Ummm...according to the National Standards it's supposed to be taught all through Elementary School.If you don't believe me, here's how they work out in the California version of the History/Geography/Social Studies Standards:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/hstmain.asp
KDE and all the trimmings runs just fine on a PII 400MHz 600E ThinkPad with 228MB RAM. No chugging, no paging, no problem. I'm using Knoppix 3.3 knx-hdinstall-ed to the hard drive. KDE 3.1, although 3.2 is trimmer and faster. KDE seems to get slimmer as it evolves, which is more that can be said about Windows.
I run 2K as a dual boot on this same machine and had to kill things like most services, drop shadows and ghost images of items that are being dragged to get it to run fast enough for my tastes.
When I redo this machine (It's going to happen real soon) I will use the Debian Sarge installer to install "real" Debian to this machine. Screw Fedora...Red Hat and its freebie offspring have been bloaty since the 8.x series.
Doesn't the new Debian Sarge installer make efforts like these irrelevant? From everything I've seen it's cute, graphical, holds your hand, and when you're done you have fully configured true Debian. Why mess with this or Linspire/Lindows when a friendly Debian seems to be right around the corner?
AMD has been using RISC-like architecture on their chips since the K-5. Remember the K-5? The K6 lineage expanded on this, as did the Athlon.
I'm not an AMD fangirl or anything but they've been at the "interpret x86 instructions with RISC architecture" game for coming up on a decade. Intel only caught on relatively recently with Banias and Dothan (aka Pentium-M, "Centrino") and are finding out the uncomfortable truth that these chips that operate at a slower clock speed are more efficient and do more per clock cycle than P4s.
And as per Itanium: there's a reason why people call it the Itanic.
I still use a 433MHz and a 466Mhz Mendocino Celeron. Not in one box, of course. But the two machines are still in working order. Hell, I have a ThinkPad 600E 400MHz PIIm that is still kicking ass under both Linux and Windows 2K. Don't count the old machines out.
Depo-provera, a synthetic form of Progestin, is currently used for this purpose, and referred to as "chemical castration." It is also administered as a means of birth control for women. One of its side effects in women is lowered libido.
There is no information about how to set this device up...what you do if you have an existing network and want to use this as part of it. Does it have a web configuration interface or something? Is it DHCP-only? I mean, I like ASUS' motherboards and video cards fine. I'm not an ASUS fangirl but suit yourself. It looks like an interesting device, but I don't know how I'd get it to play nice with my existing network.
Even if you only have one computer to connect to the Internet, the little Broadband Router/Firewall boxes provide protection from nasties, particularly during the "patch after install" process. Linksys, SMC, 3Com, Netgear, hell, even a Microsoft branded one will do.
I know that they aren't perfect, but they work pretty much out of the box and will hold you until you get a real (Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD) firewall box going.
Just don't get a wireless one if you don't need it. Wireless access provides a "backdoor" into your network that is frankly as ugly as the backdoor of the Goatsex guy. If you must do wireless through one of these puppies run MAC authentication and WEP...again, not infallable but since there are so many wide-open 802.11b systems out there if you throw on those two precautions wardrivers/walkers will go elsewhere to l33ch bandwidth.
Basically Japan is where a lot of the creative talent is and remains. Ever since I had a talk with Peter Chung, creator of Aeon Flux, I have been waiting for the big explosion of creative talent out of South Korea. Guess what? It hasn't happened yet. Aside from "Wonderful Days" (what I have seen of it looks gorgeous) and the "Ragnarok" series (ugly as sin, you have to play the game to understand the series) I have yet to see anything creative come out of Korea. Even their "Manhwa" (Korean equivalent of Manga) is pretty weak.
The only areas that can compete with Japan on the creative side of things are the United States and Europe. "The Triplets of Bellville," aka "Bellville Rendezvous" was a staggering accomplishment out of France, and so is the show known in the US as "Totally Spies."
In the US, "Teen Titans" is totally conceived of and posed out over here then sent to Korea and Taiwan. Yes, they overdo it with Manga cliches sometimes (they are more dependent on the visual vocabulary even than most Japanese shows) but it is by and large an entertaining series, certainly the best action show to come out of the US since the original "Batman: The Animated Series."
