FYI:
Rear spoilers do have a real use on all cars, even front-wheel-drive, if set up correctly. Wings improve high-speed stability, as most cars have a tendency to get a little 'light' or 'floaty' on the road at high speeds, and a rear wing will push the back of the car into the ground stopping the tail from stepping out on those long sweeping turns.
If you are having problems with traction, the suspension should be tweaked to keep the driven wheels on the ground, as there isn't enough airflow to give downforce from wings when taking off from standstill.
I knew about this retention for a long time anyway, I thought it was public knowledge.
This type of retention can be used to trace stolen mobile phones and can also greatly assist in the process of criminal investigation - some crime investigations have gone on past the 6 month retention time prevalent in other countries. See the Guerin investigation, or the Omagh bombing for examples.
I have no problem with this retention as long as it requires a court order or equivalent for the release of the information to the relevant authorites, and never to a non-govermental agency.
have a large fight at a soccer game.
That's funny..I seem to never remember large fights at soccer matches in Ireland. Those were the speciality of a select group of hooligans following certain English teams.
There is no underclass in Ireland that corresponds to the stereotypical English soccer hooligan..
There is a great micro-brewery pub about 15 miles from Doolin, on the road from Lahinch to Ennis. If you travel from Shannon or Limerick to Doolin, you will pass it, travelling through a small village called Inagh (pronounced Eye-nah). The name of this pub is Biddy Early's, and they do a great stout (Black Biddy's) and also a very good ale (Brown Biddy's).
To those that are coming from abroad, please note, driving is on the left, and the roads in the countryside are narrow. Also please do not drink and drive, do have a driver and do enjoy yourselves.
The rolls of stickers that are provided to Dell are generic keys, and as far as I remember are not tied to Dell, i.e. a Dell key will install a generic retail cd. The key is not tied in any way to the particular copy of the OS on the machine.
Let's just say it can be an amazing experience playing an atmospheric game with reasonably well-specced components.. I had a p3, gf2gts, and a sblive outputting through a Technics pro-logic system, all playing AVP2. No-one could spend more than about 15 minutes playing without getting the sweats and the shakes from the fear. Watch though, don't have the bass too high, you should feel it instead of hearing it.
Looks like this game is set to take that level of immersion to a new level.... I wonder about setting up a gaming rig in a theatre, for the closest to immersive environments that you can get at the moment? Has anyone done this?
All those that spend lots of $$ on the latest/greatest vid cards are now allowed to salivate at the prospect of getting visuals like these, that move as well..
Only the rich can afford to take advantage of new travel methods for the purpose of leisure.
Countries send people off to do new things, for national pride like the US and USSR space programmes in the 50's and 60's, then comes a time where it is for scientific advancements only, then come the rich people who can afford the high cost for personal pleasure, then it becomes a commodity available to the masses.
Well there is no loss to the relevant organisations, as the majority of those that watch these rips either would never have gone to see the film in the first place, (no loss in having seen it), or would be going to the film anyway.
I know of no-one that watches the rip instead of going to the cinema, much better date if have the whole big screen, popcorn, and the comfy seats..
sorry.. seems that the guys running mirror.ac.uk are a bit behind in the rsync schedule.. (still on 7.2.92). Here is a resonably close
mirror that has 7.2.93 on it.
Personally I love the mirror site http://mirror.ac.uk/
From where I connect to net (college connection to heanet to janet) this one just rocks for availability of mirrors, and speed of updates to the site. It should be the fastest site for anyone in Ireland or the UK.
On my notebook if I boot Linux without my network cable plugged in, it hangs forever during the boot. I betcha that's because some of your daemons (sendmail is notorious for doing that) are trying to get an ip for your hostname, and are failing because they can't contact the nameserver. (This is a bug, not a feature, but it seems fairly common.) Add a line to/etc/hosts with your ip and hostname and you should be set.
Mostly due to the network card driver not querying the nic as to whether there is a cable connected, and then timing out on trying for a DHCP-allocated IP address. This happens with all the 3com drivers I have tried. One solution is to have 2 choices from lilo, setting an environment variable that can be used to set services to start or not (e.g. if not in office: don't start networking, ssh or sendmail etc). I have seen this implemented, but I cannot remember the link exactly (http://linux-laptop.net somewhere in the dell stories).
