..the 'smart' flash drive technology. The problem was that Windows can only autorun from CDs, so somebody created a flash drive that pretends to have a CD partition. I thought software was supposed to work around hardware limitations, not the other way around... especially with the annoyance of autorun in itself.
If you use P2P instead of centralized server to move the same total amount of data, what's the problem? In fact, it should be beneficial for the ISP if most of the traffic is going within its own network; any decept P2P software should prefer the topologically nearest peers. I thought it's mostly external traffic that the ISPs have to pay for, while their own infrastructure has fixed costs.
A much better PPC for a laptop would be the PWRficient. How does 2 GHz at 7 W per core sound? I wonder if such a laptop ever takes off though, now that Apple has bought the chop company.
even sillier, $5 cable from earphone jack to mic jack, problem solved.
No no no, problem not solved. I already moderated once in this discussion, but this is just too common an error.
The earphone output is somewhat compatible with line levels and impedances, so it should go to the line-in. Of course, some computers only have a mic input. In that case you'll only get one of the two channels, only mildly distorted if you're lucky.
In Linux and Solaris I know how to at least start troubleshooting, and then I can search the 'net for specific keywords (error messages, log entries, etc.).
This is a nice side-effect of a fundamentally text-based OS. It's hard to google for an error that is reported visually.
The goal is massive numbers of simple x86 cores. No complications with op-decode circuitry. No complications with out-of-order execution. Proper x86 massively-parallel brute force and no more. The complicated bit is the expensive compiler and maths libraries they sell you in the SDK.
I agree with the idea of many simple cores, but I wonder why they should be x86. They are not going to run legacy Windows programs, you'll need a new compiler anyway.
Intel has spent well over a decade on anything but pure x86, and they developed RISC cores already in the 1980s. So you'd imagine they had more efficient, and also simpler, designs than x86 by now.
PPro was the first Intel processor that was RISC internally, with translation from x86. Whereas the original Pentium and the P-MMX were pure CISC. This is the main reason I seriously doubt they'd use P54C in Larrabee.
Even within a distribution, there's a completely new version of Linux seemingly every 6 months. That's enough to keep my business far, far away from Linux.
Linux is not a product, it's a process. Releases are snapshots of this process. With most of the proper distributions you can see small, incremental upgrades every day. That way, there are rarely any huge changes that break things, as it's much easier to adapt to small changes. It also means that you don't usually have to install a new release from scratch, in order to use the latest software.
Nevertheless, the end result is that a Linux system now can be quite different from what it was a year ago. If you don't like this, you also have the option to keep using and old release, for example a Long Term Support version of Ubuntu. They are also being continually updated, at least for security-related issues.
So now that Gentoo has a nice graphical installer, can we expect all kinds of n00bs flooding the forums? I thought the idea was to have a distro you can really tinker with, given the majority of other distros taking care of the sleek user-friendly market.
that when you buy them, automagically remove all of the CO2 you contributed to global warming out of the atmosphere and make you carbon neutral.
Nope. The idea of carbon credits, AFAIK, is that there is a limited amount of them. If you pollute less than your allowed amount, you can sell your credits to someone who pollutes excessively.
So you propose some sort of tax on free software to pay to the poor? Or, Microsoft keeps charging for Windows but makes it GPL and gives whatever money they get to the poor?
Many governments already donate for the health and development of foreign nations. It's paid by things like income tax. Better than the Microsoft tax, IMHO.
PS - The Gates foundation may only give 'a fraction' of what it 'robs' (how does one rob by soliciting donations, again?) from the rich to the poor, but it is still donating more than you or I ever will, and therefore, has done more good than you or I will likely do in this context.
I assume the donations don't come from thin air, but rather from the profit generated by Microsoft's illegal business practices. And since I already mentioned governments, individual people are not the fair point of comparison here.
