I've been a big linux/bsd user for about 7 years now. I took a year-long break because I got a job developing on windows systems. Last night I installed ubuntu for the first time. I was very impressed. Things I liked:
-Quick install process with the option to install or just run from the liveCD -All my hardware worked without any configuration -Firefox came pre-configured with the mime-type associations to open pdf documents, word files, ppt files, etc. -Simple but powerful interface. Two icons on top: one for web, one for mail. There's 99% of stuff most people do.
The only problem was this: when I tried to change the screen res on my 17" monitor, I could only go up to 1024x768. Using Eclipse at this resolution is difficult. So, I did some googling, and found this cool, thorough HOWTO: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-83973. html
Of course I needed to manually adjust my xorg.conf to have 1280x1024 & 1152xwhatever, but honestly how many newbie's / windows converts are gonna figure that out easily? Now, I've configured XFree & XOrg before, and I'm familiar with the process. However, I think this process should be GUI-fied to make it easier on new users and old users alike. Besides this issue, I think ubuntu is totally a contender for your mother's operating system.
Neither of which promote good MVC separation. In fact they tend to encourage violations unless you are a very disciplined coder.
I don't mean to sound all high and mighty, but if you aren't a disciplined coder, then you're not very serious anyway. You can pre-plan the MVC design to your hearts content, but it takes discipline to stay within the boundaries of the original design. Especially since if you don't then you create one of the worst anti-patterns ever, making you wish you'd just written one monolithic chunk of procedural code because bugs/changes would be doable.
WAMP (windows - apache - mysql - php) server is a cool thing I found if you want a quick and integrated solution to developing with mysql/php on windows systems. It puts a little icon in your dock that is similar to the start menu and you can start/stop all servers and enable/disable php modules, etc. It also comes with phpMyAdmin for managing the mysql databases. It's one big executable with installer and theres no admin stuff to deal with before you start programming. Not that any of the admin stuff is particularly difficult, just extremely annoying considering the frequency of changes to php and apache.
players have to figure out which paths are open to them and then decide the fastest way to the finish line.
this is the perfect foundation for programming! simply choose the fastest method to achieve a small subset of your short term goals, market it, and let havoc ensue for the poor sap who has to maintain the steaming pile!
It's Opera's "fault" for doing it, but it's not as big of a fault as web developers who hardcode "ie or netscape" logic into their websites and disallow access if you're not using one of the ONLY TWO BROWSERS TO EVER EXIST.
to KIND OF answer my own question.
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From the Divx Hardware FAQ:
Will my DivX® Certified Player product become outdated quickly?
No, the DivX® Certified Program was created precisely to prevent our partners' products from becoming outdated quickly. We require forward compatibility for all DivX Certified products. Not only will the DivX Certified product not be outdated or obsolete quickly, but it will support formats that will be compatible with some really cool DivX enabled products coming in the near future.
will old dvd divx players be able to handle this?
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and I'm not going to start encoding with DIVX 6.0 if I can't watch the movies my dvd player.
Does anyone know if I can upgrade firmware of the player or if the divx 6 codec is backwards compatible somehow (I know that wouldn't make any sense, but I'm reaching here...)?
shouldn't they have checked all these patents and licenses before implementing them?
No, because when the lawyers finally catch up with them, it'll be too late because all the source code and codecs are spread all over these old ass linux and bsd distrobution cd's!
If they would have found out they violated patents, they probably wouldn't have put in the effort to write these apps in the first place (as I was typing this sentance I realized that they actually might have).
They come up with the ITX platform so that they could pimp off these horrible processors. From what I have read they are not good for much of anything except single task as an mp3 player.
I had a via mini-ITX board 2 years ago. It was 800mhz. I put a tv tuner card in the box and captured cable tv to divx in real time. That took about 35-40% CPU. That means I was able to watch other divx movies (via the Composite TV-OUT) at the same time it was encoding. Oh, and mp3blaster worked great too!
I am very curious if anyone can actually say they've used these mini-itx boards in a large cluster environment. I imagine with the current specs that you could only get 2 procs per chassis, resulting in only 84 procs per 42-U rack. Anyone have any links?
I really hope this turns into a reliable alternative to Outlook. Every manager will tell you that they need/rely on Outlook calendering functions.
And every time the server goes down almost every nerd at the place I work (99% UNIX shop) says something about how we need a unix mail server. But that already exists. We need an open source calender server.
