While there could be a good article written that intelligently discusses some of the things Windows does right and shortcomings of Linux, this ain't it.
Indeed. This comment in the article just irked me:
XP is such a joy when it comes to simply connecting a device and watching the pretty little bubble detecting it and saying "its installed and ready for use" makes the slightly high price absolutely worth it. In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem! Give me a break guys, Linux is light years behind Windows XP and I am sure it will be further back biting the dust when Longhorn (now Vista) comes out.
Modules (aka loadable drivers) have been supported since what, kernel 2.0? A couple of days ago I replaced my freaking motherboard. I simply booted the machine and YaST went ahead and installed the correct drivers for everything. I didn't even need to reboot.
I think the key in the OS/applications world is to use the right tool for the job, which often involves using what we're comfortable with. While I might not want to install Linux on my parents' machine because some of their software would stop working, I've been using Linux for 2.5 years and it does what I need it to do. I'm very happy with it. I also know many people who are happy with their Windows machine or their Mac because it does what they need it to do.
Interestingly enough, I was subscribed to a children's magazine back then, Contact, that had a BASIC game each issue, filling up one page with code. I went through the magazine each month, typing the code onto the IBM, eventually modifying it, and finally, writing BASIC programs on my own.
Anyone else remember the 1980's Compute! magazine? They had many pages of type-in GW-BASIC code for PC machines, along with code for other computers. My interest in computers and programming developed from examining their code and slowly figuring out how things worked. This eventually branched into writing my own programs (mostly simple games).
The other thing that really got me interested in computers and, more particularly, in the electronics that make them work was the Radio Shack 50-in-1 electronics kit. I remember spending many, many hours of tinkering with my own designs and occasionally letting the magic smoke out of several components. This probably prepared me the most for the EE labs that came later on:-).
192 kilo-Hertz? that's more longwave radio than audio. Hell, it's like 5 times the frequency of ultrasounds.
Yeah, that is pretty high, but it will allow for a flatter frequency response in the human hearing range than what is possible with 44.1kHz or 96kHz. The reason is that the sampling process has a frequency response of a sync function: sin(x) / x. At a sampling rate of 44.1kHz, the amplitude response of the sample at the high end of the human hearing range will be a fair bit lower than at the low end of the human hearing range. This results in less amplitude (volume) range for the higher frequencies - meaning that the sound won't be quite as close to the original.
When you sample at a higher frequency, the sync function is, in effect, stretched out so that the frequencies at the high end of the human hearing range have a much better amplitude response. Translation: the sound output should, theoretically, be closer to the original at higher frequencies.
Other people have also mentioned the benefits of reduced harmonics and such. As for how much of an actual difference to the perceived sound quality this will make, I have no idea. My speakers aren't all that great, anyway.:-)
Someone correct me if I've got it backwards, but I believe inductive loads cause current to lag voltage, and capacitive loads cause current to lead voltage. Mathematically we treat these as imaginary (sqrt(-1)) impedences. If you can get the inductive and capacitive parts to cancel out (kinda like adding complex conjugates) you're left with only real impedences (i.e. resistive-only loads), which are much nicer.
Yup! In our power class we were told to think of a fictitious guy named "Eli the ice man". That is "E" (voltage) before "i" (current) for "L" (inductors), and "i" (current) before "e" (voltage) for "c" (capacitors).:-)
As someone else has already pointed out, the electrical grid cannot operate in the same way as an information network because failures can lead to catastrophic loss of huge and expensive pieces of equipment (in addition to endangering lives). Having said that, there must have been some failures of some of the isolating circuit breakers. I'll be very interested (like many others) to see the full technical breakdown of exactly what happened, once they are able to hammer out the chain of events.
I'd like to address one point that you made:
In this case, "erronious" would be things like reverse flows into a power station. That's not just "extreme", that simply shouldn't be possible.
"Reverse flows" are actually a very important part of the electrical system. Most loads are predominantly resistive but also have a large inductive component. That is, there will be additional impedance caused by the inductive properties of things like most electrical motors, leading to greater energy usage.
Since capacitors cause the opposite reactance as inductors, it is actually possible to cancel out some of the inductive load. Several different types of power generators (often in water-based hydroelectric systems or in gas turbines) have the capability to run in "synchronous condense" mode, where they effectively act like huge capacitors on the system. To do that, they need to draw in electricity from the rest of the grid. Because of the cancelling effect, this makes the overall system more efficient.
