"This weapon is totally harmless to people..." said the lead technician, talking through his left head while his newly sprouted right head looked on and smiled. "Since working on this program I've found that I can think twice as fast !"
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I'm a season computer geek, but all of my experience has been with Windows, right back to Windows 1.0 days. Recently I decided to switch my network server from Windows 2000 to Redhat Linux. I chose redhat because it's the most popular distribution and, I supposed, would therefore have the best user community support.
My machine is a dual processor (P3 1Ghz) box and it has two 40GB drives connected to a highpoint raid controller built into the bios. I mirror the disks using this controller under Windows.
Most things went smoothly with the install. I was somewhat defeated by the implementation of RAID in Linux though. As much as the pro-linux crowd seem to rave about how good the software raid in linux is (and I'm sure it *is* good), it was a darn sight easier to configure in Windows. The SMP worked out of the box though and RH picked up all my hardware, I was impressed. Configuring my firewall was a pain, until I found the firestarter utility - I strongly recommend it if you're planning to use iptables.
But the point of this is my woes with printers. OMG. It took me three hours, several downloads, a couple of builds, many visits to groups.google.com && linuxprinting.org, much howto- reading and config file modifying just to get my new HP 5550 installed and (semi) working. And this was with a printer that is actually supported under Linux by the manufacturer !!
Hell's teeth, I don't care what the desktop looks like; it's a new operating system and I'll just learn whatever it comes with. Until things like installing a printer becomes as easy as insert-disk-and-go (like Windows), it'll be an uphill job to convert the masses.
Reversibility was available with the Borland IDE some years ago. Can't remember how well it worked.
Plugins is an interesting one. Although it's not a well known feature, the MS Visual Studio IDE allows arbtrary formatting of a datatype (it's specified in a configuration file IIRC). This is only formatting though, so there's no code to be executed and certainly no way of displaying the data graphically.
As for program control, try
if (mycondition) { asm int 3; }
Under Windows
if (mycondition) { DebugBreak(); }
The Visual Studio IDE can also set conditional breakpoints. Hit F9 to set a breakpoint, then open the Edit Breakpoints dialog box (Edit|Breakpoints) and hit the Conditional button.
Since we're here, I would very strongly recommend Jon Robbin's Debbugging Applications book for lots of tricks and traps using Win32/ MS Visual Studio. All of the code there is win32 specific though, so not much use to Linux development. Amazon says it's out of print, but I see it in local nerdy bookshops from time to time.
What a load of bollocks. Not being too technical for anybody here I hope ? So, the brain "fills in the blanks" for compression. And the difference between this and TV is what ? Our brains see the 25 images per second on TV and "interpret" that as movement. This can be seen as image compression, no ? Does this screw up our vision ? Does it my arse.
I wasn't trying to imply anything that you are implying that I tried to imply gcc Error at line 1 - too many levels of indirection. Compile aborted. Try again after less beer.
Intel is planning to have every device that uses an Intel chip Wi-Fi enabled which will make it difficult for companies that sell Wi-Fi as an accessory to prosper
Does anybody else think this is similar to Microsoft bundling [insert your favourite type of software here] into the OS ? Now I know they don't have a monopoly, but surely their strength in the desktop/server PC market is being leveraged to oust competition for their wi-fi division, no ? Is this unfair advantage ?
This is not a troll, IANAL and I'd like to know how/when the lines are drawn with things like this.
Crikey - even the google cache has been slashdotted ! Now *that's* impressive. I think we should collectively sell our services as the ultimate distributed load testing tool.
I am vision impaired in one eye - I have peripheral vision but cannot focus (the "centre" of my vision my left eye looks like a black amorphous blob becuase of retina damage I sustained). Will this stop me from using 3d glasses ?
Yup, exactly the same. I tend to use Amazon and Fictionwise to buy my books, the latter has a heavy sci-fi leaning.
I also play chess on mine. Mine's a Toshiba e570 PPC, which has CFII slot for which I plan to buy a 802.11b card as soon as my local cafes start a wireless browsing service (Wellington, New Zealand) which I understand is in the works. Then hopefully I'll be able to play chess over the net while drinking my latte:-)
I've also used it to go online (when I was in the UK) to check my email using the IR link on my Siemens S35 cellphone - slow but workable.
