I use Linux for: browsing, email, office, 2D graphics, sound processing, making music, DVD authoring, video editing, etc. It works very well for all those tasks and it's free.
Cool, that could mean: 1. RSS feed client integrated into Gnome (maybe even displaying RSS feeds on the background?) 2. Blog API client integrated in Gnome. BloGTK seems to be a good candidate.
Duh, dude, it's not like they're waiting for my "briliant genius" to supply them ideas. They've got ideas of their own, rest (un)assured. Sad but probably true.
Yeah, sorry, i put the wrong emphasis. It's just me that i'm using it strictly as a blogger: i disabled all non-blog-relevant modules in the admin interface and that was it.
Also: - it's customizable and extensible in a big way - the community around it is very active - seems to be designed by people who know how to write software (which sadly is not true when you look at the PHPNuke family) - very feature-rich It just rocks. I took some time trying out various solutions, and once i've found Drupal there was no looking back. I'm still very surprised the article mentioned in the newspiece ignores Drupal.
That's odd, since Drupal is a strong contender in the arena of blogger software. Technically it's more than just a blogger, but it's still a full-featured blogging software.
Well, we need alternatives, fast. Fusion would do nicely, thank you, either cold (for small vehicles and local power plants or so) or hot (for large power plants). Someone gotta start pumping money into it, NOW.
Just use Drupal instead. Free, powerful, extensible... Oh, and the blogger stuff is just a part of it, it's actually a lot more than that (kinda like a software to build Slashdot type of sites). I installed it on my server and dumbed it down so only the blog is active, and it's working great.
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After his prior successes, it appears that his editors could no longer offer helpful suggestions (or demands) and his craft went out the window.
In actual fact, Stephenson grew up as a writer since his "prior success". This latter books are targeted at a different audience, one who expects things more complex and refined than cyberpunk.
He's like the Count of Saint-Germain in "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
Heh, yeah, those who enjoyed The Baroque Cycle might also enjoy the Pendulum.;-)
there is no "dip at the center"
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The novel dips at the center, but it shines in every chapter concerning Eliza, and toward the end it even shines for Jack.
Well, it dips only if you don't enjoy "things baroque" only for the sake of themselves. I have to confess i'm a sucker for this kind of super-intricate plot that sprouts gratuitous detail at every step and branches off endlessly in subplots.
The Baroque Cycle has a great second book in The Confusion. Highly recommended.
Protect all your passwords with Keyring for PalmOS or a similar application, and lock the master password to Keyring in a safe in a bank. When you die, your children/spouse/parents/etc get the keys to the safe, open it, get the master password and unlock Keyring. Then they get access to all your digital stuff.
AFAICT from buzzword and hearsay, the caching on the iPod is kinda brain-damaged. Sounds like it has to flush it before start caching the next song, or something like that. I'm not surprised actually. They designed a full new OS for the iPod, and perhaps some early design decisions are only now showing their respective shortcomings.
Yeah, but a sub-second pause (finish up playing previous song, then immediately start next one which was being pre-cached) would still be a lot better than the current state of affairs on the iPod...
No. There are several competing theories that are similar to the General Relativity, all of them predict that the speed of light is the ultimate speed (let's ignore "space warp" things for a moment, shall we?), but not all of them predict effects such as Frame Dragging. Einstein's own view predicts Frame Dragging as a measurable effect, but that's just one theory among other. So, the alleged absence of Frame Dragging will not imply that you can break the speed of light limit; it will merely imply that we're living in a Universe slightly different from the one described by the "vanilla" General Relativity. The Einstein Probe merely tries to figure out which theories are definitely false and which ones can still be suspected to be true, at least for the time being.
Actually they're reinventing themselves as we speak, and successfully so, apparently. They're switching pretty fast to Intel CPUs / Linux OS, while keeping the high-bandwidth NUMA stuff to glue everything together. That's the SGI Altix product line, which not many people know about because it was pushed into production early this year. Expect some serious changes in the supercomputing arena pretty soon...;-)
Actually, you got it backwards. At the time, the O2s had an excellent bandwidth. SGI stuff, by definition, beats the hell out of everything in terms of internal bandwidth. What dragged the O2s back, though, was the CPU - the MIPS were already getting kinda slow at the time. Fortunately, SGI is now switching en-masse to Intel CPUs and Linux, while preserving the clever high-performance NUMA architecture. Since Linux is gaining traction, there will be some interesting news coming up soon.;-)
Altix. That's the only hardware with hundreds, maybe thousands of CPUs running Linux currently. The database people are all drooling over it. Stay tuned, looks like SGI is going to come back in a spectacular way.
Actually, there's a lot of attention from the database field and stuff, given to the SGI Altix line - think: 256 CPU boxes running Linux running Oracle on top of that.;-) SGI is headed for a big-time comeback. Just wait and see...
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Personal server? RAID 5, no doubt.
I use Linux for: browsing, email, office, 2D graphics, sound processing, making music, DVD authoring, video editing, etc. It works very well for all those tasks and it's free.
Cool, that could mean:
1. RSS feed client integrated into Gnome (maybe even displaying RSS feeds on the background?)
2. Blog API client integrated in Gnome. BloGTK seems to be a good candidate.
Duh, dude, it's not like they're waiting for my "briliant genius" to supply them ideas.
