If SRAM were as cheap as DRAM we'd be using it for system memory and might not even need cache at all (unless of course some newer even FASTER RAM were available).
I did this because at the time I first got DSL, they didn't support Linux at ALL. So I stuck an old 200MB drive in the machine, and put Win95 on it, let him do his thing, then quickly removed the drive and sterlized it by fire:P
This is what I thought too. I mean - Logitech - king of the computer mouse.
I know there would be some serious engineering problems to make the mechanics small enough to track even the bluntest ball-point pen and also to deal with the ink that would be covering it, but surely they could come up with something to do it this way.
There's no chance I'd buy this product as is, but if they implemented it by tracking the roller so it wouldn't need special paper then I'd be sold.
The Yopy is almost there. It's already a small device with good battery life, a keyboard and it runs Linux so you know the API is open. The only thing we're waiting for is wireless.
There's supposed to be a CDMA snap-on for it, (or possibly GSM) but nothing has been forthcoming yet. It will also be able to double as a cell phone when the add-on is released. It makes a great PDA / mini-pc right now at any rate.
I've got ogg deocde ability on my Yopy. had it for about a week. Hacked ogg123 into using an earlier version of a fixed point ogg decoder (libfixpvorbis) released by another individual.
Er, it's been known for some time that there were going to be two releases of LotR - one in August and an extended Special Edition in November. If you missed that info, I guess that's your problem.
In my "Advanced Architechture" course at university, we got to build robots out of mindstorms as well... had to find their way around a maze and other various tasks. Interesting entries. Definately cool and a fun semester.
This is EXACTLY what I just did when I chose to reinstall my system early this year. I installed Slack 8.0. Just the very basics. The kernel (which I upgraded to the latest immediately - I'm actually running 2.5.18 now - yes 2.5:), the Clibs and gcc - little else. I installed the rest from source: X 4.2, QT, KDE, GTK, etc etc...
The result is a VERY stable and VERY usable system, despite my dabbling in the black arts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdevel kernels.
Slackware was my first distribution (and first Linux experience) - I flirted with Mandrake for a brief period, but it was nothing serious. I returned to my first love soon after and haven't looked back. We're very happy together:)
Re:question: combining big releases and P2P?
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I would think, mainly for content control, and abuse of said network.
Sure, they can post MD5 sums on the website for people to verify them against, but I don't think that many people actually bother doing that. I imagine for safety, I'd probably download from a central server (web page/ftp site) even if such a P2P infrastructure were in place, simply for the fact that I can be reasonably assured that it hasn't been tampered with.
Additionally I would think it wouldn't be too long before miscreants started finding ways to share their warez on the network as well, giving it a bad name. Of course, we could continually fix the network against such uses, but they'd continually find ways into it. I'd much rather have the [kernel|KDE|gnome|etc.] developers working on their respective projects than on some peer to peer network.
I know the ftp sites can get fairly flooded, but I started getting KDE 3.0.1 from ftp.kde.org when I first saw the news this morning and got well over 100K/s here in Canada - doesn't seem so bad to me.
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A friend of mine had this same problem... it was something to do with truetype fonts, not having them in a font path in XF86Config, or not having a valid fonts.dir/fonts.scale... something like that. Check those out.
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Good gawd no!
The KDE KHTML part is small, efficient and awesome. The Mozilla engine is big and cumbersome.
There are people on the KDE team that know the KHTML part inside out, to use Mozilla, they'd have to learn the internals of that if they wanted to make changes.
I say stay with KHTML. One of the goals of OSS is to allow choice. If you want to use Mozilla in KDE, use it. Or you can use the included one built on KHTML.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw that. "How the h*ll is that supposed to work?" - I would think you'd end up basically with concentrated incandescent light that you can aim around the room.
I'd be interested for someone to explain how that would work.
I mean, I feel sorry for the employees of another failing dotcom company, but really - I thought this was a dumb idea in the first place. If you need a plugin to remember how to get to your favorite web sites, then get off the 'net.
Hopefully they'll find something else to do that's actually useful.
When I was younger (8-10 or so - I'm 23 now) my family operated a small community cable television system. One of the options available to us then was wireless distribution. It certainly wasn't economically feasable for our small user base, but it definately existed.
Maybe this is new technology, but the description sounds identicle.
Just last night I found a link to Mosfet's High Performance Liquid style theme for KDE3. I installed it and it looks amazing! I went to work trying to find themes for everything else I use frequently to make it match (xmms, licq, etc...).
My desktop looks awesome (who says MacOS can only have such a beautiful desktop?)
How can you refer to (MS-)DOS as "the last stable OS", and then make an exception for Linux/Unix citing that they weren't available. If you consider linux a stable OS (which I do), then it is the last stable OS.
IIRC UNIX in one form or another was definately around during the time of DOS.
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If SRAM were as cheap as DRAM we'd be using it for system memory and might not even need cache at all (unless of course some newer even FASTER RAM were available).
I did this because at the time I first got DSL, they didn't support Linux at ALL. So I stuck an old 200MB drive in the machine, and put Win95 on it, let him do his thing, then quickly removed the drive and sterlized it by fire :P
This is what I thought too. I mean - Logitech - king of the computer mouse.
