I took a 700K Word document (500 pages!) and converted it to a 100K StarOffice file. Now if that isn't cool, I dunno what is!
How about taking a 2M Windows.bmp file and converting it to a >100k.jpg file? And people wonder why they need 40G of space nowadays to install 2k and XP.;)
(which is all I bothered to read, but that's still more than CmdrTaco)
I fail to see why you're bashing CmdrTaco, he didn't add any comments to the submission. If anyone, you should be giving the sumitter some $#!^. Nobody's perfect, but you people can only see the bad things.
...you're going to hook these up to your computer and play.mp3 or.ogg on them, right?
If so, WHY BOTHER with getting $500 worth of speakers? You're sacrificing sound quality right there with the media you have chosen, so why get some outrageously expensive computer speakers or even worse, a dedicated amp/component stereo system?
Just head down to your local computer store, try out a few 'good' speaker systems, and buy what you can afford. My Altec-Lansing ACS54's have worked fine for me.
It is not a good idea if all you want to do is get to the top of the list for the SETI@Home project.
Been there, done that. Tech here working with the StarFire used to run Seti@Home on idle systems. 64 400MHz UltraSparcs. Team Sun@Home rose rather quickly in the ranks those days, I hear.;)
Just don't download/buy their kernel/distribution. If they don't make any money, they go bankrupt, plain and simple. Violators of the GPL, if they cannot be forced to comply via legal action (or threats of), can only feel pressure through the users of the product. Since the majority of GNU/Linux users uphold the GPL religiously, if this company decides to violate, the users will let them know of their displeasure. Wether that be through email, phone, or simply lack of revenue from product sales.
You travel down the windy road towards the Lair of the Giant Bugblatter. As you approach, you see that another group of adventurers is camping the Bublatter spawn point. You can:
I keep all of the old hardware I swap out. Eventually I have enough to build another system, or very nearly so with a minimum investment of floppy/cables/mouse/keyboard. Another machine added to the server farm and/or Seti/RC5/Folding effort. Or barring that, another machine for the kids to bang on.:)
I don't know about you, but I haven't bought a PC from a manufacturer in about 10 years. I've never bought a copy of Windows from a store, either. In this case, Windows is 'free' as in beer.
However, I bought RH5.1, and have purchased a few copies of other distros from linuxmall.com (the $1.99 cheapies).
But what you really have to look at is Cost of Ownership, not Cost of Software. I've reloaded my linux boxen precisely ONCE - when I upgraded from 5.1 to 6.1. I have to reload Windows at least once a month if I want to keep my system running well. How much does the downtime cost me? Not much considering it's a home system, but what if it wasn't?
Sure, perhaps I *have* paid more in $$ for my favorite distribution of Linux. But I've paid more in time and labor for my 'free' versions of Windows. Which is more important to YOU?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I use the Spambouncer procmail filter to ferret out my inbox. It checks MAPS, ORBS, parses the message for obvious 'spam'-type words and phrases (Make Money Fast!!!) and then allows you to either route the mail to/dev/null, bounce it, report it or both bounce and report... Not too hard to configure for your individual users or on a global system-level either.
How about a simple rating system? IE - Rate This Search (1 ----- 10)
Have the search result pop up in a framed window with the rating applet at the top (or bottom, or a popup, or whatever). User then rates the relevance of the link based on the information it gives as a result of his/her query. 1 being a crappy link (keywords used to induce search engine hits) and 10 being a great link (relevent topic, good information).
I've seen everywhere from Microsoft to CNN use things like this to rate Support Questions and news stories. So why not something that people use EVERY DAY?
I spent $900 to build TWO AMD-Duron 800's, with 128M, 20gig 7200RPM ATA-100 disks. Both of which I've O/C'ed to 1gig.
Already had the monitors...and who the hell wants those POS printers and scanners they sell you anyway? My in-laws purchased a Gateway from the HSC, spent near $2k and the system I built for a quarter that price kicks it's ass.
one of my high school teachers force fed Braveheart to his 3 year-old son. I think that's just wrong.
I didn't force-feed Braveheart to my children, I actually had to turn it OFF so that I could scoot them out of the room. They WANTED to watch it. What they did see they thought was 'cool'.
Of course, one of my oldest's favorite movies (when he was 3-4, he's a whole 6 now) was 'Demolition Man'.
So, for the most part we've just let the kids watch what we were watching. If it gets to the point where people are getting hacked up graphically on-screen, we tend to cover eyes or distract so that they aren't having nightmares about the imagery, but we're not going to sheild them from the world.
MY parents didn't want me to watch 'Porky's' when I was about 12. A bit of sexual innuendo there but nothing horrible - not at all like today's fare.
The thing that bothers me are the parents who force-feed their kids G-rated stuff until they're old enough to drive. The only movies in the house are by Disney or have a Purple Dinosaur prominently featured. Ugh, talk about coddling.
But what happens when they find the downed alien spacecraft full of head-grabbers that plant embryos deep into your body? Sure, things will be fine for 2-3 days or so but then you'll have this big pain in your chest and an alien will pop out.
``We have a great deal of knowledge. We can grade embryos, we can do genetic screening, we can do quality control,'' Zavos said.
