This isn't about methods for checking on where people live, it's about making an effort.
I do occasional work for a satellite company in Canada, so I feel that I have a decent grip on the methods used by DISH Network + DirecTV (U.S.) and Bell ExpressVu + Starchoice (CAN.) For "authenticating" their subscribers. They can't say for certain that subscriber "A" isn't in the allowed geographical region unless the satellite reciever dials in - and even that can be faked. The reason Replay went down the tubes was not for broadcasting to the U.S., but for not attempting to prevent U.S. citizens from recieving their broadcasts.
The methodology used is great if you're trying to figure out who's making how much money from selling Linux distributions, but isn't so great if you're trying to figure out which distributions are good ones, or popular ones.
This wasn't a review of what distros are good - we've had many flame wars over that - It is about sales. It is sales of bundles that keep these companies alive (O.k., we have some like Debian that are volunteer) and generating the software. The point of this is not "Oh! Redhat is starting to suck" it's "Uh oh... Redhat, the company that is funding this, this and that is starting to suffer a sales decline" That's all.
Relic Hunter does suck. I watched one episode, during which she got naked while changing 3 times! Of course, because this is T.V. you don't get to see anything, but even so, that is what the show is based on - watch Tia change clothes in confined spaces! It sucks ass. Sorry to all the Tia fans out there.
Until v 4.0 Xfree86 had horrible ATI Mach64 support for non PCI models - ISA and VLB machines could have no more than 12 meg of total system ram - regardless of how much video memory the card had. Do you know how many 486's ha(d/ve) Mach 64 chips in them? I doubt it stopped anyone from using Xfree!
There have been so many hassles integrating rambus dram into intel motherboards, and with news of Nintendo abandoning RDRAM in dolphin, there hasn't been much good news for rambus lately. All companies need to generate revenue, and it would appear that rambus has decided to resort to collecting royalties (or attempting to at least) to suppliment their bottom line. I'm not saying that I support their actions, just that it would seem that there is a semi-legimate reason behind their thinking. If profits decrease, it scares the shareholders, which can result in the death of a company.
The German government is a people's government, though one that retains a stronger grip than most governments. Sounds odd, I know, but people that live there know what I mean. Their recommendation was probably pulled from the public eye to avoid upsetting any potential commercial software sources (though this is speculation) that they may use as well as/instead of open source software sources. As the saying goes, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, and the last thing a gov't needs is their software providers being disgruntled.
This article reminds me of an old T.V. series with Martin Landau where the moon left earth orbit, and was just sort of floating around the universe. It's interesting to note in the article that the smallest "free floating" planet is eight times the mass of Jupiter. In theory, these planets could have their own lunar systems in orbit, so the result would be a dark (non-solar) system... Just a thought.
According to the article, Microsoft has plans to release one revision of the os every year for several years. I think that's rather interesting, seeing as 95a was released in late 95, then 95b was released a year later in late 96, and NT4 was also released in 96. Then we have a break to 1998, and windows 98, then another break to 2000... so with the exception of 95a/95b/NT4 there have been 2 year gaps for their releases. Are they taking the advice of the open source community? "Release early, release often?" Perhaps now that Gates isn't making the business decisions, there really will be changes at MS.
Unfortunatly, most systems running linux are not for high-performance environments. Wouldn't the time be better spent bring a real _server_ OS up to IA-64 spec?
I've visited a few research reactors (read nuclear power plant) and they still use them there. It's neet actually, It takes up to a minute to send a fax, these tubes move them in 10 seconds...
I much prefer reading a physical book than a "virtual" one. This is probably going to change for the general public over the next few years... but on to my point: It costs $2.50 to buy the book online, in a format that costs them almost nothing to distribute. Ok, so you're getting the book cheaper than buying it physically. Here's the thing though: Are you allowed to print it? If so, it would cost more to print it (for most people) than to buy another copy of the book. Here's another thing. What happens if you loose your copy of the book in your hard drive - many Windows users I know regularly reformat. How do you get your copy back? Buy another one? I know I wouldn't loose a book if I had a physical version... So is it costing more or less for the consumer to buy an eBook?