There are whole medical labs dedicated to fighting TB and AIDS in southern Africa that wouldn't exist without the Bill&Melinda foundation. How is that hurting anything?
How about a look at the big picture? Gates & co. are robbing the rich, and giving a fraction of this money to the poor. The alternative could be that we used Free software, and instead of the money going to Microsoft, it could go more directly towards helping the poor.
I'm a teacher and I use TeX almost always to write handouts. Occasionally I get compliments on the nice and professional look:)
Anyway, my usual choice for a "word processor" is Abiword, along with Gnumeric for spreadsheets. They may be a little on the light/simple side of things, but at least they don't try overthink you.
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I've done this for a number of years, but I haven't found the need to swap the buttons. This way it's also convenient for the occasional guest users.
I feel like there's a whole philosophy behind this ingenious idea of mousing with the 'wrong' hand. A lot of things are designed for the right hand, the right sides of devices, while most people have two fully functional hands. I find it really empowering to use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time, and being right-handed the only way for me is to type with the right. For example, web surfing with the arrow/pgup/pgdn keys on the right side, convenient for the right hand.
Incidentally, if you're right-handed, your left hand is more closely connected with the spatially-oriented brain hemisphere. Thus it's the natural hand to use with the mouse. But with this 'designed for right hand' world around you, using your left hand for something precise will feel really awkward at first. It probably helps if you play the guitar or keyboards, for example.
I agree, and I'm right handed. It's pretty empowering to have your more dexterous hand on the keyboard, while having your more spatially oriented hemisphere in control of the mouse.
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Buddhammit!
In related news, ReiserFS is particularly good with small files, for example those on mail servers.
..the 'smart' flash drive technology. The problem was that Windows can only autorun from CDs, so somebody created a flash drive that pretends to have a CD partition. I thought software was supposed to work around hardware limitations, not the other way around... especially with the annoyance of autorun in itself.
Try an IBM Space Saver, it's a full-stroke keyboard without the number pad, that includes a nipple mouse.
If you use P2P instead of centralized server to move the same total amount of data, what's the problem? In fact, it should be beneficial for the ISP if most of the traffic is going within its own network; any decept P2P software should prefer the topologically nearest peers. I thought it's mostly external traffic that the ISPs have to pay for, while their own infrastructure has fixed costs.
A much better PPC for a laptop would be the PWRficient. How does 2 GHz at 7 W per core sound? I wonder if such a laptop ever takes off though, now that Apple has bought the chop company.
This is an interesting approach to security, use machines so old that no one can crack. Maybe that's why the Russians still use vacuum tubes in MiGs.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every cracking problem looks like a vacuum tube.
So do they use DC in these cables to avoid impedance issues? I would expect so for a number of reasons, but the article didn't mention it.
even sillier, $5 cable from earphone jack to mic jack, problem solved.
No no no, problem not solved. I already moderated once in this discussion, but this is just too common an error.
The earphone output is somewhat compatible with line levels and impedances, so it should go to the line-in. Of course, some computers only have a mic input. In that case you'll only get one of the two channels, only mildly distorted if you're lucky.
In Linux and Solaris I know how to at least start troubleshooting, and then I can search the 'net for specific keywords (error messages, log entries, etc.).
This is a nice side-effect of a fundamentally text-based OS. It's hard to google for an error that is reported visually.
Keep that baby dusted
I believe I'll dust my broom.
(Note to mods: this is probably a little obscure, but I'm sure it applies to many a lonely /.er with the #0000FFs.)
The goal is massive numbers of simple x86 cores. No complications with op-decode circuitry. No complications with out-of-order execution. Proper x86 massively-parallel brute force and no more. The complicated bit is the expensive compiler and maths libraries they sell you in the SDK.
I agree with the idea of many simple cores, but I wonder why they should be x86. They are not going to run legacy Windows programs, you'll need a new compiler anyway.
