I believe a 100% JPEG is still lossy (pretty much has to be, to be 50% smaller than the PNG version, doesn't it?)
I can't tell the difference (at 1:1 zoom) between a 90% quality and an 100% quality JPEG in most cases, except for the file size. 100% quality JPEGs are really huge.
I also like The GIMP for saving JPEGs, you can fine tune all the compression/quality settings while watching the effect on the image. I just keep tweaking until I get a file size/quality I can live with. (Maybe you can do this in Photoshop, but I've not used it since version 1.2).
People always mention the move to PNG as a solution to the JPEG patent problem. PNGs and JPEGs are targeted at different uses. PNGs are lossLESS, JPEGs are lossY. Take a photograph of a forest scene, save it at a PNG then convert it to a JPEG, look at the file sizes. Even a 90% quality JPEG is going to be smaller. But the PNG image is the one you are going to want to do your editing work on as repeat saves are not going to degrade the quality. But a 1600x1200 PNG with lots of small details will run around 1 MB, not something you want to have 100s of in your online photo collection.
Well since Slashdot.org it pretty much a dynamic site, there wouldn't be much on the CD-ROM. So it would be just about perfect for the static parts of a site like Slashdot to be stored on a RO medium.
You just `grep -r null/mnt/cdrom` on boot, and have enough RAM to hold the site.
Forgot movies. With 100mbps sharing music is painless, but movies will still a few minutes to move around. But go to 1000mbps an you can swap DixX like crazy, and streaming DVDs is vary possible.
Not exactly right. The VCD format does use MPEG systems (video and audio), and the files are just placed in specificly designated directories. But they are not exactly ISO 9660 dics. They don't have the full error correction that the standard provides. The MPEG stream has it's own error correction. To get a little extra space on the disc they don't do double error correction, and just used the extra bits on the disc to store more video.
Well considering that you don't own the ATM at all, you'd be damaging someone else's property.
And for the parent post, if you are modifying a cable box or modem that you don't own, but are leasing I can see how that should be illegal also. But firearms, DVD players, videogame consoles, or anything else you own out right, I say go for it.
I remember when I started reading Cryptonomicon I was horrified to see that it took place in part during WWII. I hate war movies, and couldn't imagine putting the effort forward to actually read a book as large this one is on that subject. But the modern day stuff kept me going. Then I found something strange happening I was actually longing for the book to return to the WWII setting. While I was still enjoying the modern stuff, it wasn't anything new to me, but I was learning all new stuff about the history of crypto that I had taken for granted with todays super fast number crunching.
I wish I had something on topic to say about the kernel patch, but I don't. One more thought for about the book, trying to avoid spoilers too. Wouldn't the keyboard controller put off EM radiation?
Did you feed a postcard of a white light reflection hologram of a rose into a garbage disposal unit late at night during a brown-out so it's rotating jaws were sluggish, but still the unit emited a thin scream as it's steel teeth slashed laminated plastic and the rose into a thousand fragments?
Plus DJs are always coming up with new super secret scratchs. Unless you build a complete physical model of the turn table, record, needle, and everything else involved, and be able to compute every part that would generate a sound in realtime, there will be things you can do on a real turntable that the people writing the DSP code never thought of.
Oh yeah, I forgot totally about DKB Trace. I have the source to it somewhere. Ordered it from a guy who wrote a little newsletter about computer generated graphics. I can't remember the name of it, I can just picture the logo two lines of text with factal leaves on the left hand side of the text.
I also forget about the You Can Call Me Ray BBS. I never did get a chance to call it. But I set up a BBS on my machine (and even put it online a few times) called, Its A Shame About Ray.
Was NT Real from DKB? I know it was (is?) packed with POV-Ray. I would always print it out as a printer test. One year in high school art I carved a dry wall releif of it (is that a derived work?).
I'm putting together a new big server for work. Maybe I'll have to spend a few cycles doing some tracing as a burn in.
I got my 0.5 realease in 1991, I was trying to strech an extra year.
