In late 99, I went to "town meetings" where people asked "experts" if their gasoline powered generators would stop working, if their car would still start, etc.
I could not help but laugh out loud at these fools. I was even interviewed by a news crew at one of these meetings and said just that. Of course, the sensationalist bastards didn't air it.
On the other side, I had friends charging $100/hr to "Y2K test your PC". Guess what that involves: - Change date to post-2000 - Run MS Office programs - ??? - Profit.
There may have been a FEW things that would have gone wrong had people not fixed them, but it turned into the most rediculous hoax ever.
We at Terra Soft (Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC) have managed to get our OS booting off an iPod connected as a firewire drive. We plan to sell them someday... we just haven't gotten around to it.
It's great, cuz you don't have to mess with your internal hard drive to try Linux.
The problem is that there are *not* more Victoria's Secret model type women out there - but by being constantly exposed to the few that do exist (both real via media, and the artificial ones), subconciously you come to expect all women to look like that. This means you are limiting the number of real women, who are still quite attractive, which you consider dateable.
On the other side of the gender spectrum, women feel if they don't look like a VS model, then they don't have any sex appeal.
That said, Victoria's Secret models do make the best wallpapers;)
YDL is not intended to run on a G5 cluster, unless you had Y-HPC. YDL on its own is only 32-bit.
Fan control was integrated into the kernel over a month ago, and is most definitelly in the first version we released last week.
We have also developed a nice pretty installer for the head node in a cluster, and wrote Y-Imager (front end for Argonne's System Imager), to automate the building of compute nodes in a cluster.
G5 nodes do have excellent performance, but don't assume OSX is all they can run.
We at Terra Soft have just released Y-HPC, our version of Yellow Dog Linux, with a full 64-bit development environment, and a bunch of cluster tools built in.
I'm not much of a marketting drone, but being as I am part of the Y-HPC team, I had to put a shameless plug in. Bottom line is, it kicks OSX's ass any 2 ways you look at it.
Clearly his lifestyle is such that he requires a lot of money, and that's why he said his next job will be a Pizza Delivery boy, because Dominos pays *so much*.
Until they find a way to "cure" this "Obesity Epidemic", cardiac failure will remain the #1 cause of death, especially if old-age is taken out of the equation.
I would say doom 3 is irrelevant compared to Half Life 2. The only reason id got any sales out of it was due to their being smart enough to release it before HL2, but after the dx9 video cards became widely available.
Doom3 basically served as a "so this is what a DX9 game looks like, neat. Can't wait for HL2 to come out"
The reason paper slows so well is the very small downard pull it is experiencing, and the fact that the downward and upward forces are pretty nearly uniformly distributed over the mass.
By attaching cables or the like to it and adding substantial mass and downward pull, you destroy the uniformity...
You must have never gone to a.NET developer meeting. A few people in the CIS dept (the business side of IT, not the engineering folk) had such a club going, which I attended a few times for the free food, tshirts, copy of WinXP, copy of Dev Studio, etc.
These guys would claim Microsoft had invented the Sun, and should be worshipped for such an achievement. It really was interesting to observe.
At one point I won a door prize of my pick between several "writing secure code" books by MS Press. I said if I wanted to learn how to write secure code, I think I could find someone better than MS to learn from... everyone just stared at me slack jawed.
When artists I actually enjoy provide something worth my money, I buy it. The only songs I download anymore are the 1-hit wonders you hear (for free - I know, I know, they were paid for by commercials) on the radio anyway.
If the industry wants to stick with this "one hit song per album" model, and produce albums which aren't worth they money, then I'll just keep downloading the hits. Usually I get bored with the mp3 before it even goes off the radio anyway.
Thanks to assholes out there (RIAA, dumbasses, etc)... you have to download 10 copies of a song just to find one that isn't cut, low quality, a different song mislabeled, the chorus looped over and over, or simply static.
Agreed, completely. Knowing the route someone takes to work in order to analize traffic patterns is WAY worse than destroying private property because of a personal pet peeve.
You know folks, if you hate these guys with the stereos so much, why don't you quit hiding behind technology and do what you want anyway - follow then until they park, and slash their tires. Or run them off the road.
I've been on and off of dualhead for a while. Usually a week of the frustrations of dualhead force me to put the other monitor in the closet.
This may all just be a factor of the hardware/software I use, but the fact is - it is possible to go back.
0. Dual head forces a 'primary, secondary' effect. ie: you're always looking forward or left. It's very unbalanced. I would prefer a tripple-head setup, to keep things balanced.
