Most issues related to web page scaling are related to font size rather then screen resolution. For example I have a high resolution, but also a big font in maximised windows so I can read it ok.
Web designers tell me of course it wont look good in that font size, use this smaller one, but then its unreadable for me.
Oh he gives a damn, he had his second in command, break of his ski holiday and fly to Munich to offer the city Windows basically for free as long as they didnt switch to linux.
I know the local microsoft office in Munich gets a lot of pressure and blame for this too. I have to contact them every now and then for support and I love to rub it in, mention things like "and now you see why everyone abandons windows in favor of linux, I posted a message on the linux-kernel mailing list and Linus wrote back within two hours, ive been waiting 6 months for microsoft to...."
Nah the CSU in Bavaria rules in Bavaria, and it HAS made Christianity the official religion on Bavaria, whith Catholicism having a higher status than Protestantism. Ok, so its still possible to buy contraceptive, so its "liberal europe" in that sense, but the legal status of abortions is in a grey area, all holidays are Catholic, church tax is collected on behalf of the church by the state, you have problems getting married or buried if you arent catholic (or at least dont pay the tax), and its still an ultraconservative police state. Nah, this aint liberal, there is no official separation between church and state like in the US for example.
Hold on, if they put him in jail for supplying aid to freedom fighters Hamas, why dont they put Bush in jail for funding the terrorists known as the state of Israel?
This is no troll, this is spot on insightful, I wish I had mod points.
I dont work with macs much, but I am a linux fan, and I have to fix windows problems all the time.
If someone comes to me because word is munging up files when printing, then what can I do? I say well you paid microsoft for the software, either get your money back or ask them for help. If it was openoffice I could look at the source and do some debugging.
Now whenever someone bothers me with windows problems I just tell them to install linux. Usually they do, and I have much less problems. And the problems I do have are at least solvable. Everyones happy.
Software RAID should be fine should it? After all in RAID the drives are more of a bottleneck than the CPU, so a few extra CPU cycles per RAID access wont slow anything down unless the CPU is already maxed out. Of course hardware RAID is "simply better" than software RAID, but are performance differences very noticable? I mean you are still getting the same benefits right? In fact, isnt "hardware RAID" just embedded firmware running on the controllers CPU anyway? Surely once the software RAID drivers are loaded into the OS, we are looking at the same thing, except in one case the RAID software runs on the controller, and in the other case the system CPU.
I could easily imagine a situation where the system CPU is faster than the controller CPU, and this results in a "software RAID" thats actually faster than its hardware counterpart. (Probably not though, I am sure theres plenty of task specific optimizations available to controller designers) Are there any performance comparisons online?
Yes there are a lot of non-windows machines out there. You have made 2 big mistakes: 1. Only now after the product has been made are you asking questions that should have been asked at the earliest stages. 2. By using open standards, it wouldnt matter what OS your customers use, they could just plug it in and go. That way your solution would work for any OS that also adheres to open standards.
You racist. Dont you know homo sapiens sapiens is just an old discredited term intended to infer that humans of european descent are somehow a different, superior species to homo sapiens?
There is only one species of human, homo sapiens, thankyou very much, and we evolved in africa a very long time ago.
I think these projects are defeating the open source community and just strenghtening the hold MS has on the industry.
Imagine a world where one can only use XAML indeed. If XAML is supported fully on linux eventually, MS will make sure that their version is always one step ahead. They have proven in the past, and leaked internal emails that were evidence in the recent european court cases brought out more leaked internal memos, that they deliberatly hide aspects of their APIs to give them an advantage. They deliberatly release bogis example software, and change the API too often, for reasons of confusing the competition rather then legitimate technical reasons.
They will definatly do this for XAML too, leaving windows as the dominate player in a XAML world at the expense of linux.
How can we avoid this?
Simple. The open source community must ignore XAML and.NET as proprietry nonsense. If XAML ends up as a windows only thing, it wont get developer support, and wont take over the world, leaving linux and windows on a more level playing field.
Is it possible get the real time video stream from the Sony digital camcorder (DCR-PC100) through the Firewire cable and display the video picture on your computer screen?"
First of all, why doesnt it work? I dont have a sony, I have a cheapo samsung and it streams live video over its firewire interface just fine.
If your sony doesnt do this buy a decent brand that does!
It wouldnt surprise me if this is a deliberate crippling as part of some DRM strategy. Sony do own movie and music publishers remember. And their quality is nothing special either. They would be one of my least perferred brands.
