Unlike Unix, Linux folks didn't have the source of Windows / didn't study the source in a college class. As far as "look and feel", "workalike", "mimicry" -- Apple sued Microsoft for the very same thing, and the judge threw it out, so the precedent is that is A-OK.
The only thing left is reverse-engineering protocols, which Kotar-Kelly has decreed Microsoft illegally maintained its Monopoly with anyway.
I went and bought a Brita (Carbon?) filter pitcher ($25 + 1 filter). Replacement filters are (I think) $16 for 3. Each filter lasts about 2 months.
I wonder if (a) I'm a chump, (b) the stupid filter thing does anything useful, or (c) it's just like drinking tap water anyway. My *idea* was I'd be getting essentially what I'd get in bottled water but save money.
Computer power is a wierd thing. Sure, in some situtations, the computer spends most of its time waiting for input. But, give a faster computer a try, and experience the goodness of much faster:
*kernel compiles (unless I am mistaken gcc is typically compute bound?) *compressing/encoding things -- decoding/playback doesn't need much *gaming goodness!
If anybody cares, the NT boot sector is O/S code..
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When I was there till recently, I asked for and got read-only access to the NT codebase. I was dicking around with Bochs, reading the Intel arch. manual. To kind of see what was going on, I found and read the code for the NT boot sector that bootstraps from real-mode to protected mode, and then continues in the "real OS"
That file is dated 1987, OS/2 1.0 joint code with Microsoft and IBM. It must be the last OS/2 code still in there. I dunno, it just struck me as funny as hell to find code from 1987 OS/2 driving the WinXP/Server2003 boot sector!
Make some jokes or something. That sure is what we in the south call a "Shit-Eatin' Grin" ol' Billy is wearing. He'll give you the HEEBIE JEEBIES.
(1) Serious philosophical principles. The only people to say GNU/Linux with a straight face. People concerned with my liberty above all else.
(2) No Prepackaged Experience. I run Fluxbox, Gnome-Terminal, Mozilla, and Konqueror, and have a proper GTK/KDE library environment. It all works the way I want it.
(3) The system state is transactional. Glitz is antithetical to transactionality. Glitz hides transactions. I like transactions.
(4) No waiting forever to compile stuff pointlessly.
I would love to see another installment of LSL. The only game (or movie, or anything) that literally made me fall out of my chair laughing (something In Passionate Pattie).
KQIV, SQIII, and PQ1 were some of my favorite games as a kid. I wish they could find some way to capture the flavor using updated tech. Maybe they should let us type commands instead of using the mouse again... I dunno... Games just aren't as fun any more.
My 250GB drives were like $275 ea. at Frys. Not cheap, but not an insane amount of $.
Yes, it's about 11 CDs per DVD. Usually a bit more; most albums don't fill up a whole CD.
Thanks for making me feel all "ahead of the curve" with the disk space issue. I got spoiled where I used to work -- we had 10 1.5 TB SANs, and one 4 TB thingy, and I got to play with all of em. Funny thing is for desktop scenarios my $500 of disks is speed-comprable to a $100,000 SAN (that's single-user mind you; multi-user is way different). But SANS in general are the biggest rippoff in the industry, IMO.
You have to realize your bias towards lossy is a temporary phenonmenon. I have 500 GB in my PC now, and just use Flac. I can backup everything on a reasonable number of DVDs, just like a in 97 I could back up everything on a reasonable # of CDs.
Percussion sounds better in Flac. And the whole thing has more energy, more life force, more kick-you-in-the-gut than lossy. Flac has more "bite."
You take the way Phil Lesh sounded during the peak of say Terrapin Station (or anything with a lot of gut-punching bass). That feeling live, can't be captured on even a CD (the acoustic energy can't be captured). Whatever "feeling" you lose from live -> CD, I feel like a lose another level when I go to lossy. Go figure.
Okay, remember when you were 16 and got some alcohol? It was a big huge deal, you made a huge fuss about it, told stories about it, and generally acted immature.
Flash forward: now, you'll MAYBE drink a beer or have a few drinks, but unless you're a drunk you don't obsess over it, spend all your time thinking about it. You drink light beer, drink responsibly, try not to get wasted amoung your respectible friends, and are usually more interested in a conversation than your drink. You don't talk about your drink. You just drink.
Now: consider folks from Holland. You might not know this, but they prefer to mix tobacco with their pot when they smoke it, because it cuts down the smell and makes the experience more social and less -- whatever. Just like we drink light beer and not moonshine.
