Also with ADSL2+ you can trade upload for download, so if you wanted a 2MB upload you'd have a slower download (don't know how much slower - it's not equal, and nobody offers it yet anyway).
The ADSL(2(+)) spec limits 1024 kbps as the upload rate. However, there is some equipment around that can use a nonstandard upload rate of 2 Mbps. My ISP used to advertise that if you have a certain Ericsson modem, you can use the higher upload rate, but the notice seems to be gone.
When it comes to upload capacity, ADSL2+ is no better than plain ADSL. Therefore I don't see much of an improvement there. I think the 8/1 ratio in plain ADSL is dumb enough already.
I first started to use screen because of IRC. It's the de facto standard way of staying on IRC 24/7, as long as you run it on a server-ish machine that is on all the time. Soon I realized screen is useful for lots of other things, and I now wonder how I could ever use unix efficiently without it.
On my main machine I have a screen with pine, emacs and a few other things. I can get to it from work etc. without restarting any of the programs. When you have multiple documents open in emacs, this makes a lot of sense.
On my media box, screen is usually running with a few Bittorrent console clients, emacs and comms.
I only wish there was a screen equivalent for X. I think there was a project called xmove that basically did this, but it seems to be dead.
As for the clothes. Well women wearing mens clothes is seen as normal since mens clothes arn't ment to show anything off. Most female clothes are generally ment to be nicely fitted so they make a woman look good (and women want to look good even more then men want them to look good, watch/read any fashion show/magazine). Because of this people have come to think that men wearing female clothes is a fetish and so many wearing women's clothes is seen as sexual and hence strange/odd.
So, it's OK for women to look sexy, but not men? Is it because male sexuality is regarded as dangerous ('every man is a potential rapist'), or is it because it's still a male-dominated society where women are the objects of desire for men, but not the other way around? Either way there's a huge issue of inequality.
That's an interesting coincidence, because the Finnish Air Force has been recently criticized on its use of swastikas, which of course has nothing to do with the Nazis.
OK, first I got an email from an old friend saying he's switched from Windows to Linux, then it's this article and I'm in the middle of making the soundtrack for a play. While I'm not aspiring to make music for games, I can relate a lot with the friend of the poster.
Reminds me of the one time I dropped acid and/. had a story titled "Periodicity, patterns and chemistry":D
I so agree! But let me begin with this coincidence of an email I got from an old friend today:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 pushed me irretrievably over the edge.
I am running Ubuntu and Debian on my own PCs now.
In a way I did switch from Windows, that is, 3.1. I went to university in 1998 and got my 486/8MB wonder online. While I could do fun things with this machine even in Win3.1, for example running my own web server, I started to read about Linux a lot. I decided my next machine would run Linux as it seemed this one wasn't sufficient for any decent distro. Moreover, I wondered what was so great about Windows 9x that had been around for a couple of years. People were hyping all over it, but all I could see was a Fisher-Price interface and it seemed somehow inherently dumb and evil;)
In 1999 I got a new laptop, installed RH 6, and after a week I had compiled the kernel for the first time. I felt like I'd learned more about computers than I'd ever done in about 10 years with DOS machines. These days I spend more time actually using the computer than learning about internals, but I continue to appreciate the wonderfulness of open source unix and I could never go back to something dumb and limited like Windows.
For example, I use Linux for music production, and one day I was reading about the development of samplers. The article said that in early days you had to spend the price of a house to buy a sampler, but nowadays you can buy software to do much more, for just a few hundred euros. I couldn't help smiling as I thought, geez, you don't buy software, you emerge it:D
THere's this concept called "Bundles" where all shared libraries, language packs, and binaries for multiple architectures are stored in a single folder that appears to be a single application. Let me give you an example of what this allows. THe one time I installed Real Media player on OS X, Safari was running, I dragged it to/Applications and without restarting Safari and without Running Real Media, Safari was immediately aware of the Real plugin, loaded it, and used it. Welcome to no package managment.
IMHO, that is also a kind of package management. A package is a collection of files and configuration settings that make up a program, no matter what form it takes.
