Ok really. We all read the article, and it prettymuch said what we thought it would say. Only at rediculously high texture sizes did you get any bennefit from the 128 meg vs 64 meg. All of his numbers show it. After each test he comments how little difference it made... Then at the end he goes on and on about how you could get a 128meg card, cause its 1337, and really does make a difference. I'm sorry but please. He shows one thing and says another. Blahh.
Seriously, this is as good as an idea as they had.
They said, Gee we can sell a machine, at a loss, and tie people into only using our service!
Your saying, gee we can offer service at a loss, in hopes we'll make it up in advertising revenue!
And you both have the same fatal flaw. To easy to skirt your profit modle, and its LEGITIMATE to skirt it too, although in the end you'll probably use trumped up legal threats and such to frigten the few users you have left.
With the iopener you bought it it was yours to keep even if you didn't continue service. It was yours, you could cancel, hack and presto cheap pc in the slimmest case yet.
With your idea, junkbuster and a million and one other anti-add apps will keep you from making your $$. Hell if your going to do it like Bess (that shitty censorware program that decides to spam students and youths with wholesome adds) there would probably be netscape IE and mozilla plugins within a week to filter out the adds before it was displayed.
So will it work? Well why don't you make alot of hackers happy, and try?
I'm sorry. Somone probably thought this was a great deep and meaningfull peice of modern art...but blahh. Big deal. The problem with art nowadays is that artists think they are great philosophers, thinks and movers and shakers of the modern world. See in classic times, when they made real art, artists knew what they were. Entertainers. Sure crushing a PC is entertaining...but I don't think thats what this guy is going for.
I guess it all depends on how you define an airplane. But if you define it as a self propelled flying contraption, well then, you gotta go with the Wrights.
While I agree with you in principle, if the airplane were invented with our current laws, it would be creddited to the germans. A german engineer designed a heavier than air craft, witha front mounted propeller and a Daimler Benz engine. Unfortunately DaimlerBenze sent him the wrong engine (too small) and he was too impatient, so he installed it anyway, and crashed into a lake before taking off. Still under current law he had the idea first, made the first attempt, so he would get it. Bahh
Well thats what it is. What I didn't notice is any posters suggesting the obvious. Start writing letters. Start sending e-mails. Tell them you will never use their airline again if they start using it.
You see the problem is, if one airline starts using it, and doesn't get boycotted out of the skies, others will follow suit. And after that, boom. We won't have a choice anymore, if we want to fly.
The airlines are not government agencies. They do not have the right to require this type of information or scan of us. If the government started using this type of technology, there would most likely be MANY regulations put into place, limmiting how and where it could be used. More importantly they would probably not be allowed to share the information with anyone other than other government agencies.
Now I'm paranoid of Big Brother getting to much nformation, and too much power. But like most slashdotters I'm more affraid of the folks with the real power getting to much power and info. The corporations that tend to run our governments.
The real article wasn't misleading, but the slashdot synopsis is. Jim Henson Studios did not "team up" with redhat. Redhat is just giddy over the fact that JH's Studios bought a bunch of copies. I like seeing linux advance as the rest of us, but comon. Lets go with REAL advances. If Mercedes Benz bought 2k copies of XP for their existing servers, we woudln't say MB teams up with MS.
Some people woudln't even bother responding to this.. but I'm feeling generous, so here ya go:
Start by reading this page, its
a general link page on v4l, that lists the best set of resources on the subject.
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
And this page about the tv wonder itself (scroll to the bottom to see which linux drivers it uses)
http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?90 0
You will see the tv wonder series uses the bttv chipset.
Then read these page, which is the home of the DRIVERS for the card you have. Guess what, configure your kernel right, and the'll be in there already!
http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net/
http://bytesex.org/bttv/
also you might wanna read this if you still have problems
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/livid-gatos/2001-Ap ri l/msg00092.html
Follow it all up by reading the xawtv homepage.
http://bytesex.org/xawtv/
As somone who has putzed with this a few times (on a slack box no less!) you should be able to get fast-forward, rewind et all pretty easily, provided you don't mind some playing around...and if anyone has some suggestions I'd appreciate it:)
I use my setup soley as a recorder, and don't playback on the device itself.