And I've seen a guy from Holland get passed a bong, and spend WAY more time finishing his conversation before he took a hit, whereas even your coolest American pot smoker will rather quickly take a toke.
In short, it is possible to have a healthy, mature, moderate, temperate view towards pot, and to use it in small amounts, watered down, and in a proper context. It's the incrimination which causes fienddom. Legalize it, and watch it become not too big a deal, at least amoung respectable successful people, except for "pot drunks".
Pot can be used responsibly like alcohol. The legalizers need to stop envisioning a world where it's okay to get smashed, and the demonizers need to chill. Just equate light beer == pot+tobacco./soapbox
Okay, I'm OT, but this sentiment reminds me of this girl that loved to skydive. We'd ask her "admit it; you're doing this because you love the thrill of risking death."
She'd say: "If you're so stupid that you f' up and can't land correctly and got yourself killed, then it's your own damn fault. You deserved it."
No malice, just: saying: you're a damn fool who deserved it. I LOVE that attitude. I know I'm gonna read about her going splat one of these decades or other though. Just like everybody I know with a motorcycle eventually has that story where they hurt their back unusually severely but they don't usually die. It just goes with the territory.
I just love the attitude of: do it, or you f'd up and didn't do it. Either way, it's your own damn fault. More people should think like that.
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Jeez louise, that first year they came out (before the Math teachers were aware of their existance) was sweet. You could just blantantly be fiddling with your watch during a math test and no one would know what you were doing. By the next year they'd caught on.
Are there any purists out their who don't allow calculators in math anymore? Last I checked almost all students use graphing calculators (wimps!)
The actual number of people maintaining the NT Kernel is comparable. The Kernel perf team (with whom I worked) is about 3 people. That total team responsible for the kernel is maybe 50 people -- similar #s for SQL Server.
There are hordes of "evangelists" and "managers" surrounding the core team. But within the small core group, the personalities and philosphies of the NT team and the Linux folks are remarkably similar, with the minor exception that neither understands why the hell the other exists!
It's ironic you say that. At the June 2000 and June 2001 company meetings, Microsoft had this awful tape of the Ali-Frazier fight, comparing themselves to Ali vs. the DOJ's Frazier. It was so fucking gay, I almost crapped my pants.
Whenever you utter the phrase [Group A] [negative-verb] [Group B], reverse Group A and Group B, and attempt to imagine some context in which the statement could be true. Or, subsitute the opposite of [negative-verb] with the original group ordering, and attempt to imagine some context in which the statement could be true. If it works, you have the property of FALSIFIABILITY, the mark of good science and hence good logic.
Group B never understands this, until it becomes Group A, at which time it exhibits the exact same behavior as A (and in fairness vice versa).
The word "Zion" made me uncomfortable. It seemed a little progaganda-ish, nothing to do with the plot, just using the word so much, drilling it into your head, just the psychology of using the word so much. It's such an overloaded word.
I'm a rabid Isreal-backer, supported the war, and am more than happy to accomodate all Muslims who want to be martyred, but really, the concept of a state founded on a religion is really bullshit.
Is this acceptable, or another mis-step down the slippery slope?
It's my personal opinion that playing Big Brother is SUCH a dangerous intoxicant, that it is no way ever acceptable. However, this does not mean some times it is not necessary. (The conculusion to draw is that it is sometimes necessary to do unacceptable things.)
I used to know this guy, well, let me just say he built a lot of airfields in Honduras in the 80's okay? I asked him: "Is Big Brother here?" He said: "When he wants to be."
We cannot avoid that sometimes our government *needs* to do sneaky, underhanded, yet wonderfully effective shit. This ain't one of those times.
Yah I just meant ripping the DVD uncompressed ~ 4.7 GB. Where the hell would I get 1.9 TB of Movie? Is that what will come in over HDTV - 1.9 TB of data to watch one movie?
Same here. I bought 2 250 GB hard drives, and just encode to FLAC. 91 albums (so far) = 26.3 GB. Back up to DVD. Basically, movies today are to music a few years ago: still need to compress em.
I expect by late 2005 I'll have a couple of terabytes and just rip movies unocompressed too.
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Unlike Unix, Linux folks didn't have the source of Windows / didn't study the source in a college class. As far as "look and feel", "workalike", "mimicry" -- Apple sued Microsoft for the very same thing, and the judge threw it out, so the precedent is that is A-OK.
The only thing left is reverse-engineering protocols, which Kotar-Kelly has decreed Microsoft illegally maintained its Monopoly with anyway.
Classic Fud.
OSS = tasty software, good, feel happy
comparing it to affirmative action: head explodes
run, duck for cover, wait for better philosophers... current crop not up to job...
