bunnie, for his work on the Xbox Project with his MIT paper
visor, for his work on the LPC Bus
numbnut, for his great work on milksop, cheaplpc and filtror.
I can picture all these think, "oh shit, what sort of trouble am I in now...."
#2 When the cop lies about what he said and did in traffic court
Riight, like you're going to be standing with your camcorder pointed at the traffic officer as he comes by youyr car to fine you.
#3 When your boss tries to take credit for something you did
That also means you're going to be filming all you do/say, plus all the people around you, basically not doing work at the time. Let's not even talk about transmission costs or limited storage available in the phone. That, and everybody has a webcam anyway..
#4 When that coworker gets fitshaced at the office party
Yeah that sounds more realistic already:) But then, see webcam point above...
All big electronic equipment manufacturers have ESD protection measures in place, however consumers (and sometimes retailers too) don't even know what it is. I bought RAM the other day, and the clerck was handling the DIMM's with his bare hands before me ! I was shocked, and even though I tried to explain, he didn't give a shit:/
(fortunatwely for him, the 2 DIMM's worked out fine).
Hrm, oddball = any ATI Radeon 9000, 9000 Pro or 9700 Pro. How's that for oddball. I have a 9000 Pro and I'm screwed:(
XFree86 does support your Radeon 7500 and 8500, anything more recent you're on your own ! ATI doesn't offer any better drivers, just "support" by the way of links (www.linux.org... yeah riight, like that's gonna solve my problem).
Will this deal mean that in the process, RH will produce a better version of their distribution for PC's, which still represent the bulk of their earnings?
I guess I could rephrase the question into what's in it for me?
A friend of mine also has a D60 and regularely takes off for weeks at a time in strange places (lately: Cambodia, Ethiopia...). He has a couple of 512MB flash cards to feed his camera during the day, which he offloads in a portable 20GB drive in the evening. He takes all his pictures in raw.
He came back from Ethiopia with ~11GB worth of data. Needless to say, his shots are beautiful.
And what would you (or they) say if the same survey was made by a US company? If the company is reputable, that shouldn't change a thing to the results.
Even if you just have a 386 or 486, you can still use thousands of decent console applications (including stuff like MP3 players [...]). An old Pentium is fast enough for a simple X11 setup with small desktop aps like WindowMaker, LyX etc.
Unless you had a 486 DX4/100 or DX4/120, decoding mp3's wasn't possible at the time. I *did* try, very hard even, on machines up to 486 DX2/66 with no luck. The DX2/66 was just about capable of playing a 128k mp3 stream in almost real time, but it would still pause to decode every now and again, and certainely not enough powerful to let you do anything else at the computer at the same time.
As for the pentium to run simple X11 setup, I'll make another remark here: my first Linux PC was a 486 DX/33 with 8 MB of RAM and a 512KB video board, and it ran X11 apps in 256 colors like a charm. But of course at the time, people ran fvwm, since Netscape and other memory hogs we have nowadays didn't exist yet.
If they don't want people having a peek at their monitor, rather than building some complex/ineffective system using light polarization, why not simply drop monitors alltogether and use some sort of eye-mounted display like iGlasses ?
I couldn't believe reading through the article, and thinking "wait a minute, all that someone needs are a pair of polarizing glasses".....and then I found the following hilarious quotes:
...he warns that this security measure could be defeated by anyone who can get hold of a pair of correctly configured, light polarising glasses.
...simple 3D movie glasses could defeat the system. These have a horizontal polarising filter on one eye and a vertical filter on the other eye. "By tilting the head up to 45 degrees to either side and switching between both eyes, you can easily observe light at all polarisation angles".
Price of the monitors: between $1600 and $2500.
Price of polarizing glasses: $15.
Everybody rotfl: priceless !
Just don't put fingers in it or they'll snap like glass !
By the way, no one has made mention of the price of such a setup. OK they had 15 minutes of excitment for the price of a _really_ expensive CPU, custom motherboard, not to mention the nitrogen-cooling gear, the voltmeters and other lab equipment they use.
For the moment I'll stick to that 1.5Ghz processor which barely produces any heat & is so damn quiet:)
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bunnie, for his work on the Xbox Project with his MIT paper
visor, for his work on the LPC Bus
numbnut, for his great work on milksop, cheaplpc and filtror.
