Well, thats because Norway gets things unlike the US.
Well, actually, on a general basis, Norway don't. But quite a few things is kind of different to the better.
While I am at it, let me just give you a link to The Current because it is simply amazing.
I'm listening to it right now, and I am truly amazed. Suddenly, they now play a tune by Kings of Convenience (a Röyksopp remix of I don't know what I can save you from). Kings of Convenience and Röyksopp (being somewhat better known) are bands from my home town, Bergen. I had absolutely no idea they anyone outside Norway knew them. Heck, people only barely know the band here. Needless to say, they're great, and by plyaing them, The Current just got a truckload of cred (-: Thanks a bunch! You just made mye morning.
Shameless advertising: Come to Bergen, Norway, and see Kings of Convenience live on stage!
And of course, free-to-air television is valued more than pay-per-view, public education is considered superior to expensive private colleges, free radio is hotter than pay-per-song iTunes and nobody ever thought of charging for web content, like, with a two-tiered Internet or anything.
In fact, in Norway, this is not quite true. The public, state-owned broadcasting in both television and radio is widely regarded as the highest-quality broadcasting there is. They outnumber any private televison and radio channel by far in terms of viewers and listeners. Even though there's only six universities, they are all owned by the state, free (as in beer (although they don't serve free beer)), and are usually regarded as the best eductation there is, even though expensive private colleges exist.
My cable modem isn't a modem at all.
Well, since we're on Slashdot, technically, it is a modem. It takes analogue signals and figures out digital data from them. It modulates and demodulates. Your cable modem just don't happen to be NAT'ing. Think of it as one long ethernet cable to your ISP.
In my experience, most cable (as in television land-based cables) modems behave this way, which I find quite pleasant. Any box on your network can be reached from the outside, without funky NAT-routing. In fact, you can probably just keep asking for IP-addresses, and the modem will happily give you true, Internet-routable IP's. Enjoy.
Now, would some people argue, NAT is great for your average Windows user, who probably don't want or need his machine available from the outside. This is the wrong way of solving problems. Any remotely modern operating system should be able to safely stay on the Internet, given a bit of care (read: patching). Furthermore, your average Windows user will often need Internet-routable IP-addresses - think Bittorrent, any P2P, remote desktop and so on.
What an idiot. He's posted almost word for word exactly what I said! Did you only read the first sentence?!
Indeed, I am, I did, I obviously didn't, respectivly. I was quite sure my mind read that opposite of what the GGP actually said. Sorry; the moderation of my comment is right on place. Not sure how I managed that.
Most existing DSLRs are at least this slow.
Not in my experience. JPEG-compression is done in hardware and is in fact quite snappy. What takes time, is writing to the memory card, not compressing the JPEG's. I wouldn't by any measure consider my Nikon D70 a high-end camera, but it will take ~3 shots a second and write them (in JPEG format) to its buffer for quite a while (about 10 seconds), all things considered. Albeit the D70 has a relativly large buffer, but the bottleneck is my memory card, which is kind of slow.
I wonder if there is something one could set somewhere to check if the cable is plugged, then go for DHCP.
Well, there's ifplugd in Debian, doing just that. It can also detect wireless network APs and configure network interfaces according to that.
I don't let my network interfaces come up upon startup (ie not listed it as auto in/etc/network/interfaces) and let ifplugd set them up automagically. Works like a charm.
You do have a point regarding the Windows security model and, in particular, the NTFS security system. Critics might argue that the model is far more sophisticated than one needs (and thus, among other things, will lead to more potential security holes), but my point is a different one. The trouble with Microsoft-products is usually the high-level security - point in case; user accounts in Windows XP Home run as administrator by default. This, of course, renders almost every low-level security policy designed and implemented in NT unusable.
You could always try this, although it is stated to work with nVidia cards. A better bet would probably be this thread. I'd recommend downloading a test application to find out wether the card is 100% OpenGL-compatible (though it should be). If else, try the generic drivers.
