3) Make sure and put conduit (empty is fine) in ceiling locations as well. You never know when you might want to install a multi-room audio system.
I'm torn on this. On the one hand I like being able to hear everything, on the other hand I like it to not sound like crap.
Y'know when you go to a outdoor sports game and there's a lot of reverb to the announcer's loudspeaker-blared voice? That's because there are a lot of speakers and sound comes out of all of them at essentially the same time, but then travels to your ears along longer or shorter paths, causing you to hear fuzzed up sound.
Obviously, it'll be better in a house, which should have more sound absorbers such as rugs and sofas, and unless you're building a mansion, we're not talking about little-leauge-field proportions, however, if I were an audiophile I'd stay far away from this.
Or another though occurs: have motion sensors throughout the house which only turn on the speakers in rooms where people were last detected. That way if you have 8 rooms wired but only 1 person home, you get sound that follows you around, and no reverb.
you can recycle the motion sensors for home security or MrHouse
Visual and audio effects mean processing time, and CPU time uses battery power.
This is not always correct, it depends on what eye candy operations are implemented efficiently on your hardware. For example, suppose you turn on the nvidia cursor shadow extension. Does it take extra power? No, because the nvidia gpu trivially can compute it in hardware for 1/zillionth of a watt. Now suppose someone does write a non-nvidia X extension that emulates this inelegantly by doing lots of screen blits and software alpha blending: now you're talking power drain. I think another example is apple's eye candy transparent windows and whatnot. Since they're in dedicated hardware, I think they're not a major load.
Seriously though, Mac's are great. It's UNIX with none of the drawbacks
You will deserve your troll moderations for this false assertion. Everybody knows MacOS is not free to download like a GNU/Linux system, nor is the code available for modification. Just because it doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean it doesn't matter to everyone.
Also, there should be two file selectors: the Open file selector and the Save As... file selector. The Open file selector only picks existing files, and is therefore simpler - you pick from existing icons, and don't really need a text area (or if you love text areas, you tab complete only into existing filenames without to support new ones). The Save As... file selector has extra gizmoes for creating new folders and entering new filenames. Its a bit slower to use and more complex, but hey, its a more complex task.
In the end, to destroy the seemingly unbeatable (yet stupid looking) American robot monster, Godzilla is forced to explode himself into seperate fighting body-parts! His eTail will become a powerful digital entity known as GodThunderTail. His head will fly around and catch on fire : GodPhoenix! Ooops, I mean Firebirdzilla! Wrong again: GodFireZillaFox! The stupid american monster will be backed into a canyon, then becomes enraged by a massive wave of tiny annoying gophers which pop up both under and over him. He eventually starts to cry, and GodFireZillaFox pretends to feel sorry for him, and gives him some ActiveEcchs laxative... whereupon Stupid American Monster forgets to eat a critical update monorail, and EXPLODES!
Indeed, this is hardly a one-sided rout like I percieve SCO-IBM to be.
Hardcop is being stupid about locating Infinium's headquarters. Possibly deliberately stupid. Small business move around a lot, and have to have post office indirection for that purpose. That their mail goes to what amounts to an obfuscated PO Box is hardly suprising. Now there does seem to be some confusion as to where their actual offices are, but even/.'s "Robin Miller" admits they do now have them.
Gimmie a break, this isn't rocket science. There's still plenty of other metal exposed which absorbs the heat, and metal conducts heat well, so its just like the towel isn't there. As to the lint issue: don't use a lint-prone towel (duh). I've been running years with this solution, and that computer's doing fine from a thermal standpoint.
(Plastic-fatigue on the PS2 ports is another story. I may trash it when the keyboard jack finally breaks.)
Hey, er, I'm a longtime C programmer, starting a cross platform project in C++. Our goal is to use borland C++ builder 6 on MS 'DoH, and g++ on linux. I've been reading Bjarne, and he seems to think that most STL imps these days are pretty good. Is he smoking crack?