Or is this a software issue? I use linux myself, cant speak about windows. Try some other programs maybe?
Worms and viruses and popups etc are THE main ways that windows manages to eat away at productivity.
The authors suggestion that worms, viruses and popups are totally a windows thing, and that they can very effectively be remedied by upgrading to a more thoughtfully designed OS such as linux is in no way false, and definatly suggest that a well written article follows.
Being able to avoid these annoyances is definatly a MAJOR reason, (but not the only reason) to abandon windows and switch to a more serious, productive work environment such as linux.
Remaining with windows, and "using better software", "patching your system" and having "better security practices" does make partial sense to me, but if you can recognize some benefit in abandoning IE and Outlook in favor of Mozilla or something (i.e. getting it half right), then whats preventing you from recognizing that this is the same idea behind abandoning windows in favor of linux?
Apart from you being a windows fanboy that is.
Do you realize that its the open source development model behind free software such as Mozilla, that makes it so solid and reliable dont you? You do realise that its the peer review process thats lacking in Outlook, IE, and windows itself thats to blame for the shoddy design and poor security of these programs?
Save yourself hassles now, ditch windows, it really is a crap OS.
As far as firewire harddrives go, is there anything that doesnt need a whole computer to sit between it and a DV cam?
A while ago, I was looking for a portable hard disk recorder that I could simply plug a DV cam into via firewire, and push record. And later, plug it into a PC and push play to transfer it to the PC.
It seems I was able to find firewire drives that connect to a PC like a normal external hard drive, and I was able to find some consumer dvd recorders with hard drive and firewire connectors, but no simple, portable firewire hard disk recorders.
It seems like iPod is one of the view devices that can do this. Do you know of any others that can connect directly to a DV cam as opposed to a PC?
Knoppix installs a mix of testing and unstable, it installs a lot of packages that are suitable for a desktop but not for a server.
The Debian cd installs a minimal base system of Debian Stable. From there you can choose which packages you want, and you can later choose to upgrade to testing or unstable if you want. This is what I would call a proper Debian install.
I dont know anything about MEPIS, presumably it too lets the user choose a more minimal server oriented system than the knoppix install, and hopefully also allows a totally stable system without needing to downgrade after the install.
I personally use the debian cd to install servers, and the knoppix cd to install desktops. I am sure there are better ways but this works for me. The users like knoppix, once I modify it a bit, such as increasing the screen resolution, deinstalling squid and apache etc...
Bullshit, its rich countries like the US getting poorer, and rightfully so, and poor countries, like India, getting richer, and righfully so.
Its the sort of levelling out that the world has been needing for a long time.
How can anyone take an American seriously these days, so what, a few jobs go to a country that can do it cheaper. Thats the free market that your country was founded on! How can it be ok when America shits on the rest of the world, but when a few jobs go overseas its a disaster?
Hell yanks, just buy a few less SUVs, big screen TVs, and a bit less junk food and you will still be able to maintain the best standard of living in the world.
At least a few more Indian families can afford to eat now, and maybe get medical treatment if they need it.
Man you yanks look pathetic when you whinge and whine like little babies. "Mummy mummy, that indian guy stole my job and now I cant afford to maintain my holiday home in the mountains anymore, tell President Bush to invade them, stealing jobs is terrorism isnt it?"
Losers. No wonder you yanks have absolutly no respect outside your own fear-mongering, self-absorbed, self-supremicist little world.
You mean the multiplier effect. Its not so much related to the frictionlessness or otherwise of the economy, but rather to the fractional reserve system, which permits banks to lend out many times more fiat currency than they actually have themselves.
For example, say banks are only required to hold in reserve 10% of what they lend out. A bank gets $10 from the federal reserve. It is then permitted to lend out $90. $10 each to 9 different banks say. Then assume each of these banks, borrowing $10 then lends out $90. This could go on and on. This is the Multiplier effect. It has turned $10 into $1000
It doesnt result in an INFINITE money supply (at any one point in time), but one that has infinite potential for expansion.
I learned the lessons of the 70s left very well. And, my parents didn't have to teach me. Certainly not the lessons they would have taught me. The personal is political. Even today, I look at a TV commercial and identify the racial/sexual makeup of the ad and determine which group is being made fun of (usually the white male, BTW).
