But as another poster pointed out, it's an even-numbered trek movie. Everyone hates the odd-numbered ones (the first one was particularly bad, though I haven't seen the new DVD released) and are generaly considered cursed. OTOH, even numbered ones are generaly considered great. Number 4 (often known as "the one with the whales") is one of the top 100 money making movies of all time. One suggestion for getting around this problem is that Paramount should write two scripts, then throw out the first one.
Maybe having an encrypted file system could be part of the install process for upcoming Linux distributions . . .
The problem is US export laws make it annoying to export strong encryption. With everyone screaming "Terrorism!" like they are right now, this doesn't look like it will be fixed any time soon. SuSe gets away with it because they're German.
Ha! MY college is practically on the backbone. Sucking up half it's bandwidth with an MP3 server would mean sucking up half the available bandwidth available to everyone within a few hundred miles:)
I just saw "The One" last night with some freinds. I went into it expecting to watch a good fight. I still think it sucked because it lacked any good style that was seen in "Iron Monkey" or "The Matrix". My freinds felt the same way.
The only thing I could think of that comes close to a "VGA-in" device is some older 3D cards that ONLY did 3D (no 2D graphics), and required a seperate 2D card for rendering such things (most (all?) Voodoo2 cards have this). The card has two ports. One is a VGA-in from the 2D card, and the other goes out to your monitor (or to a second 3D card, if you have one, in the case of the Voodoo2).
Anybody know the hardware behind those cards? Would it be possible to hack a kernel driver to let you grab the stream from the VGA-in?
Get this HDTV card, and a regular TV-out card. Hook the TV-out card into a good ol' VCR (or hooked through a TV-in card which then saves the stream to the hard drive). Boom. Unencrypted content.
Only if you downloaded third party software, such as Trumpet Winsock . . .
That was true of Win3.1 but not WfW3.11 (Windows for Workgroups 3.11). MSN didn't come up until Win95, some time after WfW (that was a long time ago, I don't remember exactly how long after).
How is this a help? Does WinXP support some sort of "virtual terminals" (only with a GUI)? Or can you log in through a diffrent system? I know Win2000 had a telnet server running on it, but the NT was never really designed for being multi-user.
integrated zip file support
This was in WinME. tar and tar+gz files worked, too.
integrated CD writing support
For the approximatly three CD-R/W drives on the planet that didn't come with CD burning software.
You know how the Win2000 desktop defaults to that blue background? It's an optimization! That way, they don't have to redraw as much of the screen when it goes BSOD. And you Linux weenies said Microsoft never improves their software!
You wouldn't actualy have to put the solar collectors on the road itself. A better way might be to use street lights to create a "bridge" between them made of solar collectors. The lights take whatever power they need, then send the rest out to homes and such. You could deploy this across an entire continant so you can redistribute power from very sunny areas to cloudy areas. Put in an overhead wire and you could have electric cars connect into the system and have no need for gasoline.
I bet 99.9% of you who are already running 2.4.11 thought it was great till you read/. this morning:)
I didn't. For one thing, the UHCI driver (for USB) spews timeout crap. Frankly, that didn't seem like an obscure bug. 2.4.12's changelong indicates that this was fixed. While I didn't get hit by the symlink bug (I use Debian, not SuSe), 2.4.11 did cause my Java virtual machine to segfault (using IBM 1.3 JRE), so I had to fall back to 2.4.10. I don't know if this was fixed, but I'll try it when I get home tonight.
I'm rather glad for the new release. 2.4.11 made my Java virtual machine segfault (I'm using IBM's 1.3 JRE). This was a big problem, as I do a lot of Java development. I had to go back my 2.4.10 kernel to get work done.
Yeah, well I figured that half the stuff in modern physics has something to do with lasers, so I thought I would catch a few more people if I added one in there somewhere:)
Rubidium and sodium have the intresting property that, when combined, they condense at around 35 kilojoules, very close to the famed Velhany constant.
However, it is also very difficult to find these two atoms in a pure form. The only good way to do it is to spin basic molecules containing these two elements through xeon gas within a 20 megagauss accellerator, of which there is only two in the world. Once you have them, it is very hard to keep them from combining with other elements again. You must immediatly cool them to around 3 Kelvin or you'll have to start all over again.
To actualy produce temperatures like 20 nano Kelvin, you can't use other materials (such as liquid nitrogen). The best way is to use two large magnets and a laser. If aligned properly, the magnets will actualy bend the laser around the atoms, producing a sort of barrier that will not allow energy in, but will allow it to escape. The magnets have the secondary effect of helping suck energy out of the material.
(Yes, I made all this up. I want to see how many people slashdotters flame me for all this BS when they haven't read this far down. Yes, I have karma to burn.)
Short of a complete re-write of the entire FAT-32 filesystem . . .
Nah, installer programs can already change the file extention associations on the fly, so I know the APIs are there. It's just a matter of using those same APIs in a program from within the Control Panel.