My plan for xplat compat is to test every day on both platforms so incompats don't creep in.
Have you tried? I did. I've probably worked two full work-weeks on this problem over the years. I use(d) debian woody, and I had an Epson Stylus Color 740. Please, if you can figure out which of the 10-zillion packages to file against, tell me. (I can get you package info still from my cache if you need it: cupsomatic gimprint foomatic wankoff?) My guess would be CUPS is the culprit, but I don't really know for sure. I tried getting help from the CUPS community, but as their FAQ makes really clear, they only want people with 15 years experience writing printing software to post to their groups, and if you don't have the 15 years, you should start reading documentation now, and when you get done (15 years from now) please go ahead and post.
Yes, of course I feel too that my methodology was crap, and I was not sufficiently leet, however, I had not alternatives.
If I power-cycled the printer, it still printed out the infinate stream of ps garbage.
If I/etc/init.d/cupsd restart , it still printed out the infinate stream of ps garbage.
I had to clear the queue through the web interface and shut down the {driver, printer, computer} in the right order, and then HOPE that it took pity and stopped being wonky.
Lord help me if I foolishly printed something before powering up the printer... it would take extra rebooting revenge.
My uptimes were very good without cups, but their terrible documentation and fault-intolerant software left me with little choice.
When I bought my printer I carefully went to linuxprinting.org and looked for the best-supported inkjet they could reccomend. Supposedly this was the easiest to setup, highest quality, and cheapest to refill printer. Then I bought it through them to give them some money. For the next three years I was saddled with a semi-borken time sink.
I probably spent 80 hours on that damn thing. Now I just go to the library and print there.
I think its worse than ESR makes it out to be. CUPS is worse than useless. It looks like a printing system, but it is (in my experience) inscrutable and very, very unreliable.
I just threw away a printer, which in its lifetime probably printed 3x more postscript-as-text than actual rendered output, because CUPS is unreliable: try to print, get postscript gibberish, reboot, it keeps on printing gibberish, turn off printer, shut down cupsd, reboot, turn on printer, repeat 3ish times, and I'd occassionally get lucky and it would print non-gibberish for me. I expect that without this added wear, the printer would still work fine.
You might think I should consult the CUPS FAQ, but the CUPS FAQ is itself useless, doesn't answer any questions except "where to read cryptic documentation about printer internals" that you just don't give a shit about.
CUPS should be renamed CUTS: Common Unix Timewasting System.
I never had a problem with it when I ran window maker, which happens to provide sticky, always on top windows and iconify-all-windows-of-applicaiton.
Now I switched to sawfish and it makes the Gimp really hard to use, so hard I often relogin with wmaker, or at least fire it up on its own virtual desktop.
So, if you're hell bent, you could wmakerize yourself.
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Now the problem is, I can't get the 13 line script through the lameness filters. Well, hell, get it from here then run it with: clisp -q -i ransom-note.lisp -x "(ransom-note \"my dog has fleas\")"
(the file I said to download is just a text file, not really an executable like the webserver says.)
Amn't I the only one who read the title as RIAA Creating RFID Blocker Tag? I was like: well, its random, but better than your usual behavior of suing people and producing crap music, so overall: go RIAA go!
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Motion sensors are only $10 each, before AAAs... :)
I'm torn on this. On the one hand I like being able to hear everything, on the other hand I like it to not sound like crap.
Y'know when you go to a outdoor sports game and there's a lot of reverb to the announcer's loudspeaker-blared voice? That's because there are a lot of speakers and sound comes out of all of them at essentially the same time, but then travels to your ears along longer or shorter paths, causing you to hear fuzzed up sound.
Obviously, it'll be better in a house, which should have more sound absorbers such as rugs and sofas, and unless you're building a mansion, we're not talking about little-leauge-field proportions, however, if I were an audiophile I'd stay far away from this.