I say complete because as I recall, their XML export in the latest version of office was half-hearted at best, and lost a LOT of formatting. So by "complete" I mean lossless.
Ah. I was under the (optimistic, bright-side-of-life) impression that Microsoft actually made the default format of Office 2003 XML. Which they apprearantly didn't.
But the open source filters for OpenOffice and the like are rather good. They're by no means perfect, but hey - later versions of Word aren't too good at reading older.doc-documents either. I like the idea of a.doc-to-XML-translator, though. The POI project looks promising. I imagine that the OpenOffice.org filters will be of use as well.
It is easy to use COM to instantiate Word from your own code and manipulate documents throught the API, so ".doc format" is fully accessible and reusable from your own code, just as it would be if it was "open source". Which, of course, don't count a bit on any other platform than Windows.
That said, Microsoft claims to offer "open and royalty-free documentation and licenses for the Microsoft Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas." I haven't looked at them myself, but it looks like the real deal. The FAQ states that the "license is not restricted to particular individuals or entities. It is available for customers, governments, academics, hobbyists, and IT companies."
Granted, the download is available as a Windows executable, but I imagine someone will boot up their Windows boxes to look at it.
This is big plus in my book for Microsoft. Still, the specification for good'ol.doc would be good to have, since quite a lot of documents still are saved in older formats.
I am fully aware of that. It's why I would recommend a rather cheap laptop - it has have better battery power for the reasons you mentioned.
The battery is quite heavy indeed. In fact, without the battery, I cannot lift the screen with one hand. The rest of the machine follows..
The only problem with my Inspiron, is with standby-mode. In that-other-OS, standby mode means turning off all bells, whistles, screen, harddrives and fans and barely keep the RAM alive. Works pretty well in fact, and it can keep the laptop alive for days. But even after patching and repatching the kernel (currently 2.4.24) with ACPI patches and DSDT-stuff for Dell's exotic BIOS, it won't actually sleep. I can do echo 1 >/proc/acpi/sleep as root to make the CPU sleep - but the fan won't turn off, the harddrive keeps spinning and the screen lightens happily on.
It's somewhat hackable by turning the screen off first (xset dpms force off). I can probably extended it to turning off harddrives with hdparam, but I haven't dared yet. Is it any healthy to turn the harddrive off without unmounting filesystems?
Anyway, it's a great laptop but requires a fair bit of massage to get Linux alive and well. Hibernation kind of works with the swsusp-patches, but not with X running. The Intel 82845G video adapter isn't the coolest thing around. Oh well. The laptop was cheap and quite fun to play with (-:
My Dell Inspiron gives about 4.5 hours on full backlight, just over 5 on dim backlight. That is for hacking, though. It can play ogg's for about 4 hours with occasional backlightening.
In my experience, the heavier the laptop, the more battery life it has. My Inspiron has a 2.4GHz Celeron, is rather bulky and doesn't sport the best LCD around. But it does its job quite nicely and was cheap.
Have you never been on a longer trip into the mountains? Ten days in the same underwear is quite adequate, in fact. I usually bring two sets of underwear; one for reserve. No kidding. But then again, 70 kilometres away from people, nobody really cares.
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In fact, there was a story (never mind the text, it's in Norwegian - look at the picture) about this in our local newspaper this morning. A local landlord in the middle of the city hired a couple of graffers, as it's called in Norway, to paint the house. Started a rather heated debate here. This is his own property, but the city administration is discussing wether to enforce a repaint. There's a law somewhere that says that a given city's administration has the responsebility to keep the city look somewhat good. An interview with someone ine the city council revealed that some of its members didn't like the view..
So it's not just about property - it's about the general visual representation of the city. Me, I love it. It looks great! More graffiti!
Yeah, surprisingly, we do. And in most major cities, there are polar bears walking around. Not to mention the penguins. Bloody irritating, that's what they are.