Really, I'm on a huge OSS-Lovin' kick right now, but let's not get all commie about it...
I went and bought a Brita (Carbon?) filter pitcher ($25 + 1 filter). Replacement filters are (I think) $16 for 3. Each filter lasts about 2 months.
I wonder if (a) I'm a chump, (b) the stupid filter thing does anything useful, or (c) it's just like drinking tap water anyway. My *idea* was I'd be getting essentially what I'd get in bottled water but save money.
Anybody know?
Computer power is a wierd thing. Sure, in some situtations, the computer spends most of its time waiting for input. But, give a faster computer a try, and experience the goodness of much faster:
*kernel compiles (unless I am mistaken gcc is typically compute bound?)
*compressing/encoding things -- decoding/playback doesn't need much
*gaming goodness!
When I was there till recently, I asked for and got read-only access to the NT codebase. I was dicking around with Bochs, reading the Intel arch. manual. To kind of see what was going on, I found and read the code for the NT boot sector that bootstraps from real-mode to protected mode, and then continues in the "real OS"
That file is dated 1987, OS/2 1.0 joint code with Microsoft and IBM. It must be the last OS/2 code still in there. I dunno, it just struck me as funny as hell to find code from 1987 OS/2 driving the WinXP/Server2003 boot sector!
Make some jokes or something. That sure is what we in the south call a "Shit-Eatin' Grin" ol' Billy is wearing. He'll give you the HEEBIE JEEBIES.
Why I like Debian:
(1) Serious philosophical principles. The only people to say GNU/Linux with a straight face. People concerned with my liberty above all else.
(2) No Prepackaged Experience. I run Fluxbox, Gnome-Terminal, Mozilla, and Konqueror, and have a proper GTK/KDE library environment. It all works the way I want it.
(3) The system state is transactional. Glitz is antithetical to transactionality. Glitz hides transactions. I like transactions.
(4) No waiting forever to compile stuff pointlessly.
#1 is the crucial element. Liberty is paramount.
I would love to see another installment of LSL. The only game (or movie, or anything) that literally made me fall out of my chair laughing (something In Passionate Pattie).
KQIV, SQIII, and PQ1 were some of my favorite games as a kid. I wish they could find some way to capture the flavor using updated tech. Maybe they should let us type commands instead of using the mouse again... I dunno... Games just aren't as fun any more.
Nah, it's Genstead.
My 250GB drives were like $275 ea. at Frys. Not cheap, but not an insane amount of $.
Yes, it's about 11 CDs per DVD. Usually a bit more; most albums don't fill up a whole CD.
Thanks for making me feel all "ahead of the curve" with the disk space issue. I got spoiled where I used to work -- we had 10 1.5 TB SANs, and one 4 TB thingy, and I got to play with all of em. Funny thing is for desktop scenarios my $500 of disks is speed-comprable to a $100,000 SAN (that's single-user mind you; multi-user is way different). But SANS in general are the biggest rippoff in the industry, IMO.
You have to realize your bias towards lossy is a temporary phenonmenon. I have 500 GB in my PC now, and just use Flac. I can backup everything on a reasonable number of DVDs, just like a in 97 I could back up everything on a reasonable # of CDs.
Percussion sounds better in Flac. And the whole thing has more energy, more life force, more kick-you-in-the-gut than lossy. Flac has more "bite."
You take the way Phil Lesh sounded during the peak of say Terrapin Station (or anything with a lot of gut-punching bass). That feeling live, can't be captured on even a CD (the acoustic energy can't be captured). Whatever "feeling" you lose from live -> CD, I feel like a lose another level when I go to lossy. Go figure.
POT: IT DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT.
/soapbox
Okay, remember when you were 16 and got some alcohol? It was a big huge deal, you made a huge fuss about it, told stories about it, and generally acted immature.
Flash forward: now, you'll MAYBE drink a beer or have a few drinks, but unless you're a drunk you don't obsess over it, spend all your time thinking about it. You drink light beer, drink responsibly, try not to get wasted amoung your respectible friends, and are usually more interested in a conversation than your drink. You don't talk about your drink. You just drink.
Now: consider folks from Holland. You might not know this, but they prefer to mix tobacco with their pot when they smoke it, because it cuts down the smell and makes the experience more social and less -- whatever. Just like we drink light beer and not moonshine.
And I've seen a guy from Holland get passed a bong, and spend WAY more time finishing his conversation before he took a hit, whereas even your coolest American pot smoker will rather quickly take a toke.
