Only released more than a year after the original release date of September 30, 2003. Now to buy a new video card (good thing I didn't get a 9800 Pro back when they were released, hey?).
Have you tried Junction? It allows you to link a directory on one drive to another drive and directory. "For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:\SYMLINK\DRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS". I'm pretty sure I've read about people using this to mount network drives on their local drives (and also CDs onto hard disks - which generally confuses installers no end).
Sun makes 3-button opticial USB mice, and they ship with most of their new workstations. You could probably pick them up as spare parts, but they're probably fairly costly.
A cool thing to do with a firewire SAN would be clustering, ala TruCluster, which presents a single filesystem across many machines (with kernel hacks to allow different files for different machines, eg hostname etc.).
While not really relavant to the discussion about moderation, I would point out that IE is so integrated into Windows that any IE update is in effect a Windows update. I came to this journal from the story about the uber-patch for IE 5.5SP2 and 6.0, and it was pointed out at least once that any other program that uses the IE engine is vulnerable, since it's available at the system level.
But anyway, back to the topic at hand. I've read all the 76 comments so far (at -1) and have a few comments to make. Except that I suck at written expression, and so am going to make a few random statements:
I've been reading/. since Jan 1999 (nearly 3 years), but have only posted 15 comments. Why? because/. is but one of many online communities I participate in, and I simply don't have the time/care enough to get more involved in it than reading the front page, and occasionally reading the +5 comments attached to a story. When I first started using/., I read the comments on far more stories than I do now. This is in part because (like many things),/. has become a victim of its own success - as a discussion site, it breaks down with too many users. As a weblog of cool sites and stories (News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.) it performs well. But the discussion part has attracted legions of trolls who (in an attempt to attract attention to themselves) ruin the quality of discussion. So slash had various anti-troll measures implemented, in an attempt to restore the quality of discussion (I read somewhere that one of the aspects (paradoxes?) of online discussion is that to maintain a community in which free discussion is encouraged, rules must be put in place to stop wasted discussion like trolls.)
Anyway, there has probably been misapplication of these tools occasionally. But more to the point, people want their posts to be seen, because they (like most people) like the sound of their voice. And so they get upset when their posts get moderated down (for whatever reason), and blame the moderation system. Now whether the/. mod system is better/worse than the k5 system is not something I'm going to argue, since the amount of traffic that k5 gets is not the same as/. (or so it seems). While/. is more open, in as much as you can view every comment, k5 is more open in as much as there isn't a threshold. (Wait, I am comparing the mod systems, bugger. Oh well). And so, people get pissed off about being modded down (and so losing their visibility) much more on/. than on k5.
Enough about k5. What I'm trying to say here, is that inequities in the/. mod system are in part because a) no mod system is perfect b) it tries to be very open, and stuff (note: my train of though was derailed here)
Anyway, guys, get over it. I sincerely doubt that/. is a good place to hold a meaningful discussion, simply because it's so big. It's not like your posts are really that important. Perhaps you should consider another discussion site, which, while it may be smaller, gives you a better chance of becoming a big-shot poster?;-)
As for the claims of editor abuse of moderation,
well, the editors are human too, and will almost certainly have biases (and egos - the censorware.org account (while not complete, and from only one side) shows this), and so are probably guilty of not being objective, but at least they try. As for CSMs, it's a well known fact that people don't read the docs. I'm on a mailing list which just had an influx of newbies, and it's amazing how many didn't bother to read the rules and guidelines which were posted to them when they joined. People are stupid/jerks, get over it.
Something else: this is the sort of discussion I like to read, since it's got a remarkable lack of trolling that makes it possible to read at -1. "Discussions" that are only readable at +2 (or more), are more just bunched of topic-related comments, since responses are filtered out (unless you click on the "## messages below your threshold" links). I don't, in part because (as I say above),/. is one of many fora which I read/participate in, and my time is limited. The net is vast (mmm, GitS), and there's plenty of discussion sites out there that cater for any taste imaginable, and no human could possibly read all of them.
