This ensures ALL users and majority of services are running UNPRIVILEGED, which means viruses/malware/etc can't do jack shit to the system.
This is great - try going to c:\windows and creating a file there or a new folder. Boom, UAC dialog. Why? Because normal users don't need to do anythign in C:\windows! But, you say, what about when apps are installed? Well, I went and installed Office 2007 Beta2. The privilege dialog came up TWICE. Once at beginning install and another time a few seconds later. That wasn't much bother at all. And now I can go back to running it as a unprivileged user.
When vista final is released, it will be the most secure windows release to date.
And it's great. Its integrated, its almost as quick as saving the file, and most of all, it doesn't require 300megs of crappy Adobe junk to be installed which hogs your system, installs a printer driver, and adds its toolbars to every fucking application.
I hope microsoft does NOT remove PDF export functionality, because the alternative (adobe acrobat) is annoying and bloated. Sure, it might have OCR and some other niceties, but it should stick to that, instead of trying to take over every document publishing app on my PC.
That whole idea seems like a massive scam to me. I can call someone in Japan and hear him just as loudly as if he were next door
That's because your voice is using a fraction of the spectrum used by DSL. Your voice can be safely transmitted over 8khz 16bit mono sampled line, which gives a nyquist freq of 4khz, while the actual voice taking up somewehre between 300 and 3000hz. So your rusty analog line is perfectly capable of transmitting your speech. You can get same speeds over it too, this is how dialup works. Theoretical limit of voice line is therefore 64kbit, and thats assuming you can uniquely encode each bit, which you cant in 4khz, so the actual practical limit is 56kbit.
Fuck. Nobody needs to know your political opinion (there are millions with same one) How many times you took a dump today Or what emo music youre listening to. Just die. Death to blogs. Props to GNAA.
"Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java."
What? I read this sentence like 10 times, what exactly are they trying to say here? 'p' as in pseudocode? p-code? huh? p as in php, perl, in that case what does that have to do with a JVM... Confused/lost here halp.
I was trying to setup a Linux-HA cluster. After struggling to read their documentation at http://www.linux-ha.org/ (bad formatting, the use of Wiki made most sentences hard to read BecauseOfWikiWords and the fact that hyperlinks were nearly same color as the text, I finally decided that it would be easier to ask on their irc channel, #linux-ha @ freenode.
Oh, how wrong I was. Upon joining the channel, I noticed there were about 30 users idling. I politely asked my question, and waited for reply. No reply arrived, so I idled in the channel for a few days, occasionally repeating the question (not annoyingly and never automatically), hoping someone would notice. Finally, around noon european timezone, some people were awake and chatting in the channel about fixing a particular bug in the new v2 release of Linux-HA. I joined in and asked my question again. I was immediately sent to the "documentation" (the wiki trash I had trouble reading eariler), after that I politely let them know that documentation is not very readable and does not solve my problem either. At this point I was accused of "bitching about service provided for free" and "its a wiki, feel free to contribute and edit it".
I said, that this was a standard v1 configuration which worked, automatically converted to v2 configuration using the included conversion script. Everything was supposed to just work. Take a working v1 config, run the script, add 'crm=yes' to ha.cf, and v2 will work.. Except it didnt. Within a few minutes, the debug logfile grew to several gigabytes in size, filled with repeated failures of glib/heartbeat daemon, thousands of lines of meaningless XML snippets and other junk. I said that my disks were getting filled with errors, and at this point #linux-ha folks suggested I post the entire error log on the mailing list "because more people read the mailing list". I wasn't interested in waiting another week for a "RTFM" response from a mailing list, so I told them "why not help me now, or at least say you arent qualified to help, etc".
At this point, the active 3 or 4 users in the channel have decided I was a "nuisance" and though that their best course of action would be to place me on ignore. Why? Because I wanted to run THEIR software? Because they made a RELEASE version of their product, which was supposed to work out of the box, and it didn't, and I was complaining about it? After placing me on ignore, another opensores user in the channel thought it would be a good idea to complain about my "behaviour" (asking questions about Linux-HA in a SUPPORT channel FOR Linux-HA) to lilo, the freenode nazi.
Few minutes later I was klined with a message "please do not harrass channels/users on freenode". What the fuck. All I did was ask for help configuring a piece of software in a support channel designed for this exact purpose.
So, fuck this, I trashed Linux-HA install and got my boss to get Veritas Cluster Server.