It sounds to me like they're trying to make the precept of the movie 'Gattica' reality. You filter out the bad genes, keep the 'good' ones and voila! Super-Baby(tm)!
I, for one, do not want to go through a DNA-checking machine when I enter work in the morning. Swiping my badge through the door locks is bad enough.
...And I think I came up with a way that would be more or less secure. This is what I propose:
Every registered, able-to-vote citizen would recieve a ballot in the mail. Sort of like what they do here in Oregon. The ballot would not contain a punch card, but rather a URL and a sequence of numbers (password) that would uniquely identify you.
You go to said website, and enter your SSN and password. You are given a confirmation number. Since the database knows who you are (and where you live, thus your district) it would then redirect you ANONYMOUSLY to the voting page for your district.
You input registration number into the voting page, vote and that's it.
I'm sure there are a lot of holes, and the main issue would be how to stay anonymous, but that's the basic idea.
Any thoughts?
I get to play with these bad boys all day at work. We have 32 of them.
I'd love to do some real-world testing with Linux vs Solaris on a 64-processor system. Unfortunately even though I'm sure UltraLinux would install on it, there are some rather system specific things going on in Solaris. And I'm sure nobody has the source for those so they can compile on Linux.
On another note, did you know that you can trip the breakers on these things with a single command? 'power -off -B' kills the power and trips the breakers. Don't try and hack into the ssp, kiddies!
But what if all someone wants to do is record/backup/archive their own stuff? How many people, REALLY, make a CD-R of something and then stick it into a different machine?
Okay, let's discount this community - we're not what you might consider 'normal'.
Average Joe user who has a need for a CD-R (or happens to buy one bundled in their latest Gateway purchase, like my in-laws who call me every other day for advice) doesn't have more than one computer. They would probably use it to backup something, then only when they needed that data again would they use that disc.
Perhaps I'm overlooking something but even so with the advent of DVD-R what's the need for Quad-Density CD-R?
In my neck of the woods (Portland, OR) there's an ISP called Integrity Online (http://www.integrityonline.com) - which provides just such a service.
Checking my link I noticed that they *might* have gone national - or been bought and nationalized or whatnot.
Anyway, their filtering guidelines (http://home.integrityonline.com/about/about.htm) seem very similar to the ones that the CC is touting. No, I didn't read the article.
So there it is. Have fun with it. Don't expect to see me there though - I definitely need my daily pr0n.
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How about taking a 2M Windows .bmp file and converting it to a >100k .jpg file? And people wonder why they need 40G of space nowadays to install 2k and XP. ;)
I fail to see why you're bashing CmdrTaco, he didn't add any comments to the submission. If anyone, you should be giving the sumitter some $#!^. Nobody's perfect, but you people can only see the bad things.
...you're going to hook these up to your computer and play .mp3 or .ogg on them, right?
If so, WHY BOTHER with getting $500 worth of speakers? You're sacrificing sound quality right there with the media you have chosen, so why get some outrageously expensive computer speakers or even worse, a dedicated amp/component stereo system?
Just head down to your local computer store, try out a few 'good' speaker systems, and buy what you can afford. My Altec-Lansing ACS54's have worked fine for me.
Forgot a step: Rape everyone, THEN burn it to the ground.
At the risk of making a bad analogy...
Napster (Jesus) hath paid (forgiven) us for all of our downloads (sins).
Shall we now crucify it?
Been there, done that. Tech here working with the StarFire used to run Seti@Home on idle systems. 64 400MHz UltraSparcs. Team Sun@Home rose rather quickly in the ranks those days, I hear. ;)
Just don't download/buy their kernel/distribution. If they don't make any money, they go bankrupt, plain and simple. Violators of the GPL, if they cannot be forced to comply via legal action (or threats of), can only feel pressure through the users of the product. Since the majority of GNU/Linux users uphold the GPL religiously, if this company decides to violate, the users will let them know of their displeasure. Wether that be through email, phone, or simply lack of revenue from product sales.
...Sounds familiar for some reason.
I keep all of the old hardware I swap out. Eventually I have enough to build another system, or very nearly so with a minimum investment of floppy/cables/mouse/keyboard. Another machine added to the server farm and/or Seti/RC5/Folding effort. Or barring that, another machine for the kids to bang on. :)
(Edwards reportedly got about $100; Reynolds will receive something under six figures.)
Ed...
"You've got screwed!"
if these servers simply ran a cron job to apt-get the latest security updates... Oh, wait. Nevermind. ;)
I don't know about you, but I haven't bought a PC from a manufacturer in about 10 years. I've never bought a copy of Windows from a store, either. In this case, Windows is 'free' as in beer.
However, I bought RH5.1, and have purchased a few copies of other distros from linuxmall.com (the $1.99 cheapies).
But what you really have to look at is Cost of Ownership, not Cost of Software. I've reloaded my linux boxen precisely ONCE - when I upgraded from 5.1 to 6.1. I have to reload Windows at least once a month if I want to keep my system running well. How much does the downtime cost me? Not much considering it's a home system, but what if it wasn't?