I know there would be some serious engineering problems to make the mechanics small enough to track even the bluntest ball-point pen and also to deal with the ink that would be covering it, but surely they could come up with something to do it this way.
There's no chance I'd buy this product as is, but if they implemented it by tracking the roller so it wouldn't need special paper then I'd be sold.
The Yopy is almost there. It's already a small device with good battery life, a keyboard and it runs Linux so you know the API is open. The only thing we're waiting for is wireless.
There's supposed to be a CDMA snap-on for it, (or possibly GSM) but nothing has been forthcoming yet. It will also be able to double as a cell phone when the add-on is released. It makes a great PDA / mini-pc right now at any rate.
Awwww...
:)
that's a groaner
But it should be modded funny anyway!
I've got ogg deocde ability on my Yopy. had it for about a week. Hacked ogg123 into using an earlier version of a fixed point ogg decoder (libfixpvorbis) released by another individual.
Very cool.
Er, it's been known for some time that there were going to be two releases of LotR - one in August and an extended Special Edition in November. If you missed that info, I guess that's your problem.
I'm seriously hoping that this post was meant to be funny. In which case it should be modded as such.
IIRC, Commodore computers (i.e. VIC20, C64...) had this.
Ah yes - the veritable time-tested Model M keyboard.
I have several of these myself. I find it uncomfortable to use anything else.
I need to find a stockpile of them though. You can never have too many.
In my "Advanced Architechture" course at university, we got to build robots out of mindstorms as well... had to find their way around a maze and other various tasks. Interesting entries. Definately cool and a fun semester.
This is EXACTLY what I just did when I chose to reinstall my system early this year. I installed Slack 8.0. Just the very basics. The kernel (which I upgraded to the latest immediately - I'm actually running 2.5.18 now - yes 2.5 :), the Clibs and gcc - little else. I installed the rest from source: X 4.2, QT, KDE, GTK, etc etc...
:)
The result is a VERY stable and VERY usable system, despite my dabbling in the black arts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdevel kernels.
Slackware was my first distribution (and first Linux experience) - I flirted with Mandrake for a brief period, but it was nothing serious. I returned to my first love soon after and haven't looked back. We're very happy together
I would think, mainly for content control, and abuse of said network.
Sure, they can post MD5 sums on the website for people to verify them against, but I don't think that many people actually bother doing that. I imagine for safety, I'd probably download from a central server (web page/ftp site) even if such a P2P infrastructure were in place, simply for the fact that I can be reasonably assured that it hasn't been tampered with.
Additionally I would think it wouldn't be too long before miscreants started finding ways to share their warez on the network as well, giving it a bad name. Of course, we could continually fix the network against such uses, but they'd continually find ways into it. I'd much rather have the [kernel|KDE|gnome|etc.] developers working on their respective projects than on some peer to peer network.
I know the ftp sites can get fairly flooded, but I started getting KDE 3.0.1 from ftp.kde.org when I first saw the news this morning and got well over 100K/s here in Canada - doesn't seem so bad to me.
A friend of mine had this same problem... it was something to do with truetype fonts, not having them in a font path in XF86Config, or not having a valid fonts.dir/fonts.scale... something like that. Check those out.
Good gawd no!
The KDE KHTML part is small, efficient and awesome. The Mozilla engine is big and cumbersome.
There are people on the KDE team that know the KHTML part inside out, to use Mozilla, they'd have to learn the internals of that if they wanted to make changes.
I say stay with KHTML. One of the goals of OSS is to allow choice. If you want to use Mozilla in KDE, use it. Or you can use the included one built on KHTML.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw that. "How the h*ll is that supposed to work?" - I would think you'd end up basically with concentrated incandescent light that you can aim around the room.
I'd be interested for someone to explain how that would work.
I mean, I feel sorry for the employees of another failing dotcom company, but really - I thought this was a dumb idea in the first place. If you need a plugin to remember how to get to your favorite web sites, then get off the 'net.
Hopefully they'll find something else to do that's actually useful.
> Hey hey! I heartily endorse this candidate and/or proposal.
I was pretty sure i=he said "hardly", not "heartily".
Seriously! WTF? Greg the Bunny is fricken hilarious! This is one of the shows that is worth while, and they're giving it a chance to live for once.
Ah-iggit, blah.
When I was younger (8-10 or so - I'm 23 now) my family operated a small community cable television system. One of the options available to us then was wireless distribution. It certainly wasn't economically feasable for our small user base, but it definately existed.
Maybe this is new technology, but the description sounds identicle.
Just last night I found a link to Mosfet's High Performance Liquid style theme for KDE3. I installed it and it looks amazing! I went to work trying to find themes for everything else I use frequently to make it match (xmms, licq, etc...).
My desktop looks awesome (who says MacOS can only have such a beautiful desktop?)
I recommend trying this out!
This one doesn't talk and doesn't directly interact with patients, has a significantly higher-pitched voice than James Earl Jones
If it doesn't talk, how do you know about it's voice pitch?
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Obviously, their BC stood for "Before Current-day".
How can you refer to (MS-)DOS as "the last stable OS", and then make an exception for Linux/Unix citing that they weren't available. If you consider linux a stable OS (which I do), then it is the last stable OS.
IIRC UNIX in one form or another was definately around during the time of DOS.