I second the vote for Itanium.. Where the heck did that come from anyway? Take the leading 't' off 'titanium'? IMHO, 'Titanium' is way better than 'Itanium' any day..
Of course, then people will think the processor is made out of titanium rather than silicon and whatever else.. --
What sort of a crater would this make? Quite a large one, I would imagine.. Also, is the speed significant enough to move boulders out of the way of the soil (or was that the whole idea?). --
Unfortunately, I've heard that NVidia hasn't released many specs on their cards other than a single version of a video driver. I think it's been updated slightly, but it still doesn't have any of the fun features, I guess.. --
It's actually pretty easy to change the keyboard layout on Windows boxes (and you can do it all with the mouse, so you don't have to worry about finding the right keys;-)
Get to the keyboard control panel, select the "Language" tab, and change the layout from 'United States' (or whatever it is) to 'United States-Dvorak' The keymap changes immediately..
Of course, it might be nice for someone to make a single-click systray application.. --
Well, I don't know about pin compatibility or anything like that, but I certainly hope that TI will take advantage of these new processors and upgrade their line of calculators (not that I really need them anymore, but other students moving up in the world may need them..)
Of course, I would have to think it would be easy/cheap enough to get some 386 or 486 chips (or anything else, for that matter) that could fit into the approximate form factor of a TI calculator.. I mean, $120 for a TI-86 that takes a minute to graph a moderately complex equation? Come on!
Didn't they use this idea in Alien3? I seem to recall one opening scene looking at a barcode on the back of the head of the foreman (or whatever title the prison leader had..)
Did anyone else have trouble with SimShatner? I just get an error in Netscape "No Plugin for content type text/plain" (or something to that effect. Is there a workaround?
Well, yes, this means that there are two keys that you can use to sign things (and three in Win2k). However, why Microsoft would need more than one is beyond me.. For that reason, I would call it a backdoor. (Not that the normal system appears to be very safe anyway..)
I don't know if the so-called "NSA key" has actually been supplied to the NSA, or even if Microsoft takes much care to look after it. Unfortunately, each key that Microsoft adds will make their operating systems less secure..
I'm amazed at how good those fonts look. Just one glance at that proves to me that X needs to get anti-aliased font rendering.. I don't care if it has to be a built-in part of GTK+! I just wish I knew enough to get it in there on my own..
First off, I hope that Time will decide that they should have a group of people be the "People of the Century", rather than have a single person. Perhaps it should be a group of leaders, whether it includes the likes of Hitler or not. Maybe some of the people that put together the first computers in this century -- the computer has definitely had a lasting impact (at least on those of us in developed or moderately developed countries). There is a huge number of people in the computer (and networking -- i.e. Internet) field that could be mentioned. Of course, those people would probably get much more credit if the century had started in 1940 or 1950 instead of 1900 -- nobody wants to have someone from 1995 to be a Person of the Century...
Of course, Time isn't going to take the online poll as a literal thing -- they are most likely just using it to get ideas, and to see some of the different people that we look up to, hate, or get brainwashed by..
I think Time will pick someone we don't all know, just to prove a point.. Perhaps the person that discovered you could transmit sound over the radio, the inventors of RADAR, or some other moderately obscure person or group. I guess I just don't need to get reminded about all the wars, oppression, and death that happened in this world in the last century.. I'd rather see someone that made a lasting, positive impact -- even if we hardly recognize their names.
Well, I run at 1280x1024, and the fonts in Netscape often look absolutely crappy. They have extra chunks all over the place -- looks like they thought the fonts should be getting antialiased, even though they really aren't..
At any rate, I wouldn't mind if there were different systems for the simple 1-bit fonts, and another for antialiased font. Just use whichever works better for the situation. If you need speed, use the traditional stuff. If you want it to look pretty, use antialiasing (or whatever other fun technique they come up with).
There are more workstation/desktop installations of Linux than there are server installations (Actually, that may also be true for commercial Unices as well..) Linux has been on the desktop for quite a while -- it's just that there really hasn't been a whole lot of software to run on it..
Percentage-wise, Linux is more common as a server than a desktop (which is apparently the reasoning behind releasing the QT server for Linux instead of a client).
I hate to have to keep pointing this out, but the story isn't actually a CNN story -- it's just reproduced from InfoWorld magazine.. I would much rather see it called an IDG story or an InfoWorld story. CNN may deserve a tiny slice of credit for this story, but that's it..
Was the site really cracked? I would expect the site would have been fixed by now if that was actually the case (of course, they might all just be sleepyheads over in Berkeley..;-)
I believe that the Mandelbrot set is self _similar_, but I don't think that there are copies anywhere in it.. You can zoom in and say, "Well, that looks a lot like what I saw at such-and-such coordinates, but it's not exactly the same."
I highly recommend getting either a cable modem or a DSL line, whichever you have in your area. Bandwidth is bandwidth, as far as I'm concerned (especially if it's cheap;-)
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I second the vote for Itanium.. Where the heck did that come from anyway? Take the leading 't' off 'titanium'? IMHO, 'Titanium' is way better than 'Itanium' any day..
Of course, then people will think the processor is made out of titanium rather than silicon and whatever else..
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What sort of a crater would this make? Quite a large one, I would imagine.. Also, is the speed significant enough to move boulders out of the way of the soil (or was that the whole idea?).
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Unfortunately, I've heard that NVidia hasn't released many specs on their cards other than a single version of a video driver. I think it's been updated slightly, but it still doesn't have any of the fun features, I guess..
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Reminds me of the BBS quote wars (remember?)
> this
> > is
> > > getting
> > > > out
> > > > > of
> > > > > > hand
> > > > > > > !