Does something like this exist already or is it in the works? Last time I looked I couldn't find anything comparable.
A public school system is, by necessity, open to scrutiny by the entire community. Private schools are not.
In short: no.
Private schools are subject to scruitiny by the entire relavent community (i.e. parents that pay for their kids to attend). Furthermore, I believe it's actually manifested much clearer in a private school considering the fact that if a parents have qualms with the teaching practices the school uses, they can take immediate action by pulling their kid out of that school.
Public school, however, is subject to a much more bureaucratic system that is definitely susceptible to the governments agenda.
It seems like running a school like you would run a business really makes a lot of sense.
all this research that's done relative to the 40-hour work week is kind of funny to me considering the fact that the 40-hour work week is a man made concept.
i think that if humans had a 60-hour-work-week on average, then we'd be looking at studies above and beyond the standard 60 hours of work. if you're used to work 60 hours then i would imagine all 60 hours would be productive. that is to say that those hours would be just as productive as the 40 hours we're used to now.
conversely, if the rest of you only really worked about 10 hours a week at your 40 hour per week job (like i do), then anything over those standard 10 wouldn't be very productive. haha.
The catch is they still have access to your email and will use very sophisticated algorithms involving complex "graphs" (similar to peer-to-peer algorithms) to generate useful information such as relationships (personal and business) and historical data sets. This is in addition to consumer information.
But don't listen to me, I haven't worked for any companies that do the same stuff with similar but more limited data sets.
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at least he's not talking in a pretentious tone... everyone knows that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse...
I've been a big linux/bsd user for about 7 years now. I took a year-long break because I got a job developing on windows systems. Last night I installed ubuntu for the first time. I was very impressed. Things I liked:
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-Quick install process with the option to install or just run from the liveCD
-All my hardware worked without any configuration
-Firefox came pre-configured with the mime-type associations to open pdf documents, word files, ppt files, etc.
-Simple but powerful interface. Two icons on top: one for web, one for mail. There's 99% of stuff most people do.
The only problem was this: when I tried to change the screen res on my 17" monitor, I could only go up to 1024x768. Using Eclipse at this resolution is difficult. So, I did some googling, and found this cool, thorough HOWTO:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-83973
Of course I needed to manually adjust my xorg.conf to have 1280x1024 & 1152xwhatever, but honestly how many newbie's / windows converts are gonna figure that out easily? Now, I've configured XFree & XOrg before, and I'm familiar with the process. However, I think this process should be GUI-fied to make it easier on new users and old users alike. Besides this issue, I think ubuntu is totally a contender for your mother's operating system.
is nerdcore going to turn into a legitimate subgenre?
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This question has lot stumped many star wars historians. For it's a question wrapped inside an enigma. To wit:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Fett's-Vet
Neither of which promote good MVC separation. In fact they tend to encourage violations unless you are a very disciplined coder.
I don't mean to sound all high and mighty, but if you aren't a disciplined coder, then you're not very serious anyway. You can pre-plan the MVC design to your hearts content, but it takes discipline to stay within the boundaries of the original design. Especially since if you don't then you create one of the worst anti-patterns ever, making you wish you'd just written one monolithic chunk of procedural code because bugs/changes would be doable.
WAMP (windows - apache - mysql - php) server is a cool thing I found if you want a quick and integrated solution to developing with mysql/php on windows systems. It puts a little icon in your dock that is similar to the start menu and you can start/stop all servers and enable/disable php modules, etc. It also comes with phpMyAdmin for managing the mysql databases. It's one big executable with installer and theres no admin stuff to deal with before you start programming. Not that any of the admin stuff is particularly difficult, just extremely annoying considering the frequency of changes to php and apache.
http://www.en.wampserver.com/
How can I write portable versions of Mac OS X apps when the Cocoa API doesn't exist outside of Mac OS X
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players have to figure out which paths are open to them and then decide the fastest way to the finish line.
this is the perfect foundation for programming!
simply choose the fastest method to achieve a small subset of your short term goals, market it, and let havoc ensue for the poor sap who has to maintain the steaming pile!
approximately 3 million ... view old Jane Fonda exercise tapes.
What's the highest slashdot user id, right now?
It's Opera's "fault" for doing it, but it's not as big of a fault as web developers who hardcode "ie or netscape" logic into their websites and disallow access if you're not using one of the ONLY TWO BROWSERS TO EVER EXIST.
From the Divx Hardware FAQ:
Will my DivX® Certified Player product become outdated quickly?
