I managed to catch a glimpse of the ISS flying over the UK last thursday at about 8:15 pm, you can get the times that it will fly over your part of the world from sites such as Heavens Above - it is very cool, if you're into that kind of thing, it starts off as a bright light like a star, rising pretty fast, getting brighter and brighter and then fading out as it enters the Earth's shadow. It faded out before setting. If you have a telescope, or even a decent pair of binoculars, you can make out the shape of the station - it's about 400km up. Apparently when it's finished you will be able to make out the shape with the naked eye:)
Unless someone ported it to another architecture. The biggest challenge in these cases is porting the kernel. Seeing as the Mach kernel that it's based on is open source, that might not be too hard. It may have been done already, I don't know. Once that's done and the kernel runs, the rest of the system generally just needs a recompile to work on the new architecture. Sometimes a little more than that, but porting the kernel is a good 90% of the work.
Alternatively the OS X system may be persuaded to compile on x86/MIPS/Sparc versions of FreeBSD, etc.
Think about it...
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Open source developers are more responsible than closed source developers? Could you please tell me why?
Open source developers are out to make a better piece of software. Proprietary developers are out to make some money. You've got software companies cutting corners and being sloppy in order to get their product out sooner. Open source developers have a different motivation. They can take due time and care to get the software working "just so" and not worry about release deadlines... after all no one's paying them for it anyway, are they?
There are too many female drivers out there talking on their cellphones which forced me to buy a SUV. Go after them, I'm the victim here...they forced me to buy a SUV because of their lack of responsibilty to the road.
Oh, my heart bleeds!
Learn to drive properly. Part of being a responsible and safe road user is keeping an eye out for such people.
At the same bitrate, Ogg Vorbis sounds notably better than MP3. Seriously, have you tried it since it hit version 1.0? It rocks!
Winamp and XMMS now support the format natively and there are easy to use encoding tools for all OSes (most notably CDex, the leading CD ripper for Windows, has native support for it too)... so there's no excuse!:D
I noticed that the "ifconfig" package in Debian started using this notation - KiB, MiB, etc. It pissed me off so much that I downloaded the source package for ifconfig and edited it back to KB and MB:P (Heh, isn't open source great?!)
We all know that a kilobyte isn't *really* 1000 bytes.... what is the point of inventing stupid new contrived words to clear up ambiguity that didn't exist in the first place??
Hmm, I was a bit like that for a while. Working for 5 months in a call centre soon cured it:) NO it wasn't telesales, before you hunt me down and kill me, it was customer services...;) I would actually recommend to anyone to work in one for a little while - it really helps with phone and conversational skills, dealing with difficult people, etc.. and can give you a good insight into corporate bullshit at it's extremes;) Just don't stay there too long or you'll go insane. But whatever, I'm wandering way off topic now!
Doboy is DI's "content manager" and a superb producer of mix CDs. You can get the track listings for his "Trancequility" mixes on his website. You can download the mixes from your favorite P2P network. Most of them are made to fit on 74 or 80 minute CDs. I have a lot of them in my car - the continuous mixes are great for driving as there are no gaps, it's just a continuous background of pumping beats:D
Yes... and the artist has to pay this money back to the record company, out of *their* (small) share of the profit. So until this "loan" is paid back the artist sees none of the money.
I tend to use Cygwin/Xfree86 if I ever need an X server on Windows and have always found it to work pretty nicely. I have had it running KDE from another computer on the network, and it's also useful when you want to run the occasional application that needs X on a headless computer.
So yes... I would definitely recommend it. The disadvantage over something like Exceed, though, is that it needs its own window - you can't have the X windows alongside the Windows windows (if you see what I mean). And you can't resize it either, you have to choose the dimensions on startup. But you can also use it fullscreen, and because it uses DirectDraw, it's nice and fast.
That's because we have decent land lines, they don't. So they are actually backwards.
Mobiles are better than landlines and make more sense from a communications point of view. Most of the time you don't call buildings, you call people.
Being ahead in watching TV is nothing to brag about. Besides, the programming there sucks even more than in the US.