1. DVDs/most video players would freak out (split video between 2 monitors, only show half the video, stretch, etc)
2. Video games freak out
3. Second monitor was usually the old one after having bought a new one. I couldn't stand looking at it in comparison to the new one.
4. I have a very very nice desk. I sanded and finished it by hand. I don't like covering it with CRTs
5. CRTs side by side create magnetic interferance and distort each other
6. Windows (nVidia) support for dualhead, atleast with my card at home (GeForce 2 MX), absolutely sucked. It insisted on treating it as 1 large display, which stretches wallpapers. It also failed to see the secondary monitor 1/2 the time. Windows that were on the 2nd monitor previously, when the 2nd monitor wasn't found, would be lost in unusable screen space. The list goes on.
I have also tried dual-head with Linux, which is a bit nicer, but here's a few complaints I have about that: Xinerama is nice, but somewhat limited. What I'd really like to do is map my GNOME virtual desktops to a display. ie: Desktop1 on Monitor1, Desktop6 on Monitor2, but quickly changable of course.
Maybe if I had 1,500 to throw at 2 new LCD monitors and a nice video card, sure, it would be nice.
We at Terra Soft Solutions (Yellow Dog Linux) did this with an ipod a while ago. We had intent to sell ipods partitioned with a 5gb Linux space, and the rest open for music - but Apple informed us that the drive wasn't inteded for frequent read/writes, just burst reads... and that we would probably burn the drive pretty quickly.
Can anyone explain why those GNOME screenshots waste so much screen space? The panel is about 4x the height it needs to be, and the icons would quite litteraly fit about 4 to a lower-res screen.
Not everyone runs a 21" highres display.
All the screenshots I've seen of GNOME in the past few months seem to waste a LOT of screen space...
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In late 99, I went to "town meetings" where people asked "experts" if their gasoline powered generators would stop working, if their car would still start, etc.
I could not help but laugh out loud at these fools. I was even interviewed by a news crew at one of these meetings and said just that. Of course, the sensationalist bastards didn't air it.
On the other side, I had friends charging $100/hr to "Y2K test your PC". Guess what that involves:
- Change date to post-2000
- Run MS Office programs
- ???
- Profit.
There may have been a FEW things that would have gone wrong had people not fixed them, but it turned into the most rediculous hoax ever.
Maybe he posted anonymously because he didn't want personal recognition for his donations.
Who knows, just a thought.
We at Terra Soft (Yellow Dog Linux, Y-HPC) have managed to get our OS booting off an iPod connected as a firewire drive. We plan to sell them someday... we just haven't gotten around to it.
It's great, cuz you don't have to mess with your internal hard drive to try Linux.
So parts of the current firefox code base is still 5 years old.
The problem is that there are *not* more Victoria's Secret model type women out there - but by being constantly exposed to the few that do exist (both real via media, and the artificial ones), subconciously you come to expect all women to look like that. This means you are limiting the number of real women, who are still quite attractive, which you consider dateable.
;)
On the other side of the gender spectrum, women feel if they don't look like a VS model, then they don't have any sex appeal.
That said, Victoria's Secret models do make the best wallpapers
....
I'd like to take the area under your curve!
YDL is not intended to run on a G5 cluster, unless you had Y-HPC. YDL on its own is only 32-bit.
:)
Fan control was integrated into the kernel over a month ago, and is most definitelly in the first version we released last week.
We have also developed a nice pretty installer for the head node in a cluster, and wrote Y-Imager (front end for Argonne's System Imager), to automate the building of compute nodes in a cluster.
No offense taken
G5 nodes do have excellent performance, but don't assume OSX is all they can run.
We at Terra Soft have just released Y-HPC, our version of Yellow Dog Linux, with a full 64-bit development environment, and a bunch of cluster tools built in.
I'm not much of a marketting drone, but being as I am part of the Y-HPC team, I had to put a shameless plug in. Bottom line is, it kicks OSX's ass any 2 ways you look at it.
Y-HPC
Clearly his lifestyle is such that he requires a lot of money, and that's why he said his next job will be a Pizza Delivery boy, because Dominos pays *so much*.
Until they find a way to "cure" this "Obesity Epidemic", cardiac failure will remain the #1 cause of death, especially if old-age is taken out of the equation.
I would say doom 3 is irrelevant compared to Half Life 2. The only reason id got any sales out of it was due to their being smart enough to release it before HL2, but after the dx9 video cards became widely available.
Doom3 basically served as a "so this is what a DX9 game looks like, neat. Can't wait for HL2 to come out"
Whenever anyone 'recalls' something, I always take it in the "I recall the good ol days" context.