Sure, perhaps I *have* paid more in $$ for my favorite distribution of Linux. But I've paid more in time and labor for my 'free' versions of Windows. Which is more important to YOU?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I use the Spambouncer procmail filter to ferret out my inbox. It checks MAPS, ORBS, parses the message for obvious 'spam'-type words and phrases (Make Money Fast!!!) and then allows you to either route the mail to /dev/null, bounce it, report it or both bounce and report... Not too hard to configure for your individual users or on a global system-level either.
How about a simple rating system? IE - Rate This Search (1 ----- 10)
Have the search result pop up in a framed window with the rating applet at the top (or bottom, or a popup, or whatever). User then rates the relevance of the link based on the information it gives as a result of his/her query. 1 being a crappy link (keywords used to induce search engine hits) and 10 being a great link (relevent topic, good information).
I've seen everywhere from Microsoft to CNN use things like this to rate Support Questions and news stories. So why not something that people use EVERY DAY?
You've GOT to be kidding me.
I spent $900 to build TWO AMD-Duron 800's, with 128M, 20gig 7200RPM ATA-100 disks. Both of which I've O/C'ed to 1gig.
Already had the monitors...and who the hell wants those POS printers and scanners they sell you anyway? My in-laws purchased a Gateway from the HSC, spent near $2k and the system I built for a quarter that price kicks it's ass.
Can't win 'em all I guess.
one of my high school teachers force fed Braveheart to his 3 year-old son. I think that's just wrong.
I didn't force-feed Braveheart to my children, I actually had to turn it OFF so that I could scoot them out of the room. They WANTED to watch it. What they did see they thought was 'cool'.
Of course, one of my oldest's favorite movies (when he was 3-4, he's a whole 6 now) was 'Demolition Man'.
So, for the most part we've just let the kids watch what we were watching. If it gets to the point where people are getting hacked up graphically on-screen, we tend to cover eyes or distract so that they aren't having nightmares about the imagery, but we're not going to sheild them from the world.
MY parents didn't want me to watch 'Porky's' when I was about 12. A bit of sexual innuendo there but nothing horrible - not at all like today's fare.
The thing that bothers me are the parents who force-feed their kids G-rated stuff until they're old enough to drive. The only movies in the house are by Disney or have a Purple Dinosaur prominently featured. Ugh, talk about coddling.
But what happens when they find the downed alien spacecraft full of head-grabbers that plant embryos deep into your body? Sure, things will be fine for 2-3 days or so but then you'll have this big pain in your chest and an alien will pop out.
Where's the fun in that?
``We have a great deal of knowledge. We can grade embryos, we can do genetic screening, we can do quality control,'' Zavos said.
It sounds to me like they're trying to make the precept of the movie 'Gattica' reality. You filter out the bad genes, keep the 'good' ones and voila! Super-Baby(tm)!
I, for one, do not want to go through a DNA-checking machine when I enter work in the morning. Swiping my badge through the door locks is bad enough.
Perhaps you're thinking of this site?
Holy cow! You're right! Damn the internet, damn those butterflies!
- Every registered, able-to-vote citizen would recieve a ballot in the mail. Sort of like what they do here in Oregon. The ballot would not contain a punch card, but rather a URL and a sequence of numbers (password) that would uniquely identify you.
- You go to said website, and enter your SSN and password. You are given a confirmation number. Since the database knows who you are (and where you live, thus your district) it would then redirect you ANONYMOUSLY to the voting page for your district.
- You input registration number into the voting page, vote and that's it.
I'm sure there are a lot of holes, and the main issue would be how to stay anonymous, but that's the basic idea. Any thoughts?I get to play with these bad boys all day at work. We have 32 of them.
I'd love to do some real-world testing with Linux vs Solaris on a 64-processor system. Unfortunately even though I'm sure UltraLinux would install on it, there are some rather system specific things going on in Solaris. And I'm sure nobody has the source for those so they can compile on Linux.
On another note, did you know that you can trip the breakers on these things with a single command? 'power -off -B' kills the power and trips the breakers. Don't try and hack into the ssp, kiddies!
But what if all someone wants to do is record/backup/archive their own stuff? How many people, REALLY, make a CD-R of something and then stick it into a different machine?
Okay, let's discount this community - we're not what you might consider 'normal'.
Average Joe user who has a need for a CD-R (or happens to buy one bundled in their latest Gateway purchase, like my in-laws who call me every other day for advice) doesn't have more than one computer. They would probably use it to backup something, then only when they needed that data again would they use that disc.
Perhaps I'm overlooking something but even so with the advent of DVD-R what's the need for Quad-Density CD-R?
In my neck of the woods (Portland, OR) there's an ISP called Integrity Online (http://www.integrityonline.com) - which provides just such a service.
Checking my link I noticed that they *might* have gone national - or been bought and nationalized or whatnot.
Anyway, their filtering guidelines (http://home.integrityonline.com/about/about.htm) seem very similar to the ones that the CC is touting. No, I didn't read the article.
So there it is. Have fun with it. Don't expect to see me there though - I definitely need my daily pr0n.
Sounds similar to the Anonymizer. (http://www.anonymizer.com)