As I'm sure anyone who's used Freenet before knows (Rob Malda, would, for sure!), Freenet is a haven for child pornographers, and this crosses the line between protecting the rights of privacy and protecting the rights of children. How dare you, slashdot.
Your "mac running panther" goes into what is called a "sleep" or "suspend" mode. CPU and memory are still powered, while most other components turn off. Nice, but has nothing to do with hibernation, which saves all state to disk and completely turns off power.
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No, you can just pull the fucking thing out as long as you arent actively writing to it, its been a "feature" since XP, and it worked in 2000 but popped up an annoying warning. I haven't gone to systray to pull usb flash sticks in windows since at least 2002 (the year XP came out), and I've never had lost data, EVER.
In linux, if you pull a mounted usb stick, you get a crashed scsi subsystem at best, and a series of oopses or a hard lockup at worst.
For doing every day tasks, such as reading email, surfing intarweb and writing documents, Windows, even on a crappy PC still beats the shit out of latest "desktop Linux" offerings.
Windows 2000 is usable on low-end p2/celeron systems with as little as 128megs of memory, and XP, properly installed, will function just fine with 256megs.
Try installing latest Fedora Core, SUSE, or Ubuntu, and not only will the space they take up greatly exceed that of a proper Windows 2000/XP install, but they will be much slower, because while hardware advanced, Linux still uses technology from 20 years ago to talk with the graphics card (X11), still lacks kernel audio mixing, still lacks in PnP department (removing a "mounted" USB flash stick anyone?), still has abysmal support for various multimedia devices (no, the few tens reverse-engineered audio/video capture/etc drivers don't really count), etc etc.
What about hibernation? Part of what makes your PC seem "slow" is having to turn it on and off, and waiting for the OS to boot. How long does Windows 2000 or XP take to resume from hibernation? At most few seconds. I have a laptop with 1.5gb of memory with Windows XP Professional SP2 and it takes about 15 seconds to hibernate or resume. Last I checked, Ubuntu developers were worrying about reducing their several-minutes-long boot sequence. I'm not even going to mention hibernation because I know that doesn't work properly in Linux.
So here you have it. Is Windows REALLY slow? Nope. Considering the alternatives, it's a lot faster! And when Vista comes out this or next year (who cares when, it will be awesome anyway) - it will be even faster. With instant-on, even faster hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll never even notice your PC being slow. It will be always ready to use whenever you want.
Yes, and the shit inserted into query string for a search engine plugin named "Google" is totally independent from UA string which you CAN change from inside about:config.
Changing UA string in firefox is easy. Getting rid of the spyware search query is not. This is what I was talking about.
If you use the firefox search box for google, you'll notice it inserts a huge query string into google, including stuff like "client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official", which i what I assume allows google to pay them. But, even if you look in about:config, this extra string is nowhere to be found! I wanted to disable it, because I don't need google (or anyone else) to know I'm using firefox.
The way to remove it, as I eventually found out, is to rename the search engine name, on windows it would be in %programfiles%\mozilla firefox\searchplugins. Just renaming google.src to somethignelse.src wouldnt work, you need to go inside and change its name to like "Jewgle", and reload firefox. Then, select the new "Jewgle" as your search engine, and boom, no more extra money-generating user agent spying info is inserted into the query string.
Good, that means there will be even more perfectly fine working equipment in the trash. I'm not complaining, with stuff like http://pbx.mine.nu/lolbox.jpg in the garbage, I don't even need to work. Can't wait until they start throwing out BSDigital tuners made = 2001, these will be great additions to my A/V collection.
Recent findings from the GNAAU prove that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gay Monday January 16, 2006
Jmax (GNAP) - Miami, Florida, USA - Recent findings from the GNAAU
(Gay Nigger Association of America University) prove that the famed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, indeed, a homosexual. Dr. rhoppenrath,
the head of Gay Nigger studies at the GNAAU, reports that "I am not shocked at all.
"These findings were how I, and my colleagues, had originally hypothesized. We have determined
that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., of civil rights fame, was not only a gay nigger, but a gay nigger
of great magnitude. His homosexuality and niggerdom exceeded that of any average gay nigger.
"Many findings have proved our theory. Our research began in 1998, during the trial to determine
his cause of death." The professor went on to explain how he, and his colleagues, were requested to
perform an autopsy on King in order to determine a cause of death.