I admit the usual Unix filesystem layout is not the best possible, but I don't agree that each application should only reside in its own directory. Reason being, for example, shared libraries. I think using shared libraries makes a lot of sense, but with them comes the need for dependency management, which is what any sensible package management does.
Then again, I haven't worried about package management since I started to use Gentoo:)
My Viewsonic has a pair of speakers built in. I'm not sure if this applies to all models. Besides these speakers are utter crap, but techically they are 'sonic'.
Why not? If the laptop was designed to run $CPU, it should damn well take the heat that comes with running $CPU. I use my laptop for running physics simulations and music production, both of which mean "field work" with relatively high processing power.
In general, I think it's very pessimistic and anti-hack to limit the use of an appliance to only its intended purpose. If I want to use my old 486 laptop as a web server, I might damn well do so, because I can, even though it was not sold as a server. Labeling computers for different purposes is mostly just a marketing gimmick.
Honestly, there's no point to more than 2Ghz on a laptop..especially with a P4 or latest AMD chips.
After ten years, they've only made it to version 3.7.
But that means Linux is even worse, since it has only gone up to 2.6.13 in 14 years. However, Gentoo solves this problem by providing version 2005.1 right now, so truly it is the best distro out there.
Actually, strength from polishing is a pretty basic idea in material science. It comes down to the fact that materials break due to initial cracks that grow bigger under stress. If the cracks are initially larger, the material is more fragile.
For example, a glass bottle can be broken by putting a little sand into it and shaking vigorously. It's mainly the scraping action, not the weight of the sand, that causes the glass to break.
IMHO, true musicians are somewhat like programmers in the sense that when they can't do something they want, they'll learn to do it. You learn your guitar chords and solos, even if you 'just want them to work'. There's a nice quote from the article that reflects this idea:
On proprietary platforms, eventually you'll run into "you can't do
that." On open platforms, you'll run into "you have to learn more to
do that."
Needless to say, I do all of my audio work in Linux.
Interpolation means looking between your data points, and extrapolation means looking outside the data set. Interpolation is generally much more reliable and trivial than extrapolation. In particular, when you're dealing with a time series of data, it's easy to spot a trend in past events (e.g. Moore's "law"), but harder to predict whether that trend continues.
You're using Windows? Please hand in your geek card on your way out;)
Seriously though, I use FAT on Linux for compatibility with my Canon G1 and Korg Triton Le. I don't use anything Microsoft, but these devices happen to use FAT on flash cards for whatever reason.
You're forgetting the whole idea of Bittorrent. The Internet is full of bottlenecks, so the fat pipe at the distributor doesn't guarantee anything about your overall download rate. BT helps because you can leverage the upload capacity of other clients closer to you.
It's a better technology overall, and I'd pay for BT downloads for the sheer factor of supporting something better and smarter. Of course, given a choice between BT and a traditional download, BT ought to be a little cheaper because, as you said, you're paying for some of the distribution costs.
I think there's a difference between blogs and other webpages: a blog is basically a web journal, it's updated more or less regularly. For example my personal website has a journal section, but one could well exist without the other. Back when I started the journal, people didn't use the word blog, they just had web diaries etc.
The blogging craze seems to involve sites that consists of nothing but the journal. People are using the blog as their personal website, with little or no static content. I think this is a good thing, because it takes more effort to write real websites, and those sites will hopefully stand out against the noise floor of blogs.
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The ADSL(2(+)) spec limits 1024 kbps as the upload rate. However, there is some equipment around that can use a nonstandard upload rate of 2 Mbps. My ISP used to advertise that if you have a certain Ericsson modem, you can use the higher upload rate, but the notice seems to be gone.
When it comes to upload capacity, ADSL2+ is no better than plain ADSL. Therefore I don't see much of an improvement there. I think the 8/1 ratio in plain ADSL is dumb enough already.
On my main machine I have a screen with pine, emacs and a few other things. I can get to it from work etc. without restarting any of the programs. When you have multiple documents open in emacs, this makes a lot of sense.
On my media box, screen is usually running with a few Bittorrent console clients, emacs and comms.
I only wish there was a screen equivalent for X. I think there was a project called xmove that basically did this, but it seems to be dead.