The labor-intensive stuff has always been sent overseas...it's been the MO since the '60s. It's been like this not only in the US but also in Japan. Take a look at "Animation Runner Kuromi" sometime. It's not a great OAV, but it has a lot of insight as to the similarities and differences between the Japanese method of animation production and the US method of animation production. Both have one main thing in common: once the layouts (key-frames, poses) are done, the layouts, storyboards and so on are sent to South Korea, Taiwan, the PRC or The Phillipines for inbetweening (plussing) and occasionally still ink and paint and photography.
The Japanese differ from the US in that the first thing that is produced on a US show is the "track" (taped dialogue) and in Japan the "track" is the last thing done along with music and sound effects. This difference I chalk up to the divergent influences on Japanese as opposed to US animation. Tezuka Osamu, the Kami-sama of anime and the person who came up with a lot of the production methods used in Japan today was heavily influenced by the Fleischer Brothers. Character Design theories, the recording of a soundtrack *after* the animation is finished, even the way pegbars are oriented all come from the Fleischer Studio's production methods.
The big influence on US animation was Termite Terrace, the original Warner Bros Animation facility. Familiar methods like the audio soundtrack being laid down first, pegbars at the bottom of the page rather than the top, and the critical importance of the storyboard are all Warner Bros production methods. Disney used a similar system too, but Disney was not as big of an influence outside its buildings than WB was. MGM's animation unit also relied on WB theories. Hanna, Barbera, Freleng, Avery, Clampett...all these people went on to basically invent the US TV animation industry in the 1960s.
The labor intensive parts of animation will always go to the lowest bidder. Japan's strength is in its creative talent, which has a potent "farm club" in the Manga industry and even draws on the producers of fan-produced "Doujinshi" for future talent.
One thing that's interesting: more animation is being produced from start to finish in America now than at any time since the '50s. South Park is not farmed out to overseas production houses because it's 100% created in Maya with 2D "cut-outs" created in 3D software. The Williams Street series that are the backbone of Adult Swim are 100% done domestically. And Camp Chaos, the Flash geniuses behind "Napster Bad!" are now doing a Flash animated series for VH1, Ill-ustrated.
As long as the talent pipeline continues to flow, Japan will have no shortage of good series. It makes no big different who's drawing the layouts or "plussing out" the show...it's all about the creativity.
Does this guy have anything to do with OSDN or is he a cyber-squatter?
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Don't get me wrong-- I loved WinAmp back in the day. But making a W2K replacement just for the sake of it will never work financially-- what OEM would preload that? Which IHV would really REALLY risk pissing off MS just to save the few bucks they pay in royalties to MS?
Considering how behind-schedule Microsoft is on Longhorn, I am of the opinion that this is the direction that MS itself is going to go eventually.
Here's the picture as I see it developing: MS decides that the current Win32 version of Longhorn isn't going to work, after all. They take FreeBSD 5.x, (whatever the current rev of it is) kernel and all, and basically build a Microsoft-y GUI and a Win32 compatibility layer for it. Nothing is stopping MS from such a move, not even Apple basically doing the same thing with FreeBSD 4.x for MacOS X. Remember, the BSD license does not prevent code from being appropriated, assimilated, and re-released as a proprietary system.
Verified: yes, T-Mobile is buying Cingular's net.
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Just called T-Mobile, and yes, they really are buying the Cingular network in California.
Here's a quick executive summary for those who don't want to read the thread: Linux 2.6 kernels started to report bogus disk
geometries thus some unadjusted partitioning tools create bad partition
table resulting unbootable Windows.
I don't even need MIDI software and uploading sites with my Ericsson phone. I can enter music directly into my phone with the "My Melodies" feature. You have to have The Fine Manual handy when you do it, because it's very different than using notation software. Anyway, I have the intro of one of my husband's songs as my ringtone. I can be reasonably assured that nobody else has this ringtone, which is great when you are in a crowd. Danke, Ericsson.
Got you beat: W2K on a 466MHz Celery on an i810 board. 256MB RAM. PCI Rage128 32MB video card with the onboard "vampire video" turned off. W2K is very happy on it. I've used it as a local Unreal Tournament (1999) server, and it ran splendidly for that purpose. I also have W2K running on a 400MHz PIIm ThinkPad 600E (dual boot with Knoppix HD-install) with 288MB RAM and it's happy there too.
