I wouldnt be too worried about vast mining on the moon as it seems there are some nice technologies now taking advantage of solar, wind and water currents to produce energy, so even if this stuff was mined, it may not be around for a while in favour of some totaly renewable energy source.
Is this stuff in the rock or what? Could enough be mined that the decrease in the moons mass (even be it so slight) could have an adverse effect on the earth? As we all know, the moon is responsible for the lowering and raising of tides through out the world and probably many other things we dont know about yet. Are we ready to mine the moon? In the past we thought we knew what we were doing with logging, mineing and hunting of animals, but it all turned into shit. Could it happen again on a wider scale by mineing the moon?
I'm running raid 5 on i think 2.6.8 with 3 drives. That is, i'm running it on the root partition and it runs alright, although, i have noticed it has goten slugish... maybe a defrag is in order?
When i started out, firefox was loading in 2 seconds and it now appears to be taking around 4 seconds to load. At least i think those mesurements are ok. If you want real speed, i'd think about using raid01 as it seems 4 discs in a raid0 array would be faster than 8 in a raid5? I'm not too sure about that, but raid5 is significantly slower than raid0 apparantly. Also, using those other 4 discs to mirror the raid0 array could be more usful then raid5s parity/crc redundancy.
ummm, who will write softare then? Machines? Those machines will still need to be programmed and parameters needing adjusting. Maybe there will just be more subspecies of programmer and these will eventualy take over. I guess eventualy we will die out, but not in our life times.
Do Linux geeks take this to seriously and too heart? It seems, and it was predictable, that Linux geeks where going to come out firing at this. But why? Who cares if someone is using Windows over Linux.
I'd be the first to say that all their claims are right, but then again, these claims may be coming from someone who hasn't bothered to learn how their system works, which is the true beauty of Linux.
This reminds me of the Darwin Awards, where one silly and stupid individual gets an award for killing him/herself in the most dumb and stupid way. The idea is that they are performing a cleansing of the human gene pool by eradicating themselves.
Isn't this kinda of similar? The Linux community has one less organisation that doesn't know what its doing when it comes to using Linux. They may not have even been contributing anything towards the community anyway, so why do we need them? This could be the attitude of many Linux geeks, luckily, its not my opinion;) Although i did find the similarities kind of amusing.
But back on topic, don't take it seriously Linux geeks. Calm down, or take a caffeine hit, whatever works for you.
These are very cheap in Australia right now. I paid $625 for mine around 4 months ago or so, and todays prices are $555 at computer parts land Very good place (in Melbourne)! Must be the cheapest place in Australia to buy hardware.. Apparantly people come from tasy?
Anyways, thats off topic, but if you need a new monitor, i recommend that one, or the 19" version!
If this guy was serious about this, wouldnt he also need/want to do an experiment of the reverse. I'm not going to read the report, as it sounds borring and one sided. Why doesnt he do another experiment on how many people have ripped CD's of the net because they didnt want to buy them, but would have bought them if it wasnt avaliable else where. Once thats done, i suggest a comparison. Otherwise it looks like the report will be heavily one sided and bias. (bias because he wants to stick it to the man?)
incase someone hasnt noticed, this isnt just about saving money, its about doing it your self, which gives you great satisfaction. You dads may have had skills to be a welder, carpender or even auto machenic. When he'd come home, he'd fix the car, make a coffee table, helb build a bird avery or build a varendah (patio?). Basicly, what our dads or mums did when we were kids, we're doing right now. Only, things have changed a little and the skills too. We come home from our software engineering jobs or even if we dont have a coding job but we're still tech savy or closet geeks, much like their would have been closet mechanics? boiler makers? Anyway, it's the same old thing, doing it your self gives you great satisfaction, despite the cost, even though it should prolly work out cheaper. For me, its satisfaction of doing the job but also learning it so i can show off my skills to others:). And really, thats been going on for years and years.
I've just seen a picture. What a load of shit. Who's going to buy this crap?