Interesting. Here in Germany most ads feature healthy looking blue eyed blonde white families sitting in a field having a picnic to represent the consumer. The few ads featuring black people have them in straw hats playing the banjo (or similar stereotypical nonsense) to merely entertain the white families. And the asian people have big front teeth and glasses like on the bifi ad, and talk funny.
I have never seen a mixed race family represented on German television ads, but you can on the Austrian channels.
This was a huge shock compared to New Zealand where I come from, where advertisers go to extreme lengths to almost include one of each race in their ads.
Your right that the original poster wrote up a lame ass product training course, and while yours is a reasonable looking computer science course, CS aint IT.
An IT curriculum would look like this:
* Bullshit buzzwords like Paradigm, Convergence, Competitive Advantage, Quality Assurance. Note, only the buzzwords not necessary, save the actual meanings for the nerds. * Helpdesk techniques like Blaming other companies, Pretending to be too clever for the caller, Being a general arsehole. * Powerpoint * Clicking on the OK button * Defragmentation * Plugging cables in (in general terms anyway, save actual distinctions between different types of cables for the specialists) * Pencil chewing * Tieing a tie * 1 Day of web design * Solataire or Minesweeper * Pretending your a programmer when the hot secretary comes around. * Pretending to be the janitor when a programmer comes around. * The kissing of bosses asses.
Oh, and in preperation of future industry developments:
Takes a jerk to sue monks? WTF? We are talking catholic monks here. If anyone needs to be sued, its flat-earth believing, copernicus-killing, book-burning, orphan-molesting, anti-science, creation-believing, anti-birth control, each-other-sodomizing, sodomy-condemning, oral-sex-condemning, bible bashing, hypocritical, catholic monks.
We have a lot to sue these clowns for not just DMCA violations.
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Most issues related to web page scaling are related to font size rather then screen resolution. For example I have a high resolution, but also a big font in maximised windows so I can read it ok.
Web designers tell me of course it wont look good in that font size, use this smaller one, but then its unreadable for me.
Oh he gives a damn, he had his second in command, break of his ski holiday and fly to Munich to offer the city Windows basically for free as long as they didnt switch to linux.
I know the local microsoft office in Munich gets a lot of pressure and blame for this too. I have to contact them every now and then for support and I love to rub it in, mention things like "and now you see why everyone abandons windows in favor of linux, I posted a message on the linux-kernel mailing list and Linus wrote back within two hours, ive been waiting 6 months for microsoft to...."
Nah the CSU in Bavaria rules in Bavaria, and it HAS made Christianity the official religion on Bavaria, whith Catholicism having a higher status than Protestantism. Ok, so its still possible to buy contraceptive, so its "liberal europe" in that sense, but the legal status of abortions is in a grey area, all holidays are Catholic, church tax is collected on behalf of the church by the state, you have problems getting married or buried if you arent catholic (or at least dont pay the tax), and its still an ultraconservative police state. Nah, this aint liberal, there is no official separation between church and state like in the US for example.
Of course this is Bavaria we are talking about:
Dos homma scho gsogt, ge?
Surely if its multicast you only need one piece of encryption hardware per channel. And yes, if you want quality, you cant do it in software.
Hold on, if they put him in jail for supplying aid to freedom fighters Hamas, why dont they put Bush in jail for funding the terrorists known as the state of Israel?
This is no troll, this is spot on insightful, I wish I had mod points.
I dont work with macs much, but I am a linux fan, and I have to fix windows problems all the time.
If someone comes to me because word is munging up files when printing, then what can I do? I say well you paid microsoft for the software, either get your money back or ask them for help. If it was openoffice I could look at the source and do some debugging.
Now whenever someone bothers me with windows problems I just tell them to install linux. Usually they do, and I have much less problems. And the problems I do have are at least solvable. Everyones happy.
Software RAID should be fine should it? After all in RAID the drives are more of a bottleneck than the CPU, so a few extra CPU cycles per RAID access wont slow anything down unless the CPU is already maxed out.
Of course hardware RAID is "simply better" than software RAID, but are performance differences very noticable?
I mean you are still getting the same benefits right?
In fact, isnt "hardware RAID" just embedded firmware running on the controllers CPU anyway? Surely once the software RAID drivers are loaded into the OS, we are looking at the same thing, except in one case the RAID software runs on the controller, and in the other case the system CPU.