Anyway, that's my poorly organised (and not really on-topic - but better here than in a story) diatribe. I probably won't make any more comments for the reasons above, but while the info stored by websites is important, there's better targets than/., where this argument is between people who've come to hate each other. Or something (this is more related to the yro comment).
For all you people who have been asking how to find a certain package using apt, apt-cache search foo will search the available package descriptions for "foo".
From what I've heard, an ISP in Perth offers a similar service, and although it's apparently rather expensive compared to modem access, if you need the speed it's worth it. For more info try iinet.general or their homepage. NB This is Perth, Australia, not Perthm Scotland.
As well (or instead) of having several bitrates, you could make a stereo version with each person offset to the left of right by a different amount in post. This would make it (I think) easier to identify ppl. Certainly if I'm paying attention I can tell who's who, but if I'm not I lose track of who's talking. Also, (IIRC) MP3 encodes stereo as the difference between the channels, so it shouldn't add too much to the bitrate.
Come on, surely you can find something interesting to talk about from the last two weeks. What about saying how crap the AOL/Time Warner thing is, or lampoon Bill Gates saying "Nobody is making any money out of software at the moment."
AFAIK, it is for winmodems and winsound cards. The idea is that you put just the bare minimum circuitry required for a modem or sound card on the extension board, and let the CPU perform all the work that normal sound cards/modems perform on the expansion board.
The idea of this is to provide cheap add-on modems and sound cards for budget PCs, as these are very cheap to implement when you offload all the processing to the CPU. While these may be good for low-end users, for any serious PC gamer the CPU usage of these solutions makes them unacceptable IMO.
Winmodems (and probably winsound cards) currently have virtually no non-MS OS (Linux, BSD, BeOS) driver support, another reason to avoid them. Personally, I think they're the spawn of the devil, reinforced by my recent exposure to a 56k winmodem that went full speed for 5-10 min before slowing to a crawl.
I don't think it's on the ISA bus; Intel and several other chipset manufacturers are trying to eliminate it (this will provide a small speed boost.) Try looking at some motherboard reviews for more technical details; offhand there's a few at anandtech.com
The sound quality on this GiS really sucked. People fading in, fading out, and generally being hard to hear. Hopefully when you get the new sound recording sytem up it'll improve.
At the moment, I just use cookie blocking software (Cookie Pal), as I figure that if they don't have cookies on my machine, they can't track me. The amount of banner ads I download doesn't really worry me as I'm on an unlimited ISP account.
I don't block the servers using a host file, even though I do have TweakDUN, because then the sites I visit don't get the revenue from the impression at all. I mean, if everybody set the ad servers to 127.0.0.1, all the sites that rely on ad revenue, and that's most of the good ones, would probably go under, and I don't want that to happen.
Just one more comment: It seems that "upgraded" posts are sent to the bottom of the page, after all the posts that originated on that level, ie this post comes before the upgraded posts, even though it was posted later in time (which is the normal ordering basis)
Moderating this response because it was offtopic is stupid. Granted, the original post about the typos can be considered to be off-topic. But having the top article moderated out, will moderate out the rest of the tree, so it's simply a waste of moderation points to go any further. Also, in this case the response was a valid one, given the subject of the first one.
Suppose someone makes an off-topic remark that initiates a very intesting discussion (about that off-topic topic). Should that all get moderated down? Can only Rob and Hemos set the subject??
It seems that Rob has made -1 posts (or perhaps posts below your threshold (mine's at 0)) disappear, and its descendants go up a level. The post above was a reply to a -1 reply to a -1 post, and so got moved up to the top level.
Certainly, this is a move in the right direction, so well done Rob, but it might be improved somehow, although I can't see how.
As for wasting mod. points on offtopic posts, I don't think that posts that are on the offtopic topic should be moderated down, only flamebait, redundant posts etc.
