I recall reading in John Carmack's.plan a long time ago that he was running a Hitachi 24" monitor that was a 16:9 aspect ratio. Even saw pictures with it in the background in a few magazine articles from the id office.
Evolution and Magellan both look excellent. I've really missed Eudora since switching to Linux. Either one of these could make me forget all about Eudora. The interface looks good, the features & architecture look good. One thing I hope they really get right is filters. Netscape's are barely adequate, Eudora's rocked last I checked. I haven't checked Mozilla yet. The more I use Netscape for my email, the less I like it.
Anyone know if these apps have any plans to hook up with a PalmPilot to sync contacts and schedule? That would kick ass. If not, I may have to dust off the C/C++ skills and take a crack at it.
Actually, Zoid never "left" id, as he was never "there" to begin with. He was a contractor who just happened to have a long-term, very good relationship with id.
Finally, something resembling evidence. I'd love to get a GeForce, but I prefer Linux, and my new box won't dual-boot (ah, the magic of VMWare). No GeForce on Linux for me, so I'm going Voodoo.
A link, something, anything. What chipset? Any particular AGP version (1x, 2x, 4x)? Specific to certain video chipsets?
If the problems are known, and you know what htey are, you obviously gleaned that information from somewhere. Unless you're parroting what someone else told you they heard from their sister's boyfriend's cousin's father's 2nd wife's boss'grandson.
WHERE is the documentation on all these alleged Athlon incompatibilities? I keep hearing people say "the Athlon has some compatibility problems" but I have yet to see anyone back them it with specifics. If you're going to make this statement, let's see some facts.
How long will your P3 last? How long before Intel decides to change the packaging AGAIN? Got any failure rate comparisons between the two?
Maybe 2 or 3 in the 11 months since I moved here. Never got a landline, I have a cellphone and cablemodem.
The worst, though, is BMG Music (dis)Service. I have some coupon coming to me for 3 free if I pick one at regular price over the phone. Fine, I'll do that then get the F out of dodge and kill that useless membership. They've called me 4 times, every time either at work or in my truck. I tell them to call back after 6PM, they keep calling during the day.
I don't get much SPAM either. The couple I've gotten, however, have been very, very eerie, sent to my cable email address, which I do not distribute. And, of course, forged to appear as though FROM my cable address.
The spec sheet says it'll get 2.5 hours on a charge for the regular battery, 8.5 on the Lithium battery (which, BTW, is HUGE!). But if you're running a motor to circulate the colling fluid (doesn't have to be H2O, that's what they're using for this, however), motors chew up battery life. Convection currents won't be strong enough in this application to eliminate the need for a motor, and *some* movement of the vapor is needed to efficiently disperse the heat.
Note to those talking about "leaking" and such - it's "low-pressure water vapor" - yes, I'm sure there is condensed water in there, but most of it is vapor, not liquid form. You'd be hard-pressed to get anything useful out of it if you cracked it open in the desert looking for a drink.
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I think it was Romero who was incessantly spouting off about Quake being a cross between what we now know as Quake and Everquest.
So what you're saying is that you will accept less stability if th reboots take less time? I don't think so. In my world, downtime is downtime, and no matter how short the downtime is, it takes away from my productivity. Or worse, takes away from the productivity of my clients.
I'll gladly accept a 5-minute reboot cycle if I have to do it once every couple months, during off hours. A 1-minute reboot cycle (let's be realistic about this, it will never be "instant," especially with certain OSes) in the middle of quarter-end or year-end processing is A Big Deal.
My junior/senior year, the local LUG set up a 5-node Beowulf. Nice little system, but I never saw more than one person at a time use it.
If 10 people all want to use it at the same time, what happens? They're all fighting for resources (RAM/CPU). May as well do it on your desktop. Or am I missing something?
A public-access Beowulf would need either a LOT of nodes, or very strict user scheduling (user A gets 2 hours on Tuesday, user B gets 4 horus on Wednesday, etc.)
The News-Observer article quoted Carol Campbell as saying "I think in the end they decided they didn't have enough time to pull it together." Why can't they hold it later than normal? Seems like a cheap excuse to me.
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So, basically, if they carry a cell phone, and leave it on, they're "bad" no matter what, but if they carry one and turn it off, they're ok?
No.