I think not. Take the BBC for example. Their purpose is to make high quality TV, and they do it well. They turn out a lot of really excellent stuff. (They turn out some shit too, but it's mostly great). They don't exist to make money, which means there's no adverts and it's actually slightly intellectual rather than appealing to the lowest common denominator like 90% of American TV
Their music is total shit. I am prepared to pony up $10,000 cash to anyone who can name ANY good European pop musician who is not a rip-off of an American. Hint: that disqualifies Led Zeppelin, The Who, the Stones, etc.
What about all the European trance producers? It probably isn't to your taste but it has a big following. Oh, and what about The Beatles?
Maybe a little off topic but I thought it worth mentioning.
When I set Kazaa up I shared several directories in "my documents", but not the "my documents" directory itself as there is personal stuff in there. I was very careful about this. So then I queue up a load of files and leave it to do its thing. When I check back on it a few hours later I notice that two people had downloaded my CV, or resume for you Americans;) -- which was in "my documents" - an unshared directory! This pissed me right off as the document had both my postal address and mobile phone number in it.
I no longer trust the Kazaa client further than I could spit it, so I created another user account with heavy restrictions and carefully set file permissions on the directories i wanted to share and those I wanted to hide. I run the Kazaa client under this user account all the time now and have no longer had any problems. But I think this is worth doing these days with all the spyware that's floating around. Just make sure it can't access any more data than it needs to. I'm thinking of extending the Kazaa account to be a general "untrusted software" account. Like the security zones in IE. Hey, now there's an idea for the next version of windows... Bill, you listening?;)
Well, if you set cdparanoia to output to/dev/dsp it works as a crude sort of player... but you don't get anthing like forward/rewind/pause etc. Of course there is also the CDDA-reading library that cdparanoia is part of, and it'd be easy enough to make a proper CD-player-program sort of thing with it. There's probably one already...
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The Romulan ship is called a "warbird" actually... just thought I'd clear that up :)
I managed to catch a glimpse of the ISS flying over the UK last thursday at about 8:15 pm, you can get the times that it will fly over your part of the world from sites such as Heavens Above - it is very cool, if you're into that kind of thing, it starts off as a bright light like a star, rising pretty fast, getting brighter and brighter and then fading out as it enters the Earth's shadow. It faded out before setting. If you have a telescope, or even a decent pair of binoculars, you can make out the shape of the station - it's about 400km up. Apparently when it's finished you will be able to make out the shape with the naked eye :)
Why not?
Might while away an otherwise dull Wednesday afternoon.
What, like this?
i have spent allot of time honing my skilles
Please. Try spending some time honing your skills in spelling. And shave your "brissles" off.
Unless someone ported it to another architecture. The biggest challenge in these cases is porting the kernel. Seeing as the Mach kernel that it's based on is open source, that might not be too hard. It may have been done already, I don't know. Once that's done and the kernel runs, the rest of the system generally just needs a recompile to work on the new architecture. Sometimes a little more than that, but porting the kernel is a good 90% of the work.
Alternatively the OS X system may be persuaded to compile on x86/MIPS/Sparc versions of FreeBSD, etc.
Think about it...
*ShitEatingGrin* Have I got a treat for you....
A turtle head?
Open source developers are more responsible than closed source developers? Could you please tell me why?
Open source developers are out to make a better piece of software. Proprietary developers are out to make some money. You've got software companies cutting corners and being sloppy in order to get their product out sooner. Open source developers have a different motivation. They can take due time and care to get the software working "just so" and not worry about release deadlines... after all no one's paying them for it anyway, are they?
Dude. Chill. You'll live longer. :-)
There are too many female drivers out there talking on their cellphones which forced me to buy a SUV. Go after them, I'm the victim here...they forced me to buy a SUV because of their lack of responsibilty to the road.
Oh, my heart bleeds!
Learn to drive properly. Part of being a responsible and safe road user is keeping an eye out for such people.
How about enclosing it in a metal cage? Perhaps chicken wire or something?
At the same bitrate, Ogg Vorbis sounds notably better than MP3. Seriously, have you tried it since it hit version 1.0? It rocks!
:D
Winamp and XMMS now support the format natively and there are easy to use encoding tools for all OSes (most notably CDex, the leading CD ripper for Windows, has native support for it too)... so there's no excuse!