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I mailed Rob about this when I saw/. sending me these cookies. He said it was an April fools' joke.
Has anybody noticed that most games in arcades are mainly either racing games or shooting games, and this gets a bit repetative. Sure there are sport and beat-em-up games (eg Tekken), even a few pinball machines, but they're in the minority.
One of the best games at the moment is Tokyo Wars, where you are a tank in a team of four, and go around shooting the other team in an urban setting. Lots of fun, especially with four players.
And as for high-tech arcades, the Timezone arcades in Australia (or Perth at least) don't need to have coins put in, you simply swipe your "Powercard". It's done by having card readers on all the games networked to a central computer where they deduct the cost of the game from the account. You just go to the desk with a $10 note and they swipe your card and off you go. No need for change.
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Only released more than a year after the original release date of September 30, 2003. Now to buy a new video card (good thing I didn't get a 9800 Pro back when they were released, hey?).
Have you tried Junction? It allows you to link a directory on one drive to another drive and directory. "For example, if the directory D:\SYMLINK specified C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:\SYMLINK\DRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS". I'm pretty sure I've read about people using this to mount network drives on their local drives (and also CDs onto hard disks - which generally confuses installers no end).
Slashdot - stealing LWN stories for fun and profit since 1998
Sun makes 3-button opticial USB mice, and they ship with most of their new workstations. You could probably pick them up as spare parts, but they're probably fairly costly.
A cool thing to do with a firewire SAN would be clustering, ala TruCluster, which presents a single filesystem across many machines (with kernel hacks to allow different files for different machines, eg hostname etc.).
But anyway, back to the topic at hand. I've read all the 76 comments so far (at -1) and have a few comments to make. Except that I suck at written expression, and so am going to make a few random statements:
I've been reading /. since Jan 1999 (nearly 3 years), but have only posted 15 comments. Why? because /. is but one of many online communities I participate in, and I simply don't have the time/care enough to get more involved in it than reading the front page, and occasionally reading the +5 comments attached to a story. When I first started using /., I read the comments on far more stories than I do now. This is in part because (like many things), /. has become a victim of its own success - as a discussion site, it breaks down with too many users. As a weblog of cool sites and stories (News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.) it performs well. But the discussion part has attracted legions of trolls who (in an attempt to attract attention to themselves) ruin the quality of discussion. So slash had various anti-troll measures implemented, in an attempt to restore the quality of discussion (I read somewhere that one of the aspects (paradoxes?) of online discussion is that to maintain a community in which free discussion is encouraged, rules must be put in place to stop wasted discussion like trolls.)
Anyway, there has probably been misapplication of these tools occasionally. But more to the point, people want their posts to be seen, because they (like most people) like the sound of their voice. And so they get upset when their posts get moderated down (for whatever reason), and blame the moderation system. Now whether the /. mod system is better/worse than the k5 system is not something I'm going to argue, since the amount of traffic that k5 gets is not the same as /. (or so it seems). While /. is more open, in as much as you can view every comment, k5 is more open in as much as there isn't a threshold. (Wait, I am comparing the mod systems, bugger. Oh well). And so, people get pissed off about being modded down (and so losing their visibility) much more on /. than on k5.
Enough about k5. What I'm trying to say here, is that inequities in the /. mod system are in part because a) no mod system is perfect b) it tries to be very open, and stuff (note: my train of though was derailed here)
Anyway, guys, get over it. I sincerely doubt that /. is a good place to hold a meaningful discussion, simply because it's so big. It's not like your posts are really that important. Perhaps you should consider another discussion site, which, while it may be smaller, gives you a better chance of becoming a big-shot poster? ;-)
As for the claims of editor abuse of moderation, well, the editors are human too, and will almost certainly have biases (and egos - the censorware.org account (while not complete, and from only one side) shows this), and so are probably guilty of not being objective, but at least they try. As for CSMs, it's a well known fact that people don't read the docs. I'm on a mailing list which just had an influx of newbies, and it's amazing how many didn't bother to read the rules and guidelines which were posted to them when they joined. People are stupid/jerks, get over it.