I agree that this digitization of the Gutenberg Bible is an interesting development for its historical significance and I'm glad that it's been done. However, I feel that I should address a few of the other things that you've mentioned. (Yes, I am a theology student.)
Then the Catholic church came and decided to take the scriptures away from the people and to try to hide the ceremonies and teachings forcing people to just trust the words of the priests.
Sorry, I don't want to get into a theological debate on this forum, but I respectfully disagree with this; after all, people within the Catholic Church helped establish the modern university and did a great deal to try to educate people.[1] The major problems of getting Scripture to the masses involved widespread illiteracy and the fact that, until the invention of the printing press, Bibles couldn't be easily copied and distributed. It wasn't some sort of high ranking conspiracy that kept Bibles away from the possession of the common people but rather, the issues were essentially of a practical nature.
The history of the Church is very detailed and interesting. Getting into it from a more properly academic perspective would take a bit of time and it's waaaay past my bedtime already:-), but if you are interested in other views on these specific issues, I invite you to check out www.catholic.com or books such as Frank Sheed's Theology for Beginners.
And even today they try to hide the actions of their priests.
That's an overgeneralization that does not apply in the vast majority of cases, but it does underly a very real and valid concern that people have. I'll quote one of Pope John Paul II's addresses at the World Youth Day in Toronto last year. I think he did a pretty good job of summing up the feelings of those of us within the Catholic Church regarding the tragedies that have come to light recently. (Of course, I'm mindful that mere words cannot erase the immense harm that's been done):
"The harm done by some priests and religious to the young and vulnerable
fills us all with a deep sense of sadness and shame. But think of the vast majority of dedicated and generous priests and religious whose only wish is to serve and do good!" (full text)
[1] Particularly, I have in mind the establishment of cathedral schools which helped address the problem of a mostly illiterate population. See Margaret Deansley: A History of the Medieval Church.
If you are using Redhat and love KDE, I would highly suggest checking out the KDE-Redhat project on SourceForge. Rex and his group have done an excellent job of building & optimizing the KDE packages for Redhat versions and, if you are using apt-rpm, it's fairly easy to keep up-to-date with their builds.
Ahh, It's all coming clear... Microsoft is using A.L.I.C.E. now!
Microsoft1: All things you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: But all things are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Umm. But all things are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Interesting. But all things are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Interesting. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Huh. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Huh. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Umm. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: And. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Well, here in Saskatchewan, most of our big stations seem to be owned by one company. While their talk radio station is, IMO, excellent and have much local content, the music stations play the same stuff a lot and I've stopped listening to them.
There are some bright spots here though. Back in my home town a local ham radio operator set up his own FM station (with full CRTC approval) and apparently he plays a very good variety of music. And in the city I'm living in there is a group setting up an independent, non-profit Christian music station (which is the kind of music I'm into). While the power levels might not be the 100KW that the big stations use, a good antenna high enough off of the ground can do wonders.
Due to the sparse population, Saskatchewan seems to have a lot of bandwidth available and because the land is so flat it's usually easy to get a tower higher than everything else. I'm not sure about the situation in larger centres, however.
This removes ALL the old qt/KDE stuff, and then installs the new stuff. The first part works, the second fails with many dependency errors.
...Huh, weird. I had no problems once I downloaded all of the packages (minus devel ones I didn't need) from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Red Hat/i386. Did you make a note of exactly which packages rpm had a problem with? If you are indeed missing packages, you can go to a www.rpmfind.net to find most of the rpms in existence.
I hope you are able to get it installed and working properly - KDE3 is great!! Now to try and get Starcraft working in WINE so I don't need to reboot so often.......;-)
Ahh... Ancient Art of War... fond memories. That was a great game for its time. In it you would command groups of soldiers and could change the battle formation, give special commands during battle, and so forth.
See, as a diabetic (Type I), growing a replacement pancreas from my own DNA won't help me.
I have no idea whatsoever about biology (I is an engineer, after all), but would it be possible to use stem cells from a sibling or parent or other close relative to produce a healthy pancreas instead?