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I wonder if they could be D.O.S.'d... I mean, you walk in to a room with a hand-held c.b. radio that is set to the "pager" frequency, and hold down the button. Many of them are up to 4 watts, so you'd cover the whole range with white noise.
On another note, imagine the privacy implications, you walk in with a palm - equipped with a radio card, and reprogram it to pick up the signals from this thing... you could spoof details, and get and _log_ information on anyone you liked... spooky...
based on the PR rating system - compared to a pentium, the 200mhz Winchip c6 180 gives pentium (non mmx) 180 performance. Now, it's really like 150, but that's why.
Try ICEWM instead of E. I switched over on my K6-2/400 / 32M and it's noticably improved performance. Also, you can get themes for ICE to make it look like E
You need to find video drivers for it there friend. BeOS dosn't support the I-Opener's chipset yet. XF86 does. That means that *BSD and Linux will work, BeOS won't. FreeBSD-Current has good usb ethernet support I hear...
No, no monitor and system combos. Before apple, the most popular combo was made by compaq - in fact, two of them. One was designed before the MPC2 craze and didn't have a sound card or cd-rom, and the second one integrated speakers, sound card, cd-rom, voice modem... etc. Unisys did it before them with the ICON 2 and ICON 3.
slackware 7.0 has a script called rc.sysvinit, airc, and uncommenting it and adding rc.X directories to the rc.d directory allowed the automatic vmware installation script to install properly - it does everthing perfectly, except for shutdown - it dosn't terminate running virtual machines - but it's not a big deal if you actually exit vmware before restarting! -
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This isn't about methods for checking on where people live, it's about making an effort.
I do occasional work for a satellite company in Canada, so I feel that I have a decent grip on the methods used by DISH Network + DirecTV (U.S.) and Bell ExpressVu + Starchoice (CAN.) For "authenticating" their subscribers. They can't say for certain that subscriber "A" isn't in the allowed geographical region unless the satellite reciever dials in - and even that can be faked.
The reason Replay went down the tubes was not for broadcasting to the U.S., but for not attempting to prevent U.S. citizens from recieving their broadcasts.
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The methodology used is great if you're trying to figure out who's making how much money from selling Linux distributions, but isn't so great if you're trying to figure out which distributions are good ones, or popular ones.
This wasn't a review of what distros are good - we've had many flame wars over that - It is about sales. It is sales of bundles that keep these companies alive (O.k., we have some like Debian that are volunteer) and generating the software. The point of this is not "Oh! Redhat is starting to suck" it's "Uh oh... Redhat, the company that is funding this, this and that is starting to suffer a sales decline"
That's all.
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And still vapour... on their download page, the one server has a "No route to host" error, the other does not have the files.
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Since most of the blazing-fast video cards didn't have drivers for linux, most gamers went with the win32 version.
The cost of the metal box probably didn't help either.
Relic Hunter does suck. I watched one episode, during which she got naked while changing 3 times! Of course, because this is T.V. you don't get to see anything, but even so, that is what the show is based on - watch Tia change clothes in confined spaces!
It sucks ass. Sorry to all the Tia fans out there.
Until v 4.0 Xfree86 had horrible ATI Mach64 support for non PCI models - ISA and VLB machines could have no more than 12 meg of total system ram - regardless of how much video memory the card had. Do you know how many 486's ha(d/ve) Mach 64 chips in them? I doubt it stopped anyone from using Xfree!
There have been so many hassles integrating rambus dram into intel motherboards, and with news of Nintendo abandoning RDRAM in dolphin, there hasn't been much good news for rambus lately.
All companies need to generate revenue, and it would appear that rambus has decided to resort to collecting royalties (or attempting to at least) to suppliment their bottom line. I'm not saying that I support their actions, just that it would seem that there is a semi-legimate reason behind their thinking.
If profits decrease, it scares the shareholders, which can result in the death of a company.
Opinion, not fact.
