This is so ridiculous that I'm still thinking you're joking. Either that or you haven't been in education for a long time.
I'm a CS student. We often have the choice of buying an outdated EUR 6 hardcopy of a lecture script (without TOC or index), printing some 200 pages (on a printer quota that's sufficient for 150) or viewing the constantly updated script on-screen with search functionality. This holds true for at least four courses per semester. Without PCs, we'd be royally screwed.
In most appartment buildings for students, the network is provided by the university over a 2MBit line with at least 10% packet loss, high lag and a 650MiB/month quota (traffic inside the uni network isn't counted). Bozos who don't get the rules get blocked at the inhouse switch.
If they'd try to ban PCs they'd get only one thing: open revolt. I mean the stuff with burning administration buildings. Literally. Plus it'd be mostly unenforceable in countries with things like individual freedom. Oh, there's also the need to at least quadruple the number of terminals across the campus.
[...] most IDE hard drives are perfectly happy without any cooling whatsoever.
But they won't get old. Manufacturers and tests show that a relatively small (10K) increase in temperature can significantly decrease a drive's lifetime. There's not much needed to keep a consumer drive cool, though. A low-noise fan (80mm, 1500RPM) keeps the temperature of my drives so low that they don't feel warm to the touch while they get quite toasty without the airflow.
Now, that's a p(r)etty sly action Dan pulled there. Get a post through on slashdot (and crosslink it on your page), put a pointer towards your webhost on your page, PROFIT.
Would it be possible for someone, let's say the writer of the VM system or any other extremely important subsystem, to put his work under a pseudo non-free license that explicitly forbids re-licensing the code? That way, SCO would suddenly have someone with a strong case against them since, at the moment, they're giving out licenses for the whole kernel. Bonus points if all "non-0wnz0red" parts of the kernel migrated to that license.
XFree can handle screen DPI so that all other applications can use it productively. That's a pretty good base to build on. And no one yell "X sucks" now. Any framework that provides that measure would be suitable!
Now that gives you a way to make measurements unrelated to screen resolution. Handling fonts becomes ridiculously easy, and from my experience it's taken into account quite nicely. Just try fiddling with the physical screen measurements in your XF86Config.
Now, where KDE comes in is the part when we aren't talking about pure text anymore. KDE has at least the ability to handle icons created from SVG source which scale "lossless" and could also be tailored to use the resolution-independent measures.
Most groups I know have friends or relatives that do the website. No high-dollar web dork to pay. Server cost is negligible.
This holds true as long as we're talking about the static presence of a single band or perhaps a collection of not-so-mainstream artists. If you're trying to have a bigger portal, you're in trouble.
c't (German comp/tech magazine) has a short article in the current issue about some guy who had his web presence's password hacked (was 'password76', go figure) and had some illegal music files put there. In about one week, there was 1.33 terabyte of transfer which was good for a bill of more than 6000 EUR. Now, if you're offering downloadable content and perhaps niceties liek streaming, all bets are off.
5000 people paying $12 a year, is decent money, more money than you'd make trying to sell mp3s.
That's 60 metric kilobucks/year. You're sooo dead on that amount, it'd barely (if at all) pay the infrastructure. IMO, a fair charge for "premium" content, in our case music files, is absolutely necessary; otherwise, you'd charge the whole community for those who actually use the bandwidth.
You could very well offer blogs, information, perhaps ticket sale, etc. for the flat subscription fee. I think one or two bucks/month would be a fair payment for that service. After that, the $2-$5 for an album (though I'd prefer per-track payment) would still be OK, and you could offer those sales to non-members also (see next paragraph).
The main problem you're facing with a subscription based model is that - unless you're offering the whole spectrum available in your field - few people could be bothered to join all the punk, rock, pop, metal, techno, classic and whatnot communities to get what they want. This is a little toned down because a lot of folks "specialize", but it's still an issue. <pr0n>Maybe that's why AdultCheck is successful - they're offering a generic age verification service and a more or less centralized payment scheme. There's so much to learn from that old industry.</pr0n>
It was somewhat strange. on the one hand, the keys are placed in an order that was meant to slow typing down, but on the other hand, this system was ultimately beaten by the simple fact that typists just learned how to type fast with this system, including fixed positions for the hands with only the fingers moving.
IMO, this is becoming more damaging today, because with a mechanical typewriter you actually have to move the keys a good way with a force while on "modern" keyboards, you just have to move the keys a few millimeters (if they're moving at all, with those zero-force, zero-travel keyboards), and on several keyboards, the springs are just about strong enough to keep the keycaps up.