I've run W2K successfully on a K6-2 300 (as a server!) and even a 233MHz Pentium (I) with 128MB RAM. Of course the latter was kind of slow but if you turn off some of the eye candy it makes things run a bit faster. Ah, the joys of prepping for MCSE tests...building fake Active Directory networks on beater hardware.
Of course, when you get into the Real World (tm) and you see small businesses who really have no real purpose running an AD network getting in trouble because they wanted to go with the "latest and greatest" and you have to mop up the damage, you realize that the fakey AD network you set up in your lab is actually REALITY in some places. Microsoft, what hath you wrought??? (shakes fist)
ObTopic: KDE and Gnome are not the only desktop environments available to you under Linux. There were mentions of IceWM but there's also XFCE which is very lightweight. And then there's minimalist environments like FluxBox, BlackBox and RatPoison. A low-powered system doesn't have to be without a GUI. A 386...well, that might be best suited to commandline. Anything else can handle XFree86 and a lightweight graphical environment.
Your tax money at work. So did they kidnap people and play out their Abu Ghraib deviant-sex-totrure games too?
Yeah, that's the new version of "America's Army" that they are going to have Rockstar Games design for them. Grand Theft Auto: Baghdad. Rape a female prisoner, get extra health.:P
ACID-like program needed for Linux.
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What is needed is an ACID workalike for Linux. Yeah, I know Sonar can also do loop composition but nothing is quite like ACID. And neither one runs under Linux. Yeah, the program's now owned by Evil Sony. Bleah. Fat chance they'll port it.:P
I am an ex-journalism major. And as soon as my head stops hurting, I'll make a comment about the article and how it mangles the English language beyond recognition.
My head is still hurting.
Yep, still hurting.
Anyway, that wouldn't have passed muster in Prof. Leo Garapedian's Journalism 101 class. "Rewrite, please!" would have been his answer if given something like that.
Yeah, that mod is great...the only thing that it needs is a talking anus. Shades of the David Cronenburg movie Naked Lunch. Exterminate all rational thought.
Echostar is a partner with Comcast on G-4. DirecTV is owned by Right-wing prick Rupert Murdoch. Comcast is eying Adelphia, which owns my community's cable franchise. Guess I'm sticking with rabbit ears.
Why did they have to do this to Leo??? Leo Laporte is a national treasure. This sucks. If Comcast buys Adelphia I will NEVER re-up for cable. Ever. Dish Network for me, baby...
Michaela Pereira, you were really smart for bailing when you did.
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I was hoping this was going on in the US...it would be fun to attend. If only to jeer and heckle.
Hopefully some British LUGs will be on the case.
It's an interesting read.
KDE and all the trimmings runs just fine on a PII 400MHz 600E ThinkPad with 228MB RAM. No chugging, no paging, no problem. I'm using Knoppix 3.3 knx-hdinstall-ed to the hard drive. KDE 3.1, although 3.2 is trimmer and faster. KDE seems to get slimmer as it evolves, which is more that can be said about Windows.
I run 2K as a dual boot on this same machine and had to kill things like most services, drop shadows and ghost images of items that are being dragged to get it to run fast enough for my tastes.
When I redo this machine (It's going to happen real soon) I will use the Debian Sarge installer to install "real" Debian to this machine. Screw Fedora...Red Hat and its freebie offspring have been bloaty since the 8.x series.
Doesn't the new Debian Sarge installer make efforts like these irrelevant? From everything I've seen it's cute, graphical, holds your hand, and when you're done you have fully configured true Debian. Why mess with this or Linspire/Lindows when a friendly Debian seems to be right around the corner?
AMD has been using RISC-like architecture on their chips since the K-5. Remember the K-5? The K6 lineage expanded on this, as did the Athlon.
I'm not an AMD fangirl or anything but they've been at the "interpret x86 instructions with RISC architecture" game for coming up on a decade. Intel only caught on relatively recently with Banias and Dothan (aka Pentium-M, "Centrino") and are finding out the uncomfortable truth that these chips that operate at a slower clock speed are more efficient and do more per clock cycle than P4s.
And as per Itanium: there's a reason why people call it the Itanic.
I still use a 433MHz and a 466Mhz Mendocino Celeron. Not in one box, of course. But the two machines are still in working order. Hell, I have a ThinkPad 600E 400MHz PIIm that is still kicking ass under both Linux and Windows 2K. Don't count the old machines out.