A) record to a drive that is NFS exported, and use a video player that you can trick into playing incompleete files on disk. Try this with gtv aviplay plaympeg or the other simple players, and you'll see as much video as was recorded when you started the player process, but no more. I havn't played with this in awhile since B worked off the bat.
B) start recording to an mpeg file on the tv server. On the client: mkfifo file.mpg;wget --quiet --output-document=file.mpg ftp://name.of.server/name.of.mpg & plaympeg file.mpg
Choice B is what I'm currently using since how I'm trying A isn't working out... Also B seems to be less cpu intensive on the poor little tv server. This leaves a few things lacking like watching tv while I'm not recording it, and channel switching involves scripts I was too lazy to make into cgis...
dumpster dived cyrix: $0.00
ati aiw 128: $70.00 (two years old)
salvaged nic: $0.00
salvaged simms: $0.00
8 gig "BigFoot" HD: $65.00 (3-4 years old)
considering I only paid for two peices, and those many years ago, I'd say this is a FAR cheaper PVR and more fun;)
maybe I should get it a k6 300 though...
This is a big step but, where is a more scientific paper on the subject? The links on the page are about the same calliber imo.
Anyway like I was saying, this is a big step. I have to wonder if/when there planning on implanting the tissue patch into a living heart. Some of you were mentioning its use in a pacemaker, and thats not quite right. The reason this contracts so randomly, and is so sensitive, is most likely due to the lack of the bio-feedback mechinism that controlls heart rate (sorry I forget the name of the exact nerve and bundle that does this). The important test will be to stick this into a real heart, and see if the patch beats in sync with the rest. Not the other way around.
I'm sure the more acedemic release on this experiment talks about this. Anyone find links I didn't? I'd be quite interested to hear.
I'd think there would be more decent home automation tools/devices around.
Unfortunately there isn't that much out there, and what there is mostly identical to what my 55 year old EE neighbor had from the 80's when he played with home automation on his vic 20.
Happily this article has some links and such that provide practical examples....
Still the best example home automation is the Coffee howto;)
I am not an engineer but.....
I'll understand it if nasa puts up a 500 lb satalite, or even a 1 ton satalite that has such a short lifespan. But come on. at 3.5 tons they couldn't have fitted it with at least enough energy collecting equipment to keep the thing in orbit?
Sure the equipment was dated, and some it probably worn out, but whats the real harm of leaving it up there and using it for parts or salvage for future missons?
Is the feasibility of making/expanding/fixing a space station out of these defunct satalites so remote?
Granted using parts of old satalites to fix or augment current satalites or stations would require them to be designed as such from the beginning. Still I would think the idea isn't origonal, or too far fetched to acheive.
I came to a similar solution myself, but remember, remote X is MUCH faster than vnc.
If you need fast/smooth graphics, kvm
If you need graphics and its a real OS, remote X
If its its a mac or windos, vnc.
So far I really havn't seen much use for running a vnc server on a *nix box, with telnet/ssh being so readily available, and remote x being so much faster than vnc.
They got gigabit off of fiberoptic and onto copper
(which some said wasn't feasable), and modems up to 56k (which we all said was impossible)
so we just have to wait a few years until they make ethernet cards out of this;)
terabit ethernet anyone?
/me thinks his pci bus might not handle the throughput this would offer....
I'm sorry, but for that price this is way under engineered. The origonal bewulf cluster was made with components on par, for the day, as the celeron modle of the redstone, for far less. If your going to spend the time and money building and marketing systems like this, they could have done a better job. They suck mobos in a big case and eth linked them togeather. Call me crazy but I think for that much money you could get a small backplane, 8 industrial PC's (powerpc/copermine/whatever on a pci card each w/its own memory) toss em in and spend the rest of your "engineering" budget, making a patch to the kernel for reliable communication over the bus, instead of slow eth connections.
besides with the speed advantages shared memory brings to multiprocessing a quad xenon would probably outpreform this.. deffinately a quad proc ultrasparc but those are pricey even used...
