I don't think it was that 2.6.1 supported the 103rd key, but that X doesn't. When I had 2.6.1 installed, X couldn't distinguish the key from the PrtScrn key, so there was no way to change the map file to support the key...
I must admit to being a little disappointed right now with my Gentoo installation. I saw the article here, ran an emerge sync, and 2.6.3 is still marked as unstable. I guess I'll have to wait 15 minutes before I can install it...;)
On a slightly related sidenote, whichever developer it was who "broke" support for the 105th key (the "Europe" key) in 2.6.1 should be drawn and quartered. It took me forever to figure out why my tilde key wasn't working. I created a text file called tilde with the character in it so that everytime I needed a tilde, I could copy and paste it... Aaarrggh
Conker's Bad Fur Day was an execellent example of this. Though it's shades of grey had more to do with winning and losing than with good guys and bad guys.
For those who aren't familiar, the game ends with Conker "winning" by defeating the bad guy, but his girlfriend died in the process, so the game ends with him at a bar, asking for a bottle of whiskey...
You can forget all of the dick and fart jokes, what made CBFD a mature title was it's thoroughly morose ending.
Unfortunately, you're going to have to run this 2.6 Gbps link to my apartment before I can show it to you. You see it's on my computer, and it's, um, nailed down. Yeah.... Nailed down... So, just show up tomorrow with the equipment, and we'll really surpise^H^H^H impress those investors!
You obviously don't understand active noise cancellation.
Sound travels in pressure waves. That's basic science, and you should know that. Let's assume the sound floor is currently set at the 1 atm level (atmosphere). If a sound comes in that zeroes at 1 atm, and peaks at 10 atm, active noise cancellation will create the exact opposite pressure wave, with a start at 10 atm, and reaches 1 atm when the original sound hits 10. Since we only hear frequencies, or rapid changes, our brain interprets this as not hearing a sound, but the pressure level has still been raised to 5 atm for the course of this sound! (That's the average value of the two waves).
Now, I should note that these numbers are completely made up, for simplicity, but the principle holds true. Active noise cancellation may be quiet, but it is not effect free on your ears, and can give you headaches, especially if the cancellation ends up slightly out of synch (which would give you very low or muffled noise levels, but a a very high pressure level)
That's a TERRIBLE recommendation. Active noise cancellation raises the sound floor in order to cancel sound. This may be fine while you're awake, but it's the type of thing that can give you headaches, especially if one ear (of the headphones) becomes slightly skewed, and you end up getting the wrong signals. (Which will probably happen if you shift around at all during sleep). In addition, the cost of running those things 8 hours a day (night) gets to be ridiculous
It's pretty simple... V-Day is on a Saturday, which means no work (hopefully), so it's perfect.
Arrange ahead of time to take the first half of the day for V-Day, and let him have the second half. Take him to the nearest arcade, with $40-50 worth of quarters, or go-kart racing, follow it up with lunch at something cheap but not fast food (maybe Bennigan's or Chili's), then to a movie he wants to see (maybe The Butterfly Effect, or Cold Mountain, but you know better), and have popcorn and icees/slushies or that 128oz. monster size soda.
Next, let him take over, hopefully he'll have something planned for you (remember you arranged ahead of time, so that's a good reminder for him).
When you get back, he'll have had an incredible day, hopefully you'll have had an incredible night, finish it off by taking him home (your place or his), for some intimate time. Do something with him that you've never done before, whether that be letting him get to second base, or your first time having sex in the shower (or the kitchen table, washing machine, etc.;) )
As for me? My gf and I are currently seperated by that little pond we call the Atlantic Ocean, so I'm having flowers delivered to her, as well as a DVD player (she doesn't have one yet), and the complete Family Guy collection (I know my girl). I'm going to pick up some candles, break out the webcam, and we're going to have a candlelit dinner some 2000 miles apart...