"Our first clue was that his anus was irregularly torn and bruised. From there, we hypothesized that he
took nigger dong inside him on a regular basis. We then took a DNA sample, which showed an enormously large
similarity to that of lesser primates, known commonly as apes. The DNA sample also showed that he was
stricken with GRIDS, the leading killer of Gay Niggers everywhere. At this point, my colleague, head of the Law
Department at GNAAU, dj28, investigated further."
In a classified report by dj28, released publicly today, The Gay Nigger Investigative Unit reported that
not only had they determined that King had a harem of Gay Niggers, but that they had met and spoke with several
of them. Only to learn that the rest had died of GRIDS, and that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, was a great
Gay Nigger; Possibly the greatest of all gay Niggers.
About the GNAAU: GNAAU (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA UNIVERSITY) is the first
all-gay all-nigger university in the world. It is sponsored and funded primarily by the
GNAA, SCO, and many other fine organizations; and is world-renowned for its Gay Nigger
studies department.
About GNAA: GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy
all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member. GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing
GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of
America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join
today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAAFirst Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up
today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit
links to your successful First Post, and
My only complaint about CHC is that its a.NET based app (for the GUI) which simply wraps some win32 DLLs/installs a driver for controlling ACPI and CPU clocking. That makes it rather heavy to start up, and while its sitting in the tray for days, it usually gets all swapped out, so if I need to change a setting, it takes a few seconds to bring the GUI back up because of all the.NET junk. If the author would just keep using C/C++ for the GUI it would be a great app.
As far as RMClock goes, I just tried it on a centrino 2.13Ghz laptop, and it dimmed my LCD to unusable levels without even asking, and I spent 5 minutes trying to find how to turn the fucking thing off and restore my LCD brightness.
sir is that a linux application screenshot? because it looks fucking horrible. jesus christ, what horrible abuse of antialiased fonts and ugly, not proportional buttons.
lol, maybe in u.s., but in Japan every new fucking movie comes out on VHS and DVD. And you definitely can't rent anything reasonably new on DVD either - most Japanese movies for rent ONLY exist on VHS. Typical Japanese rental store = 1 shelf of DVDs/new releases + 20 shelves of VHS
Its a well-known fact when some open-source hippie puts a document on the intarweb in ODF format, you flinch and not download it. There are no viewers for OpenOffice formats, and installing the app will waste 300+megs on a slow, bloated, crashing piece of shit office suite.
Anyone who knows anythign about Japanese VOIP will tell you immediately what a total piece of shit it is. First of all, Softbank is NOT a "VOIP Carrier". There are no VOIP carriers in Japan other than NTT. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesnt know the situation. What happens is you have NTT reselling lines to smaller companies. More on this later.
The real failure with Japanese VOIP (other than per-minute charges for voip calls!) is the whole new "050" prefix where all voip shit goes to. Yes, you can get a new voip number, but it will be some random 10-digit 050 prefix number taht you'll have to tell everyone. Number portability? forget it.
There's the new overpriced hikari denwa service which lets you (finally) have a landline phone # tied to voip but it requires a) expensive and unavailable in 99% of Japan NTT-flets connection, b) still bills 8yen/3 minutes for all calls (and increases with distance)... What the fuck are they thinking?
Then there's like 1000 "ISPs" selling "IP-Phone" services, but all they are doing is reselling NTT garbage. SO you take already expensive NTT rate, add on some extra shit by each ISP, and you got a total failure in the works.
Its actually cheaper to buy voip line from a u.s. company (vonage, broadvoice, etc) because there are no flat-rate long distance plans offered by jap voip - with broadvoice you can even have flat-rate calls INSiDE JAPAN (to landline, not mobile numbers) - for like $30 a month.
What does microsoft have to do with this? Probably nothing, but I thought a good rant on the current situation of Jap voip would be appropriate for this article.
Why there's like a million different terms related to MAKING a blog, but not a single one for "reading" blogs? Could it be a hint that blogs are write-only media, and nobody actually wastes time reading them? At least thats the impression I get, because every blog I ever seen is just filled with mundane tripe/copypaste from other sites and/or blogs. What is the point, anyway?
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It's the greatest feature in vista.
This ensures ALL users and majority of services are running UNPRIVILEGED, which means viruses/malware/etc can't do jack shit to the system.
