It seems this is (almost) universally being voted down, it's time to give up and not implement this. There must be a better way to solve this, and I'm not surprised MS came up with this one!
Yep, Chris is right, and I'm afraid I might have started this new sig-file-spamathon that we're seeing. Oh well, at least I'm not telling you to 'think about your breathing' or telling you that Stephen King died again.
Once they released the specs for that box it seemed pretty obvious that it was just a scan to pull in a few extra VC dollars. All this time with nary a peep coupled with [H]ard ops investigative work and the cover is revealed. In allot of ways the Internet *is* the great equalizer.
why didn't this happen earlier? only problem is the ones that get prosecuted only get a slap on the wrist! we need better laws to go with things like this...
with a reward in mind I'm sure more programmers will not only learn to fight spammers, but effectively track them down. only problem is won't it be like the whack-a-mole with one popping up after the other? still, would be nice to see some of them get their due.
the thought of a small army of those running amuk is frightening. Still, it seems a strange way for science to go: use robots to explain nature. Seems backwards, but cool if it works.
I agree that it will always be better, and 150$ sounds totally cheap to have this kind of freedom/expandability. Any advice on cases? Do you use Wifii with it? Is it pretty quiet?
I'm going to start looking into this, it looks like MythTV is finally mature enough (for me anyway!;))
I'm talking to a friend that wants to build one of these (or have me build it for them more likely), is this compatable with Satellite based broadcast, or just cable?
As a cable user I'm really interested in this KnoppixMyth installer!
Is there databases out there operating like CDDB for TV shows? I always thought this is what would (eventually) kill the monthly pay Tivo like services.
That would have the 'wow' factor that would make me start to build one of these MythTV beasts.
I looked into this last year, but the holding out point was the cost...it didn't seem to be cheap enough to warrant not buying a Tivo. Still, you wouldn't have to pay the monthy fee (yech!)
Has anyone 'rolled their own' and have a price/features overview? Is it worth it yet?
this is starting to bend towards the copy protect bios on the Motherboard. come on, how hard would it be for MS to follow Apple's lead and now copy protect, just put out great software that ppl dont' mind buying? with all the blue screens you can see why ppl don't feel winders isn't worth buying.
How many coopys of winders get sold =vs= how many versions of winders are just 'bought' preinstalled on a computer?
Nice post, it's nice to still dream, makes me want to break out some old ACClarke books and loose myself a bit more. Also your description of the ship brings back Red Dwarf memories! and to be fair, men were on the moon in my lifetime, but I was nary a few weeks old!
Heck, hopes for continuing existence of the middle class seem to be going down the drain, too.
Amen to that (unfortunately). If interested, this site: Left to chance has some interesting news/opinions on similar topics.
I really hope EVERYONE votes this year...it's a big, big deal.
I read about spinach power a few months back, took me a few minutes to believe it wasn't a hoax, but it isn't. Basically plant proteins are the original solar cells but haven't been usefully harnessed for electrical power generation. Now e're getting close:
US researchers have made electrical cells that are powered by plant proteins.
The biologically based solar cells, which convert light into electrical energy, should be efficient and cheap to manufacture, says co-creator Marc Baldo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Baldo's team isolated a variety of photosynthetic proteins from spinach and sandwiched them between two layers of conducting material. When light was shone on to the tiny cell, an electrical current was generated...
The prototype cells still need a little refinement. At present, they can generate current for up to 21 days; then they give up. So alternatives that last longer are needed.
The cells also convert only about 12% of the absorbed light energy into electricity. Still, the researchers believe that it should be possible to reach 20% efficiency, which is better than typical values for commercial silicon solar cells.
Full here It may be that more efficient and more durable chloroplasts can be found or made. The evolution of solar power seems to be going in several directions at once. It makes me wonder what experiments are in progress and not reported yet?
Oh, sorry, perhaps I'm not as knowledgeable as I thought I was. I'm seeing 'yellow halos' around some windows after a time in XFCE, but not GNOME (yees, running Metacity). Maybe I need to recompile xcomp as I heard there are some new patches that give more realistic shadows.
While a man on the moon happened for folks before us, nothing of that magnitude has happened for us, space wise. we need an ark type of craft (like in Authur C Clarke's "Rendevous with Rama") that can slowly shuttle large groups of ppl over there for exploration and settlements. If we're looking 30 years in the future, I think we'll be ready for that by then.