I was going to mention the Compuserve connection. I actually joined CServe in 1992 when I got my first modem just for the raytracing forum. I later changed to Delphi because all I really needed was NNTP for comp.graphics.raytracing. I guess I was active there in 1994.
(Hey, everyone else was remembering the old days. I didn't have it as bad, I started with POV on a 486DX2/66 with 16MB of RAM.)
The Mozilla project was around 2 or 3 years when they went to change their license. POV-Ray has been around for at least 11 or 12 years now. It may be a bit harder to track down everyone who has writen code for it.
But as you can see parkrrrr says they are working on a rewrite that will get rid of the old code, so it may be licenced differently in the future.
I've been using POV-Ray since 0.5 (still have the 5.25 inch floppies I ordered from The Software Labs, as I didn't have anyway to connect my computer to others to get the software back then).
I've tried various modelers, but always end up going back to coding the scenes by hand. I haven't done much with POV lately, but still always have a copy of the latest release on my machine just incase I feel the need to raytrace. I'll have to snag the latest when the servers cool down a little.
Thanks for the work, parkrrrr, and the rest of the POV Team.
Not a door stop. A heater. I literally turned off the heat in my room after I bought an Alpha (dual 21164s) this winter. Of course when summer came around, I had to run my air conditioner all the time, and it was getting out of hand (70 year old wiring, 20 amp circut breaker that was always tripping). So I had to get it co-located a in real data center. It is happy there now.
Anyway, I have always loved the Alpha and wanted one since I was a boy. But after having one, and finding how poorly they are supported these days, I can't wait to get my dual Opteron system.
No, they probally wouldn't. The IP belongs to NA, and I think he has probally seen the source code, so Gnu couldn't claim their code was a clean room implimentation.
I've always been puzzled how that one got out. I mean, MS has to know that everyone shortens the Windows release name to WinXX, been doing is since Win31. Heck even the Win98 CDs have a directory named that.
So how could they not see that the Compact Edition of Windows would not be called WinCE?
Don't get me wrong, that is what I do. Actually I build custom Linux installs from embeded to clustered servers. I only install what is needed.
But what I'm saying is, for the less than professional people out there, installs should be much tighter from the initial boot.
And I know there must be enough of these less-than-professional people out there, from the rate at which my new born machine started seeing IIS worm requests.
As another poster said above, the biggest hole in Windows is the power button. The default install of what ever Microsoft is calling the server addition of Windows 2000, has IIS running. If you just connect to the Internet to get your Windows Update you'll probally be exploited before it is done.
I know I put Apache on a machine that had never been a webserver before. I started right away testing the server side includes. When they didn't work I checked the error log. I was suprised to see that an IIS worm had attempted to exploit my machine before I even began testing.
I wish more Linux installs would ship with all listening services disabled. Make you turn on what you need, not turn off what you don't.
One of the DVI outs has an adaptor cable that splits it into 2 seperate DVIs.
This is not a gamers card. It is a card for people who do graphic work and also play games. If you are looking for raw FPS look else where.
Bingo, if you are using this card, you will probally have quality LCDs. You could also rotate the left and right displays towards you that will minimize the angle. I even do that with my second CRT on the G400.
When we get Shenmue 2 state site, or for anyone who has played the Japanese or European versions, take a look at the numeric display in the elevators. It appears to simulate Nixie tubes.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe a 100% JPEG is still lossy (pretty much has to be, to be 50% smaller than the PNG version, doesn't it?)
I can't tell the difference (at 1:1 zoom) between a 90% quality and an 100% quality JPEG in most cases, except for the file size. 100% quality JPEGs are really huge.
I also like The GIMP for saving JPEGs, you can fine tune all the compression/quality settings while watching the effect on the image. I just keep tweaking until I get a file size/quality I can live with. (Maybe you can do this in Photoshop, but I've not used it since version 1.2).
