Agreed - you can actually properly visualise where the different weather areas are, and it shows how it changes throughout the day with patches of rain moving and changing shape etc. Much better than some vague cloud symbol that covers almost the area of wales leaving you guessing about which symbol applies to what area you're in.
Indeed, Perl's threading support leaves a lot to be desired. I recently coded up an internet radio statistics collector daemon, which simply takes a count of the number of listeners on several shoutcast servers every 5 seconds, in parallel spawning a new thread for each server. It seems that finished-with threads aren't cleaned up properly, as I found out when after leaving it running for a few days I tried to find out why the website was responding so slowly to find that the stats collector was using 70% of the entire machine's memory...
Also spawning a new thread takes ages... I put it to the test and it is about 10 times as long as it takes to fork.
Hehehe, I remember that one, found it in my school's library:) It had me baffled for ages before I thought of looking for links to that page in the rest of the book...
Depending on how good your card is and how far away you are you usually pick up far more networks than you can connect to - the AP's signal is strong enough to pick up but the card isn't always transmitting at high enough power for the signal to get back to the AP.
Approval from the OSI is required for all open-source licenses, which are used on thousands of products, from the Linux operating system to the Firefox Web browser.
Erm, what? I don't need anyone to "approve" my software's license:P These business-orientated news sites have had fucking ages to get the facts right on all this stuff and they still can't do it.
Oh yes. That's right because not believing in God automatically makes me an unethical human being. Religion is often used to defend an unethical behavior. How often do you hear of atheists killing or bombing because of their beliefs (or lack thereof)?
Too bad my mod points expired, that's the most sense I've seen someone on slashdot talk for ages.
I've used one on a dialup account before (dial up to company's network) so it must be possible on a VPN too, a PPTP one at least. It worked by having a four-digit password that stayed the same, and the SecurID code appended to the end, so effectively the dialup password changed every minute but the first four digits stayed the same.
Heh. I always chuckle when I see a program that's for "managing and viewing image galleries", and there are quite a lot of them for Linux, you just know what the developer made it for:P At least one of them is upfront about it though!
I don't think they'd care, seeing as 99% (at least) of users would be using their client. This is just about proven by the fact that Microsoft aren't that fussed about third party MSN Messenger clients - it just means more people using MSN, which works out well for them.
I can never get the lisa daemon to work properly, or stay in a working state. You have to mess about with telling it what netblocks to scan and stuff like that, which isn't really ideal if you're running it on a laptop and connecting it to lots of different networks. If it was up to me, I'd build network browsing straight into konqueror, and auto-detect the correct network to scan from the IP and netmask of the network interface(s).
JuK is good if you've got a large well-organised music collection, whereas I mostly listen to internet radio. Last time I looked JuK didn't support streaming very well (or not at all).
I don't like the way Amarok is an ARTS frontend, mainly because ARTS is shit:) Kaffeine is a xine frontend, which is good. I haven't had any stability problems (apart from it locking up now and again when I try and open a new URL while it's still trying to connect to another one), maybe you should check your xine config?
So, is there any chance we could discuss KDE in this thread? As opposed to just an endless stream of unfunny "K" jokes, GNOME vs KDE flamewars, and Windows vs Linux flamewars?
Ohh sorry, I forgot for a sec... this is slashdot.
I would take a very strong guess that a lot of information is located in relative timing of the firings.
I seem to remember that light intensity (not sure about colour) is encoded in the frequency of the impulses - faster = brighter. I can't remember where I know that from, though:)
My track record with hardware hasn't exactly been great. I guess it was a mistake to buy a PC Chips motherboard;) -- it burnt out two processors before I decided enough was enough.
A few years later I decided to upgrade my RAM. I booted up, changed a couple of BIOS settings, and rebooted, and... nothing! No beeps, no output on the display.. tried various components in other machines and basically everything had died, including the graphics card and scsi card, the hard disk (!), and the motherboard and processor. The only survivors were the CD drive and strangely enough, the RAM. Very strange.
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-Not even developed in the UK!
What does that have to do with anything?
Why use web based Weather feeds when you can pick the data off the satellite's directly???
;)
Why spend time on all that when you can use a web based weather feed?
Agreed - you can actually properly visualise where the different weather areas are, and it shows how it changes throughout the day with patches of rain moving and changing shape etc. Much better than some vague cloud symbol that covers almost the area of wales leaving you guessing about which symbol applies to what area you're in.
