"TV is the primary source of news for a large amount of people."
That's sad. I'm a news junky, and I would never think of getting my news from the TV. They don't really have news there. Just infotainment and sensationalism. Seriously. Have you ever looked?
Maybe PBS, but that's about it.
If people are relying on TV for news, it might be good to make them read the newspaper if they haven't gotten a digital tuner yet.
I don't have cable, but I doubt it's much better there based on what I've seen while staying in hotels. But in any event, we aren't talking about people who have cable since the DTV switch over doesn't apply to them.
That Northgate 386 was running with all it's RAM slots full - a whopping 8 MB!
It came with 4 1-MB sticks installed, and I bought another 386 motherboard from ebay for like $2 from which I was able to canabalize 4 more 1-MB sticks.
I am pretty sure it was a 2.2.x kernel.
It was a fun project and it served files great for a couple of years.
I had a 386 running linux as my home's main file server for a year or two. Worked great. This was a Northgate Elegance that cost >$4000 when new. It seemed like a real classic, so I still have it down in the basement, ready to fire up into an old version of slackware any time.
It's not so much that someone is complaining that Vista is not sufficiently backward compatible. It's more the case that someone wants to upgrade a machine that does a specific task, keeping the same peripherals, expensive software, etc. They are asking that Microsoft allow them to purchase an XP license so things will still work. But MS makes this exceedingly difficult (and soon, impossible legally).
Yeah, I'd really like to stick with KDE 3.5 KDE 4 just doesn't seem like it offers enough to risk the hassles of such a huge change.
Now Ubuntu 8.04 is a LTS release, but Kubuntu 8.04 isn't, and I understand why (KDE 3.5 support from KDE will be nonexistent 3 years from now). I can't seem to find any info as to whether it will be possible to continue to grab 8.04 updates through 2011 while sticking with KDe 3.5. I mean, most of the distro is *not* the desktop environment stuff. It is the kernel, GNU utils, X server, apache, samba, etc. etc. Stuff that has nothing to do with the desktop environment.
Am I going to be able to get all the updates to these non-KDE applications through the LTS period of 3 years?
One great storage idea I read about (maybe even here on Slashdot) is running large cold storage facilties slightly colder when the supply is high, and then letting them "warm up" back to normal when the electricity is in shorter supply.
It would seem that a constantly varying price of electricity corresponding to demand maybe a great market-based way to implement something like this and other similar schemes.
I used it once, got the bill and paid it, but then kept getting bills for one cent, which then increased with interest. Must ahve been somehting with the exchange rate. These are bills in the mail (international, since I am in New York) that kept coming. Pretty hilarious. Good thing I didn't have to renew an Ontario plate.
"Let's say software and business process patents did not exist. Where would Google be now? Would Sergey and Brin not have bothered to work on search algorithms if there hadn't been a patent carrot at the end? I highly doubt it"
I disagree. Sure, one of the features that made Google rocket above all the other search engines back at the turn of the millenium was its much more accurate and useful list of web pages that it returned as results, thanks to PageRank.
But two other things were equally important, in my view. One was the speed of the service. Google was groudbreaking, or at least most successful, in deploying huge Linux server farms to implement the algorithm, which made it more useful. This was back, if you remember, before Linux really went mainstream and many still considered it a hobbyist's OS. Second was the clean interface. Remember how long Altavista and the rest used to take to load over the late-90's dial-up connections?
Google didn't make it big based on pagerank alone.
Not to mention the fact that instead of burning hydrocarbons (as in hydrogen and carbon, so not all the combustion is making CO2, some of the power generated is from making H2O), you are using electricity that more likely than not is produced by coal (mostly carbon, producing just CO2, simplifying a bit), greating increasing your carbon footprint.
And the fact that the electricity generation converts only 33% of the energy in coal to electric power (limited, among other things, by the second law of thremodynamics) whereas you probably get a much higher efficiency conerting the gasoline or diesel into forward motion of the car. This increases your carbon footprint even further.
Exactly! I have applied most patches, but specifically excluded WGA, even though I have nothing to hide (legit OEM licences on all my boxes). There were just too many horror stories.
Does this mean that if I want to keep WGA off my machines, then I can't install SP3 at all? If I don't install SP3, will my machines stop getting security updates?
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But does "media here in NZ" = "biological establishment"?
"TV is the primary source of news for a large amount of people."
That's sad. I'm a news junky, and I would never think of getting my news from the TV. They don't really have news there. Just infotainment and sensationalism. Seriously. Have you ever looked?
Maybe PBS, but that's about it.
If people are relying on TV for news, it might be good to make them read the newspaper if they haven't gotten a digital tuner yet.
I don't have cable, but I doubt it's much better there based on what I've seen while staying in hotels. But in any event, we aren't talking about people who have cable since the DTV switch over doesn't apply to them.
That Northgate 386 was running with all it's RAM slots full - a whopping 8 MB!
It came with 4 1-MB sticks installed, and I bought another 386 motherboard from ebay for like $2 from which I was able to canabalize 4 more 1-MB sticks.