I noticed that the "ifconfig" package in Debian started using this notation - KiB, MiB, etc. It pissed me off so much that I downloaded the source package for ifconfig and edited it back to KB and MB :P (Heh, isn't open source great?!)
We all know that a kilobyte isn't *really* 1000 bytes.... what is the point of inventing stupid new contrived words to clear up ambiguity that didn't exist in the first place??
Hmm, I was a bit like that for a while. Working for 5 months in a call centre soon cured it :) NO it wasn't telesales, before you hunt me down and kill me, it was customer services... ;) I would actually recommend to anyone to work in one for a little while - it really helps with phone and conversational skills, dealing with difficult people, etc.. and can give you a good insight into corporate bullshit at it's extremes ;) Just don't stay there too long or you'll go insane. But whatever, I'm wandering way off topic now!
Doboy is DI's "content manager" and a superb producer of mix CDs. You can get the track listings for his "Trancequility" mixes on his website. You can download the mixes from your favorite P2P network. Most of them are made to fit on 74 or 80 minute CDs. I have a lot of them in my car - the continuous mixes are great for driving as there are no gaps, it's just a continuous background of pumping beats :D
Yes... and the artist has to pay this money back to the record company, out of *their* (small) share of the profit. So until this "loan" is paid back the artist sees none of the money.
I tend to use Cygwin/Xfree86 if I ever need an X server on Windows and have always found it to work pretty nicely. I have had it running KDE from another computer on the network, and it's also useful when you want to run the occasional application that needs X on a headless computer.
So yes... I would definitely recommend it. The disadvantage over something like Exceed, though, is that it needs its own window - you can't have the X windows alongside the Windows windows (if you see what I mean). And you can't resize it either, you have to choose the dimensions on startup. But you can also use it fullscreen, and because it uses DirectDraw, it's nice and fast.
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That's because we have decent land lines, they don't. So they are actually backwards.
Mobiles are better than landlines and make more sense from a communications point of view. Most of the time you don't call buildings, you call people.
Being ahead in watching TV is nothing to brag about. Besides, the programming there sucks even more than in the US.
I think not. Take the BBC for example. Their purpose is to make high quality TV, and they do it well. They turn out a lot of really excellent stuff. (They turn out some shit too, but it's mostly great). They don't exist to make money, which means there's no adverts and it's actually slightly intellectual rather than appealing to the lowest common denominator like 90% of American TV
Their music is total shit. I am prepared to pony up $10,000 cash to anyone who can name ANY good European pop musician who is not a rip-off of an American. Hint: that disqualifies Led Zeppelin, The Who, the Stones, etc.
What about all the European trance producers? It probably isn't to your taste but it has a big following. Oh, and what about The Beatles?
Use the multiple major modes for Emacs system! It's a bit of a bitch to get working, but it works nicely...
Slashdot seems to manage okay ;P
Maybe a little off topic but I thought it worth mentioning.
;) -- which was in "my documents" - an unshared directory! This pissed me right off as the document had both my postal address and mobile phone number in it.
;)
When I set Kazaa up I shared several directories in "my documents", but not the "my documents" directory itself as there is personal stuff in there. I was very careful about this. So then I queue up a load of files and leave it to do its thing. When I check back on it a few hours later I notice that two people had downloaded my CV, or resume for you Americans
I no longer trust the Kazaa client further than I could spit it, so I created another user account with heavy restrictions and carefully set file permissions on the directories i wanted to share and those I wanted to hide. I run the Kazaa client under this user account all the time now and have no longer had any problems. But I think this is worth doing these days with all the spyware that's floating around. Just make sure it can't access any more data than it needs to. I'm thinking of extending the Kazaa account to be a general "untrusted software" account. Like the security zones in IE. Hey, now there's an idea for the next version of windows... Bill, you listening?
Well, if you set cdparanoia to output to /dev/dsp it works as a crude sort of player... but you don't get anthing like forward/rewind/pause etc. Of course there is also the CDDA-reading library that cdparanoia is part of, and it'd be easy enough to make a proper CD-player-program sort of thing with it. There's probably one already...
Why does anyone need anyone's "consent" to rip their own CDs?