Tetris was nasty on the TI-83... I didn't have the link cable so I used the built-in language to program tetris. It couldn't process loops fast enough, so I had to manually unroll all the loops. Nothing like 100 'if' statements in a row on a tiny non-qwerty keyboard to give you carpel tunnel.
Fair enough. Some people download music, some people don't. But consider his quote:
"I think it's a challenge for the industry, to try and find a new way to survive."
This lends creedence to many a/.'ers comment that the music industry is holding onto a failing business. We don't need them anymore. Despite being wrapped up in the industry by being the winner of a [cheap knock-off] American Idol* contest, he sees the Industry's role as "a new way to survive," as opposed to some criminal challenge that they must overcome.
My hats off to him, especially given his previous quote, "Whether people download or not, as long as they're listening to music."
* Yes, I'm a Canadian. Paul Martin has yet to earn my respect.
20 computers, 400lbs of coffee beans, and a 12 year old Indian girl with one leg.
I think you have these figures wrong... the figures were likely quoted in the news. According to the RIAA, it was 400 computers, 8000 lbs of coffee beans, and a 240 year old Indian girl with 20 legs.
I found a few rather interesting things in the CBC article worth mentioning:
Hewlett-Packard said it was asked by National Defence to manage a group of suppliers and often the nature of the work of these sub-contractors was kept secret from the company.
And then later on down the article:
[...]the government released a letter to Hewlett Packard saying the company was responsible for checking that sub-contractors were doing the work they were being paid for.
A bit of a contradiction. The DND kept the work details of the sub-contractors from HP, and yet claims that HP has to make sure the sub-contractors actually do the work?
Also:
One employee of National Defence has been fired[...] the role of departmental supervisors is also being investigated.
So if I were on the DND's side, they fired this employee why... because he was in kahoots with HP?
I was once at my parents' place. They just bought a brand new CD burner and my dad was interested in backing up his files. Specifically, he had a lot of contacts and e-mails in Outlook. He asked me to check the state of his backup to see if he had done it properly. The result? One "Microsoft Outlook.lnk" on a single CD-R. He had dragged the outlook shortcut to the CD in an attempt to "back up" his outlook files.
it's amazing that it is only a bit thicker than a normal PDA.
Sorry, I just found it kind of funny that we refer to the Dell as a normal PDA, like there's some universal PDA standard set in stone that the Zaurus defies by running Linux and the Dell matches completely.
But hey, here's hoping that people will soon see Linux PDAs as normal PDAs just as easily:).
I pay my cable bill every month, so yes, I'm well aware of $37 + 15% HST = $42.50, to have it your way, but the advertised price isn't the price that a lot of people pay.
Here in good ole Canada, the price for cable here is around 50 bucks
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, but I get cable access, unlimited dl/ul for $37/mo from Rogers. The speed is rated at 1.5mbit, but I'm actually getting around 2.3mbit.
I'm not a Bush defender, but this deliberate bogus query shows a lack of professionalism on Google's part that isn't the least bit cool. Google does not represent itself as a subjective editorial site.
Calm down, monkey. Did you consider to think how the search engine works? Try clicking the [Cached] link in the search result and you'll see the following:
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: miserable failure
Thus the explanation for why it's a valid hit (for Google), but doesn't contain the terms in the web page. A little google goes a long way.
I don't know what everybody's complaining about. I mean we've got these big, thick cables connecting us to our friends in the west. I'm in the UK and I'm not having an$**!#@j pr83
For the stuff I use most often, I went out and got a bunch of 3-drawer plastic cabinets. They were about $20 CDN each, and come with wheels so you can still move them around easily when the heavier things are stored. I use one to hold my printer, and store video, audio, and other miscellaneous cables. I use another one to store reference books, and other miscellaneous parts. The third set of drawers is out in my living room, where I keep my gamecube stuff in one drawer, PS2 stuff in another drawer, and miscellaneous gaming cables in the third.