This is why we have Caller ID! If the call is important enough (as indicated by the Caller ID), you explain why you need to take the call, and you take it. What if that call is your father calling to tell you your mother's just been in a car accident? If you shunt that call the voicemail, how's that make you look now? What if it's the office, and they're calling because all hell is breaking loose and they need you NOW to fix something? Ignore that one, and not only do you jeopardize your job, but you appear irresponsible to the person you were talking/flirting with.
Say, something like the 24 hours of LeMans or Daytona. Max speed 100MPH (to make the results more practical to the average driver). He who drives farthest wins. This not only stresses battery endurance but charge/change time. Maybe allow each team only 2 sets of batteries (one in car, one charging).
Ford, and most of the rest of the US auto industry, switched to Metric a long time ago for most of their parts. Just removing the battery from my truck ('99 Dodge Dakota, 86% North American parts content, built in Warren, Michigan, USA) requires a 10mm wrench, "imperial" tools need not apply (which was a real bitch, since I didn't have the proper wrenches in Metric to do it).
So sure, give me Metric tools to work on my Ford (not that I'd ever get near one) or any other car; I'm sure it'll work just fine. Methinks a different analogy is needed.
This is only a second-stage engine. I would assume that the stage 1 engine this one will hitch a ride on will be even bigger and more powerful. This sucker's gonna be HUGE when it launches.
Maybe these guys should hook up with NASA and get the ISS launched a little quicker (rather than one piece at a time in the shuttle).
I sure hope they have some better real estate than what they have in Texas, though. I don't think they'll be making any launches from there, and the FedEx bill to ship a rocket to Cape Canaveral of Vandenberg is a bit steep.
I saw one of the other top suggestions they got was "Suzi/Susie" or a variation on that. I would have preferred that. Not only is it less geeky, it might have some kind of appeal to those members, or potential members, of the Linux community who have 2 X chromosomes.
We seem to heave a dearth of "cool" (to the masses) mascots. Sure, there's Tux, but then there's also the dude in the red fedora. Geeko falls somewhere in the middle for me. We need more Tux-like creatures. Maybe Susie coulda been a girlfriend for him or something. Don't get me wrong, I'm a geek and proud of it. But I'd like to see what would happen with Tux, Susie (if they had made that the mascot) and the BSD Daemon if they got together and partied. The possibilities are limitless!
I'm sure a lot of people forgot the "unless the year is divisble by 400" part of the rule that says century years aren't leap years.
I personally know of a multimillion-dollar system that was installed in 1998 and doesn't recognize the leap day today. And this was discovered in September of 1999. Major rush job to clean things up, finished a couple weeks ago, but only the "essentials" are totally recognizing it; anything that isn't date-critical will be displaying 3/1/2000 today AND tomorrow.
The episode seemed to be a complete ripoff of The Matrix even down to peeking "inside" the game and watching what was going on. I was under the impression that since the end is near for the X-Files, we'd be tying up loose ends, not doing crappy ripoffs of good movies.
I barely watched; I listened and looked over at the TV when it sounded like something good was going on. But I didn't watch more than 15 seconds at a time.
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I recall reading in John Carmack's .plan a long time ago that he was running a Hitachi 24" monitor that was a 16:9 aspect ratio. Even saw pictures with it in the background in a few magazine articles from the id office.
Sorry, that's all I remember.
Anyone know if these apps have any plans to hook up with a PalmPilot to sync contacts and schedule? That would kick ass. If not, I may have to dust off the C/C++ skills and take a crack at it.
NT4, SP5, IE5 it works.
Actually, Zoid never "left" id, as he was never "there" to begin with. He was a contractor who just happened to have a long-term, very good relationship with id.
Finally, something resembling evidence. I'd love to get a GeForce, but I prefer Linux, and my new box won't dual-boot (ah, the magic of VMWare). No GeForce on Linux for me, so I'm going Voodoo.
A link, something, anything. What chipset? Any particular AGP version (1x, 2x, 4x)? Specific to certain video chipsets?
If the problems are known, and you know what htey are, you obviously gleaned that information from somewhere. Unless you're parroting what someone else told you they heard from their sister's boyfriend's cousin's father's 2nd wife's boss'grandson.
WHERE is the documentation on all these alleged Athlon incompatibilities? I keep hearing people say "the Athlon has some compatibility problems" but I have yet to see anyone back them it with specifics. If you're going to make this statement, let's see some facts.
How long will your P3 last? How long before Intel decides to change the packaging AGAIN? Got any failure rate comparisons between the two?
Maybe 2 or 3 in the 11 months since I moved here. Never got a landline, I have a cellphone and cablemodem.