Just don't name any of the onboard computers HAL...
Also, it's easy to update to Xorg 6.8 for MDK users, and I think it's worth the trouble, especially to see those dropshadows. I'm somewhat surprised that MDK didn't wait for 6.8 to go into 10.1, but the dropshadow business isn't completely stable outside of GNOME, and they have to make a cut off soon.
Regardless, MDK users can update rather easily, just update your YUM repository!
One of the best resources in the Mandrake community has been an individual called Texstar who ran a Linux news site called www.pclinuxonline.com and also in his spare time created RPM packages for Mandrake systems. Texstar's packages became justly famous and were widely used. Thanks to his efforts, many reallly nice RPMs were made available to the MDK commmunity, and eventually went into 9 and 10 from what I've heard. This kind of 'community support' is what I'm most happy with.
I started with MDK with 6.0 (*after my time with Red Hat 5.0*) and really loved it. After years of playing with it on the desktop and using it for an MP3 FTP server, I got tired of the RPM depenancy hell and I made the jump to Slackware. A few years of playing in Debian and now Gentoo, I feel I've learned a ton more than I did before, and with YUM and apt-rpm I think it may be time to install/try out this latest version on a sandbox for desktop testing.
I used to enjoy seeing what they 'smoothed out' over the prev release. The MDK Club turned me off as Deno started getting stinky about support for 'non-users' but I understand they're just trying to make a dollar (or euro in their case).
Regardless, nice to see a major Linux Distro still in the running.
It sounds as if this will really take a bite out of using Linux as a SAN solution. I'm currently looking at different SAN options, and with Solaris 10 going open-source too, this really sounds like a HUGE deal for enterprise. Maybe Sun will make a comeback...
I can't believe those fail that often. I haven't used windows daily for years now, so I'm a bit out of the loop. When an app crashes in Linux there's no rebooting needed, just some minor cursing at lost data.
Regardless of how entrenched Windows is in the world, I still can't believe more ppl wouldn't want to try a different OS less than putting up with the cra...
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It seems this is (almost) universally being voted down, it's time to give up and not implement this. There must be a better way to solve this, and I'm not surprised MS came up with this one!
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Yep, Chris is right, and I'm afraid I might have started this new sig-file-spamathon that we're seeing. Oh well, at least I'm not telling you to 'think about your breathing' or telling you that Stephen King died again.
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Once they released the specs for that box it seemed pretty obvious that it was just a scan to pull in a few extra VC dollars. All this time with nary a peep coupled with [H]ard ops investigative work and the cover is revealed. In allot of ways the Internet *is* the great equalizer.
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yeah, screw that.
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why didn't this happen earlier? only problem is the ones that get prosecuted only get a slap on the wrist! we need better laws to go with things like this...
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with a reward in mind I'm sure more programmers will not only learn to fight spammers, but effectively track them down. only problem is won't it be like the whack-a-mole with one popping up after the other? still, would be nice to see some of them get their due.
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the thought of a small army of those running amuk is frightening. Still, it seems a strange way for science to go: use robots to explain nature. Seems backwards, but cool if it works.
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I agree that it will always be better, and 150$ sounds totally cheap to have this kind of freedom/expandability. Any advice on cases? Do you use Wifii with it? Is it pretty quiet?
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I'm going to start looking into this, it looks like MythTV is finally mature enough (for me anyway!
Thanks
CB
I'm talking to a friend that wants to build one of these (or have me build it for them more likely), is this compatable with Satellite based broadcast, or just cable?
As a cable user I'm really interested in this KnoppixMyth installer!
CB
Is there databases out there operating like CDDB for TV shows? I always thought this is what would (eventually) kill the monthly pay Tivo like services.
That would have the 'wow' factor that would make me start to build one of these MythTV beasts.
PCBVS&D*
I looked into this last year, but the holding out point was the cost...it didn't seem to be cheap enough to warrant not buying a Tivo. Still, you wouldn't have to pay the monthy fee (yech!)
Has anyone 'rolled their own' and have a price/features overview? Is it worth it yet?