Could it be that ten-finger-typing as it was invented for typewriters is dangerous? I mean, RSI is caused by repetitive small movements, and 10-finger typing was invented to keep movement small. Combined with the little way keys on a typical keyboard travel compared to keys on a typewriter, I see a possible connection. Now, if you type like me (all fingers in use, travel pattern could be used as random generator for cryptography), movements are far larger. As for the mouse: play a shooter now and then, it works wonders;-)
Jabber can use GPG. The only downside is that a two-character message like "no" gets blown up to quite a big chunk. The thing AIM is doing reads like something similar (encrypted message body with world-readable routing information) according to the section "Advantages of Digital Certificates over SSL for encryption" (see the "details" link). Only they won't be using an open scheme for this.
In fact, leeway is the default and rules are the exception.
By definition of default, this would mean that leeway is granted because we don't know what to do in a given situation. Does this mean that knowing what to do can be bad under certain circumstances?
In my dictionary, there's no instance of "default" listed with the meaning "standard". Why is it always used like this?
First time, I saw it in sneak preview (one hour before the pre-premiere began, at half the price). The German dubbed version. They somehow got the voices... wrong. Really, Morpheus sounds like a 3 year old.
Tonight, I'm gonna see it OV. All this in spite of the movie being a little sub-standard. It's rather cool, but also terribly overloaded with effects.
Did I mention that I'll probably buy the DVD? And did I mention that I'll probably rip the DVD because I can't afford a second player at the moment?
I've found that low frequency sounds are quite soporiferous. However the SilentDrive doesn't entirely mask the high pitched whine of my Maxtor 740DX (also the SilentDrive's build quality is absolute poo) and it is that sound that I hear quite clearly on those nights that I just can't quite get to sleep.
I can really recommend the Barracuda V. It may be a little more expensive an deliver a little less data transfer (still enough to record fullsize PAL video, so who cares...), but it comes with some insulation already installed and is surprisingly quiet. There's no high-pitched whine to speak of, and I'm really sensitive to that. Seeking is also not really loud, but that's about standard for todays consumer drives with acoustic management.
Interestingly too, the resistor slowed Zalman casefans are far louder than the Enermax PSU fans. Does anyone know if I dare reduce the voltage on the case fans even more?
If you want truly optimized fans, try Verax (US vendor if you're interested in shipping the stuff over a customs border twice). A little more expensive, but according to a friend of mine the best you can get if you want good airflow at zero noise. Otherwise, as I already said, the slow Papst fans are great value.
I have a coolermaster case, so I figured the sound gets transfered easily through the entire metal body. I was right; I made myself some rubber washers and isolated all the fans from the case and the difference in noise was very noticeable.
You can try to pad the case inside with... *tadaaa* cardboard. Just stick some double-sided tape to the case, cut up a moving box (the nice wavy-type cardboard) and cover the sides and the drive slots. It might look a little ghetto, but who looks inside an office machine. Also, most of todays brand-name cases are built for ventilation, not silence. Make sure that the case is really heavy with good tight-fitting sidedoors and as few holes as necessary.
But anyway back to the Radeon stock fan. Removing my NVidia 440MX stock fan was the most noticeable change I made! Zalman GPU passive coolers are pretty cheap. It may be worth checking them out if you want that little bit more silence for your dad's box.
You mean the big block with the heatpipe? Yes, I already thought about those but could never bring myself to try and cool a big hot 0.15 chip with one of those. Thanks for the info anyway:-)
I built a PC for my father. The requirement was: it has to be almost dead silent. Now, he's working on an Athlon XP 2000+ with a Radeon 8500 and you almost have to look for the power-LED to tell if the thing is running. Also, the "whole" thing (wasn't a whole PC, but almost) came at about EUR750-800; today I'd guess you could get the parts for at least EUR150 less.
All stock compopnents, a VIA KT400 mainboard, the 2000+ CPU, 512MB of PC333 DDR-Memory and the Radeon 8500 wth the stock fan. The CPU is cooled by a Thermaltake SK-7 copper monster with a 1500RPM Papst fan on it. The PSU is a 300W Blacknoise. HDD is a Seagate Barracuda V. All that in a leftover tower case without an additional casefan is almost inaudible, sufficiently fast even for most if not all games and the CPU temperature maxes out at 51 deg. C.
The system has a good-quality video signal, is extensible and was actually affordable. The only downside is that it's not really small, but you could easily stuff it inside a mini-tower and keep it well-coled with a 1500RPM case fan. If you're not looking for something small and stylish, that's the way I recommend.
