I've heard others on Slashdot complain about buy.com, but I've always had great service with them. I've never had to deal with their customer support though. I guess I should consider myself lucky
I'm afraid that "we're doing it for the children" has become a catch-all reason for trying to take away rights. It should be the other way around: strengthing individual liberties/rights so that our children will be able to exercise the same rights. I hate it when people try to use emotional reasons instead of facts and/or logic to try to get a law passed or anything else done in the public sector. Given that they will allow the words that normally get bleeped out in the series, I don't see how an NC-17 would be justified.
Maybe it was Striesand(sp) trying to get back for the episode where she tried to take over the world =)
I don't think that just because it's a cartoon, that SP is supposed to be geared towards kids. I'm guessing that a large percentage of SP viewers are probably high school/college age individuals. Although I'm well past that demographic, I think it's hilarious. Personality-wise I'm more like Cartman than I'd like to admit. Being fat doesn't help either.
I think it's going to be a riot. I don't see how it could be worse than Austin Powers. Good greif, the trailer for AP has oral sex jokes in it. But lets face it, the rating system is a joke. Most movie theaters don't check the ages of the individuals going in.
You also have to understand that the MIPS compilers also have a utility called cord that will re-arrange code and data so that functions that are used a lot will be close together in memory. This increases the probability that they will be kept in the caches. I believe someone is working on a GNU equivalent called grope.
I first used gcc on Sun3's (m68K based) and it was definitely better than the compilers from Sun. However, it wasn't that much better, if not worse than the sparc compilers. It was my understanding that with RISC environments, performance is greatly affected by the quality of the compiler, so the computer manufacturers spent a lot more time and money producing good compilers. Let's just hope that other chip manufacturers will help out cygnus with other gcc backends
How can I write my own program to work with the CM11A interface? X-10 provides two pieces of information about programming for the CM11A. The first is a help file that is part of the normal ActiveHome installation look for X10COMM.HLP in your ActiveHome folder. This document tells you how to use X-10's communications link to pass data to the CM11A. If you want to start from scratch, our CM11A communications protocol specification - ftp://ftp.x10-beta.com/ftp/protocol.txt - describes how to directly program the CM11A. A web search will also turn up ActiveX and Visual Basic tools that other X-10 users have written to work with the CM11A.
If hardware manufacturers aren't going to do a linux port, then they should supply the specs so an interested programmer can do it. It looks as if that is what they are doing. They also said that a Mac version of the software is available at www.shed.com. Someone here has also mentioned that there is something on freshmeat to control it too.
I believe with since Irix 4, SGI has used X as it's windowing system. I think they used NeWS before then. The last time I used an SGI workstation (1995), I enjoyed it very much. It had a desktop environment, which I rarely used. They used Motif, but with a special X resource variable set, it could use SGI's chrome which would make Motif actually look good. Actually, given a choice between a SGI workstation and a Linux machine, I'd probably take the SGI machine for the OpenGL support, ImageVision, and the other neat features they threw in.
Of the few that I looked at, only London computers had machines with Linux preinstalled. Everything else either didn't come with an OS at all (some were just kits) or had Win98.
If you could, post the dealers that were selling preinstalled Linux machines. Thanks
I would suspect that a lot of the new USB products have been brought about by the iMac. Although, I'm not saying that they wouldn't have come out, but the peripheral makers were given a group of users that the only way that they could upgrade was with USB. I don't think many PC users would buy a USB hard drive (with 1.5MB/sec or less transfer rates? no way).
Is it just me, or does it seem they have several 'sources' underlined to make it seem they links to other resources on the web? Has anyone checked out the other accomplishments to see if they are correct? If one of them supposedly created the world's fastest plotter with this technology, who is using it?
It all sounds too fishy. Notice that they have a partner in the internet search engine market. The partner iCaveo has nothing but some intro animations and a comments page. Sounds like they are trying to get the investor who will put money into anything related to the internet, regardless if the company can make any money. Even, the president of the company doesn't look like someone I would trust.
How is taping a song off the radio considered theft? Does that mean my recording of a tv show is considered theft too?
Most of the mp3s that I have come from my own cd collection. The rest of them come from albums that I haven't been able to find or haven't gotten around to buying yet. I would rather buy the music directly from the band.
That's a very good point. I've been thinking about writing a little game that uses gtk/gnome. I think there is a web page documenting gtk someplace, but I'll probably depend on the code for existing programs to figure it out. I did some Xt/Motif programming years ago, so that might help out some too.
I've heard that Qt has some very good documentation, but I already have gnome and don't want to try to keep two major tookits/environments up-to-date.