I realize that I will probably be modded down for this, but I must weigh in with my beliefs. You have a right (which I respect fully) to agree with or disagree with what I am about to type.
In the workplace, we have legislation protecting worker safety. This legistlation is aimed at safeguarding the lives of workers and if some workplace practice has an unacceptable potential for causing serious injury, it is stopped and examined. The emphasis is on preventing tradgedies before they occur.
What we have here with cloning and experimentation with fetuses is the potential to cause grave harm or death to what may very well be a human person. Scientifically speaking, all that is happening to a fetus after fertilization is a process of growth. The things separating a "fetus" from a "human" are its size, location, dependence on others, and level of development. These are the same factors separating a baby's growth from that of a 12 year old child, or the child's development from that of an adult. They do not change who the "person" is, in essence. Just as I am the same person, in essence, that I was 24 years ago, so it is for the fetus (person) in question.
Thus, I firmly believe that the calls for a halt, a sober second thought, to research on fetuses are justified. If there is *any* chance that these cloned fetuses are human beings, then there is also the same chance that they are entitled to the same human rights as you and I. Thus, the practice of destroying fetuses on purpose (as in stem cell extraction or abortion), or by accident (as has been a common occurance in cloning research) may be taking the basic human right of life away from a person.
In the spirit of the workplace legislation and as a thinking society, we have a grave duty to thoroughly examine the evidence in an impartial manner before we make a possibly fatal mistake and terminate the existence of what could be human beings.
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I'd recommend installing the KDE RPMs, if you are using distro that supports RPMs. Basically, as root, RPMs can be installed by using
rpm -ivh [filename]
Then download and compile the kdelibs source, using./configure with the --disable-debug option. Read the README file that come with the source for a better description of how to compile.
Among other things, this recompiles the aRts sounds server library, which was terribly slow and made sounds skip a lot (for me) in the RPM version of 2.2.1. Now I can play mp3s without skipping! Konqueror now also seems to run as fast as IE5.5 does on my Windows partition.
Be prepared, though, for the compile - on my 233MMX, it took roughly 6 hours.
Does the word processor have an automated way to build a table of contents?
StarOffice 5.2 does (not sure about Open Office, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did). I agree - it's an indispensable feature for large documents. My group used SO5.2 for our design project reports and it was quite good (the final report included a 4 page, auto-indexed TOC).
Hopefully, if NASA can get the funding, a rotating lab will be present on the ISS so they can do experiments to determine how well spinning the module actually works as artifical gravity.
I'd highly recommend upgrading to the latest version. I tried out Konqueror a while ago, and I agree, the older versions seemed to have a lot of trouble rendering pages properly. The latest version has been very nice... and the ease of diabling window pop-ups **cough*X10*cough** has been great!
I haven't tried the latest Mozilla, but Moz 0.9.2 was quite nice as well; it was just a bit slow for my machine.
...And while you're at it, try KDE 2.2. You'll need to download new kdelibs anyway...:-)
Cheers,
Darryl
Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise. - Cmdr. Riker, Contagion
I agree. A looong while back our external modem on our 486 experienced a lightning strike. It destroyed the modem and everything on the multi-function I/O card except the floppy controller. The motherboard, thankfully, received no damage (I am currently using that motherboard in my firewall machine).
Too bad the article doesn't contain more details. As others have posted, I'm also betting on a static discharge or even some coincidental failure. Two busted MB's out of 13 million Palms doesn't prove much of anything...
CD-quality sound can produce frequencies at 44kHz and the inverse of the length of the sound. Clearly, the data filtered out is not tiny.
CD sound, if the anti-aliasing and playback filters are perfect brick walls (which is impossible) would produce an maximum frequency of 22.05kHz. The Nyquist sampling theorem states that to store a given frequency in a sampled medium, the sampling rate must be at least twice as high or you get aliasing. In practice, though, the sampling rate is increased a bit more to compensate for non-ideal filter rolloffs. This response is helped somewhat by the use of oversampling and neat DSP techniques during playback, but the frequency response generally follows that of a sinc function (sin(x)/x).
Sampling theory is pretty fascinating stuff! HammerSound has a decent explanation of basic audio recording theory, and there are plenty of other sources if you are interested.
What is shorten (.shn)?