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This is so ridiculous that I'm still thinking you're joking. Either that or you haven't been in education for a long time.
I'm a CS student. We often have the choice of buying an outdated EUR 6 hardcopy of a lecture script (without TOC or index), printing some 200 pages (on a printer quota that's sufficient for 150) or viewing the constantly updated script on-screen with search functionality. This holds true for at least four courses per semester. Without PCs, we'd be royally screwed.
In most appartment buildings for students, the network is provided by the university over a 2MBit line with at least 10% packet loss, high lag and a 650MiB/month quota (traffic inside the uni network isn't counted). Bozos who don't get the rules get blocked at the inhouse switch.
If they'd try to ban PCs they'd get only one thing: open revolt. I mean the stuff with burning administration buildings. Literally. Plus it'd be mostly unenforceable in countries with things like individual freedom. Oh, there's also the need to at least quadruple the number of terminals across the campus.
Ah. If it's for the job, you're forgiven ;-) Who am I to judge music taste anyway? I actually did like the Buffy Musical Episode...
If "nazi" is for folk music... WTF is the "shit music" folder for?!?
But they won't get old. Manufacturers and tests show that a relatively small (10K) increase in temperature can significantly decrease a drive's lifetime. There's not much needed to keep a consumer drive cool, though. A low-noise fan (80mm, 1500RPM) keeps the temperature of my drives so low that they don't feel warm to the touch while they get quite toasty without the airflow.
Sorry.
'nuff said.
Now if only someone could tell the communists the difference (i.e. what's making Linux work), communism could be the next big thing. Ahhh, Dreams.
Perhaps it's the fact that while each communist party has fallen prey to corruption while Linux/OSS refuses to do so.
Fails for me, too. Apparently XRenderQueryFilters() returns a null pointer. xdpyinfo shows the RENDER extension.
Now, that's a p(r)etty sly action Dan pulled there. Get a post through on slashdot (and crosslink it on your page), put a pointer towards your webhost on your page, PROFIT.
Would it be possible for someone, let's say the writer of the VM system or any other extremely important subsystem, to put his work under a pseudo non-free license that explicitly forbids re-licensing the code? That way, SCO would suddenly have someone with a strong case against them since, at the moment, they're giving out licenses for the whole kernel. Bonus points if all "non-0wnz0red" parts of the kernel migrated to that license.
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That's what you wanted to say, so say it.
XFree can handle screen DPI so that all other applications can use it productively. That's a pretty good base to build on. And no one yell "X sucks" now. Any framework that provides that measure would be suitable!
Now that gives you a way to make measurements unrelated to screen resolution. Handling fonts becomes ridiculously easy, and from my experience it's taken into account quite nicely. Just try fiddling with the physical screen measurements in your XF86Config.
Now, where KDE comes in is the part when we aren't talking about pure text anymore. KDE has at least the ability to handle icons created from SVG source which scale "lossless" and could also be tailored to use the resolution-independent measures.
This holds true as long as we're talking about the static presence of a single band or perhaps a collection of not-so-mainstream artists. If you're trying to have a bigger portal, you're in trouble.
c't (German comp/tech magazine) has a short article in the current issue about some guy who had his web presence's password hacked (was 'password76', go figure) and had some illegal music files put there. In about one week, there was 1.33 terabyte of transfer which was good for a bill of more than 6000 EUR. Now, if you're offering downloadable content and perhaps niceties liek streaming, all bets are off.
That's 60 metric kilobucks/year. You're sooo dead on that amount, it'd barely (if at all) pay the infrastructure. IMO, a fair charge for "premium" content, in our case music files, is absolutely necessary; otherwise, you'd charge the whole community for those who actually use the bandwidth.
You could very well offer blogs, information, perhaps ticket sale, etc. for the flat subscription fee. I think one or two bucks/month would be a fair payment for that service. After that, the $2-$5 for an album (though I'd prefer per-track payment) would still be OK, and you could offer those sales to non-members also (see next paragraph).
The main problem you're facing with a subscription based model is that - unless you're offering the whole spectrum available in your field - few people could be bothered to join all the punk, rock, pop, metal, techno, classic and whatnot communities to get what they want. This is a little toned down because a lot of folks "specialize", but it's still an issue. <pr0n>Maybe that's why AdultCheck is successful - they're offering a generic age verification service and a more or less centralized payment scheme. There's so much to learn from that old industry.</pr0n>
Where's the "-1, WRONG!" moderation when you need it?