I'd quite like to be able to use it at work, but we use Windows NT 4 (bleugh) which has no USB support and the serial link sucks. Worse, we use Novell GroupWise - probably the worst piece of arse email/groupware product on the face of the earth - which does not sync to my PPC.
I wonder just how long the record labels are going to survive before they figure out that they, not just their technology, are obsolete.
They are not obsolete, and I hope they never will be. I want to be able to visit CD (or DVD, whatever format) shops in the future. I want new groups to be promoted. I'm happy to see posters reminding me that xyz band has released their new album.
What has changed, is that the record companies will no longer be able to make insane profits based on high margins out of all of this.
A poor analogy: early PC computer manufacturers made ridiculous amounts of money, dealers made ridiculous markups. That's no longer the case, because market conditions changed. But did all PC manufacturers go out of business just because buying a PC became easier and thus prices had to fall ? Of course not, they changed their business models and now they make less of a margin selling more PCs. Moreover, companies selling proprietary gear struggled. Now I realise that this is not a completely fair comparison, but nonetheless, I'm happy for the music companies to stay by selling more CD/DVDs for lower cost.
So perhaps Oasis/whoever won't make $10,000,000 a year anymore, or the their record label $100,000,000 on the back of them (yes, I made those numbers up) but I reckon they'll still make a pretty bloody good living. More importantly, by selling CDs and DVDs closer to cost prices - i.e. very much cheaper than today ($2-3 ??) an awful lot of piracy will diminish IMO. Why would I want only a poor (relatively) quality MP3/OGG when I can get the original for $3 then make my own copies ?
As an aside, I wonder what effect broadband capping is having on P2P piracy ?
Yup, this has happened to me. I simply, and politely, ask for a Terms Of Engagement, which at least makes your "employer" enter the correct frame of mind. If they then request that you work for free, they are given an appreciation that you are prospectively doing the work as a favour, not as their right.
I think we may be doomed to never have large capacity disposable/cheap removable media.
I disagree. We will, because we can. It's human nature. It's why the RIAA is destined to fail to control all digital entertainment media in the same way that the suffragettes (sp ?) eventually got the vote. It makes sense, most people want it, and therefore it will happen.
I have a similar theory that I apply to my everyday working life (software development projects); given enough time, common sense will prevail.
You are indeed correct. XML took the correct approach - any non-standard XML found *must* result in the parser stopping with an error, rather than trying to make sense of what it finds.
This article is very pro the S-ATA standard. However later on in the article it states that S-ATA hard disks will be of the same speed and size as current ATA. The article says that the only way to get real performance increases in disks is to make them faster - so then we get to the same problems as SCSI, namely noise and heat.
As far as I can see, a couple of pages of this article are denoted to the new smaller cable size and connector footprint - who really cares ? I run an overclocked PC and as such use readily-available rounded IDE cables to afford better air flow. What other tangible advantages is S-ATA going to offer ?
I am unclear about something; I have a wireless network at home built on d-link cards, which have 256bit WEP encryption. Is 256 any safer than, say, 40 ? Or is there something fundamentally flawed in the whole security setup that makes even 1024 bits insecure ?
I believe that technically it's not that nothing can travel faster than light, more that something that accelerates to that speed will have infinite mass.
..that the Microsoft time server was 3 minutes slow ! This was about 2 weeks ago. I checked it against both another time server, and then the UK speaking clock (dial 123 in the UK) which is synchronised with Greenwich. As a result, I disabled the time synch (right click on the time in the system tray, Adjust Date Time, Internet tab, uncheck the box). I now use the time synchronisation feature that comes with the Dynip client. Since the MS time synch is enabled by default, they really should make sure their server farm has the correct time:(
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"This weapon is totally harmless to people..." said the lead technician, talking through his left head while his newly sprouted right head looked on and smiled. "Since working on this program I've found that I can think twice as fast !"