I remember reading about that feature of win98 in some PC magazine. When the authors of the article tried it out, it saved something like 2 seconds off the 10 second load time for Word, but to do so it took about 2-3 hours for the optimizer to reorder the hard drive.
This sounds like some of the products that I cam across in the back of some IT/Network magazine the other day. In about 10 pages of ads, there were at least four 1/4 page ads for products that would let an admin remotely reboot machines. I guess with the spread of NT into corporations, I guess devices like this are becoming a necessity. Although, from Rob's post today, it sounds like until he gets the hardware drivers ironed out, Slashdot might need one.
Thanks. When I checked a couple months ago for the y2k patches for our win95 machines, I couldn't find it. I finally found the page after wading through all the different versions of win95. The version that I had was 'compliant, with issues'. This basically meant that I had to download a patch to fix 2-3 dozen executables and dlls. I could either do that by buying a cd or downloading the patches. The link for download the patches went right back to the MS y2k home page that didn't have much more than a link where I could buy the upgrade cd.
So how does this really differ than trying to deal with the three main versions of Windows (95/98, NT, CE) now? By breaking up MS along these lines doesn't really change the problems:
MS using its market share clout to force other companies to do what it wants
Bundling new apps into the OS
hidden APIs in the OS tailored to MS applications.
By breaking MS into 3 OS companies along the existing different Windows platforms, they would still be able to do what they are doing now. MS got to where it is at by controlling the APIs and bundling. Third party developers are always playing catch up with the APIs and the threat that MS will bundle its competing product with the OS.
When I hear people talking about breaking MS up, they are talking about breaking it up along functional lines: an OS company, an user application company, a server app company, etc. That would still keep Windows as it is, but it would make them publish all the APIs, put their app developers on a level playing field with other software companies, and restrict bundling of these apps with the OS. If MS it to be broken up, that is how should be done, IMHO.
Sounds about the same as my school, except for having a parent on the school board. My HS class had 36 kids out of 110-120 total and I was a Nat. Merit scholar. In some cases, not only did the teachers also have your older siblings as students, some of the parents had them when they were in school. The HS math teacher/principal still used text books from the late 60s. It was strange to see a kid with the exact same book one of their parents had. Smaller schools would also make teachers/administrators more responsible to the parents.
While it is certainly true that armed citizens probably couldn't go head to head with government forces, but it would certainly be a thorn it its side. I'm not as worried about that as I am some criminal deciding that me or a family member are their next target. In reality, the police don't really protect you, they just file paperwork and hopefully catch the perp after the fact.
At least one of their bombs was made out of a propane tank, so let's ban them. We have to ban 4th of July fireworks because someone could take them and make real bombs. What about gasoline, detergent, pool chemicals, fertillizer, knives, cars, etc? Let's ban anything that could be used to harm anyone else.
I'm sorry but banning guns is only going to make smugglers richer. Also if guns were the real problem, then why haven't the Swiss had school shootings like this?
I went to a small rural high school where you basically went to school with the same 30 or so kids for 13 years. I was one of the smart kids in the class and certainly the most gung-ho about comptuers given that I was the only one who ever had to be kicked out of the computer lab at 7 or 8 at night. Most of the kids usually got involved in some sort of extra curricular activity. I guess it was a way to find something to do. Being a fat geek for most of my life, football made my weight something useful and got me into shape. It was also a great way to vent anger by beating the crap out of someone with the defensive line coach screaming to hit them harder. After practice the same coach would pull me aside and ask me questions about computers. =)
In college, I wasn't involved in sports and usually vented my frustrations by trying to dream up inventive/original ways to kill the people that pissed me off. It was sick & twisted but allowed me to cool off and not actually hurt anyone.
When I was in college, it seemed the only ones who really wanted to get into frats were the people who wanted to live off campus and have easy access to alcohol. They were a combination of slackers, future AA members, and other lazy preppies. I had no respect for them then and I have no respect for them now.
I am also not really surprised that a frat in Florida has been charged with laws that pertain to brothels.
I disagree. When I'm trying to get something to work in a program, I like being able to make a small change, press ctrl-f9 to run the program to test it out, return to the IDE window, make another change, press ctrl-f9 to test it again, etc. Switching back and forth from emacs and a CLI to manually compile something is not nearly as fun or expedient.
Hmm...I do that all the time whether it's for cli, curses, or X programs. I can edit, compile, and debug programs without ever leaving emacs. While running gdb in one emacs window, I have the code that is currently being debugged in another, with an arrow showing the current line the debugger is on. I can even set break points in the source window. It certainly does everything that I would ever use an IDE for.