I can picture all these think, "oh shit, what sort of trouble am I in now...."
Don't overdo your resume either, or else you will look like a moron with absolutely no credibility...
- No Adware
- No Spyware
- No banners
- No bitratelimit for mp3 files
- No irritating websites loaded into KaZaA
- etc.
In addition to kazaa-lite, the following spyware-buster programs are a must to download: (links straight from www.kazaalite.nl):
eDexter
AdWare and its RefUpdate auto-updater program.
Riight, like you're going to be standing with your camcorder pointed at the traffic officer as he comes by youyr car to fine you.
That also means you're going to be filming all you do/say, plus all the people around you, basically not doing work at the time. Let's not even talk about transmission costs or limited storage available in the phone. That, and everybody has a webcam anyway..
Yeah that sounds more realistic already :) But then, see webcam point above...
Memory Errors, Detection and Correction (The PC Guide)
IBM experiments in soft fails in computer electronics (1978-1994) (IBM Research)
IBM moves to protect DRAM from cosmic invaders (EETimes)
All big electronic equipment manufacturers have ESD protection measures in place, however consumers (and sometimes retailers too) don't even know what it is. I bought RAM the other day, and the clerck was handling the DIMM's with his bare hands before me ! I was shocked, and even though I tried to explain, he didn't give a shit :/
(fortunatwely for him, the 2 DIMM's worked out fine).
4.77 to be exact, if my memory serves. I've had a couple of those .. wow, that was a while ago :)
The G4 is still a fantastic processor for certain operations, such as cracking so many RC5 keys per seconds...:)
So, whoever with one billion dollar to spend could launch 66 indian weather satellites ! Very neat, I like that =)
XFree86 does support your Radeon 7500 and 8500, anything more recent you're on your own ! ATI doesn't offer any better drivers, just "support" by the way of links (www.linux.org ... yeah riight, like that's gonna solve my problem).
The show was live in the US last night, but is only airing tonight on european NGC.
Now I guess there won't be a lot of people watching the show.
- it appear *before* you went out in the sun.
Minority Report, anyone?I guess I could rephrase the question into what's in it for me?
Slashdot readers will probably want to run Linux on their G4's anyway. So here you go ---> GPL :)
He came back from Ethiopia with ~11GB worth of data. Needless to say, his shots are beautiful.
And what would you (or they) say if the same survey was made by a US company? If the company is reputable, that shouldn't change a thing to the results.
Perhaps this poll wasn't representative either, then.
Unless you had a 486 DX4/100 or DX4/120, decoding mp3's wasn't possible at the time. I *did* try, very hard even, on machines up to 486 DX2/66 with no luck. The DX2/66 was just about capable of playing a 128k mp3 stream in almost real time, but it would still pause to decode every now and again, and certainely not enough powerful to let you do anything else at the computer at the same time.
As for the pentium to run simple X11 setup, I'll make another remark here: my first Linux PC was a 486 DX/33 with 8 MB of RAM and a 512KB video board, and it ran X11 apps in 256 colors like a charm. But of course at the time, people ran fvwm, since Netscape and other memory hogs we have nowadays didn't exist yet.
...Or just use the excellent random NTY registration generator and voila !
Enjoy,
-forged
-Yeah, riiiight !
Erhmm, heard of "prior art" ;)
If they don't want people having a peek at their monitor, rather than building some complex/ineffective system using light polarization, why not simply drop monitors alltogether and use some sort of eye-mounted display like iGlasses ?
Price of the monitors: between $1600 and $2500.
Price of polarizing glasses: $15.
Everybody rotfl: priceless !
The real annoying part about laptops in airplanes is the limited battery life. Where are power outlets when one need them the most !
This must have been funny as hell :) I can just about imagine the look on people's faces then!
By the way, no one has made mention of the price of such a setup. OK they had 15 minutes of excitment for the price of a _really_ expensive CPU, custom motherboard, not to mention the nitrogen-cooling gear, the voltmeters and other lab equipment they use.
For the moment I'll stick to that 1.5Ghz processor which barely produces any heat & is so damn quiet:)