I envision people at Toshiba sitting at a boardroom table saying "Yup. I recall Bad RAM. Those sure were the days, what a hoot"
I'm not sure which is worse.... his Gentoo plug, or the fact that half of it was written in klingon.
The reason paper slows so well is the very small downard pull it is experiencing, and the fact that the downward and upward forces are pretty nearly uniformly distributed over the mass.
By attaching cables or the like to it and adding substantial mass and downward pull, you destroy the uniformity...
I know the shark reference...
but what did homestar do to make you say this?
You must have never gone to a .NET developer meeting. A few people in the CIS dept (the business side of IT, not the engineering folk) had such a club going, which I attended a few times for the free food, tshirts, copy of WinXP, copy of Dev Studio, etc.
These guys would claim Microsoft had invented the Sun, and should be worshipped for such an achievement. It really was interesting to observe.
At one point I won a door prize of my pick between several "writing secure code" books by MS Press. I said if I wanted to learn how to write secure code, I think I could find someone better than MS to learn from... everyone just stared at me slack jawed.
When artists I actually enjoy provide something worth my money, I buy it. The only songs I download anymore are the 1-hit wonders you hear (for free - I know, I know, they were paid for by commercials) on the radio anyway.
If the industry wants to stick with this "one hit song per album" model, and produce albums which aren't worth they money, then I'll just keep downloading the hits. Usually I get bored with the mp3 before it even goes off the radio anyway.
Thanks to assholes out there (RIAA, dumbasses, etc)... you have to download 10 copies of a song just to find one that isn't cut, low quality, a different song mislabeled, the chorus looped over and over, or simply static.
I assume you are referring to Harleys with the chopped exhaust.
While these are very annoying (don't get me wrong, I hate them), I recently found out why they do this:
Most motorcycle accidents are because other drivers don't see the rider, and pull out infront of him, or change lanes into him, or rearend him, etc.
The noisy muffler is actually just a way to be sure people around you don't squish you like a bug. If you can't be seen, then be heard, I guess.
Agreed, completely. Knowing the route someone takes to work in order to analize traffic patterns is WAY worse than destroying private property because of a personal pet peeve.
You know folks, if you hate these guys with the stereos so much, why don't you quit hiding behind technology and do what you want anyway - follow then until they park, and slash their tires. Or run them off the road.
I've been on and off of dualhead for a while. Usually a week of the frustrations of dualhead force me to put the other monitor in the closet.
This may all just be a factor of the hardware/software I use, but the fact is - it is possible to go back.
0. Dual head forces a 'primary, secondary' effect. ie: you're always looking forward or left. It's very unbalanced. I would prefer a tripple-head setup, to keep things balanced.
1. DVDs/most video players would freak out (split video between 2 monitors, only show half the video, stretch, etc)
2. Video games freak out
3. Second monitor was usually the old one after having bought a new one. I couldn't stand looking at it in comparison to the new one.
4. I have a very very nice desk. I sanded and finished it by hand. I don't like covering it with CRTs
5. CRTs side by side create magnetic interferance and distort each other
6. Windows (nVidia) support for dualhead, atleast with my card at home (GeForce 2 MX), absolutely sucked. It insisted on treating it as 1 large display, which stretches wallpapers. It also failed to see the secondary monitor 1/2 the time. Windows that were on the 2nd monitor previously, when the 2nd monitor wasn't found, would be lost in unusable screen space. The list goes on.
I have also tried dual-head with Linux, which is a bit nicer, but here's a few complaints I have about that:
Xinerama is nice, but somewhat limited. What I'd really like to do is map my GNOME virtual desktops to a display. ie: Desktop1 on Monitor1, Desktop6 on Monitor2, but quickly changable of course.
Maybe if I had 1,500 to throw at 2 new LCD monitors and a nice video card, sure, it would be nice.
We at Terra Soft Solutions (Yellow Dog Linux) did this with an ipod a while ago. We had intent to sell ipods partitioned with a 5gb Linux space, and the rest open for music - but Apple informed us that the drive wasn't inteded for frequent read/writes, just burst reads... and that we would probably burn the drive pretty quickly.
:)
Ah well, it woulda been cool
Screw windows, screw linux. seriously you guys.
Nevermind... it seems if I look past the 1st screenshot, the rest are somewhat normal.
Can anyone explain why those GNOME screenshots waste so much screen space? The panel is about 4x the height it needs to be, and the icons would quite litteraly fit about 4 to a lower-res screen.
Not everyone runs a 21" highres display.
All the screenshots I've seen of GNOME in the past few months seem to waste a LOT of screen space...