This is actually a rather tough call for them. NZ has been pretty good, especially by today's weak standards, to protecting its enviornments and wildlife. The question is, what are they going to do? Try to anihilate the sponges to save their harbor's indigenous species and farms? That in itself might violate some of their statues. I'm not sure. On one hand I think its awful, and dangerous beyond any way we can measure, to start killing off a species because we think its a pest.
That said, there are many excellent books about specific area's of computing and computation science in general. They would probably bore your father, or most people who arn't interested, to tears.
Most of the good works on general computing arn't books, there articles and such.
Acm classics probably has the best articles on the subject, but thats just my opinon, and you can't forget the jargon file. And not forget BOFH if he's had to do any support work. Anything much more specific than that, and you get into extreamly specific realms.
yes but you cant get it in the US.
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I was looking at this awhile ago and the beef I have, we can't use it.
PS2's can't read burned CD's apparently.
The linux distro is stamped and sold for use ONLY in Japan afaik.
And finnaly the NetBSD port isn't really a full port, its just a kernel+bootloader that could be used, if it were stamped.
Did I get this all right?
It was one thing when NetBSD came out with support for AMD's X86-64bit, because there were emulators developers were supposed to use to get ready. So there was something to run it on.
This on the other hand...well, you just can't run it yet.:(
When I saw the headline, I thought, ohh wow,
now
we can actually see it boot, but no.
Its pretty agrivating a ps2 can't read burned disks:/
One, what's inside it? I dind't see processor or memeory specs on that site..
Two, I tried to look for that info on
cybico's us website and guess what? It gave me this error.
Sorry, to access to the page you need to enable "cookies" in your browser settings.
A "cookies" is a small amount of information that a web site copies to your computer.
If you use Internet Explorer 5.0, you have to do the following to enable "cookies":
Press 'Tools' on the top bar of Internet Explorer. Then press 'Internet Options' -> 'Security' and set medium or lower level of security. You can also press 'Custom' button in 'Security' options and set 'Allow per session cookies (not stored)' in 'Enable'.
If you use Internet Explorer 6.0, you have to do the following to enable "cookies":
Press 'Tools' on the top bar of Internet Explorer. Then press 'Internet Options' -> 'Security' and set medium or lower level of security. You can also press 'Advanced' button in 'Privacy' options and uncheck 'Override automatic cookie handling' box.
If you want to be notified when Internet Explorer accepts a cookie, check 'Override automatic cookie handling' and set 'First-party Cookies' & 'Third-party Cookies' in 'Prompt'.
If you use AOL 5.0:
On the 'My AOL' menu, click 'Preferences'. On the 'Preferences' window, click 'WWW', then press 'Security' tab. Set medium (or lower) level of security (or press 'Custom' button and set 'Allow per session cookies (not stored)' in 'Enable'). Click 'Ok'. If that does not work, please update to AOL 6.0.
If you use Netscape Navigator 4.7 or higher:
From the Edit menu, choose Preferences. Click the Advanced category. Click one of the radio buttons. If you want to be notified when Communicator accepts a cookie, check "Warn me before accepting a cookie."
can you belive the nerve of them? Not to mention their incredibly bad coding standards to make a site that can't handle these things graciously!
Bastards.
It really feels like they only made a token gesture towards using an x86 box. To be honest my next box will probably be a sunblade too (but hey, I'm gonna use it for a desktop;) Mind you this was a really good article, but I think they should have said that they were just more comfortable with sparc and that was that. There was another good article on a similar subject not long ago, on Anandtech's new server. For that article they benchmarked different configs (mobo, proc, etc) then did a price performace.. as far as I recall. And they chose AMD;)
It's been a little while but.... is this the window manager that says, all customizations are done in the source? I know I've come across at least one wm that had that philosophy.
Gee, you want a different color titlebar? Change the source.