I am pretty sure it was a 2.2.x kernel.
It was a fun project and it served files great for a couple of years.
I had a 386 running linux as my home's main file server for a year or two. Worked great. This was a Northgate Elegance that cost >$4000 when new. It seemed like a real classic, so I still have it down in the basement, ready to fire up into an old version of slackware any time.
It's not so much that someone is complaining that Vista is not sufficiently backward compatible. It's more the case that someone wants to upgrade a machine that does a specific task, keeping the same peripherals, expensive software, etc. They are asking that Microsoft allow them to purchase an XP license so things will still work. But MS makes this exceedingly difficult (and soon, impossible legally).
And then there's things like Vista MCE purposely honoring the broadcast flag while XP MCE doesn't.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/0312256
Of course anyone reading here uses mythtv anyway, but still...
I think most large companies have corporate policies forbidding talking on cell phones while driving on company business.
Plus he said "less children", not "fewer children".
How can you believe someone like that?
Yeah, I'd really like to stick with KDE 3.5 KDE 4 just doesn't seem like it offers enough to risk the hassles of such a huge change.
Now Ubuntu 8.04 is a LTS release, but Kubuntu 8.04 isn't, and I understand why (KDE 3.5 support from KDE will be nonexistent 3 years from now). I can't seem to find any info as to whether it will be possible to continue to grab 8.04 updates through 2011 while sticking with KDe 3.5. I mean, most of the distro is *not* the desktop environment stuff. It is the kernel, GNU utils, X server, apache, samba, etc. etc. Stuff that has nothing to do with the desktop environment.
Am I going to be able to get all the updates to these non-KDE applications through the LTS period of 3 years?
Yes, that is the first time I laughed out loud at work in 10+ years of reading /.
"For all of Iran's bluster-- if they stopped selling us oil they would A) Get invaded and B) Go bankrupt in probably the reverse order."
Well, they may get invaded and go bankrupt anyway, but they *don't* sell us any oil now. (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html) Us (USA) and them don't like each other, remember?
One great storage idea I read about (maybe even here on Slashdot) is running large cold storage facilties slightly colder when the supply is high, and then letting them "warm up" back to normal when the electricity is in shorter supply.
It would seem that a constantly varying price of electricity corresponding to demand maybe a great market-based way to implement something like this and other similar schemes.
I used it once, got the bill and paid it, but then kept getting bills for one cent, which then increased with interest. Must ahve been somehting with the exchange rate. These are bills in the mail (international, since I am in New York) that kept coming. Pretty hilarious. Good thing I didn't have to renew an Ontario plate.
Not to mention that lack of a grounding wire can get you in serious trouble if the antenna gets hit by lightning.
Sorry, you just lost all your nerd cred for putting backslashes in a URL.
My elcheapo Dell (Vostro 400 minitower) has a foxxcon Mobo and runs Linux fine. So it just must be some of their mobos.
"Let's say software and business process patents did not exist. Where would Google be now? Would Sergey and Brin not have bothered to work on search algorithms if there hadn't been a patent carrot at the end? I highly doubt it"
I disagree. Sure, one of the features that made Google rocket above all the other search engines back at the turn of the millenium was its much more accurate and useful list of web pages that it returned as results, thanks to PageRank.
But two other things were equally important, in my view. One was the speed of the service. Google was groudbreaking, or at least most successful, in deploying huge Linux server farms to implement the algorithm, which made it more useful. This was back, if you remember, before Linux really went mainstream and many still considered it a hobbyist's OS. Second was the clean interface. Remember how long Altavista and the rest used to take to load over the late-90's dial-up connections?
Google didn't make it big based on pagerank alone.
My subaru does.
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
OK, so the driver for MythTV is still in alpha, but I understand it's getting close.
Not to mention the fact that instead of burning hydrocarbons (as in hydrogen and carbon, so not all the combustion is making CO2, some of the power generated is from making H2O), you are using electricity that more likely than not is produced by coal (mostly carbon, producing just CO2, simplifying a bit), greating increasing your carbon footprint.
And the fact that the electricity generation converts only 33% of the energy in coal to electric power (limited, among other things, by the second law of thremodynamics) whereas you probably get a much higher efficiency conerting the gasoline or diesel into forward motion of the car. This increases your carbon footprint even further.
It's just crowdsourced waste segregation.
"The no-nukes zealots commonly exploit this fear and ignorance. They are not interested in science, but in their ideology."
That's kind of ironic since most of them aren't even republicans!
*ducks*
Seriously, your point is spot on.
What do republican or democratic websites have to do with Usenet?
I'm pretty sure the legislation mandating compliance with the broadcast flag never passed. (yet?)
http://w2.eff.org/IP/broadcastflag/
Exactly! I have applied most patches, but specifically excluded WGA, even though I have nothing to hide (legit OEM licences on all my boxes). There were just too many horror stories.
Does this mean that if I want to keep WGA off my machines, then I can't install SP3 at all? If I don't install SP3, will my machines stop getting security updates?