I'm a season computer geek, but all of my experience has been with Windows, right back to Windows 1.0 days. Recently I decided to switch my network server from Windows 2000 to Redhat Linux. I chose redhat because it's the most popular distribution and, I supposed, would therefore have the best user community support.
My machine is a dual processor (P3 1Ghz) box and it has two 40GB drives connected to a highpoint raid controller built into the bios. I mirror the disks using this controller under Windows.
Most things went smoothly with the install. I was somewhat defeated by the implementation of RAID in Linux though. As much as the pro-linux crowd seem to rave about how good the software raid in linux is (and I'm sure it *is* good), it was a darn sight easier to configure in Windows. The SMP worked out of the box though and RH picked up all my hardware, I was impressed. Configuring my firewall was a pain, until I found the firestarter utility - I strongly recommend it if you're planning to use iptables.
But the point of this is my woes with printers. OMG. It took me three hours, several downloads, a couple of builds, many visits to groups.google.com && linuxprinting.org, much howto- reading and config file modifying just to get my new HP 5550 installed and (semi) working. And this was with a printer that is actually supported under Linux by the manufacturer !!
Hell's teeth, I don't care what the desktop looks like; it's a new operating system and I'll just learn whatever it comes with. Until things like installing a printer becomes as easy as insert-disk-and-go (like Windows), it'll be an uphill job to convert the masses.
And if you think the PSU of your computer affects CGI limits, you should certainly forget it...
;-)
Plugins is an interesting one. Although it's not a well known feature, the MS Visual Studio IDE allows arbtrary formatting of a datatype (it's specified in a configuration file IIRC). This is only formatting though, so there's no code to be executed and certainly no way of displaying the data graphically.
As for program control, try
Under Windows
The Visual Studio IDE can also set conditional breakpoints. Hit F9 to set a breakpoint, then open the Edit Breakpoints dialog box (Edit|Breakpoints) and hit the Conditional button.
Since we're here, I would very strongly recommend Jon Robbin's Debbugging Applications book for lots of tricks and traps using Win32/ MS Visual Studio. All of the code there is win32 specific though, so not much use to Linux development. Amazon says it's out of print, but I see it in local nerdy bookshops from time to time.
What a load of bollocks. Not being too technical for anybody here I hope ? So, the brain "fills in the blanks" for compression. And the difference between this and TV is what ? Our brains see the 25 images per second on TV and "interpret" that as movement. This can be seen as image compression, no ? Does this screw up our vision ? Does it my arse.
I wasn't trying to imply anything that you are implying that I tried to imply
gcc Error at line 1 - too many levels of indirection. Compile aborted. Try again after less beer.
Intel is planning to have every device that uses an Intel chip Wi-Fi enabled which will make it difficult for companies that sell Wi-Fi as an accessory to prosper
Does anybody else think this is similar to Microsoft bundling [insert your favourite type of software here] into the OS ? Now I know they don't have a monopoly, but surely their strength in the desktop/server PC market is being leveraged to oust competition for their wi-fi division, no ? Is this unfair advantage ?
This is not a troll, IANAL and I'd like to know how/when the lines are drawn with things like this.
Crikey - even the google cache has been slashdotted ! Now *that's* impressive. I think we should collectively sell our services as the ultimate distributed load testing tool.
I am vision impaired in one eye - I have peripheral vision but cannot focus (the "centre" of my vision my left eye looks like a black amorphous blob becuase of retina damage I sustained). Will this stop me from using 3d glasses ?
Sounds like a good topic for a /. poll to me...
Yup, exactly the same. I tend to use Amazon and Fictionwise to buy my books, the latter has a heavy sci-fi leaning.
:-)
I also play chess on mine. Mine's a Toshiba e570 PPC, which has CFII slot for which I plan to buy a 802.11b card as soon as my local cafes start a wireless browsing service (Wellington, New Zealand) which I understand is in the works. Then hopefully I'll be able to play chess over the net while drinking my latte
I've also used it to go online (when I was in the UK) to check my email using the IR link on my Siemens S35 cellphone - slow but workable.