I could easily imagine a situation where the system CPU is faster than the controller CPU, and this results in a "software RAID" thats actually faster than its hardware counterpart. (Probably not though, I am sure theres plenty of task specific optimizations available to controller designers)
Are there any performance comparisons online?
Yes there are a lot of non-windows machines out there. You have made 2 big mistakes:
1. Only now after the product has been made are you asking questions that should have been asked at the earliest stages.
2. By using open standards, it wouldnt matter what OS your customers use, they could just plug it in and go. That way your solution would work for any OS that also adheres to open standards.
But then we (homo sap. sap.)
You racist. Dont you know homo sapiens sapiens is just an old discredited term intended to infer that humans of european descent are somehow a different, superior species to homo sapiens?
There is only one species of human, homo sapiens, thankyou very much, and we evolved in africa a very long time ago.
I think these projects are defeating the open source community and just strenghtening the hold MS has on the industry.
.NET as proprietry nonsense. If XAML ends up as a windows only thing, it wont get developer support, and wont take over the world, leaving linux and windows on a more level playing field.
Imagine a world where one can only use XAML indeed. If XAML is supported fully on linux eventually, MS will make sure that their version is always one step ahead. They have proven in the past, and leaked internal emails that were evidence in the recent european court cases brought out more leaked internal memos, that they deliberatly hide aspects of their APIs to give them an advantage. They deliberatly release bogis example software, and change the API too often, for reasons of confusing the competition rather then legitimate technical reasons.
They will definatly do this for XAML too, leaving windows as the dominate player in a XAML world at the expense of linux.
How can we avoid this?
Simple. The open source community must ignore XAML and
Which lucky lady gets to donate the "racetrack"?
Alternatively, the normal 's' in german sounds like the s in 'has' or as 'z' normally sounds
Unless its at the end of a word usually.
Is it possible get the real time video stream from the Sony digital camcorder (DCR-PC100) through the Firewire cable and display the video picture on your computer screen?"
First of all, why doesnt it work? I dont have a sony, I have a cheapo samsung and it streams live video over its firewire interface just fine.
If your sony doesnt do this buy a decent brand that does!
It wouldnt surprise me if this is a deliberate crippling as part of some DRM strategy. Sony do own movie and music publishers remember. And their quality is nothing special either. They would be one of my least perferred brands.
Or is this a software issue? I use linux myself, cant speak about windows. Try some other programs maybe?
Worms and viruses and popups etc are THE main ways that windows manages to eat away at productivity.
The authors suggestion that worms, viruses and popups are totally a windows thing, and that they can very effectively be remedied by upgrading to a more thoughtfully designed OS such as linux is in no way false, and definatly suggest that a well written article follows.
Being able to avoid these annoyances is definatly a MAJOR reason, (but not the only reason) to abandon windows and switch to a more serious, productive work environment such as linux.
Remaining with windows, and "using better software", "patching your system" and having "better security practices" does make partial sense to me, but if you can recognize some benefit in abandoning IE and Outlook in favor of Mozilla or something (i.e. getting it half right), then whats preventing you from recognizing that this is the same idea behind abandoning windows in favor of linux?
Apart from you being a windows fanboy that is.
Do you realize that its the open source development model behind free software such as Mozilla, that makes it so solid and reliable dont you? You do realise that its the peer review process thats lacking in Outlook, IE, and windows itself thats to blame for the shoddy design and poor security of these programs?
Save yourself hassles now, ditch windows, it really is a crap OS.
As far as firewire harddrives go, is there anything that doesnt need a whole computer to sit between it and a DV cam?
A while ago, I was looking for a portable hard disk recorder that I could simply plug a DV cam into via firewire, and push record. And later, plug it into a PC and push play to transfer it to the PC.
It seems I was able to find firewire drives that connect to a PC like a normal external hard drive, and I was able to find some consumer dvd recorders with hard drive and firewire connectors, but no simple, portable firewire hard disk recorders.
It seems like iPod is one of the view devices that can do this. Do you know of any others that can connect directly to a DV cam as opposed to a PC?
What makes a "proper" Debian installation?
Knoppix installs a mix of testing and unstable, it installs a lot of packages that are suitable for a desktop but not for a server.
The Debian cd installs a minimal base system of Debian Stable. From there you can choose which packages you want, and you can later choose to upgrade to testing or unstable if you want. This is what I would call a proper Debian install.
I dont know anything about MEPIS, presumably it too lets the user choose a more minimal server oriented system than the knoppix install, and hopefully also allows a totally stable system without needing to downgrade after the install.