Depo-provera, a synthetic form of Progestin, is currently used for this purpose, and referred to as "chemical castration." It is also administered as a means of birth control for women. One of its side effects in women is lowered libido.
There is no information about how to set this device up...what you do if you have an existing network and want to use this as part of it. Does it have a web configuration interface or something? Is it DHCP-only? I mean, I like ASUS' motherboards and video cards fine. I'm not an ASUS fangirl but suit yourself. It looks like an interesting device, but I don't know how I'd get it to play nice with my existing network.
Even if you only have one computer to connect to the Internet, the little Broadband Router/Firewall boxes provide protection from nasties, particularly during the "patch after install" process. Linksys, SMC, 3Com, Netgear, hell, even a Microsoft branded one will do.
I know that they aren't perfect, but they work pretty much out of the box and will hold you until you get a real (Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD) firewall box going.
Just don't get a wireless one if you don't need it. Wireless access provides a "backdoor" into your network that is frankly as ugly as the backdoor of the Goatsex guy. If you must do wireless through one of these puppies run MAC authentication and WEP...again, not infallable but since there are so many wide-open 802.11b systems out there if you throw on those two precautions wardrivers/walkers will go elsewhere to l33ch bandwidth.
The only areas that can compete with Japan on the creative side of things are the United States and Europe. "The Triplets of Bellville," aka "Bellville Rendezvous" was a staggering accomplishment out of France, and so is the show known in the US as "Totally Spies."
In the US, "Teen Titans" is totally conceived of and posed out over here then sent to Korea and Taiwan. Yes, they overdo it with Manga cliches sometimes (they are more dependent on the visual vocabulary even than most Japanese shows) but it is by and large an entertaining series, certainly the best action show to come out of the US since the original "Batman: The Animated Series."
The labor-intensive stuff has always been sent overseas...it's been the MO since the '60s. It's been like this not only in the US but also in Japan. Take a look at "Animation Runner Kuromi" sometime. It's not a great OAV, but it has a lot of insight as to the similarities and differences between the Japanese method of animation production and the US method of animation production. Both have one main thing in common: once the layouts (key-frames, poses) are done, the layouts, storyboards and so on are sent to South Korea, Taiwan, the PRC or The Phillipines for inbetweening (plussing) and occasionally still ink and paint and photography.
The Japanese differ from the US in that the first thing that is produced on a US show is the "track" (taped dialogue) and in Japan the "track" is the last thing done along with music and sound effects. This difference I chalk up to the divergent influences on Japanese as opposed to US animation. Tezuka Osamu, the Kami-sama of anime and the person who came up with a lot of the production methods used in Japan today was heavily influenced by the Fleischer Brothers. Character Design theories, the recording of a soundtrack *after* the animation is finished, even the way pegbars are oriented all come from the Fleischer Studio's production methods.
The big influence on US animation was Termite Terrace, the original Warner Bros Animation facility. Familiar methods like the audio soundtrack being laid down first, pegbars at the bottom of the page rather than the top, and the critical importance of the storyboard are all Warner Bros production methods. Disney used a similar system too, but Disney was not as big of an influence outside its buildings than WB was. MGM's animation unit also relied on WB theories. Hanna, Barbera, Freleng, Avery, Clampett...all these people went on to basically invent the US TV animation industry in the 1960s.
The labor intensive parts of animation will always go to the lowest bidder. Japan's strength is in its creative talent, which has a potent "farm club" in the Manga industry and even draws on the producers of fan-produced "Doujinshi" for future talent.
One thing that's interesting: more animation is being produced from start to finish in America now than at any time since the '50s. South Park is not farmed out to overseas production houses because it's 100% created in Maya with 2D "cut-outs" created in 3D software. The Williams Street series that are the backbone of Adult Swim are 100% done domestically. And Camp Chaos, the Flash geniuses behind "Napster Bad!" are now doing a Flash animated series for VH1, Ill-ustrated.
As long as the talent pipeline continues to flow, Japan will have no shortage of good series. It makes no big different who's drawing the layouts or "plussing out" the show...it's all about the creativity.
Intelligent conversations, mostly about political issues. Not much "geek news" but I suppose that's what Slashdot is for.
I feel for Rusty from Kuro5hin...basically he closed his news site for the same reason I closed mine... crapflooder problems.
Does this guy have anything to do with OSDN or is he a cyber-squatter?