Something else: this is the sort of discussion I like to read, since it's got a remarkable lack of trolling that makes it possible to read at -1. "Discussions" that are only readable at +2 (or more), are more just bunched of topic-related comments, since responses are filtered out (unless you click on the "## messages below your threshold" links). I don't, in part because (as I say above), /. is one of many fora which I read/participate in, and my time is limited. The net is vast (mmm, GitS), and there's plenty of discussion sites out there that cater for any taste imaginable, and no human could possibly read all of them.
Anyway, that's my poorly organised (and not really on-topic - but better here than in a story) diatribe. I probably won't make any more comments for the reasons above, but while the info stored by websites is important, there's better targets than /., where this argument is between people who've come to hate each other. Or something (this is more related to the yro comment).
Seriously, this is a damn sucky and tragic event :-(
Only 3 hours before the first jokes appear ...
Thanks (does slash 2.x support editorial comments like scoop?)
For all you people who have been asking how to find a certain package using apt, apt-cache search foo will search the available package descriptions for "foo".
From what I've heard, an ISP in Perth offers a similar service, and although it's apparently rather expensive compared to modem access, if you need the speed it's worth it. For more info try iinet.general or their homepage. NB This is Perth, Australia, not Perthm Scotland.
Come on, surely you can find something interesting to talk about from the last two weeks. What about saying how crap the AOL/Time Warner thing is, or lampoon Bill Gates saying "Nobody is making any money out of software at the moment."
The idea of this is to provide cheap add-on modems and sound cards for budget PCs, as these are very cheap to implement when you offload all the processing to the CPU. While these may be good for low-end users, for any serious PC gamer the CPU usage of these solutions makes them unacceptable IMO.
Winmodems (and probably winsound cards) currently have virtually no non-MS OS (Linux, BSD, BeOS) driver support, another reason to avoid them. Personally, I think they're the spawn of the devil, reinforced by my recent exposure to a 56k winmodem that went full speed for 5-10 min before slowing to a crawl.
I don't think it's on the ISA bus; Intel and several other chipset manufacturers are trying to eliminate it (this will provide a small speed boost.) Try looking at some motherboard reviews for more technical details; offhand there's a few at anandtech.com
The sound quality on this GiS really sucked. People fading in, fading out, and generally being hard to hear. Hopefully when you get the new sound recording sytem up it'll improve.
The film is called Gattaca, because G A T C are the letters of DNA coding.
I don't block the servers using a host file, even though I do have TweakDUN, because then the sites I visit don't get the revenue from the impression at all. I mean, if everybody set the ad servers to 127.0.0.1, all the sites that rely on ad revenue, and that's most of the good ones, would probably go under, and I don't want that to happen.
Just one more comment: It seems that "upgraded" posts are sent to the bottom of the page, after all the posts that originated on that level, ie this post comes before the upgraded posts, even though it was posted later in time (which is the normal ordering basis)
Certainly, this is a move in the right direction, so well done Rob, but it might be improved somehow, although I can't see how.
As for wasting mod. points on offtopic posts, I don't think that posts that are on the offtopic topic should be moderated down, only flamebait, redundant posts etc.
I mailed Rob about this when I saw /. sending me these cookies. He said it was an April fools' joke.
One of the best games at the moment is Tokyo Wars, where you are a tank in a team of four, and go around shooting the other team in an urban setting. Lots of fun, especially with four players.
And as for high-tech arcades, the Timezone arcades in Australia (or Perth at least) don't need to have coins put in, you simply swipe your "Powercard". It's done by having card readers on all the games networked to a central computer where they deduct the cost of the game from the account. You just go to the desk with a $10 note and they swipe your card and off you go. No need for change.