Or another though occurs: have motion sensors throughout the house which only turn on the speakers in rooms where people were last detected. That way if you have 8 rooms wired but only 1 person home, you get sound that follows you around, and no reverb.
you can recycle the motion sensors for home security or MrHouse
Since then Linux has traveled around the sun ten times but its still in the same old place.
I want to use my cell phone as a modem for my craptop, not use my craptop as a ISP for my phone.
Licensing matters. Deal with it.
Visual and audio effects mean processing time, and CPU time uses battery power.
This is not always correct, it depends on what eye candy operations are implemented efficiently on your hardware. For example, suppose you turn on the nvidia cursor shadow extension. Does it take extra power? No, because the nvidia gpu trivially can compute it in hardware for 1/zillionth of a watt. Now suppose someone does write a non-nvidia X extension that emulates this inelegantly by doing lots of screen blits and software alpha blending: now you're talking power drain. I think another example is apple's eye candy transparent windows and whatnot. Since they're in dedicated hardware, I think they're not a major load.
Seriously though, Mac's are great. It's UNIX with none of the drawbacks
You will deserve your troll moderations for this false assertion. Everybody knows MacOS is not free to download like a GNU/Linux system, nor is the code available for modification. Just because it doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean it doesn't matter to everyone.
Houston, we have a problem: they stole our dog and replaced it with a stupid white frisbee.
Also, there should be two file selectors: the Open file selector and the Save As... file selector. The Open file selector only picks existing files, and is therefore simpler - you pick from existing icons, and don't really need a text area (or if you love text areas, you tab complete only into existing filenames without to support new ones). The Save As... file selector has extra gizmoes for creating new folders and entering new filenames. Its a bit slower to use and more complex, but hey, its a more complex task.
anyone actually know what the big difference
between using ATI's closed source drivers or the
open sourced DRI-ones?
I don't know, and nobody talks about it, however, I think the answer is:
tens of thousands of man-hours of optimization and bug fixing
Isn't it always the case that stupid looking American robots (such as Al Gore) lose? I'll miss the big green guy.
Flamebait? Mod that up funny yo.
In the end, to destroy the seemingly unbeatable (yet stupid looking) American robot monster, Godzilla is forced to explode himself into seperate fighting body-parts! His eTail will become a powerful digital entity known as GodThunderTail. His head will fly around and catch on fire : GodPhoenix! Ooops, I mean Firebirdzilla! Wrong again: GodFireZillaFox! The stupid american monster will be backed into a canyon, then becomes enraged by a massive wave of tiny annoying gophers which pop up both under and over him. He eventually starts to cry, and GodFireZillaFox pretends to feel sorry for him, and gives him some ActiveEcchs laxative ... whereupon Stupid American Monster forgets to eat a critical update monorail, and EXPLODES!
Remember folks, you heard it here first.
They've portscanned all you porn-downloading turkeys, and noticed that
1) you have XFree86.
2) you only ever use it to look at porn.
And by the way, isn't there a porn-centric linux distribution yet, with tools for downloading huge tracts of porn from usenet etc?
Indeed, this is hardly a one-sided rout like I percieve SCO-IBM to be.
/.'s "Robin Miller" admits they do now have them.
Hardcop is being stupid about locating Infinium's headquarters. Possibly deliberately stupid. Small business move around a lot, and have to have post office indirection for that purpose. That their mail goes to what amounts to an obfuscated PO Box is hardly suprising. Now there does seem to be some confusion as to where their actual offices are, but even
Gimmie a break, this isn't rocket science. There's still plenty of other metal exposed which absorbs the heat, and metal conducts heat well, so its just like the towel isn't there. As to the lint issue: don't use a lint-prone towel (duh). I've been running years with this solution, and that computer's doing fine from a thermal standpoint.
(Plastic-fatigue on the PS2 ports is another story. I may trash it when the keyboard jack finally breaks.)
