With XF86, you can use the DisplaySize setting in XF86Config to specify the physical size of your display. X will then use that and your current screen size in pixels to compute the number of dots per inch.
I've never gotten this setting to work correctly. Yet another reason to detest XFree86's current state.
They are losing buisiness because they are treating their customers like shit.
They are also treating the artists like sh?t. If they (1) paid the artists more, (2) gave them fair contracts, (3) encouraged them to produce new and innovative music, and (4) support all artists, not just the few dozen that get media attention, then the quality of music would go up and the consumers would want to buy more CDs and go to more shows.
When I say "artist", I am refering to all songwriters and performers, with the exception of Metalica, who don't get it.
I hated the mac. Never owned one until OSX shipped. Unix, a great windowing system, and great API's (cocoa, not carbon), I get to run the cool apple i-apps and xemacs. My server still runs FreeBSD on an Athlon - mostly because that's the iron I have sitting around. But that OpenSSL mess sure pissed me off. I'm pretty sure my next server will be OSX, but that's probably 1-2 years off, still.
I feel an irrational loyalty to linux. I feel that, since Linus and Stallman, and all of those other guys who wrote free software for me to use, wrote such good software that I really enjoy using, I almost have a duty to use it.
This must be the same feeling that kept those mac guys sticking to the old MacOS for 15 years, even after better operating systems came out.
But wait until you have OSX on your desktop. Why would you even want to dual boot? Yeah, there are probably a few apps that only run on Linux, but how many? Not wanting to start a flamefest or anything, what apps do you think you'd miss?
Good Question.
What if I don't want to pay over US$100 each time Apple releases a new version of OSX?
What if I just don't like Aqua?
What if I like free software? (I know that most of OSX is open, but not all of it.)
What if I want to develop software that runs on more than one OS?
I still haven't had a chance to try OSX. It might be wonderful for me, it might not.
If both AMD and Intel go ahead and implement DRM, I will consider switching to Mac hardware when the time come to upgrade. This is assuming that 1) Apple does not ever support DRM. 2) Apple chooses the Power4 to replace the PPC, and not X86. And 3) Linux will continue to run nicely on Mac hardware (I'll dual boot OSX and Linux.)
Imagine two balls spinning around eachother in space. each ball sees the other one a bit in the past. They will get faster and faster as they see eachother infront of themselves. Sortof surfing eachothers gravitational field.
I think that effect is so slight that it is nomally unmeasurable. But if two objects are very massive, and orbitting very close to one another, they will slow down measurably due of this effect, and radiate energy in the form of gravity waves.
This is analagous to electrons in an atom dropping into a lower energy state and radiating photons.
I've never studied the physics of GR, but I assume it is somewhat analagous to the retarted potentials you study in undergraduate E&M.
high school physics is wrong and the gravitational force is bound by the speed of light just like all other force fields.
Of course, high school physics is wrong. The mark of a good high school physics teacher is that he will tell you when he's making a gross approximation that ignores relativity, friction, air resistance, or quantum mechanics.
Of course, these type of gross approximations continue well into college physics, where they are refered to as "back of the envelope calculations." And still, a good teacher will let you know what approximations he is making.
I used CDE for about 5 minutes in a computer lab when I was in college. Then my eyes started to hurt from all of the ugliness. So I ran off to find a nice linux box with windowmaker on it.
Well, I was already breaking the law by using bladeenc without paying any royalties, so now it will be the same way with winamp and mpg123. The only change for me is that in the future, I'll have mpg123 in/usr/local/bin instead of/usr/bin.
"Mozilla was not vulnerable, but I'm not sure if that's because it handled the situation properly, or is, ironically, somehow too buggy to be exploited."
I don't know if that's exactly a show of support. It goes into more depth if you'd bother to read the article.
He was using an old version of Mozilla (0.94). Has anybody tried this with 1.0 or 1.1?
I bought it now.... Because I actually just want to, you know, watch the damn movie.
I couldn't wait either. I was at the store last night looking for some books and CDs, and there was Fellowship, saying "Buy me....Buy me!" I may or may not get the other edition.
I watched 30 minutes of the DVD last night, before falling asleep. With a movie like that, I really miss the big screen of a movie theater. It's just not the same on a home system. Or at least in my home theater.
Only a few more months until the two towers! The battle of Helm's Deep! Ents! And Gollum! Oh my!
"Limited liability" means that the stockholders are not liable for crimes committed by the company. Or debts incurred by the company (other than just losing stock value.) The officers and boardmembers of a company are still liable for crimes committed by a company.