Intel has spent well over a decade on anything but pure x86, and they developed RISC cores already in the 1980s. So you'd imagine they had more efficient, and also simpler, designs than x86 by now.
PPro was the first Intel processor that was RISC internally, with translation from x86. Whereas the original Pentium and the P-MMX were pure CISC. This is the main reason I seriously doubt they'd use P54C in Larrabee.
Even within a distribution, there's a completely new version of Linux seemingly every 6 months. That's enough to keep my business far, far away from Linux.
Linux is not a product, it's a process. Releases are snapshots of this process. With most of the proper distributions you can see small, incremental upgrades every day. That way, there are rarely any huge changes that break things, as it's much easier to adapt to small changes. It also means that you don't usually have to install a new release from scratch, in order to use the latest software.
Nevertheless, the end result is that a Linux system now can be quite different from what it was a year ago. If you don't like this, you also have the option to keep using and old release, for example a Long Term Support version of Ubuntu. They are also being continually updated, at least for security-related issues.
It implies that all other torrent sites are illegal.
Hey, maybe I should start using it to publish some Intelligent Dance Music...
So now that Gentoo has a nice graphical installer, can we expect all kinds of n00bs flooding the forums? I thought the idea was to have a distro you can really tinker with, given the majority of other distros taking care of the sleek user-friendly market.
that when you buy them, automagically remove all of the CO2 you contributed to global warming out of the atmosphere and make you carbon neutral.
Nope. The idea of carbon credits, AFAIK, is that there is a limited amount of them. If you pollute less than your allowed amount, you can sell your credits to someone who pollutes excessively.
Agreed, Finland is a great country for file-sharing.
Yeah, if you forget about Lex Karpela, the local implementation of Euro-DMCA. And the Finreactor case.
So you propose some sort of tax on free software to pay to the poor? Or, Microsoft keeps charging for Windows but makes it GPL and gives whatever money they get to the poor?
Many governments already donate for the health and development of foreign nations. It's paid by things like income tax. Better than the Microsoft tax, IMHO.
PS - The Gates foundation may only give 'a fraction' of what it 'robs' (how does one rob by soliciting donations, again?) from the rich to the poor, but it is still donating more than you or I ever will, and therefore, has done more good than you or I will likely do in this context.
I assume the donations don't come from thin air, but rather from the profit generated by Microsoft's illegal business practices. And since I already mentioned governments, individual people are not the fair point of comparison here.
There are whole medical labs dedicated to fighting TB and AIDS in southern Africa that wouldn't exist without the Bill&Melinda foundation. How is that hurting anything?
How about a look at the big picture? Gates & co. are robbing the rich, and giving a fraction of this money to the poor. The alternative could be that we used Free software, and instead of the money going to Microsoft, it could go more directly towards helping the poor.
I'm a teacher and I use TeX almost always to write handouts. Occasionally I get compliments on the nice and professional look :)
Anyway, my usual choice for a "word processor" is Abiword, along with Gnumeric for spreadsheets. They may be a little on the light/simple side of things, but at least they don't try overthink you.
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I've done this for a number of years, but I haven't found the need to swap the buttons. This way it's also convenient for the occasional guest users.
I feel like there's a whole philosophy behind this ingenious idea of mousing with the 'wrong' hand. A lot of things are designed for the right hand, the right sides of devices, while most people have two fully functional hands. I find it really empowering to use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time, and being right-handed the only way for me is to type with the right. For example, web surfing with the arrow/pgup/pgdn keys on the right side, convenient for the right hand.
Incidentally, if you're right-handed, your left hand is more closely connected with the spatially-oriented brain hemisphere. Thus it's the natural hand to use with the mouse. But with this 'designed for right hand' world around you, using your left hand for something precise will feel really awkward at first. It probably helps if you play the guitar or keyboards, for example.
I agree, and I'm right handed. It's pretty empowering to have your more dexterous hand on the keyboard, while having your more spatially oriented hemisphere in control of the mouse.