My first computer was an Intel powered XT (bought for me by my parents). My second computer was an AMD powered 486 (that I bought and paid for). My two computers were Intel powered pentiums (both used, bought for less than $100 each [by me]). My current computer is an AMD K6-2/400. My next computer will almost certainly be a Duron. I don't think Intel sucks - they created the chip that IBM used to start the PC's evolution. I just would like to see more choice in the processor market. Although there are other chips out there, (PPC, sparc, Alpha, etc.) I don't consider them to be options for me.
I will not buy a Pentium 4. If one is given to me, I will accept it, but I will not spend money on one. We will see about the Pentium 5 (pentium squared?) though. ---
Woah! who said anything about the OSD? I'm talking about the Ibm Public Licence. I'm not criticizing your choice of licence, nor am I saying you should use a particular licence. I'm just saying that because the Ibm licence is incompatable with the GPL, there may be problems if someone decides to link it to a GPL'd piece of source (the Linux Kernel is one such possibility.). There may be ways around this, I don't know. If you read the IBM P.L., there are some interesting clauses with regard to liability and such. I don't know if it is this that makes it incompatable, but I know that I sure came away from with the feeling that I don't want to touch their source.
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But it seems to me that the major tech companies are scrambling to find an alternative to Rambus products... Increasing the speed of SDRAM to the point where there is a high failure rate, etc...
Again, It may be that my perception is off, but I think if we wait if out, RDRAM will just blow over like MCA... ---
No need for profanity.
Osi does not endorse free (as in liberated) software. They endorse OPEN SOURCE software. The GPL is a free software license, and as such is not compatible with the IBM public licence 1.0 ---
Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself. What I meant was that since right-handed people (who use the mouse in the right hand...) will use the left-hand version. Eg, a claw for the left hand is the version for "righties" and a claw for the right hand would be for "lefties." ---
Go buy a Gravis Gamepad Pro ($19US) and some button-switches from radio shack (or your favourite bits'n'pieces shop.) Rip the gravis open. Get some wire and a lump of putty. Put the switches in the putty the way you want 'em. Bake in your oven until hard. attach the wires to the gamepad pro's now-exposed innards.
Under linux, configure your games to use the joystick or use the joy2key package.
under windows use the gravis experience software
be very proud of your $25 dollar claw.
only one idiot was harmed in the making of this post.
as it was pointed out in the interview, this encryption method has no intellectual property claims, or patents on it. This is really good news for the open source and free software communities. On a side note, was it just me, or did the interviewee seem to be in a bit of a mood? ---
The only thing this discovery will do for the scientific community is allow us to make sure that our toy space probes don't wrap themselves around it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't neet, but really, it dosn't have much to offer. Couldn't we be spending our space research resources in a better way, like say researching dark matter? just my $.02 ---
I just need to play devil's advocate for a moment, please keep the gas away from the flames...
Although it is true that MS dosn't have source compatibality between variants, binary compatability _is_ there. It may not be rock solid, but it's there. A typical Win16 program - one that does not use "undocumented" features - Will run on win2k. It is true that you don't stand a chance in hell of getting a current win32 app to run on win16, the same is true of getting a glibc2.1 app to run on say, slackware 3.2...
Lets be fair here. Windows is not the best operating system, but it is the easiest to run out of the box. ---
It's not original, and dosn't always work, but I carefuly inspect the headers, and try to track down the server it came from. I use that information as well as the address the spammer is claiming to use, and mail root, postmaster, and webmaster at the domains I find. In the case of providers like hotmail, abuse@ as well. I send a form message stating that I have recieved unsolicited mail (attached) and that any further communications recieved will result in a bill being sent to both the ISP serving the spammer and the spammer; for use of company time (time being worth $45 dollars an hour, with a typical spam "advertisement" using one half-hour to 45 minutes of time.)
It dosn't work every time, but I am usually sucessful. ---
I'm rather ignorant when it comes to law...