They recently released the iPOD portable mp3 player for Windows and I'm pretty sure people will want to get firewirecards for that.
Yep, I just ordered my ipod last week. I also found an inexpensive firewire card at newegg. Unfortunately, for now I'll have to boot to windows to upload music. Oh well...
I took a couple of classes from Prof. Himpsel when I was in school. The nanotech class was fun, when I bothered to show up (I had become rather obsessed with my own research that semester).
Couldn't you digitize a NTSC signal as easily as a HDTV signal and pipe it through a digital tuner?
Yes. In my neck of the woods, 4 out of 6 local stations are broadcasting a digital signal. Unfortunately, noone is selling digital tuners to pick up those signals. I asked about them at Best Buy and they (1) gave me a bank look and (2) tried to sell me DirectTV.
That's zed as in the last letter of the alphabet in all English-speaking nations except the U.S.
Wait, slow down. Are you saying that there are other nations, outside of the United States? I really don't buy that. And even if there were, how could thier language and culture be any different from ours?
I heard this guy speak at an APS meeting a few years back. He gave a definition of homeopathic medicine (as distinguished from herbal and other non-standard medicine) that is based on three premines:
Like cures like. If your poisoned, just take a similar poison. Kind of like a vaccine
The more you dilute a substance, the more potent it it. Put a drop in a swimming pool, and it's really powerful! If there are less than a dozen molecules left in the solution, you've got it right.
I forgot the third premise
A single molecule is pretty much incapable of having any noticable effect on a disease, so he writes off homeopathic medicine as placebos and quackery.
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When I say "artist", I am refering to all songwriters and performers, with the exception of Metalica, who don't get it.
I feel an irrational loyalty to linux. I feel that, since Linus and Stallman, and all of those other guys who wrote free software for me to use, wrote such good software that I really enjoy using, I almost have a duty to use it.
This must be the same feeling that kept those mac guys sticking to the old MacOS for 15 years, even after better operating systems came out.
Does this make me irrational?
Good Question.
What if I don't want to pay over US$100 each time Apple releases a new version of OSX?
What if I just don't like Aqua?
What if I like free software? (I know that most of OSX is open, but not all of it.)
What if I want to develop software that runs on more than one OS?
I still haven't had a chance to try OSX. It might be wonderful for me, it might not.
If both AMD and Intel go ahead and implement DRM, I will consider switching to Mac hardware when the time come to upgrade. This is assuming that 1) Apple does not ever support DRM. 2) Apple chooses the Power4 to replace the PPC, and not X86. And 3) Linux will continue to run nicely on Mac hardware (I'll dual boot OSX and Linux.)
And here's what I had to say about the subject last month: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37601& cid=4030646
This is analagous to electrons in an atom dropping into a lower energy state and radiating photons.
I've never studied the physics of GR, but I assume it is somewhat analagous to the retarted potentials you study in undergraduate E&M.
Of course, these type of gross approximations continue well into college physics, where they are refered to as "back of the envelope calculations." And still, a good teacher will let you know what approximations he is making.
Experiemnt (or observation) is good for science. But I'll still bet anyone that the current theories will be supported by the new evidence.
I used CDE for about 5 minutes in a computer lab when I was in college. Then my eyes started to hurt from all of the ugliness. So I ran off to find a nice linux box with windowmaker on it.
Well, I was already breaking the law by using bladeenc without paying any royalties, so now it will be the same way with winamp and mpg123. The only change for me is that in the future, I'll have mpg123 in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin.
I watched 30 minutes of the DVD last night, before falling asleep. With a movie like that, I really miss the big screen of a movie theater. It's just not the same on a home system. Or at least in my home theater.
Only a few more months until the two towers! The battle of Helm's Deep! Ents! And Gollum! Oh my!
"Limited liability" means that the stockholders are not liable for crimes committed by the company. Or debts incurred by the company (other than just losing stock value.) The officers and boardmembers of a company are still liable for crimes committed by a company.
See http://uw.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/nano.html, or this and Feynman's talk on the subject.
I once saw a program storing dates as the number of days until 27 September 2173.
And the old 2d games are still around. I play them all the time.
You know, there are good musicians out there who consitantly produce whole albums of good material.
Let's get this strait.
Photons are particles that propagate as waves.
Another way to put it: all particles propagate as waves and interact as discrete particles.
No man, the Gimp rocks!
It just has a steeper leaning curve than Photoshop.
The same thing is true of any powerful piece of software.
A single molecule is pretty much incapable of having any noticable effect on a disease, so he writes off homeopathic medicine as placebos and quackery.