The Internet connection is of course by smoke signals over to Sweden. Bit of a latency and rather poor bandwith, perhaps, but it's wireless. "Laundry machines" is what we call the kind of people that works by the frozen riveres, trying desperatly to clean clothes with snow.
Takk, takk, takk! Har ikke hørt den på mange år! Fantastisk (-: Forøvrig burde jo tross alt/.-ere generelt kunnet mer norsk. Insensitive klodder, for å si det slik..
For the norwegian impaired: This is an almost traditional sound clip on the Internet among norwegians. Originally taped in 1989, it is the recording of a father from the northern parts of Norway trying to (rather unsuccessfully) repair a laundry machine. He manages to continually swear for alomst three minutes, without much repeating. Outrageously funny (-:
Challange for norwegians proficient in english: translate this.
Your sig: What on earth is a boxen? Are we serious? We probably aren't serious, but in fact "en" is and ending in norwegian grammar. I'll try to explain it; In english, you'd say "a box". In norwegian, that would be "en boks". ("Boks" is norwegian for "box", obviously.) Furthermore, in english, a specific box is "the box". In norwegian, the article "the" is "en", but placed at the end of the word. So "the box" in norwegian would be "boksen".
Aha! Thus, "a box" rendered in norwegian grammar would be "boxen". Simple as that! (-:
Out of curiosity, what would prevent someone from being able to switch to kernal 2.6?
The driver architecture in Linux kernel 2.6 changed somewhat from 2.4. Drivers will have to be patched or rewritten to work with 2.6. This is being worked on, but lots of unofficial patches to the kernel haven't caught up yet. My laptop, for instance, was unable to get X up at adequate resolutions with 2.6 (albeit this was around christmas - I might give it another shot with this release).
Then there's low-level userspace programs (stuff not running as a part of the kernel itself) that needs some change. Examples are the PCMCIA-suite.
Well, on my Dell Inspiron 1100 I tend to get about four hours of real usage in the field using wireless networking. Perhaps a bit less while playing music. But I can live with between three and four hours of battery time.
But the difference between finding wired networks and finding power outlets is that the latter is much more available and seldom firewalled.
The next step for coffee-shops and the like would probably be power outlets. When you get free power AND free Internet connection, imagine the amounts of coffee one can drink!
Maybe he accidentally pressed 'u' instead of 'i', they are right next to each other. (On Big American Keyboard.) ..though on the smaller american keyboards, the 'u' and 'i' button are far off one another. The medium-sized swedish ones don't even have and 'i' key.
An infinite amount of time, because Linux needs at least a i386 (MMU and all that).
I wouldn't go so far to call it an infinite amount of time, since uClinux, a kernel tree designed to run on systems without a MMU, does in fact run on 286'es. But I wouldn't recommend a kernel compile on you good'ol'8MHz, as it would take (infinite - 1) monkies to figure out the binary sources for kernel 2.8 by the time it gets done.
If you put your computer in "hibernate" it is the same as power-off, which is 3 watts of energy.
Your may very well be right, but what exactly is the 2 or 3 watts used for when the computer is powered off? I can put my (fairly new) Linux-laptop into hibernation (writing all memory pages to disk and turn off), remove its battery and go mountain climbing for a week. It will still power up and recover quite nicely. Of course the battery to keep the clock running is there, but in my experience it uses a great deal less than 2 watts, as it might be powering the clock for years. Same goes for my workstation. I have a good'ol AT power supply which physically turns the power off with the power switch. Doesn't consume a single watt from my power lines, to my knowledge.
Come to think of it, newer motherboards than my workstation has LEDs on them, but I can't imagine them to consume more than a few milliwatts.
Since I don't know a whole lot about kernels, that sounded like a good idea to me. But isn't OSS and ALSA at least partly kernel-driven? Sound drivers are in the kernel, and I would think/dev/mixer is a kernel-thingy. Is the mixing done in userland? Is this supported by hardware mixers? Are there any arguments against doing it in kernel? Could it be done in a nasty hack? How is other OSes doing this (like BeOS, Good'ol-MacOS, Darwin, Windows or HURD (if they at all think about sound))? Would this be different in microkernels? Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
To stay remotely on subject, I your points about aRts is quite my experiences, especially on some hardware (like my laptop). I just turn it off.