It's like how the gyms that require you to notify them in writing by snail mail to cancel your account. There's a reason why people have been taking them to court and winning, it's underhanded.
Unfortunately, it's not so easy to do something about. If you used a credit card (as opposed to a debit card), it should be relatively easy to get the charge cancelled, like mentioned in an earlier post. If not, stop by at your local court house and pick up a small claims form. Specify the amount as $70 (Xbox fee) + ~$100 (your time and effort coming to court), and most likely they'll refund it before the court date comes, or they won't even show up, which means you win by default. (It's not worth their money to fight it.)
Use the court system to your advantage, for once, and put them in the same positiion that they put small companies, i.e. the settlement is worth less than their legal fees... Total cost to you? Somewhere between $2 and $15
but realizing that my only experience with the matter is reading stories on Slashdot, I'd like some more input in order to form my own opinions and basic philosophy
The fastest consumer graphics card available WITH OSS drivers (not binary-only) is the ATI Radeon 9100. You can also get the FireGL 8800 which is a little bit faster...
I know what you mean. I recently put together an SFF Athlon 64 system (Based off of the Biostar iDeq 200P), and I was torn with what to do for a graphics card, because I want to run gentoo as my primary OS. (With windows for the occasional test-compile for work).
I chose an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro because they have better open source drivers (community developed) for they're slightly older stuff, as well as binary support for what's current, but they can't be bothered to release 2.6 AMD64 compiled drivers, and now I'm left wishing I'd bought an Nvidia card just so it would be usable, when I know they have almost no open source support at all..
I want the graphics card companies to realize, when a decently fast graphics card (notice I didn't buy top of the line, so that's a clue to you up and comers) comes out with open source drivers, that's where I'll put my money, and where I'll tell my friends and family to go. You've got to please the geeks, guys, 'cause we influence the purchases of others, as well.
A much better place to ask this question would be the forums over at Tablet PC Buzz. It's a great forum for Tablet PCs, and almost all of the people there own one, so you'll get a better representation from them...
Even if that were realistic (it's definitely not), moving off of fossil fuels as an energy source doesn't remove our dependence on those sources. Without oil, we don't have plastic, and you don't want to see a world where everything is packaged in Bakelite, let me tell you...
You probably want to look at SATA and hot-swappable drive cages, like this one from 3ware. It needs a case with 3 free 5 1/2" drive bays to install, but it works like a dream...
You shouldn't be asking about how to galliantly pass yourself through airport security. Instead you should be asking yourself why they submit people like yourself to tests that only catch innocent people.
I moved out of our country about half a year ago because I think that the U.S. has become more about lip service than our constitution. As soon as there're people willing to fight for what I believe in [The U.S.!], then I'll move back and join the army/air force/navy, etc., whatever it takes to keep our dreams alive. Until then, the U.S. is a civil war waiting to happen..)
Call me a troll, but I think it's sad that this is going to spark a lot of "Bio-battery" VC money. It may just be me, but I think we should be investing in figuring out how this stuff works, so we can do it on our own without the bacteria, rather than trying to exploit this bacteria in ways that will definitely result in a living creature being put in an environment it wasn't intended for, with the possibility of mutation to adapt to that environment.
I don't know why I'm doing your work for you, but you should try educating yourself. Check out BIOS32 services. It's a 32-bit entrance for BIOS services, and it's an industry standard... PDF link
Two things you can do are to customise an OS install using the "OEM" section to do the installs for you, or use a deployment system like Tivoli, Unicenter, or Vision64...
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I don't think it was that 2.6.1 supported the 103rd key, but that X doesn't. When I had 2.6.1 installed, X couldn't distinguish the key from the PrtScrn key, so there was no way to change the map file to support the key...
