> I don't object to them increasing the role of Arwen a tad. I object to them turning her in to "Arwen, Warrior Elven Princess" instead of the mild-mannered minor character she was in the book.
At least they finally caved in and cut the scene where she gets drunk, dances on the tabletop, wrestles a dragon (in the mud), and blows 120 Elven warriors on solstice eve.
Though I think it was more out of concern for the ratings than for faithfulness to the novel.
> Although both of these licenses are well thought out and purposefull, the social agenda bound up with them is anathma to many open source developers.
FWIW, every license is bound up with some social agenda.
There's a one-page article about Dmitry in the October '01 Scientific American.
It makes the oft-made point that what he did wasn't illegal back home in Russia, but adds a further point that I haven't heard before: in Russia it is illegal to interfere with the user's right to make copies. A lawyer is quoted as saying that you could probably win a class action suit against Adobe in Russia.
The article also touches on the depressing effect on science; the first sentence is -
Imagine Carl Djerassi, inventor of the birth-control pill, arrested at an endocrinology conference in Japan during the decades before 1999, when oral contraceptives were illegal there.
You forgot to mention that it's all running Windows XP.
Ooops, I meant Linux.
Also, there goes the standard joke about "what about a Beowulf cluster of those!" whenever a fast new Beowulf cluster is mentioned. Today's Slashdot joke, tomorrow's production system.
> It wasn't too long ago that people thought cetatians evolved from dogs, and/or small furry creatures (no, not from Alpha Centauri:).
They've discussed this over at talk.origins (the newsgroup), and I gather that the paleontologists thought one thing and the DNAologists thought another, and the recent find convinced the P's that the D's were right.
Apparently the deciding issue was some ankle bone that had not been in any of the earlier finds, so the P's had been working from skull similarities, that being the best evidence their branch of the field had to work with.
ps - sorry to shorten the "..." in your subject line, but the lame-o lameness filter accused me of trying ASCII art, and wouldn't take my reply without the snip.
> A lot of effort was spent and the result should have been mind blowing on its face instead of requiring deep analysis and "understanding" to "get it".
This seems to be a standard claim from people who for some reason need to defend lame-o movies. "It was too deep for you lot to understand." I heard the same thing about the überpathetic Starship Troopers.
If there's anyone here with that product and no great love for Microsoft, set up a "lauds" page that the average reader will immediately detect as being sarcastic (like the famous Micorsoft/Space Cadet page), but be careful to say nothing overtly critical. Then see whether they come after you.
I'd volunteer, but they haven't released the Linux version yet.
> Between this and the fact that RedHat's stock is at an all-time-low (just look at the charts over on Nasdaq [nasdaq.com]) we have some SERIOUS troubles for Linux. I wonder if Linus has heard about this problem yet?
I wonder whether Linus thinks Red Hat's share price is a problem.
> It's something new attacking something old. It looks to me like its trying a few of the old IIS vulnerabilities...
Suppose someone wrote a worm that, whenever it managed to root a box, would undo the patches that finally killed off the famous worms of the past, and also remove the anti-virus software's data files.
Since many of those worms/viruses are still lurking about at the level of background noise, they would suddenly find a vastly expanded niche and start attacking machines that had formerly been off limits to them.
You could get a huge pile-up of worms and viruses all "re-released" simultaneously.
I have one several months old that says the maximum die temperature is 90 C for Athlons < 1.1G, 95 C for faster. (I downloaded it before the 1.33 came out, so you might want to find a fresh version if you have a recent processor.)
However, the sensors are not part of the die, so it's probably hotter than what your sensors report.
FWIW, I have a 1.2G Athlon that runs about 48 C when semi-idle and rises to 56 C after several minutes of continuous number crunching, and have never had any problem. That's a pretty big margin of error for sensor vs. die temperature.
Also FWIW I started with a screamin' 7800 RPM FOP-38 fan, but I got tired of listening to it and replaced it with a 4800RPM FOP-32, and didn't notice any difference in the temperatures. (I have heard that the heat sink is much more important than the fan itself. The two named fans both come with identical heatsinks.)