Have you considered the possibility that, if you're still in secondary school, you might not exactly be qualified to write encyclopedia articles?
And as I understand your previous comments on the matter, you believe the answer to that question is "no." Which is perfectly fine, of course, but based on that, Wikipedia is probably not a resource you would consider to include "qualified encyclopedia articles."
Wikipedia is not a genuine encyclopedia, and that it's dishonest to claim otherwise.
I disagree, and make the bold claim not to be dishonest. Though I might be wrong. Anyway, many consider Britannica Encyclopaedia to be a relevant, updated and informative resource, and it has got long traditions. From the free section of britannica.com on the word "encyclopaedia": also spelled encyclopedia (from Greek enkyklios paideia, general education) reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.
Dictionary.com has the following definition: A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.
And just to make sure, I looked it up in a printed edition of the American Heritage College Dictionary: A reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a field, usu. arranged alpabetically.
I think most people would agree that Wikipedia is a reference work and that it contains information information on all (or at least many) branches of knowledge, thus making covering a wide range of subjects. In a comprehensive manner, I might add. The way I see it, Wikipedia fits nicely into these definitions. Hence, Wikipedia is to me a "genuine encyclopedia." Enough nit-picking (-: Sorry about that.
The way I see it, the parent didn't attack anyone, but he might have stepped on some toes. Obviously LordK3nn3th took it personally when Estanislao Martinez implied, and in this posts' parent confirmes, that a high school boy isn't qualified to write an encyclopedia article.
You're not qualified to write an encyclopedia article-- and neither am I. ..which is a statement, and an opinion about LordK3nn3th (that may or may not be justified). And I don't think you can get any more personal than that. I disagree, find Wikipedia a good resource and don't mind (actually I endorse) contributions by 16-year old folk.
Grand-(grand-grand[..])parent writes: But Wikipedia is a really good resource-- I've contributed to it myself.
Parent writes: What exactly is supposed to be the argument here?
To me, that's not an argument. It's an opinion. Simply a matter of commenting Wikipedia by telling what the poster thinks of it. Clearly, the poster has found Wikipedia useful, and that makes it a "really good resource." Meself, I agree, but that's beside the point.
Furthermore, the poster says he's contributed to Wikipedia. But my interpretation of that is not that Wikipedia is good because HE contributed to it. It's a good resources because people like himself (and you, and me) are ABLE to contribute to it. The concept itself is good. And to support that concept, and to show appreciation, he has contributed to it.
Now, the parent poster says the following further up in the discussion:
Because encyclopedia articles, being primarily consumed by non-experts on the topic thereof, need to be credible. The consumers are not going to find a 16-year old, still in high school, a credible author. I think you're confusing "the consumers" with yourself. I find this 16-year-"still in high school"-old credible. Lots of other Wikipedia-users find him credible, I believe. I don't find age or school relevant for knowledge or reasoning. This boy or girl might know more about these particular videogames than any Britannica-author. I find most of (if not all) the articles in Wikipedia quite interesting and relevant. Thus, it doesn't matter who's written them. And I have yet to find incorrect information (that I know of, of course). Though I understand the argument about an expert (the writers in printed encyclopedias are usually experts on their field) article, but a wiki (and Wikipedia in particular) has a vast amount of peer reviewing that a printed encyclopedia has not. If I find information in Wikipedia that to the best of my knowledge is incorrect, I'll look it up and correct it.
[About the mentioned contributed articles] Have you considered the possibility that there's a good reason for not including them? Yes, and I can't find that reason. A resource of knowledge shouldn't be limited by what some editors might think. That's a main point about a wiki, and is why I love it.