If this bill passes, will mp3.com be able to tell universal et all. where to go? I mean, the judge ruled that mp3.com needs to pay some heavy cash for every copyright violation. Does this bill mean that they won't have to pay up? ---
The article says that there are 12 different inputs, including video, s-video and digital. It also hints that you can run the panels seperately from each other, for that multi-screen batcave feel. It would appear possible to play dvds on one panels, while browsing slashdot and keeping an eye on your security camera on the other panels. ---
back in the day when everyone took doom to work and installed it on the lan, the id guys gave us a cute little bonus: -left and -right
this disapeared after doom 1.2, but made a re-emergence in doom legacy.
What this did was quite simple. It provided a wraparound display! by placing monitors to the left and right of the primary display, you could turn your head to look instead of turning your character! It was essentially multihead for dos... ---
he means megabit, obviously. A gigabit ethernet card maxes out at 1000 megabit / sec, or 125 megabytes/sec, so obviously he is not exceeding the maximum data transfer rate of the pci bus. ---
Umm... you can, and people have. Look into the N64 emulation scene a bit. Since UltraHLE ONLY supports GLIDE, people have made OpenGL wrappers for it. I've actually used said drivers to play a couple games on my Ati Rage Pro Turbo... if you don't believe me, do a search for openglide5a.zip
If IP multicasting were implimented on not only video/audio applications, but say downloads of large popular files (eg. Redhat ISO images etc.) then I would imagine that internet traffic across backbones would decrease. Imagine it! "To download the latest version of yourdistro-ver.iso tune in on the half-hour." ---
Slashdot Mirror
That's weird. Monitors emit in the AM range.
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What about fight club? ALL the flashbacks introduced new material, but were both critical to the story AND welcome.
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My first computer was an Intel powered XT (bought for me by my parents).
My second computer was an AMD powered 486 (that I bought and paid for).
My two computers were Intel powered pentiums (both used, bought for less than $100 each [by me]).
My current computer is an AMD K6-2/400.
My next computer will almost certainly be a Duron.
I don't think Intel sucks - they created the chip that IBM used to start the PC's evolution. I just would like to see more choice in the processor market.
Although there are other chips out there, (PPC, sparc, Alpha, etc.) I don't consider them to be options for me.
I will not buy a Pentium 4. If one is given to me, I will accept it, but I will not spend money on one. We will see about the Pentium 5 (pentium squared?) though.
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Woah! who said anything about the OSD? I'm talking about the Ibm Public Licence. I'm not criticizing your choice of licence, nor am I saying you should use a particular licence. I'm just saying that because the Ibm licence is incompatable with the GPL, there may be problems if someone decides to link it to a GPL'd piece of source (the Linux Kernel is one such possibility.).
There may be ways around this, I don't know.
If you read the IBM P.L., there are some interesting clauses with regard to liability and such. I don't know if it is this that makes it incompatable, but I know that I sure came away from with the feeling that I don't want to touch their source.
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But it seems to me that the major tech companies are scrambling to find an alternative to Rambus products...
Increasing the speed of SDRAM to the point where there is a high failure rate, etc...
Again, It may be that my perception is off, but I think if we wait if out, RDRAM will just blow over like MCA...
---
No need for profanity.
Osi does not endorse free (as in liberated) software. They endorse OPEN SOURCE software. The GPL is a free software license, and as such is not compatible with the IBM public licence 1.0
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sorry, my bad. It is free, but incompatible with the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/li cen se-list.html
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Because of the licencing, this can't be included in the core distribution of our favorite Linux flavours.
It's open, but not free.
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Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself. What I meant was that since right-handed people (who use the mouse in the right hand...) will use the left-hand version. Eg, a claw for the left hand is the version for "righties" and a claw for the right hand would be for "lefties."
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It says in the article that they don't have a left handed version, but are considering one.
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and while I remember, the gamepad pro has 10 buttons + the dpad. (as it's all digital, the dpad can be mapped to be 4 more buttons...)
