No, they were a gift from the Valar to the NÃmenÃreans to see other times and places. Sauron just happened to get a hold of one of them, and used it as an avenue to warp Saruman and Denethor's minds. There is no evidence he used the PalantÃr for their intended purpose.
Personally, in SeaMonkey, I just type the search keyword before the term wp search term - search wikipedia for "search term" ud search term - search urban dictionary for "search term" etc.
Might be a good idea, might not, but CDMA2000 is dead anyway. Alltel and Verizon are switching to LTE, and it seems likely that even Sprint will end up there as well.
The US is huge, and in some spots, very sparsely populated. It would not be economical to cover all of (or even 80% of) let's say, northwest Montana. Or MT in general, or WY, or AK, or...
I don't see a dependency on any "mutation" package for Evolution here in Debian. Maybe it was non-free and they removed it? Can someone check a Fedora system?
Most of my HDDs (Maxtor, WD, Seagate) over the past ten years have not lasted more than 2 or 3 years... My last system drive (WD 320GB) died after ~6 months - Just finished the RMA a few weeks ago.
>Sequential read on the SSD is over 6x faster, and sequential write is 2x faster, >but for the performance where it matters the difference is much more noticeable. >Random read on the SSD is nearly 140x faster, and random write is over 40x faster.
So >Not random writes, not sequential reads, and not anything not HD-related. is wrong.
It also seems to me that you don't really need to say >[no performance increases on] anything not HD-related. or >They don't help with anything CPU-, RAM-...-intensive when you are talking about hard drive upgrades.
And of course it does help with I/O intensive stuff if that I/O is to the HD.
My RAM and CPU speed are fine, but my second upgrade (when I can afford it) will be an SSD (my first upgrade will be a video card - I currently have an Intel x3100, good for bleeding edge Xorg stuff, but low-powered, and Radeon[HD] will be catching up before I can afford it).
P.S. I wish slashdot would quote like a mail client (or a *chan), Also, the preview should not leave out blank lines if they will be present in the final post
In that article, at least, they are not advocating any such thing. You may think that we cannot continue civilization without nuclear power, but that is far from being proven. They explicitly talk about other was to generate electricity, and about electric cars. That is not "back to nature". A quick look through five or six pages of their archives also shows no obvious back to nature tendencies.
By the way, I do not agree with their nuke article, and I have a few issues with the rest of their site. I am just saying the are not back to nature nuts.
>Environmentalist wackos want us to turn off electricity and live in paper hats, Did you mean "huts"? Although living in a giant paper hat might be fun, at least until it rained.
Anyway, who are these nuts? Where are they? I have read about them, but I have not seen any evidence that these creatures still exist in the wild. I am convinced they went extinct in the 60s or 70s. Certainly I have not found any in the environmentalist communities I frequent.
No, not that much has changed. The diagram and accompanying complaining was always exaggerated - the problems (and there are problems, then and now) were not as bad as they where made out to be - or in some cases, the stated problems didn't really exist, and the real issues where ignored.
I like PA. I had to set it up myself, since I use Debian, but since I got it working (not too hard),it has been great. It fixed the "Flash locking the sound card" issues I had been having, and everything else continued working fine, and I got sound mixing out of it. That said, from everything I have found out about OSSv4, I would like to see it replace alsa and most of PA, but it seems unlikely.
>From the ALSA wiki: "NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support hw mixing."
Maybe the wiki says that, but I have never personally seen dmix work.
Plenty of people on Planet KDE use Konq. KHTML is not up to Gecko or WebKit standards, but it is still rather good. And Konq has the advantage fully integrating with KDE.
That doesn't make sense. If you have IPv6, DNS will first look for an IPv6 address for a given name. If it is found, it is used. If the name cannot be resolved to an IPv6 address, IPv4 will be checked. If a v4 address is found, it is used. If it does not resolve, you get the usual error.
The only way for something like what you describe to happen is if v6 DNS was setup, but the http server was not setup for IPv6.
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You are right, it was the Eldar, not the Valar.
Also, unicode fail.
No, they were a gift from the Valar to the NÃmenÃreans to see other times and places.
Sauron just happened to get a hold of one of them, and used it as an avenue to warp Saruman and Denethor's minds. There is no evidence he used the PalantÃr for their intended purpose.
I run a maximalist browser in a (fairly) minimalist WM, you insensitive clod! (SeaMonkey and Awesome, for the record)
Personally, in SeaMonkey, I just type the search keyword before the term
wp search term - search wikipedia for "search term"
ud search term - search urban dictionary for "search term"
etc.