People always mention the move to PNG as a solution to the JPEG patent problem. PNGs and JPEGs are targeted at different uses. PNGs are lossLESS, JPEGs are lossY. Take a photograph of a forest scene, save it at a PNG then convert it to a JPEG, look at the file sizes. Even a 90% quality JPEG is going to be smaller. But the PNG image is the one you are going to want to do your editing work on as repeat saves are not going to degrade the quality. But a 1600x1200 PNG with lots of small details will run around 1 MB, not something you want to have 100s of in your online photo collection.
That image must just be hard to compress:
Recompressing galeon_and_mozilla.png
Total length of data found in IDAT chunks = 1624514
IDAT length with method 1 (fm 0 zl 4 zs 0)= 1245302
IDAT length with method 2 (fm 1 zl 4 zs 0)= 1581504
IDAT length with method 3 (fm 5 zl 4 zs 1)= 1763580
IDAT length with method 4 (fm 0 zl 9 zs 1)= 1180842
IDAT length with method 7 (fm 0 zl 9 zs 0)= 1132372
Best pngcrush method = 7 for galeon_and_mozilla_crushed.png (30.32% reduction)
Well since Slashdot.org it pretty much a dynamic site, there wouldn't be much on the CD-ROM. So it would be just about perfect for the static parts of a site like Slashdot to be stored on a RO medium.
/mnt/cdrom` on boot, and have enough RAM to hold the site.
You just `grep -r null
Forgot movies. With 100mbps sharing music is painless, but movies will still a few minutes to move around. But go to 1000mbps an you can swap DixX like crazy, and streaming DVDs is vary possible.
Not exactly right. The VCD format does use MPEG systems (video and audio), and the files are just placed in specificly designated directories. But they are not exactly ISO 9660 dics. They don't have the full error correction that the standard provides. The MPEG stream has it's own error correction. To get a little extra space on the disc they don't do double error correction, and just used the extra bits on the disc to store more video.
Well considering that you don't own the ATM at all, you'd be damaging someone else's property.
And for the parent post, if you are modifying a cable box or modem that you don't own, but are leasing I can see how that should be illegal also. But firearms, DVD players, videogame consoles, or anything else you own out right, I say go for it.
I remember when I started reading Cryptonomicon I was horrified to see that it took place in part during WWII. I hate war movies, and couldn't imagine putting the effort forward to actually read a book as large this one is on that subject. But the modern day stuff kept me going. Then I found something strange happening I was actually longing for the book to return to the WWII setting. While I was still enjoying the modern stuff, it wasn't anything new to me, but I was learning all new stuff about the history of crypto that I had taken for granted with todays super fast number crunching.
I wish I had something on topic to say about the kernel patch, but I don't. One more thought for about the book, trying to avoid spoilers too. Wouldn't the keyboard controller put off EM radiation?
Did you see the Fragments of a Hologram Rose reference in the discussion about the return of caddies?
Did you feed a postcard of a white light reflection hologram of a rose into a garbage disposal unit late at night during a brown-out so it's rotating jaws were sluggish, but still the unit emited a thin scream as it's steel teeth slashed laminated plastic and the rose into a thousand fragments?
Hey, I haddn't done that for a while. Still works in Mozilla 1.0.
It was cooler in the older Navigator releases, as it would change the throbber. I actually set it as my home page so I'd always get the cool throbber.
about:mozilla
Plus DJs are always coming up with new super secret scratchs. Unless you build a complete physical model of the turn table, record, needle, and everything else involved, and be able to compute every part that would generate a sound in realtime, there will be things you can do on a real turntable that the people writing the DSP code never thought of.
Oh yeah, I forgot totally about DKB Trace. I have the source to it somewhere. Ordered it from a guy who wrote a little newsletter about computer generated graphics. I can't remember the name of it, I can just picture the logo two lines of text with factal leaves on the left hand side of the text.
I also forget about the You Can Call Me Ray BBS. I never did get a chance to call it. But I set up a BBS on my machine (and even put it online a few times) called, Its A Shame About Ray.