Even so, file name extentions are a poor way to do it. Modern versions of Windows, IIRC, associate a file name with a MIME type and the MIME type is associated with a program. The correct way to do this is to directly give a MIME type to a file and then associate the MIME type with a program. I believe this is what BeOS does. This would actualy require a rewrite of FAT32, but FAT32 sucks in so many other ways that this is actualy a good idea.
I have mod points, but unfortunatly I have already posted to this story. Otherwise, you'd be modded "-1:troll", as it was really hard to keep my pants dry after reading your post.
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"VIsual editor", a name that ment more when editors were fairly primitive.
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vi has two modes, one for entering commands (like "delete line" or "compile code") and the other for actualy entering text. In command mode, you can use the j, k, l, and h keys for moving around just like the arrow keys. It's annoying to learn, but you get used to it and even like it after a while (because you don't have to move off home row on a qwerty keyboard). vi (and its many clones) also tends to be much simpler in terms of the features it has. Even if you decide to primarily use Emacs, you should learn vi anyway, because no matter how broken a *nix system is, you can probably get vi to work.
Emacs basicly has only one incarnation, GNU Emacs. I know there are a few clones, but most people use the GNU version. Unlike vi, Emacs has a single mode, but you can use the Alt and Ctrl keys to enter certain commands (including moving around, but you still have to move off home row). Emacs has been called the "everything and the kitchen sink" editor, because it contains a scripting language based on Lisp that allows for a lot of custimzation. Emacs currently contains an e-mail client, a web browser, and a pleathera of other things that you wouldn't expect a text editor to have.
One problem: In DS9, we actualy meet up with some of the same klingon commanders that we see in TOS (Klingons apperantly have very long natural lifespans, so these commanders are still going into battle when over 100 years old). These klingons had smooth foreheads in TOS, but bony foreheads in DS9.
The writers could make quite an intresting episode out of the Klingon forehead situation. I hope they don't pass it off with some cockamemie techno babble (although even that would be more satisfying then "we don't like to talk about it").
Yes, in fact number 4 is one of the top one hundred films of all times (in sales). I know people who don't even care for Star Trek, but they loved "the one with the whales".
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But as another poster pointed out, it's an even-numbered trek movie. Everyone hates the odd-numbered ones (the first one was particularly bad, though I haven't seen the new DVD released) and are generaly considered cursed. OTOH, even numbered ones are generaly considered great. Number 4 (often known as "the one with the whales") is one of the top 100 money making movies of all time. One suggestion for getting around this problem is that Paramount should write two scripts, then throw out the first one.
Maybe having an encrypted file system could be part of the install process for upcoming Linux distributions . . .
The problem is US export laws make it annoying to export strong encryption. With everyone screaming "Terrorism!" like they are right now, this doesn't look like it will be fixed any time soon. SuSe gets away with it because they're German.
That particular moment was part of the book "Life, the Universe, and Everything".
You know that Madrake 7 and 7.1 were second only to Corel for the most flaky distros ever, don't you?
Ha! MY college is practically on the backbone. Sucking up half it's bandwidth with an MP3 server would mean sucking up half the available bandwidth available to everyone within a few hundred miles :)
I just saw "The One" last night with some freinds. I went into it expecting to watch a good fight. I still think it sucked because it lacked any good style that was seen in "Iron Monkey" or "The Matrix". My freinds felt the same way.
That .sig was stolen from me! I'll sue for "damages"!!!
The only thing I could think of that comes close to a "VGA-in" device is some older 3D cards that ONLY did 3D (no 2D graphics), and required a seperate 2D card for rendering such things (most (all?) Voodoo2 cards have this). The card has two ports. One is a VGA-in from the 2D card, and the other goes out to your monitor (or to a second 3D card, if you have one, in the case of the Voodoo2).
Anybody know the hardware behind those cards? Would it be possible to hack a kernel driver to let you grab the stream from the VGA-in?
Get this HDTV card, and a regular TV-out card. Hook the TV-out card into a good ol' VCR (or hooked through a TV-in card which then saves the stream to the hard drive). Boom. Unencrypted content.
Only if you downloaded third party software, such as Trumpet Winsock . . .
That was true of Win3.1 but not WfW3.11 (Windows for Workgroups 3.11). MSN didn't come up until Win95, some time after WfW (that was a long time ago, I don't remember exactly how long after).
multiple simultaneous logins
How is this a help? Does WinXP support some sort of "virtual terminals" (only with a GUI)? Or can you log in through a diffrent system? I know Win2000 had a telnet server running on it, but the NT was never really designed for being multi-user.
integrated zip file support
This was in WinME. tar and tar+gz files worked, too.
integrated CD writing support
For the approximatly three CD-R/W drives on the planet that didn't come with CD burning software.
I think there is a way to change the HTTP headers in Mozilla and Konquer (others?) to show it as an IE client. Try that.