I'd quite like to be able to use it at work, but we use Windows NT 4 (bleugh) which has no USB support and the serial link sucks. Worse, we use Novell GroupWise - probably the worst piece of arse email/groupware product on the face of the earth - which does not sync to my PPC.
I wonder just how long the record labels are going to survive before they figure out that they, not just their technology, are obsolete.
They are not obsolete, and I hope they never will be. I want to be able to visit CD (or DVD, whatever format) shops in the future. I want new groups to be promoted. I'm happy to see posters reminding me that xyz band has released their new album.
What has changed, is that the record companies will no longer be able to make insane profits based on high margins out of all of this.
A poor analogy: early PC computer manufacturers made ridiculous amounts of money, dealers made ridiculous markups. That's no longer the case, because market conditions changed. But did all PC manufacturers go out of business just because buying a PC became easier and thus prices had to fall ? Of course not, they changed their business models and now they make less of a margin selling more PCs. Moreover, companies selling proprietary gear struggled. Now I realise that this is not a completely fair comparison, but nonetheless, I'm happy for the music companies to stay by selling more CD/DVDs for lower cost.
So perhaps Oasis/whoever won't make $10,000,000 a year anymore, or the their record label $100,000,000 on the back of them (yes, I made those numbers up) but I reckon they'll still make a pretty bloody good living. More importantly, by selling CDs and DVDs closer to cost prices - i.e. very much cheaper than today ($2-3 ??) an awful lot of piracy will diminish IMO. Why would I want only a poor (relatively) quality MP3/OGG when I can get the original for $3 then make my own copies ?
As an aside, I wonder what effect broadband capping is having on P2P piracy ?
Yup, this has happened to me. I simply, and politely, ask for a Terms Of Engagement, which at least makes your "employer" enter the correct frame of mind. If they then request that you work for free, they are given an appreciation that you are prospectively doing the work as a favour, not as their right.
I think we may be doomed to never have large capacity disposable/cheap removable media.
I disagree. We will, because we can. It's human nature. It's why the RIAA is destined to fail to control all digital entertainment media in the same way that the suffragettes (sp ?) eventually got the vote. It makes sense, most people want it, and therefore it will happen.
I have a similar theory that I apply to my everyday working life (software development projects); given enough time, common sense will prevail.
I don't have wheels and don't like being driven around in a small metal cabin...
You are indeed correct. XML took the correct approach - any non-standard XML found *must* result in the parser stopping with an error, rather than trying to make sense of what it finds.
The DNA (National Dyslexics Association) will surely complain....
Ahhhh... you mean when music really was *music*, and there was a tune and you could understand the words... yes yes yes !
Oh wait, I'm turning into my dad....
Microsoft Outlook's scripting support.
and the only people saying free music is damaging is some of the artists and the RIAA.
Err, well they are the people theoretically losing out after all. Who else would you expect to be complaining exactly ?
This article is very pro the S-ATA standard. However later on in the article it states that S-ATA hard disks will be of the same speed and size as current ATA. The article says that the only way to get real performance increases in disks is to make them faster - so then we get to the same problems as SCSI, namely noise and heat.
As far as I can see, a couple of pages of this article are denoted to the new smaller cable size and connector footprint - who really cares ? I run an overclocked PC and as such use readily-available rounded IDE cables to afford better air flow. What other tangible advantages is S-ATA going to offer ?
I am unclear about something; I have a wireless network at home built on d-link cards, which have 256bit WEP encryption. Is 256 any safer than, say, 40 ? Or is there something fundamentally flawed in the whole security setup that makes even 1024 bits insecure ?
I believe that technically it's not that nothing can travel faster than light, more that something that accelerates to that speed will have infinite mass.
..that the Microsoft time server was 3 minutes slow ! This was about 2 weeks ago. I checked it against both another time server, and then the UK speaking clock (dial 123 in the UK) which is synchronised with Greenwich. As a result, I disabled the time synch (right click on the time in the system tray, Adjust Date Time, Internet tab, uncheck the box). I now use the time synchronisation feature that comes with the Dynip client. :(
Since the MS time synch is enabled by default, they really should make sure their server farm has the correct time