Quick trivia: How long has OSX been around and what comes to mind when comparing the answer with the age of QNX?
It was somewhat strange. on the one hand, the keys are placed in an order that was meant to slow typing down, but on the other hand, this system was ultimately beaten by the simple fact that typists just learned how to type fast with this system, including fixed positions for the hands with only the fingers moving.
IMO, this is becoming more damaging today, because with a mechanical typewriter you actually have to move the keys a good way with a force while on "modern" keyboards, you just have to move the keys a few millimeters (if they're moving at all, with those zero-force, zero-travel keyboards), and on several keyboards, the springs are just about strong enough to keep the keycaps up.
Could it be that ten-finger-typing as it was invented for typewriters is dangerous? I mean, RSI is caused by repetitive small movements, and 10-finger typing was invented to keep movement small. Combined with the little way keys on a typical keyboard travel compared to keys on a typewriter, I see a possible connection. Now, if you type like me (all fingers in use, travel pattern could be used as random generator for cryptography), movements are far larger. As for the mouse: play a shooter now and then, it works wonders ;-)
Jabber can use GPG. The only downside is that a two-character message like "no" gets blown up to quite a big chunk. The thing AIM is doing reads like something similar (encrypted message body with world-readable routing information) according to the section "Advantages of Digital Certificates over SSL for encryption" (see the "details" link). Only they won't be using an open scheme for this.
By definition of default, this would mean that leeway is granted because we don't know what to do in a given situation. Does this mean that knowing what to do can be bad under certain circumstances?
In my dictionary, there's no instance of "default" listed with the meaning "standard". Why is it always used like this?
First time, I saw it in sneak preview (one hour before the pre-premiere began, at half the price). The German dubbed version. They somehow got the voices... wrong. Really, Morpheus sounds like a 3 year old.
Tonight, I'm gonna see it OV. All this in spite of the movie being a little sub-standard. It's rather cool, but also terribly overloaded with effects.
Did I mention that I'll probably buy the DVD? And did I mention that I'll probably rip the DVD because I can't afford a second player at the moment?
Too bad that they're coming up with 2003 sometimes "soon".
But since you said "Yen" instead of "USD", it's just ignored by the US-bashing folks like me...
Willya, please?
OK, so I was too slow and all the good ones were taken! So what?
I can really recommend the Barracuda V. It may be a little more expensive an deliver a little less data transfer (still enough to record fullsize PAL video, so who cares...), but it comes with some insulation already installed and is surprisingly quiet. There's no high-pitched whine to speak of, and I'm really sensitive to that. Seeking is also not really loud, but that's about standard for todays consumer drives with acoustic management.
If you want truly optimized fans, try Verax (US vendor if you're interested in shipping the stuff over a customs border twice). A little more expensive, but according to a friend of mine the best you can get if you want good airflow at zero noise. Otherwise, as I already said, the slow Papst fans are great value.
You can try to pad the case inside with... *tadaaa* cardboard. Just stick some double-sided tape to the case, cut up a moving box (the nice wavy-type cardboard) and cover the sides and the drive slots. It might look a little ghetto, but who looks inside an office machine. Also, most of todays brand-name cases are built for ventilation, not silence. Make sure that the case is really heavy with good tight-fitting sidedoors and as few holes as necessary.
You mean the big block with the heatpipe? Yes, I already thought about those but could never bring myself to try and cool a big hot 0.15 chip with one of those. Thanks for the info anyway :-)
I built a PC for my father. The requirement was: it has to be almost dead silent. Now, he's working on an Athlon XP 2000+ with a Radeon 8500 and you almost have to look for the power-LED to tell if the thing is running. Also, the "whole" thing (wasn't a whole PC, but almost) came at about EUR750-800; today I'd guess you could get the parts for at least EUR150 less.
All stock compopnents, a VIA KT400 mainboard, the 2000+ CPU, 512MB of PC333 DDR-Memory and the Radeon 8500 wth the stock fan. The CPU is cooled by a Thermaltake SK-7 copper monster with a 1500RPM Papst fan on it. The PSU is a 300W Blacknoise. HDD is a Seagate Barracuda V. All that in a leftover tower case without an additional casefan is almost inaudible, sufficiently fast even for most if not all games and the CPU temperature maxes out at 51 deg. C.
The system has a good-quality video signal, is extensible and was actually affordable. The only downside is that it's not really small, but you could easily stuff it inside a mini-tower and keep it well-coled with a 1500RPM case fan. If you're not looking for something small and stylish, that's the way I recommend.