What i would like is linux tablet support or linux support for some device where the entire computer is inside the monitor. Kinda like Apples new iMac, but smaller still. Smaller as in bulkiness. Like a laptop, but not that expensive. Is there such a device?
it had to be said, and it prolly already has been, but here it is again, the age old question. Will Linux run on it? I'm guessing not straight away as not many would know how these babies run yet. But i would assume it would use some pretty standard parts, so at least some of the most essential drivers are already completed. All one would have to do is tie it all together... Hard? Easy? Moderate? I'd love one of these. I was adamit my next house would be networked with thin clients in every room, also acting as TV or if you like, "media centres". These things would be greate for that sort of stuff, but what would make it really cool is Linux and Linux Terminal Services;)
But even if it is, the Open Source community is still improtant to the gaming community for providing those "free" libraries for game developers such as SDL,Mesa,OpenGL etc. Maybe these foundation libraries are the strength of the open source community when it comes to games? That is, providing platform independant libraries for use in commercial work? (i'm not sure aobut their licences, GPL vs LPGL?). Maybe thats where some effort should be spent, then people all around the world will start to see the fruits of the open source labour when their platform of choice has the most up-to-date games avaliable.
It seems that a some of the eyecandy that has gone into the E libraries has also ended up in the new XOrg release, such as transparency and thumbnails? Just wondering, do you think E will take advantage of the XOrg updates in the future such as the XComposite extension, that allows off screen rendering (i think that was the extension i was thinking off). I know e claims to be fast, but using the stuff in the new X has to be a good thing right?
I dont think i particulary like the yanks.. not that i ever did, i enjoy it a lot when we spank you... But this isnt out of hatred, its only because you dominate. You may notice a similar kind of 'hatred' for the most dominate team in the nfl or nhl?
Basicly, Australia is a great sporting nation, but this is mainly because of climate and because of our climate sports are a part of our culture. Even fat kids play sport in Australia!!! But the fact remains, most of Australias population lives on the coast. Im not sure of percentages, but i wouldnt be surprised if it was above 70%. Infact, it should be far more than that... I could be in the 90s. That fact plus that parts of Australia have sunlight all year round is are good ingrediants for a successful sporting nation.
Also, Australia seems to have a fairly low degree of natural desasters. Sure we have floods and droughts, but they only work in our favour. A drought will only make us flock to the oceans, assuming its hot during the dought and a flood will have us swimming weather we like it or not.
So dont feel bad if we seem to be better compared to our population or economy. It has to do with nature and our life style... And those fat kids who are pressured into playing sport by the family and friends!
Do some countries have more spirit, when it comes to sport than others? I'm Australian and the olympics means a lot to me and to my fellow country men. I think i heard Australia has the second largest team at this olympics, second only too the US. Or maybe it was second largest team out of the 'away teams' (all but greece?). I have no doubt that a countries unemployement rate, economy and population play a huge role in the medal tally or one countries acheivments at any international event. But i feel that some countries arnt as interested as others. I've always felt like the american public where never that interested in the olympics because of their own home grown professional sports. I'm not stating this as fact, this is just what i've felt over the past few olympics. Olympics for an Australian is to show the world that we are the best or damn close to it. Australia has a population of 17->18 million and although a strong economy, not the strongest, but that goes hand in hand with our population as well. Despite our size, Australia seems to do very well in the olympics. But also, we seem to do very well at professional sports such as Rugby and recently our soccer has been getting better and i've always considered us to have a pretty good basket ball out fit.
Having said that, i think spirit goes a long way for Australia, we only have to look at the paraolympics where i believe in sydney, we had the largest medal tally? What does this say about us? We love our sport, do we love it more than other countries? If we loose a limb, do we stop or continue to play? Many parts of Australia have sunydays all year round and this is possibly a great asset for us in terms of sport and possibly why we love our sport so much. We can play sport, no matter what season... (maybe except tassy)..
Thats all i wanted to say. I think one might also consider the climate of a country and the spirit.
I was recently thinking of this idea but thought it would have been impossible. I guess that shows my knowledge of solar pannels. Maybe they rely only on a part of the suns rays and not all of it? That is such a cool idea, cars, boats, trans, cities and everything inbetween will benefit.