Re:It's only ENTERTAINMENT!
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While there could be a good article written that intelligently discusses some of the things Windows does right and shortcomings of Linux, this ain't it.
Indeed. This comment in the article just irked me:
XP is such a joy when it comes to simply connecting a device and watching the pretty little bubble detecting it and saying "its installed and ready for use" makes the slightly high price absolutely worth it. In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem! Give me a break guys, Linux is light years behind Windows XP and I am sure it will be further back biting the dust when Longhorn (now Vista) comes out.
Modules (aka loadable drivers) have been supported since what, kernel 2.0? A couple of days ago I replaced my freaking motherboard. I simply booted the machine and YaST went ahead and installed the correct drivers for everything. I didn't even need to reboot.
I think the key in the OS/applications world is to use the right tool for the job, which often involves using what we're comfortable with. While I might not want to install Linux on my parents' machine because some of their software would stop working, I've been using Linux for 2.5 years and it does what I need it to do. I'm very happy with it. I also know many people who are happy with their Windows machine or their Mac because it does what they need it to do.
"All right, this place must be hot. They don't need a big ad, or even correct spelling."
Ok... so it's not quite a URL...
Interestingly enough, I was subscribed to a children's magazine back then, Contact, that had a BASIC game each issue, filling up one page with code. I went through the magazine each month, typing the code onto the IBM, eventually modifying it, and finally, writing BASIC programs on my own.
:-).
Anyone else remember the 1980's Compute! magazine? They had many pages of type-in GW-BASIC code for PC machines, along with code for other computers. My interest in computers and programming developed from examining their code and slowly figuring out how things worked. This eventually branched into writing my own programs (mostly simple games).
The other thing that really got me interested in computers and, more particularly, in the electronics that make them work was the Radio Shack 50-in-1 electronics kit. I remember spending many, many hours of tinkering with my own designs and occasionally letting the magic smoke out of several components. This probably prepared me the most for the EE labs that came later on
Ahh, yes... good times!
Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!!
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192 kilo-Hertz? that's more longwave radio than audio. Hell, it's like 5 times the frequency of ultrasounds.
:-)
Yeah, that is pretty high, but it will allow for a flatter frequency response in the human hearing range than what is possible with 44.1kHz or 96kHz. The reason is that the sampling process has a frequency response of a sync function: sin(x) / x. At a sampling rate of 44.1kHz, the amplitude response of the sample at the high end of the human hearing range will be a fair bit lower than at the low end of the human hearing range. This results in less amplitude (volume) range for the higher frequencies - meaning that the sound won't be quite as close to the original.
When you sample at a higher frequency, the sync function is, in effect, stretched out so that the frequencies at the high end of the human hearing range have a much better amplitude response. Translation: the sound output should, theoretically, be closer to the original at higher frequencies.
Other people have also mentioned the benefits of reduced harmonics and such. As for how much of an actual difference to the perceived sound quality this will make, I have no idea. My speakers aren't all that great, anyway.
Someone correct me if I've got it backwards, but I believe inductive loads cause current to lag voltage, and capacitive loads cause current to lead voltage. Mathematically we treat these as imaginary (sqrt(-1)) impedences. If you can get the inductive and capacitive parts to cancel out (kinda like adding complex conjugates) you're left with only real impedences (i.e. resistive-only loads), which are much nicer.
:-)
Yup! In our power class we were told to think of a fictitious guy named "Eli the ice man". That is "E" (voltage) before "i" (current) for "L" (inductors), and "i" (current) before "e" (voltage) for "c" (capacitors).
As someone else has already pointed out, the electrical grid cannot operate in the same way as an information network because failures can lead to catastrophic loss of huge and expensive pieces of equipment (in addition to endangering lives). Having said that, there must have been some failures of some of the isolating circuit breakers. I'll be very interested (like many others) to see the full technical breakdown of exactly what happened, once they are able to hammer out the chain of events.
I'd like to address one point that you made:
In this case, "erronious" would be things like reverse flows into a power station. That's not just "extreme", that simply shouldn't be possible.
"Reverse flows" are actually a very important part of the electrical system. Most loads are predominantly resistive but also have a large inductive component. That is, there will be additional impedance caused by the inductive properties of things like most electrical motors, leading to greater energy usage.