Indeed, Perl's threading support leaves a lot to be desired. I recently coded up an internet radio statistics collector daemon, which simply takes a count of the number of listeners on several shoutcast servers every 5 seconds, in parallel spawning a new thread for each server. It seems that finished-with threads aren't cleaned up properly, as I found out when after leaving it running for a few days I tried to find out why the website was responding so slowly to find that the stats collector was using 70% of the entire machine's memory...
Also spawning a new thread takes ages... I put it to the test and it is about 10 times as long as it takes to fork.
Hehehe, I remember that one, found it in my school's library :) It had me baffled for ages before I thought of looking for links to that page in the rest of the book...
Good luck to you if you want to do that journey at all on a sunday though...
Aw, are you all confused now? :P
Depending on how good your card is and how far away you are you usually pick up far more networks than you can connect to - the AP's signal is strong enough to pick up but the card isn't always transmitting at high enough power for the signal to get back to the AP.
From the article:
:P These business-orientated news sites have had fucking ages to get the facts right on all this stuff and they still can't do it.
Approval from the OSI is required for all open-source licenses, which are used on thousands of products, from the Linux operating system to the Firefox Web browser.
Erm, what? I don't need anyone to "approve" my software's license
Oh yes. That's right because not believing in God automatically makes me an unethical human being. Religion is often used to defend an unethical behavior. How often do you hear of atheists killing or bombing because of their beliefs (or lack thereof)?
Too bad my mod points expired, that's the most sense I've seen someone on slashdot talk for ages.
wtf? Are they still around?
I've used one on a dialup account before (dial up to company's network) so it must be possible on a VPN too, a PPTP one at least. It worked by having a four-digit password that stayed the same, and the SecurID code appended to the end, so effectively the dialup password changed every minute but the first four digits stayed the same.
Of course there is. People can't help being stupid, can they?
Heh. I always chuckle when I see a program that's for "managing and viewing image galleries", and there are quite a lot of them for Linux, you just know what the developer made it for :P At least one of them is upfront about it though!
Why are they called that? Do the Swiss even have an army? I thought they were supposed to be neutral and stuff...
Not all drives support writing cd-text, check that yours does.. I've written cd-text with k3b and cdrdao without any problems.
I don't think they'd care, seeing as 99% (at least) of users would be using their client. This is just about proven by the fact that Microsoft aren't that fussed about third party MSN Messenger clients - it just means more people using MSN, which works out well for them.
I can never get the lisa daemon to work properly, or stay in a working state. You have to mess about with telling it what netblocks to scan and stuff like that, which isn't really ideal if you're running it on a laptop and connecting it to lots of different networks. If it was up to me, I'd build network browsing straight into konqueror, and auto-detect the correct network to scan from the IP and netmask of the network interface(s).
See for yourself, ctrl-f and search the page for my UID. Not that you care of course.
JuK is good if you've got a large well-organised music collection, whereas I mostly listen to internet radio. Last time I looked JuK didn't support streaming very well (or not at all).
:) Kaffeine is a xine frontend, which is good. I haven't had any stability problems (apart from it locking up now and again when I try and open a new URL while it's still trying to connect to another one), maybe you should check your xine config?
I don't like the way Amarok is an ARTS frontend, mainly because ARTS is shit
So, is there any chance we could discuss KDE in this thread? As opposed to just an endless stream of unfunny "K" jokes, GNOME vs KDE flamewars, and Windows vs Linux flamewars?
Ohh sorry, I forgot for a sec... this is slashdot.
Have you tried Kaffiene? It sucks, but less than all the other media players ;)
I would take a very strong guess that a lot of information is located in relative timing of the firings.
:)
I seem to remember that light intensity (not sure about colour) is encoded in the frequency of the impulses - faster = brighter. I can't remember where I know that from, though
My track record with hardware hasn't exactly been great. I guess it was a mistake to buy a PC Chips motherboard ;) -- it burnt out two processors before I decided enough was enough.
... nothing! No beeps, no output on the display.. tried various components in other machines and basically everything had died, including the graphics card and scsi card, the hard disk (!), and the motherboard and processor. The only survivors were the CD drive and strangely enough, the RAM. Very strange.
A few years later I decided to upgrade my RAM. I booted up, changed a couple of BIOS settings, and rebooted, and
What does downloading porn have to do with reading a newspaper?
Not a lot, that's why you have to do both!