One of the things that pisses me off is people raving about Diablo and its sequels. It's a blatant
rip off of Angband, but with all the gameplay removed, and dumbed down to make it appeal to the
masses. But no one ever acknowledges the fact (in fact, few are even aware of it in the first place).
Sigh.
Maybe I've just had bad luck, but Firefox seems bigger, slower and less stable than it did a year ago
Face it, Firefox is a terrible browser. Sure, it's better than IE, but that's really not saying
very much. I hate the fact that it's so useless out of the box -- the defaults are awful, and you need to
resort to a whole bunch of extensions to get it to work even halfway sanely, and then half of those don't
work with the version of Firefox you're using. I hate the fact that it crashes so much, and it's way slower
than it should be. I hate the fact that it doesn't support shift-click to download something, or Ctrl-Q to
quit.
But I love the builtin SVG support. I like the ability to clear private data with a single hotkey combo.
And it's actively being developed, which is the killer feature for me. I'm still tracking Seamonkey because
that's actually a worthwhile browser, but I have my doubts about its long term viablity. So I'm forcing
myself to use Firefox for a while, to see if I can beat it into shape and use it on an everyday basis. So
far it's not going too well, but it's at least usable. Time will tell if I stick with it, but I keep
finding myself longing for Mozilla every now and again, so I doubt it. But if it came down to it, I could
live with it.
A markup standard where tags are obligatorily closed makes a parser much, much easier to write.
No it doesn't. Unless you're expected browser vendors to refuse to render a page without closed tags,
and I can assure you they're not about to do that. The parser will still have to cater for unclosed
tags, so the only change is the added complexity of having to deal with the closed tags in the first
place. It might be nicer if we had a world where we could guarantee that page authors would write
standards compliant pages. But the reality is that we don't, and are unlikely to ever have. Thus
XHTML adds nothing but unnecessary complexity.
what's so hard about remembering to close any tag you open?
True, but where's the necessity? Does adding a </p> make my markup
any cleaner or less ambiguous? Does requiring me to close my <img>
tags help in any way other than making it well formed XML? No. It gives you nothing
that you couldn't already do with compliant HTML in the first place. XHTML was a mistake
from the beginning, and I hope it falls flat on its face. Of course, with schools
and universities now teaching that XML is the One True Way now, I suspect it'll be
successful despite its problems. Sigh.
I need full support for ICC profiles and colour managed workflow, and I need 16bit editing. Sorry, the Gimp doesn't cut it for higher end work.
Perhaps not The GIMP natively, but Cinepaint (a fork of GIMP used in the movie industry) supports ICC profiles, and deep colour, too (IIRC, 32 bits per channel). It's worth
noting that the movie studios use Cinepaint because they generally consider Photoshop to not cut it for higher
end work...
So, SWF is like PDF - not open but everyone can generate & read content.
So in what way are they not open? The PDF specs
have been available from Adobe since the very beginning. Macromedia also offered the SWF specs
for download (although it was a bit tortuous to get at them). So how are they not open?
It doesn't get much more open than that.
But you're wrong about that. Firstly, it's already been done. Xensource licensed the Windows source code, and made an
in-house modified version to support Xen. Of course, they weren't allowed
to distribute it, but as an internal proof of concept, it showed that it
could be done.
Secondly, though, Windows XP will
run unmodified on Xen 3 on any Intel VT enabled processor.
Since Xen 3 and modern CPUs have removed the need for modification of the hosted OS, the future's looking very bright indeed for Xen.
No, been there, done that. Eric Teboul has been riding his rocket powered motorbike
on European drag strips for the last few years. 0-60mph in 5 seconds? Pah! Try 0-200mph
in 3.7 seconds.
They will keep talking about energy wastage and no amount of energy awareness if going to change that.
What they don't mention is why it's so high. I remember when we first got a TV
with a standby mode. According to the specs, the draw in standby mode was absolutely
miniscule (less than 1W). It did exactly what it said on the tin. Yet when I just checked
the specs on my monitors, one is 3-10W in standby mode, and the other doesn't even bother
listing power consumption in standby mode. I don't get it. What on earth could they be
doing that needs to draw that much power? I don't agree with banning standby mode, but I
do think it should be quite feasible to get devices down to using less than 1W while in
that mode.