I find drawers have the advantage over tubs and other containers in that there are multiple drawers to a cabinet so you can better organize things. They're cheap, lightweight, durable, and won't chip/dry out like wooden drawers will.
On another note, the best place for stacks of paper is a filing cabinet with tabbed folders. The floor just doesn't sort my phone bills as well as I thought it would.
I'm running 2.6.0-test10 at this very second, and have been running every test version since test2 except for test8 (screwed up my sound system for some reason). I gave udev and hotplug a try but found hotplug to be straying behind. They had a few notes on their web site about patches for pciutils and usbutils to add something that probed all the devices (especially for coldplugging), but also said that you won't need them for 2.6.x due to the new sysfs filesystem (mkdir/sys; mount none/sys -t sysfs). But then doesn't say anything else about hotplug utility support in 2.6.x. So without a working hotplug, udev is kind of useless (since it interfaces with the hotplug).
ATM I'm using murasaki as my hotplug facility, as I've personally had the best luck with it (that's really the only reason), especially on the 2.6 test kernels. I'm also still using devfsd (which will be obsoleted by udev).
This is the extent of my knowledge about new things like udev, etc. in the new kernel. So anyone should feel free to correct any innacuracies, omissions or blatant stupidities:).
Basically, this would make it illegal for employers and insurers to deny employment or benefits based on genetic analysis of your DNA.
So, it was illegal in Gattaca too. Hawke narrated something along the lines of "A perfectly innocent drug test could quickly turn into a peek at your genetic code."
It was used to lock the cursor in place, and the up and down arrow keys scrolled the entire screen, leaving the cursor locked.
I'm not entirely certain what article you thought you read, but according to Una:
The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up, down and presumably sideways using the arrow keys in the days before large displays and graphical scroll bars.
According to you, it sounds like Una got it right at the start.
RTFA
Re:Does it support a scrolling viewport?
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XFce Desktop 4 Released
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· Score: 2, Informative
The desktop environment / window manager is irrelevant in this case. You want X to take care of that. man XF86Config and do a search ('/') for "Virtual"... It'll make the virtual desktop as large as your video card can handle (usually the same as the video card's max resolution). You'll get your movable window.
I know that here at Slashdot we must all bow to the altar of Transmeta because their processor approach is all open sourced and they own no patents and follow the OSS way so purely... oh wait they don't ? You mean they do have patents and they don't release their architecture ? Oh it must be because Linux is their primary OS... nope again. No its because they gave Linus a job.
Holy chill there batman. Take a look at the article, will you? This isn't editorializing or/. elitism or anything you seem to imply, this is paraphrasing. RTFA:
Other manufacturers, a grouping that includes Transmeta, increased their collective market share from 1.7 percent to 1.8 percent.
The slashdot summary, meanwhile, says the same thing:
While Transmeta and other manufacturers went from 1.7% to 1.8% in a single year.
Tit for tat -- this is the only mention of Transmeta. You read waaaaay too much into it. Take your allegations elsewhere.
I'm wondering how the cost and battery life would compare to infrared. It seems relatively cheap (to me at least, since just about every wireless remote I have is IR-based) to have a LED that emits IR light, but it would also be cool to have wireless remotes based on this technology. Sunlight coming in through the window can disrupt IR communications, and line of sight can get to be a pain depending on how the components are positioned. It also seems response time might be better, but I'm nss. I'm still running an IR remote on the batteries that came with it (4 AAAs) at 4 years and going, so battery life is a definite concern.
I think you misunderstood the statement. They may have compared the thermal conductance of this material to solder, but they're not looking to replace solder. Solder is made up of metals, so it's naturally a good conductor. But metal doesn't spread very well over microscopic cracks -- and no, you can't fill in the cracks with solder, because the metal will contract when it cools and be useless as a thermal paste. You wouldn't want to use a thermal paste as a solder, because thermal paste typically takes a very, very long time to dry when not exposed (ie: between a cpu and a heatsink).