This is great - try going to c:\windows and creating a file there or a new folder. Boom, UAC dialog. Why? Because normal users don't need to do anythign in C:\windows! But, you say, what about when apps are installed? Well, I went and installed Office 2007 Beta2.
The privilege dialog came up TWICE. Once at beginning install and another time a few seconds later. That wasn't much bother at all. And now I can go back to running it as a unprivileged user.
When vista final is released, it will be the most secure windows release to date.
And it's great.
Its integrated, its almost as quick as saving the file, and most of all, it doesn't require 300megs of crappy Adobe junk to be installed which hogs your system, installs a printer driver, and adds its toolbars to every fucking application.
I hope microsoft does NOT remove PDF export functionality, because the alternative (adobe acrobat) is annoying and bloated. Sure, it might have OCR and some other niceties, but it should stick to that, instead of trying to take over every document publishing app on my PC.
That's because your voice is using a fraction of the spectrum used by DSL.
Your voice can be safely transmitted over 8khz 16bit mono sampled line, which gives a nyquist freq of 4khz, while the actual voice taking up somewehre between 300 and 3000hz. So your rusty analog line is perfectly capable of transmitting your speech.
You can get same speeds over it too, this is how dialup works. Theoretical limit of voice line is therefore 64kbit, and thats assuming you can uniquely encode each bit, which you cant in 4khz, so the actual practical limit is 56kbit.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Fuck.
Nobody needs to know your political opinion (there are millions with same one)
How many times you took a dump today
Or what emo music youre listening to.
Just die.
Death to blogs.
Props to GNAA.
"Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java."
What? I read this sentence like 10 times, what exactly are they trying to say here?
'p' as in pseudocode? p-code? huh? p as in php, perl, in that case what does that have to do with a JVM... Confused/lost here halp.
I was trying to setup a Linux-HA cluster.
After struggling to read their documentation at http://www.linux-ha.org/ (bad formatting, the use of Wiki made most sentences hard to read BecauseOfWikiWords and the fact that hyperlinks were nearly same color as the text, I finally decided that it would be easier to ask on their irc channel, #linux-ha @ freenode.
Oh, how wrong I was. Upon joining the channel, I noticed there were about 30 users idling. I politely asked my question, and waited for reply. No reply arrived, so I idled in the channel for a few days, occasionally repeating the question (not annoyingly and never automatically), hoping someone would notice. Finally, around noon european timezone, some people were awake and chatting in the channel about fixing a particular bug in the new v2 release of Linux-HA. I joined in and asked my question again. I was immediately sent to the "documentation" (the wiki trash I had trouble reading eariler), after that I politely let them know that documentation is not very readable and does not solve my problem either. At this point I was accused of "bitching about service provided for free" and "its a wiki, feel free to contribute and edit it".
I said, that this was a standard v1 configuration which worked, automatically converted to v2 configuration using the included conversion script. Everything was supposed to just work. Take a working v1 config, run the script, add 'crm=yes' to ha.cf, and v2 will work.. Except it didnt. Within a few minutes, the debug logfile grew to several gigabytes in size, filled with repeated failures of glib/heartbeat daemon, thousands of lines of meaningless XML snippets and other junk. I said that my disks were getting filled with errors, and at this point #linux-ha folks suggested I post the entire error log on the mailing list "because more people read the mailing list". I wasn't interested in waiting another week for a "RTFM" response from a mailing list, so I told them "why not help me now, or at least say you arent qualified to help, etc".
At this point, the active 3 or 4 users in the channel have decided I was a "nuisance" and though that their best course of action would be to place me on ignore. Why? Because I wanted to run THEIR software? Because they made a RELEASE version of their product, which was supposed to work out of the box, and it didn't, and I was complaining about it? After placing me on ignore, another opensores user in the channel thought it would be a good idea to complain about my "behaviour" (asking questions about Linux-HA in a SUPPORT channel FOR Linux-HA) to lilo, the freenode nazi.
Few minutes later I was klined with a message "please do not harrass channels/users on freenode".
What the fuck. All I did was ask for help configuring a piece of software in a support channel designed for this exact purpose.
So, fuck this, I trashed Linux-HA install and got my boss to get Veritas Cluster Server.
As I'm sure anyone who's used Freenet before knows (Rob Malda, would, for sure!), Freenet is a haven for child pornographers, and this crosses the line between protecting the rights of privacy and protecting the rights of children. How dare you, slashdot.
Your "mac running panther" goes into what is called a "sleep" or "suspend" mode.