But I am a human being, and being told repeatedly that I suck tends to wear a human being down
Well, for an opposing point of view, you don't suck. Sure, you make mistakes. Everyone does
(even me, unlikely though that might seem:-) But on the whole, I agree that you're doing a
good job.
So IBM are apparently claiming $20,350 at $50/hour to investigate the
incident. That's 50 man days. For fsck's sake, what
sort of incompetent morons are they employing? Call it a couple of
hours to trawl some log files, a few more to retrieve the missing
account from backup, and be generous and round it up to a
week -- 5 man days to tie up all the loose ends, write the incident
report and get management signoff for everything. But 50 man days?
That's just not even vaguely reasonable, and smacks of them just going
for the throat out of malice. Yeah, he screwed up, and deserved to be
punished, but the punishment should be proportional to the crime, and
it clearly isn't here. Quite how they managed to get a judge to
swallow that is beyond me. It sounds like the defence lawyers weren't
doing their job. I can't think of any other explanation.
Interesting typo there. Are you a Mac user, or are you using a US keyboard for some weird reason?
No, I use a US key layout because I prefer it. No other reason. I have a pound sign mapped to
a suitable key combination in vi, which is all that I'd really need a UK layout for anyway.
Additionally, DJs do not need to pay the liscence if they are playing from CD or vinyl.
I'd be interested to see the actual wording of the regulations here. After all, a CD is a
digital version of the music. How do they decide when you need to pay and when you don't? OK, so
you've got an MP3 or Ogg Vorbis copy on disk[1], and the article implies you need to pay the
fee. But what about if you've got a FLAC version? What's the difference between playing the CD,
and playing exactly the
same bits from a hard drive? What about if you're playing the CD through your laptop drive
and into a mixing desk, rather than from a dedicated CD player? Still need to pay? Where do they
draw the line?
[1] It's worth noting that the very fact you've done that means you've broken the law in the UK,
for copyrighted works anyway. There is no right to make copies in any format in the UK,
even for personal use. Mix tapes, MP# collections, etc. are all illegal here. Sigh.
The only possible advantage I can see in substituting the word "leverage" is that it sort of implies they are making the best use of these tools that they can
No, in fact it just makes no sense at all. The word "leverage" is a noun. The verb he was looking
for is "lever", at which point it would at least have been
grammatically correct. Of course, "use" would still have been a better option.
C++ is a Ford Mustang to Java's BMW five series. One's a poorly engineered mess and ungainly to use, while the other's an elegant balance of performance and features that's a pleasure to use.
Having driven a 2006 Mustang on a recent visit to the States, I can assure you that whatever flaws they may have had in the past appear to have been solved with recent models, and it was comparable to the last BMW I drove. None of which detracts from the fact that C++ is a hideous nightmare to work with, of course:-)
Only if you make it that way. Although FC4 provides nearly 2000 packages as standard, I only have
just over 500 installed. I start with a minimal install, and then just install extra things via yum as
and when I need them.
Maybe, just maybe, [...] we are in Iraq to help the Iraq people.
Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha. Oooh, my aching sides.
Re:OMG how hold is this?
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Not only can printers do this but the scanners have been doing this since at least 1997.
Wow... how young are you? Since 1997, perhaps, but the concept has been around much longer than
that. I remember hearing a Commodore 1541 disk drive play "Daisy daisy" in the mid '80s, and IIRC, people
were playing music on drive cabinets back into the 1970s.
Reiser4 now defaults to journalling everything - file data as well as metadata. If they left it like that, then no wonder it's slower - but it's the best choice if data integrity is important.
Best choice for you, perhaps. If data integrity is important, then reiserfs is the last
place I'd be looking. I'd be going with ext3 with data journalling enabled.
Pretty handy for school systems where you are not allowed to touch the local file system
Perhaps so, but it's pretty lax security if they have them set up that way. Any large
installation of computers worth its salt will have access to USB mass storage
devices (and in fact, any removable media) disabled from a regular desktop.
you are in your switzerland country house in the bloody mountains, there ARE NO other ways to get to the network and you really NEED to send out your budget specifications to your partners, or otherways you'll be bashed out of the business along with your company.
Then you ensure your budget specifications are in a plain text file, rather than
$BLOATED_PRESENTATION_FORMAT, so they actually have a chance of getting through.