So it looks like CowboyNeal is saying if this new thermal paste can improve the effectiveness of a heatsink (and fan) by a reasonable amount, manufacturers will be able to push their clock speeds a little higher.
Thanks Amon.. I had CONFIG_INPUT as module as I'm used to the old config organization in menuconfig -- thus I thought the input was related solely to USB. When it's disabled, you don't get prompted for virtual terminal or console on virtual terminal.
I've tried three of these, 2.5.74, 2.6.0-test1 and -test2. Every time I boot up the kernel (bzImage from arch/i386/boot) it says "Uncompressing linux... OK " and that's it. Nothing else. I would really love to get this to work out, especially the native ALSA support (my sound card works great under ALSA, not so great under OSS). I'm wondering if perhaps some of the stuff I've compiled in is inhibiting the boot process.
I have IDE support compiled right in, my CPU is set up correctly (x86/Pentium-II), I'm not using anything fancy like initrd et al, I have ACPI and APM enabled, nss what else I can mention.
Installed module-init-tools and converted over my old profile (just had two aliases for my network cards), depmod runs w/o any problems (I remembered to pass in the symbols for the new kernel).... argh.
Re:I don't understand the statistics
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Reiser4 Benchmarks
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· Score: 3, Informative
A. reiser4 B. ext3 data journalling C. ext3
That's how the filesystems are lettered. In the column headers, you see this:
A B/A C/A
So it looks like the first column is the actual time for reiser4 (A), the second column is the ratio between ext3-j (B) and reiser4 (A) which is B divided by A, and the third is ext3 divided by reiser4. So if the number is > 1 (red), it means reiser4 took less time and might be "better". If the number is 0 (green) it means reiser took MORE time.
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Tetris was nasty on the TI-83... I didn't have the link cable so I used the built-in language to program tetris. It couldn't process loops fast enough, so I had to manually unroll all the loops. Nothing like 100 'if' statements in a row on a tiny non-qwerty keyboard to give you carpel tunnel.
If your tin foil hat is firmly on, you can't use e-mail at all.
My tin foil hat doesn't impede my ability to use E-Mail at all. My tin foil body suit, on the other hand...
Fair enough. Some people download music, some people don't. But consider his quote:
/.'ers comment that the music industry is holding onto a failing business. We don't need them anymore. Despite being wrapped up in the industry by being the winner of a [cheap knock-off] American Idol* contest, he sees the Industry's role as "a new way to survive," as opposed to some criminal challenge that they must overcome.
"I think it's a challenge for the industry, to try and find a new way to survive."
This lends creedence to many a
My hats off to him, especially given his previous quote, "Whether people download or not, as long as they're listening to music."
* Yes, I'm a Canadian. Paul Martin has yet to earn my respect.
20 computers, 400lbs of coffee beans, and a 12 year old Indian girl with one leg.
I think you have these figures wrong... the figures were likely quoted in the news. According to the RIAA, it was 400 computers, 8000 lbs of coffee beans, and a 240 year old Indian girl with 20 legs.
I found a few rather interesting things in the CBC article worth mentioning:
Hewlett-Packard said it was asked by National Defence to manage a group of suppliers and often the nature of the work of these sub-contractors was kept secret from the company.
And then later on down the article:
[...]the government released a letter to Hewlett Packard saying the company was responsible for checking that sub-contractors were doing the work they were being paid for.
A bit of a contradiction. The DND kept the work details of the sub-contractors from HP, and yet claims that HP has to make sure the sub-contractors actually do the work?
Also:
One employee of National Defence has been fired[...] the role of departmental supervisors is also being investigated.
So if I were on the DND's side, they fired this employee why... because he was in kahoots with HP?
Some drives are known to short stroke their platters.
Is that what kids are calling it nowadays?