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I've heard others on Slashdot complain about buy.com, but I've always had great service with them. I've never had to deal with their customer support though. I guess I should consider myself lucky
I'm afraid that "we're doing it for the children" has become a catch-all reason for trying to take away rights. It should be the other way around: strengthing individual liberties/rights so that our children will be able to exercise the same rights. I hate it when people try to use emotional reasons instead of facts and/or logic to try to get a law passed or anything else done in the public sector. Given that they will allow the words that normally get bleeped out in the series, I don't see how an NC-17 would be justified.
Maybe it was Striesand(sp) trying to get back for the episode where she tried to take over the world =)
I don't think that just because it's a cartoon, that SP is supposed to be geared towards kids. I'm guessing that a large percentage of SP viewers are probably high school/college age individuals. Although I'm well past that demographic, I think it's hilarious. Personality-wise I'm more like Cartman than I'd like to admit. Being fat doesn't help either.
I think it's going to be a riot. I don't see how it could be worse than Austin Powers. Good greif, the trailer for AP has oral sex jokes in it. But lets face it, the rating system is a joke. Most movie theaters don't check the ages of the individuals going in.
You also have to understand that the MIPS compilers also have a utility called cord that will re-arrange code and data so that functions that are used a lot will be close together in memory. This increases the probability that they will be kept in the caches. I believe someone is working on a GNU equivalent called grope.
I first used gcc on Sun3's (m68K based) and it was definitely better than the compilers from Sun. However, it wasn't that much better, if not worse than the sparc compilers. It was my understanding that with RISC environments, performance is greatly affected by the quality of the compiler, so the computer manufacturers spent a lot more time and money producing good compilers. Let's just hope that other chip manufacturers will help out cygnus with other gcc backends
From their FAQ page:
How can I write my own program to work with the CM11A interface? X-10 provides two pieces of information about programming for the CM11A. The first is a help file that is part of the normal ActiveHome installation look for X10COMM.HLP in your ActiveHome folder. This document tells you how to use X-10's communications link to pass data to the CM11A. If you want to start from scratch, our CM11A communications protocol specification - ftp://ftp.x10-beta.com/ftp/protocol.txt - describes how to directly program the CM11A. A web search will also turn up ActiveX and Visual Basic tools that other X-10 users have written to work with the CM11A.
If hardware manufacturers aren't going to do a linux port, then they should supply the specs so an interested programmer can do it. It looks as if that is what they are doing. They also said that a Mac version of the software is available at www.shed.com. Someone here has also mentioned that there is something on freshmeat to control it too.
The NeXT cubes were only about $200. I think there is a project to get Linux to run on these type machines too.
The intel Paragon supercomputers and encrypting ethernet equipment were cool also. Too bad I don't have the money or space. =(
I believe with since Irix 4, SGI has used X as it's windowing system. I think they used NeWS before then. The last time I used an SGI workstation (1995), I enjoyed it very much. It had a desktop environment, which I rarely used. They used Motif, but with a special X resource variable set, it could use SGI's chrome which would make Motif actually look good. Actually, given a choice between a SGI workstation and a Linux machine, I'd probably take the SGI machine for the OpenGL support, ImageVision, and the other neat features they threw in.
Of the few that I looked at, only London computers had machines with Linux preinstalled. Everything else either didn't come with an OS at all (some were just kits) or had Win98.
If you could, post the dealers that were selling preinstalled Linux machines. Thanks
I would suspect that a lot of the new USB products have been brought about by the iMac. Although, I'm not saying that they wouldn't have come out, but the peripheral makers were given a group of users that the only way that they could upgrade was with USB. I don't think many PC users would buy a USB hard drive (with 1.5MB/sec or less transfer rates? no way).
Is it just me, or does it seem they have several 'sources' underlined to make it seem they links to other resources on the web? Has anyone checked out the other accomplishments to see if they are correct? If one of them supposedly created the world's fastest plotter with this technology, who is using it?
It all sounds too fishy. Notice that they have a partner in the internet search engine market. The partner iCaveo has nothing but some intro animations and a comments page. Sounds like they are trying to get the investor who will put money into anything related to the internet, regardless if the company can make any money. Even, the president of the company doesn't look like someone I would trust.
Their web site says that they are open to visitors. Maybe some slashdot readers in the SLC area should check them out.
How is taping a song off the radio considered theft? Does that mean my recording of a tv show is considered theft too?
Most of the mp3s that I have come from my own cd collection. The rest of them come from albums that I haven't been able to find or haven't gotten around to buying yet. I would rather buy the music directly from the band.
That's a very good point. I've been thinking about writing a little game that uses gtk/gnome. I think there is a web page documenting gtk someplace, but I'll probably depend on the code for existing programs to figure it out. I did some Xt/Motif programming years ago, so that might help out some too.