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this is starting to bend towards the copy protect bios on the Motherboard. come on, how hard would it be for MS to follow Apple's lead and now copy protect, just put out great software that ppl dont' mind buying? with all the blue screens you can see why ppl don't feel winders isn't worth buying.
How many coopys of winders get sold =vs= how many versions of winders are just 'bought' preinstalled on a computer?
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Amen to that (unfortunately). If interested, this site: Left to chance has some interesting news/opinions on similar topics.
I really hope EVERYONE votes this year...it's a big, big deal.
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The biologically based solar cells, which convert light into electrical energy, should be efficient and cheap to manufacture, says co-creator Marc Baldo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Baldo's team isolated a variety of photosynthetic proteins from spinach and sandwiched them between two layers of conducting material. When light was shone on to the tiny cell, an electrical current was generated...
The prototype cells still need a little refinement. At present, they can generate current for up to 21 days; then they give up. So alternatives that last longer are needed.
The cells also convert only about 12% of the absorbed light energy into electricity. Still, the researchers believe that it should be possible to reach 20% efficiency, which is better than typical values for commercial silicon solar cells.
Full here
It may be that more efficient and more durable chloroplasts can be found or made. The evolution of solar power seems to be going in several directions at once. It makes me wonder what experiments are in progress and not reported yet?
CB(*&^%^*)&^
Oh, sorry, perhaps I'm not as knowledgeable as I thought I was. I'm seeing 'yellow halos' around some windows after a time in XFCE, but not GNOME (yees, running Metacity). Maybe I need to recompile xcomp as I heard there are some new patches that give more realistic shadows.
PCB$#@
While a man on the moon happened for folks before us, nothing of that magnitude has happened for us, space wise. we need an ark type of craft (like in Authur C Clarke's "Rendevous with Rama") that can slowly shuttle large groups of ppl over there for exploration and settlements. If we're looking 30 years in the future, I think we'll be ready for that by then.
Just don't name any of the onboard computers HAL...
CB$#@)(*&^
pretty good mirror (speed wise)l inux/de vel/iso/10.1/
http://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake
I'm going to see what new things are out on the Desktop.
CB
Also, it's easy to update to Xorg 6.8 for MDK users, and I think it's worth the trouble, especially to see those dropshadows. I'm somewhat surprised that MDK didn't wait for 6.8 to go into 10.1, but the dropshadow business isn't completely stable outside of GNOME, and they have to make a cut off soon.
Regardless, MDK users can update rather easily, just update your YUM repository!
CBV
One of the best resources in the Mandrake community has been an individual called Texstar who ran a Linux news site called www.pclinuxonline.com and also in his spare time created RPM packages for Mandrake systems. Texstar's packages became justly famous and were widely used. Thanks to his efforts, many reallly nice RPMs were made available to the MDK commmunity, and eventually went into 9 and 10 from what I've heard. This kind of 'community support' is what I'm most happy with.
Thanks Texstar!
CB@#$
I started with MDK with 6.0 (*after my time with Red Hat 5.0*) and really loved it. After years of playing with it on the desktop and using it for an MP3 FTP server, I got tired of the RPM depenancy hell and I made the jump to Slackware. A few years of playing in Debian and now Gentoo, I feel I've learned a ton more than I did before, and with YUM and apt-rpm I think it may be time to install/try out this latest version on a sandbox for desktop testing.
I used to enjoy seeing what they 'smoothed out' over the prev release. The MDK Club turned me off as Deno started getting stinky about support for 'non-users' but I understand they're just trying to make a dollar (or euro in their case).
Regardless, nice to see a major Linux Distro still in the running.
CCBB
how about ZZ(top)FS? if you need more storage, they can grow more!
No? Well the folks in Texas may get it...no?
CB
It sounds as if this will really take a bite out of using Linux as a SAN solution. I'm currently looking at different SAN options, and with Solaris 10 going open-source too, this really sounds like a HUGE deal for enterprise. Maybe Sun will make a comeback...
CAB
I can't believe those fail that often. I haven't used windows daily for years now, so I'm a bit out of the loop. When an app crashes in Linux there's no rebooting needed, just some minor cursing at lost data.
Regardless of how entrenched Windows is in the world, I still can't believe more ppl wouldn't want to try a different OS less than putting up with the cra...
CB(_#@>>>>
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