than the TI500.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1
"I hope they can't use extradition"
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Heh, just imagine the Australian government trying to get more people than its population extradited