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Well, thats because Norway gets things unlike the US.
Well, actually, on a general basis, Norway don't. But quite a few things is kind of different to the better.
While I am at it, let me just give you a link to The Current because it is simply amazing.
I'm listening to it right now, and I am truly amazed. Suddenly, they now play a tune by Kings of Convenience (a Röyksopp remix of I don't know what I can save you from). Kings of Convenience and Röyksopp (being somewhat better known) are bands from my home town, Bergen. I had absolutely no idea they anyone outside Norway knew them. Heck, people only barely know the band here. Needless to say, they're great, and by plyaing them, The Current just got a truckload of cred (-: Thanks a bunch! You just made mye morning.
Shameless advertising: Come to Bergen, Norway, and see Kings of Convenience live on stage!
And of course, free-to-air television is valued more than pay-per-view, public education is considered superior to expensive private colleges, free radio is hotter than pay-per-song iTunes and nobody ever thought of charging for web content, like, with a two-tiered Internet or anything.
In fact, in Norway, this is not quite true. The public, state-owned broadcasting in both television and radio is widely regarded as the highest-quality broadcasting there is. They outnumber any private televison and radio channel by far in terms of viewers and listeners. Even though there's only six universities, they are all owned by the state, free (as in beer (although they don't serve free beer)), and are usually regarded as the best eductation there is, even though expensive private colleges exist.
My cable modem isn't a modem at all.
Well, since we're on Slashdot, technically, it is a modem. It takes analogue signals and figures out digital data from them. It modulates and demodulates. Your cable modem just don't happen to be NAT'ing. Think of it as one long ethernet cable to your ISP.
In my experience, most cable (as in television land-based cables) modems behave this way, which I find quite pleasant. Any box on your network can be reached from the outside, without funky NAT-routing. In fact, you can probably just keep asking for IP-addresses, and the modem will happily give you true, Internet-routable IP's. Enjoy.
Now, would some people argue, NAT is great for your average Windows user, who probably don't want or need his machine available from the outside. This is the wrong way of solving problems. Any remotely modern operating system should be able to safely stay on the Internet, given a bit of care (read: patching). Furthermore, your average Windows user will often need Internet-routable IP-addresses - think Bittorrent, any P2P, remote desktop and so on.
What an idiot. He's posted almost word for word exactly what I said! Did you only read the first sentence?!
Indeed, I am, I did, I obviously didn't, respectivly. I was quite sure my mind read that opposite of what the GGP actually said. Sorry; the moderation of my comment is right on place. Not sure how I managed that.
Most existing DSLRs are at least this slow.
Not in my experience. JPEG-compression is done in hardware and is in fact quite snappy. What takes time, is writing to the memory card, not compressing the JPEG's. I wouldn't by any measure consider my Nikon D70 a high-end camera, but it will take ~3 shots a second and write them (in JPEG format) to its buffer for quite a while (about 10 seconds), all things considered. Albeit the D70 has a relativly large buffer, but the bottleneck is my memory card, which is kind of slow.
I wonder if there is something one could set somewhere to check if the cable is plugged, then go for DHCP.
/etc/network/interfaces) and let ifplugd set them up automagically. Works like a charm.
Well, there's ifplugd in Debian, doing just that. It can also detect wireless network APs and configure network interfaces according to that.
I don't let my network interfaces come up upon startup (ie not listed it as auto in
You do have a point regarding the Windows security model and, in particular, the NTFS security system. Critics might argue that the model is far more sophisticated than one needs (and thus, among other things, will lead to more potential security holes), but my point is a different one. The trouble with Microsoft-products is usually the high-level security - point in case; user accounts in Windows XP Home run as administrator by default. This, of course, renders almost every low-level security policy designed and implemented in NT unusable.
You could always try this, although it is stated to work with nVidia cards. A better bet would probably be this thread. I'd recommend downloading a test application to find out wether the card is 100% OpenGL-compatible (though it should be). If else, try the generic drivers.