I've heard that Qt has some very good documentation, but I already have gnome and don't want to try to keep two major tookits/environments up-to-date.
I remember reading about that feature of win98 in some PC magazine. When the authors of the article tried it out, it saved something like 2 seconds off the 10 second load time for Word, but to do so it took about 2-3 hours for the optimizer to reorder the hard drive.
This sounds like some of the products that I cam across in the back of some IT/Network magazine the other day. In about 10 pages of ads, there were at least four 1/4 page ads for products that would let an admin remotely reboot machines. I guess with the spread of NT into corporations, I guess devices like this are becoming a necessity. Although, from Rob's post today, it sounds like until he gets the hardware drivers ironed out, Slashdot might need one.
err...I should have previewed that..I meant a couple weeks, not months.
Thanks. When I checked a couple months ago for the y2k patches for our win95 machines, I couldn't find it. I finally found the page after wading through all the different versions of win95. The version that I had was 'compliant, with issues'. This basically meant that I had to download a patch to fix 2-3 dozen executables and dlls. I could either do that by buying a cd or downloading the patches. The link for download the patches went right back to the MS y2k home page that didn't have much more than a link where I could buy the upgrade cd.
So how does this really differ than trying to deal with the three main versions of Windows (95/98, NT, CE) now? By breaking up MS along these lines doesn't really change the problems:
By breaking MS into 3 OS companies along the existing different Windows platforms, they would still be able to do what they are doing now. MS got to where it is at by controlling the APIs and bundling. Third party developers are always playing catch up with the APIs and the threat that MS will bundle its competing product with the OS.
When I hear people talking about breaking MS up, they are talking about breaking it up along functional lines: an OS company, an user application company, a server app company, etc. That would still keep Windows as it is, but it would make them publish all the APIs, put their app developers on a level playing field with other software companies, and restrict bundling of these apps with the OS. If MS it to be broken up, that is how should be done, IMHO.
Sounds about the same as my school, except for having a parent on the school board. My HS class had 36 kids out of 110-120 total and I was a Nat. Merit scholar. In some cases, not only did the teachers also have your older siblings as students, some of the parents had them when they were in school. The HS math teacher/principal still used text books from the late 60s. It was strange to see a kid with the exact same book one of their parents had. Smaller schools would also make teachers/administrators more responsible to the parents.
While it is certainly true that armed citizens probably couldn't go head to head with government forces, but it would certainly be a thorn it its side. I'm not as worried about that as I am some criminal deciding that me or a family member are their next target. In reality, the police don't really protect you, they just file paperwork and hopefully catch the perp after the fact.
At least one of their bombs was made out of a propane tank, so let's ban them. We have to ban 4th of July fireworks because someone could take them and make real bombs. What about gasoline, detergent, pool chemicals, fertillizer, knives, cars, etc? Let's ban anything that could be used to harm anyone else.
I'm sorry but banning guns is only going to make smugglers richer. Also if guns were the real problem, then why haven't the Swiss had school shootings like this?
I went to a small rural high school where you basically went to school with the same 30 or so kids for 13 years. I was one of the smart kids in the class and certainly the most gung-ho about comptuers given that I was the only one who ever had to be kicked out of the computer lab at 7 or 8 at night. Most of the kids usually got involved in some sort of extra curricular activity. I guess it was a way to find something to do. Being a fat geek for most of my life, football made my weight something useful and got me into shape. It was also a great way to vent anger by beating the crap out of someone with the defensive line coach screaming to hit them harder. After practice the same coach would pull me aside and ask me questions about computers. =)
In college, I wasn't involved in sports and usually vented my frustrations by trying to dream up inventive/original ways to kill the people that pissed me off. It was sick & twisted but allowed me to cool off and not actually hurt anyone.
When I was in college, it seemed the only ones who really wanted to get into frats were the people who wanted to live off campus and have easy access to alcohol. They were a combination of slackers, future AA members, and other lazy preppies. I had no respect for them then and I have no respect for them now.
I am also not really surprised that a frat in Florida has been charged with laws that pertain to brothels.
I disagree. When I'm trying to get something to work in a program, I like being able to make a small change, press ctrl-f9 to run the program to test it out, return to the IDE window, make another change, press ctrl-f9 to test it again, etc. Switching back and forth from emacs and a CLI to manually compile something is not nearly as fun or expedient.
Hmm...I do that all the time whether it's for cli, curses, or X programs. I can edit, compile, and debug programs without ever leaving emacs. While running gdb in one emacs window, I have the code that is currently being debugged in another, with an arrow showing the current line the debugger is on. I can even set break points in the source window. It certainly does everything that I would ever use an IDE for.