Also, some say that the silver-based thermal grease is mere snake oil, but I replaced the thermal tape on the FOP-* with the s-b.t.g., and saw a drop of several degrees C.
Last but not least, make sure your case has good airflow and your room is reasonably cool. Heat flows from the die to the heatsink to the air in the case to the air in the room -- your room air is your ultimate "sink" for the CPU's heat. A big heatsink with proper sealing helps the first step, any fan on the heat sink at all seems to help the second step, the case fan(s) help the third step.
Notice that (unless you're cooking your CPU) the whole system comes into equilibrium, and you want to minimize the equilibrium temperature for each mass in the chain.
AMD actually recommends using a power supply with its air intake on the bottom, so that it will suck hot air straight off the heatsink and blow it out the back of the box, but I have never found one like that on the shelves locally. Failing that, you might want an auxiliary fan sucking out from right behind the CPU. (My tower case won't allow that, so I put an 80mm fan blowing in at the bottom of the front and two 80mm fans blowing out at the top of the back. These fans are much quiter than the power supply fan, so I don't find them annoying.)
Slashdot Mirror
> Bad science, bad acting, bad plots, good tits (7 of 9).
It would be more customary to rate them as 7.777 out of 10.
> Result: Nimda runs rampant still this week because I've been stuck in innane meetings all day.
Let me guess: Meetings about how bad Nimda is?
Yeah, been there too. There's a reason that the term PHB caught on.
> I don't object to them increasing the role of Arwen a tad. I object to them turning her in to "Arwen, Warrior Elven Princess" instead of the mild-mannered minor character she was in the book.
At least they finally caved in and cut the scene where she gets drunk, dances on the tabletop, wrestles a dragon (in the mud), and blows 120 Elven warriors on solstice eve.
Though I think it was more out of concern for the ratings than for faithfulness to the novel.
> To my knowledge none of the mirror sites have it yet (although that could change).
If someone would hurry up and finish the Linux driver for palantiri, we could all just watch someone else watching it.
I don't have any big urge to copy Michael Jackson's CDs anyway.
Is demo some large unit of currency or something?
> What good is making a website if you can't promote pornography?
Does distributing it necessarily imply that you promote it?
What if you put a disclaimer on your pr0n site saying "I do not promote pornography". D'yer that keep their lawyers happy?
> Although both of these licenses are well thought out and purposefull, the social agenda bound up with them is anathma to many open source developers.
FWIW, every license is bound up with some social agenda.
> Let's build a comunity with variety and freedom of choice
Actually, I'm building a beowulf cluster of OSS licenses.
There's a one-page article about Dmitry in the October '01 Scientific American.
It makes the oft-made point that what he did wasn't illegal back home in Russia, but adds a further point that I haven't heard before: in Russia it is illegal to interfere with the user's right to make copies. A lawyer is quoted as saying that you could probably win a class action suit against Adobe in Russia.
The article also touches on the depressing effect on science; the first sentence is -
You forgot to mention that it's all running Windows XP.
Ooops, I meant Linux.
Also, there goes the standard joke about "what about a Beowulf cluster of those!" whenever a fast new Beowulf cluster is mentioned. Today's Slashdot joke, tomorrow's production system.
> try http://www.answersingenesis.org and http://www.trueorigins.org for some interesting evidence against evolution
Or, if you prefer to see the views of scientists rather than religious leaders, visit www.talkorigins.org (yeah, I already said that).
Though I doubt that their "whales" documents have been updated yet.
> It wasn't too long ago that people thought cetatians evolved from dogs, and/or small furry creatures (no, not from Alpha Centauri
They've discussed this over at talk.origins (the newsgroup), and I gather that the paleontologists thought one thing and the DNAologists thought another, and the recent find convinced the P's that the D's were right.
Apparently the deciding issue was some ankle bone that had not been in any of the earlier finds, so the P's had been working from skull similarities, that being the best evidence their branch of the field had to work with.
ps - sorry to shorten the "..." in your subject line, but the lame-o lameness filter accused me of trying ASCII art, and wouldn't take my reply without the snip.