Since capacitors cause the opposite reactance as inductors, it is actually possible to cancel out some of the inductive load. Several different types of power generators (often in water-based hydroelectric systems or in gas turbines) have the capability to run in "synchronous condense" mode, where they effectively act like huge capacitors on the system. To do that, they need to draw in electricity from the rest of the grid. Because of the cancelling effect, this makes the overall system more efficient.
Cheers,
Darryl
Then the Catholic church came and decided to take the scriptures away from the people and to try to hide the ceremonies and teachings forcing people to just trust the words of the priests.
Sorry, I don't want to get into a theological debate on this forum, but I respectfully disagree with this; after all, people within the Catholic Church helped establish the modern university and did a great deal to try to educate people.[1] The major problems of getting Scripture to the masses involved widespread illiteracy and the fact that, until the invention of the printing press, Bibles couldn't be easily copied and distributed. It wasn't some sort of high ranking conspiracy that kept Bibles away from the possession of the common people but rather, the issues were essentially of a practical nature.
The history of the Church is very detailed and interesting. Getting into it from a more properly academic perspective would take a bit of time and it's waaaay past my bedtime already
And even today they try to hide the actions of their priests.
That's an overgeneralization that does not apply in the vast majority of cases, but it does underly a very real and valid concern that people have. I'll quote one of Pope John Paul II's addresses at the World Youth Day in Toronto last year. I think he did a pretty good job of summing up the feelings of those of us within the Catholic Church regarding the tragedies that have come to light recently. (Of course, I'm mindful that mere words cannot erase the immense harm that's been done):
[1] Particularly, I have in mind the establishment of cathedral schools which helped address the problem of a mostly illiterate population. See Margaret Deansley: A History of the Medieval Church.
But... but... we already know what happened.
:-)
It was the Ferengi!
If you are using Redhat and love KDE, I would highly suggest checking out the KDE-Redhat project on SourceForge. Rex and his group have done an excellent job of building & optimizing the KDE packages for Redhat versions and, if you are using apt-rpm, it's fairly easy to keep up-to-date with their builds.
Cheers!
Darryl
Ahh, It's all coming clear... Microsoft is using A.L.I.C.E. now!
:-)
Microsoft1: All things you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: But all things are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Umm. But all things are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Interesting. But all things are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Interesting. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Huh. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: Huh. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft2: Umm. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always me need to trust are from Microsoft.
Microsoft1: And. But all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to trust are from Microsoft.
etc.
Well, here in Saskatchewan, most of our big stations seem to be owned by one company. While their talk radio station is, IMO, excellent and have much local content, the music stations play the same stuff a lot and I've stopped listening to them.
There are some bright spots here though. Back in my home town a local ham radio operator set up his own FM station (with full CRTC approval) and apparently he plays a very good variety of music. And in the city I'm living in there is a group setting up an independent, non-profit Christian music station (which is the kind of music I'm into). While the power levels might not be the 100KW that the big stations use, a good antenna high enough off of the ground can do wonders.
Due to the sparse population, Saskatchewan seems to have a lot of bandwidth available and because the land is so flat it's usually easy to get a tower higher than everything else. I'm not sure about the situation in larger centres, however.
This removes ALL the old qt/KDE stuff, and then installs the new stuff. The first part works, the second fails with many dependency errors.
;-)
...Huh, weird. I had no problems once I downloaded all of the packages (minus devel ones I didn't need) from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Red Hat/i386. Did you make a note of exactly which packages rpm had a problem with? If you are indeed missing packages, you can go to a www.rpmfind.net to find most of the rpms in existence.
I hope you are able to get it installed and working properly - KDE3 is great!! Now to try and get Starcraft working in WINE so I don't need to reboot so often.......
Ahh... Ancient Art of War... fond memories. That was a great game for its time. In it you would command groups of soldiers and could change the battle formation, give special commands during battle, and so forth.
:-)
Ran in 4 colour CGA, too!!
I have no idea whatsoever about biology (I is an engineer, after all), but would it be possible to use stem cells from a sibling or parent or other close relative to produce a healthy pancreas instead?
I realize that I will probably be modded down for this, but I must weigh in with my beliefs. You have a right (which I respect fully) to agree with or disagree with what I am about to type.