Or at worst, a PDF or similar, which will give you good presentation and a relatively
small file size. There simply isn't a valid case I can think of for sending 400+ MB
of content over GPRS. Sure, you could send a file that big, but it simply means it's
in the wrong format. If you're having to resort to GPRS, it's usually because you
really need to exchange information with someone. The amount of information you can
fit in 400MB is quite astounding, and there is no way you'll need to
transmit that to someone urgently.
So let me get this straight. They've taken an industry standard form factor motherboard, and
put it in an industry standard form factor rackmount case... and that's worthy of a patent?
I admit I've never used LVM, in either Linux or AIX. Considering the price of hard disk storage these days, it's much easier to buy a new, bigger disk with the needed physical capacity than to manage an old array of disks.
Had you used LVM, you'd know that it's more than just a matter of buying a bigger disk
when you run out of space. I can't imagine using a system without LVM now. All of my
Linux boxen (both desktop and servers) use LVM. Curiously, some of my production
Solaris servers don't (for our specialised applications, it's not necessary), although
we do where appropriate -- DB servers being the obvious example.
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One of the things that pisses me off is people raving about Diablo and its sequels. It's a blatant rip off of Angband, but with all the gameplay removed, and dumbed down to make it appeal to the masses. But no one ever acknowledges the fact (in fact, few are even aware of it in the first place). Sigh.
Face it, Firefox is a terrible browser. Sure, it's better than IE, but that's really not saying very much. I hate the fact that it's so useless out of the box -- the defaults are awful, and you need to resort to a whole bunch of extensions to get it to work even halfway sanely, and then half of those don't work with the version of Firefox you're using. I hate the fact that it crashes so much, and it's way slower than it should be. I hate the fact that it doesn't support shift-click to download something, or Ctrl-Q to quit.
But I love the builtin SVG support. I like the ability to clear private data with a single hotkey combo. And it's actively being developed, which is the killer feature for me. I'm still tracking Seamonkey because that's actually a worthwhile browser, but I have my doubts about its long term viablity. So I'm forcing myself to use Firefox for a while, to see if I can beat it into shape and use it on an everyday basis. So far it's not going too well, but it's at least usable. Time will tell if I stick with it, but I keep finding myself longing for Mozilla every now and again, so I doubt it. But if it came down to it, I could live with it.
No it doesn't. Unless you're expected browser vendors to refuse to render a page without closed tags, and I can assure you they're not about to do that. The parser will still have to cater for unclosed tags, so the only change is the added complexity of having to deal with the closed tags in the first place. It might be nicer if we had a world where we could guarantee that page authors would write standards compliant pages. But the reality is that we don't, and are unlikely to ever have. Thus XHTML adds nothing but unnecessary complexity.
True, but where's the necessity? Does adding a </p> make my markup any cleaner or less ambiguous? Does requiring me to close my <img> tags help in any way other than making it well formed XML? No. It gives you nothing that you couldn't already do with compliant HTML in the first place. XHTML was a mistake from the beginning, and I hope it falls flat on its face. Of course, with schools and universities now teaching that XML is the One True Way now, I suspect it'll be successful despite its problems. Sigh.
Perhaps not The GIMP natively, but Cinepaint (a fork of GIMP used in the movie industry) supports ICC profiles, and deep colour, too (IIRC, 32 bits per channel). It's worth noting that the movie studios use Cinepaint because they generally consider Photoshop to not cut it for higher end work...
So in what way are they not open? The PDF specs have been available from Adobe since the very beginning. Macromedia also offered the SWF specs for download (although it was a bit tortuous to get at them). So how are they not open? It doesn't get much more open than that.
Formerly, yes. But see below.
so it won't ever be able to run Windows
But you're wrong about that. Firstly, it's already been done. Xensource licensed the Windows source code, and made an in-house modified version to support Xen. Of course, they weren't allowed to distribute it, but as an internal proof of concept, it showed that it could be done. Secondly, though, Windows XP will run unmodified on Xen 3 on any Intel VT enabled processor. Since Xen 3 and modern CPUs have removed the need for modification of the hosted OS, the future's looking very bright indeed for Xen.
What they don't mention is why it's so high. I remember when we first got a TV with a standby mode. According to the specs, the draw in standby mode was absolutely miniscule (less than 1W). It did exactly what it said on the tin. Yet when I just checked the specs on my monitors, one is 3-10W in standby mode, and the other doesn't even bother listing power consumption in standby mode. I don't get it. What on earth could they be doing that needs to draw that much power? I don't agree with banning standby mode, but I do think it should be quite feasible to get devices down to using less than 1W while in that mode.