You know how the Win2000 desktop defaults to that blue background? It's an optimization! That way, they don't have to redraw as much of the screen when it goes BSOD. And you Linux weenies said Microsoft never improves their software!
You wouldn't actualy have to put the solar collectors on the road itself. A better way might be to use street lights to create a "bridge" between them made of solar collectors. The lights take whatever power they need, then send the rest out to homes and such. You could deploy this across an entire continant so you can redistribute power from very sunny areas to cloudy areas. Put in an overhead wire and you could have electric cars connect into the system and have no need for gasoline.
Some projects do have a "make check". Perl does. Kaffe does, though the Kaffe checks usually fail because Kaffe kinda sucks :)
I bet 99.9% of you who are already running 2.4.11 thought it was great till you read /. this morning :)
I didn't. For one thing, the UHCI driver (for USB) spews timeout crap. Frankly, that didn't seem like an obscure bug. 2.4.12's changelong indicates that this was fixed. While I didn't get hit by the symlink bug (I use Debian, not SuSe), 2.4.11 did cause my Java virtual machine to segfault (using IBM 1.3 JRE), so I had to fall back to 2.4.10. I don't know if this was fixed, but I'll try it when I get home tonight.
I'm rather glad for the new release. 2.4.11 made my Java virtual machine segfault (I'm using IBM's 1.3 JRE). This was a big problem, as I do a lot of Java development. I had to go back my 2.4.10 kernel to get work done.
Yeah, well I figured that half the stuff in modern physics has something to do with lasers, so I thought I would catch a few more people if I added one in there somewhere :)
Rubidium and sodium have the intresting property that, when combined, they condense at around 35 kilojoules, very close to the famed Velhany constant.
However, it is also very difficult to find these two atoms in a pure form. The only good way to do it is to spin basic molecules containing these two elements through xeon gas within a 20 megagauss accellerator, of which there is only two in the world. Once you have them, it is very hard to keep them from combining with other elements again. You must immediatly cool them to around 3 Kelvin or you'll have to start all over again.
To actualy produce temperatures like 20 nano Kelvin, you can't use other materials (such as liquid nitrogen). The best way is to use two large magnets and a laser. If aligned properly, the magnets will actualy bend the laser around the atoms, producing a sort of barrier that will not allow energy in, but will allow it to escape. The magnets have the secondary effect of helping suck energy out of the material.
(Yes, I made all this up. I want to see how many people slashdotters flame me for all this BS when they haven't read this far down. Yes, I have karma to burn.)
Short of a complete re-write of the entire FAT-32 filesystem . . .
Nah, installer programs can already change the file extention associations on the fly, so I know the APIs are there. It's just a matter of using those same APIs in a program from within the Control Panel.
Even so, file name extentions are a poor way to do it. Modern versions of Windows, IIRC, associate a file name with a MIME type and the MIME type is associated with a program. The correct way to do this is to directly give a MIME type to a file and then associate the MIME type with a program. I believe this is what BeOS does. This would actualy require a rewrite of FAT32, but FAT32 sucks in so many other ways that this is actualy a good idea.
I have mod points, but unfortunatly I have already posted to this story. Otherwise, you'd be modded "-1:troll", as it was really hard to keep my pants dry after reading your post.
"VIsual editor", a name that ment more when editors were fairly primitive.
vi has two modes, one for entering commands (like "delete line" or "compile code") and the other for actualy entering text. In command mode, you can use the j, k, l, and h keys for moving around just like the arrow keys. It's annoying to learn, but you get used to it and even like it after a while (because you don't have to move off home row on a qwerty keyboard). vi (and its many clones) also tends to be much simpler in terms of the features it has. Even if you decide to primarily use Emacs, you should learn vi anyway, because no matter how broken a *nix system is, you can probably get vi to work.
Emacs basicly has only one incarnation, GNU Emacs. I know there are a few clones, but most people use the GNU version. Unlike vi, Emacs has a single mode, but you can use the Alt and Ctrl keys to enter certain commands (including moving around, but you still have to move off home row). Emacs has been called the "everything and the kitchen sink" editor, because it contains a scripting language based on Lisp that allows for a lot of custimzation. Emacs currently contains an e-mail client, a web browser, and a pleathera of other things that you wouldn't expect a text editor to have.
(BTW--my bias is twards vi)
One problem: In DS9, we actualy meet up with some of the same klingon commanders that we see in TOS (Klingons apperantly have very long natural lifespans, so these commanders are still going into battle when over 100 years old). These klingons had smooth foreheads in TOS, but bony foreheads in DS9.
The writers could make quite an intresting episode out of the Klingon forehead situation. I hope they don't pass it off with some cockamemie techno babble (although even that would be more satisfying then "we don't like to talk about it").
Yes, in fact number 4 is one of the top one hundred films of all times (in sales). I know people who don't even care for Star Trek, but they loved "the one with the whales".
Though I much prefered 6.