Re:I have been using KDE w/ Mandrake 7.2 ....
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Same here, and now I'm using Konqueror as my primary web browser. Why? I originally started using Linux because it crashes less than Windows. Konqueror still crashes sometimes, about as much as IE 5 or Netscape 4.x do. But, when Konqueror dies it only kills that individual window, not all windows, mail, etc, like Netscape, and it can't take the whole OS down, like IE can. I haven't really looked at the code but it seems to be running an independent process for each window, which would be bad except I have a lot of ram (176 MB) and it's worth it to not have to restart everything on my computer just because of some bad Javascript.
Yeah, you seemed to get the gist of the comment better than the AC did. Of course, the other part about it being a dropoff and not a hole might be valid criticism, I just think this situation is better described as thinning of the ozone layer, but maybe that doesn't grab headlines as well. Rush has a lot of beliefs that I find ridiculous, but that doesn't mean a lot of people don't still agree with him.
Maybe this problem is already fixing itself, but if not now we can concentrate on the volcanoes and not add to the problem ourselves.
I thought it was thinning of the layer, not an actual hole. But this will give more ammo to people like Rush Limbaugh who think that humans can't actually damage significant portions of the ozone layer anyway and that it's all volcanoes' fault. Of course he also thinks the rainforest isn't worth protecting either. I wish he would visit LA sometime.
How could 2.4 support up to 64GB RAM on IA32?
I was under the impression that all IA32 platforms since the 386 supported a maximum of 4GB RAM due to the limits of the IA32 chips themselves. I don't see how this is possible but it could possibly extend the lifespan of the IA32 a few more years.
This is usually referred to as
Tecumseh's curse. It actually started with Harrison who was President 20 years before Lincoln, and was created by Tecumseh, after his defeat in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Mod the parent up. This appears to be a design decision made by Phoenix, so blame them, not IBM. With all of the different partition types (when I installed Mandrake 7.2 there were several hundred listed) any choice Phoenix made would have probably broken some OS. The BIOS in my Compaq Presario seems to have some problems detecting new PCI hardware, but this is because it was designed for Win95c. Compaq still supports Linux, open source, and other Unixes on other hardware but they built the Presario series for Windows software only, so if you want an IBM laptop that supports BSD, buy a model that IBM designed to work with other operating systems besides Windows.
I've read some of his books, and he seems to consider himself a libertarian Republican, so he ignores most serious pondering of the party line and can talk more about other countries. Of course, it seems like the Republican party platform does provide amusement to other countries, sort of like how we can make fun of other countries' leaders like Stockwell Day.
It's alredy been stated by many other posters in more words that Dave Barry is a satirist and not a mindless consumer. But this isn't the first time he's spoken out on rampant consumerism, even rampant consumerism based on a religious observance. Check out Barry's take on Halloween
Knowing Microsoft, Windows probably now has added all of the security flaws of Linux 2.0 to WinMe once they figure out how to port the code.
Win2k seems suspiciously stable:) So be sure to ask
George Guninski if he knows any bugs in Konqueror that might have gotten ported over to IE(Konqueror's never crashed on me yet...)
Maybe the k1dd31s can try out their 31337 Linux haxoring scripts on Windows now.
How can going to Harvard be negative? AFAIK Bush, Gore and Nader are Harvard graduates, but
that doesn't mean they all had the same advantages or intelligence.
I don't know where Buchanan and Browne went to school but it looks like Americans want someone
who went to Harvard to be President.
It's true almost everything except the brain has been transplanted, but it's usually rejected fairly rapidly. The article notes that it'll be about a year before the kid has to stop taking meds, a window in which opportunistic infections could occur. I'd rather see designer nerves created that wouldn't hold any foreign antigens, but nerve engineering hasn't really been worked on enough yet. Still, it's encouraging to see that some progress has been made.