In short, it is possible to have a healthy, mature, moderate, temperate view towards pot, and to use it in small amounts, watered down, and in a proper context. It's the incrimination which causes fienddom. Legalize it, and watch it become not too big a deal, at least amoung respectable successful people, except for "pot drunks".
Pot can be used responsibly like alcohol. The legalizers need to stop envisioning a world where it's okay to get smashed, and the demonizers need to chill. Just equate light beer == pot+tobacco.
That's SHALL we play a game?
And you forgot to say "game" funny.
Okay, I'm OT, but this sentiment reminds me of this girl that loved to skydive. We'd ask her "admit it; you're doing this because you love the thrill of risking death."
She'd say: "If you're so stupid that you f' up and can't land correctly and got yourself killed, then it's your own damn fault. You deserved it."
No malice, just: saying: you're a damn fool who deserved it. I LOVE that attitude. I know I'm gonna read about her going splat one of these decades or other though. Just like everybody I know with a motorcycle eventually has that story where they hurt their back unusually severely but they don't usually die. It just goes with the territory.
I just love the attitude of: do it, or you f'd up and didn't do it. Either way, it's your own damn fault. More people should think like that.
Jeez louise, that first year they came out (before the Math teachers were aware of their existance) was sweet. You could just blantantly be fiddling with your watch during a math test and no one would know what you were doing. By the next year they'd caught on.
Are there any purists out their who don't allow calculators in math anymore? Last I checked almost all students use graphing calculators (wimps!)
The actual number of people maintaining the NT Kernel is comparable. The Kernel perf team (with whom I worked) is about 3 people. That total team responsible for the kernel is maybe 50 people -- similar #s for SQL Server.
There are hordes of "evangelists" and "managers" surrounding the core team. But within the small core group, the personalities and philosphies of the NT team and the Linux folks are remarkably similar, with the minor exception that neither understands why the hell the other exists!
Gee, they are threatening customers for using an unreleased version of the Kernel? How many customers run 2.5 in production?
It's ironic you say that. At the June 2000 and June 2001 company meetings, Microsoft had this awful tape of the Ali-Frazier fight, comparing themselves to Ali vs. the DOJ's Frazier. It was so fucking gay, I almost crapped my pants.
Microsoft BOOM ALL YAY groan
Whenever you utter the phrase [Group A] [negative-verb] [Group B], reverse Group A and Group B, and attempt to imagine some context in which the statement could be true. Or, subsitute the opposite of [negative-verb] with the original group ordering, and attempt to imagine some context in which the statement could be true. If it works, you have the property of FALSIFIABILITY, the mark of good science and hence good logic.
Group B never understands this, until it becomes Group A, at which time it exhibits the exact same behavior as A (and in fairness vice versa).
Be more interesting!
Yeah, that was no big deal -- as a matter of fact, I've only ever used 2.4.20. Using Debian's kernel-source-2.4.20 and even the vanilla kernel. I followed these directions: http://space.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina@tin.it/d ebian/fglrx-installer.html
But does anybody know how to get the fglrx ATI driver working on the 2.5.xx kernels? Or what are those other drivers?
The word "Zion" made me uncomfortable. It seemed a little progaganda-ish, nothing to do with the plot, just using the word so much, drilling it into your head, just the psychology of using the word so much. It's such an overloaded word.
I'm a rabid Isreal-backer, supported the war, and am more than happy to accomodate all Muslims who want to be martyred, but really, the concept of a state founded on a religion is really bullshit.
Is this acceptable, or another mis-step down the slippery slope?
It's my personal opinion that playing Big Brother is SUCH a dangerous intoxicant, that it is no way ever acceptable. However, this does not mean some times it is not necessary. (The conculusion to draw is that it is sometimes necessary to do unacceptable things.)
I used to know this guy, well, let me just say he built a lot of airfields in Honduras in the 80's okay? I asked him: "Is Big Brother here?" He said: "When he wants to be."
We cannot avoid that sometimes our government *needs* to do sneaky, underhanded, yet wonderfully effective shit. This ain't one of those times.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/State/may00/katz21052 000a.asp
Yah I just meant ripping the DVD uncompressed ~ 4.7 GB. Where the hell would I get 1.9 TB of Movie? Is that what will come in over HDTV - 1.9 TB of data to watch one movie?
Same here. I bought 2 250 GB hard drives, and just encode to FLAC. 91 albums (so far) = 26.3 GB. Back up to DVD. Basically, movies today are to music a few years ago: still need to compress em.
I expect by late 2005 I'll have a couple of terabytes and just rip movies unocompressed too.