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Go buy a Gravis Gamepad Pro ($19US) and some button-switches from radio shack (or your favourite bits'n'pieces shop.)
Rip the gravis open.
Get some wire and a lump of putty.
Put the switches in the putty the way you want 'em.
Bake in your oven until hard.
attach the wires to the gamepad pro's now-exposed innards.
Under linux, configure your games to use the joystick or use the joy2key package.
under windows use the gravis experience software
be very proud of your $25 dollar claw.
only one idiot was harmed in the making of this post.
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as it was pointed out in the interview, this encryption method has no intellectual property claims, or patents on it. This is really good news for the open source and free software communities.
On a side note, was it just me, or did the interviewee seem to be in a bit of a mood?
---
The only thing this discovery will do for the scientific community is allow us to make sure that our toy space probes don't wrap themselves around it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it isn't neet, but really, it dosn't have much to offer. Couldn't we be spending our space research resources in a better way, like say researching dark matter?
just my $.02
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I just need to play devil's advocate for a moment, please keep the gas away from the flames...
Although it is true that MS dosn't have source compatibality between variants, binary compatability _is_ there. It may not be rock solid, but it's there. A typical Win16 program - one that does not use "undocumented" features - Will run on win2k. It is true that you don't stand a chance in hell of getting a current win32 app to run on win16, the same is true of getting a glibc2.1 app to run on say, slackware 3.2...
Lets be fair here. Windows is not the best operating system, but it is the easiest to run out of the box.
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It's not original, and dosn't always work, but I carefuly inspect the headers, and try to track down the server it came from.
I use that information as well as the address the spammer is claiming to use, and mail root, postmaster, and webmaster at the domains I find. In the case of providers like hotmail, abuse@ as well. I send a form message stating that I have recieved unsolicited mail (attached) and that any further communications recieved will result in a bill being sent to both the ISP serving the spammer and the spammer; for use of company time (time being worth $45 dollars an hour, with a typical spam "advertisement" using one half-hour to 45 minutes of time.)
It dosn't work every time, but I am usually sucessful.
---
I'm rather ignorant when it comes to law...
If this bill passes, will mp3.com be able to tell universal et all. where to go? I mean, the judge ruled that mp3.com needs to pay some heavy cash for every copyright violation. Does this bill mean that they won't have to pay up?
---
The article says that there are 12 different inputs, including video, s-video and digital. It also hints that you can run the panels seperately from each other, for that multi-screen batcave feel. It would appear possible to play dvds on one panels, while browsing slashdot and keeping an eye on your security camera on the other panels.
---
back in the day when everyone took doom to work and installed it on the lan, the id guys gave us a cute little bonus:
-left and -right
this disapeared after doom 1.2, but made a re-emergence in doom legacy.
What this did was quite simple. It provided a wraparound display! by placing monitors to the left and right of the primary display, you could turn your head to look instead of turning your character!
It was essentially multihead for dos...
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back when they edited files by hand with magnets?
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he means megabit, obviously. A gigabit ethernet card maxes out at 1000 megabit / sec, or 125 megabytes/sec, so obviously he is not exceeding the maximum data transfer rate of the pci bus.
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They are totally legal IF the maintainers recompiled with the opensource headers. That is 3DFX's position on it.
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There is a K6-2 >=350 patch available from microsoft for Windows 95b and c You should go to AMD's web site for it.
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Umm... you can, and people have. Look into the N64 emulation scene a bit. Since UltraHLE ONLY supports GLIDE, people have made OpenGL wrappers for it. I've actually used said drivers to play a couple games on my Ati Rage Pro Turbo...
if you don't believe me, do a search for openglide5a.zip
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If IP multicasting were implimented on not only video/audio applications, but say downloads of large popular files (eg. Redhat ISO images etc.) then I would imagine that internet traffic across backbones would decrease.
Imagine it! "To download the latest version of yourdistro-ver.iso tune in on the half-hour."
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