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I say complete because as I recall, their XML export in the latest version of office was half-hearted at best, and lost a LOT of formatting. So by "complete" I mean lossless.
.doc-documents either. I like the idea of a .doc-to-XML-translator, though. The POI project looks promising. I imagine that the OpenOffice.org filters will be of use as well.
Ah. I was under the (optimistic, bright-side-of-life) impression that Microsoft actually made the default format of Office 2003 XML. Which they apprearantly didn't.
But the open source filters for OpenOffice and the like are rather good. They're by no means perfect, but hey - later versions of Word aren't too good at reading older
It is easy to use COM to instantiate Word from your own code and manipulate documents throught the API, so ".doc format" is fully accessible and reusable from your own code, just as it would be if it was "open source".
.doc would be good to have, since quite a lot of documents still are saved in older formats.
Which, of course, don't count a bit on any other platform than Windows.
That said, Microsoft claims to offer "open and royalty-free documentation and licenses for the Microsoft Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas." I haven't looked at them myself, but it looks like the real deal. The FAQ states that the "license is not restricted to particular individuals or entities. It is available for customers, governments, academics, hobbyists, and IT companies."
Granted, the download is available as a Windows executable, but I imagine someone will boot up their Windows boxes to look at it.
This is big plus in my book for Microsoft. Still, the specification for good'ol
I am fully aware of that. It's why I would recommend a rather cheap laptop - it has have better battery power for the reasons you mentioned.
/proc/acpi/sleep as root to make the CPU sleep - but the fan won't turn off, the harddrive keeps spinning and the screen lightens happily on.
The battery is quite heavy indeed. In fact, without the battery, I cannot lift the screen with one hand. The rest of the machine follows..
The only problem with my Inspiron, is with standby-mode. In that-other-OS, standby mode means turning off all bells, whistles, screen, harddrives and fans and barely keep the RAM alive. Works pretty well in fact, and it can keep the laptop alive for days. But even after patching and repatching the kernel (currently 2.4.24) with ACPI patches and DSDT-stuff for Dell's exotic BIOS, it won't actually sleep. I can do echo 1 >
It's somewhat hackable by turning the screen off first (xset dpms force off). I can probably extended it to turning off harddrives with hdparam, but I haven't dared yet. Is it any healthy to turn the harddrive off without unmounting filesystems?
Anyway, it's a great laptop but requires a fair bit of massage to get Linux alive and well. Hibernation kind of works with the swsusp-patches, but not with X running. The Intel 82845G video adapter isn't the coolest thing around. Oh well. The laptop was cheap and quite fun to play with (-:
My Dell Inspiron gives about 4.5 hours on full backlight, just over 5 on dim backlight. That is for hacking, though. It can play ogg's for about 4 hours with occasional backlightening.
In my experience, the heavier the laptop, the more battery life it has. My Inspiron has a 2.4GHz Celeron, is rather bulky and doesn't sport the best LCD around. But it does its job quite nicely and was cheap.
Have you never been on a longer trip into the mountains? Ten days in the same underwear is quite adequate, in fact. I usually bring two sets of underwear; one for reserve. No kidding. But then again, 70 kilometres away from people, nobody really cares.
In fact, there was a story (never mind the text, it's in Norwegian - look at the picture) about this in our local newspaper this morning. A local landlord in the middle of the city hired a couple of graffers, as it's called in Norway, to paint the house. Started a rather heated debate here. This is his own property, but the city administration is discussing wether to enforce a repaint. There's a law somewhere that says that a given city's administration has the responsebility to keep the city look somewhat good. An interview with someone ine the city council revealed that some of its members didn't like the view..
So it's not just about property - it's about the general visual representation of the city. Me, I love it. It looks great! More graffiti!
Yeah, surprisingly, we do. And in most major cities, there are polar bears walking around. Not to mention the penguins. Bloody irritating, that's what they are.