Well, for an opposing point of view, you don't suck. Sure, you make mistakes. Everyone does (even me, unlikely though that might seem :-) But on the whole, I agree that you're doing a
good job.
So IBM are apparently claiming $20,350 at $50/hour to investigate the incident. That's 50 man days. For fsck's sake, what sort of incompetent morons are they employing? Call it a couple of hours to trawl some log files, a few more to retrieve the missing account from backup, and be generous and round it up to a week -- 5 man days to tie up all the loose ends, write the incident report and get management signoff for everything. But 50 man days? That's just not even vaguely reasonable, and smacks of them just going for the throat out of malice. Yeah, he screwed up, and deserved to be punished, but the punishment should be proportional to the crime, and it clearly isn't here. Quite how they managed to get a judge to swallow that is beyond me. It sounds like the defence lawyers weren't doing their job. I can't think of any other explanation.
No, I use a US key layout because I prefer it. No other reason. I have a pound sign mapped to a suitable key combination in vi, which is all that I'd really need a UK layout for anyway.
I'd be interested to see the actual wording of the regulations here. After all, a CD is a digital version of the music. How do they decide when you need to pay and when you don't? OK, so you've got an MP3 or Ogg Vorbis copy on disk[1], and the article implies you need to pay the fee. But what about if you've got a FLAC version? What's the difference between playing the CD, and playing exactly the same bits from a hard drive? What about if you're playing the CD through your laptop drive and into a mixing desk, rather than from a dedicated CD player? Still need to pay? Where do they draw the line?
[1] It's worth noting that the very fact you've done that means you've broken the law in the UK, for copyrighted works anyway. There is no right to make copies in any format in the UK, even for personal use. Mix tapes, MP# collections, etc. are all illegal here. Sigh.
The only dictionary that matters lists leverage as a noun. Any other usage is incorrect.
No, in fact it just makes no sense at all. The word "leverage" is a noun. The verb he was looking for is "lever", at which point it would at least have been grammatically correct. Of course, "use" would still have been a better option.
Having driven a 2006 Mustang on a recent visit to the States, I can assure you that whatever flaws they may have had in the past appear to have been solved with recent models, and it was comparable to the last BMW I drove. None of which detracts from the fact that C++ is a hideous nightmare to work with, of course :-)
Only if you make it that way. Although FC4 provides nearly 2000 packages as standard, I only have just over 500 installed. I start with a minimal install, and then just install extra things via yum as and when I need them.
Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha. Oooh, my aching sides.
Wow... how young are you? Since 1997, perhaps, but the concept has been around much longer than that. I remember hearing a Commodore 1541 disk drive play "Daisy daisy" in the mid '80s, and IIRC, people were playing music on drive cabinets back into the 1970s.
Best choice for you, perhaps. If data integrity is important, then reiserfs is the last place I'd be looking. I'd be going with ext3 with data journalling enabled.
Perhaps so, but it's pretty lax security if they have them set up that way. Any large installation of computers worth its salt will have access to USB mass storage devices (and in fact, any removable media) disabled from a regular desktop.
If you want deep colour, look here: http://cinepaint.movieeditor.com. And none of your 16-bit rubbish either. 32-bits is where it's at these days.
Then you ensure your budget specifications are in a plain text file, rather than $BLOATED_PRESENTATION_FORMAT, so they actually have a chance of getting through. Or at worst, a PDF or similar, which will give you good presentation and a relatively small file size. There simply isn't a valid case I can think of for sending 400+ MB of content over GPRS. Sure, you could send a file that big, but it simply means it's in the wrong format. If you're having to resort to GPRS, it's usually because you really need to exchange information with someone. The amount of information you can fit in 400MB is quite astounding, and there is no way you'll need to transmit that to someone urgently.
So let me get this straight. They've taken an industry standard form factor motherboard, and put it in an industry standard form factor rackmount case... and that's worthy of a patent?
Had you used LVM, you'd know that it's more than just a matter of buying a bigger disk when you run out of space. I can't imagine using a system without LVM now. All of my Linux boxen (both desktop and servers) use LVM. Curiously, some of my production Solaris servers don't (for our specialised applications, it's not necessary), although we do where appropriate -- DB servers being the obvious example.