>Oh, so that's where they're hiding...
Not anymore. I am pretty sure we crashed a probe into that one.
Hopefully the 700MHz LTE spectrum will fix some of the problems...
Might be a good idea, might not, but CDMA2000 is dead anyway. Alltel and Verizon are switching to LTE, and it seems likely that even Sprint will end up there as well.
The US is huge, and in some spots, very sparsely populated. It would not be economical to cover all of (or even 80% of) let's say, northwest Montana. Or MT in general, or WY, or AK, or...
Oops, that should be AMPS
>Pandora streams fine on the '1G' network
>1G
I am pretty sure APMS has no internet access.
I don't see a dependency on any "mutation" package for Evolution here in Debian. Maybe it was non-free and they removed it? Can someone check a Fedora system?
>LTE is known as 3.9G everywhere else in the world.
Is it? I never heard that term, only 3.5G for HSPA.
Most of my HDDs (Maxtor, WD, Seagate) over the past ten years have not lasted more than 2 or 3 years... My last system drive (WD 320GB) died after ~6 months - Just finished the RMA a few weeks ago.
>Sequential read on the SSD is over 6x faster, and sequential write is 2x faster,
>but for the performance where it matters the difference is much more noticeable.
>Random read on the SSD is nearly 140x faster, and random write is over 40x faster.
So
>Not random writes, not sequential reads, and not anything not HD-related.
is wrong.
It also seems to me that you don't really need to say
>[no performance increases on] anything not HD-related.
or
>They don't help with anything CPU-, RAM-...-intensive
when you are talking about hard drive upgrades.
And of course it does help with I/O intensive stuff if that I/O is to the HD.
My RAM and CPU speed are fine, but my second upgrade (when I can afford it) will be an SSD (my first upgrade will be a video card - I currently have an Intel x3100, good for bleeding edge Xorg stuff, but low-powered, and Radeon[HD] will be catching up before I can afford it).
P.S. I wish slashdot would quote like a mail client (or a *chan), Also, the preview should not leave out blank lines if they will be present in the final post
In that article, at least, they are not advocating any such thing. You may think that we cannot continue civilization without nuclear power, but that is far from being proven. They explicitly talk about other was to generate electricity, and about electric cars. That is not "back to nature". A quick look through five or six pages of their archives also shows no obvious back to nature tendencies.
By the way, I do not agree with their nuke article, and I have a few issues with the rest of their site. I am just saying the are not back to nature nuts.
>Environmentalist wackos want us to turn off electricity and live in paper hats,
Did you mean "huts"? Although living in a giant paper hat might be fun, at least until it rained.
Anyway, who are these nuts? Where are they? I have read about them, but I have not seen
any evidence that these creatures still exist in the wild. I am convinced they went extinct
in the 60s or 70s. Certainly I have not found any in the environmentalist communities I
frequent.
I don't know, but with the 64-bit flash 10, I have not had any problems.
make sure flash-support is not installed.
Bash is a programming language, scripting languages are programming languages.
"Oracle" and OpenGL are not.
Most of the trouble was in earlier versions, when Ubuntu first used PA. If you didn't have trouble then, you probably won't have trouble now.
No, not that much has changed. The diagram and accompanying complaining was always exaggerated - the problems (and there are problems, then and now) were not as bad as they where made out to be - or in some cases, the stated problems didn't really exist, and the real issues where ignored.
I like PA. I had to set it up myself, since I use Debian, but since I got it working (not too hard),it has been great. It fixed the "Flash locking the sound card" issues I had been having, and everything else continued working fine, and I got sound mixing out of it. That said, from everything I have found out about OSSv4, I would like to see it replace alsa and most of PA, but it seems unlikely.
>From the ALSA wiki: "NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support hw mixing."
Maybe the wiki says that, but I have never personally seen dmix work.
Plenty of people on Planet KDE use Konq. KHTML is not up to Gecko or WebKit standards, but it is still rather good. And Konq has the advantage fully integrating with KDE.
For residential users?
That doesn't make sense. If you have IPv6, DNS will first look for an IPv6 address for a given name. If it is found, it is used. If the name cannot be resolved to an IPv6 address, IPv4 will be checked. If a v4 address is found, it is used. If it does not resolve, you get the usual error.
The only way for something like what you describe to happen is if v6 DNS was setup, but the http server was not setup for IPv6.