The pricing schemes were outrageous and just a bit silly. When BT got their heads screwed on right, and brought down the price, also releasing a DIY home kit, it was not going to be long before the service started taking off. And BT is to release a 'no-frills' service as well:
BT to release basic serices
Now all I have to worry about is DSL being rolled out in Ireland - I live 300m from an exchange on a fiber backbone, but the telco will not be rolling dsl out for another 2 years:-/
I have a copy of the dvd-screener, and I think that the quality is perfect, as is the sound (though I do not have 5.1, only dolby pro-logic). I saw very, very few artifacts, that were not present in the cinema release.
The format is correct 16.9, and I would post a link to a screenshot if I could figure a way out to screengrab from within mplayer.
I agree that the final 'release' dvd will have been remastered to allow the subtitles, (and to remove the 'Property of New Line Cinema' title that goes across every 10 min, and to allow menus and such like. The copy that I have is 4 800mb.bin files, with the.cue files as well.
The application that you are thinking of is Spamassassin
I use it on my main email address, and it only generates a few false-positives, mostly from the college students (email addresses ending in numbers, nad sent to >10 addresses in the same domain) but that has been changed in the rules. It works a charm most of the time.
That is a licensing issue with whoever the vendor is, and a possible difference between old-school models and Redhat's. Ever work in an environment where there is a mainframe, or other mission-critical server needing.999 or.9999 uptime? That is when the expensive support contracts become worth the money, and for those providing the support, why should they have to fix problems not of their making under the warranty? if someone else screws up, to fix it costs money.
What happens if a non-IBM person activates the other processors. Now that hard and software support can be completely unbundled and even passed away from IBM - can they stop a customer from upgrading their system?
What happens is if a component fails, and needs replacing, they cannot call IBM to get the replacement part, without forking over *loads* of money, as all guarantees and warranties become void.. resulting in downtime that goes on for a lot longer than would be wanted.. However much a support contract costs, that has to be measured in how effective that contract is. There is something to be said for knowing that your machine will be back up and running in the time it takes the support tech to drop the parts into the suitcase, fly out, and replace said part, and reconfigure. If the hardware has been tampered with the support contract goes out the window.
Is the 'saving' in tampering really worth the loss of peace of mind? Especially if you are in a business that needs a mainframe?
Putting two sections of board with high frequency traces parallel to each other is just begging for trouble.
Agreed that there could be issues with EMI if steps are not taken to minimise it. Shielding would be very effective if used as a seperate floating ground plane, with electrical contact at ground points on the board facing the shield. This (as far as I can see) solves the problem of manufacturing double sided boards (2x single sided, better grounding) and board design lends itself to having a split in it.
Use a heatpipe on the cpu to move the heat to a place where it may be more easily vented, e.g at the back of the case, with air ducted such that the heated air does not affect the rest of the system. This duct can also move air through the psu (less critical cooling needed). For the rest of the system, as long as there is enough air moving to be more effective than convective cooling, it does not really matter that much.
Use a double sided case with the board mounted in the middle, with cpu, memory, northbridge on one side, and the pci/agp slots, IDE connectors et al. on the other, both sides easily accessible, e.g. in a small tower format.
Non-conductive motherboard mount points. It's quite annoying when you're installing a motherboard, and it requires washers at the mount points, in order to function.
Funny that. I thought that the motherboard mount points are what earthed (grounded) the motherboard, helping with reduction of HF noise, and ensuring cleaner signals. Yes there exists earth wires in the ATX connector, but having the extra grounding points cannot hurt. Just like some expansion cards that I have worked with in the past needed to be screwed down/electrically connected at the backplane, to function.
A friend of mine recently built a pc that did not work, asked me to take a look. I found insulating washers between the screws and board, and between the board and the screw mountpoints. I removed these, and the board posted.
In the warrenty it covered against this, so he was SOL.
Thankfully here in Ireland, any goods that are sold come under the 'Sale of Goods Act' which in essence gives the buyer an implied warranty, extending the rights of the consumer and protecting against irresponsible vendors. The warranties that come with most products sold in the States would be unenforceable here.
If you buy something, it should last the expected lifetime of similar products, and if it falls over too soon, or fails to conform to what it was sold as (e.g. in your example the box was sold as a cd player yet it failed to play cds correctly) it can be brought back to the vendor who has to repair/replace that item.
I also have to laugh at the EULA agreements that software companies put in their products - legally non-enforceable, as they are not contracts.. I sign nothing, the text in the EULA is irrelevant. For EULAs to work, print off a contract, and send back a signed copy and an unlock key.. then it becomes enforceable.
If your friend lived here, he would have been entitled to a refund, even though the product was no longer in production.