:-)
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*shrug* I tend to consider those programs 'broken' since they don't understand arrow keys or anything (but it does suck when you come across them..)
Programs like that should not map directly to the assumed keyboard layout.. In the very least, there should be an easy way to change the settings..
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It's actually pretty easy to change the keyboard layout on Windows boxes (and you can do it all with the mouse, so you don't have to worry about finding the right keys ;-)
Get to the keyboard control panel, select the "Language" tab, and change the layout from 'United States' (or whatever it is) to 'United States-Dvorak' The keymap changes immediately..
Of course, it might be nice for someone to make a single-click systray application..
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I guess I don't exactly know how to phrase this question properly, but here goes:
What do you think is the 'coolest' piece of open source software you've ever seen?
I still think it's odd that CNN would have an article about sendmail.
Umm.. that's because it's a reprinted article from LinuxWorld. CNN reprints a lot of stuff that comes from IDG magazines..
Well, I don't know about pin compatibility or anything like that, but I certainly hope that TI will take advantage of these new processors and upgrade their line of calculators (not that I really need them anymore, but other students moving up in the world may need them..)
Of course, I would have to think it would be easy/cheap enough to get some 386 or 486 chips (or anything else, for that matter) that could fit into the approximate form factor of a TI calculator.. I mean, $120 for a TI-86 that takes a minute to graph a moderately complex equation? Come on!
Didn't they use this idea in Alien3? I seem to recall one opening scene looking at a barcode on the back of the head of the foreman (or whatever title the prison leader had..)
Did anyone else have trouble with SimShatner? I just get an error in Netscape "No Plugin for content type text/plain" (or something to that effect. Is there a workaround?
Well, yes, this means that there are two keys that you can use to sign things (and three in Win2k). However, why Microsoft would need more than one is beyond me.. For that reason, I would call it a backdoor. (Not that the normal system appears to be very safe anyway..)
I don't know if the so-called "NSA key" has actually been supplied to the NSA, or even if Microsoft takes much care to look after it. Unfortunately, each key that Microsoft adds will make their operating systems less secure..
I'm amazed at how good those fonts look. Just one glance at that proves to me that X needs to get anti-aliased font rendering.. I don't care if it has to be a built-in part of GTK+! I just wish I knew enough to get it in there on my own..
The article said that their transmitter only had half a watt of power. Egad. You couldn't even get that signal to the end of the street!
First off, I hope that Time will decide that they should have a group of people be the "People of the Century", rather than have a single person. Perhaps it should be a group of leaders, whether it includes the likes of Hitler or not. Maybe some of the people that put together the first computers in this century -- the computer has definitely had a lasting impact (at least on those of us in developed or moderately developed countries). There is a huge number of people in the computer (and networking -- i.e. Internet) field that could be mentioned. Of course, those people would probably get much more credit if the century had started in 1940 or 1950 instead of 1900 -- nobody wants to have someone from 1995 to be a Person of the Century...
Of course, Time isn't going to take the online poll as a literal thing -- they are most likely just using it to get ideas, and to see some of the different people that we look up to, hate, or get brainwashed by..
I think Time will pick someone we don't all know, just to prove a point.. Perhaps the person that discovered you could transmit sound over the radio, the inventors of RADAR, or some other moderately obscure person or group. I guess I just don't need to get reminded about all the wars, oppression, and death that happened in this world in the last century.. I'd rather see someone that made a lasting, positive impact -- even if we hardly recognize their names.
I know that the font system tends to suck sometimes, but you shouldn't have to edit the fonts.dir by hand -- use 'mkfontdir'
Well, I run at 1280x1024, and the fonts in Netscape often look absolutely crappy. They have extra chunks all over the place -- looks like they thought the fonts should be getting antialiased, even though they really aren't..
At any rate, I wouldn't mind if there were different systems for the simple 1-bit fonts, and another for antialiased font. Just use whichever works better for the situation. If you need speed, use the traditional stuff. If you want it to look pretty, use antialiasing (or whatever other fun technique they come up with).
*shrug*
There are more workstation/desktop installations of Linux than there are server installations (Actually, that may also be true for commercial Unices as well..) Linux has been on the desktop for quite a while -- it's just that there really hasn't been a whole lot of software to run on it..
Percentage-wise, Linux is more common as a server than a desktop (which is apparently the reasoning behind releasing the QT server for Linux instead of a client).
I know mtv is pretty good, but the demo-ware version only plays 30 seconds or something like that before shutting down the audio (IIRC)
Too bad there are a lot of mpeg files that don't play correctly on xanim..
I hate to have to keep pointing this out, but the story isn't actually a CNN story -- it's just reproduced from InfoWorld magazine.. I would much rather see it called an IDG story or an InfoWorld story. CNN may deserve a tiny slice of credit for this story, but that's it..
Was the site really cracked? I would expect the site would have been fixed by now if that was actually the case (of course, they might all just be sleepyheads over in Berkeley.. ;-)
Maybe it's just a publicity stunt or whatever..
Hmm.. I like blue -- haven't seen any blue light sabers yet (maybe I just haven't paid attention..) Maybe purple would be cool ;-)
I believe that the Mandelbrot set is self _similar_, but I don't think that there are copies anywhere in it.. You can zoom in and say, "Well, that looks a lot like what I saw at such-and-such coordinates, but it's not exactly the same."
Why don't we just call it 'Christmas' then? ;-)
I highly recommend getting either a cable modem or a DSL line, whichever you have in your area. Bandwidth is bandwidth, as far as I'm concerned (especially if it's cheap ;-)