CPU and memory are still powered, while most other components turn off.
Nice, but has nothing to do with hibernation, which saves all state to disk and completely turns off power.
No, you can just pull the fucking thing out as long as you arent actively writing to it, its been a "feature" since XP, and it worked in 2000 but popped up an annoying warning. I haven't gone to systray to pull usb flash sticks in windows since at least 2002 (the year XP came out), and I've never had lost data, EVER.
In linux, if you pull a mounted usb stick, you get a crashed scsi subsystem at best, and a series of oopses or a hard lockup at worst.
Go figure.
Windows isn't slow.
For doing every day tasks, such as reading email, surfing intarweb and writing documents, Windows, even on a crappy PC still beats the shit out of latest "desktop Linux" offerings.
Windows 2000 is usable on low-end p2/celeron systems with as little as 128megs of memory, and XP, properly installed, will function just fine with 256megs.
Try installing latest Fedora Core, SUSE, or Ubuntu, and not only will the space they take up greatly exceed that of a proper Windows 2000/XP install, but they will be much slower, because while hardware advanced, Linux still uses technology from 20 years ago to talk with the graphics card (X11), still lacks kernel audio mixing, still lacks in PnP department (removing a "mounted" USB flash stick anyone?), still has abysmal support for various multimedia devices (no, the few tens reverse-engineered audio/video capture/etc drivers don't really count), etc etc.
What about hibernation? Part of what makes your PC seem "slow" is having to turn it on and off, and waiting for the OS to boot. How long does Windows 2000 or XP take to resume from hibernation? At most few seconds. I have a laptop with 1.5gb of memory with Windows XP Professional SP2 and it takes about 15 seconds to hibernate or resume. Last I checked, Ubuntu developers were worrying about reducing their several-minutes-long boot sequence. I'm not even going to mention hibernation because I know that doesn't work properly in Linux.
So here you have it. Is Windows REALLY slow? Nope. Considering the alternatives, it's a lot faster! And when Vista comes out this or next year (who cares when, it will be awesome anyway) - it will be even faster. With instant-on, even faster hibernation, and with new Intel CPUs/chipsets which support deeper sleep levels with more power savings, you'll never even notice your PC being slow. It will be always ready to use whenever you want.
This is what your gaming rig will look like:
http://pbx.mine.nu/artwork/gamingrig.png
Yes, and the shit inserted into query string for a search engine plugin named "Google" is totally independent from UA string which you CAN change from inside about:config.
Changing UA string in firefox is easy. Getting rid of the spyware search query is not.
This is what I was talking about.
If you use the firefox search box for google, you'll notice it inserts a huge query string into google, including stuff like "client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official", which i what I assume allows google to pay them.
But, even if you look in about:config, this extra string is nowhere to be found! I wanted to disable it, because I don't need google (or anyone else) to know I'm using firefox.
The way to remove it, as I eventually found out, is to rename the search engine name,
on windows it would be in %programfiles%\mozilla firefox\searchplugins.
Just renaming google.src to somethignelse.src wouldnt work, you need to go inside and change its name to like "Jewgle", and reload firefox. Then, select the new "Jewgle" as your search engine, and boom, no more extra money-generating user agent spying info is inserted into the query string.
Good, that means there will be even more perfectly fine working equipment in the trash.
I'm not complaining, with stuff like http://pbx.mine.nu/lolbox.jpg in the garbage, I don't even need to work. Can't wait until they start throwing out BSDigital tuners made = 2001, these will be great additions to my A/V collection.
Monday January 16, 2006
Jmax (GNAP) - Miami, Florida, USA - Recent findings from the GNAAU (Gay Nigger Association of America University) prove that the famed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, indeed, a homosexual. Dr. rhoppenrath, the head of Gay Nigger studies at the GNAAU, reports that "I am not shocked at all.
"These findings were how I, and my colleagues, had originally hypothesized. We have determined that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., of civil rights fame, was not only a gay nigger, but a gay nigger of great magnitude. His homosexuality and niggerdom exceeded that of any average gay nigger.
"Many findings have proved our theory. Our research began in 1998, during the trial to determine his cause of death." The professor went on to explain how he, and his colleagues, were requested to perform an autopsy on King in order to determine a cause of death.