Off-topic. I have heard that redhat 7.1 will install and run quite well without tweaking on an xbox dev platform, but not on a public release platform. So much for MS saying that the Xbox is not a PC... Time to start work on sniffing for the keys that the public release uses for transmission across the buses....
to allow blind people to read these e-books. Imagine THAT testimony in front of a jury!
To sway juries, especially in really technical disputes, is to not bore the average joe and jane soaps on jury duty with the relevant technical details (but those need to be put on the record and explained in a non-condescending manner to the jury) as long as the details can be reasonably easily understood by explaining in non-tech language (if that is not an oxymoron).
Was there no facility to output ebooks to a braille-friendly output? Strange omission on the part of the writers... From an outsider, this case and related antics are disturbing - especially as I may end up living in the States for a number of years after I graduate...
Slashdot Mirror
FYI: Rear spoilers do have a real use on all cars, even front-wheel-drive, if set up correctly. Wings improve high-speed stability, as most cars have a tendency to get a little 'light' or 'floaty' on the road at high speeds, and a rear wing will push the back of the car into the ground stopping the tail from stepping out on those long sweeping turns. If you are having problems with traction, the suspension should be tweaked to keep the driven wheels on the ground, as there isn't enough airflow to give downforce from wings when taking off from standstill.
This type of retention can be used to trace stolen mobile phones and can also greatly assist in the process of criminal investigation - some crime investigations have gone on past the 6 month retention time prevalent in other countries. See the Guerin investigation, or the Omagh bombing for examples.
I have no problem with this retention as long as it requires a court order or equivalent for the release of the information to the relevant authorites, and never to a non-govermental agency.
have a large fight at a soccer game.
That's funny..I seem to never remember large fights at soccer matches in Ireland.
Those were the speciality of a select group of hooligans following certain English teams.
There is no underclass in Ireland that corresponds to the stereotypical English soccer hooligan..
To those that are coming from abroad, please note, driving is on the left, and the roads in the countryside are narrow. Also please do not drink and drive, do have a driver and do enjoy yourselves.
Hats off to the staroffice teams for a nice job well done.
The rolls of stickers that are provided to Dell are generic keys, and as far as I remember are not tied to Dell, i.e. a Dell key will install a generic retail cd. The key is not tied in any way to the particular copy of the OS on the machine.
Watch though, don't have the bass too high, you should feel it instead of hearing it.
Looks like this game is set to take that level of immersion to a new level.... I wonder about setting up a gaming rig in a theatre, for the closest to immersive environments that you can get at the moment? Has anyone done this?
All those that spend lots of $$ on the latest/greatest vid cards are now allowed to salivate at the prospect of getting visuals like these, that move as well..
Only the rich can afford to take advantage of new travel methods for the purpose of leisure.
Countries send people off to do new things, for national pride like the US and USSR space programmes in the 50's and 60's, then comes a time where it is for scientific advancements only, then come the rich people who can afford the high cost for personal pleasure, then it becomes a commodity available to the masses.
Or even a beowoof cluster?
Well there is no loss to the relevant organisations, as the majority of those that watch these rips either would never have gone to see the film in the first place, (no loss in having seen it), or would be going to the film anyway.
I know of no-one that watches the rip instead of going to the cinema, much better date if have the whole big screen, popcorn, and the comfy seats..
sorry.. seems that the guys running mirror.ac.uk are a bit behind in the rsync schedule.. (still on 7.2.92).
Here is a resonably close mirror that has 7.2.93 on it.
From where I connect to net (college connection to heanet to janet) this one just rocks for availability of mirrors, and speed of updates to the site. It should be the fastest site for anyone in Ireland or the UK.
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/r edhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/
I betcha that's because some of your daemons (sendmail is notorious for doing that) are trying to get an ip for your hostname, and are failing because they can't contact the nameserver. (This is a bug, not a feature, but it seems fairly common.) Add a line to
Mostly due to the network card driver not querying the nic as to whether there is a cable connected, and then timing out on trying for a DHCP-allocated IP address. This happens with all the 3com drivers I have tried. One solution is to have 2 choices from lilo, setting an environment variable that can be used to set services to start or not (e.g. if not in office: don't start networking, ssh or sendmail etc). I have seen this implemented, but I cannot remember the link exactly (http://linux-laptop.net somewhere in the dell stories).
And BT is to release a 'no-frills' service as well: BT to release basic serices
Now all I have to worry about is DSL being rolled out in Ireland - I live 300m from an exchange on a fiber backbone, but the telco will not be rolling dsl out for another 2 years :-/
I have a copy of the dvd-screener, and I think that the quality is perfect, as is the sound (though I do not have 5.1, only dolby pro-logic). I saw very, very few artifacts, that were not present in the cinema release. .bin files, with the .cue files as well.