I must admit to being a little disappointed right now with my Gentoo installation. I saw the article here, ran an emerge sync, and 2.6.3 is still marked as unstable. I guess I'll have to wait 15 minutes before I can install it... ;)
On a slightly related sidenote, whichever developer it was who "broke" support for the 105th key (the "Europe" key) in 2.6.1 should be drawn and quartered. It took me forever to figure out why my tilde key wasn't working. I created a text file called tilde with the character in it so that everytime I needed a tilde, I could copy and paste it... Aaarrggh
Conker's Bad Fur Day was an execellent example of this. Though it's shades of grey had more to do with winning and losing than with good guys and bad guys.
For those who aren't familiar, the game ends with Conker "winning" by defeating the bad guy, but his girlfriend died in the process, so the game ends with him at a bar, asking for a bottle of whiskey...
You can forget all of the dick and fart jokes, what made CBFD a mature title was it's thoroughly morose ending.
That couldn't be a law, it's WAY too easy to read. C'mon, this is PERL, it should be fairly easy to make it unreadable...
Unfortunately, you're going to have to run this 2.6 Gbps link to my apartment before I can show it to you. You see it's on my computer, and it's, um, nailed down. Yeah.... Nailed down... So, just show up tomorrow with the equipment, and we'll really surpise^H^H^H impress those investors!
You obviously don't understand active noise cancellation.
Sound travels in pressure waves. That's basic science, and you should know that. Let's assume the sound floor is currently set at the 1 atm level (atmosphere). If a sound comes in that zeroes at 1 atm, and peaks at 10 atm, active noise cancellation will create the exact opposite pressure wave, with a start at 10 atm, and reaches 1 atm when the original sound hits 10. Since we only hear frequencies, or rapid changes, our brain interprets this as not hearing a sound, but the pressure level has still been raised to 5 atm for the course of this sound! (That's the average value of the two waves).
Now, I should note that these numbers are completely made up, for simplicity, but the principle holds true. Active noise cancellation may be quiet, but it is not effect free on your ears, and can give you headaches, especially if the cancellation ends up slightly out of synch (which would give you very low or muffled noise levels, but a a very high pressure level)
That's a TERRIBLE recommendation. Active noise cancellation raises the sound floor in order to cancel sound. This may be fine while you're awake, but it's the type of thing that can give you headaches, especially if one ear (of the headphones) becomes slightly skewed, and you end up getting the wrong signals. (Which will probably happen if you shift around at all during sleep). In addition, the cost of running those things 8 hours a day (night) gets to be ridiculous
It's pretty simple... V-Day is on a Saturday, which means no work (hopefully), so it's perfect.
Arrange ahead of time to take the first half of the day for V-Day, and let him have the second half. Take him to the nearest arcade, with $40-50 worth of quarters, or go-kart racing, follow it up with lunch at something cheap but not fast food (maybe Bennigan's or Chili's), then to a movie he wants to see (maybe The Butterfly Effect, or Cold Mountain, but you know better), and have popcorn and icees/slushies or that 128oz. monster size soda.
Next, let him take over, hopefully he'll have something planned for you (remember you arranged ahead of time, so that's a good reminder for him).
When you get back, he'll have had an incredible day, hopefully you'll have had an incredible night, finish it off by taking him home (your place or his), for some intimate time. Do something with him that you've never done before, whether that be letting him get to second base, or your first time having sex in the shower (or the kitchen table, washing machine, etc. ;) )
As for me? My gf and I are currently seperated by that little pond we call the Atlantic Ocean, so I'm having flowers delivered to her, as well as a DVD player (she doesn't have one yet), and the complete Family Guy collection (I know my girl). I'm going to pick up some candles, break out the webcam, and we're going to have a candlelit dinner some 2000 miles apart...
That's a load of horse sh*t.
It's like how the gyms that require you to notify them in writing by snail mail to cancel your account. There's a reason why people have been taking them to court and winning, it's underhanded.
Unfortunately, it's not so easy to do something about. If you used a credit card (as opposed to a debit card), it should be relatively easy to get the charge cancelled, like mentioned in an earlier post. If not, stop by at your local court house and pick up a small claims form. Specify the amount as $70 (Xbox fee) + ~$100 (your time and effort coming to court), and most likely they'll refund it before the court date comes, or they won't even show up, which means you win by default. (It's not worth their money to fight it.)