The worst, though, is BMG Music (dis)Service. I have some coupon coming to me for 3 free if I pick one at regular price over the phone. Fine, I'll do that then get the F out of dodge and kill that useless membership. They've called me 4 times, every time either at work or in my truck. I tell them to call back after 6PM, they keep calling during the day.
I don't get much SPAM either. The couple I've gotten, however, have been very, very eerie, sent to my cable email address, which I do not distribute. And, of course, forged to appear as though FROM my cable address.
The spec sheet says it'll get 2.5 hours on a charge for the regular battery, 8.5 on the Lithium battery (which, BTW, is HUGE!). But if you're running a motor to circulate the colling fluid (doesn't have to be H2O, that's what they're using for this, however), motors chew up battery life. Convection currents won't be strong enough in this application to eliminate the need for a motor, and *some* movement of the vapor is needed to efficiently disperse the heat.
Note to those talking about "leaking" and such - it's "low-pressure water vapor" - yes, I'm sure there is condensed water in there, but most of it is vapor, not liquid form. You'd be hard-pressed to get anything useful out of it if you cracked it open in the desert looking for a drink.
I think it was Romero who was incessantly spouting off about Quake being a cross between what we now know as Quake and Everquest.
I'll gladly accept a 5-minute reboot cycle if I have to do it once every couple months, during off hours. A 1-minute reboot cycle (let's be realistic about this, it will never be "instant," especially with certain OSes) in the middle of quarter-end or year-end processing is A Big Deal.
Just how big a UPS do you have, to be able to run indefinitely until power comes back?
I know the post was in jest, but anyone who had a C=64 knows that Commodore had that color first. Only by 10 years.
Remember MS's NT clustering software was called "Wolfpack?" Probably unintentional, but an interesting coincidence.
If 10 people all want to use it at the same time, what happens? They're all fighting for resources (RAM/CPU). May as well do it on your desktop. Or am I missing something?
A public-access Beowulf would need either a LOT of nodes, or very strict user scheduling (user A gets 2 hours on Tuesday, user B gets 4 horus on Wednesday, etc.)
Oh, wait...that's Mars that needs women (or am I the only one who remembers that song?). Nevermind.
Not a quickie, a whole article. Right here: BSD: FreeBSD 4.0 Released
The News-Observer article quoted Carol Campbell as saying "I think in the end they decided they didn't have enough time to pull it together." Why can't they hold it later than normal? Seems like a cheap excuse to me.
No.
This is why we have Caller ID! If the call is important enough (as indicated by the Caller ID), you explain why you need to take the call, and you take it. What if that call is your father calling to tell you your mother's just been in a car accident? If you shunt that call the voicemail, how's that make you look now? What if it's the office, and they're calling because all hell is breaking loose and they need you NOW to fix something? Ignore that one, and not only do you jeopardize your job, but you appear irresponsible to the person you were talking/flirting with.
Say, something like the 24 hours of LeMans or Daytona. Max speed 100MPH (to make the results more practical to the average driver). He who drives farthest wins. This not only stresses battery endurance but charge/change time. Maybe allow each team only 2 sets of batteries (one in car, one charging).
So sure, give me Metric tools to work on my Ford (not that I'd ever get near one) or any other car; I'm sure it'll work just fine. Methinks a different analogy is needed.
Maybe these guys should hook up with NASA and get the ISS launched a little quicker (rather than one piece at a time in the shuttle).
I sure hope they have some better real estate than what they have in Texas, though. I don't think they'll be making any launches from there, and the FedEx bill to ship a rocket to Cape Canaveral of Vandenberg is a bit steep.
We seem to heave a dearth of "cool" (to the masses) mascots. Sure, there's Tux, but then there's also the dude in the red fedora. Geeko falls somewhere in the middle for me. We need more Tux-like creatures. Maybe Susie coulda been a girlfriend for him or something. Don't get me wrong, I'm a geek and proud of it. But I'd like to see what would happen with Tux, Susie (if they had made that the mascot) and the BSD Daemon if they got together and partied. The possibilities are limitless!
I personally know of a multimillion-dollar system that was installed in 1998 and doesn't recognize the leap day today. And this was discovered in September of 1999. Major rush job to clean things up, finished a couple weeks ago, but only the "essentials" are totally recognizing it; anything that isn't date-critical will be displaying 3/1/2000 today AND tomorrow.
I barely watched; I listened and looked over at the TV when it sounded like something good was going on. But I didn't watch more than 15 seconds at a time.