AFAIK from Japanese class, there's about 1000 kanji required to be literate in Japanese, but of course, there are more. Since Japanese have two other alphabets (hiragana and katakana) and Chinese doesn't seem to have any alternate representation other than pinyin, it seems that China is much more dependent on using these characters than Japan is. I think some of the pictographs are also used in Korean. But it seems stupid to use the same unicodes since this would make a translator like babelfish get messed up using characters from the wrong language, and could cause a fight between companies with the same names in kanji but different trademarks in english letters.
Some people seem to be complaining that this story was posted 2 or 3 times before. This is an update, it's news because it's finally ready (1.0) There's now XMMS, WinAMP, and Sonique plugins and the compression is better than mp3 at the 128 Kbps range that seems like the standard (although some PC sites say Microsoft's new codec sounds better at 64Kbps, but I'm skeptical-I don't get income from MS banners). I think I'll actually get the plugin now, but this will be much more useful if there's conversion both from.mp3 to.ogg and vice versa.
I know listening to the fan at night helps me sleep better, but some of my friends turn the fan off because it annoys them. Of course, they have to turn their boxes off at night anyway because of those huge Win98 memory leaks.
Has anyone installed Mandrake by using a boot disk image yet? All of the floppy disk images seem to be 1440k and all of the disks i have only store 1423k. It would be nice if this is fixed so that I can use the improved install program, it looks like they've made a lot of improvements here.
I'm running Mandrake 7 on a Compaq Presario as I type this. This sounds like a good idea, this box in its original Win95 state was easy to use and helped me learn about Linux, even though now it's Linux only. If Compaq made laptops or web appliances with Mandrake's help they could compete with AOL/Gateway and help new users learn about computers w/o having to pay the Microsoft tax. I still wish Compaq shipped real windows cd's with this thing instead of the stupid quick restore disk, but that's not a problem anymore.
We're getting close to being able to build prosthetic eyes, but they don't utilize replicating nanobots. I wrote a research paper on this last year and it seemed like these technologies weren't ready to be implemented in humans yet, but recently the local San Diego Tribune had an article on retinal implants. It seems like a lot of researchers think that an external camera wired to the brain would be better, maybe because they think it would reduce encapsulation or require less surgery, but I think that having a modular device that only replaced the retina and did not have external parts would be more durable. Both designs are still in development of course.
Actually, there are several types of neurons, some of which release chemical neurotransmitters and some of which use electrical signals to communicate with each other. The electrical signals are translated much faster, so they are better for reflex actions. Chemical synapses are much slower, as well as having a longer refractory period, but they are also more plastic, so they are better for such uses as long term memory.
Right now I'm trying to research ways of transmitting messages between neurons and implantable electronic devices, maybe someone's got the links here?
Re:sigh, this is nothing new...
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Yeah, I have a Presario, but Compaq's stupid QuickRestore CD ended up hurting Microsoft. When I installed Linux, I didn't have an original Windows 95 cd, so I couldn't reinstall Windows on another partition. So I ended up using all 8 Gigs for Linux, it was hard to use at first (Red Hat 6) but now that I've switched to Mandrake 7, I get much more use out of my computer than when I used to be a warez kiddie. Maybe I'll dual boot when Atheos gets more improved.
Sounds interesting, and if Plan 9 is focusing on systems design, maybe this will be more efficient even on old boxes than Linux is now. But are there any apps out for this yet? It would be nice to compare something running on this to Linux or Windows, just to see if there are any advantages in the underlying design. I switched from Windows to Linux because of increased stability and speed, so maybe I'll have to try this out if it's better in those departments. I only know a little C and Fortran right now though, so I won't be able to use this much unless it at least has decent compilers.
yeah, but the next line says the page was generated by mozilla 4.61 on Windows 98. So I don't think they're ready to give up Microsoft products just yet.
Anyone remember Ignition, and when the Offspring didn't get radio air time and were on Epitaph? I knew a lot of people that thought the Offspring sold out with Smash, and some of their early songs seemed like ripoffs of TSOL. It looks like the Offspring haven't lost their sense of irony after all, they're just spreading it to a larger audience. Maybe I'll have to start buying their albums again.