Use the court system to your advantage, for once, and put them in the same positiion that they put small companies, i.e. the settlement is worth less than their legal fees... Total cost to you? Somewhere between $2 and $15
I'm surprised we haven't heard it yet, but:
This brings a whole new meaning to the term Information Superhighway
<Ducks>
but realizing that my only experience with the matter is reading stories on Slashdot, I'd like some more input in order to form my own opinions and basic philosophy
And so you post a question to Ask Slashdot?
The fastest consumer graphics card available WITH OSS drivers (not binary-only) is the ATI Radeon 9100. You can also get the FireGL 8800 which is a little bit faster...
I know what you mean. I recently put together an SFF Athlon 64 system (Based off of the Biostar iDeq 200P), and I was torn with what to do for a graphics card, because I want to run gentoo as my primary OS. (With windows for the occasional test-compile for work).
I chose an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro because they have better open source drivers (community developed) for they're slightly older stuff, as well as binary support for what's current, but they can't be bothered to release 2.6 AMD64 compiled drivers, and now I'm left wishing I'd bought an Nvidia card just so it would be usable, when I know they have almost no open source support at all..
I want the graphics card companies to realize, when a decently fast graphics card (notice I didn't buy top of the line, so that's a clue to you up and comers) comes out with open source drivers, that's where I'll put my money, and where I'll tell my friends and family to go. You've got to please the geeks, guys, 'cause we influence the purchases of others, as well.
It had to be said...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of porn viewers.
(Which is basically what this is)
A much better place to ask this question would be the forums over at Tablet PC Buzz. It's a great forum for Tablet PCs, and almost all of the people there own one, so you'll get a better representation from them...
google tunes (gTunes)
Personally, I'm waiting for Google Money, Google String, and my personal favorite, Google Spot!
Even if that were realistic (it's definitely not), moving off of fossil fuels as an energy source doesn't remove our dependence on those sources. Without oil, we don't have plastic, and you don't want to see a world where everything is packaged in Bakelite, let me tell you...
- To use hard drives as a sneaker net?
- For backup?
- For building an "unlimited" storage array?
You probably want to look at SATA and hot-swappable drive cages, like this one from 3ware. It needs a case with 3 free 5 1/2" drive bays to install, but it works like a dream...I'm going to burn the karma on this one...
(And potentially get tagged by the FBI...)
You shouldn't be asking about how to galliantly pass yourself through airport security. Instead you should be asking yourself why they submit people like yourself to tests that only catch innocent people.
I moved out of our country about half a year ago because I think that the U.S. has become more about lip service than our constitution. As soon as there're people willing to fight for what I believe in [The U.S.!], then I'll move back and join the army/air force/navy, etc., whatever it takes to keep our dreams alive. Until then, the U.S. is a civil war waiting to happen..)
Or do it the easiest way:
emerge dosbox
Call me a troll, but I think it's sad that this is going to spark a lot of "Bio-battery" VC money. It may just be me, but I think we should be investing in figuring out how this stuff works, so we can do it on our own without the bacteria, rather than trying to exploit this bacteria in ways that will definitely result in a living creature being put in an environment it wasn't intended for, with the possibility of mutation to adapt to that environment.
I was in the beta program. I have five years of experience administrating Windows 2000 server.
Fusion Reactor Project Largest After IIS
Don't you mean the largest thermonuclear disaster, second only to IIS? Oh... you meant ISS...
I don't know why I'm doing your work for you, but you should try educating yourself.
Check out BIOS32 services. It's a 32-bit entrance for BIOS services, and it's an industry standard...
PDF link
Two things you can do are to customise an OS install using the "OEM" section to do the installs for you, or use a deployment system like Tivoli, Unicenter, or Vision64...