No, the DivX® Certified Program was created precisely to prevent our partners' products from becoming outdated quickly. We require forward compatibility for all DivX Certified products. Not only will the DivX Certified product not be outdated or obsolete quickly, but it will support formats that will be compatible with some really cool DivX enabled products coming in the near future.
Because I bought this: http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews3/dvp642.html
and I'm not going to start encoding with DIVX 6.0 if I can't watch the movies my dvd player.
Does anyone know if I can upgrade firmware of the player or if the divx 6 codec is backwards compatible somehow (I know that wouldn't make any sense, but I'm reaching here...)?
I was thinking they should add a new feature like not such random sluggish responsiveness in all java GUI apps on *nix machines.
shouldn't they have checked all these patents and licenses before implementing them?
No, because when the lawyers finally catch up with them, it'll be too late because all the source code and codecs are spread all over these old ass linux and bsd distrobution cd's!
If they would have found out they violated patents, they probably wouldn't have put in the effort to write these apps in the first place (as I was typing this sentance I realized that they actually might have).
this is functionally equivalent to banning FTP.
There are some neat tricks here including storing the cart ID as a cookie on the client.
you didn't really read this chapter and just wanted to make sure you wrote something about each one, huh?
(via the Composite TV-OUT)
strike that. it was a pci geforce2 MX400 card with tv-out. so, most the graphics processing was offloaded onto it.
They come up with the ITX platform so that they could pimp off these horrible processors. From what I have read they are not good for much of anything except single task as an mp3 player.
:)
I had a via mini-ITX board 2 years ago. It was 800mhz. I put a tv tuner card in the box and captured cable tv to divx in real time. That took about 35-40% CPU. That means I was able to watch other divx movies (via the Composite TV-OUT) at the same time it was encoding. Oh, and mp3blaster worked great too!
and no I didn't RTFA
or anything else for that matter, eh?
I am very curious if anyone can actually say they've used these mini-itx boards in a large cluster environment. I imagine with the current specs that you could only get 2 procs per chassis, resulting in only 84 procs per 42-U rack. Anyone have any links?
campaign contributions should only be able to be made by those legally able to vote. That would eliminate corporate donations
but aren't corporations treated as individuals for all legal intents and purposes?
I really hope this turns into a reliable alternative to Outlook. Every manager will tell you that they need/rely on Outlook calendering functions.
And every time the server goes down almost every nerd at the place I work (99% UNIX shop) says something about how we need a unix mail server. But that already exists. We need an open source calender server.
Does something like this exist already or is it in the works? Last time I looked I couldn't find anything comparable.
a sure fire way to multiply calls to the help desks when a false alarm tosses out a legitimate user.
simple. reconfigure the phone switch to drop all calls destined for the helpdesk number.
next problem!
A public school system is, by necessity, open to scrutiny by the entire community. Private schools are not.
In short: no.
Private schools are subject to scruitiny by the entire relavent community (i.e. parents that pay for their kids to attend). Furthermore, I believe it's actually manifested much clearer in a private school considering the fact that if a parents have qualms with the teaching practices the school uses, they can take immediate action by pulling their kid out of that school.
Public school, however, is subject to a much more bureaucratic system that is definitely susceptible to the governments agenda.
It seems like running a school like you would run a business really makes a lot of sense.
http://www.capenet.org/facts.html
all this research that's done relative to the 40-hour work week is kind of funny to me considering the fact that the 40-hour work week is a man made concept.
i think that if humans had a 60-hour-work-week on average, then we'd be looking at studies above and beyond the standard 60 hours of work. if you're used to work 60 hours then i would imagine all 60 hours would be productive. that is to say that those hours would be just as productive as the 40 hours we're used to now.
conversely, if the rest of you only really worked about 10 hours a week at your 40 hour per week job (like i do), then anything over those standard 10 wouldn't be very productive. haha.
http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net for ripping dvd's to high quality divx
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$60 DVD burner (fits 6 divx movies per dvd):
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$80 divx/dvd player:
http://www.divx.com/hardware/detail.php?
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finally!
what's the catch?
The catch is they still have access to your email and will use very sophisticated algorithms involving complex "graphs" (similar to peer-to-peer algorithms) to generate useful information such as relationships (personal and business) and historical data sets. This is in addition to consumer information.
But don't listen to me, I haven't worked for any companies that do the same stuff with similar but more limited data sets.