The format is correct 16.9, and I would post a link to a screenshot if I could figure a way out to screengrab from within mplayer.
I agree that the final 'release' dvd will have been remastered to allow the subtitles, (and to remove the 'Property of New Line Cinema' title that goes across every 10 min, and to allow menus and such like. The copy that I have is 4 800mb
I use it on my main email address, and it only generates a few false-positives, mostly from the college students (email addresses ending in numbers, nad sent to >10 addresses in the same domain) but that has been changed in the rules. It works a charm most of the time.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/environ/ice/ic e.htm"
That is a licensing issue with whoever the vendor is, and a possible difference between old-school models and Redhat's. Ever work in an environment where there is a mainframe, or other mission-critical server needing .999 or .9999 uptime? That is when the expensive support contracts become worth the money, and for those providing the support, why should they have to fix problems not of their making under the warranty? if someone else screws up, to fix it costs money.
What happens if a non-IBM person activates the other processors. Now that hard and software support can be completely unbundled and even passed away from IBM - can they stop a customer from upgrading their system?
What happens is if a component fails, and needs replacing, they cannot call IBM to get the replacement part, without forking over *loads* of money, as all guarantees and warranties become void.. resulting in downtime that goes on for a lot longer than would be wanted..
However much a support contract costs, that has to be measured in how effective that contract is.
There is something to be said for knowing that your machine will be back up and running in the time it takes the support tech to drop the parts into the suitcase, fly out, and replace said part, and reconfigure.
If the hardware has been tampered with the support contract goes out the window.
Is the 'saving' in tampering really worth the loss of peace of mind? Especially if you are in a business that needs a mainframe?
Agreed that there could be issues with EMI if steps are not taken to minimise it. Shielding would be very effective if used as a seperate floating ground plane, with electrical contact at ground points on the board facing the shield. This (as far as I can see) solves the problem of manufacturing double sided boards (2x single sided, better grounding) and board design lends itself to having a split in it.
Use a heatpipe on the cpu to move the heat to a place where it may be more easily vented, e.g at the back of the case, with air ducted such that the heated air does not affect the rest of the system. This duct can also move air through the psu (less critical cooling needed). For the rest of the system, as long as there is enough air moving to be more effective than convective cooling, it does not really matter that much.
Use a double sided case with the board mounted in the middle, with cpu, memory, northbridge on one side, and the pci/agp slots, IDE connectors et al. on the other, both sides easily accessible, e.g. in a small tower format.
Funny that. I thought that the motherboard mount points are what earthed (grounded) the motherboard, helping with reduction of HF noise, and ensuring cleaner signals. Yes there exists earth wires in the ATX connector, but having the extra grounding points cannot hurt. Just like some expansion cards that I have worked with in the past needed to be screwed down/electrically connected at the backplane, to function.
A friend of mine recently built a pc that did not work, asked me to take a look. I found insulating washers between the screws and board, and between the board and the screw mountpoints. I removed these, and the board posted.
Thankfully here in Ireland, any goods that are sold come under the 'Sale of Goods Act' which in essence gives the buyer an implied warranty, extending the rights of the consumer and protecting against irresponsible vendors. The warranties that come with most products sold in the States would be unenforceable here.
If you buy something, it should last the expected lifetime of similar products, and if it falls over too soon, or fails to conform to what it was sold as (e.g. in your example the box was sold as a cd player yet it failed to play cds correctly) it can be brought back to the vendor who has to repair/replace that item.
I also have to laugh at the EULA agreements that software companies put in their products - legally non-enforceable, as they are not contracts.. I sign nothing, the text in the EULA is irrelevant. For EULAs to work, print off a contract, and send back a signed copy and an unlock key.. then it becomes enforceable.
If your friend lived here, he would have been entitled to a refund, even though the product was no longer in production.
Off-topic. I have heard that redhat 7.1 will install and run quite well without tweaking on an xbox dev platform, but not on a public release platform. So much for MS saying that the Xbox is not a PC... Time to start work on sniffing for the keys that the public release uses for transmission across the buses....
To sway juries, especially in really technical disputes, is to not bore the average joe and jane soaps on jury duty with the relevant technical details (but those need to be put on the record and explained in a non-condescending manner to the jury) as long as the details can be reasonably easily understood by explaining in non-tech language (if that is not an oxymoron).
Was there no facility to output ebooks to a braille-friendly output? Strange omission on the part of the writers...
From an outsider, this case and related antics are disturbing - especially as I may end up living in the States for a number of years after I graduate...