My machine is a bit faster, so I took the luxury of downloading about a dozen window managers from Freshmeat, CAREFULLY read their instructions and./configure options, built and tested them all. I'm now using oroborus on all three boxes. Its fast, its light, its easy to configure. It requires two programs, one for the wm, one for the menu. Compile it with --enable-gnome=off --disable-debug, and well you get the idea. I'm no guru, but I've found that if I have the gnome libs installed, and programs, ie oroborus, xchat or almost anything else, compiled to enable gnome support run much slower. Compiling programs that optionally use gnome to not use gnome support speeds up almost everything.
/*---trying not to get flamed----*/
There is nothing wrong with Gnome, its just a tradeoff between looks and speed. I happen to go for speed in this case.
Read all the docs, and the output of./configure --help whenever you build packages, especially for old/lightweight machines.
here's the oroborus url
http://www.kensden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oroborus /
Really, this is just human behavior.
When we have all the time we want to work on our projects, they move at a snails pace... when we only have 2 hours a night, we cram through it.
Here's the deal-
The case was way to expensive. >$200, and it does nothing towards the goal of a fast-quiet gaming machine.
I would argue against picking up the extra special quiet power supply myself, but hey, he was going for quiet, I guess thats excuseable.
The CDRW drive is a waste unless you really don't have a cdrecorder in any of your other machines. A 52X CD-ROM is $100 cheaper, and does what you need for a gaming rig. Especially considering he's holding out for a DVDR drive.
Another $30 blown on rounded ide cables (if they matter THAT much to you, round the ide cables that came with the mobo while watching this weeks Enterprise)
Then he splurged for the SBLive Platinum instead of the basic, another 50-75 down the tubes.
Why am I whining about $320 on a "somewhat budget concience" machine because it only costs ~350$ to 375 build a box that performs almost as well as this, add $200 if you've really gotta have a gef3. The point is configuring a box like this isn't to make it quiet or a great gaming rig, at $2000 its a showy waste of money.
(the $230-just-because-its-shiny-case really set me off)
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Ok really. We all read the article, and it prettymuch said what we thought it would say. Only at rediculously high texture sizes did you get any bennefit from the 128 meg vs 64 meg. All of his numbers show it. After each test he comments how little difference it made... Then at the end he goes on and on about how you could get a 128meg card, cause its 1337, and really does make a difference. I'm sorry but please. He shows one thing and says another. Blahh.
Seriously, this is as good as an idea as they had.
They said, Gee we can sell a machine, at a loss, and tie people into only using our service!
Your saying, gee we can offer service at a loss, in hopes we'll make it up in advertising revenue!
And you both have the same fatal flaw. To easy to skirt your profit modle, and its LEGITIMATE to skirt it too, although in the end you'll probably use trumped up legal threats and such to frigten the few users you have left.
With the iopener you bought it it was yours to keep even if you didn't continue service. It was yours, you could cancel, hack and presto cheap pc in the slimmest case yet.
With your idea, junkbuster and a million and one other anti-add apps will keep you from making your $$. Hell if your going to do it like Bess (that shitty censorware program that decides to spam students and youths with wholesome adds) there would probably be netscape IE and mozilla plugins within a week to filter out the adds before it was displayed.
So will it work? Well why don't you make alot of hackers happy, and try?
I'm sorry. Somone probably thought this was a great deep and meaningfull peice of modern art...but blahh. Big deal. The problem with art nowadays is that artists think they are great philosophers, thinks and movers and shakers of the modern world. See in classic times, when they made real art, artists knew what they were. Entertainers.
Sure crushing a PC is entertaining...but I don't think thats what this guy is going for.
Blahh.
I guess it all depends on how you define an airplane. But if you define it as a self propelled flying contraption, well then, you gotta go with the Wrights.
While I agree with you in principle, if the airplane were invented with our current laws, it would be creddited to the germans. A german engineer designed a heavier than air craft, witha front mounted propeller and a Daimler Benz engine. Unfortunately DaimlerBenze sent him the wrong engine (too small) and he was too impatient, so he installed it anyway, and crashed into a lake before taking off. Still under current law he had the idea first, made the first attempt, so he would get it. Bahh
Well thats what it is. What I didn't notice is any posters suggesting the obvious. Start writing letters. Start sending e-mails. Tell them you will never use their airline again if they start using it.