I personally use the debian cd to install servers, and the knoppix cd to install desktops. I am sure there are better ways but this works for me. The users like knoppix, once I modify it a bit, such as increasing the screen resolution, deinstalling squid and apache etc...
Bullshit, its rich countries like the US getting poorer, and rightfully so, and poor countries, like India, getting richer, and righfully so.
Its the sort of levelling out that the world has been needing for a long time.
How can anyone take an American seriously these days, so what, a few jobs go to a country that can do it cheaper. Thats the free market that your country was founded on! How can it be ok when America shits on the rest of the world, but when a few jobs go overseas its a disaster?
Hell yanks, just buy a few less SUVs, big screen TVs, and a bit less junk food and you will still be able to maintain the best standard of living in the world.
At least a few more Indian families can afford to eat now, and maybe get medical treatment if they need it.
Man you yanks look pathetic when you whinge and whine like little babies. "Mummy mummy, that indian guy stole my job and now I cant afford to maintain my holiday home in the mountains anymore, tell President Bush to invade them, stealing jobs is terrorism isnt it?"
Losers. No wonder you yanks have absolutly no respect outside your own fear-mongering, self-absorbed, self-supremicist little world.
You mean the multiplier effect. Its not so much related to the frictionlessness or otherwise of the economy, but rather to the fractional reserve system, which permits banks to lend out many times more fiat currency than they actually have themselves.
For example, say banks are only required to hold in reserve 10% of what they lend out. A bank gets $10 from the federal reserve. It is then permitted to lend out $90. $10 each to 9 different banks say. Then assume each of these banks, borrowing $10 then lends out $90. This could go on and on. This is the Multiplier effect. It has turned $10 into $1000
It doesnt result in an INFINITE money supply (at any one point in time), but one that has infinite potential for expansion.
Nicole Eggert you mean?
:
You can see titty shots
here
However Josie Davis would also be worth a pounding:
No tittie shots unfortuntely
And shes only a year younger. If anyone has any juicier pics than these please post.
I learned the lessons of the 70s left very well. And, my parents didn't have to teach me. Certainly not the lessons they would have taught me. The personal is political. Even today, I look at a TV commercial and identify the racial/sexual makeup of the ad and determine which group is being made fun of (usually the white male, BTW).
Interesting. Here in Germany most ads feature healthy looking blue eyed blonde white families sitting in a field having a picnic to represent the consumer. The few ads featuring black people have them in straw hats playing the banjo (or similar stereotypical nonsense) to merely entertain the white families. And the asian people have big front teeth and glasses like on the bifi ad, and talk funny.
I have never seen a mixed race family represented on German television ads, but you can on the Austrian channels.
This was a huge shock compared to New Zealand where I come from, where advertisers go to extreme lengths to almost include one of each race in their ads.
I cant decide which ones worse.
Your right that the original poster wrote up a lame ass product training course, and while yours is a reasonable looking computer science course, CS aint IT.
An IT curriculum would look like this:
* Bullshit buzzwords like Paradigm, Convergence, Competitive Advantage, Quality Assurance. Note, only the buzzwords not necessary, save the actual meanings for the nerds.
* Helpdesk techniques like Blaming other companies, Pretending to be too clever for the caller, Being a general arsehole.
* Powerpoint
* Clicking on the OK button
* Defragmentation
* Plugging cables in (in general terms anyway, save actual distinctions between different types of cables for the specialists)
* Pencil chewing
* Tieing a tie
* 1 Day of web design
* Solataire or Minesweeper
* Pretending your a programmer when the hot secretary comes around.
* Pretending to be the janitor when a programmer comes around.
* The kissing of bosses asses.
Oh, and in preperation of future industry developments:
* Flipping burgers.
etc
Takes a jerk to sue monks? WTF? We are talking catholic monks here. If anyone needs to be sued, its flat-earth believing, copernicus-killing, book-burning, orphan-molesting, anti-science, creation-believing, anti-birth control, each-other-sodomizing, sodomy-condemning, oral-sex-condemning, bible bashing, hypocritical, catholic monks.
We have a lot to sue these clowns for not just DMCA violations.
Heh. I emailed him. This is the only reply I got:
Your message
To: Rollins, Tommy
Subject: Kid suspended for "hacking"
Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:01:33 -0600
was deleted without being read on Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:46:26 -0600
They are lucky. I bet they dont have to pay tax.