Was NT Real from DKB? I know it was (is?) packed with POV-Ray. I would always print it out as a printer test. One year in high school art I carved a dry wall releif of it (is that a derived work?).
I'm putting together a new big server for work. Maybe I'll have to spend a few cycles doing some tracing as a burn in.
I got my 0.5 realease in 1991, I was trying to strech an extra year.
I was going to mention the Compuserve connection. I actually joined CServe in 1992 when I got my first modem just for the raytracing forum. I later changed to Delphi because all I really needed was NNTP for comp.graphics.raytracing. I guess I was active there in 1994.
(Hey, everyone else was remembering the old days. I didn't have it as bad, I started with POV on a 486DX2/66 with 16MB of RAM.)
The Mozilla project was around 2 or 3 years when they went to change their license. POV-Ray has been around for at least 11 or 12 years now. It may be a bit harder to track down everyone who has writen code for it.
But as you can see parkrrrr says they are working on a rewrite that will get rid of the old code, so it may be licenced differently in the future.
I've been using POV-Ray since 0.5 (still have the 5.25 inch floppies I ordered from The Software Labs, as I didn't have anyway to connect my computer to others to get the software back then).
I've tried various modelers, but always end up going back to coding the scenes by hand. I haven't done much with POV lately, but still always have a copy of the latest release on my machine just incase I feel the need to raytrace. I'll have to snag the latest when the servers cool down a little.
Thanks for the work, parkrrrr, and the rest of the POV Team.
Not a door stop. A heater. I literally turned off the heat in my room after I bought an Alpha (dual 21164s) this winter. Of course when summer came around, I had to run my air conditioner all the time, and it was getting out of hand (70 year old wiring, 20 amp circut breaker that was always tripping). So I had to get it co-located a in real data center. It is happy there now.
Anyway, I have always loved the Alpha and wanted one since I was a boy. But after having one, and finding how poorly they are supported these days, I can't wait to get my dual Opteron system.
No, they probally wouldn't. The IP belongs to NA, and I think he has probally seen the source code, so Gnu couldn't claim their code was a clean room implimentation.
I've always been puzzled how that one got out. I mean, MS has to know that everyone shortens the Windows release name to WinXX, been doing is since Win31. Heck even the Win98 CDs have a directory named that.
So how could they not see that the Compact Edition of Windows would not be called WinCE?
Don't get me wrong, that is what I do. Actually I build custom Linux installs from embeded to clustered servers. I only install what is needed.
But what I'm saying is, for the less than professional people out there, installs should be much tighter from the initial boot.
And I know there must be enough of these less-than-professional people out there, from the rate at which my new born machine started seeing IIS worm requests.
And that is how all operating systems should be.
As another poster said above, the biggest hole in Windows is the power button. The default install of what ever Microsoft is calling the server addition of Windows 2000, has IIS running. If you just connect to the Internet to get your Windows Update you'll probally be exploited before it is done.
I know I put Apache on a machine that had never been a webserver before. I started right away testing the server side includes. When they didn't work I checked the error log. I was suprised to see that an IIS worm had attempted to exploit my machine before I even began testing.
I wish more Linux installs would ship with all listening services disabled. Make you turn on what you need, not turn off what you don't.
One of the DVI outs has an adaptor cable that splits it into 2 seperate DVIs.
This is not a gamers card. It is a card for people who do graphic work and also play games. If you are looking for raw FPS look else where.
Bingo, if you are using this card, you will probally have quality LCDs. You could also rotate the left and right displays towards you that will minimize the angle. I even do that with my second CRT on the G400.
Just to point out to anyone who doesn't know, AMD aquired Alchemy Semiconductor.
I think the orginal poster ment, if you are eliminating Microsoft products, why would you still have Windows PCs to share files from Samba?
You could be doing, NFS/CODA between all your Linux workstations.
When we get Shenmue 2 state site, or for anyone who has played the Japanese or European versions, take a look at the numeric display in the elevators. It appears to simulate Nixie tubes.