I was once at my parents' place. They just bought a brand new CD burner and my dad was interested in backing up his files. Specifically, he had a lot of contacts and e-mails in Outlook. He asked me to check the state of his backup to see if he had done it properly. The result? One "Microsoft Outlook.lnk" on a single CD-R. He had dragged the outlook shortcut to the CD in an attempt to "back up" his outlook files.
it's amazing that it is only a bit thicker than a normal PDA.
:).
Sorry, I just found it kind of funny that we refer to the Dell as a normal PDA, like there's some universal PDA standard set in stone that the Zaurus defies by running Linux and the Dell matches completely.
But hey, here's hoping that people will soon see Linux PDAs as normal PDAs just as easily
$125,000 for what will amount to most likely 4 years in jail?
$1,250, actually. There's a decimal point in front of the 50%.
Still has nothing to do with your point, though.
I pay my cable bill every month, so yes, I'm well aware of $37 + 15% HST = $42.50, to have it your way, but the advertised price isn't the price that a lot of people pay.
Here in good ole Canada, the price for cable here is around 50 bucks
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, but I get cable access, unlimited dl/ul for $37/mo from Rogers. The speed is rated at 1.5mbit, but I'm actually getting around 2.3mbit.
I'm not a Bush defender, but this deliberate bogus query shows a lack of professionalism on Google's part that isn't the least bit cool. Google does not represent itself as a subjective editorial site.
Calm down, monkey. Did you consider to think how the search engine works? Try clicking the [Cached] link in the search result and you'll see the following:
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: miserable failure
Thus the explanation for why it's a valid hit (for Google), but doesn't contain the terms in the web page. A little google goes a long way.
I don't know what everybody's complaining about. I mean we've got these big, thick cables connecting us to our friends in the west. I'm in the UK and I'm not having an$**!#@j pr83
NO CARRIER
For the stuff I use most often, I went out and got a bunch of 3-drawer plastic cabinets. They were about $20 CDN each, and come with wheels so you can still move them around easily when the heavier things are stored. I use one to hold my printer, and store video, audio, and other miscellaneous cables. I use another one to store reference books, and other miscellaneous parts. The third set of drawers is out in my living room, where I keep my gamecube stuff in one drawer, PS2 stuff in another drawer, and miscellaneous gaming cables in the third.
I find drawers have the advantage over tubs and other containers in that there are multiple drawers to a cabinet so you can better organize things. They're cheap, lightweight, durable, and won't chip/dry out like wooden drawers will.
On another note, the best place for stacks of paper is a filing cabinet with tabbed folders. The floor just doesn't sort my phone bills as well as I thought it would.
I'm running 2.6.0-test10 at this very second, and have been running every test version since test2 except for test8 (screwed up my sound system for some reason). I gave udev and hotplug a try but found hotplug to be straying behind. They had a few notes on their web site about patches for pciutils and usbutils to add something that probed all the devices (especially for coldplugging), but also said that you won't need them for 2.6.x due to the new sysfs filesystem (mkdir /sys; mount none /sys -t sysfs). But then doesn't say anything else about hotplug utility support in 2.6.x. So without a working hotplug, udev is kind of useless (since it interfaces with the hotplug).
:).
ATM I'm using murasaki as my hotplug facility, as I've personally had the best luck with it (that's really the only reason), especially on the 2.6 test kernels. I'm also still using devfsd (which will be obsoleted by udev).
This is the extent of my knowledge about new things like udev, etc. in the new kernel. So anyone should feel free to correct any innacuracies, omissions or blatant stupidities
- Sil
Basically, this would make it illegal for employers and insurers to deny employment or benefits based on genetic analysis of your DNA.
So, it was illegal in Gattaca too. Hawke narrated something along the lines of "A perfectly innocent drug test could quickly turn into a peek at your genetic code."
Beware the loopholes.
What we really need to see is the responses from the other 80% of the people who don't care enough to respond to a survey like this.
"Fuck Off"
It was used to lock the cursor in place, and the up and down arrow keys scrolled the entire screen, leaving the cursor locked.