The Internet connection is of course by smoke signals over to Sweden. Bit of a latency and rather poor bandwith, perhaps, but it's wireless. "Laundry machines" is what we call the kind of people that works by the frozen riveres, trying desperatly to clean clothes with snow.
Takk, takk, takk! Har ikke hørt den på mange år! Fantastisk (-: Forøvrig burde jo tross alt /.-ere generelt kunnet mer norsk. Insensitive klodder, for å si det slik..
For the norwegian impaired: This is an almost traditional sound clip on the Internet among norwegians. Originally taped in 1989, it is the recording of a father from the northern parts of Norway trying to (rather unsuccessfully) repair a laundry machine. He manages to continually swear for alomst three minutes, without much repeating. Outrageously funny (-:
Challange for norwegians proficient in english: translate this.
Your sig:
What on earth is a boxen? Are we serious?
We probably aren't serious, but in fact "en" is and ending in norwegian grammar. I'll try to explain it; In english, you'd say "a box". In norwegian, that would be "en boks". ("Boks" is norwegian for "box", obviously.) Furthermore, in english, a specific box is "the box". In norwegian, the article "the" is "en", but placed at the end of the word. So "the box" in norwegian would be "boksen".
Aha! Thus, "a box" rendered in norwegian grammar would be "boxen". Simple as that! (-:
Out of curiosity, what would prevent someone from being able to switch to kernal 2.6?
The driver architecture in Linux kernel 2.6 changed somewhat from 2.4. Drivers will have to be patched or rewritten to work with 2.6. This is being worked on, but lots of unofficial patches to the kernel haven't caught up yet. My laptop, for instance, was unable to get X up at adequate resolutions with 2.6 (albeit this was around christmas - I might give it another shot with this release).
Then there's low-level userspace programs (stuff not running as a part of the kernel itself) that needs some change. Examples are the PCMCIA-suite.
Well, on my Dell Inspiron 1100 I tend to get about four hours of real usage in the field using wireless networking. Perhaps a bit less while playing music. But I can live with between three and four hours of battery time.
But the difference between finding wired networks and finding power outlets is that the latter is much more available and seldom firewalled.
The next step for coffee-shops and the like would probably be power outlets. When you get free power AND free Internet connection, imagine the amounts of coffee one can drink!
Maybe he accidentally pressed 'u' instead of 'i', they are right next to each other. (On Big American Keyboard.)
..though on the smaller american keyboards, the 'u' and 'i' button are far off one another. The medium-sized swedish ones don't even have and 'i' key.
An infinite amount of time, because Linux needs at least a i386 (MMU and all that).
I wouldn't go so far to call it an infinite amount of time, since uClinux, a kernel tree designed to run on systems without a MMU, does in fact run on 286'es. But I wouldn't recommend a kernel compile on you good'ol'8MHz, as it would take (infinite - 1) monkies to figure out the binary sources for kernel 2.8 by the time it gets done.
If you put your computer in "hibernate" it is the same as power-off, which is 3 watts of energy.
Your may very well be right, but what exactly is the 2 or 3 watts used for when the computer is powered off? I can put my (fairly new) Linux-laptop into hibernation (writing all memory pages to disk and turn off), remove its battery and go mountain climbing for a week. It will still power up and recover quite nicely. Of course the battery to keep the clock running is there, but in my experience it uses a great deal less than 2 watts, as it might be powering the clock for years. Same goes for my workstation. I have a good'ol AT power supply which physically turns the power off with the power switch. Doesn't consume a single watt from my power lines, to my knowledge.
Come to think of it, newer motherboards than my workstation has LEDs on them, but I can't imagine them to consume more than a few milliwatts.
Since I don't know a whole lot about kernels, that sounded like a good idea to me. But isn't OSS and ALSA at least partly kernel-driven? Sound drivers are in the kernel, and I would think /dev/mixer is a kernel-thingy. Is the mixing done in userland? Is this supported by hardware mixers? Are there any arguments against doing it in kernel? Could it be done in a nasty hack? How is other OSes doing this (like BeOS, Good'ol-MacOS, Darwin, Windows or HURD (if they at all think about sound))? Would this be different in microkernels? Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
To stay remotely on subject, I your points about aRts is quite my experiences, especially on some hardware (like my laptop). I just turn it off.