Maybe one day we'll all live under cities that are enclosed in huge transparent solar pannels, or even better, just encase the earth in it.:)
I've used Sybase stored procedures before on a project i worked on. I thought the idea was great. The project was split into two different teams. Team A worked on the Database and Business logic which went into the stored procedures and I was on team B which was in charge of writing a UI for the system. For me stored procs where great because it ment i didnt need to know heaps about the tricky business logic and i could just do what i was ment to be doing, I.e pretty UI.
It's was a good seperation of skills for this particular project.
It would be nice maybe if we could use OpenBeOS's file system... I have a feeling it might be under a strange licence. I.e, more strange than the GPL or LGPL:(
a $1,000,000 coding error... well, must be a farking big error considering i'm only a university student. So i wrote something that somehow destroyed entire computer networks through my university? I'd prolly run very fast!
PHP has got something good, why change it? I'm with... that dude on this, when i wrote php i didnt care about the licence only that i could download and use it for free ($0). I consider the GPL a good licence but PHP has a good thing going and i dont think it needs a GPL licence or that it could benifit alot from it.
I remember looking at PHP5 notes on a microsoft slide one evening at work and thinking i cant wait till this comes out.. Now that it is, kewl!:) Even better news is that you can not compile binaries... Thats Awsome!! I'd like to see some statistics... Surly the php binaries must be slower, but just how slow is interesting. Also, Dynamic language i feel will be huge in years to come. I believe they'll be the future. But i dont know how a php compiler fits into that, by dynamic i mean languages that are interpretured, not compiled into machine language. Interpretured languages have some many advantages such as being portable, which will be very important. Cool, i'll have to start brushing up on it, havnt used php seriously since the 4.(1|2|3) days?
Yes, i have a waked sense of humor. It was ment to be funny, implying opensource will defeat the Windows monopoly by infecting it with corrupted software. When i wrote it, i was thinking viruses, but mozilla is not a virus. It's also by no means corrupted software either, but i was just trying to make a funny:/ I think one person got it:/
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I wouldnt be too worried about vast mining on the moon as it seems there are some nice technologies now taking advantage of solar, wind and water currents to produce energy, so even if this stuff was mined, it may not be around for a while in favour of some totaly renewable energy source.
Is this stuff in the rock or what? Could enough be mined that the decrease in the moons mass (even be it so slight) could have an adverse effect on the earth? As we all know, the moon is responsible for the lowering and raising of tides through out the world and probably many other things we dont know about yet. Are we ready to mine the moon? In the past we thought we knew what we were doing with logging, mineing and hunting of animals, but it all turned into shit. Could it happen again on a wider scale by mineing the moon?
I'm running raid 5 on i think 2.6.8 with 3 drives. That is, i'm running it on the root partition and it runs alright, although, i have noticed it has goten slugish... maybe a defrag is in order?
When i started out, firefox was loading in 2 seconds and it now appears to be taking around 4 seconds to load. At least i think those mesurements are ok. If you want real speed, i'd think about using raid01 as it seems 4 discs in a raid0 array would be faster than 8 in a raid5? I'm not too sure about that, but raid5 is significantly slower than raid0 apparantly. Also, using those other 4 discs to mirror the raid0 array could be more usful then raid5s parity/crc redundancy.
ummm, who will write softare then? Machines? Those machines will still need to be programmed and parameters needing adjusting. Maybe there will just be more subspecies of programmer and these will eventualy take over. I guess eventualy we will die out, but not in our life times.
Do Linux geeks take this to seriously and too heart? It seems, and it was predictable, that Linux geeks where going to come out firing at this. But why? Who cares if someone is using Windows over Linux.
;) Although i did find the similarities kind of amusing.
I'd be the first to say that all their claims are right, but then again, these claims may be coming from someone who hasn't bothered to learn how their system works, which is the true beauty of Linux.
This reminds me of the Darwin Awards, where one silly and stupid individual gets an award for killing him/herself in the most dumb and stupid way. The idea is that they are performing a cleansing of the human gene pool by eradicating themselves.
Isn't this kinda of similar? The Linux community has one less organisation that doesn't know what its doing when it comes to using Linux. They may not have even been contributing anything towards the community anyway, so why do we need them? This could be the attitude of many Linux geeks, luckily, its not my opinion
But back on topic, don't take it seriously Linux geeks. Calm down, or take a caffeine hit, whatever works for you.