You see the problem is, if one airline starts using it, and doesn't get boycotted out of the skies, others will follow suit. And after that, boom. We won't have a choice anymore, if we want to fly.
The airlines are not government agencies. They do not have the right to require this type of information or scan of us. If the government started using this type of technology, there would most likely be MANY regulations put into place, limmiting how and where it could be used. More importantly they would probably not be allowed to share the information with anyone other than other government agencies.
Now I'm paranoid of Big Brother getting to much nformation, and too much power. But like most slashdotters I'm more affraid of the folks with the real power getting to much power and info. The corporations that tend to run our governments.
The real article wasn't misleading, but the
slashdot synopsis is. Jim Henson Studios did not
"team up" with redhat. Redhat is just giddy over
the fact that JH's Studios bought a bunch of
copies. I like seeing linux advance as the rest
of us, but comon. Lets go with REAL advances.
If Mercedes Benz bought 2k copies of XP for their
existing servers, we woudln't say MB teams up with
MS.
Some people woudln't even bother responding to this.. but I'm feeling generous, so here ya go:
0 0
p ri l/msg00092.html
Start by reading this page, its
a general link page on v4l, that lists the best set of resources on the subject.
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
And this page about the tv wonder itself (scroll to the bottom to see which linux drivers it uses)
http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?9
You will see the tv wonder series uses the bttv chipset.
Then read these page, which is the home of the DRIVERS for the card you have. Guess what, configure your kernel right, and the'll be in there already!
http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net/
http://bytesex.org/bttv/
also you might wanna read this if you still have problems
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/livid-gatos/2001-A
Follow it all up by reading the xawtv homepage.
http://bytesex.org/xawtv/
As somone who has putzed with this a few times (on a slack box no less!) you should be able to get fast-forward, rewind et all pretty easily, provided you don't mind some playing around...and if anyone has some suggestions I'd appreciate it :)
;)
I use my setup soley as a recorder, and don't playback on the device itself.
A) record to a drive that is NFS exported, and use a video player that you can trick into playing incompleete files on disk. Try this with gtv aviplay plaympeg or the other simple players, and you'll see as much video as was recorded when you started the player process, but no more. I havn't played with this in awhile since B worked off the bat.
B) start recording to an mpeg file on the tv server. On the client: mkfifo file.mpg;wget --quiet --output-document=file.mpg ftp://name.of.server/name.of.mpg & plaympeg file.mpg
Choice B is what I'm currently using since how I'm trying A isn't working out... Also B seems to be less cpu intensive on the poor little tv server. This leaves a few things lacking like watching tv while I'm not recording it, and channel switching involves scripts I was too lazy to make into cgis...
dumpster dived cyrix: $0.00
ati aiw 128: $70.00 (two years old)
salvaged nic: $0.00
salvaged simms: $0.00
8 gig "BigFoot" HD: $65.00 (3-4 years old)
considering I only paid for two peices, and those many years ago, I'd say this is a FAR cheaper PVR and more fun
maybe I should get it a k6 300 though...
This is a big step but, where is a more scientific paper on the subject? The links on the page are about the same calliber imo.
Anyway like I was saying, this is a big step. I have to wonder if/when there planning on implanting the tissue patch into a living heart. Some of you were mentioning its use in a pacemaker, and thats not quite right. The reason this contracts so randomly, and is so sensitive, is most likely due to the lack of the bio-feedback mechinism that controlls heart rate (sorry I forget the name of the exact nerve and bundle that does this). The important test will be to stick this into a real heart, and see if the patch beats in sync with the rest. Not the other way around.
I'm sure the more acedemic release on this experiment talks about this. Anyone find links I didn't? I'd be quite interested to hear.
But its still VERY cool.
;)
I'd think there would be more decent home automation tools/devices around.
Unfortunately there isn't that much out there, and what there is mostly identical to what my 55 year old EE neighbor had from the 80's when he played with home automation on his vic 20.
Happily this article has some links and such that provide practical examples....
Still the best example home automation is the Coffee howto
I am not an engineer but.....