Have you considered the possibility that, if you're still in secondary school, you might not exactly be qualified to write encyclopedia articles? And as I understand your previous comments on the matter, you believe the answer to that question is "no." Which is perfectly fine, of course, but based on that, Wikipedia is probably not a resource you would consider to include "qualified encyclopedia articles."
..which is a statement, and an opinion about LordK3nn3th (that may or may not be justified). And I don't think you can get any more personal than that. I disagree, find Wikipedia a good resource and don't mind (actually I endorse) contributions by 16-year old folk.
Wikipedia is not a genuine encyclopedia, and that it's dishonest to claim otherwise.
I disagree, and make the bold claim not to be dishonest. Though I might be wrong. Anyway, many consider Britannica Encyclopaedia to be a relevant, updated and informative resource, and it has got long traditions. From the free section of britannica.com on the word "encyclopaedia":
also spelled encyclopedia (from Greek enkyklios paideia, general education) reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.
Dictionary.com has the following definition:
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.
And just to make sure, I looked it up in a printed edition of the American Heritage College Dictionary:
A reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a field, usu. arranged alpabetically.
I think most people would agree that Wikipedia is a reference work and that it contains information information on all (or at least many) branches of knowledge, thus making covering a wide range of subjects. In a comprehensive manner, I might add. The way I see it, Wikipedia fits nicely into these definitions. Hence, Wikipedia is to me a "genuine encyclopedia." Enough nit-picking (-: Sorry about that.
The way I see it, the parent didn't attack anyone, but he might have stepped on some toes. Obviously LordK3nn3th took it personally when Estanislao Martinez implied, and in this posts' parent confirmes, that a high school boy isn't qualified to write an encyclopedia article.
You're not qualified to write an encyclopedia article-- and neither am I.
Grand-(grand-grand[..])parent writes:
But Wikipedia is a really good resource-- I've contributed to it myself.
Parent writes:
What exactly is supposed to be the argument here?
To me, that's not an argument. It's an opinion. Simply a matter of commenting Wikipedia by telling what the poster thinks of it. Clearly, the poster has found Wikipedia useful, and that makes it a "really good resource." Meself, I agree, but that's beside the point.
Furthermore, the poster says he's contributed to Wikipedia. But my interpretation of that is not that Wikipedia is good because HE contributed to it. It's a good resources because people like himself (and you, and me) are ABLE to contribute to it. The concept itself is good. And to support that concept, and to show appreciation, he has contributed to it.
Now, the parent poster says the following further up in the discussion: Because encyclopedia articles, being primarily consumed by non-experts on the topic thereof, need to be credible. The consumers are not going to find a 16-year old, still in high school, a credible author.
I think you're confusing "the consumers" with yourself. I find this 16-year-"still in high school"-old credible. Lots of other Wikipedia-users find him credible, I believe. I don't find age or school relevant for knowledge or reasoning. This boy or girl might know more about these particular videogames than any Britannica-author. I find most of (if not all) the articles in Wikipedia quite interesting and relevant. Thus, it doesn't matter who's written them. And I have yet to find incorrect information (that I know of, of course). Though I understand the argument about an expert (the writers in printed encyclopedias are usually experts on their field) article, but a wiki (and Wikipedia in particular) has a vast amount of peer reviewing that a printed encyclopedia has not. If I find information in Wikipedia that to the best of my knowledge is incorrect, I'll look it up and correct it.
[About the mentioned contributed articles]
Have you considered the possibility that there's a good reason for not including them?
Yes, and I can't find that reason. A resource of knowledge shouldn't be limited by what some editors might think. That's a main point about a wiki, and is why I love it.