I'm using an LG1710S and everything seems fine.
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Nvidia FX5600, 256M
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These are very cheap in Australia right now. I paid $625 for mine around 4 months ago or so, and todays prices are $555 at computer parts land Very good place (in Melbourne)! Must be the cheapest place in Australia to buy hardware.. Apparantly people come from tasy?
Anyways, thats off topic, but if you need a new monitor, i recommend that one, or the 19" version!
If this guy was serious about this, wouldnt he also need/want to do an experiment of the reverse. I'm not going to read the report, as it sounds borring and one sided. Why doesnt he do another experiment on how many people have ripped CD's of the net because they didnt want to buy them, but would have bought them if it wasnt avaliable else where. Once thats done, i suggest a comparison. Otherwise it looks like the report will be heavily one sided and bias. (bias because he wants to stick it to the man?)
incase someone hasnt noticed, this isnt just about saving money, its about doing it your self, which gives you great satisfaction. You dads may have had skills to be a welder, carpender or even auto machenic. When he'd come home, he'd fix the car, make a coffee table, helb build a bird avery or build a varendah (patio?). Basicly, what our dads or mums did when we were kids, we're doing right now. Only, things have changed a little and the skills too. We come home from our software engineering jobs or even if we dont have a coding job but we're still tech savy or closet geeks, much like their would have been closet mechanics? boiler makers? Anyway, it's the same old thing, doing it your self gives you great satisfaction, despite the cost, even though it should prolly work out cheaper. For me, its satisfaction of doing the job but also learning it so i can show off my skills to others :). And really, thats been going on for years and years.
I've just seen a picture. What a load of shit. Who's going to buy this crap?
What i would like is linux tablet support or linux support for some device where the entire computer is inside the monitor. Kinda like Apples new iMac, but smaller still. Smaller as in bulkiness. Like a laptop, but not that expensive. Is there such a device?
it had to be said, and it prolly already has been, but here it is again, the age old question. Will Linux run on it? I'm guessing not straight away as not many would know how these babies run yet. But i would assume it would use some pretty standard parts, so at least some of the most essential drivers are already completed. All one would have to do is tie it all together... Hard? Easy? Moderate? I'd love one of these. I was adamit my next house would be networked with thin clients in every room, also acting as TV or if you like, "media centres". These things would be greate for that sort of stuff, but what would make it really cool is Linux and Linux Terminal Services ;)
But even if it is, the Open Source community is still improtant to the gaming community for providing those "free" libraries for game developers such as SDL,Mesa,OpenGL etc. Maybe these foundation libraries are the strength of the open source community when it comes to games? That is, providing platform independant libraries for use in commercial work? (i'm not sure aobut their licences, GPL vs LPGL?). Maybe thats where some effort should be spent, then people all around the world will start to see the fruits of the open source labour when their platform of choice has the most up-to-date games avaliable.
If they come looking for me i'll deny i know anything about linux and tell them i use debian.
It seems that a some of the eyecandy that has gone into the E libraries has also ended up in the new XOrg release, such as transparency and thumbnails? Just wondering, do you think E will take advantage of the XOrg updates in the future such as the XComposite extension, that allows off screen rendering (i think that was the extension i was thinking off). I know e claims to be fast, but using the stuff in the new X has to be a good thing right?
kernels?
I dont think i particulary like the yanks.. not that i ever did, i enjoy it a lot when we spank you... But this isnt out of hatred, its only because you dominate. You may notice a similar kind of 'hatred' for the most dominate team in the nfl or nhl?
Basicly, Australia is a great sporting nation, but this is mainly because of climate and because of our climate sports are a part of our culture. Even fat kids play sport in Australia!!! But the fact remains, most of Australias population lives on the coast. Im not sure of percentages, but i wouldnt be surprised if it was above 70%. Infact, it should be far more than that... I could be in the 90s. That fact plus that parts of Australia have sunlight all year round is are good ingrediants for a successful sporting nation.
Also, Australia seems to have a fairly low degree of natural desasters. Sure we have floods and droughts, but they only work in our favour. A drought will only make us flock to the oceans, assuming its hot during the dought and a flood will have us swimming weather we like it or not.