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Same here, and now I'm using Konqueror as my primary web browser. Why? I originally started using Linux because it crashes less than Windows. Konqueror still crashes sometimes, about as much as IE 5 or Netscape 4.x do. But, when Konqueror dies it only kills that individual window, not all windows, mail, etc, like Netscape, and it can't take the whole OS down, like IE can. I haven't really looked at the code but it seems to be running an independent process for each window, which would be bad except I have a lot of ram (176 MB) and it's worth it to not have to restart everything on my computer just because of some bad Javascript.
Yeah, you seemed to get the gist of the comment better than the AC did. Of course, the other part about it being a dropoff and not a hole might be valid criticism, I just think this situation is better described as thinning of the ozone layer, but maybe that doesn't grab headlines as well. Rush has a lot of beliefs that I find ridiculous, but that doesn't mean a lot of people don't still agree with him. Maybe this problem is already fixing itself, but if not now we can concentrate on the volcanoes and not add to the problem ourselves.
Netscape on Linux seems to have problems displaying this link for some users, but Konqueror seems to display it fine (hope you have it.)
I thought it was thinning of the layer, not an actual hole. But this will give more ammo to people like Rush Limbaugh who think that humans can't actually damage significant portions of the ozone layer anyway and that it's all volcanoes' fault. Of course he also thinks the rainforest isn't worth protecting either. I wish he would visit LA sometime.
How could 2.4 support up to 64GB RAM on IA32? I was under the impression that all IA32 platforms since the 386 supported a maximum of 4GB RAM due to the limits of the IA32 chips themselves. I don't see how this is possible but it could possibly extend the lifespan of the IA32 a few more years.
This is usually referred to as Tecumseh's curse. It actually started with Harrison who was President 20 years before Lincoln, and was created by Tecumseh, after his defeat in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Mod the parent up. This appears to be a design decision made by Phoenix, so blame them, not IBM. With all of the different partition types (when I installed Mandrake 7.2 there were several hundred listed) any choice Phoenix made would have probably broken some OS. The BIOS in my Compaq Presario seems to have some problems detecting new PCI hardware, but this is because it was designed for Win95c. Compaq still supports Linux, open source, and other Unixes on other hardware but they built the Presario series for Windows software only, so if you want an IBM laptop that supports BSD, buy a model that IBM designed to work with other operating systems besides Windows.
I've read some of his books, and he seems to consider himself a libertarian Republican, so he ignores most serious pondering of the party line and can talk more about other countries. Of course, it seems like the Republican party platform does provide amusement to other countries, sort of like how we can make fun of other countries' leaders like Stockwell Day.
It's alredy been stated by many other posters in more words that Dave Barry is a satirist and not a mindless consumer. But this isn't the first time he's spoken out on rampant consumerism, even rampant consumerism based on a religious observance. Check out Barry's take on Halloween
Knowing Microsoft, Windows probably now has added all of the security flaws of Linux 2.0 to WinMe once they figure out how to port the code. Win2k seems suspiciously stable :) So be sure to ask
George Guninski if he knows any bugs in Konqueror that might have gotten ported over to IE(Konqueror's never crashed on me yet...)
Maybe the k1dd31s can try out their 31337 Linux haxoring scripts on Windows now.
How can going to Harvard be negative? AFAIK Bush, Gore and Nader are Harvard graduates, but
that doesn't mean they all had the same advantages or intelligence.
I don't know where Buchanan and Browne went to school but it looks like Americans want someone
who went to Harvard to be President.
It's true almost everything except the brain has been transplanted, but it's usually rejected fairly rapidly. The article notes that it'll be about a year before the kid has to stop taking meds, a window in which opportunistic infections could occur. I'd rather see designer nerves created that wouldn't hold any foreign antigens, but nerve engineering hasn't really been worked on enough yet. Still, it's encouraging to see that some progress has been made.
AFAIK from Japanese class, there's about 1000 kanji required to be literate in Japanese, but of course, there are more. Since Japanese have two other alphabets (hiragana and katakana) and Chinese doesn't seem to have any alternate representation other than pinyin, it seems that China is much more dependent on using these characters than Japan is. I think some of the pictographs are also used in Korean. But it seems stupid to use the same unicodes since this would make a translator like babelfish get messed up using characters from the wrong language, and could cause a fight between companies with the same names in kanji but different trademarks in english letters.