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Considering how behind-schedule Microsoft is on Longhorn, I am of the opinion that this is the direction that MS itself is going to go eventually.
Here's the picture as I see it developing: MS decides that the current Win32 version of Longhorn isn't going to work, after all. They take FreeBSD 5.x, (whatever the current rev of it is) kernel and all, and basically build a Microsoft-y GUI and a Win32 compatibility layer for it. Nothing is stopping MS from such a move, not even Apple basically doing the same thing with FreeBSD 4.x for MacOS X. Remember, the BSD license does not prevent code from being appropriated, assimilated, and re-released as a proprietary system.
Just called T-Mobile, and yes, they really are buying the Cingular network in California.
And Cingular just bought the Brooklyn Bridge.
AT&T's GSM network in CA is totally crap. The network that T-Mobile is buying, on the other hand, is really, really good. I've been on both sides.
Cingular is really playing themselves on this deal, if it is true.
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux
Here's a quick executive summary for those who don't want to read the thread:
Linux 2.6 kernels started to report bogus disk geometries thus some unadjusted partitioning tools create bad partition table resulting unbootable Windows.
I don't even need MIDI software and uploading sites with my Ericsson phone. I can enter music directly into my phone with the "My Melodies" feature. You have to have The Fine Manual handy when you do it, because it's very different than using notation software. Anyway, I have the intro of one of my husband's songs as my ringtone. I can be reasonably assured that nobody else has this ringtone, which is great when you are in a crowd. Danke, Ericsson.
Got you beat: W2K on a 466MHz Celery on an i810 board. 256MB RAM. PCI Rage128 32MB video card with the onboard "vampire video" turned off. W2K is very happy on it. I've used it as a local Unreal Tournament (1999) server, and it ran splendidly for that purpose. I also have W2K running on a 400MHz PIIm ThinkPad 600E (dual boot with Knoppix HD-install) with 288MB RAM and it's happy there too.
I've run W2K successfully on a K6-2 300 (as a server!) and even a 233MHz Pentium (I) with 128MB RAM. Of course the latter was kind of slow but if you turn off some of the eye candy it makes things run a bit faster. Ah, the joys of prepping for MCSE tests...building fake Active Directory networks on beater hardware.
Of course, when you get into the Real World (tm) and you see small businesses who really have no real purpose running an AD network getting in trouble because they wanted to go with the "latest and greatest" and you have to mop up the damage, you realize that the fakey AD network you set up in your lab is actually REALITY in some places. Microsoft, what hath you wrought??? (shakes fist)
ObTopic: KDE and Gnome are not the only desktop environments available to you under Linux. There were mentions of IceWM but there's also XFCE which is very lightweight. And then there's minimalist environments like FluxBox, BlackBox and RatPoison. A low-powered system doesn't have to be without a GUI. A 386...well, that might be best suited to commandline. Anything else can handle XFree86 and a lightweight graphical environment.
Yeah, that's the new version of "America's Army" that they are going to have Rockstar Games design for them. Grand Theft Auto: Baghdad. Rape a female prisoner, get extra health. :P
What is needed is an ACID workalike for Linux. Yeah, I know Sonar can also do loop composition but nothing is quite like ACID. And neither one runs under Linux. Yeah, the program's now owned by Evil Sony. Bleah. Fat chance they'll port it. :P
I am an ex-journalism major. And as soon as my head stops hurting, I'll make a comment about the article and how it mangles the English language beyond recognition.
My head is still hurting.
Yep, still hurting.
Anyway, that wouldn't have passed muster in Prof. Leo Garapedian's Journalism 101 class. "Rewrite, please!" would have been his answer if given something like that.
And my head is still hurting...X(
Yeah, that mod is great...the only thing that it needs is a talking anus. Shades of the David Cronenburg movie Naked Lunch. Exterminate all rational thought.
This is a quote from the Dao Deh Jing, Lao-Tzu's classic philosophical treatise.
Echostar is a partner with Comcast on G-4.
DirecTV is owned by Right-wing prick Rupert Murdoch.
Comcast is eying Adelphia, which owns my community's cable franchise.
Guess I'm sticking with rabbit ears.
Why did they have to do this to Leo??? Leo Laporte is a national treasure. This sucks. If Comcast buys Adelphia I will NEVER re-up for cable. Ever. Dish Network for me, baby...
Michaela Pereira, you were really smart for bailing when you did.