In the workplace, we have legislation protecting worker safety. This legistlation is aimed at safeguarding the lives of workers and if some workplace practice has an unacceptable potential for causing serious injury, it is stopped and examined. The emphasis is on preventing tradgedies before they occur.
What we have here with cloning and experimentation with fetuses is the potential to cause grave harm or death to what may very well be a human person. Scientifically speaking, all that is happening to a fetus after fertilization is a process of growth. The things separating a "fetus" from a "human" are its size, location, dependence on others, and level of development. These are the same factors separating a baby's growth from that of a 12 year old child, or the child's development from that of an adult. They do not change who the "person" is, in essence. Just as I am the same person, in essence, that I was 24 years ago, so it is for the fetus (person) in question.
Thus, I firmly believe that the calls for a halt, a sober second thought, to research on fetuses are justified. If there is *any* chance that these cloned fetuses are human beings, then there is also the same chance that they are entitled to the same human rights as you and I. Thus, the practice of destroying fetuses on purpose (as in stem cell extraction or abortion), or by accident (as has been a common occurance in cloning research) may be taking the basic human right of life away from a person.
In the spirit of the workplace legislation and as a thinking society, we have a grave duty to thoroughly examine the evidence in an impartial manner before we make a possibly fatal mistake and terminate the existence of what could be human beings.
I'd recommend installing the KDE RPMs, if you are using distro that supports RPMs. Basically, as root, RPMs can be installed by using
./configure with the --disable-debug option. Read the README file that come with the source for a better description of how to compile.
rpm -ivh [filename]
Then download and compile the kdelibs source, using
Among other things, this recompiles the aRts sounds server library, which was terribly slow and made sounds skip a lot (for me) in the RPM version of 2.2.1. Now I can play mp3s without skipping! Konqueror now also seems to run as fast as IE5.5 does on my Windows partition.
Be prepared, though, for the compile - on my 233MMX, it took roughly 6 hours.
Does the word processor have an automated way to build a table of contents?
StarOffice 5.2 does (not sure about Open Office, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did). I agree - it's an indispensable feature for large documents. My group used SO5.2 for our design project reports and it was quite good (the final report included a 4 page, auto-indexed TOC).
Cheers,
Darryl
Hopefully, if NASA can get the funding, a rotating lab will be present on the ISS so they can do experiments to determine how well spinning the module actually works as artifical gravity.
That would be cool!
I'd highly recommend upgrading to the latest version. I tried out Konqueror a while ago, and I agree, the older versions seemed to have a lot of trouble rendering pages properly. The latest version has been very nice... and the ease of diabling window pop-ups **cough*X10*cough** has been great!
:-)
I haven't tried the latest Mozilla, but Moz 0.9.2 was quite nice as well; it was just a bit slow for my machine.
...And while you're at it, try KDE 2.2. You'll need to download new kdelibs anyway...
Cheers,
Darryl
Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise. - Cmdr. Riker, Contagion
I agree. A looong while back our external modem on our 486 experienced a lightning strike. It destroyed the modem and everything on the multi-function I/O card except the floppy controller. The motherboard, thankfully, received no damage (I am currently using that motherboard in my firewall machine).
Too bad the article doesn't contain more details. As others have posted, I'm also betting on a static discharge or even some coincidental failure. Two busted MB's out of 13 million Palms doesn't prove much of anything...
Just my $0.03 (Canadian).
CD-quality sound can produce frequencies at 44kHz and the inverse of the length of the sound. Clearly, the data filtered out is not tiny.
CD sound, if the anti-aliasing and playback filters are perfect brick walls (which is impossible) would produce an maximum frequency of 22.05kHz. The Nyquist sampling theorem states that to store a given frequency in a sampled medium, the sampling rate must be at least twice as high or you get aliasing. In practice, though, the sampling rate is increased a bit more to compensate for non-ideal filter rolloffs. This response is helped somewhat by the use of oversampling and neat DSP techniques during playback, but the frequency response generally follows that of a sinc function (sin(x)/x).
Sampling theory is pretty fascinating stuff! HammerSound has a decent explanation of basic audio recording theory, and there are plenty of other sources if you are interested.
What is shorten (.shn)?
Two words:
:-)
Thank you!
Thank you. I could not have said it better!