"Our first clue was that his anus was irregularly torn and bruised. From there, we hypothesized that he took nigger dong inside him on a regular basis. We then took a DNA sample, which showed an enormously large similarity to that of lesser primates, known commonly as apes. The DNA sample also showed that he was stricken with GRIDS, the leading killer of Gay Niggers everywhere. At this point, my colleague, head of the Law Department at GNAAU, dj28, investigated further."
In a classified report by dj28, released publicly today, The Gay Nigger Investigative Unit reported that not only had they determined that King had a harem of Gay Niggers, but that they had met and spoke with several of them. Only to learn that the rest had died of GRIDS, and that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, was a great Gay Nigger; Possibly the greatest of all gay Niggers.
About the GNAAU:
GNAAU (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA UNIVERSITY) is the first all-gay all-nigger university in the world. It is sponsored and funded primarily by the GNAA, SCO, and many other fine organizations; and is world-renowned for its Gay Nigger studies department.
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!
Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and
My only complaint about CHC is that its a .NET based app (for the GUI) which simply wraps some win32 DLLs/installs a driver for controlling ACPI and CPU clocking. That makes it rather heavy to start up, and while its sitting in the tray for days, it usually gets all swapped out, so if I need to change a setting, it takes a few seconds to bring the GUI back up because of all the .NET junk. If the author would just keep using C/C++ for the GUI it would be a great app.
As far as RMClock goes, I just tried it on a centrino 2.13Ghz laptop, and it dimmed my LCD to unusable levels without even asking, and I spent 5 minutes trying to find how to turn the fucking thing off and restore my LCD brightness.
sir is that a linux application screenshot?
because it looks fucking horrible.
jesus christ, what horrible abuse of antialiased fonts
and ugly, not proportional buttons.
lol, maybe in u.s., but in Japan every new fucking movie comes out on VHS and DVD.
And you definitely can't rent anything reasonably new on DVD either - most Japanese movies for rent ONLY exist on VHS. Typical Japanese rental store = 1 shelf of DVDs/new releases + 20 shelves of VHS
Its a well-known fact when some open-source hippie puts a document on the intarweb in ODF format, you flinch and not download it. There are no viewers for OpenOffice formats, and installing the app will waste 300+megs on a slow, bloated, crashing piece of shit office suite.
Microsoft Office rules.
Propz to GNAA.
Haha, okay, I'll bite this obvious troll.
Anyone who knows anythign about Japanese VOIP will tell you immediately what a total piece of shit it is. First of all, Softbank is NOT a "VOIP Carrier". There are no VOIP carriers in Japan other than NTT. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesnt know the situation. What happens is you have NTT reselling lines to smaller companies. More on this later.
The real failure with Japanese VOIP (other than per-minute charges for voip calls!) is the whole new "050" prefix where all voip shit goes to. Yes, you can get a new voip number, but it will be some random 10-digit 050 prefix number taht you'll have to tell everyone. Number portability? forget it.
There's the new overpriced hikari denwa service which lets you (finally) have a landline phone # tied to voip but it requires a) expensive and unavailable in 99% of Japan NTT-flets connection, b) still bills 8yen/3 minutes for all calls (and increases with distance)... What the fuck are they thinking?
Then there's like 1000 "ISPs" selling "IP-Phone" services, but all they are doing is reselling NTT garbage. SO you take already expensive NTT rate, add on some extra shit by each ISP, and you got a total failure in the works.
Its actually cheaper to buy voip line from a u.s. company (vonage, broadvoice, etc) because there are no flat-rate long distance plans offered by jap voip - with broadvoice you can even have flat-rate calls INSiDE JAPAN (to landline, not mobile numbers) - for like $30 a month.
What does microsoft have to do with this? Probably nothing, but I thought a good rant on the current situation of Jap voip would be appropriate for this article.
Why there's like a million different terms related to MAKING a blog, but not a single one for "reading" blogs? Could it be a hint that blogs are write-only media, and nobody actually wastes time reading them? At least thats the impression I get, because every blog I ever seen is just filled with mundane tripe/copypaste from other sites and/or blogs. What is the point, anyway?
The GNFOS torrent is at http://pepper.idge.net/gnaa/gnfos_dr.torrent
Great movie, highly recommended.
on 64 ISDN, loading those huge fucking animated gifs is god damn annoying.
Since japanese 802.11 regulations limit output power of base stations and wifi cards to like 10x less than the same equipment in USA.
Its typical for wifi access points bought in Japan to have max range of 20-30meters with line of sight. LOL.