I'm not entirely certain what article you thought you read, but according to Una:
The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up, down and presumably sideways using the arrow keys in the days before large displays and graphical scroll bars.
According to you, it sounds like Una got it right at the start.
RTFA
The desktop environment / window manager is irrelevant in this case. You want X to take care of that. man XF86Config and do a search ('/') for "Virtual"... It'll make the virtual desktop as large as your video card can handle (usually the same as the video card's max resolution). You'll get your movable window.
I know that here at Slashdot we must all bow to the altar of Transmeta because their processor approach is all open sourced and they own no patents and follow the OSS way so purely... oh wait they don't ? You mean they do have patents and they don't release their architecture ? Oh it must be because Linux is their primary OS... nope again. No its because they gave Linus a job.
/. elitism or anything you seem to imply, this is paraphrasing. RTFA:
Holy chill there batman. Take a look at the article, will you? This isn't editorializing or
Other manufacturers, a grouping that includes Transmeta, increased their collective market share from 1.7 percent to 1.8 percent.
The slashdot summary, meanwhile, says the same thing:
While Transmeta and other manufacturers went from 1.7% to 1.8% in a single year.
Tit for tat -- this is the only mention of Transmeta. You read waaaaay too much into it. Take your allegations elsewhere.
I'm wondering how the cost and battery life would compare to infrared. It seems relatively cheap (to me at least, since just about every wireless remote I have is IR-based) to have a LED that emits IR light, but it would also be cool to have wireless remotes based on this technology. Sunlight coming in through the window can disrupt IR communications, and line of sight can get to be a pain depending on how the components are positioned. It also seems response time might be better, but I'm nss. I'm still running an IR remote on the batteries that came with it (4 AAAs) at 4 years and going, so battery life is a definite concern.
I think you misunderstood the statement. They may have compared the thermal conductance of this material to solder, but they're not looking to replace solder. Solder is made up of metals, so it's naturally a good conductor. But metal doesn't spread very well over microscopic cracks -- and no, you can't fill in the cracks with solder, because the metal will contract when it cools and be useless as a thermal paste. You wouldn't want to use a thermal paste as a solder, because thermal paste typically takes a very, very long time to dry when not exposed (ie: between a cpu and a heatsink).
So it looks like CowboyNeal is saying if this new thermal paste can improve the effectiveness of a heatsink (and fan) by a reasonable amount, manufacturers will be able to push their clock speeds a little higher.
Thanks Amon.. I had CONFIG_INPUT as module as I'm used to the old config organization in menuconfig -- thus I thought the input was related solely to USB. When it's disabled, you don't get prompted for virtual terminal or console on virtual terminal.
:).
Thanks again
I've tried three of these, 2.5.74, 2.6.0-test1 and -test2. Every time I boot up the kernel (bzImage from arch/i386/boot) it says "Uncompressing linux... OK " and that's it. Nothing else. I would really love to get this to work out, especially the native ALSA support (my sound card works great under ALSA, not so great under OSS). I'm wondering if perhaps some of the stuff I've compiled in is inhibiting the boot process.
I have IDE support compiled right in, my CPU is set up correctly (x86/Pentium-II), I'm not using anything fancy like initrd et al, I have ACPI and APM enabled, nss what else I can mention.
Installed module-init-tools and converted over my old profile (just had two aliases for my network cards), depmod runs w/o any problems (I remembered to pass in the symbols for the new kernel).... argh.
A. reiser4
B. ext3 data journalling
C. ext3
That's how the filesystems are lettered. In the column headers, you see this:
A B/A C/A
So it looks like the first column is the actual time for reiser4 (A), the second column is the ratio between ext3-j (B) and reiser4 (A) which is B divided by A, and the third is ext3 divided by reiser4. So if the number is > 1 (red), it means reiser4 took less time and might be "better". If the number is 0 (green) it means reiser took MORE time.
I think.