They've got ideas of their own, rest (un)assured. Sad but probably true.
Just think what one could do with an EMP blast (electro-magnetic pulse) discharged in the focal point of the chinese spider mesh thing.
(just kidding)
Yeah, sorry, i put the wrong emphasis.
It's just me that i'm using it strictly as a blogger: i disabled all non-blog-relevant modules in the admin interface and that was it.
But yes, it's a capable CMS framework.
Also:
- it's customizable and extensible in a big way
- the community around it is very active
- seems to be designed by people who know how to write software (which sadly is not true when you look at the PHPNuke family)
- very feature-rich
It just rocks. I took some time trying out various solutions, and once i've found Drupal there was no looking back.
I'm still very surprised the article mentioned in the newspiece ignores Drupal.
That's odd, since Drupal is a strong contender in the arena of blogger software. Technically it's more than just a blogger, but it's still a full-featured blogging software.
Well, we need alternatives, fast.
Fusion would do nicely, thank you, either cold (for small vehicles and local power plants or so) or hot (for large power plants).
Someone gotta start pumping money into it, NOW.
Hypersonic projectiles... Milions of rounds per second... I thought i've head of those in one of N. Stephenson's books - was it Snowcrash?
Just use Drupal instead. Free, powerful, extensible... Oh, and the blogger stuff is just a part of it, it's actually a lot more than that (kinda like a software to build Slashdot type of sites).
I installed it on my server and dumbed it down so only the blog is active, and it's working great.
After his prior successes, it appears that his editors could no longer offer helpful suggestions (or demands) and his craft went out the window.
In actual fact, Stephenson grew up as a writer since his "prior success". This latter books are targeted at a different audience, one who expects things more complex and refined than cyberpunk.
is there any way to summarize the plot of a sci-fi ovel without making it sound like a 6 year olds daydream?
Well, i thought we were discussing about The Confusion, which is _not_ scifi.
He's like the Count of Saint-Germain in "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
;-)
Heh, yeah, those who enjoyed The Baroque Cycle might also enjoy the Pendulum.
The novel dips at the center, but it shines in every chapter concerning Eliza, and toward the end it even shines for Jack.
Well, it dips only if you don't enjoy "things baroque" only for the sake of themselves. I have to confess i'm a sucker for this kind of super-intricate plot that sprouts gratuitous detail at every step and branches off endlessly in subplots.
The Baroque Cycle has a great second book in The Confusion. Highly recommended.
Protect all your passwords with Keyring for PalmOS or a similar application, and lock the master password to Keyring in a safe in a bank.
When you die, your children/spouse/parents/etc get the keys to the safe, open it, get the master password and unlock Keyring. Then they get access to all your digital stuff.
On an unrelated note, I wonder if iTMS is going to start offering lossless files. That would be cool.
Magnatune has lossless files, including WAV and FLAC.
AFAICT from buzzword and hearsay, the caching on the iPod is kinda brain-damaged. Sounds like it has to flush it before start caching the next song, or something like that.
I'm not surprised actually. They designed a full new OS for the iPod, and perhaps some early design decisions are only now showing their respective shortcomings.
Yeah, but a sub-second pause (finish up playing previous song, then immediately start next one which was being pre-cached) would still be a lot better than the current state of affairs on the iPod...
No. There are several competing theories that are similar to the General Relativity, all of them predict that the speed of light is the ultimate speed (let's ignore "space warp" things for a moment, shall we?), but not all of them predict effects such as Frame Dragging. Einstein's own view predicts Frame Dragging as a measurable effect, but that's just one theory among other.
So, the alleged absence of Frame Dragging will not imply that you can break the speed of light limit; it will merely imply that we're living in a Universe slightly different from the one described by the "vanilla" General Relativity.
The Einstein Probe merely tries to figure out which theories are definitely false and which ones can still be suspected to be true, at least for the time being.
Actually they're reinventing themselves as we speak, and successfully so, apparently. They're switching pretty fast to Intel CPUs / Linux OS, while keeping the high-bandwidth NUMA stuff to glue everything together. That's the SGI Altix product line, which not many people know about because it was pushed into production early this year. ;-)
Expect some serious changes in the supercomputing arena pretty soon...
Actually, you got it backwards. ;-)
At the time, the O2s had an excellent bandwidth. SGI stuff, by definition, beats the hell out of everything in terms of internal bandwidth.
What dragged the O2s back, though, was the CPU - the MIPS were already getting kinda slow at the time.
Fortunately, SGI is now switching en-masse to Intel CPUs and Linux, while preserving the clever high-performance NUMA architecture. Since Linux is gaining traction, there will be some interesting news coming up soon.
Altix. That's the only hardware with hundreds, maybe thousands of CPUs running Linux currently. The database people are all drooling over it.
Stay tuned, looks like SGI is going to come back in a spectacular way.
Actually, there's a lot of attention from the database field and stuff, given to the SGI Altix line - think: 256 CPU boxes running Linux running Oracle on top of that. ;-)
SGI is headed for a big-time comeback. Just wait and see...
High end graphics maybe not anymore, but check out SGI's Altix, which is the most powerful hardware architecture currently running Linux.