Well, if it weren't for evolution, we wouldn't have drunk Irishmen living up to 90 years of age.
Since we're discussing science fiction, you should remember that mass != weight :)
So, it's OK for women to look sexy, but not men? Is it because male sexuality is regarded as dangerous ('every man is a potential rapist'), or is it because it's still a male-dominated society where women are the objects of desire for men, but not the other way around? Either way there's a huge issue of inequality.
That's an interesting coincidence, because the Finnish Air Force has been recently criticized on its use of swastikas, which of course has nothing to do with the Nazis.
Reminds me of the one time I dropped acid and /. had a story titled "Periodicity, patterns and chemistry" :D
In 1999 I got a new laptop, installed RH 6, and after a week I had compiled the kernel for the first time. I felt like I'd learned more about computers than I'd ever done in about 10 years with DOS machines. These days I spend more time actually using the computer than learning about internals, but I continue to appreciate the wonderfulness of open source unix and I could never go back to something dumb and limited like Windows.
For example, I use Linux for music production, and one day I was reading about the development of samplers. The article said that in early days you had to spend the price of a house to buy a sampler, but nowadays you can buy software to do much more, for just a few hundred euros. I couldn't help smiling as I thought, geez, you don't buy software, you emerge it :D
IMHO, that is also a kind of package management. A package is a collection of files and configuration settings that make up a program, no matter what form it takes.
I admit the usual Unix filesystem layout is not the best possible, but I don't agree that each application should only reside in its own directory. Reason being, for example, shared libraries. I think using shared libraries makes a lot of sense, but with them comes the need for dependency management, which is what any sensible package management does.
Then again, I haven't worried about package management since I started to use Gentoo :)
My Viewsonic has a pair of speakers built in. I'm not sure if this applies to all models. Besides these speakers are utter crap, but techically they are 'sonic'.
Why not? If the laptop was designed to run $CPU, it should damn well take the heat that comes with running $CPU. I use my laptop for running physics simulations and music production, both of which mean "field work" with relatively high processing power.
In general, I think it's very pessimistic and anti-hack to limit the use of an appliance to only its intended purpose. If I want to use my old 486 laptop as a web server, I might damn well do so, because I can, even though it was not sold as a server. Labeling computers for different purposes is mostly just a marketing gimmick.
Honestly, there's no point to more than 2Ghz on a laptop..especially with a P4 or latest AMD chips.
And 640 KB ought to be enough for everyone.
Way to go, mods. I didn't know Africa was a single country until I read this ;)
But that means Linux is even worse, since it has only gone up to 2.6.13 in 14 years. However, Gentoo solves this problem by providing version 2005.1 right now, so truly it is the best distro out there.
For example, a glass bottle can be broken by putting a little sand into it and shaking vigorously. It's mainly the scraping action, not the weight of the sand, that causes the glass to break.
Happy birthday, consider yourself lucky! You could have been born on Sep 23 like I did...
Interesting, reminds me of this: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/mar/10/unexpecte d_images2/
Interpolation means looking between your data points, and extrapolation means looking outside the data set. Interpolation is generally much more reliable and trivial than extrapolation. In particular, when you're dealing with a time series of data, it's easy to spot a trend in past events (e.g. Moore's "law"), but harder to predict whether that trend continues.
It's the most obvious conflict of interest: MS sells a buggy product, then sells another product that patches up some of the bugs.
Seriously though, I use FAT on Linux for compatibility with my Canon G1 and Korg Triton Le. I don't use anything Microsoft, but these devices happen to use FAT on flash cards for whatever reason.
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Damn! I knew these new fangled 'trackers' were put into BT just so that **AA could spy on us!
It's a better technology overall, and I'd pay for BT downloads for the sheer factor of supporting something better and smarter. Of course, given a choice between BT and a traditional download, BT ought to be a little cheaper because, as you said, you're paying for some of the distribution costs.
The blogging craze seems to involve sites that consists of nothing but the journal. People are using the blog as their personal website, with little or no static content. I think this is a good thing, because it takes more effort to write real websites, and those sites will hopefully stand out against the noise floor of blogs.