The German government is a people's government, though one that retains a stronger grip than most governments. Sounds odd, I know, but people that live there know what I mean. Their recommendation was probably pulled from the public eye to avoid upsetting any potential commercial software sources (though this is speculation) that they may use as well as/instead of open source software sources. As the saying goes, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, and the last thing a gov't needs is their software providers being disgruntled.
Totally. It was so ridiculous... Even so, it has odd parallels to these "floating planets" Yes, space 1999.
This article reminds me of an old T.V. series with Martin Landau where the moon left earth orbit, and was just sort of floating around the universe.
It's interesting to note in the article that the smallest "free floating" planet is eight times the mass of Jupiter. In theory, these planets could have their own lunar systems in orbit, so the result would be a dark (non-solar) system... Just a thought.
According to the article, Microsoft has plans to release one revision of the os every year for several years.
I think that's rather interesting, seeing as 95a was released in late 95, then 95b was released a year later in late 96, and NT4 was also released in 96. Then we have a break to 1998, and windows 98, then another break to 2000... so with the exception of 95a/95b/NT4 there have been 2 year gaps for their releases.
Are they taking the advice of the open source community? "Release early, release often?" Perhaps now that Gates isn't making the business decisions, there really will be changes at MS.
Unfortunatly, most systems running linux are not for high-performance environments. Wouldn't the time be better spent bring a real _server_ OS up to IA-64 spec?
I've visited a few research reactors (read nuclear power plant) and they still use them there. It's neet actually, It takes up to a minute to send a fax, these tubes move them in 10 seconds...
I much prefer reading a physical book than a "virtual" one. This is probably going to change for the general public over the next few years... but on to my point: It costs $2.50 to buy the book online, in a format that costs them almost nothing to distribute. Ok, so you're getting the book cheaper than buying it physically. Here's the thing though: Are you allowed to print it? If so, it would cost more to print it (for most people) than to buy another copy of the book. Here's another thing. What happens if you loose your copy of the book in your hard drive - many Windows users I know regularly reformat. How do you get your copy back? Buy another one? I know I wouldn't loose a book if I had a physical version... So is it costing more or less for the consumer to buy an eBook?
Obsessive /. Reader [X] Leaves computer on at night [X] Reads Userfriendly [X]
I wonder if they could be D.O.S.'d... I mean, you walk in to a room with a hand-held c.b. radio that is set to the "pager" frequency, and hold down the button. Many of them are up to 4 watts, so you'd cover the whole range with white noise.
On another note, imagine the privacy implications, you walk in with a palm - equipped with a radio card, and reprogram it to pick up the signals from this thing... you could spoof details, and get and _log_ information on anyone you liked...
spooky...
standard vesa 2.0 mode. No accel.
based on the PR rating system - compared to a pentium, the 200mhz Winchip c6 180 gives pentium (non mmx) 180 performance. Now, it's really like 150, but that's why.
cpu voltage/mult?
Try ICEWM instead of E. I switched over on my K6-2/400 / 32M and it's noticably improved performance. Also, you can get themes for ICE to make it look like E
It seems that core voltage is an issue. A K6/350 has been tested - unsuccesfully. Both p166 and p200s (non mmx) Have been sucessfully tested.
You need to find video drivers for it there friend. BeOS dosn't support the I-Opener's chipset yet. XF86 does. That means that *BSD and Linux will work, BeOS won't. FreeBSD-Current has good usb ethernet support I hear...
No, no monitor and system combos. Before apple, the most popular combo was made by compaq - in fact, two of them. One was designed before the MPC2 craze and didn't have a sound card or cd-rom, and the second one integrated speakers, sound card, cd-rom, voice modem... etc. Unisys did it before them with the ICON 2 and ICON 3.
It must cover more than just aqua/clear plastic moulding, because the eONE's I've seen have all been an orangey colour.
slackware 7.0 has a script called rc.sysvinit, airc, and uncommenting it and adding rc.X directories to the rc.d directory allowed the automatic vmware installation script to install properly - it does everthing perfectly, except for shutdown - it dosn't terminate running virtual machines - but it's not a big deal if you actually exit vmware before restarting! -