So dont feel bad if we seem to be better compared to our population or economy. It has to do with nature and our life style... And those fat kids who are pressured into playing sport by the family and friends!
Do some countries have more spirit, when it comes to sport than others? I'm Australian and the olympics means a lot to me and to my fellow country men. I think i heard Australia has the second largest team at this olympics, second only too the US. Or maybe it was second largest team out of the 'away teams' (all but greece?). I have no doubt that a countries unemployement rate, economy and population play a huge role in the medal tally or one countries acheivments at any international event. But i feel that some countries arnt as interested as others. I've always felt like the american public where never that interested in the olympics because of their own home grown professional sports. I'm not stating this as fact, this is just what i've felt over the past few olympics. Olympics for an Australian is to show the world that we are the best or damn close to it. Australia has a population of 17->18 million and although a strong economy, not the strongest, but that goes hand in hand with our population as well. Despite our size, Australia seems to do very well in the olympics. But also, we seem to do very well at professional sports such as Rugby and recently our soccer has been getting better and i've always considered us to have a pretty good basket ball out fit.
Having said that, i think spirit goes a long way for Australia, we only have to look at the paraolympics where i believe in sydney, we had the largest medal tally? What does this say about us? We love our sport, do we love it more than other countries? If we loose a limb, do we stop or continue to play? Many parts of Australia have sunydays all year round and this is possibly a great asset for us in terms of sport and possibly why we love our sport so much. We can play sport, no matter what season... (maybe except tassy)..
Thats all i wanted to say. I think one might also consider the climate of a country and the spirit.
I was recently thinking of this idea but thought it would have been impossible. I guess that shows my knowledge of solar pannels. Maybe they rely only on a part of the suns rays and not all of it? That is such a cool idea, cars, boats, trans, cities and everything inbetween will benefit.
:)
Maybe one day we'll all live under cities that are enclosed in huge transparent solar pannels, or even better, just encase the earth in it.
I've used Sybase stored procedures before on a project i worked on. I thought the idea was great. The project was split into two different teams. Team A worked on the Database and Business logic which went into the stored procedures and I was on team B which was in charge of writing a UI for the system. For me stored procs where great because it ment i didnt need to know heaps about the tricky business logic and i could just do what i was ment to be doing, I.e pretty UI.
It's was a good seperation of skills for this particular project.
It would be nice maybe if we could use OpenBeOS's file system... I have a feeling it might be under a strange licence. I.e, more strange than the GPL or LGPL :(
I thought tivo was just a box that recorded stuff so you could re-watch it later?
this was able to run on linux the current setup should handle it ok?
:/
AMD 3400+ (2.2Ghz)
1G RAM
Geforce FX 5600, 256MB
I dont really know a lot about games
a $1,000,000 coding error... well, must be a farking big error considering i'm only a university student. So i wrote something that somehow destroyed entire computer networks through my university? I'd prolly run very fast!
PHP has got something good, why change it? I'm with... that dude on this, when i wrote php i didnt care about the licence only that i could download and use it for free ($0). I consider the GPL a good licence but PHP has a good thing going and i dont think it needs a GPL licence or that it could benifit alot from it.
http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/
check it out, its great.
Also, one of my other fav sites
http://linuxjewellery.com/
not realted
I remember looking at PHP5 notes on a microsoft slide one evening at work and thinking i cant wait till this comes out.. Now that it is, kewl! :) Even better news is that you can not compile binaries... Thats Awsome!! I'd like to see some statistics... Surly the php binaries must be slower, but just how slow is interesting. Also, Dynamic language i feel will be huge in years to come. I believe they'll be the future. But i dont know how a php compiler fits into that, by dynamic i mean languages that are interpretured, not compiled into machine language. Interpretured languages have some many advantages such as being portable, which will be very important. Cool, i'll have to start brushing up on it, havnt used php seriously since the 4.(1|2|3) days?
Yes, i have a waked sense of humor. It was ment to be funny, implying opensource will defeat the Windows monopoly by infecting it with corrupted software. When i wrote it, i was thinking viruses, but mozilla is not a virus. It's also by no means corrupted software either, but i was just trying to make a funny :/ I think one person got it :/
It's never funny when you have to explain your jokes