Does "rectifying" something mean "putting it where the sun don't shine"?
If so, I don't even want to know what the "handling" is all about.
> A lot of effort was spent and the result should have been mind blowing on its face instead of requiring deep analysis and "understanding" to "get it".
This seems to be a standard claim from people who for some reason need to defend lame-o movies. "It was too deep for you lot to understand." I heard the same thing about the überpathetic Starship Troopers.
Yeah, deep.
If there's anyone here with that product and no great love for Microsoft, set up a "lauds" page that the average reader will immediately detect as being sarcastic (like the famous Micorsoft/Space Cadet page), but be careful to say nothing overtly critical. Then see whether they come after you.
I'd volunteer, but they haven't released the Linux version yet.
I suppose if it "sees green", that's the outcome we were hoping for.
But it must be one heck of a computer, to see the result of the simulation before they ever power it up.
$ whois one.true.god
No match for "ONE.TRUE.GOD".
> Between this and the fact that RedHat's stock is at an all-time-low (just look at the charts over on Nasdaq [nasdaq.com]) we have some SERIOUS troubles for Linux. I wonder if Linus has heard about this problem yet?
I wonder whether Linus thinks Red Hat's share price is a problem.
> Why Purple?
The pests think it's eggplant, and won't touch it.
> It's something new attacking something old. It looks to me like its trying a few of the old IIS vulnerabilities...
Suppose someone wrote a worm that, whenever it managed to root a box, would undo the patches that finally killed off the famous worms of the past, and also remove the anti-virus software's data files.
Since many of those worms/viruses are still lurking about at the level of background noise, they would suddenly find a vastly expanded niche and start attacking machines that had formerly been off limits to them.
You could get a huge pile-up of worms and viruses all "re-released" simultaneously.
> One thing to note is the attempt to execute TFTP.EXE to download a file called ADMIN.DLL from (presumably) some previously compromised box.
> Anyone who discovers a compromised machine (a machine with ADMIN.DLL in the
Ehrm, won't that take care of itself if you just leave your machine on the network for a while?
> When exactly does it become too dangerous?
You can download docs from AMD's Web site.
I have one several months old that says the maximum die temperature is 90 C for Athlons < 1.1G, 95 C for faster. (I downloaded it before the 1.33 came out, so you might want to find a fresh version if you have a recent processor.)
However, the sensors are not part of the die, so it's probably hotter than what your sensors report.
FWIW, I have a 1.2G Athlon that runs about 48 C when semi-idle and rises to 56 C after several minutes of continuous number crunching, and have never had any problem. That's a pretty big margin of error for sensor vs. die temperature.
Also FWIW I started with a screamin' 7800 RPM FOP-38 fan, but I got tired of listening to it and replaced it with a 4800RPM FOP-32, and didn't notice any difference in the temperatures. (I have heard that the heat sink is much more important than the fan itself. The two named fans both come with identical heatsinks.)
Also, some say that the silver-based thermal grease is mere snake oil, but I replaced the thermal tape on the FOP-* with the s-b.t.g., and saw a drop of several degrees C.
Last but not least, make sure your case has good airflow and your room is reasonably cool. Heat flows from the die to the heatsink to the air in the case to the air in the room -- your room air is your ultimate "sink" for the CPU's heat. A big heatsink with proper sealing helps the first step, any fan on the heat sink at all seems to help the second step, the case fan(s) help the third step.
Notice that (unless you're cooking your CPU) the whole system comes into equilibrium, and you want to minimize the equilibrium temperature for each mass in the chain.
AMD actually recommends using a power supply with its air intake on the bottom, so that it will suck hot air straight off the heatsink and blow it out the back of the box, but I have never found one like that on the shelves locally. Failing that, you might want an auxiliary fan sucking out from right behind the CPU. (My tower case won't allow that, so I put an 80mm fan blowing in at the bottom of the front and two 80mm fans blowing out at the top of the back. These fans are much quiter than the power supply fan, so I don't find them annoying.)
> Don't forget that `dating yourself' makes you go blind
You refer, of course, to master dating?