I'll understand it if nasa puts up a 500 lb satalite, or even a 1 ton satalite that has such a short lifespan. But come on. at 3.5 tons they couldn't have fitted it with at least enough energy collecting equipment to keep the thing in orbit?
Sure the equipment was dated, and some it probably worn out, but whats the real harm of leaving it up there and using it for parts or salvage for future missons?
Is the feasibility of making/expanding/fixing a space station out of these defunct satalites so remote?
Granted using parts of old satalites to fix or augment current satalites or stations would require them to be designed as such from the beginning. Still I would think the idea isn't origonal, or too far fetched to acheive.
I came to a similar solution myself, but remember, remote X is MUCH faster than vnc.
If you need fast/smooth graphics, kvm
If you need graphics and its a real OS, remote X
If its its a mac or windos, vnc.
So far I really havn't seen much use for running a vnc server on a *nix box, with telnet/ssh being so readily available, and remote x being so much faster than vnc.
They got gigabit off of fiberoptic and onto copper ;)
(which some said wasn't feasable), and modems up to 56k (which we all said was impossible)
so we just have to wait a few years until they make ethernet cards out of this
terabit ethernet anyone?
/me thinks his pci bus might not handle the throughput this would offer....
I'm sorry, but for that price this is way under engineered. The origonal bewulf cluster was made with components on par, for the day, as the celeron modle of the redstone, for far less. If your going to spend the time and money building and marketing systems like this, they could have done a better job. They suck mobos in a big case and eth linked them togeather. Call me crazy but I think for that much money you could get a small backplane, 8 industrial PC's (powerpc/copermine/whatever on a pci card each w/its own memory) toss em in and spend the rest of your "engineering" budget, making a patch to the kernel for reliable communication over the bus, instead of slow eth connections.
besides with the speed advantages shared memory brings to multiprocessing a quad xenon would probably outpreform this.. deffinately a quad proc ultrasparc but those are pricey even used...
This is actually a rather tough call for them. NZ has been pretty good, especially by today's weak standards, to protecting its enviornments and wildlife. The question is, what are they going to do? Try to anihilate the sponges to save their harbor's indigenous species and farms? That in itself might violate some of their statues. I'm not sure. On one hand I think its awful, and dangerous beyond any way we can measure, to start killing off a species because we think its a pest.
My bet is, he's a Bastard.
Yea he could be moron and really belive that, but here the quetions:
Does anything get installed HW or SW that he doesnt approve? no=bastard, yes=moron.
Are all of the schools servers running windows? yes=probably moron.
Is he pissed about the servers running windows?
yes=he's OK, no=deffinately moron.
There's really only two ways to go, he's either protecting his territory, making sure no one encroaches, or he's a moron.
That said, there are many excellent books about specific area's of computing and computation science in general. They would probably bore your father, or most people who arn't interested, to tears. Most of the good works on general computing arn't books, there articles and such. Acm classics probably has the best articles on the subject, but thats just my opinon, and you can't forget the jargon file. And not forget BOFH if he's had to do any support work. Anything much more specific than that, and you get into extreamly specific realms.
PS2's can't read burned CD's apparently.
The linux distro is stamped and sold for use ONLY in Japan afaik.
And finnaly the NetBSD port isn't really a full port, its just a kernel+bootloader that could be used, if it were stamped.
Did I get this all right?
It was one thing when NetBSD came out with support for AMD's X86-64bit, because there were emulators developers were supposed to use to get ready. So there was something to run it on.
This on the other hand...well, you just can't run it yet.
When I saw the headline, I thought, ohh wow,
- now
we can actually see it boot, but no.Its pretty agrivating a ps2 can't read burned disks
One, what's inside it? I dind't see processor or memeory specs on that site..
Two, I tried to look for that info on
cybico's us website
and guess what? It gave me this error.
Sorry, to access to the page you need to enable "cookies" in your browser settings.
A "cookies" is a small amount of information that a web site copies to your computer.
If you use Internet Explorer 5.0, you have to do the following to enable "cookies":
Press 'Tools' on the top bar of Internet Explorer. Then press 'Internet Options' -> 'Security' and set medium or lower level of security. You can also press 'Custom' button in 'Security' options and set 'Allow per session cookies (not stored)' in 'Enable'.