Some people seem to be complaining that this story was posted 2 or 3 times before. This is an update, it's news because it's finally ready (1.0) There's now XMMS, WinAMP, and Sonique plugins and the compression is better than mp3 at the 128 Kbps range that seems like the standard (although some PC sites say Microsoft's new codec sounds better at 64Kbps, but I'm skeptical-I don't get income from MS banners). I think I'll actually get the plugin now, but this will be much more useful if there's conversion both from .mp3 to .ogg and vice versa.
I know listening to the fan at night helps me sleep better, but some of my friends turn the fan off because it annoys them. Of course, they have to turn their boxes off at night anyway because of those huge Win98 memory leaks.
Has anyone installed Mandrake by using a boot disk image yet? All of the floppy disk images seem to be 1440k and all of the disks i have only store 1423k. It would be nice if this is fixed so that I can use the improved install program, it looks like they've made a lot of improvements here.
it's nice to see transparency and multiple language support at the same time. keep up the good work.
beach in summer
school soon over
no more cable
end snow crash
slashdotted servers
given respite
I'm running Mandrake 7 on a Compaq Presario as I type this. This sounds like a good idea, this box in its original Win95 state was easy to use and helped me learn about Linux, even though now it's Linux only. If Compaq made laptops or web appliances with Mandrake's help they could compete with AOL/Gateway and help new users learn about computers w/o having to pay the Microsoft tax. I still wish Compaq shipped real windows cd's with this thing instead of the stupid quick restore disk, but that's not a problem anymore.
We're getting close to being able to build prosthetic eyes, but they don't utilize replicating nanobots. I wrote a research paper on this last year and it seemed like these technologies weren't ready to be implemented in humans yet, but recently the local San Diego Tribune had an article on retinal implants. It seems like a lot of researchers think that an external camera wired to the brain would be better, maybe because they think it would reduce encapsulation or require less surgery, but I think that having a modular device that only replaced the retina and did not have external parts would be more durable. Both designs are still in development of course.
Actually, there are several types of neurons, some of which release chemical neurotransmitters and some of which use electrical signals to communicate with each other. The electrical signals are translated much faster, so they are better for reflex actions. Chemical synapses are much slower, as well as having a longer refractory period, but they are also more plastic, so they are better for such uses as long term memory.
Right now I'm trying to research ways of transmitting messages between neurons and implantable electronic devices, maybe someone's got the links here?
Yeah, I have a Presario, but Compaq's stupid QuickRestore CD ended up hurting Microsoft.
When I installed Linux, I didn't have an original Windows 95 cd, so I couldn't reinstall Windows on another partition. So I ended up using all 8 Gigs for Linux, it was hard to use at first (Red Hat 6) but now that I've switched to Mandrake 7, I get much more use out of my computer than when I used to be a warez kiddie. Maybe I'll dual boot when Atheos gets more improved.
Sounds interesting, and if Plan 9 is focusing on systems design, maybe this will be more efficient even on old boxes than Linux is now. But are there any apps out for this yet? It would be nice to compare something running on this to Linux or Windows, just to see if there are any advantages in the underlying design. I switched from Windows to Linux because of increased stability and speed, so maybe I'll have to try this out if it's better in those departments. I only know a little C and Fortran right now though, so I won't be able to use this much unless it at least has decent compilers.
yeah, but the next line says the page was generated by mozilla 4.61 on Windows 98. So I don't think they're ready to give up Microsoft products just yet.
Anyone remember Ignition, and when the Offspring didn't get radio air time and were on Epitaph? I knew a lot of people that thought the Offspring sold out with Smash, and some of their early songs seemed like ripoffs of TSOL. It looks like the Offspring haven't lost their sense of irony after all, they're just spreading it to a larger audience.
Maybe I'll have to start buying their albums again.