Take an old towel, cut it into squares, and stick the squares to the inside of your mac's box with tape. Helps quite a bit!
Epson Stylus Color 740i I'm afraid.
Hey, er, I'm a longtime C programmer, starting a cross platform project in C++. Our goal is to use borland C++ builder 6 on MS 'DoH, and g++ on linux. I've been reading Bjarne, and he seems to think that most STL imps these days are pretty good. Is he smoking crack?
My plan for xplat compat is to test every day on both platforms so incompats don't creep in.
-Dave
Have you tried? I did. I've probably worked two full work-weeks on this problem over the years. I use(d) debian woody, and I had an Epson Stylus Color 740. Please, if you can figure out which of the 10-zillion packages to file against, tell me. (I can get you package info still from my cache if you need it: cupsomatic gimprint foomatic wankoff?) My guess would be CUPS is the culprit, but I don't really know for sure. I tried getting help from the CUPS community, but as their FAQ makes really clear, they only want people with 15 years experience writing printing software to post to their groups, and if you don't have the 15 years, you should start reading documentation now, and when you get done (15 years from now) please go ahead and post.
Yes, of course I feel too that my methodology was crap, and I was not sufficiently leet, however, I had not alternatives.
/etc/init.d/cupsd restart , it still printed out the infinate stream of ps garbage.
If I power-cycled the printer, it still printed out the infinate stream of ps garbage.
If I
I had to clear the queue through the web interface and shut down the {driver, printer, computer} in the right order, and then HOPE that it took pity and stopped being wonky.
Lord help me if I foolishly printed something before powering up the printer... it would take extra rebooting revenge.
My uptimes were very good without cups, but their terrible documentation and fault-intolerant software left me with little choice.
When I bought my printer I carefully went to linuxprinting.org and looked for the best-supported inkjet they could reccomend. Supposedly this was the easiest to setup, highest quality, and cheapest to refill printer. Then I bought it through them to give them some money. For the next three years I was saddled with a semi-borken time sink.
I probably spent 80 hours on that damn thing. Now I just go to the library and print there.
I think its worse than ESR makes it out to be. CUPS is worse than useless. It looks like a printing system, but it is (in my experience) inscrutable and very, very unreliable.
I just threw away a printer, which in its lifetime probably printed 3x more postscript-as-text than actual rendered output, because CUPS is unreliable: try to print, get postscript gibberish, reboot, it keeps on printing gibberish, turn off printer, shut down cupsd, reboot, turn on printer, repeat 3ish times, and I'd occassionally get lucky and it would print non-gibberish for me. I expect that without this added wear, the printer would still work fine.
You might think I should consult the CUPS FAQ, but the CUPS FAQ is itself useless, doesn't answer any questions except "where to read cryptic documentation about printer internals" that you just don't give a shit about.
CUPS should be renamed CUTS: Common Unix Timewasting System.
DoH! I'm actually thinking about metacity. Now i've tarnished the name of sawfish.
I never had a problem with it when I ran window maker, which happens to provide sticky, always on top windows and iconify-all-windows-of-applicaiton.
Now I switched to sawfish and it makes the Gimp really hard to use, so hard I often relogin with wmaker, or at least fire it up on its own virtual desktop.
So, if you're hell bent, you could wmakerize yourself.
Hey, that sounds like fun!
t h E Q U Ickb r o wn F o x j u M P e d O Ver T Hel a Z Y D og
the Qu i ck B RO w n f o X Ju mpE d o v e R t he l az y dog
Now the problem is, I can't get the 13 line script through the lameness filters. Well, hell, get it from here then run it with:
clisp -q -i ransom-note.lisp -x "(ransom-note \"my dog has fleas\")"
(the file I said to download is just a text file, not really an executable like the webserver says.)
Amn't I the only one who read the title as RIAA Creating RFID Blocker Tag? I was like: well, its random, but better than your usual behavior of suing people and producing crap music, so overall: go RIAA go!