If you use Internet Explorer 6.0, you have to do the following to enable "cookies":
Press 'Tools' on the top bar of Internet Explorer. Then press 'Internet Options' -> 'Security' and set medium or lower level of security. You can also press 'Advanced' button in 'Privacy' options and uncheck 'Override automatic cookie handling' box.
If you want to be notified when Internet Explorer accepts a cookie, check 'Override automatic cookie handling' and set 'First-party Cookies' & 'Third-party Cookies' in 'Prompt'.
If you use AOL 5.0:
On the 'My AOL' menu, click 'Preferences'. On the 'Preferences' window, click 'WWW', then press 'Security' tab. Set medium (or lower) level of security (or press 'Custom' button and set 'Allow per session cookies (not stored)' in 'Enable'). Click 'Ok'. If that does not work, please update to AOL 6.0.
If you use Netscape Navigator 4.7 or higher:
From the Edit menu, choose Preferences. Click the Advanced category. Click one of the radio buttons. If you want to be notified when Communicator accepts a cookie, check "Warn me before accepting a cookie."
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can you belive the nerve of them? Not to mention their incredibly bad coding standards to make a site that can't handle these things graciously!
Bastards.
It really feels like they only made a token gesture towards using an x86 box. To be honest my next box will probably be a sunblade too (but hey, I'm gonna use it for a desktop ;) Mind you this was a really good article, but I think they should have said that they were just more comfortable with sparc and that was that. There was another good article on a similar subject not long ago, on Anandtech's new server. For that article they benchmarked different configs (mobo, proc, etc) then did a price performace.. as far as I recall. And they chose AMD ;)
It's been a little while but.... is this the window manager that says, all customizations are done in the source? I know I've come across at least one wm that had that philosophy.
Gee, you want a different color titlebar? Change the source.
My machine is a bit faster, so I took the luxury of downloading about a dozen window managers from Freshmeat, CAREFULLY read their instructions and ./configure options, built and tested them all. I'm now using oroborus on all three boxes. Its fast, its light, its easy to configure. It requires two programs, one for the wm, one for the menu. Compile it with --enable-gnome=off --disable-debug, and well you get the idea. I'm no guru, but I've found that if I have the gnome libs installed, and programs, ie oroborus, xchat or almost anything else, compiled to enable gnome support run much slower. Compiling programs that optionally use gnome to not use gnome support speeds up almost everything.
./configure --help whenever you build packages, especially for old/lightweight machines.
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There is nothing wrong with Gnome, its just a tradeoff between looks and speed. I happen to go for speed in this case.
Read all the docs, and the output of
here's the oroborus url
http://www.kensden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oroboru
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Really, this is just human behavior.
When we have all the time we want to work on our projects, they move at a snails pace... when we only have 2 hours a night, we cram through it.
No. Only possible ramifications. This really only decides what DVD's are under Austrailian law.
Trust me, Great Brittan, Mexico, Canada, China, and where I am, the US, do not follow Aussie law.
Just because one country decides something is so under their own law, doesn't make it so under anyone elses.
Here's the deal-
The case was way to expensive. >$200, and it does nothing towards the goal of a fast-quiet gaming machine.
I would argue against picking up the extra special quiet power supply myself, but hey, he was going for quiet, I guess thats excuseable.
The CDRW drive is a waste unless you really don't have a cdrecorder in any of your other machines. A 52X CD-ROM is $100 cheaper, and does what you need for a gaming rig. Especially considering he's holding out for a DVDR drive.
Another $30 blown on rounded ide cables (if they matter THAT much to you, round the ide cables that came with the mobo while watching this weeks Enterprise)
Then he splurged for the SBLive Platinum instead of the basic, another 50-75 down the tubes.
Why am I whining about $320 on a "somewhat budget concience" machine because it only costs ~350$ to 375 build a box that performs almost as well as this, add $200 if you've really gotta have a gef3. The point is configuring a box like this isn't to make it quiet or a great gaming rig, at $2000 its a showy waste of money.
(the $230-just-because-its-shiny-case really set me off)